Mezereum
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General EN
Mezereum.
Daphne mezereum. Chamaelia germanica. Mezereon, Spurge Olive. (Hilly woods over nearly whole of Europe and Russian Asia.) N. O. Thymelaceae. Tincture of fresh bark gathered just before the plant flowers in February and March.
Clinical EN
Bones, affections of. Coccygodynia. Constipation. Contraction of tendons. Crusta lactea. Ear, affections of; sensitive to air. Erythema. Exostoses. Eyes, affections of. Glands enlarged. Gleet. Gonorrhoea. Haematuria. Hernia. Herpes zoster. Impetigo. Irritation. Leucorrhoea. Mercury, effects of. Neuralgia. Osteoma. Pediculosis. Pityriasis. Prolapsus ani. Pruritus senilis. Rheumatism. Scrofula. Syphilis. Teeth, affections of. Tinea capitis. Tinea versicolor. Tongue, affections of; swelling of. Ulcers. Vaccination.
Characteristics EN
An idea of the virulence of this poison may be gathered from a case reported in Allen's Appendix: A pale girl, 14, having been advised to use Mezereum leaves to make her fat and rosy, went into the woods and used them freely on her cheeks and surrounding parts. Burning soon set in, the whole face swelled enormously, especially nose, eyelids, and hairy scalp. Severe and painful sneezing set in, delirium, dull, unbearable, pressing pains in forehead, a nauseous dryness in throat and constant irritation to dry cough.
The face soon showed the appearance of erysipelas bullosum; nostrils closed, she could only breathe through mouth; febrile pulse, burning urine. Oil and compresses were applied, and after the second day desquamation occurred in large pieces. But health did not return. Debility, loss of vitality, mental depression bordering on idiocy followed; then typhoid fever, lasting fully three months, to which she finally succumbed.
Poisoning has also been observed from the effects of the berries: dryness and burning of throat and stomach; intense thirst; narcotism, coma, convulsions of eyes and upper limbs were observed. In a child of four, poisoned with the berries, these symptoms occurred: Swollen lips; tongue furred and swollen, protruding, swallowing difficult. The tongue remained quite raw when other symptoms had passed away (H. W., xxii. 466).
Hahnemann records this: A robust man took Mezereum bark for some ailment, and continued it after the ailment disappeared. Soon, unbearable itching set in all over body, could not sleep a moment. Thirty-six hours after discontinuing it the itching was still increasing, then a few grains of Camphor removed it. Mezereum is the vegetable analogue of, and is one of the most important antidotes to, Mercurius.
Merc. and Mez. antidote one another. Mind, skin, eyes, mucous membranes and bones are affected in much the same way by both; they have the same sensitiveness to damp, cold, and warmth, and the same nightly aggravations. Nash mentions an exception to the < by warmth. In a man whom he cured with Mez. of obstinate facial neuralgia, the pains were brought on or greatly < by eating, and the only relief the man could get was by holding the painful side close to a hot stove.
Only radiated heat was of any use, hot cloths, wet or dry, gave no relief whatever. Mez. affects the long bones more markedly than others, and the least touch is intolerable; but it has, like Merc., a strong affinity for the facial bones and teeth. With Mez. the decay attacks the roots or sides rather than the crowns (which Merc. attacks). The toothache is < at night, < by touch, even with the tongue, and is > by holding the mouth open and drawing in air.
Neuralgia about the eyes; the pains radiate and shoot downward, and if there is in addition a sensation in the eye itself as if a cold wind were blowing in it the indications will be very strong. Mez. is one of Hahnemann's anti-psorics, and it meets many psoric manifestations. Carroll Dunham has recorded (Science of Therapeutics, 462) a notable case of deafness, due to suppressed psora. A Youth, 17, deaf since four, and incapacitated thereby, secludes himself and broods over his trouble.
Membranes thickened. At the age of three he had an eruption of thick, whitish scabs, hard, almost horny, covering the whole scalp. There were fissures through which exuded on pressure a thick, yellowish pus, often very offensive. Much itching and disposition to tear off the scabs with the finger-nails, < at night.
