Remedy
Cyclamen Europæum cycl.
Relationships
Polar generals
Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica
C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · 1915
Region
Cerebro - spinal axis. Vision. Blood. Digestive tract. FEMALE SEX ORGANS.
Worse
Cold. Evening. Fresh air. Sitting. Fats.
Better
Motion. During menses. Weeping.
General
VISUAL EFFECTS or vertigo, from menstrual or gastric disorders. Dreads open air. Chlorosis.
Particulars
Dull, sad, sleepy and morose. Self-reproaches. Silent weeping. The room seems too small (Berb. Nat-c.). Brain feels wrapped up. Pain in l. temple. Prolonged migraine. Convergent squint. Blurred vision (Nat-m.). Fluttering, glittering or black vision. Sees stars. Sneezing, with itching in ear. Anosmia. Lost or salty taste. Hiccough; < pregnancy; with yawning. Hiccoughy eructation. Nausea in throat. Craves lemonade. Quick satiety. Loathing and nausea from the least food. Hyperemesis. Diarrhœa, < coffee. Menses; excessive, early, dark or changeable; clotted; membranous; less if in motion. Dysmenorrhœa. Coughs, without waking. Air seems to stream from nipples. Swelled breasts; < after menses. Milk in virgin breasts. Weakness; < in knees. Burning, sore heels. Pains in thinly covered bones. Chilly all over. Chilly, not > covers. Offensive sweat.
Related
Related: Pul.
Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica
H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · 1898
Keynote
Best suited for leuco-phlegmatic persons with anaemic or chlorotic conditions; easily fatigued, and in consequence not inclined to any kind of labor; feeble or suspended functions of organs or special senses. Pale, chlorotic; deranged menses (Fer., Puls.), accompanied by vertigo, headache, dim vision. Pains; pressive, drawing or tearing of parts where bone lie near the surface. Ailments: from suppressed grief and terrors of conscience; from duty not done or bad act committed. Great sadness and peevishness, irritable, morose, ill-humored; inclined to weep; desire for solitude; aversion to open air (rev. of Puls.). Headache in anaemic patients, with flickering before eyes or dim vision, on rising in morning. Flickering before eyes, fiery sparks, as of various colors, glittering needles, dim vision of fog or smoke. Satiety after a few mouthfuls (Lyc.), food then becomes repugnant, causes nausea in throat and palate. Saliva and all food has a salty taste; pork disagrees. Menses: too early, too profuse, black and clotted; membraneous (too late, pale, scanty, Puls.); better during the flow (worse, Act., Puls.). Burning sore pain in heels, when sitting, standing or walking in open air (Agar., Caust., Val., Phyt.).
Relations
Compare: Puls., Cinch., Fer. in chlorosis, and anaemic affections; Croc., Thuja as if some thing alive in abdomen.
Aggravation
Open air; cold water; cold bathing; menses < sitting and lying at night.
Amelioration
In a warm room; in-doors; menses > waling (leucorrhoea, < sitting, > walking, Cac., Coc.).
Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · 1887
Eyes
Patient sees stars all the time, with dimness of vision.
Generalities
Affections of the inner temples; of the perineum. Want of appetite; nausea in the throat; hiccough. Simple pressure in the muscles; tearing with drawing and pressure in the bones; pain as if paralyzed; itching better by scratching.
Worse
In the evening; from fat food; while resting; when sitting; when standing.
Better
From moving; from stroking with the hand; after rising from a seat; from scratching; from being touched; while walking.
Remedies following
Phosphor., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Sulphur.
Antidote
Coffea.
Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica
J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · 1905
Red line symptom
Flickering before the eyes, as of various colours, glittering needles, fiery specks and sparks.
Homœopathic Materia Medica
William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition
Common name
Sow-bread (CYCLAMEN)
General
Large doses produce violent purging and vomiting; disturbed digestion with very salty saliva. Anæmic and chlorotic conditions. Affections of uterus. Gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary tracts affected, inducing secondary anæmia and various reflexes. Sleepiness, moroseness, and lassitude. Cough at night while asleep without waking, especially in children (Cham; Nitr ac).
Head
Terrors of conscience. Grieves over duty neglected. Depression, with weeping desire to be alone. Aching in morning, with flickering before eyes; sneezing with itching in ear. Vertigo; things turn in a circle; better in the room; worse, open air. One-sided headache. Frequent sneezing with itching in ears.
Eyes
Dim vision, worse on waking, with spots before eyes. Flickering of various colors. Convergent strabismus. Sees countless stars. Diplopia. Disturbance of vision, associated with gastric disturbances.
Stomach
Salty taste; hiccough-like eructation worse, fat food. Diarrhœa after every cup of coffee; hiccough. Satiety after a few mouthfuls. Disgust for meat, especially pork. Desire for lemonade. No thirst all day.
Rectum
Pain about anus and perineum, as if a spot were suppurating, when walking or sitting.
Female
Menses profuse, black, membranous, clotted, too early, with labor-like pains from back to pubes. Flow less when moving about. Menstrual irregularities with megrim and blindness, or fiery spots before eyes. Hiccough during pregnancy. Post-partum hæmorrhage, with colicky bearing-down pains, with relief after gush of blood. After menses, swelling of breasts, with milky secretion.
Extremities
Pains in parts where bones lie near surface. Burning, sore pain in heels. Cramp-like contraction of right thumb and index finger. Pains in periosteum. Chilblains.
Skin
Acne in young women, pruritus better scratching and appearance of menses.
Modalities
Worse, open air, evenings, sitting, standing, and cold water. Better, during menstrual flow, by moving about, rubbing parts; in warm room, lemonade.
Relationship
Compare: Ambra; Pulsat; Cinchona; Fer cit et Chin.
Dose
Third attenuation.
Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics
E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · 1899
Leaders
Violent headache, with flickering before the eyes, or stops and various colors, < in the morning and at the menses.
Text Book of Materia Medica
Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · 1866
Mind and Disposition
Taciturn, depressed, out of humor. Inclined to internal, undemonstrative grief. Sudden change of sadness and cheerfulness. Weakness of the memory. Dulness of the mind and indisposition to perform any sort of labor.
Head
Vertigo ; when leaning against something, he feels as if the brain were in motion. Vertigo ; increasing when exercising in the open air, relieved when sitting in a room. Stitches in the left temple, the forehead, with dizziness. Headache in the morning, when rising. Stitches in the head (temples ; forehead, when stooping). Congestion of blood to the head ; increased sensation of heat as the head. The headache is ; relieved by applications of cold water. Fine, sharp, itching, stinging in the hairy scalp, which constantly reappears in another place after scratching ; worse in the evening and when at rest, better from motion.
Eyes
Dilatation of the pupils. The eyes lie deep in the orbits, look dim, and are surrounded by blue rings. Itching of the eyelids. Swelling of the upper eyelids. Obscuration of sight. Double vision ; strabismus. Burning in the eyes ; worse when reading.
