Laurocerasus laur.

MIND. BRAIN. Nerves. Gullet. Chest. Respiration. Heart.

Sitting up. Exertion. Cold.

Lying with head low. Eating. Sleep. Open air.

Symptoms accompanied by SUDDEN DEBILITY, lack of reaction, blunted senses, coldness or cyanosis. Weak sphincters. Sinkings. Long faints. Falling down; sensation; in brain; in abdomen, heart, etc. Nervous collapse. Apoplexy. Internal burning. Hæmorrhage; of thin blood. Twitchings; facial.

SUDDEN LOSS OF MEMORY, from pain, fright, etc. Head, < 11 A.M. - 1 P.M. Speechlessness. Nightly tearing in vertex. Eyes open, protrude, staring. Objects look large. Livid face. Blue babies. NOISY SWALLOWING, then gurgling flatulence. Spasm of gullet. Persistent hiccough. Low voice. Raw larynx and trachea. Suffocation, gasps for breath; on sitting up. Shallow breathing. Can't raise the chest walls. Cough, tickling; spasmodic night cough of phthisis; short or dry; of cardiac origin. Blood flecked or gelatinous sputum. Holds hand over heart. Chest pains in cardiac region. Fearful anxiety and restlessness; can't fall to sleep. Coma vigil. Weak, variable, slow or irregular pulse. Cool, livid skin.

Related: Am-c. Gel. Hyd-ac. Pru-sp.

The patient puts his hand to the heart, as if there was some trouble there; this may result from running a short distance, which puts him completely out of breath; going upstairs, walking, any exercise may bring this trouble on. In pulmonic affections, where the patient coughs and spits a great amount of phlegm, which is sprinkled over and through with distinct dots of blood; these dots may be close together, or considerably scattered--frequently is seen following typhoid pneumonia. Affections of the left chest.

Painful sensations in the under jaw and lower teeth; with sensation of tearing; of coldness in the inner parts; heat of single parts; internal chilliness and external heat.

Pulse small. Skin turns blue; toe and finger nails become knobby.

Before eating.

Bellad., Phosphor., Pulsat., Veratr.

Coffea, Opium.

Nervous and organic affections of the lungs and heart, characterized by spasmodic contractions of the throat and chest, causing suffocative attacks, extreme dyspnoea, slow, irregular pulse, and great nervous excitement.

Cherry-laurel

Spasmodic tickling cough, especially in cardiac patients, is often magically influenced by this drug. Lack of reaction, especially in chest and heart affections. Drink rolls audibly through œsophagus and intestines. General coldness, not ameliorated by warmth. Violent pain in stomach with loss of speech. Spasm of facial muscles and œsophagus. Asphyxia neonatorum.

Coldness; chills and heat alternate. Thirst, with dry mouth in afternoon.

Cyanosis and dyspnœa; worse, sitting up. Patient puts hands on heart. Cough, with valvular disease. Exercise causes pain around heart. Tickling, dry cough. Dyspnœa. Constriction of chest. Cough, with copious, jelly-like, or bloody expectoration. Small and feeble pulse. Threatening paralysis of lungs. Gasping for breath; clutches at heart.

Mitral regurgitation. Clutching at heart and palpitation. Cyanosis neonatorum.

Spells of deep sleep, with snoring and stertorous breathing.

Toe and finger nails become knotty. Skin blue. Sprained pains in hips, thighs and heels. Cold, clammy feet and legs. Clubbing of fingers. Veins of hands distended.

Compare: Hydrocy ac; Camphor; Secale; Ammon carb; Ambra.

Tincture to third potency. Cherry-laurel water, two to five drop doses.

Suffocative spells about the heart, < sitting up, > lying down; cardiac cough; gasping, twitching and jerks.

Lack of re-active power, low vitality, with blueness or cyanoses, especially in heart troubles.

Drink rolls audibly down through the œsophagus and intestines; very low pulse.

"Want of energy, of vital power; want of reaction, especially in chest and heart affections." And there is another characteristic symptom under this remedy in heart troubles: "The cyanosis, dyspnœa, etc., are worse when sitting up." Only one other remedy has this aggravation, and that is Psorinum. "Want of nervous reaction; the well-chosen remedy does not act."

"Capsicum, lack of reaction in persons of lax fibre."

Opium, in patients where there is no pain; stupidity and drowsiness.

Valerian and Ambra in nervous affections, well chosen remedies fail.

Carbo vegetabilis, collapse, coldness of knees, breath; perfect indifference.

Sulphur and Psorinum, where Psora complicates and hinders reaction.

Each one of these remedies may he called for in defective reaction, and there may be many more, and in each case, as with all remedies elsewhere, symptoms must decide which one.

Dulness of the senses ; inability to collect one's ideas. Insensibility and complete loss of sensation. Weakness of mind and loss of memory ; fear and anxiety about imaginary evils. Loss of consciousness, with loss of speech and motion. Intoxication.

