Ailanthus

▲   GENERAL

General

Ailanthus shows by its peculiar skin symptoms its pronounced power of disorganizing the blood, causing conditions we meet with in low fevers, low types of eruptive diseases, diphtheria, Follicular tonsillitis, Streptococcus infection. Hemorrhagic diathesis, etc. The skin appears livid or purplish;face dark as mahogany, hot; sordes; throat swollen, purple, livid; semi-conscious, delirious; weak pulse, general torpor and prostration. Symptoms remarkably alike to malignant scarlatina. Diarrhoea, dysentery and Great weakness are very marked Adynamia characterizes all its conditions. Lividity, stupor and malignancy. Mucous membranes hemorrhagic and ulcerative (Lachesis ^Lach. Ars.)

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Ammonium Carbonicum ^Am-c.; Baptisia Tinctoria ^Bapt.; Arnica ^Arn.; Muriaticum Acidum ^Mur-ac.; Lachesis ^Lach.; Rhus Tox ^Rhus-t.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Rhus Tox ^Rhus; Nux Vomica ^Nux-v.

▲   MIND

Mind

Aversions, dislikes; indolence, aversion to work

Delirium

maniacal

muttering

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

creatures and animals; rats; running across the room

environment and surroundings; unreal, everything seems

As if in a dream

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

impatience; impetuous; heedless

indifference, apathy, etc.

to everything

irritability

unhappy; lamenting, regretting; moaning, groaning; during sleep

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting)

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating

impaired thinking; confusion

impaired thinking; mistakes; in calculating

Insanity

mania, madness

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

anxiety; morning

Memory

weakness of memory

weakness of memory; for people

Perception; everything seems unreal

Restlessness, nervousness

morning

Sighing (see respiration)

Talking, conversation; muttering (see delirium)

Unconsciousness

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Morning

During headache

As if intoxicated

From movement

With nausea

On rising

While standing; with staggering

On stooping

With vomiting

▲   HEAD

Head

General stupor, with sighing

Confused mind, mental depression

Suffused, dilated eyes; photophobia

Face dusky

Thin, Copious, ichorous, bloody nasal discharge.

Congestion (see pulsation); fullness

fullness; after drinking wine

Constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing); forehead

temples

Hot; burning

Prickling; temples

Pulsating

back of head (occiput)

Headache

Headache, frontal, with drowsiness

Passive congestion headaches

Heaviness (see pain

pressing)

pressing); pressure

pressing); forehead

Pain, headache

morning

on waking

afternoon; 1 p.m.

from emotions; nervous

with stomach complaints

while lying down; while lying on back

with other pains; pain in back

with other pains; pain in neck

after sleep

in forehead

afternoon

pressure

above eyes

middle

back of head (occiput)

after sleep

temples

morning; on waking

burning

cutting, darting, stabbing

back of head (occiput)

temples

pulling

dull pain

piercing, stabbing (see cutting); temples

shooting (see cutting, piercing, stabbing, shocks, stitches, etc.); back of head (occiput)

tearing, rending

evening

back of head (occiput)

Shocks, blows, jerks, etc. (see jerking pain, pulsation, plug, nail); like electric shocks

extending to extremities

▲   EYES

Eyes

Eyebrows; hair falling from brows

Lids; stuck together; morning

Cornea (transparent part of eye); rough; sensation on winking

Discoloration; redness

Discharges of mucus or pus; from out-breaks on skin

Inflammation; wounds; conjunctiva (external lining of eye)

Pain

aching

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

during headache

Intolerance of light (photophobia)

Pupils

dilated

dilated; during heat

Tears

from light

bright light

open air

Wild look

Vision

Accommodation, movement of eyeball; defective

Blurred

figures

letters

Colours and shapes in front of eyes; flashes; on closing the eyes

Dim

▲   EARS

Ear

Sensation of air

blowing sensation in ear

blowing sensation in ear; right

Noises in ear

music

ringing

right

Pain

on swallowing

Skin

discoloration; redness

discoloration; redness; when touched or scratched

▲   FACE

Face

Enlarged gland; in front of ear lobe

Expression

anxious

besotted

distressed

frightened; when aroused

Heat

morning

Lips

cracked lips

out-breaks on lips

Pain

while lying down

pressure

sore, bruised; parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe)

tearing; lying

tearing; walking

Skin

discoloration; bluish

discoloration; bluish; spots

discoloration; bluish; circles around eyes

discoloration; dark

discoloration; mottled

discoloration; pale

discoloration; red

morning

during headache

mahogany red

spots (see skin)

chin

discoloration; sallow

discoloration; yellow

out-breaks on skin

crusty, scabby; nose

like millet seeds

rash

rash; forehead

red; erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

blisters; lips

blisters; lips; lower

ulcers; corners of mouth

Swelling

lips

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe)

