Materia Medica B–C

Cough; excited by sweets, candy, etc. (Med. Spo. Zin.). EXPECTORATION; flies from mouth (Kali-c.).

Region:

• BLOOD.
• Mind.
• Nerves.
• Mucous membranes: Digestive tract.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Humid heat.
• Fogs.
• In room.
• Pressure.
• On awaking.

SORE, HEAVY, ACHING MUSCLES; gall-bladder, heart, etc WITH RAPID PROSTRATION; the bed is too hard, yet he feels too sick to move. Dark; mucous membranes, exudates, hæmorrhage, stools, spots in body, etc. Brown; sordes, stripe down center of tongue, stool, menses, etc. FOUL; odor of body; excretions, stool, sweat, etc. Grippe. Zymoses. Sepsis. Typhoid states. Bed sores, etc. Insensible to pain. Restless mind but lifeless body. Bewildered. Thick speech. Sensation as of a blow on occiput. Dull, drowsy, besotted look. SENSE OF DUALITY; PARTS FEEL SCATTERED ABOUT, SEPARATED, numb or too large. Dull and confused. Falls asleep while answering or does not complete his sentence. Eyes feel swelled. DUSKY, SODDEN, BESOTTED, STUPID COUNTENANCE. Dark red, tumid mouth and throat. Throat, numb inside but sensitive outside. Fetor oris. Tongue cracked, bleeds, feels thick or is heavily coated. Viscid saliva. Aphthæ. Ragged ulcers in throat. Can't swallow solids. Spasm of gullet. Easy vomiting. Diarrhœa; sudden; horribly foul, mushy, painless, dark or slaty. Symptoms radiate from small of back. Dyspnœa from weakness in chest. Air hunger; on waking, > standing. Bronchial asthma. Drowsy, stupid and languid; slides down in bed and lower jaw drops (Mur-ac.). Hyperpyrexia. Livid spots on body. Uræmia.

Related: Arn. Gel. Hyo. Lach. Mur-ac. Op. Rhus-t.

Region:

• NUTRITION.
• MIND.
• GLANDS: THROAT. Prostate.
• HEART.
• Nerves.
• Blood-vessels.
• Lungs.

Worse:

• Company.
• Thinking of it.
• Cold: Damp; to feet. To head. Changes.
• Lying on: Painful part. Left side.
• Odors.

Better:

• Warm wraps.

Torpid, dwarfish (Med. Syph.) or marasmic. Weakly. Senility; early (Calc-c.). Adenopathies. Scrophula. Chronicity. Single effects (Agar. Con.). Burning, localised. Numb parts; mouth, genitals, fingers, etc. Forced through a narrow place, as if. Vascular softening and dilatation. Paralytic effects. Apoplexy. Too tired to even eat. Wants to lie down. Takes colds. Inflamed mucous membranes. .................... SLOW, INEPT AND BACKWARD. Childish, thoughtless behavior. Timid. Cowardly. Groans from every little thing. Increasing mental weakness. Weak, beclouded mind. Bad memory. Forgets her errand or the word in her mouth. Irresolute. Mistrustful. Shy of strangers. Brain feels loose; > cool air. Heavy pressure over eyes (Bell.). Baldness; < vertex. Hazy cornea. Eyes, > looking down. Old, sickly, weakened look. Crusty ears. Nose dry, < blowing it. Pendulous lips. Weak tongue. Burning soreness or vesicles on tip of tongue. Throat (glands) affected by every cold; < menses. Chronic quinsy. Enlarged tonsils (Calc-p.). Spasm of œsophagus. Sore spot in stomach. Diarrhœa, with lumbar ache. Flabby genitals. Erections when riding. Paralytic aphonia. Asthma, < wet, warm air; senile (Bar-m.). Chronic bronchitis. Heart; bruised sore; < suppressed footsweat. Trembling feet. Hot, bruised soles at night. Cold, foul footsweat. Indurated glands; tonsils; cervicals, swelled like knotted cords. Cysts. Lipoma. Warts. Acne. Pulse slow and small. High blood-pressure. Arterio- sclerosis.

Related: Kali-p. Med. Sil.

Region:

• Nerve centers.
• Brain.
• Blood-vessels.
• Capillaries.
• Mucous membranes: Eyes. Mouth. THROAT.
• Skin.
• Organs.
• Right side.

Worse:

• Heat: of sun; if heated.
• Afternoon (3 P.M.).
• DRAFTS; on head; hair cut (Glo.).
• Washing head.
• After taking cold.
• CHECKED SWEAT.
• LIGHT.
• NOISE.
• JARRING.
• Touch.
• Company.
• Pressure.
• Motion.
• Hanging down.

Better:

• Light covering.
• Bending backward.
• Rest in bed.

Plethoric, brainy. SUDDEN, VIOLENT EFFECTS. DRYNESS, BRIGHT REDNESS -streaked (Pho.)- AND BURNING HEAT; WITH GREAT PAIN; FULNESS OR SWELLING. CONGESTION: TO HEAD. Dilated arteries. Inflammation. Heat in body, parts, discharges, etc. CONSTRICTIONS. Parts are hot, swelled, red and dry. THROBBING, SHARP CUTTING, SHOOTING or clawing PAINS; of maddening severity; coming and going, in repeated attacks (Nit-ac.). Scant or hot discharges. JERKS. Shocks. TWITCHINGS. SPASM; of throat, vagina, etc. .................... Over-active. Excited. WILDLY DELIRIOUS; ferocious, noisy, cries out. RESTLESS and talks fast. Tries to escape. Furibund. Biting mania. Violent delirium. THROBBING HEAD; < temples; < motion; > letting hair down. Brain rises and falls in waves. Rolls head. Pains go downward from head. HEAD SENSITIVE TO DRAFTS AND COLD, or washing hair. HAMMERING THROB. Pulls her hair. Meningitis. Sunstroke. DILATED PUPILS. Prominent, sparkling eyes. Red sclerotic. Lurid, red, terrifying hallucinations; on closing eyes. Blind attacks; then yellow vision. Sees red. Flashes before vision. PHOTOPHOBIA. Red nose. Fiery RED, turgid, hot FACE, or alternately pale and red. DRY, HOT MOUTH AND THROAT (Pho. Rhus-t.). Toothache, > biting. Swelled tongue. Strawberry tongue. Urging to swallow, with choking. Drinks in sips. Must drink to swallow. Craves lemonade. Pain from stomach or liver to shoulder and throat, < lying on it. Cutting epigastric colic, > bending backward. Distended transverse colon. Clawing or downward forcing in abdomen. Acute prolapsus ani (Ars.). Stools contain chalky lumps. Enuresis on lying down; nocturnal. Fiery red urine. Early, profuse, hot (Sabi.), red, gushing menses. Rigid os. Metritis. Bearing down > standing,< lying. Red streaked mammæ. Dry cough. Barking voice. Stiff r. neck and shoulder in afternoon. Back feels broken. BRIGHT, RED, GLOSSY SKIN. Intense dermatitis. Scarlatina. Erysipelas. Sleepy, but can't sleep. Heavy, hot sleep. JERKS DURING SLEEP. Frightful dreams; of quarrels, fire, etc. Internal coldness with external, pungent, burning heat. HOT HEAD, with cold limbs (Sul.). Hot sweat. Skin hot, but moist and dry alternately. Spasm, then prolonged unconsciousness. Complementary: Calc-c. Hep. Merc.

Related: Glo. Hyo. Stram.

Region:

• BLOOD-VESSELS.
• Nerves.
• Spleen.
• Joints.
• Left side.

Worse:

• INJURY.
• Sprains.
• TOUCH.
• Cold baths or drinks.
• Wet.
• Becoming chilled when hot.

Better:

• Continued motion.
• Cold (local).

BRUISED SORENESS. Hard, aching, squeezing or throbbing pain. Tired, fagged. Deep trauma or septic wounds; especially abdominal, pelvic, etc. Acrid pus; destroys the hair. Bleeding. .................... Impulse to move. Headache, ending in shooting. Fulness about spleen. Falls on coccyx (Hypr.). Boils. Wakeful; too early. Sensitive to cold. Senile blood stasis. Unbearable pains that drive to distraction, < heat and > cold. Senile vertigo.

Related: Arn.

Region:

• URINE: Kidneys. Bladder.
• JOINTS.
• Heart.
• Bowels.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Open air.
• Cold.
• Changing weather.

Better:

• Heat.
• Profuse urine.

Strong urinous odor of patient. Changing or gouty rheumatic pains, < at heart or alternating with urinary symptoms. Pains alternate with heart symptoms. Painful, gouty nodes. Hygromæ (Am-c.). Bunion. Meniere's disease (Sal-ac.). .................... Salty vomitus. Copious, grayish stools; like soap-suds; of a pungent urinous odor; very foul; white. STRONG, HOT, DARK- BROWN URINE; foul, ammoniacal or odor of horse urine. Gravel. Hard, dry cough. Cracking joints; in knees. Profuse sweat, without relief; night sweats.

Related: Calc-c.

Region:

• Urinary and digestive tract: KIDNEYS. Liver. Bladder.
• Lumbar region (hips).
• Joints.
• Uterus.
• Spermatic cord.

Worse:

• Motion: Jarring. Stepping hard. Rising from sitting.
• Fatigue.
• Urinating.

Mentally and physically tired. Sees things in twilight. Many, rapidly changing or alternating symptoms; shooting outward, as in urethra, toes, etc., about or RADIATING from one point; lower spine, etc. Sticking. Soreness. Burning-smarting. Numbness; insensitive to extreme heat or cold. GURGLING or bubbling. Dry mucous membranes; mouth, vagina, etc. Dirty-gray face, gums, feces, etc. Lithæmia. Calculi. .................... As of a thight cap on head. Cold temples. Suppurating acne. Sticky mouth. Foamy, cottony saliva (Nux-m.). Painful pimple at tip of tongue. Pains from stomach to back or the reverse. Torn loose feeling in epigastrium. Biliary and urinary calculi. Colic, pains from gall-bladder to epigastrium; bilious; along ureter, arresting breathing; renal (r). Stools, pale, smarting, tough; watery, with jaundice. Fistula ani. Burning kidneys. Clear discharge from meatus, before urinating. Urine thick, turbid, yellow; red, mealy, sandy or slimy sediment. Dysuria. Genitals: cold, sweaty, pains change sides. Gray or brown mucus replaces menses. Backache with severe prostration. Sore spot under (r) scapula (Chel.). Crushing, stitching, paralysing lumbar pain. Numb lumbar region. Pain from iliac crests down front of thighs; when urinating. Lumbago. Itchy skin. Eruptions leave a brown stain. Chilly. Cold single parts. Everything excites sweating. Complementary: Mag-m.

Related: Benz-ac. Coc-c. Kali-bi. Lyc. Pul.

Region:

• DIGESTIVE TRACT: Stomach. Intestines.

Worse:

• Eating; overeating.

Better:

• Cold; drinks; applications.
• Bending back.
• Motion.

