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Ears

Piercing, aching, sharp pain, pinching, squeezing, and shooting in the ears. Inflammation of the external and internal (right) ear, with discharge of pus. Excretion of pus from the ears. Stinging in and behind the ears. Ringing, murmuring, and buzzing in the ears. Humming and hearing. Hardness of hearing, sometimes as if there were a skin before the ears. Swelling of the parotids, with shooting and tractive pains, which sometimes extend even to the throat. Stitches in the parotid gland.

Nose

Pain, as of a bruise, in the nose, especially on touching it, and sometimes with burning. Nocturnal shootings in the nose. Swelling, redness, the burning at the point of the nose. Inflammatory swelling and redness of the external and internal nose. Bleeding of the nose, the redness of the face. Painful ulceration of the nostrils. Nose very cold. Bleeding of the nose, chiefly night and morning. Haemorrhage from the nose and mouth. Great dryness of the nose. Sense of smell either too sensitive, especially to tobacco smoke, or diminished. Putrid smell in the nose. Fluent coryza of the nostril, alternating with stoppage of the nose. Smell like herring in the nose during the coryza.

Face

Paleness of the face, which sometimes suddenly alternates with redness. Face hollow, with anxious look of the features, and wandering air. Burning heat of the face, sometimes without redness. Glowing redness and bloated appearance of the face, as from drinking wine. Deep, or scarlet, or bluish redness of face. Purple, red, hot face, or yellow colour of the face. Hard swelling and bluish redness of face, principally (of one) of the cheeks, and sometimes with burning, shooting, piercing, and pulsation Erysipelatous swelling of the face. Semi-lateral swelling of the face. Spots of a scarlet or deep red colour on the face. Eruption of red pimples on the temples, in the corners of the mouth, and on the chin. Purulent and scabby pimples, chiefly on the cheeks and on the nose. Thickening of the skin of the face. Cramp-like pressure, sharp and drawing pin in the cheek-bones. Nervous, violent incisive pain in the face, following the course of the sub-orbital nerve., nervous Prosopalgia, with violent, cutting pains. Muscular palpitations and convulsive movements in the face, chiefly in the mouth, which is drawn towards the ear. Spasmodic distortion of the mouth (risus sardonicus). Swelling of the upper lip. Induration and swelling of the lips, with shootings in rough weather. Deep redness and dryness of the lips. Pimples, scabs, and ulcers, with a red circular margin, on the lips and in the corners of the mouth. Convulsive clenching of the jaws, which renders it impossible to open the mouth. Convulsive clenching of the jaws, which renders it impossible to open the mouth. Sensation as if the lower jaw were drawn very far back. Sharp pains in the jaws, shooting and tension in the maxillary articulations. Mouth half open, or spasmodically closed by lock-jaw, sensations under the jaw, affections of the articulations of the jaws (sometimes while chewing). Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, and of those of the neck, with nocturnal (shooting) pains.

Teeth

Violent grinding of the teeth. Sharp and drawing pains or successive pullings in the teeth, sometimes with pain in the ears, and chiefly at night or in the evening, during intellectual labor, or else after having eaten. The toothache is worse by exposure to the air, or the touch, while masticating. Toothache with inflammatory swelling of the cheek. Piercing in carious teeth, and flow of blood on sucking them. Painful swelling of the gums, with heat, itching, and pulsations, or with ulcerative pain on being touched. Bleeding of the gums. Vesicles on the gums, with pain like that of a burn.

Mouth

A sensation of great dryness, or a real and extreme dryness and choking in the mouth. Dryness of the mouth, without thirst. Foam before the mouth, sometimes of a reddish colour, or having the smell of rotten eggs. Accumulation and flow of saliva, viscid, thick and whitish. Great accumulation of viscid, whitish mucus in the mouth and in the throat. Offensive smell of the mouth, chiefly in the morning. Inflammatory swelling and redness of the buccal cavity, and of the pharynx. Violent haemorrhage of the mouth. Excoriation of the interior of the cheek, the orifices of the salivary ducts are as if ulcerated.Sensation of cold, of torpor, and of numbness in the tongue. Tongue red, hot, dry and cracked, or loaded with whitish mucus, or yellowish, or brownish, redness of the edges of the tongue. Inflammatory swelling and redness of the papillae of the tongue. Phlegmonous inflammation of the tongue. Soreness of the tongue, especially on touching it, with a sensation as if it were covered with vesicles. Heaviness, trembling, and paralytic weakness of the tongue, with difficult and stuttering speech. Dumbness. Voice weak, whistling, and nasal.

