Oxalicum Acidum ox-ac.

Digestive tract. Navel. Nerves: Cord. Heart. Left side; Lung.

Thinking of it. Cold. Touch. Shaving. Mental exertion.

After stool.

Weak, cold, livid and numb all over; < lower limbs. Violent pains; in streaks, like lightning, in spots, burning, etc. Neuralgia.

Nervous and sleepless. Swimming vertigo. Band-like sensation about head. Numb prickling in occiput and back. Sour taste. Gnawing emptiness. Colicky urging about navel or involuntary, muddy-brown stools, < lying. Oxaluria. Testes throb or feel crushed. Low voice. Paroxysmal, jerking breathing. Nightly dyspnœa. Pain from lower (l), chest to epigastrium. Palpitation, < lying. Fixed chest. Angina pectoris. Back feels too weak to hold body. Cold creeps up spine. Weak trembling hands and feet.

Related: Ars. Pic-ac.

Sorrel Acid

Although certain oxalates are constant constituents of vegetable food and of the human body, the acid itself is a violent poison when taken internally, producing gastro-enteritis, motor paralysis, collapse, stupor and death. Influences the spinal cord, and produces motor paralysis. Pains very violent, in spots (Kali bich) worse, motion, and thinking of them. Periodical remissions. Spasmodic symptoms of throat and chest. Rheumatism of left side. Neurasthenia. Tuberculosis.

Sense of heat. Confusion and vertigo. Headache, before and during stool.

Severe pain in eyes; feel expanded. Hyperæsthesia of retina.

Violent pain in epigastrium, discharge of flatus relieves. Gastralgia, pyrosis, sensation of coldness below epigastrium. Burning pain, extending upwards; slightest touch causes excruciating pain. Bitter and sour eructation, worse at night. Cannot eat strawberries.

Pain in upper part and region of navel two hours after eating, with much flatulence. Stitches in liver. Colic. Burning in small spots in abdomen. Diarrhœa from coffee.

Terrible neuralgic pains in spermatic cord. Testicles feel contused and heavy. Seminal vesiculitis.

Frequent and copious. Burning in urethra and pain in glans when urinating. Must urinate when thinking of it. Urine contains oxalates.

Nervous aphonia with cardiac derangement (Coca; Hydrocy ac). Burning sensation from throat down. Breathing spasmodic, with constriction of larynx and chest. Hoarseness. Left lung painful. Aphonia. Paralysis of the tensors of vocal cord. Dyspnœa; short, jerking inspirations. Sharp pain through lower region of left lung, extending down to epigastrium.

Palpitation and dyspnœa in organic heart disease; worse, when thinking of it. Pulse feeble. Heart symptoms alternate with aphonia, angina pectoris; sharp, lancinating pain in left lung coming on suddenly, depriving of breath. Præcordial pains which dart to the left shoulder. Aortic insufficiency.

Numb, weak, tingling. Pains start from spine and extend through extremities. Drawing and lancinating pains shooting down extremities. Backache; numb, weak, Myelitis. Muscular prostration. Wrist painful, as if sprained (Ulmus). Lower extremities blue, cold, insensible. Sensation of numbness. Multiple cerebral and posterior spinal sclerosis. Lancinating pains in various parts; jerking pains.

Sensitive, smarting and soreness, worse shaving; mottled, marbled in circular patches. Perspires easily.

Worse, left side; slightest touch; light; shaving. Aroused about 3 am with gastric and abdominal pain. All conditions made worse by thinking about self.

Compare: Ars; Colch; Arg; Pic ac; Cicer arietinum-Chick-pea--(Lithiasis, jaundice, liver affections; diuretic). Scolopendra-Centipede--(terrible pains in back and loins, extending down limbs; return periodically, commencing in head, to toes. Angina pectoris. Inflammation, pain and gangrene. Pustules and abscesses). Cæsium--(Pain in lumber region and testicle. Headache, darting through temples. Diarrhœa and colic. Languor).

Lime Water-Antidote to poisoning of Oxal acid.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Complaints < when thinking of them. (Helon., Calc. phos.)

Great cheerfulness and clearness of mind. Thinking of his ailments aggravates them. A version to talk ; with headache, fulness in the face.

Vertigo, with weakness and thirst ; anxiety ; headache and perspiration. Vertigo while looking out of the window ; when rising from a seat. Vertigo, like swimming, on lying down. Sensation of emptiness in the head. Dulness in the forehead (morning). Pain in the forehead and vertex ; on the left side of the forehead, on waking. Pressing pain on small spots. Pressing, like screwing behind both ears. Headache after lying down, after sleeping, and on rising. Headache relieved after stool. Head affected by drinking wine.

Pain in the balls of the eyes ; worse in the left. Inclination to close the eyes. Small, especially linear, objects appear larger ; they are thought to be more distant than they really are. Vanishing of sight, with giddiness and perspiration ; with bleeding of the nose.

Stitches in the right nostril on taking a long inspiration. Pimples in the right side of the nose ; the wing of the nose is swollen. Sneezing, with chilliness. Red, shining swelling of the right side of the nose, beginning at the tip of the nose and from there extending.

Face red, swollen, feeling full ; hot or cold ; covered by cold perspiration. Face pale and livid, with open mouth and unconsciousness. Pale color, with sunken eyes.

