Zincum

► Unconscious ; signs of effusion into the brain ; feet constantly moving ; often from undeveloped eruptions. ► Weak memory, with stinging pains in the head. ► Repeats all questions before answering them. ► Stares as if frightened on waking and rolls from side to side. ► Sensitive to others talking. ► Low-spirited at noon ; lively in the evening or vice versa. ► Thinks of death calmly ; or hypochondriacal, with gastric symptoms ; pressure in spine and fear of death. ► Children cross toward evening ; brain affected.

► Vertigo in occiput, with falling to left when walking ; stupefaction and dulness of intellect, especially afternoon and evening.

► Pressure on root of nose, as if it would be pressed into head. ► Sharp pressure on a small spot in forehead, evenings. ► Hemicrania, worse after dinner ; tearing and stinging. ► Cramp-like, tearing pain in right and left temple. ► Pressure on top of head, worse after dinner ; frequent dizziness, then nausea and vomiting of bile ; face pale ; costive ; cerebral depression. ► Sore pain in head. ► Internal headaches, mostly semilateral, or in sinciput or occiput ; worse from wine, in warm room, and after eating. ► Headache from drinking even small quantities of wine.

► Sensation of soreness of vertex, as from soreness or ulceration ; worse in evening in bed and after eating ; better after scratching. ► Hair falls out on vertex causing complete baldness, with sensation of soreness of scalp.

► Sensitive to light ; brain affected. ► Amaurosis ; during severe headache ; passing away with the headache with contracted pupils. ► Eyes dim, watery. θ Brain affections. ► Sees luminous bodies. θ After operations. ► Iritis (syphilitic), worse at night, with hot, scalding tears. ► Conjunctivitis, pains worse at night ; inflammation more in inner canthus. ► Pterygium. ► Upper lids heavy, as if paralyzed. ► Granular lids, after ophthalmia neonatorum.

► Cracking and detonation in ear. ► Frequent acute stitches in right ear near tympanum. ► Earache of children especially boys. ► Otorrhoea of fetid pus.

► Dry ; brain affected. ► Coryza with hoarseness and burning in chest. ► Nose feels sore internally. ► Swelling of one side of nose with loss of smell.

► Pale, alternately with redness brain affections ; earthy, with wandering expression ; waxy, white or yellow in typhus. ► Burning jerking stitching in infra-orbital nerve, with bluish eyelids ; worse from least touch and in evening. ► Scirrhus on right cheek, size of a walnut. ► Cold sweat on forehead.

► Lids and corners of mouth cracked, with yellowish ulceration. ► Thick viscid humor (fluid) on the lips.

► Herpes (yellowish in mouth from sea-bathing). ► Drawing or smarting and stinging or roots of (upper) front teeth and in hard palate. ► Gums painful while eating, ulcerated, white bleed easily. ► Teeth feel long and loose, with swelling of submaxillary glands. ► Grits the teeth.

► Taste : sweetish ; metallic ; like spoiled cheese ; bloody ; bitter in fauces. ► Tongue : dry, don't want to talk ; coated at root and dry (brain diseases) swollen on left side ; hindering talking ; covered with vesicles.

► Increased flow of saliva, with crawling in inner surface of cheek.

► Herpetic-like eruption on tonsils soft palate and root of tongue ; whitish somewhat elevated, ulcerated spots in mouth. θ Sequelae to gonorrhoea. ► Pain in posterior part of hard palate and in velum palati, especially when yawning. ► Dryness of throat evening ; mucus collects from posterior nares ; soreness in throat ; tearing in posterior fauces, more between acts of empty deglutition or after eating. ► Cramps-like, strangling pain externally in muscles, when swallowing.

► Aversion to : meat fish and sweat things ; to cooked or warm things. ► Thirst with heat in palms. ► Insatiable hunger but no appetite for breakfast with hurried deglutition.

► After eating : 3, 4, 16, 19, 26, 31, 40. ► Worse from ; sugar (heart-burn) ; wine (nearly all symptoms) ; milk (sour eructations).

