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Spasms and cramps: symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups.
Mental and physical exhaustion from over-exertion of mind and loss of sleep ( Coc. , Nux ); attacks of unconquerable anxiety.
A strong, sweetish, metallic, copper taste in the mouth with flow of saliva ( Rhus ).
Constant prostration and retraction of the tongue, like a snake ( Lach. ).
When drinking, the fluid descends with a gurgling sound ( Ars. , Thuja ).
Cholera morbus or Asiatic cholera, with cramps in abdomen and calves of legs.
Bad effects of re-percussed eruptions (of non-developed, Zinc. ), resulting in brain affections, spasms, convulsions, vomiting; of suppressed foot-sweat ( Sil. , Zinc. ).
Convulsions, with blue face and clenched thumbs.
Cramps in the extremities; pains, soles, calves with great weariness of limbs.
Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes, and spreading over entire body; during pregnancy; puerperal convulsions; after fright or vexation; from metastasis from other organs to brain ( Zinc. ).
Paralysis of tongue; imperfect stammering speech.
Epilepsy: aura begins in knees and ascends; < at night during sleep ([Bufo]); about new moon, at regular intervals (menses); from a fall or blow upon the head; from getting wet.
Cough has a gurgling sound, as if water was being poured from a bottle.
Cough, > by drinking cold water ( Caust. – < by drinking cold water, Spong. ).
Whooping cough: long-lasting, suffocating, spasmodic cough; unable to speak; breathless, blue face, rigid, stiff; three attacks successively ( Stan. ); vomiting of solid food after regaining consciousness ( Can. ); cataleptic spasm with each paroxysm.
After pains; sever, distressing, in calves and soles.
Relations. – Complementary: Calcarea.
Compare: Ars. and Ver. in cholera and cholera morbus; Ipecac , the vegetable analogue.
Ver. follows well in whooping cough and cholera.
Apis and Zinc. in convulsions from suppressed exanthems.
Aggravation. – Cold air; cold wind; at night; suppressed foot sweat or exanthema.
Amelioration. – Nausea, vomiting and cough, by a swallow of cold water.
