• It develops most symptoms in the abdomen and head, causing intense neuralgias.

• Suited to irritable persons easily angered, with ill effects therefrom.

• For women with copious menstruation and sedentary habits.

• For persons with a tendency to corpulency.

• Neuralgic pains are nearly always relieved by pressure.

• Cramps, twitching, and shortening of muscles.

• Constrictions and contractions are keynotes.

• Cystospasm follows operations on orifices.

• Urinous odor of perspiration.

• Agonizing pain in abdomen, causing patient to bend double, is most characteristic.

• Sensations: cutting, twisting, grinding, contracting, and bruised.

• A sensation as if clamped with iron bands.

• Left-sided complaints are prominent.

• Pains often shoot in radiating lines.

• Complaints often originate from anger or vexation.

• Great sensitiveness to pain.

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• Irritable, easily angered, and takes offense easily.

• Anger brings on the symptoms.

• Impatient and intolerant.

• Restless and uneasy.

• Hypersensitive to pain.

• Averse to being spoken to or interrupted.

• A desire for company, but aversion to being spoken to.

• Anxiety and restlessness, especially during pain.

• It feels offended easily, takes everything amiss.

• Easily vexed and disappointed.

• A disposition to be quarrelsome.

• Mental irritability alternates with physical pain.

• Over-sensitive to rudeness.

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• Primarily acts on the nervous system, producing intense, cramping pains, especially in the abdomen.

• Suitable for individuals who are irritable, easily angered, and sensitive to insults.

• The pains are typically cutting, stabbing, or griping in nature.

• General sensation of being bruised or beaten.

• Debility and exhaustion accompany the pains.

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• Shooting, tearing pains in the head.

• Pain extends from the head down the neck.

• Head feels as if screwed together.

• Headache is relieved by hard pressure.

• Headaches after anger or mortification.

• A sensation as if brain were bruised.

• Sharp, shooting pains in the eyes.

• Dim vision associated with headache.

• Pressure in the eyes.

• Tearing pain in the ears.

• Sensitiveness to noise.

• Coryza with sneezing.

• Dryness of the nose.

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• Coryza (nasal catarrh) with sneezing.

• A sensation of a lump in the throat.

• Spasmodic asthma, with cutting abdominal pains.

• Short, panting breath.

• Asthma is worse from anger.

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• Palpitations with anxiety and restlessness.

• Palpitations are worse from anger.

• Oppression of the chest.

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• Palpitations of the heart, especially after anger or excitement.

• Intercostal neuralgia, with cutting pains.

• Pain in chest extends to abdomen.

• Chest feels constricted.

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• Pain in the chest, especially between the ribs.

• Cramping pains in the chest muscles.

• Loss of appetite.

• Thirst is increased.

• Nausea and vomiting with abdominal pain.

• Vomiting of bile.

• Stomach feels bloated.

• Agonizing, cramping abdominal pains, forcing the patient to bend double.

• Cutting, stabbing, or grinding pains.

• Pains are relieved by hard pressure and warmth.

• Abdomen feels bloated and distended.

• Colic with diarrhea.

• Pain as if abdomen were squeezed between stones.

• Flatulent colic.

• Diarrhea with cramping abdominal pains.

• Stools are watery, bloody, and offensive.

• Dysentery.

• Stools are passed with great urging and tenesmus.

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• Tenesmus of the rectum.

• Painful urging to stool.

• Proctalgia.

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• Cystitis with spasm of the bladder, especially after operations on orifices.

• Tenesmus of the bladder.

• Burning pain during urination.

• Urine is scanty and high colored.

• Pain extends from kidneys to bladder.

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• Cutting pains in the kidneys.

• Frequent and painful urination.

• Scanty urine.

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• Ovarian neuralgia, especially left-sided.

• Pain is relieved by bending double.

• Dysmenorrhea with severe, cramping abdominal pains.

• Menses are profuse and painful.

• Ovarian cysts.

• Neuralgia of the spermatic cord.

• Pain in testicles.

• Prostatitis.

• Lumbago is relieved by bending double.

• Stiffness of the back.

• Sciatica, especially left-sided.

• Shooting, tearing pains along the sciatic nerve.

• Cramps and twitching of the muscles of the legs.

• Pain is relieved by hard pressure and warmth.

• Shortening of muscles.

• Pain in hips extends down the leg.

• Numbness of affected limbs.

• Contraction of fingers and toes.

• Eruptions with intense itching.

• Herpes zoster.

• Urticaria after anger.

• Sleeplessness from pain.

• Dreams are vivid and disturbing.

• Insomnia.

• Anger.

• Mortification.

• Indignation.

• Emotional upset.

• Cold.

• Motion.

• Evening and night.

• Lying down (sometimes).

• After eating.

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• Bending double.

• Hard pressure.

• Warmth.

• Rest.

• Rubbing.

• Lying on painful side.

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• Compare: Lobelia erinus (violent cork-screw-like pains in abdomen); Dipodium punctatum (Writhing, twisting like a dying snake; intractable insomnia); Dioscorea; Chamomilla; Cocculus; Mercurius; Plumbum; Magnesia phosphorica.

• Complementary: Bryonia, Nux vomica.

• Antidotes: Camphor, Staphysagria, Causticum.

• Useful in sciatica, neuralgia, dysmenorrhea, and colic.

• Great impatience and intolerance.

• Easily offended, takes things amiss.

• Ailments from suppressed anger or mortification.

• Anxious and restless, especially during the pains.

• Desires quiet and solitude.

• Feels as if insulted or wronged.

• Hypersensitive to pain and external impressions.

• Dwells on past grievances.

• Neuralgic headaches, especially on the left side, extending to the eye.

• Headache as if the head would burst.

• Headache relieved by hard pressure.

• Headaches associated with nausea and vomiting.

• Gouty headaches with ophthalmia.

• Neuralgic pains in the eyes.

• Ophthalmia, with intense, shooting pains.

• Twitching of the eyelids.

• Photophobia (sensitivity to light).

• Neuralgic pains in the ears.

• Tinnitus (ringing in the ears).

• Sore throat with a sensation of dryness and burning.

• Difficult breathing from abdominal distension.

• Spasmodic cough aggravated by anger.

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• Abdomen distended and sensitive to touch.

• Nausea and vomiting associated with abdominal pains.

• Diarrhea with tenesmus (straining) and cutting pains.

• Dysentery with bloody stools and intense cramping.

• Colic, especially from anger or dietary indiscretions.

• Flatulence.

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• Neuralgic pains in the ovaries or testicles.

• Dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation) with cramping pains relieved by bending double.

• Sciatica, with shooting, tearing pains along the sciatic nerve.

• Pain in the small of the back, relieved by pressure.

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• Cramps in the legs and feet.

• Tearing, shooting pains in the joints.

• Arthritis and gouty pains aggravated by motion.

• Shortening of tendons.

• Anger, indignation, mortification.

• Motion, especially stretching out the affected part.

• Cold, damp weather.

• Eating.

• Afternoons and evenings.

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• Bending double.

• Hard pressure.

• Warmth.

• Rest.

• Lying on the painful side.

• Passing flatus or stool.

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• Complementary: Chamomilla (for similar irritability and abdominal pains), Nux Vomica (for ailments from anger and indigestion).

• Antidotes: Camphor, Opium.

• Compare: Dioscorea, Magnesia Phosphorica, Plumbum Metallicum.