Zincum
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General EN
Zincum.
Zincum metallicum. Zinc. An Element. Zn. A. W. 64.9. Trituration of the metal.
Clinical EN
Alcoholism. Amblyopia. Asthma. Brain-fag.
Brain, paralysis of. Breasts, affections of. Cataract. Chilblains.
Chin, eruption on. Chlorosis. Cholera. Chorea.
Constipation. Cracks. Dentition. Diarrhoea, nervous; with stupor.
Diphtheria. Dysentery. Dysuria. Earache.
Eczema. Enuresis. Eruptions; suppressed. Eyes, affections of; granular lids.
Fag. Foot-sweat; suppressed. Gastralgia. Headache; nervous; chlorotic.
Heels, pains in. Hernia, inguinal. Hiccough. Hydrocephalus.
Hyperpyrexia, nervous. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Inframammary pain.
Joints, creaking in. Ups, affections of. Lochia; suppressed. Malar bones, neuralgia in.
Masturbation. Memory, weak. Meningitis. Mental weakness.
Milk, defective; suppressed. Neuralgia; intercostal; subcostal. Neurasthenia. Nipples, sore.
Nose, redness of. Nymphomania. Oesophagus, spasm of. Otorrhoea.
Photopsia. Prostatorrhoea. Ptosis. Reaction, defective.
Rheumatism. Screaming. Sleepiness. Somnambulism.
Spermatorrhoea. Spinal irritation. Spine, affections of. Spleen, neuralgia of.
Strabismus. Suppressions. Tarsal tumours. Throat, sore.
Tibia, burning in. Typhoid fever. Ulcers. Urine, hysterical retention of.
Varicosis; during pregnancy; of external genitals. Whooping-cough. Worms.
Characteristics EN
Zincum belongs to the Magnesium group of metals, comprising also Cadmium and Glucinum. It has long been known in the arts, especially in its combination with Cuprum in the manufacture of Brass. Zn. was proved by Hahnemann and his associates, and it appears among the remedies of his Chronic Diseases. Zn. poisons the brain and nerve, and it corresponds to nerve-poisoning of various kinds.
The word "fag" covers a large part of Zn. action; it may be nerve- or brain-fag; or it may be muscle-fag. Fag means that tissues are worn out faster than they can be repaired. This leaves them poisoned by waste products. Zn. meets the effects of brain-fag from over-study; from night-watching; fatigue.
But there is another kind of nerve-poisoning met by Zn.: the poisoning of suppressed eruptions or discharges. The common old-school use of Zinc ointment to suppress eruptions, and Zinc injections to suppress discharges, is based on fact: Zn. does suppress them, and it transfers the morbid action to the nervous system, setting up a poisoning there; and, conversely, in homoeopathic attenuations Zn. can reverse the process. It can restore suppressed eruptions, can cure the consequences of suppressions, and can set free the reactive power in conditions of undeveloped disease.
Some of the keynotes of Zn. will be present to give the clue. The most important of these is: "Incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or lower limbs; must move them constantly; cannot keep them quiet." These movements may continue even during sleep. Another is: "Too weak to develop exanthemata or menstrual function, to expectorate, to urinate; to understand, to remember." Corresponding to these is: "Relief to all suffering as soon as menses begin to flow," or as soon as other excretory functions are restored.
In asthma" the patient cannot expectorate, but as soon as he can he is relieved" (Nash). General twitchings and general trembling are, according to Nash, equally characteristic of Zn. He records this case: Miss X., 20, had been ill for a week with headache, loss of appetite, and especially prostration. Over-study was the cause.
Under Gels., and later Bry., she was improving, when she threw off the bedclothes whilst sleeping and perspiring, and took a chill. [Zn. has "cannot bear any covering during the sweat."—J. H. C.] The bowels became enormously distended; profuse haemorrhage occurred (finally controlled by Alumen), a low form of delirium came on, and prostration increased in spite of the cessation of haemorrhage. This was the condition: Staring eyes rolled upward, head retracted; complete unconsciousness, lying on back and sliding down in bed; twitching, "or rather intense, violent trembling all over so that she shook the bed," her hands had to be held constantly night and day by nurses; hippocratic face, extremities deathly cold to knees and elbows; pulse intermittent, uncountable; all signs, in short, of impending paralysis of the brain." Two drops of Zn. 200 were mixed in two teaspoonfuls of water.
One teaspoonful was worked, a little at a time, between the set teeth; and the rest half an hour later. About an hour after the latter dose the patient turned down her eyes and said "Milk." Through a bent tube she swallowed half a glass of milk, the first nourishment she had taken for twenty-four hours. From that time she improved steadily, and received no more medicine for four days. Afterwards she had a dose of Nux.
Recovery was perfect. A. W. Holcombe (Hahn.
Ad., xxxviii. 27) reports this case: Man, 40, had gonorrhoea suppressed by local treatment three months previously. A week before Holcombe saw him first he was unable to pass water, and had to resort to the catheter. Since then could pass urine, but passed almost pure blood with it. Could only urinate when sitting down with knees spread apart.
