Materia Medica N–P

Region:

• Cerebellum.
• Medulla.
• NERVES; HEART (Mitral Valve). Respiration. Throat.
• Left side: Ovary. Temple. Arm.

Worse:

• Lying on left side.
• After: Sleep. Menses.
• Air: Cold. Drafts.
• Pressure of clothes.
• Alcohol.

Better:

• Riding in open air.
• Sneezing.
• Smoking.

Nervous, excited and tremulous; with cardiac effects; often reflex. Collapse. Sepsis. Many pains. Parts seem drawn together. Constrictions, throat, chest, etc. Insensible r. side. .................... Suicidal brooding. Shootings in head. As of a blow on occiput and neck. Vertex sensitive to cold. As of a lump in throat. PAIN FROM L. OVARY TO HEART. Suffocative choking; grasps the throat. Puffing breathing. Cardiac asthma or cough. HEART; weakness at; violent pain; shooting to l. scapula, shoulder or neck; cramp ascend into neck; holds hand over it; excited, tremendous action; palpitation, visible; hypertrophy; endocarditis, septic. Dry or empty in l. lung. Ribs feel broken. Cramps in shoulder, nape or thigh. Puffy or sweating hands and feet. Itching cicatrices. Pulse changes force. Internal heat, < chest. Sweat on lumbar back and ankles.

Related: Cimi. Lach. Laur. Spig.

Region:

• DIGESTION.
• Nerves.
• Skin.
• Hands (Dorsæ).
• Heels.

Worse:

• HEAT: Sun. Weather. (Head). Sultry air. Gas-light.
• Periodically; Winter (Body), 5. A.M.
• Music.
• Mental exertion.
• Onanism.
• Dietetic errors.
• Milk.
• Drafts.
• Thunder-storms.

Better:

• Motion.
• Rubbing.
• Eating.
• Sweating.

Irritable weakness. Puffy, relaxed, easily exhausted. Easy dislocation. Oversensitive; to open air, music, noise, dietetic errors, etc. Pains cause tremor, cold sweat, anxiety, etc. .................... Cross and irritable. Gloomy. Lively, yet fearful; < thunder-storms. Averse to company. Vertigo, from wine. Hot weather headache. Head bent backward; pains out through eyes. Dazzling flashes or stars before vision. Swelled or peeling nose. Coryza, < least draft; < alternate days. Violent sneezing. Post-nasal discharge. Pale, wilted face. Mouth open. Must drink to swallow solids. Acidity, flatulence and rheumatism. Weak digestion. Averse to milk. Greedy, always nibbling. Gastric pain, > eating. Abdomen pouts here and there. Diarrhœa, from starches. Stools like orange pulp. Pollutions. Cough; loose; hollow; 9-11 A.M.; < entering warm room. Purulent, salty sputum. Cough from continuous tickle in throat, < going from a cold into a warm room. Boring at tip of l. scapula. Painful popliteæ. Heavy legs. Weak ankles. Cramps from ankles into toes. Sleepy after meals. Blisters on small joints; tips of toes or fingers. Milky, watery or dry, rough skin; pustular eruptions. Cold between scapulæ. Burning wrists and ankles. Sweats easily. Complementary: Sep.

Related: Lyc. Nat-m.

Region:

• NUTRITION: Digestive tract. BRAIN. BLOOD. MUSCLES.
• MIND.
• HEART.
• GLANDS: MUCUS. Spleen. Liver.
• Skin.

Worse:

• PERIODICALLY: 9-11 A.M. With the sun. After menses. Alternate days (Ars. Chin.).
• HEAT: Sun. Summer. Dampness.
• Exertion; eyes, mental.
• Violent emotions.
• Sympathy.
• Puberty.
• Quinine.
• Old malaria.
• Silver salts.

Better:

• Open air.
• Cool bathing.
• Sweating.
• Rest.
• Before breakfast.
• Deep breathing.

Thin, thirsty, hopeless and poorly nourished. Emaciation; descending; < neck or abdomen. Anæmia. DRYNESS; skin, mouth, throat, rectum, vagina, etc. Numbness; of one side; parts lain on; fingers. Tremulous. Easy exhaustion. Parts seem short, hamstrings, nape, etc. Not very sensitive to pain. Takes cold. Nervous erethism. Thick white or clear acrid discharges. Exact periodicity. Malarial cachexia. .................... Hateful; detests consolation or a fuss. Inconsolable. Easily angered; < if consoled. Sad, reserved; company distresses. Hypochondria. Weeps bitterly. Boisterous grief. Scattered thoughts, or an idea clings, prevents sleep, inspires revenge, etc. Anxiety. Apprehension. Fears or dreams of robbers. Vertigo; as if falling, on closing eyes. Nodding motions. HEADACHES; hammering; heavy; bursting; maddening; over eyes; on vertex, on awaking; with partial numbness or disturbed vision; < reading; < motion, even of eyes; > pressure on eyes. Migraine. Falling hair. Eyes feel drawn together. Lachrymation on affected side (Spi.); on sneezing, coughing, etc. Ptosis, on lying down. Vision blurred, wavering. Letters run together. Hemiopia, then headache. Can't read by artificial light. Nose stopped, high up; sneezing early in A.M.; alternate fluent and dry coryza; gushes of fluid; little ulcers in. Face; pale, muddy or greasy. HERPES ABOUT LIPS; or at edge of hair; pearly. Throbbing in lower jaw, < biting, < heat and cold. Exophthalmic goitre. Hawks much mucus; bitter. TONGUE MAPPED; beaded or striped along edge. Blunted taste and smell. Uvula hangs to one side. Throat; a spot is dry, sore, tickles, causes cough, etc.; glistens. Thirst; drinks large quantities. Hunger great, yet emaciates; without appetite. CRAVES SALT. Averse to bread. Burning eructations; after eating. Waterbrash. Epigastric pulsation. Anxiety in stomach, rises to head. Tense abdomen; < groins. Dry, hard, crumbling stool, tears anus or causes burning; coated with glassy mucus; on alternate days. Chronic diarrhœa. Constricted rectum. Herpes ani. Red urinary sediment. Coition; painful; averse to; then backache, weak legs, depression, etc. Suppressed gonorrhœa. Debilitating leucorrhœa, replaces menses. Cough; from tickling in epigastrium; with asthma or palpitation; < winter. Respiratory catarrhs, after suppressed sweats. Heart; palpitation, shaking body or alternates with beating in head; fluttering; weak; sore; < emotions, lying on (l) side, or motion. Sore neck muscles. Bruised backache, early in A.M.; < coughing, > lying on back, or pressure. Cracked finger-tips. Catch in knees. Hamstrings seem short or drawing in. Sobs during sleep. Awakes feeling weak. Skin, oily; dry, harsh, dirty, unhealthy or yellow; chaps or herpetic eruptions, < flexures or about knuckles. Coldness of many parts; hands, feet; heart. Morning chill, with thirst. Chilly, but < in sun. Sweat, cold, scanty; at edge of hair; on nose, on face, while eating (Cham.). Complementary: Ign. Sep.

Related: Pul.

Region:

• Occiput.
• Mucous glands.
• Duodenum.
• Bile-ducts.
• Mesentery.
• Genitals.

Worse:

• Sugar.
• Children.
• Milk.
• Mental exertion.
• Thunder-storms.
• Gas-light.

Better:

• Cold.

