Materia Medica R–S

Region:

• Skin.
• Nerves.
• Lymphoid tissue.
• Bones.
• Muscles and joints: Lumbo-sacral. Great toe.
• Shifting sides.

Worse:

• Motion.
• Shaving.
• Washing.

Better:

• Open air.
• Hot bath (Rhus-v.).
• Eating.
• Cold drinks.
• Continued motion.

Dry, burning heat as if afire; craves cool air. Sudden shifting or electric pains; must lie down. Dull, hard ache; deep in joints. Constriction, chest, heart, etc.; with air hunger. Numbness, < stretching part. Rheumatism. Gout. Weak muscles. Necrotic changes. .................... Pain over eyes (l), backward. Red, smarting eyes, < reading. Rushing in ears, > lying on face. Raw throat. Craves pork. Averse to sweets. Abdominal, alternating with ear or chest pains. Sore, prolapsed rectum. Dysuria, then erections. Itching genitals. Cough, < smoking; > open air and exertion. Tightness at heart. Weak between scapulæ. Ascending lumbar pain. Irritable, thick, burning, itching skin; moist if scratched; < face and genitals. Branny scales. Scabby; on ears. Eczema. Psoriasis. Scleroderma. Callosities. Vivid dreams; of fire; awakes panting, with pounding of heart; seeming true. Rheumatism of hands.

Related: Pho. Pul. Rhus-rad.

(Bufo)

Region:

• Heart: Blood. Circulation.
• Kidneys.
• Sexual organs.
• Ovaries.
• Groin.
• Skin.

Worse:

• In warm room.
• Sexual excitement (Onanism).
• During sleep.
• Least motion.
• Injuries.

Better:

• Bleedings (Lach. Melil. Sars.).
• Cool air.
• Bathing; feet in hot water.

Obesity. Depravities and bad inheritance. Low minded and low disease forms. Early break- down. Bloody oozings; nipples, saliva, etc. (Bov.). Festering sensation. As of a peg in joints. Burnings; ebullitions of heat. Flushings. Feels swelled in A.M. Trembling and as of electric shocks through body. Sexual epilepsy. Dropsy. .................... Moral depravity. Childish, silly tittering. Talks nonsense, then angry if not understood. Feeble minded. Fears animals and strangers. Duplicity. Pillow hurts occiput. As of cold balls running through bowels. Asthma. Suffocative cough. Heart seems to float or beat in water or air. Rapid heart action; in exophthalmos. Violent pain in mammæ, < night. Lumbago, < raising up or least movement. Anæsthetic spots. Red streaks under skin. Lymphangitis. Panaris. Bullæ. Horripilation. Complementary: Calc-c.

Related: Bar-c. Grap. Tarn.

Antidote: Op.

Region:

• NERVES.
• Muscles.
• Eyes.
• Serous surfaces.
• THORAX.
• SKIN.
• Fingers and toes.
• Left side.

Worse:

• AIR: Damp. Cold. Open. Drafts.
• Changing: Weather. Temperature. Position.
• Alcohol.
• Evening.
• Motion: of arms.
• Breathing.
• Touch.

PAINS; stitching; stabbing; shooting; extort tears; with shuddering; can't rest. Burning, biting, bruised soreness or as of deep ulceration. Sore spots. Neuralgia. Trembling. Distended feeling. .................... Quarrelsome. Smarting eyes. Tic (r), to ear (Pul.). Crawling on palate; wants to scratch it. Increased saliva. Scraping-burning down throat. Bruised hypochondria. Tender abdomen. Pinching colic; alternates with chest pains. Anxious, oppressed breathing. SHARP, CUTTING, STITCHING CHEST PAINS; bilateral. Chest is sensitive to air. Pleurodynia. Pleurisy. Pain along inner edge of scapulæ, (l). Itching palms. BLUISH VESICLES. Shingles. Pemphigus. Corrosive ichor. Horny scabs. Herpes. Chilliness.

Related: Canth. Rhus-t.

Region:

• CHEST.
• SKIN.
• Vertex.
• Right side.

Worse:

• Evening.
• Motion.
• Deep breathing.

Better:

• After midnight.

Acridity, rawness or burning-smarting. Eating, gnawing or boring pains; causing faintness, or short breath. .................... Sneezing coryza, with burning urine. Blunt teeth. Mapped tongue. Nausea after 12 P.M. Stitches in chest muscles; it is sensitive externally. As of a plug forced between ribs, under navel, in heart, etc. Gout of small joints. Gnawing in knees. Yellow vesicles. Bullæ; with acrid contents. Pemphigus.

Related: Ars. Aru-t.

Numbness, changing place. Retained flatulence. Hysterical meteorism. Coldness of a foot.

Region:

• Rectum.
• Anus.
• Nipples.
• Teeth.

Worse:

• Night.
• Anxiety.
• Heat.
• Exertion.
• Touch.

Better:

• Cool bathing.
• Walking in open air.

Pains here and there. Hæmorrhage. Sense of constriction. Fissure. Dark, thin, scrawny and irritable. .................... As if brain would fall out of forehead. Bursting headache when straining at stool. As if cool air came from teeth. Nightly toothache, < lying; must walk about. Griping in stomach, > eructations. Violent, painful hiccough. Sharp cutting, in stomach, rectum, etc. Constriction or as of sharp splinters (of glass) in rectum; stool is forced out with great straining and followed by prolonged aching-burning, > hot water. Dry or itching anus. Ascarides. Fissure ani. Cracked nipples.

Related: Nit-ac. Pæon.

Region:

• Muscles of: Bile ducts. Duodenum. Intestines.
• Liver.

Worse:

• Dentition.
• Eating.
• Summer.
• Nursing women.

Better:

• Warmth.
• Wrapping up.

Sour, impatient, colicky children, who are always screaming and crying. Sour taste, vomitus, stools, sweat, etc. .................... Offensive mucus in mouth, after sleep. Difficult teething. Loathing after first bite. Colic with cries; > doubling up, < uncovering any part; then pappy, sour, brown, green, fermented, slimy or acrid stools; with shivering; < eating unripe fruit; < evening. Burning in bladder. Sleep, restless; with whining, cries and twitching of face, fingers, etc. Sopping, wet hair. Sweat on scalp, about nose, mouth or on upper lip. Complementary: Mag-c.

Related: Cham.

Region:

• FIBROUS TISSUES: Forearm. Lower legs. Small joints.
• Bones.
• Genitals.
• Nerves.
• Vascular system.
• Single parts.

Worse:

• Weather: BEFORE STORMS. Rough. Windy. Cold damp. Changing. Cloudy.
• Night.
• Midsummer.
• Wine.
• Rest.

Better:

• Heat.
• In sun.
• Motion (at once).
• Wrapping head.

Gouty-rheumatic subjects. SENSITIVE TO WINDY OR STORMY, WET WEATHER. Sensitive to windy weather, even if he is in house. Tearing, zigzag, boring, rapidly changing, descending, paralytic pains. .................... Confused and stupid; forgets his subject (Bar-c.). Headache, < early in bed, > eating. Throbbing in r. head. Deafness long after rising. Nostrils obstructed alternately. Tearing, jerking faceache or toothache; > food or warmth. Cool drinks lie heavy. Colic at navel. Pain from rectum to genitals. Diarrhœa, < fruit. Profuse, foul, urine. Drawing from spermatic cord into abdomen and thighs. Testes and glans feel crushed. Testes hard; pain alternately. Orchitis. Itching, sweaty, wrinkled scrotum. Hydrocele (of boys). Menses with fever. Bruised, sprained feeling in chest and wrists. Strong heart-beat. As of a weight hanging to feet. Wants to cross legs. Drawing, tearing in periosteum of long bones and under scalp. Rheumatism of hot weather (reverse-Rhus-t.). Formication; with sweat. Must cross legs to sleep.

