Fever
Characteristic – Adapted to women of thin, scrawny, feeble, cachectic appearance, irritable, nervous temperament, face ashy, pale, sunken.
Very old, decrepit, feeble persons.
Women of very lax muscular fibre, everything seems loose and open, no action, vessels flabby, passive hemorrhages, copious flow of thin, black, watery blood, the corpuscles are destroyed.
Hemorrhagic diathesis: the slightest would causes bleeding for weeks (Lachesis, Phosphorus), discharge of sanious liquid blood, with a strong tendency to putrescence, tingling in the limbs and great debility, particularly when the weakness in not caused by previous loss of vital fluids.
Leucorrhea, green, brown, offensive.
Boils: small, painful, with green contents, mature very slowly and heal in the same manner, very debilitating (Tub).
Unnatural, ravenous appetite, even with exhausting diarrhea he is hungry, craves lemonade, acids.
Diarrhea: involuntary, profuse, watery, putrid, brown, discharged with great force (Gambogia, Crot.t.), a very exhausting, urine suppressed, anus wide open (Apis, phos.).
Enuresis, of old people, pale, watery, bloody urine.
Burning, in all parts of the body, as if sparks of fire were falling on the patient (Arsenicum).
Cholera collapse: face pale, sunken, distorted, particularly around the mouth, skin cold, yet cannot bear to be covered.
Senile, dry gangrene, aggravated by external heat.
The skin feels cold to the touch, yet the patient cannot tolerate covering, icy coldness of extremities.
Menses: irregular, copious, dark, fluid, with pressing, labor like pains in abdomen, continuous discharge of watery blood until next period.
Threatened abortion, especially at third month (Sabina), prolonged, bearing down, forcing pains.
During labor: pains irregular, too weak, feeble or ceasing, everything seems loose and open, but no expulsive action, fainting.
After – pains: too long, too painful, hour – glass contraction.
Suppression of milk, in thin, scrawny, exhausted women, the breasts do not properly fill.
Pulse small, rapid, contracted and often intermittent.
Relations – Similar: to Arsenicum, but cold and heat are opposite.
Resembles Colchicum in cholera morbus.
Aggravation: Heat: warmth from covering, of all affected parts, in all diseases worse from heat.
Amelioration: In cold air, getting cold, uncovering, affected parts, rubbing.
Type: No periodicity. All types of fever, tendency to typhoid, and typhus, yellow fever, hemorrhagic stage.
Time: At all periods.
Prodrome: Vomiting
Chill: With thirst. Violent shaking. followed by violent heat with anxiety, delirium and almost unquenchable thirst. Shaking chill, with creeping coldness in different parts of body, as from snow (Petroleum). Intense icy coldness of the skin, particularly of face and extremities (Camph., Meny., Nux vomica, Verbascum) Cold limbs, cold skin, with shivering, pale, sunken face, with coldness of the back and abdomen. temperature of body diminished (Camph., Verbascum). Lips bluish (Nux.)
Heat: With thirst and hot skin. Burning heat, interrupted by shaking chills, then internal burning heat with great thirst. During heat great pain in stomach, abdomen, limbs (cramps and pain in stomach and abdomen, with vomiting and purging, Elat., Verbascum ) Severe, long lasting, dry heat, with great restlessness and violent thirst (Arsenicum, Nat., Rhus.).
Sweat: All over the body, except the face ( Rhus – reverse of, Silicea ). General sweat, relieving all the symptoms (Nat., Sambucus). Profuse cold sweat on limbs. Cold, clammy sweat over whole body. Sweat from head to pit of stomach.
Pulse: Accelerated during heat, generally slow, contracted, at times intermittent, often unchanged even with the most violent attacks.
Tongue: Sticky, yellow coating, tongue deathly pale (mucous membrane of mouth and tongue pale, Ferrum ), or clean, with dry, red tip, or red tip and edges, center coated. Desire for sour things, lemonade (Eup.purp.). Disgust for food, meat and fats.
Apyrexia: Aversion to heat or to being covered. May feel cold, but does not wish to be covered (Camph.). Face pale, drawn, collapsed, hippocratic. Great tendency to typhoid.
Analysis: Chill, intense icy coldness, lips and fingers blue, face and extremities cold, great thirst.
Heat, severe, long, great thirst and very restless.
Sweat, profuse, cold clammy, all over body, except the face (Rhus).
Aversion to heat and cannot be covered, pernicious and sinking fevers. cross.