Great soreness of perinaeum; on sitting down had to sit sideways on chair. Zn. cm one dose. Five days later perinaeal soreness gone, could urinate freely in any position, and had a profuse whitish discharge from the urethra. Suppression of foot-sweat; of lochia; of milk, are all caused and cured by Zn.
Weyner (H. R., x. 152) relates the poisoning of cows pasturing near a cadmium mine, near which Zinc-smelting was carried on. These were some of the effects: General emaciation, skin clinging tightly to the body; eyes pale bluish, drawn back into the orbits; horns and ears unequally warm, mouth hot and shiny and hanging down, at times dry; appetite undisturbed; rumination slower; dung grass-green, thin-flowing and fetid; at times cough. As the disease progressed emaciation increased, the horns became rough, milk dried up, and diarrhoea increased till the animals could no longer rise, and died of total prostration.
Zn. meets these suppression-effects: paralysis and vertigo from brain softening following suppressed foot-sweat; chorea from eruptions suppressed by gout; puerperal convulsions from suppressed eruption; nymphomania from suppressed lochia. Zn. has a strong action on the generative sphere, it excites both sexes and causes seminal losses and prostatorrhoea of the male, and nymphomania and masturbation in the female. This may be associated with varicosis or pruritus of the external genitals.
A notable symptom of Zn., and one which may indicate it in children and in delirious cases, as well as in affections of the genitals themselves, is that the patient is continually pressing on the pubes or applying the hand to the genitals. With the emission there is backache, which is temporarily > by the emission; and with the female sexual disorders there is also backache and spinal irritation. Dull aching in spine, < when sitting. Burning pains all along the spine.
The burning pains of Zn. appear in many parts. Pricking, pressive, cramp-like pains, tension and constriction are also present. Neuralgia in malar bones with pressive pains. Pressure at root of nose as if it would be pressed in.
The constriction is especially felt in the chest, and is connected both with respiration and the heart. "Sudden, spasmodic, bursting sensation about heart; it appears to be beating regularly, when it suddenly seems as if it would burst through the chest." Zn. affects the blood-vessels and corresponds to varicosis: varices of the labia; of the thighs, running into the labia; of the legs, with fidgety feet. Numbness, tingling, formication, and fainting spells are other nervous effects of Zn.
It has an insatiable craving hunger and goneness, notably at 11 a.m.; thirst quite as great; and "hasty eating" and "hasty drinking" are among the keynote symptoms. Another of the first importance is intolerance of wine: wine aggravates all symptoms. This is noteworthy in states of nervous exhaustion, which usually crave stimulants. There is the aversion to wine.
Other characteristic aversions are: Meat (especially veal); sweets; cooked or warm food. Eating as well as wine-drinking < the pain. There is a tearing headache, most in side of head, < from wine, < after dinner. In meningitis there are sharp, lancinating pains in the head, < from the least stimulant.
Pain may account for the anxious scream which accompanies the convulsions of Zn. The child springs up in bed, gnashing teeth, eyes rolled up. A characteristic of brain affections of children is "crossness in the evening." On waking there is delirium as if frightened, knows no one. "Child repeats everything said to it" is another leading symptom.
"Grits teeth" occurs in these conditions, and will often give Zn. a place in worm cases. Among the symptoms indicating lack of power is "teeth fail to develop." The "fidgety feet" of Zn. are not the only automatic movements of the remedy, though the most characteristic. There are automatic movements of mouth, arms, and hands, and general restlessness. Among other features of Zn. is blueness of surface.
Related to this is the tendency to chilblains, which are swollen and painful, and easily made worse by rubbing. There is sensitiveness to frost-bite; the tip of the nose is easily frost-bitten, and the nose remains red long after it has been frost-bitten. The hands and feet are affected with inflammation, painful eruptions, cracks. There is also a "frost-bitten feeling" in the toes.
All these point to a lowered state of vitality. Peculiar Sensations are: As if she had a large goître which she could not see over. As if hair bristled. Uneasy, as if he had committed a crime.
As if he would have apoplexy. As if scalp were drawn together. Pains as if between the skin and the flesh. As if head were moving up and down, with a similar floating of images of his fancy.
As if he saw through a mist. As if he would fall over to other side. As if head were swaying back and forth. Nauseating weakness as after smoking too strong tobacco.
As if eyes were drawn together by a cord. Stupefying headache as from coal gas. As if root of nose would be pressed into head. As if head would be drawn backward.
As if air forced itself into frontal sinuses. As if head would burst. As if strained in occiput. As if scalp wrinkled up and kept tightening.
As if insects were crawling from occiput to forehead. Feeling in eyes as if she had wept much. As if sand in eyes. As if upper lids paralysed.
As if teeth would be pulled out with neuralgia. As if teeth long and loose. As if a web drawn across throat. As if a hard body were opposing pressure from pharynx into abdomen.
