Generalities
Skimmed milk is useful in diseases with faulty NUTRITION; and anaemic condition of blood. Feels completely exhausted, whether she does anything or not; great fatigue when walking. Sensation as if cold air was blowing on her, even while covered up; as if sheets were damp. Sufferings from loss of sleep. Dropsy; from organic heart disease; and from chronic liver complaints. Persons or children who become sick on taking milk. Obesity.
Worse
COLD; least draught. Wet. Hands in cold water. Milk. Loss of sleep. Weekly. Shut places.
Better
Rest. Pressure of bandage. Conversation.
Mind
Despondent; better conversation; does not care to live; has no fear of death but is sure he is going to die. Horror of shut places.
Head
Vertigo; worse lying on left side; moving head from pillow; turning while lying; must sit up. Blindness then throbbing frontal headache, with much pale urination; worse noise, light, motion, during menses; better by bandaging, conversation. Migraine; ceases at sunset. Distress in head after injury. Faintness on extending arms overhead. Skull feels lifted up. Persistent headaches, for years. Head becomes sore on coughing.
Eyes
Photophobia; even candle light unbearable. As if eyes were full of little stones, during headache.
Face
Pale sickly look. Painless swelling of the face.
Stomach
Aversion to milk. Nausea and vomiting, with sensation of deathly sickness. Vomiting incessant with no relation to eating, first of undigested food; sour; then of bitter water; of pregnancy. Children suffer from coryza from drinking milk.
Abdomen
Constipation, with ineffectual urging. Stools large hard; with great straining, lacerating anus. Persistent constipation better only by purgatives or enema with violent attacks of sick headaches.
Urinary
Boring, sore pain in kidneys. Frequent and profuse urination, with headache or other pains. Urination involuntary, while walking in cold air, while riding, or when hurrying to catch a train, and lack of sensation when the bladder is full.
Female
Menses; delayed; in girls who drink much milk; suppressed by putting hands in cold water. Scanty flow of milk; restores the milk.
Extremities
Tips of fingers icy cold, rest of the hands warm.
Sleep
Restlessness from loss of sleep.
Fever
Always feels chilly.
Skin
Very sensitive to cold. Symmetrical patches, causing itching and burning after scratching. Skin thickened at the edges of feet.
Related
Natrum mur.