Cyclamen Europaeum

Cyclamen has a traditional reputation as a remedy for affections of the uterus

and appendages. The later provings have demonstrated the correctness of this. It is in many ways

analogous to Pulsatilla, from which it differs mainly in having no > from open air; and in not

having thirstlessness as so frequent an accompaniment of other conditions.

It is suited to the phlegmatic temperament; blonde leucophlegmatic subjects with chlorotic

conditions; disinclined for labour and easily fatigued; special senses enfeebled or their functions

suspended. Debility, torpidity of mind and body. Dulness of senses; flickering before the eyes;

squint, especially in connection with menstrual irregularities or fevers; after convulsions,

convergent squint; left eye drawn inwards. Amblyopia, diplopia, hemiopia. Many digestive

disturbances; saliva has a salty taste, which is communicated to all food eaten. After eating but

little, satiety, aversion to food, with nausea in palate and thirst. Desire for lemonade. Aversion to

bread, butter, meat, fat, beer, and ordinary food; craving for inedible things; for sardines.

• ▸Frequent vomiting in morning.
• ▸Hiccough is very marked.
• ▸Hiccough during pregnancy.
• ▸Prostatic

troubles, with stitches and pressure, urging to stool and micturition. Menstruation too early, with

some relief of melancholy mood and heaviness of feet. Scanty or suppressed menstruation, with

headache and vertigo. During pregnancy: hiccough; loathing and nausea in mouth and throat;

complaints after weaning. Pressing, drawing, or tearing pains at parts where bones lie near

• ▸surface.
• ▸Chilliness.
• ▸Itching leaving a numb sensation.
• ▸Chilblains; itching and pricking, < at night

• ▸in bed.
• ▸Eidherr, of Vienna, has given the best account of this remedy (Al/g.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸Zeit.
• ▸, liv.
• ▸7,

• ▸translated H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, viii.
• ▸558).
• ▸Hahnemann proved it on males only, eliciting as leading symptoms:

"Stupor, sluggish memory, vertigo, dull, pressing headache, obscured sight, dilated pupils,

drawing pains in neck and teeth; nausea, eructation, disgust for food, hiccough following soon

after dinner; stitching, pinching pains in abdomen; flatulence and pressure to urinate. Oppression

of chest, pressing pain in chest, drawing and stitching pain in back. Sawing pressure, drawing

and stitching in extremities; prostration and itching. Moroseness, sleepiness, lassitude, troubled,

heavy dreams; chilliness of whole body alternating with heat, thirstlessness, disinclination for

work or conversation, great dejection and melancholy; at times joyous sensations with lively

phantasies." The Vienna provings corroborated these, but, including both sexes, also elicited

symptoms in the female sexual sphere: Menstruation more copious; more frequent; too early,

with severe abdominal pains. Accompanied with labour-like pains; flow excessive, black and

lumpy. Recommencement of menses after protracted cessation (clinical). Eidherr's clinical

experience illustrates in a remarkable way Cyclamen's sphere of action. His cases include: 4 of

chlorosis; 9 of retarded and scanty menstruation; 18 of complications with vertigo and headache

accompanying scanty menses; 2 of diplopia; 1 of strabismus. In numbers of cases Cycl.

developed ocular symptoms in the patients, in 15x and 3x. In one instance a higher potency of

the same remedy antidoted this effect. He found the remedy especially suited to blonde leuco-

phlegmatic subjects. (But one of the cured was a Jewess and was presumably not a blonde.) It

will be noticed that the "sleepiness, moroseness, and lassitude," and also the vertigo noted by

Hahnemann, are prominent in many of Eidherr's cases. Josepha K., 24, blonde, pale delicate skin,

pale lips and gums, had menstruated normally till 22, when she got wet at a picnic just as

menstruation was starting. It stopped at once and did not reappear till ten months later, after

vigorous use of all kinds of domestic remedies. Now the periods were accompanied by terrible

abdominal, labour-like pains, lasting eleven hours. Menses recurred every two or four months,

always with the pains, starting from sacrum, extending along both sides of abdomen to pelvis.

