RUMEX CRISPUS
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Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Abortion
- Aphonia
- Asthma
- Borborygmi
- Bronchitis
- Catarrh
- Corns
- Coryza
- Cough
- Diarrha
- Dyspepsia
- Epistaxis
- Feet, tender
- Gastralgia
- Heart, pain in; affections of
- Indigestion
- Irritation
- Lichen
- Mouth, ulceration of
- Phimosis
- Phthisis
- Prurigo
- Rheumatism
- Throat, sore ulcerated
- Trachea, affections of
- Urticaria
- Sensitiveness to cold air
- Cough caused by an incessant tickling in throat-pit
- Tickling runs down to the bifurcation of the bronchial tubes
- Touching the throat brings on the cough
- Cough relieved by covering up all the body and head with the bed-clothes
- Itching of surface of lower limbs while undressing
- Diarrha in the early morning, driving the patient out of bed
- Diarrha after catarrh
- Cough causes expulsion of urine
- Cough causes expulsion of the ftus in pregnant women
- Cough very dry, harsh, loud, shaking, < at night, preventing sleep, excited instantly by pressure on the trachea
- Cough beginning with tickling behind top of sternum, sometimes in paroxysms lasting for five to ten minutes
- Trachea sore to external pressure; feels excoriated through its whole extent, as also do the fauces
- Cough is excited by pressure on throat-pit
- Violent cough with scanty difficult expectoration
- Shakes head as if it would fly to pieces and chest so that he feels he might raise blood any minute
- Paroxysms exhaust him
- Headache during cough
- Lying on left side <
- Lying on right side >
- At 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. <
- Irregularity of respiration induces cough
- Cough when eating
- Shootings from pit of stomach into chest in various directions
- Sharp pains in left chest
- Dull aching in forehead and slight nausea
- Pain in pit of stomach, aching in left chest, flatulence, eructations, pains and distension in stomach after meals
- Sensation of fulness and pressure in pit of stomach extending up towards throat, carried down on swallowing and rising again to throat
- Aching in pit of stomach and aching above it in chest, and especially on each side of lower end of sternum
- Lump in throat, not > by hawking or swallowing; it descends on deglutition, but immediately returns
- Eyes pain as if from dryness
- Tongue as if burned
- Hard substance in pit of stomach
- Bunch in throat or behind sternum
- Pressure of a stick in rectum
- As if urine could not long be retained
- As if she could not get another breath
- As if air did not penetrate chest
- As if a feather swaying to and fro in bronchi
- As if head would fly to pieces (with cough)
- As if he might raise blood any minute
- As if cough did not reach low enough to raise phlegm
- As if heart suddenly stopped
- Sternum feels sprained
- Raw feeling under clavicles
- Hands cold when coughing
- Symptoms are < by touch; pressure; riding
- Symptoms are < by cold; > by warmth
- Symptoms are < change: warm to cold or cold to warm; changing rooms
- Symptoms are < lying down (pain in pit of stomach > lying perfectly quiet)
- Symptoms are < lying on left side; burning in left side
- Symptoms are > lying right side
- Symptoms are < talking
- Symptoms are < deep inspiration; or irregularity of breathing
- Symptoms are < walking
- Symptoms are < evening and night; and morning on waking, 3.30 and 11 p.m., 2 to 5 a.m.
