Sarracenia



Upper Limbs

Paroxysms of pain in right shoulder-joint, pain in left carpus and tarsus, face flushed.- Arms feel weak.- Bruised feeling from shoulders to hands.- Aching, sore pain in left humerus.- Bones in both arms pain.

Lower Limbs

Pain in hip-joints worse rising to feet from a lying posture. Paroxysms of weakness in coxofemoral joint, with pains of luxation and fear of falling when beginning to walk.-Strange lameness in femur, lower third, worse in inner condyle.- Pain in condyles of femur.-Wave-like motion in muscles of femur.- Sensation of fatigue on bones of leg as if they were too thick.- Bruised and luxated feeling in joints.- Pain in right patella and metatarsal bones. Knees feel weak.- Bruised pain in knees as after a fall, he falls easily on his knees.- Bone pains in tibia and fibula, intermittent, but bones continually sore.- Bones of feet inflamed, nodes as in gout.

Generalities

Debility, heavy, languid.-Dull, heavy, sore feeling in all bones.-Phlegmonous swelling, with a rosy tint on various parts.- Unrefreshed though slept soundly.

Skin

Phlyctenoid herpes.- Psoriasis. Scrofulous eruptions.-Variola, (the decoction taken when eruption is out and beginning to pustulate aborts secondary fever and prevents pitting).-Eruption out, pustules dissipate, first on face, fever lessens, urine though scanty and dark becomes abundant and pale, strength returns.-Eruptions similar to crusta lactea, on forehead and hands papular eruptions, changing to vesicular, with the depression as in small-pox lasting from seven to eight days.

Sleep

Sleepy in daytime, sleep disturbed by strange and frightful dreams.-Awakes early: 3, 4, or 5, in a fright, with urging to urinate.

Fever

Feverish and shaking chills, worse morning.-General chills between shoulder-blades.-Chills, heat, and sweat, 5 p.m.-At 2 p.m. very chilly in open air.- Skin hot and dry.- Hands hot, warm all over.-Head and body warm.- Perspires freely (5th, 8th, 9th d.), although weather still warm, and actively employed, sweat not as free as while taking the drug (11th d.).

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