• A very general condition corresponds to dryness of mucous membranes and skin.

• The patient has a tendency to paretic muscular states.

• Old people are affected, with lack of vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility.

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• Characteristic constipation is present.

• The patient has a disposition to colds in the head.

• Eructations occur in spare, dry, thin subjects.

• Delicate children, products of artificial baby foods, are affected.

• The patient has a tendency to shudder when seeing a knife or blood.

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• Complaints often appear in the spring.

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• Awkwardness; tendency to stumble is present.

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• Emaciation is present.

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• The patient has a loss of memory; difficulty remembering names and faces.

• The patient experiences Irresolution; and cannot make up their mind.

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• The patient feels as if another person is standing beside them.

• The patient feels hurried, yet accomplish nothing.

• The patient has suicidal thoughts, but lacks the courage to act.

• Sadness and depression are present, especially in the morning.

• The patient experiences anxiety about salvation.

• The patient has a fear of insanity.

• The patient has an aversion to company, prefers solitude.

• Hysterical symptoms are present.

• The patient has a tendency to be easily offended.

• Fixed ideas are present.

• The patient speaks slowly.

• Apprehension is present.

• The patient experiences despair of recovery.

• Indifference is present.

• Mental prostration is present.

• Vertigo is present, with tendency to fall forward.

• The patient has a headache relieved by wrapping the head up warmly.

• The scalp feels tight.

• Dim vision is present.

• Photophobia is present.

• Paralysis of the upper eyelids (ptosis) is present.

• Diplopia is present.

• Pressure in eyes is present.

• Pupils are dilated.

• Hardness of hearing is present.

• Noises in the ears (tinnitus) are present.

• Cracking noises in ears are present.

• Frequent sneezing is present.

• Loss of smell is present.

• Chronic nasal catarrh is present.

• Stoppage of nose is present.

• Hoarseness is present.

• Difficulty swallowing is present.

• Sensation of a lump in the throat is present.

• Burning in throat is present.

• Tickling sensation in throat is present.

• A dry cough is present, worse in the morning.

• Shortness of breath on exertion is present.

• Palpitations are present, especially when lying down.

• Weakness and irregularity of the heart are present.

• Sensation of constriction in the chest is present.

• Asthma is present.

• Dyspnea is present.

• A cough is caused by tickling in the throat.

• The patient has a craving for indigestible things, like chalk, coal, or earth.

• The patient has an aversion to meat.

• Nausea and vomiting are present.

• Burning in the stomach is present.

• Pain in the abdomen is present.

• Obstinate constipation is present; stools hard, dry, and knotty.

• Even soft stool is passed with difficulty, requiring straining.

• Inactivity of the rectum is present.

• Hemorrhoids are present.

• The abdomen is distended.

• Loss of appetite is present.

• Thirst is present.

• Eructations are present.

• Flatulence is present.

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• Frequent urination is present, especially at night.

• Burning pain during urination is present.

• Involuntary urination is present.

• Increased or decreased sexual desire is present.

• In women, dryness of the vagina is present.

• Leucorrhea is present, profuse and corrosive.

• Menses are too early and profuse.

• Amenorrhea is present.

• Burning and itching in genitals is present.

• Weakness and heaviness of the limbs are present.

• Numbness and tingling in the extremities are present.

• Trembling of the hands is present.

• Cracking in the joints is present.

• Pain in the back and limbs is present.

• Paralysis is present.

• Nails are brittle and cracked.

• Stiffness of joints is present.

• Sciatica is present.

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• Paralytic states with a sensation of being bound by a tight band.

• Weakness and trembling of the limbs.

• Numbness of the extremities.

• Pains in the bones, especially at night.

• Contraction of tendons.

• Cracking in joints.

• Pain in the back, < from walking.

• Weakness in the back.

• Sensation of a band around the affected part.

• Sciatica, with pains shooting down the leg.

• Rough skin.

• Proud flesh.

• Chilblains.

• Indolent ulcers.

• Eczema, dry and scaly.

• Herpes.

• Warts.

• Dryness of the skin.

• Itching, especially at night.

• Unrefreshing sleep.

• Restless sleep, with frequent waking.

• Dreams of dead people.

• Anxious dreams.

• Dreams of falling.

• Nightmares.

• Eczema is present.

• Itching is present.

• Herpes is present.

• Unhealthy skin is present.

• Sleeplessness is present.

• Restless sleep is present.

• Dreams are vivid and anxious.

• Drowsiness during the day is present.

• Sleep is unrefreshing.

• Cold weather, potatoes, after eating, during menstruation, in the morning, full moon.

