Medhorrinum Anhang
[Dr. Praful Barvalia]
Sycosis:
slowness on one side implying stagnation, selfcentredness and confusion and on
other side hypertrophy indicative of non functional over activity. Medorrhinum legitimately
becomes one of the greatest antisycotic remedy as it possesses these traits in
its centrality.
Sycotic confusion results from dullness of mind,
slow comprehension, high strung-anxious state and fixed ideas. Following para
from Hering and Allens description of Medorrhinum, graphically portrays this
state.
Hering and Allen:
Nerve Trembling with worry
Everything startles her, news coming to her
seems to touch her heart before she hears it.
Woke at an early hour with a frightened
sensation, ”As if something dreadful had happened”; heavy weight and great heat
in hand; could not rest in bed; felt as if she must do something to rid her
mind
of this torture.
Dullness of memory and desire to procrastinate
Difficulty in concentrating the thoughts or mind
on abstract subjects.
Entirely forgot what she had read, even previous
line
Forgetfulness of names, letter of names, letter
of word and initial letters
Above description demonstrates Medorrhinum evolving around ANXIETY,
SENSITIVITY and difficulties of memory and comprehension FEAR-FRIGHT-ANXIETY
DEPENDENT MEDORRHINUM:
NERVOUS DISPOSITION as expressed through
characteristic ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY SYNDROME coupled with marked SENSITIVITY are
the basic qualities at an emotional level.
There
is marked dependence, and an intense craving for support.
The
preceding case allows us to understand the dynamics of the anxiety generated.
You find the subject growing up in a very sheltered environment. When parental
handling reinforces the thread of dependence, we find the Medorrhinum child
growing with marked timidity, displaying fear of dark, fear of ghost and
MISFORTUNE. The stress threshold is extremely poor, hence lot of anxiety and
nervousness before any event.
POOR MEMORY; POOR ABSTRACTION: STUPID
MEDORRHINUM
Another important facet contributing to the
building up of anxiety is the difficulties at the level of intellect. Here is a
drug which has tremendous difficulties to concentrate at an abstract level.
Coupled
with the specific difficulties of memory in Medorrhinum, this is a great
impediment to learning. As child travels to secondary and higher secondary
studies this defect becomes quite apparent.
These
children break down before exams.
TOUCHY, FRAGILE, HANDLE WITH CARE:
Excessive care accentuates SENSITIVITY
Medorrhinum gets hurt at the slightest comment. This is graphically painted in
the earlier case. These sensitive subjects are always on their guard, all the
while
apprehensive; if they fall, somebody might scold. Morbid sensitivity reinforces
anxiety.
A word or look of seeming harshness puts her in
despondency for hours. (H.C. Allen page 297). Lachrymose weeping
relieves, consolation relieves > torments of tears (H.C. Allen).
EXUBERANT, INDULGENT, RUNNING AWAY FROM
RESPONSIBILITY: EGOISTIC MEDORRHINUM.
Immense desires, lot of enthusiasm and
excitement but with poor resources, poor execution, poor commitement and poor
sense of responsibility is another important facet of MEDORRHINUM
personality,
as verified by Piere Schmidt and Bellokossy, can have its roots in early
formative years giving an image of extravagant, vague and superficial
personality. Psychodynamic history of these individual depict dominating mother
usually at loggerheads with her husband. Child sides mother but is not bitter
about father. Child develops dependent attachment with mother.
Mother
tends to reinforce this bond.
PAUSE
Poor identification with one parent and
dependent relationship with other possibly does not permit adequate depth and
strength to evolve. This would contribute to develop poor sense of
responsibility, inadequate sensitivity about others, ego centricity, self
centered attitude, and superficiality of Medorrhinum.
Following case from practice beautifully
demonstrates this:
45 years old, Hindu male consulted me on 31-1-96
for chronic balanitis and Herpes genitalis. He has recurrent cuts in the fore
skin since 10 years and severe soreness of glans with recurrent ulcers
since
2-3 years. Since 6 months complaint is almost continuous. Sexual act is
impossible since 2 years. He also suffers from asthma which was there in
childhood. Subsequently episodes were quite infrequent. Since 2 years,
frequency has gone up. He came down with ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION 3 years back.
He had received Fl-ac. 200 and 1 M without any relief.
