Luna



Chest

After ascending stairs, a peculiar heating sensation, beginning at lower extremity of sternum and extending outwards, following some-what attachment of diaphragm on each side to a point under each arm, at same time warm glow down arms to finger-tips, most in left (5 minutes).

Heart

On retching, peculiar feeling round heart as though it stopped beating, better by eructations, worse by lying down. Suffocative sensation round heart. Pulse rapid.

Back and neck

Very severe pain in sacral region, in evening.

Upper Limbs

Slight rheumatic pains in shoulders, especially left.

Lower Limbs

Sharp, quick pain in left cervical nerve, intermittent every few seconds. Sharp pain in left great toe. Swollen feeling, and sensation as if tightly bound in right calf and in hypochondria. Pain like growing-pain above left knee, better walking. After retiring, aching in bones of lower limbs, with pain in lumbo- sacral region. Great lameness in anterior tibial region from walking. Acrid yellow leucorrhoea through day, with backache and pain in right ovary, great itching, which was not better till cold wet cloth applied after retiring.

Generalities

(Excessive edema of face, neck, and hands, with neuralgic pains in the swollen parts.).

Skin

Stinging itching right side of body as if an insect was biting the parts, felt most on foot, leg, and forearm.

Sleep

Symptoms worse on waking. Felt as if had not slept enough. Dreams: horrible, of death, of murder, waking in affright.

Fever

Woke 6 a.m. with severe chill, after which he had headache, felt sick and weak all day, at night had horrible dreams of death.

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