• Symptoms of incoordination, loss of control, and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically.

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• Argentum Nitricum is an irritant of mucous membranes, producing violent inflammation, especially of the throat and marked gastro-enteritis.

• Great desire for sweets.

• Splinter-like pains.

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• Argentum Nitricum produces a sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception.

• Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for Argentum Nitricum's action, especially when associated with unusual or long-continued mental exertion.

• Head symptoms often determine the choice of Argentum Nitricum.

• Pains increase and decrease gradually.

• Flatulent state and prematurely aged look are present.

• Explosive belching is present, especially in neurotics.

• Upper abdominal affections are brought on by undue mental exertion.

• Paraplegia is present.

• Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord are present.

• Intolerance of heat is present.

• Sensation of a sudden pinch is felt.

• Argentum Nitricum destroys red blood corpuscles, producing anemia.

• Marked nervous and mental debility is present.

• Great weakness and exhaustion are present.

• Progressive emaciation is present.

• Tendency to ulceration is present.

• Symptoms are often one-sided.

• Complaints are worse after eating sweets.

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• is present.

• Nervous, hurried manner is present.

• Great apprehension is present, especially when preparing for an engagement.

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• in business or examinations is present.

• Argentum Nitricum is Impulsive; desires to do things quickly.

• Argentum Nitricum is Hurried and restless; cannot sit still.

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• Mental confusion; difficulty concentrating is present.

• The patient is easily excited and angered.

• The patient is apprehensive about health; hypochondriacal.

• Suicidal thoughts are present, especially from a sense of worthlessness.

• Weakness of memory is present.

• The patient feels as if under a curse.

• Nervousness, trembling, and palpitations are present from anticipation.

• The patient is Irritable and easily offended.

• The patient desires company, but is easily annoyed by others.

• Changeable mood; alternates between joy and sadness is present.

• Loss of self-confidence is present.

• Fixed ideas; obsessiveness is present.

• Apprehension is present when alone.

• Marked religious affections are present, sometimes with delusions.

• Melancholy with weeping is present.

• Vertigo is present with weakness and trembling.

• The Head feels large and heavy.

• Headache is relieved by tight bandaging.

• Sensation as if head would burst is felt.

• Ophthalmia neonatorum is present.

• Photophobia is present.

• Spots are present before the eyes.

• Dim vision is present.

• Catarrh of the Eustachian tube is present.

• Chronic catarrh is present with thick, yellow-green discharge.

• Epistaxis (nosebleeds) is present.

• Ulceration of the nostrils is present.

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• Violent itching, obliged to rub until it looks raw.

• Coryza with chilliness, lachrymation, sickly look, sneezing and stupefying headache (over the eyes).

• Has to lie down.

• Discharge of (whitish) pus with clots of blood.

• Discharge like boiled starch.

• Ulceration of nostrils.

• Bruised pains in bones.

• Sensation of a splinter is present in the throat.

• Ulceration of the tonsils is present.

• Hoarseness is present.

• Diphtheria is present.

• The voice is weak and tremulous.

• Constant hawking of mucus is present.

• Spasmodic cough, worse at night is present.

• Asthma is present.

• Difficulty breathing is present.

• Feeling of constriction is present in the chest.

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• Angina pectoris is present.

• Weak and irregular pulse is present.

• Pain in the chest is present with difficulty breathing.

• Dyspnea is present, especially on ascending.

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• Violent gastro-enteritis with vomiting and diarrhoea is present.

• Great desire for sweets is present, which aggravate symptoms.

• Sour eructations are present.

• Burning is present in the stomach.

• Ulcer of the stomach is present.

• Flatulence and distension of the abdomen are present.

• Belching of gas is present with a sour taste.

• Craving for sweets and salt is present.

• Nausea and vomiting are present.

• Gastric ulcers are present.

• Symptoms are worse after eating.

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• Gastralgia, esp. in delicate, nervous women.

• Gastralgia brought on by any emotion, loss of sleep, or at menstrual period.

• Inflammation of the stomach.

• Gastro-enteritis.

• Gnawing pain in the left side of the stomach.

• Pressure with heaviness (sensation of lump) and nausea.

