Arum metallicum cntd.....

- PULFORD

Urinary

Ineffectual urging aggravation during menses. Urine turbid, reddish sediment.

Genitalia :


Bruised pain in testes.

 Sore bruised pain in testes 6 to 11 p.m.; sweat on male genitalia, a.m.; uterus prolapsed after straining. (L): Enlarged right teste; sarcocele; ovary heavy; uterus indurated. Leucorrhoea: thick white or yellowish, aggravation walking; copious, yellow. Sterility, especially if want of children has resulted in depressed spirits. Pining boys and girls at puberty; undeveloped testes in puny boys. Sweat mostly on and around genitalia. Complaints of female genitalia, of pelvis and abortion, all from straining and reaching up arms, as in reaching up at window to fix curtains, etc. Uterus ulcerated and indurated from repeated abortions. Testes chronically enlarged. Cystic mammary tumor. Climaxis, flushes of heat followed by sweat and sometimes chilliness.

Respiratory
(L): Sobbing. Asthma, emphysema, purely nervous, of aged, aggravation wet weather. Suffocates in warm room, warm clothing, walking fast, or ascending stairs.

Chest :


fearful; heart strong and fast;

 Fat about heart, nervous irritability; pains wander from joint to joint, locate in heart. Palpitation: anxious, from congestion to chest; anguish, tremulous, fearful; heart strong and fast; great agony, extreme oppression; if suddenly spoken to; keeps one awake. Heart: trouble, face circumscribed red, neck and face pale, palpitation on least exertion, pressure behind sternum when walking, suffocates in closed room, wants cold air, amelioration gentle motion; marked oppression behind sternum, dyspnoea on walking fast and ascending stairs. Pressure behind sternum as if it would burst, on walking fast, ascending steps or any exertion. Angina pectoris from wandering pains in joints locating in heart.

Limbs
Periosteum of forearm inflamed; toes lame; sore bruised pain amelioration a.m., after rising; bursalike swelling of wrist; swelling of bones of hands and legs a.m. (L): Blood rushes to lower; rheumatic pain in toes. Pain: in knees if tightly bound; wander from joint to joint, finally locate in heart, or, bring on angina pectoris; cutting in toes when walking. Dropsy of lower, pain, pits on pressure, aggravation nights, amelioration a.m., profound melancholy, dyspnoea, heart and pulse weak, bloody discharge from nose at times; especially in heart and liver affections. Induration of cartilages about joints. Toes burn, red, swell. Cold, cold sweat covers.

Sleep
(L): Sleepless before midnight to a.m. Sleepless from palpitation, or any excitement. Dreams of sadness.

Sweat
Morning mostly on and around genitals. Cold, covers limbs.

General :


Pinning boy's, a kind of grief,search

 External pulsations ameliorated open air; weary on reading. (L): Amelioration p.m.; paralytic pain in bones. As if blood boiled in vessels. Pains: predominatingly boring, stitching; boring in bones; drive one to despair and out of bed at night and make one walk. Affects glands profoundly everywhere, they harden and infiltrate. Pulse weak, rapid; heart weak and irregular. Pining boys and girls at puberty. Veins become thick and tumified. Secondary syphilis and effects of Merc. poisoning, nightly pains, settled melancholy, disgust for life, attempts suicide. Aggravation : like Syph., sunset to sunrise; while many symptoms are amelioration after washing, especially cold washing, when mentally agitated, excited, etc., wants doors and windows wide open, or to get out in open air and clothing thrown off.