Anacardium Orientale anac.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

MIND. Nerves: Stomach. Skin. Palms. Muscles. Joints.

Worse

MENTAL EXERTION. Emotions: Anger, fright, care, etc. Stepping hard. Motion. Drafts. Open air. Cold. Long after eating.

Better

Eating. Hot bath.

General

Mental and physical LACK OF POWER. Tremulous; on slight exertion, < knees (Stap.) or arms. Repeated, DULL PRESSURE, as of a plug, or band. Dulled emotions, sense of hearing, sight, touch, etc. Paralysis.

Particulars

BAD MEMORY; suddenly forgets names, etc. Brain-fag. As in a dream. Illusions, or fixed ideas; of duality, imagines others present, behind her, etc. Cowardly and neurotic. Vascillating; at odds with himself (Bar-c. Cann-i.); contradictory impulses. Ill - natured. Profane. Pressure in temples. Illusory smells. Bad breath and taste. Stiff, swelled tongue. Gastric pain > eating, but < again in 3 hours. Rectum feels plugged; can't evacuate even a soft stool. Breath stops on coughing or drinking. Cough with occipital pain; then yawns and sleeps. Double stitch at heart; passing into lumbar region. As of a heavy load on shoulders (Rhus-t.). Dry hands. Skin, insensible; itching, < scratching; yellow vesicles. Dermatitis. Eczema. Easily chilled, > sunshine (Stro.). Clammy sweat on palms.

Related

Related: Ign. Rhus-t.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

Sudden loss of memory ; everything seems to be in a dream; patient is greatly troubles about his forgetfulness; confused, unfit for business. Disposed to be malacious, seems bent on wickedness. Irresistible desire to curse and swear (Lac. c., Lil., Nit. ac. - wants to pray continually, Stram.). Lack of confidence in himself and others. Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding him to do what the other forbids. When walking, is anxious, as if some one were pursuing him; suspects everything around him. Weakness of all the senses. Hypochondriac, with haemorrhoids and constipation. Strange temper, laughs at serious matters and is serious over laughable things. Thinks herself a demon; curses and swears. Sensation as of a hoop or band around a part (Cac., Carb. ac., Sulph.). Headache: relieved entirely when eating (Psor.); when lying down in bed at night, and when about falling asleep; worse during motion and work. Gastric and nervous headaches of sedentary persons (Arg. n., Bry., Nux). Apt to choke when eating and drinking (Can. s., Kava kava, Nit. ac.). Swallows foods and drink hastily; symptoms disappear while eating (Kali p., Psor.). Stomach: sensation of fasting "all gone," comes one only when stomach is empty and is > by eating (Chel., Iod.); > during process of digestion (rev. of Bry., Nux). Warts on palms of hands (Nat. m.). Great desire of stool, but with the effort the desire passes away without evacuation; rectum seems powerless, paralyzed, with sensation as if plugged up (irregular peristaltic or over action, Nux).

Relations

Compare: Rhus r., Rhus t., and Rhus v. Symptoms are prone to go from right to left (Lyc.). Anacardium follows well: after Lyc., and Puls. Anacardium follows, and is followed by Platina.

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General

There are but few remedies in the entire materia medica having "impaired memory" as so marked a characteristic. In restoring the memory, it often cures the patient of all other troubles. Hypochondriasis; some forms of insanity.

Mental

Forgetfulness and loss of memory very strongly marked; soon forgets everything; consciousness of forgetfulness takes away the appetite. Feels as if blasphemous words were being constantly suggested, with desire to curse and swear. Fixed ideas: that he is double; there is no reality in anything, all appears like a dream; that the mind and body are separated; that a stranger is constantly by his side, one to the right, the other to the left; her husband is not her husband, her child not hers; fondles, then pushes them away. Constantly talking in senseless, stupid phrases. Merriment extreme, laughs where should be sober. Frequently screams loudly, as if to call some one; so furious, has to be restrained. Hypochondriasis. When walking, feels as if some one were pursuing; suspects every one around, and is constantly apprehending trouble from everything, which gives him no peace. Has no confidence in himself that he can do what is required of him. Two different influences seem to be exerted upon him at the same time, one to do murder and the other, to do good. Very easily offended, becomes quarrelsome, abusive, malicious and cruel. Weakness of all the senses.

Head

Sensation as of a plug pressing on the upper border of right orbit, stupefying all that side of the head; sometimes this pressure is felt on left side of the vertex. Digging and throbbing pain along right side of head, relieved when eating or when falling to sleep--worse during motion. Pressing pain in the top or other parts of the head, aggravated by coughing or deep inspirations. Gastric and nervous headaches, with mental symptoms.

Eyes

A halo appears around the light. Vision weak and very indistinct. Objects appear too far off.

Ears

Hardness of hearing. Imagines whispers of blasphemy in his ears.

Nose

Imaginary unpleasant smells; loss of smell. Coryza, sneezing and lachrymation.

Face

Looks wild, childish, expressionless; may be red, or pale, or wan-looking, with blue rings about the eyes. Eczema of face and neck, with eruption of small blisters, intensely itching.

Mouth

Offensive taste in the mouth and also of the food. Bleeding of the gums after slight rubbing. Painful vesicles in the mouth; speaks with much difficulty. Profuse salivation, sometimes it provokes vomiting.

Throat

Suppuration of tonsils. Tough mucus forms in the throat, causing retching and gagging to expectorate it. All the symptoms disappear whilst eating, returning afterward.

Stomach

Nausea in the morning, with empty feeling in the stomach. Vomiting of food after coughing, which affords relief. Painful sensation in cardiac end of the stomach on walking fast.

Abdomen

Sensation as if a plug were being pressed into the intestines. Continual rumbling in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Fruitless efforts to stool, the rectum seems to be plugged up. Both blind and bleeding hæmorrhoids. Fissures of the rectum.

Sexual

Male: Frequent seminal emissions without amorous dreams. Increased desire to urinate; prostatic fluid with urine. Semen passes during a hard stool. Female: Frequent but scanty menses, sometimes with spasmodic pains in abdomen. Excoriating leucorrhœa, causing soreness and itching. Nausea during pregnancy; relieved whilst eating.

Chest

Cough, worse after eating; with loss of smell and taste. Expectoration only during the day. Dull pressure as from a plug in right side of the chest. Piercing pains through the region of the heart, quickly succeeding each other, sometimes they extend to the small of the back.

Neck and Back

Stiffness of the neck, sometimes extending down the back, and pain from motion. Dull stitches in the left shoulder-blade. Dull, heavy pressure on the right side of the neck and top of the left shoulder.

Extremities

Upper: A very painful thumping on the middle of the left upper arm. Hands feel very dry, sometimes cramp-like pain or stitches in them. Lower: Dull pressure as of a plug in the glutei muscles, or in the thigh. Pain in the head of the femur, extending to the groin. Shooting pains from the thigh to foot, coming and going suddenly. Sensation of stiffness in legs as if bandaged. Cramps in the calves when walking or rising from a seat; other cramping pains from toes to instep, and from heel up the calf. The knees feel paralyzed and stiff, can hardly walk.

Skin

Covered with blisters, from the size of a pin's head to a pea, often scarlet red, and sometimes sense of burning.

Generalities

Sensation of a hoop or band around a part. Sensation as of a plug pressing or penetrating in different parts. Joints contracted. Wounded tendons. Old people. Continual chilliness, even in a warm room.

Worse

From lying on the side, from rubbing, scratching or talking.

Better

While eating.

Remedies following

Lycop., Pulsat., Platin.

Antidote

Coffea.

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Red line symptom

Great weakness of memory. Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding to do what the other forbids Dull pressing, or penetrating pain, as from a plug in different parts.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Marking Nut (ANACARDIUM)

General

The Anacardium patient is found mostly among the neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; impaired memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions. Intermittency of symptoms. Fear of examination in students. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. Sensation of a plug in various parts-eyes, rectum, bladder, etc; also of a band. Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort. This is a sure indication, often verified. Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison-Oak.

Mind

Fixed ideas. Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued. Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language. Brain-fag. Impaired memory. Absent mindedness. Very easily offended. Malicious; seems bent on wickedness. Lack of confidence in himself or others. Suspicious (Hyos). Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead. Senile dementia. Absence of all moral restraint.

Head

Vertigo. Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion-in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; better during a meal. Itching and little boils on scalp.

Eyes

Pressure like a plug on upper orbit. Indistinct vision. Objects appear too far off.

Ears

Pressing in the ears as from a plug. Hard of hearing.

Nose

Frequent sneezing. Sense of smell perverted. Coryza with palpitation, especially in the aged.

Face

Blue rings around eyes. Face pale.

Mouth

Painful vesicles; fetid odor. Tongue feels swollen, impending speech and motion, with saliva in mouth. Burning around lips as from pepper.

Stomach

Weak digestion, with fullness and distention. Empty feeling in stomach. Eructation, nausea, vomiting. Eating relieves the Anacardium dyspepsia. Apt to choke when eating or drinking. Swallows food and drinks hastily.

Abdomen

Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines. Rumbling, pinching, and griping.

Rectum

Bowels inactive. Ineffectual desire; rectum seems powerless, as if plugged up; spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani; even soft stool passes with difficulty. Itching at anus; moisture from rectum. Hæmorrhage during stool. Painful hæmorrhoids.

Male

Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams. Prostatic discharge during stool.

Female

Leucorrhœa, with soreness and itching. Menses scanty.

Respiratory

Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug. Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air. Cough excited by talking, in children, after fit of temper. Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput.

