Condensed Materia Medica

Ustilago Maydis ust.

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Mind

Great depression of spirits; irritable.

Sensorium

Frequent attacks of vertigo; things whirl before the eyes, are double; or, white speck come into view and blot all else.

Inner Head

Feeling of fulness of head, with dull, pressive frontal headache.
Pain on top and side of head; climaxis.

Eyes

Twitching of eyes, they seem to revolve in circles and dart from object to object.

Ears

Constant dull pain in left ear, caused by extension from inflamed tonsil.
Eyes feel hot on closing lids.
Eyes smart, balls ache; profuse lachrymation.

Face

Sudden pallor; coppery taste.

Tongue, etc

Slimy, coppery taste.
Pricking sensation in tongue with a feeling as if something was under its root pressing it upward.

Mouth

Saliva profuse; bitter.

Throat

Dryness of fauces, with difficult deglutition; with burning distress in stomach.
Tonsils congested, inflamed; left one very large, dark-colored, with dull pain, worse from swallowing.
Feeling as of a lump behind larynx, producing constant desire to swallow.
Sharp, lancinating pain in right tonsil.
Burning in œsophagus at cardiac orifice.

Desires and Aversions

Loss of appetite, followed by canine hunger.

Nausea and Vomiting

Eructations of food, strongly acid.

Stomach

Goneness in epigastrium; climaxis.
Faint feeling a number of times in epigastrium, with pain in region of liver and bowels.
Burning distress in sternum and stomach, with fine neuralgic pains.
Repeated fine, sharp cutting pains in epigastrium.

Hypochondria

Pain in region of right lobe of liver.

Abdomen

Fine cutting, colicky pains every few minutes; relieved by hard stool, followed by dull pains in bowels.
Pain in left inguinal region while walking.

Stool, etc

Black, dry, lumpy stools; costive.

Urine

First increase and light, with great desire; later, scanty and dark; hæmatemesis.

Male Sexual Organs

Erotic fancies; emissions; prostrated, dull, lumbar pains, despondent, irritable.
Seminal emissions, irresistible tendency to masturbation.

Female Sexual Organs

Constant aching, referred to the mouth of the womb.
Displaced uterus, with menorrhagia; cervix tumefied (swelled); bleeds when touched.
For days oozing of dark blood with small coagula; uterus enlarged, cervix tumefied or dilated.
Menses scanty, with ovarian irritation.
Bearing down as if everything would come through.
Burning distress in ovaries.
Acute pain worse in left ovary, with swelling; pains intermittent; shoot rapidly down legs.
Menses profuse, frequent coagula.
Between menses constant suffering under left breast, at margin of ribs.
Climaxis: vertigo, metrorrhagia.

Pregnancy

Produces abortion.
Labor-pains deficient; os soft, pliable, dilatable.

Lungs

Sharp tearing in left side from top of chest down to sixth or seventh rib, aggravated by breathing.

Heart and Pulse

Burning pain in cardiac region.

Position, etc

Sitting: 18. Walking: 19.

Sleep

Troubled, tosses about, dreams are troublesome; heat over body.

Time

Evening: 8. Night: 40.

Temperature and Weather

In a warm room felt oppressed, faint.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Internal heat through body, but worse in eyes, which are sensitive to light and sore to touch; pulse normal.
General heat during night after sleep.

Attacks

Every few minutes: 19.

Sides

Right: 13, 17, 18. Left: 6, 13, 19, 23, 28, 29. Above downward: 28.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 23, 40.