Generalities
It chiefly acts on fibrous tissue of joints, a useful remedy for arthritic diathesis. Muscles and tendons are contracted resulting in painful, rigidity and swelling of the joints. FREE FOUL, SECRETIONS; expectoration, sweat, etc. Hastens suppuration in abscesses. Tonsillitis with rheumatism. Burning heat; in affected part. Gnawing or sticking pains; in chest. Muscles seem too short_eyelids, back, thigh etc. or feel sore. Contractions between scapulae; palms etc.; causing distortions; and immobility. Growing pains. Short tendons. Nodes. Unclean odour of the body. Clothes feel damp. Pains often end in stitch esp. head. Bones become spongy or suppurate. Progressive emaciation. Feeling that he must yawn, stretch, with uneasy feeling in the whole body. Exostosis.
Worse
HEAT. Touch. Motion. Exertion. Rapid growth. Mercury. 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. Puberty. Cold damp weather.
Better
Cold (locally). Apples. Yawning and stretching.
Mind
Forgetful esp. for names. Strong desire to criticise and despise everything. Thoughtless staring. Indolent, obstinate, fretful.
Head
Pains extend to neck; often ending in stitch. Brain feels loose. Headache better walking, pressure; worse sitting, standing.
Eyes
Eyeballs seem too big to be covered by the eyelids. Hard pimples around the eyes. Exophthalmos.
Face
Neuralgia of the left side of the face daily from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. Face like an old person.
Throat
Dry, burning, painful to touch; acute tonsillitis. Sharp stitches towards the ear on swallowing; cannot swallow without a drink; recurrent tonsillitis; then rheumatism.
Stomach
Thick white fur on tongue. Aversion to milk; to all food; could not eat anything. Desire for apples, which relieves the gastric symptoms. Burning in stomach. Vomits a mass of watery mucus, then exhaustion. Stomach affections return every summer.
Abdomen
Sensation of constriction or stoppage in epigastrium; causing cough, dyspnoea etc. Cholera infantum, face like an old person, emaciation. Distension, flatulent.
Urinary
Continuous urging even after urination. Sharp stitches while or after urination.
Male
Seminal emissions without dreams. Discharge from urethra.
Female
Ovaritis in rheumatic persons, with irregular menses, and dysmenorrhoea with irritable bladder. Cold crawling over mammae. Shuddering in the mammae with gooseflesh.
Respiratory
Feels suffocated from stoppage at epigastrium, causes dry cough, frequently repeated, until expectoration appears. Foetid breath after coughing. Pleuritic stitches worse deep breathing. Recurrent pleurisy. Stitching in apex of (left) lung. Phthisis. Pain in the chest while riding in the open air, better pressure and walking, worse sitting and standing.
Neck and Back
Stiff neck and sore shoulders. One sided stiffness of back from neck to sacrum. Constrictive pain between the scapulae.
Extremities
Tense, short thigh muscles better sitting. Pricking in buttocks, as if sitting on needles. Pain from ankles upwards. Arthritis deformans. Burning in affected limb. Hamstrings short.
Sleep
Yawns and stretches for relief of general ill feeling. Frequent waking from sleep, as if from falling.
Fever
Sweat profuse on single parts, face etc. Night sweats. Fever with chill in the evening. Burning of body. Hot palms. Burning fever with hot face and dry cough.
Related
Ferr; Kali-b; Kreos; Ph-ac; Phytolacca
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'.