====== HAMAMELIS VIRGINIANA ====== {{anchor:s1}}Hamamelis Virginica. {{anchor:s2}}(Hamamelis Virginiana.) {{anchor:s3}}Witch-Hazel. {{anchor:s4}}Hamamelaceae. {{anchor:s5}}A shrub growing in all parts of the United States, in damp woods or along streams; flowers in the Fall, the seeds ripen the year following. {{anchor:s6}}The tincture is prepared from the fresh bark of the twigs and root. {{anchor:s7}}Introduced by C. Hering, in 1850. {{anchor:s8}}Provings by Preston, Burt and McGeorge. {{anchor:s9}}See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 4, p. 528. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s11}}- Intraocular hemorrhage; ophthalmia, Norton's Ophth. {{anchor:s12}}Therap., p. 91; Traumatic ophthalmia, Newton, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 67; Traumatic conjunctivitis, Holcombe, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 107; Blepharitis, conjunctivitis, Hendricks, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 103, p. 183; Ectropion, Searle, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 65; Inflamed eyes, Mann, Bragdon, Med. Inv., vol. 11, p. 236; Epistaxis, Burritt, Hom. Rev., vol. 1, p. 513; Kenyon, Hom. Rev., vol. 2, p. 412; Belcher, N. A. J. H., vol. 3, p. 462; (2 cases) Belcher, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 176; Vanderveer, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 419; Preston, Hale's Therap., p. 280; Hemorrhage after extraction of teeth, Knight, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 138; Throat affection, Hendricks, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 103, p. 183; Haematemesis, Bennett, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 115; Burritt, Hom. Rev., vol. 1, p. 511; Belcher, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 264; Angioleucitis, Blake, A. H. O., vol. 9, p. 410; Dysentery, Lee, B. J. H., vol. 24, p. 332; Spinney, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 215; Melaena, Belcher, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 493; Hemorrhage from bowels, Pratt, B. J. H., vol. 17, p. 527; Discharge of blood from anus, Guernsey, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 62; Hemorrhage from bowels, in typhoid, Spinney, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 215; Seward, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 283; Hemorrhoids, Hunt, T. A. I. H., 1874, p. 880; Hughes, B. J. H. vol. 25, p. 429; Okie, B. J. H., vol. 15, p. 168; A. R., Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 219; Harper, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 26; Jousset, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 332; Fissure ani, Koch, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 123; Spermatorrhea (3 cases), Allen, T. A. I. H., 1874, p. 880; Haematuria, Harper, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 26; Orchitis, Jaeger, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 583; Varicocele, J. A. B., Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 168; Morgan, B. J. H., vol. 30, p. 411; Phimosis, Gatchell, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 144; Ovarian disease (2 cases), Burt, B. J. H., vol. 23, p. 614; Amenorrhea (2 cases), Burritt, Hom. Rev., vol. 1, p. 512; Metrorrhagia, Brown, Hom. Rev., vol. 14, p. 467-7; Menorrhagia, Brown Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 155; Harper. {{anchor:s13}}Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 26; Uterine hemorrhage (6 cases), Brown, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 27; Iszard, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 420; Preston, B. J. H., vol. 15, p. 168; Ludlam, N. A. J. H., vol. 7, p. 479; Inflammation of internal genitals after a blow, Thomas, B. J. H., vol. 16, p. 174; Vaginismus (2 cases), McGeorge, Trans. Am. Inst. Hom., 1874, p. 881; Chronic parenchymatous metritis (2 cases), Hendricks, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 103, p. 183; Threatened abortion (3 cases), Brown, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 162; (4 cases) Brown, Hom. Rev., vol. 14, p. 473; Phlegmasia alba dolens, Holcombe, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 195; (2 cases) Thomas, B. J. H., vol. 16, p. 174; Sore nipples, McGeorge, Trans. Am. Inst. Hom., 1874, p. 881; Affection of vocal cord, Hendricks, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 103, p. 183; Bronchial hemorrhages, Lippincott, Trans. Am. Inst. Hom., 1874, p. 881; Diaphragmitis, Thomas, B. J. H., vol. 16, p. 174; Affection of left leg, Burritt, Hom. Rev., vol. 1, p. 514; Inflammation of femoral vein, Thomas, B. J. H., vol. 16, p. 174; Typhomalarial fever, Goodno, Organon, vol. 3, p. 369; Passive congestions of skin and mucous membranes, Blake, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 29; Venous hemorrhages, Palmer, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 27; Hemorrhages, Wilson, Gardner, T. A. I. H., 1874, p. 880; Phlebitis, Robinson, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc., N. Y., 1865, p. 185; Bennett, T. A. L. H., 1874, p. 880; Purpura hemorrhagica, Thomas, B. J. H., vol. 16, p. 175; Varices and hemorrhoids, Preston, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 493; Varicose veins, Baething, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 262; Burritt, Hom. Rev., vol. 1, p. 513; Muscular rheumatism, McGeorge, Trans. Am. Inst. Hom., 1874, p. 881; Wounds (4 cases), Hamisfar, A. H. O., vol. 5, p. 524; Burns, Burritt, Hom. Rev., vol. 1, p. 511; Dissecting wound, Coxe, MSS.; Ulcers, Fischer, Windleband, B. J. H., vol. 33, p. 548; Chilblains, Blake, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 29. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s15}}Forgetful, especially of words when talking.\\ {{anchor:s16}}No desire to study or work; ideas confused, could not compose.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Depressed in mind; also after emissions, with regretful mind.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Irritable; gloomy; depressed; stupid.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Felt as if he was going out of his mind.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Hemorrhages with tranquil mind. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s22}}Vertigo when stooping.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Swimming sensation on rising.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Nausea and vertigo, with desire to lie down.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Fullness in head.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Stupor, headache, crowding fullness in head and neck, also in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s27}}General stupor. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s29}}Fullness in forehead, with pressing in root of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Hammering over left eye, as if he would go out of his mind.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Feeling as if a bolt was passing from temple to temple, and tightly screwed.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Sharp pains in temples.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Dull throbbing pain in back and top of head.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Dullness and fullness in head all day.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Distressing throbbing, aching and sense of fullness in head; head feels as if it would burst; face flushed.