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We get the idea of the feeble circulation because of the easy oozings from mucus membranes."Copious nose bleed early in bed"."Dried blood gathered in nose". "Long continued dryness of nose, frequent irritation as fromsneezing". In the nose an old, dry catarrh with atrophic condition of the mucus membrane. The noseinside becomes shiny and withered.Dryness of the mouth without thirst. Biting pain the in the throat between the acts ofswallowing. Rawness in the throat. The throat complaints are worse in the morning. Complaints worseafter eating and worse from warm drinks, especially from warm milk. "After eating, cough andgagging". There is a peculiar combination of symptoms about the throat. Dryness and accumulation ofmucus in the throat which he tries to expel, and when making an effort to cough out the mucus he gagsand sometimes vomits. Vomiting from cough. Weakness at the pit of the stomach after everyevacuation; an all-gone feeling in the pit of the stomach. Pressure deep in the region of the liver; worsein the morning; worse after eating; worse after stool. Distension of the abdomen with great flatulence,especially after eating. Some symptoms are worse after drinking. Sometimes these complaints come onin the middle of the night, rousing him up with rumbling and cutting in the bowels. The abdomen iscold; it feels as if the whole inside of the abdomen were cold. At other times the coldness seems to beon one side of the abdomen Inveterate constipation in old persons, and especially when it is impossibleto have anyone near at the time of stool. "Frequent ineffectual desire for stool; this makes her veryanxious; at this time presence of other persons becomes unbearable". After the normal stool there ispressure in the abdomen or a sense of emptiness and weakness in the abdomen which is better afterpassing flatus or eructation.Bloody urine with red sediment in the urine. Urine when emitted is clouded, yellowish-brownand deposits a brownish sediment. "Sour-smelling urine". The urine is copious. "During urinationburning, smarting, itching and titillation in the urethra and vulva". "Sore rawness between the thighs"."Voluptuous itching on scrotum". "Violent morning erections without desire", with numbnessof the genitals. The symptoms are most erratic, as much so as in < ignatia and Natr-mur. Taken as awhole they can be reconciled, but taken a few at a time they seem wonderfully inconsistent. You mustget the whole remedy in order to comprehend it.Copious discharge of blood between the menstrual periods."Discharge of blood between periods at every little accident".Discharge of blood from the vagina from pressing at hard stool; even from a walk that is a littletoo long or from too great exertion. "During menses left leg becomes quite blue from distended varices,with pressive pain in leg". "Lying down aggravates uterine symptoms", quite an unexpected thing.Menses too early and too profuse. "Menses appear seven days before time", and then comes thathorrible itching of the genitals; "soreness and itching with swelling of labia".Another marked feature of this remedy that you might expect with all this nervous excitementand prostration is dyspnoea with cardiac symptoms, difficult breathing, a sort of asthma. It comes onfrom any little exertion. Asthma on attempting coition."Itching, scraping and soreness in larynx and trachea"."Titillation in throat, larynx and trachea". Everywhere there is itching, and the itching is veryoften a form of crawling."Asthma of old people and children", in feeble, tremulous, weakly ones. "Whistling in chestduring breathing". "Spasmodic cough"."Violent spasmodic cough with frequent eructations and hoarseness". A good deal of this coughis of nervous origin. It is a cough with excitement, with nervousness, with trembling, which wouldmake one of considerable experience wonder if that patient did not have brain and spinal cord trouble.Nervous cough, such as occurs often in spinal irritation. Cough from constriction of the larynxfollowed by copious flow of white mucus. This is a paroxysmal cough, much like whooping cough.Asthmatic dyspnoea from any little exertion, from music, from excitement. Cough withcongestion of blood to the head. Cough from thinking and from anxiety.It is not very long after these symptoms show themselves before this patient will emaciate andwither, until the skin looks like dried beef. With all he is a tremulous and shaky patient.He complains a great deal of tearing pressure deep in the left side of the chest. Sensation ofrawness in the chest and itching in the chest. Titillation and itching, moving about here and there if hetries to touch the place and scratch it.You will not be surprised to know that this patient suffers from palpitation of the heart uponslight exertion, from excitement, from music, from any effort to put the mind on anything, withtrembling and quivering. And this palpitation he notices even to the extremities; he throbs all over. His

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