Niccolum Metallicum

Description

Periodical nervous sick headaches, with asthenopia, weak digestion, constipation. Catarrh. Suits debilitated, nervous, literary patients, with frequent headaches, dyspepsia and constipation.

Dose

Dose.--Third trituration.

Female

Female.--Menses late, scanty, with great debility and burning in eyes. Profuse leucorrhea; worse, after urinating (Mag mur, Plat); also worse after menses.

Gastric

Gastric.--Gone, empty feeling in epigastrium, without desire for food. Acute gastralgia with pains extending to shoulder. Thirst and intense hiccough. Sour, fetid secretions ooze from molar teeth. Diarrhea and tenesmus after milk.

Head

Head.--Cracking in cervical vertebre when moving the head. Pain on top as from a nail. Pressure on vertex, in morning; worse till noon and in warm room. Stitches. Objects appear too large. Migraine; first on left side. Twitching of upper lip.

Modalities

Modalities.--Worse, periodically, every two weeks; yearly, forenoon. Better, in evening.

Nose

Nose.--Violent sneezing; stopped up. Nasal catarrh, with redness and swelling at tip of nose. Acute pain at root of nose, extending to vertex and through temples.

Respiratory

Respiratory.--Hoarseness. Dry, hacking cough, with stitches in chest. Obliged to set up and hold head. Must put arms on thighs, when coughing.

Skin

Skin.--Itching all over, worse on neck, not relieved by scratching.

Throat

Throat.--Sore, right side with great tenderness; soreness to touch externally. Strangulated feeling.