Yellow Dock. JOSLIN Polygonaceae.
Mind
Low-spirited: with serious expression of face; with suicidal mood.
Irritable. Disinclined to mental exertion.
Inner Head
Headache after waking in morning, preceded by a disagreeable dream.
Dull pains: on right side; in occiput; in forehead.
Darting pain, or sharp piercing in left side of head.
Eyes
Pain in eyes, as from dryness; lids inflamed, worse in the evening.
Ears
Ringing in the ears.
Itching deep in ears.
Nose
Epistaxis, violent sneezing and painful irritation of nostrils.
Nose obstructed; dry sensation, even in posterior nares. Fluent coryza., with sneezing; worse evening and night. Yellow mucus,. discharged through posterior nares.
Face
Heat of face, redness worse evenings; dull headache.
Tongue etc.
Bitter taste( morning).
Dry tongue and mouth: tongue feels as if burned.
Tongue coated white, yellowish- brown or reddish brown. Sudden change of voice at different times,. or at same time on each day; or with the cough.
Throat
Excoriated feeling in throat, with secretion of mucus in upper part of throat.
Sensation of a lump in throat, not relieved by hawking or swallowing, it descends on deglutition, but immediately returns.
Aching in larynx, with collection of tough mucus in fauces.
Eating and Drinking
After meals; flatulency (1): heaviness in stomach or epigastrium,; aching in left breast: pressure and distention in stomach.
Nausea and Vomiting
Nausea at night, before diarrhoea.
Stomach
Shooting from pit of stomach to chest; sharp in left chest; slight nausea; dull aching in forehead.
Aching and shooting in pit of stomach, and above it, on each side of sternum.
Sensation of fulness and pressure in pit of stomach, up into throat.
Tight, suffocative,. heavy ache in epigastrium, through to back; clothes seem too tight; weak feeling in epigastrium, all worse when talking; frequently task’s long breath.
Hypochondria
Pain in hypochondrium from coughing., rapid walking or deep
inspiration.
Abdomen
Griping near navel, partially relieved by discharge of offensive flatus flatulent colic soon after a meal.
Pain occurring, or worse during deep inspiration.
Sensation of hardness and fullness in the abdomen, with rumbling.
Stool etc.
Stools: painless, offensive, profuse; brown or black, thin or watery; preceded by pain in abdomen; before stool, sudden urging, driving him out of bed in morning.
Morning diarrhoea, with cough from tickling in throat-pit.
Feces hard, tough, brown; costive.
Itching at anus, with discharge of offensive flatus.
Sensation as from pressure of a stick in rectum.
Urine
Sudden urging.
Involuntary micturition, with cough.
Copious, colorless urine, in afternoon.
Larynx
Tenacious mucus in throat or larynx, constant desire to hawk.
Hoarseness, worse evenings; voice uncertain.
Breathing
Frequent feeling as if she could not get another breath.
Suffocating feeling even down to epigastrium, as if tough phlegm must work up, with the cough; despair, even to suicidal feeling; prostrate, tearful, after attack.
Cough
Hoarse barking cough; in attacks, every night at 11 P.M. and at 2 and 5 A.M.(children).
Cough, with pain behind mid-sternum.
Dry, incessant; fatiguing cough, caused by tickling in the throat-pit extending to behind sternum and to stomach. Soreness in larynx and behind sternum; rawness under clavicles; pain in stomach; stitches in left lung. Cough worse from changing rooms, evening after lying down; touching and pressing trachea or throat-pit, from the slightest inhalation of cool air, he covers his head with bed-clothes, to make the air warmer.
Hawking with burning soreness in larynx; later in left bronchus, renewed by strong exhalation and scrapping.
Lungs
Aching over anterior portion of both lungs.
Burning-sticking or burning-stinging pain in left chest near heart; worse from deep breathing and lying down in bed at night. Rheumatism.
Burning, shooting pain in right chest.
Sharp pain near left axilla.
Soreness behind stomach when breathing.
Heart Pulse
Heart feels as if it suddenly stopped beating, followed by a heavy throbbing through the chest.
Burning in region of heart; stinging;worse when lying down and breathing deeply.
Aching in heart, with throbbing of carotids and through body, shaking the bed; dyspnoea;worse when lying, had to sit up; face red, puffed, worse about eyes, which were red, lustreless.
Pulse accelerated, mostly when going up stairs.
Neck Back
Pressing-aching in back, at lower border of scapula.
Sore or burning pain near sacro-iliac symphysis.
upper Limbs
Pains in shoulder down to elbow; arms feel strained.
Hands cold, when coughing.
Lower Limbs
Stitching in back of right hip; limping walk.
Legs ache.
Stitch-like pain in knee-joint, when standing,.
Legs covered with small, red pimples.
Feet cold.
Feet sensitive; Stinging in corns.
Position etc.
Mental exertion: Walking:. Ascending stairs: Lying down: Standing:. Must sit up Talking:,.
Nerves
Great debility: averse to work; indifferent about his surroundings.
Sleep
Unquiet sleep, dreams of danger and trouble.
Wakes early, with headache.
Time
Morning:, Afternoon: 2 Evening: Night:, 11 P.M.: 2 and 5 A.M.: Same time each day:.
Temperature and Weather
Generally worse: from cool change of weather when riding in cold wind; in cold, damp, raw weather.
Covering head (warmth): Uncovering or undressing: Cool air: Changing rooms: Exposure to cool air:.
Chill Fever Sweat
Chilly, worse on back; colic, nausea, stitches near middle of chest.
Sensation of heat, followed by that of cold, without shivering.
Flushes of heat worse on cheeks.
Sweat on waking from a sound sleep.
Sides
Right: Left: Below up. Above down:.
Contact Injuries etc.
Touch or pressure:,.
Skin
Itching in various parts., worse on lower limbs while undressing.
Stinging-itching, or prickling-itching of skin.
Vesicular eruption, itching when uncovered and exposed to cool air.
