Attacks of throbbing headache (e.g., in the forehead) with violent nausea as if about to sink down, or, also, vomiting; starting early in the evenings, repeated every fortnight, or sooner or later.
Headache as if the skull were about to burst open.2
Headache, drawing pains.3
Headache, stitches in the head (passing out at the ears).4 Roaring noise in the brain, singing, buzzing, humming, thundering, etc.
The scalp full of dandruff, with or without itching.
Eruption on the head, tinea capitis, malignant tinea with crusts of greater or less thickness, with sensitive stitches when one of the places becomes moist; when it becomes moist a violent itching; the whole crown of the head painfully sensitive to the open air; with it hard swellings of the glands in the neck.
The hair of the head as if parched.
The hair of the head frequently falls out, most in front, on the crown and top of the head; bald spots or beginning baldness of certain spots.
Under the skin are formed painful lumps, which come and pass away, like bumps and round tumors.5
Feeling of contraction in the skin of the scalp and the face.
Paleness of the face during the first sleep, with blue rings around the eyes.
Frequent redness of the face, and heat.6
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(1 Which also swell at times, with lachrymation of the one eye.)
(2 In some cases a drawing pain from the nape of the neck toward the occiput, at times also over the whole head and face, which is often bloated from it, while the head aches when touched, not infrequently attended with nausea.)
(3 Usually while walking, especially while walking and moving after meals.)
(4 At the same time everything frequently appears dark before her face.)
(5 Which also in rare cases pass over into suppuration.)
(6 He at times also becomes quite weak and weary from it or anxious, and he perspires on the upper part of the body; his eyes at times become dim; everything becomes black before his eyes, his mind is sad; his head also feels as if too full, with burning in the temples.)
Yellowish, yellow color of the face.
Sallow yellowish complexion.
Erysipelas on the face.1
Pressive pain on the eyes, especially late in the evening; he must shut them.
He cannot look long at anything, else everything flickers before him; objects seem to move.
The eyelids, especially in the morning, are as if closed; he cannot open them (for minutes; yea, even for hours); the eyelids are heavy as if paralyzed or convulsively closed.
The eyes are most sensitive to daylight; they are pained by it and close involuntarily.2
Sensation of cold in the eyes.
The canthi are full of pus-like mucus (eye-gum).
The edges of the eyelids full of dry mucus.
On the edges of the eyelids, inflammation of single Meibomian glands or of several of them.
Inflammations of the eyes, of various kinds.3
Yellowness around the eyes.
Yellowness of the white of the eye.4
Dim, opaque spots on the cornea.5
Dropsy of the eye.
Obscuration of the crystalline lens, cataract.
Squinting.
Far-sightedness; he sees far in the distance, but cannot clearly distinguish small objects held close.
Short-sightedness; he can see even small objects by holding them close to the eye, but the more distant the object is, the more indistinct it appears, and at a great distance he does not see it.
False vision; he sees objects double, or manifold, or only the one-half of them.
Before his eyes there are floating as it were flies, or black points, or dark streaks, or networks, especially when looking into bright daylight.
The eyes seem to look through a veil or a mist; the sight becomes dim at certain times.
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(1 In some cases with much fever, also at times with burning, itching, stinging watery blisters in the face, which turn into scabs (Erysipelas bullosum.)
(2 Usually with more or less inflammation.)
(3 The fistula lachrymalis has probably never any other cause than the itch-disease.)
(4 Or grey color of the same.)
(5 Even without having had any previous inflammation of the eyes.)
Night blindness; he sees well in daytime, but, in the twilight he cannot see at all.
Blindness by day; he can only see well during the twilight.
Amaurosis; uninterrupted dimness of vision1 increased finally even to blindness.
Painfulness of various spots in the face, the cheeks, the cheek-bones, the lower jaw, etc., when touched; while chewing, as if festering inwardly; also like stitches and jerks; especially in chewing there are jerks, stitches and a tension so that he cannot eat.2
The hearing is excessively irritated and sensitive; she cannot bear to hear a bell ring without trembling; he is thrown into convulsions by the beating of the drum, etc.; many sounds cause pain in the ear.
