Psorinum

Psorinum.

Psoricum.

The nosode of Psora.

The product of "Psora sicca" (epidermoid efflorescence of Pityriasis) by Gross.

The salt from a product of Psora by Hering.

The sero-purulent matter of a scabies vesicle was used by Hahnemann.

Triturations.

Clinical (Psorinum)

Acne.

Adenoids.

Anus, itching in.

Asthma.

Backache.

Boils.

Cancer.

Cholera infantum.

Constipation.

Cornea, ulcers of.

Crusta lactea.

Crusta serpiginosa.

Debility.

Diarrhoea.

Diphtheria, after-effects of.

Dyspepsia.

Eczema ; rubrum.

Enuresis.

Eruptions ; moist ; itching.

Gleet.

Gonorrhoea.

Gout.

Haemorrhages.

Haemorrhoids.

Hair, dry ; tangling.

Hay fever.

Head, congestion of.

Hernia.

Hydrocele.

Impotence.

Influenza.

Injuries.

Itch.

Itching.

Leucorrhoea.

Lienteria.

Liver, affections of ; chronic inflammation of.

Melancholia, religious.

Nose, redness of.

Odour of body, fetid.

Ophthalmia, scrofulous.

Otorrhoea ; fetid.

Ozaena.

Pediculosis.

Peritonitis, tubercular.

Plica polonica.

Polypus.

Quinsy.

Sciatica.

Scurvy.

Skin, affections of.

Spina bifida.

Spleen, affections of ; induration of.

Sprains.

Syphilis.

Throat, mucus in.

Tinea capitis et faciei.

Tonsils, concretions in.

Ulcers.

Characteristics (Psorinum)

As Sulphur has been the chief remedial agent in both schools in the treatment of itch and itch-like eruptions, it is natural to find in the nosode of Psora, or constitutional itch, a close analogue of Sulph. Psorinum has been proved entirely in the potencies, and I know of no more trustworthy proving in the materia medica.

I have frequently seen Psorinum develop some of its own symptoms in patients whom it has benefited in other ways. A man who complained of "cloudiness of mind and difficult thinking," and who had among other symptoms, "Left foot colder than right," received Psorinum 30. It removed these symptoms ; but whilst under its influence these new symptoms appeared : Heavy headache across the eyebrows ; greasiness of face and forehead. A woman to whom I gave Psorinum 30 complained that after each dose she had a feeling "as if something in the head were being screwed up and drawn" ; one of Hahnemann''s symptoms is "Spasmodically contracting headache. "

The Med. Visitor (XI. 378) collected a number of cases illustrating the action of Psorinum (I italicise some of the characteristics) :

Other leading indications of Psorinum are :

A symptom not seldom met with in practice and useful to remember is : "Feels unusually well day before attack. "

Acne < during menses ; from fats, sugar, coffee, meat.

Dry, lustreless hair ; plica polonica.

Great sensitiveness to cold air, change, storms ; to sun ; restless for days before a thunderstorm.

Headache > by eating ; from suppressed menses ; > by nose-bleed.

Profuse sweat after acute diseases, with > of all suffering.

Psorinum has cured more cases of hay fever in my practice than any other single remedy.

Quinsy, throat burns, feels scalded, cutting, tearing, intense pain on swallowing, profuse, offensive saliva ; tough mucus in throat ; must hawk continually ; tendency to quinsy.

Sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret, cry ; or good and play all day, restless, troublesome, screaming all night.

Skin has dirty look as if never washed.

Weakness from loss of fluids ; after acute disease ; with or without organic lesion.

Whole body painful, easily sprained and injured.

Many cases have a psoric basis, and when the basic taint is corrected the irritating agents have no effect. Nasal polypus I have also cured with Psorinum when the general symptoms indicate the remedy.

Peculiar Sensations are :

Arms as if paralysed.

As from heavy blow on forehead.

As if brain had not room enough in forehead.

As if brain would protrude.

As if frightened.

As if he heard with ears not his own.

As if he would lose his senses.

As if head separated from body.

As if intestines hanging down.

As if piece of wood lying across back of head.

As if sand in eyes.

As if stupid in left half of head.

