Psorinum - Generalities symptoms - Hering

GENERALITIES

Sleep

Sleepy by day; sleepless at night, from intolerable itching; dyspnoea; congestion to head.

Sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry fret, cry.

Dreams vivid, continue after awaking.

Dreams of robbers, danger, travelling, etc.

Sleepless after 12 P.M., from congestion to head.

On awaking, cannot get rid of the one persistent idea.

Nausea and vomiting

Eructations tasting like rotten eggs; sour, rancid.

Nausea morning, with pain in small of back; all day, with vomiting; vomiturition, followed by vomiting, first of blood, then of a sour, slimy fluid.

Eating and drinking

After eating 2, 3. While eating 11. Warm food 12. Cold food 12. Drinking 11.

Tissues

Body always has a filthy smell, even after a bath.

Thinner than usual; pale, exhausted.

Carries.

Dropsy.

Contact, Injuries, etc.

Touch 9, 10, 33. Pressure 18, 30; of bandage 23. Violent knock 23. Scratching 46. Riding 19, 20, 40.

Nerves

Weakness, especially without structural diseased changes.

Debility after acute diseases; after typhus with despair of recovery; thinks he is very ill, when he is not; appetite will not return; sweats from least exertion.

Nervous, easily startled.

Subsultus tendinum.

Temperature and weather

Feels a restlessness in his blood days before and during a thunder-storm.

Hot weather 4. Warmth 46. In bed 46. Air 7, 11. Uncovering 4. Washing 3.

Chill, Fever and Sweat.

Chilly, evening, upper arms, thighs, with thirst; drinking causes cough.

Evening heat, delirium, great thirst, followed by profuse sweat.

Heat when riding in a carriage.

Profuse sweats.

Sweats easily, weak.

Typhus picks bedclothes, reaches for objects in air.

Attacks

Every day same hour.

Every other day headache, thirst, cold.

Sides.

Right 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 18, 19, 23, 28, 32. Left 1, 2, 3, 6, 18, 23, 32, 34. Right to left 5. Side to side 10. Within outward 3, 4. Behind forward 26. Above downward 32, 33.