Asafœtida

Assafetida. Umhelliferce.

Introduced and. proved by Franz, in 1822. See Staph s Archives, Val. I, No. 3, p. 187 ; 326 symptoms from Hahnemann, Staph, Gross and Gutmann. In 1829, Jorg's were added by Hartlaub (1833). In 1839 one symptom of Jahn, not of Trinks, who never has proved. In 1868, a full proving of Lembke, with the substance. Translated by Lilienthal, and published in the New York Quarterly, page 475, 1869, with remarks. The last proving of E. W. Berridge, Organon. Val. II, is of great importance.

Mind

Consciousness unaffected. θ Chorea.

Fits of joy with bursts of laughter, θ Hysteria.

Excitement of mind. See 29.

Unsteady and fickle©, cannot persevere in anything ; wants now one thing, then another ; walks hither and thither.

Anxious sadness and apprehensions of dying.

Apprehension seemingly arising from the abdomen.

Apprehension. See 29.

With the heart symptoms, fear of death.

Fears paralysis or softening of brain.

Dislike for solitude.

Constant change of mind; fits of grief, of joy ; laughter or anxious sadness.

Depression.

Fits of low spirits with heart symptoms ; low-spirited between the heart attacks.

Ill-humor, irritable mood, and yet indifferent to everything.

▌ Ill-humor, irritable mood, dislike to work, θ Caries of the bones.

Hypochondriac and hysteric restlessness and anxiety.

If he thinks of having taken the drug, it brings on the faintness.

Sensorium

' l Very sensitive and excitable ; all perception of the senses lessened but not consciousness.

Oversensitiveness, either physical or mental.

Fainting during the heigh th of the paroxysm of colic.

Stupefying tension in head, mostly left side; worse afternoon or evening ; sitting bent forward ; after going to bed ; better sitting up.

Vertigo with violent pressing in the head, vanishing of sight in evening and afterwards cold sweat on forehead and limbs ; colic ; flatulence ; portal congestion.

Unconsciousness ; with bellyache. See 19.

Inner Head p. 183

Pain in left side of head extending to eyes, changing into intermitting, severe pain and slight fullness of the brain.

▌ A sudden pain in left temple, like an inward-pressing pointed plug.

Inner semilateral headache, oftener on the left side.

▌ Pressive pain in forehead and 1. side of head from within outward.

Dull pain and fullness in 1. side of head, with bleeding from 1. nostril, heart beating slowly.

Fullness and throbbing in head, heart beats feebly, with apprehension.

Fullness of head when riding in a carriage.

Pressure in sides of head or temples, like from a dull stick, better from touch.

Fullness of the head, changing gradually into aching and pressing pain, as if the whole brain was compressed ; with dizziness, increased heat of the skin and some quickness of the pulse.

Awoke with fullness of the head, which gradually changed to periodically recurring pains, lasting, more or less, into the next night.

Drawing, wave-like pressure through the left half of the forehead, ending in dull pressure on the frontal eminence.

Flying stitch from within outward, in forehead, temples and sides of head.

Jerking through the head.

▌ Single, sudden, and deep-penetrating stitches under the left frontal eminence, like shocks followed by some sensitiveness.

Pain as if a nail or plug was driven into the brain.

Crampy pain in forehead above eyebrows.

The brain seems tense.

││ Rush of blood to head, and warmth of the face.

││ Congestive headache.

Sensation of swashing in head as of water, and gurgling behind upper part of frontal bone.

││ All the headaches are worse toward evening ; in the room, while at rest, sitting or lying ; better when rising or moving about in the open air.

Reading and writing makes her worse.

The pains in the head cease, or change from touch.

▌▌ Nervous headache of hysterical or scrofulous people.

Cold sensation in head.

Outer Head p. 183

▌ Pain in the right parietal, as from a deeply penetrating plug.

The pains in the head cease or are changed from external touch.

Cold sweat on forehead.

Sight and Eyes p. 184

Dimness of sight ; letters become darker on writing ; disappear after blinking.

Mist before the eyes.

Muscle volitantes.

Sight worn from reading or writing.

▌ Boring pain above the eyebrows; burning, especially at night. θ Iritis, kerato-iritis, retinitis, of syphilitic origin.

Dull pressure at the external border of the left orbit.

