Pulex irritans pulx

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General
  • Marked urinary and female symptoms.
Head
  • Very impatient, cross, and irritable. Frontal headache, with enlarged feeling of eyes. Face wrinkled and old-looking.
Mouth
  • Metallic taste. Sensation of a thread in throat. Thirsty, especially during headache.
Stomach
  • Breath and taste foul. Intense nausea, with vomiting, purging, and faintness. Stool very offensive. Abdomen bloated.
Urine
  • Scanty with frequent urging, with pressure on bladder and burning in urethra. Flow stops suddenly followed by pain. Urine foul. Cannot retain urine; must attend to the call without delay. Irritable bladder before menses.
Female
  • Menses delayed. Increased flow of saliva during. Intense burning in vagina. Leucorrhoea, profuse, foul, staining a greenish yellow; stains of menses and leucorrhoea very hard to wash out. Backache (Oxal ac).
Back
  • Aches, weak; drawing of muscles below scapulae.
Skin
  • Prickly itching. Sore spots all over. Skin emits foul odor.
Fever
  • Feels a glow all over, like being over steam; chilly, while sitting beside the fire.
Modalities
  • Better: sitting or lying down. Worse: left side, moving about.
Dose
  • The higher potencies.