Condensed Materia Medica

Paris Quadrifolia par.

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Mind

Loquacious mania.
Silly conduct.
Inclination to treat others with rudeness and contempt.

Inner Head

Headache, aggravated by close thinking.
Dulness of the forehead, with headache.
Piercing and single stitches in the head.
Constrictive pressure in forehead and temples; the brain, eyes and skin feel tense and the bones scraped; worse from motion, excitement, or using the eyes.

Outer Head

Scalp sensitive to touch; sore pain at small spots on the forehead.

Eyes

Feel too large, or swollen, and the orbits too small.
Eyes feel as if projecting, with a sensation as if a thread was tightly drawn through the eyeball, and backward into the middle of the brain; sight weak.
Feeling of contraction in internal canthi.

Ears

Sudden pain in the ear, as if forced apart by a wedge.

Nose

Discharge of red or greenish mucus on blowing the nose.
Stuffed condition and fulness at the root of nose; constant hawking of tenacious, white, tasteless mucus.

Lower Face

Violent itching, biting and burning on the edges of the lower jaw, frequently with red, small, easily bleeding (miliary) eruption.
Tetters around the mouth.
Vesicles on the surface of the lower lip.

Tongue, etc

Great dryness of tongue on awaking; tongue feels too large.
Tongue white, with roughness; no thirst; bitter or lessened taste.

Mouth

Dryness of mouth in morning.
Tart saliva.

Throat

Burning, stinging and scraping in throat.
Sore throat, as if a ball were lodged in it.
Tense, almost painless swelling on the roof of the mouth.
Scarlatina.

Eating and Drinking

Hunger very soon after a meal.
After eating, hiccough.

Nausea and Vomiting

Belching, with pain.

Stomach

Heaviness in stomach, as from a stone; relieved eructation.
Weak, slow digestion.

Abdomen

Rumbling and rolling in abdomen.

Stool, etc

Frequent soft stools.
Diarrhœic stools smell like putrid meat.

Urine

Frequent micturition, with burning.
Dark-red urine, with red sediment and a greasy-looking pellicle on the surface.
Acrid excoriating urine.
Burning and stinging in the urethra.

Larynx

Periodical painless hoarseness.
Hoarseness, voice feeble, continuous hawking of mucus, and burning in the larynx.

Breathing

Oppression of the chest, with desire to draw a long breath.

Cough

As from vapor of sulphur in the trachea or viscid phlegm in the larynx.
Expectoration of viscid, greenish mucus.
Constant hawking and gagging, on account of viscid, green mucus in the larynx and trachea.

Lungs

Stitches in the chest.

Heart and Pulse

Palpitation of the heart during rest or motion.
Pulse full but slow.

Neck and Back

Nape of neck weary, as from a heavy load.
Neck feels stiff and swollen on turning it.
Dull pain in nape of neck, increasing at times in acuteness, with numbness, heat and weight; better from rest and in the open air; worse from exertion.
Stitches between the scapulæ.

Lower limbs

Laming pain in the feet.
Cold feet at night in bed.

Limbs in General

Stinging pains in limbs.
All the joints painful on motion.

Position, etc

Motion: 3, 29, 34. Turning head: 31. Exertion: 31. Rest: 29, 31.

Sleep

Restless, broken sleep, with many dreams.

Time

Morning: 12, 40. Evening: 40. Night: 33.

Temperature and Weather

Open air: 31. In bed: 33.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chilliness mostly toward evening, with internal trembling.
Coldness of one (right) side, with warmth of other side.
During the chill, contractive sensation in the skin and in all parts of the body.
Chilliness, with goose-flesh.
Heat, descending the back, from the neck.
Heat, with sweat of the upper body.
Sweat in the morning, when waking, attended with frequent itching.

Sides

Right: 40. Left: 40. Right to left: chest symptoms. Above downward: 40.

Sensations

Stitches in all the limbs.
Contractive pressure in all the limbs.
Heaviness in all the limbs.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 4.

Relationship

Antidote to Paris quad.: Coffea.
Paris quad. is followed well by: Ledum, Lycop., Rhus tox.