Homeopathic Materia Medica

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, James Tyler Kent

We are not dependent upon Schuessler alone for indications for this remedy, as we have many pathogenetic symptoms.

Schuessler's indications were good and mostly confirmed by clinical observations. The author has given this remedy for twenty years to many patients whose nerves were in a fret from mental exertion and sexual excesses and vices.

Modalities: The symptoms are worse in the morning, evening, and night, and after midnight. There is marked anemia and aversion to the open air.

He is aggravated from a draft, from open cold, from becoming cold and after becoming cold, and there is a tendency to frequent taking cold.

He is worse from changes weather. Chlorosis. Aversion to bathing. Many symptoms after coition. He may be a sexual debauche.

Many symptoms come on from fasting, and he is generally ameliorated after eating aggravated from any physical exertion. His muscles are flabby, he is losing flesh.

He is disturbed by butter, cold drinks, fats, fruit, milk, sour things and vinegar.

Formication externally and internally. There is great physical irritability, and later a marked lack of reaction. Many symptoms are aggravated from a jar, or stepping. There is marked lassitude in the morning in hot weather. desire to lie down.

Prolonged weakness from loss of fluids. Lying on left side aggravates many symptoms. Worse before and after menses. During menses the symptoms are aggravated afternoon and evening. Numbness in single parts. Orgasm of blood. Stitching, tearing pains aggravated during a thunderstorm.

Pulsation all over the body. Sensation as though a shot was forced through the arteries is a verified symptom. Oversensitive in general, and to pain. Shocks through the body, in night while awake.

Sitting aggravates. General aggravation during a thunderstorm. Tension in muscles and tendons. Trembling in thunderstorm. Twitching of muscles. Nervous and paralytic weakness aggravated in morning, and after exertion. The body smells sour (like Hepar, Sulph., Lyc.).

Mind: Anger over trifles, and complaints from vexation.

Anxiety and night; in bed; before midnight; after eating; with fear fever; about the future; about his health; on waking.

Complaints from bad news. Aversion to company. Concentration difficult. Confusion of mind in the morning; in the evening; after eating; from mental exertion; on waking.

Delusions, frightful; thinks he sees dead people; imagines; thinks he is going to have typhoid fever; hears footsteps in the next room.

Discontented, discouraged and easily distracted. Dullness of mind while reading. Mental exertion brings on many complaints.

He is very excitable. Fear at night; of impending disease; that something will happen; of misfortune; on waking.

Fears bad news. Forgetful. Easily frightened, and heedless. She is hysterical, and in a hurry. No one works fast enough suit him. Sometimes his ideas are abundant, and again deficient and his mind grows sluggish.

Impatience. He is indifferent to every thing, even to his family. A gradually increasing indolence; a mental and physical work. Irritability; in the morning menses; about trifles. Memory weak.

Times of mirthfulness. Great prostration of mind. Restless and anxious, evening and night. Sadness in evening, after emission, during fever, and from music.

He is extremely sensitive to music and noise and to his surroundings. He grows serious and silent, and sits by himself quite still for a long time. He is easily startled, from fright, from noise, on falling asleep, and during sleep.

Spells of stupefaction creep over him. His friends call him suspicious. Indisposed to talk. His thoughts wander. He is growing timid and bashful. Weeps easily. Mental work becomes impossible and he seems to be approaching imbecility.

Vertigo and head: Vertigo in the morning; aggravated from mental exertion while sitting and walking. Tendency to fall.

Congestion in the evening. Heat in head in evening, in forehead and vertex. Flushes of heat after sweat. Tension in the scalp.

Eruptions on the head of golden yellow scabs; eczema on the forehead. Fullness in forehead; over the eyes; in the morning; aggravated by, mental exertion. Heaviness of the head, and the hair falls out.

