Eyes
Photophobia. Asthenopia from want of accommodation, even coarser kinds of work strain. Suddenly becomes far-sighted. Cloud over left eye, grey spots and serpent-like bodies before sight, black motes (especially right). Opacity of the cornea, ulceration of cornea in infants. Acute granular conjunctivitis, conjunctiva intensely pink, or scarlet red, discharge profuse, inclined to be muco-purulent. Purulent ophthalmia, pus thick yellow and bland, worse in warm room or from fire, better open air. Ophthalmia neonatorum, pus thick, yellow, profuse and bland (internally, and locally in 2 gr. to ounce solution), after failure of Pulsatilla and Mercurius Blepharitis, thick crusts on lids, canthi red as blood, swollen red caruncula (standing out like a lump of red flesh), clusters of intensely red vessels extend from inner canthus to cornea, granular conjunctivitis, worse by warmth. Iritis. Sight and eyes seem to suffer as abdominal sufferings increase.
Ears
Deafness, ringing, buzzing noises, feeling of distraction (left), earache. Whizzing in left ear with feeling of obstruction and hard hearing.
Nose
Violent itching, obliged to rub until it looks raw. Coryza with chilliness, lachrymation, sickly look, sneezing and stupefying headache (over the eyes), has to lie down. Discharge of (whitish) pus with clots of blood. Discharge like boiled starch. Ulceration of nostrils. Bruised pains in bones.
Face
Sunken, pale, bluish countenance, yellow, dirty-looking. Sickly appearance. Dried-up look. Prematurely old look. Hard blotches on vermilion border of upper lip, paler than lip and sore to touch. Lips dry and viscid without thirst.
Teeth
Gums swollen, inflamed, bleed easily, painful when touched. Gums tender and bleed easily, but neither painful nor swollen. Prosopalgia, especially in infra-orbital branch of fifth nerve and nerves going to teeth, pain intense, at its height accompanied by unpleasant sour taste in the mouth. Face convulsed, jaws clenched. Teeth sensitive to cold water. Toothache when chewing, eating cold or sour things.
Mouth
Dry tongue with thirst. Papillae prominent, erect, feeling sore, tip of tongue red and painful. Tongue white and moist. Red streak down middle of tongue. Fetid odor from mouth. Ptyalism. Thick phlegm in mouth. Mouth coated inside whitish grey.
Throat
Dark red appearance of uvula and fauces. Sensation as if a splinter were stuck in when swallowing, breathing, or moving the neck. Thick, tenacious mucus in the throat, obliging him to hawk. Rawness, soreness, and scraping in the throat. Burning and dryness in fauces and pharynx. White patches in throat. Paroxysms of cramp in the oesophagus. Ulcers: mercurial, syphilitic, and scrofulous.
Appetite
Irresistible desire for sugar (but it Agg.), in the evening. Desire for cheese. Sweetish-bitter taste. Eating relieves nausea, but worse stomach pains. Warm drinks better, cold drinks or ices worse stomach pains. Eating or a swallow of wine better head: coffee Agg. The least food Agg. pain of gastralgia, flatulence. Fluids go right through him (in cholera infantum). Warm fluids Amel. cold Agg. pains in stomach. After heavy meal, epileptic fit. Nausea after each meal, especially after dinner.
Stomach
Gastralgia, especially in delicate, nervous women, brought on by any emotion, loss of sleep, or at menstrual period. Inflammation of the stomach, gastro-enteritis. Gnawing pain in the left side of the stomach. Pressure with heaviness (sensation of lump) and nausea. Trembling and throbbing in stomach. Most gastric complaints are accompanied by violent belching. Eructations of air accompanied by a mouthful of undigested food (Phosphorus, Ferrum). After yawning, feeling as if stomach would burst, wind presses upwards, but the oesophagus feels spasmodically closed, hence an ineffectual effort to eructate, with excessive strangulation, pressing pain in stomach, faintish nausea, confluence of water in the mouth and inability to stir, the paroxysm ceased after a quarter of an hour, amidst frequent and violent outrush of wind. Vomiting of some fluid, of bile, black vomit, with anxiety in precordia. The vomited substance tinged the bedding black. Awakens at midnight with oppression at stomach, as from a heavy lump, inducing vomiting, in the morning throws up glairy mucus, which can be drawn into strings. Warmth at epigastrium. Gnawing ulcerative pain in epigastrium. Stinging, ulcerative pain in left side of stomach, worse from touch and deep inspiration. Pain increases and decreases slowly. Small spots between xiphoid and navel sensitive to slightest pressure, pains radiate in all directions. Pain in left side of stomach below true ribs, worse during inspiration and on touching the parts. Stomach pains are accompanied by intense spasm of chest muscles and dyspnoea, excessive accumulation of wind, nervous feeling or sensation as if squeezed in a vice.