Back of head as if sprained.

Cheek-bones as if ulcerated.

Condyle of jaw as if lame.

Everything in chest as if raw, scratched ; torn loose.

Eyes as if pressed outward.

Hands and feet as if broken.

Hip-joint as if ulcerated.

Joints as if encased in armour ; as if would not hold together.

Plug in throat.

Right side of occiput as if dislocated.

Teeth as if glued together.

Throat as if narrowing.

Tongue as if burnt.

The pains of Psorinum may be erratic and alternate (headache and toothache).

The symptoms are < by touch ; pressure (of truss) ; rubbing ; scratching ; riding ; bandage ; blow ; fall.

Slight emotions = severe ailments. (Psorinum cannot bear to have the limbs touch each other at night ; or weight of arms on chest. )

> When eating ; < immediately after (rush of blood to head).

< After cold drinks (pain in chest).

Open air < (> taste ; cough ; itching) nose sensitive inhaling. < Before thunderstorm (restless for days before).

Relations (Psorinum)

Antidoted by : Coffee.

Compatible : Carb. v. , Chi. , Sul. (if Sul. is indicated but fails to act give Psorinum).

Followed well by : Alm. , Borax, Hep.

Inimical : Lach.

Axillary affections, jug. c. , jug. r. , Elaps.

Convalescence, profuse sweat, K. ca. (K. ca. has not the hopelessness of Psorinum).

Crusta lactea, Melitagrinum.

Despair of recovery, Chi. , Lauro. (chest), Caps. , Op. , Val. , Amb.

Drinking <, Dig.

Drinking = cough (> Caust. ).

Earthy, greasy face, Nat. m. , Bry.

Effect of thunderstorm, Pho.

Erratic pains ; < from fats, < evening, Puls.

Eruptions easily suppurate, Hep.

Explosion in ear, Alo.

Hay fever, Gels. (morning sneezing), K. iod.

Headache preceded by dim vision, Lac d. , K. bi.

Hunger at night, Chi. s. , Pho. , Sul. , Ign. , Lyc.

Pediculosis, Ped. , Bac. , Nat. m.

Plica polonica, Lyc. , Bar. c. , Sars. , Bac.

Sick babies fret day and night (Jalap) ; good all day, screams all night (Lyc. opp. ).

Teeth stick together (Tub. teeth feel jammed together).

Tongue as if burnt, Sang.

Causation (Psorinum)

Blows.

Dislocations.

Emotions.

Injuries.

Mental labour.

Over-lifting.

Repelled eruptions.

Sprains.

Stormy weather.

Thunderstorm.

Symptoms

Mind (Psorinum)

Anxiety : when riding in a carriage ; with trembling of hands and restlessness.

Despair : fear of failing in business ; wishes to die in spite of the best hopes.

Disinclination to work ; to ride in a carriage, then desire to ride all the time, even in bad weather.

Driven to despair by excessive itching.

Every moral emotion = trembling.

Excitable before sleep.

Excitable, vexed with everything.

Fear.

Good-humour in morning ; works with pleasure ; enjoys everything.

Ill-humour : in morning ; and constant thoughts of dying ; could weep about everything.

Inability to rid himself of ideas which first appeared to him in a dream.

Melancholy : religious ; she could commit suicide, then is full of phantasms, peevishness, and lachrymation ; alternating suddenly with liveliness.

Memory lost ; so that she does not recognise the room after looking out of the window.

Quarrelsome.

Sentimental.

Thinking that he understood what he had read he tried to explain it, and found that he did not understand it.

Thoughts vanish after over-lifting.

Head (Psorinum)

Always hungry during headache.

Averse to having head uncovered ; wears a fur cap in hot weather.

Boring in left temple.

Cloudy feeling in night on waking, as if he had been intoxicated in evening, with stupor and tumbling about.

Congestion of blood to head immediately after dinner.

Congestion of brain, > nose-bleed.

Crusta serpiginosa.

Drawing in forehead extending to nose.

Drawing in sinuses as in coryza.

Feeling as of a cord around skin, < about occiput, which feels as if pressed outward.

Fulness during mental labour.

