Regional Leadersby E. B. Nash, M. D.
recreated by Médi-T
Urinary Organs:Nephritic colic (right side), with violent vomiting every fifteen minutes; twists about, screams and groans, red (bloody) urine, with brick dust sediment after the attack.
Hearing and Ears:Biting-itching on scalp, as from vermin, < on back part of head and behind ears.
Anus and Stool:Involuntary stool when emitting flatus; undigested food of the previous day.
Mind:Complete loss of consciousness, with slow, stertorous breathing; insensibility to external impressions.
Mind:Drunkenness with stupor, as if from smoke; eyes hot, dry and burning.
Mind:After a fright, with fear; convulsions, or the head hot, and twitching around the mouth.
Mind:After a fright, the fear of the fright still remaining.
Mind:Delirious, talking, eyes wide open, face red and puffed up.
General Face:The lower lip and jaw hangs down.
General Face:Face bloated, dark red, and hot; features distorted; lower lip and jaw hanging down;
Abdomen:Colic from lead (in paints, pipes, or otherwise).
Anus and Stool:Nervous and irritable; passes nothing but hard black balls from the bowels.
Urinary Organs:Child makes no water, with full bladder, and has no stool; from nursing after the nurse had a furious fit of passion.
Urinary Organs:Distension of the bladder, but no power to expel the urine and a catheter has to be used.
Heart and Pulse:Pulse full and slow with snoring.
Sleep and Dreams:Sleeplessness with acuteness of hearing; clocks striking and cocks crowing at a great distance keeps her awake.
Sleep and Dreams:Flushed face; coldness of limbs; sleepy but cannot sleep; her bed feels so hot that she can hardly lie on it.
Sleep and Dreams:Unrefreshing soporous sleep; with eyes half open; snoring during inspiration and expiration.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:Body burning even when bathed in sweat.
Generalities:Twitching of the head, arms, and hands; now and then jerks as if the flexors were over-active; body cold; inclination to stupid sopor; motion of the body and uncovering the head >.
Generalities:Nervous and irritable; passes nothing but hard black balls.
Generalities:Want of susceptibility to remedies, lack of vital reaction; the apparently well chosen remedy does not react.
Respiratory Organs:Sharp pains through the lower lobe of the left lung.
Heart and Pulse:Heart intermits when thinking of it.
Generalities:Pain in small circumscribed spots, or confined to small spots.
Causes and Modalities:Complaints < when thinking of them.
Urinary Organs:Constant urging to urinate with violent pain in glans penis and straining; the pain is so great that it extorts cries from the patient; extends into the thighs; urine has strong ammoniacal smell, and contains large quantities of thick, tough mucus.
Head:Sensation as if a thread were drawn tightly through the eyeballs and backward into the middle of the brain.
Sight and Eyes:Pain in the eyes as if pulled by a string back into the head.
Neck and Back:Nape of neck weary as if great weight were lying upon it.
Mind:Thinks another person lies along side of him, or that one limb is double (delusion in typhoid).
Head:Heaviness like lead in the occiput, also beating and pressure.
Hearing and Ears:Hardness of hearing in old people.
Hearing and Ears:Humid soreness behind the ear.
Hearing and Ears:Eustachian tube affected, causing whizzing, roaring, cracking, with hardness of hearing.
Stomach:Gastralgia when stomach is empty, > by taking food.
Urinary Organs:Constant dribbling of urine after micturation.
Extremities:Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured, with sticking cutting pains.
Extremities:Deep, bloody rhagades on the hands; thick crusts, worse during winter.
Extremities:Salt rheum on hands; red, raw, burning, or moist, or covered with thick crusts.
Extremities:Salt rheum on lower legs from knee to ankles; purplish oozing or covered with scales or scabs which are easily detached; itching and burning like fire.
Skin:Chronic, moist eczema; parts seem excoriated, especially if worse in winter.
Generalities:Itching in the tubes; "urethra, Eustachian, lachrymal and pharynx.
Generalities:Ailments from riding in a carriage, railroad car or ship.
Causes and Modalities:Sensation of coldness in spots.
Urinary Organs:Intense itching in urethra.
Urinary Organs:Sudden desire to urinate; child jumps up and down.
Mind:Anxious and fearful before and during a thunder storm.
Mind:Fear of being alone.
General Face:Oedema of the face, especially of lids and around the eyes.
Hearing and Ears:Difficult hearing, especially of the human voice.
Nose:Frequent blowing of blood in small quantities from the nose.
