Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Prone to dwell on unpleasant things in the past. Depression
2. Omits words in writing.
3. Child cross, wants to be held in the arms, will not be laid down.
4. Shudders if he sees anyone deformed, fear following hurry.
5. Anxiety while sitting.
6. Delusion, hears confused voices, worse swallowing or walking in open air.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

1. The most marked characteristic pertains to the odour and colour of urine.
2. It produces and cures symptoms of a uric acid diathesis, with urine highly coloured and very offensive, with gouty symptoms. Renal insufficiency. Child wants to be nursed in the arms, will not be laid down. Pains suddenly change their locality.
3. Antisycotic, gouty and asthmatic.
4. It has a marked action on metabolism.

Important Characteristic Features

Head: Vertigo with an inclination to fall sideways. Throbbing in temporal arteries, causes puffing around ears. Noises when swallowing. Ulceration of tongue. Swelling behind ears (Caps). Cold sweat on forehead. Pricking, puckered constriction of mouth, bluish and bleeding gums. Wens.

Nose: Itching of septum. Pain in nasal bones.

Face: Copper coloured spots. Red, with little blisters. Circumscribed redness of cheeks.

Stomach: Sweat while eating; pressure in stomach, sensation of a lump.

Abdomen: Cutting about the navel. Stitching in the liver region.

Rectum: Stitches and CONSTRICTED feeling. Puckering constriction of rectum, Itching and watery elevations around the anus.

Stool: Frothy, OFFENSIVE, LIQUID, light coloured, like soap suds, bowel movements mostly windy.

Urine: REPULSIVE ODOUR; changeable colour; brown, acrid. ENURESIS; dribbling, OFFENSIVE URINE OF OLD MEN. Excess of uric acid. Vesical catarrh from suppressed gonorrhoea. Cystitis.

Respiratory: Hoarse in the morning. Asthmatic cough; worse at night, lying on right side. Chest very tender. Pain in region of heart. Expectoration of green mucous.

Back: Pressure on spinal column. Coldness in sacrum. Dull pain in region of kidneys; worse wine.

Extremities: Joints crack on motion, Tearing with stitches. PAIN IN TENDO ACHELLIS. Rheumatic gout; nodes very painful. Gouty deposits. Ganglion; swelling of the wrist. Pain and swelling in knees. Bunion of great toe. Tearing pain in great toe.

Fever: Cold hands, feet, back, knees. Chilliness; cold sweat. Internal heat on awakening.

Skin: Red spots. Itching in spots.

General Modalities

Aggravation: In the open air, by uncovering.

Remedy Relationships

Follows well: Colch in gout

Antidoted by: Cop.

Incompatible: Wine.

Compare: Nit-ac, Am-be, Sabin, Trop (Garden nasturtium – foetid urine).

Comparison

Kalium nitricum: Kali-n in enuresis when Benz-ac fails.
Copaiva officinalis: Useful after Colch fails in gout.
Colchicum autumnale: After Cop in gonorrhoea.
Potency: 3x, 6x, 12x, 30, 200, 1000.

Dosage: Third to sixth potency.

Therapeutic Value: Arthritis, Contractures, Gout, Rheumatic heart disease, Rheumatism, Uric acid diathesis, Urinary calculi.