Pain in decayed molar teeth. The gums bleed, and are painful in spots. Small ulcers on the gums. Tongue swollen, sensitive, red, dry, burning. Tongue swollen, with a thick white coating. Tongue coated white, with nausea, thirst and loss of taste. Sour taste in the mouth. Heartburn. In the mouth, pain, accumulation of saliva, water, or mucus. In the throat, scraping, increased accumulation of mucus. Dryness in the throat (in the morning) after diarrhœa. Painful deglutition, especially in the morning. Difficult deglutition, with sour eructations.

Appetite increased. Appetite wanting, with loss of taste, thirst and nausea. Thirst, with vertigo, loss of appetite, nausea, colic. The pain in the stomach is relieved by eating ; soup is pleasant when there is gnawing at the stomach. After eating, eructations, nausea, pains at the navel, colic, rumbling in the abdomen, urging, to stool, weakness. Eructations empty, sour. Sudden hiccough ; with eructations. Nausea and thirst with colic, after diarrhœa. Sensation of emptiness in the stomach, compelling one to eat. Burning in the stomach and throat. Stomach sensitive to the touch. Violent colic, waking one at night. Continuous pain in the left hypochondrium, as if bruised ; stitches. Stitches in the liver relieved by taking a deep breath. Colic, rambling (evening and night). Incarcerated flatulence (in the left hypochondrium). Colic pain around the navel, as if bruised ; stitches, with pressing and discharge of flatulence ; worse on moving, better when at rest. Burning in small spots in the abdomen. Cutting pain in the abdomen.

Morning diarrhœa ; stools soft or watery, with colic around the navel and pressing in the rectum ; returning as soon as one lies down again. Stool of mucus and blood. Before the stool and from the pain with the stool, headache. During the stool micturition (fainting, vomiting). After the stool nausea and tension in the calves ; dryness in the throat ; relief of the pain in the small of the back. Diarrhœa as soon as one drinks coffee. Constipation ; no stool. Pressing and straining in the rectum ; tenesmus.

Pain in the region of the kidneys. Frequent micturition and profuse discharge of urine. Burning in the urethra, as from acrid drops. When urinating pain in the glans penis.

Sexual desire increased. Erections (forenoon). Sensation of contusion in the testicles ; worse in the left testicle. Heaviness of the testicles, with drawing pain, extending into the spermatic cords.

Hoarseness ; the larynx feels swollen, contracted, raw, with tickling in it. Dry cough on taking violent exercise. Mucous secretion in the throat increased. Mucus in small lumps, or bard or thick, yellowish-white phlegm, with black lumps in the centre of it. Difficulty of breathing, with oppression of the chest (right side), when moving, about in the evening. Difficulty of breathing, with constrictive pain in the larynx and wheezing. When breathing, stitches in the chest and pain above the hip. Sudden lancinating pain in the left lung, depriving him of breath. Dull, heavy, sore pain in the chest. Pain in the middle of the chest, extending through to the back. Pain in the heart ; soreness, stitches from behind forward or from upwards downwards. Palpitation of the heart, after lying down at night. The beats of the heart intermit when thinking of it.

Pain in the back, under the point of the shoulder-blade, between the shoulders, extending from the shoulders to the loins. Pain in the back, extending to the thighs. Numbness, pricking, causing a sensation of coldness and weakness in the back ; the back is too weak to support the body. Pain in the small of the back, sensation of numbness, or as if broken. Stitches extending from the chest into the shoulders.

Upper. Pain first in the left, later in the right deltoid muscle, with inclination to move. The right wrist feels sprained, with inclination to stretch it and stitches in the ulnar region ; cannot bold any thing. Pain in the (right) metacarpus and fleshy part of the right thumb, with sensation of fulness, heat and numbness. Heaviness of the hand ; can move the fingers but slowly. Hands are cold, as if dead. Arthritic pains in the fingers ; the fingers are drawn in. Twitching of the fingers. Dark nails. Lower. Restlessness in the legs. The knees feel tired. Weakness of the lower extremities ; they are gone to sleep ; paralysis, stiffness. Pain in the limbs, with weakness and numbness.

The pains appear on small longitudinal spots. The pains come on periodically. Trembling, convulsions. Paralysis of the left side.

Frequent yawning ; sleepiness during the day. Dreams, with fright and fear ; sits up and looks around.

Pulse more rapid in the morning ; slower, irregular, weak. Chilliness, ascending from below upwards. Chilliness, with sneezing (evening). Chill after diarrhœa (afternoon). Shaking chill, with red face (evening). Heat from every exertion. Heat, especially in the face or on the hands. Heat with perspiration. Perspiration with weakness, or with giddiness. Night-sweat clammy and cold.

Skin very sensitive while shaving. Marbled skin. Itching on the neck or fingers. Itching eruption with redness. Warts.

Aggravation of the pains or ailments when thinking of them. Motion and exercise increase the pains. Sugar aggravates the pains in the stomach, and wine the headache.

Oxalic Acid. Hydrogen Oxalate. C 2 H 2 O 4 2 H 2 O. Trituration. Tincture.

Angina pectoris. Back, pain in. Chest, affections of . Cholera infantum. Convulsions. Deltoid rheumatism. Enuresis. Eyes, affections of. Gastrodynia. Gout. Gravel . Hernia. Indigestion. Meningitis. Myelitis . Nails, blue. Neuralgia. Neurasthenia. Nose, affections of. Numbness. Oxaluria. Paralysis . Pregnancy, sickness of. Side, pain in . Spasms. Spermatic cord, neuralgia of. Stomach, affections of . Tetanus. Testicles, induration of; pains in. Tongue, affections of. Urine, abnormal. Voice, altered .

