Plumbum

1 . Persons with sallow, greasy-looking complexion ; dark, "bilious" individuals with sunken cheeks ; cadaverous appearance.

2 . Intellectual torpor ; apathy ; loss of memory ; unable to find proper word ; hypochondriasis with irritability : religious melancholia ; thinks much about physical health especially his digestion.

3 . Anaemia with great lassitude ; excessive and rapid emaciation of parts.

4 . Spasms especially of sphincters ; cramps, convulsions, tremors ; going on to general or partial paralysis with hyperesthesia especially if preceded by characteristic pains or mental derangement. Wrist-drop.

5 . Arthralgic and neuralgic pains in trunk and limbs.

6 . Distinct blue line along gum margins ; foetid breath. yellow tongue, sweetish taste.

7 . Excruciating colic , sensation as if abdomen retracted to the spine, "as if drawn in by a string" pain radiates to all parts of the body.

8 . Constipation ; stools painful, hard, lumpy, dark , "like sheep's dung" ; with spasms of sphincter ani.

9 . Marked dryness of the skin ; entire lack of perspiration.

10 . Modalities ; < night, motion ; > hard pressure.

Note : A slow but deep-acting remedy.