Sore throat need not be further considered, having already been sufficiently described.
One other sphere, chiefly brought out clinically, is joint and muscle pains-so called gout and rheumatism. There is general muscular soreness or aching. Pains in the joints-chiefly of the upper extremities-may move rapidly from place to place, and be relieved by local heat. Clinically, tenderness on pressure over the sacro-iliac joints and pain there, which may extend down the leg like sciatica, furnish useful indications for aesculus.
Apart from the general symptoms of aesculus it will hardly be called for in respiratory diseases, but if these complicate the aesculus case they will be covered by the drug-tickling cough, stitches in the chest wall, &c, as described.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Piles with or without constipation but with backache- with modalities mentioned.
(2) Sore throat.
(3) Hepatic pains with indigestion and abdominal distension. Pain after defecation.
(4) Varicose veins and ulcers, with bluish margins.
(5) Depression and irritability, combined or alternating.
AGGRAVATION:
Motion and walking (especially the back); stooping or rising (back); inspiration of cold air (coryza or cough), heat (general) with exception in case of muscular (rheumatic) local pains. On waking.
AMELIORATION:
Fresh air (head and general)m warmth (local pains), Rest (back); vigorous exercise relieves headache and hepatic symptoms.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,