Respiratory Organs
Catarrh, with fluent coryza, cough, pain in chest, as if it were raw, and shivering. Hoarseness, evening and morning, roughness, and scraping in throat, with accumulation of mucus in chest. Pain as from excoriation, and tingling or tickling in larynx, with tendency to cough. Coldness in throat during an inspiration. Voice hoarse and low, or entirely extinct, generally in cold and damp weather. Sensation as if larynx were swollen, or as if a foreign body were in it. Short, dry cough. Dry cough, sometimes fatiguing and shaking, with retching, vomiting, and spasmodic constriction of chest, especially in evening, or at night, in a recumbent position, or in morning, or after a meal. (Constant cough with irritation of throat and wheezing. R.T.C.) Moist cough, with profuse expectoration of thick, whitish, or yellowish mucus, like that of a coryza of long standing. Cough with expectoration during day, without expectoration at night. Short, dry cough, with stitches in chest, or stitches in left shoulder- blade. Spasmodic whooping-cough in successive double attacks, shortly following one another, from tickling in larynx as from dust, only with expectoration during day of either dark blood or yellow-greenish, purulent matter, or of cold, milk-white mucus, generally tasting sour, or putrid, or salty, or like old catarrh. Fetid expectoration of a greenish-yellow colour, like pus, and of a salt or sweetish taste, while coughing. Febrile cough, with haemoptysis. Cough in general with bloody expectoration, especially with heat in chest, haemorrhage with the same sensation. When coughing, pain as from excoriation, or shattering pains, or shootings in chest, pain as from a bruise, or shootings in head, pain in abdomen, cloudiness before eyes, pains in hips and loins. Respiration and conversation sometimes excite the cough. Feels suffocated, wants doors and windows wide open. Oppressed respiration, particularly from congestion to the lungs, it with a sense of heat all through the chest.
Chest
Congestion of blood to chest, with sensation of fulness in it. Shortness of breath, frequent chokings, obstructed respiration, dyspnoea, and fits suffocation, especially when lying down at night, and also during sleep, and sometimes also when speaking or walking in open air. Dyspnoea, shortness of breath and oppression of breathing on bending arms backwards. Asthma at night. Asthma: attacks every eight days, has rough, harsh hair, following swelling of haemorrhoids, alternating with fits of gout or psoriasis, from suppressed eruptions or discharges. Inability to take a full inspiration, with sensation as if chest were contracted. Frequent, short, or wheezing respiration. Snoring and rattling of mucus in chest. Shooting pains in back and sacrum during an inspiration. Painful sensation in chest, as of something falling forwards in it, when turning the body in bed. Pain as from a bruise in thorax when the part is touched. Painful obstruction in the left side of chest, with anguish, and inability to lie on side affected. Heaviness, fulness, and pressure as from a stone in chest and sternum, worse in morning, also when coughing, sneezing, and yawning. Pain when coughing and sneezing, as if chest were shattered or bursting. Periodical spasms in chest, with sensation of constriction, spasmodic pains, shortness of breath, bluish colour of face, and inability to speak. Pulsations in chest and sternum. Weakness of chest, felt particularly when speaking, with great fatigue in lungs after speaking or sighing. Shootings in the chest or sternum, or extending to the back, or into the left side, worse when coughing, lying on the back, during least motion, when taking a full inspiration, or when lifting the arms (over the head). Pain in chest from over-lifting or after inflammation of lungs. Sensation as if lungs were touching (or scraping) the back.- _Exudation after pneumonia. *Sul. acts in pneumonia a part analogous to that of *Belladonna In brain affections (Hartlaub, confirmed by Curie). The pains in the chest chiefly affect the
left side. Sensation of coldness or burning in chest, sometimes extending to face. Sensation as of a lump of ice in right chest. Red spots all over the chest, also brownish or butternut-coloured spots. Deep yellow spot began on left breast and spread all over body (chloasma). Cheloid on sternum.