Stupefaction, with vertigo. Vertigo, with disposition to sleep. Vertigo worse in the open air. Stupefying pain in the whole head. Sensation of coldness in the forehead and vertex, as if a cold wind were blowing on it, descending through the neck to the back ; worse in the room, better in the open air. Pulsation in the head, with heat or with coldness. Sensation of looseness of the brain, as if it were falling into the forehead, when stooping, without pain. The brain feels contracted and painful. Stitches in the head. Itching of the hairy scalp.

Pupils dilated, immovable. Byes open and staring ; distorted eyes. Objects appear larger. Darkness before the eyes ; obscuration of sight.

Hardness of hearing. Tingling in the ears. Itching in the ears.

The nose feels stopped up ; no air passes through the nose -coryza with sore throat.

Sunken face, with livid gray-yellow complexion. Distorted face. Bloated face. Twitching and convulsions of the facial muscles. Titillation in the face, as if flies and spiders were crawling over the skin. Eruption around the mouth. Foam at the mouth. Lock-jaw.

Dryness in the mouth. Contraction of the œsophagus when drinking. Impeded deglutition. Spasmodic contraction in the throat and œsophagus. Dry and rough tongue. White and dry tongue. The tongue feels cold, or burnt and numb. Swelling and stiffness of the left side of the tongue. Loss of speech. The drink he takes rolls audibly through the œsophagus and intestines.

Violent thirst, with dry mouth. Entire loss of appetite, with clean tongue. Nausea in the stomach and vomiting of the ingesta. Hiccough. Bitter eructations. Violent pain in the stomach, with loss of speech. Burning in the stomach and abdomen, or coldness. Pain in the stomach like fainting. Contractive feeling in the region of the stomach, and cutting pain in the abdomen. Pinching about the umbilicus. Sticking pains in the liver, with pressure. Distention of the region of the liver, with pains, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Induration of the liver.

Constipation, stool hard, firm. Ineffectual urging to stool, with emission of wind only. Diarrhœa, with tenesmus. Discharge of green liquid mucus. Involuntary stools. No stool or urine is discharged. Constriction of the rectum.

Suppression of urine ; retention of urine as from paralysis of the bladder. Involuntary secretion of urine. The urine deposits a thick, reddish sediment. Itching in the forepart of the urethra.

Men. Gangrene of the penis. Women. Menses too early and too profuse ; blood thin, liquid. Burning and stinging in and below the mammæ.

Scraping in the larynx, with increased secretion of mucus and hoarseness. Roughness in the throat and trachea, with hoarseness and desire to cough. Spasmodic constriction of the trachea. Whizzing cough, with sensation as if the mucous membranes were too dry. Cough, with copious jelly-like expectoration, mixed with bloody points. Bloody cough. Panting breathing. Slow, feeble, almost imperceptible breathing. Slow, moaning and rattling breathing. Dyspnœa, with sensation as if the lungs would not be sufficiently expanded. Spasmodic oppression of the chest. Pressure on the chest as from a heavy load ; pressure on the sternum. Paralysis of the lungs. Irregular beating of the heart, with slow pulse. Stitches in the region of the heart. Pain in every external part of the thorax on moving it. Burning in the chest on taking an inspiration.

Painful stiffness in the small of the back. Painful stiffness in the left side of the neck and nape of the neck. Pressure in the nape of the neck, particularly in the open air, compelling him to bend the head forward.

Upper. Pressure on the right-shoulder or in the joint. In the right shoulder, pains as from lameness and stitches. Stitch in both elbows. Pain, as if sprained, in the right wrist-joint. Distention of the veins on the hands. Rough scaly skin between the fingers, with burning when touched by water. Lower. Pain, as if sprained, in the left hip-joint. Sticking in the left knee. The feet go to sleep (when crossing the legs or sitting). Ulcerated pains in the lower part of the heels. Stiffness of the feet after rising from the seat.

Irresistible sleepiness, especially after dinner and in the evening. Deep, snoring sleep. Soporous condition.

Stinging and tearing in the limbs. Painless paralysis of the limbs. Want of energy of the vital powers and want of reaction. Apoplexy, with paralysis. Tetanus. Epileptic convulsions, with foam before the tightly closed mouth. Painlessness with the ailments.

Pulse very irregular, sometimes small and slow, often imperceptible, again more rapid, seldom full and hard. Chilliness and coldness in the afternoon and evening, which cannot be relieved by heat. Shuddering with goose-flesh. Chilliness and heat in alternation. Want of natural heat. Heat running down the back. Perspiration during the heat and continuing all night. Perspiration after eating.

Aggravation in the evening. Amelioration at night and in the open air.

Cerasus laurocerasus. Common Laurel. Prunus laurocerasus. Cherry Laurel. N. O. Rosaceæ. Tincture of young leaves. Dilutions of Aqua Laurocerasi.

Apoplexy, threatened. Asphyxia, neonatorum. Asthma. Cholera. Cholera infantum. Chorea. Climacteric sufferings. Convulsions. Cough. Cramps. Cyanosis. Diarrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Epilepsy. Heart, affections of. Liver, affections of. Metrorrhagia. Palpitation. Pneumonia, typhoid. Tetanus. Tumours. Whooping-cough.

