SYPHILINUM
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Utter prostration and debility in the morning
- Shifting rheumatic pains
- Chronic eruptions and rheumatism
- Ichthyosis
- Syphilitic affections
- Pains from darkness to daylight
- Decrease and increase gradually
- Hereditary tendency to alcoholism
- Ulceration of mouth, nose, genitals, skin
- Succession of abscesses
- Loss of memory
- Remembers everything previous to his illness
- Apathetic
- Feels as if going insane or being paralyzed
- Fears the night
- Suffering from exhaustion on awakening
- Hopeless
- Despairs of recovery
- 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
- Chronic, recurrent, phlyctenular inflammation of cornea
- Successive crops of phlyctenular and abrasions 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
- Caries of ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin
- Caries of nasal bones, hard palate and septum, with perforation
- Ozena
- Teeth decay at gum
- Edges serrated, dwarfed
- Tongue coated, teeth-indented
- Deep longitudinal cracks
- Ulcers smart and burn
- Excessive flow of saliva
- Saliva runs out of mouth when sleeping
- Craves alcohol
- Feels tied up with strictures
- Enemas very painful
- Fissures
- Prolapse
- Sciatica
- Worse at night
- Better about day-break
- Rheumatism of shoulder-joint, at insertion of deltoid
- Run-around
- Severe pain in long bones
- Redness and rawness between toes
- Rheumatism, muscles are caked in hard knot or lumps
- Always washing the hands
- Indolent ulcers
- Muscles contracted in hard knots
- Ulcers on labia
- Leucorrhea profuse, thin, watery, acrid, with sharp, knife-pain in ovaries
- Aphonia
- Chronic asthma in summer, wheezing and rattling
- Cough dry, hard
- Worse at night
- Windpipe sensitive to touch
- Lancinating pains from base of heart to apex at night
- Reddish-brown eruption, with a disagreeable odor
- Extreme emaciation