Generalities
It has a marked action on nervous system, heart, skin and digestive tract. Paralytic conditions, with cramp like contractions of upper extremities. Paresis after infantile paralysis. General crampings. Numbness. Weakness, with trembling, in nursing women. Sense of vibrations. Emptiness in stomach and chest after eating, better brandy. Hemiplegia. Paralytic rigidity. Sopor. Unable to speak or speaks with difficulty. Discharges involuntary.
Worse
Rubbing. Undressing. After suckling. Looking sideways. Friction of clothes.
Better
Looking sideways. Brandy.
Mind
Sadness, with lack of confidence and power. Morose. Peevish; distraction. Slow comprehension.
Head
Vertigo; worse looking fixedly at an object or looking down, turning to either side in bed; with diplopia. Headache better by looking crossways, sideways or squinting. Vertigo for a long time before paralysis. Biting, itching of scalp. Moist milk crusts, worse occiput. Corrosive itching on forehead and edges of hair; worse heat.
Eyes
As if drawn back into head. Can see objects only when looking at them sideways. Diplopia. Lachrymation; when reading.
Face
Pale. Sunken. Numb upper lip. Lower jaw trembles when yawning.
Mouth
Toothache only while masticating. Tongue numb. Loss of speech.
Throat
As if a cool wind blowing on throat (left).
Stomach
Empty feeling even after eating, better brandy; from nursing. Canine hunger with hurried eating. Throbbing in pit. Desires cold water. Aversion to cheese. Extreme debility of digestive power.
Abdomen
Passes food undigested, in the morning which he ate the day before. Stools, thin, lienteric; involuntary; escape with flatus; in children.
Urinary
Involuntary urination.
Female
Tremors after nursing; so weak she can scarcely walk across the room.
Heart
Palpitation, with weakness and empty feeling in chest, better brandy. Pains on stooping.
Extremities
Crampy contraction of upper limbs; in paralysis. Numbness of limbs. Weakness of lower limbs. Painless paralysis. Veins on hands swollen. Hands tremble, while writing. Trembling knees when standing. Feet constantly cold. Fingers rigid and thumb turned into palm. Limbs stiff and cold.
Skin
Sensitive, chafes and oozes or bleeds. Eruptions with itching, biting as of lice. Skin numb.
Sleep
Sopor. Yawning with trembling of lower jaw.
Fever
Heat from mental exertion.
Related
Anac; China