Generalities
Commonly known as yellow snow rose is a gouty rheumatic remedy; affecting the FIBROUS TISSUES; fore arm; lower legs, small joints; bones; genitals; nerves; single parts. SENSITIVE TO WINDY OR STORMY WET WEATHER; even if he is in the house; nervous persons who are afraid of thunder. Tearing, zigzag, boring, rapidly changing, descending; paralytic pains. Great weakness after slight exertion. Formication; with sweat. Chorea before storm. Symptoms alternate. Undulating sensation.
Worse
BEFORE STORMS. Weather; rough, windy; cold, damp; changing, cloudy. Night. Midsummer. Wine. Rest. Eating fruit. Getting wet. Catching cold.
Better
After storm breaks. Heat; in sun, when sun shines. Motion, at once. Wrapping head.
Mind
Confused and stupid. Forgets what he is talking about; leaves out whole words while writing. Fear of thunder in nervous persons. Aversion to his business. Easily affected by wine.
Head
Ache worse early in the morning better eating. Throbbing in right head. Drawing, tearing under scalp. Vertigo, when lying in bed, better when moving about. Hair stands up as if electrified.
Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia, involving orbit, eyeball and head worse before storm. Heat in eyes when using them. Red hot needles darting from within out.
Ears
Sensation as of a worm. Deafness; long after rising (hearing better in the morning). Noises come on after the patient has been up, a few hours. Tinnitus with vertigo.
Nose
Nostrils obstructed alternately; with fluent coryza; better in open air.
Face
Prosopalgia; violent tearing jerking pains better eating and warmth.
Mouth
Toothache better eating and warmth. Toothache ceases suddenly; worse again in two, or three hours.
Stomach
Heavy pressure from cold drinks. Feels full after a little food. Green, bitter vomiting, after drinking cold water.
Abdomen
Colic at navel. Pain from rectum to genitals. Flatus felt in back. Diarrhoea worse fruits; does not weaken. Sickening pain in spleen on walking fast. Undulating sensation arising from.
Urinary
Frequent urging to urinate with drawing in the region of the bladder. Pain in urethra as from subcutaneous ulceration. Urine; profuse; foul, greenish.
Male
Drawing from spermatic cord into abdomen and thighs. Testes; swollen, painful, drawn up, feel crushed. Glans feels crushed. Testes indurated; pain alternately. Orchitis. Itching, wrinkled, sweaty, scrotum. Hydrocele; of boys; from birth.
Female
Suppressed menses. Fever; with headache, with each menstrual period. Serous cysts in vagina. Burning in uterine region, after parturition, alternating with pain in limbs, fingers spasmodically flexed.
Respiratory
Bruised, sprained feeling in chest. Breathless and speechless, from violent pleuritic pains, running down anterior chest.
Heart
Warm undulation at heart. Heartbeat strong.
Back and Neck
Neck and nape stiff. Sacrum pains worse sitting.
Extremities
Bruised, sprained feeling in wrist. Hands feel warm in cold weather. Lower legs; cold, skin wrinkled, feel as if asleep. As of a weight hanging to feet. Rheumatic tearing in all limbs. Drawing, tearing in periosteum of long bones. Rheumatism of hot weather. Feet cold even in warm room, even in bed. Pain in tendo achilles on stepping.
Sleep
Cannot sleep unless legs are crossed. Awakes, as if called.
Fever
Formication and itching of skin with sweat.
Related
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'.