► Sweetish rising into throat, with sweet taste in mouth, or taste of blood. ► Eructations, with pressure in middle of spine. ► Heart-burn ; swollen feet and varicose veins during pregnancy. ► Subdued nausea, with universal, tremulous feeling. ► Nausea in stomach, with retching and vomiting of bitter mucus ; renewed by least motion. ► As soon as first spoonful reaches stomach ; up it comes. ► Vomiting of blood or of sanguineous mucus, with effort.

► Spasms of stomach and hypochondria, and a constriction in oesophagus, with dyspnoea and increased heat of the body ; worse during inspiration. ► Burning in pit of stomach when pressing thereon ; in evening. ► Burning in pit of stomach, before breakfast extending into oesophagus. ► Haematemesis. ► Sensation like a worm creeping up from pit of stomach into throat, causing coughing.

► Cramp-pains in region of liver, with dyspnoea and hypochondriasis after eating. ► Liver enlarged, hard and sore to touch ; feet swollen ; vomits bloody phlegm. ► Stitches in spleen, worse pressure.

► Pressure and tension in abdomen. ► Flatulent colic, worse from wine, toward evening or during the night, and at rest ; loud rumbling and rolling ; retraction of abdomen ; hot, moist, fetid, flatus passing off without relief ; lead colic. ► Violent bearing down in abdomen after a difficulty, scanty stool ; relieved by passing flatus.

► Stool : frequent small, sometimes involuntary ; pitch-like ; or dry, brittle and granulous ; soft, papescent, or thin, with pale blood ; difficult ; hard dry, insufficient, expelled with much pressure. ► Diarrhoea involuntary, with stupor. θ Typhus.

► Violent pressure of urine on bladder ; sits with legs crossed, and though bladder feels as if full, none passes. ► Can only pass water while sitting bent backward ; much sand in urine. ► Urine turbid, loam-colored, in morning. ► Frequent micturition of pale, yellow urine, which, on standing, deposits a white, flaky sediment. ► Involuntary urination while walking, cough in and sneezing.

► Easily excited ; the emission, during an embrace, is too rapid ; or, difficult and almost impossible. ► Long-lasting and violent erections. ► Copious discharges of prostatic juice, without any cause. ► Orchitis : from a bruise, with drawing and retraction of one or the other testicle, goes from right to left ; after checked otorrhoea. ► Atrophy of testicles. ► Spermatorrhoea ; emissions without dreams, face pale, sunken, blue rings around eyes. ► Hair falls off from genitals. ► Removes buboes, syphilitic or otherwise, in left inguinal region.

► Irresistible sexual desire at night ; desire for onanism. ► Boring pain in left ovarian region, better from pressure, but entirely relieved only during menstrual flow. ► Amenorrhoea, with alternately red and pale face. ► Dysmenorrhoea when, during menses, limbs feel heavy, with violent drawing about knees, as if they would be twisted off ; sudden oppression of stomach, she has to loosen her dress ; chilliness. ► Menses : too early and profuse, lumps of coagulated blood pass away, mostly when walking ; flow most profuse at night. ► Ulceration of uterus, discharge bloody, acrid, but ulcers and rather destitute of feeling. ► Leucorrhoea : of bloody mucus after menses, causing itching of vulva ; of thick mucus, three days before and after menses. ► Cutting colic, succeeded by leucorrhoea. ► Pruritus vulvae causes masturbation. ► Varicose veins of external genitals, with fidgety feet.

► Tendency to miscarry. ► Puerperal convulsions if an eruption (especially a long-standing one) has recently disappeared. ► Mammae swollen and sore to touch ; catamenia suppressed. ► Soreness of nipples.

► Asthma, evening after eating, from flatus, with increase of dyspnoea, when expectoration stops, decreasing when it recommences.

► All night, with dull pains in chest ; spasmodic, child puts hands to genitals, with varicose veins on legs ; with shooting in scrobiculum, leaving when sputum is raised ; worse after eating sweets ; wine ; also during menses. ► Sputa : yellow, purulent, blood-streaked ; tenacious ; sweetish, putrid, or metallic-tasting ; pure blood, morning and during day.