Troublesome dryness of the eyes.

Burning in the eyes ; stitches ; dryness.

Periodic burning in the eyes and pressing together of the lids as if overcome with sleep.

▌ Burning in eyeballs ; in the left as from within outward.

▌ Sharp pain extending through the eye into the head, upon touching.

Nocturnal, throbbing pains in and around the eye and head. θ Syphilitic iritis, abuse of mercury.

▌ Deep seated inflammation of the eyeball, attended by ciliary pains. θ Iritis, kerato-iritis, irido-choroiditis and retinitis, especially if of syphilitic origin.

▌▌ Extensive superficial ulceration of the cornea, with burning, sticking or pressing pains, from within outwards ; rest and

« pressure relieve ; also better in the open air ; the numbness around the eye.

Itching in the right eye.

▌ Periodic burning in the eyes and pressing together of the lids, as if overcome with sleep.

Hearing and Ears p. 184

The faintness is brought on by noise, or being in crowded streets.

Hardness of hearing, with discharge of pus from the ears.

││ Hardness of hearing, with thin, purulent discharge of an extremely offensive odor, θ After scarlatina, or abuse of mercury.

▌ Otorrhoea with off"tensive discharge and diseased bones.

Smell and Nose p. 184

Offensive discharge from the nose; stench from the nose. θ After mercury or in scrofula.

Unpainful tension over the bones of the nose, with feeling of numbness.

Swelling and inflammation aff"eating the bones, with a feeling as if nose would burst.

Pressure in the nose, especially the right wing, as if it would burst.

Feeling as if nose were stopped up high up, so that he cannot breathe through it, with fullness of head, when riding in a carriage.

Fluent coryza.

▌▌ Discharge of very offensive matter from the nose ; with caries, of the bones, θ Ozsena.

A little pimple on the tip of the nose.

^ Face. Flushes and heat of the face, of one cheek after eating.

Small tubercles in the cheeks.

▌ Numbness of the bones of the face ; painless tension in various places.

Lower Face p. 185

Drawing pains in caries of lower maxilla, with salivation; after abuse of mercury.

▌▌ Swelling of lower lip.

Lips puffed up, lower lip and left corner of mouth most.

Numb pressure on the chin.

Teeth and Gums p. 185

Grinding of teeth; starting at night; transient griping pains in region of navel. θ Chorea.

Bluntness of the teeth.

Severe drawing in lower incisors.

Soreness of gums.

Taste and Tongue p. 185

Greasy, rancid taste in the mouth and of the phlegm hawked up,

▌ Speech unintelligible; tongue white, swollen. θ Chorea.

Inner Mouth p. 185

Sensation of dryness in mouth and throat, even when moist, without thirst.

Saliva predominantly decreased, except in mercurial caries, when acrid salivation exists.

Burning in the mouth.

▌ Constantly chewing and working frothy slime out of mouth, with swollen tongue, θ Chorea.

Palate and Throat p. 185

> Sensation as if the peristaltic motion were reversed and the oesophagus were being drawn from the stomach up towards the throat.

Sensation of pressure, as if a body or lump were ascending in the throat, has to swallow frequently.

▌ Burning, followed by soreness, in fauces and pharynx.

Darting stitches, from chest upward towards oesophagus.

Tender feeling in throat, worse when swallowing.

▌▌ Sensation of a ball rising in throat, causes difficulty in breathing. θ Hysteria.

Hysterical spasms affecting the oesophagus.

▌ In the evening a hysterical rising in the throat, as of a ball or large body ascended from the stomach to the oesophagus, or even pharynx, obliging him repeatedly to attempt to swallow it. θ Globus hystericus.

▌ Dryness and burning in oesophagus.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions p. 185

Ravenous hunger, with pain in upper abdomen, as from a cold, and as if diarrhoea would set in.

Hunger with desire for strong, cooling food.

Desire for wine.

▌ Great disgust for all food, θ Chorea.

Beer tastes slimy, aversion to it.

Eating and Drinking p. 186

Great dejection with epigastric pressure after eating ; hypochondriacal.

▌ After eating: heat in face, with anguish; pressure in stomach ; stitches about lower ribs ; tension in abdomen ; winding and twisting in bowels ; great difficulty in breathing ; febrile state.

