• It causes spasmodic and paretic affections, notably affecting one-half of the body.

• It affects the cerebrum and will not cure convulsive seizures proceeding from the spinal cord.

• It causes painful contracture of limbs and trunk; tetanus.

• It relieves many of the evil effects of night-watching.

• A special attraction for light-haired females, especially during pregnancy, causing much nausea and backache.

• Suitable for unmarried and childless women, sensitive and romantic girls.

• All symptoms are worse riding in a carriage or on shipboard; hence its use in seasickness.

• A sensation of hollowness, or emptiness, as if parts had gone to sleep.

• The patient feels too weak to talk loud.

• Marked vertigo and nausea, even to vomiting.

• It causes great exhaustion and prostration, with trembling.

• It causes paralytic weakness.

• Complaints are often associated with suppressed anger or grief.

• The patient has slow, difficult speech.

• General aggravation from slightest motion.

• Great weakness in the morning on waking.

• The patient feels faint and giddy from weakness.

• The patient is sensitive to drafts of air.

• Symptoms often appear periodically.

• The patient craves stimulants and spiced food.

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• The patient is anxious and apprehensive, easily startled.

• The patient experiences sadness and depression, especially after loss of sleep.

• The patient has irritability and impatience.

• The patient has difficulty in thinking and concentrating.

• The patient experiences mental confusion; feels dazed and stupefied.

• The patient has a weak memory; forgets what he/she intended to do.

• The patient has indifference to everything, even to loved ones.

• The patient has aversion to conversation.

• The patient is suspicious and distrustful.

• The patient has fixed ideas.

• The patient has a desire for solitude.

• The patient is easily offended and takes things to heart.

• The patient experiences alternating moods of cheerfulness and sadness.

• The patient experiences great anguish and despair, with suicidal thoughts.

• The patient experiences restlessness and fidgetiness.

• The patient has a fear of impending misfortune.

• The patient has a delusion of being separated from the body.

• The patient experiences vertigo with nausea and vomiting, especially when riding or moving.

• The patient experiences headache with a feeling of emptiness in the head.

• The patient experiences occipital headache, with stiffness of the neck.

• The scalp feels tight.

• The patient experiences headache as if bruised internally.

• The patient experiences headache from mental exertion.

• The patient experiences Diplopia (double vision).

• The patient has weakness of the eye muscles.

• The patient experiences Photophobia (sensitivity to light).

• The pupils are dilated or contracted.

• The eyes feel heavy and difficult to open.

• The patient has dim vision.

• The patient experiences Deafness.

• The patient experiences Vertigo originating from the ears.

• A sensation as if the ears were stopped up.

• The patient is Sensitive to noise.

• The patient experiences Coryza (nasal catarrh) with sneezing.

• The patient experiences Loss of smell.

• The nose feels dry and obstructed.

• The patient experiences Nosebleeds.

• The patient has Difficulty in swallowing.

• The patient experiences a Sensation of a lump in the throat.

• The throat feels constricted.

• The patient experiences Hoarseness.

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• The patient experiences Shortness of breath.

• The patient experiences Oppression of the chest.

• The patient experiences Cough, worse at night.

• The patient experiences Cough dry, hacking, and spasmodic.

• The patient experiences Cough excited by tickling in the throat.

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• The patient experiences Palpitations.

• The patient experiences Weakness of the heart.

• The patient experiences Slow pulse.

• The patient experiences Pulse irregular.

• The patient experiences Anxiety and oppression around the heart.

• The patient experiences Constriction of the chest.

• The chest feels heavy and oppressed.

• The patient experiences Nausea and vomiting, especially from motion or odors.

• The patient experiences Loss of appetite.

• The patient experiences Aversion to food.

• The patient has a Desire for sour things.

• The abdomen feels bloated and distended.

• The patient experiences Colicky pains in the abdomen.

• The patient experiences Constipation with ineffectual urging.

• The stool is hard and difficult to pass.

• The patient experiences Diarrhea, especially after anger.

• The patient experiences Diarrhea watery and offensive.

• The patient experiences Flatulence and distension.

• The patient experiences Hemorrhoids.

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• The patient experiences Frequent urination.

• The patient experiences Involuntary urination.

• The urine is scanty and dark.

• The patient experiences Burning sensation during urination.

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• In women, amenorrhea (absence of menstruation) or dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation) can occur.

• In women, Leucorrhea (white discharge) can occur.

• In men, impotence or premature ejaculation can occur.

• The patient experiences Loss of sexual desire.

• The patient experiences Prostatic affections.

• The patient experiences Weakness and trembling of the limbs.

• The patient experiences Paralysis, especially of one side of the body.

• The patient experiences Painful contractions of the limbs.

• The patient experiences Numbness and tingling in the extremities.

• The patient experiences Heaviness of the limbs.

• The patient experiences Backache, especially in the lumbar region.

• The patient experiences Stiffness of the neck.

• The patient experiences Pain in the shoulders and arms.

• The patient experiences Sciatica.

• The muscles feel sore and bruised.

• The patient experiences Convulsions with loss of consciousness.

• The skin is dry and itching.

• The patient experiences Eruptions on the skin.

• The patient experiences Hives.

• The patient experiences Night sweats.

• The patient experiences Restless sleep.

• The patient experiences Frequent waking.

• The patient experiences Anxious dreams.

• The patient experiences Dreams of falling.

• The patient experiences Dreams of death.

• Riding in a carriage, boat, or ship.

• Worse from Loss of sleep.

• Worse from Eating.

• Worse from Cold air.

• Worse from Open air.

• Worse from Noise.

• Worse from Odors.

• Worse from Emotions (anger, grief).

• Worse from Motion.

• Worse from Touch.

• Worse in the Morning.

• Worse in the Evening.

• Worse in Damp weather.

• Worse During menses.

• Better (>): Rest.

• Better from Warmth.

• Better from Lying down.

• Better in a Dark room.

• Better from Pressure.

• Better from Eating.

• Better from Warm applications.

• Better in a Quiet environment.

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• Compare: Picrotoxin (alkaloid of Cocculus) - epilepsy, attacks in the morning on leaving horizontal position, hernia, locomotor ataxia, night-sweats.

• Compare: Symphoricarpus (morning sickness).

• Compare: Petrol. (seasickness, vertigo).

• Compare: Puls. (sensitive, yielding nature; nausea).

• Compare: Ignat. (grief, contradiction; sensitive).

• Compare: Nux vomica (irritable, sleepless; nausea).

• Antidotes: Camphora, Coffea.

• Follows well: Arnica, Ipecac, Nux Vomica.

• Inimical: Zincum.