====== DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Drosera Rotundifolia.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Round leaved Sundew. {{anchor:s3}}Droseraceae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}Grows in mossy, turfy bogs in Europe, Northern Asia, and America.

{{anchor:s5}}The tincture is prepared from the active, fresh plant.

{{anchor:s6}}Used empirically by physicians in the sixteenth century (Dodoens), principally outwardly against skin eruptions.

{{anchor:s7}}Introduced into our Materia Medica by Hahnemann, and proved by himself and others. {{anchor:s8}}See <span grade2>Allen's Encyclopaedia</span>, vol. 4, p. 170.

{{anchor:s9}}Became famous as a remedy in whooping cough at Hahnemann's own recommendation based on observations of Wislicenus, one of the provers.

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

{{anchor:s11}}- <span grade2>Laryngitis</span>, Macfarlan, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 156; <span grade2>Hoarseness after catarrh</span>, Hartmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 167; <span grade2>Irritation in larynx with cough</span>, Baumann, Raue's Path., p. 319; <span grade2>Cough</span>, Pemerl., Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 12; <span grade2>Spasmodic cough</span>, Hannes, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 106, p. 66; Becker, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 12; Jousset, B. J. H., vol. 26, p. 210; <span grade2>Catarrhal cough</span>, Gross, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 12; <span grade2>Whooping cough</span>, Hahnemann, Hrg., Hartman, Lobeth, Schrn, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 12; Neumann, Nenning, Mhlenbein, Trinks, Schindler, Bethmann, Knorre, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 73; Englehardt, Becker, Rck, Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 74; Schindler, Tietze (6 cases), Neumann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 75; Gross, Bethmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 76; Müller, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 718; Cretin, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 106, p. 39; Skinner (2 cases), Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 106, p. 53; <span grade2>Night cough</span>, Hale, Hom. Clinics, vol. 1, p. 82; <span grade2>Cough during measles</span>, Stapf, Tietze, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 95; <span grade2>Cough and hoarseness after measles</span>, Stapf, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 167; <span grade2>Cough of phthisical subjects</span>, Lobeth, Hartmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 366; <span grade2>Catarrhal affections of chest</span>, Hrg., Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 12; <span grade2>Catarrhal fever</span>, Hartmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 12; <span grade2>Intermittent fever</span>, Knorre, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 917; Allen's Int. Fever, p. 98.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s13}}Mental restlessness; when reading cannot dwell long on one subject, must change to something else.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s14}}Depressed by persecutions of others on all sides, and also discouraged and solicitous about future.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s15}}Anxiety: with flushes of heat; when alone, especially in evening, also when awaking at night; as if it would impel him to commit suicide by drowning.</span>\\ {{anchor:s16}}Dread of ghosts and of being alone.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s17}}Great mistrust.</span>\\ {{anchor:s18}}Very irritable; a trifle will disturb; irascible, getting beside one's self with anger.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Self-willed; obstinate; insists upon carrying out his plans.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s21}}Dullness and heaviness of head.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s22}}Vertigo when walking in open air, tendency to fall to left.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s24}}Lancinating pain in fore part of brain, agg. moving eyes, amel. from supporting head on hands.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s25}}Lancinating, tensive, frontal headache, agg. from stooping.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s26}}Pressive pain in forehead and zygoma, within outward.</span>\\ {{anchor:s27}}Boring pain in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Headache above orbit when stooping, disappearing on walking.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s29}}Pressing headache (temples), with stupefaction and nausea (morning); agg. when stooping and from heat; amel. from motion and in cold air.</span>\\ {{anchor:s30}}Aching pain above right temple.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Soreness in temples.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}Drawing pain in left side of head.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s33}}Pressive headache.</span>\\ {{anchor:s34}}Brain painfully affected by stepping.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Smarting, burning pain in scalp.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s37}}Sore feeling in skin of right temple.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}Itching, gnawing on fore part of scalp, amel. by rubbing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Corrosive itching on scalp.</span>

