Symptoms
1. Especially adapted to delicate, anaemic women with sanguine temperament; pseudo-plethora (cheeks flushed or easily flush but mucous membranes pale).
2. Mental and physical irritability; intolerance of noise and pain; patient excitable, impulsive; changeable; solitude preferred.
3. Great debility with breathlessness; easily fatigued yet must have gentle exercise.
4. Local congestions with tendency to recurrent haemorrhages, esp. of upper air passages (Ferrum Acet., Ferrum phos.).
5. Frequent attacks of hammering, pulsating h/a., often with hot head and cold extremities.
6. Weak digestion; anorexia, sometimes alt. with bulimia; vomiting of food immediately after eating or coughing, or it lies in stomach all day and is then vomited just after midnight, aversion and (<) from eggs (rev. Calcarea).
7. Irritability of rectum and bladder resulting in (a) diarrhoea of painless, watery or lienteric stools with flatulence while eating and drinking; (b) incontinence of urine particularly in women, spurts on coughing (<) dry.
8. Menses premature, profuse, protracted; flow pale, watery debilitating.
9. Muscular pains about the shoulder esp. left deltoid (>) gentle exertion; also cramps.
10. Patient chilly, (<) winter but extreme heat also (<); (>) walking slowly about yet weakness obliges her to sit or lie down; (>) mental exertion; (<) after midnight; (<) sitting still.
