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.