• Trembling and throbbing in stomach.

• Most gastric complaints are accompanied by violent belching.

• Eructations of air accompanied by a mouthful of undigested food.

• After yawning, feeling as if stomach would burst.

• Wind presses upwards, but the esophagus feels spasmodically closed.

• Hence an ineffectual effort to eructate, with excessive strangulation, pressing pain in stomach, faintish nausea, confluence of water in the mouth and inability to stir.

• The paroxysm ceased after a quarter of an hour, amidst frequent and violent out-rush of wind.

• Vomiting of some fluid, of bile, black vomit.

• Vomiting with anxiety in precordia.

• The vomited substance tinged the bedding black.

• Awakens at midnight with oppression at stomach, as from a heavy lump, inducing vomiting.

• In the morning throws up glairy mucus, which can be drawn into strings.

• Warmth at epigastrium.

• Gnawing ulcerative pain in epigastrium.

• Stinging, ulcerative pain in left side of stomach, worse from touch and deep inspiration.

• Pain increases and decreases slowly.

• Small spot between xiphoid and navel sensitive to slightest pressure.

• Pains radiate in all directions.

• Pain in left side of stomach below true ribs, < during inspiration and on touching the parts.

• Stomach pains are accompanied by intense spasm of chest muscles and dyspnea.

• Excessive accumulation of wind.

• Nervous feeling or sensation as if squeezed in a vice.

• Distended and tender to the touch.

• Colicky pains are present.

• Flatulence is present.

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• Sensation as of a ball ascending from abdomen to throat.

• Stitches through the abdomen (left side) like electric shocks, esp. when changing from rest to motion.

• Pain in abdomen as if sore.

• Pain in abdomen with great hunger; > after eating, but a trembling sets in its place.

• Violent attacks of pain at irregular intervals; patient rolls on floor.

• Descending colon tender to touch.

• Tapeworm-like stool passes.

• Fullness, heaviness, and distension with anxiety.

• Flatulence.

• Griping.

• Cutting pains.

• Constriction as if tightly tied with a band.

• Pain in hypochondria.

• Intolerance of lacing round hypochondria.

• Diarrhoea is present, often green and watery.

• Stools are expelled with force.

• Painful urging to stool is present.

• Haemorrhoids are present.

• Prolapsus of the rectum is present.

• Involuntary stools are present.

• Burning is present in rectum after stool.

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• Frequent and painful urination is present.

• Cystitis is present.

• Enuresis is present, especially in children.

• Urine is turbid and offensive.

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• In women, painful menstruation is present.

• Leucorrhoea is present with a greenish discharge.

• Metrorrhagia is present.

• In men, impotence is present.

• Increased sexual desire followed by weakness is present.

• Pain is present in the lumbar region.

• Sensation as if the back would break is felt.

• Weakness and trembling are present of the limbs.

• Numbness and tingling are present.

• Paraplegia is present.

• Pain is present in the joints.

• Gait is unsteady.

• Heaviness and stiffness of limbs are present.

• Cracking is present in joints.

• Ulcerations are present, especially of mucous membranes.

• Eczema is present.

• Itching is present.

• Herpetic eruptions are present.

• Pustules are present.

• Boils are present.

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• Wart-shaped excrescences.

• Skin blue-grey, violet, or bronze to real black (Argyria).

• Bluish-black eruption (in scarlet fever).

• Itching.

• Itching pimple.

• Impetigo.

• Zona.

• Small-pox.

• Erysipelas.

• Urticaria.

• Skin brown, tense, and hard.

• Warts.

• Anxious dreams are present.

• Dreams of falling are present.

• Insomnia is present due to anxiety.

• At night.

• From warmth.

• From sweets.

• From mental exertion.

• From emotions.

• From being closed in.

• From ascending.

• From the left side.

• From eating.

• Before menses.

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• In open air.

• From cold.

• From motion.

• From pressure.

• From uncovering.

• From cold bathing.

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• Compare: Ars; Merc; Phos; Pulsat.

• Argent cyanatum (angina pectoris, asthma, spasm of esophagus).

• Argent iodat (throat disorders, hoarseness, gland affected).

