Hands – Upper Limbs – Chapter 32 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

Emaciation :-

Phos.,
Sel.

Enchondroma, on
right :-

Sil.

Eruption :-

Anthro.,
Med., Puls.

Acne, on back :-

Sil.

Backs, on, and
irritation :-

Calc.

Back, on, halfway up to
elbow, itching, worse by scratching

(eczema) :-
Mez.

Blister like, on
palm :-

Ran-b.

Blister occurs
annually :-

Bufo.

Blisters, bluish,
filled with red or yellow fluid

(panaritium
chilblains) :- Lyc.

Blisters oozing after
scratching :-

Cist.

Blisters from little
work :-

Sabad.

Blister on edge where
finger commences :-

Cocc.

Blisters, itching, on
both, 1st pale then red :-

Gamb.

Blister, large, on
middle of palm, discharging yellow watery fluid when opened :-

Anthraci.

Blisters, large, yellow
fluid, desquamation :-

Anac-oc.

Blisters, red, on
backs :-

Psor.

Blisters, red, preceded
by itching on ring and little fingers of left :-

Cycl.

Blisters, small, on
backs :-

Anac.

Blisters, spreading, on
swollen, worse in cold air :-

Clem.

Blisters filled with
clear water, on vola, some on dorsum and fingers :-

Nat-s.

Blister, watery,
between thumb and index finger :-

Nat-s.

Blisters in palms,
large yellow, yellow corroding fluid :-

Bufo.

Blotches :-

Ind.

Blotches,
“hives”, itching :-

Urt-u.

Blotches, covered with
itching :-

Phos.

Blotches, raised red
itching :-

Urt-u.

Blotches, covered with
itching, in urticaria :-

Phos.

Blue spots

(old
age) :- Bar-c.

Brown color of
dorsum :-

Thuj.

Brown discoloration of
back :-

Iod.

Brown spots :-

Lach.

Brown, eruption :-

Nat-m.

Brown spots on back

(Addison’s
disease) :- Nat-m.

Bullæ, numerous, on
backs

(pemphigus) :-
Sep.

Chronic :-

Still.

Copper-colored, on
back :-

Psor.

Copper-colored spots on
palm :-

Cor-r.

Crusts, thick, worse
during winter :-

Petr.

Crusty, full of cracks,
discharging pus and acrid fluid, with unbearable itching :-

Anthraci.

Dorsum, on, appeared
over night, much depressed :-

Psor.

Dry, papular, on
back :-

Coca.

Dry, scaly in palms,
having a syphilitic base, with itching :-

Sel.

Ecchymosis, bluish red
places like, with asthma :-

Kali-c.

Eczema :-

Canth.,
Merc., Sil.

Eczema, chronic, on
dorsal region :-

Graph.

Eczema, whole dorsal
surface raw :-

Merc.

Eczema, moist surface,
becomes dry at times, forming in yellow crusts :-

Merc.

Eczema, simple, assumes
characteristics of impetigo figurata in pustular stage, becomes
confluent, tension and pain :-

Jug-c.

Eczema, impetiginoide,
over backs, of both hands, around balls of thumbs to middle of
palms, raw surface left after bread poultice, followed by discharge
of blood, smarting :-

Jug-c.

Eczema, surroundings
inflame easily, after scratching :-

Merc.

Eczema, on inner
side :-

Nit-ac.

Eczema, on left,
gradually spreads to fingers and arm :-

Merc.

Eczema, on dorsum of
left :-

Canth.

Eczema, on back of
left, 1st small vesicles, thin crusts, then fissures, especially
knuckles of 1st phalanges :-

Graph.

Eczema, every winter,
for a number of years :-

Merc.

Elevated, as large as
peas, even on balls of fingers, become confluent or burn when
touched :-

Cic.

Erysipelas :-

Ruta.

Erysipelas, resembling,
burning, itching, or forming yellow honey-colored crusts :-

Cic.

Erysipelatoid :-

Rhus-t.

Erysipelatous, of
left :-

Arn.

Erysipelatous
manifestations, on back

(elephantiasis
Arabum) :- Sil.

Erysipelatous, inflamed
similar to eruption caused by Rhus tox., with oppressed
respiration :-

Kalm.

Erysipelatous,
extending :-

Kalm.

Erysipelatous, on
dorsum of right, with burning and stitching, and formation of flat
ulcer, began as a vesicle

(hæmoptysis) :-
Rhus-t.

Erythematous, spotted,
itching

(paralytic
rheumatism) :- Phos.

