Nose
Right nostril seems filled up, discharge of dry and bloody scales of mucus.- Numbness throughout left side of body, division felt in nose.- Dryness of both nostrils.- Discharge of mucus from nose, with congested feeling, as if it were about to bleed.- Slight nose-bleed.- Fluent coryza.
Face
Pain in right jaw-socket. Dull pain in left side of lower jaw. Hot flushes over face and head. Face much flushed. Pallor even to lips, with heart pains.
Mouth
Ptyalism, tongue coated yellow.- Peppery taste in mouth, fauces, and throat.- Burning and dry feeling in mouth and tongue.- Tongue seemed to alternately expand and contract.
Throat
Peppery sensation in throat, soreness, with expectoration of tongue mucus.- Feeling of a bunch in left side of throat when swallowing, shifting to r.- Throat felt as if in a vice.- Pain and soreness in right side of throat.- Throbbing in throat and sensation of swelling.- Intense burning and stinging in oesophagus, with slight nausea.- Throat dry, very difficult to talk.
Appetite
Very thirsty, drank much at a time.- Unusually hungry.- No appetite.- Anorexia,- could eat but a few mouthfuls at breakfast, and could only drink half a cup of coffee, which was vomited soon afterward.
Stomach
Faintness at stomach as if after fasting, when food was brought cared to eat only a few mouthfuls, which nauseated her.- Empty eructations, with slight taste of ingesta.- Nausea with headache.- Slight nausea, with sense of oppression at stomach, nausea increased, accompanied by frequent chills.- Feeling of fullness of pressure in epigastrium, fluttering.
Abdomen
Some pain in right side below ribs.- Colic pain in right iliac region.- Rumbling, with soreness on pressure.- Flatulence.- Griping pain on waking in morning, continued at intervals through day, with general feeling of indifference and malaise.
Stool & Anus
Constipation in morning.- Griping pains 7 a.m. with thin, brown stools, mixed with mucus.- Burning and pressure for an hour or two after stool.- Epidemic dysentery, characterized by spasmodic tenesmus, intestinal spasms, tympanitis, &c.- Inodorous discharges with tenesmus.- Cholera, in stage of collapse.
Urinary Organs
Urine at night and next morning scanty and high-coloured. Profuse, light-coloured urine, nervous women.
Female Sexual Organs
Ovarian pain: with scanty and retarded menses, extending down genitocrural nerves, and sacral pains during pregnancy.- Menses appeared one week before usual time, attended with a good deal of pain.- Menses eight days before time, flow increased, bright red, bearing-down pain and pain in right ovarian region.- Severe constant aching pain in right ovarian region, radiating to hip, thighs, and back, with occasional shoots, making her catch her breath.- Sharp, cutting pain in right ovarian region, extending about hip and down thigh, awoke her.- Cramp-like pain in left groin, menses five days early.- Pain in left ovarian region gradually increasing and gradually decreasing.- Dysmenorrhoea: with agonizing pains, driving patient almost distracted, neuralgic pain runs along course of genitocrural nerve, in women of spare habit and of a delicate, nervous temperament, with headache, especially over left eye, commencing day before menses, fullness in head, eyes congested, with photophobia, face flushed and feverish, agonizing bearing down, abundant discharge, excruciating pain in loins and lower abdomen.- Menstrual flow: too early and profuse, pains down thighs, scanty and retarded. Constant headache, worse during menses, at which time she also suffered agonizing pains in pelvic region.- Amenorrhoea for five months, face and legs edematous, very nervous, sensitive to least noise, hysterical mood, voice tremulous, fears she is going to die, general chlorotic appearance, constipation, scanty, frequent, and dark urine.- Amenorrhoea for five months, with severe pains in right ovary, constant headache, bearing down and tension in hypogastric region.- Amenorrhoea from getting feet wet, lasting six months, emaciation with cough, dirty-grey expectoration, pale face, night-sweats.- Leucorrhoea, profuse, milky-white.- Great increase of leucorrhoea during the time when menses should appear.- After-pains.- Profuse lochia.- Violent hot pricking in right ovary (produced immediately by a dose of 3x).