Heart

Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart region. Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches.

Back

Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight. Stiffness at nape of neck.

Extremities

Neuralgia in thumb. Paralytic weakness. Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged. Cramps in calves. Pressure as from a plug in the glutei. Warts on palms of hands. Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption.

Sleep

Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights. Anxious dreams.

Skin

Intense itching, eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; swelling, urticaria; eruption like that of Poison-Oak (Xerophyl; Grindel; Croton). Lichen planus; neurotic eczema. Warts on hands. Ulcer formation on forearm.

Modalities

Worse, on application of hot water. Better, from eating. When lying on side, from rubbing.

Relationship

Antidote: Grindeleia; Coffea; Juglans; Rhus; Eucalyptus.

Compare: Anacard occidentale (cashew nut) (erysipelas, vesicular facial eruptions), (anæsthetic variety of leprosy; warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet). Rhus; Cypriped; Chelidon; Xerophyl.

Platina follows well. Cereus serpentina (swearing).

Dose

Sixth to two hundredth potency.

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Leaders

Pain in stomach when it is empty, > by eating.

Frequent ineffectual desire for stool, from insufficiency or paralytic state of rectum; with sense of lump or plug in anus; with the effort the desire vanishes.

Loss of memory; irresistible desire to curse and swear; feels as if he had two wills, one commanding, the other forbidding, to do things.

Pain and sensation as of a blunt plug in different parts.

Suspects every one and everything around him; when walking he felt anxious, as if some one were pursuing him; weakness of all the senses.

Anacardium orientale is a very valuable remedy, but is not, I think, generally appreciated by our school. It ought often to be used in that hydraheaded complaint called dyspepsia, for which Nux vomica is so indiscriminately used. Both are excellent remedies, and it is only necessary to know the difference to make the choice between them easy. Anacardium has a pain in the stomach, which comes on only when the stomach is empty and is relieved by eating, while Nux vomica is relieved after the process of digestion is over. The pain of Nux vomica is worst two or three hours after meals, but lasts only until digestion is accomplished, and then comes relief, whereas, with Anacardium, this is the time when the suffering is worst. I have cured many cases (some of them of quite long standing) of this description with Anacardium, and find almost as many of them as I do Nux vomica cases. I have found the 200th here more efficacious than the lower potencies. The potency here as well as elsewhere and with all remedies has more to do with success in curing than some imagine.

Case. In the fall of 1899 I was called to a lady, married, 35 years of age, mother of three children.

She was quite emaciated, with a yellowish cachectic look of the face. A couple of years before I treated her when she had an attack of vomiting, in which she vomited coffee-ground substances.

She was relieved at that time by a dose of Arsenicum alb., 40m., but had more or less trouble with her digestion up to this time. This last attack was more persistent and did not yield to Arsenicum and some other remedies.

After awhile it appeared that the pain (which was very severe) and vomiting came on when the stomach was empty. She had to eat once or twice in the night for relief. The substance vomited was always black or brown looking like coffee grounds. Her sister had been operated for cancer of the breast, and of course she was very nervous and fearful of cancer of the stomach. Anacardium relieved promptly, and she has had no return of the trouble since then. Whether the cure is complete remains to be seen, but the benefit from the remedy was unquestionable.

Both these remedies have frequent ineffectual urging to stool, but Nux vomica is the result of irregular peristaltic action as observed by Carroll Dunham, while Anacardium has an insufficiency or paralytic state of the rectum which does not appear under Nux vomica. In other words, Nux vomica has desire, but with irregular or over-action. Anacardium has the desire, but with not sufficient action to carry it out. Then Anaca r dium has a sense of a lump or plug in the anus which ought to come away, which does not appear under Nux vomica.

Anacardium is also one of our leading remedies for loss of memory, especially in old people of broken down constitutions.

Of course, if the characteristic stomach or bowel symptoms were present, or had been suffered from, during former years as a concomitant, or the exciting cause of the mental trouble, the indication would be strengthened.

There are many remedies having loss of memory as a leading symptom, but none stronger than this one. Of course, the whole case must be taken into the account. This remedy has two other peculiar mind symptoms. First: "Irresistible desire to curse and swear." This symptom, queer as it may seem, is no more so than the other symptom found under Stramonium, and often verified, "patient wants to pray continually." Some of the most remarkable and convincing cures have been made on just such symptoms. Another symptom is, "the patient feels as if he had two wills," each commanding or moving him to do opposite things, or one commanding him to do a thing and the other commanding him not to do it. Such symptoms are often found in dementia, and are valuable guides to the curative remedy. See my case reported under Platina. Then, again, Anacardium has two other peculiar symptoms. One as of a hoop around parts, and the other as of a plug in inner parts. This may be found in head, chest, abdomen or anus. The sensation of a hoop around parts may be found in spinal troubles and Anacardium will be the remedy. Other remedies have a general characteristic sensation, as Anacardium has the sensation of a plug; for instance, the feeling of fullness as if too full of blood of Æsculus hippocastanum. and the sensation of constriction of Cactus grandiflorus. Anacardium is also said to be a good antidote for Rhus poisoning. I have never used it for this.

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Mind and Disposition

Want of moral feeling. Contradiction between reason and will ; he feels as if he had two wills, one commanding him to do what the other tells him not to do. Wickedness and cruelty. Irresistible desire to curse and swear. Loss of memory.

Head

Pressing pain in the temple, as from a nail ; worse after eating, in the cold air, and from exertions of the mind. Congestion of blood to the head with pain in the cerebellum. Stitches in the head.

Eyes

Pressure in the eyes, as from a plug. Dimness of sight. Contraction of the pupils.

Ears

Pressing in the ears, as from a plug. Itching in the ear. Hardness of bearing.

Nose

Diminution of the sense of smell. The sense of smell is too acute or illusory ; smell like pigeon-dung or burning tinder. Fluent coryza. Frequent sneezing, and frequent inclination to sneeze.

Face

Paleness of the face, with sunken eyes, surrounded by blue ridges.

Mouth and Throat

Fetid odor from the mouth, without his perceiving it. Heaviness and swelling of the tongue, which impedes speech. White, rough tongue. Taste lost. Roughness and scraping in the throat.

Stomach

Weak digestion, with fulness and distention of the abdomen and hypochondriacal humor. Great thirst, with arrest of breathing when drinking. 1. Morning, nausea. 2. Vomiting of the ingesta, when gives relief. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, when awaking in the morning.

Abdomen

Hardness of the abdomen. Pressure in the liver. Pain, as if a blunt plug were pressed into the intestines.

Stool and Anus

Ineffectual desire to go to stool. The soft stool is passed with difficulty, on account of the inactivity of the bowels. During stool he passes blood. Painful hæmorrhoidal tumors at the anus. Itching at the anus. Moisture from the rectum.

Urinary Organs

Frequent discharge of pale urine, in small quantities, with burning.

Sexual Organs

Men. Involuntary erections during the day. Discharge of prostatic fluid during hard and soft stool, and micturition. Women. Leucorrhœa, with itching and soreness.

Respiratory Organs

Oppression of the chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into the open air. Pressure in the chest, (right side), as from a dull plug. Rawness and scraping in the chest. Violent convulsive cough, (hooping-cough), caused by tickling in the pharynx ; worse at night, and after eating ; after the attacks, yawning and sleepiness. Stitches in the region of the heart, extending to the small of the back.

Back

Dull stitches in the left shoulder-blade. Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight.

Upper Extremities

Sensation of weakness in the arms, with trembling. Trembling (of the right hand).

Lower Extremities

Sensation of weakness in the knees, with trembling. The legs feel stiff, as if bandaged, with painful restlessness in them.

Generalities

Diminution of the senses, (smell, sight, hearing). Trembling, debility, and paralytic weakness. Pain in different parts, as if a plug had entered. Sensation, as of a hoop or band around the parts. Cramp-like pains in the muscles. Contraction of the joints.

Sleep

Goes to sleep late. Sleep disturbed by dreams of fire and corpses. Heavy sleep till 9 A.M.

Fever

Pulse, accelerated, with beating in the veins. Chilliness, especially in the open air, relieved in the sunshine. Heat. External heat, with internal chill. Heat of the upper art of the body, with cold feet ; internal chilliness and hot breath. Perspiration, in the evening, on the head, abdomen and back, even when sitting still. Clammy perspiration in the palms of the hands, (especially the left). Night-sweats on the abdomen and back.

Skin

Burning, itching, worse from scratching. Voluptuous itching, extending farther by scratching. Itching of the skin, worse from scratching. Often suitable for eruptions caused by poisoning with rhus tox.

Conditions

Liability to take cold, and sensitiveness to a draught of air. Symptoms appearing periodically. Many symptoms appear after eating, while most of them disappear during dinner. Aggravation. When lying on the side ; from rubbing, and from taking hold of any thing.

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General

Semecarpus anacardium. Marking Nut. N. O. Anacardiaceæ. (East Indies.) Preparation: layer of nut between shell and kernel triturated.

Clinical

Alcoholism. Apoplexy. Brain-fag . Constipation. Cough. Debility . Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia . Eczema. Elephantiasis . Examination funk. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Insanity. Memory, loss of. Mental weakness . Nervous ailments. Palpitation. Paralysis. Pemphigus. Rheumatism. Self-abuse . Skin, diseases of. Smell, illusions of. Spine, affections of. Stiff-neck. Vomiting of pregnancy. Whooping-cough. Warts. Writer's cramp.

