Generalities
FEMALE PELVIC ORGANS; uterus are mostly affected by this remedy. In addition it affects the fibrous tissue; of small joints; serous membranes and heels. It is suitable to hot blooded women with gouty rheumatic diathesis; and haemorrhagic tendency; epistaxis, haematuria etc. Tendency to abortion esp. at the third month. Violent pulsations; wants windows open. Heaviness and indolence of body, wants to lie down. Red shiny swelling of affected parts. Acutely inflamed arthritic nodes. Sense of fullness. Wart like growths. Pain increases suddenly and decreases slowly.
Worse
Night. HEAT; of bed; room; exertion. Pregnancy. Climacteric. Foggy weather. Stooping. Letting limbs hang down. Taking a deep breath. Music.
Better
Cold. Cool. Open air. Exhalation.
Mind
Music is intolerable; produces nervousness. Melancholy. Sad.
Head
Bursting headache; appears suddenly, diminishes slowly and returns frequently. Vertigo with suppressed menses.
Mouth
Toothache worse only when chewing. Drawing pain in the muscles of jaws. Bitter taste; to food esp. milk or coffee.
Stomach
Desire for lemonade. Heartburn. Pain from epigastrium to back.
Abdomen
Plethoric. Quivering as if something were alive, resembling foetal movements. Haemorrhoids with discharge of bright red blood causing pain from sacrum to pubes. Piles alternate with pain in limbs.
Urinary
Vesical irritability; with gouty diathesis. Bloody urine, with much urging. Throbbing, burning at the region of kidneys.
Male
Sexual desire increased, with violent continuous erections. Sycotic excrescences; with burning soreness. Hard swelling on dorsum of penis.
Female
Itching genitals; almost insatiable desire for coition. Menses; too profuse, too early; gushing of hot, bright, watery blood; mixed with dark clots, worse least motion but often better by walking; with pain in joints; WITH PAIN FROM SACRUM TO PUBES or Reverse; or shooting up vagina. Bleeding between periods; with sexual excitement. Leucorrhoea; foul, acrid, thick, yellow, from suppressed menses, or copious menses; with itching of pudenda; during pregnancy. Pruritus of pregnancy. Retained placenta. Severe after pains. Promotes expulsion of moles. Crawling in nipples. Haemorrhages after abortion. Ovaritis and Metritis after abortion; premature labour. Dysmenorrhoea better lying flat on the back, with limbs extended. Voluptuous itching in nipples.
Heart
Violent pulsation in blood vessels in whole body.
Back
Pain from lumbar region to pubis or reverse.
Extremities
Swelling, redness and stitches in right big toe. Shooting in heels. Diminishes knots, and enlargements and varices in veins. Intermittent aching in the solar part of the heels.
Fever
Intolerable burning heat of whole body, with great restlessness.
Skin
Foul, itching, burning, moist figwarts. Black pores in skin, esp. face.
Related
Ars; Caul; Pulsatilla
Complementary
Thuja
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'.