Gelsemium [Gels]
Patients sometimes come to hospital, “cannot get well after ‘flu a few weeks ago.” They are found to have a temperature of somewhere about 99*. No ill: not well.
If they are chilly, with heats and chills; if they feel a weakness and heaviness of limbs and eyelids, Gelsemium quickly puts them right.
China [Chin]
Continued debility, with chilliness.
Anaemia pallid.: weak.
Sensitive to touch: to motion: to cold air.
Worse alternate days.
Weariness of limbs, with desire to stretch, move, or change position.
Kali phos [Kali-p]
General weakness and gloom.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Chilliness: restlessness; anxiety: fear; fear of death ( Acon): prostration.
Burning, relieved by heat.
Oversensitive: fastidious.
Queer symptoms: red-hot-needle pains.
Sensation of ice-water running through veins.
Or boiling water going through blood vessels.
Thirst for lips of cold water.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Flitting chilliness:chills in spots.
Cold creeps in back. Chilly in warm room.
Profuse morning sweat.
Heat as if hot water thrown over him.
One-sided chilliness-heat-sweat.
External warmth intolerable. Worse in a close room.
Palpitation with anxiety: must throw off clothes.
Better out of doors.
Better for slow motion (opp. Bryonia Eup. per etc.)
Dry cough a night, goes on sitting up: returns on lying down again ( Hyos)
Thirstless: no hunger. Tearful: peevish.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Partially recovers and then relapses.
Frequent flushes of heat. Uneasiness in blood.
Very sensitive to open air: to droughts(opp. to
Pulsatilla )worse for washing and bath. Takes cold.
Oppression, burning, stitches, congestion in chest
Heat crown of head with cold feet.
Soles burn at night, must be put out of bed.
Hungry-starving at 11 a.m.
Drowsy by day: restless nights. Starts from frightful dreams.
“Cyprepedium pubescence, Cyprepedin and Scutellaria lat. have been my sheet anchors in post-influenzal neuroses.:” Burnett.
One Of The Cases That Justifies Dr.Burnett Here
J.M., ill and away from work for a year after an attack of influenza which lasted six weeks, till be “collapsed”
Said his heart was weak. He couldn’t walk. Was suicidal.
” Couldn’t restrain himself.” He complained of depression: despondency: felt his brain would burst. Scutellaria 30.
A week later: “different: livelier: stronger.” Went back to work-absolutely himself again.
