SPIGELIA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- anaemic debilitated subjects of rheumatic diathesis
- scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides and lumbrici
- light hair; pale, thin, bloated, weak; wrinkled, yellow, earthy skin
- body painfully sensitive to touch; part touched feels chilly; touch sends shudder through the whole frame
- afraid of sharp, pointed things, pins, needles, etc
- rheumatic affections of heart; systolic blowing at apex
- aneurism
- nervous headache; periodical, beginning in morning at base of brain, spreading over the head and locating in eye, orbit and temple of left side; pain, pulsating, violent, throbbing
- headache; at sunrise, at its height at noon, declines till sunset
- intolerable, pressive pain in eyeballs; could not turn the eyes without turning the whole body; worse, especially on making a false step
- sensation: as if eyes were too large for the orbits; sensitive to touch; as if a band around head
- copious offensive mucus from posterior nares, drops into throat, causing choking at night
- sharp, stabbing, sticking pains through eyeballs back into the head; from cold, damp, rainy weather
- prosopalgia: periodical, left-sided, orbit, eyes, malar bone, teeth; from morning until sunset; pain tearing, burning, cheek dark red; during cold, rainy weather; from tea
- toothache from tobacco smoking; only on lying down and while eating; worse from cold air and water; returns from thinking about it
- scirrhus of sigmoid or rectum, atrocious unbearable pain
- dyspnoea: must lie on right side with head high; pains in chest are stitching, needle-like
- chest affections with stitching pains synchronous with pulse, from motion, cold, wet weather
- palpitation: violent, visible and audible; from least motion; when bending forward; systolic blowing at apex
- stammering, repeats first syllable three or four times; with abdominal ailments; with helminthiasis