Plumbum Metallicum - Generalities symptoms - Hering

GENERALITIES

Sleep

Somnolency.

Great sleepiness during the day.

Sleeplessness at night from colic.

Nausea and vomiting

Eructations empty; sweetish.

Gulping up of sweetish water.

Vomiting of food and of discolored substances, with violent colic; of food in morning, with great weakness; of greenish and blackish substances; or of a thick white substance, like white of egg in chronic gastritis.

Vomit has a fecal odor.

Eating and drinking

After eating 13.

Tissues

Emaciation.

Dropsical swellings.

Contact, Injuries, etc.

Rubbing 5, 9, 19, 34. Pressure 17, 19. Touch 19.

Sensations

Sensation of constriction with pain and spasms in internal organs.

Tearing sharp pains, with cramps.

Nerves

Paralysis preceded by mental derangement, trembling, spasms, or by shooting, darting, intense, tearing pains in tracks of larger nerves; the parts emaciate; wrist-drop; caused by apoplexy, sclerosis of the brain or progressive muscular atrophy; alternating with colic.

Epilepsy, chronic forms; before the spell, legs heavy and numb, tongue swollen; afterward, long-lasting, stupid feeling in the head.

Temperature and weather

Open air 40, 46. In bed 40.

Chill, Fever and Sweat.

Chill predominates increasing toward evening, with violent thirst and redness of face.

Coldness in open air and when exercising.

Internal chill with external heat, in evening.

Chilliness in all the limbs.

Heat with thirst, anxiety, redness of face, and sleepiness.

Internal heat in evening and at night, with yellowness of the buccal cavity.

Sweat anxious cold and clammy or want of sweat.

Sweat comes and goes, as soon as he gets into bed.

Attacks

The ailments develop themselves slowly and intermit for a time; intermission every third day.

Sides.

Right 33. Left to right 13.