Sanguinaria Canadensis
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General EN
Sanguinaria.
Sanguinaria canadensis. Blood-root. Puccoon. N. O. Papaveraceae. Tincture of fresh root. (The resin, leaves, seeds, seed-vessels, powdered root, and expressed juice have also been used.) Acetum.
Clinical EN
Alcoholism. Aphonia. Asthma. Breast, tumour of.
Bronchitis. Cancer. Catarrh. Chest, pains in.
Climaxis. Cold. Croup. Deafness.
Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhoea. Dyspepsia. Ear, polypus of.
Flushes, climacteric. Gleet. Granular lids. Haemoptysis.
Headache. Influenza. Keratitis. Liver-cough.
Menstruation, breasts painful during. Nails, ulceration of. Neuralgia. Oedema glottidis.
Ophthalmia. Pharyngitis. Phthisis florida. Physometra.
Pneumonia, acute. Polypus. Pregnancy, affections during. Pyrosis.
Quinsy. Rheumatism. Rhus poisoning. Shoulder, rheumatism of.
Smell, illusions of; loss of. Stomach, neurosis of. Syphilis. Tinnitus.
Tumours. Vomiting. Whitlow. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics EN
The Blood-root, or Puccoon, commonly found throughout the United States and Canada, is the sole representative of the genus Sanguinaria of the Papaveraceae. It is herbaceous, has a thick, branching root stock, which creeps along underground; and in early spring sends up from the ends of the little side branches a single long-stalked leaf, and another stalk bearing a solitary flower. The leaf is wrapped round the flower-bud when it rises from the ground, and is bluntly five to nine-lobed, roundish at first, but afterwards kidney-shaped.
The American Indians formerly used the orange-coloured juice of the root for smearing their bodies, and for staining various domestic articles. The plant has also been successfully used by American and French dyers (Treas. of Bot.). Hale says of the root: "It is succulent, and when cut or broken emits from numerous points on the transverse surface a light orange, or rather dark vermilion-coloured juice, which has a bitterish, acrid but peculiar taste, which remains long in the mouth and leaves a persistent burning in the throat.
The juice of the stem is between a red colour and a yellow, as that from the stem of Chel. maj. is pure yellow, and that from Papaver somnif. [Opium] is white." It is well to bear in mind the parallelism observable between these three Poppies, no less in their medicinal than in their physical properties. The time for collecting the root is early spring or late autumn. An alkaloid, Sanguinarin (identical with Chelerythrin of Chelidonium majus), has been isolated, and the Nitrate of this has been studied separately.
Hale refers to a paper by Dr. Tully, published in 1813, in which Sang. is described as being analogous in its action to Squills, Senega, Digitalis, Guaiacum, and Ammonia, which shows an accurate conception of its range. In doses of from eight to twenty grains of the powdered root, Sang. is an active poison producing Nausea; burning in stomach; tormenting thirst; faintness; vertigo indistinct vision; violent, spasmodic efforts of the stomach, free vomiting, followed by alarming prostration.
S. L. Mitchell has recorded fatal poisoning of four workmen who drank the tincture in mistake for brandy. They were all soon seized with severe racking and burning pains in the stomach and bowels with intense thirst.
"Burning" is one of the leading notes of the remedy, and is found in many different parts. Winterburn has published (H. M. vii. 532) two cases illustrating this indication in the region of the stomach: (1) Mr. F., 48, of sanguino-bilious temperament, energetic, refined, had been ill with pains in the stomach several months.
A clairvoyant had recommended "a decoction of blood-root and bone-set in tablespoonful doses." Each dose produced "intense burning pains in the stomach lasting for hours," and it had to be discontinued. Several-weeks later Winterburn was consulted, and this is the condition he found: Burning in epigastrium, with pressure, < at night, but coming on soon after lying clown and compelling patient to arise. Eructations gave no >. Appetite great; bowels torpid, an unsatisfactory relief each morning, leaving a sense of discomfort.
Peculiar drawing pain in shoulders and arms during sleep, so that when she woke the lists were tightly clenched and flexed on the sternal end of clavicle; lameness and weariness of the muscles followed. Sang. 200, chosen after careful comparison with Nux, Graph., and others, was given every night at bedtime. After the first dose the symptoms disappeared "like magic," and the patient was soon well. (2) Mrs.