• Protargol (gonorrhea after acute stage, 2% solution; syphilitic mucous patches, chancres and chancroids, 10% solution applied twice a day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2 drops of 10% solution).

• Argent phosph.

• Argent oxyd.

• The best form is an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drops doses. This solution in water is preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose into the oxide.

• Complementary: Natrum muriaticum.

• Antidotes: Natrum muriaticum; Arsenicum album.

• Suited to hysteric nervous persons; headaches from mental causes characterized by dulness of head.

• Cachetic state; scrawny, feeble, dried-up-looking women; "withered and dried up by disease. A child looks like a withered old man.".

• Corresponds in lower potencies to Grauvogl's carbo-nitrogenoid constitution; in higher to the hydrogenoid or sycotic constitution.

• Nervous feeling; sensation as if being squeezed in a vice.

• Feeling of constriction in various parts as of a band of iron around chest or waist.

• A feeling as if the body or some part of the body were expanding.

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• Paralyses of motion and sensation; peculiar numbness with hyperesthesia.

• Sensation of a splinter sticking in various parts, especially mucous membranes.

• Burning sensations.

• Irresistible desire for sugar, which at the same time < symptoms.

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• Belching accompanies most gastric affections.

• Green stools; "Green mucus like chopped spinach in flakes." "Stool turning green after remaining on diaper." "Stool expelled with much spluttering." "Stool shreddy, red, green muco-lymph or epithelial substance."

• Pain in small of the back, > on standing or walking, but severe when rising from a seat.

• Expanding sensation, especially in face, in head, with feeling as if bones of skull separated; with increase of temperature.

• Anesthetic-hyperesthetic condition of surface.

• Sticking sensations in various parts.

• Emaciation.

• Dropsy; edema of legs and ascites.

• Loss of voluntary motion.

• Paraplegia from debilitating causes.

• Large number of symptoms appear on the left side.

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• Very impulsive; always in a hurry but accomplishes nothing; in continual motion; he walks fast.

• Melancholic; does not undertake anything lest he should not succeed.

• Impulse to throw herself from the window.

• Frequent errors of perception; mistakes distances; fears projecting corners of buildings and high buildings.

• The sight of high buildings makes him giddy and causes him to stagger; it seems as if houses on both sides of street would approach and crush him.

• Imagines he cannot pass a certain point.

• When crossing a bridge has an almost irresistible desire to jump over.

• Impulsion to walk very fast.

• Time seems to pass very slowly.

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• Easily angered or excited, anger brings on symptoms, cough, pain, etc.

• Profound melancholy; imagines if left alone will die; apprehends incurable disease of brain.

• Nightly nervousness, with heat and fullness in the head.

• Nervous, faintish, and tremulous sensation.

• Awful faces appear on shutting eyes.

• Apathy.

• Mental operations sluggish; thought requires effort.

• Complete loss of consciousness.

• Memory impaired, cannot find the right word.

• Building castles in the air by day: monstrous visions by night.

• Vertigo, with headache.

• Morning headache (when he awakens).

• Excessive congestion of blood to the head.

• Stitches in left frontal eminence.

• Cannot walk, talk, or think, the head gets so giddy.

• Staggers on stooping; on shutting eyes.

• Dizzy at sight of high houses, feels as if they would close or fall in upon him.

• Momentarily blind with mental confusion.

• Buzzing in ears, nausea, trembling.

• Digging up, incisive motion, through the left hemisphere of the brain.

• Pressing boring pains, in small spots; in bones; in left temple.

• Hemicrania; epileptiform; periodic.

• Boring pain < left frontal eminence, > tight band.

• Headaches from mental emotion or strain, loss of friends, loss of sleep.

• Sometimes pain so severe he loses senses.

• Paroxysms frequently culminate in vomiting of bile or sour fluid.

• Occipital headache decreasing, frontal headache increasing.

• Occipital headache.

• Congestive headache with throbbing carotids, must loosen cravat.

• Head feels much enlarged.

• As if bones of skull separated, with increased temperature.

• Sensation of constriction of scalp.

• As if something tightly drawn over skull.

• Drawing in bands over surface of brain, apparently in membranes or sinuses.

