• Excessive irritability and fretfulness with a thickly-coated white tongue are key guiding symptoms.

• Suited to individuals with a tendency to become overweight.

• A notable absence of expected pain.

• Gout is accompanied by gastric disturbances.

• A sentimental disposition.

• Complaints frequently arise or worsen following gastric upset.

• Skin conditions are often linked to digestive disturbances.

• A strong aversion to cold bathing, yet heat provides no relief.

• A general aggravation from rich foods, wine, and sour substances.

• Often indicated for adverse effects of vaccination.

• Conditions are linked to suppressed eruptions.

• It tends to overheat easily.

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• Extremely irritable and peevish; intolerant of being looked at or touched.

• The child cries if washed or even looked at.

• Deep discontent and aversion to life.

• Sensitive, sentimental, and easily moved to tears, especially by moonlight.

• A morose, sulky, and obstinate nature.

• It experiences anxiety about the future and personal health.

• Aversion to company; it prefers solitude.

• Ill-humored, cross, and spiteful.

• Impatient and hurried.

• Fluctuating moods of sadness and cheerfulness.

• There are feelings of being forsaken and hopeless.

• Easily offended.

• Great loathing of life.

• Mental dullness.

• The scalp is sensitive to touch.

• A frontal headache extending to the eyes.

• Heaviness in the head.

• The eyelids are granulated.

• There are styes on the eyelids.

• Photophobia.

• Dimness of vision.

• Hardness of hearing.

• There are noises in the ears (tinnitus).

• There are cracking noises in the ears.

• The nostrils are ulcerated and cracked.

• Dry coryza.

• Frequent sneezing.

• There are eruptions on the face, particularly around the mouth.

• Facial neuralgia.

• A thickly coated, white tongue (a key symptom).

• A dry mouth with excessive thirst.

• Salivation.

• A bitter taste in the mouth.

• The gums bleed easily.

• A sensation of a lump in the throat.

• Hawking of mucus.

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• A cough, dry and hacking, worse at night.

• Difficult breathing.

• Oppression of the chest.

• There are palpitations, especially after eating.

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• An aversion to meat, acids, and pickles.

• It craves sour things, but they disagree.

• Violent nausea and vomiting, especially from overeating or rich food.

• The stomach feels overloaded, even after eating only a small amount.

• Belching with a taste of the food eaten.

• Diarrhea alternating with constipation.

• The stools are watery, offensive, and often containing undigested food.

• Flatulence and abdominal distension.

• Colic, especially in children.

• There are hemorrhoids, painful and bleeding.

• Burning in the stomach.

• Weak digestion.

• Pain in the abdomen after eating.

• Frequent urination.

• Burning during urination.

• Increased sexual desire, followed by weakness.

• Leucorrhea.

• The menses are too early and profuse.

• Suppression of menses.

• There are horny growths on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.

• The nails are thick, deformed, and brittle.

• There are painful corns and bunions, sensitive to touch.

• The joints are stiff and painful, worsened by damp weather.

• There are gouty pains in the joints.

• There are eruptions on the skin, especially on the extremities.

• Backache, worse from motion.

• Weakness in the limbs.

• There are cramps in the legs.

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• Eczema with thick, crusty eruptions.

• There are vesicular eruptions.

• Intense itching, worsened by warmth.

• Urticaria, worsened by heat.

• There are pustules.

• There are warts.

• The skin is sensitive to touch.

• Dry, scaly skin.

• Sleeplessness.

• Restless sleep.

• The dreams are vivid and disturbing.

• Sleepy during the day, restless at night.

• Heat of the sun.

• Heat and cold bathing.

• Overeating.

• Rich food.

• Wine.

• Sour things.

• Suppressed eruptions.

• Washing.

• Warm rooms.

• Touch.

• Moonlight.

• Damp weather.

• Motion.

• Night.

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• Open air.

• Rest.

• Cool bathing (temporarily).

• Cold air.

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• Compare: Kermes mineral-Stibiat sulph rub (Bronchitis), Pulsatilla, Ipecac, Sulphur.

• Complementary: Sulphur.

• Antidote: Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum.

• Useful in conditions such as: Eczema, Gastritis, Gout, Corns, Warts, Diarrhea, Constipation, Nausea, Vomiting, Irritability, Depression, effects of vaccination.

• Suited to infants, children (with coated, moist white tongues), and elderly persons.

• Tendency to grow fat.

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• Symptoms change locality or alternate sides of the body (left side predominates, especially lower left and upper right).

• Chronic affections traceable to suppressed eruptions or ulcers.

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• Gastric disturbances prominent, particularly from overeating or rich foods.

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• Complaints are worse after overheating.

• Old people, especially with gastric troubles.

• Useful in complaints from gluttony.