As if food remained sticking in pharynx after dinner. As if stomach compressed or empty. As of a heavy weight in hypochondria. As if abdominal walls were retracted against spine.
As if flatus pressing against coccyx. As from worms crawling in anus. As if testicles tightly compressed and drawn up. As if pudenda swollen.
Cough with stitches in chest and feeling as if chest would burst. Chest: as if hollow and cold; constricted; cut to pieces. As if a foreign substance rising up throat. Emptiness behind sternum.
As if a cap on heart. Pain in cervical muscles as if head had been in uncomfortable position. As if cold water were poured down her back. As if muscles of wrist too short.
As if kidney would be twisted off. Wrist and foot as if sprained. As if soles swollen. As if tendons of right sole too short.
As if ball of great toe frozen The headache and eye symptoms of Zn. are well marked, and "Headache with sympathetic amblyopia" may be regarded as a keynote: Kafka (H. R., x. 153) relates the case of a "pale yet vigorous lady of forty" who for two years had had a headache recurring periodically every ten to fourteen days without warning. Simultaneously with the headache was a weakness of vision, she seemed looking through a fog, and could not distinguish even large objects.
The pain, which lasted two or three days, now increasing, now diminishing, was a pressure on vertex and forehead from without inward. Face pale, appetite deficient, head muddled, mood cross and peevish. In forenoon the pain was bearable, in afternoon <, and still < evening, when reflex nausea, and even vomiting, occurred. The amblyopia went pari passu with the severity of the pain, and disappeared as the pain left off.
Pupils rather contracted, eyes otherwise normal. Zn. 3 was given morning and evening. The pains diminished immediately and were gone in twenty-four hours. The remedy was taken in the evening daily for a week.
There was no relapse. F. W. Payne (N.
A. J. H., xiv. 131, quoting A. M.) reports this case of cataract: Right eye partially affected, and left practically useless for vision, with bruised, sore, smarting, burning, itching, and stinging sensation; at intervals, suddenly, sensation as if pepper had been thrown into it, causing scalding lachrymation and spasm of the lids.
These spells were < in evening. Burning dryness as if a stick under lid scratching eyeball. Flickering before left eye; blue and green rings; green halo round gas-jet at times. Slight irritation of conjunctiva and tendency of lids to adhere.
< By warmth, on warm days, by artificial light. Patient nervous, tremulous, impatient, < by mental emotion. Choreic jerkings of individual muscles. Zn. 200, given occasionally, steadily improved the case.
In six months right eye was quite clear, and the left steadily gaining. Eleven years later vision was practically perfect, though some small streaks could still be found in the left lens. Gerstel (H. R., x. 97) calls attention to the action of Zn. in fevers with inflammation of the brain.
In these cases the seat of inflammation was the meninges. He refers to a case of a child suffering from scarlatina who was in this condition: Entirely motionless; extremities icy cold, body cold, skin all over body bluish red, except the parts about the eyes, forehead and chin, which were white. Zn. was given, and the child gradually recovered. In a case of typhoid (16th day) in a man, in whom mental symptoms had set in: "Muddled feeling in the head, an incapacity to relate anything connectedly, and a sort of half-smiling loquacity;" and later: Staring look, almost hippocratic appearance, pale as wax; carphologia, subsultus tendinum, constant trembling of the hands—Zn. 2 saved the patient
The symptoms of Zn. are: < By touch. Pressure <; (> conjunctivitis; toothache; left ovarian pain). Rubbing and scratching >.
Jarring, riding <. Rest <. Sitting <. Lying <;
(> vertigo). < By motion, active or passive: "Child screams out whenever it is moved." Walking; lifting; exertion <. Looking up = vision of falling luminous objects, and dizziness. < Evening and night. 11 a.m. to 12 sinking <.
Rheumatism < from over-heating. Wails and moans during sweat. <. By chill when heated.
Warm room <. Warm water > conjunctivitis. Open air <; (> headache and drowsiness).
Very sensitive to draught. < By cold touch (i.e., when patient touches anything cold). Sea bathing = herpes in mouth. Approach of storm = chills.
> While eating; < after. Eating <. Drinking < (as soon as liquid reaches stomach he vomits).
< From: Sugar; wine; milk. Emissions > (temporarily). Sensitive to others talking and to noise.
Relations EN
Antidoted by: Hep., Ign., Camph. (Lobel., Teste). Antidote to: Baryt. c. Incompatible: Wine, Cham., Nux.
Followed well by: Sep., Sul. (best—H. N. G.);
Puls., Ign. Follows well: Ap., Bell. Complementary: In hydrocephalus, Calc. p. Compare: Erratic temperature in fevers, Puls.
Colics, Pul., Lyc. Abdominal symptoms, Plb., Pod. Tremors, Arg. n. Spinal pains, Cob., Sep.
