Plumbum
Guernsey, Key Notes to the Materia Medica, 1887, p. 149
Stomach and Abdomen
Drawing pain from before backward, as though the abdomen were drawn in and through towards the back bone, sometimes making the abdomen concave; sensation as though a string were inside the abdomen drawing it in; generally there is great despondency with this pain. Painters’ colic with this sensation, as though the abdomen were drawn in and was touching the spine; pulse may be down very low, 50 or even 40; gastralgia with sensation as though the abdomen and back bone met. Great liver remedy; inner belly in general; inner region of the navel; sometimes umbilical hernia, and is an excellent remedy for this. Left side of the abdomen generally.
Stool
Constipation with stools like sheep dung; balls in conglomerate masses, discharged with difficulty; obstructed evacuation by the induration of feces.
Generalities
Jaundice, where the sclerotica of the eye is yellow, face is yellow, urine is yellow; vomiting in bed after retiring for the night, restless, sleepless, etc. Loss of smell; reddishyellow face. Affections in the lower teeth; tongue; sweetish taste, as in expectoration of cough with sweetish taste. Obstructed flatus with terrible colic. Retraction of soft parts in general; convulsions with jerking; epilepsy without consciousness; pinching pain with sensation of tearing; sphacelus; gray ulcers; paralysis of the limbs of those who work in lead.
Worse
In the night; from rubbing.
Remedies following
Bellad., Lycop., Mercur., Phosphor., Pulsat., Silic., Sulphur (sometimes Arsen.)
Antidote
Platina.