Sticta Pulmonaria

▲   GENERAL

General

Offers a set of symptoms like coryza, bronchial catarrh and influenza, together with nervous and Rheumatic disturbances. There is a general feeling of dullness and malaise, as when a cold is coming on; dull, heavy pressure in forehead, catarrhal conjunctivitis, etc. Rheumatic stiffness of neck.

Dose

Tincture, to sixth potency.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, sudden changes of temperature.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Datura arborea - bougmancia candida (cannot concentrate thoughts; brain floats in thousands of problems and grand ideas. Floating sensation as if ideas were floating outside of brain. Headache, heartburn. Burning sensation around cardiac end of stomach, extending to oesophagus with sense of constriction. Heat and fullness over liver region.) Certraria - Cetrararia Islandica ^{Iceland Moss} (chronic diarrhoea, phthisis, bloody expectoration. Is used as a decoction and boiled with milk as an expectorant and nutrient in bronchorrhea, catarrh, etc.) Also compare: Eryng.; Drosera Rotundifolia ^Dros.; Stillingia Sylvatica ^Stilling.; Rumex Acetosa ^Rumex; Sambucus Nigra ^Sambucus.

▲   MIND

Mind

Feels as if floating in air ( datura arborea; Lac Caninum ^Lc">Lac)

Can.) Confusion of ideas; Patient must talk.

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions; floating in air (see vertigo, dizziness); bed suspended in air; is not resting in bed

Hysteria

Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating

Talking, conversation; talkative

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

When lying down; as if feet were going up

After sleep

▲   HEAD

Head

Burning in eyes and soreness of balls

Burning in eyelids.

Congestion (see pulsation); fullness; forehead

Headache

Dull headache, with dull heavy pressure in forehead and Root of nose

catarrhal headache before discharge appears

Pain, headache

with catarrh

eyes and vision (affecting or affected by); from light in general

on coughing

from emotions; nervous

with stomach complaints

hysterical headache

must lie down

from noises

rheumatic

in forehead

coughing

above root of nose

sides; one side

temples; intermitting

bursting; forehead; on coughing

pressing (see bursting, pulling); forehead

daytime

extending to above nose

Scalp

Sensation as if scalp were too small

▲   EYES

Eyes

Discharges of mucus or pus

Pain

during headache

on movement of eyes; sideways

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

sore, bruised, tender; moving the eyes

Tears; burning

▲   FACE

Face

Pain

sudden, sharp

sudden, sharp; left

▲   NOSE

Nose

Feeling of fullness at the root f the nose ( Nux Vomica ^Nux.) Atrophic rhinitis ( Calcarea Fluorata ^C-f">Calc)

Fluor.) Dryness of nasal membrane

constant need to blow the nose, but no discharge

Dry scabs, especially in evening and night

Nose bleed

Wants to blow nose constantly

Catarrh

dry, chronic

extending to frontal sinuses (lower forehead)

Discharge from nose

blood

copious

crusts, scabs, inside

hard to remove, and leave raw and sore

dries quickly, forming scabs

wearing away skin

glue-like

greenish

hard, dry

offensive smelling; from ulcer or disease of nasal bones

containing pus

behind nostrils (see catarrh)

Dryness

inside

inside; forced to blow nose, but no discharge

inside; painful

Sense of fullness; root

Itching; inside

Pain

from dryness

pressing; root

Picking nose

boring in, with fingers

constant desire

Tingling; inside; right

Discharge

Hay-fever; incessant sneezing ( Sabadilla ^Sabad.)

