Scilla Maritima



Mouth

Stitches darting upward in both upper canine teeth as if a sharp, cold air penetrated the teeth, when eating cold or warm things.- Teeth show black marks.- Open, dry mouth.- Accumulation of much viscid mucus in mouth. Increased saliva. Scraping, burning on palate.- Vesicles on tongue.

Throat

Burning in mouth and throat.- Irritation in throat with heat and tickling, causing constant cough.- Dryness in throat.-Pain in submaxillary glands.

Appetite

Insatiable appetite.- Longing for acids.- Thirst for cold water, but the dyspnoea compels her to take but a sip at a time.-The food tastes bitter, especially bread, or it tastes sweet, especially soup and meat.- Tastelessness of tobacco when smoked.

Stomach

Constant nausea in pit of stomach, alternating with pain, as for diarrhoea in abdomen.- Pressure in stomach as from a stone.- Nausea during the morning cough.- “Stomach pains” better lying on left side (Rademacher).

Abdomen

Cutting pain in abdomen.-Pain in side of abdomen as if intestines forcing through when coughing and walking. Pressive stinging pain in abdominal muscles of left side.- Bubbling sensation in muscles of right side.- Pain in spleen.- Cough seeming to originate in spleen.- Splenic asthma.- Dull pains on border of left hypochondriac and epigastric regions.- Painful sensitiveness of abdomen and region of bladder.- Frequent discharge of very fetid flatulence.-Increased warmth of abdomen.- Griping and incarceration of flatus in hypogastrium.- Rumbling and gurgling in paroxysms above pubic region, better by eating.

Stool & Anus

Painless constipation.- Diarrhoea, stool very offensive, watery (during the measles) or looking black.- Passes thread worms and white fibres with tenesmus.- Stitches in anus when walking. Itching in anus.

Urinary Organs

Sticking in orifice of urethra and somewhat further back. Frequent urging to urinate,- with profuse discharge of pale urine (these may occur separately or together).-Continuous, painful pressure on bladder.- Involuntary micturition, especially when coughing.- Enuresis nocturna. When urinating faeces escape.- Cannot retain the urine because the quantity is so great.- Dropsy: dropsy of outer parts, dropsy of chest, all with profuse urination.

Male Sexual Organs

Dull stitches in glans causing anxiety.-Compressive pain in testicles.

Female Sexual Organs

Atony of cervix uteri. Haemorrhage from uterus.

Respiratory Organs

Moaning breathing, with the mouth open.-Wheezing breathing.- Frequently obliged to take a deep breath, which causes cough. Shortness of breath from every exertion, especially when ascending.-Whooping-cough, when accompanied with sneezing, watering of eyes and nose, and the child rubs eyes with the hands, in all catarrhal affections and coughs, also troubles of the lungs with the above symptoms, profuse nasal secretion.- Cough with expectoration in the morning and none in the evening.- Difficulty of breathing, with stitches in chest when breathing and coughing.- Cough in the morning, with copious expectoration of thin, frequently reddish-coloured mucus.- Dry cough morning and night.- Violent dry cough which causes shattering pain in abdomen and dryness in the throat.- Internal tickling in region of thyroid cartilage that provokes cough, which, however, worse the tickling.- Short, dry cough in four or five shocks, from tickling beneath thyroid cartilage.- Fits of spasmodic cough with pains in splenic region.- Cough, with a stagnant watery condition of the blood, and enlarged spleen (Burnett).- Sputa: white or reddish mucus, sweetish or empyreumatic or offensive in odour, in small round balls, very difficult to expectorate.- Rattling precedes the cough, disappears after.-Cough caused by tickling, creeping sensation in chest, from drinking something cold, from every exertion.- Cough with stitches in sides of chest, pain in abdomen, sensation of internal heat, dyspnoea, headache, pressure in the bladder and involuntary spurting of urine.-The loose morning cough is much more severe and causes more suffering than the dry evening cough.

Chest

Stitches: in chest, especially when inhaling and coughing, sharp in scapular end of clavicle during inspiration and expiration, severe near sternum, extending downward, in middle of ensiform cartilage, recurrent in side, broad, pressive beneath ribs of both sides, jerking in right and left side of chest near sternum, broad, blunt in last rib of left side, in morning in bed, waking him.-Contracting stitch in left side, just beneath last ribs, caused by rapid walking.

Heart

Palpitation of heart.- Pulse: small and slow, slightly hard.

Neck and Back

Stiffness: of nape of neck, of left cervical muscles.-Painful jerking above left scapula.- Painless drawing in left scapula.- Bubbling sensation beneath scapulae, in back of left upper arm.- Perspiration in armpit.

Limbs

Convulsive twitchings and motions of the motions of the limbs,

convulsions.-Frequent falling asleep of hands when resting head upon them, and in lower limbs when crossing the legs, during the day.- (Nails become brittle and split.- Cracked hoof in horses.- Boger.).

Upper Limbs

Convulsive twitching of arms, cold hands.- Stretching of upper limbs, with yawning without sleepiness.- Acute stitches in joints of both hands even when not moving them.- Jerking pain through wrists.

Lower Limbs

Convulsive twitching of legs.- Soreness between limbs.-Burning pain in ball of right foot, as after freezing it.- Icy-cold feet. Cold foot-sweat.- Perspiration only on toes.

Generalities

Weariness. Spasmodic movements.- Pains over whole body.- Dull rheumatic pains, worse when exercising, better when at rest.- Deficiency of blood.- Heat, with aversion to undress or uncover.- Respiration anxious.- Sweetish taste.- Symptoms generally appearing in left upper extremity, on left side generally, in lower belly, lower part of chest.- Worse in morning, during inspiration, from undressing.-Better while lying in bed, after lying down, from wrapping up warmly.

Skin

Soreness in the bends of the joints. Skin of neck painfully sensitive to slightest rubbing of neck band, with red, almost denuded spots.-Handling the fresh squills caused blisters.- Eruptions like itch, with burning-itching. Gangrene. Hard swellings.

Sleep

Frequent yawning without sleepiness.- Restless sleep, with much tossing about.-Dreamed that his body was excessively swollen, dream so vivid, on waking felt himself to see if it was so.

Fever

Pulse small and slow, slightly hard.- Chill internally at night, with external heat.- Chilliness towards evening when walking, not while sitting.- Heat, dry, burning, internally predominates.- Great sensation of heat in body, afternoon and evening, generally with cold feet.-Whenever he uncovers himself during the heat he suffers from chilliness and pain.-Perspiration wanting, even during the violent burning heat.

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