Niccolum



Respiratory Organs

Roughness in throat better by coughing. Hoarseness, day and night, every year at same time. Cough from tickling in trachea, in evening, after lying down. Dry hacking cough, like the tick of a clock in its regularity. Dry, scraping cough, from tickling in trachea, with sleeplessness from midnight till 4 a.m. At night violent cough. Compelling one to sit up and to hold head. Loose, hacking cough, day and evening and at 9 a.m., has to put arms on things when coughing. Expectoration of white mucus.

Chest

When coughing, dyspnoea and pressure on chest. Stitches in chest (left side) when breathing. Shootings in chest, especially when laughing. Pressure and heaviness on chest. Pain, as from excoriation, in chest.

Back and neck

Cracking and wrenching pain in neck (nape) when moving head (forward or backward), on rising again after stooping. Cracking in cervical vertebrae on moving head. Pain in neck, as from a sprain. Stitches in small of back (afternoon). Pain in the small of back during a soft stool.

Limbs

Heaviness in the hands and feet better by motion.

Upper Limbs

Pain in shoulders as if sprained. Rheumatic pains in elbows, extending to hands, in fingers. Headache feels heavy, tremble, feel bruised.

Lower Limbs

Stitches in right patella. Rheumatic pains from knees downward. Feet feel heavy, tremble, and are weak. Stitches in left heel. Itching in left heel.

Generalities

Tearing and shooting in the limbs and other parts. Symptoms worse in evening, and at night, better in open air. Great restlessness worse at night, from agitation, is compelled to change position continually, with vomiting and colic after suppressed menstruation. Great debility, especially in evening.

Skin

Itching over the whole body, but mostly on the neck, as from fleas, not better by scratching, but followed by small vesicles. Itching and pimples in small of back. Itching on shoulders, scratching does not better. Itching tetters. Itching herpes on hips. Itching on left heel.

Sleep

Wakefulness. Sleeplessness from midnight till 4 a.m., and dry, scraping cough, from tickling in trachea. Frequent awakening, at night, from agitation. Vertigo when awaking with nausea and desire to vomit. In morning heaviness in forehead, as if she had not slept sufficiently. Pain in swollen face wakens him at night, it is better by cold. Feels refreshed in morning without having slept. At 3 a.m. restlessness and heat, everything feels sore, compelling one rise and walk about to obtain relief from it. Awakens after midnight with colic.

Fever

Predominance of coldness. Chill is preceded or begins with yawning and sleepiness. Chill, with chattering and shaking, followed by profuse general perspiration (evening in bed). Heat with burning thirst, especially in. evening and at night. Heat in evening, followed by chill. Continuous chill, with moist palms of hands. Heat, restlessness, and vomiting at night (must rise). Anxious heat with violent thirst. Dry heat with thirst, every afternoon at 3 o’clock. Heat with perspiration and thirst, followed by chill. Morning sweat.

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