Aconitum napellus

Aconitum napellus
(monkshood)
* A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body.
* Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is themost characteristic manifestation of Aconite.
Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever, call for it.
* Does not want to be touched.
* Sudden and great sinking of strength.
* Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air,
checked perspiration, also complaints from very hotweather, especially gastro-intestinal
disturbances, etc.
* First remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers.
* Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly.
* Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness.
* Influenza.
* Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms.
* When prescribing Aconite remember Aconite causesonly functional disturbance, no
evidence that it can produce tissue change - its action is brief and shows no periodicity.
* Its sphere is in the beginning of an acute disease and not to be continued after pathological
change comes.
* In Hyperaemia, congestion not after exudation has set in.
* Influenza [Influenzin]
Mind
- Great fear, anxiety, and worry accompany every ailment, however trivial.
- Delirium is characterized by unhappiness worry, fear, raving, rarely unconsciousness.
- Forebodings and fears. Fears death but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day.
- Fears the future, a crowd, crossing the street.
- Restlessness, tossing about.
- Tendency to start.
- Imagination acute, clairvoyance.
- Pains are intolerable; they drive him crazy.
- Music is unbearable; makes her sad. [Ambra.]
- Thinks his thoughts come from the stomach - thatparts of his body are abnormally thick.
- Feels as if what had just been done was a dream.
Head
- Fullness; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning undulating sensation.
- Intercranial pressure. (Hedera Helix.)
- Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water [Indigo.].
- Vertigo; worse on rising [Nux. Opium] and shaking head.
- Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end.
- Nocturnal furious delirium.
Eyes
- Red, inflamed.
- Feel dry and hot, as if sand in them.
- Lids swollen, hard and red.
- Aversion to light.
- Profuse watering after exposure to dry, cold winds, reflection from snow, after extraction of
cinders and other foreign bodies.
Ears
- Very sensitive to noises; music is unbearable.
- External ear hot, red, painful, swollen.
- Earache. [Cham.].
- Sensation as of drop of water in left ear.
Nose
- Smell acutely sensitive. Pain at root of nose.
- Coryza much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils.
- Haemorrhage of bright red blood.
- Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza.
Face
- Red, hot, flushed, swollen.
- One cheek red, the other pale (Cham., Ipec.). Onrising the red face becomes deathly pale,
or he becomes dizzy. Tingling in cheeks and numbness.
- Neuralgia, especially of left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness.
- Pain in jaws.
Mouth
- Numb, dry, and tingling.
- Tongue swollen; tip tingles.
- Teeth sensitive to cold.
- Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing.
- Gums hot and inflamed. Tongue coated white. [Antim. crud.].
Throat
- Red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning,stinging.
- Tonsils swollen and dry.
Stomach
- Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination.
- Thirst for cold water.
- Bitter taste. of everything except water.
- Intense thirst.
- Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die.
- Vomiting, bilious mucous and bloody, greenish.
- Pressure in stomach with dyspnoea.
- Haematemesis.
- Burning from stomach to oesophagus.
Abdomen
- Hot, tense, tympanitic.
- Sensitive to touch. Colic, no position relieves.
- Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup.
- Burning in umbilical region.
Rectum
- Pain with nightly itching and stitching in anus.
- Frequent, small stool with tenesmus; green, likechopped herbs.
- White with red urine.
- Choleraic discharge with collapse, anxiety, and restlessness.
- Bleeding haemorrhoids. [Hamam.]
- Watery diarrhoea in children.
- They cry and complain much, are sleepless and restless.
Urine
- Scanty, red, hot, painful.
- Tenesmus and burning at neck of bladder.
- Burning in urethra.
- Urine suppressed, bloody.
- Anxiety always on beginning to urinate.
- Retention, with screaming and restlessness, and handling of genitals.
- Renal region sensitive.
- Profuse urination, with profuse perspiration anddiarrhoea.
Male
- Crawling and stinging in glans.
- Bruised pain in testicles, swollen, hard.
- Frequent erections and emissions.
- Painful erections.
Female
- Vagina dry, hot, sensitive.
- Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late.
- Frenzy on appearance of menses.