Ears
Itching in the ears, with increased secretion of wax. Hearing diminished.
Nose
Diminished sense of smell. Fluent coryza (morning).
Face
Pale face. Small pimples in the face, rapidly filling up and then drying up.
Mouth and Throat
Dryness of the lips, without thirst. Increased secretion of tenacious mucus in the mouth. Mouth and throat redder than usual. Tongue coated white. Fine stitches ; in, the surface of the tongue. Redness of the tip of the tongue, with small, burning blister, impeding speech and mastication, with increase of saliva. The upper lip feels numb, as from an induration. Burning on the tip of the tongue (evening). Food tastes flat. Dryness in the throat. Sensation of painful constriction in the throat. Burning and scraping in the throat. The tonsils and palate are shrivelled and white.
Stomach and Abdomen
Aversion do cat bread and butter ; less aversion to warm food. After eating but little, aversion to the rest of the food, with sensation of nausea in the throat. Thirst during the night. Thirst and hunger, with dryness in the throat. Nausea and accumulation of water in the mouth. Nausea and fulness in the chest, with unusual hunger (morning). Nausea (morning ; after eating fat food). Vomiting of blood. Nausea caused by eating and drinking ; could only drink lemonade without being nauseated. Vomiting of mucus followed by sleep. Fulness and pressure in the stomach, -pit of the stomach,- as if he had eaten too much. Stitches in the stomach, region of the liver, navel, abdomen. Sensitiveness, when moving, of the abdomen to pressure. Rumbling in the intestines.
Stool and Anus
Frequent discharge of hard stool (hard lumps). Diarrhœa, watery, papescent, with vomiting at night. Pressure in the rectum. Discharge of blood from the rectum. Drawing, pressing pain in and about the anus and perineum, as from subcutaneous ulceration, when walking or sitting.
Urinary Organs
Frequent copious emission of whitish urine. Stitches in the urethra, with desire to urinate, followed by a sudden discharge of dark red-yellow urine. Frequent micturition, with pressure on the bladder and rectum. Urine dark-colored, with flakes floating in it.
Sexual Organs
Men. The prepuce and corona glandis feel sore from slight rubbing. Women. Catamenia too profuse and too frequent. Before menstruation (at night) labor-like pains ; the abdomen was bloated and swollen on the previous day ; the menstrual blood is black and clotted. Secretion from the swollen mammæ, like milk.
Respiratory Organs and Chest
When reading aloud the voice is weak. Scraping and dryness in the pharynx, causing a suffocative cough. Oppression of the chest, with impeded breathing. Sensation of great weakness in the chest, as if there was not strength enough to breathe. Pressure in the sternum. Palpitation of the heart ; stitches in the region of the heart.
Back and Neck
Dull stitches in the region of the kidney ; worse when drawing a long breath. In the neck stiffness ; a paralytic pain.
Extremities
Upper. Paralytic hard pressure in the upper and forearm, as if in the periosteum and interiorly in the muscles, extending to the fingers, hindering writing. Cramp-like, slow contraction of the right thumb and index ; they have to be extended by force. Stinging itching or pricking, as from needles between the fingers, ceasing after scratching. Sensation of numbness in the right hand. Lower. Cramp-like pain in the posterior surface of the thigh, above the bend of the right knee. Sensation as if sprained in the left foot. Soreness in the heels when walking. Feet (toes) frost-bitten (looking red).
Generalities
Pressing, drawing pains, generally in the periosteum or where the skin covers the bones. Weakness, especially in the evening, with ill-humor and sleepiness ; better when moving about.
Fever
Pulse double heat. Attacks of chilliness in the morning or evening. During the evening chill, great sensitiveness to cold air or to being uncovered. After the chill heat, especially of the face, -the hands remaining cold for a long time. Heat after eating. Perspiration at night, during sleep, of offensive smell.
Skin
Itching ; pricking at night, especially at night in bed ; disappearing in one place when scratching, but reappearing at once at another place.
Conditions
Aggravation when at rest and in the evening. As long as he moves about he feels well, but as soon as he sits down, especially in the evening, he experiences various inconveniences. Aggravation from eating fat food ; while reposing (when sitting, standing). Amelioration from moving (walking).
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902
General
Cyclamen Europæum. Sow-bread. N. O. Primulaceæ. Tincture of the root gathered in spring.
Clinical
Anæmia. Bones, pain in. Chlorosis. Climacteric sufferings. Coryza. Diplopia. Dyspepsia. Enteralgia. Eyes, affections of . Headache. Heel, pain in. Hiccough . Menstruation, disorders of. Mental derangement. Pregnancy, sickness of; disorders of. Prostatitis. Rheumatism. Strabismus. Thirst, absence of . Urethritis. Vertigo. Weaning, complaints after. Writer's-spasm.
Characteristics
Cyclamen has a traditional reputation as a remedy for affections of the uterus and appendages. The later provings have demonstrated the correctness of this. It is in many ways analogous to Pulsatilla , from which it differs mainly in having no > from open air; and in not having thirstlessness as so frequent an accompaniment of other conditions.
