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For dark-haired persons, lithic or sycotic diathesis.

Great emaciation: skin becomes shriveled or lies in folds ( Abrot. , Iod. , Nat. m. , Sanic. ).

Headache and periosteal pains generally from mercury, syphilis or suppressed gonorrhoea.

In children; face like old people; enlarged abdomen; dry, flabby skin ( Bar. c. , Op. ).

Herpetic eruptions on all parts of body; ulcers, after abuse of mercury, in syphilis.

Rash from exposure to open air; dry, itch-like eruptions, prone to appear in spring; become crusty.

Severe, almost unbearable pain at conclusion of urination ( Berb. , Equis. , Med. , Thuja ).

Passage of gravel or small calculi; renal colic; stone in bladder; bloody urine.

Urine: bright and clear but irritating; scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, copious, passed without sensation ( Caust. ); deposits white sand.

Painful distention and tenderness in bladder; urine dribbles while sitting, standing, passes freely; air passes from urethra.

Sand in urine or on diaper; child screams before and while passing it ( Bor. , Lyc. ).

Gonorrhoea checked by cold, wet weather, or mercury, followed by rheumatism.

Neuralgia or renal colic; excruciating pains from right kidney downwards ( Lyc. ).

Intolerable stench on genital organs; fluid pollutions; bloody seminal emission ( Led. , Mer. ).

Retraction of nipples; nipples are small, withered, unexcitable ( Sil. ).

Rheumatism, bone pains after mercury or checked gonorrhoea; pains < at night, in damp weather or after taking cold in water.

Itching eruption on forehead during menses ([Eug. j.], Sang. , Psor. ).

Rhagades: skin cracked on hands and feet; pain and burning particularly on sides of fingers and toes; skin hard, indurated.

Relations. – Complementary: Merc. , Sep. , either of which follows well.

Compare: Berb. , Lyc. , Nat. m. , Phos.

Frequently called for after abuse of Mercury.