Bismuthum

This remedy has a great affinity for affections of the right upper extremity or forehead. Boring pains. Sensation of heaviness in inner parts. Lymphatic, torpid constitutions.

Mental.--Peevish and dissatisfied with his condition. Vertigo, as if the anterior half of the brain were turning in a circle.

Face.--Looks as if one had been very ill.

Mouth.--White coated tongue in the evening, without heat or thirst.

Gastric.--Gastralgia, with the sensation of a great pressing heaviness; as from a load in one spot. Nausea, feels as if would vomit, especially after eating. Vomiting at intervals of days when food has filled the stomach; then vomits large quantities, lasting all day. Vomiting with oppressive anxiety, small pulse, vertigo and prostration; vomiting and diarrhœa, with gagging and burning in throat; violent convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain in stomach. Vertigo, headache, belching of wind, flatulence, warm surface, etc.; vomiting and horrible pain in stomach, vomiting and purging with prostration, and the surface of the patient is warm. Cancer of stomach.

Very useful in complaints of children. Flatus with a cadaverous smell; same smell to the stools. Desire for company; a child will hold on to the mother's hand to keep her company.

Urine.--Frequent; copious; pale; retention of.

Chest.--Aching in right half of, near sternum, in a small spot.

Extremities.--Upper: Tearing in right index finger, also in tips and joints of fingers; under the nails. Lower: Itching in tibia, near ankle, worse by scratching, till it bleeds. Tearing in maleolus of right foot, in paroxysms, terminating in tendo Achilles.

Sleep.--Languor and weakness. Frequent waking as if in a fright. Night sleep disturbed by lascivious dreams, with emissions, or without.

Remedies following:--Bellad., Calc. carb., Pulsat, Sepia.

Antidote:--Calc. carb.