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

{{anchor:s41}}Frequent vanishing of sight, especially when reading, letters look pale and blurred; photophobia; eyes dazzled by light or glare of fire; they are very dry; nose dry and stopped up, stitches in eyes.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s42}}Like gauze before eyes; when reading letters run together.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s43}}~</span> <span grade3>Amblyopia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s44}}Far-sighted; weakness of eyes when looking carefully at small objects; quivering before eyes; dazzling; agg. from light, daylight, candle-light.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s45}}Pupils first contracted, later dilated.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s46}}Protrusion of eyes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}Severe stitches, from within outward, in eyes.</span>\\ {{anchor:s48}}Eyelids livid.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Difficult hearing, with increased humming before ears.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s51}}Roaring, humming, and drumming in ears.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s52}}Pain in right internal ear, as if pressed together.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s53}}Sticking pain and aching, especially when swallowing.</span>\\ {{anchor:s54}}Otalgia, with sticking pain in inner ear.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s55}}Stitches in ears.</span>

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

{{anchor:s57}}Nose dry and stopped up.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Nosebleed, agg. morning or evening, and on stooping.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Bleeding from nose and mouth.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s60}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s61}}Profuse fluent coryza, particularly in morning.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s62}}Frequent sneezing, with or without fluent coryza; agg. from sneezing.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s64}}Pale face, with sunken eyes; puffed and livid.</span>\\ {{anchor:s65}}Cheeks and eyes sunken.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}Prickling, burning pain in skin of cheek below left eyelid.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s67}}Coldness of left half of face, with stinging pain and dry heat on right half of face.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s68}}Heat of face, with cold hands.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s69}}Face-ache, aggravated by pressure and contact.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s70}}Small pustules, here and there, on face, with fine stitching sensation, agg. when touched.</span>\\ {{anchor:s71}}Cold sweat on forehead.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s73}}Stitching, tearing pain on left inferior maxilla, as in periosteum.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s74}}Burning in skin, at right angle of mouth.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s75}}Lower lip cracked in the middle.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}Dryness of the lips and little sense of taste.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s77}}Black pores on the chin.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s79}}Cold sensation in the body of an incisor.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s80}}Stitching toothache, mornings, after warm drink.</span>

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

{{anchor:s82}}Taste: bitter, in throat, after eating; putrid; bread tastes bitter; food seems tasteless.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s83}}Fine prickings on dorsum of tongue.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}Stitching, smarting pain in right side and tip of tongue.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s85}}Small, round, painless swelling in middle of tongue.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s86}}Whitish ulcer on tip of tongue.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}Smarting pain on inside of left cheek, like from pepper.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s89}}Putrid, pus-like taste in mouth.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s90}}~</span> <span grade3>Phthisis.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s91}}Profuse discharge of watery saliva (water-brash).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s92}}Bloody saliva.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s93}}Hemorrhage from the mouth.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s95}}Difficulty of swallowing solid food; esophagus as if contracted.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s96}}Ulceration of velum.</span>\\ {{anchor:s97}}Sensation of dryness in fauces and throat with thirst.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s98}}Sensation in pharynx as if crumbs of bread had remained behind.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s99}}Stinging in throat during deglutition.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s100}}Burning, rough sensation deep in throat, immediately after dinner.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s101}}Scraping in throat from eating salt food.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s102}}Hawking up of green or yellow mucus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s103}}Rough, scraping feeling of dryness deep in fauces and in region of soft palate, producing a short, hacking cough, accompanied by expectoration of yellow mucus, and hoarse voice, having a deep bass sound.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s104}}~</span> <span grade3>Laryngeal phthisis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s105}}Throat dark, coppery, red, dry, but not shining; muscles of pharynx swollen, deglutition most painful; incessant cough, sometimes ending in vomiting.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s108}}Morning thirst.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Aversion to pork.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s111}}Mouth in a bitter state when eating.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s112}}~</span> <span grade2>Pregnancy.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s113}}Right after dinner, burning raw feeling.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s114}}Cough, agg. after drinking; after tobacco smoke.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s115}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s117}}Frequent hiccough.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s118}}Eructations tasting bitter or sour; water-brash.</span>\\ {{anchor:s119}}Nausea, with stupefying pressure in forehead.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s120}}Nausea after fatty food; agg. after midnight till morning.</span>\\ {{anchor:s121}}Nausea and retching.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Vomiting: of blood, of bile, in morning; of mucus, water, or food when coughing; after drinking; especially at night or before dinner; first food then mucus, at the end of the attack (pertussis).\\ {{anchor:s123}}Vomiting of slimy matter.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Worse after vomiting.

