Sanguinaria

Characteristic symptoms

Cases marked by a cold and languid circulation, manifested by coldness of the extremities, a relaxed and pallid skin and great sensitiveness to all atmospheric changes. Prostration of muscular strength ; weakness and palpitation ; scaly eruptions ; ill-conditioned ulcers, with callous -borders and ichorous discharges ; old indolent ulcers ; warts; polypi; anxiety and feeling of dread; moroseness, with nausea ; hopefulness ; sanguine of recovery from illness ; vertigo on turning the head and looking upward ; feeling of soreness on small spots on the head, especially in the temples ; sick headache / pains in the head begin in the morning, increase during the day, and last till evening ; digging, piercing, throbbing pains in the head, followed by chills ; nausea, vomiting of bile or food, forcing the patient to lie down and keep perfectly quiet ; every motion aggravates the pains, which are only relieved by sleep ; pains like a flash of lightning on the back of the head ; severe burning, heat and redness of the face ; much sneezing ; fluid coryza ; watery acrid coryza ; catarrhal ophthalmia ; granular lids ; ulcers on the cornea ; beating humming in the ears ; painful sensitiveness to sudden sounds ; spongy and bleeding gums ; pain in hollow tooth when touched by the food ; grumbling toothache ; toothache after cold drinking ; ulcerated sore throat ; feeling of dryness in throat, not diminished by drinking ; sensation in throat as if it were swollen up and would suffocate him, with pain in swallowing and aphonia ; prickling sensation on the tongue and roof of the mouth ; tongue feels as if burned ; loss of appetite, with uncertain cravings ; fatty, slimy taste in the mouth ; burning in the stomach ; unquenchable thirst, with vomiting and prostration ; nausea and vomiting from irritation of the coats of the stomach ; flatulent eructations ; bitter vomiting, with headache ; sensation as if hot water poured itself from the breast in the abdomen, followed by diarrhœa ; copious urination at night ; tickling in the throat, with sensation of swelling in the larynx and expectoration of thick mucus ; tormenting cough with expectoration and circumscribed redness of the cheeks ; pains in the breast, with pressure and heaviness in the whole of the upper part of the chest, with difficulty of breathing ; stitches in the breast ; extreme dyspnoea ; short, accelerated, constrained breathing, with tenesmus ; rust-colored sputa ; burning of the palms of the hands.