He is quite obese, perspires on forehead. He
loves pungent food. He always needs a fan and feels extremely HOT.
LIFE SPACE APPRECIATION:
Our patient is 44 years old man who stayed in
Dubai for the last 2 years. He lived all his life in Mumbai.
Was the last of the 5 children.
He has one brother and 3 sisters. Father died
when patient was 4 years old. In childhood he had a very good relation with his
mother "beautiful relationship. I was the favorite child."
Family has its own business of steel
manufacturing, now looked after everybody except him. He has always been a
happy-go-lucky person. He studied till Inter-exam since and did not study
further.
He joined family business very early and
didn’t face much problems as it was tailor made. He was always extravagant
wanting lot of easy money in fastest possible way.
He started a business of his own hence he did
not fit in the family business. So he took his share and additional money and
separated to pursue his kind of life style.
In 1976 he had a lot of plans, resulting into
multiple activities.
In 82 he started an independent venture. He
established new plant in steel industry.
In 84-85, 100 units failed and the plant was
closed. He lost about 4 Crores. He had a lot of debt which he cleared entirely
by 90. He did’t have much to start again. He believes that any project that
pays
back capital within one year is good. Slowly he started a totally independent
business, operating from Dubai. He did this because he has no inclination what
so ever to do business in India due to government rules. He has no tensions.
Headaches since then.
Patient got married (arranged) in 1970. Asked
what his wife’s qualification was, he laughed and said, may be S.S.C.
Almost 5 years after marriage things went
haywire and at the same point they broke off. His impatience, indulgence and
lavish life style was not approved by the wife. She never wanted to divorce
because
of the children. They stay separate in adjoining flats. Daughters are of
marriageable age. Patient can’t separate even if he wishes. He felt quite frustrated
about these matters. He found this entire process quit burdensome.
He gets along well with children, but hardly any
emotional ties. Now he is not happy with his mother, since she supports his
wife. He blames her as she was instrumental in creating this situation, as she
gave a lot of jewelry and gifts when they had to part ways.
Physician asked the patient" When did you
suffer from gonorrhoea?" Patient smiled and said "Oh! That’s long
back when I was 16 years old!"
There were series of premarital and extramarital
affairs, and anal intercourse with friends. Patient is tall heavily built, has
very dark circle around the eyes. His gestures, expressions, tone and content
demonstrated immense confidence and enthusiasm.
Here we have man with excessive indulgence,
excessive desire, exuberance with poor execution, poor comitment and
impatience. He wants fast results. He lacks adequate sensitivity towards
interpersonal relationship and about his responsibilities towards family. Egotism
and Hyper sexuality are other co-ordinates. Chronic balanitis, Asthma,
Hypertension and P / H of Gonorrhoea with above mentioned
nucleus
clinched the diagnosis of MEDORRHINUM.
After Medorrhinum 200 infrequently repeated at
the interval of 2 months brought about 90% relief. Asthma relapsed once which
responded very well to Medorrhinum 200 later 1M 1 dose. Mental state showed
significant improvement and he found himself more organized and stable with his
work.
Another interesting case which beautifully demonstrate this peculiar facet of
Medorrhinum was reported by Dr. Bellokossy in the Journal of American Institute
of Homoeopathy Nov. Dec. 1965.
We
are presenting following extract from that case:
"She is a nice looking, little lady of 32
years whose grandmother died from asthma and who started to suffer from eczema
when 5 months old and from asthma in her 4th year. Between her 17th and 20th
year she married three men and divorced two. Marriage with the third husband
has continued for 12 years. With the first she had a daughter with the last
three boys. She had almost all the fears in the repertory: of disease, fire,
pain, insanity, high places, flying, strangers, spiders, snakes of spending
money foolishly, of trifles but not of anything big, she also had stage fright
and anticipated any serious event already 2 days, before with anxiety and with
an inferiority complex during which times she bit her lips and chewed her
fingers. Sometimes she also switched over to a superiority complex in which she
was fault-finding, angry, raised her voice, screamed, swore, cried and slammed
the doors furiously. But soon the inferiority complex emerged again in the form
of depression, weariness in life, weeping without reason at which time she sat
and stared in front of herself and could not get anything done. Especially
before the menses she was lethargic and then the changeability of her mood
asserted itself by laughing and crying almost simultaneously, by hurriedness
and indolence, by liking and disliking people, by wanting peace and order while
not keeping them, by starting some work and never finishing it, by
consciousness and neglect, by impatience for trifles with restlessness if
nothing to do and desire to die from boredom, by thoughts of suicide while
sensitive to pain and afraid of hurting herself. Always highly sensitive,
easily excited and offended, holding long grudges and running away from her
family.
