Generalities
– Common salt, profoundly affects the nutrition.
– Its excessive intake produces symptoms of salt retention, such as dropsies and oedema: but it also affects the blood causing anaemia and leucocytosis.
– Mind, Heart, liver and spleen come under its influence.
– The patient is thin, thirsty, poorly nourished on account of digestive disturbances, and his Mental Behaviour and physical symptoms are hopeless or awkward in nature.
– Emaciation; descending, of neck or abdomen.
– Mucous Membranes and skin may be Dry or may produce thick, white or clear, watery, acrid discharges.
– Dryness of mouth, throat, rectum, vagina etc.
– Numbness of one side; parts lain on; with paralysis; fingers, parts seem too short.
– Easy exhaustion.
– Contraction of muscles, tendons.
– Neuralgic pains with tears.
– Trembling.
– Prostration.
– Hysterical debility.
– Emaciation even while living well.
– Great weakness and weariness.
– Tendency to take cold.
– Coldness.
– Children talk late; cross, irritable, cry from slightest cause.
– Cachexia; malarial.
– Oversensitive to all sorts of influences.
– Goitre; hyperthyroidism.
– Addison’s disease.
– Diabetes.
– Twitching in muscles.
– Frequent starts in upper part of the body.
– Chorea; jumping; after fright.
– Ill effects of disappointment; fright, grief, fit of passion; loss of fluids, masturbation; injury to head; silver salts; salt.
– Young girls become love lorn and fall in love with married men.
– Paralysis; from emotions, sexual excess.
– Likes to be covered but does not amel..
– Trembling of the whole body from smoking tobacco.
Worse
– Exact periodicity.
– 9 to 11 a.m. ; with the sun.
– Alternate days.
– After menses.
– Heat; of sun, summer; dampness.
– Exertion – of eyes, mental, talking, reading, writing.
– Violent emotions.
– Sympathy.
– Puberty.
– Quinine.
– Bread, fat, acid food.
– Coition.
– Sea shore.
– Chronic sprains.
– Noise; music.
– Touch.
– Pressure.
– Full moon.
Better
– Open air.
– Cool bathing.
– Sweating.
– Rest.
– Going without regular meals.
– Tight clothing.
– Deep breathing.
– Before breakfast.
– Rubbing.
– Lying on right side.
– Talking long.
Mind
– Hateful; to persons who had offended him.
– Detests consolation or fuss.
– Sad : during menses; without cause.
– Reserved.
– Easily angered agg. if consoled.
– Company distresses.
– Hypochondriac.
– Weeps bitterly; or wants to be alone to cry.
– Weeps involuntarily, without cause or can not weep.
– Cheerful, laughs, signs, dances, alternating with sadness.
– Boisterous grief.
– Dwells on past unpleasant memories.
– Anxiety.
– Apprehension.
– Fear or dreams of robbers.
– Awkward; in talking; hasty; drops things from nervous weakness.
– Absent-minded.
– Scattered thoughts.
– Revengeful.
– Thinks he is pitied for his misfortunes and weeps.
– Immoderate laughter with tears.
– Abrupt.
– An idea clings, preventing sleep, inspires revenge.
– Alternating mental conditions.
– Extremely foregetful.
– Aversion of men (females).
Head
– Vertigo; as if falling; agg. standing near a window, on closing eyes; amel. lying, with head high.
– HEADACHES; bursting; on coughing; maddening; hammering; heavy; over eyes; on vertex, with partial numbness or disturbed vision; agg. on awakening; from sunrise to sunset; during, before or after menses; motion; even of eyes; frowning, reading; amel. sleep; pressure on eyes, lying with head high, sitting still.
– Nodding motions of the head.
– Headaches of school children.
– Migraine.
– Falling hair.
– Injured part tender to touch.
Eyes
– Painful, on looking down.
– Letters run together while reading.
– Stricture of lachrymal duct, escape of mucous when pressing on the sac.
– Lachrymation; with redness; burning; acrid; from affected side, from sneezing; coughing; laughing etc.
– Eyes feel drawn together.
– Itch and burn, must wipe them.
– Ptosis on lying down.
– Vision blurred, wavering.
– Hemiopia then headache.
– Eye lids close with headache; spasmodically.
– Can not read by artificial light.
– Sparks, black spots, fiery zigzag before eyes.
– Incipient cataract.
– Protruding eyes; due to goitre.
– Retinal images are retained too long.
– Eyes give out in reading and writing.
Ears
– Noises, buzzing, humming, ringing.
– Painful cracking in the ear when masticating.
– Itching behind ears.
Nose
– Violent fluent coryza; lasts one to three days then stoppage of nose high up, making breating difficult.
– Sneezing early in the morning.
– Alternate fluent and dry coryza; cold commences, with sneezing, gushing of fluid.
– Little ulcers in nose.
– One side numb.
– Loss of smell and taste.
– Nose bleed; on stooping or when coughing, at night.
Face
– Pale, muddy, or shiny as if greased.
– HERPES; about the lips or at the edge of hair; pearly.
– Crack in the middle of the lower lip.
– Lips tingle, feel numb.
– Throbbing in lower jaw agg. biting; heat and cold.
– There is down on the face in hysteria but passes away as the patient improves.
– Upper lip swollen.
– Prosoplagia.
– Falling of whiskers and beard.
Mouth
– Tongue; Mapped; beaded or striped along edges.
– Aphthae.
– Loss of taste and smell.
– Numbness and stiffness of one side of tongue.
