Adapted to anaemic debilitated subjects of rheumatic diathesis;
to scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides and lumbrici ( Cina
, Stan. ).
Persons with light hair; pale, thin, bloated, weak; wrinkled, yellow,
earthy skin.
Body painfully sensitive to touch; part touched feels chilly; touch
sends shudder through the whole frame ( Kali c. ).
Afraid of sharp, pointed things, pins, needles, etc.
Rheumatic affections of heart (Kali, Led. , Naja ); systolic blowing
at apex. Aneurism.
Nervous headache; periodical, beginning in morning at base of brain,
spreading over the head and locating in eye, orbit and temple of
left side (right side, Sang. , Sil. ); pain, pulsating, violent,
throbbing.
Headache; at sunrise, at its height at noon, declines till sunset.
( Nat. m. , Tab. ).
Intolerable, pressive pain in eyeballs; could not turn the eyes
without turning the whole body; worse, especially on making a false
step.
Sensation: as if eyes were too large for the orbits ( Act. , Com.);
sensitive to touch; as if a band around head ( Cac. , Carb. ac.
, Sulph. ).
Copious offensive mucus from posterior nares, drops into throat,
causing choking at night ( Hydr. ).
Sharp, stabbing, sticking pains through eyeballs back into the
head; from cold, damp, rainy weather.
Prosopalgia: periodical, left-sided, orbit, eyes, malar bone, teeth;
from morning until sunset; pain tearing, burning, cheek dark red;
during cold, rainy weather; from tea.
Toothache from tobacco smoking; > only on lying down and while
eating (Plan.); worse from cold air and water; returns from thinking
about it.
Scirrhus of sigmoid or rectum, atrocious unbearable pain ([Alumen]).
Dyspnoea: must lie on right side or with head high ( Cac. , Spong.
); pains in chest are stitching, needle-like.
Chest affections with stitching pains synchronous with pulse, <
from motion, < cold, wet weather.
Palpitation: violent, visible and audible; from least motion; when
bending forward; systolic blowing at apex.
Stammering, repeats first syllable three or four times; with abdominal
ailments; with helminthiasis.
Relations. - Compare: Acon. , Ars. , Cact. , Dig. Kali c. , Naja
, Kal. , Spong. in heart affections.
Aggravation. - From motion, noise, touch, turning the eyes; from
every shaking, commotion, or concussion.
Amelioration. - Lying on right side with the head high ( Ars. ,
Cac. , Spong. ).
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