Homeopathic Materia Medica
Similar to snake-poisons generally. Has very marked BLACK DISCHARGES. COLD THINGS DISAGREE. Desire for sweetened buttermilk. Nausea and vomiting. Prostrating diarrhoea of consumption. Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling. Sudden pain in stomach. Spasm of oesophagus; pharynx constricted; food and liquids suddenly arrested, and then fall heavily into stomach. Spasms followed by paresis. COLD FEELING IN STOMACH. Fruits and ice-water lie very cold. RIGHT-SIDED PARALYSIS. Must have oscillatory motion. Rheumatic constitutions. Ear, nose and throat symptoms important.
Depressed; imagines he hears someone talking; dreads to be left alone. FEAR OF RAIN. Can speak, but cannot understand speech. Fears apoplexy.
Violent headache, extending from forehead TO OCCIPUT; first one eye, then the other. Pain in ears. Vertigo with tendency to fall forward. Weight and pain in forehead. Fulness in head.
Aversion to light; letters run together when reading. Veil before eyes. Burning in lids. Bloated around the eyes in the morning. Large red fiery spot before eyes.
Cerumen BLACK and hard, with difficult hearing, or serous GREENISH discharge, offensive; buzzing, and illusion of hearing. Sudden attack of nightly deafness, with roaring and crackling in ears, cracking in ears on swallowing. Intolerable itching in ear.
CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH, WITH FETID ODOR AND GREENISH CRUSTS. Ozaena; yellowish-green discharge. Mucous membrane wrinkled; nostrils plugged up with dry mucus. Pains from nose to ears on swallowing. NOSTRILS STOPPED UP. Nasal bleeding. Pain at root of nose. Eruption about nose.
Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yellow crusts upon the posterior pharyngeal wall and extremely foul breath. Spasmodic contraction of OESOPHAGUS; passage of fluids arrested.
COLDNESS IN CHEST AFTER DRINKING. Haemorrhage from lungs black as ink and watery; stitches IN APEX OF RIGHT LUNG. Fainting caused by stooping. Oppression in going upstairs. Peeling off of skin from palms and fingers. COUGH, with terrible pain through lungs. Worse right and expectoration of black blood. Sensation of a sponge in oesophagus.
FEELS COLD. Sensation as if food turned like a corkscrew on swallowing; desire for sweetened buttermilk. Acidity after every mouthful.
Dysmenorrhoea, with black blood. Discharge of black blood between menses. Itching of vulva and vagina.
Dreams about dead persons.
Glands and skin of axillae affected; itching with tetter. Tips of fingers peel off. Itching eruption in axillae.
Icy cold feet. Vesicular eruptions on feet. Arms and hands swollen bluish. Knee-joints feel sprained. Pricking under the nails.
Cold perspiration all over. Typhoid when ulcers have eaten into tissues, and black blood is discharged.
WORSE eating fruit; cold drinks; WET WEATHER.
Compare: KINO-from PTEROCARPUS (Haemoptysis and hemorrhage from intestines). EUCALYPTUS ROSTRATA (offensive dark discharge from right ear), CROTALUS; ALUMEN; CARBO; ARS.; LACH.
Sixth to thirtieth potency.