(Fresh-water Sponge) Soreness of muscles and integuments; worse motion and friction of clothes, with sensitiveness to cold. Glands swollen. General paresis. Basedow’s disease. Lues, bubo, roseola.
Head
Sensation of enlargement and fullness. Pain in forehead and temple, EXTENDING TO EYEBALLS, worse in afternoon. Blueness under eyes. DANDRUFF; scalp sore, dry, tetter-like. Dull, dizzy feeling in head. CORYZA, sneezing, watery discharge, with asthmatic breathing and suffocative cough. Influenza. Slight sounds are greatly accentuated.
Eyes
Twitching of LEFT upper lid; eyeballs tender; aching in eyeballs. Intermittent sore pain in eyeball, coming on at 3 p.m.
Respiratory
Cough; worse in afternoon, better in warm room. The MUCUS FLIES OUT OF MOUTH AND NOSTRILS. Whooping-cough, with thick yellow expectoration; flies out. Hay-fever, with asthmatic breathing. Pleuritic stitches in chest, neck, and back.
Stomach
Mouth hot. Much thirst. Lancinating pain in pit of stomach extending to vertebra and scapula.
Female
Metorrhagia; worse at night, with feeling of enlargement of head. (ARG.) Cancer of breast. (ASTERIAS; CON.; CARBO AN.; PLUMB, IOD.)
Heart
Indescribable bad feeling about the heart with soreness and pain, flying stitches all over.
Skin
Sore to touch. FRECKLES. RHAGADES.
Back
Stitches in nape, scapulae. Pain in small of back, hips and lower limbs. Very stiff neck. MUSCLES AND SKIN SORE, as if beaten.
Modalities
WORSE by cold. BETTER, by heat. Relationship. Compare: MERC, similar but opposite modalities. SPONGIA; KALI HYD.; PHYTOL.; CONIUM. Complementary: SULPH.; MERC; IOD.
Dose
First to sixth attenuation.