Sinapis Nigra sin-n.

Black Mustard (BRASSICA NIGRA)

Is of use in hay-fever, coryza, and pharyngitis. Dry nares and pharynx, with thick, lumpy secretion. Small-pox.

Scalp hot and itches. Sweat on upper lip and forehead. Tongue feels blistered.

Mucus from posterior nares feels cold. Scanty, acrid discharge. Stoppage of left nostril all day, or in afternoon and evening. Dry, hot, with lachrymation, sneezing; hacking cough; better lying down. Nostrils alternately stopped. Dryness of anterior nares.

Cough is relieved by lying down.

Feels scalded, hot inflamed. Asthmatic breathing. Loud coughing-spells with barking expiration.

Offensive breath, smelling like onions (Asaf; Armorac). Burning in stomach, extending up œsophagus, throat, and mouth, which is full of canker sores. Hot sour eructations. Colic; pains come on while bent forward; better, sitting up straight. Sweat better when nausea comes on.

Pain in bladder, frequent copious flow day and night.

Rheumatic pain in intercostal and lumbar muscles; sleeplessness from pain in back and hips.

Compare: Sulph; Capsic; Colocy; Sinapis alba-White Mustard--(throat symptoms marked, especially pressure and burning, with obstruction in œsophagus; sensation of a lump in œsophagus behind the Manubrium Sterni and with much eructation; similar symptoms in rectum). Mustard oil by inhalation (acts on the sensory nerve endings of the trigeminal. Relieves pain in middle ear disease and in painful conditions of nose, nasal cavities, and tonsils).

Third potency.

Brassica nigra, Black Mustard. N. O. Cruciferæ. Trituration and tincture of seeds.

Amenorrhœa. Apoplexy. Asthma, pituitous. Catarrh. Chlorosis. Chordee. Chorea. Constipation. Coryza. Cough. Diarrhœa. Hæmorrhoids. Hay-fever. Headache, dull, heavy. Heartburn. Hiccough. Intermittents. Menses, premature. Mucous fever. Post-nasal catarrh. Priapism. Scurvy. Variola.

" Sin. nig . yields the greater part of the condiment so generally used in this country. The plant is indigenous, but is nevertheless largely cultivated in Yorkshire and Durham. The seeds are of a reddish-brown colour. Mixed with those of Sin. a . they are crushed between rollers, and subsequently powdered and sifted twice or oftener. From the residue left on the sieve a fixed oil is obtained by pressure. The powdered mustard is usually mixed with a considerably quantity of wheaten flour and a small quantity of turmeric powder. The term I flour of mustard I is not quite accurate, as the mustard seeds themselves contain little or no starchy material. The chemical ingredients are somewat complex. Among them are a peculiar acid called Myronic acid , noticeable as containing a large proportion of Sulphur , and which, when mixed with water and a peculiar substance called Myrosine (analogous to albumen), also found in mustard seeds, yields a volatile Oil of Mustard, which has no separate existence in the seeds, but is formed artificially in the manner just stated. This oil is very acrid, and has been used as a rubefacient. The fixed oil before mentioned as existing in the seed itself has little or no acridity, and has been used as a purgative and vermifuge" ( Treas. of Bot .). Thiosinamine , which is extracted from Oil of Mustard, belongs to the same group os Urea. It has been used in cheloid, and for removing scar tissue, and so in tinnitus aurium (Spencer, H. M ., Jan., 1899). As the chemical constituents of the two mustards (see Sin. alb .) are not identical, and as they have been proved independently, I have kept them separate. The yellow colour of mustard suggests Sulphur , a large amount of which is contained in the seeds. Like many other Crucifers Sin. n . has antiscorbutic properties; and it has cured cases of ague; mucous fever; catarrh of bladder, of stomach, and of air passages. It is in the treatment of hay-fever that it has been most used. The special indications are: Mucous membrane dry and hot; no discharge; < afternoon and evening; either nostril may be affected alone, or they may be affected alternately. Hansen adds these: "Acute coryza with thin, watery, excoriating discharge, lachrymation, sneezing, hacking cough, > lying down. Acute pharyngitis, throat feels scalded, hot, inflamed. Loud coughing spells with barking expiration, heard at a great distance. Cooper ( H. W ., xxxvi. 16) suggests the use of Sin. n . as an aperient. He considers that the chief agent in effecting dislodgement of fæces in constipated states is flatus. His method of producing this is as follows: A tumblerful of hot water is to be taken in sips in the early morning; the same at breakfast time with some plain brown bread or with no solid food at all, and at 11 a.m. one or two capsules of pure mustard ( Sin n .), each containing about five grains of the powder, to be taken, followed by half a tumbler of hot water. "This last is most important, as the water drives on the capsule and prevents its lodgement about the cardiac orifice of the stomach and consequent distress to the patient; and it also causes contraction of the walls of the stomach and consequent expulsion of flatus into the duodenum." Peculiar Sensations of Sin. n . are: Vertex as if empty. As if she had taken cold. As if scalp was adherent to bones. As of pins sticking in eyeballs. Eyeballs as if pressed on from above. As if nostrils stopped up. As if movements impeded all round the chest. As if something heavy oppressed her on all sides from neck to diaphragm. As if cheeks were bulged out by a bubble of air below malar bone. Skin of lips as if stiff. As if blisters on tip of tongue. As if a load on stomach. Pain as if heart were on right side. As of hot water in blood-vessels. — "Sweat on upper lip and forehead" is a symptom worth noting; also these: mucus hawked or coughed from posterior nares felt cold . The symptoms are < by touch and pressure. > Lying down at night. < Leaning forward; stooping motion < . Damp weather < . > Sitting erect. < In warm room. < Thinking of symptoms; > by study or mental diversion. > Shutting eyes. > Hearty meal. Laughing = cough. < Evening, 4-6 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. < July and August.

