Indigo



Lower Limbs

Aching, stinging, bruised pain in sciatic nerve, boring in knee- joint, pricking in calf, worse sitting, better by motion, though motion also painful, worse afternoon and evening, must lie down. Indescribable pain from middle of thigh to knee in bone, better walking, returning during rest, in afternoon. Tearing pain above the knee-joint extending to ankle, in afternoon, while sitting, better moving about. Tearing in the lower extremities, especially in the toes. Great lassitude of the lower extremities in the evening, which is felt even after lying down.

Generalities

Pains which disappear entirely, or at least re-appear only, with greatly diminished force, after resting on the part affected, or after scratching. Shooting and tearing pains in the limbs, in the afternoon and evening. Subsultus tendinum.

Skin

Face and whole body covered with pimples. Fine heat-rash, especially left side of face extending from forehead to throat. Itching of skin with constipation. Boils on ribs and various parts. Itching, in face and various parts of body, better by rubbing.

Sleep

Sleepiness in the evening and disturbed sleep at night. Illusory sensations. Children aroused at night with horrible itching at anus. At night, anxious waking, with a start. Anxious dreams. Excessive nervous irritation. Predominance of cold. Convulsions, attacks sudden.

Fever

Chilliness, with cold hands and violent headache, with constant desire to urinate, urine turbid. Great heat, particularly in the face, with increased secretion of urine.

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