• Headache, with chilliness.

• Headache relieved by tying a handkerchief tightly around the head.

• Headache worse in the open air.

• Aching in one side of the head, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye.

• Itching, creeping, crawling of the hairy scalp (as from vermin).

• Roots of hair feel as if pulled upward.

• Photophobia.

• Asthenopia from want of accommodation.

• Even coarser kinds of work strain.

• Suddenly becomes far-sighted.

• Cloud over left eye.

• Grey spots and serpent-like bodies before sight.

• Black motes (esp. right).

• Opacity of the cornea.

• Ulceration of cornea in infants.

• Acute granular conjunctivitis, conjunctiva intensely pink, or scarlet red.

• Discharge profuse, inclined to be muco-purulent.

• Purulent ophthalmia.

• Pus thick yellow and bland, < in warm room or from fire, > open air.

• Ophthalmia neonatorum, pus thick, yellow, profuse and bland.

• Blepharitis, thick crusts on lids.

• Canthi red as blood.

• Swollen red caruncula (standing out like a lump of red flesh).

• Clusters of intensely red vessels extend from inner canthus to cornea.

• Granular conjunctivitis; < by warmth.

• Iritis.

• Sight and eyes seem to suffer as abdominal sufferings increase.

• Deafness.

• Ringing.

• Buzzing noises.

• Feeling of distraction (left).

• Earache.

• Whizzing in left ear with feeling of obstruction and hard hearing.

• Sunken, pale, bluish countenance.

• Yellow, dirty-looking.

• Sickly appearance.

• Dried-up look.

• Prematurely old look.

• Hard blotches on vermilion border of upper lip, paler than lip and sore to touch.

• Lips dry and viscid without thirst.

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• Gums swollen, inflamed, bleed easily, painful when touched.

• Gums tender and bleed easily; but neither painful nor swollen.

• Prosopalgia, esp. in infra-orbital branch of fifth nerve and nerves going to teeth.

• Pain intense, at its height accompanied by unpleasant sour taste in the mouth.

• Face convulsed.

• Jaws clenched.

• Teeth sensitive to cold water.

• Toothache when chewing.

• Toothache eating cold or sour things.

• Dry tongue with thirst.

• Papillae prominent, erect, feeling sore.

• Tip of tongue red and painful.

• Tongue white and moist.

• Red streak down middle of tongue.

• Fetid odour from mouth.

• Ptyalism.

• Thick phlegm in mouth.

• Mouth coated inside whitish grey.

• Dark red appearance of uvula and fauces.

• Sensation as if a splinter were stuck in when swallowing, breathing, or moving the neck.

• Thick, tenacious mucus in the throat, obliging him to hawk.

• Rawness, soreness, and scraping in the throat.

• Burning and dryness in fauces and pharynx.

• White patches in throat.

• Paroxysms of cramp in the esophagus.

• Ulcers: mercurial, syphilitic, and scrofulous.

• Pure nervous asthma.

• Spasm of respiratory muscles.

• Great dyspnea, < in crowded room.

• Muco-purulent sputa seeming to come from wall of larynx.

• Expectoration purulent, mixed with light blood.

• Internal soreness of the larynx and pit of the throat, worse mornings.

• Chronic laryngitis of singers.

• Raising the voice causes cough.

• Marked hoarseness, sometimes loss of voice.

• Feeling as if something clogging vocal cords.

• Cough with sense of soreness in left side preventing lying on it.

• Evening cough worse from tobacco smoke.

• Cough < evening and night.

• Suffocative cough at noon.

• Cough in paroxysms induced by: phlegm in larynx; irritation under sternum; fit of passion; laughing; stooping; smoking; ascending stairs; lying down; on awaking.

• Hemoptysis.

• Aching, tensive pain in various parts of chest in small spots.

• Weight as of a stone in middle of sternum.

• Burning in chest.

• Sensation of warmth between scapulae and sternum.

• Violent cramps and pain in muscles of chest.

• Palpitation of the heart in paroxysms, with nausea.

• Violent palpitation of the heart.

• Palpitation in afternoon with faintish nausea.

• Palpitation caused by any emotional excitement or any sudden muscular exertion.

