Zinc
Franz.
Element.
Mind
Unconscious; signs of effusion into the brain; feet constantly moving; often from undeveloped eruptions.
Weak memory, with stinging pains in the head.
Repeats all questions before answering them.
Stares as if frightened on waking and rolls from side to side.
Sensitive to others talking.
Low-spirited at noon; lively in the evening or vice versa.
Thinks of death calmly; or hypochondriacal, with gastric symptoms; pressure in spine and fear of death.
Children cross toward evening; brain affected.
Sensorium
Vertigo in occiput, with falling to left when walking; stupefaction and dullness of intellect, especially afternoon and evening.
Inner Head
Pressure on root of nose, as if it would be pressed into head.
Sharp pressure on a small spot in forehead, evenings.
Hemicrania, worse after dinner; tearing and stinging.
Cramp-like, tearing pain in right and left temple.
Pressure on top of head, worse after dinner; frequent dizziness, then nausea and vomiting of bile; face pale; costive; cerebral depression.
Sore pain in head.
Internal headaches, mostly semilateral, or in sinciput or occiput; worse from wine, in warm room, and after eating.
Headache from drinking even small quantities of wine.
Outer Head
Sensation of soreness of vertex, as from soreness or ulceration; worse in evening in bed and after eating; better after scratching.
Hair falls out on vertex causing complete baldness, with sensation of soreness of scalp.
Eyes
Sensitive to light; brain affected.
Amaurosis; during severe headache; passing away with the headache with contracted pupils.
Eyes dim, watery. Brain affections.
Sees luminous bodies. After operations.
Iritis (syphilitic), worse at night, with hot, scalding tears.
Conjunctivitis, pains worse at night; inflammation more in inner canthus.
Pterygium.
Upper lids heavy, as if paralyzed.
Granular lids, after ophthalmia neonatorum.
Ears
Cracking and detonation in ear.
Frequent acute stitches in right ear near tympanum.
Earache of children especially boys.
Otorrhoea of fetid pus.
Nose
Dry; brain affected.
Coryza with hoarseness and burning in chest.
Nose feels sore internally.
Swelling of one side of nose with loss of smell.
Face
Pale, alternately with redness brain affections; earthy, with wandering expression; waxy, white or yellow in typhus.
Burning jerking stitching in infra-orbital nerve, with bluish eyelids worse from least touch and in evening.
Cold sweat on forehead.
Lower Face
Lids and corners of mouth cracked, with yellowish ulceration.
Thick viscid humor (fluid) on the lips.
Teeth
Herpes (yellowish in mouth from sea bathing).
Drawing or smarting and stinging or roots of (upper) front teeth and in hard palate.
Gums painful while eating, ulcerated, white bleed easily.
Teeth feel long and loose, with swelling of submaxillary glands.
Grits the teeth.
Tongue etc
Taste; sweetish; metallic; like spoiled cheese; bloody; bitter in fauces.
Tongue: dry, don't want to talk; coated at root and dry (brain diseases) swollen on left side; hindering talking; covered with vesicles.
Mouth
Increased flow of saliva, with crawling in inner surface of cheek.
Throat
Herpetic-like eruption on tonsils soft palate and root of tongue; whitish somewhat elevated, ulcerated spots in mouth.
Sequelae to gonorrhoea.
Pain in posterior part of hard palate and in velum palati, especially when yawning.
Dryness of throat evening; mucus collects from posterior nares; soreness in throat; tearing in posterior fauces, more between acts of empty deglutition or after eating.
Cramps like strangling pain externally in muscles, when swallowing.
Desires Aversions
Aversion to: meat fish and sweat things: to cooked or warm things.
Thirst with heat in palms.
Insatiable hunger but no appetite for breakfast with hurried deglutition.
Eating and Drinking
After eating: sweets: after drinking wine: , While eating: .
Worse from; sugar (heart-burn) wine (nearly all symptoms); milk (sour eructations).
Nausea and Vomiting
Sweetish rising into throat with sweet taste in mouth, or taste of blood.
Eructations, with pressure in middle of spine.
Heart-burn; swollen feet and varicose veins during pregnancy.
Subdued nausea, with universal, tremulous feeling.