Characteristics

Anacardium has many features in common with its botanical relatives, the different species of Rhus , especially in its action on the skin, muscles, and joints, but it has also very distinct features of its own. A very characteristic sensation is a pressing or penetrating pain as from a plug , which may occur in any locality in connection with neuralgias and ear affection, piles, &c., and whenever present Anacardium will probably be the remedy. Sensation of a hoop or band around the body or about any part is a leading symptom. It has been used with success in diseases of the spinal cord with this sensation and the feeling of a plug in the spine, < by any motion which causes a pain as if the plug were sticking still further in. Paralysed feeling in knees. Sensation as if knees were bandaged.

The nut is heart-shaped (hence its name), and perhaps this may be taken as the "sign" of its courage-imparting properties. It has at any rate won for itself a reputation in "examination funk" and allied conditions. Brain-fag. Loss of memory is very marked. Deafness with loss of memory. Headache < by mental exertion; > by eating. The Anacard . patient has many mental aberrations; is clairaudient, hearing voices of persons far away, or dead; voices behind her. Seems to have two wills. Is as if in a dream. A curious symptom is a great propensity to swear and blaspheme in persons not usually addicted thereto. Irritability. There is also a tendency to suicide by shooting ( Ant. crud .). Fixed ideas of various kinds: that mind and body are separated; that he is double; that a demon sits on his neck telling him most offensive things; that he sees everybody's face in a glass except his own. The senses are either too weak or too acute, and there ire sense illusions: a light has a halo; optical illusions in dark colours; illusions of hearing; illusions of smell: burning tinder, pigeon's dung. I cured with it a man who had a smell of burning wood in his nose, remaining after influenza. There is a headache proceeding from before backward. Stiffness in nape of neck. Stiff-neck < beginning to move. Whooping-cough with gaping and drowsiness after the cough. Morning sickness of pregnancy > by eating, but returns soon after. The Anacard . indigestion contrasts with that of Nux in a striking way. With Nux the pain is worst for two or three hours after a meal, during stomach-digestion, and is > when that is over; whereas with Anac . it is just then (when digestion is complete) that the pain is worst, and it lasts until the next meal, which again > for a time.

E. S. Breyfogle narrates a striking case (an involuntary proving illustrating the nerve and skin effects of the remedy. Acting on Bayes' indications, "funk before examination," "nerve-exhaustion from over-study," "nervous prostration from seminal emissions," or sexual excess, Breyfogle had used the remedy with much success. To a patient, for excessive nervousness, he gave the 1st dilution in discs. He took two discs every four hours till eight were taken. Then a sore mouth suddenly developed, mucous membrane inflamed, burning, and acutely sensitive. Vesicles appeared on roof of mouth, and a dirty membrane peeled off easily. Gums were next affected. Mouth dry, taste offensive: at the same time a papular eruption on wrists and ankles, later on inside-arms and legs, chest, neck, back, especially defined in bends of knees and elbows, and worst of all about anus. Scratching < but was compelled to scratch all the same. Water as hot as could be borne > instantly. Simultaneously the nervousness disappeared. "I haven't had a nerve since. It has made a profound impression on my nervous system." Later came a sudden sense of complete prostration: knees gave way; had to keep a flask of whisky by him to relieve it. Later: cold chills ran over body at least exposure, even putting arms out of bed; feared he was going to be ill, slept with hot bottles on chest all night. As eruption in mouth disappeared salivary flow increased; it ran from his mouth on pillow during sleep. "Feels as if a particle of food were in œsophagus; swallows constantly to get rid of it."

There is not the same < by rest and > by motion as with Rhus , but many symptoms are < by commencing motion (stiff-neck). Headache is > lying down. Piano-playing caused heaviness and fulness of the whole body. Like Rhus, Anac . has chilliness, liability to take cold, sensitiveness to draughts, and > from warmth. The symptoms are < morning, and again evening to midnight. 4 p.m.: heat daily. The cough of Anac . is > by eating. Symptoms generally > by eating; recur two hours after.

There is intermittence in the symptoms of Anac . "The attacks ceased for one or two days, and then continued again for a couple of days." Guided by this indication alone, Custis cured with Anac . 200 a case of sleeplessness in a pregnant woman: "Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights." Anac . is suited to affections of the palms of the hands. There are warts even on the palms.

Relations

Compare: Comocl., Rhus t., Rhus ven. (botan.); Ant. t., Apis, Coriar. rusc., Fer., Iod., Jug. c., Lyc., Nit. ac., Nux v., Phos. ac., Plat., Urt. ur., Puls., Nat. m., Caust., Thuj. (fixed ideas). It is an antidote to Rhus if there are gastric symptoms, or symptoms going from r. to l. Antidoted by: Coffea, Juglans cin. Follows well: Lyc., Puls., Plat. Followed well by: Lyc., Puls., Plat.

Causation

Checked eruptions. Examinations.

Mind

Hypochondriacal sadness, and melancholy ideas. ─ Anthropophobia. ─ Anxiety, apprehension, and fear of approaching death. ─ Fear and mistrust of the future, with discouragement and despair. ─ Disposition to take everything amiss, to contradict, and to fly into a rage. ─ Frequently screams loudly, as if to call some one; so furious has to be restrained. ─ Manners awkward, silly. ─ Disposition to laugh at serious things, and to maintain a serious demeanour when anything laughable occurs. ─ State as if there were two wills, one of which rejects what the other requires. ─ Fixed ideas: that he is double; that there is no reality in anything, all appears like a dream; that a stranger is constantly by his side, one to the r., the other to the l.; her husband is not her husband, her child is not hers; fondles, then pushes them away. ─ Want of moral sentiment (wickedness, impiety, hardness of heart, cruelty). ─ Irresistible desire to blaspheme, and to swear. ─ Sensation as if the mind were separated from the body. ─ Weakness of mind and of memory. ─ Loss of memory. ─ Soon forgets everything; consciousness of forgetfulness takes away appetite. ─ Weakness of all the senses. ─ Absence of ideas.

Head

Head confused. ─ Fits of giddiness. ─ Vertigo on walking, as if all objects were too distant, or undulating. ─ Whirling dizziness, with obscuration of the eyes on stooping. ─ Headache from noise, and at every (false) step. ─ Headache with giddiness and vertigo, aggravated by movement. ─ Digging and throbbing r. side of head, and along border of orbit; > entirely when eating, and when lying down in bed at night and when about falling asleep; < during motion and work. ─ Headache in consequence of intellectual labour, with pain as from a bruise in the brain, or tractive pressure in the forehead. ─ Congestion of blood to the head, with pain in the cerebellum. ─ Pressive pains, principally in the temples. ─ Pressive pain in the temple, as from a nail; < after eating, in the cold air, and from exertions of the mind. ─ Constrictive pains in the head. ─ Sensation of tearing in the head, chiefly on the right side, and often as far as the face and neck, followed by buzzing in the ears. ─ In the evening, sensation of digging in the head, disappearing with sleep. ─ Stitches in the head. ─ Itching in the scalp.

Eyes

Painful pressure on the eyes. ─ Pressure in the eyes as from a plug. ─ Objects appear too far off. ─ Photophobia. ─ Contraction of the pupils. ─ Weakness and confusion of sight. ─ Myopia. ─ Threads and black spots appear before the eyes. ─ A nimbus round the candle in the evening.

Ears

Shooting and tearing otalgia. ─ Painful pressure in the ears. ─ Pain, as of ulceration, in the ears, principally on pressing the teeth close, and on swallowing. ─ Imagines whispers of blasphemy in his ears. ─ Discharge (of a browish colour) from the ears. ─ Itching in the ears. ─ Tingling in r. ear. ─ Hardness of hearing. ─ Buzzing and roaring in the ears.

Nose

Epistaxis. ─ Diminution of the sense of smell. ─ Anosmia. ─ The sense of smell is too acute or illusory. ─ Constant smell before the nose, as of pigeon's dung or burning tinder. ─ Stoppage of the nose, with sensation of dryness in the nostrils. ─ Coryza (sneezing and lachrymation), and discharge of mucus from the nose, both chronic. ─ Violent coryza, with catarrhal fever, tension in the calves of the legs and in the legs, and palpitation of the heart.

Face

Look wild, childish, expressionless; may be red or pale. ─ Pale, sickly face, with hollow eyes, sunk, and encircled by dark rings; by blue ridges. ─ Pressure on the eyeballs. ─ Rough spots, scurfy and mealy, round the mouth and on the cheeks, with crawling-like itching. ─ Burning sensation round the chin. ─ Eczema of face and neck, with eruption of small blisters, intensely itching.

Teeth

Tearing, jerking odontalgia, principally on taking anything very warm into the mouth. ─ Tensive, cramp-like pains in the teeth, as far as the ears, most frequently in the evening towards ten o'clock. ─ Swelling of the gums, which bleed easily.

Mouth

Offensive taste in the mouth and also of the food. ─ Painful vesicles in the mouth; speaks with much difficulty. ─ Offensive smell from the mouth, not observed by the patient. ─ Heaviness and swelling of the tongue, with difficulty of speech. ─ Tongue white and rough. ─ Accumulation of water in the mouth; sometimes it provokes vomiting. ─ Dryness in the mouth and in the throat. ─ Taste lost.

Appetite

All kinds of food appear insipid. ─ Bitter taste with dryness of the mouth and throat. ─ Fetid taste in the mouth. ─ Violent and constant thirst, with sensation as of suffocation when drinking. ─ Want of appetite. ─ Weakness of digestion. ─ After a meal, hypochondriacal humour, heat of face, pressure and tension in the precordial region, in the stomach, and in the belly, inclination to vomit or to go to stool, repugnance to exertion, great fatigue and desire to sleep. ─ Symptoms disappear after dinner; but begin again in two hours.

