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Belladonna

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General EN

Belladonna.

Atropa Belladonna. Deadly Nightshade. (Greece, Italy, Britain.) N. O. Solanaceae. Tincture of whole plant when beginning to flower.

Clinical EN

Abscess. Acne. Amaurosis. Apoplexy. Bladder weakness. Boils. Brain, affections of. Bronchial glands, disease of. Carbuncle. Colic. Constipation. Convulsions.

Cough EN

Croup.

Delirium tremens.

Depression.

Diarrhoea.

Dysentery.

Ear, affections of.

Enteric fever.

Epilepsy.

Erysipelas.

Erythema.

Excitement.

Eye, affections of.

Fear, effects of.

Glandular swellings.

Goître.

Gout.

Haemorrhoids.

Headache.

Heart, affections of.

Hydrocephalus.

Hydrophobia.

Hyperaemia.

Influenza.

Kidney, affections of.

Lung, affections of.

Malignant pustule.

Mania.

Measles.

Meningitis.

Menstruation.

Mouth affections.

Mumps.

Neuralgia.

Nose, affections of.

Nyctalopia.

Nymphomania.

Paralysis.

Parametritis.

Perichondritis.

Perimetritis.

Peritonitis.

Phlegmasia alba dolens.

Pleurisy.

Pneumogastric paralysis.

Pneumonia.

Pregnancy, disorders of.

Puerperal mania.

Rheumatism.

Roseola.

Scarlatina.

Sensitiveness.

Sleep, disorders of.

Smell, disordered.

Strangury.

Taste, disordered.

Tenesmus.

Testicles, affections of.

Thirst.

Throat, sore.

Tongue, affections of.

Tuberculosis.

Ulcers.

Uterine affections.

Vaccinia.

Vertigo.

Whooping-cough.

Worm fever.

Characteristics EN

Belladonna acts primarily on the brain, and Teste very acutely explains the diversity of its action on men and animals by suggesting that it acts with an intensity proportionate to the brain development. On goats and rabbits it has no poisonous action whatever. On carnivorous animals it acts with moderate intensity. On man it acts with highest intensity.

But on idiots, as Hufeland mentions, it has no more action than it has on some of the carnivora. An enormous number of the symptoms of Bell. are developed in and from the head and sensorium. Conformably with this, the pains of Bell. run downwards, i.e., away from the head. (Silic. and Gels. have a pain running up the back).

To understand aright the action and uses of this great medicine it is necessary to bear in mind some leading features which characterise its action in all parts of the organism. But before alluding to these I will briefly refer to its correspondence to scarlatina. Cases of Belladonna poisoning have frequently been mistaken for cases of scarlatina. But it is the smooth form only, these presenting a smooth, even, red surface that come under its controlling action and prophylaxis.

When such an epidemic is about, any one who may be exposed to infection may obtain almost certain immunity by taking Belladonna two or three times a day.

The several points to be remembered about Belladonna are that it is a medicine which has great general sensitiveness and also sensitiveness of the special senses—sensitive to light; to slightest noise; to motion or jar as when someone touches the bed. This is one feature which renders Bell. so appropriate in hydrophobia. It is a chilly medicine; sensitive to changes from warm to cold, to draught of air, to damp weather, to chilling from having the head uncovered, or having the hair cut; better from being wrapped up warmly in a room.

Under this drug there is a remarkable quickness of sensation, or of motion; the eyes snap and move quickly. The pains come and go suddenly no matter how long they may last. They are in great variety, but throbbing, burning, and stabbing are very characteristic: "stabbing from one temple to the other."

The great intensity and variety of the head pains has caused Bell. to be regarded as the headache medicine par excellence. Congestion of blood to the head. Vertigo, mostly at night on turning over in bed, or when getting up in the morning, also when walking and on every change of position. Headache with flushed face and brilliant eyes, dilated pupils.

Feeling in brain like swashing of water. Throbbing, pulsating headache, with beating arteries and violent palpitation of the heart. It has cured a very severe headache in a nervous man occurring whenever he was exposed to tobacco smoke. In the mental sphere are mania; rage; disposition to bite, scratch and tear things.

Fantastic illusions when closing eyes. Dull and sleepy; half asleep and half awake. Spasms and twitchings are very marked. Many disorders of vision.

Heat, redness and burning are three great characteristic notes of Bell., and are constantly cropping out in the pathogenesis. The face is purple, red, and hot, or yellow. Redness and pallor alternate. The mouth is exceedingly dry without thirst.

Stinging in oesophagus, < swallowing or talking. Oesophagus feels contracted. Sensation of a hand clutching intestines. Stool in lumps like chalk.

Spasmodic contraction of anus; obstinate constipation. Bleeding piles; back pains as if breaking. The menstrual flow is hot; of light colour; or bad smell. Cough short, dry, tickling, similar to cough of Rumex and Phos.

Whooping-cough; with crying or pains before the attack; flushed face; nose-bleed and bloody expectoration; sparks before eyes; stitches in spleen; involuntary stool and urine. Paralysis of lungs and heart (vagus nerve). Violent palpitation of heart. Stitches in chest.

Swelling of breast with bright red streaks radiating from centre of inflammation. Rheumatism < by motion. Sweat on covered parts only.

