Is best adapted to thin, emaciated persons of a highly
nervous organization; dark complexion.
Affections of right side of body; head, ear, face, chest, ovary,
sciatic nerve ( Bell. , Bry. , Chel. , Kali c. , Lyc. , Pod. ).
Pains: sharp, cutting, stabbing; shooting, stitching; lightning-like
in coming and going ( Bell. ); intermittent, paroxysm becoming almost
unbearable, driving patient to frenzy; rapidly changing place (
Lac c. , Puls. ), with a constricting sensation ( Cac. , Iod. ,
Sulph. ); cramping, in neuralgic affections of stomach, abdomen
and pelvis ( Caul. , Col. ).
Great dread: of cold air; of uncovering; of touching affected part;
of cold bathing or washing; of moving.
Languid, tired, exhausted; unable to sit up.
Complaints from standing in cold water or working in cold clay
( Cal. ).
Ailments of teething children; spasms during dentition, no fever
(with fever, hot head and skin, Bell. ).
Headache: begins in occiput and extends over head ( Sang. , Sil.
); of school girls; face red, flushed; from mental emotion, exertion
or hard study; < 10 to 11 a. m. or 4 to 5 p. m.; > by pressure
and external heat.
Neuralgia; of face, supra-orbital or infra-orbital; right side;
intermittent, darting, cutting < by touch, cold air, pressure
> by external heat.
Toothache: at night; rapidly shifting; < eating, drinking, especially
cold things; > by heat (> by cold, Bry. , Coff. , Fer. p.
).
Spasms or cramps of stomach, with clean tongue, as if a hand was
drawn tightly around body.
Colic: flatulent, forcing patient to bend double; > by heat,
rubbing and hard pressure ( Col. , Plumb. ); of horses and cows
when Colocynth fails to >.
Menses: early; flow dark, stringy; pains < before, > when
flow begins ( Lach. , Zinc. ); pains darting, like lightning, shooting,
< right side, > by heat and bending double; vaginismus.
Enuresis: nocturnal; from nervous irritation; urine pale, copious;
after catheterization.
Cramps: of extremities; during pregnancy; of writers, piano or
violin players.
Relations. - Compare: Bell. , Caul. , Col. , Lyc. , Lac c. , Puls.
; Cham. its vegetable analogue.
Sometimes acts best when given in hot water.
Aggravation. - Cold air; a draft of cold air or cold wind; cold
bathing or washing; motion; touch.
Amelioration. - Bending double; heat; warmth; pressure (burning
pain > by heat, Ars. ).
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