CAUSTICUM



EARS

Pain in the ears, as if the inner parts would protrude. Dragging pain in the ears. Lacerating boring or beating in the ears. Lancinating pain in the ear, with roaring as of a violent wind. Itching in the ear and the eustachian tube, beginning in the throat. Tumor behind the ears. Swelling of the external ear, with contractive pain. Running and suppuration of the internal ear, with a bad smell. Feeling of obstruction in the ears. Ringing. Whistling in the ear. Humming in the ears. Roaring in the ears frequently. Detonations in the right ear. Buzzing in the ear and head.

NOSE

Itching in the nose and nostrils. Frequent swelling of the nose, going off again in the evening. Pimples on the tip of nose. Old warts on the nose. Violent bleeding at the nose, or only from the left nostril. Total obstruction of the nose, with absence of smell. Dry coryza, unceasing, or with obstruction of the nose and difficult breathing, even through the mouth; profuse fluent coryza, with nightly agglutination of the eyes, or with painful nightly couch and constant headache, coryza with hoarseness, preventing loud speech.

FACE

Sickly appearance of the face. Yellowness of the face Pain in the face, arthritic tightness in the facial bones. Beating and twitching in the muscles of the cheeks. and also burning with a sensation of coolness, in the malar bones. Semi lateral paralysis of the face, from the forehead to the chin. Swelling of the cheeks, with a throbbing pain. Itching of the face. Corrosive itching, with congestion of blood to the face, heat and redness, and subsequent breaking out of small red pimples. Fine eruption on the face. Burning vesicles on the face. Old warts on the nose and in the eye-brows. Itching soreness and swelling of the lips. Ulcer, causing a burning pain, on the inner side of the upper lip. Herpes on the lower lip. Lacerating in the middle of the lower jaw. Inflammatory swelling below the chin, as if an abscess would form, with a burning pain. Sensation of tightness and pain in the jaws, rendering it very difficult for her to open her mouth or to eat. Lacerating in the right lower jaw. Arthritic pains in the lower jaw. Burning pain in the lower jaw.

TEETH

Painful sensitiveness of the teeth to the touch. Painful dartings through the teeth, when opening the mouth. Pain in the a sound tooth, when cold air gets in. Nightly pain in the teeth, as if ulcerated, also in the daytime when moving her mouth. Aching, throbbing, drawing, or lacerating toothache. Lacerating in the roots of the lower teeth, early in the morning, recurring every four minutes. Lacerating toothache, extending even into the head and left eye. Lacerating pain in all the teeth, as if they would fall out. Stinging toothache. Stitches in the tooth, when biting upon it. Throbbing toothache, with pain in the gums. Burning pain in the hollow teeth, when eating or drinking. Toothache, pressing, lacerating, and lancinating, day and night, with red (erysipelatous) swelling of the cheek, and a tubercle on the gums passing into suppuration. Painful looseness of the incisores. Some of the teeth are painful and feel elongated. The gums are painfully sensitive, without toothache. Swelling and painfulness of the gums, both in front and behind. Swelling of the left side of the gums, with great sensitiveness when eating, and a spasmodic pain in the evening. Swelling of the gums, with an acrid feeling in the pudendum when urinating. Violent bleeding of the gums. Chronic suppuration of one part of the gums. Fistula-

dentalis.

MOUTH

Pain in the tip and the edges of the tongue, as if burnt. Vesicles on the edges and tip of the tongue. Paralysis of the tongue. Distortion of the tongue and mouth when talking. Stuttering, difficult, sibilant, and indistinct speech. Sensation as if the tongue were adhering to the palate. Sore place in the upper part of the palate. Burning dryness in the mouth. A good deal of mucous saliva accumulating in the mouth. Accumulation of water in the mouth having a rancid taste.

THROAT

Phlegm in the throat, which she is unable to hawk up Frequent hawking up of mucus, which is immediately formed again. Hawking up and throwing off of a quantity of mucus, with soreness and burning in the fauces. Dryness of the throat, with a dry hacking cough Rawness and acrid feeling in the throat, with heartburn Rough, hoarse throat, with soreness during or between the acts of speaking and swallowing. Soreness in the throat, behind the palate. Burning and stinging soreness in the fauces and about the uvula, increasing during deglutition. Constant disposition to swallow. Sore throat, as from a tumor, with stinging pain. Constriction in the throat.

