Generalities
It was used as a powerful purgative and irritant of the skin in ordinary practice; therefore it affects the mucous membranes of the intestines causing watery discharges. Skin esp. of FACE and scrotum is more affected. It has a peculiar feeling as if parts were drawn backwards, eyes, nipples etc. Skin symptoms alternating with internal symptoms, diarrhoea etc. Skin feels hide-bound.
Worse
DRINKING; least food. Washing. Summer. Touch. Motion. Receding eruptions.
Better
After sleep. Gentle rubbing.
Mind
Feeling of anxiety; as though some personal misfortune would befall him. Not disposed to work. Cannot think outside himself. Feels all spent up. Morose, dissatisfied.
Head
Weight of the hat causes headache. Vertigo worse drinking.
Eyes
Purulent ophthalmia; red and raw appearance. Pustules on cornea, with eruptions around eyes. Eyes feel drawn backwards. Tensive pain above the orbit (right).
Ears
Otorrhoea, when there is a great itching.
Face
Pustular eruptions on the face. As though insects were creeping.
Mouth
Neuralgia of the tongue. Burning in oesophagus.
Stomach
Excessive nausea, with vanishing of sight.
Abdomen
Pressure on the navel causes pain in the rectum or urging for stool. Pain in the anus as if a plug were forcing outwards. Gurgling or swashing as of water in bottles; THEN PROFUSE SUDDEN GUSHING STOOLS OF YELLOW WATER. worse drinking the least quantity or while eating; then prostration. Summer diarrhoea. Cholera infantum. Colic better hot milk.
Urinary organs
Night urine; foaming, dark orange coloured, turbid on standing, greasy particles floating on top. Day urine is pale with white sediment.
Male
Eczema of scrotum. Vesicular eruptions on scrotum and penis. Left testes retracted, right pendent.
Female
Intense itching of genitals better by gentle rubbing. Pain from nipple to back as child nurses. Nodes in mammae; with pain from nipple to scapula. Breast hard, swollen. Nipples very sore to touch.
Respiratory organs
Cough as soon as he touches the pillow, must sit up. Feels as though he could not inhale deeply enough. Could not expand the lungs.
Extremities
Neck and shoulders painful.
Skin
Feels hide-bound, tense. Violently itching, burning, red skin; sore if scratched better gentle rubbing. Eruptions, pustular, blisters, clustered; which burst and form crusts worse genitals, temples, vertex. Herpes-zoster. Eczema.
Related
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'.