Abdomen – Abdomen – Chapter 19 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

Main

Injuries :-

(See Inguinal
region, Hernia.)

Blows :-

Arn.

Contusions

(erysipelas) :-
Apis.

Concussion, from, or
overlifting :-

Bry.

Gunshot wounds :-

Arn.,
Calen., Hyper.,
Ruta.

Lacerations :-

Calen.

Straining :-

Rhus-t.

Surgical
operations :-

Acon.,
Bism., Calen., Hyper., Staph.

Irritation :-

During
dentition :-

Ter.

During menses :-

Nux-m.

Deep seated, causes
melancholy :-

Sabad.

Deep seated, causes
nervous diseases :-

Sabad.

Itching :-

Bell.,
Cist., Graph.,
Petr., Sep.,
Sulph.

Biting, with
jaundice :-

Merc.

Burning :-

Ter.

Fleabites, as
from :-

Thuj.

Lower, of, as if
bitten :-

Carb-ac.

Menses, during :-

Graph.

Navel, about :-

Gamb.

Navel, 1 inch above, in
a small spot, size of a finger point :-

Ars-met.

Night, at :-

SULPH.

Scratching, better by,
soon appears in a place near the spot :-

Pall.

Stool, after, in
dysentery :-

Sulph.

Troublesome, every
evening :-

Cact.

Undressing,
when :-

Cact.

Jerking
feeling

(See
Muscles, Twitching.) :-
Carbn-s., Puls.,
Rhus-t.

Asleep, when :-

Ant-t.

Intestines, in :-

Chel.

Intestines, in lower,
in direction of perineum :-

Bell.

Muscles, and sharp
cutting in, awakes with a scream at 12 P.M. :-

Lac-ac.

Towards glans
penis :-

Calc.

Knots :-

(See Hardness,
Muscles.)

Intestines feel as if
strung in knots :-

Sulph.

Intestines feel
twisted, as if by cord and strung together in a knot, strangulating
sensation and black stool :-

Elaps.

Intestines feel as if
tied in knots, with constant distress in region of umbilicus :-

Polyp.

Muscles, in
recti :-

Plb.

Bowels, in rheumatism
of :-

Plb.

Labor-like
pains

(See Bearing
down, Constriction,
Pressing.) :-
Cham., Ign.

Chest, into, during
menses :-

Con.

Colic, with, pressing
downward, urging to stool and urine, with scanty discharge :-

Eug.

Contractions,
like :-

Con.

Cramps, after
menses :-

Kreos.

Drawing, in intestinal
canal

(ague) :-
Nat-m.

Drawing, with, in upper
abdomen to small of back, and pressing towards lumbar vertebræ,
with flushes of heat in face, palpitation, frequent pulse,
ineffectual urging to urinate, finally small quantities of hot urine
are passed :-

Kreos.

Groins, down :-

Sabin.

Hæmorrhage, in
uterine :-

Ferr.

Hips, to, and
back :-

Sul-ac.

Menses, before :-

Apis,
Dig., Thuj.

Menses, during :-

Agar.,
Calc., Cycl.,
Nit-ac.,
Puls., SEC.,
Sulph.

Navel, about, to small
of back and thighs

(induration
of uterus) :- Carb-an.

Radiating to back and
loins :-

Bell.

Recurring, as if menses
would appear :-

Cina.

Standing, while :-

Rhus-t.

Stool, during, better
by pressure :-

Nat-m.

Lameness :-

Pelvis, in :-

Mang.

Pain in left, down
leg :-

Carb-v.

Pelvis, in, worse when
getting warm in bed :-

Puls.

Menses, after :-

Chin.

Lancinating

(See Cutting,
Darting, Shooting,
Stitches.) :-
Cadm-s., Carb-an.,
Carb-v.

Chest, to, worse
breathing, also during urination :-

Clem.

Colic, with :-

Jatr.

Colon, in middle of
ascending :-

Cahin.

Dysentery, in :-

Dios.

Falling back, with, of
head, and loss of senses :-

Spig.

Flying :-

Coloc.

Knives, as if, were
plunged in :-

Con.

Lower, in, like pin
pricks on every movement

(scirrhus
uteri) :- Arg-m.

Peritonitis, in :-

Ars.

Rumbling, with, as if
intestinal contents were in a fluid state, from below upward,
nausea, liquid feces discharged with force, pain in loins :-

Polyg.

Sides, in :-

Ign.

Sudden, sharp, in right
side, worse from motion

(pneumonia) :-
Phos.

Waking at 6
A.M. :-

Ars-met.

Womb, from, and ovaries

(uterine
polypi) :- Con.

Large :-

Bar-c., Coloc.,
Iod., Iris, Ol-j., Podo.,
Sep.

Abscesses of
head :-

Merc.

Children, in :-

BAR-C.,
Cupr., SIL.

