Causation
Chill. Wetting feet. Eating: Pork, Fats, Pastry, Ice-cream, Mixed diet. Thunderstorm. Tea.
Mind
(This remedy is particularly applicable for complaints which are found to occur in patients of a mild, yielding, or good-natured disposition, also in those who by their sickness, or naturally, are very easily excited to tears they are very apt to burst into tears whenever spoken to, or when they attempt to speak, as in giving their symptoms, &c. Affections of the mind in general, covetous, mistrustful, absent-minded, low-spirited (***H. N. G.) Melancholy with sadness, tears, great uneasiness respecting one’s affairs or about the health, fear of death (tremulous anguish, as if death were near), care and grief. Involuntary laughter and weeping. Great anguish and inquietude, mostly in praecordial region, sometimes with inclination to commit suicide, palpitation of heart, heat, and necessity to loosen the dress, trembling of hands, and inclination to vomit. Fits of anxiety, with fear of death, or of an apoplectic attack, with buzzing in ears, shiverings, and convulsive movements of fingers. Apprehension, anthropophobia, fear of ghosts at night or in evening, with an impulse to hide or to run away, mistrust and suspicion. Covetousness. Taciturn madness, with sullen, cold, and wandering air, sighs, often seated with the hands joined, but without uttering any complaint. Despair of eternal happiness, with continual praying. Discouragement, indecision, dread of occupation, and obstructed respiration. Disposition envious, discontented, and covetous, exhibiting itself in a wish to appropriate everything. Caprice, with desire at one time for one thing, at another time for something else, either being rejected as soon as obtained. Hysterical laughter after meals. Hypochondriacal humour and moroseness, worse evening, often with repugnance to conversation, great sensitiveness, choleric disposition, cries, and weeping. Ill-humour, sometimes with a dread of labour, and disgust or contempt for everything. Inadvertence, precipitation, and absence of mind. Difficulty in expressing thoughts correctly when speaking, and tendency to omit letters when writing. Giddiness, patient neither knows where he is nor what he does. Great flow of very changeful ideas. Nocturnal raving, violent delirium and loss of consciousness. Frightful visions. Weakness of memory. Fixed ideas. Stupidity.
Head
Fatigue of head from intellectual labour. Sensation of emptiness and confusion in head, as after long watching or after a debauch, and sometimes with great indifference. Stupefaction in evening, in warm room, with chilliness. Stupefying headache, with humming in head, worse when lying or sitting quiet, or in the cold. Vertigo as during intoxication, or vertigo to such an extent as to fall, and staggering, worse evening, or morning when rising up, when getting up after lying down, when sitting, when stooping, when walking in open air, or after a meal, as well as on raising eyes, and often with great heaviness and heat in head, paleness of face, inclination to vomit, sleep, cloudiness of eyes, and buzzing in ears. Meditation and conversation worse the vertigo. Fits of dizziness and loss of consciousness, with bluish redness and bloatedness of face, loss of motive power, violent palpitation of heart, pulse almost extinct, and respiration rattling. Pain as from a bruise in brain (as if brain were lacerated, on or soon after waking), as in typhus fever or after intoxication with brandy. Headache as from indigestion, caused by eating fat food (or from the abuse of Mercury). Pain in head as if forehead would split, or as if brain were tight, compressed, or contracted. Headache on moving eyes deep in orbits as if forehead would fall out, and frontal bones were too thin, with dulness of head, evening. Semilateral headache as if brain would burst and eyes fall out of head, Soreness as from subcutaneous ulceration in one or both temples, worse in evening, when at rest, and in warm room, better by walking in open air. Twitching- tearing in temple on which one lies, and going to the other side when turning on it, worse in evening and on raising eyes upwards. Congestion of blood to head, with stinging pulsation in brain, especially when stooping. Shootings, or sharp drawing and jerking pains, or tingling pulsation, and boring in head, Headache across eyes like a drawing-up and letting go again. Roaring, buzzing, and crackling in head, or painful sensation, as if a current of air were crossing brain. The headache is often only semilateral, extending as far as ear and teeth, where it affects forehead (generally in one temple) above eyes, penetrating into sockets, or it is experienced in occiput, with painful contraction in nape of neck (with vertigo, ringing in ears, and vanishing of sight). Appearance or worse of headache in evening, after lying down, or at night, or in bed in morning, as well as on stooping, on moving eyes or head, when walking in open air, and during intellectual labour, compression sometimes better. Headache better by meditation. Headache with nausea and vomiting, or with congestion and heat in head, or else with shuddering and syncope, vertigo, cloudiness of eyes, loss of sight, and buzzing in ears, photophobia, and weeping. Pain in scalp on turning up hair (or on brushing hair backwards). Tickling and itching in head. Purulent pustules and small tumours, with pain in scalp as from ulceration (suppurating and affecting the skull, more painful when lying on the opposite well side). Tingling, biting-itching on scalp, mostly on temples and behind ears, followed by swelling and eruptions, sore pain, worse in evening when undressing and on getting warm in bed. Fetid, frequently cold perspiration, at times only on one side of head and face, with great anxiety and stupor, worse at night and towards morning, better after waking and rising. Disposition to take cold in head, worse when it gets wet, sweat of scalp and face.
