• Profound debility and exhaustion are central.

• Hectic fever with marked evening exacerbation.

• Marked sensitivity to cold air.

• Tendency to chronic catarrhal conditions affecting mucous membranes.

• Burning sensations in affected parts.

• Symptoms often associated with ulceration and delayed healing.

• Great prostration and weakness, out of proportion to the disease.

• A general sensation of soreness and bruising.

• Complaints often follow suppressed eruptions.

• Aggravation from suppressed discharges.

• Symptoms are often slow to develop, insidious in onset.

• Aversion to bathing.

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• Irritability and restlessness, especially at night.

• Anxiety about health, with a tendency to dwell on symptoms.

• Difficulty concentrating; mental fog.

• Depression and a sense of hopelessness related to chronic illness.

• Emotional lability; easily moved to tears.

• Fear of death, but apathetic.

• Indifference to surroundings.

• The patient is restless and uneasy, cannot remain in one place.

• Weakness of memory; forgetfulness.

• The patient is easily startled.

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• Balsamum Peruvianum primarily affects mucous membranes, skin, and heart.

• Burning pains are a keynote.

• General sensation of soreness and rawness.

• Debility, weakness and prostration out of proportion to illness.

• A remedy to consider in chronic suppurations with exhaustion.

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• Irritability and impatience.

• Depressed mood, sadness, and melancholy.

• Anxiety, especially about health.

• Restlessness and fidgetiness.

• Difficulty concentrating; mental confusion.

• Aversion to mental work.

• Desires company but is easily annoyed by it.

• Fear of death.

• Frontal headache, often with a feeling of fullness.

• Vertigo, especially on rising or moving the head.

• Headache worsened by noise and light.

• Pressing, bursting headache.

• Heaviness of the head.

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• Headache, especially frontal and supraorbital.

• Head feels heavy and confused.

• Vertigo, with nausea and vomiting.

• Throbbing headache, worse from motion.

• Burning and itching of the eyelids.

• Photophobia, sensitivity to light.

• Profuse lachrymation.

• Redness and inflammation of the conjunctiva.

• Blurred vision.

• Styes on the eyelids.

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• Burning and itching of the eyes.

• Redness and inflammation of the conjunctiva.

• Photophobia (sensitivity to light).

• Sensation of sand in the eyes.

• Blurred vision.

• Tinnitus, ringing or buzzing in the ears.

• Deafness or impaired hearing associated with catarrhal conditions.

• Itching in the ears.

• Sensation of stopped-up ears.

• Purulent discharge from the ears.

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• Tinnitus (ringing in the ears).

• Earache, especially with a burning sensation.

• Discharge from the ears.

• Impaired hearing.

• Profuse, thick, yellow or greenish discharge.

• Eczema with ulceration around the nostrils.

• Chronic, fetid, nasal catarrh; offensive odor.

• Nosebleeds, especially in the morning.

• Nasal obstruction, making breathing difficult.

• Pain at the root of the nose.

• Loss of smell.

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• Coryza with profuse, watery discharge.

• Burning and soreness in the nose.

• Epistaxis (nosebleeds).

• Obstruction of the nose.

• Loss of smell.

• Sore throat with burning pain.

• Dryness and scraping sensation in the throat.

• Hoarseness and loss of voice.

• Sensation of a lump in the throat.

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• Sore throat with burning pain.

• Rawness and dryness of the throat.

• Hoarseness.

• Sensation of a lump in the throat.

• Chronic bronchitis with copious expectoration.

• Cough, worse at night, often dry and hacking.

• Shortness of breath, especially on exertion.

• Burning sensation in the chest.

• Cough with thick, yellow expectoration.

• Cough with a feeling of rawness in the chest.

• Asthmatic breathing.

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• Palpitations, especially at night or after exertion.

• Weakness and irregular heart action.

• Pain around the heart.

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• Palpitations, with anxiety and dyspnea.