Asthma accompanying great constriction of chest, Cad. s., K. chl., Cact. Boring fingers in nose, Cin., Ver., Ar. t. Scarlatina, Bell. (Zn. follows well when rash fails to come out and child screams whenever moved).
Hydrocephalus, Calc. ph. Pain in back < sitting than walking, Sep., Cob., Arg. n. (Arg. n. has pain when rising). Goneness 11 a.m., Sul., Nat. c., Pho., Indm.
Paralysis and brain softening, Pho., Pb. Spermatorrhoea, testes drawn up, Con. (Con. lacks the excessive irritability of Zn., and Zn. has temporary > from the emissions). Fag, nervous exhaustion, Pic. ac.
Neuralgia, nervous exhaustion, Mg. c. Spinal irritation, Act. r. (Zn. has < sitting and < from wine). Sinking sensation, inability to throw out eruption, Hell.
Crying out in sleep, wakes terrified; puts hands to genitals, Stram. Suppressed or undeveloped eruption, Bry. Fidgety feet, Trn. Boring in left ovary ceasing with flow, Lach.
Fear of ghosts, Aco., Ars., Bro., Carb. v., Cocc., Lyc., Pho., Pul., Ran. b., Sep., Sul. Pain in right chest, Phell. Pain in throat > when not swallowing, Ign. Too weak to develop exanthemata, Cup., Sul., Bac.
Convulsions with pale face, no heat except in occiput, no rise of temperature (Bell. opp.). Automatic movements of hands and head or one hand and head, Apoc., Bry., Hell. Cannot bear back touched, Chi. s., Trn., Ther. Twitching or jerking of single muscles, Agar., Ign.
Incipient brain disease from suppressed eruptions, Bac., Hell. Unconquerable sleepiness, Nux m., Op. Diarrhoea with stupor, Op. < From sea-bathing, Ars.
Too speedy ejaculation in coitus, Titan. Burning in spine, Pho., Lyc. Headache at root of nose, Ign. Affections of palate, Mang.
Causation EN
Grief. Anger. Fright. Night-watching. Operations. Frost-bite. Suppressions: eruptions; otorrhoea; menses; lochia; milk.
Mind EN
Hypochondriacal humour
Thoughts of death, as if the end were approaching
Fear of robbers or of frightful spectres
Stares as if frightened on waking, rolls head from side to side
Fretful, peevish humour, morose, with dislike to conversation, esp. in evening
Child cross towards evening, brain affected
The patient is powerfully affected by conversation or by noise
Irascibility and impatience
Tendency to fits of passion, and great uneasiness when left alone
Aversion to labour (and to walk)
Fickleness (very variable mood), with sadness towards noon and joy (hilarity) in evening, and vice versâ
Weakness of memory
Forgetfulness (forgets what has been accomplished during the day)
Weak memory with stinging pains in head
Unconquerable drowsiness after prolonged night-watching
Absence of ideas
Difficult conception
Incoherent ideas
Thoughtlessness and dulness of intellect
Repeats all questions before answering them.
Head EN
Continued confusion and cloudiness in head
Vertigo deeply seated in brain, principally in occiput (cerebellum), causing patient to fall sidelong (to l.)
Vertigo: as if he would have apoplexy; as if head moving up and down; as if he would fall to r. when on a height; with flushing heat; on staying up late, as after smoking too strong tobacco
Vertigo, as if the seat were undulating when sitting up in bed in morning
Vertigo and delirious feeling: kept continually talking in his sleep (agg. from 3x trit
R.
T.
C.)
Stupefying vertigo, with clouded sight (everything gets black before the eyes;
< in morning in warm room and after eating;
> in open air); and general weakness
Frequent attacks of vertigo, preceded by sharp pressure at root of nose, and a sensation of drawing together of eyes, as if by a cord, followed immediately by excessive nausea, faintness, and trembling of hands
Pain as from a tearing in whole brain
Headache at night, or in evening after lying down
Headache after drinking (even small quantities of) wine
Fit of headache, with nausea and vomiting
Sharp pressure on a small spot in forehead, evening
Pressure at root of nose as if it would be pressed into head
Pressive cephalalgia, principally in morning and in forehead, with confusion; or else in temples and occiput
Pain in sinciput, with dulness, extending into the eyes
Compressive boring, or expansive pressure in head
Drawing in occiput and forehead
Shootings and tearing in the head, esp. in the sides, temples, forehead, and occiput, < after dinner
Hemicrania;
< after dinner; tearing and stinging
Frequent screwing together pain in both sides of head in evening
Chlorotic headaches, esp. in patients saturated with iron
Cerebral and nervous exhaustion; brain-fag; anaemia
Pain as from excoriation in head
Pulsative pains in head
Buzzing in head
The headaches are > in open air and < in a room
Itching and sensation of excoriation in the scalp, or pain as from ulceration
Sensitiveness of vertex, as from soreness or ulceration, without regard to touch;
< in evening in bed and after eating;
> in open air
Forehead cool, base of brain hot
Sensation as if hair were standing on end
The hair falls off from the vertex causing complete baldness, with sensation of soreness of the scalp
Hydrocephalus.
