Generalities
Known as pink root, markedly affects the NERVES; TRIFACIAL; HEART; EYES, teeth, fibrous tissue and LEFT SIDE. It produces combined heart and eye symptoms or the latter as an accompaniment. PAINS are violent, burning, like hot needles or wires, jerking, tearing, stitching; radiating to other parts. Neuralgia. Sun pains. It is adapted to anaemic, debilitated, rheumatic and scrofulous subjects. Very sensitive to touch; parts touched or bruised, feel chilly or causes tingling or shuddering through the body. Children afflicted with worms; refer to navel as the most painful part. Body feels light while walking; heavy and sore when rising from a seat.
Worse
TOUCH. MOTION. Jar. Periodically; with the sun. Tobacco. Coition. Raising arms. After eating. Thinking of it. Stooping. Blowing nose. Expiration.
Better
Lying on right side with head high. Inspiring. Steady pressure. While eating.
Mind
Afraid of pointed things; pins, needles. Restless and anxious. Sits as if lost in thought; stares at a single object. Gloomy suicidal mood. Easily offended.
Head
Pain from left occiput to over left eye, worse stooping; making a false step, opening mouth. Vertigo; the feet as if higher than head; worse looking down, must look straight ahead, worse standing, walking. Supra-orbital neuralgia. Feels too large.
Eyes
Feel too large. Severe pain in and around the eyes, extending deep into socket, worse thinking of them. Squint with worms. Eyes; red; sore, drawing ache; yellow rings about. As if needles were thrust in. Lachrymation; profuse, from affected side; tears acrid. Difficulty in raising the eyelids with painful sensation of stiffness. Inclination to wink. Difficult to fit glasses, no settled focus, no fixed vision; latent errors of vision. Eso and exophoria. Pricking in lids. Everted eyelids.
Ears
Periodical deafness; ears feel as if stuffed.
Nose
Chronic catarrh with post nasal droppings. Tickling and itching of nose. Dry anteriorly. Flow of water during prosopalgia.
Face
Prosopalgia involving eye, zygoma, cheek, teeth; temples. worse touch, stooping; from morning until sunset; drinking tea; suddenly going and coming.
Mouth
Breath offensive. Toothache worse after eating and cold, when thinking of it better tobacco smoke. Tongue; coated yellow or white; burning or stitches in; cracked.
Stomach
Aversion to tobacco smoke, and snuff. Ravenous hunger. Nausea with sensation of a worm rising in throat.
Abdomen
Colic, with pinching pains in the umbilical region. Stools of only large lumps of mucous. Itching, tickling in anus and rectum. Worms. Very offensive flatus. Faints at stool.
Urinary
Urine copious, with frequent urging, mostly at night.
Respiratory
Dyspnoea worse moving in bed; raising arms; must lie on right side, width head high. Hydrothorax. Heart disease. Stitches in chest worse least motion or when breathing. Trembling in chest.
Heart
PALPITATION; violent, audible; attending other symptoms. Violent sticking or compressive pains, radiating to throat; arms, scapula, worse least motion, or bending double. Palpitation, with foul odour from mouth. Soreness, purring; cracking in the region of heart. Pericarditis. Angina pectoris with craving for hot water which better. Rheumatic carditis. Pulse; intermittent, with nervous palpitation; weak tremulous irregular. Throbbing of carotids and subclavian arteries.
Neck and Back
Neck stiff; pains into right temple or pain from left shoulder to neck. Cutting about the left scapula.
Extremities
Left arm numb. Pulsation in patellae.
Fever
Heat; flushes at night; in back. Sweat offensive; on upper part of the body; on hands, cold.
Related
Cact.
Complementary
Calcarea
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'.