Mezereum

Characteristic symptoms

Diseases of the bones and mucous membranes ; rheumatic tearing, drawing pains in muscles and long bones ; semilateral pains, with chills and shuddering, aggravated by the touch and by motion of the affected parts; sensitiveness to the open air ; glandular swellings ? tertiary fever and ague, with swelling of the spleen and great sensitiveness to cold air ; bone-pains on the head, with drawing and numbness ; scaly and moist itching eruption on the hairy part of the head; crusta lactea ; impetigo; herpes zoster ; eruptions, with itching in the evening, when in bed, aggravated and changed to burning by touch or scratching ; sensitive and easily bleeding ulcers, painful at night, the pus tends to form an adherent scab, under which the matter collects ; ophthalmia ; itching eruption behind the ear ; yellow, thin, bloody and corroding discharge from the nose ; benumbing pressure in malar bones and temples, chiefly in the right side, connected with a boring in the upper jaw and in decayed teeth ; the teeth feel dull and elongated ; organic cardialgia ; malignant induration of the stomach ; burning pressure in the stomach ; burning eating soreness, with the feeling as if food lies there undigested ; eructations of air, with yawning ; chilliness, with cold feeling, perspiration, anxiety, constriction of the pharynx, feeling of hunger without appetite, great thirst, pyrosis ; corroding leucorrhœa of a semi-transparent mucus ; menses too frequent and lasting too long ; deep, hollow, hoarse cough ; whooping cough ; cough with vomiting after eating ; stitching in the right side of the chest.