Especially adapted to diseases of women; spasmodic and
hysterical complaints, complicated with uterine diseases; who have
suffered for years from attacks of indigestion or biliousness.
Children: during difficult dentition are unable to digest milk;
it causes pain in stomach and passes undigested; puny, rachitic,
who crave sweets.
Great sensitiveness to noise ( Ign. , Nux , Ther. ).
Headache: every six weeks, in forehead and around the eyes; as
if it would burst; < from motion and in open air; > from lying
down, strong pressure ( Puls. ), and wrapping up warmly ( Sil. ,
Stron. ).
Great tendency of head to sweat ( Cal. , Sanic. , Sil. ).
Continual raising of white froth in mouth.
Eructations, tasting like rotten eggs, like onions (breath smells
of onions, [Sinap.]).
Toothache; unbearable when food touches the teeth.
Pressing pain in liver, when walking and touching it, liver hard,
enlarged, < lying on right side ( Mer. , Kali c. ).
Constipation: stool hard, scanty, large, knotty, like sheep's dung;
difficult to pass; crumbling at verge of anus ( Am. m. , Nat. m.
); of infants during dentition.
Urine; pale, yellow, can only be passed by bearing down with abdominal
muscles; weakness of bladder;
Menses: with great excitement at every speed; flow black, clotted;
spasms and pains < in back when walking, extend into thighs;
metrorrhagia, < at night in bed, causing hysteria ( Act. , Caul.
).
Leucorrhoea: after exercise; with every stool; with uterine spasm;
followed by metrorrhagia; two weeks after menses for three or four
days ( Bar. , Bov. , Con. ).
Palpitation and cardiac pains while sitting. < by moving about
(compare, Gels. ).
Relations. - Compare: Cham. in the diseases of children.
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