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Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 3,688 chars
General
Think of this remedy on seeing a withered and dried-up person.
Mental.-- Apathy; taciturn and gloomy; time passes slowly; it seems as if others were hours in doing what is really accomplished in a short time; this worries the patient, because it seems such a long time. Memory weak, or lost; disturbed intellect; impulsive, time seems too short, wants to do things in a hurry, must walk fast, etc.--is always hurried; easily excited, nervous, irritable, anxious.
Head
Vertigo; as if turning in a circle, accompanied by headache, head symptoms are very prominent, cannot walk, talk or think, the head gets so giddy.
Headache better from being tightly bound up; head feels painfully full and as if too large; boring pain in forehead, left side.
Excessive. congestion to the head, with throbbing carotids, obliging one to loosen the cravat.
Scalp, extreme itching of; creeping and crawling, with sensation as though roots of the hair were being pulled upward.
Strange feeling in the head as if skull bones were separated.
Face looks old, sunken, dirty.
Eyes
Great photophobia, worse in warm room, eyes bloodshot, much lachrymation; purulent ophthalmia; eye troubles in general, pupils dilated. Sight and eyes seem to suffer as abdominal sufferings increase.
Ears
Ringing in, with deafness.
Nose
Violent itching, obliging to rub until it looks raw. Much sneezing.
Stomach
No appetite; longing for sugar; pain after eating.
Wind dyspepsia, violent belching, bowels usually regular; great relief from belching; violent, noisy belching; much flatulence.
Gastrodynia.
Teeth
Much pain in the sound teeth, made worse by chewing; eating things; or from cold things in the mouth.
Stool
Diarrhoea after sugar or candy; after drinking any fluids--they go right through; stools green fetid mucus, like chopped spinach; with sand or gravel; expelled forcibly, with much fuss; turning green on diaper; stools epithelial, with much lymph, looking red or green, shreddy, with tenesmus, advanced dysentery, suspected ulceration. Itching of the anus, causing the sufferer to rub it, until it becomes sore.
Throat
Sensation as of a splinter when swallowing, eructating, breathing, moving the neck.
Abdomen
Stitching, ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs, worse from deep inspiration and touching the part.
Sexual.-- Male : Want of sexual desire, the organs seem much shrivelled. Female , uterine haemorrhage two weeks before menses.
Urine
Incontinence of; too copious; suppression of; emission of a few more drops after one is done urinating.
Chest
Aching pains in, size of half a dollar.
Palpitation of heart with nausea and faintness.
Suffocative cough at noon.
Extremities
Lower : Paralytic affections, almost losing use of lower extremities from rigidity of CALVES of the legs.
Fever
Chills, shifting or constant are most lasting, with nausea.
Generalities
Drowsy stupor. Emaciation; trembling weakness; debility mostly declared in legs, especially calves. Chronic hoarseness; chronic laryngitis of those who use their voices much, singers, lecturers, etc. Neuralgias, seldom acute, but spread over a large surface and are deeply seated. Convulsions (sometimes puerperal) preceded by great restlessness; hysteria ; epilepsy. Nervous affections, particularly chorea, occurring at night, in morning or about noon, typical; paraplegia; from debilitating causes.
Skin
Peculiar discoloration, from blue-gray, violet, or bronze, to real black.
Worse.-- At night; in morning; cold food; sugar.
Remedies following:-- Calc. carb., Pulsat., Sepia . Next best: Lycop., Silic., Kali carb., Mercur .
Antidote
Mercur., Natrum mur .