• Affects scar tissues, periosteum, and synovial membranes of joints.

• Specific power of relieving gouty paroxysms.

• More beneficial in chronic affections of these parts.

• Parts are red, hot, and swollen.

• Tearing pains; worse in the evening and at night, and from touch.

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• Effects of night watching and hard study.

• Shocks as from electricity through one half of body.

• Bad effects from suppressed sweat.

• Dreams of mice.

• The pains are often described as being neuralgic, erratic, and shifting.

• Marked aggravation from motion and least jarring.

• Tendency to dropsical effusions.

• Symptoms often appear or worsen in the autumn.

• The patient may exhibit a marked aversion to food, especially the smell of cooking.

• The patient feels as if the affected parts are too large.

• Great sensitiveness to atmospheric changes.

• A general keynote is a sensation of rawness internally.

• Symptoms lateralized or affecting one side of the body.

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• Oversensitive to pain.

• Aversion to noise and contradiction.

• Mental exhaustion from overwork or grief.

• The patient is depressed, discouraged, and despairing of recovery.

• Forgetfulness and difficulty concentrating.

• The patient is anxious and restless, especially at night.

• Indifference to everything.

• A state of stupor and confusion may develop in severe cases.

• Ill-humor and aversion to being touched or looked at.

• Mental apathy.

• Desire to be alone.

• Loss of memory.

• Irritability alternating with sadness.

• Headache aggravated by motion, noise, and light.

• Neuralgic pains in the head, often radiating to the face and neck.

• Scalp sensitive to touch.

• Head feels too large.

• Sensation of fullness in the head.

• Vertigo with nausea.

• Photophobia with lachrymation.

• Burning and smarting in the eyes.

• Dim vision.

• Pain in the eyes on moving them.

• Eyes feel weak and tired.

• Edema around the eyes.

• Neuralgic pains in the ears.

• Hearing impaired.

• Sensation of stopped ears.

• Coryza with sneezing and watery discharge.

• Nosebleed.

• Loss of smell.

• Nostrils feel raw and sore.

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Rawness and soreness in the throat.

• Throat feels constricted.

• Hoarseness.

• Difficult, labored breathing.

• Shortness of breath, especially on exertion.

• Cough, dry and hacking, or with scanty expectoration.

• Oppression of the chest.

• Cough worse in the evening and at night.

• Cough aggravated by motion.

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• Weak, irregular pulse.

• Palpitations with anxiety.

• Pain in the heart region.

• Pericarditis and endocarditis.

• Stitching pains around the heart.

• Feeling of constriction around the heart.

• Oppression and tightness in the chest.

• Chest feels raw and sore.

• Hydrothorax.

• Intense nausea and vomiting, often bilious or greenish.

• Aversion to food, especially the smell of cooking, even to faintness.

• Burning in the stomach.

• Distension and tenderness of the stomach.

• Hiccoughs.

• Waterbrash.

• Abdominal distension with flatulence.

• Violent, colicky pains in the abdomen.

• Tenderness to touch.

• Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen.

• Ascites.

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• Profuse, watery diarrhea with shreddy membranes.

• Dysentery with tenesmus.

• Stool contains mucus and blood.

• Burning in the anus after stool.

• Painful urging to stool.

• Prolapsus ani during stool.

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• Suppression of urine.

• Albuminuria.

• Urine dark and turbid.

• Uremia.

• Dropsy.

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• Pain and swelling of the testicles.

• Impotence.

• Loss of sexual desire.

• Female: Menses suppressed or too profuse.

• Pain in the ovaries.

• Leucorrhea, acrid and offensive.

• Metritis.

• Stiffness in the back and neck.

• Sciatica.

• Weakness in the back.

• Gouty inflammation of the joints, especially the toes and fingers.

• Joints red, hot, swollen, and intensely painful.

• Tearing, burning, and stitching pains in the limbs.

• Sciatica.

• Numbness and tingling in the extremities.

• Weakness and trembling of the limbs.

• Stubbing the toes hurts excessively.

• Coldness of the feet.

• Cramps in the calves.

• Joints feel too large.

• Pain travels upwards.

• Urticaria.

• Eruptions with burning and itching.

• Swelling and edema of the skin.

• Sensitive to touch.

• Sleeplessness.

• Dreams of mice.

• Anxious dreams.

• Dreams of exertion.

• The patient wakes up tired and unrefreshed.

• Evening and at night. Touch. Motion. Least jarring. Atmospheric changes. Damp weather. Autumn. Smell of cooking food. Overexertion. Night watching. Hard study. Eating. Suppressed discharges.

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• Rest. Warmth. Lying down. Bending double.

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• Compare: Colchicine (intestinal catarrh with shreddy membranes; convulsive jerkings of right hand; rheumatic fever, gout, endo and pericarditis, pleurisy, arthritis deformans in early stages; intense pain of rheumatism 3x trit).

• Also compare: Carbo vegetabilis; Arnica montana; Lilium tigrinum; Arsenicum album; Veratrum album.

• Complementary: Arnica, Belladonna, Bryonia.

• Antidotes: Camphor, Nux vomica, Cocculus.

• Useful in: Gout, rheumatism, arthritis, pericarditis, pleurisy, dysentery, sciatica, gastric catarrh, headache.

• Consider in: Uremia, Dropsy, Gastritis.