• A sluggish, fat, and lazy constitution with tendency to chronicity.

• Blood stagnation occurs in capillaries leading to blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis.

• The body becomes blue, icy-cold; almost lifeless but the head may be hot.

• Bacteria find fertile ground in the nearly lifeless bloodstream, predisposing to sepsis and typhoidal states.

• Lowered vital power due to loss of fluids.

• Useful in conditions arising after drugging, after other diseases, or in elderly with venous congestions.

• Useful in states of collapse in cholera and typhoid.

• Coldness, cool breath, imperceptible pulse, oppressed and quickened respiration occur.

• The patient craves air; must be fanned hard; demands open windows.

• The patient faints easily, is worn out, and requires fresh air.

• Hemorrhage occurs from any mucous surface.

• Profound debility is present.

• The patient feels too weak to endure.

• Suited for individuals who have never fully recovered from a prior illness.

• A sense of weight in the head (occiput), eyes and eyelids, before the ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere.

• Putrid (septic) condition of all affections is present, coupled with a burning sensation.

• General venous stasis, bluish skin, cold limbs occur.

• Burning pains are often present.

• Great weakness and exhaustion are present.

• A tendency to ulceration and gangrene.

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• The patient is apathetic, indifferent, and mentally dull.

• Memory is weak, and confusion is present. There is difficulty concentrating.

• The patient is irritable, easily vexed, and prone to anger.

• The patient is anxious, especially in the evening and at night.

• The patient is apprehensive about the future and fears death.

• Great sadness and despair are present; the patient feels hopeless.

• Weakness of mind is present; the patient cannot think clearly.

• The patient is easily startled.

• The patient is indisposed to talk or answer questions.

• Loss of consciousness; stupor occurs.

• The patient feels hurried.

• Irritability with weakness occurs.

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• Indicated for states of collapse, torpor, and debility.

• Marked by excessive accumulation of gas in the stomach and intestines.

• Great desire for air; patient wants to be fanned, often hard.

• Characteristic coldness: cold breath, cold knees, cold sweat.

• Lividity of the skin is common; mottled skin around ulcers.

• Indolent gangrene and varicose veins may be present.

• Hippocratic countenance.

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• Heaviness and fullness are present, especially in the occiput.

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• The scalp feels sensitive to touch.

• Heaviness of the eyelids occurs.

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• Dim vision is present.

• Decreased hearing is present.

• Coryza with a raw, burning sensation is present.

• Pale, bluish, or earthy complexion is present.

• Hoarseness is present.

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• Difficulty swallowing is present.

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• Hawking up of mucus occurs.

• Dyspnea (shortness of breath) is present, especially from exertion or lying down.

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• Cough is present, often with a rattling sound.

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• Asthma is present, worse in a warm room.

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• Suffocating spells are present; the patient needs to be fanned.

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• Great dyspnoea. Cough < on entering cold air from a warm room. Hoarseness from damp air, < morning or evening. Cough caused by a sensation as if sulphur fumes were in larynx.

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• Weak, irregular pulse is present.

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• Palpitations occur.

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• Accompanied by gagging and vomiting.

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• Short and difficult.

• Fluttering sensation is present.

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• Sour eructations are present.

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• Nausea and vomiting are present.

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• Weak digestion is present.

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• Aversion to meat and milk is present.

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• Craving for stimulants is present.

• Distended and sensitive to touch.

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• Colic is present.

• Hemorrhoids are present, with burning and itching.

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• Hemorrhages from bowels. Anal irritation and hemorrhoidal troubles.

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• Ravenous hunger is present, quickly satisfied.

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• Great thirst for small quantities of water is present.

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• They give temporary relief.

• Pain occurs after eating.

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• Burning sensation is present during urination.

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• Involuntary urination occurs.

• Menses are too early, profuse and exhausting.

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• Leucorrhoea, greenish-yellow, < in morning; excoriating. Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, with burning pains across sacrum and spine. Menstrual discharge is corrosive and has a strong pungent odour. Premature and profuse menses, preceded and followed by leucorrhoea. Perineum moist, raw, oozing. Itching, burning soreness and smarting at vulva and anus during menses. Varicose veins of vulva.

• Stiffness of the neck is present.

• Coldness of the hands and feet is present.

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• Heaviness and weakness are present in the limbs.

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• Varicose veins are present.

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• Ulcers are present on the legs.

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• Trembling of the limbs occurs.

• Aching and bruised feeling all over is present.

• Bluish discoloration is present.

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• Easy bruising is present.

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• Ulcers with a putrid discharge are present.

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• Sensitive to touch.

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• Itching is present, especially when warm in bed.

• Exhaustion is present upon waking.

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• Dreams are anxious and frightful.

• Evening; night; warmth; warm room; lying down; after eating; after exertion; from wine or stimulants; rich, fatty foods; milk; warm, moist weather.

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• From being fanned; cool air; belching; cold applications; motion; uncovering.

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• Compare: Carboneum-Lampblack (Spasms commencing in tongue, down trachea and extremities. Tingling sensation). Lycopodium; Arsenicum; China.

• Complementary: Kali carb; Drosera.

• Antidotes: Camphor; Arsenicum; Coffea.

• Useful in conditions such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, heart failure, septicemia, ulcers, varicose veins, and gangrene.

• Consider it in cases of post-operative shock.

• Helpful in treating certain types of poisoning.

• are key mental characteristics.

• Slow thinking.

• Indifference.

• Peevishness; easily angered.

• Aversion to darkness.

• Fear of ghosts.

• Vertigo from stomach issues, with fainting, especially at meals.

• Confusion of mind.

• Asthma, often accompanied by flatulence.

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• From warmth (except cough which is < entering cold air from a warm room), lying down (flatulence), morning (leucorrhoea, enuresis, cough). Warm, moist atmosphere. Damp air.

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• Eructations (flatulence), being fanned.

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• Complementary: Dros.

• Relations: Consider in cases where Quinine has been abused.

• Indicated for: Typhoid, intermittent fever, yellow fever, hectic fever, cholera.

• Conditions arising from: Effects of alcohol, fish (especially if tainted), ice-water, vegetables, salt or salt meats, high living, and especially butter-eating.