Causation
Eating prunes. Eating unripe fruit. Dentition. Spasms. Dislocations.
Mind
Indifference. Indolence, and dislike to conversation. Peevish disposition, with tears. Restlessness, with desire to weep. Impetuous desire for particular objects. The child demands various things with vehemence and weeping, even its favorite playthings. Screaming of children with urging and sour stools. Unable to collect her senses for long after waking. State of mind as if half asleep (or in a dream). Delirium. Incoherent talk.
Head
Stupefying cloudiness of head, as after intoxication, with prominent (bloated) eyes. Vertigo, which occasions falling sideways, when standing. Giddy headache, with anxiety. Pressive headache, especially in sinciput, temples, and vertex. Pressure as with a finger at point where head joins neck. Heaviness of head, with heat and tearings. Dull and cramp-like tension in head. Throbbing in head, sometimes proceeding from abdomen. Movement of brain when stooping. Sweat on forehead and scalp after slight effort. Hair *always (awake or asleep, active or still) sopping wet, may or may not be sour.
Eyes
Eyes weak and downcast, with aching pain, especially when looking steadily at any object. Pressure and pulling in eyelids. Smarting in eyes, as if caused by dust. Painful throbbing in eyes. Convulsive starting in lids. Lachrymation (swimming eyes, full of water), especially in open air. Pupils contracted.
Ears
Otalgia with itching in ear. Pressure (at meatus as from a finger) and throbbing in ears. Dullness of hearing, as from relaxation of tympanum, with rumbling in ears, better by violent swallowing but only for a moment. Crackling and bubbling in ear and in muscles on side of neck. (Meniere’s disease). (Old- standing and frequently recurring deafness with cicatricial membrana tympani gets well after single dose of *Rhe. O. R.T.C.).
Nose
Stupefying drawing from root of nose to tip, where it tingles. Sensation of heat in nose.
Face
Face pale, or one cheek red, the other pale. Tension of skin of face. Frowning and contraction of muscles of forehead. Itching rash on forehead and arm. Cold perspiration on face, especially on mouth and nose. Twitching at commissures of lips.
Teeth
Digging pains in teeth which are carious. Painful sensation of coldness in teeth (with accumulation of much saliva). Difficult dentition of children. Teeth feel blunt.
Mouth
Sensation of numbness and insensibility in tongue, with loss of taste for whole day (from chewing the stem). Tongue swollen, articulation affected (poisoning case). Salivation with colic or diarrhoea. Mouth covered with offensive mucus after sleeping. Offensive breath (after sleep). Dryness and sensation of dryness in mouth.
Throat
Contraction of gullet.
Appetite
Loss of taste. Mawkish, clammy, or sour taste. Bad taste after sleep. Food has a bitter taste. Appetite for different things, which, however, changes to disgust at the first mouthful. Dislike to fat and insipid food. Repugnance to coffee (not sweetened with sugar). Hunger without appetite.
Stomach
Nausea, as if proceeding from stomach, with colic. Fullness in stomach, with pressure, as if overloaded. Contractions in stomach. Shootings and throbbings in pit of stomach.
Abdomen
Distension of abdomen, with tension. Pressure in umbilical region. Cutting and rumbling in abdomen as from flatulence. Nausea in abdomen. Cuttings in abdomen, which force a curving of the body, often shortly after a meal, worse by standing, worse from eating. Colic: worse at once by uncovering an arm or leg, not better by stool, before and during stool, better after, with very sour stools in acid children. Incarceration of flatus, with aching and tension in chest. Palpitation and jerking (swelling- bubbling sensation which seemed as if it could be heard) in abdominal muscles. Itching stitches in inguinal gland.
