Homeopathy LibraryAbrotanum
Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 990 chars
General
This remedy is displayed most prominently in the chylopoietic viscera. It is found peculiarly adapted to children with marasmus, worms, etc., though adults require its use often.
Mental.-- The child is cross and depressed--marasmus or worms.
Face
Face wrinkled, old, pale.
Blue rings around dull looking eyes.
Comedones with emaciation.
Gastric.-- Appetite very great, though emaciation progresses.
Sensation as if the stomach were hanging or swimming in water, with a peculiar feeling of coldness.
Cutting pains in stomach, gnawing, burning, sometimes contracting and stinging, mostly worse at night.
Little Boys.-- Epistaxis.
Hydrocele.
Emaciation.
Generalities
Blood and moisture oozing from the navel of new-born children. A peculiar symptom is marasmus of lower extremities only. Great weakness and prostration after influenza. Itching chilblains. Gout, wrists and ankle-joints. Inflammatory rheumatism before swelling begins. Darting or twitching in either or both ovaries.