Pain in the head, morning, afternoon, evening and night, aggravated binding up the hair; after eating; must lie down; aggravated from light; lying; before, during and after menses; mental exertion; after sour milk; motion; motion of head; noise; rising from lying; in a room, sexual excesses, after sleep; after stooping; straining eyes; during a thunderstorm; while walking; warm room; ameliorated in open air; by pressure.

The headaches are periodical, pulsating. Pain in forehead aggravated from mental exertion; from motion; over eyes; in occiput; sides of head; temples; in vertex on waking in morning; in vertex and forehead.

The pains are bursting, cutting in temples and sides of head; drawing in head and occiput; pressing with sour slimy vomiting; pressing in forehead, outward, over eyes; pressing in occiput, and sides of occiput; pressing in temples; pressing in vertex as if it would open.

Stitching in head, in forehead, in sides of head, in temples. Stunning in head and forehead. Tearing in head. Perspiration of forehead. Pulsating in head, forehead, temples and vertex. Shocks in the head. Twitching. Uncovering the head brings on the symptoms.

Eyes: Dryness of the eyes.

Creamy yellow discharges. Heaviness of the lids. Inflammation of the eyes. Scrofulous ophthalmia, and granular lids. Itching and burning of the lids and margin of the lids.

Burning lachrymation, must rub the eyes.

Pain in the eyes, when reading. Burning and cutting. Pressing during menses. Pain as though sand in eyes. Sore, bruised feeling when reading. Stitching pain in eyes.

Paralysis of the optic nerve. Photophobia. Pupils dilated. One pupil dilated. Quivering of right eyelid while reading. Staring. Strabismus. Swollen lids. Yellow sclerotics.

Colors before the eyes, dark. Halo around the light. Dim vision for distant objects. Foggy vision; blindness.

Exertion of vision aggravates many symptoms. Flickering before the eyes morning on rising, at 5 P.M. Mist before the eyes aggravated in gaslight at 8 P.M. Myopia. Sparks before the eyes.

Ears: Eruption on the ears.

Creamy yellow crusts on the ears. Fullness in ears. Heat and redness of one ear. Itching in the ears. Lobe of right ear burning and itching, must scratch it until it bleeds. Noises in ears, with vertigo, humming, ringing, roaring, rushing, singing, whizzing.

Pain in ear. Aching in right meatus. Burning. Stitching in and behind ear. Tearing. Pulsation. Stopped sensation. The hearing is acute, acute for voices; impaired, lost.

Nose: The patient is subject to fluent coryza, and catarrh of the nose with thick yellow-purulent discharge.

Epistaxis on blowing the nose. Fullness at the root of the nose. The nose is obstructed with mucus and crusts, but the discharge is generally scanty.

Offensive odors in the nose in the morning. Ozoena. Pricking in the left nostril brings tears to the eyes.

Smell is acute. Soreness in the left nostril. He picks the nose constantly and scales form. Frequent sneezing. Tension over the root of the nose.

Face: Discoloration of the face, bluish circles around the eyes; earthy, pale; red blotches but not feverish red alternating with paleness; yellow, liver spots, white about nose and mouth.

Eruptions on the face, on the chin, forehead, lips, about the mouth, on the nose. Pimples on the forehead. Pustules on the face. Heat in the evening during chill. The face burns. Itching of the face and nose.

Pain in the face, burning, neuralgic. Shooting in the right cheek. Soreness in the right lower jaw at angle, darting through it. Stitching. Swelling of the glands of the lower jaw. Swelling of the sub-maxillary gland.

Mouth: Bleeding gums.

The tongue is coated yellow. Yellow at the base, or dirty white. Roof of mouth coated golden yellow or creamy. Dryness of mouth and tongue.

Salivation. Sensation of a hair on the tongue, followed by prickly numbness of whole mouth.

Speech difficult. Stinging on the tongue. Taste bad on waking, bitter, metallic, saltish, sour. Vesicles in mouth and on tongue.