Stomach

In the evening, water-brash and vomiting, followed by acidity in the mouth. ─ Morning sickness. ─ Pressure in the stomach, chiefly after a meal, as well as when engaged in thought and mental exertion. ─ In the morning, on waking, pressure in the precordial region. ─ Shootings in the pit of the stomach, chiefly on breathing. ─ Great thirst, with arrest of breathing while drinking. ─ Vomiting of the ingesta, which gives relief. ─ Clucking noise and fermentation in the pit of the stomach. ─ After a meal, commotion in the precordial region at every step. ─ Painful sensation in cardiac end of stomach on walking fast.

Abdomen

Weak digestion, with fulness and distension of the abdomen and hypochondriacal humour. ─ Pressure in the liver. ─ Colic in the umbilical region, mostly pressive, or dull and shooting, aggravated by respiration; cough and external pressure. ─ Pain, as if a blunt plug were pressed into the intestines. ─ Hardness of the abdomen. ─ Flatulent colic with pinching, and borborygmi in the abdomen, and an inclination to go to stool.

Stool and Anus

Fruitless inclination to go to stool. ─ Urgent desire which passes away with effort to expel. ─ Difficult evacuation even of soft stools, from inactivity of the rectum. ─ Stools of a pale colour. ─ Evacuation of blood with the stools. ─ Painful piles (both blind and bleeding) in the anus. ─ Itching in the anus. ─ Oozing of moisture from the rectum. ─ Fissures of the rectum.

Urinary Organs

Frequent discharge of clear, watery urine. ─ Making water at night. ─ Sensation of burning in the glans, during the evacuation of urine and afterwards. ─ Turbid, clay-coloured urine.

Male Sexual Organs

Erections without excitation during the day. ─ Pollutions. ─ Voluptuous itching in the scrotum. ─ Increased or inexcitable sexual desire. ─ Want of enjoyment during coition. ─ Flowing of prostate fluid while at stool and after having made water. ─ Semen passes during a hard stool.

Female Sexual Organs

Leucorrhœa, with itching and excoriation in the parts. ─ Frequent but scanty menses, sometimes with spasmodic pains in abdomen. ─ Nausea during pregnancy, > whilst eating.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness and sensation of excoriation in the throat, principally after a meal. ─ Cough, with tickling in the throat and choking. ─ Cough after meals (with loss of smell and taste) with vomiting of what has been taken, or in the evening, in bed, with congestion of blood to the head. ─ Shaking cough, like whooping-cough, chiefly at night, or after much speaking. ─ Violent convulsive cough (whooping-cough), caused by tickling in the pharynx; worse at night, and after eating; after the attacks, yawning and sleepiness. ─ Cough (short) with purulent expectoration. ─ Expectoration of blood with the cough. ─ On coughing, pain in the head. ─ Yawning after a violent fit of coughing.

Chest

Breath short, and respiration asthmatic. ─ Oppression of the chest, with internal heat and anguish, which causes the patient to seek the open air. ─ Pressure and sensation of excoriation in the chest. ─ Pressure in the chest (r. side) as from a dull plug. ─ Prickings in the region of the heart. ─ Rattling in the trachæa when lying on the l. side.

Heart

Uneasiness in the heart. ─ Piercing pains (stitches) through the region of the heart, quickly succeeding each other, sometimes they extend to the small of the back.

Neck and Back

Stiffness at the nape of the neck. ─ Pains in the back and between the shoulder-blades, for the most part drawing and shooting, or pressive. ─ Dull stitches in the left shoulder-blade. ─ Tingling between the shoulder-blades. Pressure upon the shoulder, as if from a weight.

Upper Limbs

Weakness and tensive pains in the arms. ─ A very painful thumping on the middle of the l. upper arm. ─ Trembling of the hand and of the arm. ─ Trembling of the r. hand. ─ Pressive pains in the muscles and in the bones of the arms, with a feeling of fatigue. ─ Shooting and heaviness in the forearm. ─ Cramp-like pains in the bones and in the joints of the hands and of the fingers. ─ Sensation of dryness in the hands and in the fingers. ─ Clammy sweat in the palms of the hands. ─ Torpor in the fingers.

Lower Limbs

Stiffness of the legs, as if they were bandaged, with agitation. ─ Trembling, drawing, and jerking in the knees and in the thighs, as if the legs were fatigued by walking. ─ Quivering pressure in the thighs. ─ Sensation of paralysis in the knees. ─ Itchy eruption round the knee, as far as the calves of the legs. ─ Jerking and cramp-like pressure in the calves of the legs, and in the legs. ─ Tensive pain in the calves of the legs during the day, on walking, and at night in bed, with sleeplessness. ─ Burning in the soles of the feet, and in the legs. ─ Cold in the feet when walking, particularly in the morning. ─ Chilblains.

Generalities

Pressive pains, as from a plug in several places. ─ Sufferings appear for the most part periodically. ─ The majority of sufferings disappear during dinner; but a short time afterwards they return, and many others make their appearance with them. ─ The least movement occasions much fatigue. ─ Great fatigue, trembling and extreme weakness in the limbs, principally in the knees, increasing even to paralysis. ─ Great weariness on walking, and on going upstairs. ─ Strong disposition to chilliness, and great sensibility to cold and currents of air. ─ Diminution of the senses (smell, sight, hearing.). ─ Sensation, as of a hoop or band around the parts. ─ Cramp-like pains in the muscles. ─ Contraction of the joints. ─ Wounded tendons.

Skin

Burning itching, increased by scratching. ─ Covered with blisters, from the size of a pin's head to a pea, often scarlet red, and sometimes sense of burning. ─ Skin not easily excited by irritants. ─ Pain, as from an abscess, in the parts affected. ─ Herpes. ─ Pemphigus. ─ Warts.

Sleep

Comatose somnolency, night and day. ─ Inclination to sleep at an early hour, with disturbed sleep in the night. ─ Goes to sleep late. ─ Heavy sleep till 9 a.m. ─ Anxious dreams, disgusting or horrible, with cries, lively dreams, with meditation and activity of mind, followed by a pain, as from a bruise, in the head after waking. ─ Dreams of projects, of fire, of diseases, of deaths, and of dangers. ─ At night, toothache; pains in the limbs and in the bones, diarrhœa, cramps in the calves of the legs, and twitching of the mouth and of the fingers during sleep.

Fever

Pulse accelerated, with beating in the veins. ─ Chilliness, esp. in the open air, relieved in the sunshine. ─ Heat of the upper part of the body, with cold feet; internal chilliness and hot breath. ─ Strong disposition to shivering, and constant shudderings even in the heat of a room. ─ Cold and trembling, with sensation of pulling in the head, ill-humour and agitation, every second day. ─ Internal cold with external heat. ─ Heat in the face, every afternoon, towards four o'clock, with nausea and fatigue. ─ Sweat during the day when sitting. ─ Perspiration in the evening, on the head, abdomen, and back, even when sitting still. ─ Nocturnal sweat.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Everything appears as in a dream. θ Melancholia.
Feeling as if spirit was separated from body.
Stupor.
Did not know those around her. θ Palsy.
Memory and senses are affected.
In afternoon his memory is > than in forenoon, although his recollections only come to him after the time when he is in need of them ; however, he easily remembers what he reads.
Weak memory.
Loss of memory. θ Meningitis.
Loss of memory after general paralysis. θ Apoplexy.
Forgetfulness. θ Hysteria.
Forgets everything she has seen. θ Mania.
Her forgetfulness troubles her so much that she loses her appetite. θ Melancholy.
After having caressed her husband or child she pushes them away from her, as if they were not what she supposed. θ Melancholy.
After having caressed her husband or child she pushes them away from her, as if they were not what she supposed. θ Melancholy.
He remembers with difficulty ; he retains nothing in his memory ; he is deficient in ideas and he soon loses his subject without being aware of it.
Cannot remember anything about his previous state. θ Imbecility.
A very intelligent man, æt. 60, after having been a few hours in his grapery, where powdered sulphur had been sprinkled, suddenly lost all power of recollection so completely, that even what had happened a few minutes or a few hours ago was gone from his memory and he was quite
imbecile. One dose Anac., 2ø, restored him very soon and permanently.
Memory quite useless, particularly for single names, mornings.
Weakness of mind.
Dulness of mind and inability to think.
Imbecility. θ After apoplexy.
Idiocy. θ After poisoning with stramonium seed.
Intellect remains weak or impaired after having passed through severe fevers, smallpox, etc.
From 9 to 10 P. M., first extreme excitement of fancy and projective ideas ; later, by degrees, becomes dull and does not think at all.
Imagines he hears voice of mother or sister, who are far away.
Has a devil in his ear whispering blasphemous words.
Idea as if everything perceived had no reality, all things appear as in a dream. θ Melancholy. θ Mania.
Thinks he is double.
Fixed ideas : that mind and body are separated ; about redemption of soul and about the devil ; that a stranger is constantly by his side ; that strange forms accompany him, one to his right and one to his left.
Has the fixed idea that her husband is not her husband, her child not her child ; now she fondles them and again pushes them away. θ Mania.
Hallucination ; a demon sits on his neck and tells him most offensive things.
(OBS :) Delirious mania.
Disposed to malice, seems bent on wickedness.
Irresistible desire to curse and swear.
Talks constantly in senseless, stupid phrases.
Extreme merriment, laughs when he should be serious.
Continual talking of senseless twaddle. θ After a grievance.
Strange temper, she laughs at serious and is grave over ludicrous occurrences.
Screaming and crying of infants. θ Fever.
Every five minutes he screams loudly, as if he would call someone. θ Rage.
Uses profane language, swears, thinks himself a demon.
Furious, has to be kept in a straight jacket.
Dull and stupid, fixed gaze. θ Imbecility.
Every motion extremely awkward and sluggish.
It is difficult to get an answer from him, it takes a long while ; his answers are short and incomplete, but correct. θ Imbecility.
Disinclined to talk. θ Headache.
Estrangement from individuals and society, with fear of future.
Cannot be persuaded to do anything. θ Imbecility.
Aversion to work.
Sadness : looks on dark side of everything.
Low-spirited, disheartened. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Melancholy. θ Amenorrhœa. θ After parturition.
Hypochondriac mood in forenoon, dejected and desponding, with foolish, clumsy actions.
Hypochondriasis. θ Hemorrhoids and constipation.
Anxiety : with wabbling sensation in epigastrium ; with stupidity ; with fidgety legs.
Anxious and hypochondriac, shuns people.
When walking he felt anxious, as if some one were pursuing him ; he suspected everything around him.
Apprehensive of death being close at hand.
Fearfulness.
Fear of paralysis.
Inward anxiety and heat. θ Angina.
Anxiety and feeling of impending misfortune.
Internal anxiety, which did not leave him any peace ; he felt solicitous on account of every trifle, as if it would lead to some great trouble ; with apprehension of future.
Despondency and fear of approaching death. θ Pertussis.
Anxiousness ; despairs of getting well. θ Apoplexy.
He is very indifferent and unfeeling ; neither agreeable nor disagreeable objects excite his interest.
He is separated from whole world and has so little confidence in himself that he despairs of being able to do that which is required of him.
Contradiction between reason and will. θ Headache. θ Pertussis.
Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding to do what the other forbids.
In one ear a devil, in the other an angel, prompts him to do murder or acts of benevolence.
Loss of will power. θ After apoplexy.
Cowardice.
Morose and restless.
His great forgetfulness makes him very morose. θ Melancholy after typhus.
Hypochondriac sullen mood.
Excessively peevish and ill-humored. θ Headache.
Extreme irritability.
Irritable, passionate and contradictory.
He takes everything in bad part and becomes violent.
Unsocial, complains of weak memory. θ Coryza.
A slight offense makes him excessively angry, breaking out in personal violence.
Want of moral feeling ; depravity, ungodliness, inhumanity, and hardness of heart.
Malicious, wicked and cruel.
Excited mood.
Dull insusceptibility.
Bad effect of mental exertion.
Exertion of mind brings on tearing pressing headache in forehead, temples and occiput.
Weeping relieves oppression of chest.
Melancholy after quarreling with her husband.
Consequences of fright or mortification. θ Loss of memory.

