Generalities
More acrid and irritating than Ran-b; causing rawness; burning-smarting, eating, gnawing or boring pains. CHEST, skin; vertex and right side is specially affected. Pains cause fainting or shortness of breath. Feels sore all over. Periodical affections. Convulsive twitches. Sensation as of a plug.
Worse
Motion. Evening. Deep breathing. Touch. Letting limb hang down. After midnight.
Better
After midnight, pains.
Mind
Indolence and aversion to mental occupation.
Head
Gnawing pain in small spot on vertex; or either temples. Biting, itching on the scalp.
Nose
Fluent coryza with sneezing; with burning urination.
Face
As if covered with cobwebs.
Mouth
Blunt teeth; with toothache. Mapped tongue. Burning and rawness of tongue; denuded patches. Tongue cracks and peels off.
Throat
Burning scraping in throat.
Stomach
Nausea worse after midnight. Pain, with fainting.
Abdomen
As of a plug behind umbilicus. Pain over region of liver as if diarrhoea would set in.
Respiratory
Stitches in chest muscles; chest and sternum are sensitive to touch. As of a plug forced between ribs, worse deep breathing. Sore burning behind sternum.
Heart
As of a plug in heart.
Extremities
Gout of fingers and toes. Gnawing in knee; left palm. Corns with burning soreness worse hanging down feet. Sudden stitches in big toes, passing into burning.
Skin
Yellow vesicles. Bullae; with acrid contents. Pemphigus.
Sleep
Dreadful dreams; of dead bodies, snakes and of fights.
Related
Ars; Arum-t.