Fever
Characteristic – Suited to persons of light hair, fair complexion, with a weakened, relaxed muscular system.
Worm affections of children (Cina, Silicea, Spigelia).
Nervous diseases: twitching, convulsive tremblings, catalepsy, from worms (Cina, Psorinum).
Nymphomania from ascarides.
Many symptoms go from right to left (Lycopodium, Podophyllum), chilliness from feet to head.
Illusions: that he is sick, parts shrunken, that she is pregnant, when only distended with flatus, that she has some horrible throat disease that will be fatal.
Delirium during intermittents (Podophyllum).
Headache: from too much thinking, too close application or attention (Argentumn.), from tenia.
Sneezing: in spasmodic paroxysms, followed by lachrymation, copious watery coryza, face hot and eyelids red and burning.
Diphtheria, tonsillitis, can swallow warm food more easily, stitches and most symptoms, especially of throat, go from left to right (Lachesis, Lac caninum).
Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat, must swallow over it (of a lump, Lach).
Dryness of fauces and throat.
Parchment – like dryness of skin.
Relations – Compare: Colocynthis, Colchicum, Lycopodium where aggravation is from 4 to 8 P.M., Pulsatilla ameliorated in open air.
Follows Bryonia and Ranunculus well in pleurisy, and has cured after Aconite and Bryonia failed.
Aggravation: Cold, sensitive to cold air, during rest, forenoon.
Type: Quotidian, tertian, quartan. Periodicity well marked, paroxysms return at same hour with great regularity ( Aranea, Ced., Gelsemium ). Stages irregular, incomplete.
Time: 3, 4, 5, P.M., 9 and 10 P.M. Afternoon and evening.
Chill: Without thirst, and often without subsequent heat. Violent chilliness, at 5 P.M., over the back as if dashed with cold water (Ant-t., Rhus ), relieved by warm stove (Ignatia – not relieved by heat of stove, Verbascum ). Chilliness at 9.30 P.M., has to go to bed, followed by shaking chill, after half an hour, alternately hot and cold for half an hour, afterwards profuse perspiration. Recurring fits of shuddering coming and going quickly (Nux moschata). Chill always runs from below upward (reverse of Verbascum ) Dry spasmodic cough, with pain in the ribs and tearing in all the limbs and bones. (dry teasing cough before and during chill, Rhus – during chill and heat, racking cough with pleuritic stitches, Bryonia) Chill beginning in hands and feet. Thirst begins as chill leaves. Chill predominates.
Heat: With slight thirst for warm drinks (Casc., Ced.), before heat begins (between cold and hot stages), little after. Mostly on head and face, flushes of heat with redness of face, alternating with shivering, yawning, stretching, delirium Sweat, often during or with the heat ( Podophyllum ). Redness and burning of face, hands and feet cold.
Sweat: Profuse sweat about head and face, which were hot to touch, rest of body cold. Sweat after midnight, towards morning, sweat of soles of feet. Sleep only during sweat (Podophyllum, Rhus – after chill, Nux moschata ). Sweat in axillae.
Tongue: Coated white in center, tip bluish and sore, as if full of blisters, as if scalded.
Apyrexia: Constantly chilly, loss of appetite, eructations sour, rancid, vomiting of bile and bitter mucus, oppressive bloatedness of stomach, pain in chest, debility. Sour eructations ( Lycopodium )
The gastric symptoms predominate as in Nux and Pulsatilla.
Analysis: Chill. often without subsequent heat. Severe, from below upwards, with dry spasmodic cough and bone pains, predominates.
Heat: with thirst for warm drinks (Casc., Ced., Eup-p.).
Sweat : profuse, hot, of head and face, rest of body cold, of soles of feet.
Apyrexia, sour eructations (Lycopodium).
