Natrum Carbonicum

Sodium Carbonate. NA^ CO^, IOH2 0. Introduced by Hahnemann and proved by himself, Gross, Hering, Langhammer, etc. (Materia Medica Pura, vol. 3, p. 290). Clinical Authorities.— -E;^ec/s of overstudy, Hering, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 457; Pain in head, Berridge, Rane's Rec, 1875, p. 208; Loss of hearing, Berridge, Rane's Rec, 1875, p. 79 ; Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 108 ; Coryza, Hills, Rane's Rec,

Hirsch, Horn

Clin., vol. 1, p. 257; Nasal catarrh, Blakely, Rane's

Rec, 1870, p. 131; Toothache, Plainfield, Horn. Phys., vol. 2, p. 318; Affection of

chest, Morgan, Horn. Clin., vol. 4, p. 99 ; Rane's Rec, 1872, p. 110; Goitre, Wolffin,

Desguidis, Trans. Horn. Med. Sac. Pa., 1883, p. 210; Suppression of sweat and

chronic coryza, Kirsch, Horn. Clin., vol. 1, p. 258; Albuminuria, Knorr, MSS. ;

Effects of exposure to sun, Martin, Trans. Horn. Med. Sac. Pa., 1880, p. 242 ; Anosmia,

Morgan, Ham. Clin., vol. 3, p. 48 ; Scrofulous affection, Hartmann, Ruck. Kl. Erf.,

vol. 4, p. 409 ; Affection of skin, Hering, Ruck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 222.

Mind

▌▌ Inability to think or to perform any mental labor ; head feels stupefied if he tries to exert himself.

▌ Memory gradually failing; inaptitude for meditation or hard work ; difficulty of conception or combining ideas when listening or reading; figures and diagrams were void of expression to him and seemed enveloped in mist. θ Effects of overstudy.

▌ Difficulty in grasping and connecting thoughts when reading or listening.

▌ Aversion to mankind and society; estrangement from individuals and society, even from her husband and family.

▌▌ Sadness; depression of spirits; hypochondriacal mood.

▌▌ Intolerable melancholy and apprehension; she is wholly occupied with sad thoughts.

Irritable, excitable mood.

Avarice; maliciousness.

▌ Restlessness, with attacks of anxiety, especially during a thunderstorm ; < from music.

▌ Anxiety; trembling and sweat during pains.

▌ In evening restlessness of body, unless he exerts himself mentally.

▌ Affected by playing on piano a short time, with painful anxiety of chest, trembling of body and weariness; must lie down.

Constant fear and forebodings.

││ Great timidity.

│ lln difference.

Sensorium p. 542

▌ Vertigo: from mental exertion ; when working in sun; < from rest, > on exercise in open air; from exposure to sun; from drinking wine.

▌ Dulness of head when at rest or when in sun.

│▌ Dulness in occiput, as from pressure, in morning.

Inner Head p. 542

▌ Head feels too large.

▌ Tension in head, as if forehead would burst.

▌ Frontal headache when suddenly turning head.

││ Shooting pain in 1. frontal eminence to 1. lower occiput.

▌ Stitches in head and out of eyes.

││ Pulsating headache in vertex every morning.

││ Tearing pain in forehead, at certain hours of day.

││ Stupefying, pressing headache in forehead, nausea, eructations and dimness of sight in evening; < in room.

││ Stitching, tearing, throbbing in forehead, temples and vertex, with vertigo, melancholy and great physical prostration.

││ Pain in 1. frontal eminence to 1. lower occiput.

▌▌ Headache from slightest mental exertion.

││ Painful sense of emptiness in occiput, with weakness and hoarseness of voice.

││ Pain from occiput to vertex.

││ Drawing and tension in r. side of occiput as if head would be drawn back,

││ Long continued pressure in r. side of occiput.

││ Dull pressure from occiput to nape, with drawing pain, at last extending to forehead.

││ Headache at noon, < low down in occiput.

││ Headache and tension in nape before menses.

▌ Headache: from sun; from working under gaslight.

Outer Head p. 542

▌ Pains in head at certain hours of day.

││ Falling out of hair.

