Generalities
It affects the MUCOUS MEMBRANES causing aphthous, catarrhal conditions. Discharges are thick, hot, biting. Excessively nervous; easily frightened; sensitive to sudden noises. Heat in single parts, mouth, vagina, palms etc. Sticking or drawing pains; internal, intercostal, soles etc. Poorly nourished, soft and flabby; children. Parts which are usually red turn white. Sensation of cobweb, on hands, face. Tousy persons. Skin and mucous membranes shrivelled. Restlessness in afternoon. General emaciation. Marasmus. Eructation, when painful parts are pressed. Favours easy conception. Infants cyanotic from birth. Valuable in epilepsy.
Worse
DOWNWARD OR UPWARD MOTION. Sudden noises Cold; wet; least uncovering. Fruit. Nurslings; children. Smoking. Warm weather. After menses. Rocking; being dangled up and down.
Better
11 p.m. Pressure. Evening. Cold weather.
Mind
Nervous; anxious; fidgety, fickle. Fears downward motion. Starts or frightened at every noise or sudden noise; or at trifles. Irritable before stool, cheerful and happy after. Babies cry and scream, when nursing, or before passing stool or urine. Fear of thunder. Children awake, suddenly, scream, hold the sides of cradle, without any apparent cause. Fault finding. Does not wish to do anything. All the mental symptoms are better at 11 p.m. Changes from one business to another, from one room to another. Fear of being infected by some contagious disease.
Head
Vertigo worse ascending stairs or any elevation. Headache, with nausea and trembling of the whole body. Hot head of babies. Hair entangled at tips, stick together cannot be separated.
Eyes
Gummy, crusty, sticky eyelids. Redness about eyes. Entropion. Raw tarsi. Granular eyelids.
Ears
Sensitive to slightest noise, not so much disturbed by louder ones. As if ear opened and closed.
Nose
Acrid coryza. Dry crusts in nose. Red nose of young women. Red shining swelling of the nose, with throbbing and tensive sensation. Stoppage of nostrils alternately; with lachrymation.
Face
Pale, dirty. Puffy face; bluish in infants. Anxious, during downward motion. Cobweb sensation. As of a bug crawling over lip.
Mouth
Dry, hot, tender, aphthous; after taking sour or salty food. Dry cracked; or puffy indented tongue. Toothache worse wet weather better by smoking. Palate, hard and wrinkled; as if burnt; pains when chewing; while nursing, in children. Painful gumboil. Taste bitter, even saliva. Thrush. Ulcers, bleed on eating or by touch.
Stomach
Eructations, on pressing painful part. Nausea; when thinking hard; with trembling of body and weakness of knees. Desire for sour things. Pain in the region of stomach, after heavy lifting_stitching_ extending to small of back. Sweat on stomach. Vomiting after drinking; of sour mucus. Gastralgia, reflex from uterine troubles.
Abdomen
Belly soft, flabby, sunken. Flatulent,_distension after every meal. Pain as if diarrhoea would set in. Stools; turning green, or persistently green; like boiled starch. Mucous diarrhoea then weakness. Loose, pappy, foul smelling stools. Stools slender. Catch in groin on coughing. Pulling from spleen to chest. Stitching pains in the groins before or during menses. Burning in rectum during stool.
Urinary Organs
Hot acrid, smarting urine, of pungent smell. Child screams before the passage. Frequent every 10 to 15 minutes. Small red particles on diaper. Nephritis. Cystitis.
Male
Indifference to coition.
Female
Indifference to coition. Menses too early, too profuse; attended with colic and nausea. Leucorrhoea_albuminous, clear, hot, pasty, with sensation as if warm water was flowing down legs. Membranous dysmenorrhoea. Empty feeling in mammae, after child nurses, with stitches better compressing. When nursing, pain in opposite breast. Labour pains with frequent eructations. Mother’s milk is thick and tastes badly. Sensation of distension in clitoris, with sticking. Sterility. Favours easy conception.
Respiratory organs
Sticking pain in chest (intercostal) worse coughing, inspiration, yawning or any physical exertion. Shortness of breath worse ascending stairs; stitches on speaking. Hacking and violent cough; expectoration blood streaked or mouldy. Pain in chest better Lying on back, washing with cold water, or pressure. Arrest of breath when Lying down, must jump up and catch breath.
Heart
Feels as if on night side; and being squeezed. Infants, cyanotic from birth. Violent palpitation.
Neck and Back:
Pain in back, inability to stoop.
Extremities
Limbs tremble at 10 a.m. Feeling of cobweb on hands. Stitches in soles. Weakness in calves. Pain in heel. Eczema of fingers and toes with loss of nails. As if warm water running down thighs. Palms hot. Itching on back of hands. Want of strength esp. in joints.
Sleep
Voluptuous dreams; dreams of coition. Cries out in sleep, as if frightened (children). Cannot sleep on account of excessive heat, esp. of head. Starts from deep as if to fall.
Fever
Flushes of heat.
Skin
DRY; festers easily, won’t heal. Psoriasis. Trade eruptions, on fingers and hands, itching and stinging eczema. Wilted wrinkled skin. Whitish pimples, with areola. Ulcerations on feet from rubbing of shoe, or boots.
Related
Bell, Bry; Calc; Nux-v; Sul-ac.
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'.