(Zinc)
The provings picture cerebral depression. The word
"fag" covers a large part of Zinc action. Tissues are worn out faster than
they are repaired. Poisoning from suppressed eruptions or discharges. The
nervous symptoms of most importance. Defective vitality. Impending brain
paralysis. Period of depression in disease. Spinal affections.
Twitchings. Pain, as if between skin and flesh. Great relief from
discharges. Chorea, from fright or suppressed eruption. Convulsions,
with pale face and no heat. Marked anemia with profound prostration. It
causes a decrease in the number, and destruction of red blood corpuscles.
Repercussed eruptive diseases. In chronic diseases with brain and spinal
symptoms, trembling, convulsive twitching and fidgety feet are guiding
symptoms. | ||
| Mind. Weak
memory. Very sensitive to noise. Averse to work, to talk. Child
repeats everything said to it. Fears arrest on account of a supposed
crime. Melancholia. Lethargic, stupid. Paresis. | ||
| Head. Feels as
if he would fall to left side. Headache from the smallest quantity of wine.
Hydrocephalus. Rolls head from side to side. Bores head into pillow.
Occipital pain, with weight on vertex. Automatic motion of head and
hands. Brain-fag; headaches of overtaxed school children. Forehead cool;
base of brain hot. Roaring in head. Starting in fright. | ||
| Eyes.
Pterygium; smarting, lachrymation, itching. Pressure as if pressed into
head. Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles. Ptosis.
Rolling of eyes. Blurring of half of vision; worse, stimulants.
Squinting. Amaurosis, with severe headache. Red and inflamed
conjunctiva; worse, inner canthus. | ||
| Ears. Tearing,
stitches, and external swelling. Discharge of fetid pus. | ||
| Nose. Sore
feeling high up; pressure upon root. | ||
| Face.
Pale lips, and corners of mouth cracked. Redness and itching
eruptions on chin. Tearing in facial bones. | ||
| Mouth. Teeth
loose. Gums bleed. Gnashing of teeth. Bloody taste. Blisters on tongue.
Difficult dentition; child weak; cold and restless feet. | ||
| Throat. Dry;
constant inclination to hawk up tenacious mucus. Rawness and dryness in
throat and larynx. Pain in muscles of throat when swallowing. | ||
| Stomach.
Hiccough, nausea, vomiting of bitter mucus. Burning in stomach, heartburn
from sweet things. Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine. Ravenous
hunger about 11 a.m. [Sulph.] Great greediness
when eating; cannot eat fast enough. Atonic dyspepsia, feeling as if
stomach were collapsed. | ||
| Abdomen. Pain
after a light meal, with tympanitis. Pain in spot beneath nevi. Gurgling
and griping; distended. Flatulent colic, with retraction of abdomen.
Enlarged, indurated sore liver. Reflex symptoms from floating kidney.
Griping after eating. | ||
| Urine. Can only
void urine when sitting bent backwards. Hysterical retention. Involuntary
urination when walking, coughing or sneezing. | ||
| Rectum. Hard,
small, constipated stool. Cholera infantum, with tenesmus; green
mucous discharges. Sudden cessation of diarrhea, followed by cerebral
symptoms. | ||
| Male. Testicles
swelled, drawn up. Erections violent. Emissions with hypochondriasis.
Falling off of hair (pubic). Drawing in testicles up to spermatic
cord. | ||
| Female. Ovarian
pain, especially left; can't keep still. Nymphomania of lying-in
women. Menses too late, suppressed; lochia suppressed. [Puls.] Breasts painful. Nipples sore. Menses flow more
at night. Complaints all better during menstrual flow. [Lach.] All the female symptoms are associated with
restlessness, depression, coldness, spinal tenderness and restless
feet. Dry cough before and during menses. | ||
| Respiratory.
Burning pressure beneath sternum. Constriction and cutting in chest.
Hoarseness. Debilitating, spasmodic cough; worse, eating sweet things.
Child grasps genitals during cough. Asthmatic bronchitis, with constriction
of chest. Dyspnea better as soon as expectoration
appears. | ||
| Back. Pain in
small of back. Cannot bear back touched. [Sulph.; Chin.] Tension and
stinging between shoulders. Spinal irritation. Dull aching about the
last dorsal or first lumbar vertebrae; worse sitting. Burning along spine.
Nape of neck weary from writing or any exertion. Tearing in shoulder
blades. | ||
| Extremities.
Lameness, weakness, trembling and twitching of various muscles.
Chilblains. [Agar.] Feet in continued motion;
cannot keep still. Large varicose veins on legs. Sweaty. Convulsions,
with pale face. Transverse pains, especially in upper extremity.
Soles of feet sensitive. Steps with entire sole of foot on
floor. | ||
| Sleep. Cries
out during sleep; body jerks; wakes frightened, scared. Nervous motion of
feet when asleep. Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware
of it. Somnambulism. [Kali-p.] | ||
| Skin.
Varicose veins, especially of lower extremities. [Puls.] Formication of feet and legs as from bugs
crawling over the skin, preventing sleep. Eczema, especially in the anemic
and neurotic. Itching of thighs and hollow of knees. Retrocession of
eruptions. | ||
| Fever.
Frequent, febrile shiverings down back. Cold extremities. Night sweat.
Profuse sweat on feet. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, at menstrual period, from touch, between 5 to 7 p.m.; after
dinner, from wine. Better, while eating, discharges, and appearance
of eruptions. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Agar.; Ign.; Puls. Inimical: Nux-v.; Cham. Compare in amelioration by secretions: Lach. | ||
| Dose. Second to
sixth potency. |