Sensorium

Overacuteness of the senses.
Senses less acute ; lessening of sight, hearing, smell and taste.
Numbness and pressure in head, most when he exerts himself in writing. θ Apoplexy.
Dulness of head and pale face. θ Mania.
Feels dull and prostrated.
Weakness of special senses. θ Sequela of meningitis.
Weakness of all senses.
Dulness and confusion in head.
Vertigo : getting black before eyes ; when walking ; as if surroundings or self were tottering.
Sensation as if everything was moving around.
Vertigo on stooping and rising from stooping, as if he were turning round to left ; with vertigo dim sight.
Giddiness as if drunken, out-of-doors. θ Headache.

Inner head

Pressure : in forehead, mornings when awaking, and in evening.
Dull pressure as with a plug on upper border of right orbit, extending into brain, with stupefaction of whole side of head.
Most headache in temples.
Violent pressure in temples.
Dull pressure, as from a plug, on left side of vertex.
Constrictive headache in forehead, with very irritable mood, pains increase hourly ; momentarily relieved by strong pressure ; finally whole head affected ; later whole head pains as if a tense band was reaching from nape of neck to ears ; must lie down.
Pressing from temples toward eyes.
Stitches : over right eye ; in left side of head.
Throbbing headache.
Hot head, with icy-cold hands and feet.
Digging and throbbing pains in right side of head and along border of orbit ; relieved entirely when eating , and when lying down in bed at night and when about falling asleep ; <
during motion and work.
Stitches in brain. θ Pertussis.
Nervous headache. θ Hypochondriasis.
Pressive pain in top of head when coughing or taking a deep inspiration.
Pressing headache mostly in temples from without inward, with diminished sight and hearing ; < a few hours after a meal, on exerting mind or stepping hard.
Tearing headache during hard labor.
Tearing throbbing in vertex.
Tearing and pressing in forehead and temples.
Tearing pain in occiput.
Throbbing in occiput.
Headache in occiput, < from making a misstep and from loud noise.
Congestion of blood to head, with pain in cerebellum. θ Pertussis.
Pressure : in right side of occiput ; from without, in jerks, spreading from forehead over whole head ; from within outward ; from forehead backward.
Gastric and nervous headaches.

Outer head

Tearing headaches extending into muscles of neck and throat.
Bending head backward, pain in occiput aggravated.
Violent itching of scalp.
Itching on forehead.
Many lentil-sized boils on scalp, with sore pain when touched or scratched.
Small pimply eruption on head.
Dry heat on whole head.
Baldness.
Many little boils on hairy scalp, very sensitive to touch, and about size of a flax-seed.

Sight and eyes

Great sensitiveness to light.
The light seems to have a halo around it.
Flickering before eyes during day, blind at night.
Optical illusions in dark colors.
Halo around light.
Pupils first contracted, later dilated.
Weakness of sight. θ Apoplexy.
Vision indistinct.
Weakness and dimness of eyes. θ Coryza.
Blackness before eyes with vertigo.
Eyes sunken.
Shortsightedness.
After a half hour's sleep, every object appeared a long way off.
Objects appear too far off.
Stitches over right eye.
Pain in left eye with a twitching in it.
Strange, uncanny look. θ Mania.
Lachrymation with coryza ; also with a contracting pain in nose.
Lids so swollen he could hardly see.
Eyelids felt swollen, but without pain.
Pressure as from a plug, on upper margin of right orbit.
Pressure on eyeball from before backward, or from above downward.
Blue circles around eyes.

Hearing and ears

Speaks of a devil who whispers blasphemy into his ear.
Humming in ears.
Roaring before ears.
Hearing at times very weak, at others very acute.
Hardness of hearing.
Sensation of obstruction, as from cotton or a plug in ear.
Want of ear-wax. θ Coryza.
Otorrhœa.
Dragging pains with polypus auris.
Tearing or stitching pains in left ear ; < when swallowing.
Sore pain in ear when biting teeth together.
Itching in ears.
Painful swelling of external ear.
Ear inflamed with headache.

Smell and nose

Worse from strong smells. θ Headache.
Sense of smell too acute. θ Coryza.
Sensitive smell and bitter taste.
Illusory smell as of burning tinder, morning, when rising.
Constant smell before nose like pigeon or chicken dung, especially when smelling his clothes or his body.
Smell seems quite lost, though nose is not obstructed. θ Coryza.
Nosebleed.
Feeling of dryness in nose.
Obstruction of nose ; of left nostril. θ Coryza.
Chronic coryza and discharge of mucus from nose.
Chronic dry coryza, with anosmia and a discharge of purulent phlegm.
Fluent coryza, with sneezing and lachrymation.
Red pustule in right nostril on septum, with sore pain when touched.
Much sneezing and long-continued disposition thereto. θ Pertussis.
Irritation to sneeze with cough.

Upper face

Strange expression in face. θ Mania.
Face disfigured, look wild, childish, without expression. θ Palsy.
Tearing pains in face. θ Headache.
Violent burning in face.
Complains of heat in head and red cheeks, forehead cold.
Face red, more frequent pulse. θ Mania.
Heat in face with great prostration.
Paleness of face.
Pale, wan looking ; blue rings around eyes. θ Headache.
White scaly herpes on right cheek, near upper lip.
Strange expression. θ Melancholy.
Face swelled, beginning from eyes.
Left side of face swollen and covered with small pock-like blisters.
Repeated tearing in right side of face and neck. θ Faceache.
Itching in face. θ Headache.
Acute eczema of face and neck, with redness and eruption of small blisters with intense itching.

Lower face

Rough, scaly skin around mouth, with crawling itching.
Burning dryness of outer border of lips, almost like from pepper.
Violent burning on chin.
Mouth twitches in sleep.
Small blisters on chin, discharging liquid when broken.

Teeth and gums

Tearing in teeth of left side.
Toothache on taking something warm into mouth.
Toothache in one lower incisor, < by contact with tongue and open air.
Teeth of lower jaw seem most affected.
Swelling of gums.
Bleeding of gums upon slight rubbing.

Taste, speech, tongue

Bitter taste in mouth after smoking tobacco.
Everything tastes like herring-brine.
Flat, offensive taste in mouth, and taste of food.
Taste lost.
Heaviness of tongue and sensation as if swollen ; impedes speech.
Impeded speech. θ Apoplexy.
Speech firmer and surer in afternoon than forenoon.
Was unable to speak, and made only unintelligible sounds. θ Palsy.
Tongue white and rough like a grater.

Inner mouth

Fetid odor from mouth, without his perceiving it. θ Headache.
Painful vesicles in mouth.
Ulcers in mouth.
Water accumulates in mouth, until it provokes vomiting ; also with violent thirst and red face.
Water flows together in mouth and runs out. θ Apoplexy.

