Acts on nervous system and female organs. Antidote to bites of scorpions and serpents (Golondrina). Cholera. Bulbar paralysis. Syphilis. Cancer. Deafness-tongue heavy and difficult to move. Spinal irritation. Spinal symptoms most marked and verified. Beer drinkers threatened with apoplexy. Diarrhoea and dysentery with aching in sacrum and loins.

Headache, red face. Heaviness and difficulty in moving tongue.

Throat.--Larynx and trachea constricted; difficult deglutition. Tongue feels heavy, difficult to move.

Female.--Leucorrhoea copious, corroding, putrid, debilitating. Itching and smarting at night, as if fire were running out of parts.

Urine.--Increased, cloudy, phosphatic. Pain over region of bladder.

Back.--Pain between scapulae, extending to forearm. Burning in nape of shoulders. Pain along spine; worse, bending. Weariness through hips and lumbar region.

Extremities.--Pain in deltoid, shoulders, elbows, arms, and fingers. Pain about hip-joint. Legs heavy. Pain in ankle-joints and soles. Paralysis of lower extremities.

Modalities.--Worse, from motion.

Relationship.--Compare: Oxal ac; Lathyr; Caust.

Dose.--Third to sixth potency.