Antidoted by: Smelling bread (immediate effects of taking excess of condiment). Nux, Rhus; when blistering has been produced by a mustard poultice, soap is the remedy. Compare: Sin. a., Thios., Armor. Scalded sensation on tongue, Sang. Cough < laughing, Arg. n., Pho. Cough > lying down, Fer., Mang. < From 4 to 6 p.m., Lyc. Amenorrhœa, Sul., Pul. As if hot water in blood-vessels (Rhus as if blood running cold).

Damp weather. Summer season.

Irritable; difficult to think and study. — Unreasonably cross. — Mind worked rapidly.

Vertigo: of old people; violent attacks, with hard hearing after eating heavy food; esp. fat. — Head dull, heavy, > when mind occupied by study; > shutting eyes; > in open air; < in warm room; < when thinking of it. — Dull feeling in vertex as if empty. — Frontal headache, most over bridge of nose and round edge of orbits, > when eating, < after eating; > by rest. — Headache over r. eye < stooping. — Heavy, drawing feeling in r. temple towards night. — Sensation as if scalp were adherent to bones. — Forehead hot and dry.

Eyes feel weak; pressure = pricking in them. — Pressing feeling in eyes as from above, difficult to keep lids open; > shutting eyes; > by hearty meal.

Symptoms of a severe cold. — Immediately on touching the tongue pungent odour went into nostrils causing sneezing. — Dryness in both nostrils, < l., tender to pressure; discharged some mucus. — L. nostril stopped up: in afternoon and evening; all day, scanty discharges, acrid, making skin smart. — Scurvy with copious and frequent nose-bleed.

Shrunken features. — Burning prickling in face. — Red round mouth with smarting of lips. — Sensation as if cheek were bulged outward by a bubble of air, just below malar bone, in afternoon. — Lips dry and feel as if integuments were stiff.

Teeth sensitive to warm drinks and cold air, esp. stopped teeth. — Swollen bleeding gums. — Tongue: fissure in middle line; dirty white coat in middle; sore, raw, also gums, could not bear to eat anything hard; dry and sticky; burning scalding feeling; fore part feels blistered. — Black tongue. — Breath offensive, as after eating onions. — Mouth: dry; burning, extending to stomach. — Profuse saliva. — During proving, mustard (of which he was usually very fond) had a very unpleasant taste, and nearly caused nausea. — Taste: of garlic, causing nausea; of horseradish.

