Pains like bee-stings, with the thrust and the burning following; absence of thirst; scanty urine: shrill, sudden, piercing screams while sleeping or waking, form invaluable key-notes to the use of this remedy.
MENTAL –
The mental symptoms are rich in unconsciousness, absent-mindedness, impaired memory, and slow march of ideas. Dulness, stupor, stertor: sensitiveness. Lets things fall from the hands from inadvertency. Delirium with or without muttering. Shrill, sudden piercing screams, sleeping or waking. Great tearfulness, cannot help crying. Cannot bear to be left atone. Very irritable and fidgety about this or that; nothing seems to satisfy; all wrong and out of place. Very jealous. Vertigo on closing the eyes or when the sight is obscured. Premonition of death, thinks it is about to transpire. Dread of death, sensation as if could not breathe again.
HEAD –
The general character of pains in the head, aside from the stinging, thrusting pains, are an aching-like congestion, pressing or dull heavy headache. (See also mental symptoms.) Apoplexia, hydrocephalus and other disorders of the brain. Bending back and boring the head into the pillow; inability to hold it erect. Scalp very sensitive; copious sweat on the head, scalp, forehead. Confusion of the head with vertigo, worse while sitting and worse still on lying down and closing the eyes. Throbbing in the head. Brain feels very tired. The pains in the head are often relieved by pressure. Chronic headache.
EYES –
Swelling about the eyes; much inflamed; sometimes entirely closed; very sensitive to the light; obscuration of sight often from opacity of the cornea; cannot look fixedly at any object; cannot read by artificial lights from pain in the eyes; boring, burning, stinging, itching, and shooting in the eyes, or aching extending into the forehead; squinting of one or both eyes; upper lids swell and hang like little sacks over the eyes; very much lachrymation, which feels hot and scalding; eyes are weak and cannot bear much use; chemosis; fistula lachrymalis; sleeps with the eyes wide open; paralysis of right side of the face with right eye closed; chronic inflammation of the conjunctiva, which has become thickened; eyelids everted, red and smarting; œdematous and bag-like under the lower lids; granulated, even on the edges; agglutination of at night; styes with stinging pains; smoky darkness before the eyes.
EARS –
Redness and swelling of both; otitis after scarlatina, hardness of hearing.
NOSE –
Much swollen and œdematous; chronic catarrh with crusty nostrils; polypus.
FACE –
Red and hot, swollen so as to be unrecognizable, with piercing and burning pain; pale and waxen face, sometimes. swollen, with puffiness about the eyelids; œdematous swelling of the face and puffed eyelids; erysipelas of the face and scalp, often beginning on right side and spreading to the left, or extending down the neck on to the body; lips much swollen and often everted.
MOUTH –
The whole margin of the tongue feels as if scalded and quite raw; red fiery appearance of the buccal cavity, very tender dry tongue; on the left of tip of tongue a row of vesicles sore and raw. Can't protrude the tongue, it trembles and catches on the teeth, and inability to talk; tongue hangs from the mouth; red, hot, burning, particularly at tip; dry brown streak down the middle, sides being moist; inflamed and fearfully swollen; cracked, Bore, and ulcerated, or covered with vesicles; white, dry, or covered with white mucus; cancer of., Grinding of the teeth; sudden and involuntary biting them together; covered with yellow mucus or brown sordes. Gums sacculated and look watery. Viscid, tough, frothy saliva. Increased saliva. Fetor of breath.
THROAT –
Dryness in, without thirst; dry and burning; sensation of fulness, contraction and suffocation in, deglutition painful; stinging itching deep in; very sore, fiery red and shining; inability to swallow anything with swelling of the tongue; ulcerated Bore throat when rash does not come; diphtheritic Bore throat gets well as a scarlet-rash fever develops; diphtheria when the margins, and a little beyond the membrane, are fiery red and shining, this fiery margin moues on as the membrane increases; no thirst and scanty urine: troublesome tenacious mucus in the throat morning and evening; uvula long and dropsical; small, clear, watery blisters in the back part of the throat; tonsils and fauces highly inflamed and very red; hypertrophied tonsils when very red; stinging and darting in the throat; deep ulcers on tonsils and palate.