If Opium is the painless remedy, Oxal. ac . may be considered its antithesis: it causes pains excruciating beyond description, and it has this grand keynote distinction, that its pains are all < when the patient thinks of them. And not only that, thinking of pains and conditions will bring them on when they are not actually present. If the patient thinks about urinating he must go instantly and relieve the bladder. Full doses of the poison cause corrosion of the passages, excruciating agony in back, chest, stomach, and abdomen, destruction of mucous membrane, bloody vomit and stool, and death by exhaustion, consciousness being generally retained to the end, though sense of sight may be lost. Coldness of surface, numbness, mottled skin, blue nails, are present in all degrees of the drug's action, and are leading notes for its use. The excruciating pain in lower back and loss of power in the lower limbs shows an unmistakable action on the spinal cord and its meninges. These symptoms are better seen in less severe cases of poisoning. I take two cases from C. D. P . ( 1 ) A middle-aged shoemaker, a hard drinker, took 1/4 oz. of Oxal. ac . in crystals. Prepared chalk was given freely. Symptoms: Severe burning sensation in mouth and throat with great thirst and difficulty in swallowing; excruciating pain in epigastrium, and cold, clammy perspiration; numbness and tingling in extremities, legs drawn up towards abdomen; pulse was just perceptible; breathing slightly spasmodic; features anxious, pallid. At 8 p.m. (nine hours after observer's first visit) hot feeling in throat and tingling in extremities continued. Voice altered ; instead of a remarkably deep bass it was reduced to a very low key, like one talking in an undertone. This lasted a month, during which period the legs used to "go to sleep" several times a day. After nine weeks the voice, though stronger, was still "a complete old man's voice." ( 2 ) A woman took three drachms in three ounces of water. Most of it was evacuated within fifteen minutes by stomach-pump. Symptoms: Convulsions; spastic contraction of jaws and limbs; forcible closure of mouth and drawing down of its angles. Dilated alæ nasi, corrugated brows, twitching of facial muscles and insensibility. Great cerebral excitement afterwards occurred with dry coldness of surface and imperceptible pulse. Symptoms were less marked during intermission of tetanic spasms, and declined in three hours. In animals poisoned with Oxal. ac . the first symptom is stiffness of hind limbs. Farrington sums up the indications of Oxal. ac . in spinal affections: Weak loins, hips, legs, numb back; numb limbs. Limbs blue and cold; weak and numb; < going up stairs. Limbs stiff ; paroxysm of dyspnœa (as in spinal meningitis). [The mottled purpuric surface of meningitis gives another indication. — J. H. C.] Pains in small spots [especially linear spots]. Pains < when thinking of them. Erections with dulness in occiput. In a case of paraplegia, affecting first right then left leg, of a year's duration, in an American lady, mother of four children, W. M. Butler ( N. A. J. H ., i. 797) gave great relief with Oxal. ac . 3. In a few weeks the motory symptoms were better, then the sensory. Sensation to heat and cold was restored, general tactile sensibility was improved. Some control was gained over bladder and rectum. — The involuntary muscles are affected by Oxal. ac . no less than the voluntary. There is frequent ineffectual urging to stool, preceded by a sick, distressing feeling from navel downwards, < when thinking of it, < from drinking coffee. Sugar < pain in stomach. Wine = headache. Faintness and vomiting during stool. After stool > of pain in back. The heart may be paralysed in a few minutes if the dose of the poison is very large, and then it is found flaccid or distended with blood. In an interesting study of Oxal. ac ., J. W. Ellis ( J. B. H. S ., vii. 285) cites a fatal case of poisoning recorded by Boericke ( Med. Cent ., August, 1894) through exposure of the hands to a saturated solution used for chemical purposes. The symptoms were: Intense pains in head. Hyperæsthesia, especially to light. Spasms of pain down extremities, along throat muscles, and through spermatic cord. Sensitive spots on spine. De Noë Walker told me of a case of his in which the patient, an elderly, gouty man, was suddenly seized with congestion of spinal meninges with great coldness, blueness, and numbness; complete prostration of strength. Oxal. ac . 6 rapidly cured. A patient of mine who used Oxal. ac . in his work suffered from: " Rheumatism of left side . Starting on falling asleep. When actually at work, acidity." This left-side rheumatism is noteworthy, for Oxal. ac . is a very left-sided remedy. But it has one special region of the left side, as Burnett has graphically illustrated, in which it is supreme. Sharp pains through the lower lobe of the left lung. It matters not what the name of the disease may be — pleurisy, pneumonia, phthisis — when that pain is present Oxal. ac . will do its work. The provings give: Sharp shooting pain in left lung and heart, extending down to epigastrium, and lasting some seconds. — In afternoon, stitches several times in left lung. — Sharp, lancinating pain in left lung, coming on so suddenly that it deprives him of breath for a few seconds. Sore sticking in chest extending back to between scapulæ." Oxal. ac . has cured many cases of angina pectoris, with symptoms recalling these. A powerful action is developed on the kidneys in the poisoning cases, albumen, blood, and oxalate crystals being found in the urine. Oxal. ac . in the attenuations has given good results in cases of oxaluria in which some of the leading symptoms of the remedy, as the backache, numbness, &c., were present. — Enuresis has also been cured ( H. P ., vi. 232) with Oxal. ac . 6 in a blonde boy of six. The guiding symptom was: "Sharp shooting pain in left chest, close to sternum and parallel to it. Ellis suggests that Oxal. ac . corresponds to many cases of neurasthenia. It is a favourite remedy with S. A. Jones in cardiac trouble, occurring in highly "nervous" patients ( H. R ., v. 13). [Hale cured a case of palpitation with action of heart irregular in force and rhythm, alternating with aphonia, with Oxal. ac . 6 ( Org ., ii. 222).] Jones's remarks just quoted are made in reference to a case reported by " C. F. M ." ( H. R ., iv. 257), and described by the reporter as "lumbago," but considered (in my opinion, correctly) by Jones to be spinal meningitis. This is the case: Mrs. S., 55, suffered for several days with: Terrible pain in lumbar region, extending down thigh and over region of both kidneys. Extremely anxious to change position frequently, but slightest movement, assisted or unassisted, caused her to shriek out in agony. Frequent desire to pass large amounts of urine, but the pain on moving was so great that she would shrink from the attempt. Legs numb and very weak and cold. Pulse rapid. Short, distressed breathing in general, though there were intervals of easier breathing. Appetite normal, though swallowing was difficult and painful. Oxal. ac . 30, every half-hour, was given. In two hours she could be placed on the vessel with very little pain. In twelve hours she sat up. In twenty-four hours was entirely relieved. Banergee ( H. P ., xiii. 157) cured a case of strangulated hernia of left side with Oxal. ac . 6 trit. He had no definite indication. John Moore reports the case ( H. W ., xv. 53) of a sea captain who suffered much from indigestion. Two years before Moore saw him he had had to undergo operation for strangulated hernia. Ever since he had been subject to these symptoms: Pain in region of navel coming on two hours after eating, accompanied by much flatulence and bitter and sour eructations. Pain < in night, arousing the patient 3 a.m., and keeping him awake. Burning sensation from throat downwards to the region of the pain. The patient had always had a weak digestion, and had met with many severe accidents at sea. Oxal. ac . 3, two drops, an hour after meals. He was a little better the first night, and after that slept the night through, and said he had not had so much comfort for years. Oxal. ac ., the chief constituent of Sorrel ( Rumex Acetosa ) and Wood Sorrel ( Oxalis acetosella ), exists in plants that are ordinarily deemed anti-scorbutic and are remarkable for the grateful acidity of their herbage. Inspissated solutions of sorrel have been used successfully as local applications for epithelioma, and with a solution of Oxal. ac . and of Tannic acid , applied locally, Cooper removed a large patch of erythematous lupus on the cheek. With a solution of 5 gr. to two drachms of water Cooper has often removed troublesome small nævi in infants upon the face and elsewhere, using it perseveringly for weeks or even months. From this it would appear, taking into account that Oxal. ac . produces wart-like growths, that, well diluted, it may be regarded as having a beneficial influence, locally and probably internally as well, upon epithelial proliferations of the cuticle. Ox. ac . is said to enter largely into the inspissated juice of the Clover ( Trifol. pratense ) which formed Thomson's "cancer plaster," and which is strongly escharotic. Among the Peculiar Sensations are: jerking pains, like short stitches, confined to small spots, lasting only a few seconds. Sensation as if all blood had left the brain. As if blood in head was coursing upward and outward. As from a screw behind each ear. Hypogastrium as if bound. Back as if broken or bruised. Wrist as if sprained. Hands as if dead. During shaving as from chafing. Symptoms are < by touch (small spots on head); slightest touch = excruciating pain. < Shaving. Eating > pain in stomach. Soup > gnawing in stomach. Sugar, coffee, wine < . After eating: pains at navel, colic, rumbling in abdomen, urging to stool, weakness. Motion and exercise < . Rest < colic. Lying down = swimming sensation; palpitation; erections; return of colic and diarrhœa; < headache; > pain in left lung. Change of position > pain in back. Slightest exertion = heat. < Evening, night, and early morning. Walking in open air = tickling in larynx. Shaving < (skin of face). After stool: headache and backache > .