A striking picture of Bellad. is sometimes seen in cases of worm-fever. A case (aet. 3, pale, feeble child) reported by Lutze had the following symptoms: Awakened, or at least sits up at night in bed screaming, cannot be pacified; wets bed at night; passes worms now and then; cheeks and ear-tips brilliant scarlet, other parts of face, especially round mouth, white as snow; eyes brilliant, staring; pupils dilated. Skin dry and hot like fire. On being spoken to coaxingly flew into a violent rage.

Cina 200 had ameliorated. Bell. cm. and m. cured permanently.

Bell. is a great children's remedy, not less important than Cham. Complaints come suddenly; hot, red face, semi-stupor, every little while starting or jumping in sleep as if it might go into convulsions. A very general characteristic of Bell. is < on lying down. It refers to headache and all kinds of inflammatory affections.

Some characteristic symptoms are: "Tenderness of abdomen, < by least jar." "Pressing downward as if contents of abdomen would issue through vulva, < mornings; often associated with pain in back as if it would break." Starting, twitching, or jumping in sleep. Moaning in sleep. "Sleepy, but cannot sleep." The characteristic skin of Bell. is: "Uniform, smooth, shining, scarlet redness, so hot that it imparts a burning sensation to the hand of one who feels it." "Sweat on covered parts only" is also a marked symptom of Bell.

A number of cases of poisoning have been reported from application of Belladonna plasters to the skin, classical symptoms of the drug being produced and no little danger to life. One practitioner was warned by his patient that she could not tolerate a Belladonna plaster, but he, thinking there must have been a mistake, and that cantharides must have been in the plaster she had formerly used, had one made up under his own eyes and applied it himself. In less than one hour there was an unbearable pain and when the plaster was removed the surface was found to be blistered.

A case of poisoning reported in the Medical Press (September 9, 1891) brings out the profound and long-lasting effects of the drug. Three children, aged 7, 5, and 3 1/2, ate a number of the berries. Three days after, a doctor saw them. The condition of the eldest was as follows: pupils dilated to maximum and insensitive to light; pulse frequent; breathing feeble and hurried; skin dry, bright red; temperature lowered; extremities and face cold; urination and defecation suspended.

Co-ordination was lost; the patient staggered as if drunk and acted like a mad person. When asked his name he would shout as loud as he could, falling backwards with his hands in the air, his legs slightly bent as if about to sit down on a low stool, and then tumble on the floor. When raised from the ground and seeing his friends again he began to talk without ceasing, laughing, and singing local melodies in a boisterous manner. Suddenly his whole demeanour would change in to a melancholic depression of agony; he would look blank and wild on all around.

He would instantly jump up, run at the wall, and endeavour to spring on the highest articles in the room with the strength of a wild animal, and it was with difficulty that his movements could be controlled.

The youngest of the three lay depressed, in a soporific condition, eyes closed, skin cold, limbs powerless. Pupillary reaction, tendon and muscular reflex were almost gone, whilst the sense of heat and cold still remained. On shouting loud in his ear, he slowly tried to open his eyes in wonder; when shaken and put on his feet he made two or three steps backward as his elder brother and fell senseless on the floor. The second eldest lay in a deep sleep, face cyanotic; skin of extremities and part of body dry and cold; breathing feeble, pulse scarcely perceptible.

Loudest crying, or shaking could not rouse him; feeling and reaction lost. Washing out the stomach was effected in the eldest, but no evidence of the berries was obtained in that way. A long injection tube was inserted into the rectum and irrigation with hot and cold water alternately was carried out, with the object of exciting peristalsis. This was successful.

Besides a great quantity of black-brown masticated fruit with skins and seeds, broken berries were found to the number of 28 in the case of the eldest, 39 in the second, and 37 in the youngest. Pilocarpin and morphia were injected in the case of the eldest, and camphor subcutaneously in the other two. The skin was rubbed, warm applications administered and rectal injections of milk, egg and brandy.

Nothing was heard of the children till "June of the present year" (1891), [the date of the poisoning is not stated, but it was probably the previous autumn] when the children were brought to the doctor by their father. They all looked pale and feeble; the pupils contracted slowly, and all were sensitive to light. The eldest was irritable and desponding. In the other two hearing and speech were almost gone.

The almost. absolute deafness in these cases is noteworthy in connection with Dr. Cooper's cure of a very chronic case of deafness with single drop doses of Bell Ø.

Bell. is predominantly (but by no means exclusively) a right-side medicine: all affections of internal head, right side right eye; right ear right face; right teeth; right hypochondrium right chest; right upper extremity; right lower extremity; mouth and fauces left side. It is suited to plethoric persons with red face; and to conditions where there is local plethora, that is, inflammatory states with pain, throbbing, shiny redness as in acute gout. Symptoms are < afternoon; 3 p.m.; 11 p.m.; after midnight; during the night and not at all in the day; morning.

By touch; draught of air; cold applications; having hair cut; looking at shiny things; drinking; sleeping; lying down; lying on affected side. > Bending affected part backwards or inwards; leaning head against something; standing; by warmth. Bell. is suited to the bilious, lymphatic temperament. Light hair and complexion, blue eyes.