▌ After drinking: diarrhoea; heaviness and cold feeling in the intestines.

After meals flatulent distension of abdomen.

▌ After eating anything sour griping pains in region of navel. θ Chorea.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 186

Eructations : smelling like garlic ; tasting rancid, sharp, or putrid ; smelling like feces ; tasting like carrion.

▌▌ Flatus passing upwards, none down.

▌ Hiccough -like contractions of the diaphragm. θ Chorea.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 186

» Pressing, cutting, stitching pain in spells, not regular ; full of wind ; pressing upwards (never down) ; gulping up rancid fluid ; constipation. θ Gastralgia.

▌ Dyspepsia, with much pulsation in pit of stomach.

▌ Pulsation in pit of stomach, perceptible to sight and touch.

Sensation of fullness in stomach.

I" Gone," empty feeling in pit of stomach, not a pain, but " it hurts there;" pulsations after eating; worse at about 11 oclock A.M.; faint feeling. θ Hysteria.

Cardialgia.

Meteorism of stomach when feeling of tension is great and eructating is difficult.

Increased warmth and aching in the stomach, toward the left side, not all on the right, but more up into the oesophagus, like the globus hystericus.

Hypochondria p. 186

In the morning sensation in epigastric region and in whole abdomen, as if it were beaten, with sense of fullness in the former, and eructations.

Stitches in right hypochondrium, towards the diaphragm.

Pressure from the interior of the liver to the chest, after dinner, with labored breathing and violent pulsations.

Violent pressure in the scrobiculum, towards the liver, while sitting.

Stitches as if in the diaphragm, r. side.

▌▌ Heat in spleen and abdomen.

Abdomen, Loins and Groins p. 186

Gastric and abdominal sufferings, accompanied by pulsations in epigastrium.

Heat in abdomen.

Pressure in abdomen.

Griping (into a ball) pain below the navel when standing.

Intermittent griping in upper abdomen.

Pain in upper abdomen, as from taking cold, and as if diarrhoea would ensue, with a kind of ravenous hunger.

Bellyache, as if the intestines were torn or cut ; places in the side sore, as if raw, with it feeling as of something rising from chest to throat ; pressure relieves.

Gripings, with flatulence.

▌ Wind colic, with abdominal pulsations; very painful distension of abdomen, rumbling ; relieved by passing wind.

Pinching colic and escape of wind.

Flatulent colic and diarrhoea ; distension of abdomen.

Colic, with distension and a " rising up feeling," as if the peristaltic action were reversed ; > from external pressure ; causes fainting. See 13.

▌ Abdomen soft, distended. θ Chorea.

In the flanks a pressive pain or drawing in the abdominal muscles.

Sensation in the epigastric region and abdomen in the morning, as if beaten.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 187

Painful diarrhoea.

▌▌ Watery, liquid stools of the most disgusting smell; pains in the abdomen and discharge of fetid flatus.

▌▌ Watery stools of disgusting odor; discharge profuse and greenish.

▌ Blackish-brown, papescent, offensive stools, which relieve.

Stool profuse, thick, papescent, brown, and very offensive.

Only slime passes, no feces.

Obstinate constipation, with abdominal and hemorrhoidal cramps, with tenesmus and distended abdomen.

▌ Pain in the perineum, as from something dull pressing out.

Urinary Organs p. 187

Soreness in the kidneys.

▌▌ Urine warm and of a pungent, ammoniacal smell.

Spasm in the bladder during and after urination.

Male Sexual Organs p. 187

Genitals irritated.

Faintness is worse after seminal emissions.

Urging towards the genitals ; aching of the testicles, worse from touch and after motion.

Needle-like stitches on the penis.

Drawing in the glans, more during the afternoon.

Outward pressure in the perineum.

Female Sexual Organs p. 187

Excited sexual desire, θ Nymphomania in a plethoric woman.

▌ Bearing down in genitals, worse when riding in a carriage.

▌ Uterine ulcer, sensitive and painful, with ofi"tensive discharge.

▌ Menses too early, too scanty, and last but a short time.

▌ Labor-like pains in the uterine region, with cutting and bearing down.

▌ Leucorrhoea profuse, greenish, thin and ofi"tensive.

▌ Swelling and inflammation of genitals.

Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation p. 188

Miscarriages.

