Lycopodium

Characteristic symptoms

Aggravation every afternoon at 4 oclock; aggravation from warmth during rest, from pressure, from drinking wine, and when riding ; over-sensitiveness to pain; ail the limbs are painful, when touched or pressed ; drawing and tearing in the affected parts, especially every other day or in windy weather, relieved by external warmth ; feels better in the open air, but is very sensitive to cold air; catches cold very easy; stiffness of the limbs with insensibility and numbness; seething of the blood and great restlessness of the body ; frequent attacks of distressing feeling of coldness, as if the blood became cold, or the circulation were arrested ; spasmodic extension and contraction of single limbs and muscles ; drawing and stitching in all the limbs ; epileptic convulsions; limbs go to sleep easily; tremulous languor; frequent syncope; emaciation; the skin of the whole body is hot and dry with tendency to crack ; rhagades ; itching liver-spots ; humid herpes ; large periodical boils ; arthritic nodes ; swelling of the glands ; dropsical swellings ; softening, contraction and curvature of bones ; nightly bone pains y freckles; drowsiness in daytime with light; sleep at night; sleep full of fancies; irresistible sleepiness after dinner, uneasiness and twitching of the feet during sleep ; violent chilliness and coldness of the body; burning fever heat in the evening; perspires freely during the day; perspiration smells sour and acrid ; melancholy, sadness, grief and whining mood; despair of being saved; anxiety in the evening, with dread of men, and fear of solitude ; sensitive irritability and stubborn quarrelsomeness ; frenzy with pride and desire to command ; absence of mind, using one word for another in talking and one letter for another in reading ; complaints with headache arising from mental labor ; headache, as if the bones of the skull were drawn asunder, the brain vacillating to and fro, especially when walking, going up-stairs, or rising after stooping ; rush of blood to the brain with heaviness of the head, tearing in and around the head with pains in the bones of the skull ; gray hairs, and falling off of the hair ; suppurating eruptions on the scalp ; vertical half-sightedness ; excessive sensitiveness of hearing and sight ; pale livid con> flexion with wrinkles, blue borders round the eyes and blue lips ; flashes of heat in the face ; scurf in the nose, ulcerated nostrils ; stoppage of the nose with acrid discharge ; sense of smell exceedingly sensitive ; nasal muscles are first ex paneled, then again contracted and shortened, as if turned up, giving the fan-like motion of the alae nasi ; pimples, freckles and itching herpes of the face ; the teeth become yellow ; foul breath from the mouth ; desire for sweet things ; sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to pressure and touch ; tightness of the hypochondria, as from a band; pains in the liver ; canine hunger with headache, as if not satisfied ; after a meal, sensation as of fasting, but without hunger ; nervousness and weariness after a meal with quick pulse ; gastralgia and chronic gastritis, in persons subsisting mostly on heavy bread, sour small beer and adulterated coffee ; chronic pain over the liver with irritability and inflammation of that organ ; enteralgia and colic accompanied by accumulation of gas in the bowels with eructations and desire to go to stool, but inability to pass it, also colic from the passage of gravel or calculi • fluent coryza with cough and hoarseness ; stuffing of nostrils ; formication or ant-like crawling in windpipe at night ; dry morning-cough ; cough after drinking affecting the chest; loose cough with spitting of purulent matter, like confirmed consumption ; phthisis pituitosa ; short breathing of children ; constant oppression with suffocation on doing the least work; painful stitches on left side of chest with bruised feeling ; beating of the heart in bed ; herpetic spots on neck and chest ; pains in the loins in bed ; stitches in the back after stooping; dragging of shoulder blades; stiffness of the nape of the neck; boring pains in arms; twitchings in the arms during sleep ; dry skin and cold feet ; frequent jerking of the limbs, or. even of the whole body, whether awake or sleeping.