Absinthium Absin
Chill, heat with sleep, then sweat; thirst in all stages; OBSTINATE AUTUMNAL FEVERS, with swollen liver and spleen; attacks antepone.
Aconite Acon
Recent cases in young plethoric persons with anguish of mind and body and restlessness during the attack; PERIODICITY NOT VERY MARKED AND APYREXIA NEVER CLEAR; chill from feet to chest, (<) by motion or uncovering; dry burning heat, with chilly shiverings running up back and great thirst for large quantities of water, everything else tastes bitter; profuse warm sweat over whole body or only on side on which he lies; (<) evening and night, in warm room.
Alstonia constricta Alst-c
CHRONIC MIASMATIC INTERMITTENTS, often suppressed by quinine; general debility and great prostration; rigors; cold sweat. diarrhoea.
Alumina Alum
Tertian; CHILL 4 A.M. to evening, or from 5 to 8 P.M.; great thirst and nausea, no relief from heat, (<) from warm drinks and by slightest motion; HEAT without thirst, with anxiety at night, often only on right side of body, (<) by motion; SWEAT at night, in bed, most profuse on right side of face or no sweat at all. During apyrexia continual empty eructations which relieve; UNCONQUERABLE DISPOSITION TO LIE DOWN.
Ammonium mur Am-m
FEVER PAROXYSM EVERY SEVEN DAYS; chill running up back; chill and heat alternating, ending with copious sweat, (<) from every motion.
Ammonium picric Am-pic
Fevers maltreated with quinine or having a quinine, cachexia engrafted upon a malarial one. Periodical headaches nervous, bilious, gastric, recurring every four, seven, fourteen days or once a month, in women just before or after menses.
Antimonium crud Ant-c
MUCH GASTRIC DISTURBANCE; the greatest sadness and woeful mood; CHILLINESS predominates, not relieved in a warm room; violent shaking chill towards noon, with thirst (for beer), or thirstlessness; aching in forehead, bitter taste, and eructations of food taken; pain in chest, with heat and drawing in sacrum, sweat breaks out during the heat, but soon disappears and is again followed by dry heat; great desire for sleep; during apyrexia tongue thick and white; sore feeling and redness on border of tongue; constipation or diarrhoea; disgust for drink and food, desire for pickles; quotidian or tertian fever with loathing nausea, vomiting, cutting in bowels and diarrhoea or constipation.
Antimonium tart Ant-t
Intermittents from exposure in damp cellars or basements; nausea, vomiting and anorexia; great sleepiness or irresistible inclination to sleep; (<) in damp cold weather, motion, lying down at night; EPIDEMICS OF WINTER OR EARLY SPRING, quotidian, tertian and quartan type; tertians anteponing. CHILL AND HEAT alternating during the day without thirst; cold skin, trembling and chilliness always from within outward; short chill and long-lasting heat, with somnolency and profuse sweat on forehead; intense thirst and delirium during heat in tertian. Profuse sweat all over, (<) while sweating, but (>) after. Weariness, lassitude, exhaustion, with great depression of spirits, neither appetite not thirst during apyrexia.
Apis mell Apis
Intermittents in seasons when the flies sting with unusual vigor. Type: quotidian, double quotidian, tertian. CHILL WITH THIRST, or none, about 3 P.M., begins in front of chest, abdomen, knees; OPPRESSION OF CHEST AS IF HE WOULD SMOTHER; (<) from warmth or in a hot room; sleep and urticaria as chill passes off. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, with inclination to uncover, burning hot, dry skin all over, especially in spots and abdomen, chest and hands, which felt as if dead during chill, oppression and burning in chest with sensation of smothering; intense headache with sleepiness; itching, burning nettlerash, heat of room unbearable, lips swell and are painful; sleep. SWEAT IMPERFECT OR ABSENT or of a very light grade, it often breaks out, dries up again, no thirst; weak, trembling and sleepy. Old, protracted, mismanaged cases, no appetite, craves milk which relieves. During apyrexia great prostration, soreness and pain under left ribs, in spleen, in all limbs and joints; skin sallow or waxen, feet oedematous; urine scanty; sleepless; urticaria.
Aranea diad Aran
Remarkable periodicity. At precisely same hour quotidian or tertian fever. CHILL LONG-LASTING, often twenty-four hours, (<) on rainy, cold days, from bathing in cold water, from damp dwellings, (>) in fresh air, when walking or smoking; HEAT SLIGHT OR WANTING, NO SWEAT, no thirst. Chilliness hardly relieved by anything, even in midsummer. Annual return of intermittents, first contracted in cold and wet localities. APYREXIA clear, spleen enlarged; anteponing menses, too much and lasting too long; patient subject to haemorrhages; (<) AT EVERY COLD OR DAMP CHANGE OF THE WEATHER.
Arnica Arn
CONGESTIVE MALARIAL INTERMITTENTS, tertian or quartan, with hyperaesthesia of spinal cord; thirst for large quantities of water, with gaping and stretching before the attack, drinking refreshes. CHILL, usually afternoon or evening, WITH THIRST, vomits afterwards; chill with pain in muscles of back and extremities and sensation as if cold water were poured over him; chill in pit of stomach, chill with burning of face, rest of body cold; chilly from slightest movement of bedclothes. HEAT WITH THIRST; with indifference, stupor and weakness; great internal heat, with coldness of hands and feet and still cannot bear the slightest uncovering as it makes him feel chilly. SWEAT sour, offensive, (<) when sweating; breath sour, foetid; taste bitter, putrid, of rotten eggs; longing for liquors. APYREXIA; headaches, bruised feeling all over, debility and aversion to exercise; yellow face, no appetite; great weakness, must lie down, yet bed feels too hard, changes position often for relief. IT ANTIDOTES QUININE MALTREATMENT.
Arsenicum Ars
Intermittents contracted in the salt marshes near the seashore; intermittent neuralgia affecting one side of face, almost maddening pain, driving sufferer from place to place, at its acne nausea and vomiting, buzzing in ears; intermittent, semilateral headache; periodical complaints when the year comes round. Before the attacks faintness, inclination to lie down, sleepy, pain in abdomen and chest. IRREGULAR IN TYPE AND STAGE AND PERIODS, anticipating. CHILL irregular, mingling of heat and chilliness; and often; desires warm drinks. HEAT INTENSE, long-lasting, dry, burning, pungent to touch, with inclination to uncover and insatiable thirst for hot drinks; cold water he ejects and it makes him feel chilly; oppressed breathing; great restlessness, burning pain in spleen and bowels. SWEAT with cessation of former symptoms, sour and offensive, with excessive thirst or no sweat at all, the dry heat continuing all night. Drinks large quantities during sweat, or little and often in chill and sweat. APYREXIA; great weakness and prostration with desire for stimulants, wine and coffee; pale, sunken face; abdomen bloated; foetid watery diarrhoea, great desire to lie down, great praecordial anguish; violent pains or lameness of extremities; hungry after paroxysms; tendency to degenerate into remittent fever; dropsy as the result of enlarged spleen and liver. The paroxysm is generally not complete. One (ESPECIALLY THE COLD) STAGE IS GENERALLY WANTING.
Baptisia Bapt
TENDENCY TO BECOME TYPHOID. Quotidian type, chill, fever and sweat afternoons. CHILL all day, up and down the back, whole body feels sore; HEAT in flushes, burning in parts, especially face, as if sweat would break out, moves to a cool part of the bed; limbs hot but feet cold. APYREXIA: feels sick all over, restless and uneasy. AUTUMNAL FEVERS.