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Bursting headache on awaking, insupportable on bending downward.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Headache after an emission; depressed in mind.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Headache on rising.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Congestive headaches with cool skin.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Headaches accompanying venous congestion of brain, lungs, portal or general venous systems; especially if followed by epistaxis.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Passive congestion or venous stagnation. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s43}}After injury of head and face, great ecchymosis, with disposition to loose bowels and uneasy stomach; fainting on walking. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s45}}Eyes feel weak; painful weakness of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Headache from straining the eyes.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Feeling as if both eyes would be forced out of head, amel. by pressing them with fingers, but agg. a few moments afterwards.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Sore pain in eyes; eyes painful under slight pressure.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Traumatic iritis with hemorrhage into iris.\\ {{anchor:s50}}After injury to left eye, abrasion of cornea, some blood in anterior chamber, vitreous so dark from hemorrhage that fundus could not be illuminated; there was only perception of light.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Inflammation and ulceration of conjunctiva and cornea, if caused by a blow or burn.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Traumatic conjunctivitis from burn of a flame; excruciating pain, great photophobia, constant acrid lachrymation and great vascularity of conjunctiva.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Conjunctivitis traumatica from a piece of splinter under upper lid.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Eyes inflamed; vessels greatly injected; intense soreness caused by a foreign substance.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Eyes inflamed and burning, from being on the water fishing, in the hot sun.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Traumatic ophthalmia, caused by a drop of boiling sugar getting into eye.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Extravasations in whooping-cough, eyeball congested from violence of concussion, and small vessels are ruptured.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Swelling of eyeballs and lids, with bloodshot appearance of eye.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Excessive congestion of conjunctiva.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Painful inflammation of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Spontaneous eversion of upper lid during course of severe conjunctivitis.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Blepharitis granulosa; catarrhal conjunctivitis with great pain and hyperemia.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Black eye from a bruise. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s65}}Deafness in right ear, passes off by noon.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Bleeding at right ear, also nosebleed, which clears her head, relieving her.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Buzzing, ringing in ears. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s69}}Oversensitive smell.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Bad odor from nose.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Sneezing spells, watery, excoriating, burning discharge.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Nose feels stopped up.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Profuse epistaxis.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Epistaxis, flow passive, non-coagulable.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Bleeding of nose, which clears her head, and affords great relief.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Nosebleed amel. headache and tightness across bridge of nose.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Idiopathic or vicarious epistaxis.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Epistaxis; bleeding commenced on left side; child weak from loss of blood.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Epistaxis in morning, with feeling of tightness of bridge of nose, and considerable crowding pressure in forehead between eyes, and a benumbed sensation over whole os frontis.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Epistaxis occurring in a strong man suffering from a fever, with a miliary eruption; hemorrhage dark; pulse quick; respiration oppressed; lips and mouth dry; conjunctivitis.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Epistaxis at irregular intervals of from six to twenty-four hours; pale, enfeebled.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Oozing of very dark blood from nose of hemiplegic old man.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Epistaxis of childhood, passive, venous. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s85}}Burning in right cheek.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Occasional shooting pains along right superior maxillary to malar bone; muscles feel sore and stiff. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s88}}Lips dry; sore, cracked. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s90}}Sharp lancinating along molar teeth, extending to malar bone; also in temporal region.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Teeth ache, yet not decayed; can scarcely sleep; pains agg. in warm room.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Gums: sore, painful, swollen; bleed easily; passive, dark fluid bleeding; hemorrhage after extraction of teeth.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Bleeding and spongy gums. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s95}}Taste: flat; rough; metallic.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Tongue coated white.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Scalding sensation on tongue; feels as if burnt.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Blisters on sides of tongue; canker spots near tip.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Burns of tongue and lips. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s101}}Dryness of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Scalding of tongue and mucous membrane of mouth and fauces. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s104}}Severe stinging in uvula, as if it would break, when he coughs.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Dryness of lips and fauces; must drink large quantities of water to assist deglutition.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Dryness of throat not amel. by water.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Feeling as if something had lodged in fauces.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Tonsils and fauces congested.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Chronic inflammation of throat; deglutition painful, even empty swallowing; nasal voice; dry, short cough with sensation of dryness in throat; mucous membrane of pharynx very red and permeated by enlarged blood-vessels; great swelling and redness of tonsils; catarrh of upper part of larynx and vocal cords.