Ailments which are < by, or which depend upon, dampness
of weather, damp houses or cellars ([Aran.]).
Patient feets every change from dry to wet; cannot tolerate sea
air, nor eat plants that thrive near water; a constitution in which
gonorrhoeal poison is most pernicious; recovers slowly from every
sickness.
Every spring, skin affections reappear ( Psor. ).
Inability to think ( Nat. c. ).
Sad, gloomy, irritable; worse in mornings; dislikes to speak or
be spoken to ( Iod. , Sil. ).
Depressed; lively music makes her sad; satiety of like; must use
great self-control to prevent shooting himself.
Mental traumatism; mental effects from injuries to head; chronic
brain effects of blows, falls.
Granular lids: like small blisters ( Thuja ); green pus and terrible
photophobia; gonorrhoeal or sycotic.
Nosebleed during menses (instead of menses, Bry. , Puls. ).
Toothache > by cold water, cool air ( Coff. , Puls. ).
Dirty, greenish-gray or brown coating on tongue.
Diarrhoea: sudden, urging, gushing, much flatus; on first rising
and standing on the feet; after a spell of wet weather; living on
working in basements.
Gonorrhoea: greenish-yellow, painless, thick discharge ( Puls.
); chronic or suppressed (thick, green, Kali iod. ).
Dyspnoea; desire to take a deep breath during damp, cloudy weather.
Humid asthma in children; with every change to wet weather; with
every fresh cold; always worse in damp, rainy weather; sputa green,
greenish, copious (greenish grey, Cop. ).
Sycotic pneumonia; lower lobe of left lung; great soreness of chest,
during cough, has to sit up in bed and hold the chest with both
hands ([Nic.] - right lung, Bry. ).
Spinal meningitis: violent crushing gnawing pains at base of brain;
head drawn back; spasms with mental irritability and delirium; violent
congestion of blood to head; delirium; opisthotonos.
Relations. - Compare: Nat. m. and Sulph. , which are very similar;
Thuja and Merc. , in syphilis and sycosis occurring in hydrogenoid
constitutions.
Aggravation. - Damp basements or dwellings; damp weather ([Aran.],
[Ars. i.], Dul. ); rest; lying.
Amelioration. - Dry weather; pressure, sitting up (cough); changing
position (but > in wet weather, Caust. ); open air.
Must change position frequently, but it is painful and gives little
relief ( Caust. ).
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