Fulness in vertex as if brain would burst, with formication in head followed by heavy sleep.

Hair : dry, lustreless ; tangles easily ; glues together.

Headache : in evening ; with eructations ; with thirst, coldness, and dryness of mouth and lips ; intermittent ; spasmodically contracting ; as if a hammer were beating in head, esp. unilateral (in a herpetic patient) ; as if everything would protrude through forehead towards evening.

Headache < by change of weather ; if it changes in night the headache wakens him.

Heaviness in morning.

Humid eruptions.

Humid, scabby eruption, full of lice.

Intermittent pain in a spot in vertex.

Pain as if brain had not space enough in morning on rising, > washing and breakfast ; contracting pain.

Pain in centre of forehead ; with weakness of it.

Pain in occiput as if a piece of wood lay across from right to left.

Pain in sinciput, < temples, < steady mental exertion, > motion, esp. in open air, < morning and evening, with heaviness in sinciput, often it suddenly passes off and attacks left molars.

Pain in temples : after mental exertion ; hammering ; crampy, in skin of right at 7. 30 p. m.

Pinching in upper forehead beginning morning in bed, < morning and evening, with heaviness, sometimes whole sinciput aches and then temples feel pressed in, afterwards it alternates suddenly with pain in molars, < walking in fresh air.

Pulsation of blood during mental labour.

Rawness and soreness behind ears.

Right side of head and right eye swollen and painful as if it would burst.

Sensation as if head separated from body.

Shooting from left temple into head.

Spot of white skin with white lock of hair becomes natural colour under Psorinum.

Sticking in head, with weakness, had to lie down towards 7 p. m. , and soon fell asleep, copious sweat at night, which >.

Sticking in left side of forehead ; in right side extending into eye.

Strained pain in right side of occiput at noon.

Stupefied feeling in left forehead in morning.

Tearing in head (which he formerly had) this time with fever and general arthritic pains.

Thrusts in head.

Tinea capitis et faciei.

Vertigo : mornings ; everything turns around with him ; with headache, confusion, roaring in ears.

Viscid sweat about head.

Weakness of head.

Eyes (Psorinum)

All objects in room appear to tremble.

Biting in eyes.

Dazzling in evening when walking in street.

Eyes : gummy ; surrounded by blue rings ; glassy, with pain in them ; agglutination in morning.

Inflammation of right eye.

Itching : of right lid ; left lower lid, from one side to other ; of canthi ; inner canthi, with heat.

Lachrymation : towards evening ; on looking long at one object.

Ophthalmia, with pain as from sand in eyes, and lachrymation at night.

Pain as from sand, or foreign body (in right evening when closed).

Pain in eyes with burning, in evening when looking sharply it something, and by candle-light.

Pain in right eye as if it would burst.

Pimples : like hordeola on upper lid ; red, like fresh hordeola on margin of upper lids, and sensation as if something were moving before the eyes, as if one were playing with his fingers before them.

Right eye feels melting away.

Sticking : in left eye ; pain in right eye, < touch.

Swelling of lids and of face.

Tired in evening as from much reading by candle-light.

Vision blurred suddenly.

Vision of sparks.

Ears (Psorinum)

Biting in left ear.

Buzzing in ears.

Coldness in right ear, then sticking.

Discharge of fetid pus (left).

Discharge of reddish cerumen from left ear.

Feeling as if stuffed with cotton, forenoons.

Feeling in right ear as if he heard with the ears of another person, evening.

Intermittent tearing through external meatus, as from temporal muscle to styloid process.

Itching in right ear.

Left concha inwardly inflamed, with suppurating pimples.

Otorrhoea, with headache.

Pain : in right ear, in morning ; ulcerative, in left, and at the same time on right ear a pimple appearing like healthy skin, but split into four parts by a cross like a wart, in the centre a deep indentation.

Ringing : in left ear, evening ; in right or left, with buzzing in head so that she hears hardly anything, and behind ears in region of sterno-cleido-mastoideus, a sore pain, sometimes heat extending to vertex, < towards, evening, when she feels as if pulled by the hair.

Roaring so that he feels stupefied.

Sensation as if something burst suddenly when eating or swallowing saliva.

