====== HYPERICUM PERFORATUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Hypericum Perforatum.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Hypericaceae. St. John's Wort.</span>

{{anchor:s3}}Provings by Mueller, Thorer, Stokes, Bruckner and Schelling. {{anchor:s4}}See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 5, p. 53.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s6}}- <span grade2>Affection of mind</span>, Müller, Analyt. {{anchor:s7}}Therap., vol. 1, p. 134; <span grade2>Headache</span>, C. Hering, Analyt. {{anchor:s8}}Therap., vol. 1, p. 332; <span grade2>Bone pains in head</span>, Lyford, Organon, vol. 3, p. 361; <span grade2>Pain and irritation of eye</span>, Moffat, Norton's Oph. Therap., p. 95; <span grade2>Spasmodic asthma</span>, Ludlam, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 871; <span grade2>Spinal irritation</span>, Dornberg, Raue's P., p. 798; <span grade2>Traumatic meningitis</span>, Winterburn, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. N. Y., 1884, p. 149; <span grade2>Injury to spine; concussion of spine</span>, Winterburn, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. N. Y., 1884; <span grade2>Affection of spine</span>, Ludlam, B. J. H., vol. 17, p. 524; <span grade2>Crushing of foot</span>, Winterburn, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. N. Y., 1884, p. 148; <span grade2>Injury to foot</span>, Farrington, Organon, vol. 3, p. 91; Shock, Winterburn, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. N. Y., 1884, p. 148; <span grade2>Tetanic symptoms</span>, Hocking, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 264; <span grade2>Wounds</span>, Franklin, B. J. H., vol. 27, p. 325; <span grade2>Gunshot wounds</span>, Franklin, Trans. W. H. Con., 1876, p. 794; <span grade2>Compound fractures and dislocations</span>, Franklin, T. W. H. C., 1876, p. 194; <span grade2>Pain after operation</span>, Gilchrist, Organon, vol. 2, p. 241, vol. 3, p. 366.

====== MIND. [1] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s10}}Makes mistakes in writing; omits letters; forgets what she wanted to say; confused.</span>\\ {{anchor:s11}}Increase of intellectual power.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s12}}Erotic ideas; brain excited, as after tea.</span>\\ {{anchor:s13}}Sees spirits; spectres; delirium.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s14}}Talking nonsense in her sleep at 4 o'clock in morning; disturbed look, stares at people; head hot, carotids throbbing; flushed and bloated face; eyes fixed, pupils dilated; frequent pulse; hair moist, rest of body burning hot; great anxiety; singing, followed by weeping and loud screaming, with gasping for breath; beating headache, especially in vertex; tearing stitches in brain; crawling in hands and feet, as if they were numb; great thirst; while coated tongue.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s15}}Great anxiety.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s16}}~</span> <span grade2>Meningitis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s17}}Melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Irritable, inclined to speak sharply; slept badly, languid on waking.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s19}}Consequences of fright; effects of shock.</span>

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s21}}Heaviness and dizziness in head.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s22}}Vertigo: at night, with urging to urinate; with loathing on waking; with pain in temples; in afternoon, with feeling of weakness and trembling of limbs; sensation as if head became suddenly elongated.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Sensation as if being lifted up high into air; tormented by anxiety that the slightest touch or motion would make her fall down from this height; with headache after a fall on occiput.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s24}}Confused sensation in vertex with buzzing sensation at night, as if something living were in brain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s25}}Asphyxia after a fall; when jerkings or shooting pains appear.</span>

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Tearing stitches in brain; beating, mostly on vertex.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s28}}~</span> <span grade3>Meningitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Burning in vertex, pulsation and heat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}Dull headache, only on vertex, gradually increasing as if whole brain would be pressed asunder, with inability to perform any kind of labor; loathing; tingling, drawing pains in cheeks and chin.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s31}}Violent headache after puerperal rash; throbbing in vertex, moves to cheeks and chin, where it changes to tingling, drawing pains; brain feels compressed, becomes stupefied.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}Throbbing in vertex, and heat in head in afternoon.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s33}}Headache as if brain would be torn to pieces.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s34}}Sensation as if head became elongated.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s35}}Dull headache, head heavy; morning.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s36}}Headache after breakfast.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s37}}Headache, with sore eyes, after a fall.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}Headache, extending into zygoma or cheeks.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Pressive pain in occiput on motion; also with drawing stitches; tearing; back of head feels "bothered;" severe scalp headache left side of occiput, after breakfast, at other times dull; shoot of dull pain up left occipital nerve.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s40}}Headache after a fall upon occiput, combined with a sensation as if being lifted up high into air; she was tormented by the greatest anxiety that the slightest touch or motion would make her fall down from this height.</span>

