HERING. The Element.
Mind
Great dulness, with complete insensibility and indifference to his surroundings.
Very forgetful, especially in business: during slumber, however, he remembers all that he had forgotten.
A kind of stammering; he uses the syllables of words in wrong connections; therefore pronounces some words incorrectly.
Difficult comprehension. Total unfitness for any kind of work.
Great talkativeness when excited.
Mental labor fatigues him much.
Sensorium
Vertigo: on lifting head or rising up; on moving about, with nausea, vomiting, faintness; worse after breakfast and dinner.
Inner Head
Headache from lemonade, tea or wine; every afternoon.
Violent stinging over left eye, when walking in the sun, or from strong odors; with increased secretion of urine, and melancholy.
Outer Head
Hair falls off when combing; also of eyebrows, whiskers and genitals; tingling-itching on scalp in evening, oozing after scratching; tension and sensation of contraction of scalp.
Eyes
Itching vesicles on edges of eyelids and on eye-brows.
Spasmodic twitching of left eyeball.
Ears
Ear stopped.
More ear-wax, hardening in his deaf ear.
Nose
Itching in nose and on borders of wings.
Inclination to bore fingers into nose.
Yellow, thick, jell-like mucus in nose.
Discharge of dark blood from nose.
Phlegm in choanae.
Coryza, ending in diarrhoea.
Complete obstruction of the nose, chronic.
Face
Greasy, shining skin of face.
Twitching of muscles of face.
Comedones.
Great emaciation of face and hands.
Teeth
Picks teeth until they bleed; toothache.
Teeth covered with mucus.
Desires Aversions
Wants of appetite in morning, with white coated tongue.
Aversion to food much salted.
Great longing for ardent spirits.
Hungry during the night.
Eating and Drinking
After eating: violent beating all over body, worse in abdomen; must lie down.
Salt food aggravates.
After eating: From lemonade, tea, wine:.
Hypochondria
Searching pain in region of liver, worse in taking a long breath, with sensitiveness to external pressure; followed by a red, itching rash in region of liver.
Stitches in spleen when walking.
Stool etc.
Stool: hard and so impacted that it requires mechanical aid; mucus or blood passes with last portion; contains threads of fecal matter like hair.
Papescent stool, with tenesmus and feeling in anus as after a hard stool.
Urine
Dark, scanty; red in the evening.
Sediment coarse red, sandy.
Involuntary urination when walking; drips after stool or micturition.
Male Sexual Organs
Erection slow, insufficient; semen emitted too rapidly and with long continued thrill; weak, ill-humored after an embrace, weakness in loins.
Semen thin, without normal odor.
Lewd thoughts, but physically impotent.
Prostatic juice oozes while sitting, during sleep when walking, and at stool.
Itching on the scrotum.
Female Sexual Organs
Catamenia copious and dark.
Pregnancy
During pregnancy throbbing in abdomen.
Larynx
Voice husky when beginning to sing, or from talking long; hawks transparent lumps every morning, sometimes bloody.
Breathing
Frequent deep breathing with moaning.
Cough
In morning, straining in chest, with expectoration of mucus and blood.
Neck Back
Neck stiff on turning head.
Pain as from lameness in small of back, in morning.
Upper Limbs
Tearing in hands at night, with cracking in wrists.
Emaciation of hands.
Itching in palms; vesicles on and between fingers.
Dry scaly eruptions, itching palms; syphilitic eruptions.
Lower Limbs
Cracking of the knee-joint on bending it.
Flat ulcers on the lower legs.
Emaciation on the legs.
Itching around the ankle, in the evening; blisters on toes.
Cramps in calves and soles.
Legs feel weak, with fear of paralysis after typhus.
Position etc.
Motion: Mental labor: Excitement: Walking: Least exertion: Bending (knee): Sitting:. Rising: Lifting head: Turning head: Must lie down: Talking (long):.
Nerves
Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep; strength suddenly leaves him.
Sleep
Sleepless before P.M.: light sleep, least noise awakens him. Starts on falling asleep.
Dreams of quarrels and cruelties.
Hungry in the night.
Awakens early and always at same hour.
Worse after a siesta on hot days. Pains worse after sleep.
Time
Morning:, Afternoon: Evening: Night:, 12 P.M.: Fixed hour:.
Temperature and Weather
Every draft (even if warm) causes pain in limbs, head, etc.
Sun (walking in the): Hot weather:.
Chill Fever Sweat
Chill alternating with heat.
External heat, burning in skin and only in single spots.
Sweat: profuse on chest, arm-pits and genitals; from least exertion: as soon as he sleeps: stains yellow, or white and stiffens the linen.
Attacks
Same hour (.
Sides
Right:,. Left:.
Tissues
Great emaciation, specially of face, thighs and hands.
Contact Injuries etc.
Pressure. Scratching: Combing of hair:.
Skin
Red rash in region of liver.
Frequent tingling on small spots of the skin, with great irritation to scratch; spots remain humid.
Itch checked by mercury or sulphur.
Flat ulcers.
Stages and States
Blondes.
Relationship
Antidotes to Selen: Ignat., Pulsat.
Incompatible: Cinchon, wine.
