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Walking – Lower Limbs – Chapter 33 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

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CHAPTER 33.
LOWER LIMBS.

Ankles
* Feet * Heels
* Hips * Knees
* Legs * Nates
* Tendo-Achillis * Thighs
* Toes * Walking

Walking.


Walking :-

Air, feels as if
stepping on, after walking a while :-

Nat-m.

Ascending and
descending :-

(See
Motion Ascending, Descending,
Chapter 35 :
Rest, Position, Motion
.)

Aggravation and
amelioration :-

(See
Motion Aggravation,
Amelioration, Chapter
35 : Rest,
Position, Motion
.)

Chorea, degenerates
into hurried running :-

Stram.

Difficult :-

Ars-h., Kali-br.,
Verat.

Awkward :-

Lach.

Clumsy, at
night :-

Lith-c.

Diabetes, weak,
in :-

Nat-s.

Dropsy, in, of
pericardium :-

Apoc.

Heavy, dragging, in
spermatorrhœa :-

Gels.

Hobbling gait

(ague
suppressed by Cinchona) :-
Nat-m.

Left, a hindrance in,
she walked as if treading on hard peas :-

Nux-m.

Nervous, from,
causes :-

Mag-p.

Power, impaired

(chronic
constipation) :-
Coca.

Stairs, when going up,
muscles seem to refuse to act so she was in danger of
falling :-

Phos.

Step, could
hardly :-

Zinc.

Spontaneous, left, in
luxation :-

Coloc.

Typhus, after,
paralysis of extensors of left foot :-

Crot-h.

Falling :-

Nux-m.

Without apparent
cause :-

Nat-c.

Feet :-

(See Difficult ;
also Hip Disease.)

Bottom, felt no, under,
could not rise :-

# Atrop-s.

Dragging :-

# Atrop-s.,
Cocc., Con., Iris,
Mygal., NUX-V.,
Tarent.

Dragging, left, in
chorea :-

Cupr-a.,
Lach.

Dragging, direction of
steps towards left :-

Lach.

Dragging, left, after
vertigo :-

Cypr.

Dragging, in softening
of brain :-

Phos.

Feet, falls over his
own :-

Stram.

Foot, must step higher
with right :-

Bad.

Left, cannot put, to
ground, only when standing

(affection
of knee) :- Mag-c.

Lift, partial inability
to, in order to step up stairs, caused by tendons being contracted
and shortened :-

Syph.

Raising, difficulty in,
with frequent stumbling :-

Zinc.

Shuffling, as if
dragged along :-

Sec.

Walking :-

Attempting, on, pressed
hand upon loin and slid feet along ground as if a paretic condition

(posterior
spinal sclerosis) :-
Pic-ac.

Support, will not, him,
falls from side to side :-

Ruta.


Gressus
gallinaceus :-

Aur.,
LACH.,
Mag-p., SIL.

Gressus
vaccinus :-

Cic.,
PHOS.

Soles, does not step
properly on, they tilt inward and walking is done on outer edge of
foot :-

Cic.

Spinal, with,
complaints :-

Iod.,
Sec.


Heavy gait :-

Iris.

Inability :-

(See
Legs Paralysis.)

Angina pectoris,
in :-

Tab.

Child æt. 9

(chorea) :-
Asaf.

Diabetes, in :-

Uran-n.

Gonorrhœa, after
suppressed :-

Thuj.

Partial
paralysis :-

Atrop-s.

Phlegmasia alba dolens,
in :-

Nat-s.

Rising, on, after
sitting, falls back again :-

Ruta.

Seems
impossible :-

Asc-t.


Injuries :-

Concussion of spine,
walks with a rolling motion :-

Hyper.

Cannot

(after
a fall on coccyx) :-
Hyper.

Fall, after a, could
not, dread of motion, screamed if one attempted to lift her from one
place to another, must be held on lap :-

Hyper.

Irksome :-

Kali-c.

Learning :-

Child will not stand,
loses flesh :-

Calc-p.,
Nat-m.

Difficult :-

Calc.,
Sulph.

Limping

(See
Feet ; also Hip
Disease
.) :-
Iod.,
Rumx.,
Staph.,
Sulph.,
Trom.

Locomotor
ataxia :-

(See
Difficult, Staggering ;
also Spinal cord
Atrophy
, Chapter 31 :
Neck and Back
.)

Irresolute gait :-

Arg-n.

For 4 or 5 weeks,
feeling when walking as if left foot were pulled around inward,
worse for last 2 weeks, so that he sometimes looked to see if it
were really so :-

Psor.


Painful :-

Headache, in
sick :-

Sulph.

Ovaritis, in :-

Ust.

Step, has to, with
great care to avoid a jar :-

BELL.

