• Remedy frequently indicated in males.

• Marked periodicity of symptoms.

• The patient is sensitive to drafts.

• Seldom indicated in the earlier stages of acute disease.

• The patient has Chronic gout.

• The patient has Chronic suppurative pyelitis.

• The patient has Post-operative gas pains, without relief from passing gas.

• The patient has Debility and exhaustion from loss of vital fluids: hemorrhage, diarrhea, suppuration, lactation.

• The patient has Great sensitivity.

• The patient has Anemia and chlorosis.

• The patient has Tendency to haemorrhages.

• The patient is Oversensitive to pain; least touch is unbearable.

• The patient has Dropsical conditions following debilitating losses.

• The patient has Great weakness and prostration, especially after acute illnesses.

• Symptoms are often accompanied by chills, fever, and sweating.

• The patient has Profuse sweating, often debilitating.

• The patient has General feeling of being bruised all over.

• Symptoms are frequently worse on alternate days or at the same hour each day.

• The patient has Great weakness after any exertion.

• The patient has Aversion to open air; wants to be covered warmly.

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• The patient has Irritability and ill-humor.

• The patient has Indifference and apathy.

• The patient has Sadness, especially in the evening.

• The patient has Anxiety about the future.

• The patient has Mental confusion and difficulty concentrating.

• The patient has Memory impairment, forgetfulness.

• The patient has Aversion to company, desires solitude.

• The patient has Restlessness and insomnia due to overthinking.

• The patient has Apprehension and fear, especially at night.

• The patient has Delusions of persecution or being wronged.

• The patient is Easily startled by noise.

• The patient has Ailments from grief or disappointment.

• The patient is Oversensitive to external impressions; easily affected by noises, odors, etc.

• The patient has Great despondency with suicidal thoughts, but lacks courage.

• The patient has Difficult thinking; cannot fix the attention.

• The patient is Irritable and impatient; easily angered.

• The patient has Anguish and fear with palpitations.

• The patient is Anxious about trifles.

• The patient has Despair of recovery.

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• Debility from excessive loss of fluids (blood, semen, suppuration).

• "Pumped-out" condition after prolonged overwork, mental or bodily.

• Great sensitiveness to touch.

• Thin, dry, bilious constitution; or leucophlegmatic with dropsical tendencies.

• Periodicity is a key characteristic, in fevers and neuralgias.

• Hæmorrhages from every orifice.

• Weakness of the heart and impaired circulation.

• Irritability.

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• The patient has Headache from loss of fluids, especially after hemorrhage.

• The patient has Throbbing, bursting headache, worse from motion.

• The patient has Headache relieved by hard pressure.

• The patient has Vertigo with weakness and fainting.

• The patient has Tinnitus and deafness.

• The head feels heavy and full.

• The scalp is sensitive to touch.

• The patient has Dark circles around the eyes.

• The patient has Weakness of sight.

• The patient has Photophobia.

• The patient has Dilated pupils.

• The patient has Flickering before the eyes.

• Objects appear blurred.

• The patient has Ringing in the ears (tinnitus).

• The patient has Buzzing and humming sounds.

• The patient is Sensitive to noise.

• The patient has Deafness.

• The patient has Throbbing in the ears.

• The patient has Sensation of fullness in the ears.

• The patient has Frequent nosebleeds, especially in the morning.

• The patient has Pale face.

• The patient has Loss of smell.

• The patient has Dryness of the nose.

• The patient has Sneezing and coryza.

• The patient has Sore throat with burning pain.

• The patient has Dryness of the throat.

• The patient has Hoarseness.

• The patient has Difficulty swallowing.

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• Thick, dirty yellow coating on tongue. Bitter taste on waking. Aphthæ of weakly people.

• The patient has Oppressed breathing and shortness of breath.

• The patient has Cough, especially at night or after exertion.

• The patient has Asthma.

• The patient has Hemoptysis (coughing up blood).

• The patient has Rattling of mucus in the chest.

• The patient has Dry, hacking cough.

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• The patient has Palpitations, especially after loss of fluids.

• The patient has Weak, irregular pulse.

• The patient has Enlarged heart.

• The patient has Endocarditis and pericarditis after rheumatism or loss of vital fluids.

• The patient has Fluttering of the heart.

• The patient has Angina pectoris-like pains.

• The patient has Pain in the chest, worse from coughing.

• The patient has Oppression in the chest.

• The patient has Feeling of constriction in the chest.

• The patient has Stitching pains in the chest.

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• Sore to touch.

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• The patient has Indigestion with bloating and gas.

• The patient has Aversion to food, especially meat and dairy.

• The patient has Craving for sweets and sour things.

• The patient has Belching and heartburn.

• The patient has Nausea and vomiting.

• The patient has Pain in the stomach after eating.

• The patient has Painful distention of the abdomen with gas.

• The patient has Rumbling in the abdomen.

• The patient has Colic.

• The patient has Pain in the liver region.

• The abdomen is sensitive to touch.

• The patient has Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen.

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• The patient has Diarrhea, especially after eating fruit or drinking milk.

• Stools are watery, undigested, and profuse.

• The patient has Weakness and exhaustion after stool.

• The patient has Hemorrhoids with bleeding.

• The patient has Tenesmus (straining at stool).