││ An almost painless boil on occiput.

Sight and Eyes p. 542

▌ Dim eyes; has to wipe them constantly.

▌ Black spots floating before vision while writing.

▌ Sensation as of feathers before eyes.

▌ Dazzling flashes before eyes on awaking.

││ Flashes and streaks of light before closed eyes at night.

▌ Cannot read small print.

││ Ulceration of cornea.

▌ Small corneal ulcers or phlyctenules, with great photophobia and stinging pains, particularly in scrofulous children.

Needlelike stitches in both eyes after dinner.

▌ Stitches in eyes from within outward.

▌ Dermoid swelling of conjunctiva.

▌ Inflammation of eyelids, with photophobia.

Dry eyes.

▌ Heaviness of upper lids; could hardly open them; they close involuntarily.

││ Agglutination of eyes in morning; lachrymation during forenoon.

Hearing and Ears p. 543

▌ Oversensitiveness of hearing; sensitive to noise.

▌ Hard hearing, as if ears were closed up.

▌ Loss of hearing of r. ear for seven or eight months ; sounds seem to come from 1. side when they really come from right; at times singing in r. ear, or a noise like a bubble bursting in ear; fulness in r. ear when eating; on swallowing feeling as if something moved in ear.

▌ Hardness of hearing and roaring in 1. ear, with caries of 1. molar teeth; pain in 1. side of face; stiffness of neck and 1. shoulder; pain in small of back and 1. leg, < from motion, > in rest; menses irregular and scanty; all < before menses. θ Chronic otitis media.

▌ Otalgia with sharp piercing stitches in ears.

Smell and Nose p. 543

▌ Loss of smell and taste, with coryza.

││ Violent sneezing, with rush of blood to head.

▌ Coryza with discharge of thin mucus and frequent sneezing.

▌ Coryza: fluent; violent sneezing; very profuse; < at night, when nose is obstructed ; < from least draft of air or change of clothing; on alternate days; > after sweat.

▌ Troublesome stoppage of nose every night. θ Chronic catarrh.

▌ Stoppage of nose with hard, offensive pieces from nostril.

▌▌ Much nasal mucus passes through mouth.

▌ Yellow offensive discharge from nose.

▌ Thick green mucus blown from nose.

▌ Thick yellow greenish, musty smelling discharge, ceasing to flow frequently after a meal, with stoppage of nose. θ Cor3^za.

▌ Hard fetid clots from one nostril.

▌ Coryza with discharge of copious, thick, mucous masses during day, and obstruction of nose at night; speech has a disagreeable nasal twang; resistent swelling of middle lobe of thj^roid gland; pale face and dark streaks under eyes; menses scanty and postponing.

▌ After getting a thorough wetting, skin which formerly perspired easily became dry; also suffered from a coryza, with profuse discharge and a disagreeable influence on her voice.

▌ Ozsena; bad smell of nasal secretion.

▌ Nostrils ulcerated high up.

▌ Bleeding of nose.

▌ Humid, herpetic eruptions and ulcers on nose, around mouth and on lips.

▌ Peeling off of dorsum and tip of nose, painful when touched.

▌ Red nose with white pimples on it.

││ Squeaking sensation at root of nose.

▌ Inflammation of external nose.

Upper Face p. 544

▌▌ Pale face with blue rings around eyes^ swollen eyelids.

▌ Face puffy. θ Albuminuria.

▌ Burning heat and redness of face, cheeks swollen.

││ Pains in bones of face. θ Chronic naso-pharyngeal catarrh.

││ Much eruption on nose and mouth.

▌ Yellow blotches on forehead and upper lip.

││ Freckles on face.

││ White pimples on red nose.

Lower Face p. 544

▌ Swelling of upper lip.

▌ Lips swollen and tettery ; burning rhagades on lower lip.

││ Humid eruption or ulcers around nose and mouth.

▌ Pimples on face and lips.

▌ Swelling of submaxillary glands.

Teeth and Gums p. 544

▌ Digging, boring toothache, especially during or after eating sweetmeats or fruit.

▌ Sensitiveness of teeth, especially lower.

▌ Nightly pressing toothache, with swelling of lower lips and of gums.