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

{{anchor:s126}}Clawing sensation in pit of stomach.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s127}}Contractive tension at pit of stomach, as if everything would be drawn inwards, especially during deep inhalation, and with cough.</span>

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

{{anchor:s129}}Anxious feeling in the hypochondria.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s130}}Painful to touch, and when coughing.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s131}}Must support the hypochondria with the hands when coughing.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s132}}~</span> <span grade2>Pertussis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s133}}Constrictive pain in both hypochondria, impeding coughing; unable to cough on account of pain, unless hand is pressed upon pit of stomach.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s135}}Painful constriction of epigastrium.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s136}}Dull stitch from right to left across abdomen, almost taking the breath, while walking.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s137}}Stitches in right side of abdomen while sitting.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s138}}Stitch from left loin into penis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s139}}Constriction in abdomen, with vomiting.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s140}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s141}}Bellyache after sour food.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s143}}Outward pressing pain, independent of stool.</span>\\ {{anchor:s144}}Frequent stool, with colic.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Stools: soft, fluid; loose; papescent; white, slimy and stinking, with watery, odorless urine.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Loose stool almost continually, but rather agg. after midnight; bloody, mucous or offensive stools, followed by pains in abdomen and small of back.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Before and after stool; tensive pain in upper part of abdomen while holding breath.\\ {{anchor:s148}}After stool: ineffectual straining; constant inclination to stool; abdominal and dorsal pains.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s150}}Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge, frequently only by drops.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s151}}Frequent, profuse urination.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s152}}Urine dark and of strong smell.</span>\\ {{anchor:s153}}Urine watery, inodorous, with fetid mucous stool.

