Generalities
This remedy is useful for conditions arising from excess of lactic acid, as a result of too much sugar. It affects duodenum; bile ducts, mesenteric glands and genitals. SOURNESS; eructations, vomiting, stomach, stools, leucorrhoea; expectoration, sweats etc. Ailments with excess of acidity. Infants who have been fed to excess, with milk and sugar. Deep yellow, creamy; discharges. Debility. Pricking sensation. Tightness of muscles and tendons. Jaundice (1x Trit.). Oxaluria. Worms. Swelling of lymphatic glands. Ill effects of mental exertion or sexual vices or both. Marasmus of bottle fed babies. Trembling and palpitation from thunderstorms. Cracking in joints. Nervousness; tired feeling. Leucocytosis.
Worse
Sugar. Milk. Mental exertion. Thunderstorm. Gas light. Coitus. Walking upstairs. Bitter foods. Fat food.
Better
Cold.
Mind
Mental weakness. Fear worse at night; that something will happen. Imagines that pieces of furniture are persons; he hears footsteps in the next room. Nervous, forgetful. Sad from music. Indifferent to everything; to his family. Sits quite still for a long time. Easily frightened.
Head
Feels dull in the morning. Cutting pain in temples (right) while studying. Pressure and heat on top of head as if it would open.
Eyes
Golden yellow creamy matter from the eyes. Whites of the eyes dirty yellow. Eyes weak worse gas light. Squinting, with worms. One pupil dilated.
Ears
One ear red, hot, itching, scratches until it bleeds; with gastric affections and acidity. As if water falling in, from a height.
Nose
Itching. Offensive odour before nose. Yellow thick offensive mucus. Child picks nose. Pricking; with lachrymation.
Face
Itching about mouth. Pale, or red on alternate sides. Florid.
Mouth
Blisters on tip of tongue. YELLOW CREAMY COATING AT THE BASE OF TONGUE; on tonsils, or roof of mouth. Thin moist coating on the tongue. As of a hair on tongue. Grinding of teeth; children. Pricking, numbness of whole mouth.
Throat
As of a lump; preventing speech. Swallowing difficult. Yellow coating on tonsils.
Stomach
Sour eructations. Vomiting of sour cheesy masses. Desire for strong tasting things; eggs, fried fish, beer which better. Aversion to bread and butter.
Abdomen
While at stool, sensation as if a marble dropped down descending colon. Noisy flatulence. Fullness in abdomen worse standing or eating a little. Gastro-duodenal catarrh. Jaundice. Urging to stool and urination after coitus (men). Stools hacked. Greenish diarrhoea. Itching at anus. Afraid to pass flatus lest the stool escape. Sclerosis of liver and hepatic form of diabetes esp. when there is a succession of boils. Round or thread worms.
Urinary
Urging to urinate and burning and itching at meatus after coition. Must wait for urine to start.
Male
Semen; thin watery, smells like stale urine. Emissions followed by weak back and trembling of knees. Itching of scrotum, prepuce.
Female
Sterility; with acid secretions from vagina. Leucorrhoea, sour, creamy, honey coloured or acid and watery. Morning sickness, with sour vomiting. During menses, feet icy cold during day; burn at night, in bed.
Respiratory
Respiration difficult. Cough worse sitting. Chest feels empty after eating. Pain in chest worse deep breathing and pressure.
Heart
Trembling about heart worse going upstairs; after menses. Feeling as if a bubble started from heart and was forced through arteries. Heart pains are better when big toe pains. Heart pains alternating with rheumatic pains. Anxious palpitation, after a thunderstorm.
Back
Weakness after coition. Heavy dragging in the back. Swelling of glands of neck extending to chest. Goitre with feeling of pressure.
Extremities
Aching in wrists and finger joints. Trembling of limbs after coition. Rheumatism. Feet icy cold during day, burn at night. Synovial crepitation. Cramps in hands while writing. Legs give way while walking.
Skin
Itching in various parts, esp. of ankles, even eczematous eruptions. Hives. Skin smooth red, shining.
Sleep
Sleepy in the forenoon, but sleepless before midnight. Dreams; anxious, amorous, of dead people. Very drowsy; falls asleep while sitting.
Fever
Feet icy cold in day time, burn at night.
Related
Cina; Kali-s; Kreosotum