Anus, irritation of. Callosities. Catarrh. Chorea. Constipation. Corns. Diarrhœa. Dyspepsia. Eczema. Feet, sore and horny. Fever. Gum-rash. Nails, degeneration of. Nettle-rash. Piles. Prolapsus recti. Red gum. Remittent fever. Stomach, disordered. Sunstroke. Tendons inflamed. Tongue coated. Voice, low. Warts. Whooping-cough.

Antim. crud. corresponds in a sense to the race of swine, as Arsenic does to horses and Pulsatilla to sheep. It is preeminently a scrofulous medicine, corresponding to gross constitutions with tendency to rough scaling skin with horny patches. With these horny patches is great tenderness, the patient can hardly bear to walk on them. Analagous to these horny excrescences are warts, and Ant c. has cured many cases of these. A student, 17, had twenty-three on right hand and thirty four on left, mainly on backs and fingers, but a few on interior surface of fingers. In addition redness and inflammation of eyelids. Cured in seven weeks with Ant. c. 200x. In the same category may be mentioned the tendency of the nails to grow in splits. Ant. crud. is specially suited to infants and children (with coated moist white tongues) and also to elderly persons. Tendency to grow fat. When symptoms recur they change their locality or go from one side of the body to the other. Left side predominates, especially lower left and upper right. Among special symptoms are: Itching of scalp and falling out of hair. Tendency to take cold about head. Scrofulous ophthalmia, canthi especially affected (Graph. the whole margin). Otorrhœa. Moist eruption behind ears (Graph.). Slight noises startle. Nose-bleed with vertigo; after headache; after rush of blood to head. Children are peevish, won't bear to be touched or looked at. Adults are sulky or sad. Weeping and impressionable. Sentimental mood by moonlight. Amativeness. Suicidal. Gastric and remittent fevers, and fevers of children, with great thirst and the characteristic white tongue. The fever runs higher at night. The child is cross, but unlike the Cham. patient, who wants to be carried, this will scream and show temper at every little attention. There is a form of diarrhœa which alternates with constipation, often found in old people, to which Ant. crud. corresponds. "Stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed, in old people." It cures many cases of mucous piles: continuous oozing, staining linen. In connection with the intolerance of wine of the remedy, it may be mentioned that in one case it produced a feeling of intoxication like that of alcohol, so that the patient refused to take any more of it. A number of nervous symptoms appear in the provings─restlessness, jerking of muscles, &c. Dr. M. Jousset has recorded a severe case of chorea which resisted all the usual remedies and was cured with Ant. crud. prescribed on the digestive symptoms, particularly the characteristic white tongue. A notable characteristic of Ant. crud. is the thickly coated tongue. Generally it is thick and white; milky-white; or like whitewash evenly laid. The edges may be red and sore. Sore, cracked and crusty nostrils and corners of mouth. Abnormal hunger; not relieved by eating; emptiness at epigastrium and want of animal heat. Disgust for all foods. Nursing children throw up a little sour milk as soon as they take the breast or bottle (Æthus c., after vomiting the child sleeps and wakes hungry; Ant. c. the child refuses to nurse again). The sulphur element in Ant. crud. is strongly pronounced in the provings as in the constipation and other intestinal disorders of the drug. < By heat is a marked characteristic (Apis, Puls., Cham., Secale, Camph.); also < from cold washing (less severe after warm washing), from cold water and cold food. In spite of the < from heat there is great sensitiveness to cold, hence it is suitable to the hydrogenoid constitutions. Moonlight < mental symptoms. Many symptoms are < at night. < By touch. < From wine, especially sour wine; from vinegar and acids (though tamarind water does not disagree); from fruits. < From pork, bread, and pastry. > By rest, by lying down; < rising up; < ascending stairs.

Compare: Æthiops ant., Ant. tar., Am. mur., Apis, Bry., Graph., Puls., Ran. b., Rhus t., Sul., Variol.; Cham., Chi, and Stram. (averse to be looked at); Hep., Rhus, Sep., Spi. and Sul. (averse to be washed). Complementary: Scilla. Follows well: Puls., Ipec. Followed by: Puls., Merc., Sul. Antidote to: Stings of insects. Antidoted by: Calc., Hep., Merc. Bry. compares very closely in digestive condition, loaded tongue and < from warmth; in summer complaint.

