Cimex is an ancient remedy for intermittent fever. A characteristic symptom is: "Weariness and inclination to stretch." The flexors are most affected; pains in all joints as if tendons were contracted and too short; every motion or stretching of arms or legs causes tightening pain in them. (Nash records the following cure by Dr. Brewster, of Syracuse. After driving a fractious horse that tried to run away over a very rough road a man was so bruised and sprained about the buttocks and legs that he was confined to the house for a long time in consequence. It settled finally into what appeared likely to be permanent contraction of the lower limbs. No remedy relieved till Dr. Brewster remembered a case of intermittent fever that he had cured twenty years before, being guided by this symptom. Cimex 600 (Jenichen) promptly cured.) Irresistible sleepiness. Frequent yawning; sensation as of a cold wind blowing on knees. Pains in all joints as if tendons contracted during chill. Chill commences with clenching of hands and violent raging. Before chill, thirst and heaviness in legs; less thirst with chill, still less with dry heat; none with sweat. After the chill, thirst, but drinking causes violent headache; tickling in larynx causing dry, continuous cough. Gagging and belching at end of cough. Heat with gaging; oesophagus feels constricted. Musty-smelling sweats. Night-sweats. Tertian and quartan intermittents. A. W. K. Choudhury relates a case of intermittent (quotidian) cured with Cimex 30, the chief indications being: "Chill slight; thirst some days, none other days; shiverings; passed water twice during chill; chill < by lying down; increase of cough if he drinks water during chill." Stools with haemorrhoidal sufferings. Stools hard in small balls; urging to stool; after the discharge of a small piece of white stool, rectum closes firmly. Incontinence of urine. Urine hot; brown or red sediment. Frequent erections in morning; seminal emissions. Urticarious eruption. Motion <. Stretching or extending the part <. Weariness compels to lie down. Sitting < pain in small of back. During rest: in morning, sweat on nose. Symptoms < in morning. < By drinking. The whole right side is especially affected.
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Mind Anxiousness.—Sensation as if he could creep into himself and on that account could not sufficiently crouch together.—His own sweat is disgusting to him.—Clenching of hands with violent rage at beginning of chill.—Anxiety after chill.
Head Confusion of head as if headache would ensue.—Pain like needle stitches in vertex with cough.—Headache, almost depriving him of the power of thinking; most violent during the chill; caused by drinking.—Sweating on head, nose and chest.
Stomach Sour eructations.
Respiratory Organs Dry cough, with gagging, as if he would vomit, with perspiration.—Breathing oppressed after chill.
Back Pain in the small of the back, extending over the abdomen, with distension of the abdomen.—Pain in the small of the back; worse when sitting.—Weariness in loins, must sit down.
Limbs Painfulness in all joints; sensation as if the tendons were too short (during the chill).
Sleep Great drowsiness; falls asleep when sitting in the morning.—Irresistible sleepiness during chill.—Frequent yawning; with cold feeling on skin.
Fever Pulse feeble; intermitting.—Before the cold stage, thirst; heaviness in the lower extremities.—At the beginning of the chill, clenching of the hands and violent rage.—Chilliness over the whole body, followed by dry heat, which is succeeded by some moisture over the skin.—During the chill painfulness in all the joints; sensation as if the tendons were too short; the knee-joints are most contracted; the legs cannot be extended; the chest feels oppressed, obliging one to take a long breath frequently; irresistible sleepiness.—At the end of the chill the legs feel tired; the position of the legs has to be changed constantly; this ceases during the hot stage.—After the chill thirst, and when he drinks he is attacked with violent headache, which almost deprives him of the power of thinking; tickling in the larynx, causing a continuous dry cough; oppression of breathing; heaviness in the middle of the chest; anxiety.—Amelioration if he does not drink.—During the hot stage gagging in the oesophagus, which impedes inspiration; thirstlessness; the water drunk to allay the gagging goes down at intervals only; the oesophagus feels constricted.—If he drinks during the fever he passes soon after very hot brown urine, depositing a good deal of sediment.—The perspiration, after the hot stage, is accompanied by hunger.—Perspiration mostly on the head and chest.—During the intermittent fever, constipation; stools dry.
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Compare Natrum Muriaticum, Arsenicum Album, Belladonna +1
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