Solanum Nigrum



Urinary Organs

If a sweat did not break out an extraordinary discharge of urine occurred, frequently followed by purging.

Respiratory Organs

Respiration: rapid, difficult, quick but easy, stertorous.

Chest

Chest: oppression of, constriction of.- Pressure on sternum and at tenth dorsal vertebra.- Cutting pains in left side.- On upper part of sternum a large round blotch, deep red.

Heart

Anxious feeling in region of heart.- Pulse: rapid, scarcely perceptible, irregular, slow, small, soft.

Neck and Back

Neck sore, stiff, as if bruised, worse moving head.- Severe pains in muscles of neck.- Great pains in back of neck and shoulders, and in lower limbs.- Pains in back of neck and between shoulders.- Bruised feeling in back and limbs.

Limbs

Restlessness in limbs and carphologia.- Wandering pains, first in shoulders, then down arm, then in lower limbs.- Severe pains in all the limbs, 8 p.m.- Painful drawing in arms and feet.

Upper Limbs

Arms heavy, prostrated, worse r.- Dull, heavy pain in right arm extending to finger-tips (10 A.M. to 3 p.m.).- Lancinating pains down left arm.- Pain shooting through left arm and wrist.- Pain in left shoulder and right wrist.- Palms greenish blue.- Tips of fingers black as if dyed.- Vesicles appear on back of hands, break and discharge an acrid fluid.- Eruption like small-pox, sloughs form on fingers.

Lower Limbs

Gait unsteady, heavy, insecure.-Trembling of lower limbs, especially of muscles of thighs, like small successive jerks.- Lower limbs prostrated, worse left.- Thighs weak.- Pain in right knee extending up to hip. Legs feel sore on walking as if bruised.-In left calf: compression, crawling.- Swelling of feet.- Tearing on back of left foot.- Chronic ulcers on feet.

Generalities

Coma, convulsive agitation, plaintive cries.-In midst of convulsion the children stretch out their hands, as if to grasp something, carry them eagerly to their mouths, and go through the motions of mastication and swallowing.- Most violent, convulsive agitation.- Convulsions, tetanic rigidity and death.- Lies on back in entire prostration, disturbed at intervals by spasmodic movements.- Increased distension and prominence of varicose veins.- All muscles sore to touch.- Bruised feeling of whole body.- Great sensitiveness to cold air.

Skin

Red blotches like scarlatina, irregularly dispersed over whole surface.- Great swelling and intolerable itching of face, eyelids, lips, hands, and feet.- Hands, feet, and nose painful, swollen, and black.- Black hue of swollen parts, shiny, painful.- The swelling and black discoloration diminish together, and are followed by desquamation.- Itching burning of extremities. Vesicles on back of hands, sloughing on fingers, blisters discharge acrid fluid over arms.- Sloughs are detached from face, but right hand swells up again.- Face cleans off, but hands are again covered with hard and very painful crusts, which fall off and are soon replaced by new ones. – Swelling of feet, arms, abdomen, scrotum, and penis.

Sleep

Sleepiness, during forenoon, all day.- Deep sleep.- Night very restless, sleepless, with hallucinations and carphologia.- In middle of night he wakes up uttering groans, which are wrung from him by violent headache.- Feeling on waking as if he had lost several nights’ sleep. – Dreams: waking him in terror, with sensation of falling from a great height, of snakes.

Fever

Alternation of coldness and heat.- Flushes across face, 3 p.m. High fever followed by profuse sweat.- High fever, 2 p.m., with great pain in back of neck, shoulders, and lower limbs.- Heat, redness of face.- Fever, painfulness in praecordia, distension of abdomen with at times screaming and grasping at abdomen, and constipation.-Burning dry heat.- Skin burning, sweating.- Heat in face, hands, and along back.- Flashes of heat run up and down back.- Frequent sweats.- Whole body bathed in profuse sweat.

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