Cherry Laurel. M. MUELLFR, HARTLAUB, WAHLE. Amygdalae.
Mind
Loss of consciousness, with loss of speech and motion.
Insensibility and complete loss of sensation.
Dulness of the senses.
Weakness of mind and loss of memory.
Inability to collect one’s idea.
Fear and anxiety about imaginary evils.
Sensorium
Stupefaction, with vertigo.
Vertigo : with disposition to sleep; worse in the open air.
Inner Head
Stupefying pain in the whole head.
Pulsation in the head, with heat or with coldness.
Congestive headache; pulse depressed.
Sensation of looseness of the brain, as if it were falling into the forehead, when stooping, without pain.
Feeling of warmth in middle of forehead, then coolness as from a draft or air.
The brain feels contracted and painful.
Stitches in the head.
Outer Head
Sensation of coldness in the forehead and vertex, as if a cold wind were blowing on it, descending through the neck to the back; worse in the room, better in the open air.
Itching of the hairy scalp.
Eyes
Objects appear larger.
Sensation of a veil before the eyes.
Eyes; starting, wide open; lightly closed; distorted.
Pupils dilated, immovable.
Ears
Hardness of hearing.
Tingling in the ears.
Itching in the ears.
Nose
Nose feels stopped up; no air passes through.
Face
Sunken, with livid, grey-yellow complexion; blue with gasping; bloated; idiotic expression of face. Chorea.
Twitching and convulsions of the facial muscles.
Titillation in the face, as if flies and spiders were crawling over the skin.
Eruption around the mouth.
Lower Face
Lockjaw.
Tongue etc.
Tongue : dry, rough, dry and white; cold; or numb as if burnt.
Left side of tongue stiff and swollen, with loss of speech.
Mouth
Foam at mouth. Epilepsy.
Dryness in the mouth.
Throat
Spasmodic deglutition. Chorea.
Impeded deglutition.
Spasmodic contraction in the throat and oesophagus.
The drink he takes rolls audibly through the oesophagus and intestines.
Desires Aversions
Disgust for food, during pregnancy.
Violent thirst, with dry mouth.
Entire loss of appetite, with clean tongue.
Nausea and Vomiting
Hiccough.
Nausea in the stomach and vomiting of the ingesta.
Eructations tasting like bitter almonds or prussic acid.
Pregnancy Vomiting of food. Cough.
Stomach
Violent pain in stomach, with loss of speech.
Burning (or coldness) in the stomach and abdomen.
Contractive feeling in the region of the stomach, and cutting pain in the abdomen.
Hypochondria
Sticking pain in the liver with pressure.
Region of liver distended, pains as from subcutaneous ulceration, or as if an abscess would burst.
Indurated liver; atrophic nutmeg liver.
Abdomen
Pinching about the umbilicus.
Colicky pains in afternoon, and tearing pains in vertex at night.
Sensation like the falling of a heavy lump from just above the umbilicus to the small of the back; produced by talking or overexertion, also with spasmodic pains in cardiac region.
Stool etc.
Diarrhoeic stools; with tenesmus; of green liquid mucus, with suffocative spells about the heart, forcing her to lie down; involuntary.
Constipation, stools hard, firm, and passed only with much straining.
Ineffectual urging to stool, with emission of flatus only.
Urine
Suppressed urine. Cholera.
Retention of urine as form paralysis of the bladder; or, urine is voided slowly.
Involuntary urination.
The urine deposits a thick, reddish or mahogany-colored sediment, with floating, jelly-like flocks.
Itching in the forepart of the urethra.
Acid urine, corroding the labia.
Male Sexual Organs
Gangrene of the penis.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses : too early and too profuse; blood thin; with nightly tearing in the vertex.
Burning and stinging and below the mammae.
Larynx
Scraping in the larynx, with increased secretion of mucus; hoarseness.
Spasmodic constriction of the trachea.
Laryngismus stridulus; heart affected.
