Indicated in low dynamic states, with great prostration and with livid, purplish appearance of the skin. Has proved very valuable in malignant scarlet fever.
Child stupid, semi-conscious; does not understand; muttering delirium; stupor, restlessness.
Head burning hot, with fever and anxiety.
Face hot, dark livid, covered with livid rash.
Tongue dry, parched, cracked.
Eyes congested; pupils dilated.
Enlargement of parotid and cervical glands; sensitiveness of.
Throat swollen, painful, purplish; foul ulcers in the throat; frequent hawking of mucus.
Stools watery and offensive.
Skin of face and of entire body covered with livid, purplish eruption, disappearing on pressure, returning slowly.
(First Lessons in the Symptomatology of Leading Homoeopathic Remedies by H. R. Arndt, M. D. Philadephia. Boericke and Tafel.)