Generalities
This remedy is useful to those persons who are prone to catarrhal, rheumatic and herpetic affections on account of exposure to cold and damp. It affects the MUCOUS MEMBRANES producing excessive secretions, esp. of bronchi, bladder and eyes. Stiffness, numbness, aching and soreness of muscles on every exposure to cold esp. of BACK and LOINS. Skin affections are liable to appear before menses. Paralytic effects; of single parts, vocal cords, tongue etc. Paralysed parts icy cold. Tearing pains. Griping in bowels around the UMBILICUS; in testes. One sided spasms with loss of speech. Enlarged glands. Every cold settles in the eyes; throat or affects the bladder, respiration or bowels. Dropsy. Complaints of workers in ice-factory. Men who are exposed to constant change of temperature (air condition). Glands; swollen, indurated. Dropsy; anasarca. Exostoses. Haemorrhages; blood watery or bright red.
Worse
BEING CHILLED -WHILE HOT. Sudden changes of temperature.COLD WET. Cold drinks, ice creams. Damp ground, cellars, beds. Cold to feet. Suppressed discharges; eruptions, sweat etc. Autumn. Night. Rest. Injuries. Before storms. Mercury. Uncovering. Hot days and cold nights.
Better
Moving about. Warmth. Dry weather.
Mind
Confusion, cannot find the right word, can’t concentrate his thoughts. Depression. Scolds without being angry. Rejects the things asked for. Easily becomes delirious; with pain. Difficult speech.
Head
Occiput feels large; cold. Sensation as if a board were pressing against the forehead. Headache Better conversation. Ring worm of scalp. Scald head; thick brown crusts, bleeding when scratched, causing hair to fall out. As if hair stood on end.
Eyes
Aching when reading. Ophthalmia from catching cold. Paralysis of upper lid. Thick yellow discharge. Twitching of eyelids in cold air.
Ears
Ache; with nausea; whole night, preventing sleep. Swelling of parotids; after measles. Buzzing in ears.
Nose
Aching in. Dry or profuse coryza. Stuffs up in cold rain. Summer colds: with diarrhoea. Least cold air stops the nose. Wants to keep it warm, with hot wet clothes. Nosebleed; in place of menses. Coryza of new born.
Face
Thick, brown, yellow crusts on face. Tearing in cheeks extending to ear, orbit and jaw, preceded by coldness of parts and attended with canine hunger. Facial neuralgia worse slight exposure to cold. Cold sores on lips. Warts and eruptions on face. Twitching of lips in cold air.
Mouth
Distorted, drawn to one side. Tongue; swollen; hindering speech; paralysed; inarticulate or difficult speech. Saliva; tenacious, ropy; with toothache.
Throat
Pressure as if uvula were too long. Tonsillitis from every cold change.
Stomach
Aversion to food. Great thirst for cold drinks. Nausea, with desire for stool. Shivering while vomiting. Eructations, with shuddering.
Abdomen
Cutting pain at navel followed by painful, green, slimy stools. Diarrhoea. Sour watery stools, worse night, summer, damp cold weather. Bowels cold. Eruptions or pain about the navel.
Urinary
Frequent urination. Cystitis. Strangury. Retention of urine, from cold or cold drinks. Involuntary urination from paralysis of bladder. Urine; cloudy, slimy or foul. Nephritis from cold. Bladder wall thickened.
Male
Enlarged testes; with griping pain. Impotence. Herpes preputialis.
Female
Menses watery. Rash appears on the skin before menses. Dysmenorrhoea, with blotches all over. Herpes on mammae in nursing women. Menses, milk, lochia suppressed by cold. Mammae; engorged, hard, sore, with absent menses, or leucorrhoea. Eruptions on skin after weaning.
Respiratory
Cough; caused by tickling in the back of throat; in prolonged fits; with much loose easy expectoration; after physical exertion. Winter cough. Pain in left chest as if lung moved in waves.
Neck and Back
Neck stiff. Pain in small of back as after long stooping. Lumbar region, and sacrum feel cold.
Extremities
Exostosis on arms after suppressed itch. Palms sweaty. Trembling of arm (right), with urinary difficulty. Rheumatic symptoms alternating with diarrhoea or acute eruptions. Warts on hands and fingers. Swelling of calf of leg.
Fever
Coldness; in different parts, icy of paralysed parts; with pain. Chill starts in the back, not Better by warmth worse evening. Chill with urging in stool and urination. Foul sweat.
Skin
Eruptions, scaly, thick, crusty, moist, bleeding or herpetic worse before menses. Urticaria better cold worse sour stomach. Warts large, smooth, fleshy, flat. Pruritus. Rash in new born. Ringworm, in the hair; in children. Eczema of infants. Small furuncles on places hurt. Thick crusts all over body.
Related
Rhus-t.
Complementary
Bar-c; Nat-s.