Baryta carb Bar-c
GREAT SENSITIVENESS TO ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES. CHILL daily afternoons, followed by alternating chilliness and flushes of heat, WITH ICY-COLD FEET. HEAT dry and burning; chilly when undressing, must wrap up in blanket to get warm, although her skin is burning hot to the touch of others; soles of feet burn, yet she cannot put hands or feet from under the bedclothes because it makes her chilly, towards morning she falls into an uneasy sleep with slight perspiration. No THIRST IN ANY STAGE. Prostration after paroxysms. APYREXIA: white tongue, bitter taste, appetite capricious; constantly weak and weary, wishes to lean on something to sit or lie down.
Belladonna Bell
Periodicity not marked. Anteponing quotidian or tertian. CHILL begins in both arms, thence over body, WITHOUT THIRST. Chill with violent, bursting headache, dilated pupils; dread of light and noise; pale face when lying down, red when sitting up, and icy-cold feet; chill after eating. HEAT INTENSE, WITH GREAT THIRST, within and without, averse to uncovering. SWEAT on covered parts only, stains linen yellow, disposition to perspire. Irritable, whining mood, mouth and fauces dry, food tastes salty, bread sour.
Bovista Bov
CHILL 5 to 8 A. M. or 7 to 10 P. M., no thirst; CHILL PREDOMINATES, even when sitting near warm stove, without heat or sweat, or heat with thirst and restlessness, (>) by uncovering; SWEAT, especially upon chest, profuse in axilla, smelling like onions. APYREXIA: great weakness in all joints, drops things from hands as from weakness.
Bryonia Bry
When warm weather sets in after cold days; from cold drinks or ices in hot weather; after taking cold in summer. Anteponing or postponing quotidian, tertian and quartan. CHILL AND GREAT THIRST for large quantities of water which relieve; shaking chill all over with stitching pains in chest and spleen and violent, dry, racking cough; chill begins on lips, tips of fingers and toes, (<) in warm room, from motion. HEAT WITH INCREASED THIRST and pleuritic pains, wants to be quite; paleness of face. SWEAT profuse, sour, oily, especially on side on which he lies, APYREXIA: gastric and rheumatic symptoms.
Cactus Cact
PERIODICITY WELL MARKED. Quotidian fever at same hour each day, at 11 A.M. or P.M. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, not relieved by heat or covering; coldness in back and icy-cold hands. HEAT WITH SOME THIRST AT CLOSE OF HEAT, flushes in face, unbearable heat in abdomen, horrible anxiety about heart. SWEAT WITH GREAT THIRST, but it does not appear after exposure to the sun; where we meet congestion to head, flushed face, dyspnoea, violent vomiting, suppressed micturition.
Calcarea carb Calc
From working while standing in cold water, causing drawing in joints and great heaviness in head and body. CHILL WITH THIRST, begins in scrobiculus cordis, with spasms or fixed, cold, agonizing weight, increasing with the chill and disappearing with it; external coldness and internal heat; coldness of single parts. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, followed by chill and cold hands; frequent attacks of sudden universal heat, as if she had been drenched with hot water, with inclination to uncover, and despair of life. SWEAT AND NO THIRST; profuse sweat on moderate exertion; clammy sweat only on the limbs; sweat after sleep. APYREXIA never clear, constitutional symptoms crop out everywhere.
Camphora Camph
Periodicity not marked. CHILLS long-lasting, icy coldness all over, but hot internally, so that he throws off all covering; face deathly pale, limbs blue. CONGESTIVE STATE OF PERNICIOUS INTERMITTENTS, severe chill, with chattering of teeth, whole surface of body icy-cold, with anxiety, hot breath, spasms; or, if conscious, voice altered, sleep after chill. HEAT, no thirst during chill or heat, distended veins, increased by motion; body hot and sweating, but averse to uncovering. SWEAT cold over whole body, very weakening, profuse and exhausting tongue trembling, flabby, spongy, APYREXIA: terrible sinking and exhaustion.
Canchalagua Canch
SPRING INTERMITTENTS. CHILL severe, with chattering of teeth and shuddering over whole body; extreme paleness of face, lips and hands; soreness and bruised sensation all over, head feels as if bound, nausea, retching, vomiting of mucus tinged with bile; chill repeatedly down the spine and then spreading all over; followed by HEAT all over body; APYREXIA clear with good appetite.
Cantharis Canth
Periodicity not marked. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, not relieved by external warmth or covering, feeling of coldness in spine, immediately on getting out of bed; icy coldness of hands and feet, with fearful pains in urethra; children urinate often during chill. HEAT WITH THIRST; burning in palms and soles or burning on soles while hands are icy-cold; burning heat at night, which she does not feel, especially on abdomen. SWEAT SMELLS URINOUS, profuse on exertion, on waking at night, cold on hands and feet. APYREXIA; difficult frequent and painful urination; very thirsty, but disgust for all drinks and desire for meat; heaviness of feet; must lie in bed.
Capsicum Caps
Quotidian 10 A.M., 5 P.M.; tertian more rarely; thirst some time before chill. CHILL WITH GREAT THIRST, yet drinking causes shuddering; chill begins between shoulder-blades, (<) after drinking. (>) BY HEAT TO BACK, lessened by walking out of doors; inward burning and external chill. HEAT AND SWEAT COINCIDE, instead of following one another; face alternately pale and red; glowing hot cheeks, hot ears and hot tip of nose with cold hands and feet; heat and sweat without thirst, acrid sweat. APYREXIA more or less clear; painful enlargement of spleen and torpor of the abdominal nervous centres.
Carbo veg Carb-v
Periodicity not marked; YEARLY RETURN OF PAROXYSMS; from getting overheated, from living in damp places. CHILL WITH THIRST, unusual lassitude, icy coldness of body and cold breath; shivering and chills in the evening, mostly on left side, especially from the knees down, even in bed. Irregular PAROXYSM, sometimes sweat before chill; one-sided chill, generally left side. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, with great anxiety and loquacity; oppressed breathing; though cold to objective touch, patient wishes to be constantly fanned. SWEAT, profuse, of a sour or putrid odor, at night and when eating. APYREXIA: great prostration and exhaustion; great flatulency after eating or drinking, with foulness of all excretions. After abuse of quinine.
Carbolic acid Carb-ac
MIASMATIC FEVERS, WITH ENLARGEMENT OF SPLEEN, in fall, of a low, intractable form, with tendency to typhoid. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, even near the stove, from flushed face downward. HEAT severe, alternating with shivers of short duration. SWEAT copious at night.
Cascarilla Casc
CHILL WITH THIRST FOR WARM DRINKS, slight when walking in open air. HEAT WITH THIRST FOR WARM DRINKS; SWEAT profuse at night, but not debilitating.
Causticum Caust
CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, lessened in bed and by drinking of whole LEFT SIDE, beginning in face and moving downward, at about 4 P.M.; shivering and coldness of single parts; he is always chilly or in sweat. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, alternating with chilliness, towards morning. SWEAT WITHOUT THIRST, often immediately after chill, without intervening heat; profuse sweat from motion, in open air, at 4 A.M.; viscid sweat of strong urinous odor. APYREXIA: chronic constitutional cachexia, desire for smoked meat, for beer, aversion to sweet things; paralysis of single parts.
Cedron Cedr
PERIODICITY VERY MARKED, quotidian, tertian; at same period of pregnancy, tendency to miscarry. CHILL WITH THIRST, 4 A.M., 4 to 6 P.M.; general coldness all over, beginning in back, with icy-cold feet, (<) from least motion; hands, feet and icy-cold, followed by severe frontal headache, palpitation and hurried respiration. HEAT WITH THIRST FOR WARM DRINKS (Cascar.) and emission of large quantities of pale urine; numb, dead feelings in legs; desire to sleep as heat passes off. SWEAT WITH THIRST. Dry heat followed by profuse perspiration, palpitation and hurried respiration; urine scanty and high-colored. APYREXIA: great debility. No stage is well marked, but all three run one into another; paroxysm may be ushered in by severe supra or infra-orbital neuralgia.
