Squilla Maritima

General

SQUILLA. [Squilla] Squills. Hahnemann. Liliateae.

Mind

► Great anxiety of mind, with fear of death. ► Angry about trifles. ► Aversion to mental or bodily labor.

Sensorium

► Vertigo in morning, with nausea. ► Beclouded and dizzy in head.

Inner Head

► Drawing lancinating headache. ► Pulsation in head when raising it. ► Headache in morning on waking, with pressing pains. ► Contractive pain in both temples. ► Quickly passing pain in occiput, from left to right. ► Stitching pain in right side of forehead.

Outer Head

► Painful sensitiveness of vertex, mornings.

Eyes

► Left eye looks much smaller than right ; upper eyelid swollen. ► Contraction of pupils.

Ears

► Tearing pain of left ear.

Nose

► Child sneezes during cough ; eyes water ; rubs eyes and nose. θ Measles. ► Acrid, corrosive, fluent coryza in morning. ► Humid eruptions under nose, with stinging-itching.

Face

► Changeable expression and color of face. ► During the heat, redness of face, followed by paleness, without coldness.

Lower Face

► Lips : twitch, and are covered with yellow crusts ; black and cracked.

Tongue, Etc

► Food tastes bitter, especially bread ; or sweetish, especially soup and meat.

Mouth

► Much viscid mucus in mouth.

Throat

► Burning in palate and throat ; dryness in throat.

Desires And Aversions

► Insatiable appetite. ► Desire for acids. ► Thirst for cold water, but the dyspnoea allows her to take but a sip at a time.

Eating And Drinking

► After eating : 27. Cold drinks : 27.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Empty eructations. ► Nausea ; during morning cough ; continuous, in pit of stomach, alternating with a pain in abdomen, as with diarrhoea.

Stomach

► Pressure in stomach, as from a stone.

Abdomen

► Cutting pain in abdomen, as from flatulence. ► Painful sensitiveness of abdomen and region of bladder.

Stool, Etc

► Painless constipation. ► Frequent discharge of very fetid flatulence. ► Diarrhoea, stools very offensive, watery, during measles, or looking black ; slimy fluid, in frothy bubbles.

Urine

► Continuous, painful pressure on bladder. ► Urine : increased, pale, with frequent urging ; involuntary ; scanty, dark-red. θ Hydrothorax. ► When urinating, feces escape.

Female Sexual Organs

► Atony of cervix uteri.

Breathing

► Moaning, with open mouth ; wheezing ; rattling, with pleurisy, must sit up ; short, from least exertion. ► So out of breath cannot drink ; child seizes the cup eagerly but can drink only in sips.

Cough

► Dry, night and morning ; short, rattling, disturbing sleep ; spasmodic from mucus in the trachea, or creeping sensation in chest ; with headache ; dyspnoea ; spurting of urine ; stitches in chest or pain in abdomen ; caused by cold drinks ; during measles ; after eating ; from every exertion. ► Sputa white or reddish mucus ; sweetish, or empyreumatic or offensive in odor. ► The loose morning cough is more fatiguing than the dry evening cough.

Lungs

► Stitches : in chest, especially when inhaling and coughing ; insides of chest. θ Pleurisy. ► Pains in chest are worse in morning. ► Especially suitable in pneumonia and pleurisy, after bloodletting. ► Heaviness on chest ; congestion of blood to chest.

Heart And Pulse

► Pulse small and slow, slightly hard.

Neck And Back

► Stiffness of neck.

Upper Limbs

► Sweat in arm-pit. ► Convulsive twitching of arms ; cold hands.

Lower Limbs

► Convulsive twitching of legs. ► Cold foot-sweat. ► Sweat only on toes. ► Soles red and sore when walking.

Limbs In General

► Tearing and restlessness in upper and lower extremities. ► Convulsive twitchings and motions of limbs, worse in morning and evening, and during motion. ► Soreness in bends of joints.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 34. Walking : 33, 40. Exertion : 26, 27. Sitting : 40. Must sit up : 26. Raising head : 3.

Sleep

► Frequent yawning, without sleepiness. ► Restless sleep, with much tossing about.

Time

► Morning : 2, 3, 4, 7, 16, 27, 28, 34. Afternoon and evening : 40. Evening : 27, 34, 40. Night : 40. Night and morning : 27.

Temperature And Weather

► Uncovering : 40.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill internally at night, with external heat. ► Chilliness toward evening when walking, not while sitting. ► Heat dry, burning, mostly internally. ► Heat of whole body, with cold hands and feet, with aversion to being uncovered ; face pale after the heat. ► Sensation of great heat in the body, in afternoon and evening, generally with cold feet. ► Whenever he uncovers himself during heat, he suffers from chilliness and pain. ► Sweat wanting.

Sides

► Right : 3, 5. Left : 5, 6. Left to right : 3.

Skin

► Eruptions like itch, with burning, itching. ► Excoriation in bends of limbs.

Relationship

► Useful after Bryon.