Apathetic and prostrated. Tearing, pinching pains. Internal heaviness. .................... Swelled gums. Craves cold drink, which is vomited at once, or in great quantities when stomach becomes full. Foul belching. Vomits liquids only, or bilious after eating. Atrophia ablactatorum (Kre. Ox-ac.). Gastric, alternating with head or face pains. Violent gastralgia (Atro. Chin.); with cramping or burning. Food presses like a load on one spot. Prostration; after stool. Cholera infantum, when the body remains warm. Black ulcers. Dry palms and soles.

Related: Ars. Cad-s.

Region:

• Occiput.
• NUTRITION: NERVES. MUCOUS MEMBRANES.
• MOUTH.
• Skin.
• Kidneys.
• Bladder.

Worse:

• DOWNWARD MOTION.
• Sudden noises.
• Cold; wet.
• Least uncovering.
• Nurslings.
• Children.
• Fruit.

Better:

• 11 P.M.

Tough, bloody mucus. Tousy persons (Med. Sul.): frowsy hair, tangles at ends. Frightened at every noise; starts from sleep, as if to fall. Restless in afternoon. Gummy, crusty eyelids and nostrils. Raw tarsi. Acrid coryza. Red nose of young women. Dirty complexion. Puffy face. Dry cracked tongue. Palate hard and wrinkled. Eructations when painful parts are pressed. Poorly nourished, soft and flabby. Aphtous, catarrhal tendency. Clear, thick, hot, biting discharges. Heat in single parts; mouth, vagina, palms, etc. Sticking or drawing pains; intercostal, in soles, etc. Shrivelled skin or mucous membranes. Marasmus. .................... Nervous, anxious, fidgety, fickle. Fretful, before stool. Fears downward motion. Starts at trifles, sudden sounds, etc. Anxious cries during sleep. Hot head of babies; they cry and scream when nursing or before passing stool or urine. Entropion. Red about eyes. Dry, tender, aphthous mouth. Puffy, indented tongue. Griping toothache, < wet weather. Nausea when thinking hard. Catch in groin on coughing. Stools: turning green; like boiled starch. Mucous diarrhœa, then weakness. Loose, pappy, repulsive stools. Hot, acrid, smarting urine. Nephritis. Cystitis. Easy conception. Membranous dysmenorrhœa. Albuminous leucorrhœa. Clear, hot, pasty leucorrhœa. Empty feeling in mammæ, after child nurses. Averse to coition. Pain in opposite breast, as child nurses. Mother's milk is thick and tastes badly. Blood-streaked or mouldy expectoration. Limbs tremble, at 10 A.M. Itching on back of hands. Eczema. Weak calves. DRY SKIN; festers easily, won't heal. Sweat on stomach. Stitch in right chest, < deep breath and > hard pressure. Heart feels as if on right side. Violent palpitation.

Related: Bell.

Region:

• CIRCULATION: HEART. Uterus. Kidneys.
• SKIN.

Worse:

• Menses.
• Full moon.
• Getting warm.

Better:

• Doubling up.
• Eating.

Hæmorrhagic-herpetic diathesis. Oozing hæmorrhage, < night. Laxness; joints seem loose; easy indentation. General puffiness. Enlarged feeling, head, heart, etc. .................... Awkward in speech and action; drops things, stutters, etc. Inattentive. Weak memory. Confusion on awaking. Weak jointed and nervous. A wedge presses into occiput. Nose stops on lying down. Numb mouth. As of a lump of ice in stomach. Colic, > eating. Bloating. Diarrhœa, < menses. Menses early; more at night, less if in motion; flow between periods. Thick, pussy, acrid leucorrhœa. Short breath on using hands. Visible palpitation. Itching coccyx. Weak hands. Heavy painful legs. Itching eruptions; oozing; forming thick crusts or scabs, with pus beneath (Mez.). Hives, with diarrhœa or menorrhagia. Eczema. Chill during pains.

Related: Ap. The Carbons. Ustil.

Region:

• LARYNX.
• RESPIRATION.
• Heart.
• Circulation.
• Glands: Parotid. Thyroid. Ovaries. Mammæ.

Worse:

• WARM: DAMPNESS. Overheating. Room.
• Chilled while hot.
• Sea bathing.
• Dust.
• Drafts.
• Until midnight.

Better:

• Nosebleed (vertigo, head, chest).
• At sea.
• Motion.

Scrophulous blondes. Constrictions, glandular induration or membranous formations. Weak and easily overheated, then sweaty and sensitive to drafts. .................... Head congested, fears a stroke. Acrid, burning coryza. Nosebleed. Face seems drawn to a point at nose. Flatus from vagina. Inhaled air seems smoky, cold or raw. Lungs feel coated with down. Wants to take a deep breath, but it excites cough. Suffocative fits; he starts up choked with croupy or wheezing cough, or with palpitation. Asthma. Spasm of glottis. Asthma of sailors going ashore. Deep hoarseness, < if heated. Diphtheritic croup. Colds start in larynx; go upward (Merc. Sep.) and downward. Thick, white expectoration. Even a small goitre oppresses. Nervous palpitation. Cardiac hypertrophy. Slow, glandular enlargement. Boring in bones.

Related: Lach. Samb.

Region:

• Blood.
• CIRCULATION.
• Liver.
• SEROUS MEMBRANES: HEAD. CHEST. JOINTS. ABDOMEN.
• Motor apparatus: Nerves. Muscles.
• Right side.
• Lymphatics.
• Cellular tissue.

Worse:

• MOTION: LEAST RAISING UP. STOOPING. EXERTION. COUGHING. DEEP
• BREATHING.
• Dry: Heat. Cold.
• HOT: BECOMING. ROOM. Weather.
• Drinking, while hot.
• EATING.
• Vegetables.
• Acids.
• Calomel.
• VEXATION.
• Touch.
• Suppressions.
• Taking cold.
• Early A.M.

Better:

• PRESSURE: LYING ON PAINFUL PART. Bandage, etc.
• COOL OPEN AIR.
• QUIET.
• Cloudy, damp days.
• Drawing knees up.
• Heat to inflamed part.

Slowly advancing, forcible processes, localizing in unyielding tissues. Very painful effects; on coughing holds sides, chest or head; in joints, etc. BURSTING, STITCHING or heavy, sore pain, going backward. AVERSE TO LEAST MOTION, even of distant parts. Dryness everywhere. Dryness of the mucous membranes. Scanty, adherent secretions. Congestion, INFLAMMATION, exudation. Streaks of red. Gastro-bilious-rheumatic type. .................... Determined, taciturn, irritable and ugly. Wants to be let alone or go home. Dull. DIZZY OR FAINT ON RAISING UP. Vertigo; felt in occiput. BURSTING, SPLITTING OR HEAVY crushing headache; fronto-occipital; < moving eyes, coughing, straining at stool, etc. Pain over l. eye. Sensitive scalp; every hair pains. Oily hair. Eyeballs sore; pains behind. Dark red face. Nosebleed; vicarious. Suppressions or non-appearing discharges, eruptions, etc. Wagging lower jaw. Descending colds. Chewing motions. Dry, parched, cracked lips. Dry mouth. Tongue very dry, rough, coated along center; red at base. Soapy saliva. BITTER TASTE, or vomitus. Hawks brown lumps from posterior nares. THIRST; FOR LARGE DRINKS. Craves what he can't relish. Loathing. Nausea, < lying on r. side. Throbbing, tender epigastrium. Heavy load in stomach. Heavy, sore liver, > lying on it. Appendicitis. Peritonitis. LARGE, DRY, VERY HARD STOOLS, as if burnt. Constipation. Gushing diarrhœa on rising, < cabbage; burning; < hot weather. Lumps of tough mucus after stool. Yellow, mushy stool. Vicarious menstruation. Right chest; rusty expectoration. Wants to take a deep breath, but can't, or it excites cough. DRY, HARD, VERY PAINFUL COUGH, as if from stomach; < eating or drinking. Blood-streaked or tough expectoration. Bronchitis. Pneumonia (r.). SHARP STITCHES IN CHEST, or at r. scapula. Dry, friction sound. Pleurisy. Stony, hard mammæ; before menses. Milk fever. Heavy, hard breasts before menses. Interscapular numbness or pain going to epigastrium or from l. to heart. Lumbago, < stooping. Delirium; dreams of hard work. FULL, QUICK, HARD PULSE. Undeveloped measles. Jaundice. Chill, with hot head and red face; < warm room. Dry, burning heat; with < of all symptoms; blood seems hot. Painful, continued fevers; typhoid, catarrhal, etc.; after suppressions. Sour or oily sweat. Groins sore before menses. Complementary: Alu. Lyc. Nat-m.

Related: Phyt. Rhus-t.

(See Rana Bufo)

(See Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris)

Region:

• HEART (muscle).
• CIRCULATION.
• Head; right.
• Chest.
• Circular muscles.

Worse:

• Lying: On left side. On occiput.
• Periodically.
• Exertion.
• 10-11 A.M. or 11 P.M.
• Night.

Better:

• Open air.
• Pressure on vertex.

CONSTRICTIONS; heart; chest; neck; body feels tight or wrapped, (Bar-c. Grap. Med. Nux-v. Sul.). Irregular circulation. Violent congestion. Hot gushings into chest. Localised pulsations; behind stomach. HÆMORRHAGE. Pains that extort cries. Periodical neuralgias. .................... As of a weight on vertex or chest. Red face. Cough; from heart affections; rattling. Menses lumpy; black; cease on lying. HEART FEELS CLUTCHED AND RELEASES ALTERNATELY, BY AN IRON HAND; or feels it expand and contract; seems to turn over (Lach.); stitches; irritable; intermittent beat. As if an iron band about chest. Numb left arm. Fingers tingle. Chill, not > covering. Strong pulsations in odd places.

Related: Aco. Coc-c.

Region:

• Stomach.
• Respiration.

Worse:

• Raising up.
• Least motion.
• Cold.

Faintness on rising. Ozœna. Craves little drinks of cold water, which are vomited at once. Nausea, that compels quiet to avoid vomiting. Suffocates on dropping to sleep. Chest contracted; with asthma.

Related: Zin.

Region:

• GENITALS.
• NERVES.
• Skin.
• Mucous membranes.

Worse:

• Sexual excesses.
• Motion.
• Sudden noises.
• On falling to sleep.
• Tobacco.

Better:

• Cool air.
• Short sleep.
• Sweating.

DRYNESS; food eaten seems too dry; must drink to swallow. Red, dry stripe down center of tongue, widening toward tip. Inclines to lie down. Dreads to move. .................... Nervous excitation. Fear of going to sleep. Vertigo, as if rocked. Crawling or as of a cobweb on face. Flaccid, sweaty genitals; glans like a rag. Atonic pollutions. Impotency; after gonorrhœa. PRURITUS VULVÆ; with burning; from pinworms. Violent, sexual erethism, or neurasthenia. Respiratory, alternating with skin symptoms. Hard cough, with asthma; > expectoration. Numb hands. Cold single parts; feet. Heat during sleep, ceases on waking. Sweet sweat, attracting flies. Low fevers.

Related: Caps.

Region:

• NUTRITION: GLANDS (Cervical. Mesenteric.). BONES. SKIN.
• BLOOD.
• CHEST.
• R. Lung.
• HEART.
• CHILDREN.

