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Female Sexual Organs:-

Premature and too copious catamenia, or too feeble, with pale blood. Before the catamenia, cramps in the abdomen and headache. During the catamenia, vomiting and pains in the teeth, head, loins, and abdomen. Itching, burning, excoriation, aphtha and swelling at the vulva. Varices on the pudenda. Milk-white, thick and yellowish, greenish and corrosive discharge from the vagina. Leucorrhoea before the catamenia. Disposition to miscarriages. Inflammation of the mammae.

Respiratory Organs

Prolonged hoarseness, especially towards the evening. In the morning and in the evening hoarseness, aggravated by prolonged conversation, more especially by cold and damp weather. Loss of voice at night, or when talking. Scraping, tingling, and tickling in the larynx. Cough excited by a tingling in the throat, or with burning pain and sensation of excoriation in the chest. Soreness and ulcerative pain in the larynx and pharynx. Cramp-like cough, also with retching, and vomiting, three or four times a day, or else in the evening, for a long time successively. Spasmodic hollow cough (whooping-cough), four or five attacks every day, caused by a tingling irritation in the larynx, expectoration only in the morning, yellow, like pus, brownish, bloody, tasting putrid, sour, salt, and of offensive smell. The cough is worse in the evening, till midnight, from movement, when walking in the open air, from cold, wet weather: from going from a warm to a cold place, after lying, after eating and drinking, especially cold things, from talking. Cough in the evening before going to bed, and in bed. On coughing, painful shootings in the head. Cough, with expectoration of greenish mucus, or of a yellowish pus. Cough, with spitting of blood and burning pain in the chest. Cold breath.

Chest

Laboured respiration and shortness of breath, while walking. Wheezing the rattling of mucus in the chest. Great difficulty of respiration, and oppression of the chest. Fits of suffocation caused by flatulency. On breathing, painful throbbing in the head and teeth. Frequent want to take a deep inspiration. Want of breath, especially in the evening in bed. Burning pain, shootings, and pressure on the chest (hydrothorax). Compression and cramp-like constriction in the chest. The chest is tight, with a sensation of fullness and anxiety. Pains as from excoriation in the chest. Sensation of fatigue in the chest. Burning pain in the region of the heart, with congestion in the chest, and violent palpitation of the heart. Rheumatic, drawing pains, acute pullings and pressure on the chest. Brownish spots on the chest. Brown-yellow blotches on the chest. Erysipelatous inflammation of the mammae.

Neck and Back

Rigidity of the nape of the neck. Swelling of the cervical glands. Rheumatic, drawing pains, acute pullings and shootings in the back, the nape of the neck, and the muscles of the neck. Continual shootings in the loins, especially on making a false step. Rigidity of the dorsal spine. Painful stiffness of the back in the morning, when rising. Itching pimples on the back. Itching, excoriation, and oozing under the armpits.

Upper Limbs

Acute drawing and burning pains in the muscles and in shoulder- joint. Pulling and acute drawing pains in the forearms, the wrists, and the fingers. Relaxation of the muscles of the arms and of the hands, on laughing. Tension in the joints of the hand, as if they were too short. Cramp-like contraction of the hands. Heat of the hands, burning in the hands. Icy-cold hands. The tips of the fingers are covered with cold sweat. Paralytic weakness of the wrists and of the fingers, especially on grasping an object. Fine granulated, and itching eruption on the hands. Extremities of the fingers become ulcerated.

Lower Limbs

Torpor and insensibility of the legs and feet. Drawing and paralytic pain in the legs. Acute pulling, and drawing, burning pains in the hip and knees. Strong tension and cramp-like pains in the coxofemoral joints, the thighs, and the knees. Aneurism in the ham, with tensive pain and pulsation. Tetters in the knee. Cramps in the legs, and (especially) in the soles of the feet, and at night, in the calves of the legs. Fetid and easily bleeding ulcers, in the legs. Obstinate torpor in the feet. Perspiration of the feet. Redness and swelling of the toes, with shooting pain, as if they had been frozen. Ulceration in the extremity of the toes. Senile gangrene, which begins in the toes and works all the way up the limb.

Generalities

Pains with anxiety, heat and complete discouragement, or with dejection after the paroxysm. Acute pullings and arthritic drawing pains, with paralytic weakness, chiefly in the limbs, and sufferings from flatulency, or with difficulty of respiration, when it is the chest which is attacked. Pain as from dislocation in the limbs, or pain as if caused by a strain in the loins. Burning pains in the limbs and in the bones, ulcers. Pulsation in different parts of the body. Sufferings from a strain in the back, or from riding in a carriage. Trembling and jerking in the limbs by day. Numbness of the limbs readily induced. The majority of symptoms appear while walking in the open air. Emaciation, especially of the face. Contusive pain in all the limbs, especially in the morning, immediately on rising. Great weakness of the flexors. Great debility and weakness as soon as he makes the least exertion. Excessive dejection, frequently proceeding to fainting, even in the morning in bed, or else at the beginning of a walk. Sudden prostration of strength. General dejection towards noon, with necessity to support the head, and to be still. Paralysis, and total absence of the pulse. Liability to take cold.

Skin

Sensation of tingling of the skin, throughout the body. General itching in the evening, and on becoming warm in bed. Burning sensation in different parts of the skin. Eruption of small pimples like miliary scabies. Nettle-rash. Tetters. Streaks of a reddish brown. Painless ulcers in the extremities of the fingers and of the toes. Fetid ulcer, with burning pains, and discharge of corrosive and bloody pus. Chilblains. Varices. Plexus of the veins, formed by a dilatation of the capillary vessels, with violent haemorrhage, after the slightest injury. Lymphatic swellings, with suppuration and burning pains. Swelling and induration of the glands. Gangrenous spots from lying in bed, old wounds having healed break out again, puncture wounds which won’t heal.

Sleep

Strong inclination to sleep during the day, disappearing on movement. Sleep in the morning, or early in the evening (with sleeplessness at night). Comatose sleep, with rattling in the throat. No sleep, with inability to open the eyes. Retarded sleep and sleeplessness caused by uneasiness in the body. At night, or in the evening, when in bed, headache, anguish, with oppression of the chest, startings and pains in the limbs, cold in the hands and in the feet, etc. Dreams frequent, fantastic, anxious and terrible, with tossing about of the body, or with starting and fright.

Fever

Shivering and cold in the body. Febrile shivering in the evening and at night, followed by transient heat. Fever with thirst during the cold stage only, or with profuse perspiration followed by shivering. Febrile state with comatose drowsiness, rales, cold sweat on the face and at the extremities, face hippocratic, pulse small and evanescent. Pulse, small, weak, imperceptible, uneven, intermitting. Febrile condition at night, with general heat, and burning heat in the hands and feet. Frequent attacks of transient heat. Nocturnal sweat. In the morning, acid sweat. Cold sweat on the limbs and on the face.

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