Clematis Erecta



Generalities

Convulsive movements of the muscles in different parts of the body. Relaxation of the muscles. Great emaciation. Fatigue of all the limbs, especially after a meal, with beatings in all the arteries. Vibration through the whole body, after lying down. Great debility and weakness, 3-5 (P.M.). Lancinations from below upward, worse on breathing, or urinating, concomitant with uterine or other affections.

Skin

Obstinate miliary eruptions. Vesicular eruptions on the body. Scaly tetters, discharging a sanious pus, yellowish and corrosive, and with redness, heat and swelling of the skin. Obstinate tetters, red and moist, with insupportable itching in the heat of the bed, and after washing. Itching over the whole body. Aggravation of all skin symptoms by the heat of the bed and from washing. The tetters (painful, not itching over the whole body) are red and humid while the moon is increasing, and pale and dry when the moon is waning. Burning or tingling, and pulsation in the ulcers, with shootings in the edges when touched. Psoric pustules over the whole body. Painful swelling and induration of the glands.

Sleep

Great drowsiness during the day, even in the morning after rising. Sleeplessness in the evening and at night. Sleep, with frequent dreams, agitation, and tossing, vivid, lascivious dreams, profuse perspiration after midnight. In the morning, sensation of not having slept enough.

Fever

Pulse accelerated. Quartan fever, characterized by shuddering, followed by sweat. Sweat on waking, and sensitiveness of the skin, which the patient cannot bear to be uncovered. Dry heat, with sensation of general heat (at night).

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