Nosode
Syphilinum
The Syphilitic Virus - A Nosode
Repertory abbreviation: Syph.
Utter prostration and debility in the morning. Shifting rheumatic pains. . Chronic eruptions and rheumatism. Ichthyosis. Syphilitic affections. Pains from dark- ness to daylight; decrease and increase gradually. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. Ulceration of mouth, nose. genitals, skin. Succession of abscesses.
Mind
Loss of memory; remembers everything previous to his illness. Apathetic; feels as if going in- same or being paralyzed. Fears the night, and the suffer- ing from exhaustion on awakening. Hopeless; despairs of recovery.
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 cephalalgia.
Eyes
Chronic, recurrent, phlyctcnular inflammation of cornea; successive crops of phyctenules and abra- sions of epithelial layer of cornea; photophobia intense, lachrymation profuse. Lids swollen; pain intense at night; ptosis. Tubercular iritis. Diplopia; one image seen below the other. Feeling of cold air blowing on eye. [Fluor. ac.]
Ears
Caries of ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin.
Nose
Caries of nasal bones, hard palate and sep- tum, with perforation; ozaena.
Mouth
Teeth decay at gum；6 edges serrated, dwarfed. Tongue coated, teeth-indented; deep iongi- tudinal cracks. Ulcers smart and burn. Excessive fozv of saliva; it runs out of mouth hen sleeping.
Stomach
Craves alcohol.
Rectum
Feels tied up with strictures. Enemas very painful. Fissures, prolapse.
Female
Ulcers on labia. Leucorrhoea profuse, thin, zatery, acrid, with sharp, knife-like pain in ovaries.
Respiratory
Aphonia; chronic asthma in summer, wheezing and rattling. [Tart. emei.] Cough dry, hard ; worse at night; windpipe sensitive to touch. [Lach.] Lancinating pains from base of heart to apex at night.
Extremities
Sciatica: worse at night; better about daybreak. Rheumatism of shoulder-joint, at insertion of deltoid. Run-around. Severe pain in long bones. Redness and rawness between toes. [Sil.] Rheuma- tism, muscles are cake in hard knot or lumps. A!- ways zuashing the hands. Indolent ulcers. Muscles contracted in hard knots.
Skin
Reddish-brown eruption, with a disagreeable odor. Extreme emaciation.
Modalities
W'ors, at night, sundown to sunrise, seashore, in summer. Better, inland and mountains, during day, moving about slowly.
Relationships
Compare: MIerc.; Kal. hyd.; Nit ac.; Aur.: Alum.
Dose
The highest potencies only, and in infrequent doses.