▌ Toothache: in lower jaw; < when eating; < from sweet things; > by smoking.

Taste and Tongue p. 544

▌ Taste: bitter or metallic; sour, thickly coated tongue ; of blood ; of pus in throat.

▌ Dry tongue and dislike to talk.

▌ Tongue not facile; speech difficult.

▌ Stuttering on account of heaviness of tongue.

▌ Burning about tip of tongue, as if it was cracked.

▌ Pimples on tip of tongue.

Inner Mouth p. 545

Saliva generally increased.

▌ Constant dryness of mouth and lips, which she was constantly obliged to lick, as if caused by heat of breath.

▌ Dry mouth and throat, with inclination to drink.

▌ Slight redness of mucous membrane of mouth and fauces, with rawness and scraping ; desire to hawk and hem ; mucus collects at night and is hawked up in morning.

▌ Redness and soreness of mouth, with flat, painful blisters ; increased appetite; great thirst for cold water, but < after drinking it ; yellow stools discharged with a gush ; frequent urination of dark, sour smelling urine. θ Stomatitis.

▌ Flat ulcers and blisters inside of mouth, burning and painful when touched.

Throat p. 545

▌ Throat and oesophagus feel rough, scraped, dry.

▌▌ Accumulation of mucus in throat and posterior nares.

▌▌ Violent hawking up of thick mucus that constantly collects.

▌ Throat painful when swallowing and gaping,

│▌ Glandular swellings in throat.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions p. 545

▌ Incessant hunger.

▌ Increased and ravenous hunger in forenoon, from sensation of emptiness in stomach.

▌ Thirst: in afternoon; incessant; great desire for cold water a few hours after dinner.

▌▌ Aversion to milk and diarrhoea from it.

Eating and Drinking p. 545

After eating: hypochondriacal; weak digestion ; pressure in stomach ; eructations ; distress and tenderness, with palpitation (may also follow abuse of soda crackers).

▌ Indigestion especially marked after vegetable diet, particularly starchy foods.

▌ Bad effects of a cold drink while overheated.

▌▌ After milk, diarrhoea.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 545

││ Frequent hiccough.

Eructations frequent; empty; sour; in afternoon.

▌ Waterbrash.

▌ Violent retching in morning, without actual vomiting.

▌ Nausea and retching, with pain and soreness in stomach ; < from touch ; > from eating.

▌ Continuous qualmishness and nausea.

▌ Vomiting of bile, bitter.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 545

▌ Gnawing and pressure in stomach, with distension and "gone," weak feeling about 10 or 11 A.M., > from eating.

▌ Stomach weak and easily disordered.

▌ Heaviness and pressure in stomach; nausea; frequent hiccough.

▌ Violent pressure in stomach after dinner and breakfast.

▌ Pit of stomach sensitive to touch and when talking.

▌ Cramp in stomach, pressing, drawing, cutting pain.

▌ Depressed and exceedingly irritable, particularly after dinner; hypochondriasis; > as food passes out of stomach into duodenum and down into bowels ; averse to society, even to his own family ; indigestion, < after vegetable diet, particularly starchy foods ; sour eructations; waterbrash; retching in morning; spasmodic contraction of oesophagus and stomach, with little or nothing coming to mouth ; copious salivation ; abdomen hard and swollen, especially after eating ; accumulation of flatus, fetid when passed ; griping colic just after a meal ; stool difficult to expel, though not hard. θ Indigestion.

Hypochondria p. 546

' ' Violent, sharp stitches in r. hypochondriac region, followed by griping in lower abdomen.

▌ Stitches in 1. hypochondrium ; < after drinking very cold water.

▌ Stitches in hepatic and splenic regions. θ Chronic hepatitis.

││ Violent stitches in region of spleen.

Abdomen p. 546

Colic with constriction around stomach ; contraction of navel, hardness of integuments of abdomen.

▌ Hard, bloated, swollen abdomen.

▌ Accumulation of flatus; loud rumbling; swellings here and there as from incarcerated wind.

▌ Flatus changing place and causing pain.

▌ Distension of abdomen, especially after eating.