It grows in dry limestone soils and is the acute correlative of Calc. c.

Relations EN

Bell. must be compared with the other Solanaceae: Caps., Dulc., Lycopers., Hyos., Stramonium and the alkaloids Atropia and Solania. Antidotes: To effects of large doses, Vegetable acids, infusion of galls, or green tea, Coffea., Hyoscy; to effects of small doses, Camph., Coff., Hep., Hyo., Op., Puls., Sabad. (salivation), Vinum. It antidotes: Aco., Arum t., Atrop., Chi., Cup., Fer., Hyo., Jaborandi, Merc., Op., Plat., Plumb., sausage poisoning; oil of turpentine.

It follows well: Ars., Cham., Hep., Lach., Merc., Phos., Nit. ac., Cup. Is followed well by: Chi., Cham., Con., Dulc., Hep., Hyo., Lach., Rhus, Seneg., Stram., Valer., Verat. Similar to: Acon., Alcohol (merry craziness); Ars.

(pains of cancer); Bry. (rheumatism < by motion. In pleurisy and pneumonia it is distinguished from Bry. in that it has < lying on affected side whilst Bry. has the opposite);

Calc. c., Cham., Cicut., Coff., Cup., Eupat. purp. (diuresis and vesical irritation, but Eupat. has more hyperaemia and vesical inflammation); Gels., Hep., Hyo., Lach., Lil. tig. (Lil. has > by motion;

Bell. < by motion), Merc., Nux v., Op., Puls., Rhus, Stram. (rage), Tereb., Verat.; Arn.

(whooping cough). Complementary: Calc. c. Incompatible: Vinegar.

Causation EN

Hair-cutting. Head, getting wet. Sausages. Sun. Wind, walking in.

Mind EN

Melancholy, with grief, hypochondriacal humour, moral dejection, and discouragement

Great agitation, with continual tossing about, inquietude, and anguish, chiefly at night, and in the afternoon, sometimes with headache and redness of face

Desire to die, and inclination for suicide

Lamentations, groans, cries, and tears

Perversity, with tears (in children)

Timidity, disposition fearful, mistrustful, and suspicious; apprehension and inclination to run away

Fear of approaching death

Mental excitation, with too great sensibility to every impression, immoderate gaiety, and disposition to be easily frightened

Nervous anxiety, restlessness, desire to escape

Dotage, delirium, and mania, with groaning, disposition to dance, to laugh, to sing, and to whistle; mania, with groans, or with involuntary laughter; nocturnal delirium; delirium with murmuring; delirium, during which are seen wolves, dogs, fires, &c.; delirium by fits, and sometimes with fixedness of look

Stupefaction, with congestion to the head; pupils enlarged

Delirium

Great apathy and indifference, desire for solitude, dread of society and of all noise

Repugnance to conversation

Disinclination to talk, or very fast talking

Ill-humour, disposition irritable and sensitive, with an inclination to be angry and to give offence

Folly, with ridiculous jesting, gesticulations, acts of insanity, impudent manners

Fury and rage, with desire to strike, to spit, to bite, and to tear everything, and sometimes with growling and barking like a dog

Dejection and weakness of mind and body

Dread of all exertion and motion

Loss of consciousness

Fantastic illusions (when closing the eyes)

Dementia, to such an extent as no longer to know one's friends, illusions of the senses and frightful visions

Complete loss of reason, stupidity, inadvertence, and distraction, inaptitude for thought, and great weakness of memory

Memory: quick; weak; lost.

Head EN

Confusion of the head, cloudiness, and apparent intoxication, chiefly after eating or drinking, or else in the morning

Apoplexy

Fits of vertigo, with tottering, swimming in the head, dulness, giddiness, nausea, trembling of the hands, anxiety; sparks before the eyes, chiefly in the morning on getting up, on standing upright, or on stooping

Vertigo with anguish, and falling with loss of consciousness, or with weariness and fatigue before and after the attack

Vertigo, with stupefaction, vanishing of sight and great debility

Vertigo, with anguish and falling insensibly on the l. side, or backwards, with flickering before the eyes, esp. when stooping, and when rising from a stooping posture

Stupor and loss of consciousness, so as to know one's friends only at most by the hearing, sometimes with pupils dilated and mouth and eyes half open

Fulness, heaviness, and violent pressure on the head, chiefly on the forehead, above the eyes, and nose, or on one side of the head, and sometimes with giddiness, stupor, and sensation as if the cranium were going to burst, or with ill-humour and groans, drawing up of the eyelids and desire to lie down

Sensation of inflation and pressive expansion in the brain

Sharp, tractive, and shooting pains in the head

Dartings into the head, as if from knives

Violent throbbings in the head

Strong pulsation of the arteries of the head

Ebullition and congestion of blood in the head, chiefly on stooping

Congestion of blood to the head, with external and internal heat; distended and pulsating arteries, stupefaction in the forehead, burning, red face;

< in the evening, when leaning the head forward, from the slightest noise, and from motion

Stupefying, stunning headache, extending from the neck into the head, with heat and pulsation in it;

< in the evening and from motion;

