Parturition – Pregnancy, Parturition, Lactation – Chapter 24 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

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Face :-

Pinkish, as if
uniformly flushed :-

Gels.

Puffed :-

Coff.

Fainting :-

Cinnm.,
SEC.

Feet, cold :-

Sep.

Hands, cannot bear to
have them touched :-

Chin.

Head, hot :-

Coff.

Heart,
neuralgia :-

Cimic.

Heat :-

Coff-t.

Feverish :-

Caul.

Flushes :-

Sep.

Hæmorrhage :-

(See
Post-partum,
Hæmorrhage ; also Uterus
Hæmorrhage, Chapter 23 :
Female Sexual Organs.)

Hysterical :-

Chlol.

Rigid, with, unyielding
os, nervous excitement :-

GELS.

Labor-pains :-

(See Os,
Uterus.)

Absent, os dilated,
membranes protruding :-

Gels.

Anguish and sweat, with
desire to be rubbed :-

Nat-c.

Back, in, in
paroxysms :-

Sep.

Back, through to, then
up :-

Gels.

Back, worse in :-

Nux-v.

Back, down, into glutei
muscles :-

Kali-c.

Between pains, no
freedom from suffering :-

Chlf.

Blood, with more or
less discharge of dark :-

Cham.

Breath, loss of, 5th
month :-

Puls.

Ceasing :-

Arn.,
Bell.,
Camph., Carb-v., Caul., Cham.,
Cimic., Cinnm., Gels.,
Guare., Kali-c.,
Nat-m., Nux-v., Op.,
Plat., Puls.,
Ruta, SEC.,
Sep., Sulph.,
Thuj.

Cease, convulsions
begin :-

Sec.

Cease, and fly all over
body :-

Gels.

Cease, from
hæmorrhage :-

Chin.

Ceased for 36
hours :-

Cimic.

Cease nearly or
entirely :-

Nux-v.

Cease, with complaining
loquacity :-

Coff.

Child seems to ascend
with every pain :-

Gels.

Complains :-

Coff-t.

Cramps in abdomen,
shooting down legs :-

Vib.

Cramp in flexor tendons
of fingers and toes :-

DIOS.

Cutting :-

# Asaf.

Cutting across, left to
right :-

Ip.

With, in umbilical
region, interfere with true pains :-

IP.

Darting, fine
needle-like, shooting upward from cervix :-

Sep.

Deficient :-

Bell.,
Puls., Ust.

Desperate, make
her :-

Aur.

Desperate, desire to
jump from window or dash herself down :-

Aur.

Distracted, feels as if
she would go :-

Coff.

Distressing :-

Acon.,
Arn., Bell., Caul., Caust., Cham.,
Cimic., Coff.,
Con., Gels.,
Kali-c.,
Lyc., Nux-v., Plat., Sec., Sep.

Distressing, can hardly
bear them, wishes to get away from herself :-

Cham.

Distressing, but of
little use :-

Phos.

Eructations,
with :-

Bor.

Escape, tries
to :-

Bell.

Evening, worse
towards :-

Puls.

Everything, as if,
would come out :-

Sep.

Excessive

(too
strong) :- Ambr.,
Art., Bell.,
Cham., Chlol.,
Cimic.,
Coff., Coff-t., Nux-v., Puls.,
Sec.

Excessive discharge of
dark coagulated blood :-

Cham.

Excessive, in rapid
succession :-

Acon.

Excessive, labor
tedious :-

Cimic.

Exhausting :-

Caul.,
Verat.

Fainting, cause :-

Nux-v.

Fainting, with, or
cramps :-

Cimic.

Faint, tendency
to :-

NUX-V.

False :-

Bor.,
Cimic., Cinnm.,
Cinnb., DIOS.,
Gels., Kali-p.,
Nux-m., Op.,
PULS.,
Vib.

False, in 4th
month :-

Mit.

False, in 7th
month :-

Nux-v.

False,
spasmodic :-

BELL.

Fear of death,
with :-

COFF.

Flagging, from
protracted labor :-

Caul.

Foot against a support,
better by placing, and pressing and relaxing alternately, so as to
agitate whole body :-

Lyc.

