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► Forgetfulness ; dim recollection of recent events. ► Weakness in the head, can scarcely think. ► Slow in thought. ► Dread of work. ► Hates work. ► Mood : changeable ; sad, with thoughts of death ; sad and weeping ; forlorn ; depressed ; dejected. ► Full of fear in the morning. ► Solicitude concerning spiritual welfare. ► Great anxiety. ► Much inclined to grief. ► Hesitates at trifles. ► Timidity. ► Fretful. ► Ill humored. ► Easily vexed. ► Irritable. ► Child impudent, teasing, laughs at reprimands. ► Fidgety while sitting at work. ► Scientific labor fatigues him. ► Thoughts of many things at night prevent sleep. ► Ailments from grief.

► Attacks of dizziness, with inclination to fall forward ; feels as if drunken when rising from bed in the morning. ► Dulness of the head. ► Rush of blood, with feeling of heat in the head. ► Vertigo ; on looking upwards, in the morning on awaking ; in the evening, was obliged to lie down ; during and after stooping, with inclination to fall forward ; venous stagnation. ► Frequently feels faint, with partial loss of senses. ► Desolate, empty feeling in the head. ► Beclouded feeling in the forehead.

► Forehead : pressure deep in ; drawing ; tearing ; bursting. ► Stinging or stitching pains in the temples. ► Throbbing in the sides of the head. ► Pressive pain : in the vertex ; in the occiput. ► Tearing pain in one side of head, in teeth and glands of throat. ► Pain as if constricted with a cord, particularly in occiput. ► Pain from left temple down the side of the face to the shoulder ; face distorted ; left corner of mouth drawn inward and downward. ► Lancinating pain in right temple. ► Violent headache, with nausea, during the menses.

► Scalp feels bruised. ► Sensation as if the skin of forehead were drawn into folds. ► Coldness of the scalp. ► Burning on the vertex in a small spot. ► Sweat on the head when walking in the open air. ► Itching on the scalp. ► Eczema capitis, of entire scalp, forming massive, dirty crusts, which mat the hair together ; scabs sore to touch. ► Bald places on the head perfectly smooth and shining. ► Circumscribed bald spot on front of head covered with herpes. ► Porrigo decalvans. ► Hair falls out, even on the sides of the head.

► Intolerance of light ; with redness of the white of the eye ; hyperaesthesia of eyes, with the vertigo. ► Shunning daylight usually more than gaslight ; photophobia. ► Light dazzles the eyes ; sunlight causing lancinating pains in the eyes. ► Shortsightedness. ► Letters : appear double when writing ; run together when reading ; sees fiery zigzags around the outside of the field of vision, in the evening, with the eye open. ► Flickering before the eyes. ► Sees as through a mist ; everything turns black before the eyes when stooping. ► Tiredness of the eyes. ► Pressing pain in the eyes, morning and evening. ► Drawing, extending from the eye up into the head. ► Stitches from the temple through the eye to inner canthus, on looking at anything white or red, or at the sun. ► Smarting in the eyes, with heat in them. ► Burning and aching in eyes ; burning pain around the eyes. ► Ulcer on the cornea, with a few small vessels running into it ; with moist fissured eczematous eruptions. ► Pustules on the cornea and conjunctiva, with much lachrymation. ► Pustule on the cornea, or reddish appearance, with white halo around it ; the corners of lids raw and bleed easily. ► Arthritic ophthalmia, with contraction and irregularity of the pupils. ► Lachrymation in the open air ; also chronic. ► Thin, acrid discharge from the eyes ; pus-like discharge from the eyes. ► Internal canthus : itching ; burning ; stitches ; sore. ► External canthus ; sore and fissured ; fissured and bleed easily. ► Heat in the eyes and some pus in the canthi. ► Swelling of the eyelids and lachrymal gland. ► Heaviness of the eyelids ; cannot open his eyes. ► Lids : feel dry, rough with itching ; edges inflamed or covered with scurf ; agglutinated night and morning ; oedematous. ► Left lower lid hangs down. ► Inverted lids (margins) ; wild hairs. ► Styes on lower lid, with drawing pain -may prevent return. ► On both eyes hordeola and chalazion in all stages, also wens. ► Coldness over the eyes. ► Twitchings beneath the eyes.