S., 30, a chronic inebriate, had been drinking steadily for three weeks when sickness and diarrhoea set in. Nux 1x aggravated the nausea. Ars. 6 checked the diarrhoea and relieved the intense thirst, but did nothing to allay the vomiting. Patient was irritable, angry.
Everything she took, even water, was instantly ejected. About every twenty minutes she had a spasm or cramp of the stomach, with gagging and coughing, bringing up some frothy mucus. The straining caused great pain in chest and abdomen. There was, besides, the most intense burning, extending from the stomach up the oesophagus to pharynx, which felt swollen and dry.
The only tolerable position was lying slightly turned on her left side. Lying on right side was impossible. Rising from lying = vertigo. Cheeks and hands livid.
She believed she would soon die, and was unwilling to be left alone. Sang. 200 was given every two hours. By evening the nausea had ceased, but the burning pain remained as before. The smallest particle of food gave great agony; it seemed as if a spot the size of a florin was ulcerated, and any contact with this was excruciating.
She slept better, but awakened next morning in a fright. Next afternoon she was able to take a little solid food, and from that time recovery was rapid. Burning is a leading note of Sang. Burning of eyes; of ears.
Tongue and throat feel as if they had been burnt or scalded. Burning palms and soles. Burning in chest; between breasts, streaming from breasts to abdomen. Leonard (Min.
H. Mag., ii. 295) says "a circumscribed burning in the chest, commonly followed by heat through abdomen and diarrhoea," is a strong indication for Sang. in pneumonic conditions. Sang. has also the circumscribed hectic flush on the cheeks, as in phthisis, in which it is frequently indicated. (Sang. has also the "hopefulness" of phthisical patients.) The flushed face, at times dark red or livid, is also a prominent feature of Sang., as it is of Op.
Sang. affects the whole respiratory tract, irritates the nasal mucous membrane, and causes coryza, with pain at root of nose, lost or perverted sense of smell, and sensitiveness to the odour of flowers. Influenza, hay-fever, ozaena, and polypus have all come within its range. Laryngitis and membranous croup have been cured by it; and I have found it meet a greater proportion of the tracheal and bronchial coughs of epidemic influenza than any other remedy. The chief features are: Violent, dry cough; wheezing, whistling, metallic; sputa almost impossible to raise.
I have seen several cases of this kind rescued from apparently imminent death by Sang., the relief conies by the expectoration of a thick plug of mucus which was causing suffocation, and which the patient was too weak to dislodge. Like Chel., Sang. is a right-side medicine, and affects especially the right lung; and is suited to pulmonary affections with liver involvement. After influenza children often get a cough scarcely distinguishable from whooping-cough. I have found Sang. the chief remedy for this.
It is also the remedy for severe cough after whooping-cough—the cough returns with every fresh cold. Sang. also acts powerfully on the outer chest, sternum, and mammae. Like Chel., it has a reputation for curing cancer, polypi, and new growths. I have seen breast tumours diminish under its action.
Offensiveness and acridity characterise the discharges of Sang.; and the breath and flatus are also offensive. Menses offensive, flow bright red; later blood darker and less offensive. Before menses itching of axillae. Eruption on the face of young women, especially during scanty menses.
Climacteric disorders: flashes of heat; leucorrhoea; painful enlargement of breasts. The headaches of Sang. are of great intensity, and have some striking characteristics. They are (1) periodic—every seventh day; (2) begin in the morning, increase to noon, and then diminish;
(3) are bursting, or as if the eyes would be pressed out; (4) begin at occiput, spread upwards and forwards, and settle over right eye; (5) like a flash of lightning in occiput; (6) > by sleep;
(7) return at climacteric. Hering described the headache of Sang. as the "American sick-headache"—rush of blood causing faintness and nausea, pains lancinating or throbbing. Can neither bear light nor odours nor least jar, as any one stepping across the floor; at height of headache vomiting of food and bile; pain so violent patient goes out of her mind or seeks relief by pressing head against pillow or with the hands. Cooper gives as a keynote: "If he goes without food, gets bilious headaches." Sang. has also neuralgia of the face > by kneeling down and pressing head firmly against the floor; pain extends in all directions from the upper jaw.
The ears are strongly affected by Sang. Cooper gives me this case: Girl, 19, had her throat bad three years from scarlatina, and lately increasing deafness; noises all over head, and vertigo and sudden flushings in daytime; menses too frequent, and profuse leucorrhoea; it pains tier to walk from backache; had to give up teaching from this; appetite poor from the headaches and tinnitus; often has pain behind angles of lower jaw and swellings of gland. All disappeared after a single dose of Sang. Ø, though at first the leucorrhoea was increased.
