Nitrum

► Difficult of thinking in morning, with warm face ; forehead hot. ► Anxiety, with sweat ; afternoon, also till evening. ► Ennui, melancholy, weeping mood. ► Timid, sensitive. ► Out of humor.

► Drowsy, dulness of head. ► Vertigo : mornings ; forgets what he is about to say. ► Fainting fits, with vertigo, morning when standing, better while sitting ; afterward obscuration of sight.

► Headache, causing eyelids to close, worse stooping, when head hangs down. ► Congestion, throbbing, deep in brain. ► Stinging pain in the head. ► Stupefying morning headache, as after free indulgence in intoxicating drinks. ► Constrictive pain in back of head ; parts feel as if stiff, forcing to bend head backward ; better tying up hair. ► Headache after eating veal, or drinking coffee better riding in open air.

► Hot spots on the head. ► Headache on top of head, as if hairs were pulled. ► Scalp sensitive to touch. ► Constrictive pains on head, face, eyes, etc., all concentrating at the root or tip of the nose.

► Transitory blindness. ► Rainbow colors around light ; colored wheels before eyes. ► Burning in eyes, lachrymation, and aversion to light, especially in the morning ; after washing in cold water.

► Deafness from paralysis of auditory nerve ; tingling in ears. ► Stitches in ears, worse at night, and when lying on affected side. ► Ulceration of ear-ring hole. ► Tension behind the ear.

► Loss of smell, with coryza ; husky voice ; mucus passes through posterior nares into fauces. ► Mucous polypus. ► Nosebleed ; tip of nose inflamed, sore ; blood acrid, like vinegar. ► Bones of nose sore to touch ; nose swollen internally, with scurf.

► Pale face. ► Red cheeks, tension, while the headache grows worse. ► Tensive pains in cheeks, redness increased throbbing in head, apparently in middle of brain. ► Tearing in facial bones. ► Pricking, then burning in skin.

► Toothache, 3 A.M., worse from cold things ; feels as if air was rushing in and out of decayed tooth. ► Gums red, swollen, bleed easily.

► Repugnant taste all day. ► Sour taste in throat ; morning on arising. ► Tongue burns at its tip, as if cut ; burning pimples. ► Tongue coated with white mucus.

► Fetid odor from mouth. ► Mouth slimy.

► Feels choked, as if closed, a night, can scarcely breathe. ► Stinging during deglutition. ► Sore throat day and night, with inflamed velum palati and uvula. ► Hawks sweetish, tough mucus ; afternoon ; throat rough, as if scraped. ► Cutting pains, with impeded deglutition.

► Appetite strongest, evenings. ► Violent thirst, but no appetite. ► Want of appetite, with increased hunger.

► Cannot drink, has not breath enough. ► After veal : headache, colic, diarrhoea.

► Gulps up bitter water, relieving nausea. ► Nausea : cold sensation from throat to stomach ; choking sensation ; faintness ; bruised headache ; burning eyes ; especially at night. ► Vomits mucus, with blood.

► Cold feeling ; or, burning in stomach ; inflammation. ► Sharp, sticking pains, to severe he was scarcely able to breathe. ► Spasms in stomach, with flatulent colic. ► Pressure and gnawing in scrobiculum. ► Faint-like weakness in scrobiculum.

► Violent colic, right side most ; worse after veal ; incarcerated flatulence ; evening. ► Stitching pains in abdomen, lower limbs cold ; affected parts feel numb, as if made of wood. θ Peritonitis. ► Complaints in abdomen, worse from holding the breath.

► Stools : watery, thin, fecal ; bloody, soft, with colic. ► Diarrhoea from eating veal. ► Stool hard, like sheep's dung, with tenesmus.

► Bright's disease, with pain in small of back, bruised crampy or burning ; diminished urine. ► Dysuria and frequent desire to urinate, with pain and heat ; after abuse of cantharides ; after stimulating injections ; condiments ; onanism ; gonorrhoeal extension ; cold ; turpentine. ► Frequent micturation and discharge of much pale urine, with reddish clouds. ► Mucous sediment ; salts increased ; specific gravity 1030-1040.

► Increased desire ; if ungratified pains, tension in testes and cords.

► Menses suppressed. ► Menstrual blood black as ink ; colic, pain in small of back, burning in groins ; legs feel weak, numb, as if made of wood. ► White leucorrhoea, with lameness in small of back.

