Generalities
This remedy corresponds to the poisoning of NERVES and BRAIN. BRAIN AND NERVES ARE FAGGED; tissues are worn out faster than they can be repaired; causing depression and enervation. Cannot throw things off, cannot develop exanthemata or discharges. Period of depression in disease. Marked anaemia; increasing weakness; worse eating; with restlessness. Poisoning by suppressed discharges and eruptions. Isolated effects; formication. One part numb another sensitive, one part hot, other part cold. Pain in spots; between skin and flesh. Trembling; internal. Convulsive twitching or jerking worse at night, during sleep, spasms; from spinal injuries. Fidgety feet and other automatic motions of mouth, arms and hands. Feels numb, all over, on lying down. Neuralgia after shingles better touch. Transverse pain; shooting pains. Descending paralysis. Disabling bone pains. Chilblains; blueness of the surface. Bloody discharges. Ill effects of grief; anger; fright; night watching; operations excessive study. Chorea from fright or from suppressed eruptions, worse during sleep, the feet esp. affected. Ill effects of concussion of brain.
Worse
EXHAUSTION; mental or physical. Noise. Touch. Wine. After being heated. Suppressed eruptions; menses; discharges. Sweet things. Milk. After eating.
Better
Motion. Hard pressure. Warm open air. FREE DISCHARGES; menses etc. Rubbing, scratching. Eating.
Mind
Repeats all questions before answering them. Fears arrest on account of supposed crime. Fretful, peevish; cries if vexed or moved; during sleep (children). Easily, startled; excited or intoxicated. Forgetful. Screams with pain. Averse to conversation; to work. Sensitive to others talking and noise. Stares as if frightened on waking, and rolls head from side to side. Muddled. Brainfag. Weeps when angry. Lethargic. Thinks of death calmly.
Head
Violent vertigo with stupor. Headache of varying intensity. Pressive pain on vertex; at the root of the nose; extending to eyes; with weak vision worse warmth; better hard pressure; open air. Heavy aching pain in temples worse biting. Dragging down back from occiput; as of a blow on occiput then weak legs. Crashing in head, on falling to sleep. Rolls head; bores in pillows and grinds teeth. Occiput hot, forehead cold. Hair falls from vertex. Hair brittle, bristle, sensitive. Brain paralysis. Vertex bald with soreness of scalp. Headaches, of overtaxed school children; from drinking small quantity of wine. Headache with dim vision worse heat. Meningitis. Hydrocephalus after infantile cholera or diarrhoea.
Eyes
Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles. Conjunctivitis worse inner canthi. Feel drawn together. Lachrymation on eating. Pterygium. Rolling of eyes. Squint. Sees luminous bodies or intense burning after operation.
Ears
Frequent acute stitches; in children (boys). Otorrhoea of foetid pus. Itching better boring into it.
Nose
Swollen. Pressure upon the root. Dry, sore.
Face
Pale; alternating with redness. Bluish; miserable. Lips; sticky, dry, cracked.
Mouth
Grinds the teeth. Bleeding gums. Echo speech. Herpes in mouth from sea bathing. Bitter or bloody taste.
Throat
Pain in muscles of throat externally while swallowing. Pain in fauces when yawning. Bitter taste in.
Stomach
Ravenous hunger about 11 a.m. Heartburn worse from sugar. Great hastiness when eating, or drinking. Cannot eat fast enough. Loss of appetite with clean tongue. As if a worm crawling up to the throat from the pit of stomach; causing coughing. Sweetish rising into throat with sweet taste. Globus hystericus rising from pit of stomach. Aversion to meat esp. veal; sweets; cooked or warm food. Wine worse. Liquids are vomited immediately after drinking.
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'.