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

{{anchor:s155}}Drawing stitches from left loin into penis.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s156}}Itching stitches in the glans penis.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s158}}Delay of the first menses.</span>\\ {{anchor:s159}}Menses too late; too scanty; suppression of menses; blood dark.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s160}}Leucorrhea, with labor-like pain.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s163}}Voice: hoarse, deep, requires exertion to speak; husky; hollow, toneless; cracked.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s164}}Catarrhal hoarseness, with or without coryza or cough; is only able to speak in a bass voice; hoarseness after measles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s165}}Chronic persistent hoarseness resulting from repeated catarrhal attacks.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s166}}Great hoarseness, with spasmodic cough, after measles.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s167}}Epiglottis in constant motion to and fro, constant endeavor to cough; larynx very dry; patient involuntarily supports thyroid cartilage on swallowing or coughing, and there appears to be a constant strain in box of larynx, with disposition to vomit.</span> <span sbitared>{{anchor:s168}}~</span> <span grade4>Laryngitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s169}}Constant tickling in larynx, causing cough and preventing sleep at night.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s170}}Sensation like from a feather in larynx, exciting cough.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s171}}Crawling in larynx, which provokes hacking cough, with sensation as if a soft substance were in it, with fine stitches extending thence to right side of pharynx.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s172}}Bruised feeling in larynx whilst inhaling.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s173}}Constriction of the larynx when talking.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s174}}Mucus in the larynx, either hard or soft.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s175}}Chest and throat symptoms worse from talking or singing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s176}}Laryngeal phthisis, with hoarseness, rapid emaciation.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s178}}Oppression, with every word he speaks the throat contracts; not so when walking.</span>\\ {{anchor:s179}}Respiration slow; predominant with moist sound.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Intolerable stitches when coughing and taking a deep inspiration, in the upper part of the chest near the axilla, amel. by pressing on affected part with the hand, with purulent expectoration mixed with blood.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Whilst inhaling, felt severe aching pains in and below both clavicles, over a small space in lungs; the infra-clavicular pain afterwards extended round to the scapulae; also a bruised feeling of the larynx.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s182}}Sensation as if something in chest prevented exhalation when talking or coughing.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s183}}Oppressive sensation in chest as if expiration were prevented by coughing or talking.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s184}}During an expiration in evening, when lying in bed, sudden contraction of abdomen occasioning a heaving as if he would vomit and bringing on cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s185}}Difficult breathing, agg. after midnight.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s186}}Dyspnea, especially on talking, with every word throat becomes constricted; no dyspnea while walking.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s187}}Severe dyspnea threatening suffocation; blueness of face and lips; cold sweat on forehead; vomiting of tough mucus.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s188}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s189}}Oppression of chest as if from holding back the breath.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s190}}Attack of suffocation; cannot recover the breath; gasping.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s191}}Asthma, particularly when talking, with contraction of throat at every word that is uttered.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s192}}Bad, offensive-smelling breath when coughing.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s194}}Deep sounding, hoarse barking cough.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s195}}Rough, scraping, dry sensation deep in fauces and soft palate, causing hacking cough, with yellow mucous expectoration and hoarseness, speaks only with exertion, and in a deep bass voice; oppression of chest as if air was withheld on talking and coughing, so that breath could not be expired.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s196}}Whooping cough; attacks, every one to three hours, with barking or dull-sounding coughs, choking breathing, caused by tickling or dryness in throat, or from a sensation of a soft feather in larynx; expectoration, only in morning, yellow and bitter; has to swallow the mucus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s197}}Attacks of coughing preceded, fifteen or twenty minutes, by rattling of mucus in bronchial tubes to which patient solely ascribes attack of coughing.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s198}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s199}}Whooping cough, with feeling of constriction in chest and hypochondria, so that patient tries to support these parts with hands; agg. after midnight; perspires on waking from sleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s200}}Cough comes in fits, at long intervals; cough during intervals is short, not exhausting, and he considers it trifling in comparison with the tormenting attacks; the fits begin mildly, are short, but increase during course of disease, until cough becomes unceasing, the attacks occur in quick succession, and forces to sit up, always beginning with titillation and renewed inspiration, until finally vomiting of mucus (rarely of food) sets in, which finishes the paroxysm; great exhaustion after the fit; frequently agg. at night on lying down.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s201}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s202}}Paroxysmal dry cough, exciting cause of which seems to be in abdomen with copious perspiration over whole body and culminating in an attack of severe nausea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s203}}Spasmodic, nervous, and sympathetic cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s204}}Spasmodic cough of phthisical girls.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s205}}When coughing a feeling as if something kept the air in the chest, cannot cough right, cannot speak.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s206}}Whooping cough, with hemorrhage from mouth and nose, anguish, blue face, wheezing breathing, suffocation.</span>\\ {{anchor:s207}}During cough: face pale or bluish; efforts to vomit; vomiting of water, mucus and food; stitches in muscles of chest; bleeding from nose or mouth; has to support chest and hypochondria; hoarseness; offensive breath; rising up in bed with fear and trembling.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s208}}Attacks characterized by certain typhoid conditions, with severe spasmodic retraction of abdomen, followed by vomiting of food, mucus and water.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s209}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s210}}Cough which marks the sequela of measles, especially when it occurs in paroxysms, and is agg. in afternoon and evening; even when cough is attended by bloody and purulent expectoration.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s211}}Very hoarse cough, agg. after midnight, during or after measles.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s212}}Spasmodic cough, attended by retching and vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s213}}Cough when singing, causing smarting in larynx.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s214}}Harassing, titillating cough in children, not at all during day, but commences as soon as head touches pillow at night.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s215}}Cough, in evening, immediately after lying down.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s216}}The fever and cough, which is very hoarse, are worse after twelve at night.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s217}}~</span> <span grade3>Bronchitis infantum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s218}}Awakes at night about 2 o'clock, coughs for a short time and then falls asleep again.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s219}}Nocturnal cough of phthisical patients.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s220}}Severe cough of young phthisical subjects, with bloody and purulent expectoration.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s221}}Cough sounds loose, nothing comes up.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s222}}~</span> <span grade2>Catarrh.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s223}}Cough, with expectoration of bright red frothy or of black clotted blood.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s224}}Bloody and purulent expectoration after measles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s225}}Very violent cough; spitting of blood and pus, with violent pains in chest.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s226}}~</span> <span grade3>Phthisis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s227}}Expectoration: yellow; bitter; offensive; bloody; pus-like; salty; has to be swallowed.</span>\\ {{anchor:s228}}Cough aggravated: by warmth; drinking; tobacco smoke; laughing; singing; weeping; after lying down; after midnight or in the morning.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s230}}Constriction of chest and hypochondria.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s231}}Cough with sense of constriction in chest, which seems to hold breath back and prevent coughing, with pain in ribs, so that he is compelled to support the parts with hands; vomiting of food, then of mucus and water.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s232}}Tightness of chest, especially when talking, or even uttering a single word; amel. while walking; the throat seems to contract.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s233}}Severe stitches in chest when sneezing or coughing, must press on chest with hands, for relief.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s234}}Violent oppressive stitching pain across chest, passing off during motion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s235}}Sensation of oppression in chest as if the air were retained when coughing, and as if breath could not be expelled.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s236}}Burning sensation in centre of chest.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s237}}Bronchitis of old age, in connection with emphysema or Bronchiectasis; nocturnal paroxysms; agg. lying down; cough seems to come from abdomen, shaking all the muscles of chest and body, with much exhaustion after attack; expectoration of yellow mucus or pus; paroxysms of cough from one to two hours apart.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s238}}Phthisis with severe pains in chest, purulent expectoration and foul pus-like taste in mouth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s239}}Tuberculosis.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s241}}Stitches in muscles of chest, when breathing or coughing.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s242}}Sternum painful when pressing on it, as from festering under skin.</span>\\ {{anchor:s243}}Black pores on chest and shoulder.

