Pulsatilla Pratensis

[This remedy is particularly applicable for complaints which are found to occur in patients of a mild, yielding, or good-natured disposition; also in those who by, their sickness, or naturally, are very easily excited to tears—they are very apt to burst into tears whenever spoken to, or when they attempt to speak, as in giving their symptoms, &c

Affections of the mind in general; covetous; mistrustful; absent-minded; low-spirited (H.

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G.)] Melancholy with sadness, tears, great uneasiness respecting one's affairs or about the health; fear of death (tremulous anguish, as if death were near), care and grief

Involuntary laughter and weeping

Great anguish and inquietude, mostly in precordial region, sometimes with inclination to commit suicide, palpitation of heart, heat, and necessity to loosen the dress, trembling of hands, and inclination to vomit

Fits of anxiety, with fear of death, or of an apoplectic attack, with buzzing in ears, shiverings, and convulsive movements of fingers

Apprehension, anthropophobia, fear of ghosts at night or in evening, with an impulse to hide or to run away, mistrust and suspicion

Covetousness

Taciturn madness; with sullen, cold, and wandering air, sighs, often seated with the hands joined, but without uttering any complaint

Despair of eternal happiness, with continual praying

Discouragement, indecision, dread of occupation, and obstructed respiration

Disposition envious, discontented, and covetous, exhibiting itself in a wish to appropriate everything

Caprice, with desire at one time for one thing, at another time for something else, either being rejected as soon as obtained

Hysterical laughter after meals

Hypochondriacal humour and moroseness, < evening, often with repugnance to conversation, great sensitiveness, choleric disposition, cries, and weeping

Ill-humour, sometimes with a dread of labour, and disgust or contempt for everything

Inadvertence, precipitation, and absence of mind

Difficulty in expressing thoughts correctly when speaking, and tendency to omit letters when writing

Giddiness; patient neither knows where he is nor what he does

Great flow of very changeful ideas

Nocturnal raving; violent delirium and loss of consciousness

Frightful visions

Weakness of memory

Fixed ideas

Stupidity.

Fatigue of head from intellectual labour

Sensation of emptiness and confusion in head, as after long watching or after a debauch, and sometimes with great indifference

Stupefaction in evening, in warm room, with chilliness

Stupefying headache, with humming in head, < when lying or sitting quiet, or in the cold

Vertigo as during intoxication, or vertigo to such an extent as to fall, and staggering, < evening, or morning when rising up, when getting up after lying down, when sitting, when stooping, when walking in open air, or after a meal, as well as on raising eyes, and often with great heaviness and heat in head, paleness of face, inclination to vomit, sleep, cloudiness of eyes, and buzzing in ears

Meditation and conversation < the vertigo

Fits of dizziness and loss of consciousness, with bluish redness and bloatedness of face, loss of motive power, violent palpitation of heart, pulse almost extinct, and respiration rattling

Pain as from a bruise in brain (as if brain were lacerated, on or soon after waking), as in typhus fever or after intoxication with brandy

Headache as from indigestion, caused by eating fat food (or from the abuse of Mercury)

Pain in head as if forehead would split, or as if brain were tight, compressed, or contracted

Headache on moving eyes deep in orbits as if forehead would fall out; and frontal bones were too thin, with dulness of head, evening

Semilateral headache as if brain would burst and eyes fall out of head

Soreness as from subcutaneous ulceration in one or both temples, < in evening, when at rest, and in warm room;

> by walking in open air

Twitching-tearing in temple on which one lies, and going to the other side when turning on it;

< in evening and on raising eyes upwards

Congestion of blood to head, with stinging pulsation in brain, esp. when stooping

Shootings, or sharp drawing and jerking pains, or tingling pulsation, and boring in head

Headache across eyes like a drawing-up and letting go again

Roaring, buzzing, and crackling in head; or painful sensation, as if a current of air were crossing brain

The headache is often only semilateral, extending as far as ear and teeth, where it affects forehead (generally in one temple) above eyes, penetrating into sockets, or it is experienced in occiput, with painful contraction in nape of neck (with vertigo, ringing in ears, and vanishing of sight)

Appearance or < of headache in evening, after lying down, or at night, or in bed in morning, as well as on stooping, on moving eyes or head, when walking in open air, and during intellectual labour; compression sometimes >

