Origin Mineral · Simple
Sources 15 entries across 14 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Nash, Hering …
Dose Boericke
3X–6X
Third to sixth potency
By regionHering
Mind ► Insensible ; bed-sores formed, yet he complained of no pain. ► Child delirious, drowsy, with nausea, hot and red face ; pulse irregular ; feverish heat ; cries when washed in cold water ; better washed in warm water. ► Loathing of life. ► Inclined to suicide by shooting himself. ► Great sadness and woeful mood. ► Anxious reflection in relation to his present and future. ► Sentimental mood in moonlight, particularly ecstatic love. ► Child is fretful and peevish, does not wish to be touched or looked at. ► Sulky, does not wish to speak with any nosebleed.
Inner Head ► Slight, dull headache and vertigo, increased by ascending stairs. ► Stupefying, dull headache in the forehead so violent that sweat broke out from anxiety, when walking in the open air. ► In left temporal region : pressure inwards ; drawing ; slow pulsation with fine pricking. ► Headache : after bathing in the river, with weakness of the limbs and aversion to food ; from deranged stomach ; drinking alcoholic drinks ; after a chill ; after suppressed eruption ; from taking cold.
Eyes ► Looking into the fire increases cough. ► Eyes red, inflamed, with itching and nightly agglutination. ► Eyes worse from glare of the snow. ► Redness of the left eye, with aversion to light. ► Pustules on the cornea, with profuse mucus ; pustules on margins of lids and on face. ► Soreness of outer canthi. ► Gum in the canthi, forenoon. ► Small, moist spot at the outer canthus, very painful when sweat comes in contact with it. ► Lids red and inflamed. ► Chronic blephar-ophthalmia of children.
Stomach ► Stomach weak, easily disturbed digestion. ► Painful sense of fulness of stomach, which is sore to pressure. ► Pain at stomach as after too much eating, with distended but not hard abdomen. ► Cramp-like pains at the stomach. ► Burning, spasmodic pain at pit of stomach, driving to despair ; is resolved to drown himself. ► Gastric catarrh ; white tongue, nausea and vomiting ; cough ; bowels loose or stools in lumps caused by : overeating, sour wine, hot weather, bathing ; during measles ; metastasis of gout or rheumatism.
Female Sexual Organs ► Tenderness over the ovarian region ; after catamenia has been checked by taking bath. ► Pressure in the womb, as if something would come out. ► Menses commence at an early period, are profuse, then cease ; subsequently chlorosis. ► Before menses, toothache, with boring into the temples. ► Discharge of acrid water from the vagina, which caused a smarting down the thighs. ► Leucorrhoea watery and containing lumps.
Lungs ► Oppression and pressive pains in chest, more right. ► Stitches in the chest. ► Pain in the chest with heat. ► Burning and sticking in the chest.
Neck And Back ► Swelling of the cervical glands. ► Spasmodic drawing pain in muscles of nape of neck, reaching to scapulae, evening after lying down and in morning ; aggravated by stooping, exerting arms and turning head to left. ► Itching of neck and back. ► Spasmodic stitches in right scapula when sitting. ► Violent pain in small of back when rising from sitting ; disappeared when walking.
Limbs In General ► Convulsions and trembling of limbs. ► Lassitude, tremulous fatigue and heaviness of all the limbs, as if coming out of the abdomen ; with trembling of hands when writing and subsequent discharge of much stinking (excessively offensive) flatus ; abdomen distended after dinner. ► Rheumatic or gouty pains.
Sleep ► Great sleepiness during the day ; mostly in forenoon. ► At 7 P.M. feels overwhelmed with sleep. ► Coma. ► Deep, unfreshing sleep. ► Slight raving during sleep. ► Wakefulness, with shivering over the left side, on which he does not lie ; or with sexual desire and erections when getting warm. ► Frequent waking at night as from fright. ► Dreams : of quarreling ; voluptuous ; anxious, as if he were to be hurt ; horrible, about mutilation of men.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill predominating during the day, even in warm room. ► Violent, shaking chill toward noon, with thirst (for beer). ► Shivering over the back ; feet cold as ice, with sweat on rest of body. ► Heat at night. ► Sweat in the morning when awaking, which causes a shriveling of the tips of the fingers. ► Sweat, which returns at precisely the same hour, usually every other (third) morning. ► After the sweat is over, heat and thirst return.
Skin ► Eruption like boils and blisters. ► Pustules like varicella. ► Itching of skin, feels sore when scratched. ► Pimples and vesicles as from stings of insects, especially on face and joints of extremities. ► Measle-like eruption ; smooth warts ; horny excrescences. ► Boils on the perineum ; burning around them. ► Deep, spongy ulcers. ► Eruption with thick, hard scabs ; often honey-yellow. ► Bed-sores : 2.
Books*
Antidoted by Calcarea Carbonica 2, Hepar 2, Mercurius Solubilis 2 +4
Complementary Scilla Maritima, Squilla Maritima, Sulphur
Follows well Ipecacuanha, Pulsatilla Pratensis, Mercurius Solubilis +1
Compare Antipyrinum, Pulsatilla Pratensis, Sulphur +21
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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