Materia Medica

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Mind.-- Extreme irritability and anger. Silent grief and despair, with much weeping. Anxious restlessness, driving him out of bed at night. Concern for the future. Anxious fear of misfortune. Apprehensive, early in morning. Irresolution and fastidiousness. Hysteria.

Vertigo.-- As though' intoxicated, when rising from bed in morning.

Head.-- Violent headache every morning, ending in fainting and cold sweat. Contraction in forehead. Feeling of tensive pressure like a constriction. Worse in occiput, with stiff neck. Numb feeling in. Scald head. Worse: Early, on awaking and rising from bed, moving head, riding, eating. Better: Walking in open air, external pressure, at rest, in warmth.

External Head.-- Moist, crusty, foul, smarting eruption, spreading by eating at its edges from vertex down sides of head, scratching causes excoriation and more moisture, which dries into white crusts. Violent sticking itching on, most on vertex and behind ears. leaving moist bald spots when scratched, which develop erysipelas and pain like boils. Bald swellings, follicular tumors and scales on, with great heat of. Paralytic tearing in cranial muscles, especially on sides and behind ears. Hair of vertex, sides and beard turns gray early and falls out. Worse: By day than by night, becoming cold, walking in open air. Better: Warmth, after being in open air.

Eyes.-- Pressure and sticking in with lachrymation. Inflamed, with red, swollen lids and photophobia. Intolerance of daylight. Myopia.

Ears.-- Dryness of internal. Eruption and excoriation behind. Difficult hearing.

Nose.-- Chronic dryness of. Black pores on. Discharge of fetid pus from. Ulcerating, scurfy nostrils. Extremely sensitive smell. Coryza on becoming cold, during day. Stuffed coryza, with headache and nausea, Discharge of foul - smelling mucus from.

Face.-- Pale yellow color. Flying heat. Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of. Follicular tumors on. Unilateral distortion and paralysis of facial muscles, rendering speech difficult. Ulcers on inside of lips. Scurfy eruption on chin, and about mouth. Hard, swollen submaxillary glands.

Teeth.-- Sticking ache from cold drinks, worse warmth. Gums swell and bleed easily.

Mouth.-- Offensive, urinous odor from. Sore throat, with a feeling of a lump or plug therein, especially at night. Spasms in throat causing retching.

     Taste: Bitter, in mouth.

Stomach.-- Great weakness of digestion. Spasms and pressure in, with nausea, better from warmth of bed. Burning in, necessitates eating.

     Hypochondria: Induration in region of liver.

     Appetite: Excessive hunger. Aversion to warm, cooked food. Great thirst early in morning and after eating.

     Eructations: Copious. Sour, with bitter taste in mouth

     Nausea: Early in morning. And vomiting after every meal. Sour vomiting.

Abdomen.-- Fullness and heaviness in. Indurations in. (Plb.) Painfulness in inguinal region, with swelling of glands. Distended after eating.

     Flatulence: Extraordinary accumulation of gas in abdomen, which is tense and inflated. Excessive discharge of fetid f.

Stool.-- Chronic constipation. Hard and too large in form. (Chronic soft, too small in size.) Mucus.

Anus.-- Painful varicosities of, with fissures between them.

Urine.-- Sour smelling. Anxious, painful urging to urinate, with discharge of dark, scanty urine, drop by drop. Nocturnal enuresis. Pain in coccyx when urinating.

Sexual Organs.-- Tension in, with voluptuous thoughts. Uncontrollable sexual desire. Edematous swelling of foreskin and scrotum. Excoriation of female pudendum. Painful swelling of ovaries.

Female.-- Menses: Too late, too scanty and too pale. Appear with difficulty in young women. Cramp in abdomen during. Thin, white leucorrhoea.

Cough.-- In evening or at night, excited by deep breathing.

Larynx.-- Sensitive, with scratching therein and hoarseness. Husky voice.

Chest.-- Stitches in and palpitation from the least motion. Inflamed and swelled mammae. Excoriated nipples with humid vesicles on.

Back.-- Formication on. Bruised feeling in lumbar region.

     Neck: Painful stiffness of nape when nodding head and raising arms.

Upper Extremities.-- Emaciation of hands. Distorted fingers. Gouty nodes on fingers. Excoriation between fingers. Thick, distorted nails.

Lower Extremities.-- Excoriation between legs. Numb thighs. Stiffness and muscular contraction in popliteal spaces. Stiff knees. Cold feet in evening in bed. Sticking pains in heels. Distortion and stiffness of toes. Spreading vesicles and ulcers on, and excoriation between toes. Thick, crippled toe - nails.

Generalities.-- Great emaciation Complaints are intensified when becoming cold, he takes cold easily. Drawing through entire body, with inclination to stretch. Asleep sensation in limbs, of part wherein he lies. Contracted tendons. Distortion of single parts. Violent pulsation throughout entire body with every movement. Great general debility without pain, compelling him to groan. After walking in open air many complaints disappear.

Tissues.-- Glands swollen and indurated.

Skin.-- Sense of dryness, and want of transpiration. Erysipelatous inflammations. Eruptions and humid herpes. Encysted tumors. Denuded, raw spots in children. Unhealthy. Ulcers with offensive pus and proud flesh. Thick, crippled nails.

Sleep.-- Difficult falling to s., in evening Dizzy, fatiguing morning sleep. Disturbed by anxious, fearful dreams at night.

Fever.-- Pulse: Full and hard, but not noticeably accelerated. Chill: And chilliness, mostly in evening. Chilliness day and night, especially in evening after four o'clock. Heat: General, dry, in evening and during night, after previous chill. When riding in a carriage. Sweat: From slightest motion. profuse night sweat. Sour, offensive smelling, from cold, staining linen yellow. Utter inability to. Is aggravated by talking and ameliorated by walking open air.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Aco., Ag-c., Ap., Ars., Bell., Calc-c., Caust., FLU-AC., Guai., Kali-c., Lyc., Mag-c., NAT-C., nit-ac., Nux-v., Phos., PULS., Sep., Sil., Sul., Thuj.

     Complementary: Sul.