Rumex crispus

Characteristic symptoms

Throbbing through the body; sensitiveness to the open air in cold weather, or to the cold ; sharp pains in the left chest; stinging itching in the skin, especially when uncovered and exposed to the air, the warmth of the bed soon relieves the itching ; sleepiness in the evening before the proper time ; unquiet sleep, with dreams of danger just before waking ; headache, worse on movement ; frontal headache on awaking in the morning ; sore feeling in the eyes without any inflammation ; roaring in the ears ; mucous discharge from posterior nares ; violent and rapid sneezing ; fluent coryza ; sensation as of a burn or scald on the tongue ; dryness of the mouth and tongue at night ; sensation of a lump in the throat, not relieved by hawking and swallowing; sensation of weight or of a hard substance in the stomach after a meal ; bitter taste in the morning ; flatulency after meals ; nausea with eructations ; sharp pain in the pit of the stomach, either worse on movement or occurring while riding out in the open air ; sensa- ♦ion of fullness in the abdomen, with rumbling of flatus ; griping pains in the bowels, below the umbilicus, relieved by the discharge of offensive flatus ; liquid diarrhœa in the morning; brown, watery diarrhœa ; diarrhœa in the mom- Ing, tooth cough; acute catarrhal affections of the larynx, trachea and bronchi; tenacious mucus in the throat, detached and removed by an expiratory effort, or attended with a constant desire to hawk and raise it ; sudden change of voice at the same hour on consecutive days ; it diminishes the secretion and exalts the sensibility of the mucous membrane of the larynx and trachea ; frequent and continuous coughs dry, in long paroxysms, and induced or greatly aggravated by any irregularity of respiration ; rawness and soreness of the trachea, extending below the supra-sternal fossa, and laterally in the bronchi, especially the left ; annoying and very persistent tickling in the throat, partially relieved by coughing ; aggravation of the cough after retiring, so that the patient covers the head with the bed-clothes to keep the cold air off ; hoarseness ; aphonia ; sensation in the left chest as if the heart had suddenly ceased beating, followed by heavy throbbing through the chest ; burning, stinging pain in the heart, coming on soon after lying down.