Nausea in stomach with retching and vomiting of bitter mucus; renewed by least motion.
As soon as first spoonful reaches stomach up it comes.
Vomiting of blood or of sanguineous mucus, with effort.
Stomach
Spasms of stomach and hypochondria, and a constriction in oesophagus, with dyspnoea and increased heat of the body; worse during inspiration.
Burning in pit of stomach, before breakfast extending into oesophagus.
Haematemesis.
Sensation like a worm creeping up from pit of stomach into throat, causing coughing.
Hypochondria
Cramp-pains in region of liver, with dyspnoea and hypochondriasis after eating.
Liver enlarged hard and sore to touch; feet swollen; vomits bloody phlegm.
Stitches in spleen, worse pressure.
Abdomen
Pressure and tension in abdomen.
Flatulent colic, worse from wine, toward evening or during the night and at rest; loud rumbling and rolling; retraction of abdomen; hot, moist, fetid, flatus passing off without relief; lead colic.
Violent bearing down in abdomen after a difficulty, scanty stool; relieved by passing flatus.
Stool etc
Stool: frequent small, sometimes involuntary; pitch-like or dry, brittle and granulous; soft papescent, or thin, with pale blood; difficult; hard dry, insufficient, expelled with much pressure.
Diarrhoea involuntary, with stupor. Typhus.
Urine
Violent pressure of urine on bladder sits with legs crossed and though bladder feels as if full, none passes.
Can only pass water while sitting bent backward much sand in urine.
Urine turbid, loam-colored, in morning.
Frequent micturition of pale, yellow urine, which on standing, deposits a white, flaky sediment.
Involuntary urination while walking, cough in and sneezing.
Male Sexual Organs
Easily excited; the emission, during an embrace, is too rapid; or, difficult and almost impossible.
Long-lasting and violent erections.
Copious discharges of prostatic juice, without any cause.
Orchitis : from a bruise, with drawing and retraction of one or the other testicle, goes from right to left; after checked otorrhoea.
Atrophy of testicles.
Spermatorrhoea; emissions without dreams, face pale, sunken, blue rings around eyes.
Hair falls off from genitals.
Removes buboes, syphilitic or otherwise, in left inguinal region.
Female Sexual Organs
Irresistible sexual desire at night; desire for onanism.
Boring pain in left ovarian region, better from pressure, but entirely relieved only during menstrual flow.
Amenorrhoea, with alternately red and pale face.
Dysmenorrhoea when, during menses, limbs feel heavy, with violent drawing about knees, as if they would be twisted off; sudden oppression of stomach, she has to loosen her dress; chilliness.
Menses : too early and profuse, lumps of coagulated blood pass away, mostly when walking; flow most profuse at night.
Ulceration of uterus, discharge bloody, acrid, but ulcers and rather destitute of feeling.
Leucorrhoea : of bloody mucus after menses, causing itching of vulva; of thick mucus, three days before and after menses.
Cutting colic, succeeded by leucorrhoea.
Pruritus vulvae causes masturbation.
Varicose veins of external genitals, with fidgety feet.
Pregnancy
Tendency to miscarry.
Puerperal convulsions if an eruption (especially a longstanding one ) has recently disappeared.
Mammae swollen and sore to touch; catamenia suppressed.
Soreness of nipples.
Breathing
Asthma, evening after eating, from flatus, with increase of dyspnoea, when expectoration stops, decreasing when it recommences.
Cough
All night, with dull pains in chest; spasmodic, child puts hands to genitals, with varicose veins on legs; with shooting in scrobiculum, leaving when sputum is raised; worse after eating sweets; wine; also during menses.
Sputa : yellow, purulent, blood-streaked; tenacious; sweetish, putrid, or metallic-tasting; pure blood, morning and during day.
Lungs
Pain in chest, as if cut pieces, with constrictive sensation.
Burning in chest.
Coldness in chest.
Stitches in left chest and in heart, at every beat.
Sensation of emptiness behind sternum.
Heart Pulse
Severe pain in cardiac region; some swelling and great tenderness.
Feels as if a cap were over the heart; spine affected.
Irregular, spasmodic action of heart; occasionally one violent thump.