Laurocerasus , the so-called "Laurel" of our gardens, is not a member of the Lauraceæ, though the Bay Laurel, Laurus nobilis , is. The Aqua Laurocerasi , prepared by distilling the fresh leaves, contains Hydrocyanic acid and is supposed to owe all its medicinal virtue to this fact. Milne says it is "used in spasmodic cough, and in phthisis; but it is better to employ the prussic acid itself." In the poisoning cases that have occurred the symptoms have been practically identical with those of persons poisoned with prussic acid; but the provings bring out more delicate shades of action and fully entitle the remedy to an individual place of its own. Coldness, blueness, epileptiform convulsions are common to both. Both have a dry, tickling cough; but Lauro . has also a cough with jelly-like expectoration dotted with bloody points. Lauro . has cyanosis both of the new-born infant and of heart disease. A peculiar "gasping" is indicative here — gasping without really breathing. In addition to the blueness there is twitching of the muscles of the face (which is also an indication for Lauro . in chorea). Clubbing of fingers, which is a common feature in cyanosis and phthisis, is a characteristic of Lauro . "Lack of reactive power," low vitality, is another keynote of Lauro . This is particularly so when occurring in chest affections. Long-lasting faints ( Camph . has sudden fainting); seems to have no reactive power; face pale, blue; surface cold. Prostrate before getting up in morning and difficulty in opening eyes; attacks of indigestion and pains across lower abdomen, which come suddenly in the morning and generally disappear on getting up. Gnawing pain in lower abdomen going on for years in old men with occasional looseness of stool. If fluids are forced down the throat they roll audibly into stomach. When indicated in eruptive fevers the eruption is livid, after pressure with the finger the skin is long in regaining its colour. There are suffocative spells about the heart < by sitting up; the patient is compelled to lie down (as with Psor .); though some heart symptoms have the opposite condition and compel the patient to sit up. Guernsey gives these leading symptoms: "Gasping for breath; the patient puts his hand to the heart as if there was some trouble there; this may result from running a short distance, which puts him completely out of breath; going upstairs, walking, or any exercise may bring the gasping on." Coldness is a common sensation, internal coldness and external heat. Cold tongue. Heat of single parts. Warmth on centre of forehead, then a coldness as from a draught of air lasting a long time. The left chest is most affected. There is < before eating. Constricted sensations — in gullet; in rectum. There are some very noteworthy uterine symptoms, of menorrhagia and dysmenorrhœa, in the provings, and the value of them has been emphasised by cases related by Cooper in his work on Cancer and Cancer Symptoms (2nd ed., p. 60). The leading indications according to Cooper are: "A sense of fatigue pervades the whole system, with a very painful condition of the hard and indurated tissue of the parts affected; pain much > by sleep; tendency to oozing of blood, which is generally bright and mixed with gelatinous clots. This applies to chest as well as to uterine and rectal symptoms; only, the blood comes painlessly into the mouth, but with great pain Per vaginam . In most cases it will be found that the pains it relieves are such as start from the lower part of the spine and extend either round the pelvis or up to the head, and are accompanied with a sense of suffocation and a sick feeling, with drowsiness and a great desire to sleep that generally brings relief. In cases that are sleepless the desire for sleep is very great. Digestion is weak; bowels confined patient, low-spirited with flatulence and burning in chest after food constant tired, sick feeling; entire frame enfeebled; inclined to loss of flesh and hæmorrhages that are small in quantity and bright in colour. The flatus is audible and gurgling and rolls about the upper abdomen (p. 64)." In nervous affections "constant jerks; cannot keep still" and the characteristic "gasping" are leading indications. Peculiar sensations are: Coolness of forehead as from draught of air. Weight on top of head. As if brain loose and falling into forehead when stooping. As if a heavy lump falling from abdomen to small of back, as if a veil before eyes. As if nose stopped. As if flies and spiders crawling over skin. As if tongue, mouth, and throat were burnt. As if abscess in region of liver would burst. As if lungs could not be sufficiently expanded. As if lungs pressed against spine. As if mucous membranes were dry. Stitches are very prominent; also stiffness and pressure, especially pressure outward. Allen's indications are: An extremely nervous, excitable condition accompanying ailments. Diarrhœa as of green mucus, with suffocative spells about heart. Dry, harassing cough of phthisis. Spasmodic cough of later stages of whooping-cough when patient is much prostrated and has nervous spasmodic symptoms. Cough with valvular heart disease; cough incessant, especially on lying down; fluttering in heart and gasping, with cough. Alternation of chill, fever, and sweat in phthisis. E. Wigg ( H. P ., xii. 30) relates the case of May S., 7, who had been troubled some time with an almost incessant cough, for which many remedies were given without benefit. At last Wigg came to the conclusion that Lauro . was the remedy, and put ten drops of the 200th into five tablespoonfuls of water, ordering a teaspoonful of this to be taken every two hours when the child was awake. This was at 4 p.m. After the third dose she fell asleep. At 3 a.m. she awoke in a very excited condition. Her mother asked her if she had not been dreaming, but her tongue was so stiff she could not answer. Suddenly she began to tremble all over as if in a chill. After ten minutes she began to twitch and jerk. Wigg was sent for and found her in this convulsed state. She could not articulate for the thickness and heaviness of the tongue. The mind was clear. Recognising the action of Lauro . Wigg antidoted it with Camphor and later a cup of coffee, and she came all right in a few hours. She had no more of the cough. Many symptoms are > sitting up. Coughs continuously when lying down. Bending head forward > pressure in nape. Compelled to bend forward by contractive pain in groins. On the other hand suffocating spells about heart compel him to lie down. When she attempts to rise from recumbent posture, sensation of heavy lump falling from pit of stomach to back. Stooping < . Sitting < gasping; = feet to go to sleep. Crossing legs = feet to go to sleep. Motion < cough; = gasping. After dinner: Hunger; irresistible drowsiness. < Evening and night. Coldness in forehead and vertex is > in open air; vertigo, and pressure in nape are < . External warmth does not > coldness. Approaching stove = nausea; cold. Being touched by water = burning between fingers.

