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Worse in cold wet weather or from atmospheric
changes.
Worse from alcoholics.
Lower left, intercostal neuralgia, worse inspiration or lying on the painful
side.
Herpes zoster of the chest or back.
Arthritic pains, fibrositis.
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COMMON NAME
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Butter Cup
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A/F
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| - | Debauch (Agar, Nux-v, Lob) |
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MODALITIES
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MIND
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| - | Depression, desire to die. Great dejection about his condition, which is out
of proportion to the severity of his illness.
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| - | Thinking of complaints aggravates.
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| - | Delirium tremens (Agar, Bell, Caps, Kali-br, Nux-v, Stram).
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| - | Fear of ghosts in the evening. Cannot remain alone. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | All complaints are excited or brought by
atmospheric change.
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| - | Pains - stitching, sharp, shooting, neuralgic, myalgic, rheumatic, coming in
paroxysms, cannot rest in any position, in chest; intercostal.
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| - | Sensation of bruised soreness or as of deep ulceration in parts (Puls).
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| - | Sensitive to cold and touch.
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| - | Sudden weakness, fainting.
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| - | Burning in small spots (Agar, Phos).
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| - | Removes bad effects of alcoholic beverages such as hiccough, epileptic
spasms, delirium tremens, etc.
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| - | Eyes - Day blindness, with mist before eyes, with pressure and smarting in
eyeballs (Acon, Both-l, Caust, Phos, Sil).
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| - | Respiratory system - Pleurisy and pneumonia from sudden exposure to cold
(Acon, Arn).
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| - | Stitching pains remaining in chest after pleurisy (Carb-an).
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| - | Sensation of pressure and tightness across lower part of chest < on
moving, stooping, inspiration.
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| - | External surface of chest is sensitive to touch.
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| - | Soreness below nipple to whole chest.
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| - | Useful in diaphragmitis, pleurisy, hydrothorax, and in adhesion left after
pneumonia or pleuritis.
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| - | Hayfever with burning in eyes and lids, tingling and crawling in posterior
nose, and itching of soft palate (Wye).
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| - | Skin - Herpes zoster. Vesicles with burning, with bluish black appearance
following course of supraorbital (Rhus-t, Ars, Mez) or intercostal nerves,
followed by sharp stitching pains.
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| - | Neuralgic pains persisting after herpes (Ars, Kalm, Mez, Zinc).
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| - | Corns - sensitive to touch, smart, burn, [Sal-ac] on soles of feet [Ant-c]. |
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KEYNOTES
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- Thinking of complaints <.
- Stitching pains remaining in chest after pleurisy.
- Day blindness with mist in front of eyes.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Complaints brought on by atmospheric change.
- Rheumatic, myalgic, neuralgic pains in chest, coming in paroxysms <
wet, stormy weather.
- Herpetic eruption, bluish black, with burning and intense itching.
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CLINICAL
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| - | Arthritis, Bronchitis, Callosities, Eczema,
Fibrositis, Gastritis, Herpes zoster, Hiccoughs, Lumbago, Neuralgia,
Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Rheumatism, Sciatica.
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| - | For depressed, irritable, quarrelsome persons. Early excited by atmospheric
change, with complaints of rheumatic pain in muscles of chest and back.
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| - | Stitching, sharp, shooting pains.
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Inimical: Nit-s-d, Staph, Sulph
Compare: Acon, Agar, Ant-c, Arn, Ars, Asar, Brom, Bry, Cact, Cadm-s,
Calc, Carb-an, Carb-v, Chel, Cimic, Cinch, Cocc, Grind, Kali-i, Lach, Lyc,
Mez, Mur-ac, Phos, Psor, Puls, Querc, Ran-a, Ran-s, Rhus-t, Sabad, Sal-ac,
Sep, Sil, Zinc
Antidoted By: Bry, Camph, Puls, Rhus-t
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