Generalities
It affects the nerves, causing numerous and varied pains; neither fixed nor constant anywhere; sharp pains; neuralgias. Mucous membranes of larynx, trachea, bowels and THROAT PIT are affected, producing dryness and sensitiveness. Acts on joints, esp. ankles; skin, left side; chest. Mucous secretions decrease causing stickiness, with burning. Obesity. Lymphatics enlarged and secretions perverted. Every cold affects the joints.
Worse
COOL AIR; INHALING; open air; change; warm to cold; cold to warm. Uncovering. Night. Pressure; on trachea. Talking. Deep breathing or irregular breathing. Motion. Eating; after meals.
Better
Covering mouth. Wrapping up.
Mind
Low spirited; with serious expression of the face. Indifferent about his surroundings.
Head
Darting sharp pain in the left side.
Eyes
Burn; indoors; puffed up in a.m.
Nose
Feeling of dryness in posterior nares. Sneezing attacks; fluent coryza. Itching that extends from the end of the nose to pharynx.
Face
Sodden. Pale, while standing.
Mouth
Toothache entirely better after dinner; rinsing mouth with cold water.
Throat
Hawks much tenacious mucus. Throat feels hollow. Lump not better by hawking, descends and rises again after swallowing.
Stomach
Ravenous appetite. As of a hard substance in the pit of stomach. Pain in the left breast after meals. Talking worse stomach symptoms. Gastralgia; aching through the back, obliged to breath deeply. Tight suffocative heavy ache in epigastrium, to back; clothes feel tight. Eating meat causes eructation and pruritus. Nausea better by eructations.
Abdomen
Creeping near navel better by discharge of offensive flatus. Stools; sudden; profuse; foul; painless; brown black, or thin watery, driving him out of bed; in the morning (5 to 9 a.m.); in phthisis, after catarrh. Itching in anus with sensation as of a stick in rectum. Annoying rumbling flatulence; in women.
Urinary
Sudden urging; involuntary with cough.
Female
Pain right ovary to back.
Respiratory
EVERY BREATH OF COLD AIR, CAUSES TICKLING, as from a feather or dust in THROAT PIT AND CONTINUOUS COUGH better closing or covering the mouth or head, worse touching throat pit; lying on left side. Dry teasing cough preventing sleep. Profuse frothy, thin expectoration. Sputum comes by mouthfuls. Dyspnoea on retiring. Suffocative choking. Respiration worse in wind. Cough provoked by changing rooms, by change from cold to warm and warm to cold. Pain, rawness or burning under clavicle as if the air penetrated there worse hawking. Pain; under sternum; under right nipple. Burning sticking pain in left chest near the heart, worse deep breathing. Barking cough. Cough comes regularly at l p.m., 2 and 5 a.m.; children. Cough daytime only. Cough worse during early pregnancy may cause miscarriage. Clavicular pain worse hawking.
Heart
Feels as if suddenly stopped followed by heavy throbbing through the chest.
Back
Pain under scapulae; right.
Extremities
Pain in left shoulder on coughing, on raising arms. Hands cold when coughing. Spasmodic cramps in ankles and feet.
Skin
Intense itching worse lower limbs; worse exposure to cold air or undressing. Acne vulgaris on back.
Sleep
Sudden sleepiness.
Fever
Sweat on waking from a sound sleep.
Related
Caust; Seneg.
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'.