Is said to kill the foetus and dries up the milk.

▌ Mammae turgid with milk, like in the ninth month ; without being pregnant.

deficient of milk, with oversensitiveness.

//Labor-like pains ; cutting, bearing down, intermitting.

Milk increased or diminished.

Restores the wasted and drying up " breast of milk."

▌ Ten days after delivery milk diminished; the 14th day only a few drops could be squeezed out with difficulty ; after 5 drops of tincture, copious milk, but offensive to the child ; 3d centesimal answered as well.

▌ Milk had disappeared within three weeks of her delivery; six confinements.

Voice and Larynx p. 188

Voice weaker, hoarse, changed, sometimes cough.

▌ Spasm of the glottis, alternating with contraction of the fingers and toes, θ Hysteria.

Respiration p. 188

Difficult breathing. See 13.

Difficult breathing, from abdominal disease.

Feeling of suffocation in throat on taking a full inspiration.

Constriction of chest, extending to the throat, with hurried breathing.

Asthmatic complaints of scrofulous persons.

▌▌ Asthmatic feeling in the trachea, dry cough; spasmodic dyspnoea as if the lungs could not be sufficiently expanded.

▌ Oppression of the chest increasing to agony, cannot breathe, restless moving about.

▌ Oppression of the chest, with hurried breathing; contracted, small pulse; or, frequent pulse; asthma after too hearty a meal ; too great exertion.

Oppression of breathing ; pain temporarily relieved by eructations.

When faint, if he breathes deeper, heart beats fuller, and faintness decreases ; if he holds breath heart becomes very feeble.

▌ Asthmatic attacks at least one a day all her life, brought on by every bodily exertion, coition, especially by every satisfying meal.

Frequent breathing, rattling ; restless tossing before attack, anxious with it.

Sitting up relieves suffocative feeling.

Cough p. 188

▌ Obstinate, titillating cough, < at night with grown persons.

Cough predominantly dry ; expectoration infrequent, during day.

Irritation to dry cough ; attacks at night.

Cough on gaping.

││ Whooping-cough, even of sucklings, sounding like croup ; rattling breathing, anxious and restless, chest and abdomen hot, urine pale.

││ Hoarse ringing short cough, excited by tickling in the trachea, with asthmatic feeling therein ; spasmodic contraction of the thorax and accumulation of stringy mucus-

Cough in the afternoon.

││ Cough, with cessation of the sputa.

Sputa have a greasy taste.

Cough, Aith accumulation of stringy mucus in the trachea.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 189

Pressure on the sternum, when stooping, writing ; going off by deep breathing.

▌ Pressure and burning under the sternum ; frequent disposition to cough.

▌ Compression of chest, as from a heavy weight. See 26.

Pressing stitches in chest.

Pressure on the chest, with a constriction in the throat.

▌ Oppressive aching feeling in the chest; better from expectorating mucus.

▌ Pressive pain in the right side of chest, from within outward.

▌ Pressure in the left intercostal muscles, from within outward, which is Averse during inspiration and expectoration.

▌ Stitches in chest from within outwards. θ Whooping cough.

▌ Burning in chest, runs through both arms and through lower limbs down into the toes.

▌ Single violent stitches from within outwards, at short intervals ; renewed when chest is touched, θ Pleuropneumonia.

Shooting from just below 1. nipple through to back on walking.

Spasmodic constriction of the thorax with the cough.

Spasmodic constriction, as if lungs could not properly expand, respiration normal.

Spasmodic contractions of chest, with slow, small, contracted, irregular pulse.

Throbbing in the chest.

▌ Dropsy of chest; relieved the oppression in 6, 12, or 36 hours ; 3d every 2 or 4 hours.

Discomfort of thorax from want of distention of lungs.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 189

Increased action of heart on the slightest excitement.

▌ Palpitation, with faintness, rush of blood to head, flushing of face, anxiety and slow breathing, from excitement, θ Irritable heart.

Violent palpitation of heart and excitement of mind.

▌ Acute rheumatic heart disease, with tightness across the chest. θ Hydrothorax.

Continual pain about region of heart.

At times heart feels bound together tightly, as if it could not beat ; afterwards only on exertion or walking.

Congestion towards the heart ; feeling of fullness ; small pulse ; followed by loose stool.