STOMACH –
Burning heat in the stomach; soreness in the stomach and abdomen; thirst, absence of, insatiable, or for little and often; appetite, loss of, or voracious; bitter or acrid belching; rich in symptoms of nausea; retching, vomiting of food, mucus, even frothy, bile, and vomiting with diarrhœa; weak, faint sensation in stomach.
ABDOMEN –
Much pain, soreness and sometimes enlargement of the splenic region, sometimes the pain extends upwards; soreness of the bowels or abdominal watts, when touched or pressed; fulness and sensation as if the abdomen were bloated or distended; burning, stinging, or thrusting in: traumatic erysipelas of: rumbling and meteoritic distension of; much distended by fluids; ascites and anasarca; ileo-cæcal region very sensitive on pressure; hard swelling on the right groin, oblong, as large as a cucumber; long-standing inguinal hernia; peritonitis; cannot bear the lightest touch.
STOOL AND ANUS -
Sensation of rawness in the anus, with diarrhœa. Passage of flatus before stool. Copious evacuations of blackish-brown, green or whitish, yellow, watery, mucus or pap-like stools, usually worse in the morning, sometimes occurring at every motion of the body, as if the anus were constantly open. Stools involuntary and painless, or painful and urging, olive-green, profuse, and full of red lumps, like chopped beets; bloody, painless; smell brassy or like carrions; very offensive. Hæmorrhages from the bowels, with burning pain, excoriation of the anus, and constant tenesmus. Anus feels raw. Dysentery painless. Hard and costive stools with stinging pains. Protruding varices, which sting, burn, and smart intolerably.
URINE –
Burning and soreness, agony, strangury, when urinating. Urine very scanty or profuse, usually the former; frequent emission. Pain in region of kidneys, soreness on pressure or when stooping. Frequent and sudden pain along the ureters. Bladder very painful, often tenesmus after urinating. Mach difficulty in voiding urine; must wait a long time before it flows, and then it flows slowly. Incontinence of urine from coughing and other circumstances. Burning and stitching pain in the urethra. Frequent desire day and night, passing but little at a time. Urine often bloody; milky appearance; very dark and frothy; very fetid; very albuminous, sometimes at least one-half; sediment reddish-brown; like coffee grounds.
SEXUAL –
Male: Chancre with stinging pains like bee-stings and with a highly inflamed circumference. Dropsy of the scrotum and prepuce; hydrocele.
Female: Threatened abortion in the early months, with heaviness of the abdomen, restlessness, and yawning, or with stinging pains in ovarian regions. Much pain in the right ovarian region during or before menstruation. Stinging pains in ovaries, like bee-stings. Constant feeling of weight and heaviness in ovarian regions, and much tenderness in. The ovaries feel better to lie on right side. Pain in the right ovary, often with enlargement, with pain in the left pectoral region, with cough. Ovarian tumors with stinging pains like bee-stings. Metritis, peritonitis with stinging, thrusting pains. Labor-like, bearing down pains, followed by dark bloody mucus. Ulceration and engorgement of os uteri. Uterine dropsy. Menses too profuse or too scanty; metrorrhagia with red spots, stinging like bee-stings; irregular, lasting but a day or two, feeling very weak; copious, lumpy, with pain in the spleen; too soon; delayed or suppressed; a sensation as if they were coming on, but they don't come. Leucorrhœa acrid, profuse, green, or yellowish, Large and painful swelling of the labia, with heat and stinging pains. At the critical age, chronic diarrhœa of blond and mucus. Dropsy in the latter part of pregnancy attended with puerperal convulsions. Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts. Swelling and hardness of the mammæ, threatening to ulcerate. Scirrhus or open cancer of the mammæ, with stinging, burning pains. Ovarian affections, with inverted nipples. The right ovary is most susceptible. Great sensitiveness to touch or lightest pressure a characteristic.