Chamomilla Cham
ANTEPONING QUOTIDIANS; SPRING FEVERS. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, when uncovering or undressing. Shivering and heat intermingled, mostly with one red and one pale cheek; chill on posterior, heat on anterior part of body or vice versa; coldness of body with burning heat in face and hot breath. LONG-LASTING HEAT WITH VIOLENT THIRST and frequent startings in sleep, great agitation, anxiety. HOT SWEAT, especially of face and head; profuse sweat on covered parts, relief of pains after sweat. APYREXIA never clear, patients suffer from bad digestion, are very ill-mannered.
Chelidonium Chel
CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, beginning in hands and feet, when walking in open air, passes off in room; shaking chill, with shivering, as if dashed with ice-cold water, with nausea, running down the back. HEAT dry on face, without thirst; burning heat in hands, spreading thence over whole body; burning cheeks of a dark- red, circumscribed color. SWEAT during sleep towards morning, with relief of pains. APYREXIA never clear; stitching pains in liver, shooting towards back; slow pulse; pains in stomach, (>) by eating and desire for milk which is now relished.
China Chin
PALUDAL FEVERS. ANTEPONING FEVERS OF ANY TYPE; paroxysms tertian, quartan or every seventh day. (Am-m. m.). BEFORE GREAT ATTACK THIRST, canine hunger, anguish, headache, restless sleep. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST; thirst ceases as soon as chill begins, (<) by every drink; internal and violent chill, with icy- cold hands and feet and congestion to head, even in a warm room, with pains in hepatic region. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, with distended veins, congested headache, desire to uncover, but chilly when uncovered; long-lasting heat with sleep; canine hunger, and sleepy after eating; sensation of heat in abdomen, as of hot water running down. SWEAT WITH GREAT THIRST, on being covered profuse sweating which weakens, but he is so sleepy he cannot get up; profuse sweat when walking in open air; profuse sweat on neck and back when he sleeps. APYREXIA: anaemic and cachectic appearance, swelling of hypochondria, enlarged spleen, profuse sweating and great debility.
Chininum ars Chin-ar
CHILL always in forenoon, not at a regular hour, sometimes once every day, again every other day, ending in perspiration or without it; before the attack headache, yawning and stretching. HEAT without thirst towards midnight, pulse full and strong, with inclination to throw off cover and open windows, NO SWEAT; left hypochondriacal region enlarged, abdomen bloated. No thirst or appetite for breakfast after fever in the night, foetid diarrhoea with pain in bowels.
Chininum sulph Chin-s
Time 10 A.M., 3 and 10 P.M., tertian, anteponing. CHILL WITH THIRST, pale face, lips and nails blue; dorsal vertebrae painful on pressure, trembling in limbs. HEAT WITH EXCESSIVE THIRST, hot dry skin, dry mouth and fauces; flushed face, delirium; distension of veins of arms and legs; pain in spine on pressure. SWEAT WITH GREAT THIRST, which gradually breaks out while perfectly quiet and becomes profuse; morning sweat; pain in lumbar vertebrae and sacrum on pressure. APYREXIA with great thirst, in short when chill begins again; spleen swollen and painful; haematuria; icterus. CLEAR INTERMISSIONS, REGULAR PAROXYSMS, NEARLY CLEAN TONGUE AND PROFUSE SWEATS ARE THE KEY- NOTES FOR QUININE.
Cicuta vir Cic
Periodicity not marked. Quotidian afternoon. CHILL begins in chest and extends to arms and legs, with disposition to stare at one point; icy coldness of body, especially abdomen, with desire for warmth and to be near the hot stove. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, sensation of hot water in chest, arms, legs and ears, burning and redness of face, constant desire for fresh air. SWEAT on abdomen, towards morning hours and feels better after it.
Cimex lect Cimx
Tertian and quartan at any time of day or night. Before attack: thirst with pain in bones of limbs several hours before chill begins. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, commencing in parts which first become cold; cold shuddering as if cold water were poured over her; great drowsiness; hands and feet feel dead; pain in joints, as if tendons were too short, contracted, especially knees; oppression of chest, takes often a long breath. After chill thirst, but drinking causes headache and inability to think. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, but desire to drink on account of dryness of throat with feeling of pressure and gagging in oesophagus, followed by ravenous hunger. Musty- smelling SOUR SWEAT, WITHOUT THIRST, which relieves. APYREXIA: much thirst, and drinks easily.
Cina Cina
PERIODICITY WELL MARKED, AT SAME HOUR EVERY DAY, evening; tertian, quartan. Ravenous hunger before and during paroxysm. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, with hot cheeks; shivering creeping over trunk, not relieved by external warmth; cold, pale face, cold sweat on forehead, nose and hands; vomiting during chill. HEAT WITH THIRST; face puffed, pale around mouth and nose, with redness of cheeks and thirst for cold drinks, and very short breath. SWEAT WITHOUT THIRST, light, followed by vomiting of food and canine hunger, tongue always clean. APYREXIA: warm symptoms; irritable, peevish and obstinate; breath foul; may be the epidemic remedy for children, when adults need other drugs.
Cocculus Cocc
CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, with severe colic, not relieved by warmth, more in back and legs, towards evening; cold stage predominant. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, intolerance of cold and warm air; head heavy and aching, on rising vertigo; glowing hot with coldness of body. SWEAT from evening to morning, during slightest motion. APYREXIA not clear, paralytic weakness in back; nervous sensation of seasickness.
Coffea Coff
Oversensitiveness. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST ascends from periphery to head and runs down the back. HEAT WITH THIRST and shivering down the back when lying down at night; dry warmth of face and body, yet dreads uncovering. MORNING SWEAT WITH THIRST. Quartan fevers.
Colchicum Colch
EPIDEMIC OR AUTUMNAL INTERMITTENTS on a rheumatic or gouty basis. CHILLS running down back, even in a warm room, extremities cold, (<) on motion. HEAT WITH GREAT THIRST the whole night, especially on face and extremities. SWEAT-sour- smelling or absent. APYREXIA; gastric symptoms, cannot bear the smell of cooking food, nausea.
Cornus circ Corn
Intermittents with chill and sweat predominating; diarrhoea with profuse sweats and general physical and mental prostration; great disposition to sleep, countenance to sleep, countenance sunken, yellow, indicative of suffering and debility.
Cornus flor Corn-f
Miasmatic fevers; paroxysms preceded by SLEEPINESS, headache and dulness; CHILL severe, with clammy skin, or feels warm to the touch, nausea, vomiting and violent pains in abdomen. HEAT WITH THIRST and drowsiness; burning throbbing headache, stupor followed by PROFUSE SWEAT or absent. APYREXIA: gastric irritation, jaundice and painful diarrhoea; debility.
Curare Cur
PERNICIOUS FEVERS WITH CONTINUOUS CHILLINESS; quotidian, 2 to 3 P.M. and continuing well into the night. HEAT BURNING, accompanied by partial or transient chills; incoherent speech; great prostration; paralysis of extremities. SWEAT cold and bloody, especially at night; (>) by dampness, cold weather and motion; (>) after first mouthful of food.
Elaps coral Elaps
CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, (<) by drinking cold water; chill and heat alternating, icy coldness in chest and abdomen after drinking; arms cold by putting them in water. HEAT WITH THIRST, alternating with chilliness, vertigo with tendency to fall forward; heat at night, he must uncover; dyspnoea and flushes of heat at night. SWEAT COLD and profuse. Quotidian.
