Generalities
Nervous affections with trembling is a marked feature of this remedy. It produces both_physical and moral, sexual disturbances, provokes excess and irregular sexual appetite and a tendency to masturbation and the physical state corresponding to the effect of that habit. Acts on TEETH; URINARY ORGANS; fibrous tissue; of lids, tarsi; skin; glands and right deltoid. Morbidly sensitive; the least word that seems wrong, hurts her very much; special senses become irritable, cannot tolerate; touch, odour, noise, taste everything is painfully sensated. Squeezing, or stinging smarting pains; as if cut. Pains that move into teeth. Sphincters; lacerated and stretched. LACERATED TISSUE; perineum etc. Stitch pains, remaining after operations. Ill effects of anger and insults; reserved; anger, injury, falls; clean cut wounds; operations; sexual; abuse, excess; dentition, tobacco, mercury. Painful swelling of glands. Arthritic nodosities on joints. Swelling and suppuration of bones; of periosteum. Exostosis. Warts. Condylomata. Hemiplegia after anger. Stiffness and sensation of fatigue in all joints. Whole body painful with feeling of weakness.
Worse
Emotions-chagrin; vexation; indignation; quarrels. Sexual excess. Onanism. Touch. Cold drinks. Lacerations. Stretching parts. Coition. After urinating; when not urinating. Night. New moon; before full moon.
Better
Warmth. Rest. Break-fast. Coition.
Mind
Violent outbursts of passion. Always angry. Gloomy and petulant; throws things. Child cries for many things and refuses them when offered. Poor memory. Dwells on sexual matters. Unsatisfied sexual urge; in widows. Snappish; sensitive mentally and physically. Hypochondriasis. Imagines insults. Irritable, nervous, excitable and violent. Great indignation about the things done by others or by himself; grieves about the consequences. Believes he will lose his fortune, his wife will leave him. Ailments from reserved displeasure. Very sensitive to what others say about her. Sadness without any cause; with irritability. Ill effects after scolding or punishment in children. Want of self control. Fear; afraid of his shadow.
Head
Compressive, stupefying headache better much yawning; leaning head against something. Brain feels squeezed or torn. As of a heavy load or of a round ball in forehead. Moist foul, eroding milk crusts worse occiput. Dandruff. Head lice. Falling of hair. Vertigo better by walking about in a circle, or turning rapidly on heels. Cerebrum feels numb and occiput feels hollow. Hair falls off from occiput and around ears.
Eyes
Feel dry, with lachrymation. Nodes on lids. Styes; recurrent. Blepharitis. Bursting, burning pain in eyeballs, of syphilitic iritis. Sunken; with blue rings around. Hot tears run off the eyes (left) on looking at the sun.
Ears
Hardness of hearing from enlarged tonsils; in children from adenoids.
Nose
Coryza now thick now thin; with ulcerations. Frequent sneezing without coryza.
Face
Sickly, peaked, nose, Neuralgia from caries; pains go into the eyes. Sub-maxillary glands painful with or without swelling; abscess. Prosopalgia, pain starts from lips over face worse mastication.
Mouth
Teeth, loose; black; crumbling; show dark streaks; worse eating and during menses better hard pressure and heat. Pale bleeding gums. Pyorrhoea. Musty taste. Exceedingly tender decayed teeth; on being filled. Teeth decay as soon as they erupt. Fistula dentalis. Stomatitis. Thrush.
Throat
Swallows continuously while talking. Tonsils swollen; stitch runs up to ear on swallowing. Induration and hypertrophy of tonsils, with nasal voice.
Stomach
Hungry; even when stomach is full. Desire for bread, stimulants, tobacco, milk. As if stomach were hanging down relaxed. Nausea, specially after operations.
Abdomen
Feeling of weakness in abdomen, as if it would drop, wants to hold it up. Severe pain after abdominal operations. Swollen (in children) with much flatus. Colic; biliary; after anger. Flatus hot, smells like rotten eggs. Dysenteric stools, worse after the least food or drink. Diarrhoea from drinking cold water. Piles very sensitive worse by touch. Dysentery in weak ailing, pot bellied children.
Urinary
Frequent urging to urinate; with scanty or profuse discharge of watery urine; urinates in thin stream or drop by drop. Sensation as if a drop of urine rolling continuously along the urethra; worse after walking or riding; better urinating. Burning in urethra when not urinating. Ineffectual urging to urinate in newly married women; in pregnancy. After urination, urging as if the bladder was not empty. Cystocele.
Male
Persistently dwells on sexual subjects. Sexual neurasthenia. Priapism. Seminal emissions followed by great prostration. Dyspnoea, worse during or after coition. Voluptuous itching of scrotum. Prostatitis, pain extends from anus to urethra. Soft humid excrescences behind corona glandis. Enlarged prostate with piles. Orchitis; from mumps. Atrophy of testicles.
Female
Sexual desire increased, mind dwells too much on sexual subjects. Painful sensitiveness of genital organs worse sitting down. Ovarian pains, going into thighs worse pressure; coition. Salpingitis. Amenorrhoea from indignation. Granular vegetations of vagina. Itching or sensitive vulva. Menses; regular, with aching around hips and loss of power in limbs. First coition is very painful, causing acute mental and bodily suffering.
Respiratory
Dyspnoea with constriction, at close of coition or after seminal emission. Cough worse cleaning teeth; tobacco smoke, eating meat or alternating with sciatica.
Heart
Tremulous palpitation when listening to music.
Neck and Back
Pain in small of the back, as after overlifting, worse coition in morning and rising from a seat.
Extremities
Fine tearing or numb finger tips. Bones of fingers imperfectly developed; osteitis of fingers. Arthritic nodes on finger joints. Crural neuralgia. Feel beaten and painful. Knees weak. Shuffling gait. Buttocks ache while sitting.
Sleep
Violent yawning and stretching brings tears to the eyes. Child wakes, pushes everything away and wants everybody to go out; calls for mother often. Amorous dreams with emissions. Sleepy all day, awake all night. Body aches all over.
Fever
Wants to uncover. Sweat; profuse, cold, smelling like rotten Eggs, with a desire to uncover. Inability to sweat.
Skin
Pain that precedes shingles. Skin symptoms alternating with joint pains. Biting, itching as of vermin; changing place on scratching. Eczema with thick scabs, itching violently. Dry pedunculated figwarts. Ulcers new growth extremely sensitive; touch may bring on convulsions.
Related
Cham; Mercurius
Complementary
Caust; Coloc.
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'.