It is suited to the phlegmatic temperament; blonde leucophlegmatic subjects with chlorotic conditions; disinclined for labour and easily fatigued; special senses enfeebled or their functions suspended. Debility, torpidity of mind and body. Dulness of senses; flickering before the eyes; squint, especially in connection with menstrual irregularities or fevers; after convulsions, convergent squint; left eye drawn inwards. Amblyopia, diplopia, hemiopia. Many digestive disturbances; saliva has a salty taste, which is communicated to all food eaten. After eating but little, satiety, aversion to food, with nausea in palate and thirst. Desire for lemonade. Aversion to bread, butter, meat, fat, beer, and ordinary food; craving for inedible things; for sardines. Frequent vomiting in morning. Hiccough is very marked. Hiccough during pregnancy. Prostatic troubles, with stitches and pressure, urging to stool and micturition. Menstruation too early, with some relief of melancholy mood and heaviness of feet. Scanty or suppressed menstruation, with headache and vertigo. During pregnancy: hiccough; loathing and nausea in mouth and throat; complaints after weaning. Pressing, drawing, or tearing pains at parts where bones lie near surface. Chilliness. Itching leaving a numb sensation. Chilblains; itching and pricking, < at night in bed. Eidherr, of Vienna, has given the best account of this remedy ( Allg. Hom. Zeit ., liv. 7, translated H. R ., viii. 558). Hahnemann proved it on males only, eliciting as leading symptoms: "Stupor, sluggish memory, vertigo , dull, pressing headache, obscured sight, dilated pupils, drawing pains in neck and teeth; nausea, eructation, disgust for food, hiccough following soon after dinner; stitching, pinching pains in abdomen; flatulence and pressure to urinate. Oppression of chest, pressing pain in chest, drawing and stitching pain in back. Sawing pressure, drawing and stitching in extremities; prostration and itching. Moroseness, sleepiness, lassitude, troubled, heavy dreams; chilliness of whole body alternating with heat, thirstlessness, disinclination for work or conversation, great dejection and melancholy; at times joyous sensations with lively phantasies." The Vienna provings corroborated these, but, including both sexes, also elicited symptoms in the female sexual sphere: Menstruation more copious; more frequent; too early, with severe abdominal pains. Accompanied with labour-like pains; flow excessive, black and lumpy. Recommencement of menses after protracted cessation (clinical). Eidherr's clinical experience illustrates in a remarkable way Cyclamen's sphere of action. His cases include: 4 of chlorosis; 9 of retarded and scanty menstruation; 18 of complications with vertigo and headache accompanying scanty menses; 2 of diplopia; 1 of strabismus. In numbers of cases Cycl . developed ocular symptoms in the patients, in 15x and 3x. In one instance a higher potency of the same remedy antidoted this effect. He found the remedy especially suited to blonde leuco-phlegmatic subjects. (But one of the cured was a Jewess and was presumably not a blonde.) It will be noticed that the "sleepiness, moroseness, and lassitude," and also the vertigo noted by Hahnemann, are prominent in many of Eidherr's cases. Josepha K., 24, blonde, pale delicate skin, pale lips and gums, had menstruated normally till 22, when she got wet at a picnic just as menstruation was starting. It stopped at once and did not reappear till ten months later, after vigorous use of all kinds of domestic remedies. Now the periods were accompanied by terrible abdominal, labour-like pains, lasting eleven hours. Menses recurred every two or four months, always with the pains, starting from sacrum, extending along both sides of abdomen to pelvis. They were periodical, every one, two, or five minutes, during which time there was no flow; the blood appearing after these attacks was somewhat watery. Other symptoms were: Eyelids slightly œdematous; pressing pain in forehead; vertigo frequently changing into syncope; chilliness of whole body; disturbed, unrefreshing sleep interspersed with terrible dreams; continued loathing for meat; longing for salt fish; frequent vomiting in morning. After partial relief from Puls ., Cyclamen made a complete cure. The ocular symptoms which developed were remarkable. The vertigo and headache were untouched by Puls ., but quickly subsided under Cycl . 15x. On their disappearance she saw fiery flames dancing before her eyes on awakening at night, and in the morning she saw everything double. And she had the hallucination as if two persons lay in her bed, and that the body of the other overlapped hers by half. Cycl . was discontinued and in two days her sight was normal. Anna F., 20, blonde, menstruated since her tenth year. In seventeenth year suffered from chlorosis; ever since, menstruation regular, but lasting only one-two days in a moderate degree. Is troubled also at other times by vertigo and pressing pain in forehead and temples, which attacks are ameliorated by footbaths with ashes. Appetite poor; little thirst; stool regular; sleeps too long; always sleepy; is of dejected mood, morose; all movements, as well as speech, languid; palpitation. Puls . made no change. Cycl . 3x quickly improved headache, vertigo, and spirits. After three days sight became obscured, and there was glimmering before eyes. A vivacious Jewess, 16, menstruated twice regularly after the first commencement in June, then went six weeks, and by the end of December the recurrence entirely ceased. She lost spirits, sought seclusion, was offended by very trifles; her usual work was distasteful to her, and she could not be prevailed upon to leave the house for a walk. She would sleep unusually long in the morning. The hitherto blooming girl had become pale, anæmic, with swollen eyelids; lips and gums pale; heart turbulent. She complained chiefly of great lassitude compelling her to rest frequently on going up stairs; palpitation without cause; she was apprehensive, had a feeling as if all the rooms were too small, and yet would not leave the house. All pastimes rejected; was only content when she could seclude herself and sit down and weep. During the forenoon often had pressing pains in forehead with vertigo; appetite poor; stool sluggish. March 14th Cycl . 15x was prescribed. After several weeks the headache and vertigo had become less severe and the attacks less frequent. April 19th the period set in, and with its flow headache and vertigo left her completely. May 15th, menstruation recurred rather copiously, and the patient was well. Two cases of pulmonary catarrh were cured, both had pressing headache and vertigo and one scanty menses as well. The following case of hemicrania was cured: Theresa F., 37, had menstruated sparingly and irregularly (often at two or three months' intervals). For four years suffered from violent headache affecting right side of head and face; coming every 8-14 days, spells lasting 12-36 hours. During menstruation the attacks were extra severe. Patient was emaciated; skin, gums, and lips pale. Right eye closed owing to cramps in eyelids; when forcibly opened a stream of hot tears gushed out; otherwise the eye was normal. Under Cycl . 3 the symptoms diminished, but there appeared "glittering sparks before the eyes" and these remained after all symptoms of headache had gone. Cycl . was given persistently, the periods became regular and rather copious and the headaches entirely ceased. Another case (in a wet-nurse who had just weaned her baby) presented unceasing, violent, stitching pain in temporal region extending to vertex. Throbbing temporal arteries. Bell . diminished the pain, but vertigo came on. Under Cycl . 3x headache and vertigo disappeared altogether, but the patient complained of her sight having 3 become so weak that she did not dare to walk alone . This passed off when the medicine was discontinued and her headache did not recur. Cycl . 15x cured a boy of violent squinting. Six months before, he had a fall from a table; convulsions followed, and after the second attack the squinting came on. Arnica was given and the convulsions did not recur, but the squinting remained. Cycl . 15x was given, and after a few weeks the squint entirely disappeared. (Wurmb cured a case of squint in a coachman with Cycl .) Acute rheumatism with retrocession of menses was also cured by Eidherr. His last case was remarkable and important. Theresa P., 30, of short, robust stature, had never been ill till ten years previously. At that time, without apparent infection, an eruption appeared over her whole body with terrible itching. It was declared to be itch and was driven away with Sulphur ointment. With the receding of the eruption her eyesight waned so that she was soon unable to walk without a guide. She sees large objects only in outline and only then if in a strong light; in closed rooms she cannot discern anything. The pupils are dilated, but there are no other objective symptoms. She had never menstruated. She complains of congestions of the blood about every three or four weeks, accompanied by headache, a pressing vertigo, heaviness and frequent trembling of the lower extremities and of a pressure towards the parts. For several months she experienced an itching of the skin over the whole body, which becomes intolerable, especially during the time she should have her period. There is nothing to be seen, however, on the skin. In September Sul . 15x was given and quickly relieved the skin symptoms; but later (in the beginning of December) she sought relief for a violent headache and vertigo. Cycl . 3x lessened these by the fourth day. A week later she reported both symptoms gone; but now "fiery balls danced continually before her eyes." Cycl . 15x three times a day. Shortly after (December 27th) the fiery balls ceased to trouble her. Early in January the menses reappeared, with considerable abdominal pains, and the headache and vertigo had disappeared altogether. Thereafter menses appeared regularly and copiously. From Dr. Eidherr's account no improvement appears to have been effected in the power of vision. Dr. George Royal (of Des Moines, Iowa) records another use of this drug. A medical man had suffered from soreness of the heel for over three months. The soreness seemed to be in the bone, and was < sitting or standing. Not so much noticed on walking. Rhus, Kali bi ., and Phos. ac . had done no good. Cycl . 30 cured in a week. It also cured, in three days, a case almost identically similar. The only < here was on standing, Cycl . has cured migraine with scintillations after the failure of Iris v . In the case recorded the headache increased as the vision returned, the head seemed about to burst ( Kali bi .) Itching, pricking < at night in bed. Many symptoms are < by rest, > on walking about. Sitting < menstrual flow. Drawing shoulders forward < , drawing them backward > twinges in back. Many symptoms are < at night. Open air < , cold water > headache. > From moistening diseased parts and from bathing. < From eating at night.