"Fulness and tenderness behind angle of jaws" is, according to Cooper, a keynote. Sang. causes many symptoms of rheumatism, but the most characteristic is a rheumatic pain in right arm and shoulder; cannot raise the arm, < at night. Pains in places where the bones are least covered. Peculiar Sensations are: As if paralysed.
As if forehead would burst. As of a band across forehead. As if head were drawn forward. As if electric current shooting through head.
As if temples and scalp were alive with irrepressible pulsation. As if eyes would be pressed out. As if hairs were in eyes. As if she was in a railway car which was moving and jarring her, and as if all about her moved rapidly and confusedly.
Pain like drawing a rope on a windlass as tight as possible. Tongue as if burnt. Tip of tongue as if scalded. Tongue as if in contact with something hot.
Throat as if swollen. Throat so (try it seems as if it would crack. Pharynx as if burnt or scalded. As if some hard substance in stomach.
Constriction in pit of stomach as if suffocating. As of a mass in lower part of rectum. As if upper part of chest were too full of blood. Larynx as if swollen.
F. Nichol in giving Hale his experience with Sang. in croup, says he used (following Paine, eclectic) a solution of Sanguinarin in vinegar, and he found that the most effective preparation. The symptoms are < by touch. [A painful sensitiveness is very characteristic of Sang.: Temporal veins painfully sensitive; head and eye very painful; nipples sore.] Hard pressure >; (must kneel down and press head hard to floor in neuralgia).
Slightest jar <. Lifting = lumbago. Lying dawn > rheumatism and headache; but < cough and most other complaints. Cough <.
Lying with head low < cough. Lying on left side >. < Lying on right side. Sitting up and passing flatus > cough.
Motion; turning head quickly; turning in bed; stooping; coughing; exercise <. Cannot raise arm from side but can swing it to and fro (in rheumatism). Eating <. Going without food = headache.
> Eructations (mind confused). Swallowing <. Vomiting > (Nausea; headache). Smoking = hiccough, < At night.
> After sleep. Headache < by day, sunrise to sunset. Cold open air >. Cold room < cough.
Damp weather <. The right side is more affected than the left. Symptoms go from right to left. Periodicity is very marked.
Relations EN
It antidotes: Opium. Compatible: Bell. (scarlatina). Compare: Botan., Chel., Op.
In rheumatism of right deltoid, Mg. c. (of left, Fer., Nx. m.). Headache extending forward from occiput and settling over (right) eye, Spi. (left eye), Sill., Sep.
(both eyes); extending forward, Gels., Lac c.; (backward, Anac., Bry., Chi. s., Naj., Nux). Headache > by hard pressure, Chi., Indg., Mg. m. Paroxysms of headache ending in profuse urination, Ign., Gels., Ver.
Menstrual headache, Sep. (Sep. scanty flow; Sang. profuse). Offensive breath with cough, Caps.
Faint from odours, Pho., Ig., Val., Nux. Right-side, throbbing, congestive headache, < light and noise, Bell. (Bell. has "cold feet, hot head," and is > sitting propped up; Sang. headache has more of the gastric form, and is > lying down), Meli.
Periodic sick headaches, Ir. v. (Ir. v. every eighth day; every seventh, Saba., Sang., Sil., Sul.). Pneumonia, Ver. v. (more marked arterial excitement), Pho., Ant. t.
(face livid, blood carbonised, rattling cough), Sul. (resolution imperfect).—(Sang. has sputa very offensive, even to patient). Rheumatism of right ankle, Chel. > Lying left side, Lil. t.
Painfulness to touch of parts where pain has been, Lcprs. Sensitive to sudden sounds, Brx. Jerking or jumping as from something alive in stomach, Croc. Physometra, Lyc., Bov.
Liver-cough (Scil. spleen-cough). Pain in bones covered only with skin, Rh. ven. Laryngeal and nasal polypi, Sang. n., Pso., Teuc. Eruption on face of young women during scanty menses, Bels., Calc., jamb., Pso.
Right-side complaints; right to left, Lyc., Chel. > By sleep, Pho.
