Adapted to diseases of scrofulous children, especially of their air-passages.
Persons formerly robust and fleshy suddenly become emaciated.
Bad effects of violent mental emotions; anxiety, grief, or excessive sexual indulgence.
OEdematous swellings in various parts of the body, especially in legs, instep, and feet.
Dry coryza of infants; nose dry and completely obstructed, breathing much impeded; snuffles.
Dyspnoea: child awakens suddenly, nearly suffocated, face livid, blue, sits up in bed, turns blue, gasps for breath, which it finally gets; spell passes off, but is again repeated; child inspires, but cannot expire.
Cough dry, suffocative, with crying, worse about midnight.
Constant fretfulness.
Hoarseness caused by much tenacious glutinous mucus in the larynx.
Heat without thirst; dread of uncovering.
Dry heat of the body, with coldness of the feet and hands during sleep; on awaking the face breaks out into profuse swear, which extends over the body and continues more or less during the waking hours; on going to sleep again the dry heat returns.
No thirst during heat or sweat.