Palate and throat

Roughness and scraping in throat.
Sensation of rawness in throat, during cough, after eating.
Firm tough mucus in fauces ; raising it causes gagging and retching. θ Coryza.
Suppuration of tonsils.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Loss of appetite and feverishness, with cutaneous symptoms.
The torturing forgetfulness makes her low-spirited, and she loses her appetite. θ Mania.
All food offensive and flat.
At times violent hunger, at others no appetite.
Constant thirst ; yet drinking takes breath ; must stop frequently during a draught.
Thirst during heat.
Thirst for milk with sweat all over.

Eating and drinking

Apt to "choke" when eating and drinking. (Verschluckern.)
Swallows food and drink hastily. θ Rage.
Symptoms disappear during dinner, but begin anew after two hours. θ Headache, dry throat, dyspepsia, etc.
Worse after eating : head, stomach and bowel symptoms ; rough throat ; nausea ; pressure in liver ; short breath ; violent cough (after drinking) ; heartburn ; flying heat over face.
Warm food causes toothache.
Sweat lessened while eating.
Weak digestion in hypochondriacs.
Hypochondriac mood after eating.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough.
Eructations : empty ; fluid, causing choking ; with spasmodic pain in stomach.
Heartburn, after eating soup.
Burning rising from stomach to throat.
Nausea in morning, with empty feeling in stomach.
Nausea, with retching, returning soon after drinking cold water ; vomiting of water with pain, as if œsophagus was distended by a large ball.
After cough vomiting of ingesta, which gives relief.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sensation of fasting in pit of stomach, followed by pressure in stomach ; < awaking mornings.
Stitch in pit of stomach during inspiration.
Rumbling and fermentation in pit of stomach.
Weak digestion, with fulness and distension of abdomen and hypochondriacal humor.
Spasmodic pain in stomach, with belching.
Every step shakes the stomach.
Catarrh of stomach, with drawing together and shooting pains.
Drawing pain in cardiac end of stomach on walking fast.

Hypochondria

Stitches in hypochondria.
Pressure in liver.
Pain in spleen with fever.

Abdomen and loins

Pain around navel, as if a blunt plug was pressed into intestines.
Continual rumbling in abdomen, especially in umbilical region.
Pinching and griping in abdomen.
Bursting pain in abdomen. θ Pertussis.
Hardness of abdomen.
Faintlike weakness in abdomen and knees.
Fulness and distension of abdomen.

Stools and rectum

Stools of very pale color.
Stools mush-like, bloody, brown, liver-like ; painless.
Great and urgent desire for stool, but with effort the desire passes away, without an evacuation ; rectum seems powerless, with sensation as if plugged up.
Diarrhœa-like stools.
Summer complaint with stupor, thirst, vomiting, fever.
Frequent profuse hemorrhage when at stool. θ Hemorrhoids.
Itching at anus.
Moisture from rectum.
Inactivity of rectum, even soft stool is passed with difficulty.
Unsuccessful urging to stool.
Painful hemorrhoidal tumors.
Internal piles, especially if fissured.

Urinary organs

Constant desire to urinate.
Frequent urging, with but small discharge.
Urine : clear as water ; turbid when passed, deposits a dirty sediment ; when shaken urine looks clay colored ; passed involuntarily.
Frequent urination at night. θ Apoplexy.
Prostatic juice with even a soft stool ; also after urinating.

Male sexual organs

Violent sexual desire.
Erections during day.
Seminal emissions at night, without amorous dreams.
Want of enjoyment during coitus.
Cutting pain along penis.
Voluptuous itching of scrotum, exciting sexual desire.
Burning in glans before and after urinating.

Female sexual organs

Pain in abdomen with pressing in uterus.
Menses scanty but frequent. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Spasmodic pains deep in abdomen. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Leucorrhœa, causing soreness and itching.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Nausea during pregnancy, < before and after, but better while eating.
Much loss of blood after an abortion.
Melancholia after childbed.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Voice hoarse and deep, with roughness in throat.
Talking excites cough.
Pressure or aching near larynx.
Pressure in pit of throat.
Rattling in windpipe when lying on side.

Respiration

The breath has a bad odor.
From breathing deeply or coughing : pain in vertex.
Shortness of breath, oppression in region of sternum.
Anxiety in region of sternum, without pain ; feels as if he must go into open air and busy himself.
Loss of breath on beginning to cough.
Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety driving him into open air.
Attacks of suffocation. θ Pertussis.

Cough

Cough excited by : talking ; tickling in trachea.
Cough worse, not while eating, but after eating, with vomiting of food.
Cough worse after meals. θ Apoplexy.
Paroxysms every three or four hours ; more violent every other or every third day.
Violent cough, with loss of smell and taste.
When coughing : pain in occiput ; abdomen feels as if it would burst.
Deep hollow cough, wakes him at night.
Violent, concussive cough. θ Pertussis.
Yawning and sleepiness after cough.
Expectoration : of sweetish, flat-tasting mucus ; tenacious greyish yellow ; purulent.
Expectoration only during day.

Inner chest and lungs

Chest oppressed with anxiety and internal heat.
Dull pressure, as from a plug in right side of chest.
Sharp stitches in precordial region, extending thence to small of back.
Rawness and scraping in chest.
Violent pressure in chest. θ Pertussis.
Chest contracted in walking. θ Headache.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Restless feeling at heart.
Rheumatic affections of pericardium.
Stitch in region of heart, during inspiration, at night.
Stitches piercing through and through at heart ; each time two quickly succeeding each other.
Pulse generally accelerated, with beating in bloodvessels.
Pulse frequent, face red. θ Melancholia.

Outer chest

Itching on chest.
Violent eczema on breast and throat.
Redness of skin, with little blisters itching intolerably.

Neck and back

Pain in nape of neck and occiput.
Stiffness of nape of neck.
Feeling as from a tightly-drawn tape from ear to ear.
Dull intermittent pressure, as from a heavy load on right side of neck and left acromion.
Painful tearing between scapulæ.
Dull stitches in left scapula.
Backache, upper part feels as if beaten. θ Headache.
Stiffness in small of back.

Upper limbs

Dull stitches in left scapula, return slowly and radiate to all sides.
Sensation of weakness in arms, with trembling.
Very painful strokes, as from a heavy body at middle of l. upper arm.
Left arm "goes to sleep," also fingers.
Stitches and heaviness in forearm.
Tensive pain and weakness in arms.
Small blisters on back of hands.
Sweat in inside of hands ; left worse.
Fingers twitch during sleep.
Cramplike pain at metacarpo-phalangeal articulations : cramplike twitches in fingers.
Great feeling of dryness of hands.
Hands, even palms, covered with warts.
Numbness of fingers.
Fourth and fifth fingers fall asleep if cool. θ Anosmia.
Writers' spasm.
Panaritium.
Trembling of right hand.
Pustules on fingers.

Lower limbs

Pain in head of femur, extending to groin.
Shooting burning from thigh to foot, ceasing at times and suddenly returning. θ Rheumatism.
Dull pressure, as from a plug, in left glutei muscles.
Painful dull-pointed pressure in thigh, at times in rhythmical intermissions.
Legs tense, as if too short.
Legs stiff, as if bandaged, with painful restlessness in them.
Legs lame after apoplexy.
Painful uneasiness about knee, with sensation of stiffness as if bandaged or made tense, when sitting.
Wavelike twitches, here and there, in legs.
Knees feel paralyzed, with stiffness, great lassitude and drowsiness ; is scarcely able to walk.
An ulcer below knee.
Limbs start violently when lying down ; in an old woman.
Cramp in calves when walking , or rising from a seat ; better lying down.
Painful drawing in tibia.
Cramplike pressure in calves, externally, towards tibia.
Cramplike, intermittent drawing, from heel up into calves.
Pain in ankle, as if sprained, when stepping on left foot.
Stitches in dorsum of foot.
Cramplike drawing and tearing pains, from toes to dorsum of foot.
Burning in soles, while sitting.
Coldness of feet in morning.
Chilblains.

Limbs in general

Tired feeling in limbs, trembling, with feverish restlessness.
Repeated tearings in paroxysms, through upper and lower limbs at same time. θ Headache.
Heaviness in limbs, especially in knees.
Weakness in arms and knees, with trembling.

Rest. position. motion

Lying down : headache relieved ; limbs start violently ; cramps in calf >.
Lying on side : rattling in windpipe.
Must lie down : headache.
Sitting : painful uneasiness and stiffness of knees ; burning in soles ; sweats.
Rising from a seat : cramp in calf.
Rising from stooping : feels as if turning around to left.
Stooping : feels as if turning around to left.
Beginning to walk : is toilsome, but by continuing he feels better.
Walking : feels anxious : vertigo ; drawing pain in stomach ; cramp in calf ; pains in lower limbs.
Stepping : headache < ; stomach shakes ; pain in ankle.
Ascending stairs : feels faint.
Motion : headache < ; causes trembling.
Playing piano : heaviness and fulness of whole body.
After hard labor : headache.

Nerves

Paralysis of single parts.
Incomplete palsy of muscles subject to volition.
Restlessness.
Tired feeling in all limbs.
Wants to lie or sit continually ; can scarcely move a hand.
Trembling : from every motion.
Trembling weakness of limbs. θ Apoplexy.
Very faint from going up-stairs.
Heaviness and fulness of whole body from playing piano.
Violent concussion of whole body. θ Pertussis.
Tetanus.
Epilepsy.

