PEDICULUS
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Children, diseases of
- Colic
- Diarrha
- Ganglion of foot
- Hair, falling off
- Irritation
- dema
- Psora, hereditary
- Skin, affections of
- Stammering
- Eagerness and aptitude for study and work
- Constriction of pharynx
- Jerks and starts in evening when sitting or lying
- Miliary eruptions, itching, and formication almost all over
- Excessive merriment, laughs at everything
- Causeless melancholy
- Irritability, causeless anger
- Entire carelessness about present or future
- Disposition for study, quick of apprehension, eager for work, writes with feverish rapidity
- Confusion, on rising, with beating in r. temple
- Headache, with pressure on root of nose, on orbits, with lancinations
- Hair ceases to fall out
- Horripilation of l. half of scalp
- Contraction of scalp
- Sensation as if lifted up by the hair
- Itching of scalp as if lice were running all over it
- Rings round eyes
- Eyes, weary, smart as if from weeping
- Sight dim, brain feels compressed
- Heat in ears
- Roaring in ears
- Cracking in r. ear, when eating
- Whizzing in ears when whistling
- Inflammation of nasal foss
- Lancinations in root of nose
- Face deep red, scarlet
- Swelling of l. cheek
- Lips, dry, swollen, very red, black and cracked
- Burning and pricking on sides of tongue, which is red and much cracked
- Dryness, scraping, soreness, constriction of throat
- Constant swallowing of saliva
- Hunger with inability to swallow food, the pharynx feels contracted, followed by faintness and nausea
- Constant nausea, difficult digestion with contraction in stomach
- Violent colic making her scream and weep for half an hour at 9 p.m.
- Colic and diarrha after dinner
- Diarrha in evening, continuing next morning
- Small, hard stool
- Frequent and copious discharge of yellowish green urine, with stool almost every day
- Urine light yellow and very odoriferous
- Prolonged erection, without desire
- Emission at night without amorous dreams
- Very painful lancinations, great heat, and itching in uterus
- Shifting pain in uterus, she cannot lean upon it, evening
- Painful stitch in uterus
- Leucorrha
- Dry, spasmodic cough
- Suffocative feeling in chest, which is painful to touch
- Chest pains < by contact
- Pain in breasts when drawing breath
- Bruised pain in shoulders and arms, which are very sensitive to touch
- Hands tremble so much she cannot sew
- Great weakness of legs
- Violent lancinations above r. and l. patella
- Throbbing in l. patella
- Ganglion under foot, very painful when walking
- Skin comes off front of l. leg in patches
- Swelling of breast, face, and almost whole body set in, accompanied by several of symptoms of last days of proving, esp. constriction of pharynx
- Increased physical strength
- Jerks and startings in evening
- Numbness while drawing breath, shuddering and rigors
- Great weariness when standing, dizziness and faint feeling
- Red spots on cheeks, white spots on hands
- Red face, hands, feet
- Miliary pimples, on red base and swollen in centre, at nape of neck
- Miliary eruption on inside of arms, forearms, and thighs
- Small red pimples with black points
- After putting feet in hot water they are covered with small red pimples
- Horripilation all over
- Itching and pricking all over
- Itching r. on wrists, on beard, on nape, face and scalp, backs of hands, backs and soles of feet
- Yawning
- Drowsy
- Restless sleep
- Dreams, frightful, monstrous, of a hospital, full of vermin, amorous, confused, of being pursued
- Coldness with rigors
- Heat and dryness of extremities
- Heat, head burning hot, face bright red, of hands
- Sweat of face
- Sweat (cold) of feet, followed by great coldness