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

{{anchor:s245}}Neck and Back\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s246}}Neck still and painful on motion.</span>\\ {{anchor:s247}}Nape of neck painful to touch.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s248}}Pain between scapulae drawing to small of back.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s249}}Stitching tearing from spine to anterior spinous process of left ilium, when sitting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s250}}Back pains as if bruised, in the morning.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s251}}Itching stitch in coccyx when sitting.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s253}}Quivering on right shoulder when at rest.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s254}}Nightly pains in humerus, going off by day during motion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s255}}Coldness of the hands.</span>\\ {{anchor:s256}}Deep ulcer on back of right hand discharging bloody water.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Red spots on back of hand and behind wrist.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s258}}Fingers spasmodically contracted, rigid in grasping.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s260}}Laming pain in right hip-joint and thigh, with pain in ankle, as if sprained; limp when walking.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s261}}Violent stitch in os ischium on rising from a seat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s262}}Pressing pain in posterior muscles of thigh, agg. from pressure and stooping; could not lie thereon at night, passes off after rising.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s263}}Occasional stitches in middle of left thigh anteriorly.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s264}}Fine cutting stitch in right calf, coming on when sitting, passing off when walking.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s265}}Tearing pain in right ankle, as if sprained, only when walking.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s266}}Stiffness of ankles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s267}}Feet feel chilly, covered with a cold sweat.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s269}}All the limbs feel lame and bruised as if beaten, and are outwardly painful.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s270}}~</span> <span grade2>Catarrhal fever.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s271}}Gnawing and stitching pain in bones of limbs, especially severe at joints; severe stitches in joints; less painful during motion than during rest.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s272}}Painful stitching pressure in muscles of upper and lower limbs, in every position.</span>

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

{{anchor:s276}}During rest; quivering in right shoulder; stitches in joints agg.; shivering; internal chill.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Lying: in bed, during expiration sudden contraction of abdomen; great exhaustion after fit of coughing; on side agg. pain in muscles of thigh; on back, snoring; forced to lie down from chilliness; at night, brings on titillating cough in children; cough in evening agg.; pain in ulcers agg. when lying on sore side.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Rising from seat: violent stitching in os ischium.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Sitting: pain in side of abdomen; cough forces him to sit up; tearing from spine to anterior spinous process of left ilium; itching stitch in coccyx; fine cutting stitch in right calf agg.; pain in ulcers agg.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Supporting: head on hands amel. pains in brain; hypochondria with hands while coughing; thyroid cartilage when swallowing.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Stooping: frontal headache agg.; pain in temples agg.; nose-bleed agg.; pain in muscles of thigh agg.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Stepping: affects brain painfully.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Walking: vertigo; tendency to fall; headache amel.; pain across abdomen; amel. oppression and contraction of throat; dyspnea amel.; causes perspiration; pain in ankle agg.; amel. stitches in right calf; pain in ankle only when walking; pain in ulcers.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Singing: agg. throat and chest symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Cough: causes smarting in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Talking: constriction of larynx; agg. chest and throat symptoms; sensation as if something prevented exhalation; oppressive sensation in chest; dyspnea; constriction of throat; asthma.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Motion: of eyes agg. pains in brain: pain in temples amel.; of epiglottis constantly to and fro; amel. violent stitching pains across chest; neck painful; pain in humerus amel.; stitches in joints amel.; amel. shivering.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s289}}Weakness of whole body with sunken eyes and cheeks.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s290}}Great exhaustion after coughing fits.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s291}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ {{anchor:s292}}Torpidity; attacks, with numbness.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s293}}Epileptic attacks: with rigidity; with twitching of limbs; after attack, haemoptysis and sleep.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s295}}Frequent yawning and stretching.</span>\\ {{anchor:s296}}Sleepiness immediately after sunset.\\ {{anchor:s297}}Frequent starting from sleep, at night, as from fright, yet when awake is not fearful.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s298}}Sleeplessness or frequent waking from sleep.</span>\\ {{anchor:s299}}Snoring when lying on back, asleep.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Dreams: vivid; partly pleasant, partly anxious; vexatious, over wrong doing of others; of thirst and drinking, awakes, is thirsty and must drink.\\ {{anchor:s301}}On waking, great weariness.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s302}}Perspires immediately on waking from sleep.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s303}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span>

