Ginseng



Back and neck

Frequent cracking in upper cervical vertebrae on moving head. Heaviness and stiffness in nape. Drawings in cervical muscles. Pulsation in vessels of right side of neck. Painful lassitude along back, with bruised feeling down to and in sacrum. Stiffness in back. Pressure in dorsal vertebrae. Deep lancinations around loins. Lancinations between the shoulder-blades, extending to right shoulder, or else along the dorsal spine to the sacrum, especially on standing upright, accompanied by difficulty of respiration. Weight in nape of neck, with contusive pain along back of sacrum.

Limbs

Much cracking in joints on moving. Peculiar lightness, vigor, and flexibility of limbs in spite of much walking or a bad night. Painful lassitude in limbs. Bruised pain in limbs alternating in different parts.

Upper Limbs

Pain in shoulder, with cracking in them. Peculiar sensation of coldness and crawling in right elbow and parietal eminence. Violent compressing pain in muscles of lower left forearm, as if a hoop were tight around them. Object dropped from hands easily, hastiness in his movements. On closing hands sensation as if they were swollen and the skin tight. Contraction of the fingers of right hand and stiffness in their joints.

Lower Limbs

Retraction of muscles of right leg, great weakness of right leg. Staggering gait. Sticking in right tibia. Lancinating tearing in right ankle joint. Lancinations alternately in both great toes. Painful stiffness of left thigh, from the hip to knee. Heaviness of the lower limbs, contraction of the muscles of left leg, with bruise-like pain in the coxofemoral articulation. Difficulty in walking, tingling and stiffness from the thigh to the foot, pain in the knee, and violent incisive pain in the right hip, which extends to the abdomen, and occasions writhing of the body. Contusive pains in the thighs and loins, with great lassitude in the morning on rising, with rheumatic and paralytic pains in the lower limbs. Nocturnal digging pain in right leg, from the hip to the great toe, in which are experienced violent lancinations. Violent lancinations in left great toe, already suffering from arthritic swelling. Alternate lancinations in one of the great toes. Cramp-like pain, extending from right hip, along the leg, to the points of the toes. Lancinating tearing in the articulation of right foot.

Generalities

Painful lassitude of the extremities, superior and inferior. Coldness, trembling, and numbness of the hands, with deadness of the fingers. Tendency of the symptoms to show themselves more particularly on right side. As during fever, uneasiness, with inclination to sleep, internal shivering, with heat externally, tingling in the fingers, yawning and stretching, trembling, shivering, thirst, dryness of the mouth, draggings in the stomach, and weakness of the legs, as after a severe illness. Great sensitiveness to cold, and tendency to feel bruised all over. After a walk, inability to obtain warmth. Pulse natural.

Skin

Itching pimples on the skin of the neck, and of the chest. Itching below right foot.

Sleep

Much yawning and drowsiness. Awakens with difficulty or else with a start. Pleasant voluptuous very vivid dreams, constantly repeated every time he takes the drug.

Fever

Coldness, numbness, trembling of hands, fingers white. Chilliness through the back extending into arms. Coldness pierces into interior of occiput. Coldness in back extending into bones of back, cold hands, blue nails. Coldness in spine. A small glass of Malaga wine caused remarkable heat of body, especially back, with distended veins. Violent burning heat in tips of fingers.

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