Generalities
Wild Ind. of America has its reputation as a remedy for typhoid fever. It affects the BLOOD, causing septic conditions, low fever and malaria poisoning. Feeling of SORENESS, HEAVINESS, and ACHING OF MUSCLES is very marked. PROSTRATION Is RAPID; bed feels too hard on account of soreness of muscles, yet he feels too weak to move. Mucus membranes become dark. Discharges; stools, haemorrhages etc. are dark in colour. Dark spots appear upon the body. FOUL; odour of the body, breath, of excretions, stools, sweat, urine etc. Brown; sordes, stools, menses. Bed sores. Influenza. Chronic intestinal toxaemia of children, with foetid stools and eructations. Lifeless body but restless mind. Insensitive to pain. Parts feel numb or too large. Restless, always rubs the hands, hysterical. In low potency it increases the resistant power of the body against typhoid. Ill effects of antityphoid serum injections.
Worse
Humid heat. Fogs. In room. Pressure. On waking. Walking. Open air. Cold wind. Autumn. Hot weather.
Mind
Sense of DUALITY. Aversion to mental and bodily exertion. Thinks he is broken or double. PARTS FEEL SEPARATED or scattered Tosses about in bed trying to get pieces together. Hopeless of recovery; and certain of death. Dull and confused. Falls asleep while answering or does not complete his sentence. Wandering, muttering delirium. Perfect indifference. Bewildered. Imagines his limbs are talking to each other.
Head
Feels, too large, heavy, numb. As of a blow or heavy pain on occiput. Vertigo, with weak feeling esp. of lower limbs and knees. Vertex feels as if would fly off. Brain feels sore.
Eyes
Eyelids heavy. Eyes feel swelled. Half closed.
Ears
Early deafness in typhoid-like conditions.
Nose
Pain at the root. Epistaxis of dark blood. Illusion of smell as of burnt feathers.
Face
DUSKY, SODDEN, BESOTTED, stupid. Muscles of the jaw rigid. Cracked, bleeding lips.
Mouth
Brown strip down centre of the tongue. Tongue feels burnt. Breath foetid. Thick speech. Ulcers in the mouth. Taste flat, bitter. Dark, red, tumid mouth. Tongue; cracked, bleeds; feels thick or is heavily coated. Lower jaw drops. Saliva viscid. Sore mouth of suckling. Tonsils and soft palate swollen.
Throat
Dark, red, tumid. Numb inside but sensitive outside. Can swallow liquids only, least solid food gags. Constriction of oesophagus at cardiac orifice. Ragged ulcers in the throat. Spasms of gullet.
Stomach
Sinking feeling at stomach. Easy vomiting. Pain in epigastric region. Feeling of a hard substance. Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea, with fever, Gastric fever. All symptoms are worse by beer.
Abdomen
Right lilac region sensitive. Soreness of the gall bladder, with diarrhoea. Diarrhoea_sudden, horribly foul, mushy, painless, dark, slaty or bloody stools. Dysentery_of the old people; with pain in limbs small of back and rigors. Painless dysentery; with fever. Intestinal toxaemia of children, with foetid stools and eructations. Stricture from piles.
Urinary Organs
Urine; scanty, dark red, alkaline; foetid, light green. Uraemia.
Male
Orchitis. Pressing pain in testes as if squeezed.
Female
Threatened abortion, from mental shock, depression, low fevers. Menses; too early, too profuse. Lochia; acrid, foul. Puerperal fever. Stomatitis of nursing mothers.
Respiratory organs
Breathing difficult from weakness of chest worse on waking, better standing; Craves air. Bronchial asthma. Lungs feel tight and compressed. Afraid to go to sleep on account of sense of suffocation and nightmares.
Heart
Pulse first accelerated, then slow and faint.
Neck and Back:
Neck tired, cannot hold it easy in any position. Pain in sacrum around hips and legs. Back sore and bruised. Bed sores. Feels as if lying on board. Symptoms radiate from small of back.
Extremities
Stiffness and pain, aching and drawing in arms and legs.
Sleep
Drowsy, stupid and languid; slides down in bed. Nightmares, and frightful dreams. Lies curled up like a dog on one side.
Fever
Hyperpyrexia. Adynamic fevers, typhoid; ship-board fever. Sweat relieves. Gastric influenza.
Skin
Livid spots all over the body and limbs.
Related
Arn; Gels; Hyos; Lach; Mur-ac; Op; Rhus-t.
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'.