Materia Medica de A a Z

CIMEX LECTULARIUS = ACANTHIA LECTULARIA (cimx)

Of use in intermittent fever, with weariness and inclination to stretch. Hamstrings feel too short [Am-m]. Flexors mostly affected. Sensation of retraction of arm tendons. Stretching.

Head

Violent headache, caused by drinking. Great rage; vehement at beginning of chilly stage. Would like to tear everything to pieces. Pain under right frontal bone.

Female

Shooting pain from vagina up towards left ovary.

Fever

Chilliness of whole body. Sensation as of wind blowing on knees. PAINS IN ALL JOINTS, AS IF TENDONS WERE TOO SHORT, especially knee-joints. Chill; worse lying down. Thirst during apyrexia, but little during chilly stage; still less during hot stage, and none during sweating. Musty, offensive sweat.

Bowels

Constipation, faeces dry and in small balls [Op; Plb; Thuj] and hard. Ulcer of rectum.

Dose

Sixth to two hundredth attenuation.