Night-mare; he usually suddenly awakes at night from a frightful dream, but cannot move, nor call, nor speak, and when he endeavors to move, he suffers intolerable pain, as if he were being torn to pieces.
Sleepiness during the day, often immediately after sitting down especially after meals.
Difficulty in falling asleep, when abed in the evening, he often lies awake for hours.
He passes the nights in a mere slumber.
Sleeplessness, from anxious heat, every night, an anxiety which sometimes rises so high that he must get up from his bed and walk about.
After three o’clock in the morning, no sleep, or at least no sound sleep.
As soon as he closes his eyes, all manner of fantastic appearances and distorted faces appear.
In going to sleep, she is disquieted by strange, anxious fancies, she has to get up and walk about.
Very vivid dreams, as if awake, or sad, frightful, anxious, vexing, lascivious dreams.
Loud talking, screaming, during sleep.
Somnambulism, he rises up at night, while sleeping with closed eyes, and attends to various duties, he performs even dangerous feats with ease, without knowing anything about them when awake.
Attacks of suffocation while sleeping (nightmare).
Early on awaking, dizzy, indolent, unrefreshed, as if he had not done sleeping and more tired than in the evening, when he lay down, it takes him several hours (and only after rising) before he can recover from his weariness.
After a very restless night he often has more strength in the morning, than after a quiet sound sleep.
Various sorts of severe pains at night, or nocturnal thirst, dryness of the throat, of the mouth, or frequent urinating at night.
Time
Aggravation in the evening and before midnight.
Morning: left half of head stupid; vertigo; when rising, forcing Outward in head; headache agg.; eyes slightly agglutinated; ciliary blepharitis agg.; nausea towards stools; early, diarrhea; when rising, diarrhea, cough agg. when awaking; hands and feet, as if broken.
Forenoon: dull.
Day: ciliary blepharitis worse; nausea and vomiting; sleepy.
Evening: fever; eyes feel tired; itching in ear agg.; vomiting; cough; chilliness in upper arm and thighs, as if he should lose his senses; heat, with delirium, itching and heat in eyes.
Night: feels dull, stupid; dropping from posterior nares awakens him; toothache agg.; stools agg.; stools only; diarrhea; nervous, restless; awakens as if frightened; wets bed; cough agg.; sweaty palms; perspiration; sleepless; child twists, turns and frets; heat; terrible itching of whole body; screaming.
Temperature and weather
Great sensitiveness to cold air or change of weather; wears a fur cap, overcoat or shawl, even in hottest summer weather.
Aggravation from sudden changes of weather.
Feels a restlessness in his blood days before and during a thunderstorm.
Cough: returns every winter.
Air: nose sensitive when inhaling.
Open air: when walking, photophobia; taste amel.; feels agg.; cough amel.; shortness of breath, itching. Amel.
Averse to having head uncovered.
While in bed: itching of body.
Warmth: toothache amel.; of body causes itching, intolerable itching.
Warm food: inflamed mouth agg.
Summer: cholera infantum: dry scaly eruption disappeared.
Cold: toothache agg.; drinks, agg. pain in chest; weather, dry scaly eruption returned.
Change of weather: headache caused and made agg.; diarrhea.
Washing: Amel. pressure in head.
Increasing susceptibility to colds, either of the whole body (often even from repeatedly wetting the hands, now with warm water, then with cold, as in washing clothes), or only susceptibility of certain parts of the body, of the head, the neck, the chest, the abdomen, the feet, etc., often in a moderate or slight draft, or after slightly moistening these parts; even from being in a cooler room, in a rainy atmosphere, or with a low barometer.
So-called weather prophets; i.e., renewed severe pain in parts of the body which were formerly injured, wounded, or broken, though they have since been healed and cicatrized; this renewed pain sets in, when great changes of the weather, great cold, or a storm are imminent, or when a thunderstorm is in the air.
Fever
Chilliness in evening on upper arms and thighs, with thirst; drinking causes cough, then heat and cough, with oppression of chest; and trembling, with attack of pain in chest.
The more intense the pain the more he sweats. Tibia.
Internal shivering, creeping chills and icy-cold feet.