The treatment (allopathic) was vigorous: A tar cap was placed on the head, and when firmly adherent to the scabs was violently tom off, scabs and all, leaving the whole scalp raw. This was painted with a saturated solution of Arg. nit. The eruption did not reappear, but from that time the child was deaf. The eruption was the very counterpart of an eruption observed in a proving by Wehle.
Mez. 30, three globules in a powder of sugar of milk, was given on each of these dates—February 3, March 1, and September 28, 1857, and January 26, 1858. Improvement set in slowly after the first dose, which was only repeated when the effect of each preceding dose seemed to be exhausted. Finally the hearing was for all practical purposes completely restored. The action of Mez. in catarrhal cases is illustrated in another case (Amer.
Hom., xxi. 417). Miss M. R., 39, brunette, had chronic catarrh. The left ear had long been deaf, and the right had begun to fail.
There were noises in the ears. Drum membranes retracted and scarred. The symptoms were: Excessive sensitiveness to the air, even of a fan, and occasionally a sensation as if air went through to the throat. Mucous membrane of naso-pharynx granular and irritable.
A dose of Mez. given before each meal entirely relieved the symptoms. The ulcers of Mez. have thick, yellowish, white scabs. Vesicles appear now and then, and itch and burn. Lint dressings stick to them, and when they are torn away bleeding occurs.
Burning vesicles on the sides of the fingers; and ulcers on finger-joints. With eczema there is intolerable itching, < in bed and from touch. Vaccinal eczemas are frequently of the Mez. type. Mez. is often of great service in herpes zoster, both during the eruption and for the neuralgia remaining after, especially if the pains are burning.
In a lecture on Mez. by T. S. Hoyne (Med. Vis., xiii. 65) are collected many cases illustrating the action of the remedy.
Here is a mental case (in a woman) treated by W. E. Payne: No rest when alone; wants company. Ideas vanish while talking; cannot repeat what has been learned by heart.
Looks through the window for hours without being conscious of objects around. Does not know what she is about; forgets what she is about to utter; looks ill-humoured, pale, wretched, fallen away. Apprehensiveness at pit of stomach, as when expecting some very unpleasant intelligence. All symptoms relieved in a single night by Mez. 20.
(I give the italics as in the original.) Among neuralgic cases are the following: (1) Man, 28, violent neuralgia, boring pain in left lower jaw-bone, extending to temple and ear. < Night, > from pressure. Mez. 3 relieved in two hours (S. R.
Geiser). (2) H. G., stout, healthy-looking negro, left supra-orbital neuralgia recurring daily at 9 a.m., increasing till noon, declining till 4 p.m., when it entirely departed leaving no soreness behind. Pain = flow of tears.
Mez. 1 cured permanently after other remedies had failed Q. W. Vance). (3) Mrs.
X. had pain in right eye-tooth, daily increasing. Felt too long. Pains much < by pressure on crown and outside root. Mez. 2 cured (Oehme).
(4) Toothache in incisor tooth in lady. Tooth feels elongated, loose, excessively sensitive, with sensation as if being raised out of its socket. Upper part of tooth excessively painful. Mez. 200 cured in a few hours (Hempel).
(5) The fastenings of a hammock broke, and a lady on it fell, striking the sacrum and coccyx on the stump of a tree. She suffered excruciating pain. Arn. was applied locally. In a few weeks she came home, and the coccyx was still so tender she could not sit—only lie or stand.
Arn. internally and externally for two weeks had no influence. Mez. 2 cured in five days (Oehme).—"Constipation after confinement" has proved a good indication for Mez.: "My stools are as hard as stone, and as large as my arm. I feel as if they would split me open. They come in sections like mouthfuls, and I become much exhausted and tremble with weakness.
Every stool is immediately preceded by chills, and followed by long stitches up rectum." Mez. 12 produced a natural stool in twelve hours (H. Noah Martin). Green discharges according to Cooper strongly indicate Mez. It has cured a case of dry crust on scalp and falling out of hair, accompanied with short sight.
Daphne laureola, the British representative of the genus, has cured scald-head when Mez. failed. The symptoms in this case were < by day, whereas Mez. has < at night. The pains of D. laureola come on in the morning and affect the entire head or whole left side: Guaiac. pains are also < by day and > by warmth (Cooper). Cooper gives me the following cases: (1) Woman, 48, had rheumatism which came on ten years before in hands from wearing wet gloves, and extended later to arms and knees; stiffness on walking with loss of muscular power, < in hot weather, "pins and needles" in fingers on elevating arms, cannot grasp things, sometimes one hand burns when other is cold, climacteric flushings.
