Lower Limbs
Pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration, in buttocks and in ischiatic tuberosities, especially when touched, and after having been seated for a long time. Purulent and painful swellings on buttocks. Pain as from a wrench, and as from a bruise in hip, on least movement, with shooting pains at every step. Pain in hip with contraction of leg. Sharp and drawing pains in legs, especially at night in bed. Heaviness of the legs, sometimes with tension in thighs and knees, especially at night. Red, oozing, painful spots on the internal surface of thighs. Middle of thigh as if broken. Tension in hams, as from contraction of tendons. Large (white, or) shining swelling of knee, with stiffness and painful weariness. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Cracking, drawing, sharp pains, and shootings in knees. Tetters on hams. Restlessness in legs and feet. Torpor and numbness of legs. Painful fatigue and paralytic weakness of legs, chiefly of knees, which yield frequently. Sticking in knee and tibia. Red spots and itching miliary rash on legs. Transparent swelling of legs. Erysipelas in leg and foot. Bluish spots and swollen and varicose veins in legs. Pain in calves when walking. Cramps in calves and soles, especially at night (in the soles at every step). Tension in hollow of knee, as if contracted on stepping. Painful sensibility of soles when walking. Easy dislocation of foot when walking. Stiffness of knee and ankle-joint. Stiffness of malleoli. Sprained pain in Left ankle when standing and walking. Ankles weak. Stiffness and wrenching pain in instep. Tingling in legs and calves. Burning and inveterate ulcers on legs or feet. Tetters on ankle. Shootings in feet. Coldness in feet, especially in evening, in bed, or burning sensation, chiefly in soles of feet. Burning in feet, wants to find a cool place for them, puts them out of bed to cool them off. Burning in soles, on stepping after sitting a long time, and itching, especially on walking, wants them uncovered. Cramp in soles at every step. Soles cold and sweating. Sweat on right foot. Sharp shooting, as from a blunt nail, in rapid succession at root of nail of great toe. Swelling of feet, and especially of the ankles. Red, shining swelling of the toes. Itching in the toes that had formerly been frozen. Chilblains: redness and swelling with tendency to suppurate, thick and red with cracks on joints, itching worse warm in bed. Gnawing vesicles on soles. Ulcer on instep. Cramps and contraction of toes. Coldness and stiffness of toes. Tingling in ends of toes. Large and shining swelling of toes. Ulcerated and gnawing vesicles in toes. Corns, with pressive or shooting pains.
Generalities
(Affections in general of any kind appearing in left side, hair of head, external front of head, inner belly, especially left side, back, small of back, axilla, lumbar region, upper extremities in general, posterior and inner surface of thigh, lower extremity in general, of the nails. Inflammation of mucous membranes in general, swelling of the glands. Affections of the brain from suppressed cutaneous eruptions. Very often when rash in scarlet fever will not come out, cannot bear to be washed. Face pale, or reddish yellow. Diminution of saliva. Back is so stiff that one cannot rise from a stooping posture, and is always worse before a storm. Bleeding from inner parts in general. Dropsy of inner parts, particularly in psoric persons or resulting from a suppressed eruption. Dryness of inner parts which are usually moist. Worse: On waking, after eating, from exertion of body, unable to stand much exercise, from leaning against anything, after menstruation, from taking milk, during perspiration, from suppressed perspiration, from wet poultices, from abuse of *Mercury, on rising, from any quick motion, as running, during sleep, after a long sleep, during stool, in children whose bowels are regular but who suffer great pain at every passage (when bowels are moved causing much pain, stools hard and lumpy, *Acid nitricum), on stretching limbs, especially the affected limb, when swallowing food, from talking, from water and washing, ascarides, worms in general, from suppressed menstruation, from vomiting, on getting warm in bed. Better: From drawing up the affected limb can’t bear to have it extended. Muscular palpitation. Jerks and shocks in certain parts or throughout body, especially when sitting or lying down. Attacks of spasms. Epileptic convulsions, excited by a fright or by running, and sometimes with cries, rigidity of the limbs, clenching of the teeth, and sensation as if a mouse were running over the back or arms. Fainting fits, or hysterical or hypochondriacal uneasiness, sometimes with vertigo, vomiting, and perspiration. Is very nervous, can’t bear to be spoken to, could cry at anything (produced. R.T.C.). Trembling of limbs, especially the hands. Sensation of trembling in interior of body. Sensations of: heat in chest, of heat anywhere, with any trouble, of sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over