Syphilitic Virus (A Nosode)
- Pains from darkness to daylight; begin with twilight and end with daylight (Merc., Phyt.).
- Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stan.); shifting and require frequent change of position.
- All symptoms are worse at night (Merc.); from sundown to sunrise.
- Eruptions: dull, red, copper-colored spots, becoming blue when getting cold.
- Extreme emaciation of entire body (Abrot., Iod.).
- Heart: lancinating pains from base to apex, at night (from apex to base, Med.; from base to clavicle or shoulder, Spig.).
- Loss of memory; cannot remember names of books, persons or places; arithmetical calculation difficult.
- Sensation: as if going insane, as if about to be paralyzed; of apathy and indifference.
- Terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical exhaustion on awakening; it is intolerable, death is preferable.
- Fears the terrific suffering from exhaustion on awakening (Lach.).
- Leucorrhoea; profuse; soaking through the napkins and running down the heels (Alum.).
- Headache, neuralgic in character, causing sleeplessness and delirium at night; commencing at 4 p. m.; worse from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight (ceases at 11 or 12 p. m., Lyc.); falling of the hair.
- Acute ophthalmia neonatorum; lids swollen, adhere during sleep; pain intense at night < from 2 to 5 a. m., pus profuse; > by cold bathing.
- Ptosis: paralysis of superior oblique; sleepy look from drooping lids (Caust., Graph.).
- Diplopia, one image seen below the other.
- Teeth: decay at edge of gum and break off; are cupped, edges serrated; dwarfed in size, converge at their tips (Staph.).
- Craving alcohol, in any form.
- Hereditary tendency to alcoholism (Asar., Psor., Tuber., Sulph., Sulph. ac.).
- Obstinate constipation for year; rectum seems tied up with strictures; when enema was used the agony of passage was like labor (Lac. c., Tub.).
- Fissures in anus and rectum (Thuja); prolapse of rectum; obstinate cases with a syphilitic history.
- Rheumatism of the shoulder joint, or at insertion of deltoid, < from raising arm laterally (Rhus - right shoulder, Sang.; left, Fer.).
- When the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve, in syphilitic affections.
- Syphilitics, or patients who have had chancre treated by local means, and as a result have suffered from throat and skin troubles for years, are nearly always benefited by this remedy at commencement of treatment unless some other remedy is clearly indicated.
Relations
- Compare: Aur., Asaf., Kali i., Merc., Phyt., in bone diseases and syphilitic affections.
Aggravation
- At night, from twilight to daylight.
