Alumina [Alum]
Panaritium with brittle nails, lancinating pains and tendency to ulceration of the finger-tips; gnawing beneath the finger-nails, with crawling along the arm as far as clavicle; nails brittle or thick, spots on nails.
Anthracinum [Anthr]
Violent burning pain in panaritium; absorption of pus into the blood; gangrenous destruction; cerebral symptoms.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
Deficient growth of nails; split nails, growing cracked and thick (split hoof in horses); thick, horny callosities of skin. Alumina,
Apis-mell [Apis]
Burning, stinging, throbbing panaritium, which is hard and has a white, sickly, bleached-out appearance, characteristic of the bee-sting; very sensitive to touch; the finger swells rapidly; with tense glossy red surface, extending up to forearm.
Arnica [Arn]
Ulceration around the roots of the nails, with painful soreness of the ends of the fingers.
Asafoetida [Asaf]
Whitlow, with violent nightly pains and threatening necrosis of phalanx.
Berberis [Berb]
Pain under finger-nails, with coldness of feet, extending up ankles and swelling of some of the finger-joints.
Bryonia [Bry]
Tight, compressed feeling with pressing-out sensation, as if the finger needed more room, dark, congested part, chilly feelings at times, but dry heat and burning tearing, shooting pains more prominent; at first cold applications pleasant, later moist hot poultices more agreeable; dry mouth without thirst of great thirst; bitter taste, dry stool, dry skin, pulse fast, frequent and strong.
Bufo [Bufo]
Bluish-black swelling around nail, followed by suppuration: PAINS RUN IN STREAKS UP THE ARM TO AXILLA; after slight contusion, tearing pain, with redness along whole arm, following lymphatic vessels into armpit, causing there painful glandular swellings.
Dioscorea [Dios]
DISPOSITION TO FELONS; frequent sharp pains in bones of fingers, one finger at a time, sensation as of a brier in the middle finger of each hand with throbbing, darting, stinging pain next to thee bone and very tender to pressure; nails brittle; jumping, darting pains in corns.
Fluoric-acid [Fl-ac]
Felon, particularly BONE FELONS, with offensive discharge, (<) from cold applications; phalanges swollen far above their natural size; on dorsum of finger an opening discharges ichorous pus; panaritium, also simple onychia, with ulceration; sharp sticking pain at root of right thumb-nail. Nails grow more rapidly, crumpled or longitudinal ridges in them; soreness between toes; soreness of all the corns. It promotes expulsion of necrotic bones.
Graphites [Graph]
Ingrowing toe-nail; sides and roots of the finger and toe-nails become sore, ulcerate and swell, they are exceedingly painful, violently burning and throbbing, then suppuration and proud flesh. Given at the beginning it absorbs the ailment in a few hours; hypertrophy of nails.
Hepar [Hep]
Superficial erysipelatous onychia around the root of the nail; BEFORE SUPPURATION; Hepar, AFTER IT Lach,; thumb lived, violent throbbing, cutting burning pain, lymphatics inflamed, lump in axilla; patient sensitive to touch and cold; subject to it every winter; decided yellow color of the skin; pulse can bee plainly felt, and the patient cannot bear the weight or pressure of a poultice, though (>) by warmth generally.
Hypericum [Hyper]
Panaritium, injuries of parts rich in sentient nerves, particularly fingers and toes and matrices of nails; pains severe and of long duration; mechanical injuries by splinters or needles under nails; squeezing or hammering of toes and fingers.
Lachesis [Lach]
Maltreated cases of some standing, when gangrene is threatening or has already set in, emitting an intolerance odor (Arsenicum): pricking in the ends of fingers,
Ledum [Led]
Consequences of injuries, but only in first stage, as by pulling off abruptly a hangnail, during sewing; nightly itching of feet.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Inflammation extending over whole hand; dark-red swelling; belching, bloated abdomen, emptiness in stomach, with yawning.
Mercurius [Merc]
Inflammation in the cellular tissue beneath the cutis, in the sinews, their fasciae, and their phalangeal joints; pains not violent, more throbbing than shooting; patent extremely sensitive to heat and cold.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
Living in damp dwelling or workshops, pale appearance, lassitude and dull headache in the morning, chilly and feverish in the evening. A blister on the linguilar phalanx, followed by deep-red swelling; festering at root of nail; great pans, more bearable outdoors than in thee room.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Suppuration in palmar surface of finger or thumb with throbbing or burning pain, (<) by warmth and by letting the hand hang down, in the evening after sun down; more comfortable in bed.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Slow local development, frequent remission; dark-red erysipelatous, with little blister or oedema; pain running up the armpit.
Sepia [Sep]
Itching with throbbing, shooting and burning at intervals or alternately; part dark-red and pus visible.
Silicea [Sil]
Affection of periosteum; moderate redness or heat; deep-seated inflammation, violent shooting pain deep in the finger, worse in the warm bed, sleepless at night, pain being unbearable, with great restlessness, irritability, even into convulsive jerks; opening with a surrounding wall of proud flesh, pus malignant, discolored; it promotes expulsion of necrotic bones; ingrowing toe-nail; tearing pains as if the bones would be actually torn out, preventing all sleep; FREQUENT CROPS OF BOILS; chronic foetid foot-sweats; slightest draught unbearable.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Hangnails; complementary to Apis in panaritium.
Thuja [Thuj]
Finger-nails distorted, crumbling, soft, discolored (Graphites, Nitr.ac., Silicea); toe-nails brittle and distorted; ingrowing toe- nails.