TASTE AND APPETITE

Bitter, acrid, or putrid taste. Violent thirst, for many days. A sort of ravenous hunger. Appetite with loathing. Aversion to sweet things.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS

Heartburn after supper. Oppression of the stomach after breakfast. Shortly after a meal, cutting pain, extending from the pit of the stomach toward the abdomen, with taste of the food in the mouth, and eructations tasting of the ingesta, with dullness of the head, diarrhoea, and chilliness. Violent distention of the abdomen after a meal. Chilliness after a meal, with heat in the face. Sensation as of having deranged one’s stomach, with distention of the abdomen. Empty, tasteless eructations. Eructations tasting of the ingesta. Violent eructations, with an acrid and bitter taste. Heartburn. Frequent burning rising from the stomach, as if he had eaten pepper. Hiccough. Constant sensation as if time were being burnt in the stomach. Frequent attacks of water-brash. Qualmishness of the stomach, with alternation of chilliness and heat. Feeling in the stomach as if one were fasting. Feeling of nausea in the throat. Nausea. Inclination to vomit, with sensation of emptiness in the stomach and a sourish-bitter taste in the mouth. Sour vomiting, frequently followed by sour eructations. Vomiting of coagulated blood, at night. Vomiting of the ingesta.

STOMACH

i Violent pain in the stomach, in the morning shortly after rising, increased by every rapid motion. Pain in the stomach abating when lying down. Pain as from bruises in the stomach, which are also felt when pressing upon it. Pressure in the stomach, early in the morning after rising, only when sitting, and shortly, after a feeling of constriction in the abdomen. Spasm of the stomach. Griping and pressure in the stomach. Painful tightness in the pit of the stomach. Stitches in the scrobiculus-cordis, with sensation as if they contracted the heart. Stitches in the stomach.

HYPOCHONDRIA

Sharp stitches stitches in the left hypochondrium. Short and burning pain in the left hypochondrium. Tensive pressure in the liver when lying on the back. Stitches in the region of the liver.

ABDOMEN

Pain in the abdomen, early in the morning. Pressure in the abdomen extending up to the oesophagus. Pressure in the epigastrium as of a load. Dull aching deep in the hypogastrium, finally accompanied by fever, heat, and uneasiness Inflation of the abdomen, which obliges her to loosen her dress. Painful distention of the abdomen, accompanied by colic resembling spasms. Corpulency of children, with glandular swellings. Contractive tightness in the stomach and abdomen. Pain in the abdomen, as if drawn together with a rope, when breathing. Pinching belly-ache, with paleness of the face. Cutting, as if diarrhoea would set in. Violent pinching and cutting in the abdomen, with fermentation. Prickings over the whole abdomen. Pain as from bruises, and pinching in the right side of the abdomen. Pulsations in the abdomen, Burning pain in the region of the stomach, rousing him from sleep. Swelling of the umbilicus, with pain all around, when touching it. Pain as from bruises in the groins, sometimes with stitches. Accumulation of flatulence in the abdomen, after a slight meal, causing a protrusion of the varices of the rectum, which are painful and most. Shifting of flatulence in the abdomen, with cutting pain, goes off after an evacuation. Loud rumbling in the abdomen, when sitting, as if from emptiness.

STOOL AND ANUS

Constipation. Frequent and unsuccessful desire to pass stool, accompanied with pain, anxiety, and redness of the face. Tough stool, shining like grease; light-colored white stool. Tenesmus; the rectum is painfully and spasmodically contracted. Liquid stool. Diarrhoea, with tenesmus and burning at the rectum Nightly diarrhoea. Cutting in the rectum with stool. Bloody stool, with burning and soreness of the rectum. Writhing pain in the abdomen previous to stool. Stitches in the rectum during stool. Burning in the anus, subdued pulse, and palpitation of the heart, after stool. Tremulous lassitude and palpitation of the heart after stool. Anxiety in the chest, after stool, heat in the face and inclination to sweat. Nausea after stool. Discharge of the prostatic juice after stool. Pressure in the rectum. Spasm in the rectum which made walking impossible. Excessive itching in the anus, day and night. Violent itching of the rectum and the pudendum. Smarting pain in the rectum, after stool. Soreness of, and oozing of moisture from the rectum. Large painful varices. Large painful pustule, near the anus, discharging a quantity of pus and blood, accompanied by great physical depression. Pain in the perineum. Strong pulsations in the perineum. Protrusion of the varices. Fistula or the rectum.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.