Related: Rhus-t.

Region:

• SKIN: Face. Scalp. Genitals.
• Blood.
• Tissues: Cellular. Ligaments. Fibrous. Joints.
• Mucous membranes.
• GLANDS: Pyer's. Parotid.
• NERVES: CORD. Sciatic.
• Left side or left to right.

Worse:

• EXPOSURE TO: WET; cold. Air. WASHING. Chill or draft. When hot or sweaty.
• Uncovering; hands, etc.
• BEGINNING MOTION.
• REST.
• Before storms.
• SPRAINS.
• Overexertion.
• AFTER MIDNIGHT.

Better:

• Continued motion.
• HEAT: Wraps. Bath. If heated.
• Rubbing.
• Nose-bleed.
• Holding abdomen.

An infectious irritant, exciting TYPHOID, RHEUMATIC OR PARETIC EFFECTS. NIGHTLY SHOOTING, STITCHING, TEARING PAINS; CAN'T REST IN ANY POSITION. Grippe. Variola. Sore, bruised or STIFF. Flesh feels beaten or torn loose. Dislocative sensation. Twitching muscles. Crawling. Numbness. Trembling. Burning, swelling and lividity. Cellulitis. Acrid, rusty-red, meat water or musty secretions; causing eruptions. Scraping, gnawing or tearing loose in periosteum. .................... Sad, anxious, depressed or beclouded. Slow answers. Low delirium. Whirling vertigo; then headache. Shattering or loose feeling in brain; < jar. Board-like pressure in forehead. Painfully stiff scalp, > lying on it. Pain behind eyes; < motion. Eyelids, stiff; adherent; dry; firmly closed. Profuse, hot, gushing tears. Photophobia. Vertical diplopia. Saccular conjunctivitis. Red, sensitive tip of nose; it drips water. Roseola. Nose-bleed; at night. Violent aching in bones of nose. Face-ache. Maxillæ crack; easily dislocated; pains in. Red spot on l. cheek. Swelled, stiff face. Dry, cracked, crusty lips; herpes on. Sordes. Bloody saliva runs during sleep. Teeth feel loose. TONGUE; RED TRIANGLE AT TIP; coated diagonally or on one side only; dry red center; cracked, stiff, sore. Coppery or straw-like taste. Red, puffy, itching fauces. As of chamois skin stuck on tonsils. Sorethroat (l) in A.M.; with swelled glands. Craves cold drinks, although they < cough, chill, etc. Vomits from coughing, lying on back, etc.; fecal. Abdomen sore; swashing in; as of a lump in. Ileocæcal symptoms. Stools watery, frothy or bloody; foul; brick red; slimy; gelatinous; involuntary or with tenesmus, < drinking. Piles, < lifting. Genitals, œdema, < prepuce; itching; swelled. Nephritis. Metritis; septic. Chest pains on using arms. Dry, hoarse, tearing, tormenting cough, from tickling behind upper sternum; with bloody taste. Sudden hypostasis or œdema of lungs. Palpitation; > motion. Heart; feels tired; hyper-trophy; pains going down l. arm. Shingles. Stiff neck. Inter-scapular pain, < swallowing. Contractive or breaking backache, > hard pressure, walking about or bending backward. Lumbago. Coccyx aches into thighs. Numb, prickling limbs. Arms nervous and shaky, (l). Paralytic pain in elbows. Rhagades on backs of hands. Palms, dry, hot, cracked and sore; washing causes burning. Pains down back of thighs; < stool. Sciatica. Legs feel dead, wooden; cramp in calves; gangrenous ulcer, runs bloody water; itching. SKIN; stiff; thick; dry; hot; itching; burning; < warmth; painful to cold air. Fine VESICULAR, crusty, eczematous, moist or ERYSIPELATOUS ERUPTIONS, < genitals; alternating with dysentery. Pus erodes the hair. Rhus poisoning. Milk-crust. Baker's itch. Vesicles over abscess. Weeping ulcers. Dreams, laborious; of blood; awakes tired or nervous. Weak, rapid, sharp, tremulous or irregular pulse. Easily chilled; < least uncovering; with pains in limbs; < cough, etc. Chill as if dashed with cold water or cold water in veins; preceded by cough; alternating with heat; in single parts. Heat with busy delirium. Sweat, < during pain; with sleepiness. Complementary: Bry. Calc-c. Mag-c. Med. Phyt.

Related: Arn. Bry. Dul.

Region:

• Secretions.
• Stomach.

Worse:

• Eating.
• Night.
• Fats.

Acridity; sour taste; sour stomach; acid belching; vomitus so sour it sets the teeth on edge or dulls them. Acid dyspepsia. Waterbrash. Burning in stomach and between scapulæ. Squeezing in stomach. Sick headache.

Related: Iris. Mag-c.

Region:

• Mucous membranes: Larynx. Trachea. THROAT-PIT. Bowels.
• Nerves.
• Skin.
• Left side; chest.
• Joints.
• Ankles.

Worse:

• COOL AIR: INHALING. Open air. Raw changes.
• Uncovering.
• Night.
• Pressure; on trachea.

Better:

• Covering mouth.
• Wrapping up.

Dry, sensitive mucous membranes. Stickiness, with burning. Every cold affects the joints. Sharp pains; neuralgias, etc. Obesity. .................... Eyes burn, indoors; puffed in A.M. Dry posterior nares. Sneezing attacks. Sodden complexion. Hawks out much tenacious mucus. Throat feels hollow. Ravenous appetite. Borborygmi. Sudden, profuse, foul, early morning diarrhœa (5-9 A.M.); after catarrh; in phthisis. Respiration < wind. Suffocative choking. Dyspnœa, on retiring. EVERY BREATH OF COLD AIR CAUSES TICKLING, as from a feather or dust, IN THROAT-PIT, AND CONTINUOUS COUGH; > closing or covering mouth or head. Profuse, frothy expectoration. Pain from r. ovary to back. Pain, rawness or burning under clavicle (l); as if the air penetrated there. Chest sore. Pain under sternum; under l. nipple. Heart seems impeded, then heavy pulsation through chest. Pain in l. shoulder on coughing or raising arm. Right scapula. Spasmodic cramps in ankles and feet. Skin itches if exposed to air. Acne vulgaris on back. Sudden sleepiness.

Related: Caus. Seneg.

Region:

• Fibrous tissues: EYES. Flexor tendons. Joints. Wrists and ankles. Back (lumbar).
• Cartilages.
• Periosteum.
• Uterus.
• Skin.

Worse:

• Over-exertion: EYE-STRAIN. Injury. Sprains.
• COLD: Air. Wind. Damp. Wet.
• LYING.
• SITTING.
• Pressure on an edge.

Better:

• Lying on back.
• Warmth.
• Motion.

BRUISED, SORE ACHING AND RESTLESSNESS. Painful weariness. Heaviness; as of a weight in forehead or hanging to feet; of lower limbs. As of a rough, blunt plug in part; head, nose, etc. Nodes. Paralytic rigidity. Distortions. Rheumatism. Gnawing-burning. Neuralgia. .................... Dissatisfied. Fretful. Itching inner canthi. Eyes burn. Lachrymation. Dim vision. Woody taste. Swelled spleen. Urging to stool, but only rectum prolapses; < after labor, stooping, etc. Corrosive leucorrhœa. Weak, bruised feeling in small of back, hips or lower limbs in A.M. Nodes in palms. Stumbles easily. Lumbago. Deep pains. Thighs feel broken. Pains as if deep in long bones; must walk about. Bursæ. Erosive itching. Chafing. Flat warts. Contractions. Brittle bones. Cracking joints, < walking in open air. Ganglion. Glowing heat of face, skin, etc. Complementary: Calc-p.

