Materia Medica J–L

Region:

• GLANDS.
• Eyes.
• Nerves.

Worse:

• Start of menses.
• Cold.
• Exhaustion.

Dryness, then hypersecretion of upper respiratory tract and salivary glands. Colliquative states. Tendency to sweat and take cold. .................... Very nervous and tremulous. Visual disturbances. Eyestrain. Asthenopia. Nervous deafness, > noise. Tension in salivary glands. Salivation. Mumps. Nausea on using eyes or looking at moving objects. Stubborn vomiting of pregnancy. Violent ebullitions to heart and chest. Menses start with coldness, throbbing in head and pelvis and backache. Red skin. Sweats, with palpitation, general pulsation and tremor. Nervous sweats. Exophthalmos.

Related: Agar. Ant-t. Ip.

Region:

• Intestines.
• Stomach.

Worse:

• Night.
• Eructations.
• Child is good all day, but screams and tosses about all night. Colic. Stools watery, muddy or sour; bloody.

Related: Colo.

Region:

• Stomach.
• Intestines.

Worse:

• Covering.
• Morning.
• Summer.

Better:

• Hands in cold water.

Icy coldness; of lower limbs. .................... Vomiting; albuminous; easy. Loud gurgle, like water from a bung-hole, in abdomen; then profuse gushing stools. Rice water stools. Violent cramps, that draw the calves flat.

Related: Crot-t.

Region:

• Nerves: Cerebro-spinal.
• Respiratory membranes.

Worse:

• Close room.
• Dust.
• Noise.
• Eating.

Sensitive. .................... Generalized dry catarrh. Fits of sneezing, with lachrymation and loss of smell and taste. Coryza; fluent; acrid; with violent sneezing, coughing or asthmatic attacks. Long paroxysms of violent retching cough; as if chest would burst; with a bronchial rattle; obstructing the breath; with sneezing, stiffening out (Ip.), trembling or convulsions; with fever. Whooping cough. Tough expectoration. Puffy hands and feet in A.M. Chilliness.

Related: Ip. Dros. Pul.

Region:

• Cardio-vascular system.

Worse:

• Touch.
• Noise.
• Cold feet.
• 1-3 A.M.

Better:

• Rainy days.

Nights are filled with suffering. Aversion to open air. Palpitation; with nephritis. Burning, in throat, aching in stomach, etc. Passes much gas, then diarrhœa. Black leg ulcer, running bloody, foul water; with cutting, burning, itching and dyspnœa. Chilly and sensitive to cold. Can't get too warm, even in summer.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Air passages. NOSE. Pharynx. Stomach. Duodenum.
• Fibrous tissue.
• Ligaments.
• JOINTS.
• Skin.
• Circulation.
• Kidneys.
• Root of nose, tongue, or penis, etc.

Worse:

• COLD: Damp. Open air. Spring. Undressing.
• MORNING; after sleep.
• 2-3 A.M.
• Protruding tongue (Cist.).
• Hot weather.
• Alcohol.
• Beer.
• Suppressed catarrh.

Better:

• Heat.
• Motion.

Slow, deep processes; little fever, but great weakness. Sickly, chilly and cachectic. Fair, fat and sluggish. Bitings, like bugs. ADHESIVE SECRETIONS; STICKY taste, expectoration, leucorrhœa, foot-sweat, etc. STRINGY, TOUGH, lumpy or thick discharges. Fibrous exudates going downward. Yellow, eyes, vision, tongue, etc. Slow reaction. Heaviness. Crusts in nose, on skin, etc. Pains in small spots; jump about and finally attack stomach. Sharp stitches. Ascending; gastric pains, chills, heats, etc. Furred membranes. Old catarrhs. Ulcers; with dark dots, deep, perforating, round; look punched out; septal; peptic; with overhanging edges or thick crusts. Like a solid block on forehead. As of a hair on tongue, in nostril, etc. Internal itching; vagina, lungs, etc. Cracking joints. .................... Indifferent. Indolent. Pains outward along (r) brow. Bristling hair. Blindness, then pain over one eye, < cold, > pressing on root of nose. Migraine. Vision seems crossed, > looking with one eye. Eye-lids red, itching, swelled, granular. Nose pains at bridge or root; pressure or stuffed at root; retains foul secretions. Abscess. Ozœna. Nasal discharges, acrid; profuse; green clinkers. Nasal diphtheria. Snuffles. Radiating toothache; with swelled glands. Tongue, glistens; cracked, smooth or heavy, lemon yellow cast; pains when protruded. Sticky mouth. Sweet, metallic taste. Hawks thick mucus; must wipe it away. Œdema of uvula. Fissured pharynx. Throat; dry; burning in; something sticks in; with pains into neck and shoulders. Craves beer. Regurgitates liquids. Vomits bright yellow water. Sore spot in stomach, or food lies like a load. Constriction from liver to shoulder. Gelatinous stools or gushes of brown, frothy water, then burning and tenesmus, < after rising. Heavy kidneys. A drop remains after urinating. Constriction at root of penis. Acrid leucorrhœa. Milk is stringy. Hoarseness. Laryngitis. Tickling cough, after eating; with eructations; > heat; then vertigo. Under sternum; rawness; pains through to back. As of a bar across chest. Asthma. Deep cough with stringy expectoration. Heart weak; feels cold. Paralytic weakness of hands. Sciatica, < flexing leg. Sore heels. Pains along border of foot. Stubborn suppuration. Pustules with black apices. Skin, > in cold air. Hot flushes, then sticky sweat, then chill. Cold sweat on hands and feet. Chill with sweat. Complementary: Ars. Pho. Psor.

Related: Kali-c. Merc. Phyt. Pul.