Gluttony. Hot weather. Heat of sun. Getting over-heated. Disappointed love. Suppressed eruptions.

Ecstasy and exalted love, with great anxiety about his fate and inclination to shoot himself; worse when walking in the moonlight, and then his conduct is like than of an insane person.─Desponding reflections upon one's condition.─Disgust of life, with an inclination to blow one's brains out, or to drown oneself.─Tendency to be frightened.─Peevish humour, ill-humour.─To be looked at and to be touched are unbearable (in the case of a child).─Dull intellect, imbecility.─Madness.

Confusion of head, as after long labour in the cold.─A feeling of intoxication.─Dizziness with nausea, or bleeding of the nose.─Attack of apoplexy, with frothy salivation.─Cephalalgia, after bathing in running water.─Cephalalgia with dizziness from the smoke of tobacco; better in the open air.─Sensation, as if the forehead were going to burst.─Dull pain in the sinciput and vertex, increased by going upstairs.─Cramp-like pain in the head, ameliorated by walking in the open air.─Piercing pain in the forehead and in the temples.─Sharp pains as from knives in head and under l. breast.─Congestion in the head, painful and followed by epistaxis.─Pain in the bones at the vertex, as if from a swelling in the periosteum.─Teasing itching in the head, with failing off of the hair.

Shooting in the eyes.─Red, inflamed eyelids.─Inflammation of the eyes, with itching and nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids.─Slight oozing of the skin near the external angle of the eye.─Humour in the corners of the eyes.─Enlargement of the eyes.─Sensibility of the eyes to the light of day.─Blindness.─Chronic sore eyes of children.

Shooting in the ears.─Redness, swelling, and heat in the ear.─Otorrhœa.─Digging and murmuring in the ears.─Deafness, as if one had a bandage over the ears; as if a leaf were lying before the ears.─Buzzing in the ears.─Continual roaring in the ears.

Eruption in the nose.─Excoriation of the nostrils, and of the corners of the nose.─Nostrils chapped and scurfy.─Stoppage of the nose.─Bleeding at the nose, esp. in the evening.─Sensation of coldness in the nose, when inspiring air.─Dryness of the nose, chiefly on walking in the open air.─Accumulation of thick yellowish mucus in the nostrils.

Sad countenance.─Heat in face, and chiefly in the cheeks, with itching.─Red, burning, suppurating eruptions on the face, with yellowish scurf.─Lumps and blisters on the face, as if from the stings of insects.─Granular eruptions, yellow as honey, on the skin of the face.─Eruption, like conoid chicken-pox, on the face and on the nose.─Sensation of excoriation of the chin.─Painful fissures at the commissures of the lips.─Pimples on the upper lip.─Dryness of the lips.

Pains in carious teeth, with dull pricking, successive pullings and gnawing, even in the head, renewed after every meal, increased by cold water, and mitigated in the open air.─Jerking toothache in the evening, in bed, and after a meal.─Grinding of the teeth while sleeping in a sitting posture.─Stitches in and about the teeth when inspiring cold air.─Bleeding of the teeth and of the gums, which become detached.

Bitter taste in the mouth.─Ptyalism (tasting salty).─Dryness of the mouth.─Accumulation of water on the tongue and in the mouth.─Salivation.─Tongue loaded; with a white coating.─Pain, as of excoriation at the edges of the tongue.─Blisters on the tongue.

Soreness of the throat, as if there were a plug in it.─Inability to swallow.─Dryness and scraping, or an accumulation of viscid mucus in the throat.

Aversion to all food.─Longing for acids.─Thirst chiefly in the night.─Loss of appetite.─Sensation of hunger and of emptiness in the epigastrium, in the morning especially, and which is unappeased by eating.─After a meal, dejection, lassitude, fulness and tension in the abdomen.─Great desire to take food, which is not appropriated to strength.

