Astacus Fluviatilis

Crawfish. Crustacece.

Frequently made use of in olden times.

Tincture from the whole animal prepared by C.Hg. in 1825, still had a fishy smell in 1867, and produced symptoms. Fully proved and introduced by Buchner, in 1842.

^ Mind. Melancholic mood.

Apprehensiveness with anxiety in chest.

Slight delirium, with nettle rash. ^ Sensorium. Giddiness.

1 I Dullness in head. ^ Inner Head. Pressing and throbbing on small spots, particu- larly in the right temple.

Pressing dullness in frontal region.

Headache with pressure toward the eyes.

Stinging pain in temples.

Pressing stinging pain extends towards occiput, but most in right temple and about ear.

Excessive pain caused by the violent spasmodic sneezing. * Outer Head. On head, neck and chest inflammation, with red spots filled with serum, gone after a sweat.

I A thick, crusty eruption on the scalp, with enlarged lymphatic glands. ' Sight and Eyes. He sees colored spots when reading.

Dimness of vision.

Dilated pupils.

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Motion of eyes is painful.

It pains him to turn his eyes ; giddy ; nervous ; crawls all over

his body. Lachrymation.

Pressure in upper part of right eye. Conjunctival vessels injected. Yellow conjunctiva. ® Ears. Sensation as if a foreign body obstructed passage of r. ear, causing slight deafness. Heat and redness of the ears.

Outward-pressing and stinging, particularly in right ear. ^ Nose. Sneezing, with yawning and belching. Nosebleed relieving the attacks. Slight coryza. ^ Face.

At intervals darting like lightning from temple to cheek. Burning heat in face. 1 1 Face glowing and red with fever. ■ Erysipelas with nettle rash. ^° Teeth and Gums. Dull, drawing toothache, returning at in- tervals. At intervals pain as if the tooth were being torn out.

Toothache in the whole r. lower jaw, with cold feeling in an eyetooth. " Tongue. Pressing pain in tongue and pharynx.

Sweetish pappy taste after the cough. ^^ Inner Mouth. ■ ■ Canker spots ; scorbutus. ^' Palate. A fishy taste in the roof of the mouth, later farther back

and lower down ; after smelling tincture. " Eating. After eating : colicky pain below the navel, he has to

bend double. ^® Nausea and Vomiting. Fishy taste, followed by nausea, spreading through the chest. Nausea with vomiting. Empty eructations. " Stomach. ' ' Fullness and pressure in stomach ; burning in

epigastrium, d Gastric and bilious troubles. ^^ Hypochondria. Very severe pain in region of duodenum.

Inflammation of liver followed by jaundice; hepatic region

painful on pressure. Pressure in region of spleen. ^^ Abdomen. Colicky pain with tenesmus and prostration ; re- lieved by sitting, < when walking. Colicky pain around umbilicus with distension. ^^ Stool, i Stools the color of pipe-clay ; pain in the liver. ■ Diarrhoea with vomiting and colicky pain. Soft mucous stool with scraping in rectum. " Urinary Organs. iPain in kidneys; stinging in the night; <C. when inhaling.

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Fishy smelling urine.

Tearing stitching pain in region of right kidney ; drawing in the ureter.

Pressing in bladder and heavy feeling.

Urging, scanty discharge, burning during and after urination ; reddish sediment.

Pale urine with acid reaction, containing a large quantity of albumen. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Restless sleep from strong sexual ex- citement.

Averse to coition ; diminished sexual power ; scrotum relaxed. 24 Pregnancy. Uaundice of little children. ^® Larynx and Trachea. Tickling in chink of glottis or deeper, exciting cough ; tenacious mucus in larynx and trachea.

Roughness and scraping in throat, necessitating hawking. ^® Breathing. Dyspnoea with anxiety and rattling of mucus.

Pressure and oppressed breathing in bronchia. ^^ Cough. Cough from tickling in larynx, worse during day.

Sweetish expectoration.

Cough did not molest him while walking, in the evening, but returned as soon as he sat down.

Frequent coughing without expectoration in the forenoon.

Cough worse in the afternoon ; chest painful ; expectoration of salivary and white mucus.

Light yellow expectoration. 2^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Congestion of the lungs with dysp- noea and blood spitting.