Dry sensation back of nose and throat > by swallowing or by efforts to cough, which brings up with difficulty a little white, tenacious mucus, in lumps. — Throat sore, left side, on swallowing sativa, less on swallowing food or drink, whole throat behind uvula injected light red. — Sore throat r. side extending to l.

Appetite good. — Aversion to sweets. — Eructations: of gas; constantly accompanying other symptoms; all food tasting of horseradish, later tasteless. — Hiccough. — Heartburn and belching. — Stomach: load in; burning in. — Ulceration of stomach and intestines. — Pain in region of stomach with sensation of faintness compelling to bend forward, which > . — Dull pain running directly across epigastric region < leaning forward > sitting erect. — Pressure in epigastric region.

Dull pain in l. hypochondriac region. — Heavy, dull pain as from weight below umbilical region. — Severe twisting in umbilical region. — Pain from l. of umbilical region to l. iliac region; later to r. side, ascending colon. — Accumulation of flatus with twinges of pain about umbilicus. — Rumbling. — L. inguinal gland swollen and painful. — Sharp pain in r. inguinal gland. — Dull pain in r. inguinal region > by pressure.

Smarting, cutting pain low down in anus, after a stool. — Desire for a stool without passage. — Diarrhœa. — Stools offensive. — First stool normal, second loose. — Before stool uneasy feeling in rectum; after stool, smarting cutting low down in rectum and anus. — Constipated; stools hard, like balls. — (Constipation and piles cured in the proving.)

Pain in bladder, in morning, before urinating. — Desire frequent; flow increased. — Urine, pale, straw-coloured, without sediment.

Violent erections during day and night; obstinate, painful, and continued. — Awakening him at night; with lascivious thoughts; lascivious dreams and emissions at night.

Menses appear in a few hours long before the proper time (several cases). — Amenorrhœa and chlorosis. — Cessation of catamenia.

Hoarseness, evening from 4 p.m. — Cough, short, hacking; all evening; 7 to 8 p.m.; seldom during day. — Cough mostly dry or with expectoration of lumps of mucus < in cold air; > lying down and (temporarily) by eating; excited by laughing. — Expectoration: from posterior nares much mucus, which felt cold; white, in tenacious masses. — Asphyxia. — Pituitous asthma.

Wandering pains in chest. — Pain in l. side of chest in region of heart. — Respiration at base of l. lung roughened. — Sensation in r. chest as if heart were on r. side.

Dull, continual pain in heart toward apex, in evening; seemingly in heart substance. — Heart pains return daily 10 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. — Sensation as if heart were on r. side. — Pulse: accelerated; full.

Severe, dull, pulsating pain under inferior angle of l. scapula. — Slight backache, becoming intolerable towards bedtime; restless all night from pain in back and hips; > motion.

Weariness in limbs with cramps in calves.

Occasional dull pain in left shoulder-joint.

Weakness in calf-muscles. — Dull, heavy ache in legs. — Pain constant in ankles and calves.

It seemed to double him up; could hardly stand; tears ran from eyes; intense pain across epigastric region. — Rose late, feeling sore and stiff all over. — Weakness in all muscles. — Symptoms < 7 to 9 p.m.; > lying down at night, except dreams.

Skin turns red. — Burning heat and stitches in skin. — Frightful suppuration and gangrenous inflammation reaching down to sternum (fatal effects of mustard applied to swollen glands of neck). — General ecchymosis. — Chronic eczema. — Small-pox; ("to be given until sulphocyanides appear in the saliva"). — Ulcers on legs.

Sleepiness; during day, sleepless at night. — Sleeps little at night, but does not feel loss of sleep. — Dreams: vivid; or lascivious.

