Belladonna

▲   GENERAL

General

Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands. Belladonna always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperaesthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, Neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly ( Oxytropis.) Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. great children’s remedy. Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting. Scarlet fever and also prophylactic. Here use the thirtieth potency. Exophthalmic goitre. Corresponds to the symptoms of air-sickness in aviators. Give as preventive. No thirst, anxiety of fear. Belladonna stands for Violence of attack and Suddenness of onset. Bell. for the extreme of thyroid toxaemia. Use 1x (Beebe).

Dose

First to thirtieth potency and higher. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, touch, jar, noise, draft, after noon, lying down.

Better

BETTER, semi-erect.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Sanguisorba officinalis 2x-6x, a member of the Rosaceae family, (Profuse, long-lasting menses, especially in nervous patients with congestive symptoms to head and limbs. Passive Hemorrhages at climacteric. Chronic metritis. Hemorrhage from lungs. Varices and ulcers). Mandragora Officinarium ^Mandragora - (Mandrake). A narcotic of the ancients - Restless excitability and bodily weakness. Desire for sleep. Has antiperiodic properties like China ^China and Aranea. Useful in epilepsy and hydrophobia, also Cetonia (A. E. alvine). Hyoscyamus Niger ^Hyos ( less fever, more agitation); Stramonium ^Stram ( more sensorial excitement, frenzy); Hoitzia - A Mexican drug, similar in action to Belladonna ( Useful in fever, scarlatinal eruption, measles, urticaria, etc. High fever with eruptive fevers. Dry mouth and throat, red face, injected eyes, delirium.) Calcar is often required after Belladonna.; Atropia Sulphurica ^Atropia. Alkaloid of Belladonna covers more the neurotic sphere of the Belladonna action ( Great dryness of throat, almost impossible to swallow. Chronic stomach affections, with great pain and vomiting of all food. Peritonitis. All kinds of illusions of sight. Everything appears large. Platinum Metallicum ^Platina opposite.) Hypochlorhydria; pyrosis. Motes over everything. On reading, words run together; double vision, all objects seem to be elongated. Eustachian tube and tympanic congestion. Affinity for the pancreas. Hyperacidity of stomach. Paroxysms of gastric pain; ovarian neuralgia.

Complementary

Complementary: Calc Carb ^Calc. Belladonna ( Contains lime). Especially in semi-chronic and constitutional diseases.

Antidotes

Antidotes to Belladonna: Camphora ^Camph.; Coffea Cruda ^Coff.; Opium, Aconite ^Acon.

Incompatible

Incompatible: Aceticum Acidum ^Acet-ac.

▲   MIND

Mind

Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by spectres and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities

While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within

He is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of Subjective visual impressions and fantastic illusions

Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces

Delirium; frightful images; Furious; rages, bites, strikes; Desire to escape

Loss of consciousness

Disinclined to talk

Perversity, with tears

Acuteness of all senses

Changeableness.

Behaviour

biting

attempts to escape

jumping; out of bed

kicks; in sleep

shrieking; with the pain

sits quite stiff; and breaks pins

spits; in faces of people

striking

tears things

Dazed

Delirium

frightful

maniacal

raging, raving

during sleep

violent

wild

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

creatures and animals

dogs; sees

creatures and animals; insects

imagines himself dreaming when awake

visions; horrible

visions or presence of phantoms, figures, people

spectres, ghosts, spirits

Desires, wants

hide

desire for light (see dark)

pull parts of other people; hair

Excitement

Fantasies; of exaltation

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anguish

irritability

laughing; loudly

laughing; sardonic

mood; alternating mood

rage, fury (see insanity, mania, delirium)

