Leptomeningitis
Aconite Acon
After a sudden check of perspiration or internal injury, high fever; crawling in spine, as of beetles; cutting pain, extending into the lower limbs, arms hang down powerless, as if paralyzed by blows, numbness, icy insensibility of hands and feet; despair and dread of death.
Belladonna Bell
(Atropinum). Burning and throbbing pain in spine; convulsions; drowsiness; with inability to sleep; frequent startings, as if electric shocks were running through limbs.
Bryonia Bry
Stitch-like pains from slightest motion; rheumatic stiffness and tension in nape of neck and back; stitches from; left scapula through to heart; pain through thorax extending to lower portion of sternum. pain in small of back, which makes walking and turning difficult, as if buried, when lying upon it.
Calcarea carb Calc
Rheumatic pain in upper cervical vertebrae, with stiffness of neck; OVERSTRAIN FROM LIFTING MAKES NECK STUFF AND RIGID, with headache, swelling and incurvation of vertebrae of neck and back; rheumatism of lumbar vertebrae, with boring, tearing, burning pains, extending downward, with inclination to move.
Cicuta Cic
Frequent jerks in upper portion of body, through the dorsal vertebrae and arms; occasional jerks of the head.
Cocculus Cocc
Unwieldiness of lower extremities, legs cannot be lifted in walking, but are dragged along, hands pithy, lose their sensibility.
Cuprum Cupr
Clonic spasms, commencing in fingers and toes and spreading upward; preceded by painful jerkings in hands and fingers are different parts of body; left side more.
Hypericum Hyper
After a fall, slightest motions of arms and neck extort cries; cervical vertebrae very sensitive to touch; desire for warm drinks, headache; asthmatic spells of short, hacking cough,
Mercurius Merc
Paralysis of lower extremities, of bladder or rectum, with occasional jerks in paralyzed parts; violent pains in spine, (<) from motion; insomnia and restlessness; (<) at night in bed; insensibility of skin.
Nux vomica Nux-v
Lumbar pains (<) when trying to move whilst lying on back and mornings; stiffness of lower limbs; stomach and liver sensitive to pressure; constipation.
Plumbum Plb
Chronic cases; atrophy of affected parts and contractions.
Rhus tox Rhus-t
Spinal membranes inflamed from getting wet or sleeping on damp ground, pains (>) from lying upon something hard, swelling and stiffness of joints from sprains, overlifting, etc.
Secale corn Sec
Tenderness of lower cervical and upper dorsal vertebrae, with stiffness of neck, tingling in back, extending to fingers and toes; pressure upon affected parts causes pain there and through chest, (<) from every exertion or strain upon spine.