HomeoRemedySyphilinum
The syphilitic virus-a nosode
Main symptoms
- Utter extreme weakness and debility in the morning.
- Shifting rheumatic pains.
- Chronic rashes and joint and muscle pain.
- Ichthyosis.
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- Syphilitic affections.
- Pains from darkness to daylight; decrease and increase gradually.
- Hereditary tendency to alcoholism.
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- Loss of memory; remembers everything previous to his illness.
- Apathetic; feels as if going insane or being paralyzed. Fears the night, and the suffering from exhaustion on awakening.
- Hopeless; despairs of recovery.
What makes it better or worse
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Linear pains from temple across, or from eyes backward; cause sleeplessness and delirium at night. Falling of the hair. Pain in bones of head. Top of head feels as if coming off. Stupefying headache.
Eyes
Chronic, recurrent, phlyctenular inflammation of cornea; successive crops of phlyctenular and abrasions of epithelial layer of cornea; sensitive to light intense, watering eyes profuse. Lids swollen; pain intense at night; ptosis. Tubercular iritis. Diplopia; one image seen below the other. Feeling of cold air blowing on eye.
Ears
Caries of ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin.
Nose
Caries of nasal bones, hard palate and septum, with perforation; ozaena.
Mouth
Teeth decay at gum; edges serrated, dwarfed. Tongue coated, teeth-indented; deep longitudinal cracks. Ulcers smart and burn. Excessive flow of saliva; it runs out of mouth when sleeping.
Stomach
Craves alcohol.
Rectum
Feels tied up with strictures. Enemas very painful. Fissures, prolapse.
Extremities
Nerve pain down the leg; worse at night; better about day-break. Joint and muscle pain of shoulder-joint, at insertion of deltoid. Run-around. Severe pain in long bones. Redness and rawness between toes. Joint and muscle pain, muscles are caked in hard knot or lumps. Always washing the hands. Indolent ulcers. Muscles contracted in hard knots.
Female
Ulcers on labia. White vaginal discharge profuse, thin, watery, acrid, with sharp, knife-pain in ovaries.
Respiratory
Cough dry, hard; worse at night; windpipe sensitive to touch. Lancinating pains from base of heart to apex at night.
Skin
Reddish-brown rash, with a disagreeable odor. Extreme emaciation.
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