Niccolum

► Quarrelsome ; very fretful humor. ► Anxiety on moving, as if sweat would break out. ► Apprehensive ; despondent.

► Confused, as after intoxication, in the morning. ► Heaviness in forehead, sense of reeling. ► Vertigo : on rising in the morning, as from weakness ; with nausea and inclination to vomit.

► Heaviness, fulness ; feel as if brain was cut to pieces on stooping ; stupefied sensation. ► Head feels thick, dull, in the morning, as from loss of sleep. ► Tearing in the head and in the left eye. ► Stitches here and there, worse when stooping. ► Pressure on the vertex as with a hand. ► Headaches return every two weeks, and are usually better in the open air.

► Vision dim, eyes red, sensitive ; after exertion, especially in the evening, eyes give cut and burn. ► Burning in the eyes, worse morning on waking ; better after washing. ► Lids agglutinated.

► Violent sneezing without coryza. ► Stoppage of the nose, cannot breath through it ; worse at night. ► Redness and swelling of the tip of the nose.

► Sensation as if swollen, it seems heavy. ► Right side red and swollen with the sore throat.

► Gnawing in a right lower molar ; sour, offensive water exudes on sucking the teeth. ► Teeth feel loose and elongated.

► Stiff, making talking difficult.

► Right tonsil swollen ; sticking on swallowing, as if in the uvula. ► Spasmodic choking and constriction.

► Averse to meat. ► Thirst, worse in the evening. ► Generally better after eating.

► Eructations bitter, sour, or empty. ► Hiccough every evening. ► Nausea, dull head ; sour eructations, also mornings after rising.

► Burning. ► Pressure, better from soup or from eructations. ► Empty, fasting sensation, but no hunger.

► Bloated abdomen. ► Pinching at the navel and tension in the back before dinner. ► Violent cutting in abdomen, followed by soft stool.

► Diarrhoea and tenesmus after milk. ► Diarrhoea of yellow mucous stools, expelled with great force and much flatus. ► Stool, even if soft, evacuated with great pressure.

► Urine increased, with burning micturition.

► Menses : early, with pain in abdomen and small of back ; or, oftener, late and scanty, with colic, backache, burning in the eyes and great debility. ► Vomiting and colic, after suppressed menses. ► Leucorrhoea profuse, worse after urinating and after the menses.

► Hoarseness returns annually (in one case with the nausea, intolerance of milk and weak eyes, mentioned above) ; also after exposure to wind.

► Cough violent at night, must sit up and hold the head. ► Cough from tickling in the throat, worse evening after lying down.

► Cracking in the cervical vertebrae on moving the head. ► Fine stitches and feeling of tension in nape of neck of motion. ► Stitches in the small of the back. ► Painful gnawing in small of back.

► Left shoulder as if sprained or dislocated, better from violent motion.

► Pain as from weariness in the legs, pressing towards the groins, diarrhoea ; during menses.

► Tearing in scapulae, down the arms, in hip and down the legs. ► Left arm and leg feel as if they would fall asleep ; afternoon, sitting. ► Hands and feet feel heavy better by motion.

► Literary men and others who suffer from periodical, nervous headaches, who are weak, with asthenopia, weak digestion, constipation ; worse in the morning on awaking. ► Feels sick and feverish, as if a severe illness was impending.

► Yawning, drowsiness. ► Restlessness, heat, frequent waking better walking about.

► Chilliness predominates. ► Shivering in the back, better warmth of stove. ► Shivering and heat alternately. ► Heat followed by chilliness. ► Sensation of heat all over, with anxiety and prostration. ► Sweat in the morning in bed ; or after midnight.

► Periodicity, annually : 25 ; every two weeks : 3.

► Tearing in various parts. ► Stitches here and there over body after lying down.

► Catarrhs : 7, 13, 20, 25, 27.

► Uneasiness, heat, everything hurts, must rise from bed and walk about.

► Itching not better from scratching, after which pimples appear. ► Fine burning, stinging, biting.

► Compare Kobalt., Ferrum, Zincum, Nux vom. (literary men, morning symptoms), Arsen. (annual hoarseness).