► Music makes her weep. ► Reverberations in the ear, even his own words and every step. ► Hissing ; ringing ; rushing ; roaring ; cracking ; or clucking sounds in the ears. ► Violent nocturnal roaring, ears feel stuffed at times (during the full moon). ► Sounds as of rolling thunder before the ears. ► Cracking in the ear : when eating in the evening ; on moving the jaw, but only in the morning while lying in bed ; when sneezing. ► Snapping as if a skin were before the ears. ► At every step feels as if a valve in right ear opened and closed. ► Loss of hearing, with dryness of the ears. ► Acute pressure in the inner ear, like otalgia. ► Stitches in the ears. ► Distended capillaries on the membrane of right drum. ► Both tympana covered with a white coating, but not perforated. ► Lining membrane of meatus red and excoriated. ► Thin, watery, offensive discharge from both ears. ► Gluey, sticky discharge at the external meatus. ► Pus runs out of the ear. ► Bad odor from the ear. ► Copper-colored nodes on the ears. ► Swelling of both ears, with moist eruption behind the ears. ► Eczema impetigenoides ; began as a moisture behind the left ear, thence spread over the cheeks and neck. ► Behind the ears : fissures ; scabs.

► Sense of smell too acute ; cannot bear the smell of flowers. ► Smell from the nose as from burned hair. ► Loss of smell : with dryness of nose ; with coryza. ► Nosebleed : in the evening, the afternoon preceding rush of blood to the head and heat of the face ; at night ; in the morning ; with running coryza. ► Bloody mucous discharge from the nose. ► Frequent discharge of thick yellowish, fetid mucus from the nose. ► Purulent, fetid secretion. ► Dryness of the nose. ► Sneezing : on opening the eyes ; either with dryness of nose or running coryza. ► Stoppage of the nose, with secretion of tough badly-smelling mucus. ► Coryza on getting cold. ► Excoriation of the nose. ► Mucus often forms hard masses or crusts, in coryza. ► Dry scabs in the nose, with sore, cracked and ulcerated nostrils. ► Swelling of the nose. ► Red nose, with black pores.

► Face : pale and haggard ; pale and bloated ; chlorotic ; flushed. ► Erysipelas : of both sides of the face, with burning-stinging pain ; of the cheeks, preceded by alternating chills and heat ; of left cheek, after mal-application of Iodum for sore of inner nose ; of face, from the smell of wood ; commencing on right side and going to left. ► Hemiplegia facialis (several cases). ► Humid pimples on the face. ► Moist eczema on the face. ► Rhagades on the cheek, running like radii toward the corners of the mouth ; an infiltrated spot on the cheek, is covered with dry scales. ► Scabs on the face, skin dry, constipated large stools. ► Freckles. ► Hair of the whiskers or beard falls out.

► Painful nodules on the lower jaw. ► Upper lip : twitching ; stinging ; swollen ; painful pimples. ► Corners of mouth ulcerated. ► Heaviness in the lower lip. ► Formication in the lips during the menses. ► Lips chapped. ► Swelling of the submaxillary glands painful to touch.

► Pressing pain in the teeth, worse from touch or biting. ► Drawing pain in the molars while walking in the wind. ► Tearing pain, worse by warmth ; renewed by going to bed. ► Stinging toothache after cold drink. ► Toothache, worse at night. ► Painful soreness on the inner side of the gums. ► Swelling of the gums and dryness of the mouth.

► Taste : sour ; salty ; bitter ; like rotten eggs. ► Tongue sensitive. ► Tongue coated white. ► Whitish, painful ulcer on lower surface of the tongue.

► Rotten odor from the mouth and gums. ► Acid, foul odor. ► Breath smells like urine. ► Saliva increased, much spitting. ► Dryness of the mouth in the morning.

► Palate : feels sore ; and fauces somewhat reddened. ► Violent catarrh of the fauces, with sensation as if tough food had to pass over a lump in the throat. ► Constant cramp in the throat causing him to retch, as if the food would not go down. ► Nightly pains in the throat, like a plug. ► Ulcerative pain in the throat. ► Roughness and rawness in the throat. ► Hawking of phlegm. ► Throat seems full of gurgling mucus.

► Appetite : good ; excessive hunger, or no appetite with much thirst, or with fulness of the abdomen. ► Desire for drink, without thirst. ► Aversion to : meat ; fish ; cooked food ; salt.

► Hiccough after either one or all meals. ► Eructations : sour ; tasting of the food eaten ; relieve the pressure in the stomach. ► Rancid heart-burn after dinner. ► Qualmishness : mornings and several hours after dinner. ► Nausea : and vertigo ; and sweat, with anxiety ; like faintness, prevents sleep ; with spasm in the throat ; with eructation ; with headache ; with inclination to vomit ; and sour vomiting ; in the morning ; after eating. ► Vomiting : sour ; of food. ► Vomiting, purging, and icy-cold sweat, with headache.

► Sickening, painful feeling at the pit of stomach. ► Pressure in the pit of stomach, night and morning. ► Binding, constricting pain in gastric region. ► Sensation of lump in the stomach, with constant beating, as of two hammers. ► Pain in stomach : necessitates eating ; better from warm milk, worse from boiled meat, worse from cold drink. ► Nightly pinching pain in the stomach, and rooting pain in the chest. ► Griping in the stomach, with flatulency. ► Fulness in the stomach and abdomen. ► Periodical gastralgia, with vomiting of the food immediately after eating. ► Chronic gastritis with thirst, especially after the abuse of alcoholic drinks. ► Chronic catarrh of stomach, with frequent eructations.

