Lyssin – Medicine



Abnormal cravings during pregnancy.

Aversion to water, imagines he cannot swallow; says he is thirsty, but cannot look at water or hear it poured out.

Aversion to water of place he arrived at.

Aversion to drinking water, but can take small quantities of chocolate.

Aversion to fluids; great sensitiveness to every breath of air and reflection of light.

Since bite she has a frightful aversion to water, at first she could wash herself by dint of great self-control, but later not at all.

Wine tasted poorly and affected him more then usual.

Aversion to fat food and drink, there remains a long greasy aftertaste, agg. after mutton.

Eating and Drinking

      Before dinner a very strange sensation, a strangeness of whole Body.

Warm drinks, such as milk, soups and wine, are more easily taken than water.

Inability to take solid food, or else it is consumed with greatest difficulty.

At times ability to drink is restored before death.

After supper, 7 P. M. feels amel., less sore throat, no difficulty in swallowing.

After eating: all cooling, burning, wavelike sensations disappear, also congestion; pressing inward in epigastrium; lasciviousness with sexual excitement; lewdness with a sensation of weakness in parts, but inclined to an emission of semen; increased lassitude and drowsiness slept an hour without making it any better.

After meals very ill disposed, every noise irritates him; if others eat apples, or hawk, or blow their noses, it brings him beside himself; passes away after siesta and coffee.

After dinner and in evening disinclined to think.

After supper: pressing in spleen.

Nausea after eating eggs or fat food.

After coffee: more frequent beating of pulse; heat in face.

Tobacco affected him more than usual.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

      Squeamish sensation; a want of appetite in evening, followed by great lightness of head.

Nausea: with giddiness, headache and pale face; with pale face after diarrhoea; food does not taste right; and loss of appetite in evening; at 10 to 11 P. M.

Hiccoughs.

Continual belching of wind; convulsive eructations.

Belching in afternoon, sour, in afternoon.

Gagging when he forcibly attempts to swallow water, forces it out of his mouth (Rising of bile into throat during day, at same time an unusual quantity of tenacious saliva in mouth and throat.)

Nausea and vomiting, after diarrhoea.

Vomiting: of food; of fluid while drinking, followed by faintness; of what was eaten at supper, at night in sleep.

Nausea and vomiting of a foamy, mucous, dark colored substance resembling coffee grounds.

Abdomen

      A rending pain across abdomen from left to right in evening when in bed.

Pain in right side of abdomen proceeding from uterus.

Pain down left side of abdomen.

Pressing in abdomen.

A drawing in abdomen below navel.

Cramp in lower part of abdomen.

Painful sensation deep in upper portion of abdomen, as if behind duodenum; in forenoon.

Colicky pain in abdomen; when it subsides, stinging in small of back.

Severe bellyache, lasting an hour, awoke from sleep at 11:

30.

Violent bellyache. Sticking: in right side of abdomen, when taking a breath; in abdomen above hip; with feeling of motion in lower part of abdomen.

Stitches: in right side of abdomen; in belly, an inch from crista ilea.

Shooting in abdomen.

A sense of motion, with slight stinging in middle of abdomen.

A burning, waving and surging, proceeding from abdomen, spreads through entire chest to head.

After cooling sensation and scratching in esophagus had subsided, there appeared a half cooling, half burning sensation in entire upper part of abdomen.

General soreness in whole of lower abdomen.

Distension of abdomen; every evening.

Rigidity of muscles of abdomen.

From both loins a drawing downward, followed by cramps in lower abdomen.

Aching: in loins; into back; down to feet.

Dull pressing pain above right inguinal region on a defined place.

Pain in right groin, with some swelling.

Drawing, dragging pain in groins, heavy, bruised feeling in thighs.

Drawing from groins downward, then cramps in abdomen, accompanied by dizziness.

Aching from groins to feet, in evening.

Pain in both groins; in right two small kernels under skin, very painful.

Inguinal glands very much swollen, they pain for two hours.

Hypochondria

      A pressing pain; in right side, near last ribs, with breathing; in hypochondria, after quick walking.

