Cinchona Officinalis
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General EN
China Officinalis.
Cinchona officinalis. Cinchona calisaya. Peruvian bark. N. O. Rubiaceae. Tincture of the dried bark.
Clinical EN
Abscess. Alcoholism. Amblyopia. Anaemia. Aphthae. Apoplexy Appetite, disordered. Asthma. Back, weakness of. Bilious attack. Catarrhal affections. Coma. Constipation.
Cough EN
Debility.
Delirium.
Diarrhoea.
Dropsy.
Dyspepsia.
Ears, deafness; noises in.
Emissions.
Empyaema.
Erysipelas.
Facial neuralgia.
Gall-stone colic.
Haemorrhages.
Haemorrhoids.
Headache.
Hectic fever.
Hip-joint disease.
Ichthyosis.
Impotence.
Influenza.
Intermittent fever.
Jaundice.
Labour.
Lactation.
Leucorrhoea.
Lienteria.
Liver, diseases of; cirrhosis of.
Menière's disease.
Menstruation, disordered.
Mercury, effects of.
Muscae volitantes.
Neuralgia.
Peritonitis.
Perspiration, excessive.
Pleurisy.
Prosopalgia.
Psoriasis.
Pylorus, disease of.
Rheumatism.
Self-abuse.
Sleep, disordered.
Spermatorrhoea.
Spleen, affections of.
Suffocation, fits of.
Taste, disordered.
Tea, effects of.
Thirst.
Tinnitus.
Tobacco habit.
Traumatic fever.
Tympanitis.
Varicose veins.
Vertigo.
Characteristics EN
Kina is the Peruvian name for "bark," and "Kina-Kina" is the "Bark of barks." The story of its introduction into European medical practice is one of the romances of the Healing Art; as the story of its frightful abuse is one of its many tragedies. "According to Humboldt," writes Teste, "about 500,000 lbs. of this bark are annually exported to Europe for the purpose of being converted into sulphate of quinine." Well may Teste add the exclamation, "Poor patients!" As with almost every other good thing that comes into its hands, allopathy has contrived to do an infinity of harm with quinine to make up for the good.
Some forms of intermittent fever it will cure, if too much of it is not given; others it will suppress or change from intermittent to continuous. The result of suppression is thus sketched by Hahnemann's master-hand: "True, he [the patient] can no longer complain that the paroxysms of his original disease occurs any more on regular days and at regular hours; but behold his livid earthy complexion, his bloated countenance, his languishing looks! Behold how difficult it is for him to breathe, see his hard and distended abdomen, the swelling of the hypochondria; see how his stomach is oppressed and pained by everything he eats, how his appetite is diminished, how his taste is altered, how loose his bowels are, and how unnatural and contrary to what they should be; how his sleep is restless, unrefreshing, and full of dreams.
Behold him weak, out of humour and prostrated, his sensibility morbidly excited, his intellectual faculties weakened; how much more does he suffer than when he was a prey to his fever!" (M. M. P.) The number of patients who have been consigned to an early grave by quinine probably falls short only of the number that mercury can claim. When first introduced it was (as chloral and hundreds of other poisons have been since) declared on the highest authority to be incapable of harm "in whatever dose it may be taken." It is only at the end of the nineteenth century that some allopathists are discovering that it is more deadly than the deadliest West African fevers.
Every homoeopath knows from experience how true is Hahnemann's picture of quinine effects from the victims of it he has been called upon to treat.
China is placed by Teste in the Ferrum group with Plumb., Phos., Carb. an., Puls., Zinc, and others, which "have the property of remaking the altered blood, or increasing for the time being, in a healthy person, the relative amount of haematin, globulin, fibrin, &c.," but also, "after a certain lapse of time, they produce opposite results—impoverishment, discoloration, and liquefaction of the blood. From this antagonism arise their characteristic effects: Short-lasting, sanguineous congestions (primary effect), and later, discoloration of tissues; fulness of veins; torpor of all functions; dryness of mucous membranes; mucous or purulent discharges; engorgement of the glands which are immediately connected with the circulatory apparatus, as spleen and liver; passive haemorrhages; inertia of involuntary muscles (bowels, uterus); oedema, atonic ulcers, &c.; finally, more or less obstinate nervous disorders, from derangement of sympathetic rather than the cerebro-spinal axis." And it is in cases presenting just such phenomena as these, that China proves its greatest efficacy, as Hahnemann was the first to point out.
The glory of Hahnemann and the interest of homoeopathists are inseparably bound up with the history of this drug. It was the first medicine Hahnemann proved; and the one that opened up to his mind the idea of homoeopathy. Cinchona Bark was to Hahnemann what the falling apple was to Newton, and the swinging lamp to Gallileo. Dissatisfied with the explanations of the action of Bark in curing ague that were current in his time, Hahnemann took the powdered Bark himself, being in health, and lo ! an ague attack ensued.
A repetition of the experiment produced the same result. Further experiments revealed that action of Bark which is the opposite of "tonic"—positively debilitating, in fact—already referred to.
It is useful to remember that Ipecac. (as well as Galeum and Mitchella) belongs to the same natural order of plants as China, and the relation of the two to intermittent fever, haemorrhages, and gasto-enteric disturbances is very similar. Coffea also belongs to the Rubiaceae, and is nearly allied in many of its nervous symptoms to China. The tincture of China is antiseptic, destroying amaeboid motion and retarding tissue change.
It weakens the heart and impairs the circulation, produces congestions and haemorrhages, anaemia and complete relaxation and collapse. The debility in which China is particularly indicated is such as is caused by an excessive drain of animal fluids, as great loss of blood, excessive suppuration, loss of semen; also after prolonged strain of overwork, mental or bodily. A "pumped-out" condition, and the sensitive, irritable state of mind that accompanies such. The typical fever of China is the intermittent from marsh miasm, tertian, or quartan in type.
Chill and heat without thirst, thirst occurring either before or after chill. The chill is followed by long-lasting heat, generally with desire to uncover; face fiery red, often delirium; profuse and debilitating sweat following. In the apyrexial period the face is a sallow dingy yellow, the spleen is enlarged and painful, the appetite is totally lost; or else there is canine hunger; the feet swell, and as soon as the patient closes his eyes for sleep he sees figures. Hectic fever is also characteristic of the drug.
Typhoid and gastric fever. Periodicity is a leading characteristic both in fever and neuralgias. "< Every other day" is characteristic. Nash cured a case of acute rheumatism with Chi, on this modality.
Haemorrhages occur from every orifice of the body. Koch and others have attributed the haematuria of African intermittents to quinine. There is terrible always < at night. Loss of sight, deafness, ringing in the ears.
Great sensitiveness to touch. Even a current of air blowing on the part = great pain (compare Plumb.). Everything tastes bitter, even water (everything except water, Acon.). Chi. is suited to persons of thin, dry, bilious constitution; or to leucophlegmatic persons with a disposition to dropsical affections, to catarrhs or diarrhoea; to affections of women.
The mental state shows, in addition to the irritability, the following among other symptoms: "Aversion to be looked at." "Pumped out" (Sil.), unable to think. Delirium from loss of fluids (as hydrocephaloid). Fixed ideas. There is a desire for suicide: "Intolerable anxiety about 8 p.m. and 2 a.m.; he springs out of bed and wishes to take his own life, but does not go near the window or take a knife (compare alum.); with heat of the body without thirst." The sensitiveness accompanies the headache, which is congestive, throbbing, like many hammers hammering on temples, ringing in the ears, < by slightest contact > by hard pressure); by draught of air; by open air.
Weak eyes and ringing in ears, such as follows depletion. The nose, ears, and chin are cold, complexion sallow, dingy, yellow. Neuralgia is generally infra-orbital. Thick dirty yellow coating on tongue; bitter taste on waking.
Aphthae of weakly people. Canine hunger, especially at night. Hunger after meals with feeling of emptiness. If a meal is late, he is sure to suffer from it.
Total loss of appetite. Full feeling after the least food, but belching only > temporarily. After eating, a lump under mid-sternum. After fruit, diarrhoea.
Dyspepsia after loss of fluids. Nausea < on sitting up. Stomach so weak it cannot tolerate any food at all. Very sour stomach.
The digestion of Chi. is slow. Chi. is one of the most flatulent of medicines. Guernsey describes it thus: "Uncomfortable distension of abdomen with a wish to belch up, or a sensation as if the abdomen were packed full, not in the least > by eructation." Gastric troubles of children who are always wanting dainties; irritable on waking, bad taste, white tongue. Tympany coming on early in a case.
Spleen aching, sore. Liver swollen, sensitive. Feeling of subcutaneous ulceration. Gall-stone colic; duodenal catarrh; jaundice.
Fermentation in bowels, frothy, sour diarrhoea. Yellow, watery, undigested diarrhoea with much flatus and no pain. Diarrhoea of dark, inky fluid; stools frequent at night, only after food during the day. (It is useful in cases where purgatives have been abused if Nux fails to cure.) Excessive seminal losses.
Menorrhagia; metrorrhagia; post-partum haemorrhages. Leucorrhoea before period, painful pressure towards groins and anus, fetid or bloody leucorrhoea before period; with contractions in inner parts. The breathing has important characters: Asthma; wheezing; suffocative catarrh and paralysis of lungs in old people. Respiration laboured, loud and stertorous, with puffing, blowing out of cheeks on each expiration. [E.
Carleton relates the cure of a case of spasm of the glottis in a middle-aged man. Attacks sudden, 3 a.m., suffocation seemed imminent. At length with one tremendous effort, whilst sitting bent forward, a little air would be forced into the lungs in spite of the epiglottis with a noise audible at a distance. After each succeeding expiration the inspiration would become less difficult.
Chi. 200 cured. Among this patient's other symptoms were: Unhappy, idea that he is pursued by enemies in business. Scalp sensitive. Humming, throbbing in ears.
Thirst for cold water. Saliva found on pillow in morning. Stomach sore to touch. Flesh sore to touch.] The sleep also should be carefully noted, especially the dreams: he cannot get rid of his dreams even after waking; the impression continues.
He cannot get wide awake; head remains confused and stupid. Chi. corresponds to hectic and to many conditions of the lungs which are attended with hectic. Suppuration of the lungs, especially in drunkards. Weakening night-sweats.
Prostration, chilly, wants to be wrapped up but cannot bear the fire. A. Villers cured with Chi. 30 a girl, twenty, who had, after a chill, a pain in right hip, < by every movement, and which she could only describe as being like the pain in the legs which occurred before the menses. She was pallid and had had much hard nursing work.
The catamenia were scanty and she was weak. Three days after taking Chi. the pain was gone, after having persisted for five months. With Chi. I removed the dropsy and relieved all the other symptoms of a case of cirrhosis of the liver in a hard drinker.
He remained at his work for many months; but in the end his old habits proved too much for him, and he died from an acute illness following a cold. In this connection may be mentioned the effect of the tincture of China (Cinchona rubra especially) in removing the craving for alcohol in drunkards who wish to reform. Ten to thirty drops two or three times a day is the usual close for this, though where the general symptoms correspond the potencies would probably do better. I have confirmed P.
Jousset's recommendation of Chi. Ø in cases of facial erysipelas without vesication. The rheumatism of Chi. is characterised by soft swelling, pale red, very tender to touch. C. M.
Boger had such a case in second and third metatarso-phalangeal joints of left foot. The patient said: "With my slippers on I am in agony; but if I put on tight shoes the feet feel pretty comfortable." The Chi. symptoms are generally < from lightest touch; Whereas hard pressure >. < Periodically: 1 a.m. to 10 or 12 or 1 p.m. from 8 a.m. to 2 or 3 p.m.
Every other day; every fourteen days every night at midnight; during increase of moon; every three months; in autumn. Rest < pains in limbs. Colic > by bending double. Motion > pains in limbs;
< vertigo; headache; nausea. Moving eyes < headache. Open air or draught of air <. < During and after stool.
> In room or from warm applications. Want to be near a stove; but this < the chill. Neuralgic headache < from anything cold in mouth. Summer = diarrhoea.
Sun < headache. Windy, foggy, or wet weather <. Autumn <. After a meal: fulness of stomach.
During and after dinner: prosopalgia >. Effects of eating: fish; fruit; bad meat or fish. Effects of drinking: beer; sour wine; new beer; impure water; milk. Drinking < the chill.
Warm drinks impede digestion. < From smoking.
Relations EN
Botanical, Coffea, Ipec., Galeum, Mitchella. Antidoted by: Ferr., Ars., Nat. m., Carb. v., Aran. d., Eup. perf., Ipec., Merc., Nux, Puls., Rhus, Sep., Sul., Ver. Antidote to: Ars., Calc., Cham., Coff., Fer., Hell., Iod., Merc., Sul., Ver. Is useful in bad effects of tea-drinking and after abuse of chamomile tea (uterine haemorrhage).
Compatible: Calc. phos., Fer. Incompatible: After Dig., Selen. Complementary: Fer. Compare: Ars.
(prostration without pain, black stools); Carb. v. (flatulence, diarrhoea, great weakness; Chi. stool is caused by every attempt to eat and drink);
Coloc. (beer intoxicates easily); Cedr., Caps., Cupr. acet. (black, thin stools);
Pso. (rapid exhaustion following acute diseases; Pso. has despair of recovery); Puls.
(bitter taste. < Eating at night. As if food lying in oesophagus); Caust.
(Menière's disease); Salic. ac. (Menière's disease); Phos. ac.
(lientery; seminal emissions; diarrhoea—but this does not exhaust with Phos. ac.); Merc. (chronic salivation); Stram.
(black stools); Sul. and Sul. ac. (sensation as if brain were balancing to and fro and striking against skull, occasioning the pains). In aversion to be looked at (Ant. c., Cham., Stram.);
< from brandy (Ars., Carb. v., Nux); diarrhoea immediately after eating (Ars., Alo., Lyc., Pod., Staph., Tromb Fer. whilst eating); hepatitis with great tenderness (Aco., Ars., Lyc., Merc.); hunger after meals with empty feeling (Lauro., Calc.).
Causation EN
Fluids, loss of. Onanism. Chill. Anger. Coryza, suppressed. Tea. Alcohol. Mercury.
Mind EN
Apathy and moral insensibility
Hypochondriacal dejection
Great anxiety
Disposition too scrupulous
Disposition to be alone
Discouragement
Ill-humour, with disposition to hurt other people's feelings
Discontent; the patient deems himself unfortunate, and ill-used by the whole world
Excessive irascibility, with pusillanimity, and inability to bear the least noise
Disobedience
Contempt for everything; everything appears insipid
Slovenliness, with easily provoked tears, or with irritability
Fear of dogs and of other animals, esp. at night
Nervous irritation, with slowness of ideas
Great abundance of ideas, and of projects, with slow progress of thought (esp. in the evening and at night)
Dread of labour.
Head EN
Dull confusion of the head, as from prolonged watching
Sensation of emptiness in head
Vertigo after losses of fluids; with fainting; ringing in ears; loss of sight; cold surface
Vertigo on raising the head, esp. in the occiput, as if the head were going to sink backwards
Vertigo with nausea
Attacks of headache, with nausea and vomiting
Headache as from suppressed coryza
Heaviness in the head with faintness
Cephalalgia in the forehead, on opening the eye
Pain, as from a bruise in the brain, with pressive piercing in the crown of the head, aggravated by meditation and conversation
Pressive headache, esp. at night, with sleeplessness; or by day, and < in the open air
Acute starting, or pressive pains in the head
Headache, as if the head were going to burst, with sleeplessness at night; ameliorated in the room, and when opening the eyes
Shooting pains in the head, with strong pulsations in the temples
Congestion in the head, with heat and fulness
Movements and painful throbbings of the brain, compelling movement of the head up and down
Headache, increased by touch, movement, and walking, also by a current of air, or by walking against the wind
Headache often attacks only one side
Sensibility to the touch of the exterior of the head, and even of the roots of the hair
Headache, as if the hair were torn out, or the scalp were contracted
Shooting pressure in the frontal protuberances
Sweat on the scalp.
Eyes EN
Pressure in the eyes, as from drowsiness
Pains in the eyes, as from pressure on the margins of the socket
Pain, as if a grain of sand were introduced into the eye, during movement
Painful smarting in the eyes
Inflammation of the eyes, with heat, redness, burning and pressive pains, and aggravation in the evening
Eyes dull
Prominent eyes
Cornea dull, as if there were smoke in the posterior part of the eye
Yellowish colour of the sclerotica
Weeping, with tingling on the internal surface of the eyelids
Weakness of sight, permitting only the outline of proximate objects to be seen
On reading, confusion of the characters, which appear pale and surrounded by a white edge
Pupils dilated, and deficient in sensibility
Blindness, as if from amaurosis
Sparkling, black, dancing spots, and obscuration before the eyes
Sensitiveness of the eyes to the bright sunlight
Photophobia.
Ears EN
Tearing in the ears, mostly in the external ear
Intolerance of noise
Shootings, buzzing, and tinkling in the ears
Hardness of hearing; humming and roaring in ears
Ringing in ears, with headache in temples
Redness and heat of the external ear, and esp. of the lobes
Eruption in the concha auris.
Nose EN
Nose hot and red
Tearing in the dorsum of the nose
Bleeding of the nose; after blowing it
Bleeding of the nose and of, the mouth
Dry coryza, with toothache and lachrymation
Coryza, with sneezing
Suppressed coryza (headache from it).
Face EN
Heat and redness of the face, esp. of the cheeks and of the lobes of the ears
Complexion pale, earth-like (face sunken), sometimes of a blackish yellow
Face dejected, with the eyes sunk and surrounded by a livid circle, and nose pointed
Face bloated
Rheumatic pains in the face
Lips dry, blackish
Lips cracked
Swelling of the lips
Burning, itching pustules on the lips and on the tongue
Pain and swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.
Teeth EN
Odontalgia, with starting or drawing pains (in the upper molar teeth), provoked by the open air, or by a current of air
Dull and distressing pains in carious teeth
Throbbing toothache > by external warmth
The toothache manifests itself chiefly after a meal, and at night (< by smoking), and is mitigated by strong pressure, or by closing the teeth; a slight touch aggravates it excessively
Loose teeth painful only when masticating
Teeth covered with a black coating
Swelling of the gums.
Mouth EN
Dryness of the mouth
Clammy mouth with insipid watery taste
Accumulation of mucus in the mouth
Putrid taste of the mouth
Tongue cracked, black, or loaded with a yellow or white coating
Thick, dirty coating of the tongue
Burning shootings in the tongue
Burning biting, as from pepper, on the tip of the tongue, succeeded by ptyalism
Ptyalism (with nausea, from the abuse of mercury)
Painful swelling of the tongue towards the root
Failure of speech
Flow of blood from the mouth.
Throat EN
Dryness of the throat
Shootings in the throat, esp. on swallowing, provoked by the least current of air
Swelling of the palate and of the uvula.
Appetite EN
Sickly, mucous, or watery taste, esp. after drinking
Aliments appear insipid or too salt
Sweetish taste in the mouth
Acid, or bitter taste in the mouth; also of food and drink
Repugnance to food and drink, with a sensation of fulness
Sour taste of coffee and of rye-bread
Bitter taste of beer, and of wheaten bread (beer, tobacco)
The food tastes too salt
Dislike to butter, beer, and coffee
Great desire for wine; for acid fruit
Dislike to water, with desire for beer
Burning thirst; the patient drinks often, but little at a time
Bulimy, with sickly taste in the mouth, nausea, and inclination to vomit
Voracity
No desire for eating and drinking
Appetite only while eating, with indifference to all food
Desire for a variety of food, and confused longing for dainties, without knowing exactly which
Violent thirst for cold water (drinks but little at a time, but often)
After each draught of liquid, shuddering or shivering, with corrugated skin, shootings in the chest, or colic
Acid risings, and derangement of the stomach, after drinking milk
Great weakness of digestion; after the most moderate meal, uneasiness, drowsiness, great fulness in the stomach, and in the inferior part of the abdomen, lassitude and indolence, insipid taste in the mouth, hypochondriacal humour and headache
Weakness of digestion; the food is not digested, if taken too late in the day
Bitter, acid, or tasteless risings, esp. after eating
Indigestion after a late supper.
Stomach EN
Risings, esp. after a meal, mostly bitter, acid, or tasteless
Risings, with taste of food
Pyrosis, accumulation of water in the mouth, inclination to vomit, and pressure on the stomach after eating the least thing
Vomiting of acidulated slimy matter, of water and of food
Vomiting of blood
Pressure at the stomach and cramp-like pains, esp. after having eaten
Sensation of excoriation and pressure on the epigastrium, esp. in the morning.
Abdomen EN
Pains in the hypochondria
Shooting and pressive pains in the hepatic region, esp. when it is touched
Hardness and swelling of the liver
Swelling (inflammation) and hardness of the spleen
Shootings in the spleen when walking slowly
Cuttings in the umbilical region, with shuddering
Pulsations in the pit of the stomach
Strong pressure, as if from a hard body, and fulness in the abdomen, esp. after a meal
Fermentation after eating fruit
Dropsical swelling of the abdomen (meteorism), with asthmatic sufferings and fatiguing cough
Partial swelling of the abdomen, as from encysted ascites
Excessive inflation of the abdomen, as from a kind of tympanitis
Hardness of the abdomen, as from induration of the viscera
Colic, with insatiable thirst
Excessively painful colic; cramp-like and constrictive pains in the abdomen
Inflammation and ulceration of the abdominal viscera
Pressive shooting colic (under the navel) esp. on walking quickly
Incarceration of flatus, which escapes neither upwards nor downwards
Flatulent colic in the depth of the abdomen, with contraction of the intestines, and pressing forward of flatus towards the hypochondria
Escape of fetid flatus
Pressure towards the inguinal ring, as if a hernia were about to protrude.
Stool And Anus EN
Faeces small, and evacuated slowly
Difficult evacuation of soft faeces, as if from inactivity of the intestines
Frequent evacuations of the consistence of pap, or frothy
Putrid or bilious evacuations
Slimy, watery, yellowish diarrhoea
Diarrhoea after eating fruit
Diarrhoea, particularly after meals, at night, involuntary
Loose evacuations, with excretion of all the undigested food
Painless diarrhoea, accompanied by great weakness
Blackish evacuations
White faeces, sometimes with urine of deep-red colour
The loose evacuations take place chiefly after a meal or at night
Involuntary, liquid and yellowish evacuations
Discharge of mucus from the rectum
Pressure and shootings in the rectum and the anus
In the rectum, stitches, also during stool
Bleeding of the haemorrhoidal tumours
Crawling in the anus, as of worms
Discharge of lumbrici.
Urinary Organs EN
Frequent and almost ineffectual urging to make water, followed by pressure on the bladder
Urine: turbid, dark, scanty; white, turbid, with white sediment
Urine scanty, greenish-yellow, with sediment like brickdust
Slow emission of urine, with feeble stream and frequent inclination to urinate
Wetting the bed
Haematuria.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Excitement of sexual desire, with lascivious ideas, day and night
Impotence, with excited lascivious fancy
Swelling of the testes and of the spermatic cord
Drawing pains in the testes
Pollutions frequent, with too ready an emission, followed by great weakness.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Congestion in the uterus, with fulness and painful bearing-down, esp. when walking
Constant discharge of clotted blood from the vagina
Catamenia scanty
Painful induration of the neck of the matrix
During the catamenia, startings with cramps in the chest, and in the abdomen, or congestion in the head, with pulsation in the carotid arteries, face puffed, eyes prominent and watery, convulsive movements of the eyelids, and loss of consciousness
Metrorrhagia, with discharge of black blood; with fainting and convulsions
Leucorrhoea, even before the catamenia, and sometimes with cramp-like contraction of the uterus, and painful sensation of bearing-down towards the groins and the anus
Watery and sanguineous flux from the vagina, with clots of blood or of fetid pus; itching and excoriation in the thighs.
Respiratory Organs EN
Hoarseness, indistinct speech, and low voice when singing, in consequence of mucus difficult to detach from the larynx
Shootings and scrapings in the larynx
Sensation of soreness in the larynx and trachea
Short, dry cough, as if produced by the vapour of sulphur, in the morning, after rising
Suffocating, nocturnal cough, with pains in the chest and in the shoulder-blades, so as to extort cries
The cough is < in the evening, or after midnight from laughing; from continued talking; from lying with the head low from slightly touching the larynx; from a draught of air, after awaking; from loss of fluids
Cough, with difficult expectoration of viscid mucus of a clear colour, painful shocks in the shoulder-blades and vomiting of convulsive cough, sometimes even with inclination to vomit
Cough, provoked by laughing, drinking, eating, speaking and by breathing deeply, as well as by movement
Expectoration of whitish mucus, mixed with blackish particles
Suppuration of the lungs, after haemoptysis (or frequent venesections) with stitches in the chest, which are < by pressure
On coughing, expectoration streaked with blood
Expectoration of purulent matter on coughing
During the cough pressure on the chest, and pains as of excoriation in the larynx
Spasm of the glottis.
Chest EN
Breathing, wheezing, crowing, rattling, tight, oppressed and painful
Difficult inspiration and quick expiration
Inclination to take a deep breath
Difficulty of respiration and great oppression on the chest, with excessive anguish, as if from fulness of the stomach, or as if excited by too long a conversation
Fits of suffocation from mucus in the larynx, esp. in the evening, and at night on waking
Respiration difficult, and possible only when lying with the head very high
Wheezing and groaning respiration
Breathing laboured, loud and stertorous, with puffing, blowing out of cheeks
Respiration short and quick
Pressure on the chest, sometimes as from a hard body, esp. on the sternum, and after a meal
Stitches in the chest; diaphragm
Nightly suffocative cough, with stitches in chest
Shootings in the chest, on coughing and on breathing
Cough, with pain in the larynx and sternum
Stitches in the side; with great heat, pulse strong and hard, and fixedness of look
Great congestion in the chest, and violent palpitation of the heart.
Neck And Back EN
Tension in the muscles of the nape, and of the neck
Pains, as from a bruise, in the back and sacrum, on the least movement
Pain in the loins at night, when lying on the back
Pulsative, shooting pains in the back
Readily excited perspiration, at the back and the nape of the neck, on the least movement
Pressure between the shoulder-blades, as from a stone
Tractive and starting tearings in the loins, the back, the shoulder-blades, and the nape of the neck, with pains on moving the parts, provoked by the least movement.
Upper Limbs EN
Paralytic, starting tearings, in the muscles, and in the bones of the arms, the hands, and the fingers, provoked by the touch
Tension and weakness in the arms and the hands
Trembling hands (when writing)
Icy coldness of one hand, while the other is warm
Extension of the arms, with contraction of the fingers
Swelling of the dorsum of the l. hand
Swelling, stiffness, and pains in the joints of the fingers
Blue coloured nails.
Lower Limbs EN
Paralytic starting, tearings in the muscles and in the bones of the legs, the thighs, the knees, the feet and the toes, esp. on the parts being touched (rheumatic pains, not worse from motion)
The legs become soon benumbed when seated
Weakness and want of stability in the coxo-femoral joint, the knees, and the ankle-bones, which yield when walking
Red and hard swelling of the thigh, painful on being touched
Arthritic swelling of the knees, and of the feet, with heat, and painful sensibility to the touch
Hot swelling of r. knee, painful to the touch
Hard abscess, of a deep-red colour, in the calf of the leg
Uneasiness in the legs; it is found necessary to move them constantly; to curve them and draw them up
Swelling of the feet, sometimes with red spots, hardness, tension, and deep-coloured urine
Soft swelling of the soles
Paralysis of the feet.
Generalities EN
Tensive pullings, or starting and shooting tearings, esp. in the large bones of the limbs, with paralytic pains, and weakness of the parts affected Tearing rheumatic pains in the limbs, on beginning to walk Pains and sufferings provoked or aggravated by touch, at night, or after a meal Uneasiness in the parts affected, which obliges the patient to move them
Sensation of torpor in different parts Numbness of the parts which are pressed, on lying down Arthritic swelling, which is hard and red in some parts Dropsical swelling of some parts, or of the whole body
Erysipelatous swelling of the whole body Great general weakness, with trembling, difficulty in walking, and great tendency to perspiration during movement and sleep More than ordinary vivacity, with fixedness of the eyes Convulsive movements of the limbs
Over-sensitiveness of the nerves (from loss of fluids) Congestions Veins are much enlarged Emaciation
Over-excitability of the whole nervous system Aversion to mental and bodily exertion Fainting-fits; esp. if resulting from loss of animal fluids Attacks, of asphyxia
Atrophy and emaciation, esp. of the arms and legs Great sensibility to a current of air, and sufferings on being exposed to it even slightly Heaviness of the whole body Spermatorrhoea
Nasal secretion bloody, mucous Affections of the shoulder-blades, bones of the arm; thighs; knee joints There may be bleeding from every infernal part of the body; coldness and passive haemorrhage Newly-born children lose much blood during parturition; the mucous membrane looks very bloody if there is only a slight bleeding going on; deficiency of blood; congestion of single parts; distension of blood vessels (Guernsey)
Contraction of inner parts; also dropsy of inner parts Induration after inflammation.
Skin EN
Excessive sensibility of the skin of the whole body
Yellow colour of the skin (Jaundice)
Skin flabby and dry
Piercing shootings and beatings in ulcers
Burning, itching, or gnawing sensation, esp. in the evening in bed, sometimes with eruption of pimples, or prominent spots, as if from the sting of nettles
Rheumatic, hard, red swellings
Humid gangrene (of external parts)
Swelling of the limbs.
Sleep EN
Drowsiness during the day (and after eating), often with palpitation of the heart
Frequent yawning, with stretching
Retarded sleep, and sleeplessness, caused by a great influx of ideas
Confused dreams when falling asleep
Sleeplessness with pressive pain in the head, or bulimy
Disturbed, unrefreshing sleep
Starting with fright, on going to sleep
On sleeping, the patient lies on the back, with the head turned back, and the arms extended over the head, with slow respiration, and with full and quick pulse
Groans, snoring, and blowing expiration during sleep, even in children
Painful, frightful dreams, which continue to produce agitation after waking
Disordered, senseless dreams, after midnight, with a sort of stupidity on waking
Dreams of failing from a height.
Fever EN
Shiverings, with shuddering, or feverish trembling, commonly without thirst
Cold in the body, with congestion in the head, heat and redness of the face, and forehead hot
General increase of heat, with veins swollen, without thirst
After the heat, violent thirst
Shiverings with headache, nausea, adypsia, vertigo, congestion in the head, paleness of the face, cold in the hands and in the feet, and vomiting of mucus
Shivering more violent after drinking
Heat, with dryness of the mouth, and of the lips, which are burning, redness of the face, headache, morbid hunger, delirium, pulse full and quick
Heat, with prickings here and there, and burning thirst
Heat, with strong inclination to be uncovered, or shivering as soon as one is uncovered
Quotidian fever, or every two days, or tertian, commencing chiefly in the evening or in the afternoon, or in the morning, by shivering with trembling, followed by heat and nocturnal sweat
Internal violent chill with icy cold hands and feet, and congestion to the head
In the evening, in bed, he cannot get warm
Fever, with pressive pain, and congestion in the head, soreness and swelling of the liver and of the spleen, bitter and bilious risings and vomitings, yellowish colour of the skin and of the face, short, convulsive cough, great weakness, pains in the limbs, and painful stitches in the chest
The attacks of fever are often preceded by sufferings, such as palpitation of the heart, sneezing, anguish, nausea, excessive thirst, bulimy, headache, pressive colic, &c
Chilliness over the whole body
The thirst is generally felt only before or after the shiverings, or during the sweat, rarely during the heat (or only desire for cold drink), and scarcely ever during the shiverings
Pulse small, weak, hard and rapid, less frequent after eating; irregular
Ready perspiration during sleep, during movement (and from exercise in the open air)
Perspiration very profuse, and very debilitating
Perspiration on the side on which he lies
Suppressed perspiration
Nocturnal debilitating sweats
Oily sweat in the morning.