Sinapis Nigra

▲   GENERAL

General

Is of use in hay-fever, coryza, and pharyngitis. Dry nares and pharynx, with thick, lumpy secretion. Small-pox.

Dose

Third potency.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

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Compare: Sulphur ^Sulph.; Capsicum Annuum ^Capsic.; Colocynthis ^Colocy.; Sinapis Alba ^{Sinapis Alba} - Sinapis Alba ^{White Mustard} - (throat symptoms marked; especially Pressure and burning, with obstruction in esophagus; sensation of a lump in oesophagus behind the Manubrium Sterni and with much eructation; similar symptoms in rectum). Mustard oil by inhalation (acts on the sensory nerve endings of the trigeminal. Relieves pain in middle ear disease and in painful conditions of nose, nasal cavities, and tonsils.)

▲   MIND

Mind

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

irritability

unhappy; discontent, displeased, dissatisfied, etc.

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

From movement

In aged people

▲   HEAD

Head

Sweat on upper lip and forehead

Tongue feels blistered.

Headache

Pain, headache

air; cold air

air; open (see walking in open air)

affected by certain foods and drinks (improved, brought on or aggravated); eating

when thinking of pain

walking; while walking

warm room

in forehead; evening

in forehead; night

in forehead; when indoors; in a warm room

in forehead; above eyes; above right then left

in forehead; above eyes; when stooping

Scalp

Scalp hot and itches

Skin and scalp; perspiration; forehead

▲   EYES

Eyes

Itching; lids

Pain

closing

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

sore, bruised, tender

stitching, sudden, sharp; afternoon

Tears

left

with running nose

Weak

afternoon

▲   FACE

Face

Perspiration; upper lip

Skin

shrivelled (see wrinkled)

wrinkled

Sunken

▲   NOSE

Nose

Mucus from posterior nares feels COLD

Scanty, ACRID discharge

Nostrils alternately stopped

Dryness of anterior nares.

Nose bleed

Discharge from nose

blood

wearing away skin

scanty

thick

thin

watery

white

yellow

behind nostrils (see catarrh)

Dryness

inside

inside; left

inside; swallowing

behind nostrils

In heat; tip; evening

Itching; inside

Pain; burning, smarting

Skin or lining of nose; discoloration; redness; wings

Discharge

Stoppage of left nostril all day, or in afternoon and evening

Dry, hot, with lachrymation, sneezing; hacking cough; better lying down

Dryness; inside; alternating with discharge from sides (see running or blocked nose)

Running or blocked nose (coryza)

blocked

one-sided; left

blocked; alternating sides

blocked; sensation as if blocked; with watery discharge

blocked; at root

afternoon

evening

annual (hay fever)

asthmatic breathing

running, wet

while lying down

sitting up

during wet weather

Sneezing

morning

night

while lying down

hay fever with asthma

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Growths, blisters, swellings

ulcers

ulcers; burning

Odour (halitosis, bad breath); garlicky

like onions

Pain

burning, raw and smarting; extending to stomach

sore

Sensitive

food and drink unbearable

Gums and teeth

Bleeding; gums

Pain; sore; gums

Swelling; gums

Teeth

sensitive, tender; to air

sensitive, tender; to cold; in filled tooth

Saliva

Dryness

Saliva; alkaline

Salivation

Tongue

Cracked; tongue; centre

Discoloration

tongue; black

tongue; white; centre

tongue; yellow; base

Dryness; tongue

Growths, blisters, swellings

blisters; tongue; tip; sensation of cyst on tip of tongue

ulcers; tongue

Heat; tongue; edges and tip

Pain

burning, raw and smarting; tongue

as if burnt; tongue

sore; tongue

tip

Saliva; sticky, thick and sticky; tongue

Taste

Taste; bad

▲   THROAT

Throat

Feels scalded, hot, inflamed

Asthmatic breathing

Loud coughing-spells with barking expiration.

Sensation of something in throat; trachea (wind pipe)

Mucus; pulled from behind nostrils

Voice; nasal

▲   CHEST

Chest

Catarrh

Oppressed feeling

night

heart

Pain

night

wandering

heart

region of heart

stitching, sudden, sharp

heart

Respiration

Cough is relieved by lying down.

Asphyxia

Asthma attack

in hay fever

▲   COUGH

Cough

Daytime; only

Evening

7 or 8 p.m.

7 to 8 p.m.

In cold air

Eating

Hacking cough

evening

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); sensation of foreign body in throat; in wind pipe

scraping; from larynx

When laughing

Lying down

Short

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Lumpy

In masses

Mucous

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Rheumatic pain in intercostal and lumbar muscles; sleeplessness from pain in back and hips.

Heat; spine

Pain

evening

on movement

lumbar (lower half of back)

evening

aching; lumbar (lower half of back); night; on going to bed

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Offensive breath, smelling like onions ( Asa Foetida ^Asaf.; Armorac.) Burning in stomach, extending up oesophagus, throat, and mouth, which is full of canker sores

Colic; pains come on while bent forward; better, sitting up straight

Urinary Organs.

Pain in bladder, frequent COPIOUS flow day and night.

Swelling; groin region; glands

Bladder; pain; morning

Stomach

burping, belching; evening

burping, belching; loud

fullness; after drinking

pain; while sitting; sitting bent over

Eating

aversion to certain foods or drinks; sweets

vomiting; after eating; fatty food

Eructation

Hot sour eructations

Nausea

Sweat better when nausea comes on.

Stomach

nausea; evening

nausea; before eating; before breakfast

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Urging, desire to stool (see pain; urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing); constant

Worm

complaints

worms

Stool

Odour; offensive

▲   GENITALS ETC

Genitals

Male

erections; night

erections; continued; night

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Cramps; calf

Pain

hip

hip; night

hip; rheumatic

lower leg; calf

ankle

aching; shoulder

aching; leg

calf

aching; ankles

pulling; upper arm

Skin

felon (whitlow, onychia, paronychia, foot rot, etc.); run-around; lymphatics inflamed

ulcers; lower limbs

ulcers; leg

Swollen; foot; fluid accumulation

Weakness

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Disturbed; by dreams

Dreams

amorous

of dead people

devils

frightful

robbers

Short

Sleeplessness, insomnia

Convulsions

Convulsions

Generalities

Afternoon

Evening

Night

Faintness, fainting

Lying down; after lying down

Pain; burning externally; internally

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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