Great relief from Mez. Ø. (2) Girl, 18, getting thin, with headache across forehead, temples, and eyes, a throbbing with sickness of stomach and water-brash, always < by movement; bowels very confined; menses never appeared. Mez. cured; (3) Pimples on ankles and backs of feet, horrid taste and clamminess of mouth in morning, pimples > by hard scratching, sluggish bowels.
Mez. cured. H. B. Esmond (H.
R., vii. 41) cured with Mez. 3x a youth, 17, who had been afflicted with "salt rheum" as long as he could remember. It was absent in summer, but every autumn, as soon as cold weather came, face, neck, hands, and forearms would break out and continue sore till warm weather returned. Another indication for Mez. is hypersensitiveness of the ear to air. It has cured a case in which there was a feeling as if air went through the ear to the throat.
The rectum and anus are the seat of many characteristic symptoms, stitches, burning itching. During stool the rectum prolapses and the sphincter closes upon the protruded part. This constricting tendency is noticed in the throat and stomach, and also in the tendons. The leg is shortened with pain in hip.
Tension in muscles of chest. Pain and stiffness in muscles of neck. Cramp-like contraction over chest and back; and across front of chest. Sensations are: Head as if drunk; as if everything in the head would press asunder; as if skull would split; as if top of head gone; as if head bruised; as if head was in an ants' nest.
Eyes as if too large; as if drawn back into head. Ears as if too open; as if air pouring into them; as if tympanum was exposed to cold air; as if air was distending right external meatus. Teeth feel too long. Hard palate, feels as if made of wood.
Throat as if narrowing. As if food remained a long time in stomach. Stools feel as if they would split anus. Chest feels too tight.
Limbs feel shortened. As if fire darting through muscles. As if millions of insects were crawling on him. Sensation of lightness of body.
Bones are very sore and feel distended. Diseased parts wither. Mez. is suited to: Light-haired persons; phlegmatic temperament; irresolute. The plant flowers in very early spring, even when snow is on the ground, and it is suited to complaints which come on in the earliest months of the year.
< From cold; damp; cold winds; sudden changes of weather; heat; warm food. Head pains are > wrapping up head. Prosopalgia > by heat of stove (not by other heat). Drawing in air > toothache.
< From touch or pressure. < From motion. Lying down < itching of scalp. Stooping > headache.
< Evening and night. < During menses (burning itching inner side of throat). Affections go from above downward; from within outward; and from right to left.
Relations EN
Antidoted by:—Aco., Bry., Calc. (headache), K. iod., Merc., Nux. It antidotes: Merc., Nit. ac., Phos., Alcohol. Compatible: Calc., Caust., Ign., Lyc., Merc., Nux, Pho., Puls.
Compare: In ciliary neuralgia, Spi. (Mez. pains radiate and shoot down, cold feeling in eye; Spi., stabbing pains in or radiating from eye, eyeballs feel swollen), Thuj., Ced., Ars., Merc. Protruded and constricted rectum, Lach.
Eczema, Rhus, Anac. Ulcers on finger-joints, Bor., Sep. Feeling of cold wind blowing in eye, Croc. (across eye), Med., Syph., Thuj.
(out of eye). Blinking, Mercurialis. Nausea in throat, Cycl., Phos. ac., Stan., Val. (in rectum, Ruta; in hypogastrium, Puls.).
Stitch in rectum, Ign., Pho. Long bones, Angust. Carious teeth, Kre. Vesicles appear round ulcers and itch, Hep.
Pains in periosteum < at night, Phyt., Merc. Rheumatism and skin, Guaiac., Anac., Rhus.
Causation EN
Anger. Mercury. Vaccination.
Mind EN
Hypochondriacal humour, with sadness and tears.—(Fearful depression, miserable feeling)
Anguish and inquietude, esp. in solitude, with wish for society
Indifference about everything and everybody around him
Aversion to talk. it seems to him to be hard work to utter one word
Disposed to reproach others or to quarrel
Irresolute
Everything seems dead and nothing makes a vivid impression
Peevishness
Passion
Unfitness for labour
Weak memory (mind is easily confused)
Mental torpor
Slow conception
Ideas are frequently lost.