SOURNESS, eructations, vomitus, stomach, stools, leucorrhœa, expectoration, sweats, etc. Acidity. Deep yellow discharges; matter from eyes, etc. Debility. Overfed children, with acidity. .................... Mental weakness. Fear, < night. Itching; nose; about mouth and anus. Child picks nose. Worms. One ear red and hot. Pale face or red on alternate sides. YELLOW CREAMY COAT ON BASE OF TONGUE; on tonsils. As of a hair on tongue or a lump in throat. Cheesy vomitus. Noisy flatulence. Gastro-duodenal catarrh. Fulness in abdomen, < standing or < eating a little. Hacked stool. Eruptions about joints, < ankles; itching. Alternate joint and heart pains. Rheumatism.

Related: Cina. Kali-s. Kre.

Region:

• OCCIPUT.
• Glands: LIVER. Bile. Pancreas. Intestinal. Descending colon.
• Chest: Left (lower). Lower.
• Left side.

Worse:

• DAMP: Weather. Night air. Cellars.
• Lying on left side.
• Injuries; head.
• Lifting.
• Touch.
• Pressure.
• Late evening.
• Wind.
• Light.

Better:

• Open air.
• Change of position.

Sudden violent effects; in ailing patients. Piercing pains, at (l) short ribs; in (l) hip, < rising or sitting down; in heels. Yellow, watery secretions, stool, skin, vesicles, etc. Thick, yellow-green pus. Fulness. Sour, bilious and lithæmic. Rheumatic-hydrogenoid constitution. Sycosis. .................... Sensitive and suspicious. Sadness, < music or subdued light. Melancholia. Dire (suicidal) impulses. Vertigo; > head sweat. Crushing or gnawing in occiput. Meningitis. PHOTOPHOBIA. Nose run water at night. Epistaxis, during menses. Thick, tenacious, white slime in mouth. Dirty brown or greenish-yellow, thick, pasty tongue, < at base; tip feels burnt. Bitter taste. Thirst at start of fever only. Slow digestion. Concomitants to nausea. Green, bilious vomit. Sore, heavy liver; < lying on left side. As of a lump below liver. Crawling in gall- bladder. Colic, > rubbing abdomen. Cramp at umbilicus. FLATULENCE; painful; pushes here and there, < left abdomen. RUMBLING, GURGLING IN BOWELS, THEN SUDDEN GUSHING, NOISY, SPLUTTERING STOOL; after rising in A.M., or drives from bed. Foamy or yellow diarrhœa, mixed with green slime. White sand in urine. Dyspnœa. Sycotic asthma. Loose, but violent cough; must hold chest or sides. Run rounds. Hang nails. Retracted nipples. Sharp cutting back pains, spreading upward like a fan. Throbbing in heels. Vesicles on soles. Chilly, can't get warm, even in bed. Heat with aversion to uncover. Burning below knees. Foul axillary sweat. Warty nodules. Complementary: Ars. Thu.

Related: Colo. Glo. Med. Pul.

Region:

• MARGINS OF OUTLETS: Throat. Anus. Mouth.
• GLANDS: Liver. Prostate. Salivary.
• Tubular organs.
• Blood.
• Skin.
• Bones.
• Joints.
• Right side.

Worse:

• Slight CAUSES: TOUCH. JARRING. Noise. Rattling.
• Motion.
• Mercury.
• Milk.
• After eating.
• COLD; air; dampness.
• Night.
• Evening.
• Changing weather.
• Heat of bed.
• Mental exertion, or shock.

Better:

• Gliding motions.
• Riding.
• Mild weather.
• Steady pressure.

Exhausted, shivery, sensitive and sore. STICKINGS LIKE A SPLINTER, or ulcerative gnawing. DISCHARGES ACRID; thin, dirty or brown; cause redness or destroy hair. FOUL; ozœna, foot, or night sweats, etc. Malignancy. Phagedena. HÆMORRHAGE; easy; bright; of bloody water. Red, swelled or cracked orifices. Hard, gristly exudates. Dark, smooth mucous membranes. As of a band about or a weight hanging to part. Sore or stiff, during pains. Cracking; joints. Yellow brunettes, of spare habit. .................... Hateful. Profane. So angry, he trembles. Quarrelsome delirium; talks to spirits, in other tongues. Confusion. Thoughts vanish. Crushing head pains, < pressure of hat. Sore in skull. Puffs on scalp. Warm flowing over eyes. Conjunctiva pouts in spots. Spots on cornea. Deafness, > noise. Nose; red, scurfy tip; dark lumpy epistaxis; dripping, diphtheria of; cutting pains; caries of bones. Coryza, with shortness of breath. Yellow, sickly face. Peeling lips; raw, cracked or scabby in angles. Loose teeth. Gums flabby; sore; bleeding inner. Moist, fissured or mapped tongue (Flu-ac. Psor.). Salivation. Sore palate. As of a stick in throat. Craves fats. Stools tear anus, even if soft; then prolonged pain. Painful piles. Itching, eczematous anus, or oozes moisture. URINE, strong as horse's; cold; alternately profuse and scanty. Cramp from kidney to bladder. As of a hot wire in urethra. Infective nephritis. Itching, burning fore-skin. Phagedenic chancre. Œdematous prepuce. Bloody water from vagina. Weak, irregular menses. Shattering cough; from a spot in larynx; with lumbar stitch, > cold. Expectoration smeary, pussy, etc. Cavernous phthisis. Cutting in larynx. Orgasms to chest; with palpitation and fear. Swelled finger joints. Warts; on back of hands. Weak ankles. Skin, dry; eroded; cracks in every angle; coppery spots, on shin bones; itches on undressing. Crusts form and fall. Ulcers; rapid; raw; ragged; with proud flesh or plugs of pus. Stubborn suppuration. Burrowing pus. Fistulæ. Cancer. Syphilis. Painful, broken chilblains. Painfully sore bones, < tibiæ; caries. Pulse drops each 4th. beat. Jagged or soft warts (Stap. Thu.). Condylomata. Icy coldness; soles. SWEAT; easy, then takes cold; exhausting (urinous), mornings; in axillæ; on feet. Complementary: Calc-c. Thu. Follows: Kali-c.

Related: Ars. Kali-c. Kre. Merc.

Region:

• SENSORIUM.
• Mind.
• NERVES.
• FEMALE ORGANS.
• Digestion.
• Children and old women.

Worse:

• Cold: Bath. Damp. Drafts. Wind. Fogs. Feet.
• Pregnancy.
• Change of seasons.
• EMOTIONS.
• Excitement.
• MENSTRUATION.
• Jar.
• Bruises.
• Slight causes.
• Mental exertion or shock.

Better:

• Moist heat.
• Warm room.
• Dry weather.

Narcotic effects and dryness. Little pain. OVERPOWERING DROWSINESS, with or caused by almost every condition; by day; < exertion; during menses; when flatulent; with dryness, yet NO THIRST; with coldness. Fleeting pains. Heaviness; of eyes, tongue, etc. Dark, heamorrhages. Scrawny women, who faint easily; < at stool or menses; laugh or cry by turns; have small breasts, etc. As of hard lumps in stomach, liver, throat, etc. Hysteria. Automatism. .................... Dreamy, clairvoyant state. Dazed; objects seem changed or to grow larger. Slow ideation. Thoughts suddenly vanish. Uses wrong words. Brain exhaustion. Talks loud. Mockery. Laughing. Jesting. Vertigo. Sense of levitation. Headache; in temples; > hard pressure. Cerebral congestion. Pale face. Retracted lips. Teeth feel pulled. Dry mouth and throat, without thirst; < sleep. Tongue sticks to palate. Thick, cottony saliva. Chalky taste. Loathing, when eating or thinking of food. Weak digestion. Enormous bloating; all food turns to gas. Flatulent colic. As of a board across hypogastrium. Stool difficult, although soft; putrid, bright yellow and lienteric; < night. Inactive rectum. Strangury from alcohol. Thick, dark, irregular menses. Flatus from vagina. Leucorrhœa; replaces menses. Deficient, irregular labor pains. Cough, > heat of bed. Hoarse; when walking against wind. Palpitation, > walking. Acute pain now in spine, now in lumbar region. Dry palms. Dry, cold skin. Sleepy attacks. Sudden; with vertigo. Weak, irregular pulse. Alternate chill and heat. Chills with sopor. Red sweat, or sweat absent. Complementary: Calc-c. Lyc.

