Sanicula aqua

Looks old and thin. Marasmus. Body smells like old cheese. Child kicks off covers at night. Enlarged feeling in throat, vagina, etc. Thick, yellow, acrid pus. .................... Stubborn and touchy. Can't bear cold air on occiput and neck. Eyelids stick to balls. Fluent coryza, < eating. Water smells like old, musty rain water. Aphthæ. Craves bacon, or ice cold milk. Stool of one, large, heavy mass; impacted. Briny urine or leucorrhœa, < stool. Backache, < putting hands behind him or raising arms. Cold lumbar spine. Lumbago. Cold clammy hands and feet. Cramps in feet. Burning soles. Dry, brownish skin, < neck. Profuse sweat on occiput and neck. Foul foot sweat; chafes toes, destroys shoes or stiffens the hose; sticky.

Motion: Downward. Of hands behind him. Cold wind on: Occiput or neck.

Nutrition. Female organs. Neck. Rectum. Skin.

Related: Lyc. Psor. Sul.

Sanicula

Mineral Spring Water. Ottawa, III.

Dread of downward motion (Bor.).

Child headstrong, obstinate, cries and kicks ; cross, irritable, quickly alternates with laughter; does not want to be touched.

Constantly changing his occupation.

Head and neck of children sweat profusely during sleep; wets the pillow far around (Cal., Sil.).

Profuse, scaly dandruff on scalp, eyebrows, in the beard.

Soreness behind ears with discharge of white, gray, viscid fluid (Graph., Psor.).

Tongue: large, flabby; burning, must protrude it to keep it cool; ring-worm on tongue (Nat. m. ).

Nausea and vomiting from car or carriage riding.

Thirst; drinks little and often; is vomited soon as it reaches the stomach (Ars., Phos.).

Symptoms constantly changing (Lac c.. Puls.).

Incontinence of urine and faeces; sphincter unreliable (Aloe) ; urging from flatus, must cross legs to prevent faeces escaping.

Constipation : no desire until a large accumulation ; after great straining stool partially expelled, recedes (SiL, Thuja) ; large evacuation of small, dry, gray balls, must be removed mechanically (Seh).

Stool: hard, impossible to evacuate; of grayishwhite balls, like burnt lime ; crumbling from verge of anus (Mag. m. ) ; with the odor of limburger cheese.

Diarrhoea : changeable in character and color ; like scrambled eggs; frothy, grass-green, turns green on standing; like scum of a frog pond; after eating, must hurry from table.

The odor of stool follows despite bathing (Sulph.).

Excoriation of skin about anus (Sulph.) ; covering perineum and extending to genitals.

Leucorrhoea with strong odor of fish brine (oozing from rectum smelling like herring brine. Cal. ; fish brine discharge from ear, Tel.).

Weakness, bearing down as if contents of pelvis would escape; < walking, misstep, or jar, > by rest, lying down; desire to support parts by placing hand against vulva (Lib, Mur.) ; soreness of uterus.

Foot-sweat: between the toes, making them sore; offensive (Graph., Psor., SiL); on soles as if he had stepped in cold water.

Burning of soles of feet; must uncover or put them in a cool place (Each., Med., Sang., Sulph.).

Child kicks off clothing even in coldest weather (Hep., Sulph.).

Emaciation, progressive; child looks old, dirty, greasy and brownish; skin about neck wrinkled, hangs in folds (Abrot., Iod., Nat. m., Sars.).

Relations. — Related to: Abrot., Alum, Bor., Cal., Graph., Nat. m., Sil., and others of our great antipsorics.

Water of Sanicula Springs, Ottawa, I11 Has been found a useful remedy in enuresis, seasickness, constipation, etc. Rickets.

Worse, moving arms backward.

Dread of downward motion (Borax). Profuse sweat on occiput and in nape of neck, during sleep (Calc; Sil). Photophobia. Lachrymation in cold air or from cold application. Profuse scaly dandruff. Soreness behind ears.

Tongue large, flabby, burning; must protrude it to keep cool. Ringworm on tongue.

Thick, ropy, tenacious mucus.

Nausea and vomiting from car-riding. Thirst; drink little and often (Ars; Chin). Is vomited as soon as it reaches the stomach.

Stools large, heavy and painful. Pain in whole perineum. No desire until a large accumulation. After great straining only partially expelled; recedes, crumbles at verge of anus (Mag mur). Very offensive odor. Excoriation of skin about anus, perineum, and genitals. Diarrhœa; changeable in character and color; after eating.

Bearing-down, as if contents of pelvis would escape; better, rest. Desire to support parts. Soreness of uterus. Leucorrhœa with odor of fish-brine or cold cheese (Hepar). Vagina feels large.

Dislocated feeling in sacrum and better lying on right side.

Burning of soles of feet (Sulph; Lach). Offensive foot-sweat (Sil; Psor). Cold, clammy sweat of extremities.

Dirty, greasy, brownish, wrinkled. Eczema, fissured hands and fingers (Petrol; Graph).

Compare: Abrot; Alum; Calc; Sil; Sulph. Sanicula Aqua must not be confounded with the Sanicle (pool-root or wood marsh), also called Sanicula. This is used in various nervous affections, resembling Valeriana. It is used as a vulnerary, resolvent for sanguineous extravasations, and as an astringent (Has not been proved).

Thirtieth potency.