Related: Arn. Phyt. Ran-sc. Symp.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: NOSE. ANUS. Digestive tract.
• NERVES.
• Lachrymal glands.
• Throat.

Worse:

• COLD; air; drinks.
• PERIODICALLY: Same hour. Forenoon. New and full moon.
• Odors.
• Undeveloped exanthema.

Better:

• Open air.
• Heat.
• Eating.
• Swallowing.

Weak; nervous; easily startled. Alternate nerve and bodily symptoms. Formication. Twitches. Trembling. Worms. .................... Miserable. Anger. Erroneous (fixed), personal ideas. Pain in alternate sides of forehead. Unilateral head pains. Itching scalp. Red, itching tarsi. Lachrymation; when in pain; < open air. Nose; ITCHES; rubs or picks it; very dry; tickling in, spreads over whole body, then dyspnœa follows. Persistent VIOLENT or ABORTIVE SNEEZING. Hay fever. Influenza. Sensitive smell. Itching soft palate. Tongue feels burnt. Sorethroat; l. to r.; < empty swallowing; > hot drinks. As of a lump, morsel, thread or skin hanging in throat. Canine hunger. Thirstless. Craves hot things, sweets or milk. Bowels feel knotted. Burning, frothy, floating stools. Crawling, itching at anus; alternating with tickling in nose or ears. Pinworms. Violent coughing attacks; muffled; < anger. Upward jerking of arms. Cracks under toes. Cutting in bones. Itching skin (in nose and anus) with asthmatic breathing. Shivers; as a concomitant. Thirst, after chill only.

Related: Ars. Pul. Urt-u.

Region:

• Genito-urinary organs: Prostate. Ovaries. Mammæ. Bladder. Urethra.
• Mucous membranes.

Worse:

• Women and old men.
• Weather: Cold, Damp. Cloudy.
• Sympathy.

Sharp, stinging pains in urethra. Debility. .................... Voices seem distant. Abdominal pains into thighs. Irritable bladder and urethra. Strangury. Enuresis. Limy urinary sediment. Testes drawn up. Enlarged or congested prostate; senile. Painful erection or emission of semen. Ovarian pains. Vulva feels open. Coldness in genitals. Absent sexual passion; with nervous irritability. Mammæ sore, tender and full, or small; < cold bath. Backache from coition.

Related: Sep. Sil.

Region:

• FEMALE PELVIC ORGANS: UTERUS. Rectum. Nerves.
• Fibrous and serous tissues: Small joints. Heels.

Worse:

• Nightly.
• HEAT: Bed. Room. Exercise.
• Pregnancy.
• Climacteric.
• Foggy weather.

Better:

• Cold. Cool, open air.

Hot, full-blooded females; with rheumatic or gouty-hæmorrhagic tendency, epistaxis, heamaturia, etc. Violent pulsations. Fulness. Red, shiny swelling. Acutely inflamed arthritic nodes. .................... Music is unbearable. Bursting toothache. Craves lemonade. Abdomen plethoric; quivering, as if alive in. Piles, alternate with pains in limbs. Itching, excited genitals. PAIN FROM LUMBAR REGION FORWARD TO PUBES or reverse; or shooting up vagina. Gushes of fluid, hot or watery blood, mixed with (dark) clots, from uterus; < motion; with joint pains. Abortion; habitual; at 3rd month. Bleeding between periods. Foul, acrid leucorrhœa. Pruritus of pregnancy. Crawling in nipples. Gout in r. big toe. Foul itching, burning, moist, figwarts. Intolerable, burning heat. Complementary: Thu.

Related: Caul. Pul.

Region:

• Respiratory organs.
• Respiration.
• Kidneys.
• Skin.

Worse:

• Dry, cold air.
• Cold drinks, while heated.
• Head low.

Better:

• Pressure over a sharp edge.
• Motion.
• Wrapping up.

Sweats or gets short of breath; with many symptoms. Nephritis. Dropsy. .................... Fretful. Half open eyes. Snuffles. Bluish, puffy face; < coughing. SUDDEN SUFFOCATION, or strangling cough, on falling to sleep or waking him after midnight; with violent sweat; < fright. Whistling breathing. Spasm of glottis. Screeching voice. Croup. Icy cold feet. Dry, burning heat during sleep, but copious sweating on waking; < cough. Debilitating sweats; at night.

Related: Bell. Brom.

Region:

• RIGHT SIDE: Head. LIVER. Chest. Deltoid.
• VASO-MOTORS.
• Capillaries.
• Mucous membranes.
• Stomach.

Worse:

• Periodically: WITH SUN. Weekly. Night.
• Climaxis.
• Odors.
• Jar.
• Light.
• Raising arms.
• Looking up.

Better:

• SLEEP.
• Lying on back.
• Vomiting.
• Cool air.
• Passing flatus.

Redness; abdominal; tongue, etc. BURNING HEAT AND EBULLITIONS. Dry mucous membranes. Burnt feeling; tongue. Burning; in throat; under sternum; spot or stitches in chest; palms and soles, etc. General pulsation. Congestion; to head, abdomen, chest, etc. Symptoms ascend, or end in bilious vomiting. Migraine. Internal rawness. Acrid, blood-streaked or foul discharges. Lies on back with head elevated. .................... Irritable and bilious. Grumbling. Borrows trouble. Pain over r. eye or ASCENDS FROM OCCIPUT TO OVER R. EYE, > free urination. Sun pains. Swelled temporal veins. Pain at root of nose. Coryza; stopped, then diarrhœa. Sensitive to odors. Red, burning cheeks. Hectic spot. Full and tender behind angle of jaw. Anterior tongue looks red, like raw beef. Palate feels scalded. Sorethroat (r); pains to ear and chest. Craves spices. Averse to butter. Nausea, < sneezing or blowing nose, > eating. Tension in epigastrium. Stomach pains to r. shoulder. Bilious or gushing stools. Acrid leucorrhœa. Larynx full and dry; in singers. Coughs; raises foul air, tough, bloody plugs or purulent sputum, or passes flatus; dry, tickling - behind sternum, in evening. Pneumonia. Phthisis. Itching axillæ, < before menses. Cutting, stiff r. deltoid, < raising or turning arm. Omodynia; < night. Wrinkled palms. Dry skin; of jaundice. Polypi. Pain in bones near surface. Flushes of heat, rising into face and head; with headache. Burning, scanty sweat. General pulsation. Heat of palms and soles, < covers. Complementary: Ant-t. Pho.

Region:

• Nutrition.
• Female organs.
• Neck.
• Rectum.
• Skin.

Worse:

• Motion: Downward. Of hands behind him.
• Cold wind on: Occiput or neck.

Looks old and thin. Marasmus. Body smells like old cheese. Child kicks off covers at night. Enlarged feeling in throat, vagina, etc. Thick, yellow, acrid pus. .................... Stubborn and touchy. Can't bear cold air on occiput and neck. Eyelids stick to balls. Fluent coryza, < eating. Water smells like old, musty rain water. Aphthæ. Craves bacon, or ice cold milk. Stool of one, large, heavy mass; impacted. Briny urine or leucorrhœa, < stool. Backache, < putting hands behind him or raising arms. Cold lumbar spine. Lumbago. Cold clammy hands and feet. Cramps in feet. Burning soles. Dry, brownish skin, < neck. Profuse sweat on occiput and neck. Foul foot sweat; chafes toes, destroys shoes or stiffens the hose; sticky.

