Lobelia syphilitica



Upper Limbs

Severe aching of shoulder and fingers, while writing. Heavy pain in radial muscles of left arm, later in same of right. Stiff, numb feeling in right palm. Sticking pain in left thumb, fleshy part of last phalanx.

Lower Limbs

Pain in both hips, occasionally. Sensation of coldness, as if from the weather, with aching, in both knees through the day. Stitching pain in left tibia. Rheumatic pain over right inner ankle. Pain in upper part of left heel. Pricking stinging sensation as if asleep, in both soles. Pain in fleshy part of last phalanx of left great toe, sore pain in its joints.

Generalities

Lassitude, after dinner. Transient pain over left kidney, and soon after in left hypochondrium.

Skin

(Itching here and there on skin, worse than usual.).

Sleep

Drowsy but unable to sleep, when lying down after dinner. Slight drowsiness and oppression over eyelids. Restless sleep with frequent waking through the night.

Fever

Cold sensation as if alcohol had been spilled on outer left thigh. Cold hands, hot forehead. Feeling of heat in back, shoulders, face, with burning of ears.

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