Condensed Materia Medica

Clematis Erecta clem.

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Mind

Difficulty in thinking.
Fear of being alone, but disinclined to meet even agreeable company.
Low-spirited and fear of approaching misfortune.
Irritable, taciturn, does not want to go out.
Ailment from homesickness or contrition of spirit.

Sensorium

Dulness and cloudiness in the head, with tendency to vertigo.

Inner Head

Boring pain in the left temple.
Pressive, tensive pain in the forepart of the brain, worse walking than when sitting; with heaviness of the head.

Outer Head

Eruption on occiput, extending down the neck; moist, sore, with crawling and stinging-itching; often drying up in scales; itching worse when getting warm in bed; only slight, and but temporary relief by scratching.

Eyes

Smarting of the eyes worse when closing them; on reopening them, great sensitiveness to light.
Eyes smart, as if raw, capillaries enlarged, lachrymation; smarting worse when closing the eyes; sensitive to open air, fears to open them; "gets black" before the eyes.
Inflammation of the iris.
Burning, and inflammation of inner canthus.
Pustular conjunctivitis, with agglutination of lids in the morning.
Complaints from bright sunlight.

Ears

Ringing in the ears, as from bells.
Burning pain on the auricles, with heat.

Nose

Violent coryza, with sneezing.
Discharges streaked with blood.
Dryness of nose, with heat.

Face

Pale and sickly countenance.
Aching in the right side of face, which is tender to tough; better from smoking, worse when lying on painful side.
Shooting, upward, right side of face to eye, ear and temple.

Lower Face

Burning-cutting through the lower lip.
Cancer on the lip; pain in periphery of ulcer.
Vesicular eruption on the lip.
Suppurative pimples on the chin.

Teeth

Toothache: stitching and drawing worse at night, better for a short time from cold water; better when drawing in the air, better in open air; worse from warmth of bed, relieved by cold water; crumb of bread starts aching; worse from smoking tobacco; from syphilitic affections, when mercurialized.
Decayed teeth feel to long; contact extremely painful; free flow of saliva.
Gums of left lower molars pain, as if sore, worse while eating.

Tongue, etc

Tongue dry, in the morning, on awaking.

Mouth

Breath offensive to others.

Desires and Aversions

Long-lasting satiety; can eat, and with relish, yet immediately feels it is too much.
Aversion to beer.

Eating and Drinking

After eating, weakness in all the limbs, with pulsation in the arteries.

Nausea and Vomiting

Nausea, with weakness in the legs, from smoking tobacco.

Hypochondria

Bruised pain in the hepatic region, when touched or bending.

Abdomen

Lancinating pains, from belly to chest, aggravated by breathing, also during micturition.
Increased sensitiveness of both inguinal regions.
Swelling and indurating of the inguinal gland, with jerking pains.

Stool, etc

Frequent stools becoming more and more loose, without abdominal pain.
Constipation.

Urine

Vesical neuralgia; the urethra or seminal cord most affected.
Urine frequent but scanty.
Interrupted flow of urine, with burning during, but most at the beginning of micturition, or during the interruptions.
Sharp stitches in the urethra.
Urinary deposit pus-like.
Involuntary flow, by drops, after micturition.
Long-lasting contraction and constriction of the urethra, urine emitted by drops, as in spasmodic stricture.

Male Sexual Organs

Sexual desire weak.
Burning in the penis during seminal discharge in coitus.
Right spermatic cord sensitive, testicle drawn up.
Pain in the testicles, drawing to the spermatic cord.
Induration of the testicles.
Swelling of the right half of the scrotum; testicle relaxed, hanging down.
Involuntary erections by day.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses too early.
Softened scirrhus, with corrosive leucorrhœa and lancinating pains.

Pregnancy

Scirrhus of (left) mamma, with stitches in the shoulder or gland, or into the arm, very painful, worse during cold weather, during the night, during increasing moon; edges of ulcer sting.

Larynx

Dryness and burning in throat.

Breathing

Respiration impeded when ascending a hill, or walking over an uneven road.

Cough

Cough usually dry.

Lungs

Oppression of the chest.
Aching in the chest.
Left side of chest seems most affected.
Stitching pains in the chest.

Heart and Pulse

Sharp stitches in region of heart, from within outwards.
Pulse: unchanged; excited, with throbbing in the veins.

Neck and Back

Small of back: burning; pressure in; bruised pain.

Upper Limbs

Swelling of the axillary glands.
Pressing or drawing in the muscles of the arms and hands.
Rheumatic pains in the hands.
Arthritic nodes on the finger-joints.

Lower limbs

Scaly herpes on the thighs.
Burrowing, boring or pressive pains on the tibiæ.
Rheumatic pains in the lower limbs.
Violent itching of the toes, evenings, after lying down; sweat between the toes.

Limbs in General

Weakness, heaviness, weariness and bruised sensation.

Position, etc

Walking: 3, 26. Ascending: 26. Closing the eyes: 5. Bending: 18. Sitting: 3. Lying: 33, 36; on painful side: 8.

Nerves

Great debility.
Twitching of the muscles.
Vibratory sensation through whole body after lying down.

Sleep

Sleepiness, great desire to sleep during the day, even morning, early.
Sleeplessness, evening and night.
Uneasy sleep, dreaming and tossing about.
Unrefreshed from sleep, mornings.

Time

Morning: 5, 11, 37, 40. Evening: 33, 37. Night: 10, 24, 37, 40. Day: 22, 37.

Temperature and Weather

Sunshine: 5. Warmth of bed: 4, 10, 46. Uncovering: 40. Open air: 5, 10. Cold weather: 24. Cold water: 10, 46. Wet poultice: 46.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chill, with shivering, followed by sweat, without intervening heat.
Shivering from uncovering.
Dry heat, with general hot sensation only at night.
Heat of one side.
Profuse sweat at night, most toward morning, with aversion to uncovering.

Attacks

Increase of moon: 24, 46. Decrease of moon: 46.

Sides

Right: 8, 22, 28. Left: 3, 6, 10, 24, 28. Above downward: 4. Below up: 8, 21. Within outward: 29.

Tissues

Skin and muscles lax.
Hot, painful swelling of glands.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 8, 10, 18, 22. Scratching: 4.

Skin

Eruption looks inflamed during the increasing and dry during the decreasing moon; moist eczema, itching terribly; worse from washing in cold water, from warmth of bed, from wet poultices.
Dark, burning, miliary eruption, with violent itching.
Eruption on neck and occiput.

Stages and States

Light hair.
Torpid, cachectic conditions.

Relationship

Has the same impetigo on the neck and occiput as Petrol.
Clemat. follows Silic. well.
Antidote to Clemat.: Bryon. for the toothache.
Clematis vitalba is preferable to the Clem. erecta for varices, varicose ulcers.