Malaria off – Medicine



Tongue coated slightly yellowish-white. (Bitter taste, parched mouth, tongue white.) Tongue white, with brown streak down the middle.

Tongue white and thickly coated.

Throat dry and sense of slight drawing.

Lips parched and dry.

Mouth very dry, subjectively, but really moist.

Mouth very dry; saliva pasty.

Appetite

      Wants cold drinks.

Can’t eat anything; vomits everything.

Craves sour.

Thirsty; craves cold water.

No appetite; aversion to food, thoughts of it sicken.

Thirsty for lemonade; not so much for water.

Variable; craves potatoes, apples, beefsteak.

Bitter, nauseating, bad taste in the mouth.

Dryness at root of tongue, buccal cavity seems constricted and contracted.

Stomach

      Unusually hearty appetite (for supper).

Odor from cooking is pleasing, but no desire for dinner; on sitting down eats a good dinner with relish.

Feels better after eating dinner.

Easy belching, several times, no taste.

Qualmish.

Nausea.

Retching and gagging from hawking mucus.

Nausea continuous, vomiting bile and retching.

Throbbing in scrobiculum.

Rumbling and burning in stomach and abdomen.

Abdomen

      Sense of heat in abdomen.

Tired feeling through abdomen and chest.

Sensation as though he would have a very loose stool (it passed off without).

Sensation in spleen as though it would ache.

Pain in abdomen to right of navel.

Uneasiness in lower abdomen.

Liver, spleen and kidneys affected. (Cannot breathe on account of pain in liver, agg. lying down, amel. hard pressure.) (Drawing or pricking in liver.) (Cramping in liver; pain under right scapula.) Great uneasiness through abdomen, a sense of heaviness.

Constipation.

Diarrhea; no pain; weakness in bowels.

Pain in upper abdomen and chest; worse breathing.

Drawing or contracting feeling in liver, a kind of cramp.

Steady, dull pains in region of liver amel. after urinating.

Aching under right scapula; cramp with soreness and sensitiveness in region of liver; from pressure agg. by lying down.

Stool And Anus

      Diarrhea.

Diarrhea in morning, stools thin, yellow, foul.

Urinary organs

      Urine highly colored, like strong tea.

Urine high colored, with strong urinal odor; ammoniacal.

Frequent urination; urine high color, scanty, very strong odor; feels oppressed; desires to urinate but cannot.

Respiratory organs

      Shallow breathing, which seems from languor, desire to breathe deep, occasionally.

Residence in malarial districts is said to cure phthisis.

A consumptive constitution is protected against malaria. (Singing causes some irritation in the throat.).

Chest

      Tired feeling through chest and abdomen.

Constant hacking cough, half minute guns, when talking and turning over in bed.

Pain in upper chest through to scapula; burning in left chest.

Burning in chest begins about 10 A.M., continuing through the heat of the day.

Frequent sighing, takes a deep inspiration; restless and nervous.

Heart

      When leaning face on left hand, elbow on table, perceptible feeling of heart-beats through upper body and neck.

Neck and Back

      Neck feels tired, with slight aching in upper part on moving the head.

Lumbar region tired as though it would ache. (Rheumatism of back and limbs, with lameness.) (Stiff neck, and right arm and shoulders painful and helpless.) (Aching under right scapula; cramping in liver).

Backache in lumbar region, shoots up back; worse when first lying down; worse after walking; better lying on the abdomen.

Pain in right side of back, over the region of the posterior aspect of the liver and through the right hypochondrium; the aching is worse while sitting, amel. from walking slowly.

Back seems as though it would break. Pain goes into the hips.

Backache commencing in small of back about 11: 30 A.M. for four days; then fever with shortness of breath; headache all the time day and night; paroxysm postponing every day.

Upper Limbs

      Chilly sensation in left forearm; soon followed by chilly feeling in hands and fingers; feet are cold with sensation as if chilliness were about to creep up the legs; a few moments later knees feel cold.

A sense of coldness ascending from body from the legs. Gout.

Limbs get numb and cold.

Aching in both elbows.

Aching and tired feeling in wrists; tired ache in the hands.

Arms tired.

Hands seem to be semi-paralyzed, useless, but can use them by force of will.

