Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Understanding the rubric Dropsy


The rubric Dropsy is not a complete rubric; its not a prescribing rubric without understanding its causative factor. Here some remedy with their etiological fact.

Acetic Acid: Anemia
Adonis Vernalis: Cardiac
Apis mell:  Renal
Apocynum cannabinum: General
Ars alb: inflammation
Blatta americana: hepato- bronchial
cainca: renal
China officinalis: vital fluids loss
Cholchicum autumnale: gout
Covallaria majalis: cardiac
Crataegus oxyacantha: cardiac
Digitalis purpurea: cardia
Fluoricum acidum: syphilitic,goitre & mercurial poisoning
Helleborus niger: CNS
Kali iodatum: Syphilitic
kali nitricum: cardiac
Lachesis muta: cardiac
Liatrs spicata: hepato spleenic
Oxydendron arboreum: renal and vascular
phaseolus nanus: cardio bronchial
Squilla maritima: cardio bronchial
Strophanthus hispidus: cardiac
Terebinthiniae oleum: renal
Acetanilidum: cardiac
Copaiva officinalis: urticaria
Dulcamara: sycotic damp
Elaterium officinarum: vitamin C deficiency
Eupatorium purpureum: renal
Euphorbium officinarum: erysipelatous inflammation
Ferrum metalicum: loss of vital fluide
Galium aparine: urinary system
Hep sulp cal: Scrofulous diathesis & mercurial poisoning
Iodium: metabolic
Iris versicolor: endocrine
Lac vaccinum defloratum : malnutrition
Aconitum napellus: acute inflammation
Ammonium benzoicum: gouty renal
Arsenicum iodatum: cardio bronchial
Asclepias cornuti: hepato renal cardiac & post scarlatinal
Benzoicum acidum: metabolic renal
Bryonia alb: rheumatic
cactus grandifolia: cardio vascular
Calcarea carbonicum: metabolic & rheumatic
carduus marianus: hepato portal
Cochlearia armoraeia: almergic
Lactuca virosa: inflammation of chest
Lycopodium clavatum: hepato renal & metabolic
Mercurius dulcis: cardio renal
Nitri spiritus dulcis: ill effects of salt, acute nephritis following scarlet fever
Oniscus osellus: broncio renal
Prunus spinosa: renal
Rhus toxicodendron: rheumatic
Sambucas nigrs: bronchial
Solidagi virsaurea: bronchial
Thlaspia bursa pasturis: haemorrhage & uterine

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Special Precautions ,Warnings & SIDE EFFECTS Of some poly Crest mother tincture

ASafoetida : 
Children: Asafoetida is UNSAFEfor infants when taken by mouth because it might cause certain blood disorders. Pregnancy and breast-feeding: It is UNSAFE to take asafoetida by mouth if you are pregnant. It might cause a miscarriage. Avoid use. It is also UNSAFE to take asafoetida by mouth if you are breast-feeding. The chemicals in asafoetida could pass into breast milk and then cause bleeding disorders in the nursing infant. Avoid use.Bleeding disorders: There is concern that asafoetida might increase the risk of bleeding. Don’t use asafoetida if you have a bleeding disorder. Epilepsy or history of convulsions: Don’t use asafoetida if you have epilepsy or some other central nervous system condition that might lead to seizures or convulsions.Stomach and intestinal (gastrointestinal, GI) problems: Asafoetida can irritate the GI tract. Don’t use it of you have a GI infection or other GI condition. High blood pressure (hypertension) or low blood pressure (hypotension): There is some concern that asafoetida might interfere with blood pressure control. Avoid use if you have a blood pressure problem. Surgery: Asafoetida might slow blood clotting. There is concern that asafoetida might increase the risk of bleeding during and after surgery. Stop taking asafoetida at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.

Ashwagandha:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Do not use ashwagandha if you are pregnant. It is ratedLIKELY UNSAFE during pregnancy. There is some evidence that ashwagandha might cause miscarriages. Not enough is known about the use of ashwagandha during breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use. Diabetes: Ashwagandha might lower blood sugar levels. This could interfere with medications used for diabetes and cause blood sugar levels to go to low. If you have diabetes, monitor your blood sugar closely. High or low blood pressure: Ashwagandha might decrease blood pressure. This could cause blood pressure to go to low in people with low blood pressure; or interfere with medications used to treat high blood pressure. Ashwagandha should be used cautiously if you have low blood pressure or take medications for your blood pressure.Stomach ulcers: Ashwagandha can irritate the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Don’t use ashwagandha if you have a stomach ulcer.“Auto-immune diseases” such as multiple sclerosis (MS), lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or other conditions: Ashwagandha might cause the immune system to become more active, and this could increase the symptoms of auto-immune diseases. If you have one of these conditions, it’s best to avoid using ashwagandha. Surgery: Ashwagandha may slow down the central nervous system. Healthcare providers worry that anesthesia and other medications during and after surgery might increase this effect. Stop taking ashwagandha at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery. Thyroid disorders: Ashwagandha might increase thyroid hormone levels. Ashwagandha should be used cautiously or avoided if you have a thyroid condition or take thyroid hormone medications.

Avena sativa:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Avens might beUNSAFE to take if you are pregnant. It seems to affect the menstrual cycle, and this might cause a miscarriage.

Calandula:

Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Don’t take calendula by mouth if you are pregnant. It isLIKELY UNSAFE. There is a concern that it might cause a miscarriage. It’s best to avoid topical use as well until more is known. There is not enough reliable information about the safety of using calendula if you are breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use.Allergy to ragweed and related plants: Calendula may cause an allergic reaction in people who are sensitive to the Asteraceae/Compositae family. Members of this family include ragweed, chrysanthemums, marigolds, daisies, and many others. If you have allergies, be sure to check with your healthcare provider before taking calendula.Surgery: Calendula might cause too much drowsiness if combined with medications used during and after surgery. Stop taking calendula at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.

Capsicum:
But it isPOSSIBLY UNSAFE for your baby if you take capsicum by mouth. Skin problems (dermatitis) have been reported in breast-fed infants when mothers eat foods heavily spiced with capsicum peppers. Children: Applying capsicum to the skin of children under two years of age is POSSIBLY UNSAFE. Not enough is known about the safety of giving capsicum to children by mouth. Don’t do it. Damaged or broken skin: Don’t use capsicum on damaged or broken skin. Surgery: Capsicum might increase bleeding during and after surgery. Stop using capsicum at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.

Chirata:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: There is not enough reliable information about the safety of taking chirata if you are pregnant or breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use.Diabetes. Chirata might lower blood sugar levels in some people. Watch for signs of low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) and monitor your blood sugar carefully if you have diabetes and use chirata as a medicine. Intestinal (duodenal) ulcers: Chirata can make ulcers in the intestine worse. Surgery. Chirata might lower blood sugar. In theory, chirata might interfere with blood sugar control during and after surgical procedures. Stop using chirata as a medicine at least two weeks before a scheduled surgery.

Cinchona:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Don’t use cinchona if you are pregnant or breast-feeding. There is some evidence that cinchona isUNSAFE to use during pregnancy. Not much is known about the safety of using cinchona if you are breast-feeding, so it’s best to avoid it.Stomach or intestinal ulcers: Don’t use cinchona if you have ulcers. It might increase the risk of bleeding. Surgery: Cinchona can slow blood clotting, so there is a concern that it might increase the risk of extra bleeding during and after surgery. Stop using cinchona at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.

Damiana:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding:There is not enough reliable information about the safety of taking damiana if you are pregnant or breast feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use.Diabetes: Damiana might affect blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. Watch for signs of low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) and monitor your blood sugar carefully if you have diabetes and use damiana. Surgery: Since damiana seems to affect blood glucose levels, there is a concern that it might interfere with blood glucose control during and after surgery. Stop using damiana at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.

Echinecea:
Pregnancy or breast-feeding: Not enough is known about the use of echinacea during pregnancy and breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use. “Auto-immune disorders” such as such as multiple sclerosis (MS), lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a skin disorder called pemphigus vulgaris, or others: Echinacea might have an effect on the immune system that could make these conditions worse. Don’t take echinacea if you have an auto-immune disorder. An inherited tendency toward allergies (atopy): People with this condition are more likely to develop an allergic reaction to echinacea. It’s best to avoid exposure to echinacea if you have this condition.

Eucalyptus:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Eucalyptus isLIKELY SAFE for pregnant and breast-feeding women when consumed in food amounts. But don’t use eucalyptus oil. Not enough is known about safety during pregnancy or breast-feeding. Children: Eucalyptus oil is LIKELY UNSAFE for children. It should not be taken by mouth or applied to the skin. Not much is known about the safety of using eucalyptus leaves in children. It’s best to avoid use in amounts larger than food amounts. Diabetes: Early research suggests eucalyptus leaf might lower blood sugar. There is concern that using eucalyptus while taking medications for diabetes might lower blood sugar too much. Blood sugar levels should be monitored closely. Surgery: Since eucalyptus might affect blood sugar levels, there is concern that it might make blood sugar control difficult during and after surgery. Stop using eucalyptus at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.

Ginger:
Ginger is LIKELY SAFE for most people. Some people can have mild side effects including heartburn, diarrhea, and general stomach discomfort. Some women have reported extra menstrual bleeding while taking ginger. When ginger is applied to the skin, it may cause irritation. Special Precautions & Warnings:Pregnancy: Using ginger during pregnancy is controversial. There is some concern that ginger might affect fetal sex hormones. There is also a report of miscarriage during week 12 of pregnancy in a woman who used ginger for morning sickness. However, studies in pregnant women suggest that ginger can be used safely for morning sickness without harm to the baby. The risk for major malformations in infants of women taking ginger does not appear to be higher than the usual rate of 1% to 3%. Also there doesn’t appear to be an increased risk of early labor or low birth weight. There is some concern that ginger might increase the risk of bleeding, so some experts advise againsting using it close to your delivery date. As with any medication given during pregnancy, it’s important to weigh the benefit against the risk. Before using ginger during pregnancy, talk it over with your healthcare provider. Breast-feeding: Not enough is known about the safety of using ginger during breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and don’t use it.Bleeding disorders: Taking ginger might increase your risk of bleeding. Diabetes: Ginger might lower your blood sugar. As a result, your diabetes medications might need to be adjusted by your healthcare provider. Heart conditions: High doses of ginger might worsen some heart conditions.

Ginkgo:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Ginkgo isPOSSIBLY UNSAFE when taken by mouth during pregnancy. It might cause early labor or extra bleeding during delivery if used near that time. Not enough is known about the safety of using ginkgo during breast-feeding. Do not use ginkgo if you are pregnant or breast-feeding.Infants and children: Ginkgo leaf extract isPOSSIBLY SAFE when taken by mouth for a short time. Some research suggests that a specific combination of ginkgo leaf extract plus American ginseng might be safe in children when used short-term. Do not let children eat the ginkgo seed. It is LIKELY UNSAFE.Diabetes: Ginkgo might interfere with the management of diabetes. If you have diabetes, monitor your blood sugar closely. Seizures: There is a concern that ginkgo might cause seizures. If you have ever had a seizure, don’t use ginkgo. Infertility: Ginkgo use might interfere with getting pregnant. Discuss your use of ginkgo with your healthcare provider if you are trying to get pregnant. Bleeding disorders: Ginkgo might make bleeding disorders worse. If you have a bleeding disorder, don’t use ginkgo. Surgery: Ginkgo might slow blood clotting. It might cause extra bleeding during and after surgery. Stop using ginkgo at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.

Panax ginseng:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Panax ginseng is POSSIBLY UNSAFE when taking by mouth during pregnancy. One of the chemicals in Panax ginseng has been found to cause birth defects in animals. Do not use Panax ginseng if you are pregnant. Not enough is known about the safety of Panax ginseng during breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and don’t use it.Infants and children: Panax ginseng is LIKELY UNSAFE in infants and children. Using Panax ginseng in babies has been linked to poisoning that can be fatal. The safety of Panax ginseng in older children is not known. Until more is known, do not use Panax ginseng even in older children. “Auto-immune diseases” such as multiple sclerosis (MS), lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or other conditions: Panax ginseng seems to increase the activity of the immune system. It might make auto-immune diseases worse. Don’t use Panax ginseng if you have any auto-immune condition. Bleeding conditions: Panax ginseng seems to interfere with blood clotting. Don’t use Panax ginseng if you have a bleeding condition. Heart conditions: Panax ginseng can affect heart rhythm and blood pressure slightly on the first day it is used. However, there are usually no changes with continued use. Nevertheless, Panax ginseng has not been studied in people with cardiovascular disease. Use Panax ginseng with caution if you have heart disease. Diabetes: Panax ginseng might lower blood sugar. In people with diabetes who are taking medications to lower blood sugar, adding Panax ginseng might lower blood sugar too much. Monitor your blood sugar closely if you have diabetes and use Panax ginseng.Hormone-sensitive conditions such as breast cancer, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, endometriosis, or uterine fibroids: Panax ginseng contains chemicals (ginsenosides) that can act like estrogen. If you have any condition that might be made worse by exposure to estrogen, don’t use Panax ginseng.Trouble sleeping (insomnia): High doses of Panax ginseng have been linked with insomnia. If you have trouble sleeping, use Panax ginseng with caution. Schizophrenia (a mental disorder): High doses of Panax ginseng have been linked with sleep problems and agitation in people with schizophrenia. Be careful when using Panax ginseng if you have schizophrenia.Organ transplant: Panax ginseng might make the immune system more active. This could interfere with the effectiveness of medications that are given after an organ transplant to reduce the chance that the organ will be rejected. If you have received an organ transplant, don’t use Panax ginseng.

Ipecac:
Children: Ipecac is LIKELY SAFE for children when used appropriately as a prescription product to induce vomiting. However, the American Academy of Pediatrics' recommendation to keep a 1-ounce bottle of syrup of ipecac at home has recently been reversed. The new statement reads, “Syrup of ipecac should no longer be routinely used as a poison treatment intervention in the home.” The thinking is that keeping ipecac at home hasn’t been proven to save lives. Talk with your healthcare provider or poison control center about how to use ipecac correctly in cases of poisoning in children. Ipecac is UNSAFE when used in high doses or in children under the age of one year. Children are more sensitive than adults to the side effects of ipecac. Misuse of ipecac can lead to serious poisoning, heart damage, and death. Signs of poisoning include difficulty breathing, digestive tract problems, abnormal heart rates, blood in the urine, convulsions, shock, coma, and death.Pregnancy and breast-feeding: It is LIKELY UNSAFE to use ipecac if you are pregnant. It might stimulate the uterus and cause a miscarriage. Not enough is known about the safety of using ipecac if you are breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use.Unconsciousness or certain kinds of poisonings: Ipecac should not be used in people who are unconscious or have been poisoned with certain chemicals including corrosives, petroleum products, strychnine, and others. Talk to your healthcare provider or poison control center about whether ipecac is appropriate to use in each case of suspected poisoning. If ipecac is used incorrectly, serious complications can arise including damage of the esophagus, pneumonia, and convulsions.Digestive tract problems including ulcers, infections, or Crohn's disease: Ipecac can irritate the digestive tract. Don’t use it if you have one of these conditions. Heart disease: Ipecac can affect the heart. Don’t use it if you have a heart condition.

Neem:
Children: Taking neem seeds or oil by mouth isLIKELY UNSAFE for children. Serious side effects in infants and small children can happen within hours after taking neem oil. These serious side effects include vomiting, diarrhea, drowsiness, blood disorders, seizures, loss of consciousness, coma, brain disorders, and death. Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Neem oil and neem bark are LIKELY UNSAFEwhen taken by mouth during pregnancy. They can cause a miscarriage. Not enough is known about the safety of need during breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use. “Auto-immune diseases” such as multiple sclerosis (MS), lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or other conditions: Neem might cause the immune system to become more active. This could increase the symptoms of auto-immune diseases. If you have one of these conditions, it’s best to avoid using neem. Diabetes: There is some evidence that neem can lower blood sugar levels and might cause blood sugar to go too low. If you have diabetes and use neem, monitor your blood sugar carefully. It might be necessary to change the dose of your diabetes medication. Reduced ability to have children (infertility): There is some evidence that neem can harm sperm. It might also reduce fertility in other ways. If you are trying to have children, avoid using neem. Organ transplant: There is a concern that neem might decrease the effectiveness of medications that are used to prevent organ rejection. Do not use neem if you have had an organ transplant. Surgery: Neem might lower blood sugar levels. There is a concern that it might interfere with blood sugar control during and after surgery. Stop using neem at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.

Papaya:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Papaya isPOSSIBLY UNSAFE when taken by mouth during pregnancy. Do not take papaya by mouth in medicinal amounts if you are pregnant. There is some evidence that unprocessed papain, one of the chemicals found in papaya, might poison the fetus or cause birth defects. Not enough is known about the safety of papaya during breast-feeding. It is best to avoid taking it in amounts higher than normal food amounts. Diabetes: Papaya that has been fermented can lower blood sugar. People with diabetes who are taking medications to lower their blood sugar should pay close attention to their blood sugar as adjustments to medications might be needed. Low blood sugar: Papaya that has been fermented can lower blood sugar. Taking this form of papaya might make blood sugar too low in people who already have low blood sugar. Papain allergy: Papaya contains papain. If you are allergic to papain, avoid eating papaya or taking products that contain papaya.Latex allergy: If you are allergic to latex, there is a good chance you are also be allergic to papaya. If you have a latex allergy, avoid eating papaya or taking products that contain papaya.Surgery: Papaya that has been fermented can lower blood sugar. In theory, this form of papaya might affect blood sugary during and after surgery. If you are taking papaya, you should stop 2 weeks before surgery.

Pulsatilla:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Pulsatilla isUNSAFE when taken by mouth during pregnancy. Both the fresh plant and the dried plant might cause a miscarriage or birth defects. Applying fresh pulsatilla directly to the skin is also considered UNSAFE. Don’t do it. Not enough is known about the safety of applying dried pulsatilla directly to the skin during pregnancy. Stay on the safe side and avoid use. It’s UNSAFE to take fresh pulsatilla by mouth or apply it to the skin during breast-feeding. Not enough is known about the safety of the dried plant when taken by mouth or applied to the skin. Don’t use it.

Strophanthus:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: It’s UNSAFE to use strophanthus if you are pregnant. It might make the uterus contract, and this could cause a miscarriage. It’s also UNSAFE to use strophanthus if you are breast-feeding. Heart conditions: Strophanthus may cause irregular heartbeat. Don’t use strophanthus if you have a heart condition, without the direct supervision of a healthcare provider.

Terminalia:
Pregnancy: There is some evidence that Terminalia arjuna is POSSIBLY UNSAFE during pregnancy. The safety of the other two species during pregnancy is unknown. It’s best to avoid using any terminalia species. Breast-feeding: There is not enough reliable information about the safety of Terminalia if you are breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use.Diabetes: Terminalia might lower blood sugar levels. Your diabetes medications might need to be adjusted by your healthcare provider.Surgery: Terminalia might decrease blood sugar levels and interfere with blood sugar control during surgery. Stop taking Terminalia at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.

Thuja:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: It’s LIKELY UNSAFE to take thuja by mouth if you are pregnant. Thuja might cause a miscarriage. It is also LIKELY UNSAFE to take thuja by mouth if you are breast-feeding because of possible toxicity. Stay on the safe side and avoid use.“Auto-immune diseases” such as multiple sclerosis (MS), lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or other conditions: Thuja might cause the immune system to become more active, and this could increase the symptoms of auto-immune diseases. If you have one of these conditions, it’s best to avoid using thuja.Seizures: Taking thuja might cause seizures in some people. Don’t take thuja if you have a history of having seizures.

