Heart
Congestion of blood to chest and heart, especially at night, with anxious dreams (*e.g., of being immured), with starting up and anxious cries. Catching pain in cardiac region, better for a time by pressure of hand. Stitches in praecordial region, better while walking, with pressure and anxiety, impeding respiration. Burning in region of heart. Frequent and violent fits of palpitation, principally after dinner and after moral emotions, or provoked by conversation, and often with anguish, clouded
sight (vanishing of sight), and impeded respiration, especially when lying on the left side. (With menstrual irregularities, chlorosis, &c., the beat of the heart is felt in the pit of the stomach.).
Back and neck
Rheumatic, tensive, and drawing pains in nape of neck and in neck, sometimes semilateral, and often with swelling of the parts, and pains as from subcutaneous ulceration when they are touched. Cracking in cervical vertebrae and shoulder-blades on moving those parts. Itching pimples on neck. Swelling of glands of neck. Pains in sacrum and in back, as from having remained some time in a bent posture, or with rigidity, as from the pressure of a belt. Sacral pains like those of labour. Pains in back and chilliness from suppressed menstruation. Shootings in back, in loins, and between shoulder-blades. Curvature of spine (upper part).
Limbs
Redness and swelling of joints, with stinging pains. Anxious, tremulous sensation in limbs. Drawing, sticking, worse in joints, which are painful to touch. Weakness in limbs morning after rising, with relaxation without feeling weary. Drawing, tearing pains in limbs, shifting rapidly from place to place, worse at night, from warmth, better from uncovering. Pain in limbs in morning in bed, worse in joints, forcing him to stretch, with general heat. On waking the parts on which he has lain are asleep, with crawling and tingling. Coldness of hands and feet, they seem dead.
Upper Limbs
Sharp, jerking, and drawing pains in shoulder joint, as well as in the arms, hands, and fingers. Paralytic pains in scapular joint when lifting and moving arms. Burning sensation in arm in evening or at night, with sensation of dryness in fingers. Burning heat in hands and arms and in trunk with perspiration down spine (agg. ***R.T.C.) Pressive heaviness in arms, with sensation of numbness, especially in hands. Sensation of tension and swelling and wrenching pain in joints of elbows, hands, and fingers, with rigidity. Swelling of elbow after a contusion. Swelling of veins on forearm and hands. Easy numbness of fingers, principally in morning and at night. Vesicles between fingers, with pricking pain. Pain as if caused by panaritium in index. Itching chilblains on hands.
Lower Limbs
Pain as from a bruise or from ulceration in the psoas. Wrenching pain in coxofemoral articulation, with painful jerks, as in a wound, extending as far as knee, worse during repose. Pulling and tension in thighs and legs, worse in calves of legs, as if tendons were too short. Pain as from a bruise, with sensation of paralytic weakness in bones and muscles of thighs and legs. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration in legs and soles of feet. Cracking in knees. Swelling of knees, sometimes chiefly above patella, and often with heat, inflammation, sharp drawing and shooting pains. Enlargement of knee with local varicosis (relieved. ***R. T. C.) Weakness and yielding of knees, with tottering gait. Pulling and great fatigue in legs, especially knees, with trembling. Swelling of veins and varices in legs. Numbness in legs when remaining long standing. Pain in tibia as from a bruise. Tension and drawing in valves of legs. Hot swelling of legs, or only of the back or of soles of feet, sometimes with shooting pains when the parts are touched, and during movement. Painful sensation of numbness in soles of feet and in balls of the toes. Red-hot swelling of feet, extending up to calf, with stinging pain. Swelling of top of foot. Oedematous swelling of feet, worse in evening. Piercing shootings and incisive pains in heels (towards evening). Shootings in soles of feet and extremities of toes. Chilblains. The complaints are worse when one allows the feet to hang down.
