Teeth
Odontalgia, with pulsative pain, worse by cold drinks, better by heat. Toothache, with sensation of pressing asunder. Tingling in teeth. Scorbutic gums, swollen, easily bleeding and ulcerating.
Mouth
Dryness of mouth, with paralysis of tongue. Profuse accumulation of saliva. Heaviness of tongue, when speaking, as if it were made of lead, which prevents him from talking. Deep-seated ulcers (with black base), vesicles, or pustules on tongue. Small tumours right side of tongue. The tongue becomes sore and bluish. The tongue dwindles (atrophy of tongue). (Psoriasis of tongue.) _ Mucous lining of the lips, and mouth inflamed, red, raw, painful, dotted with whitish points, fetid breath, stomatitis. Parched tongue.
Throat
Sore throat, with pain as from excoriation, rawness, and smarting in throat and palate. Dry throat with burning in chest. Mucous lining of throat and fauces deep dark red, swollen and burning, covered with greyish-white diphtheritic-like deposits. Swelling of uvula, of tonsils. Much saliva that must be swallowed. Attempting to swallow produces violent spasms and choking.
Appetite
Taste of rancid grease in throat. Acrid and putrid taste (like rotten eggs, with ptyalism) in throat. All food has a sweetish taste, and especially beer, which is disliked. Bulimy and excessive thirst. Dislike to meat. Appetite lost.
Stomach
Risings, putrid or bitter. Hiccough (before and after dinner). Vomiting of food, _ Vomiting of bile, at night, with nausea and eructations. Uneasiness in stomach, as indicating serious illness. Sensation of emptiness in the stomach and oesophagus, not better by eating. Contractive pain in stomach, with sensation as if it were retracted. Pressive tension and cramp-like pain in hypochondria.
Abdomen
Uneasiness in abdomen, as in serious illness. Fulness and inflation of the abdomen, from small quantities of food. Cramp- like pains in abdomen, with cuttings and pinchings, extending from umbilical region into sides, accompanied by borborygmi. Sensation of emptiness in abdomen. Lancination in groins.
Stool & Anus
Difficult evacuations of faeces, as from inactivity of rectum. Feces of too small a size. Diarrhoea, with smarting and when burning in rectum and anus Anus Stercoral diarrhoea. Involuntary evacuation of liquid and serous feces hen urinating. Itching in and. Haemorrhoids protruding like a bunch of grapes. Swollen and bluish haemorrhoidal excrescences, with burning pain as from excoriation, worse by touch. Bleeding haemorrhoids.
Urinary Organs
Tenesmus of bladder. Frequent want to urinate, with abundant emission. Immoderate emission of aqueous urine. Slow emission of urine. Weakness of bladder. Involuntary discharge of urine. Relaxation of bladder, and of neck of bladder.
Male Sexual Organs
Excoriation of prepuce. Soreness in the margin of prepuce. Itching of scrotum not better by scratching. Suppression of sexual desire. Feeling of weakness in genital organs, penis relaxed. Impotence.
Female Sexual Organs
Sensation of a bearing down towards genital organs, as if preparatory to catamenia. During menses sad and taciturn. Ulcers in genitals, with putrid discharge, much sensitiveness and general weakness. Cannot bear the least touch even of sheets on genitals. Too early catamenia, and too profuse.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness, with sore feeling in chest. Chronic hoarseness. Violent and sobbing cough, followed by a gurgling in bottom of chest. Breathing deep and groaning, moaning.
Chest
Deep respiration with groans. Lancinating pains in chest, during a violent movement, and during inspiration. Tensive pain in sternum. Incisive shocks in chest, with dull pressure on posterior part of chest, and with oppression. Oppression across chest (evening).
Heart and Pulse
Stitches in chest, and on heart, when taking a long breath and on violent motion. Pulse rapid and very feeble, and small. Shootings in region of heart. Shock in heart at night, so violent that it is felt in face.
Back
Aching pain in back, as from having been having bent double for a long time, or from a strain. Shootings in shoulder-blades. Furunculi in back.
Upper Limbs
Paralytic weakness, and wrenching pain in shoulder. Heaviness of arms, esp., the forearms. Tearing, aching, and pulling in arms, _ Drawing tension in elbow-joint. Cramp-like drawings and heaviness in forearm. Incisive tearing in forearm, hands, and fingers. Voluptuous itching and tickling, and lancinating, in palms _ Scabby eruption on back of hand, and upper part of fingers. Cramp-like pain in fleshy part of thumb when writing. Swelling of extremity of fingers, with burning. Nocturnal torpor and paleness of fingers, which are as if dead.
Lower Limbs
Tearing and cramp-like pulling in thighs. Wavering gait from
weakness of the thighs. Itching tettery spots on thighs. Swelling of knees. Drawing tension in calf of leg, and in tendo-Achillis, when walking. Lancinations in tendo-Achillis, day and night which hinder walking and sleeping. Putrid, painful ulcers in legs, with burning in their circumference. Coldness of feet. Swelling and redness of extremity of toes, with burning.
Generalities
(This remedy is often called for in cases where the patient cannot urinate without having the bowels moved at the same time, in typhus or low grades of fever where we find this symptom with great prostration, patient may think he is going to pass a little wind, when urine will come away also. Haemorrhoids very tender to the touch, so much so that he can scarcely bear to use paper after an evacuation, after confinement, haemorrhoids protrude so that the pressure of a sheet can scarcely be borne. In low types of fever the patient often slips down toward the foot of the bed, and must be lifted up every little while. Cannot bear the sight or thought of meat, it is so distasteful. Urine too copious, both night and day. Affections in general, of any kind, appearing in the tendo-Achillis, the soles of the feet. Scurvy, particularly if the parts affected are very sore and tender to the touch. Itching of the skin better by scratching. Putrid ulcers. ***H.N.G.) _ Tearing and incisive (rheumatic) pains in limbs, during repose, better during movement. Restlessness, frequent changing of position. Contusive pains in all joints. Painful sensibility of periosteum of bones, as in intermittent fever. Coldness of. Dropsical swellings. Indolence and dread of movement, with inclination to remain seated. Excessive depression, on sitting down, the eyelids close, the lower jaw hangs down, he slides down in bed. Tottering gait, from weakness of thighs and knees. Great sensitiveness to damp weather. Paralysis of tongue and sphincter ani.
Skin
Itching, voluptuous and lancinating tickling, with want to scratch. Scabious eruptions, which itch in heat of bed. Furunculi, with shooting pain when they are touched. Putrid and painful ulcers, with burning at margins. Fetid odour of ulcers, also they are covered with a scurf. Black pustules.
Sleep
Great drowsiness during day, which disappears on taking exercise. Sleeplessness before midnight. Before midnight, continued snoring, groaning, tossing, talking, and tendency to slide downwards in bed. Frequent and early waking, caused by a coldness that is felt in bed. Anxious dreams.
Fever
Predominant sensation of cold. Shivering, with yawning and stretching, without thirst, and not followed by heat. Chill in the evening, with coldness in back, with external warmth and burning in face. Shuddering over whole body, with hot cheeks and cold hands. Burning heat, esp., in palms and soles. Night and morning sweat. In evening, the perspiration is first cold on the feet. Typhus fever, lower jaw hangs down, atrophy of tongue, involuntary watery stools when passing urine, great debility, with sliding down in bed, loud moaning. Heat without thirst, with agitation, and desire to throw off clothes at night. Pulse weak and slow. Intermittent pulse, every third beat. Nocturnal sweat, on going to sleep in evening, of before midnight, especially on head and back.