- Suppressed from fright, cold, in plethoric subjects.
- Ovaries congested and painful.
- Sharp shooting pains in womb.
- After-pains, with fear and restlessness.
Respiratory
- Constant pressure in left chest; oppressed breathing on least motion.
- Hoarse, dry, croupy cough; loud, labored breathing.
- Child grasps at throat every time he coughs.
- Very sensitive to inspired air.
- Shortness of breath.
- Larynx sensitive.
- Stitches through chest.
- Cough, dry, short, hacking; worse at night and after midnight.
- Hot feeling in lungs.
- Blood comes up with hawking.
- Tingling in chest after cough.
Heart
- Tachycardia.
- Affections of the heart with pain in left shoulder.
- Stitching pain in chest.
- Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting, and tingling in fingers.
- Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding; sometimes intermits.
- Temporal and carotid arteries felt when sitting.
Back
- Numb, stiff, painful.
- Crawling and tingling, as if bruised.
- Stiffness in nape of neck.
- Bruised pain between scapulae.
Extremities
- Numbness and tingling; shooting pains; icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet.
- Arms feel lame, bruised, heavy, numb.
- Pain down left arm [Cact., Crotal., Kalmia, Tabac.] Hot hands and cold feet.
- Rheumatic inflammation of joints; worse at night; red shining swelling, very sensitive.
- Hip-joint and thigh feel lame, especially after lying down.
- Knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn. [Aescul.]
- Weak and lax ligaments of all joints.
- Painless cracking of all joints.
- Bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands.
- Sensation as if drops of water trickled down thethigh.
Sleep
- Nightmare.
- Nightly ravings.
- Anxious dreams.
- Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about. [Use thirtieth potency].
- Starts up in sleep.
- Long dreams, with anxiety in chest.
- Insomnia of the aged.
Skin
- Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning.
- Purpura miliaris.
- Rash like measles.
- Gooseflesh.
- Formication and numbness.
- Chilliness and formication down back.
- Pruritus relieved by stimulants.
Fever
- Cold stage most marked.
- Cold sweat and icy coldness of face.
- Coldness and heat alternate.
- Evening chilliness soon after going to bed.
- Cold waves pass through him. Thirst and restlessness always present.
- Chilly if uncovered or touched.
- Dry heat, red face.
- Most valuable febrifuge with mental anguish, restlessness, etc.
- Sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving allsymptoms.
Modalities
- Better in open air; worse in warm room, in evening and night; worse lying on affected side,
from music, from tobacco-smoke, dry, cold winds.
- Vinegar in large doses is antidotal to poisonouseffects.
Relationship
- Acids, wine and coffee, lemonade, and acid fruits modify its action.
- Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and pyaemic conditions, and in
inflammations when they localize themselves.
- Sulphur often follows it.
- Compare Cham and Coffea in intense pain and sleeplessness.
- Agrostis acts like Acon. in fever and inflammations, also Spiranthes.
- Complementary : Coffea; Sulph.
- Sulphur may be considered a chronic Aconite.
- Often completes a cure begun with Aconite.
- Compare ; Bellad.; Cham.; Coffea; Ferr., phos.
- Aconitine.
- -(Heavy feeling as of lead; pains in supraorbital nerve; ice-cold sensations creep up;
hydrophobia symptoms. Tinnitus aurium 3x.) Tinglingsensation.
- Aconitum Lycotonum.
- -Great yellow wolfsbane.
- -(Swelling of glands; Hodgkin's disease. Diarrhoea after eating pork. Itching of nose, eyes,
anus and vulva. Skin of nose cracked; taste of blood).
- Aconitum Cammarum.
- -(Headache with vertigo and tinnitus. Catalepticsymptoms. Formication of tongue, lips and
face).
- Aconitum ferox.
- -Indian Aconite.
- -Rather more violent in its actions than A. napellus.
- It is more diuretic and less antipyretic.
- It has proved valuable in cardiac dyspnoea, neuralgia, and acute gout.
- Dyspnoea. Must sit up. Rapid respiration.
- Anxiety, with suffocation from feeling of paralysis in respiratory muscles.
- Cheynes-Stokes breathing.
- Quebracho (cardiac dyspnoea). (Achyranthes.-A Mexican drug - very similar to Aconite in
fevers, but of larger range, being also adapted to typhoidal states and intermittents. Muscular
rheumatism. A great diaphoretic. Use 6x).
- Eranthis hymnalis-(Winter Aconite - acts on solar plexus and works upwards causing
dyspnoea. Pain in occiput and neck).
Dose
- Sixth potency for sensory affections; first to third for congestive conditions.
- Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases.
- Acon. is a rapid worker.
- In Neuralgias tincture of the root often preferable, one drop doses (poisonous), or again, the
30th according to susceptibility of patient.