Nose:Polypus of the nose; easily bleeding.
Mouth and Throat:Toothache of wash women, or from washing clothes.
Mouth and Throat:Throat looks very dry, fairly glistening.
Stomach:As soon as water becomes warm in the stomach it is thrown up.
Stomach:Wants cold food and drink, ice cream; is > by them.
Stomach:Hungry at night; must get up and eat which >.
Abdomen:Sensation of great weakness or emptiness in the abdomen.
Anus and Stool:Stools watery, with lumps of white mucus, or like little gains of tallow or sago.
Anus and Stool:Stools, profuse, watery, passing away as from a hydrant; after sleeping.
Anus and Stool:Constipation; the faeces begin slender, long, narrow, dry, tough, and hard like a dog’s; voided with difficulty.
Anus and Stool:Discharge of mucus from wide open anus, with tenesmus.
Anus and Stool:Chronic painless diarrhoea of undigested food, with much thirst for water during night.
Anus and Stool:Frequent diarrhoea during cholera time.
Male Sexual Organs:Lascivious; strips himself; sexual mania; irresistible desire for coition.
Female Sexual Organs:Acrid, corrosive, smarting leucorrhoea, drawing blisters.
Respiratory Organs:Cough in the evening, when reading, laughing, or loud talking, or from lying on left side.
Respiratory Organs:Cannot talk on account of pain in the larynx.
Respiratory Organs:Cough, < coming from warm room into cold air.
Respiratory Organs:Trembling of the whole body when coughing.
Respiratory Organs:Dry, tickling cough in the evening; tightness across the chest; expectoration in the morning.
Respiratory Organs:Pain in chest with coughing, > by external pressure.
Neck and Back:Sensitiveness of spinous process of dorsal vertebrae to pressure.
Neck and Back:Burning heat running up the back and between shoulders.
Extremities:Arms and hands become numb, finger tips especially feel numb and insensible.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:Flushes all over, beginning in hands.
Skin:Little ulcers outside the large one.
Skin:Polypi, erectile tumors, ulcers, etc., which bleed easily.
Bones:Swelling of the bones; necrosis, especially of lower jaw.
Generalities:Slight wounds bleed much.
Causes and Modalities:Complaints < before midnight; during a thunderstorm; when lying on the back or left side.
Constitution and Temperament:Haemorrhagic diathesis.
Constitution and Temperament:Tall, slender, slim women, fair skin, blonde.
Mind:Very weak, and indifferent to the affairs of life; listless; apathetic.
Mind:Ailments from grief (chronic) or disappointed love. Apathetic, listless.
Head:School girls, headache from overused eyes.
Head:Occipital headache and pains in the nape of the neck, from exhausted nerve power, or excessive grief.
Abdomen:Meteoric distension of the abdomen with rumbling and gurgling.
Anus and Stool:Clammy, sticky tongue; abdomen much bloated; great rumbling in the bowels; and painless watery diarrhoea (in cholera epidemics). (J. C. M.)
Anus and Stool:White or gray watery diarrhoea.
Anus and Stool:Copious watery diarrhoea, with rumbling in the bowels.
Anus and Stool:Stools though copious and long continued do not seem to exhaust or weaken the patient.
Urinary Organs:Must often rise at night in order to pass large quantities of colorless urine.
Urinary Organs:Urine like milk mixed with jelly-like pieces, and pain in the kidneys.
Urinary Organs:White jelly-like flocculi in the urine.
Male Sexual Organs:Weakness of sexual organs and frequent debilitating emissions; sensorium dulled.
Male Sexual Organs:Onanism; when the patient is distressed by the culpability of his indulgence.
Heart and Pulse:Palpitation in young persons growing too fast, after onanism.
Heart and Pulse:Palpitation in children and young people who grow too fast; after onanism; or long grieving.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:Typhoid with complete apathy and indifference; pale face.
Bones:Periosteal inflammation, with burning, gnawing, tearing pains; sensation as if bones were being scraped with a knife.
Generalities:Intense pain in the periosteum of all bones as if scraped with a knife.
Generalities:Growing pains - grows too tall (Calc. c. too fat.).
Causes and Modalities:Bad effects from growing too rapidly; from sexual excesses; grief, sorrow, homesickness, or unfortunate love.
Constitution and Temperament:In children and young people who grow too fast.
Hearing and Ears:With every attempt to swallow, shooting pains through both ears.
Mouth and Throat:Difficult or retarded dentition with an irresistible desire to bite on something; restless at night; sometimes diarrhoea.
