SYPHILINUM
The Syphilitic Virus – A Nosode
Utter prostration and debility in the morning.
Shifting rheumatic pains. Chronic eruptions and rheumatism.
Ichthyosis. Syphilitic affections. Pains from darkness to daylight; limit and expand gradually. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. Ulceration of mouth, nose, genitals, skin. Succession of abscesses.
Mind.–Loss of memory; remembers the whole lot preceding to his illness. Apathetic; feels as if going insane or being paralyzed. Fears the night, and the struggling from exhaustion on awakening. Hopeless; despairs of recovery.
Head.–Linear pains from temple across, or from eyes backward; reason sleeplessness and delirium at night. Falling of the hair. Pain in bones of head. Top of head feels as if coming off. Stupefying cephalalgia.
Eyes.–Chronic, recurrent, phlyctenular infection of cornea; successive plants of phlyctenular and abrasions of epithelial layer of cornea; photophobia intense, lachrymation profuse. Lids swollen; ache severe at night; ptosis. Tubercular iritis. Diplopia; one photo viewed under the other. Feeling of bloodless air blowing on eye (Fluor ac).
Ears.–Caries of ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin.
Nose.–Caries of nasal bones, challenging palate and septum, with perforation; ozaena.
Mouth.–Teeth decay at gum; edges serrated, dwarfed. Tongue coated, teeth-indented; deep longitudinal cracks. Ulcers clever and burn. Excessive glide of saliva; it runs out of mouth when sleeping.
Stomach.–Craves alcohol.
Rectum.–Feels tied up with strictures. Enemas very painful. Fissures, prolapse.
Extremities.–Sciatica; worse at night; higher about day-break. Rheumatism of shoulder-joint, at insertion of deltoid. Run-around. Severe ache in lengthy bones. Redness and rawness between toes (Sil). Rheumatism, muscle tissues are caked in tough knot or lumps. Always washing the hands. Indolent ulcers. Muscles reduced in size in tough knots.
Female.–Ulcers on labia. Leucorrhoea profuse, thin, watery, acrid, with sharp, knife-pain in ovaries.
Respiratory.–Aphonia; persistent allergies in summer, wheezing and rattling (Tart emet). Cough dry, hard; worse at night; windpipe touchy to contact (Lach). Lancinating pains from base of coronary heart to apex at night.
Skin.–Reddish-brown eruption, with a unpleasant odor. Extreme emaciation.
Relationship.–Compare: Merc; Kal hyd; Nit ac; Aur; Alum.
Modalities.–Worse, at night, sunset to sunrise, seashore, in summer. Better, inland and mountains, throughout day, shifting about slowly.
Dose.–The best potencies only, and in rare doses
