Generalities
This remedy produces marked skin, throat and mental symptoms esp. depressed states at puberty and climaxis with exalted sexuality. Acridity. Burning, smarting, in various parts. Favours rapid healing of wounds.
Worse
Cold; drinks; food. Anger. Dampness. Eating. Touch. Puberty, climaxis.
Mind
Sudden vanishing of thoughts; forgets what she wishes to do next; her errand. Fear of insanity, of evil spirits. Depressed with sexual erethism. Bashful. Melancholy. Homesick.
Head
Feels empty, with vertigo, while walking about. Hair falls after acute sickness. Pain in vertex worse lying.
Eyes
Lids heavy; and sore. Eyes smart or burn on closing them. Dull ache behind the eyes. Intense inflammation; with loss of vision (for some days). Photophobia.
Nose
Illusions of smell; of gunpowder, dung etc.
Face
Swollen, spotted. Herpes on lips.
Mouth
Profuse foul yellow saliva. Burning and pricking in the mouth not better by cold water.
Throat
Cutting pains worse cold drinks. Choking sensation rises in the throat when speaking, preventing drinking though thirsty. Diphtheria. Tonsils swollen.
Stomach
Craves cold water. Swelled epigastrium. Vomiting of food, followed by severe colic and profuse diarrhoea. Aversion to meat, bread, wine. As of flame, rising from. Repeated green vomit.
Abdomen
Bowels sore and burn. Colic worse cold drinks.
Respiratory
Cough worse cold drinks. Aching behind the sternum.
Heart
Pulse weak, very large and soft. Needle like stitches at heart.
Extremities
Biting vesicles on soles; desquamation and dryness of soles. Pain in thumb. Acrid, sticky foot sweat.
Skin
Vesicles. Large blisters as from scalds. Brown crusts and scabs. Pemphigus. Dermatitis; with extensive vesiculation, oozing of sticky serum and formation of crusts.
Related
Arum-t; Canth; Rhus-t.