The slightest movement causes loss of strength; the least thing fatigues him.
Very exhausted by a short walk.
She is so weak that she must sit down to an easy work she used to do standing. [Bhr.]
The knees are like to give under him from weariness; when walking he staggers and would fall to one side. [We.]
445. Painful paralytic feeling in the arms and legs; she can hardly rise from the seat; at the same time loss of appetite. [Gss.]
Exhaustion of the body, especially when sitting. [Hnl.]
Extraordinary weakness of the body when walking. [Hnl.]
Great exhaustion of the body, so that it was an exertion to him to stand steady. [Hnl.]
In the morning, about 9 o’clock, such heaviness in the limbs, and such great fatigue in the whole body, that she cannot ward off sleep – for several days at the same time. [Bhr.]
450. Syncope. (Not found.) [JOHN HILL, l. c.]
On moving the body, syncope, with spasmodic distortion of the facial muscles.
Extreme weakness.
Laziness with silence.
The slightest interruption to sleep causes loss of strength; he misses every hour of sleep.
455. Desire to lie down.
After lying down in bed, constant yawning and stretching of the limbs. [Hbg.]
Interrupted, short yawning, for which he cannot draw sufficient breath.
Much yawning towards evening.
Violent yawning.
460. Forcible yawning with a cracking in he internal ear.
Somnolence (sopor).
Unconquerable, waking sleepy stupefaction (coma vigil).
(Whilst sleeping he lies prone on the abdomen.)
When asleep he lays one arm under the head (aft. 4 h.).
465. Frequent waking out of sleep, as from fright. [Lr.]
He frequently wakes up at night with a sensation of being too warm.
At night sleepless, restlessness in the whole body; pricking and stinging here and there.
Many ideas about his daily business prevented him sleeping for an hour; he woke about 1 o’clock and could not go to sleep again. [Hnl.]
470. He wakes up at night with fear, as if he were afraid of ghosts.
Very vivid, fear-exciting dreams (aft. 2 h.).
Dreams of dying and of death.
Dream of having done something bad.
Vivid, unremembered dreams. [Lr.]
475. He dreams that his knees are swollen and painful. [We.]
She cries out anxiously in her sleep, calls her mother and sisters, with rapid, anxious respiration; she clutches with her hands about the bed, and strikes out with her hands; at the same time she opens her eyes and distorts them, without waking up, and moves her head about constantly, especially towards the left side. [We.]
The sleep is interrupted by frequent starting up and waking.
Frightful anxiety like a dream, which frustrates every attempt to fall sleep.
He would like to sleep until the day is advanced, and is also very sleepy by day.
480. He sleeps in the morning until late in day; the eyes will not open in the morning; he is awake but cannot get up nor open the eyes.
In the morning after waking laziness and disinclination to speak. [Hbg.]
In the morning he has not slept enough and yawns incessantly. [Hbg.]
Shivering in the evening in the back.
Chill in the back, as if it was touched here and there with ice, which is not removed by the warmth of the stove.
485. Shivering on the lower part of the body (very soon).
In the afternoon rigor over the whole body.
In the morning (about 8 a.m.) rigor for half an hour, with out thirst and not followed by heat.
General coldness, without rigor, with bluish hands (the first h.).
Repeated though short shiverings, especially through the lower extremities (immediately).[Gss.]
490. Shiver running through the whole body. [Gss.]
In the evening, along with longing for stimulating strengthening food, he is suddenly affected with internal chilliness, so that he trembles, and yet he is not externally cold to the touch. [Gss.]
The hands feel cold when held to the face, but warm to one another. [Gss.]
Trembling in all the limbs, always with chilliness, which does not go off in the warm room, especially in the evening. [Fg.]
He has a cold shiver over the back, although sitting near the warm stove (8th d.). [Hnl.]
495. Chilliness and cold feeling on the back. [Hnl.]
Chilliness which does not go off with the heat of the stove, with violent cutting in the abdomen (8th d.). [Hnl.]
Severe chilliness over the whole body, in the evening (7th d.). [Hnl.]
Cold feeling without perceptible external coldness, on the shoulder (aft. 4 h.).
Fever: frequent rigor, followed by flying heat on the head.
