Fluoricum Acidum



Upper Limbs

Pain in right shoulder-joint. Pain in right shoulder-joint, extending toward fingers, with sensation as if air were passing down. Trembling in the biceps and triceps of right arm. Slight lameness in right arm (has some difficulty in writing). Rheumatic pains in left arm from shoulder to elbow, with lameness. The left forearm and hand asleep (in the morning). Numbness and lameness in left forearm and hand (morning). Pain in left index finger, the whole finger is painful internally. Weakness and numbness of the hands and head. Constant redness of the hands, especially the palms of the hands. Acute prickings, as with needles, in the fingers. Thumbs and fingers inflamed, with acute throbbing pains. Sensation of a splinter under nail. The nails grow more rapidly. Brittleness of the nails. Panaritium, also simple onychia.

Lower Limbs

Oedematous swelling up to the abdomen. Varicose veins. Acute stitches in right hip-bone. Lameness in left hip. Pain in right knee-joint. The left leg falls easily asleep. Burning stitches under the soles of the feet (in the morning). Feet hot and burn. Soreness between the toes. Soreness of all his corns.

Generalities

Lassitude. Loss of strength. Limbs go to sleep, although he does not lie on them. Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue, regardless of the most excessive heat in summer or cold in winter. Violent jerking, burning pains, confined to a small spot.

Skin

Old cicatrices become red around the edges, covered or surrounded by itching vesicles, or they itch violently. Burning pains on small spots of the skin. Itching of the skin (in the month of March). Elevated red blotches. Red, round, elevated blood vesicles, resembling little flesh-warts. Varicose veins on the (left) leg. Caries and necrosis. Ulcerations, especially after the abuse of Silica.

Sleep

Sleeplessness without inclination to sleep, a short sleep suffices and refreshes him. Drowsy and sleepy in the early evening. Dreams toward morning.

Fever

General heat with nausea. General heat with nausea from the least movement, with inclination to uncover oneself and to wash oneself with cold water. Perspiration, clammy, acid, disagreeably smelling, principally on the upper part of the body, esp., on moving in the afternoon and evening, with itching. The perspiration favors soreness of the skin and decubitus. Less susceptible to the summer heat.

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