Fluoricum Acidum

► Forgetfulness : in his daily employment ; of dates. ► Aversion to his own family. ► Greatly depressed in mind. ► Disposition to be exceedingly anxious ; better morning than evening. ► Apprehensiveness. ► Feeling of indifference towards those he loves best ; become interested and converses pleasantly with strangers. ► Uncommon buoyancy of mind, fears nothing and is well satisfied with herself. ► Ill-humored.

► Congestion of blood mostly to the forehead, with dulness in the occiput toward night. ► Sensation of weakness, like numbness in head, same in hands.

► Compressing pain in the temples. ► Headache in the occiput, with fulness in the head. ► Headache from the nape, extending through the centre of head to the forehead ; also dull feeling in the head.

► Sensation of numbness in the forehead. ► Pain along the sutures. ► Caries of the temporal bone. ► Must comb the hair frequently, it mats so at the end. ► Falling out of the hair, new hair dry and breaks off.

► Heaviness about the eyes, with nausea ; worse on motion. ► Pressure, as if behind the right ball. ► Dark spot before eye, worse reading. ► Sensation as of a cold wind blowing under the lids (even in a warm room), must bind the eyes, with a cloth. ► Sensation of sand in the eyes, or as if a fresh wind was blowing on them. ► Feeling as if he must wink as if something was in the eye that could not be rubbed off. ► Increased lachrymation. ► Itching in the canthi. ► Fistula lachrymalis.

► Intolerable itching in both ears. ► Itching, better momentarily from scratching, but followed by burning.

► Fluent coryza. ► Obstruction of the nose. ► Posterior nares feel expanded, during a walk. ► Red, swollen, inflamed nose. ► Itching on right side of nose.

► Pale. ► Heat in face, wants to wash it in cold water. ► Crusta lactea, dry, scaly ; itches very much. ► Tubercles in skin of forehead and face, suppurating. θ Syphilis infantum.

► Sensation of : warmth ; heaviness in the teeth ; roughness of the teeth. ► Mouth and teeth coated with mucus in the morning. ► Toothache worse from cold drink ; or improved until the water becomes warm in the mouth. ► Rapid caries of teeth. ► Violent pains at the root of the right eye-tooth, with frequent discharge of pus. ► Great sensitiveness to pressure on the gum over the right eye-tooth.

► Acrid, foul taste from the roots of the teeth. ► Tongue always more or less tender, feeling of rigidity in it, with restricted mobility ; painful when talking. ► Tongue : vivid red at tip and edges, coated yellow in the centre ; whitish and dry. ► Tongue deeply and widely fissured in all directions, with a large, deep phagedenic-looking ulcer in the centre.

► Increased flow of saliva.

► Red blotches, size of half pea, over the palate and side of cheek, bleeding easily. ► Soft palate and uvula intensely red and much tumefied, breath fetid, voice nasal, articulation indistinct. ► Accumulation of mucus in the fauces, disturbs sleep. ► Throat peculiarly sensitive to cold, slightest exposure resulting in inflammation, with increase of pain and impended deglutition. ► Constriction in the throat, with difficult deglutition ; in the morning, hawking of phlegm mixed with blood. ► Excessive pain when swallowing.

► Hunger predominates. ► Thirst, craves refreshing drinks. ► Desires wine. ► Aversion to coffee.

► Nausea ; with general heat ; eructations and lassitude. ► Bilious vomiting after slight errors in diet ; with increased alvine discharges, preceded by tormina.

► Feeling of fulness and pressure in epigastrium. ► Feeling of weight in the stomach between meals.

► Sensitive to pressure in right hypochondrium. ► Pressing pain in region of spleen, left arm. ► Pain from spleen to hip. ► Pinching in region of spleen.

► Sensation of emptiness in region of navel, with desire to take a deep breath ; better from bandaging or eating. ► Great tension and dropsical swelling of the abdomen.

► Frequent passage of flatus and belchings, with constriction of the anus. ► Very loose, bright yellow stools, with a quantity of mucus, preceded by considerable griping. ► Stools chiefly during the night or early in the morning. ► Stools pappy, yellowish brown, fetid, with tenesmus and prolapsus ani. ► Bilious diarrhoea, worse during day, soon after drinking, especially warm drinks. ► Tardy, infrequent and hard stools. ► Itching in and around the anus.