Elaterium Elat
INTERMITTENTS WITH CHOLERA-LIKE ATTACKS; when chills are suppressed urticaria appears; frequent change of type. CHILLINESS WITH THIRST, GAPING AND STRETCHING, all through the chill; backache and cramps in legs and soles of feet. HEAT WITH INTENSE THIRST; cutting pains in bowels, nausea, vomiting and copious frothy stools. COPIOUS SWEAT which relieves. APYREXIA: urticaria, relieved by rubbing; intermittents suppressed by quinine.
Eucalyptus Eucal
Constant tendency to chills and fever; patient being comparatively well for a week or two and then relapsing; relapsing fevers of a malarious origin, in which spleen becomes affected early in the disease, being first swollen and sensitive, becomes hard and resistant; VERTIGO IN ALL STAGES; dull, congestive headache; malaise; jerking, tearing, or stitching pains, (<) at night; SWEAT OFFENSIVE. Quotidian, tertian or double tertian. APYREXIA: extreme muscular weakness and blunted sensations, mind clear.
Eupatorium perf Eup-per
All types, anteponing at 9 A.M. mostly. Before attack; insatiable thirst, drinking hastens chill and causes vomiting; gaping, STRETCHING AND BONE-PAINS IN EXTREMITIES. CHILL WITH GREAT THIRST begins in back, between shoulders or lower down, not (>) by heat, comes and goes; bitter vomiting at close. HEAT WITH HARDLY ANY THIRST; great weakness, cannot raise head while heat lasts; cheeks deep red; intense throbbing headache; body sore from head to foot; a swallow of water causes shuddering. SWEAT SCANTY AND ABSENT, sometimes profuse cold sweat at night, which relieves all pain except headache; sweat absent or light when chill is hard. APYREXIA imperfect; jaundice, bone-pains, loose cough. Autumnal fevers of miasmatic marshy regions; DOUBLE PERIODICITY: CHILL ONE DAY IN THE MORNING, NEXT DAY IN THE EVENING.
Eupatorium purp Eup-pur
Double tertian or quartan at any time of day. CHILL WITH THIRST begins in lumbar region, passing up and down and then extends over body; violent bone-pains; blue lips and nails; desire for hot drinks or for cold acid drinks; violent shaking with little coldness. LONG LASTING HEAT with thirst, bone-pains and hunger as heat passes off. SWEAT WITHOUT THIRST, mostly on upper part of body; chilly down the back, when changing position. APYREXIA: frequent desire to urinate; weak, tired and faint urinary symptoms; dizziness with persistent sensation of falling to the left.
Ferrum Ferr
PROTRACTED, IRREGULAR CASES WITH FEVER-CAKES IN LIVER AND SPLEEN, particularly after abuse of quinine; general haemorrhagic diathesis; extreme paleness of face which becomes red and flushed on the least pain, emotion or exertion. Vomiting of food as chill comes on. CHILL WITH THIRST, in frequent short attacks, hands and feet cold and numb, face glowing hot. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST; sensation of heat all over body which is cold to touch; great heat of palms of hands and soles of feet; heat of stomach with vomiting; dry heat, (<) towards evening, with desire to uncover, (>) by moving about; face fiery red. SWEAT profuse, long-lasting, exhausting, (>) while sweating. APYREXIA: prostration, debility and great loss of muscular power; oedema of face and feet; vomiting of undigested food; weak and tired, but (>) when walking slowly about; moderate headache; chronic diarrhoea or lienteria; constipation; anaemic murmurs.
Gelsemium Gels
Simple, uncomplicated cases, especially in sensitive, nervous patients; marked PERIODICITY, same hour of day, quotidian or tertian. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, running up and down the back from loins to head and face; NERVOUS CHILL SEVERE THOUGH SKIN IS WARM, WANTS TO BE HELD IN ORDER NOT TO SHAKE SO MUCH (Lach.). BURNING HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, with desire to lie still and to sleep, feeling so tired that the least exertion is objected to; semi-stupor during the long-lasting heat. SWEAT moderate or profuse, but relieving pains, most profuse on genitals; thirst during sweat. APYREXIA short, great prostration of muscular system.
Helleborus Hell
Quartan type. CHILL spreads from arms with pains in joints, especially knees; horrible convulsions with extreme coldness; BURNING HEAT of body with internal chilliness; SWEAT cold, clammy, sticky; arms continually in motion except when asleep; rheumatic pains in knees.
Hepar Hep
Quotidian at different hours, but regular as to time. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, (<) in open air, (>) by heat, which does not relieve; nettlerash with violent itching and stinging, disappearing as heat begins, wants to be well covered. HEAT WITH THIRST, headache and slight delirium, flushing heat in face and head; fever-blisters around mouth. SWEAT, with flushes of heat, profuse day and night without relief, (<) from any motion; constant offensive exhalations from body; cold, clammy, profuse, sour-smelling sweat at night, (<) on perineum, groins and inside of thighs. APYREXIA never clear, constitutional symptoms always present.
Hydrastis Hydr
Quotidians with considerable hepatic or gastric disturbance in cachectic persons. CHILL, morning or evening, especially in back or thighs, with aching. HEAT in flushes over face, neck and hands or great heat of body followed by faintness, sinking, goneness of stomach and general debility. SWEAT profuse, offensive, of the genital organs.
Hyoscyamus Hyos
Congestive chills, from feet up to back, tertian, or quartan at 11 A.M. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, (<) at night, with short, dry, hacking cough, with burning redness of face, chill alternating with heat; all senses too sensitive. HEAT WITH THIRST, skin hot and dry to touch, with distended veins, heat along the whole spine, running up back; hallucinations; fibrillar twitchings; insomnia; epileptiform convulsions. SWEAT profuse, mostly on legs. APYREXIA: debility, illusions of vision, difficult to swallow liquids; vertigo, dryness of mouth and frequent cough; pulse small.
Ignatia Ign
Paroxysms irregular, more postponing than anticipating; violent gaping and stretching before. CHILL WITH GREAT THIRST for large quantities of water, commencing in upper arms and spreading to back and chest, (>) AT ONCE IN A WARM ROOM OR BY A HOT STOVE; shaking chill with redness of face, ill humor, nausea, vomiting of food and mucus. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, with sensation of dryness of skin; external heat and redness without internal heat, wants to be uncovered as soon as heat and begins; heat and coldness of single parts; deep snoring sleep during heat, frequent sighing; nettlerash over body, with violent itching, (>) by scratching, disappearing with sweat. SWEAT WITHOUT THIRST, fainting during year. APYREXIA COMPLETE, eruption on lips and corners of mouth; face very pale.
Iodum Iod
Quartan and tertian fevers at any time, but more at night. Quartan fevers with a constant diarrhoea on days free from fever; left hypochondriacal region hard and acutely painful to touch; ravenous hunger and emaciation. SHAKING CHILL, even in warm room, cold feet the whole night; chill often alternating with heat. Hot flushes of HEAT over body, internal heat with coldness of the body. SWEAT WITH THIRST, profuse, cold, viscid sweat at night. APYREXIA: sallow distressed look; gets anxious and worried if he does not eat, yet loses flesh all the time while eating freely.
Ipecacuanha Ip
Gastrosis during apyrexia and during paroxysm. Postponing of irregular. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, short, (<) in a warm place and from external heat, (>) by drinking and in open air, hands and feet icy cold and wet with cold sweat, redness of one cheek and paleness of other. HEAT WITH THIRST, long-lasting, nausea and vomiting, anxious oppressed breathing and dry hacking cough; unequal distribution of heat, head and face hot, one hand hot the other cold. SWEAT on upper parts of body, (<) by motion and in open air, sour sweat with turbid urine; light sweat in uncomplicated cases; profuse after abuse of quinine. APYREXIA: constant persistent nausea, relapses from errors in diet, bad taste in mouth, languor and debility.