> when laying the hand on the head, and when bending the head backward

Sensation of cold or of heat in the head

Headache, from taking cold in the head, and from having the hair cut

Sensation of fluctuation in the brain, as if there were water in it

Sensation, during the pains, as if the cranium were too thin

Sensation of a dull balancing in the brain, and shocks in the head, chiefly on walking quickly or ascending

Daily pains in the head, from about four o'clock in the afternoon till towards three o'clock the following morning, < by the heat of the bed and by a recumbent posture

The pains in the head are generally aggravated by movement, especially of the eyes, by shaking, by contact, by free air and a current of air; they are mitigated by holding the head back and by supporting it

Cramp-like pain in the scalp

Copious sweat in the hair

Affections of the hair, which may split, or come out, or be hard and dry, &c

Profuse pungent-smelling perspiration, esp. on the covered parts, while the body is burning

Shaking or turning of the head backwards

Hydrocephalus, with boring with the head in the pillows; sensation as if water were moving in the head;

< in the evening and when lying;

> from external pressure, and when bending the head backwards

Boring with the head on the pillow while sleeping

Boring headache in the r. side of the head; changing to stitches in the evening

Pressing headache, as if the head would split, pupils contracted, voice faint

Swelling of the head and of the face

Smooth, erysipelatous, hot swelling, first of the face, then extending over the whole head, with stupefaction or delirium, violent headache, red, fiery eyes.

Eyes EN

Heat and burning in the eyes, or pressure as from sand

Aching in the eyes and the sockets, extending into the head

Sensation of weight in the eyelids, which close involuntarily

Quivering in the eyelids

Ectropium

Paralysis of the optic nerve

Falling down of the eyelids, as if from paralysis

Shooting in the eyes and in the corners, with itching

Eyes red, brilliant, and convulsed, or fixed, sparkling, and prominent, or dull and turbid

Congestion of blood to the eyes, and redness of the veins

Look fixed, furious, and wavering

Look wild, unsteady, wavering

Spasms and convulsive movements of the eyes

Eyelids wide open

Inflammation of the eyes, with injection of the veins and redness of the conjunctiva and of the sclerotica

Heat in the eyes

Distension of the sclerotica

Inflammatory swelling and suppuration of the lachrymal aperture

Softening of the sclerotica

Spots and ulcers on the cornea

Medullary fungus in the eye

Swelling and inversion of the eyelids

Yellowish colour of the sclerotica

Eyes as if affected by ecchymosis, with haemorrhage

Sensation of burning dryness in the eyes; or flow of acrid and (salt) corrosive tears

Pupils immovable and generally dilated, but sometimes also contracted

Agglutination (nocturnal) of the eyelids

Desire for light, or photophobia, with convulsive movements of the eyes when the light strikes them

Distortion, spasms, and convulsions of the eyes

Momentary blindness

Confused and weak sight, or obscuration and entire loss of sight

Blindness at night (moon-blindness)

Presbyopia

Mist, flames, and sparks, before the eyes

Diffusion of the light of candles, which appear to be surrounded by a coloured halo

White stars and silvery clouds before the eyes, esp. on looking at the ceiling of the room

Objects appear double or reversed, or of a red colour

Trembling and sparkling of the letters when reading.

Ears EN

Piercing, aching, sharp pain, pinching, squeezing, and shooting in the ears

Inflammation of the external and internal (r.) ear, with discharge of pus

Excretion of pus from the ears

Stinging in and behind the ears

Ringing, murmuring, and buzzing in the ears

Humming and roaring in the ears

Paralysis of the auditory nerves

Great acuteness of hearing

Hardness of hearing; sometimes as if there were a skin before the ears

Swelling of the parotids, with shooting and tractive pains, which sometimes extend even to the throat

Stitches in the parotid gland.

Nose EN

Pain, as of a bruise, in the nose, esp. on touching it, and sometimes with burning

Nocturnal shootings in the nose

Swelling, redness, and burning it the point of the nose

Inflammatory swelling and redness of the external and internal nose

Bleeding of the nose, with redness of the face

Painful ulceration of the nostril

Nose very cold

Bleeding of the nose, chiefly night and morning

Haemorrhage from the nose and mouth

Great dryness of the nose

Sense of smell either too sensitive, esp. to tobacco smoke, or diminished

Putrid smell in the nose

Fluent coryza of one nostril, alternating with stoppage of the nose

Smell like herring in the nose during the coryza.

Face EN

Paleness of the face, which sometimes suddenly alternates with redness

Face hollow, with anxious look of the features, and wandering air

Burning heat of the face, sometimes without redness

Glowing redness and bloated appearance of the face, as from drinking wine

Deep, or scarlet, or bluish redness of face

Purple, red, hot face, or yellow colour of the face

Hard swelling and bluish redness of face, principally (of one) of the cheeks, and sometimes with burning, shooting, piercing, and pulsation

Erysipelatous swelling of the face

Semi-lateral swelling of the face

Spots of a scarlet or deep red colour on the face

Eruption of red pimples on the temples, in the corners of the mouth, and on the chin

Purulent and scabby pimples, chiefly on the cheeks and on the nose

Thickening of the skin of the face

Cramp-like pressure, sharp and drawing pain in the cheek-bones

Nervous, violent incisive pain in the face, following the course of the sub-orbital nerve

