Oppression of chest, worse deep breathing. Tightness, worse moving about; worse after walking in open air. with loud thumping of heart. Palpitation, in evening in bed. Allen says that carotid aneurism is reported to have been cured (Baryt. c.). Pulse rapid; with coldness of face and hands.
Neck and Back:
Swelling of cervical glands, internally and externally; hard on sides. Pain in nape, with stiffness, of left side. Pain above hips; in kidney region, worse pressure; in morning on rising during menses, so that she could not move, “In lumbago it is especially useful after Bryonia.”.
Extremities:
“A valuable remedy in chronic rheumatism, always worse till evening and in warmth, pains worse right side. Chronic gout, with chalky deposits in joints. Chronic rheumatism of hands; hands and fingers swollen and stiff, etc,” Spasmodic contraction and extension, almost without pain. Stiffness of all joints (Zinc.). All joints are affected.
Axillary glands swollen. Tearing. in joints; during rest, and in elbows. Sticking in left shoulder, elbow and wrist all day. Pain in thighs. Swelling of knees; stiffness in hollows in morning on rising. Sticking in ankles as if sprained when walking. Swelling of the feet, worse right; of backs of feet. Sore, painful indurations on heel. Appearance of corns. Painful corn. Pain as from a stone under heel on stepping. Smarting sore pain between toes (Sil.). Sore-pain in toes, worse walking.
Skin:
Freckles on face, more on left side and across nose. Itching liver spots. Redness of finger-tips with swelling. Brown spots on inner side of thighs, close to scrotum. Eruption about mouth; scaly, bleeding, on face and corner of mouth. URTICARIA. Pustules. Boils. Skin unhealthy; corrosive vesicles. Sticking itching, worse scrotum.
It has been successfully used in “Eczema, herpes; psoriasis; naevus (Fluoric. ac.) lupae; phagdenic ulcers; impetigo; varicose veins and ulcers, with oedema; carbuncles; intertrigo.” In these skin conditions the remarkable concomitant is aggravation from heat and hot applications. In eczema and psoriasis, with itching and easy bleeding, worse warmth, better from cold or in open air. Useful in intertrigo, especially under the arm, between the thighs and on the scrotum. (DUNHAM.).
Sleep:
Unrefreshing. Anxious cries; laughing aloud; weeping, with unintelligible words, in sleep. Starting up on falling asleep. Sleep, with mouth open; always gets on his back at night in sleep. Sleep full of dreams; frightful: anxious; of murder; voluptuous, with erection and emission; that she felt the irritation of coition. Nightmare.
Fever:
It is frequently indicated in “chronic malarial fever, paroxysms recurring at 4 P.M., there is general nervous irritability, with thirst, red sand in urine, enlargement of spleen sour vomiting, teasing cough, the chill often beginning in the back.” We may also find slight chilliness in evening, then violent and long lasting heat, weariness and pains in limbs. Shaking chill in evening, beginning in back; with cold hands and feet, cannot get warm in bad for two hours, tearing in limbs worse, with nausea and constant yawning; sometimes general goose- flesh.
Heat in flushes; BURNING BETWEEN SCAPULAE AS FROM HOT COALS (Phos.). Sweat over whole body; sourish after midnight, worse chest; offensive exhalations as from onions. Whether in fever or otherwise, Lyco. patient is prone to sweat much IN FEET till they become sore (Calc.c., Carbo v., Iod., Phos., Puls., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Thuja). HERING draws attention to its thirst “after the sweating stage.”.
ALLEN found it useful in suppurating fever. It is occasion- ally indicated in typhoid fever with distension of abdomen, red sand in the urine, great mental depression, lower jaw hanging down, etc.
Its duration of action is forty to fifty days. Hahnemann says that “it is especially efficacious when it is homoeopathic- ally indicated after the previous use of Calcarea” (Chronic Disease).
Modalities:.
Aggravation:
All symptoms are aggravated from 4 to 8 P.M.; after eating; while sitting; on lying down; right side. Its troubles run from right to left, from above downward. Worse from heat, hot air, warmth of bed and warm applications; but its throat and stomach feel better from warm drinks; on beginning to move (Rhus).
Amelioration:
From continued motion (Rhus t.); after 8 P.M.; from warm food and drink; getting cold; being uncovered.
Antidotes:
Camphor, Caust., Puls., a cup of coffee. It is antidotal to Cinch.
Similar:
Ars., Bell., Bry., Calc c., Graph., Hep. s., Merc., Nat. m., Nat. a., Nux v., Petrol., Phos., Puls., Rhus t., Sil., Sulph.
Dose:
Thirtieth to the highest potencies. Should not be repeated too frequently.
Calcutta
Chief Editor, Homeopathic Herald