with headache

strength increased

violent

violent, intense feeling

sensitive, oversensitive

to light

to noise

unhappy; lamenting, regretting; moaning, groaning

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); during the chill

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); before coughing

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); during the heat

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); while perspiring

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; confusion

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

impaired thinking; imbecility

Insanity

mania, madness

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

fear

of animals; of dogs

of animals; imaginary animals

imaginary things

frightened easily; starting, startled

from fright

on falling asleep

during sleep; starting from sleep

Memory

active memory

weakness of memory

Perception

does not recognise his relatives

senses; acute

Restlessness, nervousness

Shining objects

Talking, conversation

obstinate

in sleep

speech; unintelligible

speech; wandering

Unconsciousness

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards

Morning; on rising

During headache

From movement; on turning in bed

On rising; from stooping

On stooping

▲   HEAD

Head

Sensitive to least contact

Much throbbing and heat

Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing

Sudden outcries

Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side

Constant moaning

Bores head in pillow

Brain; inflammation of brain

Cerebral haemorrhage

Coldness

Congestion (see pulsation)

during convulsions

from suppressed period

when angry

with redness of face

Expanded sensation (see swollen); enlarged sensation

Hot

with coldness of extremities

during diarrhoea

forehead

Movements in head

rising sensation

sinking and rising

waving sensation; forehead

Movements of head

jerking of the head; when walking quickly or on ascending stairs

rolling head

Pulsating

on stooping

forehead

back of head (occiput)

on moving

temples

Sensitive

brain

to stepping

sensitive to draft of air

Uncovering head

Headache

Pain; fullness, Especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples

Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow

Pain worse light, noise, jar lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure and semi-erect posture

Pain, headache

afternoon

3 p.m.

4 p.m. to 3 a.m.

evening

eyes and vision (affecting or affected by); on moving eyes

eyes and vision (affecting or affected by); on moving eyelids

eyes and vision (affecting or affected by); from light in general

from cold (including cold parts); becoming cold

from cold (including cold parts); cold head

from cold (including cold parts); from cold air

with running or blocked nose

on coughing

from emotions

from becoming heated

hammering pain

with high or low temperature; headache during the heat

with high or low temperature; headache during the chill

increasing gradually; and decreasing rapidly

from any jar (see sensitive, coughing, laughing, stepping, riding)

lying down; lying in a dark room

maddening; pains

in women; during period

certain movements; rising (see morning, noon, night, etc., on rising, also movement; raising head); from lying

from certain movements; movement in general

from certain movements; on moving head

from certain movements; shaking head

from certain movements; from stooping

from certain movements; rising (see morning, noon, night, etc., on rising, also movement; raising head); from lying

from noises

pressure

pulsating

sudden pain or sudden increase of pain

twitching

walking

violent pains

with red face, vomiting and diarrhoea

walking; while

walking; on walking up steps or hill

walking; on walking down steps or a hill

walking; while walking rapidly

walking; stepping heavily

from warmth; in warm bed

from warmth; summer

from warmth; from exposure to sun

extending to other parts; forehead

in forehead

closing eyes

coughing

on movement

pressure

pulsating

stepping

from stooping

while walking

while walking in open air

extending to other parts; back of head (occiput)

back of head (occiput)

jarring

pulsating

heat of sun

sides; right

sides; jarring

sides; sneezing

temples

extending to other parts; temple to temple

boring, digging, screwing; forehead; over eyes

bursting

in open air

on coughing

cutting, darting, stabbing; temples

extending temple to temple

jerking

on climbing steps

while walking

piercing, stabbing (see cutting); temples; temple to temple

pressing (see bursting, pulling)

exertion

while lying down; sitting up in bed

from mental exertion; while reading

on movement

on shaking head

while sitting

while sitting; sitting up in bed

stepping

while walking; while in open air

after walking in open air

forehead

forehead; on climbing steps

forehead; forced to close the eyes

forehead; on movement

forehead; noise

forehead; pressing outward; as though brain would come out

forehead; while walking; walking in open air

sides

top of head (vertex)

shooting (see cutting, piercing, stabbing, shocks, stitches, etc.); pulsating

shooting (see cutting, piercing, stabbing, shocks, stitches, etc.); forehead; right

shooting (see cutting, piercing, stabbing, shocks, stitches, etc.); forehead; extending to back of head (occiput)

shooting (see cutting, piercing, stabbing, shocks, stitches, etc.); temples; extending from temple to temple

sore bruised, sensitive to pressure

jarring

stitching, sudden, sharp; forehead

Pulsating; ending in shooting pain

Sensitive; to the least jar (see stepping and pain in general)

Shocks, blows, jerks, etc. (see jerking pain, pulsation, plug, nail); while walking; rapidly

Scalp

Hair splits; is dry and comes out

Headache worse on right side and when lying down; ill effects, colds, etc.; from having hair cut.

