Internal shivering, creeping chill and icy feet.
Heat: at night with 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 walking about (sweat profuse from walking, reading, riding, talking: SEP., SULPH.); profuse sour, clammy, with faint oppression of chest after chill and heat; after typhoid; after influenza; colliquative (Chin., Nit.ac., Sec.c.).
Profuse sweat at night; on palms, cold;> headache; profuse night sweats of phthisis.
Sweat profuse at 3 a.m.
When taking a walk profuse sweat with consequent debility (Bry., Chin., Carb.an.), taking cold easily with profuse sweat.
Profuse sweating > all complaints; chronic diseases (Calad.).
Profuse perspiration during sleep and on least exertion; sour smelling, viscous sweat.
Cold icy sweat at 6 p.m. preceded by great mental fear and anguish that attack would be last; offensive sweat of hands and body and foul taste.
Perspires too easily from least motion; even while sitting, he is attacked with perspiration all over, or merely on some parts; almost constant perspiration of the hands and feet and strong perspiration in the axilla and around the pudenda.
Daily morning sweats often cause the patient to drip, this has occurred for many years, often with sour or pungent sour smell.
One-sided perspiration, only one side of the body (NUX V., PETER, PULS, THUJA); or only on upper part of body (ASAR., KALI C., OPIUM, PAR.); or only on lower part (CROC., HYOS.).
After typhoid fever, after influenza he sweats if he turns in bed; after least exertion (Calc. c., Lyc., Sep., Sulph.); from mental exertion (Calc.c., Hep., LAch., Sep., Staph., Sulph., Tuberc.); cold sweat.
Profuse night sweats; of phthisis with tremendous heat under the covers; copious hot sweat; mental state as if dazed.
The more intense the pain the more profuse the sweat (Tilia).
Perspiration cold and hot alternately, appeared about 3 a.m.
Want of perspiration, dry skin.
Typhoid fever; picks bedclothes, reaches for objects in air, with profound debility.
Painful sensation of cold in various parts.
Coldness, repeated or constant of the whole body, or of one side of the body; of single parts; cold hands, cold feet which will not get warm in bed.
Chilliness constant, even without any change in the external bodily temperature.
Every evening chills with blue nails; every evening single chills.
In intermittents he is taken on the street with difficult breath; he wants to go home; he is weak and exhausted, crawls up stairs on hands and knees; the chill is not marked, but the heat is intense and the sweat copious; he is almost in a stupor, befogged, bewildered, cannot answer questions; face red, puffed, mottled.
Burning pains in various parts (without any change in the usual external bodily temperature).
Frequent flushes of heat especially in the face, more frequently with redness than without sudden violent sensation of heat during, or on, slight motion, sometimes even from speaking, with or without perspiration.
Warm air in the room in 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, > by epistaxis.
Rushes of blood, also sensation of throbbing in all the arteries, he often looks quite pale, with general prostration.
Intermittent fever, even when there are no other cases about, either sporadic or epidemic or endemic;l the form, duration and type of the fever are very various; quotidian, tertian, quartan, quintan or every 7 days.
Every evening heat, with rush of blood to 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; after ague color of face worse.
In all fevers but especially typhoid, Psor. will prevent a protracted case, if there is a history of eczema, suppressed eruption, or quinsy. In such cases the symptoms are never clear. (H.C.Allen).
Patient has never been well since typhoid fever.
Psor. will often clear up a case where there is lack of vital reaction after severe cases, when other remedies, although well chosen, fail to relieve or permanently improve. The constitutional symptoms are reliable, the chief symptoms do not come to the surface during the paroxysm. It has cleared up many a case for me in psoric constitution after Sulph. failed.
More frequently indicated than used (reverse of quinine). (H.C.Allen).
SKIN.
Abnormal tendency to skin diseases.
Skin dry and scaly, never perspires, never any moisture; harsh and dry skin, < winter, > real hot weather; chilly all the time, dreads the cold; menses regular but offensive; no appetite. Whole body covered with thick crusts, like dabs of mortar in places half an inch thick, soles of feet alone free from eruption.
Skin inactive, want of perspiration.
Whole body looks like old dry parchment, very hard dry and greatly thickened, itching on undressing.
Psoriasis followed vaccination, nummular variety; skin has no moisture in winter; when he exercises and perspires in summer the eruption is better.
Psoriasis in winter, < dry cold weather, (cold wet weather, < washing in cold water.
Sepia almost invariably follows Psor.in psoriasis. (J.H. Allen).
Large suppurating pustules on hands, particularly near ends of fingers, had eight to ten within a few weeks, itching of body particularly when in bed.
ITCHING: when body becomes warm; and stinging in many parts at same time; Intolerable in bed and from warmth; scratches until it bleeds; over whole body, when rubbed small papules and vesicles arise; between fingers, in knee joints; in bend of knees; terrible of whole body at night preventing sleep.
Itching excited by heat of bed (Bov., Merc., Puls., Sulph.).
Itching when wearing woollens, scratches until becomes raw and then it becomes scabby, when healing takes place it itches and then he has to scratch.
INTOLERABLE ITCHING,
Itching skin (Rad. brom., Tuberc.).
Tingling itching, formication, crawling like ants running over surface, as of insects in skin.
Skin breaks out, < flexures; is dirty, rough and scabby (Bov.).
Skin rough and uneven, cracks easily, bleeding fissures.
Many skin conditions, < from bathing and from warmth of bed.
DIRTY SKIN (Calc.p., Nat. M., Petrol., Thuja).
Skin has dirty look, as if patient never washed; in some places looks coarse as if bathed in oil; sebaceous glands secrete in excess; body always smells dirty. Skin dirty, dingy looking with yellow blotches here and there.
Skin rough and scaly, looks filthy, although thoroughly washed.
Skin unhealthy, dirty gray, dingy, studded with capillary net work and enlarged veins; scabs form from scratching, then comes the eruption,papules, pimples, crusts, boils, vesicles; eruptions ooze a watery moisture, skin finally becomes thickened and indurated and new crops come out under the old crusts; rawness, itching, tingling, crawling, bleeding.
Rough skin (Fluor.ac., Lith.c., Nat.c., Petrol., Tuberc.).
Scaly condition of skin of whole body; skin has a dirty, tawny color although carefully kept; much itching causing desire to scratch, which gave but temporary relief; some months back instep showed signs of eruption, which soon became at thick dirty looking mass of scales and pus, painful and violently itching; at times pain kept her awake at night; disease of at least a dozen years standing.
Fine red eruption forming small white scales.
Eruption at edges of skin (Nat.p., Nit.ac., Petrol.).
Condylomata on edges of skin; moist itching condylomata.
Dry and scaly eruption, with little pointed vesicles around reddened edges disappearing during summer, but reappearing when cold weather comes on.
Eczematous eruption after any severe exertion, accompanied by sensation of tension and swelling on fingers, dorsum of hands, nape of neck, and towards ears; slightly elevated blotches upon an erysipelatous, swollen hard base; eruption of numberless small vesicles; face in several places affected; eyelids swollen; intolerable itching, disturbing sleep; fingers so swollen they cannot be flexed; after several days desquamation very fine scales.
Eczema behind ears, on scalp and in bends of elbows and armpits, accompanied by abscesses affecting bones; nothing relieved, but the eruption disappeared to reappear again years after on wrists, there was then a patch on each wrist as large as a half dollar, with intense itching, preventing sleep, with constant desire to scratch.
Eruption of small vesicles, quickly filling with yellow lymph, painful like sore to touch, dry up after a few days, on forehead and on face, also behind right ear.
