Equisetum Hyemale

Severe headache with intense pain in upper part of eyes or roof of orbit

Headache with heat of face without redness

Constrictive feeling across forehead

Sticking, darting pains changing locality

Constriction of whole scalp, as if drawn tightly over whole skull; continual desire to wrinkle up forehead

Skin over frontal bone very tight, with feeling of skin continuing to contract.

Dull, transient pain and stiff feeling behind l. mastoid

Confused feeling in ears

Confusion of sounds; confused noises; fearful rumbling.

Face flushed, feeling of heat

As if blood pressed into face

Heat and burning without redness.

Distended feeling

Dull, heavy pains in either side of lower abdomen and bladder, with frequent desire to urinate; the desire to urinate, which is constant, is not > by urinating

Slight pain in bowels with desire for stool, not urgent, early in morning; three stools during the morning, quite thin; during the whole day frequent inclination for stool with slight pain in bowels; no diarrhoea

Severe pain in lower abdomen with passage of fetid flatus

Sharp pain in hypogastrium with sticking-like pains in anus (11 a.m.)

Sharp pains on either side of hypogastrium; extending to middle line.

Smarting in anus during and after stool

Stool with great flatulence

Stool with aching in anus and feeling as if rectum would protrude, followed by smarting in anus and a feeling as if some faeces still remained.

Slight pain in r. kidney, then in l., extending down l. side of sacrum

Dull pain in r. kidney, with urgent desire to urinate; had urinated only a few minutes before and now passed four ounces of clear light-coloured urine

Pain in bladder as from distension

Severe dull pain in bladder not > by urinating; continued some days after taking the drug, and caused him to fear inflammation of the bladder

Tenderness in region of bladder, and r. side of lower abdomen, extending upward from groin; same but less marked l. side

Pain and tenderness in bladder region with soreness of testicles, extending up spermatic cords

Excessive burning in urethra while urinating

Sharp, cutting pain in urethra

Pricking in urethra a short distance back from meatus

Biting itching in meatus < scratching

Great desire to urinate but only a small quantity passes

Urgent desire to urinate with prickling and soreness of meatus from contact and pressure

Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate

Profuse urination, with burning in urethra and sharp pain at root of penis

Later passes smaller quantities and darker

Passed small amount but felt as if he had not urinated for hours; the amount grew less each time but the desire increased

Urine cloudy

Great excess of mucus on standing

Enuresis, nocturnal and diurnal.

Violent erections; in the afternoon

Soreness of testicles and cords;

< l.

18, 19.

Chest and Heart

Sharp stitch in l. breast one inch to l. and over nipple

Sharp pain in region of heart < by inspiration.

Pains in back esp. while sitting, > lying on back and walking

Heavy sensation like a lump in r. lumbar region

Severe rheumatic pains in region of sacro-lumbar joint, and through l. hip-joint extending down outer side of l. leg, ending in front three inches above knee.

Pain in upper part of shoulders and in region of vertebra prominens, < by least motion or contact

Pain in r. shoulder to middle of upper arm

Pain in l. shoulder with shivering over body and great heat of head.

Pain in r. hip-joint and near knee-joint

Knees very weak on least exertion

Dull, heavy pain under l. patella

On awakening, sharp pain inner side of l. knee, > after moving about a short time.