Tribulus:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Taking tribulus during pregnancy is POSSIBLY UNSAFE. Animal research suggests that tribulus might harm fetal development. Not enough is known about the safety of using tribulus during breast-feeding. It’s best not to use tribulus if you are pregnant or nursing. Prostate problems or prostate cancer: There is a concern that tribulus might make prostate conditions such as benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH) or prostate cancer worse. Developing research suggests that tribulus can increase prostate weight. Diabetes. Tribulus might decrease blood sugar levels. Dose of diabetes medications might need to be adjusted by your healthcare provider. Surgery: Tribulus might affect blood sugar levels. This might interfere with blood sugar control during and after surgery. Stop using tribulus at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.

Yohimbe:
Pregnancy or breast-feeding: Yohimbe isLIKELY UNSAFE. Yohimbe might affect the uterus and endanger the pregnancy. It might also poison the unborn child. Don’t take yohimbe if you are pregnant or breast-feeding.Bleeding conditions: Taking yohimbe might increase the risk of bleeding in people with bleeding disorders. Schizophrenia: Use yohimbe with caution. The yohimbine in yohimbe might make people with schizophrenia psychotic. Prostate problems: Use yohimbe with caution. Yohimbe might make the symptoms of BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia) worse. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): Don’t use yohimbe. There is a report that four individuals with PTSD suffered worse symptoms after using yohimbe. Liver disease: Don’t use yohimbe. Liver disease might change the way the body processes yohimbe. Kidney disease: Don’t use yohimbe. There is a concern that yohimbine might slow or stop the flow of urine. High blood pressure or low blood pressure: Don’t use yohimbe. Small amounts of yohimbine can increase blood pressure. Large amounts can cause dangerously low pressure. Chest pain or heart disease: Don’t use yohimbe. Yohimbine can seriously harm the heart. Anxiety: Don’t use yohimbe. Yohimbine might make anxiety worse. Depression: Don’t use yohimbe. Yohimbine might bring out manic-like symptoms in people with bipolar depression or suicidal tendencies in individuals with depression. Diabetes: Don’t use yohimbe. Yohimbe might interfere with insulin and other medications used for diabetes and cause low blood sugar. Surgery: Yohimbe might increase the risk for bleeding. People who take yohimbe should stop at least 2 weeks before surgery.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

SYPHILINUM


Luesinum. Lueticum. Syphilitic virus. A nosode. Attenuations. Luesinum.


It is a lysate corresponding to 0001 cc per cm3 of treponemic serous fluid without any stabilising or preserving agent.

HISTORY: From 1830  Lux suggested the therapeutic use of the secretion of a syphilitic chanced as an etiologic nosode. But it is Swan who published the first pathogenesis in the Medical Adventist,1880.

Clinical: Abscess; succession of abscesses. Alcoholism; hereditary craving for alcohol. Anus, fissure of. Aphasia. Asthma. Breasts sensitive. Bubo. Constipation. Crying of infants. Deafness. Deltoid rheumatism. Dentition. Diplopia. Dysmenorrhœa. Epilepsy. Headache; syphilitic. Hoarseness; before menses. Iritis. Leucorrhœa; infantile. Mouth, ulcerated. Myopia. Neuralgia. Night-sweats. Ophthalmia. Otorrhœa. Ovaries, affections of. Ozœna. Pemphigus. Psoas abscess. Ptosis. Rectum, stricture of. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Sleeplessness. Spine, caries of. Strabismus. Stricture. Sunstroke. Syphilis. Teeth, carious. Throat, ulcerated. Tibia, pains in. Tongue, cracked, ulcerated. Ulcers. Whitlow.
Causation: Sun. Damp weather. Thunderstorms.

HIGHLIGHT:  Generally a latent syphilitic or syco- syphilitic dyscrasia, syphilitic inherited or acquired, poor reaction, remedies hold only temporarily or just palliation, low resistance,chronocity, mercury poisoning with or without syphilis( either neurotic or destructive).

MAKE-UP: Dirty, disgusting to themselves; suppurating; constant dread of infection. Allergic. Unhapeliness; Bald head,pointing lips; cleft chin and a big belly; smaller, retrousse nose, irregular rudimentary teeth, stubby hands; skeletal deformity of children, dwarfed, puny,skinny, shrivelled up and old looking( wrinkled face); distorted cupped teeth and nail; Asymmetry ( one eye or ear higher or larger, six fingers on one hand only, pupils uneven,squint). Delicate, scrofulous children, with club- foot, delayed milestone, h/o of inherited  syphilis or suppressed eruptions; disposed to wasting and phthisis; look crying day and night.

Characteristics:
I learnt the value of this nosode from Skinner, who has made with it some very brilliant cures. It has been proved by Swan in the potencies, and Hering's Schema, from which mine is taken, comprises also disease symptoms─marked "(n)"─and cured symptoms, which have generally the name and the disease appended. Cured cases of secondary syphilis I have marked "(s.s.)." The widespread distribution of syphilis, acquired and hereditary, and the virulence and persistence of the virus, give this nosode a high degree of importance in homœopathic practice. It has been mainly, almost exclusively, employed by those who are familiar with the use of high attenuations. I have used no potency lower than 200, and rarely repeat the dose oftener than once a week. The leading features of the disease are the keynotes for the use of the remedy, and (1) first in importance is the "Night <": "Pains from darkness to daylight; begin with twilight and end with daylight." "All symptoms < at night." "Terrible dread of night, on account of mental and physical exhaustion on awaking." This night aggravation will be found in a large proportion of the cases needing Syph.; in ophthalmia, the pains are < at night, and during the night the lids grow together. Neuralgia, and headache, asthma, coughs < from sunset to sunrise, whether syphilitic or not, will be benefited by Syph. Sleeplessness is itself a leading indication for Syph., which vies with Sul. as a sleep restorer. (2) Next to the Night <, is Ulceration: this may affect mouth, nose, genitals, or skin, and the ulcers have greyish bases; in the nose they produce the most offensive form of ozæna with discharge of fetid clinkers. In such cases I have foundSyph. of the greatest service. Fetid discharges from the ear come in the same category. (3) Abscesses with foul secretions. (All pus-formations of Syph. are fetid.) Succession of abscesses is one of the grand keynotes of the materia medica. Eyes, teeth, and skin give other leading indications. In ophthalmia neonatorum the lids adhere during sleep; pains < 2 to 5 a.m.; pus profuse; > cold bathing. Iritis, syphilitic or rheumatic, has been cured with Syph. Ptosis; sleepy look from drooping lids. Diplopia, one image seen below the other. Teeth decay at the edge of the gums and break off; are cupped, have serrated edges; dwarfed in size and converge at their tips. The typical eruption ofSyph. is copper-coloured spots, but it covers many other forms, including pemphigus. The glandular system is affected throughout and nutrition impaired, leading to extreme emaciation. Burnett has recorded in his book on Delicate Children many instances of the power of Syph. to free stunted children from this constitutional blight. Further indications for Syph. are: Pains < and > gradually; are shifting, and require frequent change of position. Leucorrhœa; profuse, soaking through napkins and running to heels. Craving for alcohol in any form. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. (Bacchus and Venus are close allies). The orifices of the body are all affected by syphilis, and Syph. has a great sphere in rectal pain and constipation. "Obstinate constipation for years; rectum seems tied up with strictures; when enema was used the agony of passage was like labour." Bones are affected, and especially bones of head and tibiæ. Nodes on the head. H. C. Allen says: "Syphilitics, or patients who have had chancre treated by local means, and as a result have suffered from throat and skip troubles for years, are nearly always benefited by this remedy at commencement of treatment unless some other remedy is clearly indicated." Thomas Wildes (H. P., xi. 267) gives his experience with Syph. In chancre he gives Syph. 1m (Swan)─according to Skinner's calculation this is much lower than 1m of the centesimal scale─one dose every night. The chancre increases for the first two weeks and then gradually fades away, not being followed by secondaries. Where the edges of the chancre assume the appearance of proud flesh in the third or fourth week, and become everted, jagged, and angry dark red, he gives Lac can. cm (Swan) every night for ten to fourteen days, until the sore takes on a more natural appearance, when Syph. 1m is again given to finish the case. For any remaining induration Nit. ac. 30, four times a day, is given. Headaches in great variety he cured with it; aphasia; ptosis; paralysis of tongue; facial paralysis; hemiplegia; "persistent pains in any part of the body;" catarrhal and nerve deafness; itching of nostrils; dark purple lines between alæ nasi and cheeks. Itching scabby eruptions on face or breast; singly or in clusters, looking like herpes. Pain and pressure behind sternum. Epilepsy. Wildes cured withSyph. 1m a bookkeeper who for many months had had a piercing, pressing, excruciating headache over right eye extending deep into brain. It was so severe, he was losing continuity of thought and memory. Under Syph. every night the headache disappeared entirely in ten days and the mental faculties were fully restored; but in six weeks the whole eyebrow on that side broke out into a sickly, yellow, syphilitic eczema with a red, angry, and oozing base extending under the arch to the lid from canthus to canthus up into forehead and down the side of the nose. The cure of this was tedious, because, Wildes thinks, he did not stick to Syph., but changed the remedy. This man had had syphilis a few years before. In 1879 a lady, 26, extremely bright and intelligent, came to Wildes with a dreadful ozæna. She had also curvature of the spine and congestion of right ovary. Always delicate from a child. Syph. cured the ozæna and improved the health, but it "drove out a saddle to which the Sepia saddle is but a shadow"─a furious inflammatory mass of syphilitic sores, scabs, and eczema, red and angry, with a fiery base extending from one malar prominence to the other, across nose up to eyes and forehead. This took eighteen months to cure. The ozœna never returned. A boy, 4, had an obstinate rash, a combination of prurigo and herpes, on chin, lips, cheek-bone, forehead, and hairy scalp; on arms, chest, back, bends of joints and on the joints, and on fingers and hands, nowhere profuse. In spite of authorities to the contrary, Wildes maintains that syphilitic rashes may itch, and that prurigo is infectious and is one of the initial stages of leprosy. This boy had a spot of eruption on the left thigh the size of the top-joint of a man's thumb. This was distinctly a leper spot. Syph. 1m caused the rash to come out strongly all over the body in patches, the face was one-third covered with a thick, yellow, scabby eruption. The remedy was continued and the boy got well, wonderfully improved in health, no longer nervous, growing well; sleeping well; appetite good. Girl, 16, had measles a year before which did not come out properly. A year and a half prior thereto subject to neuralgic headaches. Ailing about two years; very despondent, wants to die, headaches growing more violent. During the headaches the temple veins stand out, has pains all over the body, is very irritable, restless, walking about much of the time, does not wish to be soothed,violent on being opposed, has tremors and seems on the verge of convulsions, dazed, absent-minded, and almost insane. Always washing her hands. Was formerly constipated, but now subject to "a kind of diarrhœa." Menses never have come on properly, and for the past year have been very irregular, much delayed, scanty, and always extremely painful. Often feverish. Sleep anxious, distressed, and oftenwakeful and violently restless. The italicised symptoms indicated Syph., and under this she steadily recovered. A young lady contracted "lepra-syphilis" from vaccination. She had an immense blood-boil on her arm which would not heal. Face broken out with a lumpy fiery rash. With Syph. 1m at bedtime she recovered rapidly; the arm healed quickly and her face became free from eruption. Boy, 3, had cluster of yellow blotches on fingers and roots of nails, distorting the nails. The boy's father was epileptic. The boy was helped with Fluor. ac. and cured with Syph., the nails becoming straight. Many persons, says Wildes, after taking Syph. for a few days, complained of heavy, crushing, cutting pains across the base of the cerebellum; others of heavy aching and stiffness from base of neck up through muscles and cords of neck and into the brain; others of a heavy, clouded, dull feeling at base of brain with physical lethargy, and sometimes with dizziness, sometimes with confusion of thoughts and often a feeling as if going insane or about to be paralysed. Sometimes a far-away feeling, with a feeling of indifference to the future. Accompanying these there may come a heavy, dragging, dull feeling in lumbar region, with stiffness and want of elasticity.Peculiar Sensations are: A seething feeling as if hot water or hot oil running through all veins of the body, all night long. As if going insane or about to be paralysed. Tongue feels as if paralysed. A far-away feeling with apathy. As if head were pulled back by a weight. As if blood went to right inner canthus and temples and could get no further. As if sand in eyes. As if right eye were wide open and cold air were blowing in it. Fluttering as of something alive in teeth. As if a worm in tooth. As if teeth had got out of place. Distress as if in omentum. As if rectum were tied up with strictures. As if urethra had been stuffed up and clogged. As if sternum was being drawn towards dorsal vertebræ. As if she would suffocate with rough. As if skin were drawn up in centre of chest on drawing back head. Coccyx as if swollen. As if toes on right foot were disjointed. Like growing-pains in limbs. As if bones were sawed. Palms and soles as if pricked by needles. As if throat tearing to pieces. As if top of head were coming off. As if teeth were loose. As of a nervous chill commencing in anus and running down legs. As if bitten by bugs. A number of linear pains have been observed in Syph. cases. G. H. Carr (M. A., xvii. 162) relates this case: An old man had been troubled two or three winters with an intense cold pain in both legs; it came on every night on lying down; and lasted all night, the only relief being by getting up and walking. Magnetic leggings had given most relief. Syph. mm, one dose daily, was given. He lost the pain for six weeks, when it returned in milder form. Syph. cmm was given, and he had no more pains all the winter. This medicine, he said "made his genitals ache so that he couldn't sit still." This lasted over a month. Syph. cm cured (ibid.) a lady of "asthma" that she had had for twenty-five years, the attack coming on only at night after lying down, orduring a thunderstorm. Swan (M. A., xxviii. 239) says he gave crying infants, when they developed the propensity immediately after birth and did not cease, one dose of Syph. cmm, and it was difficult to make them cry after that. Yingling (M. A., xxix. 135) reports this case: Rev. D., 30, dark, free from venereal taint, had a constant dull, heavy ache above inner angle of right eye, very distressing, with an occasionalthrust as of an iron rod from the same spot through to lower part of occiput. This thrust was excruciating. He was due to preach next day, but the pain quite incapacitated him, hence his appeal for help. Haggard look. Syph. cm, one dose, was given. He was free from pain before he reached home, next morning was perfectly well. The symptoms are < by touch (tibia; os uteri). Pressure = pain in spot middle of thigh; > throat; pressing teeth together > toothache. No position suits. Motion <. Raising arms laterally <. Walking > pain in hips and thighs. < At night. Warmth and cold < and >. Warmth > headache; of stove > pain in swollen wrist and big toe. Hot or cold things < toothache. Cold water > ophthalmia pains. Damp weather; warm, damp weather; thunderstorm; seaside <. >In mountains. < Winter.

Mind:
Loss of memory (n).
- Loss of self confidence, don't know if what they do is right or wrong.
─Loses remembrances of passing occurrences, names, dates, &c., while all occurrences previous to inception of disease are remembered as distinctly as ever (n).

─Very nervous, weeping without cause.

─Cross, irritable, peevish.

─Irritable, excited, walking much of the time, does not want to be soothed, violent on being opposed, has tremors, seems on the verge of convulsions, dazed, absent-minded, always washing her hands.

─Periodical neuralgia in head (neuralgia).

─Very despondent, does not think will ever get better (s.s.).

─Terrible dread of night; always < as night approaches; leaves her about daylight, which she prays for (spring cough).

─Feeling as if going insane, or about to be paralysed.

─A far-away feeling, with apathy and indifference to future.

─Crying infants, who begin immediately after birth.
- Fear of catching cold- so strong will stay indoors. Different kind of fear, not knowing what afraid of.
- Check things 10 times over.
- Develop a tremendous aversion to anything dirty after sex with a prostitute. May become so strong will wash clothes if someone touches them in a bus. Will not even shake hands with you. Wash hands 50-200 times daily. If not able to wash hands will develop sweat, headache. If a cat passes near clothes when on washing line, has to wash them again.
- Anxiety about heath, but they will deny it.
Head:
Vertigo on looking up, seems to be caused by heat.

─Headache: linear, from or near one eye backward; lateral; frontal; from temple to temple; deep into brain from vertex; as from pressure on vertex; in either temple, extending into or from eye >by warmth; in bones of head; < by heat of sun; after sunstroke.

─Sick-headache, pains intolerable, arteries of head full and pulsating violently; high fever, frequent retelling on trying to vomit; menses regular, but very scanty.

─Lancinating pain in occiput, invariably < at night (n).

─Neuralgic headache causing sleeplessness or delirium at night, always commencing about 4 p.m.; <at from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight.

─Bursting sensation in vertex as from severe cold.

─Pain from eyes through to occiput, with sensation of weight in occiput drawing head back; or as if it were pulled back; eyes ache and smart.

─Constant linear headache, commencing at both angles of forehead and extending in parallel lines backward

─a precursor of epileptic attack.

─Heavy, crushing, cutting pain across base of cerebellum.

─Heavy, clouded, dull feeling in base of brain.

─Headache through temples, thence vertically like an inverted letter T.

─Coronal headache (s.s.).

─Headaches accompanied by great restlessness, sleeplessness and general nervous erethism.

─Syphilitic headache for many months, piercing, pressing excruciating over r. eye; extending deep into brain; losing continuity of thought and memory; makes repeated mistakes in figures.

─Suffusion and full feeling in face, throat, and head, with innumerable small enlarged cervical glands.

─Sore, one and a half inches in diameter, on occipital bone, covered with a thick, yellow-white scab.

─Dirty eruption on scalp.

─Great loss of hair (n).

Eyes:
Red papulous eruption round l. inner canthus, with isolated pimples on side of nose, cheek and eyebrow; these pimples were red, with depressed centre, circumscribed areola, became confluent where they were most dense; pimples bleed when scabs come off; agglutination of lids.

─Myopia (n).

─Sharp, pulsating pain, occasionally at outer end of superior border of r. orbit, apparently in periosteum.

─Upper lids swollen.

─Ptosis: paralytica; eyes look sleepy from lowering of upper lid.

─Diplopia, one image seen lower than the other.

─Strabismus paralytica, eye turning inward, and pupil can only be turned outward as far as median line.

─Chronic recurrent phlyctenular inflammation of cornea; successive crops of phlyctenules and abrasion of epithelial layer of cornea intense photophobia; profuse lachrymation; redness and pain well marked delicate, scrofulous children, esp. if any trace of hereditary syphilis remains.

─L. eyeball covered with fungus-like growth, pain intense, <at night.

─Acute ophthalmia neonatorum (n).

─Redness and swelling of outer half of both lower tarsal edges.

─Syphilitic iritis, intense pain steadily increasing night after night; < between 2 and 5 a.m., coming almost at the minute and ceasing same way (s.s.).

─Pain in r. inner canthus as if blood went there and could go no farther, also in r. temple (rheumatic iritis).

─Both eyes glued in morning; conjunctiva injected; photophobia, constantly wears a shade.

─Eyes dull.

─Infantile syphilis.

─Ophthalmic pains, < at night, > by told water.

─R. eye alone affected congestion of conjunctiva and sclerotica, with some chemosis; lids inflamed, esp. at outer canthus; sensation of sand in eyes; lids agglutinated in morning; great photophobia (hereditary syphilis).

─Neuralgia every night, beginning about 8 or 9 p.m., gradually increasing in severity until it reached its height about 3 or 4 a.m., and after continuing thus for two or three hours gradually decreased and finally ceased about 10 a.m. (rheumatic ophthalmia).

Ears:
Intense earache in r. ear, incisive pains thrusting into ear; purulent watery discharge from ear with pain.

─Gathering in l. ear which discharges a great quantity of pus (hereditary syphilis in a child).

─Deafness gradually increasing until she could scarcely hear at all.

─Complete deafness; nothing abnormal to be seen.

─Catarrhal or nerve deafness with marked cachexia.

─Calcareous deposit on tympanum.

─Small, acrid, watery discharge occasionally from ears, no deafness (ozæna).

Nose:
L. side of nose, inside ala, itching.

─Nose stuffed up and burning.

─Attacks of fluent coryza.

─Offensive, thick yellow-green nasal discharge; during sleep dry scabs form in both nostrils; following an application of salve for sore eyes; l. submaxillary gland, which had been swollen and indurated, softens, discharges and, after forty-five days, begins to heal slowly.

