Main * Mill.
THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS
OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA
BY CONSTANTINE HERING, M. D.
Presented by Médi-T
 Inner head.
 Outer head.
 Sight and eyes.
 Hearing and ears.
 Smell and nose.
 Upper face.
 Lower face.
 Teeth and gums.
 Taste, speech, tongue.
 Inner mouth.
 Palate and throat.
 Appetite, thirst. Desires..
 Eating and drinking.
 Hiccough, belching, nausea..
 Scrobiculum and stomach.
| Lower limbs.
 Limbs in general.
 Rest. Position. Motion.
 Temperature and weather.
 Attacks, periodicity.
 Locality and direction.
 Touch. Injuries..
 Stage of life, constitution.
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MIND.  [Mill.]Melancholy, sadness ; weak memory.
Much excited, with pains in pit of stomach.
INNER HEAD.  [Mill.]Violent headache, he strikes head against bedpost or wall ; twitching of eyelids and frontal muscles.
SIGHT AND EYES.  [Mill.]Nebulous vision, weak sighted, with contortion of facial muscles.
Fistula lachrymalis ; lachrymation and discharge.
HEARING AND EARS.  [Mill.]Earache.
SMELL AND NOSE.  [Mill.]Nosebleed : congestion to chest and head ; excessive.
UPPER FACE.  [Mill.]Contortion of face.
TEETH AND GUMS.  [Mill.]Toothache : from heating things ; with pain in jaw ; rheumatic, with diseased gums.
INNER MOUTH.  [Mill.]Stomacace, ulcerated gums ; putrid, sore mouth.
PALATE AND THROAT.  [Mill.]Uvula relaxed, also tonsils ; asthenic catarrh.
Ulceration of throat ; pain in left side of throat when swallowing.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING.  [Mill.]Retching and vomiting.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH.  [Mill.]Pains in stomach, in young, hysterical, irregularly menstruating girls.
Great pain in pit of stomach ; excited, pulse accelerated and constricted, pustules collapsing. θ Smallpox.
Pain in stomach after confluent smallpox.
HYPOCHONDRIA.  [Mill.]Congestion to portal system.
Stagnation in liver and system of vena porta ; sluggish digestion ; want of appetite ; flatus ; distension of abdomen.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS.  [Mill.]Bloatedness.
Pain in abdomen from flatus.
Griping and tearing in abdomen, caused by dysentery and lientery.
Wind colic in hysterical or hypochondriacal patients ; colic during menstruation.
Hemorrhages from bowels in typhoid fever, with tympanitis.
STOOLS AND RECTUM.  [Mill.]Violent colic with bloody diarrha. θ During sixth month of pregnancy, prevailing dysentery.
Chronic blenorrha from atony of mucous membranes ; great pain.
Bloody dysentery, tenesmus ; during epidemics of dysentery.
Bloody flux after much exertion, lifting, or internal injuries.
Pains from blind hemorrhoids.
Profuse flux from condylomata.
URINARY ORGANS.  [Mill.]Pain in region of left kidney, followed by profuse hæmaturia, lasting from five to eight days ; chilliness, which obliges him to keep his bed.
Catarrh of bladder from atony.
Stone in bladder, with retention of urine ; bloody urine.
Pus-like discharge after lithotomy.
Urine bloody ; blood forms a cake in vessel.
Incontinence of urine.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS.  [Mill.]Want of ejaculation when cohabiting.
Swollen penis ; discharge of blood and watery slime. θ Gonorrha.
Condylomata ; gleet.
Swelling of penis and testicles.
Wounds and injuries of penis.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.  [Mill.]Sterility, with too profuse menstruation.
Dysmenorrha in irregularly menstruating young girls, pain in stomach.
Menses suppressed with pain in stomach, or epileptic attacks, or cough with bloody sputum.
Menses excessive, last too long, with colic.
Leucorrha of children from atony.
Uterine hemorrhages ; after great exertion ; miscarriage.
Hemorrhage of bright red and fluid blood.
Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, with congestive headache.
PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION.  [Mill.]Sterility with too profuse menses or tendency to miscarry.
During pregnancy, cramplike affections.
Painless or bleeding varices in pregnant women.
Colic or cramplike affections in confinement ; severe after pains.
Attacks following a hard delivery.
Convulsive motions of all limbs, terrible pains and total suppression of lochia ; third day after confinement.