Fine itching :-

CARB-V.

Herpes :-

Calc.,
Dulc., Staph.

Herpes, bran
like :-

Bor.

Herpes, scaly,
burning :-

Merc.

Herpes, dry :-

Zinc.

Herpes, itching, dry,
burning, skin peeled off :-

Mez.

Herpes, ichorous,
biting, burning :-

Con.

Herpes in palms :-

Aur., Psor.,
Ran-b.

Herpes on palms, worse
in evening and in open air, better in warmth :-

Kreos.

Herpes phlyctenoides,
dorsum covered with :-

Carbn-s.

Herpes, red on dorsum,
with tensive pain extending up arm :-

Petr.

Herpes, sero-purulent,
itching violently towards evening :-

Kreos.

Herpes, white, scabby,
on dorsum :-

Thuj.

Hives, itching,
whitish, becoming red after rubbing, with violent itching :-

Nat-m.

Impetigo :-

Carbn-s.

Itch, like moist, with
violent nightly itching :-

Merc.

Itching, in gastric
fever :-

Sep.

Itch-like :-

Anan.,
Psor.

Itch-like, rough,
especially in region of 1st joint of thumb, more on upper surface,
itching at night :-

Merc.

Lichen, like :-

Anan.

Miliary, chronic, on
back of left

(quartan
fever) :- Rhus-t.

Millet seed,
like :-

Bar-m.

Mottled :-

LACH.

Nettle-rash, specks
resembling :-

Berb.

Nettle-rash :-

Carb-v.

Nettle-rash, like, 4
P.M. and evening :-

Hyper.

Painful nodules on
tendons, on back of left, between little and 4th fingers, pain
relieved by cold water :-

# Caust.

Palm, in, exuding a
watery fluid :-

Nat-s.

Papulæ on both, at 1st
pale then red :-

Gamb.

Papulæ on dorsum, with
tensive pain extending up arm :-

Petr.

Papules,
painless :-

Carb-v.

Papulæ, pale red, on
backs, with intense itching and intense watery exudation :-

Goss.

Patches :-

Berb.

Petechiæ, small and
red, on backs :-

Berb.

Pimples on back :-

Calc-p.

Pimples, burning when
1st appearing, but finally blending and forming one dark red
scab :-

Cic.

Pimples on dorsi, from
scales :-

Carbn-s.

Pimples in palms, like
blotches, with stinging itching like nettles, worse rubbing :-

Stram.

Pimples, forming
scurfs, itching when getting warm in bed :-

Mur-ac.

Pimple near wrists,
feels as if a splinter were in it :-

Arg-n.

Pimples, dark red, come
with burning pain, coalesce :-

Cic.

Pimples, hard, with
burning-biting itching :-

Rhus-t.

Pimples,
itching :-

Lyc.

Pimples, itching, with
small vesicles on dorsa :-

Kali-m.

Pimples,
phlyctænoidal, on backs :-

Kali-m.

Pimples, red, on back
of left

(smallpox) :-
Vario.

Pimples, red, stinging
itching, on back :-

Acon.

Pimples, small :-

Vac.

Pimples, small dry,
reddish :-

Bov.

Pompholyx, every
year :-

Bufo.

Prurigo-like, pinkish
lentil-shaped spots :-

Vesp.

Psoriasis, chronic, on
dorsa :-

Rhus-t.

Psoriasis diffuse,
degenerating into impetigo :-

Kali-bi.

Psoriasis,
furfuraceous, sometimes fissured and bleeding :-

Lyc.

Psoriasis inveterate,
on dorsa, dry scaly, intense itching when warm, relief after
scratching, followed by burning and at times bleeding :-

Sulph.

Psoriasis palmaria,
affecting whole palm :-

Petr.

Psoriasis, palm itching
so it is impossible to work :-

Petr.

Psoriasis on
palms :-

Lyc.

Psoriasis, syphilitic,
on palms :-

Phos.

Purplish spots, covered
with :-

Kali-c.

Pustules :-

Psor.

Pustule on back :-

Sil.

Pustules near finger
tips, suppurating :-

Psor.

Pustules, round white,
on palms, confluent, smooth, size of a mustard seed, contain a white
fluid and itch :-

Lach.

Pustules, disgusting
crop of, epidermis around undermined as with shingles, burning and
itching

(psoric
pustulation) :- Sulph.

Pustules, large
suppurating, particularly near ends of fingers, had 8 or 10 within a
few weeks :-

Psor.

Pustules,
scattered :-

Merc.

