Ulcers on the thighs, especially, also upon the ankles and above them and on the lower part of the calves, with itching, gnawing, tickling around the borders, and a gnawing pain as from salt on the base of the ulcer itself; the parts surrounding are of brown and bluish color, with varices near the ulcers, which, during storms and rains, often cause tearing pains, especially at night, often accompanied with erysipelas after vexation or fright, or attended with cramps in the calves.
Tumefaction and suppuration of the humerus, the femur, the patella, also of the bones of the fingers and toes (spina ventosa).
Thickening and stiffening of the joints.
Eruptions, either arising from time to time and passing away again, some voluptuously itching pustules, especially on the fingers or other parts, which after scratching, burn and have the greatest similarity to the original itch-eruption; or nettle- rash, like stings and water-blisters, mostly with burning pain; or pimple without pain in the face, the chest, the back, the arms and the thighs; or herpes in fine miliary grains, closely pressed together into round, larger or smaller spots of mostly reddish color, sometimes dry, sometimes moist, with itching, similar to the eruption of itch and with burning after rubbing them. They continually extend further to the circumference with redness, while the middle seems to become free from the eruption and covered with smooth, shining skin (herpes circinatus). The moist herpes on the legs are called salt rheum; or crusts raised above the surrounding skin, round in form, with deep-red, painless borders, with frequent violent stitches on the parts of the skin not yet affected; or small, round spots on the skin, covered with bran-like, dry scales, which often peel off and are again renewed without sensation; or red spots on the skin, which feel dry, with burning pain; somewhat raised above the rest of the skin.
Freckles, small and round, brown or brownish spots in the face, on the hands and on the chest, without sensation.
Liver spots, large brownish spots which often cover whole limbs, the arms, the neck, the chest, etc., without sensation or with itching.
Yellowness of the skin, yellow spots of a like nature around the eyes, the mouth, on the neck, etc., without sensibility.
Warts on the face, the lower arm, the hands, etc.
Encysted tumors (wens) in the skin, the cellular tissue beneath it, or in the bursae mucosae of the tendons (exostosis), of various forms and sizes, cold without sensibility.
Glandular swellings around the neck, in the groin, in the bend of the joints, the bend of the elbow, of the knee, in the axillae, also in the breasts.
Watery swelling, either of the feet alone, or in one foot, or in the hands, or the face, or the abdomen, or the scrotum, etc., alone, or again cutaneous swelling over the whole body (dropsies).
Attacks of sudden heaviness of the arms and legs.
Attacks of paralytic weakness and paralytic lassitude of the one arm, the one hand, the one leg, without pain, either arising suddenly and passing quickly, or commencing gradually and constantly increasing.
Sudden bending of the knees.
Children fall easily, without any visible cause. Also similar attacks of weakness with adults in the legs, so that in walking one foot glides this way and the other that way, etc.
While walking in the open air sudden attacks of faintness, especially in the legs.
While sitting the patient feels intolerably weary, but stronger while walking.
The predisposition to spraining and straining the joints at a misstep, or a wrong grasp, increases at times even to dislocation; e.g., in the tarsus, the shoulder-joint, etc.
The snapping and cracking of the joints at any motion of the limb increases with a disagreeable sensation.
The going to sleep of the limbs increases and follows on slight causes; e.g., in supporting the head with the arm, crossing the legs while sitting, etc.
The painful cramps in some of the muscles increase and come on without appreciable cause.
Slow, spasmodic straining of the flexor muscles of the limbs.
Sudden jerks of some muscles and limbs even while walking; e.g., of the tongue, the lips, the muscles of the face, of the pharynx, of the eyes, of the jaws, of the hands and of the feet.
Tonic shortening of the flexor muscles (tetanus).
Involuntary turning and twisting of the head, or the limbs, with full consciousness (St. Vitus Dance).
Sudden fainting spells and sinking of the strength, with loss of consciousness.
Attacks of tremor in the limbs, without anxiety. Continuous, constant trembling, also in some cases beating with the hands, the arms, the legs.