Head EN
Stupefying confusion in head, as from intoxication, or immoderate pollutions
Vertigo, which causes falling on one side, with sparkling before eyes
Headache, with shuddering and shivering, < in open air.—(Splitting headaches: head throbs on movement, begins in frontal sinuses, patient gets rapidly thin, and brings up water from stomach with straining; feels low and weak.)
Pressive and stunning headache, on one side only of brain
Headache in temples and sides of head after an exertion and from talking much
Violent headache and great sensitiveness to least contact after a slight anger
Compressive or cramp-like pain, as if head were being severed
Violent, pulsative, and pressive pains in whole head, forehead, nose, and teeth, < by the slightest movement
Thrilling headache, with vomiting of mucus
Sensation of torpor, with drawing pains in one side of head
Pains in bones of cranium, < by touch
Painful sensitiveness of scalp and of hair to touch
Gnawing itching in scalp
Itching eruption on head, sometimes moist
Head covered with a thick leather-like crust, under which thick and white pus collects here and there, and the hair is glued together
On head great elevated white scabs, under which ichor collects in great quantity, and which begins to be offensive and breed vermin
The scabs on head look chalky and extend to eyebrows and nape of neck
Burning, biting itching on scalp, principally on vertex, when scratching the locality changes but the itching becomes <; this is followed by very sore boils and humid eruptions, < at night and when lying down.—(Hard scabs on head six months, no irritation, much oozing with weakness and trembling of ankles.)
Pains in bones of scalp (on both sides) with swelling and caries, great sensitiveness to contact, cold, motion, < in evening
Numbness of scalp, with drawing pain in it, generally only on one side;
< from cold contact and in evening.—> By heat
Dandruff, white, dry.
Eyes EN
Inclination to wink with eyes
Dryness in eyes, with pressure in them
Twitching of muscles around eyes
Lachrymation, with smarting in eyes
Staring at one spot
Pain, as if balls of eyes were too large, with aching
Sensation as if eyes drawn back into head
Eyes feel strained
Smarting in internal canthi
Inflammation of eyes; conjunctiva injected, dirty red
Three days after one dose Mez. Ø eyes became bloodshot, first one then the other, with cramp in both feet and l. upper limb, < night.
(R.
T.
C.)
Myopia, or presbyopia
Sparks before eyes
Obstinate twitching of the muscles of the l. upper lid
Pupils contracted.
Ears EN
Otalgia, with drawing and acute pullings
Itching and oozing eruption behind ears (scratching causes small elevations, they are scratched off and feel sore)
Hardness of hearing
Sensation of stoppage of ears
Ears feel as if they were too open, and as if air were pouring into them, or as if the tympanum were exposed to the cold air, with a desire to bore with fingers into ear
Sensation as though air were distending the r. external meatus; afterward in l.; as if roaring would occur
Tinkling in ears, sometimes with drowsiness.—[Cooper supplies the following additions]: Deafness with headache all over head, < on vertex, as if the bone were breaking, a splitting headache with tenderness of scalp, begins across root of nose and eyes and is < at night, also a sick feeling after food (cured)
Bursting sensation in r. ear with neuralgia of whole side of head (cured)
A rumbling in ears, with feeling of fulness and pressure and dimness of sight (produced)
Swelling of r. ear and itching as if a boil were forcing itself through concha (produced)
Adenoids, post nasal; deafness < when eating, slight otorrhoea, stuffiness of l. nostril with ozaena
Very deaf, both membranes highly vascular following cold and acute headache of r. side of head; deafness had lasted 2 1/2 months (cured)
Heavy dulness in l. ear with itching in both eyelids, could scratch them to pieces (cured).