The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91
Mind
Consciousness almost extinct.
Very active memory, which alternates with weak memory.
Mental labor impossible on account of dullness or stupefaction.
Absorbed in deep thought, seeks solitude, thinks about his future.
Confusion of head ; questions answered incoherently.
Loss of former cheerfulness ; love of solitude ; aversion to work and to open air ; sensation as if room was too small, with reluctance to going into open air ; solitude and weeping give relief. θ Suppression
of menses.
Disinclined to work, with weakness.
Taciturn, depressed, out of humor.
Joyful feeling with trembling ; exuberant spirits.
Joyous feeling, alternating with irritability.
Serene humor changes suddenly into seriousness or peevishness.
Great sadness, as if he had committed a bad action or not done his duty.
Great sadness and peevishness ; menses suppressed, or scanty and painful.
Melancholy ; inclined to tears, and silent grief.
Vertigo, with pain in head and nausea ; vomits nearly every day, and often all the food taken, with slime and bile ; greatly reduced, can scarcely walk across floor ; pains in head continuous, but very much worse at times ; < in right
temple ; but extend all over head ; mind so affected as to make her indifferent to what transpired about her, and rendered her incompetent to describe her own case ; finally consciousness almost extinct ; questions answered incoherently ; feces and urine pass
involuntarily and unconsciously. θ Mental derangement at climacteric period.
On awaking, weariness, clammy mouth and irritable mood.
Ill humor ; disposition to weep ; fear of death, or an illusion of being deserted or persecuted by every one.
Anxiety, with nausea, at night.
Ill humor, after vomiting.
Ill humored, morose mood ; could easily take offense at every trifle.
Obstinate, irritable, fault-finding disposition.
Solitude and weeping give relief.
Ailments from inward grief and terrors of conscience.
Sensorium
Insensibility ; rush of blood with anxiety ; impaired sight and diminished intellectual powers.
Attacks of faintness, cloudiness or obscuration of sight.
Sensation as if brain were moving within cranium, or as it does when riding in a wagon with closed eyes.
Feels as if brain was in motion when leaning against something.
Vertigo with dyspepsia when lying down, > by motion, in nervous subjects.
Vertigo : objects turn in a circle, or about her, or make a see-saw motion ; when walking in open air ; > in a room and when sitting ; with dimness before eyes.
Confusion of head, with obscuration of vision.
Dizzy, fulness and heat of head ; congestion of blood.
Dulness of all the senses.
Inner head
Pressing pain in forehead, vertigo, and frequently unconsciousness, with chilliness over whole body. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Pains violent, pressing, darting, stitching, boring, chiefly in forehead, temples and vertex, accompanied by sadness and melancholy ; chilliness and nausea ; obstinate, irritable, fault finding disposition.
Pain in forehead towards evening, with vertigo.
Violent frontal headache.
Stinging pain in forehead and temples.
Stitches in temples ; in forehead when stooping.
Stitching, darting or boring pains in temples.
Stitches in head disappear by touch ; some complaints < when lying on back or on painful side.
Pains one sided, generally left temple.
Headache on rising and again in evening ; < left side, increasing till patient vomits, then > ; < by motion and open air. θ Climaxis.
Vertigo, with pain in head and nausea ; pains continuous, but very much worse at times ; < in right temple, but extend all over head. θ Mental
derangement.
Slight pressure in vertex, as if brain was enveloped in a cloth, which would deprive him of his senses.
Oppression stupefaction of whole head, with obscuration of vision ; it seems as though a fog were before sight, and as though eyes were about to close.
Headache with obscuration of vision ; pale complexion, rings around eyes, depraved appetite, enfeebled digestion and menstrual irregularities. θ Anemia.
Headache with flickering before eyes on rising in morning.
Sensation as if brain wobbled about while walking ; menses suppressed or scanty ; patient chlorotic.
Attacks of heat and throbbing in head.
Rush of blood to head with anxiety and confusion ; obscuration of vision ; dizziness ; general coldness, after dinner.
Periodical congestion to head, with paleness of face.
Headache < in evening or in morning when rising ; > by applications of cold water.
Gastric headache.
Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1905
Remarks
Aversion to motion, yet motion ameliorates her pain and uneasiness. Aversion to the open air, yet open air ameliorates some symptoms especially the coryza and cough.
The marked dullness of the senses and special senses is a striking part of this picture.
Chlorosis; irregular menses; and palpitation. Stitching pains.
Weakness and aggravation from exertion. Flabby muscles.
Most symptoms ameliorated by walking. Very restless at night.
Great lassitude.
Weakness in the evening, ameliorated by moving about. Sensitive to cold, and cold air.
Complaints from being overheated.
Alternations of moods is a striking feature of the mental state. Great flow of ideas alternates with weak memory.
Joyous feeling alternating with irritability.
Serene humor changes suddenly into seriousness or peevishness. Grief and fear keep her in continuous mental agitation.
Dullness of mind prevents mental labor.
Absorbed in thought seeks solitude; thinks about the future. Answers incoherently, confusion of mind.
Aversion to work, and dread of open air.
Wants to remain in a warm room, and. in solitude.
Remains a long time silent. Excitement with trembling.
Sadness, as if she had wronged somebody (Aur.).
Tearful and meditates upon her grief, which is only imaginary.
Thinks she is alone in the world and persecuted by every one ( China).
Obstinate and censorious. She grows steadily weaker; fainting spells come on; she becomes pale and anemic.
These symptoms are important if associated with scanty menses or amenorrhoea.
Vertigo when walking in the open air; objects turn in a circle; ameliorated in a room, and when sitting. Everything turns dark before the eyes, and she falls as if fainting.
Head
The pain in the head is stunning, and makes her fear she will lose her senses. Boring, darting, pressing in forehead and temples. Violent pains in the forehead.
Pains worse lying on painful side or back. Pains one-sided. Pain morning and evening, ameliorated by vomiting; worse by motion and in open air. Obscure vision with the pains. Pressure in vertex, as if brain were enveloped in a cloth, which would deprive him of his senses.
