Characteristic Symptoms
Pressing-asunder pain, so that he almost lost his thoughts. Pain beneath skull as if the skull would be pressed outward by a plug. Shooting from right frontal bone through brain and out at occiput. Pressure outward beneath upper part of right temporal bone, worse by pressure. Pain in-right ball of the eyes as if inner part of eye would be torn out. Piercing pain as if teeth would be taken out. Wrenching pain in molars when anything warm is taken into mouth. Ascites with loss of appetite, scanty micturition, hard nodular stool with rectal pain. Cramplike pain as if an angular body pressed inwards in right side of rectum an inch above anus. Burning in anus as from salt in a wound, after slimy diarrhoea. Tenesmus of bladder, every quarter of an hour. Burning pains with ineffectual efforts to urination, so that he must bend up. Relief by passing urine, but there remains sticking in glans, which causes spasm of urethra, with tenesmus rectalis. Hurriedly impelled to urinate; the urine seems to pass into glans and then to return and cause pain in urethra. Respiration anxious, short, wheezing when walking. Oppression of the chest, obliging deep breathing with anxiety.
Therapeutics
Ciliary neuralgia, severe pain in the right eyeball, as if the eye would burst, shooting like lightning through the brain, to the occiput, sometimes involving all the parts around the eye. Irido-choroiditis. Irido-cyclitis. Opacity of the vitreous humour. Neuralgic dysuria. Respiratory and cardiac complaints, dyspnoea, sense of suffocation. (Laurocerasus). Cardiac dropsy. Hypertrophia cordis with oedema pedum. Herpes zoster and angina pectoris. (Good remedy).
