Oxalicum Acidum

► Diminished power to concentrate ideas. ► Very much exhilarated ; quicker thought and action. ► As soon as he thinks about the pains, they return.

► Vertigo : weakness and thirst ; anxiety, headache and sweat ; when looking out of the window ; when rising from a seat ; a swimming sensation on lying down. ► Sensation of emptiness in the head, faint feeling, as if all the blood had left the brain. ► Upper part of body, particularly the head, feels as if blood were coursing upward and outward.

► Dull headache of the vertex and forehead, heaviness. ► Compression in head, sensation as from a screw behind each ear. ► Pain between the vertex and occiput, at a spot pressing inwardly. ► Headache, worse after wine ; lying down ; after sleep and on rising ; better after stool.

► Type blurs when reading. ► Vanishing of sight, with giddiness and sweat ; with nosebleed. ► Linear objects appear larger and more distant. ► Pain in both orbits, worse in left.

► Sneezing, with chilliness ; with watery coryza. ► Red, shining swelling of right side of nose, beginning at the tip and spreading thence.

► Feeling of heat in the face. ► Feeling of fulness in the face ; face redder. ► Faced covered with cold sweat.

► Drawing pain, with rigidity near the angle of lower jaw, first and longest in left, then in right side.

► Pain in decayed molar. ► Gums bleed, are painful in spots. ► Small ulcers on gums.

► Tongue swollen, sensitive, red, dry, burning. ► Tongue : swollen, with a thick, white coating ; coated white, with nausea, thirst and loss of taste. ► Sour taste.

► Watery saliva, or mucus in the mouth.

► Dryness in throat (morning), after diarrhoea. ► Deglutition : especially painful mornings ; difficult, with sour eructations. ► Scraping in the throat, thick mucus accumulates.

► Appetite : increased ; wanting, with loss of taste. ► Thirst, with vertigo, loss of appetite, nausea, colic.

► Sugar aggravates pain in the stomach ; and wine the headache. ► Drinking coffee : 20.

► Heart-burn, worse evening. ► Eructations empty or sour ; also, sudden hiccough, with eructations. ► Nausea, thirst, colic, after the diarrhoea.

► Empty feeling, compelling one to eat. ► Burning pain in stomach and throat. ► Awakens at night with violent pressive pain, like a heavy weight, coming and going at intervals ; flatulent discharge relieves. ► Stomach sensitive ; slightest touch causes excruciating pain.

► Stitches in liver relieved by a deep breath. ► Continuous pain in left hypochondrium, as if bruised ; stitches.

► Colic about the navel, as if bruised, with stitches and difficult emission of flatulence ; worse on morning, better when at rest. ► Colic from eating sugar. ► Burning in small spots in the abdomen.

► Constant involuntary stools. ► Suddenly seized with distressing feeling in whole abdomen, twisting around navel, bearing down ; dark, muddy, copious evacuation, 6 A.M. ► Stool of mucus and blood. ► Diarrhoea as soon as one drinks coffee. ► Lying down causes return of diarrhoea. ► Before stool : headache. ► During stool : as if caused by the pain, headache ; micturition (fainting, vomiting). ► After stool : nausea and cramp in the calves ; dryness in throat ; relief of pain in small of back. ► Pressing and straining in the rectum ; tenesmus.

► Pain in region of kidneys. ► Frequent and copious urination, which is clear, straw-colored. ► Burning in urethra, as from acrid drops. ► When urinating, pain in glans penis. ► Thinking of urinating causes necessity to urinate.

► Great increase of sexual desire. ► On lying down, erections without any cause, and afterward testicles and cords pain. ► Testicles feel contused. ► During a walk, pain and heaviness in the testicles, shooting along the cords.

► Hoarseness and sensation of mucus in larynx during talking. ► Hoarseness and aphonia without soreness.

► Difficulty of breathing, with constrictive pain in the larynx and wheezing ; oppression more toward right side. θ Angina pectoris. ► Jerking inspiration ; and sudden, forced expiration, as though he made a sudden effort to relieve intense pain by expelling the air from the lungs. θ Angina pectoris. ► Paroxysms of short, hurried breathing, with intervals of ease.

► From tickling in larynx while walking in open air ; larynx feels swollen. ► Dry cough on taking violent exercise. ► Mucus hawked up, thick, yellow-white, with a central black lump of the size of a pea.

► Sudden lancinating in left lung, depriving him of breath. ► Congestion, inflammation localized at base of left lung. ► Rheumatic pains in the left lung ; better lying down. ► When breathing, stitches in the chest and above the hip. ► Dull, heavy, sore pain in the chest. ► Pain in the middle of chest, through to the back.

► Pain in the heart ; soreness, stitches, from behind forward, or from above downward. ► Sharp darting in heart and left lung, extending down to epigastrium. θ Angina pectoris. ► Immediately after lying down in bed at night, palpitation for half an hour ; three nights consecutively. ► Heart-burn intermits when thinking of it. ► Pulse increased in frequency, almost imperceptible, with deadly coldness, clammy sweats, livid nails.

► Pain under point of scapula, between shoulders, extending to loins. ► Stitches from chest into scapula. ► Back numb, weak. θ Angina pectoris. ► Acute pain in back, gradually extending down the thighs, with great torture ; seeks relief in change of posture. ► Numbness, pricking, causing a cold sensation ; back feels too weak to support the body. ► Paralysis from inflammation of spinal cord, limbs stiff ; paroxysms of dyspnoea.

► Twitch first in left, later in right deltoid with inclination to move. ► Sharp, lancinating pains in the arms. θ Angina pectoris. ► Arthritic pains in fingers, which are flexed. ► Right wrist feels sprained, wants to stretch it ; cannot hold anything. ► Hands feel heavy ; can move fingers but slowly. ► Hands cold as if dead. ► Fingers and nails livid. ► Twitching of the fingers.

► Legs cold, powerless. θ Angina pectoris. ► Legs stiff, numb, weak. ► Knees feel tired.

► Peculiar numbness, approaching to palsy. θ Angina pectoris.

► Yawning ; sleepy during the day. ► Awakens at night with palpitation.

► Chilliness : with sneezing (evening) ; after diarrhoea (afternoon). ► Shaking chill, with red face (evening). ► Creeping chill up the spine. ► Heat from every exertion. ► Flushes of heat, with sweat. ► Sweat : clammy, with weakness ; with giddiness.

► Symptoms recur in paroxysms ; intermit for hours or a day.

► Pain in small longitudinal spots. ► Jerking pains, like short stitches, confined to small spots, lasting only a few seconds.

► Touch : 17. Shaving : 46.

► Sensitive during shaving, as from chafing. ► Skin mottled in circular patches.

► Antidotes to large doses : carbonates of lime or magnesia. ► Sugar, coffee and wine disagree.