Anacardium occidentale

Characteristic symptoms

Pressure as from a, plug or crampy jerking; many symptoms disappear during dinner ; debility and prostration with trembling, even after short walks ; lameness ; sensitiveness to cold and draughts of air ; want of irritability of the skin ; anxious dreams about fire, loathsome diseases and dead bodies; hypochondria, with fear and foreboding of misfortunes and dangers; want of moral courage ; harshness and inhumanity ; laughing at serious things and vice versa ; sensation as if he had two opposite wills acting against each other ; great inclination for analytical investigations; illusions of the fancy; weakness of mind and memory, with bruised pain in the head when reflecting ; hardness of hearing and want of smell ; extreme paleness of the face with hollow eyes ; rough herpetic skin around the mouth ; fetid odor from the mouth ; dyspepsia and weakness of the stomach, with heat in the face ; hypochondria and sleepiness after eating; sexual excitement, with discharge of prostatic juice ; racking cough, like whooping cough, especially at night, with rush of blood to the head.