Nose EN
Twitching (visible) on root of nose
Excoriation of interior of nose
Diminution of smell, with sensation of dryness in nose, and sometimes ineffectual desire to sneeze
Frequent sneezings, accompanied by pain of excoriation in chest
Fluent coryza, with secretion of liquid and yellow (thin, at times bloody) mucus, excoriation and burning in nose, and eruption on lips, and burning of upper lip.—(Ozaena, 15 years, in woman, 35, < l. nostril: Mez. 3x irritated nostril, was then omitted and discharge ceased; this occurred several times, till quite cured
After Mez. Ø, sneezes many times for twenty-four hours, then gets darting pains from head to foot and is hardly able to bear anything to touch her for three days
R.
T.
C.)
Face EN
Grey, earthy complexion
Face and forehead hot and red, with great restlessness and peevishness
Paleness of face
Cramp-like and stunning pressure on cheek-bone, sometimes only on one side (r.), and extending to eye, temple, ear, teeth, neck, and into shoulder
Drawings in jaw-bones
Continued and painful twitching in cheeks and eyelids
Frequent troublesome twitching of muscles in middle of r. cheek
Furunculi on face
Child scratches its face constantly; it becomes covered with blood
In night child scratches its face so that the bed is covered with blood in morning; face is covered with a scab, which the child keeps constantly tearing off anew, and on the spots thus left raw large, fat pustules form
The ichor from scratched face excoriates other parts
A honey-like scab around mouth
Skin of face is of a deep inflammatory redness, the eruption is humid and fat
Excoriation and burning in lips and commissures
Lips swollen and cracked, with exfoliation; swelling of lower lip with rhagades
Upper lip ulcerated, with burning pain when touched
Shootings in submaxillary glands.
Teeth EN
Pains in carious teeth
The hollow teeth decay suddenly
Drawing, burning, or boring shootings in teeth, and into cheek-bones, and temples
Jerking and tearing pains in teeth
Sensation as if teeth were set on edge, and too long
Toothache < by touch and by movement, as well as during the shiverings in evening
Teeth pain when touched by the tongue
Ebullition of blood to the head, shiverings and constipation, during toothache
Teeth coated with fetid mucus
Teeth speedily become carious
Burning vesicles in gums.
Mouth EN
Burning vesicles in mouth and on tongue
Tongue swollen, protruding
Tongue quite raw
Constant burning in mouth
Burning in the mouth and throat
Impeded speech.
Throat EN
Pressive pain in throat on swallowing
Roughness, excoriation, smarting scraping, and lancinating in throat and palate
Burning in throat (pharynx) and in oesophagus
Inflammation of throat
Constriction and contraction of pharynx; the food presses on the part during deglutition.
Appetite EN
Beer has a bitter taste, and is thrown up when taken
Increased hunger at noon
Great hunger or loss of appetite
Violent hunger in afternoon and evening
Unusual longing for ham fat
Burning in the stomach, mouth, and throat, > by eating (swallowing the food)
Repugnance to food.
Stomach EN
Frequent and empty risings, esp. after drinking
Sensation of nausea in throat
Sensation as if posterior part of throat were full of mucus, same after hawking
Nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth, shuddering and trembling of whole body
Violent vomitings of greenish and bitter mucus, accompanied by headache
Vomiting of blood
Aching in stomach
Burning, and sensation of heat in stomach
Inflammation of stomach
Contraction of diaphragm.
Abdomen EN
Abdomen hard and tense
Chronic, cramp-like, acute, pulling, pressive, constrictive, and shooting pains in abdomen
Stitches in l. hypochondrium
Dull pain in region of spleen
Heaviness in abdomen
Sensation of heat, and burning in abdomen
Inflammation of intestines
Expansive pressure in inguinal ring
Drawing in inguinal glands
Flatulent colic, with rumbling and borborygmi in abdomen, difficult respiration, and shivering
Many short, fetid, flatulent discharges, esp. before the stool.
Stool And Anus EN
Difficult stools, of the consistence of thick pap, with urgent want to evacuate
Constipation
Constipation, stool dark brown, in knots, very hard balls, with great straining, but not painful
Stools soft, brown, smelling sour
Soft stool in evening, fermented stool, not fully digested, smelling very offensive or sour
Excessive diarrhoea (small stools) with intolerable colic
Brown faeces, containing some white, glistening bodies
Scanty, soft, frequent evacuations
Violent diarrhoea, with insupportable pains in abdomen.—[Passes large quantities of blood by bowel with diarrhoea and sickness; is bilious (cured)
Mez. often relieves constipation, esp. with hepatic and uterine inertia
R.