LARYNX –
Considerable hoarseness. Irritation to cough felt deep down in back of the throat pit, and considerable coughing in the evening, and in the night preventing sleep; every shock from coughing gives pain in the head and some pain through the chest, as from the clavicle; relieved after loosening a small portion of mucus, or a large quantity of transparent, frothy and bloody mucus is expectorated. Great dyspnœa, as if every breath would be the last; wants to be fanned. Asthma, worse in cold weather; intense sensation of suffocation; throws the collar wide open, could bear nothing about the throat. Hurried and difficult respiration with fever and headache. Sensation of fulness, constriction, or suffocation in the throat, with difficult, anxious breathing. Œdema of glottis; of larynx; croup; chronic laryngitis.
CHEST –
Sharp pains, stitches, and stingings in; sensation of soreness, lame, bruised feeling in.
HEART AND PULSE –
Sudden and acute pain just below the heart, extending diagonally towards the right chest. Very feeble action of the heart; violent beats, shaking the whole body; intermittent beats. Region of heart sensitive to the least pressure; rasping sounds of systole and diastole unmistakably audible. Palpitation of heart from scanty secretion of urine, perfectly cured by establishing the natural quantity. Pulse almost imperceptible at wrist; accelerated and full; very frequent and hard; wiry; irregular and slow pulse; intermittent.
NECK AND BACK –
Back feels lame and bruised; stitches and stingings in. Stiff neck and back. Swelling of the glands of the neck. Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
EXTREMITIES –
Upper: The arms, hands, or fingers, one, both, or all, swell, become very tender, and remain so for several days. Numbness of the hands, or fingers, especially at their tips; burning like fine. One of the first remedies to give at the very beginning or threatening of a felon.
Lower: Sore feelings and pains in. Burning, itching, and stinging in the swelling of the legs and feet, often white, waxy, and transparent. Soles of the feet feel when walking as if cushioned. Sensation of burning in the feet and toes. Reddish and bluish streaks; hard and painful spots, making them painful to moue. Œdematous swelling of lower extremities, Swelling of the knee. Numbness of the limb came side on which ovary is affected. Eczema. Foot-sweat checked by cold. Numbness and coldness of feet and in diphtheritic albuminuria. Puffy swelling of the knees.
SLEEP AND DREAMS –
Much yawning. Great inclination to sleep; anxious starting in; restless. Dreams much, of making long journeys; of flying through the air; of bot stones; of walking over bot floors; of walking a long way over wet roads. Disagreeable, unhappy dreams, Sudden waking with shrill, piercing screams.
FEVER –
Chill, with red face, and red spots all over the body; chills from 3 to 5 P.M.; often with racking pain all through the head; chills worse in warmth; run down the back; hands and feet feel as if dead. No thirst with the fever; hoarse cough often attends the fever; as fever subsides, great prostration comes on; heat with difficult breathing, as if every breath would be the last. Heat with thirst, wishes to uncover. Much burning of the skin on various parts of the body. Shuddering, then nettlerash. Sweat goes and comes alternately; breaks out and dries up continually. Sweat without thirst. Alter perspiration nettle-rash.
SKIN –
Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling, white and hard in the centre. White wales on different parts, itching fearfully. Red and white blotches, with itching. Appearance as of the bites of insects, Bore and painful. Burning, stinging, itching and prickling over the whole body, and painful to touch. Most violent itching all over the body or in any single part. Erysipelas with gangrenous spots. Boils and swellings of all descriptions with stinging pains.
GENERALITIES –
Swelling or "puffing up" of the whole body. Complete anasarca, no thirst, pale, waxy, almost transparent. Twitching; trembling; jactitation of the muscles. Clonic and tonic spasms. Restless moving about. Tired as if bruised all over. General feeling of lassitude with trembling. Heavy and prostrate in fever. Faintness and fainting. Surface of body very sensitive to touch, even the moving of a hair. Great prostration, rapid sinking, rapid pulse, and fever. Dark hæmorrhages.
WORSE –
At night, particularly latter part of night; in cold weather; in warm room; lying down.
BETTER –
During the day when sitting erect.
REMEDIES FOLLOWING –
Arsen., Pulsat.
REMEDIES INIMICAL –
Rhus tox.