─Ozæna syphilitica; (Syph. brought out an eruption of sores with a fiery-red base on nose and over frontal sinuses).

─L. side of nose inside and out very sore, likewise lips and chin; sores itching and scabbing over.

─Itching in nostrils.

Face:
Face drawn to one side, difficulty of speaking, masticating, blowing (n).

─Spasmodic twitching of many muscles, esp. in face (paralysis agitans), with great melancholy and depression of spirits.

─Facial paralysis r. side, thick speech, hemicrania, jactitation of r. eye and lid.

─An old gentleman has had for some years cancer on r. malar bone; no rest, his agony excruciating in extreme (relieved).

─Face pale.

─Itching, scabby, eczematous eruptions singly or in clusters, looking like herpes.

─Nose and cheeks covered with eruptions and scabs in layers rising to a point.

─Dark purple lines between alæ nasi and cheeks.

─Lips and teeth covered with bloody mucus.

─Sores on lips and chin, esp. l. side scabbing over.

Teeth:
Single small lunæ cleft in upper incisors, permanent set, which incisors are dwarfed in their general dimensions, and converge at their tips; inherited syphilis (n).

─Children's teeth are cupped.

─Teeth decaying at edge of gum and breaking off (n).

─Felt like a worm in tooth, could not tell which tooth.

─Singular feeling as if teeth had all got out of place, and on closing jaws teeth do not come well together.

Mouth:
Tongue red and thick; two deep cracks running lengthwise in it; one on each side of median line.

─Aphasia, difficulty of finding words; debility.

─Tongue feels as if paralysed.

─Fetid breath.

─Tongue coated; white, edges indented by teeth.

─Putrid taste in mouth before epileptic fit.

─Tongue very red and thick; covered with herpetic eruption, two deep cracks running lengthwise on each side of median line, making it difficult to swallow (s.s.).

─Tongue thickly coated, dirty, edges indented or serrated by teeth (n.).

─Twenty ulcers in mouth, every part involved, top and under side of tongue, lips, buccal cavity, fauces and nose; septum of nose threatened, both alæ nasi very painful, smarting with burning as if on fire; pains and burning prevented sleep; hungry but could eat nothing but fluids as mastication was impossible; tongue heavily coated white, large quantities of stringy, viscid, saliva running from mouth of a sweetish taste; a putrid, sickening odour filled whole house; all symptoms < toward night (s.s.).

─Herpetic eruption in mouth, tonsils, hard palate and fauces, completely covering inside of mouth and throat, making it very difficult to swallow even liquids.

─Syphilitic destruction of hard and soft palates.

Throat:
Chronic hypertrophy of tonsils (hereditary syphilis).

─Chancrous ulcer extending across velum palati to l. pillar of pharynx (s.s.).

─Acute pharyngitis (s.s.).

Appetite:
Appetite indifferent and capricious (psoas abscess).

─Total loss of appetite for months, little or nothing satisfies him; formerly was generally ravenous.

─Thirst,Tendency to heavy drinking; alcoholism.

─Aversion to meat.

─Dyspepsia; flatulence, belching of wind; nervous dyspepsia.

Stomach:
Nausea.

─Heartburn with pain and rawness from stomach to throat-pit, often with cough.

─Vomiting for weeks or months due to erosion from superficial ulceration of lining of viscus, herpetic, of syphilitic origin.

Abdomen:
Pain or distress deep in abdomen as if in omentum.

─Feeling of heat internally in hypogastric region.

─Pain in r. groin followed by swelling of glands.

─Large painless bubo in r. groin opened and discharged freely (s.s.).

─Slight lancinating pain in one groin, < at night.

─Inguinal bubo.

Stool and Anus:
Bowels torpid for five weeks (periodical neuralgia in head).

─Obstinate constipation for many years; rectum seemed tied up with strictures, when injections were given agony of passage was like child-bearing.

─Chronic constipation, with fetid breath, earthy complexion, gaunt appearance.

─Stools very dark and offensive (infantile syphilis).

─Bilious diarrhœa at seashore, painless, driving her out of bed about 5 a.m.; stools during day, later causing excoriation; face red, suffers from heat; occasional painless, whitish diarrhœa when at home, always > by going to mountains.

─Fissures in anus and rectum.

─Two indurated ulcers at mouth of anus somewhat sore; slight itching of anus (primary syphilis).

Urinary Organs:
Itching in orifice of urethra.

─A sensation, in morning on going to urinate, as if male urethra were stuffed up or clogged, about an inch from orifice.

─Scalding urine.

─Urination difficult and very slow; no pain, but a want of power, so that he has to strain.

─Urine infrequent, not oftener than once in twenty-four hours, scanty, of a golden-yellow colour.

─Profuse urination after chill; passed during night nearly a chamberful.

─Rich lemon-yellow scanty urine.

─Frequent urging to urinate all night, at least from 7 p.m. until 5 a.m.

Male Sexual Organs:
Chancre on prepuce.

─Buboes.

─Burning in chancre size of a split pea, on prepuce above corona glandis; edges raised, bottom covered with lardaceous deposit; glans purple, on l. side covered by an exudation.

─Chancre on penis, third in two years, all on same spot (s.s.).

─Aching of genitals, could not sit still for over a month.

─After suppressed chancre, disease attacked testes and scrotum, which became painful and swollen; this was supposed to be cured, but ever since, every few weeks, if exposed at all to damp weather would be seized with pain as if in kidneys, seemingly traversing ureters, but instead of passing into bladder followed spermatic cord, down groins and into testes; pain agonising, chiefly in cord, in present attack in r.; pricking in chancre.

─Chancroid, phagedænic, spreading rapidly; buboes commencing in each groin.

─Inflammation and induration of spermatic cord.

Female Sexual Organs:
Uterus and all surrounding parts loose, soft and flabby; profuse, thick, yellow leucorrhœa; constant pain across small of back.

─Yellow offensive leucorrhœa, watery or not, so profuse it daily soaks through napkins and runs to heels of stockings if much on her feet.

─Profuse yellow leucorrhœa, <at night; in sickly, nervous children (inherited syphilis).

─Soreness of genitals, and muco-purulent discharge, in a child.

─Acrid discharge causing violent itching and inflammation of external organs, < at night from warmth of bed, parts very tender; itching and inflammation >during menses.

─Nocturnal < of r. ovarian pain, preventing sleep.

─Sore on r. labium majus, extending to l. (s.s.).

─Menstruation painful, two weeks too soon; pink-red, bright, profuse, running free for some days; napkins wash easily.

─Painful menstruation.

─Sensitiveness of os uteri, < to intolerable pain at menses, or on introduction of finger or penis; frequently causes abortion (n).

─Sharp zigzag shooting pains in region of uterus.

─Ovaries congested and inflamed; tendency to ovarian tumours.

─Sore aching in l. ovarian region, extending to r. with darting pains.

─L. ovary swollen, during coitus, at moment of orgasm, a sharp cutting pain like a knife, and twice there was smarting as of a sore; ovary swelled so much that its size and shape could easily be felt through abdominal walls (caused byBuboin).

─Uterine and ovarian diseases with pronounced nervous disorders, esp. in married women.

─Mammæ sensitive to touch, feeling sore; during menses, and at other times.

Respiratory Organs:
Hoarse, almost complete aphonia, day before menses.

─Diseased cartilages of larynx (tertiary syphilis).

─Chronic asthma, in summer, esp. when weather was warm and damp; most frequently in evening, passing off at daybreak.

─Pain and oppression at bifurcation of bronchia and in larynx, it hurts her to breathe.

─Attacks of spasmodic bronchial asthma for twenty-five years; they come on only at night after lying down or during a thunderstorm, producing most intense nervous insomnia, entirely preventing sleep for days and nights.

─Violent attacks of dyspnœa, wheezing and rattling of mucus, from 1 to 4 a.m.

─Cough: hard cough < at night, when it is continuous, preventing sleep.

─Hard, constant cough, with thick, yellow, tasteless expectoration.

─Dry, racking cough, with thick, purulent expectoration, caused by a sensation of rasping or scraping in throat, always at night.

─Whooping-cough with terrible vomiting.

─Cannot lie on r. side, as it causes a dry cough.

─Muco-purulent expectoration, greyish, greenish, greenish-yellow, tasteless.

─Expectoration without cough, quite clear, white, feels like a round ball and rushes into mouth.

Chest:
Rattling in chest and throat.

─Soreness of chest, with great anguish and inability to retain a recumbent position; in winter, severe bronchial cough succeeded asthmatic attacks; a regular type of chills and fever developed; suffered from this many years ago.

─Pain in centre of chest as if skin were drawn up, on drawing the head back.

─Lack of sleep produces a sudden faintness and sinking sensation in chest; three spells succeeded each other during a single night.

─Oppression of chest to such an extent as almost to arrest breathing; asthma caused by sensation as if sternum were being gradually drawn towards dorsal vertebræ; expansion of chest difficult; confusion of mind as if unconsciousness might follow.

─Sensation of pressure under upper part of sternum.

─Pain and pressure behind sternum.

─Angina; ptosis l. eye; facial paralysis l. side, slight aphasia; impotence (relieved).

─Eczematous herpetic eruptions on chest.

Heart:
Lancinating pains in heart at night, from base to apex (Medor. has reverse).

─Valvular disease of heart.

Neck and Back:
Heavy aching and stiffness from base of neck up through muscles and cords into brain.

─Caries of cervical spine with great curvature in same region, directly forward; pain in curvature always < at night (no proof of syphilis).

─Enlargement of cervical glands and a number of pedunculated pin-head warts on neck, cured by Syco-syphilinum(hereditary syphilis; girl, 10).

─Enlargement of glands in different parts of body, particularly abundant about neck; indurated and slightly painful, causing a sensation of fulness and suffusion in face, throat and head (n).

─Enormous swelling of glands of head and neck (Hodgkin's disease).

─Rigidity of muscles.

─A heavy, dragging, dull feeling in lumbar region, with want of elasticity.

─Great pain in back in region of kidneys, < after urinating (s.s.).

─Pains commencing in sacral regions internally, and apparently coming around to uterus.

─Pain at coccyx at its junction with sacrum, sometimes in lower sacral vertebræ;< on sitting, with a sensation as if swollen, though it is not.

─Caries of dorsal vertebræ with acute curvature, for five months, every night most intense neuralgic pains, commencing generally from 5 to 7 p.m., and never terminating till about 5 a.m.; < by least motion, and slightly> by warm poultices.

─Psoas abscess first l. then r.

─Nocturnal < of pains in back, hips and thighs.

Limbs:
Aching pains in limbs like growing pains.

─Gradual rigidity of all joints after eruption; flexors seem contracted.

─Rheumatic swelling of l. wrist and big toe, bluish red, with pains as if somebody sawed at his bones with a dull saw; > by heat of stove; < from sundown to sunrise; no appetite; has lasted two weeks (rheumatism).

─Feeling of numbness in palms and soles, at times a prickly sensation as if numb parts were punctured by a great number of needles.

─Excruciating arthritis; swelling, heat, and redness intense.

─Rheumatism, muscles are caked in hard knots or lumps.

Upper Limbs:
Rheumatism of shoulder-joint or at insertion of deltoid, < from raising arm laterally.

─Can only raise arms to a right angle with axilla; trying to force them higher causes muscles to suddenly become paralysed and they drop pendant (n).

─Lameness and pain of arm on motion, < on raising arm up in front as if reaching; pain located about insertion of deltoid in upper third of humerus, not painful to pressure.

─Fingers and thumbs have runarounds (infantile syphilis).

─Always washing the hands.

─Hands badly ulcerated on backs (s.s.).

─R. second finger swollen and stiffened (s.s.).

Lower Limbs:
Swelling of legs from knees down, soles painful when standing on them; swelling goes down in morning, comes back at night.

─Pains in lower extremities, excruciating, completely banish sleep; < from hot fomentations; > pouring cold water on them (n).

─Cannot sit in a low chair, or squat down, owing to loss of control over knee and hip-joints (n).

─Pains in long bones of lower extremities, also in joints (n.).

─Dull pain over backs of feet to toes, began soon after getting into bed, lasting until 4 or 5 a.m.

─For two or three winters intense cold pain in both legs, < in l., came on every night on lying down, lasting all night; > by getting up and walking, and in warm weather.

─Pain in three toes of r. foot as if disjointed.

─Slight contraction of tendons beneath r. knee (psoas abscess).

─Tearing pains in hip and thighs, < at night, > about daybreak,> by walking, not affected by weather (improved).

─Redness and rawness with terrible itching between toes (s.s.).

─Bubo with pain in spot on middle of r. thigh in front, only when standing and on deep pressure, which seemed to touch spot, which was apparently on periosteum.

─Two ulcers larger than a crown piece, dirty stinking, slouching, with jagged, elevated edges, one on thigh above patella another on head of tibia; two large pieces of bone came away from head of tibia (s.s.).

─Osteosarcoma in centre of r. tibia the size of half an ostrich egg, pains agonising at night, growth irregular, spongy, partly laminated, very hard (s.s.).

─Contracted, painful feeling in soles, as if tendons were too short.

Generalities:
Utter prostration and debility in morning.

─Epilepsy.

─Dwarfed, shrivelled-up, old-looking babies and children.

─Epileptic convulsions after menses.

Skin:
Pustular eruption on different parts of body; in patches on certain places, particularly on wrists and shins, where bones are nearest cuticle, and isolated other large pustules on other parts, these break, discharging an ichorous fluid for one or two days, then heal, leaving characteristic pockmark cicatrice; patches take longer to heal, discharging same fluid till healing process commences.

─After healing of chancre a fresh pustular eruption appears on different parts of body, which, when pustules have discharged an ichorous liquid and healed up, leaves fresh coppery pockmarks Medorr. removed it permanently, causing it to turn yellow-brown, dry at edges and scale off, leaving skin permanently clear and free.

─Biting sensation in different parts of body, as if bitten by bugs, at night only.

─Syphilitic rash, very prominent on forehead, chin, arms and front of thorax, an abundance of fine scales peeling off; large prominent spot on centre of forehead, filled with fluid, as also are some smaller patches (s.s.).

─Syphilitic bullæ discharging freely on cheeks, under chin, on back of shoulders, on scalp and other parts of body (infantile syphilis).

─Maculæ; copper-coloured (s.s.).

─Pemphigus, looking like a pock, often confluent and persistently reappears.

─Skin bluish.

Sleep:
Great restlessness at night, impossible to keep leg in one position.

─Absolute sleeplessness (vies with Sul. in producing quiet, refreshing sleep).

─Wakes soon after midnight and cannot sleep again till 6 a.m.

Fever:
Great pains in head, whole body extremely cold, looked blue; wanted to be covered with blankets or couldn't get warm; no appetite; sleeping almost continually, could not be roused (s.s.).

─Nervous chills preceded by pains in head, esp. occiput and scalp of that part; pains below waist, in pelvis, legs, esp. tibia, which is sensitive to touch; bowels torpid; cross, irritable, peevish; pains begin every day 4 p.m., culminate at midnight, disappear at daylight.

─After retiring nerve chill beginning in anus, running down legs; desire for stool, > by profuse urination and by eructations.

─Fever: dry, hot, shortly after going to bed, parted lips, great thirst; 11 to 1 daily.

─Sweat: profuse at night, sleepless and restless; esp. between scapulæ and down to waist, with excessive general debility.

VITAL  SYMPTOMS:
anger, irritability, vexed easily;bones; chronicity; despair hopeless; eyelids falling, drooping; hairfall; headache;nails, affections; nausea, vomiting; reaction poor, lack of;salivation; sensation as of air, as if fanned; shrieking, cries, weeps;syphilis

General
complaints alternate
craves milk soaked in bread
exudations - pleurisy
joints stiff, lame, contractures
marasmus, esp lower extremities (arg-n)
metastasis, complaints change type (puls)
paralytic effects
ravenous appetite, yet loses weight (iod, nat-m)
rheumatism and gout
tuberculosis (tub)
worse checked secretions, suppression

Mind
antisocial (anac)
apathy, indifference
calculation is difficult
despair of recovery (ars,psor)
loss of memory, cannot remember names
sensation as if going insane
washes hands often (lac-c,med)
Sensations
as if about to be paralysed
as if going insane
as if top of head coming off
feeling of cold air blowing on eyes
lancinating pains in hear from base to apex
sees one image below another, diplopia
Signs
dull, red, copper-colored eruptions with odor
hairfall
indented, deep longitudinal cracks in tongue
muscles contracted in hard knots
pain in shoulder < raising arm laterally
ptosis, sleepy look from drooping eyelids (caust,graph)
redness and rawness between toes
salivation, dribbling in sleep
teeth decay at edge of gums
teeth dwarfed in size, converge at tip
arms, raising laterally < [p]
burning in soles on stepping after sitting long and itching soles on walking [t]
diplopia, one image seen below the other [a]
dull, copper colored eruptions becoming blue when cold [a]
face, paralysis, twitching of eyelids, with [p]
hereditary tendency to alcoholism [a]
neuralgic headache at night causing sleeplessness and delirium [a]
nightly headache with falling of hair [a]
pains from darkness till daylight, begin with twilight and end with daylight [a]
pains shifting and require frequent change of position [a]
putrid taste before convulsions [kr]
teeth are cupped, edges serrated, dwarfed in size, converge at tips [a]
teeth cupped in children [kr]
terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical exhaustion on awakening, it is intolerable, death is preferable [a]
throat and skin troubles ever since chancre treated by local means [a]
worse from twilight to daylight [a]

Modalities
W orse-• Night.• Sundown to sunrise.- Damp.Extreme heat or cold. Every alternate full moon.During thunderstorms.In any position.Motion. Raising arms laterally. Squatting.Winter.Summer. Sea shore.Protruding tongue.

Better- Continued or slow motion.Changing positions.High altitudes.Applied heat.During day.

Comparative study:

abortion, habitual-apis; caul; ferr; syph.

anus, fissure-cham; graph; nat-m; nit-ac;paeon; rat; syph.

aversion to meat (rev, staph)-calc-s; graph; mur-ac; nit-ac; petr;sil; syph; tub.

bones, affections-asaf; aur; calc-f; calc-p; calc; fl-ac; kali-i; merc; mez; ph-ac; phos;phyt; sil; syph.

bones, caries-fl-ac; mez; syph; tell; ther.

bones, night <-aur; kali-i; merc; syph

cannot rest in any position-pip-m; ran-b; rhus-t; sanic; syph;xanth

complaints increase and decrease gradually(rev, bell, nit-ac)
gels; glon; kalm; plat; sang;stann; stront; syph.

consolation <-cact; hell; ign; kali-s; lil-t; nat-m;sep; sil; syph.

constipation, obstinate-sul-i; syph.

cravings for alcohol-ars; asar; caps; crot-h; lach; nux-v; staph; sulph; syph.

direction, right side to left-calc-p; caust; lyc; merc-i-f; sil;syph; verat.

dwarfish-ambr; bar-c; bar-m; calc-p; con;med; ol-j; syph; thyr.

emaciation, atrophy-acal; calc-i; hell; lec; ornith; phos;plb; sanic; sars; syph.

face, brown across nose-carb-an; op; sanic; sep; syph.

face, old look-arg-n; bar-c; lyc; op; sanic; sars;syph.

female, leucorrhea acrid, corroding-caul; fl-ac; iod; kreos; merc; prun;syph.

female, leucorrhea causing itching-carb-ac; helon; hydr; syph.

nails, deformed, thickened etc.-ant-c; calc-f; fl-ac; graph; sabad;sep; syph; thuj.

offensiveness of body-bapt; guaj; psor; syph; thuj.

reaction poor, lack of-am-c; ambr; ant-t; caps; con;cupr; dig; hell; hydr-ac; laur; med;mosch; olnd; op; ph-ac; psor;sulph; syph; tarent; ther; tub;valer; zinc.

saliva increased during sleep-merc; syph.

sleeplessness, insomnia-anhal; bell-p; but-ac; chol; coff;hyos; ox-ac; passif; scut; senec;syph; zinc-val.

teeth decay, caries at edge of gums-syph; thuj.

tendency to wash hands-coca; lac-c; psor; syph.

children infants, fontanelles depressed, open-apis; calc-p; calc; ip; merc; puls;sep; sil; sulph; syph.

infantile marasmus-abrot; ars-i; aur; calc-hp; calc-p;calc; chin; iod; lyc; mag-c; nat-m;plb; sanic; sil; sulph; syph; ther;tub.

newborn children who cry continuously-syph; thuj.

