Generalities
It is a painful remedy, affecting NERVES; muscles; eyes; serous membranes; CHEST; skin; fingers, toes and left side. The PAINS are stitching; stabbing; shooting; extort tears; with shuddering; cannot rest in any position. Burning; biting; bruised soreness or as of deep ulceration. Sore spots. Neuralgia. Sudden weakness and fainting. Trembling; from anger. Distended feeling. Sensitive to air and touch. Burning in small spots; from sedentary living. Shocks through the whole body. Chronic sciatica. Bad effects of alcohol; injury; fright, vexation. Weak and tottering patients, the result of prolonged use of whisky, brandy or other alcoholic stimulants. Epilepsy; of drunkards. As of a cold wet cloth esp. on chest worse on going into cold air.
Worse
AIR- damp; cold; open, drafts. Change; of temperature; of position. Alcohol. Motion; of arms. Breathing. Touch. Eating. Fright, vexation, anger. Rainy and stormy weather. Standing.
Better
Standing. Sitting bent forward.
Mind
Great fear of ghosts in the evening, dares not to be alone. Quarrelsome. Depression of spirit, and desire to die. Delirium tremens, with hiccough.
Head
As if too large and distended. Aching in forehead and vertex as if pressed asunder; with nausea and sleepiness. Creeping sensation in scalp. Tic (right) to ear.
Eyes
Smarting as from smoke. Balls sore on moving them. Day and night blindness. Herpes on cornea with intense pain, photophobia and lachrymation. Hemiopia; during pregnancy. Lids burn.
Nose
Crawling and tingling in nostrils, in posterior nares; tries to relieve it by hawking and blowing the nose.
Mouth
Crawling on palate; wants to scratch it. Cramp, spasms of lips. Increased saliva. Butter tastes too sweet.
Throat
Scrapping, burning down the throat.
Stomach
Spasmodic hiccough; of drunkards.
Abdomen
Hypochondria bruised. Tenderness to pressure. Pinching colic; alternating with chest pains. Jaundice; itching of body esp. palms.
Respiratory
Anxious, oppressed breathing; with desire to draw deep breath. Dyspnoea, from anger. Small sore spot as from subcutaneous ulceration in chest. SHARP, CUTTING, STITCHING in chest; bilateral. Chilliness in chest when walking in open air; on breathing cold air. Pleurodynia. Pleurisy; adhesions after intercostal neuralgia.
Back
Muscular pain along inner edge of left scapula from sitting bent; from needlework, type writing, piano playing; extending through lower half of left chest. Scapula adherent. Muscles of neck rigidly contracted, can speak only by moving shoulders up and down.
Extremities
Crawling and tingling in fingers. Itching palms. Sudden jerking, stitching pain in forearm (right) while writing. Pain in heels as if pinched by boots.
Skin
BLUISH VESICLES. Burning and intense itching worse touch. Shingles. Pemphigus. Horny scabs. Corrosive ichor. Flat burning, stinging ulcers. Corns, smart or burn worse touch.
Fever
Chilliness, worse open air.
Related
Canth; Rhus-t.
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'.