In the morning he has oppression of the chest; he feels as if clogged with mucus in the chest, and it is not readily detached.
In the throat scraping, painful, hacking cough, as from roughness and dryness of the larynx, in the evening after lying down in bed.
A hacking dry cough striking against the top of the wind-pipe.
He coughs up small lumps of coagulated blood (aft. 3 h.).
415. He coughs and hawks yellow mucus from the fauces.
When coughing shooting in the throat internally.
When coughing stitches in the last rib.
When coughing stitches in the sternum; he must support the chest with his hand; stitches also when merely touching it. (Comp. 512, 535, 601.)
When coughing he sneezes twice.
420. When coughing he has heaving as if he would vomit, without nausea.
When coughing pain in the scrobiculus cordis.
When coughing it goes through his whole head.
When coughing it always goes into the head like a pressure.
Immediately before a fit of coughing frequent gasping for air, quick spasmodic breathing, as if the child could not get its breath, and on that account could not cough; a kind of suffocative attack, followed by cough; particularly after midnight.
425. Aching in the scrobiculus cordis, which oppresses her chest.
An extraordinary warmth in the region of the scrobiculus cordis makes her breathing short with a kind of aching pain.
Burning pain in the right side of the chest (aft. 8 h.).
Impeded respiration.
The breathing is made short; he must expire more quickly.
430. Tightness of chest (aft. 1 h.).
An attack of stitch in the side and oppression of the chest for twelve hours.
Tightness of chest; she felt a need to breathe deeply (as if her chest were stopped up and she could not get air), and when she tried to breathe deeply; she had pain in the chest, as if something were stretched out which opposed itself to stretching.
Anxiety in the morning which proceeded from the abdomen, as if a purgative had been taken, and as if the breath were too short.
Rapid, anxious, almost impossible breathing on account of stitches in the chest, first under the scapulae, then under the pectoral muscles, which hinder breathing and compel him to sit up; then stitches in the crown of the head.
435. Aching all over the chest (aft. 24 h.).
On the sternum superiorly pressure as with the hand; she fancies she cannot walk in the open air without pain there.
In the middle of the sternum aching pain, also when breathing, with icy-cold feet.
On the chest an aching, as if it were oppressed with phlegm, and on inspiring some shooting in the sternum, which seems to be alleviated by eating.
Heaviness in the chest and heaviness in the body, which went off by eating.
440. On breathing deeply stitches in the side on the ribs, in jerks, which went off in the open air.
On inspiring a stitch from the upper part of the chest through to the scapula.
On inspiring the curves of the ribs towards the back are the seat of tensive pain, which on breathing more deeply increases to an obtuse stitch, especially under the scapulae, and mostly on stooping forwards.
In the evening (6 p.m.) shooting in the chest with oppression.
A momentary stitch in the left clavicle, followed by a simple pain (afterwards there was only simple pain).
445. On turning in bed, stitch in the chest on the side on which he is not lying.
In the lower part of the right side of the chest shooting and beating like a pulse.
A shooting pressing from within outwards in the chest.
On the slightest breath a stitch as if in an ulcer, which lasts as long as the respiration, on a small spot beneath the sternum, which smarts like an ulcer even when touched, (Comp. 418, 512, 535, 602.) but still more on raising the right arm, in the morning (aft. 24 h.).
Pain on the ensiform cartilage on touching it, as if blood were extravasated, in the evening.
450. Pain all over the chest, with oppression, which goes off on discharging flatus, in the evening (9 p.m.).
An attack as if the ailment rose up and took away breath and speech.
A grasping together of the chest near the sternum.
Pain in the chest close above the scrobiculus cordis, squeezing, worst when she sits on a chair and stoops, and when she lies in bed upon the side
Palpitation of the heart, for several successive days (aft.12 h.).[Fr. H-n.]
455. Internal heat in the chest. [Hbg.]
Heat in the chest sad face. [Hbg.]
Sensation as if all were loose in the chest and fell down into the abdomen. [Hbg.]
Squeezing pressure behind the sternum, aggravated by expiration and inspiration (aft. 5 d.). [Hrr.]
Great swelling of the anterior of the chest externally. [Hbg.]
460. In an indurated nipple single slight electric-like shocks for two and a half hours, after which all traces of the induration were gone (aft. 5 h.). [Stf.]
