Oleander

► Weak memory. ► Absence of mind, want of attention. ► Slowness of perception. ► Difficult comprehension of what he reads. ► Indolence, aversion to do anything. ► Cannot bear contradiction, flushes of heat.

► Vertigo : for a long time before the paralysis ; when rising from bed ; when looking fixedly, or looking down while standing. ► Heaviness of the head ; better when lying down. ► Faintness, as from weakness ; relieved by sweat.

► Headache improved by looking cross-eyed. ► Pressive pain from within outward, in the forehead. ► Pain in the forehead, as if it would split.

► Biting-itching on scalp, as from vermin, worse back part of head and behind ears ; better when first scratching it ; followed by burning and soreness, which gives place to biting-itching ; worse in evening when undressing. ► Humid, scaly, biting-itching eruption, especially on back part of head.

► When reading, burning and tension in the eyelids ; lachrymation. ► Double vision. ► Eyes sunken.

► Herpes and ulcers on and around the ears. ► Cramp-like drawing on the auricle.

► Pale, sunken face in the morning, with blue rings around the eyes. ► Alternate paleness and dark-redness of the face.

► Numbness of the upper lip. ► Foaming at the mouth.

► Toothache only when masticating. ► Drawing in the molar teeth at night when lying down, with anxiety, nausea and frequent micturition. ► Bluish-white gums.

► Loss of speech. ► Tongue : rough, dirty-white, with elevated papillae coated white, with dryness of the mouth. ► Food has a weak, insipid taste.

► Ravenous hunger, with trembling of hands and hasty eating, without appetite. ► Much thirst especially for cold water. ► Wants brandy : 17.

► Violent empty eructations while eating. ► After coffee : 21.

► Vomiting of food and bitter greenish water. ► After vomiting, ravenous hunger and thirst.

► Pulsation in the pit of the stomach, as if the beats of the heart were felt through the whole thorax. ► Emptiness in pit of stomach, even after eating ; from nursing. ► Sinking in pit of stomach, suddenly, with nausea or vomiting ; wants brandy, which relieves.

► Stitches and gnawing about the navel. ► Rolling and rumbling in the intestines, with emission of a great quantity of fetid flatus.

► Ineffectual urging to stool. ► Rolling and rumbling, with emission of flatus, smelling like rotten eggs. ► Stools thin, yellow, undigested, involuntary when emitting flatus. ► Passes food undigested in the morning which he ate the day before. ► First, diarrhoea, then had, difficult stool ; during pregnancy. ► Stool and urine involuntary. ► Diarrhoea, with intestinal ulcers. θ Tuberculosis. ► Burning at the anus before and after stool.

► Frequent profuse urination, especially after drinking coffee. ► Urine brown, burning, with whitish sediment.

► Viscid mucus in the trachea.

► Oppressed breathing when lying ; also as if the chest were too narrow, with long, deep breathing. ► Stertorous breathing.

► Violent shaking cough, from tickling in the larynx.

► Dull stitches in left chest, continuing during inhalation and exhalation. ► Sensation of emptiness and coldness in the chest.

► Dull, drawing pain over the heart, worse when stooping. ► Palpitation, with weakness and empty feeling of chest, and at the same time fullness in pit of stomach. ► Anxious palpitation ; chest feels expanded. ► Pulse : quick, skin hot ; changeable, irregular ; weak and slow mornings, full and rapid evenings.

► Dull, lasting stitch in the sternum.

► Hands tremble when writing. ► Fingers stiff and swollen, with burning pains. ► Veins on hands swollen. ► Itch-like eruption on inside of wrist and between fingers.

► Itch-like eruption between nates. ► Weakness of the lower limbs, with sensation in the soles as if "asleep", when walking. ► Trembling knees, when standing. ► Feet constantly cold.

► Painless paralysis. ► Stiffness and coldness of limbs. ► Loss of muscular power ; trembling. ► Violent spasmodic contractions of the muscles ; more those of upper part of body and of left side.

► Yawning : with trembling of lower jaw ; with chilliness and trembling of muscles. ► Restless sleep, frequent waking. ► Voluptuous dreams, with seminal emissions.

► Undressing : 4.

► Chilliness, want of animal heat, of external chill, internal heat ; no thirst. ► Chill all over, periodically ; face hot, hands cold. ► Periodical flushes of heat ; worse after bodily or mental exertion.

► Periodical : 40.

► Right : 36. Left : 28, 36.

► Scratching : 4.

► Violently itching eruption, bleeding, oozing out a fluid, forming scabs.

► Antidote to Oleand. : Camphor.