Kali bichrom Kali-bi
Complaints appear periodically, as dysentery every year in the beginning of summer, headache every morning at same hour. CHILL, 4 P.M., WITHOUT THIRST, commencing in feet and legs and going upward, with sensation as if vertex were constricted; chilliness and giddiness and nausea, followed by heat, with sensation of cold and trembling. HEAT WITH THIRST, face and hands glowing hot, while arms are cold and deep internal chilliness continued. SWEAT profuse while sitting quietly.
Kali brom Kali-br
Acts better in children than in adults. CHILL AND HOT STAGE moderate, but the SWEATING STAGE unusually long, protracted, exhausting; viscid and profuse.
Kali carb Kali-c
Intermittents with whooping-cough (Dros.). Quotidian. CHILL WITH THIRST, (<) after eating, on every motion, toward evening, in bed. Chilliness, then heat, then chilliness again. Evening chill (>) near warm stove and when lying down; vomiting and spasmodic pain in chest at night, with short breath, internal anxiety and much perspiration. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, stitching pains in chest and head, pulsations in abdomen; internal heat, external chilliness, with dyspnoea. SWEAT all night without relief, (<) on least mental or physical exertion. APYREXIA: chest constricted, right hypochondrium painful and sore to touch; aversion to food, especially bread; intense thirst at all times.
Kali iod Kali-i
CHILL WITH THIRST from afternoon till next morning, with sleepiness, creeping up back and extending over whole body, (>) by warmth of bed, but not by heat of stove; cannot get warm with any amount of covering, feels like freezing; HEAT WITH THIRST followed by excessive coldness with trembling; flushes of heat with dry skin; SWEAT scanty or occurs during hot stage. APYREXIA: nocturnal bone-pains, glands swollen.
Lachesis Lach
PERIODICITY STRONGLY MARKED, quotidian, tertian, quartan every two weeks. Paroxysms return annually every spring, after suppression by quinine the previous autumn; relapses from taking acids. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, commencing in small of back and running up to head, with chattering of teeth and soreness of chest, (>) by heat of stove, but none from lying in bed. Patient, especially a child, must be held firmly to relieve the pain in head and chest and prevent shaking. HEAT WITH THIRST, violent headache, livid complexion; oppression of chest; deep breathing and sleep or great loquacity; internal sensation of heat with cold feet; burning in palms and soles, must be uncovered; flushes of heat with great sensitiveness of throat at night. SWEAT PROFUSE, giving relief, warm. APYREXIA clear, great weakness of the whole body in the morning on rising; FEVER RETURNS EVERY SPRING.
Lachnanthes Lachn
CHILL with glistening eyes and icy coldness of body, (>) by warmth; HEAT with delirium, brilliant eyes, circumscribed red cheeks.
Ledum Led
Double quotidian. CHILL WITH THIRST. Shaking chill over whole back, as if cold water were poured over it, with hot cheeks and hot forehead, without redness of face; violent chills and horripilations with cold limbs; chill with colic every evening. HEAT all over without thirst; warmth of bed intolerable on account of heat and burning in limbs. SWEAT without itching, sour-smelling sweat, cannot bear covering. APYREXIA: rheumatic or gouty complications.
Lobelia infl Lob
CHILL WITH THIRST, coldness (<) after drinking; general shivering alternating with flushes of heat. HEAT AND SWEAT mixed up or alternating; asthma and laborious breathing, with weakness and sensation in stomach as if too full. SWEAT accompanied by sleep.
Lycopodium Lyc
Any type and at any time, (<) 4 to 8 or at 7 P.M. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, over whole body, cannot get warm near stove, with yawning, nausea, inclination to vomit, chilliness starting from back and extending over whole body, warm numbness and icy coldness of hands and feet, or ONE FOOT WARM, THE OTHER COLD. HEAT WITH THIRST for small quantities at a time; heat and redness of face with irresistible tendency to sleep; nausea after cold drinks, warm drinks are grateful; sour vomiting during hot stage. Sour eructations, taste, vomiting, sweat are all sour. SWEAT profuse, immediately after chill, without intervening heat, thirst after sweat. Canine hunger, but a few mouthfuls satisfy. APYREXIA; mixed, gastric and abdominal symptoms red sand in urine, constipation, great bodily prostration.
Magnesia carb Mag-c
Not much periodicity, quotidians in late afternoon and evening. CHILL in bed, as if dashed with cold water; chill running up the back, lessened by outdoor exercise; coldness in feet as if wading in cold water. HEAT at night all over with great aversion to uncover. SWEAT profuse, sour, oily with thirst. Desire for meat and acid drinks.
Magnesia mur Mag-m
Chill even near stove, (>) in open air and in bed, followed before midnight by heat and after midnight by sweat, with thirst lasting till morning; quotidian, starting at 4 P.M.; desire for sweets.
Magnesia sulph Mag-s
Gastric irritation; vomiting by drinking much of any fluid, especially cold water; great prostration in nerves and muscles; morning headache, (>) after breakfast. CHILL at 9 to 10 A.M., preceded by spasmodic yawning, beginning at tips of fingers and toes and going up spine. HEAT in one part of body and chill in another. During heat palms or soles feel as if burning up.
Menyanthes Meny
Quartan, irregular. CHILL of peripheral parts of body WITHOUT THIRST, especially of tips of fingers and toes, of tip of nose or ear-lobes LEGS ICY-COLD UP TO KNEES; chilly sensation in abdomen; cold stage, though incompletely developed in some part of body and rest of it warm, predominates. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, followed by chilly feeling; flushes of heat on trunk and back, with redness of face mingled with sensation of coldness; SWEAT from evening till morning; slow pulse.
Mercurialis peren Merl
Quotidian CHILL, commencing in right arm and right side of chest, spreading over whole body, cold and chilly with dark- red cheeks and dyspnoea, can only get warm by lying down and covering up, after becoming warm perspires and sleeps. HEAT without preceding chill and rarely followed by sweat.
Mercurius Merc
WARM AUTUMN DAYS AND COLD DAMP NIGHTS; periodicity not marked. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, (<) in open air than in house, in the evening after lying down and in bed; chilliness in abdomen with hot of face; hands and feet constantly cold. HEAT WITH THIRST. Alternate feelings of heat and chilliness; aversion to uncover. SWEAT profuse on every motion, not relieving. APYREXIA: weakness and trembling from least exertion, gums inflamed and painful, salivation.
Mezereum Mez
CHILL WITH THIRST, dry mouth posteriorly, much saliva anteriorly, from upper arms extending to back and legs, even in warm room; asthmatic constriction and oppression of chest; great chilliness over whole body, without desire for warmth, or dread of open air, and without subsequent heat. HEAT: burning of internal parts with external chilliness; left side of body hot; intense heat with sleep and sweating. APYREXIA: hard swollen spleen, headache, loss of appetite, hypochondriasis and irritability.
Morphinum Morph
Tertian or quotidian, anticipating or postponing; feels uncomfortable and exhausted at the appearance of the fever; neuralgic pains (supraorbital, intercostal and cardiac pains); spleen enlarged; neuralgic pains (supraorbital, intercostal and cardiac pains); spleen enlarged; delirium during height of fever with raving, wants to leave the bed; great exhaustion and prostration after fever and during apyrexia; sediment in urine after fever. At indefinite times attacks of chills, heat and sweat.