Violent pulsation in blood-vessels, during heat.
Pulse : irregular, or small and frequent, evenings, slow mornings; increased by wine; scarcely perceptible.
Neck & Back
Nape of neck feels weary and tired, from writing or any exertion. Stiffness and tension of neck. Tearing pains.
Burning in shoulder-blades; tension between shoulder blades.
Burning along whole spine, worse sitting.
Pain in small of back on turning over in bed at night.
Pain in small of back, when sitting or when in act of sitting down; diminished by continuous walking.
Pain in last dorsal vertebrae.
Upper Limbs
Lameness and deadness of hands; they look bluish.
Weakness, numbness and tremor of hands, when writing.
Cracked and dry skin of hands, even in mild weather.
Chilblains itch and swell.
Lower Limbs
Varices in legs, with fidgety feet.
Formication in calves.
Sensation of stagnation in blood of legs.
Inflammation of tendo-achilles, erysipelatous worse from touching heel too ground and from wine.
Feet are sweaty and sore about toes; fetid.
Paralysis of feet, from suppressed foot-sweat, by getting wet; worse from wine.
Chilblains, worse from scratching and friction.
Coldness of feet at night.
Limbs in General
Rheumatism, tearing, lameness and trembling; or crampy pains; of twisting in affected limbs and frequent jerking of whole body during sleep; worse from being overheated and from exertion.
Great weakness : of limbs; especially of lumbar region and bends of knees, when walking in open air.
Sudden sensation of weakness in limbs, with canine hunger.
Position etc
Feet constantly moving : Rolling about : Talking : . Swallowing :. While writing : Walking :From overexertion : . Exercise : Motion : . Turning over, in bed : slides down : Sitting : Sits cross legged : Must sit bent backward : At rest : Sunken face : .
Nerves
Twitching in various muscles. The whole body jerks during sleep.
Hands tremble; grasps at flocks; or slides down in bed. Chorea, depressed spirits, health suffers; caused by fright; suppressed eruption; worse after wine.
Beginning of locomotor ataxia, when lightning-like pains are marked and intense.
Spasms : child cross before attack, body hot, restless at night, fidgety feet, right side twitching; pale children, during teething.
Neuralgia after zoster; better from touch.
Sleep
Drowsiness : with frequent gaping; and yet cannot sleep, head feels so light.
During sleep; cries out, awakens with fear; limbs and body jerk.
Time
Acts better when given in evening.
Morning :Forenoon : Noon : Afternoon : Evening : : During the day :.
Temperature and Weather
Complaints from overheating : . During heat : In bed : Warm room : Open air : , Storm : Getting wet : Sea-bathing : . Mild weather : Cold : Wants to uncover;.
Chill Fever Sweat
Chills : begin after eating dinner; in open air; on approach of a storm; run down back; alternate with heat; external, with increased internal, warmth; from touching anything cold.
Heat : internal, with cold sensation in abdomen and on feet; anxious sensation of heat, without any external heat, during the night; of face, with cool body in forenoon; in flushes, with violent trembling and short, hot breath.
Sweat : profuse all night, wants to uncover; easy during day, from exercise; offensive.
Sides
Right : Left; Right to left : Above downward : Below upwards :.
Tissues
Especially, in the anaemic; brain exhausted; not able to develop exanthemata.
Dropsy, with uneasiness in renal region.
Contact Injuries etc
Scratching : Touch or pressure; Must loosen dress :.
Skin
Itching in bends of joints.
Pains, seemingly between skin and flesh.
Rhagades, mostly between fingers, bad even in mild weather.
Sudden itching here and there, especially in evening in bed, goes off by contact.
Dry herpes over whole body.
Neuralgia, following herpes zoster.
Relationship
Zincum is followed well by Ignat, but not by Nux vom. which disagrees.
Antidotes to Zincum. Hepar., Ignat.
Incompatible Chamom., Nux vom.
Zincum picricum (preferable, with dull, heavy, periodic, occipital headache; pains in small of back as if struck).
Zincum sulph. is useful in persistent dysenteric discharges; cutting pains in side of abdomen; also good when cannot sleep because of jerking of legs.