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with a copious flux. Extreme rawness in the larynx and trachea; burning and smarting; unable to endurepressure on the throat pit. . Must sit without motion; cannotbreathe deeply, hurriedly or irregularly because the burning is so much increased by any change inbreathing. If he steps into the open air a paroxysmal cough takes his breath away; or if he passes fromthe open air into a warm room the same paroxysmal cough comes on. The paroxysm is so violent thatin the morning, when he has a loose stool, he will pass it involuntarily with the cough. The urine alsopasses away with the cough. The headache returns when the discharges slack up.A striking feature is pain under the clavicle; a sense of rawness under the clavicle; as if the partsinside were raw; as if the air came directly under the clavicle, producing rawness and burning. Rawnessand burning from the inhalation of air."Nose obstructed; dry sensation. even in posterior nares".Many times the coryza starts out by a marked dryness in the posterior nares, so that he isconstantly hawking; the irritation is so great that he cannot let it alone. There is a sensation ofthickening in the nasopharynx, and he produces a peculiar noise in trying to get rid of it. "Sudden sharptingling sensation in Schneiderian membrane". This is intense; tingling, sometimes described as anitching extending from the end of the nose to the pharynx; sometimes forces sneezing, blowing thenose and this peculiar noise, and sometimes a hawking to get the mucus when it is a little lower in thepharynx; hemming to get rid of it when in the larynx. The inflammation passes to the smallest bronchi,producing a capillary bronchitis and finally a pneumonia.It suits acute and chronic catarrhal states. In old phthisical cases; every time he takes a cold, heis so sensitive to cold air and change of air that he sleeps with the bed clothes over this mouth. Everybreath of air causes a spasmodic cough. The early expectoration is thin mucus, and then it becomesthicker and tenacious, and he cannot expectorate it; he hears the rattle; after many efforts which exhausthim he expectorates a little with hardly any relief. This is a great remedy to do patch work with inphthisis. Soreness, rawness and burning, especially down the trachea and under the sternum."Violent sneezing, with fluent coryza, worse in the evening and at night". Many symptoms areworse in the evening. "Coryza.fluent, with sneezing, with headache, worse evening and night".Some symptoms are worse in the early morning. Certain kinds of cough are worse at 11 P.M. and Rumex furnish a puzzle in this cough and each has to be understood. In young children cough in their early sleep, but if kept awake they will not cough. Therefore in the 11 cough is an aggravation from sleep. In Rumex the cough will come on at 11o'clock whether the child is asleep or not. "Accumulation of mucus in posterior nares". "Yellowmucous discharge through posterior nares". "Epistaxis, violent sneezing and painful irritation ofnostrils". "Influenza with violent catarrh, followed by bronchitis. "Scraping in the throat"; wheneverthis catarrhal state goes into the larynx and trachea, there is this continual scraping in the throat.Hoarse; cannot speak because the vocal cords are covered with tough mucus. Chronic cases have oftenbeen cured. has this hoarseness, but especially aphonia relieved by hemming up a littlemucus from the vocal cords. The hoarseness is due to a weakness of the vocal cords. has an inflammatory state and the continual accumulation of mucus impedes speech.Rumex has the accumulation of tough, gelatinous, gluey mucus, and he continually scrapes the larynx."Sensation of a lump in the throat, not relieved by hawking or swallowing, it descends on deglutition,but immediately returns; this is also a strong feature in . "Aching in the pharynx, withcollection of tough mucus in the fauces". "Catarrhal affections of throat and fauces". This remedyshows the various stages of severe cold, but is especially indicated in constitutions that are constantlytaking cold; worse from change of the weather; always shivering about the fire; want much clothing,want even the head covered up.Many complaints are worse in the evening, from a bath, from becoming cold, from inhalingcold air. Rheumatic complaints are common and are aggravated by cold. Every cold seems to affect thejoints. This is a marked feature of ; every change to cold is felt in the joints; frombathing and getting chilled afterwards."Tight, suffocative. heavy ache in epigastrium, through to back; clothes seem too tight; weakfeeling in epigastrium, all aggravated when talking; frequently takes a long breath"."Shooting from pit of stomach to chest; sharp pain in left chest; slight nausea; dull aching inforehead". "Aching and shooting in pit of stomach and above it on each side of sternum". The stomachwill not digest food, or only the simplest food; the mucous membrane of the stomach is affected by thisremedy like other mucous membranes. Various pains in the stomach; aching, shooting pains in the pitof the stomach. "Aching pain in the pit of stomach gradually becoming very severe; sharp stitchingpains in stomach extending into chest, and below a sensation of pressure like a lump in pit of stomach,

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