Zincum

Characteristic symptoms

Valuable in convulsions 01 children, who have become pale, but not anemic, during dentition, also in convulsions of chlorotic women, particularly if the upper part of the body is affected ; loss of sensation in the body ; feeling of coldness of the bones ; chronic eruptions ; herpes and herpetic ulcers ; rhagades ; drowsiness in the morning, after dinner, with laziness ; sleep disturbed by frightful dreams ; screaming and talking during sleep ; night sweats ; perspires easily during the day ; thoughts of death ; abhors all work and exercise ; loss of memory and forgetfulness ; bruised feeling in the head ; buzzing in the head ; coma, from cerebral exhaustion ; hydrocephaloid ; pain of the hairy scalp as if from subcutaneous ulceration ; dryness of the eyes; paralysis of the upper lids ; the teeth are sensitive and ache ; bleeding of the gums ; herpes in the throat after neglected gonorrhœa; metallic taste ; a sort of subdued nausea, with a general tremulous feeling and aching in the forehead ; dull stitches in the region of the spleen ; accumulation of flatulency, producing a protrusion of the piles ; constipation ; soft stool and diarrhœa ; retention of urine ; enuresis in walking, coughing or sneezing; stones in the bladder; gravel; too quick emission of the semen ; powerful erections, especially at night ; leucorrhœa, preceded by cutting colic ; spasmodic asthma ; tension of the sternum ; palpitation and shocks of the heart, with intermission of the beats of the heart and arrest of breathing ; pain in the small of the back ; incessant and powerful fidgety feeling in the feet and lower extremities, he must move them constantly ; rash in the bend of the elbows and of the hands ; heaviness and weakness of the extremities.