Sanguine, ruddy people, with black hair and eyes; lively, restless,
anxious about the future.
Old people; weak vision; corpulent; tired of life.
For constitutions broken down by bad effects of mercury and syphilis.
Pinning boys; low-spirited, lifeless, weak memories, lacking in
"boyish go;" testes undeveloped, mere pendent shreds.
Constantly dwelling on suicide ( Naja - but is afraid to die, Nux
).
Profound melancholy: feels hateful and quarrelsome; desire to commit
suicide; life is a constant burden; after abuse of mercury; with
nearly all complaints.
Uneasy, hurried, great desire for mental and physical activity;
cannot do things fast enough ( Arg. n. ).
Ailments from fright, anger, contradictions, mortification, vexation,
dread, or reserved displeasure ( Staph. ).
Oversensitive: least contradiction excites wrath ( Con. ); to pain;
to smell, taste, hearing, touch ( Anac. ).
Headache of people with dark olive-brown complexion; sad, gloomy,
taciturn; disposed to constipation; from least mental exertion.
Falling of the hair, especially in syphilis and mercurial affections.
Hemiopia; sees only the lower half (sees only the left half, [Lith.
c.], Lyc. ).
Syphilitic and mercurial affections of the bones.
Caries: of the nasal palatine and mastoid bones; ozaena, otorrhoea,
excessively fetid discharge, pains worse at night; drive to despair;
of mercurial or syphilitic origin ( Asaf. ).
Prolapsed and indurated uterus; from over-reaching or straining
( Pod. , Rhus ); from hypertrophy ( Con. ).
Menstrual and uterine affections, with great melancholy; < at
menstrual period.
Foul breath; in girls at puberty.
Sensation as if the heart stood still; as though it ceased to beat
and then suddenly gave on hard thump ( Sep. ).
Violent palpitation; anxiety, with congestion of blood to head
and chest after exertion; pulse small, feeble, rapid, irregular;
visible, beating of carotid and temporal arteries ( Bell. , Glon.
).
Fatty degeneration of heart ( Phos. ).
Relations. - Aurum follows, and is followed well by Syphilinum.
Similar: to, Asaf. , Cal. , Plat. , Sep. , Tar. , Ther. , in bone,
uterine disease.
Aggravation. - In cold air; when getting cold; while lying down;
mental exertion; many complaints come on only in winter.
Amelioration. - In warm air, when growing warm, in the morning
and during summer.
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