Fever
Characteristic – Best suited for leuco-phlegmatic persons with anemic or chlorotic conditions, easily fatigued, and in consequence not inclined to any kind of labor, feeble or suspended functions of organs or special senses.
Pale, chlorotic, deranged menses (Ferrum, Pulsatilla), accompanied by vertigo, headache, dim vision.
Pains, pressive, drawing or tearing of parts where bones lie near the surface.
Ailments: from suppressed grief and terrors of conscience, from duty not done or bad act committed.
Great sadness and peevishness, irritable, morose, ill- humored, inclined to weep, desire for solitude, aversion to open air (rev. of Pulsatilla).
Headache in anemic patients, with flickering before eyes or dim vision, on rising in morning.
Flickering before eyes, fiery sparks, as of various colors, glittering needles, dim vision of fog or smoke.
Satiety after a few mouthfuls (Lycopodium), food then becomes repugnant, causes nausea in throat and palate.
Saliva and all food has a salty taste.
Menses: too early, too profuse, black and clotted (too late, pale, scanty, Pulsatilla), membranous, better during flow (worse during, Actea, Pulsatilla).
Burning sore pain in heels, when sitting, standing or walking in open air (Agaricus, Causticum, Phytolacca, Val.).
Relations – Compare: Pulsatilla, Cinchona, Ferrum, in chlorosis and anemic affections, Croc., Thuja as if something alive in abdomen.
Aggravation: Open air, cold water, cold bathing, menses aggravated sitting and lying at night, fat food.
Amelioration: In a warm room, in – doors, menses ameliorated walking (leucorrhea, aggravated sitting, ameliorated walking, Cactus grandiflorus, Cocculus indicus).
Chill: Begins in tips of fingers, toes and ears. Chilliness, general, not ameliorated by covering. Evening chill, very sensitive to cold air and uncovering. Chill forenoon and evening.
Heat and chill alternately, without thirst: with very cold hands.
Heat: of single parts (except face), after eating, of whole body, with swelling of veins of hands.
Heat, principally of face, without thirst, hands remain cold a long time.
Heat: of various parts of face and hands, with swelling of veins of hands, after heating, general.
Sweat: At night, in sleep, offensive, sometimes only on lower part of body.
Analysis – Especially to be thought of for the fevers of the anemic during the puerperal state or early months of lactation. The constitutional symptoms are guiding.
