Generalities
Affects markedly the RESPIRATORY ORGANS, producing spasmodic, catarrhal and haemorrhagic effects. As it raises the resistance against tuberculosis; it is a useful remedy for tuberculosis of the lungs, larynx and bones; of joints. Tubercular glands. Constrictive pains in the throat, larynx, stomach etc. Sticking lancinating pains. Convulsions, followed by haemoptysis and sleep. Haemorrhages of bright red blood, from nose, mouth, stools etc.
Worse
After midnight. On lying down. Warmth. Talking. Cold food. Laughing. After measles. Singing. Stooping. Vomiting. Sour things.
Better
Pressure. Open air.
Mind
Easily angered; a trifle makes him beside himself. Inclination to drown himself. Cannot concentrate on one subject, must change, changes to something else. Fears being alone and is suspicious of his friends. Delusions of persecution. Restlessness. Anxiety when alone. Extremely uneasy. Imagines he was being deceived by spiteful envious people.
Head
Heavy, pressing pain. Vertigo when walking in the open air.
Eyes
Become prominent, from coughing, during measles, in convulsions.
Nose
Sensitive to sour smells. Painful sneezing. Bleeding; from coughing; stooping.
Face
Left side cold, right side hot; with stinging pain. Face hot, with cold hands.
Mouth
Putrid taste. Bloody saliva. Toothache from hot drinks. Small round painless swelling in middle of tongue.
Stomach
Nausea after fatty foods. Aversion to pork and sour foods; which disagree. Difficulty in swallowing solid foods.
Abdomen
Painful after sour foods.
Female
Leucorrhoea, with labour-like pains.
Respiratory
PERIODICAL FITS OF RAPID, DEEP BARKING or CHOKING PROLONGED AND INCESSANT COUGH. Cough seems to come from the abdomen; takes the breath away; compel holding the sides followed by retching, vomiting, first of ingesta then of mucus; nose bleed; cold sweat and loquacity. Whooping cough. Tickling like a feather or crumb in larynx. Deep hoarse voice requires exertion to speak. Voice hollow, toneless. Bloody, yellow purulent expectoration. Constriction of chest worse talking, singing. Asthma when talking, with contraction of throat with every word uttered. Stitches below axillae. Haemoptysis after convulsions. Concomitants to coughing. Scraping in larynx and cough, after eating. Stitching pains in chest when sneezing or coughing. Harassing cough, as soon as head touches the pillow at night not during day. Cough worse singing, talking.
Extremities
Fingers contract spasmodically with rigidity when grasping anything. Writer’s cramp. Laming pain in right hip joint and thigh with pain in ankle; must limp when walking. Limbs feel sore; bed feels too hard. Pain in the long bones. Pain in humerus at night only.
Fever
Always too cold even in bed. Fever with whooping cough. Shivers when at rest better moving. Face becomes hot and hands become cold, with shivering. Measles.
Skin
Itching better by rubbing or wiping with hand worse undressing.
Related
Coc-c; Cor-r.
Complementary
Sul.
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'.