Angustura Vera

Head

One-side headache, or both sides ache as if about to faint. Boring pains.

Eyes

Objects too far distant, must bring them closer. Eyes red, burn, nightly agglutination.

Face

Sharp pains in both cheeks, frequently dart through the eyeballs and temples, increased by stooping, walking, or mental excitement. Exostosis of lower jaws. Blue face after attacks of lock jaw.

Appetite

Irresistible desire to drink coffee, also cold water.

Stomach

Acidity, coated tongue, pappy, unpleasant taste and loss of appetite.

Abdomen

Distended; cutting pains followed by diarrhoea. Severe pain, extending in a line from navel to sternum. Taking warm milk causes stitching and cutting pains in the bowels.

Stool

Diarrhoea day and night, each evacuation preceded by cutting pains in the abdomen, usually attended with nausea in the morning; stools often whitish, thin and copious, diarrhoea becomes chronic, with loss of flesh and great debility; constipation.

Sexual.-- Male : Much itching of all these organs, sometimes voluptuous. Seminal emissions. Female : Troubles with the right ovary. Sensation as if the uterus were beating against the right ovary and right hip.

Larynx

A sort of whooping cough, with belching of wind. Cough occurring every P.M., at 3 o'clock.

Chest

Constriction in upper part of lungs, as if one had been running. Heart suddenly feels swollen, with great fear of dying, relieved by lying on left side; violent palpitation of, with a sensation as if it were constricted. Cutting thrusts through the chest, independent of respiration. Unequal and irregular respiration; very low and feeble voice.

Neck and Back.-- Much pain in neck and back, between the scapulae, worse on motion.

Extremities

Lower : Paralysis of the legs imminent, with trembling of the feet. Jerking stitches in left thigh and in upper border of ilium, only when sitting. Much pain in the knees. Nodes on the legs and feet. Spavin in horses much disposed to stretch the limbs. Very much fatigued, most in the thighs.

Fever

Intermittent fevers, when thirst and vomiting of bile begin, with hot stage.

Generalities

Rheumatic and paralytic complaints. Great irritability and morbid liveliness. Great difficulty in walking, with threatened paralysis of legs. In tetanus, traumatic, or otherwise when there is spasmodic twitching or jerking of the muscles. Trismus, with lips drawn back, showing the teeth. Catalepsy, with the body bent backward. Wasting of soft parts. Cracking in all the joints.

Worse.-- From touching the parts.

Remedies following:-- Bellad., Lycop., Sepia, Ignat .