Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperæsthesia of all senses

Delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements

Dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water

Neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly

Heat, redness, throbbing and burning

Great children's remedy

Scarlet fever and also prophylactic

No thirst, anxiety or fear

Violence of attack and suddenness of onset

Loss of appetite

Averse to meat and milk

Great thirst for cold water

Abhorrence of liquids.

Dread of drinking

Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea

Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night

Larynx feels sore

Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal.

Hoarse; loss of voice; painless hoarseness

Cough with pain in left hip

Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with expectoration of blood

Stitches in chest when coughing

Larynx very painful; feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough

High, piping voice. Moaning at every breath

Shooting pains along limbs

Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating

Tottering gait

Jerking limbs; spasms

Involuntary limping

Cold extremities

Stiff neck

Swelling of glands of neck

Pain in nape, as if it would break

Pressure on dorsal region most painful

A high feverish state with comparative absence of toxæmia

Burning, pungent, steaming, heat

Feet icy cold

Superficial blood-vessels, distended

 No thirst with fever

Sleep restless, crying out, gritting of teeth

Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels

Screams out in sleep

Sleeplessness, with drowsiness

Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep

Sleeps with hands under head 

Jar

Noise

Draught

After noon

Lying down

Seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in excess; or, again, he hopes to quiet his excitement

Takes preferably rich and stimulating food

Pre-eminently a male remedy

An irritable, nervous system, hypersensitive and over-impressionable

Zealous fiery temperament

Easily chilled, avoid open air, etc

Always seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic action

Sour taste, and nausea in the morning, after eating

Sour, bitter eructations

Desire for stimulants

Loves fats and tolerates them well

Difficult belching of gas

Frequent ineffectual desire for stools, or passing but small quantities at each attempt

Catarrhal hoarseness, with scraping in throat

 Asthma, with fullness in stomach, morning or after eating

 Cough, with sensation as if something were torn loose in chest

Shallow respiration

Oppressed breathing

Tight, dry hacking cough; at times with bloody expectoration

Cough brings on bursting headache and bruised pain in epigastric region

Backache in lumbar region

Burning in spine; worse, 3 to 4 am

Must sit up in order to turn in bed

Bruised pain below scapulæ

Sitting is painful

Cannot sleep after 3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly

Drowsy after meals, and in early evening

Dreams full of bustle and hurry

Fever paroxysms anticipate in morning

Excessive rigor, with blueness of finger-nails

Aching in limbs and back, and gastric symptoms

Chilly; must be covered in every stage of fever

Chilliness on being uncovered, yet he does not allow being covered

Dry heat of the body

Mental exertion

After eating

Touch

Spices

Stimulants

Narcotics

Dry weather

Cold

In evening

While at rest

In damp, wet weather

Strong pressure.

Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory

Patient seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly

Mucous membranes are all affected

Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish-green

Symptoms ever changing

Thirstless, peevish, and chilly

Great sensitiveness

Wants the head high; feels uncomfortable with only one pillow

Lies with hands above head

Greasy taste

Dry mouth, without thirst; wants it washed frequently

Frequently licks the dry lips.

Offensive odor from mouth

Food, especially bread, tastes bitter

Much sweet saliva

Alternations of taste, bitter, bilious, greasy, salty, foul

Loss of taste

Desire for tonics

Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink

Eructations; taste of food remains a long time; after ices, fruits, pasty

Flatulence

Dislikes butter

Heartburn

No two stools alike

Two or three normal stools daily

Increased desire to urinate; worse when lying down

Dry cough in evening and at night; must sit up in bed to get relief; and loose cough in the morning, with copious mucous expectoration

Pressure upon the chest and soreness

Great soreness of epigastrium

Urine emitted with cough

Pain as from ulcer in middle of chest

Expectoration bland, thick, bitter, greenish

Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying on left side 

Smothering sensation on lying down

Wide awake in the evening; first sleep restless

Wakes languid, unrefreshed

Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon

Shooting pain in the nape and back, between shoulders; in sacrum after sitting

Drawing, tensive pain in thighs and legs, with restlessness, sleeplessness and chilliness

Pain in limbs, shifting rapidly; tensive pain, letting up with a snap

Legs feel heavy and weary

Chilliness, even in warm room, without thirst

Chilly with pains, in spots, worse evening

Chill about 4 pm

Intolerable burning heat at night, with distended veins; heat in parts of body, coldness in other

External heat is intolerable, veins are distended

Rich fat food

After eating

Towards evening

Warm room

Lying on left or on painless side

When allowing feet to hang down

Motion

Cold applications

Cold food and drinks, though not thirsty

Physical and mental restlessness, fright

Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever

Does not want to be touched

Sudden and great sinking of strength

Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air, checked perspiration

First remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers

Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly

Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness

Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms. 