– Tingling of the tongue.
– Tongue, heavy; difficult speech.
– Children learn to talk slowly.
– Fistula dentalis.
– Epulis or small tumour on the gums.
– Sensation of a hair on the tongue.
– Tongue feels dry but is not dry.
– Vesicles and ulcers in mouth and on tongue, smart and burn when touched by food.
– Teeth sensitive to air or touch; pain agg. on chewing.
– Toothache with tears or salivation.
Throat
– Hawks much mucus, bitter, salty.
– Uvula hangs to one side.
– A dry, sore spot in the throat, tickles and causes cough etc.
– Food goes down the wrong way; post diphtheritic paralysis.
– Only fluids can be swallowed.
– Solids reach a certain point and then are violently ejected.
– Throat glistens.
– Exophthalmic goitre.
– Sore throat; with sensation as if she has to swallow over a lump.
– As if a plug in throat.
– Tobacco smoker’s throat.
Stomach
– Desire; For Salt, bitter things; for sour things, farinaceous food, oysters, fish, milk.
– Thirsty, drinks large quantity of water.
– Great hunger yet emacities; with depressed mind.
– Averse to bread, meat, coffee, tabacoo.
– Hunger without relish.
– Hiccough.
– Burning eructations, after eating.
– Sweet risings from stomach during menses.
– Anxiety in stomach rises into head.
– Sweats while eating; on face.
– White slimy mucus is vomited with relief.
– Heart burn with palpitation.
– Feels better on an empty stomach.
Abdomen
– Epigastric pulsation.
– Epigastrium swollen and painful.
– Sudden distension.
– Tense abdomen agg. groins.
– Pain in abdominal ring on coughing.
– Rigidity of the left side.
– Colic with nausea amel. flatus.
– Stools; dry, hard, crumbling; tears the anus or cause burning.
– Stools, coated with glassy mucus.
– Constipation on alternate days, from inactivity.
– Painless watery diarrhoea; chronic; morning, on moving about; from abuse of opium.
– Constriction of rectum.
– Herpes about anus.
– Abdominal viscera loose and dragging as if when walking.
– Red spots on epigastrium.
– Herpes ani.
Urinary
– Involuntary urination; on coughing; laughing; sneezing, walking, sitting.
– Polyuria, thirst for large quantities of water.
– Has to wait long for urine to pass in the presence of others.
– Urine clear with red sediment.
– Must wait before the urine will start.
– Pain just after urination.
Male
– Backache and weak legs; with depression after coition.
– Pollution shortly after coition.
– Sexual desire, with physical weakness.
– Suppressed gonorrhoea.
– Weakness, even paralysis, after sexual excess.
– Loss of hair from pubes.
Female
– Aversion to coition; which is painful from dryness of vagina.
– Burning smarting in vagina during coition.
– Delayed first menses.
– Dymenorrhoea with convulsions.
– Sterility; with too early too profuse menses.
– Debilitating leucorrhoea; white thick, instead of menses.
– Prolapse of ulcers with aching in lumbar region or with cutting urethra; agg. in the morning, amel. lying on back.
– Hot during menses.
– Mammary glands emaciate.
– White leucorrhoea turns green gradually.
– Loss of hair in children or during lactation.
– Stitches beneath nipples.
Respiratory
– Cough from tickling in the pit of stomach; with asthma or palpitation; agg. winter.
– Respiratory catarrh after suppressed sweats.
– Sticking in live while coughing.
– Dyspnoea on ascending.
– Whooping cough; with lachrymation.
– Breath; hot, offensive.
– Exertion of arms amel. breathing.
Heart
– Palpitation, shaking body or alternating with beating in head.
– Fluttering of the heart, with a weak, faint feeling agg. lying down.
– Palpitation; anxious, agg. exertion; emotion; lying on left side.
– Pulse; full and slow or weak and rapid; intermittent every third beat; agg. lying down.
– Coldness, soreness at the heart.
Neck and back
– Painful stiffness of neck.
– Bruised backache, early in a.m. ; agg. coughing; after coition; amel. lying on back, on something hard; or pressure.
– Can stoop readily, but hurts to straighten.
– Buttocks emaciated in infants.
Extremities
– Trembling of the hands when writing.
– Cracked finger tips.
– Hangnails.
– Palms hot and sweaty.
– Hamstrings; seem short, painful, drawing in.
– Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities.
– Catch in knee.
– House maid’s knee.
– Cracking in joints on motion.
– Ankles weak and turn easily.
– Legs cold.
– Conculsive jerking of the limbs on falling asleep.
– Scurfs, scales in axilla.
– Bending the joints of fingers, difficult.
– Children do not learn to walk.
– Soreness of toes or between toes.
Skin
– Oily, dry, harsh, unhealthy or yellow.
– Chaps of herpetic eruptions agg. flexures, or about knuckles.
– Dry eruptions on margins of hair.
– Warts of palms and hands.
– Hives, whitish, agg. exertion.
– Corns.
– Scars; painful.
– Redness of old scars.
Sleep
– Sobs durinng sleep.
– Awakes feeling weak.
– Dreams of robbers.
– Somnabulism; rises and sits about room.
– Starts and talks in sleep.
Fever
– Coldness of many parts, hands, feet, heart.
– Morning chill with thirst.
– Chilly but agg. in sun.
– Sweat, scany, at edge of hair, on nose, on face while eating.
Complementary
– Ign; Sep.
Related
Source: Phatak Materia Medica
Dr Riffat Nawab Musab 