Caries of the teeth. Grinding the teeth during sleep in children. Looseness of the teeth. Pain in the teeth, at night, ameliorated by pressure and external warmth. Burning, pressing and pulsating.

Throat and tonsils: coated yellow.

Dryness of the throat. Mucus forms in throat. Tough clear white mucus in posterior nares. Thick yellow mucus drops from posterior nares, aggravated at night, must sit up to clear the throat. Sensation of a lump in throat. Much hawking.

Inflammation of throat. Pain in throat on swallowing. Sore throat on right edge, aggravated swallowing. Burning, pricking, stitching. Pulsation in left tonsil. Scraping mucus from posterior nares. Swallows liquids better than solids in sore throat.

Stomach: The appetite is increased, ravenous or wanting.

Aversion to food, to meat, to milk, to bread and butter. Desires alcoholic drinks, beer, pungent food, eggs, fried fish, cold drinks. The stomach is disordered by fat and milk. Emptiness, aggravated after eating. Eructation after eating, empty, sour; waterbrash.

Fullness after eating. Heartburn, heaviness and pressure. Heat in the stomach. Nausea in the morning, evening, during cough, and during headache.

Pain in the stomach; after eating; two hours after eating; cramping; gastralgia, several attacks every day with vomiting sour fluids; over-secretion of lactic acid. Gnawing in the stomach. Pressing after eating. Soreness and stitching. Retching. Extreme thirst.

Ulceration of the stomach. Sour vomiting. Creamy coating on the tongue. Sour odor of the body. Vomiting on coughing, with headache, of bile, bitter, frothy with headache, of mucus, sour in infants fed on milk, sour cheesy masses in intermittent fever; in pregnancy; vomiting yellow, green.

Abdomen: Distension of the abdomen after eating.

Sensation of emptiness, after stool. Flatulence, obstinate, after eating. Fullness gurgling and hardness. Pain afternoon and night, after eating, paroxysmal, before stool. Pain in hypochondria. Burning in abdomen. Cramping before stool, causing urging to stool, while walking. Cutting in abdomen. Pressing in the hypogastrium. Soreness in the whole abdomen.

Stitching in the abdomen and in liver. Torpid liver. Rumbling. Tension.

Constipation with difficult hard stool. Inactivity of the rectum; one day constipated, next day diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea morning, night, with colic, after eating, in summer, with flatus.

Anus: The anus is excoriated; much flatus; involuntary stools, involuntary when passing flatus.

Sore, itching anus, aggravated in the warmth of the bed. Pain in the rectum after stool. Burning during and after stool. Painful contraction of anus. Cutting during stool. Stitching on walking. Tenesmus. Urging to stool after coition, in a man.

Urging ineffectual, unsatisfactory. Weak feeling in the rectum before stool. The stool is bloody, cheesy, crumbling; light colored, bileless stool; green; jelly-like masses; pasty; sour-smelling.

Stools; thin yellowish brown stool; watery; yellowish green; yellowish brown. Worms with the stool.

Bladder: Paralysis of the bladder.

Pressing pain in the bladder before urination. Urging to urinate at night, after coition (man); after eating; constant; frequent. Dysuria. Urination frequent, at night, during perspiration, involuntary, night, during sleep.

Must wait for urine to start. Must press a long time before urine starts. Unsatisfactory urination. Stitching pain in the kidneys. Emission of prostatic fluid during stool. Enlarged prostate. Burning in the urethra during the flow of urine.

After stool burning and itching of the meatus. The urine is albuminous, burning, cloudy, dark, pale; copious; night and morning, offensive, scanty, with mucous sediment.

Men: Erections are troublesome morning and night, continued, frequent, incomplete, painful, without desire, violent, wanting.

Vesicles upon the genitalia. Itching of the scrotum, prepuce and anus. Pain in the spermatic cords and testes. Drawing in spermatic cords. Pressing in testes.

Seminal emission after coition, without dreams, without erections, frequent, unconscious. Sexual passion diminished, or increased, without erection, vomiting. Swelling of penis and testes.

