Paris Quadrifolia

General

PARIS QUADRIFOLIA. [Paris] Oneberry. Stapf. Smilaceae.

Mind

► Loquacious mania. ► Silly conduct. ► Inclination to treat others with rudeness and contempt.

Inner Head

► Headache, aggravated by close thinking. ► Dulness of the forehead, with headache. ► Piercing and single stitches in the head. ► Constrictive pressure in forehead and temples ; the brain, eyes and skin feel tense and the bones scraped ; worse from motion, excitement, or using the eyes.

Outer Head

► Scalp sensitive to touch ; sore pain at small spots on the forehead.

Eyes

► Feel too large, or swollen, and the orbits too small. ► Eyes feel as if projecting, with a sensation as if a thread was tightly drawn through the eyeball, and backward into the middle of the brain ; sight weak. ► Feeling of contraction in internal canthi.

Ears

► Sudden pain in the ear, as if forced apart by a wedge.

Nose

► Discharge of red or greenish mucus on blowing the nose. ► Stuffed condition and fulness at the root of nose ; constant hawking of tenacious, white, tasteless mucus.

Lower Face

► Violent itching, biting and burning on the edges of the lower jaw, frequently with red, small, easily bleeding (miliary) eruption. ► Tetters around the mouth. ► Vesicles on the surface of the lower lip.

Tongue, Etc

► Great dryness of tongue on awaking ; tongue feels too large. ► Tongue white, with roughness ; no thirst ; bitter or lessened taste.

Mouth

► Dryness of mouth in morning. ► Tart saliva.

Throat

► Burning, stinging and scraping in throat. ► Sore throat, as if a ball were lodged in it. ► Tense, almost painless swelling on the roof of the mouth. ► Scarlatina.

Eating And Drinking

► Hunger very soon after a meal. ► After eating, hiccough.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Belching, with pain.

Stomach

► Heaviness in stomach, as from a stone ; relieved eructation. ► Weak, slow digestion.

Abdomen

► Rumbling and rolling in abdomen.

Stool, Etc

► Frequent soft stools. ► Diarrhoeic stools smell like putrid meat.

Urine

► Frequent micturition, with burning. ► Dark-red urine, with red sediment and a greasy-looking pellicle on the surface. ► Acrid excoriating urine. ► Burning and stinging in the urethra.

Larynx

► Periodical painless hoarseness. ► Hoarseness, voice feeble, continuous hawking of mucus, and burning in the larynx.

Breathing

► Oppression of the chest, with desire to draw a long breath.

Cough

► As from vapor of sulphur in the trachea or viscid phlegm in the larynx. ► Expectoration of viscid, greenish mucus. ► Constant hawking and gagging, on account of viscid, green mucus in the larynx and trachea.

Lungs

► Stitches in the chest.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitation of the heart during rest or motion. ► Pulse full but slow.

Neck And Back

► Nape of neck weary, as from a heavy load. ► Neck feels stiff and swollen on turning it. ► Dull pain in nape of neck, increasing at times in acuteness, with numbness, heat and weight ; better from rest and in the open air ; worse from exertion. ► Stitches between the scapulae.

Lower Limbs

► Laming pain in the feet. ► Cold feet at night in bed.

Limbs In General

► Stinging pains in limbs. ► All the joints painful on motion.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 3, 29, 34. Turning head : 31. Exertion : 31. Rest : 29, 31.

Sleep

► Restless, broken sleep, with many dreams.

Time

► Morning : 12, 40. Evening : 40. Night : 33.

Temperature And Weather

► Open air : 31. In bed : 33.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chilliness mostly toward evening, with internal trembling. ► Coldness of one (right) side, with warmth of other side. ► During the chill, contractive sensation in the skin and in all parts of the body. ► Chilliness, with goose-flesh. ► Heat, descending the back, from the neck. ► Heat, with sweat of the upper body. ► Sweat in the morning, when waking, attended with frequent itching.

Sides

► Right : 40. Left : 40. Right to left : chest symptoms. Above downward : 40.

Sensations

► Stitches in all the limbs. ► Contractive pressure in all the limbs. ► Heaviness in all the limbs.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 4.

Relationship

► Antidote to Paris quad. : Coffea. ► Paris quad. is followed well by : Ledum, Lycop., Rhus tox.