Aconite [Acon]
Inflammatory irritation of the nerve-sheath; darting, burning, benumbing pain, as if the part were going to sleep, (<)during night and movement, especially in recent affections.
Ammonium-mur [Am-m]
Severe and long-continued sciatica, pain in left side as if the tendons of the hip were too short, he limps on walking and while sitting complains of gnawing pain in bones, slightly (>) while
walking and ENTIRELY RELIEVED WHEN LYING DOWN; sense of contradiction or actual contradiction of the legs; tearing, stitching, ulcerative pains in heels, (>) by rubbing, (<) at night in bed.
Anantherum-mur [Anan]
Sciatic, gouty and rheumatic pains in legs and feet, especially in heels; stiffness, lancinating and crampy pains in sacrum and little bones; offensive foot-sweat.
Angustura [Ang]
Boring, laming pain along the sciatic nerve on posterior part of thing; muscles of thigh as if lame, when moving, a painful tension; when stretching a pressing tension in anterior muscles of thigh.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Ischias antica; periodical drawing, cramp-like pains from hip down to knee; paralytic weakness of limbs, with emaciation; during paroxysms sensation of expansion of the limb: (<) morning, but especially after dinner.
Arnica [Arn]
From overexertion; burning, stinging, tearing pains; numb and bruised feeling in the affected limb; changes position constantly, as everything on which limb lies feels too hard, especially useful in women during confinement.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Typical regularity of the pains, worse at night, and unbearable
towards midnight; burning-tearing pains, with great restlessness, obliging the patient to move the limbs often, in order to obtain relief, but pains are increased by vigorous motion; cannot lie on painful side; great weakness and inclination to lie down; worse from cold applications, temporarily relieved by warmth; from staying in cold, damp house, or from sudden suppression of eruptions.
Belladonna [Bell]
Ischias, with pain in hip-joint, especially at night, so that he has to change position often; sensitive to the touch, even to the clothing to the least concussion, and even to stepping of other persons in the room; worse by the least draught of air; paroxysms in the afternoon, and last till midnight; wants to sleep, but cannot; better from letting the limb hang down, from warmth, after perspiring, and when in an erect posture.
Bryonia [Bry]
Pain in lumbar region, extending to the thigh, worse by sitting up, by moving and late in the evening; lies best on painful side, often relieved by cold water; atrophy and emaciation of the affected limbs.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
SCIATIC PAINS CAUSED BY WORKING IN WATER, pain (<) from limb hanging down and from elevating knees; pain extends down into limbs and keeps them in consent uneasiness; coxalgia with drawing stitches, tearing, cutting pains.
Causticum [Caust]
Stitching, shooting pain, with sensation of lameness in affected leg; drawing and tearing in things and legs, knees and feet, (<) in open air,(>) by warmth of bed; tendons of knees seem too short; intolerable uneasiness in limbs. (<) evening.
Chamomilla [Cham]
LEFT SIDE, drawing pain from the hip to knee, and from tubero ischii to soles of feet; numb feeling in affected parts after motion; drawing, tearing, excruciating pain, which become intolerable at night; worse at night in bed and from the least motion; excessive sensibility and irritability of fibre; the patient acts as if out of his mind.
Cimicifuga [Cimic]
Pain in lumbar region, sacrum, in the whole left leg; the left shoulder and groin pain also, or the pain changes from extremities to abdomen, producing diarrhoea and sometimes retention of urine; hysterical tendency; complication with ovarian or uterine troubles.
Coffea [Coff]
Neuralgia of the crural nerve, worse by walking, better by present (except at the point of exit of the nerve); pains in paroxysms, tearing, stitching, worse afternoon and at night; great restlessness and sleeplessness; all senses very acute, easily affected, even to tears, by the pain.
Colocynthis [Coloc]
ISCHIAS ON RIGHT SIDE; sharp, shooting pains in sacral region, so that he must keep perfectly quite, as every motion aggravates; stitching-cutting pains from hip to knee, or like lightning from os sacrum to heel, worse evening and at night, with thirst for cold water; pain sets in suddenly is constant in character, becoming intolerable in paroxysms; severe pains causing him to limb, and a paretic, numb feeling after the pain; worse from touch, cold, motion, anger and indignation, better while at perfect rest and from warm external applications; tendency to shortening of the tendons.
