Generalities

 – It is a traumatic remedy par excellence.

 – Trauma in all its varieties – mental or physical and their effects recent or remote are met with by this remedy.

 – It affects BLOOD, causing putrid and septic conditions.

 – BLOOD VESSELS are relaxed, causing ecchymosis, blue-black spots; with TENDENCY TO HAEMORRHAGE; epistaxis etc.

 – It acts upon nerves causing neuralgia.

 – Muscles feel VERY SORE, PAINFUL, BRUISED; all over.

 – Parts becomes sore, after the pains, or after bleeding.

 – It is a prophylactic for pus formation.

 – Burrowing pus.

 – Has absorbent action.

 – Progressive emaciation.

 – Great prostration; tired feeling.

 – Discharges are FOUL; breath, taste, flatus, stools etc.

 – Crushing pain.

 – BED FEELS HARD or full of lumps.

 – Involuntary evacuations.

 – Abscesses that do not mature.

 – Pains are Paralytic; sudden, shifting pains from joint to joint.

 – It acts best in plethoric, dark haired persons of rigid muscles, nervous sanguine nature.

 – It acts but feebly on persons who are positively debilitated, with impoverished blood and soft flesh.

 – Compound fractures.

 – Twitching, in tendons, muscles.

 – Osteomyelitis.

 – Ill effects of fright, financial loss, anger, repentance; excessive use of any organ, vaginitis in females and impotence in males from excessive sexual indulgence.

 – Exertion of any kind.

 – Mind and uterine symptoms alternate.

 – Complaints when over hurried.

 – Apoplexy.

 – Typhoid, septic fevers.

 – Recurring boils.

 – Surgical operations.

 – Insect stings.

 – Splinters.

 – Thrombosis.

 Worse

 – Injuries – falls, blows, Bruises; shock; jarring; after labour; overexertion; sprains.

 – Touch.

 – After sleep.

 – Motion.

 – Old age.

 – Alcohol.

 – Damp cold.

 – Coal gas.

 – Lying on left side.

 Better

 – Lying down and lying with head low or outstretched.

 Mind

 – FEAR; of being struck or touched; or approached; of sickness; of instant death; with cardiac distress at night; of space; on awakening; of crowds, public places.

 – Morose.

 – Repentant mood.

 – Mentally prostrate and apathetic, but physically restless; says nothing ails him.

 – When spoken to, answers slowly with effort.

 – Feels well in serious cases.

 – Forgetful, when he reads, quickly escapes his mind.

 – After rage sheds tears and makes exclamations.

 – Hopeless; indifferent.

 – Violent attacks of anguish-angina pectoris.

 – Delirium tremens.

 – A sudden fear that rouses one from sleep at night esp. after an accident.

 – Great desire to scratch; will scratch, wall, bed, head, etc.

 – Coma.

 – Muttering delirium.

 – Sensation of being good for nothing.

 – Easily frightened, unexpected trifles cause him to start.

 – Sits as if in thought.

 Head

 – Brain; feels tried, burning in.

 – Vertigo; chronics; of the aged; with nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea; objects whirl agg. walking.

 – Vertigo agg. walking, sitting erect, closing eyes.

 – Headache as from a nail.

 – Head hot with cold body.

 – Cold spot on the forehead, hot spots on vertex.

 – Meningitis from injury to head.

 – Head throws backwards while walking.

 Eyes

 – Bloodshot.

 – Retinal haemorrhage.

 – Photophobia.

 – Feel tired and heavy, after sight seeing, moving pictures.

 – High objects appear to lean forward and about to fall.

 – Right eye protrudes, looks larger than left.

 Ears

 – Hardness of hearing; noises in ears.

 – Blood from ears.

 – Bruised pain in external ears.

 – Hearing impaired from injury to the head.

 – Sensitive to shrill noise.

 Nose

 – Bleeding; after ever fit of coughing; after washing face.

 – Violent sneezing from over-lifting.

 – Nose; feels sore, cold.

 – Post nasal dropping.

 – Catarrh of antrum.

 – Burning in typhoid fever.

 Face

 – Ruddy, congested, bluish red; in apoplexy, fevers.

 – Sunken, pale.

 – Lips; burn, swollen and cracked.

 – Lower lip trembles, while eating.

 – Lower jaw hangs down, paralysis.

 – Painful acne.

 – Cheeks puffed; red.

 Mouth

 – Foetid breath.

 – Dry, with much thirst.

 – Taste; as from bad eggs, after operation – plugging etc.

 – Bright red, puffy fauces.

 – Tongue; dry, almost black.

