Physalis alkekengi physal

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General
  • Marked urinary symptoms confirming its ancient uses in gravel, etc. Lithiasis; marked diuretic action. Languor and muscular weakness.
Head
  • Vertigo, hazy feeling; memory weakness; desire to talk constantly. Throbbing pain, heavy over eyes in forehead. Facial paralysis. Dryness of mouth.
Urinary
  • Acrid, foul, retained, abundant. Polyuria. Sudden inability to hold it in women. Nocturnal incontinence. Enuresis.
Respiratory
  • Cough. Hoarse voice; throat irritated; chest oppressed, causing insomnia. Stabbing in chest.
Extremities
  • Stiff limbs; tonic cramps. Paralysis. When walking, every jar seems repeated in the head.
Skin
  • Excoriation between fingers and toes; pustules on thighs; nodes on forehead.
Fever
  • Chilly in open air. Feverish in evening. Sweat during stool, with creeping sensation, with abundant urine. Pain in liver during, fever.
Modalities
  • Worse: cold camp evening. After going heated.
Dose
  • Tincture to third attenuation. The juice of the berries is used in dropsical conditions and irritable bladder.