• Acts profoundly on the stomach and digestive system.

• Predominantly a remedy for the elderly, especially those with chronic digestive complaints.

• A sensation of weight or pressure is a key characteristic, particularly in the stomach.

• Marked craving for peculiar and indigestible substances is present.

• General feeling of lassitude and debility is noted.

• Complaints often arise after prolonged mental exertion or stress.

• The individual feels generally out of sorts and uncomfortable.

• Symptoms are often more pronounced during the winter months.

• Emaciation may be present despite voracious appetite.

• Sensation of constriction or tightness is a common keynote.

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• Marked depression and despondency are observed.

• Irritability and easily angered state is seen.

• Mental exhaustion; difficulty concentrating is reported.

• Anxiety, especially concerning health is present.

• Apprehension about the future is a key feature.

• A feeling of being overwhelmed by daily tasks is noted.

• Low self-esteem and lack of confidence is observed.

• Tendency to dwell on past events with regret is seen.

• Difficulty making decisions is observed.

• Melancholy and sadness, especially in the evening.

• Restlessness and fidgetiness is present.

• Fear of death is experienced.

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• Sensation as if a hard-boiled egg were lodged in the cardiac end of the stomach or esophagus.

• Applicable to dyspepsia, lung disease (with sensation of a hard substance to cough up), and constipation, when the characteristic sensation is present.

• Useful for dyspepsias caused by abuse of tea or tobacco.

• General rheumatic pains and aching in the bones.

• Alternate heat and cold sensations.

• Symptoms often accompanied by distress in the head, with flushed cheeks.

• Wakefulness at night with hunger.

• Pain in the stomach always comes after eating.

• Chilliness around the stomach relieved, and general chilliness lessened, after eating.

• Very low-spirited and melancholy.

• Nervousness.

• Unable to think or study; difficulty concentrating.

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• Headache, especially in the forehead and temples.

• Feeling of fullness or pressure in the head.

• Vertigo, especially on rising or turning the head.

• Head feels heavy and confused.

• Headache is accompanied by stomach complaints.

• Scalp feels tight and constricted.

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• Dizziness.

• Bad feeling in head.

• Dull, severe headache.

• Head hot with flushed cheeks.

• Eyes feel tired and strained.

• Blurred vision is experienced.

• Photophobia (sensitivity to light) is present.

• Dryness of the eyes is reported.

• Burning sensation in the eyes is experienced.

• Dark circles under the eyes are seen.

• Tinnitus (ringing in the ears) is reported.

• Impaired hearing is noticed.

• Feeling of pressure in the ears is experienced.

• Ears feel stopped up.

• Sensitivity to noise is present.

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• Pain in left external meatus.

• Nasal congestion is reported.

• Frequent sneezing is observed.

• Dryness of the nasal passages is experienced.

• Loss of smell is reported.

• Nosebleeds occur.

• Post-nasal drip is experienced.

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• Dryness of nasal passages.

• Sore throat, with a raw or burning sensation is present.

• Difficulty swallowing is noted.

• Dryness of the throat is reported.

• Feeling of a lump in the throat is experienced.

• Hoarseness is observed.

• Shortness of breath, especially on exertion is experienced.

• Cough, dry and hacking, worse at night is noted.

• Oppression of the chest is reported.

• Feeling of tightness in the chest is experienced.

• Difficult expectoration is experienced.

• Wheezing is present.

• Cough is worse in a warm room.

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• Palpitations, especially after eating is experienced.

• Irregular heartbeat is reported.

• Feeling of anxiety in the heart region is felt.

• Weakness and fatigue following palpitations is experienced.

• Pulse is weak and rapid.

• Chest pain is experienced.

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• Loss of appetite at times is observed.

• Appetite is easily satisfied, feeling full after a few bites.

• Desire for unusual or indigestible food items is present.

• Craving for cheese is noted.

• Aversion to meat is seen.

• Pain in the stomach, relieved by eructations is observed.

• Nausea and vomiting is reported.

• Sour eructations are present.