▲   NOSE

Nose

Nose bleed

Catarrh

Discharge from nose

blood

copious

crusts, scabs, inside

grey

wearing away skin

greenish; greenish pus

containing pus

late morning

suppressed

watery

Dryness; inside

Itching

Pain

rawness

rawness; with running nose

rawness; nostrils

Skin or lining of nose; discoloration; redness; inside

Smell; lost sense of smell

Discharge

Running or blocked nose (coryza)

blocked

annual (hay fever)

chronic, long-continued

running, wet

during scarlet fever

Sneezing

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Bleeding; oozing of blood

Lining; excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed)

Pain

burning, raw and smarting

sore

Gums and teeth

Bleeding; gums

Teeth

mucus on teeth (see deposits on teeth during illness)

pain

evening

pressure

stitching, sudden, sharp, stinging; left

stitching, sudden, sharp, stinging; left; upper and lower, worse lying down, forcing to walk, relieved by external pressure

tearing

tearing; evening

deposits on teeth during illness (see mucus)

Saliva

Saliva

mucus, slime; ropy (see also saliva)

mucus, slime; thick and sticky

Tongue

Cracked; tongue

Discoloration

tongue; brown

tongue; pale

tongue; white

centre; dark brown

Dryness; tongue

Pain; tongue; warmth

Taste

Taste

bitter

flavourless

after drinking water

▲   THROAT

Throat

Inflamed, edematous, dusky red

Much swelling, internal and external

Dry, rough, scraping, choking feeling

Neck tender and swollen

Hoarse, croupy voice

Tongue dry and brown

teeth covered with sordes

pain in swallowing extends to the ears.

Choking, constricting; closing sensation

Discoloration

pale

purple

redness

dark red

Dryness

morning

Sensation of something in throat

lump

Fullness

Gangrene

Hawks often

morning

Inflammation

follicular

tonsils

Irritation

Membrane, exudation, diphtheria, etc.

deep-seated

patches

small (specks)

tonsils

Mucus

greenish

Pain

on breathing in

swallowing; on swallowing

swallowing; swallowing empty

extending to ear; on swallowing

sore

Roughness

morning

Scraping; morning

Sensitive; to air

Swelling

fluid accumulation

Tickling in the air passages; in trachea (wind pipe)

Thick sensation

Ulcers

throat at back of mouth

tonsils

Voice

croupy

lost

morning; on walking

External throat

sensitive to air

goitre

pain; soreness; cervical glands (on side of neck)

pain; soreness; thyroid gland

swelling

sides

thyroid gland

▲   CHEST

Chest

Clothing

Constriction, tension

heart

Fullness

expectoration

Oppressed feeling

Pain

during a cough

collar bone

below collar bone

heart

aching

below collar bone

heart

burning

during coughing

sides

pressing

stitching, sudden, sharp

collar bone; under

collar bone; under; extending to breast bone

Weakness

Respiration

Hurried breathing, irregular

Dry, hacking cough

Lungs sore and tired.

Accelerated

Deep

Difficult (dyspnea)

expectoration

Irregular

Wheezing

▲   COUGH

Cough

Daytime

Morning

after rising

on waking

Evening

Constant

Cough from deep down

Dry cough

On exertion; physical exertion

Exhausting cough

Expectoration

Hacking cough

Oppressive cough

Painful to cough

Before getting out of bed

Tickling; in wind pipe

On waking

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Daytime only

Morning

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage)

morning

White

Yellow

morning

Copious

Difficult

Easy

daytime

Flakes

Lumpy

Mucous; bloody

Containing pus

Scanty

Noticeable taste; bitter

Thick; and sticky

▲   SKIN

Skin

Miliary, livid rash, returns annually

Large blisters filled with dark serum

Irregular, patchy, livid eruption, disappearing on pressure

Cold

Raynaud’s disease.