- Symptoms are < when eating and after meals
- Symptoms are > discharge of offensive flatus
- Low-spirited
- Serious expression of face
- Suicidal mood
- Irritable
- Disinclined to mental exertion
- Indifference to surroundings
- Stagnation of ideas, lassitude, and uneasiness
- Headache after waking in morning, preceded by a disagreeable dream
- Dull (and bruised) pains: on r. side; in occiput; in forehead with bruised feeling, < on motion
- Darting pain or sharp piercing in l. side of head
- Catarrhal headache with great irritation of larynx and trachea, clavicular pain and soreness behind sternum
- Bruised sensation on waking, continued till noon, disappeared suddenly after dinner
- Headache < in open air
- Pungent drawing in l. occiput with a similar pain in l. nostril and feeling as if coryza would ensue
- Pain in eyes as from dryness
- Lids inflamed, < evening
- Sore feeling in eyes without inflammation
- Deep-seated pain in r. eye
- Sharp, shooting pain in (and over) l. eye
- Ringing in ears
- Itching deep in ears
- Pain, throbbing, stopped sensation in ears
- Great desire to pick nose
- Nose obstructed
- Dry sensation, even in posterior nares
- Sudden, sharp, tingling sensation in Schneiderian membrane, followed by violent and rapid sneezing five or six times in succession, with watery discharge
- Violent sneezing with watery coryza and headache, < evening and night
- Accumulation of mucus about posterior nares
- Yellow mucus discharged through posterior nares
- Epistaxis, violent sneezing, and painful irritation of nostrils
- Influenza with violent catarrh, followed by bronchitis
- Great paleness of face while standing
- Heat of face; redness < evenings; dull headache; with pulsations over whole body
- Pain in side of face, including r. temple and ear; also l. side of upper lip
- Pain in r. jaw, morning
- After retiring late at night, lancinating pains in lower jaw at root of l. canine teeth
- Pain in teeth of both sides, morning
- Toothache: entirely > after eating dinner; > by rinsing mouth with cold water
- Grumbling stinging toothache in r. upper molars, while riding in a cold wind; with pain in forehead
- Tongue coated: white; yellow; yellowish-brown, or reddish-brown
- Dryness of anterior part of tongue, with sense of repletion in stomach and as if one had eaten spice
- Sensation of excoriation at edges of tongue
- Front of tongue dry and hot
- Soreness of r. edge of tongue
- Sensation as if tongue and mouth burnt
- Ulceration of mouth and throat
- Taste: bitter (mornings); nasty; flat (on rising)
- Flow of saliva
- Scraping in throat; excoriated feeling with secretion of mucus in upper part
- Sensation of a lump in throat, not > by hawking or swallowing; it descends on swallowing, but immediately returns
- Sensation of a lump in sophagus
- Aching in pharynx with collection of tough mucus in fauces
- Catarrhal affections of throat and fauces
- Throat dry, swallowing difficult; pain in l. side on swallowing
- Appetite: much increased lost
- Thirst
- After meals: flatulency; heaviness in stomach or epigastrium aching in l. breast; pressure and distension in stomach
- Nausea in night before diarrha
- Sensation of hard substance in pit of stomach
- Fulness and pressure in pit of stomach extending toward throat-pit; descends with every empty deglutition but immediately returns
- Tight, suffocative, heavy ache in epigastrium, through to back; clothes seem too tight; weak feeling in epigastrium, all < when talking; frequently takes a long breath
- Shooting from pit of stomach to chest; sharp in l. chest; slight nausea; dull aching in forehead
- Aching and shooting in pit of stomach and above it on each side of sternum
- Eructations; empty; tasteless
- Hiccough
- Pyrosis
- Nausea; > by eructations
- Nausea and vertigo while dressing in morning, compelling him to lie down again
- Sensation of undigested food and upward pressure in throat-pit
- Severe pain in digestive organs on waking
- Pain in stomach with the pain in the lungs
- Burning and cutting in stomach
- Pain in hypochondrium from walking or deep inspiration
- Griping near navel partially > by discharge of offensive flatus; flatulent colic soon after a meal
- Pain occurring or < during inspiration
- Sensation of heaviness and fulness in abdomen with rumbling
- Borborygmus
- Pain in abdomen in morning, followed by a stool
- Colic from a cold, with cough
- Stools: painless, offensive, profuse; brown or black, thin or watery; preceded by pain in abdomen
- Before stool: sudden urging, driving him out of bed in morning
- Morning diarrha, with cough from tickling in throat-pit
- Diarrha 6 to 10 a.m.
- Copious diarrhic stool with colic pain just above hypogastrium, and a very disagreeable rumbling in bowels together with nausea and loss of appetite; these sensations continued throughout the day with four or five evacuations which passed away in a stream as if a large quantity would be discharged; nevertheless each discharge was suddenly arrested, and the inclination passed away entirely for a short time; but on rising the urgency returned, and on returning to the closet a new stream poured forth as before
- Fces black; scanty
- Constipation for several days, followed by a dry, hard stool
- Itching at anus with discharge of offensive flatus
- Sensation as from pressure of a rough stick forced up rectum, painful on walking
- Hmorrhoids protrude; much heat and itching at anus, and sensation as if a foreign body there
- Sudden urging
- Frequent inclination with feeling as if urine could not long be retained
- Involuntary micturition with cough
- Copious colourless urine in afternoon
- Urine less copious, flocculent deposit, oily surface; marked brick-dust sediment
- Tendency to phimosis
- During evening feeling of soreness and excoriation, with redness of end of prepuce
- Itching of prepuce
- Sexual desire diminished; lost
- Hoarseness < evenings: voice uncertain
- Voice: changes suddenly on two consecutive days at 2 p.m. rose several notes; higher with catarrh nasal
- Aphonia after exposure to cold
- (Reflex aphonia from tubercle of l. apex.)
- Tenacious mucus in larynx, constant desire to hawk
- Violent irritation to cough in larynx while eating (at three meals)
- (Cough all day, > lying down at night.)
