Smelling Salts. HAHNEMANN. 2NH4O2 3CO2.
Mind
Forgetful, makes mistakes in writing and speaking.
Absent minded.
Confusion and dulness of the head.
Aversion to work, not disposed for anything.
Gloomy, depressed with feeling of impending trouble, with sensation of coldness.
Anxious concern about one’s sickness.
Anxiety, with inclination to weep.
Hearing others talk, or talking himself, affects him.
Sensorium
Frequent giddiness, as if the surroundings were turning with him in a circle, in the morning after rising, lasting the whole day, worse in evening; also at night, when moving the head.
Congestion of blood to the head at night and when awaking, heat of the face.
Inner Head
Headache; in the morning in bed with nausea and rising in throat, as if to vomit; in the morning, but worse in the afternoon.
Boring, stitches headache at night.
Headache, thrusts in the forehead, as if it would burst.
Pulsating, beating and pressing in forehead, as if it would burst; worse after eating; while walking in open air; better from from pressure; in warm room.
Stitches in various parts of the head.
Tearing : in whole head; in temples; back of left ear, ascending to vertex.
Sensation of looseness of the brain; as if brain fell to the side toward which he leaned.
Outer Head
Drawing pain in periosteum of forehead, wakens form sleep in morning, passes off after rising.
Severe itching of the scalp, especially on the occiput.
Sensation as if hair would stand on end, with crawling and cold feeling on head, after coming into room from open air.
Scalp, even the hair, painful to touch.
Eyes
Double vision.
Aversion to light, with burning in eyes.
Optical illusions, particularly in white or bright colors.
Large black spot floats before eyes after sewing.
Cataract of the right eye.
Pressure on eyelids, that he cannot open them. even though internally awake.
Pressure, cutting and stitching in the eyes.
Smarting in the eyes and itching on the margin of lids.
Stye on the right upper eyelid, with tension.
Inflammation of the eyes; vision obscured.
Eyes bloodshot, with lachrymation.
Ears
Hardness of hearing; ear itches and discharges pus.
Humming before the ears.
Itching above the ears, spreads over the whole body.
Hard swelling of the right parotid gland.
Painful sensitiveness of the dull ear to loud noise.
Nose
When stooping, blood rushes to tip of nose.
Nosebleed : when washing face in morning; after dinner.
Bloody mucus blown from nose frequently.
Burning water runs from the nose.
Stoppage, mostly at night, must breathe through the mouth, with long lasting coryza.
Face
Heat in face : with red cheeks; during mental exertion; during and after dinner.
Redness of left cheek.
Pale face, bloated.
Hard swelling of cheek, also of the parotid and cervical glands.
Pustulous eruption on forehead, cheeks, chin.
Small boils and indurations, emitting water and blood, on the cheek, at the corner of the mouth, and on the chin.
Freckles.
Lower Face
Herpetic eruption around the mouth.
Itching eruption on the lips.
Upper lip pains, as if cracked.
Lower lip cracked in the middle, bleeding and burning.
Painful burning blister on inside of the lower lip.
Blueness of the lips.
Teeth
Feel too long, too dull.
Violent toothache, evenings, immediately on going to bed.
Stitching pain in molars when biting, can use incisors only.
Drawing toothache during catamenia, better from eating; worse from warm fluids.
Sensation as of an ulcer at the root of tooth Teeth fall out.
Gums very sensitive : bleed easily.
Tongue etc.
Taste : Sweetish; of blood; offensive; bitter; of food sourish or metallic.
Painful vesicles on the tongue.
Talking difficult at times, like from weakness of the parts, also from pain.
Mouth
Redness and inflammation of the inner mouth and gullet; pain as if raw.
Sensation as if the mouth were swollen.
Great dryness of mouth and throat.
Much saliva must be ejected.
Throat
Pain in throat, as if the right tonsil were swollen when swallowing.
Enlarged tonsils, bluish, much offensive mucus there.
Sensation as if something had lodged in throat, impeding deglutition.
Burning pain in throat.
Putrid sore throat.
Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils.
Desires Aversions
Continual thirst, no appetite.
Appetite : only for bread and cold food; for sweets.
Great hunger and appetite, yet a small quantity satiates.
Eating and Drinking
Cannot ear (noon) without drinking.
Worse during eating; heat in face, headache, nausea and prostration.
Worse after eating; nausea, pressure in stomach and forehead; speech becomes difficult.