Headache > by meditation

Headache with nausea and vomiting, or with congestion and heat in head, or else with shuddering and syncope, vertigo, cloudiness of eyes, loss of sight, and buzzing in ears, photophobia, and weeping

Pain in scalp on turning up hair (or on brushing hair backwards)

Tickling and itching in head

Purulent pustules and small tumours, with pain in scalp as from ulceration (suppurating and affecting the skull, more painful when lying on the opposite well side)

Tingling, biting-itching on scalp, mostly on temples and behind ears, followed by swelling and eruptions; sore pain;

< in evening when undressing and on getting warm in bed

Fetid, frequently cold perspiration, at times only on one side of head and face, with great anxiety and stupor;

< at night and towards morning, > after waking and rising

Disposition to take cold in head, < when it gets wet; sweat of scalp and face.

Affections in general appearing on the cornea; margins of the eyelids; dim-sightedness, with a sensation as though there were something over the eye which the patient wishes to rub away; amaurosis; cataract

Pain in eyes as if scratched with a knife

Burning sensation, pressive pain as if caused by sand; or sharp or shooting pain in eyes, or else boring and incisive pain

Burning itching in eyes, chiefly in evening (inducing rubbing and scratching)

Inflammation in eyes and margins of lids (and meibomian glands), with redness of the sclerotica and conjunctiva, and copious secretion of (thick) mucus (and nightly agglutination)

Swelling and redness of eyelids

Trichiasis in eyelid

Styes, esp. on upper lid

Crystalline lens clouded and of a greyish colour

Stye with inflammation of sclerotica, and tensive drawing pains on moving the muscles of the face

Dryness of eyes and lids, esp. during sleep

Profuse lachrymation, principally in the wind, as well as in open air, in the cold, and in clear, bright daylight

Acrid and corrosive tears

Abscess near angle of eye, like a lachrymal fistula (discharging pus on pressing it)

Nocturnal agglutination of lids

Pupils contracted or dilated

Amaurosis; paralysis of optic nerve

Look fixed and stupid

Dimness of sight, esp. or, getting warm from exercise

Cloudiness of eyes and loss of sight, sometimes with paleness of face and inclination to vomit;

(all objects present a sickly hue)

Loss of sight in twilight, with sensation as if eyes were covered with a band

Sight confused, as if directed through a mist, or as if caused by something removable by rubbing, principally in open air, in evening, in morning, or on waking

Incipient cataract

Diplopia

Luminous circles before eyes, and diffusion of light of candles

Great sensibility of eyes to light, which causes lancinating pains (and in sunshine).

Pain in ears, as if something were about to protrude from them

Shootings with itching, or sharp, jerking pain, and contraction in and round ears; the pains sometimes come on by fits, affect whole head, appear insupportable, and almost cause loss of reason (may be accompanied by high fever, &c.)

Earache with shooting down to teeth of lower jaw, < when warm in bed

Earache in both ears with violent headache, frontal and occipital, < at night

Inflammatory swelling, heat, and erysipelatous redness of ear and auditory duct, as well as of surrounding external parts

Painful swelling of bones behind ears

The cerumen is hard and black

Bland, nearly inoffensive discharge of mucus and pus from ear

Discharge of pus, of blood, or of a thick yellowish humour from l. ear

Discharge from one or both ears, which may come on after measles or any other disease, or may occur spontaneously

Otorrhoea with throbbing tinnitus

Warbling, pulsative murmurs, tinkling, roaring, and humming in ears

Hardness of hearing, as from an obstruction (esp. from cold, from having hair cut, or after suppressed measles).—(Deafness after washing head

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Burning, gnawing scabs at the tragus (with swelling of glands of neck)

Shootings in parotids.