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

{{anchor:s305}}Morning: headache in temples; nosebleed agg.; profuse fluent coryza; toothache; thirst; vomiting; expectoration; pain in back; pain in ulcers agg.\\ {{anchor:s306}}At 2 A. M.: wakes coughing.\\ {{anchor:s307}}Forenoon: chill.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Afternoon: cough agg.; towards evening warmth of upper portion of body.\\ {{anchor:s309}}Lasting till 3 P. M.: thirst after chilliness; headache; heat of face.\\ {{anchor:s310}}By day: pain in humerus amel.; chill.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Immediately after sunset: sleepiness.\\ {{anchor:s312}}Evening: anxiety; flushes of heat; nosebleed agg.; during expiration sudden contraction of abdomen; cough agg.; thirst, headache and heat of face after chilliness amel.\\ {{anchor:s313}}Night: anxiety; flushes of heat; vomiting after drinking; great exhaustion after fit of coughing; paroxysms of bronchitis; pain in humerus; frequent starting from sleep; in bed, chilliness; internal chill; heat; only at night, in children, harassing, titillating cough; cough of phthisical patients; warm sweat.\\ {{anchor:s314}}After midnight: nausea after fatty food; stools agg.; difficult breathing agg.; cough agg.; hoarse cough agg.; coldness of left side of face, right half hot and dry; fever and cough agg.; heat agg.; warm sweat agg.; cutting pains in ulcers agg.

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

{{anchor:s316}}Open air: vertigo when walking.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Warm drink: produces toothache.\\ {{anchor:s318}}Warmth: agg. cough; agg. pain in ulcers.\\ {{anchor:s319}}On getting warm in bed: cough; pain in long bones.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Heat: pain in temples agg.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Cold air: amel. pain in temples; amel. pain in ulcers.\\ {{anchor:s322}}After undressing: itching.

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

{{anchor:s324}}Rigors or shuddering spells.\\ {{anchor:s325}}Chill with icy-cold hands, blue nails, cold, pale face, and cold extremities; must lie down.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s326}}Chill in forenoon.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s327}}Always feels too cold, cannot get warm; feels cold at night in bed; shivering during rest, none during motion</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s328}}Frequent crawls over body with cold hands and hot face.</span>\\ {{anchor:s329}}Cannot keep from shivering and feeling cold, although body is warm to touch.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s330}}Internal chill at night, in bed and during rest.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s331}}Chill during the day, heat at night.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s332}}One-sided chill or coldness, principally left side.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s333}}Whooping cough with chills and disposition to sink in the chill.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s334}}After chilliness, slight thirst, heaviness of head, throbbing pain in occiput, and heat of face, usual warmth of rest of body, lasting till 3 P. M.; feels well in evening.</span>\\ {{anchor:s335}}After midnight, coldness of left half of face, with sticking pains in it; right half hot and dry.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s336}}Febrile shivers over whole body, with heat of face and icy coldness of hands, no thirst.</span>\\ {{anchor:s337}}Warmth of upper portion of body towards evening.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Heat and redness of face.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s339}}Heat, worse after midnight.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s340}}Cold sweat on forehead, feet, face and abdomen.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s341}}Warm sweat at night, particularly after midnight and in morning hours, most profuse on face and abdomen.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s342}}Sweat over whole body, with a cough which brought on violent retching.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s343}}Severe chill with cold face, icy coldness of hands and feet, and bilious vomiting; heat accompanied by violent pressing and throbbing pains in head, and spasmodic cough; apyrexia accompanied by gastric symptoms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s344}}Intermittent fever, with sore throat and nausea.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s345}}Paroxysm before 9 A. M. every morning.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s346}}~</span> <span grade2>Intermittent.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s347}}Fevers occurring when whooping cough is epidemic.</span>

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

{{anchor:s349}}Fifteen or twenty minutes before attacks of coughing rattling of mucus in bronchial tubes.\\ {{anchor:s350}}Frequent: vanishing of sight; sneezing; hiccough; stool with colic; urging to urinate; profuse urination; great exhaustion, after fit of coughing, yawning; stretching; starting from sleep; waking from sleep; crawls over body; shuddering over whole body.\\ {{anchor:s351}}Attacks: of vomiting; of cough at long intervals; of cough occur in quick succession; of severe nausea after cough; of torpidity with numbness; epileptic.\\ {{anchor:s352}}Evening one to three hours: attacks of whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s353}}Paroxysms: of cough; of nocturnal bronchitis.

