Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Desire for fresh air

Dyspnœa

Sensation of expansion

Left-sided pains are characteristic

Chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligament's; here the small blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious affections result; they come on insidiously, lingering, but progress

Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow and knee

Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs

Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer's cramp

Swelling of ankles

Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor

Frequent urination

Seminal emissions, without sexual excitement

Leucorrhœa foul, excoriating

Toward noon

Cough at night when lying down

It has been found to affect favorably deep ulcerations, caries of bones, especially in the syphilitic organism

Extreme sensitiveness

Terrible throbbing, nightly pains

Great difficulty in bringing up wind

Flatulence and regurgitation of liquid

Forcible eructation of gas

Gurgling and rolling of wind, which escapes afterwards with loud and difficult eructation

From touch

Left side

During rest

Warm applications

From motion

Pressure

Has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands

Always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperæsthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water

Neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly

Heat, redness, throbbing and burning

Great children's remedy

No thirst, anxiety or fear.

Stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset

Shooting pains along limbs

Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating

Tottering gait

Jerking limbs

Involuntary limping

Stiff neck

Swelling of glands of neck

Pain in nape, as if it would break

Pressure on dorsal region most painful.

Loss of appetite

Averse to meat and milk

Great thirst for cold water

Abhorrence of liquids

Dread of drinking

Desire diminished.

Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse; very offensive and hot

Sleep restless, crying out, gritting of teeth; kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels

Screams out in sleep

Sleeplessness, with drowsiness

Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep

Sleeps with hands under head

Jar

Noise

Draught

After noon

Lying down

Pains unendurable, associated with numbness

Night-sweats

Insupportable pain in loins and hips

Stiffness of neck muscles

Violent pains drive him out of bed at night; compelled to walk about

Burning of soles at night

Ankles give way in the afternoon

Nightly paralytic loss of power in the feet, unable to step on them

Eructations, foul.

Sweats after eating or drinking

Aversion to warm drinks

Tongue yellow; taste bitter

Acid rising; regurgitation of food

Stool hot, green, watery, fetid, slimy, with colic; chopped white and yellow mucus like chopped eggs and spinach

Yellow, acrid leucorrhœa

Drowsiness with moaning, weeping and wailing during sleep; anxious, frightened dreams, with half-open eyes

Anger

Open air

Wind

Night

Warm wet weather

Pains like electric shocks here and there

 Symptoms referable to the pelvic organs prominent

Spine very sensitive, especially upper part

Stiffness and contraction in neck and back

Pain in lumbar and sacral region, down thighs, and through hips

Crick in back

Uneasy, restless feeling in limbs

Aching in limbs and muscular soreness

Jerking of limbs

Stiffness in tendo-Achilles

Heaviness in lower extremities

Heavy, aching, tensive pain

Menses profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive with backache, nervousness; always irregular

Sleeplessness

Cold (except headache)

During menses; the more profuse the flow, the greater the suffering

Eating

Pain in knees

Great oppression in lower part of chest, as if air could not reach there

Pain in chest under short ribs of left side

Breathing difficult

Pain in posterior part of spleen

Great debility; most weakness felt in the morning in bed

Coldness

Emaciation most notable in neck

Great liability to take cold

Dry mucous membranes

Constrictive sensation throughout the body

Great weakness and weariness

Oversensitive to all sorts of influences

Pain in back, with desire for some firm support

Palms hot and perspiring

Arms and legs, but especially knees, feel weak.

Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities

Ankles weak and turn easily

Cracking in joints on motion

Immoderate thirst.

Hungry, yet loose flesh

Heartburn, with palpitation.

Sweats while eating

Craving for salt

Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats

Pain just after urinating

Increased, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc

Has to wait a long time for it to pass if others are present

Emission, even after coitus

Menses irregular; usually profuse

Leucorrhœa acrid, watery. Bearing-down pains; worse in morning

Sleepy in forenoon

Nervous jerking during sleep

Dreams of robbers

Music

Warm room

Lying down about 10 a m

At seashore

Mental exertion

Consolation

Heat

Talking

Cold bathing

Going without regular meals

Lying on right side

Pressure against back

Tight clothing

Difficult articulation

Weakness of lower limbs

Want of animal heat in limbs

Constant cold feet

Swelling, burning stiffness of fingers

Veins and hands swollen

Stiffness of joints

Canine hunger, with hurried eating, without appetite

Thirst

Empty belching

Undigested feces

Stool passes when emitting flatus

Rest

Friction of clothes

Excessive and rapid emaciation

Important in peripheral affections

The points of affections  for Plumbum are the neuraxons and the anterior horns

Contractions and boring pain

Lightning-like pains; temporarily better by pressure

Cannot raise or lift anything with the hand; extension is difficult

Wrist-drop

Stinging and tearing in limbs, also twitching and tingling, numbness, pain or tremor

Feet swollen

Pain in atrophied limbs alternates with colic

Loss of patellar reflex

Hands and feet cold

Pain in right big toe at night, very sensitive to touch

Constipation; stools hard, lumpy, black with urging and spasm of anus

Frequent, ineffectual tenesmus

Urine albuminous; low specific gravity

Urine scanty; emission drop by drop

Loss of sexual power

Motion

Hard pressure

Physical exertion

 Tendency to the formation of deposits in the periosteum, tendons, and about joints, especially wrist

All parts of the body are painful, as if bruised

Sprains (after Arnica)

Lameness after sprains

Feeling of intense lassitude, weakness and despair

Injured "bruised" bones

Tarsal cartilage feels bruised

Pain in nape, back and loins

Backache better pressure and lying on back

Spine and limbs feel bruised

Small of back and loins pain

Legs give out on rising from a chair, hips and thighs so weak

Contraction of fingers

Pain and stiffness in wrists and hands

Hamstrings feel shortened

Tendons sore

Aching pain in tendo-Achilles

Thighs pain when stretching the limbs

Pain in bones of feet and ankles

Great restlessness

Constant urging to urinate, feels bladder full

Difficult feces, evacuated only with straining

From cold, wet weather

Lack of vital heat

Prostration of mind and body

Great sensitiveness to taking cold

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants

Ailments attended with pus formation

Want of grit, moral or physical

Weak spine; very susceptible to draughts on back

Pain in coccyx

Spinal irritation after injuries to spine; diseases of bones of spine

Loss of power in legs

Tremulous hands when using them

Paralytic weakness of forearm

Icy cold and sweaty feet

The parts lain on go to sleep

Offensive sweat on feet, hands, and axillæ

Pain in knee, as if tightly bound

Calves tense and contracted

Pain beneath toes

Soles sore; soreness in feet from instep through to the sole. Suppurates

Sensation of a hair on tongue

Disgust for meat and warm food

Want of appetite; thirst excessive

Sour eructations after eating

Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled, recedes again

Sexual erethism; nocturnal emissions

A milky, acrid leucorrhœa, during urination

Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body

Night-walking; gets up while asleep

Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head

Frequent starts in sleep

Anxious dreams

Excessive gaping

In morning

From washing

During menses

Uncovering

Lying down

Damp

Lying on left side

Cold

Wrapping up head

Summer

In wet or humid weather

Sensation as if limbs were separated from body

Absence of pain and muscular mobility especially of muscles of expression and of locomotion

Graceful, rhythmic motions.

Violent pain in left hip

Trembling, twitching of tendons, staggering gait

Food tastes like straw

Violent thirst

Sexual erethism, with indecent speech and action; hands constantly kept on genitals

Awaken terrified; screams with fright

Deep snoring sleep

Sleepy, but cannot sleep

When alone

Looking at bright or shining objects

After sleep

On swallowing

Company

Warmth