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

{{anchor:s42}}Sensation in forehead as if touched by an icy cold hand, in afternoon, after which a spasmodic contraction is felt in right eye.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s43}}Pressure in left temple, after breakfast.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Curling sensation on vertex.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s45}}Head hot, carotids throbbing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s46}}Hair moist, rest of body burning hot.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s47}}Heat and pressure on vertex.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s48}}Severe bone pains in cranium.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s49}}Fracture skull; bone splintered.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s50}}Humid eruption on scalp with children.</span>

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s52}}Disturbed look, stares at people, eyes fixed; pupils dilated.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s53}}Pain and irritation of eye, from an anterior synechia resulting from an injury several years previously; healthy eye also irritable.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s54}}Stitches in right eye.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s55}}Stye on lower left lid.</span>

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Sensitiveness of hearing; during menses.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s58}}Shooting through the ear.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s59}}Ears hot; scurf on ear.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s61}}Exceedingly fine sense of smell.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s62}}Nose dry, very annoying.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s63}}Sneezing, leaving a raw sore feeling in throat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s64}}Sores inside nose, itching; all the time picking nose.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s65}}Dryness of nostrils; crusts in it.</span>

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s67}}Suffering expression.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s68}}Face hot, bloated.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s69}}~</span> <span grade3>Meningitis.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s70}}Cheeks red; erysipelatous redness.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s71}}Dull faceache, aching in brows; afternoon, evening; agg. at night, disturbing sleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s72}}Headache extending into zygoma or cheek.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s73}}Red eruption on both cheeks, chin and nose; sometimes dry, with thin crusts; sometimes fiery red, oozing yellow drops.</span>

====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======

{{anchor:s75}}Tension in the cheek.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s76}}Lips dry, feel hot.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s77}}Eruption around mouth and on right ear.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Yellow-greenish scabs, with cracking and moisture.</span>

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s80}}Severe aching in decayed tooth at night; restless, wakeful; amel. lying on affected side, and keeping quiet.</span>\\ {{anchor:s81}}Injuries to dental nerves.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s83}}Taste: insipid; of blood.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}Tongue coated white or yellow; great thirst.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s85}}~</span> <span grade3>Meningitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s86}}Great soreness of tongue, from lacerated wounds, with inability to speak, not from stiffness or swelling, but extreme soreness.</span>

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s88}}Dry, burning heat in mouth and on lips.</span>

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

{{anchor:s90}}Expansion of throat and abdomen.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s91}}Sensation as if a worm was moving in throat.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s92}}Hot rising in esophagus after a fright, or with anxious feelings.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s93}}With hemming, some bright, red blood comes up.</span>

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s96}}Desire for warm drinks.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s97}}~</span> <span grade3>Meningitis.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s98}}Great thirst, white tongue; in morning after heat and delirium.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s99}}Thirst with feeling of heat in mouth; violent thirst.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s100}}Desire for wine; for pickles.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s101}}Appetite increased morning and evening.</span>

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

{{anchor:s103}}Tastelessness.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s104}}Belching, when drinking water.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s105}}Smoking tobacco does not taste well.</span>\\ {{anchor:s106}}After breakfast: headache, eructations, gastric symptoms, pressure in stomach toward back; pains in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s107}}After supper; flatulence and diarrhea.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

{{anchor:s109}}Eructations: tasteless; bitter; preventing sleep at night; agg. after drinking water.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s110}}Nausea: weakness every morning; abdomen distended, pains in bowels, awaking in night; with headache on vertex.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s111}}Vomiting.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s113}}Pressure at stomach on eating but little.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Sticking in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Pain in stomach, nausea, diarrhea and chill after eating.

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

{{anchor:s117}}Sticking or dragging pain in right hypochondrium.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s119}}Tympanitic distension of abdomen; relieved by a stool.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s120}}Cutting in belly, in region of navel.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s121}}Pinching pains; diarrhea; menses.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s122}}Colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s123}}Pain after operation for incarcerated hernia.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s125}}Awakes with distended abdomen, relieved by stool.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s126}}Diarrhea driving out of bed in morning.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s127}}Loose, bilious, yellow stools evening or morning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s128}}Summer diarrhea, with eruptions on skin.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s129}}Cholera morbus, slimy stools; afterward constipation; flesh sore all over; feet swollen, urine lessened.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s130}}Constipation; violent tenesmus, with discharge of a hard little ball; with nausea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s131}}Rectum feels dry, morning.</span>\\ {{anchor:s132}}(OBS:) Hemorrhoids.