Mind EN
Angry irritability; moroseness
Anxiety and dread preceding the vomiting
Mind confused, > by eructations
Mental torpor, stupor, heaviness, sleepiness
Hopefulness, sanguine of recovery
Disgusting ideas
Dreamy state with eyes open.
Head EN
Vertigo: terrible; when moving head rapidly and looking upward; with nausea, fainting, and headache; with ringing in ears; on rising from a sitting or stooping position; on quickly turning the head; with dim vision; with dull, heavy feeling in stomach as if caused by some hard substance there; in cold weather; during sleep; at climaxis
Head swims on lying down suddenly; gets pain l. side of back near waist, as from spleen; bowels confined; complexion spotty (cured in woman, 32
R.
T.
C.)
Sensation of heaviness in head
Determination of blood to head, with whizzing in ears; flushes of heat; accumulation of water in mouth
Headache over whole head from 5 p.m. to midnight; then free; and then sickness (vomiting) from 5 p.m. to midnight (agg
R.
T.
C.)
Headache, with rheumatic pains and stiffness of limbs and neck
Periodical sick headache; with vomiting of bile; begins in morning, < during day, lasts till evening;
< from motion, stooping, noise, and light; only endurable when lying still, and > by sleep or after vomiting; esp. severe over r. eye
Headache returns periodically
Heaviness in head from vertex to centre of forehead, with pressing in glabella and buzzing in head; eyes dull
Terrific headache as if caused by approaching coryza which does not come, in forehead and middle of vertex, with pressure in eyes, which burn and are moved with difficulty
Terrific headache during the fever
Dull, pressive frontal headache
Headache as if forehead would burst, with chill and burning in stomach
Frontal headache extending into cheek-bones
Headache or neuralgia over r. eye
Headache as if it must burst, or as if eyes would be pressed out;
> walking in open air
Headache with shuddering
Headache begins in occiput, spreads upward, and settles over r. eye
Pain in head in rays drawing upwards from neck
Headache with nausea and chilliness, followed by flushes of heat, extending from head to stomach
Headache with flushed face
Pains in head in spots
Pains in head, which pass rapidly from one place to another, like electric shocks
Pulsations in head (throbbing headache), with bitter vomiting, < from motion
Headache rising up from neck
Feeling as if head were drawn forward
Distension of veins on head, esp. on temples, perceptible to the touch and sore
Sensation of mobility in the scalp
Head very painful to touch; where pain has been
Distension of veins in temples; sore when touched.
Eyes EN
Neuralgia in and over l. eye
Burning and watering of r. eye, which is painful to the touch, followed by coryza
Acute conjunctivitis with ecchymoses, tending to trachoma
Blepharitis
Burning dryness in eyes; followed by copious lachrymation
Retinal congestion with flushed face and congestive headache
Yellow sclerotica, jaundice
Catarrhal ophthalmia, granular lids
Redness of eyes in morning
Hard swelling like scirrhus over eyebrows
Dim eyes, with sensation as if hairs were in them
Pain in eyeballs on moving them
Balls sore, with darting through them and dim vision
Violent twittering before eyes
Vapour or cloud before eyes.
Ears EN
Burning of ears, with redness of cheeks
Earache, with headache, with singing in ears and vertigo
Humming and roaring in ears with painful sensitiveness to sudden sounds in women at climaxis
Cracking in r. ear while stroking cheek
Every stroke of a hammer heard near a blacksmith's shop is painful to r. ear
Vein on r. temple swells up in woman, 50, subject to neuralgia and old vascular deafness; after Sang. Ø, one dose, hearing improves for six days strikingly, and then reverts (R.
T.
C.)
Throat affections causing deafness and earache
Acts strongly on l.
Eustachian tube (Hydrast. on r.); acts on ethmoid cells specially (R.
T.
C.)
Increased redness of external ear, with humming and roaring in ears from increased circulation of blood through aural structures
Burning ears, cheeks red
Aural polypus.
Nose EN
Fluent coryza with frequent sneezing;
< r. side
Heat in nose; coryza, rawness in throat, pain in breast, cough, and finally diarrhoea
Coryza, watery, acrid; with tingling; with heavy pain at root of nose and stinging in nose
Dry coryza, as from a sudden cold
Alternately fluent and dry coryza
Smell in nose like roasted onion
Rose-cold, with subsequent asthma; sick and faint from odour of flowers
Loss of smell and taste
Dislike to odour of syrup
Nasal polypus.