They were periodical, every one, two, or five minutes, during which time there was no flow; the

blood appearing after these attacks was somewhat watery. Other symptoms were: Eyelids

slightly sdematous; pressing pain in forehead; vertigo frequently changing into syncope;

chilliness of whole body; disturbed, unrefreshing sleep interspersed with terrible dreams;

continued loathing for meat; longing for salt fish; frequent vomiting in morning. After partial

relief from Puls., Cyclamen made a complete cure. The ocular symptoms which developed were

remarkable. The vertigo and headache were untouched by Puls., but quickly subsided under

Cycl. 15x. On their disappearance she saw fiery flames dancing before her eyes on awakening at

night, and in the morning she saw everything double. And she had the hallucination as if two

persons lay in her bed, and that the body of the other overlapped hers by half. Cyc/. was

discontinued and in two days her sight was normal. Anna F., 20, blonde, menstruated since her

tenth year. In seventeenth year suffered from chlorosis; ever since, menstruation regular, but

lasting only one-two days in a moderate degree. Is troubled also at other times by vertigo and

pressing pain in forehead and temples, which attacks are ameliorated by footbaths with ashes.

Appetite poor; little thirst; stool regular; sleeps too long; always sleepy; is of dejected mood,

• ▸morose; all movements, as well as speech, languid; palpitation.
• ▸Pu/s.
• ▸made no change.
• ▸Cyc/.
• ▸3x

quickly improved headache, vertigo, and spirits. After three days sight became obscured, and

there was glimmering before eyes. A vivacious Jewess, 16, menstruated twice regularly after the

first commencement in June, then went six weeks, and by the end of December the recurrence

entirely ceased. She lost spirits, sought seclusion, was offended by very trifles; her usual work

was distasteful to her, and she could not be prevailed upon to leave the house for a walk. She

would sleep unusually long in the morning. The hitherto blooming girl had become pale, an¢mic,

with swollen eyelids; lips and gums pale; heart turbulent. She complained chiefly of great

lassitude compelling her to rest frequently on going up stairs; palpitation without cause; she was

apprehensive, had a feeling as if all the rooms were too small, and yet would not leave the house.

All pastimes rejected; was only content when she could seclude herself and sit down and weep.

During the forenoon often had pressing pains in forehead with vertigo; appetite poor; stool

• ▸sluggish.
• ▸March 14th Cyc/.
• ▸15x was prescribed.
• ▸After several weeks the headache and vertigo

had become less severe and the attacks less frequent. April 19th the period set in, and with its

flow headache and vertigo left her completely. May 15th, menstruation recurred rather

copiously, and the patient was well. Two cases of pulmonary catarrh were cured, both had

pressing headache and vertigo and one scanty menses as well. The following case of hemicrania

was cured: Theresa F., 37, had menstruated sparingly and irregularly (often at two or three

months' intervals). For four years suffered from violent headache affecting right side of head and

face; coming every 8-14 days, spells lasting 12-36 hours. During menstruation the attacks were

extra severe. Patient was emaciated; skin, gums, and lips pale. Right eye closed owing to cramps

in eyelids; when forcibly opened a stream of hot tears gushed out; otherwise the eye was normal.