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Varicosis of throat, the parts look bluish from distended veins, and there is more or less discomfort, with pain on swallowing, and hawking of mucus with blood.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Sore throat in those predisposed to fullness of veins; agg. in warm, moist air.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Sore throat, agg. right side; right tonsil more swollen, reddened, and veins enlarged, varicose.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Sore throat, preventing sleep.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Varicosis of throat in gouty subjects.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Hemorrhage from throat and fauces.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Hawks considerably. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s119}}No appetite for breakfast; considerable thirst, amel. by small quantities of water.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Great thirst.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Very thirsty, afternoon and evening; throat dry.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Averse to water, makes him sick to think of it. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s124}}After eating: nausea, must keep quiet, eructations; hiccough.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Pork nauseates. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s127}}Eructations after a meal tasting of food.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Nausea, eructations and violent hiccough after pork, followed by burning in stomach and esophagus; later, cramp pains in stomach and chest.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Nausea and vertigo, must lie still to prevent vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Nausea; with headache in frontal bone on awaking.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Nausea and inclination to vomit after a meal.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Nausea, from pain in testicles.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Painful, bloody vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s134}}After fullness and constant pains in abdomen with irregular chills, sudden vomiting of blood and hemorrhage from bowels; great prostration; profuse cold sweat; weak, quick pulse; restlessness; fullness and gurgling in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Hematemesis. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s137}}Burning in epigastrium; sharp pains in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Violent throbbing in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Heaviness and pain back of stomach, along spinal column.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Cramp in stomach; after eating.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Hematemesis, blood black; sensation of trembling in stomach, or fullness and gurgling in abdomen; feverish by spells; restless; weak, cold; quick pulse; profuse sweat.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Hematemesis, very profuse, dark, clotted; slight bloody discharge from bowels. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s144}}Dull pain in hypochondria region.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Sharp pains in left hypochondrium, in region of spleen. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s147}}Flatulence.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Constant distress or drawing pains in umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Burning in epigastrium and umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Cramps in stomach and transverse colon two hours after a hearty dinner.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Soreness of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Angioleucitis, surface of abdomen covered with distended lymphatic sacculi, filled with amber fluid, varying in size from pin's head to Spanish nut; inguinal glands tender and enlarged.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Varicose veins of abdomen. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s155}}Great desire for stool without being able to accomplish it.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Tenesmus or nervous pressure when at stool so intense that it appeared to strain out to tips of fingers.\\ {{anchor:s157}}From 12 to 15 stools every day with violent tenesmus, must often get up at night, stool of blood mixed with masses of mucus, entirely scentless, violent colicky pains; some fecal lumps in stools; only region of anus and rectum painful; great loss of spirit. {{anchor:s158}}~ Hemorrhoidal affection.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Dysentery consisting of profuse flow of clear blood, amounting almost to a hemorrhage, with no pain or tenesmus.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Dysentery; when amount of blood is unusual in quantity and amounts to an actual hemorrhage, generally of dark blood; or when there are clots or patches of blood scattered through the mucus; soreness of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Every fifteen minutes discharge of pure blood, with severe tenesmus; crampy pain around umbilicus before stool; no appetite; great thirst; tongue coated brown and parched; hippocratic countenance; emaciation; desire for sour pickles. {{anchor:s162}}~ Dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Hemorrhoidal dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Stools: costive; hard, coated with mucus; hard, dry, dark colored.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Discharge of blood from anus in large quantities, of a tar-like consistency.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Hemorrhage from ulceration of bowels.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Profuse hemorrhage of dark, grumous blood from bowels.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Dark, fetid diarrhea, large, hemorrhagic discharges of black, grumous, fetid blood; rapid sinking; pale and excited; slight delirium; fearful of death\\ {{anchor:s169}}Fullness in hypochondriac region followed by diarrhea; great weakness; pale, dark red face; thirst; quick pulse; every three or four hours, thin, dark, rose-colored, offensive passages. {{anchor:s170}}~ Melena.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Hemorrhage from bowels of fluid, dark, fetid blood.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Hemorrhage from portal congestion.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Pulsation in rectum, as if piles would protrude.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Before stool difficult to defecate, anus spasmodically closed; great pains in anus during stool; after passage intense burning at orifice; at times, when he had no stool for several days, heavy frontal headache, low-spirited; thinks constantly of his ailments; nausea after eating. {{anchor:s175}}~ Fissure ani.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Hemorrhage from piles, in which the loss of a small quantity of blood was followed by prostration out of proportion to the loss.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Hemorrhoids, with hemorrhage, more or less profuse, occurring with every evacuation for months or years, with other symptoms of piles.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Bleeding hemorrhoids in which the blood flows with a certain regularity and without much expulsive effort.