China officinalis

As if skull would burst. Sensation as if brain were balancing to and fro, and striking against skull, receiving great pain. Intense throbbing of head and carotids. Spasmodic headache in vertex, with subsequent pain, as if bruised in sides of head. Face flushed after haemorrhages, or sexual excesses, or loss of vital fluids. Relieved from pressure and warm room. Scalp sensitive; worse combing hair. Aches worse in open air, from temple to temple. Worse by contact, current of air, stepping. Dizzy when walking.

Blue color around eyes. Hollow eyes. Yellowish sclerotica. Spots before eyes. Sensitive to light. Distortion of eyeballs. Intermittent ciliary neuralgia. Pressure in eyes. Amaurosis; scalding watering eyes.

Ringing in ears. External ear sensitive to touch. Hearing sensitive to noise. Lobules red and swollen.

Checked mucus discharge. Easily bleeding from nose, especially on rising. Runny nose (cold), sneezing, watery discharge. Violent dry sneezing. Cold sweat about nose.

Sallow complexion. Face bloated; red.

Toothache; better pressing teeth firmly together, and by warmth. Tongue coated thick, dirty; tip burns, succeeded by excess saliva. Bitter taste. Food tastes too salty.

Tender, cold. Vomiting of undigested food. Slow digestion. Weight after eating. Ill effects of tea. Hungry without appetite. Flat taste. Darting pain crosswise in hypogastric region. Milk disagrees. Hungry longing for food, which lies undigested. Gas; belching of bitter fluid or regurgitation of food gives no relief; worse eating fruit. Hiccough. Bloatedness better by movement.

Much flatulent colic; better bending double. Tympanitic abdomen. Pain in right hypochondrium. Gall-stone colic. Liver and spleen swollen and enlarged. Jaundice. Internal coldness of stomach and abdomen. Gastro-duodenal mucus discharge.

Undigested, frothy, yellow; painless; worse at night, after meals, during hot weather, from fruit, milk, beer. Very weakening, with much gas. Difficult even when soft.

Excited lascivious fancy. Frequent emissions, followed by great weakness. Orchitis.

Menses too early. Dark clots and abdominal distention. Profuse menses with pain. Desire too strong. Bloody white vaginal discharge. Seems to take the place of the usual menstrual discharge. Painful heaviness in pelvis.

Influenza, with debility. Cannot breathe with head low. Labored, slow respiration; constant choking. Suffocative mucus discharge; rattling in chest; violent, hacking cough after every meal. Haemorrhage from lungs. Dyspnoea, sharp pain in left lung.

Irregular with weak rapid beats followed by strong, hard beats. Suffocative attacks, syncope; anaemia and fluid swelling (oedema).

Sharp pains across kidneys, worse movement and at night. Knife-like pains around back. (D. MacFarlan.)

Pains in limbs and joints, as if sprained; worse, slight touch; hard pressure relieves. Sensation as of a string around limb. Joints swollen; very sensitive, with dread or open air. Great debility, trembling, with numb sensation. Averse to exercise; sensitive to touch. Weariness of joints; worse, mornings and when sitting.

Extreme sensitiveness to touch, but hard pressure relieves. Coldness; much sweat. One hand ice cold, the other warm. Anasarca. Dermatitis; erysipelas. Indurated glands; scrofulous ulcers and caries.

Drowsiness. Unrefreshing or constant stupor. Wakens early. Protracted sleeplessness. Anxious, frightful dreams with confused consciousness on waking, so that the dream cannot be rid of and fear of dream remains. Snoring, especially with children.

Intermittent, paroxysms anticipate; return every week. All stages well marked. Chill generally in forenoon, commencing in breast; thirst before chill, and little and often. Debilitating night-sweats. Free perspiration caused by every little exertion, especially on single parts. Hay fever, watery runny nose (cold), pain in temples.