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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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For children and old people; extremes of life, persons who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction. Young people of nervous, sanguine temperament.
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Adapted to patients with rapid sinking of vital forces, complete prostration and collapse.
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Sudden and violent onset.
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Profuseness of discharges.
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Cold perspiration on forehead with nearly all complaints.
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Attacks of fainting with least exertion, excessive weakness.
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Icy coldness of face, tip of nose, feet, legs, hands, arms and many other parts. Cold feeling in abdomen.
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Thirst - intense unquenchable, wants everything cold.
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Sinking feeling during haemorrhages.
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-Sensation
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of a lump of ice on vertex with chilliness
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as if heat and cold at same time on sleep,
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as if brain were torn to pieces.
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Headache begins in occiput, settles over one of the eyes.
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Chronic long standing nervous headache < overexertion < riding < working in hot days.
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When Spigelia and Silicea failed
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Face - Cold, blue, pale features, sunken, hippocratic.
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Red while lying, becomes pale on rising up.
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Nose - Epistaxis comes on during sleep, at night only, from right nostril.
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Dryness of nose, mouth, throat, sensation of burning in brain.
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G.I.T. – Tongue: Cold, pale, cool sensation as from peppermint.
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Taste - peppermint like.
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Craving for acids, sour, sour fruit, lemon, salt, ice, fruit, sardines, juicy refreshing things.
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In spite of nausea and vomiting, gnawing hunger, voracious appetite.
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Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhoea, followed by tremendous weakness, `collapse'. Surgical shock.
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Vomiting excessive with nausea and great prostration < drinking < least motion, great weakness after.
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Dyspepsia from chewing tobacco.
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Diarrhoea, frequent, greenish, watery, gushing, mixed with flakes, with cutting colic in abdomen with cramps commencing in hands and feet spreading all over, in calves.
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Prostrating diarrhoea, after fright, eating fruits, impure water, with cold sweat on forehead.
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For Asiatic cholera with rice-water stools. Retention of urine in Cholera.
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Constipation - no desire, stool large hard in round black balls, from inactive rectum, frequent desire felt in epigastrium, in babies produced by very cold weather.
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Female genitalia - Dysmenorrhoea with vomiting and purging, cholera-like symptoms at commencement of menses.
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So weak, can scarcely stand for 2 days at each menstrual nisus.
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Night blindness preceding menses.
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Respiratory system - Bronchitis of old people, with inability to expectorate, though large amount of mucus in chest.
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Tickling deep in chest, as if it would produce cough.
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Extremities - Rheumatic pains in limbs < wet weather < warmth of bed > continued motion.
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Fever - In congestive or pernicious intermittent fever, with extreme coldness, thirst, great prostration, deathly pallor.
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Cold stage predominates and overshadows heat stage.
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Followed Well By: Acon, Bell, Cham, Puls, Rhus-t, Sep, Sulph
Follows Well: Am-c, Arn, Ars, Bov, Camph, Carb-v, Cinch, Cupr, Ip, Lyc, Nux-v
Compare: Acon, Agar, Alum, Ambr, Anac, Ant-t, Apoc, Ars, Aur, Bell, Bry, Calc, Camph, Cann-i, Carb-an, Carb-v, Cast-eq, Cham, Chel, Cocc, Colch, Coll, Coloc, Con, Croto-t, Cupr, Dulc, Elat, Ferr, Gels, Hell, Hyos, Ign, Iod, Iris, Jatr, Lach, Lob, Med, Nat-m, Nux-v, Op, Ph-ac, Phos, Plb, Podo, Puls, Rheum, Sec, Sep, Spig, Stann, Stram, Sul-ac, Sulph, Tab, Tarent, Val, Valer, Zinc, Ziz
Antidoted By: Acon, Camph, Chin, Staph
It Antidotes: Ars, Chin, Cupr, Op, Tab
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