Upper Limbs
Painful heaviness in arms and forearms. Jerking of muscles of arms. Drawing tearing (rheumatic pains) in bones and joints of arms, hands, and fingers. Burning in the tips of fingers. The finger-joints bend over easily. Panaritium. Painful pulsations and drawing in the fore-finger.
Lower Limbs
Jerking of muscles of legs. Tearings in joints and bones of legs, feet and toes. Pain in great toe, as if the nail were entering the flesh. Nail of right great toe grows in and ulcerates. Ingrowing of toe-nails with ulceration.
Generalities
Great irritability and nervous excitement, with trembling (sensation in whole body), and dizziness. Staggering when walking, when walking, placing one foot over another. Numbness and tingling in limbs. Great desire for exercise in open air. Itching shootings in different parts. (One of the strongest characteristics of this remedy is, patients can’t sleep at night on account of an intense itching at the anus (which may be produced by ascarides), causing him to toss and roll about all night, the itching lasts all night. Hiccough, flatus in general. Very dry skin, entire absence of perspiration. Affections in general of the finger-tips, joints of the toes. ***H.N.G.).
Skin
Sensation as from fleabites. Rash, burning itching.
Sleep
Sleep retarded in evening. Unrefreshing sleep, and difficulty in waking in morning. Agitated sleep at night, from excessive excitement (sleeplessness, especially before midnight, goes to sleep late), with vivid dreams and frequent starts. Very vivid, most agreeable dreams.
Fever
Shivering and shaking, often with icy coldness in hands, and frequent yawning. Chilliness after eating, and when talking about unpleasant things. Heat worse in evening, with exaltation and great loquacity. Frequent feeling of flushing in face, without external redness.