Female: Desire increased in the female.

Leucorrhoea after menses, acrid, copious, creamy, honey colored, sour smelling, yellow and watery.

Menses absent, copious, too frequent, late, pale, painful, protracted. Prolapsus of the uterus with a weak sinking feeling after stool. Sterility.

Respiration: Soreness in trachea.

Hoarseness and loss of voice. Respiration is asthmatic, difficult, short and sighing.

Cough afternoon, evening in bed, night, during chill, constant, with coryza, after drinking. Dry evening cough with expectoration in the morning. Hacking, hallow, short, racking cough, with irritation in chest or larynx.

Loose morning cough. Tickling in larynx and chest, Violent cough. Cough aggravated while sitting. Expectoration in the morning bloody, greenish, mucous, offensive, purulent, thick, viscid, yellow; tasting flat, putrid, salty.

Anxiety in the chest; a bubble starts from the heart and passes through the arteries. Constriction of the chest. Empty sensation in the chest after eating. Pimples on the chest. Sudden feeling of fullness in the upper part of the chest. Oppression of the chest. Pain in the chest after dinner, from deep breathing, during cough.

Pain in the heart. Aching, pressing in the chest. Burning deep in the chest, aggravated on the right side, evening in bed. Cutting, pressing. Rawness in chest on coughing. Soreness in chest. Stitching in the chest, sides of chest aggravated in left side.

Palpitation, anxious, after, eating; aggravated from noise, lying on the left side, during a thunderstorm. Phthisis florida in young people. Trembling of heart, after menses, on ascending stairs.

Back: Heavy dragging in the back. Itching of the skin of the back.

Pain in the back at night, during menses, on motion, from sexual excesses, while sitting. Pain in the dorsal region; left scapula, between scapulae. Pain in lumbar region, during menses. Pain in sacrum, during menses.

Aching in back during menses in lumbar region. Sore bruised back and spine. Spinal irritation.

Burning in lumbar region and in the spine. Drawing in the back. Sharp pain in right sacro-iliac junction. Stitching in lumbar region.

Perspiration of the back. Stiffness both sides of neck. Swelling of the glands of the neck. Weakness of the back toward evening, in the lumbar region, after emissions.

Limbs: cold hands, legs and feet.

Feet icy cold during menses, in daytime, burn at night in bed. Contraction of extensors in forearm while writing. Sore stinging corns. Cramp in calves and feet. Cramp in hands, while writing. Cracking in joints. Eruption on limbs, vesicles; pimples and vesicles on lower limbs; pimples on nates, eczema of ankles. Formication of upper limbs and of feet.

Heat of hands and feet Heaviness of limbs, of lower limbs, legs and feet. Itching of limbs, upper limbs, lower limbs, ankles. Numbness of limbs, upper limbs, right hand and arm, of fingers, right fingers, of feet. Pain in the limbs. Gouty, rheumatic joints, wrist. Rheumatic pain in shoulder (right). Pain in leg, calf, ankle, ball of foot, first toe. Bruised pain in limbs, lower limbs, knee, leg. Burning hands and soles.

Crampy pain in left hand and index finger. Drawing in forearm, wrist during menses, hand, joints, left shoulder, hip and knee. Pressure in shoulder. Stitching in shoulder and fingers, in hip, thigh, knee, soles, heel. Tearing in limbs, joints, upper limbs, shoulder, upper arm, elbow, fingers; lower limbs, hip, knee, leg, foot, toes.

Perspiration of hands and feet. Restless legs. Shortening of tendons in hollow of knee, also, after menses. Stiffness of joints. Swelling of fingers; of lower limbs, of feet. Tension in hamstrings and calf Trembling in hands, in knees after emissions.

Twitching of muscles. Weakness of upper limbs, of hands, of right wrist and left ankle after menses; of lower limbs, thighs, ankles. Weakness of ankles in children (Nat. c.). Sudden giving way of legs while walking.