No periodicity

In the beginning of an acute disease and not to be continued after pathological change comes

Thirst for cold water

Bitter taste of everything except water

Intense thirst

Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die

Urine scanty, red, hot, painful

Constant pressure in left chest; oppressed breathing on least motion

Hoarse, dry, croupy cough; loud, labored breathing

Child grasps at throat every time he coughs

Very sensitive to inspired air

Shortness of breath

Larynx sensitive

Stitches through chest

Cough, dry, short, hacking; worse at night and after midnight

Hot feeling in lungs

Blood comes up with hawking

Tingling in chest after cough

Back numb, stiff, painful; crawling and tingling, as if bruised

Stiffness in nape of neck

Bruised pain between scapulæ

Numbness and tingling; shooting pains; icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet

Arms feel lame, bruised, heavy, numb

Pain down left arm

Hot hands and cold feet

Hip joint and thigh feel lame, especially after lying down

Knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn

Weak and lax ligaments of all joints

Painless cracking of all joints

Bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands

Sensation as if drops of water trickled down the thigh

Nightmare; nightly ravings

Anxious dreams

Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about

Starts up in sleep

Long dreams, with anxiety in chest

Cold stage most marked in fever; cold sweat and icy coldness of face; coldness and heat alternate

Evening chilliness soon after going to bed; cold waves pass through him

Thirst and restlessness always present

Chilly if uncovered or touched

Dry heat, red face

Sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving all symptoms

In evening and night

Lying on affected side

Music

Tobacco-smoke

Dry, cold winds

Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained

Bed feels too hard

Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots

Tendency to hæmorrhage and low-fever states

Sore, lame, bruised feeling

Aversion to tobacco

Longing for vinegar

Distaste for milk and meat

Canine hunger

Raw, sore feeling in morning

Dry cough, from tickling low down in trachea

Bloody expectoration

Dyspnœa with hæmoptysis

All bones and cartilages of chest painful

Great fear of being touched or approached

Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten

Sprained and dislocated feeling

Everything on which he lies seems too hard

Deathly coldness of forearm

Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain in pelvic region

Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible

Horrors in the night

Involuntary stools during sleep

Shivering over whole body

Heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body

Internal heat; feet and hands cold

Nightly sour sweats

Motion

Rest

Wine

Damp cold

The pain here produced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest;  found everywhere, but especially in the chest; worse pressure

Mucous membranes are all dry

Patient is irritable

Has vertigo from raising the head, pressive headache

Dry, parched lips, mouth

Excessive thirst, bitter taste, sensitive epigastrium, and feeling of a stone in the stomach

Stools large, dry, hard

Dry cough

Robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability

Children dislike to be carried or raised.

Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy

Complaints apt to develop slowly

Abnormal hunger, loss of taste

Thirst for large draughts

Vomiting of bile and water immediately after eating; worse, warm drinks, which are vomited

Urine red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot

Soreness in larynx and trachea

Hoarseness; worse in open air

Dry, hacking cough from irritation in upper trachea

Cough, dry, at night; must sit up; worse after eating or drinking, with vomiting, with stitches in chest, and expectoration of rust-colored sputa

Frequent desire to take a long breath; must expand lungs

Difficult, quick respiration; worse every movement; caused by stitches in chest

Cough, with feeling as if chest would fly to pieces; presses his head on sternum; must support chest

Expectoration brick shade, tough, and falls like lumps of jelly

Tough mucus in trachea, loosened only with much hawking

Coming into warm room excites cough

Heaviness beneath the sternum extending towards the right shoulder

Cough worse by going into warm room

Stitches in cardiac region

Painful stiffness in nape of neck

Stitches and stiffness in small of back

Knees stiff and painful

Hot swelling of feet

Joints red, swollen, hot, with stitches and tearing; worse on least movement

Every spot is painful on pressure

Constant motion of left arm and leg

Drowsy; starting when falling asleep

Delirium; busy with business matters and what he had read

Pulse full, hard, tense, and quick

Chill with external coldness, dry cough, stitches

Internal heat

Sour sweat after slight exertion

Easy, profuse perspiration

Any motion

Morning

Eating

Hot weather

Exertion

Touch

Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick

Right side

Evening

Open air

Warm weather after cold days

Pressure

Rest

Cold things

Coldness

Emaciation most notable in neck

Great liability to take cold

Dry mucous membranes

Constrictive sensation throughout the body

Great weakness and weariness

Oversensitive to all sorts of influences

Hungry, yet loose flesh

Heartburn, with palpitation

Unquenchable thirst

Sweats while eating

Craving for salt

Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats

Pain just after urinating

Increased urination, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc

Has to wait a long time for urine to pass if others are present

Cough from a tickling in the pit of stomach, accompanied by stitches in liver and spurting of urine