Region:

• MIND.
• NERVES: Brain. Spine. Genitals.
• Larynx.
• Skin.

Worse:

• Mental exertion.
• Emotions.
• Periodically: Night. Summer. New moon.
• Sexual excesses.
• Puberty.

Better:

• When busy.

Slow onset. No pain. General numbness; < occiput. .................... Depressive delusions. Nervous. Suspicion; fears people, yet can't be alone, in the dark, etc.; looks on all sides; fidgety, busy hands, fumbles. Moves arms about wildly. Mania. Night terrors. Melancholy; remorse, wrings hands, bursts into tears, etc. Slow hesitates; omits or mixes up words. Indifference. Hebetude. Poor memory. Brain-fag. Vertigo, as if ground gave way. Catarrh descends to larynx (Am-bro.). Cutting colic. Green, watery stool; with rapid collapse. Cholera infantum. Depressed sexual power. Flooding of young women. Croupy cough. Cool skin. Acne. Sleepy. Antidote: Zin-pho.

Related: Calc-c. Con. Op. Stram.

Region:

• Muscles; ligaments: HEART. Uterus. LUMBAR.
• SEROUS and mucous membranes: CHEST (R. lower). Joints.
• Eyes.
• Blood.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Cold: AIR. Water. Drafts. Changes after Overheating. Changes after exertion.
• Time: 2-3 A.M. Winter. Before menses.
• Lying: On painful or left side.
• Loss of fluids.
• After labor.

Better:

• Warmth.
• Sitting with elbows on knees.
• Open air.

WEAKENING, intellection; muscles, heart, back, limbs, etc. Gives out, leans on something or lies down; with backache, profuse secretions, sweat, etc. Soft, thin blooded and cold. Old, fleshy, dropsical or paralytic. SHARP STITCHINGS, stabbings or catches in joints, muscles, chest, head, epigastrium, back, etc. Throbbing, numb or cold single parts, abdomen, fingers, etc. Acrid discharges. Sub-acute conditions. Parts lain on are painful and go to sleep. .................... Peevish. Easily startled; < touch; on dropping to sleep. Anxious aversion to solitude. Headaches, into eyes; wake from sleep. Eyes weak. Vision, spotted; like drops before. Puffs over, inner angle of eyes or baggy upper lids. Stitches out of ears. Head colds; go to chest. Nose stuffed, > open air; swelled; yellow-green or crusty discharge. Puffy face. Slimy mouth. Gray tongue. Itching gums. Hawks up tough mucus in A.M. DIFFICULT SWALLOWING. Salty regurgitation. Vomits sour mucus. Sensitive, distended stomach and abdomen. Fulness; from but little, even after drinks; as if full of water. Anxious at epigastrium. Throbbing back of stomach; at navel. Gastric pains going to back, chest, limbs, etc. Flatulence. Hard tympanites. Stool difficult; of large, hard lumps, then burning or torn feeling. Piles inflamed, bleeding; descend when urinating or coughing, > riding horseback; stick like fine needles, > cool bathing. Burning in l. kidney. Nocturnal enuresis of adults. Urine foamy, with thick, tough, red sediment. Delayed first menses. Amenorrhœa. Colic, then irritating menses; > washing. Inefficient labor pains. Catarrhal aphonia. Respiration short, < least motion or walking; asthmatic, alternating with diarrhœa; with vertigo. Incessant, hard retching or choking, futile cough; then vomiting. Pertussis. Lungs seem to stick to ribs. Pleurisy. Stabbing chest pains. Heart seems to hang by a thread; pains toward l. scapula. Palpitation; then weakness; in valvular disease. Arrhythmia. Cardiac degeneration. Fine stitches in mammæ. Everything affects the small of the back or pains start there. Back and legs give out; feel heavy. Lumbago. Arms weak; numb pinching in left. Painful tips of fingers and toes. Œdema of left foot. Sensitive soles; skin. Dry hair and skin. General itching or hives; during menses. Talks in sleep. Pulse small, soft, variable, intermittent or dicrotic. Chilly; with hot hands; and sleepiness; in open air. Internal burning. Sweat scanty, foul on feet. Complementary: Carb-v. Nit-ac. Pho.

Related: Calc-Hypo. Lyc. Pho.

Region:

• Blood.
• Nerve sheaths.
• Mouth.
• Rectum.
• Kidneys.

Worse:

• Cold.
• Mercury.

Profound prostration. Coldness; and easy hæmorrhage; nosebleed, bloody stools, etc. Scurvy. Fetid mouth, lochia, etc. Gray, white, plastic exudates. .................... Swelled face, in morning, ankles in evening. Mercurial salivation. Aphthæ. Noma. Sudden vomiting. Gas colic. Continuous rectal pain; in diarrhœa. Nephritis. Albuminuria. Constricted chest. Right pulse full, left small. Coldness; in blood; tongue, throat, precordium, arms, feet, skin, etc.

Region:

• Glands.
• Frontal sinus.
• Nose.
• Eyes.
• Lungs: Upper. Lobe.
• Periosteum.

Worse:

• Heat.
• Pressure.
• Touch.
• Night.
• Damp.
• Mercury.
• Changing weather.
• Jolting.
• Cold foods.

Better:

• Motion.
• Cool air.
• Open air.

