Anacardium orientale

Anacardium orientale
(marking nut)
* The Anacardium patient is found mostly among theneurasthenics; such have a type of
nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; impaired memory, depression, and irritability;
diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing).
* Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions.
* Intermittency of symptoms.
* Fear of examination in students.
* Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc.
* Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse.
* Sensation of a plug in various parts - eyes, rectum, bladder, etc.; also of a band.
* Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort.
* This is a sure indication, often verified.
* Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison-Oak.
Mind
- Fixed ideas.
- Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills.
- Anxiety when walking, as if pursued.
- Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language. Brainfag. Impaired memory. Absent mindedness. Very easily offended.
- Malicious; seems bent on wickedness.
- Lack of confidence in himself or others.
- Suspicious [Hyos.].
- Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead.
- Senile dementia.
- Absence of all moral restraint.
Head
- Vertigo.
- Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion - in forehead; occiput, temples,
vertex; better during a meal.
- Itching and little boils on scalp.
Eyes
- Pressure like a plug on upper orbit.
- Indistinct vision.
- Objects appear too far off.
Ears
- Pressing in the ears as from a plug.
- Hard of hearing.
Nose
- Frequent sneezing.
- Sense of smell perverted.
- Coryza with palpitation, especially in the aged.
Face
- Blue rings around eyes.
- Face pale.
Mouth
- Painful vesicles; fetid odor.
- Tongue feels swollen, impending speech and motion, with saliva in mouth.
- Burning around lips as from pepper.
Stomach
- Weak digestion, with fullness and distention.
- Empty feeling in stomach.
- Eructation, nausea, vomiting.
- Eating relieves the Anacardium dyspepsia.
- Apt to choke when eating or drinking.
- Swallows food and drinks hastily.
Abdomen
- Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines.
- Rumbling, pinching, and griping.
Rectum
- Bowels inactive.
- Ineffectual desire; rectum seems powerless, as if plugged up; spasmodic constriction of
sphincter ani; even soft stool passes with difficulty.
- Itching at anus; moisture from rectum.
- Haemorrhage during stool.
- Painful haemorrhoids.
Male
- Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams.
- Prostatic discharge during stool.
Female
- Leucorrhoea, with soreness and itching.
- Menses scanty.
Respiratory
- Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug.
- Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air.
- Cough excited by talking, in children, after fitof temper.
- Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput.
Heart
- Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart region.
- Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches.
Back
- Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight.
- Stiffness at nape of neck.
Extremities
- Neuralgia in thumb.
- Paralytic weakness.
- Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged.
- Cramps in calves.
- Pressure as from a plug in the glutei.
- Warts on palms of hands.
- Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption.
Sleep
- Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights.
- Anxious dreams.
Skin
- Intense itching, eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; swelling, urticaria;
eruption like that of Poison-Oak. [Xerophyl.; Grindel.; Croton.]
- Lichen planus; neurotic eczema.
- Warts on hands.
- Ulcer formation on forearm.
Modalities
- Worse, on application of hot water.
- Better, from eating.
- When lying on side, from rubbing.
Relationship
- Antidote : Grindeleia; Coffea; Juglans; Rhus; Eucalyptus.
- Compare : Anacard. occidentale (cashew nut) (erysipelas, vesicular facial eruptions),
(anaesthetic variety of leprosy; warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet).
- Rhus; Cypriped.; Chelidon.; Xerophyl.
- Platina follows well.
- Cereux serpentina (swearing).
Dose
- Sixth to two hundredth potency.