Fever
Characteristic – Extreme exhaustion of mind and body.
Sinking, empty, all – gone sensation in stomach (Chelidonium, Phosphorus, Sepia).
Sad, despondent, feels like crying all the time, but crying makes her worse (Nat., Pulsatilla, Sepia), faint and weak, especially when going down stairs, can go up well enough (Borax – rev. of Calcarea).
Headache or neuralgia, pains begin lightly and increase gradually to the highest point and then gradually decline (Platina).
Colic: ameliorated by hard pressure, or by laying abdomen across knee or on shoulder (Colocynthis), lumbrici, passes worms.
Menses, too early, too profuse, sadness before, pain in malar bones, during.
Leucorrhea, great debility, weakness seems to proceed from chest (from abdomen and pelvis, Phosphorus, Sepia).
Prolapsus, worse during stool (worse with diarrhea, Podophyllum)., so weak she drops into a chair instead of sitting down.
While dressing in the morning has to sit down several times to rest.
Nausea and vomiting, in the morning, from the odor of cooking food (Arsenicum, Colchicum, Sepia).
When singing or using the voice, aching and weakness in deltoid and arms.
Great weakness in chest, aggravated from talking, laughing, reading aloud, singing, so weak, unable to talk.
Cough: deep, hollow, shattering, strangling, concussive, in paroxysms of three coughs (of two, Mercurius), dry, while in bed, in evening, empty sensation in chest.
Expectoration: profuse, like the white of an egg, sweetish, salty (kali i., Sepia), sour, putrid, musty, yellow – green pus (heavy, green, salty, Kali i.), during day.
Hoarseness: deep, husky, hollow voice, relieved for the time by coughing or expectorating mucus.
Sweat: mouldy, musty odor, after 4 A.M. every morning, on neck and forehead, very debilitating.
Relations – Complementary: Pulsatilla.
Aggravation: Laughing and singing, talking, using the voice, lying on right side, drinking anything warm (from cold drinks, Spongia).
Amelioration: Coughing or expectoration relieves hoarseness, hard pressure (Colocynthis).
Type: Suppressed by Quinine or some anti – periodic, low fever, with bronchial or pulmonary complications.
Time: 10 A.M., 4 – 5 p.m. Chill: Over whole body at 10 A.M., with coldness of the hands, deadness of the fingers, and numbness of the finger tips (Paris, Sepia), in the evening over the back, slight, but with chattering of the teeth, as from convulsion of the masseter muscles, only in left arm, or left leg (Carbo vegetabilis – right arm, Mercurialis), knees and feet very cold (Carbo-v.).
Heat: From 4 – 5 p.m., with sweat, of single parts, of back, chest, abdomen, limbs.
Anxious heat, as if sweat would break out.
Burning heat in limbs. Hectic fever.
Sweat: Profuse after 4 A.M. every morning.
Morning sweat, chiefly on the neck, nape of the neck and forehead, mouldy, musty odor, debilitating from the least movement.
Tongue: Red, yellow, coated with yellow mucus.
Taste, sour, sweetish, offensive, everything bitter but water. Fetid odor from mouth.