The most reprehensible of all her character
perversions was her aversion to all responsibility. While her first two
husbands were faithless and also lacking responsibility so that she may have
had some reason for divorcing them, the third husband was good and without
reproach. Nevertheless, for no apparent reason she would leave him and her 3
boys and not return for a week or more which she did many times. In such
periods her sensitivity was so great and her family duties were such a burden
to her that her objections did not worry her. There was no room in her mind for
pity, regret, compunction. Marriage and even the mere idea of marriage was so
unendurable to her that she could not stand her husband nor her children. This
is a strong Medorrhinum symptom not developed by provings but often found in
such congenital sycotic sufferers. It is not recorded in the exhaustive
pathogeneses of Medorrhinum in H.C. Allens book on Nosodes.
During one of her absences this lady came to my
office and I asked her for the reason of her running away. She did not feel
well near him even before she married him. She also could not sleep while
anybody else slept in the same bedroom. This was evidently an example of
allergy of one person to another. The sycotic can be as allergic to the
vibrations, emanations and volatile toxins contained in the breath of another
human being as he can be allergic to the vibrations radiated by an animal or
plant.
Her physical generals also indicated
Medorrhinum. She was the worst in the morning and > after sundown, <
sun/summer heat, > near the ocean though < from dampness. sensitive to
pains and
disliking
to be touched, with fire beneficial to her body and not to her face and with
soles burning if on her feet a lot. Most of the Medorrhinum symptoms <
daytime but asthma can be an exception. It can be worse at night which was so
in this case.
She was treated with Medorrhinum and Nat-s. and
was cured from her asthma in a short time but not so from her mentals. However,
one day when she was in San Francisco and I had sent her a dose of Medorrhinum
CM and about three or four days after she had taken it, she suddenly asked
herself, "What am I doing here? Why am I here? I don’t belong here, I
belong to my husband and to my boys," and she packed her few things
together and flew back to Denver at once.
The family was thrilled to see her return, the
more so as they noticed the great change in her mental attitude. The next day
her husband came in my office and told me with tears in his eyes, tears of
happiness, that his wife had undergone an unbelievable improvement in her
psycho-mental sphere. In the succeeding months her behaviour and mood not only
remained the exact reverse from what they were previously but up to this day,
that is for eight months she has continued improving intellectually and
emotionally. No incompatibilities any more, no running away, no quarrels, no
disorder, no homework left undone, no laziness. She is industrious,
conscientious and an affectionate mother and wife, which is almost too good to
be true, but true just the same."
Both these cases give us beautiful insight to
evolutionary understanding of Medorrhinum personality; qualified state of
impatience, fears, indulgence and irresponsibility as well as psychodynamic
insight about development of such state.
[Jawahar Shah]
Predominantly
indicated for people who are very comfortable at night.
Happy/exhilarated/excited as evening sets in. Can be expressed by the phrase,
“Cross by day, Merry by night”.
Child: very
passionate, affectionate and loving. Desire strong for love and affection. Behavioural
problems: rude and aggressive, who throw temper tantrums, who fight with other
children, (daitime)/kick and strike their parents or relatives.
At night
very playful, comfortable and affectionate.
Cause:
history of Gonorrhoea in parents/patient, Anticipation sickness;
<
thinking of the complaints.
Right from
childhood, they have the capacity to receive intuitive feelings (usually comes
true: predict accidents/natural calamities or results of exams and that
actually works out to be true). Other extreme of love = hate, is a much more
intense feeling in Medorrhinum. A child who was getting “A” grade, in school,
suddenly starts getting “F”. The child who used to love his parents starts
hating them from the depth of his heart. A child who had tremendous attachment to animals (Aethusa, Nuphar luteum) starts hating them and this child becomes very violent
towards animals
(Tarent.
violent with physical restlessness and mobility /Anac. two wills and confusion
about what is right and what is wrong /Mosch. sexual perversions and
nymphomania, starting at a very early age of life).
