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+ | ====== OXALICUM ACIDUM ====== | ||
+ | <span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Oxalicum Acidum.</span> | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Sorrel Acid. {{anchor:s3}}H2C2O4, 2 H2O.</span> | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s4}}Introduced by Neidhard in 1844; by Reil in 1851. | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s5}}Provings by Koch, Neidhard, Dubbs, Smith, Floto, Williamson, Kitching, Hering, Reil, Honigberger, Pehrson and Gosewich. {{anchor:s6}}See Hering's Amerikanische Arznei Prfungen. {{anchor:s7}}Toxicological reports are numerous. | ||
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+ | ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s9}}- <span grade2>Pain in umbilical region</span>, Moore, Organon, vol. 3, p. 269; <span grade2>Burning in abdomen</span>, Okie, Amer. {{anchor:s10}}Arznei Prf., p. 552; <span grade2>Colic</span>, Briry, Organon, vol. 3, p. 362; <span grade2>Inflammation of bowels</span>, Neidhard, Amer. {{anchor:s11}}Arnzei Prf., p. 522; <span grade2>Ineffectual urging to stool, Diarrhea</span>, Farrington, Organon, vol. 3, p. 99; <span grade2>Incontinence of urine</span>, W. M. J., Hom. Phys., vol. 6, p. 232; <span grade2>Disorders of pregnancy</span>, Williamson, Amer. {{anchor:s12}}Arznei Prf., p. 548; <span grade2>Congestion of left lung, Pneumonia</span>, Burnett, B. J. H., vol. 35, p. 321; <span grade2>Irregular action of heart</span>, C. Hg., Amer. {{anchor:s13}}Arnzei Prf., p. 561; Analyt. {{anchor:s14}}Therap., vol. 1, p. 222; <span grade2>Palpitation of heart</span>, Hale, Organon, vol. 2, p. 222; <span grade2>Angina pectoris</span>, Dudley, Hah. Mo., vol. 6, p. 70; <span grade2>Cerebro-spinal pains</span> (2 cases), Burnett, B. J. H., vol. 35, p. 519. | ||
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+ | ====== MIND. [1] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s16}}Diminished power to concentrate ideas.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s17}}Very much exhilarated; quicker thought and action.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s18}}As soon as he thinks about the pains they return.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s19}}Mania.</span>\\ {{anchor:s20}}Aversion to talk; with headache, fullness in face. | ||
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+ | ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s22}}Vertigo: with darkness before eyes and sweat; weakness and thirst; anxiety, headache and sweat; when looking out of window; when rising from a seat; a swimming sensation, when lying down.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Sensation of emptiness in head, faint feeling, as if all blood had left brain.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Upper part of body, particularly head, feels as if blood were coursing upward and outward. | ||
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+ | ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s26}}Dullness in forehead in morning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Dull headache of vertex and forehead, heaviness.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Burning sensation at forehead.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Headache in spots; pressing pain on small spots.</span>\\ {{anchor:s30}}Compression in head, as from a screw behind each ear.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Pain at a spot between vertex and occiput, pressing inwardly.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Headache agg. after wine, lying down, after sleep and on rising; amel. after stool. | ||
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+ | ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s34}}Small spots on head painful to touch.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s36}}Type blurs when reading.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s37}}Vanishing of sight, with giddiness and sweat; with nosebleed.</span>\\ {{anchor:s38}}Small, especially linear objects appear larger and more distant.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Pain in both orbits, agg. in left.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Bleared eyes. | ||
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+ | ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s42}}Sneezing, with chilliness; with watery coryza.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Red, shining swelling of right side of nose, beginning at tip and spreading.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Stitches in right nostril on taking a long inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Pimples in right side of nose; wing of nose swollen.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s46}}Epistaxis, with vanishing of sight.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s48}}Face pale and livid.</span>\\ {{anchor:s49}}Pale color with sunken eyes.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Feeling of heat in face.</span>\\ {{anchor:s51}}Feeling of fullness in face; face redder.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Face covered with cold sweat. | ||
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+ | ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s54}}Drawing pain, with rigidity near angle of lower jaw, first and longest in left then in right side. | ||
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+ | ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s56}}Pain in decayed molar.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Gums bleed, are painful in spots.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Small ulcers on gums. | ||
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+ | ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s60}}Sour taste.</span>\\ {{anchor:s61}}Tongue: swollen, sensitive; red, dry, burning; swollen, with a thick, white coating; coated white, with nausea, thirst and loss of taste. | ||