Sleep: Very deep sleep.

The patient is a great dreamer. Dreams anxious, amorous, of dead people, distressing, of previous events, of fire, frightful, nightmare, pleasant, vexatious and vivid.

Falling asleep in the chair. The sleep is restless. Sleepiness all day and after dinner, most in forenoon. Sleepless before midnight, after midnight, from crowding of thoughts. Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep. Unrefreshing sleep.

Wakeful from 12 to 3 A.M. Waking early, 5 A.M., unrested. Waking late.

Coldness in evening in bed, in cold air. Chilliness in evening, during menses, after eating. Shaking chill. One-sided coldness. Internal chill. Fever, flushes of heat and headache every afternoon. Cannot get to sleep, feels so hot. Fever with sweat during sleep. Intermittent fever with vomiting of sour masses.

Skin: Perspiration in the daytime, morning, afternoon, during the night.

Anxious sweat. Cold sweat. Perspiration on coughing, on slight exertion. Profuse sweat in the morning and during the night with great nervous weakness. Sour smelling sweat. The infant smells sour.

Biting, burning, or coldness of the skin. Liver spots red spots, yellow spots and jaundiced skin. Dry skin. Dry, burning eruptions; blisters, boils, burning, desquamating, moist, dry, herpetic, painful, phagedenic, pimples, golden yellow scales; suppurating, urticaria, vesicular. Eczema with honey colored discharge. Erysipelas. Excoriation. Formication. Freckles.

Gnawing pain in skin. Inactivity of the skin. Itching, biting, burning, crawling, creeping, stinging, ameliorated by scratching, aggravated by warmth of bed. Sensitive skin. Sore feeling in the skin. Sticking in skin. Swelling of skin, of affected parts.

Dropsical skin. Ulcerative pain. Ulcers; biting, burning, crawling, deep; discharge offensive and yellow; fistulous, inflamed, red areola, sensitive, stinging, suppurating, swollen, unhealthy. Unhealthy skin. Warts.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Phosphate of Soda. Hydric Disodic Phosphate. Na2HPO4, 12H2O. Trituration. Solution.

Clinical.─Acidity (infants). Conjunctivitis. Diabetes. Dyspepsia. Enteralgia. Erysipelas. Gastralgia. Glands, scrofulous swelling of. Goitre. Gout. Intertrigo. Leucocytosis. Leucorrhoea. Morphinomania. Phthisis. Post-nasal catarrh. Rheumatism. Scrofula. Sighing. Sterility. Threadworms. Urticaria. Worms.

