Lachnanthes



Back and neck

Stiffness and pain in neck, extending over whole head down to the nose, and sensation as if nostrils were pinched together. Sensation of spraining in neck when turning or moving head backward. Stiff neck, the head is drawn to one side (after diphtheria, scarlet fever. Burning on right scapula. Sensation as if a piece of ice were lying on back, between the shoulders, followed by a chill, with gooseflesh all over. Sensation between the shoulder-blades as if wet with cold perspiration, the skin being dry and cool. Burning in region of left kidney, extending towards right side. Burning in spine above sacrum. Burning in sacrum.

Upper Limbs

Tearing from the shoulder, extending to finger-joints. Thumb and index-finger feel as if sprained. Tearing in elbow-joints. Tearing in knuckles of the middle fingers of the right hand. Burning of palms and soles.

Lower Limbs

Tearing in right ischium. Small pimples around left gluteus muscle, which discharge a watery fluid when scratched open. Burning stinging in, above, or below the knee-pan. Tearing in left knee. Tingling in both lower limbs and feet, worse in heat. Burning in feet (soles). Cramps in the feet (during night).

Generalities

Very restless, throws herself about, feels weak.

Skin

Sensation in skin as if an eruption would appear. Pimples appears here and there, containing a watery fluid. The red pimples on the forehead suppurate. Itching and burning in the skin all night, worse after scratching. Stinging, itching, and tingling on thighs, legs, feet, arms, etc.

Sleep

Sleepiness with yawning, eyes feel so heavy that she cannot keep them open. Sleepless, or restless sleep, with distressing dreams. Cannot go to sleep easily. After waking and stretching, a shock followed by chilliness and gooseflesh all over.

Fever

Flashes of heat alternating with chilliness. Continuous chilliness. Sensation as if a piece of ice were lying on back between shoulders, then a shock, followed by coldness over whole body with gooseflesh, these attacks recur on moving and go off after going to bed. Feels hot, but the chills run all over her before the heat can develop itself. Icy coldness of body. Heat with redness of face, after heat circumscribed redness of both cheeks, worse on right side, fever with violent delirium and brilliant eyes ( worse from I a.m. to 2. a.m.). Fever with somnolency. Perspires freely (after restless sleep), especially after midnight. The skin is cold, damp and clammy during the coldness. Icy cold perspiration, principally on forehead.

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