Under Cyc/l. 3 the symptoms diminished, but there appeared "glittering sparks before the eyes"

and these remained after all symptoms of headache had gone. Cyc/. was given persistently, the

periods became regular and rather copious and the headaches entirely ceased. Another case (in a

wet-nurse who had just weaned her baby) presented unceasing, violent, stitching pain in

• ▸temporal region extending to vertex.
• ▸Throbbing temporal arteries.
• ▸Bel/.
• ▸diminished the pain, but

vertigo came on. Under Cyc/. 3x headache and vertigo disappeared altogether, but the patient

complained of her sight having 3 become so weak that she did not dare to walk alone. This

passed off when the medicine was discontinued and her headache did not recur. Cyc/. 15x cured

a boy of violent squinting. Six months before, he had a fall from a table; convulsions followed,

and after the second attack the squinting came on. Arnica was given and the convulsions did not

recur, but the squinting remained. Cyc/. 15x was given, and after a few weeks the squint entirely

disappeared. (Wurmb cured a case of squint in a coachman with Cyc/.) Acute rheumatism with

retrocession of menses was also cured by Eidherr. His last case was remarkable and important.

Theresa P., 30, of short, robust stature, had never been ill till ten years previously. At that time,

without apparent infection, an eruption appeared over her whole body with terrible itching. It

was declared to be itch and was driven away with Sulphur ointment. With the receding of the

eruption her eyesight waned so that she was soon unable to walk without a guide. She sees large

objects only in outline and only then if in a strong light; in closed rooms she cannot discern

anything. The pupils are dilated, but there are no other objective symptoms. She had never

menstruated. She complains of congestions of the blood about every three or four weeks,

accompanied by headache, a pressing vertigo, heaviness and frequent trembling of the lower

extremities and of a pressure towards the parts. For several months she experienced an itching of

the skin over the whole body, which becomes intolerable, especially during the time she should

• ▸have her period.
• ▸There is nothing to be seen, however, on the skin.
• ▸In September Su/.
• ▸15x was

given and quickly relieved the skin symptoms; but later (in the beginning of December) she

• ▸sought relief for a violent headache and vertigo.
• ▸Cyc/.
• ▸3x lessened these by the fourth day.
• ▸A

week later she reported both symptoms gone; but now "fiery balls danced continually before her

• ▸eyes.
• ▸" Cyc/.
• ▸15x three times a day.
• ▸Shortly after (December 27th) the fiery balls ceased to trouble

her. Early in January the menses reappeared, with considerable abdominal pains, and the

headache and vertigo had disappeared altogether. Thereafter menses appeared regularly and

copiously. From Dr. Eidherr's account no improvement appears to have been effected in the

• ▸power of vision.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸George Royal (of Des Moines, Iowa) records another use of this drug.
• ▸A

medical man had suffered from soreness of the heel for over three months. The soreness seemed

• ▸to be in the bone, and was < sitting or standing.
• ▸Not so much noticed on walking.
• ▸Rhus, Kali bi.
• ▸,

• ▸and Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸had done no good.
• ▸Cyc/.
• ▸30 cured in a week.
• ▸It also cured, in three days, a case

almost identically similar. The only < here was on standing, Cyc/. has cured migraine with

scintillations after the failure of /ris v. In the case recorded the headache increased as the vision

returned, the head seemed about to burst (Kali bi.) Itching, pricking < at night in bed. Many

symptoms are < by rest, > on walking about. Sitting < menstrual flow. Drawing shoulders

forward <, drawing them backward > twinges in back. Many symptoms are < at night. Open air

<, cold water > headache. > From moistening diseased parts and from bathing. < From eating at

night.

Taciturn, depressed, out of humour.—Sudden change of sadness and

• ▸cheerfulness.
• ▸—Weakness of memory.
• ▸—Secret vexation and troubled conscience.
• ▸—II-humour and

slovenliness, with dislike to conversation, by fits—Love of labour, alternately with

indolence.—Memory alternately quick and weak.—Dulness and confusion of mind, with unfitness

for every kind of labour.—Hallucination as if two persons lay in her bed, and that the body of the

other overlapped hers by half.

Pressive traction, or tearings, chiefly where the bones are covered by the

skin.—Affections of the inner temples; want of appetite; nausea in the throat; hiccough; simple

pressure in the muscles; tearing with drawing and pressure in the bones; pain as if

paralyzed.—During movement, all the sufferings, except dejection, disappear; but numerous

symptoms show themselves when in a sitting posture.—Great lassitude, esp. evening, with

painful weariness and stiffness in the legs, and drawing pressure in thighs and knees.