Children, in,
marasmus :-

Sars.

Children, in poor,
puny, rachitic

(constipation) :-
Mag-m.

Diarrhœa, in chronic,
with lumbrici :-

Calc.

Eyes, in scrofulous
inflammation of :-

Ferr-i.

Fat, excessive amount
of :-

Am-m.

Full, feels, and
heavy :-

Lyc.

Headache, in
nervous :-

Naja.

Limbs emaciated :-

SULPH.

Liver, in affection
of :-

Mag-m.

Marasmus, in :-

Calc.

Pain, sharp, running
from groin to socket of right hip :-

Murx.

Pendulous :-

Sec.

Potbellied, in chronic
inflammation of eyes and otorrhœa, after vaccination :-

Thuj.

Potbellied
mothers :-

SEP.

Potbellied, in spinal
curvature, after vaccination :-

Thuj.

Potbellied, with
worms :-

Chel.

Pregnancy, in
false :-

Puls.

Pregnancy, as in, at
6th month, from accumulation of fluid

(ovarian
cyst) :- Iod.

Protuberant, in
hydrocephalus :-

Calc.

Soft as mush, softest
around navel :-

Zinc.

Summer complaint, in,
of children :-

Ip.

Tabes mesenterica,
in :-

Iod.

Urine, with
milky :-

Calc.

Weak persons,
in :-

Kali-p.

Lightning-like
pains :-

Shooting in all
directions, even extending down to testicles, and at times involving
bladder

(colic) :-
Op.

Lump,
sensation of :-

(See
Plug, Stones.)

In left lower :-

Nux-m.

Lower, in

(uterine
disease) :- Nux-m.

About navel :-

Rheum.

Lying :-

Turns over on
abdomen :-

Cic.

With head retracted so
that it almost touches spine, after falling down stairs :-

Rhus-t.

Marasmus :-

(See Mesenteries ;
also Emaciation,
Marasmus, Chapter 44 :
Tissues.)

Mesenteries :-

(See Distended,
Emaciated, Hardness,
Large.)

Atrophy :-

CALC.,
Ol-j.

Diseased :-

Calc.,
Nat-m.

Diseased, swelling,
hardness and tension of abdomen, frequent lienteric stools

(favus) :-
Olnd.

Enlarged :-

Bar-c.,
Bar-m.,
Bor., Carb-an.,
Chim., Con.,
Iod., Ol-j.

Enlarged, after abuse
of iodine preparations :-

Grat.

Enlarged, in
scrofulosis :-

Chim.

Enlarged, in
tuberculosis mesenterica :-

Iod.

Enlarged, to size of a
walnut, blackish red masses, held together by jelly-like congestive
tissue, infiltrated with serum :-

Anthraci.

Hard :-

Bar-c.,
Bar-m.,
Bor., Con.,
Form.

Hard, in
children :-

CALC.

Hard, in
scrofula :-

Ars.

Infiltrated, rapid
suppuration of lungs with formation of cavities and purulent
exudation into cavity of thorax :-

Phos.

Inflamed, in
tuberculosis mesenterica :-

Iod.

Tabes
mesenterica :-

Ars-i.,
Aur., Bar-c., Iod., Kali-i.,
Ol-j., Petr.,
Tub.

Tabes with
hypertrophied glands, in fleshy, flabby subjects :-

Kreos.

Tabes, incipient, with
fetid diarrhœa :-

Calc-p.

Tuberculosis
mesenterica :-

Hep.,
Iod., Tub.

Motion,
internal

(See
Flatus, Muscles,
Nerves, Twisting.) :-
Coloc., Ran-b.,
Zing.

Alive, as of
something :-

Arund.,
Calc-p.,
Croc., Sabin.,
Spong., Thuj.

Alive, of something,
with difficult stool :-

Sabad.

Ball, as if a, were
moving from right side toward stomach :-

Lach.

Ball, as of a, rolling
about, when turning over

(uterine
displacement, cystitis) :-
Lach.

Ball, as if a, of
thread were moving and turning rapidly, with colic :-

Sabad.

Bounding, during
menses :-

Croc.

Colic, as though, would
occur :-

Nux-m.

Colon, along tract of
ascending and descending, after going to bed, a kind of
rolling :-

Sarr.

Diarrhœa, as if, would
follow :-

Sars.

Distended, in, with
passage of offensive flatus :-

Carb-an.

Faint, as if he
would :-

Calad.

Fist, as of the, of a
child :-

Sulph.

Flatus :-

Bry.

Fluttering :-

Brach.

Fœtus, as from a

(false
pregnancy) :- Puls.

Iliac region, in right,
sensation of a lump size of a hen’s egg, rising and falling :-

Hydr.

Iliac region, in right,
sudden starting bounding, as of something alive :-

Thuj.