Severe chills, chattering of teeth, sensation of general coldness, with shrunken feeling (from mustard bath). — Heat through whole body, esp. down spine. — Quartan ague and inflammatory fever. — Sweat and feeling of hot water in all blood-vessels, > when nausea came on. — Sweat general; esp. on forehead and upper lip. — Sweat free on exertion (mental or physical), and from external heat.

Irritable disposition.
Cross, dissatisfied without cause ; must guard himself constantly or be uncivil and pettish.
From fright during coition, impotence.
Cannot keep his attention fixed.
From least mental exertion : sweat.

Vertigo of old people.
Violent attacks of vertigo, with hard hearing after eating heavy food ; mostly after fat.

Dull pain across forehead commencing at outer angle of each eye, more severe around edges of orbits and across bridge of nose.
Dull, dragging-down sensation in anterior part of head, not amounting to decided pain.
Heavy headache in top and sides of head.
Dull headache, with qualmishness about pit of stomach.
Dull headache, replaced (at 11 A. M.) by burning prickling in face, moderately full pulse, dull feeling in top of head, as if empty.
Headache does not interfere with mental exertion, in fact, is forgotten during it ; < when attention is drawn to it ; in warm room ; better in open air, eating and lying down.
Pains are < on one side, right ; sometimes on the other, left ; mostly anterior part of head and less often vertex is involved (no prover had it in occiput).
Headache as if she had taken cold, with tired feeling all over.
Dull, heavy, drawing or pressing pain in head.
Apoplexy.

Sensation as if scalp were adherent to bones.
Forehead hot and dry.

When pressing on eyeballs, sensation as of pins sticking.
Eyeballs as if pressed on from above, with tired feeling of eyes and some dull pain in them, > closing eyes and by eating.
Sudden feeling of warmth, with stitching in left eye ; it fills with tears, which relieve.
Sticking or smarting in left eye.
Eyes sore, weak.
Eyes feel tired.
Pain over eye, sometimes right, sometimes left ; sometimes passing from outer angle to root of nose.
Eyes smart with profuse lachrymation.
Hard work to keep eyes open.

Hard hearing, with vertigo.

Dryness of anterior nares.
Nostrils dry ; left < with discharge of some dried mucus ; tender to pressure.
Dryness of posterior nares and pharynx, > swallowing and clearing throat of small white lumps of tenacious mucus with slight hacking.
Scanty acrid discharge from anterior nares, makes skin red.
Left nostril stopped up all day ; scanty acrid discharge from nose.
Mucous membrane of nose dry and hot ; no discharge ; symptoms < in afternoon and evening ; either nostril may be affected alone or alternately with the other. θ Hay
fever.
Dryness in posterior nares and pharynx > by swallowing and attempts to clear throat, which brings up small lumps of white tenacious mucus with slight hawking.
Much discharge of mucus from posterior nares, it accumulates there and requires an effort to dislodge ; tasteless, cold and in quite large, tenacious white masses.
Accumulation of mucus, usually white, at times yellow, drops from posterior nares, causing nausea and even vomiting.
Scurvy, with copious and frequent nosebleed.
Profuse, thin, watery discharge from anterior nares, excoriating and acrid ; wings of nose red and sore ; draws considerable mucus into throat from posterior nares ; voice thick, nasal ; frequent short, hacking cough, painless,
< during day ; > by lying down. θ Acute coryza.
A man of nervous temperament was caught in a thundershower and wet through ; nasal passages feel stopped up while a thin acrid mucus is discharged profusely from anterior nares ; wings of nose red ; eyelids smart and itch.
For some years subject to severe colds ; severe acrid nasal discharge with much lachrymation and irritation of eyelids ; sneezes frequently, with coryza ; hacking cough harder and more paroxysmal, lasts for weeks ; nose feels stopped up, especially at bridge,
although he has considerable nasal discharge which irritates and reddens skin ; voice very nasal ; partial loss of taste and smell.
Feeling as if nostrils were stopped up although they discharge profusely a thin mucus, which excoriates nose and lip ; itching and smarting of eyelids ; post-nasal discharge ; continually clearing throat ; infrequent hacking cough ; dull frontal headache ;
voice nasal. θ Acute coryza.
Hay fever ; eyes suffused, itched and smarted ; nose swollen and discharging continually a thin acrid mucus ; oppression of chest, as if movement were impeded all around her chest, not a contraction, but as if something heavy oppressed her in all sides from her neck to
diaphragm ; < at night lying down.
Subject to hay fever for eight years ; comes on July 28th of each year and stays until after first hard frost ; two weeks after commencement of attack, smarting and itching of eyelids, < toward inner canthi ; margins of lids reddened ; eyes filled with
tears ; nasal discharge profuse, watery and excoriating ; much sneezing, < in morning for a while, and on lying down at night, but continuing more or less all day long ; itching, burning, tickling in nostrils high up ; frequent hacking cough during day, but none at
night ; dull frontal headache ; mentally irritable.
Has been for two weeks suffering from her annual attack of hay fever, which came on, as usual, about middle of August ; nose swollen, alæ nasi excoriated, while lips were but little reddened ; eyes watery, must keep wiping them ; eyelids itch ; voice nasal ;
nose feels stopped up at bridge and posterior nares ; post-nasal discharge, which she draws down in considerable quantities and expectorates ; it is thick, of brownish color and tastes cold ; breathing much oppressed all the time, but < at night ; every night she has
attacks of asthmatic breathing, which last an hour or more ; during attacks must sit upright and has a dull pain from upper part of chest through to shoulder blades, and dull, hard aching in temples ; can never lie with head low because it brings on attacks ; attacks more
frequent in damp weather, and < on lying down and moving, > by sitting up in bed with shoulders drawn forward (round-shouldered position) and by perfect quiet.
Mrs. D., æt. 71, small, dark, dried-up old woman, bronchial asthma ; sat in one chair, leaning her head upon back of another ; breathing labored and noisy, wheezing and rattling of mucus in chest plainly audible all over room ; anxious for death that she might be
relieved ; intensely despondent and sure that she would not recover ; acrid nasal discharge reddened skin about nose and slightly on upper lip.

