Sciatica.
Limbs cold to knees.
Bruised pains in soles of feet, stiffness of ankle, knee and hip joints, and occasionally intense pains which move upwards, pain in ankle as of a dull plug pushing; joints stiff and sore, tender to touch; agg. from heat and least motion; later knees and then hips became involved; at first the left ankle was attacked, and then, after some hours suffering, the right with relief to left, and so on with knees and hips; chest affected, terrible dyspnoea coming on immediately after sleep, first on left side; compelled her to be lifted upright with violent exertion to get breath, sharp pain in cardiac region; urine scanty and dark; pain in right side of throat; generally agg. at 5 P.M.
After exposure to cold night air when drunk, sharp, darting pains, agg. by any motion, with swelling in right knee and right ankle; next day joints of left knee and left ankle and left hand extremely painful, moderately swollen, slightly red, ensuing day, left ankle and knee better, but right shoulder and elbow similarly affected.
Numb pains, chiefly in ankles, agg. while quiet, with swelling; veins of ankles distended; amel. while extreme heat is applied.
Almost constant pain in right hip.
Ecthyma: a sore breaks out in right leg, excessive itching; inflammation then swelling, blisters form and suppuration sets in; afterwards clear lymph, then discharge of matter; then scabs and scales, turning eventually into a bran-like desquamation; scars have left discolored skin.
Restlessness in legs.
Cramps in feet.
Pains in limbs as if beaten.
Bruised pains in soles making it difficult to walk; in twelve days pains suddenly left soles and appeared in right knees joint, being smarting, lancinating, with light swelling of joint; could not move affected limb, as least motion agg. pains, as did touch and pressure of bed clothes; on following day left knee joint affected in same way, right amel.; on ensuing day right again affected, with relief to left; afterwards hip joints attacked alternately same symptoms, alternating like these in pains and swelling, left joints one day with amel. of right and vice versa; also lancinating pains in left side of chest; after four days wrist joints affected, first right, with same symptoms as those of lower extremities, symptoms of one side of body alternating with those of the other; not able to move himself in bed, lancinating pains made him cry out, constipation, sleeplessness, no fever, pains and swelling agg. every evening, night by movement touch and pressure of bed clothes; numb pains chiefly in ankles agg.
Burning of hands and feet at night.
Cramping pain in calf of right leg at night. Was compelled to get up and rub it, which agg.; had this cramping every night for a week.
A knot (objective subjective) in calf of right leg when cramping; sensation as if some one had a stick in muscle and was twisting it around. (Never had cramp except when pregnant several years before.) Sore aching, with throbbing in the outer side, and along sole of right foot, excruciating pains coming and going by spells; unable to stand on foot during the pain.
Amelioration
AMELIORATION: Cold applications; rest; lying down; warmth; bending of limbs; warm room.
Aggravation
AGGRAVATION: In the morning of one day and evening of next; alternate menstrual nisus; at night; cold winds and cold sharp air; motion; extension of limbs; after sleep; touch of external throat; of breast, causing sexual excitement; descending.
Relationships
Similar: to Apis, Conium, Murex, Lachesis, Kali bichromicum, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Sulphur, Tarent. and the X-ray.
Probably no remedy in the Materia Medica presents a more valuable pathogenesis in symptoms of the throat, or one that will better repay a careful study. “Acts best in single dose; if repeated, should be given at exact intervals.” – Nichols. An observation frequently verified.
Lachesis and other serpent poisons are very analogous.
COMPARE: Amb., Lachesis, Natrum mur., Staphysagria, weak memory for what she has read, not for other things; Bovista Graphites, Hepar, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Nat-c., Natrum mur., Nux vomica, Sepia, Tuberculinum, forgetful in writing, uses many words or not the right ones; Anacardium, Causticum, Conium, Dulcamara, Lachesis, Natrum mur., Sepia, absent minded; Calcarea, China, Graphites, Hepar, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Medorrhinum, Nat-c., Nat. M., Nux vomica, Sepia, Syphilinum, cannot speak correctly half the time; Am-c., Calcarea, Sepia, Sulphur, Tuberculinum, substitutes name of objects seen for that which is thought; Nux vomica, Silicea, Sulphur, very restless cannot concentrate her thoughts or mind to read, wants to leave everything as soon as it is commenced; Calcarea, Palladium, Sepia, cried, fearing she was contracting consumption; Platina, Medorrhinum, exalted sensation of sensorium.-Lippe.
Aurum, Nux vomica, Rhus, headache agg. in cold wind and amel. in warm room; Calcarea, headache agg. by noise, amel. by keeping quiet; confused feeling in head, Aconite, Belladonna, Calcarea, Gelsemium, Nat., Ruta, Stramonium, must have light, but intolerant of sunlight; Kali bichromicum, Teucrium, Thuja, soreness and crusting of nostrils; Natrum mur., lips dry and bleeding; Apis, Lachesis, throat sensitive to touch externally; Ignatia, agg. by empty swallowing; Belladonna, Calcarea, Carbo animalis, Lycopodium, Acid nitricum, Phosphorus, Phytolacca, Psorinum, breasts a if full of very hard lumps; very painful when going up and down stairs; Calcarea, Murex, sensitive to pressure; Mercurius, sensitive to deep pressure; Belladonna, Bryonia, Calcarea, Phytolacca, soreness and enlargement of; Mer-i. r., small round or irregular gray-white ulcers on tonsils and fauces; Apis, Diphtherinum, Mer-cy., diphtheritic membrane and deposits on vulva.; Chelidonium, Digitalis, Ignatia, Pet., Sepia, empty, weak, all gone sensation in stomach; Bryonia, Kali bichromicum, Nux vomica, pain as from a stone or undigested food in stomach; Apis, Lilium tigrinum, Lycopodium, Palladium, pain in right ovarian region; Am-c., Grin., Carbo vegetabilis, Opium, as soon as he falls asleep the breathing stops; Asarum europaeum, China, Coffea, Natrum mur., Nux vomica, Opium, Rhus, Spigelia, Stramonium, Stic., Phos-ac., Thuja, when waking seems to be walking on air, when lying does not seem to touch the bed; Lachesis, Lac., v.d., Sanguinaria, Silicea, dream of going on a journey; Secale, spreads fingers wide apart in convulsions; Nic., Tabacum, Tuberculinum, retina retains impression of objects-ear retains impression of sound; Lycopodium, Dubois., Hyoscyamus, red spot before vision; Bromium, Lycopodium, Nux moschata, Nux v., Sanguinaria, discharge of flatus from vagina; Borax, Sanicula, agg. going down stairs.
