Sabadilla



Eyes

Burning smarting in eyes. Pressure on eyeballs, especially when looking up. Redness of margins of eyelids. Lachrymation, especially during exercise in open air, when looking at anything bright, when coughing, yawning, and on feeling the slightest pain in other parts. Weakness of sight.

Ears

Otalgia with troublesome pressure, with snapping as of electric sparks before ears. Tickling in ears. Itching at anus alternately with itching at meatus auditorius externus. Burning itching and shootings in tips of ears. Deafness as if there were a band over ears. Humming, gurgling, and detonation in ears. Boring in parotids.

Nose

Itching tingling in nose and contractive smarting. Epistaxis. Great sensibility to smell of garlic. Sensitive dryness of upper part of nose. Violent spasmodic sneezing (shaking the abdomen, then lachrymation). Obstruction of nostrils, alternately. Fluent coryza with altered features and bewildered head (influenza, hay- fever). Great masses of white and transparent mucus are blown from nose, without coryza. Bright red blood comes from posterior nares and is expectorated.

Face

Heat of face with fiery redness, especially after drinking wine. Blue circles round the eyes. Marbled and herpetic skin on the face, burning sensation, pain as from excoriation, pricking and itching tingling in lips. Beating and jerking in muscles of left upper jaw, with itching. Boring in lower jaw and submaxillary glands. Cracking of the articulation of the jaw on opening mouth wide.

Teeth

Toothache with drawing and pulsative pain. Shooting pains in molars. Caries of teeth. Gums bluish. Pricking in gums.

Mouth

Sensation in mouth and on tongue as if they were burnt and excoriated. Cannot bear anything hot in mouth. Tongue feels sore as if full of blisters. Pricking (soreness) in tip of tongue. Tip of the tongue bluish. Tongue loaded with a thick yellowish coating (more in middle and at back). Dryness of the mouth without thirst. Copious accumulation of (sweetish) saliva in the mouth. Jelly-like saliva.

Throat

Pain in the throat as if caused by a plug or an internal swelling during deglutition and at other times. Constantly obliged to swallow, with pain in mouth and behind larynx as if something lodged there, with scratching roughness, hawks constantly, worse morning and during and after eating. Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat, must swallow over it, as if uvula were down. Much tough phlegm in throat, must hawk. Feeling of constriction in the throat (in fauces as from an astringent drink). Can swallow warm food more easily, in sore throat. Pressure and burning sensation in throat during deglutition and at other times. Dryness in throat. Roughness and scraping in throat, with continued want to swallow or to hawk. Inflammation of uvula.

Appetite

Taste bitter (or of a sickly sweetness). Violent thirst for cold water, milk, or beer, also in morning. Hunger, with dislike to all food, especially meat (coffee, wine, and acids). Bulimy especially in morning and evening (principally for honey, pastry, and farinaceous food). Thirstlessness or thirst only in evening for cold water. Craves hot things, hot tea (in sore throat).

Stomach

Risings, generally empty, and sometimes with shuddering. Painful and imperfect risings. Pyrosis. Corrosive burning pain in stomach and oesophagus, when walking. Coldness in stomach. Empty feeling in stomach. Nausea with inclination to vomit, often with shuddering, better by eating. Nausea, with constant spitting of insipid water. Nausea, retching, and feeling of worm in oesophagus. Vomiting of lumbrici. Softness, uneasiness, and coldness in stomach. Digging in epigastric region, with pains as from excoriation (as if a sore spot were pressed below pit of stomach), when pressing upon it (and on inspiration). A frequent sudden sensation of obstructed respiration in scrobiculus, with anxiety. Sensation of heat in scrobiculus and burning in stomach.

Abdomen

Pressive scraping in hepatic region. Digging drawing in liver, with pain as from excoriation when pressing upon it. Sensation of heat in hepatic region. Colicky pain in abdomen as if caused by worms (or from actual worms). Constriction in abdomen. Turning and twisting through whole abdomen as from a lump. Cuttings as by knives. Colic: with sensation as if a ball were moving and turning through abdomen, cries out, “Oh! my bowels, they go like a wheel,” with violent urging to stool and borborygmus, from worms. Violent shootings in sides of abdomen, which force the patient to bend double. Boring, digging, and rolling in abdomen. Rumbling in abdomen, as if empty. Croaking as of frogs in abdomen. Sensation of coldness or burning in abdomen. Spasmodic contraction of muscles of abdomen, of 1 side, with burning pain, he bent double on 1 side. Red spots and specks on abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Constipation. Broken, hard, scanty stools. Very difficult stools with much burning in abdomen and sensation as if something alive in abdomen. Urgent want to evacuate, with scanty evacuation. Loose brown or fermented faeces, mixed with mucus and blood (floating on the water). Pinchings, tearing, and tingling in rectum. Crawling in rectum and anus as from ascarides. Itching of anus, violent burning after scratching. Itching of anus, alternating with itching of nose or ear. Discharges of worms (lumbrici, tapeworm).