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A tincture is made of the ripe seeds of the black mustard.

Sore feeling, with late rising and stiffness. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Aggravation in evening; from 7 till 9 P.M., amelioration by lying down at night, except dreams.

Irritable and dissatisfied; I., don't wish to be spoken to, unfit for mental exertion. ▶ Mind worked rapidly at night, study easier and perception clearer.

Aching at night, agg. right side and over right eye, agg. stooping and motion, even opening and closing eye, amel. lying still; heavy A. during the day, amel. being busy or studying, returning on stooping, amel. open air, next day head the same till 11 A.M., then burning prickling in face, with full pulse and dullness of vertex as if empty, this lasted all day, with marked clearness of perception. ▶ Heaviness, agg. forehead, over eyes and in temples, never in occiput and only occasionally in vertex, amel. lying and open air, was forgotten when mind was occupied, agg. thinking about it, agg. a warm, especially a narrow room, it seldom amounted to a pain. ▶ Fulness. ▶ Dullness in forenoon. ▶ Vertigo.

Sharp pain over left eye and passing over eye from left to right. ▶ Pain above eyes; P. commencing about noon, beginning at outer canthi, agg. around edges of orbits and over bridge of nose, agg. a warm room, amel. cold open air, partly amel. eating, but returning after eating, forehead hot and dry. ▶ Towards evening, agg. over left eye, amel. retiring, returned next morning on rising, afterwards nausea, amel. retiring; in F. and temples and around edges of orbits, amel. cold air, agg. warm room; as if I had taken cold, agg. towards night, with general tired feeling and pain in small of back; heavy, in F. and temples all the morning, amel. shutting eyes, disappeared on eating a hearty meal at 2 o'clock. ▶ Heaviness; in anterior part of head, forgotten during mental exertion, agg. thinking about it.

Dragging downward in temples, next day with pain, which was agg. thinking of it and forgotten during mental application. ▶ Heavy drawing pain in right temple towards night and in evening. ▶ Heavy aching in vertex and sides of head. ▶ Pain in left side. ▶ Scalp feels as if adherent to bones in afternoon.