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

{{anchor:s134}}Vesical tenesmus.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s135}}Swelling and hardness of female urethra, with burning, soreness and sensitiveness; especially if caused by instruments for uterine prolapsus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s136}}Nightly urging to urinate, with vertigo.</span>\\ {{anchor:s137}}Retention of urine.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Urine: much diminished; bloody; turbid; of peculiar odor.

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

{{anchor:s140}}Sexual functions excited.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Tearing in genital organs, with desire to urinate.

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

{{anchor:s143}}Inflammatory conditions of mucous membranes of uterus and vagina.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Menses: delay a fortnight; too late, with tension in uterine region, as from a tight bandage; increased in quantity; three days before their appearance, pinching in abdomen, diarrhea, cold feet; headache, wrenching pain over eyes, amel. in motion; severe headache; attended by sickening pain in belly and sensitiveness of hearing.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Leucorrhea: with delayed menses, palpitation, pressure in small of back; with heaviness in lower bowels; in a child, milky, but corroding.\\ {{anchor:s146}}(OBS:) Chlorosis of marriageable girls.\\ {{anchor:s147}}(OBS:) Scirrhus of breast caused by injury.

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

{{anchor:s151}}Labor pains tardy.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s152}}After-pains violent, in sacrum and hips, with severe headache; after instrumental delivery.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

{{anchor:s155}}Hoarseness, with scraping and roughness in larynx, upper part of pharynx and nares, in a foggy atmosphere.

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s157}}Spasmodic asthmatic attacks; with changes of weather from clear to damp, or before storms; cannot lie for any length of time upon back; attacks amel. by copious expectoration from bronchial tubes; after lesion of spinal cord, by a fall, years before.</span>

====== COUGH. [27] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s159}}Spells of short, barking cough.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s160}}~</span> <span grade3>Meningitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s161}}Frequent dry, hacking cough.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s162}}Hacking cough, from irritation in throat, agg. by heat and cold air.</span>\\ {{anchor:s163}}Dry cough and prostration in morning.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s164}}Whooping cough, worse from 6 to 10 P. M.; great nervous prostration.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s166}}Anxiety in chest, in forenoon, with short breath, dizziness and bitter belching.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s167}}Tightness in chest.</span>\\ {{anchor:s168}}Pressure and burning in chest.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Stitches in chest between breasts.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Stinging in left chest, agg. when moving.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Cutting in upper right chest, then in lower left.\\ {{anchor:s172}}(OBS:) Consumption with haemoptysis.

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

{{anchor:s174}}Violent beating of heart.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Pulse: quick and hard; frequent.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Local congestions, and capillary erethism, with or without hemorrhages and great nervous depression, following wounds.