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+ | ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s63}}Watery saliva or mucus in mouth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s64}}Aphthae.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s66}}Dryness in throat (morning) after diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Scraping in throat, thick mucus accumulates.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Deglutition: especially painful mornings; difficult, with sour eructations.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Mucous secretion in throat increased.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s70}}Chronic sore throat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Angina.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s74}}Appetite: increased; wanting, with loss of taste.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Thirst, with vertigo, loss of appetite, nausea, colic. | ||
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+ | ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s77}}Pain in stomach, amel. after eating; soup relieves gnawing at stomach.\\ {{anchor:s78}}After eating, eructations, nausea, pains at navel, colic, rumbling in abdomen, urging to stool, weakness.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Sugar aggravates pain in stomach; and wine headache.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Sugar, coffee and wine disagree. | ||
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+ | ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}Sudden hiccough, with eructations.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s83}}Heartburn agg. in evening.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s84}}Eructations: empty or sour; of tasteless wind after each meal.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s85}}Nausea: and frequent vomiting; during pregnancy; thirst and colic after diarrhea.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s87}}Empty feeling, compelling one to eat.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}Burning pain in stomach and throat.</span>\\ {{anchor:s89}}Awakens at night with violent pressive pain, like a heavy weight, coming and going at intervals; flatulent discharge relieves.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Stomach sensitive; slightest touch causes excruciating pain.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s91}}Gastritis; gastro-enteritis.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s93}}Stitches in liver relieved by a deep breath.</span>\\ {{anchor:s94}}Continuous pain in left hypochondrium, as if bruised; stitches; incarcerated flatus. | ||
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+ | ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s96}}Colic: cutting in abdomen; rumbling (evening and night); with tenesmus; agg. at night, accompanied by vomiting; pains seem to occupy a small spot and radiate therefrom; agg. from motion; from eating sugar.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s97}}Burning and pain in abdomen; in umbilical region.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s98}}Burning in small spots in abdomen, return when thinking of them.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s99}}Frequent pain and soreness about navel.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s100}}Colic about navel, as if bruised, with stitches and difficult emissions of flatus; agg. on moving, amel. when at rest; agg. evening and night.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s101}}Man suffering for a long time from indigestion, was operated on for strangulated hernia two years ago; ever since subject to pain in umbilical region, coming on two hours after food, accompanied by much flatus and bitter, sour eructations; pain agg. at night, is roused by it about 3 A. M. and kept awake by it; burning sensation from throat downward to region of pain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s102}}Enteritis; chronic inflammation of bowels.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s104}}Difficult discharge of flatus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s105}}Frequent ineffectual urging to stool, preceded by a sick, distressed feeling from navel downward; agg. when thinking of it; at times profuse watery, gushing diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s106}}Suddenly seized with distressing feeling in whole abdomen, twisting around navel, bearing down; dark, muddy, copious evacuations, 6 A. M.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s107}}Morning diarrhea; stools soft or watery, with colic around navel and pressing in rectum; returning as soon as one lies down again.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s108}}~</span> <span grade2>Phthisis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Stool: of mucus and blood; involuntary.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s110}}Diarrhea: as soon as one drinks coffee; lying down causes return.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s111}}Before stool: headache; twisting colic around navel.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s112}}During stool: micturition; (fainting, vomiting); colic about navel; violent urging-griping pains in anus, so severe as to cause headache and heat in head.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s113}}After stool: nausea and cramp in calves; dryness in throat; relief of pain in small of back.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s114}}Constipation.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s115}}Pressing and straining in rectum; tenesmus.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s117}}Pain in region of kidneys.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s118}}Irritation of genito-urinary tract with diuresis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s119}}Frequent and copious urination, which is profuse, clear, straw-colored.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Burning in urethra, as from acrid drops.\\ {{anchor:s121}}When urinating, pain in glans penis.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s122}}Thinking of urinating causes necessity to urinate.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s123}}Nocturnal incontinence of urine; sharp, shooting pain in left chest, close to sternum and parallel to it.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s125}}Great increase of sexual desire.\\ {{anchor:s126}}On lying down, erections without any cause, afterwards testicles and cords pain.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Sexual debility; spermatorrhea.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s128}}Terrible neuralgic pains in spermatic cords, agg. from slightest motion.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s129}}Testicles feel contused and heavy; bruised pain in small of back.</span>\\ {{anchor:s130}}During a walk, pain and heaviness in testicles, shooting along cords. | ||
