Relations.
Botanical, Coffea, Ip., Gale., Mit. *Antidoted by: Ferrum, Arsenicum, Natrum mur., Carb-v., Aranea, Eup-per., Ip., Mercurius, Nux-v., Pulsatilla, Rhus, Sepia, Sulphur, Veratrum *Antidote to: Arsenicum, Calcarea, Chamomilla, Coffea, Ferrum, Helleborus, Iodium, Mercurius, Sulphur, Veratrum Is useful in bad effects of tea-drinking and after abuse of chamomile tea (uterine hemorrhage). *Compatible: Calc-p., Ferrum *Incompatible: After Digitalis, Selenium *Complementary: Ferrum *Compare: Arsenicum (prostration without pain, black stools), Carb-v. (flatulence, diarrhoea, great weakness, Chi. stool is caused by every attempt to eat and drink), Coloc. (beer intoxicates easily), Cedr., Caps., Cupr-ac. (black, thin stools), Psorinum (rapid exhaustion following acute diseases, Psorinum has despair of recovery), Pulsatilla (bitter taste. Worse Eating at night. As if food lying in oesophagus), Causticum (Meniere’s disease), Sal-ac. (Meniere’s disease), Ph-ac. (lientery, seminal emissions, diarrhoea _but this does not exhaust with Ph-ac.), Mercurius (chronic salivation), Stram, (black stools), Sulphur And Sul-ac. (sensation as if brain were balancing to and fro and striking against skull, occasioning the pains). In aversion to be looked at (Antim crud., Chamomilla, Stramonium), worse from brandy (Arsenicum, Carb-v., Nux-v.), diarrhoea immediately after eating (Arsenicum, Aloe., Lycopodium, Podophyllum, Staphysagria, Trombidium Ferrum *whilst eating), hepatitis with great tenderness (Aconite, Arsenicum, Lycopodium, Mercurius), hunger after meals with empty feeling (Laur., Calcarea).
Causation
Fluids, loss of. Onanism. Chill. Anger. Coryza, suppressed. Tea. Alcohol. Mercury. SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Apathy and moral insensibility. Hypochondriacal dejection. Great anxiety. Disposition too scrupulous. Disposition to be alone. Discouragement. Ill-humour, with disposition to hurt other people’s feelings. Discontent, the patient deems himself unfortunate, and ill-used by the whole world. Excessive irascibility, with pusillanimity, and inability to bear the least noise. Disobedience. Contempt for everything, everything appears insipid. Slovenliness, with easily provoked tears, or with irritability. Fear of dogs and of other animals, especially at night. Nervous irritation, with slowness of ideas. Great abundance of ideas, and of projects, with slow progress of thought (especially in the evening and at night). Dread of labour.
Head
Dull confusion of the head, as from prolonged watching. Sensation of emptiness in head. Vertigo after losses of fluids, with fainting, ringing in ears, loss of sight, cold surface. Vertigo on raising the head, especially in the occiput, as if the head were going to sink backwards. Vertigo with nausea. Attacks of headache, with nausea and vomiting. Headache as from suppressed coryza. Heaviness in the head with faintness. Cephalalgia in the forehead, on opening the eyes. Pain, as from a bruise in the brain, with pressive piercing in the crown of the head, aggravated by meditation and conversation. Pressive headache, especially at night, with sleeplessness, or by day, and worse in the open air. Acute starting, or pressive pains in the head. Headache, as if the head were going to burst, with sleeplessness at night, ameliorated in the room, and when opening the eyes. Shooting pains in the head, with strong pulsations in the temples. Congestion in the head, with heat and Fulness. Movements and painful throbbings of the brain, compelling movement of the head up and down. Headache, increased by touch, movement, and walking, also by a current of air, or by walking against the wind. Headache often attacks only one side. Sensibility to the touch of the exterior of the head, and even of the roots of the hair. Headache as if the hair were torn out, or the scalp were contracted. Shooting pressure in the frontal protuberances. Sweat on the scalp.
Eyes
Pressure in the eyes, as from drowsiness. Pains in the eyes, as from pressure on the margins of the socket. Pain, as if a grain of sand were introduced into the eye, during movement. Painful
smarting in the eyes. Inflammation of the eyes, with heat, redness, burning and pressive pains, and aggravation in the evening. Eyes dull. Prominent eyes. Cornea dull, as if there were smoke in the posterior part of the eye. Yellowish colour of the sclerotica. Weeping, with tingling on the internal surface of the eye-lids. Weakness of sight, permitting only the outline of proximate objects to be seen. On reading, confusion of the characters, which appear pale and surrounded by a white edge. Pupils dilated, and deficient in sensibility. Blindness, as if from amaurosis. Sparkling, black, dancing spots, and obscuration before the eyes. Sensitiveness of the eyes to the bright sunlight. Photophobia.