Breathing
Slow, feeble, moaning or rattling; slow, feeble, almost imperceptible; panting; very difficult.
Dyspnoea, with sensation as if lungs would not be sufficiently expanded or as if pressed against the spine.
Spasmodic oppression of the chest.
Gasping for breath; suffocating spells; he clutches at his heart; palpitation.
Cough
Short, titillating : dyspnoea; from heart disease, as stenosis of the valves; cannot lie down; whizzing, with sensation as if the mucous membranes were too dry; worse towards evening from motion, stooping, eating and drinking, or warmth; with copious jelly-like sputa, dotted with bloody points.
Whooping-cough, day, whistling, no sputum; impending paralysis of the lungs.
Lungs
Spasms of chest. Threatening paralysis of lungs.
Pleurisy of drunkards; pulse soft, but quick.
Heart Pulse
Heart’s action irregular, pulse slow.
Stitches in region of heart.
Beating, fluttering sensation if region of heart; gasps for breath; sometimes has slight dry cough.
Palpitation of heart.
Cold, moist skin; convulsions of muscles of face : pulse scarcely perceptible.
Apoplexy.
Pulse extremely irregular; at times small and slow, often imperceptible; at others somewhat accelerated; seldom full and hard.
Cyanosis neonatorum.
Outer Chest
Pain in every external part of the thorax on moving it.
Burning in the chest on taking an inspiration.
Neck Back
Painful stiffness in left side of neck, and nape of neck and small of back.
Pressure in nape of neck, particularly in open air, compelling him to bend head forward.
Severe pain in sacral region, extending to pubis.
Upper Limbs
Pressure on right shoulder or in shoulder-joint.
Pains as from lameness, also stitches, in right shoulder.
Stitch in both elbows.
Pain, as if sprained, in the right wrist-joint.
Distention of the veins on the hands.
Rough, scaly skin between the fingers, with burning when touched by water.
Lower Limbs
Pain. as if sprained in the left hip-joint.
Sticking in the left knee.
The feet go to sleep (when crossing the legs or sitting.) Ulcerative pains in the lower part of the heels.
Stiffness of the feet after rising from the seat.
Cold, clammy feet up to knees. Chorea.
Limbs in General
Ends of fingers and toes enlarged, knob-like.
Stinging and tearing in the limbs, Painless paralysis of the limbs.
Position etc.
A little exercise produce a gasping for breath and increased blueness; cyanosis.
Motion “. After rising from seat : Stooping: Must lie down : Cannot lie down : Must bend head forward : Lying down : Cannot keep still : Talking : Overexertion : Clutches heart : Crossing legs or sitting :.
Nerves
Want of energy of the vital powers and want of reaction, especially in chest affections.
Rapid sinking of the forces; long-lasting faints.
Epilepsy.
Clonic spasm of all the limbs, with paralytic weakness.
Chorea, with constant jerks, cannot keep still; speech indistinct, gets angry when not understood; gasping; emaciation; after fright.
Gasping before, during and after spasm; bluish skin.
Apoplexy, with paralyses.
Sleep
Irresistible sleepiness, especially after dinner and in the evening.
Deep, snoring sleep; soporous conditions.
Time
Afternoon :, Evening L Evening till midnight : Night :,.
Temperature and Weather
Warmth : Open air : Room : Water :.
Chill Fever Sweat
Chill and external coldness.
Cold, moist skin. Apoplexy.
Chill, coldness and shivering in the afternoon and evening, not relieved by external warmth.
Chill, alternating with heat. Want of natural animal heat.
Heat after the chill, from evening till midnight. Heat descending the back.
Sweat generally during and after heat, till toward morning.
Sweat after eating.
Sides
Right : Left :, Behind forward : Above downward :.
Sensations
Painfulness with the ailments.
Acts on brain and spine, especially upon the medulla oblongata; hence characteristic tetanic spasms of the upper part of the body, gasping breathing, etc.
Relationship
Antidotes to Lauroc. : Camphor., Coffea, Ipecac., Opium.