Related: Lyc. Psor. Sul.

Region:

• Genito-urinary organs.
• Skin.
• Right side; lower.

Worse:

• At close of micturition.
• Spring.
• Cold wet.
• Mercury.
• Night.
• Suppressed gonorrhœa.
• Yawning.

Better:

• Uncovering neck or chest.
• Standing.

Thin frail, shrivelled and old looking. Marasmus. Tendency to gravel and itching eruptions. Parts feel screwed together. Nightly bone pains. Rheumatism. Very sore, gouty nodes. Sycosis. .................... Pain depresses him. Pain from occiput to eyes or root of nose, which is swelled. Painful urination, extorts screams, > standing; < before menses; passes drops of blood or white, acrid material at close. Urine dribbles while sitting. Renal colic (r). Gassy urine. Crusty urinary sediment. Sand in the stools. Moist, foul genitals. Bloody semen. Retracted or cracked nipples. Backache with colic. Deep cracks on fingers and toes, < sides. Cutting under nails. Ulcerated finger-tips. Blotchy, hard or shrivelled skin, < about neck. Itching, scaly spots. Irritating pus. Chill starts from region of bladder; to back. Antidotes: Bell. Merc. Complementary: Sep.

Related: Calc-c. Petr.

Region:

• MEMBRANES: MUCOUS. Serous.
• Kidneys.
• Heart.
• Spleen.

Worse:

• Early morning.
• Motion.
• Uncovering.
• Old people.

Exudations and profuse secretions. Dropsy; with profuse urine. Cardio-urinary effects. Gurglings. .................... Rubs eyes, sneezes. Acrid coryza. Black spots on teeth. Sweet taste; of food, expectoration, etc. Stomach pains, > lying on l. side. Aching hypochondriæ. Dark brown, frothy stools. Sudden urging; passes much urine. Bloody urine. Erotic pollutions. COUGH; stubborn, rattling cough with sneezing, coryza, watery eyes, spurting urine, or heat; ends in gagging; < cold drinks and inspiration. Easy, heavy expectoration; < morning and evening. Stitches in chest (l). Pleurisy. Broncho-pneumonia. Heat, with aversion to uncover. Absence of sweat. Complementary: Ant-c.

Related: Ars.

(See Genista Scoparia)

High strung neurotic women. Sleepless from nervous excitement.

Region:

• Muscles: BLOOD-VESSELS. UTERUS.
• BLOOD.
• Nerves.
• Cord.
• Limbs.

Worse:

• WARMTH.
• During menses.
• Pregnancy.
• Loss of fluids.
• COVERS.

Better:

• Cold; bathing.
• Uncovering.
• Rocking.
• Forcible extension.

Dusky, scrawny and heamorrhagic. Numbness, insufferable tingling, crawling, twitching, gnawing or cramping; with stiffness; in single parts; starting in face or back; in limbs; in fingertips; after the pains, etc. Burnings; here and there, like fire. Dark, thin, foul or exhausting discharges. Decomposition. Petechiæ. Varicoses. Passive bleedings or discharges. Contracted arterioles. Tonic spasm. .................... Mental weakness after spasms. Fear, depressed by; maniacal. Sparks before eyes. Distorted or sunken countenance; blue rings under eyes. Wild look. Thirst; craves acids. Empty retching. Empty feeling in hypogastrium. Wants abdomen uncovered. Gushing, painless, watery, olive-green or bloody stools; with collapse. Bloody urine. Everything seems loose and open. Senile enuresis. Inert uterus, or bearing down with coldness. Contracted uterus; hour-glass contraction. Miscarriage. Green lochia. Septic placenta. Metritis. Gangrene of female organs. Leucorrhœa; brown, foul; continuous. Pains through chest on pressing spine. Cold limbs. Bluish fingers and toes. Cramps in hands, legs and feet. Fingers spread apart; bent backward or clenched; look water soaked. Boils with green pus. Blood blisters. Cold, dry, wrinkled or bluish skin, < over affected part. Raynaud's disease. Foul, indolent ulcers. Twitching tremor or quiver in skin. EXTERNALLY, ICY COLD, YET BURNING HOT INTERNALLY; OBJECTS TO BEING COVERED, < ABDOMEN. Heat, as of sparks on skin. Erysipelas. Cold or foul sweat; destroying shoes. Antidote: Solan-n.

Related: Nux-m. Ust.

Region:

• Nerves: GENITO-URINARY ORGANS. Supra-orbital (L).
• LARYNX.
• Liver.

Worse:

• Debilitating causes: Hot days. Sexual excesses. Loss of sleep.
• Singing.
• Drafts.
• After sleep.
• Tea.
• Lemonade.

Better:

• After sunset.
• Inhaling cool air.

Easily debilitated; by heat of sun; a little mental or physical exertion makes him sleepy. Senility. Emaciation; of single parts, face, hands, etc. Cramp, then stiffness. Bitings. .................... Loquacity. Sadness. Frets when awake and dreams of it as he falls asleep. Nervous headaches. Scalp feels gathered together. Falling hair, < eyebrows; don't want hair touched. Ache over l. eye; < tea. Coryza, ending in diarrhœa. Thirstless. Craves stimulants, tea, etc. Sharp stitches in or rash over liver. Abdominal pulsation; hinders sleep. Very large stools. Coarse sand in urine. Lascivious, but impotent. Urine and semen dribble. Easy loss of semen; at stool, etc. Watery semen. Chronic gleet. VOICE HOARSE, as soon as he sings; affected by every cold; rattles. Nodes in vocal cords. Hawks up clear mucus. Sudden sciatic pains (l), leave soreness behind. Oily skin; itches in folds or about ankles. Skin remains moist after scratching. Burning spots. Acne. Imagines drafts of air. Sweat, profuse, yellow; leaves a salty deposit, stiffens the linen or makes the hair stiff and wiry; < genitals.

Related: Nat-m. Sul.

Region:

• FEMALE: GENITO-URINARY ORGANS. Bladder.
• MUCOUS GLANDS.
• Nose.
• Lungs.
• Lumbar spine.

Worse:

• Puberty.
• Sexual excitement.
• Dampness.
• Cold.
• Open air.

Better:

• Menstruation.

Lack of reaction in genito-urinary sphere. Passive congestion, with irritation, profuse catarrhs, debilitating or vicarious discharges. Muscles draw into knots. Tightness, in nose, throat, etc. Globus. .................... Nervous, pale, weak, and sleepless women. Whining and irritable. Self- centered. Elated and sad alternately. Sharp pain backward over l. eye. Burning in nostrils. Sneezing. Itching; caused by tears; in Eustachian tube. Twitching about mouth. Averse to sweets. Nausea or vomiting of renal origin. Uræmia. Griping at navel. Bloody stool or urine. Heat in neck of bladder; with renal pain. Dysuria; with dysmenorrhœa. Pains from ovaries into breasts. Functional amenorrhœa. Sexual irritations; excite discharges. Thick, yellow leucorrhœa; flows down thighs. Feels as if menses would come. Cough; tickling; with blood-streaked sputum; > menstruation. Burning in l. nipple. Lumbar backache, as if to break; < amenorrhœa, renal disease, etc. Periodical, wandering rheumatism. Many dreams; erotic. Feet cold in bed. Brittle nails. Hay fever, with anorexia. Sleepless with amenia.