Pain, headache

from combing or binding hair; from binding hair

after cutting hair

▲   EYES

Eyes

Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down

Pupils dilated ( Agnus Castus ^Agnus.) Eyes feel swollen and protruding, Staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; DRY, burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes

Exophthalmus

Ocular illusions; fiery appearance

Diplopia, squinting, spasms of lids

Sensation as if eyes were half closed

Eyelids swollen

Fundus congested.

Lids

half open

eyes closed; half open

spasmodic opening of eyes

winking

Sparkling

Discoloration; redness

Distorted

Dryness

Eye feels hot

Inflammation

of catarrh from cold

heat

wounds; conjunctiva (external lining of eye)

Movement of eyeballs; convulsive

Pain

right

during headache

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

Paralysis; optic nerve, total blindness, without eye damage (amaurosis)

Photomania (must be in light)

Intolerance of light (photophobia)

during chill

when angry

Protrusion

Pulsation in eyes

Pupils

dilated

dilated; during heat

insensitive to light

Quivering; lids

Sensitive to.; brilliant objects

Staring

during headache

Strabismus (eyes incorrectly aligned)

Tears

Wild look

Vision

Acute

Colours and shapes in front of eyes

colours; halo of colours; around the light

colours; red

objects seem red

fiery

flames

flashes

sparks

Dim

Flickering

▲   EARS

Ear

Tearing pain in middle and external ear

Humming noises

Membrana tympani bulges and injected

Parotid gland swollen

Sensitive to loud tones

Hearing very acute

Otitis media

Pain causes delirium

Hematoma auris

Acute and sub-acute conditions of Eustachian tube

Auto phony - hearing one’s voice in ear.

Inflammation; inside

Noises in ear

ringing

roaring

Pain

right

with face-ache

extending to other parts

extending to downward

extending to other parts; extending to neck

inside (in ear canal)

stitching, sudden, sharp

tearing in

extending downwards

Pulsation

Hearing

Impaired

Lost, deafness

Too sensitive

to noises

Beating

child cries out in sleep; throbbing and beating pain deep in ear, synchronous with heart beat

▲   FACE

Face

Red, Bluish-red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of face

Swelling of upper lip

Facial neuralgia with twitching muscles and flushed face.

Congestion (see heat)

Convulsions, spasms

Expression; fierce

Heat

burning

with maniacal rage

Inflammation

lips

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe)

Motions of jaw

clenched jaw

lockjaw

Lips; tension of surface; upper lip

Pain

right

inflammatory

jar

affected by movement (for better or worse); movement

suddenly coming and going

touch

extending to other parts

ears

cutting; right

jerking

sudden, sharp

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe)

tearing

movement

jaw; upper; behind back teeth

Perspiration

Abnormal grin from contraction of facial muscles

Skin

discoloration; bluish

discoloration; changing colour

discoloration; red

during cough

dark red

erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

during fever

glowing red

during headache

maniacal when angry

while sitting

spots (see skin)

with toothache

bluish red

drawn, pulled

out-breaks on skin; pus-filled pimples

out-breaks on skin; rash

out-breaks on skin; red; erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

Swelling

glands in general

lips

upper

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe)

right

▲   NOSE

Nose

Imaginary odors

Tingling in tip of nose

Red and swollen

Bleeding of nose, with red face

Nose bleed

bright blood

clotted, coagulated blood

Catarrh

Discharge from nose; blood

Dryness; inside

Odours, imaginary and real; fetid

Smell

acute, over sensitive

acute, over sensitive; sensitive to strong odours

diminished

lost sense of smell

Discharge

Coryza; mucus mixed with blood.

