SYPHILINUM: Utter prostration and debility in the morning.

-Boericke. G.W

+ The Syphilitic Virus_A Nosode.

#General

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.

#Mind

Loss of memory; remembers everything previous to his illness. Apathetic; FEELS AS IF GOING INSANE OR BEING PARALYZED. FEARS THE NIGHT, and the suffering from exhaustion on awakening. Hopeless; DESPAIRS OF RECOVERY.

#Head

Linear pains from temples 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 cephalgia.

#Eyes CHRONIC, RECURRENT, PHLYCTENULAR INFLAMMATION OF CORNEA; successive crops of phyctenules 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. [FLUOR. AC.]

#Ears

Caries of ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin.

#Nose

Caries of nasal bones, hard palate and septum, with perforation; ozaena.

#Mouth

Teeth decay at gum; edges serrated, dwarfed. Tongue coated, teeth- indented; deep longitudinal cracks. Ulcers smart and burn. EXCESSIVE FLOW OF SALIVA; IT RUNS OUT OF MOUTH WHEN SLEEPING.

#Stomach

CRAVES ALCOHOL.

#Rectum

Feels tied up with strictures. Enemas very painful. Fissures, prolapse.

#Extremities

Sciatica; worse at night; better about daybreak. Rheumatism of shoulder- joint, at insertion of deltoid. Run-around. Severe pain in long bones. Redness and rawness between toes [SIL.] Rheumatism, muscles are caked in hard knot or lumps. ALWAYS WASHING THE HANDS. Indolent ulcers. Muscles contracted in hard knots.

#Female

Ulcers on labia. Leucorrhoea PROFUSE, THIN, WATERY, ACRID, with sharp, knife-like pain in ovaries.

#Respiratory

Aphonia; chronic asthma in summer, wheezing and rattling. [TART. EMET.] Cough dry, hard; worse at night; windpipe sensitive to touch. [LACH.] Lancinating pains from base of heart to apex at night.

#Skin

Reddish-brown eruption, with a disagreeable odor. Extreme emaciation.

#Relationship Compare: MERC.; KAL. HYD.; NIT. AC.; AUR.; ALUM

#Modalities

WORSE, at night, sundown to sunrise, seashore, in summer. BETTER, inland and mountains, during day, moving about slowly.

#Dose

The highest potencies only, and in infrequent doses.