Generalities
(Affections in general, and of any kind, appearing in right abdominal ring, right chest, right upper and lower extremity, tongue, increase of saliva, larynx, trachea, nape of neck, heart and region of heart, palpitation of heart, also with anguish, small of back, shoulder-joints, fingers, legs, shin-bones, calves, particularly when they are swollen, red, and hot, heel, sole of foot, ball or under part of toes, knee-joint, bones of lower extremities, inflammation of bones in general. Strong desire for open air, which makes patient feel better in every way, headache, toothache, earache, cold in head, &c., are all better in open air, can breathe better, &c. Bleeding from inner parts, congestion of blood to single parts, apparent deficiency of blood. Chlorosis (in persons of mild, quiet, &c., dispositions). Secretion of mucus increased, nervous debility. Varicose veins, even when inflamed, especially when blue, particularly in pregnant females, feel more comfortable when walking about. (Phlebitis of single veins. ***R. T. C.) Symptoms worse: in afternoon, from mental affections, on waking, when blowing nose (produces pain in chest, nose, head, or somewhere
else, or a cracking in ears), before falling asleep, during expiration, after taking cold, from coughing, from change of position (particularly applicable to the female organism), from loss of fluids, from being frostbitten, lying on left side, on painless side, lying with head low, having measles, after measles, before and during menstruation, on beginning to move, from taking bread, butter, buckwheat, fat food, fruits, ice, pancakes, warm food, abuse of Peruvian bark, can’t bear pressure on the well side if it be made towards the diseased side, from derangement of stomach, during stool, particularly in dysentery if it gives great pain in small of back, while suckling child, in the sun, in the twilight, before, during, or after urinating, women in confinement, from having a tapeworm, from surgical injuries in general, from tobacco, during pregnancy. Symptoms better: in open air, in a cold place, from cold air, by lying on right side, with head high, from cold things, from washing, on wetting the affected parts, after discharge of flatus. ***H. N. G.) Sharp drawing and jerking pains in muscles worse at night, or in bed in evening, as well as by heat of a room, better in the open air, and often accompanied by numbness, paralytic weakness, or hard swelling of parts affected. Shootings and sensation of coldness in parts affected on a change of weather. Tension in some of the limbs as if tendons were to short. Shifting pains which pass rapidly from one part of the other, often with swelling and redness in joints. Sensation of hollowness, of pulsations, knocking, or throbbing in inner parts, of extension in size, as if one part, or every part, were growing too large, of a band around the parts, of buzzing or humming in any part of the body. Shocks in tendons. Fitful pains with shivering, labouring respiration, paleness of face, and trembling of legs. The shiverings increase as the pains become worse. Pain as from a bruise or subcutaneous ulceration on touching parts affected. Semilateral pains and affections. Symptoms are worse and renewed when seated after long-continued exercise, or on rising after having been seated a long time, as well as during repose, especially when lying on side or back. The symptoms which appear when lying on back are ameliorates by turning on side or by rising up, and vice versa. Movement, walking, pressure, external heat, and the open air, equally ameliorate many of the symptoms, while they worse others. Symptoms generally most violent in evening or at night before midnight, sometimes also in morning and after a meal. The symptoms are worse every second day in evening. Agitation and uneasiness throughout body, with inability to sleep or to enjoy repose, and constant inclination to stretch limbs. Frequent and troublesome pulsations over whole body, worse during movement. Great tendency of limbs to go to sleep. Frequent trembling of limbs with anxiety. Sluggishness and heaviness of limbs, with paralytic weakness, painful sensibility of joints, and tottering gait. Weariness in morning, which is worse a recumbent position. Fainting fits with deadly paleness of face. Epileptic convulsions, with violent movements of limbs, followed by weakness, eructations, and inclination to vomit (after suppression of catamenia). Great sensibility and repugnance to open air. Great desire to remain lying down or sitting. Pain as from a bruise in bones of extremities. Emaciation.
Skin
Pale skin. Itching, mostly burning or pricking (as if caused by stings of ants), principally in evening, and at night in head of bed, worse by scratching. Red spots, like morbilli, or nettle- rash. Frequent redness, even when the parts are cold. Eruptions from eating pork, itching violently in bed. Eruptions like measles. Rhagades. Suppurating wounds, pus thick and too profuse. Pus copious and yellow. Moles or freckles in young girls. Eruptions similar to varicella coniformis, with violent itching in bed. Chilblains, particularly when they turn blue. Exanthema, chapped. Blue black swellings. Chilblains with bluish-red swelling, heat, and burning, or pulsative pains. Phlegmonous erysipelas, with hardness, burning heat, and shooting pain on touching or moving parts affected. Furunculi. Shining redness, hardness, and itching round ulcers, with ready bleeding, and shooting, burning, and gnawing pains. Deep or fistulous ulcers, where there is much swelling around. Inflamed or putrid ulcers. Varices.