Characteristics.─As Nat. phos. is one of Schüssler's introductions I will first quote what he has to say about it: "Nat. phos. is contained in the blood-corpuscles, in the cells of the muscles, of the nerves and of the brain, as well as in the intercellular fluids. Through the presence of Nat. p. lactic acid is decomposed into carbonic acid and water. Nat. p. is able to bind to itself carbonic acid, receiving into itself two parts of carbonic acid for every volume of phosphoric acid. When it has thus bound the carbonic acid it conveys it to the lungs. The oxygen flowing into the lungs liberates the carbonic acid, which is only loosely attached to the Nat. p.; the carbonic acid is then exhaled and exchanged for oxygen, which is absorbed by the iron of the blood-corpuscles. Nat. p. is the remedy for those diseases which are caused by an excess of lactic acid. It therefore answers to the diseases of infants, who, having been fed to excess with milk and sugar, suffer from redundant acids. The symptoms in such cases are: Sour eructations, vomiting of sour, cheesy masses; yellowish-green, so-called hacked diarrhoeas; colic, spasms with acidity. Uric acid is dissolved in the blood by two factors, the warmth of the blood and Nat. p. If uric acid is deposited from its solution in the joints or near them, owing to a deficiency of Nat. p., or when it combines with the base of Carbonate of soda into urate of soda, which is insoluble, then there arises podagra or acute arthritic rheumatism. During an acute attack of podagra the secretion of uric acid in the urine is diminished by just so much as is retained of it in the diseased parts. Nat. p. also serves to saponify the fatty acids; it therefore cures those dyspeptic ailments which arise from eating fat food, or which are aggravated thereby."─Nat. p. has been proved, chiefly in the attenuations, under Farrington's direction. Schüssler's indications do not all appear in the provings, but I insert them in the Schema and distinguish them by (S). The correspondence is tolerably close. In the proving the nose-irritation and itching anus of the worm-condition was developed. Atony of bladder. Hair sensation on tongue. Tightness of muscles and tendons. Seminal emissions. Charles Mohr, who was one of the provers, relates in Amer. Med. Monthly (Oct., 1897) the effect it had on him and the use he made of it. After being under the influence of the drug some time (without knowing what it was) he had much itching at the ankle-joints, with an eczematous eruption. Fear, especially at night, that something would happen. Headache; some nausea; defect of vision, one pupil dilated. The symptoms had to be antidoted with Sepia. Two years after, Mohr had a patient with visional disturbance and headache, and when these were at their worst he had a sense of fear, < at night, and an eruption about the ankles which began with itching. Nat. p. 6x cured promptly. M. J. Luys (H. W., xxxiv. 477) has successfully overcome the morphia habit by subcutaneous injections of Nat. ph. with glycerine and water.─The symptoms are < walking, especially up stairs. Warmth of bed = itching at anus from worms. Thunderstorm < pains; = trembling and palpitation. When big toe pains heart pains are >. There is periodicity in the action. < From coitus.

Relations.─Antidoted by: Sep. (especially eruption and swelling about joints); Apis (urticaria). Compare: Acidity and scrofula, Calc., Rheum. Gout, Benz. ac., Guaiac., Lyc., Urt. ur., Sul. Gastric catarrh, Calc., Carb. v., Kali c., Nux, Robin., Carbol. ac. Speech impeded, Nat. m. Hair sensation, Nat. m., K. bi., Sil. < From coitus, K. ca., Caust. Worms, Abrot., Cina, Teucr. Drinking water = cough, Sil.; (Caust. > cough). Emissions causing weak back and knees, Nat. m.

Causation.─Sugar. Milk. Fat food. Bitter foods. Thunderstorms.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Melancholy, esp. after emissions.─Despondent; could not study; imagined he was going to have typhoid fever.─Fears bad news.─Nervous fears on waking.─Easily startled.─Irritable.─Memory lost.

2. Head.─Dizzy, as if he would fall; objects turn round on rising or moving.─Dulness in head and at root of nose.─Fulness in head; flushes of heat, afterwards sweat.─Fulness in forehead, over eyes; in morning; while studying; With cutting in r. temple.─Sharp cutting r. side of head with, at times, dull aching over eyes.

3. Eyes.─Eyes weak; < from gas-light 8 p.m.─Slight burning, lachrymation, must rub eyes.─Cutting in r. eye.─Eyes feel as if sand in them.─Pain over eyes.─Pressure on r. eye during menses.─Pressure over r. eye with sighing.─Pain in l. orbit, with pain in bowels, extending up into chest; flatulence.─R. supraorbital neuralgia.─Lids heavy, itch along margins.─Dryness of l. eyeball with bruised pain.─Vision: dim; flickering; halo round gas-light.─(Squinting, with worms.).─Disturbed vision, one pupil dilated.

4. Ears.─Lobe of r. ear burning and itching so intolerably has to scratch it till it bleeds.─Sensation in ears as of water dropping from a height into a long round vessel.─Fulness in ears, aching in r. meatus.─Itching and tickling in (r.) Eustachian tube from middle ear.─Imagines he hears footsteps in next room.

