Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnśa, sensation
of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic. The chief action is centered on the
articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligament’s. Here the small
blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious affections result. They come on
insidiously, lingering, but progress. The larynx is also a special center for this drug.
Mental.–
Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy.
Head.–
Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually
increasing and ceasing suddenly. Scalp very tender to touch. Vertigo, with intoxicated
feeling, on looking at running water. Head feels empty, hollow.
Eyelids red and thick. Exhausting coryza, with sneezing. Pain in facial bones. Pain between
left eye and frontal eminence.
Throat.–
Raw, hawking, gray, jelly-like
mucus, and throat sore on coughing. Profuse and easy
morning expectoration.
Respiratory.–
Hoarseness
Aphonia. Raw, sore feeling when coughing. Total loss of voice of professional singers. Larynx
feels sore and raw. Easy expectoration, looking like boiled starch.
Feeling of raw spot near supra sternal fossa. Worse from use of voice. Cough from laughing.
Hectic fever at noon. On reading aloud, must hem and hawk. Great
weakness of chest; worse left side. Alteration in timbre of voice. Pain in left
lower ribs.
Back.–
Severe backache; must walk bent, with oppression of
chest.
Urine.–
Diuresis. Urine profuse, turbid,
sweet odor. Frequent urination. Polyuria.
Extremities.–
Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow
and knee. Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs. Involuntary contractions of
fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer’s cramp. Swelling of
ankles.
Male.–
Crushed pain in testicles. Seminal
emissions, without sexual excitement. Frequent micturation with burning.
Female.–
Ovaries feel too large. Bearing-down pain. Prolapse of
womb. Eroded spongy cervix. Leucorrhśa foul, excoriating.
Palliative in scirrhus of uterus. Pain in left ovary. Climateric hćmorrhage.
Sore feeling; throughout abdomen; worse by jarring. Uterine disease with pain in joints and
limbs.
Modalities.–
Worse from
touch, toward noon. Better in open air; cough at night
when lying down (opposite Hyoscy).
Relationship.–
Antidotes: Mercur; Puls.
Compare: Selen; Alum; Platina; Stannum; Ampelopsis
(Chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients).
Dose.–
Sixth trituration and higher. Not too frequent
repetition.