▌ Griping in abdomen like colic, immediately after eating.

▌ Pressure in lower abdomen, extending to genitals, as if everything in abdomen would fall out and menses come.

▌ Pitchlike eruption on lower part of abdomen.

▌ Swelling (generally painful) of glands of groin and axilla.

Stool and Rectum p. 546

" ▌Passes much sour smelling or fetid flatus ; feces escape.

▌ Stools: yellow; soft or watery, with violent, sudden urging and tenesmus; watery, yellow, discharged with gush ; < from milk or after eating and from taking cold ; spotted with blood ; sour smelling ; yellow, with burning and tenesmus ; frequent, ineffectual urging, alternately with liquid stools ; soft, preceded by colic.

▌ Discharge of blood during stool.

▌ Yellow substance, like pulp of an orange, in stool; climacteric period.

▌ Difficult evacuation of stool that was not hard; was obliged to make great effort before it could be discharged.

Insufficient stool, with tenesmus, followed by burning in eyes and urethra; great sexual excitement. θ Constipation.

││ Constipation, alternating with soft and liquid stools.

▌ Before stool: cutting; strong urging; severe colic with rumbling in abdomen.

During stool : tenesmus ; burning and cutting in anus and rectum ; sexual excitement.

▌ After stool; pain in rectum.

││ Itching in anus.

▌ Tapeworm with stool; itching creeping in anus.

Urinary Organs p. 547

Pressure in region of bladder.

▌ Frequent desire to urinate, discharge scanty or copious.

▌ Nocturnal, involuntary}' micturition.

▌ Urine: dark yellow, fetid, sour, or like horse's urine; deposits a mucous sediment like well water, when she must go often, pain mostly in r. leg as if veins were bruised.

▌▌ Burning in urethra during and after micturition.

Male Sexual Organs p. 547

▌ Increased sexual desire ; priapism.

▌ Nocturnal erections and pollutions, or emissions without erections.

▌ Incomplete coition, short erection, speedy emission.

▌ Chronic hypertrophy of prostate, small and painless, only detected by physical examination suggested by discharge of prostatic fluid at stool and when urinating.

▌ Straining and tenesmus, with a voluptuous sensation in genitals.

▌ Prostatorrhoea after urinating and after difficult stool.

▌ Inflammation, swelling and easy excoriation of prepuce and glans penis.

▌ Soreness between scrotum and thighs.

▌ Heaviness and drawing in testicles; testicles feel bruised.

Female Sexual Organs p. 547

▌ Pressure in hypogastrium as if everything would come out; indurated cervix and ill shaped os.

▌ Bearing down as if everything would come out; melancholy; oversensitive to music ; backache; heaviness, < sitting, > moving; bruised pain over back at night, tension, boring from tip of 1. scapula through; skin dry, rough.

▌ Passive congestion of uterus, causing pulsation there during and after coitus, due to extra influx of blood caused by sexual erethism.

▌ Pressure as if uterus would protrude.

▌ Motion as from foetus in uterus.

▌ Moles in uterus.

▌ Menses: too early and long lasting; preceded by drawing in nape of neck and headache; with tearing headache, distended abdomen in morning, > by diarrhoea; nervous, cannot bear music; < in a thunderstorm.

▌ Metrorrhagia.

• Deficient menstruation in adult females.

▌ Dysmenorrhoea ; sterility.

▌ Congenital defective growth of anterior vaginal wall, with ill shaped os.

▌ Discharge of mucus from vagina after an embrace, causing sterility.

▌ Profuse leucorrhoea, after frequent attacks of colic, with writhing about umbilicus.

▌ Leucorrhoea, with frequent copious urination.

▌ Leucorrhoea thick, yellow, putrid, ceasing after urinating.

Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation p. 548

Expels moles, prevents false conception.

▌ Labor pains weak or accompanied by anguish and sweat, wath desire to be rubbed.

Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia p. 548

▌ Hoarseness, with roughness of chest, coryza, chilliness and scraping, painful cough.

Respiration p. 548

▌ Dyspnoea and shortness of breath from tension of chest.