Arnica montana

Arnica montana
(leopard's bane)
* Produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those resulting from injuries, falls,
blows, contusions.
* Tinnitus aurium.
* Putrid phenomena.
* Septic conditions; prophylactic of pus infection.
* Apoplexy, red, full face.
It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to have caused the
present trouble.
Arnica is disposed to cerebral congestion.
Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated withimpoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with
dyspnoea.
A muscular tonic.
Traumatism of grief, remorse or sudden realizationof financial loss.
Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained.
Bed feels too hard.
Marked effect on the blood.
Affects the venous system inducing stasis.
Echymosis and haemorrhages.
Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots.
Tendency to haemorrhage and low-fever states.
Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature.
Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumo-gastric.
Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders.
Aversion to tobacco.
Thrombosis.
Haematocele.
Mind
- Fears touch, or the approach of anyone.
- Unconscious; when spoken to answers correctly, but relapses.
- Indifference; inability to perform continuous active work; morose, delirious.
- Nervous; cannot bear pain; whole body oversensitive.
- Says there is nothing the matter with him.
- Wants to be let alone.
- Agoraphobia (fear of space).
- After mental strain or shock.
Head
- Hot, with cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains.
- Scalp feels contracted.
- Cold spot on forehead.
- Chronic vertigo; objects whirl about especially when walking.
Eyes
- Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal haemorrhage.
- Bruised, sore feeling in eyes after close work.
- Must keep eyes open.
- Dizzy on closing them.
- Feel tired and weary after sight-seeing, moving pictures, etc.
Ears
- Noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the head.
- Shooting in and around ears.
- Blood from ears.
- Dullness of hearing after concussion.
- Pain in cartilages of ears as if bruised.
Nose
- Bleeding after every fit of coughing, dark fluidblood.
- Nose feels sore; cold.
Mouth
- Fetid breath.
- Dry and thirsty.
- Bitter taste. [Colocy.]
- Taste as from bad eggs.
- Soreness of gums after teeth extraction. [Sepia.]
- Empyema of maxillary sinus.
Face
- Sunken; very red.
- Heat in lips.
- Herpes in face.
Stomach
- Longing for vinegar.
- Distaste for milk and meat.
- Canine hunger.
- Vomiting of blood.
- Pain in stomach during eating.
- Repletion with loathing.
- Oppressive gases pass upward and downward.
- Pressure as from a stone.
- Feeling as if stomach were pressing against spine. Fetid vomiting.
Abdomen
- Stitches under false ribs.
- Distended; offensive flatus.
- Sharp thrusts through abdomen.
Stool
- Straining of tenesmus in diarrhoea. Offensive, brown, bloody, putrid, involuntary.
- Looks like brown yeast.
- Must lie down after every stool.
- Diarrhoea of consumption; worse lying on left side.
- Dysenteric stools with muscular pains.
Urine
- Retained from over-exertion.
- Dark brick-red sediment.
- Vesical tenesmus with very painful micturition.
Female
- Bruised parts after labor.
- Violent after-pains.
- Uterine haemorrhage from mechanical injury aftercoition.
- Sore nipples.
- Mastitis from injury.
- Feeling as if foetus were lying crosswise.
Respiratory
- Coughs depending on cardiac lesion, paroxysmal, at night, during sleep, worse exercise.
- Acute tonsillitis, swelling of soft palate and uvula.
- Pneumonia; approaching paralysis.
- Hoarseness from overuse of voice.
- Raw, sore feeling in morning.
- Cough produced by weeping and lamenting.
- Dry, from tickling low down in trachea.
- Bloody expectoration.
- Dyspnoea with haemoptysis.
- All bones and cartilages of chest painful.
- Violent spasmodic cough, with facial herpes.
- Whooping cough, child cries before coughing.
- Pleurodynia [Ranunc.; Cimicif.]
Heart
- Angina pectoris; pain especially severe in elbowof left arm.
- Stitches in heart.
- Pulse feeble and irregular.
- Cardiac dropsy with distressing dyspnoea.
- Extremities distended, feel bruised and sore.
- Fatty heart and hypertrophy.
Extremities
- Gout.
- Great fear of being touched or approached.
- Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten.
- Sprained and dislocated feeling.
- Soreness after overexertion.
- Everything on which he lies seems too hard.
- Deathly coldness of forearm.
- Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain inpelvic region.
- Rheumatism begins low down and works up. [Ledum.]
Skin
- Black and blue.
- Itching, burning, eruption of small pimples.
- Crops of small boils. [Ichthyol; Silica.] Ecchymosis.
- Bed sores. [Bovinine locally.]
- Acne indurata, characterized by symmetry in distribution.
Sleep
- Sleepless and restless when overtired.
- Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious
and terrible.
- Horrors in the night.
- Involuntary stools during sleep.
Fever
- Febrile symptoms closely related to typhoid.
- Shivering over whole body.
- Heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body.
- Internal heat; feet and hands cold.
- Nightly sour sweats.
Modalities
- Worse, least touch; motion; rest; wine; damp cold.
- Better, lying down, or with head low.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Camph.
- Vitex trifolia.
- - Indian Arnica. (Sprains and pains, headache intemples, pain in joints; pain in abdomen;
pain in testicles.)
- Complementary : Acon.; Ipec.
- Compare : Acon.; Bapt.; Bellis; Hamam; Rhus.; Hyperic.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Locally, the tincture, but should never be applied hot or at all when abrasions or cuts are
present.

