Raphanus



Urinary Organs

Tearing in region of kidneys, especially on stooping. Desire to urinate with pain in region of mons veneries, like a pressure in fundus of bladder. Urine scanty, or else more in quantity than the drink swallowed Want to urinate, with scanty emission, it is necessary to wait a long time for the appearance of the urine. Pale urine, of a dirty yellow, with sediment like yeast. Turbid urine. Burning in (forepart of) urethra when urinating.

Male Sexual Organs

(Priapism). Drawing and tearing pains in right testicle, afterwards in sole of right foot also.

Female Sexual Organs

Pain in uterus, in groins when touched and in abdomen, pain with inflammation, pains in bones, joints crack, weakness of vertebral column. Sensation of a round foreign body, which rises from fundus of uterus and stops at entrance of throat. Much pain in womb and groins, much heat, urging to urinate every moment and inability to do so. Burning pain starts from uterus, stops at pit of stomach, when it changes into nervous contraction and causes sensation as if she would have convulsions. Constant titillation in genitals, increasing till 1.30 a.m., when it abates with an abundant flow of mucus. Nervous irritation of genitals, of clitoris, impelling to onanism. Great flow of vaginal mucus without desire. Every day between 3 and 4 p.m., a little blood flows from vagina, like rose-coloured water, and a very small quantity of it for about a minute, a little while after. Menses very profuse and long-lasting, blood in clots as in abortion. Abundant menses from beginning of period, flushes ascend from uterus to head, pass into loins and spread throughout the body, occasioning a sensation as if about to perspire, pricking in legs and under soles, vanishing of thought, faintness, great difficulty in speaking, these flushing occur three or four times an hour. Nymphomania, beginning in morning, continuing unceasingly till 11 p.m., ceases after a very severe paroxysm, which lasts 2 1/2 hours. Great sexual excitement, violent desire.

Respiratory Organs

Cough, with accumulation of mucus in throat, as in bronchial catarrh. Breath of the smell of the medicament. Tickling in larynx, as if in epiglottis. Hoarseness. Cough and hoarseness, chest feels squeezed as if in a vice, can scarcely breathe or speak. Cough, it seems as if something came from epigastrium, also when she laughs, tickling at bottom of larynx, nevertheless it seems to start from epigastrium. Sensation as if viscid mucus at bottom of throat which cannot be coughed up, cough does not seem to reach it. After coughing, acid risings, as of bitter water. Hawking causes irritation which excites a dry cough, producing a painful shock in head and sides of chest. Sputa: sticky, easy expectoration of round masses of mucus. Uneasy respiration, cannot continue in any position. During expiration, pains between shoulder and in each side of chest, during inspiration only a tightness of chest. Drawing pains in whole chest, as if stretched fibres returned to their place which causes great pain between shoulders and in each side of chest. Uneasy breathing, oppression, some difficulty in swallowing, it seems as if water would return through the nose, intense burning in oesophagus and chest, bad in morning, better noon, much worse evening, better walking in open air, everything she swallows causes pain in back. Strangulation when she begins to eat and drink. Must keep mouth open in order to breathe. Expired air feels very hot.

Chest

Painful weariness in chest and under ribs. When she breathes severe pain under breasts and in back. Pain in chest gradually extending to spinal column. Pressure and sticking, extending from pit of stomach to pit of throat, and to back, worse eating, coughing, somewhat better by drinking heavy lump and coldness in center of chest, between breasts, preventing sleep. Acute sticking and lancinations in a small spot on large pectoral muscles externally near axilla. Lancinations in chest on coughing

or breathing deep. Sticking in middle of sternum. Pressure in middle of chest. Rattling sensation in one or other side of chest almost under arms as if something about to be loosened, during respiration. As if a band of iron round waist. Superficial lancinations in or near sternum. Frequent burning in right chest. Severe cramp in (clavicular portion of) sternocleidomastoid muscle, followed by long-lasting pain. Violent stitches in left chest. External heat in right breast. Little painless blisters on breasts.

Heart and Pulse

Violent, rapid beating (palpitation) of heart. Pain at heart: in evening, after breakfasting on chocolate, and headache when riding in a carriage. Pulse: accelerated, feverish, slow, small, jumping.