► Stitches in the right hypochondrium. ► Hardness in region of the liver. ► Stitches in the left hypochondrium. ► Burning in the left hypochondrium, internally, worse when lying on it. ► Cannot bear tight clothing around the hypochondria. ► Cutting, bearing down pains in the hypochondria and hips.

► Cramp in the lower abdomen. ► Colic : immediately after eating. ► Griping, digging pains in the abdomen. ► Pain in the belly, in the left side, when lying on the right, and vice versa. ► Pain below the navel, as if the intestines were torn. ► Stitches in the left side of the abdomen. ► Burning pains radiating through abdomen, in gastralgia. ► Abdomen distended, hard. ► Accumulation of serum in the abdominal cavity. ► Oedema of external abdomen. ► Itching of the abdomen. ► Large blisters on raised base, from navel to spine. ► Rumbling in the abdomen. ► Incarcerated flatus. ► Pain in the inguinal regions. ► Painful pressing toward the groin and anus. ► Herpetic eruption in the groins. ► Glandular swelling in the groins.

► Excessive discharge of flatus. ► Stools : rarely diarrhoeic and then usually painless ; purging and vomiting, with icy-cold sweat ; knotty, the lumps being united by mucous threads ; sour-smelling ; thin, scalding, light brown ; brown fluid, mixed with undigested substances, and very fetid ; hard, lumpy, with blood and slime. ► Constipation : large, knotty feces ; chronic, with hardness in region of liver ; with dryness of mucous membrane of rectum and fissure of the anus. ► After stool there is some mucus remaining about the anus. ► Tapeworm. ► Fissura ani ; severe, sharp, cutting pain during stool, followed by constriction and aching for several hours, worse at night. ► Protrusion of rectum, without urging to stool, as if the anus were lame. ► Large hemorrhoidal tumors. ► Hemorrhoids, with pain on sitting down, or on taking a wide step, as if split with a knife, also violent itching, and very sore to touch. ► Hemorrhoids of the rectum, with burning rhagades at the anus.

► Urging to urinate, with scanty discharge. ► Frequent urination at night. ► Urine : dark brown ; becomes turbid and deposits a white or reddish sediment ; smells sour. ► Stitches or smarting in the urethra when urinating. ► Pain in the os coccygis while urinating.

► Uncontrollable sexual excitement ; violent erections. ► Impotence, with dislike to coition. ► Want of proper sensation during coition. ► Almost involuntary emission, without erection. ► Nocturnal emissions, with flaccid penis. ► Dropsical swelling of the prepuce and scrotum. ► Hydrocele (left side), with herpetic eruption on scrotum.

► Great aversion to coitus. ► Tumor, size of an orange, right iliac fossa, also similar one in left ; both hard, round, slightly movable, not painful to pressure, not producing inconvenience from weight. ► Pains from left ovary through pelvis and down the thigh. ► Os uteri standing backwards, can only be reached with difficulty. ► Pain in the uterus when reaching high with the arms. ► Bearing down pain in the uterus to the back, with weakness and sickness. ► Painful pressure towards the pudenda. ► Menses : too scanty and too pale ; too late, with violent colic ; blood sometimes dark. ► During the menses : heat in abdomen ; urging, pressing like labor-pains ; hoarseness ; lassitude and weakness. ► Copious leucorrhoea, before and after the menses. ► Profuse leucorrhoea, perfectly white, especially on rising from the bed in the morning weakness of the back when walking or sitting. ► Leucorrhoeal discharges occur in gushes day or night. ► Vesicles or excoriations in the vagina. ► Vagina cold. ► Oedema of the pudenda. ► Excoriations in perineum, vulva and between thighs.

► Tendency to obesity. ► Nipples painful. ► Cancer of the mammae, from old cicatrices, which had remained after repeated abscesses. ► Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess.

► Voice : not clear, in singing ; hoarseness in the evening ; chronic hoarseness. ► Laryngeal region sensitive to touch. ► Soreness and roughness of larynx and tickling cough.

► Respiration has dry sound. ► Constriction of chest, as if about to suffocate, when falling asleep. ► Suffocative attacks waken from sleep, generally after midnight, has to jump out of bed, take hold of something, and must eat something.

► Cough : caused by deep inspiration ; with strangling, red face, watery eyes, straining all over ; loose, from tickling deep in the chest ; at night. ► Expectoration : salty ; day and evening.

► Cramps of the chest. ► Pains in the chest. ► Pain in the middle of the chest, with cough, scraping, rawness and soreness. ► Stitching pains in the chest.