Incipient organic changes; gouty-rheumatic, syphilitic, rickety, etc. Many and diverse symptoms. Feels used up. Cachexy. Stubborn chronicity. Arterio-sclerosis. Craves motion in open air. Various symptoms. Crushing or sharp stitching pains. Weakness. COPIOUS, watery, acrid, salty, thick, green or foul discharges. Catarrh. Pains long after trauma. Diffuse soreness; of affected part. Œdematous swelling. .................... Irritable, harsh tempered and cruel. Can't think. Despondent. Bad temper. Harsh. Head bone pains, lightning like, < warmth or lying on part. Big head and small jaws; rickets. Tender spots on head. Bilateral headache. Scalp sore; fissured. Burning, watery, puffy eyes. Chemosis. Tinnitus. Acrid coryza with dyspnœa and salivation. Burning throb in nasal and accessory cavities. Colds from every damp day. Red, swelled nose; tight pain at root, zygomæ and root of tongue. Takes cold. Violent sneezing. Acrid, watery coryza, < cool air. Ozœna. Glutinous mucus on lips in A.M. (Zin-cl.). Nagging toothache. Taste salty; bitter on waking. Salivation. Sore-throat of speakers (Aru-t.). Flatulence; squeaking. Early diarrhœa of phthisis. Frequent stools and urine. Leucorrhœa, corrosive; like meat washings. Air hunger; with flatulency, in A.M.; awakens strangling. Whistling, asthmatic breathing. Raw air-passages. Croupy hoarseness. Dry bronchitis. Frothy expectoration. Backward chest pains. Pneumonia. Pain, sternum to back. Painful lumps; in scalp. Giant urticaria. Chilly in bones; in painful parts. Heat in evening; uncovers, then chills. Alternate heat and chill. Heat with shudders. Hot and dry, then drenching sweat. Profuse night sweats, which >. Actinomycosis. Antidotes: Merc. Nit-ac.

Related: Iod. Sul. Syph.

Region:

• EPITHELIUM: Throat. Eustachian tube. Middle ear.
• Mucous glands.
• Occiput (l).
• Muscles.
• Joints.
• Shoulder (R).
• One side, < left.
• Crosswise.

Worse:

• Open air.
• Cold drinks, drafts.
• Heat of bed.
• Lying.
• Night.
• Dampness.
• Motion.
• Sprains.
• Fats.
• Rich foods.
• During menses.

Better:

• Cold drinks.
• Rubbing.
• Letting hair down.

WHITENESS. MILKY WHITE, viscid, sticky, thick, slimy or lumpy secretions. Catarrhs. Toughness. Tough, plastic or fibrinous exudates. Hard deposits. Stubborn infiltrations. Swelled glands. Sore, cutting (outward-Asaf.) or stitching, shifting pains. Crawling. Numbness. Slow re-action. .................... Irritable or angry; at trifles. Discontent, discouraged; fears evil. Sits in silence. Stunning shock in or a leaden load holds occiput down; < binding hair, > wraps. Brain feels loose. Copious, white dandruff. Head sweats. Pustular cornea. Cloudy lens. Scintillations on coughing. Snapping, itching or as of a plug in ears. Deafness. Eustachian occlusion or soreness. Face bluish; sunken. Eruption around mouth. Tongue mapped; gray or white at base. Aphthæ. Scorbutic gums. Salty taste. Throat grayish-white; ulcerated; chronic sorethroat. Tonsils swelled; inflamed. Hawks out thick white mucus. Loathes fat or rich foods. Nausea; with shivers. Stomach heavy; at night. Vomits food. Fulness in abdomen after eating. Pale, hard or flocculent stools. Anus, sore, < walking or stools; itching or crawling, after stool. Piles. Dribbling urination. Nephritis. Difficult or oppressed breathing. Bronchitis. Expectoration sticky or flies from mouth. Dark, clotted or tarry menses. Rawness in chest. Flushes of heat in chest. Coldness at heart. Painful breasts before or at menses. Heaviness under r. shoulder. Buzzing under l. scapula. Backache, > lying. Lightning pains from small of back to feet. Cold hands and feet. Cramps in limbs; in legs. Twitching thighs. Tension in legs alternates with tension in arm (l). Cold foot-sweat. Cutting in bones (Saba.). Branny skin. Anxious dreams. Complementary: Calc-s. Follows: Fer-p.

Related: Bry. Pul.

Region:

• Cavities: Blood-vessels. Heart. Kidneys.
• Vaso-motors.
• Respiratory organs.

Worse:

• Walking.
• Cold.
• Damp.
• Taking cold.
• Veal.
• Lying with head low.

Better:

• Gentle motion.

Increased secretion into cavities. Very weak. Hæmorrhage. Sudden œdema. Throbbing. Dull stitches. Numb, as if wooden. .................... Faintness. External angle of r. eye twitches, < chewing. Nausea. Epigastric or sub-sternal pains go toward axillæ. Dark, fluid stools. Dull kidney pains. Diuresis. Profuse, inky menses. Rapid, gasping breathing; sits upright. VIOLENT DYSPNŒA; can only drink in sips. Congestion of r. lung. Asthma. Free, sour expectoration >. Relapses of phthisis. Palpitation, < lying. Pain from back into chest. Hands and fingers feel swelled. External coldness; chin; skin. Internal burning.

Related: Cam. Glon.

Region:

• Nerves: Brain. Cord.
• Excretions.
• One side.

Worse:

• Slight: Excitement. Worry. Mental fatigue. Touch. Pain. Cold, dry air. Puberty.

Better:

• Sleep.
• Eating.
• Gentle motion (Fer. Pul.).