▌ Slight palpitation of the heart, more like a tremor, several times when sitting.

▌▌ Nervous palpitation, with small pulse; from overexertion or suppression of discharges (in women).

▌ Pressure in region of heart, as if the heart was too full and expanded ; pulse small.

Feeling as if the heart would burst ; quick breathing and apprehension ; has to walk in the open air.

Feeling as if heart were swollen, preventing a deep inspiration.

Palpitation like a tremor while sitting.

The beating of the heart small, quick, irregular.

Heart sometimes beats very feebly.

Sometimes heart beats short and quick, at other times he feels as if there was no action of it.

Heart's action is quickened by a deep inspiration.

At night, when lying on back, palpitation and suffocative feeling, as if heart would burst, he must sit up, which relieves him.

Heart symptoms and faintness worse after seminal emission.

▌ Pulse small, spasmodically contracted, rather quick, θ Chorea.

││ Small, infrequent pulse, with violent action of the heart and no disturbance of respiration indicating nervous weakness of the organ.

▌ Pulse small, rapid, irregular. See 28.

▌ Pulse accelerated, but unequal, small. θ Asthma, congestion to heart, etc.

Outer Head p. 190

Chest. Sensation as if one pressed very sharply with the point of the finger on the xiphoid cartilage ; also when swallowing.

Neck p. 190

and Back. fine, burning stitches in and behind the right scapula, extending towards the ribs.

Drawing downwards, in left side of neck, on motion.

Stitches in muscles of back.

Dull pains, or drawing and cutting below scapulae.

Burning along vertebrae, to the left.

Aching inwardly, along last dorsal and first lumbar vertebrae.

Boring sticking in 1. loin, from within outward, going off during an inspiration.

Lancinations from r. loin towards ribs.

Sticking, with pressure in region of r. ribs towards the spine.

▌ Cannot work on account of the backache.

Stitches along the sacrum down to the anus.

Pain in sacrum while sitting.

Crawls run over the back, in the afternoon.

Upper Limbs p. 190

Twitching in left upper arm-joint, extending inward.

Fine stitch in the elbows.

Quivering in shoulder-joint ; in deltoid muscle.

Stitches and jerking in upper arm.

Drawing pain along the upper arm down to elbow, a fine stitch in elbow.

▌ Child always missed laying hold of anything she wished. θ Chorea.

Frequent muscular jactitation in arms and hands.

Tearing in forearm down to tips of fingers.

When moving fingers, pain in forearm.

Tearing stitches followed by burning in right forearm.

Scraping sensation on styloid process of ulna.

Cramp-like, sensitive twitching in metacarpal bone of left thumb.

││ Whitlow, violent nightly pains, threatened necrosis.

Pain as if beaten in the bones of the wrist.

▌ Aching, drawing in wrist-joints. θ Syphilis.

Lower Limbs p. 191

Carious ulcer on the tibia, extremely sore around, discharge offensive; skin adheres to the bone.

Muscular twitching in legs and feet.

▌ Child, get. 9, could not walk, θ Chorea.

Caries of tibia.

The apparently healthy portion of the tibia lying beneath the peculiar carious ulcer became again sensitive and painful to the slightest touch, or even the approach of the finger, so also to the removal of the charpie, and at night almost unendurable.

▌ Swelling around the ankle-joint, cannot use the foot.

Burning in the roots of the toe nails, prevents sleep.

▌ Psoitis if suppuration seems impending; also if pelvic bones are involved.

Lassitude of the lower limbs.

Quivering of portions of the muscles on the thighs.

Occasional tingling in legs after much walking.

Twitching on the inner side of the right knee-joint.

Swelling and caries of bones of feet.

Sticking sensation on ball of great toe when putting foot to the ground.

▌ Pain as if a splinter of bone was sticking in the right fibula, just above outer malleolus, θ After a sprain.

▌ Cold swelling around the ankles.

▌ A sensitive throbbing in the left great toe from time to time.

Stitches and pulsation in the big toe.

▌ Painful throbbing in the tip of the great toe.

Heat in the toes.

Limbs in General p. 191

▌ Constant convulsive tremor of limbs, could be relieved by the hands of another person, θ Chorea.

▌ Twitching of muscles of arms and legs.

▌ Pains mostly on flexor sides of limbs.

