Symptoms
1. Persons with sallow, greasy-looking complexion; dark, “bilious” individuals with sunken cheeks; cadaverous appearance.
2. Intellectual torpor; apathy; loss of memory; unable to find proper word; hypochondriasis with irritability; religious melancholia; thinks much about physical health esp. his digestion.
3. Anaemia with great lassitude; excessive and rapid emaciation of parts.
4. Spasms esp. of sphincters; cramps; convulsions; tremors; going on to general or partial paralysis with hyperaesthesia esp. if preceded by characteristic pains or mental derangement. Wrist- drop.
5. Arthralgic and neuralgic pains in trunk and limbs.
6. Distinct blue line along gum margins; foetid breath, yellow tongue, sweetish taste.
7. Excruciating colic, sensation as if abdomen retracted to the spine, “as if drawn in by string” pain radiates to all parts of the body.
8. Constipation; stools painful, hard, lumpy, dark, “like sheep’s dung’; with spasms of sphincter ani.
9. Marked dryness of the skin; entire lack of perspiration.
10. Modalities; (<) night, motion; (>) hard pressure.
Note. A slow deep-acting remedy.