▶ Sticking in left in afternoon. ▶ Pain in left, with smarting. ▶ Sore, weak, pressure on ball causes sticking. ▶ Tired feeling in afternoon. ▶ Lachrymation; with smarting of eyes. ▶ Balls feel as if pressed from above, amel. closing eyes, amel. a hearty meal at 2 o'clock, with tired feeling in the, pain and difficulty in keeping them open.

▶ Stoppage of left nostril in afternoon and evening (Lyc., right); of left all day. ▶ Scanty acrid discharges from anterior nares. ▶ Sneezing.

Hay fever, the nose is dry and hot, no discharge, nostrils apt to be alternately affected. ▶ Acute coryza, this watery, excoriating discharge, with sharp hacking cough, amel. lying down, with smarting and itching of the eyes. ▶ Hay fever, eyes red, smarting, burning, itching. ▶ Lachrymation, sneezing, thick acrid discharge. ▶ Hay fever with great swelling of the nose, thin acrid discharge dyspnœa, oppression of the chest, agg. night lying down. ▶ Hay fever, with rattling wheezing in chest and difficult breathing. ▶ Acrid nasal discharge. ▶ Acute catarrh of the pharynx, hot inflamed, feels scalded, sometimes with violent burning of the stomach, agg. eating. ▶ Dryness of anterior nares and pharynx, of posterior nares, with slightly lumpy secretion.

Loud coughing spells, with barking expiration heard at a great distance.

Shrunken. ▶ Redness around mouth, with smarting of lips. ▶ Burning prickling. ▶ Sensation as if cheek were bulged out by a bubble of air just below malar-bone, in afternoon. ▶ Lips dry and feel as if integuments were stiff.

Teeth sensitive to warm drinks and cold air, agg. those that have been filled. ▶ Tongue coated dirty white in middle, agg. towards back part; a fissure along median line at the point where I was in the habit of taking the drug from the bottle did not disappear on taking the drug in a different manner; sore and raw, could hardly bear weight of teeth on it, with soreness of gums; burning scalded feeling; forepart sore, feeling as of a blister on tip; feels dry and sticky. ▶ Burning extending to stomach. ▶ Dryness. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Breath offensive as after onions. ▶ Taste of garlic all day; in morning, with tingling of tongue; T. of horse radish.

Soreness on right side, soon extending to left ; on left side next day felt on swallowing and on forcing mucus from posterior nares, whole throat injected behind uvulas, light red.

Eructations at first tasting of horse-radish, then tasteless; E. of gas; of gas all the evening, with heartburn. ▶ Singultus. ▶ Nausea till breakfast; in evening, with headache. ▶ Copious vomiting at 4 P.M. ▶ Pain in epigastric region; in cardiac region all day; in region, amel. bending forward and sitting with faintness, across epigastric region, tears ran from eyes and it seemed to double me up. ▶ Could hardly stand; running across epigastric region when sitting leaning forward, amel. sitting straight; burning, then sharp, intermittent. ▶ Burning. ▶ Load, with heartburn.

Rumbling; before stool. ▶ Emission of flatus, generally noiseless and odorless. ▶ Accumulation of flatus, with occasional twinges of pain about umbilicus extending to left iliac region, pain amel. retiring. ▶ Heavy pain. ▶ Pain in left hypochondrium. ▶ Twisting pain in small intestines; in umbilical region; in umbilical region, extending in left iliac region. ▶ Pain in umbilical and lumbar regions; in U. region in forenoon; to left of umbilicus, extending to left iliac region, on the fifth day it ascended to right side to ascending colon. ▶ Burning in umbilical region. ▶ Weight in umbilical region in forenoon; below umbilicus in afternoon. ▶ Swelling of a gland in left groin, with pain (may have come from a sore heel caused by a tight shoe). ▶ Pain in right groin in afternoon, amel. pressure; sharp, in right inguinal gland in afternoon; remittent heavy, in left iliac region, at times sticking.