NERVOUS, SENSITIVE, WEAK AND EASILY FAGGED, especially by pain, etc. Neurasthenia. Paralysis. PUTRID, or golden-yellow excretions; coat on tongue, stool, etc. Foul odor of body. Carrion odor of secretions. Irregular menses, pulse, etc. Stitches. Little pain. Paralytic weakness. .................... Shyness. Nervous and sensitive. Dread. Gloom. Averse to her own. Angry. Vertigo on facing sun. Eyes; burn, sting and swim in tears; yellow-gray, milky secretion; left lid droops. Retinitis. Reflex eye symptoms. Itching in posterior nares. Sneezing; at 2 A.M. Hay fever; pro-phylactic. Sad, care-worn look. Brown stripe at edge of hair. Palate feels greasy. Tongue yellow, like liquid mustard. Aphthæ. Craves ice water, vinegar and sweets. Craving hunger; soon after eating; and weakness follow painless, watery stools. Entero-colitis. Empty gnawing in stomach, > eating. Cutting in abdomen. Golden yellow, putrid, hot stools. Milky urine. Enuresis nocturna. Sexual erethism, with prostration after coition or nightly emissions. Horribly foul leucorrhœa. Aphonia. Nervous asthma. Axillary sweat smells of onions. Spinal irritation. Prickling hands and feet. Numb fingertips. Foot feels frost-bitten. Pains in soles. Drowsy. Yawning. Inactive skin.

Related: Caus. Coccl. Pic-ac. Zin.

Region:

• EPITHELIUM: Respiratory organs. Skin.
• Glands.

Worse:

• Warmth; room; air.
• Noise.
• Consolation.
• Evening.

Better:

• Cool air.
• Walking.
• Fasting.

Torpid processes. PROFUSE, DEEP YELLOW DISCHARGES; thin or sticky. Suppuration. Stitching, tearing, festering pains, that shift about. .................... Hurried. Irritable. Yellow, slimy tongue. As of a heavy load on stomach. Oxaluria. Pyelitis. Croupy hoarseness. Coarse rattle in chest. Arthritic nodes. Rheumatism, < heat. Dry skin. Desquamation. Ulcers ooze thin, yellow water. Profuse, easy sweat.

Related: Pul.

Region:

• NERVES: SPINAL. Eyes. Face (R).
• HEART.
• Circulation.
• Joints.
• Skin.
• Right; head; deltoid.
• Left; chest; arm.

Worse:

• MOTION: Lying on L. side. Bending Forward. Looking down.
• Heat.
• Becoming cold.
• With the sun.

Better:

• Eating.
• Cloudy weather.
• Continued motion.

Aching, bruised, stiff feeling. Tingling, numbness, trembling or paralytic weakness. Changing pains; shoot outward along nerves; or dull tearing, crushing, moving downward, then suddenly, to heart or alternating with cardiac symptoms, or between upper and lower limbs. Neuralgia. Rheumatism. .................... Vertigo. Cracking noise in head. Shooting from nape to vertex and face. Maddening supra-orbital (r) pain. HEART; irritable; pains, sharp, burning; formication; numbness; weak; radiating to l. scapula or arm; taking away the breath; fluttering; palpitation, visible; paralysis. Pulse very slow; weak, tremulous. Brachialgia. Stiff, eyelids, lips, skin, etc. Complementary: Benz-ac. Spi.

Related: Aco. Dig. Rhus-t. Spi.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: DIGESTIVE TRACT. Gums. Stomach. Abdomen. Female
• genitals. Uterus.
• BLOOD.
• Teeth.

Worse:

• DENTITION.
• Pregnancy.
• Rest.
• Cold.
• Eating.
• Lying.
• Summer.
• During menses.
• 6 P.M. to 6 A.M.

Better:

• Warmth.
• Hot food.
• Motion.

Miserable and weak. Profuse, FOUL, HOT, ACRID discharges; sputum, eructations, etc.; redden the part. Rawness. Burning like fire. Pulsation; general. Hæmorrhage; passive; brown, dark. Lumpy discharges, menses, etc. Ulceration. Heaviness. Fulness. Tumefaction. Scurvy. Marasmus. Black, teeth, leucorrhœa, lochia, etc. .................... Dissatisfied with every thing; wants things, then throws them away and wants something else. Screams at night. Cross, wilful and obstinate. Longs for death. Stupid. Buzzing in head. Yellow pallor, with red blotches (Iod.); during chill or heat. TEETH SOON DECAY; black spots on; intolerable ache, < pregnancy; painful dentition. Puffy, bluish, bleeding, painful gums. Aphthæ or salivation, of pregnancy. Taste bitter, low down in throat. Icy cold epigastrium. Frothy eructations. Nausea. Vomiting; long after meals (Æth. Fer. Plat.); undigested food; sweetish; of pregnancy; of uterine ulcer. As of a lump pressing down on bladder. Brown, watery, lienteric stools. Urination hurried; involuntary when lying. Diuresis. Profuse, lumpy, intermittent menses, < lying. Leucorrhœa; gushing; like bloody water; with itching. Tormenting cough, with little expectoration; with sore larynx and chest. Senile bronchitis. Neglected phthisis. Hectic. Chest; deep pains, take her breath; anxious heaviness. Dragging from back to genitals; as if to come out. Violently itching, moist or scurfy eczema on eyelids, face, joints, back of hands. Ulcers break out and heal repeatedly; bleed after coitus. Cold sweat. Complementary: Sul.

Related: Aru-t. Ars. Carb-ac. Grap. Nit-ac. Psor.

Region:

• NERVES.
• THROAT.
• Right to left, then back again or reverse.
• Female generative organs.

Worse:

• TOUCH.
• Jar.
• During menses.
• Cold air, or wind, or drinks.
• Morning of one day and evening of the next (Eup-p.).

Better:

• Open air.

SYMPTOMS ALTERNATE SIDES, throat, ovaries, etc., or wander about. Glistening parts. Glistening, throat, ulcers, etc. Oversensitive; can't have parts, fingers, etc., touch each other. .................... Full of imaginations; horrid, of snakes, vermin, as if floating, etc. Every symptom seems a settled disease. Hysteria at height of sexual orgasm. THROAT SORE, has glistening patches of china whiteness; or red glistening; gives out from exertion; < at start and close of menses. Tonsilitis. Diphtheria; paralysis after. Menses green, gushing or ammoniacal; hoarseness, during. Breasts sore and swelled, before menses. Galactorrhœa. DRIES UP THE MILK. Scanty milk. Cold creepings down back. Sore heels.

