Syphilinum

Pains increase and decrease gradually ( Stan. ); shifting and require frequent change of position.

All symptoms are worse at night ( Merc. ); from sundown to sunrise.

Eruptions: dull, red, copper-colored spots, becoming blue when getting cold.

Extreme emaciation of entire body ( Abrot. , Iod. ).

Heart: lancinating pains from base to apex, at night (from apex to base, Med. ; from base to clavicle or shoulder, Spig. ).

Loss of memory; cannot remember names of books, persons or places; arithmetical calculation difficult.

Sensation: as if going insane, as if about to be paralyzed; of apathy and indifference.

Terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical exhaustion on awakening; it is intolerable, death is preferable.

Fears the terrific suffering from exhaustion on awakening ( Lach. ).

Leucorrhoea; profuse; soaking through the napkins and running down the heels ( Alum. ).

Headache, neuralgic in character, causing sleeplessness and delirium at night; commencing at 4 p. m.; worse from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight (ceases at 11 or 12 p. m., Lyc. ); falling of the hair.

Acute ophthalmia neonatorum; lids swollen, adhere during sleep; pain intense at night < from 2 to 5 a. m., pus profuse; > by cold bathing.

Ptosis: paralysis of superior oblique; sleepy look from drooping lids ( Caust. , Graph. ).

diplopia, one image seen below the other.

Teeth: decay at edge of gum and break off; are cupped, edges serrated; dwarfed in size, converge at their tips ( Staph. ).

Craving alcohol, in any form. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism ( Asar. , Psor. , Tuber. , Sulph. , Sulph. ac. ).

Obstinate constipation for year; rectum seems tied up with strictures; when enema was used the agony of passage was like labor ( Lac. c. , Tub. ).

Fissures in anus and rectum ( Thuja ); prolapse of rectum; obstinate cases with a syphilitic history.

Rheumatism of the shoulder joint, or at insertion of deltoid, < from raising arm laterally ( Rhus – right shoulder, Sang. ; left, Fer. ).

When the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve, in syphilitic affections.

Syphilitics, or patients who have had chancre treated by local means, and as a result have suffered from throat and skin troubles for years, are nearly always benefited by this remedy at commencement of treatment unless some other remedy is clearly indicated.

Relations. – Compare: Aur. , Asaf. , Kali i. , Merc. , Phyt. , in bone diseases and syphilitic affections.

Aggravation. – At night, from twilight to daylight.