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness, with husky feeling in throat, obliged to clear throat frequently.- Aphonia from cold or general debility.- Aphonia and pain in lower right lung on deep inspiration or coughing.- Shortness of breath. Constant desire to take a long breath.- Cough: slight hacking cough, in spells, only in open air.- Dry cough night and day, from sheer exhaustion could scarcely turn herself in bed, face pale, bloated, dark rings about eyes, head full and heavy, lips colourless, tongue pale and flabby, shortness of breath, no appetite, bowels constipated, urine light-coloured, alkaline, sp. gr. 1025, fluttering in stomach, pain in left side, limbs weak and bloated.- Had to sit up in bed and turn first one way, then another, as in a severe fit of asthma, with several spasmodic coughing spells.- Thought she could not get air enough into lungs, inspiration was so difficult.
Chest
Tightening about chest, with inclination to gape.- Pain in left side, under fourth rib.- Sharp pains in right side of a neuralgic character.- Oppression of chest, with desire to take a deep inspiration.- Sharp, shooting pains in right side (like pleurisy pains), occasionally extending through to shoulder-blade, continual desire to take a long breath.- Menses irregular and scanty, tight, dry cough, which hurts chest and shoulders, bowels almost constantly loose, profuse night-sweats.
Heart
Severe momentary pain in region of heart, making her catch her breath, and turn pale even to lips, recurred at irregular intervals of from five to thirty minutes, the pain was cutting, worse during inspiration, passed directly through thorax in heart region, immediately after each attack thirsty, flushed, exhausted.- Pulse irregularly intermittent.- Startled from sleep by severe pain in heart region, followed by violent action of heart and feeling of suffocation.
Neck and Back
(With headache) pain and stiffness in nape, somewhat better by hard pressure or throwing head back.- Very severe pain in cervical and upper sacral region.- Back of neck numb.- Slight pain in left side and under left scapula, also in left hip.- Dull pain from nape to right scapula.- Dragging pain in lower part of pelvis and back. Coccyx seemed elongated, extremely sensitive to pressure and ached all the time, could not sit except on cushion.
Limbs
Suddenly taken with cramp-like pains in wrists and knees.- Pain in limbs, neuralgic, shooting, numbness and weakness.- Dull pain in left knee, also in left elbow, extending to hand, then in left side and top of left foot.
Upper Limbs
Pain in right shoulder and arm.- Pain and pricking feeling in arm, extending to third finger.- Pricking and throbbing sensation in left arm and fingers.- Severe pain in right arm, commencing just above bend of elbow.- Whole left arm and shoulder numb.- Pain in left elbow and left side of head.- Dull pain in left elbow, passing to palm of hand, then to shoulder.- Pain in both elbows.- Severe pain in wrist, extending to thumb.- A flash of pain in right thumb, extending to hand.
Lower Limbs
Severe neuralgic pains in course of genitocrural nerves (dysmenorrhoea).- Excessive weakness of lower limbs (chlorosis).- Pain in left leg, between hip and knee.- Weakness in lower limbs, with pain in knees, pain of extremities increased, accompanied by frequent chills.- Legs and feet feel tired.- Pain in left knee very severe, pain has lasted, without cessation, a little more than half an hour.- Dull pain in right knee.- A flash of pain in calf of right leg.- Pain in ankle.- Pain in left heel.- Pain in both feet, shooting up to knees.- Left foot numb.
Generalities
Nerves: acts upon nervous system, mostly upon sensory nerves, but causes a marked depression of vitality, a non-reactive state, hence its use in chlorosis, measles, neuralgia, &c., when there is sensorial and bodily depression.- Paralysis of single members.- Hemiplegia (after *Nux vomica failed).- Pricking sensation, shocks as from electricity.- Feeling of numbness through whole left side of body from head to foot, the division made perceptible in the head, affecting half the nose.- Whole left side, especially left foot, numb.- Body felt as though it were elastic and stretched itself out.- Seemed as if floor were soft like wool on walking.- As if flying through air on sitting, as if sunk deep in bed on lying down.- Mucous membrane smarts as from pepper.
Skin
Measles, dulness, bewilderment, drowsiness, want of sufficient development of the eruption.- Old and indolent ulcers.
Sleep
Continued gaping, drowsiness.- Slept hard and heavy, dreamed of flying about over tops of houses.- A dream of suffocation woke her.- Dreamed the throat grew up, and woke with fright, finding it difficult to breathe.- Awoke in morning languid and depressed.