Headache with flickering before the eyes on rising in the morning. Pulsating in the head. Rush of blood to the head; anxiety and confusion of mind; obscuration of vision; vertigo; general coldness, after dinner. Headache ameliorated by cold applications. Headaches from disordered stomach. Head feels as if he had on a skull cap. Tearing pains in the scalp.
Senses
In the field of vision there are spots, fog, bluish colors, Flickerings, glittering objects; various colors - now yellow, and again green; fiery sparks, smoke; halo around the light, black specks or flies.
Dimness of vision. Diplopia. Convergent strabismus. Dilated pupils. Hemiopia. Heat and burning. Lids oedematous. Swelling of tipper lids, Dryness and itching of lids. Dim vision during headache. Impaired vision, smell, hearing and taste.
Dullness of hearing. Humming, ringing and roaring in the ears. Drawing pains.
Sense of smell diminished. Dryness in the nose. Dry, or fluent coryza, worse in a warm room, better in the open air or cool room. Sneezing and watery discharge in a warm room, entirely relieved in the open air. Walking in the cold open air is his most comfortable pastime. Pressing pain over nasal bone during coryza. Takes cold from being overheated and from overheated rooms.
Pale, sickly face; dark under the eyes in woman. Contracted forehead - a frown.
Dry lips. Numbness of upper lip.
Boring, stitching, tearing in the teeth. Jerking in the teeth at night. Taste is lost, or perverted; flat; bad; putrid; rancid; all food tastes too salty.
Tongue white, or yellowish. Burning blisters on tongue.
Saliva increased. Burning, tip of tongue. Saliva tastes salty. Viscid mucus in the mouth.
Burning, dryness and scraping in the throat.
Loss of appetite and even aversion to food. Thirstless, except in the evening during fever. Desires lemonade ( Nit. ac., Bell., Sab.).
Aversion to bread and butter, and fatty things; but desires inedible things.
Disgust for meat; craves sardines. Satiety after the first mouthful (Lyc.) and then he loathes food.
Stomach weak. Nausea after eating. Pork disagrees. The stomach symptoms are much like Pulsatilla. Symptoms worse after coffee. Vomiting after eating.
Vomiting in the morning. Vomiting watery mucus. Eructations. Aching in the stomach and burning in oesophagus, better by walking about. Fullness, as if he had eaten too much. Weight in the stomach after eating. Stitching pains in the stomach.
Abdomen
Colicky pains in the abdomen, ameliorated by walking about. Tenderness all over the abdomen, even hypogastrium. Gnawing pains in the evening. Gnawing pains after food. Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen. Paroxysmal cramps during the night, ameliorated by walking about. Stitching pains in the abdomen and liver.
Diarrhoea after coffee. Diarrhoea in chlorotic women subject to sick headaches and menstrual irregularities. Watery, forcible stool, odorless, brownish, yellow. Diarrhoea in the evening. Constipation; stool hard. Nausea. Colic before stool. Colic and urging after stool. Hemorrhoids that bleed. Drawing, pressing pain about the anus, as if a spot would suppurate.
Urines
Frequent urging to urinate. Ineffectual urging to urinate. Urine profuse, watery. Floculent sediment; iridescent cuticle. Stitching in the urethra with desire to urinate.
In the male the sexual desire is diminished. Irritable prostate gland, with stitching pains; urging to stool and urine ( Nux).
Menses too soon, or too late; irregular, or suppressed; copious, prolonged, or scanty. When profuse, the mental symptoms are better. Flow black and clotted. Labor-like pains at the menstrual period, commencing in small of back and running down each side of the pubes.
Uterine haemorrhage. Dread of open air. Menses suppressed, palpitation of the heart, weeping, aversion to company and dread of open air. Rush of blood to the head, and scanty flow.
Suppressed menses from over-exertion, or being overheated. Faint, ing at the menstrual period. After menses, milk in mammae. Complaints after weaning ( China).
Much scraping in the Larynx at night, thick, white mucus. Tickling in the larynx and trachea. Oppression of chest. Suffocative cough, caused by scraping and dryness in the trachea.
Cough comes on during sleep, from dryness and constriction of larynx. Cough ameliorated in the open air, even in a cold wind.
Pressure in the middle of the sternum. Weakness in the chest. Stitching in the chest and heart. Tearing, stitching, and shortness of breath during motion and rest.
Palpitation and anaemic murmurs. Tumultuous action of the heart; great lassitude. Weak pulse. Sensation as if air streamed from nipples. Mammae swollen, containing milk in non-pregnant women. Mammae swollen and very hard after menses.
Drawing pains in the neck, with stiffness. Twinges up the back, ameliorated by drawing the shoulders back. Stitching in the region of the right kidney, worse during inhalation. Pain in the small of the back while sitting, ceases on rising.
Tearing, drawing pains in the limbs. Hyperesthesia of the skin. Flabby muscles. Tearing, drawing in the upper limbs. Sensation of weakness of the hands, as if she must let fall what she holds in her hands. Writer's cramp.
Drawing pains in flexors of the leg. Burning sore pain in heels. Toes feel dead after walking. Weakness in the limbs.
Sleep not restful, disturbed by anxious dreams; frightful, vivid dreams, Restless sleep. Late falling asleep. Wakens early, but wants to sleep late. Nightmare. Wakens early, but too tired and sleepy, cannot rise. Pollutions in dreams.
Chill, fever and sweat. Chill not ameliorated by warm clothing. Chilliness during menses. Chill forenoon or evening. Chill predominates in the evening. Heat of face follows chill. Chill and heat alternate.
Sensation of heat through whole body, particularly in face and hands. Heat, with swelling of the veins ( China). General heat after eating. Sweat at night during sleep, offensive, Sweat sometimes on lower part of body.
Itching at night in bed. Numbness after scratching, or changing places by scratching.
The Therapeutics of Fevers
H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1879
Characteristic
Best suited for leuco-phlegmatic persons with anæmic or chlorotic conditions; easily fatigued, and in consequence not inclined to any kind of labor; feeble or sus- pended functions of organs or special senses.
Pale, chlorotic, deranged menses (Fer., Puls.), accompanied by vertigo, headache, dim vision.
Pains; pressive, drawing or tearing of parts where bones lie near the surface.
Ailments: from suppressed grief and terrors of conscience; from duty not done or bad act committed.
Great sadness and peevishness; irritable, morose, ill-humored; inclined to weep; desire for solitude; aversion to open air (rev. of Puls.).
Headache in anæmic patients, with flickering before eyes or dim vision, on rising in morning.
Flickering before eyes, fiery sparks, as of various colors, glittering needles; dim vision of fog or smoke.
Satiety after a few mouthfuls (Lyc.), food then becomes repugnant, causes nausea in throat and palate.
Saliva and all food has a salty taste.
Menses: too early; too profuse, black and clotted (too late, pale, scanty, Puls.); membranous; better during flow (worse during, Act., Puls.).