Cough p. 548

▌ Cough: dry, with stopped catarrh; violent, dry, < when entering a warm room; short, with rattling in chest; with rumbling, incarcerated flatus; wdtli salty, purulent, greenish sputa.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 548

▌ Pressing stitches in chest.

││ Burning soreness in r. mid chest ; loose cough, no sputum; coldness between scapulae, seems unable to give any exact voluntary statement; pain in r. rhomboid muscle when sewing or exercising, and in damp weather; moves to opposite side sometimes.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 548

▌ Painful cracking in region of heart.

▌ Violent, anxious palpitation of heart when ascending and at night when lying on 1. side.

▌ Burning and distress along spine, with palpitation ; thinks he has heart disease.

▌ Palpitation: woke her at night, while lying on 1. side; on going up stairs ; prevents lying on side.

▌ Pulse excited at night, with ebullitions.

Outer Chest p. 548

Chilliness in one (1.) side of thorax.

Neck and Back p. 548

▌ Cervical glands swollen.

▌ Goitre pressing pain; round, hard swelling on upper r. part of gland.

▌ Stiffness of neck.

▌ Cracking of cervical vertebrae on moving head.

Rigidity and drawing between scapulae in open air, or in back, extending as far as anus, in paroxysms and terminating in a stitch w^hen sitting or lying.

Stitch in back, sometimes as far as 1. side of chest, evening and night.

▌ Backache; violent after walking.

▌ Stitches in small of back while sitting.

▌ Tingling (formication) in back.

││ Pustules on small of back.

Upper Limbs p. 549

▌ Rheumatic pain of shoulder, arms and elbows, with weakness of arms.

▌ Pressing pain on shoulders.

▌ Has to stretch arms, with anxiety.

▌ Twitches and twitching sensation in arms and fingers on taking hold of anything.

││ Drawing pain in elbow.

││ Warts on arms and backs of hands; painful to touch.

▌ Cutting pain in hands.

▌ Trembling of hands, morning.

▌ Contraction of fingers.

▌ Swelling of hands in afternoon.

• Eczema, skin of dorsa of hands rough, dry and chapped.

▌ Jerking sensation in finger joints.

▌ White bullae, with red areola on index finger.

▌ Panaritium.

Lower Limbs p. 549

▌ Tearing and bruised pain in r. hip. θ Dysmenorrhoea.

▌ Jerkings in lower extremities and in parts of lower body.

▌ Unsteadiness while walking, stumbling, slipping.

▌ Lower extremities feel very heavy and bruised.

▌ Heaviness of legs and feet, with tension in them while sitting or walking.

▌ Creeping, stinging in muscles of thighs and beneath epigastrium.

▌ Blotches (as in lepra) on legs.

▌ Hollow of knee painful on motion.

▌ Tension in bend of knee; muscles shortened.

▌ Cramp of calves.

││ When walking in open air sensation as if a knife pierced calf of leg and as though blood trickled down it.

▌ Lower legs swollen, inflamed, red and covered with ulcers.

▌▌ Easy dislocation and spraining of ankle; ankle is so weak that it gives way; foot bends under.

▌ Cutting pain and cramps in feet.

▌ Very cold feet.

▌ Burning in feet, especially soles, while walking.

▌ Swelling of feet and soles of feet, with stinging in them when walking or stepping on them.

▌ Soreness of feet, particularly of soles.

▌ Stitches as with needles in sole of r. foot; sole swollen.

▌ Throbbing and crawling in heels.

▌ Ulcer on heel from spreading blisters.

▌ Black, ulcerated pustules on heel.

▌ Blisters on points of toes, as if scalded.

▌ Smarting and soreness between toes; excoriation.

▌ Swelling, tearing and soreness in (big) toes, no sleep.

││ Red spot on big toe, as if contused,

││ Violent stitches in a corn.

▌ Boring, drawing and stinging in corns.

▌▌ Cold feet.

▌ Pressing pain in dorsa of feet.

Limbs in General p. 550

▌ Great weakness of lower extremities and heaviness of arms.

▌ Cutting pains in hands and feet.

▌ Vesicular places of tips of all fingers and toes, as if scalded, extending around nails as if they would come off.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 550

Rest: vertigo < ; dulness of head.