Worse:

• COLD: RAW AIR. Wet. BATHING. Cooling off. Change of weather.
• EXERTION: Mental. Physical. Ascending. Eyestrain.
• DENTITION.
• Puberty.
• PRESSURE OF CLOTHES.
• MILK.
• Awaking.
• Anxiety.

Fat, flabby BLONDES, WHO SWEAT EASILY, < ON HEAD OR CHEST; DURING SLEEP. PROFUSE, OFTEN SOUR DISCHARGES, stools, sweats, odor of body, saliva, etc. Soft, torpid, scrophulous habit. Numb parts lain on. Easily sprained. Grows fat, but not strong. Cold, moist air chills through and through. Takes cold easily; in chest. Malnutrition. Faulty bony development. OPEN FONTANELLES. Tardy teething and walking. Scrofula. Rickets. Curvatures. Calculous tendency. .................... Forgetful; learns poorly. Depressed melancholic or doubting mood; fears disease, misery, disaster, being observed, insanity, etc. (Lil-t. Nux-v. Sep. Ver-a.). Cautious. Confused; misplaces words. Sad. Apathetic. Indolent; suddenly. Vertigo. BIG HEAD, WITH LARGE, HARD ABDOMEN. Deep head pains-beating, shattering, etc., < wind, > dark; with eructations. Migraine. Scalp itches; on awaking. Thick, foul milk-crust (Sul.). DILATED PUPILS. Sees things on closing eyes; beside visual field. Coryza, with polyuria. Senile catarrh. Swelled nose and upper lip (Bar-c. Sul.). Face pallid, pasty and puffy. Swelled tonsils. Anorexia; from overwork. Craves eggs or coarse foods. Averse to meat. Sour, curdled vomit (Nat-p.). STOMACH LIKE AN INVERTED SAUCER. Thirst for cold water at night. Cramp at navel. Biliary colic. Chalky, gray (Pho-ac.) or green, watery stools. Lientery. Foul or strong urine. White urinary sediment. Hydrocele. Thick, milky, gushing leucorrhœa. Painless hoarseness. Everything makes him short of breath. Emphysema. Cough, as from dust. Purulent, loose, sweet expectoration. Weak heart. Palpitation. Sore chest; breasts before menses. Neck pains, < lifting. Chapped hands. Arthritic nodes. ENLARGED GLANDS; cervical, mesenteric, etc. Cysts. Psoriasis. Polypi; nasal, uterine, etc. Skin cold, like a snake. Nightmare. Sleepless; from rush of ideas. Coldness; icy, on vertex; spots on head, or head, hands, knees and feet; of affected part (Led.); objective. Chill with thirst. Internal heat, with externa coldness and sweat. Hot head from mental exertion. Clammy hands (Sul.). Sweat; cold; partial; head, < occiput; chest; on hands. COLD, DAMP FEET. Complementary: Bar-c. Lyc. Sil.

Related: Bar-c. Sil.

Follows: Nit-ac. Sul.

Region:

• Elastic fibre: Veins. Glands.
• Periosteum.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Beginning motion.
• Cold; wet.
• Drafts.
• Changing weather.
• Sprains.

Numbness. Weak in morning. Discharges turn grass green. Slow, processes. General stiffness. INDURATIONS; of stony hardness; glands, tonsils, neck; piles, tumors, edge of ulcers, etc. Nodes in breasts. Rough and ragged, tonsils, exostoses, periostitis, enamel, hypertrophied nails, etc. Vascular dilatation; varicoses, inflamed; aneurism. Arterio-sclerosis. After apoplexy. Struma. Fistula. Cataract. .................... Sluggish temperament. Gushing, watery stools or carrion odor. Expectorates tiny, tough, yellow lumps. Lumbago. Hip-joint disease. Bursitis. Chronic synovitis. Periostitis of lower jaw, ribs, etc. Skin cracked; dry, hard and of alabaster whiteness (Ars.). Stinking pus. Xray burns. Birth-marks. Cold wrists and ankles. Complementary: Rhus-t.

Related: Grap. Hecla-lava.

Region:

• Nutrition.

Worse:

• Vital losses.

Pale and weak, with violent drenching sweats. Rapid and extreme debility or emaciation. Scrofula. Pædatrophy. .................... Excitable, nervous and sleepless. Frying or sizzling in ears. Ravenous hunger, < 2 hours after meals; only > when stomach is full. Anorexia. Sore throbbing in spleen. Diarrhœa. Bronchitis. Starts in sleep. Exhausting nightsweats.

Related: Chin.

Region:

• NUTRITION: BONES (SUTURES. PERIOSTEUM. Cartilage.). GLANDS. Nerves.
• ABDOMEN.
• Vertex.
• Chest.

Worse:

• Exposure to: Weather changes. Drafts. Cold, wet. Melting snows. East wind.
• DENTITION.
• Mental exertion.
• Loss of fluids.
• Puberty.
• Fruits.
• Cider.

Better:

• Lying down.

Delicate, erethistic, tall or scrawny children; with dirty, brownish skins. Soft, thin bones. Malassimilation. Scrofula. Rickets. Spots; cold or sore, vertex, eye-balls, tip of nose, or fingers, etc. Crawling, numb, cold limbs. Pains shift. Arthritis. Rheumatism. Albuminous discharges, leucorrhœa, etc. Anæmia; as a sequel. .................... Peevish, restless and fretful. Idiotismus versatilis. Headache; in occipital protuberances; down spine; > cool bathing or sneezing; of school children. As of ice in occiput. Thin skull bones. Open fontanelles. Hydrocephalus. Teeth; late; soft; decay easily. Tonsils, large; mycosis (Kali-m.). Adenoids. Throat aches; feels hollow. Craves raw, salt, piquant foods or bacon. Weak digestion: every bite hurts the stomach. Persistently vomits milk. FLABBY, SUNKEN ABDOMEN; pains, then burning leucorrhœal flow. Festering navel. Diarrhœic tendency. Stools foul, hot; lienteric; spluttering and watery; < fruits. Fistula; alternating with chest symptoms. Addison's disease. School girl's headache. Abnormal cravings. Tumor in left mamma. Menses early, scanty; every two weeks. Crawling in genitals. Exalted sexual instinct. Eruptions, < during menses. Uterus heavy; weak or aching. Child loses its breath on being lifted up (Bor.). Cough, > lying. Cavernous phthisis; with night sweats. Neck or chest pains from drafts. Weak, thin neck; the head bobs about. Sore fingertips. As of a splinter under nails. Weak through hips. Thin, brittle bones. Pain, burning, along sutures or edges of nails. Slow ossification; non-union. Swollen glands. Pott's or hip-joint disease. Easily chilled; during pains. Sickly sweat; < head and throat; at night. Cold limbs with digestive trouble. Chills up back, but heats down back. Follows: Fer-p.

Related: Carb-a. Chin. Nat-m. Rut.

Region:

• CONNECTIVE TISSUE.
• Glands.
• Mucous membranes.
• Bones.
• Skin.

Worse:

• Drafts.
• Touch.
• Cold.
• Wet.
• Heat of room.

Better:

• Bathing.
• Open air.
• Eating.
• Heat (local).
• Uncovering.

Cutting pains; (r) ovary. Tendency to suppuration. Pus thick, yellow, lumpy, bloody. Catarrh. ABSCESS, running; ears; teeth; recurrent (Pyro.). Ulcers, malignant; corneal; deep. Fistulæ. Poor reaction. .................... Hurried. Ears flow dark wax. Red, itching tarsi. Infants with bloody coryza, diarrhœa or eczema. Stool coated white. Pyelitis (Berb.). Thick, white leucorrhœa. Choking. Croup. Cold, foul footsweat. Skin won't heal. Averse to covers, when cold. Dry heat at night. Easy sweat, < coughing. Starts from sleep, as if wanting air.

Related: Hep.

Region:

• SOFT PARTS.
• Spine.
• Liver.

Worse:

• Weather; damp; cloudy.
• During chill.

Excessively painful, open, torn, cut, lacerated, ragged or suppurating WOUNDS. Hæmorrhages, in scalp wounds or after drawing teeth, etc. Prevents pus. Sensitive to damp or open air. Takes colds. .................... Yellowish vision. Nausea, in chest. Curdy stools. Bruised pain at angle or right scapula. Jaundice.

Related: Arn. Bellis.

Region:

• DIGESTIVE TRACT.
• Cerebro-spinal nerves.
• Urinary organs.
• Nose.

Worse:

• Cold.
• Drafts.
• When half asleep. (Mag-p-au. Nit-ac.).
• Mental exertion.
• Shock.
• SUPPRESSION.
• Inattention.

Better:

• Free discharges.
• Sweat.
• Thinking of it.

Algidity; can't get warm; at start of colds, cholera, etc. Bluish, old, pinched look. ICY COLD, YET AVERSE TO COVERS (Sec-c.), or wants them off then on; with internal burning heat; and anxious. Sudden weakness; dry collapse. Cholera. Scanty or retained discharges. Violent tonic spasm; of bladder; then stupor, with coldness. .................... Insensibility or anxiety. Head feels knotted up. Hammering in occiput. Inhaled air seems cold. Coryza; in old age. Retracted lips; upper. Cold tongue. Burning thirst. Burning in stomach. Strangury. Hæmaturia. Sexual excitement. Satyriasis. Hoarse, squeaking voice. Asphyxia neonatorum. Cold breath. Thumbs cramp backward. Cramp in calves. Dry skin. Erysipelas. Very sensitive to cold air or taking cold. Shaking chill, with cold skin. Wants cover during hot stage only. Sudden, inflammatory fevers with rapid alternation of heat and cold; followed by rapid prostration. Heat or sweat, > covers. Corrects spoiled cases and antidotes most remedies. Chilly, below scapulæ; before colds. Antidotes: Coff. Op. Pho.

Related: Carb-v. Cup. Op. Sec-c.

(See Astacus Fluviatilis)

Region:

• EMOTIONS.
• MIND.
• Nerves.
• GENITO-URINARY ORGANS.

Worse:

• URINATING.
• DARKNESS.
• Exertion.
• Talking.
• Walking.
• Gonorrhœa.

Extreme psychic mobility. EXALTED IDEATION AND PERCEPTION, WITH MENTAL EXCITEMENT. Imaginations. Wonderful hallucinations; ecstatic; heavenly; of agonizing terror or pain; with loss of sense of proportion; or time and space (Onos. Stram.). Mania of grandeur. Levitation. Gaiety. Violence. Delirium tremens. Feels weak and all gone to nothing. Trickling sensations; at heart. .................... Loquacity. Craves light. Violent headache, with hallucinations. Vertex opens and shuts. Head seems separated from body. Sees objects outside of visual field (Ign.). Weak vision. Corneal opacity. Skin of face seems tight. Alive feeling in abdomen: it throbs here and there. SCANTY, BURNING URINE, PASSED DROP BY DROP (Canth.); with pain going backward. Nephritic colic. Swelled prepuce. Priapism. Gonorrhœa. Irritable caruncle. Profuse menses, with great pain. Can't control voice. Suffocative attacks. Pain in limbs, < deep breathing. Dreams, erotic; of the dead. Antidote: Apis.