Nervous prosopalgia, with violent, cutting pains

Muscular palpitations and convulsive movements in the face, chiefly in the mouth, which is drawn towards the ear

Spasmodic distortion of the mouth (risus sardonicus)

Swelling, of the upper lip

Induration and swelling of the lips, with shootings in rough weather

Deep redness and dryness of the lips

Pimples, scabs, and ulcers; with a red circular margin, on the lips and in the corners of the mouth

Convulsive clenching of the jaws, which renders it impossible to open the mouth

Sensation as if the lower jaw were drawn very far back

Sharp pains in the jaws; shooting and tension in the maxillary articulations

Mouth half open, or spasmodically closed by lock-jaw; sensations under the jaw; affections of the articulations of the jaws (sometimes while chewing)

Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, and of those of the neck, with nocturnal (shooting) pains.

Teeth EN

Violent grinding of the teeth

Sharp and drawing pains or successive pullings in the teeth, sometimes with pain in the ears, and chiefly at night or in the evening, during intellectual labour, or else after having eaten

The toothache is < by exposure to the air, or by the touch, while masticating

Toothache with inflammatory swelling of the cheek

Piercing in carious teeth, and flow of blood on sucking them

Painful swelling of the gums, with heat, itching, and pulsations, or with ulcerative pain on being touched

Bleeding of the gums

Vesicles on the gums, with pain like that of a burn.

Mouth EN

A sensation of great dryness, or a real and extreme dryness and choking in the mouth

Dryness of the mouth, without thirst

Foam before the mouth, sometimes of a reddish colour, or having the smell of rotten eggs

Accumulation and flow of saliva, viscid, thick, and whitish

Great accumulation of viscid, whitish mucus in the mouth and in the throat

Offensive smell of the mouth, chiefly in the morning

Inflammatory swelling and redness of the buccal cavity, and of the pharynx

Violent haemorrhage of the mouth

Excoriation of the interior of the cheek; the orifices of the salivary ducts are as if ulcerated

Sensation of cold, of torpor, and of numbness in the tongue

Tongue red, hot, dry, and cracked, or loaded with whitish mucus, or yellowish, or brownish; redness of the edges of the tongue

Inflammatory swelling and redness of the papillae of the tongue

Phlegmonous inflammation of the tongue

Soreness of the tongue, esp. on touching it, with a sensation as if it were covered with vesicles

Heaviness, trembling, and paralytic weakness of the tongue, with difficult and stuttering speech

Dumbness

Voice weak, whistling, and nasal.

Throat EN

Pain of excoriation, scraping, and shooting in the throat and in the amygdalae, principally on swallowing, and sometimes extending to the ears

Great dryness and burning in the throat and on the tongue

Inflammation and swelling of the throat, of the velum palati, of the uvula, and of the tonsils; suppuration of the tonsils

Inflammation of the throat, with sensation of a lump, which induces hawking, with dark redness and swelling of the velum palati and tonsils

Burning and dryness in the oesophagus

Stinging in the oesophagus, in the tonsils;

< when swallowing, and when talking

Tonsils inflamed, swollen, ulcers rapidly forming on them

Painful and difficult deglutition

Complete inability to swallow even the least liquid, which frequently passes out through the nostrils

Constant inclination to swallow, with a sensation as though suffocation would otherwise follow

Sensation of contraction, strangling, and spasmodic constriction in the throat

Sensation as if there were a tumour in the throat, or a plug which cannot be detached

Paralytic weakness of the organs of deglutition.

Appetite EN

Loss of taste

Food appears insipid or too salt

Putrid, or insipid, or slimy, or bitter taste of the mouth

Rye bread tastes acid

Want of appetite and distaste for all food, chiefly for meat, acids, coffee, milk, and beer

Burning, excessive, intolerable thirst, often with dread of all drink; or constant desire to drink with inability to swallow a single drop of liquid

Drinking is performed with trembling precipitation

Great and unbearable hunger

After having eaten, a feeling of intoxication, colic, pains in the stomach, heat, and thirst.

Stomach EN

Frequent risings, often bitter, or putrid, or sour and burning

Pyrosis

Obstructed and abortive risings

Nausea and inclination to vomit, chiefly on beginning to eat, or in the open air, or after breakfast, sometimes with burning thirst

Retching and violent vomiting, principally in the evening or at night; retching, with entire inability to vomit; vomiting of food, or of mucous or bilious matter, of blood; or acid and serous matter; vomiting with diarrhoea, or with vertigo, heat, and sweat

Spasmodic hiccough, sometimes with sweats and convulsions

Pressure, cramp-like and contractive pains, sensation of fulness and inflation in the stomach and in the epigastrium, principally after having eaten or while eating

Shootings, beatings, pulsations, and burning in the stomach and in the precordial region

Inflammation of the stomach and of the duodenum.