Blisters; filled with blood

Coldness

Discoloration; bluish

Itching

night

Out-breaks on skin

blue, dark

patches

rash (see granular)

bluish

patches

scarlet fever

gangrenous

in patches

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Pain

neck

neck; during chill

pulling; neck

Skin; itching; neck; night

Back

Pain

dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades; right

movement of arm

dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades; left; under

dorsal (shoulder level); spine

sacrum (base of spine)

spine

irritation; dorsal (shoulder level)

aching

dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades; between them

dorsal (shoulder level); spine

cutting

sacrum (base of spine)

sacrum (base of spine); hips and base of spine

pressing; dorsal (shoulder level); spine

stitching, sudden, sharp, shooting

Skin; itching; night

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Sensation as if diarrhoea would come on

Bloated; trapped wind

As if intestines were loose

Noises from abdomen; rumbling

Pain

aching, dull pain (see boring, pulling, distress, digging, gnawing, biting, pressing, etc.)

as if diarrhoea would come on

before stool

lower part of abdomen

burning

cramping, griping

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.; behind lower ribs

Relaxed feeling

Bladder

urination; frequent; night

urination; involuntary, incontinence

urination; unconscious; no feeling in urethra (urinary part of genitals)

Kidneys; suppression of urine

Stomach

appetite; capricious (hunger, but knows not for what, or refuses things when offered)

appetite; increased (hunger in general)

during chill

appetite; lacking, no appetite

morning

desires, cravings; alcoholic drinks; brandy

desires, cravings; cold drinks

emptiness, weak feeling, faintness, hungry feeling

during chill

burping, belching; sour

inactivity

pain

burning

sudden, sharp

retching

sinking (see emptiness)

thirst

while eating

Eating

desires, cravings; raw food

vomiting; food

during chill

Nausea

nausea

morning; on waking

feeling in abdomen

during headache

in women; during pregnancy

Vomiting

vomiting; during chill

vomiting; during vertigo, dizziness

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Constipation; alternating with diarrhoea

Haemorrhoids; hard

Involuntary stool; while urinating

Itching; like insects crawling on skin in anus

Prolapse

kneeling

during stool

Worm; tape worm (flat worm)

Stool

Bloody

Forcible, sudden, gushing

Frequent

Mucous, slimy; bloody

Odour; offensive

Soft

Watery

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Strong and sharp (acrid)

Scanty

Urethra

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); numbness; sensation absent, when urinating

Male

Male

pain; smarting; penis; foreskin

pain; sore; penis; foreskin

ulcers; penis

foreskin

Menses

Female; period; copious

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Sensation of something alive

leg; feels a rat running up the leg

leg; feels snake crawling up legs

Heaviness; tired limbs

Movements and positions

jerking; during sleep

trembling; leg

Numbness (see tingling)

upper limbs

left

forearm

fingers

lower limbs

leg

Pain

hip

foot

left

aching; shoulder

aching; lower limbs; hip

burning; shoulder; beneath

burning; hand; palm

burning; foot; sole

shooting (see stitching, sudden, sharp); shoulder

shooting (see stitching, sudden, sharp); hip

sore, bruised; forearm

stitching, sudden, sharp; shoulder

stitching, sudden, sharp; lower limbs

stitching, sudden, sharp; hip

stitching, sudden, sharp; foot

sole

stitching, sudden, sharp; toes

Restlessness

lower limbs

Shocks

sensation of electrical current (see shocks)

Skin

out-break on skin; fingers; around nails; blisters

out-break on skin; fingers; tips of; blisters

out-break on skin; thumb; tip of

blisters

Tension, tightness

foot

foot; on walking

Thrilling sensation (see shuddering); tips of fingers

Tingling, prickling, asleep (see numbness); upper limbs

upper limbs

morning

on waking

hand

fingers

morning; on waking

foot

toes

Weakness; lower limbs

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Chilliness (see also whole body; temperature); with perspiration

Sensation of cold water; dashed over him

Morning

Continued fever

with skin out-break

Feverish heat only during the day

Dry heat

morning

Fever with skin out-break; scarlet fever

External heat

Stages of chill, heat and sweat; heat followed by chill

▲   GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Lethargic, tired

Sleep and dreams

Drowsy, restless

Heavy, disturbed, unrefreshing.

Deep

Disturbed

Heavy

Position; on side; right

Sleepiness, tiredness

morning

late morning

afternoon

1 to 2 p.m.

during headache

after drinking wine

Not refreshing

Perspiration

Cold

with nausea and vertigo, dizziness

Generalities

Lying down; lying on side; on left side

Numbness; externally

Pain; pressing; internally

Prickling

externally

internally

Pulse

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid; morning

Electric-like shocks

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); hot feeling; flushes of heat

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

from slight exertion

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