Lachnanthes

Characteristic symptoms

Symptoms worse when lying down, they disappear when walking about ; fever, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks and brilliant eyes ; itching and burning of the skin all night, worse after scratching ; wakefulness without feeling weak ; restless sleep at night ; whining on account of headache ; sensation as if the vertex was enlarged and was driven upwards ; the head feels enlarged and as if split open with a wedge from the outside to within ; the whole scalp is very painful to the touch ; coryza ; profuse epistaxis ; all the teeth painful, loose and too long ; dryness in the throat, especially at night when waking, with much cough ; headache relieved after eating : aversion to meat ; hiccough ; swelling and twisting in the upper part of the abdomen ; flatulency ; pneumonia ; cough from irritation in the throat ; feeling of fullness in the chest ; stitches in the chest ; sensation of heat in the region of the heart ; wry neck. Lach. — Lachesis— Aggravation in the open air, during damp weather, after sleeping, from exertion, evening aggravations ; pains relieved by eating ; left-sided affections ; phlegmatic, spongy constitution, with dark eyes and inclination to laziness; emaciation; tearing in and contraction of the affected joints ; bone-pains, mostly in the evening and passing off during sleep; paralysis; awkward gait from stiffness of the joints ; laziness, aversion to motion, wants to lie all the time; great and sudden weakness and frequent syncope ; aggravation and renewal of the pains in damp weather, after every sleep in the day or night, after fright, mortification, listening to tales of murder, after acids, wine or beer, and especially also during rest, amelioration during motion; tubercles, nettlerash, pimples and warts, gangrenous blisters, erysipelas, scarlet-like eruptions, petechise ; yellowish complexion ; deeply penetrating suppurations ; unclean, flat, ichorous ulcers ; pain in old cicatrices ; aneurisms ; sleepiness in day-time and coma ; chilliness and coldness, or heat, with seething of the blood; perspires easily or cannot sweat at all; melancholy, discouragement and loathing of life; great nervous irritability ; anxiety and despair of one's recovery ; attacks of nightly fear ; mistrust and suspicion ; peevish and fault-finding ; loss of memory and forgetfulness, especially for orthography ; maniacal jealousy; morbid talkativeness ; increased activity of the phantasy ; ideas rush upon his mind ; rush of blood to the head, as if it would burst ; one-sided, tense headaches, extending from occiput to eyes, with vomiting ; vertigo, with paleness, tendency to faint and numbness ; undulating pulsative headache ; dryness of the ears, white cerumen ; frequent bleeding of the nose ; ozaena ; coryza, with soreness <>f the nose; yellow, gray, sallow color; erysipelatous swelling of the face ; sore throat, the soreness being felt at small spots in the throat, extending to the ears, with danger of suffocation ; sensation of a plug, lump or tubercle in the throat ; sensation after eating, as if something had remained adhering to the oesophagus ; desire for wine and milk, although he feels worse after it ; dyspepsia, with pain after eating ; extreme aversion to food, also to wine and smoking ; eructations which afford relief and aggravation if flatulence does not ]>ass off; cannot bear anything tight around the waist; constipation; exhausting chronic diarrhœa, urging to urinate, with frequent micturition ; increased sexual instinct and many lascivious thoughts, with weak erections and impotency ; scanty, delaying, intermittent menses ; indispensable at the critical age, even when the menses are too profuse ; soreness and rawness of the larynx, induced by tickling in the larynx and trachea, and provoked by deep inspiration, speaking and external pressure, patient cannot endure the least constriction around the throat ; sense of fullness in trachea ; cough at night, during sleep, or from tickling in the throat ; chest feels raw between the shoulders, with stitches in the sides and bloody expectoration ; cough, as if some fluid had come in the wrong passage, or violent cough from ulcers in the throat, with nausea and difficult expectoration ; coughing of up frothy, tenacious, g] airy mucus ; excessive dryness of throat, particularly if it occurs in spots; diphtheria ; pain in swallowing extends to both ears, aggravated from empty swallowing and ameliorated by taking warm food ; inexpressible anguish about the heart ; irregularity of the beats of the heart ; old varicose ulcers ; cracked skin between the toes ; panaritium, with pricking in the extremities of the fingers.