Natrum Arsenicicum

Nervous restlessness

Depressed, as if something impending

Cannot concentrate mind; dull, listless; forgetful.

Vacant feeling in whole head

Wavering, floating sensation on turning head quickly

Confused feeling; head heavy, dull

Feeling of heat and fulness in whole head

Severe sharp headache in forehead, above eyes, < r. eye

Numbness in forehead, evening

Dull aching in frontal region and root of nose; on awaking in morning; severe during day; indisposed to study or speak

Aching across brow over orbits and eyeballs

Fulness in forehead with throbbing in top of head

Every motion jars the head

Headache < from heat, pressure, and tobacco-smoke.

Vision weakened; objects blur when he looks at them for a short time; eyes sensitive to light

Eyes soon tire and pain when reading or writing

Feels as though he must close lids to protect the weak eyes

Lids disposed to close; cannot open them as wide as usual

Stiffness of eyeballs

Eyeballs feel too large when closing lids over them

Blood-vessels of balls and lids much congested, whole orbital region swollen; oedema of orbital region

Congestion of conjunctiva from least exposure to cold or wind; conjunctiva dry and painful

Eyes smart as from wood smoke; smarting and lachrymation on going into open air

Inner surface of lower lids granulated

Edges chronically inflamed; morning agglutination

Aching through and over brows and orbits, and in temples on awaking

Eye symptoms < in morning, > towards evening.

Shooting pain over r. ear, after noon

Hearing dull

Rushing noise in r. ear synchronous with pulse.

Smell defective or lost

Patient feels stuffed up in nose and chest

Nose constantly stuffed up, < at night and in morning; must breathe at night with mouth open

Nasal discharge yellow, tough; hawked or drops from posterior nares

Pieces of hardened bluish mucus flow from nose, after which mucous membrane feels raw

Dry crust in nose; when removed blood follows

Nasal mucous membrane thickened, can inhale air, but difficult to exhale

Compressive pain at root of nose and in forehead; catarrh.

Face flushed and hot; feels puffed

Malar bones feel large, as if swollen

Face swollen, oedematous; more in orbital region;

< mornings on awaking

Corners of mouth fissured; also indurated

Muscles of mastication stiff, painful o move jaw.

Teeth and gums tender

Tongue furred; coated yellow; deep red, corrugated, anterior part fissured; large, moist, fissured, flabby

Ulcer in mouth, very sore

Mouth watery

Taste: insipid; clammy; pasty; bitter; sour.

Fauces dry on swallowing and on inspiration, < in morning and after a cold

Fauces and pharynx red and glossy

Tonsils, fauces, and pharynx purplish and oedematous; patched with yellow mucus; diphtheria

Uvula, tonsils, and pharynx thickened; surface irregular, swollen, purplish-red, covered with yellowish-grey mucus, which is hawked out

Hawks up greyish (or white) tenacious mucus

Constricted choking feeling in throat; as if thyroid body compressed between thumb and finger

Feeling as of a pin sticking in throat; or of a lump in throat; always < in morning.

Drinks often, but little at a time; very thirsty, < by drinking

Belching and sour eructations

Nausea, < from drink of cold water

Vomits large quantities of sour water, < after eating

Stomach feels sore; warm things cause a sensation of burning, and can be felt entering stomach

Moderate dinner lies heavy; feeling of fulness

Epigastrium tender

Sinking sensation; with dull feeling over eyes

Haematemesis.

Pain from time to time shifting through bowels, > by passage of flatus or stool

Gas forms rapidly, > when bowels move; colic from flatus and before stool

Pain in groins; also in Poupart's ligaments.

Alternate diarrhoea and constipation

Stool thin, soft, dark, followed by burning at the anus

Yellowish, watery, copious, painless, hurries out of bed in morning; preceded by colic, > after.

Dull aching in kidneys, with profuse urine

Sore feeling in region of bladder, < while urinating

Urine copious, frequent, clear; heat precipitates phosphates; contains some epithelial scales, casts, and fat globules.

Dark slate-coloured, scanty mucus in larynx, detached with difficulty

Oppressed or stuffed sensation all day from larynx to bottom of sternum

Roughness and irritation in bronchi mornings, with slight cough

Lungs feel dry, as though smoke had been inhaled

Dry cough, with feeling of tightness and oppression in middle and upper third of chest

Chest feels full and oppressed;

< during exertion and on full inspiration

Sharp, quick pain below seventh rib anteriorly

Supra-clavicular regions sore on pressure

Shooting pain under r. breast; sore on pressure.

Neck stiff and sore

Soreness at lower cervical vertebrae down to joints of and under both scapulae

Pain and soreness in back

Severe pain between scapulae;

> moving forward;

< from inspiration

Pain in lumbar region.

Neuralgic pains occur frequently

Joints feel stiff; pains erratic, < in joints and on l. side

Lower limbs feel heavy; weary, bruised feelings

Aching anteriorly down legs, until restless, uneasy feeling is produced

Knee-joints crack

Shaking in tibia when walking

Corns appear on bottom of each little toe.

Chilly, disposed to wrap up or get near a fire

Skin hot and dry

Surface cool, covered with cold, clammy sweat.