Intestines, in,
constant :-

Cham.

Intestines, in, on
expiration, around umbilicus :-

Card-m.

Intestines, spasmodic,
after attack of epilepsy :-

Bufo.

Intestines, in,
spasmodic action of muscular tissues from irritation of motor nerves
or rheumatism :-

Caul.

Jerks, painful, from
place to place as of something alive :-

Cann-i.

Kicking in left :-

Calc-p.

Left, in :-

Calc-p.

Lower, in, as if
bubbles were forming and bursting :-

Tarax.

Lower, in, like pushing
of abdominal muscles by the arm of a child, without pain

(old
maids) :- Thuj.

Living, as if
something, were jumping about, with nausea, faintness and
shivering :-

CROC.

Live, of a thousand,
things, or of fish turning over each other

(hepatic
derangement) :- Podo.

Lump, as of a, rising
from right to throat, and back again, rolling over and over on
coughing :-

Kali-c.

Menses, as at
appearance of, followed by yellowish leucorrhœa :-

Inul.

Navel, above :-

Verat.

Night, at, on awaking,
she experiences repeated kicks as from a fœtus in left side :-

Croc.

Pieces, as if there
were hard, in motion, on walking rapidly :-

Bor.

Quivering, as if there
were something alive in it, resembling fœtal movement :-

Sabin.

Rises and falls rapidly

(tetanus) :-
Ars.

Rolling, as if
something alive were there, with spasmodic griping in præcordial
region

(supposed
tænia) :- Sep.

Running, as of
something alive :-

Cycl.

Rumbling, with, as if
diarrhœa would come on :-

Helon.

Snake, like the motion
of a, elevated and depressed :-

Mosch.

Stinging, with slight,
in middle :-

Lyss.

Stool, before :-

Stann.

Stool, like efforts
to :-

Berb.

Throbbing, peculiar,
undulating and :-

Merl.

Turning, as from a
lump :-

Sabad.

Up and down, as of
something moving :-

LYC.

Working,
constant :-

Corn.

Worm, as of a, crawling
on right side :-

Arund.

Worm, as if a long,
were writhing in region of transverse colon or duodenum :-

Calad.

Muscles :-

(See Bruised,
Contraction, Hardness,
Knots, Motion,
Quivering, Retracted,
Soreness, Spasm,
Twitching.)

Action, violent, during
inspiration :-

Spong.

Bruised, as if, on
touch, motion, coughing, or laughing :-

Nux-v.

Contraction :-

Ant-t.,
Arg-m., Ferr-m.,
Tab.

Contracted by
cardialgia :-

Bism.

Contracted, in sporadic
cholera :-

Verat.

Contracted, after
exposure to a draught or too much exertion in walking, feels hard to
touch :-

Petr.

Contracted, left side,
with burning, he bends over to left side :-

Sabad.

Contracted, in
traumatic tetanus :-

Hydr-ac.

Chronic cramps :-

Mosch.

Diminished excitability
of :-

Chlol.

Drawing :-

Asaf.

Excoriation, sensation
of, caused by paroxysmal cough :-

Hyos.

Exert, must forcibly,
to breathe :-

Apis.

Jerking, when
asleep :-

Ant-t.

Jerking, under
skin :-

Nux-v.

Motion, in constant, as
after running fast :-

Cupr.

Myalgia, after abuse of
purgatives :-

Podo.

Oblique, firm, hard,
and somewhat enlarged

(Duchenne
pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis) :-
Phos.

Pain, acute,
intermitting :-

BAPT.

Pain, along digitation
of oblique abdominis and serratus magnus, from working in a
constrained position :-

Arn.

Pain, while
sitting :-

Hyos.

Rigidity :-

Lyss.

Rigidity,
tetanic :-

Hyper.

Sleep, go to :-

Petr.

Sore :-

Carb-ac.,
CIMIC.

Spasmodic
movements :-

CUPR.

Strained from reaching
too high :-

Alumn.

Tension :-

Arg-m.

Tingling :-

Petr.

Trembling :-

Daph.

Twitching :-

Agar.,
Bell., Hyos.,
Nux-v.

Undulatory jumping in
upper, of muscles :-

Agar.

Wandering pain :-

Berb.

Nausea :-

(See Sick
feeling, also Nausea
Abdomen, Chapter 16 :
Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting.)

Alternates with facial
neuralgia :-

Lach.

Diarrhœa, with
papescent :-

Pæon.

Frequent, fluid stools,
with :-

Spong.

Intestines were
pressing down, as if :-

Agn.

Lower, in :-

Cycl.

Morning, in :-

Zing.

Navel, rising into
pharynx, about :-

Valer.

Navel when walking in
open air :-

Lach.

Pain, with :-

Calc.

Pain and cold sweat in
yellow fever, with :-

Cadm.

Stool, during :-

Hep.