False, interrupt true
pains, which seem insufficient :-

GELS.

Get up, says she must
and will :-

Cham.

Hæmorrhage,
alternating with, and restlessness :-

Puls.

Incessant

(premature) :-
Sec.

Ineffectual :-

Cinnm.,
Coff., Eup-pur.,
KALI-C.,
Kali-p.,
Mit., Op.,
Sep.

Ineffectual, in small
of back :-

Coff.

Ineffectual,
violent :-

Arn.

Insupportable :-

Coff.

Interrupted by
hysterical spasms :-

Mag-m.

Irregular :-

Æth.,
Caul., Cocc.,
Coff.,
Nux-m., Puls., SEC.

Irritability,
with :-

Caul.

Motion, must keep in
constant, walks the room weeping :-

Lyc.

Palpitation, cause,
fainting and suffocation :-

Puls.

Point, reach a certain,
then cease :-

Plat.

Position, wants to
change, often :-

Arn.

Pressing urging, as
during menses :-

Graph.

Protracted :-

Cinnb.,
SEC.

Protracted,
unsuccessful, caused by a particular condition of placenta :-

Spong.

Pubes, above :-

Sep.

Restlessness,
between :-

Cupr.

Sacro-iliac, left,
articulation running into groin :-

Thuj.

Sacrum, in, to knees
and ankles, then up to sacrum :-

Phyt.

Sacrum, slight pressure
on, only periodic :-

Bell.

Sacrum, from, into
region of stomach, causing pain and vomiting :-

Puls.

Scold, inclined
to :-

CHAM.

Short :-

Caul.

Shiver, passing off
with a, causing much distress :-

Caul.

Shrieking,
overwhelming, with :-

Acon.

Slow :-

Mit.

Sluggish :-

Puls.

Sluggish or irregular

(convulsions) :-
Puls.

Sore :-

Caust.

Spasmodic :-

Ambr.,
Bell., Bov.,
Bry., Caul., Caust., Cham., Cimic., Cocc.,
Coff., Cupr., Ferr.,
Gels.,
Hyos., Ign., Ip.,
Kali-c.,
Lyc., Mag-p.,
Nux-m., Nux-v.,
Op., Plat.,
Puls., Sec., Sep., Vib.

Spasmodic, exhausting,
out of breath :-

Stann.

Spasmodic, causing
urging to stool or to urination :-

Nux-v.

Spasmodic,
ineffectual :-

Plat.,
Puls.

Spasms, appear like
tonic :-

Chin-s.

Stand, must, or walk
about, wants back rubbed, likes to have room warm :-

Nux-v.

Stomach, worse in, than
uterus :-

Bor.

Tardy :-

Hyper.

Thirst, with :-

Caul.

Tormenting, useless, at
beginning :-

Caul.

Twitches, accompanied
by convulsive :-

Chin-s.

Upward, run :-

CALC.,
CHAM., Lyc.

Upward, dart, head of
child goes back :-

Bor.

Urination, with
frequent :-

Cham.

Walking, from,
insupportable, must lie down :-

Thuj.

Weak, too :-

Æth.,
Arn., Bell., Camph.,
Cann-i., Carb-v.,
Carbn-s., Caul., Cimic., Cinnm.,
Gels.,
Graph., Guare., Kali-c., Kali-p.,
Mit., Nat-c.,
NAT-M.,
Nux-m., Op.,
Puls., SEC.,
Thuj.

Weak, especially after
disease, or great loss of fluids :-

Carb-v.

Weak, too, or ceasing,
with somnolence :-

Puls.

Wriggling about, at 7
1/2 months :-

Sec.

Limbs, violent
moving :-

Coff.

Mental
condition :-

Despair :-

Coff.

Enraged :-

Bell.

Fear of death :-

Coff.

Fear, from, or fright,
premature :-

Op.

Grief, symptoms
from :-

Caust.

Irritable,
snappish :-

CHAM.

Irritability,
nervous :-

Hyos.

Lamenting :-

Coff.

Nervous :-

Chlf.,
Chlol.

Weeping :-

Coff.

Muscles,
rigidity :-

Coff.