RELATIONSHIP:
Compare: In bone diseases and syphilitic affections, Aur., Asaf., K. iod., Merc., Nit. ac. < At night, Aur., Merc., Sul. (Med. and Sycotics <early morning). < At sea-shore; >inland (Med. opp). < At seaside; averse to consolation, Nat. m. Dysmenorrhœa, Med. Deep-in headache, Bac. Pains increase and decrease Slowly, Stn. Ozæna with offensive clinkers. Sep., Pul., Pso., K. bi. Succession of abscesses (Anthrac., succession of boils). Syphilitic stomatitis, Lach., Lac c., Merc. Nodes, K. iod., K. bi., Mang., Merc. Emaciation, Abrot, Iod. Lancinating pains in heart (from base to apex), Med. (from apex to base), Spi. (from base to clavicle or shoulder). Fears suffering from exhaustion on awaking, Lach. Ptosis, Caust., Graph. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism, Asar., Pso., Tub., Sul., Sul. ac. Constipation with labour-like pains. Lac d., Tub. Fissure in anus, Thuj. Shoulder rheumatism < raising arm laterally, Rhus, Sang. (r. shoulder), Fer. (left), Urt. ur. Dentition troubles < night (Med. <early morning). Hereditary syphilis; dentition, Kre. Vertigo < looking up (Sul., looking down). As if teeth out of place (Tub. as if jammed together). Thunder, effect of, Pho.

Suggested Trios:

1.Ars > phos> syph
2.Penic > puls > syph
3.Lach > anac > syph
4.Bell > merc > syph

Works best in very high potency- (50M-CM). Don't expect it work quickly. May have to wait (6 months- 1 year) for any action develop.

Reference:

1. A Dictionary of practical Materia medica - J. H. CLARKE
2. Lotus Materia Medica - ROBIN MURPHY, ND, page -( 1716- 1719)
3. A select Homoeopathic Materia medica- P. ISHWARDAS TARKAS AND AJIT K. KULKARNI, part - 1, page-( 431-444)
4. Materia medica of Homeopathic medicines - DR. S. R. PHATAK
5. Materia Medica of NOSODEA - O. A. JULIAN ,page - (280- 298)
6. Homeopathic quick reference ( HQR), VERSION: 3.0
7. Essence of Materia Medica - GEORGE VITHOULKAS, page -( 197- 198)

Monday, March 28, 2016

The miasma of the mind of aconite nap

Miasma of mind of Aconite nap
Mind

Great agitation and tossing of the body with anguish, inconsolable irritability, cries, tears, groans, complaints, and reproaches.(psoric)
─Sensitive irritability.(psoro-tuber)
─Fearful anticipations of approaching death; predicts the day he is to die.(psoro-syco)
─Sadness.(psoro- sycotic)
─Presentiments, as if in a state of clairvoyance.(psoric)
─Anthropophobia and misanthropy; has no affection for anybody.(psoro- sycotic)
─Maliciousness.(sycotic)
─A strong disposition to be angry, to be frightened, and to quarrel.(syco- syphi)
─The least noise, even music, appears insupportable.(psoro- tuber)
─Humour changeable; at one time sad, depressed, irritable, and despairing; at another time gay, excited, full of hope, and disposed to sing and dance.(tubercular diathesis)
─Vexed at trifles; takes every joke in bad part.(sycotic)
─Dislike to talk; answers laconically.(syphi-syco)
─Alternate paroxysms of laughter and tears.(tubercular)
─Great, inconsolable anxiety.(psoric)
─Anxiety respecting one's malady, and despair of a cure.(psoric)
─Fear of spectres.(psoric)
─Fear of the dark.(syphilitic)
─Mind, as it were, paralysed, with incapability of reflection, and a sensation as if all the intellectual functions were performed in the region of the stomach.(syphilitic)
─Unsteadiness of ideas.(tubercular)
─In the delirium is unhappiness, worry, despair and raving, with expression of fear upon the countenance; but there is rarely unconsciousness.(psora)
─Delirium, chiefly at night; with ecstasy.(syphilitic)
─Weakness of memory.(psoric)
─Ailments from fear, fright, vexation.(all miasmaz but psoric in prominent)

Monday, January 25, 2016

Arsenic alb symptoms relationship

In materia medica there have some relation to others symptoms (concomitant). In homoeopathic prescription they play vital roll for select single similimum.

1. Fastidious - upset about disorder.
2. Malarial fever, kala-azar -enlarged spleen & liver.
3. Blood disorganized - causing pernicious type of anemia & severe septic condition.
4. Cough -excited by smoking.
5. Increased sexual desire - at menses.
6. Menses suppressed - in weak, tired care worn women.
7. Stitching in rectum - during menses.
8. Headache relieved - by cold, others symptoms worse.
9. Pain alternate between - head or stomach or body worse by peoples talk.
10. Laying on back - palpitation with anguish. - unable to lie down - fear suffocation.
11. Palpitation with - tremulous weakness after stool.
12. Agony of bladder - in old persons.
13. Feeling of weakness in abdomen - after urination.
14. Retention of urine, as if the bladder were paralyzed - after child birth.
15. Paralysis - with contraction of limbs. - with atrophy.
16. Sciatica - better walking & hot application.
17. Drawing pain - from elbo to axilla.
18. Asthma worse taking cold - in mid summer.
19. Hay fever & coryza- worse in open air, better indoor.
20. Skin symptoms alternate with - asthma or internal disorder.
21. Sleep disturbed - anxious, restless.
22. Must head raised - by pillows.
23. Sleep - with hand over head.
24. Suffocative fits - during sleep.
25. Anxiety - in pit of stomach.
26. Heart pain -into neck & occiput with anxiety, difficult breathing.

Sunday, January 17, 2016

URTICA URENS.

URTICA URENS.

Urtica urens. Small Stinging-nettle. [Urtica dioica, the Common Nettle, has similar if not identical properties.] N. O. Urticaceæ. Tincture of the fresh plant in flower.

Clinical

Agalactia. Anæmia. Bee-stings. Burns. Calculus, prevention of. Deltoid, rheumatism of. Dysentery. Erysipelas, vesicular. Erythema.Gout. Gravel. Hæmorrhages. Intermittents. Lactation. Leucorrhœa. Menorrhagia. Phlegmasia dolens. Renal colic. Rheumatism.Spleen, affections of. Throat, sore. Uræmia. Urticaria; nodosa. Vertigo. Whooping-cough. Worms.

Characteristics

Burnett may be said to have rediscoveredUrtica as a remedy. The history of how he came to use it (Gout, p. 33) is one of the most fascinating passages of his works. As a remedy for a fit of the gout the discovery is entirely his own, and the result of great therapeutic acumen. Its use in gravel and urinary affections is very old. "Being eaten, as Dioscorides saith, boiled with periwinkles, it maketh the body soluble, doing it by a kind of cleansing faculty: it also provoketh urine and expelleth stones out of the kidneys: being boiled with barley cream it is thought to bring up tough humours that stick in the chest." Gerarde, from whom I quote, mentions these other uses: (1) The juice inserted into the nostrils stops nose-bleed; it is "good against inflammation of the uvula." (2) Pleurisy, pneumonia, whooping-cough. (3) Antidote to Hemlock, Mushrooms, Quicksilver, Henbane, Serpents, Scorpions. "The leaves or seeds of any kind of nettle," says Gerarde, "do work the like effect, but not with that good speed and so assured as the Roman nettle "(U. Pilulifera). "A bundle of nettles," says Cooper, "applied to a rheumatic joint or part, has long been a favourite country remedy. A leaf of the nettle placed on the tongue and pressed to the roof of the mouth stops bleeding from the nose." Burnett's tincture is made of the small nettle, U. urens, which is the correct one in homœopathy. Burnett had used Urt. u. a good deal in spleen affections, and found patients under its use often passed large quantities of gravel. To a middle-aged maiden lady who had enlarged spleen, and "who smelled so strongly of nettles that it almost nauseated me whenever it was my duty to examine her," Burnett gave Urt. u. Ø. Whilst taking it she passed large quantities of gravel. But this did not attract much notice, as the lady was in the habit of passing considerable quantities of gravel with her motions. Localised abdominal pain preceding such an occasion by a number of days. The painful spot, just under her spleen, she called her "gravel-pit." Putting this and other points together, the fever-action ofUrtica among the number, Burnett concluded that Urtica was a remedy for acute gout, which would cut short the attack "in a safe manner, namely, by ridding the economy of the essence of the disease product, its actual suffering-producing material." He usually ordered five drops of the tincture in a wineglassful of quite warm water every two or three hours. Under its action the urine became more plentiful, dark, and loaded with uric acid. Burnett remarks of the nettle that it springs up everywhere near human habitations, and he has noticed it flourishing more by the side of ditches which carry off fluid sewage, "thus possibly living to some extent on uric food." A very severe case of uræmia was cured by him with Urt. His discovery of its fever action was through the cure of a lady patient of his of ague (which he had not succeeded in curing) by drinking nettle-tea on the advice of her charwoman. Urt. ur. was his sheet-anchor in cases of the fevers of the East-India, Burma, and Siam. This action of Urtica, as well as its antigout action, I have had abundant opportunity of verifying. Urtica causes fever as well as cures it, and one of Burnett's patients was obliged to stop taking it: "It sets all my pulses beating, makes me terribly giddy, makes me feel as if I was going to topple (forwards) on my head, and then a bad headache comes on; and when I take it at night, it makes me very feverish." When she took the dose in the morning she did not have the fever, and Burnett says, "The fever of gout generally comes on at night." He has often cured vertigo with Urt. The provings of Urticaare not very extensive, but supplemented by clinical observations, the picture is fairly complete. Headache, with spleen pain; rush of blood to head; soreness of abdomen; dysentery; burning and itching of anus; œdema; urticaria; rheumatic and gouty pains, and fever were all evoked. Among the rheumatic pains a pain in the right deltoid muscle is very striking. The relation of this symptom to Burnett's use of Urt. is illustrated by the case of Dr. W. H. Proctor (A. H., xxvii. 126). The doctor was suddenly seized with agonising pain in right deltoid muscle, due, he believed, to retention of uric acid in the system. Hypodermic injections of Morphia and Atropia had to be resorted to. Then followed, for three weeks, scanty, pale urine, sour sweat, sleeplessness, restlessness, nervousness, loss of appetite, almost constant pain in deltoid with great soreness and lameness of the muscle, an intense sensation of general sickness and weaknesswith continued fever. Nothing did any good. Finally there appeared: An intense burning sensation in the skin after sleeping: he was afraid to go to sleep for fear of the suffering.Urt. ur. Ø was now taken. After three doses he drifted into a quiet, refreshing sleep of two or three hours and woke absolutely free from all skin irritation. The nerves were quieted and all symptoms passed away. Soon after, Proctor had an opportunity of curing a patient of lameness of the deltoid of some standing in the same expeditious way. In this case there were no additional symptoms. J. L. Nottingham (H. R., xv. 244) treated (1) Mrs. W., 38, tall, slender, with auburn hair, for eczema vulvæ with violent itching and burning, swelling and thickening of labia, smooth, pale, dry appearance of the mucous surface, a dry, scaly, fissured appearance of labia majora and skin. Thirteen years before, she had had a sinus from the right ovary emptying into the uterus. (The husband had sycotic warts on the glans penis.) Urt. ur. 1x relieved all the symptoms and removed sexual excitement induced by the itching and uncontrollable desire to rub. (2) Mr. N., 21, had swelling, stinging, burning of face, hands, and feet, with redness. Rubbing with finger-tip would leave a white line for some time. When out in the cold, damp, snowy air, hands, feet, and face became purple red, puffed, and stinging cold; going into a warm room he had increased swelling, stinging, itching all over him, especially of hands and face. Urt. ur. relieved in twenty-four hours. In four days he returned home better than he had been for years. (3) A woman with a lump in her left breast of some years' duration, was seen six weeks after childbirth, complaining of stinging pains in that part, entire absence of milk, stinging pains in whole right lower limb, with great soreness and stinging pains accompanying movements involving muscles of left side of head, cervical vertebræ, sacrum, and upper limbs, front of chest and both breasts, especially the left. She was very despondent. Act. r. relieved her, but the improvement ceased after a week. Con. improved the difficulty in moving the head but not the other symptoms. Urt. ur. was given, and after three days the breasts filled with milk and the pain was relieved. The breasts had now to be supported on account of their fulness. The right leg became natural. The action of Urt. in causing flow of milk has been often confirmed. In the case given in Allen it caused swelling of the breasts and profuse flow of milk in a woman years after the birth of her last child. Urt. is one of the best remedies for burns of the first degree, used locally and given internally. Gerarde mentions its antidotal action to snake-bites. A writer inMonats. f. Hom. of July, 1900 (H. Envoy, xi. 51) says it is the specific for bee-stings. An application of the tincture even on the most sensitive parts of the face or eyelid gives instant relief. In cases of stings about the eyes the application may have to be repeated every five minutes; and a compress must be kept on all night. Eclectics regard" "profuse discharge from the mucous surfaces" as a specific indication for Urt. In Sweden nettles are regarded as a remedy for anæmia, and fresh nettles are cooked and eaten like spinach for the purpose, or a nettle-tea is prepared from dry nettles. The juice of nettles with sugar is in vogue for hæmorrhages of all kinds. Sensations of Urt. are: As from a blow in the eyeballs. As of sand in eyes. Muscles of right arm as if bruised. Burning, stinging, itching, and soreness are the principal pains. The right side very much affected; but also the left hypochondrium (spleen). The symptoms are apt to return at the same season every year. This periodicity is a point in the correspondence of Urt. to ague. The symptoms are < by touch; lying on arm. <Violent exertion (hæmoptysis). Lying down =soreness of bowels; > nettle-rash. Burning in skin is < after sleep. < From application of water. (In the one observation with U. crenulata, an attack like lockjaw was induced in a man who lightly touched the plant, and this was renewed for some days in full force whenever he put his hand in water.) < Exposed to cool, moist atmosphere.Some new symptoms of Burnett's I have marked (B) in the Schema.

Relations

Antidoted by: Dock leaves (Rumex obtus.) rubbed on the stung part lessen the pain; also the nettle's own juice, and the juice from the common snail. Antidote to: Apis (bee-stings).Compare: Gout, fever, spleen, Nat m. Dropsy, uræmia, gravel, gout, Ur. ac., Urea, Urinum. [The relation of Urt. to Nat. m. and Urinum is interesting in connection with the fact that nettles do not grow at any distance from human dwellings or away from parts where animals are fed. Schlegel asks (H. R., xii. 179), is this due to the wetting of the soil with urine? He says yes; and queries further, if the salt in the urine is the efficient agent, recalling the fact that Barbarossa, after destroying Milan, strewed salt over the ruins "so that nettlesmight grow there." Schlegel remarks that the briny waves produce stinging nettles of their own in the shape of Medusæ.] Fever, vertigo, spleen, Querc. Spleen, Cean. Rheumatism of right deltoid, Sang. Secretion of milk, Ric., Puls. Urticaria, Apis, Nat. m., Ast. fl., Medusa, Homar, Pariet.

Causation

Burns. Bee-stings. Blows. Suppressed milk. Suppressed nettle-rash.

2. Head

Terribly giddy, as if I were going to topple forwards on my head; then headache (B).Fulness in head, sensation of rush of blood and dulness; all day, with giddiness.Headache < over eyes.Headache with stitches in region of spleen.Pain: in r. side of sinciput; and in r. side of face, extending to malar-bone; over r. eye and eyeball; over eyes during the day and evening; neuralgic, in r. side of forehead and face at 9 p.m.Stinging pain in r. parietal bone forcing me to rub and press it.Dull aching in occiput and over eyes.Urticaria of scalp suddenly appearing and determining internally.

3. Eyes

Pain: in r. eye; in l. at 3 p.m.Pain in eyeballs as from a blow, with feeling as if sand were in eyes.Eyes feel weak and sore.

9. Throat

Burning in throat; with frequent hawking of frothy mucus; causing cough, expectoration scanty, frothy.

11. Stomach

Nausea, with burning in throat.Vomiting from suppression of nettle-rash.

12. Abdomen

Soreness of abdomen at 10 a.m. when lying, and on pressure a sound as if bowels were full of water.Pain in l. hypochondrium at 10 p.m.(Tumour of liver stored gout."Burnett.)

13. Stool and Anus

Stool omitted in morning, but at 2 p.m. scanty, dysenteric stool, a greenish-brown slime, with urging and tenesmus, afterwards constipation, then small stool with straining, later dysentery, frequent urging, small painful stool, mucus mixed with white matter like boiled white of eggs, at times a little blood, pain in abdomen for a week.Stool omitted for three days, then six hours after Nux 3 a natural stool, four hours later several dysenteric stools of whitish slime, with pain around umbilicus, then for the next five days, daily, two to four white, and yellow stools mixed with mucus, with colic and tenesmus.A small hæmorrhoid, with raw burning in anus during and after stool, and in afternoon and evening itching and burning.Ascarides with great rectal irritation.

14. Urinary Organs

Urine suppressed for eight days, everything disappeared with desquamation.Suppression of urine for twelve days; œdematous swelling of whole upper body to umbilicus.Strangury; gravel; disease of bladder and kidneys.Hæmorrhage from bladder.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Itching of scrotum, kept him awake at night and tormented him nearly all day; scrotum swollen; stinging and itching; no moisture.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Menorrhagia; intense hæmorrhage.Leucorrhœa, very acrid or excoriating.Pruritus vulvæ with great itching, stinging, and œdema of the parts.A woman who had had no children for three years and a half, and had nursed none of her children, had at first great swelling of breasts, which discharged serum, then copious milk (from a pint of hot infusion of the herb).Arrested flow of milk after weaning.

17. Respiratory Organs

Whooping-cough.Not much expectoration, and what there is is frothy.

18. Chest

Sore feeling as from a blow in l. side of chest.Intermittent soreness in r. chest during day.Hæmoptysis from least exertion of lungs.

19. Pulse

Pulse accelerated.

21. Limbs

Rheumatic pain in arms and ankles, < r. arm.

22. Upper Limbs

Pain in r. deltoid, < 9 p.m., could not put on his coat alone.Cramp-like pain in r. deltoid in evening; < rotating arm inward, with soreness to touch, with rheumatic feeling in l. arm; next day pain in r. arm < by lying on it; and on moving it a stitch darted through arm, extending over front of humerus.At times pain in l. arm, muscles of r. arm feel sore as if bruised, cannot raise or stretch r. arm on account of pain, afterwards rheumatic stiffness and pain in r. wrist, later rheumatic pain in l. arm, wrist, and fingers.Raised, red, itching blisters on skin of hands and fingers.(Nodous joints of fingers.R. T. C.)

23. Lower Limbs

Stiff soreness on inside of l. knee.Rheumatic pain in both ankles.

24. Generalities

Symptoms returned at the same time every year.Hæmorrhage from various organs.Dropsy.Sets all my pulses beating (B)

25. Skin

Itching swellings all over fingers and hands, resembling "bold hives"; lumps and red spots on hands and fever blisters on lips, itching.Heat in skin of face, arms, shoulders, and chest, with formication, numbness and itching, lips, nose, and ears swollen, lids so œdematous that they could scarcely be opened, after awhile upper part of body as far as navel œdematous and pale, transparent blisters filled with serum and looking like sudamina, becoming confluent and making the skin look wrinkled, lids closed, forming transparent, here and there bluish shining swellings as large as hen's eggs: disappeared on sixth day with desquamation.(Intense burning in skin after sleep.).Erythema.Vesicular erysipelas.Burns and scalds.