Upper part, in :-

Puls.

Navel :-

(See Cramp,
Cutting, Griping,
Pain, Pinching ;
also Colic.)

Abscess, as if, were
forming, near

(rheumatism
of bowels) :- Plb.

Aching :-

Æsc.,
Ptel.

Adhere, seems to, to
spine, pain involves pectoral region :-

Plb.

Biting :-

Aur-m.

Cold, as after taking,
feeling :-

Coloc.

Distress, with
nausea :-

Ptel.

Discharge yellowish, of
peculiar odor, after suppressed gonorrhœa :-

Nat-m.

Drawing backward to
spine, during stool :-

Plb.

Drawn inward, with pain

(diarrhœa) :-
Carbn-s.

Eruption, miliary,
burning, stitching :-

Puls.

Flesh, like proud,
moist excrescence, in infants :-

CALC.

Hernia :-

Nux-m.

Hernia, with colic, in
a screaming infant :-

Cast.

Hernia,
incarcerated :-

NUX-V.,
Op.

Hernia, strangulated,
sloughing :-

Lach.

Hernia, walls of
abdomen so thin truss could not be worn :-

Calc.

Itching :-

Aur-m.,
Cist.

Itching, constant
picking

(eczema) :-
Sulph.

Moist, remains, after
cord has fallen off :-

Thuj.

Oozing of bloody fluid,
in infants :-

Abrot.,
Calc-p.

Oozing of watery, clear
fluid :-

Stann.

Open, stool oozes
through :-

Hyos.

Pains centre and spread
in all directions, better after stool :-

Senec.

Pains commence and
radiate from :-

Dios.

Pricking :-

Æsc.

Protrudes, in eczema of
scalp :-

Calc.

Protrudes, with
flatulence in infants :-

Lyc.

Pulling at, sensation
of something, with actual retraction, in diarrhœa :-

Plb.

Redness :-

Aur-m.

Red, curved
streaks :-

Par.

Retracted :-

Alumn.,
Mosch., Plb.,
Tab.

Soreness :-

Æsc.,
Rhus-t.,
Thuj.

Soreness,
aching :-

Calc-p.

Swelling, a, size and
appearance of a raspberry, child 7 days old :-

Thuj.

Ulcerated, in newborn
children :-

Apis,
Nux-m., Petr.

Violent action,
sensation of protrusion :-

Ign.

Neoplasmata :-

Aur-m-n.

Neuralgia :-

Cod., COLOC.,
Dios.,
Kalm.,
Sep., Verat.

About navel, right
side, passing to groin :-

Verat-v.

Downward, through
ovarian region to uterus, cutting like knives :-

Med.

Intermittent, intense,
agonizing like knives cutting her bowels, chiefly affecting left
side, comes on at intervals of a few minutes, takes three or four
men to hold her, last from 3 to 9, terminates in two deep sighs or
gapes :-

Verat.

Lower, in :-

Ham.

Periodic, malarial,
lancinations, with excitement and restlessness :-

Gels.

Peritoneum, long
standing, of :-

Atrop-s.

Screams, with :-

Cup-ar.

Solar plexus,
of :-

Ars.,
Coloc., Mag-c., Mag-p., Nux-v.

Sudden, in paroxysms,
across, above navel, from lower border of liver down toward left,
then ceasing in right side, worse from motion and lying on either
side, obliged to lie on back, better sitting up :-

Kalm.

Women, in
married :-

Kalm.

Noises

(See Flatulence,
Borborygmi, Cracking,
Gurgling, Noisy,
Roaring, Rumbling.) :-
Agar.,
Mez.

Cracking :-

Coloc.

Drink rolls audibly
through intestines :-

LAUR.

Water, from,
swashing :-

Arn.,
CROT-T.,
Ph-ac., Rhus-t.

Numbness :-

(See Tingling.)

Muscles, in :-

Calc-p.

Muscles, in
recti :-

Podo.

Part, in fleshy, as if
asleep, but without tingling :-

Ferr-i.

Pelvis, deep in, when
crouching down :-

Ars-h.

Side, in, in ovaritic
or ovarian tumor :-

Apis.

Side, in right :-

Apis.

Obstructions :-

(See Intestines,
Intussusception, Obstruction.)

Visceral :-

Anag.

Especially engorgement
of spleen and liver :-

Chin-s.

Pain, as if something
were lodged in right side :-

Lach.

Omentum :-

Dark red

(carbuncle) :-
Anthraci.

Reddish :-

Bar-m.

Oppression :-

(See Fulness,
Heaviness.)

In :-

Arum-m.

Loosen, must,
dress :-

Tell.

Navel, about, after
meals :-

Asar.

Nightly,
sleepless :-

Mag-c.

Stomach, coming
from :-

Ant-c.

Upper part, in, when
inhaling :-

Seneg.

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