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Diminished power to concentrate ideas.
Very much exhilarated ; quicker thought and action.
As soon as he thinks about the pains they return.
Mania.
Aversion to talk ; with headache, fulness in face.

Vertigo : with darkness before eyes and sweat ; weakness and thirst ; anxiety, headache and sweat ; when looking out of window ; when rising from a seat ; a swimming sensation, when lying down.
Sensation of emptiness in head, faint feeling, as if all blood had left brain.
Upper part of body, particularly head, feels as if blood were coursing upward and outward.

Dulness in forehead in morning.
Dull headache of vertex and forehead, heaviness.
Burning sensation at forehead.
Headache in spots ; pressing pain on small spots.
Compression in head, as from a screw behind each ear.
Pain at a spot between vertex and occiput, pressing inwardly.
Headache < after wine, lying down, after sleep and on rising ; > after stool.

Small spots on head painful to touch.

Type blurs when reading.
Vanishing of sight, with giddiness and sweat ; with nosebleed.
Small, especially linear objects appear larger and more distant.
Pain in both orbits, < in left.
Bleared eyes.

Sneezing, with chilliness ; with watery coryza.
Red, shining swelling of right side of nose, beginning at tip and spreading.
Stitches in right nostril on taking a long inspiration.
Pimples in right side of nose ; wing of nose swollen.
Epistaxis, with vanishing of sight.

Face pale and livid.
Pale color with sunken eyes.
Feeling of heat in face.
Feeling of fulness in face ; face redder.
Face covered with cold sweat.

Drawing pain, with rigidity near angle of lower jaw, first and longest in left then in right side.

Pain in decayed molar.
Gums bleed, are painful in spots.
Small ulcers on gums.

Sour taste.
Tongue : swollen, sensitive ; red, dry, burning ; swollen, with a thick, white coating ; coated white, with nausea, thirst and loss of taste.