Sharp outward shooting pain under the right nipple, in the cavity of the chest, only on expiring. [Hrr.]
(A stretching over from the short ribs.)
Tension in the chest when walking.
On the right side of the nape towards the shoulder painful stiffness of the muscles when moving the head.
465. A pain in the nape where it joins the occiput, like combined pain and weakness, as if the head were weak.
Pain in the nape as after a chill.
Aching between the scapulae and opposite them in front of the chest, when sitting, which went off by walking.
Burning under and between the scapulae. [Mch.]
Painful pressure on the top of the right shoulder, worse on being touched; on breathing deeply an obtuse shooting there which extends backwards and outwards into the shoulder-joint (aft. 10 h.). [Hrr.]
470. A spasmodic pain between the scapulae, almost like shuddering.
Shooting in the lumbar vertebrae. [Hbg.]
Shooting pain in the sacrum and back, at night for six hours (aft. 70 h.). [Fr. H-n.]
Sacral pains which interfere much with walking. [Fr. H-n.]
Burning in the back. [Mch.]
475. A contractive pain across the whole back, as if it were firmly bound with bands, almost like cramp (in the afternoon from 4 to 8 p.m.) (aft. 48 h.).
A drawing down the back when sitting, which goes off by movement.
Painful shooting twitching close to the spine on both sides, when sitting, especially in the morning and evening.
Bruised pain in the sacrum when sitting, worst when lying, little felt when moving.
He can neither bend nor stoop for pain in the back and lumbar vertebrae, a tearing, more felt when standing than when sitting, but not when lying.
480. A couple of coarse stitches, like knife-stabs, in the hip.
A crawling running, as of a mouse, from the axilla to the hip.
Obtuse stitch over the shoulder, towards the arm. [Hbg.]
In the upper arm, especially on raising it, a kind of stitches. [Rkt.]
(A quivering and twitching in the deltoid muscle.)
485. A drawing through the shafts of the arm-bones, like a thread, extending into the tips of the fingers.
An aching on both humeri which prevents him falling asleep in the evening.
A nervous tearing in the interior of the arms downwards.
Sweat in the axillae.
Pain on raising the arm in the region of the acromion process, so from dislocation (aft. 3 h.).
490. Swelling of the right upper arm to the elbow.
Stitches in the right elbow-joint. [Hbg.]
Swelling on the elbow-joint and somewhat above and below it to the middle of the upper and fore-arm and on the feet, for three hours. [Hbg.]
Tearing pain on the internal surface of the forearm, from the elbow in a line to the wrist-joint (aft. 5 d.). [Hrr.]
Red miliary eruption on the upper side of the forearm. [Fr. H-n,.]
495. (Violent shooting and formication in the left arm.)
Shooting in the point of the elbow, with drawing in the tendons, extending into the hand; the shooting is aggravated by bending the elbow.
(In the hand formication, as if gone asleep.)
Shooting pains in the joints of the hands and heaviness of them. [Hbg]
He cannot grasp firmly with the hands. [Hbg.]
500. Trembling of the hands and distended veins thereof. [Hbg.]
In the wrist joint pain as if sprained or dislocated at every movement (aft. 24 h.).
Fine shooting in the wrist, when the hand becomes warm and when at rest; but it does not go off by movement.
About midnight an inflammation of the back of the hand, with burning pain.
Hot feeling in the palms of the hands and the forearms; she must lie out of bed in the morning; after some hours cold feeling in them.
505. Stiffness and numb feeling in the palms of the hands. (Comp. 576.)
Jerking tearing in the joints between the metacarpus and fingers, or in the last finger-joints, lasting a short time. [Rkt]
Involuntary twitching of the fingers of both hands on movement. [Hbg.]
In the fingers shooting pains when writing. [Hbg.]
(Falling asleep of the fingers of both hands up to the wrists.)
510.Feeling of paralysis in the fingers.
(In the ball of the thumb pain like shooting and cramp.)
Somewhat hot, pale swelling of the distal joint of the little finger; there are shoots in it on moving the finger and pressing on it. (Comp. 448, 535, 602.)
A papule between the right thumb and index, which causes shooting pain when touched.
In the root of the little finger pain as if there were matter in it.
515. Bruised pain of the sacrum and thighs.
Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.