Child very
sensitive and emotional/loves flowers, beauty and takes good care of them.
Child who was polite, soft, passionate and loveable turns into a devil. Feels
strong desire to bite, kick, hit, strike. He is very rude and aggressive. All
his actions become erratic, he develops inner hardness, which is very deep and
that is why it is very difficult to handle these children.
Loves
whatever is forbidden. If you tell them not to do certain things, they are the
first people to go and do it. This quality is similar to Tarentula. That is
what makes them courageous and brave. Both these remedies are courageous, but
in Tarentula, they have no soft corner for anything. They can lie with so much
confidence, that the other person starts believing it as the truth. For
example, if he was given some money, he will not return the balance amount. He
will spend it on himself. On being asked the details he will say that maybe the
balance money fell from his pocket. If you point out the chocolate marks around
his mouth, then he will give an explanation that the chocolate was given by a
friend. He will never admit the truth, even in the worst of circumstances.
In
Medorrhinum, the child starts with a lie but does not know how to finish and
gets caught half-way through, starts fumbling and he doesn’t have the same
confidence as the Tarentula child.
As this
child grows into a teen-ager, he wants to experience everything. He wants to
try out new things in life. He likes to go out with girls for parties,
discotheques etc. These are the young
children you will find moving around
in the streets or discotheques, late at night. They always love to do what is
forbidden. If the father says, come back at 22 h., they will come back at 2 h.
They will sneak out of the house, once the parents have gone to sleep. They
smoke, drink and they have sexual relationship at a very young age. They don’t
like bindings. That is why the idea of marriage seems unendurable. They are the
people who remain unmarried till very late in life, even though they have many
boyfriends or girl friends.
Predominantly
an extremist. SELF centered and hard hearted and they don’t want any connection
with people around them. At times they are very crude and violent: towards
people/own children/animals. Similar to Lycopodium and Sepia. Both do not like
their children. But in Lycopodium, they don’t like children, because they don’t
like to take up responsibility. So they remain unmarried. They are anxious
about sexual performance and duties that will be thrust upon them. Sepia has
aversion to children, males and sex.
Along with
aggression, other extreme responses like shyness are also quite obvious. This
is so pronounced that they are not able to speak during an interview.
As they
have tremendous sexual appetite, they visit different girls or prostitutes and
may have sexually transmitted diseases (Gonorrhoea). Suppression of gonorrhoea
leads to the commencement of all the troubles and complications.
Important
for mental retardation and poor reaction. Child physically very weak with
enlarged lymphatic glands and catch infections easily. These infections
progress slowly and steadily, remain for a longer duration and take more time
to resolve. The infection can act as a shock to the system and may have long
lasting effects. At the mental level, there could be shock from some act of the
parents. It could be some kind of
hatred, jealousy, negligence and abuse from parents or relatives. The shock
goes very deep into their systems and the child totally withdraws from the
parents.
This
withdrawal and hardness can lead to 3 things:
1. They become excessively religious and start
feeling that life is unreal.
2. They develop anxiety.
3. They develop suicidal tendency.
So
Medorrhinum becomes an important remedy for suicidal tendency in young adults.
Degeneration
sets in a little early in Medorrhinum. Lost memory for names and words, even to
the extent that they have to ask the names of their close friends. They begin a
sentence and halfway through, forget what they were going to say.
Time passes
too slowly (Arg-n./Cann-i.).
Recent
events appear as if had occurred years ago or things done today feel as if were
done a week ago.
Predominantly
hurried in nature, a workaholic type who is totally absorbed in his profession.
He starts thinking that people are very slow and that people must hurry all the
time. Right from childhood, they have fear of dark; fear that somebody is
behind him and fear of monsters around him.
Anxiety
that something will happen all the time. Anxiety about imaginary things.
Anxiety of
losing fortune and fear that he/she will say some things wrong.
Anxiety
expressed by biting nails of fingers and toes (bites his own toe nails).
Patient sad
with weeping tendency (as in Puls.). But Medorrhinum is a very important remedy
where patient cannot express his symptoms without weeping. Weeping >
sadness.