Related: Lach. Lyss. Pul.

Region:

• NUTRITION.
• BLOOD.
• Heart.
• Head (Left).
• Thigh (Outer).

Worse:

• COLD: Least draft. Wet. Hands in cold water.
• Milk.
• Loss of sleep.
• Weekly.

Better:

• Rest.
• Pressure of bandage.

Exhaustion. Despondency. Vertigo, < lying on l. side. Blind then throbbing frontal headache, with much pale urine. Migraine. Photophobia. Painless swelling of face. Pale, sickly look. Anæmia. Averse to milk. Nausea. Sour vomiting. Dry, large, painful stools. Amenorrhœa. Boring, sore pain in kidneys. Polyuria, < during pain. Scanty flow of milk. Always chilly. Cold finger-tips. Skin is super-sensitive to cold. Given to restore milk.

Related: Nat-m.

Region:

• Mind.
• Throat.
• NERVES: CUTANEOUS. VASO-MOTOR. Sympathetic. PNEUMO-GASTRIC.
• BLOOD; HEART.
• CIRCULATION.
• LEFT SIDE; then right: THROAT. OVARIES.
• FEMALES.
• Vertex.

Worse:

• SLEEP; AFTER.
• MORNING.
• HEAT: SPRING. SUMMER SUN. ROOM. DRINKS.
• SWALLOWING; EMPTY; liquids.
• SENSITIVE TO: SLIGHT TOUCH OR PRESSURE OF CLOTHES; < NECK, Waist (Ap. Bro.
• Grap.); Noise.
• RETARDED DISCHARGES.
• Start and close of menses.
• CLIMAXIS.
• ALCOHOL.
• Cloudy weather.

Better:

• OPEN AIR.
• FREE SECRETIONS.
• Hard pressure.
• Bathing part.
• COLD DRINKS.

Rapid onset, intensity, prostration or malignancy. LEFT-SIDED COMPLAINTS, OR MOVING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. Sepsis. Disintegration. Gangrene; diabetic. Carbuncle. Erysipelas. Blueness; hands. FETOR; of acrid discharges; oris; stools, etc. HÆMORRHAGE, thin; dark particles; nose-bleed; vicarious; bloody urine, etc. Purpura. ASCENDING SENSATIONS, in throat; from eyes over vertex; from nape; from ovary to heart; chills; FLUSHES OF HEAT; rushes of blood. A LUMP; ascends throat and is swallowed back again; in liver, abdomen, rectum; rolls about in bladder, etc. EXCESSIVE PAINFULNESS; of throat; ulcers; spots over body. Constriction; of throat, > eating; as of a skull cap; of anus. Drawing; vertex to jaws; in rectum, etc. Tremor; of tongue; hands, etc. Hard throbbing or hammering (Fer.). Congestion. Apoplexy. Epilepsy. .................... Nervous, excitable. LOQUACITY; rambling; then sadness or repeats same thing. Compelling delusions. Persistent, erotic ideas, without ability. Depression; on awaking. Insane jealousy. Suspicion. Feels full of poison. Fears, going to sleep, lying down, or that heart will stop. Indolence. Vertigo, < turning to right. Headache; heavy; bursting; down nose; side (r) feels cut off. Eyes feel small. Nose; stopped coryza; discharges with every cough; bloody pus from; rum blossom (Agar. Led.). Face purple, mottled; netted veinlets; dusky during heat. Faceache. Lower jaw drops. Septic mumps. Aphthæ. Much thick, pasty saliva. Tongue catches on teeth. Thick, blundering speech. Peppery taste. Can't bear anything before mouth or nose. THROAT; PAINFUL, into ears; as of a soft body in; choking; MUST LOOSEN COLLAR; hot lump in; pit feels swelled or sore spot back of pit. SWALLOWING; the wrong way; painful; returns through nose. Diphtheria; laryngeal. Tonsilitis. Quinsy. Hawks foul pellets from throat. Thirsty, but fears to drink. Dipsomania. Soreness or cramp in epigastrium. Sore festering throb, deep in liver. Septic gall-bladder. Pain from anus to navel. Constipation of pregnancy. Piles; < coughing. Pain in l. ovary; must lift covers. Dark, scanty menses. Suffocates on dropping to sleep. Must take deep breaths. Air hunger. Tickling, choking cough, < touching neck or auditory canal, > retching out a little expectorate. Larynx, as of a skin hanging in, or a valve. Heart weak; turns over or too big, as if. Carditis; metastatic. Axilla; swelled glands. Numb, l. arm; finger-tips. Cracks in skin, at corner of nails. Cold knees, or cold, foul foot-sweat. Toes feel broken. Mottled or livid skin; dark marks. Eating ulcers, on legs; with dark areolæ; fungoid; varicose. Sleepless from cerebral irritation; tipplers. Frightful dreams; of snakes. Dilated capillaries. Chill, < drinking; with sweat. HEAT; on vertex; IN FLUSHES, on waking or falling to sleep. Sweat; about neck, during sleep; in axillæ; bloody; staining blackish; garlicky. Complementary: Lyc. Pho. Zin-io.

Related: Caus. Sep. Zin.

Region:

• Secretions.
• Skin.
• Liver.
• Joints.

Worse:

• Cold wet.
• Shaking.
• Lying on R. side.
• Violent exertion.

Better:

• Cloudy weather.

