Helonias



Chest

Chest sensitive to the air. Aching, as if the front of chest had been compressed in a vice.

Heart

Palpitation.

Back

Burning and heat in dorsal region, mostly between the lower half of the scapula, while sitting reading at night. Back aches across the lumbar region, feels tired and weak, burning and tired aching in lumbar and sacral region on sitting down. Pain about the upper part of sacrum and pelvis, worse at night. Pain in lower part of back, through to uterus, piercing, drawing. Aching pain in sacrum, also down into each buttock.

Lower Limbs

Severe pains in right hip-joint, worse during motion. Numbness of feet better by motion, only felt when sitting still.

Generalities

Tired, weary, drowsy. Languor, unusually tired, yet knows no reason. Debility (diphtheria). Over-sensitiveness to air. Worse from uncovering, better in warm air. Anemia, atony, from prolonged haemorrhage. Dropsy from albuminuria, general debility, uterine atony or after uterine haemorrhage.

Skin

Face pale, earthy, sallow. Epidermis (of labia) falls off thin, transparent exfoliation.

Sleep

Drowsy, heavy. Sleepy during the day.

Fever

Chills, seemingly radiating from solar plexus all over body, caused by motion of arms. Flushes of heat pass over him with every movement while in a room.

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