Pains in inside of joints and limbs.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 192

Rest : Headaches < ; eyes > ; < in bed.

Sitting up : tension in head > ; pressure in scrobiculum < ; suffocative feeling > ; palpitation < ; pains in sacrum worse.

Standing : griping below navel ; weakness.

Stooping: pressure on sternum.

Lying : weakness.

Putting foot to ground : sticking in great toe.

Moving fingers : pain in forearm worse.

Motion : headache > ; asthma worse.

Overexertion : palpitation worse.

Swallowing: tenderness in throat worse.

After motion : aching in testicles.

Gaping : cough worse.

Deep breathing : pressure in sternum better.

Expectorating mucus : aching in chest better.

Inspiration : pain in intercostal muscles worse.

Walking : shooting from nipple to back.

Excitement : palpitation worse.

36 JJerves. Nervousness.

Hypersensitiveness; when nervous system predominates over the arterial.

▌▌ Hysteria, with much trouble about throat or oesophagus ; well marked globus hystericus ; spasm of the lungs, etc.

Hysteria, hysteralgia; hypersensitiveness; every excitement that brings on an attack causes globus hystericus.

▌ Twitching and jerking of muscles.

▌▌ Nervous affections after suppressed discharges.

▌ Epileptiform convulsions caused by worms.

▌ Chorea.

Fainting with the colic.

││ Clumsiness of the body ; feeling of rigor.

Feeling of general heaviness ; weak when standing or lying ; dry mouth.

At times slight inclination to faint, accompanied by great apprehension.

Faintness, with quick pulse.

Attacks of faintness, followed by fluttering of heart.

Attacks of faintness, with anxiety, as if he would die, and with one attack desire for suicide.

With one attack of faintness there was shaking of limbs and as if the bowels shook.

With the faintness, shivering and very feeble action of heart.

Faintness on beginning to eat, especially at dinner, with full and frequent beating of heart.

With the faintness, alternate heat and chill ; sweat on small of back and trembling.

Faintness worse day after a seminal emission.

Sleep p. 193

Inclined to sleep, much against his habit.

Drowsy with the sweat.

Sleepy in the evening ; weariness.

▌ Sleeplessness after midnight. [Conium before midnight).

││ About midnight violent pains through left half of body, from top to toe.

▌ Pain in the ulcer at night, almost unendurable.

Woke in night with distension of stomach, pain across chest and feeble heart.

Worse in bed and after sleep ; better after getting out of bed.

Time p. 193

Morning : abdomen feels beaten ; fullness and eructations ; tearings in joints; chest oppressed.

8.30 to 9 A.M. : chills, with heat efface.

▌▌ A.M. : faint feeling < ; goneness in stomach.

During day : expectoration worse.

Afternoon : tension in head < ; drawing in glans penis ; cough ; shivering over back ; heat in toes.

Between 3 and 4 p.m. : coldness and trembling, with stitches in head.

Evening : vanishing of sight ; headache < ; hysteria ; pains often better.

Evening till 2 A.M. : neuralgia.

Night : pain in eyes ▌< ; cough << ; palpitation ; ulcer <C ; pain across chest ; bone pains.

Midnight : pain 1. half of body.

After midnight : sleeplessness.

Temperature and Weather p. 193

In the room : all headaches worse.

Open air : headache > ; eye > ; heart > ; desires to be in open air.

Could not remain in-doors, must walk about in the open air.

In warm feather beds : lower limbs ache more.

Fever p. 193

Chills run over the body from time to time.

Sense of rigor.

Crawls run over the back, in the afternoon.

Chill, coldness and dryness of the skin.

Every day, between 3 and 4 p.m., coldness and trembling, with unbearable stitches in the head.

One-sided heat.

Heat in the toes ; afternoon.

With heat of the face ; cold hands and feet, and chills of the back from 8.30 to 9 a.m.

With the faintness sweat on small of back, hot and cold alternately and trembling.

Want of thirst, particularly heat without thirst.

Heat in the face, after dinner, with anxiety and sleepiness ; without thirst.

Occasionally cold, moist skin.

Sweat wanting ; only occasionally cold, moist skin ; cold sweat on the limbs ; vertigo.

Sweat with drowsiness.