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+ | ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s134}}Nausea and painful vomiting; a tormenting, cramplike feeling between pit of stomach and navel; sour taste, heartburn and waterbrash.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s137}}Nervous aphonia, with cardiac derangement, violent palpitation and irregular action; change of voice, which becomes weak and hoarse; no soreness.</span>\\ {{anchor:s138}}Hoarseness; larynx feels swollen, contracted, raw, with tickling in it.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Hoarseness and sensation of mucus in larynx during talking.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s140}}Alteration of voice.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s142}}Great oppression of breath; slightly spasmodic.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s143}}Difficulty of breathing, with constrictive pain in larynx and wheezing; oppression more towards right side.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s144}}~</span> <span grade2>Angina pectoris.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s145}}Jerking inspiration and sudden, forced expiration, as though he made a sudden effort to relieve intense pain by expelling air from lungs.</span> <span sbitared>{{anchor:s146}}~</span> <span grade4>Angina pectoris.</span>\\ {{anchor:s147}}Paroxysms of short, hurried breathing, with intervals of ease. | ||
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+ | ====== COUGH. [27] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s149}}Cough: from tickling in larynx while walking in open air; larynx feels swollen; dry, on taking violent exercise; with soreness, stinging, tearing pain in sternum.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Mucus hawked up, thick, yellow white, with central black lump of size of pea. | ||
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+ | ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s152}}Sharp shooting pain in left lung and hepatic region.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s153}}Sudden lancinating in left lung, depriving him of breath.</span>\\ {{anchor:s154}}Rheumatic pains in left lung; amel. lying down.\\ {{anchor:s155}}When breathing, stitches in chest and above hip.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Dull, heavy, sore pain in chest.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Pain in middle of chest, through to back.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s158}}Congestion or inflammation, localized at base of left lung.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s159}}Phthisis pulmonalis.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s161}}Pain in heart; soreness, stitches from behind forward, or from above downward.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s162}}Sharp darting in heart and left lung, extending to epigastrium.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s163}}~</span> <span grade2>Angina pectoris.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s164}}Pain commencing in precordial region, extending up sternum and darting out across chest, particularly towards left side; sharp stitches or lancinating pains through chest, compelling him to keep perfectly quiet in one position, arms folded across chest; face haggard; trunk bolt upright in chair, and whole manner and appearance indicative of intense suffering; cramps in muscles of extremities; short, sharp cutting pains in extremities, especially arms and deltoid portion of shoulders; sense of suffocation; dyspnea manifested in short, jerking inspirations, quantity of air inspired being less and less at each successive effort, until at greatest intensity of paroxysm function seemed to be entirely suspended; paroxysms lasted about one minute, with intervals of about two minutes, during which there was almost perfect relief from pain; pulse accelerated, somewhat irregular in rhythm; strong conviction that he will die in next paroxysm; makes feeble effort to rise from chair, saying, "now I must go;" this expression being repeated twice or thrice during each paroxysm; has been troubled with ascarides nearly all his life, now more than usual; paralysis of lower extremities, lasting throughout attack; sharp, stitching pain in deltoid confined to a small space; costiveness; great prostration; pains mostly on right side; pains excited or agg. by motion; jerking pains like short stitches, confined to a small space and lasting but a few seconds; jerking inspiration and forced expiration, as though he made a sudden effort to relieve himself of intense pain by expelling air from lungs.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s165}}~</span> <span grade2>Angina pectoris.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s166}}Heart in a continual flutter.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s167}}Palpitation: with action of heart irregular in force and rhythm, alternating with aphonia; for half an hour after lying down in bed at night; when thinking of it; from rheumatic affection.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s168}}Occasional omission of one beat of heart, felt as "a stopping," causing patient to fear heart disease and sudden death; after an attack of cholera, cured by Quinine, this omission appeared as soon as he was talking or thinking of it.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s169}}Endocarditis; pericarditis; valvular insufficiency.</span>\\ {{anchor:s170}}Pulse: increased in frequency, almost imperceptible, coldness, clammy sweats, livid nails; more rapid in morning, slower, irregular, weak. | ||