Related: Anhalo. Cocain. Nux-m. Op.

Region:

• MEMBRANES (Mucous and serous): URINARY ORGANS. Bladder. Pharynx. Brain. Pleura.
• Lower bowel.
• Pomum adami.
• Skin.
• Right side.

Worse:

• URINATING.
• Drinking; cold.
• Bright objects.
• Sound of water.
• Touch; larynx.

Better:

• Warmth.
• Rest.

Rapid and intense action. Excitement during the pains. CUTTING-SMARTING or BURNING- BITING PAINS; as if raw. VIOLENTLY ACUTE INFLAMMATION, or rapidly destructive. Discharge of bloody, acrid water. Serous effusion. Gangrene. Weak attacks, that take the voice away. .................... Amorous frenzy. Rage. Yellow vision. Swelled, tremulous tongue; raw edges. Throat: full of blisters; painful swallowing. Throat and larynx painfully constricted, and as if afire. Burning thirst, but averse to liquids. Violent retching and vomiting. Sensitive over stomach and kidneys (Solid). Shreddy, burning stools, with tenesmus of rectum and bladder. BURNING, SCALDING URINE, WITH CUTTING, INTOLERABLE URGING AND FEARFUL TENESMUS OR DRIBBLING. Strangury. Dysuria. Bloody urine. Acute nephritis. Nephritic colic. Cystitis. Griping in bladder. Gonorrhœa. Dropsy. Painfully swelled genitals. Painful priapism. Pulls at penis. Sexual irritation. Pollutions. Many, short, dry coughing spells. Chest pains, > eructations. Pleurisy. Pericarditis. Vesicular erysipelas; turning dark (Ran-b.). Bullæ. Chill, during stool. Urinous sweat; on genitals. Complementary: Apis. Antidote: Aco. Cam.

Related: Ap. Ars. Merc-c.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES.
• THROAT.
• Kidneys.
• Bones.
• Mastoids.

Worse:

• SLIGHT DRAFTS.
• COLD: AIR. Water.
• Uncovering.
• Dampness.
• Bathing.
• Empty swallowing.
• Drinking: < throat, or excites urination.
• Eating.
• Drunkards.

Better:

• Continued motion.

Lax, lazy fat, red (Asaf.), clumsy, unclean persons (Sul.), who react badly and dread the cold. Old age. Indolent and can't think clearly. BURNING-SMARTING; tip of tongue; throat, stomach, stool, piles, prostate. SORENESS. Constriction; of throat, with urging to swallow. Dark, red, spongy mucous surfaces or oozing bloody mucus. Sprangling, thread-like pains (Cep.). Neuralgias. Deep abscess. Foul secretions. .................... Changeable. Capricious. Homesick. Splitting headache, > heat. Ears affected alternately. Mastoiditis. NOSE AND FACE RED, BUT COLD. Vesicles or flat, painful aphthæ. Tongue greenish at base. Swelled uvula. Increased saliva. Smoker's sorethroat. Craves stimulating, pungent things; wants a bracer. Dipsomania. Waterbrash. Acid dyspepsia. Small, hot, mucous stools, with tenesmus, also of bladder; then thirst and lumbar pain; < drinking. Dysentery. Urging to urinate. Strangury. Thick, white, creamy gonorrhœa. Cough causes distant pains, or raises foul air; too weak to cough out expectorate. Ribs seem dislocated. Sleepy after meals. Chilly; with the pains; begin in back; with violent thirst, but shivers from every drink; with excruciating backache; alternating with heats, mounting to head; then sweat. Coldness of affected parts. Sweats easily; cold on thighs. Complementary: Nat-m.

Related: Canth.

Region:

• NUTRITION.
• Glands.
• VEINLETS.

Worse:

• Slight causes: Small depletions. Sprains. Lifting. Cold taking.
• WHILE EATING.
• Dry, cold air.
• Shaving (Ox-ac. Rad.).
• Old age.
• After menses.

Better:

• Laying hand on part.

Old and feeble. Susceptible to colds, sprains or overaffected by small losses, etc**. Venosity.** Gummæ. Slow, hard painful processes; burning like fire (Ars.), or threatening malignancy. Sense of looseness. Foul acrid discharges. Hæmorrhage. .................... Whining. Brain seems loose or as if crown would split, > eating. Pains down through (r) eyeball (Gel.). Can't locate sounds. Nose, hard, red, swelled; hot, brown stripe across, with itching pimples and desquamation. Goneness in stomach; while suckling. All food distresses stomach. Abdomen, distended after operations. Right ovary seems a heavy ball. Neglected bubo. Pelvic bones pain on sitting. Dark menses; in A.M. only; then great weakness. Sore, moist anus (Carb-v.). Indurated os (Sep.). Suffocation on closing eyes; nervous dyspnœa. Hard, painful nodes in breasts. Bluish skin; cheeks, lips, affected parts, etc. Coppery eruptions on forehead. Crawling, as of bugs. Hard, swelled glands. Surgings or hot flushes. Foul, exhausting sweats; at night; staining yellow. Complementary: Calc-p.

Related: Calc-fl. Grap.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: DIGESTIVE TRACT. STOMACH.
• HEART: VENOUS CIRCULATION. Blood.
• Occiput.

Worse:

• WARMTH.
• DEPLETIONS.
• Cooling off.
• EXHAUSTING DISEASES.
• Old age.
• HIGH LIVING.
• Rich foods.
• DISSIPATION.
• Overlifting.
• Walking in open air.
• Pressure of clothes.
• Weather: Extreme temperatures. Cold night air; frosty; humid.
• Air.
• Wind on head.
• Suppression.

Better:

• ERUCTATIONS.
• Cool air.
• Elevating feet.

Low, grave, depraved, or cachectic states. Atony, failing reaction or obstinate sequelæ. Complaints of old age. WEAKNESS, FLATULENCE, FETOR OR AIR HUNGER, with most complaints. Tremulous, WEAK, SICK AND EXHAUSTED; suddenly; with pulselessness. Fainting. Collapse. Easily chilled. Cold, yet wants air or to be fanned, or thirsts for cold water. BLUENESS and decomposition. Sepsis. Ulceration (aphthous). HÆMORRHAGE; dark oozing. Overfulness. Venosity. Thick, acrid discharges (Hyds.). Old catarrhs. General bruised soreness or heavy aching burning; in bones, ulcers, etc. Numbness, of parts lain on. .................... Slow, anxious and irritable. Dejected. Unhappy. Dull, compressive, heavy (leaden) headache; < occiput; < overheating, lying or pressure of hat. Sneezing from irritation in larynx; < blowing nose or sneezing. Colds go downward (Pho.). PINCHED, HIPPOCRATIC or DUSKY FACE. Twitching upper lip. Mumps with metastasis. Loose teeth. Scorbutic gums. Small, painful aphthæ. Black tongue. Loathes even the thought of food. BELCHINGS; RANCID; loud, without >; with cough. EXCESSIVE FLATULENCE; obstructed; distending; < upper abdomen (Pul.); < lying. All food turns to gas. Dyspepsia. Colic. Burning in rectum. Itching anus. Septic albuminuria. Sore, hot itching, swelled vulva. Hoarse in evening. Spasms of tormenting, hollow or choking cough, with headache and vomiting; < cold drinks and in bed; expectorates with retching. Pertussis and its effects. Heavy, sore or weak chest; on awaking. Senile asthma. Destructive lung diseases. Continuous, anxious palpitation. Sore ribs. As of a plug in back. Weak fingers. Raw or mottled skin. Ulcers, foul, burning and bleeding. Varicosis. Horrors during sleep. Thready pulse. Alternate chill and heat. ICY COLD; tongue; knees; legs, at night; breath; foot (l); unilateral, etc. Warm head, cold limbs. Internal, burning heat; at heart; in chest; with icy skin, < coughing. Icy, but wants air. Complementary: Chin. Kali-c. Follows: Caust. Antidote: Nat-m.

Related: Am-c. Ars. Colch. Grap. Lyc.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Throat. STOMACH. Bowels. Lungs.
• HEART.
• Blood.
• Respiration.

Worse:

• Jar.
• Reading.
• Pregnancy.
• Combing hair (Bry. Chin. Ign. Sele.).

Painless, languid and PROSTRATE. FOULNESS. Burning secretions; expectoration, etc. Malignancy. Sepsis. Low fever. Prickling-burning or sudden pain. .................... Tender scalp. As of a burning ball in forehead. Acute smell. PALE ABOUT NOSE AND MOUTH. Dusky face. Fetor oris. Glazed throat. Vomiting. Heartburn. Stomach sore. Flatulence. Shreddy stools. Passes mucus from anus when urinating. Urine, scant, green or dark. Leucorrhœa; thick, causing itching. Aching between scapulæ. Sopor. Thready pulse. Collapse. Bloody exudations. Vesicles or pustules. Erysipelas. Profuse, cold sweats.

Related: Kre.

Region:

• Liver (R).
• Spleen.
• Veins.

Worse:

• Lying on L. side.
• Beer.
• Eating.
• Touch.
• Motion.
• Cellars.

Better:

• Bleeding.

Hepato-hæmorrhagic diathesis (Bur-p. Lept.). Blood-stasis. Acidity. Fatigue. .................... Hypochondriacal. Dull frontal headache. Dirty, yellow complexion. Weak upper lip and (r) tongue. Tongue has white center with red, indented edges. Vomits acrid bile or blood. High diaphragm. Liver engorged; swelled laterally. Gall-stones (Lept.). Meteorism. Knotty, clayey stools. Golden yellow urine. Asthma. Dropsy. Broken or hard thrombosed veins.

Related: Calc-c. Sang.

Region:

• NERVES.
• Female generative organs.

Worse:

• Emotions.
• Cold.
• During menses.
• Debilitating diseases.

Better:

• Pressure.

Weak and lacks reaction. Nervous and spasmodic effects of uterine origin. Fibrillar twitchings. Hysteria. Irritability. .................... Twitching in tongue. Abdominal symptoms, with yawning. Colics, with sudden weakness, > pressure. Summer diarrhœa of green mucus stools (Asar.). Violent cutting dysmenorrhœal colic, then cold sweat. Exhausting sweats after fevers.

Related: Mos. Val.

Region:

• FEMALE ORGANS.
• NERVES.
• Muscles.
• Neck.
• Lower limbs.
• Small joints.

Worse:

• Pregnancy.
• Suppressed menses.
• Open air.
• P.M.

Exhaustion. PAINS, ERRATIC, drawing, cramping, shooting, rheumatic; ending in neck, which gets stiff. Uterine reflexes. Internal tremor. .................... Fretful and fearsome. Nervous; excitable. Chorea. Vomiting of uterine origin. Albuminuria. Violent, intermittent, crampy pains, with little flow. Late menses. Dysmenorrhœa. LABOR PAINS FLY ABOUT (to breasts), ARE WEAK, OR IRREGULAR; false. Eases labor. Often acts as prophylactic of false labor pains. After-pains. Uterine atony. Habitual miscarriage. Vaginal spasm. Profuse, acrid leucorrhœa; of little girls. Sore nodes on finger-joints. Rheumatism; of small joints. Aching, sore lower limbs; before menses. Paraplegia, after child-birth. Chloasma; on neck. As if overfull of blood. High fever.