 – Swallowing is prevented by sort of nausea as if food would not go down.

 Stomach

 – Eructations; tasting of bad eggs; after coughing.

 – Loss of appetite by day, but canine hunger before midnight.

 – Nausea.

 – Vomiting of dark, red coagulated blood.

 – Feeling as if stomach were passing against the spine.

 – Foetid vomiting.

 – As of a lump back of stomach.

 – Aversion to milk and meat.

 – Longing for vinegar.

 – Constant desire to drink, but knows not what for, as all drinks are offensive.

 Abdomen

 – Cramps from epigastrium down over the bowels, then foul stools.

 – Sharp pains from side to side.

 – Stools; bloody, foamy, purulent, acrid; involuntary; during sleep.

 – Dysentery; with dysuria, all summer and autumn.

 – Cramps in rectum, while standing.

 – Flatus smelling of rotten eggs.

 – Must lie down after every stool.

 – Prolapsus ani agg. after walking for few minutes only amel. washing the whole body.

 Urinary

 – Cutting pain in kidneys.

 – Retention of urine in bladder, from over exertion, after labour.

 – Involuntary dribbling, with constant urging.

 – Has to wait a long time for urine to pass.

 – The bladder feels full and sore; the pressure of urine hurts him.

 Male

 – Impotence from excess or abuse.

 – Phimosis, from friction.

 – Seminal emission during caress.

 – Haematocele.

 Female

 – After-pains agg. suckling.

 – Soreness of the parts after labour.

 – Feeling as if foetus were lying crosswise.

 – Can not bear foetal movements;cause nausea and vomiting.

 – Haemorrhage after coition.

 – Nipples sore.

 – Children lose their breath when angry.

 – Mastitis.

 – Threatened abortion from falls etc.

 – Labour, weak and ceasing.

 – Menses; early, hot, profuse.

 – Soreness of the whole body during pregnancy.

 – Tumours of mammae from injury.

 – Puerperal fever.

 Respiratory

 – Hoarseness; agg. exertion, colds, or getting wet.

 – Cough in sleep without waking.

 – Cough produced by yawning, weeping or lamenting.

 – Child cries before proxysms of whooping cough.

 – Cough causes bloodshot eyes or epistaxis.

 – Cardiac cough.

 – Dyspnoea, with haemoptysis.

 – Violent spasmodic cough, with facial herpes.

 – Bones and cartilages of chest are painful agg. motion, breathing or coughing.

 – Heavy lower chest.

 – Stitching pains in chest, taking the breath away; amel. pressure.

 – Hoarse voice from over use.

 Heart

 – Beats shake the whole body.

 – Sudden pain as if the heart is squeezed or had got a shock, pain felt in left elbow (angina pectoris).

 – Strain of heart from violent running.

 – Cardiac dropsy.

 – Hypertrophy of heart.

 – Fatty heart.

 – Heart pains; left to right.

 – Pulse feeble and irregular.

 – Weakened heart muscles.

 – Horror of constant death, with cardiac distress at night.

 – Palpitation after any exertion.

 Neck and back

 – Muscles of neck weak, head falls backwards, or any side.

 – Back sore.

 – Cervical vertebrae tender.

 Extremities

 – Limbs ache as if beaten.

 – Pain in arms amel. hanging down.

 – Want of strength in the hands on grasping.

 – Cramps in the fingers – writer’s cramp.

 – Veins of hands distended.

 – Can not walk erect on account of bruised pain in pelvic region.

 – Hygroma patellae.

 – Gout.

 – Knee joints suddenly bend when standing.

 – Feet numb.

 Skin

 – Dusky, mottled.

 – Every little hurt makes a black and blue spot.

 – Very sore acne or crops of small boils.

 – Symmetrical eruptions.

 – Petechiae.

 – Erysipelas.

 – Bed sores.

 – Tingling and itching which moves from place to place; after scratching, itching begins somewhere else.

 – Carbuncle; of thigh.

 Sleep

 – Comatose drowsiness; drops to sleep as he answers.

 – Dreams; of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible, awakes in terror, then sleepless.

 – Severe fatigue causes restlessness and sleeplessness.

 Fever

 – Chilly with heat and redness of one cheek.

 – Head or face alone hot, body cold.

 – Coldness of part lain on.

 – Thirst during chill.

 – Must uncover but it chills him.

 – Intermittent, typhoid, septic, traumatic fevers.

 Complementary

 – Aco; Calc; Nat-s; Psor; Rhus-t; Sul-ac.

 Related

 – Bels; Echi; Hyper; Rhus-t.

Source: Phatak Materia medica