Best suited to persons of originally strong constitutions,
who have become debilitated by loss of vital fluids, sexual excesses
( Cinch. ); violent acute diseases; chagrin, or a long succession
of moral emotions, as grief, care, disappointed affection.
Ailments: from care, chagrin, grief, sorrow, homesickness ( Ign.
); sleepy, disposed to weep; night-sweats towards morning.
Pale sickly complexion, eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins.
Mild yielding disposition ( Puls. ).
Is listless, apathetic; indifferent to the affairs of life; prostrated
and stupefied with grief; to those things that used to be of most
interest, especially if there be debility and emaciation.
Delirium: muttering, unintelligible; lies in a stupor, or a stupid
sleep, unconscious of all that is going on around him; when aroused
is fully conscious, answers slowly and correctly and relapses into
stupor.
In children and young people who grow too rapidly ( Cal. , Cal.
p. ); pains in back and limbs as if beaten.
Headache: crushing weight on vertex, from long lasting grief or
exhausted nerves; in occiput and nape; usually from behind forward,
< by least motion, noise, especially music, > lying ( Bry.
, Gels. , Sil. ).
Headache of school girls from eye-strain or overuse of eyes ( Cal.
p. , Nat. m. ); of students who are growing too fast.
Patient trembles, legs weak, stumbles easily or makes missteps;
weak and indifferent to the affairs of life.
Interstitial inflammation of bones, scrofulous, sycotic, syphilitic,
mercurial; periosteum inflamed, pains burning, tearing, as if scraped
with a knife ( Rhus ); caries, rachitis, but not necrosis; growing
pains.
Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves of extremities; neurosis
is stump after amputations ( Cepa. ).
Diarrhoea: painless; not debilitating; white or yellow; watery;
from acids; involuntary, with the flatus ( Aloe , Nat. m. ); choleric,
from fear.
Urine: looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces; decomposes
rapidly; profuse urination at night of clear, watery urine, which
forms a white cloud at once (phosphates in excess, nerve waste).
Onanism; when patient is greatly distressed by the culpability
of the act (compare Dios. , Staph. ).
Emissions: frequent, profuse, debilitating; after coitus; most
desire, after; several in one night; abashed, sad, despair of cure
(with irresistible tendency to masturbate, Ust. ).
Chest; weak from talking or coughing ( Stan. ); in phthisis; nervous
from loss of vital fluids, too rapid growth, depressing mental emotions.
Cerebral typhoid or typhus; complete apathy and stupor; takes no
notice, "lies like a log," utterly regardless of surrounding;
intestinal haemorrhage, blood dark.
Relations. - Compare: Phos. , Puls. , Pic. ac. , Sil. ; Mur. ac.
in typhoid; Nit. sp. d. in apathetic stupor and delirium.
Phos. ac. acts well before or after Cinch. in colliquative sweats,
diarrhoea, debility; after Nux in fainting after a meal.
Aggravation. - From mental affections; loss of vital fluids, especially
seminal; self abuse; sexual excesses; talking causes weakness in
chest ( Stan. ). Amelioration.
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