Related: Cimi. Pul. Sep.

Region:

• NERVES: Motor. Sensory.
• MUSCLES: BLADDER. LARYNX. Limbs.
• Respiration.
• Skin.
• Right side; face.

Worse:

• Air: DRY COLD. Raw. WINDS. Drafts.
• Extremes of temperature.
• Stooping.
• Suppressions.
• Coffee.
• 3-4 A.M. OR EVENING.
• Exertion.
• Change of weather.

Better:

• A COLD DRINK (EVEN CHILLS).
• Washing.
• Warmth; of bed.
• Gentle motion.

Sensitive to both heat and cold. Weakness, increasing uncertainty of control, stumbling, etc., finally PARALYSIS; of single parts. Atony. Anæsthesia. Stiff joints. Contracted tendons; palms (Nat-m.), hamstrings, etc. Deformities. Atrophy. Jerks of single muscles. Epilepsy, at puberty. Trembling. Burning. Soreness. Rawness; larynx, anus, etc. .................... Broken down; worn out; wants to die. Hopeless, despondent. Mental tire. Anxious forebodings (felt in head), < in twilight. Reticent. Oversympathetic. Empty behind forehead. Tight scalp. To and fro or nodding motions. Paralysis: of one eyelid (r), throat, bladder, etc. Heavy, drooping eyelids. Continuous eye pain. Diplopia, > looking to right. Objects look large. Cataract. Profuse acrid tears. Much, foul earwax. Echo in ears. Tinnitus. Eruption on lower nose. Prosopalgia, > cold water. Facial paralysis, < opening mouth. Swelling at root of tongue. Throat, < stooping. Urging to swallow, or swallows the wrong way. Greasy eructations. Cramp in rectum on stooping. Anus, prolapses on coughing; small, hard pustules. Stool glistens; difficult, > standing. Stooling easier by standing, but piles < standing. Must sit down to urinate. Insensible urethra or rectum; to solid stools (Alo.). Piles, < walking. Urine retained after labor. URINE SPURTS ON COUGHING; dribbles or passes slowly; > sitting. Menses by day, leucorrhœa by night. Dry, hard cough. Cough from tickling in throatpit (Sep.), or l. larynx; incessant; dry night and morning. Can't cough deep enough (Rum.); expectorate slips back again; < heat of bed, stooping, cold air; > sips of cold water. Greasy, ropy, difficult expectoration. Aphonia or hoarseness, in A.M.; of speakers; < stooping; > talking. Sore streak in larynx. Sore chest; vest seems tight. Purring in chest. Wandering chest pains, > pressure. Stiff neck or back on rising; pain goes forward or to thighs. Pain in spine on swallowing. Bursting in fingertips. Cramps in calves, feet or toes. Deep burns and their effects. Skin: cracks; ulcers. Warts, on brows, lids, nose, fingertips; seedy; bleeding; ulcerating. Coldness, not > warmth; causes paralysis, cough, diarrhœa, etc. Sweat about 4. A.M.; profuse, on slight exertion; < open air. Complementary: Carb-v. Grap. Lach. Stap.

Related: Gel. Kali-bi. Pho. Rhus-t. Sep.

Region:

• Spleen.

Worse:

• Cold weather.
• Lying on left side.

Periodical neuralgias. Pain in l. side, with dyspnœa, diarrhœa or leucorrhœa. Swelled spleen or liver. Green urine. Complementary: Nat-m.

Related: Chin. Polym.

Region:

• Nerves.
• Blood.

Worse:

• Periodically; at same hour.
• After sleep.

EXACT PERIODICITY. Orbital neuralgia (r). Brow ague. Eyes burn like fire. Numbness. Excitement before chill. Malaria.

Related: Aran.

(See Allium Cepa)

Region:

• MIND.
• NERVES.
• EMOTIONS.
• Mucous membranes: DIGESTIVE TRACT.
• Liver.
• Women and CHILDREN.
• Left side.

Worse:

• ANGER.
• NIGHT.
• DENTITION.
• Cold: Air. Damp.
• Wind.
• Taking cold.
• COFFEE.
• Narcotics.
• Alcohol.

Better:

• BEING CARRIED.
• Mild weather.
• Heat.
• Sweating.
• Cold applications.

Bad temper. Frantic irritability, snappish and intolerant of pain. Mad during pain. Magnifies her pains. Unappeasable crossness. OVERSENSITIVE. Tosses about, cries out or walks the floor (Ars.); demands instant relief. Beside himself or prostrated by pain. Neuralgic or gouty-rheumatic subjects. Spells of being irritable and restless; OF COLIC; of dry, tickling cough, etc. Cramps, with bilious vomit; of muscles. Numb, on awaking; after pain; hands, when grasping objects. Repeated spasms; of face, arms, legs, etc. .................... UGLY, CROSS, AND UNCIVIL. QUARRELSOME; vexed at every trifle. Abrupt. Averse to being spoken to or touched. WANTS TO BE CARRIED or what is refused when offered. Omits words. Sensitive to cold wind about ears. Sticking, earache; > warmth. Swelling, or REDNESS OF ONE CHEEK. Faceache (r), to ear. Jaws feel tired. Bad, sour breath. Bitter taste. Thick, yellow- white fur on tongue. Eructations like bad eggs. Distended bowels. Colic going upward; < anger (Colo.). Cutting or wind colic; < night. STOOLS, hot, ACID, GRASS-GREEN, SLIMY, HACKED, yellow-green, OR LIENTERIC; smelling like bad eggs. Irregular, labor-like pains; going up; down inner thighs. Cramps when child nurses. Dark, lumpy menses or lochia. Asthma, < dry weather. Jaundice. Dry palms. Sleepy, disturbed, by pain, starting up, etc. Chilly, yet easily over-heated, hence takes cold. Coldness of one part, with heat of another; < uncovering. Alternate chill and heat. Hot and thirsty or hot sweat, with the pains. Hot coryza; hot stools. Feverish, from suppressed discharges. Sweat on head. Sleepless from abuse of narcotics. Complementary: Mag-c. Sanic.

Related: Nux-v. Stap.

Antidotes: Com. Ign. Nux-v. Pul.

Region:

• Right side: Portal system. Abdomen. Lungs (lower).
• Mucous membranes.
• Bowels (R).
• Occiput.
• Kidneys.
• Knees.

Worse:

• Motion.
• Cough.
• Touch.
• Change of weather.
• North Easters.
• 4 A.M. and 4 P.M. (Ign.).

Better:

• Hot food.
• Eating; dinner.
• Milk.
• Pressure.
• Hot bath.
• Bending backward.

YELLOWNESS. Bilious disturbances; vomiting, jaundice, catarrhs, etc. Pains shoot backward or in all directions. Stitches. Heavy, stiff, sore, paralysed, dislocative or broken feeling. Numbness. Horror of motion. .................... Lazy. Averse to mental exertion or conversation. Despondency. Vertigo; felt in vertex. Headaches extend backward. Heavy occiput. Supra-orbital pain. Mucus in eyes. Outward, blowing, crawling, etc., in ears. Dark red or sallow, sunken face. Red nose. Flapping alæ. Bitter taste. Yellow tongue; with indented edges (Hyds.). Choking, as from too large a morsel. Left sided goitre. Craves milk, piquant or hot foods (Lyc.). Nausea. Sensitive epigastrium. Sensation as of a plug in stomach. Gnawing, scraping gastric pains, > eating. LIVER PAINS GOING BACKWARD, OR FIXED AT ANGLE OF R. SCAPULA; to r. shoulder and occiput (Kali-c. Nux-v. Sep.). Rawness in liver. Gall-stones. As of a string about abdomen or neck. Stools pasty, pale, bright yellow, clayey or hard balls. Dyspnœa, < urinating (Dul.). Cough, as from dust; with much rattling, but little expectoration, or it flies from mouth. Hepato-pectoral symptoms. Like a nail deep in r. chest. Bilious pneumonia (Merc.). Fluctuating temperature. Pain from neck to r. temple. Itching, > eating. Lethargic, DROWSY and chilly. Icy cold nape and occiput. Cold fingertips. One foot cold. Burning heat, spreads from hands over body. Sweaty, with aversion to uncover and without relief; after midnight. Complementary: Lyc. Merc-dul.

Related: Bry. Kali-bi. Merc. Op.

Deafness: variable; > high pitched voice.

Region:

• Bladder.
• Kidneys.
• Glands: Liver. Prostate. Mammæ (R).

Worse:

• Cold damp.
• Standing.
• Sitting.
• Beginning urination.

Better:

• WALKING.

ROPY or muco-purulent, foul, scanty, thick, turbid, urine. Feels as if sitting on a ball, in the perineum; after gonorrhœa. Old nodes in or atrophy of glands. Fluttering in kidney region. Acute inflammation in urinary tract. Gravelly urine. Complementary: Kali-m.

Related: Berb. Coc-c. Sabal.

Region:

• BLOOD.
• CIRCULATION.
• SECRETIONS: Digestive. Organs. Liver.
• Spleen.
• Nerves.

Worse:

• VITAL LOSSES.
• TOUCH.
• Jar.
• Noise.
• PERIODICALLY: Alternate days (Ars. Nat-m.).
• Cold; drafts; wind.
• Open air.
• Eating; fruit; milk.
• Mental exertion.

Better:

• Hard pressure (Lach.).
• Loose clothes.

INTERMITTENCY. PROFUSE, EXHAUSTING DISCHARGES, HÆMORRHAGES, etc. (Abro. Calc-hyp. Pho-ac.). Weak, oversensitive and nervous; everything upsets him, light, noise, odors, pain, etc. Hard swelling. Bursting. Rheumatism. Neuralgia. Emaciation. Anæmia. Dropsy. .................... Stubborn. Disobedient. Vertigo; falls backward. Throbbing, bursting, swashing, or bruised feeling in brain, < temples. Sore scalp, < touching hair. Hot red ears. Tinnitus; then vertigo. Deafness. Pale, earthy, sickly look; bluish about eyes. Teeth throb; < sucking. Acute, sour or bitter taste, or eructations. Craves delicacies. Quick satiety. Anorexia. Loud belching, without relief (Arg-n.). Slow digestion. Sore stomach. Thirst for cold water that aggravates diarrhœa. Periodical liver symptoms (Quas.). Gall-stones. Swelled liver and spleen. Flatulent bloating. Tympanitis. Pain from rectum into genitals. STOOLS; LIENTERIC; dark; foul; watery; BLOODY; painless; < eating; < night. Dark, profuse, clotted menses. Blood spitting. Puffing, rattling, breathing. Every motion excites palpitation and takes his breath. Suppurative phthisis (Hep.). Painfully sore chest and interscapular spine. Heavy pressure (load) on shoulders, between scapulæ or on sacrum. Twitching in knees. As of a band about legs. Pain in marrow. Drowsy. Heavy, snoring sleep. Anxious dreams. Swelled veins (hands, face). Marked prodrome. Clearly staged chill, heat and sweat. Chill, then thirst, then heat, then thirst. Red, hot face, with cold hands. Hectic. Sleeplessness, as a prodrome. Thirst during apyrexia. DRENCHING SWEATS; AT NIGHT, < least motion; from weakness, etc. Tropical fevers. Sepsis. Complementary: Carb-v. Fer. Kali-c.

