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General

KOBALTUM. [Kobalt.] The Element. Hering. Lippe.

Mind

► Great exhilaration of spirits, vivacity and rapid flow of thoughts. ► Desire for study. ► Indisposed to mental and physical labor ; low-spirited ; thinks too little of himself. ► All mental excitement increases the sufferings.

Sensorium

► Dizziness ; dulness ; feeling as if head grew large (during stool).

Inner Head

► Pain in the forehead, with uneasiness in the stomach. ► Frontal or occipital pain, worse from stooping. ► Dull, pressive pain in temple. ► At every jar, feels as if top of head would come off. ► Frontal headache, with pain in back of eyes. ► Headache in morning, with beating and sore aching all over. ► Headache when getting up from sitting.

Outer Head

► Great itching in the hairy scalp, in the beard and under the chin, burning when scratching. ► Sore pimples along edge of the hair back of head.

Eyes

► Dim vision ; darting pains in the eyes when writing, with feeling when opening the lids, as if little strings were holding them together and snapping. ► Flickering before eyes when reading ; letters looked blurred. ► Darting, shooting pain in eyes, from bright light. ► Eyes ache at night. ► Lachrymation and pain from cold air ; sensation as if sand were under the lids. ► Smarting in lids when using eyes.

Ears

► Aching, humming in left ear. ► Stinging through left ear from roof of mouth.

Nose

► Putrid, sickish smell before the nose. ► Watery discharge, with sneezing. ► Nose feel obstructed. ► Left nostril feels dry ; filled with scales, with itching.

Lower Face

► Peeling of lips, with soreness and bleeding. ► Disposition to keep the jaws tightly closed. ► Large boils, very painful, on chin and left lower jaw.

Teeth

► Pain in hollow teeth, they feel to long ; gums swollen, tender, feel as if ulcerated ; worse from cold air.

Tongue, Etc

► Flat taste ; bad taste, with belching in the morning. ► Tongue coated white ; cracks across the middle.

Mouth

► Pricking, stinging in root of mouth, extending to left ear. ► Constant watery secretion, with frequent swallowing.

Throat

► Soreness, with rawness when hawking. ► Dryness and soreness, morning. ► Hawking up thick, white mucus, which fills throat, in morning. ► Feeling of fulness, from stomach to throat.

Desires And Aversions

► Diminished appetite, especially for supper.

Eating And Drinking

► After eating : 16, 17, 19. After drinking coffee : 21.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Hiccough after eating, with soreness in pit of stomach. ► Belching of wind, morning, and after stool. ► Rising of sour or bitter water, with pain in stomach ; afterward, dryness in throat. ► Qualmishness, with fulness of the stomach. ► Nausea, with pain in forehead.

Stomach

► Pain in stomach and abdomen after eating, with feeling of great uneasiness ; must move about. ► Stomach feels as if it contained undigested food. ► Fulness in stomach, extending to throat, with qualmishness. ► Soreness in stomach when inspiring deeply, or from hiccough.

Hypochondria

► Shooting, stitching from region of liver down into the thigh. ► Sharp pain in splenic region, worse when inspiring deeply.

Abdomen

► Abdomen feels empty about the umbilicus. ► Cutting before stool. ► Rumbling in abdomen after a light meal. ► Colic at 5 A.M., followed by large stool and tenesmus.

Stool, Etc

► Urgent desire for stool while walking, worse when standing ; stool profuse, watery, spouting. ► Stool large, soft, with tenesmus and aching in sphincter ani ; severe colicky pain in lower part of abdomen ; tenesmus after stools ; during stool, dizziness. ► Costiveness and looseness alternate. ► Feces like hazel-nuts, with dulness in head. ► Pressure in rectum. ► Constant dropping of blood from anus (stools not bloody).

Urine

► Albuminuria. ► Frequent discharge of small quantities of urine. ► Increased secretion of pale urine, frequent urination in the morning, after drinking coffee. ► Scanty urine, with greasy pellicle ; yellow flocculent, or red sediment, and strong pungent smell. ► Smarting in end of urethra, during micturition. ► Burning in the urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

► Frequent nocturnal emissions, with lewd dreams ; only partial, or no erections ; impotence. ► Severe pain in right testicle, better after urinating. ► Yellow-brown spots on the genitals (and abdomen).

Larynx

► Stitches in the anterior part of the larynx.

Breathing

► Frequent sighing. ► On taking a deep inspiration, stitches in the chest, soreness in the stomach and pain in the spleen.

Cough

► Cough with soreness in throat and rawness when hawking. ► Short, hacking cough, with expectoration of bright red blood, which seemingly comes from the larynx. ► Expectoration of thick, tough mucus, mixed with blood ; with fulness and pressive pains in larynx ; scratching, rawness and burning in throat, and a disposition to keep jaws tightly closed ; worse from pressure, empty deglutition and cold water. ► Copious expectoration of sweetish, frothy, white mucus, with lumps in it.

Lungs

► Deep between the lower part of chest, mostly left side, from deep inspiration.

Neck And Back

► Pain, between the shoulders, in the lumbar region and small of the back. ► Aching pain in the small of the back, or in the spine ; worse when sitting, better on rising, walking or lying down. ► Backache, with seminal emissions. ► Pain along the spine, and from the sacrum down through the legs into the feet, worse while sitting.

Upper Limbs

► Aching in the wrist-joints, with occasional stitches.

Lower Limbs

► Shooting into the thigh from the liver. ► Excessive weakness of the knees. ► Foot-sweat, mostly between the toes, smelling sour or like sole-leather. ► Flushes of heat along the legs. ► Stitches in the legs. ► Jerks in the limbs when falling asleep. ► Trembling of limbs, especially legs ; aching when sitting.

Limbs In General

► Bruised pain in all the limbs. ► Stitching in the arms and legs.

Position, Etc

► Stooping : 3.

Must move about : 17.

Walking : 20, 34.

Standing : 20.

Sitting : 31, 33.

Rising : 3, 31, 37.

Lying down : 31.

Sleep

► Distressing drowsiness on the evening. ► Disturbed, unrefreshing sleep. ► Wakeful : can do with less sleep. ► On rising, pain in head and small of back. ► Lewd dreams ; emissions, only partial, or no erections.

Time

► Morning : 3, 11, 13, 16, 19, 21, 40.

Noon till 12 P.M. : 4. 4-5 P.M. : 40.

Evening : 37.

Night : 5, 22.

Temperature And Weather

► Cold air : 5, 10.

Cold water : 27.

Warmth of bed : 46.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chilly from 11 to 12 A.M. ; headache, with nausea and languor from noon to 2 P.M. ; then fever and sweat. ► Chilliness, with yawning, from 4 to 5 P.M. ; feels dull and weak, with aversion to mental exertion. ► Flushes of heat ; with sweat ; along the legs.

Sides

► Right : 18, 22, 33.

Left : 6, 7, 9, 12, 18, 26, 28.

Below upward : 17.

Above downward : 18, 31, 33.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Jarring : 3.

Scratching : 4, 46.

Pressure : 27.

Touch : 10.

Skin

► Much itching all over, when getting warm in bed. ► Pimples on shoulders, pit of stomach and buttocks ; bleed easily when scratched.