Sleep

Gaping and drowsiness after cough. θ Pertussis.
Headache better after falling asleep.
Sleepless from restlessness, cannot keep still.
Could not sleep well on account of itching.
Sound sleep until 9 A. M.
Vivid dreams at night, which recurred to him during day, as if things dreamed of had really happened.
Dreams : of smelling burning punk or sulphur, continues after waking ; of fire ; of dead bodies.
On lying down to sleep : legs start.
Headache < after getting awake in morning.

Time

Most prominent times of aggravation, morning, and evening until midnight.
Remission after midnight and during day.
Day : flickering before eyes ; expectoration from cough ; erections.
Night : blindness ; seminal emissions ; cough ; vivid dreams.
Morning : memory impaired ; pressure in forehead ; smell of tinder when rising ; nausea ; sensation of fasting and pressure in stomach ; cold feet ; sound sleep till 9 o'clock.
Forenoon : memory deficient ; hypochondriac mood ; speech less firm than in afternoon.
Afternoon : memory > than in forenoon ; speech firmer than in forenoon.
At 3 4 P. M. : heat daily.
Evening : pressure in forehead ; heat from 4 P. M. ; sweat on abdomen and back ; itching.
At 9 to 10 P. M. : excitement of fancy ; later, dull.
After 10 P. M. : dull, does not think.

Temperature and weather

Sensitive to draught ; liable to take cold.
Open air : toothache < ; feels as if he must go into it ; chill ; blisters harden to a crust.
Sunshine : relieves chill.
Warm room : internal chill.

Fever

Chill especially in open air, > in sunshine.
Internal chill, even in a warm room.
Shaking chill, with ill humor and restlessness.
Cold forehead and red cheeks.
External heat, with internal chill.
Shivering over back, as if cold water was poured over it, with heat of face.
Heat of upper part of body, with cold feet ; internal chilliness and hot breath.
Internal heat with cold sweat.
Outer and inner heat, with thirst and whimpering in sleep.
Heat from 4 P. M. till evening, daily ; passing off after supper.
Heat of left side.
Violent fever heat ; headache and great thirst. θ Pemphigus.
Sweat on head, abdomen and back, evenings.
Night-sweat on abdomen and back.
Clammy sweat in palms, particularly left.
Sweat lessened while eating.
Sweats when sitting.

Attacks, periodicity

The attacks cease for one or two days and then continue again for a couple of days.
Tertian and quartan intermittents.
Paroxysms of cough every three to four hours, more violent every other or every third day.
Two stitches quickly succeed each other. See 29 .
Dull radiating stitches return slowly. See 32 .
Ceasing and suddenly returning. See 33 .
Heat daily from 4 P. M. till evening.

Locality and direction

Right : dull pressure, digging and throbbing in upper border of orbit ; pressure in temple ; stupefaction of whole side of head ; digging and throbbing in side of head ; pressure in side of occiput ; pustule in nostril ; herpes on
cheek ; tearing in face and neck ; pressure in chest ; dull pressure on side of neck ; trembling of hand.
Left : pressure in temple ; pressure in side of vertex ; stitches in side of head ; obstruction in ear ; tearing or stitching in ear ; obstructed nostril ; face swollen and covered with blisters ; tearing in
teeth ; sharp stitches in chest ; pressure in acromion ; dull stitches in scapula ; painfulness of middle of upper arm ; arm and fingers "go to sleep ;" dull pressure in glutei muscles ; pain in ankle ;
heat ; clammy sweat in palm.
Without inward : pressive pain in temples.
Before backward : pressure on eyeball.
Above downward : pressure on eyeball.
Below upward : cramplike drawing in lower limbs.
Diagonally : stitches from precordia to small of back.

Sensations

As if everything was moving around ; pressure as with a plug on upper border of right orbit into brain ; as of a tense band from nape of neck to ears ; as from cotton or plug in ear ; as from pepper on border of lips ; as from fasting in pit of
stomach ; as if a blunt plug was pressed into intestines ; as if abdomen would burst when coughing ; as from a plug in left glutei muscles ; legs tense as if too short ; as from a plug in right side of chest ; restless feeling at heart ; as if cold water
was poured over back ; as of a hoop or band around part ; as if stuffed up.
The burning changes to an extremely painful itching, combined with pricking, like stings of insects.
Stitches : over right eye ; in left side of head ; in brain ; in left ear ; in pit of stomach during inspiration ; in hypochondria ; in precordial region to small of back ; in region of heart during inspiration ; piercing heart ; dull in
left scapula ; in forearm ; in dorsum of foot.
Cutting : along penis.
Pinching and griping : in abdomen.
Digging : in right side of head and along border of orbit.
Tearing pain : in vertex ; in forehead and temples ; in occiput ; headache extending into muscles of neck and throat ; in left ear ; in face ; repeatedly in right side of face and neck ; in teeth ; between scapulæ ; from toes to dorsum
of foot ; in paroxysms through limbs.
Shooting burning : from thigh to foot.
Burning : in face ; dryness of lips ; on chin ; from stomach to throat ; in glans, before and after urinating ; and shooting from thigh to foot ; in soles ; herpes ; in skin.
Soreness : in boils on scalp ; in ear when biting teeth together ; in pustule, in right nostril when touched ; from leucorrhœa.
Rawness : and roughness in throat ; in chest.
Pressure : in head ; in forehead ; as from a plug on left side of vertex and on upper border of right orbit ; in temples ; from temples towards eyes ; in top of head ; from without inward, in temples ; in right side of occiput ; without
inward, from forehead over head ; from within outward, from forehead backward ; on eyeball, from before backward ; in stomach, preceded by emptiness ; in liver ; as from a plug around navel ; in rectum ; on uterus ; near larynx ; in throat
pit ; as from a plug in right side of chest ; in left glutei muscles ; in thigh.
Drawing pain : in cardiac end of stomach ; in tibia ; cramplike, from heel into calves.
Dragging pain : with polypus auris.
Tensive pain : in arm.
Spasmodic pain : in stomach ; deep in abdomen.
Aching : near larynx.
Pain : in left eye ; in spleen ; in abdomen ; in head of femur to groin.
Cramplike pain : at metacarpo-phalangeal articulations ; in calves ; from toes to dorsum of foot ; in muscles ; from heel into calves.
Cramp : in calves when walking.
Contracting pain : in nose.
Constriction : in forehead ; like a band around head.
Sprained feeling : in ankle.
Lameness : in legs ; in knees.
Paralyzed feeling : in knees.
Stiffness : in nape of neck ; in small of back ; in legs, as if bandaged ; about the knees.
Swollen feeling : in eyelids ; of tongue.
Dulness : of head.
Stupefaction : of side of head.
Tired feeling : in limbs.
Throbbing : headache ; in right side of head ; in vertex ; in occiput.
Bursting pain : in abdomen, when coughing.
Weakness : in abdomen and knees ; in arms and knees with trembling.
Heaviness : of tongue : in forearm ; in limbs, especially in knees.
Oppression : in region of sternum ; of chest.
Numbness : in head ; left arm ; fingers.
Itching : of scalp ; on forehead ; of ears ; in face ; and crawling in eruption around mouth ; at anus ; of scrotum, exciting sexual desire ; on chest ; of little blisters on breast and throat.
Crawling : around mouth.
Trembling : in limbs.
Twitching : in left eye ; of mouth in sleep ; of fingers during sleep.
Wavelike twitches : here and there in legs.
Painful uneasiness : in knees and legs.
Painful strokes at middle of left upper arm.
Dryness : in nose ; of hands ; of lips.
Heat : in head ; in face ; internally with anxiety ; in upper part of body while feet are cold ; internally, with cold sweat ; from 4 P. M. till evening, daily ; of left side.
Coldness : on forehead ; of feet in morning ; as if cold water was poured over back.

Tissues

Cramplike pains in muscles.
Contraction of joints.
Complaints of external parts.
Emaciation.
Such a swelling of the affected parts that the patient looks like a hogshead (from wearing the nut).

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : soreness of boils on scalp < ; soreness of pustule in nose < ; toothache <.
Pressure : relieves pain in forehead for a while.
Scratching : itching generally <, but sometimes > or changed in location ; boils on scalp <.
Rubbing : gums bleed.
Wounded tendons.

Skin

Bright scarlet eruptions on whole body, especially on thighs in contact with nut, and of abdomen.
Destruction of epidermis, leaving an inflamed surface covered with small miliary pustules, with unbearable itching and discharging a yellow liquid, forming crusts (by applying the juice).
Intense redness of skin, with eruption of little blisters and unbearable itching.
Chest, neck, axillæ, upper arms, abdomen, scrotum and thighs were not only covered with raised crusts, discharging a thick yellowish liquid, but these had partly changed into wartlike excrescences, with thickened epidermis, the whole intermediate skin being of an erythematous redness,
and the itching fearful (from wearing the nut).
White herpetic spots, scaling.
Want of irritability of skin ; sinapisms will not excite it.
Itching < in evening and when he went to bed.
Burning and stinging herpes.
Excessively itching eruptions.
Blisters discharging a yellowish transparent liquid, hardening to a crust in open air.
Effects like those of Rhus tox. plant on skin.
Warts even on palms of hands.
Skin burns her very much. θ Pemphigus.
Scarlet redness over whole body. θ Pemphigus.
Covered all over with blisters from size of a pin-head up to a pea. θ Pemphigus.
Furuncles.
Memory impaired after smallpox.