Sensation in left ear as if breath came from it instead of from respiratory organs.

Sticking : towards noon ; in left lobe in evening ; in left after the buzzing ; in meatus internus, transiently > boring in with finger, frequently returning, < evening during rest.

Nose (Psorinum)

Boring in right nostril, then sneezing.

Clear, watery fluid pours out, < left nostril, < stooping.

Coryza : with cough and expectoration of yellowish green mucus ; dry ; dry with obstruction of nose ; fluent ; fluent, from left nostril.

Drawing extending up to frontal sinuses, with pain in eyes as if coryza would set in, then discharge of fluid from nose.

Dry coryza ; nostrils nearly dry, and sensitive when breathing through them.

Inflammation of septum, with white pustules.

Nose red.

Scratching crawling towards root of nose as if coryza would set in.

Sneezing ; without coryza.

Sticking in left nostril when boring in with finger.

Stoppage of nose.

Tough mucus, he can hardly do a minute without his handkerchief, without coryza, with feeling of a plug high up in nose, which nauseates him, > stooping.

Face (Psorinum)

Burning of lips ; painful and seem swollen.

Clear vesicles on inner surface of lower lip.

Congestion to head, cheeks — and nose red and hot.

Coppery eruption on face.

Corners of mouth sore, often ulcerated ; sycotic condylomata.

Crusta lactea.

Dryness of lips ; and brown and black colour.

Face pale ; sickly looking ; yellow.

Pain as if lame in condyle of jaw.

Pain in zygoma on touch as if bone were suppurating, in evening.

Painful itching on right half of upper lip as if swollen.

Pimple on upper lip.

Roughness of skin of face ; eruption on forehead between eyes ; offensive stools.

Sticking in lower jaw.

Swelling of upper lip.

Vesicles around corner of mouth, and outwardly above them larger sore spots, exuding a fluid which seemed to originate from scratching the vesicles, and cause continual scratching.

Yellow vesicles on red edge of lower lip sore on touch.

Teeth (Psorinum)

Blood suddenly escapes from a hollow molar.

Looseness of teeth, < incisors, so that he fears they will fall out, the pain < by touch, > open air, with much mucus of an offensive odour in mouth.

Sticking from one side to the other, extending to head, then burning pain in right cheek, which is swollen.

Sticking in a carious right upper tooth as if it would be pulled, at dinner, then grumbling and hammering pain in all right teeth, only in daytime, > fresh air.

Stitching in teeth on touching them in order to remove something lodged between them.

Tearing ; jerking in left molars, sometimes only slight pain alternating with headache.

Teeth seem on edge in afternoon when smoking.

Mouth (Psorinum)

Adhesion of tough mucus to posterior wall of soft palate, tasting like old cheese, coming from choanae.

Dryness of mouth.

Increase of the nauseous taste after eating and smoking tobacco.

Inflammation of gum of a posterior right hollow lower molar, vith swelling and crawling pain, < touch.

Scratching in back part of mouth, and when leaning backward asthmatic feeling.

Sticky taste.

Swollen sensation in palate.

Taste : bitter mornings before eating, > eating ; when not eating ; > eating and drinking ; bad, finally coppery ; like cat''s urine to bread and butter in morning ; oily to the dinner ; flat, insipid ; foul, she drinks to get rid of it ; filthy.

Thick, tough mucus from choanae ; of nauseous taste ; teeth stick together.

Tongue : coated ; white ; yellowish white.

Tongue : dry ; at tip, as if burnt, painful ; burnt feeling from tip to middle, so that he has hardly any taste.

Ulceration of right gum after toothache.

Ulceration of tongue and gums, with sore throat.

Throat (Psorinum)

Angina, on right side an ulcer, with sore pain deep in throat and burning in palate.

Burning in throat ; extending farther downward.

Dryness of throat : in morning, with scraping ; of fauces, with moisture in mouth.

Hawks up cheesy balls, size of pea, of disgusting taste and carrion-like odour.

Intermittent pain and difficult swallowing.

Pain in left tonsil, with swollen feeling.

Pain on swallowing saliva.

Painful pimple on fauces.