Eyes EN
Pain in the eyes in evening after lying down or drinking wine
Pressure on eyes or sensation as if pressed or sunk into head
Pressive and lancinating tearing in eyes
Photophobia; dread of sunlight with watery eyes
Sensitive to light; brain affected
Burning and biting in eyes, esp. in r., as from dust; photophobia and lachrymation;
< evenings
Itching, smarting, and feeling of excoriation in eyes, eyelids, and internal canthi;
< evening and night; also during menses.—(Pterygium.)
Burning and inflammation of eyes and lids
Redness and inflammation of internal canthi, with suppuration
Dryness of eyes
Agglutination of lids at night, with pressing, sore feeling
Intense burning in eyes after operations
Falling down and paralysis of upper eyelids
Pupils contracted
Luminous flakes before eyes when looking into the air (at the sky)
On looking up felt giddy and saw showers of gold descending (cured with hysterical retention of urine
B.
Simmons)
When looking up, a dark, diagonal line before l. eye, directed upwards and to the r., about six feet in length
Diplopia, l. eye most affected; strabismus developed
Amaurosis: during severe headache, passing away with headache.
Ears EN
Earache, with tearing lancinations and external swelling, esp. in children
Frequent, acute stitches in r. ear, near tympanum
Earache of children, esp. boys
Increased ear-wax, l. ear, thinner than usual
Tickling in l. ear not > by rubbing
Itching in r. ear, > by boring into it
Flow of fetid pus from ears
Noises: humming; whizzing; ringing; crash as from breaking glass on falling asleep.
Nose EN
Pain as from excoriation in interior of nose
Troublesome pressure at the root of nose, as if it were squeezed
Cutting, crawling in evening, then sneezing
Swelling of nose, internally and externally, sometimes semilateral, with anosmia
Obstruction of nose
Fluent coryza, with hoarseness and burning sensation in chest
Redness of nose, remaining after freezing; tip of nose easily frosted.
Face EN
Pale and earthy countenance
Pale; alternating with redness
Face: cadaverous; pinched; unnatural; earthy, as after long illness; cachectic, bluish-white; waxy, white or yellow; pewter-like
Gloomy and wandering look; vacant; apathetic
Tearing, pressing, stitches, and pain as of a fracture in the bones of the face
Sudden pressing stitch from r. zygoma to upper margin of orbit, deep in bone, followed by great sensitiveness on the spot; evening
Neuralgia of fifth pair of nerves, < from touch and in evening
Spasmodic twitching of musculi risores, with constant inclination to laugh
Cracks in lips and commissures, with internal ulceration
Lips: swollen; dry
Upper lip: violent muscular twitches in l. side; sore; ulcerating in middle; jerking tearing in r. side; fine stitches
Lower lip: tensive, painful smarting: burning smarting on inner surface
Sticking pain in jaw-joint, beneath and in front of l. ear, on moving jaw back and biting strongly, and on pressing finger on joint
Thick, viscid, tasteless mucus on lips
Itching eruption and redness on chin.
Teeth EN
Toothache during mastication
Tearing, lancinating, or drawing toothache, esp. in molars
Pain in teeth, as from excoriation
Frequent toothache, a drawing pain in roots of incisors
Painful jerking in a tooth
Looseness of teeth
Teeth: feel sore; feel elongated
Grits teeth
Copious bleeding of teeth and gums (on slightest touch)
Gums white and swollen, with pain as from excoriation
Ulcers in gums.
Mouth EN
Small yellow ulcers in mouth, on internal surface of cheeks
Tingling (crawling) of internal surface of cheeks, and copious secretion of saliva, having a metallic taste
Sticking, biting on palate, close to and in the roots of incisors
Vesicles on tongue
Tongue: dry, doesn't want to talk; coated at root and edges (brain diseases); swollen l. side, hindering talking; covered with vesicles; white or yellowish white; white as from cheese, without taste; covered with white mucus; blistered, painful on eating
Inflammation of palate
Pain in palate and velum palati, esp. on yawning
Herpes in mouth from sea-bathing.
Throat EN
Drawing tearings in bottom of gullet, more frequently when not swallowing than during deglutition (or worse between acts of swallowing than on empty swallowing)
Sensation of contraction and cramp in oesophagus, near pit of throat
Dryness and roughness in palate and throat, with rawness, smarting, and scraping
Pain as from excoriation in throat
Copious accumulation of mucus in the throat, which frequently enters the mouth through the posterior nares
Bluish herpes in throat after suppressed gonorrhoea
Pain in throat as from an internal swelling.