- Pain in top of larynx; mostly l. side
- Dry, spasmodic cough, like beginning of whooping-cough; in paroxysms; preceded by tickling in throat-pit, with congestion and slight pains in head, and wrenching pains in r. chest; began a few minutes after lying down at night (11 p.m.); lasted 10 to 15 minutes, after which he slept all right; a less severe paroxysm in bed on waking and throughout day this lasted two weeks, when he began to expectorate adhesive mucus in small quantities, detached with difficulty
- Hacking cough
- Cough < by any irregularity of breathing
- Hoarse, hacking cough 11 p.m. and 2 to 5 a.m.
- Cough with pain behind mid-sternum
- Pressure on throat = cough
- Dry, tickling, spasmodic cough, with tenderness in larynx and trachea, rendering cough quite painful
- Teasing periodical cough, < in cool air or by anything which increases the volume or rapidity of inspired air
- Cough < from changing rooms
- Cough originally caused by inhaling extremely cold air during winter, < lying down, esp. 11 p.m.
- Cough provoked by change from cold to warm or warm to cold
- Cough < lying l. side; > lying r. > covering up mouth; > wearing respirator
- Sensation of breathlessness as if air did not penetrate chest; or as when falling or passing rapidly through the air
- Frequent feeling as if she could not get another breath
- Clavicular pain; raw pain just under each clavicle while hawking mucus from throat
- Pain in chest: in both sides; dull aching in anterior part, with headache and belching
- Sharp stitching or stinging through l. lung
- Acute stitch along l. margin of sternum
- Burning stinging: in l. side near heart; in whole l. chest suddenly when taking a deep inspiration while in act of lying down in bed at night
- At 3.30 p.m., while writing, at desk, stitches in substance of l. lung
- Burning, shooting pain in r. chest
- Sharp pain near l. axilla
- Pain in centre of l. lung
- Sternum feels sprained
- Great pressure and sense of depression in upper part of breast
- Very sharp pain in breast running r. to l.
- Sharp cutting pain in l. breast at noon lasting an hour
- Heart feels as if it suddenly stopped beating; followed by a heavy throbbing
- Dull pain in region of heart, with dull pain and heaviness in l. upper arm, esp. elbow
- Dull pain in heart on deep inspirations
- Burning in region of heart
- Severe stinging in region of heart, extending through chest to apex of l. scapula, with frequent desire to take a deep breath, which < the pain (afternoon for two or three hours)
- Sharp pain in l. side of heart
- Palpitation: after supper; < going upstairs; violent with throbbing carotids
- Sensation as if a thread were tightly tied round neck just below ears, with a slight roaring in the ears
- Pain: in back of neck; running down back
- Aching between scapul
- Stinging burning just below inferior angle of l. scapula; followed and accompanied by stinging, almost itching pain l. chest just below nipple
- Pain under r. scapula
- Pain in l. scapula
- Burning pain in small of back near tip of r. sacro-iliac joint
- Sore pain in l. sacro-iliac joint, lame as from over-lifting; < by sudden motion; followed by pulsation in nates
- Aching and sense of great fatigue in loins
- Twitching of r. arm and leg
- Pain in upper and lower limbs of same or opposite side
- Pains in shoulder down to elbow, arms feel strained
- Hands cold when coughing
- Bruised aching and stinging pain in arms, hands, elbows, and r. wrist
- Stitching in back of r. hip; limping walk
- Legs ache
- Stitch-like pain in knee-joint when standing
- Legs covered with small red pimples
- Feet cold
- Feet sensitive, stinging in corns
- Tender feet
- Lassitude and weariness
- Restless in evening
- Pains not fixed or constant anywhere
- Throbbing through whole body
- Unusual sensitiveness to cold or open air
- Itching in various parts, < on lower limbs
- Eruption covered uniformly several regions of skin, with exception of face; itching more of a pricking than a burning; < by cold, > by warmth
- Contagious prurigo or army itch
- Stinging-itching or prickling itching of skin
- Vesicular eruption, itching when uncovered and exposed to cool air
- Periodic itch
- Urticaria; < in open air
- Sleep: disturbed; wakeful, restless; short naps and unpleasant fancies, even when awake
- Unpleasant dreams; of danger and trouble; early in the morning; of being naked in the street; of murders; of autopsies
- Wakes early with headache
- Chilly, < on back; colic, nausea, stitches near middle of chest
- Increased frequency of pulse and afternoon fever
- Sensation of heat, followed by that of cold, without shivering
- Flushes of heat, < on cheeks
- Sweat on waking from a sound sleep