| Elaterium Officinarum |
Violent vomiting and purging, especially if the
evacuations are copious and watery. It is a Certain forms of dropsy
Much yawning and stretching
Beriberi
Irresistible desire to wander from home at night
Effects of damp weather
Watery, copious, forceful. Squirting diarrhœa; frothy, olive
green, with cutting in abdomen
Sharp pains in fingers and thumbs, knees, toes, and instep
Gouty pain in great toes
Pain extends down extremities; pain in hip-joints with diarrhœa
Skin smarts, stings, and burns; dropsical
Skin, orange color |
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| Lathyrus |
Reflexes always increased Beriberi
Much weakness and heaviness, slow recovery of nerve power
Sleepy, constant yawning
Tips of fingers numb
Tremulous, tottering gait
Excessive rigidity of legs; spastic gait
Knees knock against each other when walking
Cramps in legs worse cold, and cold fee
Cannot extend or cross legs when sitting
Gluteal muscles and lower limbs emaciated
Legs blue; swollen, if hanging down
Stiffness and lameness of ankles and knees, toe do not leave the floor,
heels do not touch floor, Muscles of calves very tense
Patient sits bent forward, straightens with difficulty
Increased bladder reflex; frequent urging, must hurry, else voided
involuntarily |
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| Rhus Tox |
Tearing asunder pains Motion always
"limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a
change of position
Septic conditions
Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst
Bitter taste
Desire for milk
Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat
Drowsy after eating
Diarrhœa of blood, slime, and reddish mucus
Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment
Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid
Pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent, with numbness of left arm
Trembling and palpitation when sitting still
Hot, painful swelling of joints
Pains tearing in tendons, ligaments, and fasciæ.
Soreness of condyles of bones
Limbs stiff paralyzed
The cold fresh air is not tolerated; it makes the skin painful
Pain along ulnar nerve
Tearing down thighs
Numbness and formication, after overwork and exposure
Paralysis; trembling after exertion
Tenderness about knee-joint
Loss of power in forearm and fingers; crawling sensation in the tips of
fingers
Tingling in feet
Dreams of great exertion
Heavy sleep, as from stupor
Sleepless before midnight |
During sleep Cold, wet rainy weather and after
rain
At night
During rest
Drenching
When lying on back or right side |
Warm, dry weather Motion
Walking
Change of position
Rubbing
Warm applications
From stretching out limbs |