LAUROCERASUS
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Apoplexy, threatened
- Asphyxia, neonatorum
- Asthma
- Cholera
- Cholera infantum
- Chorea
- Climacteric sufferings
- Convulsions
- Cough
- Cramps
- Cyanosis
- Diarrha
- Dysmenorrha
- Epilepsy
- Heart, affections of
- Liver, affections of
- Metrorrhagia
- Palpitation
- Pneumonia, typhoid
- Tetanus
- Tumours
- Whooping-cough
- Coldness
- Blueness
- Epileptiform convulsions
- Dry, tickling cough
- Cough with jelly-like expectoration dotted with bloody points
- Cyanosis of new-born infant and of heart disease
- Gasping without really breathing
- Twitching of muscles of the face
- Clubbing of fingers
- Lack of reactive power
- Low vitality
- Long-lasting faints
- Face pale, blue
- Surface cold
- Prostrate before getting up in morning
- Difficulty in opening eyes
- Attacks of indigestion
- Pains across lower abdomen
- Gnawing pain in lower abdomen
- Looseness of stool
- Fluids roll audibly into stomach
- Eruption is livid
- Skin is long in regaining its colour after pressure
- Suffocative spells about the heart
- Gasping for breath
- Internal coldness and external heat
- Cold tongue
- Heat of single parts
- Warmth on centre of forehead, then a coldness as from a draught of air
- Left chest most affected
- Constricted sensations in gullet
- Constricted sensations in rectum
- Fatigue pervades the whole system
- Painful condition of the hard and indurated tissue of the parts affected
- Pain much > by sleep
- Tendency to oozing of blood
- Blood is generally bright and mixed with gelatinous clots
- Pains start from the lower part of the spine and extend either round the pelvis or up to the head
- Sense of suffocation
- Sick feeling
- Drowsiness
- Great desire to sleep
- Sleeplessness
- Digestion is weak
- Bowels confined
- Low-spirited with flatulence
- Burning in chest after food
- Constant tired, sick feeling
- Entire frame enfeebled
- Inclined to loss of flesh
- Hmorrhages that are small in quantity and bright in colour
- Flatus is audible and gurgling and rolls about the upper abdomen
- Constant jerks
- Cannot keep still
- Coolness of forehead as from draught of air
- Weight on top of head
- As if brain loose and falling into forehead when stooping
- As if a heavy lump falling from abdomen to small of back
- As if a veil before eyes
- As if nose stopped
- As if flies and spiders crawling over skin
- As if tongue, mouth, and throat were burnt
- As if abscess in region of liver would burst
- As if lungs could not be sufficiently expanded
- As if lungs pressed against spine
- As if mucous membranes were dry
- Stitches
- Stiffness
- Pressure
- Extremely nervous, excitable condition accompanying ailments
- Diarrha as of green mucus
- Suffocative spells about heart
- Dry, harassing cough of phthisis
- Spasmodic cough of later stages of whooping-cough
- Patient is much prostrated and has nervous spasmodic symptoms
- Cough with valvular heart disease
- Cough incessant, especially on lying down
- Fluttering in heart
- Gasping with cough
- Alternation of chill, fever, and sweat in phthisis
- Coughs continuously when lying down
- Bending head forward > pressure in nape
- Compelled to bend forward by contractive pain in groins
- Suffocating spells about heart compel him to lie down
- When she attempts to rise from recumbent posture, sensation of heavy lump falling from pit of stomach to back
- Stooping <
- Sitting < gasping
- Feet to go to sleep
- Crossing legs = feet to go to sleep
- Motion < cough; = gasping
- After dinner: Hunger; irresistible drowsiness
- < Evening and night
- Coldness in forehead and vertex is > in open air
- Vertigo, and pressure in nape are <
- External warmth does not > coldness
- Approaching stove = nausea; cold
- Being touched by water = burning between fingers
- Mental dejection
- Great anxiety, apprehension, and agitation
- Repugnance to intellectual labour
- Mental promptitude and precipitation
- Inability to collect one's ideas
- Weakness of memory
- Fear and anxiety about imaginary evils
- Intellectual incapacity
- Mental dulness (insensibility) and loss of consciousness, with loss of speech and motion
- Irritable, talks too much
- Pains in shoulders and arms to tips of fingers
- Loses the power to hold things in her hands
- Intoxication
- Stupefaction, with falling down, and loss of consciousness
- Feeling of intoxication and vertigo, with drowsiness
- Vertigo, on rising from a stooping posture, or on getting up from a seat, with what appears to be a veil before the sight, or with a sensation as if all objects were turning round
- Vertigo < in the open air
- Stupefying pain in the whole head
- Stupefying headache, with a feeling of weight, and sensation, on stooping, as if the brain fell forwards and struck against the cranium
- Brain feels contracted and painful