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Loss of consciousness, with loss of speech and motion.
Insensibility ; complete loss of sensation.
Dulness of senses.
Weakness of mind and loss of memory.
Inability to collect one's ideas.
Fear and anxiety about imaginary evils ; despondency.

Vertigo : with stupefaction ; with disposition to sleep ; < in open air.
Sudden bloating of face, vertigo, distortion of mouth, twitching of muscles of face ; loss of speech, with perfect consciousness. θ Threatened apoplexy.
Coma, looks more like a deep, quiet sleep. θ Apoplexy.
Apoplexy, with paralysis.

Coolness on forehead as from a draft of air.
Periodical paroxysms of aching pain under frontal bone.
Boring headache, particularly above eyelids.
Oppression on top of head, as from a weight.
Beating in head, < stooping.
Stupefying pain in whole head.
Pulsation in head, with heat or coldness.
Stitches in head.
Headache : > after eating ; lacerating, in evening in bed ; from nervous prostration, with dragging pain, accompanied by pain and swelling in hypochondrium and yellow spots on face.
Sensation of looseness of brain, as if it were falling into forehead when stooping, without pain.
The brain feels contracted and painful.

Sensation of coldness in forehead and vertex, as if a cold wind was blowing on it, descending through neck to back ; < in room, > in open air.
Itching of hairy scalp.

Obscuration of vision ; sensation of a veil before eyes.
Objects appear larger.
Eyes : staring, wide open ; lightly closed ; distorted.
Pupils dilated, immovable.

Hardness of hearing.
Tingling in ears ; itching.

Nose feels stopped up ; no air passes through.

Face : yellow spots ; sunken, with livid grey yellow complexion ; blue, with gasping ; bloated ; idiotic.
Twitching and convulsions of facial muscles.
Titillation, as if flies and spiders were crawling over skin.
Eruption around mouth.

Lockjaw.

Tongue : dry, rough ; dry and white ; cold or numb, as if burnt ; left side stiff and swollen, with loss of speech.

Foam at mouth. θ Epilepsy.
Dryness in mouth.

Spasmodic deglutition. θ Chorea.
Spasmodic contraction in throat and œsophagus.
Drink rolls audibly through œsophagus and intestines.

Hunger after eating, with feeling of emptiness.
Loss of appetite, with clean tongue.
Disgust for food during pregnancy.
Violent thirst, with dry mouth.

Hiccough.
Nausea : on approaching a stove ; and vomiting of ingesta.
Eructations, tasting like bitter almonds. θ Pregnancy.
Vomiting of food with cough.

Violent pain in stomach, with loss of speech.
Burning or coldness in stomach and abdomen.
Contractive feeling in region of stomach, and cutting in abdomen.

Sticking pains in liver, with pressure.
Region of liver distended, pain as from subcutaneous ulceration, or as if abscess would burst.
Indurated liver ; atrophic nutmeg liver.

Pinching about umbilicus.
Colicky pains in afternoon, and tearing pains in vertex at night.
Sensation like falling of a heavy lump from just above umbilicus to small of back, produced by talking or overexertion, also with spasmodic pains in cardiac region.
Coldness and audible rumbling in whole abdomen.

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The many strange constitutional symptoms indicate feeble circulation and weak heart.

Great general coldness, that is not ameliorated by external warmth. It is like wrapping up a dead man. Yet if he approaches a warm stove nausea comes on. If he is in a warm room the sweat breaks out on the forehead and the forehead is cold; but if he moves about slowly in the open air the sweat ceases and the forehead warms up.

Want of animal heat. Want of reaction. Remedies act only as palliatives, act only as short acting remedies in constitutional disease, or the symptoms partially subside but the patient does not react. The patient does not convalesce.

