Characteristic Symptoms
Aching in all large joints. Head feels light and hollow. Loss of appetite with an “all-gone” feeling in the epigastrium. Burning distress in the stomach with very severe dragging pains in the liver. Stools of water, bile, mucus, and black faecal matter, followed by great faintness, closely resembling Leptandra. Lienteria. Urine scanty, high-coloured. Great prostration. Disposition to yawn and stretch. Aggravation: damp, cold weather. Amelioration: warm, dry air.
Therapeutics
Useful in endemic intermittent fever, quotidian or tertian, with rush of blood to the head, vertigo, prickly sensation in the face, which is hot and flushed, perspiration not profuse, during the apyrexia jaundice, frontal headache and constipation. Phthisis, with copious night-sweats and watery diarrhoea (five- grain doses).