Lochia : too copious ; suppressed ; violent fever, no milk, convulsive twitchings ; great pain.
Painless drainings from uterus, nose or lungs, after labor, after abortion, or when an abortion threatens, if the blood be bright red and there are no pains in joints.
Preventive in post-partum hemorrhage.
Sore (cracked) nipples of nursing mothers.
No milk with suppressed lochia and fever.
RESPIRATION.  [Mill.]Shortness of breath.
Very difficult breathing, with tetanic spasms.
COUGH.  [Mill.]Cough : with frequent spitting of bright blood ; oppression of chest with palpitation ; in phthisis ; in suppressed hemorrhoids ; suppressed menses.
Has fallen from a height and spits blood in consequence.
Hemorrhages from lungs from a weak condition of vessels.
In phthisic conditions with coughing of blood, or after frequent attacks of hemorrhage of lungs.
Hæmoptysis : in incipient phthisis (after Acon. and Arn.) ; in hemorrhoidal patients ; from a rupture of bloodvessel ; after injury.
Oppression of chest ; excessive palpitation.
Coughing blood, vigorous woman of 48 ; no menstruation for two years ; ebullition in chest every evening, < when lying in bed, not at all during day ; warm blood rises into her throat and flows out of her mouth ; then cough with more light red, bloody expectoration, half a pound in all, accompanied by great prostration.
Coughing blood every afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Lung disease after coughing blood.
Repeated bronchorrhagia, in phthisis, or after a fall.
Blenorrha of lungs.
Expectoration of florid blood, without much coughing, sometimes in consequence of violent exertions.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS.  [Mill.]Violent congestion to chest ; to head, with bleeding of nose and expectoration of bloody mucus.
Inflammation of lungs.
Oppression of chest, frequent blood spitting ; piercing pains, stinging, bruised feeling ; < under left shoulder blade ; bubbles up in chest as if warm blood was ascending, which is raised without cough. θ Phthisis.
Hæmoptysis, with profuse flow of bright red blood, without fever.
Ulcers in lungs ; vomica.
Injuries of lungs.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION.  [Mill.]Violent palpitation and spitting of blood.
Ebullitions with hæmoptysis.
Inflammation with tearing and piercing.
Pulse accelerated and contracted. θ Smallpox.
NECK AND BACK.  [Mill.]Piercing, drawing pain close under left shoulder blade, for a few moments while sitting.
LOWER LIMBS.  [Mill.]Violent pains on a level with crest of left ilium.
NERVES.  [Mill.]Hysteria ; hypochondriasis.
Convulsions : during teething ; after labor ; hysterical.
Convulsion and swoon of newborn child ; recovers after bath, but constantly wails and sighs.
General convulsions, with tetanic rigidity of limbs and extremely difficult breathing, in a boy of 14, after a malignant fever ; two hours after fourth dose countless vesicles of size of a pea, of a livid brown, rose all over his body ; dark violet after seven hours, discharging an insupportably offensive syrup-like secretion ; dry after four days, leaving scar.
Epileptic spasms after suppressed menstruation.
Paralysis and contraction of limbs.
FEVER.  [Mill.]Chilliness with pains in left kidney.
Intermittent fever : quartan ; tertian ; irregular.
Fever from suppressed itch or suppressed lochia.
Scarlet fever epidemic, with excessive angina and violent fever.
Exanthema of difficult development and delirium.
Hectic fever with hæmoptysis.
Malignant fever ; with tetanus.
TISSUES.  [Mill.]Congestions.
Hemorrhages of all kinds, mostly from lungs and bowels ; florid ; of mechanical origin ; atonic constitutions ; of wounds.
Indolent, fistulous, cancerous and gangrenous ulcers.
Caries in sheep and horses.
Painful varices during pregnancy.
Mucous discharges from atony.
Morbus maculosus hemorrhagicus.
Cancer and sores ; noli me tangere.
Wounds ; after operation for stone.
Bruises ; bleeding from wounds ; removes coagulated blood ; internal injuries by falling.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES.  [Mill.]Wounds which bleed profusely ; especially from a fall.
Effects of overlifting, overexertion, or falling.
SKIN.  [Mill.]Numerous small itching vesicles containing matter.
Countless vesicles, size of a pea, livid brown, then violet, discharging offensive secretion.
Suppressed itch, followed by fever.
Stomachic pains from suppressed smallpox.
Scab of sheep.
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