Generalities
This proud metal is a WOMAN’S remedy esp. prim old maids. Many and various symptoms reflex from ovaries and uterus or sexual organs. It affects the nerves, Vagus, Sensory and Trifacial, causing violent, cramping, squeezing, thrusting or numbing pains; then spasms. Spasms alternate with dyspnoea. Oversensitive mind and nerves. Localized; coldness; of single parts, eyes, ears etc.; or numbness; of scalp, face, coccyx, calves etc. Haemorrhages; with black clots with fluid. Tremors; painful. Irregular, spasms; congestion of blood.Alternate mental and physical or sexual symptoms. Pains increase and decrease gradually. Bandaged feeling. Sticky discharges; tears, stools, menses, etc. Hysterical spasms. Catalepsy during menses. Tonic and clonic spasms, with laughter. Ill effects of fright; vexation; bereavement; fit of passion; sexual excess; prolonged haemorrhages; masturbation, (before puberty). Sensation of pricking. Violent shocks, as from pain. Contortions of limbs. Epilepsy; catalepsy. Perverted sexual desire.
Worse
EMOTIONS; sexual, coition, chagrin. TOUCH. Nerve exhaustion. Fasting. During menses. Sitting. Standing. Bending; backwards.
Better
Walking in open air. Sunshine. Stretching.
Mind
Laughs at wrong time. Unkind; abrupt and quarrelsome. Disordered sense of proportion; objects seem smaller; strange, frightful. Sensation of dread and horrors; fears death; which seems to be very near. Screams for help. Changing moods; weeps and laughs alternately. CONTEMPT. Hauteur; looks with disdain upon everyone and everything. Feels tall and stately. Proud and erotic. Impulse to kill her own child; her husband (on seeing a knife) whom she secretly dislikes, or passionately loves. Whistles, sings, dances. Wounded pride or sexual excitement brings on mental symptoms. Weeps with pains. She does not belong to her own family; everything seems changed. Alone, deserted feeling. Bad humour; yet weeps. Thinks her husband will never return; something will happen to him. Fault finding. Unchaste talk. Mental troubles better at twilight and suppressed menses. Serious, over matters that are not serious; irritable about trifling things. Sits in a corner, broods and says nothing.
Head
Tense, pressing pain. Numbness with headache. Clavus. Tense scalp. Headache with leucorrhoea. As of water in forehead.
Eyes
Feel cold. Twitching of the eyelids. Objects look smaller than they are.
Ears
Sensation of coldness in; feel numb; extending to cheek and lips.
Nose
Crampy pain at the root of nose; with redness of face. Nose numb.
Face
Coldness, creeping and numbness in whole side of face (right). Grimaces. Boring in the jaws. Cramps in jaws. Lockjaw. Malar bones numb.
Mouth
Pulsating pains in teeth. As if tongue were scalded. Mouth feels cold. Sweet taste on tip of the tongue.
Stomach
Repugnance to food from sadness. Ravenous hunger. Hasty eating, eats everything around her or detests it. Loss of appetite after first mouthful.
Abdomen
Painter’s colic. Pain in umbilical region extending through into the back, turns and twists in all possible positions. Stools hard, black; passed in small portions; with great straining; adhere to rectum like soft clay. Constipation; of tourists; of pregnancy. Crawling, itching anus in evening. Voluptuous crawling
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Male
Voluptuous crawling; tickling, itching; with excessive sexual desire. Ill effects of masturbation before puberty. Perverted sexual desire.
Female
Painfully sensitive genitals; with itching, tickling or crawling. Excessive sexual desire esp. in virgins; that leads to masturbation. Nymphomania worse in puerperal state. Menses; dark, thick, profuse, clotted, too early; too short; with dragging; after abortion. Ovaritis; with burning pains; with sterility. Dysmenorrhoea, with shrieks and jerks. Vaginismus; from excessive sensitiveness of sexual organs, coition is impossible. Pruritus vulvae; with voluptuous tingling. Prolapsus uteri. Induration; cancer of uterus. Fibroid. leucorrhoea like white of an egg, only by day worse after urination; rising from a seat. Sterility from excessive sexual excitement. Erotomania. Frequent sensation as if menses would appear. Amenorrhoea in emigrants.
Back
Bruised backache worse pressure, on bending backwards. Numbness in sacrum and coccyx; as from a blow.
Extremities
Cramp in calves. Thighs tight, as if bandaged. Distorted fingers. Numbness of little finger, or fingers. Limbs feel weary, numb. Paralytic weakness.
Skin
Tingling, prickling, itching.
Sleep
Spasmodic yawning. Sleeps on back with knees drawn up and spread apart; wants to uncover entirely.
Related
Cupr; Ign; Plb; Stann.
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'.