Pressure and pain as from an abscess in root of nose (near inner canthus, as if a lachrymal fistula would form)

The nose feels sore internally and externally

Ulceration of nostrils and of the alae nasi (emitting a watery humour)

Discharge of fetid and greenish or yellowish pus from nose (like old catarrh)

Old catarrh, frequently a profuse discharge every morning, in mild and pleasant persons

Nasal catarrh accompanied by special discomfort in the house, cannot breathe well in a warm room, and great > by going out into the open air

Blowing, of blood from nose and nasal haemorrhage (blood coagulated; with dry coryza; with suppressed menses), sometimes with obstruction of nose

Obstruction of nose and dry coryza, principally in evening and in the heat of a room

Coryza with loss of taste and smell, or with discharge of thick (yellowish green) and fetid mucus

Tickling in nose and frequent sneezing, principally in morning and evening

Constant shivering during coryza

Imaginary smells

Constant smell before nose, as from a coryza of long standing, or as of a mixture of coffee and tobacco

Swelling of nose

Nasal bones pain as if they would be forced asunder.

Face pale (or yellowish, with sunken eyes) and sometimes with an expression of suffering

Painful sensitiveness of skin in face

Boring in l. malar bone.—(Neuralgia of r. face, < and then > by warmth, tightness across forehead as from a tight-string, keeps her awake at night

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Pallor of face, alternating with heat and redness of cheeks

Heat and redness of r. cheek only

Sweat on face and scalp; shuddering or one- (r.-) sided sweat of face

Face (and nose) puffed and of a bluish red colour

Convulsive movements and muscular palpitations in face

Tension and sensation of swelling in face, or painful sensibility of skin, as if it were excoriated

Erysipelas in face, with shooting pain and desquamation of skin

Red nodosities in region of cheek-bones

Lower lip swelled and cracked in middle

Swelling, tension, and cracks in lips, with desquamation of skin

Gnawing and smarting around mouth

Sharp and contractive pain in jaws

Swelling of submaxillary and cervical glands.

Sharp, shooting pains in teeth, or drawing, jerking pains, as if the nerve were tightened, then suddenly relaxed; or pulsative, digging, and gnawing pains, often with pricking in gums

Jerking and stinging in teeth, extending to ears and eyes

Toothache which affects the sound as well as the carious teeth, often only semilateral, and frequently extending to face, side of head, ear, and eye, on the side affected, being sometimes accompanied by paleness in face, shivering, and dyspnoea

Toothache < or appears principally in evening or afternoon or at night, as well as in heat of bed or of a room; renewed by eating, as also by partaking of anything hot, and by irritation with the toothpick: > by cold water or fresh air

Toothache from cold (in the first warm spring days), with otalgia, paleness of the face, and chilliness

The toothache is also sometimes < by cold water as well as by fresh air or by wind; but these cases are rare

Sensation of burning or swelling, pain as from excoriation, and pulsation in gums (< by the heat of the stove)

Looseness of teeth.

Dryness of mouth in morning (without thirst)

Offensive smell, and even putrid fetor from mouth, principally in morning or at night, and in bed in evening

Flow of sweetish and watery saliva from mouth, sometimes with inclination to vomit

Sensation as if tongue were too large

Tongue feels dry, and clammy

Painful blister on r. side of tip of tongue

Sensation in middle of tongue, even when it is moistened, as if it had been burned and were insensible; at night and in morning

Edges of tongue feel sore as if scalded

Tongue greatly swollen, dorsum bright red and covered with network of dilated and congested veins; varicose swelling on l. side of tongue

Tongue loaded with a thick coating of a greyish, whitish, or yellowish colour (and covered with tough mucus)

Accumulation of tenacious mucus in mouth and on tongue; these parts are, as it were, coated with a white skin

Cracks and painful vesicles on tongue

Sensation as if the palate were swollen, or covered with tenacious mucus

Constant spitting of frothy, cotton-like mucus.

Pain as from excoriation in throat, as if it were all raw, with scraping, burning sensation and smarting

Redness of throat, tonsils, and uvula, with sensation as if those parts were swollen, < swallowing

Difficult deglutition, as from paralysis, or from contraction of throat

Shootings in throat, with pressure and tension during empty deglutition

Inflammation of throat, with varicose swelling of veins

Dryness in throat (in morning) or accumulation of tenacious mucus, which covers the part affected (esp. night and morning)

The sore throat is generally < in evening or afternoon

Sensation of a worm creeping up into throat.

