Acts especially on gastro-intestinal tract. Chronic catarrhal conditions, leucorrhea and gonorrhea. Obstinate ulcers. Useful in mental troubles from overweening pride. Especially useful in females. Nux symptoms in females often met by Gratiola.

Dose.--Second to third potency.

Female.--Nymphomania. Menses too profuse, premature, and too long. Leucorrhea.

Head.--Sick headache. Rush of blood with vanishing of sight. Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller. Tightness in forehead, with wrinkles in skin. Eyes dry, burn. Myopia.

Modalities.--Worse, drinking too much water.

Relationship.--Compare: Dig; Euph; Tab; Cham; Ammon pic; Nux vom.

Sleep.--Insomnia.

Stomach.--Vertigo during and after meals; hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals. Dyspepsia, with much distention of the stomach. Cramps and colic after supper and during night, with swelling of abdomen and constipation. Dysphagia for liquids.

Stool.--Diarrhea; green, frothy water, followed by anal burning, forcibly evacuated without pain. Constipation, with gouty acidity. Hemorrhoids, with hypochondriasis. Rectum constricted.