Fever
Characteristic – Suitable for sudden flushes of heat, followed by great nervous weakness and irregular, intermitting pulse, occurring at climacteric, aggravated by least motion.
Sensation as if heart would stop beating if she moved (Cocaine – fears that unless constantly on the move, heart will cease beating, Gelsemium – See Ferrum). Weak heart without valvular complications.
Faintness or sinking at the stomach, feels as if he were dying.
Great weakness of chest, cannot bear to talk (Stannum).
At night frequent waking in a fright, as from a dream, as if he fell from a height or into the water.
Face pale, death – like appearance and bluish – red.
Blueness of skin, eyelids, lips, tongue, cyanosis.
Distended veins on lids, ears, lips and tongue.
Respiration irregular, difficult, deep sighing.
The fingers “go to sleep” frequently and easily.
Dropsy: post – scarlatinal, in Bright’s disease, with suppression of urine, of internal and external parts, with fainting when there are organic affections of the heart (with soreness in uterine region, Conv.).
Fatal syncope may occur when being raised to upright position.
Aggravation: Headache by lying down, motion, in a warm room, sitting, especially when sitting erect.
Time: No periodicity. Generally in early morning.
Chill: Commencing in the fingers, palms of the hands, soles of the feet, thence over the whole body. Coldness first of hands and arms (of extremities, Gelsemium of arms, Belladonna, Helleborus in fingers, toes and lips, Bryonia, Cicuta ). Great coldness of skin. Great sensitiveness to the cold (Barytac., Camph.), chilliness and shivering over the whole back, internal chill with external heat, chill and heat in alternation, cold extremities, excessive coldness of the hands and feet, with cold sweat. Chilliness over the whole body with heat and redness of the face.
Heat: Without thirst. Sudden flushes of heat followed by weakness of all parts. General violent heat, with swollen veins and rapid pulse. One hand hot, the other cold ( Lycopodium one hand is burning hot and pale, the other cold and red, Mosch.). Heat of body, with cold sweat of face. Heat in the head, face and ears, hands, with redness of the cheeks.
Sweat: Immediately after the chill ( Bovista, Causticum heat with profuse sweat at same time, Conium ). Night – sweat, generally cold and clammy. Covered with a copious perspiration, without relief of heart symptoms. Cold sweat on body, warm sweat on palms of hands. Sweat on upper parts of body, on the face.
Tongue: Clean or coated white. Taste: desire for sour drinks and bitter food, bread tastes bitter, want of appetite, or hunger. Constant ptyalism.
Pulse: Third, fifth or seventh beat intermits. Extremely slow and weak when at rest, accelerated, full and hard from every motion. Often characteristic.
Digitalis should not be followed by Cinchona in any form, as according to Hahnemann, Cinchona increases the anxiety caused by Digitalis to deadly anguish.
