The clinical application of the symptoms of this remedy, place it among
the medicines for spasmodic and whooping coughs, and catarrhal conditions of the bladder;
spasmodic pains in kidneys, with visceral tenesmus. Anuria, anasarca, ascites.
Mind.–
Early morning or afternoon sadness.
Head.–
Suboccipital soreness; worse after sleep and exertion.
Headache, worse from lying on back, better with the head high. Dull pain over right eye in
morning. Sensation of a foreign body between upper lid and eyeball.
Distress from cinders lodged in eye.
Respiratory.–
Constant hawking from enlarged uvula; coryza,
with inflamed fauces; accumulation of thick viscid mucus,
which is expectorated with great difficulty. Tickling in larynx.
Sensation of a crumb behind larynx, must swallow continually; brushing teeth causes cough.
Fauces very sensitive. Suffocative cough; worse, first waking, with tough, white mucus,
which strangles. Spasmodic morning cough. Whooping cough attacks
end with vomiting of this tough mucus. Chronic bronchitis complicated with
gravel; large quantities of albuminous, tenacious mucus, are expectorated. Walking against
wind takes breath away.
Heart.–
Sensation as if everything were pressed toward the
heart.
Urinary.–
Urging to urinate; brick-red
sediment. Urinary calculi, hæmaturia, urates, and uric acid; lancinating pains
from kidney to bladder. Deep-colored, thick urine. Dysuria.
Female.–
Menses too early, profuse, black
and thick; dark clots, with dysuria. Intermittent
menstruation; flow only in evening and at night. Large clots
escape when passing water. Labia inflamed.
Modalities.–
Worse, left
side, after sleep, touch, pressure of clothing, brushing teeth, slightest exertion. Better, walking.
Relationship.–
Compare: Canth; Cact;
Sars.
Dose.–
Lower triturations.
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