Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Ratanhia rat.
General
A tincture is made of the dried root of Krameria triandra, R. and P.
Ally
Iris v.
Generalities
Jerking here and there. ▶ Sticking now in left ribs, now in small of back, in region of hips, etc. ▶ Sore pain now in chest, now in shoulders and in other parts, often with sticking. ▶ Malaise, frequent yawning, labored attempts to draw a long breath and constriction across chest. ▶ Weakness, with anxiety and sweat. ▶ Amelioration from motion in open air and aggravation from mental distress.
Mind
Restlessness, causing exacerbations. ▶ Quarrelsome. ▶ Ill humor. ▶ Changeable mood. ▶ Apprehensive depression when alone, amel. conversation and giving place to gayety.
Head
Sticking here and there in evening. ▶ Tearing, agg. left side; T. or stitching on moving and on deep breathing. ▶ Pain as if screwed together; P. as if it would burst, also after the usual stool; bruised, here and there. ▶ Jerking deep in brain. ▶ Dullness; as if intoxicated.
Forehead
Sticking in right side; S. in middle on stooping. ▶ Tearing. ▶ Pain as if it would burst in evening when sitting bent over; in middle as if whole brain would force out when straining at stool. ▶ Drawing behind right side when walking. ▶ Dullness, amel. open air. ▶ Tearing in left temple; in spots in right. ▶ Jerking in a spot externally in right temple. ▶ Sticking in vertex. ▶ Tearing in vertex, then intermittent sticking; T. during menses, amel. open air, with burning. ▶ Sticking in left side on sitting down; S. in upper part of right, then pain as if beaten. ▶ Burrowing in right side of brain, amel. open air. ▶ Frequent bruised pain in left parietal bone. ▶ Tearing extending from occiput to vertex. ▶ Itching not amel. scratching; I. on right temple; on left side of occiput, and glandular swellings.
Eyes
▶ Inflammation of white, a membrane seemed to extend to centre of eye, that burned. ▶ Twitching of right. ▶ Sticking above right external canthus. ▶ Sensation in right as if screwed in or as if it could not be moved, still she could move it easily. ▶ Biting in right in morning. ▶ Burning in morning on waking; in evening, with constriction; in evening, agglutination at night.
Lachrymation in morning after waking. ▶ Lids, agglutination in morning; twitching of right upper; twitching of right lower, with weak vision; sticking in left upper in evening; itching in right lower; stiffness of upper, with soreness of edges. ▶ Canthus, twitching in right inner, then sensation as if lid were pressed upward, preventing vision; tearing in right inner in evening. ▶ Vision dim; for distant objects. ▶ A white spot before eyes in evening, by the light, preventing vision.
Ears
Sticking in right. ▶ Tearing in right; in middle and outer; in bone behind left, extending upward; piercing in front of right. ▶ Crawling in right. ▶ Itching in right. ▶ Chirping in right. ▶ Ringing on waking about midnight.
Nose
Pimples in right nostril, becoming scabs. ▶ Left nostril inflamed and scabby. ▶ Swollen feeling across bridge; in right nostril. ▶ Dryness, agg. left nostril. ▶ Burning in nostrils. ▶ Tickling or itching about nostrils. ▶ Itching in nostrils. ▶ Stoppage and fulness. ▶ Stopped catarrh. ▶ Violent sneezing. ▶ Bleeding three times a day.
Face
Tearing in left malar-bone in evening; in left side of lower jaw and corresponding teeth. ▶ Sensation of cobwebs about right side of mouth. ▶ Lip, pimple on inner surface of right side of lower; vesicles beneath margin of lower; blisters in red of upper, burning on touch; tearing in a spot in inner surface.
Mouth
Shooting or jerking in molars in evening and morning, with coldness starting from them; S. in incisor, agg. eating, with heat, preventing sleep. ▶ Tearing in molars in evening, now in right lower, now in right upper, now also deep in bone in front of right ear. ▶ Digging in some lower molars in evening. ▶ Throbbing in root of an upper tooth; in a left upper incisor, with bleeding of teeth. ▶ A left upper incisor feels too long and is painful to touch; molars seems too long and coldness seems to come out of them. ▶ Gums swollen; fungoid softening; acid blood from, when sucking; painful spot as if abraded. ▶ Tongue, tension as if swollen; burning on tip; burning itching on tip. ▶ Mouth dry all night. ▶ Offensive breath. ▶ Collection of tasteless water. ▶ Insipid taste in morning in bed.
Throat
Painful spasmodic contraction, during which she could not speak a loud word. ▶ Intermittent sticking. ▶ Roughness and scraping. ▶ Soreness, worse on empty swallowing than on swallowing large pieces.
Stomach
Hunger increased. ▶ She has no relish, food has no taste. ▶ Disgusted in morning with everything that he even looks at, he will not hear of eating. ▶ Thirst; in evening. ▶ Eructations, with salivation; E. tasting of the dinner; empty, after dinner. ▶ Hiccough after dinner; violent H., so that stomach is painful. ▶ Nausea; waking him at 1 A.M., with retching, then vomiting of food eaten the previous evening, reliving the nausea, then sleep till 3 A.M., then awakened by nausea, with rolling and constriction in stomach, amel. open air. ▶ Vomiting of only water; of mucus streaked with blood.