Eyes
Affections in general appearing on the cornea, margins of the eyelids, dimsightedness, with a sensation as though there were something over the eye which the patient wishes to rub away, amaurosis, cataract. Pain in eyes as if scratched with a knife. Burning sensation, pressive pain as if caused by sand, or sharp or shooting pain in eyes, or else boring and incisive pain. Burning itching in eyes, chiefly in evening (inducing rubbing and scratching). Inflammation in eyes and margins of lids (and meibomian glands), with redness of the sclerotica and conjunctiva, and copious secretion of (thick) mucus (and nightly agglutination). Swelling and redness of eyelids. Trichiasis in eyelid. Styes, especially on upper lid. Crystalline lens clouded and of a greyish colour. Stye with inflammation of sclerotica,
and tensive drawing pains on moving the muscles of the face. Dryness of eyes and lids, especially during sleep. Profuse lachrymation, principally in the wind, as well as in open air, in the cold, and in clear, bright daylight. Acrid and corrosive tears. Abscess near angle of eye, like a lachrymal fistula (discharging pus on pressing it). Nocturnal agglutination of lids. Pupils contracted or dilated. Amaurosis, paralysis of optic nerve. Look fixed and stupid. Dimness of sight, especially on getting warm from exercise. Cloudiness of eyes and loss of sight, sometimes with paleness of face and inclination to vomit, (all objects present a sickly hue). Loss of sight in twilight, with sensation as if eyes were covered with a band. Sight confused, as if directed through a mist, or as if caused by something removable by rubbing, principally in open air, in evening, in morning, or on waking. Incipient cataract. Diplopia. Luminous circles before eyes, and diffusion of light of candles. Great sensibility of eyes to light, which causes lancinating pains (and in sunshine).
Ears
Pain in ears, as if something were about to protrude from them. Shootings with itching, or sharp, jerking pain, and contraction in and round ears, the pains sometimes come on by fits, affect whole head, appear insupportable, and almost cause loss of reason (may be accompanied by high fever, &c.). Earache with shooting down to teeth of lower jaw, worse when warm in bed. Earache in both ears with violent headache, frontal and occipital, worse at night. Inflammatory swelling, heat, and erysipelatous redness of ear and auditory duct, as well as of surrounding external parts. Painful swelling of bones behind ears. The cerumen is hard and black. Bland, nearly inoffensive discharge of mucus and pus from ear. Discharge of pus, of blood, or of a thick yellowish humour from left ear. Discharge from one or both ears, which may come on after measles or any other disease, or may occur spontaneously. Otorrhoea with throbbing tinnitus. Warbling, pulsative murmurs, tinkling, roaring, and humming in ears. Hardness of hearing, as from an obstruction (especially from cold, from having hair cut, of after suppressed measles). (Deafness after washing head. ***R. T. C.) Burning, gnawing scabs at the tragus (with swelling of glands of neck). Shootings in parotids.