Related: Cann. Croc. Gel. Mos. Op. Rhus-t.

Region:

• Cerebro-spinal axis.
• NERVES.
• DIGESTIVE ORGANS: STOMACH. LIVER. Bowels.
• RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
• Male brunettes.

Worse:

• EARLY MORNING.
• COLD: OPEN AIR (Dry). Drafts. Seats. Wind. UNCOVERING.
• HIGH LIVING: COFFEE. Condiments. Liquor. Drugs. Debauchery. Purgatives.
• Sedentary habits.
• Overeating.
• Mental: Exertion. Fatigue. Vexation.
• Disturbed sleep.
• SLIGHT CAUSES: Anger. Noise. Odors. Light. Touch. PRESSURE: of clothes, < waist.

Better:

• FREE DISCHARGES.
• Naps (Kali-bi.).
• Wrapping head.
• Resting.
• Hot drinks.
• Milk.
• Moist air.

VIOLENT ACTION; often irregularly fitful or inefficient. Increased reflexes. Irritable and hypersensitive, mentally and physically. Firm fibred brunette. Twistings. Jerks. Spasms; with consciousness. Tense, contracted feeling. Lightning-like pains. Neuralgia; prodromal. Sensation as of a rough body internally. Bruised soreness; OF ABDOMEN, brain, etc. INTERNAL scrapy RAWNESS; throat, larynx, etc. Takes colds. Biliousness. Faintings after vomiting, after stool, after labor pains, etc. .................... Sensitive and critical. Active, ANGRY AND IMPATIENT; can't stand pain; so mad, he cries. Zealous, nervous and excitable. Nagging. Spiteful. Irritable hypochondriasis. Sullen. Fears poverty. Violent, ugly (suicidal) impulses. Vertigo; on an empty stomach; with blank spells. Sensitive scalp. Swelled forehead.Lachrymation; on affected side. Migraine. Blood-shot eyes. Sore nostrils. Nose stopped, but runs water; on one side. Sneezing; violent; abortive; from intense crawling in (l) nostril. Coryza; fluent by day and in open air, dry at night. Epistaxis on coughing. Acute smell. Red, turgid or yelowish face, < about nose and mouth. Left angle of mouth droops. Jaws snap shut; stiff. Teeth chatter. Fetor oris. TASTE, biter-sour; bad in A.M. Itching palate; Eustachian tube. Rough, scratchy throat; putrid taste in, on coughing. Craves piquant foods or stimulants. HICCOUGH. Violent retching, < hawking. Eructations; sour. Heart-burn. Water-brash. Nausea; > if he can only vomit. VIOLENT VOMITING; bilious-sour. Food lies like a heavy knot in stomach. Gastric pains, into back; chest; > vomiting, etc. As of a band about waist; clothes oppress it. Indigestion. Liver sore; sticking; enlarged. Gall-stone colic. Bowels gripe here and there. SORE BOWELS, < COUGHING OR STEPPING. Hernia; infantile. Flatulent colic. UNEASY, fitful and FRUITLESS URGING FOR BOWELS TO ACT, > STOOL. Strains hard at stool. Inactive peristalsis. In rectum; retained flatus; as if more stool remained; spasm of. Obstipation. PILES; itching; > cool bathing. Sexual erethism. Onanism. Premature ejaculation. Menses profuse, early and prolonged or intermittent; of dark, lumpy blood. Dysmenorrhœal cramps; spread over whole body. Cough violent, throwing the patient down; paroxysmal; whooping. Painfully stiff neck; pains down (r) shoulder. Lumbar ache, as if breaking; must raise up to turn over. Acute lumbago. Crawling along spine. Shooting from toes to thighs, < after stool. Tense cramps in calves and soles. Feet feel clubby and raw. Goose-skin. Jaundice. Yawning. Sleepy in evening or sleepless from rush of ideas. Awakes too early; can't sleep again. Finally sleeps, but on waking feels miserable. Night-mare. Chill with thirst and heat without thirst. EASILY CHILLED; CAN'T UNCOVER, < motion; < drinking even during the heat. Sour sweat. Complementary: Kali-c. Pho. Sul.

Related: Ign. Lyc.

Region:

• Ureters (R).

Worse:

• Scanty urine.

Sore pains in ureters. Renal colic with hæmaturia and violent vomiting. Red sand in the urine. Swelled inguinal and mammary glands.

Related: Canth. Lyc. Urt-ur.

Region:

• CEREBRO-SPINAL AXIS.
• Heart.

Worse:

• Injury.
• Menstrual and sexual disturbances.

Mania. Swelled, twitching face. Rosy red blotches on face and chest. Burning heat, < head and throat. Epilepsy; with priapism. Status epilepticus (Abs. Aco.). As of a bug creeping under skin about waist; < touch of clothes.

Related: Bell. Cic.

Region:

• Digestive tract.
• Skin.
• Scalp.
• Nerves: Cerebro-spinal. Motor.

Worse:

• After suckling.
• Rubbing.
• Undressing.

Better:

• Looking sidewise.

Numbing, paretic effects; on limbs and skin. Sopor. Tremulous weakness. Sense of vibration. Emptiness in stomach and chest; after eating; > brandy. .................... Sadness with lack of confidence and power. Distraction. Slow comprehension. Vertigo. Numb tongue. Thin, lienteric stool escapes with the flatus; passes food eaten the day before. Crampy contraction of upper limbs. Sensitive skin; chafes and oozes or bleeds. Eruptions with itching biting, as of lice. Moist milk crust, < occiput. Heat from mental exertion. Paresis after infantile paralysis. General crampings. Numb-skin.

Related: Anac. Chin.

Region:

• NERVES.
• Pneumo-gastric.
• Digestive organs.
• Here and there; in single spots or parts.
• Excretions.

Worse:

• Cold.
• Eating.
• Suppressions.

Better:

• Rubbing.
• Pressure.
• Open air.

Soreness. Weak, tremulous; hands, knees, feet, etc. Pain in spots. Neurasthenia. Nervous irritability. Shuffling gait. Urinous, eructations, leucorrhœa, etc. Icy coldness; from tips of teeth, in throat, stomach, etc. .................... Sad. Introverted. Vanishing thoughts. Speaks in whispers. Faintness or vertigo; of gastric origin; > bending head back. Sees glistening bodies. A skin seems to overhang the eye. Lachrymation, on eating. White of egg seems dried on lips. Malar bones feel pulled up. Twitching lips. Mouth feels greasy. Snowy saliva. Toothache, > biting. Hawks out brown, gluey lumps. Acrid vapor or raw streak in throat, < cough. Water-brash, > chewing tobacco. Pulsation or as of water in stomach. Meteorism. PROFUSE, pale urine; fish-brine odor; < hysteria, migraine, etc. Frequent scanty urine, then headache. Seminal losses; on straining at stool. Testes, swell alternately; feel pulled up. Anxious palpitation. Sore mammæ, before menses. Outward dartings in nipples. Aching (r), scapula, > pressure. Raw flexures. Flesh feels torn from bones. Slow pulse. Alternate chill and heat. Cold, foul foot-sweat; fishy on heels.

Related: Sul. Tell.

Region:

• Chest.
• Liver.
• Tendons.