Appetite EN
Taste of blood in mouth
Salt taste in mouth
Taste: sweetish; metallic; like spoiled cheese; as after raw peas
Violent thirst: from forenoon till evening; with heat in palms; in afternoon; in afternoon during menses; with hasty drinking; for beer in evening
Diminution of appetite; loss of appetite
Insatiable voracity
Hunger: ravenous, esp. 11 a.m. or 12 noon, with weakness of legs and trembling; greediness and hasty swallowing
Loss of appetite, with a perfectly clean tongue
Dislike to meal (veal), sweet things, fish, cooked and hot food; to wine and brandy
Pressure at stomach, with nausea, after eating bread
Hypochondriacal humour, with aching under false ribs; choking, clawing in abdomen, and fulness, pressure, or burning in the stomach after a meal.—< From sugar (heartburn); wine; milk (loud eructations).
Stomach EN
Rising, with pressive pain in chest
Sour risings after a meal, esp. after drinking milk
Pyrosis after taking things sweetened with sugar
Hiccough, esp. after breakfast
Nausea, with retching and vomiting of bitter mucus, renewed by slightest movement
Nausea and headache from least drop of wine
Vomiting: as soon as, first spoonful of liquid reaches stomach; of pregnancy; easy, of watery bile, followed by great relief; acrid, causing burning on face and rawness in throat; almost continuous
Vomiting of blood
Stomachache
Unpleasant sensation in cardia and along oesophagus
Squeezing and pressure in scrobiculus
Tearing and shootings in scrobiculus; from both sides towards each other
Burning in stomach
Burning sensation in epigastrium (extending to oesophagus)
Sudden oppression of stomach, has to unfasten dress
Spasm in stomach and constriction of oesophagus;
< during inspiration.
Abdomen EN
Spasmodic pains in the hypochondria, alternating with oppression of chest (dyspnoea) after eating
Sticking in r. hypochondrium
Enlarged liver
Violent pressure in hypochondria and sides of abdomen, < by movement and walking
Squeezing, pressure, and shootings in the hepatic region
Shootings in region of spleen
Pressure, shootings, and pain as from excoriation in lumbar region
Sticking in diaphragm
Pains in abdomen in evening after lying down
Violent pressure and tension in abdomen (and sides), with distension
Pain after a light meal, with tympanites
Pressure under short ribs, after eating, with depression of spirits
Pain as from an internal induration in a spot beneath navel
Sensation of pressure on internal surface of trunk, of a nervous character, without flatulency
Spasmodic pain in umbilical region
Squeezing in abdomen
Gripings and pinchings in abdomen, with diarrhoea
Griping after breakfast or cutting after dinner
Tearings and shootings in abdomen
Severe stabbing pains in abdomen
Accumulation of much flatulence, with grumbling (loud rumbling, gurgling rolling) and borborygmi in abdomen, esp. after a meal
Flatulent colic, esp. in evening
Frequent expulsion of hot and putrid flatus
Inguinal hernia
Pressive aching in pubic region.—(Erotomania; patient always pressing on pubes.)
Cutting upward in l. iliac region, in paroxysms; in a pregnant woman
Swelling of inguinal glands; buboes (l.).
Stool And Anus EN
Constipation
Hard, dry (crumbling), insufficient faeces, often evacuated with violent straining
Constipation of the newborn
Loose, soft evacuations of consistence of pap, or liquid, and often accompanied by a discharge of bright red (or pale) blood
Diarrhoea with stupor
Nervous diarrhoea from depression of nerve centres
Involuntary evacuation
Pain in abdomen during and after evacuation
Tearings, shootings, burning, feeling as of excoriation, and violent itching in anus
Burning in anus during stool
Feeling in rectum as if flatus pressing against coccyx, by which it is retained
Crawling tingling in anus, as from worms.
Urinary Organs EN
Pressing, stinging, and soreness in the kidneys
Pressure in region of l. kidney
Stones (gravel) of kidneys and bladder
Retention of urine when beginning to urinate
Sitting with legs crossed, bending forward, and cannot pass water, or but very little, and feels as if his bladder would burst
Can only pass urine (which she must do every hour) while sitting bent backwards
Hysterical retention of urine (with vision of a golden shower on looking up
B.