Heat: at night and dryness in mouth; in afternoon or evening, feels as if he would lose his senses, with thirst; in evening, with delirium, great thirst, followed by profuse sweat; when riding in a carriage; sudden over whole body, with trickling perspiration all over face.
Sweats easily, weak.
Sweat: profuse; cold, clammy from least exertion; profuse when taking slightest exercise; when walking; at night; on face, palms of hands and perineum when moving about; profuse sour, clammy, with faint oppression of chest after chill and heat; after typhus; colliquative.
Sweat: profuse at 3 A.M.
When taking a walk profuse sweat with consequent debility, taking cold easily.
Sweat at night amel. headache.
Profuse sweating relieves all the complaints, chronic diseases. (Caladium) Profuse night sweats of phthisis.
Want of perspiration; dry skin.
Typhus: picks bedclothes, reaches for objects in air; profound debility.
After ague of face worse.
Painful sensation of cold in various parts.
Burning pains in various parts (frequently without any change in the usual external bodily temperature.).
Coldness, repeated or constant of the whole body, or of the one side of the body, so also of single parts, cold hands, cold feet which frequently will not get warm in bed.
Chilliness, constant, even without any change in the external bodily temperature.
Frequent flushes of heat, especially in the face, more frequently with redness than without; sudden violent sensation of heat during rest, or in slight motion, sometimes even from speaking, with or without perspiration breaking out.
Warm air in the room or at church is exceedingly repugnant to her makes her restless, causes her to move about (at times with a pressure in the head, over the eyes, not infrequently alleviated by epistaxis).
Rushes of blood, also at times a sensation of throbbing in all the arteries (while he often looks quite pale, with a feeling of prostration throughout the body).
Perspiration comes too easily from slight motion; even while sitting, he is attacked with perspiration all over, or merely on some parts; e.g., almost constant perspiration of the hands and feet, so also strong perspiration in the axillae and around the pudenda.
Daily morning sweats, often causing the patient to drip, this for many years, with sour or pungent-sour smell.
One-sided perspiration, only on one side of the body, or only on the upper part of the body, or only on the lower part.
Intermittent fever, even when there are no cases about, either sporadic or epidemic, or endemic; the form, duration and type of the fever are very various; quotidian, tertian, quartan, quintan or every seven days.
Every evening chills with blue nails.
Every evening, single chills.
Every evening, heat, with rush of blood to the head, with red cheeks, also at times an intervening chill.
Intermittent fever of several weeks’ duration, followed by a moist itching eruption lasting several weeks, but which is healed again during a like period of intermittent fever, and alternating thus for years.
The more intense the pain, the more profuse he sweats (Tilia).
Perspiration, cold and hot alternately, appeared about 3 A.M.
Cases
Mr. C., 43, spare, dark. Hypochondriacal. Nervous for nine months. Had to give up business. Took much quinine and many other drugs, without amel. Complains of very disagreeable feeling about the head, great mental depression; thinks he will never recover; hopeless and despondent. Cannot apply his mind to business. Seems confused; cannot reckon. Numbness of legs and arms agg. on left side; Agg. going to bed, formication and crawling, with pricking and smarting on scalp and on extremities. Tongue coated white. After three months’ treatment remained stationary. It was then ascertained that he sweated very easily on least exertion, and somewhat at night, with great loss of memory. Psorinum 400 soon caused marked improvement and enabled him to return to business. J.B.Belladonna
Cases.
A teething baby, nine months old, had eczema, beginning at outer angle of right eye and spreading over entire face. First a raised inflamed base of a tawny red, then scattered pustules which coalesced to form large crusts, from which oozed an oily, yellow, viscid discharge, cracks upon ears with a similar discharge. Graphites cm. was given without result; then Sulphur, but the eruption spread until the cheeks were a mass of crusts. It then appeared on back and arm and one leg, and here gave off fine bran-like scales. The scalp soon became involved and covered with crusts a quarter of an inch thick, Psorinum cm., one dose, which agg. for a week, then improvement began and went on to a perfect cure; not-withstanding the eruption of three teeth. A man, aged 80, suffered with eczema since 18 years old, which appeared soon after vaccination. A very troublesome cough had annoyed him for months, for which I was called to attend him. Cough agg. at night, on lying down and on rising in the morning.
