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General

Niccolum.

Niccolum metallicum. Metallic Nickel. Ni. (A.W. 58.6). Trituration. Niccolum carbonicum. Carbonate of Nickel. NiCO3. Trituration.

Clinical

Asthenopia. Clavus. Cough. Dysmenia. Face, chapped. Headache; nervous; periodic. Hiccough. Migraine. Nasal catarrh. Neck, cracking in. Ophthalmia. Speech, impeded. Throat, sore. Tongue, stiff. Toothache. Vision, impaired. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

Nickel is found associated with Cobalt. It is said to have received its name (Nickel, the devil) from the miners, who considered it "false ore" as they were mining for copper. The word Cobalt (Kobold) has possibly a similar derivation. Nickel forms the chief ingredient in the alloy known as "German silver." It was proved by Nenning, and the pathogenesis contains some striking symptoms, many of which have been confirmed.

Sir James Y. Simpson used the Sulphate of Nickel (NiSO4) in "periodic headaches of a very severe character," and the provings show that the metal and the carbonate are equally appropriate in this connection. H. Moser (Am.

H., xxiii. 61) has cured cases when the pain is: < 10 to 11 a.m., and may be so intense as to cause the patient to cry out; appears first left side, may jump to right; disappears in evening. It has also cured dysmenia; hoarseness, and cough; and cracking in cervical vertebrae on moving the head. Hering says it is suited to: "Literary men and others who suffer from periodical nervous headaches; weak, asthenopic, weak digestion, constipation; < morning on awaking." It has some characteristic coughs: "Must sit up and hold head with both hands with the cough." The child must be held up when coughing or it will go into convulsions;

Mahony (Med. Adv. xxvi. 112) cured with Nicc. 200 a middle-aged lady who had "loose hacking cough day and evening, and at 9 a.m.; has to put arms on thighs when coughing." Peculiar sensations are: As if sweat would break out. As if brain were cut to pieces. As if she had not slept enough.

As if a nail was sticking in head. As if neck sprained. Abdominal pains go from left to right. W.

A. Clausen (Med. Ad., xxiv. 369) has supplied a keynote for the sore throat of Nicc.: Right side, with exquisite tenderness, soreness to touch externally on affected side The symptoms are generally < from motion.

Talking and yawning < sore throat. Coughing > roughness of throat. Heaviness of hands and feet are > by motion. < After midnight and on pressure.

> In open air. Cold > pain in face. Washing > burning of eyes. Cold water = redness of eyes.

Most symptoms are > after eating. Must sit up and hold the head with both hands when coughing: or has to put arms on thighs when coughing.

Relations

Compare: Cobalt., Plat. In "objects appear large," Hyo., Nat. m., Pho. (objects appear small, Hyo., Plat., Stram.). Objects appear blue, Lyc., Stram., Zn.

Diplopia; rainbow colours round light, Pho., Gels. Coryza, Nux, Sul. Red face, Fer. Chapped face, Na. c.

Toothache with tearing in ear, Mang. Periodical headache, Gels. Sil., Sul. Emptiness in stomach, Carb. an., Ign., Sep.

(Nicc. has it without desire for food). Cracking in neck and stiff jaw, Petrol. Headache, menses, chilliness, Puls. Feels refreshed in morning without having slept, Fl. ac., Cob.

Annual hoarseness, Ars. Literary men, Nux. Sore throat, Lyc.

Mind

Low-spirited; fears something evil will happen

Vexed and very angry from least contradiction

Anxious moroseness and inquietude

Trembling and fright with desire for solitude

Dislike to conversation

Anxiety on moving as if sweat would break out.

Head

Dulness, does not comprehend the conversation, and is unable to relate properly in conversation

Vertigo: in the morning; when rising after stooping, in evening; when awaking, with nausea and desire to vomit

Vertigo, with dizziness and staggering, as from weakness, < on getting up in the morning

Heaviness and painful fulness in head, principally in forehead (compelling to rub forehead with hand), with vertigo; in morning, as if she had not slept sufficiently

Heat and heaviness in forehead (afternoon)

Headache all day, in forenoon with vomiting of bile

Heat in head, compelling him to seek open air, with thirst (afternoon)

Headache, in a room, and after a walk in open air

Pressure on vertex as from a hand

As if a nail sticking in vertex

Pain in both sides of head, as if it were breaking

Stitches in head (when stooping)

Tearing and shootings in head (and l. eye in paroxysms)

Periodical (every fortnight) headache.

Eyes

Heat and redness of eyes, with pressing in them

The eyes are swollen and cannot he opened in morning

Agglutination of eyes in morning

Eyelids are red and swollen, with lachrymation and swelling of meibomian glands

Cold water causes redness of eyes with tension

Dryness and heat of eyes (in evening)

Frequent burning, and pressing in eyes (in evening)

Violent twitching in eye, with lachrymation and difficulty of vision

Painful jerking in balls of eyes, with a sensation as if they were about to be violently convulsed

Vision very much impaired, esp. in evening

Distant objects appear too large; the light appears double; is surrounded by the colours of the rainbow

Objects look blue (before r. eye)

Cloud before eyes (morning)

Stitches in edges of eyelids like electric sparks, < on touching them.

Ears

Stinging in ears

Shootings in ears

Sudden deafness, with roaring and humming in ears; evening.

Nose

Dryness of nose

Frequent sneezing

Obstruction of nose; nose stopped up (r. side) at night

Coryza, fluent during day, and dry during night

Stinging, tearing, and soreness at root of nose

Redness and swelling at tip of nose, with burning and tearing in nostrils

Eruption on nose.