Face EN
Circumscribed redness of one or both cheeks
Paleness of face, with disposition to vomit
Pain in cheek
Stitches l. side of face with pains in forehead
Neuralgia in upper jaw, extending to nose, eye, ear, neck, and side of head; shooting, burning pains; must kneel down and hold head tightly to the floor
Face bloated, with sensation of rigidity and fulness
Veins distended, feel stiff and sore to touch
Twitching of cheeks toward eyes
Stiffness of articulation of jaws
Fulness and tenderness behind angles of jaw (a keynote
R.
T.
C.)
Red cheeks: with burning ears; with cough
Lips feel dry
Under lip burns, is swollen, hard, and blistered; blisters dry up and form crusts which fall off.
Teeth EN
Pain in hollow teeth, esp. when touched by food
Toothache from picking teeth
Pain in carious teeth after cold drinking
Looseness of teeth (with salivation)
Bleeding, spongy, fungoid gums.
Mouth EN
Pricking on the point of the tongue
Tongue feels as if burned or as if sore; is coated white
White coated tongue with slimy, fatty taste
Red streak through middle of tongue
Tip of tongue burns as if scalded
Pricking in tip of tongue
Stitches in l. side of tongue
Crawling on tip of tongue followed by astringent sensation of whole tongue, on waking
Dry, acrid sensations, beginning r. side and extending over whole tongue
Prickling on tongue and hard palate as after chewing Mezereum
Sweet things taste bitter, followed by burning in fauces
Loss of smell and taste; with a burnt feeling on tongue
Sore on gums and roof of mouth
Fetid breath, clammy mouth, sticky teeth
White patches on mucous membrane.
Throat EN
Ulcerated sore throat, as if raw and denuded
Feeling of swelling in throat on swallowing, < on r. side
Throat feels swollen as if to suffocation, aphonia
Tonsillitis, promotes suppuration
Throat so dry, seems as if it would crack
Feeling of dryness in throat (with tickling cough), not > by drinking
Sensation in pharynx as if scalded by hot drink
Uvula sore and burning
Burning pharynx and oesophagus
Heat in throat > by drawing in cold air
Inflammation in throat
Warming sensation in fauces, esp. soft palate
Burning in fauces extending to centre of sternal region.
Appetite EN
Craving for he knows not what, with loss of appetite; wants piquant, spiced things
Loss of appetite with great weakness of digestion
Aversion to butter, which leaves a sweetish taste
Sugar tastes bitter and = burning
Tormenting thirst
Sweet things <, = burning
Soon after eating: feels empty; difficult breathing, nausea, waterbrash, lassitude almost to fainting, cold sweat to 12 p.m., after a little food
If goes without food, gets bilious headaches (keynote
R.
T.
C.).
Stomach EN
Burning in stomach, with headache
Inflammation of stomach
Sensation of emptiness in stomach soon after eating (faint, feverish feeling)
Soreness and pressure in epigastrium;
< after eating
Hiccough whilst smoking
Spasmodic eructation of flatus
Frequent fetid eructations with disposition to vomit and pale face
Pyrosis
Nausea, which is not > by vomiting
Extreme nausea with great salivation and constant spitting
Nausea with headache, and with chill and heat
Vomiting preceded by anxiety
Vomiting: of bitter water; of sour, acrid fluids of ingesta; of worms; with craving to eat in order to quiet the nausea
Vomiting and diarrhoea
Sudden attacks of constriction in pit of stomach as if suffocating
Goneness with sick headache
Jerking or jumping in stomach as if from something alive
Neurosis of stomach
Pain in stomach-pit extending down into bowels, causing rumbling.
Abdomen EN
Hot streaming from breast towards liver
Sensation as if hot water poured itself from breast into abdomen, followed by diarrhoea
Dull burning in r. hypochondrium and chest
Awoke with severe pain in region of spleen
Violent stitches in spleen
Pain in l. hypochondrium;
< by coughing, > by pressure and lying on l. side
Jaundice
Liver-cough
Colic, with torpor of liver
Beating and spasms in abdomen.—(Flatus, cough and sneezing
R.
T.
C.)
Flatulent distension of abdomen, evening, with escape of flatus from vagina (the os uteri being dilated)
Beating in abdomen
Induration in abdomen
Cutting bellyache from r. to l. of iliac fossa, thence to rectum
Throbbing in abdomen
Shooting pains through bowels extending to lower limbs, afternoon
Knife-thrusts in abdomen followed by watery stools
Cramp extending from place to place.