Attacks of loss of consciousness, lasting a moment or a minute, with an inclination of the head to the one shoulder, with or without jerks of one part or the other of the body.
Almost constant yawning, stretching and straining of the limbs.
Increasing susceptibility of straining a joint, even by a very slight muscular effort, by light mechanical labor, on stretching the arms above the head for the purpose of reaching something elevated, on lifting light things, on turning the body quickly, on rolling something, etc. This, often slight, straining or extending the muscles sometimes induces the most violent diseases, swoons, hysterics, complaints of all degrees, fevers, hemoptysis, etc., whereas a person that is not affected with psora is able to lift any burdens he pleases, without any inconvenience.
Rest, Position and Motion
Sitting aggravates dyspnoea (asthma) and pain in heart; these and other ailments are amel. while lying down.
Many ailments are agg. or come on when riding in a carriage, and when exercising in open air, and amel. by rest in the room.
Rest: stitches in spleen.
Lying down: water brash; cough agg.; chest symptoms amel.; pain in heart amel.; gurgling in region of heart; pericarditis better.
Lies in same position in morning as when he fell asleep.
Lies on face: inflammation of eyes.
Lying or right side: pain in region of liver agg.
Must lie down: dizziness; to breathe more easily.
Cannot lie down: rheumatic pericarditis.
Cannot straighten out: backache.
Changes position: restlessness in legs.
Sitting up to write: dyspnoea agg.
The nearer arms are brought to body, dyspnoea agg.
Bending forward: pressure in chest agg.
Bending backward: painful stiffness of neck.
Stooping: tough mucus in nose; lumps in groin prevent.
Had to rise at night to collect his senses.
Getting up: waterbrash amel.
Standing: stitches in spleen amel.
Morning: stitches in spleen agg.; pain in chest agg.; does not agg. pressure in chest, pains in small of back agg.
Exertion: causes perspiration; eczematous eruption; urticaria.
Slightest exercise: profuse perspiration.
Walking: pain in region of liver hinders; pain through groin, cannot walk without assistance, cutting in left loin; shortness of breath in open air, backache, pain in hip joints agg.; tension to knees; difficult, eruptions above joints, as if left foot were pulled around inward, profuse sweat with debility.
Nerves
Nervous, restless, easily startled.
Subsultus tendinum.
Malaise: feels tired out.
Constantly tired and sleepy, very little labor exhausts him, exhausted after riding in a wagon.
Looks pale, exhausted and thinner than usual.
Very weak and miserable after suppressed itch.
Weakness; of all the joints of the body as if they would not hold together.
Loss of strength, with cough, with oppression of chest.
Trembling and chilliness, with attacks of pain in chest.
Stormy weather affects him.
Debility: independent of any organic disease; loss of appetite; tendency to perspiration on exertion and at night; after acute diseases; after protracted diseases or loss of fluids, after typhus, with despair of recovery; thinks he is very ill when he is not; appetite will not return; in the evil consequence of suppressed itch, especially after large doses of sulphur.
After typhoid diphtheria, pneumonia. (Kali-c. after parturition or abortion).
Constantly increasing debility, with abdominal affections.
A man, age 21, was obliged to run until nearly exhausted; although strong and well before, he now became weak, perspiring easily and had severe pain in right side, agg. by coughing, laughing, motion.
Frequent attacks of epilepsy; religious melancholy (improved).
Epilepsies of various kinds.
Burning pains on the whole right side of body; felt as if the right side of the head and right eye would burst, was so painful and swollen.
Sleep
Sleepy by day; sleepless at night, from intolerable itching; dyspnoea; congestion to head.
Sleepless after 12 P.M., from congestion to head.
Child apparently well, but at night would twist and turn and fret from bedtime till morning and next day be as lively as ever.
Sick babies will not sleep at night, but worry and fret and cry. (see Jalapa.).
Dreams: anxious; vivid continue after waking; of robbers, danger, traveling, etc.
On waking: cannot get rid of the one persistent idea.
In morning lies in same position as when he fell asleep.