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+ | ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s172}}Pain under point of scapula, between shoulders, extending to loins.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Stitches from chest into scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Acute pain in back gradually extending down thighs, with great torture; seeks relief in change of posture.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Pain in small of back, sensation of numbness, or as if broken or bruised.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s176}}Numbness, pricking, causing a cold sensation; back feels too weak to support body.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s177}}~</span> <span grade2>Angina pectoris.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s178}}Weakness in loins and hips, extending to lower extremities.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s179}}Tongue and mouth sore; at times pain in right side of head, occiput, small of back and calves; what distresses him most are cold chills across lower part of back and in calves of legs, beginning in spine just above sacrum; the chills are diurnal, being supplanted at night by heat as if there were warm water between flesh and bones; pains shoot up to occiput and head.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s180}}Aching pain in low part of back for three months; pain between shoulders; pain and tenderness along cervical vertebrae; pain in occiput, vertex and forehead off and on for weeks; all these pains are brought on or made agg. by any kind of movement or exertion.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s181}}~</span> <span grade3>Cerebrospinal pains.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s182}}Intense inflammatory pains all through back; meningitis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s183}}Paralysis from inflammation of spinal cord, limbs stiff; paroxysms of dyspnea. | ||
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+ | ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s185}}Twitch first in left, later in right deltoid, with inclination to move.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s186}}Numbness from shoulders to tips of fingers.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s187}}Sharp lancinating pains in arms.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s188}}~</span> <span grade2>Angina pectoris.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s189}}Right wrist constantly painful, as if sprained or dislocated.</span>\\ {{anchor:s190}}Right wrist feels sprained, wants to stretch it; cannot hold anything.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Pain in (r.) metacarpus and fleshy part of right thumb, with sensation of fullness, heat and numbness.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Hands feel heavy, can move fingers but slowly.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Hands cold, as if dead.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Arthritic pains in fingers, which are flexed.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Twitching of fingers.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Fingers and nails livid; dark nails. | ||
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+ | ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s198}}Restlessness in legs.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s199}}Lameness and stiffness in lower extremities.</span>\\ {{anchor:s200}}Legs stiff, numb, weak.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s201}}Legs cold, powerless.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s202}}~</span> <span grade2>Angina pectoris.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s203}}Blueness, coldness and almost complete immobility of lower extremities.</span>\\ {{anchor:s204}}Knees feel tired.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Very violent; contracting pain in external tendon of left knee. | ||
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+ | ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s207}}Extremities heavy, powerless, numb, weak.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s208}}~</span> <span grade2>Myelitis acuta.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s209}}Burning in hands and feet.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s210}}Articular rheumatism.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s214}}Motion and exercise increase the pains.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Rest: colic agg.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Lying down: swimming sensations; agg. headache; colic and diarrhea return; erections; pain in left lung amel.; palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Arms folded across chest, trunk bolt upright in a chair; angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Wants to stretch wrist.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Change of position; pains in back amel.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Motion: colic; terrible pains in spermatic cords agg.; pains agg.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Inclination to move: with twitches in deltoid.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Rising from a seat: vertigo; headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Can move fingers but slowly: heaviness.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Slightest exertion: heat. | ||
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+ | ====== NERVES. [36] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s226}}Muscular twitchings.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s227}}~</span> <span grade2>Myelitis acuta.</span>\\ {{anchor:s228}}Trembling convulsions.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Numbness of whole body; crawling.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s230}}Peculiar numbness approaching to palsy.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s231}}~</span> <span grade2>Angina pectoris.</span>\\ {{anchor:s232}}Loss of motory power.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s233}}Paralysis of left side.</span>\\ {{anchor:s234}}Paralysis from inflammation of spinal cord; limbs stiff; paroxysms of dyspnea. | ||