Worse:

• Milk.
• Cold damp.

Rigid tendons. Faulty nutrition. Atrophic infants. Intolerance of milk. .................... Yellow tongue, leucorrhœa, sputum, skin, etc. Hoarseness. Cough, with palpitation. Early phthisis. Soreness or stitches in chest. Burning spots. Milk crust. Ring-worm. Always taking cold. Chilly up back. Heat in palms, toward evening. Hectic.

Related: Pho.

Region:

• MUSCLES AND nerves: Eyes. Occiput. FEMALE PELVIC ORGANS.
• Spine.

Worse:

• Sprains: EYE STRAIN. Sexual excesses.
• Darkness.
• Tight clothes.
• Warm.
• Humid air.

Better:

• Rest.
• Sleep.
• Eating.

Aching, sore and stiff; after the pain. Inco-ordination. .................... Irresolute. Confused. Forgetful. Slow thinking. Aphasia. Nervous exhaustion. Vertigo; with the headache; < lying on (l), side. Headache; occipital; screwed in, as if; < eye strain and lying on back. Pains up and down from (l), occiput to shoulder, < exertion. Migraine. Dull, heavy oppressing in occiput. Aching, heavy, tired, stiff eyes. Eye, combined with ovarian symptoms. Misjudges distances. Mushy, yellow stool. Aromatic urine. Sexual desire gone. Sexual neurasthenia. Pains alternate between ovaries. Sore ovaries and rectum. Acrid leucorrhœa. Sticky, white expectoration. Swelled, tender mammæ. Itching nipples. Tired, numb legs and popliteæ. Seems to tread on cotton. Staggering.

Related: Cimi. Hyper. Lil-t. Rhus-t.

Region:

• MIND.
• SENSES.
• NERVES: Brain. Cerebro-spinal. Sympathetic.
• Lungs.
• Respiration.
• Digestive tract.

Worse:

• EMOTIONS.
• FEAR.
• Fright.
• Joy.
• Odors.
• ALCOHOL.
• Sleep.
• Suppressed discharges.
• Receding eruptions.
• If heated.

Better:

• Cold.
• Uncovering.

Negative, torpid states; but little pain, secretion or reaction. Paralysis; painless; of brain, tongue, bowels, lungs, etc. Tremor. Twitchings; during sleep. Convulsions. Epilepsy, in sleep. Internal dryness. Hot, head; sweat; bed seems, hunts a cold place, etc. Stupid sleep, spasms, violent chills, etc., during. .................... PLACID; says nothing ails him. Dreamy. Sluggish. Dull. Stupid. No will power. Lying. Fears; after fright. Delirium; with terror; alcoholic. Wants to go home. Carphology. Cerebral congestion; intercurrent; apoplectic. Heavy occiput. Visual hallucinations. Inactive pupils. Red, bulging, staring eyes. Dark, turgid, sweaty or hot red face or red and pale alternatly. Old look; after cholera infantum. Mouth twitches or hangs open. Cravings, without appetite. Vomiting; in peritonitis. As of a weight in abdomen. Bowels feel obstructed. Paralytic atony of bowels and bladder; after laparotomy. Hard tympany. Colic; lead. Stools of hard, black balls. Constipation. Bloody mucus oozes from open anus. Retained urine. Lively fœtal motions. Rattling, unequal breathing. Sighing. Snoring. Stertor. Tickling cough. Pneumonia. Weak heart. Crawlings here and there. General itching. Skin rough and dirty. Painless ulcers. Tired and sleepless; drunkards. SOMNOLENCY. Heavy, stupid sleep; of the aged. Full, slow pulse (Dig.). Hot, sweaty (Samb.) and drowsy; with cold limbs. Sweaty, without relief. Complementary: Alu. Bar-c. Bry. Pho. Plb.

Related: Arn. Nux-m.

Region:

• Respiratory tract.
• Trachea.

Worse:

• Coughing.
• Talking.

Foul secretions. Pains go up and down. Crawlings. .................... Greenish, rainbow colors about light. Snuffling. Fluent coryza, with a sense of stoppage. Stomach feels full of broken stones or lumps. Spasmodic cough; with torn loose feeling and tenacious sputum. Sensitive air passages. Foul axillary sweat.

Related: Ars. Iod. Pho.

Region:

• Digestive tract.
• Navel.
• Nerves: Cord. Heart.
• Left side; Lung.

Worse:

• Thinking of it.
• Cold.
• Touch.
• Shaving.
• Mental exertion.

Better:

• After stool.

Weak, cold, livid and numb all over; < lower limbs. Violent pains; in streaks, like lightning, in spots, burning, etc. Neuralgia. .................... Nervous and sleepless. Swimming vertigo. Band-like sensation about head. Numb prickling in occiput and back. Sour taste. Gnawing emptiness. Colicky urging about navel or involuntary, muddy-brown stools, < lying. Oxaluria. Testes throb or feel crushed. Low voice. Paroxysmal, jerking breathing. Nightly dyspnœa. Pain from lower (l), chest to epigastrium. Palpitation, < lying. Fixed chest. Angina pectoris. Back feels too weak to hold body. Cold creeps up spine. Weak trembling hands and feet.

Related: Ars. Pic-ac.

Region:

• Anus.
• Veins.
• Skin.

Worse:

• STOOL.
• Touch.
• Night.
• Motion.

Sensitiveness. Shooting or splinter-like pains. .................... Moisture (foul) at anus. Excessive pains at anus, continue long after stool; must rise and walk about. Fissure or fistula ani. Anus covered with crusts. Large, inflamed, ulcerated piles. Bunions. Swelled veins. Terrifying night- mare.

Related: Rat.

Region:

• Uterus.
• Right ovary.
• Mind.

Worse:

• Emotions: Lively. Chagrin.
• Social functions.
• Standing.

Better:

• Touch.
• Pressure.
• Diversion.
• Rubbing.

Fleeting pains. .................... Love praise. Easily offended. Headache from ear to ear, across vertex. Glairy mucus from throat, or leucorrhœa. Shooting from navel into breasts or pelvis. Hollowness in flanks. Bearing down, > rubbing. Cutting in uterus and bladder, > stool. Menses flow when nursing. Glairy leucorrhœa, before and after menses. Leaden heaviness in pelvis.

Related: Asaf. Plat.

Region:

• Genito-urinary organs.
• Left side.

Better:

• On hands and knees.

Must get on hands and knees to urinate; pains go into glans and thighs. Bursting feeling in bladder or glans. Dysuria. Urine contains thick, stringy, white mucus or red sand. Renal colic. Enlarged prostate.

Related: Berb. Med.

Region:

• Head.
• Spine.
• Eyes.
• One side.

Worse:

• Thinking.
• Eyestrain.
• Touch.

Better:

• Pressure.

Heaviness. Numbness (l). Joints feel broken. Parts feel too big or drawn together. Garrulous loquacity. Weight in nape. Eye-balls seem pulled back (Pul.) or feel too large. Face seems drawn into root of nose. Imaginary bad smells. Hawks up tough, green mucus. As of a ball in throat. Periodical painless hoarseness. Painful skin; objects feel rough. Unilateral coldness or heat.

Related: Bell. Nux-v.

Region:

• OCCIPUT.
• SKIN: Folds. Scalp. Face. Genitals.
• Mucous membranes.
• Stomach.
• Bowels.

Worse:

• MOTION: CARS. CARRIAGE. BOAT.
• Weather: Cold; winter. Changing. Thunder-storms.
• Eating.
• Vexation.
• Cabbage.

Better:

• Warm air.