Heavy, sore aching; as if lying uncomfortably. Numbness; lumbar region. Numb, aching calves. Constriction. .................... Vertigo, with nausea and vomiting. Weight on vertex. Red about eyes and across nose. Face, < touch. SOURNESS; sour taste to meat; all food turns sour, vomits it. Trembling in chest. Bruised, sore uterus. Front of thighs weak. Sores about joints. Eruptions; sticky; on head, face, etc. Moist, foul eczema. Many small boils. AXILLARY SWEAT; COLD, run down chest; foul. Complementary: Mag-c.

Region:

• HEART.
• Vaso-motors.
• Blood.

Worse:

• Least motion; even of hands.
• Exertion.

Nausea, then abdominal pain. Transfixation of pain or sinking at epigastrium. .................... Gasps, fears to lose breath and die. Restless; with cardiac pains; and prostrated. Precordial anxiety. Apnœa. CARDIAC PAIN; violent; sharp to shoulder or both arms (l) (Kalm.), with numbness. Angina pectoris. Quick, feeble, thready pulse. Skin cold as marble. Dreams of flying. Hard ache in axillæ.

Related: Tarent.

Region:

• MIND.
• BRAIN.
• Nerves.
• Gullet.
• Chest.
• Respiration.
• Heart.

Worse:

• Sitting up.
• Exertion.
• Cold.

Better:

• Lying with head low.
• Eating.
• Sleep.
• Open air.

Symptoms accompanied by SUDDEN DEBILITY, lack of reaction, blunted senses, coldness or cyanosis. Weak sphincters. Sinkings. Long faints. Falling down; sensation; in brain; in abdomen, heart, etc. Nervous collapse. Apoplexy. Internal burning. Hæmorrhage; of thin blood. Twitchings; facial. .................... SUDDEN LOSS OF MEMORY, from pain, fright, etc. Head, < 11 A.M. - 1 P.M. Speechlessness. Nightly tearing in vertex. Eyes open, protrude, staring. Objects look large. Livid face. Blue babies. NOISY SWALLOWING, then gurgling flatulence. Spasm of gullet. Persistent hiccough. Low voice. Raw larynx and trachea. Suffocation, gasps for breath; on sitting up. Shallow breathing. Can't raise the chest walls. Cough, tickling; spasmodic night cough of phthisis; short or dry; of cardiac origin. Blood flecked or gelatinous sputum. Holds hand over heart. Chest pains in cardiac region. Fearful anxiety and restlessness; can't fall to sleep. Coma vigil. Weak, variable, slow or irregular pulse. Cool, livid skin.

Related: Am-c. Gel. Hyd-ac. Pru-sp.

Region:

• Fibrous tissue: JOINTS (small). Tendons. Eyes. Heels. Ankles.
• Capillary circulation: SKIN. Lungs.
• Periosteum.
• Blood.
• Nerves.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Warm: Covers. Stove. Air.
• Injury.
• Motion.
• Night.
• Eggs.
• Wine.

Better:

• Cool: Bathing. Air.

Purple, puffy and chilly, yet averse to external warmth. Ascending effects; from feet. Shifting, tearing pain. Painful, cold, œdematous joints. Parts become weak, numb, cold and wither. Torpidity. Gouty-rheumatic-hæmorrhagic persons. Tipsters. Dropsy. Rushes of blood. Hæmorrhage; bright, frothy. Petechiæ. .................... Raging, pulsating headache; < covers. Scalp, < dampness. Blood-shot or bruised eyes. Persistent nose-bleed. Mottled or red (pimply) face. Sub-mental gland swelled. Much uric acid sand in urine. Bleeding fibroids. Cough; tormenting; from tickling in larynx; with epistaxis; then sobbing respiration; < receding eruptions. Double inspirations. Hæmoptysis: alternating with rheumatism. Stiff, crampy back; < rising from sitting. Lumbago. Hip-joint; cramps over. Swelled, blotchy, ecchymotic legs and feet. Larval gout. Sprained ankles. Feet (dorsæ) itch by night and are stiff in A.M. Sore heels. Tender soles. Wounds, punctured; twitches in; from nails, stings, etc.; foul pus. Coldness of part, < limbs; with the pain; during fever; as if in cold water. Foul sweat. Profuse night-sweat.

Related: Arn. Bry. Rhus-t. Sec-c.

Region:

• Liver.
• Right side.

Worse:

• Cold drinks.
• Motion.
• Periodically.

Better:

• Lying on stomach or side.

Hepato-hæmorrhagic diathesis. Burnings; in hepatic region. .................... Hopeless, weak and drowsy. Craves iced drinks. Bilious vomitus. Sore or dull bursting ache over gall-bladder, or liver, down over bowels to navel or toward left scapula, or along spine. Liver swelled transversely. Acute liver conditions. Gall-stones. Muddy, watery, morning stool. STOOLS TARRY OR BLACK, FOUL; stringy, waxy; spurting; with pain at navel. Dysentery; after diarrhœa. Prolapsing piles; with hæmorrhage (Lach.). Leucorrhœa; warm, watery; runs down limbs. Pain in (l) sciatic nerve on sitting. Nails very thin; soft and splitting. Jaundice. Complementary: Pho.

Related: Bap. Card-m. Chio.

Region:

• VENOUS CIRCULATION: FEMALE ORGANS. Uterus. Ovaries. HEART (R). Rectum.
• Bladder.
• Left side.
• Nerves.

Worse:

• WARMTH; of room.
• Motion.
• Miscarriages.
• Walking.
• Standing.
• Consolation.

Better:

• Cool, fresh air.
• When busy.
• Lying on left side.
• Sunset (Coca. Med. Sele.).
• Pressure.
• Crossing legs.

