Habitat The finest specimens contain traces of iron, 0.04 to 0.6 per cent.; poor qualities as much as 4 per cent

ClarkePreparation Trituration of prepared Black Lead from finest English drawing-pencils.

Sources 19 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Inner Head ► Forehead : pressure deep in ; drawing ; tearing ; bursting. ► Stinging or stitching pains in the temples. ► Throbbing in the sides of the head. ► Pressive pain : in the vertex ; in the occiput. ► Tearing pain in one side of head, in teeth and glands of throat. ► Pain as if constricted with a cord, particularly in occiput. ► Pain from left temple down the side of the face to the shoulder ; face distorted ; left corner of mouth drawn inward and downward. ► Lancinating pain in right temple. ► Violent headache, with nausea, during the menses.

Eyes ► Intolerance of light ; with redness of the white of the eye ; hyperaesthesia of eyes, with the vertigo. ► Shunning daylight usually more than gaslight ; photophobia. ► Light dazzles the eyes ; sunlight causing lancinating pains in the eyes. ► Shortsightedness. ► Letters : appear double when writing ; run together when reading ; sees fiery zigzags around the outside of the field of vision, in the evening, with the eye open. ► Flickering before the eyes. ► Sees as through a mist ; everything turns black before the eyes when stooping. ► Tiredness of the eyes. ► Pressing pain in the eyes, morning and evening. ► Drawing, extending from the eye up into the head. ► Stitches from the temple through the eye to inner canthus, on looking at anything white or red, or at the sun. ► Smarting in the eyes, with heat in them. ► Burning and aching in eyes ; burning pain around the eyes. ► Ulcer on the cornea, with a few small vessels running into it ; with moist fissured eczematous eruptions. ► Pustules on the cornea and conjunctiva, with much lachrymation. ► Pustule on the cornea, or reddish appearance, with white halo around it ; the corners of lids raw and bleed easily. ► Arthritic ophthalmia, with contraction and irregularity of the pupils. ► Lachrymation in the open air ; also chronic. ► Thin, acrid discharge from the eyes ; pus-like discharge from the eyes. ► Internal canthus : itching ; burning ; stitches ; sore. ► External canthus ; sore and fissured ; fissured and bleed easily. ► Heat in the eyes and some pus in the canthi. ► Swelling of the eyelids and lachrymal gland. ► Heaviness of the eyelids ; cannot open his eyes. ► Lids : feel dry, rough with itching ; edges inflamed or covered with scurf ; agglutinated night and morning ; oedematous. ► Left lower lid hangs down. ► Inverted lids (margins) ; wild hairs. ► Styes on lower lid, with drawing pain -may prevent return. ► On both eyes hordeola and chalazion in all stages, also wens. ► Coldness over the eyes. ► Twitchings beneath the eyes.

Stomach ► Sickening, painful feeling at the pit of stomach. ► Pressure in the pit of stomach, night and morning. ► Binding, constricting pain in gastric region. ► Sensation of lump in the stomach, with constant beating, as of two hammers. ► Pain in stomach : necessitates eating ; better from warm milk, worse from boiled meat, worse from cold drink. ► Nightly pinching pain in the stomach, and rooting pain in the chest. ► Griping in the stomach, with flatulency. ► Fulness in the stomach and abdomen. ► Periodical gastralgia, with vomiting of the food immediately after eating. ► Chronic gastritis with thirst, especially after the abuse of alcoholic drinks. ► Chronic catarrh of stomach, with frequent eructations.

Female Sexual Organs ► Great aversion to coitus. ► Tumor, size of an orange, right iliac fossa, also similar one in left ; both hard, round, slightly movable, not painful to pressure, not producing inconvenience from weight. ► Pains from left ovary through pelvis and down the thigh. ► Os uteri standing backwards, can only be reached with difficulty. ► Pain in the uterus when reaching high with the arms. ► Bearing down pain in the uterus to the back, with weakness and sickness. ► Painful pressure towards the pudenda. ► Menses : too scanty and too pale ; too late, with violent colic ; blood sometimes dark. ► During the menses : heat in abdomen ; urging, pressing like labor-pains ; hoarseness ; lassitude and weakness. ► Copious leucorrhoea, before and after the menses. ► Profuse leucorrhoea, perfectly white, especially on rising from the bed in the morning weakness of the back when walking or sitting. ► Leucorrhoeal discharges occur in gushes day or night. ► Vesicles or excoriations in the vagina. ► Vagina cold. ► Oedema of the pudenda. ► Excoriations in perineum, vulva and between thighs.

Lungs ► Cramps of the chest. ► Pains in the chest. ► Pain in the middle of the chest, with cough, scraping, rawness and soreness. ► Stitching pains in the chest.

Neck And Back ► Pain in nape of neck. ► Stiffness of back of neck ; also, with headache. ► Seventh cervical vertebra sensitive, with burning pain ; anaemia. ► Eruption on the nape, dry, peeling in fine, mealy scales, without itching. ► Unpainful swollen glands on side of neck. ► Contracting pains in the back. ► Weakness in back and loins on walking. ► Sacral pains, with sensation of crawling and stitching. ► Small of back aches, as if bruised or broken. ► Numb pain, from the sacrum down the legs. ► Pain in the os coccygis while urinating.

Limbs In General ► Drawing pains in the limbs. ► Tearing : in the feet and hands ; in all the limbs. ► Startings of the hands and feet. ► Heaviness in limbs. ► Limbs go "to sleep". ► Hands and feet : either hot or cold.

Sleep ► Constant yawning. ► Excessively tired and sleepy. ► Sleepiness : during the day, must lie down ; after dinner. ► Light slumber at night. ► Wandering fancies at night. ► Nightly pains felt in sleep. ► Cannot go to sleep till late. ► Sleeplessness. ► Starting in sleep. ► Dreams : vivid ; anxious ; frightening ; horrible ; vexatious.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chilliness in the morning, in bed. ► Chill and chilliness, most in the evening. ► Chill worse after meals, better after drinking, better in open air. ► Heat evening and night ; also, with restlessness. ► Sweats from the slightest motion. ► Profuse night-sweat. ► Sweat, often on front of body only. ► Sweat stains yellow, is sour and offensive smelling, and frequently cold. ► Entire inability to sweat.

Skin ► Itching over various parts of body. ► Violent itching and burning, with eruptions. ► Eczema, with profuse serous exudations, in blondes inclined to obesity ; also alternating with internal affections. ► Itching blotches on various parts of the body, from which oozes a watery, sticky fluid. ► Skin is not inclined to heal, ulcerates readily. ► Old ulcers, with fetid pus, proud flesh, itching, stinging. ► Old scars from ulcers. ► Skin dry, inclined to crack. ► See : 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 19, 20, 22, 23, 30, 31, 32, 33.

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