Tall, lean, stooping persons, dark complexion, sanguine choleric
temperament.
Oversensitiveness; all the senses more acute, sight, hearing, smell,
taste, touch ( Bell. , Cham. , Opium ).
Unusual activity of mind and body.
Full of ideas; quick to act, no sleep on this account.
Ailments: the bad effects of sudden emotions or pleasurable surprises
( Caust. - exciting or bad news, Gels. ); weeping from delight;
alternate laughing and weeping.
Pains are felt intensely; seem almost insupportable, driving patient
to despair ( Acon. , Cham. ); tossing about in anguish.
Sleepless, wide-awake condition; impossible to close the eyes;
physical excitement through mental exaltation. (Compare, [Senecio],
for sleeplessness form prolapsus, uterine irritation, during climacteric.).
Headache: from over-mental exertion, thinking, talking; one-sided,
as from a nail driven into the brain ( Ign. , Nux ); as if brain
were torn or dashed to pieces; worse in open air.
Hasty eating and drinking ( Bell. , Hep. ).
Toothache: intermittent, jerking, relieved by holding ice-water
in the mouth, but returns when water becomes warm ( Bis. , Bry.
, Puls. , Caust. , Sep. , Nat. s. ).
Relations. - Compare: Acon. , Cham. , Ign. , Sulph.
Incompatible: Canth. , Caust. , Coc. , Ign.
Aggravation. - Sudden mental emotion; excessive joy; cold, open
air; narcotic medicines.
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