KEY-NOTES TO THE MATERIA MEDICA - GUERNSEY
MENTAL –
The mental symptoms are rich in unconsciousness, absent-mindedness, impaired memory, and slow march of ideas. Dulness, stupor, stertor: sensitiveness. Lets things fall from the hands from inadvertency. Delirium with or without muttering. Shrill, sudden piercing screams, sleeping or waking. Great tearfulness, cannot help crying. Cannot bear to be left atone. Very irritable and fidgety about this or that; nothing seems to satisfy; all wrong and out of place. Very jealous. Vertigo on closing the eyes or when the sight is obscured. Premonition of death, thinks it is about to transpire. Dread of death, sensation as if could not breathe again.
HEAD –
The general character of pains in the head, aside from the stinging, thrusting pains, are an aching-like congestion, pressing or dull heavy headache. (See also mental symptoms.) Apoplexia, hydrocephalus and other disorders of the brain. Bending back and boring the head into the pillow; inability to hold it erect. Scalp very sensitive; copious sweat on the head, scalp, forehead. Confusion of the head with vertigo, worse while sitting and worse still on lying down and closing the eyes. Throbbing in the head. Brain feels very tired. The pains in the head are often relieved by pressure. Chronic headache.
EYES –
Swelling about the eyes; much inflamed; sometimes entirely closed; very sensitive to the light; obscuration of sight often from opacity of the cornea; cannot look fixedly at any object; cannot read by artificial lights from pain in the eyes; boring, burning, stinging, itching, and shooting in the eyes, or aching extending into the forehead; squinting of one or both eyes; upper lids swell and hang like little sacks over the eyes; very much lachrymation, which feels hot and scalding; eyes are weak and cannot bear much use; chemosis; fistula lachrymalis; sleeps with the eyes wide open; paralysis of right side of the face with right eye closed; chronic inflammation of the conjunctiva, which has become thickened; eyelids everted, red and smarting; œdematous and bag-like under the lower lids; granulated, even on the edges; agglutination of at night; styes with stinging pains; smoky darkness before the eyes.
EARS –
Redness and swelling of both; otitis after scarlatina, hardness of hearing.
NOSE –
Much swollen and œdematous; chronic catarrh with crusty nostrils; polypus.
FACE –
Red and hot, swollen so as to be unrecognizable, with piercing and burning pain; pale and waxen face, sometimes. swollen, with puffiness about the eyelids; œdematous swelling of the face and puffed eyelids; erysipelas of the face and scalp, often beginning on right side and spreading to the left, or extending down the neck on to the body; lips much swollen and often everted.
MOUTH –
The whole margin of the tongue feels as if scalded and quite raw; red fiery appearance of the buccal cavity, very tender dry tongue; on the left of tip of tongue a row of vesicles sore and raw. Can't protrude the tongue, it trembles and catches on the teeth, and inability to talk; tongue hangs from the mouth; red, hot, burning, particularly at tip; dry brown streak down the middle, sides being moist; inflamed and fearfully swollen; cracked, Bore, and ulcerated, or covered with vesicles; white, dry, or covered with white mucus; cancer of., Grinding of the teeth; sudden and involuntary biting them together; covered with yellow mucus or brown sordes. Gums sacculated and look watery. Viscid, tough, frothy saliva. Increased saliva. Fetor of breath.
THROAT –
Dryness in, without thirst; dry and burning; sensation of fulness, contraction and suffocation in, deglutition painful; stinging itching deep in; very sore, fiery red and shining; inability to swallow anything with swelling of the tongue; ulcerated Bore throat when rash does not come; diphtheritic Bore throat gets well as a scarlet-rash fever develops; diphtheria when the margins, and a little beyond the membrane, are fiery red and shining, this fiery margin moues on as the membrane increases; no thirst and scanty urine: troublesome tenacious mucus in the throat morning and evening; uvula long and dropsical; small, clear, watery blisters in the back part of the throat; tonsils and fauces highly inflamed and very red; hypertrophied tonsils when very red; stinging and darting in the throat; deep ulcers on tonsils and palate.