the body, of contraction of inner parts, chiefly in abdomen, with feeling as if it should be bandaged up or supported, of a hoop or band around the parts, buzzing or vibration in the body, of knocking or throbbing in outer parts, as of a lump in inner parts, of roughness in inner parts, of tightness or stiffness in outer parts, of sometimes being very small and then again being very large. Attacks of uneasiness in whole body, which do not permit the continuance of a sitting posture, with desire to stretch and to contract the limbs alternately. Great nervous agitation, towards night, could not sleep. Great uneasiness and orgasm of blood. Violent ebullition of blood, sometimes with burning heat in hands. Great exhaustion, with great fatigue after the least conversation or the shortest walk, disposition to remain always seated, and profuse perspiration, even when sitting, reading, eating, lying down, or walking. The sensation of fatigue is sometimes removed by walking. Muscular weakness, especially in knees and arms, and also in legs, with unsteadiness of gait. Stooping gait. Cannot walk erect, stoop-shouldered. Standing is the most disagreeable position, every standing position is uncomfortable. Extraordinary emaciation, sometimes with weakness, fatigue, and burning sensation in hands and feet. Great sensitiveness to open air and to the wind, with pains in limbs on a change of weather, disposition to take cold, and many sufferings produced by exposure to open air. The affections of head and stomach are those which are chiefly worse in open air. The majority of the sufferings are worse or appear at night, or in evening, and also during repose, when standing for a long time, and on exposure to cold air, they disappear on walking, on moving the parts affected, and also in warmth of a room, but the heat of the bed renders the nocturnal pains insupportable. Several symptoms appear periodically. When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favorable effect, especially in acute cases, *Sul. will frequently excite reaction and clear up the case. Complaints that are constantly relapsing.
Skin
(The greatest general psoric remedy for almost every kind of itch, sore, ulcer, etc., very colicky babies with pimples, itch, or eruption on skin, or roughness of skin. Troubles of very long standing resulting from suppressed eruptions. *Sul. will very often bring these out and cause their cure. Exanthema in general on any part of the body which is worse by any heat, from getting warm at work, in bed, &c., freckles, cancerous ulcers. Skin dry, rough, scaly, voluptuous itching _ “feels so good to scratch,” ecchymosis, chapping of the skin, especially when it ulcerates, chapping of the skin after being wet, soreness of the skin in children (soreness in folds of skin), brown sphacelus. Tetters in general, chapped, scurfy, painful, tearing, pulsating, &c. H.N.G) Itching in skin, even of whole body, worse at night, or in morning, in bed, and often with pain as of excoriation, heat, itching (soreness), or bleeding of the part which has been scratched. Eruptions, like those which often follow vaccination. (Eczema rubrum. Gouty eczema with much oozing. R.T.C.) Seborrhoea of scalp (used locally. R.T.C.). Scabious eruptions and tetters of a greenish yellow colour, commencing with small itching phlyctenae, with a red areola. Herpetic, red, irregular, furfuraceous spots, or covered with small phlyctenae, discharging a serous lymph. Scabious eruptions. Ecthyma with itching day and night. Miliary eruptions, principally on limbs. Nettle-rash. Burning itching of the eruptions. Hepatic spots of a yellow or brownish colour (on the body). Erysipelatous inflammation, with pulsative and shooting pains. Weals, even from the slightest contusion. Bright scarlet redness over whole body. Tingling in the skin throughout the body. Red, swollen, and ulcerated chilblains, with itching in heat of a room. Callous warts, especially round the fingers. Skin cold, pale, dry. The skin cracks easily, especially in open air, cracks, with pain, as from excoriation. Rhagades after washing. The nails crumble off. Skin of hands hard and dry. Desquamation and excoriation of skin in several places. Pityriasis of head and chest. Unhealthy skin, slightest injuries are followed by inflammation and ulceration. Ulcers with elevated margins, surrounded by itchy pimples, red or bluish areola, sharp, lancinating, and tensive pains, bleeding readily, and secreting a fetid and sanious or yellow and thick pus. Ulcers with itching in the sore. Proud flesh in the ulcers. Fistulous ulcers. Furunculi. Encysted swellings, or pale, tense, and hot swellings, inflammatory abscess. Inflammation, swelling, and induration or suppuration of the glands. Nodosities on skin of whole body, but principally in the breast, from swelling of the subcutaneous glands. Dropsical, burning swelling of external parts. Inflammation, swelling, and painful sensibility of the bones. On the bones sensation of constriction, or as if a band were around them. Repugnance to ablutions.