Natrum mur Nat-m
MALARIAL CACHEXIA, EXPOSURE TO EMANATIONS FROM SALT OR FRESH WATER. Patient dreads the chill, complains of languor, headache, thirst. CHILL at 8 or 9 A.M. (Apis, 3 P.M.), severe with great thirst which continues through all stages, beginning in knees, elbows and small of back; violent headache with sensation as if head would fly to pieces; great dyspnoea, ICY COLDNESS ABOUT HEART, followed by dry heat and thirst and ending in profuse sweat with relief of all symptoms; BLINDNESS AND UNCONSCIOUSNESS DURING CHILL, WITH GREAT PROSTRATION AFTER IT; internal chilliness from want of natural heat, with icy coldness of hands and feet. HEAT WITH THIRST, drinks large quantities and often, which refresh him; vomiting of bile between chill and fever or during heat; intolerable hammering headache with stupefaction, unconsciousness, blindness and fainting forcing him to lie down; fever-blisters around lips. SWEAT WITH THIRST, profuse, gradually relieving all pains, except headache (Eup. perf.); pulse intermittent, (<) when lying on left side. APYREXIA never clear; emaciation, languor, debility, livid, sallow complexion; stitches in liver and spleen; disgust for bread and craving for salt; sensation of fulness in stomach after eating ever to little.
Natrum sulph Nat-s
DAMP MOIST ATMOSPHERE OF THE SEASHORE. CHILL in the evening, going off in bed, with gaping and stretching, cannot get warm all night, without external coldness. HEAT in flushes with restlessness. SWEAT without thirst, at night, in face, on scrotum, not followed by weakness; yellow diarrhoea, mixed with green slime; restless sleep, (<) in damp wet weather, from living in damp houses or cellars; HYDROGENOID, SYCOTIC CONSTITUTION.
Nitric acid Nit-ac
Quotidian tertian. CHILL in the evening, in bed, (<) from uncovering or moving; cold hands, constant coldness of feet, preventing sleep. INTERNAL DRY HEAT, with desire to uncover, dryness of throat; great heat in face and hands or hot face with cold hands. SWEAT sour, offensive, especially on parts on which he is lying; profuse sweat on soles. Aversion to meat and bread, longing for fat, APYREXIA: long-lasting cases with hepatic troubles and general cachectic condition.
Nux moschata Nux-m
Tertian or quartan, single or double. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST; skin cold and blue over whole body, (<) in open air, (>) in warm room coldness commences in left arm and lower limbs in paroxysms with sleepiness between attacks. HEAT WITH SLIGHT THIRST, drowsiness and deep sleep. DROWSINESS DURING SWEAT, cannot bear uncovering, though sweat is light. APYREXIA: nervous chills with diarrhoea, sticky dry lips and mouth, tongue adhering to roof of mouth.
Nux vomica Nux-v
All types at all times. CHILL VIOLENT, external heat with internal chill or vice versa; thirst slight or great thirst at the period of greatest coldness, but drinking water fails to relieve thirst, (>) after nap or good sleep. Anticipating type. Congestive chill, without thirst, shaking, with blue face and hands, vertigo, anguish, delirium, vivid visions, distended abdomen and stitches in sides and abdomen. IRREGULAR PAROXYSM, sweat, then chill, then sweat, or heat first, then chill, or external heat and internal chill; constant desire to be covered, even during heat and sweat; during CHILL skin, hands, feet and face blue, during HEAT burning of hands, ears, head and face, the least uncovering chills him, buzzing in ears, vertigo; DURING SWEAT chilliness from motion or allowing the air to touch him; sweat without thirst on one side or upper part of body, but eases all the pains in limbs. APYREXIA. gastric and bilious symptoms.
Opium Op
CONGESTIVE CHILLS, ESPECIALLY IN CHILDREN AND ELDERLY PEOPLE. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, followed by heat with deep soporous sleep, open mouth, twitching of limbs; spasmodic contraction of facial muscles, ending in hot profuse sweat, with desire to uncover; HEAT AND SWEAT INTERMINGLE, sweat does not relieve. Aversion to food; longing for spirituous liquors. APYREXIA: cerebral congestion with profound stupor; complete indifference; suppression of secretions.
Petroleum Petr
Quotidians, cold stage predominates, evening fevers. CHILLINESS without thirst, face cold; cheeks, fingers and nails blue, followed by violent itching of skin. During HEAT at night covering unbearable. Sweat of single parts at different times; sweat immediately after a chill, hot stage absent. Aversion to fat, meat and all warm-cooked food; ravenous hunger or no appetite.
Phosphoric acid Ph-ac
Periodicity not marked, cerebral symptoms predominant. CHILL without thirst, especially evening, with blue nails, tearing in wrists, cold finger tips and paretic feelings in arms; shaking chill followed by such great HEAT that he almost became unconscious, internal heat without being not to the touch. THIRST ONLY DURING SWEAT, profuse, clammy, exhausting morning sweat. APYREXIA: weakness and apathy.
Phosphorus Phos
Quotidian, same hour every day. CHILL without thirst, over whole trunk, not relieved by external covering, but aversion to covering, his limbs from knee down being icy-cold; HEAT AND SWEAT at night, with thirst, WITH RAVENOUS HUNGER WHICH COULD NOT BE APPEASED, AT NIGHT FEELS FAINT; thirst and wants something cold and refreshing which relieves till it gets warm in stomach, when it is ejected; hot flushes over whole body, beginning in hands. MORNING SWEAT, most profuse during sleep, exhausting, sometimes clammy; profuse sweat over body on slight exertion.
Plantago maj Plan
INTERMITTENTS WHICH RUN THEIR COURSE FOR MANY WEEKS OR MONTHS, either daily or at intervals, repeated every, 2, 3, 4, 7, or 14 days during daytime, in spite of any so-called febrifuge. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, (<) when moving about, hands and feet cold even in warm room. HEAT WITH THIRST, room seems hot and close, oppression of chest, rapid respiration, head feels hot, painful, dull and stupid, hands hot and clammy. SWEAT cold over lumbar and sacral region. APYREXIA: great mental depression, relaxation of the sphincter vesicae.
Plumbum Plb
Marsh intermittents with quotidian or double tertian type; splenic region painful to touch; chill with thirst and red face, (<) evening; heat with thirst, anxiety, red face and sleepiness; sweat clammy, cold; (<) in open air and when exercising.
Podophyllum Podo
Periodicity marked; morning paroxysms, about 7 A.M. Gastric and bilious symptoms, with backache, for days before paroxysm. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, but with great loquacity during chill and far into heat, with complete forgetfulness afterwards of all that passed, not relieved by heat of stove, but by covering up warmly in bed. HEAT WITH THIRST begins during chill; violent headache with excessive thirst; falls asleep at climax of heat and sleeps during most PROFUSE SWEAT, which relieves headache, APYREXIA: no appetite, even smell of food causes loathing; foul breath, profuse salivation; constipation, diarrhoea; prolapsus of rectum, of uterus.
Polyporus off Bol
(Boletus laricis).--Sporadic or endemic fevers at any season except fall. ALMOST CONTINUED FEVER, though it never runs very high; great languor and aching in all joints. CREEPING CHILLS along spine, between shoulder-blades, up the back to nape, intermingled with hot flushes; unusual chilliness in open air, with icy coldness of nose. HEAT WITH THIRST, face hot and flushed, with prickly sensation; hands, palms, feet hot and dry. SWEAT profuse after midnight in old chronic cases, otherwise light. APYREXIA: hepatic pains with jaundice, great lassitude, constipation and headache; food passes undigested.