Insipid mucus, putrid taste in mouth, empyreumatic, earthy, or pus-like taste

Taste: fatty; lost; in colds where there is an entire loss of taste

Sweetish, acid, or bitter taste in mouth, and of food, principally meat, bread, butter, beer, and milk, substances which also often appear insipid or cause disgust

Bitter or sour taste in mouth immediately after eating, as well as in morning and evening

Wine has a bitter (beer a sweet or bitter) and meat a putrid taste

Food appears either too salt or insipid

Want of appetite and dislike to food

Hunger and desire to eat, without knowing what

Ravenous hunger, with gnawing pain in stomach

Complete adipsia, or excessive thirst, with moisture on tongue, and desire for beer, or spirituous, tart, and acid drinks

Thirstlessness with all complaints

Sensation of derangement in stomach, similar to that caused by fat pork or rich pastry

Repugnance to tobacco smoke

After eating, nausea and eructations, regurgitation and vomiting, inflation, and aching in pit of stomach, colic and flatulence, headache, obstructed respiration, ill-humour and melancholy or involuntary laughter and weeping, and many other sufferings

Bread, esp., lies heavy on stomach.

Frequent eructations, sometimes abortive, or with taste of food, or acid, or bitter, and principally after a meal; like bile in evening

Regurgitation of food

Waterbrash

Frequent hiccough, principally on smoking tobacco, after drinking, or at night, and sometimes with fit of suffocation.—(Constant hiccough with jaundiced look and burning pains about shoulders

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Insupportable nausea and inclination to vomit, sometimes extending to throat and into mouth, with distressing sensation as of a worm crawling up oesophagus

Morning sickness (during pregnancy)

Attacks of constriction and choking in oesophagus

Scraping sensation in stomach and oesophagus, like a heartburn

Vomitings, sometimes violent, of greenish mucus, or bilious and bitter, or acid matter (esp. in evening and at night)

Vomiting of food

Haematemesis

The nausea and vomiting take place principally in evening or at night, or after eating or drinking, as well as during a meal, and they often manifest themselves with shivering, paleness of face, colic, pains in ears or back, burning sensation in throat, and borborygmi.—(Persistent indigestion in fits, with great weight on chest and sickish feeling, from mental and physical upset

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Cold in stomach from ice-cream and fruit

Colic, with nausea, ceasing after vomiting

Painful sensibility of region of stomach to least pressure

Disordered stomach (digestion) from eating fat food (pork)

Pressive, spasmodic, contractive, and compressive pains in stomach and praecordial region, principally after a meal or in evening or in morning, and often with vomiting or nausea and obstructed respiration

Tingling or pulsations in pit of stomach, or shooting pain on making a false step, or on uneven pavement

Pain in epigastrium, which is greatly < when sitting (during pregnancy).

Inflammation of abdomen, with great sensitiveness of integuments to pressure

Drawing tension in hypochondria, or pulsative shootings, as in an abscess

Hard distension of abdomen, principally in epigastrium, with tension, and sensation as if all were full, hard, and impassable, as if no stool or flatus could be expelled, though a stool does pass slowly but not hard, and yet the flatus is passed with difficulty and in small amounts

Chilliness extending from abdomen to lower part of back

Pressure in abdomen and small of back as from a stone; limbs go to sleep while sitting; ineffectual desire to stool

Spasmodic and compressive pains, sometimes at bottom of hypogastrium, with pressure on rectum or cuttings, principally round navel (low down in abdomen, penetrating into pelvis), or sharp and shooting pains in abdomen

Colic and labour-like pains in pregnant women

Colic with chilliness, while the menstruation is suppressed

Sensitiveness and inflammation of abdominal walls

The colics are often accompanied by vomiting or diarrhoea; they manifest themselves mostly in evening or after eating or drinking; and are sometimes > by squeezing the abdomen or by repose, while movement < them

Annular swelling round navel, painful when walking

Retraction and soreness of abdomen, with great sensibility of integuments of abdomen, which appear swollen, with pain as from a bruise on touching them, or on yawning, singing, coughing, and at every movement of the abdominal muscles

Stitches and cutting in abdomen in evening;

< on sitting still

Flatulent colic, principally in evening, after a meal, or after midnight, or in morning, with pressive pains, produced by incarcerated flatus, tumult, borborygmi, and grumbling in abdomen and escape of fetid flatus

Painless rumbling of flatulence in upper abdomen

Constriction as from a stone extending to bladder

Purulent pustules in groins.