It often cures the heart failure due to Digitalis in Old School hands, or when convalescence is attended by weak heart if there is cold skin and external heat is objectionable. It should be compared with Camph., Am. c. and Secale.

A prolonged fainting spell; twitching of the limbs, gasping for breath. Complaints after deep sorrow or fright. Chorea after every excitement. Spells of profound sleep with snoring or stertorous breathing.

In the spells of suffocation, he must lie down (Psorinum) but the dry hacking cough comes on as soon he lies down.

Weakness of body and mind. Fainting. Motionless. Apprehensiveness.

Vertigo in the open air; he must lie down.

Coldness of the forehead in a warm room, ameliorated in the open air.

Stupefying pains in the head, with pulsation.

Stitching pains in the head.

Periodical paroxysms of aching pain under the frontal bone.

Sensation as if brain fell forward on stooping.

Tension in the brain. Headache is sometimes ameliorated by eating. The scalp itches.

Dim vision. Veil before the eyes. Objects larger.

The face is blue, sunken, bloated, and expressionless; jaundiced yellow spot.

Formication of the face. Lockjaw.

Mouth and tongue dry. The tongue is dry, cold and numb; stiff and swollen.

Spasmodic contraction of throat and oesophagus; drink rolls audibly down the oesophagus and through the intestines.

Emptiness in stomach after eating (Dig.) as if he were still hungry.

Violent thirst. Loathing of food. Nausea on coming near a warm stove. Vomiting of food with the cough.

Eructations, tasting like bitter almonds. Violent pain in stomach, with cold skin.

Coldness in stomach and abdomen. Contractions like cramps in stomach and cutting in abdomen. Pain in liver as though an abscess were forming. Stitching pain in liver on pressure. Rumbling in bowels.

Diarrhoea, with green mucus, and green watery stools, with tenesmus.

Constipation, with difficult stool. It cures cholera infantum with green watery stools when drinks gurgle down the oesophagus and there is general coldness, blueness, and fainting spells.

The whole urinary apparatus is in a paralytic state. Suppression of urine or retention, or urine passed in a very feeble stream. Involuntary urination. Pain, in stomach when passing urine. These urinary symptoms sometimes come with palpitation and suffocation, and fainting spells, or other cardiac symptoms and Laurocerasus must be consulted.

Menses too frequent, profuse, thin, with tearing in vertex at night. Uterine hemorrhage, with flow dark and clotted during climaxis. Fainting spells with coldness during menses. Pain in sacrum during menses.

Heart patients that often suffer much from constriction of the larynx are helped by this remedy. Laryngismus stridulus.

Difficult breathing. Suffocation, oppression of chest, gasping in heart complaints, ameliorated by lying down. Clutching at the heart and palpitation. It has cured mitral regurgitation many times,

Short, hacking, dry, nervous cough. Cardiac cough.

Whooping-cough in puny children when there is a history of feeble heart, blue cold skin, and laryngeal spasm. Paralytic chest symptoms.

Irregular action of the heart, slow pulse, fluttering heart. Sitting up causes gasping; lying ameliorates the oppression. Feeble pulse, cold blue surface, twitching of muscles of face and limbs. Slight exertion aggravates all the symptoms. Cyanosis neonatorum.

Burning in chest on inspiration.

The veins of the hands are distended. Cold clammy feet and legs. Painless paralysis of limbs. Stinging and tearing in limbs. Feet numb from lying with limbs crossed.

Coldness on forehead as from draft of air.

Drink rolls audibly through œsophagus and intestines.

Painlessness with most complaints (Stram.).

Diseases attended with rapid sinking of the vital forces

(Camph., Ver.).

Deficient reaction, want of energy of vital forces, especially in affections of the chest; the well chosen remedy does not act.

Long lasting fainting spells.

Irresistible sleepiness; after dinner; in the evening.

With thirst; in the afternoon or evening. Violent chill and coldness, with shivering, not relieved by external warmth; coldness and shaking chill, not relieved by heat of stove, alternating with burning heat. Deficient animal heat (Led.). Vertigo; stupor, and apoplectic symptoms (Opium).

After the chill; from evening till midnight; descending the back (see Ver.).

During and after the heat; after eating; rarely profuse.

Loss of consciousness, with loss of speech and motion.
Insensibility and complete loss of sensation.
Dulness of the senses.
Weakness of mind and loss of memory.
Inability to collect one's idea.
Fear and anxiety about imaginary evils.

Stupefaction, with vertigo.
Vertigo: with disposition to sleep; worse in the open air.

Stupefying pain in the whole head.
Pulsation in the head, with heat or with coldness.
Congestive headache; pulse depressed.
Sensation of looseness of the brain, as if it were falling into the forehead, when stooping, without pain.
Feeling of warmth in middle of forehead, then coolness as from a draft or air.
The brain feels contracted and painful.
Stitches in the head.

Sensation of coldness in the forehead and vertex, as if a cold wind were blowing on it, descending through the neck to the back; worse in the room, better in the open air.
Itching of the hairy scalp.