Region:

• MUCOUS and serous membranes: CHEST. Eyes. Nose. Bladder.
• Muscles.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Air: Open. Wind. Inhaling cold.
• Rest.
• Pressure.
• Touch.
• Looking fixedly.

Better:

• Motion; in open air.
• Bending head back.

Sub-acute, catarrhal or paretic states; of old people or fat, chubby children. Lax tissues. Profuse, albuminous secretions. Burning in air-passages. .................... Headache, into eyes, > cool air. Eye-balls feel distended. Bends head backward for > diplopia, ptosis, etc. Eye-balls feel like balls of ice. Sneezes, until dizzy. Coppery taste. Dry scraping in mouth, throat and chest; < talking. Nausea. Shreddy urine. Hoarse, unsteady voice; < sexual losses. Wheezing. Emphysema. Cough, incessant; strangling, choking ends in sneezing; < lying on right side or evening. Loose rattle in chest, but the profuse, clear expectoration is tough and slips back. Blood-tinged or albuminous expectoration. Chest sore (in spots), as if bruised; shifting pains on stooping. As of a crushing weight on or weakness starting from chest. Pleuro-pneumonia.

Related: Caus. Hep.

Region:

• Venous circulation: Digestive tract. Portal system. FEMALE PELVIC ORGANS.
• Nerves.
• Skin.

Worse:

• COLD: AIR; North wind. Wet. Snowy.
• Sexual excesses.
• Before menses.
• Pregnancy.
• Abortion.
• Morning and evening.
• After first sleep.

Better:

• VIOLENT MOTION.
• Warmth.
• Cold drinks.

Draggy, relaxed females -lithæmic, plethoric, - subject to prolapses or easy dislocations. Uterine reflexes. Symptoms settle in back; shoot up, < rectum, vagina, etc.; backward, head (l), ileo-cæcal region, ovary, etc., or cause shuddering. AS OF A LUMP or a rolling over internally. Weak, empty, hollow feeling; in epigastrium, chest, muscles, lumbar back, hips, knees, etc., or fulness. Milky discharges. Bleedings. .................... Angry, sensitive and irritable and miserable. Sensitive to pain. Anxious fear; over trifles. Averse, to one's own; to sympathy; to company; yet dreads solitude. Stifled affections. Poor memory. Sad irritability, alternating with indifference or sulkiness. Sexually minded. Sad over her health and domestic affairs. Indifference. Stupid, wants to go away. Headache; over l. eye; alternate sides of occiput; < lying on it; heavy on vertex; shootings; bursting. Hemicrania. Jerks head back and forth. Drooping eyelids. Red, itching tarsi. Falling out feeling in eyes. Sees motes, flashes, zigzags, photopsies; then collapse. Odors are repulsive. NOSE; BROWN STRIPE ACROSS (Menis.); pressive pain at root; foul plugs or green crusts from. Dark circles under eyes. Changing of color of face. Chloasma. Numb malar bones. Swollen, cracked lower lip. Mouth feels burnt. Hawks mucus or foul, cheesy grains in A.M. Taste cheesy, fishy or bitter-sour. Ascending throat colds. Eructates tough, foamy mucus. Nausea at tought or smell of food; in A.M. Vomits; solids only; milky. Gnawing hunger. Craves acids. FAINT SINKING AT EPIGASTRIUM, not > eating, or a lump in. Griping in gall-bladder, < stooping. Falling out or heavy bearing down feeling in hypogastrium; holds it or crosses legs. Pot belly. Stool, then gelatinous mucus. Diarrhœa, from boiled milk. Rectum constricted and powerless; no urging for days. Obstipation. As of a ball in anus. Piles, prolapsing; sticking; of pregnancy. Oozing from anus. Slow urination; cutting before. Enuresis, during first sleep; < coughing, sneezing, etc. THICK, FOUL URINE; ADHERENT, RED, SANDY SEDIMENT, or white, gritty. Menses absent; at puberty; after weaning, etc. Grasping, burning or sticking in uterus (os). Sub-involution. WEAK, DRAGGING OR BEARING DOWN FEELING; must sit close or hold parts. Tends to abort. Labia swelled; abscessed. Leucorrhœa; in large lumps; foul; gonorrhœal. Stomach cough; < rapid change of temperature; with foul sputum. Circulation, irregular; seems to stagnate. Palpitation; visible; ascends to occiput. General pulsation. Ebullitions at night. Overful blood-vessels. Collar feels tight. Aching; inter-scapular; LUMBAR-paralytic-wants it pressed. Purple hands. Cold knees or heels. Skin blotched; raw, rough, hard or cracked, < flexures. Herpes. Ringworm. Itching vesicules. Boils in axillæ. Thick crust on elbows. Ulcers, on small joints. Epithelioma of eyelids, lips, etc. Skin; wine colored. Spots on the skin. Loud talking in sleep. Dreams if lies on l. side. Easily chilled. Chilly, with air-hunger. Cold; in spots; on vertex; between scapulæ; feet, in bed. Sudden weakness; then anxious, hot flushes. Hot hands, with cold feet or vice versa. Sweat, easy; with orgasms; on genitals, axillæ or back. Irregular fevers. Complementary: Nat-m. Pho.

Related: Caus. Gel. Lil-t. Nat-m. Pul.

Region:

• NUTRITION.
• Children.
• Tissues: Elastic. Cellular.
• NERVES.
• GLANDS.
• Tubes: Eustachian. Tear ducts, etc. Fistulæ.
• Bones.
• Cartilage.
• Mucous membranes.
• Skin.

Worse:

• COLD CHANGES: AIR. DRAFTS. Damp. Uncovering. Bathing. Checked sweat, < feet.
• Sensitive to: Nervous excitement. Light. Noise. Jarring spine.
• Change of moon.
• Night.
• Mental exertion.
• Alcohol.

Better:

• WARM: WRAPS; to head. Becoming.
• Profuse urination.

Cachectic or senile patients. Large head, with wasted body. Fair, clear complexion. KEENLY SENSITIVE; to noise, pain or cold; hugs the stove. Violent sticking pains; localized; in ears, throat, ulcers, etc. Exaggerated reflexes. Contracted sphincters. Spasms. Tendency to easy exhaustion, abnormal sweats and suppuration. Cerebral softening (Phos.). Slow, incomplete processes, then induration. EVERY HURT FESTERS; stubborn suppuration; fistulæ; abscess; proud flesh; induration; cicatrices, etc. Torpid cellular tissue. Mal-nutrition. Arrested development. Late learning to walk. Swelled, diseased glands. Emaciation. Scrophulo-rachitic diathesis. Parts lain on go to sleep. Œdema in A.M. Extrudes foreign bodies. .................... Mental acuteness, with physical weakness or torpidity. Fidgety. Lacks grit. Slouchy gait. Sullen and stubborn. ASCENDING EFFECTS; violent vertigo; OCCIPITAL PAINS, etc.; > pressure. Headache, then blindness. Migraine. Vertex throbs. Open fontanels, with distended abdomen. Lumps on scalp. Inflamed eyes. Spotted vision. Cataract. Deafness; hears again with a snap. Frothy nasal discharge. Coryza; with epistaxis. Waxy pallor. Enlarged parotids. As of a hair on tongue, in throat, etc. Bitter taste in throat. Abscess at roots of teeth. Hawks down foul lumps. Averse to hot food. Averse to mother's milk; vomits it. Big, hard or hot belly; with thin legs. Rectum; cutting; cramping; paining into testes; < coition. Stools; receding; < menses; retained, for fear of pain. Fissure ani. Foul urethral discharge. Itching, moist spots on scrotum. Hydrocele. Cutting upward in vagina, < urinating. Nursing < utering flow. Biting, gushing leucorrhœa. Itching vulva. Retching, shaking, gagging cough; < cold drinks. Respiration difficult from draft on neck. Profuse, foul, lumpy sputum. Rattling in chest. Sore, retracted nipples. Nodes or fistulæ in mammæ. Sharp pains in breasts and uterus. Axillary glands swelled. Fingertips painful; dry. Panaris. Weak ankles. FOOT-SWEAT; FOUL; itching; acrid, destroying shoes; suppressed. Sore ache in arch of foot. Distorted, ingrown nails. Bunions. Soggy, wilted skin. Acuminate eruptions. Carbuncle. Ulcers; painfully sensitive; foul; spongy; on feet, toes; at nails; > heat. Osteitis. Somnambulism. Frightful dreams, wake him on falling to sleep. CHILLY; < lying in bed, exertion, etc. Coldness of painful part. Icy chills. Hectic. SWEAT; profuse; on upper parts; head, or affected parts; at night; foul; easy; acrid. Follows: Calc-c. or Hepar. Complementary: Flu-ac. Pho. Thu.