• The patient has Burning in the anus.

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• Diarrhœa after fruit.

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• The patient has Frequent urination, especially at night.

• The urine is scanty and dark.

• The patient has Albuminuria.

• The patient has Diabetes insipidus.

• The patient has Burning pain during urination.

• The patient has Involuntary urination.

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• Hæmaturia.

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• In males

• The patient has Impotence.

• The patient has Premature ejaculation.

• The patient has Weakness after coition.

• The patient has Seminal emissions.

• The patient has Swelling of the prostate.

• In females

• The patient has Profuse menstruation.

• The patient has Metrorrhagia (uterine bleeding between periods).

• The patient has Leucorrhea (whitish or yellowish vaginal discharge).

• The patient has Weakness after menses.

• The patient has Suppressed lactation.

• The patient has Painful menstruation.

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• Excessive seminal losses. Menorrhagia; metrorrhagia; post-partum hæmorrhages. Leucorrhœa before period, painful pressure towards groins and anus, fetid or bloody leucorrhœa before period; with contractions in inner parts.

• The patient has Pain in the back, especially in the lumbar region.

• The patient has Stiffness of the back.

• The patient has Weakness of the back.

• The patient has Pain between the shoulders.

• The patient has Weakness and trembling of the limbs.

• The patient has Pain in the joints, especially in the evening and at night.

• The patient has Gouty pains.

• The patient has Swelling of the feet and ankles.

• The patient has Coldness of the extremities.

• The patient has Numbness and tingling in the limbs.

• The patient has Cramps in the calves.

• The patient has Restless legs.

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• Rheumatism with soft swelling, pale red, very tender to touch. Pain in right hip, < by every movement. Dropsy. Weakening night-sweats. Rest < pains in limbs. Motion > pains in limbs.

• The patient has Pale, sallow complexion.

• The patient has Dry, itchy skin.

• The patient has Eruptions, such as hives or eczema.

• The patient has Sensitive skin.

• The patient has Easy sweating.

• The patient has Restless sleep.

• The patient has Insomnia, especially from overthinking.

• The patient has Frequent waking.

• The patient has Dreams are vivid and disturbing.

• The patient has Sleeplessness before midnight.

• The patient has Unrefreshing sleep.

• Touch.

• Drafts of air.

• Loss of fluids.

• At night.

• Periodically.

• After eating.

• Fruit.

• Milk.

• Damp weather.

• Motion.

• Open air.

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• Hard pressure.

• Bending double.

• Warmth (sometimes).

• Rest (sometimes).

• Lying down.

• Eating (temporarily).

• Compare

• Quinidin: Paroxysmal tachycardia and auricular fibrillation; slows the heart and lengthens auriculo-ventricular conduction time. Dose: 1/2 grain t.i.d.

• Cephalanthus (Button Bush): Intermittent fever, sore throat, rheumatic symptoms, vivid dreams.

• Ars; Cedron; Nat sulph.

• Cydonia vulgaris (Quince): Traditionally used to strengthen the sexual organs and stomach.

• Complementary: Ferrum; Calc phos.

• Antidotes: Camph.; Caps.

• China Officinalis is Useful in conditions such as anemia, hemorrhage, diarrhea, debility, exhausting discharges, intermittent fever, neuralgia, gout, digestive disorders, and post-operative weakness.

• China Officinalis is Useful in splenic affections.

• China Officinalis may be indicated in septic conditions.

• "Pumped out," unable to think clearly.

• Delirium from loss of fluids.

• Fixed ideas.

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• Intolerable anxiety.

• Unhappy, idea that he is pursued by enemies in business.

• Asthma; wheezing; suffocative catarrh and paralysis of lungs in old people. Respiration labored, loud, and stertorous, with puffing, blowing out of cheeks on each expiration. Spasm of the glottis, attacks sudden, 3 a.m., suffocation. Suppuration of the lungs, especially in drunkards.

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• Lightest touch. Periodically: 1 a.m. to 10 or 12 or 1 p.m., from 8 a.m. to 2 or 3 p.m., every other day, every fourteen days, every night at midnight, during increase of moon, every three months, in autumn. Rest < pains in limbs. Motion < vertigo; headache; nausea. Moving eyes < headache. Open air or draught of air <. During and after stool. < During and after dinner: prosopalgia. Effects of eating: fish; fruit; bad meat or fish. Effects of drinking: beer; sour wine; new beer; impure water; milk. Drinking < the chill. Warm drinks impede digestion. < From smoking. Summer = diarrhœa. Sun < headache. Windy, foggy, or wet weather <. Autumn <. After a meal: fulness of stomach. Anything cold in mouth < Neuralgic headache.

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• Hard pressure. Motion > pains in limbs. Colic > by bending double. > In room or from warm applications.

• Ipecac., Galeum, and Mitchella (same family) have similar relations to intermittent fever, hæmorrhages, and gastro-enteric disturbances.

• Coffea (also Rubiaceæ) is nearly allied in many of its nervous symptoms.

• Compare: Plumbum (sensitiveness to touch). Aconite (everything tastes bitter except water). Silicea ("pumped out").

• Useful after abuse of purgatives, if Nux vomica fails.

• China tincture (Cinchona rubra especially) helps remove the craving for alcohol.