Causticum

Characteristic symptoms

Tearing, stitching and drawing in the joints and bones, relieved by heat ; contraction of single parts, or numbness and deadness ; stiffness in the joints ; coffee aggravates the symptoms, also walking in the open air or in the evening; sensitiveness to cold, fresh air and draughts ; weakness and trembling in all the limbs ; unsteadiness of the limbs, especially in children, who fall easily ; heat over the whole body and restlessness ; trembling, paralytic weakness, with fainting; paralysis, especially of the organs of speech and deglutition ; paralytic state of the upper eyelids ; paralysis of extremities, especially when complicated with contractures ; itch -like eruptions ; prurigo ; itching of the whole body at night, with dry heat, especially of the head and face, back and calves; warts and varices; great sleepiness, like coma ; profuse sweats and chilliness, particularly at night and when walking out ; melancholy and despondency ; excessive anxiety ; vexed irritated mood ; large warts on the face, nose and eyebrows; nightly agglutination of the eyelids ; flitting to and fro before the eyes, as of wavelets of light ; fiery sparks before the eyes ; discharges from the ears ; stoppage of the nose and constant coryza ; yellow, discolored complexion, with yellowish temples and pale blue lips ; scorbutic gums and loose teeth ; aversion to sweet things ; difficult deglutition on account of constriction in the throat ; oppression of the stomach, even after eating bread ; empty eructations, and great pains when he cannot pass the wind upwards ; enlargement of the stomach in children ; chronic constipation ; frequent and unsuccessful desire to pass stool, accompanied with pain, anxiety and redness of the face; haemorrhoids, made intolerable by walking; involuntary emission of urine, especially when coughing, sneezing or walking ; menstrual complaints; uterine cramps ; leucorrhœa ; chronic hoarseness and aphonia, as from weakness of the laryngeal muscles ; soreness in the chest and larynx, especially when coughing; glandular swellings of the neck, resembling goitre.