• ▸Terrors of conscience.
• ▸Grieves over duty neglected.
• ▸Depression, with weeping desire to be alone.
• ▸Aching in morning, with flickering before eyes; sneezing with itching in ear.
• ▸Vertigo; things turn in a circle; better in the room; worse, open air.
• ▸One-sided headache.
• ▸Frequent sneezing with itching in ears.

Vertigo, when standing (when leaning against anything), as if the brain were

moving.—Vertigo; < when exercising in the open air, > when sitting in a room.—Headache in the

morning, when rising —Numbing headache, with obscuration of the eyes.—Migraine with

scintillations before the eyes; as vision returns, head seems about to burst.—Shootings in the

brain on stooping.—Shootings in the temples (in the |. temple, the forehead, with

dizziness).—Pricking itching in the scalp, which only changes its situation on the part being

scratched (< in the evening and when at rest, > from motion).—Congestion of blood to the head;

increased sensation of heat in the head.

• ▸Dim vision, worse on waking, with spots before eyes.
• ▸Flickering of various colors.
• ▸Convergent strabismus.
• ▸Sees countless stars.
• ▸Diplopia.
• ▸Disturbance of vision, associated with gastric disturbances.

Eyes dull and hollow.—Shootings in the eyes and the eyelids —Swelling of the

eyelids.—Itching of the eyelids —Pupils dilated.—The eyes lie deep in the orbits, look dim, and

are surrounded by blue rings.—Double vision; strabismus.—Burning in the eyes; < when

reading.—Sight confused, as if looking through a cloud.—Glimmering and glittering before the

sight.—Fiery flames dancing before eyes.

Tongue loaded with a white coating.—Constant sensation of roughness and of mucus

in the mouth.—Sensation of torpor in the upper lip, as if it were hardened. —Dryness of, the lips,

without thirst——Mouth and throat redder than usual.—Fine stitches on the surface of the

tongue.—Burning on the tip of the tongue (evening).—In the evening, great dryness in the palate,

with hunger and thirst—The tonsils and palate are shrivelled and white.

Dryness in the throat. Sensation of painful constriction in the throat.—Burning and

scraping in throat.—Nausea in throat.

• ▸Salty taste; hiccough-like eructation worse, fat food.
• ▸Diarrhoea after every cup of coffee; hiccough.
• ▸Satiety after a few mouthfuls.
• ▸Disgust for meat, especially pork.
• ▸Desire for lemonade.
• ▸No thirst all day.

Putrid taste in the mouth.—Insipid taste of all food.—No thirst all day, but it

occurs in evening as face and hands become warm.—Hunger and appetite rather weak, esp. in the

morning and in the evening.—Speedy satiety, followed by disgust, on beginning to eat.—A fter

eating but little, aversion to the rest of the food, with sensation of nausea in the

throat—Repugnance to butter (aversion to eat bread and butter), and cold food; less aversion to

warm food.—Great inclination to sleep after a meal.

Frequent risings, empty or acid.—Risings, with hiccough, esp. after a

meal.—Nausea, with inclination to vomit, and uneasiness in the region of the epigastrium, as after

taking fat food, esp. after dinner and supper.—Nausea and fulness in the chest, with unusual

hunger (morning).—Nausea caused by eating and drinking; could only drink lemonade without

being nauseated —Vomiting of mucus followed by sleep.—Vomiting of blood.—Water-brash,

with nausea, esp. in the evening.

Fulness and pressure at the pit of the stomach, as if it were

overloaded.—Uneasiness in the abdomen, with nausea.—Painful sensibility of the abdomen, on

the slightest touch.—Sudden attacks of griping, with pinching.—Stitches in the stomach, region of

the liver, navel, abdomen.—Borborygmi in the abdomen, immediately after a meal.