Constipation and difficult evacuations, sometimes with painful pressure on rectum and pains in back

Constipation, esp. if faeces are hard and large, after intermittent fever suppressed by Chininum sulph

Frequent want to evacuate, even at night

Involuntary and unperceived evacuations during sleep

Stools frequent soft, diarrhoeic, consisting of yellow mucus or mixed with blood, preceded by cutting in abdomen, or with pains in small of back

Nightly diarrhoea, discharges watery or green like bile, after previous rumbling in abdomen

Stools consisting only of mucus, or acrid, or bloody, or very offensive, or white.—(Diarrhoea, white, cream-coloured stools, involuntary

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Dysentery, with pain in back

Loose evacuations, even at night, and sometimes with colic and cuttings, shiverings and shudderings, and pains in anus

Diarrhoea, particularly when it is very changeable and no two stools are alike; flatus very fetid, sometimes obstructed, causing much pain

Diarrhoea during menses, particularly if it comes on at night

Frequent evacuations of whitish, yellowish, sanguineous mucus, or of greenish, minced, bilious, or watery, and sometimes corrosive matter (may contain tape worm)

Before and after evacuations, burning, smarting, and pains as from excoriation in anus and rectum

During stool congestions of blood to anus

Discharge of blood from anus even when not at stool

Blind and bleeding haemorrhoids, with itching, smarting, and pain as from excoriation

Protrusion of haemorrhoids

Haemorrhoidal tumours with great soreness.

Urine very scanty; bloody; with mucus; reddish; complaints before making water and during; when going to urinate there is a sensation as if it would gush away, and patients can scarcely wait

Retention of urine, with redness and heat in region of bladder, anxiety, and troublesome pains in abdomen

Tenesmus of bladder and frequent want to urinate, with painful pressure on bladder and drawing pain in abdomen

Involuntary micturition; at night in bed, esp. in little girls

Involuntary emission of some drops of urine when coughing, walking, sitting down, expelling flatus (or during sleep)

Wetting the bed (at night, esp. in mild-tempered, tearful people, and in children)

Enuresis of old people with distended colon (R.

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Profuse emission of watery urine, with weakness in loins and diarrhoea, or scanty red or brown urine, sometimes with a violet-coloured froth

Urine, with sediment, red, or of the colour of brick-dust, or violet, or mucous, or gelatinous

Sanguineous urine with purulent deposit and pains in loins

Haematuria with burning at orifice of urethra, and with constriction in region of navel

Haematuria in cows and in human beings (R.

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Discharge (thick) from urethra as in gonorrhoea

Contraction of urethra with a very small stream of water

During micturition burning in urethra

Burning during and after emission of urine

Pulling and pressure in urethra, neck of bladder, and also in the bladder

Pressure and constriction in bladder, with soreness (sensitiveness) in that region

Swelling near neck of bladder, with soreness when touched, intermittent stream of urine, and spasmodic pain in pelvis and thighs after urinating

Urine watery, colourless; brown; bloody.

Itching and tickling in prepuce and scrotum, < morning and evening

Itching-burning on the inner and upper side of the prepuce

Inflammatory swelling of testes and spermatic cords (sometimes only on one side), with pressive and drawing pains, extending into abdomen and loins, redness and heat of scrotum (from a contusion or after suppressed gonorrhoea), nausea and inclination to vomit

Burning in testicles, without swelling

Testicles hang low down

Dropsical swelling of scrotum of a whitish blue colour

Excessive increase of sexual passion, almost like priapismus, with frequent and prolonged erections, ardent desire for coition, and frequent pollutions

Flow of prostatic fluid

Inflammation of prostate gland.

