Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum - Generalities symptoms - Hahnemann

GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Emaciation with chilliness in the back, redness of the cheeks, insomnia; the larynx is much affected, with hoarse, weary voice, anguish, distress, and extreme irritability as in a hectic fever.

Very tired and indolent, in the morning on awaking, so that she can hardly rise from her bed.

Lassitude in the morning, after rising from bed, so that she can hardly stand upright, continuing all day, with drowsiness.

He remains long in bed in the morning, tired and slumbering.

Very tired and heavy in the body, in the morning on rising from bed, after a sound sleep.

Great lassitude in the evening, with lack of tone and palpitation.

Lassitude on walking in the open air, after a meal, with stretching in all the limbs, as if he were about to have ague; on continuing to walk, a cold sweat came over him; and in the evening in bed, a sensation of heat, so that he did not fall asleep until two A.M.

Frequent yawning, causing pain in the chest.

Incessant yawning, from morning till noon.

Great drowsiness toward evening, with frequent, violent, almost convulsive yawning, so that he could hardly keep from lying down.

So sleepy and tired in the evening, that he fell asleep while sitting.

Sleep and dreams

Difficulty in going to sleep, and restless sleep.

Sleeplessness after midnight.

No sound sleep at night, only slumber.

Exuberance of ideas does not allow him to sleep after midnight.

After a lively evening's entertainment, he cannot sleep all the night.

In a long solid sleep, thoughts about his work kept revolving in his head, as if clouds were passing through.

For several days he was in a slumberous sleep, with constant dreaming about his daily business and many thoughts, which like clouds passed through his mind; at times he would wake up not ill-humored, give correct answers, satisfy his needs, and at once go to sleep again.

Too long and stupid a sleep, and then obtuseness of the head, as if full and stolid, with pressure in the temples, ailments as if from a spoiled stomach, eructation with the taste of the ingesta, and scraping in the throat, as if a rancid heartburn was coming.

Dreams, full of scolding.

Vexatious dreams.

Many dreams, at once on going to sleep, and anxiety all the night through, without awaking.

Dreams about dangerous affairs, fright and terror.

Anxious dreams, with sweat on the back on awaking.

Dreams he is vomiting pus and blood.

Anxious dreams of a conflagration; he feels as if falling, etc.

Dreams of escaping a danger.

Dreams that he hears shooting.

Heavy dreams, leaving behind them on awaking a state of fright.

Violent starting up in affright on going to sleep, also after a meal.

Before midnight, he sprang up out of sleep, called for help, and felt as if he could not get his breath.

On lying down at 10 P.M., great anxiety and restlessness in the whole body, with painful jerking of the lower limbs, which she had to keep moving for several hours; two evenings in succession.

At night, restlessness in the lower limbs, and trembling of the same.

Nocturnal nausea and vomiting.

She wakes up about midnight, with tickling in the throat, compelling her to cough and to expectorate.

He often awakes at night, with an erection and an urging to urinate.

At night cramp in the thigh, extending down into the foot.

In the morning in bed, cramp of the calves.

On awaking at night, though he has always been accustomed to sleep on the right side, he always finds himself lying on the back.

At night, the side on which he is lying after awhile pains him intolerably; he has to turn over.

He cannot sleep at night, for ebullition of blood.

At night, sleeplessness and a shaking chill for hours, so that he cannot get warm; without any subsequent heat.

Generalities

The pains are worst at night.

Aggravations of the pain during the nocturnal fever, chiefly during the chill.

Sensitiveness to the open air, with chilliness and frequent nausea.

Even a slight wetting of the body causes painful throbbing, here and there.

When walking in the open air, trembling in the knees, with anxiety, heat in the whole body and burning of the soles of the feet.

In the forenoon, several shivers run all over him, in the open air.

Great heaviness in the body; he does not know what ails him.

She feels heavy in all her limbs, as if she would have a cold.

Languor and bruised feeling in all the limbs.

In the morning in bed, weariness, restlessness in the legs, with stoppage of the nose.

Great weariness and palpitation, early on awaking.

Toward evening, from a slight pain, sudden severe syncope.

Much stretching and extension of the limbs every day.

Great, irresistible somnolence, in the evening; he has to lie down immediately after supper and he sleeps till morning.