Psorinum Psor
Periodicity of intermittents not marked. Cough returns every winter; attacks of other ailments return every day or every other day at the same hour. Where there is a want of vitality after severe attacks and the failure of treatment, it will clear up the case, even where Sulph. failed to give us the hunt. CHILL WITH THIRST, no upper arms and thighs, internal shivering with creeping chills and icy-cold feet; drinking causes cough. Evening HEAT, with delirium, great thirst, followed by PROFUSE sweat, (<) when walking, with consequent debility. APYREXIA: psoric symptoms; great sensitiveness to atmospheric changes; body and excretions have a filthy smell.
Pulsatilla Puls
NO TWO PAROXYSMS ALIKE, long chill, little heat, no thirst, stages apt to run into each other. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST at 4 P.M., vomiting of mucus when the chill comes on, dyspnoea; chilliness in spots flitting about; creeping chills over the back, over arms, with heat in face, the air of the room feels hot; cold hands and feet; they seem numb. HEAT WITH THIRST; anxious heat, as if dashed with hot water; intolerable burning heat in bed, wants to be uncovered; moans and groans, licks the lips, but does not drink. With objective and subjective heat there may be thirst; with only a sensation of heat, no thirst. SWEAT UNILATERAL, (<) at night and in the morning, ceases on waking. APYREXIA: gastric and bilious state, spleen enlarged and sensitive; constant chilliness during apyrexia; diarrhoea of glairy, watery stools; very well one hour, very miserable the next.
Rhus tox Rhus-t
All types, but evening paroxysm predominant. HOURS BEFORE CHILL DRY, TEASING, FATIGUING COUGH, continuing during the chill; gaping and profuse lachrymation before and during chill. Arm and leg of only one side (right) first feel the cold. SHAKING CHILL, even in a warm room or by a hot stove, with thirst and salivation, (>) by covering up and by sleep; chills mixed and irregular, severe, as if ice-water were dashed over him, or blood running cold through the vessels. Coldness when he moves, (<) by eating or drinking, when going from open air into a warm room. HEAT, as if dashed with hot water or as if hot water were running through the vessels. Urticaria over entire body, itching violently. Restless, constantly drinks little and often; shuddering on moving or uncovering. SWEAT profuse, odorless and not exhausting. Morning sweats on debilitating. Urticaria with violent itching, which passes off with the sweat; sweat over whole body, except face, or vice versa; sleep during sweat, which does not relieve all pains. APYREXIA: hydroa on upper lip; constant restlessness; rheumatic diathesis from getting wet after being heated; great sensitiveness to open air.
Sabadilla Sabad
PERIODICITY WELL MARKED, paroxysm returns at same hour with great regularity, but stages irregular, incomplete; quotidian tertian, quartan. CHILL without thirst and often without subsequent heat; violent chill over back as if dashed with cold water, (>) by warm stove, running from below upward; dry, spasmodic cough, with pain in ribs and tearing in all limbs and bones; thirst begins as chill leaves. HEAT WITH SLIGHTEST THIRST FOR WARM DRINKS, before heat begins, little after; SWEAT during heat, profuse about head and face, rest of body cool, sleep during sweat. APYREXIA: constant chilliness, bloated abdomen, sour eructations, debility.
Sambucus Samb
Irregular afternoon and evening fevers. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, creeping over body, though face is warm; hands and feet icy-cold, rest of body warm; spasmodic, deep, dry cough before and during chill. HEAT WITHOUT THIRST, with dread of uncovering, dry heat while he sleeps. PROFUSE SWEAT breaks out on the face, without thirst, while awake and extends all over body; on going to sleep the dry heat returns. APYREXIA: profuse, not weakening sweat continues, but may become debilitating by its frequency.
Sepia Sep
CLEARS UP MALARIOUS DIATHESIS IN CHRONIC CASES. Intermittent returning often during the day at indefinite periods. May show first general heat with sweat on face, violent thirst and bitter taste, then chill with general coldness even in the face, with inclination to vomit, pressure in forehead extending to temple, or CHILLINESS with thirst, (<) from motion, though in warm room, beginning in fingers and toes, in chest and between shoulder-blades, on back; icy-cold and damp feet all day, with deadness of the limbs. FLUSHES OF HEAT, as if hot water were poured over him, (>) from least exercise, heat ascends with vertigo, unable to collect his senses. SWEAT profuse in the morning after awaking, (<) from least mental or physical exertion; cold night-sweat from above downward to calves of leg. APYREXIA: bulimy or anorexia.
Spigelia Spig
PERIODICITY MARKED; morning quotidian at same hour; CHILLS creeping from different parts of body, especially from chest, least motion brings on a chill. HEAT IN FLUSHES, gradually spreading over whole body; thirst for beer, not for water. SWEAT putrid-smelling, cold all over body. APYREXIA: desire for stimulants in debilitated, nervous subjects.
Stannum Stann
CHILL only in head, running down back, preceded by heat with perspiration; slight chilliness with violent chattering of teeth; if a child it will rest on abdomen; feeling of weakness in chest after expectorating or talking, greenish sputa with a sweetish, rarely salty, taste, (<) mornings, lying on side or using voice; pains gradually increase and then gradually decrease; debility and prostration.
Staphisagria Staph
Ravenous hunger for days before intermittent, quotidian or tertian sets in. Predominating CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, without subsequent heat, (<) in a warm room; transient chills running down the back or ascending from neck over head and face. HEAT WITH THIRST at night, especially of hands and feet, must be uncovered; warm night-sweats on abdomen, feet, genitals; cold sweat on forehead and feet. APYREXIA: extreme hunger, even when stomach is filled with food, scorbutic symptoms, diarrhoea, bloated abdomen.
Stramonium Stram
Quotidian double quotidian, fever without chill at noon and midnight. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, running down the back as from cold water, extending over body, with red face, hot head and twitching of limbs, and excessive sensitiveness to uncovering; skin icy-cold, covered with cold sweat, hands and feet livid. HEAT WITH THIRST; dry, glowing heat over body with redness of head and face, with sweat at same time; heat of head and face, then coldness of whole body, then general heat with anguish, sleeps during heat, covers up closely; vertigo, delirium, epileptiform convulsions, SWEAT WITH THIRST, on forehead and face, rest of body red, hot and dry; oily sweat, cold sweats. During sweat good appetite, diarrhoea, bloated abdomen, colic.
Sulphur Sulph
CHRONIC MALARIAL CACHEXIA, with venous congestion, no reaction, stupid, constantly sinking. Sulphur possesses the power of eradicating the morbific principle which keeps up the ague. Periodical neuralgia, not affected by extremes of temperature. Quotidian, double quotidian, tertian at any time of day. CHILL WITHOUT THIRST, internal, with headache in the evening; chill and shivering over the whole body, not followed by heat and thirst, creeping up from sacrum to back, icy coldness of genitals, (>) by heat of stove. HEAT WITH THIRST, flushes of heat in face, burning heat of palms and soles, (>) by putting them out of bed, ending in moisture and faintness; alternate heat with chilliness. SWEAT profuse at night all over and restless sleep; sweat on slightest motion or manual labour; morning sweat, setting in after waking; sour sweat. APYREXIA: great prostration after every paroxysm, with thirst for beer, burning heat on vertex, early morning diarrhoea.
Tarentula hisp Tarent
Mostly quotidian; chill and heat alternating, followed by copious, sometimes cold and clammy sweat. Violent shaking chill, burning heat all over body, except the feet, which remain cold, considerable thirst, with repugnance to drink.