Affections in general of the female genital organs; of the uterus

Nymphomania

Drawing, pressive pain extending towards uterus with qualmishness, towards morning

Contractive pain in l. side of uterus, like labour pains, obliging her to bend double

Spasmodic pains, or drawing tension in uterus, and pains like those of labour

A burning (sticking) pain in vagina and pudenda

Metrorrhagia (discharge now stopping, and then stronger again, of coagulated, clotted blood, or with false labour-pains)

Menstrual blood black, with clots of mucus, or pale and serous

Catamenia irregular, tardy, or premature, of too short or too long duration, or entirely suppressed (esp. if produced by getting the feet wet), with colic, hysterical spasms in abdomen, hepatic pains, gastralgia, pain in loins, nausea and vomiting, shivering and paleness of face, megrim, vertigo, moral affections, tenesmus of anus and bladder, stitches in side, and many other sufferings before, during, or after period

Suppression of menses (esp. in elderly women in whom they usually occur at full moon)

Delay of first menses in mild, gentle girls, low-spirited, &c.; diarrhoea during menses

Leucorrhoea, thick, like cream (esp. frequent in lochial discharges where the flow looks like milk), or corrosive and burning, principally at period of catamenia before, during or after), and sometimes with cuttings (< when lying down; with swollen vulva)

After-pains in females of a mild disposition

False pregnancy

During pregnancy: nausea, morning sickness; varicose veins, bluish, < towards evening

Lame pelvis, < warm in bed, must change position frequently threatened abortion, flow now ceasing, now returning

During labour intense inertia; weeps because she is not delivered; malpositions of fetus; post-partum haemorrhage; convulsions, following sluggish or irregular pains; lochia scanty, milky, or suppressed; puerperal fever; phlegmasia dolens

Labour-pains too weak, spasmodic, or ceasing

Swelling of breasts, with tensive pain as if the milk rushed into them and caused pressure, while nursing

Lumps on breasts of girls, before puberty; or escape of thin, milk-like fluid

Scanty supply of milk

Affections of nipples

Weeps every time child is put to breast; pain extends into chest, neck, or down back, changes from place to place

Milk suddenly suppressed, lochia becomes milky white

Galactorrhoea esp. in women who do not nurse their children

After weaning, breasts swell.

Hoarseness, which does not permit one to speak a loud word

Breathing, groaning, or rattling

Catarrh, with hoarseness, roughness, dryness, scraping, and pain as from excoriation, in larynx and chest

Attacks of constriction in larynx, principally at night, when lying in a horizontal posture

Dyspnoea, esp. when lying on back at night, with giddiness and weakness in head

Difficulty of breathing when walking

Short, dry cough as soon as he gets warm

Dry cough whenever he wakens from sleep, disappearing while sitting up in bed, and returning as soon as lying down again

Dry, severe cough, mostly in morning, with retching and desire to vomit, and sensation as if stomach were turned inside out

Violent spasmodic whooping-cough, in two consecutive coughs, caused by itching, scraping, with dryness as from vapours of sulphur in larynx and chest

Shaking cough, principally in evening, at night, or in morning, excited by a sensation of dryness or a scraping and tickling in throat, < when lying down, and often accompanied by an inclination to vomit, with retching and vomiting, or by a choking, as from the vapour of sulphur, with bleeding of nose and rattling respiration

Cough, with shootings in chest or sides, and palpitation of heart

Moist cough, with expectoration of white, green, tenacious mucus, or of thick, yellowish matter of a bitter, greasy, salty, or putrid taste (loose cough; with expectoration in morning, without expectoration in evening; with expectoration in day, without expectoration at night)

Expectoration of black and clotted blood during cough (during suppression of menstruation)

Shootings in r. shoulder or in back when coughing.

Respiration accelerated, short, and superficial (during the fever), or rattling and anxious

Dyspnoea, as from spasmodic tension in lower part of chest, below false ribs

Tickling on sternum

Attacks of burning in chest

Respiration impeded, shortness of breath, choking as from vapour of sulphur, and fits of dyspnoea and of suffocation, with anxiety, spasmodic constriction of chest or larynx, violent hiccough, cough, headache, and vertigo; principally in evening, after a meal, or at night when reclining horizontally

Movement, quick walking, the open air, and cold < the asthmatic symptoms

Cramp-like and constrictive tension in chest, principally on breathing (on drawing a long breath), and sometimes with internal heat and ebullition of blood

Pain as from (subcutaneous) ulceration, or sharp and incisive pain in chest

Acute suppuration of the lungs

Shootings in chest and in sides, principally at night and when lying down, and sometimes with difficulty in drawing a full inspiration, inability to remain lying on the side affected, short cough, and paroxysm of suffocation.—(Pain in l. side under heart as if a string were pulling there

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Congestion of blood to chest and heart, esp. at night, with anxious dreams (e.g., of being immured), with starting up and anxious cries

Catching pain in cardiac region;

> for a time by pressure of hand

Stitches in praecordial region, > while walking, with pressure and anxiety, impeding respiration

Burning in region of heart

Frequent and violent fits of palpitation, principally after dinner and after moral emotions, or provoked by conversation, and often with anguish, clouded sight (vanishing of sight), and impeded respiration, esp. when lying on the l. side.—(With menstrual irregularities, chlorosis, &c.; the beat of the heart is felt in the pit of the stomach.)

