Characteristic Symptoms
Cramps and twitchings “calves twisted round to shins.” (Cuprum). Acrid feeling, gradually extending to stomach, at last causing vomiting. Distention of abdomen. Sudden urging to stool, with noises as of liquids in abdomen. (Crot.tigl.). Watery stool, spurting from him (Crot. tigl., Elat., Gambogia), like rice-water. Thin stool, preceded and followed by rumbling, and, at times, noise as if a bottle were emptied. (Crot. tigl.). Almost pulseless. Cramps in calves, which becomes knotted. (Cuprum). Coldness in the whole body. Amelioration by placing the hands in cold water.
Therapeutics
Valuable for profuse, gushing, watery diarrhoea with coldness of the body and unquenchable thirst, rumbling and gurgling in abdomen, at times with vomiting of large quantities of albuminous-looking substances. (Veratr. alb., but this remedy has violent pain). Cholera asiatica with cramps, coldness, and much wind. Irritation of the bladder, violent urging to urinate, with inflammation of the whole urethra.