Objects appear larger.
Sensation of a veil before the eyes.
Eyes; starting, wide open; lightly closed; distorted.
Pupils dilated, immovable.

Hardness of hearing.
Tingling in the ears.
Itching in the ears.

Nose feels stopped up; no air passes through.

Sunken, with livid, grey-yellow complexion; blue with gasping; bloated; idiotic expression of face. θ Chorea.
Twitching and convulsions of the facial muscles.
Titillation in the face, as if flies and spiders were crawling over the skin.
Eruption around the mouth.

Lockjaw.

Tongue: dry, rough, dry and white; cold; or numb as if burnt.
Left side of tongue stiff and swollen, with loss of speech.

Foam at mouth. θ Epilepsy.
Dryness in the mouth.

Spasmodic deglutition. θ Chorea.
Impeded deglutition.
Spasmodic contraction in the throat and œsophagus.
The drink he takes rolls audibly through the œsophagus and intestines.

Disgust for food, during pregnancy.
Violent thirst, with dry mouth.
Entire loss of appetite, with clean tongue.

Hiccough.
Nausea in the stomach and vomiting of the ingesta.
Eructations tasting like bitter almonds or prussic acid. θ Pregnancy.
Vomiting of food. θ Cough.

Violent pain in stomach, with loss of speech.
Burning (or coldness) in the stomach and abdomen.
Contractive feeling in the region of the stomach, and cutting pain in the abdomen.

Sticking pain in the liver with pressure.
Region of liver distended, pains as from subcutaneous ulceration, or as if an abscess would burst.
Indurated liver; atrophic nutmeg liver.

Pinching about the umbilicus.
Colicky pains in afternoon, and tearing pains in vertex at night.
Sensation like the falling of a heavy lump from just above the umbilicus to the small of the back; produced by talking or overexertion, also with spasmodic pains in cardiac region.

Diarrhœic stools; with tenesmus; of green liquid mucus, with suffocative spells about the heart, forcing her to lie down; involuntary.
Constipation, stools hard, firm, and passed only with much straining.
Ineffectual urging to stool, with emission of flatus only.

Suppressed urine. θ Cholera.
Retention of urine as from paralysis of the bladder; or, urine is voided slowly.
Involuntary urination.
The urine deposits a thick, reddish or mahogany-colored sediment, with floating, jelly-like flocks.
Itching in the forepart of the urethra.
Acid urine, corroding the labia.

Gangrene of the penis.

Menses: too early and too profuse; blood thin; with nightly tearing in the vertex.
Burning and stinging and below the mammæ.

Scraping in the larynx, with increased secretion of mucus; hoarseness.
Spasmodic constriction of the trachea.
Laryngismus stridulus; heart affected.

Slow, feeble, moaning or rattling; slow, feeble, almost imperceptible; panting; very difficult.
Dyspnœa, with sensation as if lungs would not be sufficiently expanded or as if pressed against the spine.
Spasmodic oppression of the chest.
Gasping for breath; suffocating spells; he clutches at his heart; palpitation.

Short, titillating; dyspnœa; from heart disease, as stenosis of the valves; cannot lie down; whizzing, with sensation as if the mucous membranes were too dry; worse towards evening from motion, stooping, eating and drinking, or warmth; with copious jelly-like sputa, dotted with bloody points.
Whooping-cough, day, whistling, no sputum; impending paralysis of the lungs.

Spasms of chest.
Threatening paralysis of lungs.
Pleurisy of drunkards; pulse soft, but quick.

Heart's action irregular, pulse slow.
Stitches in region of heart.
Beating, fluttering sensation if region of heart; gasps for breath; sometimes has slight dry cough.
Palpitation of heart.
Cold, moist skin; convulsions of muscles of face; pulse scarcely perceptible.
Apoplexy.
Pulse extremely irregular; at times small and slow, often imperceptible; at others somewhat accelerated; seldom full and hard.
Cyanosis neonatorum.

Pain in every external part of the thorax on moving it.
Burning in the chest on taking an inspiration.

Painful stiffness in left side of neck, and nape of neck and small of back.
Pressure in nape of neck, particularly in open air, compelling him to bend head forward.
Severe pain in sacral region, extending to pubis.

Pressure on right shoulder or in shoulder-joint.
Pains as from lameness, also stitches, in right shoulder.
Stitch in both elbows.
Pain, as if sprained, in the right wrist-joint.
Distention of the veins on the hands.
Rough, scaly skin between the fingers, with burning when touched by water.

Pain, as if sprained, in the left hip-joint.
Sticking in the left knee.
The feet go to sleep (when crossing the legs or sitting).
Ulcerative pains in the lower part of the heels.
Stiffness of the feet after rising from the seat.
Cold, clammy feet up to knees. θ Chorea.

Ends of fingers and toes enlarged, knob-like.
Stinging and tearing in the limbs.
Painless paralysis of the limbs.

A little exercise produce a gasping for breath and increased blueness; cyanosis.
Motion. 27, 30. After rising from seat: 37. Stooping: 3, 27. Must lie down: 20. Cannot lie down: 27. Must bend head forward: 31. Lying down: 27. Cannot keep still: 36.