• Palpitation from lying on right side.

• Angina pectoris, intense pain in chest and about heart, can hardly breathe.

• Irregular (intermittent) action of heart (with an unpleasant sensation of fullness), < when noticing it, > when moving about in open air.

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• Irresistible desire for sugar (but it < symptoms).

• Desire for cheese.

• Sweetish-bitter taste.

• Eating relieves nausea, but < stomach pains.

• Warm drinks > stomach pains; cold drinks or ices < stomach pains.

• Eating or a swallow of wine > headache; coffee <.

• The least food < pain of gastralgia.

• Flatulence.

• Fluids go right through him (in cholera infantum).

• Warm fluids >, cold < pains in stomach.

• After heavy meal, epileptic fit.

• Nausea after each meal, esp. after dinner.

• Cholera infantum in dried-up, mummy-like children, stools green, slimy, noisy, flatulent, < at night.

• Stools like spinach in flakes.

• Green, slimy, shreddy stools, with severe bearing-down in hypogastrium.

• Membranous stool like unsegmented tapeworm.

• Blood, slime, and epithelium.

• Stool often with much flatus.

• After eating sugar.

• After drinking.

• "As soon as the least drink is taken it goes through".

• Stool from any excitement.

• Advanced dysentery, with suspected ulceration.

• Constipation and dry feces.

• Tenia or ascarides with itching at anus.

• Piles with burning or tenesmus.

• Bleeding.

• Burning in one spot in anterior wall of rectum (probably in prostate gland).

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• Nephralgia; pain by touching region.

• Urine dark red.

• Urine contains deposit of renal epithelium and uric acid crystals.

• Quick urging to urinate.

• Frequent and copious emission of pale urine.

• Incontinence night and day.

• Urethra from meatus to bladder hot and burning.

• Burning urethra < at meatus and behind scrotum.

• Urine burning while passing, urethra feels as if swollen.

• Inability to pass urine in a projecting stream.

• Oozing of mucus from urethra: thick, white at night.

• Stitches in extremity of urethra.

• Cutting from posterior part of urethra to anus, when emitting last drop of urine.

• Inflammation, and violent burning or shooting pains in the urethra, with increased gonorrhea.

• Priapism, bleeding of the urethra.

• Stricture of the urethra.

• Dysuria, bloody urine and fever.

• Ulcerative pain in middle of urethra, as from a splinter.

• Stream of urine spreads asunder.

• Chancre-like ulcer on prepuce.

• Ulcers on the prepuce; small, covered with pus; later, spreading, bowl-shaped, with a tallow-like coating.

• Impotence.

• Erections, but they fail when coition is attempted.

• Want of desire, organs shriveled.

• Coition painful, urethra as if put on stretch or sensitive at orifice.

• Painful tension during erection, chordee, bleeding from urethra, and shooting in urethra from behind forward.

• Urethra swollen, hard, knotty, painful.

• Spasmodic contraction of cremaster muscle, testicle drawn high up.

• Pain in testes and scrotum as from pins and needles, < right.

• Orchitis.

• Burning in spot in anterior of rectum (prostate gland).

• Ovarian pains, feels as if an enormous swelling in side affected.

• Prolapsus with ulceration of os or cervix.

• Prolapsus with copious yellow, corroding leucorrhea and frequent bleeding from points of ulceration.

• Menses irregular.

• Menses scanty (with asthma).

• Menses too copious or too scanty, too soon or too late.

• All symptoms < before and during menses.

• Coition painful, followed by bleeding from the vagina.

• Orgasms at night.

• Metrorrhagia, with nervous erethism at change of life; also in young widows and those who have borne no children.

• Metrorrhagia returning in attacks, region of ovaries painful, with pains radiating to sacrum and thighs.

• During pregnancy, stomach as if it would burst with wind.

• Head feels expanded.

• Puerperal convulsions; just after attack lies quiet, but becomes very restless before another.

• Muscles of right side of neck sore and stiff.

• Soreness in lumbo-sacral region.

• Heaviness in os sacrum, extending along pelvis with painful drawing.

