Cimicifuga Racemosa - Chest symptoms - T.F. Allen

CHEST

Chest

Slight pain in chest,

Soreness of the chest (second day),

Lancinating pain along cartilages of false ribs, increased by inspiration,

Lancinating pain along the cartilages of the false ribs, increased by taking a long inspiration, soon after waking, at 3 A.M. The same pain, very severe and piercing, so as almost to prevent inspiration for a short time, immediately after retiring, between 10 and 11 P.M., and continuing for half an hour,

Prickling sensations during the day in the (female) mammae, with cold chills,

Sides.

Pain in the left side of the chest,

A catching pain in the left side, just where the heart is, which comes on when she bends her body forward, sometimes when sitting still at dinner and after dinner,

Acute pain in right lung, from apex to base, to the right of the sternum, aggravated by inspiration,

Acute pain in right lung, extending from apex to base, about two inches to the right of the sternum, aggravated by every inspiration, continuing for two hours, and gradually diminishing in intensity until after retiring; similar pain next morning, for half an hour, but much less severe (second day),

Pulse

Increased heat of face; slight inclination to sweat; pulse rather full, and 90 in the minute, it being nearly 80 before taking the drug (after three-quarters of an hour),

Respiration

Offensive breath,

Decidedly quickened respiration on waking,

Difficult respiration after slight exertion, with general feeling of illness,

Larynx and Bronchi.

Constant inclination to cough, from tickling in the larynx, increased by speaking,

Constant inclination to cough for half an hour, caused by a tickling sensation in the larynx, which almost prevents speaking, at 7.30 P.M.; an attempt to speak is followed by an inclination to cough (fourth day),

Sensation of slight contraction in the bronchial tubes, which rendered expiration somewhat difficult, after a full inspiration (after six hours),

Voice.

Hoarseness (fourth day), ; (after nine hours and a half),

Hoarseness after rising (second day),

Hoarseness, more towards night,

Hoarseness and roughness of throat,

Hoarseness, roughness, and scraping in the throat,

Hoarseness, with roughness and scraping of the throat,

Hoarseness; unpleasant fulness in pharynx (third day),

Slight hoarseness (fifth day),

Heart and pulse

Praecordium.

Pain in region of heart followed by slight palpitation; at the sixth hour the pain was felt all the time, and accompanied by frequent paroxysms of palpitation,

Stitches in the region of the heart or in the heart,

Heart's Action.

Palpitation and faintness,

Pulse.

Pulse quick and weak,

Pulse feeble and accelerated,

Pulse increased twelve beats (after three hours),

Pulse 70 or 80, irregular (after one hour),

Pulse ranged at about 80 (15-drop doses),

Pulse 86, full, hard, and irregular (after twenty minutes),

Pulse too slow, every third or fourth pulsation intermitting (second day),

Pulse too slow, every third or fourth beat intermitting,

Pulse fallen from 78 to 72 (after one hour),

Pulse went down to 69 (after six hours),

Depression of the pulse, which remains for a considerable time,

The pulse is considerably lowered, and is apt to remain so for some time,

Pulse very weak, with general feeling of lassitude and weakness, with heat and smarting of the face (after third dose),

Pulse weaker and very irregular; 80 to the minute (after three-quarters of an hour),

Feeble pulse (during the first twelve hours),

In the morning, pulse feeble, with weakness and trembling,

Pulse small,