T.
C.]
During (or after) stool, prolapse of rectum with constriction of anus, which makes it very difficult to replace; sore and painful to touch
Before and after stool, creeping in rectum as from ascarides
Stitch in rectum; upwards (in afternoon)
Biting, sore pain in anus on walking, and a burning in rectum
Pain in anus and anterior part of penis
Pinching in anus and near anus l. side
Crawling in anus; much itching
Tenesmus, tearing and drawing in anus and perinaeum, and through whole urethra
Coldness and shuddering, before, and after the evacuation.
Urinary Organs EN
Diminished secretion of urine
In morning and forenoon, frequent discharges of large quantities of pale urine
Flock-like cloudiness, and reddish sediment in urine
Haematuria
Sticking in kidney, and pain as if torn
Pain, as from excoriation, in urethra
Discharge of mucus from urethra
Discharge of a few drops of blood after urinating
Biting burning in forepart of urethra at close of micturition
After micturition, itching at prepuce.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Tearing, jerking, and lancination, in penis
Tearing and burning lancinations in the end of the glans
Heat and swelling of penis
Violent erections and increased sexual desire
Swelling of testicles
Fine pricking stitches in penis and tip of glans
Abundant secretion of smegma behind glans, like gonorrhoea balani
Swelling (painless) of scrotum.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Chronic leucorrhoea, like white of eggs (malignant, corroding), sometimes also serous
Menses: too frequent and lasting too long; scanty with leucorrhoea and prosopalgia; suppressed
During pregnancy, diarrhoea and prolapsus recti
After confinement, constipation, burning and stitches in rectum.—(Climacteric flushings remain away for several months.)
Respiratory Organs EN
Hoarseness, with burning and dryness in throat, irritation which excites coughing, rawness in chest, and difficult respiration
Violent cough, when lying down
Dry cough, with retching and vomiting, in evening, and at night
Desire to draw a long breath
Spasmodic, violent whooping-cough, caused by an irritation in larynx, extending to chest, expectoration in morning, of a yellow, albuminous, tough mucus, tasting salt
The cough is < in evening till midnight; or day and night, with tension over thorax; when eating or drinking anything hot (has to cough till the food is vomited up); from drinking beer
Violent inclination to cough low down in trachea; cannot loosen anything by the cough.
Chest EN
Difficult respiration
Pain in chest, during inspiration, as if there were adhesions in lungs, and the cavity of the chest were too narrow
Aching in chest
Painful tension of muscles of chest
The chest feels too tight on stooping
Pain, as from excoriation and burning in sternum
Stitches in chest, < during inspiration; in (r.) side of chest, < from drawing a long breath.
Pulse EN
Pulse intermittent; full, tense, hard.
Neck And Back EN
Painful rigidity of nape of neck, and of neck and external muscles; in r. side of neck and throat, < on motion
Tearing jerking in sides of neck
Rheumatic pains in muscles of shoulder-blade; they feel tense and swollen, and prevent motion
Shootings in back
Contractive and tensive pain in back, extending to sacrum
Sacral pains.—(Coccyx tender and sore, from a fall).
Upper Limbs EN
Dislocating pain in shoulder-joint
R. arm feels sprained on top of shoulder
Pain, as from excoriation, in axillae (r.)
R. hand cold (while writing), l. warm (in a warm room)
Cold hands
Trembling in r. hand
Tips of fingers powerless, cannot hold anything
The hands (and feet) go to sleep continually
Drawing and rheumatic tension in arms, with paralytic weakness
Paralysis of flexors
Jerking pains in shoulders, arms, hands, and fingers
Swelling and heat of arm and hand, with twitching and pricking in muscles
Ulcers on finger-joints.
Lower Limbs EN
Jerking in hip-joint, as far as knee
Contraction of leg
R. hip-joint feels sprained on walking
Twitching of whole of r. leg
Pain in hip, the leg is shortened
Whole leg covered with elevated white scabs.—(Ulcer on leg with intense itching in surrounding skin and in scalp, much < in warmth; with slight diarrhoea.)
