Sinapis Nigra



Female Sexual Organs

Menses appear in a few hours long before the proper time (several cases). – Amenorrhoea and chlorosis. – Cessation of catamenia.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, evening from 4 p.m. Cough, short, hacking, all evening, 7 to 8 p.m., seldom during day.- Cough mostly dry or with expectoration of lumps of mucus worse in cold air, better lying down and (temporarily) by eating, excited by laughing.- Expectoration: from posterior nares much mucus, which felt cold, white, in tenacious masses.- Asphyxia. Pituitous asthma.

Chest

Wandering pains in chest.- Pain in left side of chest in region of heart.- Respiration at base of left lung roughened.- Sensation in right chest as if heart were on right side.

Heart

Dull, continual pain in heart toward apex, in evening, seemingly in heart substance.- Heart pains return daily 10 A.M. and 4 to 6 p.m. – Sensation as if heart were on right side.- Pulse: accelerated, full.

Back

Severe, dull, pulsating pain under inferior angle of left scapula.- Slight backache, becoming intolerable towards bedtime, restless all night from pain in back and hips, better motion.

Limbs

Weariness in limbs with cramps in calves.

Upper Limbs

Occasional dull pain in left shoulder-joint.

Lower Limbs

Weakness in calf-muscles. – Dull, heavy ache in legs. – Pain constant in ankles and calves.

Generalities

It seemed to double him up, could hardly stand, tears ran from eyes, intense pain across epigastric region.- Rose late, feeling sore and stiff all over.- Weakness in all muscles.- Symptoms worse 7 to 9 p.m., better lying down at night, except dreams.

Skin

Skin turns red.- Burning heat and stitches in skin. – Frightful suppuration and gangrenous inflammation reaching down to sternum (fatal effects of mustard applied to swollen glands of neck).- General ecchymosis.- Chronic eczema.- Small-pox, (“to be given until sulphocyanides appear in the saliva”).- Ulcers on legs.

Sleep

Sleepiness, during day, sleepless at night.- Sleeps little at night, but does not feel loss of sleep.- Dreams: vivid, or lascivious.

Fever

Severe chills, chattering of teeth, sensation of general coldness, with shrunken feeling (from mustard bath).- Heat through whole body, especially down spine.- Quartan ague and inflammatory fever.- Sweat and feeling of hot water in all blood-vessels, better when menses came on.- Sweat general, especially on forehead and upper lip.- Sweat free on exertion (mental or physical), and from external 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