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• Sulky or sad (adults).

• Weeping and impressionable.

• Sentimental mood by moonlight.

• Amativeness.

• Suicidal tendencies.

• Ecstasy and exalted love, with anxiety.

• Despondent reflections.

• Disgust of life, with inclination to suicide.

• Tendency to be frightened.

• Dull intellect, imbecility.

• Madness.

• Obstinate and contrary disposition.

• Ailments from disappointed love.

• Anxiety about the future.

• Irritability when questioned.

• Mental symptoms worse by moonlight.

• Children cry if looked at or touched.

• Ill-humor, especially in the morning.

• Cross and contrary; dislikes being touched.

• Discontented and morose.

• Feeling of intoxication.

• Dizziness with nausea or nosebleed.

• Apoplexy with frothy salivation.

• Headache after bathing in running water.

• Headache with dizziness from tobacco smoke; better in open air.

• Sensation as if forehead would burst.

• Dull pain in sinciput and vertex, < going upstairs.

• Cramp-like pain in head, \> walking in open air.

• Piercing pain in forehead and temples.

• Sharp pains as from knives in head and under left breast.

• Congestion in the head, painful, followed by nosebleed.

• Pain in bones at vertex, as if from swelling in periosteum.

• Teasing itching in head, with hair falling out.

• Red, inflamed eyelids.

• Inflammation of eyes with itching and nocturnal agglutination.

• Slight oozing of skin near external angle of the eye.

• Humor in corners of eyes.

• Enlargement of eyes.

• Sensibility of eyes to daylight.

• Blindness.

• Chronic sore eyes of children.

• Scrofulous ophthalmia, canthi especially affected.

• Redness, swelling, and heat in ear.

• Otorrhea.

• Digging and murmuring in ears.

• Deafness, as if bandage over ears or leaf before ears.

• Buzzing in ears.

• Continual roaring in ears.

• Moist eruption behind ears.

• Excoriation of nostrils and corners of the nose.

• Nostrils chapped and scurfy.

• Stoppage of nose.

• Bleeding at nose, especially in evening.

• Sensation of coldness in nose when inspiring air.

• Dryness of nose, chiefly on walking in open air.

• Accumulation of thick yellowish mucus in nostrils.

• Sad countenance.

• Heat in face, especially cheeks, with itching.

• Red, burning, suppurating eruptions on face, with yellowish scurf.

• Lumps and blisters on face, as if from insect stings.

• Granular eruptions, yellow as honey, on skin of face.

• Eruption like conoid chicken-pox on face and nose.

• Sensation of excoriation of chin.

• Painful fissures at commissures of lips.

• Pimples on upper lip.

• Dryness of lips.

• Ptyalism (tasting salty).

• Dryness of mouth.

• Accumulation of water on tongue and in mouth.

• Salivation.

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• Pain, as of excoriation at edges of tongue.

• Blisters on tongue.

• Soreness of throat, as if plug in it.

• Inability to swallow.

• Dryness and scraping, or accumulation of viscid mucus in throat.

• Great weakness or entire loss of voice, chiefly on becoming warm.

• Looking into the fire increases cough.

• Sensation of foreign substance in larynx, with inability to expectorate.

• Violent spasm in larynx, with sensation of excoriation.

• Cough, with burning in chest.

• Morning cough, dry and shaking.

• Whooping-cough.

• Cough as if arising from abdomen.

• Stifling oppression and paralytic orthopnea.

• Respiration deep, with sighing.

• Shootings in chest, when drawing breath and at other times.

• Pain, as of contusion, in pectoralis major, on raising arm and on pressure.

• Sharp pain under left breast.

• Aversion to all food.

• Longing for acids.

• Thirst, chiefly at night.

• Loss of appetite.

• Sensation of hunger and emptiness in epigastrium, especially in the morning, not relieved by eating.

• After a meal: dejection, lassitude, fullness and tension in abdomen.

• Great desire for food, which is not assimilated.

• Eructations with taste of food or very acid.

• Regurgitation of watery fluid.

• Hiccough on smoking tobacco.

• Loathing of food, nausea, and inclination to vomit, as if from indigestion.

• Heartburn with good appetite.

• Nausea after taking wine.

• Nausea and vomiting from overloading stomach or drinking (sour) wine.

• Vomiting of mucus and bile, sometimes with diarrhea, anxiety, and convulsions.

• Pain, burning, and cramp-like in pit of stomach, sometimes with despair and inclination to drown oneself.

• Tension and pressure in pit of stomach.

• Painful sensation as if stomach overloaded with food.

• Pain in region of stomach on being touched.

• Gastric catarrh with characteristic white tongue; even if caused by metastasis of rheumatism or gout.