Related: Carb-v.

Nightsweats; profuse, exhaustive. Oscillating temperature.

Region:

• NERVES.
• CIRCULATION.
• Dorsal spine.

Worse:

• EXACT PERIODICITY.
• Cold, 10-11 A.M.
• Head to left.

Better:

• Yawning.

Neuralgias. .................... Sensitive. Nervous. A net, fog or mote before eyes. Tinnitus. Deafness. Brow ague. Granular, brickred, urinary sediment. Vertigo, with tinnitus (Sal-ac.). Spine (cervico-dorsal) aches, or is tender. Anticipating chills. Delirium during heat. Increasing fever and prostration, with profuse nightsweats. Profuse sweat which >, but exhausts. Thirst in all stages. Clear apyrexia. Typical malaria. Itching. Petechiæ.

Related: Chin.

Region:

• LIVER.
• Head.

Worse:

• Jarring.
• Motion.
• Cold.

Better:

• Lying on abdomen (Chel.).

Bruised soreness; liver, eyeballs, etc. Pains ascend from forehead, stomach, etc. .................... Bilious sick headaches; periodical. Nose, pressure at root or squeezing on bridge (Ham.). Tongue, greenish-yellow or feels drawn up. Vomiting bitter-sour; hot; bilious; ropy; gushing; setting teeth on edge (Sul-ac.); with colic and cold sweat on forehead and back of hands. Uneasy ache in liver. Choleo-cystitis. Gall-stones. Griping at navel. As of a band about abdomen. Weakness in hypogastrium. Stools tarry, clay-colored or undigested. Arrested menses. Astringent expectoration. Jaundice. Heat, with aversion to uncover. Cold sweat on back of hands.

Related: Bry. Iris. Lept. Merc.

Region:

• BRAIN.
• Heart.
• Muscles.
• Liver.
• Skin.

Worse:

• Alcohol.
• Night.
• Exertion.

Better:

• Open air.

Muscle prostration. .................... Indifferent and sleepy or cerebral excitement; hears voices. Mania. Bileless stools. Bed-wetting. Wants to be fanned. Dyspnœa. As of a weight on chest. Weak heart. Urticaria. Sleepless from fatigue. Night terrors.

Related: Ap. Cancer-flu.

Region:

• Respiratory organs.
• Mucous membranes.
• Nerves.
• Skin.
• Glands.

Worse:

• Expiration.
• After midnight.
• Lying.

Better:

• Motion.
• Open air.

Rapid emaciation. Constrictions. .................... Fears insanity or losing senses. Protruding eyes. Acrid coryza. Putrid aphthæ. Dry tongue. DYSPNŒA; CAN'T EXHALE. Spasm of glottis. Laryngitis. Laryngismus stridulus. Asthma of hay fever. Throat-pit; aching, tickling or whistling in. As if air were forced into upper chest (Sabi.). Sensitive skin. Easy sweat. Antidote: Lyc.

Related: Ars-io. Iod. Meph. Merc.

Region:

• BRAIN.
• NERVES.
• Skin.

Worse:

• INJURIES; TO BRAIN (Nat-s.).
• Jar.
• Noise.
• Touch.
• Cold.
• Dentition.
• Suppressed eruptions.

Violent convulsive phenomena, then prolonged unconsciousness. Jerks; of head. Twitchings; of arms and fingers. Sudden shocks through body (Ign.) or head, then rigidity or shrieks; a terrific spasm moves downward (reverse - Cup.); the eyes jerk and stare; OPISTHOTONOS and frightful facial contortions, with bloody foam from mouth; then utter prostration. Epilepsy. Spasm of diaphragm; of gullet. Rigid muscles. .................... Childish. Suspicious. Violent. Rash. Delirium. Congestion to head, with vomiting and purging (Ver-v.). Headaches, > passing flatus. Head twists to one side. Vertigo. Meningitis. Squint. Bleeding ears. Red, sweat face. Grinds teeth. Trismus. Craves chalk, coal, etc. Loud hiccough; alternating with thoracic spasm (Stry.). Oppressed breathing. Tremulous palpitation. Heart seems to stop (Dig.). Turns feet inward; or big toes up during spasm. Pustules coalesce into thick, yellow (loose), massive crusts; < head and face. Impetigo.

Related: Cup. Stry.

(See Actæa Racemosa)

Region:

• NERVES: Cerebro-spinal. ABDOMEN.
• Digestive tract.
• Eyes.
• Mucous membranes.
• Children.
• (Left side.).

Worse:

• TOUCH.
• Worms.
• Vexation.
• Looked at.
• DURING SLEEP.
• Full moon.
• Staring.
• Yawning.

Better:

• Lying on abdomen.
• Wiping eyes.
• Motion.

The greater the emaciation the greater the hunger. Bruised soreness. Painfully sore to motion and touch. Stiffens out; < if crossed, looked at, during cough, etc. Twitchings. Spasms; < worms; unilateral. .................... TOUCHY. Nervous. Ugly, cross, petulant and dissatisfied. Wants to be rocked. Dilated pupils. Squint. Colored vision. Eyes fatigue, > rubbing. Nostrils drawn in. PICKS AND BORES AT NOSE. Dark rings about eyes. BLUISH WHITE ABOUT MOUTH. Sickly, pale face; during cough. GRINDS TEETH; during sleep. Chews and swallows in sleep. Worms. Noisy swallowing. Canine or gnawing hunger; after eating; after vomiting; alternating with anorexia; precedes chill or follows sweat. Hard, distended abdomen. Twisting at navel, > pressure. White, watery stool. Bed-wetting; < every full moon. MILKY URINE. Regularly recurrent, choking cough, then gurgling down throat. Tosses arms and legs from side to side. Restless sleep; lies on abdomen; cries out; wakes in terror. Fever, with pale face (Bry.). Cold sweat about nose and forehead. Complementary: Calc-c. Dros. Ratan.

Related: Cham. Nat-p.

Region:

• Blood.
• Naso-pharynx.
• Neck.
• Bones.

Worse:

• Touch.
• Light.
• Dampness.

Better:

• Open air.
• Sunshine (Stro.).

Pain outward along brow, encircling eyes, or like a saddle at root of nose. Nose; heavy pressure at root; < pressure of glasses; discharges foul, acrid, burning serum or dark lumps. Dry mouth, wakes from sleep. Hawks down stringy mucus or lumps of mucus drop from posterior nares. Naso-pharyngeal catarrh. Thin, white diarrhœa. Foul, acrid sweat between scrotum and thigh. Warts on prepuce. Old, hard chancres. Heart flutters, then rushes of blood to head. Nodes on shin bones. Cramp in calf, after walking. Fiery red ulcers, eruptions, etc. Sweat, < nose. Complementary: Thu.

Related: Merc.

Region:

• GLANDS: Naso-pharynx. Neck. Mammæ (l).
• Throat.
• Lungs.
• Skin.

Worse:

• COLD: Inspired air. Taking. Drafts. Water.
• Mental: Exertion. Excitement.
• Touch.

Painfully sensitive to cold; to inspired air. Coldness of tongue, saliva, in throat, eructations, stomach, etc.; < sweating. Suppurations. Much thick, yellow or foul mucus, leaving painful rawness (Æsc. Ant-c.). Internal and external itching. Burning. Indurations. Callosities. Scrofula. .................... Fear. Headache from missing the noon meal, > eating. As of a lump in naso- pharynx. Colds affect the throat; it feels spongy, sandy, itches or has a dry spot, > sips of water. Expectorates quantities of tenacious, glairy mucus. Hard, swollen glands; < on neck; l. mamma. Crawling over body. Cracked tetters; canthi; lips; fingertips. Chilliness.

Related: Calc-c. Helod. Hep.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: EYES. URETHRA.
• GLANDS: TESTES. Epididymis. Mammæ. Ovaries.
• Skin; scalp.
• Occiput.

Worse:

• GONORRHŒA.
• Heat of bed.
• NIGHT.
• Cold washing.
• Light.
• Moon, < and > with (Phel. Tarn.).
• Mercury.

Better:

• Sweat.

Flaccid muscles. VERY HARD, PAINFULLY SWOLLEN GLANDS; TESTES (r). Burning, itching, stinging, crawling pains. .................... Indifference. Chronic conjunctivitis. Iritis. Lachrymation. Urine flows by starts, or dribbles; strains out a few drops, then full stream follows. Stricture (Con.). Mucus in urine. Swelled inguinal glands and spermatic cord; with cutting, sore pains. Orchitis. Loathes coition. Full, heavy, sensitive breasts; outward darts in. Skin itches violently, with profuse desquamation. Vesicles. Pustules. Corroding eruptions; ending in flat, eating ulcers; with thick crusts and eczema; < occiput and lower legs. Sleepiness. Complementary: Merc.

Related: Pho. Rhod. Stap.

Region:

• Spine (lumbar).
• Genitals.
• Kidneys.
• Bones.

Worse:

• Sexual losses.
• Sitting.
• Heat of bed or sun.

Better:

• Hawking mucus.
• Continued motion.

Frothy discharges. Soreness. Aching bones. Sour taste, stomach, foot-sweat, etc. .................... Sense of guilt. Vertigo or head feels big; < stool. Vernal photophobia. Cracks across tongue. Emptiness at navel (Flu-ac.). Yellow spots on abdomen. Sweet, foamy, lumpy expectoration. Pain along spine and down both legs. Lumbar ache; < coition; < sitting, > walking; with weak knees; can't straighten up. Sudden weakness in l. hip; < walking.

Related: Eup-p.

Region:

• NERVES: BRAIN. Respiration. Heart.
• Muscles.

Worse:

• Ascending.
• High altitudes.
• Cold.
• Mental exertion.

Better:

• Rapid motion, in open air.
• After sunset.

Dizzy, dyspnœic and exhausted (Ars.). Muscle exhaustion. .................... Mental prostration; alternating with brightness. Timid, craves solitude. Sense of impending death. Loquacious excitement, with blissful visions. Exhilaration; before menses. Flashes before eyes. Migraine. Carious teeth. Aphonia. Senile asthma. Palpitation; excessively rapid pulse, with violent sweating. Crawling numbness in arms. Like a worm under skin (Calc-c.), moving away when touched. Sleepless; awakes with a shock in brain.

Related: Cann.

Region:

• SENSORIUM.
• Cerebro-spinal axis: OCCIPUT. Lumbar. Muscles.
• Female sexual organs.
• One side.

Worse:

• Motion: BOAT. CARS. Carriage.
• Slight causes: Loss of sleep. Exertion. Pain. Noise. Touch. Emotions.
• Anxiety.
• Cold.
• Open air.
• Eating.
• During menses.