Like
Syphilinum, Medorrhinum is also an important remedy where
patient wants to wash hands repeatedly.
Predominantly
hot. Always searches for a cold place.
Even the child rolls out of the bed and rolls on the ground is search of
a cold spot. They do not like their feet covered. > Uncovering. Desires: a
fast fan; < in the sun. Craving for ice and cold drinks. Easily exhausted,
both at mental and physical level.
[J.T. Kent
- Lectures on homoepathic materia medica]
Children:
One of the many uses of this remedy is in the inherited complaints of children.
Obstinate
cases in children. The infant soon emaciates and becomes marasmic, or a child
becomes asthmatic, or suffers with vicious catarrh of nose or eyelids, or has
ringworm on the scalp or
face, or is
dwarfed; and after some waste of time it comes to mind that the father was treated
for gonorrhea that was obstinate and perhaps had condylomata on the genitalia.
This remedy
will cure, or begin the recovery. The woman married several years desires to
become a mother. She was healthy when she married, but now she has ovarian
pains, menstrual troubles, she has lost all sexual response, is growing pale
and waxy, and becoming violently sensitive and nervous.
The
husband's history gives the cause, and this remedy will cure. The pale waxy
young men, who crave stimulants and tobacco, who are sensitive to drafts,
become stiff after exertion and walking, who perspire easily and are extremely
sensitive to cold, who have never been well since having a gonorrhea cured by
injections.
Rheumatic
symptoms: in every part of the body. Some symptoms are < in the daytime.
The usual
comparison with Syphilinum, which reads,
"Med.
in daytime and Syph. at night," does not hold good as a sweeping
statement. It is true that many Syph. pains are < nights.
It is true
that some sycotic and Medorrhinum symptoms are < daytimes. It is also true
that many sycotic symptoms are violent day and night. It is also true that the
mental symptoms of Med. are most violent at night. It will not do to be too
sweeping with circumstances of this nosode.
The
rheumatic inflammations are < from motion, but where swelling is not present
these patients act like Rhus-t.; sensitive to cold, suffer from aching and
torturesome pains, and find relief only in motion - like Rhus-t. Most sycotic
patients suffer from cold, some are sensitive to heat.
Sore,
bruised and lame, as if he had taken a deep cold and was coming down with a
fever. Pain come on with a feeling of general tension. Obstinate cases of
rheumatism. Losing flesh. Walks stooped, becoming clumsy. Stumbles. Looks as if
he were going into quick consumption. Intense nervous sensibility, respecting
touch of garment or a lock of hair by any one not en rapport.
Trembling
and quivering; growing steadily weaker. Intense formication all over the body.
Starts from the slightest noise. Feels faint and wants to be fanned, Wants open
air. Cold and pulseless, with cold sweat.
Oedema of
the limbs with great soreness and dropsy of serous sacs. Externally sensitive
to cold damp weather. Subject to neuralgias. Stitching, tearing pains. The
pains are ameliorated by heat. Drawing pains in back and limbs. The patient is
extremely sensitive to pain. The remedy should never be used low.
Mind: Forgetful of facts, figures and
names; of what he has read.
Makes
mistakes in writing, of spelling, and words. Time move too slowly; everybody
moves too slowly. He is in a constant hurry, in such a hurry that he gets out
of breath. She is in such a hurry that she feels faint. Confusion of mind,
dazed; fear of sensation; loses the idea when speaking. Great difficulty in
stating her symptoms, loses herself and must be asked over again.
Thinks some
one is behind her; hears whispering. Sees faces that peer at her from behind
the furniture (Phos.). Everything seems unreal (Alum.).
Wild
desperate feeling as if incipient insanity. Weeps when talking. Exhilaration in
evening. Changeable state of mind; one moment sad, the next mirthful.
Presentiment of death. Frightened sensation on waking as if something dreadful
had happened. Fear of the dark. Anxiety about her salvation.
Vertigo: stooping; > lying; < from
motion. Fear of falling.
Head: Wandering neuralgia of head, <
in cold damp weather.
Sharp pains
come and go suddenly. No part of head is free from pain. Pain < from
light/coughing. Burning pains deep inside (brain). Extreme tension of scalp.
Band across forehead.
Pain in
occiput and nape, aggravated on motion. Intense itching of scalp. Herpetic
eruptions on scalp; ringworm. Copious dandruff. Hair dry and crispy.