Burning sore pain in heels, when sitting, standing or walking in open air (Agar., Caust., Phyt., Val.).
Relations
Compare: Puls., Cinch., Fer., in chlorosis and anæmic affections; Croc., Thuja as if something alive in abdomen.
Aggravation
Open air; cold water; cold bathing; menses < sitting and lying at night; fat food.
Amelioration
In a warm room; in-doors; menses > walking (leucorrhœa, < sitting, > walking, Cac., Coc.).
Chill
Begins in tips of fingers, toes and ears. Chilliness, general, not > by covering. Evening chill, very sensitive to cold air and uncovering. Chill forenoon and evening.
Heat and chill alternately; without thirst; with very cold hands.
Heat: of single parts (except face); after eating; of whole body; with swelling of veins of hands.
Heat, principally of face, without thirst; hands remain cold a long time.
Heat: of various parts of face and hands, with swelling of veins of hands; after heating. general.
Sweat
At night, in sleep, offensive; sometimes only on lower part of body.
Analysis
Especially to be thought of for the fevers of the anæmic during the puerperal state or early months of lactation. The constitutional symptoms are guiding.
Condensed Materia Medica
Constantine Hering · Condensed Materia Medica · 1877
Mind
Dulness of head.
Confusion of head.
Absorbed in deep thought, seeks solitude, thinks about his future.
Melancholy; inclined to cry.
Joyous feeling alternating with irritability.
Great sadness, as if he had committed a bad act or not done his duty.
Peevish, irritable or morose.
Sensorium
Feels as if the brain was in motion when leaning against something.
Vertigo: objects turn in a circle, or about her, or make a see-saw motion; when walking in open air; better in a room and when sitting.
Dizzy, fulness and heat of head.
Dulness of all the senses.
Inner Head
Slight pressure in vertex, as if brain was enveloped in a cloth, which would deprive him of his senses.
Violent frontal headache; semi-lateral headache (left).
Stitching, darting or boring pains in temples.
Headache worse in evening or in morning when rising.
Headache relieved by cold water applications.
Congestion of blood to the head.
Increased warmth of head.
Outer Head
Tearing, pressing pain externally.
Fine sharp formicating-stinging on scalp, changing place when scratching; worse evenings, as rest; better walking about.
Papulous eruption on scalp.
Head feels bound.
Eyes
Now yellow and again green before the eyes.
Fiery specks and sparks before the eyes.
Sight: as if looking through dark blue glass; like mist before the eyes; dim vision with the headache.
Halo around the light.
Dimness of sight, with fiery sparks before the eyes.
Diplopia.
Strabismus.
Dilated pupils; or contracted and dilated alternately.
Eyes sunken and have a weary look.
Left eye drawn toward the inner canthus.
Swelling of upper eyelids.
Dryness and pressure in the lids, as if swollen, with violent formicating stitches therein, and in the eyeball.
Heart in the eyes.
Ears
Roaring; humming; or ringing in the ears.
Dulness of hearing as if cotton was in the ear or something lying before the (right) ear.
Drawing pain in right internal ear; hearing impaired.
Itching of ears, with increase of cerumen.
Nose
Sense of smell diminished.
Frequent sneezing, with itching in the ear.
Dryness of nose.
Fluent coryza (morning).
Pressing pain over the nasal bones.
Face
Pale face; rings around eyes; anæmic women.
Pimples soon filling with whitish-yellow lymph and then shriveling.
Drawing together of forehead.
Lower Face
Itching on lower-jaw.
Sensation of numbness of upper lip or as of an induration therein.
Dry lips, without thirst.
Teeth
Tearing; stitching; boring, in teeth (more right).
Tongue, etc
Taste: flat; offensive; putrid; fatty.
Food tastes flat, or is almost tasteless.
Tip of tongue red, with small burning blister thereon, impeding speech and chewing; saliva increased; tongue coated yellowish-white.
Fine stitches on the tongue.
Mouth
Saliva increased.
Viscid mucus in mouth.
Heightened redness of mouth.
Throat
Dryness of palate, evenings, with thirst and hunger.
Desires and Aversions
Little hunger or appetite.
No desire for breakfast or supper; entire loss of appetite.
After eating but little, aversion no food, with nausea in throat.
Aversion to bread with butter, to fat.
Thirst during the night, intermittent.
Thirstlessness.
Eating and Drinking
After eating; sleeping; hiccough, rumbling in bowels; digestion weakened.
Nausea and Vomiting
Violent hiccough.
Eructations: tasting sour; of the food; of a fatty taste.
Nausea after eating or drinking; except from lemonade.
Nausea after fat food.
Nausea and fulness in the chest, with unusual hunger.
Vomiting: of watery mucus; of food; of greenish fluid.
Stomach
Stitches in the stomach.
Fulness and pressure in pit of stomach, as after eating too much.
Hypochondria
Stitches in region of liver.
Ball-like distention in bowels, on right side below the liver.
Abdomen
Full feeling in abdomen.
Distention of abdomen.
Intestines painful to touch.
Stitches in umbilical region; stitches, or pinching in abdomen.
Cramp-like pains.
Running and crawling in bowels, as of something alive.
In left inguinal canal: stitches; itching.
Stool, etc
Pressure in rectum or anus.
Heat in rectum, with swelling of the hemorrhoidal veins.
Urging to stool; tenesmus.
Stool; odorless, brownish-yellow, mixed with some mucus.
Watery diarrhœa.
Frequent passage of hard stool.
Drawing, pressive pain in and about the anus and perineum, as if a spot was suppurating, when walking or sitting.
Hemorrhoidal flow.
Urine
Urine profuse, watery and frequent.
Frequent urging, with scanty discharge; also seldom and scanty.
Urine dark red, containing much flocculent matter.
Male Sexual Organs
Erections at night, without exciting dreams.
Stitches in urethra.
Phimosis.
Prepuce and corona glandis feel sore, from slight rubbing.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses profuse and frequent.
Menorrhagia, with stupefaction of head and vision obscured, as from a fog.
Flow clotted, black, membranous.
Flow less when moving about; worse in the evening when sitting.
Menses suppressed or scanty, and painful; dread of fresh air.
After menses, swelling of mammæ, with secretion like milk.
Pregnancy
Loathing and nausea in mouth and throat.
Larynx
Voice weak when reading aloud.
Breathing
Oppression of chest, with impeded breathing.
Breathing accelerated.
Cough
Suffocative cough, caused by scraping and dryness in trachea.
Lungs
Pressure in the middle of sternum.
Stitches in left side of chest, later in right side.
Stitch about the apex of heart.
Tearing stitches with oppression and shortness of breath, during motion and rest.
Heart and Pulse
Buzzing in region of heart.
Sensation as of something alive, running in the heart.
Stitches about the apex of heart.
Palpitation.
Pulse: double beat, very rapid scarcely perceptible.
Outer Chest
Pressure in middle of sternum.
