Materia Medica

Cimex -Acanthia

Bedbug

Of use in intermittent fever, with weariness and in- clination to stretch. Hamstrings feel too short. [Am- mur.] Flexors mostly affected. Stretching.

Head

Violent headache, caused by drinking. Great rage; vehement at beginning of chilly stage. Would like to tear everything to pieces. Pain under right frontal bone.

Female

Shooting pain from vagina up towards left ovary.

Fever

Chilliness of whole body. Sensation as of wind blowing on knees. Pains in all joints, as if ten- ons were too short, especially knee-joints. Chill; worse lying down. Thirst during apyrexia, but little during chilly stage; still less during hot stage, and one during sweating. Musty, offensive sweat. Bowels. -- Constipation, faeces dry and in small balls [Op.; Plumb.; Thuj.] and hard. Ulcer of rectum.

Dose

Sixth to two hundredth attenuation.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 229. Public domain.

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