Generalities
Radium Bromide is found effective in skin affections; rheumatism and gout; nerves are affected causing suddenly shifting or electric pains; must lie down. Dull, hard aching pains all over, deep in joints; very restless; had to keep moving about. Dry burning heat, as if on fire, through the entire body; craves cool air. Electric shock through the body, during sleep. Weakness, lassitude, tiredness. Lateness in appearance of symptoms. Constriction; chest, heart etc., with air hunger. Numbness worse stretching the part. Necrotic changes. Effects of X-Ray burns. Removes small naevi, moles, ulcers. Cancer. Lymphoid tissue.
Worse
Motion. Shaving. Washing. Smoking. Getting up.
Better
Open air. Hot bath. Cold drinks. Continued motion. After sleep. Pressure. Eating.
Mind
Fear of being alone; of the dark; wants to have someone near. Cross. Easily vexed.
Head
Pain over right eye spreading back to occiput and in vertex, better heat. Vertigo, with pain in occiput. Pain in vertex and occiput, with severe aching in lumbar region.
Eyes
Red, smarting worse reading. Sensation as if pieces of cotton in eyes better rubbing.
Ears
Sound of rushing water better lying on face.
Nose
Itching and dryness of nasal cavities. Burning in.
Face
Flushed. Aching pain in angle of right lower jaw. Violent trifacial neuralgia. Acne rosacea.
Mouth
Dry. Breath seems hot. Metallic taste. Pricking at the tip of tongue.
Throat
Sore, raw with earache. Feeling in throat as from eating pepper.
Stomach
Craves pork. Aversion to sweets; to ice-creams, of which she is usually very fond of. Usual food not relished; sour things taste good.
Abdomen
Alternating, with chest or ear symptoms. Nausea better eating. Colic better bending double and passing stools. Rectum sore, prolapsed. Stools, at noon; soft, dark, or offensive, slate coloured.
Urinary
Dysuria, then erection. Nephritis, with rheumatism.
Male
Eczema of penis and inner surface of thighs. Itching.
Female
Aching over pubes during menses. Right breast sore, better hard rubbing. Itching genitals. Menses last one day; then bloody leucorrhoea. Uterine haemorrhage, when Ipecac fails. Lochia putrid, scanty or suppressed. Leucorrhoea; white and scanty; curdy and cheesy.
Respiratory
Persistent cough from tickling in throat pit worse lying; smoking; better eating and open air; sitting up; exercise. Tightness of chest; feels as if she could not get enough air. Chest pain alternating with indigestion and stuffed up feeling.
Heart
Constriction at. Awakes with palpitation. Pulse, rapid, irregular, fluttering. Blood pressure low.
Neck and Back
Pain and lameness in cervical vertebrae worse dropping head forwards better standing and sitting erect. Weak between scapulae. Ascending lumbar pain better exercise, walking. Lumbo- sacral bone pains, better hot bath, worse going upstairs.
Extremities
Deep pain in joints; knees and ankles. Limbs feel hard and brittle as if they would break. Rheumatism of the hands. Cold. Numb.
Skin
Irritable, thick, burning; itching; moist if scratched; worse face and genitals; Branny scabs. Scabby; on ears. Eczema. Psoriasis. Sclero-derma. Callosities. Cancer. Dermatitis.
Sleep
Awakes panting; with palpitation. Dreams vivid; of fire; seem true.
Fever
Cold sensation internally with chattering of teeth.
Related
Pho; Puls; Rhus-r.
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'.