Abdomen
Sensation as of a ball ascending from abdomen to throat. Stitches through the abdomen (left side) like electric shocks, especially when changing from rest to motion. Pain in abdomen as if sore, with great hunger, better after eating, but a trembling sets in its place. Violent attacks of pain at irregular intervals, patient rolls on floor, descending colon tender to touch, tapeworm-like stool passes. Fullness, heaviness, and distension with anxiety. Flatulence. Griping. Cutting pains. Constriction as if tightly tied with a band. Pain in hypochondria. Intolerance of lacing round hypochondria.
Stool and Anus
Cholera infantum in dried-up, mummy-like children, stools green, slimy, noisy, flatulent, worse at night. Like spinach in flakes. Green, slimy, shreddy stools, with severe bearing-down in hypogastrium, membranous stool like unsegmented tapeworm, blood, slime, and epithelium, often with much flatus, after eating sugar, after drinking, “as soon as the least drink is taken it goes through,” from any excitement. Advanced dysentery, with suspected ulceration. Constipation and dry faeces. Tenia or ascarides with itching at anus. Piles with burning or tenesmus, bleeding. Burning in one spot in anterior wall of rectum (probably in prostrate gland).
Urinary Organs
Nephralgia, pain by touching region. Urine dark red, contains deposit of renal epithelium and uric acid crystals (especially after Causticum). Quick urging to urinate, frequent and copious emission of pale urine. Incontinence night and day. Urethra from meatus to bladder hot and burning, worse at meatus and behind scrotum. Urine burning while passing, urethra feels as if swollen. Inability to pass urine in a projecting stream. Oozing of mucus from urethra: thick, white at night. Stitches in extremity of urethra, cutting from posterior part of urethra to anus, when emitting last drop of urine. Inflammation, and violent burning or shooting pains in the urethra, with increased Gonorrhoea. Priapism, bleeding of the urethra. Stricture of the urethra. Dysuria, bloody urine and fever. Ulcerative pain in middle of urethra, as from a splinter. Stream of urine spreads asunder.
Male Sexual Organs.
Chancre-like ulcer on prepuce. Ulcers on the prepuce, small, covered with pus, later, spreading, bowl-shaped, with a tallow- like coating. Impotence, erections, but they fail when coition is attempted. Want of desire, organs shrivelled. Coition painful, urethra as if put on stretch or sensitive at orifice. Painful tension during erection, chordee, bleeding from urethra, and shooting in urethra from behind forward. Urethra swollen, hard, knotty, painful. Spasmodic contraction of cremaster muscle, testicle drawn high up. Pain in testes and scrotum as from pins and needles, worse right Orchitis. Burning in spot in anterior of rectum (prostate gland).
Female Sexual Organs.
Ovarian pains, feels as if an enormous swelling in side affected. Prolapsus with ulceration of os or cervix, with copious yellow, corroding leucorrhoea and frequent bleeding from points of ulceration. Menses irregular, scanty (with asthma). Menses too copious or too scanty, too soon or too late. All symptoms worse before and during menses. Coition painful, followed by bleeding from the vagina. Orgasms at night. Metrorrhagia. Metrorrhagia, with nervous erethism at change of life, also in young widows and those who have borne no children, returning in attacks, region of ovaries painful, with pains radiating to sacrum and thighs. During pregnancy, stomach as if it would burst with wind, head feels expanded. Puerperal convulsions, just after attack lies quiet, but becomes very restless before another.
Respiratory Organs
Pure nervous asthma, spasm of respiratory muscles, great dyspnoea, worse in crowded room. Muco-purulent sputa seeming to come from wall of larynx. Expectoration purulent, mixed with light blood. Internal soreness of the larynx and pit of the throat, worse mornings. Chronic laryngitis of singers, raising the voice causes cough. Marked hoarseness, sometimes loss of voice, feeling as if something clogging vocal cords. Cough with sense of soreness in left side preventing lying on it. Evening cough worse from tobacco smoke. Cough better evening and night. Suffocative cough at noon. Cough in paroxysms induced by: phlegm in larynx, irritation under sternum, fit of passion, laughing, stooping, smoking, ascending stairs, lying down, on awaking. haemoptysis.