FULL, HEAVY or forced out feeling; uterus; heart; eyelids; ovary (l). Utero-ovarian sagging. Marked nervo-hysterical reflexes (Con.), especially mental or cardiac. Nervous tremor; in hypogastrium, in spine, knees, etc. Pulsation, ebullition, gurglings and burnings. Backward pains; about eyes; to occiput; from nipples through chest; from heart to l. scapula. Venous congestion. Acrid discharges. .................... Hurried, nervous, snappish and erotic or depressed. Fruitless activity. Wild, crazy feeling. Dread; of insanity; being incurable, etc. Desires finery. Burning headache, < before and after menses; ache over (l), eye; with vertigo and visual effects. Eyes, feel sprained; bite and burn, < reading. Yellowish, patchy tongue. Sweet taste -back of mouth. Craves meat. Hunger, as if from spine. Stiff, tense abdomen. Can't bear weight of covers. Sharp pains, < doubling up. Early, morning diarrhœa; frequent, small stools; with tenesmus; < after rising. Heavy dragging or outward urging in pelvis; must hold parts (Sanic.); with dysuria. Ovarian pain, (l); into limb; with pain below (l) breast. Menses free, while moving only. Thin, brown, leucorrhœa; acrid. Oppressive load on chest; air hunger; takes long breaths. As of a rivet or ball under (l) mamma. HEART, feels clutched, overful, cold, weak, hangs by a thread, etc.; pains into (l) arm; < stooping; < lying on (r) side; nervous. Palpitation. Neckache, < tire. Broken feeling between scapulæ. Pain from hip to hip. Can't walk on uneven ground. Chilly, > open air. Burning palms and soles.

Related: Alo. Plat. Pul. Spi.

Region:

• Heart.
• Small joints.
• Lungs.
• Urine.

Worse:

• Night.
• Menses; after; suppressed.

Better:

• Eating.
• Urinating.
• Motion.

SORE and heavy. Acidity. Outward pressure or as of a dull point. Gout. Rheumatism. .................... Headache, > eating. Eyes dry from using them. Vertical hemiopia (r). Red nose. Lumps of mucus drop into throat. Gnawing in stomach, with pain in left temple (Ars.), > eating. Urine scanty, with much thirst; with red-brown sediment. Heart pains; sore; with eye symptoms; going to head; < bending over, > urinating; from mammæ to arms. Soreness of fingers, > grasping. Dry, harsh skin. Eczema.

Related: Lyc. Nat-p. Sul-ac.

Region:

• RESPIRATION.
• Vaso-motor nerves.
• Secretions.
• Heart.
• Epigastrium.

Worse:

• Cold bathing.
• Suppressions.
• Sleep; after.
• Tobacco.

Better:

• Rapid motion.
• Eating a little.

RELAXATION; with increased secretions and weakness; with sweat; with deathly sickness all over; with oppressed, rattling respiration. Sits with elbows on knees. Prickles all over. .................... Flow of saliva; with retching, hiccough, nausea, dyspnœa, etc. As of a lump in throat or stomach. Deathly nausea; with vertigo; < night and early A.M., > eating or drinking. Vomiting; with sweat (cold on face). Nausea and vomiting, with profuse sweat; with respiratory symptoms. Weak, sinking at stomach. Deep red urine, with red sediment. Urine suppressed or infrequent. Dyspnœa; nervous; with labor pains; as from a wedge in larynx; > rapid motion; with general prickling. Asthma. Spasmodic cough; with sneezing, belching or gastric pain. Rattle in chest, but don't expectorate. Constriction or oppressive fulness in chest. Pulse weak, or soft; flowing. Plaques of œdema (figurata); with ecchymoses.

Related: Ant-t. Ip. Tab.

(Syphilinum)

Region:

• Mucous membranes.
• Nerves.
• Bones.

Worse:

• NIGHT; damp.
• Sundown to sunrise.
• Gradual < then slow >.
• Protruding tongue.
• Extreme heat or cold.
• Every alternate full moon.
• During thunderstorms.

Better:

• Changing position.
• Continued or slow motion.
• High altitudes.
• Applied heat.

Poor reaction or it does not hold. Chronicity. Great weakness, with but few symptoms. Multiphase symptoms. SYPHILITIC TAINT. Weakness; on waking. Ulceration. Bald head, pouting lips and big belly. Dwarfish. Marasmic. Foul odor of body. Violent or linear pains. Knots in muscles. .................... Antisocial. Horrid depression or despair. Cross. Feels like going crazy. Impulse to wash hands. Syphilitic insanity. Poor memory. Nightly delirium. Cerebral softening. Deep, crushing head pains; across base. Beats head against wall. Linear headaches. Head feels pulled back. Slowly advancing hemiplegia. Hair falls profusely. Inflamed cornea; > cool bathing. Ophthalmia. Glimmering vision. Vertical diplopia. Ptosis. Abscess of middle ear. Nose painful to inhaled air; in sinuses. Ozœna. Snuffles. Face wrinkled; looks old. Pain over r. eye, < protruding tongue. Teeth feel sticky; as of a worm in; decay at edge of gums. Salivation; at night. Putrid taste. Crack along center of tongue. Green lumps from posterior nares. Sore throat; r. to l.; < cold drinks. Capricious appetite. Craves alcoholic liquors. Rectal fissure or stricture. Frothy urine. Nocturnal enuresis. Voids urine > standing. Menses have odor of rotten meat. Profuse, acrid leucorrhœa; runs to heels; with itching. Cough, < lying on r. side. Pain from base to apex of heart. Neck feels short. Backache, < urinating. Deltoid pains. Middle fingers. Itching eruption about elbow. Cold pain in legs. Festination. Bones pain as if sawed. Bilateral exostoses. Skin; biting as from bugs; swelled and blotched, > hot bathing. Pains in shins, > heat. Wandering erysipelas. Succession of abscesses. Foul or green pus. Conical crusts. Bullæ. White cicatrices. Distorted nails. Sleeplessness. Large, soft pulse. As of hot water in veins.