Smarting cutting low down in rectum and in anus after stool, with sensation as if more should be discharged. ▶ Sharp smarting in lower part of rectum and in anus after stool, with sensation as if more should be discharged. ▶ Ineffectual desire. ▶ Two stools in one day, the second loose, difficult, rather scanty, did not seem to be through after stool, next day desire to go to stool all day, stools difficult, in lumps, which at first were large and then tapered off, same sense of not being through some efforts fruitless, third day difficult, in small hard lumps, with desire to remain long at stool. ▶ Stool hard, like balls; hard, large, only about once every three days.

Pain in bladder in morning before urinating. ▶ Frequent desire. ▶ Frequent micturition, urine pale; F. and copious; F. and copious at night, always preceded by erections which woke him; sometimes followed by continued desire, urine copious, pale; and urine pale, after passage it seemed as if more would come, in about half a minute dribbling, was able to retain urine without much discomfort. ▶ Urine copious.

Erections sometimes with lascivious dreams; at night, with lascivious dreams and emissions; violent day and night. ▶ Desire.

Hoarseness in evening; with frequent attempts to clear the throat. ▶ Cough in evening; hacking in evening, with expectoration of small lumps of mucus; hacking, beginning generally about 7 or 8 P.M., sometimes with feeling of something low down in trachea which must be dislodged, sometimes dislodged small chunks of tenacious white mucus, but mostly dry, agg. cold air, amel. lying and temporarily amel. eating, excited by laughing and during the day, agg. forenoon continual attempts to clear throat, difficult raising of small lumps of white mucus, at night same sensation, with greater difficulty in raising mucus, and from posterior nares difficult discharge of cold, tasteless, tenacious, white masses of mucus. ▶ Respiration at base of left lung roughened, with pain there.

Suppuration reaching down to sternum, with gangrenous inflammation, muscles, vessels and nerves laid bare. ▶ Sticking and in right side. ▶ Pain in a spot an inch above and an inch to right of apex beat of heart; wandering P.; wandering, and in abdomen.

Sharp pain. ▶ Pain towards apex in evening; P. amel. afternoon; every day about 10 A.M. and from 4 till 6 P.M. and sometimes at night when studying, with dread and oppression, sometimes with a peculiar pain in right side as if heart were there and as if I were conscious of its beating. ▶ Oppression in region, with pricking. ▶ Uneasiness, with occasional pain in cardiac region.

Rapid. ▶ Slow. ▶ Full; and usually soft.

Pulsating pain under lower angle of left scapula in afternoon; in intercostal muscles under lower angle of left S. in forenoon. ▶ Pain in lumbar region, agg. towards bedtime, then all night restlessness and sleeplessness from pain in back and hips, next day pain through back and hips, amel. motion.

Weariness with cramp in calves. ▶ Occasional pains in left shoulder-joint. ▶ Drawing at inferior insertion of right biceps brachialis on flexion and extension of arm. ▶ Pain in calves and ankles; heavy, in leg. ▶ Weakness of calves.

Redness.

Sleepiness; during the day, with weakness; during the day, then sleeplessness at night before midnight, then sleepiness in morning and late rising. ▶ Sleep but three or four hours out of the twenty-four, but no suffering therefrom, afterwards could sit up all night and not suffer from loss of sleep. ▶ Vivid dreams. ▶ Lascivious dreams.

Chilliness, with chattering of teeth, shivering and shrunken features. ▶ Heat with stitched in skin; H., agg. down spine; as from hot water in bloodvessels, amel. when nausea came on also with sweat. ▶ Sweat, agg. forehead and upper lip; S. from least exertion, mental or physical, and from external heat.

Stoppage of the left nostril; scanty, acrid discharge from the nose; sneezing.

Clinical:
Hay fever, with hot, dry nose, nostrils alternately stopped.
Sneezing and lachrymation, with thick, acrid discharge, smarting, burning and itching of the eyes; oppression of the chest, aggravated at night on lying down.
Wheezing in the chest and difficult breathing.
Dryness of the nares and pharynx, with thick, lumpy secretion.