Very cold hands during the day; hands and feet very cold at night.

Lower Limbs

      Pain, upper part of right ilium.

Tired ache in knees and for some distance above and below.

Pain top of left instep.

Aching in an old (cured) bunion on left foot.

Legs weary from a short walk.

Legs restless, feel like stretching and moving them.

Soles of the feet cold, almost numb.

Right knee weak and painful worse when bending, and raising

up.

Generalities

      General sense of weariness; from a very short walk; esp. through pelvis, sacral region, and upper thighs; strong desire to lie down.

A kind of simmering all through the body.

Typhoidal, semi-paralytic condition (No III).

Rheumatism.

Rheumatic paralysis and emaciation.

Feels very weak and languid; restless; does not want to move.

Great weakness as though he had a long illness, with loss of appetite.

Great exhaustion.

Must have doors and windows open; a close room agg. head and stomach, and fresh, cool air chills her.

Skin

      (Skin, eyes, and face very yellow.) Skin dry all over, no sweat at all.

Sleep

      Impelled to lie down, and on falling asleep a sense of waving dizziness passes all over, preventing sleep.

Gaping, yawning, and desire to stretch.

Sleepy, falls asleep while reading.

Sleep all the time, can go to sleep while standing.

Sleepy and drowsy, but sleep does not relieve; wakes up weary and unrefreshed.

Fever

      (When in open air seems cold and shakes inside till she fairly cramps).

Coldness ascending over body from legs.

Face feels warm as if flushed, also head; spreads over body as if feverish.

A feeling as if he would have a chill, then as if he would become feverish, though neither is very marked.

Intermittent: quotidian; tertian (No.II).

Chills for one hour followed by fever for six hours (No.II given to a consumptive patient, whom it cured). (Ague every other day, weak and drowsy between attacks.) (Dumb chills.) Shooting pains all over in the muscles; bones ache.

High fever during night; also in the morning.

Pulse 98; skin hot and dry; restlessness most marked in arms, tossing them about. Very stretchy and yawning.

Chilly with flushes of heat, and great desire for fresh air; unable to breathe on account of pain in liver agg. lying down; amel. from hard pressure over region of liver.

Slight fever for several hours in the evening; raves, sings, and talks all night; restless.

Chill begins about noon, every other day. Icy cold from hips down; chilly all over; fever worse about the trunk, and slight general sweat.

Feels languid, weak and drowsy during apyrexia, unable to be

up.

Flashes of heat all the time, offensive breath.

Sweats very easily and profuse on least exertion.

Feels malarious, depressed and languid.

Dumb ague, chills every week.

Weakness in the morning, vertigo and nausea. Eyes feel heavy.

Coldness and internal chilliness in the open air.

Aching all over body, especially in arms and legs; chilly sensation, then breaks out in slight perspiration; frequent recurring attacks.

Chilly every second day followed by heat; profuse sweat during the night; wakes up chilly and takes cold as perspiration ceases.

Stool

      Hemorrhoids for many years; external bleeding; no pain but very unpleasant.

For past four years cramping in lower abdomen agg. after riding in the morning.

Diarrhea; four or five motions daily of thin, bloody, streaked mucus; no fecal matter.

Limbs in General.

Sensation of fatigue in upper extremities first; later extending to lower extremities and entire system.

Dull pain in the muscles of the back, lumbar region; uneasy; tired.

Burning sensation, apparently nervous, which is associated with intense fatigue in the extremities.

Dull, aching pain in left sciatic nerve, and on outer surface of left hip.

Sensation of burning flush, rising from knees to throat, but without sweat; relieved by lying down.

Dull pain in right hip with soreness and tenderness on pressure in the sheaths of the muscles about the hip and tendons of muscles of the thigh.

Waking at midnight, feet extremely hot with burning palms and soles; this was followed by profuse sweat on lower part of body, more marked on flexor surface and on the back.

Drawing, shooting pain on left hypochondrium, extending down left leg.

Arms feel heavy.

Burning of hands and feet, aching of hands and arms.

Nerves

      Great restlessness all night, worse towards morning. Could not find a position in which he could rest.

Hypochondria

      Dull, throbbing pain in hepatic region for three days, relieved by pressure of corset and by lying on the painful side.

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.