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+ | ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s236}}Yawning; sleepy during day.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Awakens at night: with palpitation; with a violent pressing pain, like a heavy weight, coming and going at intervals; amel. from emission of flatus.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Dreams, with fright and fear; sits up and looks around. | ||
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+ | ====== TIME. [38] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s240}}Morning: dullness in forehead; dryness in throat; deglutition painful; diarrhea; pulse more rapid; flying heat and sweat.\\ {{anchor:s241}}At 3 A. M.: roused by pain in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s242}}At 6 A. M.: evacuations.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Forenoon: heat in face.\\ {{anchor:s244}}During day: sleepy; chill.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Afternoon: diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Evening: heartburn agg.; rumbling in abdomen; colic agg.; sneezing; shaking chill with red face.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Night: violent pain in stomach; rumbling in abdomen; colic agg.; palpitation; heat; sweat clammy and cold. | ||
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+ | ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s249}}Open air: while walking tickling in larynx. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====== FEVER. [40] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s251}}Extremities cold, nails livid.</span>\\ {{anchor:s252}}Chilliness: with sneezing (evening); after diarrhea (afternoon).\\ {{anchor:s253}}Shaking chill, with red face (evening).\\ {{anchor:s254}}Creeping chill up spine.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Chill all day long, but heat from even slightest exertion.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Shaking chill in evening, with small contracted pulse, red face and a feeling of heat without external warmth, hands cold, as if dead.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Heat: from every exertion; especially in face and on hands; first in face, afterwards in left leg.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s258}}Flushes of heat, with sweat.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s259}}Sensation of an inward heat, most in face, forenoon.</span>\\ {{anchor:s260}}Flying heat and sweat in morning, with pain in forehead and vertex.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Sweat: clammy, with weakness; with giddiness; at night, clammy and cold.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Cold sweat covers face, hands and feet, tongue cool.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s263}}Typhoid fever, with delirium and involuntary diarrheic stools.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s265}}Symptoms recur in paroxysms; intermit for hours or a day.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Alternately: palpitation and aphonia.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Last about one minute, with intervals of about two minutes.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Paroxysms of pain in angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s269}}For half an hour after lying down at night: palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Two hours after food: pain in umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:s271}}For three months: pain in back. | ||
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+ | ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s273}}Pains appear in small longitudinal spots, or occupy a spot an inch or less in circumference.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Right: swelling of side of nose; stitches in nostrils; pimples in side of nose; oppression agg. on side; pains agg. on side; pain on side of head; wrist feels sprained; sprain in thumb.\\ {{anchor:s275}}Left: pain in orbit; pain in hypochondrium; sharp shooting pain in chest; lancinating in lung; rheumatic pain in lung; inflammation at base of lung; very violent pain in tendon of knee; paralysis of side; heat in leg.\\ {{anchor:s276}}First left then right: drawing pain in jaw; twitch in deltoid.\\ {{anchor:s277}}From behind forward: stitches in heart.\\ {{anchor:s278}}From above downward: stitches in heart.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Inwardly: pains in head. | ||
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+ | ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s281}}Jerking pains, like short stitches, confined to small spots, lasting only a few seconds.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Pains: greatly aggravated by thinking of them.\\ {{anchor:s283}}As if all blood had left brain; as if blood in head was coursing upward and outward; as from a screw behind each ear; as of a heavy weight in stomach; hypochondrium as if bruised; navel as if bruised; back as if broken or bruised; wrist as if sprained; hands as if dead; during shaving as from chafing.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Pain: between vertex and occiput; in both orbits; in decayed molar; in stomach; at navel; in left hypochondrium; in abdomen about navel; in region of kidneys; in glans penis; in testicles and cords; in middle of chest; through to back; in heart; in precordial region; up sternum and out across chest; under point of scapula, extending to loins; in small of back; in right side of head, occiput, small of back and calves; between shoulders; along cervical vertebrae; in right metacarpus and fleshy part of thumb.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Violent contracting pain: in external tendon of left knee.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Intense inflammatory pains: all through back.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Acute pain: in back, then down thighs.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Terrible neuralgic pains: in spermatic cords.