HomeoRemedyFormica rufa
Crushed live ants
Main symptoms
- An arthritic medicine.
- Gout and articular joint and muscle pain; pains worse, motion; better, pressure.
- Right side most affected.
- Chronic gout and stiffness in joints.
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- Acute outbursts of gouty poisons, especially when assuming the neuralgic forms.
- Complaints from overlifting.
- Apoplectic diseases.
- Has a marked deterrent influence on the formation of polypi.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Dizziness. Headache with cracking in left ear. Brain feels too heavy and large. Sensation as if a bubble burst in forehead. Forgetful in the evening. Exhilarated. Runny nose (cold) and stopped-up feeling in nose. Rheumatic iritis. Nasal polypi.
Ears
Ringing and buzzing. Cracking in left ear with headache. Parts around ear feel swollen. Polypi.
Stomach
Constant pressure at the cardiac end of the stomach, and a burning pain there. Nausea, with headache, and vomiting of yellowish bitter mucus. Pain shift from stomach to vertex. Gas cannot be passed.
Abdomen and stool
In the morning, difficult passages of small quantities of flatus; afterwards diarrhoea-like urging in the rectum. Pain in bowels before stool, with shuddering feeling cold. Constriction in the anus. Drawing pain around navel before stool.
Urine
Bloody, albuminous, with much urging; quantities of urates.
Respiratory
Hoarseness, with dry, sore throat; cough worse at night, with aching in forehead and constrictive pain in chest; pleuritic pains.
Sexual
Seminal emissions; weakness. "Slothful to venery".
Extremities
Rheumatic pains; stiff and contracted joints. Muscles feel strained and torn from their attachment. Weakness of lower extremities. Paraplegia. Pain in hips. Joint and muscle pain comes on with suddenness and restlessness. Sweat does not relieve. Relief after midnight and from rubbing.
Skin
Red, itching and burning. Nettle-rash. Nodes around joints. Profuse sweat without relief.
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