Abdomen EN

Colic with constipation, abundant flow of urine, risings and nausea

Violent pain in the abdomen, which allows no rest whatever

Shootings in l. side of the abdomen, on coughing, on sneezing, and on being touched

Pains and burning in the hypochondria

Pressure in the abdomen, as if by a stone, chiefly in the lower part of the abdomen and in the groin

Painful pressure in the pit of the stomach and stomach, esp. after eating

Painfully distended abdomen, very sensitive to the touch

Inflation and tension of the abdomen, chiefly in the hypochondria

Colic, with restlessness, below the umbilicus, as from clutching and griping with the nails, < from external pressure

Cramp-like, contractive, and constrictive pains and pinching in the abdomen, and esp. round the navel or in the hypogastrium, with a sensation as if one or other of the parts were squeezed, or seized with the nails; the pains necessitate a bending of the body, and are sometimes accompanied by vomiting, or by inflation and protrusion of the colon in the form of a pad

Digging in the abdomen

Cuttings and shootings in the abdomen, as from knives

Heat and great anguish in the abdomen

Rumbling in the abdomen, with frequent escape of flatus without smell

Soreness of the whole abdomen, as if everything in it were excoriated and raw, and painful sensibility to the touch of the teguments of the abdomen

Shootings in the groins

Itching in the abdomen.

Stool And Anus EN

Suppressed evacuations and constipation, sometimes with inflation of the abdomen, heat of the head, and copious sweats

Hard and scanty evacuations

Frequent inclination to evacuate, with tenesmus, but without result

Frequent small evacuations, often with tenesmus

Frequent small diarrhoeic stools of mucus

Evacuations whitish like chalk, or greenish; evacuations watery or slimy

Thin, green stools, with frequent micturition and perspiration

Dysenteric stools

Before stool, perspiration

During stool, shuddering

Spasmodic stricture of the rectum

Stinging pain in the rectum

Loose evacuations, with nausea and aching pains in the stomach

Involuntary evacuations, from paralysis of the sphincter of the anus

Bleeding piles; back pains as if breaking

Mucous membrane of anus seems swollen as if pressed out

Prolapsus ani.

Urinary Organs EN

Frequent desire to make water

Retention of urine

Difficult discharge of urine (and then discharge of a few drops of bloody urine only)

Continual dribbling of urine

When passing water, faeces escape

Frequent emission of urine, copious, pale, and watery, sometimes with profuse perspiration, thirst, increased appetite, diarrhoea, and obscuration of sight

In continence and involuntary emission of urine, even in the night and during sleep

Paralysis of the neck of the bladder

Strictures of the urethra

Urine turbid, of a yellow colour, or clear, the colour of gold or citron; or scanty and of a brownish-red colour, or the colour of blood, or a bright red colour

Red, or whitish and thick sediment in the urine

Sensation of motion in the bladder, as of a worm

Nocturna pressure in the bladder

Shooting, burning pains in the renal region.

Male Sexual Organs EN

Sharp and drawing pain in the spermatic cords, chiefly while making water

Retraction of the prepuce

Soft and painless nodosity in the glans

Shootings in the testes, which are drawn up

Inflammation of the testicles, great hardness in the drawn-up testicles

Pollutions, with flaccidity of the penis

Nocturnal sweat of the genital parts

Flow of prostatic fluid

Sexual desire diminished, with perfect indifference to all voluptuous excitement.

Female Sexual Organs EN

Violent pressure towards the genital parts, as if all were going to protrude, principally when walking, or when in a crouching posture

Shooting in the internal genital parts

Great dryness of the vagina

Prolapsus and induration of the matrix

Catamenia too copious, and too early, or too tardy

Catamenia too pale

Before the catamenia, fatigue, colic, loss of appetite, and confused sight

During the catamenia, nocturnal sweat on the chest, with yawning and transient shiverings, colic, or anguish of heart, burning thirst, sharp and cramp-like pains in the back and in the arms

Flow of blood beyond the period of the catamenia

Flow of blood between the periods

Menstrual discharge bright red, feeling very hot like hot sealing-wax

Metrorrhagia of clear red blood, with a discharge of fetid clots; with violent pain in the small of the back and bearing-down

Menstrual blood of bright colour, or of a bad smell

Leucorrhoea with colic

Diminished lochia

Spasmodic contraction of the uterus

Labour pains too distressing, spasmodic; too weak, or ceasing

After-pains

Congestion and inflammation of the uterus and labia

Stitches in the organs

Puerperal fever, nymphomania

Flow of milk from the breast

Mammae swelled, inflamed, or indurated.

Respiratory Organs EN

Catarrh with cough, coryza, hoarseness with tenacious mucus in the chest

Voice weak, hoarse, and whistling; nasal-toned voice

Loss of the voice

Great soreness of the larynx, with danger of suffocation on pressing the gullet, as well as on coughing, on speaking, and on breathing

Spasmodic constriction of the larynx

Larynx very painful, with anxious starts when touching it

Constriction of the trachea

Short, dry cough, from tickling in the larynx, with headache, redness, and heat in the face

Cough with stitches in the chest, in the lumbar region, in the hip, in the uterus; pain in the sternum, with tightness of the chest; with rattling of mucus on the chest

Dry spasmodic cough, with vomiturition, esp. after midnight

Whooping-cough, with crying, or pain in the stomach before the attack, with expectoration of blood (pale or coagulated), congestion of blood to the head, sparks before the eyes, spasms in the throat, bleeding from the nose, stitches in the spleen, involuntary stool and urine, oppressed breathing, stiffness of the limbs, shaking of the whole body, and dry general heat