Stool And Anus EN
Ineffectual urging to stool; then vomiting
Urging to stool, afternoon, but only discharges of flatus
Distressing, cutting, spasmodic sensation in rectum in evening; recurred several days
In effectual desire with sensation of thick mass in anus; repeated several times in the day without stool
Diarrhoeic stools with much flatulence
Copious apple-green stools with flatus (offensive) and sudden urging (agg
R.
T.
C.)
Frequent discharges of very offensive flatus
Colic followed by diarrhoea
Diarrhoea with disappearance of coryza, catarrh, or pains in chest and cough
Stools undigested
Dysentery
Alternate diarrhoea and constipation
Constipation; stools in hard lumps
Haemmorrhoids.
Urinary Organs EN
Dull, heavy pain across kidneys
Pain from kidneys penetrates r. iliac fossa, then shoots through sigmoid flexure to rectum
Frequent and copious nocturnal urination, urine as clear as water.—(Retention of urine consequent on gravel and calculus.)
Urine is thick and white next day (agg. from 200th
R.
T.
C.)
Copious urination goes on all night with much > to chest symptoms (in a lady
R.
T.
C.)
Very copious urine at night, with pain in l. hypochondrium;
< from coughing;
> from pressure and lying on l. side
Urine: dark yellow; high-coloured, red sediment
Ardor urinae.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Burning in glans
Emissions two nights in succession; after which he felt very well
Gleet; old cases
Cheesy secretions from glans (syphilis).
Female Sexual Organs EN
Climacteric disorders, esp. flushes of heat and corrosive, fetid leucorrhoea
Burning of palms and soles at climaxis compelling to throw off clothes
Painful enlargement of breasts at climaxis
Abdominal pains as if menses would appear.—[Delaying menses, chilliness followed by flushes of heat and occasional palpitation, faintness, vertigo, nausea, and violent vomiting, burning in oesophagus, neuralgia in r. temple, in l. chest (mamma) and lower extremities, occasional hacking cough and gastralgia
Carmichael.]
Menstruation too early, with a discharge of black blood
Menses: more profuse than usual; with headache r. side; at night time, very offensive, putrid, bright red, clotting, becoming darker towards end and less offensive
Amenorrhoea
Metrorrhagia
Dysmenorrhoea of feeble, torpid subjects, with tendency to congestion of lungs, liver, or head
Burning pain between breasts in afternoon, < on r. side
Shootings in bosom and pain in mammae as from excoriation
The nipples are sore and painful
Stitches in nipples, esp. r
Sharp, piercing pain in r. breast, just beneath nipple;
< deep breath, some dyspnoea
Pain in r. breast extends to shoulder, can hardly place hand on head
Threatened abortion, pains in loins extending through epigastric and iliac regions and down thighs
Hydrops uteri.
Respiratory Organs EN
Dryness in throat and sensation of swelling in larynx; with expectoration of thick mucus
Aphonia with swelling in throat
Oedema of larynx
Tickling in throat, evening, after lying down, with dry, hacking cough and headache
Crawling sensation extending down behind sternum.
Tracheal irritation secondary to heart disease
Croup: hearse, muffled cough; complete aphonia; spasmodic cough, painful crowing, stridulous breathing
Cough dry, tickling in throat-pit
Distressing, spasmodic, exhaustive cough
Dry cough, awakens him from sleep, which did not cease until he sat upright in bed, and flatus was discharged both upwards and downwards
Continual severe cough, with circumscribed redness of cheeks, with pain in chest; with coryza, then diarrhoea
Coughs in old men with l. earache, and pains going from l. throat to ear
Expectoration: tough; difficult; rust-coloured; extreme dyspnoea; hepatisation
Breath and sputa smell badly even to patient
Pulmonary consumption, expectoration and breath exceedingly offensive
Whooping-cough
Severe cough after whooping-cough; the cough returns every time patient takes cold
Asthma: excessive dyspnoea; esp. after "rose-cold," < from odours.
Chest EN
Hydrothorax
Haemoptysis
Pneumonia: catarrhal; chronic; r. side; l. side, with heart disease
Typhoid pneumonia, with very difficult respiration, cheeks and hands livid, pulse full, soft, vibrating, and easily compressed
Severe dyspnoea and constriction of chest, with inclination to take deep inspirations
Sharp stitches in r.