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Piles: bleeding profusely; with burning soreness, fullness and weight; back as if it would break; urging to stool.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Congestion of liver, with bleeding piles; pale from constant daily loss of blood.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Tumid hemorrhoidal veins of bluish color, the anus surrounded with red erythematous circle.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Protrusion of varices, anus feels sore as if raw.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Itching at anus. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s185}}Haematuria; passive congestion of kidneys; dull pain in renal region.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Hemorrhoids of bladder; passive congestions.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Vesical catarrh.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Increased desire to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Ardor urinae in females.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Urine clear, copious.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Urine more copious lying down.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Scanty, high-colored urine.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Irritation of urethra, followed by a discharge and ardor urinae.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Catarrh of urethra, with disease of prostate gland.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Much urging to urinate, violent pains, thick mucous urine, discharge of blood from bladder, either in drops or in lumps, by the half-pint.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Haematuria, after blow in right iliac region; blood bright red; face pale; pulse feeble; partial shock. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s198}}Amorous dreams, with emissions, followed by lassitude, gloomy, depressing mood, dull pain in lumbar region.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Sexual dreams, with emissions; feels in morning as if he had not slept.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Emissions at night, without being aware of it; headache, depression of mind.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Erections; great desire for an embrace.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Great prostration of animal passions.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Impotence, organs greatly relaxed and constantly sweating.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Pain running down spermatic cords into testes.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Enlargement of left spermatic vein, first noticed after violent exercise; four years previously tumor, from that time constantly increasing in size; dull aching pain in groin, sometimes extending into back, agg. horseback riding. {{anchor:s206}}~ Varicocele.\\ {{anchor:s207}}For three months drawing pain in left spermatic cord, which is painful, swollen and inflamed; left testicle painful, swollen and hard.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Dull aching; severe drawing or excruciating pains in testicles.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Drawing pains in testicles day and night, extending from groins.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Severe dull pains in testicles.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Enlargement of right testicle; hot and painful; following gonorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Severe neuralgic pains in testicles, suddenly shifting to bowels, causing nausea and faintness; profuse cold sweat on scrotum; capillary stasis.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Severe neuralgic pains in testicles, pains dart from testicles to stomach, agg. nights and during rainy weather.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Awoke at 3 A. M. with severe neuralgic pains in testicles, preventing further sleep.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Pain in testicles agg. after midnight, until morning.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Orchitis; intense soreness and swelling; gonorrheal orchitis.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Gonorrheal epididymitis, especially in those cases where the disease partakes of a congestive or sub-acute character rather than the inflammatory.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Varicocele; circocele.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Varicosis of spermatic veins.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Fluid blood in hematocele.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Urethritis, with discharge of transparent mucus, with pain.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Phimosis.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Profuse cold sweat of scrotum at night. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s225}}Congestion, inflammation and neuralgia of ovaries, with cutting, tearing pains in ovary, which is swollen and very tender.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Ovarian affections with swelling and tenderness, agg. at menses; retention of urine.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Ovarian soreness and painfullness.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Paroxysm of pain in right groin; pain commences in region of right ovary and passes down broad ligament to uterus, resembling labor pains; swelling in right groin half as large as a hen's egg, very tender to pressure; pain in epigastrium and lumbar region; no appetite; tongue furred white; quite weak; confined to bed; constipation; pale, chlorotic appearance.\\ {{anchor:s229}}After a blow, ovary swollen; diffuse, agonizing soreness over whole abdomen; menses irregular, very painful, with exacerbation of all sufferings at mensesl epoch; retention of urine.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Frequent paroxysm of pain in left ovary, passing down to uterus, with anemia; every day or two ovarian region becomes much swollen.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Ovaritis, left side, following miscarriage.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Subacute ovaritis incident to pregnancy and menses.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Congestion and inflammation of internal genitals, after blow in region of left ovary.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Vicarious menses from ovarian irritation.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Gonorrheal ovaritis.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Chronic parenchymatous metritis after sub-involution, with lumbo-abdominal neuralgia and painful sensation of heaviness in lower abdomen when standing and walking; uterus hypertrophied, anteverted, prolapsed and immovable; vaginal portion blue, hard and hypertrophied with edematous, pouting lips; debility.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Uterine disturbance and tenderness, with retention of urine, tumefaction of os uteri, and diffused agonized soreness over whole abdomen, after violent blow in ovarian region.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Menses very dark and profuse, with soreness in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Dysmenorrhea: from ovarian irritation; inflammatory or neuralgic.