Quinsy, intense pain to ears on swallowing, profuse, offensive saliva ; tough mucus in throat, must hawk continually ; tendency to quinsy.

Scraping in throat as if she would become hoarse (in a herpetic patient) ; with suffocation, causing dry cough.

Sensation of plug in throat, impeding hawking.

Soreness with difficulty in swallowing ; can take without difficulty only cold food.

Stitches : in left tonsil ; in left sinews on turning head.

Submaxillary glands swollen and painful to touch, also a painful pustule below left lower jaw.

Swollen feeling in fauces.

Tickling in throat : mornings ; causing cough ; then empty eructations.

Appetite (Psorinum)

Appetite diminished.

Aversion to smoking after breakfast, but when he begins smoking is relished.

Desire for acids.

Desire to smoke in evening, but when not smoking the desire for it ceased.

Disgust for pork.

Drinking = cough.

Easily satiated though he has a good appetite.

Eating (dinner) = congestion to head.

Hunger great ; in afternoon, with thirst for beer ; in evening after a walk : in evening ; for breakfast.

Hunger without appetite.

Loss of appetite, but constant thirst.

Thirst : during dinner ; after the chill, then heat in mouth ; with dryness and burning in mouth ; for beer.

Stomach (Psorinum)

Bloating.

Contracting pain in epigastric region.

Cramp in epigastric region ; cutting.

Eructations : tasting like rotten eggs ; sour ; rancid in evening.

Hiccough : after eating ; when smoking a pipe after eating.

Nausea : during the day, a kind of vomiting of sweet mucus every day at 10 a. m. and in evening ; in morning ; in pit of stomach in morning ; after all food ; after supper, > eating something roasted.

Oppression.

Pyrosis ; after drinking water ; when lying down, colic > eating.

Sticking in pit of stomach.

Vomiting : sour ; of sour mucus, so that teeth are on edge, in morning before eating ; of food, then of a sour, slimy fluid.

Waterbrash on lying down, > getting up.

Weakness and pressure.

Abdomen (Psorinum)

Abdomen bloated : after eating ; after eating frozen things.

Bearing down towards pubes, with tenesmus and painful burning micturition.

Constant feeling of emptiness and looseness of abdomen ; sensation as if intestines were hanging down.

Cramps in abdomen in morning in bed.

Cutting in abdomen ; in evening, > passage of offensive flatus ; as from a purge.

Cutting in umbilical region.

Deep-seated, stitching, pressing pains in region of liver, < external pressure and lying on right side ; pain hinders sneezing, laughing, yawning, coughing, deep inspiration and walking.

Foul-smelling flatus.

Frequent sticking to left of umbilicus during rest.

Griping : when driving ; in women, < pubic region.

Gurgling in small intestines.

Pain as from canine hunger, < epigastric region, an hour after supper, with accumulation of flatus.

Pain in abdomen towards evening, > eating ; after eating, > emission of flatus, with nausea and in lumbar vertebrae, with flatulent troubles, pain in spermatic cords and testicles as if filled with blood, a soft, difficult stool.

Pain in right inguinal ring.

Pinching in abdomen in morning, so that he has to run for the closet, > stool.

Rumbling in morning ; gurgling and roaring.

Sticking : in sides of abdomen ; right side ; region of spleen ; under last left rib ; in hepatic region ; region of spleen, > standing still, renewed by walking, later felt even during rest.

Sticking in inguinal glands.

Swollen sensation horizontally across below short ribs when sitting.

Twitching in right groin after driving.

Stool and Anus (Psorinum)

Burning haemorrhoids in anus.

Burning high up in rectum.

Chafed sensation in rectum and anus during a drive.

Diarrhoea preceded by colic ; green, bilious, mixed with mucus ; four times a day, without pain.

Ineffectual urging.

Involuntary stools during sleep.

Itching in anus.

Lienteria.

Obstinate constipation, with severe pains.

Sensitive haemorrhoidal pain in rectum.

Soft, difficult stool ; and copious.

Spasmodic pain in rectum.

Stool : fluid, dark brown, foul-smelling ; thin, watery, dirty greenish, like carrion ; horribly offensive, nearly painless, almost involuntary, dark and watery ; only in night, < towards morning.

