Sanguinarinum Nitricum

Abdomen

Borborygmus and pains in abdomen, as if diarrhoea would set in, with sharp, cutting pains.

Urinary Organs

Passed urine every hour during the night (28 oz. by weight), depositing a white sediment. Urine had bright yellow sediment.

Respiratory Organs

Short, hacking cough arising from sensation of tightness in chest. The cough became harsh, leaving soreness and rawness in throat and chest, with scraping, raw sensation in pharynx. As soon as she began to move in morning coughed up large quantities of thick yellow, sweet-tasting mucus during the day. Cough became deeper and rattling, the pressure extended to both lungs, greatly increasing the sense of suffocation. Feeling as if air passages lined with thick, stiff mucus or pus. Raises thin, frothy mucus, which is very tenacious.

Chest

Tightness in chest. Heat and tension behind center of sternum. Tension, burning, and accumulation of mucus behind center of sternum. Strong desire for fresh air. Pressure in chest extending to both lungs, increasing the sense of suffocation.

Back and neck

Stiffness in muscles of left neck and shoulder.

Upper Limbs

Stiffness in muscles of left shoulder and neck.

Sleep

Sleep poor, restless from feverish and irritable condition.

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