Generalities
MUCOUS MEMBRANES OF NOSE; lachrymal glands; ANUS and digestive tract are affected by this remedy. NERVES are affected producing weakness, nervousness; startled easily. Nervous symptoms reflex from worms; twitching, convulsive trembling or catalepsy. Formication. Alternate nervous and bodily symptoms. Hysteria, after fright. Ill effects of fright; mental exertion; thinking. Worms; causing convulsions, nymphomania etc. Imaginary diseases. Cutting pains in bones.
Worse
COLD-air; drinks. Periodically; every week, two weeks. Four weeks; same hour; forenoon; new and full moon. Odours; undeveloped exanthemata. Mental exertion.
Better
Open air. Heat. Eating. Swallowing. Quick motion of affected part.
Mind
Miserable. Timid. Easily startled. Erroneous (fixed) ideas about himself; imagines he is very sick; that parts are sunken; limbs are crooked, chin is elongated; one side larger than the other; that she has a cancer or is pregnant. No response to questions, loss of consciousness, then he jumps up and runs recklessly through the room. Rage. Mania better washing head in cold water.
Head
Vertigo, with sensation as though all things were turning around each other; sudden on waking at night, or rising from stooping; with black vision and faintness, better resting head on table. Unilateral head pains; or alternating sides; worse thinking. better eating. Burning, itching, crawling on hair scalp better scratching. Headache in school girls.
Eyes
Lids red, burning. Lachrymation; worse during pain; sneezing, coughing, yawning; when walking in open air; during chill.
Ears
Difficulty of hearing, as if there were bands over ear.
Nose
Persistent VIOLENT, or ABORTIVE SNEEZING. ITCHING; tickling in; rubs or picks at it. Nose dry. Tickling in nose spreads over the whole body then dyspnoea. Hay fever. Influenza. Sensitive smell. One or the other nostril stuffed up. Fluent coryza; the discharge is worse from the odour of flowers, even thinking of flowers increases the discharge. Cannot tolerate the smell of garlic. Stubborn, lingering coryza. Hawks bright red blood from nasopharynx.
Face
Feels hot, fiery red. Lips hot burns as if scalded. Cracking of jaw joint on opening the mouth wide.
Mouth
And tongue as if they were burnt. Itching of the soft palate. Sweetish taste. Cannot bear anything hot or cold in mouth.
Throat
Cannot protrude tongue with sore throat. As of a lump, morsel, thread or skin hanging in throat, with constant inclination to swallow. Sore throat; left to right worse empty swallowing better hot drinks. Tonsillitis after coryza.
Stomach
Craves; hot things, sweets, milk. No relish for food until she takes first mouthful then she makes a good meal; during pregnancy. Canine hunger, for sweets and farinaceous food. Thirstless. Coldness or empty feeling in. Aversion to all food, meat, sour things, coffee, garlic.
Abdomen
Bowels feel knotted. As of a lump or thread moving rapidly in. Burning, frothy, loose brown, floating stools. Crawling, itching, at anus; alternating with itching in nose or ears. Pin worms.
Female
Nymphomania from worms. Menses; too late, come by fits and starts; intermit; sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker.
Respiratory
Violent coughing attacks; muffled, worse anger; with lachrymation. Asthmatic breathing with itching skin, nose and anus. Red spots on chest. Pleurisy with great paralytic debility.
Heart
Palpitation, with pulsations through whole body.
Extremities
Upward jerking of arms. Cracks between and under toes. Cutting pains in bones. Thick deformed horny nails. Red spots on arms and hands. Yellow spots on fingers. Swelling of feet, with painful soles.
Sleep
Comes on when thinking, meditating, reading.
Fever
Shivering as a concomitant. Thirst after chill only. Chill from below upwards. Lachrymation with chill.
Skin
Itching with asthmatic breathing. Dry, like parchment.
Related
Ars; Puls; Urt-u.
Complementary
Sepia
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'.