Squilla Maritima

► Great anxiety of mind, with fear of death. ► Angry about trifles. ► Aversion to mental or bodily labor.

► Vertigo in morning, with nausea. ► Beclouded and dizzy in head.

► Drawing lancinating headache. ► Pulsation in head when raising it. ► Headache in morning on waking, with pressing pains. ► Contractive pain in both temples. ► Quickly passing pain in occiput, from left to right. ► Stitching pain in right side of forehead.

► Painful sensitiveness of vertex, mornings.

► Left eye looks much smaller than right ; upper eyelid swollen. ► Contraction of pupils.

► Tearing pain of left ear.

► Child sneezes during cough ; eyes water ; rubs eyes and nose. θ Measles. ► Acrid, corrosive, fluent coryza in morning. ► Humid eruptions under nose, with stinging-itching.

► Changeable expression and color of face. ► During the heat, redness of face, followed by paleness, without coldness.

► Lips : twitch, and are covered with yellow crusts ; black and cracked.

► Food tastes bitter, especially bread ; or sweetish, especially soup and meat.

► Much viscid mucus in mouth.

► Burning in palate and throat ; dryness in throat.

► Insatiable appetite. ► Desire for acids. ► Thirst for cold water, but the dyspnoea allows her to take but a sip at a time.

► After eating : 27. Cold drinks : 27.

► Empty eructations. ► Nausea ; during morning cough ; continuous, in pit of stomach, alternating with a pain in abdomen, as with diarrhoea.

► Pressure in stomach, as from a stone.

► Cutting pain in abdomen, as from flatulence. ► Painful sensitiveness of abdomen and region of bladder.

► Painless constipation. ► Frequent discharge of very fetid flatulence. ► Diarrhoea, stools very offensive, watery, during measles, or looking black ; slimy fluid, in frothy bubbles.

► Continuous, painful pressure on bladder. ► Urine : increased, pale, with frequent urging ; involuntary ; scanty, dark-red. θ Hydrothorax. ► When urinating, feces escape.

► Atony of cervix uteri.

► Moaning, with open mouth ; wheezing ; rattling, with pleurisy, must sit up ; short, from least exertion. ► So out of breath cannot drink ; child seizes the cup eagerly but can drink only in sips.

► Dry, night and morning ; short, rattling, disturbing sleep ; spasmodic from mucus in the trachea, or creeping sensation in chest ; with headache ; dyspnoea ; spurting of urine ; stitches in chest or pain in abdomen ; caused by cold drinks ; during measles ; after eating ; from every exertion. ► Sputa white or reddish mucus ; sweetish, or empyreumatic or offensive in odor. ► The loose morning cough is more fatiguing than the dry evening cough.

► Stitches : in chest, especially when inhaling and coughing ; insides of chest. θ Pleurisy. ► Pains in chest are worse in morning. ► Especially suitable in pneumonia and pleurisy, after bloodletting. ► Heaviness on chest ; congestion of blood to chest.

► Pulse small and slow, slightly hard.

► Stiffness of neck.

► Sweat in arm-pit. ► Convulsive twitching of arms ; cold hands.

► Convulsive twitching of legs. ► Cold foot-sweat. ► Sweat only on toes. ► Soles red and sore when walking.

► Tearing and restlessness in upper and lower extremities. ► Convulsive twitchings and motions of limbs, worse in morning and evening, and during motion. ► Soreness in bends of joints.

► Frequent yawning, without sleepiness. ► Restless sleep, with much tossing about.

► Uncovering : 40.

► Chill internally at night, with external heat. ► Chilliness toward evening when walking, not while sitting. ► Heat dry, burning, mostly internally. ► Heat of whole body, with cold hands and feet, with aversion to being uncovered ; face pale after the heat. ► Sensation of great heat in the body, in afternoon and evening, generally with cold feet. ► Whenever he uncovers himself during heat, he suffers from chilliness and pain. ► Sweat wanting.

► Eruptions like itch, with burning, itching. ► Excoriation in bends of limbs.

► Useful after Bryon.