• Heartburn is experienced.

• Gastric ulcers with burning pain are present.

• Stomach feels distended after eating very little.

• Sinking feeling in the stomach is experienced.

• Distention of the abdomen after eating is noted.

• Pain in the abdomen, often colicky is experienced.

• Flatulence is reported.

• Gurgling in the abdomen is noted.

• Abdomen feels hard and tense.

• Hard, dry stools are passed.

• Ineffectual urging to stool is experienced.

• Stools are passed with difficulty.

• Stools are dark and offensive.

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• Hemorrhoids are present.

• Burning sensation in the rectum after stool is experienced.

• Itching in the anus is reported.

• Rectal prolapse is present.

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• Frequent urination, especially at night is reported.

• Burning sensation during urination is experienced.

• Scanty urine is passed.

• Urine is dark and concentrated.

• Urine has a strong odor.

• Involuntary urination at night is reported.

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• Decreased libido is experienced.

• Impotence in men is observed.

• Frigidity in women is reported.

• Prostatic complaints in older men are present.

• Premature ejaculation is experienced.

• Vaginal dryness is reported.

• Pain in the back, especially in the lumbar region is experienced.

• Stiffness of the back is reported.

• Weakness in the back is felt.

• Pain radiating down the legs is experienced.

• Back pain is worse from sitting.

• Sensation of coldness in the back is felt.

• Pain in the shoulders is experienced.

• Weakness of the arms and hands is reported.

• Numbness and tingling in the fingers is experienced.

• Joint pains are present.

• Arms feel heavy and tired.

• Cramps in the hands and fingers are experienced.

• Pain in the hips and knees is experienced.

• Weakness of the legs is reported.

• Numbness and tingling in the feet is experienced.

• Restless legs are present.

• Legs feel heavy and stiff.

• Cold feet are experienced.

• Dry, itchy skin is reported.

• Eruptions, especially on the face and scalp are present.

• Skin feels sensitive to touch.

• Poor healing of wounds is noted.

• Skin is pale and sallow.

• Cold, clammy skin is experienced.

• Restless sleep is reported.

• Frequent waking during the night is experienced.

• Difficulty falling asleep is noted.

• Dreams are vivid and disturbing.

• Dreams of business or stressful situations are experienced.

• Unrefreshing sleep is reported.

• Dreams of falling are experienced.

• Wakes up tired and unrefreshed.

• At night.

• After eating.

• From cold.

• From mental exertion.

• From lying down.

• In winter.

• From pressure.

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• After eating, especially after indigestible food.

• Debility.

• Night.

• Tea.

• Tobacco.

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• Warmth.

• Rest.

• Eructations.

• Gentle movement.

• Nux Vomica, Lycopodium, Carbo Veg, Pulsatilla.

• Camphor, Pulsatilla, Ipecac.

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• with physical complaints.

• Irritability associated with digestive disturbances.

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• and a sense of hopelessness.

• Sensation of something sticking in esophagus towards its lower end.

• Easily gets out of breath.

• Sensation of a hard substance lodged in the chest, mostly on right side of sternum, which needs to be coughed up, though nothing comes up, especially after food that disagreed.

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• Sharp, cutting pains in the heart region.

• Frequent eructations.

• Continual, distressing sensation about stomach as if everything was knotted up, worse whenever debilitated.

• Sensation of an undigested hard-boiled egg in the stomach.

• Constipation.

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• Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty output.

• Menstruation delayed three months.

• Aching pains in limbs.

• Heaviness and fatigue in legs.

• Dryness of skin.

• Wakefulness at night with hunger.

• Rest (variable).

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• Compare: Abies Canadensis, Cupressus, Thuja, Sabina (all have painful indigestion), and other Conifers; Nux Vomica, Bryonia, Pulsatilla, Kali Carbonicum, Natrum Muriaticum.

• (effects of tea) Thuja.

• Consider as an intercurrent remedy for chronic dyspepsia.

• Can be useful in cases of anorexia nervosa where there is a distorted perception of the stomach's capacity.