Lying: on 1. side, palpitation; stitch in back to anus.

Must lie down : weariness.

Sitting : backache, heaviness < ; stitch in back to anus.

Sewing: pain in r. rhomboid muscle.

Most symptoms appear while sitting and go off on motion, pressing and rubbing.

Moving: backache and heaviness >; of head, cracking cervical vertebrae; hollow of knee painful; causes profuse sweat.

Suddenly turning head : frontal headache.

On taking hold of anything: twitches in arms and fingers.

Has to stretch arms : with anxiety.

When ascending: anxious palpitation.

On stepping : foot bends.

Walking : violent backache ; unsteadiness ; heaviness of legs and feet with tension ; as if knife pierced calf of leg; burning in feet; swelling of feet with stinging.

Exercising: pain in r. rhomboid muscle; causes great debility.

Nerves p. 550

▌ Great debility from any exertion ; unsteady walk, any little obstruction on pavement causes him to fall, or falls without apparent cause.

▌ Is ready to drop after a short walk.

▌ Exhaustion from mental effort.

▌ Great prostration and heaviness of whole body.

▌ Great lassitude and vertigo from effects of exposure to sun.

││ Uneasiness.

▌ Twitching in muscles and limbs.

▌ Contractions of muscles, hands, bends of knees, neck, etc.

▌ Hysteria.

Sleep p. 551

Sleepiness: in morning; during day, with yawning.

▌ Falls asleep late at night.

▌ Awakes too early in morning.

▌ During sleep: starts, twitches; vivid dreams, violent erections and sexual excitement; restless, with ebullitions, palpitation and nightmare.

▌ Dreams: anxious; confused; pleasant; amorous.

Time p. 551

Morning: dulness in occiput; agglutination of eyes ; mucus hawked up ; violent retching ; distended abdomen ; trembling of hands ; sleepiness ; awakes too early ; shivering for one hour ; sudden chilliness not followed by heat; bloating of whole body.

About 10 or 11 A.M. : weak feeling in stomach.

During forenoon : lachrymation ; ravenous hunger ; chilliness <.

During day: coryza; sleepiness; feeling of coldness in lower extremities; cold and chilly.

Noon : headache.

Afternoon : thirst ; frequent eructations ; swelling of hands; bloating of whole body <.

After dinner : needlelike stitches in both eyes.

Evening : restlessness of body ; headache in forehead with nausea, eructations and dimness of sight; stitch in back.

Night: flashes and streaks of light before closed eyes; coryza < ; mucus collects in throat; bruised pain over back ; palpitation ; pulse excited ; stitch in back ; falls asleep late.

Temperature and Weather p. 551

Sequelae of exposure to heat of sun • inability to think ; head feels stupefied and aches when in sun ; dazzling flashes or black spots before eyes; dimness of sight; palpitation; trembling of hands ; debility from least exertion ; restless, unrefreshing sleep ; profuse sweat from least exertion.

▌ Great debility caused by heat of summer.

▌ Chronic effects of sunstroke; may have been overcome by heat years ago, and now, with return of hot weather, suffers from headaches.

Open air : exercise, vertigo > ; rigidity and drawing between scapulae ; when walking, as if knife pierced calf of leg.

In room: headache <; cough <.

In sun : vertigo ; dulness in head ; exposure to, causes vertigo and great lassitude.

Draft of air: coryza <.

Averse to uncovering.

Damp weather: pain in r. rhomboid muscle.

Change of clothing : coryza <.

After getting a thorough wetting: skin perfectly dry, formerly perspired easily, and chronic coryza.

Cold water : great thirst for it, but < after drinking it ; stitches in 1. hypochondrium.

Bad effects of a cold drink while overheated.

Fever p. 552

││ Chilliness and shivering for one hour in morning.

││ Sudden chilliness, not followed by heat in morning.

▌ Feeling of coldness in lower extremities even during day,

▌ Continued chill in 1. side.

▌ Cold hands and feet, with hot head.

▌ Cold and chilly all day, < in forenoon; hands and feet cold, head hot, or hands and feet hot, with cold cheeks.

