Abdomen.--Sensitive. Clothes feel too tight. Gurgling and pain on taking deep breath. Movement in abdomen like fist of a child. Colicky pains.
Back and Extremities.--Pain and aching in lumbar region; aching of legs; in big toe. Trembling of hands. Aching in wrists and ankles.
A heart remedy. Increases energy of hearts' action, renders it more regular. Of use when the ventricles are overdistended and dilatation begins, and when there is an absence of compensatory hypertrophy, and when venous stasis is marked. Dyspnea, dropsy, aneuric tendency. Anasarca.
Dose.--Third attenuation, and for symptoms of heart failure, tincture, one to fifteen drops.
Face.--Hydroa in nose and lips; raw and sore. Epistaxis. Sees imaginary gray spot about three inches square.
Female.--Great soreness in uterine region, with sympathetic palpitation of heart. Pain in sacro-iliac joints, running down leg. Itching at urinary meatus and vaginal orifice.
Fever.--Chilly in back and down spine, followed by fever, little sweat. Thirst and headache during chill. Dyspnea during fever.
Heart.--Feeling as if heart beat throughout the chest. Endocarditis, with extreme orthopnea. Sensation as if heart ceased beating, then starting very suddenly. Palpitation from the least exertion. Tobacco heart, especially when due to cigarettes. Angina pectoris. Extremely rapid and irregular pulse.
Mind and Head.--Dull intellect. Grieves easily. Dull headache; worse, ascending, hawking. Scalp sensitive. Irritability. Hysterical manifestations.
Modalities.--Better, in open air. Worse, in warm room.
Mouth.--Grating of teeth in the morning. Coppery taste. Tongue feels sore and scalded; broad and thick with heavy, dirty coating.
Relationship.--Compare: Digit; Crataeg; Lilium; Adonis (feeble heart action due only to functional disturbance).
Respiratory.--Pulmonary congestion. Orthopnea. Dyspnea while walking. Hot feeling in throat.
Throat.--Raw feeling in back of throat when inspiring.
Urinary Organs.--Aching in bladder; feels distended. Frequent urination; offensive; scanty urine.
