Causticum

Face

Paralysis of right side.

Mouth

Fistula dentalis; teeth ache; are loose; feel elongated; worse from cold or warm substances, and at night; tearing, lancinating toothache; in the under jaw, in the lower teeth (particularly on the left side).

Ears

Affections behind the ears; lobe of the ear. Noises in the ears in general; humming in; tinkling in.

Nose

Affects top of the nose; exanthema on; puffiness of scaly nose, externally and internally, with burning and itching; obstruction of.

Eyes

Eyebrows; eyelids; upper eyelids ( upper eyelids will drop , patient can't keep them up); mist before the eyes; dimness of vision; ophthalmia where there is opacity of the cornea which has spread over the pupil.

Gastric.-- Fatty taste; qualmishness; vomiting of watery matter. Sensation as if lime were being slaked in the stomach; burning in.

Stool

Constipation; stool shining like grease. Rumbling and rolling in the bowels; complaints after stool.

Urine

Discharge of, too frequent; involuntary discharge, of, as in cases of children who wet the bed at night; in women when urine spouts from them in walking, coughing, etc.

Sexual.-- Female : Sexual desire too weak; menstruation too late; delay of the first; ceasing at night, and flow only during the day, leucorrhoea flows at night, and not during the day.

Fever

Coldness of single parts; complaints concomitant to perspiration, ( i.e. appearing simultaneously with the perspiration); chilliness followed by perspiration.

Cough-- Cough, and being obliged to swallow what is raised ; the expectoration comes up far enough apparently, but it cannot be spat out ; greasy taste of the expectoration. The inability to expectorate is found in every species of cough, whooping cough, etc.

Skin

Exanthema in general; burning, in itching blotches, like nettle-rash. Pimples in general. Itch; itch suppressed by mercury or sulphur; burning itch. Tingling (or stinging) swelling (sometimes called "buzzing" swelling). Burning tetters. Burning ulcers, with yellowish looking skin; ulcers burning, with corroding pus, with thin or watery pus, suppurating; jerking pains running through the ulcers. Warts.

Sensations

Sensation in the cheeks and chin. In rheumatism, where there is a burning pain in the joints. Burning pain in the exterior parts; pain as if the parts were pushed or pressed asunder, or as if they would burst (the difference between this remedy, Bryon ., and Calc. carb ., which have the same symptoms, may be found in the constitutions), gnawing in the inner parts ( e.g. stomach); jerking pain in the outer parts; pressing in outer parts; darting in the bones.

Generalities

Affects particularly: sexual organs, right side; right side of, and nape of the neck; right upper extremity; hypogastrium; back, small of the back; forearm; joints, and arm in general; elbow joint; back or top of the foot, toes, big toe; joints of the leg in general; hip, knee, and ankle joints, and joints of the toes; stiffness of all the joints. Convulsions with jerking; spasms in inner parts, epilepsy. Motion rendered difficult, muscles being shortened. Burns, acute or chronic; old burns don't get well. Concomitant complaints on waking. Old neuralgic headaches. Very drowsy and sleepy, can hardly keep awake. Children slow in learning to walk.

Worse.-- In the evening; on waking; from cold in general; in cold air; in cold and dry weather; after eating; after breakfast; from coffee; during perspiration; from scalding or being burnt, i.e. , "have never been well since that burn." After stools, from walking (as piles, fissures, fistulae, etc.); can't walk without great suffering; from taking hold of anything; in clear, fine weather.

Better.-- From cold water; from warmth in general; the air being warm; in damp and wet weather.

Remedies following:-- Calc. carb., Lycop., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Sulphur .

Antidotes

Spirits of Nitre, Dulcam., Coffea .