Fever
Characteristic – For the mental effects of onanism and sexual excesses.
Very sensitive to slightest mental impressions, least action or harmless word offends.
Great indignation about things done by others or by himself grieves about consequences.
Apathetic, indifferent, low – spirited, weak memory from sexual abuses (Anacardium, Aurum, Nat., Phosphorusac.).
Ailments from pride, envy or chagrin.
Ill-humored children cry for things which, after receiving, they petulantly push or throw away (Kreosotum).
Was insulted, being too dignified to fight subdued his wrath and went home sick, trembling and exhausted (the rev. of, Nux.).
Mechanical injuries from sharp – cutting instruments, postsurgical operations, stinging, smarting pains, like the cutting of a knife.
For the bad effects of: onanism, sexual excesses, loss of vital fluids, chagrin, mortification, unmerited insults, indignation, with vexation or reserved displeasure (Aurum).
Styes, chalazae on eyelids or upper lids, one after another leaving hard nodosities in their wake (Conium, Thuja).
Toothache: during menses, sound as well as decayed teeth, painful to touch of food or drink, but not from biting or chewing, aggravated drawing cold air into mouth (Ant.c., Mercurius), aggravated from cold drinks and after eating.
Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food.
Teeth are black, show dark streaks through them, cannot be kept clean, crumble, decay on edges (at the roots, Mez., Thuja), scorbutic cachexia.
Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down, relaxed (Agaricus, Ipecac., Tabacum). Craving for tobacco.
Colic: after lithotomy or ovariotomy, attending abdominal section (Bismuth, Hepar).
Urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours, in young married women, after coition, after difficult labor (Opium), burning in urethra when not urinating, urging and pain after urinating in prostatic troubles of old men, prolapse of bladder.
Painful sensitiveness of sexual organs, vulva so sensitive can scarcely wear a napkin (Platina).
Onanism: persistently dwelling on sexual subjects, constantly thinking of sexual pleasures.
Spermatorrhea: with sunken features, guilty, abashed look, emissions followed by backache, weakness, prostration and relaxation or atrophy of sexual organs.
Cough: only in the daytime, or only after dinner, worse after eating meat, after vexation or indignation, excited by cleaning the teeth.
Croupy cough in winter alternating with sciatica in summer, cough excited by tobacco smoke (Spongia).
Backache, aggravated at night in bed, and in the morning before rising.
Arthritic nodosities of joints, especially of the fingers (Caulophyllum, Colchicum, Lycopodium), inflammation of phalanges with sweating and suppuration.
Sleepy all day, awake all night, body aches all over.
Fig – warts, dry, pediculated, cauliflower – like, after abuse of mercury (Acid nitricum, Sabina, Thuja.).
Aggravation: Mental affections, from anger, indignation, grief, mortification, loss of fluids, tobacco, onanism, sexual excesses, from the least touch on the affected parts.
Type: Intermittent, quotidian, tertian, typhoid, typhus, zymotic, yellow.
Time: 9 A.M., daily, same time, 3 p.m.
Prodrome: Ravenous hunger for days (see Cina, Silicea).
Chill: Without thirst. Chill predominates. Shaking chill of whole body, with hot cheeks, cold hands, warm forehead, without subsequent heat or thirst (Sepia, Sul.). Shivering over whole body, without thirst or subsequent heat. Chill with goose – flesh about 3 p.m., which was relieved by exercise in open air. Chill ascends from the neck over the head and face, or transient shivering running down the back (transient chills run up the back, Sul. ). Chill worse in a warm room (Apis.).
Heat: With thirst, at night, could not sleep after 3 A.M., with shaking chill at 9 A.M. Great heat at night, especially of the hands and feet, must be uncovered ( Sul. – external heat is unbearable, Pulsatilla ). Heat without subsequent sweat. Burning heat at night (Arsenicum, Sepia)
Sweat: Profuse in afternoon, without thirst, but with heat over the whole body (Nux). Warm night – sweat on abdomen, feet, genitals. Night – sweat of bad odor, like rotten eggs, with desire to uncover. Sweats when sitting quiet (Psorinum). Cold sweat on forehead and feet.
Pulse: Very fast, but small and trembling.
Tongue: White coating, food tastes bitter. Gums white, spongy, ulcerated, bleed when touched.
Apyrexia: Extreme hunger, even when stomach is filled with food, putrid taste in mouth, gums bleed easily, constipation. Longing for fluid food, soup, bread and milk (longing for eggs, Calcarea ).
