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Theridion Curassavicum. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4]
Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6]
Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9]
Lower face.

[10]
Teeth and gums.

[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15] Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18]
Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22]
Male sexual organs.

[23]
Female sexual organs.

[24] Pregnancy. Parturition..

[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..


[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30] Outer chest.

[31]
Neck and back.

[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34]
Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39]
Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41]
Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44]
Tissues.

[45]
Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

Ther. * Full text (40 Ko) * Red
and blue only
* Red only

LOWER LIMBS. [33] [Ther.]

Itching and nodes on nates.

In evening, while sitting, and later, peculiar drawing in r. thigh ; it began in hip and passed downward with a cold sensation below knee ; it felt everywhere cold, internally, but not to touch ; external warmth was agreeable.

Little toe pains as if pressed in walking.

Violent itching on calf.

Swelling of feet.

   

LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] [Ther.]

Pains in bones as if broken, as if they were about to fall asunder.

Heaviness in limbs before chill.

   

REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] [Ther.]

Lying : impossible, pains deep in brain ; must lie down with flickering before eyes.

Sitting : drawing in right thigh.

Stooping : < vertigo.

On rising : sick stomach <.

Drawing up leg : as if some one tapped her on groin.

Motion : least, vertigo < ; < headache ; pain over left eye < ; nausea < ; vomiting < ; pains in groin ; pain in ovarian regions.

Walking : headache with depression ; little toe pains ; sweats easily.

After every exertion : fainting.

Going up and down stairs : dyspnœa.

After washing clothes : nausea and fainting.

   

NERVES. [36] [Ther.]

Every shrill sound and reverberation penetrates through her whole body, particularly through teeth, and increases vertigo, which causes nausea.

Hysteria during puberty and in climacteric years, and from spinal irritation ; is sensitive to light, faints after every exertion, and has weakness, trembling, chilliness and anxiety ; restless, must busy herself about something, though nothing gives her pleasure ; great
sensitiveness to noise and sensitiveness between vertebræ, sits sideways in a chair to avoid pressure.

From washing clothes in third week after confinement, attack of fainting.

(In sick 🙂 Could not move hands or feet ; sitting with feet crossed, could not uncross them ; head bent down on chest ; eyes partially closed, could not move any part of body ; looks and feels as if dying, but hears and understands all that is said. θ Hysteria.

Great lassitude and debility as if from great losses of blood. θ Anemia.

Tetanus.

   

SLEEP. [37] [Ther.]

Sleepy all morning.

Deep night sleep.

During sleep bites tip of tongue.

Long and dreamful midday sleep ; dreams of journeys in distant regions and riding on horses ; a person who scarcely ever sat upon a horse.

Dreams that he broke off a tooth.

   

TIME. [38] [Ther.]

At 4 A. M. : vomiting of bile.

Morning : lower jaw immovable ; nausea ; vomiting of bile ; sleepy.

Midday : long and dreamful sleep.

Afternoon : toothache.

Evening : headache with depression ; itching on head and back of neck ; coryza < ; toothache ; drawing in right thigh.

At 11 P. M. : wakes with vertigo.

Night : cough ; deep sleep ; vomiting.

   

TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] [Ther.]

Temperature and Weather

Warm water : nausea and retching >.

Warmth : agreeable ; pain in right leg with cold sensation.

   

FEVER. [40] [Ther.]

Shaking chill ; with foam at mouth ; during headache with vomiting.

Bones pain as if they would fall asunder ; coldness, cannot get warm.

Sweats easily after walking.

Icy sweat covers body, with fainting and vertigo, and vomiting at night.

   

ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] [Ther.]

For more than ten weeks : menses omitted.

During puberty : hysteria.

At climaxis : hysteria ; suppression of menses.

   

LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] [Ther.]

Left : throbbing over eye and across forehead ; pain in socket of eye ; stinging in temple ; pressing pain over eye ; stitches from shoulder to throat ; stitches in pectoral muscle ; pains from heart to shoulder and arm ; burning itching
on ring finger.

Right : twitching in eye.

   

SENSATIONS. [43] [Ther.]

As if her head were another, strange head ; as if vertex did not below to her ; like a pressing band in root of nose and about ears ; as of a veil before eyes ; as if too much air passed into nose and mouth ; mouth as if furred, benumbed ; as if
some one tapped her on groin when raising leg ; as if a lump were lying in perineal region ; like labor pains in lower part of abdomen ; as if a child were bounding in body ; as if something in œsophagus were slipping toward epigastrium ; as if bones were broken and
would fall asunder ; feels as if dying.

Pain : deep in brain ; in region of groin ; between shoulders.

Sharp pain : from heart to left shoulder and arm.

Stitches : beneath left shoulder through to throat.

Pinching stitches : in left pectoral muscle.

Stinging : in left temple ; from elbow to shoulder.

Burning : above inner canthus ; in teeth, gums and palate ; in hepatic region ; in left ring finger.

Bruised pain : in ovarian regions.

Soreness : in throat ; in bones.

Pressure : behind eyes ; on head ; in temples ; over left eye ; above ears ; in root of nose ; in little toe.

Drawing : in right thigh.

Throbbing : over left eye and across forehead ; in right eye.

Tensive pain : in teeth, gums and palate.

Fulness : in head ; behind ears.

Heaviness : in head ; in root of nose ; in perineal region ; in limbs.

Thickness : in head.

Numbness : in mouth.

Tickling : in both sides of abdomen.

Itching : in head ; in nape of neck ; behind ears ; in nose ; at edge of shoulder and on back ; in left ring finger ; on nates ; on calf ; of skin on various parts.

Dryness : in mouth and nose.

Coldness : below right knee.

   

TISSUES. [44] [Ther.]

Hysteria ; spinal irritation.

Scrofula ; rachitis, caries, necrosis.

Bones pain as if they would fall asunder.

Chronic catarrh of nose, discharge offensive, thick, yellow or yellowish-green.

Phthisis florida.

Infantile atrophy, scrofulous enlargement of glands ; constant desire for food and drink, but does not know what.

Nodosities on various parts, especially buttocks ; scrofulosis.

   

TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] [Ther.]

Touch : pain in hepatic region <.

Pressure : pain in ovarian regions ; spine sensitive.

Closing eyes : vertigo.

On board a vessel : vertigo and seasickness.

Riding in a carriage : nausea.

From person walking over floor : headache < ; spine sensitive, must cry out.

From least noise : headache < ; vertigo < ; penetrates whole body, especially teeth.

   

SKIN. [46] [Ther.]

Violent itching.

Itching of skin on various parts of body. θ Hysteria.

Itching : on head ; behind ears ; in nose ; on back of neck ; on edge of shoulders ; on back ; on nates ; on calf.

Pimples near ball of thumb.

Knots on nates.

Scrofula.

   

STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] [Ther.]

Mrs. S., æt. 38, rather fleshy, bilious temperament, suffering several weeks ; vertigo.

XX, in W., suffered for five years from painful pressure in region of liver, with periodical vomiting.

Mrs. —, symptoms of spasms during labor ; second month after confinement hysteria.

A woman, æt. 70 ; sick headache.

   

RELATIONS. [48] [Ther.]

Antidoted by : Acon. (sensitiveness to noises) ; Moschus (nausea) ; Graphit.

Compatible : after Calcar. and Lycop.

Compare : Aranea.

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