Restless :-

Day and night, in
delirium tremens :-

Stram.

Further than she
ought :-

Ars.


Shuffling :-

Mental, in,
disturbance :-

Staph.

Myelitis acuta,
in :-

Op.


Slipping :-

Nat-c.

Slow :-

Dragging :-

Cham.

Tottering, as after
severe illness :-

Alumn.


Staggering :-

Amyg.,
Arg-n., Caps.,
Con.,
Dig.,
Hyos., Ign.,
Kali-br., Nux-m., Nux-v.,
Stict.,
Valer.,
Zinc.

Affections, in
brain :-

Gels.,
Kali-br.

Drunk, as if :-

Ter.

Melancholy, in, after
mortification :-

Ign.

Ovaritis, chronic,
in :-

Iod.

Power, loss of, of
coordination on rising from a seat after sitting, takes long
strides, high steps, return after sitting or lying :-

Rhus-t.

Seminal, with,
emissions :-

Kali-br.

Vertigo, with :-

Kali-br.,
Kali-n.

Vertigo, with, in
forehead :-

Olnd.

Walking, when, out of
doors :-

Con.

Weakness, from :-

Con.

Not firm :-

Ambr., Zinc.


Stooping :-

Brain, in, affections
of children :-

SULPH.

Forward, bends :-

Arg-m.,
Sulph.

Crowded up :-

Eup-per.

Stumbling :-

Nat-c.,
Phos.

Chorea, in :-

Lach.

Fall, liability to,
over small objects

(emotional
chorea) :- Ign.

Falls from any little
obstruction on pavement :-

Nat-c.

Toes, catching his, in
every little projection of floor or pavement

(spinal
irritation) :- Phos.

Walk, on trying to

(nystagmus) :-
Agar.

Tottering :-

Ail.,
Bell.,
Bufo, Camph.,
Lach.,
Syph.

Air, in open, as if
legs could not support body on account of weakness :-

Verb.

Climacteric, during,
period :-

Zinc.

Meningeal tuberculosis,
in :-

Caust.

Sure, as if he were
not, of himself

(multiple
sclerosis) :- Phos.

Thighs, as if, were
weak :-

Ruta.

Vertigo, with :-

Agar.,
Mur-ac.

Trembling gait, in
myelitis :-

Op.

Uncertain gait :-

Does not arrive at
point he sets out for

(chorea) :-
Agar.

Feel as if legs were
going out from under him and that he will fall backward from
slightest gust of wind

(mental
disturbance) :- Staph.

Frequent false
steps :-

Kali-br.

Joints weak

(during
pregnancy) :- Murx.

Legs do not go
right :-

Med.

Looks to see if really
moving

(locomotor
ataxia) :- Kali-br.

Melancholy, in :-

Aur.

Perception, false,
missing steps going downstairs :-

Stram.

Rheumatism, in :-

Colch.

Sidewalk, legs feel as
if all over :-

Kali-br.

Walking, when,
particularly going downstairs, with trembling of leg and pain in
right hip and leg

(parenchymatous
metritis) :- Lac-c.


Unsteadiness :-

Cupr-ar., Glon.,
Hydr-ac.,
Lycps.,
Nat-c.,
Phos.,
Tarax.

Chorea, in :-

Cimic.,
Mygal.

Extreme, he can stand a
short time, knees shaking, constantly falls over feet if he takes a
few steps and is not able to rise again without assistance

(paralysis
agitans) :- Rhus-t.

Falling, easy, of
little children

(dentition,
chorea, rheumatism, verrucæ, meningeal tuberculosis, pertussis) :-
Caust.

Feeling :-

Lycps.

Knees, from, downward,
must tread carefully, especially when eyes are closed on walking

(tabes
dorsalis) :- Phys.

Legs, seemed as if
drunk

(concussion
of spine) :- Hyper.

Legs, very peculiar
motion of, they are bent and unsteady and are moved forward as if it
were an effort for him to support spinal column :-

Phos.

Locomotor ataxia,
with :-

Kali-br.

Mental labor, after,
especially when he thinks himself unobserved :-

Arg-n.

Paralysis, with
tendency to

(apoplexy) :-
Plb.

Staggers as if
drunk :-

Gels.

Straight, cannot walk,
must be led :-

Stram.

Tabes dorsalis,
in :-

Sulph.

Vertigo, with :-

Sec.


Vacillating :-

Bapt.

Cerebral, in
threatened, softening :-

Nux-v.

Chorea, in
emotional :-

Ign.

Wavering :-

Melancholy, in :-

Aur.

Weakness, from, of
thighs :-

Mur-ac.

Weakness

(See
Legs Weakness.) :-
Coca.

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