26. Sleep

Drowsiness when reading.

27. Fever

General heat on getting into bed, with soreness over abdomen.When I take it at night it makes me very feverish (not when taken in morning.B).

SULPHUR

SULPHUR.

Brimstone. Sublimed Sulphur. S. (A. W. 3l.98). Trituration of "Flowers of Sulphur." A saturated solution of Sulphur in absolute alcohol constitutes the Ø tincture. [A trituration of amorphous Sulphur has also been used. Effects of "Milk of Sulphur" or Precipitated Sulphur, i.e., Sulphur prepared by precipitation from a solution of Calc. sulph. with Hydrochloric acid, are included in the pathogenesis.]

Clinical

Acne. Adenoids. Ague. Alcohol habit. Amaurosis. Amenorrhœa. Anæmia. Anus, prolapse of. Asthma. Atelectasis. Bed-sores.Biliousness. Boils. Brain, congestion of. Breasts, affections of. Bright's disease.Bronchitis. Cataract. Catarrh. Chagres fever. Chancre. Cheloid. Chest, pains in. Chilblains. Chloasma. Climaxis, sufferings of. Cold. Constipation. Consumption. Corns. Cough. Crusta serpiginosa. Dental fistula. Diabetes.Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Dysmenorrhœa. Ear, affections of. Eczema. Emaciation. Enuresis. Epilepsy. Eructations. Eruptions. Eyes, affections of. Faintness. Feet, burning; Perspiring. Fever. Freckles. Ganglion. Glands, affections of. Gleet. Globus hystericus. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Head, rush of blood to. Herpes. Hip-joint disease. Hydrocele. Hydrocephalus. Hydrothorax. Hypochondriasis. Impotence.Influenza. Intermittents. Irritation. Itch. Jaundice. Laryngitis. Leucorrhœa. Lichen. Liver, derangement of. Lumbago. Lungs, affections of. Lupus. Mania. Measles. Memory, weak. Meningitis. Menstruation, disorders of. Miscarriage. Molluscum.Nettlerash. Neuralgia. Nipples, sore. Nose, bleeding of; inflammation of. Œsophagus, constriction of. Ophthalmia, acute; scrofulous; rheumatic. Pelvic hæmatocele. Phimosis. Phlegmasia dolens. Peritonitis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Pregnancy, disorders of. Prostatorrhœa. Rectum, affections of. Rheumatic fever. Rheumatism, acute; chronic; gonorrhœal. Ringworm. Sciatica. Self-abuse. Sinking. Skin, affections of. Sleep, disordered. Smell, illusions of. Spinal irritation. Spine, curvature of. Spleen, pain in. Startings. Stomatitis. Taste, illusions of. Tenesmus. Thirst. Throat, mucus in. Tongue, coated. Tonsillitis. Toothache. Trachea, irritation in. Ulcers. Urticaria. Uterus, prolapse of.Vaccination. Varicocele. Varicosis. Vertigo. Warts. White swelling. Worms. Worry.Yawning.

Characteristics

Sulphur is an elementary substance, occurring in nature as a brittle crystalline solid, burning in the air with a blue flame, being oxidised to Sulphur dioxide (Sulphurous acid). The reputation of Sulphur as a remedy is perhaps as old as medicine. "As early as 2,000 years ago," says Hahnemann, "Sul. had been used as the most powerful specific against the itch. . . The itch, with which the workers in wool are so much affected, causes an intolerably agreeable, tingling, itching, gnawing as of vermin. Some designate it as an intolerably voluptuous titillating itching, ceasing as soon as the parts are scratched and commencing to burn, which burning continues after the scratching. Sul. frequently produces in healthy persons burning-itching pimples and vesicles resembling the itch vesicles, and especially itching in the joints, and in the night." The specific power of Sul. to cure itch was abused. It was applied externally as baths and ointments, and the skin affection was not cured but repelled, and a host of secondary affections appeared in its place. Hahnemann found in Sul. the homœopathic counterpart of the peculiar constitutional dyscrasia which tends to manifest in itch-like eruptions, and which he named Psora. Sul. is the chief of the antipsoric remedies. A proving of Sul. appears in the M. M. P., and this is amplified in theChronic Diseases. The domestic use of Sul. (in the familiar "Brimstone and Treacle") as a "Spring medicine" is based on its antipsoric properties. "It is one of the most popular diaphoretics of the day," says Milne, "few old women failing to use it when any eruption is supposed to be struggling through the skin." It is this property of Sul. to divert to the surface constitutional irritants which renders it the chief of Hahnemann's antipsorics. Sul. has also an antipsoric action independently of its power of "bringing out" rashes. The psoric poison may be present and active in a case of disease and "apparently well-indicated remedies may fail to act" in consequence. In such cases one or two doses of Sul. will frequently antidote, as it were, the psora, and either clear up the case, or open the way for the action of other remedies. In such cases there will almost certainly be some Sul. indications present. Sul. is a potent antiseptic, and is one of the most certain destroyers of the acarus of itch. The exact relation of acarus itch to psora and other itching eruptions need not be considered; but as Sul. has the power of repressing constitutional eruptions when locally applied, as well as the power of destroying the acarus, it is best to use other means (e.g., Oil of Lavender) for the latter purpose, and give Sul. or other indicated remedies internally. In my experience the psora of Hahnemann (which is a very real and definite dyscrasia) is generally inherited. The symptoms of latent psora are set forth in detail in Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, and they are for the most part almost exact reproductions of the symptoms of Sul. But whilst Sul. is the chief of antipsorics, it is only one of many; and Sul. is in no way limited in its uses to cases of latent or declared psora. Much more important is it to know the leading features of the drug's action, which are sure guides in any case. (1) A key to many of theSul. conditions is to be found in an irregular distribution of the circulation: flushes of heat; rush of blood to head, chest, heart; plethora from suddenly suppressed eruptions, piles, discharges; heat and burning sensation of all parts or coldness, sweating of many parts. These irregularities may go on to actual inflammation with effusions; and to fever of intermittent or other types. Another manifestation of this is found in the rednessof orifices and parts near orifices: red ears, red nose; red eyelids and red borders round eyelids: brilliant red lips; bright red anus in children; red meatus urinarius; red vulva. The orifices are not only red and congested, but they are sore and hypersensitive as well; the passage of all discharges or excretions is painful. (2) The other side of this feeling of fulness is a feeling of emptiness. There is no medicine which has this symptom in a more extreme degree than Sul., and there is no single symptom that is of greater value to the homœopathic prescriber than "Faint, sinking, all-gone sensation at 11 a.m." When that symptom is marked I give Sul. (generally 30), and get all the good I can out of the remedy before prescribing anything else, and very rarely am I disappointed. There is no need to wait to be told the symptom, or to ask patients directly if they experience it. I generally ask if they get hungry out of their usual mealtimes; and if they say "Yes"; I ask "What time?" The time need not be exactly eleven; though that is the most characteristic time. People who "must have something between breakfast and dinner-time" are generally benefited by Sul. This ravenous hunger at 11 is often associated with other Sul. symptoms, as heat at vertex; dyspepsia; portal congestion; constipation with ineffectual urging; piles; constipation alternating with diarrhœa. When the dyspeptic gets food and relieves his hunger he begins to feel puffed up, feels heavy and sluggish, and is low-spirited, he scarcely cares to live. The dyspepsia of Sul. is often the result of suppressed eruptions. It is well known that drunkenness "runs in families," and the underlying disease of drunkenness is often psora. Sul. both causes and cures craving for beer and spirits. Gallavardin cured many apparently hopeless drunkards with Sul. 1m. The "sinking, empty, all-gone sensation" is a common feature in the dyspepsia of drunkards. Dyspepsia from farinaceous food. Cannot take milk; vomits it at once; sour vomit with undigested food. Voracious appetite is a frequent symptom of scrofula, and scrofula and psora are frequently convertible terms. The child clutches at all food offered to it as if starved to death. Defective assimilation; hungry yet emaciated. Stopped catarrh; nose obstructed indoors, > out of doors. The child looks dried up, a little old man; skin hanging in folds, yellowish, wrinkled, flabby. Head large in proportion to body. Lymphatic glands enlarged. Defective assimilation. When scrofula exists without particular symptomsSul. will develop them. Allied to scrofula is tuberculosis; in connection with which many symptoms of Sul. appear: marasmus with hunger at 11 a.m.; sore, red orifices; flushes of heat. In tuberculosis of the lungs a keynote is "body feels too hot." The patient must have windows open no matter how cold the weather may be. The caution is usually given to repeat Sul. seldom in cases of tuberculosis; and to give it only in the early stages. (3) "< By heat" is another keynote of Sul., and marks it out as the remedy in a large number of cases; the < is most noticeable by warmth of the bed. Whenever a patient says he is all right till he gets warm in bed, Sul. must be examined, it will generally cover the case. (In some casesstove heat >.) The cases of rheumatism and sciatica requiring Sul. will generally have >morning and < at night in bed. (4) "< At night" is scarcely less characteristic. Sul. is related to both the sun and the moon, which makes it one of the most important of periodics. Cooper cured many cases of neuralgia < at noon or at midnight. He regards every twelve hours as the most characteristic periodicity, but it may be multiples or divisions of twelve. Lippe cured with "a single dose of Sul. at new moon" a case of menorrhagia, patient had not been well since her last miscarriage. Skinner gave to a man who had paresis of the lower limbs a single dose of Sul. cm, with instructions to take it on a certain date (when the moon was full). The man recovered almost suddenly. Cooper has had some important experience with Sul. in intermittent fevers. He generally gave two pilules of Sul. Ø every four hours. Correspondents of his found this treatment preserve them from fever in India, and one, an officer, by means of it kept his regiment of sepoys in health when many others were in hospital. One writer treated nine cases with the pilules, and arrested the fever in twenty-four hours. One of the cases was a particularly obstinate one, and had been pronounced by the doctors to be complicated with liver affection. Quinine had been tried before the Sul. cured. In a case of "Chagres fever" (of West Indies), which had lasted three months, Cooper ordered a Sulphur bath as well as the Sul. pilules. That single bath seemed to alter the whole condition; from being an unhealthy, anæmic, bilious-looking man, the patient rapidly became the picture of health. Cooper recalls the fact that workers in Sulphur mines, though in malarial districts, enjoy a complete immunity from intermittent fevers. The power of Sul. in acute inflammatory conditions is allied to its action in intermittent fevers. Sul. is the chronic ofAcon. in the effects of chills; and if Acon. does not promptly solve the difficulty, Sul. will be required. In the acute inflammations of the high South African plateau, where the variations of temperature are extreme, and chills and their consequences are Very common, Van den Heuvel tells me that for the pain, fever, and anxiety before physical signs have appeared, Acon. is his first remedy. But if the fever does not yield in twenty-four to forty-eight hours, Sul. will clear it up. "Chill" is "suppression" in another form. Sul. is a remedy of such universal power that it may be misleading to speak of it as more related to one side than to another. Taken altogether there are more symptoms on the left side than the right. It acts strongly on the left side of the chest: "Sharp stitching pains through left lung to back, < lying on back. < by least motion," is characteristic. In a case of left pleuro-pneumonia following a violent hæmoptysis,Sul. 30 rescued a patient of mine from a condition which seemed desperate. Sul. acts on the whole respiratory tract, from the nose to the lung tissues. It causes a condition often met with in scrofulous patients, nasal catarrh where the nose is stopped indoors and free out of doors. All the features of asthma are produced in the pathogenesis, and Sul. has the alternation between skin irritation and asthma often met with in asthmatics. Villers (H. R., xv. p. 563) relates the case of a girl, 22, afflicted since three years old with eczemas of the most varied form, mostly moist, the chief seat being the region about the pudenda, armpits, fold behind ear; but the whole body was defaced, the only parts which had remained white and normal being the breasts. She had been continuously under treatment for the nineteen years, the worst effects resulting when external applications had been used to dry up the eruption. Then most frightful asthma occurred, which lasted till the corrosive, ill-smelling eruption appeared again. She had recently come under the care of a homœopath, who gave Ars. iod. 3. From this there resulted a condition of which the patient said, "I cannot describe it, but I felt as if I was being killed." Her doctor then sent her to Villers, who sent her for three months to a water-cure before he would commence treatment. Her general health was somewhat improved thereby, but the skin remained the same. He then thought of some very high potencies he possessed, and gave a few pellets of Sul. cm. Three days later he was sent for in a great hurry late one evening, and on arrival found the patient had torn off all her clothes, was rolling about on the floor of her room, continually trying to rub her back and her legs on the legs of chairs or the edge of the door. Then she jumped up, brought a knife from the kitchen and scraped her whole body; would eat nothing and only drank enormous quantities of cold beverages. This lasted five days, after which she slept for two full days. Then this happened: The eruption dried up completely and scaled as after scarlatina. The girl had always had very weak menses; the next three were increasingly strong and intolerably fetid. There was very disagreeable discharge from the ears, corrosive secretion from the eyelids, and a dreadfully tormenting and burning discharge from the pudenda, strongly exciting to voluptuousness. Under the action of the single dose steady improvement occurred, and in four months she was a youthfully blooming maiden in the full flow of all her functions, and the skin in perfect condition. To test this Villers made the patient wear rough wool; dip her hands in first hot and then cold water; and for two weeks he made her rub her body daily with pretty coarse sea-salt. The only effect of these measures was to make the skin improve in texture.Sul., when indicated, will cause absorption of effusions, pleuritis (plastic, or hydrothorax), hydrocephalic, or synovial. I have frequently cured ganglion of the wrist with Sul. cm and lower, given on general indications. In the rheumatism of Sul. the affection begins below and spreads upwards. (This is analogous to the "from without inwards" direction of the psoric complaints which Sul. meets and reverses.) Sul. acts on the right eye and on all regions of the headforehead, vertex, and occiput. It is the remedy for a large number ofperiodical headaches; headaches occurring every week; every month. Sick-headache. The headaches are accompanied by red face and hot head; are > in warm room; at rest; < in open air; < from stooping. There is also a headache on coughing. I have cured a severe occipital headache < on coughing with Sul. 30. Among the characteristics of Sul. are: (1) Aversion to be washed, always < after a bath. (2) Complaints that are always relapsing (menses, leucorrhœa, &c.); patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns again and again. (3) Congestions to single parts: eye; nose; chest; abdomen; ovaries; arms; legs; or any organ of the body, marking the onset of tumours or malignant growths, especially at climacteric. (4) Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; they reform but are continually relapsing. (5) Sensation of burning: on vertex; and smarting in eyes; of vesicles in mouth and dryness of throat, first right then left; in stomach; in rectum in anus, and itching piles, and scalding urine; like fire on nipples in chest rising to face of skin of whole body, with hot flushes; in spots below scapulæ burning soles, must find a cool place for them at night. (6) Hot head with cold feet. Lutze (N. A. J. H., xv. 286) finds that Sul. 1m will make feet that have been cold for years comfortably warm. (7) Cramp in calves and soles at night. (8) Hot flushes during day, with weak, faint spells, passing off with a little moisture. (9) Diarrhœa: after midnight; painless; driving out of bed early in morning; as if bowels were too weak to contain their contents. (10) Constipation: Stools hard, dry, knotty, as if burnt; large, painful, child is afraid to have stool on account of pain; or pain compels child to desist on first effort; alternating with diarrhœa. (11) Boils: coming in crops in various parts, or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as the first is healed. (12) Skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching > ("feels good to scratch"); scratching = burning; < from heat of bed; soreness in folds. (13) Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes; hæmorrhoids that have been treated by ointments. (14) Nightly suffocative attacks, wants doors and windows open; becomes suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night. (15) Happy dreams, wakes up singing. (16) Everything looks pretty which patient takes a fancy to; even rags seem beautiful. (17) Ailments from the abuse of metals generally. (18) Offensive odour of body despite frequent washing. (19) Red nose < by cold: the colder the redder. (20) Cutting, stabbing pain in right eye. (21) Poor breakfast eaters. (22) Worried by trifles. (23) White, frothy expectoration. (24) Empty sensation (head; heart; stomach; abdomen). [Sul. aggravates much more in high dilutions than in lower ones; especially where extensive collections of disease-tissue exist, a single globule of 200th will often set up violent disturbance. The domestic use ofSul. is interesting. In one form or other Sul. is used in various countries for allaying pain; a piece of stick Sul. carried in the pocket is much used in England to ward off rheumatism. Natives of South America applySul. in solid form to parts in pain, and allow it to act for an hour before result is effected; and for lumbago and chronic rheumatic pains a bag filled with Flowers of Sulphur and applied heated to the part, immediately relieves the pain. An experienced sea captain testified to the extreme frequency of rheumatism amongst his sailors; but, he added, when carrying cargoes of Sul., he had never had a case of it (acute rheumatism) on board. In the treatment of croup and diphtheria the local application of Sul. to the fauces has been highly spoken of by many practitioners. Dr. Laugardière, of Toulouse, reported recently to the Academy of Medicine that he has discovered a cure for croupa tablespoonful of Flowers of Sulphur dissolved in a tumbler of water. After three days of this treatment his patients were rescued from imminent death, and fully recovered. Nettlerash is often relieved by a little Flowers of Sulphur and water; and Sul. mixed with sea-sand and rubbed over itch vesicles destroys the acarus at once. In the early days of vaccination it was found that the action of Sul. on the frame was decidedly adverse to the receptivity of vaccine. According to Dr. Tierney, Dr. Jenner failed in vaccinating thirty soldiers, all under treatment by Sul. (B. M. J., Jan. 6, 1872. George Gascoin, letter on antiseptic treatment of small-pox). Seeing that operatives in sulphur mines enjoy an immunity against ague when prevalent in surrounding districts; and that, before going on hunting expeditions in malarious districts, men in Ethiopia submit themselves to fumigations with Sul., and find it an efficient prevention of ague, the probability of Sul. having a power of destroying the organisms in the blood of ague patients is certainly great, and deserves investigation (Cooper)]. Sul. is a greatresorbent, and is frequently needed after acute illnesses which do not entirely clear up.Peculiar Sensations are: As if a band were tied tightly round forehead; round cranium. Vertigo as if swinging. As if bed were not large enough to hold him. As if one stood on wavering ground. As if hair on vertex stood on end. As from a weight pressing on top of brain and a cord tied around head. As if head soft; brains bashed in. As if brain were beating against skull. As if eyes were pressed down. As if he had taken too much alcohol. As if hair would be torn out. As if head would burst. As if head were enlarged. As if she would sneeze. As if head had been beaten. As if top of head were being pressed against wall. Occiput as if hollow. As if flesh of scalp were loose. As if scalp had been beaten. As if cornea had lost its transparency. As if eye were gone and a cool wind blew out of socket. As if eyes had been punctured. As if a needle or splinter were sticking in eye. As if a thick veil were before eyes. As if eyeballs were dry. As if balls rubbed against lids. As if eyes were rubbedagainst spicules of glass; eyeballs dry; salt in eyes; cornea covered with fine dust; lids would become inflamed. As if sounds did not come through ears but forehead. As of water in ears. As if he smelt perfume. As if nose were swelled. Nostrils as if sore. As if lower jaw would be torn out. As if air just in front of her were hot. Teeth as if too long; as of a hot iron in teeth. As of a hard ball rising in throat. As if swallowing a piece of meat. As of a lump in throat. As of a hair in throat. As if throat too narrow. Stomach as if puffed up; as if torn with pincers. Intestines as if strung in knots. As if hernia would form. As if muscles of abdomen and peritonæum had been bruised. As if obliged to urinate, in urethra. As if something in larynx. As of a lump of ice in (r.) chest. As if lungs came in contact with back. As if strained in chest. As if he had fallen upon chest. As if chest would fly to pieces when coughing or drawing a deep breath. Heart as if enlarged. As if muscles of neck and back were too short. As if vertebræ gliding one over the other. Small of back as if beaten. Left shoulder and hip as if luxated. Like a weight on shoulder. As if something heavy hanging on upper arm. Arms as if beaten. As of a mouse running up arms and back. Thigh as if broken. As if too short in popliteal space. Skin as if denuded and sore. Sweat may occur on one side of the body only; or on neck only. Sul. is Suited to: (1) Lean, stoop-shouldered persons, who walk and sit stooped; standing is the most uncomfortable position. (2) Persons of nervous temperament, quick-motioned, quick-tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes. (3) Dirty, filthy people, with greasy skin, and long, straight, matted hair, prone to skin affections. (4) Children who cannot bear to be washed or bathed; emaciated; big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off clothes at night; have worms. (5) Persons of scrofulous diathesis, subject to various congestions, especially of portal system. (6) Lymphatic temperaments, nervous constitutions disposed to hæmorrhoids, with constipation or morning diarrhœa; diseases caused especially by, suppressed eruptions, peevishness, sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over body, followed by perspiration, hot palms, soles, and vertex; faintness in epigastrium in forenoon. (7) Children, emaciated, old-looking faces, big bellies, dry, flabby skin. (8) Full-blooded persons with great irritability, restlessness, and hastiness. (9) Old people. (10) People with hot, sweaty hands. (11) "Ragged philosophers"; dirty-looking persons who are always speculating on religious or philosophical subjects. (12) Freckled people. (13) Light-complexioned people. (14) Red-haired people. (15) Dark-complexioned people; negroes. (16) People who refer all their sufferings to the epigastrium "everything affects me there." The symptoms are: < By touch. < Pressure (pressure > pain in head when coughing). Rest <. Standing <. Stooping<. Lying on (r.) painful side >. Motion > pains in head, hips, knee, hæmorrhoids; < other symptoms. Moving arms <. Every step <. Rising <. Ascending <. Talking = fatigue of whole body. Vivacious talking = hammering headaches. < 11 a.m.; 12 noon; midnight; morning; evening; night; after midnight. Wants doors and windows open. Susceptible to temperature; warm things feel hot. Indoors =nose stopped up; > emptiness in occiput. Open air <. Draught of air <. Raw air <. Warmth<. Sun < (headache). Washing <. Cold, damp weather <. Cold food and drink < thirst. Cold water > head; left eye; whitlow. < Before a storm. < After sleep. < From milk; sweets; alcohol. > By eating; < after. < Before eating. >By warm food. < Before, during, and after menses (headache; leucorrhœa). < Looking down. < Crossing running water. < Raising arms. Hearing is < eating and blowing nose.

