Generalities
Dr. Schuessler’s remedy for cramps, convulsions, neuralgic pains and spasmodic effects; showing its influence on NERVES and muscles. Suitable to tall, slender, dark and neurotic persons; or tired, languid exhausted subjects. Nervous, tense, and subject to sudden violent paroxysms of neuralgic pains; sharp, shooting like lightning, suddenly changing places; radiating, boring, constricting; extorting cries; causing restlessness and prostration etc. Twitchings. Tic. Spasmodic effects; hiccough, yawning, chorea; writer’s, piano, violin player’s cramps etc. Much pain. Ill effects of standing in cold water, cold bathing; working in cold clay; catheterism; dentition; study. Complaints of teething children. Chorea better during sleep worse at stool and emotions. Palsy, paralysis agitans.
Worse
COLD; AIR, drafts, uncovering, water. Lying on right side. Touch. Periodicity. NIGHT. Milk. Exhaustion.
Better
Warmth. Hot bathing. Pressure. Doubling up. Rubbing.
Mind
Always talking of her pains. Indisposition to study; to mental work. Drowsiness on every attempt to study. Talks to himself constantly, or sits in moody silence, or carrying things from one place to another and back again.
Head
Aches after mental labour; better by warmth. Sensation as if contents were liquid; as if parts of brain were changing places; as if a cap on head. As of an electric shock in the head extending to all parts of the body.
Eyes
Supra-orbital pains better warmth. Twitching of eyelids. Eyes; hot, aching; tired. Nystagmus; strabismus, ptosis, Photophobia.
Ears
Severe neuralgic pain worse going into cold air; washing face and neck with cold water; worse behind right ear.
Face
Neuralgia worse when body gets cold; from washing or standing in cold water, on opening mouth to eat or drink.
Mouth
Cracks in angles of lips. Toothache better heat and hot liquids. Tongue, clean; with colic. Painful contraction of jaw joint with backward jerking. Taste of bananas. Food does not taste right. Spasmodic stammering.
Throat
Stiff sore; parts seem puffy (right); with chilliness and aching all over. Nervous angina.
Stomach
Hiccough day and night. Burning pain, vomiting and hiccough better hot drinks; cancer of stomach. Thirst for very cold drinks.
Abdomen
Enteralgia; flatulent colic; better bending double; rubbing; warmth; pressure; with eructations which may or may not relieve. Bloated full sensation in abdomen; must loosen the clothes; walk about, and constantly pass flatus. Cutting into thighs. Abdomen contracted. Diarrhoea ceases; spasms or other brain troubles set
in.
Urinary
Nocturnal enuresis from nervous irritation. Vesical neuralgia after use of catheter.
Female
Menstrual colic better by flow. Membranous dysmenorrhoea. Menses; too early, dark, stringy, tarry, flowing at night leaving a fast stain. Ovarian neuralgia. Vaginismus.
Respiratory
Spasmodic, whooping cough better cool air. Spasmodic nervous asthma.
Heart
Angina pectoris. Pulse irritable. Nervous palpitation.
Neck & Back
Stiffness of neck and back. Cramps. One vertebra seems absent.
Extremities
Skin of fingers tight. Pains in lower limbs; alternating sides. Paralysis agitans. Trembling of hands. Writer’s, player’s cramps. Cramps from prolonged exertion, from the prolonged use of tools. Crampy contraction of fingers. Sciatica with tender feet.
Skin
Barber’s itch. Herpetic eruptions with white scales.
Sleep
Sleepy when attempting to study_ Spasmodic yawning as if it would dislocate the jaw, with tears.
Fever
Chill runs up and down the back, with shivering followed by suffocation.
Related
Coloc; Dioscorea
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'.