Upper Limbs
Burning shooting under left axilla, on the arm. Tearing and burning sensation in shoulder, with paralysis of arm, especially during the cold season, during repose, and in heat of bed. Coldness, paralysis, and insensibility of arm. Right arm weak, rheumatic paralysis. Exostosis in arm, with burning sensation and ulcers, which discharge a sanious pus. Erysipelatous swelling and pustules, with burning itching in arms, hands, and fingers. Red spots on arms. Violent stitches in right upper arm from without. Jerks, shootings, and tearing in arms. Tension in elbow-joint. Jerking tearing in elbows, wrists, and joints of fingers. Digging in bones of the forearm. Weakness and rigidity of forearm and fingers during movement, and trembling of those parts after the least exertion. Hot swelling of the hands in evening. Swollen veins on hands. Vesicular eruption in clusters on wrist. Rhagades, smarting of back of hands. Back of hand covered with chaps and hot, skin hard, rough, and stiff. Tearing in all the finger-joints. Warts on hands and fingers. Hang-nails. Swelling of fingers. Jerking in thumbs. Contraction of fingers.
Lower Limbs
(Eruption with sweat in cleft of nates.) Aching pains in legs, must change position every moment. (Pains in left lower limb, thigh chiefly, from septic absorption in old abdominal disease, with vesical irritation. R.T.C.) Shootings and tearings in hip- joint, extending to ham, especially when resting on foot, or with dull drawings and burning sensation during repose, and painful sensibility of joints on rising from a seat or on going up stairs (or other over-exercise, involuntary limping). Tension and stiffness of the muscles and joints of hips, thighs, legs, knees, and feet. Paralysis of the lower extremities. Cramp in calf after midnight, when lying in bed, and when seated after walking, it goes off on bending the knee. Cramps in buttocks, thighs, and calves, especially at night, in bed, or when seated after walking. Spasmodic twitching of the limbs when stepping out. Tension in the knee as if the tendons were too short Painful swelling above knee. Drawing and jerking tearing in the thighs and legs. Lancinations in the thighs, legs, knees, feet, and toes. Heaviness in legs, especially in hams and calves. Tingling pain in shafts of tibiae at night when the legs are crossed, with constant necessity to move, preventing sleep. Coldness in left tibia. Paralysis of legs and feet. Shootings and wrenching pain in ankle bones when resting on foot. Inflammatory swelling of instep, sometimes with pustules and miliary pimples on part affected. Swollen round ankles after sitting too long, particularly in travelling. Erysipelatous swelling of feet. Swelling of feet in evening. Numbness and paleness of feet (feet dead). Distortion of toes. Corns on feet, with burning sensation and pain as from excoriation.
Generalities
(We are led to think of this remedy where we find an irresistible desire to move or change the position every little while followed by great relief for a short time, when they must again move, and experience the same relief for a short time, this condition is usually worse at night. After resting for a time, or on getting up from sleep, when first moving about, a painful stiffness is felt, which wears off from continual motion, but relief is experienced from continual motion *e.g., a nursing mother may have sore nipples, and when the child begins to nurse, the nipple hurts exceedingly, but on continued nursing it becomes much easier. Pain in chest (often rheumatic), worse by using arms as in making a bed, sweeping, &c. stiffness of nape of neck, sensation as if flesh were beaten off the bones, or as if a dog were gnawing it off, as if any part were contracted, as if a part were increased in size, as if certain parts were grown together, of heaviness in outer or inner parts, jerking pains in outer parts, darting and rending pains, of tension or tightness in outer or inner parts, darting and rending pains, of tension or tightness in outer or inner parts, arthritic pain in the joints, trembling sensation in inner parts, dyspeptics often complain of trembling in the stomach, of scraping along the periosteum. For any troubles or complaints, whether acute or chronic, resulting from a sudden and a thorough drenching by a shower of rain, by getting wet in any way, there may be troubles of very long standing, which were so caused. Troubles in general affecting the right abdominal ring, left chest, 1 arm, left lower extremity, left side of body, of scalp, as in erysipelas when it runs up to the scalp, glands about the neck, particularly if they are swollen or inflamed with red streaks, as often are in scarlet fever, joints of the jaws, particularly when they are worse on beginning of motion, and get better from continued motion, of the abdominal cavity in general, mons veneries, there may be a great deal of itching, sometimes a hard blue boil is found there, shoulder-blades, small of the back, as, *e.g., when one stoops his back hurts so that he cannot straighten up without help this may result from an old sprain, or from a sudden “crick” in the back, sacrum, buttocks, forearm, shoulder, back of hand, fingers, joints in general, shoulder-joint, elbow, wrist, bones of the arm, calves, joints of the leg, hip-joint, knee, and ankle, weakness of joints. Coagulated blood