Origin Animal · Hemiptera · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture or trituration.
Sources 7 entries across 6 books: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, Nash, Lippe …
Dose Boericke
6X–200X
Sixth to two hundredth attenuation
By regionHering
Mind ► Anxiousness. ► Very much vexed, would like to tear everything into pieces. ► Disgust at his own sweat.
Inner Head ► Drawing headache, particularly under right frontal bone. ► Headache, almost depriving him of power of thinking. ► Violent headache, caused by drinking.
Female Sexual Organs ► Hot sensation inside the labia.
Lower Limbs ► Heaviness in lower limbs. ► Hamstring feel too short, knees are flexed ; attempting to stretch them, causes pain in the thighs. ► Restlessness of lower limbs, like overfatigue from a long walk. ► Knees feel cold, as from a cold wind.
Sleep ► Irresistible sleepiness.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Before the chill, thirst and heaviness in the legs. ► Chill, commencing with clenching of hand and violent raging. ► Chill, attended with pain in all the joints ; sensation, as if the tendons were too short, knee-joints are usually contracted, so that the legs cannot be stretched ; chest feels oppressed ; must take a long breath, frequently ; irresistible sleepiness ; hands and feet as if dead. ► Chill terminates with a tired feeling in the legs, obliging one to change position constantly. ► After the chill, thirst ; drinking, however, causes violent headache ; tickling in larynx, causing dry, continuous cough, which lasts through the heat ; oppression of breathing, heaviness in middle of chest, and anxiety ; abstaining from drinking ameliorates all this. ► Heat with gagging ; the oesophagus feels constricted. ► Sweat mostly on head and chest, accompanied by hunger. ► Sweat relieves all the other symptoms ; during feverish affections. ► Musty-smelling sweat, the odor is to him very offensive.
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Compare Natrum Muriaticum, Arsenicum Album, Belladonna +1
* 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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