MEDORRHINUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- for constitutional effects of maltreated and suppressed gonorrhoea
- for gout, rheumatism, neuralgia, and diseases of spinal cord traceable to sycotic origin
- chronic ovaritis, salpingitis, pelvic cellulitis, fibroids, cysts, especially if symptoms point to malignancy
- pale, rachitic children; dwarfed and stunted in growth; mentally dull and weak
- great heat and soreness, with enlargement of lymphatic glands
- consumptive languor; fatigue; great general depression of vitality
- pains: arthritic, rheumatic, sequel of suppressed gonorrhoea; constricting, seem to tighten the whole body
- sore all over, as if bruised
- trembling all over (subjective), intense nervousness and profound exhaustion
- state of collapse, want to be fanned all the time; craves fresh air; skin cold, yet throws off covers
- weakness of memory; cannot remember names, words or initial letters; forgets his own name
- cannot spell correctly; constantly loses thread of conversation; cannot speak without weeping; anticipates death
- irritated at trifles; cross during day, exhilarated at night; very impatient; peevish
- time passes too slowly; many symptoms < when thinking of them
- intense burning pain in brain, < in cerebellum; extends down spine
- head feels heavy and is drawn backwards
- headache and diarrhoea from jarring of ears
- sensation as if she had taken a severe cold; throat sore and swollen, deglutition impossible
- throat filled with thick, gray or bloody mucus from posterior nares
- ravenous hunger immediately after eating; constant thirst
- insatiate craving for liquor, salt, sweets, ale, ice, acids, oranges, green fruit
- stools tenacious, clay-like, sluggish; cannot strain from sensation of prolapse of rectum
- can only pass stool by leaning very far back; very painful
- oozing of moisture from anus, fetid odor of fish brine
- severe pain (backache) in renal region, > by profuse urination
- renal colic; intense pain in ureters
- nocturnal enuresis: passes enormous quantity of ammoniacal, high colored urine in bed every night
- menses profuse, dark, clotted; stains difficult to wash out
- intense menstrual colic, with drawing up of knees and terrible bearing down pains
- intense pruritus of labia and vagina < by thinking of it
- breasts and nipples sore and sensitive; breasts cold as ice to touch (during menses)
- asthma: choking caused by weakness or spasm of epiglottis; > only by lying on face and protruding tongue
- dyspnoea and sense of constriction; can inhale with ease, but no power to exhale
- cough: dry, incessant, severe; < at night, from sweets, on lying down; > by lying on stomach
- pain in back between scapulae; spine sore to touch
- intense burning heat from nape down spine
- rheumatism of top of shoulder and arm, < by motion
- pain in sacrum, coccyx, and back of hips
- heaviness of legs, feel like lead; intensely restless and fidgety legs and feet
- aching in legs, inability to keep them still in bed
- burning of hands and feet, wants them uncovered and fanned
- painful stiffness of every joint; great tenderness of heels and balls of feet
- amelioration: at the seashore; lying on stomach; damp weather