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• Complementary: Bryonia

• Antidotes: Ipecac; Chamomilla

• Comparisons: Plumbum metallicum (paralysis), Opium (constipation), Nux vomica (ineffectual urging), Causticum (progressive paralysis).

• Useful in treating chronic diseases and sequelae of acute illnesses.

• Large clots in typhoid.

• Relaxed mucous membranes.

• Slight scratches bleed easily.

• Tendency to indurations after inflammations.

• Scirrhous indurations.

• Indurated glands.

• Pains are insupportable.

• Attacks come and go suddenly; periodic.

• Many complaints come on during sleep.

• Sensitiveness to weather changes, especially cold.

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• Marked dryness of mucous membranes.

• Great debility and exhaustion.

• Atonic conditions.

• Unpleasant news causes nervous tremors.

• Melancholy and sadness.

• Irritable and impatient.

• Absent-minded; difficulty concentrating.

• Forgetfulness.

• Aversion to company; desires solitude.

• Fixed ideas.

• Feels hurried and pressed for time.

• Depression, especially in the morning.

• Desire for light and company.

• Headache > drinking cold water.

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• Nightmare.

• Purulent otorrhœa.

• Nasal polypus left side with rough skin all over the face and body and neuralgic headache.

• Lupus or cancer on nose.

• Teeth loose.

• Gums swollen, inflamed, spongy.

• Teeth and gums rather scorbutic.

• Profuse hæmorrhage after extraction of a tooth.

• Tongue dry (black); burning in evening; sour feeling; stitches < at tip (scirrhus of tongue).

• Spreading ulcers in mouth; noma.

• Profuse ptyalism.

• Tonsils inflamed.

• Uvula elongated, relaxed.

• Spasm of œsophagus, liquids can scarcely be swallowed.

• Prickly sensation both sides of throat and great dryness with constant desire to drink.

• Scraping in throat with cough.

• Throat covered with mucus, causing cough.

• Spitting up of a coagulated lump of blood morning after rising.

• Enlarged indurated tonsils from frequent colds.

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• Hoarseness < from talking.

• Aphonia.

• Croup and bronchitis.

• Cough from tickling in larynx caused by talking.

• Scraping from upper sternum to larynx, thick, yellow sputa, paroxysmal cough.

• Ropy sputa.

• Atonic hæmoptysis.

• Bronchitis with scraping from upper sternum to throat, free expectoration of thick, yellow mucus, paroxysmal cough, morning cough with gagging, aching in chest and lower back (region of lower ribs).

• Profuse expectoration with scraping coughs.

• Pain from heart to lower part of right lung.

• Strong pulsation through whole body.

• Lying on the right side brings on palpitation.

• Constriction of the chest.

• Shortness of breath.

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• Vomits large quantities of glairy mucus or tough, colourless slime, and often everything he eats.

• Vomiting of blood; habitual hæmatemesis in hard drinkers.

• Sinking sensation > by eating.

• Burning heat > by drinking cold water.

• The pain is > by pressing on stomach.

• Colic < by walking, with fulness and heaviness (Potter's colic, lead colic.).

• Abdomen retracted, > from pressure.

• Difficult stool, with some blood and subsequent beating in anus.

• Diarrhœa ichorous, mixed with blood of an offensive odour, great exhaustion.

• Very exhausting diarrhœa.

• Masses of coagulated blood in typhus.

• Putrid dysentery.

• Pains from rectum going down thighs.

• After stool: scarcely endurable pain with scirrhous induration in rectum.

• Itching in anus all evening.

• Contractive sensation in abdomen and pelvis.

• Retraction of abdomen (as in lead colic).

• Hemorrhoids, bleeding and painful.

• Prolapse of the rectum.

• Urine voided with difficulty.

• (Diabetes mellitus.).

• Oily iridescent film on urine.

• Erections while at dinner.

• Frequent emissions.

• Gonorrhœa; gleet.

• Shooting pain from middle line of belly, as along a thread, down into penis.

• Cutting pain in left side of penis.

• Affections of left ovary (with constipation), insupportable pain.

• Weight and prolapse of uterus.

• Indurations, ulcerations of uterus, even scirrhus.

• Copious leucorrhœa.

• Leucorrhœa and emaciation, with yellow complexion.

• Menses scanty, watery.

• During menses hands weak.

• Vagina very sensitive, and narrowed by swellings of various size (vaginismus).

• Pruritus.

• Flooding after childbirth.

• Sore, inflamed nipples.

• Cancer of the breasts.

• Suppressed menses.

• Bearing down pains.

• Lead poisoning, calomel and other mercurials, Aloe (vomiting blood).

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• Useful in conditions such as constipation, lead poisoning, chronic catarrh, and prolapse of organs.