Generalities
Commonly known as Rock Rose is an ancient remedy for scrofulosis. It affects the GLANDS esp. of naso-pharynx; neck and mammae (left). It also produces herpetic eruptions, scorbutic states, chronic swellings and gangrenous ulcerations. The patient is painfully sensitive to cold; to cold inspired air. Feeling of coldness in various parts; of tongue, saliva, in throat; eructations, in stomach; worse sweating; even the discharges. Mucus discharges are thick, yellow, foul; leave a painful rawness. Suppurations. Internal and external itching. Formication through the whole body, with anxious, difficult breathing. Malignant diseases of glands of neck. Poisoned wounds, bites, phagedenic ulcers. Burnings. Indurations. Callosities, with cracks.
Better
Eating. Expectoration.
Worse
Cold; taking; draughts; inspired air. Cold water. Mental exertion; excitement. Touch. Motion.
Mind
Bad effects of vexation. Fear.
Head
Aches when he misses the meals, better eating. Head drawn to one side by swelling in the neck.
Eyes
Feeling as if something passing around the eye. Canthi cracked.
Ears
Watery foetid discharge of pus; after eruptive diseases. Tetters on and around the ear extending to external meatus.
Nose
Cold feeling or burnings in. Tip painful. Eczema of the nose. As of a lump in naso-pharynx. Chronic nasal catarrh, frequent violent sneezing. Pressing pain at the root of the nose, with headache.
Face
Itching, burning and crusts, on zygoma. Caries of the lower jaw, with suppurating glands on neck. Open bleeding cancer on lower lip. Lips cracked.
Mouth
Scorbutic, receding gums, easily bleeding; disgustingly putrid. Tongue feels cold. Breath cool. Saliva cold. Hurts when protruding the tongue. Pyorrhoea.
Throat
Cold affects the throat; which feels cold. Soft, spongy feeling; itching in the throat. Becomes sore on inhaling least cold air. Dry spot in throat better by sipping water. Pains when coughing. Glands swollen and suppurating. Goitre, with frequent diarrhoea.
Stomach
Cool feeling in; before and after eating. Desire for cheese; for pungent things. Eructations cold.
Abdomen
Cool feeling all over. Diarrhoea; from coffee and fruits, with goitre, with nausea. Thin hurried stools worse in morning.
Male
Itching on scrotum.
Female Genitalia
Induration and inflammation of mammae (left). Sensitive to cold air. Cancer. Bad smelling leucorrhoea.
Respiratory organs
Larynx and trachea feel cool on inhaling cold air. Coldness in chest. Expectoration of quantities of glairy, tenacious mucus, on lying down. Trachea feels narrow and breathing becomes difficult preceded by formication. Chest feels raw, after expectoration.
Neck and Back
Hard swollen glands in the neck. Burning bruised pain in coccyx preventing sitting, worse touch.
Extremities
Cold feet. Cracked finger tips, sensitive to cold. Workmen develop hard place on their hands, with cracks.
Skin
Hard, thick, dry, cracked. Itching, crawling all over, without eruptions.
Fever
Chilliness. Sweats, easily; at night.
Related
Calc; Helod; Hepar