Plantago



Urinary Organs

Tenderness over region of kidneys on pressure. Frequent passage of large quantities of pale urine, worse night, stools grey, irritable, puffy under eyes, eats heartily, sleep soundly. Copious nocturnal enuresis from laxity of sphincter. Irritable bladder with frequent micturition. Delayed, dribbling urine. Urethra: tingling with unpleasant itching in meatus, sudden darting stinging running up, sharp cutting in from within out. Urine: large quantities, clear, frequent, very dark red, of strong odour, deep orange colour, white sediment.

Male Sexual Organs

Sexual debility. Unconscious emission in sleep.

Female Sexual Organs

Erysipelas of breasts. Mastitis.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness. Cough in cold air. Panting breathing, inclined to sigh.

Chest

Orgasm. Oppression, worse reading or talking. Sharp stitches. Muscular drawing.

Heart

Heat in praecordia when walking in open air. Violent palpitation, on ascending stairs. Pulse strong, full, intermittent.

Neck and Back

Neck stiff and sore. Stiffness of sternocleidomastoid mastoid (worse right), worse moving head to side affected, better moving it to opposite side. Pulsative pain between scapulae. Pain in sacrum.

Upper Limbs

Stinging, dull pains here and there.

Lower Limbs

Hard, white, flattened, isolated papules on inside of thighs, some having red points in center. Great pain and stiffness in left leg and knee, worse stooping.

Skin

Violent itching, worse night. Pricking, stinging pains. Tensive sensation. Burning after rubbing where scratched. Redness, swelling, and vesicles on hands and face. Papules which exude yellowish humour and form a crust. Erythema. Burns. Rhus poisoning (local use). Inflammatory affections of skin and involvement of cellular tissue.

Sleep

Excessive and continued yawning. Insomnia from abdominal trouble. Grinding teeth during sleep. Sleep restless, disturbed by dreams.

Fever

Chilliness with sensation of heat in chest, with erratic pains in limbs, chest, head, from 1 to 3 p.m. with disposition to stretch and chilliness on moving about, cold hands in a warm room. Chill: without thirst, with gooseflesh, 2 p.m., running over body, worse moving about, fingers cold, coldness of body with shivering, head feels irritable, feet and hands cold even in warm room. Heat, with thirst, great excitability, mental agony, restlessness, room seems hot and close, oppression of chest, rapid respiration, breathing difficult as if there was no air in room, burning heat of head, face, hands, feet, head hot, painful, dull, stupid, hands hot, clammy. Sweat: cold over lumbar and sacral region, heat of room unbearable, producing perspiration.

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