Hepar



Stool and Anus

Constipation, hard and dry faeces. Difficult emission of scanty and soft excrement, with urgent want, and tenesmus. Diarrhoea of feculent matter with cutting pains. Whitish diarrhoea, of an acidulous smell, especially in children. Dysenteric evacuations, greenish, or of a clay-colour, with evacuation of sanguineous mucus. After the evacuation, pain, as of excoriation, and sanious discharge from the anus. Haemorrhage from rectum, with soft stool. Burning at the rectum. Protrusion of haemorrhoidal pimples from the rectum. Perspiration at the perineum.

Urinary Organs

Urine slow and turbid, with whitish sediment. The urine is passed slowly, with difficulty, drops out perpendicularly. Abundant secretion of pale urine, with pressure on the bladder. Acrid, Corrosive (corroding the prepuce), or pale and watery, or deep-red, and hot urine. Nocturnal emission of urine. Wetting the bed (at night). Emission of blood after urination. Burning in the urethra during micturition. Stitches in the urethra. Redness and inflammation of the orifice of the urethra. Discharge of mucus from the urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Weakness of the genital parts. Itching of the penis (glands, frenulum). Smarting, excoriation, and oozing, between the thigh and the scrotum. Cancerous ulcer on the prepuce. Painful, cramp- like, and tensive erections. Absence of sexual desire and of erections. Erections without energy, during coition. Excitement of the genital parts, as if for emission. Flow of prostatic fluid, especially after making water, and during a difficult evacuation.

Female Sexual Organs

Excoriation of the vulva, and between the thighs. Congestion of blood to the uterus. Irritation of ovaries (left), with swelling, and great sensitiveness. Discharge of blood between the periods, with inflation of the abdomen. Catamenia too long delayed, and diminished. Leucorrhoea, with smarting at the vulva. Cancerous ulcer on the breast, with stinging-burning of the edges, smelling like old cheese. Itching nipples.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness. Pain and great sensitiveness (to cold) of the larynx, with weak and rough voice, emaciation, hectic fever, and sleeplessness. Rattling breathing (during sleep). Swelling below the larynx. Roughness in the throat. Croup, with swelling under the larynx. Permanent pain in the larynx, worse by pressure, speech, coughing, and breathing. Weakness of the organs of speech, and of the chest, causing a hindrance to speak loud. Cough, excited by irritation or pain in the larynx. Titillation as from dust in the throat, inducing cough, which is deep, wheezing, with expectoration, only in the morning, of mucus, bloody, or like pus, generally tasting sour or sweet. Cough, deep and dull, excited by difficulty of respiration. Suffocating, violent cough, with retching. Cough, similar to whooping-cough. Cough after drinking. Dry cough, in the evening, on taking cold in any part of the body, or when lying on the bed. Cough worse from evening till midnight. Cough caused by a limb getting cold, from eating or drinking anything cold, from cold air, when lying in bed, from talking, crying. Attacks of dry, rough, and hollow cough, with anguish and suffocation, often ending in lachrymation. Barking Cough. Cough, with spitting, of blood. Cough, with abundant expectoration of mucus. Ringing and pain in the head during the cough, as if it were going to burst. Sneezing after the cough. Bronchitis.

Chest

Anxious, hoarse, wheezing respiration, with danger of suffocation on lying down. Soreness in the chest. Attacks of suffocation, which force the patient to throw back the head. Shortness of breath. Weakness of the chest, cannot talk from weakness. Tenacious mucus in the chest. Spasmodic constriction of the chest. Frequent want to breathe deeply, as after running. Shootings in the chest on breathing and walking. Pimples and furunculi on the chest, with lancinations, and pain as of excoriation on the part being touched.

Heart

Violent palpitation of the heart, with fine stitches in the heart and left half of chest. Irritability of the heart.

Back

Swellings on the neck, painful when touched. Violent pulsation of the carotid arteries. Burning, shooting pain in the region of the loins. Pain, as from a bruise in the loins, extending to the Thighs Shootings and pulling in the back, between the shoulder- blades and in the muscles of the neck. Stitches and rheumatic pains in the back. Nocturnal tension in the back, on turning in bed. Fetid sweat under the armpits. Suppuration of the axillary glands.

