Polygonum



Heart

Sharp, cutting, shooting pains in region of heart, extending to left scapula. Increased action of heart with loss of rhythm.

Back and Neck

Awoke at midnight with lameness left side neck to shoulder, making movement painful, with pulsative, wandering pains. Pulsative pains in left loin. Aching in loins with pain around left hip-joint. Pain in back and at lower extremity, acute or drawing, lateral in its action, as if hips being drawn together (kidney affection). Tearing and drawing in loins on exposure to cold, followed by lameness and soreness.

Limbs

Trembling, bruised feeling, weakness in limbs. Shooting pains in arms and back of legs. Distension of blood-vessels in hands and feet.

Upper Limbs

Pains in arms and inability or sense of weakness on lifting slightest weight. Pains pulsating, intermittent, shooting, wandering, generally shooting down to finger-tips, sometimes shooting up.

Lower Limbs

Sciatica, pain flashing like aurora borealis. Pulsative pains in hips and loins with ineffectual urging and tenesmus. Swelling of legs and feet. Superficial ulcers and sores.

Generalities

Pulsating, wandering, flashing pains, like aurora borealis.

Skin

Skin dry. Scarlet eruption round waist, itching, burning spasm. Eczema. Chronic erysipelatous inflammation. Old and indolent ulcers.

Sleep

Sleep, restless, uneasy, full of dreams. Dreams: unremembered, laborious and fatiguing, of headache and wakes with headache.

Fever

Alternation of heats and chills and chills and heats. Feet alternately hot and cold, burning for an hour, then suddenly cold. Profuse sweat and trembling of whole body from moderate exercise.

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