Picric Acid
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General
Picric Acid. HC6H2(NO2)3O.
Is often restorative of a wasted and worn-out system; a fair picture of "nervous prostration" (Kali p.). Progressive, pernicious, anaemia; neurasthenia. Brain fag: of literary or business people; slightest excitement, mental exertion or overwork brings on headache, and causes burning along the spine (Kali p.). Headache: of students, teachers and overworked business men; from grief or depressing emotions; in occiputal-cervical region (Nat. m., Sil.);
< or brought on by slightest motion or mental exertion. Priapism, with spinal disease; erections; satyriasis (Canth., Phos.). Small boils in any part of body, but especially in external auditary canal. Burning along spine and great weakness of spine and back; softening of cord (Phos., Zinc.).
Weariness, progressing from a slight feeling of fatigue on motion to complete paralysis. Tired heavy feeling all over body, especially of limbs, < on exertion.
Relations
Compare: Arg. n., Gels., Kali p., Phos ac., Phos., Petr., Sil.
Amelioration
From cold air and cold water.
Aggravation
Least mental exertion; motion; study; wet weather.
Keynotes by H.C. Allen
Platina.
Adapted to women, dark hair, rigid fibre; thin, of a sanguine temperament; who suffer from too early and too profuse menses.
Sexual organs exceedingly sensitive; cannot bear the napkin to touch her; will go into spasms from an examination; vulva painfully sensitve during coitus: will faint during or cannot endure, coitus (compare, Mur., Orig.).
The pains increase gradually and as gradually decrease (Stan.); are attended with numbness of parts (Cham.).
For hysterical patients; alternately gay and sad, who cry easily (Croc., Ign., Puls.); pale, easily fatigued.
Arrogant, proud, contemptuous and haughty; pitiful "looking down" upon people usully venerated; a kind of "casting them off" unwillingly.
Mental delusions, as if everything about her were small; all persons physically and mentally inferior, but she physically large and superior.
Sensation of growing larger in every direction.
Trifling things produce profound vexation (Ign., Staph.); remains a long time in the sulks.
Satiety of life, with taciturnity and fear of death (Acon., Ars.).
Mental symptoms appear as physical symptoms disappear and vice versa.
Headache: numb, heavy pain in brain or on vertex; from anger or chagrin; hysterical, from uterine disease; pains gradually increase and decrease.
Nymphomania: < in lying-in women; excessive sexual development, especially in virgins (Kali p.); vaginismus, spasms and constriction.
Menses too early, too profuse, too long-lasting; dark-clotted, offensive, with bearing down spasms; pains in uterus with twitching; genitals sensitive.
Excessive itching in uterus; pruritis vulvae.
Constipation; while traveling (at sea, Bry.); after lead poisoning; from inertia of bowels; frequent, unsuccessful urging; stools adhere to rectum and anus like soft clay (Alum.); of emigrants; of pregnancy; obstinate cases after Nux has failed.
Metrorrhagia: flow in black clots and fluid; thick black, tarry or in grumous mass (Croc.).
Relations
Compare: Aur., Croc., Ign., Kali p., Puls., Sep., Stan.; Val. the vegetable analogue.