► Region of heart : constriction ; pressure ; stitches. ► Sensation like an electric shock, from heart toward front of neck. ► Strong pulsation of the blood in the whole body, but especially about the heart, increased by every motion. ► Palpitation of the heart : with anxiety ; with nosebleed. ► Pulse full and hard, somewhat accelerated in the morning slow during day and evening.

► Stinging in fleshy part of chest. ► Pimples on the chest.

► Pain in nape of neck. ► Stiffness of back of neck ; also, with headache. ► Seventh cervical vertebra sensitive, with burning pain ; anaemia. ► Eruption on the nape, dry, peeling in fine, mealy scales, without itching. ► Unpainful swollen glands on side of neck. ► Contracting pains in the back. ► Weakness in back and loins on walking. ► Sacral pains, with sensation of crawling and stitching. ► Small of back aches, as if bruised or broken. ► Numb pain, from the sacrum down the legs. ► Pain in the os coccygis while urinating.

► Shoulder and neck painful. ► Rheumatic or burning pains especially in left shoulder. ► Burning pressure beneath the armpit. ► Jerking in the arms. ► Arms feel "asleep". ► Right upper arm sore, tender and swollen. ► Herpes circinatus hard to the touch and wrinkled looking, itching terribly, in bend of the elbow. ► Left hand becomes numb and like dead, with formication extending up the arm. ► Cramp in the hand. ► Horny callosities in the hands. ► Pain in the thumb-joint, as if sprained. ► Gouty swelling of the fingers. ► Raw, moist places between the fingers. ► Finger-nails thick, exfoliate, or black and rough, matrix inflamed, with soreness, throbbing and numbness ; no suppuration.

► Excoriation between the legs. ► Tearing, or bruised pains in the thighs. ► Numbness of the thighs. ► Stiff feeling in hollow of knee, as if tendons were too short. ► Bruised pain in the knees. ► Tetters in the hollow of the knees. ► Cramp in the calves. ► Restlessness in the legs. ► Heaviness of the legs. ► Great oedema of the limbs, chiefly the lower, which are very large, with profuse, constant watery exudation from the skin below the knees, epidermis exfoliated. ► Ulcers on lower limbs, with acrid pus, dryness of skin and constipation. ► Stitches in the heel, when putting it down. ► Weakness of feet, cannot walk. ► Callous ulcers of the feet. ► Stiffness and contraction of the toes. ► Gouty tearing in the toes. ► Ulcers ; or spreading blisters on the toes. ► Thick and crippled toe-nails.

► Drawing pains in the limbs. ► Tearing : in the feet and hands ; in all the limbs. ► Startings of the hands and feet. ► Heaviness in limbs. ► Limbs go "to sleep". ► Hands and feet : either hot or cold.

► Cataleptic condition, conscious, but without power to move or speak. ► Tremulous sensation through the whole body. ► Tired feeling. ► Lassitude. ► Weakness. ► Exhaustion. ► Prostration.

► Constant yawning. ► Excessively tired and sleepy. ► Sleepiness : during the day, must lie down ; after dinner. ► Light slumber at night. ► Wandering fancies at night. ► Nightly pains felt in sleep. ► Cannot go to sleep till late. ► Sleeplessness. ► Starting in sleep. ► Dreams : vivid ; anxious ; frightening ; horrible ; vexatious.

► Chilliness in the morning, in bed. ► Chill and chilliness, most in the evening. ► Chill worse after meals, better after drinking, better in open air. ► Heat evening and night ; also, with restlessness. ► Sweats from the slightest motion. ► Profuse night-sweat. ► Sweat, often on front of body only. ► Sweat stains yellow, is sour and offensive smelling, and frequently cold. ► Entire inability to sweat.

► Full moon : 6.

► Great sensitiveness of internal parts. ► Cramp-like sensations of various parts. ► Numbness of various parts.

► Burning pain in an old cicatrix. ► Emaciation of suffering parts. ► Swelling and induration of the glands. ► Oedematous complaints.

► Touch : 9, 10, 20, 25, 32. Pressure : 18, 23.

► Itching over various parts of body. ► Violent itching and burning, with eruptions. ► Eczema, with profuse serous exudations, in blondes inclined to obesity ; also alternating with internal affections. ► Itching blotches on various parts of the body, from which oozes a watery, sticky fluid. ► Skin is not inclined to heal, ulcerates readily. ► Old ulcers, with fetid pus, proud flesh, itching, stinging. ► Old scars from ulcers. ► Skin dry, inclined to crack. ► See : 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 19, 20, 22, 23, 30, 31, 32, 33.

► Complementary : Arsen., Caustic., Ferrum, Hepar. ► Graphit. is antidoted by Acon. (for the cough), Arsen. (for the grief), Nux vom. ► Graphit. antidotes : Arsen., Iodum, Rhus tox. ► Graphit. follows well after Lycop.