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Sharp darting: in heart and left lung.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Lancinating: in left lung; through chest; in arms.\\ {{anchor:s291}}Sharp stitching pain: in deltoid.\\ {{anchor:s292}}Cutting: in abdomen; in extremities.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Tearing pain: in sternum.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Shooting pain: in left chest; along spermatic cords; in left lung and hepatic region.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Stitches: in right nostril; in liver; in chest and above hip; in heart; through chest; from chest into scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s296}}Constrictive pain: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s297}}Twisting colic: around navel.\\ {{anchor:s298}}Griping pains: in anus.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Cramp: in calves; in muscles of extremities.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Tormenting cramplike feeling: between pit of stomach and navel.\\ {{anchor:s301}}Bruised pain: in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Rheumatic pain: in left lung.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Arthritic pains: in fingers.\\ {{anchor:s304}}Drawing pain: near angle of lower jaw.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Aching: in vertex and forehead; in lower part of back.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Pressing pain: on small spots in head; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s307}}Dull, heavy, sore pain: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Stinging: in sternum.\\ {{anchor:s309}}Pricking: in back.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Soreness: in sternum; in heart; of tongue and mouth; about navel.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Burning: in forehead; in stomach and throat; in abdomen; in umbilical region; from throat to umbilical region; in urethra; in hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s312}}Heat: in face; in right thumb.\\ {{anchor:s313}}Pressing: in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Fullness: in face; in right thumb.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Dullness: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Scraping: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Sick, distressed feeling: from navel downward.\\ {{anchor:s318}}Tickling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s319}}Dryness: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Stiffness: of lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Lameness: of lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Emptiness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s323}}Numbness: in back from shoulders to tips of fingers; in right thumb; of legs; of whole body.\\ {{anchor:s324}}Cold sensation: in back.\\ {{anchor:s325}}Coldness: of hands; of legs.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Itching: on neck and fingers. | ||
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+ | ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s330}}Touch: small spots on head painful; slightest, causes excruciating pain.\\ {{anchor:s331}}Shaving: skin sensitive. | ||
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+ | ====== SKIN. [46] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s333}}Sensitive during shaving, as from chafing.\\ {{anchor:s334}}Exceedingly sensitive skin, with vesicular eruption; agg. from sweats.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Itching: on neck or fingers; eruption, with redness.\\ {{anchor:s336}}Smarting and soreness.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Skin mottled in circular patches; marbled skin.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Warts. | ||
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+ | ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s340}}Child, aet. 5; chronic inflammation of bowels.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Boy, aet. 10, fair complexion, blue eyes, has been under all sorts of treatment and taken much patent medicine for several years; incontinence of urine.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Ann W., aet. 16, suffering several months; cerebro-spinal pains.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Man, aet. 36, laborer, three years ago had hygroma of patella, brought on by much kneeling at work, has never felt the "same man" since this was backed by local applications; cerebro-spinal pains.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Man, aet. 45, carpenter, spare built, nervous bilious temperament, of good health generally, temperate in all his habits; angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s345}}Woman, aet. 50; congestion of left lung; later pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Man, aet. 50, fleshy; irregular action of heart.\\ {{anchor:s347}}Man suffering a long time from indigestion, operated on for strangulated hernia two years ago, since then suffering; pain in umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:s348}}Mr. F., wealthy man; omission of heartbeat. | ||
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+ | ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s350}}Antidoted by: Carbonates of Lime and Magnesia.\\ {{anchor:s351}}Compare: <span grade2>Arsen., Ipec.</span> and <span grade2>Veratr.</span> in cholera infantum; <span grade2>Colchic.</span> in gastralgia; <span grade2>Kreosot.</span> in gastric symptoms; <span grade2>Argent. met., Phos. ac.</span> and <span grade2>Picric ac.</span> in spinal disease. | ||
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+ | ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== | ||
+ | ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 08, 1889 | | ||
+ | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r164|Oxalicum acidum]] | | ||
+ | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r164|Oxalicum acidum]] | | ||
+ | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | | ||
+ | ^ Year: | 1889 | | ||
+ | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | | ||
+ | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |} | ||