Watery saliva or mucus in mouth.
Aphthæ.

Dryness in throat (morning) after diarrhœa.
Scraping in throat, thick mucus accumulates.
Deglutition : especially painful mornings ; difficult, with sour eructations.
Mucous secretion in throat increased.
Chronic sore throat.
Angina.

Appetite : increased ; wanting, with loss of taste.
Thirst, with vertigo, loss of appetite, nausea, colic.

Pain in stomach, > after eating ; soup relieves gnawing at stomach.
After eating, eructations, nausea, pains at navel, colic, rumbling in abdomen, urging to stool, weakness.
Sugar aggravates pain in stomach ; and wine headache.
Sugar, coffee and wine disagree.

Sudden hiccough, with eructations.
Heartburn < in evening.
Eructations : empty or sour ; of tasteless wind after each meal.
Nausea : and frequent vomiting ; during pregnancy ; thirst and colic after diarrhœa.

Empty feeling, compelling one to eat.
Burning pain in stomach and throat.
Awakens at night with violent pressive pain, like a heavy weight, coming and going at intervals ; flatulent discharge relieves.
Stomach sensitive ; slightest touch causes excruciating pain.
Gastritis ; gastro-enteritis.

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This remedy has been greatly neglected.

It will cure many heart complaints that are treated with vague, crude, unproved remedies with indifferent results. The violent action upon the heart racks the whole system. Trembling, convulsions, loss of sensation; numbness of the body and limbs; blueness of the lower limbs, fingers and lips; paralysis of the limbs are symptoms showing how violently this remedy takes hold of the body, affecting the heart, spinal cord and brain. Symptoms are worse from exertion and motion. The patient is sensitive to cold air. Symptoms come on in paroxysms. Palpitation alternates with loss of voice.

No remedy produces more violent pains; cutting, shooting, stitching, tearing pains in many parts; sores and bruises all over the body; burning in forehead, stomach, abdomen, throat, urethra, hands and feet; painful spots on the scalp, sore to, touch, also in other places.

The body is mottled in places. Complaints come on from eating sour fruits, such as strawberries, cranberries, apples, rhubarb, tomatoes, grapes; also from eating sugar and starchy foods. Wine and coffee disagree.

The symptoms, and especially the pains, come on or are worse when thinking about them. At times there is great excitement and exhilaration again there is loss of memory and dejection; maniacal conduct; aversion to conversation. Fainting during stool. There is marked hyperemia of the brain and surging of blood from body to head; flashes of heat mount upward; he becomes dizzy and there is vanishing of sight.

The head feels empty; dull aching in the head; in forehead and vertex; the brain burns; headache in spots; pressing pain in small spots; pressing pain behind ear; the headaches are worse from wine, lying, after sleep, and on rising and better after stool.

Sore tender spots on the scalp. Type blurs when reading; vanishing of sight; small, especially linear objects seem larger and more distant; pain eyes, especially the left; bleared eyes.

Epistaxis with vanishing of sight.

Face is pale and blue; sunken expression; heat in face; face covered with cold sweat; drawing pain with rigidity near the angle of lower jaw-first in left, then in right.

Ulcers on gums; gums bleed and are painful in spots; sour taste in the mouth; tongue sore, red, dry, burning, swollen, with white coating; there is loss of taste; aphthae in the mouth; much thick mucus compels him to constantly clear the throat; swallowing is painful in the morning; pain in throat; chronic sore throat.

Appetite increased; wanting, with loss of taste; thirst.

Pain in stomach better after eating; gnawing in stomach better after taking soup. After eating, eructations, nausea, pains at the navel, colic, rumbling in bowels, urging to stool, weakness. Sugar increases the pain in stomach; wine makes headache worse; coffee acts violently on the heart and causes diarrhea; heartburn worse in the evening; eructation, sour, tasteless, after eating. Nausea and vomiting; nausea during pregnancy; thirst and colic after diarrhea; nausea and cramp in calves after stool.

Paroxysmal pains in abdomen in the night, relieved by passing flatus; burning in stomach and throat; extreme tenderness of stomach; inflammation of stomach and intestines; empty feeling relieved by eating.

Cramping pains in abdomen. Burning in the abdomen. Stitching pains in abdomen and in the liver. Great pain in the region of the umbilicus, worse evening and night; worse from motion. Sore pains about the navel. The pains in abdomen come on or are worse when thinking of them. Obstructed flatus in the splenic flexure of the colon, causing pain in left hypochondrium. Stitching pains in liver, relieved by deep breathing.

Cramping pains in abdomen, worse at night with vomiting; worse from motion and from eating sugar. Chronic inflammation of the bowels. Extreme tenderness of the abdomen; chronic morning diarrhea with cramping about the navel; tenesmus, renewed urging on lying down. Coffee brings on diarrhea; stools watery; of mucus and blood; stools involuntary. The tenesmus during stool causes pain in head; constipation with difficult stool and the straining causes headache.

The renal region is painful and tender. Frequent urination; copious; urine containing oxalate of lime; soreness of whole urinary tract; the urine causes soreness and burning of the urethra; when urinating there is pain in the glans penis; incontinence of urine in sleep; all the urinary symptoms are worse when thinking about them.

Tearing pains in the spermatic cords, worse from motion; marked tenderness in testes which become painful when walking. Strong, sexual desire and erections when in bed; seminal emissions and sexual weakness; shooting pains along the spermatic cords.