Eructations with taste of food, or very acid.─Regurgitation of a watery fluid.─Hiccough on smoking tobacco.─Loathing of food, nausea, and inclination to vomit, as if caused by indigestion.─Heartburn with good appetite.─Nausea after taking wine.─Nausea and vomiturition, from overloading the stomach, or after drinking (sour) wine.─Vomiting of mucus and of bile, sometimes accompanied by diarrhœa, great anxiety, and convulsions.─Pain, burning, and cramp-like in the pit of the stomach, sometimes with despair and inclination to drown oneself.─Tension and pressure in the pit of the stomach.─Painful sensation, as if the stomach were overloaded with food.─Pain in the region of the stomach on being touched.─Gastric catarrh with characteristic white tongue; even if caused by metastasis of rheumatism or gout.

Inflation of the abdomen, with a sensation of fulness, chiefly after a meal.─Violent cutting pains, sometimes with want of appetite; urine red and stools hard.─Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, as after violent diarrhœa.─Sensation of swelling and of hardness in the inguinal region, on its being pressed.─Accumulation of flatus in the abdomen, with rumbling and borborygmi.

Difficult evacuation of hard stools.─Difficult evacuations; the fæces are too large in size.─Urgent inclination to go to stool.─Stool of the consistence of pap.─Diarrhœa, generally watery, with cutting pains.─After vinegar or acid wine, loose stool.─Alternate diarrhœa and constipation, esp. in aged persons.─Constant secretion of yellowish-white mucus by the anus.─Flow of black blood from the anus.─Hæmorrhoidal excrescences, blind and running, with burning and tingling.─Burning itching and fissures in the anus.─Expansive pressure in the rectum (during stool as if an ulcer had been torn open) and the anus.─Burning furunculus in the perineum.

Frequent inclination to make water, with scanty emission.─Frequent and abundant emission of urine, with abundant flow of mucus, and burning in the urethra, accompanied by pains in the loins.─On coughing, involuntary emission of urine.─Urine aqueous, or of a gold colour, or reddish brown, and sometimes mixed with small red corpuscles.─Incisive pain in the urethra, on making water.

Excitement of sexual desire, and great lasciviousness.─Pollutions.

Metrorrhagia.─Sharp and corrosive discharge from the vagina.─Nymphomania from checked catamenia.─Tenderness over ovaries after menses checked by a bath.─Gastro-intestinal disorders of pregnancy.─Pressure in the uterus as if something would come out of it, esp. during uterine hæmorrhage.─Toothache before the menses, with boring in the temples.─Quite solid lumps in a watery leucorrhœa, which sometimes causes a smarting down the thighs.─Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhœa during pregnancy.

Great heat in the throat while moving in the open air.─Great weakness, or entire loss of voice, chiefly on becoming warm.─Looking into the fire increases cough.─Sensation of a foreign substance in the larynx, with inability to expectorate.─Violent spasm in the larynx, with sensation of excoriation.─Cough, with burning in the chest.─Morning cough, dry and shaking.─Whooping-cough.─Cough as if arising from abdomen.

Stifling oppression and paralytic orthopnœa.─Respiration deep, with sighing.─Shootings in the chest, when drawing breath and at other times.─Pain, as of contusion, in the pectoralis major, on raising the arm, and on pressure.─Sharp pain under l. breast.

Cramp-like drawing in the muscles of the neck and of the nape of the neck.─Rheumatic pains in the nape of the neck.─Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck, in the shoulder-blades, and behind the ears.

Rheumatic pains in the arms.─Red vesicles on the arms, with itching.─Painful inflammation of the tendons of the elbow, with great redness and curvature of the arm.─Hot and red swelling of the forearm, with shooting tension.─Sensation of drawing in the forearm, the fingers, and the joints of the fingers.─Arthritic pains in the joints of the fingers.─Painful sensibility of the skin under the nails, and slow growth of the nails themselves.─A horny growth under the nail.─Crushed finger-nails grow in splits, with horny spots.