Cough, as if one had swallowed dust, or as if there were some foreign body in the larynx, or in the pit of the stomach, which excites the cough; chiefly at night, or in the afternoon, in the evening in bed, and even during sleep; the cough is mostly dry, short, and sometimes convulsive, fatiguing and shaking, or hollow and barking

Before the cough, tears, or pains in the stomach; when coughing, shootings in the abdomen, or retching, or pain as of a bruise in the nape of the neck; after the paroxysm, sneezing

The least movement, when in bed at night, renews the cough

Cough with rattling in the chest, or with catarrh, and shootings in the sternum, or with headache and redness of face

Expectoration of thick and puriform mucus with the cough

Cough with spitting of blood.

Chest EN

Breathing laboured, unequal, quick, with moaning

Rattling noise, and crepitation in the bronchia

Vehement expirations

Feeling of suffocation when swallowing, or when touching and turning the neck

Oppression of the chest, difficult respiration, dyspnoea and shortness of breath, sometimes with anxiety, and chiefly in the evening in bed, and after having drunk (coffee)

Oppression of the chest in the morning when rising, cannot breathe in the room, better in the open air

Congestion to the chest

Irregular respiration, at one time small and rapid, at another time slow and profound

Respiration short, anxious, and rapid

In the morning after rising, want of breath, relieved in the open air

When walking, cramp-like oppression of the chest, with necessity to fetch a long breath

Pressure on the chest, with pain in the shoulder-blades and short breath

Tension in the chest

Shootings in the chest, sometimes as if from knives, and chiefly on coughing and yawning

Great inquietude and beatings in the chest

Painful blisters, filled with water, or small spots of a deep red colour on the chest.

Heart EN

Violent beatings of the heart, which sometimes are felt in the head

Palpitation of the heart when ascending

Trembling of the heart, with anguish and pressive pain

Violent palpitation of the heart, reverberating in the head.

Neck And Back EN

Painful swelling and stiffness in the neck and in the nape of the neck

Painful swelling in the glands of the neck and in those of the nape of the neck

Sharp pains in the armpits

Red and purulent pimples on the back and nape of the neck

Veins in the neck swollen

Sour sweat, only on the neck

Pain, as of dislocation; rheumatic and drawing pains in the back and between the shoulder-blades

Furunculus on the shoulder

Dartings, as if from knives, in the bones of the spine

Gnawing in the dorsal spine, with cough

Painful stiffness and cramp-like pains, in the sacral regions and in the back.

Upper Limbs EN

Arms benumbed and painful

Tractive pressure, with sensation of torpor, and sharp pains in the arms

Inclination to stretch the arms

Arms heavy, as if paralysed

Torpor and heaviness of the arms

Swelling and scarlet redness of the arms and of the hands

Drawing and aching pain in the shoulder, running rapidly from the top to the bottom of the arms, and exhibiting itself particularly at night, diminished by external pressure, excited by motion

Painful startings, cramp and convulsions in the arms and in the hands

Trembling of the hands

Pressure, with sharp pains in the carpal and metacarpal bones

Arthritic stiffness in the joints of the hand

Frequent dislocation of the joints of the fingers

Drawing back of the thumbs.

Lower Limbs EN

Shootings and burning pains, aggravated by fits, in the coxo-femoral joint, more unbearable at night, and increased by the least contact

Stiffness in the hip, after sitting for some time, with difficulty in getting up

Pain in the hip, which causes lameness

Involuntary limping

Tottering walk, when rising from bed in the morning, the legs refuse their service

Trembling of the knees

Drawing pains in the legs, esp. in the knees

Heaviness and paralysis of the legs and of the feet

Bending of the knees and of the feet in walking

Tension of the tendons of the ham

Swelling of the feet

Crawling sensation in the feet

Phlegmasia alba dolens.

Generalities EN

Shooting, or tearing, aching pains in the limbs Bruise-like pains in the joints and bones Rheumatic pains (in the joints) flying from one place to another The pains are aggravated, chiefly at night, and in the afternoon towards three or four o'clock

The least touch, and sometimes also the slightest movement, aggravates the sufferings Some of the symptoms are aggravated, or make their appearance after sleep Jerking in the limbs, muscular palpitations and shocks of the tendons St.

Vitus's, dance Sensation in the muscles, as if a mouse were running over them Cramp, spasms, and convulsive movements, with violent contortion of the limbs; convulsive fits, with cries, and loss of consciousness; epileptic convulsions, drawing back of the thumbs Renewal of the spasms by the least contact, or from the glare of light

Hydrophobia Burning in the inner parts Attacks of immobility and of spasmodic stiffness of the body, or of some of the limbs, sometimes with insensibility, swelling of the veins, bloatedness and redness of the face, pulse full and quick, with copious sweat Spasms in single limbs, or of the whole body, in children, during dentition

Full habit (plethora) Swelling in general of the parts affected Inflammation of the glands; induration of the glands; glands painful, prickling, swelling, hot swelling of the glands Attacks of tetanus at times, with the head thrown back

