Bismuth

Hydrated Oxide of Bismuth.

Keynotes

Solitude is unbearable: desires company, child holds on to its mother’s hand for company (Kali c., LiL, Lyc.).

Anguish ; he sits, then walks, then lies, never long in one place.

Headache returning every winter; alternating with, or attended by gastralgia.

Face, deathly pale, blue rings around the eyes. Toothache > by holding cold water in mouth (Bry., Coff., Puls.).

Vomiting: of water as soon as it reaches the stomach, food retained longer (vomits food and water, Ars.) ; of enormous quantities, at intervals of several days when food has filled the stomach; of all fluids as soon as taken; and purging, offensive stools (watery stools, Ver.) ; with convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain, after laparotomy (Nux, Staph.).

Stomach : pressure as from a load in one spot; alternating with burning; pain crampy, spasmodic; with irritation, cardialgia and pyrosis.

Cholera morbus and summer complaint, when vomiting predominates ; stools foul, papescent, watery, offensive, very prostrating (Ars., Ver.).