Generalities
This remedy acts upon URINARY ORGANS, producing diuresis and removing the dropsical effusions. Heart’s action is depressed. Digestion is disturbed. It is a useful remedy for general dropsies, with or without organic disease. Swelling of every part of the body, with scanty urine and sweat, feels if he could only sweat he would get well. Dropsies are usually accompanied by digestive disturbances_nausea, vomiting, and great thirst; drowsiness and difficult breathing, may accompany these symptoms. In acute hydrocephalus the child lies in stupor, with automatic motion of one arm and leg. Paralysis of left side; one eye motionless other rolling. Weakness is marked. Dropsy; after haemorrhage; quinine. Uterine haemorrhage. Scanty discharges.
Worse
COLD; weather; drinks. Uncovering. Lying. After sleep.
Better
Warmth.
Mind
Low spirited, nervous and bewildered. Cannot think. Faints when raised from pillow.
Head
Dull ache. Hydrocephalus, with loss of vision and projecting, forehead.
Eyes
Hot and red; as if sand in. One eye motionless and other rolling.
Nose
Filled with thick yellow mucus in morning, snuffles of infants. Takes cold easily.
Face
Bloated worse lying down, passes off after sitting up. Face pale, covered with cold sweat, in diarrhoea. Dry; lips, mouth.
Stomach
Nausea, with drowsiness. Thirst, but water disagrees, vomits every drink or food at once, (dropsy). Sensation of sinking in the pit of stomach; after profuse urination_diabetes insipidus. Uremic vomiting.
Abdomen
Ascites. Diarrhoea, with dropsy; yellow, painless; noisy, gushing stools. Feeling as if anus is open and stools run through out.
Urinary Organs
Retention of urine, with paralysis of lower limbs. Urine; copious; scanty. Bed wetting in old men.
Male
Penis and scrotum dropsical. Prostate gland enlarged.
Females
Amenorrhoea of young girls, with bloating of abdomen and legs. Uterine haemorrhage, blood expelled in large clots or sometimes in fluid state, at climaxis. Ovarian tumour. Cough during pregnancy.
Respiratory organs
Breathing, short and unsatisfactory, difficult. Oppression of the chest. Short, dry cough, sighing. Hydrothorax.
Heart
Pulse, slow, fluttering, irregular or intermittent. Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation.
Sleep
Sleepy. Great restlessness with little sleep.
Skin
Rough, dry. Cannot sweat.
Related
Chin-a; Nux-v.
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.