Persons of a melancholy temperament, dark eyes, and
a disposition to low spirits and indolence.
Women of choleric temperament, with freckles and red hair ( Phos.
).
Better adapted to think and emaciated than to fleshy persons; to
those who have been changed, both mentally and physically, by their
illness.
Climacteric ailments: haemorrhoids haemorrhages; hot flushes and
hot perspiration; burning vertex headache, especially at or after
the menopause ( Sang. , Sulph. ).
Ailments from long lasting grief; sorrow, fright, vexation, jealousy
or disappointed love ( Aur. , Ign. , Phos. ac. ).
Women who have not recovered from the change of life, "have
never felt well since that time."
Left side principally affected; diseases begin on the left and
go the right side - left ovary, testicle, chest.
Great sensitiveness to touch; throat, stomach, abdomen; cannot
bear bed-clothes or night-dress to touch throat or abdomen, no because
sore or tender, as in Apis or Bell. , but clothes cause an uneasiness,
make her nervous.
Intolerance of tight bands about neck or waist.
Extremes of heat and cold cause great debility.
Drunkards with congestive headaches and haemorrhoids; prone to
erysipelas or apoplexy.
Headache: pressing or bursting pain in temples < from motion,
pressure, stooping, lying, after sleep; dreads to go to sleep because
she awakens with such a headache.
Rush of blood to head; after alcohol; mental emotions; suppressed
or irregular menses; at climaxis; left-sided apoplexy.
Weight and pressure on vertex ( Sep. ); like lead, in occiput.
All symptoms, especially the mental, worse after sleep, or the
aggravation wakes him from sleep; sleeps into the aggravation; unhappy,
distressed, anxious, sad < in morning on waking.
Mental excitability; ecstasy, with almost prophetic perceptions;
with a vivid imagination; great loquacity; ( Agar. , Stram. ); want
to talk all the time; jumps from one idea to another; one word often
leads into another story.
Constipation: inactivity, stools lies in rectum, without urging;
sensation of constriction of sphincter ( Caust. , Nit. ac. ).
Menses at regular time; too short, scanty, feeble; pains all relieved
by the flow; always better during menses ( Zinc. ).
Menses at regular time; too short, scanty, feeble; pains all relieved
by the flow; always better during menses ( Zinc. ).
Piles: with scanty menses; at climaxis; strangulated; with stitches
shooting upward ( Nit. ac. ).
The least thing coming near mouth or nose interferes with breathing;
wants to be fanned, but slowly and at a distance (rapidly, Carbo
v. ).
As soon as he falls asleep the breathing stops ( Am. c. , [Grind.],
Lac c. , Op. ).
Great physical and mental exhaustion; trembling in whole body,
would constantly sink down from weakness; worse in the morning (
Sulph. , Tub. ).
Epilepsy; comes during sleep ([Bufo]); from loss of vital fluids;
onanism, jealousy.
Haemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed easily and profusely
( Crot. , Kreos. , Phos. ); blood dark, non-coagulable ( Crot. ,
Sec. ).
Boils, carbuncles, ulcers and intense pain ( Tar. ); malignant
pustules; decubitus; dark, bluish, purple appearance; tend to malignancy.
Bad effects of poison wounds; post-mortem ( Pyr. ).
Sensation as of a ball rolling in the bladder.
Fever annually returning; paroxysm every spring ( Carbo v. , Sulph.
), after suppression by quinine the previous autumn.
Fever: typhoid, typhus; stupor or muttering delirium, sunken countenance,
falling of lower jaw; tongue dry, black, trembles, is protruded
with difficulty or catches on the teeth when protruding; conjunctiva
yellow or orange color; perspiration cold, stains yellow, bloody
( Lyc. ).
Diphtheria and tonsillitis, beginning on the left and extending
to right side ( Lac. c. , Sabad. ); dark purple appearance ( Naja
); < by hot drinks, after sleep; liquids more painful than solids
when swallowing ( Bell. , Bry. , Ign. ); prostration out of all
proportion to appearance of throat.
Relations. - Complementary: Hep. , Lyc. , Nit. ac.
Incompatible: Acet. ac. , Carb. ac. [ Psor. ].
In intermittent fever Nat. m. follows Lach. well when type changes.
Aggravation. - After sleep; contact; extremes of temperature; acids;
alcohol; cinchona; mercury; pressure or constriction; sun's rays;
spring. summer.
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