Coughs long before expectorating. Sputa yellowish, salty, puriform. Sensation of pressure on chest, requires great effort to expand lungs. Chest painful, agg. after coughing; mucous rales over both lungs. Loss of appetite. Eczema always agg. in winter; intense itching agg. nights. The eczema had been suppressed by local treatment, and cough developed. Psorinum cm. Within 48 hours cough and chest symptoms improved, but the eczema reappeared over the body, with intense itching, Improving in health, but still has some eczema which gives him little trouble. – Chapman. Mrs. M., aged, 72, tissues enormously distended with dropsy, unable to lie down for nine weeks from dyspnoea. Legs from ankles to crest of ilium and arms from wrist to elbows covered with a dirty, scaly eruption, itching violently agg. at night, could not avoid scratching, which gave no relief until it caused bleeding. All forms of external applications had been used in a vain effort to suppress the eruption. Psorinum 52M. one powder in four teaspoonfuls of water, given in four doses, half hour intervals, and six powders of placebo, one each night, gave prompt relief, and the patient was able to walk in two weeks. One week later another dose was required, as there was a slight return of the eruption on the ankles, this completed the cure.- Hawley. Eczema Rubrum: Mrs. G., aged 71, face red and swollen, almost erysipelatous in appearance. Heat of fire caused torture when it touched her face, always sits with her back to the fire. Cold air amel. bathing agg., must dry face with great care. Burning and itching intolerable; cannot sleep, sits all night by an open window gently rubbing face with a handkerchief. Scratching increases burning and itching; mental excitement, of which she has much, greatly agg. Psorinum 500 cured in one month.
A woman had attacks of terrible itching of skin without eruption through three periods of gestation. In the last she complained of the same itching, when Dr. Lippe advised Psorinum. In two days erysipelas appeared. Her face was very much swollen.
Attacks and Periodicity
Every other day: headache, thirst, cold.
Nearly every half hour: urination.
Two or three times a day: pains in chest grow severe.
1 A.M.: sensation as of a heavy blow on forehead, diarrhea.
Immediately after dinner: congestion of blood to head.
Every morning at ten: oppression.
Every afternoon: great anxiety.
Every day, from 5 A.M. until 5 P.M.; anguish in head.
Every night: nocturnal enuresis; sweat.
Day before headache: inordinate appetite.
For three or four days: constipation.
During full moon: wets bed.
For four or five weeks: feeling when walking as if left foot were pulled around inward.
Nine months: has been nervous.
For four years: discharge from ear.
For eleven years on 20th of August: hay fever.
Twelve years’ duration: gleet.
For twenty-five years: cough.
Locality & Direction
Right: pressure in side of occiput; large brown scab on eye; eye inflamed; ear a mass of crusts; eczema behind ear cured deafness; stinging in nostril; soreness of jaw; burning in cheek; ulcer on side of throat; pain through groin; lumps in groin; inguinal hernia; knotty lump over groin; violet pain in loin; tearing in side from cough; pain extending to shoulder; stitches in side of chest; sharp pain opposite tenth rib; fixed pain in side of chest; dull pressure in chest; lameness and soreness in shoulder; small vesicles behind ear.
Left: half of head stupid; pains in temple; numbness of arm and leg; pressing headache agg.; pain over eye; spots on frontal region much whiter than surrounding skin; discharge from ear; pustules behind ear; ovary indurated after violent knock; cutting in loin; stitches in chest, stenosis of osteum venosum; small warts on hand; as if foot was pulled inward; corns between toes; tearing in knee; in axillae.
From right to left: pain in occiput; ciliary blepharitis.
From left to right: pain in eyes.
From within outward: as of hammers striking head.
From behind forward: stitches in chest.
Sensations
As if stupid in left half of head; eyes as if pressed outward; as if brain had not room enough in forehead; as if brain would protrude; back of head as if sprained; right side of occiput as if luxated; as if piece of wood were lying across back of head; as if head were separated from body; as of a foreign body under eyelid; as if sand were in eyes; as if he heard with ears not his own; cheek bones as if ulcerated; condyle of jaw as if lame; tongue as if burnt; teeth as if glued together; as if a plug in throat; as if intestines were hanging down; as if frightened; throat as if narrowing; asthma as if he would die; as if everything in chest were raw and scratched; as if everything were torn in chest; glands of neck as if bruised; back as if bruised; arms as if paralyzed; hip joint as if ulcerated; joints as if encased in armor; as if left foot were pulled around inward; as if joints would not hold together; hands and feet as if broken; as if he would lose his senses.