Distention; in morning; before dinner, amel. emission of flatus. ▶ Rumbling when walking, it seems empty; R. after dinner, with movements; in epigastrium in afternoon. ▶ Sticking to left of pit. ▶ Pain as if cut to pieces, agg. deep breathing. ▶ Sudden twisting in pit in afternoon. ▶ Griping in morning. ▶ Ulcerative pain in right side above pit; in epigastric region in evening. ▶ Constriction in evening, amel. eructations, with cutting in abdomen. ▶ Weight in region and sometimes pinching. ▶ Heat; in epigastrium. ▶ Digestion difficult.
Abdomen
Flatulent distention in afternoon, with constant desire for stool and frequent emission of flatus. ▶ Rumbling and gurgling, then painless diarrhœa twice, some drops of bright blood with the last; R., with dragging in groins and diarrhœa, with blood three times. ▶ Movements as after a purge, in morning. ▶ Griping, then soft stool. ▶ Pinching; in morning, with burning. ▶ Colic, with frequent diarrhœa; then five thin stools.
Movements as of something living in right, then in left side. ▶ Pinching in sides. ▶ Sticking in left hypochondrium; in right H. in evening. ▶ Frequent pinching about umbilicus in afternoon. ▶ Drawing in U. region, with coldness. ▶ Rumbling in hypogastrium, with cutting, then scanty diarrhœa three times in the day. ▶ Frequent griping in hypogastrium in morning, with external itching. ▶ Groins, sticking in afternoon when sitting; pinching or constriction in right in evening; pinching in morning on waking, amel. emission of flatus; dragging downward as before menstruation, with discharge of mucus from vagina; constriction in a spot.
Rectum and Anus
Painful hæmorrhoids. ▶ Anus oozing; burning before and after diarrhœa; dry heat and cutting. ▶ Straining, then hard stool and protrusion of hæmorrhoids, then burning in anus (Canth., Iris, Sul.). ▶ Urging for a normal stool; ineffectual U.
Clinical
Fissure of the anus, with great constriction, terrible pain following the stool, especially burning like fore, only temporarily relieved by cold water. ▶ Hæmorrhoids, with extreme burning like fire.
Bloody stools. ▶ Thin fetid diarrhœa, with burning like fire in the anus.
Stool
Liquid in morning after rising. ▶ Yellow diarrhœa, with burning in anus. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Hard, with pressure; H., scanty, difficult; H., then diarrhœa.
Urinary Organs
Frequent urging, always only a few drops. ▶ Micturition frequent and profuse; at night; frequent, only a little at a time, with burning in urethra. ▶ Urine pale. ▶ Urine copious. ▶ Urine scanty; and soon depositing a cloud, afterwards becoming turbid like muddy water.
Genital Organs
Burning at root of penis when urinating. ▶ Itching of scrotum, not amel. scratching. ▶ (Chronic gonorrhœa becomes worse.). ▶ Leucorrhœa. ▶ Discharge of blood, the menses had ceased four days before. ▶ Menses too early; and scanty; with pain in abdomen; delayed; ceased on fourth day and returned on fifth day; suppressed, with swelling of abdomen and breasts, simulating a pregnancy of several months, with leucorrhœa and pain in kidneys.
Respiratory Organs
Cough from tickling in larynx; dry C., mucus is loosened with difficulty.
Chest
Sticking in sternum, above ensiform cartilage; behind right ribs in afternoon; above left clavicle in evening, with drawing as if skin were drawn inward; on left ribs during dinner; in right side after dinner; in sternum at every step when descending stairs, taking away the breath; on ribs, beneath left breast, extending downward; burning, in last ribs, near back, on stepping. ▶ Sticking burning beneath left, along one rib, in evening, with cutting. ▶ Intermittent cutting in a spot in upper part of sternum; throbbing-burning C. beneath left breast, near pit of stomach, amel. pressure and motion and ulcerative pain. ▶ Ulcerative pain during and after cough. ▶ Constriction in sides. ▶ Pressure as from a stone, with short breath on slight exertion. ▶ Rush of blood and heat, with difficult breathing.
Heart and Pulse
Sticking in præcordial region, rather external. ▶ Pulse often as full as in gastritis.
Neck
Tearing sticking in left side, with constriction. ▶ Tearing in left side; in nape extending into forehead, when walking, with heaviness of head. ▶ Tearing jerking in nape extending into vertex, when walking. ▶ Drawing or tensive pain from nape down spinal marrow after dinner. ▶ Drawing in left side in evening when standing, with tension. ▶ Stiffness in nape on turning head, amel. violent motion.
