Other names and synonyms
meph.Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
The dilutions of this medicine are prepared from the liquid contained in the anal glands of skunk. It produces spasmodic effects and is a very great remedy for whooping cough. Should be given in the lower dilutions. Nervous exhaustion. Debility after severe illness. Wants to bathe in ice cold water. Trembling and chokings, with exophthalmos. Fine vibrations causing great uneasiness.
Modalities
Lying. Night. After menses.
Cold; bath; icy; or weather.
Cold; bath; icy; or weather.
Mental
Excitable; full of fancies. Talkative. Disinclination to work, with inclination to stretch.
Head, face, and ears
Violent vertigo worse sitting, stooping, turning in bed. As of a finger pressing on occiput. Headache from motion of carriage.
Hot, red, and painful. Inability to read fine print.
Bloated.
Hot, red, and painful. Inability to read fine print.
Bloated.
Mouth and throat
Foul breath.
Food goes the wrong way. сhokes easily, when drinking and speaking.
Food goes the wrong way. сhokes easily, when drinking and speaking.
Gastrointestinal tract
Vomits food, hours after eating. Desire for salted food.
Chest organs
Dyspnoea; cannot exhale. Asthma, worse ice water. Spasmodic or whooping cough; few paroxysms during the daytime but many at night. сough_violent suffocative, spasmodic, nervous worse talking or drinking. Foul expectoration. Asthma of consumptives or drunkards.
Sleep
Short, seems to refresh. Awakes at night with rush of blood to legs.
Dif. diagnostics
Cor-r; Mosch.