Generalities
This remedy specially acts on the nerves; respiratory; orbital; and on urinary organs. Pains are shooting; pressing outwards; lightning like; wandering; CAUSING SHORT BREATH. Neuralgia. Cramps. Oedema. Pains, after shingles. Nerve paralysis. Compensatory effects. Ill effects of sun; sprains; over-lifting. Dropsy caused by defective heart.
Worse
Touch; pressure. Motion. Jarring. Stooping. Ascending.
Better
Bending double.
Mind
Restlessness; walks about constantly; cannot remain in one place.
Head
Shooting from frontal bone (right), through brain to occiput. Headache from heat of sun.
Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia; pain in eyeballs as if bursting, or pressed apart; better lachrymation.
Mouth
Teeth feel pulled out. Toothache better by biting teeth together.
Urinary
Cramp in bladder; from pressure of flatus; must double up to urinate. Urgent desire to urinate; urine reaches glans penis and then returns; with violent pain and spasms and tenesmus in rectum. Neuralgic dysuria. Glans pains on urinating. Must press a long time before urine appears. Pulsating pudendum. Stream of urine thin like a thread or forked.
Male
Pulsation in glans, from jar of walking.
Female
Leucorrhoea; acrid, watery purulent, staining yellow. Menses; thin, watery, too early, too copious, with sacral pain.
Respiratory
Short breath; with pains. Feeling as if air inhaled did not reach the pit of stomach; has to yawn and try to take a deep inspiration to force the air up to that point. Air hunger.
Heart
Hypertrophied. Knocking at heart, with laboured breathing worse least motion. Cardiac dropsy. Throbbing of carotid arteries. Angina pectoris.
Back
As of a lump below the left scapula.
Extremities
Oedema of feet. Itching at the tips of fingers as if frozen. Thumb as if sprained, hindering writing.
Skin
Herpes zoster. Dropsy.
Fever
Night sweat.
Related
Laur.