Cina



Respiratory Organs

Short, interrupted breathing. Respiration wheezing and panting. Abundance of mucous in the larynx, which is constant, and compels continual hawking. Gagging cough in morning after rising, irritation thereto (as from dust), is renewed by inspiration after a long interval. Cough, excited by taking a deep inspiration. Dry, tickling cough induced by reading (to oneself). Hoarse, transient cough in the evening. Dry cough, with cramp, want of breath, anxiety, paleness of face, and groans after the paroxysm, or with stiffness of the body, and bleeding from the nose and mouth. Cough, with sudden starts, and loss of consciousness. Before coughing, child raises herself suddenly, tosses wildly about, the whole body becomes stiff, she loses consciousness, just as if she would have an epileptic fit, then follows the cough. Whooping-cough in violent, periodically returning attacks, from a titillating sensation in the throat, as of a feather, and much tough mucous: in the morning without expectoration in the evening with difficult expectoration of white, occasionally blood-streaked mucous, which is tasteless, worse in the morning and in the evening, better during the night, aggravated by drinking, walking in the open air, pressing on the larynx, when lying on the right side, in the cold air, and when awaking from sleep.

Chest

Difficulty of respiration, and anxious oppression of the chest, as if the sternum were compressing the lungs. Respiration short, often interrupted, or rattling. Spasmodic digging in the chest, as if it were going to burst. Jerking and digging shootings in the chest. Burning, stitches, and soreness in the chest.

Back

Pains, as from a bruise, in the loins, worse by motion. Drawing- tearing pain along whole spine. Drawing or jerking pains in middle of spine.

Upper Limbs

Tearing and paralytic pullings in the arms. Cramp-like tearings in the arms and in the hands. Contraction and starting of the hand and of the fingers. Sprained feeling in the wrist-joint. Weakness of the hand, which suffers everything to escape from it.

Lower Limbs

Paralytic or cramp-like pains, and pullings in the legs. Spasmodic stretching and twitching of the feet. Cramp-like extension of the legs.

Generalities

Paralytic, tractive pains in the limbs. Pressure and squeezing, with dull shootings, or cramp-like tearings, pullings and jerkings, or burning shootings in different parts. Twitching of limbs, Convulsions, and distortion of the limbs. Nocturnal epileptic convulsions, followed by headache. Epileptic convulsions (especially at night, with or without consciousness) with cries, bending backwards of the back, and violent movements, of the hands and feet. Tetanic stiffness of the whole body. External pressure worse, or renews the sufferings. Painful sensibility of all the limbs, on movement, and on being touched. Affections of the left side, left lower extremity, and on being touched. Affections of the 1 side, left lower extremity. The majority of the sufferings appear at night, or when seated, and are worse in the morning and in the evening. Heaviness in the limbs.

Sleep

Frequent yawning, with trembling and shuddering. Nocturnal sleeplessness, with agitation, tears, cries, heat, and anguish, in children. Wakes in the morning, restless and lamenting, in a start. Child gets on hands and knees in sleep, on abdomen.

Fever

Pulse small, hard, and rapid. Frequent shuddering, with trembling, even near the fire. Quotidian fevers, or tertian, with bulimy, nausea, tongue clean, diarrhoea, pupils dilated, and emaciation. Shivering in the evening. Strong febrile heat, with delirium, tossing, and agitation. Chilliness, with shaking or trembling, ascending from the upper part of the body to the head. Chill, with coldness of the pale face and heat of the hands. Heat at night, with thirst. Chilliness with thirst. After the perspiration (sometimes before the chill) vomiting of food (with a clean tongue), at the same time canine hunger. Heat, especially in the head, with paleness, or yellowish colour of the face, and livid circle under the eyes, or with redness of the cheeks. After the fever, headache. Cold sweat on the forehead, around the nose, and on the hands.

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