Oleander

Sadness, and want of self-confidence

Repugnance to labour and great indolence

Irascibility, moroseness, and ill-humour

Temper which can bear no contradiction

Fits of passion, followed by speedy repentance

Weakness of memory

Slowness of perception

Great abstraction and inattention

Confusion when reading; difficulty of grasping the connection when reading a long sentence

Loss of memory

Giddiness

Dulness of intellect, with difficult conception

Poetical reveries concerning the future

Immediately walked five yards and fell senseless (after an ounce of expressed juice).

Turning vertigo, with tottering of limbs

Vertigo on rising after lying down, or on looking downwards, when rising

Vertigo when rising from bed, or if looking fixedly at any object, or when looking down while standing

When standing erect, dizzy with double vision on looking down, not on looking straight before him

Vertigo with turning, darkness, and scintillations before eyes

Vertigo when in bed if he turns to either side

Headache with stupefaction, as if brain were tightened; as if a dull nail forced into head over mastoid process

Painful heaviness in head, > by lying down

Headache < reading and holding up head, > lying down, < again with nausea on rising

Violent pressive pains in temples, at one time higher up, at another lower down, while chewing

Dull pressure in head (from within out), as if forehead were about to split

Painful and pulsative beating in head

Headache > by looking cross-eyed; by looking sideways

Boring in brain

Aching of exterior of head

Gnawing itching in scalp, with soreness after scratching

Biting itching on scalp, as from vermin, principally on back of head and behind ears;

> when first scratching it, which is followed by burning and soreness, which gives place to burning-itching;

< in evening when undressing

Furfuraceous or humid scabs on head (< on back of head), with itching, esp. at night, and burning after scratching

Desquamation of scalp.

Eyes: sunk in sockets; distorted; turned up; fixed; stony; lustreless

Lids involuntarily drawn together, as if sleepy

Pain in eyes, as if fatigued from too much reading

Aching in eyes

Burning pains and tension in eyelids, esp. when reading

Lachrymation

Double vision

Cloudiness of eyes when looking sideways

Momentary loss of sight; blue colour about the eyes.

Acute aching in ears

Cramp-like drawing in ear

Singing, tinkling, and rumbling in ears

Red and rough tettery spots in fore part of ear, with fetid running (ulcers) behind (and around)

Face pale and wan (sunken in the morning), with blue circles round the eyes

Dull and stupefying pressure in the bones of the face, and esp. in the zygomatic process, extending deeply into the head

Heat of cheeks without redness, and vice versâ

Paleness, alternately with deep redness, of face

Red swelling of face, round eyes

Tuberculous eruption on face and forehead

Lips brownish and dry

Sensation of numbness and swelling in upper lip

Swelling round commissures of lips

Lower jaw trembles with yawning

Stiffness of muscles of jaws.

Toothache (only) during mastication, with incisive pressure

Tearing and drawing in teeth (molar; l. upper second bicuspid), sometimes at night, but only in bed (with anxiety, nausea, and frequent micturition), and which disappear on getting up

Sensation of looseness in teeth, with gums of a bluish white.

Dryness of mouth, and tongue loaded with a white coating

Rough, foul, white tongue, with raised papillae

Tongue red and raw where touched with Oleander leaf; the patch involved the side and part of upper surface, and was still present a year after

Loss of speech.

Burning pain in throat

Numb sensation ascending from throat externally to head

Sensation as if a cool wind were blowing on l. side of throat

Sharp pressive pain on l. side of throat, near Adam's apple

Irritation of pharynx

Pain as of a dull point pressing on oesophagus (r. side); cervical muscles also painful to external pressure.

All food has a mawkish (flat) and insipid taste (in evening)

Clammy taste in mouth

Bulimy, with tremor of hands, from eager craving for food, often with absence of appetite

Violent empty eructations, while eating

Thirst, esp. for cold water

Dizziness while eating greedily at noon

Empty goneness after eating, > by brandy.

