Seems to affect especially the urinary, sexual, and respiratory organs.
It has characteristic sensations as of dropping water. Great fatigue, as from over-exertion;
weary after meals. Choking in swallowing; things go down the wrong way. Stuttering. Confusion of thought and speech. Wavering speech.
Wavering speech, hasty, incoherent.
Head.–
Lectophobia. Vertigo; sensation of dropping water on
head. Pressure on root of nose.
Eyes.–
Opacity of cornea.
Cataract from nervous disturbances, abuse of alcohol and tobacco; patient feels deeply
approaching blindness. Misty sight. Pressure from back of eyes, forward. Gonorrhśal
ophthalmia. Eyeballs ache. Scrofulous eye troubles (Sulph; Calc).
Urine.–
Retained, with obstinate constipation. Painful urging.
Micturition in split stream. Stitches in urethra. Inflamed sensation, with soreness to
touch. Burning while urinating, extending to bladder.
Urine scalding, with spasmodic closure of sphincter. Gonorrhśa, acute stage; urethra very
sensitive. Walks with legs apart. Dragging in testicles. Zigzag pain along urethra. Sexual
overexcitement. Urethral caruncle (Eucalypt), phimosis.
Stoppage of urethra by mucus and pus.
Female.–
Amenorrhśa when physical powers have been overtaxed,
also with constipation.
Respiratory.–
Oppression of breathing and palpitation; must stand up. Weight on chest; rattling wheezing breathing.
Cough, with green viscid, also bloody, expectoration.
Heart.–
Sensation as if drops were falling from the heart.
Painful strokes and tension with palpitation. Pericarditis.
Sleep.–
Frightful dreams. More tired in morning. Sleepy during
day.
Extremities.–
Contraction of fingers after a sprain.
Dislocation of patella on going upstairs. Feet feel heavy on going upstairs. Paralytic
tearing pains. Affections of the ball of the foot and under part of toes.
Modalities.–
Worse, lying
down; going upstairs.
Relationship.–
Antidotes: Camph;
Lemon juice.Compare: Hedysarum-Brazilian
Burdock–(Gonorrhśa and inflammation of penis); Canth; Apis;
Copaiva; Thuj; Kal nit.
Dose.–
Tincture to third attenuation. In stuttering the 30th.
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