Back
Sticking through spine to pit of stomach. ▶ Bruised pain in spine; B. pain towards morning, amel. rising; in region of hips in morning on rising, amel. motion. ▶ Intermittent sticking on inner margin of right scapula. ▶ Lumbar region, pain during menses; forcing as if to stool; jerking, and in region of hips.
Upper Extremities
Sticking from left axilla into chest in afternoon, agg. expiration, amel. inspiration. ▶ Tearing in shoulders; to elbows; from right almost to wrist. ▶ Tearing above and below left elbow in evening, amel. allowing arm to hang down, agg. bending. ▶ Constriction as with a cord two inches above and two inches below right elbow, amel. stretching arm. ▶ Elbow, burning stitch in bend in right, then sudden shaking chill; pinching constriction in bend of right when arm was bent, amel. stretching it. ▶ Forearm, burning stitch in flesh of left, then tension; tearing in flesh on outer surface of left, extending to wrist; tearing from left into first joint of ring finger, as if in bone.
Tearing in right wrist; in right wrist behind ball of thumb, with sticking; between left thumb and index; jerking, on back of right hand. ▶ Sticking in middle of thumb, extending into tip. ▶ Jerking tearing alternately in each thumb. ▶ Constriction in right middle and ring fingers, amel. rubbing, but returning frequently; in right middle and ring fingers in evening, with an asleep sensation, so that she could not stretch them.
Lower Extremities
Thigh. ▶ Jerking in middle of right in morning. ▶ Trembling in right in evening, or waving sensation. ▶ Sticking in a spot in forepart of right, with tearing in left side of head. ▶ Tearing in hips; from hips to knees; T. posteriorly when riding one over the other; in middle of right, when sitting, extending to knee. ▶ Tension in flesh above right knee when standing. ▶ Weariness on inner side, with heaviness; W. in right when sitting, with heaviness.
Sticking in bend of right knee on rising from a seat. ▶ Tearing in right knee when sitting; in right tibia; calves; lower part of right leg; tendons of right calf in evening and morning when sitting; tendo-achillis, extending upward, then sticking deep in right knee when standing. ▶ Jerking in calves. ▶ Drawing in legs; in calves in evening. ▶ Weakness of legs in morning after rising and in afternoon. ▶ Intermittent contractions in tendons above heels in evening. ▶ Tearing in tendons behind right external malleolus when standing; on back of right foot; in tendons of right foot. ▶ Jerking in forepart of right foot. ▶ Toes, sticking in left great, with burning tearing; tearing in three first, extending towards tips; sprained pain in last joint of right great, when sitting.
Skin
Pimples in skin in right temple; on chin; agg. shoulders and lumbar region; like a boil, itching, on left hip. ▶ Boil on right sole.
Twitching beneath right axilla. ▶ Stinging in various parts of body, neck and arms, agg. legs, when walking, amel. rubbing, leaving soreness and itching, a vesicle on the spot. ▶ Burning sticking on inner margin of left sole, now above right knee, now in right upper arm, or in small of back. ▶ Stretched feeling once from above root of nose to top of forehead and once from centre of forehead to right frontal protuberance. ▶ Feeling as if drawn together in centre of forehead. ▶ Stiff feeling on lower forehead, agg. knitting brows. ▶ Crawling beneath skin of right knee, alternating with sticking and tearing; C. on back, with itching eruption. ▶ Tickling on heels and soles; in ball of right thumb.
Itching on nape and between scapulæ; on tip of nose, amel. rubbing; in evening, amel. scratching, on back, also anteriorly on thigh; here and there over whole body, amel. scratching; on outer part of left forearm, not amel. scratching; on nose and upper lip, returning after scratching; in epigastric region, with red spots; on forearm, and on scratching itching pimple; between shoulders, with pimples, burning after scratching; in hollows of knees in evening, burning after scratching; tickling, voluptuous I. in left sole.
Sleep
Yawning; in evening, without sleepiness. ▶ Sleepiness in morning and after dinner, with indolence and yawning; S. when sitting; during dinner. ▶ Late falling asleep and waking about midnight. ▶ Snoring. ▶ Starting up soon after falling asleep. ▶ Sleep restless, she woke often and could not fall asleep for a long time. ▶ Waking at 2 A.M., with trembling, apprehension and fear, so that she started up. ▶ Dreams full of quarrels, anger and vexation; of funerals, death of friends, etc.; anxious, of snakes and sick people, from which she woke in sweat and thirsty; frightful, of earthquakes and the like.
Fever
Chilliness in afternoon and night; from 8 till 9 P.M., amel. in bed, then sweat till midnight; general, at 9 P.M., with burning in hands and feet and external heat, afterwards in bed sweat till midnight. ▶ Shaking chill in morning; in evening and in bed. ▶ Shivering in evening. ▶ Cold fingers in morning. ▶ Heat on left external malleolus; in head, with heaviness of head and external heat in forehead; in rushes to face; tensive, in thighs and legs in evening on rising from a sweat. ▶ Sweat at night; at 1 A.M., on waking, with thirst and dryness of mouth.