Respiratory
Deep breathing, a. running. Whistling breathing.
Cough
On closing eyes, at night; hoarse, evening to midnight; nervous cough all night; Cough in wind (L): Hacking Cough, after dinner; suffocative cough, at night; cough in wind, the cold wind. Cough aggravation after midnight; Spong., before.
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| Nervous cough all night |
Chest
Constriction, after talking; dry cracks in axilla; scirrhus ulcer of breast, stings, burns, odor of old cheese. (L): Boils in axilla. Do not give Sil., Sulph. or Hep. too high or too often in patients who have encysted tuberculosis in lung. Axillary glands suppurate and discharge pus.
Back
Drawing pain, morning after rising; sweat of Back, after midnight.
Limbs
Felon, every winter; itching of upper Limbs, after abuse of Merc. or suppressed eruption; stitching pain in first toe, to hip. (L): Cold feet, during day; boils an cracked skin on lower Limbs; pain in fingers, amelioration heat; pain in nates on sitting; sore, bruised pain in upper arm; hands rough Felon: or run arounds, extremely sensitive to felon; scrawny, chilly people, always taking cold and subject to fever. Affects especially bends of elbows and popliteal spaces. Cracked skin and chaps on hands and feet.
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| Supression of Eruptions |
Sleep
Anxious dreams of fire.
Chill
6 in the evening to 5 in the morning. From least exposure, even the putting of a hand out of bed. Easy Chill, little fever, general tendency to sweat. Aggravation open air; must get to warm stove, as soon as Chill begins: Bov., and lie down: Lach. Nettle rash itches violently and stings; appears as Chill passes off: Apis.
Heat
Morning and evening; burning heat, 4 evening, lasts all night. Fever blisters around mouth.
Sweat
Offensive Sweat, after cough. (L): Sweat day and night, without amelioration; fetid odor; sour, at night, Merc., oily; copious Sweat day and night, without amelioration Fairly drenched, with cough, or from least exertion, like Bry. Especially in perineum, groins and inside of thighs; especially on genitals: Gels. Constant offensive exhalations from body.
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| Offensive Sweat after cough. |
Skin
Urticaria, before chill; indurations burn; itching, during jaundice. (L): Pimples, sensitive to touch; sensitive; ulcers bleed when touched, bruised pain, sour odor. Ulcers, odor of old cheese; borders extremely sensitive. Eruption moist, in folds, itching in bends of joints, aggravation morning especially after ointments of mercury, with itching. Suppuration rapid, the reverse of Sil. Material doses said to be required in pellagra. In all Skin troubles, great sensitiveness to least touch. Hep. is not quite so deep acting as Calc-s. Hep. acts in abscess before it opens, Calc-s., after; same in quinsy. Ulcers, the discharge smelling like old cheese; eroding pain, bleed when wiped ever so gently; little pimples around ulcers Wool – worker’s itch. Suppuration is a marked tendency.
General
Aggravation 6 to 7 evening; sudden weakness daily. Often wears an overcoat in hot weather; Psor., a furcap. Like Acon. and Bry., Hep. is sensitive to cold air, but not dry cold air, like them. Pains throb, stab, general rigor, are characteristic. Cold either brings on, or aggravation all complaints, wants clothes drawn tightly about neck. Discharges from all parts of the body smell like old cheese; or sour. Children smell sour, despite washing. Generally aggravation from putting hands out of bed. The trio: Merc. Hep. and Sil. Removes the weakening effects of ether.