Relations
*Antidoted *by: Arsenicum and Chamomilla (neuralgia), Mercurius sol., Nux-v., Pulsatilla and Rheum (abdominal troubles). *It antidotes: Acet-ac. *Compatible: Causticum, Pho., Pul., Sepia, Sul. *Complementary: Chamomilla *Compare: Mag-m., Mag-p., Alo., Ant-c. (headache from smoking), Calcarea and Rhe. (sour stools), Nux (sour breath), Coccul. and Sepia ( Worse from kneeling), Ip. (nausea and grass- green stools). Coloc. (griping pains with drawing up of legs, Coloc. has not the green slimy stools of Mag-c.), Chamomilla (neuralgia, better moving about, anxiety, restlessness, griping before stools, stools of Chamomilla more yellowish green like chopped eggs), Calcarea (sour stools, intolerance of milk, imperfect nourishment: Calcarea has head-sweat, cold, damp feet, enlarged abdomen), Ratan. (toothache of pregnant women), Sanguinaria (rheumatism of right deltoid: Nux moschata, of left). Lycopodium, nitricum acidum, Silicea, Lac caninum, Lac def. (intolerance of milk), Am-m. (menses worse at night), Graphites (coryza during menses, Mag-c., coryza and sore throat before menses, Mercurius, pain in head with coldness and coryza worse before and at menses).
Causation
Vexation. Fit of passion. Mental distress. Shocks, blows. Pregnancy. Dentition. Cutting wisdom teeth. Injudicious feeding. Milk.
Mind
Inquietude and fear, with trembling and heat. Anxious, with perspiration all day. Uneasiness, with trembling of hands and absence of mind. Sad mood with indisposition to talk. Anxious and warm through whole body especially in head, while eating warm food. Trembling, anguish, and fear, as if some accident would happen all day, going off after going to bed. Ill-humour in evening.
Head
Vertigo in evening, with swooning. Vertigo: when kneeling, when standing as if everything was turning round, in morning after rising with inclination to vomit and accumulation of water in mouth. (Continual giddiness, can hardly stand, with numbness of left arm. Vertigo, staggers in the street and fears to go out, lest people should strike against her. Oppression and heat on vertex. Much headache all day, gets up giddy and everything looks dark in morning, _ Stuffy feeling in head and chest in a nervous woman. Headache in temples every morning, generally left and over eye. Worse stooping, never in occiput. Right T.C.) The head is fatigued by intellectual labor. Heaviness and dizziness in head, early in morning, when rising, going off after a walk. Pressure in forehead. Violent, darting headache after vexation ( 1 to 10 p.m.). Lancinating headache early in morning after rising. Pulsating sensation in forehead. Heat in head and hands with redness of face, alternating with paleness of face. Bruised sensation on vertex. Pain on top of head as if hair were pulled. Rush of blood to head. Headache in bed at night, also during sleep, better by sitting up. Pressive pain at vertex, during intellectual labour, or when in company. Tension and pulling pain in occiput, as from stiffness of nape of neck. Drawings in forehead, with nausea. Thrilling headache, with sensation of heaviness, after a fit of passion. Shooting pains in head, also at night, in side which presses pillow. Congestion in head, with internal heat, especially when smoking. Desquamation of scalp, which itches, especially in rainy weather. Falling off of hair.
Eyes
Inflammation of eyes, with redness, shootings, sensation of burning, and confused sight. (Drawing pain across eyes, feels as if each half of head were being drawn together.) _ Graves’s disease, prominent eyeballs (improved). Distension of ball of eye. Agglutination of eyelids in morning. Dryness of eyes, or violent lachrymation. Opacity of cornea. Black spots before sight. Obscuration of crystalline lens (cataract).
