DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA



BACK.

The back is painful, as if bruised, particularly early in the morning. Drawing pain in the back and shoulders. Stitches in the dorsal muscles. Rheumatic pain between the shoulders, as far as the small of the back, during motion. The nape of the neck is stiff and painful to the touch.

ARMS.

Pain as if bruised in the shoulder joint, when touching the parts, or when raising the arms. Pain in the joint, as if the arm would go to sleep, or as from weakness and lassitude. Pressure through the axilla, during rest. Twitching on the top of the shoulder, during rest. Pain in the arm, during motion, as if the flesh had become detached. Pain as if contused, first in the elbow, then in the shoulder joint. Nightly lacerating in the humeri, going off in the daytime during motion. The fore arms and hands feel bruised and contused. Pain in the wrist join when feeling it, or when bending or moving the hand. Inclination of the finger to contract spasmodically, with rigidity when grasping anything.

LOWER LIMBS.

Painful lameness in the lower limb, particularly in the hip joint, right, and tarsal joint, as if dislocated, with limping on account of the pain. Nightly pressure in the thing. Pain as if the things and bends of the knees were broken, only in walking. The knees tremble in walking. Painful stiffness of the bends of the knees, scarcely allowing the knees to be bent. Great pain in the leg in extending it, obliging one to limp. Weakness of the legs, with staggering gait when commencing to walk. Rigid and stiff feeling in the tarsal joints. The feet feel constantly chilly, and are covered with cold sweat.

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.