HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH

-GEORGE VITHOULKAS
Head
The sensation of a skullcap may be described in a variety of ways by the patient.
Puffy feeling in head; a sensation as if head were becoming larger.
Scalp tense; numbness of the scalp. Tension of scalp and skin, as if swollen. In skin of head and face a tension as if it was bloated, or covered with a hat, in the morning on waking.
Heat of the head after chill, after dinner, after exertion - mental or physical.
Heat in temples with cold cheeks.
A peculiar cold sensation in the right temple.
Shaking sensation of head on stooping.
Heaviness in head, when stooping, as if brain would fall forward, with a sensation of bubbling, as if all would prolapse from forehead.
Headache aggravated by movement or stooping, better in open air.
Headache: accompanied by hepatic or rheumatic arthritic complaints; or with affections of urinary organs; or with menstrual derangements.
Pain in temples, extending vertex and eyes across forehead.
Darting and shooting pains in head, often changing their locality.
Drawing pain in head during menses.
Shooting pain in head after menses.
Shooting pain, extending from temple to temple.
Sudden stitches from eyes to forehead.
Stitching pain during and after menses.
Pains behind the eyes worse exertion and loss of sleep.
Itching, with burning and stitches on scalp and face.
Baldness in old people.
Eyes
Shuns the light.
Illusions; in twilight objects appear twice as large as natural.
Dim sight, all objects looking dark, as if through a veil.
Loss of vision when exerting eyes in sewing.
Sensation of sand between lids.
Cold feeling in eye, like from a cool wind, with lachrymation when closing eyes.
Quivering of eyelids when reading in poor light. Quivering of left upper lid at night.
Itching in canthi, eyebrows and eyelids.
Violent shooting pains through eyes into brain, or from temples to eyes; sometimes into arms, or from knee to eye.
Conjunctivitis, with inflamed lachrymal caruncle.
Eye symptoms aggravated out-doors, and on moving eyes.
Ears
Coldness in ears during pregnancy.
Heat alternating with cold on external ear.
Buzzing noises in left ear.
Throbbing and roaring in ears.
Stopped up feeling in ear, with pressure.
Tearing pain in antitragus.
Tearing, alternately in ear and other parts of body.
Tearing and stitches in ears, through membrana tympani, as if a nail was thrust through, or like from sting of an insect.
Shooting and stitching pain behind right ear in attacks, worse every evening.
Stitching pain in the afternoon at 5 p.m.
Pain while sitting.
Nodosities, size of hemp seed, on auricle, painful to touch.
Small cystic tumor behind ear, size of a hazel-nut.
Pulsation in left ear.
Nose
The mucous membranes of the nose are usually dry, with little discharge.
Dryness of nose, succeeded by chronic catarrh with discharge.
Offensive, fetid, burnt, pungent discharge.
Chronic obstinate coryza in left side, pains extending to Highmorian cavity and frontal cavities, with moderate secretion of a yellowish or greenish mucus, more copious in morning, and having a pungent, empyreumatic smell or taste, succeeded by violent ophthalmic complaints.
Pain in nose, extending to ears.
Pricking in point of nose. Gnawing pain in tip of nose.
Epistaxis in the morning after rising.
Face
Face pale, a dirty grayish look, sunken cheeks, surrounded by bluish or blackish-gray circles. Greenish face, with blue rings and pink eyes.
Sensation as if cold drops were spurted in face when going into open air.
Sensation of chilliness, succeeded by deep red spots on cheek, attended with heat extending over face in afternoon.
Coldness in face extending to back.
Heat and redness and burning of face by mental exertion.
Stitching pain in lower jaws in the evening.
Red spots in forehead.
Pulsation of lips, quivering in lips.
Formication in upper lip, around mouth and chin.
Dryness of lips, with scaling and formation of thin brown scurf on edges.
Bright red, inflamed pimples on cheeks and lips, ulcerated in centres.
Pea-shaped vesicles on lower lip.
Cold sweats on face.
Mouth
A sticky, frothy saliva like cotton; soapy saliva.
Sour taste after drinking.
Taste: of blood; bitter; sour.
Inflammation and swelling of palate arch.
Gums bleed easily.
Sore gums during dentition.
Dirty redness of gums.
Tongue smarts when touched.
Painful white blisters on tip of tongue.
Ugly bluish-red spots in mouth.
Under lip bluish-red on internal surface.
Pimples and pustules on inner cheeks, gums, tongue, lips, red and painful, size of a pea.
Aphthae. Nodosities of gums.
Offensive metallic odor from mouth.
Teeth as if too long, sensitive to touch and to air.
Drawing and bubbling toothache.
Piercing pain in hollow teeth of lower jaw.
Pain as if gums were torn, or tooth pulled out.
Jerking pain as if tooth would be torn out.
Throat
Splinter as from awns of barley in the pharynx.
Sensation of a plug in side of throat, with dryness, roughness and scraping; severe pain from empty deglutition.
Polypi in larynx.
Stitching and tearing rheumatic pain in the sides, extending to arms and occiput.
Inflammation of tonsils and pharynx, with swelling and fiery redness.
Tonsils pain when speaking or swallowing; stitching like from an awn in throat.
Pain in left tonsil, as if a husk was sticking there, particulary when speaking and swallowing; interior of throat red, exterior very sensitive to touch and motion.
Expectoration of a quantity of thick, yellow, jellylike mucus; white, sticky tongue; viscid saliva resembling soapsuds.
Empty swallowing hurts in throat.
Coldness in external throat.
Indurated goitre.