Nose
The sense of smell is also acute, and there is one very characteristic symptom: cannot tolerate the smell of food. The proving says: ‘Extreme aversion to food, even the smell of food causes it, although with hunger’.
‘She is discharging bloody mucus when blowing her nose’. Nosebleed in the morning on waking, the day before the menses.
Face
The face may look earthy or leaden, with a very painful expression. But more often it is bloated, hot and red, with an intoxicated aspect, as if stupid and dazed. ‘Redness of the cheeks, with heat in the face, without thirst, in a very cold room’.
In spasmodic and convulsive states, there are often distortions of the facial muscles. Half-sided facial paralysis; left-sided hemiplegia; apoplexy. There is also a case report about tic-like ‘half-sided spasmodic motions of the face muscles’ with red and bloated face, ‘looking like frozen’, without any painful sensation and even without any disturbance of the accustomed activities.
Cocculus has cured prosopalgia where the pains radiated very far, even as far as the linger tips. Trigeminus neuralgia, with a violent jerk in the nerve and objective coldness in the distorted face.
Quivering of lower jaw and chattering teeth when trying to speak.
Swollen, hard glands under lower jaw, which are painful when stroked. Swelling of parotid glands. Pustule below right angle of mouth, with tensive pain when touched.
Mouth
The sense of taste is altered, and this leads to loss of appetite and aversion to eating. Most frequently there is a metallic taste, sometimes like copper, with loss of appetite. It may be perceived on the root of the tongue. There is also bitter, sour or putrid taste, or something like an insipid taste, ‘as if the food lacked salt’, or again, ‘as if all food had been salted and peppered too much’.
When nausea comes on, which is often the case from getting cold or taking cold, a frequent accumulation of saliva occurs. But often mouth and tongue will be