Running or blocked nose (coryza)

with cough

running, wet

suppressed

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Dry

Stammering.

Heat

Pain

burning, raw and smarting

as if burnt

Speech

difficult

stammering

unable to speak

Gums and teeth

Throbbing pain in teeth

Gumboil

Grinding of teeth

Teeth

decay, hollow

grinding

during sleep

pain

lower teeth

right

pulsating

with swelling of cheek

neuralgic (pain along nerve)

Saliva

Dryness

Saliva; mucus, slime; morning

Tongue

Tongue red on edges

Strawberry tongue

Tongue swollen and painful

Discoloration

tongue; red

tongue; white

Dryness; tongue

Heat; tongue

Swelling; tongue

Tongue; stiff tongue

Taste

Taste

bitter-sweet; when coughing

tasteless, lacks taste

Tongue

taste buds; erect

taste buds; enlarged; reddened

▲   THROAT

Throat

Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion (Ginseng); Red worse on right side

Tonsils enlarged; Throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition; worse, liquids

Sensation of a lump

Oesophagus dry; feels contracted

SPASMS in throat

Continual inclination to swallow

Scraping sensation

Muscles of deglutition very sensitive

Hypertrophy of mucous membrane.

Larynx (voice box); scraping, clearing

spasm in vocal cords, stopping breathing

Choking, constricting

on going to sleep

airways in general

larynx

Discoloration

redness

redness; tonsils

redness; uvula (lobe at back of mouth)

Dryness

larynx

aversion to drink

Sensation of something in throat; larynx

Inflammation

right

follicular

tonsils

larynx

Irritation

larynx

cold air

Narrow sensation

when swallowing

Pain

swallowing

on swallowing

swallowing; liquids

larynx

on coughing

rawness

sore

from cold air

larynx

larynx; on coughing

larynx; on swallowing

larynx; touch

sudden, sharp

tearing; tonsils

on swallowing

Sensitive; larynx

Spasms, convulsions etc.; gullet

Swelling

tonsils

larynx

Tickling in the air passages; larynx

Voice

hoarseness

hoarseness; when crying

hoarseness; painful

rough

External throat

discoloration; redness; in spots

glands indurated (hard from inflammation)

pain; cervical glands (on side of neck)

pain; soreness; cervical glands (on side of neck)

pulsation; artery

swelling; cervical glands (on side of neck)

swelling; sides

▲   CHEST

Chest

Palpitation from least exertion

Throbbing all through body

Dicrotism

Heart seemed too large

Rapid but weakened pulse.

Anxiety; region of heart

Breast; milk; increased

Congestion

Constriction, tension

convulsive

Heat

Inflammation; breast

Oppressed feeling

Pain

during a cough

while lying down

on side; painful

movement

breast

sides; right

sore, bruised; breast; going up and down stairs

stitching, sudden, sharp; coughing

Pulsation

Respiration

Heart; Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, with labored breathing

Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea

Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night

Larynx feels sore

Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal

Cheyne-Stokes respiration (Cocain; Opium.) Hoarse; loss of voice

Painless hoarseness

Cough with pain in left hip

Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with expectoration of blood

Stitches in chest when coughing

Larynx very painful; feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough

High piping voice

moaning at every breath.

Accelerated

Irregular

Slow

Shrill grating sound

▲   COUGH

Cough

Night

Barking

Dry cough

night

Exhausting cough

Hard cough

Hoarse

Hollow

When breathing; deep breathing

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); from irritation in air passages; in larynx

sensation of foreign body in throat; in larynx

Comes on suddenly

night

Persistent

Racking

night

Intermittent

afternoon

night

Tickling; larynx

Tormenting

Violent

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage); bright-red

▲   SKIN

Skin

Dry and HOT; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth

Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading

Erythema; pustules on face

Glands swollen, tender, red

BOILS

Acne rosacea

Suppurative wounds

Alternate redness and paleness of the skin

Indurations after inflammation

Erysipelas.

