Cinnabaris



Generalities

Sensation of lameness in all the limbs. Pulling and shuddering in the arms and the legs. Paralytic pains in the limbs, with indolence and drowsiness. Weariness, languor, tired and prostrated, worse before eating, better when riding in the open air. General nervous, uneasy sensation.

Skin

Itching: of the nose (bleeding after blowing it), of eyelids, canthi (outer), ears, face (left side) palms of hands (right), thighs (inside), knees, legs, at the anus (at night), on the shoulders (evening). Sensation as if pimples were coming out over the body. Red papulous eruption, without itching, on both elbows. Redness of the skin. Red, fiery-looking ulcers, which may occur in the throat or in any other part of the body, in the mouth, on the legs, particularly if there be nodes on the shin-bones. Very angry-looking chancres.

Sleep

Sleepiness in the daytime and sleeplessness at night, unconquerable desire to sleep after dinner, early in the evening (during the day). Restlessness and sleeplessness at night, from a constant flow of ideas changing from one thing to another. Nightly sleeplessness, without causing fatigue. Restless sleep, with vivid dreams and much talking. Nightmare after midnight.

Fever

Pulse slower in the forepart of the day, accelerated in the evening. Coldness and chilliness in the warm room. Internal and external heat of the body during the whole night. Profuse perspiration between the thighs. Perspiration most at noon.

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