Weakness and general lassitude, a severe sick feeling ; indolence, aversion to do anything, even faint and down-hearted with general giving way; legs (esp knees) painfully weak, heavy or tired (or rising) as after a long walk or standing (led, Nux-v). Great muscular weakness; weariness in bed in morning ; reeling / whirling on rising and tottering while walking (Ambr). Weakness rising from stomach or abdomen. Tremulous weakness : hands tremble when writing during fasting (Phos), when hungry or while eating (Cocc); after nursing babe trembling with superb weakness. (Voluptuous trembling).

Decline. Loss of vital : irritability (Carb-v), reaction (Op), heat (Chin.) Rapid decline and ebbing vitality (Kali-ph, Hyd-ac.) Faint-like languor, with anxiety, as if life were about to terminate ; a little walk is so difficult ; even syncope; > after sweat. Functional torpor (Carb-v) ; gastro-intestinal (e.g. lienteria, enuresis); digestive failure (athrepsia); dulled mental functions (Alum.)

Simple paralysis without tissue damage. Painless paralysis. Paresis after infantile paralysis (Lath.). Post-apoplectic hemi-plegia. Paralegia, paralysis of legs, with crampy convulsions in arms, preceded by weakness (of legs) with numbness of soles when walking (Sec) paralytic rigidity of limbs. Wrist drop (Plb). "Functional paralysis with bowel incontinence and some heart damage, preceded by vertigo. Spinal congestion and paralysis (Nux-v Phys). Paralysis agitans. Momentary paralytic numbness (of arm etc.), on waking (Chel).

Localised emptiness or fullness (due to congestions) :
Emptiness in (upper) abdomen and / or chest (Cal-phos, Dios.)
Emptiness in pit of st. or abd. with fullness in chest (Puls. S)
Emptiness in pit of stomach with fullness in abdomen (Chin).
Emptiness in chest with oppression / fullness in pit of stomach (Nat-phos), or with tension in abdomen and palpitation.
Pains : Burning - Cramp like drawing (in ears, limbs).
Numbness in : skin, head, back of nose, upper lip, arms, feet soles (Onos). Whole body anaesthetic. Tingling in : palms, soles.
Cramps in : whole body, head, arms, fingers, legs, feet, (toes). Violent contractions of muscles of L side Jerks of limbs during sleep.
Tension in whole body.
Convulsions : eyes turned up, lock-jaw, thumb clenched on palm. More of upper part of body.
Dropsy. Oedema of limbs.
Veins of hands stand out out; emaciation.
Injuries : Bites and stings (crude, locally).

Mind A neurotic, but not hysterical (unlike Gel, Ign, Raph). Nervous and anxious; after conversation (Ambr) with urging to s tool (Arg-n, Gel). restless; feet fidgety (Ars, Caus, Zinc). cannot bear the slightest handling (interference); angry even at a touch ("touchy").
Dementia : slow perception (Carb-s). Weak memory. absent-minded, distracted. Sopor; coma.

Head Vertigo, with anxiety ; on rising; waling in open air ; looking down or fixedly; while eating. Reeling, whirling (and staggering).
Prodromal / prehemiplegic vertigo of apoplexy ( a congestive, narcotic depression of sensorium, like Op); or of paralysis.
Headache : stupefying. Bursting splitting. < morning to evening. > looking cross-eyed (squintingly) or sideways (askance).
Scalp : Gnawing itching. Itching -numbness. A biting-itching eruption. Crusta lactea oozing a sticky fluid.

Eyes - Feel drawn backward into head (Crot-t, Lac-f). Burning and tension (in lids) when reading.
Dim vision, < looking sideways Diplopia < looking drawn. Horizontal hemiopia. Momentary blindness.

Ears Noises : Ringing. Singing. Wailing (as of wind). Whirling (Chin-s., Mill.). "Hearing increased by (acute to ?) noises" (Lilienthal); "but dull to human voice.

Face Stiff jaw muscles. Pale, sunken (morning), with blue rings around eyes.

