Lithium carbonicum



Back and neck

Sore feeling right side near spine, below loins, on small spot, worse from pressure, morning on rising. Stitch in sacrum. Pain in sacrum, when standing, with confusion of head. Feeling of prostration in sacrum at night. Pressure as with a dull point, here and there, internally, as if near sacral bone, in evening, most on left side.

Limbs

Occasional rheumatic pain in limbs.

Upper Limbs

Pain in right shoulder-joint near insertion of pectoralis major, at margin of muscle. Itching-throbbing very sensitive in all the fingers, as if it were in and upon the bones, extending from hands to ends of fingers, only during repose, better by pressure, when grasping, and during motion. Soreness at margin of nail, with pain and redness. Burning stitch in ball of left thumb.

Lower Limbs

Pain in right hip, later in left. Rheumatic pain in lower extremities. Pain in and above knees, especially when going upstairs. Prostrated feelings in knee-joints, on going upstairs. Rheumatic pains in right foot on awaking at night, better on rising. Painfulness of feet, ankles, metatarsus, all the toes, especially of border of foot and sole, as if gouty. Pain and weakness of feet. Burning in great toe, especially around the corns. Great soreness of corns. Itching of sole of (left) foot on inner margin. Pain in little toes.

Generalities

Paralytic stiffness in all limbs as if beaten, stiff and sore over whole body, in all the bones, joints, and muscles. Swelling, tenderness, sometimes redness of last joint of fingers, with general puffiness of body and limbs, increase of bulk and weight, clumsiness in walking at night, and weariness in standing, sometimes intense itching of sides of feet and hands at night from no apparent cause, better by very hot water. Pressing, as if with a dull point, here and there, internally, as it were near the bone, most in left side. Burning stitch which goes from within outwards, and ends in an itching. Before menses, symptoms worse left side, after menses worse right side. All symptoms worse right side.

Skin

Itching: at anus, in middle finger around margin of nail, in side of thigh: in sole, in palm.

Sleep

Sleepiness early in evening, late in morning. Sleep at night disturbed by urination. Voluptuous dreams, tenesmus vesicae, and erections, which subside after urination.

Fever

Shudder starting from thorax. Very copious sweat. General feeling of heat, sweat on back of hands.

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