Materia Medica de A a Z

SYPHILINUM = LUESINUM (syph)

Region

Mucous membranes. Nerves. Bones.

Worse

NIGHT; damp. Sundown to sunrise. Gradual agg. then slow amel. Protruding tongue. Extreme heat or cold. Every alternate full moon. During thunderstorms.

Better

Changing position. Continued or slow motion. High altitudes. Applied heat.

General

Poor reaction or it does not hold. Chronicity. Great weakness, with but few symptoms. Multiphase symptoms. SYPHILITIC TAINT. Weakness; on waking. Ulceration. Bald head, pouting lips and big belly. Dwarfish. Marasmic. Foul odor of body. Violent or linear pains. Knots in muscles..................... Antisocial. Horrid depression or despair. Cross. Feels like going crazy. Impulse to wash hands. Syphilitic insanity. Poor memory. Nightly delirium. Cerebral softening. Deep, crushing head pains; across base. Beats head against wall. Linear headaches. Head feels pulled back. Slowly advancing hemiplegia. Hair falls profusely. Inflamed cornea; amel. cool bathing. Ophthalmia. Glimmering vision. Vertical diplopia. Ptosis. Abscess of middle ear. Nose painful to inhaled air; in sinuses. Ozona. Snuffles. Face wrinkled; looks old. Pain over r. eye, agg. protruding tongue. Teeth feel sticky; as of a worm in; decay at edge of gums. Salivation; at night. Putrid taste. Crack along center of tongue. Green lumps from posterior nares. Sore throat; r. to l.; agg. cold drinks. Capricious appetite. Craves alcoholic liquors. Rectal fissure or stricture. Frothy urine. Nocturnal enuresis. Voids urine amel. standing. Menses have odor of rotten meat. Profuse, acrid leucorrhoa; runs to heels; with itching. Cough, agg. lying on r. side. Pain from base to apex of heart. Neck feels short. Backache, agg. urinating. Deltoid pains. Middle fingers. Itching eruption about elbow. Cold pain in legs. Festination. Bones pain as if sawed. Bilateral exostoses. Skin; biting as from bugs; swelled and blotched, amel. hot bathing. Pains in shins, amel. heat. Wandering erysipelas. Succession of abscesses. Foul or green pus. Conical crusts. Bullæ. White cicatrices. Distorted nails. Sleeplessness. Large, soft pulse. As of hot water in veins.

Related: Merc.