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

{{anchor:s355}}Left: tendency to fall to side; pain in side of head; pain in skin of cheek below eyelid; coldness of half of face; pain in inferior maxilla; pain on inside of cheek; pain from loin to penis; tearing from spine to anterior spinous process of ilium; stitches in middle of thigh; chill principally left side; side of face cold.\\ {{anchor:s356}}Right: pain above temple; soreness of skin of temple; pain in internal ear; pain and heat on side of face; burning in angle of mouth; pain in side and tip of tongue; in side of abdomen; stitches to side of pharynx; quivering on shoulder; deep ulcer on back of hand; laming pain in hip joint and thigh; cutting stitch in calf; tearing pain in ankle; side of face hot and dry.\\ {{anchor:s357}}From right to left: stitches across abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s358}}From within outward: pain in forehead; stitches in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s359}}Outward: pain in rectum.

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

{{anchor:s361}}Pain in ear as if pressed together; esophagus as if contracted; in pharynx as if crumbs of bread were left behind; sensation in pit of stomach as if everything would be drawn inwards; sensation like from a feather in throat; sensation as if a soft substance were in larynx; as if something in chest prevented exhalation; oppression of chest as if from holding back the breath; as if something kept the air in the chest; limbs feel as if beaten and sore, as from too hard a bed.\\ {{anchor:s362}}Pain: in right internal ear; in throat when swallowing; in abdomen; in small of back; in ribs; between scapulae drawing to small of back; in humerus; in ankle.\\ {{anchor:s363}}Tearing pain: in left inferior maxilla; from spine to anterior spinous process of left ilium; in right ankle.\\ {{anchor:s364}}Violent pains: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s365}}Lancinating pain: in fore part of brain.\\ {{anchor:s366}}Cutting stitch: in right calf.\\ {{anchor:s367}}Stitches: in eyes; in ears; in right side of abdomen; from left loin into penis; from larynx to pharynx; in upper part of chest; in muscles of chest; in chest; in middle of left thigh; in joints.\\ {{anchor:s368}}Stitching pain: in left inferior maxilla; in teeth; in right side and tip of tongue; across chest; from spine to anterior spinous process of left ilium; in os ischium; in bones of limbs; in joints; in muscles of upper and lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s369}}Stinging pain: on right side of face; in throat; in joints; in long bones; in skin.\\ {{anchor:s370}}Drawing pain in left side of head.\\ {{anchor:s371}}Gnawing: on fore part of scalp; in bones of limbs; in joints; in skin.\\ {{anchor:s372}}Constrictive pain: in both hypochondria; of epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s373}}Clawing: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s374}}Labor-like pains: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s375}}Pressing pain: in temples; in head; in rectum; in posterior muscles of thigh.\\ {{anchor:s376}}Pressive pain: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s377}}Sticking pain: in ear; in face.\\ {{anchor:s378}}Throbbing pain: in occiput.\\ {{anchor:s379}}Boring pain: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s380}}Burning pain: in scalp; in skin of cheek.\\ {{anchor:s381}}Prickling pain: in skin of left cheek; on dorsum of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s382}}Smarting pain: in scalp; in side and base of tongue; on inside of cheek.\\ {{anchor:s383}}Itching stitches: in the glans penis; in coccyx.\\ {{anchor:s384}}Dull stitch: across abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s385}}Bruised feeling: in larynx; in back.\\ {{anchor:s386}}Sprained feeling: in ankle.\\ {{anchor:s387}}Aching pain: above right temple; in ear; in face; in belly; in and below both clavicles, extending to scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s388}}Soreness: in temples; in skin of right temple.\\ {{anchor:s389}}Scraping: in throat; in region of soft palate.\\ {{anchor:s390}}Stitching sensation: in pustules on face.\\ {{anchor:s391}}Burning: in skin at angle of mouth; deep in throat; in centre of chest.\\ {{anchor:s392}}Laming pain: in right hip joint; in thigh.\\ {{anchor:s393}}Tensive pain: in upper part of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s394}}Contraction: of abdomen, of epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s395}}Lameness: in all the limbs.\\ {{anchor:s396}}Heaviness: of head; of all the limbs.\\ {{anchor:s397}}Dullness of head.\\ {{anchor:s398}}Tension in head; at pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s399}}Stiffness: of neck; of ankles.\\ {{anchor:s400}}Oppression: in throat; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s401}}Constriction: in abdomen; in larynx; of throat; in chest; in hypochondria.\\ {{anchor:s402}}Pressure: in forehead; in muscles of upper and lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s403}}Dry heat: on right side of face.\\ {{anchor:s404}}Humming: in ears.\\ {{anchor:s405}}Drumming in ears.\\ {{anchor:s406}}Roaring: in ears.\\ {{anchor:s407}}Quivering: on right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s408}}Dryness: of lips; in fauces; in throat; of larynx.\\ {{anchor:s409}}Rough feeling: in throat; in region of soft palate.\\ {{anchor:s410}}Itching: in fore part of scalp; in skin.\\ {{anchor:s411}}Crawling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s412}}Tickling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s413}}Coldness: of left half of face; of hands; of the body of an incisor.