Loss of voice with cardiac complaints; palpitation alternating with loss of voice; larynx sore, raw, with tickling and clutching; mucus forms in the larynx when talking; must constantly clear the larynx when talking; white mucus in the larynx; hawks up thick yellow and white mucus.

In complaints of the heart there is most difficult breathing. In feeble, nervous women there is paroxysmal breathing; violent rapid respiration with intervals of normal breathing; jerking inspiration and sudden, forced expiration in angina pectoris; dyspnoea with constriction in the larynx that is very painful; with wheezing and oppression of chest worse thinking of it.

Cardiac cough on slight exertion; choking feeling in larynx; tickling in larynx while walking in cold air.

Sharp, shooting pains in left lung, heart and left hypochondrium. With inability to breathe during perfect rest; soreness in chest; pain in middle of chest through to the back. Dullness in lower part of left lung.

Stitching tearing pains behind the sternum going to shoulders and arms; worse on left side; with blueness of nails and lips; cold sweat paralysis of lower limbs; spasmodic respiration (compare Latrodeatus mactans).

Violent palpitation in rheumatic subjects, worse when thinking about it. Pulse irregular, intermittent, fast; cold sweat, blue nails, great weakness. It cures many cardiac complaints endocarditis, pericarditis, valvular insufficiency, etc. Fluttering heart.

Pain under point of scapula, between shoulders, extending downward to small of back; stitches in chest, extending to scapula; violent aching pain in back, and down the thighs, relieved by change of position.

This symptom is an exception as the pains are generally worse from motion., Benumbing pains in the small of back better after stool.

Numbness, pricking, causing a cold sensation with weakness in spine. Weakness in loins and hips extending to lower limbs; pains shoot up back to head.

Cold chills in lower part of back followed by evening fever, coming every day. Motion brings on many pains in spine with much drawing in muscles of back; paralysis from inflammation of spinal cord; limb stiff; paroxysms of dyspnoea.

Numbness in shoulders to finger tips; sharp lancinating pains in arms; right wrist feels sprained; pain in right metacarpus and fleshy part of right thumb with heat and numbness; hands almost helpless; hands cold as if dead ; fingers and nails blue in heart complaints; pains in the points of flexed fingers.

Twitching of muscles of shoulder; arm and fingers. The legs are stiff, numb and weak; lower limbs cold, blue and paralyzed. Violent pains in lower limbs. Burning in feet and hands. Rheumatism of joints.

Frightening dreams; wakens with palpitation, cold sweat and pain in limbs; sleepy during day but distressing sleep at night; feels better after passing flatus. Violent pains in stomach keep him awake.

Chilliness; shaking chill, cold body. Heat from slight exertion; flashes of heat then cold sweat; shaking chill in evening followed, by internal heat and external sweat, hands cold. Cold sweat of face, hands and feet.

Diminished power to concentrate ideas.
Very much exhilarated; quicker thought and action.
As soon as he thinks about the pains, they return.

Vertigo: weakness and thirst; anxiety, headache and sweat; when looking out of the window; when rising from a seat; a swimming sensation on lying down.
Sensation of emptiness in the head, faint feeling, as if all the blood had left the brain.
Upper part of body, particularly the head, feels as if blood were coursing upward and outward.

Dull headache of the vertex and forehead, heaviness.
Compression in head, sensation as from a screw behind each ear.
Pain between the vertex and occiput, at a spot pressing inwardly.
Headache, worse after wine; lying down; after sleep and on rising; better after stool.

Type blurs when reading.
Vanishing of sight, with giddiness and sweat; with nosebleed.
Linear objects appear larger and more distant.
Pain in both orbits, worse in left.

Sneezing, with chilliness; with watery coryza.
Red, shining swelling of right side of nose, beginning at the tip and spreading thence.

Feeling of heat in the face.
Feeling of fulness in the face; face redder.
Faced covered with cold sweat.

Drawing pain, with rigidity near the angle of lower jaw, first and longest in left, then in right side.

Pain in decayed molar.
Gums bleed, are painful in spots.
Small ulcers on gums.

Tongue swollen, sensitive, red, dry, burning.
Tongue: swollen, with a thick, white coating; coated white, with nausea, thirst and loss of taste.
Sour taste.

Watery saliva, or mucus in the mouth.

Dryness in throat (morning), after diarrhœa.
Deglutition: especially painful mornings; difficult, with sour eructations.
Scraping in the throat, thick mucus accumulates.

Appetite: increased; wanting, with loss of taste.
Thirst, with vertigo, loss of appetite, nausea, colic.

Sugar aggravates pain in the stomach; and wine the headache.
Drinking coffee: 20.

Heart-burn, worse evening.
Eructations empty or sour; also, sudden hiccough, with eructations.
Nausea, thirst, colic, after the diarrhœa.

Empty feeling, compelling one to eat.
Burning pain in stomach and throat.
Awakens at night with violent pressive pain, like a heavy weight, coming and going at intervals; flatulent discharge relieves.
Stomach sensitive; slightest touch causes excruciating pain.

Stitches in liver relieved by a deep breath.
Continuous pain in left hypochondrium, as if bruised; stitches.

Colic about the navel, as if bruised, with stitches and difficult emission of flatulence; worse on morning, better when at rest.
Colic from eating sugar.
Burning in small spots in the abdomen.

Constant involuntary stools.
Suddenly seized with distressing feeling in whole abdomen, twisting around navel, bearing down; dark, muddy, copious evacuation, 6 A.M.
Stool of mucus and blood.
Diarrhœa as soon as one drinks coffee.
Lying down causes return of diarrhœa.
Before stool: headache.
During stool: as if caused by the pain, headache; micturition (fainting, vomiting).
After stool: nausea and cramp in the calves; dryness in throat; relief of pain in small of back.
Pressing and straining in the rectum; tenesmus.

