Fever.
It is supposed to be most homoeopathic when there is a chilly feeling, dread of the open air, great coldness, shuddering with a good deal of thirst, and sweat while walking. Rapid pulse, intense thirst, general trembling, or involuntary jerkings of different parts of the body, great sensitiveness to touch, symptoms all increased by mental emotions, noise, light or motion.
Venous System and Blood.
It seems to have a marked tendency to increase the quantity of venous blood in the system. In one case the cheeks and lips became blue; the blood in the veins was found liquid and brownish; the left lung was bluish externally and very full of blood. In Emmert’s experiments, red parts become blue; the external blood was darker than natural, while there was a great accumulation of venous blood in the large veins and even in the arteries. Still the majority of these effects may arise from the tetanic rigidity of the chest and consequent obstruction of respiration, and from pressure upon the veins and arteries by the spasmodic state of the muscles.
LYMPHATIC SYSTEM.
We have no proof that it acts specifically upon the lymphatic vessels or glands.
ON THE TISSUES.
Muscular Tissue. Next to the motor-nerves, it doubtless acts most specifically upon the muscles. The general effect of Angustura-spuria is to produce convulsion of the spinal marrow and of the voluntary muscles. Tetanic spasms, periodically excited or aggravated by noise or contact, fright, swallowing of liquids, or feeling the pulse, with undisturbed consciousness and increased sensibility; opisthotonos; trismus.
Mucous Tissues.
It seems to act somewhat specifically upon the mucous membranes of the nose, throat and large bowels.
SLEEP.
Drowsiness in the day time, sleep full of dreams, orgasm of the blood.
MIND AND SENSORIUM.
Gloomy, discontented, taciturn mood, anguish, tendency to start (in animals). Want of mental energy, with drowsiness. Dullness, particularly in the sinciput, with heaviness in the head and drowsiness. Vertigo as if he would fall, in the evening.
HEAD.
Pain the forehead, in the evening, after a long walk in the sun; over the left eye, or behind the brows, which feels as if swollen, and across the root of the nose. Creeping digging in the vertex. Dartings in the head, worse during a walk, and particularly in the sun; in the right temple, with fullness of the head, or with dartings in the ear. Buzzing sensation in the left temple. Great fullness and pressure in the head, accompanied by spasmodic twitchings of different parts of the scalp.
EYES.
Redness and inflammation of the canthi, with itching; itching of the eyes, with burning and injected condition of the vessels in the canthi. The eyes are painful, as if they contained sand. Dim bloated eyes. Lachrymation and redness of the conjunctiva (in animals). Staring, protruded, immovable eyes. Dazzling of the eyes. Obscuration of sight. Twitchings of the eye-brows and eye-lids while reading. Dilation of the pupils. Painful pressure of the eye-balls.
EARS
Darting in the ears, at times in one, and then in the other. Tingling and humming in the ears. Buzzing in the ears, increased by stooping or walking rapidly.
NOSE.
Pain across the dorsum of the nose, internally. Tickling in the nose, with heaviness in the head. Violent sneezing, preceded by pulsations in the nose. Violent fluent coryza, with lachrymation, restlessness, sleeplessness, feeling of coldness in the head, dryness of the mouth, and copious secretion of mucus in the throat.
FACE.
Paleness of face. Bluish color of the face, particularly of the cheeks and lips. Each single muscle of the face is put upon the stretch. Quivering sensation in the lips. Lock-jaw, the lips being quite open, and the anterior teeth exposed. Grinding of the teeth. Sweat on the forehead and in the face after the paroxysm of spasm. Itching herpes, with scaling off of the skin. Increase of existing rash. Feeling of heat in the cheeks, but without any external feeling of warmth.
TEETH.
Fleeting, tearing pains in all the teeth and gums, aggravated by cold.
MOUTH, PHARYNX, AND OESOPHAGUS.
Increased secretion of mucus in the mouth and fauces. Dryness in the oesophagus, and burning pain in the pharynx, as if occasioned by rancid grease. Mouth open and frequent disposition to sigh. Spasmodic closure of the mouth, causing an inability to speak.
APPETITE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.
Constant loss of appetite. Hunger with loss of appetite. Violent appetite. Bad pappy taste. Pressure at the stomach, with palpitation of the heart; fermentation in the bowels, and vomiting of the ingesta. Risings in the stomach, followed by pain, but without provoking vomiting.
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN.
Sensation in the stomach as of long fasting. Burning and heat at the pit of the stomach. Griping in the abdomen, particularly at the umbilical region; succeeded by vomiting and diarrhoea. Colic, with nausea and drowsiness. Colic ceasing after an evacuation. Pinching and rumbling in the bowels. Red raised rash on the abdomen. Cramp-like pain at the pit of the stomach. Eructations, followed by pressure and pain in the stomach.
STOOL AND ANUS.
Costiveness. Frequent small evacuations of bloody mucus, with griping pains in the abdomen. Copious, soft, loose, evacuations. Great disposition to diarrhoea, with colic and flatulence. Frequent emission of flatulence. Itching of the varices towards evening.
GENITAL AND URINARY ORGANS.
Lancinations in the urethra. Violent burning.
CHEST.
Panting breathing. Interrupted convulsive and suppressed breathing. Oppression of the chest. Painful soreness of the chest, worse when lying on one side. Shooting below the mammary region, increased by respiration. Beating of the heart scarcely perceptible. Palpitation of the heart. Pain in the right side of the chest.
BACK.
Crampy sensation in the back. Painful weariness in the loins and region of the sacrum. Violent jerkings along the spinal column, particularly along the lower portion, as if occasioned by electric shocks, with slight raising of the trunk. Violent opisthotonos.
UPPER LIMBS.
Stiffness of the shoulder-joints. Rigidity of the upper limbs. Tearing in the arms. Cramp-like pain in the dorsum of the hand. Free motion of the upper extremities, while the lower extremities are rigid and painful upon any attempt to bend them.
LOWER LIMBS.
Feeling of lameness in the right thigh. Stiffness of the joint. Rigidity of the extremities. Bruised feeling in the limbs. Cramp-like pain above the knees. Weariness in the knees. Inability to bend the lower extremities, every effort to do so being attended with acute pain.