Chest EN
Stitches in lower part of l. breast to shoulder
Pain in breast with periodic cough
A shooting, sticking pain beneath sternum
Persistent pain beneath sternum and in r. breast
Intense burning between breasts, < r. side
Sharp, piercing, neuralgic pain half-way between sternum and nipple
Hot, burning streaming from r. chest to liver
Pain under l. clavicle on waking
Constriction across both breasts
Violent stitches under short ribs
Burning and pressing in breast, followed by heat through abdomen and diarrhoea
Pain in r. chest to shoulder; can only with difficulty place hand to head.
Heart EN
Painful stitches or pressive pain beneath praecordial region.
Surging of blood and racing palpitation, with dry and burning skin
Weak feeling about heart
Metastasis of rheumatism (or gout) to heart from outward applications
Palpitation of heart
Irregularity of heart's action and of the pulse, with coldness, insensibility, &c
Pulse slow, irregular, feeble.
Neck And Back EN
Soreness of nape on being touched
Rheumatic pain in nape, shoulders, and arms
Pain in r. side of neck as if strained; in l. side
Soreness down muscles of back; pains shifting about; feels pain more when drawing long breath
Pain in inner border of r. shoulder-blade
Pain in sacrum from lifting; the pain in sacrum is > on bending forward
Pain in sacrum and bowels.
Limbs EN
Rheumatic pain in limbs, esp. in shoulders, arms, and thighs, and < at night.—Burning in hands and feet < night.
Upper Limbs EN
Itching in axillae before menses
Rheumatic pain in r. arm and shoulder, < at night in bed; cannot raise arm; motion (turning in bed) much < it
Pain in top of r. shoulder
Pain in r. deltoid
R. arm hung helpless
Coldness in body and r. arm
Burning of palms
Stiffness of finger-joints
Aching in ball of r. thumb
Fungoid growth between second and third metacarpal bones, protruding about a quarter of an inch out of palm
Ulceration at roots of nails on all the fingers of both hands
Panaritium, first r. then l. finger
Shooting pains from r. thumb to symphysis menti.
Lower Limbs EN
Rheumatic pain in l. hip
Rheumatic pain inside of r. thigh
Bruise-like pain in thigh, alternating with burning and pressure in chest
Stiffness of knees
Burning of soles, < at night
Rheumatic pains in limbs; pain in those places where the bones are least covered with flesh, but not in the joints; on touching the painful part the pain immediately vanished and appeared in some other part.—(Have seen ulcers connected with carious ankles and shins change almost visibly after Sang
Gutteridge)
Sharp pain in r. ankle and great toe-joint
Cold feet, afternoon.
Generalities EN
Great debility and weakness in limbs (esp. in morning on waking), whilst walking in the open air Paralysis of r. side General torpor and languor An uncomfortable, prickling sensation of warmth spreading over whole body
Weakness and palpitation of heart; fainting weakness Convulsive rigidity of limbs We find this very useful where there is a pain rising from the back of the neck over the top of the head, running down into the forehead; this symptom may occur alone, or in connection with some other trouble (H. N.
G.) Often useful for troubles occurring in females at the climacteric period of life—such as flashes of heat, &c. (H. N.
G.).
Skin EN
Heat and dryness of skin
Itching and nettle-rash before the nausea
Old, indolent ulcers, with callous borders and ichorous discharge
Nasal polypi; fungus excrescences
Jaundice
Eruption on face of young women with menstrual troubles, esp. deficiency
Scaly eruptions, carbuncles
Rhus poisoning.
Sleep EN
Drowsiness causing mental and bodily indolence
Sleeplessness at night; awakens in a fright as if he would fall
Can't sleep without brandy
Slightest noise disturbs, yet is sleepy and dreamy.
(R.
T.
C.)
Dreams: of sea voyages, with sensation of being rocked; of business matters; frightful.
Fever EN
Pulse too frequent and full
Coldness of feet in afternoon, with painful, sore tongue; stiffness of knee and finger-joints
Chill and shivering in back, evening, in bed
Shaking chill
Chill with nausea, headache
Heat flying from head to stomach
Fever heat and delirium
Burning heat rapidly alternating with chill and shivering
Intermittent fevers; marsh fevers; nervous fever
Fever from pulmonary, hepatic, or gastric inflammation
Copious sweat; cold sweat.