from the nose, cough bloody, blood being coagulated, face covered like erysipelas, increase of saliva, difficulty in swallowing, it hurts so in the back, fluent catarrh of the nose. Inability at first to move the parts affected. One is very easily sprained by lifting, palsy of the limbs, staggering when walking. Strictures after inflammation, and hence may sometimes be used for strictures resulting after gonorrhoea, swelling in general, with inflammation and without, debility, aversion to washing, wounds, with sprained muscles. Axillary glands where the swelling is very deep and hard. Symptoms worse before a storm of rain, after midnight, in the morning, before falling asleep, from bathing, can’t bear cold water, complaints coming on in autumn, on taking a deep breath, on inspiration, from cold in general, in cold air, in cold and wet weather, from coughing, while chewing, from drawing up the limbs, from exertion of the body, after drinking, after fatigue, on uncovering the head, from surgical injuries, from sprains, from lying down, from lifting, from cold food, cold water, anything cold, during perspiration, from wet poultices, while resting, on first rising, while sitting, while talking, after undressing, in foggy, or foggy and wet weather, from getting wet, in winter, from getting wet while perspiring, women in confinement, small-pox, after-effects of syphilis. H.N.G. Epidemic diseases with oedema of fauces threatening oedema glottidis, vesicles stud pharynx and voice is hoarse, rawness and roughness of pharynx (Dunham). Rheumatic and arthritic drawings, tension, and tearings in limbs, increased to the highest degree during repose, as well as in bad weather, at night, and in the heat of the bed, often with sensation of torpor and numbness in the part affected after moving it. Cramp and tension in different parts as from contraction of tendons. Contraction of some of the limbs. Tensive shootings and stiffness in the joints, worse on rising from a seat, and in open air. Paralytic rigidity in limbs, especially on beginning to move the part after repose. Ready benumbing of parts of which patient reclines. Torpor of some parts with tingling and insensibility. Tingling in parts affected. Wrenching pain in limbs. Paralysis, sometimes semilateral. Red and shining swellings, with shooting pain as from excoriation when touched. Contusive, or else a sensation in some places as if the flesh were detached from the bones. Pressive drawing in periosteum as if the bones were scraped. Sensation in internal organs as if something were torn away. Swelling and induration of glands. Icterus. Jerking in muscles and limbs. Convulsive movements and other sufferings, resulting from a cold bath. Semilateral affections. Worse And appearance of pains and symptoms during repose or at night, as also on entering a room from the open air, better obtained by movement and walking. The cold, fresh air is not tolerated, it seems to make the skin painful, (a keynote on rheumatism.- Dunham). Reproduction or worse of many sufferings in unfavourable weather. General excitability of nervous system, worse by slightest indulgence of anger. Drawings in all the limbs when lying down. Trembling of limbs after the least fatigue. Unsteady gait. Great lassitude and weakness with want to lie down. Syncope. Inability to bear the open air whether it is hot or cold, it makes a painful impression on the skin.
Skin
Vesicular erysipelas where the vesicles are large. Exanthema on face in general on chain, face, cheeks, mouth, nose, forehead, causing much burning itching. Pustulous chilblains. Exanthema in general, burning, burning itching, pustulous, with swelling, blotches, like milk-crust, moist, like nettle-rash, blue with erysipelas, scurfy, tensive or tight feeling in, pock-shaped, black, purulent, zona or shingles, petechiae, prickling, tickling, blisters which will sometimes spread up the limb, and are sometimes circular in form, spreading with a red edge in the advance, which gradually turns to a blister, the red border still keeping in advance (if the edges be black, *Arsen.), itching worse after scratching. Tetters in general. Ulcers burning, with corroding pus, with ichorous pus. Rash itches a great deal, in scarlet fever, small-pox, &c., with the peculiar restlessness. Phlegmonous erysipelas, especially where the erysipelas begins in the ankle, and moves gradually up the leg, running up in the deeper tissues, no fever. Itching over whole body, chiefly in hairy parts. Stinging and tingling on skin, burning after scratching. Humidity of skin. Hardness of skin with thickening. Swelling (hard) of affected parts. Erysipelatous inflammations. Nettle-rash. Eruptions, generally vesicular, scabby, with burning itching, appearing especially in spring and autumn. Eruption of small pustules on a red bottom, like zona. Gangrenous ulcers resulting from small vesicles, with violent fever. Petechiae, with great weakness, amounting to entire prostration. Black pustules. Herpes, sometimes alternately with asthmatic sufferings and dysenteric looseness. Warts, especially on hands and fingers, large jagged, often pedunculated, exuding moisture and bleeding readily. Rhagades on hands. Panaritium. Tingling or shooting or else burning smarting in ulcers, especially at night. Chilblains. Corns on feet, with burning sensation, and pain as of excoriation.
