Other names and synonyms
syph, Luesinum.Description Source
Homeopathic Materia Medica – William BoerickePharmacological Group
Description
The Syphilitic Virus - A Nosode.
Utter prostration and debility in the morning.
Shifting rheumatic pains. сhronic eruptions and rheumatism.
Ichthyosis. Syphilitic affections. Pains from darkness to daylight; decrease and increase gradually. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. Ulceration of mouth, nose, genitals, skin. Succession of abscesses.
Utter prostration and debility in the morning.
Shifting rheumatic pains. сhronic eruptions and rheumatism.
Ichthyosis. Syphilitic affections. Pains from darkness to daylight; decrease and increase gradually. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. Ulceration of mouth, nose, genitals, skin. Succession of abscesses.
Psyche and consciousness
Loss of memory; remembers everything previous to his illness. Apathetic; feels as if going insane or being paralyzed. Fears the night, and the suffering from exhaustion on awakening. Hopeless; despairs of recovery.
Head, face, and ears
Linear pains from temple across, or from eyes backward; cause sleeplessness and delirium at night. Falling of the hair. Pain in bones of head. Top of head feels as if coming off. Stupefying cephalalgia.
Chronic, recurrent, phlyctenular inflammation of cornea; successive crops of phlyctenular and abrasions of epithelial layer of cornea; photophobia intense, lachrymation profuse. Lids swollen; pain intense at night; ptosis. Tubercular iritis. Diplopia; one image seen below the other. Feeling of cold air blowing on eye (Fluor ac).
Caries of ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin.
Caries of nasal bones, hard palate and septum, with perforation; ozaena.
Chronic, recurrent, phlyctenular inflammation of cornea; successive crops of phlyctenular and abrasions of epithelial layer of cornea; photophobia intense, lachrymation profuse. Lids swollen; pain intense at night; ptosis. Tubercular iritis. Diplopia; one image seen below the other. Feeling of cold air blowing on eye (Fluor ac).
Caries of ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin.
Caries of nasal bones, hard palate and septum, with perforation; ozaena.
Mouth and throat
Teeth decay at gum; edges serrated, dwarfed. Tongue coated, teeth-indented; deep longitudinal cracks. Ulcers smart and burn. Excessive flow of saliva; it runs out of mouth when sleeping.
Gastrointestinal tract
Craves alcohol.
Feels tied up with strictures. Enemas very painful. Fissures, prolapse.
Feels tied up with strictures. Enemas very painful. Fissures, prolapse.
Limbs and spine
Sciatica; worse at night; better about day-break. Rheumatism of shoulder-joint, at insertion of deltoid. Run-around. Severe pain in long bones. Redness and rawness between toes (Sil). Rheumatism, muscles are caked in hard knot or lumps. Always washing the hands. Indolent ulcers. Muscles contracted in hard knots.
Ulcers on labia. Leucorrhoea profuse, thin, watery, acrid, with sharp, knife-pain in ovaries.
Ulcers on labia. Leucorrhoea profuse, thin, watery, acrid, with sharp, knife-pain in ovaries.
Chest organs
Aphonia; chronic asthma in summer, wheezing and rattling (Tart emet). сough dry, hard; worse at night; windpipe sensitive to touch (Lach). Lancinating pains from base of heart to apex at night.
Skin
Reddish-brown eruption, with a disagreeable odor. Extreme emaciation.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Merc; Kal hyd; Nit ac; Aur; Alum.
Modalities
Worse, at night, sundown to sunrise, seashore, in summer. вetter, inland and mountains, during day, moving about slowly.
Method of drug use and dosage
The highest potencies only, and in infrequent doses.