Aethusa



Dry cough after dinner.

Dry cough, in several paroxysms, after dinner (four hours).

Frequent short, hacking (one-half hour).

Hoarse breathing.

Sibilant respiration.

Hoarse and sibilant respiration, especially when lying on the back.

Respiration short and difficult.

The respiration is very difficult and short.

Short, anxious respiration (first hour).

Very difficult breathing, with extreme oppression of the chest.

Short breathing, interrupted by hiccough.

Great oppression; she can hardly breathe.

Undisturbed respiration.

Chest.

Swelling of the mammary gland.

Severe piercing pain, with heat and redness of the breast (from external application); next day, a large number of phlyctenae; vesicles filled with lymph appear over the breasts, and discharge a great deal of serum when the plaster is removed.

Sensation of pressure, as from a band around the chest.

An excessively painful dull stitch in the middle of the chest, on rising from sitting bent; on deep inspiration, the pain is still more severe (evening, at 6.30 o’clock) (first day).

On knitting, evenings, painless tension in region in front of the right axilla.

Burning, as with glowing hot iron, on a small spot under the left breast (second day).

Stitches in the left side of the chest.

Severe stitches and burning in the middle of the sternum, which cease when stooping, but return.

A sharp stitch in the middle of the sternum; then, burning on this spot, so that she believe it all up with her; disappears on pressure, but returns (fifth hour).

Precordial anxiety.

Heart and Pulse.

Violent palpitation of the heart.

Palpitations which resound in the head.

Palpitation, with vertigo, headache, and restlessness.

Pulse full, rapid.

Rapid, hard, small pulse.

Small and frequent pulse.

Small, frequent, irregular pulse.

Small pulse.

Irregular pulse.

Imperceptible pulse.

Neck and Back.

Stitching-jerking in nape (two hours),.

Distressing pain in occiput and nape of neck, extending down the spine; relieved by friction with hot whisky. A feeling as if the pain in the back would be ameliorated by straightening out and bending stiffly backwards as in opisthotonus,.

Shootings, tearing and beating in the muscles of the neck,.

Tearing in the right side of the neck,.

Painful tearing in the cords on the right side of the neck (seventh day),.

Drawing pain in right side of neck, as if a cord or vessel were torn out; disappears on rubbing (eleventh day),.

Violent tearing in a spot as broad as two fingers in right side of neck (second day),.

In left cervical muscles, a sharp stitch extending inward; then, a similar stitch on upper part of left parietal bone; then, beating in the whole head, more on right side and backwards, with sensation of heaviness,.

Throbbing tearing in a small spot on the tendon, on left side of neck (second day).

Fine stitch between shoulder-blades.

Stitches between the shoulder-blades.

Sense of heat down the back, (afternoon).

Pulling in the back.

Weak feeling in the back.

Sense as if screwed up in small of back Burning externally in small of back; disappears after rubbing.

Weak feeling, like paralysis, when raising himself in bed, when turning in bed, and during movement.

Extremities in General.

Extremities cold.

Cold limbs.

Extremities chilly, benumbed, and affected with tremors.

Upper Extremities.

Numbness of the arms.

Shootings, drawing and tension in different place.

Sensations as if the arms had become much shorter; so vivid that she had to examine them in the morning to be convinced that it was not actually so.

Painful tension in the shoulders.

Painful aching about the left scapula, sometimes extending into the left arm; attempt to relieve it by rigid expansion and closing the fist, as in a tonic spasm.

Pain in the axillary glands.

Tension, first on the left, then on the right shoulder, very painful (first day).

Paralytic sensation in left shoulder; then, in right forearm (second day).

Arthritic stiffness of the elbow-joint.

Heaviness of the forearm.

Tension of cords of left forearm when flexed; she does not venture to stretch it out, and still this tension disappears only by extending and bending the fingers (on knitting), (five minutes).

Fine tearing on a small spot on inner surface of left forearm.

Stitching tearing from the middle of left forearm, on the upper surface, as far as the wrist.

Sticking in cords of right forearm, on exerting the hand (first day).

Paralytic pain in left forearm, on sitting (second day).

Sudden fatigue of the forearm on knitting; she must lay it aside, when she becomes better (quarter of an hour).