• Heaviness, with paralytic sensation, preventing long sitting, and obliging him, when walking, to stretch the dorsal spine.

• Pain in small of back, < rising from sitting; > standing or walking.

• Pain in sacro-iliac symphyses, feeling as if bones were loose there.

• Fatigue in back.

• Pressure in back at night.

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• Trembling.

• Lassitude.

• Weariness of forearms and legs.

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• Drawing in shoulders.

• Pain in left shoulder and arm.

• Rheumatic pain in left wrist.

• Left arm heavy.

• Nightly boring pain in ulna.

• Hyperesthetic numbness of arms and shoulders.

• Pain in wrist, and finger joints.

• Hands tremble.

• Numbness of finger tips.

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• Staggering gait.

• Lassitude of lower limbs with dizziness as if intoxicated.

• Pain in calves all night.

• Weary as after a long journey.

• Heaviness and debility of the legs.

• Limbs, esp. knees, start up at night.

• Weariness with rigidity.

• Edema of feet.

• Restless at night.

• When he does sleep has all sorts of troubled dreams.

• Restless, stupefied sleep, with horrid dreams of serpents, etc.

• Prevented falling asleep by fancies and images.

• Wakes in the morning, dreams he is hungry and wakes with flatulence and spasms and twinges.

• Soporous condition.

• Nightly nervousness with heat of head.

• Restless sleep with stupefaction and headache.

• Chilliness and nausea.

• Chills, shifting or constant, are more lasting than the heat and return quickly on uncovering.

• Both stages without thirst.

• Chilliness.

• Chilly down back, at noon, extending from occiput to tip of coccyx up back and over shoulder.

• Night sweat.

• Morning sweat.

• Scarlet fever.

• Night.

• Morning on rising (epileptic attacks).

• On awaking.

• 11 a.m., nervous attacks.

• In warm room.

• Over a fire.

• In summer.

• Warmth of bed.

• From cold food.

• Ice creams.

• Motion generally.

• Lying on right side.

• Heat.

• Uncovering.

• Aversion to uncovering.

• Rising from sitting.

• Inspiration.

• Touching the parts.

• Thinking intently.

• Riding.

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• Cool open air.

• Washing with cold water.

• Walking in open air (back pains).

• Bending double.

• Tight bandage (headache).

• By stimulants (nervous attacks).

• Acidity

• Addison's disease

• Anemia

• Chancre

• Dyspepsia

• Epilepsy

• Eructations

• Erysipelas

• Eye affections

• Flatulence

• Gastric ulcer

• Gonorrhea

• Hands, swelling of

• Headache

• Heartburn

• Impetigo

• Locomotor ataxia

• Neuralgia

• Ophthalmia neonatorum

• Paralysis

• Prostate enlargement

• Scarlatina

• Small-pox

• Spinal irritation

• Syphilis

• Taste, altered

• Throat affections

• Tongue ulcerated

• Warts

• Zona

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• Apprehension, fear or fright

• Eating ices

• Intemperate habits

• Mental strain and worry

• Onanism and venery

• Sugar

• Tobacco (boys)

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• Nat. m. (chemical and dynamic)

• Arsen.

• Milk.

• Nit. ac. and Arg. nit.: Puls., Calc., Sep.

• Next in importance, Lyc., Sil., Rhus, Phos., Sul.

• Am. caust., effects of tobacco.

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• Coff. c. (it increases the nervous headache).

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• Bry., Spig. (dyspepsia)

• Caust. (urethral affections)

• Spongia (goiter)

• Verat. (flatus).

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• Lyc. (flatus).

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• Arg. met. (A. met. acts on cartilages, Arg. nit. more on mucous membranes, skin, bone, and periosteum, and is suited to herpetic patients)

• To Aur., Cup., K. bich., Lach., Merc., Merc. cor., Merc. iod., Nat. m., Nit. ac., Thuj.

• In complaints from pressure of clothes, like Calc., Bry., Caust., Lyc., Sarsap., Stan.

• In congestive headaches, like Glon. and other Nit. ac. compounds.

• In fish-bone sensation in throat, Nit. ac., Hep. (Hep. < by cold; Arg. n. < in warm room).

• Puls. is its nearest analogue.