Pain about anus and perineum, as if a spot were suppurating, when walking or sitting.

Evacuations hard and frequent.—Evacuations of the consistence of pap,

with vomiting at night—Pressure in the rectum.—Discharge of blood from the rectum.—Drawing

pressure in the anus, and in the perineum, as from subcutaneous ulceration, when, walking or

sitting.

Frequent want to make water, with abundant emission of whitish

urine.—Shootings in the urethra, when making water, followed by a sudden discharge of a dark

red urine.

• ▸Menses profuse, black, membranous, clotted, too early, with labor-like pains from back to pubes.
• ▸Flow less when moving about.
• ▸Menstrual irregularities with megrim and blindness, or fiery spots before eyes.
• ▸Hiccough during pregnancy.
• ▸Post-partum haemorrhage, with colicky bearing-down pains, with relief after gush of blood.
• ▸After menses, swelling of breasts, with milky secretion.

Catamenia too profuse and too frequent.—Before menstruation (at

night) labour-like pains; the abdomen was bloated and swollen on the previous day; the

menstrual blood is black and clotted.—Secretion from the swollen mammé like milk.—Menses

suppressed.

When reading aloud the voice is weak.—Scraping and dryness in the

pharynx, causing a suffocative cough.

In the evening, shortness of breath, as from weakness.—Fits of suffocation.—Pressure

in the sternum.—Oppression of the chest, with difficulty of respiration —Sensation of great

weakness in the chest, as if there was not strength enough to breathe.—Lancinations, and acute

pullings in the chest, with short and difficult respiration.

Pressure on the heart, as from congestion of blood, with very sensible palpitations of

the heart; stitches in the region of the heart.

Pains of excoriation in the nape of the neck.—Aching, with paralytic

weakness, or traction in the nape of the neck and in the neck.—Shooting pains in the loins.—Dull

stitches in the region of the kidney; worse when drawing along breath.

Pressure, as by a hard body, on the arms, as far as the fingers, which hinders

writing.—Tractive pains in the arms, and as far as the fingers —Cramp-like, slow contraction of

the right thumb and index; they have to be extended by force.—Pains in bones of forearms,

bruise-like, < by touch, pressure, movement.—Pain, as after being struck, or pain of bruising in

• ▸the arms.
• ▸—Painful traction in the arms, and in the wrist.
• ▸—Contraction of the fingers.
• ▸—Red

vesicles in the joints of the fingers, preceded by violent itching, ceasing after scratching.

Cramp-like pains in the thighs.—Red spots in the thigh, as from a

burn.—Frequent and violent itching in the calves of the legs, in the ankle-bones and in the

toes.—Pain of dislocation in the joints of the foot —Sensation as if sprained in the 1.

foot—Soreness of the heels when walking.—Pains of excoriation in the toes, when

walking.—Deadness of the toes after walking.—Fetid sweat between the toes.

• ▸Pains in parts where bones lie near surface.
• ▸Burning, sore pain in heels.
• ▸Cramp-like contraction of right thumb and index finger.
• ▸Pains in periosteum.
• ▸Chilblains.

Acne in young women, pruritus better scratching and appearance of menses.

Gnawing itching in several parts of the skin, esp. when seated.—Darting and

insupportable itching, in the evening in bed.

Great inclination to lie down, and to sleep.—Late sleep in the evening, with sensible

pulsations in the brain.—Nightmare on falling asleep.—Unrefreshing sleep interfused with terrible

dreams.

Pulse double-beat.—Attacks of chilliness in the morning or evening.—During the

evening, chill, great sensitiveness to cold air or to being uncovered.—Febrile shivering and cold,

followed by heat, esp. in the face, with redness, augmented after a meal; afterwards anxiety, with

heat in some parts, in the back of the hand, and in the nape of the neck, but not in the face.

• ▸Anémia.
• ▸Bones, pain in.
• ▸Chlorosis.
• ▸Climacteric sufferings.
• ▸Coryza.
• ▸Diplopia.

• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Enteralgia.
• ▸Eyes, affections of.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heel, pain in.
• ▸Hiccough.
• ▸Menstruation,

• ▸disorders of.
• ▸Mental derangement.
• ▸Pregnancy, sickness of; disorders of.
• ▸Prostatitis.
• ▸Rheumatism.

• ▸Strabismus.
• ▸Thirst, absence of.
• ▸Urethritis.
• ▸Vertigo.
• ▸Weaning, complaints after.
• ▸Writer's-spasm.

Ferr. and Chi. resemble it in chlorosis; Crocus and Thuja in sensation of something

• ▸alive in abdomen; Am.
• ▸mur.
• ▸(menses < at night); Iris v.
• ▸and Kali bi.
• ▸(migraine with scintillations;

• ▸headache < as sight returns, Kali bi.
• ▸); Coccus c.
• ▸(leucorrhSa < sitting > walking; Cycl.
• ▸menses <

• ▸sitting > walking); Rhus t.
• ▸(enteralgia); Gels.
• ▸and Seneg.
• ▸(diplopia), Arn.
• ▸(falls); Baryt.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Calc.

• ▸c.
• ▸, Canth.
• ▸(chilly and fever); Coccul.
• ▸In speedy satiety, Lyc.
• ▸, Nux, Sep.
• ▸In prostatitis and

• ▸urethritis, Lith.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Dig.
• ▸, Sel.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Apis; in squint, Alum.
• ▸; sudden vanishing of sight with

• ▸menses, Sep.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸(Pul.
• ▸scanty, Cyc.
• ▸profuse and dark); nausea in throat, Sep.
• ▸Berb.
• ▸, pain in

• ▸heels on standing.
• ▸Desire for lemonade, Bell.
• ▸, Sabi.
• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸, Coff.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸(The

• ▸modalities of Cycl.
• ▸are in general opposite to those of Puls.
• ▸; the menstrual flow of Cycl.
• ▸is more

profuse while at rest; with Puls. the opposite is the case).

Compare: Ambra; Pulsat; Cinchona; Fer cit et Chin.

Third attenuation.

after suppression, after sweat, and convulsions come on ; frequent

spasms during menses. Cuprum is not generally known to be such

a wonderful medicine where there is anaemia ; but it has chlorosis. It

is a deep acting medicine. It affects with great powder the whole

voluntary system, the desires and aversions. It is suitable in those

girls who have always had their own way, have never been crossed,

and when they grow olden and reach puberty, and have got to submit

to some sort of discipline or never become women, they have mad fits,

have cramps. Cuprum wull sometimes make them sensible, so in that

way it fits into the loves and hates. It belongs to the ^oluntary system

most prominently.

Spasmodic respiration : great dyspnoea, asthmatic breathing. At

tacks of spasmodic asthma and most violent spasmodic coughs. “Dry,

hard, difficult cough, rattling in the chest, spasms. Dry spasmodic

cough until he suftocates. Face is red or purple.”

Aversion to motion, yet tnoiion atnelioratcs her pain and uneasiness.

Aversion to the open air, yet open air ameliorates some symptoms,

especially the coryza and cough.

The marked dullness of the senses and special senses is a striking

part of this picture.

Chlorosis ; irregular menses ; and palpitation.

Stitching pains.

Weakness and aggravation from exertion.

Flabby muscles.

Most symptoms ameliorated by walking.

Very restless at night.

Great lassitude.

Weakness in the evening, ameliorated by moving about.

Sensitive to cold, and cold air.

Complaints from being overheated.

Alternations of moods is a striking feature of the mental state.

Great flow of ideas alternates with weak memory.

Joyous feeling alternating with irritability.

Serene humor changes suddenly into seriousness or peevishness.

Grief and fear keep her in continuous mental agitation.

Dullness of mind prevents mental labor.

