(The Gonorrhoeal Virus)
A powerful and deep-acting medicine, often indicated for chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhoea. For women with chronic pelvic disorders. Chronic RHEUMATISM. Great disturbance and irritability of nervous system. Pains intolerable, tensive; nerves quiver and tingle. Children dwarfed and stunted. Chronic catarrhal conditions in children. Nose dirty, tonsils enlarged, thick yellow mucus from nostrils; lips thickened from mouth breathing. State of collapse and TREMBLING ALL OVER. History of sycosis. Often restores a gonorrhoeal discharge. Intensity of all sensations. Oedema of limbs; dropsy of serous sacs. Disseminated sclerosis.

MIND

Weak memory. Loses the thread of conversation. Cannot speak without weeping. TIME PASSES TOO SLOWLY. (CANNAB. IND.; ARG. N.) Is in a great hurry. Hopeless of recovery. Difficult concentration. Fears going insane. (MANCINELLA.) Sensibility exalted. Nervous, restless. Fear in the dark and of some one behind her. Melancholy, with suicidal thoughts.

HEAD

Burning pain in brain; worse, occiput. Head heavy and drawn backward. Headache from jarring of cars, exhaustion, or hard work. Weight and pressure in vertex. Hair dry, crispy. Itching of scalp; dandruff.

EYES

Feels AS IF SHE STARED at everything. Eyeballs ache. Feels as if sticks in eyes. Lids irritated.

EARS

Partial deafness, pulsation in ears. Quick, darting pains in right ear.

NOSE

Intense itching. Coldness of tip. Posterior nares obstructed. Chronic nasal and pharyngeal catarrhs.

FACE

Pallor, acne, blotches of reddish color. SMALL BOILS break out during menses.

MOUTH

Tongue coated brown and thick, blistered; canker sores. Blisters on inner surface of lips and cheeks.

STOMACH

Coppery taste and eructations of sulphuretted hydrogen. Ravenous hunger soon after eating. VERY THIRSTY. Cravings for liquor, salt, sweets, etc., warm drinks. Pernicious vomiting of pregnancy.

ABDOMEN

Violent pain in liver and spleen. Rests more comfortably lying on abdomen.

STOOL

Can pass stool only by leaning very far back. Painful lump sensation on posterior surface of sphincter. Oozing of fetid moisture. INTENSE ITCHING OF ANUS.
Urine.
Painful tenesmus when urinating. NOCTURNAL ENURESIS. Renal colic. (BERB.; OCIM.; PAREIR.) Urine flows very slowly.

FEMALE

Intense pruritus. Menses OFFENSIVE, profuse, dark, clotted; stains difficult to wash out, urinates frequently at that time. SENSITIVE SPOT NEAR OS UTERI. Leucorrhoea thin, acrid, excoriating, fishy odor. Sycotic warts on genitals. Ovarian pain, worse left side, or from ovary to ovary. STERILITY. Metrorrhagia. Intense menstrual colic. Breasts COLD, sore, and sensitive.

MALE

Nocturnal emissions, followed by great weakness. IMPOTENCE. Gleet; whole urethra feels sore. Urethritis. Enlarged and painful prostate with frequent urging and painful urination.

RESPIRATORY

Much oppression of breathing. Hoarse while reading. Pain and soreness through chest and mammae. Incessant, dry, night cough. Asthma. Incipient consumption. Larynx feels sore. Dyspnoea; cannot exhale. (Samb.) Cough; better lying on stomach.

EXTREMITIES

Pain in back, with burning heat. Legs heavy; ache all night; CANNOT KEEP THEM STILL. (ZINC.) Ankles easily turn when walking. Burning of hands and feet. Finger-joints enlarged, puffy. Gouty concretions. HEELS AND BALLS OF FEET TENDER. (THUJA.) SORENESS OF SOLES. Restless; better, clutching hands.

SKIN

Yellow. Intense and incessant ITCHING; worse night and when thinking of it. Fiery red rash about anus in babies. Copper-colored spots. Favus. Tumors and abnormal growth.

FEVER

Wants to be fanned all the time. Chills up and down back; coldness of legs, hands, and forearms. Flashes of heat in face and neck. Night-sweat and hectic.

SLEEP

Dreams she is drinking. (ARS.; PHOS.) Sleeps in knee-chest position.

MODALITIES

WORSE, when thinking of ailment, FROM DAYLIGHT TO SUNSET, heat, inland. BETTER, at the seashore, lying on stomach, damp weather. (CAUST.)

RELATIONSHIP

Compare:(Lactation: GALEGA; LACTUCA.)SULPH.; SYPHIL.; ZINC.