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Head

Tensive confusion in forehead, as if head were compressed in a vice. Pressing headache from without to within the forehead and temples, gradually increasing and decreasing, worse in evening from stooping, while at rest, in the room, better from exercise and in open air. Transient attacks of vertigo in evening with loss of consciousness. Vertigo on sitting down or ascending stairs. Headache which increases gradually, or by fits, until it becomes very violent, and which diminishes progressively in same manner. Attack of headache, with nausea and vomiting. Sensation of numbness in head, and externally at vertex, preceded by a sensation of contraction of brain and of scalp, worse in evening and while sitting, better from motion and in open air. Pain in sides of head, as if caused by a plug. Constrictive headache, as if a tape were tightly drawn around it, with sensation of numbness in brain, flushes of heat and ill-humour, worse from stooping and exercise. Formication in one temple, extending to lower jaw, with sensation of coldness on that spot, worse in evening and when at rest, better from rubbing. Pressive, cramp- like, compressive pains in the forehead and temples, especially in root of nose, greatly worse by movement and by stooping, sometimes with heat and redness of face, inquietude, and weeping. Tingling in temples, as if caused by insects. Buzzing and noise in head, like that of a mill.

Eyes

Pain in eyes after fatiguing the sight by looking attentively at an object. Tension in sockets, with gnawing pain, as from excoriation in margins. Cramp-like pain in edges of orbits. Compressive tension in eyeballs. Aching in eyes with sleep. Creeping tingling in canthi. Sensation of heat or of coldness and smarting in eyes. Trembling or spasmodic quivering of eyelids. Eyes convulsed. Objects appear smaller than they really are. Confused sight, as if directed through a veil, often with painless twitchings round they eye. Quivering and sparkling before sight.

Ears

Otalgia with cramp-like pain. Shocks in ears. (Sticking jerking in right outer ear with) sensation of numbness and of coldness in ears, extending to cheeks and lips. Gnawing tingling in ears. Roaring, whizzing, and ringing in ears. Dull thundering and rumbling in ears.

Nose

Cramp-like pain, with sensation of numbness in nose and at root of nose. Ineffectual want to sneeze and tingling in nose. Dry coryza, often semi-lateral. Corrosive sensation on nose, as of something acrid.

Face

Face pale, wan, and sunken. Burning heat and glowing redness in face, with ardent thirst and dryness of mouth, especially in evening. Distortion of muscles of faces. Sensation of coldness, with tingling and sensation of numbness throughout (right) side of face. Cramp and tensive pressure in zygomatic processes. Benumbing, dull pressure in malar bone. Pulsative digging in jaws, especially in evening and during repose, with involuntary weeping. Lockjaw. Gnawing, with pain as from excoriation in lips and chin, which compel scratching. Smarting and lancinating vesicles on lips. Lips dry and cracked. Plexus venarum, of a reddish blue colour, on chin. Sensation of torpor or coldness round mouth and chin. Cramp in jaw.

Teeth

Odontalgia with pulsative and digging pain. Cramp-like drawing, which recurs by fits, in teeth. Numb pain in left lower teeth. Fissures in gums.

Mouth

Sensation of coldness, especially in mouth. Crawling sensation on tongue. Burning pain under tongue sensation as if it had been burnt scalded.

Throat

Sensation is if throat were raw during (empty) deglutition. Cramp-like drawing in throat, like a constrictions. Sensation as if palate or uvula were elongated. Scraping and accumulation of phlegm in throat. Hawking up of phlegm.

Appetite

Mucous, clammy taste. Sweetish taste on tip of tongue. Adipsia. Loss of appetite after the first mouthful. Complete loss of appetite. Repugnance to food, arising from sadness. Dislike to food. Bulimy. Voracious rapidity in eating, with a disposition to find fault with everything (to detest everything around himself). After a meal, risings, pressure on stomach, and colic.

Stomach

Ineffectual effort to eructate. Empty, noisy eructations. Serum of a disagreeable sweetish bitterness ascends throat, and puts patient in danger of choking. Continued nausea, with lassitude, trembling, and anxiety. Aching (pressure) in stomach, especially after a meal. Sensation of constriction in pit of stomach, extending into abdomen. Fermentations in epigastric region. Flatulent soreness towards hypogastrium.Contractive pain in scrobiculus, as if it were squeezed too tightly. Pressure or shocks, or else throbbing, shootings, and pinchings in scrobiculus. Burning sensation in scrobiculus, sometimes extending from throat into abdomen.