► Very frequent discharge of bright-colored urine, with increased thirst. ► Urine scanty and dark, painful in passing ; alkaline. ► Whitish or purple-colored sediment. ► Burning before and after urination, with aching in the bladder.

► Increased sexual desire in old men, with violent erections at night. ► Gleety discharge at night, staining the linen yellow. ► Yellow drops from the urethra in the morning. ► Dropsical swelling of the penis ; also hydrocele. ► Oily, pungent-smelling sweat on the genitals.

► Menses : too early ; too copious ; discharge thick and coagulated. ► Metrorrhagia with, or in alternation with, difficulty of breathing. ► Leucorrhoea acrid : also with itching.

► Itching, redness and swelling of right nipple ; nipples sore, cracked ; congestion to the head.

► Weak voice. ► Dryness in larynx and trachea. ► Itching in larynx, causing hawking and swallowing. ► Soreness and increased irritability in larynx, with impeded respiration and wheezing.

► Difficult breathing, afternoon and evening : 23. ► Oppression of chest, better when bending backwards. ► Relieves in hydrothorax.

► Short, frequent cough, mostly dry, occasionally some whitish, frothy mucous expectoration.

► Upper part of chest seems most affected. ► Hydrothorax.

► Sore pain at the heart. ► Small, frequent pulse.

► Scaly eruption on the chest and arms.

► Pain in the third cervical vertebra. ► Rigidity of nape. ► Bruised pain in sacrum.

► Pain in right shoulder-joint ; shoulder-joints stiffened by rheumatism. ► Slight lameness in the right arm. ► Rheumatic pains in left arm, from shoulder to elbow, with lameness. ► Weakness and numbness of hands. ► Constant redness of the hands, especially the palms. ► Burning in the hands. ► Sharp sticking pain at the root of right thumb-nail. ► Acute pricking, as with needles, in the fingers. ► Panaritium ; also simple onychia. ► Nails grow more rapidly, crumpled or longitudinal ridges in them.

► Acute stitches in the right hip-bone. ► Lameness in the left hip. ► Left leg goes "to sleep" easily. ► Oedematous swelling up to the abdomen ; top of the foot oedematous. ► Burning stitches in the soles. ► Feet hot and burn much. ► Soreness between the toes. ► Soreness of all the corns.

► Pain in all the limbs.

► Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue, regardless of the most excessive heat in summer or cold in winter. ► Loss of strength. ► Sensation of going to sleep of side not laid on.

► Loss of sleep in evening, from crowding of thoughts. ► Sleeplessness, without inclination to sleep ; a short sleep suffices and refreshes him. ► Sleep restless and unrefreshing.

► Chill entirely wanting. ► General heat, with nausea from the slightest motion., with inclination to uncover, but mostly to wash with cold water. ► Clammy, sour and unpleasant-smelling sweats, mostly on upper body, particularly during exercise in afternoon and evening ; sweat excessive on palms and feet. ► The sweat promotes excoriation and decubitus.

► Right : 5, 7, 10, 18, 24, 32, 33, 46. Left : 18, 32, 33.

► Violent jerking, burning pains confined to small spots.

► Diseases of bones, particularly of long bones, suppurate and get better and worse periodically ; pains worse at night, with great prostration. ► Liver enlarged and indurated. ► Varicose veins of the legs ; varicose ulcers ; naevus, flat.

► Burning pains on small spots of the skin. ► Dry cutaneous eruption ; squamous eruptions on the body. ► Elevated red blotches ; erosions, mucous tubercles. ► Naevus on right temple. ► Ulcers : painful ; worse from warmth, better from cold ; with copious discharge, also on legs, worse at ankles, bones diseased. ► Old cicatrices become red around the edges, covered or surrounded by itching vesicles, or they itch violently.

► Complaints of old age, also premature old age, in consequence of syphilitic mercurial dyscrasia. ► Weakly constitutions, sallow of whiskey, induration of liver ; ascites. ► Ailments from Silic. ; also after abuse of mercury. ► Fluor ac. follows well ; after Arsen., in ascites with diseased liver ; after Kali carb., in hip disease ; after Silic., in bone diseases ; after Phosp. ac., in diabetes (one case).