Sensation of drawing in the lower limbs, esp. in the coxo-femoral joint.─Lumps, with red rings, on the buttocks and legs.─Violent pain in the lower extremities.─Numbness of the legs after sitting for some time.─Shooting pain in the knee and in the tibia.─Drawing pain in knees, lower part l. tibia, in l. heel, and tearing through the r. great toe.─Tumour or white swelling of the knee.─Painful stiffness in the knee, preventing the extension of the leg.─Vesicles on the knee after scratching it.─Sensibility of the soles of the feet, when walking on the pavement.─Red swelling of the heel, with burning shootings, which are aggravated by walking.─Corns on the soles of the feet, and callous excrescence at the tips of the toes.─Pressive pain in the corns.─Burning in the fleshy part of the great toe.─Callous excrescence under the nail of the great toe.

Rheumatic pains and inflammation of the tendons, with redness and contraction of the part affected.─Inflammation of the muscles.─Drawings or shootings and tension, principally in the limbs.─Restlessness, uneasiness.─Disposition to start even at slight noises.─Twitching of muscles of many parts of the body.─Convulsions with vomiting.─The symptoms are aggravated in the heat of the sun, after having drunk wine, after a meal, night and morning; amelioration during repose and in the fresh air.─Great sensibility to cold.─Heaviness of all the limbs.─General weakness, esp. at night, on waking.─Emaciation, or great obesity.─Dropsical swelling of the whole body.─Mucous membranes generally affected.─Anasarca.─Marasmus.─Children cannot bear to be touched or looked at.─Chronic affections traceable to suppressed eruptions or ulcers.

Itching, esp. in the neck, chest, back and limbs.─Eruptions which appear chiefly in the evening, or which itch in the heat of the bed, and prevent sleep.─Miliary eruptions and nettle-rash.─Tumours and blisters, as if from the stings of insects.─Measles-like eruption.─Eruptions, similar to chicken-pox, with shooting pain on pressure.─Thick, hard scabs, often honey-yellow, here and there a crack oozing a green sanious fluid, burning as if immersed in hot embers.─Urticaria white, with red areolæ, which itch fearfully.─Pustules with yellowish or brown scurf.─Freckles.─Hepatic spots.─Deep spongy ulcers with gastric ulcers.─Fistulous ulcers.─Horn-like excrescences and disposition to abnormal organisations of the skin.─Corns and callous excrescences on the feet.─Nails discoloured and deformed.─Red and hot swellings.─Degeneration of the skin.─Fungus of the joints.

Strong inclination to sleep during the day, and somnolency, chiefly in the evening or morning.─Coma with delirium.─Waking with fright during the night.─Dreams, anxious, horrible, voluptuous, or painful, and full of quarrelling.

Chilliness predominating even in the warm room.─Sensation of coldness in the nose when inhaling air.─Heat, esp. during the night, before midnight, with cold feet.─Great heat from little exercise, esp. in the sun.─Intermittent fever, with gastric or bilious affections, principally with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, loaded tongue, bitterness of the mouth, with moderate thirst, diarrhœa, tension and pressure at the pit of the stomach, with cutting pains.─Tertian fever.─Hot sweat, early in the morning every second day.─Pulse irregular, sometimes quick, sometimes slow.

Antimonium crudum

• The choice of this remedy is determined by the symptoms which develop in mental and gastric sphere.

• As the meaning of the last work of its name implies, the Ant-c patient is crude mentally and physically.

• Patient is a Gross feeder - a glutton; he eats beyond the capacity of his digestion or without discrimination; therefore the mental and skin symptoms are due to the GASTRO INTESTINAL

• It produces lumpy effects; stools are watery, containing lumps; leucorrhoea is watery, mixed with lumps; lumps appear upon the skin; nails become thick, distorted and lumpy.

• There is a tendency to formation of cracks - in canthi; nostrils, angles of the mouth.

• Mentally the patient is either sentimental esp. in moonlight, and twilight, during diarrhoea nd before menses; or cross and touchy.

• It produces strange absence of pain, where it could be expected e.g. bed sores.

• It is suitable to infants and children; also to elderly persons and young persons who have tendency to grow fat.