500. Fever: alternate heat and chill of the body (aft. some h.).
(Fever: gradually increasing chilliness, with little or no thirst, warm forehead, cold cheek bones, cold nose, and icy-cool hands; when heat with great anxiety, as if he could not get breath enough, with nausea and great thirst, until perspiration came on; the perspiration was slight, quite cool, almost confined to the head and hands, the anxiety continuing all the time.)
Fever: frequently during the day he begins shuddering, as when one warms oneself at the fire in the cold; he then again becomes hot, exhausted, must lie down, but all without thirst and without perspiration.
Fever: in the afternoon (6 p.m.) hot hands, with sensation of dry heat all over the body; sleeplessness until 4 a.m., then shivering and cold hands all day.
(External heat of the body, without feeling hot and without thirst) (aft. 5 h).
505. Burning heat in the cheeks with quite cold feet.
The pulse is not quicker, but very small and hard.
Heat in the forehead.
Increased feeling of heat, quick pulse (aft 24 h.). [Hnl.]
Redness of the left hand with drawing in the middle finger (4th d.).[Hnl.]
510. Glowing heat of the cheeks at the same time chilliness of the whole body. [Hnl.]
Rapid alteration of heat and chill; she is suddenly attacked by great heat rising up from the feet and spreading all over the body; at the same time a sensation as if the blood rushed into the face; but withal she is more pal than red; after a few minutes she is overrun by icy coldness from the head down to the feet, and the heat is momentarily suppressed – attacks which come on several times during the day. [Br.]
Quick and severe flushes of heat.
Frequent transient attacks of a disagreeable during heat and redness of the cheeks, such as are wont to occur when one gets angry or receives disagreeable news.
Heat and redness in the face with thirst.
515. Thirst for cold drinks, especially beer.
Perspiration on the body (immediately) from evening till morning, with cold sweat on the face.
General perspiration in the morning, chiefly on the chest and the part affected.
Transpiration and slight perspiration over the whole body on the slightest exertion (aft. 1 h.).
Dejection.
520. The thoughts are fixed on a single disagreeable subject; she is absorbed in thought and notices nothing about her.
He is sunk in the saddest thoughts, and insults he has received he takes deeply to heart.
She sits in deep reverie.
Time passes too rapidly with him, several hours appear to him as short as one hour. (This S. also appears in hb. Abd Ts.’R.A.M.L.’
Continual sad thoughts, just as if he had received insults. [Fg.]
525. He has no inclination to do anything, and fins no pleasure in anything.
Weeping.
He has no desire for any work.
Ha has no pleasure in anything, and no inclinations to do anything.
Great discontent with himself. [Hbg.]
530. He is extremely serious, afterwards he breaks out in complaints.
Serious, and though caring little about his own health, he is very anxious about the illness of others.
She dawdles; in business she cannot accomplish anything nor finish anything with contracted pupils (aft. 12 h.).
Busy restlessness.
Anxiety.
535. In the morning, anxiety respecting the incurability of a trifling malady.
Anxiety as if she had committed a great crime.
Great anxiety as if he had done something bad (aft. 29 h.). [Lr.]
Cardiac anxiety, mortal anguish (The original is simply “anxietas.”) (immediately). [AMATUS lusitanus., l. c.]
Palpitation of the heart.
540. Sudden, extreme anxiety.
Despairing disposition.
Hypochondrial, especially in the afternoon.
Over sensitiveness (aft. 24 h.).
A slight noise goes through all his limbs.
545. He dreads any sudden surprise.
He is easily startled.
Great sensitiveness of disposition; everything offends him.
He cannot bear any interruption in conversation, nor noise.
Too great irritability of disposition; every trifle makes him angry. [Hnl.]
550. Everything angers and vexes him; after a few hours he becomes lively and disposed to make jokes. [Hbg.]
Easily annoyed; he takes everything in bad part (aft. 24 h.).
Extreme inclination to be annoyed and to take every trifle in bad part (aft. 1 h.).
She is annoyed at the merest trifle even to weeping; when the pupils are contracted; after the weeping want of appetite.
He is very indignant and annoyed at slight faults and fibs of others.
Joyous, contented, merry; he becomes witty and makes joke. (Partly curative action.) (aft. 3 h.).
Happy humour, and contented with himself. (Curative action.)
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.