HYOSCYAMUS NIGER



STOOL.

Urgent desire for stool, with sensation in the rectum as if diarrhoea would come on. Frequent stool. Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, diarrhoea. Watery diarrhoea. Painless diarrhoea. Diarrhoea of lying-in women. Involuntary stools. Paralysis of the sphincter ani. Frequent expulsion of ascarides. Difficult evacuations. Flowing haemorrhoids for eight days.

URINE.

Retention of urine with constipation. Involuntary emission of urine. Paralysis of the bladder. Enuresis.

GENITAL ORGANS.

Excited sexual desire. Male impotence. Profuse menses. Profuse menses with delirium. Retarded menses. Violent, almost convulsive trembling of the hands and feet, she is almost raging during the menses. Enuresis during the menses. Hysteric pain previous to the appearance of the menses. Metrorrhagia, the blood being bright-red, or with spasmodic pains. Sterility. Suppressed lochia. Puerperal fever. Spasms of parturient and pregnant women.

LARYNX.

Dryness and stinging in the region of the larynx. Burning heat in the larynx. Constriction of the larynx. Bronchial catarrhs. Constant cough when lying., going off when rising. Nocturnal, dry cough. Dry cough, spasmodic cough, particularly at night, and more especially when lying down, occasionally attended with redness of the face and vomiting of mucus. Dry, titillating cough, as if from the trachea. Concussive, panting cough, during and after measles, with painful soreness of the abdominal muscles during cough. Paroxysms of cough, resembling whooping-cough. Cough with greenish expectoration. Haemoptysis with convulsions. Incipient suppuration of the lungs.

CHEST.

Asthma. Difficulty of breathing, with occasional rattling. Oppression of the chest, as if asthmatic, accompanied with strong palpitation of the heart. Spasms of the chest, with arrest of breathing, as obliging one to bend forwards. Oppression of the chest, with internal stinging, more violent during inspiration. Stitches in the sides of the chest. Typhoid pneumonia. Pleurisy with gastric symptoms. Affection of the heart.

BACK.

Pain in the back. Repeated attacks of pain in the loins. Stinging in the region of the scapulae. Stiffness of the cervical muscles, with tension, as if too short, on bending the head. Herpetic spots, in the nape of the neck.

ARMS.

Trembling of the arms, particularly in the evening, after exercise. Dull pain in the wrist and elbow-joint. Painful numbness of the hands. Rigor of the hands. Aching with drawing around the wrist-joints and knuckles. Swelling of the hands.

LEGS.

Laming drawing in the lower limbs, particularly in walking. Sticking drawing in the thighs, worse when at rest. Gangrenous spots and vesicles, especially on the lower limbs. Stiffness and weakness in the knee-joints when walking in the open air. Pinching in the calves. The limbs go to sleep. Coldness of the feet. Swelling of the feet.

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.