Symptoms
1. Scrofulous subjects, leucophlegmatic, inactive, slow; systems injured by mercury (first remedy).
2. Intense mental and physical hypersensitiveness; trifles make him angry; intolerable of pain, touch and even a draught of air.
3. General sourness and foetidness of all exertions, esp. in children.
4. Profuse and easy sweating esp. about the chest; day and night without relief.
5. Throbbing and sticking pains; sensation of sulphur esp. in throat.
6. Suppurative conditions when pus is about to from or is formed; hastens suppuration (low potencies); staphylococcal infections (Silica-streptococcal); unhealthy skin, every injury suppurates; ulcers with foetid discharge, bleed easily, extremely sensitive.
7. Respiratory complaints, esp. from exposure to dry, cold air; croupous conditions with great hoarseness, whistling respiration, hard barking cough, or when cough becomes loose and rattling; cough (<) uncovering any part of body.
8. Atonic alimentary disorders; desire for vinegar and sour, pungent things and and fat.
9. Atonic condition of rectum and bladder; (a) difficult defecation, clay-coloured stools; (b) difficult micturition, slow, without force, urine drops vertically; bladder never thoroughly emptied.
10. Patient chilly, (<) slightest draught, (>) mild wet weather (Causticum Nux V.); (<) night.
Note. Often indicated in slow, chronic condition as well at acute states, esp. when complaints show on sign of clearing up.