Psorinum



Teeth

Looseness of teeth, worse incisors, so that he fears they will fall out, the pain worse by touch, better in open air, with much mucus of an offensive odour in mouth. Blood suddenly escapes from a hollow molar. Sticking from one side to the other, extending to head, then burning pain in right cheek, which is swollen. Stitching in teeth on touching them in order to remove something lodged between them. Sticking in a carious right upper tooth as if it would be pulled, at dinner, then grumbling and hammering pain in all right teeth, only in daytime, better in fresh air. Tearing, jerking in left molars, sometimes only slight pain alternating with headache. Teeth seem on edge in afternoon when smoking.

Mouth

Ulceration of right gum after toothache. Inflammation of gum of a posterior right hollow lower molar, with swelling and crawling pain, worse touch. Tongue: coated, white, yellowish white. Ulceration of tongue and gums, with sore throat. Tongue: dry, at tip, as if burnt, painful, burnt feeling from tip to middle, so that he has hardly any taste. Thick, tough mucus from choanae, of nauseous taste, teeth stick together. Adhesion of tough mucus to posterior wall of soft palate, tasting like old cheese, coming from choanae. Scratching in back part of mouth, and when leaning backward asthmatic feeling. Swollen sensation in palate. Dryness of mouth. Taste: bitter mornings before eating, better eating, when not eating, better eating and drinking, bad, finally coppery, like cat’s urine to bread and butter in morning, oily to the dinner, flat, insipid, foul, she drinks to get rid of it, filthy. Increase of the nauseous taste after eating and smoking tobacco. Sticky taste.

Throat

Submaxillary glands swollen and painful to touch, also a painful pustule below left lower jaw. Angina, on right side an ulcer, with sore pain deep in throat and burning in palate. Painful pimple on fauces. Stitches: in left tonsil, in left sinews on turning head. Pain in left tonsil, with swollen feeling. Quinsy, intense pain to ear on swallowing, profuse, offensive saliva, tough mucus in throat, must hawk continually, tendency to quinsy. Hawks up cheesy balls, size of pea, of disgusting taste and carrion-like odour. Pain on swallowing saliva. Intermittent pain and difficult swallowing. Soreness with difficulty in swallowing, can take without difficulty only cold food. Scraping in throat as if she would become hoarse (in a herpetic patient), with suffocation, causing dry cough. Burning in throat, extending faster downward. Dryness of throat: in morning, with scraping, of fauces, with moisture in mouth. Swollen feeling in fauces. Sensation of plug in throat, impeding hawking. Tickling in throat: mornings, causing cough, then empty eructations.

Appetite

Hunger great, in afternoon, with thirst for beer, in evening after a walk: in evening, for breakfast. Hunger without appetite. Appetite diminished. Easily satiated though he has a good appetite. Loss of appetite, but constant thirst. Disgust for pork. Desire to smoke in evening, but when not smoking the desire for it ceased. Desire for acids. Aversion to smoking after breakfast, but when he begins smoking is relished. Thirst: during dinner, after the chill, then heat in mouth, with dryness and burning in mouth, for beer. Eating (dinner) causes congestion to head. Drinking causes cough.

Stomach

Eructations: tasting like rotten eggs, sour, rancid in evening. Pyrosis, after drinking water, when lying down, colic better eating. Hiccough: after eating, when smoking a pipe after eating. Water brash on lying down, better getting up. Nausea: during the day, a kind of vomiting of sweet mucus every day at 10 a.m. and in evening, in morning, in pit of stomach in morning, after all

food, after supper, better eating something roasted. Vomiting: sour, of sour mucus, so that teeth are on edge, in morning before eating, of food, then of a sour, slimy fluid. Bloating. Sticking in pit of stomach. Cramp in epigastric region, cutting. Oppression. Contracting pain in epigastric region. Weakness and pressure.