Shiverings, most over back, afternoon ; heat in face, with anxiety and sleepiness, but without thirst,

Attacks p. 194

Pains intermit at regular intervals.

Intermitting pinching pains in ulcers.

Crushing pain regularly worse from evening till 2 A.M. θ Neuralgia after amputation.

Every day between 3 and 4 p.m. : coldness and trembling, with unbearable stitches in head.

Locality and Direction p. 194

Right : pain in parietal ; itching in eye ; pressure in wing of nose ; stitches in hypochondriura ; stitches in diaphragm ; pain side of chest ; stitches behind scapula ; pain in fibula.

Left : pain and tension in head ; sudden pain in temple ; bleeding from nostril ; pressure in orbit ; corner of mouth puffed ; pressure in intercostal muscles ; shooting below nipple ; drawing side of neck ; burning along vertebrae ; twitching upper arm-joint; cramp-like twitching in thumb ; throbbing in great toe; pain in half of body.

Above downward : burning in chest ; tearing in fore-arm.

Within outward : burning in eyeballs; pain in chest; pressure in intercostal muscles.

Below upwards : oesophagus seeming drawn upward ; darting stitches in chest ; globus hystericus ; flatus passes ; pressure in liver.

Before backward : shooting from nipple.

Reverse action of involuntary muscles ; a sort of anti-peristaltic motion,

Sensations p. 194

Sharp pain through eye into head.

As if a nail or plug were driven into the brain.

Like from a dull stick, pressure in temples.

Sudden pain, inward -pressing, like pointed plug in 1, temple.

Sudden deep penetrating stitches like shocks under 1. frontal eminence.

Drawing wavelike pressure through 1. forehead.

Gurgling sensation in head.

Sensation of water swashing in the head.

As if nose would burst.

Tender feeling in throat.

As if a ball or lump were ascending in throat.

"Gone feeling" in epigastrium.

As if beaten: in epigastric region and abdomen.

Pain as from a cold in upper abdomen.

Winding and twisting in bowels.

As if peristaltic motion were reversed.

Griping: in region of navel.

Labor-like pain :. in uterus.

As if the heart would burst.

Flying stitches : in forehead, temples and sides of head.

Stitches : under 1. frontal eminence ; in eyes ; darting from chest to oesophagus ; about lower ribs ; in stomach ; in r. hypochondrium ; in diaphragm ; on the penis ; in chest ; in big toe.

'Cutting : in stomach ; in uterus.

Jerking : through head.

Boring : above eyebrows.

Shooting : below 1. nipple through to back.

Sticking : in eyes.

Burning : above eyebrows ; in eyes ; in mouth ; in fauces and pharynx ; in oesophagus ; under sternum ; in chest.

Drawing : in caries of lower maxilla ; in lower incisors ; in abdominal muscles ; in glans penis.

Pressing : in head ; in forehead and 1. head ; in temples ; on frontal eminence ; external border of 1. orbit ; in eyes ; in nose ; on chin ; in epigastrium ; in stomach ; from liver to chest ; in abdomen ; in perineum ; in sternum ; in region of heart.

Pressing together of lids as if overcome with sleep.

Bearing down : in genitals.

Constriction : of chest : of throat ; about heart.

Cramp : in forehead.

Soreness : in kidneys.

Aching : of testicles.

Dull pain : in 1. side of head.

Undefined pain : in 1. side of head to eyes ; about heart ; in joints and limbs ; in ulcers.

Tension : in head ; of the brain ; over nasal bones ; in various places in face ; in abdomen.

Throbbing : in head ; in and around eye ; in pit of stomach ; in chest ; in big toe.

Fullness : in head ; in stomach ; about heart.

Heaviness : in intestines.

Numbness : over nasal bones ; of bones of face ; on chin.

Heat : of the face ; increased warmth in stomach ; in spleen ; in abdomen ; in toes.

Dryness : of the eyes ; in mouth and throat ; in oesophagus.

Coldness : in head ; in intestines (see 15) ; crawls over back ; of the skin.

Tickling : in trachea.

Itching: in r. eye.

Tissues p. 195

Dark-red, hot swellings.

Arthritic and cold swellings.

▌ Venous pulsations ; congestion of the portal vein ; congestive fullness about the heart and chest, with asthma; heat efface and ears, after eating; pressure on the chest, etc., copious discharges; all signs of fullness of the venous system.

