A perfect picture of COLLAPSE, with EXTREME COLDNESS, BLUENESS, AND WEAKNESS, is offered by this drug. Post-operative shock with cold sweat on forehead, pale face, rapid, feeble pulse. COLD PERSPIRATION ON THE FOREHEAD, with nearly all complaints. VOMITING, PURGING, AND CRAMPS IN EXTREMITIES. The PROFUSE, violent retching and vomiting is most characteristic. Surgical shock. Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces. “COPROPHAGIA” violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk.
MIND
Melancholy, with stupor and mania. Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing; SULLEN INDIFFERENCE. Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses. Puerperal mania. Aimless wandering from home. DELUSIONS OF IMPENDING MISFORTUNES. Mania, with desire to cut and tear things. (TARANT.) Attacks of pain, with delirium driving to madness. Cursing, howling all night.
HEAD
Contracted features. COLD SWEAT ON FOREHEAD. SENSATION OF A LAMP OF ICE ON VERTEX. Headache, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, pale face. Neck too weak to hold head up.
EYES
Surrounded by dark rings. Staring; turned upwards, without lustre. Lachrymation with redness. Lids dry heavy.
FACE
Features sunken. ICY COLDNESS OF TIP OF NOSE AND FACE. Nose grows more pointed. Tearing in cheeks, temples, and eyes. FACE VERY PALE, BLUE, COLLAPSED, COLD.
MOUTH
Tongue pale, cold; cool sensation, as from peppermint. Dry in center not relieved by water. Salty saliva. Toothache, teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead.
STOMACH
VORACIOUS appetite. THIRST FOR COLD WATER, BUT IS VOMITED AS SOON AS SWALLOWED. Averse to warm food. Hiccough. COPIOUS VOMITING AND NAUSEA; AGGRAVATED BY DRINKING AND LEAST MOTION. Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt. Anguish in pit of stomach. Great weakness after vomiting. Gastric irritability with CHRONIC vomiting of food.
ABDOMEN
Sinking and empty feeling. COLD FEELING in stomach and abdomen. Pain in abdomen preceding stool. Cramps, knotting abdomen and legs. Sensation as if hernia would protrude. (NUX.) Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with terrible colic.
RECTUM
Constipation from inactivity of rectum, with heat and headache. Constipation of babies, and when produced by very cold weather. STOOLS LARGE, WITH MUCH STRAINING UNTIL EXHAUSTED, WITH COLD SWEAT. Diarrhoea, very painful, watery, COPIOUS, AND FORCIBLY EVACUATED, followed by great prostration. Evacuations of cholera morbus and true cholera when vomiting accompanies the purging.
RESPIRATORY
Hoarse, weak voice. Rattling in chest. Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be coughed up. Coarse rales. Chronic bronchitis in the aged. (HIPPOZANIN.) Loud, barking, stomach cough, followed by eructation of gas; worse, warm room. Hollow cough, tickling low down, with blue face. Cough comes on from drinking, especially cold water; urine escapes when coughing. Cough on entering warm room from cold air. (BRYONIA.)
HEART
Palpitation with anxiety and rapid audible respiration. Pulse irregular, feeble. Tobacco heart from chewing. Intermittent action of heart in feeble persons with some hepatic obstruction. One of the best heart stimulants in homeopathic doses. (J. S. Mitchell.)
FEMALE
Menses too early; profuse and exhausting. DYSMENORRHEA, WITH COLDNESS, purging, COLD SWEAT. FAINTS FROM LEAST EXERTION. Sexual mania precedes menses.
EXTREMITIES
Soreness and tenderness of joints. Sciatica;
pains like electric flashes. CRAMPS IN CALVES. Neuralgia in brachial plexus; arms feel swollen, cold, paralytic.
SKIN
Blue, cold, clammy, inelastic; COLD AS DEATH. Cold sweat. Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet.
FEVER
Chill, WITH EXTREME COLDNESS and thirst.