Want of energy of the vital powers and want of reaction, especially in chest affections.
Rapid sinking of the forces; long-lasting faints.
Epilepsy.
Clonic spasm of all the limbs, with paralytic weakness.
Chorea, with constant jerks, cannot keep still; speech indistinct, gets angry when not understood; gasping; emaciation; after fright.
Gasping before, during and after spasm; bluish skin.
Apoplexy, with paralyses.

Irresistible sleepiness, especially after dinner and in the evening.
Deep, snoring sleep; soporous conditions.

Afternoon: 19, 40. Evening: 27, 37, 40. Evening till midnight: 40. Night: 19, 40.

Warmth: 27, 40. Open air: 2, 4, 31. Room: 4. Water: 32.

Chill and external coldness.
Cold, moist skin. θ Apoplexy.
Chill, coldness and shivering in the afternoon and evening, not relieved by external warmth.
Chill, alternating with heat.
Want of natural animal heat.
Heat after the chill, from evening till midnight.
Heat descending the back.
Sweat generally during and after heat, till toward morning.
Sweat after eating.

Right: 32. Left: 11, 31, 33. Behind forward: 31. Above downward: 40.

Painfulness with the ailments.
Acts on brain and spine, especially upon the medulla oblongata; hence characteristic tetanic spasms of the upper part of the body, gasping breathing, etc.

Antidotes to Lauroc.: Camphor., Coffea, Ipec., Opium.

A tincture of the fresh mature leaves of Prunus Laurocerasus, L., is used.

Essentially the same as that of Hydrocyanic acid. ▶ Examine particularly the cough symptoms.

Hydrocyanic acid, Kalmia, Hyos.

Tremulousness of whole body. ▶ Jerking, agg. head, back and cervical muscles, then paralysis. ▶ Shrieked, threw the head back and was convulsed. ▶ Convulsions; with staring eyes, closed jaws and frothing from mouth. ▶ Eyes fixed upward, teeth clenched and froth running from mouth. ▶ Feel stupidly to the ground. ▶ Itching stitches in various parts. ▶ Pinching burning pains now in one part, now in another, agg. limbs. ▶ Pain in throat, chest, region of heart and stomach and scapula, only on right side. ▶ Electric shocks at 9 P.M. in bed. ▶ Weariness; in morning; towards evening; early in evening, with sleepiness; after eating, with sleepiness; with aversion to all work. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Heaviness in morning, with disinclination to work. ▶ Insensibility. ▶ Paralysis. ▶ Asphyxiated, paralytic, apparently lifeless condition, pulse scarcely perceptible, barely 30 (Compare Kalmia). ▶ Healthy feeling when sitting, as after fatigue. ▶ Amelioration in open air; though the roughness in throat was worse then; A. after dinner.

Chorea, with spasmodic action of the muscles of the throat and œsophagus; the drink rolls audibly through the œsophagus and intestines. ▶ It has been found valuable in conditions of extreme prostration, with sense of suffocation, gasping for breath and slow, irregular pulse. ▶ It must, of course, be compared with Hydroc. acid, to which it chiefly, if not wholly, owes its efficacy.

An extremely excitable, nervous condition accompanies nearly all the conditions calling for the drug.

Fancy while awake that he saw old men with long beards and distorted faces and sparks fire. ▶ Happy. ▶ Lively. ▶ Joyous and interested at 2 P.M. ▶ Delight in his work. ▶ Hasty, impetuous. ▶ Despondent; and lachrymose, he would rather die than live. ▶ Fretful; at 2 P.M., and vexed about everything. ▶ Anxiety about trifles in evening in bed, with sleeplessness. ▶ Anxious oppression, with inability to work and necessity to go into the open air. ▶ Everything is irksome, he goes unwillingly to his business. ▶ Indolence and sleepiness. ▶ Indifference. ▶ Inclination to mental labor. ▶ Ideas flow slowly. ▶ Memory weak. ▶ Stupefaction. ▶ Coma, with closed eyes, dilated pupils, hurries respiration, involuntary discharge of urine and fæces, convulsions. ▶ Unconsciousness at times, a species of sinking spells, respiration and pulse suspended for several seconds, but before these spells breathing was stertorous, then it stopped and the man appeared dead.

Hangs over and he cannot raise it. ▶ Sticking here and there at 4 P.M.; S. in brain, with crawling. ▶ Tearing in evening in bed. ▶ Boring. ▶ Aching; amel. open air, agg. entering house, sometimes agg. forehead, sometimes agg. occiput, agg. over orbits, agg. hot room, where he felt exhausted; in brain, with constriction; as after intoxication. ▶ Anxiety, amel. open air, with internal and external warmth of forehead. ▶ Confusion; at 2 P.M., with pain; when reflecting and writing; in evening, amel. sleep, with heaviness; with internal heat; with oppression of forehead and small, accelerated pulse; with general confusion as when after violent thirst one drinks several glasses of wine in quick succession; as if stunned; as before violent catarrh; becoming pain, agg. temporal region and forehead; becoming pain, agg. forehead and orbits.