Face

R. side of face red and hot

Redness of face with burning and itching like erysipelas

Sensation of heaviness in face, as if swollen

Swelling of r. side of face, with sore throat

The pain in the swollen face wakes him at night, is > by cold

Painful sensitiveness and cramp in maxillary joint, which hinders mouth from being easily opened

Skin of face chapped

Itching tetters on cheeks

Eruption on lips

Twitching of upper lip at intervals.

Teeth

Swelling of gums

Gnawing odontalgia, in evening

Toothache, with tearing in ears; toothache, with tearing in r. ear

All teeth feel loose and elongated

When molar teeth (decayed) are sucked a sour, fetid water is drawn from them.

Mouth

Abundant accumulation of sweetish saliva in mouth

Breath is offensive, of which he himself is not aware

Bitter taste in mouth in morning

Stiffness of the tongue, it is difficult to talk.

Throat

Pain in the (sore) throat, < when speaking or yawning, in evening

Whole throat feels sore as if ulcerated on swallowing, < in morning; r. side of neck very sensitive, painful to pressure

Inflammation in throat, with swelling of tonsils on r. side, as well as of face and neck, which are painful when touched

Spasmodic contractions, and sensation of strangulation in throat

Accumulation of thick mucus in throat, with stinging pain

Stitches in throat (uvula) on swallowing.

Appetite

Farinaceous taste in mouth on rising in morning

Aversion to meat

Risings, with taste of roasted meat

Want of appetite

Thirst in evening

Violent thirst day and night.

Stomach

Violent hiccough, esp. in evening

Hiccough (at night)

Sensation of emptiness in stomach, without hunger

Sensation of great fulness in stomach after eating

Bitter and sour eructations

Nausea (morning)

Pressure in stomach, > by eructations

Painful sensation of constriction of stomach

Cuttings (violent pain, like stabs with a knife) in epigastrium and hypochondria

Stitches in stomach extending to back

Burning in stomach.

Abdomen

Violent stitches, as with knives, in hypochondria

Cuttings with diarrhoea

Pinching around navel

Painless rumbling in abdomen

Tension of abdomen, and discharge of flatulence (during the menses).

Stool And Anus

Constipation: ineffectual urging to go to stool, stool very hard (tenacious) and only discharged with great effort, has to press hard to discharge the stool

Diarrhoea: with yellow mucus; expulsion with great force and much flatulence; diarrhoea after drinking milk, and tenesmus; preceded by cuttings or burning in anus

During stool, burning and stitches in rectum and anus

After stool, itching, burning, and stitches at anus.

Urinary Organs

Increased secretion of urine, also at right

Burning urine

Burning at orifice of urethra during micturition

After micturition, discharge of thin leucorrhoea.

Male Sexual Organs

Erections (after dinner).—Itching on a small spot of scrotum, scratching does not > it.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia, premature, scanty, and of too short duration

During menses, bloated abdomen, colic, pain in small of back, great debility, burning of eyes

Leucorrhoea; watery, esp. after micturition.

Respiratory Organs

Roughness in throat > by coughing

Hoarseness, day and night; every year at same time

Cough from tickling in trachea; in evening, after lying down

Dry hacking cough, like the tick of a clock in its regularity

Dry, scraping cough, from tickling in trachea, with sleeplessness from midnight till 4 a.m

At night violent cough, compelling one to sit up and to hold head

Loose, hacking cough, day and evening and at 9 a.m.; has to put arms on thighs when coughing

Expectoration of white mucus.

Chest

When coughing, dyspnoea and pressure on chest

Stitches in chest (l. side) when breathing

Shootings in chest, esp. when laughing

Pressure and heaviness on chest

Pain, as from excoriation, in chest.

Neck And Back

Cracking and wrenching pain in neck (nape) when moving head (forward or backward); on rising again after stooping

Cracking in cervical vertebrae on moving head

Pain in neck, as from a sprain

Stitches in small of back (afternoon)

Pain in the small of back during a soft stool.

Limbs

Heaviness in the hands and feet > by motion.

Upper Limbs

Pain in shoulders as if sprained

Rheumatic pains in elbows, extending to hands; in fingers

Hands feel heavy, tremble, feel bruised.

Lower Limbs

Stitches in r. patella

Rheumatic pains from knees downward

Feet feel heavy, tremble, and are weak

Stitches in l. heel

Itching in l. heel.

Generalities

Tearing and shooting in the limbs and other parts.—Symptoms < in evening, and at right; > in open air.—Great restlessness < at night, from agitation; is compelled to change position continually; with vomiting and colic after suppressed menstruation.—Great debility, esp. in evening.

Skin

Itching over the whole body, but mostly on the neck, as from fleas; not > by scratching, but followed by small vesicles

Itching and pimples in small of back

Itching on shoulders; scratching does not >

Itching tetters

Itching herpes on hips

Itching on l. heel.

Sleep

Wakefulness

Sleeplessness from midnight till 4 a.m., and dry, scraping cough, from tickling in trachea

Frequent awakening, at night, from agitation

Vertigo when awaking with nausea and desire to vomit

In morning heaviness in forehead, as if she had not slept sufficiently

Pain in swollen face wakens, him at night, it is > by cold

Feels refreshed in morning without having slept

At 3 a.m. restlessness and heat; everything feels sore, compelling one to rise and walk about to obtain relief from it

Awakens after midnight with colic.

Fever

Predominance of coldness

Chill is preceded or begins with yawning and sleepiness

Chill, with chattering and shaking, followed by profuse general perspiration (evening in bed)

Heat with burning thirst, esp. in evening and at night

Heat in evening, followed by chill

Continuous chill, with moist palms of hands

Heat, restlessness, and vomiting at night (must rise)

Anxious heat with violent thirst

Dry heat with thirst, every afternoon at 3 o'clock

Heat with perspiration and thirst, followed by chill

Morning sweat.