• Weakness of the heart.

• Angina pectoris, with burning pain in the chest.

• Irregular heartbeat.

• Feeling of constriction around the heart.

• Pain in the chest, often burning or stitching in nature.

• Sensation of tightness or constriction in the chest.

• Oppression of the chest.

• Nausea and vomiting.

• Loss of appetite or cravings for unusual foods.

• Abdominal pain and distention.

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• Burning sensation in the chest.

• Soreness and tenderness of the chest.

• Pain in the chest, worse from coughing.

• Oppression of the chest.

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• Burning sensation in the stomach.

• Belching and heartburn.

• Waterbrash.

• Thirst for cold drinks.

• Colicky pains in the abdomen.

• Flatulence and bloating.

• Soreness of the abdomen to touch.

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• Diarrhea, often with offensive odor.

• Constipation with hard, dry stools.

• Hemorrhoids, with burning pain and bleeding.

• Tenesmus.

• Prolapsus of the rectum.

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• Frequent urination, especially at night.

• Burning pain during urination.

• Scanty or profuse urine.

• Urine dark and sediment.

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• Burning pain on urination.

• Frequent urination.

• Scanty urine.

• Albuminuria (protein in the urine).

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• In women, leucorrhea with offensive odor.

• In men, decreased sexual desire and impotence.

• Burning and itching of the genitals.

• Painful erections.

• Pain in the limbs, especially in the joints.

• Weakness and heaviness of the limbs.

• Ulceration on lower limbs, slow to heal.

• Coldness of the hands and feet.

• Rheumatic pains in the joints.

• Stiffness of the joints.

• Swelling of the joints.

• Sciatica.

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• Eruptions, often with burning and itching.

• Ulcers that are slow to heal.

• Dry, scaly skin.

• Offensive perspiration.

• Itching worse from warmth.

• Burning sensation of the skin.

• Restless sleep.

• Sleeplessness, especially after midnight.

• Anxious dreams.

• Dreams of fire, accidents, or death.

• Night sweats.

• Cold air.

• Night.

• Lying down.

• Exertion.

• Changes in weather.

• Damp weather.

• Bathing.

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• Cold, Damp weather, Night, Motion, Exertion, Lying down, Pressure.

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• Warmth.

• Rest.

• Open air.

• Pressure.

• Wrapping up warmly.

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• Warmth, Rest, Open air.

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• Complementary: Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum, Sulphur.

• Antidotes: Not definitively established.

• Comparisons: Arsenicum Album (burning pains), Sulphur (skin affections), Carbo Vegetabilis (debility).

• As a stimulant to raw surfaces in indolent ulcers, scabies, cracked nipples, rhagades, itch.

• Promotes granulation, removes fetor.

• A one percent solution in alcohol or ether may be used with the atomizer in respiratory affections.

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• As an expectorant in chronic bronchitis.

• 5 to 15 M, made into an emulsion with mucilage or yolk of egg.

• Sulphur, Hepar Sulphuris, Silicea.

• Camphor.

• Arsenicum Album, Carbo Vegetabilis, Kreosotum, Sulphur, Calcarea Carbonica, Lycopodium.

• Cough, dry and hacking, or with profuse expectoration.

• Burning pain in the chest.

• Dyspnea (difficulty breathing).

• Asthma, worse at night.

• Bronchitis with thick, yellow mucus.

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• Sexual desire increased or decreased. Impotence. Pain in the testes.

• Leucorrhea, with burning and excoriating discharge. Menstrual irregularities.

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• Pain in the limbs, especially the legs.

• Weakness of the limbs.

• Burning pain in the soles of the feet.

• Coldness of the extremities.

• Sciatica, with burning pain.

• Eruptions on the skin of the extremities.

• Eruptions, with burning and itching.

• Eczema, with thick crusts.

• Ulcers, with burning pain.

• Bedsores.

• Sensitive to touch.