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

{{anchor:s415}}Acts powerfully upon the respiratory system, through its influence on the pneumogastric nerve, producing a spasmodic dry cough, simulating that of whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s416}}The attacks of cough are of a spastic character, depending on irritation of the vagus, and affect the bronchi; whooping cough, bronchial catarrh, bronchitis in senility, emphysema and Bronchiectasis.\\ {{anchor:s417}}Hemorrhages, blood light-red.\\ {{anchor:s418}}Rapid emaciation, with acute phthisis laryngealis.\\ {{anchor:s419}}Gnawing, stinging pains in joints and long bones.

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

{{anchor:s423}}Touch: stitching sensation in pustules on face agg.; hypochondria painful; nape of neck painful.\\ {{anchor:s424}}Pressure: faceache agg.; of hand on pit of stomach amel. pain when coughing; amel. stitches in chest; on chest when coughing or sneezing amel. stitches; pain in muscles of thigh agg.\\ {{anchor:s425}}Rubbing: itching on scalp amel.; amel. pain in ulcers.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s427}}Prickling, burning, stinging, itching, gnawing in skin.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s428}}Itching amel. by scratching, rubbing or wiping with hand.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s429}}Violent itching while undressing; when scratching, skin readily peels off.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s430}}Eruption, like measles.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s431}}Eruption, with painful soreness or stinging.</span>\\ {{anchor:s432}}Black pores on chest, shoulder and chin.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s433}}Bleeding, burning ulcers; cutting pains; pus bloody, thin and watery, ichorous; agg. in morning and during latter part of night; also when lying on sore side, when sitting, when getting warm in bed; amel. from cold, rubbing and while walking; right side.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s434}}Measles; very hoarse cough follows or accompanies the disease, agg. after midnight.</span>

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

{{anchor:s436}}Boy, aet. 1, after having been cured of dysenteric diarrhea by Chamom.; whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s437}}Girl, aet. 1 1/2, has been suffering for half a year from cough which has grown gradually more severe.\\ {{anchor:s438}}Sensitive child, aet. 2; whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s439}}Boy, aet. 10; girl, aet. 3; child, aet. 4; boy, aet. 3; boy, aet. 28 weeks; child, aet. 10 weeks; whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s440}}Phlegmatic torpid girl, aet. 14, of hemorrhagic diathesis; whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s441}}Poor woman, aet. 60, after catching cold; cough.

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

{{anchor:s443}}Antidoted by: <span grade2>Camphor.</span>\\ {{anchor:s444}}Compatible: <span grade2>Calc., Pulsat., Veratr., Sulphur.</span>\\ {{anchor:s445}}Complementary: <span grade2>Nux vom.</span>\\ {{anchor:s446}}Compare: <span grade2>Bellad., Chelid, Cina, Corall. rub., Cuprum, Hyosc., Ipecac., Nux vom., Samb.</span>, in spasmodic coughs.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 05, 1887 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r111|Drosera rotundifolia]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r111|Drosera rotundifolia]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1887 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}