====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ======

{{anchor:s178}}Stitches under mamma.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Continual stitches from within outward, through left breast and sternum, agg. from motion.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Stinging burning pain on one edge of left pectoral muscles.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Dull pressure, right chest, from seventh rib downwards, after breakfast.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s183}}Cervical vertebrae very sensitive to touch.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s184}}Stinging near edge of right scapula near spine; morning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s185}}Cutting between scapulae.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s186}}Back lame and painful.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s187}}Stitches in small of back.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s188}}Aching pain and sensation of lameness in small of back.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s189}}Backache after confinement.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s190}}After falling out of hammock, great pain in spine, growing daily more severe; she could not sit except upon an air cushion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s191}}Every four weeks attack of illness lasting 4 to 8 days, beginning with chill, followed by long continued fever, with dry, parched skin, headache, especially towards evening, restlessness, jactitation, supersensibility of surface of neck and of superior extremities, great dread of motion, would not walk and screamed outright if any one proposed to lift her from one place to another, insisting all the while that she should be held in lap; face pale and anxious, white around mouth, and expression of suffering and uneasiness; anorexia; slight thirst for warm drinks; dry, hacking cough from irritation in throat, agg. from least exposure to cold air; tongue white, taste insipid; cervical vertebrae very sensitive to touch.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s192}}~</span> <span grade3>After a fall.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s193}}After a fall: slightest motion of arms or of neck extorts cries; cervical vertebrae very sensitive to touch; headache; desire for warm drinks; asthmatic spells, or spells of short, hacking cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s194}}An ice-man struck back violently against curbstone by being thrown from wagon; he felt a momentary intense pain shoot down both legs, but was afterwards able to get up, and serve out the rest of his route; in afternoon was unable to hold urine, which dribbled away without his being aware of it; next morning on attempting to rise legs seemed "as if drunk;" pulse feeble; temperature normal; breathing slightly labored, no pain along spine, nor any spasmodic movement; sphincter muscles partially paralyzed; walks with a rolling motion; legs felt "as if dead".</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s195}}~</span> <span grade3>Concussion of spine.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s196}}Boy fell from shed, but did not seem much hurt; next night, however, began vomiting; in morning was slightly delirious, but could easily be aroused to answer questions; severe pain in head and down spine, greatly intensified by attempting to move arms or legs; pupils dilated; face puffed and hot; tongue coated yellowish; mouth dry, but did not wish to drink water, desired warm milk; pulse 140, full and hard, temperature 104 1/2F.; constipated, stools consisting of small, hard lumps; urine thick and muddy, and had the appearance of beer.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s197}}~</span> <span grade3>Traumatic meningitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s198}}Boy, aet. 14, fair, of lively temperament, was attacked while husking corn with numbness of limbs, and pain in upper part of spinal cord; spinal column from cervical vertebrae to region of kidneys, tender to touch; paroxysms of pain with symptoms of mania, pains principally in joints and changing about; almost constant dull headache; least touch on spine between cervical and lumbar regions made him shrink.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s199}}Violent pains and inability to walk, or to stoop after a fall on coccyx; feet feel pithy, as if pricked with needles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s200}}Lies on back jerking head backward.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s201}}Consequences of spinal concussion.</span>

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s203}}Flying pains in right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Cutting under left scapula.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Pressure at insertion of right deltoid.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Stitches on top of shoulder at every inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Hard pain running down left median nerve.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Numbness in left arm; amel. from rubbing.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Dry herpetic eruption on outer side of arms, agg. on right.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s210}}Excruciating pain after amputation of arm; fainting.</span>\\ {{anchor:s211}}Tension in both arms and in hands.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Cutting in fleshy ends of fingers.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s213}}Compound dislocation of two fingers, with severe laceration and tearing of external structure, the members being severed except by a narrow bridge of skin uniting them to the body (applied locally).</span>\\ {{anchor:s214}}Pain in last phalanges of fingers, agg. in thumb, fore and little fingers.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s215}}Panaritium.</span>

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s217}}After severe injury to sciatic nerve, sharp, cutting pains, darting along course of nerve and terminating in a twisting or wrenching sensation in foot.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s218}}Sciatica, rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s219}}Coxalgia after confinement.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s220}}Left leg numb, cold while sitting.</span>\\ {{anchor:s221}}Weakening drawing, over front of legs; shoots of pain, as if in periosteum.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Fearful pains in knees, sharp, could hardly touch them.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s223}}Articular rheumatism in knee; effusion around joint; muddy urine, looking like settlings of beer; pains sharp, agg. least touch; tearing pains.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s224}}The feet feel pithy, as if pricked with needles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s225}}Lying in bed the feet tingle.</span>\\ {{anchor:s226}}Sensation as if left foot was strained or dislocated.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s227}}Same evening, after running pin into foot, intense pain at seat of injury; toes became rigid, ankle, stiffened, chills chased each other down back, followed by nausea and vomiting; she fainted, and on coming to, still complained of the agonizing pain; strange expression of face, eyes set, lips drawn tightly across teeth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s228}}After running pins in right foot pain runs up limb through spine to neck and face; muscles of neck and jaw become rigid, agg. right side, and also muscles of abdomen and thorax.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s229}}~</span> <span grade3>Tetanic symptoms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s230}}Toes of right foot crushed by heavy iron shutter, and almost severed from foot, the bones protruding in several places; considerable hemorrhage; excruciating pain; depressed and cold.</span>\\ {{anchor:s231}}(OBS:) Gout.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s232}}Bunions excruciatingly painful (locally).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s233}}Cannot walk, spine affected.</span>

