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Mind.-- Ideas seem to stand still. Too great rush of ideas. Sad, dejected mood. Takes everything to bad part. Cheerful, alternating with grave mania.
Vertigo.-- Causing him to fall sidewise. Dizziness in head.
Head.-- Violent congestion, with throbbing and agreeable warmth therein. Headache as of a stone lying on skull. Sensation of cold water dropping on scalp.
Eyes.-- Inflamed, with diminished visual power. Weak, with indistinct vision. Opacity of corns. Cataract.
Ears.-- Throbbing and forcing in ear.
Nose.-- Nosebleed follows a sense of warmth within the dry nose. Swelling and coppery redness of. Dryness and beat of.
Mouth.-- Dry, without thirst. Difficult speech.
Taste: Clay - like, in, mouth.
Stomach.-- Ulcerative pain in, from touch disappearing after eating. Spasm of with a pale, sweaty face.
Hypochondriac: Inflammation, and ulcerative pain in region of kidneys.
Eructations: Gulping up of a bitter, sour, scratchy fluid.
Vomiting: Of green bile.
Abdomen.-- Bruised pain in. Throbbing from within outward in upper. Ascites.
Stool.-- Constipation and hard stool. Diarrhoea with colic.
Urine.-- Retained, as from paralysis of bladder. Discharge scant, bloody, burning, passed drop by drop. turbid.
Sexual Organs.-- Urethral gonorrhoea. Painless discharge of mucus from urethra. Sticking, burning and biting in urethra during and after urination. Inflammatory swelling with dark redness of prepuce. Painful erections. Intensified sexual desire. Impotency with cold genitals.
Respiration.-- Suffocative, asthmatic attacks, wherein he can breathe when sitting in an upright position only. Shortness of, and tightness as of a load on chest, with whistling or rattling breathing.
Cough.-- Without, or with a tenacious, green expectoration.
Larynx and trachea.-- Catarrh of. Loss of voice.
Chest.-- Inflammation of lungs, with stitches low down in the left side of. Heart beat is felt too low down. Thrusts and blow in cardiac region. Cardiac inflammations. Anxious palpitations.
Back.-- Backache which impedes talking and obstructs breathing.
Upper Extremities.-- Bruised pain in arms during motion.
Lower Extremities.-- Pain in legs, as from great exhaustion. Weariness with clumsiness and staggering when walking. and with a dull pain in knees like that from very great exhaustion. Slipping of patella when ascending steps.
Generalities.-- Great weakness after meals and after motion. Exhaustion after physical average. Debility after talking and writing. Tonic spasms, especially of trunk and upper limbs.
Bones.-- Rheumatic drawing during motion, as if in periosteum.
Sleep.-- Unconquerable day sleepiness. Unrefreshing night sleep. Sleepless at night because of anxiety and heat as though dashed with hot water.
Fever.-- Pulse: Very weak, slow, often almost imperceptible. chill: Predominant, with thirst and shaking. Shaking c. over entire body. External coldness of whole body except face. Heat: In face only and very slight. Nightly burning. Sweet: Entirely absent.
Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Ap., Arg-n., Arn., Bell., Calc-c., Canth., Coloc., Euphor., Men., Merc-c., Nat - m., Nit-ac., Puls., Thuj.