Aurum metallicum

Aurum metallicum
(metallic gold)
* Given full play, Aurum develops in the organism,by attacking the blood, glands, and bone,
conditions bearing striking resemblance to mercurial and syphilitic infections; and it is just for
such deteriorations of the bodily fluids and alterations in the tissues, that Aurum assumes
great importance as a remedy.
* Like the victim of syphilis, mental states of great depression are produced by it.
* Hopeless, despondent, and great desire to commitsuicide.
* Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction.
* Exostosis, caries, nightly bone-pains, especially cranial, nasal, and palatine.
* Glands swollen in scrofulous subjects.
* Palpitation and congestions.
* Ascites often in conjunction with heart affections.
* Frequently indicated in secondary syphilis and effects of mercury.
* This use of gold as an anti-venereal and anti-scrofulous remedy is very old, but has been
well-nigh forgotten by the old school until rediscovered and placed on its scientific basis by
homoeopathy, and now it can never be lost again.
* When syphilis is implanted on the scrofulous constitution, we have one of the most
intractable morbid conditions, and gold seems to beespecially suited to the vile combination.
* Ennui.
* Ozaena; sexual hyperaesthesia.
* Arterio-sclerosis, high blood pressure; nightly paroxysms of pain behind sternum.
* Sclerosis of liver, arterial system, brain.
* Pining boys; low spirited, lifeless, weak memory.
Mind
- Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness.
- Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and
thoughts of suicide.
- Talks of committing suicide.
- Great fear of death.
- Peevish and vehement at least contradiction.
- Anthropophobia.
- Mental derangements.
- Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply.
- Cannot do things fast enough.
- Oversensitiveness; [Staph.] to noise, excitement, confusion.
Head
- Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure.
- Roaring in head.
- Vertigo.
- Tearing through brain to forehead.
- Pain in bones extending to face.
- Congestion to head.
- Boils on scalp.
Eyes
- Extreme photophobia.
- Great soreness all about the eyes and into eyeballs.
- Double vision; upper half of objects invisible.
- Feel tense.
- Sees fiery objects.
- Violent pains in bones around eye. [Asaf.]
- Interstitial keratitis.
- Vascular cornea.
- Pains from without inward.
- Sticking pains inward.
- Trachoma with pannus.
Ears
- Caries of ossicula and of mastoid.
- Obstinate fetid otorrhoea after scarlatina.
- External meatus bathed in pus.
- Chronic nerve deafness; Labyrinthine disease dueto syphilis.
Nose
- Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed.
- Inflammation of nose; caries; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody.
- Boring pains in nose; worse at night.
- Putrid smell from nose.
- Sensitive smell. [Carbol. ac.]
- Horrible odor from nose and mouth.
- Knobby tip of nose.
Mouth
- Foul breath in girls at puberty.
- Taste putrid or bitter.
- Ulceration of gums.
Face
- Tearing in zygoma.
- Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed.
Throat
- Stitches when swallowing; pain in glands.
- Caries of the palate.
Stomach
- Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness.