▌ Evening chilliness, dulness of head; then heat and sleep.

▌ Heat, with general sweat.

▌ Flushes of heat from (nose) down back ; irritability ; averse to uncovering.

▌ Heat of face.

▌ Sweat profuse from every exertion ; anxiety.

▌ Burning sweat on forehead where hat presses.

▌ Night sweat, alternating with dry skin.

▌ Morning sweat.

▌ Cold, anxious sweat.

Attacks, Periodicity p. 552

At certain hours of day : tearing pain in forehead returns.

Alternately : ineffectual urgings and liquid stools ; constipation and liquid stools ; night sweat and dry skin.

Alternate days: coryza <.

Worse during full moon.

Every morning : pulsating headache in vertex.

Every night: troublesome stoppage of nose; pressing toothache ; involuntary micturition.

Before menses : chronic otitis media.

For seven or eight months : loss of hearing in r. ear.

▌*^ Locality and Direction. Right : drawing and tension in r. side of occiput ; long continued pressure in side of occiput; loss of hearing; singing in ear; fulness in ear; as if something moved in ear; violent sharp stitches in hypochondriac region ; pain in leg ; burning soreness in chest; pain in rhomboid muscle; hard swelling on upper part of gland ; tearing and bruised pain in hip.

Left : shooting pain in frontal eminence to lower occiput ; sounds seem to come from 1. side when they really come from r. ; roaring in ear; caries of molar teeth; pain in side of face; stiffness of shoulder; stitches in hypochondrium ; boring from tip of scapula ; chilliness in side of thorax ; stitch in back as far as side; stitches in sole of foot ; chill in side.

Particularly upper r., lower 1. side.

From within outward : stitches in eyes.

Sensations p. 553

Head as if too large ; as if forehead would burst ; as if head w^ould be drawn back ; as of feathers before eyes; as if ears were closed up; as of a bubble bursting in ear ; on swallowing, feeling as if something moved in r. ear ; as if tip of tongue was cracked ; dryness of mouth as if caused by heat of breath ; swellings as if from incarcerated wind ; as if veins of r. leg were bruised; pressure in hypogastrium as if everything would come out ; as if uterus would protrude ; motion as from a foetus in uterus ; as if a knife pierced calf of leg and as though blood trickled down it; stitches as of needles in sole of r. foot ; blisters on points of toes, as if scalded ; red spot on big toe as if contused ; as if nails would come off; itching as from fleas.

Pain: in forehead ; in 1. frontal eminence to lower occiput ; from occiput to vertex; in 1. side of face; in small of back and 1. leg; in bones of face; in stomach; in rectum ; in r. rhomboid muscle ; in back.

Stupefying pain: in forehead.

Stitching, tearing, throbbing : in forehead, temples, vertex.

Tearing pain : in forehead ; in r. hip ; in big toes.

Shooting pain: in 1. frontal eminence to 1 lower occiput; in vesicles.

Violent sharp stitches : in r. hypochondriac region ; in region of spleen ; in a corn.

Sharp piercing stitches : in ears.

Needlelike stitches: in both eyes.

Pressing stitches: in chest.

Stitches: in head and out of eyes; in 1. hypochondrium; in hepatic and splenic region; in back; in small of back ; in sole of r. foot.

Cutting: in stomach; in anus; in rectum; in hands; in feet.

Pulsating pain : in vertex.

Digging, boring: toothache.

Boring : from tip of 1. scapula.

Boring, drawing stinging : in corns.

Stinging : in eye.

Pressing, drawing, cutting : in stomach.

Griping : in stomach ; in lower abdomen.

Writhing: about umbilicus.

Cramp : in stomach ; of calves ; in feet.

Rheumatic pain : of shoulder, arms and elbows.

Pressing pain : in forehead ; in teeth ; in goitre ; in stomach ; on shoulders ; in dorsa of feet.

Drawing pain : from occiput to nape ; in stomach ; in elbow.

Bruised pain : over back ; in r. hip.

Smarting : between toes.

Burning soreness : in r. mid chest.

Burning : about tip of tongue ; of blisters in mouth ; of eyes and urethra ; in anus; in rectum; along spine; in feet.