• When symtpoms group recur, they change their locality or go from one side to the other; they recur every five, six or twelve weeks.

• Gout recedes and stomach is affected.

• Nervous symptoms such as restlessness, twitches in the muscles, and disposition to start on slightest noise are also found.

• Ill effects of disappointed love and suppressed eruptions.

• Chronic complaints traceable to suppression of eruptions or ulcers.

• Anasarca.

• Marasmus.

• Trouble from swimming or falling into water.

• Rheumatoid arthritis.

• He is always sleepy and weary.

• COLD BATHING; Cold dampness; COLD WATER (on head).

- Acids, Sweets.

• Moonlighht.

• Rising up.

• Ascending stairs.

• Touch.

• HEAR OF SUMMER, of sun.

• Radiated heat.

-OVEREATING

• Night debauches, after getting drunk.

• Vinegar.

• Pork.

• In open air; during rest; moist warmth.

• Lying down.

• Great anxiety about his fate; inclination to shoot himself.

- Fretful cross and peevish.

• Cries if looked at or touched or washed, esp. children; adults are sulky, do not wish to speak with anyone.

• Loathing; of life, of food, bathing etc.

- Ecstasy and exalted love.

- Dreamy, sentimental.

• Angry at every little attention.

• Love sick.

• So busy with oneself one forgets to urinate or defecate, eats only when asked.

• Excitability.

• Nervous hysterical girls and women, who are overcome by mellow light from stained -glass windows.

• Talks in rhymes or verses; taciturn.

• Aches from bathing in cold water or from disordered stomach, agg. candy or acid wines, fruits, fats, ascending stairs.

• Tendency to take cold about head.

• Heaviness in forehead, with vertigo, nausea and nosebleed.

• Itching of the head, with falling of hair.

• Headache after stopped coryza.

• Canthi; raw, cracked, red and moist.

• Pustules on the margins of the lids, chronic blepharitis.

• Lids red and inflamed.

• Looking into the fire causes cough.

• Chronic sore eyes of children.

• Photophobia.

• Ringing and deafness.

• Moist eruptions around the ears.

• Otorrhoea.

• Deafness, as if bandaged or a leaf lying on one.

• Nostrils scabby, sore and cracked.

• Nose bleed, after headache.

• Eczema of nostrils.

• Feeling of coldness on inhalation.

• Sallow, haggard or sad.

• Pimples, pustules and boils on face.

• Yellow crusted eruptions on cheeks and chin.

• Cracks in the corners of the mouth.

• Small, sore honey coloured granules on chin.

• TONGUE COATED THICK WHITE, AS IF WHITE-WASHED.

• Toothache in hollow teeth, pain extends to head, agg. touching the tooth with tongue, amel. walking in open air.

• Grinding of teeth, when sleeping in sitting position.

• Canker sores.

• Toothache before menses.

• Pimples around the mouth.

• Aphthae.

• Gums bleed easily.

• Taste bitter.

• Salivation, taste salty.

• Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares.

• Rough voice from over use.

• Hoarseness after cold water bath.

• Sensation as if a foreign body had lodged, with constant desire to swallow.

• Loss of appetite, with disgust for food.

• No thirst.

• Desire for acids, pickles.

• Eructation tasting of the ingesta; food leaves and after taste or causes constant belching.

• DIGESTION DISORDERED easily.

• Vomiting agg. eating or drinking; without nausea or relief.

• Stomach is painful to pressure.

• Gouty metastasis to stomach bowels.

• Sweetish waterbrash.

• Bloating after eating.

• Child vomits its milk in curds, after nursing, and refuses to nurse afterwards (reverse Aeth).

• Appetite does not return after severe illness.

• Vomiting, fearful, with convulsions, which nothing can stop.

• Great desire to eat, but no strength to do it (child).

• Pork disagrees.

• Stomach seems to be always overloaded.

• Diarrhoea, alternating with constipation esp. in old persons.

• Stools, pappy or watery mixed with lumps.

• Mucous piles - prickling and bursing with continuous mucus discharge from anus, staining yellow.