Stitches all over chest

Cough, with bursting pain in head

Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs

Pain in back, with desire for some firm support

Every movement accelerates the circulation

Palms hot and perspiring

Arms and legs, but especially knees, feel weak

Dryness and cracking about finger-nails

Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities

Ankles weak and turn easily

Painful contraction of hamstrings

Cracking in joints on motion

Coldness of legs with congestion to head, chest, and stomach

Sleepy in forenoon

Nervous jerking during sleep

Dreams of robbers

Chill between 9 and 11 am

Heat; violent thirst, increases with fever

Coldness of the body, and continued chilliness very marked

Sweats on every exertion

Music

Warm room

Lying down about 10 a m

At seashore

Mental exertion

Consolation

Heat

Talking

Cold bathing

Going without regular meals

Lying on right side

Pressure against back

Tight clothing

Tearing asunder pains

Motion always "limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a change of position

Septic conditions

Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst

Bitter taste

Nausea, vertigo, and bloated abdomen after eating

Desire for milk

Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat

Drowsy after eating

Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment

Tickling behind upper sternum

Dry, teasing cough from midnight until morning, during a chill, or when putting hands out of bed

Oppression of the chest, cannot get breath with sticking pains

Pain between shoulders on swallowing

Pain and stiffness in small of back; better, motion, or lying on something hard; worse, while sitting

Stiffness of the nape of the neck

Hot, painful swelling of joints

Pains tearing in tendons, ligaments, and fasciæ

Limbs stiff paralyzed

The cold fresh air is not tolerated; it makes the skin painful

Pain along ulnar nerve

Tearing down thighs

Tenderness about knee-joint

Loss of power in forearm and fingers; crawling sensation in the tips of fingers

Tingling in feet

During heat, urticaria

Chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed by heat and inclination to stretch the limbs

Dreams of great exertion

Heavy sleep, as from stupor

Sleepless before midnight

Cold, wet rainy weather

After rain

At night

During rest

Drenching

When lying on back or right side

Motion

Walking

Change of position

Rubbing

Warm applications

From stretching out limbs

Suppurative processes

Patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter

Lack of vital heat

Prostration of mind and body

Great sensitiveness to taking cold

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants

Want of grit, moral or physical

Disgust for meat and warm food

On swallowing food, it easily gets into posterior nares

Want of appetite; thirst excessive

Sour eructations after eating

Colds fail to yield; sputum persistently muco-purulent and profuse

Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules like shot, which, when broken, smell very offensive

Cough with expectoration in day, bloody or purulent

Stitches in chest through to back

Violent cough when lying down, with thick, yellow lumpy expectoration; suppurative stage of expectoration

Weak spine; very susceptible to draughts on back

Pain in coccyx

Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head

Frequent starts in sleep

Anxious dreams

Excessive gaping

Cramp in calves and soles

Loss of power in legs

Tremulous hands when using them

Paralytic weakness of forearm

Icy cold and sweaty feet

The parts lain on go to sleep

Offensive sweat on feet, hands, and axillæ

Pain in knee, as if tightly bound

Calves tense and contracted

Pain beneath toes

Soles sore

Soreness in feet from instep through to the sole

Chilliness; very sensitive to cold air

Creeping, shivering over the whole body

Cold extremities, even in a warm room

Sweat at night; worse towards morning

Suffering parts feel cold

In morning

From washing

During menses

Uncovering

Lying down

Damp

Lying on left side

Cold

Wrapping up head

Summer

In wet or humid weather

Sensation of tension in various parts

Cannot bear anything tight anywhere

Craving for alcohol, oysters

Any food causes distress

Hungry, cannot wait for food

Empty swallowing more painful than swallowing solids

Upper part of windpipe very susceptible to touch

Sensation of suffocation and strangulation on lying down, particularly when anything is around throat; compels patient to spring from bed and rush for open window

Spasm of glottis; feels as if something ran from neck to larynx

Feels he must take a deep breath

Cramp-like distress in præcordial region

Cough; dry, suffocative fits, tickling; little secretion and much sensitiveness; worse, pressure on larynx, after sleep, open air

Breathing almost stops on falling asleep

Larynx painful to touch

Sensation as of a plug which moves up and down, with a short cough

Pain in neck, worse cervical region

Sensation of threads stretched from back to arms, legs, eyes, etc

Pain in tibia

Patient sleeps into an aggravation

Sudden starting when falling asleep

Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep

Wide-awake in evening.