Discoloration

pale

red

spots

spots; scarlet

Dry

burning

inability to perspire (see inactivity)

Abnormal growths

ulcers; with cutting

ulcers; hardened

ulcers; painful

warts

Inflammation

skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour); smooth

skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour); with swelling

Out-breaks on skin

boils

boils; painful boil, shedding skin and tissues (carbuncle)

peeling in scales

flat

painful

rash (see granular)

fiery red

receding in eruptive fevers; scarlet fever

scarlet fever

smooth

Pain

burning

cutting

Sensitive

Shining

Swelling; of parts affected with symptoms

Swollen sensation

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Stiff neck

Swelling of glands of neck

Cramp (see also pain: cramp-like pains); intermittent pulling; neck (head bent back)

Pain

neck

as though the back would break; neck

pressing; neck

Stiffness; neck

Tension; neck (see spasmodic pulling)

Back

Pain in nape, as if it would break

Pressure on dorsal region most painful

Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.

Pain

when coughing

jarring

on movement

spine

during cough

spine; irritation

jar of bed

spine; jarring

aching

spine; from jar of bed

as though the back would break

during period

during suppressed period

lumbar (lower half of back)

gnawing, biting; spine

pressing

dorsal (shoulder level); between shoulder blades

dorsal (shoulder level); spine

Spasms; opisthotonos (body bent backward and stiffened)

Stiffness; rising; from a seat

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Loss of appetite

Averse to meat and milk

Spasmodic pain in epigastrium

Constriction; pain runs to spine

Great thirst for cold water

Spasms of stomach

Empty retching

Abhorrence of liquids

Spasmodic hiccough

Dread of drinking

Distended, hot

Transverse colon protrudes like a pad

Tender, swollen

Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar, pressure

Cutting pain across; stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching it

Extreme sensitiveness to touch, bed-clothes, etc ( Lachesis ^Laches.)

Hernia; groin; strangulated

Inflammation

liver

neck of large intestine (right side, between hip and ribs. typhlitis)

Pain

comes quickly and goes quickly

during cough

lying down; lying on abdomen

on movement

pressure

behind lower ribs; right

lying on painful side

behind lower ribs; jarring

lower part of abdomen; on breathing

lower part of abdomen; jarring

lower part of abdomen; on movement

liver

on breathing

colic, gall-stones

jarring

lying down; on right side

comes on suddenly

clawing; behind lower ribs

right

clawing; lower part of abdomen

cutting; lower part of abdomen

dragging, bearing down

before period

during period

pressing; lower part of abdomen; toward genitals

pressing; lower part of abdomen; outwards

pressing; groin region; outward

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.

on jarring

on movement

behind lower ribs

behind lower ribs; on jarring

right side, between ribs and hip

Bladder

inflammation

pain

jarring

cervix of bladder

retention of urine (see urination delayed)

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire)

frequent (see urination, frequent)

urination; painful or difficult urination

urination; frequent; night

urination; involuntary, incontinence

night, bed wetting

Kidneys; pain; cutting; ureters (tubes between kidneys and bladder)

Stomach

desires, cravings; lemonade

burping, belching

inflammation

pain; jar of walking

pain; from jolting, as from the road

pain; on movement

pain; while walking

pain; extending to other parts; back; between shoulders

pain; sore, bruised, beaten (tenderness)

retching

thirst; during heat

Eating

loathing of food (see nausea)

Vomiting

Nausea and vomiting

Uncontrollable vomiting.

Pain; with vomiting, blood and mucus in stool (intussusception); pain in region of liver

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Haemorrhoids; touch

Involuntary stool

night; stool hard

Pain; soreness

Stool

Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk

Shuddering during stool

Stinging pain in rectum; spasmodic stricture

Piles more sensitive with backache

Prolapsus ani ( Ignatia ^Ignatia; Podophyllum Peltatum ^Podoph.)