Weak and tremulous; feels sick internally. Internal itching. Emaciation, < chest. Dreads open air. .................... Excitable and quick temper. Death seems near. Irresolute. Sense of duality; loses himself. Worries but don't know why. VERTIGO; in occiput. Occiput; aching; heavy. Inflamed tarsi. Deafness. Moist spots behind ears. Dryness in ears, nose, throat, etc. Foul mucus in throat. Hunger, causing nausea; after stool. Aversion to meat. Gastric symptoms, > eating. Nausea; sea and train sickness. Abdomen inflated; coldness in. Diarrhœa by day only (Phyt.); < cabbage; then miserable emptiness. Involuntary urine on rising. Cough at night only or < then; shatters the head, > pressing temples. Cold air oppresses chest. Coldness at heart. Stiff or cracking joints. Limbs go to sleep. Ragged, chapped hands and fingers; bleeding; in house- maids. SKIN; fragile; cracks deeply, < in angles, nipples, figer-tips or palms. Psoriasis palmaris. DIRTY, HARD, ROUGH, THICKENED SKIN; like parchment; it gets raw, festers or won't heal, < in folds. Brown spots. Eruptions having thick, hard, moist or yellow-green crusts; on occiput or genitals, < cold. Eczema. Herpes. Vesicles. Itching; orifices; with burning. Cold spots. Chilly, with dry mouth. Hot palms and soles. Sweat in spots; foul on feet or in axillæ. Complementary: Sep.

Related: Grap. Sep.

Region:

• Mucous membranes.
• Right side: Chest. Mammæ.
• Nerves.

Worse:

• Air; cold; open.
• Using eyes.

Better:

• While nursing.

Catarrhal symptoms. Phthisis. .................... Clang, like striking on metal, in brain. Everything tastes sweet. Expectoration; terribly foul; loose; profuse; smeary; causing dyspnœa. Pain in milk-ducts, into abdomen; on nursing. Pain from (l), border of (r), mamma, to between shoulders. Pains going backward through (r), chest. Sleepy.

Related: Asaf.

Region:

• MIND.
• Nerves.
• Metabolism.
• Sexual system.
• Spine: sensory nerves. Muscles.
• Bones.

Worse:

• DEBILITY from: LOSS OF FLUIDS. Sexual excesses. Fatigue. Fevers. Convalescence.
• EMOTIONS (chronic): Grief. Chagrin. Mental shock. Unhappy love. Homesickness.
• Drafts.
• Cold.
• Music.
• Talking.

Better:

• Warmth.
• Short sleep.
• Stooling.

WEAK OR DEBILITATED, with free secretions. Slowness. Pains go to part lain on. Bruised soreness; like growing pains. Sense of pressure. Formication; at roots of hair; along spine, limbs, etc. Loose joints. Grows too fast. .................... Quiet. Indifferent, APATHETIC, obtuse or torpid; with tendency to diarrhœa or sweatiness. Slow grasp. Can't collect his ideas; hunts for words. Poor memory. Dull despair. Averse to talking. Brain-fag. Mild delirium; easily aroused. Crushing weight on vertex. Early grayness. Falling hair. Dull, sunken eyes with blue circles; they feel pressed out. Eye-balls feel large. Pale, sickly face; white of egg seems dried on it. Bleeding gums. Slimy tongue. Craves juices. Sour stomach. PROFUSE, PAINLESS, DIRTY WHITE, WATERY or LIENTERIC STOOL; BUT LITTLE DEBILITY. THICK, MILKY URINE. Polyuria. Diabetes. Weak, relaxed genitals; suddenly during coitus. Pollutions. Takes colds; < draft on chest. Shaking cough. Twisting under xiphoid. Paralytic weakness along spine. Heavy fore-arms. Scraping bone-pains, at night. Clammy wrinkled skin. SLEEPY BY DAY; but wakeful at night. Cold parts; one side of face, abdomen, etc. Burning along spine; below waist; kidney region. Heat with sweat. Profuse sweats; < night; as a sequel. Sluggish, painless fevers. Complementary: Chin.

Related: Gel.

Region:

• CAVITIES: Head. LUNGS. Heart.
• CIRCULATION: Blood. BLOOD-VESSELS. Arteries.
• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: STOMACH. BOWELS. Lungs (lower).
• NERVES: Brain. Cord.
• Bones: Jaw; upper. Shin. Spine.
• Liver.

Worse:

• LYING ON: LEFT or painful side. BACK.
• SLIGHT CAUSES: EMOTIONS. Talking. Touch. Odors. Light.
• COLD: HANDS (in water). Open air.
• WARM INGESTA.
• Salt.
• Puberty.
• Sexual excesses.
• Weather: Sudden changes. Windy. Cold. Thunder-storms.
• Morning and evening.
• Mental fatigue.

Better:

• Eating.
• Sleep.
• Cold: Food. Water; to face.
• Rubbing (Magnetic).
• Sitting up.

Active metabolism. Rapid growth. Insidious onset, gradually increasing debility, ending in severe or rapid disease (Tarn.). Recurring effects, colds, croup, bleedings, etc. HÆMORRHAGE; vicarious; blood-streaked discharges of ulcers, etc. Decomposition. Polypi. Symptoms due to heart and lung affections. Tall, gracile, nervous and delicate. Phthisical habit. Acidosis. Weak spells; in joints; < exertion. Emptiness; in chest, stomach, etc. Acute senses. Erethistic exhaustion. TIGHTNESS; chest (l), cough, etc. Spots; pains or soreness in. Internal paralysis; throat, rectum, etc. Internal itching, tickling. Throbbings, here and there. Numbness. Jerkings, localised; subsultus. Joints stiff, with little pain. Human barometer. .................... Amative, but excitable and easily irritated. Anxious; fears being alone, twilight, ghosts, thunder-storms, etc. Quickly prostrated by unpleasant impressions. Timid and irresolute. VERTIGO; accompanies many symptoms; floating; on waking; whirling; > stool. Head, heavy, aches over one eye; with hunger; < children; < lying on r. side; > cold. Burning in temple. Cold occiput. Vertex throbs. Dandruff. Bald spots. Lachrymation, in wind. Vision; flashes; halos; red; green; black; > shade; narrow fields of; colored, then migraine. Choroiditis. Retinitis albuminurica. Glaucoma. Ears; echoes or reverberations in; deaf to human voice. Otitis; media. Mastoiditis. Nose; nervous motion of alæ; coryza, flows and stops; on alternate sides; swelled; caries; ulcer, etc. Epistaxis; of youths; then pneumonia; with cough, etc. Sneezing; < odors, smoke, etc. with dyspnœa. Descending nose colds. Sensitive smell. Pale about nose and mouth. Changing, sickly face; hollow eyes, with blue rings. Numb teeth. Gum sore behind central incisors. Palate itches. Abscess of hard palate. Sour taste and eructations. As of cotton or something hanging in throat. CRAVES COLD DRINKS WHICH >, but are VOMITED IN A LITTLE WHILE; after chloroform. Regurgitates ingesta. Waterbrash. Ravenous hunger; nightly; precedes attacks. Craves salt; what is refused when offered. Burning in gullet and stomach, < eating. Pressure above epigastrium. Stomach; EMPTY, HOLLOW FEELING IN; as if hanging down; < emotions; tremor, flutter or rolling over in. Sore spot in epigastrium. Rubs abdomen for >. Stool, like cooked sago; granular; slender; tough; diarrhœic, gray, bluish, watery, pouring out, painless, nervous, involuntary, exhausting. Anus open; prolapsed. Dysentery. Urinates, then weak. Pellicle on urine. Periodical albuminuria. Sexually erethistic, but impotent. Prolonged menses; replaced by smarting leucorrhœa. Oppressed for breath; < least motion. Tight, suffocating breathing, < cough. Larynx, raw, sore, furry; pains on speaking. Voice, low, hoarse, < evening; croupy, then bronchitis. Cough; hard, wheezing; dry; violent; painful; tickling; hacking; exhausting; with retching, burning in air-passages or trembling; < change of temperature, before strangers, laughing, exertion or singing. Expectoration; easy, bluish, rusty, salty, foamy or cold. Pneumonia; l. lower lung; secondary, with sopor. Chest full, heavy; stitches (l. upper); pains into throat or r. arm or alternating sides; rattling, < cold drinks. Dry, burnt feeling in chest with cough, at first dry then loose. Heart, pains into r. arm; violent palpitation from least thing; during goitre, etc.; weak; fatty; orgasms to. Left infra-mammary pain. Mammary abscess. Between scapulæ; cramp; burning. Spinal irritation, < heat. Pain forward from l. scapula. Tearing in l. shoulder at night. Burning spot in lumbar region. Numb fingers and toes. Palms burn. Paralyzing stitches in hips; then up back. Pain in tibiæ; periostitis. Ankles, as if to break. Suppressed foot-sweat. Tottery; stumbles easily. Icy cold feet. Toes cramp. Blood red spots. Thin, foul, bloody pus. Pyæmia. Yellow spots on abdomen. Jaundice; as a concomitant. Skin burns on shaving. Fatty cysts. Sleepless; eyes won't stay shut; from internal heat. Sleepy by day, sleepless before midnight. Sleeps in cat naps. Dreams, of fire; lewd. Somnambulism. Congestion to head, lungs, etc. Soft pulse. Coldness in cerebellum; of knees, in bed. Chilly in a warm room; down back. Craves ices, during the chill. Burning heat; local; up back. Hectic. Sweaty; early morning; sticky; without relief. Painless fevers. Complementary: Lyc. Sang. Sep. Antidotes: Coff. Nux-v.