Anxiety, heaviness, pressure, and burning sensation in heart.

Rheumatic, tensive, and drawing pains in nape of neck and in neck, sometimes semilateral, and often with swelling of the parts, and pains as from subcutaneous ulceration when they are touched

Cracking in cervical vertebrae and shoulder-blades on moving those parts

Itching pimples on neck

Swelling of glands of neck

Pains in sacrum and in back, as from having remained some time in a bent posture, or with rigidity, as from the pressure of a belt

Sacral pains like those of labour

Pains in back and chilliness from suppressed menstruation

Shootings in back, in loins, and between shoulder-blades

Curvature of spine (upper part).

Redness and swelling of joints, with stinging pains

Anxious, tremulous sensation in limbs

Drawing, sticking, < in joints, which are painful to touch

Weakness in limbs morning after rising, with relaxation without feeling weary

Drawing, tearing pains in limbs, shifting rapidly from place to place;

< at night, from warmth;

> from uncovering

Pain in limbs in morning in bed, < in joints, forcing him to stretch, with general heat

On waking the parts on which he has lain are asleep, with crawling and tingling

Coldness of hands and feet; they seem dead.

Sharp, jerking, and drawing pains in shoulder-joint, as well as in the arms, hands, and fingers

Paralytic pains in scapular joint when lifting and moving arms

Burning sensation in arm in evening or at night, with sensation of dryness in fingers

Burning heat in hands and arms and in trunk with perspiration down spine (agg

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Pressive heaviness in arms, with sensation of numbness, esp. in hands

Sensation of tension and swelling and wrenching pain in joints of elbows, hands, and fingers, with rigidity

Swelling of elbow after a contusion

Swelling of veins on forearm and hands

Easy numbness of fingers, principally in morning and at night

Vesicles between fingers, with pricking pain

Pain as if caused by panaritium in index

Itching chilblains on hands.

Pain as from a bruise or from ulceration in the psoas

Wrenching pain in coxo-femoral articulation, with painful jerks, as in a wound, extending as far as knee, < during repose

Pulling and tension in thighs and legs, < in calves of legs, as if tendons were too short

Pain as from a bruise, with sensation of paralytic weakness in bones and muscles of thighs and legs

Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration in legs and soles of feet

Cracking in knees

Swelling of knees, sometimes chiefly above patella, and often with heat, inflammation, sharp drawing and shooting pains

Enlargement of knee with local varicosis (relieved

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Weakness and yielding of knee, with tottering gait

Pulling and great fatigue in legs, esp. knees, with trembling

Swelling of veins and varices in legs

Numbness in legs when remaining long standing

Pain in tibia as from a bruise

Tension and drawing in calves of legs

Hot swelling of legs, or only of the back or of soles of feet, sometimes with shooting pains when the parts are touched, and during movement

Painful sensation of numbness in soles of feet and in balls of the toes

Red-hot swelling of feet, extending up to calf, with stinging pain

Swelling of top of foot

Oedematous swelling of feet, < in evening

Piercing shootings and incisive pains in heels (towards evening)

Shootings in soles of feet and extremities of toes

Chilblains

The complaints are < when one allows the feet to hang down.