• Catarrhal proctitis.

• Fulness in abdomen.

• Haemorrhage; with solid stools, piles.

• Stools entirely of mucus.

• Diarrhoea; summer, after nursing.

• Cutting in urethra while urinating.

• Urination; frequent, profuse, with burning and backache.

• Involuntary urination, on coughing.

• Foul odour.

• Atrophy of penis and testicle.

• Biting, itching of scrotum, with eruptions.

• Excited sexual desire, with uneasiness of the whole body.

• Menses; suppressed from cold bathing; with tenderness of the ovaries, pressure in womb as if something would come out during menses.

• Nymphhomania from checked menses.

• Leucorrhoea, water containing lumps.

• Nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, during pregnancy.

• Ovaries painful in love sick girl.

• Cough agg. coming in warm room; with burning in chest.

• First attack of cough is always most severe, the subsequent attacks become weaker and weaker.

• Looking into fire agg. cough.

• Pain in the chest, with heat.

• Voice: lacks control, harsh, badly picthed amel. using it.

• Aphonia from overheating.

• Itching in chest.

• Expectoration of large quantities of mucus, exhausts the paitent.

• Violent pain in small of back when rising, amel. when walking.

• Itching of neck and back.

• Coccyx heavy.

• Arthritic pain in the joints of fingers.

• Horny or split nails; nails grow slowly; out of shape; horny growth under the nails.

• Horny warts on hands and soles.

• Painful inflammation of the tendon of elbows with great redness and curvature of the arms.

• Shiny elbows.

• Feet very tender; soles tender while walking.

• Callosities on soles.

• Skin on soles is withered on account of foot sweat.

• Weakness and shaking of hands in writing, followed by offensive flatus.

• Twitching in muscles.

• Jerks in arms.

• Crippled feet.

• Growth beneath nails.

• Eczema, with gastric derangement.

• Eruptive tendency of pimples, vesicles and pustules.

• Urticaria; white; with red areola, itching fearfully.

• Measly eruptions.

• Warts horny.

• Dry gangrene.

• Itching when warm in bed.

• Callositis from slight pressure.

• Sleepy and weary.

• Drowsy old people.

• Deep unrefreshing sleep.

• Great heat from little exercise esp. in the sun.

• Heat and thirst after sweat.

• Disturbances of stomach during apyrexia, in intermittent fevers.

• Sulph.

• Scil.

The child cannot bear to be touched or looked at; cross.

Sentimental mood in the moonlight, particularly estatic love.

The greatest sadness and woeful mood, with intermittent fever.

Sore, cracked and crusty nostrils, and corners of the mouth.

Suppurating and long-lasting eruptions on cheeks.

Redness and inflammation of the lids, itching in canthi, chronic blepharitis of cross children.

Sore, cracked, crusty nostrils; corners of the mouth cracked.

Tongue coated thick, milky white.

Decayed teeth ache generally, < at night; cannot bear to be touched by the tongue.

Gastric derangement with tongue coated thickly white, accompanying different complaints, such as eruptive fevers, rheumatism, gout, hydrocephalus, etc.

Alternate diarrhoea and constipation in old people.

Stools often liquid, containing portions of sold matter (sometimes involuntary in old people).

Hard and loose stools, with nausea.

Much mucous secretion from the anus staining the linen, with burning, tingling, and itching.

Tenderness over the ovarian region, with nausea, vomiting and white tongue.

Cough in the heat of the sun, also from coming from cold into warm air.

Looking into the fire increases the cough.

The irritation ot cough is felt in the abdomen.

Crushed finger-nails grow in splits; and like warts, and with horny spots.

Corns and callosities in the soles of the feet; very sensitive; can’t walk.

Great sensitiveness of soles when walking.

Great sensitiveness of soles of feet when walking.

Intermittent fever with sadness and woeful mood.

Complaints after bathing, especially in cold water.

In warm weather nausea, exhaustion, diarrhoea; overheating, sun heat, fire heat.

(see Tartar emetic)

Child wants to be carried, but cries if anyone touches it, will not let you feel the pulse.

