Affects principally the left side of the body ( Lach.
, Thuja ).
Tormented about her salvation ( Lyc. , Sulph. , Ver. ), with ovarian
or uterine complaints; consolation <.
Wild, crazy feeling on vertex; confused ideas.
Profound depression of spirits; can hardly avoid weeping; is very
timid, fearful and weeps much; indifferent about what is being done
for her.
Anxious: about the disease; fears the symptoms indicate an organic
affection; marked in both sexes.
Disposed to curse, strike, to think obscene things ( Anac. , Lac
c. ); alternates with uterine irritation.
Listless, yet cannot sit still; restless, yet does not want to
walk; must keep busy to repress sexual desire.
Desire to do something, hurried manner, yet has no ambition; aimless,
hurried motion ( Arg. n. ).
Fears: being alone, insanity, heart disease; fears she is incurable;
some impending calamity or disease.
Headaches and mental ailments depending on uterine irritation or
displacement. Menstrual irregularities and irritable heart.
Cannot walk on uneven ground;
Pains in small spots; constantly shifting ( Kali bi. ).
Frequent urging to urinate; if desire is not attended to, sensation
of congestion in chest.
Bearing-down sensation; in abdomen and pelvis, as though all organs
would escape ( Lac. c. , Murex , Sep. ); < supporting vulval
with hand; with palpitation.
Menses: early, scanty, dark, offensive; flow only when moving about;
cease to flow when she ceases to walk ( Caust. - on lying down,
Kreos. , Mag. c. ).
Sensation as if heart was grasped in a vise ( Cac. ); as if blood
had all gone to the heart; feels full to bursting; inability to
walk erect.
Pulsations over whole body, and full, distended feeling as if blood
would burst through the vessel ( Aesc. ).
Palpitation, fluttering; faint, hurried, anxious sensation about
apex; sharp pain in left chest awakens at night; irregular pulse;
extremities cold and covered with cold sweat; < after eating,
lying on either side (on left side, Lach. ).
Rapid heart-beat, 150 to 170 per minute.
Constant desire to defecate and urinate (with prolapsus), from
pressure in rectum.
Weak and atonic condition of ovaries, uterus and pelvic tissues,
resulting in anteversion, retroversion, sub-involution ( Helon.
, Sep. ); slow recovery after labor; nearly always with constipation,
from inactivity.
Relations. - Compare: Act. , Agar. , Cac. , Helon. ,
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