► Tightness in larynx, during respiration. ► Aphonia. ► Hoarseness, roughness and scraping in larynx ; yellow phlegm. ► Tension and cutting in larynx, impeding deglutition.

► Cannot drink, for want of breath ; has to take drink in little sips. ► Little children take hold of the cup or glass with both hands and take greedily one sip after another. ► Paroxysms of difficult and rapid breathing, evening and night, less in morning ; oppressed breathing on ascending stairs. ► Asthma, cannot lie in horizontal position. ► Terrible attack, of asthma, with violent gasping and suffocation. ► Abdominal respiration.

► Awakens at 3 A.M., with violent, stupefying headache ; in open air ; worse ascending, or when holding breath ; with cutting and stitches in chest ; expectoration of coagulated blood ; after hawking mucus. ► Haemoptysis at full moon.

► Dull tightness and constriction of chest ; as if lungs were constricted from the back. ► Stitches on drawing a long breath, worse lying, coughing ; dyspnoea, great anxiety. θ Pneumonia. ► Annoying feeling of heaviness in chest like a great load, pressing the thorax together ; dyspnoea to suffocation. ► Pneumonia. ► The dyspnoea is very great compared with the apparent slight congestion or hepatization. ► Suppuration of lungs, with profuse (colliquative) sweat.

► Palpitation on rising, or moving about quickly, with heat of the face and oppression of chest. ► Congestion to chest. ► Palpitation audible, with dyspnoea ; worse lying on the back, or right side. ► Pulse : generally full, hard, accelerated ; slow, morning ; frequent, afternoon and evening.

► Painful throbbing in one of the cervical vertebrae. ► Pain like a blow in small of back, on awaking ; cannot turn. ► Cramp-pain in small of back. ► Small of back feels bruised. ► Pressure and burning in back, relieved by motion.

► Rheumatism of shoulder, worse at night ; hands and fingers feel as if swollen. ► Stitches in shoulder, elbow, hand, finger ; worse at night. ► Paralysis (rheumatic). ► Numbness and tingling of hands. ► Finger-joints stiff, tense.

► Rheumatic pains. ► Legs feel weak, paralytic, after a short walk. ► Numbness, tingling of feet. ► Toes contracted.

► Rheumatism, with stitching pains at night. ► Parts feel as if made of wood. ► Numbness and tingling disappear, and articular pains set in.

► Spasmodic painless jerking of fingers and other parts. ► Debility of limbs and body, with heat in face, burning spots in forehead ; worse sitting ; better moving slowly about. ► Paralysis of limbs.

► Drowsy all day, also when walking. ► Restless sleep ; light morning sleep ; nightmare. ► Sleepless after midnight. ► On awaking, sour taste ; cough, pain in small of back.

► Generally worse from warmth of stove. ► Better from warm weather. ► Worse during wet, cold weather. ► Cold things : 10. ► Washing in cold water : 5. Open air : 3, 27.

► Chill and coldness in afternoon and evening, increased from motion, passing off when lying. ► Chill, with subsequent sweat, not intervening heat. ► Evening chill, with the pains. ► Coldness, with thirst ; afternoon. ► Head feels hot, forehead burns. ► Slight heat, evening ; heat at night without thirst and without subsequent sweat. ► Debilitating sweat from least exertion. ► Night-sweat, most profuse on the legs ; morning-sweat, most profuse on chest.

► Full moon : 27.

► Right side, particularly upper right, lower left. ► Right : 19.

► Sensations as if parts, or whole body were of wood. ► Formication in hands and feet, afterwards in tongue. ► Constrictive feeling in many parts.

► Hemorrhages of bright red blood. ► Inflammation of stomach and intestines. ► Sudden swelling of body, neck, thighs.

► Touch : 4, 7. ► Rubbing, scratching relieves. ► Riding : 3. Scratching : 46.

► Pricking like needles, then burning ; worse in face. ► Burning vesicles filled with yellow serum ; scratching, they burst. ► Small pustules. ► Small, scurfy spots on the head (scalp) itching.

► Antidotes to Nitrum : Nitr. spir. dulc. ► Camphor increases the pains. ► Nitrum relieves strangury after abuse of Canthar., turpentine, and abuse of condiments.