Urinary Organs

Urgent want to urinate, especially in evening, with tenesmus and scanty emission. Increased secretion of urine. Turbid, thick urine, like clay-water. Burning in urethra when urinating.

Male Sexual Organs

Digging and pressive pain in testes. Diminished sexual desire. Tensive and painful erections, without desire for coition. Pollutions, with flaccidity of penis.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia: retarded but profuse, and of longer duration, flow by fits and starts, painful bearing down a few days previous. Cutting pain as from knives in ovary (ovaritis). Nymphomania from ascarides.

Respiratory Organs

Hot breath. Hoarse, rough voice. Hawking up of bright red blood, which comes from the nasal fossae. Short, dry cough, also at night, provoked by a scraping in throat. Cough dry, with perspiration and water in the eyes. Cough with vomiting, shootings in vertex, and pain in stomach. Dull cough, sometimes with haemoptysis. Cough immediately on lying down. Cough with expectoration and lancinations in chest.

Chest

Respiration obstructed, as if there were a stone in the chest. Short, difficult respiration. Wheezing respiration. Pressure on the chest. Burning sensation in the chest. Pain from right (sometimes 1.) shoulder into chest as if circulation of blood arrested by a tight bandage, not better by unfastening dress, worse in open air. Shootings in sides of chest, especially when drawing breath and coughing, which disturbs the sleep at night and does not permit lying on the side. (Inflammation of pleura.) Red spots and points on chest.

Heart

Palpitation of heart with pulsation throughout body.

Back

Contusive pain in back and loins, especially when seated. Burning-tingling stinging sensation between scapulae. Stitches in rapid succession in right side of back.

Limbs

Weariness and heaviness in all the limbs, worse towards evening, obliging her to lie down. Coldness of the limbs. Painful drawings in limbs as if in marrow of bones, with inclination to stretch limbs, better by repose. Painful sensation of paralysis of the limbs, especially in knees.

Upper Limbs

Convulsive movements of arms. Trembling of arms and hands. Red spots, bands, and points on arms and hands. Pricking lancinations in forearms. Dryness of skin of hands. Distortion of fingers. Yellow spots on fingers. Desquamation of skin round nails.

Lower Limbs

Shootings in thighs and knees. Weakness and flexion of knees. Tearing and tension in calves of legs, also at night. Heaviness of feet. Swelling of feet, with painful sensibility of soles. Profuse perspiration on soles.

Generalities

(Intermittent complaints which come every week, or two weeks, or four weeks apart. Esp. suited for children who are disposed to worms, worms discharged with stool, whether lumbrici or tapeworms. Sweetish taste. No thirst during chill, heat often internal. Troubles appearing on the right side, on toenails. Sensation of knocking, throbbing, or pulsation in the outer parts, great sleepiness in the forenoon. Worse in forenoon, before midnight, from cold in general, while resting. Better from moving, while swallowing something, while getting warm, from warmth in general. Many complaints appear, especially during the new and full moon. ***H.N.G.) Pricking, pressive, and dull lancinations in different parts. Tingling in the limbs. Twitchings, convulsive tremblings, or catalepsy from worms. Nervous diseases from worms or deeply seated abdominal irritation. Great debility, in intermittents, paralytic debility in pleuritis. Convulsions. Heaviness of tread and of movements generally. Lassitude and heaviness in all limbs, worse evening, or towards noon, at which times the pains in the limbs are also worse. In general, worse at same hour every day. Pains in the bones, as if caused by some one cutting and scraping inside with a knife, especially in the joint, worse by touch, better by a quick movement of the part affected. The patient feels better when lying down than when walking or standing, in the open air. Several symptoms appear first on the right and then on the left side. Great sensibility to cold air, which worse the uneasiness and pains.

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