Stage of life, constitution

Ill-natured children with pertussis.
Old people.
Frequently indicated in nervous and hysterical females.
Women during pregnancy, gastric and nervous disorders.
Hypochondriacs.
Man, æt. 72, apoplexy ; after it Bellad., Opium and Anac. and after it Baryta.
Widow, æt. 69, talkative after mortification. θ Insanity.

Relations

Similar to : Ant. tart . (cough in high-tempered children ; gaping, drowsy after cough) ; Apis . (skin) ; Coriaria ruscifolia (loss of memory,
etc.) ; Ferrum (occiput pains in cough) ; Iodium ; Juglans ; Lycop. ; Nitr ac . (cursing) ; Nux vom. ; Phosph. ac . (brain) ; Platin. ;
Pulsat. ; Urt. ur . (skin ; Zincum (brain) ; Pulsat., Natr. mur . (dry coryza) ; Caustic . (in writers' spasm).
Relatives : Anac. occid., Comoc., Rhus glab., Rhus rad., Rhus tox., Rhus ven .
Antidotes : Coffea and Juglans .
Anac . antidotes : Rhus tox ., especially if there are gastric symptoms, or symptoms go from right to left.
It follows well after Lycop., Pulsat . and Platin .
After Anac. : Platin . follows well.
Belongs to same family as Rhoes , and there is a similarity with Terebinthineæ .
Neither Camphor . nor Spir. nitr. dulc . antidotes its effects, but for anger and violence of mind, smelling of raw coffee is a very effectual antidote.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Mind

This remedy is full of strange notions and ideas.

The mind appears to be feeble; almost, if not complete imbecility; seems as if in a dream; everything is strange; slow to comprehend. Marked irritability; disturbed by everything; cursing.

Weak memory. Forgetful of things in his mind but a moment ago. All his senses seem to vanish and he gropes around as if in a dream.

Change of states; after states. Dullness and sluggishness of the mind prevail. He is in a continuous controversy with himself. Irresolution marks his character. He cannot settle between doing this and that, he hesitates and often does nothing. He cannot decide, especially in an action of good or evil.

He hears voices commanding him to do this or that, and seems to be between a good and an evil will. He is persuaded by his evil will to do acts of violence and injustice, but is withheld and restrained by a good will. So there is a controversy between two wills, between two impulses. When this is really analyzed by one who knows something of the nature of man it will be seen that the man is disturbed in his external will, but the internal will cannot be affected by medicine.

His external voluntary is continuously excited by external influences, but his real will, in which is his conscience, restrains that and keeps him from carrying the impulses into effect. This can only be observed when its action is on a really good man. He has a controversy when his external will is aroused, but in an evil man there is no restraint and be will not have this symptom.

Hallucinations: a demon sits on one shoulder and an angel on the other.

He is disposed to malice and has an irresistible desire to curse and swear. Laughs when he should be serious. So it is carried on until all things in the external will are inverted. Internal anxiety, i. e., the internal will is in a turmoil. over this external disturbance.

"Contradiction between will and reason" is an attempt to express what the individual knew nothing about.

"Feels as though he had two wills."

That is better. It finally destroys or paralyzes the external will, and when a man is naturally evil and is under the paralyzing influence of Anacardium he will do acts of violence.

A wicked man is restrained, not by his conscience, but by fear of the law. Anacardium paralyzes the external will arid places him in a position of imbecility, and he does acts of violence from his own natural perverted self It has so acted on a portion of the mind that it teaches a great deal.

I have learned much from Anac., Aurum and Argentum of the strange action of medicines on the human mind.

Psychology must be figured out by the action of drugs on the human mind. By this means we get at facts and can lay aside many hypotheses.

Ideas as if nothing were real, all seems to be a dream. Fixed ideas. He thinks he is double. This comes from a vague consciousness that there is a difference between the external and internal will, a consciousness that one will is the body and another is the mind.

Dwells on thoughts about salvation. That a stranger is by his side, is another recognition of the two wills. That strange forms accompany him, one to his right side and one to his left. This mental state drives him to madness.

Alternation of his moods and understanding. One moment he sees a thing and another moment he does not understand it. One moment she sees it is her child and another that it is not. One moment it is a delusion and next moment it is an illusion.

One moment thinks it is so and next moment has enough reason left that it is not so .

Delusion is an advanced stage of illusion.

In the Repertory we have the same remedies often in illusion and delusion, it is a matter of grade.

When the intellect is slightly affected it is an illusion, and what he sees he knows is not so.

He sees demons, and at first he knows from his intelligence that a demon is not there, but later, he wants you to drive him out.

It does not matter which, they are similar symptoms, and it is a matter of degree, and so, in the Repertory, delusions and illusions are not given separate places.

Anac., Hyos., Stram, and Bell., are important in bringing out the quality of the perverted human mind as to the intelligence and affections.

Whenever a medicine makes a man desire to do something it affects his will, and when it affects his intelligence it is acting on his understanding. Medicines act on both.

Low-spirited, disheartened, fears be is pursued, looks for thieves, expects enemies, fears everything and everybody.

Full of internal anxiety. No peace. He is separated from the whole world, and he despairs to do that which is required of him. Cowardly in the extreme.

Fears some dreadful thing will happen. Morose, sulky, sullen.

Unsocial; complains of weak memory. Slight causes make him excessively angry. A strong feature is that all moral feeling is taken out of him. He feels cruel. Can do bodily injury without feeling.

Cruel, malicious, wicked.

Bad effects of mental excitement. Weak-minded. Consequences of fright and mortification. Suitable in religious mania when the conflict between the external and internal will is kept up. It is analogous to Hyos.

Many complaints are ameliorated by eating.

Sensation here and there of pressure, described as if a plug, all through the body, in the head, eyes, in the navel and down the spine.

Objects appear too far off. Things have a strange look, sometimes uncanny. Illusions of smell, burning timber, pigeon's dung.

Chronic dry coryza.

The whole body has been well covered by symptoms; but it seems that the mind represents the principal aspect, and A will seldom be used excepting for such mind symptoms.

Usually when the mental symptoms are strong the physical are also covered by the remedy.

Full of trembling and paralytic weakness. Tetanus; epilepsy. Sensations as of a hoop or band around the body, limbs or head; pressing as of a plug.

Skin

The eruptions are like Rhus in many respects; erysipelatous eruptions dark, dusky and of malignant types.

It is an antidote to Rhus poisoning.

Eruptions all over. Yellow vesicles are common. Intense itching of eruptions. Warts on the palms like Natrum mur. Skin burns much. It seems closely related in its symptoms to all the Rhus family.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Adapted to ill-natured, nervous, hysterical persons, in whose diseases mental symptoms predominate.

Sudden loss of memory; everything appears as in a dream; patient much troubled about his forgetfulness. Hypochondriasis.

Disposed to be malicious, seems bent on wickedness; irresistible desire to curse and swear (Lac c., Lil., Nit. ac.—wants to pray, Stram.).

Suspects every one and everything around him; when walking he felt anxious as if some one were pursuing him; lack of confidence in himself and others; weakness of all the senses.

Strange temper; laughs at serious matters, and is serious over laughable things; thinks herself a demon; swears.

Sensation as of a hoop or band about the part (Cac., Carb. ac., Sul.).

Headache; relieved entirely when eating (Psor.), when lying down in bed at night, and when about falling asleep; worse during motion and work (Arg. n., Bry.).

Swallows food and drink hastily; symptoms disappear while eating (Kali p., Psor.).

Stomach: sensation of fasting "all gone," comes on only when stomach is empty, and is $>$ by eating (Chel., Iod.); $>$ during process of digestion (rev. of Bry., Nux).

Great desire for stool, but with the effort the desire passes away without evacuation; rectum seems powerless, paralyzed, with sensation as if plugged up (irregular, peristaltic or overaction, Nux).

Amelioration

By eating (Psor.).

Type

Quotidian; tertian; quartan.

Time

4 A. M. Afternoon. Every P. M., at four o'clock, fever without chill (Lyc.).

Chill

Especially in the open air, relieved in the sunshine (Con., Sec.). Shivering over the back and whole body, as from cold water being thrown upon the person, with heat of face (Rhus, Ant. t., Arn.). Repeated icy cold creeping; feeling of chilliness of limbs, hands and feet, which causes trembling; internal chill even in a warm room; worse in open air. Shaking chill, with ill-humor and restlessness. Forehead cold and cheeks red. External heat with internal chill. Internal heat with cold sweat. Heat of left side only.

Heat

From 4 P. M. till evening, daily $>$ by eating; heat of upper part of the body; with hot breath, cold feet with internal shiverings; external heat, especially of face and palms; abdomen and knees weak; heat over whole body, but complains of being cold. If any thirst, between heat and sweat (Cinch.—between cold and hot stage, Sabad.).

Sweat

Night-sweats; frequently waking up from sleep with general sweat. At night he sweats on the chest and abdomen. Clammy sweat in the palms, especially the left. Sweat $>$ by eating. Sweats when sitting. Dyspnœa and distressing shortness of breath (during chill, Apis).

Tongue

Is white and rough; taste, like herring brine; bitter taste after smoking. Flat, offensive taste in the mouth. Apt to choke when eating or drinking. Eats and drinks hastily.

In fevers of nursing children, which return every afternoon at four o'clock, Anacardium vies with Lycopodium; but the fever is not so severe in character, all stages being of a milder grade. Child is very irritable, a slight offence or contradiction makes him excessively angry (Bry. Cham.).

Analysis

The mental symptoms predominate. The patient is irritable, nervous, hysterical, malicious, profane. The paroxysm occurs at 4 P. M.; and all stages are relieved by eating.