In 1st delivery, in
women who have married late :-

Bell.

Os :-

(See Uterus.)

Contracted,
spasmodically :-

Bell.,
Sep.

Amniotic fluid
gone :-

Bell.

Contracted,
spasmodically :-

Bell.,
Sep.

Dilated, widely,
complete atony, face flushed, patient drowsy dull :-

Gels.

Half open :-

Sep.

Hard :-

Sep.

Rigid :-

Caul.,
Chlf., Cimic.,
Con., GELS.,
Lob., Verat-v.

Rigidity, scarcely able
to endure pains :-

CHAM.

Rounded and hard, feels
as if it would not dilate :-

GELS.

Soft :-

Ust.

Tenderness :-

Plat.

Tenderness of anterior
lip :-

Sep.

Widened, not,
correspondingly :-

Bell.

Perineum, rigid :-

Lob.

Position :-

Abnormal :-

Puls.

Child lying
transversely,

(1st
position shoulder presentation)
during 1st stage in 30 minutes, vertex presented :- Puls.

Labor-pains,
ineffectual, from defective position of child :-

Acon.

Pulse :-

Intermittent :-

Chin-s.

Rapid :-

Chin-s.

Slow and full :-

Gels.

Weak :-

Chin-s.

Rapid, too :-

Lyc.

Restlessness :-

Acon.,
Camph., Chlf.

Shooting, upward, in
vagina :-

Sep.

Skin, dry :-

Acon.,
Coff-t.

Sleep,
sleepless :-

Con.

Pains very
distressing :-

Coff.

Slow :-

Bell.,
Caul., Chlf.,
Chlol., Ign.,
Sec.

Long and painful

(asphyxia
neonatorum) :- Arn.

Almost painless,
uterine contraction, feeble, insufficient :-

Goss.

Sad feelings and
forebodings :-

NAT-M.

Speech, thick tongue,
like one intoxicated :-

Gels.

Suppressed :-

Cact.

Twitching :-

Cinnm.

Convulsive :-

Chin-s.

Unconscious :-

Chin-s.

Sank into semi-stupid
state, could be roused by shaking, soon relapsed :-

Gels.

Uterus :-

(See Os.)

Atony :-

Caul.,
Gels.

Cervix flabby, os open,
no pains, bag of waters bulging, patient more and more drowsy,
speech thickens, convulsions seem threatening :-

Gels.

Constriction of lower
part :-

BELL.

Contractility hindered
by sycotic complications :-

Thuj.

Contraction, causing
pain in small of back :-

Coff.

Contraction, with
every, violent dyspnœa, seeming to neutralize labor-pains :-

Lob.

Contractions
feeble :-

Caul.

Contractions feeble and
weak :-

Ruta.

Contractions
insufficient :-

Acon.

Contractions, prolonged
tonic :-

Sec.

Contractions, want of,
with persistent hæmorrhage of brownish blood :-

Ust.

Contractions
interrupted by sensitiveness of vagina and external parts :-

Plat.

Darting, fine
needle-like, upward from cervix :-

Sep.

Expulsive power, want
of :-

Puls.

Flabby :-

Sec.

Hour-glass
contractions :-

Cham.,
Sec., Sep.

Inactive :-

Puls.

Inertia :-

Puls.

Inertia, child’s head
is in the opening of pelvis and the action of womb is insufficient
for expulsion :-

PULS.

Inactive, insufficient
pains :-

Gels.

Loose, everything
seems, and open, no action :-

SEC.

Shooting in
cervix :-

Sep.

Spasmodically, head,
held inside, after body is born :-

Bell.

Split open, appears as
if, from top to bottom, longitudinal fibres alone contracting,
leaving a sulcus in middle :-

Sec.

Strength weakened by
too early or perverted efforts :-

Sec.

Throat, to, like a
wave, ending with choking feeling, impeded labor, impending
spasm :-

Gels.

Vagina :-

Hot, dry, tender,
undilatable :-

Acon.

Great sensitiveness on
examination :-

Plat.

Vulva,
tenderness :-

Plat.

Weakness :-

Caul.,
Con.

From night
watching :-

Caust.

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