Pain: in left temple; in chest, over left eye to right; in back of head; over eyebrows; down nose; in liver; in cheek bones; in condyle of jaw; in throat; in chest extending to shoulder; in small of back; in abdomen; through right groin; in rectum; in cardiac region; in chest and throat; in heart, in head and limbs; in hip joint; in knee; in legs.
Excruciating pains: in chest.
Intense pain: in head.
Violent pains: in sacrum and right loin.
Severe pain: in left ear, in limbs.
Sharp pain: right side opposite tenth rib.
Anguish: in head.
Cutting, tearing pain: in throat.
Cutting pains: in intestines, in urethra; in loin.
Tearing: from center of chest to throat; in neck; between scapulae; in arms; in limbs; in legs; in. Knee and left axilla.
Cutting: in chest.
Stitches: in heart; in eyes; in teeth; in spleen; in chest and back; in sternum; in right side of chest; in cardiac region; between scapulae; from back towards chest.
Stitching pain: in pit of stomach; in region of liver.
Throbbing: in brain.
Fixed pain: right side of chest.
Griping pains: about navel.
Cramps: in stomach.
Cramp like contractive pain: in head.
Ulcerative pain: in chest under sternum.
Suppurative pain: through whole chest.
Pinching pain: in pubic region.
Constricting pain: in chest.
Boring: in right nostril.
Digging: in forehead.
Drawing: in forehead; in testicles and spermatic cords.
Pressing pain: in small spots in forehead and temples; in eyes, in region of liver; in small of back.
Sore pain: behind ears.
Burning pressing pain: in chest.
Stinging: in right nostril; in teeth; in region of liver and Spleen; in inguinal glands; in many parts of skin.
Burning of eyes; in nose; of face; in right cheek; of blisters on inside of lower lip; of throat; in fauces; in rectum; in urethra; in condylomata; of excrescences on prepuce; around nipples.
Smarting: on scalp.
Soreness: of eyes; of stomach; behind ears; of external ear; of nose; of jaw; of teeth; of mouth; in rectum and anus; under sternum; of whole chest; in neck; in right shoulder.
Rawness: behind ears.
Hot sensation: in chest.
Pricking: on scalp.
Heat: of eyes; of hands and feet.
Rheumatism: in limbs.
Constricting pressure: at fourth and fifth ribs near sternum; at sternum.
Constriction: of throat and chest.
Pressure in right side of occiput; in right zygoma; on chest; in right side of chest.
Heaviness: of head; of testicles; in chest.
Tension: in right zygoma; in throat; of hands and of fingers; of boil on hand; down to knees.
Fullness: in head; in vertex.
Oppression: of chest; of stomach.
Singing: in forehead.
Tired feeling: in eyes.
Dullness: of head.
Painful stiffness: of neck.
Lameness: of shoulders and arms.
Numbness: of legs and arms.
Weakness: in forehead; of stomach; in chest; in small of back; in joints.
Trembling: of hands; of feet.
Restlessness: in legs.
Dryness: of tongue; of mouth; of throat.
Tickling: in throat; in larynx; in trachea.
Crawling: on scalp; in larynx.
Formication: on scalp; in head.
Itching: eruption on head: in canthi; in ears; of external ear; of pimples of cheeks; of excrescence on prepuce; of pimples around nipples; of tetter on arm; of body in bed; between fingers; tetter on palms; intolerable over whole body; of eruption on instep; on soles; inner angles of eyes; condylomata; of herpes.
Disagreeable sensation of dryness over the whole body (also in the face, around and in the mouth, in the throat or in the nose, although the breath passes freely through it).
Tissues
Thinner than usual, pale, exhausted.
Great emaciation, in children; they are pale, delicate, sickly, will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret and cry, or child is good, plays all day, restless, troublesome, screaming all night.
Glandular swelling with eruption on head.
All excretion, diarrhea, leucorrhea, menstrual flow and perspiration, have a carrion-like odor.
Body has a filthy smell even after a bath.
Whole body painful, easily sprains and hurts himself.
Rheumatism and arthritis.
