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Psorinum

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Generalities

Exhaustion and emaciation.

Greatly affected by stormy weather.

General anaemia, with aversion to food.

Mind

Melancholy ; inclined to suicide.

Despair.

Ill humor.

Constant thoughts of dying.

Head

Pain as from the beating of a hammer in the head.

General dullness, > nose-bleed.

A feeling of heaviness in the forehead in the morning on rising, > washing.

A feeling of a piece of wood, lying across the occiput.

Ears

Fetid, purulent discharge ; with headache.

Nose

Obstruction, with dryness or with discharge of thin mucus.

Face

Pale, sickly look.

Swelling of the upper lip.

Lips dry and burn, painful.

Mouth

Teeth loose, gums ulcerated.

Tongue coated yellowish-white or ulcerated ; at times dry, especially at tip as if burnt.

Throat

Sore, with adhesion of tough mucus to the posterior wall of the palate, with constant hawking.

Throat feels dry, especially in the morning, with scraping.

Stomach

Excessive hunger, though with diminished relish for food.

Eructations tasting like foul eggs.

Nausea and sour vomiting.

Abdomen

Bloated, with flatulent symptoms.

Aggravation from lying on the right side.

Stool

Diarrhoea ; thin, dark brown, of a horrible odor.

Respiratory organs :

Cough from tickling in the trachea, with soreness under the sternum and heaviness on the chest, at times with expectoration of green mucus.

Sense of suffocation in the larynx, with paroxysmal, dry, hacking cough.

Shortness of breath on walking in the open air.

Ulcerative pain under the sternum or soreness as if everything were torn in the chest.

Neck and Back :

Swollen glands on the nape, with bruised pain, extending into the head.

Extremities

Weakness as if the joints would not hold together.

Pain in the legs as from too much walking, with restlessness.

Skin

Itching eruption, vesicular, painful.

Skin yellow, dirty, and greasy ; unhealthy eruptions.

Fever

Sudden outbreaks of sweat on slight effort, which is generally offensive, followed by debility and easy taking cold.