Generalities
It acts chiefly on the pneumo-gastric nerve; producing gastro intestinal disturbances; AND RESPIRATORY AFFECTIONS, with CONTINUOUS NAUSEA. Discharges are foamy and profuse. BRIGHT RED, GUSHING HAEMORRHAGES;with nausea. Nausea and shortness of breath usually accompany most of the complaints. Convulsions; infantile, body rigid, stretched out, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other. Awkward, stumbles against everything. Tetanic spasms from swallowing tobacco. Convulsions; in whooping cough; from suppressed exanthema; from indigestible food. It is indicated in fat children and adults who are feeble and catch cold in warm moist weather. Ill effects of vexation, reserved displeasure. Injuries, suppressed eruptions. Quinine; morphia; indigestible food; loss of blood. Over- sensitive to heat and cold. Opisthotonos and emprosthotonos.
Worse
WARMTH, damp; of room. Overeating. Ices, pork, veal, mixed or rich foods; candy, fruits; raisins, salads, lemon peel. Berries. Periodically. Heat and cold. Vomiting. Motion. Lying.
Better
Open air. Rest. Pressure. Closing eyes. Cold drinks.
Mind
Holds everything in contempt, and desires others also should do the same. Cries, screams, howls and is hard to please (children). Full of desires, but knows not for what. Sad. Faints suddenly; in summer or hot room.
Head
Ache as if bruised or crushed, down into the root of the tongue. Migraine, with nausea and vomiting. Pain in occiput worse vomiting; during chill. Cold sweat on forehead.
Eyes
Inflamed, red; conjunctivitis. Profuse gushing lachrymation; with nausea. Shooting pains through the eyeball. Nausea from looking on moving objects.
Ears
Cold (right); during fever. Cannot endure the least noise.
Nose
Bleed, blood bright red. Coryza with stoppage of nose and nausea. Sneezing.
Face
Pale; blue about the eyes or lips; white linea nasalis. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia and smarting eyelids.
Mouth
Child thrusts its fists into the mouth and screams. Clean or red pointed tongue. Saliva increased. Toothache, with a jerk radiating to temples; better while eating. Tongue, clean, yellow, or white, pale. Taste; bitter, sweetish, bloody.
Stomach
Desire for dainties; sweets. Feels miserable or sinking or relaxed as if hanging down. Horrid nausea, not better by vomiting. Vomits; blood, bile, food, mucous; worse stooping. Aversion to food. Thirstless. Vomiting of infants at the breast.
Abdomen
Griping, drawing or cutting pain about the navel worse motion better by repose; extending towards the uterus. Stools; brown, grass or yellow green, frothy, molasses-like or bloody; slimy. Dysentery; with head hot and cold legs. Lumps of mucous in stools.
Urinary
Unsuccessful urging to urinate. Haematuria, with nausea and cutting in abdomen and urethra, with oppression in chest and short breath. Shooting from kidney, down the thighs to the knees.
Female
Uterine haemorrhages, profuse, bright, steady flow or gushing; with nausea and gasping, with each gush of blood. Cutting pain in uterus from left to right. Stitches from navel to uterus. Menses; too early and too profuse. Vomiting during pregnancy. Prolapse of uterus worse during menses. Haemorrhage of placenta praevia. Steady flow of bright red blood, which does not coagulate. Great weakness with scanty menses.
Respiratory
Painless hoarseness at the end of a cold. Constant constriction in chest and larynx, worse least motion. Spasms of vocal cords. Gasps for breath. Asthma. Cough incessant and violent, with every breath. Paroxysms of suffocative cough, with retching; child stiffens out, becomes red or blue in face and finally is nauseated; gags and vomits; better stepping into open air, better warmth and repose. Whooping cough with bleeding from the nose and from the mouth. LOOSE coarse RATTLE IN CHEST WITHOUT EXPECTORATION. Broncho-pneumonia. Haemoptysis worse slightest exertion. Asthma accompanied by skin disease. Suffocative attacks from foreign substance in wind pipe.
Neck and Back
Tetanic spasms of back which bends the back backwards or forwards. Shooting from kidney region into thighs. Cramps between scapulae during motion.
Extremities
Coldness of one hand, other is hot. Femur as if dislocated on sitting down. Pains as if bruised in all the bones.
Sleep
Shocks in limbs on falling to sleep. Eyes half open during sleep, with moaning and groaning. Loss of sleep causes nausea and fatigue.
Fever
Short chill with long heat. Chill alternating with heat. Heat without thirst. Suppressed of mixed intermittents; nausea in all stages. Catarrhal or gastric fevers. Hands and feet drip cold sweat. Infantile remittent fever.
Skin
Itching, with nausea, scratches until he vomits.
Related
Ant-t; Lobelia
Complementary
Ars; Cuprum
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'.