Strontium Carbonicum



Urinary Organs

Diminished secretion of urine. Increased secretion of a yellow, deep-coloured urine. Nocturnal emission of urine. Pale urine, with a strong smell of ammonia. Urine has a normal appearance with a strong smell of *Iodine. (Urine strong-smelling. R.T.C.).

Male Sexual Organs

A very transient, pressive pain in right spermatic cord while urinating.

Female Sexual Organs

Retarded catamenia, at first serous (like meat-water), afterwards in clots. Menses too early and of too short a duration. Leucorrhoea while walking.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness and roughness in throat, which excites a cough. Dry cough, excited by irritation in trachea, worse at night. Dyspnoea, when walking, with heat and redness of face.

Chest

Pressure at chest. Drawing pain in muscles of chest. Constriction, pressive pain worse walking. Spasmodic drawing and clawing, stitches on coughing and inspiring. Painfulness of sternum to touch. Slight burning left side of sternum extending upwards. Pressure in sternum. Pressive pain beneath sternum, at night, disappeared in morning on rising. Slight sticking in ensiform cartilage on walking on in open air. Dull stitches deep internally beneath ensiform cartilage, taking away the breath. (Pain in left breast with oppression worse after meals. R.T.C.).

Heart

Dull, intermitting pressure in precordial region. Violent beating of arteries and of heart.

Back and neck

Tearing tension in nape as if tendons were drawn up. Sensations

as if bruised in back and sacrum, worse from stooping and when touched. Pain, as of a fracture, in loins and back. Drawing pain in back, and lumbar region. Slight drawing pain along spine in afternoon, changing to a seated dull tearing in joints of legs, worse walking.

Extremities

Tearing (rheumatic pains) in the limbs, especially in the joints, worse in the evening, and at night in bed. One side of the body is generally only affected (right side). Immobility of the limbs, on one side only (the right side of the body), like paralysis, in the evening. Trembling of the limbs.

Upper Limbs

Painful paralytic sensation in left shoulder and elbow-joint at night. Constant burning pains in right shoulder-joint. Veins of arms and hands injected and large, prostration, ill-humour. Tearings in arms hands, and fingers, especially in joints. Numbness, almost paralytic, of the forearms and hands.

Lower Limbs

Paralytic drawing in limbs. Swelling and caries of femur, usually on scrofulous children, diarrhoea. Cramp in calves and soles, especially in people who suffer from cold feet. Sprains, especially of ankle. Jerking of legs. Jerkings and tearings in legs, feet, and toes, especially in joints. Swelling of feet. Sensation of icy-coldness in outer surface of calf (in spots). Icy-cold feet, evening.

Generalities

Excessive emaciation. The majority of the pains, the exact situation of which it is difficult to determine, seem to be in the medulla of the bones (?). The symptoms imperceptibly increase to a certain intensity, and diminish in the same manner. Predominance of symptoms on one side of the body. Violent involuntary starts of the body, tension in inner or outer parts, heat, with aversion to undress or uncover one’s self. Affections in joints of legs. Worse in night, evening, from cold in general, from undressing, after lying down and rising again, from rubbing, in darkness. Better from light, from a very bright light, from warmth in general, from wrapping up warmly. Better in open air, especially from heat of sun. Great lassitude and depression, morning and evening.

Skin

Tension of skin in different parts, when in bed, in evening. Skin adherent to scar in forearm becomes looser. Eruption of small pimples in different parts, with burning itching, esp. after scratching. Sycotic eruption on face and elsewhere in mouth, itching, burning.

Sleep

Retarded sleep. Jerking in body and starts when sleeping. Frequent waking at night, principally caused by a dry cough. Sleep, with many fantastic dreams.

Fever

Pulse full and hard, with violent pulsation in the arteries. Chill in forenoon, descending from sacrum to posterior part of thighs. Chilliness from head over shoulder-blades. Shiverings, morning and evening. Heat seeming to stream from nose and mouth, with thirst. Dry heat at night (with thirst). Profuse perspiration at night, and when a limb is uncovered pain is instantaneously felt in the part. Perspiration of parts affected (during morning hours).

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