Pain in region of kidneys.
Frequent and copious urination, which is clear, straw-colored.
Burning in urethra, as from acrid drops.
When urinating, pain in glans penis.
Thinking of urinating causes necessity to urinate.

Great increase of sexual desire.
On lying down, erections without any cause, and afterward testicles and cords pain.
Testicles feel contused.
During a walk, pain and heaviness in the testicles, shooting along the cords.

Hoarseness and sensation of mucus in larynx during talking.
Hoarseness and aphonia without soreness.

Difficulty of breathing, with constrictive pain in the larynx and wheezing; oppression more toward right side. θ Angina pectoris.
Jerking inspiration; and sudden, forced expiration, as though he made a sudden effort to relieve intense pain by expelling the air from the lungs. θ Angina pectoris.
Paroxysms of short, hurried breathing, with intervals of ease.

From tickling in larynx while walking in open air; larynx feels swollen.
Dry cough on taking violent exercise.
Mucus hawked up, thick, yellow-white, with a central black lump of the size of a pea.

Sudden lancinating in left lung, depriving him of breath.
Congestion, inflammation localized at base of left lung.
Rheumatic pains in the left lung; better lying down.
When breathing, stitches in the chest and above the hip.
Dull, heavy, sore pain in the chest.
Pain in the middle of chest, through to the back.

Pain in the heart; soreness, stitches, from behind forward, or from above downward.
Sharp darting in heart and left lung, extending down to epigastrium. θ Angina pectoris.
Immediately after lying down in bed at night, palpitation for half an hour; three nights consecutively.
Heart-burn intermits when thinking of it.
Pulse increased in frequency, almost imperceptible, with deadly coldness, clammy sweats, livid nails.

Pain under point of scapula, between shoulders, extending to loins.
Stitches from chest into scapula.
Back numb, weak. θ Angina pectoris.
Acute pain in back, gradually extending down the thighs, with great torture; seeks relief in change of posture.
Numbness, pricking, causing a cold sensation; back feels too weak to support the body.
Paralysis from inflammation of spinal cord, limbs stiff; paroxysms of dyspnœa.

Twitch first in left, later in right deltoid with inclination to move.
Sharp, lancinating pains in the arms. θ Angina pectoris.
Arthritic pains in fingers, which are flexed.
Right wrist feels sprained, wants to stretch it; cannot hold anything.
Hands feel heavy; can move fingers but slowly.
Hands cold as if dead.
Fingers and nails livid.
Twitching of the fingers.

Legs cold, powerless. θ Angina pectoris.
Legs stiff, numb, weak.
Knees feel tired.

Motion: 19, 32. Exertion: 27, 40. Walking: 22; in open air: 27. Change of position: 31. Rising: 2, 3. Lying: 2, 3, 20, 22, 28, 29. Rest: 19.

Peculiar numbness, approaching to palsy. θ Angina pectoris.

Yawning; sleepy during the day.
Awakens at night with palpitation.

Morning: 13, 20. Afternoon: 40. Evening: 16, 40. Night: 17, 29, 37. Day: 37.

Chilliness: with sneezing (evening); after diarrhœa (afternoon).
Shaking chill, with red face (evening).
Creeping chill up the spine.
Heat from every exertion.
Flushes of heat, with sweat.
Sweat: clammy, with weakness; with giddiness.

Symptoms recur in paroxysms; intermit for hours or a day.

Right: 7, 26, 32. Left: 5, 9, 18, 28, 29. Left to right: 9, 32. Above downward: 29, 31. Front backward: 31. Behind forward: 29.

Pain in small longitudinal spots.
Jerking pains, like short stitches, confined to small spots, lasting only a few seconds.

Touch: 17. Shaving: 46.

Sensitive during shaving, as from chafing.
Skin mottled in circular patches.

Antidotes to large doses: carbonates of lime or magnesia.
Sugar, coffee and wine disagree.

Pure oxalic acid is triturated for use.

It causes violent gastro-intestinal inflammation, with irregular pulse, stupor and collapse or convulsions. ▶ It paralyzes the motor centres in the spinal cord, and also causes apparent inflammation of that substance of its sheath.

Pic. ac., Ph. ac., Colch.

Lies supine; on his back, with knees drawn up. ▶ Emaciation. ▶ Convulsions; with two or three deep inspirations. ▶ Mimic spasms and feeling as if they should never laugh again; mimic spasms or pulling of face, as from acid fruit and vegetables. ▶ Spastic contractions of muscles of jaws and limbs. ▶ Twitching; sudden, in metacarpal bone of left index; then externally in ulnar side of hand, then in right side of head, etc., and intermittent jerking pains like stitches, in spots. ▶ Tremors.

▶ Pains occupy a small space, one-half to one inch in length and of the thickness of a quill, at times they move through this space, often they occupy the whole of it; pain in left side; P. agg. movement; excruciating P. ▶ Bruised feeling in morning after sound sleep, with stiffness. ▶ Distress, agg. ascending stairs. ▶ General sick feeling, sensation as if hands and feet were trembling. ▶ Feeling as after a debauch, amel. walking in cool, open air, headache, with gnawing pain and soreness in eyes and superciliary regions, lassitude, disinclination to occupation, inclination to stretch and yawn. ▶ Sensation in upper part of body, agg. head, like a rippling and surging three times to every beat of the pulse in forenoon, when lying, agg. directing attention to it, it seems as if the blood streamed in this manner through the capillaries, he distinctly feels it streaming upward and outward in head. ▶ Restless; at night.