Relations

[Sul. frequently serves to rouse the reactive powers when carefully selected remedies fail to act (especially in acute diseases; in chronic, Pso.). In this respect it is a close analogue and ally of Medor. and Syph., which should be studied with it.] Antidoted by: Aco., Camph., Cham., Chi., Merc., Puls., Rhus, Sep., Thu.Antidote to: Aco., Alo., Chi., Iod., Merc., Nit. ac., Olean., Rhus, Sep., Thu.; ailments from abuse of metals generally. Compatible: Calc., Calc. ph., Lyc., Sars., Sep., Puls. (Sul., Calc., Lyc.; and Sul., Sars., Sep. frequently follow in this order. It is generally said that Calc. should not be used before Sul.). Follows well: Merc.Complementary: Alo. (Sul. is generally the remedy when Alo. has been abused as a purgative), Aco., Nux, Puls. (Sul. is the "chronic" of the last three. If a patient is sleepless Sul. may be given at night. If the patient sleeps well it is best given in the morning, as it may disturb sleep if given at night; Nux may be given at night and Sul. in the morning when their complementary action is desired). Sul. complements Rhus in paralysis. Follows and complements Ant. t. and Ipec. in lung affections, especially left; atelectasis. An interpolated dose of Sul. helps Sil. in indurations. Pso. complements Sul.; Pso. loves heat, Sul. hates it. Teste includes in the Sul. group: Crot. t., Merc. c., Bov., Æth, c., Kre., Lob. i., Merc. sol., Aster., Cic., Rat.Compare: Meningitis, Apis. Injuries to eyes, Aco. (Sul. follows). Early-morning diarrhœa, Bry. (as soon as he moves), Nat. s. (with much flatus), Rx. c., Pod. (stools changeable; go on all day, though < at noon; Sul. raw, sore anus), Diosc. (colic flying to other parts). Defective reaction, Pso., Cup., Lauro., Val., Ambr., Carb. v. Flushes at climaxis, Lach., Sul. ac., Amyl., K. bi. Intermittent fever and neuralgia, Chi., Ars., Bapt. Ravenous hunger with heat at vertex, Calc., Pho. Tuberculosis, Bac., Calc., Pho. Itch, Merc., Sep., Caust. Dyspepsia, Nux, Sep. Excessive venery, masturbation, Nux, Calc. Yellow-brown spots, Sep., Lyc., Curar. Rheumatism, paralysis, Rhus. Sour stools, sore anus, Cham. Pneumonia, restoration imperfect, Sang. Paralysis from cold, Aco., Caust., Rhus. Accumulation of flatus, sour and bitter taste, Lyc. (with Sul. patient refers accumulation to left groin, region of sigmoid flexure). Bad effects of mental exhaustion; of seminal losses, Selen. (Sel. is a cognate element of Sul. and close analogue; Sel. <from tea; Sul. < from coffee; Sel. has "tingling in spots"). Morning aphonia, Carb. v. (Carb. v. also evening). Edges of eyelids, Graph., Bac. Congestion of lumbar spine, Pic. ac. Atrophy of infants, Ars. Sinking < 11 a.m., Na. m., Pho., Indm., Na. c., Zn. (nervous symptoms, Arg. n.). Prophylactic of cholera, Cup. Weak from talking, Stan., Cocc., Ver., Calc. Falls easily, Na. c. Hasty speech and action, Bell., Lach., Dulc., Hep. Weak ankles, Sul. ac., Caust. >Open air; desire to be uncovered, Pul., Lyc. Wetting bed in deep sleep, Bell. (in first sleep, Sep.). Effects of losses of fluids, Ars., Calc., Chi., Fer. Persistent speck before left eye (right Sel.). Vision mostly green, Sang. Rhagades of hands, Na. c. Hard, horny hands, Na. m., Graph. (opp. Calc.). Left to right, Lach. Stitches up vagina, Sep., Pho., Nit. ac. (also down and out), Alm., Berb., Pul. (Sul. stitches go to head). Left ovarian and left inframammary pain, Lil., Lach., Caulo., Vib. o., Pul., Ustil. Bearing-down pains, Bell., Sep., Gossyp., Pul., Sec. < On awaking, Lach., Na. m. Alarmed about soul's salvation, Ver. < Hearing water run, Hfb. Violent movements of fœtus, Op., Croc., Thuj. Dread of losing mind, Calc., Lyc., Nux. Hollow sensation in region of heart (Lil. as if heart empty). Earthy complexion, Na. m. Tall, slender people, Pho. (Sul. with stoop). Aversion to, be washed, Ant., c., Clem., Hep., Rhus, Sep., Spi. (Puls. baby likes being washed). Fear of ghosts, Aco., Ars., Bro., Carb. v., Cocc., Lyc., Pho., Pul., Ran. b., Sep., Zn. (I have been frequently asked by patients taking Sul. not to give them "that medicine" again as it made them "see faces," generally described as horrible). < Heat of bed at night, Bry., Merc., Pul., Cham. (toothache), Dros., Led., Sbi., Apis. Laughing alternately with weeping, Aur., Pul., Lyc., Croc., Pho., Ver. Vertigo looking down, Olean. (Calc. turning head, Pul. looking up). Throbbing headache, Glo., Calc., Pul. Drowsiness with headache, Bruc., Strych., Gins., Herac., Na. s., Gels., Nux m. Passes almost pure blood from rectum, Merc., Aco. Diabetes with impotence, Mosch. Phimosis, Can. s., Merc., Nit. ac., Sep., Thu., Rhus, Sbi. Hunger at night, Chi. s., Pso., Pho. (with febrile heat, unappeasable), Lyc., Ign. Hot breath, Calc., Rhus. Sharp splinter sensation on slightest touch, Arg. n., Hep., Nit. ac. Throat, right then left, Lyc., Bar. c., left side, Lach., Sul. Freckles, Adren. Weak chest when speaking, Calc. Acid smell from mouth, Nux. Taste of blood, Ham. Sensation of hair in throat, K. bi., Sil. Intolerance of pressure of clothes, Lach. Blackish stools, Lept. Burning between scapulæ, Pho., Lyc. Sinking sensations, worms, Scirrh. and other cancer nosodes. Vividly remembered dreams, Chi. Mistakes time of day, Merc., Lach. Boils, Anthrac. Vaccination effects, Thu., Malan. Red lips, red borders round eyelids, Bac. Offensive body smell; checked eruptions and discharges, Med. Excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes, Hep., K. ca., Pso. (Pso. is generally extremely chilly, Sul. hot). Restless, hot, kicks off clothes at night, Hep., Sanic. Wants to find cool place for feet, Sanic. Relapsing alcoholism, Pso., Bac.

Causation

Suppressions. Alcohol. Sun. Sprains. Chills. Over-exertion. Reaching high. Falls. Blows. Bed-sores.

1. Mind

Melancholy and sadness, with grieving ideas; uneasiness respecting the patient's own condition and prospects, and about business affairs, so as to become exceedingly unhappy, disgusted with life, and even to despair of eternal salvation.Egoistic.Dwells on religious or philosophical speculations; anxiety about soul's salvation; indifference about lot of others.Vexatious and morbid ideas of the past arise and cannot be got rid of.Hypochondriac mood (through the day, in evening he is inclined to be merry).Strong tendency to weep, and frequent weeping, alternating sometimes with involuntary laughter.Disconsolate humour, with scruples of conscience, even with respect to the most innocent actions.Fits of anguish, esp. in evening; timidity and great tendency to be frightened.Precipitation, restlessness, and impatience.Peevishness; childish peevishness in grown people.Ill-humour, moroseness, quarrelsome disposition, disposition to criticise, and dislike to conversation.Irritability, disposition to anger and passion.Great indolence and repugnance to all exertion, both mental and bodily.Too lazy to rouse himself up, and too unhappy to live.Indecision, awkwardness (at his work), inadvertence, anthropophobia, with feeling of giddiness.Stupidity and imbecility, with difficulty in understanding and in answering correctly.In afternoon, stupefied state after a glass of wine.Great weakness of memory, chiefly for proper names.Misplaces or cannot find the proper word when he speaks.Mistakes as to time, thinks it earlier than it is; at vesper bell (7 p.m.) insists it is only 5 p.m., quite angry when one attempts to convince her of her error.Forgetfulness of that which is about to be uttered.Great flow of ideas, for the most part sad and unpleasant, but sometimes gay, and interspersed with musical airs.Strong tendency to religious and philosophical reveries, with fixed ideas.Incoherent speech.Mania, with a settled idea of having all things in abundance, possessing beautiful things, &c.Delirium, with carphologia.Errors respecting objects, a hat is mistaken for a bonnet, a rag for a handsome gown, &c.Foolish happiness and pride; fantastic illusions of the intellect, esp. if one turns everything into beauty, as an old rag or stick looks to be a beautiful piece of workmanship; everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to.Melancholia and epilepsy, with strong impulsive tendency to suicide by drowning or leaping from window; five fits a day with at times two hours of unconsciousness, always < during menses (Sul. 10m cured).

2. Head

Confusion in head, with difficulty in meditating; or weakness, dizziness, and stupor, sometimes with necessity to lie down, and esp. in morning or in evening, or when walking in open air, or when going up an ascent.Vertigo and staggering, esp. when seated, or after a meal, or when exercising in open air, when stooping, looking down, walking, going up an ascent, rising from a seat, lying on back, passing over running water, and also in morning, in evening, or at night, and often with nausea, syncope, weakness, and bleeding at nose (with inclination to fall to l. side; with vanishing of sight).Headache as if caused by incarcerated flatus, by obstruction in head, or by a debauch.Painful sensibility of head, chiefly of vertex, on least movement, with pain at every step, when coughing, blowing nose, or masticating.Sensitiveness of the vertex, pressing pain when touching it, < from heat of bed, in morning when waking, on scratching it, it bites and burns.Fulness, pressure, and heaviness in head, chiefly in forehead (< when raising head and after sleeping and talking, >when sitting or when lying with head high) and occiput.Tearing or stitches in forehead or temples, from within to without, < from stooping, > when pressing head together, or when moving about.Sensation of emptiness in back part of head, < in open air and when talking, > in room.Pulsation in head with heat in brain, pulsation of carotid arteries and of heart, < on waking in morning, when moving about, on stooping, when talking, in open air; >when at rest and in warm room.Hammering headache on vivacious talking.Throbbing all over head with furious pain taking away her sight and preventing her from stooping: it affects vertex more and is < by washing her head (produced.R. T. C.).Heat on crown; cold feet; frequent flushings.Painful tingling on vertex and in temples.Violent pain in vertex in evening, as if hair would be torn out; it bristles on the most painful spots.(Pain in vertex, r. side, < 5 to 8 p.m., > by warmth.R. T. C.).Boring headache on top, beneath vertex; the spot is painful to touch externally.Severe burning in vertex; went off after getting up; succeeded by cool feeling in same place.Aching; burning; throbbing; pressing in vertex.Vertex very sensitive when touched; and when not.Tension in forehead and eyes on exercising brain; < when lifting up eyes, after sleeping; > when sitting in room.Tension and painful contraction in brain, sometimes with a sensation as if head were compressed by a band (with the sensation as if the flesh were loose around it, followed by inflammation of the bones and caries; < in wet, cold weather and when at rest;> from motion).Expansive pressure, as if head were about to burst, principally in temples.Sharp and jerking pains, or drawing and shootings in head.Painful sensation, as if brain were wounded or bruised.Sensation as if the head were soft; as if the brains had been bashed in.On moving head brain strikes against cranium.Congestion of blood in head, with pulsative pains, clucking, and feeling of heat in brain.Rush of blood to head; a pressure out at eyes; with roaring in ears and heat of face; during menses; during soft stool; at right in bed; arising from chest with throbbing; < when stooping, talking, in open air; > sitting in warm room.Tinkling, buzzing, roaring, and vibration in head.The headache is often only semilateral, or confined to vertex, or to occiput, or to forehead above eyes, with inclination to frown or to close eyes, confusion of sight, unfitness for meditation, humming in ears, and nausea, with inclination to vomit.Quotidian, periodical, and intermittent headaches, appearing principally at night, or in evening in bed, or in morning, or after a meal; (every 3, 4, 6, 12, or 24 hours; 12 noon or 12 midnight; <midsummer or midwinter).Movement, walking, open air, and meditation often excite or < the headaches.Pimples with itching in head, principally in forehead.Dry or thick. yellowish scabs in scalp, with secretion of a thick and fetid pus, but always with great itching.Dry (seldom humid), offensive, scabby, easily bleeding, burning, and sore paining eruption on back part of head and behind ears, with cracks, > from scratching (tinea capitis).(Scabby eruption over head and on various parts of body; with hard lumps that discharge and irritate and prevent sleep.R. T. C.).Coldness in head, sometimes only in circumscribed places.Painful sensitiveness of the roots of hair and of scalp when touched.Mobility of scalp.Falling off of hair; with great dryness of the hair, painfulness of scalp to the touch and violent itching in evening when getting warm in bed, with swelling of glands on neck (also in lying-in women).Fontanelles remain open too long.Head bent forward when walking.Itching in head, with impatience.Exanthema and itching on forehead.

3. Eyes

Heaviness and aching in eyes and lids, with a sensation of friction as from sand.Itching of eyebrows.Itching, tickling, and burning sensation in eyes, canthi, and lids.Pains as from a bruise or wound, and smarting in eyes and lids.The pains in eyes often extend into head, and are < by movement of eyes, and also by light of the sun, which sometimes <them to an insupportable degree.Pain (cutting) in r. eye, renewable by touching r. side of tip of nose.Stinging in eyes, esp. in sunshine and from light of a candle.Inflammation, swelling, and redness of sclerotica, conjunctiva, and eyelids.Pain in lid, as if rubbed against spiculæ of glass.Smarting pain as from dryness of margins of lids.Redness of borders of lids.Ulceration in the margins of the eyelids.Pustules and ulcers round orbits as far as cheeks.Inflammatory redness of iris.Affections in general of the cornea; eyeball; sclerotica.Opacity of cornea, as if covered with dust, or clouded, with a deposit of greyish lymph between the lamellæ.Specks, vesicles (pustules), and ulcers in the cornea (with redness of eye).Injection of vessels of conjunctiva.Pupil unequal, or dilated and immovable; or contracted.Cloudiness of crystalline lens.Nodosity, like hordeolum, in lids.Eyes water, itch, and feel hot.Profuse lachrymation, esp. in open air; or great dryness of eyes, < in a room.Pain as from dryness of eyeballs, and a sensation as if they rubbed against the lids.Lachrymation in morning, with burning.Retinitis, caused by over-use of eyes, congestion of optic nerve.Oily tears.Copious secretion of mucus in eyes, day and night.Nocturnal agglutination of lids.Palpitation and quivering of eyelids.Contraction of eyelids in morning.Trembling of eyes.Confused sight, as if directed through a mist, or as if down or a veil were before eyes.Dim-sightedness, cataract.Great dimness of vision, as if cornea had lost transparency, confusion of head and dull aching in forehead.Objects seem more distant than they are.Presbyopia.Myopia.Clouded sight when reading.The eyes are dazzled by daylight.Dazzled by looking long at an object.Sparks and white spots, or dancing flies, black points, and spots before eyes.Night-blindness.Visions of faces appear on closing the eyes.Objects appear to be yellow.Great sensitiveness (and aversion) of eyes to light, principally to that of the sun, and during warm and oppressive weather.Halo around a lamplight; cataract.Yellowish colour of sclerotica.

4. Ears

Itching in ears (in external ear).Stitches in l. ear.Sharp or drawing pains, or shootings in ears, sometimes extending into head or into throat.Recurring earaches in tubercular meningitis.R. T. C.).Burning heat which goes out at ears.Gurgling in ears as if water were in them.Discharge of pus from ears.Otorrhœa, < l. ear.Discharge from both ears, dirty, very offensive; profuse, of a penetrating odour; at times causing an eruption about auricles; objects strongly to having ears washed.Bad effects from suppression of otorrhœa; hard hearing, esp. if ears are very dry; noise in ears in general, particularly a humming.Otitis in psoric subjects.Furunculus on tragus.Great acuteness of hearing the least noise is insupportable, and playing the piano occasions nausea.Something seems to come before ears.Swashing in ears.Hardness of hearing preceded by hypersensitiveness of hearing.Dysecoia, esp. for human voice; from disposition to catarrhs; < after eating or blowing nose.Obstruction and sensation of stoppage (pressure and pain when sneezing, as if ulcerated) in one ear, often when eating or blowing nose.Tinkling, humming, and roaring in ears (in evening in bed); sometimes with congestion of blood in head.Cracking in ear, like the breaking of a bladder full of water.Excoriation behind ears.Ears very red with children.