Small (see long and narrow)

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Retention

Acute urinary infections

Sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm

Urine scanty, with tenesmus; Dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates

Vesical region sensitive

Incontinence, continuous dropping

Frequent and profuse

Haematuria where no pathological condition can be found

Prostatic hypertrophy.

Burning (includes hot)

Cloudy; when standing up

Colour; dark

Urethra

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); pain; burning; during urination

Male

Male; Testicles hard, drawn up, inflamed

Female

Dryness and heat of vagina

Womb

Female

congestion; womb

contractions; womb; hour-glass

displacement of womb

inflammation; womb

pain; womb (see abdomen, pain)

jarring

movement

comes on suddenly

comes on suddenly; and goes suddenly

walking

pain; bearing down; womb, and region of womb (see labour-like pains, also pains in abdomen)

morning

as if everything would come out

pain; constricting, contracting; womb

pain; pulling; womb

pain; pressing; womb (see bearing down)

pain; sore, tenderness; womb

sensitive to jarring

from movement

pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; womb

while walking

polyp (growth inside); womb

Genitals

Nocturnal sweat of genitals

Flow of prostatic fluid

Desire diminished.

Female; Sensitive forcing downwards, as If all the viscera would protrude at genitals

Dragging around loins

Pain in sacrum

hemorrhage hot

Cutting pain from hip to hip

Labor-pains come and go suddenly

Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from nipple

Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red

Tumors of breast, pain worse lying down

Badly smelling Hemorrhages, hot gushes of blood

Diminished lochia.

Male; prostate gland; pain; jarring

Female

contractions; spasmodic, during labour

miscarriage

inflammation; ovaries

metrorrhagia (non-menstrual bleeding)

active

bright red; with clots

clotted

clotted; mixed with dark liquid blood

dark blood; mixed with clots

hot blood

profuse

sudden

pain; ovaries

right

movement

pain; labour-like

pain; labour pains; ceasing

pain; labour pains; false labour pains

sensitive

swollen; enlarged; ovaries

Menses

Menses increased; Bright red, too early, too profuse

Menses and lochia very offensive and hot

Female

congestion; womb; during period

period; bright-red

mingled with dark clots

period; clotted

dark

period; copious

period; fluid blood containing clots

period; frequent

period; offensive smell

period; painful; and difficult (dysmenorrhea)

period; suppressed

pain; womb (see abdomen, pain); during period

pain; bearing down; womb, and region of womb (see labour-like pains, also pains in abdomen); during period

pain; pressing; during period

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Shooting pains along limbs

Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating

Tottering gait

Shifting rheumatic pains

Phlegmasia alba dolens

Jerking limbs

Spasms

Involuntary limping

Cold extremities.

Coldness

with convulsion

upper limbs

hands; with heat; with hot head

lower limbs

foot

Cramps

hand

foot

Heat; hand

Heaviness; hand

Inflammation; joints

Movements and positions

making movements (see mind; gestures); moving upward then forcibly thrown downward

convulsion; convulsive movement

convulsion; upper limbs

spasmodic extension of legs; on waking

lameness; upper limbs

twitching

Sensation of mouse, running up limbs

upper limbs

upper limbs; before epilepsy

Pain

joints

gouty

upper arm

lower limbs; letting limb hang down

lower limbs; comes on suddenly

lower limbs; sciatica (pain radiating from back along back of thigh); jarring

lower limbs; sciatica (pain radiating from back along back of thigh); come and go suddenly