Indolence in morning, he lay down and felt well while lying. ▶ Inclination to lie down in morning and close the eyes, without sleepiness. ▶ Weakness; in morning; in forenoon during diarrhœa; on ascending steps and afterwards; agg. lower limbs; with sweat; with trembling; with feeling as if spine were too weak to support the body; crawling, at noon after eating and in evening, obliging him to lie down, with general fulness (Pic. ac., Phos. ac.). ▶ Faintness; and rattling respiration. ▶ Collapse. ▶ Numbness; approaching palsy. ▶ Symptoms reappear as soon as he thinks of them. ▶ Symptoms usually intermit and then return in a diminished degree.

Pains occurring in small circumscribed areas, lasting a short time, but very violent. ▶ Pains of rheumatic gout, especially worse from sweets.

Delirium; in evening; at times; with paroxysms of violent struggling; and he got out of bed. ▶ Hallucination at night. ▶ Excitement in evening; E., with dry coldness of skin and imperceptible pulse. ▶ Hilarity; with frequent and tense pulse. ▶ Exhilaration. ▶ Cheerfulness; with quickness of thought and action. ▶ Animation through the day, with playfulness and mirth. ▶ Vivacity in forenoon, agg. afternoon, with unusual power of understanding. ▶ Manner quick; and nervous; M. agitated; heavy. ▶ Starting, external rather than internal, when the door slams. ▶ Fear; of death. ▶ Anxiety and distress; A., with apprehension, vertigo and headache. ▶ (Ill humor in afternoon and evening.). ▶ Greater love for his children. ▶ Aversion to talking; with full feeling in face and excitement. ▶ Unusual power of concentration; after the opposite effect. ▶ Presence of mind greater, the relations of the world seem clearer to him. ▶ Power of meditation difficult and slow in morning, hardly able to answer questions. ▶ Power of understanding lost when reading, necessity to read a sentence three or four times before he can comprehend it. ▶ Stupor; with depression and vomiting of blood; fell to the floor and appeared stupid. ▶ Unconsciousness. ▶ Disinclination to mental work.

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Gastro-enteritis.
Inflammation of the spinal cord and motor paralysis.
Stupor, convulsions and collapse, with irregular pulse.
Pains in small spots; transient, violent, < motion and thinking of them.

Inflammation; salivation, with aphthæ.

Eructations after eating.
Vomiting, with griping and twisting pain.
Violent heartburn, especially in the evening, > eructations and eating.

Burning pain, worse about navel, < evening and at night.

Involuntary, watery, mixed with blood, Diarrhœa, < coughing.
Dysentery preceded by colic, with much ineffectual urging.

Clinical:
Oxaluria; with pyrosis, pains in the back and extremities; weakness.

Bruised pain in the testicles and shooting along the spermatic cord; < motion.

Breathing spasmodic, difficult, with constriction in the larynx and chest.
Dry cough < violent exertion, with swelling and dryness in the larynx, soreness and pains in the chest.

Palpitation.
Irregular action of the heart; < lying down at night.
Pulse very feeble, often scarcely perceptible, with cold, clammy sweat.
Livid extremities.

Pains extending to the thighs.
Bruised sensation from the shoulders to the hips and in the extremities.
Numbness and weakness in the limbs; could not ascend the steps.
Numbness and tingling in the thighs.

Clinical:
Violent pains, starting from the spine and extending through the extremities, with tenderness of the spine, numbness and weakness of the back and legs; numbness of the whole body, with coldness and motor paralysis.
Drawing and lancinating pains, involving the left lung and heart, with dyspnœa.
Spinal pains, shooting down the extremities, with dyspnœa and numbness.
Lower extremities become cold, blue and immovable.
Lameness and stiffness.

Cold extremities and livid nails, especially in the legs and feet.
Flashes of internal heat, with sweat.

Ox. / Oxa.

Oxalic acid,-Thine the right,
To claim with Bell. and Aconite,
In Inflammation, any where,
Acute or Chronic, equal share.
Especially of the mount and tongue,
And spine meninges, stomach, lung.
With palpitation of the heart,
That lying down at night will start,
With spinal malady that sends
A numbness to the finger ends.

Oxa,-Has Inflammation of the tongue.

Oxa, the Merchant, is lying with Job.

This Oxa,-Who is subject to numbness of the fingers,-Is at Calvin N. Knight's, with an eye solely upon Ana Secal.

Inflammation of the Tongue: Ox. a., Mer., Lach., Apis, Aco., Bell.

Numbness of the fingers: Ox. a., Cal. c., Nux v., Arg. n., Apis, Sul., Lyc., Pho., Ana., Sec. (Finger ends, Arg. n., Ox. a., Pho.- Numb thumb, Ana., Cal. c., Lyc., Nat. m., Sec., Sul.)

Indicated in spinal disease, with intense neuralgic pain and tendency to motor paralysis; locomotor ataxia; neurasthenia; angina pectoris; gastralgia; also used in oxaluria with gouty pain.

Intense pain of rather short duration, in small circumscribed areas. Gastralgia; pain excruciating, causing vomiting; feeling of coldness between stomach and navel.

Angina pectoris with short stitching pain in a small area, worse from slightest motion, accompanied by a sense of numbness.

Spinal pains starting between shoulders, with numbness and weakness in the back and limbs, sharp lancinating pains, and loss of motor power in the limbs.