Absorbed in thought ; seeks solitude ; thinks about the future.

Answers incoherently ; confussion of mind.

Aversion to work, and dread of open air.

Wants to remain in a warm room, and in solitude.

Remains a long time silent. Excitement with trembling.

Sadness, as if she had wronged semebody (Aur,),

Tearful and meditates upon her grief, which is only imaginary.

Thinks she is alone in the world and persecuted by every one

(China).

Obstinate and censorious. She grows steadily weaker ; fainting

spells come on ; she becomes pale and anaemic.

These symptoms are important if associated with scanty menses or

amenorrhoea.

Vertigo when walking in the open air ; objects turn in a circle ;

ameliorated in a room, and when sitting. Everything turns dark

before the eyes, and she falls as if fainting.

The pain in the head is stunning, and makes her fear she will lose

her senses. Boring, darting, pressing in forehead and temples.

Violent pains in the forehead- Pains worse lying on painful side or

back. Pains one-sided. Pain morning and evening, ameliorated by

vomiting; worse by motion and in open air. Obscure vision with the

pains. Pressure in vertex, as if brain were enveloped in a cloth,

which would deprive him of his senses. Headache with flickering

before the eyes on rising in the morning. Pulsating in the head. Rush

of blood to the head ; anxiety and confusion of mind ; obscuration of

vision ; vertigo ; general coldness, after dinner. Headache ameliorated by cold applications. Headaches from disordered stomach.

Head feels as if he had on a skull cap. Tearing pains in the scalp.

In the field of vision there are spots, fog, bluish colors, flickerings,

glittering objects ; various colors — ^now yellow, and again green ; fiery

sparks, smoke ; halo around the light, black specks or flies. Dimness

• ▸of vision.
• ▸Diplopia.
• ▸Convergent strabismus.
• ▸Dilated pupils.
• ▸Hemiopia.
• ▸Heat and burning.
• ▸Lids oedematous.
• ▸Swelling of upper lids.

Dryness and itching of lids. Dim vision during headache. Impaired

vision, smell, hearing and taste.

Dullness of hearing. Humming, ringing and roaring in the ears.

Drawing pains.

Sense of smell diminished. Dryness in the nose. Dry, or fluent

coryza, worse in a warm room, better in the open air or cool room.

Sneezing and watery discharge in a warm room, entirely relieved in

the open air. Walking in the cold open air is his most comfortable

pastime. Pressing pain over nasal bone during coryza. Takes cold

from being overheated and from overheated rooms.

Pale, sickly face ; dark under the eyes in woman. Contracted

forehead — a frown.

Dry lips. Numbness of upper lip.

Boring, stitching, tearing in the teeth. Jerking in the teeth at night.

Taste is lost, or perverted ; flat ; bad ; putrid ; rancid ; all food tastes

too salty. Tongue white, or yellowish. Burning blisters on tongue.

• ▸Saliva increased.
• ▸Burning, tip of tongue.
• ▸Saliva tastes salty.
• ▸Viscid

mucus in the mouth.

Burning, dryness and scraping in the throat.

Loss of appetite and even aversion to food. Thirstless, except in

• ▸the evening during fever.
• ▸Desires lemonade [Nit, ac,^ Bell.
• ▸, Sab.
• ▸).

Aversion to bread and butter, and fatty things ; but desires inedible

things. Disgust for meat ; craves sardines. Satiety after the first

• ▸mouthful {Lyc.
• ▸) and then he loathes food.
• ▸Stomach weak.
• ▸Nausea

after eating. Pork disagrees. The stomach symptoms are much like

Pulsatilla. Symptoms worse after coffee. Vomiting after eating.

Vomiting in the morning. Vomiting watery mucus. Eructations.

Aching in the stomach and burning in oesophagus, better by walking

about. Fulness, as if he had eaten too much. Weight in the stomach

after eating. Stitching pains in the stomach.