Pricking under left nipple. ^' Pulse. Pulse 50 in the morning, later 80. ^° Outer Chest. Pressure on the whole sternum. ^^ Neck and Back. A pain below the right shoulder in front.

Itching in nape of neck with flushed face.

II Swelling of cervical glands with children and old people.

Jerking under 1. kidney. ^^ Tipper Limhs. Pressure and tension in axillae and deltoid mus- cles.

Trembling in the arms when leaning on them.

Rheumatic pain in 1. arm.

Lassitude in the arms, they pain when touched.

Pressure and heaviness in the bends of the elbows- Jerking and drawing in 1. forearm.

Chilliness and trembling of the arms.

Transitory tearing and stinging pain in 1. thumb, in the morning. ^^ Lower Limbs. Burning on anterior surface of left thigh.

Slight tension from knee down to foot. ^® Rest. Position. Motion. Sitting : colic > ; cough worse.

Walking : colic < ; cough better.

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^^ Nerves. Lassitude and weariness, trembling and fatigue.

I Paralysis.

^^ Sleep. Restless sleep, anxious or lewd dreams, skin hot, wakes

in perspiration, particularly on lower part of body. ^^ Time. Morning : pain in thumb.

Forenoon : cough dry.

During day : cough <.

Afternoon: cough <.

Evening : chill over body.

Night : stinging in kidney. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Temperature increased in evening.

Sensitive to air, no matter how great the feeling of heat.

I I Inward chilliness, and sensitiveness to air. Worse from un- covering.

^ Fever. Nervous crawls all over body.

Chills, confusion of the head, face red, swollen ; eyelids tume- fied ; great prostration and slight delirium.

1 1 Violent fever with headache, glowing red face, inward chilli- ness and sensitiveness to air.

Chill over whole body, particularly sensible in the arm pits ; in the evening.

■ Increase of temperature in the evening and slight excitement of the sensorium. d Sopor.

I After overheating from exertion and taking cold, the first stage of a typhoid fever treated with Rhus and Bryon., got much worse, with nausea-like fainting, fever heat, glowing face, inner chilliness and sensitiveness to the air ; after un- covering greater long-lasting chill. ^^ Locality and Direction. Right : pain in temple ; pressure in eye ; obstruction and stinging in ear ; toothache lower jaw ; pain below shoulder.

Left: Pricking under nipple; jerking under kidney ; pain in arm ; in thumb ; burning in thigh. *^ Sensations. As of a foreign body in ear.

As if teeth were being torn out.

Darting : like lightning from temple to cheek.

Jerking : under 1. kidney ; in 1. forearm. ' Stitching and tearing: in r, kidneys.

Stinging : in temples ; in ears ; in kidneys ; in 1. thumb.

Pricking : under 1. nipple.

Burning : during urination ; on thigh.

Scraping : in rectum ; in throat.

Pressing : on small spots in head ; dullness, in frontal region ; toward eyes ; stinging towards occiput, in r. temple, and about ear ; in upper part of r. eye ; outward, in ears ; in tongue and pharynx ; in stomach ; in spleen ; in bladder ;

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in bronchia ; on sternum ; in axillee and deltoid muscles ; in

bends of elbows. Drawing : in ureter ; in 1. forearm. • Dull drawing : in teeth. Rheumatic pain : in 1. arm. Colicky pain : around umbilicus. Undefined pain : in head from sneezing ; in r. duodenum ; in

kidneys; in chest; below r. shoulder. Throbbing : in head. Fullness : in stomach. Heaviness : in bladder ; in bends of elbows. Tension : from knee to foot. Crawls : over body.

Itching : in nape of neck ; on various parts. Tickling in larynx. Heat of ears : in face. Coldness : in eye-tooth. "Tissues. I Tumors, if not too old.

■ Gout of drinking people. ^^ Touch. Passive Motion. Pressure : hepatic region painful ;

pain in region of duodenum. Passive motion : eyes painful. *^ Skin. A violent attack of an eruption like nettle-rash. Itching on various parts of body.

I I Nettle-rash over the whole body.

I I Nettle-rash with liver complaint.

I Erysipelas, with fever, headache and increased sweat. Crusta lactea. See 4. Jaundice of children. *^ Relationship. Antidote : Aeon.

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