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

{{anchor:s235}}Feeling of weakness and trembling of all the limbs.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Bruised sensation in all the joints.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Rheumatoid inflammation of joints.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s238}}Crawling in hands and feet, as if they were numb.</span>\\ {{anchor:s239}}Sensation of lameness of left arm and right foot.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s240}}Crawling in hands and feet, they felt fuzzy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s241}}Compound fractures of hands and feet, with great laceration of soft parts.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s242}}Affections of joints.</span>

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s246}}Keeping quiet: toothache amel.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Lying in bed: feet tingle.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Lying on affected side: toothache amel.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Lies on back: jerking head backwards.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Sitting: left leg cold.\\ {{anchor:s251}}On rising: languor.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Cannot lie for any length of time upon back.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Could not sit except on air cushion; screamed when it was proposed to lift her to another place.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Motion: pressive pain in occiput; wrenching pain over eyes amel.; continual stitches through left breast and sternum.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Slightest motions of arms or neck extorts cries, after a fall.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Great dread of motion.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Physical effort causes fainting.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Would not walk.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Cannot walk or stoop: after a fall on coccyx.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s261}}Effects of nervous shock.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s262}}Great weakness.</span>\\ {{anchor:s263}}Weariness on awaking; goes off by noon.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s264}}Great nervous depression following wounds.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s265}}After being frightened by a practical joke, became very pale and hysterical; pulse 54, very weak and compressible; respiration 15 and sighing; temperature 96F; skin cold and clammy; slight vomiting.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s266}}~</span> <span grade3>Shock.</span>\\ {{anchor:s267}}Jerks in limbs.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s268}}Convulsions from blows upon head or concussion; dull headache, on vertex, or severe headache, with throbbing on top of head.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s269}}Spasms after slight injuries, in children.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s270}}Epileptiform spasms after hard knocks.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s271}}Tetanus after traumatic injuries.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s272}}Opisthotonos.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s273}}Prevents lockjaw from wounds in soles of feet, fingers, or palms of hands.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s274}}Removes ill effects of local shock, prevents in a great measure sympathetic irritation of system from local derangement and modifies subsequent inflammation and sloughing.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s275}}~</span> <span grade3>Gunshot wounds.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s276}}Injuries to nerves, attended by great pain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s277}}Especially adapted to mechanical injuries of spinal cord, and nerves at their peripheral extremities.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s278}}Nervous disorders arising from falls and hurts.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s279}}Lacerated nerves, causing excruciating pain.</span>