Acute senses with heavy or paralytic, muscular relaxation. Too weak to hold up head, stand or even speak. Paralysis. Tremor; intention; of head; lower jaw. Cramps; in masseters; abdomen; dysmenorrhœal; in heart. Benumbed. Spasms. Alternations. EMPTY, HOLLOW FEELING. Weak, nervous women, < menses. Vomiting with syncope. Hysterical asthma. Hysteria. Sensitive to cold. .................... Dazed; things seem unreal. Slow grasp. Easily offended. Extremely sad, taciturn and peevish. VERTIGO; in forehead; in A.M.; with nausea; with palpitation; < raising head. Heavy head. Occiput; aches; < lying on it; > bending backward; OPENS AND SHUTS. Throat tickles; with lachrymation. Speaks or swallows with difficulty. Loathing. Nausea; rising into head. Retching. VOMITING. Train and sea sickness. Abdomen seems full of sharp stones; bloated. Colic; twisting (wind); nervous; hysterical; with faintness; with salivation. Clutching in uterus. Depleting menses; < standing on tip toe; replaced by gushes of leucorrhœa. Weak neck. SPINAL WEAKNESS; < lumbar; < walking. Paraplegia. Limbs go to sleep, < grasping objects. Alternations between arms. Humerus feels broken. Hands numb; alternately hot and cold. Knees weak; cracking. Clumsy gait. Sleepless, from mental or physical exhaustion. Drowsy. Low fever. Sweaty. Complementary: Petr.

Related: Gel. Ign.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: FAUCES. Throat. Larynx. Chest. Genito-urinary.
• Left side.

Worse:

• IRRITATING FAUCES.
• Periodically.
• Heat.
• Lying.
• Awaking.
• Cold exposure.

Better:

• Washing in cold water.

Catarrh. Spasms. Hæmorrhage. Uric acid. Gouty-rheumatic. STRINGY DISCHARGES, EXPECTORATION, hanging from mouth, urine, feeling in throat, black menses, etc. Sensitive, fauces, vulva, skin, etc. Intolerable internal tickle. Pulsations; in glans; as of a fluid forcing its way. Dark blood. .................... Sad; on waking at 2-3 A.M. Hawking, brushing teeth, etc., excites cough, retching or vomiting. Profuse post-nasal discharge. Constricted throat. Violent kidney pain, with dysuria. Nephritic colic. Irritated bladder. Sticking along ureters. Urging to urinate; > bloody clots from vagina. Urine scanty, thick, heavy, sour; sediment; sandy, dark red, brown or white; bloody mucus. Nephritis. REGULAR PAROXYSMS OF VIOLENT TICKLING, RACKING COUGH, ENDING IN VOMITING OR RAISING MUCH CLEAR, ROPY MUCUS (Kali-bi.); with a purple, red face and internal heat; periodically; with kidney symptoms; slowly increasing, then gradually declining; > cold air or drinks. Whooping cough. Soreness or stitches in apices of lungs. Coldness in back. Burning; as of pepper in nostrils, at tip of tongue, etc. (Lach.).

Related: Ap. Berb. Lach. Pho.

Region:

• NERVES; cardiac.
• CIRCULATION.
• Sex organs.
• Women.

Worse:

• NOISE.
• Touch.
• Odors.
• Air (Open. Cold. Windy).
• Mental: Emotions. Exertion.
• Overeating.
• Alcohol.
• Night.

Better:

• Lying.
• Sleep.
• Warmth.

Emotions cause severe symptoms. EXITABLE AND OVERACTIVE. OVERSENSITIVE; to noise, it may even be painful (Ther.); to pain, pleasure, etc. .................... Irritable and wakeful. Resents sympathy. Rushing ideas. Weeps, laments and tosses about. Now joyous, now gloomy. Faints easily. Brain seems torn, shattered or crushed. Clavus. Bright eyes. Acute hearing; overhears distant sounds. Faceache (r). Toothache; > ice water, < as it warms; pains into finger-tips; during menses. Stomach feels overloaded. Hot, itching genitals. After-pains. Cough incessant; of measles. Nervous palpitation; < sun heat. Trembling hands. Painfully sensitive skin. Itching scratches until it bleeds. NERVOUS SLEEPLESSNESS; from rush of ideas; awakes at or hears every sound; after pleasurable excitement. Complementary: Aco.

Related: Coca. Ign.

Antidotes: Cham. Ign. Nux-v.

Region:

• DIGESTIVE TRACT.
• HEART; pericardium.
• Circulation.
• Kidneys.
• Tissues: MUSCLES. Ligaments. Fibrous. Serous.
• JOINTS; small.

Worse:

• MOTION.
• Touch.
• Night.
• Stubbing toes.
• Vibration.
• WEATHER: Cold; damp; rooms. Changing. Autumn.
• Slight exertion.
• Checked sweat.
• Stretching.
• Sundown to sunrise.

Better:

• Warmth.
• Rest.
• Doubling up.
• Sitting.

COLD AND WEAK, BUT SENSITIVE AND RESTLESS. Irritable and sensitive to impressions, strong odors, etc. Tearing, digging, drawing pains. Many joints are attacked. Rapid sinking. Moist collapse. Creepings. Small, rapidly shifting areas of severe pain, but little swelling. Subacute states, that finally attack the heart. Cardio-arthritic affections. Dropsy. .................... Depressed. Irritable and sensitive; every little hurt pains terribly. Sensitive to odors and impressions. Unequal pupils. Acrid tears. Dark nostrils. ACUTE SMELL; odors nauseate, even to fainting, etc. Pinched, sunken face. Mouth hangs open. Flow of saliva, with a sense of dryness. Glossitis. Thirsty, but LOATHES THE SMELL, or sight of food; > lying quietly. NAUSEA. Retching. Burning or icy coldness in stomach. Meteorism. Diarrhœa, then gouty effects. Choleraic or shreddy, gelatinous, mucus stools, then tenesmus or spasm of anus. Mucous colitis; after dysentery. Tenesmus. Urine sedimentitious; black. Nephritis. Chest seems squeezed by a band. Cutting or stinging at heart. Weak heart. Cold limbs. Heat on rump. Sweat, cold on face; sour at night. Complementary: Ars. Spi.

Related: Ars. Carb-v. Ver-a.

Region:

• Pelvis: Anus, rectum. Uterus. Bowels.
• Heart.
• Pharynx.
• Liver.

Worse:

• PILES: During suppressed.
• Night.
• Pregnancy.
• Cold.
• Excitement.

Congestions; pelvic; reflex from or combined with hæmorrhoids, especially cardiac (Lycps.). Constrictions. Swelled feeling, in limbs, vulva, clitoris, etc. .................... Speaker's sorethroat or cough. Colic. Acrid diarrhœa; destroying the hair. Light, knotty stools. Rectum; aches; burns, seems dry and full of sticks or sand; with cardiac pains. Constipation or piles of pregnancy. Piles (bleeding); alternating with heart, chest or rheumatic symptoms. Prolapsus, ani, uteri, etc. Itching of vulva or anus. Varicocele. Palpitation. Flushes of heat; with piles; with oppressed breathing.

Related: Lycps. Nux-v. Sul.

Region:

• NERVES (large): TRIFACIAL. ABDOMINAL. Spinal. SCIATIC.
• DIGESTIVE TRACT (NAVEL).
• INTESTINES.
• Ovaries.
• Kidneys.
• Left side.

Worse:

• EMOTIONS.
• VEXATION.
• Chagrin.
• Anger.
• Lying on painless side.
• Night, in bed.
• Drafts.
• Taking cold.

Better:

• HARD PRESSURE.
• Coffee.
• Heat.
• Rest.
• Gentle motion.
• After stool or flatus.

Acts on digestive tract, then longer on spinal nerves. SUDDEN, ATROCIOUS CRAMPINGS, gripings, tearings, etc., making him TWIST, turn or cry out in pain; with nausea or diuresis. Convulsive jerks or constrictions during pain (Ign. Lyc.). Lightning-like pains. CUTTING, pinching, clamping, gnawing or boring pain; then numbness. Parts seem too short. Constriction. Neuralgia. .................... Anger; easily vexed; < pains. Tearing head pains, < moving eyelids. Faceache (l); with eye symptoms or alternating with cœlialgia. Distorted face. Persistent bitter taste. Gas colic (flatulent colic). WAVES OF VIOLENT CUTTING, GRIPING, GRASPING, CLUTCHING OR RADIATING ABDOMINAL COLIC DOUBLE HIM UP; > HARD PRESSURE; < least food. Cutting in bowels; at navel. Pressure > at first then <. Intestines feel squeezed between stones. Pains alternating between ovaries. Ovaralgia. Vomits from pain. Yellow, frothy, watery, shreddy, sourish or gelatinous stools; with colic and gas. Dysentery. Slippery bubbles escape from anus. Gelatinous, sticky or stringy urine. Heart feels pushed up by a distended stomach. Pain under r. scapula, > pressure (Bry.). Lumbar ache, > pressure. Cramps in hips. Screwing, band-like or shooting sciatic pains; < least motion, rotation or night, > lying on painful part. Limbs drawn up like a hedgehog. Urinous sweat. Complementary: Caus. Antidote: Op.

Related: Stap.

Region:

• Skin.
• Eyes.
• Nose.
• Right side.

Worse:

• Heat.

Better:

• Open air.

ŒDEMA; of reduced skin. .................... Burning, itching of eyes and nose, with violent sneezing. Sore eyeballs. Pain from under l. breast through to scapula. Cough. Wandering rheumatic pains. Eczema; recurrent.

Region:

• NERVES.
• MUSCLES.
• GLANDS: MAMMÆ. Ovaries.
• Sexual organs.
• Respiration.

Worse:

• SEEING MOVING OBJECTS.
• ALCOHOL.
• Raising arms.
• After exertion.
• Injury.
• Night.
• Sexual excesses.
• Cold; taking.
• Continence.
• Old age.
• Lying; head low.

Better:

• Letting part hang down.

Irregular action ending in progressive DEBILITY, as in old age: clothes distress, faints at stool, difficult articulation, uncertain gait, etc. Trembling; looks old. Chronicity. Early senility. Cachexy. Paralysis. Suddenly sick or weak; with numbness. STONY HARDNESS. As of a lump in brain, in epigastrium. New growths. Hard blood-vessels. Ascending symptoms. Tearings. Stabbings. .................... Slow. Apathetic. Shy people, yet fear being alone. Weak memory. Can't think after using eyes. VERTIGO, whirling; on lying, turning over, least motion of eyes or head, etc.; senile. Eyes feel crossed; lids heavy, droop, < outer side. Photophobia. Vision, colored. Pulpy earwax. Sour saliva. Cold flatus. Constipation on alternate days. Urine stops and starts; > standing. Testes enlarged. Cutting, as semen passes; in ovaries, uterus, etc. Prostatic dribble; < stool, emotions, etc. Emissions, from mere contact. Menses irregular. Acrid leucorrhœa. Tormenting cough from dry spot in larynx; from tickling in throat- pit; as if from abdomen. Palpitation; < exertion, drinking, at stool, etc. GLANDS HARDEN AND GET SORE. Mammæ; nodes in; congested before menses; sticking in; shrunken; too much milk, < before menses or at every step. Hot spots on head. Spinal injuries. Heels; as if bone would push through; shooting in. Skin greenish, like an old bruise; spots on; foul or eczematous eruption. Hebetude. Coldness in nape, calf, etc. Hot flushes or sweat on dropping to sleep. Sweat under eyes, on chin, in popliteæ; cold on nape or palms. Complementary: Pho.