STOMACH –
Burning heat in the stomach; soreness in the stomach and abdomen; thirst, absence of, insatiable, or for little and often; appetite, loss of, or voracious; bitter or acrid belching; rich in symptoms of nausea; retching, vomiting of food, mucus, even frothy, bile, and vomiting with diarrhœa; weak, faint sensation in stomach.
ABDOMEN –
Much pain, soreness and sometimes enlargement of the splenic region, sometimes the pain extends upwards; soreness of the bowels or abdominal watts, when touched or pressed; fulness and sensation as if the abdomen were bloated or distended; burning, stinging, or thrusting in: traumatic erysipelas of: rumbling and meteoritic distension of; much distended by fluids; ascites and anasarca; ileo-cæcal region very sensitive on pressure; hard swelling on the right groin, oblong, as large as a cucumber; long-standing inguinal hernia; peritonitis; cannot bear the lightest touch.
STOOL AND ANUS -
Sensation of rawness in the anus, with diarrhœa. Passage of flatus before stool. Copious evacuations of blackish-brown, green or whitish, yellow, watery, mucus or pap-like stools, usually worse in the morning, sometimes occurring at every motion of the body, as if the anus were constantly open. Stools involuntary and painless, or painful and urging, olive-green, profuse, and full of red lumps, like chopped beets; bloody, painless; smell brassy or like carrions; very offensive. Hæmorrhages from the bowels, with burning pain, excoriation of the anus, and constant tenesmus. Anus feels raw. Dysentery painless. Hard and costive stools with stinging pains. Protruding varices, which sting, burn, and smart intolerably.
URINE –
Burning and soreness, agony, strangury, when urinating. Urine very scanty or profuse, usually the former; frequent emission. Pain in region of kidneys, soreness on pressure or when stooping. Frequent and sudden pain along the ureters. Bladder very painful, often tenesmus after urinating. Mach difficulty in voiding urine; must wait a long time before it flows, and then it flows slowly. Incontinence of urine from coughing and other circumstances. Burning and stitching pain in the urethra. Frequent desire day and night, passing but little at a time. Urine often bloody; milky appearance; very dark and frothy; very fetid; very albuminous, sometimes at least one-half; sediment reddish-brown; like coffee grounds.
SEXUAL –
Male: Chancre with stinging pains like bee-stings and with a highly inflamed circumference. Dropsy of the scrotum and prepuce; hydrocele.
Female: Threatened abortion in the early months, with heaviness of the abdomen, restlessness, and yawning, or with stinging pains in ovarian regions. Much pain in the right ovarian region during or before menstruation. Stinging pains in ovaries, like bee-stings. Constant feeling of weight and heaviness in ovarian regions, and much tenderness in. The ovaries feel better to lie on right side. Pain in the right ovary, often with enlargement, with pain in the left pectoral region, with cough. Ovarian tumors with stinging pains like bee-stings. Metritis, peritonitis with stinging, thrusting pains. Labor-like, bearing down pains, followed by dark bloody mucus. Ulceration and engorgement of os uteri. Uterine dropsy. Menses too profuse or too scanty; metrorrhagia with red spots, stinging like bee-stings; irregular, lasting but a day or two, feeling very weak; copious, lumpy, with pain in the spleen; too soon; delayed or suppressed; a sensation as if they were coming on, but they don't come. Leucorrhœa acrid, profuse, green, or yellowish, Large and painful swelling of the labia, with heat and stinging pains. At the critical age, chronic diarrhœa of blond and mucus. Dropsy in the latter part of pregnancy attended with puerperal convulsions. Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts. Swelling and hardness of the mammæ, threatening to ulcerate. Scirrhus or open cancer of the mammæ, with stinging, burning pains. Ovarian affections, with inverted nipples. The right ovary is most susceptible. Great sensitiveness to touch or lightest pressure a characteristic.