Ears
Tearing in the ears, mostly in the external ear. Intolerance of noise. Shootings, buzzing, and tinkling in the ears. Hardness of hearing, humming and roaring in ears. Ringing in ears, with headache in temples. Redness and heat of the external ear, and especially of the lobes. Eruption in the concha auris.
Nose
Nose hot and red. Tearing in the dorsum of the nose. Bleeding of the nose, after blowing it. Bleeding of the nose and of the mouth. Dry coryza, with toothache and lachrymation. Coryza, with sneezing. Suppressed coryza (headache from it).
Face
Heat and redness of the face, especially of the cheeks and of the lobes of the ears. Complexion pale, earth-like (face sunken), sometimes of a blackish yellow. Face dejected, with the eyes sunk and surrounded by a livid circle, and nose pointed. Face bloated. Rheumatic pains in the face. Lips dry, blackish. Lips cracked. Swelling of the lips. Burning, itching pustules on the lips and on the tongue. Pain and swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.
Teeth
Odontalgia, with starting or drawing pains ( in the upper molar teeth), provoked by the open air, or by a current of air. Dull and distressing pains in carious teeth. Throbbing toothache better by external warmth. The toothache manifests itself chiefly after a meal, and at night ( worse by smoking), and is mitigated by strong pressure, or by closing the teeth, a slight touch aggravates it excessively. Loose teeth painful only when masticating. Teeth covered with a black coating. Swelling of the gums.
Mouth
Dryness of the mouth. Clammy mouth with insipid watery taste. Accumulation of mucus in the mouth. Putrid taste of the mouth. Tongue cracked, black, or loaded with a yellow or white coating. Thick, dirty coating of the tongue. Burning shootings in the tongue. Burning biting, as from pepper, on the tip of the tongue, succeeded by ptyalism. Ptyalism (with nausea, from the abuse of mercury). Painful swelling of the tongue towards the root. Failure of speech. Flow of blood from the mouth.
Throat
Dryness of the throat. Shootings in the throat, especially on swallowing, provoked by the least current of air. Swelling of the palate and of the uvula.
Appetite
Sickly, mucous, or watery taste, especially after drinking. Ailments appear insipid or too salt. Sweetish taste in the mouth. Acid, or bitter taste in the mouth, also of food and drink. Repugnance to food and drink, with a sensation of Fulness. Sour taste of coffee and of rye-bread. Bitter taste of beer, and of wheaten bread (beer, tobacco). The food tastes too salt. Dislike to butter, beer, and coffee. Great desire for wine, for acid fruit. Dislike to water, with desire for beer. Burning thirst, the patient drinks often, but little at a time. Bulimy, with sickly taste in the mouth, nausea, and inclination to vomit. Voracity. No desire for eating and drinking. Appetite only while eating, with indifference to all food. Desire for a variety of food, and confused longing for dainties, without knowing exactly which. Violent thirst for cold water (drinks but little at a time, but often). After each drought of liquid, shuddering or shivering, with corrugated skin, shootings in the chest, or colic. Acid risings, and derangement of the stomach, after drinking milk. Great weakness of digestion, after the most moderate meal, uneasiness, drowsiness, great Fulness in the stomach, and in the inferior part of the abdomen, lassitude and indolence, insipid taste in the mouth, hypochondriacal humour and headache. Weakness of digestion, the food is not digested, if taken too late in the day. Bitter, acid, or tasteless risings, especially after eating. Indigestion after a late supper.
Stomach
Risings, especially after a meal, mostly bitter, acid, or tasteless. Risings, with taste of food. Pyrosis, accumulation of water in the mouth, inclination to vomit, and pressure on the stomach after eating the least thing. Vomiting of acidulated slimy matter, of water and of food. Vomiting of blood. Pressure at the stomach and cramp-like pains, especially after having eaten. Sensation of excoriation and pressure on the epigastrium, especially in the morning.
Abdomen
Pains in the hypochondria. Shooting and pressive pains in the hepatic region, especially when it is touched. Hardness and swelling of the liver. Swelling (inflammation) and hardness of the spleen. Shootings in the spleen when walking slowly. Cuttings in the umbilical region, with shuddering. Pulsations in the pit of the stomach. Strong pressure, as if from a hard body, and Fulness in the abdomen, especially after a meal. Fermentation after eating fruit. Dropsical swelling of the abdomen (meteorism), with asthmatic sufferings and fatiguing cough. Partial swelling of the abdomen, as from encysted ascites. Excessive inflation of the abdomen, as from a kind of tympanitis. Hardness of the abdomen, as from induration of the viscera. Colic, with insatiable thirst. Excessively painful colic, cramp- like and constrictive pains in the abdomen. Inflammation and ulceration of the abdominal viscera. Pressive shooting colic (under the navel) especially of walking of the quickly. Incarceration of flatus, which escapes neither upwards nor downwards. Flatulent colic in the depth of the abdomen, with contraction of the intestines, and pressing forward of flatus towards the hypochondria. Escape of fetid flatus. Pressure towards the inguinal ring, as if a hernia were about to protrude.