• 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 soon after nursing (cf. Aethusa, after vomiting child sleeps and wakes hungry; Ant-c., child refuses to nurse again).

• Intolerance of wine.

• Can produce a feeling of intoxication like alcohol.

• Stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed, in old people.

• Violent cutting pains, sometimes with want of appetite; urine red and stools hard.

• Sensation of emptiness in abdomen, as after violent diarrhea.

• Sensation of swelling and hardness in inguinal region, on being pressed.

• Accumulation of flatus in abdomen, with rumbling and borborygmi.

• Difficult evacuations; the feces are too large in size.

• Urgent inclination to stool.

• Stool of the consistence of pap.

• Diarrhea, generally watery, with cutting pains.

• Loose stool after vinegar or acid wine.

• Alternate diarrhea and constipation, especially in aged persons.

• Constant secretion of yellowish-white mucus by anus.

• Flow of black blood from anus.

• Hemorrhoidal excrescences, blind and running, with burning and tingling.

• Burning itching and fissures in anus.

• Expansive pressure in rectum during stool (as if ulcer torn open) and anus.

• Burning furunculus in perineum.

• Cures many cases of mucous piles: continuous oozing, staining linen.

• Stools contain undigested food.

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• Frequent inclination to urinate, with scanty emission.

• Frequent and abundant emission of urine, with abundant flow of mucus, and burning in urethra, with pains in loins.

• Involuntary emission of urine on coughing.

• Urine aqueous, gold colored, or reddish brown, sometimes mixed with small red corpuscles.

• Incisive pain in urethra on urinating.

• Excitement of sexual desire, and great lasciviousness.

• Pollutions.

• Metrorrhagia.

• Sharp and corrosive discharge from vagina.

• Nymphomania from checked catamenia.

• Tenderness over ovaries after menses checked by bath.

• Gastro-intestinal disorders of pregnancy.

• Pressure in uterus as if something would come out, especially during uterine hemorrhage.

• Toothache before menses, with boring in temples.

• Quite solid lumps in a watery leucorrhea, sometimes causing smarting down thighs.

• Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea during pregnancy.

• Cramp-like drawing in muscles of neck and nape of neck.

• Rheumatic pains in nape of neck.

• Miliary eruption on nape of neck, shoulder blades, and behind ears.

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• Rheumatic pains in arms.

• Red vesicles on arms, with itching.

• Painful inflammation of tendons of elbow, with great redness and curvature of arm.

• Hot and red swelling of forearm, with shooting tension.

• Sensation of drawing in forearm, fingers, and joints of fingers.

• Arthritic pains in joints of fingers.

• Painful sensibility of skin under nails, and slow growth of nails.

• A horny growth under the nail.

• Crushed finger-nails grow in splits, with horny spots.

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• Sensation of drawing in lower limbs, especially in coxo-femoral joint.

• Lumps with red rings on buttocks and legs.

• Violent pain in lower extremities.

• Numbness of legs after sitting for some time.

• Shooting pain in knee and tibia.

• Drawing pain in knees, lower part left tibia, in left heel, and tearing through right great toe.

• Tumor or white swelling of knee.

• Painful stiffness in knee, preventing extension of leg.

• Vesicles on knee after scratching it.

• Sensibility of soles of feet when walking on pavement.

• Red swelling of heel, with burning shootings, aggravated by walking.

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• Pressive pain in corns.

• Burning in fleshy part of great toe.

• Callous excrescence under nail of great toe.

• Feet, sore and horny.

• Gouty pains in feet.

• Eruptions that appear chiefly in evening, or which itch in heat of bed and prevent sleep.

• Miliary eruptions and nettle-rash.

• Tumors and blisters, as if from insect stings.

• Measles-like eruption.

• Eruptions similar to chicken-pox, with shooting pain on pressure.

• Thick, hard scabs, often honey-yellow, with cracks oozing a green, sanious fluid, burning as if immersed in hot embers.

• Urticaria, white, with red areolae, 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 organizations of the skin.

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• Nails discolored and deformed.

• Red and hot swellings.

• Degeneration of the skin.

• Fungus of joints.

• Coma with delirium.

• Waking with fright during night.

• Dreams: anxious, horrible, voluptuous, painful, full of quarreling.

• Restless sleep.

• Insomnia.

• Rest, lying down, walking in open air, warm bathing, open air.

• Aethiops 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).

• Bryonia compares very closely in digestive condition, loaded tongue, and < from warmth; in summer complaint.

• Scilla.

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• Puls., Ipec.

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• Puls., Merc., Sul.

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• Stings of insects.

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• Calc., Hep., Merc.

• Gluttony.

• Hot weather.

• Heat of sun.

• Getting over-heated.

• Disappointed love.

• Suppressed eruptions.

• Vaccination.

• Sour wine.