Hypericum



Limbs

Cannot walk, from affection of the spine. Feeling of weakness and trembling of all the limbs. Sensation of lameness of the left arm and right foot. Articular rheumatism (knees mostly), much effusion, muddy urine. Rheumatism of small joints. Numbness and crawling in the limbs, hands, and feet. Hands and feet feel fuzzy. Compound fractures. Affections of joints.

Upper Limbs

Stitches on the top of the shoulder at every inspiration. Flying pains in right shoulder. Neuralgia and paralytic pain in left upper arm. Tension in both arms and in the hands. Numbness in left arm, better by rubbing.

Lower Limbs

Sensation as if the left foot was strained of dislocated. The feet feel pithy, as if pricked with needles. Fearful sharp pain in knees, could hardly touch them. Coxalgia after confinement. Sciatica, rheumatism, from injury. Left leg numb, cold while sitting. Effects of running nail or pin into foot. Feet much swollen.

Generalities

Consequences of shock or fight. Prevents lockjaw from wounds in soles, in fingers, and in palms of the hands. Convulsions from blows or concussions. After a fall, slightest motion of arms or neck extorts cries. Flesh sore, feels bruised all over. Injuries to parts rich in sentient nerves, especially fingers, toes, and matrices of nails. Mechanical injuries, wounds by nails or splinters in the feet, needles under the nails, squeezing, hammering, of the toes and fingers, especially the tips of the fingers, when the nerves have been lacerated, wounded, torn, with excruciating pains. Lacerations, when intolerable, excruciating pain shows nerves are severely involved. Next to the nervous tissues, the joints are affected. Sensation as of being lifted up high into air.

Skin

Smarting eruption, like nettle-rash, on the hands. Painful scars in tissues rich in nerves.

Sleep

Constant drowsiness. Spasmodic jerks in arms or legs on going to sleep, twitching. Dreams: with activity, travelling, vivid, distressing. At 4 a.m. talks nonsense in sleep, distorted staring eyes, throbbing arteries. Wakes 4 a.m. with sense of levitation. On awaking: weary, better by noon, feels refreshed, bowels distended.

Fever

Pulse hard, accelerated. Shuddering over the whole body, with desire to urinate. Heat, with delirium, wild, staring look, hot head, throbbing of the carotids, bright-red, bloated face, moist hair on the head, burning heat of the skin, great oppression and anguish.

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