Abdomen

Deep-seated, stitching, pressing pains in region of liver, worse external pressure and lying on right side, pain hinders sneezing, laughing, yawning, coughing, deep inspiration and walking. Sticking: in sides of abdomen, right side, region of spleen, under last left rib, in hepatic region, region of spleen, worse standing still renewed by walking, later felt even during rest. Swollen sensation horizontally across below short ribs when sitting. Abdomen bloated: after eating, after eating frozen things. constant feeling of emptiness and looseness of abdomen, sensation as if intestines were hanging down. Rumbling in morning, gurgling and roaring. Foul-smelling flatus. Cutting in abdomen, in evening, ameliorates passage of offensive flatus, as from a purge. Cramps in abdomen in morning in bed. Griping: when driving, in women, worse pubic region. Pinching in abdomen in morning, so that he has to run for the closet. better stool. Pain in abdomen, towards evening, better eating, after eating, better emission of flatus, with nausea, and in lumbar vertebrae, with flatulent troubles, pain in spermatic cords and testicles and if filled with blood, a soft, difficult stool. Pain as from canine hunger, worse epigastric region, an hour after supper, with accumulation of flatus. Frequent sticking to left of umbilicus during rest. Cutting in umbilical region. Gurgling in small intestines. Twitching in right groin after driving. Sticking in inguinal glands. Pain in right inguinal ring. Bearing down towards pubes, with tenesmus and painful burning micturition.

Stool and Anus

Stool: fluid, dark brown, foul-smelling, thin, watery, dirty greenish, like carrion, horribly offensive, nearly painless, almost involuntary, dark and watery, only in night, worse towards morning. Diarrhoea preceded by colic, green, bilious, mixed with mucus, four times a day, without pain. Involuntary stools during sleep. Lienteria. Soft, difficult stool, and copious. Obstinate constipation, with severe pains. Stools: either costive or mushy: of normal consistency, in small balls, almost involuntary, at night, with violent emission of flatus, two in forenoon, four or five a day, preceded by colic, sometimes shooting away as from a syringe, at another time it is mushy, sometimes of normal consistency. Stool wanting. Spasmodic pain in rectum. Burning high up in rectum. Sensitive haemorrhoidal pain in rectum. Chafed sensation in rectum and anus during a drive. Ineffectual urging. Burning haemorrhoids in anus. Itching in anus.

Urinary Organs

Discharge of prostatic fluid before micturition. Tenesmus urinae and discharge of a few drops when he thinks he has done. Frequent micturition at night. Sticking inwardly from orifice of urethra. Burning during micturition with cutting. Urine has a red sediment and a pellicle of fat.

Male Sexual Organs

Relaxation of genitals, with indifference to sexual affairs. Aversion to coitus. Impotency. No discharge of semen during coition. Glans inflamed, with an ulcer on it, testes swollen and heavy. Burning pain at tip of penis on beginning to urinate. Chronic painless discharge from urethra, staining linen yellow. Chronic gleet. Frequent tightness of penis, with drawing. absence of erections, even with lascivious thoughts, afterwards morning erections and pollutions, with satyriasis. Drawing in testicles, but more steady in small of back. Painful suppurating vesicle on scrotum. Hydrocele: from repeated inflammation caused by pressure of truss (Pulsatilla cured the inflammation).

Female Sexual Organs

Menses too late, and scanty. Amenorrhoea, in psoric subjects, with phthisis. Dysmenorrhoea, near climaxis. Leucorrhoea, large limbs, unbearable in odour, violent pains in sacrum and right loin, great debility. Intolerable itching from anus to vagina, with knotty stools, worse at night. Ulcers on labia. L. ovary indurated from a blow. Sensitive knotty lump above right groin. Cutting in left groin. During pregnancy: congestion, foetus moves too violently, tympanites, nausea, vomiting, obstinate cases. Breasts swollen, nipples red, burning and itching pimples about nipples. Mammary cancer.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, when talking phlegm sticks in larynx. Taking is very fatiguing. Suffocating, crawling sensation in larynx, producing a paroxysmal, dry, hacking cough. Tickling in trachea, with cough. Inclination of cough, with sensation of coldness. Cough in evening, better keeping quiet, with pain in chest and throat, talking causes cough. Cough with weakness of chest, so that he could not remain in bed at night, with weakness and vertigo. Dry cough: all day, with nausea and retching and tickling in trachea, as if narrowing, with soreness under sternum, with heaviness on chest. Cough, worse morning on waking, and in evening on lying down, with expectoration of green mucus, nearly like matter, with nausea, chest is affected and expectoration is difficult, with copious expectoration, sometimes of mucus streaked with blood, with salivation and vomiting of acid mucus. Suffocation in larynx when sitting bent backward, with crawling, causing paroxysmal, dry, hacking cough, and at same time contraction and heaviness in chest and pain in upper part of sternum. Dyspnoea in evening. Short breath, in fresh air, better riding and lying down.- Want of breath on walking in fresh air; worse sitting, better lying, with pain in chest. Whistling respiration on waking, with constriction, again in evening whistling in chest. Breathes easily when going some light work, as trimming trees.

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