- Swelling of epigastrium.
- Burning at stomach and hot eructations.
Abdomen
- Right hypochondrium hot and painful.
- Incarcerated flatus.
- Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.
Urine
- Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment.
- Painful retention.
Rectum
- Constipation, stools hard and knotty.
- Nocturnal diarrhoea, with burning in rectum.
Male
- Pain and swelling of testicles.
- Chronic induration of testicles.
- Violent erections.
- Atrophy of testicles in boys.
- Hydrocele.
Female
- Great sensitiveness of vagina.
- Uterus enlarged and prolapsed.
- Sterility; vaginismus.
Heart
- Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for two or three seconds, immediately followed by
a tumultuous rebound, with sinking at the epigastrium.
- Palpitation.
- Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular.
- Hypertrophy.
- High Blood Pressure - Valvular lesions of arterio-sclerotic nature (Aurum 30)
Respiratory
- Dyspnoea at night.
- Frequent, deep breathing; stitches in sternum.
Bones
- Destruction of bones, like secondary syphilis.
- Pain in bones of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis with nightly pains in bones.
- Caries of nasal, palatine and mastoid bones.
- Soreness of affected bones, better in open air, worse at night.
Extremities
- All the blood seems to rush from head to lower limbs.
- Dropsy of lower limbs.
- Orgasm, as if blood were boiling in all veins.
- Paralytic, tearing pains in joints.
- Knees weak.
Sleep
- Sleepless.
- Sobs aloud in sleep.
- Frightful dreams.
Modalities
- Worse, in cold weather when getting cold.
- Many complaints come on only in winter; from sunset to sunrise.
Relationship
- Compare : Aur. ars. (chronic aortitis; lupus, phthisis in syphilitic headaches; also in anaemia
and chlorosis. It causes rapid increase of appetite.)
- Aur. brom. (in headaches with neurasthenia, megrim, night terrors, valvular diseases).
- Aur. mur. (Burning, yellow, acrid leucorrhoea; heart symptoms, glandular affections; warts
on tongue and genitals; sclerotic and exudative degeneration of the nervous system. Multiple
sclerosis. Morvan's disease. Second trituration. Aur. mur. is a sycotic remedy, causing
suppressed discharges to reappear. Valuable in climacteric haemorrhages from the womb.
Diseases of frontal sinus. Stitching pain in left side of forehead. Weariness, aversion to all
work. Drawing feeling in stomach. Cancer, tongue ashard as leather; induration after
glossitis).
- Aur. mur. kali.
- -Double chloride of Potassium and gold. (In uterine induration and haemorrhage.)
- Aur. iod.(Chronic pericarditis, valvular diseases, arterio-sclerosis ozaena, lupus, osteitis,
ovarian cysts, myomata uteri, are pathological lesions, that offer favorable ground for the
action of this powerful drug. Senile paresis.)
- Aur. sulph. (Paralysis agitans; constant noddingof the head; affections of mammae;
swelling, pain, cracked nipples with lancinating pains.)
- Also, Asafaet. (in caries of bones of ears and nose).
- Syphilin : Kali iod.; Hep.; Merc.; Mez.; Nit. ac.; Phosph.
- Antidotes : Bell.; Cinch.; Cupr.; Merc.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Latter potency especially for increased blood pressure.