Chilly in back; feet icy cold; hot flushes and hot perspiration; paroxysm returns after acids

Sleeps into aggravation

Left side

In the spring

Warm bath

Pressure or constriction

Hot drinks

Closing

Warm applications

Atony

Malnutrition

Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious, weakly children.

Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm

Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power

Emaciation

Debility in morning

 Pre-senility

Patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry

Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities

Pains come and go suddenly

Sensitive to noise and odors

Excessive hunger

Aversion to bread, etc

Desire for sweet things

Food tastes sour

Sour eructations

Great weakness of digestion

Eating ever so little creates fullness

Cannot eat oysters

Rolling of flatulence

Wakes at night feeling hungry

Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx there burn for hours

Likes to take food and drink hot

Polyuria during the night; heavy red sediment

Tickling cough

Dyspnœa

Tensive, constrictive, burning pain in chest

Cough worse going down hill

Cough deep, hollow

Expectorations gray, thick, bloody, purulent, salty 

Night cough, tickling as from Sulphur fumes

Catarrh of the chest in infants, seems full of mucus rattling

Burning between scapulæ as of hot coals

Pain in small of back

Numbness, also drawing and tearing in limbs, especially while at rest or at night

Heaviness of arms

Tearing in shoulder and elbow joints

One foot hot, the other cold

Profuse sweat of the feet

Pain in heel on treading as from a pebble

Painful callosities on soles; toes and fingers contracted.

Cannot lie on painful side

Hands and feet numb

Right foot hot, left cold

Cramps in calves and toes at night in bed

Limbs go to sleep

Twitching and jerking

Chill between 3 and 4 pm, followed by sweat

Icy coldness; feels as if lying on ice

One chill is followed by another

Drowsy during day

Starting in sleep

Dreams of accidents

From right to left

From above downward

4 to 8 pm

From heat or warm room

Hot air, bed

Warm applications, except throat and stomach which are better from warm drinks

After midnight

From warm food and drink

On getting cold

From being uncovered

Pains of various kinds, with chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air

Bone pains

Burning, darting sensation in the muscles

Pains shoot upward and seem to draw patient up out of bed

Semi-lateral complaints

Patient is very sensitive to cold air

Desire for ham-fat

Mouth waters

Red flakes float on top of urine

Soreness and burning in bones of thorax

Constriction across chest

Cough; worse; eating, irritation lower than can be reached, on taking a warm drinks

Pain in neck and back; worse, motion and at night; intolerant of all touch

Pain and burning in tibia and long bones

Legs and feet go to sleep

Pain in hip and knee

Night

Evening until midnight

Warm food

Touch

Motion

Icy coldness.

Congestive headache, with neuralgia and dry nose

Patients living or working in damp, cold basements

Aversion to food

Burning thirst for cold drinks

Must urinate when getting chilled

Urine has thick, mucous, purulent sediment

Cough worse cold, wet weather, with free expectoration, tickling in larynx

Cough, hoarse, spasmodic

Asthma with dyspnœa

Loose, rattling cough; worse wet weather

Must cough a long time to expel phlegm

Pain in shin-bones

Dry burning heat all over

Chilliness towards evening, mostly in back

 Icy coldness, with pains

Dry heat and burning of skin

Chilliness with thirst

From cold in general

Damp, rainy weather

External warmth

Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life

Pains appear and disappear quickly

All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration

Excessive physical irritability

Great hunger, with sweetish taste

Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc

Loves fat and salt

Urine scanty, dark, offensive; smells like horse's urine; cold on passing

Hoarseness

Soreness at lower end of sternum

Short breath on going upstairs

Cough during sleep

Cold climate, and also hot weather

Circumscribed redness of the cheeks, flashes of heat, determination of blood to head and chest, distention of temporal veins, burning in palms and soles

Burning sensations, like from hot water

Burning in various parts

Aversion to butter

Craving for piquant things

Unquenchable thirst

Trachea sore

Heat and tension behind the sternum

Cough of gastric origin; relieved by eructation

Cough, with burning pain in chest; worse, right side

Sputum tough, rust-colored, offensive, almost impossible to raise

Tickling behind sternum, causes a constant hacking cough; worse at night on lying down; must sit up in bed

Burning soreness in right chest, through to right shoulder

Severe soreness under right nipple

Severe dyspnœa and constriction of chest

Offensive breath and purulent expectoration

Burning in chest as of hot steam from chest to abdomen

Burning in soles and palms

Right side

Motion

Touch

Sleep

Darkness