Generalities
This remedy should be thought of when the discharges of MUCUS MEMBRANES are persistently acrid, profuse, thick, gluey, yellow like honey, in chronic affections; and thin in acute conditions. Discharges cause BURNING of the part on which they flow. Its symptoms are very similar to the symptoms of early stage of tuberculosis, with afternoon rise of temperature. In chronic inflammatory state of the lungs and bronchial tubes, the expectoration is greenish-yellow, pus-like, with short breadth, there is a profound prostration, emaciation, recurring fever and sweats and tendency to diarrhoea. It is a remedy for senile heart, and myocarditis and fatty degeneration of the heart. Heart weakened by chronic lung affections. Sensations of heaviness occurs in many parts. Axillary tumours. Erethistic weakness; debility.
Worse
Dry, cold weather. Windy, foggy weather. Exertion. In room. Apples. Tobacco smoke.
Better
Open air.
Mind
Unable to study, study causes headache.
Head
Vertigo with tremulous feeling esp. in aged. Dull heavy headache, across forehead or occiput. Study causes headache. Pain over the root of nose, as if she would go silly.
Eyes
Eye balls feel heavy.
Ear
Foul otorrhoea. Tympanum thickened. Hypertrophy of eustachian tube; deafness from.
Nose
Drips water, which is hot, green, acrid, reddens upper lip. Persistent but unsatisfactory sneezing. Tingling in the nose and constant desire to sneeze. Coryza with dyspnoea. Post-nasal catarrh. Hay fever. Influenza. Colds with hunger.
Face
Aching in malar bones. Cancer of lips.
Throat
Raw burning, tonsils swollen, Chronic follicular pharyngitis. Goitre.
Stomach
Intense thirst, with desire for cold water which is ejected at once. Vomiting an hour after food. Uncomfortable nausea.
Abdomen
Diarrhoea and dysentery; stools scalding, glass white. Enlarged mesenteric glands. Painful swelling in right groin on extending leg.
Females
Lump in mammae worse touch. Nipple retracted. Foul, bloody, yellow irritating leucorrhoea, with swelling of labia. Emaciation of mammae.
Respiratory organs
Short of breath; air hunger. Hacking cough. Expectoration, yellow-green, foul Asthma, in phthisis. Pneumonia that fails to clear up. Burning heat in chest. Tubercular pleurisy. hoarseness. Aphonia.
Heart
Weak, irritable. Pulse rapid, irritable.
Neck and Back
Burning heat in lumbar region, as if clothes were on fire_.
Extremities
Pain in humerus worse writing. Clothes feel cold better walking.
Fever
Recurrent fever with sweat. Drenching night sweats, with weakness. Chilly, cannot endure cold.
Skin
Dry, harsh, dusky. Psoriasis. Ichthyosis. Marked exfoliation of skin in large scales leaving a exudating surface beneath. Acne hard, shotty. Venereal bubo. Eczema of beard worse washing.
Related
Kali-b.
Complementary
Kali-i.
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.