Mouth and Throat:Great pain in root of tongue when swallowing.
Mouth and Throat:Throat sore, fauces congested and of a dark red color; dryness of the throat, tonsils swollen; with every attempt to swallow severe pains shooting through both ears; sore aching all over.
Urinary Organs:Chalk-like sediment in the urine.
Female Sexual Organs:Mammary glands full of hard, painful nodosities.
Female Sexual Organs:Gatherings in breasts, with large fistulous openings.
Female Sexual Organs:Nippes sore and fissured, with intense suffering on putting the child to the breast; pain seems to start from the nipple and radiate over the whole body.
Extremities:Sciatic pains run from hip downward and mostly on outward side of thighs.
Extremities:Pains (rheumatic) in arms, especially about the attachment of the deltoid muscles.
Mind:Great indifference and lack of will power to do anything.
Male Sexual Organs:Priapism associated with spinal disease; terrible erections.
Generalities:Great mental and physical prostration < by reaching, reading, writing, or thinking.
Mind:Arrogant, proud, haughty, looks down with pitiful contempt on others and everything.
Head:Senation of numbness in the head or temples, zygomata and mastoid, as if the head were constricted or too tightly bound.
General Face:Sensation of coldness, crawling and numbness in the right side of the face.
Sight and Eyes:Objects appear smaller than they really are.
Anus and Stool:The stools adhere to the parts like soft clay, and pass with difficulty on that account.
Female Sexual Organs:Excessive sensitiveness to touch of the genital organs.
Neck and Back:Numbness in sacrum and coccyx, while sitting.
Mind:Loss of memory so that while talking he could not find the proper word.
Mouth and Throat:Distinct blue margin along margin of gums.
Abdomen:Violent colic, abdomen drawn in, with sensation of a string from navel drawing through to back.
Anus and Stool:Excessive pain in abdomen radiating from thence to all parts of body.
Anus and Stool:The stools are usually composed of little balls compacted together like sheep dung.
Head:Head rolling from side to side, with moaning during dentition, or with summer complaint.
Mouth and Throat:Grinding teeth and rolling head from side to side with moaning (during dentition).
Stomach:Continual gagging in summer diarrhoea of children.
Abdomen:Cramp-like pain in the abdomen with actual retraction of the abdominal muscles.
Female Sexual Organs:Prolapus uteri after over-lifting or straining, also after parturition.
Sleep and Dreams:Drowsy, half-closed eyes; rolling head from side to side, with moaning and whining, especially children.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:Time of chill, 7 a. m.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:Great, even delirious loquacity during chill and sweat.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:Chills beginning between shoulder.
Sight and Eyes:Pain in right eyeball as if inner portion of the eye would be torn out.
Mind:Hopeless, and despairing of recovery, gives up all hope, thinks he will die.
Head:Hungry during the headache; eating relieves.
Hearing and Ears:Discharge of fetid pus from ears; psoric people.
Anus and Stool:Stools dark brown, thin, fluid, very offensive, like rotten eggs.
Anus and Stool:Stools very offensive, like rotten eggs or carrion, similar to Lachesis.
Respiratory Organs:Dyspnoea > in a recumbent posture, and < when sitting, or when arms are brought near the body.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:Profuse sweat on least exertion, especially when convalescing from acute diseases.
Skin:Evil consequences of suppressed itch, especially after large doses of sulphur, if the patient is hopeless, despairing of recovery.
Skin:Psoric constitutions, especially where other remedies fail to improve permanently; lack of reaction.
Skin:Intolerable itching from getting warm in the evening or bed, scratches until it bleeds.
Generalities:Psoric constitutions; lack of reaction, after diseases; scrofulous skin eruptions, with tendency to suppurate.
Generalities:Body has a filthy smell even after bathing.
Generalities:Great sensitiveness to cold air or change of weather; wears a fur cap or overcoat in hot weather.
Generalities:When carefully selected remedies fail in psoric subjects; if Sulph fails, think of Psorinium
Generalities:All excretions - diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, menses, perspiration - have a carrion-like odor.
Generalities:All excretions have a carrion-like odor.
Generalities:Dates his chronic trouble back to some former disease; has suffered ever since that time.
Constitution and Temperament:Psoric constitutions, especially when other remedies fail to permenantly improve; lack of reaction.
Abdomen:Weight; aching distress in the hepatic region; dull pain; heaviness, < lying on right side; turning to left causes a dragging sensation.