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s281}}Constant drowsiness.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Spasmodic jerks of arms or legs on going to sleep; twitchings.\\ {{anchor:s283}}On awaking: weary, amel. by noon; feels refreshed; bowels distended.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Dreams: with activity, traveling; vivid; distressing.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s286}}At 4 A. M.: talking nonsense in sleep.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Morning: dull headache, head heavy; great thirst, white tongue; appetite increased; diarrhea drives out of bed; loose, bilious, yellow stools; rectum feels dry; dry cough and prostration; stinging near scapula; after a fall slightly-delirious.\\ {{anchor:s288}}After breakfast: headache; severe scalp headache; pressure in left temple; eructations; gastric symptoms; pressure in stomach; pains in limbs; dull pressure in right chest.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Noon: weariness amel.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Afternoon: feeling of weakness and trembling of limbs; throbbing in vertex; sensation as if forehead was touched by an icy cold hand, after which contraction of right eye; dull faceache; brows ache; unable to hold urine.\\ {{anchor:s291}}At 4 P. M.: eruption like nettlerash on both hands.\\ {{anchor:s292}}Evening: dull faceache, brows ache; appetite increased; loose, bilious, yellow stools; dry, parched skin, headache; intense pain at seat of injury; eruption on both hands.\\ {{anchor:s293}}After supper: flatulence and diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Night: vertigo; urging to urinate; dull faceache agg.; severe aching in decayed tooth; eructations preventing sleep; awakening at night from pain in bowels; vomiting, after a fall.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s296}}Sensitiveness to cold.\\ {{anchor:s297}}Attacks return with changes of weather from clear to damp, or before storms; after lesion of spine by a fall, spasmodic asthma.\\ {{anchor:s298}}Foggy atmosphere: hoarseness, with scraping and roughness of larynx, upper part of pharynx and nares.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Heat: hacking cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Cold air: hacking cough agg.; least exposure agg. symptoms.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s302}}Shuddering over whole body, with desire to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Heat, with delirium, wild staring look, hot head, throbbing of carotids, bright red bloated face, moist hair on head, burning heat of skin, great oppression and anguish.\\ {{anchor:s304}}Chill followed by heat, with sweat on hands and feet.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s306}}Every morning: nausea, weakness.\\ {{anchor:s307}}From 6 to 10 P. M.: whooping cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Three days before menses: pinching in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s309}}Every four weeks: attacks of illness, lasting 4 to 8 days.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Summer: diarrhea.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s312}}Right: spasmodic contraction of eye; stitches in eye; dull depression in chest; stinging near edge of scapula near spine; flying pains in shoulder; pressure at insertion of deltoid; dry, herpetic eruption on outer side of arm; pains through limb, spine, neck and face; excruciating pain in crushed toes; lameness of foot.\\ {{anchor:s313}}Left: severe scalp headache in side of occiput; shoot of dull pain up cervical nerve; pressure in temple; stye on lower lid; continual stitches through breast and sternum; stinging burning pain on one edge of pectoral muscles; cutting under scapula; hard pain running down median nerve; numbness in arm; leg numb; leg cold while sitting; sensation as if foot was strained or dislocated.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Before backward: pressure in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Upper right to lower left: cutting in chest.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Left upper and right lower: sensation of lameness of arm and foot.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Above downward: pain down left median nerve; pain down from vertex to face.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s319}}Brain excited as after tea; as if hands and feet were numb; as if head became suddenly elongated; as if being lifted up high into air; as if something alive was in brain; as if whole brain would be pressed asunder; brain feels compressed; as if brain would be torn to pieces; as if forehead was touched by icy cold hand; as if a worm was moving in throat; as from a tight bandage in uterine region; legs as if dead; feet feel pithy as if pricked with needles, as if left foot was strained and dislocated; hands and feet as if numb; skin as if full of knots.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Pain: in temples; in head; in head extending to zygoma or cheeks; in eye; in limbs; in bowels; in stomach; after operation for incarcerated hernia; in back; in upper part of spinal cord; in joints; in last phalanges of fingers; in old cicatrices.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Intense pain: in momentary shoots down both legs.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Excruciating pain: after amputating arm; in right foot, after crushing toes with heavy iron shutter; in bunions.\\ {{anchor:s323}}Fearful pains: in knees.\\ {{anchor:s324}}Agonizing pain: in foot after running in a pin.\\ {{anchor:s325}}Sickening pain: in belly.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Violent pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s327}}Great pain: in spine.\\ {{anchor:s328}}Severe pain: in head; in spine; in cranial bones.\\ {{anchor:s329}}Severe headache; in scalp; left side of occiput.\\ {{anchor:s330}}Sharp pain: in knees.\\ {{anchor:s331}}Sharp, cutting pain, darting along course of sciatic nerve terminating in a wrenching, twisting sensation in foot.\\ {{anchor:s332}}Cutting: in belly and in region of navel; between scapula; under left scapula; in fleshy ends of fingers.\\ {{anchor:s333}}Beating: headache; in vertex.\\ {{anchor:s334}}Tearing: in male genitals.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Tearing stitches: in brain.\\ {{anchor:s336}}Wrenching pain: over eyes; in foot.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Pinching pain: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Stitches: in right eye; under mamma; through left breast and sternum; in small of back; on top of shoulder at every inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s339}}Drawing stitches: in occiput.\\ {{anchor:s340}}Shooting: through ear.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Flying pains: in right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Tingling, drawing pain: in cheeks and chin.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Sticking: in stomach; in hypochondrium.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Dragging pain: in hypochondrium.\\ {{anchor:s345}}Stinging: near edge of right scapula.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Throbbing: in vertex, moves to cheeks and chin.\\ {{anchor:s347}}Severe aching: in decayed tooth.\\ {{anchor:s348}}Aching pain: in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s349}}Pressive pain: in occiput.\\ {{anchor:s350}}Hard pain: running down left median nerve.\\ {{anchor:s351}}Stinging, burning pain: on one edge of left pectoral muscle.\\ {{anchor:s352}}Burning soreness: of female urethra.\\ {{anchor:s353}}Burning heat: in whole body; in mouth; in lips.\\ {{anchor:s354}}Burning in vertex.\\ {{anchor:s355}}Dull pressure: in right chest.\\ {{anchor:s356}}Shoot of dull pain: up left occipital nerve; in legs.\\ {{anchor:s357}}Dull pain: in head; in face; in brows.\\ {{anchor:s358}}Soreness: of eyes; of inside of nose; of tongue; all over.\\ {{anchor:s359}}Bruised sensation: in all joints.\\ {{anchor:s360}}Sensitiveness: of female urethra.\\ {{anchor:s361}}Raw, sore feeling: in throat after sneezing.\\ {{anchor:s362}}Heat: in vertex; in ears; in lips.\\ {{anchor:s363}}Weakening drawing: over front of legs.\\ {{anchor:s364}}"Bothered" sensation back of head.\\ {{anchor:s365}}Confused sensation: in vertex.\\ {{anchor:s366}}Spasmodic contraction in right eye.\\ {{anchor:s367}}Pressure: in left temple; on vertex; in stomach toward back; in small of back; at insertion of right deltoid.\\ {{anchor:s368}}Tension: in cheek; in both arms and both hands.\\ {{anchor:s369}}Lame feeling: in back.\\ {{anchor:s370}}Weakness: of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s371}}Heaviness: in head; in lower bowels.\\ {{anchor:s372}}Pulsation: in vertex.\\ {{anchor:s373}}Shuddering: over whole body.\\ {{anchor:s374}}Hot rising: in esophagus.\\ {{anchor:s375}}Scraping and roughness: in larynx; upper part of pharynx; of nares.\\ {{anchor:s376}}Dryness: of nostrils; of rectum.\\ {{anchor:s377}}Fuzzy feeling: in hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s378}}Buzzing sensation: in head.\\ {{anchor:s379}}Curling sensation: on vertex.\\ {{anchor:s380}}Tingling: in carotids; in feet.\\ {{anchor:s381}}Trembling: of limb.\\ {{anchor:s382}}Crawling: in hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s383}}Numbness: of limbs; in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s384}}Violent itching: of skin; of tetter.\\ {{anchor:s385}}Itching: of nose; in sacral region.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s387}}Local congestions; nervous erethism, with or without hemorrhage; great nervous depression following wounds.</span>\\ {{anchor:s388}}Congestion to head, lungs or heart.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s389}}Next to nervous tissues, the joints are affected; all articulations feel bruised.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s390}}Injuries of parts rich in sentient nerves, particularly fingers and toes, and matrices of nails; open, painful wounds, with general prostration from loss of blood, and great nervous depression; lacerated wounds.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s391}}Mashed, punctured and torn wounds, when nervous tissues are mainly concerned; lacerations of skin; injuries of vertebral region, of tissues of animal life, as hands and feet.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s392}}Lacerated wounds, or other injuries to nerves, in which there is much soreness, with jerking in the muscles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s393}}Violent, excruciating pains from laceration of nerves.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s394}}Excessive painfullness of affected parts, showing nerves to be attacked.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s395}}Preserves vitality of torn and lacerated members when almost entirely separated from the body.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s396}}Lacerations when intolerable pain shows nerves are severely involved.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s397}}In slighter forms of lacerated wounds, if applied early, will sometimes arrest, and always modify the occurrence of ulceration and sloughing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s398}}Gunshot wounds when the parts have been extensively lacerated and torn, with engorgement of the capillaries, attended with more or less discharge of bloody serum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s399}}Piercing wounds from pointed instruments.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s400}}Punctured, incised, contused or lacerated wounds, when pains are extremely severe, and particularly if they are of long duration; pains like those of a severe toothache; pains spread to neighboring parts and extend up limb.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s401}}Open, painful wounds, with general prostration from loss of blood, feeling of weakness and trembling in all the limbs; languor on rising, fainting from physical effort, thirst and heaviness of head.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s402}}Mechanical injuries, wounds by nails or splinters in feet; needles under nails; squeezing or hammering of toes and fingers; when the nerves have been lacerated, wounded, or torn, with excruciating pains. {{anchor:s403}}It prevents lockjaw from wounds in soles of feet, or of fingers and palms of hands.</span>\\ {{anchor:s404}}Always modifies and sometimes arrests ulceration and sloughing.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s405}}Hard, yellow crusts form on the healing wound.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s406}}Pain in old cicatrices.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s407}}Stings of insects and bug bites; burns.</span>