Stool wanting.

Stools : either costive or mushy : of normal consistency, in small balls, almost involuntary, at night, with violent emission of flatus ; two in forenoon ; four or five a day, preceded by colic ; sometimes shooting away as from a syringe, at another time it is mushy, sometimes of normal consistency.

Urinary Organs (Psorinum)

Burning during micturition with cutting.

Discharge of prostatic fluid before micturition.

Frequent micturition at night.

Sticking inwardly from orifice of urethra.

Tenesmus urinae and discharge of a few drops when he thinks he has done.

Urine has a red sediment and a pellicle of fat.

Male Sexual Organs (Psorinum)

Absence of erections ; even with lascivious thoughts, afterwards morning erections and pollutions, with satyriasis.

Aversion to coitus.

Burning pain at tip of penis on beginning to urinate.

Chronic gleet.

Chronic painless discharge from urethra, staining linen yellow.

Drawing in testicles, but more steady in small of back.

Frequent tightness of penis, with drawing.

Glans inflamed, with an ulcer on it, testes swollen and heavy.

Hydrocele : from repeated inflammation caused by pressure of truss (Puls. cured the inflammation).

Impotency.

No discharge of semen during coition.

Painful suppurating vesicle on scrotum.

Relaxation of genitals ; with indifference to sexual affairs.

Female Sexual Organs (Psorinum)

Amenorrhoea ; in psoric subjects ; with phthisis.

Breasts swollen ; nipples red ; burning and itching pimples about nipples.

Cutting in left groin.

During pregnancy : congestion ; foetus moves too violently ; tympanites ; nausea, vomiting ; obstinate cases.

Dysmenorrhoea ; near climaxis.

Intolerable itching from anus to vagina, with knotty stools, < at night.

Left ovary indurated from a blow.

Leucorrhoea ; large lumps ; unbearable in odour ; violent pains in sacrum and right loin ; great debility.

Mammary cancer.

Menses too late ; and scanty.

Sensitive knotty lump above right groin.

Ulcers on labia.

Respiratory Organs (Psorinum)

Breathes easily when doing some light work, as trimming trees.

Cough in evening, > keeping quiet, with pain in chest and throat, talking = cough.

Cough with weakness of chest ; so that he could not remain in bed at night, with weakness and vertigo.

Cough, < morning on waking, and in evening on lying down, with expectoration of green mucus, nearly like matter, with nausea, chest is affected and expectoration is difficult ; with copious expectoration ; sometimes of mucus streaked with blood ; with salivation and vomiting of acid mucus.

Dry cough : all day, with nausea and retching and tickling in throat from tickling in trachea, as if narrowing ; with soreness under sternum with heaviness on chest.

Dyspnoea in evening.

Hoarseness ; when talking phlegm sticks in larynx.

Inclination to cough, with sensation of coldness.

Short breath ; in fresh air, > riding and lying down.

Suffocating, crawling sensation in larynx, producing a paroxysmal, dry, hacking cough.

Suffocation in larynx when sitting bent backward, with crawling, causing paroxysmal, dry, hacking cough, and at same time contraction and heaviness in chest and pain in upper part of sternum.

Talking is very fatiguing.

Tickling in trachea, with cough.

Want of breath on walking in fresh air ; < sitting, > lying, with pain in chest.

Whistling respiration on waking, with constriction, again in evening whistling in chest.

Chest (Psorinum)

Boring in right chest, with oppressed breathing.

Chronic blennorrhoea of lungs.

Cutting as with knives ; in evening, with burnt feeling in throat, eructations, then emission of flatus.

Dull feeling in chest, with pain in back.

Feeling as if everything in it were torn when lifting.

Hot sensation in chest.

Hydrothorax.

Oppression ; pressure ; contracted feeling in chest.

Pain as if a lung had been torn loose and something were pressing it down.

Pain on spots ; ulcerative pain under sternum ; pain as from a load, < bending head forward, with want of breath.

Pain under sternum when coughing as if something would be torn away, extending to throat.