Simmons)
Excessive desire to urinate, also at night
Violent pressure of urine on the bladder
Painful emission of urine
Involuntary emission of urine, esp. when walking, coughing, or sneezing
Frequent emission of a clear yellow urine, which afterwards deposits a white, flocky sediment
The urine becomes turbid, like clay-water, after standing
Sanguineous urine
Burning sensation during and after emission of urine
Acute drawing in forepart of urethra and in penis
Incisive pains in orifice of urethra
Discharge of blood from urethra after painful micturition.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Testes retracted, swollen, painful
Drawing in testes and along spermatic cord (one or the other testicle is drawn up)
Pain as from excoriation in scrotum
Contraction of scrotum and shuddering in that part
Orchitis; from suppressed otorrhoea
Strong sexual desire, with difficult or too speedy emission
Permanent erections at night
Emissions at night, without lascivious dreams
Easily excited; the emission during an embrace is difficult or almost impossible
Flow of prostatic fluid (without any cause)
Great falling off of hair of genital organs
Hands constantly on the genitals
The child grasps the genitals when coughing.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Sensation of bearing down towards the genital organs
Complaints coming on while the menses are absent, but feels perfectly well during the flow: suffers much pain, particularly in ovaries, will lie so as to press on the affected side, and dangling the limb will swing it about, patient can't keep still
Menses flow more at night
Nymphomania of lying-in women, with great sensitiveness of the genitals
Hands constantly on the genitals
Irresistible sexual desire at night; desire for onanism
Menses too early
Discharge of large clots during the menses
Menstruation too late
Catamenia premature; suppressed
Suppressed menstruation with painfulness of the breasts and genitals
Catamenia retarded
Spasmodic colic on appearance of catamenia
During the catamenia: distension of the abdomen, cuttings, and pressure towards abdomen and loins, with great heaviness and lassitude in legs; cough
Leucorrhoea of thick mucus (bloody mucus; excoriating after menses), sometimes preceded by pains in abdomen
Leucorrhoea with much itching; pain in l. ovary, only > by menstrual flow
Pruritus vulvae; causes masturbation
Itching of vulva during menses
Varicose veins of external genitals, with fidgety feet
Profuse falling off of hair of genitals
Varices during pregnancy; stagnation of blood in l. leg
Tendency to miscarry
Puerperal convulsions with suppression of (chronic) eruption
Suppressed lochia; nymphomania
Pain as from excoriation in nipples
Suppressed secretion of milk.
Respiratory Organs EN
Roughness and dryness in throat and chest, esp. in morning and after dinner
Hoarseness; with burning in trachea as if chest filled with mucus
Frequent tickling in region of larynx
Discharge of black blood when hawking
Cough, with oppression
Violent cough
Cough, with stitches in the head
Dry cough also at night, with violent stitches in chest and feeling as if it would burst
Cough, with expectoration of viscid mucus, followed by a sensation of coldness and excoriation in chest as if it were raw
Cough, with expectoration of blood, burning sensation, and pain as from excoriation of chest
Debilitating, spasmodic cough from tickling in larynx, extending to middle of chest, with expectoration of yellow, purulent, blood-streaked, tenacious mucus, tasting disagreeably, sweetish-putrid, metallic; or of pure blood in morning or during day
The cough is < after eating, during rest, sitting, standing, from milk, sweets, spirituous liquors, during menstruation
Child grasps genitals when coughing.
Chest EN
Difficult respiration and oppression, with pressive pain in the chest, esp. in evening
Constrictive sensation around the chest, with pain in the chest, as if cut to pieces
Dull stitches in r. side of chest
Stitches in a spot in l. side of chest, with feeling as if corroded and bruised
Tightness in evening, with pressure in middle of sternum; small, rapid pulse
Spasmodic dyspnoea
Shortness of breath, caused by flatulence after a meal
Sensation of emptiness in the chest
Chest loaded with mucus
Pressure at chest
Tensive pain in sternum
L. intercostal neuralgia < by motion; fatigue; at times with palpitation
Sticking beneath l. breast
Tearings in chest
Shootings in chest, esp. in region of heart
Burning sensation in chest
Pain beneath costal arches.
Heart EN
Palpitation of heart, with or without anguish
Irregular movements of heart
Shocks in heart and intermittent palpitation, with suffocation
Tension and stitches in the praecordial region, < by violent expiration
Stitches at apex
Sudden, spasmodic, bursting sensation about heart
Feels as if a cap were over heart; spine affected
Violent pulsations in blood-vessels during heat
Rapid pulse.
Neck And Back EN
Lancinating tearings, stiffness, and tension in nape
Tearing in r. side of neck
Nape of neck feels weary from writing or any exertion
Spinal irritation with prostration; numbness of lower limbs
Pains in loins, esp. when walking and seated
Sensation of paralytic weakness in back and loins
Rheumatic pains in back
Itching tetters on back
Tension and shootings in and between shoulder-blades
Burning in scapulae
Pressive tension beneath the r. scapula
Burning pressure upon spine above small of back
Burning along whole spine, < when sitting
Pains at last dorsal vertebra
Violent, long-lasting ache about last lumbar vertebrae
Stiffness and pain in upper dorsal muscles
Pushing, aching, at times pinching pains in coccyx; lancinating in sacrum; pressive tension and weakness in lumbar and sacral regions.
Limbs EN
Tearing in limbs, < when over-heated or when taking exercise
Drawing tearing in hollow bones, with pain so violent that the limbs can give no support
Stiffness of joints, with sharp, lancinating pains above joints, always transverse, not lengthwise of the limb
Coldness of extremities
Drawing, tearing pains in all limbs
Violent itching in all joints
Spasmodic pain and cramp in the limbs
Visible quivering and jerking in different parts of the muscles
Tingling in the limbs.