││ Dropsy, ascites, from abdominal venous stasis.

▌ Obesity; seldom of use in bone diseases unless the body is heavy, bloated.

││ Scraping sensation on the bones ; whole body puffed.

▌ Caries in the scrofulous, and after abuse of mercury.

▌ Glands hard, swollen, hot and throbbing, with shooting, jerking pains ; scrofulous complaints.

Neuralgia of the stump, after amputation of thigh.

▌ Osteitis, caries, bluish redness and swelling of the parts.

Ulcers, with bluish edges, hard, painful to the slightest touch ; thin, very offensive pus.

Interstitial distension of bones.

▌ Soft enlargement of bones, also curvature.

Softening of bones.

││ Nightly bone pains in syphilis.

Painful osteitis.

▌ Bones threatened by syphilis. θ Iritis.

▌ Caries of bones ; adhesion of skin in caries.

▌ Scrofulous caries of bones, even necrosis.

▌ Ulcers with fetid, ichorous, bloody, serous pus; with bluish, partly raised edges, painful to the slightest touch.

▌ Ulcers deep, flat, fistulous, affecting the bone.

Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 196

Touch : pain in head > ; pains extend through eye into head ; aching of testicle ; ulcers extremely sensitive ; pains cease or change place.

Pressure : eye > ; colic improved

Most extreme sensitiveness in the vicinity of the carious ulcer of the tibia, of the superficial skin-sores, and also of the ulcer itself; the patient cries out if the finger touched a place distant from the ulcer ; removal of charpie causes most severe pain.

Better from rubbing.

Scratching : itching better.

Riding in carriage : fullness in head < ; drawing side of neck ▌< ; bearing down in genitals worse.

Injuries suppurate.

Cold gangrene.

Wounds appear bright red, raw, covered with crust of tenacious lymph.

After amputation : neuralgia of stump.

Ulceration from burns or scalds, or other causes, with great sensitiveness to suffering; child screams on seeing dressings prepared, dreads and shrinks from the approach of any one likely to touch the sore.

Skin p. 197

Dark red, hot swellings.

Itching, pricking, burning of the skin ; itching >> by scratching.

Skin puffed up, inflamed.

▌ Sphacelus.

Flat eruptions, painful.

▌ Ulcers with extreme sensitiveness ; patient flinches from even the softest dressing ; or from the near approach of any one.

▌ Ulcers with high, hard, bluish edges, sensitive to touch, easily bleeding; pus profuse, greenish, thin, off"tensive, even ichorous. See 44.

▌ Shooting pain around the ulcer.

▌ Ulcers grow black.

││ Old scars break open and turn black.

Ulcers penetrating to the bones, discharging thin, fetid ichor.

Ulcers or sores looking raw, bloody or dark ; or discharge copiously.

Quivering in the skin.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 197

Nervous women, subject to hysteria.

▌ Phlegmatic temperament.

││ Scrofulous, bloated, clumsy children. See 44.

▌ Venous, hemorrhoidal constitutions. See 44.

▌▌ Nervous people. See 36.

Very weak or delicate persons suffering from very great sensitiveness.

▌ Syphilitic patients who have taken much mercury.

▌ Girl, get. 9, chorea.

▌ Woman, set. 21, in the sixth week after first confinement not milk enough, after the third could nurse full nine months.

▌ A multipara, set. 34 ; milk had disappeared tenth day in seven confinements.

Relations p. 197

Antidotes to Asaf. : pulsat., I 1 Caustic,

││ Camphor., I 1 Cinchon., mercur., I I Valer.

Useful in ailments from \Pulsat., or from abuse of mercur. in syphilis, and from effects of alcoholism.

Similar to : Arg. nitr. (better open air); Aurum met. (bone diseases, iritis, etc.); Castor., Cinchon., Caustic, Crot. tig. (pertussis) ; Hepar (sensitiveness around ulcers ; faints from pains) ; Ignat. (hysteria) ; Mercur. (syphilis) ; Mosch. (hysteria, spasms of lungs, fainting, etc.); Phosphor, (pertussis); Pulsat., Thuya, Valer.

Family relations : Ammon., Cicut., Conium, etc.

Frequently indicated after Pulsat. and Thuya.