Eyes: Flickering before the eyes.
Vision: Blurred and black or brown spots
in the field of vision. Objects look double, or small. Sees imaginary objects.
Eyes feel drawn. Tension in the muscles. Pain in eyes on turning them.
“As if sand
in eyes”. Sensation of sticks. inflammation of conjunctiva with ulceration of
the cornea. Blepharitis with much swelling. Lids stuck together in the morning.
Margins red and excoriated. Ptosis. Smarting of lids. Eyelashes fall out.
Swelling under eyes, as in Bright's disease.
Ears: Impaired hearing and total
deafness. Pain along Eustachian tubes into ears. Crawling in ears. Itching in
ears. Stitching pains in ears.
Hearing: Imagines he hears voices or people
in conversation, At first the hearing is very acute.
Nose: Obstinate nasal catarrh, also post
nasal obstruction with loss of smell.
Mucus,
white or yellow. Bleeding from the nose, and bloody nasal discharge. Nose
sensitive to inhaled air. Itching and crawling in nose.
Face: The greenish yellow, waxy, sickly
face of the sycotic patient looks like that of the Ars., but Ars. does not
otherwise correspond to the symptoms, but may be mistaken for it. The skin
shines, and is often covered by blotches and there are fever blisters about the
mouth. Herpes on the face.
Epithelioma
of wing of nose, or on lip. Rheumatic pains and stiffness of face. Swelling of
the submaxillary glands.
Mouth: The teeth are always sensitive
when chewing.
Taste
perverted, and the tongue is foul and white at base. The mouth is full of
canker sores. Ulcers in the mouth and on the tongue.
Breath
foul. Stringy mucus in mouth and throat. Mouth dry and feels burnt. Catarrh of
throat, and thick white mucus is constantly drawn from posterior nares.
Stomach: Ravenous hunger, even after
eating.
Unquenchable
thirst. Craves stimulants, tobacco, sweets, green fruit, ice, sour things,
oranges, ale, salt. Nausea after eating, and after drinking water. Vomiting of
mucus and bile, Sour and bitter vomiting. Violent retching. Vomiting without
nausea.
Gnawing in
stomach, not > eating/drinking.
Trembling in stomach. Clawing in stomach, < drawing up the knees. Sinking in
stomach. Agonizing pains in stomach.
Abdomen: Liver: Terrible pains in liver.
Grasping
pains in liver and spleen. It has cured ascites. Pulsation felt in abdomen.
Pain and swelling of the inguinal glands.
Infants:
This remedy has cured many cases of marasmus in infants that had inherited
sycosis from a parent.
Children of
a sycotic father are especially subject to attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea,
and emaciation. Resist well selected chronic remedies, or are only palliated by
well selected remedies.
After Med.
high they thrive, and remedies act better.
Rectum: Constipation. Can pass stool only
by leaning far back when straining at stool. Inactivity of the rectum.
Stool: Round balls, and hard lumpy stool.
Oozing of moisture at the anus, smelling like fishbrine.
Urine: Scanty, high-colored,
strong-smelling urine in a patient suffering from rheumatic lameness and
stiffness.
Extremities: Sensitive to cold, with tenderness
of the soles. In albuminous urine with hyaline casts when the patient is waxy
and there is oedema of feet and ankles, and the soles so tender he can scarcely
walk on them, the skin of soles is bluish and hot; also when the swollen legs
are so sore he cannot have them touched, or endure the pressure to ascertain
whether the swelling will or will not pit on pressure.
In the
above conditions Med. will act promptly if there has been gonorrhoeal history.
Inflammation of bladder, prostate gland or kidneys. Copious mucus in urine.
Renal colic. Parenchymatic inflammation of the kidneys. Copious pale urine.
Frequent urination at night. Loses urine in bed. Inactivity of the bladder and
feeble stream of urine. It has cured many cases of polyuria.
Male
genitals: Nocturnal
emissions and impotency in young men who have had gonorrhoea several times,
especially if treated by injections.
Prolonged
gleety discharge with rheumatic symptoms and declining health. For gonorrhoeal
rheuma it is a most important remedy. It controls the rheumatic symptoms and
restores the discharge.
