Solanum Tuberosum Aegrotans



Chest

Oppression in chest after supper.- Tearing in chest, also with dryness of mouth.- Sensation on making the least motion, as though a hollow body were turning rapidly round in chest quickly and with a noise, after which she fancies she will faint, early in morning.-Prickling as from a thousand pins on the inner surface of sternum. -Violent stitching pain above right breast.- Congestions to chest.- Acute pain in left side, like a stitch.- Painful stitches in right side.- Mammae painful, especially when raising arm.

Heart

Weight and pain in heart region.-Lancinations in heart.- Palpitation of heart: for moments, at night, when lying, when raising oneself, as though the heart would turn, with fainting feeling, with oppression of chest (less when lying), irregular (after eating).- Pulse: irregular, sometimes weak, hard and tense.

Neck and Back

Swelling of muscles of neck, shoulders, and arms with pain so acute he winces on slightest pressure.- Sense of weight in the back part of the neck.- Violent beating in spine, early, when lying. -Prickling sensation in spine, during sleep, waking her. Stinging pain in the large dorsal muscle, right side, when drawing breath.- Burning and painful sensation on the fifth dorsal vertebra, caused by friction of the clothes.-Sensation of weariness in whole back.- Stiffness in muscles of back.-Sensation as if something on the os-sacrum became detached.- Pain in sacrum, when walking or touching the part. Tingling in sacrum.- Beating in right shoulder.- Prickling in psoas muscles.- Violent beating in loins.-Pain in lumbar vertebrae, impeding walking.- Intolerable pain in lumbar region, obliging her to walk beat.

Limbs

Joints swollen and very painful.- Sense of weariness in all the limbs on waking.- Inclination to stretch the limbs.

Upper Limbs

Feeling of weariness in muscles posteriorly.- Pain as if sprained in right upper arm, after leaning on elbow.- Beating in middle portion of triceps brachealis.- (Cannot clench hands.)- Heat in hands.-Stinging in left little finger.- Beating in right ring finger.

Lower Limbs

Acute pains in hip-joint caused by least motion.-Painful pressure on hip-joint, as with an iron bar, compelling her to lie down.-In left gluteus muscle: beating, pain, accompanied by loathing.-Lancinations in posterior part of right thigh.-Weary feeling in muscles of right side, after walking.-Feeling of dislocation in hip-joint, with pain in womb, after a slight exertion.-Shooting pain in posterior and inferior femoral muscles, when bending knee.- Beating in internal femoral muscles.- Alternate beating and throbbing above patella in both limbs.- Pain as if sprained in whole vertebral column, striking through posterior parts of thigh, and extending down to heels.- Drawing pain in posterior part of right lower limb, from gluteus muscle down to heel.- Legs oedematous. Shuddering of right leg.

Generalities

A peculiar and most offensive odor immediately perceived on approaching the bed. Cannot walk erect. General and partial debility. Debility, she is about to faint. Weariness in all the limbs, on waking. Pain as if bruised, in bed, preventing her from stirring. Muscular pains excruciating. Cold water (whether drinking it or washing with it) causes a sense of oppression and shock.

Skin

Skin over whole body tender, tumefied, and preternaturally dark.- Rose-coloured patches appear and as suddenly vanish.- Small pimples on the back, causing a violent itching.- Small red pimples on cheeks.- The skin in the face peels off a little.- Small pimples on back causes violent itching.

Sleep

Irresistible drowsiness.- Very sleepy in evening.- Restless sleep.- Starting from sleep, as in affright.- Sleepless.- Confused dreams, about fires, revolution, corpses, thieves, &c.- Amorous dream.- He dreams that he is to dress or draw the body of a drowned person, but is prevented in consequence of the body falling all the time on the clothes or paper.- Dreams about men who become transformed to talking animals, that his hands are cut to pieces, that he is falling from a steeple.- She dreams that she is eating human flesh, that she is swimming in a river, and cannot get out of it.

Fever

Pulse irritated, irregular, hard and tense.-Chilliness and sensation of internal coldness.- Repeated chilly creepings through whole body, in evening.- Feeling of coldness all over, unable to get warm, her cheeks being very red, in afternoon.- Heat all over, with sweat. Pyrexia, and afterwards dropsical appearance.- Violent paroxysms of heat, suddenly passing through the whole body, and proceeding from the vertex.-Alternate burning heat and chilliness, at night, in bed.- Exhalations from the skin, when performing the least work.- Sweat all over, early is morning, in bed, cold night-sweat.- The sweat smells of potatoes, in bed.

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