Back

Numbness of muscles of neck near left ear, coldness in left eye. Cracking in nape of neck. Painful lassitude throughout body, especially back of head, neck, and loins. Weak back, must wear stays as a support, feels as if middle of back crushed, waist hollow, shoulders uneven, could not keep her balance. Tearing and tension along crest of right scapula. Spine weak: in dorsal region, in loins. Acute pains in coccyx, as if an abscess forming. Pain in vertebral column as if a foreign body passed through it from top to bottom, and was stopped at certain points by some obstacle which causes pain in chest and any part it passes through. Burning itching on the back. Tearing in lumbar region, on stooping, pricking pains in left arm-pit.

Limbs

All bones crack, especially in nape of neck. Weakness and bruised feeling in limbs after a short walk, as after a long one. Sensation in arms and legs as if garters too tight. Trembling of limbs.

Upper Limbs

Tearing on top of left shoulder. Sticking pains in left shoulder. Gland in right armpit, swollen and tender to touch. A small, black mark appears on shoulder, and some reddish spots on chest. Pulling and tearing in left arm and in joint, with weakness of elbow-joint as if carrying a heavy weight. Burning lancinations in right elbow-joint, as if in tendon of biceps. Sticking in left olecranon process. Lancinations in left elbow- joint, as if in the bone. Weakness, tearing and pricking pains immediately above right wrist. (Transient) numbness in hands, and slightly all over, sometimes in one place, sometimes in another. Pain in fingers, nails painful, especially of left hand, pains under nails as of burns or pin stuck in.

Lower Limbs

Lancinations in left hip-joint, back of trochanter. Numbness of buttock (worse right). Burning in small spot on thigh in upper outer part. Legs heavy, as if paralysed, knees weak as if they would be dislocated. Tibia painful to touch, burning on spot as if hot coal held near tibia. Numbness of soles and buttocks. Lancinations under soles, feet at first cold, later warm. Itching lancination in right sole. Violent pains in heel when walking. better at rest, and especially when boot off. Corns began to pain. Sensation of paralysis of left leg on lying down. Coldness of knees and feet, with disposition to sleep, head confused, dull pain in forehead, and inclination to vomit. Cramp in calf, at night, in bed. Tearing pains in side of right foot. Lancinations and tingling in sole of right foot. Redness and swelling of right heel, with violent pinching pains on planting foot on the ground, and on walking, afterwards a blister forms there, full of clear and reddish water, which disappears after getting up.

Generalities

Great lassitude and depression, sometimes with contusive pain in all limbs. A child lies down during the day in consequence of feeling ill. Perceptible emaciation. Hysterical attack, on returning to herself is unable to speak, pain like a hot ball rises from uterus to chest. A number of balls seem to rise from abdomen to throat. Hysterical attacks preceded by cramps starting from uterus to chest. Sensitive to electricity of atmosphere, and it causes painful feeling and low spirits. Sensation of swelling, eyes, hands, and arms seem swollen, but feet appear smaller, wrists feel as if lashed with a whip. Numbness, heaviness, paralytic pains. Pains in bones when touched, numbness in parts near painful bones.

Skin

Skin generally moist, a burning sensation passes from one part to another, odor of horse-radish from all parts of body. Skin greasy. Itching and heat of skin, fever, pimples under skin, a plaster on leg draws out a tetter. Itching of whole body, scratching causes burning. Itching in different parts, especially inner canthi, right wrist, right thigh, scrotum, anus, back, and scalp. (Painless pemphigus. Hansen.).

Sleep

Nervous yawning. Inclination to sleep, drowsiness, during nearly the whole day, with mumbling while dreaming. Agitated sleep, with frequent awakening, cephalalgia, nausea, and pinching in umbilical region. Sleep, with dreamy reveries. Sleeplessness from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m., after which agitated sleep, with confusion in head. coldness of knees and feet with disposition to sleep. Sleep which terminates at 3 a.m., with uneasy dreams. Awakening at 3 a.m., with violent shuddering of back and arms. During sleep, copious perspiration, or else low whispering, as if in conversation with friends, or quarrelling. Lascivious dreams.

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