Contractive sensation of chest.
Sensation as if air streamed from the nipples.
Mammæ swollen, tension and stitches therein; hard and painful discharge of milky fluid.
Neck and Back
Stiffness of neck, with laming pain.
Drawing rheumatic pain in left side of neck.
Twinges up the back relieved by drawing the shoulders backwards, aggravated by the reverse.
Deep penetrating dull stitches in region of right kidney, worse during inhalation.
Upper Limbs
Tearing, terminating in a stitch, over the scapulæ, with laming pain in the arms.
Itching on the shoulder and in the axilla.
Laming, hard pressure in right arm, as if in the periosteum, and deep-seated muscles; extending to fingers, impedes writing.
Bruised pain in the elbow-joint, outside; worse from motion of arm and touch.
Tearing pain in elbow and wrist-joints.
Feel as if she must let fall that which is in the hands.
Cramp-like slow contraction of right thumb and index finger, the tips approach each other and can only be extended by force.
Fine prickling between the fingers, ceasing after scratching.
Red blisters, preceded by severe itching on ring and little fingers, left hand.
Distention of veins on dorsum of hand.
Lower limbs
Rheumatic drawing in left gluteus maximums near the spine, while sitting; ceases when standing.
Cramp-like pain on right thigh above the popliteal space.
Drawing pain in flexors of leg, seeming to start from hollow of knee and draw to tip of the toes.
Itching on right calf, with swelling of blood-vessels.
Pain in the bottom of foot, as if sprained, more at heel.
Burning, sore pain in the heels, when walking in open air; also when standing or sitting.
After walking, toes feel dead.
Limbs in General
Limbs feel as if their mobility were impaired.
Position, etc
Rest: 4, 28, 44. Motion: 32, 36. Walking: 2, 4, 20, 23, 28, 34, 44. Rising: 3. Standing: 33. Sitting: 2, 20, 23, 33. Bending shoulders back: 31.
Nerves
Great lassitude of body, particularly of knees, though spirits may be good.
Enervation or weakening of whole body, burdensome to move a limb.
Sleep
Frequent yawning.
Great inclination to slumber, mornings.
Restless sleep, dreams of money.
Nightmare soon after falling sleep.
Sleep disturbed, and toward morning full of dreams; also a pollution.
Goes to sleep late, awakes early, so weary at usual hour for rising cannot get up.
Early awakening, yet so tired and sleepy, cannot arise.
Dreams: lascivious; frightening; vivid.
Time
Morning: 3, 7, 37. Forenoon: 40. Evening: 3, 4, 13, 23, 45. Night: 14, 22, 40.
Temperature and Weather
Room: 2. Uncovering: 40. Open air: 2, 23, 33. Cold air: 40. Cold water: 3.
Chill, Fever and Sweat
Chill forenoon or evening.
With evening chill, great sensitiveness to cold air and uncovering.
Chill predominates.
Heat principally of face, but without thirst, succeeds the chill; the hands continue cold a long time.
Sensation of heat through the whole body, particularly in the face and on the hands.
Heat of various parts, but not of the face.
General heat after eating.
Sweat at night during sleep, moderate of offensive odor.
Sides
Right: 6, 10, 18, 31, 32, 33. Left: 5, 19, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33. Left to right: 28. Below upwards: 31. Above downwards: 32, 33.
Tissues
Pressive, drawing or tearing pains at parts where bones lie near surface; worse while walking than when at rest.
Contact, Injuries, etc
Touch: 19, 32. Rubbing: 22. Scratching: 32.
Skin
Itching, leaving a numb sensation.
Papulous eruption.
Bright red spots like burns, on the thighs.
Relationship
Antidotes to Cyclam.: Camp., Coffea, Pulsat.
Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Timothy Field Allen · Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics · 1889
General
A tincture is made from the fresh root of Cyclamen Europæum, L.
General Action
The symptoms seem to group themselves about the functions of digestion and menstruation.
Allies
Lyc., Puls., Carbo v., Cham., Coccul.
Generalities
Drawing or tearing pains, agg. motion, in various parts where the bones are immediately covered by skin, as for example, on tibia and calve. ▶ Boring in right metatarsal bones and in right temple, then extending into right upper teeth, and after leaning on left temple, extending into this also. ▶ Paralytic pressure on chest when sitting still and in upper arm and tibia. ▶ General discomfort. ▶ Uneasiness at night. ▶ Constant desire to lie down, in a child.
▶ Weakness; in morning; on waking; in evening; in evening, with sleepiness and frequent yawning; in evening with shortness of breath; in evening but on rising after a nap bruised and stiff feeling in limbs and drawing pains in thighs and knees; on waking, also with clammy mouth and irritable mood; on waking, with fretfulness, confusion of head and pasty taste; after eating; after midday nap, with tension in abdomen, passage of flatus up and down, profuse micturition, with dragging in bladder and rectum, heat in head and shivering in back; when moving; but on sitting itching and other symptoms towards evening; with pallor, sunken eyes and rapid pulse; with profuse sweat; with disinclination to work. ▶ General depression, with weariness of feet, sleepiness and frequent yawning. ▶ Sudden faintness as if everything turned in a circle, with blackness before eyes, then violent vomiting. ▶ Heaviness of body and weariness of knees; H. of body in morning on waking, with pasty mouth, hot head, pressure in stomach and passage of flatus upward and downward.
Mind
▶ Ill humor; with sleepiness of mind and weakness of body, the latter amel. on moving about; with disinclination to speak and little feeling in the body; with sadness, no desire to work and anxiety as if some misfortune were impending; then sudden joy, which he express by quavering of joints; alternating with liveliness. ▶ Anxiety. ▶ Apprehension. ▶ Sadness as if he had committed some evil and had not done his duty. ▶ Melancholy, complaints about her weeping mood (Puls.). ▶ Profound reflection concerning the present and future, almost to weeping. ▶ Sudden joy towards evening. ▶ Absorbed in himself and disinclined to talk; A. in thought desires to be alone and thinks especially; about his future state. ▶ Paroxysmal disinclination to talk. ▶ Disinclination to work, lasting till evening; D. to work, alternating with great desire therefor. ▶ Dullness. ▶ Stupefaction, inability to rejoice or to be sad, although he feels as if he had just been afflicted, his mind is only somewhat clearer when he is excited and he then acts as if just awakened, having only half understood what was going on. ▶ Memory weak; he easily misplaces words; alternating with great activity.
Clinical
Symptoms of depression, with weeping and desire to be alone, in suppressed menstruation.