Related: Calc-c. Hep. Kali-p.

Region:

• KIDNEYS.
• Digestive tract.
• Lower limbs.
• Blood.

Worse:

• Pressure.

Better:

• Profuse urine.

Weak; easily takes cold. Hæmorrhage. Kidney disfunctions; chronic nephritis; uræmic asthma. .................... Bitter taste. Profuse, involuntary, mucous stools. Difficult, dark and scanty or clear, stinking urine. KIDNEYS, sore or tender over; ache; feel distended. Nephritis; chronic. Cystitis. Prostatitis. Lumbar ache; makes her sick all over. Petechiæ on lower limbs (Agava); with œdema. Gangrene; diabetic. Eczema; < suppressed urine.

Region:

• NERVES: TRIFACIAL. HEART. Neck.
• Fibrous tissue.
• EYES.
• Teeth.
• LEFT SIDE.

Worse:

• TOUCH.
• MOTION.
• Jar.
• Periodically; with the sun.
• Tobacco.
• Coition.
• Raising arms.

Better:

• Lying on R. side, with head high.

Combined heart and eye symptoms, or the latter as an accompaniment. PAIN; in violent attacks; radiating from l. occiput to over l. eye; < stooping. Neuralgia. Sun pains. Vertigo; feet feel higher than the head. Shudders; if touched or bruised. .................... Stammering. Fears pointed things. Left supra-orbital or occipital pain; boring. EYES: sore, drawing ache; sunken; feel large; red; flowing tears on affected side; squinting; yellow rings about. Post-nasal dropping. Fetor oris. Toothache. Ravenous hunger. Pains about navel; in children. Mucus lumps in stools. Worms. Dyspnœa, < moving arms. HEART; violent, audible PALPITATION, attending other symptoms; violent sticking, or compressive pains radiating to throat, arm or scapula, < least motion; or bending double; soreness; purring; crackling. Cardiac angina, etc. Neck stiff; pains into l. temple or from l. shoulder into neck. Cutting about l. scapula. Numb l. arm. Weak, tremulous or irregular pulse. Pulsation in patellæ. Follows: Aco. Complementary: Spo.

Related: Cact.

Region:

• HEART; valves.
• Larynx.
• Trachea.
• Glands.

Worse:

• DRY, COLD Wind.
• Roused from sleep.
• Exertion.
• Raising arms.
• Before 12 P.M.

Better:

• Lying with head low.
• Eating a little.

FLABBY. Weak and heavy. Feels stuffed up. Orgasms. Hard swellings; glands (ductless). .................... Terrified, anxious look. Eyes seem to protrude. Sorethroat, < sweets. Painfully swelled spermatic cord and testes; stitches in; squeezing in. Hard testes. Noisy, whistling inspiration on falling to sleep. SUFFOCATION; as from a plug, leaf or valve in larynx; waking him; with violent, painful palpitation and blue lips; with heavy sweat. Anxious, gasping breathing. HOLLOW BARKING, CROWING, SAWING OR TIGHT CROUPY COUGH; wakes child; then burning in chest; < cold drinks or excitement; > eating. Voice gives out. Croup; sudden. HOARSENESS. Larynx pains, < touch, singing, talking or swallowing; he grasps it. Diphtheria. Neck; as if a cord about. Choking on falling to sleep. Goitre. Fulness in chest. Apical phthisis. HEART; surgings mount up to neck, head and face; with closure of eyelids and tears. Palpitation. Goitre-heart. Valvular disease. Numb fingertips or lower half of body. Awakes in anxiety. Heat; in spells, with anxiety and cardiac pain, would rather die; and sudden weakness after walking in open air, he must lie down; with cold, moist thighs; < thinking of it. Follows: Cact.

Related: Iod. Led.

Region:

• NERVES.
• MUCOUS MEMBRANES.
• CHEST.
• FEMALE ORGANS.

Worse:

• Using voice.
• Cold.
• 10 A.M.
• MOTION: After. Gentle. Lying on right side.
• Ascending steps.

Better:

• Rapid motion.
• Hard pressure; over an edge.
• Expectoration.

Repeated short attacks. EXTREME WEAKNESS; < IN CHEST; in throat, stomach, upper arms and thighs; drops into a chair; can't even talk; trembles on moving. Paralytic heaviness. Profuse, muco-purulent secretions. Emaciation. PAINS INCREASE GRADUALLY, THEN SLOWLY SUBSIDE. Pressive drawing. Neuralgias. Cramps. Spasms. Hysteria. .................... Anxious, nervous and sad; < before menses. Weak and miserable, and discouraged. Pressive, stupefying headache. Pale face, with sunken eyes. Malar neuralgia. Faceache. Tickling at root of tongue. Vomiting; violent; early morning, with odor of ingesta. Burning in liver. Painful, pinching colic, > hard pressure and stool, which exhausts. Child wants to be carried over shoulder. Worms. Atony of bladder. Easy sexual orgasms. Pollutions. Before menses, mania erotica. During menses, strong odor of body. Gushes of debilitating leucorrhœa. Prolapse, of vagina or uterus, < stool. Much mucus in trachea. Deep, hollow voice. Short breath, from every effort; must loosen clothes. Cough; easily expectorates quantities of sweet or bright yellow pus or balls of mucus. Catarrhal phthisis. Chest feels raw or hollow. Tremulous knees. Swelled hands and ankles. Chill at 10 A.M.; with numb fingertips. Burning palms and soles. Hectic. Debilitating, musty sweat at 4 A.M. Night-sweats. Antidotes: Hep. Pul.

Related: Lach. Nat-m.

Region:

• NERVES.
• TEETH.
• Genito-urinary organs.
• Fibrous tissues: Eyelids. Tarsi. Skin.
• Glands.
• Right deltoid.

Worse:

• Emotions: Chagrin. Vexation. Indignation. Quarrels.
• Sexual excesses.
• Onanism.
• Touch.
• Cold drinks.
• Lacerations.
• Stretching parts.
• Mercury.
• Night.

Better:

• Warmth.
• Rest.
• Break-fast.

