Symptoms
1. Acts best in sanguine, plethoric subjects.
2. Oversensitiveness to pain; great fear of being touched or struck by anyone coming near, esp. in gout and rheumatic conditions.
3. Bruised, sore feeling all over; bed feels too hard (Baptisia).
4. Injuries esp. to soft parts; bruises (Hamamelis); strains (Rhus); concussions (Hypericum); results of injuries however remote; haemorrhage esp. of mechanical origin.
5. Typhoid states; indifference or stupor; answers questions correctly but unconsciousness immediately returns; involuntary stool and urine or long interval between stools.
6. Discharge offensive; eructations, flatus, etc., have odours as of “rotten eggs”
7. Head hot, body cold; or heat of upper part of body; also deathly coldness of forearm in children.
8. Tendency to small, painful boils one succeeding another.
9. Prevents suppuration and septicaemia; excellent after parturition esp. if instrumental delivery.
10. Modalities; (<) rest; lying down; (>) motion.
Keynote.-Trauma.