Dioscorea [Dios]
Pain in right leg, (<) by walking, moving the limb or sitting up, (>) by rest; dull tearing pain in right hip, inhibiting walking; cramping pains in posterior parts, of legs, (<) above knees, at buttocks and at heels; entire relief when lying still; frequent, sharp, darting pains, especially from abdomen to lower parts.
Elaterium [Elat]
Tearing and gnawing pains in hips and thighs, deeply seated, extending down the inset and ends of toes; great pains in limbs, daring down into fingers and toes.
Eupatorium-purp [Eup-pur]
ISCHIAS SINISTRA. Severe shooting pains in the course of the left sciatic nerve, producing a palsied sensation, especially after motion; neuralgia of the right shoulder, or of the right knee, passing over to the left side; neuralgic pains from below upward, mostly on left side of back and hip; gnawing in hip- bone, legs feel weak, left leg more.
Euphorbium [Euph]
Tearing, stinging, pressing pains, BETTER BY MOTION, worse during rest; paralytic sensation with difficulty of rising from his seat; weariness and faintness; whole body relaxed and tired; burning pains in hip and thigh at night.
Ferrum [Ferr]
Violent pains in hip-joint, (<) evening till midnight, has to get out of bed and walk about; can hardly put his feet on the ground, but WHILE WALKING THE PAIN LESSENS; remitting pains; pain in left shoulder; painful drawing in legs, with stiffness and heaviness, swelling of feet, attended with drawing pains when commencing to walk; face pale, emaciated, but flushed easily.
Gelsemium [Gels]
Obstinate sciatica, pains (<) at rest and particularly when being to walk; burning pains, (<) at night, compelling her to lie awake; shooting pains in paroxysms; (>) when in a sweat;;pains in sole of foot when walking.
Gnaphalium [Gnaph]
Intense dull, darting, cutting or burning pain along the posterior sciatic (no action in crural neuralgia) nerve, following its larger ramifications; feeling of numbness may take the place of the sciatic pains, rendering exercise very fatiguing; (<) lying down, from motion, stepping; (>) sitting in chair; affected right side more.
Hepar [Hep]
Pains (<) on motion, touch and exposure to air, (>) from rest and heat.
Hypericum [Hyper]
Violent pains and inability to walk or to stoop after a fall on the coccyx; the feel pithy, as if pricked with needles.
Ignatia [Ign]
CHRONIC INTERMITTENT ISCHIAS better in summer, worse in winter; hammering pain, as if the hip-joint would break to pieces; chilliness with thirst, followed by heat, especially in the face, without thirst; intermittent pains of an incisive or throbbing character, at first tertian, later quotidian; patients of a mild, melancholic temperament.
Ind. [Indg]
Pains (<) right side, running from right hip down leg; Stiffness and dull aching all over (<) after every meal and when beginning to move after resting; (>) rising and walking about, though motion is also painful.
Iris-vers [Iris]
Shooting, burning, laming pains, affecting the posterior femoral muscles. shooting along left sciatic nerve to foot, (<) by even moderate motion; shooting, burning pain in right shoulder, complicated at times with gastralgia or colic.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
Males (puls., females); sciatica of left leg, (>) by walking and flexing hip to knee; pressure on nerve causes a shooting pain along the whole leg; wandering pains of great variety, pains come on quickly and subside soon; jerking, aching pain in hip,(<) in hot weather (Ignatia (>)).
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Pain in hip-joint at if bruised; drawing pain in left thigh; numbness of limb; in cases where quinine has been used to excess.
Kali-iod [Kali-i]
Gnawing pain in hip-bones; severe lacerating pain in thigh and legs; nightly lacerating in both knees; twitching in RIGHT knee, tearing and darting in posterior surface of right thigh; tearing above the bend of the knee, and immediately after, also below, worse at night from lying on affected side; or in the evening, especially when getting into bed, BETTER BY MOTION; spasmodic contraction of muscles; frequently caused by mercury.
Kali-phos [Kali-p]
Sciatica; dragging pain down back of thigh to knee, torpor, stiffness; great restlessness and exhaustion; PARALYZING DRAWING PAIN IN SOLE OF FOOT.
Lac-can [Lac-c]
Rheumatic pains in left hip and along sciatic nerve; unbearable pains across suprasacral region, extending down sciatic nerve; preventing sleep and rest; wandering rheumatism.