Related: Caus. Con. Sil.

Region:

• Spinal motor nerves.
• Eyes.
• Muscles.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Change of temperature.
• Eyestrain.
• Injury.
• Bathing.
• Heat and cold.
• Descending.
• Motion.

Better:

• Lying with head low (Ver-v.).
• Exerting the will.

Weakness; muscles won't respond or draw into knots; < cold. Weakness in lower limbs; coming from a spot between hips. Cramp in left calf at night in bed. Shuddering, < every draft. Horror of cold water. Averse to bathing. .................... Active mind, even during sleep. Floating sensation. Nothing seems right. Brain falls to side lain on. Pains from forehead down nose. Sensation as of a tight cap on head. Vertigo; stumbles on ascending or descending steps. Sensation as of a band about head. Twitching of eye muscles or of nose. Can't bear to raise eyelids. Accommodation affected. Seems to have swallowed a lump. Torpid bowels. Numb womb. Flushes of heat, < in palms. Sore bloated, red navel; hypogastrium, < standing. Tremor; in head, eyes, vision, nose, teeth, muscles, etc. Dartings, here and there. Tense eye-lids, can't open or close them. Blood-shot eyes. Creeping numbness from occiput down spine. Licks lips. Teeth feel rough. Tongue feels oily; scalded. Loose skin feeling in roof of mouth. Thick, leathery saliva. Hic-cough with short breath. Gripe in right hypochondrium. Groins pain alternately. Abdomen, > extending legs. Numbness at womb. Offensive odor from hands. Sweat in excitement. Heart seems to flutter in throat or over body. Sensitive spine. Jerking limbs. Shudders from every draft of air. Attacks of overpowering sleepiness, with feeling as if to lose consciousness.

Related: Agar. Gel. Nux-v.

Region:

• Glands: MAMMÆ. Naso-pharynx. Throat. Tonsils.
• Muscles.
• Fibrous tissues: NECK. Back. Tendons. Joints.
• Periosteum.
• Kidneys.
• Tongue (Root).
• Digestive tract.
• Right side.

Worse:

• Raising up.
• Motion.
• Swallowing.
• Hot drinks.
• Heat.
• Cold: Damp. Night.
• Change of weather.

Better:

• Lying on abdomen.
• Cold drinks.

A remedy of long and deep action. SORE, HARD ACHE, all over; sudden; < eyeballs, kidneys, neck, shoulders, back, forearms and below knees. Restlessness. Bluish-red parts, fauces, glands, etc. Spreading pains. Rheumatism; after tonsilitis. Shreddy, stringy secretions; stools, menses, etc. Hard mammary glands. Obesity. .................... Faint on rising. Frontal headache. Head feels beaten sore; < brain. Hot tears. Green vision. Nose seems heavy. Nostrils close alternately. Acrid coryza. Yellowish sickly face. Aching, malar bones. Glands swelled at angle of jaw. Jaws ache, as in mumps. Everted lips. Clenches teeth. Tongue, fiery red at tip; feels burnt or pains at root and into ear on swallowing. Much stringy saliva. White-gray spots on fauces. Mucous patches. THROAT; very sore; very painful swallowing; dark, puffy; burning, as of a stick, hot ball or lump in. Like dark wash leather on tonsil. Tonsilitis. Diphtheria. Hard throb in r. tonsil. Quinsy. Violent retching and vomiting; he would rather die. Continuous urging to stool; even during sleep. Dysentery. Hard ache in kidneys. Dark, red urine; chalky sediment. Albuminuria. Sore spermatic cords. Menstruation, with flow of saliva and tears. Chronic aphonia. Dry, tickling cough. STONY HARD, HEAVY, SWELLED (< left) OR TENDER MAMMÆ, paining during suckling, spreading over whole body; hard nodes in. Mastitis. Nipples cracked; inverted. Heart symptoms go to r. arm. Fatty heart. Neck stiff. Right arm numb and fuzzy. Hips and thighs pain on change of weather. Aching tibiæ. Syphilis. Aching heels, > elevating feet. Bone pains. Dry, harsh skin. Complementary: Sil.

Related: Bry. Kali-bi. Kali-io. Merc. Rhus-t.

Region:

• Nerves: Brain. Occiput. Cord. Lumbar region.
• Kidneys.
• Sexual organs.

Worse:

• Exertion; mental or physical.
• Seminal losses.
• Heat.

Better:

• Rest.
• Cold.
• Bandaging.
• In sun.

Weak, tired and heavy, in mind and body. Profound anæmia. Easily prostrated. Burning, in many parts; along spine; in legs, etc. Numbness. Formication. .................... Weak will. Heavy occiput; down spine and in lower limbs. Brain-fag. Headache, < mental exertion, > nose-bleed (Fer-p.). Neurasthenia. Oily burning stool. Ammoniacal, dribbling urine. Priapism, or sexual erethism. Backache with languor; from mental exertion. Writers' cramp. Aching, legs. Small, painful boils, < nape. Sleepiness.

Related: Gel. Ox-ac. Pho. Pho-ac.

Region:

• Nerves: Ears. Teeth.
• Kidneys and bladder.

Worse:

• Night.
• Warm room.

Better:

• Sleep.
• Eating.

Sharp, shifting pains. Soreness. Neuralgia. As of a body between ears; in groins, etc. .................... As if brain turned over. As of a hair before (l), eye. Pains center in ears and teeth or alternate between them. Earache. Saliva flows with the pains. Toothache. Dirty taste. Bowels seem cold. Brown, frothy stools. Polyuria. Enuresis. Throbbing between scapulæ. Cold sweat on sacrum. Numb, tremulous legs. Sensitive skin. Gloomy dreams, exciting tears.

Related: Arn. Fer-p. Pul.

Region:

• FEMALE ORGANS.
• Nerves: Vagus. Sensory. Trifacial.

