Generalities
This remedy was used as a restorative and blood purifier after exhausting course of mercury. It meets syphilitic, sycotic and psoric constitutions. Its chief centre of action is on the genito-urinary organs; skin; bones, right lower extremity. It is suited to thin; frail; shrivelled, old looking persons, esp. children with enlarged abdomen. Marasmus; emaciation. Parts feel screwed together. Nightly bone pains. Pains shoot in different directions and are accompanied by depression and anxiety. As if salt were put upon the wound. Lithic diathesis, itching eruptions; following hot weather and vaccinations. Very sore gouty nodes. Rheumatism. Clears the complexion.
Worse
At the dose of urination. Spring. Cold, wet. Mercury. Night. Suppressed gonorrhoea. Yawning. Motion. Going up and down stairs.
Better
Uncovering neck and chest. Standing.
Mind
Depression and anxiety from pain. Thinking about the food he has been eating causes nausea. Easily offended. Taciturn. Despondent, gloomy without any cause.
Head
Pains from occiput to eyes, or to root of nose. As if ball was striking in head when talking. As of a painful tight band around the head, removes the hat involuntarily without better.
Eyes
Foggy vision worse seminal emission. Itch like eruptions on eyelids.
Ears
Words reverberate in.
Nose
Stoppage for years. Swelling at the root of nose.
Face
Eruptions on face and upper lips; worse during menses. Yellow, wrinkled, old looking.
Mouth
Aphthae; salivation. Offensive breath. Pain in jaw worse bending head back.
Stomach
After a meal, sensation of emptiness, as while fasting or else nausea or disgust when thinking of what has been eaten. Drinking water causes vomiting.
Abdomen
Colic and backache at the same time, with diarrhoea. Rumbling with sensation of emptiness. Sand in stools. Moist eruptions and soreness in groins before menses. Cholera infantum. Obstinate constipation with frequent want to urinate.
Urinary
Painful urination, extorts screams worse at the close of urination. Can pass urine only when standing; during the day but at night urine flows freely in bed; it dribbles while sitting. Urging to urinate before menses. Passes drops of blood or white acrid material at the close of urination. Sand on diaper. Air passes from bladder during urination. Crusty urinary sediment. Pain in urethra going back to abdomen. Jerking along the urethra. Renal colic (right). Pus in urine.
Male
Genitals moist and offensive. Semen bloody. Spermatic cord, painful after emission; swollen after unrequited sexual excitement. Herpes preputialis. Jerking along urethra. Itching on scrotum and perineum.
Female
Nipples retracted or cracked, small and shrivelled. Menses late and scanty. Dysmenorrhoea, characterised by retracted nipples, or sore breast.
Neck and Back
Emaciation of neck. Pain from small of back down the spermatic cord; after emission. Backache with colic.
Extremities
Cutting under nails. Deep cracks on fingers and toes worse sides. Ulcerated finger tips. Affections of any kind in general, in right lower extremity.
Sleep
Yawning; complaints concomitant to yawning.
Fever
Chill starts from region of bladder, to back.
Skin
Emaciated, shrivelled, lies in folds; blotchy, hard. Itching scaly spots. Irritating pus. Copper coloured eruptions. Ecchymoses, in old age. Oedema. New skin cracks and burns.
Related
Calc; Petroleum
Complementary
Merc; 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'.