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BISMUTH · Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 1,874 chars
General
This remedy has a great affinity for affections of the right upper extremity or forehead. Boring pains. Sensation of heaviness in inner parts. Lymphatic, torpid constitutions.
Mental.-- Peevish and dissatisfied with his condition. Vertigo, as if the anterior half of the brain were turning in a circle.
Face
Looks as if one had been very ill.
Mouth
White coated tongue in the evening, without heat or thirst.
Gastric.-- Gastralgia, with the sensation of a great pressing heaviness ; as from a load in one spot.
Nausea, feels as if would vomit, especially after eating.
Vomiting at intervals of days when food has filled the stomach; then vomits large quantities, lasting all day.
Vomiting with oppressive anxiety, small pulse, vertigo and prostration; vomiting and diarrhoea, with gagging and burning in throat; violent convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain in stomach.
Vertigo, headache, belching of wind, flatulence, warm surface, etc.; vomiting and horrible pain in stomach, vomiting and purging with prostration, and the surface of the patient is warm.
Cancer of stomach.
Very useful in complaints of children.
Flatus with a cadaverous smell; same smell to the stools.
Desire for company; a child will hold on to the mother's hand to keep her company.
Urine
Frequent; copious; pale; retention of.
Chest
Aching in right half of, near sternum, in a small spot.
Extremities
Upper : Tearing in right index finger, also in tips and joints of fingers; under the nails.
Lower : Itching in tibia, near ankle, worse by scratching, till it bleeds.
Tearing in maleolus of right foot, in paroxysms, terminating in tendo achillis.
Sleep
Languor and weakness.
Frequent waking as if in a fright.
Night sleep disturbed by lascivious dreams, with emissions, or without.
Remedies following:-- Bellad., Calc. carb., Pulsat, Sepia .
Antidote
Calc. carb .