Materia Medica de A a Z

BADIAGA (Bad)

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

Metrorrhagia; worse at night, with feeling of enlargement of head [Arg (Arg-m)]. Cancer of breast. [Asterias (Aster); Conium; Carb-an; Plb iod (Plb-i)].

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. Spong; Kali hyd (Kali-i); Phyt; Conium.

Complementary: Sulph; Merc; Iod.

Dose

First to sixth attenuation.