Stool and Anus
Urgent and frequent want to evacuate, without any result, worse by movement, and walking. Diarrhoea only when exercising. Desire for stool after a meal. Loose evacuations, generally of a sour smell, liquid, or of the consistence of pap, preceded and followed by tenesmus, with constrictive pinching in abdomen, and shuddering during the evacuation. Stools frequent, soft, semi- liquid, evacuated with great pain in back and burning in rectum. Stools: brown, slimy, loose, thin, curdled, sour-smelling, corroding anus, mucous and fecal, whitish, curdy, turning green on exposure on diaper, pea-green, fetid, frothy. Liquid, slimy stools as if fermented, with pale face, ptyalism, child draws up legs, smells sour. Greyish or brown diarrhoea, mixed with mucus, followed by tenesmus, pain in back, and great burning in anus and rectum. Profuse diarrhoea, with vomiting, and great weakness. Diarrhoea of lying-in women, of children. Constipation after the proving.
Urinary Organs
Increased secretion of urine. Urine red, or greenish-yellow. Blood flows freely from urethra (poisoning case). Weakness of bladder: the urine cannot be discharged without effort. Burning sensation in bladder. Burning urine. Urine has agreeable benzoic odour.
Male Sexual Organs
Unusual emissions.
Female Sexual Organs
Bearing down in uterine region while standing. Drawing burning in left ovarian region. Urinary complaints after abortion. Milk yellow, bitter. Diarrhoea after confinement. Stitches in nipples.
Respiratory Organs
Cough: dry in evening, with expectoration of mucus. Snoring inspiration during sleep.
Chest
Dyspnoea on breathing deeply, as from a weight on (upper part of) chest. Lancinations in chest. Rush of blood to chest. Crackling bubbling (even audible) in right then left pectoral muscles. Palpitation of muscles of chest. Pains and lancinations in breasts. Milk of nursing women bitter and yellow, the infant refuses the breast.
Back
Violent cutting, as if in lumbar vertebra, worse from stool. Cutting-drawing in left lumbar region beneath short ribs, and in front of left lower abdomen, just above pubes, or cutting in intestines. Tension in back and small of back. Rigidity in loins and hips, which does not permit standing upright.
Limbs
Simple pain in all joints during motion. The limbs on which he lies fall asleep. Lameness of wrists and knees after spasms and dislocations.
Upper Limbs
Lancinations in arms. Tearing in arms, forearms, and joints of fingers. Jerking in arms and hands. Muscular palpitation (bubbling sensation) in joints of elbows. Veins (on hands) swollen, and hands hot. Perspiration, sometimes cold, on palms of hands. Jerking in fingers.
Lower Limbs
Great lassitude in thighs. Jerking in muscles of thighs. Numbness of legs when crossed. Muscular Palpitations in hams, legs and toes. Stiffness of ham, with pain during movement. Shootings in knees and legs. Bubbling sensation from bend of knee to heel. Stiffness in bend of knees with pain on motion. Intermittent burning as from glowing coals between internal malleolus and tendo Achilles. Sticking itching in hollows of soles. Bubbling-crackling sensation in ball of left big toe.
Generalities
(We use this remedy most particularly for sour-smelling children, stools, vomit, breath, all smell sour. Before or during stool there are colicky pains about umbilicus, straining before stool, which is finally voided with ease, infants who cry a great deal with colic in the night, tenesmus without stool. ***H.N.G.) Affections of left side of body. Perspiration on upper part of body. Soreness of the joints during movement. Pulsative pains Palpitation in muscles, especially round joints. Numbness of the limbs upon which patient has been lying. Lassitude and heaviness in whole body as after waking from deep sleep.
Skin
Pemphigus on face, scalp, and hands, face, lips, and tongue swollen, face livid (poisoning cases). Itching rash on forehead and arms.
Sleep
Sleep and yawnings. Disturbed sleep at night, with tossing, cries, moaning and snoring, or with convulsive quivering of eyelids, muscles of face, and fingers, especially in children. The hands are passed over the head when going to sleep, and during sleep. Nocturnal raving and moving about in bed, although eyes are closed. After sleep, headache and dizziness, or fetid mucus, of a putrid smell and taste, in mouth. Anxious, sad, vivid dreams.
Fever
Shuddering, without external coldness. Alternate shivering and heat, with anxiety, and repugnance to everything. Heat in hands and feet, with coolness of face. Perspiration easily excited by the least exercise, especially on forehead and scalp. Sweat stains yellow.