5. Nose

Boring in root of nose.(Itching and) burning in nostrils.Inflammatory swelling (redness) of nose, chiefly at extremity, or in alæ nasi (<in r.).Tip of nose red and shiny.R. ala nasi and entire septum inflamed and painful to touch.Inflammation, ulceration, and scabies in nostrils.Cracking in nose, like the bursting of a bladder full of air.Ephelides and black pores in nose.Herpes across nose, like a saddle.Obstruction of nose, sometimes semilateral.Great dryness of nose.Dry coryza, or fluent coryza, with copious secretion of mucus.Burning coryza in open air, obstructions of nose in room.Discharge of burning mucus, or secretion of a thick, yellowish, and puriform mucus in nostrils.Blood or sanguineous mucus is blown from nose.(Discharge of watery fluid from nose tinged with blood, and synchronous with præcordial pain, severe headache and pains in soles of feet, high-coloured urine and confined bowels: symptoms followed on a severe wetting.R. T. C.).Bleeding of nose, esp. in morning, and sometimes with vertigo (at 3 p.m., afterwards it feels sore when touched).Frequent, even spasmodic sneezing, sometimes preceded by nausea.Smell increased or diminished, and also entirely lost.Offensive odour of nasal mucus on blowing nose.Smell of inveterate coryza, of burnt horn or of smoke.Offensive odour of nasal mucus, as of an old catarrh.

6. Face

Face pale or yellowish, with sickly complexion; and eyes deep sunken, surrounded by a blue circle.Heat and burning sensation in face, with deep redness of whole face, circumscribed redness of cheeks, or else red spots, also on neck.Pale or red swelling of face.Swelling of cheeks, with lancinating pain.Pain: tearing in r. half of face; pressure on malar bone and beneath eye; stabbing below l. zygoma with darting up side of head.Pain in all three divisions of fifth nerve (l.); from exposure to cold; draught of air; worry; beginning 5 p.m., lasts with slight intermissions three or four days; besides sharp dartings every few moments; extreme external sensitiveness.Drawing, sharp pain, sensation as from a bruise, pressive and burning sensation in cheek-bones.Erysipelas of face (beginning on r. ear and spreading over face).Phlegmonous erysipelas in face, chiefly in eyelids, nose, and (l.) ear.Roughness and redness of skin of face.Eruption of pimples on face and on forehead.Itching and moist tetters over whole face, chiefly above nose, round eyes, and in eyelids; small white vesicles in groups and forming scabs.Ephelides and black pores in face, chiefly on nose, lips, and chin.Lips dry, rough, and cracked.Burning sensation and continued heat of lips.Yellowish hepatic spots on upper lip.Tinea faciei.Trembling and jerking of lips.Swelling of lips.Swelling of lower lip with eruption on it.Scabious ulcer on red of lip.Cancer of the lips.Herpetic eruption in corner of mouth.Painful eruption round chin.Sharp, lancinating, and drawing pains, and painful swelling in jaws.Swelling of submaxillary glands, with pains and lancinations when touched.

7. Teeth

Great tenderness of teeth.Great sensitiveness of points of teeth.Jerking, shocks, sharp or drawing pains; shootings; throbbing pains; boring and burning sensation, both in carious and in sound teeth.Tearing toothache on l. side.Pulsation and boring in teeth, < from heat.The toothache often extends as far as ears or into head, and is sometimes accompanied by congestion of blood in head, with shiverings and disposition to sleep, or with swelling of cheek.Appearance or < of toothache, principally in evening; at night; or in open air; also from a current of air; from cold water; when masticating, and sometimes when taking anything hot.Toothache with congestions to head, or stitches in ears.Brownish mucus on teeth.Painful loosening, elongation, setting on edge, and easy bleeding of teeth.Bleeding, sensation of unfixing, and swelling of gums, sometimes with throbbing (heating) pains.Fistula dentalis.Hard, round swelling of gums, with discharge of pus and of blood.

8. Mouth

Dryness, heat, and burning sensation in mouth, sometimes in morning with moist tongue.Great dryness of palate with much thirst; obliged to drink much.Mouth dry, insipid, and sticky in morning.Ptyalism from abuse of Mercury or during a fever.Accumulation of saliva in mouth: sanguineous; salt; acid; bitter; or mixed with blood; even after eating.Fetid, sometimes acid, smell from mouth, esp. in morning or in evening or after a meal.Vesicles, blisters, and aphthæ in mouth and on tongue, sometimes with burning, or with pain of excoriation, when eating.Exfoliation of membrane of mouth.Burning sensation and tickling on tongue.Pain, swelling, and inflammation of tongue for three days.Tongue dry, rough, and cracked, of colour of cinnabar; or loaded with a white coating, or covered with brownish, thick, and viscid mucus.Stuttering when speaking.Accumulation of saltish mucus in mouth.Taste: bitter; pasty; offensive; of blood; sweetish; metallic.Bilious taste in mouth when fasting; though food tastes right.Bitter taste with dulness of head and ill-humour.Acid taste all day.

9. Throat

Scraping, roughness (rawness), and dryness in throat (hawking and clearing throat).Pressure as from a plug or from a tumour in throat, sometimes with difficult deglutition.Stitches in throat on swallowing.Sensation as if a hard ball were ascending throat, and would close pharynx and take away the breath.Contraction and painful sensation of constriction in throat when swallowing.(Sensation of contraction in throat.R. T. C.).Dryness of throat.Pain as from excoriation, burning sensation and shootings in throat, < during empty deglutition (soreness begins on r. side and goes to l.; redness of tonsils).Burning in throat as from sour eructations.Sensation during empty deglutition as of swallowing a piece of meat.Sensation as of a plug in throat, with empyreumatic taste.Sore throat, with swelling of glands of neck.Elongation of palate; swelling of palate and tonsils.Sensation of a hair in throat.Angina gangrenosa.

10. Appetite

Bad taste in mouth, mostly acid, bitter, or putrid and sweetish or mawkish, < in morning on waking.Taste bitter or too salt or insipidity of food.Complete anorexia and dislike to food, principally to meat, rye bread, fat, and milk.Dislike to sweet and acid things, or craving for such things, with anorexia.Continued thirst, even at night, often with desire for beer.Craving (in drunkards) for wine and brandy.Immoderate appetite and attacks of bulimy, sometimes with headache, lassitude, and want to lie down.Ravenous hunger which obliges him to eat frequently, gets headache and has to lie down if he does not.Hungry, but appetite vanishes at sight of food, feels full in abdomen; when he begins to eat is averse to it.Desire for sweets.Complaints from eating sweets.Complaints from farinaceous food.Desire for raw food.Great weakness of digestion, principally for meat, fat, milk, acids, and farinaceous food, all of which sometimes cause great suffering.Food sweetened with sugar < the pains in the stomach and abdomen.Milk produces sour risings, an acid taste in mouth, and even vomiting.Beer is followed by a prolonged after-taste, and causes ebullition of blood.Disgust for drinking wine.After a meal oppression in chest, nausea, pressure, and cramps in stomach, colic, inflation of abdomen, flatulence, vomiting, great fatigue, shivering, confusion and pain in head, heat in face, burning sensation in hands, flow of water from mouth, and many other sufferings.

11. Stomach

Continued eructations, principally empty, or with taste of food, or acid and burning, bitter, or fetid, with taste of rotten eggs, esp. after a meal or at night.Loud eructations as soon as he presses on stomach.Heartburn.Abortive risings.The food rises into throat.Regurgitation of food and drink, often with acid taste.Pyrosis, often with burning and tingling in chest.Hiccough.Qualmishness.Nausea, which sometimes even induces fainting, with trembling, weakness, and frequent eructations, esp. after a meal, in morning, at night, or when riding in a carriage.Waterbrash, < in morning or after a meal, sometimes with aching or digging in abdomen.Retching and vomiting of food, and of acid or bitter substances, or blackish, or sanguineous, &c.; esp. in morning, in evening, after a meal, or at night, and sometimes with nausea, pains in stomach, and cold perspiration on face.After eating but little stomach feels completely full.(Pains in stomach following a headache,< 10 p.m., causing him to bend forward to ease himself, with flatus and prostration at stool.Tight crampy feeling in stomach on laughing and sneezing, preventing him rising from his seat.R. T. C.).Heaviness and fulness, or pressure and compression, or else contractive and spasmodic pains, or digging and shootings in stomach and præcordial region, < after a meal at night or in morning, often with nausea and vomiting, anxiety, and inflation of abdomen.Uneasy, unpleasant feeling in stomach as if several hard things were lying in it, and all in different directions (cured.J. H. C.).Pressure in pit of stomach during menses.Sensation of coldness, or heat and burning sensation in the stomach.Great sensitiveness in the region of the stomach when touched (or pressing upon iteven the bed-cover causes pain).Swelling of the præcordial region.Pulsation in the pit of stomach.Swelling at pit of stomach.Weak, empty, gone, or faint feeling in stomach, about 11 a.m.; and at other times.

12. Abdomen

Painful sensibility of hypochondria, as if they were wounded; pressure of clothes disagreeable.Drawing, pressure, tension, and shootings in regions of the liver and spleen, swelling and hardness in both regions.Stitches in spleen, < when taking a deep inspiration and when walking.Frequent shoots in splenic region.Inflammation, swelling, and induration of liver.Bile increased.Fulness, heaviness, tension, and pressure, its from a stone in abdomen, chiefly in epigastrium and hypochondria.Enlargement and hardness of abdomen.Gripings, or sensation of tearing or contractive and spasmodic pains in abdomen.Intestines feel as if strung in knots.Shootings (stitches) in abdomen, < on the l. side when walking (coughing) or taking a deep inspiration (about navel).After food sensation of weight r. side of navel when he breathes (cured with three doses of Sul. 1m in a case of mine.The pains in the abdomen have generally a tendency to attack the l. side, or to extend into stomach as far as chest and back, with obstructed respiration, nausea, anxiety, and hypochondriacal humour.Pains in abdomen, chiefly at night, or after eating or drinking, or else periodical; < by food sweetened with sugar; > by bending forwards.Movement and digging in abdomen, or sensation as if something were pushed outwards.Movements in abdomen as of the fist of a child.Pains as from contusion and bruising in integuments of abdomen.Painful sensibility of abdomen when touched, as if all interior were raw, or formed one large wound.Inflation of abdomen, with pressive pains from incarcerated flatus, principally in l. side (with constipation).Pressure: towards anus; downward while lying in bed at night; it woke her.Borborygmi and rumbling in abdomen.Frequent escape of very fetid flatus.Cutting in hypogastrium, with thin stool.Griping in lower abdomen; pain in small of back (and chilliness over body) during menses.Between 4 and 5 p.m. boring, shooting pain now in r. groin, now in spermatic cord, extending to testicle, now within inguinal ring in abdominal cavity; followed by sharp, cutting pain in r. great toe.Painful swelling, and also suppuration of inguinal glands.Violent protrusion of hernia, with incarceration.Dropsy.Portal stasis; hæmorrhoidal congestions; indigestion; constipation, &c.Symptoms threatening peritonitis, terrible pains extending over entire lower abdomen followed a teaspoonful of Sul. taken for constipation; relief follows purgation by castor oil.(R. T. C.)

13. Stool and Anus

Constipation, and hard, knotty, and insufficient evacuations.Frequent and often ineffectual want to evacuate, chiefly at night, and sometimes with pressure on rectum and bladder and pain in anus.Urgent want to evacuate.Looseness of bowels; redness about anus; obstructed evacuation, particularly if hard stools are retained.Diarrhœa, particularly where there is the red line about the anus, and the patient can't wait, must go immediately desire is felt; also waking early in morning with diarrhœa, which drives one out of bed in a great hurry; tenesmus in the same way, drives one in a great hurry; rumbling and rolling in bowels.Cholera asiatica; as prophylactic, a pinch of the powdered milk of Sulphur worn in stockings in contact with soles of feet; diarrhœa commencing between midnight and morning, vomiting at same time; numbness of limbs, cramp in calves and soles, blue under eyes, cold skin, indifference; during convalescence, red spots, furuncles, &c.; susceptibility to temperature, warm things feel hot; nerve symptoms (Hering).Diarrhœa with frequent evacuations, chiefly at night, and often with colic, tenesmus, inflation of abdomen, dyspnœa, shivering, and weakness to the extent of fainting.Evacuations: mucous, watery, frothy, or acid, or of a putrid smell, or of undigested substances.Stools: nearly black, loose, viscid, greasy, with pungent odour of sulphuretted hydrogen.Stool hard, as if burnt.Stool, with sensation as if some remained, and as if the stool had been insufficient.Discharge of liquid from anus, followed by fæces at night during sleep.Diarrhœa: painless; in morning compelling one to rise from bed (at 5 a.m., one stool an hour till 9 a.m.); undigested, involuntary; diarrhœa in children, green, of bloody mucus, with crying and weeping.Dysenteric stools at night, with colic and violent tenesmus.Colic before every loose evacuation.During stool, discharge of blood; pain in small of back; palpitation of heart, congestion of head; itching, burning, and stinging at anus and in rectum.After stool tenesmus, constriction at anus.Whitish, greenish, discoloured, or brownish-red fæces.Involuntary evacuations (when sneezing or laughing, with emission of flatus).Evacuations mingled with mucus, blood, and purulent matter.Discharge of mucus, even with hard fæces.Ejection of lumbrici, ascarides, and also of pieces of tænia from rectum.Prolapsus recti, esp. when evacuating (a hard stool).Sharp and pressive pains, itching, shootings, stitches, and burning in anus and rectum, even when not at stool.Burning in anus, before, during, and after stool.Prostration follows stool.Dull ache just inside coccyx, awful dead ache as if the heart would stop.All pains seem to go to rectum, life-taking pains.Blind piles with burning as if something were biting at anus, going away when lying down, coming on when standing or walking about (produced.R. T. C.).Hæmorrhoids which protrude, ooze and bleed.Anus inflamed, swollen, covered with red veins.Excoriation and swelling of anus.Much itching about anus; itching runs back along, perinæum and adjacent parts.Involuntary discharge of moisture from anus, with itching in it.Suppressed hæmorrhoids, with colic, palpitation, congestion to lungs; back feels stiff as if bruised.Constant bearing down towards anus; forcing down after sitting.

14. Urinary Organs

Violent pain in region of kidneys after stooping a long time.Aching in small of back all day, esp. < while urinating.Suppressed or very scanty urine.Frequent and sometimes very urgent want to urinate.Frequent, profuse, and watery urine, sometimes gushing out with much force, esp. at night.Retention of urine.(Neuralgia of neck of bladder, aching and forcing down with smarting and burning in urethra.R. T. C.).Rigor when urinating.Pressure soon after urinating, as from a full bladder.Involuntary emission of urine (and stool), esp. when coughing, or expelling flatus.Wetting the bed (lie awake for some time, then fall into a deep sleep, in which they wet the bed).Red urine with sediment; or else whitish, turbid, or deep-coloured.Urine like yeast; muddy, turbid, scanty.Oily pellicle over urine.Fetid urine.Urine smelling of chamomile tea (produced.R. T. C.).Discharge of (white) mucus from urethra.Secondary gonorrhœa.Whitish or thick or reddish sediment, like flour, in the urine.Urine discharged by drops.Painful emission of some drops of sanguineous urine after much effort.Discharge of blood and mucus with the urine.Itching, sharp pains, shootings, and burning sensation in (orifice of) urethra, chiefly when urinating.Both flow of urine and discharge of fæces are painful to parts over which they pass.Urine excoriating parts.Redness and inflammation of orifice of urethra, and pain as at commencement of gonorrhœa.Discharge of mucus from urethra.Hæmorrhage from urethra.Shootings in bladder.Dragging in bladder in morning after urinating.Small and intermittent stream of urine.Spasmodic pains in loins and inguina.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Affections of the genitals in general.Itching about genitals on going to bed at night.Fetid perspiration in parts.Excoriation between thighs and in groins, chiefly when walking.Shootings in penis and glans.Prepuce stiff, hard, like leather, with copious secretion of fetid smegma.Inflammation, swelling, and phimosis of prepuce (with discharge of fetid pus), with deep cracks, burning, and redness.Deep (suppurating) ulcer with elevated margins in glans and prepuce (with puffed edges).Aching, tension, and shootings in testes and spermatic cords.Swelling and thickening of epididymis.Excoriation and oozing in scrotum.Increased sexual desire and voluptuous irritation of the parts, often without erection.Weakness of the genital functions, often with icy coldness, bluish colour of glans, prepuce, and penis, and retraction of prepuce.Testes relaxed and hanging down.Hydrocele.Frequent pollutions, also at noon.Watery semen.Involuntary discharge of semen, with burning in urethra.Too quick discharge of semen during coition.Escape of prostatic fluid, chiefly when urinating and while at stool.Impotence.(Induration of testes.)

16. Female Sexual Organs

A weak feeling in genitals.Sore feeling in vagina during an embrace.Labour-like pain over symphysis.Uterine pains running from groins to back.Moroseness and apprehension with uterine pain.Pressure on the parts.(Bearing down with nightly enuresis.R. T. C.).Excoriation, troublesome itching and burning sensation in genitals; with papular eruption around them.Burning in the vagina; is scarcely able to keep still.Ascarides of vulva.Inflammation of labia.Menses too late; too short.Delay of first menses.(Amenorrhœa, dreadful depression and apprehension, head feels full and heavy, followed by violent headache, numbness of arms and legs, cramp and sick feeling at molimen.R. T. C.).(Imperfect development of the genital Organs, menstruation does not appear at the usual age; breasts imperfectly developed; pains about the shoulders, in the stomach after meals, in l. side on inspiration; anorexia and vertigo.R. T. C.).Catamenia premature and too profuse; or too feeble or entirely suppressed (particularly in psoric individuals), with colic, abdominal spasms, headache, pains in loins, pressure at stomach, congestion in head, and nasal hæmorrhage, agitation, and even attacks of epilepsy.Menstrual blood thick, acrid, corroding thighs; scanty, dark; dark, putrid, clotted.Before menses: headache, itching in the parts; spasmodic colic; inquietude; cough; toothache; pyrosis; epistaxis; leucorrhœa, and asthmatic sufferings.Bearing down in pelvis; congestion to uterus.Sterility, with too early and profuse menstruation.Prolapsus: from reaching high; with pain in hypogastrium, esp. r. side; with metritis; with dropsy of uterus.Promotes expulsion of moles.Morning sickness of pregnancy not amounting to vomiting, faint, sickish spells forenoon, profuse salivation, taste of which =nausea; aversion to meat; craves beer or brandy.Hæmorrhoids during pregnancy and in childbed.After menses: itching in nose.Menstrual blood too pale or of an acid smell.Leucorrhœa sometimes corrosive; gnawing and yellowish, preceded by colic.Cancer of uterus offensive, corrosive, ichorous leucorrhœa; sensation of heat in crown of head coldness of feet; flushes of heat pass off in a perspiration with faintness; weak at pit of stomach 11 a.m. to 12; Violent burning in vagina, with painful soreness during coitus.Hot flushes at climaxis, with hot head, hands, and feet, and great goneness in stomach.Excoriation and itching in nipples.Cracks in nipples, with burning sensation, easily bleeding, and ulceration (the nipple smarts and burns very much as soon as the infant lets go of it).Mammary glands engorged and inflamed.Erysipelatous inflammation of mammæ; they are hard, with red rays extending from nipple, and stitching pains.Swelling of mammæ.Nodosities in mammæ.Scirrhus of breast.

17. Respiratory Organs

Catarrh, with fluent coryza, cough, pain in chest, as if it were raw, and shivering.Hoarseness, evening and morning, roughness, and scraping in throat, with accumulation of mucus in chest.Pain as from excoriation, and tingling or tickling in larynx, with tendency to cough.Coldness in throat during an inspiration.Voice hoarse and low, or entirely extinct, generally in cold and damp weather.Sensation as if larynx were swollen, or as if a foreign body were in it.Short, dry cough.Dry cough, sometimes fatiguing and shaking, with retching, vomiting, and spasmodic constriction of chest, esp. in evening, or at night, in a recumbent position, or in morning, or after a meal.(Constant cough with irritation of throat and wheezing.R. T. C.).Moist cough, with profuse expectoration of thick, whitish, or yellowish mucus, like that of a coryza of long standing.Cough with expectoration during day, without expectoration at night.Short, dry cough, with stitches in chest, or stitches in l. shoulder-blade.Spasmodic whooping-cough in successive double attacks, shortly following one another, from tickling in larynx as from dust; only with expectoration during day of either dark blood or yellow-greenish, purulent matter, or of cold, milk-white mucus, generally tasting sour, or putrid, or salty, or like old catarrh.Fetid expectoration of a greenish-yellow colour, like pus, and of a salt or sweetish taste, while coughing.Febrile cough, with hæmoptysis.Cough in general with bloody expectoration; esp. with heat in chest; hæmorrhage with the same sensation.When coughing, pain as from excoriation, or shattering pains, or shootings in chest, pain as from a bruise, or shootings in head, pain in abdomen, cloudiness before eyes, pains in hips and loins.Respiration and conversation sometimes excite the cough.Feels suffocated, wants doors and windows wide open.Oppressed respiration, particularly from congestion to the lungs; if with a sense of heat all through the chest.

