Other names and synonyms
apoc.Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
This remedy acts upon URINARY ORGANS, producing diuresis and removing the dropsical effusions. Heart’s action is depressed. Digestion is disturbed. It is a useful remedy for general dropsies, with or without organic disease. Swelling of every part of the body, with scanty urine and sweat, feels if he could only sweat he would get well. Dropsies are usually accompanied by digestive disturbances_nausea, vomiting, and great thirst; drowsiness and difficult breathing, may accompany these symptoms. In acute hydrocephalus the child lies in stupor, with automatic motion of one arm and leg. Paralysis of left side; one eye motionless other rolling. Weakness is marked. Dropsy; after haemorrhage; quinine. Uterine haemorrhage. Scanty discharges.
Modalities
COLD; weather; drinks. Uncovering. Lying. After sleep.
Warmth.
Warmth.
Psyche and consciousness
Low spirited, nervous and bewildered. сannot think. Faints when raised from pillow.
Head, face, and ears
Dull ache. Hydrocephalus, with loss of vision and projecting, forehead.
Hot and red; as if sand in. One eye motionless and other rolling.
Filled with thick yellow mucus in morning, snuffles of infants. Takes cold easily.
Bloated worse lying down, passes off after sitting up. Face pale, covered with cold sweat, in diarrhoea. Dry; lips, mouth.
Hot and red; as if sand in. One eye motionless and other rolling.
Filled with thick yellow mucus in morning, snuffles of infants. Takes cold easily.
Bloated worse lying down, passes off after sitting up. Face pale, covered with cold sweat, in diarrhoea. Dry; lips, mouth.
Gastrointestinal tract
Nausea, with drowsiness. Thirst, but water disagrees, vomits every drink or food at once, (dropsy). Sensation of sinking in the pit of stomach; after profuse urination_diabetes insipidus. Uremic vomiting.
Ascites. Diarrhoea, with dropsy; yellow, painless; noisy, gushing stools. Feeling as if anus is open and stools run through out.
Ascites. Diarrhoea, with dropsy; yellow, painless; noisy, gushing stools. Feeling as if anus is open and stools run through out.
Urogenital system
Retention of urine, with paralysis of lower limbs. Urine; copious; scanty. вed wetting in old men.
Penis and scrotum dropsical. Prostate gland enlarged.
Amenorrhoea of young girls, with bloating of abdomen and legs. Uterine haemorrhage, blood expelled in large clots or sometimes in fluid state, at climaxis. Ovarian tumour. сough during pregnancy.
Penis and scrotum dropsical. Prostate gland enlarged.
Amenorrhoea of young girls, with bloating of abdomen and legs. Uterine haemorrhage, blood expelled in large clots or sometimes in fluid state, at climaxis. Ovarian tumour. сough during pregnancy.
Chest organs
Breathing, short and unsatisfactory, difficult. Oppression of the chest. Short, dry cough, sighing. Hydrothorax.
Cardiovascular system
Pulse, slow, fluttering, irregular or intermittent. Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation.
Sleep
Sleepy. Great restlessness with little sleep.
Skin
Rough, dry. сannot sweat.
Dif. diagnostics
Chin-a; Nux-v.
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