5. Nose.─Fulness at root of nose; skin feels drawn tight over it.─Nose as if full of mucus, but discharge slight.─L. nostril sore, painful; picks it constantly; scales form.─Pricking in l. (and r.) nostril, brings tears to eyes.─Offensive odour before nose.

6. Face.─Shooting pain in r. cheek.─Peculiar stitching pain along cheek into ears.─Great soreness r. lower jaw at angle; occasional slight darting through jaw.─Intense itching of face esp. nose.

8. Mouth.─Teeth in morning and mouth all day covered with a brownish mucus.─Gumboils on molars.─Tongue coated dirty white, brown centre.─Moist, golden-yellow, or creamy coating back part of roof of mouth (S).─Sensation of hairs on tip of tongue, followed by prickling numbness of whole mouth.─Stinging on tip of tongue.─Bad taste (coppery) on waking.─Tries to say a word, but it will not come out; feels as if something closed in throat preventing speech.

9. Throat.─Mucus in throat.─Tough clear white phlegm in posterior nares.─Thick yellow mucus drops from posterior nares; < night; wakens him; must sit up to clear throat.─Sensation of lump in throat.─R. side of throat sore; sensation as of a pin pricking it; < swallowing liquids, > swallowing solids; throbbing in region of l. tonsils.

11. Stomach.─Acidity in children fed with excess of milk and sugar (S).─Dyspepsia from f at food, or < by fat food (S).─Canine hunger with gone feeling in stomach.─Desires: strong-tasting things; eggs; fried fish; beer, which >.─Aversion to: bread-and-butter.─Sour eructations (S).─Eructations after eating.─Goneness; in stomach and abdomen, even in chest; < after eating.─Heaviness and pressure in epigastrium.─Vomiting of sour cheesy masses (S).

12. Abdomen.─Sharp cutting in hypochondria and l. iliac region.─Flatulence, < after eating; rumbling.─Whilst at stool, sensation as if a marble dropped down descending colon.─Colic, and pressure, with acidity (S).─Colic, as from wind pressing on bladder, causing frequent inclination and urging to stool.─Colicky pains while walking.─Colic in hypogastrium; soreness.

13. Stool and Anus.─Burning contracting pain in anus and lower rectum (on waking from troubled dream).─Sticking as from splinter in anus on walking.─Sore, raw feeling.─Itching soreness; must scratch.─Must bring will to bear to prevent escape of faeces.─Diarrhoea with colic; fears to pass flatus for fear faeces should escape.─After coitus (man) urging to stool and urination: stools small, loose.─Yellowish green, so-called "hacked diarrhoea" (S).─Stool: yellowish brown.; profuse, thin, yellowish brown.─Before stool: Weak feeling in rectum and sphincter.─Small stool before breakfast, soft yet with effort; sudden urging while eating; afterwards, watery yellowish brown, painless stool.─Large, soft stool, easily expelled, with feeling afterwards as if much remained behind.─Costive.─One day costive, next diarrhoea.─Intestinal, long or round worms, with acidity, picking nose, occasional squinting, pain in bowels, restless sleep (S).

14. Urinary Organs.─Burning during micturation.─After coitus burning and itching at meatus.─Frequent micturition.─Obliged to vomit from pressure of wind on bladder, pressure not > thereby.─Passed a large quantity of urine on arising in morning.─Bladder semi-paralysed: flow soon stops, and requires straining.─Urine: increased, pale; scanty, dark.─(Diabetes, hepatic form).

15. Male Sexual Organs.─Erections almost nightly, preceded by slight pains in testicles (< l.).─Drawing in testes and cords.─Emissions: at night with vivid dreams; after coitus; without dreams.─Semen, thin, watery, smells like stale urine.─Emissions followed by weak back and trembling of knees.─Great itching of scrotum; prepuce; anus.