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Amenorrhea; vicarious bleeding from nose or stomach; costive; varices on legs.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Severe pains in lumbar and hypogastric regions and down legs when menses should have appeared; fullness of bowels and brain, with severe pain through whole head, resulting in stupor and deep sleep lasting 12 to 36 hours, from which it was impossible to arouse her. {{anchor:s242}}~ Amenorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Amenorrhea in a girl, aet. 18; has never menstruated, but had suffered instead with hematemesis, constant constipation and varices on legs.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Vicarious menses.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Active or passive uterine hemorrhage.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Profuse, bright arterial hemorrhage; face and extremities cold and clammy; skin shrivelled and blue, as in collapse of cholera; said her tongue was cold, and that it felt like her hands and feet, as though it were dead; pulse feeble, thread-like, almost imperceptible, respiration slightly labored.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Bright red uterine hemorrhage, no clots; bearing-down pain in back.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Uterine hemorrhage, had been flowing for twenty-four hours, and lost over a quart of blood, bright and fresh, and not coagulable.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Uterine hemorrhage, with aching, boring pain in back, and sensation of bearing-down pain in either ovarian region.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Menorrhagia; feels very weak; "weak" pain in back; pain in left ovarian region.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Uterine hemorrhage in an unmarried woman, brought on by jolting while riding in a heavy wagon over rough road.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Active uterine hemorrhage caused by fall.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Uterine hemorrhage; menses regular up to three weeks ago, since when the discharge has not left her.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Menorrhagia, profuse discharge of dark-colored blood; ceases at night, occurring only in daytime.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Metrorrhagia, passive flow; anemia.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Uterine hemorrhage, flow steady and slow; blood dark colored, no uterine pains.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Acute vaginitis with spasmodic action and pain, fullness of vagina.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Great tenderness of vagina, causing pain during coition; leucorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Vaginismus, intense soreness; prurigo of vulva.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Pruritus.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Profuse, persistent leucorrhea, with great sensitiveness of parts, vagina raw and sore during an embrace; vulva itches; vaginitis.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Leucorrhea, with much relaxation of vaginal walls; profuse fluor albus, constituting a drain on system as severe as a bleeding.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Leucorrhea; great tenderness of vagina; flow bloody. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s267}}Threatened abortion: in consequence of ovarian irritation and inflammation; after a fall.\\ {{anchor:s268}}In threatened abortion when the hemorrhage continues after uterine pains have been controlled by other remedies.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Hemorrhage of lying-in women.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Painful stiffness and sensation of swelling and weakness in left leg during pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Varicose veins on both legs during pregnancy so painful that she could neither stand nor walk; veins of feet appeared as if blood were dried up.\\ {{anchor:s272}}During pregnancy, varicose enlargement of veins of lower limbs with cramping pains at night, preventing sleep; cannot move about; three days after labor, three hemorrhoids forming a tumor as large as a child's head, of dark leaden color, painful, and very sensitive to touch.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Milk-leg, with swelling of left labium, groin and thigh; difficulty of moving leg; painful but benumbed sensation of limb; swelling white and opaque, extending downwards, and in three days occupying whole of left leg.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Milk-leg, swelling commencing in ankle, with difficult motion of limb from stiffness and pain in left hip.\\ {{anchor:s275}}Two weeks after confinement, feverish, thirsty, sleepless, very weak, intensely nervous; pain in right groin, about Poupart's ligament; next day upper part of thigh swollen, hard, white, very painful on pressure, especially along tract of femoral vein; the breast-milk left a faint pink stain upon a napkin. {{anchor:s276}}~ Phlegmasia alba dolens.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Hemorrhoids after confinement; also after miscarriage, painful, but not bleeding; great prostration from small loss of blood.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Bleeding nipples, with great soreness.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Sore nipples. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s282}}Hoarse on arising; awoke hoarse.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Long-lasting affections of vocal cords.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Granulations and redness of left vocal cord with varicose enlargement of blood-vessels.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Tickling in larynx, with constant inclination to cough.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Catarrh of upper part of larynx and vocal cords. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s288}}Labored inspiration; oppressive tightness of lower part of thorax, with inability to take a deep and full inspiration; breathing impossible in recumbent posture; crowded fullness in neck and head; sensation of suffocation so as to prevent him lying down; cannot take a deep inspiration when standing up. {{anchor:s289}}~ Diaphragmitis.\\ {{anchor:s290}}When lying, felt a smothering sensation. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s292}}Tickling cough, tastes of blood on awaking.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Dry cough, severe in uvula, as if it would break; stitching.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Slight hacking cough, with blood-spitting.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Cough; haemoptysis, with dull frontal headache; taste of sulphur in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s296}}Cough from a varicose condition of throat.\\ {{anchor:s297}}Expectoration thick, yellowish or greenish-gray, tasting putrid.\\ {{anchor:s298}}Spitting of blood by day without cough, with great relaxation of nerves, and weariness.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Haemoptysis, active or passive, blood venous and comes up into mouth without coughing or scarcely any effort.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Haemoptysis in consumption.\\ {{anchor:s301}}Hemorrhages; blood venous, raised with little effort, like a simple, warm current, established from within outwards.