Sepia

Characteristic symptoms

It operates especially on the portal system, retarding the circulation and causing an overloading of the vascular system with venous blood, a plethora venosa with a state of depression. Affections of the capillary system ; nervous ailments, bad consequences of chagrin; pains as if sprained, particularly when exerting the affected parts; likewise at night in the warmth of the bed; stitching or burning pains ; drawing, tearing from below upwards ; jactitation of all the muscles ; the limbs go to sleep easily ; stiffness and immobility of the joints; seething of the blood, with congestions to the head and chest ; the pains abate during motion in the open air, and are aggravated by rest, in the evening and at night; sensitiveness to cold and winds; heaviness and laziness of body and spirit with languid breathing ; sudden palsy from chagrin; great indifference to his ^wn family ; hysteric debility ; fainting fits ; itching pimples in the joints; itch-like eruptions; pemphigus; brown, reddish, herpetic spots in the skin ; lymphatic tumors ; sudor hystericus ; offensive, sour smelling perspiration, especially from the axilla and soles ; intolerance of warmth ; pale, yellow complexion, with reddish-yellow spots on the skin ; drowsiness in day-time and cannot get asleep at night from pleasurable emotions ; want of vital heat and chilliness in the evening and in the open air; perspires freely when walking or exercising ever so little ; despondency and sadness, weeps frequently, complete discouragement and melancholy ; hemicrania with vomiting ; rush of blood to the head with heat ; involuntary shaking of the head ; falling off of the hair ; pustules on the cornea ; paralysis of the eyelids ; incipient amaurosis with contraction of pupils ; hearing sensitive to noise and music ; plugs in the nose and painful eruption on the tip ; loss of smell ; black pores on the face ; pale face with blue margins round the eyes; sickly complexion with dim, red eyes ; yellow spots in the face and yellow saddle across the cheeks and nose ; yellowness around the mouth ; herpes on the lips and round the mouth ; aversion to all food, especially meat ; desire for vinegar or urine ; ravenous hunger ; painful feeling of hunger in the stomach ; the pains increase during and immediately after a meal ; acidity in the stomach, with hypochondria and loathing of life ; nausea and vomiting of pregnant females ; morning nausea ; palpitation in the pit of the stomach ; waterbrash ; weight and distention of the abdomen ; pot-belliedness of mothers ; hard, difficult stool, sometimes mingled with mucus; diarrhœa after drinking milk; exhausting diarrhœa; much blood with the stool, after cutting in the abdomen; expulsion of ascarides ; contracting pains in rectum, running along the pei inaeum with exudation of fluid from the anus ; green and sour smelling diarrhœa of children ; itching and stinging of the rectum ; flowing haemorrhoids ; continual desire to urinate ; enuresis nocturnal ; turbid urine with brick-dust sediment , increased sexual desire, lascivious ideas, constant erections and pollutions ; great debility after coitus ; sweat of the genital organs ; leucorrhœa, with stitches in uterus and itching in the vagina ; milky leucorrhœa only in daytime ; prolapsus vagina? and uteri ; swelling and humid itching ; eruption on the inner labia; contractive pain in the vagina; violent stitches in the pudendum, extending up to the umbilicus ; suppressed menses ; ailments during menstruation ; abortion ; expectoration from the chest, tasting very salt ; taste of rotten eggs after coughing ; cough with blood-streaked expectoration ; suppuration of the lungs ; congestion to the chest, with palpitation and intermission of the beats of the heart ; dyspnoea with tenacious mucus in the chest ; brown spots on the chest ; tetters in the nape of the neck and behind the ears ; the skin peels off on the palms of the hands ; painless ulcers on the tips of the finger ; corns ; profuse sweat of the feet with fetid smell ; suppressed perspiration.