Mouth Toothache (only) when chewing; drawing, night lying, with anxiety, nausea and polyuria. Gums bluish white (Plb).
Dry mouth. Taste : mawkish; flat. Tongue : numbness (Gel); paralysed; articulation difficult.

Throat Choking, with suffocation (like Lach) ; in weak women, during lactation. Sharp pressive pain in L side of outer throat (Coco, Dios); numbness (Gel), heart trouble or acidity; congested.

Alimentary Averse to cheese. Desires : Cream, butter, sweets. Thirst for (very) cold water. Ravenous hunger / goneness with hasty eating and trembling hands. with out real appetite. Gnawing around navel (Grap). Impaired digestion. Acidity : heart-burn; burning in oesophagus down to stomach (also in chest; even in anus, between stools). A gastro pecto-cardiac syndrome : distress and anxiety in (L) chest and pit of stomach, soreness there, pain in L sterno-mastoid and L little finger, numb L toes, flatulent twinges (Lyc complementary. like Carl). Paralytic digestion : All food turns acid or into gas; vomiting or lienteric stools long after eating (even next day). Frequent eructation and rumbling.

Pit of stomach : Emptiness (sans appetite) with nausea, not amel. after eating, but > eructations, < morning with precordial anxiety (Pho). Sinking in, > after brandy. Oppression when lying. Distress (also in abdomen or heart). Apprehension (or urging to stool) from emotions (Ambr, Lyc, Gel) Pulsations in, like heart-beats.

Emptiness in abdomen, in morning with anxiety (Nat-m); after stool Gastro-enteritis; with anguish; with skin (Crot-t); involuntary stool when deflating (Alo). Diarrhoea of phthisis (Rumx). Paralytic bowels; obstipation; with melancholia; stools do not force out (unlike Crot-t.) Tabes mesenterica ?

Respiratory Aphonia ; reflex (Bry).
Breathing : deep, slow, weak; stertor (Trion). Dyspnea; oppression, when lying ( > rising), standing or walking, causing deep anxious, laboured respiration. Congestive tightness : from flatulence (Raph). Breathes with great heaving or chest, after palpitation, sans mental anxiety. Chest feels expanded.
Pleurodynia and perichondritis. Pains in chest, sides (esp. It.) sternum. Obtuse stitches in L chest, sternum, diaphragm, deep breathing, > eructations. Tenderness in r. (or L.) side.

Heat Congestion; sympathizing with chest (Rhus-t., Spig.)., or vice versa. Anxiety, even anguish, sans anxious thought, or on thinking of it; distress; palpitation; from flatulence, before stool (Poth, Ambr.); from sudden exertion (Dig). Dull, drawing pain, < stooping (Lil-t) and later during expiration. Stitches in precordium. (Neurosis cordis).
Pulse : weak, intermitting, strong in carotids.

Extremities Burning stitch below L scapula.
Congestive, incapacitating heaviness of limbs ; paralytic rigidity, dull, benumbing pressure in limbs, or forearms and hands; heaviness or rising.

Sleep Yawning : frequent, followed by trembling and shuddering; with chilliness and trembling of muscles, of lower jaw. Voluptuous dreams, with emissions. Sopor (Op).

Skin Abrasive (Plb.). Sensitive Tense. Leprous (Sec). > Biting itching on undressing; > heat; on first scratching.

Thermic States Cold : chest, hands (with hot face), feet (constantly.). Chilliness predominant. Periodical chills.
Heat : flushes or hurrying (also anxiety), from mental work (Lach) when contradicted. Sweat : dry skin, unable to perspire (a paralysis of function).

Relationship :
Antidote : Camph.
Contains : Hydrocyanic acid. Prun-v is a mild Hyd ac (hence collateral).
Similars : Ambr, Ars, Carb-v, Dios, Gel, Lyc, Op, phys, Raph
Chronics : Arg-n, lyc, Nat-m
Compatible : Bell, Bry, Calc, Lach, Nux-v, Pul, Rhus-t, Sep, Sul
Trios : Olean-Lach-Lyc Olean Arg-nm-Nat-m.

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