Back.--Paralytic pain in muscles of nape of neck. Weakness, with staggering.
A remedy for nervous affections, loss of energy, with excessive erethism. Scratching on silk or linen or paper unbearable. Pains and spasmodic muscular actions. Nervous deafness and asthenopia. Cold shivers from any emotion. Feels as if parts were pressed together. Tension and contractive sensations. Always feels cold.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
Ears.--Sensation as if plugged up. Catarrh with deafness. Heat of external ear. Noises.
Eyes.--Feel stiff; burn; feel cold. Better, in cold air or water; worse, sunlight and wind. Darting pains in eyes after operations. Asthenopia.
Female.--Menses too early, long lasting, black. Violent pain in small of back. Tenacious, yellow leucorrhea.
Fever.--Chilliness, single parts get icy cold. Easily excited perspiration.
Head.--Compressive pain. Tension of scalp; hair painful (China). Coryza, with sneezing.
Mind.--Thoughts vanish, with drawing pressure in forehead. Sensibility increased, even from mere imagination.
Modalities.--Worse, in cold dry weather; penetrating sounds. Better, from washing; in damp and wet weather.
Rectum.--Strings of odorless, yellow mucus pass from bowels. Diarrhea of tough mucus. Undigested stools. Prolapse.
Relationship.--Asarum Canadensa-Wild Ginger (Colds, followed by amenorrhea and gastro-enteritis. Suppressed colds). Compare: Ipecac, especially in diarrhea; Silica; Nux; China.
Respiratory.--Nervous, hacking cough. Short respiration.
Stomach.--Loss of appetite, flatulence, eructation, and vomiting. Desire for alcoholic drinks. Smoking tobacco tastes bitter. Nausea; worse after eating. Clean tongue. Great faintness. Accumulation of cold, watery saliva.