Induration
of testes, and pain in the spermatic cords. Burning in scrotum and hips during
menses.
Pain in
left spermatic cord, left sciatic nerve and lumbago from every exposure to a
draft in one who suffered from gonorrhoea several years
ago and was
cured by Med. 10 M. at long intervals.
Female
genitals: Chronic
pain in ovarian region. Sterility. Painful menstruation. Obstinate leucorrhoea.
Enlarged ovaries. Violent itching of vulva and vagina. Profuse menses.
Drawing in
sacrum “As if menses would come on”, Cutting like knives in whole pelvic
region.
Respiration: is difficult. Suffocation and
short breath on slight exertion. Asthma in children of sycotic parents. Spasms
of the glottis with clucking in the larynx; air expelled with difficulty, but
inhaled with ease. Several cases of asthma have been cured by this remedy.
Dryness of the larynx causes spasms and cough on falling asleep.
Most
obstinate catarrh of air passages with copious viscid expectoration has been
cured by this remedy. Cannot cough deep enough to reach the phlegm. Cough >
lying on the abdomen, < at night. The expectoration. is yellow, white or
green, viscid, difficult to raise. Cough < in a warm room.
Many of the
patients that need this remedy look sick, pale, and walk stooped as if about to
go into phthisis. Dry cough, with rattling in chest. Great heat, even burning
in chest. Many pains in chest. Rheumatic, sharp pains through chest on exposure
to damp cold air.
When
patients who have suffered from gonorrhoea seem to be taking on a phtisical
complex of symptoms and the paucity of individualizing symptoms makes the
remedy doubtful, this remedy will bring better reaction, and sometimes be the
remedy for many months.
Chest: Intense pain in chest on coughing.
Sensation of coldness in chest and mammae. Stitching pain in chest. The chest
is sore to touch, < by the motion of breathing.
The heart
manifests all the symptoms usual to rheumatic constitutions. Dyspnea;
fluttering heart; palpitation. Pain: acute, cutting, stitching; < motion.
Burning in heart, extending to left arm.
Back: "Lame back" is the
common complaint of these patients.
It is
generally a lumbago, or it is a lumbo-sacral pain, and often extends into the
lower limbs. Crural or sciatic pains. Drawing in nape and back. Pain across the
back, from l. to r. shoulders. Great heat in the upper part of spine. Stiffness
in the back on rising, or beginning to move. Pains all aggravated in cold damp
weather. Tender spine, Soreness in region of kidneys.
Extremities: Chronic rheumatic pains in limbs
in cold damp weather. Lame and stiff. Stitching pains all over the body, and in
limbs. Sharp pains. SENsitive to pain, and feels pain as sharp and stitching.
Some of the pains come on during motion, and some > from continued motion.
Cold extremities. Burning palms and soles, Trembling of the limbs. Rheumatic
pains in shoulders < motion.
Numbness of
arms and hands, < left. Trembling hands and arms. Burning palms, wants them
fanned. Right hand cold, then left. Cold hands. Heat and numbness of back of
hands.
Trembling
weakness and numbness of lower limbs. Awkwardness of legs, they do not go where
they are willed to go. Numbness of thighs. Must stretch the lower limbs
constantly. Drawing pains and tension in legs. Rheumatic pains. Stiffness and
soreness in flesh and periosteum. Shooting up the legs during a thunderstorm.
Restless
legs, must move them constantly. Aching, drawing in legs and thighs, in sciatic
and crural nerves, > continued motion. Legs numb and heavy, like wood. Legs
cold up to the knees.
Contraction
of muscles of posterior part of thigh down to knee. Cramps in soles and calves.
Weak ankles. Burning feet, wants them uncovered and fanned. Legs swollen to
knees, and pit upon pressure. Sore bruised legs, ankles and soles. Soles sore
and bruised, look blue. He cannot walk on the soles. Swelling and itching of
the soles. It cures the tenderness in the soles so common in chronic
gonorrhoeal rheumatism. Tenderness of soles so that be had to walk on his knees.
Cold sweaty feet.
Sleep: Can sleep only on the back with
bands over head.
Sleeps on
her knees with face forced into the pillow. Terrible dreams of ghosts and dead
people; she dreads the nights.
Sleepy but
cannot sleep. Sleepless part of the night. Copious night sweats.
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