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General Characteristics-- A very great sensitiveness, hypersensitiveness , particularly of those in whom the venous system preponderates over the arterial; very weakly and delicate persons. It affects the left hypochondriac region; left side of the abdomen; left side of the neck, and nape of the neck: left upper extremity and left lower extremity; left ear; general symptoms left side.
Mental.-- Dissatisfied with one's self; complaints about one's troubles.
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Head
Inner semi-lateral, on either side, but generally on the left. Heaviness and pressure in the forehead and right half of the head.
Ears
Fetid or purulent discharge; badly smelling.
Nose
Ozaena with discharge of green fetid pus.
Throat
Pressure in oesophagus as if a body were ascending, obliging one to swallow frequently; globus hystericus.
Stomach
Fatty taste. Rising in the throat. Loathing; inclination to vomit; pressure in from below upwards into the oesophagus; pulsations in the pit of the stomach, perceptible to the hand and eye even.
Abdomen
Heaviness in; stitches; lancinations; dartings; bloated. Flatus very offensive. Sensation as if peristaltic motion were taking place from below upwards. Inner region of the spleen.
Stool
Stool stinking; slow; difficult; hard. Diarrhoea of most disgusting odor. Fetid flatus.
Sexual.-- Female : Labor-like pains in the uterus, of cutting and bearing down character. Deficiency of milk. Nipples.
Urine
Urine smells like Ammonia .
Bones
Bones of the arm; sensation as if bones were bending; darting pain in; caries in; caries of the periosteum; painfulness in; painfulness of the periosteum, accompanied with great sensitiveness; enlargement of; softening or swelling of; swelling of the periosteum.
Skin
Itching, better by scratching; pricking, burning skin. Ulcers in general; hard on circumference; with bloody pus; with thin pus; painful ulcers; painful on the edges; sensitive on the circumference, with high, hard edges; prickings on circumference.
Sensations
Big toe. Pain, jerking in outer parts particularly; pressing from within outwards; darting in outer parts, in inner parts, from within outward; in the muscles; burning darting in the muscles; quivering in the external parts; tension in inner parts; in right side of back, near scapula. Intermittent, pulsative, oppressive, darting, also tearing pains, from within outwards; often relieved by scratching or rubbing.
Generalities
Asthma of different kinds. Old ulcers on forearm, wrist, hand; ulcers, especially when affecting the bones; thin ichorous pus.
Better.-- From scratching; from being touched.
Remedies to follow: China, Mercur., Pulsat .
Antidotes
China, Mercur .
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