Aconite [Acon]
Hard, feverish pulse; thirst; anxious impatience; restless tossing about; painful cough; difficulty in breathing; pain and heat in upper region of abdomen.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Diaphragmitis; severe burning pains under short ribs on both sides; pains from below ribs spreading upward; must bend forward from contractive pain in hypochondria.
Belladonna [Bell]
Affection of the muscles of the crura; in plethoric persons with sympathetic affection or inflammation of the liver; in inflammatory or colicky pains from incarcerated concrements in liver or kidneys; in pylephlebitis; in puerperal affections with painful headache from active hyperaemia (Atrop.).
Bryonia [Bry]
Acute rheumatism of diaphragm; stitching pain in region of diaphragm, (<) from motion, coughing, etc.; white, dry tongue without thirst, or great thirst with drinking large quantities of water (Hepar follows well).
Cactus-grand [Cact]
Acute rheumatism of diaphragm with jerking breathing, numbness of limbs; coldness; feeling as of a cord around hypochondria; rush of blood to chest; shooting pains through the back and up each side of the chest; cannot lie down; dry, tickling cough as from dust in throat.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Throbbing, burning pain in region of short ribs and pit of the stomach, (<) from pressure; short and anxious breathing; short, dry cough; vomiting, belching; great restlessness and tossing about, loud complaining.
Cicuta-vir [Cic]
Swelling of stomach as from violent spasms of diaphragm; violent thirst during spasms; IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE TO EAT COAL; violent hiccough and vomiting.
Cimicifuga [Cimic]
Sharp pains following the direction of the muscular fibres towards the central tendon, with cramplike pains around attachments of diaphragm, (>) by deep inspiration, coughing and lying down. Pains may begin in pit of stomach, follow the ribs around each way and sometimes go through to the back.
Colchicum [Colch]
Similar to Bryonia; gouty diathesis; albuminosis; uneasiness at epigastrium, extremely sensitive to touch and pressure; pain in epigastrium as if pierced with a knife; violent vomiting accompanied by intense straining and loud, hollow belching, (>) by bending himself up and lying quiet; limbs cold, hands and feet cold.
Cuprum [Cupr]
Spasm of diaphragm, the whole surface of the body has a bluish color or bluish-red face with eyelids closed; hiccough extreme and long-continued, cold extremities and great mental anxiety. Diaphragmitis.
Digitalis [Dig]
In persons who suffered from inflammation of serous membranes, especially from pleuritis, and in consequence of it became anaemic (Calcarea ars.). Grasping pain from inflammation of crura; vomiturition or vomiting; oppression in centre of chest; difficult breathing, more frequent than normal; pulse at first suppressed, quick; nails blue; face cold and elongated; notwithstanding the anaemia PATIENT CANNOT BEAR HEAT, even during reaction; (>) by sitting than by lying.
Dulcamara [Dulc]
Diaphragmitis with simultaneous rheumatic affection of the spinal cord.
Hepar [Hep]
After Bry, in fibrinosis, promotes absorption.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Sense of constriction from the right side all around short ribs; cannot stretch himself or lie on his back or stand upright; tension in hypochondria as from a hoop; hiccough and frequent belching without relief.
Nux-moschata [Nux-m]
Diaphragmitis; oppression of chest, like a pressing load, dry cough, loss of breath, from getting wet, (<) from inhalation; weight in upper part of abdomen, lower part tense; hiccough, nausea and waterbrash; inclination to sleep.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Muscular pain of a grasping, rooting nature, with nausea and vomiting.
Ranunculus-bulb [Ran-b]
Spasmodic hiccough; sharp shooting pains or stabbing from hypochondria and epigastrium through to the back; (<) from any change of weather or change of temperature.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Disposition to move though it increases the pain, commencing on the left side and going to the right.
Stramonium [Stram]
Mixture of hyperaemia and spasm, of affection of the spinal cord and of the diaphragm; singultus, sympathetic affection of glottis, etc.
Sulphur [Sulph]
To promote absorption in fibrinosis.
Tabacum [Tab]
Excessive painfulness of the muscular part of the crura from renal calculi, especially when incarcerated in the ureter. (Belladonna contracts circular fibres, Tabacum the longitudinal ones.).