(Marking Nut)
The Anacardium patient is found mostly among the
neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food;
impaired memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses
(smell, sight, hearing). Syphilitic patients often suffer with these
conditions. Intermittency of symptoms. Fear of examination in students.
Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks
self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. Sensation of a
plug in various parts: eyes, rectum, bladder, etc.; also of a
band. Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all
discomfort. This is a sure indication, often verified. Its skin
symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a
valuable antidote to Poison Oak. | ||
| Mind. Fixed
ideas. Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or
wills. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued. Profound melancholy and
hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language.
Brain-fag. Impaired memory. Absent mindedness. Very easily offended.
Malicious; seems bent on wickedness. Lack of confidence in himself or
others. Suspicious. Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead.
Senile dementia. Absence of all moral restraint. | ||
| Head. Vertigo.
Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion: in
forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; better during a meal. Itching
and little boils on scalp. | ||
| Eyes. Pressure
like a plug on upper orbit. Indistinct vision. Objects appear too
far off. | ||
| Ears. Pressing
in the ears as from a plug. Hard of hearing. | ||
| Nose. Frequent
sneezing. Sense of smell perverted. Coryza with palpitation,
especially in the aged. | ||
| Face. Blue
rings around eyes. Face pale. | ||
| Mouth. Painful
vesicles; fetid odor. Tongue feels swollen, impeding speech and motion,
with saliva in mouth. Burning around lips as from pepper. | ||
| Stomach. Weak
digestion, with fullness and distention. Empty feeling in stomach.
Eructation, nausea, vomiting. Eating relieves Anacardium dyspepsia.
Apt to choke when eating or drinking. Swallows food and drinks
hastily. | ||
| Abdomen.
Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines. Rumbling,
pinching, and griping. | ||
| Rectum. Bowels
inactive. Ineffectual desire; rectum seems powerless, as if plugged
up; spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani; even soft stool passes
with difficulty. Itching at anus; moisture from rectum. Hemorrhage
during stool. Painful hemorrhoids. | ||
| Male.
Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams.
Prostatic discharge during stool. | ||
| Female.
Leucorrhea, with soreness and itching. Menses scanty. | ||
| Respiratory.
Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug. Oppression of chest, with internal
heat and anxiety, driving him into open air. Cough excited by talking, in
children, after fit of temper. Cough after eating with vomiting of food and
pain in occiput. | ||
| Heart.
Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart
region. Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches. | ||
| Back. Dull
pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight. Stiffness at nape of
neck. | ||
| Extremities.
Neuralgia in thumb. Paralytic weakness. Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged.
Cramps in calves. Pressure as from a plug in the glutei. Warts on palms of
hands. Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption. | ||
| Sleep. Spells
of sleeplessness lasting for several nights. Anxious dreams. | ||
| Skin.
Intense itching eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular
eruption; swelling, urticaria; eruption like that of Poison Oak.
Lichen planus; neurotic eczema. Warts on hands. Ulcer formation on
forearm. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, on application of hot water. Better, from eating, when
lying on side, from rubbing. | ||
| Relationship.
Antidote: Coff., Rhus-t. Compare: Rhus-t. | ||
| Dose. Sixth to
two hundredth potency. |