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Spasmodic cough from tickling or dryness in the throat, with whistling sound.
Cough sometimes dry, as if mucus hung in the throat, and could not be loosened, afterwards loosened easily.
Cough with dry gelatinous or bloody expectoration.
Cough, with feeling of suffocation about the heart, with valvular disease.
A feeling of fluttering about the heart, gasping for breath, etc.

Lau. / (Laurel.) / Laura.

Laurocerasus,-Thine the stress
On ills with loss of consciousness.
And loss of power in the heart,
With fluttering action on its part.
With gastric ailments classed among
Derangements with a clean red tongue.
And thous hast fearful smothering spells
With cough-the struggling heart impels.
With cyanotic signs may show,
With beating of the heart too slow.
Lockjaw thou hast, chorea, too,
By twitching muscles brought to view.
Paralysis, and palsy stroke,
With foaming spasms in the yoke.

Laura,-Has a fluttering heart.

Laura Crot is a spy, with Cato, on the twins, Nate and Lily Helo.

Laura,-Who is subject to foaming spasms, -Is at Ethel Bell's, with the stupid cooper twins.

Fluttering Heart: Laur., Crot., Spig., Cact., Hyo., Stram., Nat. m., Lil. t., Helo. h.

Foaming Spasms: Laur., Aeth., Bell., Op., Cup., Hyo., Stram.

Condition similar to intoxication. Stupefaction. Loss of consciousness. Blunting and insensibility of perceptive powers. Weakness of mind and memory. sad and very low spirited. Anxiety, with fear of impending evil. Peevish.

Dull, pressive, stupefying ache. Dull heaviness. Congestion, with heat and throbbing therein. Feeling as though brain fell into forehead when stooping. Cold feeling in forehead or vertex, as of a cold wind blowing down neck and back. Worse: Afternoon, evening, in room, stooping. Better: In open air.

Staring, distorted. Protruding. Dilated, immobile pupils. Surrounding objects appear enlarged. Obscured vision, as of a veil before.

Difficult hearing.

Fluent coryza with sore throat.

Sunken, livid gray. Distorted. Puffed. Twitchings in. Foam from mouth. Lockjaw. Eruption about mouth.

Dry buccal cavity. Roughness and dry feeling in throat. Contraction of throat when drinking. Spasm of throat and oesophagus. Impeded swallowing. Fluids roll audibly down throat. Speech difficult or lost.

Inflammation of. Cooling burning in. Faintish stomach - ache.

Thirst: Intense, with dry mouth.

Nausea: From Stomach, with vomiting of ingesta.

Cooling, burning in. Colicky contraction and cutting in. Griping about navel.

Involuntary. Constipation. Diarrhoea with tenesmus.

Suppressed. Retained, as from paralysis of bladder. Involuntary urination.

Gangrene of penis.

Menses: Of thin, fluid blood, too early and too profuse.

Weak, anxious and slow, Rattling. tightness of chest, as though he could not inflate lungs properly. Threatening paralysis of lungs, with cessation of expectoration.

Short, dry, hacking c., excited by tickling in throat. With copious expectoration of gelatinous mucus dotted with blood. Frequently recurring, whistling, spasmodic, single coughs, excited by tickling in larynx and trachea, as if they were dry.

Hoarseness, with scratching in, and in trachea. Spasmodic constriction of trachea.

Constriction of. Sticking in, more in ribs. Pressure upon sternum. Irregular heart beat.

Sticking and tearing in limbs. Extraordinary physical relaxation. Rapid sinking of strength. Painless paralysis of limbs. Want of vital energy and falling reaction. Apoplexies with paralysis. Convulsive twitching. Epileptic convulsions, with foam from the clenched mouth. Tonic spasm. complaints without pain. Aggravation in evening. He feels better in the open air and at night. The pains of laur are very apt to be accompanied by loss of memory.

Between the fingers it is raw and exfoliates, water causes it to burn.

Irresistible somnolency, especially after dinner and in evening.

Pulse: Externally irregular, now small and slow, often imperceptible, then again somewhat accelerated, seldom full and hard. Weak. Veins on hands are distended. Chill: Coldness and shivering in afternoon and evening, not external warmth. Alternating with beat. Want of natural vital heat. Heat. After the chill, in evening until midnight. Running down the back. Sweat: Mostly with the heat and continuing until toward morning. After eating.

Allied Remedies: Canth., HYDROC AC., Ip., Kali - c., Merc., Spig.

Stinging and tearing in the limbs.

Want of reaction and vital powers are low.

Lack of power, as regards the action of the sphincters.

Want of vital heat.

Tetanic spasms.

Convulsions, with foam before the closed mouth.

Painlessness accompanies the symptoms.

Aggravation in the evening.

At night and in the open air he feels better.

Acute suppuration of the the lungs.

A slow weak pulse.

Low-spiritedness.

Catamenia too early and too profuse.

Catamenia with thin blood.