Worse:

• EMOTIONS: Sexual. Coition. Chagrin.
• TOUCH.
• Nerve exhaustion.

Better:

• Walking in cool air.
• Sunshine.

A remedy of pains. For prim old maids. Oversensitive mind and nerves. Violent cramping, squeezing, thrusting or numbing pains, and then spasms. Neuralgia. Many and various ovarian or uterine reflexes. Irregular spasm, congestion of blood or coldness of single parts, eyes, ears, etc. Tremor. Alternate mental and physical or sexual symptoms. Numbness; scalp, face, coccyx, calves, etc. Bandaged feeling. Sticky; tears, stool, menses, etc. .................... Laughs at wrong time. Unkind, abrupt and quarrelsome. Disordered sense of proportion; objects seem smaller, strange, frightful, etc. Hysteria. Horrors; fears death. CONTEMPT. Hauteur. Proud and erotic (Aur.). Alone, deserted feeling. Mentally < in twilight. Bad humor, yet weeps. Gradually increasing, then slowly lessening headache. Clavus. Tense scalp. Cramp at root of nose. Grimaces. Boring in jaws. Congestion to abdomen. Colic. Hard, black, scant or soft, difficult stools; of tourists; of pregnancy. Crawling itching anus in evening. Painfully sensitive genitals, with itching, tickling or crawling. Dark, thick, profuse menses, with dragging. Heat in ovaries. Ovarian irritation. Vaginismus. Dysmenorrhœa, with shrieks and jerks. Eroticism. Onanism. Spasmodic yawning. Bruised backache, < pressure or bending backward. Knees drawn up and spread apart. Cramp in calves. In sleep wants to uncover entirely.

Related: Cup. Ign. Plb. Stan.

Region:

• CORD AND NERVES: MUSCLES. ABDOMEN. Kidneys. Navel.
• Blood-vessels.
• Blood.

Worse:

• Clear weather.
• Open air.
• Exertion.
• Motion.
• Company.
• Grasping smooth objects.
• Touch.

Better:

• Hard pressure.
• Rubbing.

Slow, insidious processes, having violent side symptoms; often of very changeable or incoherent character; coming in single parts, etc. Paralysis. Atrophied limbs with plump body; paralysed parts < touch. Sensitive to open air. Impulse to stretch. Exaggerates her condition. Retraction; anus, testes, navel, etc. Increasing slowness and apathy. Deep, bluish red sclerotic. Abdomen is drawn into uneven lumps (Ars. Ign.). Abdominal distress that impels her to stretch. Urination slow, yet profuse. VIOLENT CONTRACTION. Retraction. Lightning pains that extort cries. Boring. Cramps (periodical), convulsions or (flaccid) paralysis; with hæmorrhage or hyperæsthesia. Chronic epilepsy, with marked aura. Wasting of single (upper) parts, or of paralysed parts. Sclerosis. Gout. .................... Taciturn. Timid, restless and anxious. Fears assassins. Physical labor exhausts the mind. Stupidity. Melancholy. Delirium; nocturnal; alternating with colic or pains in limbs. Twitching of r. face. Yellow sclerotic and inside of mouth. Trembling tongue. Sticky saliva. Sweet taste. Aphthæ. Dysphagia. Foul or fecal eructations. NAVEL FEELS RETRACTED. Colic; accompanies many symptoms. Radiating abdominal pains, or boring, or as if forced through a narrow place. Tense abdomen. Hernia at navel. Anus feels drawn up, or painfully contracted. Stool, granular; of hard, black balls, like sheep dung; passed with an urging cramp. Stubborn constipation or colics of infants. Retracted testes. Pollutions. Bluish, red spots. Dry oversensitive skin. Dry, burning ulcers. Takes odd positions during sleep. Wiry pulse. Coldness from exertion. General cold sweat during stool. Feet cold, when walking only. Complementary: Rhus-t. Thallium.

Related: Op.

Region:

• Liver: Duodenum. Intestines.
• RECTUM.
• Right side: Ovary. Scapula. Throat.

Worse:

• EARLY MORNING.
• Eating.
• Hot weather.
• Dentition.
• Drinking.
• Motion.
• Mercury.

Better:

• Stroking liver.
• Lying on abdomen.

Biliousness. .................... Whining. Rolls head. Eyes half open. Bad breath. Burning rough or flabby, indented tongue. Bites gums together; grinds teeth. Bitter taste. As of a lump in œsophagus. Craves acids which <. Vomits hot froth. Constant gagging. Sore, painful liver. Weak, empty sinking or sick feeling in abdomen. Rubs abdomen for >. GURGLING THROUGH BOWELS, THEN PROFUSE, PUTRID STOOLS GUSH OUT PAINLESSLY. Summer diarrhœa. White stools; like dirty water; foaming; with meal-like sediment; runs right through diaper; then weakness. Cholera morbus. Diarrhœa, alternating with other symptoms, head, etc. Pale, hard, chalky stools. Rectum; raw, sore; weak; prolapsed, before stool. Moist, foul piles. Numb ache in ovaries; radiating to r. crural nerve, etc.; < stretching legs. Ischias antica. Generative organs threaten to prolapse, during stool. Rectum, prolapsed after confinement. Burning in small of back. Jaundice, < face and eyes. Moaning and whining during sleep. Loquacity during the fever (Pyro.). Sleepy after the paroxysm (malaria). Complementary: Nat-m.

Related: Alo. Chin. Merc.

Region:

• Genito-urinary organs.
• Intestines.

Worse:

• Cold.
• Dampness.

CUTTING; along ureters; along Fallopian tubes, with bearing down; up spine. Pulsative pain; wandering; in prostate. Smarting discharges. .................... Puff under r. eye. Itching, burning palate; wants to scratch it. Tongue feels swelled. Nausea in abdomen. Painful affections of urinary tract. Grinding, griping, cutting bellyache, with kidney symptoms. Nephritic colic. Urine scanty; dribbling; dark or calcareous, adherent sediment. Nephritis; suppurative. Cystitis. Excoriated scrotum. Itching pimples within anus. Hips feel drawn together. Aching lower limbs. Sore pains in heels. Urticaria.

Related: Calc-c.

Region:

• Nerves: Respiratory. Orbital.
• Bladder.

Worse:

• Stooping.
• Ascending.

Pains causing SHORT BREATH, shooting or pressing outward; lightning like; wandering. Neuralgia. Cramp. Nerve paralysis. Compensatory effects. .................... Pains from forehead (r), to occiput. Bursting in eyeballs. Eyes feel pressed apart. Teeth feel pulled out. Cramp in bladder; he doubles up to urinate (reverse-Alu.); urine reaches glans and then goes back again. Strangury. Glans pains on urinating. Pulsating pudendum. Leucorrhœa; watery, purulent and acrid. Dropsy; cardiac; of feet. Air hunger. As of a lump below l. scapula. Heart disease. Night- sweat.

Related: Laur.

Region:

• SKIN: FOLDS OF. Sebaceous glands.
• EARS.
• BOWELS.
• Respiration.
• Right side.

Worse:

• COLD: Open air. Washing.
• Weather; stormy; changing.
• Winter.
• Heat: Of bed. Exertion. Woolens.
• SUPPRESSIONS.
• Yearly.
• Contact of his own limbs.

Better:

• Lying with head low, or quietly.
• Eating.
• Washing.
• Nosebleed.
• Hard pressure.
• Profuse sweating.

