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Rumex Crispus

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Generalities

Sensitiveness to open air.

General aggravation in the evening, especially restlessness and weakness.

Head

Headache, with a bruised feeling in the forehead < by motion ; better in the afternoon.

Nose

Coryza, with a watery discharge ; sneezing ; with headache.

Mouth

Various toothaches with the acute colds.

Tongue coated yellow.

Throat

Scraping, soreness worse in the evening.

Stomach

Flatulence, distention with sense of repletion.

Heaviness in the pit of the stomach, worse after eating ; with pressure extending up to the pit of the throat frequently returning.

Clinical

Gastric disturbances, particularly from tea drinking ; often associated with acute colds.

Gastralgia ; pains extending to the chest and pit of the throat, aggravated by motion, relieved by rest.

Abdomen

Flatulent pains in abdomen followed by diarrhoea.

Stool

Evacuations watery, brown in the morning.

Clinical

Early morning diarrhoea, urgent, associated with dry cough from the throat, aggravated at night or from 5 to 9 A. M.

Respiratory organs :

Irritation in the larynx, a collection of mucus removed by hawking ; constant desire to expectorate tough mucus, worse at night.

Cough

Aggravated when eating, on breathing cold air, especially in the evening on lying down.

Cough caused by tickling in the pit of the throat (supra-sternal fossa), or behind the upper part of the sternum.

Cough usually dry, spasmodic associated with headache or wrenching pain in the chest, particularly < in the open air and on lying down.

Chest

Aphonia.

Sticking pains at the left side of the sternum, in the morning ; better before rising or on coughing, or on deep inspiration, especially when riding in the open air.

Pains seem to be in the centre of the lung, with rawness, even burning, < by inspiration or by lying on the back or the right side ; > lying on the left side.

Cutting pains in the interior part of the lung, especially with gastric disturbances.

Soreness in the left lung on lying on that side.

Extremities

Various pains, < motion, relieved by lying down, apparently muscular.

Skin

Violent itching, worse at night on undressing, on any part of the body which is exposed to the air ; relieved in the warmth of the bed.

Prurigo.

Urticaria.

Eczema with violent itching, < when undressing.

Sleep

Restless sleep, frequently disturbed ; short, broken naps.

Fever

General sensitiveness to cold.

Chilliness in back and lower extremities.

Heat also local, in the back usually associated with gastric disturbances.

Sweat especially on the lower extremities at night.