Sense of great weakness in right forearm, a hand’s breadth above the wrist, down to the little finger (fifth day).

Cramp of the hand.

Frequent tearing in the back of right hand, in the tendons of the thumb, frequent tearing in the back of right hand, in the tendons of the thumb, frequent for several days (seventh day).

Formication in the fingers.

Contraction of the fingers.

Swelling of the fingers.

A stitch in the left external metacarpal bones (one and a half hours).

Jerkings in left thumb (two hours).

Jerking tearing between the first and second joints of left thumb, as if in the marrow (second day).

Extremely painful sticking in ball of left thumb, on flexion; less on extension (first day).

On sewing, feeling in left thumb as if it were stiff and immovable, and she could not straighten it, which, however, she can (first day).

Tearing in metacarpal bone of right index finger (second day).

Tearing in metacarpal bone of left index finger.

In the left side of right index finger, at the tip, a fine stitching as of a thistle, which disappears by long pressure on it (quarter of an hour).

Tearing in lower surface of third joint of right little finger.

Tearing between the little and ring fingers, increased by extension (second day).

Lower Extremities.

Boring pain in the lower extremities.

Lancinating, tearing pain in the lower extremities.

Formication, referred to the bones of the lower limbs.

Great weakness of the lower extremities (third day).

Coldness of lower extremities, particularly the left, with coldness in abdomen, etc.

Tension in right hip, then again stitching-tearing in right ear (afternoons).

A pinching, externally, at right hip (two and a half hours).

Sticking and drawing pain from left hip into the thigh.

Sticking in upper part of left thigh.

Paralytic pain in middle of right thigh, on sitting; disappears on rubbing.

Sticking in right knee, on standing (evenings).

Tearing deep in right instep (afternoons). Tearing-stitching in right heel, and thence into the sole, and as far as ball of toes (three-quarters of an hour).

Sticking in right sole under the heel (five hours).

Generalities

Bloating.

The whole body becomes swollen and livid.

Violent epileptic spasms with clenched thumbs, red face, eyeballs turned down, pupils dilated, insensible, milky foam from mouth, clenched teeth, small, hard, frequent pulse, with the usual temperature of body (in a four-years-old child).

Spasms, delirium, and stupor.

Death with convulsions (in two children, fifteen months old).

Whole body convulsed.

Stiffness of the whole body.

Stiffness of the limbs.

Restlessness.

Anguish, and very troublesome restlessness.

Restlessness, with excessive anguish.

Great agitation.

Inability to hold the head erect, or to sit up.

Unable to hold herself erect.

While walking he is seized with such languor and listlessness that with difficulty he supports himself till he gets home.

He is powerless to raise his head and stand up.

Great general debility.

Great weakness and prostration, with sleepiness (second afternoon).

Weakness after the colic.

Great weariness.

Complete insensibility.

Great and long-lasting nervous sensitiveness.

Indescribable anguish, with vomiting and gripes.

Cries of anguish (in a child).

General malaise.

State of malaise, lasting all day.

Anxiety, characterized by a feeling of weight on the chest.

Skin.

The whole body is of a bluish-black color.

During one day appearance and disappearance of reddish-blue spots on the trunk and left leg, causing the patient to fear an attic of spotted fever.

A painful boil on small of back.

Burning heat of the skin.

Itching from the heat.

An herpetic eruption itched very much from the heat, especially in the evening.

Tingling, itching.

Itching of the least-affected portions of the skin; they swell up.

Fever.

General coldness.

Internal coldness.

Chill through the whole body and external coldness, without thirst, for two days.

Violent chill and external coldness, so that she cannot get warm at all (forenoons, soon after taking it), with sleepiness; lasts the whole day.

General coldness during sleep.

Coldness, with red face.

Cold extremities.

Coldness of abdomen and lower extremities.

Shivering on entering a room from the open air (second day).

Shivering, which is more frequent in the afternoons.

Horripilation in the open air.

Horripilation, with heat, which pervades the whole body.

During the horripilation, with heat, which heat, which pervades the whole body.

During the horripilation the limbs feel as if broken, with hot breath and restlessness.

General heat.

Remarkable increase of bodily heat.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.