Throat

Pain of excoriation, scraping, shooting in the throat and in the throat and in the amygdalae, principally on swallowing, and sometimes extending to the ears. Great dryness and burning in the throat and on the tongue. Inflammation and swelling of the throat, of the velum palati, of the uvula, and of the tonsils, suppuration of the tonsils. Inflammation of the throat with sensation of a lump, which induces hawking, with dark redness and swelling of the velum palati and tonsils. Burning and dryness in the oesophagus. Stinging in the oesophagus, in the tonsils, worse when swallowing, and when talking. Tonsils inflamed, swollen, ulcers rapidly forming on them. Painful and difficult deglutition. Complete inability to swallow even the least liquid, which frequently passes out through the nostrils. Constant inclination to swallow, with a sensation as though suffocation would otherwise follow. Sensation of contraction, strangling, and spasmodic constriction in the throat. Sensation as if there were a tumour in the throat, or a plug which cannot be detached. Paralytic weakness of the organs of deglutition.

Appetite

Loss of taste. Food appears insipid or too salt. Putrid, or insipid, or slimy, or bitter taste of the mouth. Rye bread tastes acid. Want of appetite and distaste for all food, chiefly for meat, acids, coffee, milk, and beer. Burning, excessive, intolerable thirst, often with dread of all drink, or constant desire to drink with inability to swallow a single drop of liquid. Drinking is performed with trembling precipitation. Great and unbearable hunger. After having eaten, a feeling of intoxication, colic, pains in the stomach, heat, and thirst.

Stomach

Frequent risings, often bitter, or putrid, or sour and burning. Pyrosis. Obstructed and abortive rising. Nausea and inclination to vomit, chiefly on beginning to eat, or in the open air, or after breakfast, sometimes with burning thirst. Retching and violent vomiting, principally in the evening or at night, retching, with entire inability to vomit, vomiting of food, or of mucous or bilious matter, of blood, or acid and serous matter, vomiting with diarrhoea, or with vertigo, heat, and sweat. Spasmodic hiccough, sometimes with sweats and convulsions. Pressure, cramp-like and contractive pains, sensation of fullness and inflation in the stomach and in the epigastrium, principally after having eaten or while eating. Shootings, beatings, pulsations, and burning in the stomach and in the precordial region. Inflammation of the stomach and the duodenum.

Abdomen

Colic with constipation, abundant flow of urine, risings and nausea. Violent pain in the abdomen, which allows no rest whatever. Shootings in left side of the abdomen, on coughing, on sneezing, and on being touched. Pains and burning in the hypochondria. Pressure in the abdomen, as if by a stone, chiefly in the lower part of the abdomen and in the groin. Painful pressure in the pit of the stomach and stomach, especially after eating. Painfully distended abdomen, very sensitive to the touch. Inflation and tension of the abdomen, chiefly in the hypochondria.Colic, with restlessness, below the umbilicus, as from clutching and griping with the nails, worse from external pressure. Cramp-like, contractive, and constrictive pains and pinching in the abdomen, and especially round the navel or in the hypogastrium, with a sensation as if one or other of the parts were squeezed, or seized with the nails, the pains necessitate a bending of the body, and are sometimes accompanied by vomiting, or by inflation and protrusion of the colon in the form of a pad. Digging in the abdomen. Cuttings and shootings in the abdomen, as from knives. Heat and great anguish in the abdomen. Rumbling in the abdomen, with frequent escape of flatus without smell. Soreness of the whole abdomen, as if everything in it were excoriated and raw, and painful sensibility to the touch of the teguments of the abdomen. Shootings in the groins. Itching in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Suppressed evacuations and constipation, sometimes with inflation of the abdomen, heat of the head, and copious sweats. Hard and scanty evacuations. Frequent inclination to evacuate, with tenesmus, but with result. Frequent small evacuations, often with tenesmus. Frequent small diarrhoeic stool of mucus. Evacuations whitish like chalk, or greenish, evacuations watery or slimy. Thin, green stools, with frequent micturition and perspiration. Dysenteric stools. Before stool, perspiration. During stool, shuddering. Spasmodic stricture of the rectum. Stinging pain in the rectum. Loose evacuations, with nausea and aching pains in the stomach. Bleeding piles, back pains as if breaking. Mucous membrane of anus seems swollen as if pressed out. Prolapsus ani.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica