Kali Carbonicum
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General EN
Kali Carbonicum.
Potassium Carbonate. Potassic Carbonate. Salt of Tartar. Salt of Wormwood. Carbonate of Potassium. K2 CO3 Solution. Trituration.
Clinical EN
Amenorrhoea. Anaemia. Asthma. Axilla, perspiration of.
Back, aching. Biliousness. Bronchitis. Catarrh.
Change of life. Chilblains. Clavus. Cold.
Consumption. Cough. Debility. Dropsy.
Dysmenorrhoea. Dyspepsia. Ear, inflammation of. Eyes, inflammation of; oedema around.
Face, blotches on. Fear. Freckles. Gastralgia.
Haemorrhage. Haemorrhoids. Hair, affections of. Headache.
Heart, affections of. Hip-joint disease. Hydrothorax. Hysteria.
Kidneys, affections of. Knee, affections of; white swelling of. Larynx, catarrh of. Leucorrhoea.
Liver, affections of. Lumbago. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia.
Pleurisy. Pleurodynia. Pregnancy, disorders of. Proctalgia.
Sciatica. Sleeplessness. Spinal irritation. Stomach, affections of.
Throat, sore. Toothache. Typhoid. Urine, frequent passage of.
Urticaria. Uterus, cancer of. Vertigo. Wens.
Whooping-cough.
Characteristics EN
Potassium carbonate, sometimes called "Vegetable alkali," exists in all plants, and was originally obtained from the ashes left after burning wood and vegetable structures. Potassium salts play a no less important part in the animal economy. Kali carb. may be regarded as the typical member of the Kali group of homoeopathic remedies, though Causticum has also claims on the title. The Potassium salts have more specific relation to the solid tissues than to the fluids of the body; to the blood corpuscles rather than to the blood plasma.
The fibrous tissues are particularly affected, the ligament of joints, of the uterus, of the back. It corresponds to conditions in which these tissues are relaxed-joints give way; the back feels as if broken; the patient feels compelled to lie down in the street. Goullon (translation, H. R., xv. 327) calls attention to the importance of this polychrest in complaints of women, in which it rivals Sepia, differing from the latter in having menstruation "too protracted and recurring too frequently; the pains and troubles occur before the menses.
The climacteric flushings of K. ca. are associated with disturbances of the heart. Palpitations are most violent. By quieting these K. ca. often serves as an excellent soporific. In addition to the uterus and heart, lungs, pleura, bronchi, and larynx all come under its action.
Chronic laryngeal catarrh Goullon specially mentions as frequently cured by it. He places it in the front rank as a knee remedy. Among the grand characteristics of K. ca., three stand out above the rest: (1) Stitching, lancinating pains, also called jerking pains; < during rest, < lying on affected side.
(2) Early morning aggravation: < 2 to 4 a.m. (3) The occurrence of bag-like swellings over the eyes, between the eyebrows and the upper lids. Relaxation of tissues is a great note of K. ca. It is suited to persons of soft tissues with tendency to be fat.
Easy sweating may be placed in the same category, and when there is a combination of "sweat, backache, and weakness," the three, according to Farrington, constitute a grand characteristic. The backaches of K. ca. are very important. The pain often extends downwards to the buttock and even to the knee. Pain from hip to knee (more especially if right sided) has led to the cure of many cases of hip-joint disease.
This symptom also led me to make a remarkable cure of another kind. A lady, 73, stout, short, pale, and of very soft fibre, had for four months suffered from "rheumatic pains," and an offensive vaginal discharge. A local practitioner of repute was consulted (the patient lived in the country, and I did not see her till a year or two afterwards) and pronounced it cancer of the womb in an advanced stage, and gave her four months to live. She described to me the pain as being all round the lower abdomen, and a "dull, heavy, depressing, dead pain, commencing at the inner part of the top of the right hip (iliac crest) and extending to the knee." The pain was so severe it made her feel quite sick and faint.
The discharge was very offensive, like decaying meat. Great weakness and trembling accompanied the discharge; urine was almost like blood at times, and had a sandy sediment. K. ca. 1m. was given and at once improvement set in. In a few months all the bad symptoms had disappeared and never returned.
The patient lived ten years after this. In connection with this case I may mention another. A man had an ulcer of right leg with swelling of ankle, and he complained of waking at 2 a.m. K. ca. 30 cured, but meantime he developed this symptom: "Great weakness of right thigh, as if it would give out when walking." This "giving-out" feeling is very characteristic of the remedy.
"Constant backache, the patient feeling all the time that the back and legs must give out." K. ca. corresponds to many cases of lumbago, stitching pains, pulsations; > by pressure and by lying flat on the back. "Weakness, sweat, and backache" appear in many conditions of debility as from loss of fluids; after confinement or abortion (puerperal mania, fever, or spasms). Complaints after coition in males, especially complaints of the eyes.
Weary and sleepy during and after eating. Yawns continually. The mental state of K. ca. is one of peevishness and irritability. Easily startled by any noise (especially if unexpected).
Fear is prominent; fears to be alone. Intellect impaired, does not care for anything. Indifferent, with bodily exhaustion; when questioned does not know what to answer. The "touchiness" of the remedy is very marked: "Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet." K. ca. acts profoundly on the tissues.
It causes fatty degeneration of the heart and other muscles. It affects the blood itself as well as the circulation, causing anaemia and haemorrhages. Throbbing of blood-vessels all over body and to ends of fingers and toes is a marked symptom. Irregularity of heart's action.
A peculiar symptom is: sensation as if the heart were suspended by a thread. The digestion is very much disordered; flatulence, distension, constipation. Many symptoms come on when eating: Drowsiness; toothache only when eating. It has the fishbone sensation in the throat, which is part of the general tendency to stitching pains.
Another feature is easy choking; food easily gets into windpipe; pain in back when swallowing. The cough has peculiarities in addition to that of time aggravation 2-4 a.m. It is dry, paroxysmal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed. Or spasmodic with gagging or vomiting of ingesta.
The expectoration consists of hard, white, or smoky masses, which fly from the throat when coughing. Globules of pus may be contained in it. Hahnemann said that persons suffering from ulceration in the lungs could hardly get well without this antipsoric. I have frequently had occasion to verify its value in such cases.
The stitching pains, sweat, and weakness are leading indications, also the locality of the affection. K. ca. is more a right than a left-side medicine. The base of the right lung is more affected than any other part. Goullon says also the apices.
K. ca is a remedy often called for in sick-headache. "Violent headaches about the inner temples; violent stitching or jerking pains, on one side of the head or both." One-sided headache with nausea. One case which I cured was > by lying down, > by a tight band round the head. Pressure and drawing in forehead extending into eyes and root of nose.
Congestion to head and heat of face often accompany the headaches. "Drowsy whilst eating" is a very characteristic symptom of K. ca. Ide, of Stettin, Germany, has recorded a case (translated by McNeil, Med. Adv., xxiv. 294) which well illustrates this.
A lady, 65, suffered from chronic bronchial catarrh and emphysema. In November, 1886, she had asthmatic complaints, depriving her of sleep, with cough and mucous expectoration difficult to raise. Always when eating she was so weary she fell asleep, and could not finish her meal. After eating still very tired.
In the morning passed much flatulence. K. ca. 10 removed the condition in a few days. The following March after a cold there was a recurrence, but without the weariness, and K. ca. failed, whilst Ars. 15 rapidly cured. In the same patient K. ca. manifested its power in another set of symptoms: Toothache alternating with tearing, stitching pain in left breast and under left false ribs.
The side pains were < at night, especially in evening as soon as she lay down; < lying down, particularly < lying on right (i.e., painless) side. Not influenced by pressure or motion. K. ca. is a chilly medicine.
There is great tendency to take cold, and < of symptoms when body temperature is low; aversion to open air. I have often relieved with K. ca. blotchy eruptions of the face which were < in a wind or cold air. Among the notable sensations of the remedy are: Feeling of emptiness in whole body as if it were hollow. Sensation of a lump rolling over and over on coughing; rising from right abdomen up to throat, then back again.
Lump in throat. Feeling as if the bed were sinking under her. Pulsative pains and throbbings. Burning sensation and burning pains.
K. ca. appears to have alternating symptoms: it has cured a case of toothache which alternated with tearing, stitching pains in left breast and under left false ribs. It has also pulsations in the back alternating with pains in the back. The pains in the side were < evening, on lying down, and especially on lying on right (painless) side (Med. Adv., xxiv. 295).
The nervous excitability of K. ca. may go as far as pronounced hysteria; sudden shrieking; cannot bear to be touched. Spasms (puerperal convulsions) and paralysis. Twitching of muscles; rigidity of muscles; muscular atony, disposition to easy overlifting. Oppression of breathing accompanies most complaints.
Anaemia with great debility, skin watery, milky white. Dropsical affections. Ulcers bleeding at night. K. ca. is suited to the aged, rather obese, lax fibre; to dark-haired persons of lax fibre and inclined to be fat; to diseases after parturition; after loss of fluids.
The symptoms are: < At rest; < on lying down (cannot get breath). Unable to remain lying at night, > during the day when moving about; < lying on right side (pain in chest; heart feels suspended to left ribs);
< by stooping; > raising head. > Sitting bent forward; > raising head (stitches in forehead).
Motion = headache with vertigo; < pain in tumours of scalp; wobbling in stomach; stitches in loins. < By sudden or unguarded motion. Walking > obstruction in nose; and < most other symptoms.
Coughing < pain in haemorrhoids. Debility = desire to lie down. The chief time aggravation is from 2 to 4 a.m., or any time between. In general the symptoms are < in the morning.
> By day; < at night. < Evening on lying down. < After midnight.
Heat > most symptoms; cold air and open air <. Open air > obstruction of nose. Change of weather and damp weather <. Washing face = nose-bleed.
Cold air < stitching pain in right side. Cold and damp = chronic bronchitis. Warm drinks < sweat. Warm applications = pain to move to other places.
Drinking cold water > jerking in head; drinking cold-water when overheated = dyspnoea and pyrosis. Hunger = palpitation. Touch <. Pressure < most symptoms;
> pain in abdomen; dull stitches in chest; glandular swelling of neck. < From coitus.
Relations EN
Antidoted by: Camph., Coff., Nit. sp. dulcis. It is complementary to: Carb. v., Phos., Sep., Nit. ac., Nat. m. It follows well: K. sul., Phos., Stan., Bry., Lyc., Nat. m. Is followed well by: Carb. v., Phos., Fluor. ac., Ars., Lyc., Pul., Sep., Sul.
Compare: The Kalis, especially Caust. (paresis; respiratory affections; haemorrhoids; rheumatism); and K. bi. (catarrh with tenacious secretions; wandering and alternating pains; headache; affections of stout persons; dyspepsia). Bry.
(sharp pains; bilious affections; but Bry. is < by motion); Chel. (pneumonia of right base); Merc. v.
(pneumonia of right base, but Merc. has sweat without >); Sep. (diseases of women—but Sep. has scanty menses, K. ca. too early and profuse; empty feeling, bloating after eating; chronic laryngeal catarrh); Apis and Ars.
(puffing of face and eyes); Spi. (stitches in heart); Bellis, Ars., Nux v., Calc., and Sep.
(waking early, 3 am.); Ip. (constant nausea); (K. bi.) and Staph (< after coitus);
Ant. t. (capillary bronchitis); Calc. hypophos. (sweat, backache, and weakness—very close analogue);
Pso. (debility of convalescence; profuse sweat; hopelessness of recovery); Calc. c. (hopelessness of recovery; irritability; chilliness, < from washing);
Puls. (erratic pains; amenorrhoea); Berb. (bubbling sensation in back).
Phos. ac. (apathy); Hep., Nit. ac., Carb. v., and Arg. n. (fish-bone sensation).
Rhus (pain > motion; affections of ligaments) Hamam. (haemorrhoids). Mag. c. (nervous debility from overstrain) Bry. and Silic.
(knee affections). Nat. m. (anaemia; amenorrhoea—"K. ca. will bring on the menses when Nat. m., though apparently indicated, fails." Hahn.—backache: that of K. ca. is, in general, < lying; that of Nat. m. is > by pressure and lying on back); Arn. c., Graph.
(obese persons); Chi., Phos. ac., Pho., and Pso. (complaints from loss of fluids); Ars., Bis., and Lyc.
(averse to be alone Ign., Nux, desire to be alone); Am. c. and Arn. (nose-bleed when washing face);
Phos. (fatty degeneration of heart); Lach. (heart as if suspended by a thread).
Causation EN
Catching cold. Overstrain.
Mind EN
Sadness with tears
Anxious apprehension and inquietude, esp. about the health, with fear of not being cured
Irresolute, timid, and apprehensive disposition
Fear, in evening, in bed
Peevish humour, discontent and impatience
Dread of labour
Changeable humour, at one time evincing mildness and tranquillity, at another time passion and rage
Tendency to take alarm
Shrieks about imaginary appearances
Becomes easily startled; great tendency to start when touched, esp. on feet
Vexed and irritated mood; trifles vex one; noise is disagreeable
Irascible and passionate humour
Loss of memory
Misapplying words and syllables.
Head EN
Confusion and dulness in head
Sudden attack of unconsciousness
Dulness of the head; confused, stupid feeling, as after intoxication
Vertigo as if ears were stopped up; with darkness before eyes
Vertigo in morning, in evening, and after a meal, as well as on turning head or body hastily
Vertigo, with tottering
Vertigo, which seems to proceed from stomach
Headache from motion of a carriage, on sneezing, coughing, or in morning
Semi-lateral headache, with nausea, and vomiting, < so as to become insupportable, by slightest movement
Violent headache across the eyes
Pressive headache in the occiput, esp. during a walk, with irritability, or else in forehead with photophobia
Tearing and drawing pains in head
Lancinating headache, chiefly in temples and forehead;
< from stooping and moving head, eyes, and lower jaw;
> when raising head and from heat
Violent headaches about inner temples
Congestion in head, with throbbing and buzzing
Trembling in head, and sensation as if it contained something movable.
(Constant sensation of something loose in head, turning and twisting towards forehead.)
The headaches are > by pressing the forehead
Sensation as of a blow in the head, which causes it to incline to one side, with dizziness
Strong tendency to take cold in head, esp. when exposed to a draught after being heated (from it headache or toothache)
Painful and purulent tumours in scalp, like beginning blood-boils; more painful from pressure and motion, and less so from external heat; accompanied by itching, as if in bones of head, with great dryness of hair
Wens
Scabby eruption on scalp
Falling off and dryness of hair, esp. on temples, eyebrows, and beard, with violent burning-itching of the scalp in morning, and evening; the scalp oozes if scratched
Perspiration on forehead, in morning
Large, yellowish, and furfuraceous spots on forehead.
Eyes EN
Pressive and tearing pain in eyes
Sensation of biting, of smarting, of burning, and shootings in eyes
Redness and inflammation of eyes, with pain on reading by candle-light
Swelling of eyes and lids, with difficulty in opening them
Pimples in eyebrows
Swelling (like a bag) between upper eyelids and eyebrows
Excoriation and suppuration in corners of eyes
White of eye red; capillaries injected
Sensation of coldness of eyelids
Agglutination of eyelids, esp. in morning
Lachrymation
Eyes dull and downcast
Propensity to a fixed look
Spots dancing before sight, on reading and on looking into open air
Rainbow colours, spots (blue or green), and sparks before sight
Vivid and painful brightness before eyes, when closed, extending deeply into brain, in evening after lying down
Photophobia
Dazzling of eyes by daylight.
Ears EN
Shootings in ears, sometimes from within outwards
Inflammatory swelling of ears, with discharge of a yellow pus or of liquid cerumen
Itching and tickling in ears
Redness, heat, and violent itching of external ear
Ulcer in ears
Excoriation and suppuration behind ears
Inflammation and swelling of parotid
Excessive acuteness of hearing, in evening, on lying down
Weak and confused hearing
Dulness of hearing
Singing, tingling, and buzzing in ears
Cracking in ears.
Nose EN
Swelling of nose, with redness and burning heat
Nose red and covered with pimples
Ulceration of interior of nose
Epistaxis in morning; when washing face
Dull smell
Coryza and stoppage of nose, sometimes with secretion of yellowish green mucus, and constant want of air
Blowing offensive matter from nose
Fluent coryza (with excessive sneezing; pain in back and headache), with secretion of sanguineous mucus
Secretion of purulent mucus from nose
Dryness of nose
Sore, scurfy nostrils.
Face EN
Colour of face, yellow, or pale and sickly, with sunken eyes, surrounded by a livid circle
Haggard, exhausted look; lifeless expression
Great redness of face, alternately with paleness
Drawing pain in face
Tearing in bones of face
Flushes of face
Bloatedness of face
Eruption of pimples on face, with swelling and redness of cheeks
Tearing stitches in cheeks
Swelling between eyebrows
Pimples on eyebrows
Warts on face
Ephelides
Lips thick and ulcerated
Lips cracked and exfoliating
Cramp-like sensation in the lips
Cramps in jaw
Swelling of lower jaw and sub-maxillary glands.
Teeth EN
Toothache, only on eating, or in morning on waking; or else excited by cold things (water) in mouth
Teeth painful when touched by, either cold or warm substances
Toothache, with soreness of bones of face, and drawing, jerking, or tearing pains, esp. in evening in bed
Lancinating pains in teeth, with swelling of cheek (with stinging pain)
Digging, piercing, pricking, and gnawing in teeth.—(Toothache alternating with stitches in l. chest.)
Looseness of all teeth
Bad smell from teeth
Inflammatory swelling and ulceration of gums.
Mouth EN
Bitter taste in mouth
Fetid exhalation from mouth
Sensation of dryness in mouth, with copious accumulation of saliva
Excoriation, with vesicles in interior of mouth and on tongue
Soreness of fraenum linguae
Swelling of tongue, covered with small painful vesicles
Painful pimple on tip of tongue.
Throat EN
Sore throat, with lancinating pain on swallowing
Deglutition impeded by inertia of muscles of gullet (the food descends very slowly in the oesophagus, and small particles of food easily get into windpipe)
Copious accumulation of mucus on palate and in throat; difficult to hawk up or to swallow, with sensation as if a lump of mucus were in throat
Hawking up of mucus
Dryness in posterior part of throat.
Appetite EN
Bitter or acid taste
Unpleasant taste in mouth, as from derangement of stomach
Putrid, sweetish taste, or as of blood in mouth
Bulimy
Strong desire for sugar or acids
Disgust for brown bread, which lies heavy on stomach
Milk and warm food are unsuitable
During a meal, sleepiness
After a meal, drowsiness, paleness of face, shivering, headache, ill-humour, nausea, sour risings, and pyrosis, colic, inflation of abdomen and flatulency
After taking hot food (pastry or soup), pinchings and uneasiness in abdomen.
Stomach EN
Frequent risings
Sour risings and regurgitation
Burning acidity rising from stomach, with spasmodic constriction
Feeling in stomach as if cut to pieces
Constant feeling as if stomach were full of water, wobbling on motion
Pressure in stomach like a heaviness after eating
Sensation as of a lump in stomach the size of the fist
Pyrosis
Nausea from mental emotions
Nausea, as if he would faint; also with anxiety
Nausea during pregnancy
Nausea to such a degree as to cause loss of consciousness, sometimes during a meal
Anxious nausea, with inclination to vomit, esp. after a meal, or after mental emotion
Retching in evening (for several evenings)
Vomiting of food and acid matter, with prostration of strength, as if about to faint
Nocturnal vomiting of food
Fulness in stomach, esp. after a meal
Pressure on epigastrium
Tension above stomach
Contractive cramps in stomach, renewed by all kinds of food and drink, or else at night, with vomiting
Pinching, digging, and shooting in stomach
Lancinations in epigastrium and in hypochondria, which suspend respiration
Pulsations in epigastrium
Extreme sensitiveness of epigastrium.
Abdomen EN
Pain in liver, on stooping, as if it were wrenched
Burning pain, aching, and shootings in liver
Pressure and shootings in region of loins
Pains in abdomen, with frequent risings
Pressure on abdomen, esp. on stooping
Tension across the abdomen
Great inflation of abdomen, esp. after a meal
Inquietude and heaviness in abdomen
Abdominal pains, contractive and spasmodic
Colic renewed after each meal
Colic, resembling pains of labour, sometimes with pains in loins
Feeling of coldness, as if a cold fluid passed through intestines; during menses
Lancinations throughout the abdomen
Inertia and coldness in abdomen
Dropsical swelling of abdomen
Drawing and shootings (and painful bloatedness) in groins
Abundant production and incarceration of flatus
Incarceration of flatulence, with colic
Restricted or excessive emission of flatus, sometimes preceded by pressive pain in rectum.
Stool And Anus EN
Constipation, sometimes every second day
Constipation during menstruation
Constriction of the abdomen and difficult evacuation of faeces of too large a size
Retarded stool from inactivity of rectum
Obstruction from inactivity of bowels, as a want of peristaltic motion; haemorrhoids
Resultless inclination to evacuate, and scanty evacuation
Stool resembling sheep's dung
Diarrhoea, mostly in evening and at night, with cutting pains and great physical debility
Discharge of mucus, or of blood, during evacuation
White mucus before and during stool
Painless diarrhoea, with rumbling in abdomen
Discharge of teniae and lumbrici
Anxiety before the evacuation
Itching in anus
Tearing, shooting, incisive, and burning pains in anus (and rectum), esp. after evacuation
Protrusion and distension of haemorrhoids during stool, with pricking and burning
Protrusion of haemorrhoids during micturition, emitting first blood, afterwards white mucus
Inflammation, soreness, stitches, and tingling, as from ascarides, in haemorrhoids
Haemorrhoidal pimples in anus, painful, bleeding, and with shooting pain
Sensation of red-hot poker being thrust up rectum, temporarily > by sitting in cold water
Excoriation and pustulous eruption in anus
Stitching, pressing proctalgia (during pregnancy).
Urinary Organs EN
Frequent want to make water, and scanty emission of fiery urine
The urine is discharged slowly
After micturition, discharge of prostatic fluid
Urine pale greenish; turbid
Frequent emission of urine, day and night
Incisive pains in bladder, from r. to l
Burning sensation in urethra, esp. on (and after) making water.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Tension, tearing, and pulling in glans and in penis
Itching and pain, as from a bruise in scrotum
Hot swelling of testes and spermatic cord
Excessive increase or absence of sexual desire
Repugnance to coition
Want of erections, or too frequent and painful erections
Absence of, or immoderate pollutions
Pollutions with voluptuous dreams
After coition and pollutions, weakness of body, but esp. of eyes.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Repugnance to coition in women
During coition, pinching and pain, as of excoriation, in vagina
Constant sensation of bearing down
Burning pain and shootings in vulva
Erosion, itching, and gnawing in genital parts, and in interior of parts
Difficult first menstruation
Catamenia premature, or too weak
Suppression of catamenia
Suppression of menses, with anasarca and ascites
Haemorrhage of pregnant women (clots of coagulated blood)
Corrosive menstrual flux
During catamenia (the menstrual blood is acrid) itching eruption, and excoriation, between thighs
Gastric symptoms, and agitated and anxious sleep during catamenia
During menses: (morning) headache; cutting pain in abdomen; pain in small of back, like a weight: stitches in ears; coryza; itching of whole body
Leucorrhoea, sometimes with violent pains in loins, and pains like those of labour (extending from back to uterus)
Yellowish leucorrhoea, with itching and sensation of burning in vulva.—(Uterine cancer with pain round loins extending down r. thigh to knee.)
Tearing stitches in breasts on flow of milk
During pregnancy: sickness (only during a walk) without vomiting, with feeling as if she could lie down and die;—pulsation of arteries, even down to tips of toes; hollow feeling in whole body; heavy broken-down feeling, only with the greatest effort that any exertion can be made;—back aches so badly while walking she could lie-down in the street;—pressing, forcing pains in small of back as if heavy weight came into pelvis, low down; also stitching, pressing proctalgia
Impending abortion with pains from back into buttocks and thighs; discharge of Clots (2nd and 3rd month)
Weakness after abortion
Labour pains insufficient; violent headache, wants back pressed; bearing-down from back into pelvis
False pains; sharp cutting pains across loins, or passing off down buttocks, hindering labour; pulse weak
Pains stitching or shooting
Chills after delivery
Puerperal fever; intense thirst
After confinement, haemorrhage, haemorrhoids, peritonitis
Haemorrhage a week after labour.
Respiratory Organs EN
Hoarseness and roughness in throat, with violent sneezing
Aphonia (with violent sneezing)
Easy choking
Sensation as of a plug in larynx
Cough on moving arm (when playing the violin)
Cough, excited by a tickling
Dry cough, esp. at night, and in evening; in morning with expectoration
Night cough;
< from 3 to 4 a.m
Cramp-like cough, with inclination to vomit, and vomiting, esp. in morning
Shootings in throat, or chest, while coughing
Expectoration: difficult; or, small round lumps come flying from mouth without effort
Spasmodic cough, in short but frequently returning attacks, caused by a tickling in the throat and larynx; during morning and day cough is loose, but the yellow pus and tough mucus has to be swallowed again
Cough with sourish expectoration, or of blood-streaked mucus, or of pus
During cough, rough pain in larynx; stinging in throat; stitches in r. side of chest (lower part); sparks dart from eyes; asthma
Whooping-cough (with inflammation of lungs; with swelling between upper eyelid and eyebrows, and < from 3 to 4 a.m.).
Chest EN
Difficult respiration
Shortness of breath in morning
Respiration impeded on walking quickly, or in morning
Stitches in sternum and r. side of chest through to back, when taking an inspiration
Tearing in sides of chest
Spasmodic asthma (in the morning);
> by sitting up and bending forward, resting head on knees)
Anxious oppression at chest
Obstructed respiration awakes him at night
Wheezing in chest
Oppression at chest, as from hydrothorax
Pain in chest when speaking
Cramp in chest, sometimes on coughing
Sensation in chest as if heart were compressed
Pressure, burning pain, and shootings in chest, sometimes on breathing
Inflammation of lungs (and liver) with stitches in chest (r. side)
Suppuration of lungs; abscesses of lungs
Weakness and faintness in chest from walking fast
Small pimples on chest and back
Incisive pains in chest.
Heart EN
Palpitation of heart (sometimes with anguish), esp. in morning on waking, with ebullition of blood
Frequent and violent palpitation; with anxiety
Palpitation when he becomes hungry
Frequent intermissions of beats of heart
Burning in region of heart
Crampy pain in region of heart
Stitches about heart and through to scapula
Pinching pain in or by heart, as if heart were hanging by tightly drawn bands;
< on deep inspiration, on coughing; not noticed on motion of body
On lying on r. side, heart feels suspended to l. ribs
Feels pulse over whole body to tips of toes
Pulse slow.
Neck And Back EN
Stiffness between scapulae
Dull pain, like hot water, between scapulae
Stiffness of nape of neck
Weakness of muscles of neck
Goître
Hard swelling of axillary glands and of those of neck
Sweat under armpits
Pains in loins; also after a fall
Pain, as from a bruise in back, during repose
Drawing pains in back, which often proceed from loins
Burning, tearing near r. side of spine, above small of back
Sharp stitching pains awaken him 3 a.m., he must get up and walk about; pains shoot from loins into nates
Stitching and shooting pains in back, shooting down into gluteal region or hips
Stitches in kidneys
Back aches as if broken
Pain across sacrum like labour-pains; feeling of tightening of skin of lower abdomen; feeling of weight in abdomen on walking, and esp. on standing
Pain in small of back as from flatulent distension, morning in bed, with feeling as if bubbles accumulated at small of back, with urgent desire for stool, all of which disappeared after passing wind
Violent constant drawing in small of back, alternating with pulsations in it, only > when lying
Pain as if broken on moving about
Bruised pain in back only during rest
Feeling in morning as if small of back were pressed inward from both sides
Pressure in region of both kidneys
Gnawing in coccyx.
Upper Limbs EN
Swelling of shoulder, with pain
Swelling and sore pain of axillary glands
Cracking in shoulder-joint when moving or raising arm
Pain, as from blows and bruises, under r. shoulder-joint, esp. when moving and touching it
Tearing in l. shoulder-joint
Pressure on shoulder
Tension, tearing, pulling, in muscles and joints of shoulders, arms, hands, and fingers
Cold stiffness and numbness of arms, esp. in the cold, or after violent exercise
Want of energy in arms and hands, esp. in morning in bed
Frequent startings in arms
Stiffness in joint of elbow
Paralytic pain in wrist
Shootings in wrist and fingers during movement
Trembling of hands when writing
Coldness of hands
Skin of hands rough and cracked
Torpor and numbness in extremities of fingers
Burning pain in extremities of fingers
Gnawing vesicles on fingers
Startings in fingers when sewing
Tearing between thumb and index finger.
Lower Limbs EN
Acute pullings (rheumatic pains), esp. at night, in joints and bones of hips, legs, feet, and toes
The limbs fall asleep while lying
Numbness and great inclination of whole r. limb to fall asleep, esp. lower leg
Stitches in l. hip-joint while standing
Tearing in hips and knees even while sitting
Paralysis of thighs
Cramp in r. thigh and calf
Stiff, cramped feeling in both calves, lasting all day and coming on when walking in morning (Cooper—from Potash water.)
Tearing in and on nates not far from hip-joint
Great weakness of r. thigh, feeling as if it would give way when walking
Difficulty in knees on going up or downstairs
Dull pains in side of knee, walking or extending leg
Frequent tearing in knees
Pressive pullings and tearings in legs
Jerking of muscles of buttocks and thighs
Burning pain and lancinations in legs and feet
Uneasiness (restlessness) in legs in evening
Torpor and numbness of legs
Crawling shuddering on tibia
Swelling of legs and feet
Swelling and redness of soles
Stiffness of joint of foot
Shootings in joints of foot
Cold feet, even at night in bed
Numbness of feet after a meal
Fetid perspiration on feet
Burning pain and shootings (red chilblains on toes) in ball of great toe
Corns on feet, painful when touched
Stitches in the painful and sensitive corns
Sensation as if nail of big toe would grow into flesh
Tips of toes very painful when walking.
Generalities EN
Affections in general, occurring in r. hypochondriac region; r. abdominal ring; l. chest; l. upper extremity; external and internal ears; of inner surface of liver; inner region of kidneys; lower part of chest; shoulder; shoulder-joint; elbow and elbow-joint; hollow of elbow; wrist-joint; big toe; tips of toes; joints of legs in general; joints of toes Disgust of food in general Inflammatory swelling of the part, with characteristic (stitching or jerking) pains Dryness of the skin
Painful sensibility of extremities in whatever position they are placed Pressive pains in joints Spasmodic contraction of some parts Drawing, tearing, rheumatic pains in limbs, esp. during repose, with swelling of the parts affected
Rheumatic pains in back, chest, shoulders, and arms, < on moving them Shooting pains in joints, muscles, and internal organs Swelling and hardness of glands Anaemia, with great debility; skin watery, milky white; muscles weakened, esp. heart; hence weak pulse is a general characteristic
Dropsical affections of internal organs, or of whole skin of body The pains often manifest themselves towards 2 a.m., and are then stronger than by day during movement Shiverings immediately after pains Remaining in open air greatly < many of the symptoms (esp. the febrile), while some others are > by it
Hectic fever Burning at various places under the skin Spasmodic attacks and convulsive startings of limbs and muscles Nocturnal epileptic fits
Tendency to suffer a strain in loins Tendency in limbs to become numbed, when lying down Paralysis Dropsical affections and paralysis of old persons
General sensation of emptiness in whole body, as if it were hollow Heaviness and indolence Weakness, as if on the point of losing consciousness, and trembling, esp. after a walk A short walk fatigues much
Attacks of weakness with nausea, sensation of heat and lassitude in pit of stomach, vertigo, and dizziness Violent ebullition of blood, with throbbing in all arteries Excessive dread of open air and of currents of air Great tendency to take cold, esp. after heating exercise.
Skin EN
Painful sensibility of skin, as if it were ulcerated, when pressing on it
Skin dry, with obstructed perspiration
Sensation of burning, or burning and lancinating itching, in skin
Itching, burning, yellow, or red spots on body (over abdomen and around nipples), sometimes with oozing after being scratched
Miliary nettle-rash
Corrosive vesicles
Chilblains of a reddish blue
Warts
Tetters
Bleeding of ulcers, esp. at night
Fissure in cicatrix of an old issue
Ascites and anasarca
Swelling and induration of glands, after contusions.
Sleep EN
Drowsiness and yawning
Great drowsiness during day and early in evening
Falls asleep while eating
Half-sleep at night
Tardy sleep
During sleep, shuddering, tears, talking, and starts with fright
Gnashing of teeth while asleep
Agitated sleep, with frequent, anxious, and frightful dreams
Dreams of robbers, death, danger, serpents, sickness, spectres, devils, &c
Fits of anguish at night, gastric sufferings, pains in stomach and precordial region, colic, flatulency, diarrhoea, frequent erections and pollutions, asthmatic sufferings, nightmare and cramps in calves of legs
Arrest of breath rouses him from sleep at night
At night l. leg and r. arm go to sleep
Waking too early, particularly at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning; sleepiness in evening; sleeplessness after midnight; sleeplessness in general.
Fever EN
Pulse very variable; frequently more rapid in morning than in evening; strong pulsations in arteries
Chilliness generally in morning
Shivering in evening, with thirst, often accompanied by toothache
The Chilliness in evening is > near warm stove and after lying down
Internal heat with external chilliness
Morning perspiration
Perspiration more on upper part of body and < by warm drinks
Perspiration is fetid or smells sour
Intermittent fever; constant chilliness, with violent thirst from internal heat; hot hands; loathing of food
Long yawning, with heat; pain in chest and head; pulsations in abdomen, 9 a.m. and 5 p.m
Chills and heat alternate in evening, followed by perspiration during night
Evening fever; first, chilliness with thirst (for one hour), then heat without thirst, accompanied by violent, fluent coryza; afterwards slight perspiration with sound sleep
Chill and fever, with oppression of breathing, constriction of chest; pain in region of liver; most of the thirst during chill
Intermittent fevers, with whooping-cough
Shivering immediately after pains
Frequent shuddering during day
Heat in morning, in bed, with pains in loins and chest
Want of perspiration and inability to perspire, or else great tendency to perspire during intellectual labour, or during a walk
Nocturnal sweats, every night.