Upper Limbs

Pain, as from a bruise, in the bones of the arm (humeri). Arthritic swelling of the hand, of the fingers, and of the joints of the fingers, with heat, redness, and pain, as of dislocation during movement. Skin of the hands cracked, rough and dry. Granulated eruption on the hands and on the wrists. Nettle-rash on the hands and on the fingers. Cold perspiration of the hands. Tingling in the tips of the fingers. Itching in the palms of the hands. Steatoma at the point of the elbow. Easy dislocation of the fingers. Fingers dead. Panaris.

Lower Limbs

Pain in the buttocks on sitting down. Furunculi on the buttocks. Pain, as from a bruise, on the thighs. Painful tension in the thighs, which prevents sleep. Frequent sudden lassitude of the limbs, when walking. The hip-joint feels sore, as if sprained when walking. Pain as from bruises in the knee. Prickings in both heels. Tingling in toes. Burning, stinging pain in the toes. Swelling of the knees. Cramps in the calves of the legs, the soles of the feet, and the toes. Feet burning. Swelling of the feet, and in the ankle-bones, with difficulty of respiration. Red, rheumatic swelling in the ankle-bones, with pain, which increases at night. Cracks in the feet. Shootings in the corns.

Generalities

Tearing or paralytic pullings in the limbs, especially in the morning on walking. Weakness in all the limbs. Pains, as from excoriation or bruising on various places, when they are touched. Rheumatic pains in the limbs and shootings in the joints. Arthritic swellings, with heat, redness, and pains as from as from dislocation. Swelling, inflammation, and ulceration of the glands. Appearance or aggravation of the pains at night, especially during the chills. Emaciation, sometimes with anguish, irritability, shiverings in the back, redness of the cheeks, sleeplessness, etc. Physical depression and trembling after smoking tobacco, or on walking in the open air, with heat and anxiety. Fainting fit, especially in the evening, from moderate pains.

Skin

Erysipelatous inflammations, even with swelling and vesicles. Yellowish colour of the skin, especially on the face, with yellowish colour of the sclerotica, and urine red like blood. Jaundice, with much itching. Burning itching in the body, with white vesicles after scratching. Nettle-rash. Eruption of pimples and tubercles, painful to the touch. Unhealthy skin, every injury tends to suppuration and ulceration. Promotes suppuration. Cracks in the skin. Putrid ulcers, smelling like old rotten cheese, and easily bleeding, with shootings, sensation of gnawing (especially at night), or with burning and pulsative pains. Cancerous ulcers. Suppurations, especially after previous inflammations. Panaris. Caries.

Sleep

Strong desire to sleep, morning and evening, with convulsive yawning. Unquiet sleep, with the head turned back. Prolonged sleep with stupefaction, as in lethargy. Sleeplessness, caused by a great flow of ideas. Dreams of fire, sickness, danger, guns, etc. At night, gastric sufferings, headache, agitation, starting of the limbs, and dry heat. Starts at night, during sleep, as from want of air, with tears and great anguish. Wakes at night with an erection and an urgent desire to urinate. The side on which he lies at night becomes painfully sore, he must change his position.

Fever

Pulse hard, full, accelerated, at times intermitting. Shuddering and shivering, especially in the open air. Shiverings, with chattering of the teeth and coldness in the hands and feet, followed by heat and sweat, especially on chest and forehead, with little thirst. Chill in the evening, 6 or 7 p.m. Chilliness and heat alternating during the day, with photophobia. Chilliness at night, in bed aggravating all the symptoms. Bitterness in the mouth, afterwards shivering with thirst, an hour after, heat with sleep, after which, vomiting and cephalalgia. Dry heat at night. Flushes of heat with sweat. Burning, feverish heat, with redness of the face and violent thirst. Strong disposition to perspire in the daytime, on the least effort, and on the least movement. Profuse perspiration day and night. Perspiration easily excited through the day, especially from exertions of the mind. Nocturnal sweat. Sweat in the morning. Night and morning sweat, with thirst. Viscid acid sweat. Cold, clammy, or sour or offensively smelling perspiration. Intermittent fever, first chills, then thirst, and, an hour later, much heat, with interrupted sleep.

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