Generalities
This element is found associated with Sulphur and Tellurium, and is a constant constituent of bones and teeth. It has marked effects on the nerves OF GENITO-URINARY ORGANS and supra orbital (left); LARYNX and liver are also affected. Patient becomes easily debilitated by heat or hot weather; a little mental or physical exertion makes him sleepy. Debility after exhausting diseases; after fevers. Senility; early. Emaciation; of single parts, face, hands, thighs etc. Pulsation in the whole body esp. in abdomen; worse eating. Cramps; then stiffness. Biting; here and there. Ill effects of debauchery, tea, sugar, salt, lemonade, loss of vital fluids, masturbation, sexual excess, over-study. Troubles in general accompanying escape of semen esp. when straining at stool.
Worse
Hot days. Loss of sleep; night watching. Touch. After sleep. Singing. Draft of air, even if warm. After stools. Coition. Wine.
Better
After sunset. Inhaling cool air. Drinking cold water.
Mind
Total unfitness for any kind of work. Forgetful in business remembers all that he has forgotten during sleep. Talkativeness, when excited; stammers, pronounces some words incorrectly. Sadness. Difficult comprehension. Forgetful when awakes, and dreams of it as he falls half asleep. Lascivious thoughts, with impotency. Imagines drafts or air. Fails to understand what he hears or reads. Aversion, to draft, of air, warm cold or damp. Dread of society.
Head
Pain over left eye Agg. walking in the sun; strong odours like musk, rose and tea, with increased secretion of urine. Nervous headaches. Scalp feels gathered together. Falling of hair; from eyebrows, whiskers and genitals. Does not want hair touched. Pain in the scalp as if hair were pulled out.
Ears
Deafness from hardened wax.
Nose
Coryza ending in diarrhoea. Inclination to bore fingers in the nose. Obstruction of nose; chronic. Full of thick glairy mucous.
Face
Emaciated. Comedones. Greasy, shining.
Mouth
Toothache, from drinking tea; with a feeling of coldness better taking cold water or air in mouth.
Stomach
Thirstless. Craves stimulants, brandy, tea etc. Aversion to saltish food. Pulsation all over the body esp. in abdomen after eating which hinders sleep. Sweetish taste. Irresistible desire to get drunk.
Abdomen
Chronic liver affections. Liver enlarged, with stitching pain Agg. inspiration, and a fine rash over liver region. Stools; very large, impacted, so hard that requires mechanical aid. Filament like hair in faeces.
Urinary
Urine; involuntary, dribbling. When walking; after urination and after stool. Coarse sand in urine. As if biting drop forcing its way.
Male
Lascivious but impotent. Increases desire, decreases ability. Semen dribbles during sleep. Easy loss of semen; during coition, with feeble erection, but long continued voluptuous thrill; during stools. Semen watery, odourless. Chronic gleet. Oozing of prostatic fluid, during sleep, while sitting, walking and at stool. Hydrocele.
Female
Copious menses of dark colour. Throbbing in abdomen during pregnancy, Agg. eating.
Respiratory
Voice hoarse,-as soon as he begins to sing, talk or read; affected by even cold. Voice rattles. Nodes on vocal cords. Hawks up clear mucus; in the morning. Frequent necessity to clear the throat; in singers. Takes deep breath. Tubercular laryngitis. Dry hacking cough Agg. in the morning. Expectoration of lumps of bloody mucus. Weak feeling in the chest.
Neck and Back
The back becomes almost paralytic after a temporary illness. Glands of neck large and hard. Paralytic pain in small of back better lying on abdomen.
Extremities
Emaciation of hands; of legs. Sudden sciatic pain (left) leaves soreness behind.
Sleep
Is prevented by pulsations all over the body esp. in abdomen. Awakes early and at the same hour.
Fever
Sweat, profuse; yellow, leaves a salty deposit; stiffens the linen or makes the hair stiff and wiry; Agg. genitals.
Skin
Itching about ankles and about fold of skin. Oily. Remains moist after scratching. Burning spots. Crusty eruptions on palms. Psoriasis of palms. Acne.
Related
Calc-c; Merc; Nat-m; Nux-v; Sep; Sulph.
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'.