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s411}}Punctured wounds feel very sore; from treading on nails, needles, pins, splinters, rat bites, etc.; prevents lockjaw.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s412}}Wounds from crushing, as mashed fingers, especially tips.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s413}}Nerves lacerated, pains excruciating.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s414}}Painful wounds before suppuration.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s415}}Rheumatism, bunions, corns, etc., when pains are so disproportionately severe as to show nerves are attacked.</span>\\ {{anchor:s416}}After a knock or blow on head: spasms.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s417}}Consequences of spinal concussion. {{anchor:s418}}See chaps. 31 and 44.</span>\\ {{anchor:s419}}Touch: cervical vertebrae sensitive; on spine between cervical and lumbar region made him shrink; agg. sharp pains in knees.\\ {{anchor:s420}}Rubbing: amel. numbness of arm.\\ {{anchor:s421}}After using instruments for uterine prolapsus: burning soreness of female urethra.\\ {{anchor:s422}}After a fall: asphyxia; headache with sore eyes; lesion of spinal cord; asthmatic attacks; great pain in spine; unable to hold urine; sphincter muscles partially paralyzed; vomiting at night; slightly delirious in morning; severe pain in head and down spine.\\ {{anchor:s423}}After a fall upon occiput: headache with sensation as if she was being lifted high up into air.\\ {{anchor:s424}}After a fall on coccyx: violent pains and inability to walk or stoop.\\ {{anchor:s425}}After hard knock: epileptiform spasms.\\ {{anchor:s426}}Blows upon head: convulsions.\\ {{anchor:s427}}Following wounds: great nervous depression.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s428}}Gunshot wounds.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s429}}Piercing wounds: from sharp instruments.</span>\\ {{anchor:s430}}Compound fracture of hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s431}}After severe injury to sciatic nerve: sharp cutting pains darting along course of nerve.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s432}}Slight injuries in children: cause spasms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s433}}Injuries to dental nerves.</span>\\ {{anchor:s434}}Injury several years ago: pain and irritation of eye from anterior synechia.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s435}}After running pins into foot: intense pain; toes rigid, ankle stiffened, chills in back; pains run up limb, through spine to neck and face; muscles of neck and jaw become rigid.</span>