Related: Arn. Bar-c. Calc-fl. Caus. Gel. Iod.

Region:

• MUCOUS GLANDS: Genito-urinary. Bronchial.
• Rectum.
• Skin.

Worse:

• Morning.
• Taking cold.

FOUL BLENORRHŒA: bronchorrhœa, suppuration, etc. .................... Stools of masses of or covered with mucus. Pulsation in penis. Urethra feels wide open. Acrid, scanty, bloody urine; odor of violets. Dysuria. Catarrh of bladder. Purulent or acrid, milky gonorrhœa. Suppuration ascends urinary tract. Painful cough, with heat, oppression of chest and foul, bloody expectoration. Burning in lungs. Rushes of blood to head and face. Urticaria. Complementary: Sep.

Related: Tered.

Region:

• RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
• NERVES.
• MUCOUS MEMBRANES.

Worse:

• AIR: Change of. Inhaling.
• Eating.
• Toward morning.

Almost continuous paroxysms of extremely violent, spasmodic cough, which begin with gasping for breath, are accompanied by a purple face, and followed by exhaustion, and vomiting of stringy mucus. A reverberating, minute gun cough. Cough as soon as he eats. Whooping cough. Sleeps with head under covers. Very red (flat) venereal ulcer. Too hot if covered, but chilled by uncovering. Complementary: Sul.

Related: Coc-c.

Region:

• Blood.
• Liver.
• Spleen.
• Digestive tract.

Worse:

• Night.
• Taking cold.

Weak and depressed. Liver symptoms, with aching eyeballs. Dark, foul stools, with burning at anus. Diarrhœa. Sallow skin. Sleepy before the chills, with the heat and after meals. Old malarias.

Related: Eup-p.

Region:

• HEART.
• Nerves.

Weak and exhausted; suddenly. Cardio-hæmorrhagic or lithæmic cases (Lycps.). .................... Irritable. Despairing. Cough, with albuminous expectoration. WEAK HEART MUSCLES (r); with oppression, stitches or insomnia. Cardiac dyspnœa. Myocarditis. Incompetent valves. Cardiac dilatation. Angina pectoris. Pain under left scapula. Dropsies. Pulse rapid, irregular and small. Burning, smarting eruption in back of neck, axillæ and chin; < heat and sweating; > washing. Sweaty palms.

Related: Apocy. Strop.

Region:

• MIND.
• NERVES.
• Eyes.
• Circulation.
• Female organs.

Worse:

• Motion.
• Puberty.
• Pregnancy.
• Reading.
• Heat.

Better:

• Open air.

Rapidly changing or alternating symptoms; of opposite moods; of sides; of mind and body, etc. Single muscles twitch; upper eyelids, etc. Faint, drowsy and hysterical. Chorea. Jumping about, as of something alive internally. HÆMORRHAGE, dark, stringy, tough. .................... Impressionable, affectionate and moody. Involuntary laughter and weeping; < music. Hysteria. Climacteric hemicrania; instead of menses; > pressure. Dry, burning eyes, as after weeping, or as if in a cool wind. Winks or must close eyes tightly. Lachrymation when reading. Nosebleed, with faintness and cold sweat on forehead; of young girls. Sexual excitement. Dark, foul, stringy menses. Threatened abortion. Narcotic sleep. Singing during sleep.

Related: Ign. Tarn.

Region:

• BLOOD.
• Heart.
• Cerebro-spinal nerves.
• Liver.
• Throat.
• Occiput.
• Right side.

Worse:

• Lying on R. side.
• Falling to sleep.
• Warm weather.
• Spring.
• Alcohol.

Better:

• Light.
• Motion.

Deathly sick, tremulous and weak. HÆMORRHAGE; slow; oozing of dark, thin blood; pharyngeal. Bloody pus or sweat. Putridity, rapid decomposition and MALIGNANCY. Septic; tonsils, goitre, ulcers, abscess, etc. Dark or bluish parts. Petechiæ. Gangrene. General burning. .................... Plaintive speech. Timid; fears evil. Torpid. Forgetful. Mistakes in writing. Delirium. Faintings. Occipital ache; in waves from spine. Distorted face on waking. Epilepsy. Dark, besotted face. Grinds teeth. Mouldy breath. Swelled tongue. Stiff palate. Craves pork. Craves stimulants. Bilious vomit. Perineal abscess. Mouldy excretions. Anxious, labored breathing. HEART, weak, trembles, feels loose or turns over; sensitive to lying on l. side. First one limb then the other is numb. Jaundice. Blood-boils. Horrible dreams; of the dead. Black- water fever. High fever; with scarlet skin. Œdema about affected parts. Complementary: Lycps.

Related: Lach. Sul-ac.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Bowels. Eyes.
• Bladder.
• Mammæ.
• Uterus.
• Skin: SCROTUM. FACE.

Worse:

• DRINKING.
• Eating.
• Washing.
• Motion.
• Receding eruptions.

Drawn backward feeling; in eyes; nipples, etc. .................... Neuralgia of tongue. Pressure excites rectal pain or a stool. Gurgling or swashing as of water in bowels; THEN SUDDEN, PROFUSE, GUSHING STOOL OF YELLOW WATER, < DRINKING; then prostration. Diarrhœa. Cholera infantum. Can't inhale deeply enough. Pain from nipple to back, as child nurses. Nodes in mammæ. Neck and shoulders pain. Violently itching, tense burning, red skin; sore if scratched, > gentle rubbing. Eruptions; clustered; of blisters which burst and form crusts; vesiculo-pustular (Sep.), < genitals, temples and crown of head. Eczema. Zoster.

Related: Rhus-t.

Region:

• Mucous membranes: URETHRA. Bladder. Vagina.

Worse:

• Night in bed.

Better:

• Walking about.

Burning rawness. Violent inflammation, then acrid, yellow or green, offensive discharges. Catarrhs. .................... Veins of forehead distended. Gelatinous, cold stools; with grains like rice. Cramp or cutting-burning after urinating. Stringy gonorrhœa.

Related: Cist. Cop.

Œdema. Vertigo; on blowing nose. Menses stain indelibly (Bur-p.). Griping down over hips, then into womb. As of cold air blowing through a hole in clothes on chest or back.

Region:

• DIGESTIVE TRACT.
• Muscles.
• Nerves.

Worse:

• Touch.
• Pressure.
• Dampness.

Violent cramps and colics; inflammatory; in chest, fingers, calves, toes, etc.; with obstinate hiccough or icy cold body. Convulsions. Chorea. Sharp, shooting abdominal pains. Visceral neuralgia. Intestinal catarrh. Cholera infantum. Vomiting and diarrhœa; with uræmia. Rice water stools. Weak heart. Cold, clammy, intermittent sweat. Leg cramps, > pressing foot on floor (Stry-p). Numb, paralysed feeling in legs.

Related: Cup.

Region:

• NERVES: Cerebro-spinal axis.
• Digestive tract.
• Epigastrium.
• Abdomen.
• Muscles.
• Blood.

Worse:

• Emotions: Anger.
• Suppressions.
• Overtax.
• Motion.
• Hot weather.
• Vomiting.
• Loss of sleep.
• Touch.
• Raising arm.

Better:

• Cold drinks.
• Pressure over heart.

Sub-oxidation, affecting the centers of the medulla. Violent effects; in recurring symptom groups. CRAMPS AND SPASMS; of all kinds; radiating from or of single parts; extort cries; tonic, knotting the muscles; twisting the head awry; with trismus or hiccough; then deathly exhaustion, chills, spasmodic laughter, etc.; in chest; behind sternum; of fingers; calves > stretching leg out, or soles, etc.; nocturnal; < at menses; epileptic. Jerkings; during sleep. Pains; pressive, < touch; as from blows, being broken, etc.; in racking darts, through whole body. Continued weakness. Poor reaction. Easy relapses. Latency. Blueness. .................... Hypersensitive: every drug overacts, without curing. Uneasy. Nervous. Sense of losing consciousness. Impulsive. Piercing shrieks. Delirium; loquacious; then cold sweat. Confusion. Melancholy; with spells of fear of death. Sullen; tricky; alternately yielding and headstrong. Vertigo; with internal tremor, > stool. Can't hold head erect or bores it into pillow. Crawling on vertex. Pulls her hair. Meningitis. Eyeballs oscillate behind closed lids. Face livid, pale or distorted. Closed mouth. Grinds teeth. Metallic taste. Puts tongue out like a snake. Loss of speech. Noisy swallowing. Nausea. Vomiting; violent; tormenting; > drinking; with agonizing colic, diarrhœa and shrieks or convulsions. Painful transfixion cramp. Hard pressure in epigastrium. Lies on stomach and jerks buttocks up. Tense abdomen. Frightful colic, > pressure, < raising arms. Spurting stools; of green water. Cholera. Suppressed urine. Cramps prevent coition. After-pains. Spasm of glottis. Dyspnœa; can't bear anything near mouth; < coughing or laughing. Asthma. Cough; in violent paroxysms; coughs herself out of breath; > cold drinks (Caus.), < deep breathing or bending back; with cramps, spasms (Zin.) or lachrymation. Whooping cough. Chest; loud rattle in; painful, constriction of (lower). Jerking hands and feet. Clenches thumbs into palms. Heavy ankles. Repressed or undeveloped eruptions, discharges, etc. (Zin.). Yellow, scaly eruptions. Slow pulse. Icy cold; afebrile. Chilly. Cold, clammy sweat; at night. Collapse. Complementary: Calc-c.

Related: Ver-a.

Region:

• Cerebro-spinal axis.
• Vision.
• Blood.
• Digestive tract.
• FEMALE SEX ORGANS.

Worse:

• Cold.
• Evening.
• Fresh air.
• Sitting.
• Fats.

Better:

• Motion.
• During menses.
• Weeping.

VISUAL EFFECTS or vertigo, from menstrual or gastric disorders. Dreads open air. Chlorosis. .................... Dull, sad, sleepy and morose. Self-reproaches. Silent weeping. The room seems too small (Berb. Nat-c.). Brain feels wrapped up. Pain in l. temple. Prolonged migraine. Convergent squint. Blurred vision (Nat-m.). Fluttering, glittering or black vision. Sees stars. Sneezing, with itching in ear. Anosmia. Lost or salty taste. Hiccough; < pregnancy; with yawning. Hiccoughy eructation. Nausea in throat. Craves lemonade. Quick satiety. Loathing and nausea from the least food. Hyperemesis. Diarrhœa, < coffee. Menses; excessive, early, dark or changeable; clotted; membranous; less if in motion. Dysmenorrhœa. Coughs, without waking. Air seems to stream from nipples. Swelled breasts; < after menses. Milk in virgin breasts. Weakness; < in knees. Burning, sore heels. Pains in thinly covered bones. Chilly all over. Chilly, not > covers. Offensive sweat.

Related: Pul.