Pale skin

Itching, mostly burning or pricking (as if caused by stings of ants), principally in evening, and at night in heat of bed, < by scratching

Red spots, like morbilli, or nettle-rash

Frequent redness, even when the parts are cold

Eruptions from eating pork, itching violently in bed

Eruptions like measles

Rhagades

Suppurating wounds, pus thick and too profuse

Pus copious and yellow

Moles or freckles in young girls

Eruptions similar to varicella coniformis, with violent itching in bed

Chilblains, particularly when they turn blue

Exanthema, chapped

Blue-black swellings

Chilblains with bluish-red swelling, heat, and burning, or pulsative pains

Phlegmonous erysipelas, with hardness, burning heat, and shooting pain on touching or moving parts affected

Furunculi

Shining redness, hardness, and itching round ulcers, with ready bleeding, and shooting, burning, and gnawing pains

Deep or fistulous ulcers; where there is much swelling around

Inflamed or putrid ulcers

Varices.

Constant sleepiness and comatose sleep, with agitation and disquieting fancies, day or night

Great tendency to sleep during day, principally in evening or afternoon

Irregular sleep, too early in evening or too late in morning, and sometimes with nocturnal sleeplessness

Sleep retarded, sometimes until two hours after midnight, and often followed by early waking

A great flow of ideas hinders sleep in evening and at night

Agitated sleep, with frequent waking; and general numbness on waking

Inability to sleep except when seated with head inclined forwards or to one side

During sleep, chattering, talking, delirium, convulsive movements of mouth, eyes, and limbs; tears, cries, and moans, nightmare; starts from fright; shocks in body and jerking in limbs

Wakes up frightened and confused, knows not where he is, cannot collect himself

At night great agitation and tossing, inquietude and anguish of heart, ebullition of blood, dry heat, itching, incoherent talking, with fixed ideas

When sleeping patient lies on back with knees raised and arms placed over head or crossed over abdomen

Fearful, frightful, anxious, confused, vivid, disgusting, voluptuous dreams, of quarrels and of business of the day, of spectres, and of the dead

Frequent yawning.

Chilliness of one side only; chilliness without thirst, often followed by fever without thirst (accompanied by vertigo and stupor); heat on one side; perspiration on one side only; want of thirst; febrile symptoms r. side

Continuous internal chilliness even in warm room

Thirst before chill or heat, seldom during hot stage

Chilliness (4 p.m.) without thirst, accompanied by anxiety and dyspnoea; this is followed by a drawing pain extending from back into head, three hours later heat of whole body without any thirst, with sweat on face, drowsiness without any sleep and unconsciousness; in morning perspiration over whole body

Coldness, shiverings, and shudderings, principally in evening or afternoon, and sometimes with paleness of face, vertigo, and dizziness, pain and heaviness in head; anxiety and oppression of chest, vomiting of mucus (when the cold stage comes on), desire to lie down, and flushes of heat

Partial coldness and shivering, principally in back, aims, legs, hands, and feet, often with heat in head or face and redness of cheeks

Semilateral coldness with numbness of the side affected

Dry heat (internal), principally at night, in evening in bed or in morning, and often with fits of anguish, headache, face red and bloated, or perspiration on face, shivering on being uncovered, burning in hands, with swelling of veins, lamentations, sighs, and moans, profound or agitated sleep, anxious and quick respiration, fainting fits, with cloudiness of eyes, inclination to vomit, and loose evacuations

Partial heat, principally on face, with redness of cheeks, hands, face, &c., often semilateral, with coldness and shivering in the opposite parts

Heat of face or heat of one hand, with coldness of the other

Febrile paroxysms composed of heat, which are preceded by shiverings, with adipsia, and mixed with, or followed by, perspiration; quotidian, tertian, or quartan type;

< in evening or afternoon; remission in morning during apyrexia, nausea and loss of appetite, headache, painful oppression at chest, moist cough, bitterness in mouth, constipation or (mucous) diarrhoea

Febrile symptoms with loss of consciousness, delirium, tears, and despair, or with gastrico-mucous or bilious symptoms or with comatose sleep (or consequent upon the abuse of Quinine, with bitter taste of food and constipation)

Repugnance to external heat

Pulse weak and small, but accelerated

Pulse quick and small; or full and slow; or feeble and almost suppressed

Perspiration, principally at night or towards morning; profuse and fetid sweat; semilateral or partial sweat (on head and face), and sweat with cramps on arms and hands, weariness, comatose sleep, dreamy reveries, and redness of face

Perspiration during sleep, soon ceasing when waking

Perspires easily during the day

Night-sweat with stupor

Smell of perspiration, sour, musty, like musk

Perspiration at times cold.