====== SKIN. [46] ======

{{anchor:s437}}Great itching when undressing, most in sacral region.\\ {{anchor:s438}}Violent itching: smarting.\\ {{anchor:s439}}Skin rough, as if full of small knots.\\ {{anchor:s440}}Pimples on forehead, throat, back, hips.\\ {{anchor:s441}}Eruption like nettlerash on both hands, at 4 P. M. and in evening.\\ {{anchor:s442}}Smarting eruption, like nettlerash, on hands.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s443}}Tetters, beginning with sore places, and forming hard, yellow crusts, with violent itching.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s444}}Eruptions accompanying diarrhea in Summer time.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s445}}Hard, dry, yellow crusts form on wounds or open sores.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s446}}Foul, torpid and phagedenic ulcers.</span>

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s448}}Girl, aet. 6, three years ago fell down steps, since which time she has been in poor health; affection of spine.\\ {{anchor:s449}}Boy, aet. 7, after falling from roof of shed; traumatic meningitis.\\ {{anchor:s450}}Girl, aet. 14, timid and impressionable, after being greatly frightened by a practical joke; shock.\\ {{anchor:s451}}Robust young lady, after fall upon occiput; headache.\\ {{anchor:s452}}Mason, aet. 29; crushing of right foot.\\ {{anchor:s453}}Mrs. E. M. C., aet. 32, after falling from hammock; pain in spine.\\ {{anchor:s454}}Ice-man, aet. 32, after being thrown from wagon; concussion of spine.\\ {{anchor:s455}}Woman, aet. 40, stepped upon a paper of pins, a number of which penetrated sole of right foot quite deeply; tetanic symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s456}}Strong woman, aet. 45, mother of five children, in fifteenth year fell down steps and injured spine, has suffered with chest affection for ten years; spasmodic asthma.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s458}}Antidoted by: <span grade2>Arsen.</span> (weakness or sickness in the morning); <span grade2>Chamom.</span> (pains in face).\\ {{anchor:s459}}Antidotes: <span grade2>Sulphur.</span> {{anchor:s460}}(Effects of mesmerism).\\ {{anchor:s461}}Compare: Acon., Agar., <span grade4>Arnic.</span>, <span grade2>Arsen.</span>, <span grade4>Calend.</span>, <span grade2>Chamom., Coccul., Ruta, Staphis., Sulphur.</span>

----

====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 06, 1888 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r159|Hypericum perforatum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r159|Hypericum perforatum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1888 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}