Zinc (The Element)
- Persons suffering from cerebral and nervous exhaustion; defective vitality; brain or nerve power wanting; too weak to develop exanthemata or menstrual function, to expectorate, to urinate; to comprehend, to memorize.
- Incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or lower extremities; must move them constantly.
- Always feels better every way as soon as the menses begin to flow; it relieves all her sufferings; but they return again soon after the flow ceases.
- In the cerebral affections: in impending paralysis of brain; where the vis medicatrix naturae is too weak to develop exanthemata (Cup., Sulph., Tub.); symptoms of effusion into ventricles.
- Child repeats everything said to it.
- Child cries out during sleep; whole body jerks during sleep; wakes frightened, starts, rolls the head from side to side; face alternately pale and red.
- Convulsions: during dentition, with pale face, no heat, except perhaps in occiput, no increase in temperature (rev. of Bell.); rolling the eyes; gnashing the teeth.
- Automatic motion of hands and head, or one hand and head (Apoc., Bry., Hell.).
- Chorea: from suppressed eruption; from fright.
- Hunger: ravenous, about 11 or 12 a. m. (Sulph.); great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough (incipient brain disease in children).
- Excessive nervous moving of feet, in bed for hours after retiring, even when asleep.
- Feet sweaty and more about toes; fetid, suppressed foot-sweat; very nervous.
- Chilblains, painful, < from rubbing.
- Spinal affections; burning whole length of spine; backache much < from sitting > by walking about (Cobalt., Puls., Rhus).
- Spinal irritation; great prostration of strength.
- Cannot bear back touched (Chin. s., Taren., Ther.).
- Can only void urine while sitting bent backwards.
- Twitching and jerking of single muscles (Agar., Ign.).
- Weakness and trembling of extremities; of hands while writing; during menses.
- During sweat, cannot tolerate any covering.
Relations
- Compare: Hell., Tuber., in incipient brain diseases from suppressed eruptions.
Aggravation
- Of many symptoms from drinking wine, even a small quantity (Alum., Con.).
Amelioration
- Symptoms: of chest, by expectoration; of bladder, by urinating; of back, by emissions (< by Cobalt.); general, by menstrual flow.
- Is followed well by, Ign., but not by Nux, which disagrees.
Inimical
- Cham., and Nux; should not be used before or after.