Head
Sticking, amel. appearance of menses, with weakness; S. in brain on stooping. ▶ Aching; in morning; in morning on rising, with flickering before eyes; in afternoon, with vertigo; in evening; in evening on going to sleep; all night; with nausea; with weakness and nauseous taste; stupefying. ▶ Oppressive stupefaction, with obscuration of vision and sensation as if eyes were about to close. ▶ Confusion; in evening, with vertigo, as if objects were wavering, stupidity, heat of head, red cheeks, glistening eyes, alternations of heat and chill, full, hard, rapid pulse, finally nausea and watery diarrhœa preceded by rumbling and colic; after breakfast, with salivation, eructations and pressure in stomach; amel. cold applications and pressure in stomach; amel. cold applications to forehead, with other symptoms of head; with obscured vision; with roaring in ears; with warmth.
A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy
Timothy Field Allen · A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy · 1892
Generalities
The pains are drawing or tearing, seeming to be seated in the periosteum.
Except for weakness the longer he continues to move about the better he feels; but the symptoms return on sitting, especially towards evening.
Mind
Generally depressed mood, with weeping; desire to be alone.
Head
Headache in the morning on rising, with flickering before the eyes.
Vertigo very marked, worse towards evening; sometimes worse when walking in the open air, better when quiet.
Vertigo and headache, associated with indigestion and menstrual irregularities.
Eyes
Flickering and dim vision, especially on waking, with spots before vision of various colors.
Ears
Much roaring in the ears.
Nose
Coryza, with much sneezing.
Diminished smell.
Mouth
Drawing toothache at night.
Saliva salt; all food tastes salt.
Taste flat, nauseous.
Stomach
Loss of appetite, especially as soon as one begins to eat.
General absence of thirst.
Eructations, with oppression of the stomach.
Hiccough after eating, with qualmishness in the episgastric region, as after too much fat.
A feeling of fullness and aching in the pit of the stomach, as if overloaded.
Abdomen
General discomfort and qualmishness.
Flatulent colic.
Rumbling after eating.
Stool
Diarrhœa after coffee; stools pasty.
Frequent urging to urinate; urine profuse, whitish.
Sexual organs, Female
Menstruation early, profuse, black and clotted, with pains, extending from back to pubis.
Menses black, clotted and membranous.
Respiratory organs
Cough, < during sleep, violent at night, with tickling and scraping in the larynx.
General oppression of the chest.
Shortness of breath in the evening, like a feeling of weakness in the chest.
Heart
Palpitation in the evening, with a feeling of rush of blood to the chest.
Extremities
Pressure, paralytic as in periosteum from the shoulder to the fingers.
Tearing in the fingers as if next to the bones.
Cramplike pains posteriorly on the thighs.
Pain as from a sprain in the ankles.
Sore pain in the heels.
Sleep
Restless, dreamy sleep at night, but sleeps late in the morning.
Great sleepiness in the evening.
Fever
Chill and heat, without thirst; the thirst comes an hour after the heat.
Chill in the evening, with great sensitiveness.
The Mnemonic Similiad
Stacy Jones · The Mnemonic Similiad · 1904
Mnemonic names
Cyc. / (Cycle.) / The Cycler.
Verse
Cyclamen,-Judging by results,
Thou art the analogue of Puls.
In stomach troubles quite complete,
Tho' not in coughing in thy sleep.
In female ailments most confessed,
By Menses scanty or suppressed.
But blinding headache-flickering sight-
These two, are thine, by special right.
Mnemonic sentences
The Cycler,-Has Blinding Headache.
The Cycler, Iris Kalb, is gaining on Madge Po.
This Cycler,-Who is subject to Flickering before the sight,-Is at Leslie Arbor.
Indications
Blinding Headache: Cyc., Iris v., Kal. b., Gel., Nat. m., Mag. p., Pod.
Flickering before the eyes: Cyc., Lyc., Sul., Lach., Thuj.
Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
C. M. Boger · Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica · 1905
Mind
Dullness of. Weak memory. Rapid alternation of cheerfulness and peevishness. Troubled conscience, as though he had not fulfilled his duty. Inclination to concealed, inward grief.
Head
Stitches in temples, disappearing when touched. Fine, sharp, itching or tearing sticking in scalp, changing place when scratched. Eruption on head, painless to touch.
Eyes
Sticking itching in, and in lids. Dilated pupils. Vision is obscured, as by a fog.
Ears
Drawing pain internally. Difficult hearing, as though stopped.
Nose
Diminished sense of smell.
Face
Induration, with sense of numbness in upper lip.
Teeth
Nightly, drawing ache.
Mouth
Constant sensation of mucus in.
Appetite: Lost, early in morning and in evening. A little food quickly satiates. Aversion to bread and butter. Thirstless.
Taste: Tastelessness of foods, they taste quite flat.
Eructations: Hiccough after eating.
Nausea, etc. - With accumulation of water in mouth. Early in morning after smoking tobacco. Inclination to vomit smoking tobacco. Inclination to vomit after every meal, especially of fatty food.
Stomach
Fullness and pressure in pit, as from overloading.
Abdomen
Discomfort and nausea in. Flatulent colic.
Flatulence: Rumbling and growling in abdomen immediately after eating.
Stool
Frequent, pappy.
Anus
Festering pain in, and in perineum.
Urine
Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of pale urine.
Female
Menses: Too profuse, Too early.
Respiration
Difficult, with oppression of chest. Short, as from weakness in chest.
Chest
Congestion to, with sensible palpitation.
Upper Extremities
Paralytic pressure as though in periosteum, extending from shoulder into fingers. Tearing, as though in periosteum, of fingers. Sticking itching between fingers.
Lower Extremities
Cramp like pain on posterior thigh. Violent itching on calves, with distended blood - vessels. Sprained pain in ankle - joints. Violent itching in joints and toes, seemingly in periosteum.
Generalities
Pressive drawing or tearing pain, s mostly in periosteum or where skin lies close to the bone. Weariness of body in evening, with peevishness and sleepiness, disappearing from motion. As long as he moves about, aside from weariness, he feels quite well, however, upon sitting down, especially toward evening, all kinds of complaints appear.
Bones
Pressive or tearing pains to periosteum.
Skin
Unendurable, sticking, itching, in evening in bed. Cracks on hands and feet. Frostbites. Offensive ulcers.
Sleep
Great sleepiness in evening and forenoon. Constant inclination to lie and lumbar.
Fever
Pulse: Not markedly changed. Chill: Forenoon or evening. Early morning or evening attacks of cold shudders over whole body. Great sensitiveness s to cold air and uncovering with the evening fever. Heat: After the chill, most on face, but without thirst, while the hands remain cold a long time. Sense of, over entire body, especially on face and hands. Of single parts, except face. General, after every meal. Sweat: Moderate, but of a bad odor. At night during sleep.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Con., Puls.
Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica
Adolph von Lippe · Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1915
Symptoms
Pressing, drawing and tearing pain, principally in the periosteum.
Chilblains of the feet.
As long as he walks about he feels well with the exception of languor, but as soon as he sits down, especially in the evening, he suffers various inconveniences.
Thirstlessness.
Catamenia too profuse.
Bad effects from eating much fat food (pork).
Aggravation in the evening and while at rest.
Amelioration whilst walking.