Angustura vera

Angustura vera
(bark of galipea cusparia)
* Rheumatic and paralytic complaints - great difficulty in walking.
* Crackling in all joints.
The greatest craving for coffee is a characteristic symptom.
Caries of long bones.
Paralysis.
Tetanus.
Stiffness of muscles and joints.
Principal action on spinal motor nerves and mucousmembranes.
Head
- Oversensitive.
- Headache, with heat of face.
- Acute pain in cheeks.
- Drawing in facial muscles.
- Pain in temporal muscles, when opening the jaws.
- Pain in articulation of jaw, in masseter muscles, as if fatigued by chewing too much.
- Cramp-pain on the zygomatic arch.
Stomach
- Bitter taste.
- Irresistible desire for coffee.
- Pain from navel into sternum.
- Atonic dyspepsia.
- Belching, with cough. [Ambra.]
Abdomen
- Diarrhoea and colic.
- Tenesmus with soft stool; chronic diarrhoea, with debility and loss of flesh.
- Burning in anus.
Back
- Itching along back.
- Pain in cervical vertebrae.
- Drawing in the neck.
- Pain in spine, at nape of neck and sacrum, worseon pressure.
- Twitching and jerking along back.
- Bends backward.
Extremities
- Stiffness and tension of muscles and joints.
- Pain in limbs on walking.
- Arms tired and heavy.
- Caries of long bones.
- Coldness of fingers.
- Pain in knees.
- Cracking in joints.
Skin
- Caries, very painful ulcers which affect the bone.
Relationship
- Compare : Nux; Ruta; Mercur.; Brucea.
- -Bark of Nux vomica or angustura falsa. (Tetanicspasms with undisturbed consciousness,
worse noise, liquids, paralyzed lower extremities, worse least touch, cries for fear of being
touched. Painful jerking of legs; cramp-like pain in knees; rigid and lame limbs of paralytics.
For pain in the passing of calculus.)
Dose
- Sixth potency.

Arsenicum sulphuratum flavum

Arsenicum sulphuratum flavum
(yellow sulphuret of arsenic. orpiment)
* Needle pricks from within outwards in chest; also on forehead, right side.
* Sticking behind ear.
* Difficult respiration.
* Skin chafed about genitals.
Leucoderma and squamous syphilides.
Sciatica and pain around the knee.
Relationship
- Arsenic sulph. rub. (influenza with intense catarrhal symptoms, great prostration and high
temperature, purulent discharges, psoriasis, acne, and sciatica. Chilly even before a fire.
Itching in various parts. Pellagra.)
Dose
- Third trituration.

Arsenicum metallicum

Arsenicum metallicum
(metallic arsenic)
* Arouses latent syphilis.
* Periodicity very marked; symptoms recur every two and three weeks.
* Weakness.
* Swollen feeling of parts.
Head
- Low spirited, memory weak.
- Desire to be alone.
- Annoyed by visions, causing her to cry.
- Head feels too large.
- Left-sided headache up to eyes and into ears.
- Headache worse stooping and lying down.
- Oedematous swelling of forehead.
Face
- Red, itching, burning and bloated.
- Eyes swelled and watery, burn with coryza.
- Eyes weak, day and gas light unpleasant.
Mouth
- The tongue coated white, and shows imprint of the teeth.
- Mouth sore and ulcerated.
Abdomen
- Sore pain in liver goes through to shoulders andspine.
- Pain in spleen down to groin.
- Pain in breast extends to hip and spleen.
- Diarrhoea, burning watery stools with relief of pain.
Dose
- Sixth potency.