Feels sick all over. Lack of reaction, in chronic diseases. After-effects of infectious diseases, lasting for years. Enfeebled. RECURRENCE. Clears up confused cases. Migraine. Quinsy. FOUL; discharges; stools; eruptions; sweat; stubborn footsweat; odor of body. Thick secretions. Weak, tender and thin, easily chilled; takes cold; clothing seems large or he feels pushed down. Joints seem loose. HUNGRY or unusually well BEFORE AN ATTACK; but debilitated and reacts badly, and chronicity threatens. Wants to wash parts. .................... ANXIETY. Forebodings. Despair, of recovery. Gloomy. Feels good and bad by turns. Horrid thoughts. Averse to work. Feels himself poor (reverse-Sul.). Mind dull, clouded, difficult thinking. Head feels separated from body. Headache, follows visual disturbances; alternates with other troubles. Twitching in temples. Sensitive to drafts about head; wants it covered, in hot water. Dull, dry, tangled hair. Gummy, everted eyelids. Humid sores behing ears. Putrid otorrhœa. Hay fever. Face pale, sickly, dirty, fuzzy or puffy. Loose teeth. Tip of tongue feels burnt (Ign.). Hawks out foul, cheesy masses. Filthy taste. Anorexia; with great thirst. Flatus like bad eggs. DARK, GUSHING, HORRIBLY PUTRID STOOLS; of penetrating odor, going through whole house (Pod.); < at night. Cholera infantum. Stool soft, but difficult. Bed-wetting; at full moon. Offensive genitals. Griping in testes. Chronic gonorrhœa. Breathes > lying down or spreading arms apart. Breathing; < open air. Cough, < lying. Gurgling at heart. Panaris. Lumbar ache, < standing or walking. Hot, itching soles. Skin breaks out; < flexures; is dirty, rough or scabby, greasy. Condylomata, on edges of skin. Intolerable itching; < heat (of bed); he scratches it raw or until it bleeds. Heat, with steaming sweat. Sweat; profuse; < night; on palms; cold; easy. Complementary: Sep. Sul. Tub.

Related: Grap. Mang. Pho. Sul.

Region:

• MIND.
• VEINS.
• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: TONGUE. STOMACH. BOWELS. FEMALE AND GENITO-URINARY ORGANS.
• Respiration.
• One side.
• Right heart.

Worse:

• WARMTH: AIR. ROOM. Clothes. BED.
• Getting feet wet.
• SUPPRESSIONS.
• EVENING.
• REST.
• BEGINNING MOTION.
• LYING; one side (L).
• EATING: RICH FOOD. Long after. FATS. Ices. Eggs.
• PUBERTY.
• PREGNANCY.
• Before menses.
• Iron.
• Quinine.

Better:

• COLD; FRESH, OPEN AIR.
• Uncovering.
• ERECT POSTURE.
• Gentle motion.
• Continued motion.
• After a good cry.

CHANGEFUL. SHIFTING SYMPTOMS; rising to a certain pitch, then suddenly ceasing; going to part lain on; unilateral. THIRSTLESS, SHORT OF BREATH AND CHILLY; with digestive or menstrual disorders. SUPPRESSIONS; otorrhœa, menses, lochia, milk, etc. Metastases. Alternations. Phlegmasia. Venosity. Hæmorrhage; passive; vicarious. Anæmia. PROFUSE, BLAND, THICK, YELLOW-GREEN DISCHARGES; bitter mucus. Jerking, tearing or ulcerative pain. Numbness; part lain on; hands, feet, etc. Pale, chilly blondes. .................... MILD, TIMID, EMOTIONAL. WEEPY. Discouraged. Whining. Easily offended. Craves sympathy. Can't lie with head low. Headache start in vertex. Occipital ache, < coughing. Profuse sweat on scalp. Eyes; fill with tears (acrid) or seem covered; < wind; sticky lids; colds affect the; ophthalmia, gonorrhœal. Blepharitis. Styes. Blind attacks; < menses. Nightly earache. Foul discharge or bad odor before nose. Coryza; stopped on lying or in room. Anosmia. Pale face. Peeling cracked lips. Licks lips. Crack in center of lower lip. Bad breath. Drawing toothache, > cold. Taste bad; in A.M.; bloody; greasy. Slimy mouth or dry, without thirst. Tongue feels scalded. Alternate sides of throat or neck. Food leaves an after-taste or lodges in throat. Averse to water or fats. Craves acids or what disagrees. Sudden loathing, < eating. Heart-burn. Nausea. Epigastrium; cutting; pulsation. HEAVY OR DERANGED STOMACH. Abdomen; as of a heavy stone; aching; numb; pains into groins. Stools; changeable; green mucus, < after midnight; bilious. Piles, < lying. Urination; involuntary on lying; followed by blood. Heavy pressure on or cramp in bladder. Sensation as of a stone rolling in bladder. Nocturnal enuresis. Burning down l. spermatic cord. Enlarged prostate. Orchitis; gonorrhœal. Bloody emissions. Feels like menstruating. MENSES DARK; LATE, at puberty; SCANTY, < bathing; irregular; vicarious; absent. Dysmenorrhœa. Weak labor pains. Bearing down, < lying. After pains. Retained placenta. Leucorrhœa; milky; acrid. AIR HUNGER; < lying on l. side; as if from abdomen; if heated. Loose morning, then dry evening cough; from tickling in epigastrium; must sit up. Expectoration thick; purulent (Cetrar.), slimy, sweet, salt, etc. Asthma from suppressions. Cough; dry hacking; expectorates bitter or salty as it loosens up. Chest oppressed; as by a load. Sore stitch beneath clavicles. Palpitation. Mammæ; milk in virgin; sore, aching lump (r); scanty milk. Swelled joints; backs of feet. Numb elbows. Lower limbs; pains down, alternate sides; heavy legs. Sticking in tibia, < lying, > cool air and motion. Acute periostitis. Cold sweat on legs. Foul foot-sweat. Swelled glands. Veins full; varicose; painful. Ulcers, with hard, glistening areolæ; varicose. Skin itches on being heated. Measles. Day sleepiness. Lies with hands over head. Disturbed dreams. Awakes confused or tired. Chilly, yet averse to heat; IN A WARM ROOM; with the pain; on lying down at night. One hand cold. Partial sweat. Complementary: Ars. Kali-bi. Sep. Sil. Zin.

Related: Ap. Cimi. Grap. Ham. Kali-bi. Nat-s.

Region:

• BLOOD.
• Heart.
• Circulation.
• Muscles.

Worse:

• Cold damp.
• Motion: Constant change of position. Hard rocking.

Better:

• Heat.
• Hot bath.
• Pressure.

Aching, BRUISED, SORE and prostrate; yet restless. Bed seems hard. Bone pains. Foul, taste, secretions, odor of body, etc. Rosy, red streaks. Decomposition or sepsis. .................... Rapid ideation. Loquacious. Excited. Feels as if he covered the whole bed. Anxious and sensitive. Confused. Sense of duality. Hallucinations. Violent, throbbing headache. Pains are > during hot stage. Throbbings, < neck (Bell. Spi.). Sudden pulsation, with fever and intense restlessness. Rolls head side to side. Throbbing headache, > tight band. Sensation as of a cap on the head. Disgust at his own body odor. Fiery red, smooth tongue. Sweet taste. Nausea, > very hot drinks. Adhesive urinary sediment. Purring at heart. Feels heart; as if tired, big or full. PULSE QUICK, OUT OF ALL PROPORTION TO TEMPERATURE (Lil-t. Thyr.) or the reverse. Quickly oscillating temperature. The nails threaten to fly off. Chilly, wants to breathe heat of fire. Chills start between scapulæ; felt in bones; with sweat; at night. Fever, at menses. Puerperal sepsis. Slowly advancing hectic. Sweat, without relief; cold. Wants to inhale heat of fire. Follows: Lach.

Related: Anthraxin. Ars. Bap. Echi.