LARYNX –
Considerable hoarseness. Irritation to cough felt deep down in back of the throat pit, and considerable coughing in the evening, and in the night preventing sleep; every shock from coughing gives pain in the head and some pain through the chest, as from the clavicle; relieved after loosening a small portion of mucus, or a large quantity of transparent, frothy and bloody mucus is expectorated. Great dyspnœa, as if every breath would be the last; wants to be fanned. Asthma, worse in cold weather; intense sensation of suffocation; throws the collar wide open, could bear nothing about the throat. Hurried and difficult respiration with fever and headache. Sensation of fulness, constriction, or suffocation in the throat, with difficult, anxious breathing. Œdema of glottis; of larynx; croup; chronic laryngitis.
CHEST –
Sharp pains, stitches, and stingings in; sensation of soreness, lame, bruised feeling in.
HEART AND PULSE –
Sudden and acute pain just below the heart, extending diagonally towards the right chest. Very feeble action of the heart; violent beats, shaking the whole body; intermittent beats. Region of heart sensitive to the least pressure; rasping sounds of systole and diastole unmistakably audible. Palpitation of heart from scanty secretion of urine, perfectly cured by establishing the natural quantity. Pulse almost imperceptible at wrist; accelerated and full; very frequent and hard; wiry; irregular and slow pulse; intermittent.
NECK AND BACK –
Back feels lame and bruised; stitches and stingings in. Stiff neck and back. Swelling of the glands of the neck. Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
EXTREMITIES –
Upper: The arms, hands, or fingers, one, both, or all, swell, become very tender, and remain so for several days. Numbness of the hands, or fingers, especially at their tips; burning like fine. One of the first remedies to give at the very beginning or threatening of a felon.
Lower: Sore feelings and pains in. Burning, itching, and stinging in the swelling of the legs and feet, often white, waxy, and transparent. Soles of the feet feel when walking as if cushioned. Sensation of burning in the feet and toes. Reddish and bluish streaks; hard and painful spots, making them painful to moue. Œdematous swelling of lower extremities, Swelling of the knee. Numbness of the limb came side on which ovary is affected. Eczema. Foot-sweat checked by cold. Numbness and coldness of feet and in diphtheritic albuminuria. Puffy swelling of the knees.
SLEEP AND DREAMS –
Much yawning. Great inclination to sleep; anxious starting in; restless. Dreams much, of making long journeys; of flying through the air; of bot stones; of walking over bot floors; of walking a long way over wet roads. Disagreeable, unhappy dreams, Sudden waking with shrill, piercing screams.
FEVER –
Chill, with red face, and red spots all over the body; chills from 3 to 5 P.M.; often with racking pain all through the head; chills worse in warmth; run down the back; hands and feet feel as if dead. No thirst with the fever; hoarse cough often attends the fever; as fever subsides, great prostration comes on; heat with difficult breathing, as if every breath would be the last. Heat with thirst, wishes to uncover. Much burning of the skin on various parts of the body. Shuddering, then nettlerash. Sweat goes and comes alternately; breaks out and dries up continually. Sweat without thirst. Alter perspiration nettle-rash.
SKIN –
Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling, white and hard in the centre. White wales on different parts, itching fearfully. Red and white blotches, with itching. Appearance as of the bites of insects, Bore and painful. Burning, stinging, itching and prickling over the whole body, and painful to touch. Most violent itching all over the body or in any single part. Erysipelas with gangrenous spots. Boils and swellings of all descriptions with stinging pains.
GENERALITIES –
Swelling or "puffing up" of the whole body. Complete anasarca, no thirst, pale, waxy, almost transparent. Twitching; trembling; jactitation of the muscles. Clonic and tonic spasms. Restless moving about. Tired as if bruised all over. General feeling of lassitude with trembling. Heavy and prostrate in fever. Faintness and fainting. Surface of body very sensitive to touch, even the moving of a hair. Great prostration, rapid sinking, rapid pulse, and fever. Dark hæmorrhages.
WORSE –
At night, particularly latter part of night; in cold weather; in warm room; lying down.
BETTER –
During the day when sitting erect.
REMEDIES FOLLOWING –
Arsen., Pulsat.
REMEDIES INIMICAL –
Rhus tox.
KEY-NOTES TO THE MATERIA MEDICA - GUERNSEY
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