LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Great weakness, most marked in the chest, and seeming to proceed from it.
(2) Excessive physical and moral depression : heaviness and indolence.
(3) Pains gradually increase to their height, and as gradually diminish.
(4) Pains are relieved by hard pressure.
(5) Restlessness, but too weak to keep moving.
(6) Sweats are profuse, debilitating and offensive.
(7) Great fatigue in the chest from talking; and in the whole body.
(8) Sputum profuse and sweet tasting.
(9) Sweat in early morning, of mouldy odour.
(10) Prolapse of uterus, vagina and anus; sinking feeling in epigastrium and hypogastrium.
(11) Bronchitis, bronchiectasis, phthisis.
AGGRAVATION:
From touch rest, lying (but must lie down), using the voice, going down stairs (faintness and muscular weakness), ascending (breathlessness), warm drinks (cough), during stool (exhaustion and prolapse), weeping (cf. bell., croc., cupr., verat.).
AMELIORATION:
From pressure, walking (pains, but must soon rest), sitting bent over (cough and colic), hard pressure (colic), cough or expectoration (hoarseness).