Related: Merc.

Region:

• NUTRITION: DIGESTIVE TRACT. Portal system. Skin.
• URINARY ORGANS.
• RIGHT SIDE to left: THROAT. Chest. Ovary.
• Brain.
• Lungs.

Worse:

• PRESSURE OF CLOTHES.
• WARMTH.
• Awaking.
• Wind.
• Eating; to satiety; oysters.
• Indigestion.
• 4-8 P.M.

Better:

• WARM DRINKS, food, etc.
• Cold applications.
• Motion.
• Eructations.
• Urinating.

Weak from digestive disturbances. Repeating or alternating symptoms; flexion, then extension; automatic acts; flushing, then paling, chill after chill, etc. Progressive affections. Relapses. Sudden symptoms. Throbbing. Pains cause anger, jerking, etc. ACIDITY; sour taste, eructations, vomitus, etc. Calculi; gall-stones, gravel, tophi. Gout. Thin, withered and FULL OF GAS. Poor circulation; it seems to stand still; limbs feel dead; numb spots. Descending symptoms; emaciation, etc. Early senility. Dropsy. .................... Confused over daily affairs. Mentally active, but grows weaker. Can't think. Miscalls or omits words, etc. Paralysis of brain. AWAKES ANGRY, sad or anxious. Sensitive and fearsome. Averse to being alone. Hateful, cranky, domineering, exacting, reserved or despairing. Headache; pain goes to other side, where it is worse; pulsating in occiput at night; < if hot. Hair falls; comes in gray. Dandruff. Eyes half open. Hemiopia. Sees sparks. FANNING OF WINGS OF NOSE. Nose stuffy; dry posteriorly. Acrid ozœna. Face yellowish; pale, gray; wrinkled forehead; frowning; twitching. Hydrocephalus. Meningitis; tubercular. Mouth hangs open (Merc-c. Mur-ac.). Sore lips. Yellow teeth. Tongue; puts it in and out rapidly; trembling; swelled; heavy; lolling; stiff; cracked; painful vesicle on tip. A ball rises and sticks in throat. Sorethroat (r); < cold drinks. Diphtheria. Hunger, but quick satiety; A LITTLE FOOD OVERFILLS. Averse to soups. Incomplete eructations. Epigastric anxiety, pressure, etc. Gnawing in stomach. As of a band about waist. Sensitive, congested liver. MUCH, NOISY FLATULENCE, < lower bowels. Meteorism. Flatulence, pressing out. Abdomen; sore, < lower; alternating sides; brown spots on and on chest. Colicky babies, < in evening. Stool, most seems to remain, after; contains sand. Alternate diarrhœa and constipation. Piles, > hot bathing. Frequent urging to urinate, > riding in cars, etc. Acrid urine. Urine scanty; cries before urinating; red sand in; suppressed. Sexual exhaustion. Pollutions. Violent dysmenorrhœa, with fainting. Menses of clots and serum; < stool. Acrid or periodical leucorrhœa. Painful coitus. Gas from vagina. Craves air, but is chilled by it. Short, rattling breathing. Salty, green-yellow, lumpy or foul expectoration. Unresolved pneumonia. Dry, teasing cough, with emaciation. Mammæ, achy; sore; nodes in (l). Axillary abscess (r). Bubbling at scapulæ. Stiff back. Hands numb; cramps in, and in feet. Fingers twitch during sleep; sticky sweat on. Pains jerk legs upward. As of a stone under heel. Feet asleep, < heels; acrid sweat on. DRYNESS; palms, vagina, skin, etc. Rawness in folds, nipples, anus, etc. Suppurating eruptions. Receding boils, erysipelas, etc. Vascular swellings. Erectile tumors; < before menses. Aneurism. Rapid pulse, < eating; evening. Coldness; icy; head, throat, stomach; of one foot; < coughing. Chill, then vomits; after first sleep. Burning, between scapulæ. Foul viscid axillary or foot sweat; like onions. Complementary: Calc-c. Iod. Kali-c. Lach.

Related: Carb-v. Sil.

Follows: Chel. or Graph.

Region:

• HEART.
• Circulation.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Excitement.
• Exertion.
• Heat.
• After sleep.
• Lying on (R) side.
• Abuse of heart remedies.
• Suppressions.
• Thinking of it.

Irritable weakness. Heart, with many side-symptoms. Symptoms vary with heart action or associated with a RAPID TUMULTUOUS HEART BEAT. Cardio-hæmorrhagic cases. HÆMORRHAGE, from nose, piles, lungs, etc. Shifting pains. .................... Nervous, hurried and tremulous. Slow comprehension. Protruding eyes. Tawny, expressionless, bloated face. Polyuria. Choking on lying down. Heart cough. HEART; violent, excessively rapid (Pho.), stormy action; heavy beat, at night; oppression at; pains, sore, aching constriction. Pulse, large, full, soft; don't synchronize with heart. Hot ache beneath (r) scapula. Coldness.

Related: Cact. Collin. Cratæ.

(Hydrophobinum)

Region:

• Nerves.
• Cord.
• Throat.
• Sexual organs.

Worse:

• Running water (Canth. Stram.).
• Heat of sun.
• Glistening objects.
• Drafts.

Better:

• Bending backward.
• Gentle rubbing.

Spasm. Overacute senses. .................... Fear. Anger. Rapid speech. Impatience and violent temper. Roams about. Constant spitting; ropy, frothy saliva. Spasm of gullet. Can't urinate unless he hears water run. Sexual excitement. Sensitive womb. Barking cough. Pain in neck. Blueness. Convulsions.

Related: Lac-c. Lach.