Arnica

Characteristic symptoms

Stinging, creeping or laming and bruised pains in the affected parts ; aggravation of the pains by speaking, moving about, blowing, and even by every sound ; uneasiness in the whole body, with a kind of excessive mobility, Aith the sensation as if the affected parts were resting on too hard a surface ; pains as if sprained, contused, hurt; painful and excessive sensitiveness of* the whole body especially of the skin and of the joints during motion ; painful concussion in all the limbs ; tremulous uneasiness and languor, with seething of the blood and beating of the arteries ; languor and weariness, obliging him to lie down ; torpor of the capillary]/ system; a number of small boils ; red, shining, hot swellings; stinging, burning and itching pains in the skin; somnolence ; starting as in a fright when falling asleep ; dreams about frightful objects ; the lower part of the body feels cold, the upper warm ; the head alone, or the face alone hot, the body cold ; dry heat of the face with coldness of the nose ; chilliness in the evening or after sleep ; fever heat at night, with thirst, hypochondria and great irritability of inind : quarrelsomeness and peevishness ; vertigo when walking or raising or moving the head; tensive pressure in the forehead, as if the brain were squeezed up in a lump; itch ing, tearing or stitching in the head ; immobility of the scalp; sore and bruised feelings of the edges of the eyelids, as if too dry, with pain on motion ; epistaxis ; pale, sunken-in features; one cheek is hard and swollen ; creeping in the face, nose, scalp, lips and gums ; parched, chapped lips ; ulcerated corners of the mouth ; toothache, as if the teeth were sprained and loose ; white-coated tongue ; foul smell from the mouth bitter taste ; repugnance to eating, especially to meat ; desire for vinegar ; empty, bitter or foul eructations ; nausea and empty retching ; vomiting of coagulated blood ; fullness and spasmodic pressure in the stomach, as if the heart were squeezed together ; splenetic stitches when walking, arresting the breath ; colicky pains, owing to flatulence ; fetid flatulence, smelling like rotten eggs ; frequent small mucous stools; involuntary stool at night, in sleep; brown fluid diarrhœa, resembling lees of beer ; nocturnal enuresis ; retention of urine, with tenesmus of the bladder ; brown urine, with brick-dust sediment ; inflammatory swelling of the scrotum and spermatic cord ; strong sexual desire, with erections and pollutions ; inability to throw off the loose phlegm in coughing, he has to swallow it ; hsemoptoe, with discharge of bright-red blood or black lumps; stitches in the chest, especially when coughing or moving about ; fetid breath ; excessive difficulty of breathing, with anguish and oppression of the chest ; stitches in the chest or on the side ; stitches in the region of the heart, with paroxysms of fainting ; soreness of chest when coughing, places his hand upon the chest to relieve it ; obstruction and infiltration of the parenchyma of the lungs, followed by decomposition of the blood.