Shooting in right side of abdomen.

Pain in region of liver and right kidney.

Pain from within outward in right side.

Fatty degeneration of liver.

In upper part of abdomen. left side (region of stomach and spleen), a continued gnawing pressure in forenoon.

Aching from below waist to feet.

Pain in left side at 8 A. M.

Pressing pain in region of spleen when walking fast.

Painful throbbing as if an abscess was forming in region of spleen, but very deep in, exact locality is half way between median line and outline of left side; it lasted eight days; with it departed remnant of a similar affection in this locality, against which eleven years of allopathic treatment had proved of no avail.

Under mamma hot sensation, quietly aching, sometimes same lower down or in whole of abdomen, as if in intestine.

Tearing from left hypochondriac region to right.

Stool & Rectum

      Tenesmus during and after stool.

Dysenteric stools with tenesmus; renewed as soon as he hears or sees water run.

When in morning some water was poured out from pitcher into basin, pain and desire to stool returned. Dysentery.

When he sees or hears running water, violent pain and tenesmus return; in a case of dysentery in Summer, of six weeks’ standing, in which stools were most frequent in night, consisted of bloody mucus and were followed by pains in rectum and small of back, which forced patient to walk about in spite of great weakness; could neither stand nor lie down; had drank no water whole time, only hot tea occasionally.

Stools watery and profuse, with severe pains in lower bowels; frequency of stools not uniform some days five or six, others fifteen or twenty, usually more frequent in morning. Chronic camp diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea: with much pain, most during day, eighteen hours after dose, lasting twenty-four hours, with pain in lower part of bowels; agg. in morning; followed by nausea as if she would have to vomit; attended with violent pains early in morning; after stitches in side.

Chronic diarrhoea contracted in Southern camps.

Difficult passage of flatus as if anus resisted expulsion.

Stools of bloody mucus. Involuntary stools.

Straining to evacuate, causing a violent pain in small of back and in rectum, afterwards compelling him to walk about, although weak.

Bowels constipated; stool very dark in color.

Stool became dark and thickish in appearance, mingled with shreds of wool or cotton, bits of wood and coal that had been swallowed; a dog.

Passage of bright red blood from anus, with terrible burning and pricking in it as from thorns.

Difficult stool, piles protrude.

Hemorrhoidal troubles, passes blood from anus during catamenia.

Throbbing in anus externally.

Darting into anus causes contraction.

Urinary organs

      Dull pressure in region of left. Kidney.

Flying pains increase, seize urinary organs; create a difficulty and heat in discharging urine.

Some pain about neck of bladder in evening.

A cooling, burning congested feeling in region of bladder, in evening.

Profuse watery urine, in evening.

In morning and evening urine is yellowish brown, turbid and diminished in quantity; reddish sediment.

Urine dark, brownish, with whitish sediment, visible when urinating upon snow.

Bright colored urine and in larger quantities, but not more frequent.

Urine scanty or muddy, often of a dull, greenish yellow color; dog.

A whitish yellow sediment in urine.

Urine scanty, no albumin, dark, cloudy, frequently contains sugar, evidently the result of lesions in medulla oblongata.

Urine too scanty and high colored.

Urging to urinate after a slight accumulation.

Constant desire to urinate on seeing running water; urinates a little at a time.

Tickling burning in urethra near orifice after urinating.

After passing feces and urine there is an urging to urinate again, it moves slowly several times from above downward without succeeding in passing a drop.

Prostatic juice passes after urinating.

Since fourteenth day after bite says she has passed no water; passed daily from time to time a little dark blood from uterus, differing in quantity & quality from menstrual flow.

If he passes but a small quantity of urine his sense of weakness is increased, weakness after urinating as if he passed his strength away.

Male Sexual Organ

      Inclined to lascivious ideas, although there is not much sexual desire.

Lasciviousness; after eating, with feeling of weakness in parts; with erections in afternoon.

Erections with but little desire.

Strong erections, without sexual excitement or thoughts, in evening while undressing in cold room.

Sexual indifference with erections, even during act of coition, which is perfectly performed.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.