Ears
Inflammation of external ear, with redness and pain, as from ulceration. Great sensitiveness to slightest noise. Hardness of hearing, with humming in ears, especially in a room. Hardness of hearing with whizzing before the ears. Whizzing, fluttering, and buzzing in right ear with hardness of hearing. Tinkling, rumbling, and a sensation as if a bird were flapping its wings in ears. (The remaining ear symptoms are supplied by Cooper): Constant roaring in head like steam, worse when covered, with pain in occiput. Noises as of bells, and sometimes of water rushing in left ear, with numb feelings elsewhere. Nervous deafness, exhausted hearing. Nervous deafness, cannot bear a person to shout in her ears, pain across the lower back, stiffness, cannot turn in bed, the least excitement makes her tremble and turn cold, faints after exertion. Deafness in a dark- haired women caused by worry, hearing goes when over-tired, sensitive to interference. May be said to be for deafness of middle and old age what *Calcarea is for the deafness of childhood. Deafness rapidly progressing with heat on vertex, headache and tinnitus. Deafness worse on taking cold, and irregular but distressing tinnitus and a dead weight on vertex causing her to hang down her head. Deafness from cutting wisdom teeth (relieved). Loud explosions in ears waking her at night go away, and old swellings of glands that had disappeared return. Earache (left) with numb feelings and dull, heavy, singing noises. Tinnitus (man, 29) constant, at times like a church bell, at others like a gas-jet, worse when excited and after exertion. In a nervous, excitable, impetuous girl of twenty, dark-haired, lifelong deafness which became suddenly worse after a fright five weeks before, much pain in left groin at menstrual period, falls down in a faint and legs ache, hears best in street, after *Mag.c. 30 pains at period went, spirits got better, and hearing in one ear (left) got quite well. Deafness, hearing goes in an omnibus, or when many are speaking, can hear in church till organ plays, exhausted by watching or anxiety, not by fatigue. Deafness which comes on from fright or in a cold (in girl of twenty-nine, subject to recurring deafness and to headaches in left eye
extending along the left side of head and a feeling of numbness in head). Deafness, tuning-fork hearing imperfect, agitation and worry causes palpitation, slightest unexpected touch on body brings on tinnitus aurium, which seems to come from throat and back of neck, headache on vertex on rising in morning and confined bowels.
Nose
Epistaxis in morning. Vesicular eruption in nose, with pressive pain. Stoppage of nose. Dry coryza, which admits of respiration only through mouth (waking one at night). (Chronic affections of nose.).
Face
Discoloured, pale, earthy complexion. Alternate redness and paleness of face. Slovenly appearance. Tension of face, as if albumen were dried on the skin. Much pain in malar bones, at night, preventing sleep, or they may appear swollen. Nocturnal pains in cheek bones, digging, boring, and tearing, insupportable during repose, and forcing removal from place to place. (Tumour in right cheek bone, painful, very sensitive to cold wind). Throbbing pain in antrum of Highmore with swelling of right malar bone. Swelling of cheek bone, with throbbing pain. Swelling of face, which is bloated and covered with tubercles. Eruption of tetters round (lower part of) mouth. Hard, little nodosities in both corners of mouth.
Teeth
Toothache from motion of a carriage. Nocturnal pains in teeth, which force patient to get up and walk about, insupportable in a state of repose, and generally burning, boring, or like the pain of ulceration, or tearing, drawing, and jerking, extending to temples, with swelling of cheek on side affected, stiffness of nape of neck, and twitching in fingers and feet. Throbbing and shooting in teeth after a meal. Toothache worse by cold. (Toothache, left side, coming on irregularly.) _ Toothache during pregnancy. Ailments from cutting wisdom teeth. Looseness of teeth (with swelling of gums).
Mouth
Soreness of mouth with rawness and tenderness and minute ulcerations at tip of tongue, which is fissured and red, saliva acid and roof of mouth intensely irritable. Violent pain in roof of mouth, cheeks, eyes, nose better hot fomentations, sometimes maddening pains and flashes before sight, with feeling of coldness all over, and of pins and needles in arms and fingers on going to sleep. Burning vesicles on gums, on inside of cheeks, lips, and palate, they bleed from the least contact. Bitter or sour taste in mouth. Dryness of mouth, especially night and morning. Sanguineous saliva. Vesicular eruption in mouth, and on tongue. Small tubercles in mouth, which bleed and burn on slightest touch.
Throat
Sore throat, with shooting pain when speaking and swallowing. Burning pain in throat and palate, with dryness and roughness, as if it contained bearded ears of corn. Frequent rising of mucus in throat (morning) with roughness and dryness of fauces. Soft, fetid tubercles of color of peas are hawked up.
Appetite
Loss of taste. Bitter taste, with a white tongue, and viscid mucus on tongue and teeth (going off after rinsing the mouth). Acid taste in mouth. Violent thirst (for water), especially in evening and at night. Desire for fruit, for acid drinks. Aversion to green food. Great desire for vegetable, with dislike for meat, and *vice versa.
