For nervous, restless, highly sensitive organisms.
Symptoms erratic, pains constantly flying from one part to another
( Kali bi. , Puls. ); changing from side to side every few hours
or days.
Very forgetful, absent-minded; makes purchases and walks away without
them ( Agnus , Anac. , Caust. , Nat. ).
In writing, uses too many words or not the right ones; omits final
letter or letters in a word; cannot concentrate the mind to read
or study; very nervous ( Bov. , Graph. , Lach. , Nat. c. , Sep.
).
Despondent, hopeless; thinks her disease incurable; has not a friend
living; nothing worth living for; could weep at any moment ( Act.
, Aur. , Cal. , Lach. ).
Cross, irritable; child cries and screams all the time, especially
at night ( Jal. , Nux , Psor. ).
Fears to be alone ( Kali c. ); of dying ( Ars. ); of becoming insane
( Lil. ); of falling down stairs ( Bor. ).
Chronic "blue" condition; everything seems so dark that
it can grow no darker ( Lyc. , Puls. ).
Attacks of rage, cursing and swearing at slightest provocation
( Lil. , Nit. ac. ); intense ugliness; hateful.
Coryza, with discharge of thick, white mucus.
One nostril stuffed up, the other free and discharging; there conditions
alternate; discharge acrid, nose and lip raw ( Arum , Cepa ).
Diphtheria and tonsillitis; symptoms change repeatedly from side
to side.
Sore throats and cough are apt to begin and end with menstruation;
yellow or white patches; pains shoot to ear.
Throat: sensitive to touch externally ( Lach. ); < by empty
swallowing ( Ign. ); constant inclination to swallow, painful, almost
impossible ( Mer. ); pains extend to ears ( Hep. , Kali bi. ); begins
on left side ( Lach. ).
Shining, glazed appearance of diphtheritic deposit, chancres and
ulcers.
Very hungry, cannot eat enough to satisfy; as hungry after eating
as before ( Casc. , Cal. , Cina , Lyc. , Stront. ).
Sinking in epigastrium; faintness in stomach.
Menses; too early; too profuse; flow in gushes bright red, viscid
and stringy (dark, black, stringy, Croc. ); breasts swollen, painful,
sensitive before and during ( Con. ).
Discharge of flatus from vagina ( Brom. , Lyc. , Nux m. , Sang.
).
Breasts: inflamed, painful; < by least jar and towards evening;
must hold them firmly when going up or down stairs ( Bry. ).
Serviceable in almost all cases when it is required to dry up milk
( Asaf. - to bring back or increase it, Lac d. ).
Sensation as if breath would leave her when lying down; must get
up and walk ( Am. c. , [Grind.], Lach. ).
Loss of milk while nursing, without any known cause ( Asaf. ).
Palpitation violent when lying on left side > turning on right
( Tab. ).
Sexual organs easily excited, from touch, pressure on sitting,
or friction by walking ( Cinn. , Coff. , Mur. , Plat. ).
When walking, seems to be walking on air; when lying, does not
seem to touch the bed ( Asar. ).
Backache: intense, unbearable, cross super-sacral region, extending
to right natis and right sciatic nerve; < by rest and on first
moving ( Rhus ); spine aches from base of brain to coccyx, very
sensitive to touch or pressure ([Chin. s.], Phos. , Zinc. ).
Relations. - Similar: to, Apis , Con. , Murex , Lach. , Kali bi.
, Puls. , Sep. , Sulph.
It generally acts best in single dose.
Probably no remedy in the Materia Medica presents a more valuable
pathogenesis in symptoms of the throat, or one that will better
repay a careful study.
Like Lachesis , this remedy has met with the most violent opposition
from prejudice and ignorance, which its wonderful therapeutic powers
have slowly, yet surely overcome. It was successfully used by Dioscorides,
Pliny, and Sextus in ancient times, and revived in New York by Reisig,
Bayard and Swan in the treatment of diphtheria. Reisig was the first
to potentize it.
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