Abdomen

Pains in abdomen, with dull and jerking pressive. Inflation of abdomen, with difficult and interrupted expulsion of flatus. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen extending into pelvis. Lead colic. Constriction in abdomen. Pinchings in umbilical region. Shootings in the side of abdomen and in umbilical region. Gnawing in abdomen. Drawing in groins, commending from sacrum.

Stool and Anus

Constipation: after lead poisoning or while travelling, sometimes very obstinate. The stool is discharged with difficulty, seeming to stick to anus and rectum like putty. Frequent want, with scanty evacuation, which is voided in pieces, and with great efforts. Evacuations of consistence of pap. Stool hard, as if burnt. Taenia and ascarides are discharged from rectum during evacuation and at other times. After evacuation general shuddering or sensation of weakness in abdomen. Frequent itching, tingling, and tenesmus in anus, especially in the evening (before sleep). Violent and dull lancinations in rectum.

Urinary Organs

Red urine with a white cloud, or else which becomes turbid, and deposits a red sediment. Slow but frequent emission of urine. 15.Male Sexual Organs. Burning pain and gnawing in scrotum. Unnatural increase of sexual desire, with frequent erections, especially at night (with amorous dream). Voluptuous crawling in genital organs and abdomen, with anxious oppression and palpitation, then painless pressure downwards in genitals with sticking in sinciput and exhaustion. Flow of prostatic fluid. Coition of too short duration, with but little enjoyment.

Female Sexual Organs

Sensation of bearing down towards genital organs, with aching in abdomen. Unnatural increase of sexual desire, with painful sensibility and voluptuous tingling from genitals up into abdomen. Nymphomania, which may occur even during the lying-in period. Induration of uterus. Sanguineous congestion in uterus. Miscarriage. Metrorrhagia (with great excitability of the sexual system) of thick, deep-coloured blood, with drawings in groins. Catamenia too early and too profuse (blood dark and coagulated), sometimes with headache, restlessness and tears. Menstruation, when the discharge is very abundant, thick and black like tar, and is very exhausting, spasms and screaming at every menstrual period. Catamenia too long continued. Before catamenia, cuttings and pains like those of labour in hypogastrium. Cramps at commencement of catamenia. Painful sensitiveness and constant pressure in mons veneries and genital organs, with internal chill and external coldness, except face. Severe stitches in right ovarian region. During catamenia, pressure as of a general bearing down towards genital organs, which are very sensitive. Leucorrhoea, like white of eggs, flowing chiefly after urinating, and on rising from a seat.

Respiratory Organs

Aphonia. Short, nervous, dry cough, with palpitation and dyspnoea. Short, difficult, and anxious respiration.

Chest

Shortness of breath, with constrictive oppression of chest. Inclination to draw a long breath, prevented by a sensation of weakness in chest. Anxious oppression of chest, with sensation of heat, which ascends from epigastrium. Pain in chest, as if a weight were pressing upon it, with want to take a full inspiration, which is hindered by a sensation of weakness. Tension, pressure, and shootings in sides of chest, which do not permit lying down on either side. Aching and dull blows in chest, spasmodic pressure in one side of chest spasmodic pain in chest commencing slightly, increasing to a certain intensity, and gradually diminishing in same way. Dull lancinations in sides of chest, during an inspiration.

Heart

Burning and sticking low down by heart. A dull pressure in region of apex of heart. Anxious palpitation of heart.

Back and neck

Rigidity of nape of neck. Weakness and sensation of tensive numbness in nape of neck (the head sinks forward). Contusive pain in loins and in back, especially when pressing upon them, or else when bending backwards. Pains in back and small of back as if broken, after a walk worse bending backwards. Spasmodic pain in loins. Sensation of numbness in coccyx, as after a blow.

Limbs

Cramp-like jerking and drawing pains in limbs and joints. Tension in limbs (especially thighs) as if bound too tightly with ligatures. Attack of spasmodic rigidity in limbs, without loss of consciousness, but with clenching of jaws, loss of speech, eyes convulsed, and involuntary movements of the commissures of lips and eyelids. Tingling restlessness, sensation of weakness and trembling in limbs, especially during repose and in open air.

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