Nervous tembling. Squeezing or stinging smarting, as if cut. Pains that move into teeth. .................... Morbidly sensitive; easily offended. Always angry. Gloomy and petulant; throws things. Poor memory. Hypochondriasis. Sexually minded; unsatisfied urge; widows. Sheepish; sensitive mentally and physically. Imagines insults. Irritable, nervous, excitable and violent. Brain feels torn. Compressive, stupefying headache. As of a heavy load in forehead. Moist, foul, eroding milk-crust; < occiput. Dryness in eyes. Nodes in lids. Styes. Blepharitis. Sickly, peaked and hollow-eyed. Neuralgia, from caries; pains go to eyes. Coryza, now thick, now thin; ulcerating. Swelled sub-mental gland; abscess. Pale, bleeding gums. Loose, aching, black, crumbling teeth; < eating and during menses; > hard pressure and heat. Pyorrhœa. Musty taste. Hungry; craves milk. Colic; flatulent; ovarian; < coition. Dysentery. Irritable bladder. Urinates a slender stream. Trickling or burning along posterior urethra; < after walking or riding, > urinating. Priapism. Prostatitis. Dysuria; of brides; in pregnancy (Pop-t.). Itching or sensitive vulva. Pains from ovaries into thighs. Salpingitis. Crural neuralgia. Tight chest, at close of coition. Cough, < cleaning teeth or alternating with sciatica. Violent yawning; brings tears; after headache. Pains that precede shingles. Backache; in bed in A.M. Fine tearing in or numb fingertips. Nodes on finger joints. Skin symptoms, alternate with joints pains. Weak knees. Biting itching; as of vermin; changing place on scratching. LACERATED WOUNDS; < sphincters; perineum, etc.; stitch pains. Amorous dreams, with pollutions. Sweat and flatus smell like bad eggs. Complementary: Colo.

Related: Cham. Merc.

Region:

• Nerves.
• Membranes: Nose. Chest. Bronchi. Joints.
• Shoulder (R).

Worse:

• Night.
• Lying down.
• Motion.
• Change of temperature.

Better:

• Free discharges.
• Open air.

Nervous, stiff and rheumatic; develops catarrhs. Painful, dry mucous membranes. Diagonal pains. .................... Must talk. Seems to be floating. Burning eyelids. Pressure or stuffy fulness at root of nose; blows it without relief. Coryza; that dries up again. Hay fever. Tickling high up in pharynx. Incessant, dry, hacking cough; prevents sleep; < coughing and inspiration; croupy; < if tired; after measles. Numbness in air-passages. Bronchitis. Sore, stiff neck; pains to shoulder. Restless hands and feet. Rheumatism. Red spot on affected joint. Bursitis. Cold, moist limbs. Profuse sweat on hands.

Related: Cetrar. Elap. Guai. Sang. Thu.

Region:

• BRAIN.
• Circulation: Throat. Skin.
• Spinal nerves: Arms. Hip (L). Genitals.

Worse:

• Glistening objects.
• Fright.
• AFTER SLEEP.
• Dark, cloudy days.
• Suppression.
• Intemperance.

Better:

• LIGHT.
• Company.
• Warmth.

A remedy of TERRORS, BUT LACKING IN PAIN; with suppressed excretions (Ver-a.), passing neither urine nor stool (Led.). Very mobile states. Tremor; nervous. Disorderly, graceful or rhythmic motions (Elap.), < head or arms. Chorea. Spasms, < night. .................... DREADS DARKNESS, and has a horror of glistening objects. Fearful, desires company or wants to escape. Active, variable delirium; talks incessantly; sees many, vividly brilliant or hideous phantoms, more to one side. Wildly excited, as in night terrors or delirium tremens, or does all sorts of crazy things. Raving mania, with cold sweat, cursing and praying. Religious insanity. The talk of others is intolerable. Self accusation. Loss of reason or speech. Stupid. Imbecile. Vertigo, < in dark. Jerks head up and drops it again. Fixed sparkling stare. Squint. Diplopia. Night blindness. Green vision. Crowding, visual hallucinations. Sees black. Delusions as to size and distance. Red, bloated or rapidly changing face; now flushed, now pale; a sardonic grin, then expresses terror. Frowning. Fine red dots on tongue. Stammering. Constantly spits saliva. Dry throat, with great thirst, yet dreads water; it chokes him. Hydrophobia. Putrid, dark, painless, involuntary diarrhœa. Sexual excitement (in males). Excessive menses, preceded by sexual excitement. Grasps the genitals. Nymphomania. Spasmodic cough. Spasm of larynx. Voice suddenly fails, in higher tones. Nervous asthma. Drawing in back. Sensitive spine. Violent pain in hip. Unilateral paralysis, with twitchings. Crawlings, as of many bugs. Non-appearing exanthema. Fiery scarlatinous rash. Sopor. Weeping, in dreams. Awakes in fear or screaming. Frightful visions. Antidotes: Cof. Nux-v.

Related: Bell. Hyo. Op.

Region:

• Vaso-motors: Circulation. Heart. Kidneys.
• Marrow.
• Ankles.
• Right side.

Worse:

• COLD; changes.
• Uncovering.
• Walking.
• Sprains.
• Bleedings.
• Evening.

Better:

• Heat and light: Sun. Wraps. Baths.
• Itching.

Congestive tension. Fleeting pains; seemingly in bones. Rheumatism. Burning. Gnawing. Pains increase and decrease gradually or make him faint and sick all over. Violent starts. Immobility; of one side. Œdema. Sense of paralytic weakness. Emaciation. Prostration after operations. Formication in limbs. Arterio-sclerosis. .................... Headaches; into upper jaw; with vertigo and nausea. Violent pain in nape, > wraps. Very pale or violently red face. Numb mouth. Pressure in stomach during digestion. Cramp about navel. Hard, knotty, difficult stool, then burning at anus. Exhausting, nightly diarrhœa, of yellow water; periodically. Pale, ammoniacal urine. As of a load on chest. Heart feels smothered. Heart block. Numb hands. Sprained or puffed ankles. Cramp in calves and soles. Surgical shock. Flushes of heat; in face; yet averse to uncovering. Night-sweats; climacteric.

Related: Calc-c. Rhus-t.

Region:

• HEART; circulation.
• Stomach.
• Kidneys.

Worse:

• Exertion.
• Alcohol.
• Tobacco.
• Tea.

Stitches. Twitchings. Increased secretions. Alternations; rapid, with slow pulse; surgings to head and heart; dilated, with contracted pupils, etc. Undulations. Throbbing. .................... Fear of ordeals. Feels lifted up, during siesta. Vertigo, with swimming vision. Faintness. Very mobile puplis. Glimmering vision. Red spots on face. Throat seems constricted. Craves coffee. Anorexia. Vomiting. Rumbling, colicky diarrhœa; with burning at anus. HEART; sense of lively action; aching; anguish at; weak. Palpitation; chronic, especially nervous. Cardiac dyspnœa. Atheroma. Small, weak, rapid or irregular pulse. Heavy forearms and fingers. Itching feet. Hives; receding.

Related: Apoc. Glo. Ign. Spi.

Region:

• CIRCULATION: VENOUS. Portal. Abdomen.
• NUTRITIVE ORGANS.
• MEMBRANES: Mucous. Serous.
• Rectum.
• Chest.
• SKIN; folds.
• VERTEX.
• SOLES.
• Joints.
• Glands.

Worse:

• SUPPRESSIONS.
• BATHING.
• Milk.
• HEATED: EXERTION. IN BED, by woolens, etc.
• Atmospheric changes.
• Speaking.
• Periodically: 11 A.M. Climacteric. Full moon (Cina. Sil.).

Better:

• Open air.
• Motion.
• Warm applications.
• Sweating.
• Dry heat.

