Thuja Occidentalis - Face symptoms - T.F. Allen

FACE

Face

Objective.

Looks very ill, and is somewhat bloated in the face (twenty-first day); looks pale and earthy (twenty-fourth day),

Suffering expression,

Bad, sunken appearance (seventh day),

The face is wan, and the appearance bad all day (sixty-sixth day),

She looks very much disturbed, with a pale face, rapid emaciation, and great weakness, which, together with her derangement, she makes great effort to conceal from others,

The hitherto earthy expression becomes brighter (first four weeks),

The pale look in a fourteen year old girl gradually gave place to fresh red cheeks (during the first six weeks),

Pale yellow color of the face,

Constantly hot, fiery red face, with small fine varicosities itching very much,

Redness of the face, with cool extremities, in the afternoon (twenty-sixth day),

Looked pale (eighth day),

Constant paleness of the face,

Looks pale and sickly (eighty-fourth day),

Skin of the face unclean, as if dirty,

Face, oedematous, puffy for a long time,

Glistening white erysipelas of the face,

Subjective.

The face and lips feel swollen by paroxysms,

The face seems burnt by the sun, though it is not,

Burning tearing in the whole left side of the face, apparently in the periosteum, at dinner (sixteenth day),

Slight drawing in the right masseter, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth (seventy-second day),

Soon I perceived a slow drawing, sometimes darting pain, in the right half of the face, from the temple to the teeth; then the whole became sensitive, and increased in sensitiveness with the subsequent symptoms, in the course of the afternoon,

Drawing pain between the mouth and nose, as if the periosteum were tense; a pain extended over the nasal bones, as if a saddle were upon them,

Acute drawing pain in the face through the left cheek, teeth, ear, and down the side of the neck, worse when lying down at night, relieved when walking about and by warm covering,

Violent tearing in the face at night, with swelling of the cheeks, ending with an ulcerated tooth,

Tearing pain in the face, constantly increasing, with swelling of the left cheek, lasting five days (after second day),

Lightning-sticking pains in the face, extending into the left jaw, which has no teeth, through the ear, and into the head, by paroxysms,

Cheek.

Swelling of the glands on the side of the left cheek,

Over night the left cheek becomes thick, with tension in it, and drawing in the teeth, which increased till the next day, rose higher, to the eye, under which oedematous swelling appeared, then extended over the nose, and gradually spread over the other cheek, and after the second day it diminished, with aching in the gum, very general weak feeling, and a drawing nervous pain in all the limbs (a kind of oedematous erysipelas, in one who had never been subject to it), (seventh month),

Circumscribed burning redness of the cheeks, daily in the afternoon, with internal excitement and increased pains in the head and teeth,

Sensation as if a spot under the right nostril would become indurated (after three hours and a half),

Cramplike pain in the right cheek when the part is at rest (after half an hour),

Jerking, fine-sticking pain in the muscles of the cheeks, only when walking in the open air,

Boring pain in the left malar bone, relieved by touch (after seven, and twenty-nine hours),

Burrowing, painful itching in the left malar bone (after half an hour),

Tearing in the jaws, with swelling of cheeks, nose, and under the eyes, with heat and stinging and bruised feeling in them,

Crawling drawing in the left zygoma, which left behind, for a long time, a feeling or dulness (seventeenth day); appeared again on the same, and afterwards on the right side (eighteenth day),

Crawling and drawing in both zygomata, and in the left upper maxillary bone, came on instantaneously, and disappeared again as rapidly as it had appeared (first day),

Crawling drawing in the zygomata for six weeks,

Crawling and twitching extending towards the zygoma,

Stiffness of the left masseter muscles, painful on opening the jaws (after four days),

Transient drawing in the left superior maxillary bone, at 1 P.M. (sixth day); drawing in the left superior maxillary bone, at 5 P.M. (tenth day); in the right superior maxillary bone, in the forenoon (eleventh day),

Drawing tearing in the left side of the upper jaw by paroxysms,

Repeated gnawing-boring pain in the left upper jaw (after one hour and a half),

Violent tearing in the left upper jaw, extending towards the eye (after two hours),

Lips.

The whole of the lips, the gums, and the fraenum of the tongue are covered with a number of large and small white flat ulcers,

The lips are heated and cracked, and pain very acutely when eating,

The lips, gum, and tongue are very pale,

The upper lip, which has been thick for a long time, becomes still more swollen (second week),

The thick scrofulous upper lip becomes smaller (third week),

Blisters on the upper lip,

In the forenoon, on the upper lip, an elevated, red violently itching spot, which compelled him to scratch, but was gone without a trace, at the expiration of an hour (twenty-eighth day),

Slight heat and redness, with burning on the upper lip, in the morning (fifty-fourth day); upper lip somewhat swollen and burning (sixty-seventh day); violently itching tubercle makes its appearance upon the upper lip, near the right corner of the mouth (seventy-first day),

On the edge of the upper lip two small, dark red, burning spots, of the size of a lentil; on which, during the three following days, little elevations were developed, which dried up, and fell off (after ten days); later two new spots appeared, which ran the same course (tenth day),

The lower lip swells and becomes scurfy,

A large blister on the inner surface of the lower lip,

The lips are painful, as if burnt,

Twitching of the upper lip,

In the evening, sudden cramplike twitching of the under lip, and here and there in circumscribed spots on the skin (thirty-first day),

Jerking sensation in the upper lip, near the corner of the mouth,

Dryness of the lips without thirst (after eleven hours),

The upper lip is sensitive (seventy-seventh day),

Burning on the red of the lips and palate,

Cutting in the left side of the upper lip,

A cutting through the left half of the under lip, from below upward (second day),

(Stitches in the lips),

Fine itching in the inner side of the upper lip,

Chin.

The joints of the lower jaw crack when he yawns, a wholly unusual occurrence (thirty-seventh day),

Tearing drawing in the right lower jaw in the evening,

Tearing pains in the under jaw, which began on both sides, in the region of the joint, ran forward together in a line to the chin, united, and simultaneously disappeared,

Flying tearing in separate jerks, from the angle of the under jaw to the os hyoides, pretty deep in the integuments (forty-fifth day),

Stitches in the lower jaw coming out of the ear,

Needle-like stitches in the left lower jaw (after one hour and a half),

Violent drawing stitch in the angle of the left lower jaw, disappearing after touch (after eight minutes),

A boring stitch in the right side of the under jaw (sixty-first day),

Sticking pain in the left lower jaw, afterwards some acute stitches, as with needles in the left side of the brain, towards morning (sixty-seventh day),