Cracking in r. knee when rising in morning
Legs and feet go to sleep
Stitches in toes of r. foot
Pain in periosteum of the long bones, esp. the tibia, < at night in bed, and then the least touch is intolerable
Pains in bones of thighs and legs
Tearing, drawing, and tension in thighs, legs, feet, and toes
Tension and stiffness in knees
Jerking, and pressive pain in tibia
Hard swelling of calves of legs
Jerking pain in toes
Violent pains in bones of feet; in bones of instep, < when walking
Pain in ball of little toe.
Generalities EN
[This remedy is often useful in cases of very violent neuralgic pains about the teeth or face, particularly if the pain be in the l. bone, running toward ear; also neuralgic pains at night in teeth Affections of any kind appearing on external head, principally r. side; teeth in l. side; forehead; shin-bone Collection of water in mouth, i.e., "mouth waters." Urine with real flakes, which float about on the top
Subsultus tendinum, as in typhoid fever, &c., when by putting the fingers on the wrist or on other parts of the body the tendons are felt to jump and jerk Burning, darting sensation in the muscles like fire darting through them H. N.
G.] Drawing, rheumatic tearing, and tension in the limbs, with paralytic weakness Thrilling pains, which leave a distressing sensation behind them, for a long time Drawing, pains in one side of body, with shivering
Pains, accompanied by shivering and shuddering Gnawing pains, as from excoriation in mucous membranes Burning in the organs of digestion Burning of internal parts, with external chilliness
Inflammation and swelling of bones; esp. shafts of cylindrical bones; caries, after abuse of Mercury Ulceration of bones Tension in muscles Hot, jerking stitches in various parts of body
Jerking and quivering of muscles Drawings and sensation of weakness in joints; joints feel bruised and weary, as if they would give way Contusive pain, and heaviness in all limbs Heaviness and indolence of body
Feeling of great lightness of body General sick feeling Bending of body in walking Emaciation or bloatedness of body and face, with enlargement of abdomen in children
Pain in the glands Abscesses of fibrous parts or tendons Predominance of sufferings on one side of the body Symptoms < in the evening;
< on touching part affected; and on movement Great susceptibility to cold air Sensitiveness to washing with cold water in morning.
Skin EN
Sensitiveness to touch
General desquamation of skin of body; usual liver spots on chest and arms become dark and desquamate
Red rash, itching violently;
< in bed, from touch; burning and change of place after scratching
Cutaneous ulcers form over bony protuberances
Ulcers with thick, whitish, yellow scabs, under which thick, yellow pus collects
Skin covered with elevated white scabs
Itching, esp. at night (when in bed), more violent and painful (and changed to burning) after scratching the parts, and sometimes with swelling of the part that has been scratched
Gnawing itching as from vermin
Miliary eruptions, sometimes chronic
Furunculi
Inflamed ulcers, with burning and shooting, or with gnawing pain of excoriation
Inflammation and swelling of the bones, rachitis, caries
Ulcers: with an areola, sensitive and easily bleeding when removing the linen, which sticks, painful at night, the pus tends to form an adherent scab, under which a quantity of pus collects, burning and stinging with inflammation
Vesicles around the ulcers, itching violently and burning, like fire
Suppuration after inflammation.
Sleep EN
Great sleepiness by day, with agitated and unrefreshing sleep, at night
Shocks in body during sleep
Waking early (towards 2 or 3 a.m.) in consequence of nightmare.
Fever EN
Pulse full and hard; in the evening accelerated; intermitting at times
Chilliness, shiverings, and coldness of whole body, esp. in hands and feet, with violent thirst, and sometimes without a desire for warmth
Chill predominates even in warm room
Chill with thirst and desire for heat
Chill from upper arms, extending to back and legs
Heat in bed, mostly in the head
Intermittent fever; chill over the whole body accompanied by asthmatic contraction and tightness of chest, in front and back
During cold stage, a peculiar thirst; dryness in back of mouth, with accumulation of saliva in fore part without any desire to drink
During cold stage, drowsiness in the warm room
Sleep, with sweat, after the shiverings (without previous heat)
Fever, accompanied by headache, and paleness of face, the splenetic region painful, swollen, and hard, weakness and great susceptibility to cold air; tertian fever
Violent inflammatory fever.