Nausea and Vomiting
Hiccough, morning after the chill.
Eructations : empty; imperfect; taste of the food; sour.
Heartburn.
Nausea and vomiting of all that has been eaten; after-wards sour taste in mouth.
Stomach
Feels full. trembling.
Empty feeling in stomach.
Pressure in stomach after eating, or at night the clothes feel oppressive.
Heat in stomach, spreading through the bowels.
Pain in stomach, with tendency to water-brash.
Hypochondria
Pressure or sore feeling in right hypochondrium.
Stitches in left hypochondrium.
Splenic affections.
Abdomen
Pressure above the navel, like from a button.
Pressive pain in the left side of abdomen.
Sudden painful contraction of the bowels, extending to the epigastrium; better from pressure; on lying down it ceases.
Cutting pain, with retraction of abdominal walls.
Colic and pain between the scapulae.
Stitches through the abdomen.
Elastic swelling (size of a first) in the lift groin, evenings;
bruised pain therein; cannot lie on left side; on awaking, both swelling and pain gone.
Stool etc.
Painful diarrhoea.
Stool of feces and mucus.
Stools at first retarded, later soft.
Costiveness on account of hardness of feces.
Discharge of blood before and after stool.
Discharge of prostatic fluid after stool.
Protrusion of hemorrhoids after stool, with long-lasting pains, cannot walk; protrude also independent of the stool.
Burning at anus, prevents sleep at night; must rise from bed on account of this and tenesmus.
Itching at anus.
Urine
Pressure of urine on the bladder, with cutting pain.
Frequent urination at night; involuntary, in sleep to-wards, morning.
Pale urine, with sandy sediment; whitish sediment.
Male Sexual Organs
Forcing (wurgend) pain in the testicles and seminal cords; sensitiveness of testicles to touch, aggravated by erections.
Testicles and scrotum relaxed, necessitating a supporter.
Erections without sexual desire, mornings.
Violent sexual desire, almost without erections.
Seminal emission almost every night.
Itching of the genitals.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses : premature, abundant, preceded by griping, colic, and want of appetite; too late, scanty and short; blackish, in clots, and passing off with pain in abdomen; acrid, makes the thighs sore; very slightly colored; copious at night, and when sitting and driving.
Cholera-like symptoms at the beginning of catamenia.
Leucorrhoea : watery, burning, form the uterus; acrid profuse from the vagina.
Violent tearing in abdomen and vagina.
Swelling, itching and burning of the pudendum; with leucorrhoea.
Larynx
Hoarseness, cannot speak loud word; aggravation from speaking; great dryness.
Larynx as if drawn shut from both sides of the throat.
Breathing
Great difficulty of breathing in going up even a few steps; less in the open air.
Dares not come into a warm room, in which he becomes deathly pale, and can do nothing but sit quiet.
Difficult breathing; causing short cough.
Asphyxia imminent in the course of a disease.
Shortness of breath and palpitation after every exertion.
Emphysema.
Cough
Cough : at night, about midnight violent, about 3 or 4 A.M.; dry, particularly at night, like from “feather down” in throat; short, asthmatic, from irritation in larynx, with painful sensation of spasmodic contraction of chest.
Cough : with asthma, evening in bed; each time with stitch in scrobiculum.
Lungs
Burning in the chest.
Stitches in right chest : when stooping; when walking; when raising up in bed.
Stitches in left chest, prevent lying on left side.
Lower part o chest most affected.
Heart Pulse
Frequent palpitation, with contraction of epigastrium and weak feeling in the pit of stomach.
Audible palpitation, with attacks of great anxiety, as if dying; cold sweat; involuntary flow of tears; unable to speak; loud, difficult breathing and trembling of hands. Angina pectoris.
Pulse hard, tense, frequent.
Outer Chest
Right mamma painful to touch.
Small pimple on the sternum; when touched feels as if a splinter was therein.
Red rash on chest.
Neck Back
Lymphatic glands swollen.
Violent pain in small of back, with great coldness, Pressive, drawing pain in small of back and loins, only when at rest, during the day; passing off when walking.
Stitches at the coccyx, where before there was itching.
Upper Limbs
Axillary glands painful and swollen.
Tearing, also bruised pains in the shoulder.
Weight and lameness in right arm; has no power in it, must let it hang; hand swollen.
Cramp in right arm, drawing it backward.