STOOPED, LANK, UNCURED, UNTIDY AND UNWASHED. Emaciation; with good appetite. Atrophy of children. Psora. Scrofula. Rheumatism. DEFICIENT REACTION; effusion; deposits; slow reabsorption. CHRONICITY. RED ORIFICES, or single parts; lips, tarsi, ears, etc. (Alo.). LOCAL THROBBING, BURNING OR CONGESTION; SOLES; VERTEX; bones; painful spots, etc. ITCHING; parts; discharges cause, etc. Foul, acrid or blood streaked discharges. Weak, faint spells. Empty, overful, rough or asleep feeling. ASCENDING EFFECTS; heats, orgasms, vertigo, etc. .................... Slow, lazy, hungry, and always tired. Hopeful dreamers; ecstatic, religious, philosophic, etc. Peevish, mean, prying or easily excited. Melancholic. Tired of life. Vertigo; in forehead. VERTEX, throbs, hot, heavy, sore, etc. Nape to vertex; pain, chills, pressure, etc. As of a band about or pain deep in brain. Sunday headache; preceded by photopsies. Hot head, with cold feet. Sweaty scalp. Dry, cold hair. Eyes; burn; cutting, as from sand; bursting in balls; quivering. Halo about light. As of floating soot before. Photophobia. Ophthalmia. Swashing in ears. Nose obstructed on alternate sides; drips; swelled; red, < cold. Catarrhal colds. Epistaxis, < night or lying on r.side. Sensitive smell. Imaginary odors. Swelled veins of forehead. OLD LOOK. Spotted face. Dry, tremulous tongue; red edges and tip. Sensitive dental fangs. Grinds teeth. Nursing sore mouth. Throat; as of a swelling or a vapor rising in; external redness. Eructations, like bad eggs, > eating. Drinks much, eats little. Averse to meat. SUDDENLY HUNGRY AND WEAK; < 11 A.M.; at epigastrium. ABDOMEN SORE, > pressure; heavy, as of a lump; stitches; bearing down, against rectum; congested. Borborygmi. Colicky babies. RECTUM pains; itches; urging in; hæmorrhoidal habitus. Holds stool back from pain. DIARRHŒA; HURRIED, EARLY MORNING (Tub.), changing; mushy; stinking; painless; watery; gray froth; < milk; alternating with constipation. Burning, itching urethra. Hurried or nightly urination. Bed wetting. Testes hang low. Cutting in uterus; < menses. Burning, itching, sore vulva; < sitting. Puerperal sepsis. Acrid, foul menses. SUFFOCATIVE AIR HUNGER. Irregular breathing. Cough; violent, in 2 or 3 incomplete bouts. Deep, hoarse voice; early. Chest; rattling and heat at 11 A.M.; as of a band about or a load on; red; brown spots on. Pain backward from l. nipple. Pneumonia. Heart seems too big. Palpitation, < lying. Nipples crack at base. Sharp burning in mammæ. Neck weak; boils on. Heavy shoulders. Aching between scapulæ. Lumbar pains; to stomach; walks bent; supports weight on hands, when sitting. Coccyx, pains during stools. Numb l. arm, < lying. Palms crack and peel; eczema on; warts on. Numb fingers (r). Tense hamstrings (l). Cramp in calf (l). SOLES BURN; STICKS FEET OUT OF BED, AT NIGHT or are cold in bed; dry. Jerks one limb, on dropping to sleep. SKIN; dry: rough, wrinkled, scaly; ITCHING, violently at night; BREAKS OUT; festers, and won't heal; burning, when scratched; painfully sensitive to air, wind, washing, etc. Eruptions alternate with other complaints, asthma, etc. Crops of boils. Itch. Creeping erysipelas. Rhagades. Eczema. Ulcers. Skin under-nourished. Suppuration with air bubbles. Localised congestions. Hot vertex and soles. Inclined to uncover single parts. Craves fresh air. Drowsy, then migraine. Sleeps in cat naps. Sleepy by day, wakeful at night. Sleep; unrefreshing; sings during. Chills up back. Heat; feels too hot; flushes of; with general throbbing; between scapulæ. Sweat; in axillæ; on hands or feet. Antidotes: Merc. Pul. Sil. Complementary: Alo. Calc-c. Sul-io.

Related: Psor. Sele. Syph.

Region:

• DIGESTIVE TRACT.
• blood.
• Blood-vessels.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Open air.
• Cold.
• Spirits.
• Injuries.
• ODOR OF COFFEE.
• Climacteric.
• Toward evening.
• Excessive heat or cold.

Better:

• Hot drinks.
• Hands near head.

Moderate temperature. Suited to topers, old age, etc. Disproportionate weakness. TREMOR; INTERNAL; wants to be held. Sourness. Erosion. Profuse, acrid or stringy discharges. Hæmorrhage; violent; black, thin. Parts feel stiff and tight. Pain increases slowly, then suddenly ceases. Gnawing. Great painfulness. As of a blunt plug being driven in. .................... Hurried, irascible, vacillating and morose. Brain feels loose. Deathly pale or wrinkled face; white of egg seems dried on it. Congestion to head. Aphthæ. Throat sore; looks white-washed. Pyrosis. Hiccough; of drunkards. Sour belching; sets teeth on edge. Nausea. Vomiting; < lying on l. side. Weak, sinking at stomach, < after stool. Drinks chill the stomach. Very foul, green, black or hacked diarrhœa. Oozing piles. Coughs, then belches; bloody expectoration. Fingers jerk when writing. Weak knees. Black and blue spots. Petechiæ. HOT flushes, then trembling or cold sweat; < after warm ingesta; < upper parts; > motion. Drenching sweats. Complementary: Pul.

Related: Ars. Lach. Sep.

Region:

• Tissues.
• Skin.
• Glands.
• Right side.

Worse:

• Exertion; slight.
• Heat.
• Lying on R. side.
• Before storms.
• Night.

Better:

• Cool air.
• Standing.

Grippy feeling. Weak; and sensitive to everything. Faint and sick. Raw, burning heat, internally, with external coldness. Acrid discharges. Single parts, fingers, etc., turn white and insensible. Suppuration. Infiltration. Favors reabsorption. .................... Headache, > sundown. Hair seems erect. Zigzags before vision. Teeth feel soft. Glazed tongue. Raw, dry mouth and throat; painful swallowing; wants to moisten it. Tremor in epigastrium on exertion. Mesenteric disease. Bright yellow stools. Stubborn obstipation. Foul anal discharge. Urine scanty; purulent; brown sand in. Soft testes. Deficient erections. Cracked prepuce. Aching soreness below knees. Itching. Ulcers. Moist eczema. Acne. Barber's itch. Follows: Sulphur.

Region:

• Nerves.
• Heart.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Motion.
• Inspiration.
• Climacteric.
• Music.

Better:

• Gentle motion.

Nervous, irritable and sleepless. As of hot water flowing through part. Yellow, tenacious discharges. Early senility. .................... Laughs and weeps by turns. As of a hair or cobweb on face. Choking constriction in throat. Hysteria. Burning pyrosis. Oppressive tightness in left chest. Dyspnœa. Asthma; cardiac. Sexual excitability. Trickling along spine. Pale, cold skin. Internal itching. Dreams of falling. Complementary: Lact.

Related: Mos.

Region:

• CARTILAGE.
• PERIOSTEUM.
• Flat bones.

Worse:

• INJURIES.
• Blows from blunt instruments.
• FRACTURES.

Excessively painful (old) injuries; to periosteum or cartilage. Comminuted fractures. Prickling, stitching pains. Eye and face injuries. Non-union. Deficient callus. Coldness.

Related: Calc-p.

(See Luesinum)