Heart and Pulse
Stitches and blows in region of heart. Sharp pain at heart goes through to between shoulders, especially with dyspeptic symptoms. Cutting pains about heart, as with knives, which decrease or increase, last a few hours, with redness of face, followed by general coldness, attacks only when waking up. Great orgasm of blood with violent burning in hands. Violent congestion of blood towards chest and heart, sometimes with ebullition in chest, uneasiness, faintness, and trembling of arms. Sensation of emptiness in the cardiac region, or pressure and sensation as if the heart had not room enough. Affections in general of heart, also external chest. Sensation as if heart were enlarged. Frequent palpitation of the heart, some times even visible, and with anxiety, at night, in bed, on falling asleep, when going up an ascent. Heart beats too rapidly and her throat felt as if a string were tied round it, and she did not sleep till 5 A.M. (produced. R.T.C.). Pulse hard, full, and accelerated.
Back and neck
Stiffness of neck, in nape, with paralytic, sprained pain. Child cannot hold head up neck muscles so weak. Tetters on nape. Swelling and inflammation of glands of nape and of neck. Fetid perspiration in axillae. Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands. Cracking in vertebrae of neck, especially on bending backwards. Weakness and wrenching pains, or pain as from a bruise in loins, coccyx, and in back, especially on walking, or rising from a seat. Gnawing pain in small of back. Pain in small of back not permitting one to stand erect. Finds himself at night lying on back. Cannot lie on back on account of rush of blood to head. Pain in back after manual labour. Shootings in loins, back, and shoulder-blades, sometimes with obstructed respiration. Sharp and rheumatic pains, drawing, tension, and stiffness in loins, back, and nape. Pinching and burning sensation between the shoulder- blades. Tension and bruised pain between scapulae and in nape, which on moving head goes to shoulders. Stitches beneath scapulae which take away the breath. Drawing in right scapula, evening on going to sleep. Tearing in left scapula while sitting. Needle- shoots at point of left scapula. Sprained pains in back. During whole day aching in small of back, worse when urinating. Distortion (curvature) of spine. Vertebrae softened. Cracking of vertebrae on bending head backward.
Extremities
Sharp and drawing pains, or shootings in limbs, especially in joints, and sometimes with want of strength, stiffness, and sensation of torpor in the parts, affected. Wrenching pains, as from contraction of the tendons, cramps, and spasms in several parts. Cracking in joints, especially of knee and elbow. Inflammatory swelling of joints, with heat and redness. Tingling in limbs, especially in calves of legs and arms. Tendency of limbs to go to sleep. Weakness and trembling of limbs, especially hands and feet. Unsteadiness of joints. Limbs “go to sleep,” especially when lying down. Bruised feeling, and drawing, tearing pains in limbs (in outer parts, in muscles and joints, from above downward). Cramp-like pain in muscles of limbs on motion. Arthritic swelling and heat.
Upper Limbs
Pressure on shoulders as from a weight. Rheumatic pain in shoulders, especially left Stitches extending from shoulder into chest on motion. Stitching beneath right axilla. Sweat on axillae smelling like garlic. Jerking of shoulders, hands, and fingers. Jerking, sharp pains (tearing), and shootings in joints and muscles of arms, hands, and fingers, and also in shoulders, chiefly at night in bed. Nocturnal cramps in arms. Tingling in arms and fingers. Swelling of arms, sometimes with heat, hardness, and lancinating or tensive pains.-_Exostosis in arm. Warts on arms, or itching miliary or red, burning spots, which appear after washing. Purulent vesicles in bend of elbow. Sprained pain and stiffness in wrist, worse in morning. Ganglion. Paralytic weakness of arms and hands. Swelling of hands and thumbs. Rigidity and wrenching pain in joints of hands and fingers. Trembling of hands, especially when occupied with fine work. Involuntary contraction of hands, as if about to grasp something. Coldness in hands and fingers. Great burning in palms. Perspiration on hands (in the palms) and between the fingers. Eruption of small, red pimples on hands and fingers, with itching. Warts on fingers. Desquamation, hardness, dryness, and cracking of skin of hands. Itching vesicles on backs of hands. Cracking and chapping on finger-joints. Burning in balls and tips of fingers. Cramps and jerks in fingers. Contraction of tendons of hands and fingers. Large and shining swelling (erysipelatous) of fingers. Dead fingers. Nodosities on fingers. Ulcers about nails. Flaws in nails. Hang-nails. Panaritium. Chilblains (thick, red) on fingers, with itching in a warm temperatures. Swelling and inflammation of points of fingers, with subcutaneous ulceration and boring and pulsative pains at night.
