• Suited to scrofulous, rheumatic, gonorrheal, and syphilitic patients.

• It acts especially on skin, glands, and genito-urinary organs, particularly testicles.

• An important remedy in disturbances of sleep and neuralgic pains.

• Many pains are relieved by perspiration.

• Muscles are relaxed or twitching.

• Great emaciation.

• Great sleepiness.

• Distant pulsation is felt throughout the body.

• There are moist, pustular, sensitive, itching eruptions.

• General aggravation from washing with cold water.

• It tends to relaxed, torpid constitutions.

• Marked venous stasis.

• Debility with aversion to movement.

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• Indifference; apathetic and easily discouraged.

• Forgetfulness; difficulty concentrating.

• Anxiety about health and future.

• Irritability; easily angered.

• Aversion to mental work.

• The patient is discontented; dissatisfied with everything.

• Mental confusion, especially in the morning.

• Dullness of intellect.

• Timidity, with lack of self-confidence.

• The patient easily loses train of thought.

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• Primarily affects the genito-urinary system, skin, and glands.

• Marked tendency to inflammation and induration of glands.

• General sensation of burning pains, particularly in the urethra and skin.

• Aversion to being touched, especially on affected parts.

• Weakness and debility are prominent features.

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• Forgetfulness and difficulty concentrating.

• Irritability and impatience, easily angered.

• Aversion to mental work or exertion.

• Anxious and apprehensive, especially about health.

• Depression and sadness, with a tendency to weep.

• There are neuralgic pains, especially in temples, relieved by perspiration.

• Headache with pressure in the forehead.

• The scalp is sensitive to touch.

• There are eruptions on the scalp.

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• Headache, often frontal or temporal, with a feeling of pressure or fullness.

• Scalp sensitive to touch.

• Vertigo, with a tendency to fall.

• There are styes.

• Blurred vision.

• Inflammation of the eyes with photophobia.

• Pain in eyes, as if sand were in them.

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• Inflammation of the eyes and eyelids, with burning and itching.

• Photophobia, sensitivity to light.

• Styes on the eyelids.

• There are discharges from the ears.

• Impaired hearing.

• Coryza with burning and watery discharge.

• The nostrils are sore and ulcerated.

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• Coryza, with watery discharge.

• Obstruction of the nose.

• Epistaxis (nosebleeds).

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Cough, dry and hacking, especially at night.

• Oppression of chest.

• Difficult breathing.

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• Distant pulsations are felt throughout the body.

• Weakness and irregular heart action.

• Soreness to touch.

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• Nausea and vomiting.

• Loss of appetite.

• The abdomen is distended and painful.

• There are colicky pains.

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• Abdominal pain and distension. Flatulence.

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• Diarrhea, watery and offensive.

• Constipation with ineffectual urging.

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• Frequent urination.

• Burning pain during urination.

• Involuntary urination, especially at night.

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• Frequent urination. Burning pain during urination.

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• Swelling and induration of testicles.

• The testicles are painful.

• Gonorrhea, especially with suppressed discharge leading to swelling.

• Orchitis.

• Erection without desire.

• There are seminal emissions without dreams.

• There are rheumatic pains in the joints.

• Weakness and trembling of the limbs.

• Sciatica.

• Swelling of the joints.

• Twitching of muscles.

• Pain in limbs is ameliorated by perspiration.

• There are cramps in calves at night.

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• Pain in the limbs, especially in the joints.

• Swelling of the joints.

• Coldness of the extremities.

• There are moist, pustular, sensitive, itching eruptions.

• Eczema.

• There are ulcers.

• There are warts.

• Herpes.

• There are burning and stinging pains in the skin.

• Itching is worse from warmth.

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• Eruptions, vesicles, and pustules.

• Itching and burning sensation in the skin.

• Ulcers, with a tendency to spread.

• Glandular swellings and indurations.

• Sleeplessness, especially before midnight.

• Restless sleep.

• Washing with cold water. At night. Warmth. Motion. Lying down. Suppressed discharges.

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• Night.

• Warmth (aggravates skin symptoms).

• Touch.

• Motion.

• Damp weather.

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• Perspiration. Open air. Cold applications (sometimes). Rest.

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• Antidotes: Bryonia; Camphor.

• Complementary: Pulsatilla, Mercurius.

• Compare: Aurum, Spongia, Rhododendron (affections of testicles); Sulphur (skin eruptions).

• Useful in: Gonorrhea, Orchitis, Syphilis, Rheumatism, Skin diseases, Neuralgia, Sleeplessness.

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• Open air.

• Cold applications.

• Rest.

• Ringing in the ears (tinnitus).

• Hardness of hearing.

• Pain in the ears.

• Sore throat, with burning and stinging pains.

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Swelling of the tonsils.

• Cough, dry or with expectoration.

• Hoarseness.

• Difficulty breathing.

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• Palpitations, especially when lying down.

• Weakness of the heart.

• Stitching pains in the heart region.

• Pain in the chest, often burning or stitching.

• Oppression of the chest.

• Swelling of the mammary glands.

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• Itching and burning sensation in the anus.

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• Inflammation of the urethra. Stricture of the urethra.

• Involuntary urination.

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• Inflammation of the testes (orchitis). Swelling and induration of the testes.

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• Pain in the spermatic cord. Hydrocele.

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• Sexual desire diminished or absent.

• Pain in the ovaries. Leucorrhea, profuse and acrid.

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• Swelling and induration of the mammary glands.

• Pain in the back, especially in the lumbar region.

• Stiffness of the back.

• Weakness of the back.

• Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron.

• Camphor, Hepar sulphur.

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• Aurum metallicum, Conium maculatum, Spongia tosta, Thuja occidentalis. Useful in conditions like orchitis, stricture, and glandular affections.