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Hemorrhages from lungs, sometimes every month, for over twenty years. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s304}}Haemoptysis, tickling cough, with taste of blood or of sulphur; dull frontal headache; tightness of chest; cannot lie down, because of difficult breathing from congestion; fullness in head; mind calm.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Sensation of constriction across chest, increased by a long or deep breath.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Severe pleuritic stitches with phthisis. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s308}}Stitches in lower part of lungs.\\ {{anchor:s309}}Palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Pricking pain in region of heart and superficial veins of both arms.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Femoral pulse beats faster than radial. ====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ====== {{anchor:s313}}Dull aching pain constantly in muscles of left chest, agg. using arms, afternoon and evening. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s315}}Sore pain down cervical vertebrae.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Fullness in neck; had to sleep with neck free of any covering.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Small of back feels as if it would break; tearing pains.\\ {{anchor:s318}}After sensation of heat, tearing pains across small of back, with fullness of joints of legs, extending to all parts of body.\\ {{anchor:s319}}Severe headache all day, after an emission.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Dull, dragging pain in lumbar region.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Severe pains in lumbar and hypogastric regions, extending down legs.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Dull pains in sacrum and hips. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s324}}Bruised feeling in upper arms and shoulders, agg. from motion.\\ {{anchor:s325}}Stiffness in arms shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Soreness in head of humerus extending down arm to elbow-joint; continuing for days. {{anchor:s327}}~ Rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s328}}Sore pain in head of right humerus (glenoid cavity), continuing for hours.\\ {{anchor:s329}}Tenderness of right biceps, increased by pressure.\\ {{anchor:s330}}Dull pains in right elbow-joint.\\ {{anchor:s331}}Stiffness of elbow-joint.\\ {{anchor:s332}}Rheumatic pain, constant aching in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s333}}Severe drawing pains in flexor muscles, wrists, hands and fingers.\\ {{anchor:s334}}Lancinating in left wrist-joint.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Prickling pain from wrist to shoulder, along superficial veins.\\ {{anchor:s336}}Violent pain in back of right hand to shoulder-joint.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Palms of hands hot and dry.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Hands chapped.\\ {{anchor:s339}}Stiffness in hands and fingers.\\ {{anchor:s340}}Thumb-nail becomes sore, pus discharges after a slight knock. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s342}}Intense aching and soreness in thighs. {{anchor:s343}}~ Muscular rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Sore pain in right femur; muscles of thighs sore as if bruised.\\ {{anchor:s345}}Soreness in femoral vessels to middle of thigh.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Inflammation of femoral vein, with erysipelatous spot near groin and over the vein, spreading over nearly one-half of thigh with flexure of leg; swelling of entire leg and foot, with tension; heat and pale appearance of limb; scanty urine, stiffening the linen; tympanitis; edema of whole body, limbs and face.\\ {{anchor:s347}}Great pain and swelling in right leg from knee to hip, very sensitive to touch; cutaneous veins hard, swollen, knotty and painful, finally involving veins of abdomen; skin erysipelatous; pulse 120, small and wiry; great thirst; no appetite; constipation; urine red and scanty, later suppressed; pain in kidneys, agg. from motion; great debility. {{anchor:s348}}~ Phlebitis.\\ {{anchor:s349}}Varicose veins above knee.\\ {{anchor:s350}}Weakness of knees, afternoon.\\ {{anchor:s351}}Forcing feeling in varices; veins sensitive; dilated.\\ {{anchor:s352}}Varicose veins, very lame, great pain, can scarcely move about.\\ {{anchor:s353}}Varicose veins of legs; varicose ulcers.\\ {{anchor:s354}}Dull, dragging pains in legs.\\ {{anchor:s355}}Dull, heavy, drawing pains in feet and toes. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s357}}Tired feeling in arms and legs.\\ {{anchor:s358}}Painful fullness of joints of legs, as if they would burst, which soon extends to all the joints of body.\\ {{anchor:s359}}Great soreness of affected parts, especially muscles; bruised feeling in muscles of upper and lower extremities; agg. from motion.\\ {{anchor:s360}}Rheumatism with great soreness of muscles.\\ {{anchor:s361}}Articular rheumatism, with swollen and painful joints. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s365}}Must lie still to prevent vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s366}}Rising: swimming sensation; headache; hoarseness.\\ {{anchor:s367}}Lying down: urine more copious; felt a smothering sensation; at night sweats treely.\\ {{anchor:s368}}Recumbent position: makes breathing impossible.\\ {{anchor:s369}}Desire to lie down.\\ {{anchor:s370}}Standing: painful heaviness of abdomen; cannot take a deep inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s371}}Stooping: vertigo; insupportable headache.\\ {{anchor:s372}}Motion: bruised feeling in upper arms and shoulders agg.; pains in kidneys agg.\\ {{anchor:s373}}Violent exercise: caused enlargement of left spermatic vein.\\ {{anchor:s374}}Horseback riding: agg. dull aching pain in groin.\\ {{anchor:s375}}Walking: fainting caused by; painful heaviness of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s376}}Using arms: pains in muscles of left chest agg.\\ {{anchor:s377}}Can scarcely move about: on account of painfullness of lower limbs; from varicose veins in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s378}}Can neither walk nor stand; legs so painful during pregnancy. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s380}}General lassitude and feeling of weariness.\\ {{anchor:s381}}Easily becomes tired.\\ {{anchor:s382}}Prostration out of proportion to loss of blood. {{anchor:s383}}~ Bleeding piles. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s385}}Restlessness at night.\\ {{anchor:s386}}Uneasy, restless morning sleep.\\ {{anchor:s387}}Emissions of semen during sleep. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s389}}Morning: epistaxis; feels as if he had not slept; restless sleep.\\ {{anchor:s390}}After 3 A. M.: severe pain in testicles.\\ {{anchor:s391}}Noon: deafness passed off.\\ {{anchor:s392}}Day: drawing pain in testicles; discharge of blood; spitting of blood; severe headache.\\ {{anchor:s393}}Afternoon: very thirsty; throat dry; dull aching pain in muscles of left chest agg.; weakness of knees.\\ {{anchor:s394}}Evening: very thirsty; throat dry; dull aching pain in muscles of left chest agg.\\ {{anchor:s395}}Night: stools of blood mixed with mucus; emissions; drawing pain in testicles; pains dart from testicle to stomach agg.; profuse cold sweat of scrotum; discharge of blood ceases; cramping pains in lower limbs; restlessness; whole body dry and hot; fever; sweats freely.