Malaria Officinalis



Abdomen

Sense of heat in abdomen. Tired feeling through abdomen and chest. Sensation as though he would have a very loose stool (it passed off without). Sensation in spleen as though it would ache. Pain in abdomen to right of navel. Uneasiness in lower abdomen. Liver, spleen, and kidneys affected. (Cannot breathe on account of pain in liver, worse lying down, better hard pressure.) _ (Drawing or pricking in liver.) _ (Cramping in liver, pain under right scapula.).

Stool and Anus

Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea in morning, stools thin, yellow, foul.

Respiratory Organs

Shallow breathing, which seems from languor, desire to breath deep, occasionally. Residence in malarial districts is said to cure phthisis. A consumptive constitution is protected against malaria. (Singing causes some irritation in the throat.).

Chest

Tired feeling through chest and abdomen.

Heart

When leaning face on left hand, elbow on table, perceptible feeling of heart-beats through upper body and neck.

Back and neck

Neck feels tired, with slight aching in upper part on moving the head. Lumbar region tired as though it would ache. (Rheumatism of back and limbs, with lameness.) _ (Stiff neck, and right arm and shoulders painful and helpless.) _ (Aching under right scapula, cramping in liver.).

Limbs

Chilly sensation in left forearm, soon followed by chilly feeling in hands and fingers, feet are cold with sensation as if chilliness were about to creep up the legs, a few moments later knees feel cold. A sense of coldness ascending from body from the legs. Gout.

Upper Limbs

Aching in both elbows. Aching and tired feeling in wrists, tired ache in the hands. Arms tired.

Lower Limbs

Pain, upper part of right ilium. Tired ache in knees and for some distance above and below. Pain in top of left instep. Aching in an old (cured) bunion on left foot. Legs weary from a short walk. Legs restless, feel like stretching and moving them.

Generalities

General sense of weariness, from a very short walk, especially through pelvis, sacral region, and upper thighs, strong desire to lie down. A kind of simmering all through the body. Typhoidal, semi-paralytic condition (No. III.). Rheumatism. Rheumatic paralysis and emaciation.

Skin

(Skin, eyes, and face very yellow.).

Sleep

Impelled to lie down, and on falling asleep a sense of waving dizziness passes all over, preventing sleep. Gaping, yawning, and desire to stretch.

Fever

(When in open air seems cold and shakes inside till she fairly cramps.) _ Coldness ascending over body from legs. Face feels warm as if flushed, also head, spreads over body, as if feverish. A feeling as if he would have a chill, then as if he would become feverish, though neither is very marked. Intermittents: quotidian, tertian (No. II.). Chills for one hour followed by fever for six hours (No. II. given to a consumptive patient, whom it cured). (Ague every other day, weak and drowsy between attacks.) (Dumb chills.).

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