Colicky pains in the abdomen, ameliorated by walking about. Tenderness all over the abdomen, even hypogastrium. Gnawing pains in

the evening. Gnawing pains after food. Rumbling and gurgling in

the abdomen. Paroxysmal cramps during the night, ameliorated by

walking about. Stitching pains in the abdomen and liver.

Diarrhoea after coffee. Diarrhoea in chlorotic women subject to

sick headaches and menstrual irregularitievS. Watery, forcible stool,

odorless, brownish, yellow. Diarrhoea in the evening. Constipation ;

• ▸stool hard.
• ▸Nausea.
• ▸Colic before stool.
• ▸Colic and urging after

stool. Haemorrhoids that bleed. Drawing, pressing pain about the

anus, as if a spot would suppurate.

Frequent urging to urinate. Ineffectual urging to urinate. Urine

profuse, watery. Flocculent sediment ; iridescent cuticle. Stitching

in the urethra with desire to urinate.

In the male the sexual desire is diminished. Irritable prostate

gland, with stitching pains ; urging to stool and urine (Nux).

Menses too soon, or too late ; irregular, or suppressed ; copious,

prolonged, or scanty. When profuse, the mental symptoms are better.

Flow black and clotted. Labor-like pains at the menstrual period,

commencing in small of back and running down each side of the

• ▸pubes.
• ▸Uterine haemorrhage.
• ▸Dread of open air.
• ▸Menses suppressed, palpitation of the heart, weeping, aversion to company and

dread of open air. Rush of blood to the head, and scanty flow.

• ▸Suppressed menses from over-exertion, or being overheated.
• ▸Fainting at the menstrual period.
• ▸After menses, milk in mammae.
• ▸Complaints after weaning {China).

Much scraping in the larynx at night, thick, white mucus. Tickling

in the larynx and trachea. Oppression of chest. Suffocative cough,

caused by scraping and dryness in the trachea. Cough comes on

during sleep, from dryness and constriction of larynx. Cough ameli-

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orated in the open air, even in a cold wind*

Pressure in the middle of the sternum. Weakness in the chest.

Stitching in the chest and heart. Tearing, stitching, and shortness of

breath during motion and rest.

Palpitation and anaemic murmurs. Tumultuous action of the heart;

great lassitude. Weak pulse. Sensation as if air streamed from

nipples. Mammae swollen, containing milk in non-pregnant women.

Mammae swollen and very hard after menses.

Drawing pains in the neck, with stiffness. Twinges up the back,

ameliorated by drawing the shoulders back. Stitching in the region

of the right kidney, worse during inhalation. Pain in the small of

the back while sitting, ceases on rising.

Tearing, drawing pains in the limbs. Hypera\sthesia of the skin.

Flabby muscles. Tearing, drawing in the upper limbs. Sensation

of weakness of the hands, as if she must let fall what she holds in hei^

• ▸hands.
• ▸Writer’s cramp.
• ▸Drawing pains in flexors of the leg.
• ▸Burning sore pain in heels.
• ▸Toes feel dead after walking.
• ▸Weakness in

the limbs.

Sleep not restful, disturbed by anxious dreams ; frightful, vivid

• ▸dreams.
• ▸Restless sleep.
• ▸Late falling asleep.
• ▸Wakens early, but

wants to sleep late. Nightmare. Wakens early, but too tired and

sleepy, cannot rise. Pollutions in dreams

Chill, fever and sweat. Chill not ameliorated by warm clothing.

• ▸Chilliness during menses.
• ▸Chill forenoon or evening.
• ▸Chill predominates in the evening.
• ▸Heat of face follows chill.
• ▸Chill and heat

alternate. Sensation of heat through whole body, particularly in face

and hands. Heat, with swelling of the veins {Cfnna\ General heat

after eating. Sweat at night during sleep, offensive. Sweat sometimes on lower part of body.

Itching at night in bed. Numbness after scratching, or changing

places by scratching.