lower leg

pulling; upper arm; right

pulling; upper arm; paralytic

gnawing, biting; lower limbs; walking

pressing; upper arm

paralytic

shooting (see stitching, sudden, sharp); lower limbs

walking

shooting (see stitching, sudden, sharp); thigh

sore, bruised

thigh

thigh; walking

leg

stitching, sudden, sharp; shoulder

stitching, sudden, sharp; lower limbs

walking

stitching, sudden, sharp; thigh

while sitting

above the knee

above the knee; sitting

stitching, sudden, sharp; knee

tearing; during chill

tearing; joints

paralytic

tearing; upper arm

paralytic

tearing; fingers; first finger; joints of finger

middle joint

tearing; fingers; thumb; joints of thumb

middle

tearing; lower limbs; while sitting

tearing; lower limbs; while walking

tearing; leg

movement

while walking

extending upward

tearing; ankle

extending upward

Paralysis; upper arm; sensation of paralysis

Swollen

joints

upper limbs; red

Twisting sensation; upper limbs

Weakness

upper limbs

forearm

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

A high feverish state with comparative absence of toxaemia

Burning, pungent, steaming, heat

Feet icy cold

Superficial blood-vessels, distended

Perspiration dry only on head

No thirst with fever.

Evening

Beginning in particular area; arms

Chilliness (see also whole body; temperature)

After eating

Shaking, shivering, rigors; with heat; of head

Warmth; external warmth

Afternoon

Evening

Night

Night

dry burning heat

with perspiration

Alternating with chills

Localised; cerebro-spinal fever

Burning heat

afternoon

evening

night

alternating with chill

with chilliness

furious, with delirium

body turning hot internally and externally

Fever without chill

afternoon

evening

night

With chill

Continued fever

night; temperature running very high

with skin out-break

Dry heat

night

with delirium

Fever with skin out-break; scarlet fever

External heat

Inflammatory fever

Intense heat

with convulsions

with delirium

Internal heat

No perspiration

Remittent

afternoon

evening

infantile

Stages of chill, heat and sweat

chill followed by heat, with sweat

chill then sweat then heat

Aversion to uncovering

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth

Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels

Screams out in sleep

Sleeplessness, with drowsiness

Staring when closing the eyes of during sleep

Sleeps with hands under head ( Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Platinum Metallicum ^Plat.)

Comatose

Deep

Dreams; of falling

Restless

Semi-conscious

Sleepiness, tiredness

Sleeplessness, insomnia

night; with sleepiness

Convulsions

Convulsions

children

rapid muscle spasm

convulsive movements

epileptic

like a mouse running

with falling

in women; from childbirth

continuous contraction

Perspiration

Covered parts

Profuse

During sleep

Staining the linen

Sudden; and disappearing suddenly

From suppressed complaints

Generalities

Afternoon

3 p.m.

Evening

Draft

Anaemia; as from iron deficiency - greenish yellow skin

Extreme emotion

Blood vessels

congestion of blood

excited, rapid blood flow

veins and arteries swollen from inner pressure

Constriction

internally

of orifices

Eating and food; rotten sausages

Fluid build up

internal

excess of blood, or other fluids

Haemorrhage

Heaviness; externally

Inflammation

indurated (hard from inflammation)

indurated (hard from inflammation); glands

externally

internally

glands

nerves

Jar, stepping

Lying down; lying on abdomen

Movement

Aversion to movement

Narcotics

Pain

appear suddenly

appear suddenly; and disappear suddenly

glands

boring

burning externally; internally

cutting; externally

cutting; internally

gnawing, biting; bones

jerking; internally

paralytic

pinching

pressing; internally

pressing; as from load

sore, bruised; externally

sudden, sharp; externally

sudden, sharp; transversely

sudden, sharp; upward

sudden, sharp; bones

sudden, sharp; glands

sudden, sharp; muscles

tearing; externally

tearing; internally

tearing; downward

tearing; upward

Paralysis

internally

of organs

Symptoms from suppression of perspiration

Pulse

abnormal

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

full

hard

Quivering

Rising

Sensitive

externally

excessive physical irritability

After scarlet fever

Symptoms not symmetrical; right

At beginning of sleep

During sleep

Swelling

in general

of affected parts

inflammatory

glands

hot

inflammatory

painful

Tension

internally

bones

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); becoming cold; head

after becoming cold

Touch

slight touch

Walking

in the wind

Wavelike sensations

From getting wet; head

From wind; cold wind

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