Spasmodic attacks, with involuntary laughter Before the convulsive fits, formication, with a sensation of swelling and torpor in the limbs; or colic and aching in the abdomen, extending to the head; after the attack, oppression at the chest, as if from a heavy weight The attacks are renewed by the least touch, as well as by the slightest opposition Great uneasiness in the head and limbs, chiefly in the hands

Trembling of the limbs, with fatigue and lassitude Heaviness in the limbs, with weariness, great indolence and dread of all movement and of all labour Failing of strength, paralytic weakness, and paralysis of the limbs Paralysis and insensibility of one side of the body

Fits of swooning and of syncope, with loss of all sensation and of all motion, as in death Ebullition of blood, with congestion to the head, and fatigue even to fainting Congestions (head, lungs) Apoplexia

Over-excitement and too great sensibility of all the organs Tendency to be chilled easily, with great sensibility to cold air Formication in the limbs.

Skin EN

Swelling, with heats and scarlet redness of the whole body, or of several parts, chiefly the face, the neck, the chest, the abdomen, and the hands

Cutting of the skin as though "sliced" with a sharp knife

Erysipelatous inflammations, with phlegmon, which sometimes turn to gangrene

Gangrene and sphacelus of several parts

Red places, inflamed and scarlet spots on several parts of the body, sometimes with small, quick pulse, difficulty of respiration, violent cough, delirium, liveliness of memory, inclination to rub the nose, and dilated pupils

Red spots, the colour of blood, over the whole body, principally on the face, neck, and chest

Eruption resembling morbilli

Eruption of petechiae, with itching and redness of the whole body

Miliary eruptions

Vesicles which discharge a great deal of serum, and are so painful as to extort cries and groans

Bleeding soreness of the bends of the joints

Eruption of pustules with whitish edges, with black slough, and oedematous swelling of the diseased part

Boils (returning every spring)

Red scaly eruption on the lower part of the body

Scrofulous tumours and nodes, which are painful

Pain, as of excoriation, burning and pulling in ulcers, principally on being touched, during motion, and in the night

Dry, burning-hot skin

Burning of the skin, particularly when the hand continues to burn after touching the skin, as though a hot stove had been touched, very characteristic

Red, hot, and shining swelling of the diseased parts

Smooth, even shining (not circumscribed) redness of the skin, with bloatedness, dryness, heat, burning itching and swelling of the parts (esp. face, neck, chest, abdomen and hands)

The ulcers secrete a purulent and sanguineous matter

Chilblains

Painful swelling of the glands (inflamed, stinging).

Sleep EN

Constant drowsiness, sometimes with cloudiness, and yawning, and chiefly towards the evening

Fits of somnolence and of lethargy, with profound sleep, immobility of the body, jerking of the tendons pale and cold face, hands cold, and pulse small, hard, and quick

Somnolence: stupor, lethargy (with snoring)

Coma, interrupted by momentary wakings, with furious looks

After the fit of coma, great hunger, burning heat, and dryness of the mouth

Pulsations of the blood-vessels; may hear the pulsations of the blood-vessels so loud when trying to sleep as to be kept awake by it

Comatose sleep at night, with frequent waking and convulsive movements

Sleep, with moaning and tossing about

Nocturnal sleeplessness, sometimes with desire to sleep and useless efforts to go to sleep, mostly in consequence of excessive anguish or great agitation

On sleeping, frequent starts with fright, groans, cries, starting of the limbs, carphology, aggravation of pains, singing, talking, delirium, and continual dreams

Nightmare

Dreams: anxious, terrible, frightful, vivid, dreams of fires, of robbers, and assassins; meditative dreams

On closing the eyes in order to go to sleep, frightful visions and jerking in the limbs

On waking, headache and aggravation of sufferings.

Fever EN

Coldness over the entire body, with paleness of face, or coldness of the extremities, with bloatedness and redness of the face

Shiverings and partial shuddering, chiefly in the back or the pit of the stomach, or in one arm, and sometimes with heat in other parts, chiefly in the head, or followed by universal shivering

Cold limbs, with hot head

Chilliness not relieved by the heat of the stove

Continuous dry, burning heat, with perspiration only on the head

Internal heat with restlessness; hot forehead and cold cheeks

Dry heat and thirst, and perspiration only on the head and neck (sour-smelling)

The shiverings appear mostly in the evening, sometimes with nausea; bruise-like sensation, and pulling in the back and in the limbs, pricking in the chest and obscuration of the eyes

Febrile attacks, in which shiverings alternate with heat, or of shiverings followed by heat, with aggravation at night or in the evening, resembling quotidian, or double quotidian, or tertian, with complete adypsia, or burning and inextinguishable thirst

Dry, burning heat, often with swelling of the veins, pulsation of the carotids, heat, redness and bloatedness of the face, burning thirst, agitation, furious delirium, and shiverings on being even slightly uncovered

Pulse strong and quick, or full and slow, or small and quick, or hard and wiry

If slow, the pulse is full

Pulse full; hard; strong, bounding, double

Sweat with or after the heat; copious sweat during the night, or in the morning; sweat of the parts that are covered only; ascending from the feet to the head; sweat when asleep; sweat of an empyreumatic smell, or which imparts a yellow colour to the sheets.