Snow-rose
- Rheumatic and gouty symptoms well marked.
- Rheumatism in the hot season.
- The modality (worse before a storm) is a true guiding symptom.
Mind
- Dread of a storm; particularly afraid of thunder.
- Forgetful.
Head
- Aching in temples.
- Tearing pain in bones.
- Headache; worse, wine, wind, cold and wet weather.
- Pain in eyes before a storm.
- Ciliary neuralgia, involving eyeball, orbit, and head.
- Heat in eyes when using them.
Eyes
- Muscular asthenopia; darting pains through eyes from head, worse before a storm.
Ears
- Difficult hearing, with whizzing and ringing in ears.
- Hearing better in the morning; noises come on after patient has been up a few hours.
Face
- Prosopalgia; violent jerking pain involving dental nerves, from temple to lower jaw and chin; better, warmth and eating.
- Toothache in damp weather and before a storm.
- Swollen gums.
- Stumps of teeth are loosened.
Chest
- Violent pleuritic pains running downward in left anterior chest.
- Breathless and speechless from violent pleuritic pains running down the anterior chest.
- Stitches in spleen from fast walking.
- Crampy pain under short ribs.
Male
- Testicles, worse left, swollen, painful, drawn up.
- Orchitis; glands feel crushed.
- Induration and swelling of testes after gonorrhea.
- Hydrocele (Sil).
Extremities
- Joints swollen.
- Gouty inflammation of great toe-joint.
- Rheumatic tearing in all limbs, especially right side; worse, at rest and in stormy weather.
- Stiffness of neck.
- Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists; worse when at rest.
- Pains in bones in spots, and reappear by change of weather.
- Cannot sleep unless legs are crossed.
Modalities
- Worse, before a storm.
- All symptoms reappear in rough weather, night, towards morning.
- Better, after the storm breaks, warmth, and eating.
Relationship
- Compare:
- Ampelopsis (hydrocele and renal dropsy);
- Dulc; Rhus; Nat sulph.
Dose
- First to sixth potency.
