ClarkePreparation Trituration and solution.

Sources 17 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Inner Head ► Congestion of blood to head and face. ► Rush of blood, throbbing carotids, head seems too large ; relieved by tight bandage. ► Boring in left frontal eminence, worse at night in warm bed. ► Pressing pains sometimes on vertex, sometimes left frontal bone, relieved by pressure or by tight bandaging ; worse from any exhaustive mental labor ; letters would then run together. ► Violent pressure in the forehead commencing over the eyes, spreading upwards to coronal suture ; in morning. ► Hemicrania ; pressive, screwing ; throbbing pain in one frontal protuberance, temple or into the bones of the face. …

Eyes ► Far-sighted. ► Grey spots and serpent-like bodies moved before him. ► Letters become blurred ; run together. ► Photophobia, eyes filled with mucus. ► Photophobia and weak sight, preventing his writing. ► Vanishing of sight, he must constantly wipe away mucus. ► Paralysis of accommodation from errors of refraction, glasses failing. ► Eyes red, shuns light, after straining them while sewing ; worse in the warm room, better in the open air. ► Conjunctiva towards inner canthus is red and swollen, like pterygium. ► Canthi as red as blood, the caruncula swollen, standing out like a lump of red flesh ; clusters of intensely red vessels, extend from inner canthus to the cornea. ► Cornea opaque ; ulceration of the cornea in new born infants ; profuse purulent discharge from the lids. ► Conjunctiva of ball and lids intensely congested ; bright red granulations on lids ; lids swollen, thick pus discharges. ► Oedema of the lids and sensation of fulness, dryness and heat, especially on moving the ball, which is sensitive to touch ; chemosis ; non-excoriating lachrymation. ► Lids crusty, swollen, thick ; with pannus. ► Ciliary blepharitis from being over a fire ; better from cold air and cold applications. θ Ectropion.

Stomach ► Small spot between the xiphoid and navel, sensitive to the slightest pressure ; pain radiate in all directions ; increases and decreases gradually. θ Gastrodynia. ► Regularly towards midnight, attacks of pain preceded by vomiting of slimy and bilious fluid. ► Constant drawing and gnawing, increasing daily to violent attacks, ending in vomiting of clear, saltish water. ► After ice cream, gastralgia, pain radiating in all directions, worse after food. ► Stitches in the stomach, and short breathing. ► Trembling ; weakness at pit of stomach. ► Fulness of the stomach ; painful swelling at the pit, with great anxiety. θ Flatulent dyspepsia. ► Stinging, ulcerative pain in the left side of stomach, worse from touch and deep inspiration. ► Gastric catarrh after a long "spree", tip of tongue red. …

Female Sexual Organs ► Bleeding ulcers, the hemorrhages of short duration. ► Dreams of sexual gratification. ► Coition painful, followed by bleeding from the vagina. ► Prolapsus with ulceration of os or cervix uteri. ► Menses : too early profuse, long-lasting ; with headache, cutting in small of back and groin ; at night tormenting pressure in praecordia ; internal trembling in epigastrium ; irregular, too soon or too late, too copious or too scanty, but always with thick, coagulated blood. ► Metrorrhagia, with nervous erethism at change of life ; also young widows and those who have borne no children ; returns in attack ; region of ovaries painful, with pains radiating to sacrum and thighs. ► Leucorrhoea copious yellow corroding.

Breathing ► Many people in room seem to take away his breath. ► Motion going to stairs or bodily exertion causes asthmatic attacks face congested palpitation. ► Short breathed with deep sighs much oppression ; violent attacks of dry, spasmodic asthma, forcing him to rise and walk about. ► Inclined to take a deep breath, but the effort causes asthma. ► Upper abdominal walls are drawn in during inspiration ; expand during expiration ; the effort to breathe deeply takes away the breath at once. θ Paralysis of diaphragm. ► Spasms of the respiratory muscles in cholera ; great constriction and stitches in the epigastrium ; cannot talk ; drinking suffocates ; even a handkerchief before the nose impedes breathing ; agony, thinks of killing himself.

Neck And Back ► Indurated glands on the neck, with suspicion of former syphilis. ► Acute pains in the dorsal region after a fall. ► Pain in the small of the back, relieved when standing or walking ; but severe when rising from a seat. ► Pain in back and lower ribs during pregnancy. ► Weakness in sacro-iliac symphysis as if bones were loose. ► Sense of weight in lower part of sacrum and os coccygis, better standing ; worse sitting and with stool.

Limbs In General ► Lassitude, weariness of forearms, legs. ► Trembling. θ Paralysis. ► Rheumatic tendency in right arm and thigh. θ Asthma. ► During day, tormented with formication of arms and legs. ► Chorea like convulsive motion of limbs ; legs drawn up ; arms jerked outward and upward.

Sleep ► Yawning and chilliness ; soporous condition. ► Is prevented from falling asleep by fancies and images hovering before his imagination. ► After long, wearisome, fatiguing night-watching. ► Much excited at night ; murmured constantly ; nothing but shaking would arouse him ; scarcely are his eyes open before he again closes them. ► Sees departed friends, the dead, ghosts at night ; dreams of putrid water, of serpents, which fill him with horror. ► In the morning, dreams he is hungry ; this awakens him, and he finds he has a violent spasm of the stomach, with hunger, nausea, flatulence.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chilliness, with nausea ; chilly with many complaints. ► Chilly, with cold hands and feet. ► Constant chilliness up back and over shoulders ; worse after meals ; worse coming into room from the open air. ► Skin dry, but not very hot. ► Temperature sunken. ► Intermittent fever, with pulmonary hemorrhage ; generally no thirst. ► Profuse sweat ; it stands out on the face in beads ; stitches in the side, cough during the attack. ► Morning sweat. ► Sweat and chilliness, soon as he gets warm in bed.

Skin ► Skin from a blue-grey violent or bronze color to real black, skin brown tense, hard. ► Itching smarting, mostly of thighs and axillae, when warm at night. ► Bluish-black eruption. θ Scarlet fever. ► Erysipelatous bed-sores, left shoulder, sacrum or both hips centre covered with dry, bloody incrustations ; black hard on sacrum. θ Typhus. ► Pustulous ecthyma. ► Water-shaped excrescences on the skin.

Complementary —

Follows well Bryonia Alba, Causticum, Lycopodium Clavatum +3

Compare Argemone Mexicana, Arsenicum Album, Mercurius Solubilis +2