Antimonium crudum

Characteristic symptoms

Aggravation by the heat of the sun or warm air, also after eating and during the night ; adiposis or emaciation ; dropsical swellings ; pustules like chicken-pox, tumors and blisters as when bitten by insects or like nettle-rash ; brown spots and freckles ; horny excrescences ; red hot swellings ; great sleepiness, feels overwhelmed with sleep ; night and morning sweats, especially every other day ; dejection of spirits, uneasiness, disposition to shoot himself in the night ; violent headache after bathing, with debility of the extremities ; inflammatory redness of the eyes and lids ; sore nostrils and corners of the mouth ; pustulous eruptions on the cheeks and chin, with yellow scurfs ; freckles ; pains in carious teeth and bleeding of the gums ; ptyalism ; salty saliva ; great thirst ; loss of appetite ; eructations tasting after the ingesta, nausea, vomiting of bile and mucus • oppression of the stomach from overloading it ; cardialgia lasting a great while ; agonizing burning in the pit of the stomach ; great inflation of the abdomen, especially after a meal ; hard, difficult stool, with great straining ; discharge of yellow mucus from the anus ; alternate diarrhœa and constipation of old people ; liquid stools, with portions of solid matter ; frequent micturition, with discharge of mucus ; red sediment in the urine ; sexual excitement, with erections and emissions ; hoarseness and aphonia, especially during warmth ; paroxysms of suffocative asthma ; burning in the chest, when coughing.