Zizia

Characteristic symptoms

It has a direct affinity for the spinal cord and brain, causing irritations and congestions, with delirium and spasms, tic-douloureux, epilepsy and neuralgic pains. Aggravation by movement, noise, light and contact ; drowsiness, with lassitude and fatigue ; spasmodic twitchings during sleep ; depression of spirits, with disgust for life ; suicidal mania ; giddiness ; shooting through the orbits ; bilious headache ; sick headache, with acid and bilious vomiting ; chronic catarrh, with yellow and fetid discharge from the nose ; bitter taste ; craving for acids and stimulants ; tight cough, caused by taking a deep inspiration ; hard, dry and short cough, with stitches in the chest; acrid leucorrhœa ; retarded and suppressed menses ; dragging sensation in extremities.