- Stitches in head
- Itching of hairy scalp
- Very violent pressive headache in a room
- Constant feeling of coldness in head
- Sensation of coldness in forehead and vertex, as if a cold wind were blowing on it, descending through neck to back; < in room, > in open air
- Feeling as if ice lay on vertex
- Congestion in the head, with heat and throbbing
- Pulsation in head, with heat or with coldness
- Headache disappears, with a sensation of coldness in vertex, forehead, in nape of neck, extending to loins
- Headache in r. temple
- Burning pain in eyes
- Dryness of eyes
- Eyes widely open, or half-closed, convulsed, prominent, and fixed
- Pupils dilated, and immovable
- Darkness before the eyes; obscuration of sight
- Eyes distorted
- All objects appear larger than they really are
- Hardness of hearing
- Tingling in ears
- Itching in ears
- Nose feels stopped up; no air passes through
- Coryza with sore throat
- Sunken face
- Countenance pale, sallow, and grey
- Face wan, or bloated and swollen
- Distortion of the features
- Cramps in the jaws
- Twitching in muscles of face
- Eruption round mouth
- Titillation in the face, as if flies and spiders were crawling over the skin
- Lock-jaw
- Painful sensations in the under jaw and lower teeth
- Mouth dry and clammy
- Froth at the mouth
- Sensation of coldness on tongue
- Loss of speech
- Dry and rough tongue
- White and dry tongue
- Tongue feels cold, or burnt and numb
- Swelling and stiffness of l. side of tongue
- Sore throat with painful sensation, as if it were drawn downwards, during deglutition and at other times
- Cramps in pharynx and sophagus
- Audible gulping when drinking
- Deglutition is hindered or obstructed
- Contraction of sophagus when drinking
- Drink rolls audibly through sophagus and intestines
- Dull sticking pain as from a lump in throat, which extends to l. side of back
- Sensation of swelling in pharynx
- Sensation of coldness, or heat and burning pain in throat, and in bottom of palate
- Sweetish, or acrid and irritating taste
- Ardent thirst, with dryness of mouth
- Entire loss of appetite, with clean tongue
- Want of appetite, with repugnance to all food
- Excessive craving
- Sinking between meals, husky voice, brings up phlegm streaked with blood
- Violent risings, either empty, or having taste of food
- Excessive disgust, nausea, and vomiting, even of food
- Hiccough
- Bitter eructations
- Violent pain in stomach, with loss of speech
- Burning in stomach and abdomen, or coldness
- Contractive pain in region of stomach, and cutting pain in abdomen
- Vomiting of black matter
- Aching of stomach
- Pains in stomach, sufficiently violent to cause fainting
- Great anguish in precordial region
- Sensation of coldness, or burning in stomach, and in epigastrium
- Inflammation of stomach
- Weak digestion with confined bowels
- Sticking pains in liver with pressure
- Distension of region of liver, with pains, as from subcutaneous ulceration
- Induration of liver
- Atrophic nutmeg liver
- Colic below navel, with incisive pain in intestines
- Sensation of swelling, of size of a walnut, in l. side of abdomen
- Cuttings, cramps, and contractions in abdomen
- Sensation of coldness, or heat and burning in abdomen
- Inflammation of intestines
- Pains in l. intestine
- Flatulent colic
- Borborygmi, rumbling, and grumbling in abdomen and in stomach
- Pinching in umbilical region
- Flatulence pressure outward at perinum; pressing on bladder
- Pressure and tension beneath both Poupart's ligaments as if a part would press through
- Contractive pains in groins; compelled to bend up for two hours
- Sharp stitches in groins
- Constipation
- Hard and tenacious evacuations, with straining
- Ineffectual urging to stool, with emission of wind only
- Diarrha, with tenesmus, incisive and burning pains in anus
- Diarrha of green, slimy matter, with contraction in groins
- Involuntary stools
- Paralysis of sphincter ani
- Cramp in rectum extends upwards from anus
- Fine sticking in rectum after urging to stool
- A stitch as with an awl in rectum during stool, which shoots from above downwards, and is followed by discharge of some pasty fces
- Three tearings in succession in rectum
- Constriction of the rectum
- Itching or crawling in rectum as from worms
- No stool or urine is discharged
- Retention of urine
- Pale yellow, watery urine
- Frothy, acrid urine
- Thick, reddish sediment in urine
- Involuntary emission of urine
- Paralysis of bladder
- Pain in region of stomach during emission of urine
- Increased sexual desire
- Gangrene of genital parts
- Sticking pain above r. pubis, extending along spermatic cord, while lying and on moving about
- Voluptuous itching beneath prepuce with desire for coition
- Catamenia too early and too abundant blood thin
- Nightly tearing in vertex