Pustules, small, spread
and exude a yellowish corroding discharge, tensive burning
pains :-

Staph.

Pustules, small,
secreted a watery fluid when broken, if not touched fluid became
thickened to a yellow tough mass :-

Kali-bi.

Rash :-

Cupr.,
Dig., Verat.

Rash, with
erysipelatoid, in palms, maddening burning heat, worse at
night :-

Hydr.

Rash, flushing, like
scarlatina, simplex, bright red, disappears on pressure, returns
immediately after removal of pressure :-

Stram.

Red blotches, elevated,
in palms :-

Fl-ac.

Red patches, on
back :-

Calc.

Red spots :-

All-s.,
Sabad.

Red spots on
back :-

Ph-ac.

Red spots, covered
with :-

Elaps.

Red spots on
palms :-

Apis.

Red spot on ball of
right, rounded bright, with itching in evening :-

Sep.

Red, hard spot on skin,
covering 1st and 2nd metacarpal bones, spreads over dorsal surface
of hand, scales formed, falling off in centre and renewed towards
periphery :-

Sep.

Red points, small,
shine through skin of left, which itches sometimes :-

Tell.

Rhus poisoning,
of :-

Anac.,
Rhus-v., Sulph.

Rhus poisoning, on
backs :-

Kali-s.

Salt rheum, constant,
watery oozing :-

Petr.

Scabs :-

Sep.

Scabs, back of :-

Mur-ac.

Scab, a cone shaped,
the size of a quarter of a dollar, on a base as large again,
bluish-red and strongly demarcated, where scab extends over ring
there is another moist, white ring, which forms a new scab, tension
and burning

(malignant
boil) :- Psor.

Scales, thick, in palm,
through which run moist fissures :-

Petr.

Scaling, skin :-

Hep.

Scarlatina, secondary
eruption of dark blotches :-

LYC.

Scarlatina, like,
bright scarlet :-

Lac-c.

Smarting, like
nettle-rash :-

Hyper.

Smooth spots on palms,
1st coral color, then darker red and finally coppery :-

Cor-r.

Spots in palms,
sore :-

Apis.

Stripes :-

Sabad.

Summer, every, one, on,
terribly itching and burning after scratching, worse at night,
spreads up arm to shoulder :-

Sulph.

Tetters :-

Cist.,
Lach.,
Sars.

Tetter, itches in
evening and burns after scratching :-

Staph.

Tetter, chronic :-

Clem.

Tetter, dry, in
palms :-

Caust.

Tetter, dry, bran like
squamous :-

Anag.

Tetter, itching :-

Psor.

Tetter, moist :-

Sil.

Tetter, moist, on
back :-

Bov.

Tetter, white, scaly,
on back :-

Lyc.

Tetter, white, scaly,
on back, worse in cold weather :-

Sep.

Tubercles and spots,
large blue :-

Nit-ac.

Tubercles in palms,
subcutaneous :-

Spig.

Urticaria :-

Sars.

Urticaria,
chronic :-

Hep.

Urticaria,
itching :-

Nat-m.,
SULPH.

Urticaria
nodosa :-

Urt-u.

Vesicular :-

Arn.,
CARB-AC.,
Com., Plan.

Vesicles
burning :-

Canth.

Vesicular, with
swelling, itching and burning

(erysipelas) :-
Rhus-v.

Vesicles burst and
spread :-

Bor.

Vesicles in
palms :-

Kali-c.

Vesicles, smarting,
itching, oozing lymph, when scratched turns to scurf :-

Anag.

Vesicles on backs, hard
eczematous :-

Calc.

Vesicles, with
innumerable, red, filled with transparent lymph, many become
confluent, forming blisters resembling pemphigus, skin peels off

(after
wearing gloves cleaned with turpentine) :-
Ter.

Vesicles in
patches :-

Rhus-t.

Vesicles,
itching :-

Sulph.

Vesicles, little,
especially right side, contents change to pus, itching, destroyed by
scratching

(impetigo) :-
Rhus-v.

Vesicles, small

(prostatitis
and atony of sexual organs) :-
Sel.

Vesicles, small
itching :-

Daph.

Vesicles, large and
small, on left :-

Arn.

Vesicles, small
transparent, without sensation in palms :-

Merc.

Vesicles, stinging,
spreading, corroding :-

Mag-c.

Vesicles, white, with
red areolæ, burn and itch :-

Uran-n.

White spots on
backs :-

Berb.,
Calc.

Yellow spots :-

Elaps.

Yellow spots,
small :-

Med.