Soreness: of mouth; in stomach; between scrotum and thighs; of feet, < soles; between toes; in big toes.

Stinging : in feet.

Creeping, stinging: in muscles of thighs and beneath epigastrium.

Throbbing and crawling: in heels.

Tingling: in back.

Painful cracking: in region of heart.

Painful sense of emptiness : in occiput.

Burning heat : of face.

Bruised, heavy feeling: in lower extremities.

Drawing: in r. side of occiput; in testicles ; in nape of neck.

Violent pressure: in stomach.

Long continued pressure: in r. side of occiput.

Dull pressure: from occiput to nape; in stomach; in region of bladder ; in hypogastrium.

Tension: in head; in r. side of occiput; in nape; in legs and feet ; in bend of knees.

Heaviness: of upper lids; of tongue; in stomach; in testicles; of legs and feet; of arms; of whole body.

Fulness : in r. ear.

Constriction: around stomach.

Stiffness: of neck and 1. shoulder.

Obstruction : in head.

Dryness: of mouth and lips; of throat.

Squeaking sensation : at root of nose.

Voluptuous sensation : in genitals.

Gone, weak feeling: in stomach.

Twitching sensation : in arms and fingers.

Jerking: in finger joints ; in lower extremities and in parts of lower body.

Itching: in anus; over whole body ; in vesicles.

Tissues p. 554

Emaciation, with pale face, dilated pupils; dark urine.

▌ Bloating of whole body mornings, > in afternoon.

▌ Pallid anaemia, with great debility, with watery or milky whiteness of skin, when disease is due to an original inertia and phlegmatic state.

▌ Putrid leucorrhoea, uterine troubles; vitality below par.

▌ Subacute, inflammatory irritation of whole alimentary mucous membrane, from mouth to anus.

▌ Swelling and induration of glands; scrofulosis.

Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 555

Generally > from touch, pressing or rubbing parts gently.

Cutting pain, burning and stinging in wounded parts.

Touch : peeling off of dorsum and tip of nose painful ; ulcers and blisters painful ; soreness in stomach < ; pit of stomach sensitive; warts on arms and backs of hands

Desire to be rubbed : during labor pains.

Where hat presses: burning sweat on forehead.

Easily sprained ; disposition to be sprained by any exertion ; old sprains.

Skin p. 555

Itching over whole body as from fleas.

▌ Sensation of formication.

▌ Skin of whole body becomes dry, rough and cracked in places.

▌ Red vesicles filled with fluid in bend of elbow, in fold between genitals and thigh and on chin.

▌▌ Vesicles, with shooting pains and itching.

▌ Spreading and suppurating herpes.

▌ Herpes: iris; circinatus; suppurating.

▌ Yellow rings like remains of herpes.

▌ Pitchlike eruption on lower part of abdomen.

▌ Light brown spots (freckles) on face.

▌ Warts: ulcerate; sensitive to touch.

▌ Ulcers, with swelling and inflammatory redness of affected parts; burning, pricking and pulsating; pus corroding, acrid, putrid and yellow.

▌ Rose colored blotches in leprous patients.

▌ Spots and tubercles all over face, arms, thighs and legs, which ulcerate; leprosy.

││ Elephantiasis grsecorum.

Amelioration by gently pressing parts or rubbing.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 555

Leuco-phlegmatic constitutions, with aversion to open air and dislike to exercise, physical or mental.

Boy, set. 15; goitre.

Girl, set. 16, lymphatic habit; coryza.

Man, set. 27, private secretary ; goitre.

Woman, set. 40, large, leuco-phlegmatic; affection of chest.

Woman, music teacher, suffering from chronic coryza, after getting wet ; suppression of sweat.

Relations p. 555

Antidoted by: Camphor, Spir. nitr. dul.

It antidotes : Cinchona.

Compatible : Calc. ostr., Nux vom., Pulsat, ▌ sepia, Sulphur.

Compare : Natr. sulph., which is preferable for yeastlike vomiting, with pallid, dirty and broad tongue ; Arsen., Carbo veg., Lycop., 3Iercur., Natr. mur., Phosphor., Silic.