► Pain in chest, as if cut pieces, with constrictive sensation. ► Burning in chest. ► Coldness in chest. ► Stitches in left chest and in heart, at every beat. ► Sensation of emptiness behind sternum.

► Severe pain in cardiac region ; some swelling and great tenderness. ► Feels as if a cap were over the heart ; spine affected. ► Irregular, spasmodic action of heart ; occasionally one violent thump. ► Violent pulsation in blood-vessels, during heat. ► Pulse : irregular, or small and frequent, evenings, slow mornings ; increased by wine ; scarcely perceptible.

► Nape of neck feels weary and tired, from writing or any exertion. ► Stiffness and tension of neck. Tearing pains. ► Burning in shoulder-blades ; tension between shoulder blades. ► Burning along whole spine, worse sitting. ► Pain in small of back on turning over in bed at night. ► Pain in small of back, when sitting or when in act of sitting down ; diminished by continuous walking. ► Pain in last dorsal vertebrae.

► Lameness and deadness of hands ; they look bluish. ► Weakness, numbness and tremor of hands, when writing. ► Cracked and dry skin of hands, even in mild weather. ► Chilblains itch and swell.

► Varices in legs, with fidgety feet. ► Formication in calves. ► Sensation of stagnation in blood of legs. ► Inflammation of tendo-achilles, erysipelatous ; worse from touching heel too ground and from wine. ► Feet are sweaty and sore about toes ; fetid. ► Paralysis of feet, from suppressed foot-sweat, by getting wet ; worse from wine. ► Chilblains, worse from scratching and friction. ► Coldness of feet at night.

► Rheumatism, tearing, lameness and trembling ; or crampy pains ; of twisting in affected limbs and frequent jerking of whole body during sleep ; worse from being overheated and from exertion. ► Great weakness : of limbs ; especially of lumbar region and bends of knees, when walking in open air. ► Sudden sensation of weakness in limbs, with canine hunger.

► Twitching in various muscles. ► The whole body jerks during sleep. ► Hands tremble ; grasps at flocks ; or slides down in bed. ► Chorea, depressed spirits, health suffers ; caused by fright ; suppressed eruption ; worse after wine. ► Beginning of locomotor ataxia, when lightning-like pains are marked and intense. ► Spasms : child cross before attack, body hot, restless at night, fidgety feet, right side twitching ; pale children, during teething. ► Neuralgia after zoster ; better from touch.

► Drowsiness : with frequent gaping ; and yet cannot sleep, head feels so light. ► During sleep ; cries out, awakens with fear ; limbs and body jerk.

► Chills : begin after eating dinner ; in open air ; on approach of a storm ; run down back ; alternate with heat ; external, with increased internal, warmth ; from touching anything cold. ► Heat : internal, with cold sensation in abdomen and on feet ; anxious sensation of heat, without any external heat, during the night ; of face, with cool body in forenoon ; in flushes, with violent trembling and short, hot breath. ► Sweat : profuse all night, wants to uncover ; easy during day, from exercise ; offensive.

► Especially, in the anaemic ; brain exhausted ; not able to develop exanthemata. ► Dropsy, with uneasiness in renal region.

► Scratching : 4, 33. Touch or pressure : 8, 17, 18, 23, 24, 33, 36, 46.

► Itching in bends of joints. ► Pains, seemingly between skin and flesh. ► Rhagades, mostly between fingers, bad even in mild weather. ► Sudden itching here and there, especially in evening in bed, goes off by contact. ► Dry herpes over whole body. ► Neuralgia, following herpes zoster.

► Zincum is followed well by Ignat, but not by Nux vom. which disagrees. ► Antidotes to Zincum : Hepar, Ignat. ► Incompatible Chamom., Nux vom. ► Zincum picricum (preferable, with dull, heavy, periodic, occipital headache ; pains in small of back as if struck). ► Zincum sulph. is useful in persistent dysenteric discharges ; cutting pains in side of abdomen ; also good when cannot sleep because of jerking of legs.