- Menorrhagia, blood dark, in large clots, during climaxis
- Metrorrhagia in tumour case
- Tearing in head, odontalgia, and cuttings, during catamenia
- Severe pain in sacral region extending to pubis with dizziness and dimness of vision; cold extremities; cold tongue; great melancholy
- Dysmenorrha; colic first day, headache second day all over head, with or without sick feeling
- Relieves the pain of uterine and rectal cancer
- Attacks of suffocation, with palpitation and a sort of gasping for breath; must lie down sometimes to find relief
- Burning and stinging in and below mamm
- Needle-like stitches in and beneath l. breast
- Creeping or moving stitches in female breast, whereby the skin becomes sensitive to touch lasting a long time
- Hoarseness, roughness, and scraping in throat and pharynx
- Deep bass voice
- Spasmodic constriction of the trachea
- Little short cough, excited by a tickling and scraping in throat
- Abundant gelatinous expectoration, with small specks of blood
- Persistent cough in phthisis trachealis
- Slow, weak, anxious respiration
- Rattling, stertorous respiration
- Obstruction to respiration in region of stomach
- Asthmatic respiration as if lungs were incapable of being sufficiently dilated, or as if they were paralysed
- Pressure on chest
- Constriction of chest, with oppression
- Burning and stitches in chest
- In pulmonic affections, where the patient coughs and spits a great amount of phlegm, which is sprinkled over and through with distinct dots of blood
- Affections of l. chest
- Breast-scirrhus swells up suddenly, looks dark and angry, with shooting pains
- Pains in region of heart
- Slow and irregular beating of heart
- The patient puts his hand to his heart, as if there was some trouble there; this may result from running a short distance, which puts him completely out of breath; going upstairs, walking, any exercise may bring, this on
- Painful stiffness in l. side of neck and nape
- Compressed feeling in shoulders and nape, as well as in arms and back, with sudden palpitation which wakes her up at night
- Pressure in nape
- Spinal irritation; pain down back every four hours, darting up to head and chest and causing a feeling of suffocation, with constant sick feeling and drowsiness
- Sensation of a heavy lump falling from just above umbilicus to small of back
- Painful stiffness in small of back, when writing
- Stitches in r. side of small of back
- Severe pain in sacral region extending to pubis
- Burning in coccyx
- Acute drawings and shootings in shoulders and in arms
- Pressure on r. shoulder or in the joint
- In r. shoulder, pains as from lameness and stitches
- Stitch in both elbows
- Pain, as if sprained, in r. wrist-joint
- Burning sensation in hands, with swelling of the veins
- Trembling of hands
- Skin dry and rough between the fingers, with burning when touched with water
- Acute drawings and shootings in knees
- Pain, as if sprained in l. hip-joint
- Sticking in l. knee
- The feet go to sleep (when crossing legs or sitting)
- Ulcerated pains in lower part of heels
- Stiffness of feet after rising from a seat
- Numbness of feet
- Weak, anmic, emaciated girls
- Weak, apathetic, lies in bed in morning
- Suffocation, sickness, drowsiness
- Convulsive and spasmodic jerks, by fits
- Internal inflammation
- Trembling, esp. of hands and feet, during exercise in open air
- Sudden weakness, with excessive nervous dejection
- Apoplexy, and paralysis of limbs
- Painless paralysis of the limbs
- Fainting fits
- Drawing and tearing pains in limbs
- Pinching with sensation of tearing
- Coldness of inner parts; heat of single part; internal chilliness and external heat
- Want of vital energy, and of reaction
- Sense of fatigue in whole body
- Epileptic convulsions, with foaming at mouth, which is tightly closed
- Tetanus
- Painlessness of the ailments
- Pulse small
- Skin turns blue; toe- and finger-nails become knobby
- Symptoms < in evening
- > at night, and in open air
- > from sleep
- Frequent yawning, often accompanied by shuddering, with cutis anserina
- Insurmountable inclination to sleep during day and early in evening
- Deep snoring sleep
- Soporous condition
- Somnolence, sometimes like coma vigil
- Sleeplessness from over-excitement, and sudden heat
- Troublesome and agitated dreams
- Chilliness and febrile shivering, which are removed neither by heat of fire, nor by that of bed
- Shuddering, with cutis anserina, followed by burning heat
- Chilliness and heat in alternation
- Heat running down the back
- Perspiration during the heat and continuing all night
- Perspiration after eating
- Coldness over whole body, but esp. in feet, principally in open air
- Want of natural heat
- Pulse feeble, slow, and irregular, often imperceptible, again more rapid, seldom full and hard