\\ {{anchor:s396}}After midnight: pain in testicles.\\ {{anchor:s397}}For 24 hours: uterine hemorrhage flowing.\\ {{anchor:s398}}For 12 to 36 hours: slept. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s400}}Takes cold easily from every exposure, but especially to warm, moist air; subject to varicose veins.\\ {{anchor:s401}}Cold creeps in open air, chills run up legs, head stopped up, dull pain over orbit.\\ {{anchor:s402}}Rainy weather: pains in testicles agg. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s404}}Chilly on going to bed; dreaded an attack of fever.\\ {{anchor:s405}}Chilliness over back and hips, extending down extremities.\\ {{anchor:s406}}Whole body dry and hot, at night.\\ {{anchor:s407}}Fever at night; hands hot, burning in eyelids on closing them.\\ {{anchor:s408}}Sweats freely at night, after lying down.\\ {{anchor:s409}}Pulse accelerated; fever.\\ {{anchor:s410}}Pulse 60 to 70 and full.\\ {{anchor:s411}}Typho-malarial fever; seventeenth day bloody stools, on twentieth day, profuse stool, consisting almost entirely of black, partly coagulated, offensive blood; six profuse hemorrhages occurred on this day and night; temperature fell; respiration hurried; surface circulation poor; skin cool, pulse weak, 140; anxious look on face; bruised sore feeling in abdomen and hips.\\ {{anchor:s412}}Hemorrhagic variola; blood dark, venous; oozing of dark blood from nose; bleeding gums, hematemesis, bloody stools; uterine hemorrhage, petechiae; tearing pains across small of back, with fullness of joints of legs; typhoid condition.\\ {{anchor:s413}}Uterine hemorrhages, with or without abortion, in yellow fever. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s415}}At irregular intervals: epistaxis of from six to twenty-four hours.\\ {{anchor:s416}}Every fifteen minutes: discharge of pure blood.\\ {{anchor:s417}}Two hours after a hearty meal: cramps in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s418}}Every three or four hours: thin, dark, rose-colored, offensive stools.\\ {{anchor:s419}}For hours: severe pain in head of right humerus.\\ {{anchor:s420}}Every day: from 10 to 15 stools; ovarian region becomes swollen.\\ {{anchor:s421}}For days: soreness in head of humerus, extending down arms to elbow-joint.\\ {{anchor:s422}}In three days: swelling spread from thigh to whole left leg.\\ {{anchor:s423}}Seventeenth day: typhoid malarial fever; bloody stools.\\ {{anchor:s424}}Twentieth day: profuse stools: six profuse hemorrhages occurred.\\ {{anchor:s425}}Two weeks after confinement: feverish, thirsty, sleepless.\\ {{anchor:s426}}Every month for twenty years: hemorrhage from lungs.\\ {{anchor:s427}}For months or years: hemorrhoids with hemorrhage with every evacuation.\\ {{anchor:s428}}For three months: drawing pain in left spermatic cord. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s430}}Right: deafness in ear; bleeding at ear; burning in cheek; shooting along superior maxillary to malar bone; sore throat right side; tonsil more swollen; enlargement of testicle; paroxysm of pain in groin; pain commences in region of ovary; swelling in groin; pain in groin; severe pain in head Of humerus; tenderness of right biceps; dull pains in elbow-joint; violent pain in back of hand to shoulder-joint; sore pain in femur and muscles of thigh; great pain and swelling in leg from knee to hip.\\ {{anchor:s431}}Left: hammering over eye; after injury to eye abrasion of cornea; bleeding of nose commenced in side of nose; sharp pains in hypochondrium; enlargement of spermatic vein; drawing pain in spermatic cord; testicle painful; paroxysms of pain in ovary; ovaritis; stiffness and weakness of leg; swelling of labium, groin and thigh, then of whole leg; pain in hip; granulations and redness of vocal cord; dull aching pain in muscles of chest; rheumatic pains in arm; lancinating in wrist-joint.\\ {{anchor:s432}}From within outwards: blood venous, raised with little effort, like a simple warm current. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s434}}Prickling stinging: veins, muscles, skin.\\ {{anchor:s435}}Bruised, soreness.\\ {{anchor:s436}}Felt as if he were going out of his mind; as if a bolt were passing from temple to temple and tightly screwed; as if head would burst; as if both eyes would be forced out of head; tongue feels as if burnt; as if uvula would break when he coughs; feeling as if something had lodged in fauces; as if piles would protrude; back as if it would break; anus as if raw; as if he had not slept; tongue as though dead; veins of feet appeared as though blood was dried up; the muscles of thighs sore as if bruised; legs feel full as if they would burst.\\ {{anchor:s437}}Pains: in teeth in warm room; on swallowing; in testicles; back of stomach; running down spermatic cords into testes; in left testicle; dart from testicles to stomach; in right groin; in epigastrium; in lumbar region; in left ovarian region; in hemorrhoids; in left hip; in right groin; in kidneys.\\ {{anchor:s438}}Excruciating pain: in eyes; in testicles.\\ {{anchor:s439}}Violent pain: in back of right hand to shoulder-joint: at bladder.\\ {{anchor:s440}}Severe pain: in head; in lumbar and hypogastric region; in head of humerus.\\ {{anchor:s441}}Great pains: in anus; in right leg.\\ {{anchor:s442}}Sharp lancinating: along molar teeth extending to malar bone; in temporal region; in left wrist-joint.\\ {{anchor:s443}}Bursting headache.\\ {{anchor:s444}}Cutting, tearing pains: in ovary.\\ {{anchor:s445}}Tearing pains: across small of back.\\ {{anchor:s446}}Shooting pains: along right maxillary to malar bone.\\ {{anchor:s447}}Sharp pains: in temple; in stomach; in left hypochondrium.\\ {{anchor:s448}}Severe pleuritic stitches: with phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s449}}Stitching: in lower part of lungs.\\ {{anchor:s450}}Severe stinging: in uvula.\\ {{anchor:s451}}Severe neuralgic pain: in testicles; of ovaries.\\ {{anchor:s452}}Burning pain: in back.\\ {{anchor:s453}}Pricking pain: in region of heart and veins of arms.\\ {{anchor:s454}}Prickling pain: from wrist to shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s455}}Violent colicky pains.\\ {{anchor:s456}}Cramp pains: in stomach and chest; around umbilicus; of lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s457}}Cramp: in stomach; in transverse colon.\\ {{anchor:s458}}Intense aching: in thighs.\\ {{anchor:s459}}Bearing down pain: in back; in ovaries.\\ {{anchor:s460}}Severe drawing pains: in flexor muscles, wrists, hands and fingers.\\ {{anchor:s461}}Drawing pains: about umbilicus; in left spermatic cord; in testicles.\\ {{anchor:s462}}Rheumatic pain: in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s463}}Agonizing soreness: over whole abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s464}}Burning: in eyes; in right cheek; in stomach; in esophagus; in epigastrium; in umbilicus; at orifice of anus; of piles; of eyelids.\\ {{anchor:s465}}Sore pain: in eyes; in gums; down cervical vertebrae; in right femur and muscles of thighs.\\ {{anchor:s466}}Soreness: of abdomen; of anus; of nipples; in head of humerus; of thumb-nail; in femoral vessels; of affected parts; of skin.\\ {{anchor:s467}}Scalding sensation: on tongue.\\ {{anchor:s468}}Bruised feeling: in upper arms and shoulders; in abdomen and hips.\\ {{anchor:s469}}Aching: in head; in groin.\\ {{anchor:s470}}Violent throbbing: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s471}}Distressing throbbing: in head.