Indicated chiefly in diseases of spinal origin (sclerosis, paralysis, locomotor ataxia), in neuralgia, colic of a violent character (painter?s colic); constipation. Has been used in strangulated hernia and inussusception, and in Bright?s disease.
Complexion sallow, cachetic, yellow, corpse-like; face expressive of suffering.
Stubbornly persistent coldness (almost contra-indicated by fever).
Rapid and great emaciation, with anaemia and general weakness.
Headache; heavy; as of a ball arising from the throat to the brain.
Constriction in oesophagus; can swallow liquids not solids.
Intense cardalgia, causing the patient to bend backward; with board-like hardness of abdomen, somewhat relieved by pressure.
Violent colic, worst near the umbilicus and from there spreading to different parts; remarkable retraction of the abdomen, as though it touched the spine.
Stools small, in hard lumps or balls, like excrements of sheep; with spasmodic contraction of sphincter ani.
Pains constrictive or pricking, or as though molten lead were coursing in the veins, or as though the sensitive nerves were touched with ice, or like lightening.
Worse at night; from light touch.
Better from pressure.
(First Lessons in the Symptomatology of Leading Homoeopathic Remedies by H. R. Arndt, M. D. Philadephia. Boericke and Tafel.)