Risings of a putrid smell

Violent, empty risings, sometimes after a meal

Nausea, with inclination to vomit, accumulation of saliva in mouth, followed by violent hunger

Sickness and prostration follow the dose; feels queer all next day (cure followed

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Vomiting of food, or of bitter serum, of a yellowish-green colour

After vomiting ravenous hunger and thirst, with great weakness over whole body

Sensation of emptiness in stomach, with fulness of abdomen

Beatings and pulsations in epigastrium, as from being over-heated

Beating and pulsation in pit of stomach as if the beats of the heart were felt through whole thorax.

Pinchings in the abdomen, as if caused by diarrhoea

Shootings and gnawings in the abdomen

Stitches and gnawing about the navel

Sensation of emptiness and weakness in the intestines

Gurgling and borborygmi in the abdomen, with excessive emission of flatus of a putrid smell.

Ineffectual want to evacuate

Liquid, soft, yellow faeces

First diarrhoea, then hard, difficult stools; during pregnancy

Evacuation of the food which he had taken on the previous day

Evacuation, almost involuntary, of undigested matter; imagines he is only emitting flatulence

Chronic diarrhoea; undigested food, < in morning

Burning pain in anus before and after evacuation, and at other times

Involuntary stools; in children when passing flatus (every time they pass wind they soil the diaper).

Increased secretion of urine

Brownish, burning urine, with whitish sediment

Frequent emission of urine, esp. after partaking of coffee

Nausea and frequent micturition at night when lying down, with anxiety and drawing in molar teeth.

Short, shaking cough, provoked by a tickling in pharynx

Violent shaking cough from tickling in larynx

Accumulation of viscid mucus in trachea.

Oppression of chest when lying down, with deep and slow respiration

Weak respiration

Oppressive and compressive pain, or sensation of emptiness in chest

Dull or tensive lancinations in chest, in sternum, and sides (l.), esp. on taking a full inspiration (and expiration)

Sensation of coldness in chest

Stitches in diaphragm.

Drawings about heart, < by stooping, and lasting during expiration

Violent and sometimes anxious palpitation of heart, with a sensation as if chest were dilating

Pulse very changeable and irregular; weak and slow in morning, full and rapid in evening.—(A principal heart remedy

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Violent pulsation of the carotids

Tearing in nape in bed in evening

Pain in back as from a strain

Tensive, burning, and acute lancinations in back.

Wrenching pain in arms on lifting them

Jerking in muscles of arms

Cramp-like drawings and tearing in arms and fingers

Dull aching in forearms, hands, and fingers, as if caused by a blow or a bruise

Veins of hands swollen

Swelling and rigidity of fingers, with burning pain

Fingers rigid and thumbs turned into palms.

Contusive pain in buttocks

Sensation of weakness in thighs, legs, feet, and soles, as if those parts were benumbed

Great weakness of knees

Dull aching, and sometimes shooting in thighs, feet, and toes

Paralysis of legs and feet; painless

L. knee that had stiffened becomes supple (in a case of general paralysis of insane

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Sensation of vibration and resonance in legs and feet, esp. in soles

Cramp-like drawing in legs and feet

Cramps in calves when seated

Constant coldness of feet.

Violent itching of various parts of body; eruption, bleeding, oozing out of fluid, forming scabs

Dropsy of outer parts

Chapping of skin; want of perspiration

Numbness of skin, or itching numbness

Gnawing itching, which compels scratching, sometimes when undressing

Skin very sensitive, with redness and excoriation, even when gently scratched.

Frequent yawning, with shuddering and jerking of muscles

Want to lie down, with a sort of coma

Very difficult waking in the morning; can only leave his bed by great exertion

Sleeplessness and agitation at night

Agitated and lascivious dreams, and frequent waking

Voluptuous dreams with seminal emissions.

Frequent fits of quick shuddering

Sensation of heat, with general shivering

Transient heat, esp. during intellectual labour

Flushes of heat periodically, esp. from bodily or mental exertion

Pulse frequent and full, or irregular and variable

Chilliness and chills over the whole body periodically, with heat of face and coldness of hands

External chilliness with internal heat without thirst

Want of vital heat

Febrile chilliness over whole body, without thirst or subsequent heat

Cold, clammy sweat.