Mind:Mild, gentle and yielding disposition; cries at everything, is sad and despondent; weeps about everything; can hardly give her symptoms from weeping.
Head:Throbbing pressive headache, > by external pressure; tying up tightly.
Sight and Eyes:Cloudiness of vision, with a kind of flashing fire as if she had received a slap in the face (H. Robinson).
Sight and Eyes:Conjunctivitis with profuse, yellow, thick, bland discharge.
Sight and Eyes:Inflammation of eyes and margins of the lids, with lachrymation and nightly agglutination.
Sight and Eyes:Profuse lachrymation in the wind or open air.
Sight and Eyes:Subjects of styes, especially upper lids.
Hearing and Ears:Hardness of hearing; sensation as if ears were stopped.
Hearing and Ears:Violent pain in ear as something forcing outward.
Hearing and Ears:External ear and meatus red and swollen.
Hearing and Ears:Otalgia, with darting tearing pains, and pulsating; < at night.
Hearing and Ears:Bland, nearly inoffensive discharge of mucus and pus from ears.
Hearing and Ears:Affections of ears, sequelae of measles.
Nose:Coryza, fluid or dry, with loss of taste and smell; sore nostrils; later a yellowish green discharge.
Nose:Green, fetid, nasal discharge; dimished or lost taste and smell; chronic, thick, yellow, bland discharge.
Nose:Bad smell, as of old catarrh, in the nose.
Mouth and Throat:Great dryness of the mouth in the morning without thirst.
Mouth and Throat:Bad taste in the mouth, especially early in the morning, or nothing tastes good, or no taste at all.
Mouth and Throat:Veins of throat distended, inflamed, and bluish red.
Stomach:Stomach better from cold things, < warm.
Stomach:Stomach disordered from cakes, pastry, rich or fat food.
Stomach:Thirstlessness with most all complaints.
Abdomen:Pressure in abdomen and small of back, as if from a stone, with disposition of lower limbs to go to sleep when sitting; sometimes ineffectual desire for stool.
Anus and Stool:Dysenteric stools of clear yellow, red or green slime, with or without severe aching pains and tenesmus, extending up from the anus along the sacrum.
Anus and Stool:Stools very changeable, no two stools alike.
Urinary Organs:Retention of urine with great desire, which is greatly < on lying, especially on the back.
Urinary Organs:Wetting the bed, particularly little girls, or on coughing or sneezing.
Male Sexual Organs:Thick, bland, yellow or green yellow discharge from the urethra (gonorrhoea).
Male Sexual Organs:Orchitis from cold or checked gonorrhoea.
Female Sexual Organs:Menstrual colic, with great restless, tossing in every possible direction.
Female Sexual Organs:Catamenia too late and scanty, or suppressed, particularly by getting the feet wet.
Respiratory Organs:Cough with bitter expectoration.
Neck and Back:Pain in small of back, as after long stooping or from a sprain, on motion after sitting.
Extremities:Drawing, tearing pains in limbs; shifting rapidly from place to place; worse at night from warmth; better from uncovering.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:Chill at 4 p. m.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:No two paroxysms alike, ever changing symptoms.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:Chilly with the pains.
Generalities:Chilliness with the pains.
Generalities:Wandering pains shift rapidly from one part to another, also with redness and swelling of the joints.
Generalities:Chilliness with the pains.
Generalities:Symptoms ever changing, no two chills alike, no two stools, no two attacks alike, well one hour, miserable the next.
Causes and Modalities:Relieved in open air, < on retiring to close, warm room.
Constitution and Temperament:Sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, inclined to shedding of tears.
Generalities:The bed feel hard (Arn.); parts lain on feel sore and bruised.
Skin:Blister-like eruptions, especially in the palms of the hands.
Respiratory Organs:Intercostal rheumatism, chest sore, bruised, < from touch, motion, or turning the body.
Anus and Stool:No emission of flatus by mouth or anus for a long time.
Urinary Organs:Turbid urine with yeast-like sediment.
Generalities:Sour smell of the whole body; child smells sour even after washing or bathing.
Male Sexual Organs:Testicles, especially epididymis, intensely painful to touch, drawn up, swollen and painful.
Neck and Back:Bruised pain in the small of the back, worse at rest and in rainy weather.
Extremities:Drawing and tearing in limbs, especially the periosteum, and forearms, and legs; worse in wet weather or before a storm, and at rest.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:Sweat, with formication.
Causes and Modalities:Complaints < during rest; before a thunder storm; in cold, wet, or windy weather.