\\ {{anchor:s472}}Dull throbbing pains: in back and top of head.\\ {{anchor:s473}}Dull, heavy, drawing pains: in feet and toes.\\ {{anchor:s474}}Dull, dragging pain: in lumbar region; in legs.\\ {{anchor:s475}}Dull frontal headache.\\ {{anchor:s476}}Heavy frontal headache.\\ {{anchor:s477}}Dull pain: in hypochondriac region; in renal region; in lumbar region; in testicles; in sacrum; in hips; in right elbow-joint.\\ {{anchor:s478}}Dull aching pain: in muscles of left chest.\\ {{anchor:s479}}Painful fullness: of joints; of legs.\\ {{anchor:s480}}Painful weakness: of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s481}}Constant pains: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s482}}Painful sensation of heaviness: in lower abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s483}}Painful but benumbed sensation of limb.\\ {{anchor:s484}}Weak pain: in back.\\ {{anchor:s485}}Sore, stiff feeling: in muscles.\\ {{anchor:s486}}Stiffness: in arms and shoulders; of hands and fingers.\\ {{anchor:s487}}Crowding fullness: in head, in neck, in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s488}}Fullness: in head; in hypochondriac region; of vagina; in neck; of joints of legs.\\ {{anchor:s489}}Forcing feeling: in varices.\\ {{anchor:s490}}Stopped up feeling: in nose.\\ {{anchor:s491}}Tightness: across bridge of nose; across lower part of thorax; of chest.\\ {{anchor:s492}}Dullness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s493}}Tired feeling: in arms and legs.\\ {{anchor:s494}}Hammering: over left eye.\\ {{anchor:s495}}Pulsation: in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s496}}Trembling: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s497}}Benumbed sensation: over whole os frontis.\\ {{anchor:s498}}Tickling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s499}}Itching: at anus; of vulva. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s501}}Venous congestions; hemorrhages.\\ {{anchor:s502}}Passive congestion, or venous stagnation of skin and mucous membranes.\\ {{anchor:s503}}Venous congestion, hemorrhoids, conjunctival vascularity, ciliary neuralgia, photophobia, lachrymation.\\ {{anchor:s504}}Hemorrhages from all mucous membranes.\\ {{anchor:s505}}Hemorrhages with asthenia or anemia.\\ {{anchor:s506}}Profuse discharges, which simulate a hemorrhage, and constitute a drain upon system as severe as a loss of blood.\\ {{anchor:s507}}Evil effects from loss of blood.\\ {{anchor:s508}}Phlegmasia alba dolens.\\ {{anchor:s509}}Hemorrhagic purpura.\\ {{anchor:s510}}Phlebitis; prickling pains.\\ {{anchor:s511}}Varices, knotted appearance, extreme thinness of skin, blueness, almost blackness of pouches, parts feel soft and fluctuating.\\ {{anchor:s512}}Varicose veins and ulcers with stinging or pricking.\\ {{anchor:s513}}Varicose ulcers deep, circular, flat; ulcers that are very dark, almost black at base; surrounding skin bluish-black; oozing of blood; burning, stinging, or biting in ulcer; edges sharp cut and on level with surrounding skin; pus thin, watery, bad smelling.\\ {{anchor:s514}}Very sensitive varices.\\ {{anchor:s515}}Purpura hemorrhagica with epistaxis and congestion of conjunctiva.\\ {{anchor:s516}}Articular and muscular rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s517}}Rheumatism with great soreness of affected parts.\\ {{anchor:s518}}Incised, lacerated or contused wounds; checks hemorrhage, removes pain and soreness and promotes healing.\\ {{anchor:s519}}Dissecting wounds.\\ {{anchor:s520}}Burns. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s524}}The pains are often unbearable, with great sensitiveness to touch, and fear of exciting new pain on moving.\\ {{anchor:s525}}Touch: hemorrhoids very sensitive; swollen leg sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s526}}Had to sleep with neck free from all covering.\\ {{anchor:s527}}Pressure: swelling in right groin tender; upper part of thigh very painful; tenderness of right biceps agg.\\ {{anchor:s528}}Slight pressure: sore pain in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s529}}Pressing eyes with fingers: amel. feeling of being pushed out for a few moments.\\ {{anchor:s530}}Jolting while riding in a heavy wagon over a rough road brought on uterine hemorrhage.\\ {{anchor:s531}}After a slight knock: thumb-nail becomes sore; pus discharges.\\ {{anchor:s532}}After injury of head and face: great ecchymosis.\\ {{anchor:s533}}Blow or burn: inflammation and ulceration of conjunctiva and cornea.\\ {{anchor:s534}}Blow: right iliac region caused haematuria; ovary swollen.\\ {{anchor:s535}}Bruise: causes black eye.\\ {{anchor:s536}}Caused by a fall: active uterine hemorrhage.\\ {{anchor:s537}}After a fall: threatened abortion. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s539}}Soreness and smarting on small spots, not very sensitive to touch.\\ {{anchor:s540}}Ulcers with very thin and watery pus, bad smelling; more an ichor than pus.\\ {{anchor:s541}}Carbuncles; boils; abscesses; injuries resulting from falls.\\ {{anchor:s542}}Chilblains always bluish. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s544}}Hemorrhages in patients of nervo-sanguine temperament.\\ {{anchor:s545}}Boy, aet. 14, growing rapidly; epistaxis.\\ {{anchor:s546}}Boy, after a blow; haematuria.\\ {{anchor:s547}}Colored boy, after injury; intra-ocular hemorrhage.\\ {{anchor:s548}}Irish girl, aet. 18; amenorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s549}}Man, aet. 21, light complexioned, in good health; varicocele.\\ {{anchor:s550}}Young married woman; vaginismus.\\ {{anchor:s551}}Miss S., aet. 28; uterine hemorrhage.\\ {{anchor:s552}}Man, aet. 30, scrofulous; orchitis.\\ {{anchor:s553}}Woman, aet. 30, bilious-lymphatic temperament, nursing a babe; ovarian disease.\\ {{anchor:s554}}Woman, aet. 30, six months pregnant; varicose veins.\\ {{anchor:s555}}Man, aet. 30, well built, strong; hematemesis.\\ {{anchor:s556}}Colored woman, aet. 35; amenorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s557}}Woman, had miscarriage during typhoid fever, subinvolution of uterus probably present; angioleucitis.\\ {{anchor:s558}}Married woman, whose menses have always been profuse, has been suffering from dysenteric diarrhea for day or two; uterine hemorrhage.\\ {{anchor:s559}}Woman, plethoric habit; epistaxis.\\ {{anchor:s560}}Married woman, mother of two children; vaginismus.\\ {{anchor:s561}}Middle-aged man, with congested liver; bleeding piles.\\ {{anchor:s562}}Man, aet. 40, thin; melena.\\ {{anchor:s563}}Woman, aet. 40, mother of six children; varices and hemorrhoids.\\ {{anchor:s564}}Woman, aet. 60, hemorrhages for over twenty years.\\ {{anchor:s565}}Woman, aet. 60, nervous temperament, was taken suddenly with a severe chill followed by fever; phlebitis.\\ {{anchor:s566}}Old man, hemiplegic; epistaxis. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s568}}Antidoted by: Arnic., Camphor., Cinchon., Pulsat. (toothache).\\ {{anchor:s569}}Complementary: to Ferrum (hemorrhages).\\ {{anchor:s570}}Compare: Arnica and Calend. (better than either in hastening absorption of intraocular hemorrhage); Chloral, Sul. ac., Clemat. vitalba (purpura); Aescul., Bovista, Collin., Eriger., Galium, Lycopus, Senec., Trillium (hemorrhages, etc.) ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 05, 1887 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r174|Hamamelis virginiana]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r174|Hamamelis virginiana]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1887 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}