Sticking : in left chest ; left mamma ; under left false ribs ; in right side on coughing or breathing ; even when not breathing ; in sternum on deep breathing, and on touch a pressing and bruised pain.

Suppuration of lungs.

Twitching through left chest, anterior side.

When in bed has to remove the arms as far as possible from chest, otherwise they increase the pain.

Heart (Psorinum)

Gurgling in heart region esp. noticeable when lying down.

Pain in heart > lying down ; thinks the stitches will kill him if they continue.

Palpitation ; with anxious oppression.

Pericarditis.

Pulse : weak ; irritable, indicating a return of abscesses on neck.

Stitches in cardiac region, low gurgling extending to heart, for a moment breathing is impossible.

Neck and Back (Psorinum)

Aching in back ; bruised feeling in evening, cannot straighten it.

Backache : with constipation ; after suppressed eruption.

Boring in dorsal vertebrae ; pain between second and third in afternoon.

Boring in nape, with stiffness.

Boring in vertebrae in morning, with colic, as from rheumatism.

Cutting in loins so that she could not walk alone.

Drawing in loins, and sometimes in testicles.

Drawing pain extending to shoulder, after waking.

Glands of neck swollen, and on touch bruised pain extending to head.

Herpetic eruption on side of neck extending from cheek.

Nape excoriated by discharge from eczema capitis.

Pain in loins ; and itching ; like molimina haemorrhoidalia, < motion, so that he could not walk straight comfortably ; as if third vertebra from below were wanting or broken.

Pain in muscles of right neck, in their upper sinewy part, as from sudden tension, on turning head to right backward or sideways, > pressure.

Pain in nape in afternoon, only in the house, when supporting head with hands it feels as if it had no body, as if he could pass through it with the hands.

Scapulae : sticking between in morning ; tearing ; rheumatic sticking tearing in and between, down sides.

Spina bifida.

Sticking : in loins extending to knee in morning ; in os pubis during bodily exertion.

Sticking in back ; extending towards chest on coughing.

Sticking in neck, with pustules.

Tearing in nape.

Tensive pain in nape after waking, as if he had lain in an uncomfortable position.

Tightness in ischii when walking, extending to knees.

Weakness of loins.

Limbs (Psorinum)

Stretching.

Tearing : in left knee and shoulder ; intermittent, in joints, in humerus, knee, and toes, > motion.

Trembling of hands and feet.

Wandering pains, < tibiae and soles, also in finger-joints, at times in right patella, > motion.

Weakness of joints as if they would not hold together.

Upper Limbs (Psorinum)

Arm and shoulder swell up from an old eczema.

Copper-coloured eruption or red blisters on backs of hands.

Eruption in bends of elbows and around wrists.

Herpes on palms.

Itching between fingers ; vesicles.

Itch-like eruptions on wrists, with rheumatism in limbs.

Nails brittle.

Pustules on hands, near finger-ends, suppurating.

Sensation in left arm, in morning in bed, as if asleep with crawling in fingers ; with numbness of three first fingers and half of hand.

Spasmodic pain in bones of left arm in evening at rest.

Sticking in left index.

Sweat on palms, esp. at night.

Swelling and tension of backs of hands and of fingers.

Tearing in arm ; intermittent sticking in left arm.

Tearing in elbow ; right in evening.

Tearing in left shoulder in afternoon and evening when resting.

Tetter on arm, with small, millet-like eruption, exuding a yellow fluid ; itches intensely in heat.

Trembling of hands.

Warts, size of pin''s head, on left hand and fingers.

Lower Limbs (Psorinum)

Cramp or spasm in toes, < left great toe, when stretching them or taking off boots.

Feet, trembling ; inclination to turn left inward when walking, with sensation as if he really had turned it the wrong way.

Gouty pain in left foot.

Leg on which he lies in bed too weak to endure the pressure of the other, he has to change his position continually.

Legs, < tibiae and soles, pain as from too much walking, mornings in bed, > rising, with restlessness of legs.

Pain in feet < during rest, with itching.

Pain in hip-joints as if dislocated, < when walking, with weak arms.

Paralysis of legs from suppression of eruption on arms.

Sciatica : tension down to knee while walking.

