Generalities
This nosode is prepared from decomposed lean beef allowed to stand in the sun for two weeks, or from septic pus. It is therefore a remedy for all types of septic states when BLOOD is disorganised, heart becomes weak and muscles prostrated. Aching, BRUISED, SORE, and prostration, yet restless. Discharges are horribly foul, taste, odour of body, menses, sweat, vomiting, etc. Rosy red streaks; lymphangitis. Bones pain. Abscesses; recurrent; with pain and violent burning. Chronic complaints that date back to septic conditions; dissecting wounds, sewer-gas poisoning, ptomaine poisoning; puerperal fever; after effects of miscarriage; remote effects of typhoid fever; diphtheria, chronic malaria, where the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve esp. in latent pyogenic processes.
Worse
Cold, damp. Motion. Sitting. Moving eyes.
Better
Heat. Hot; bath, drinks. Pressure. Stretching. Changing position. Hard rocking. Walking.
Mind
Active brain; making speeches and writing articles at night. Loquacious; thinks and talks faster than ever before. Sensation as if she covered the whole bed. Feels, when lying on one side one person, and another person when turning, on the other side. Sensitive, anxious; confused. Sense of duality; feels as if crowded with arms and legs. Hallucination, that he is very wealthy. Full of anxiety and insane notions. Bed feels hard. Talks or whispers to herself; in sleep.
Head
Painless throbbing. Violent throbbing headache better bandaging. Rolls head from side to side. Sensation as of a cap on the head. Cold sweat on forehead.
Eyes
Balls sore (left) worse looking up and moving eyes. Photophobia.
Ears
Red; cold. Ringing like a bell.
Nose
Cold. Fan-like motion of the alae nasi. Disgust at his own body odour. Sneezing everytime when hand is out from under the covers.
Face
Hectic flush 3 to 4 p.m., lasting till midnight; then covered with large drops of cold perspiration.
Mouth
Fiery red; brown streak down the centre; smooth; large, flabby tongue. Taste sweetish; terribly foetid. Horribly offensive breath.
Throat
Dry. Diphtheria with extreme foetor.
Stomach
Vomiting; persistent; brownish, coffee grounds; offensive, faecal, with impacted or obstructed bowels. Vomits water when it becomes warm in stomach. Nausea better very hot drinks; and vomiting. Great thirst for small quantities of cold drinks, but the least liquid is instantly rejected.
Abdomen
Horribly offensive, brown-black painless involuntary stools. Constipation with complete inertia. Stools large, black, small black balls; very offensive.
Urinary
Adhesive, red, slimy, sediment. Urination twice a day; scanty. Urging to urinate before fever. Urine clear like water. Tenesmus of bladder and rectum.
Male
Testes hang down, relaxed; scrotum looks and feels thin.
Female
Septic puerperal infection. Fever at each menstrual period. Menses, horribly offensive. Pelvic cellulitis. Prolapsus uteri better holding the head and straining. Lochia suppressed, followed by fever, chills and profuse foetid sweat. Pains in the region of left nipple.
Respiratory
Pain in lung (right) worse coughing, talking. Neglected pneumonia. Cough better sitting, worse lying down.
Heart
Purring at. Feels; as if tired, big, or full. Consciousness of heart. Throbbing felt in head and in ears, preventing sleep. PULSE QUICK OUT OF ALL PROPORTION TO TEMPERATURE. OR THE REVERSE. Heart failure threatens in septic and zymotic states.
Neck and Back
Throbbing in vessels of neck. Weak feeling in the back.
Extremities
Aching in all limbs and bones. Nails threaten to fly off or feel loose. Automatic movement of arm and leg (right). Pain in shoulder (right) worse coughing, talking.
Skin
Pale. Cold. Obstinate varicosis. Offensive ulcers of old persons. Rapid decubitus of septic origin. Small cut or injury becomes much swollen and inflamed.
Sleep
Whispers in sleep. Sleepless from brain activity.
Fever
Chilly, wants to breathe heat of fire. Chills start between scapulae; felt in bones, with sweat; at night. Slowly advancing hectic. Sweats, without relief. Cold; hot. Quickly oscillating temperature.
Related
Anthr; Ars; Bapt; Echi.
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'.