Running or blocked nose (coryza)

blocked

one-sided

right

night

night; wakes him

during sleep

at root

morning

afternoon

open air

annual (hay fever)

asthmatic breathing

dry

extending to frontal sinuses (lower forehead)

Sneezing

morning

frequent

hay fever with asthma

tingling in nose

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Pain

burning, raw and smarting

as if burnt

Taste

Taste

putrid

tasteless, lacks taste; tastelessness of food

Palate

Dryness

palate (roof of mouth)

palate (roof of mouth); soft palate (roof of mouth, back of mouth), like leather

▲   THROAT

Throat

Dryness

larynx

Irritation; trachea (wind pipe)

Mucus; pulled from behind nostrils

Pain

swallowing; on swallowing

burning; larynx

Tickling in the air passages

larynx

in trachea (wind pipe)

▲   CHEST

Chest

Anxiety; region of heart

Oppressed feeling

heart

Pain

breast bone; extending to back

aching

Respiration

Throat raw; dropping of mucus posteriorly

Dry, hacking cough during night; worse, inspiration

Tracheitis, facilitates expectoration

Loose cough in morning

Pain through chest from sternum to spinal column

Cough after measles ( Sanguinaria Canadensis ^Sang.); Worse towards evening and when tired

pulsation from right side of sternum down to abdomen.

Asthma attack; in hay fever

Difficult (dyspnea); night

▲   COUGH

Cough

Evening

Night

after midnight; until morning

Barking

Constant

night

Croupy

Dry cough

evening

lying down

and night, can neither sleep nor lie down

night

disturbing sleep

Exhausting cough

Hacking cough

Hard cough

When breathing; breathing in

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); with burning sensation; larynx

sensation of crawling

larynx

from irritation in air passages; in wind pipe

Loose

morning

night

less free during day

While lying down

evening

disturbs sleep

preventing sleep

With measles; after measles

Racking

evening

night

Short

Tickling

in bronchia

larynx

in wind pipe

Violent

Whooping

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage); dark

Copious

Frothy

Mucous

bloody

Scanty

Thick

ropy

stringy

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Pain

neck; rheumatic

dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades; between; extending to other parts; to back of neck

Back

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

dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades; between

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Diarrhoea; stools profuse, frothy; worse, morning

Urine increased, with soreness and aching in bladder.

Sensation of fullness; behind lower ribs; left

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Stool

Mucous, slimy

▲   GENITALS ETC

Genitals

Female; Scanty flow of milk.

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Rheumatic pain in right shoulder joint, deltoid, and biceps

Swelling, heat, redness of joints

Spot of inflammation and redness over affected joint

Pain severe and drawing

Chorea-like spasms; legs feel floating in air

Housemaid’S knee ( Rhus Tox ^Rhus.; KALI-Hyd.; SLAG.) Shooting pains in knees

Joints and neighboring muscles red, swollen, painful

Rheumatic pains precede catarrhal symptoms.

Heat; joints

Inflammation; fingers; nails; root of

Movements and positions

chorea (convulsive twitching, involuntary movements of limbs); legs

movement of leg; involuntary

night

Sensation of lightness

lower limbs

as if floating in air

Pain

rheumatic

joints; rheumatic

upper limbs; morning

upper limbs; rheumatic

shoulder; night

shoulder; rheumatic

upper arm; biceps; after lifting

upper arm; back part

upper arm; triceps

wrist; rheumatic

fingers; second finger; joints; middle

knee

movement

rheumatic

ankle

rheumatic

toes

rheumatic

stitching, sudden, sharp; joints

stitching, sudden, sharp; upper limbs

stitching, sudden, sharp; fingers; joints

stitching, sudden, sharp; thigh

stitching, sudden, sharp; knee

stitching, sudden, sharp; leg; right

stitching, sudden, sharp; toes

Perspiration; hand

Skin; bursae (like bags on skin bursae)

Stiffness

joints

hand

knee; after sitting

foot

Swollen

joints

hand

ankle

foot

Weakness; upper limbs

▲   GENERALITIES

Generalities

Evening

Night

Full feeling; internally

Knotted sensation internally (see ball, sensation of)

Lying down

lying down

lying in bed

Pain

pressing; externally

pressing; internally

pressing; as from load

sudden, sharp; transversely

Twitching; twitching, involuntary movements (chorea); rheumatic

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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