Sensation in right leg as if it would go to sleep.

Sticking in right ankle in morning on every step with strained sensation.

Tibiae and soles feel bruised, as after a tiring walk, mornings in bed.

Generalities (Psorinum)

> Morning ; in fresh air ; when lying.

Gouty pains in left toe, both knees, and back.

Heaviness of whole body as before intermittent fever.

Hot trembling over whole body in morning during rush of business.

Looks pale, exhausted, thin, his clothing is too large for him.

Right side of body full of burning pains.

Sensation when in the sun as if it pushed her down, she had to rest in the shade in order to walk on.

Soreness.

Stormy weather affects him, = restlessness in his blood a few days beforehand ; makes him sick and = haemorrhoidal troubles.

Weakness : towards evening, > going to bed ; after riding in a waggon ; from a little labour.

Skin (Psorinum)

< Of the itching, which he had had for years on knees, < left, and the herpetic eruption begins to become pustular.

A scab on nose which commonly fell off when coughing is now adherent and hard.

An old rhagade near right styloid process suppurated, itched, and was surrounded by blisters filled with clear water, these soon changed to pustules, which healed under a crust.

Boils on chest and loins ; on buttocks, with burning itching, soon disappearing, leaving crusts.

Burning like heat-rash below eyes ; causing itching, smarting pain, burning after scratching, and feeling sore (in a herpetic patient) ; and ulcers, from which watery fluid oozed for hours after being opened, < hands, wrists, and palms.

Crawling on all limbs, with falling asleep of them.

It < herpes and causes smarting and itching.

Itching : on forehead ; tip of nose ; left arm ; biceps of left arm ; right elbow ; soles in evening after a glass of Muscat wine, with tickling and heat ; of face, neck, and hands on touch ; over whole body after rubbing papules and vesicles ; between fingers, and vesicles filled with lymph ; on right carpus, with red spots ; voluptuous, where a flea had bitten, with white, hard blisters on a red base.

Itch-like eruption on face, hand, back, and leg, and agglutination of eyes.

Nodules on face, neck, and legs.

Pimples : on forehead ; on neck and mammae ; with black points in centre, painful when scratched ; on external throat.

Pustules on nape, with sticking.

Rash : above left brow and on left cheek ; red, on external throat, beginning with sticking.

Vesicles : on face ; quickly filling with yellow lymph, sore to touch on forehead, face, and behind right ear ; filled with lymph, painful to touch on various parts, some forming itching papules.

Sleep (Psorinum)

Cannot fall asleep in evening.

Cannot sleep on the habitual right side, but sleeps on left.

Dreams : anxious in morning, of robbers, travels, and dangers ; uneasy, earnest ; that he is on the closet, and thus nearly soils his bed of his business and of his plans.

Gnashing of teeth at night, so that he wakes.

Restless sleep ; and unrefreshing.

Restless sleep on account of disquiet dreams.

Sleep restless but refreshing.

Sleep unusually sound.

Sleeps when she sits down.

Sleepy all the time ; in daytime ; early.

Yawning : at noon ; and shivering pale blue rings, with tearing and spasmodic pains in umbilical region in evening ; in evening, with early sleepiness.

Fever (Psorinum)

Burning : in head ; in forehead ; in nose, transiently > by discharge of mucus.

Burning in face, then vesicles.

Burning in nose, then fluent coryza.

Burning in right ear with itching.

Coldness < evening, with hot flashes, debility, and sleepiness.

Coldness with heat, thirst, and sweat.

Creeping coldness in afternoon, with internal shivering.

Feet cold all night.

Heat : in afternoon ; in evening when riding in a carriage, with sweat ; of whole body suddenly, at meals and in evening, with trickling sweat all over face, frequent thirst, dryness, and burning in mouth.

Heat in evening, as if she would lose her senses, at night delirium, thirst, and sweat, then she feels well.

Horripilations.

Internal coldness towards noon, with shivering and horripilation.

Sweat : on waking ; in morning when out of doors : with consequent debility, and taking cold easily ; sweat on palms ; on face ; on palms at night ; perinaeum on moving about.

Want of sweat, dry skin.