Symptoms
1. Sanguine, thin, dark-haired women of rigid fibre.
2. Alternating mental states; peculiar arrogance and illusionary greatness; sometimes impulses to injure or even kill persons previously cared for (often distress patient). Melancholy mood; life wearisome yet fears death which she thinks near; long sulks; vexation at trifles.
3. Physical and mental symptoms alternate.
4. Pains constricting, cramp-like; gradually increases to a severe point then gradually decrease (rev. Belladonna).
5. Painful numbness of various parts often assoc. with the pains.
6. Chronic pelvic conditions in women; with bearing-down pains; M.P. premature, profuse; flow dark, clotted; great hypersensitiveness of genitalia; cannot beat touch even of clothing; violent sexual desire.
7. Reflex symptoms, esp. mental and nervous, from utero-ovarian disorders.
8. Obstinate constipation from inertia; stools adhesive like soft clay; abdomen retracted; flatulent colic; sense of weakness in abdomen.
9. Right-sided ailments (left-sided-Dr. Wheeler).
10. Modalities; (<) heat; evening and night; sitting or standing; fasting; (>) motion in the open air.
