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Reason for use
This remedy affects the right upper extremity and right lower extremity; left ear; hair of the head (which the patient may be losing); external head behind the ears; external crown of the head; internal nose. Affections of the anus (such as itching haemorrhoids, etc.); sacrum and buttocks; calves; heels; toes; between the fingers, where there is itching exanthema with the exudation. Glittering before the eyes; face covered as if with erysipelas (especially when discharging the mentioned exudation); bad smell from the mouth. Constipation; hunger; flatulence in general; flatus obstructed; haemorrhoids worse after the bowels have been moved. Stool very large and very hard: with tape-worm. Discharge of urine too scanty. Limbs drawn together, crooked, from the bones being bent. Emaciation in general; muscles being shortened; inclination to sit down; soreness from lying in bed; flushes of heat; yellow perspiration.
Worse.-- In the night; during menstruation, and after, and from suppressed; from light in general, particularly daylight; from having a tape-worm.
Better.-- In the dark; from eructation.
This remedy is very applicable for females with a tendency to unhealthy corpulence, with perhaps deformed nails, characteristic exudation, menstrual troubles, etc.
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Ears
Affections of left ear particularly--if the right ear is affected, it is generally from spreading from the left ear to the right. Noise in the ears in general, with hardness of hearing; can scarcely hear in the house at all, as the noises in the ear seem so loud; but when rolling along in the cars or carriage, hears distinctly ordinary tones of voices.
Skin
A very characteristic symptom of this remedy, is the exudation of a thin, sticky, glutinous, transparent, watery fluid from any raw or sore place. Exanthema, corroding and spreading with the characteristic exudation. Erysipelatous, moist, scurfy sores. Skin red. Callus, which may appear in breasts that have been inflamed; humid; pain in, as if ulcerated. Tetters in general; corroding and spreading; scurfy; humid.
Nails.-- Brittle and crumbling; deformity of; troubles of the toe nails; (in this "nail trouble," look out that no "toe doctor" is at work, whose manipulations, applications, drugs, etc., are interfering with the action of your medicines); complaints of the nails in general; painful, as if sore, or as if ulcerated; thickening of.
Sexual.-- Female : Menses too late (particularly if the characteristic exudation appears anywhere); too scanty; suppressed; delay of first; complaints during and after. Watery leucorrhoea; nipples very sore during nursing, especially if there are little bluish blisters on the nipple, which discharge the characteristic fluid. Troubles of cicatrized mammae, resulting from gathering; as there may be a deficiency in the flow of milk, or troubles of any kind when large and many cicatrices are seen on the breasts. Male : Weakness of sexual power in the male.
Sleep
Waking too late; stupor-like sleep in the morning; anxious dreams; anxious dreams about fatal accidents.
Sensations
Sensation of contraction in outer parts; same of joints; as if single parts were gone to sleep; sore pain in outer parts; prickling itching.
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