Kali Bichromicum - Generalities symptoms - Hering

GENERALITIES

Sleep

Unrefreshing sleep; feels debilitated, especially in the extremities.

During sleep frequent starts, incoherent talk, tossing of the arms.

Awakened with desire to urinate; by dyspnoea; palpitation; heat; headache.

Worse on awaking head and chest symptoms especially.

Nausea and vomiting

Eructations of air, relieving an uneasiness of stomach, as from pent up wind at the great curvature.

Fetid eructations.

Nausea, feeling of heat over body, with giddiness, rush of blood to head; worse on moving about, in the morning, at sight of food after meals, and after stool; excited by drinking and smoking; better by eating and in open air.

Giddiness, followed by vomiting of an acid white mucous fluid with pressure and burning in the stomach; also in ulcer of stomach.

Vomit sour, undigested; of bile, bitter; pinkish, glairy fluid; of mucus and blood; of blood, with cold sweat on hands, face hot; of yellow, purulent mucus.

Eating and drinking

Food lies like a load; sensation after a full meal, as if digestion was suspended.

Pressure and heaviness in stomach, immediately after eating.

Secondary bad effects from malt liquors; especially from larger beer.

Tissues

Bones feel bruised; caries.

Cracking in all the joints from the least motion.

Rheumatic pains in nearly all the joints.

Plastic exudations; ropy, stringy mucus.

Emaciation; anaemia.

Contact, Injuries, etc.

Desire to rub 5. Cannot bear clothing tight 17. Touch 4, 6, 7, 8, 13, 20, 31. Pressure 33. Pressure relieves 3. Rubs the eyelids 5.

Sensations

Pains in small spots, which can be covered with point of finger.

Pains attack first one part then reappear in another.

Heavy feeling in many parts.

Nerves

Prostration; face pale, cold sweat on face and body.

Weariness in the limbs, as the pains subside.

Temperature and weather

Complaints in hot weather 20, 23, 46. Better from warmth 27, 40. Cold 46. Open air 3, 8, 16. Undressing 27. Pains worse in winter.

Chill, Fever and Sweat.

Chilliness in the back, with sleepiness; seeks a warm place.

Chilliness alternating with flushes of heat.

Chilliness with giddiness and nausea, followed by heat, with sensation of coldness and trembling; periodical pains in the temples; without thirst.

Attack of chilliness from the feet upwards, and sensation as if the skull on the vertex became contracted, in frequently returning paroxysms.

Chill, followed in an hour by heat, with dryness of mouth and lips, which have to be moistened all the time; followed in the morning by great thirst but no sweat.

Ill-humor.

Chilliness, especially on the extremities, and flushes of heat alternating with general sweat.

Flushes of heat in the face.

Climaxis.

Heat of hands and feet; nausea; pain in the upper part of the abdomen; dryness of the mouth; sleeplessness; followed by sweat of hands, feet and thighs.

Burning heat of the upper part of the body and face, with internal chilliness and violent thirst.

Sweat on the back, during effort at stool; profuse while sitting quietly; cold on forehead and hands.

Attacks

Pains fly rapidly from one place to another, not continuing long at any place, and intermit.

Periodical attack 20.

Symptoms alternate.

Gastric symptoms supersede rheumatic.

Sides.

Right 4, 6, 7, 9, 18, 30, 33, 46. Left 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 17, 18, 29, 31, 32, 33. Left to right 31. Before backward 3, 19, 28. Behind forward 28. Above downward 31, 33. Below upward 40.

Generalities

Diphtheritic formations in nose, mouth, fauces, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and even uterus and vagina.