Laurocerasus



Head

Stupefaction, with falling down, and loss of consciousness. Feeling of intoxication and vertigo, with drowsiness. Vertigo, on rising from a stooping posture, or on getting up from a seat, with what appears to be a veil before the sight, or with a sensation as if all objects were turning round. Vertigo worse in the open air. Stupefying pain in the whole head. Stupefying headache, with a feeling of weight, and sensation, on stooping, as if the brain fell forward and struck against the cranium. Brain feels contracted and painful. Stitches in head. Itching of hairy scalp. Very violent pressive headache in a room. Constant feeling of coldness in head. Sensation of coldness in forehead and vertex, as if a cold wind were blowing on it, descending through neck to back, worse in room, better in open air. Feeling as if ice lay on vertex. Congestion in the head, with heat and throbbing. Pulsation in head, with heat or with coldness. The headache disappears, with a sensation of coldness in vertex, forehead, in nape of neck, extending to loins. Headache in right temple.

Eyes

Burning pain in eyes. Dryness of eyes. Eyes widely open, or half-closed, convulsed, prominent, and fixed. Pupils dilated, and immovable. Darkness before the eyes, obscuration of sight. Eyes distorted. All objects appear larger than they really are.

Ears

Hardness of hearing. Tingling in ears. Itching in ears.

Nose

Nose feels stopped up, no air passes through. (Coryza with sore throat.).

Face

(Sunken face with) countenance pale, sallow, and grey. Face wan, or bloated and swollen. Distortion of the features. Cramps in the jaws. Twitching in muscles of face. Eruption round mouth. Titillation in the face, as if files and spiders were crawling over the skin. Lock-jaw. Painful sensations in the under jaw and lower teeth.

Mouth

Mouth dry and clammy. Froth at the mouth. Sensation of coldness on tongue. Loss of speech. Dry and rough tongue. White and dry tongue. Tongue feels cold, or burnt and numb. Swelling and stiffness of left side of tongue.

Throat

Sore throat with painful sensation, as if it were drawn downwards, during deglutition and at other times. Cramps in pharynx and esophagus. Audible gulping when drinking. Deglutition is hindered or obstructed. Contraction of esophagus when drinking. The drink he takes rolls audibly through esophagus and intestines. Dull sticking pain as from a lump in throat, which extends to left side of back. Sensation of swelling in pharynx. Sensation of coldness, or heat and burning pain in throat, and in bottom of palate.

Stomach

Violent risings, either empty, or having taste of food. Excessive disgust, nausea, and vomiting, even of food. Hiccough. Bitter eructations. Violent pain in stomach, with loss of speech. Burning in stomach and abdomen, or coldness. Contractive pain in region of stomach, and cutting pain in abdomen. Vomiting of black matter. Aching of stomach. Pains in stomach, sufficiently violent to cause fainting. Great anguish in precordial region. Sensation of coldness, or burning in stomach, and in epigastrium. (Inflammation of stomach.) _ Weak digestion with confined bowels.

Appetite

Sweetish, or acrid and irritating taste. Ardent thirst, with dryness of mouth. Entire loss of appetite, with clean tongue. Want of appetite, with repugnance to all food. Excessive craving. Sinking between meals, husky voice, brings up phlegm streaked with blood.

Abdomen

Sticking pains in liver with pressure. Distension of region of liver, with pains, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Induration of liver. Atrophic nutmeg liver. Colic below navel, with incisive pain in intestines. Sensation of swelling, of size of a walnut, in left side of abdomen. Cutting, cramps, and contractions in abdomen. Sensation of coldness, or heat and burning in abdomen. (Inflammation of intestines.) _ Pains in left intestine. Flatulent colic. Borborygmi, rumbling, and grumbling in abdomen and in stomach. Pinching in umbilical region. Flatulence pressure outward at perineum, pressing on bladder. Pressure and tension beneath both Poupart’s ligaments as if a part would press through. Contractive pains in groins, compelled to bend up for two hours (4 p.m.). Sharp stitches in groins.