16. Female Sexual Organs.─Menses five days early.─During menses: feet icy cold by day, burn at night in bed; pressure in r. eye; flow at first paler than usual.─After menses: symptoms <; trembling at heart, headache; paralytic aching in r. wrist; knees feel as if tendons shortened.─Leucorrhoea: creamy or honey-coloured; sour-smelling, acrid, and watery (S).─Prolapsus uteri with weak sinking sensation after defecation.

17. Respiratory Organs.─Hoarseness.─Cough from drinking water.─Cough from tickling in throat.─Constant cough and hawking; pain in chest in mammary region.

18. Chest.─Empty feeling in chest,< after a meal.─Pain through chest (< Q after dinner.─Pain from r. clavicle diagonally to stomach, intense, caused starting, followed by hoarseness.─Burning deep in chest, < r. side.─Sudden feeling of fulness.─Contracted feeling; muscles as if drawn; aching pains.─Weight above ensiform cartilage, with empty feeling.─Lower third of sternum, pain as if torn in two.─(Phthisis florida in young subjects).

19. Heart.─Trembling about heart < going up stairs.─Feeling as if a lump or bubble started from heart and were forced through arteries.─Heart feels uneasy, esp. about base, when pains in limbs and great toe are better.─Pulses felt all over body.─Pulse, quick, jerking.

20. Neck and Back.─Crick in both sides of neck.─Scrofulous swelling of lymphatic glands (S).─Goitre.─Weakness in back towards evening.─Slight pain in l. scapula.─Sharp pain in r. sacro-iliac joint.

21. Limbs.─R. wrist and l. ankle weak, ache as if paralysed (after menses).─Drawing in hands, feet, wrist-joints, and l. shoulder.

22. Upper Limbs.─Synovial crepitation.─Arm (l.) feels gone, tired.─Arms weak, must let them drop.─Heaviness of r. arm.─Contraction of extensors in back of arm, often, when writing.─Rheumatic pain in r. shoulder; feels nervous.─Shooting pains from neck over r. shoulder.─Deep-seated pain in r. wrist going into palm.─Drawing cramping; paralytic aching (during menses) in r. wrist.─Numbness in r. hand and arm.─Crampy pain in l. hand, esp. index finger.─Numbness in r. fingers, occasional darting, < ring fingers.─Severe shooting pains in l. middle and index fingers.

23. Lower Limbs.─Synovial crepitation.─Sudden giving way of legs while walking, as though they would be paralysed.─Hamstrings stiff.─Sharp, shooting front of l. thigh.─Knees feel as if tendons shortened; (also at menses).─Stitching in l. knee.─When walking: calves feel pulled tight, as if needles piercing calf.─Pain in ball of foot; in (r.) big toe.─Gout (S).─Rheumatism (S).─Much itching at ankle-joints; even eczematous eruption.

24. Generalities.─Lassitude: in morning; in hot weather.─Nervous.─Sore.─Wakes at midnight; soon a sensation like electric shock through body; trembling and palpitation as from fright.─Deposits in joints (S).

25. Skin.─Itching; < after going to bed; hives (Apis >).─Itching papules on r. ear; about joints.─Itching of scrotum, prepuce, and anus.─Chafing of skin.─Eczema, with acidity, honey-coloured secretion.─Crusta lactea.─Golden-yellow scabs.

26. Sleep.─Drowsy all day, most forenoon; falls asleep sitting.─Unusual excitement, could not sleep till 1, awoke again at 5, unrested.─Sleepless 12 to 3 a.m.─Dreams: sexual; vexing; of the dead.

27. Fever.─Chilly: during menses; most on chest; followed by hot flushes round body.─Feet icy cold by day, burn at night (during menses).─Cannot get to sleep feels so hot; thoughts crowd on his mind.─Flashes of heat and sweat.─Face burns.─Exceedingly sour-smelling sweats (S).─Intermittent fever with vomiting of sour masses (S).

Leaders In Homoeopathic Therapeutics, Eugene Beauharnais Nash

Excess of acidity; yellow, creamy coating at the back part of the roof of the mouth; sour eructations and vomiting.