Laurocerasus

► Loss of consciousness, with loss of speech and motion. ► Insensibility and complete loss of sensation. ► Dulness of the senses. ► Weakness of mind and loss of memory. ► Inability to collect one's idea. ► Fear and anxiety about imaginary evils.

► Stupefaction, with vertigo. ► Vertigo : with disposition to sleep ; worse in the open air.

► Stupefying pain in the whole head. ► Pulsation in the head, with heat or with coldness. ► Congestive headache ; pulse depressed. ► Sensation of looseness of the brain, as if it were falling into the forehead, when stooping, without pain. ► Feeling of warmth in middle of forehead, then coolness as from a draft or air. ► The brain feels contracted and painful. ► Stitches in the head.

► Sensation of coldness in the forehead and vertex, as if a cold wind were blowing on it, descending through the neck to the back ; worse in the room, better in the open air. ► Itching of the hairy scalp.

► Objects appear larger. ► Sensation of a veil before the eyes. ► Eyes ; starting, wide open ; lightly closed ; distorted. ► Pupils dilated, immovable.

► Hardness of hearing. ► Tingling in the ears. ► Itching in the ears.

► Nose feels stopped up ; no air passes through.

► Sunken, with livid, grey-yellow complexion ; blue with gasping ; bloated ; idiotic expression of face. θ Chorea. ► Twitching and convulsions of the facial muscles. ► Titillation in the face, as if flies and spiders were crawling over the skin. ► Eruption around the mouth.

► Lockjaw.

► Tongue : dry, rough, dry and white ; cold ; or numb as if burnt. ► Left side of tongue stiff and swollen, with loss of speech.

► Foam at mouth. θ Epilepsy. ► Dryness in the mouth.

► Spasmodic deglutition. θ Chorea. ► Impeded deglutition. ► Spasmodic contraction in the throat and oesophagus. ► The drink he takes rolls audibly through the oesophagus and intestines.

► Disgust for food, during pregnancy. ► Violent thirst, with dry mouth. ► Entire loss of appetite, with clean tongue.

► Hiccough. ► Nausea in the stomach and vomiting of the ingesta. ► Eructations tasting like bitter almonds or prussic acid. θ Pregnancy. ► Vomiting of food. θ Cough.

► Violent pain in stomach, with loss of speech. ► Burning (or coldness) in the stomach and abdomen. ► Contractive feeling in the region of the stomach, and cutting pain in the abdomen.

► Sticking pain in the liver with pressure. ► Region of liver distended, pains as from subcutaneous ulceration, or as if an abscess would burst. ► Indurated liver ; atrophic nutmeg liver.

► Pinching about the umbilicus. ► Colicky pains in afternoon, and tearing pains in vertex at night. ► Sensation like the falling of a heavy lump from just above the umbilicus to the small of the back ; produced by talking or overexertion, also with spasmodic pains in cardiac region.

► Diarrhoeic stools ; with tenesmus ; of green liquid mucus, with suffocative spells about the heart, forcing her to lie down ; involuntary. ► Constipation, stools hard, firm, and passed only with much straining. ► Ineffectual urging to stool, with emission of flatus only.

► Suppressed urine. θ Cholera. ► Retention of urine as from paralysis of the bladder ; or, urine is voided slowly. ► Involuntary urination. ► The urine deposits a thick, reddish or mahogany-colored sediment, with floating, jelly-like flocks. ► Itching in the forepart of the urethra. ► Acid urine, corroding the labia.

► Gangrene of the penis.

► Menses : too early and too profuse ; blood thin ; with nightly tearing in the vertex. ► Burning and stinging and below the mammae.

► Scraping in the larynx, with increased secretion of mucus ; hoarseness. ► Spasmodic constriction of the trachea. ► Laryngismus stridulus ; heart affected.

► Slow, feeble, moaning or rattling ; slow, feeble, almost imperceptible ; panting ; very difficult. ► Dyspnoea, with sensation as if lungs would not be sufficiently expanded or as if pressed against the spine. ► Spasmodic oppression of the chest. ► Gasping for breath ; suffocating spells ; he clutches at his heart ; palpitation.

► Short, titillating ; dyspnoea ; from heart disease, as stenosis of the valves ; cannot lie down ; whizzing, with sensation as if the mucous membranes were too dry ; worse towards evening from motion, stooping, eating and drinking, or warmth ; with copious jelly-like sputa, dotted with bloody points. ► Whooping-cough, day, whistling, no sputum ; impending paralysis of the lungs.

► Spasms of chest. ► Threatening paralysis of lungs. ► Pleurisy of drunkards ; pulse soft, but quick.

► Heart's action irregular, pulse slow. ► Stitches in region of heart. ► Beating, fluttering sensation if region of heart ; gasps for breath ; sometimes has slight dry cough. ► Palpitation of heart. ► Cold, moist skin ; convulsions of muscles of face ; pulse scarcely perceptible. ► Apoplexy. ► Pulse extremely irregular ; at times small and slow, often imperceptible ; at others somewhat accelerated ; seldom full and hard. ► Cyanosis neonatorum.

► Pain in every external part of the thorax on moving it. ► Burning in the chest on taking an inspiration.

► Painful stiffness in left side of neck, and nape of neck and small of back. ► Pressure in nape of neck, particularly in open air, compelling him to bend head forward. ► Severe pain in sacral region, extending to pubis.

► Pressure on right shoulder or in shoulder-joint. ► Pains as from lameness, also stitches, in right shoulder. ► Stitch in both elbows. ► Pain, as if sprained, in the right wrist-joint. ► Distention of the veins on the hands. ► Rough, scaly skin between the fingers, with burning when touched by water.

► Pain, as if sprained, in the left hip-joint. ► Sticking in the left knee. ► The feet go to sleep (when crossing the legs or sitting). ► Ulcerative pains in the lower part of the heels. ► Stiffness of the feet after rising from the seat. ► Cold, clammy feet up to knees. θ Chorea.

► Ends of fingers and toes enlarged, knob-like. ► Stinging and tearing in the limbs. ► Painless paralysis of the limbs.

► Want of energy of the vital powers and want of reaction, especially in chest affections. ► Rapid sinking of the forces ; long-lasting faints. ► Epilepsy. ► Clonic spasm of all the limbs, with paralytic weakness. ► Chorea, with constant jerks, cannot keep still ; speech indistinct, gets angry when not understood ; gasping ; emaciation ; after fright. ► Gasping before, during and after spasm ; bluish skin. ► Apoplexy, with paralyses.

► Irresistible sleepiness, especially after dinner and in the evening. ► Deep, snoring sleep ; soporous conditions.

► Chill and external coldness. ► Cold, moist skin. θ Apoplexy. ► Chill, coldness and shivering in the afternoon and evening, not relieved by external warmth. ► Chill, alternating with heat. ► Want of natural animal heat. ► Heat after the chill, from evening till midnight. ► Heat descending the back. ► Sweat generally during and after heat, till toward morning. ► Sweat after eating.

► Painfulness with the ailments. ► Acts on brain and spine, especially upon the medulla oblongata ; hence characteristic tetanic spasms of the upper part of the body, gasping breathing, etc.

► Antidotes to Lauroc. : Camphor., Coffea, Ipec., Opium.