Symptoms
1. Dark, spare withered-looking subjects; disposition gen. mild and cheerful.
2. Attacks of depression. Loss of memory; time passes slowly.
3. Great dryness of all mucous membranes (except female genitalia) with sense of constriction.
4. Abnormal appetite, craving for indigestible things; potatoes disagree.
5. Inactivity of the rectum; no desire and no ability until large accumulation, even soft stool requires great straining; stool hard and knotty or soft, clayey and adhesive.
6. Leucorrhoea, acrid, transparent, profuse, running down to the heels (Syphilinum) ((<)) daytime, gen. assoc. delayed, scanty menses after which patients physically and mentally exhausted.
7. Paralytic weakness of lower limbs with great heaviness and lack of co-ordination; “must sit down”; also with burning pain esp. in the back.
8. Chronic throat conditions, “every cold settles in the throat”.
9. Skin eruptions (<) winter; intolerable itching (<) warmth of bed; (<) starchy foods and all irritating things (salt, pepper, etc.).
10. Modalities. Patient chilly (<) cold except headache; at new and full moon; on alternate days; ((>)) eating.
Notes. A chronic of Bryonia. Slow but long-acting chronic remedy.