Convulsive twitches in almost every muscle of the face.

Face pale and sunken, or cyanotic.

Tongue very thinly white with reddened papillae, red edges; particularly with whooping cough.

Nausea and vomiting with constipation (old people).

Vomiting followed by coldness, prostration and drowsiness.

Colic as if the bowels would be cut to pieces; labor-like tearing from above downward, and with rumbling and looseness.

Painful urging to urinate, scanty discharge, dark red, or the last bloody, with stitches in the bladder and burning in urethra.

Leucorrhoea of watery blood, liable to occur in paroxysms, worse while sitting.

Cough grows less frequent; patient shows signs of carbonized blood.

Rattling or hollow cough, < at night, with suffocation; throat full of phlegm; sweat on forehead; vomiting of food.

When the child coughs there appears to be a large collection of mucus in the bronchial tubes; it seems as if much would be expectorated, but nothing comes.

If children get angry the coughing spell comes on; also after eating.

Coughing and gaping consecutively, particularly children, with crying or dozing and twitching in face.

The head trembles, particularly when coughing, with an inward trembling, teeth chattering and drowsiness more in the evening and in the warmth.

Violent pains in sacro-lumbar region; the slightest effort to move causes retching and cold sweat.

Cannot keep her eyes open; irresistible drowsiness, and deep, stupefied sleep; when awake, hopelessness and despair, or chill and fever, or vomiting of food.

Great sleepiness; irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all complaints.

Pustular eruption; or confluent, face, mouth, and fauces, oesophagus, stomach, jejunum, genitals.

Beating and throbbing through the whole body, particularly in belly or pit of stomach, with great concern about the future.

For children and young people inclined to grow fat (Cal.); for the extremes of life. Old people with morning diarrhoea, suddenly become constipated, or alternate diarrhoea and constipation; pulse hard and rapid. Sensitive to the cold. < after taking cold. Child is fretful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at; sulky, does not wish to speak or be spoken to (Ant. t., Iod., Sil.); angry at every little attention. Great sadness, with weeping. Loathing life. Anxious lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects her (Puls.); abject despair, suicide by drowning. Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or repeat verses. Sentimental mood in the moonlight, especially ecstatic love; bad effects of disappointed affection (Cal. p.). Nostrils and labial commissures sore, cracked and crusty. Headache: after river bathing; from taking cold; alcoholic drinks; deranged digestion, acids, fat, fruit; suppressed eruption. Gastric complaints from over-eating; stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed; a thick milky-white coating on the tongue, which is the red strand of the remedy; very subject to canker sores in the mouth (Arg. n., Sulph.). Longing for acids and pickles. Gastric and intestinal affections: from bread and pastry; acids, especially vinegar; sour or bad wine; after cold bathing; over-heating; hot weather. Constant discharge of flatus, up and down, for years; belching, tasting of ingesta. Mucus: in large quantities from posterior nares by hawking; from anus, ichorous, oozing, staining yellow; mucous piles. Disposition to abnormal growths of the skin; fingernail do not grow rapidly; crushed nails grow is splits like warts and with horny spots. Large horny corns on soles of feet (Ran. b.); very sensitive when walking, especially on stone pavements. Loss of voice from becoming over-heated. Cannot bear the heat of the sun; worse from over-exertion in the sun. (Lach., Nat. m.); < from over-heating near the fire; exhausted in warm weather; ailments from sunburn. Whooping cough: < by being over-heated in the sun or in a warm room; from cold washing. When symptoms reappear they change locality or go from one side of the body to the other. Aversion to cold bathing; child cries when washed or bathed with cold water; cold bathing causes violent headache; causes suppressed menses; colds from swimming or falling into the water (Rhus).

. - Complementary: Squilla. Similar: to, Bry;, Ipec., Lyc., Puls., in gastric complaints. Follows well: after, Ant. c., Puls., Mer., Sulph.

. - After eating; cold baths, acids or sour wine; after heat of sun or fire; extremes of cold or heat.

. - In the open air; during rest; after a warm bath.