RUMEX CRISPUS

RUMEX CRISPUS. [Rumex] Yellow Dock. Joslin. Polygonaceae.

► Low-spirited : with serious expression of face ; with suicidal mood. ► Irritable. ► Disinclined to mental exertion.

► Headache after waking in morning, preceded by a disagreeable dream. ► Dull pains : on right side ; in occiput ; in forehead. ► Darting pain, or sharp piercing in left side of head.

► Pain in eyes, as from dryness ; lids inflamed, worse in the evening.

► Ringing in the ears. ► Itching deep in ears.

► Epistaxis, violent sneezing and painful irritation of nostrils. ► Nose obstructed ; dry sensation, even in posterior nares. ► Fluent coryza., with sneezing ; worse evening and night. ► Yellow mucus, discharged through posterior nares.

► Heat of face, redness worse evenings ; dull headache.

► Bitter taste (morning). ► Dry tongue and mouth : tongue feels as if burned. ► Tongue coated white, yellowish-brown or reddish-brown. ► Sudden change of voice at different times, or at same time on each day ; or with the cough.

► Excoriated feeling in throat, with secretion of mucus in upper part of throat. ► Sensation of a lump in throat, not relieved by hawking or swallowing, it descends on deglutition, but immediately returns. ► Aching in larynx, with collection of tough mucus in fauces.

► After meals : flatulency ; heaviness in stomach or epigastrium ; aching in left breast ; pressure and distention in stomach.

► Nausea at night, before diarrhoea.

► Shooting from pit of stomach to chest ; sharp in left chest ; slight nausea ; dull aching in forehead. ► Aching and shooting in pit of stomach, and above it, on each side of sternum. ► Sensation of fulness and pressure in pit of stomach, up into throat. ► Tight, suffocative, heavy ache in epigastrium, through to back ; clothes seem too tight ; weak feeling in epigastrium, all worse when talking ; frequently task's long breath.

► Pain in hypochondrium from coughing., rapid walking or deep inspiration.

► Griping near navel, partially relieved by discharge of offensive flatus flatulent colic soon after a meal. ► Pain occurring, or worse during deep inspiration. ► Sensation of hardness and fullness in the abdomen, with rumbling.

► Stools : painless, offensive, profuse ; brown or black, thin or watery ; preceded by pain in abdomen ; before stool, sudden urging, driving him out of bed in morning. ► Morning diarrhoea, with cough from tickling in throat-pit. ► Feces hard, tough, brown ; costive. ► Itching at anus, with discharge of offensive flatus. ► Sensation as from pressure of a stick in rectum.

► Sudden urging. ► Involuntary micturition, with cough. ► Copious, colorless urine, in afternoon.

► Tenacious mucus in throat or larynx, constant desire to hawk. ► Hoarseness, worse evenings ; voice uncertain.

► Frequent feeling as if she could not get another breath. ► Suffocating feeling even down to epigastrium, as if tough phlegm must work up, with the cough ; despair, even to suicidal feeling ; prostrate, tearful, after attack.

► Hoarse barking cough ; in attacks, every night at 11 P.M., and at 2 and 5 A.M.(children). ► Cough, with pain behind mid-sternum. ► Dry, incessant ; fatiguing cough, caused by tickling in the throat-pit extending to behind sternum and to stomach. ► Soreness in larynx and behind sternum ; rawness under clavicles ; pain in stomach ; stitches in left lung. ► Cough worse from changing rooms, evening after lying down ; touching and pressing trachea or throat-pit, from the slightest inhalation of cool air, he covers his head with bedclothes, to make the air warmer. ► Hawking with burning soreness in larynx ; later in left bronchus, renewed by strong exhalation and scrapping.

► Aching over anterior portion of both lungs. ► Burning-sticking or burning-stinging pain in left chest near heart ; worse from deep breathing and lying down in bed at night. θ Rheumatism. ► Burning, shooting pain in right chest. ► Sharp pain near left axilla. ► Soreness behind stomach when breathing.

► Heart feels as if it suddenly stopped beating, followed by a heavy throbbing through the chest. ► Burning in region of heart ; stinging ; worse when lying down and breathing deeply. ► Aching in heart, with throbbing of carotids and through body, shaking the bed ; dyspnoea ; worse when lying, had to sit up ; face red, puffed, worse about eyes, which were red, lustreless. ► Pulse accelerated, mostly when going up stairs.

► Pressing-aching in back, at lower border of scapula. ► Sore or burning pain near sacro-iliac symphysis.

► Pains in shoulder down to elbow ; arms feel strained. ► Hands cold, when coughing.

► Stitching in back of right hip ; limping walk. ► Legs ache. ► Stitch-like pain in knee-joint, when standing. ► Legs covered with small, red pimples. ► Feet cold. ► Feet sensitive. ► Stinging in corns.

► Walking : 18. Ascending stairs : 29. Lying down : 27, 28, 29. Standing : 33. Must sit up : 29.

► Great debility ; averse to work ; indifferent about his surroundings.

► Unquiet sleep, dreams of danger and trouble. ► Wakes early, with headache.

► Morning : 3, 11, 20. Afternoon : 21. Evening : 5, 7, 8, 25, 27. Night : 7, 16, 27, 28. 11 P.M. : 27. 2 and 5 A.M. : 27.

► Generally worse : from cool change of weather ; when riding in cold wind ; in cold, damp, raw weather. ► Covering head : 27. Uncovering : 46. Cool air : 27, 46. Changing rooms : 27.

► Chilly, worse on back ; colic, nausea, stitches near middle of chest. ► Sensation of heat, followed by that of cold, without shivering. ► Flushes of heat worse on cheeks. ► Sweat on waking from a sound sleep.

► Right : 3, 28, 33. Left : 3, 15, 17, 27, 28, 29.

► Touch or pressure : 17, 27.

► Itching in various parts., worse on lower limbs while undressing. ► Stinging-itching, or prickling-itching of skin. ► Vesicular eruption, itching when uncovered and exposed to cool air.