Stool

Constipation. Hard and tenacious evacuations, with straining. Ineffectual urging to stool, with emission of wind only. Diarrhoea, with tenesmus, incisive and burning pains in anus. Diarrhoea of green, slimy matter, with contraction in groins. Involuntary stools. Paralysis of sphincter ani. Cramp in rectum extends upwards from anus. Fine sticking in rectum after urging to stool. A stitch as with an awl in rectum during stool, which shoots from above downwards, and is followed by discharge of some pasty feces. Three tearings in succession in rectum. Constriction of the rectum. Itching or crawling in rectum as from worms. No stool or urine is discharged.

Urinary Organs

Retention of urine. Pale yellow, watery urine. Frothy, acrid urine. Thick, reddish sediment in urine. Involuntary emission of urine. Paralysis of bladder. Pain in region of stomach during emission of urine.

Male Sexual Organs

Increased sexual desire. Gangrene of genital parts. Sticking pain above right pubis, extending along spermatic cord, while lying and on moving about, better when sitting up. Voluptuous itching beneath prepuce with desire for coition.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia too early and too abundant, blood thin, with nightly tearing in vertex. Menorrhagic, blood dark, in large clots,

during climaxis. (Metrorrhagia in tumour case.) _ Tearing in head, odontalgia, and cuttings, during catamenia. Severe pain in sacral region extending to pubis with dizziness and dimness of visions, cold extremities, cold tongue, great melancholy (dysmenorrhea). Dysmenorrhea, colic first day, headache second day all over head, with or without sick feeling. (Relieves the pain of uterine and rectal cancer.) _ Attacks of suffocation, with palpitation and a sort of gasping for breath, must lie down sometimes to find relief (pregnancy). Burning and stinging in and below mammae. Needle-like stitches in and beneath left breast. Creeping or moving stitches in female breast, whereby the skin becomes sensitive to touch lasting a long time.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, roughness, and scraping in throat and pharynx. Deep bass voice. Spasmodic constriction of the trachea. Little short cough, excited by a tickling and scraping in throat. Abundant gelatinous expectoration, with small specks of blood. (persistent cough in phthisis trachealis.).

Chest

Slow, weak, anxious respiration. Rattling, stertorous respiration. Obstruction to respiration in region of stomach. Asthmatic respiration as if lungs were incapable of being sufficiently dilated, or as if they were paralysed. Pressure on chest. Constriction of chest, with oppression. Burning and stitches in chest. In pulmonic affections, where the patient coughs and spits a great amount of phlegm, which is sprinkled over and through with distinct dots of blood, the dots may be close together, or considerably scattered (frequently seen following typhoid pneumonia). Affections of left chest. (The breast-scirrhus swells up suddenly, looks dark and angry, with shooting pains. ***R. T. C.).

Heart

Pains in region of heart. Slow and irregular beating of heart. The patient puts his hand to his heart, as if there was some trouble there, this may results from running a short distance, which puts him completely out of breath, going upstairs, walking, any exercise may bring this on.

Back and neck

Painful stiffness in left side of neck and nape. Compressed feeling in shoulders and nape, as well as in arms and back, with sudden palpitation which wakes her up at night. Pressure in nape especially in open air, compelling him to bend head forward. Spinal irritation, pain down back every four hours, darting up to head and chest and causing a feeling of suffocation, with constant sick feeding and drowsiness, better from sleep. Sensation of a heavy lump falling from just above umbilicus to small of back. Painful stiffness in small of back, when writing better immediately on becoming erect, but it soon returns. Stitches in right side of small of back. Severe pain in sacral region extending to pubis. Burning in coccyx, 4 p.m.

Upper Limbs

Acute drawings and shootings in shoulders and in arms. Pressure on right shoulder or in the joint. In right shoulder, pains as from lameness and stitches. Stitch in both elbows. Pain, as if sprained, in right wrist-joint. Burning sensation in hands, with swelling of the veins. Trembling of hands. Skin dry and rough between the fingers, with burning when touched with water.

Lower Limbs

Acute drawings and shootings in knees. Pain, as if sprained in left hip-joint. Sticking in left knee. The feet go to sleep (when crossing legs or sitting). Ulcerated pains in lower part of heels. Stiffness of feet after rising from a seat. Numbness of feet.

Sleep

Frequent yawning, often accompanied by shuddering, with cutis anserina. Insurmountable inclination to sleep during day (especially after dinner) and early in evening. Deep snoring sleep. Soporous condition. Somnolence, sometimes like coma vigil. Sleeplessness from over-excitement, and sudden heat. Troublesome and agitated dreams.

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