Skin:Vesicles discharging a yellowish, transparent fluid, which hardens to a crust; excessive itching.
General Face:Corners of mouth ulcerated, and sordes; or chapped around genitals.
General Face:Vesicular eruptions of the face, with much burning, and smarting, and tingling.
Sight and Eyes:Swelling of the whole eye and surrounding parts.
Sight and Eyes:Heaviness and stiffness of lids as if paralysed.
Sight and Eyes:The lids are red, swollen, and oedematous, especially the upper, and spasmodically closed, with profuse gushes of hot tears on opening them; sac-like swelling of the conjunctiva.
Nose:Epistaxis at night; during straining at stool; bending forward, or any bodily exertion.
Nose:In typhoid fever hemorrhage from the nose after four o’clock in the morning.
Mouth and Throat:Tongue dry, red, cracked, or has triangular tip, or white often on one side; takes imprint of the teeth.
Mouth and Throat:While coating only on one side.
Mouth and Throat:Saliva bloody, runs out of mouth during sleep.
Abdomen:Soreness as if beaten in the hypochondriac region, and still more in abdomen, < on the side on which he lies; worse when turning, and < when beginning to move.
Anus and Stool:Pains running down the limbs in streaks, with every stool.
Female Sexual Organs:Catamenia causes violent biting pain in the vulva.
Female Sexual Organs:The lochia after having almost ceased, again becomes bloody and offensive.
Respiratory Organs:Putting a hand from under the bed cover brings on cough.
Respiratory Organs:A dry teasing cough, coming on first before the chill, and continuing through chill (Dunham).
Heart and Pulse:Aching of the left arm with disease of the heart.
Heart and Pulse:Sensation of weakness and trembling in the heart.
Neck and Back:Lumbago from sleeping on damp sheets, or ground; on getting wet while perspiring; pains, strain, etc., < while at rest; on beginning to move; > when gets in motion and by pressure.
Neck and Back:Stiffness and aching, bruised pains in small of back; when sitting still or when lying; better from motion or when lying upon something hard.
Neck and Back:Pains in back compelling to move constantly in bed.
Neck and Back:Lameness in back as if strained or after straining.
Extremities:Swollen around the ankles after sitting too long, particularly in travelling.
Extremities:Powerlessness of lower limbs; cannot draw them up.
Extremities:Lameness, stiffness, and paralyzed sensation in joints, from sprains, over-lifting, or over-stretching.
Extremities:Rheumatic tension, drawing, tearing in limbs during rest.
Extremities:Lameness, stiffness and pain on first moving after rest or on getting up in the morning; relieved by constant motion.
Extremities:Aching pains in legs; must change position every moment.
Sleep and Dreams:Laborious dreams of excessive bodily exertion, as running, wading in the snow, hurrying and the like.
Sleep and Dreams:Restless at night, has to change position frequently.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:Typhoid fever or acute diseases putting on typhoid symptoms, with great restlessness, tossing from side to side, and triagnular tip of tongue.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat:During chill, cough dry, teasing, fatiguing.
Skin:Vesicular erysipelas, swelling and inflammation, phlegmonous.
Generalities:Complaints from getting wet in the rain when over-heated or perspiring.
Generalities:Pains as if sprained; ailments from spraining or straining, lifting, particularly from reaching up high for things.
Causes and Modalities:Complaints < while at rest; after midnight; before storms, or on rising from a seat or bed; on beginning to move after quiet; from getting wet and in wet weather.
Causes and Modalities:Bad effects from sprains, bruises etc.
Causes and Modalities:Bad effect from getting wet in a rain storm while sweating or over-heated.
Respiratory Organs:Cough provoked by change of air, cool or warm, or change in the rhythm of respiration.
Respiratory Organs:Violent incessant dry cough, fatiguing, with little expectoration, < by pressure, talking and especially by inspiring cold air.
Skin:Itching or vesicular eruption; itching worse when undressing or from exposure to cool air.
Skin:Itching when undressing, uncovering or becoming exposed to cold air (Hep., Nat. sul., Olean.).
Sight and Eyes:Eyes ache and feel strained, from fine sewing or reading, particularly by gas light, (Arg. nit.; Nat. mur.).
Anus and Stool:Prolapus of rectum, immediately on attempting a passage; from slightest stooping; after confinement.
Extremities:Wrists feel as if sprained, stiff, worse in cold, wet weather.
Bones:Bruises and other mechanical injuries of bones and periosteum.
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