18. Chest

Congestion of blood to chest, with sensation of fulness in it.Shortness of breath; frequent chokings, obstructed respiration, dyspnœa, and fits of suffocation, esp. when lying down at night, and also during sleep, and sometimes also when speaking or walking in open air.Dyspnœa; shortness of breath and oppression of breathing on bending arms backwards.Asthma at night.Asthma: attacks every eight days; has rough, harsh hair; following swelling of hæmorrhoids; alternating with fits of gout or psoriasis; from suppressed eruptions or discharges.Inability to take a full inspiration, with sensation as if chest were contracted.Frequent, short, or wheezing respiration.Snoring and rattling of mucus in chest.Shooting pains in back and sacrum during an inspiration.Painful sensation in chest, as of something falling forwards in it, when turning the body in bed.Pain as from a bruise in thorax when the part is touched.Painful obstruction in the l. side of chest, with anguish, and inability to lie on side affected.Heaviness, fulness, and pressure as from a stone in chest and sternum, < in morning, also when coughing, sneezing, and yawning.Pain when coughing and sneezing, as if chest were shattered or bursting.Periodical spasms in chest, with sensation of constriction, spasmodic pains, shortness of breath, bluish colour of face, and inability to speak.Pulsations in chest and sternum.Weakness of chest, felt particularly when speaking, with great fatigue in lungs after speaking or sighing.Shootings in the chest or sternum, or extending to the back, or into the l. side, < when coughing, lying on the back, during least motion, when taking a full inspiration, or when lifting the arms (over the head).Pain in chest from over-lifting or after inflammation of lungs.Sensation as if lungs were touching (or scraping) the back.Exudation after pneumonia.Sul. acts in pneumonia a part analogous to that of Bell. in brain affections (Hartlaub, confirmed by Curie).The pains in the chest chiefly affect the l. side.Sensation of coldness or burning in chest, sometimes extending to face.Sensation as of a lump of ice in r. chest.Red spots all over the chest; also brownish or butternut-coloured spots.Deep yellow spot began on l. breast and spread all over body (chloasma).Cheloid on sternum.

19. Heart and Pulse

Stitches and blows in region of heart.Sharp pain at heart goes through to between shoulders; esp. with dyspeptic symptoms.Cutting pains about heart, as with knives, which decrease or increase, last a few hours, with redness of face, followed by general coldness; attacks only when waking up.Great orgasm of blood with violent burning in hands.Violent congestion of blood towards chest and heart, sometimes with ebullition in chest, uneasiness, faintness, and trembling of arms.Sensation of emptiness in the cardiac region, or pressure and sensation as if the heart had not room enough.Affections in general of heart; also external chest.Sensation as if heart were enlarged.Frequent palpitation of the heart, sometimes even visible, and with anxiety; at night; in bed; on failing asleep; when going up an ascent.Heart beats too rapidly and her throat felt as if a string were tied round it; and she did not sleep till 5 a.m. (produced.R. T. C.).Pulse hard, full, and accelerated.

20. Neck and Back

Stiffness of neck; in nape, with paralytic, sprained pain.Child cannot hold head up neck muscles so weak.Tetters on nape.Swelling and inflammation of glands of nape and of neck.Fetid perspiration in axillæ.Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands.Cracking in vertebræ of neck, esp. on bending backwards.Weakness and wrenching pains, or pain as from a bruise in loins, coccyx, and in back, esp. on walking, or rising from a seat.Gnawing pain in small of back.Pain in small of back not permitting one to stand erect.Finds himself at night lying on back.Cannot lie on back on account of rush of blood to head.Pain in back after manual labour.Shootings in loins, back, and shoulder-blades, sometimes with obstructed respiration.Sharp and rheumatic pains, drawing, tension, and stiffness in loins, back, and nape.Pinching and burning sensation between the shoulder-blades.Tension and bruised pain between scapulæ and in nape, which on moving head goes to shoulders.Stitches beneath scapulæ which take away the breath.Drawing in r. scapula, evening on going to sleep.Tearing in l. scapula while sitting.Needle-shoots at point of l. scapula.Sprained pains in back.During whole day aching in small of back, < when urinating.Distortion (curvature) of spine.Vertebræ softened.Cracking of vertebræ on bending head backward.

21. Limbs

Sharp and drawing pains, or shootings in limbs, esp. in joints, and sometimes with want of strength, stiffness, and sensation of torpor in the parts affected.Wrenching pains, as from contraction of the tendons, cramps, and spasms in several parts.Cracking in joints, esp. of knee and elbow.Inflammatory swelling of joints, with heat and redness.Tingling in limbs, esp. in calves of legs and arms.Tendency of limbs to go to sleep.Weakness and trembling of limbs, esp. hands and feet.Unsteadiness of joints.Limbs "go to sleep," esp. when lying down.Bruised feeling, and drawing, tearing pains in limbs (in outer parts, in muscles and joints, from above downward).Cramp-like pain in muscles of limbs on motion.Arthritic swelling and heat.

22. Upper Limbs

Pressure on shoulders as from a weight.Rheumatic pain in shoulders, esp. l.Stitches extending from shoulder into chest on motion.Stitching beneath r. axilla.Sweat on axillæ smelling like garlic.Jerking of shoulders, hands, and fingers.Jerking, sharp pains (tearing), and shootings in joints and muscles of arms, hands, and fingers, and also in shoulders, chiefly at night in bed.Nocturnal cramps in arms.Tingling in arms and fingers.Swelling of arms, sometimes with heat, hardness, and lancinating or tensive pains.Exostosis in arm.Warts on arms, or itching miliary or red, burning spots, which appear after washing.Purulent vesicles in bend of elbow.Sprained pain and stiffness in wrist, <in morning.Ganglion.Paralytic weakness of arms and hands.Swelling of hands and thumbs.Rigidity and wrenching pain in joints of hands and fingers.Trembling of hands, esp. when occupied with fine work.Involuntary contraction of hands, as if about to grasp something.Coldness in hands and fingers.Great burning in palms.Perspiration on hands (in the palms) and between the fingers.Eruption of small, red pimples on hands and fingers, with itching.Warts on fingers.Desquamation, hardness, dryness, and cracking of skin of hands.Itching vesicles on backs of hands.Cracking and chapping on finger-joints.Burning in balls and tips of fingers.Cramps and jerks in fingers.Contraction of tendons of hands and fingers.Large and shining swelling (erysipelatous) of fingers.Dead fingers.Nodosities on fingers.Ulcers about nails.Flaws in nails.Hang-nails.Panaritium.Chilblains (thick, red) on fingers, with itching in a warm temperature.Swelling and inflammation of points of fingers, with subcutaneous ulceration and boring and pulsative pains at night.

23. Lower Limbs

Pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration, in buttocks and in ischiatic tuberosities, esp. when touched, and after having been seated for a long time.Purulent and painful swellings on buttocks.Pain as from a wrench, and as from a bruise in hip, on least movement, with shooting pains at every step.Pain in hip with contraction of leg.Sharp and drawing pains in legs, esp. at night in bed.Heaviness of the legs, sometimes with tension in thighs and knees, esp. at night.Red, oozing, painful spots on the internal surface of thighs.Middle of thigh as if broken.Tension in hams, as from contraction of tendons.Large (white, or) shining swelling of knee, with stiffness and painful weariness.Phlegmasia alba dolens.Cracking, drawing, sharp pains, and shootings in knees.Tetters on hams.Restlessness in legs and feet.Torpor and numbness of legs.Painful fatigue and paralytic weakness of legs, chiefly of knees, which yield frequently.Sticking in knee and tibia.Red spots and itching miliary rash on legs.Transparent swelling of legs.Erysipelas in leg and foot.Bluish spots and swollen and varicose veins in legs.Pain in calves when walking.Cramps in calves and soles, esp. at night (in the soles at every step).Tension in hollow of knee, as if contracted on stepping.Painful sensibility of soles when walking.Easy dislocation of foot when walking.Stiffness of knee and ankle-joint.Stiffness of maleoli.Sprained pain in l. ankle when standing and walking.Ankles weak.Stiffness and wrenching pain in instep.Tingling in legs and calves.Burning and inveterate ulcers on legs or feet.Tetters on ankle.Shootings in feet.Coldness in feet, esp. in evening, in bed, or burning sensation, chiefly in soles of feet.Burning in feet, wants to find a cool place for them; puts them out of bed to cool them off.Burning in soles; on stepping after sitting a long time; and itching, esp. on walking; wants them uncovered.Cramp in soles at every step.Soles cold and sweating.Sweat on r. foot.Sharp shooting, as from a blunt nail, in rapid succession at root of nail of great toe.Swelling of feet, and esp. of the ankles.Red, shining swelling of the toes.Itching in the toes that had formerly been frozen.Chilblains: redness and swelling with tendency to suppurate; thick and red with cracks on joints; itching < warm in bed.Gnawing vesicles on soles.Ulcer on instep.Cramps and contraction of toes.Coldness and stiffness of toes.Tingling in ends of toes.Large and shining swelling of toes.Ulcerated and gnawing vesicles in toes.Corns, with pressive or shooting pains.

24. Generalities

[Affections in general of any kind appearing in l. side; hair of head; external front of head; inner belly, esp. l. side; back; small of back; axilla; lumbar region; upper extremities in general; posterior and inner surface of thigh; lower extremity in general; of the nails.Inflammation of mucous membranes in general; swelling of the glands.Affections of the brain from suppressed cutaneous eruptions.Very often when rash in scarlet fever will not come out, cannot bear to be washed.Face pale, or reddish yellow.Diminution of saliva.Back is so stiff that one cannot rise from a stooping posture, and is always < before a storm.Bleeding from inner parts in general.Dropsy of inner parts, particularly in psoric persons, or resulting from a suppressed eruption.Dryness of inner parts which are usually moist.─<: On waking, after eating; from exertion of body, unable to stand much exercise; from leaning against anything; after menstruation from taking milk; during perspiration; from suppressed perspiration from wet poultices; from abuse of Mercury; on rising; from any quick motion, as running; during sleep; after a long sleep; during stool; in children whose bowels are regular but who suffer great pain at every passage (when bowels are moved causing much pain, stools hard and lumpy, Nitr. ac.); on stretching limbs, esp. the affected limb; when swallowing food; from talking; from water and washing; ascarides; worms in general; from suppressed menstruation; from vomiting; on getting warm in bed.─>: From drawing up the affected limbcan't bear to have it extended.H. N. G.].Muscular palpitation.Jerks and shocks in certain parts or throughout body, esp. when sitting or lying down.Attacks of spasms.Epileptic convulsions; excited by a fright or by running, and sometimes with cries, rigidity of the limbs, clenching of the teeth, and sensation as if a mouse were running over the back or arms.Fainting fits; or hysterical or hypochondriacal uneasiness, sometimes with vertigo, vomiting, and perspiration.Is very nervous, can't bear to be spoken to, could cry at anything (produced.R. T. C.).Trembling of limbs, esp. the hands.Sensation of trembling in interior of body.Sensations of: heat in chest; of heat anywhere; with any trouble; of sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over the body; of contraction of inner parts, chiefly in abdomen, with feeling as if it should be bandaged up or supported; of a hoop or band around the parts; buzzing or vibration in the body; of knocking or throbbing in outer parts; as of a lump in inner parts; of roughness in inner parts; of tightness or stiffness in outer parts; of sometimes being very small and then again being very large.Attacks of uneasiness in whole body, which do not permit the continuance of a sitting posture, with desire to stretch and to contract the limbs alternately.Great nervous agitation; towards night; could not sleep.Great uneasiness and orgasm of blood.Violent ebullition of blood, sometimes with burning heat in hands.Great exhaustion, with great fatigue after the least conversation or the shortest walk, disposition to remain always seated, and profuse perspiration, even when sitting, reading, eating, lying down, or walking.The sensation of fatigue is sometimes removed by walking.Muscular weakness, esp. in knees and arms, and also in legs, with unsteadiness of gait.Stooping gait.Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered.Standing is the most disagreeable position; every standing position is uncomfortable.Extraordinary emaciation, sometimes with weakness, fatigue, and burning sensation in hands and feet.Great sensitiveness to open air and to the wind; with pains in limbs on a change of weather, disposition to take cold, and many sufferings produced by exposure to open air.The affections of head and stomach are those which are chiefly < in open air.The majority of the sufferings are < or appear at night, or in evening, and also during repose, when standing for a long time; and on exposure to cold air; they disappear on walking, on moving the parts affected, and also in warmth of a room; but the heat of the bed renders the nocturnal pains insupportable.Several symptoms appear periodically.When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favourable effect, esp. in acute cases, Sul. will frequently excite reaction and clear up the case.Complaints that are constantly relapsing.

25. Skin

[The greatest general psoric remedy for almost every kind of itch, sore, ulcer, &c.; very colicky babies with pimples, itch, or eruption on skin, or roughness of skin.Troubles of very long standing resulting from suppressed eruptionsSul. will very often bring these out and cause their cure.Exanthema in general on any part of the body which is < by any heat, from getting warm at work, in bed, &c.; freckles; cancerous ulcers.Skin dry; rough; scaly; voluptuous itching"feels so good to scratch"; ecchymosis; chapping of the skin, esp. when it ulcerates; chapping of the skin after being wet; soreness of the skin in children (soreness in folds of skin); brown sphacelus.Tetters in general; chapped; scurfy; painful; tearing; pulsating, &c.H. N. G.].Itching in skin, even of whole body, < at night, or in morning, in bed, and often with pain as of excoriation, heat, itching (soreness), or bleeding of the part which has been scratched.Eruptions, like those which often follow vaccination.(Eczema rubrum.Gouty-eczema with much oozing.R. T. C.).Seborrhœa of scalp (used locally.R. T. C.).Scabious eruptions and tetters of a greenish yellow colour, commencing with small itching phlyctenæ, with a red areola.Herpetic, red, irregular, furfuraceous spots, or covered with small phlyctenæ, discharging a serous lymph.Scabious eruptions.Ecthyma with itching day and night.Miliary eruptions, principally on limbs.Nettle-rash.Burning itching of the eruptions.Hepatic spots of a yellow or brownish colour (on the body).Erysipelatous inflammation, with pulsative and shooting pains.Weals, even from the slightest contusion.Bright scarlet redness over whole body.Tingling in the skin throughout the body.Red, swollen, and ulcerated chilblains, with itching in heat of a room.Callous warts, esp. round the fingers.Skin cold, pale, dry.The skin cracks easily, esp. in open air; cracks, with pain, as from excoriation.Rhagades after washing.The nails crumble off.Skin of hands hard and dry.Desquamation and excoriation of skin in several places.Pityriasis of head and chest.Unhealthy skin; slightest injuries are followed by inflammation and ulceration.Ulcers with elevated margins, surrounded by itchy pimples, red or bluish areola, sharp, lancinating, and tensive pains; bleeding readily, and secreting a fetid and sanious or yellow and thick pus.Ulcers with itching in the sore.Proud flesh in the ulcers.Fistulous ulcers.Furunculi.Encysted swellings, or pale, tense, and hot swellings; inflammatory abscess.Inflammation, swelling, and induration or suppuration of the glands.Nodosities on skin of whole body, but principally in the breast, from swelling of the subcutaneous glands.Dropsical, burning swelling of external parts.Inflammation, swelling, and painful sensibility of the bones.On the bones sensation of constriction, or as if a band were around them.Repugnance to ablutions.

26. Sleep

Unconquerable drowsiness, esp. in afternoon and in evening by candle-light.Irresistible drowsiness by day, wakefulness by night; in bed every place appeared hard for his head and he keeps moving it hither and thither.Goes to sleep late.Sleeps with his eyes half-open.Frequent yawning.Retarded sleep at night, or sleeplessness, sometimes caused by a great flow of ideas or from over-excitement.Sleep too light; or agitated with frequent waking, often with starts, and in a fright.Waking too early with inability to go to sleep again.Morning sleep too much prolonged; sometimes deep and lethargic, with difficulty in rising in morning.Unrefreshing sleep.Waking frequently during night when one becomes wide awake suddenly.Pains, uneasiness, and tingling in limbs, anxiety and heat, colic at night; gastralgia, vertigo, headache, visions and illusions of senses, palpitation of heart, asthmatic sufferings, hunger and thirst.Inability to sleep otherwise than on back, with head high.When sleeping, agitation and tossing, shocks in body and jerks in limbs, starts and fright, talking (talks loudly while asleep), cries, murmurs, wanderings, delirium, lamentation, and moaning, snoring, eyes half-open, lying on back with the arms above head, nightmare, and somnambulism.On waking, illusions of senses, frightful visions, and fear of ghosts.Frequent, fantastic, anxious, frightful, and horrible, anger-exciting, disgusting, and agitated dreams; dreams of fire, of dogs which bite, of being possessed of fine clothes, of falling, of danger, of death; dreams, with a presentiment concerning the events of the morrow.Vivid, beautiful, pleasant dreams.Singing during sleep.Happy dreams when one wakes up singing; busy all the time; wishing to touch something with inability to do so.Vivid dreams, remain impressed on the memory.After waking mind long confused.Immediately after closing eyes, horrible strange grimaces appeared to her, could not banish them.Lay in a reverie and talked of whatever vision appeared to him, with open eyes, for three nights in succession.Voluptuous dreams with seminal emissions.Vivid dream that she is seated on the chamber, which causes her to wet the bed.

27. Fever

Chilliness from want of natural heat.Chilliness, coldness, shivering, and shuddering, < in evening or at night in bed (followed by heat and profuse perspiration), as well as in afternoon, and when walking in open air.Chilliness in forenoon; heat with cold feet in afternoon.Chilliness externally with internal heat and a red face.Chilliness, beginning in the toes.Slight chill, 10 a.m., continues till 3 p.m., followed by heat lasting two hours, mostly in head and hands, with desire for beer.Partial shiverings, principally in back, chest, and arms, coldness in hands, feet, and nose.Chill constantly creeps from small of back up back.Chill and fever; no reaction; constantly sinking.During the shiverings paleness or heat in face, headache, and sometimes flushes of heat.Frequent flushes of heat.Heat, < at night or in evening or in morning, and also in afternoon, and often with (circumscribed) redness of cheeks, ardent thirst, burning sensation in hands and feet; partial shiverings, partial sweats, principally in head, face, and hands; fatigue and painful weariness in limbs, hoarseness and cough, anxiety, &c.Heat at night without thirst, preceded by chilliness with thirst.Febrile attacks both in forenoon and afternoon, or in evening, manifesting themselves by heat, which is preceded by shiverings, and followed or attended by perspiration, or else by heat in face, followed by shiverings.During the fever palpitation of heart, delirium, weakness, obstruction, and scabs in nose, with violent thirst, which last symptom may also occur before the shiverings.Swollen veins.Pulse hard, quick, and full (at times intermitting).Perspiration in general of single parts; on back part of the body; great disposition to perspire; perspiration, with anxiety; compound or intermittent fevers.Thirst.Want of perspiration.Frequent and profuse perspiration, day and night, evening and morning, in bed, aptness to perspire during labour, partial perspiration, chiefly on head, nape of neck, hands, &c., acid perspiration.Perspiration very debilitating, pungent smell, very seldom offensive, at times cold.Sweat smelling of sulphur.Perspiration only on one side of body; < at night and in morning.