Upper Limbs EN
Rheumatic drawing and lancinating tearing in shoulders, arms, elbows, joints of hands and fingers
Painful sensation of paralysis in arms
Furunculi in arms
Burning in l. forearm at night
Paleness and paralysis of hands
Weakness and trembling of the hands when writing
Spasmodic tension in r. hand
Lameness and deadness of hands; they look bluish
Herpetic, rough, and itching spots on hands
Dry skin, with rhagades on hands
Dry herpes on the hands and fingers; they are rough and itch
Chilblains itch and swell
Cracks between the fingers
Numbness of fingers when rising in morning.
Lower Limbs EN
Rheumatic drawings and tearings in legs, knees, ankles and joints of the feet
Varices in thighs and legs
Legs oedematous
Itching of thighs and hollow of knees
Tensive pain in knees
Nocturnal pains in knees
Sensation as if the blood did not circulate in the legs
Drawing and tensive stiffness in calves when walking
Tingling in calves
Burning pain in tibia
Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of tendo Achillis
Intolerable boring pain in heel after drinking wine
Stiffness of joint of the foot after being seated for some time
Wrenching pain in joints of feet and toes
Burning sensation in feet
Inflammatory swelling of feet
Weakness and trembling of feet
Paralysis of feet: from spinal or chronic nervous disease, softening of brain or cerebral haemorrhage; from suppressed foot-sweat
Feet sweaty and sore about toes; fetid suppressed foot-sweat with much nervous excitement
Coldness of the feet at night
Nervous, fidgety movement of the feet; after retiring and during sleep
Tearing in margin of r. foot
Painful chilblains on feet
Itching, heat, redness, and swelling of toes as if they were frozen
Pulsative lancinations in toes
Sprained pain in bends of toe-joints
Ulcerative, boring pains in heels;
< when walking than when sitting
Profuse sweat on the feet.
Generalities EN
[Affections in general appearing in the l. inguinal ring; l. side of back; upper jaw, and troubles of the teeth in lower jaw; loins; posterior surface of thigh; tendo Achillis; big toe; joints of toes Patient can't keep still, must be in motion all the time Chilblains of the hand, much swollen, very painful In fevers or nervous complaints one keeps the feet in continual motion
Variable mood; clay-like sediment in the urine; biting, pungent pain; lancinating pains; exanthema of long standing, esp. with a biting sensation.—< In the evening, sometimes lasting all night; after swallowing food.—> While eating H. N. G.]
Pain as from excoriation Varices Pain, which sometimes seems to be between the skin and the flesh Formication on the skin
The symptoms are aggravated to an extraordinary degree by Chamomile, Nux, and wine, substances which also excite them, particularly the nocturnal uneasiness and constipation The majority of the symptoms manifest themselves after dinner and towards evening Sensation of soreness in internal and external parts General insensibility of the body
Sensation of coldness in bones Violent pulsation throughout body Violent trembling (twitching) of whole body, esp. after mental emotion Twitching of children
Chorea Heaviness, lassitude, and excessive weakness, < when walking or on waking in morning Aversion to movement.
Skin EN
Itching in bends of joints
Itching, with violent lancinations, esp. in evening in bed, disappearing immediately on being touched
Tingling between the skin and the flesh
Chronic eruptions
Eczema of back of r. hand with terrible irritation, little oozing and fissuration, < in cold weather and excited by rubbing (R.
T.
C.)
Tetters and herpetic ulcers
Ganglia, chilblains, and liability of the external parts to become frozen
Rhagades
Small furunculi
Varicose veins.
Sleep EN
Sleep by day, and continued disposition to sleep, esp. in morning or after a meal; with inclination to yawn
Unconquerable drowsiness
Retarded sleep
Disturbed sleep, with frequent waking
Unrefreshing sleep (with unpleasant dreams)
Fantastic, frightful, agitated, or disgusting and terrific dreams, with talking and cries during sleep
Excessive coldness of the feet at night
Shocks in body during sleep and frequent starts.
Fever EN
Febrile shuddering along back
Constant shivering, with increased internal heat
Chill begins generally after eating, and continues till late in evening and during the night
Chilliness in open air and when touching a cold object
Chilliness on approach of stormy weather
Febrile shuddering, with flushes of heat; violent trembling of limbs, short and hot breath, and pulsation throughout the body
Pulse small and rapid in the evening, slower in morning and during the day
Pulse at times intermitting
Violent pulsations in the veins during the heat
Internal heat, with sensation of coldness in abdomen and on feet
Tendency to perspire in the day
Night-sweat
Profuse perspiration during whole night, with inclination to uncover oneself
Badly-smelling perspirations.—[" Brass-founders ague," which is supposed to be due to inhalation of Zinc fumes, begins with malaise and feeling of constriction across the chest, nausea occasionally, the symptoms occurring in after part of day are followed in evening at bed-time by shivering, sometimes by an indistinct hot stage, but always by profuse sweating; the worse the sweating, the less violent the attack; attacks always irregular.
(R.
T.
C.).]