Thuja Thuj
Gonorrhoeal or sycotic contamination of the system; hydrogenoid constitution. Quotidian sometimes every day, especially 3 A.M. CHILL WITH THIRST, beginning in thighs, with blueness of nails, chattering of teeth, rapid and difficult respiration for half an hour, then thighs hot, like a glowing coal, with cold hands and feet, (<) motion. HEAT with thirst, neither preceded nor followed by chilliness; burning heat only in face and cheeks for whole day. SWEAT only on uncovered parts, or all over, except on head; sweat when he sleeps, stops when he awakes; sour-smelling of foetid sweat every night; scrotum, perineum and inner surface of thighs dripping with sweat. APYREXIA clear.
Valeriana Valer
Hysteria and neuralgia. CHILL short with thirst, begins in neck and runs downward, with fainting during chill. HEAT long-lasting, with thirst and headache, with restlessness and neuralgia of limbs. SWEAT profuse, especially at night, but not weakening, with violent thirst, (>) after sweating.
Veratrum alb Verat
PERNICIOUS CHOLERAIC INTERMITTENT FEVER. Periodicity marked, especially 6 A. M.; quotidian, tertian, quartan. CHILL with thirst, severe, long-lasting, congestive, not relieved by external warmth; internal chilliness, running from head to feet, with thirst, but coldness (<) by drinking, (>) by getting out of bed; face cold and collapsed, extremities cold, as if cold water were running through them. HEAT internal, with thirst for icy-cold drinks; heat ascends from extremities to head; redness and heat of face, with contracted pupils and cold feet. SWEAT without thirst, profuse, clammy and cold, with deathly-pale face; sweat often begins before chill and continues through paroxysm till next chill. Craves cold water, fruits, juicy food, wants everything cold. APYREXIA: general exhaustion and rapid sinking of strength, oppression of chest; deep sighing; face pale and cold, with sweat on forehead; fainting; cramps in stomach, abdomen and limbs; vomiting and diarrhoea.
Antimonium crud Ant-c
Chill towards noon with thirst for beer. Ice-cold feet with sweat on rest of body. Gastric ailments, white-coated tongue.
Apis mell Apis
Paroxysms well marked. Chill beginning in front of chest or in the knees, worse near the stove or in warm place. Chilliness renewed from slightest motion. Thirst during chill; continuous deep sleep during heat; sweat scanty or entirely absent; sensation of cold without coldness of skin.
Aranea diadema Aran
Insufficient calorification (<) in damp and rainy weather, from cold or warm baths. Chill at precisely the same hour daily; lasting chill with great thirst.
Arnica Arn
Yawning and much thirst, with copious drinking before the chill. Great soreness all over body; painfulness and drawing in the periosteum of all the bones. Head hot, rest of body cold, especially pit of stomach.
Arsenicum Ars
Chill and heat predominate, little or no sweat. During sweat no relief of symptoms, great thirst. Thirst with nausea and pain in stomach after drinking. Abuse of quinine.
Belladonna Bell
Violent headache with stupefaction. Chill and heat alternating. Frequent micturition.
Bryonia Bry
Chill predominates. Intense headache before the paroxysm, increasing during heat. Stitching pains in the chest. Patient feels better while lying on painful side. Gastric symptom; profuse sweat.
Cactus grand Cact
Paroxysms regular at 11 A.M. and 11 P.M. Urine suppressed. Coldness in back and cold hand.
Calcarea carb Calc
Thirst during chill and heat. Heat of face with ice-cold hands. Before the paroxysm drawing in all the joints, great heaviness of head and body. With people working much in cold water and damp places. Scrofulosis.
Calcarea phos Calc-p
Chills run up the back, terrible muscular jerks in body, which almost throw him off his chair.
Canchalagua Canch
Spring fever. Very severe chill. Washerwoman's hands; face, lips and hands very pale, Reported chills down the spine and all over, especially at night in bed.
Capsicum Caps
Chill with intense thirst, beginning between scapulae and spreading all over. Painful enlargement of spleen during the chill. Relief by putting hot things to the back during chill.
Carbo veg Carb-v
Headache continues after fever, sweat before chill; coldness from knees down. Chronic cases; irregular paroxysms. Flatulence.
Carduus mar Card-m
Intermittents with jaundice, painful liver, full feeling in it; stool void of bile and urine surcharged with bile.
Cedron Cedr
Febrile and neuralgic symptoms return with clocklike regularity; ague contracted in warm countries; congestion to head, flying dry heat of face alternating with chills; full, quick pulse.
China Chin
Marsh miasm. Paroxysms postpone or anticipate, last long. Patient hugs the fire during chill, but warmth does him no good; thirst between chill and heat and again during sweat; profuse weakening sweat, followed by great debility.
Chininum sulph Chin-s
Chills recur with clocklike regularity or anteponing; apyrexia clear.
Cimex Cimx
Clenching of hands as chill sets in and constricted feeling in oesophagus, with trouble in swallowing liquids.
Cina Cina
Face pale even during hot stage; vomiting, canine hunger and clean tongue.
Cornus flor Corn-f
Sleepiness long before chill; during chill feels warm to touch; heat with drowsiness, followed by profuse sweat.
Eupatorium perf Eup-per
Malaria. Chill in the morning one day, afternoon the next, preceded by thirst and bitter vomiting; drinking water makes him chilly; imperfect apyrexia.
Ferrum Ferr
Antidotes quinine: marked anaemia, face easily flushed, blood vessels throb; spleen enlarged; dropsy, especially about feet.
Gelsemium Gels
Nervous symptoms. Chill running upward from sacrum to occiput, wants to be held so that he will not shake so much; absence of all gastric and hepatic ailments.
Ignatia Ign
Thirst during chill, but relieved by artificial heat; no thirst during heat. Anteponing paroxysms.
Ipecacuanha Ip
After abuse of quinine with prevailing gastric symptoms. Constant nausea, violent retching before chill.
Lachesis Lach
Internal chill with external heat, beginning in back and shoulders; feet cold; during severe chill wants to be held or a weight put upon him; he wants to lie near the fire (Ign., wants to sit near the fire); loquacity during heat.
Lycopodium Lyc
Patient drowsy and stupid; coldness, as if lying on ice; one foot warm, the other cold; feels as if the blood ceased to circulate; desire for hot drinks.
Menyanthes Meny
Coldness of tip of nose, earlobes, tips of fingers and toes; hands and feet icy-cold, rest of body warm. In quartan fevers legs below knees icy-cold.
Mercurius Merc
Strong, foul-smelling perspiration; attacks at night in bed, heat. Pains all over the body, especially during chill; coldness about heart; perspiration profuse in the axilla and under the soles of the feet. Attacks in the forenoon, sometimes anticipating; fever-blisters.
Nux vomica Nux-v
Chill and heat mixed, one internal, the other external, or alternating; thirst for beer. Portal congestion. Apyrexia marked by gastric symptoms. Ague of nursing children.
Phosphorus Phos
Patient is very hungry, particularly at night, sometimes nearly amounting to bulimy.
Pulsatilla Puls
Constant chilliness, also during apyrexia, with absence of thirst during the attack, or thirst only during heat. Amenorrhoea. Attacks in afternoon or evening. Chilliness during hot stage on taking cover off.
Rhus tox Rhus-t
Chill begins in one leg, usually in the thigh or between scapulae, and dry, teasing cough before and during chill, no thirst, urticaria, fever-blisters.
Sambucus Samb
Shaking chills before going to bed. Dry heat, afraid to uncover. Very profuse sweat, exhausting, also continuing during apyrexia.
Silicea Sil
Scrofulous children; BURNING heat over the whole body; red, bloated face; bloated abdomen with constant diarrhoea. During apyrexia children very cross, cry on being touched or spoken to.
Veratrum Verat
Chilliness with great desire for cold drinks, which increase the chilliness. Cold, clammy sweat.
Veratrum vir Verat-v
May be of use during the hot stage, when the action is intense and the vascular system strongly excited.