There are stitches in the ear, outwardly.3
Crawling sensation and itching in the ear.
Dryness in the ear; dry scabs within, without any ear-wax.
Running from the ear of thin, usually ill-smelling pus.
Pulsation in the ear.
Various sounds and noises in the ear.4
Deafness of various degrees even up to total deafness, with or without noise in the ear; occasionally worse, according to the weather.
Swelling of the parotid glands.5
Epistaxis, more or less profusely, more or less frequently.
The nostrils as it were stopped up.6
Sensation of dryness in the nose, troublesome even when the air passes freely.
Polypi of the nose (usually with the loss of the power of smelling); these may extend also through the nasal passages into the fauces.
Sense of smell, weak, lost.
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(1 More frequently without opacity of the crystalline lens than with it.)
(2 During chewing or speaking there is at times also a similar twitching on the sides of the head, where protuberances like painful bumps often arise. When the pain is still more unbearable and at times combined with a burning pain, it is called Fothergill’s pain in the face.)
(3 Especially while walking in the open air.)
(4 Such as clinking, rushing, seething, roaring, humming, chirping, ringing, drumming, thundering, whizzing, fluttering, murmuring, etc.)
(5 Often with stinging pains in the glands.)
(6 Either one or both, or alternately, first one, then the other; often there is only the sensation of being stopped up, while the air can be freely drawn in through it.)
Sense of smell perverted.1
Too violent sensation of smell, higher and highest sensitiveness for even imperceptible odors.
Scabs in the nose; discharge of pus or hardened clots of mucus.2
Fetid smell in the nose.
Nostrils frequently ulcerated, surrounded with, pimples and scabs.
Swelling and redness of the nose or the tip of the nose, frequent or continual.
Under the nose or on the upper lip, long-lasting scabs or itching pimples.
The red of the lips is quite pale.
The red of the lips is dry, scabby, peeling off; it chaps.
Swelling of the lips, especially of the upper lip.3
The inside of the lips is lined with little sores or blisters.4
Cutaneous eruption of the beard and of the roots of the hairs of the beard, with itching.
Eruptions of the face of innumerable kinds.5
Glands of the lower jaw swollen, sometimes passing over into chronic suppuration.
Glandular swellings down the sides of the neck.
Gums bleeding at a slight touch.
Gums, the external or the internal, painful, as if from wounds.
Gums, with erosive itching.
Gums, whitish, swollen, painful on touching.
Gums, recession, leaving the front teeth and their roots bare.
Gnashing of the teeth during sleep.
Looseness of the teeth, and many kinds of deterioration of the teeth, even without toothache.
Toothache of innumerable varieties, with varying causes of excitation.
She cannot remain in bed at night, owing to toothache
On the tongue, painful blisters and sore places.
Tongue white, coated white or furred white.
Tongue pale, bluish-white.
Tongue full of deep furrows; here and there, as if torn above.
Tongue dry.
Sensation of dryness on the tongue, even while it is properly moist.
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(1 E.g., the smell of manure or some other peculiar smell is in the nose.)
(2 Sometimes also a discharge of acrid mucus from the nose.)
(3 At times with a burning, biting pain.)
(4 Often very painful, coming and passing away.)
(5 Milk-crust, pimples, blotches, herpes and carcinomatous ulcers of the nose, lips and face (also called cancer), with burning and stinging pain.)
Stuttering, stammering; also at times sudden attacks of inability to speak.
On the inside of the cheeks painful blisters or sores.
Flow of blood from the mouth; often severe.
Sensation of dryness of the whole internal mouth, or merely in spots, or deep down in the throat.1
Fetid smell from the mouth.
Burning in the throat.
Constant flow of saliva, especially while speaking, particularly in the morning.
Continual spitting of saliva.
Frequent mucus deep down in the throat (the fauces), which he has to hawk up and expectorate frequently during the day, especially in the morning.
Frequently inflammation of the throat, and swelling of the parts used in swallowing.
Insipid, slimy taste in the mouth.
Intolerably sweet taste in the mouth, almost constantly.
Bitter taste in the mouth, mostly in the morning.2
Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.