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with frequent discharges of yellowish-green water from the bowels; excessive nausea, much water inthe mouth. So we note the excessive nausea and not so great vomiting. The nausea is more like that ofIpecac., but in Ipecac. we have nothing like the stools of Crot. tig., we have only scanty little gushes,every minute a little gush with tenesmus. Vomiting is the all important symptom in the cholerainfantum of Ipecac., and when the stomach is emptied there is overwhelming retching and exhaustionfrom it, and the stools are scanty; but in Croton tig. the stools are copious, and while there is nausea thevomiting is seldom and scanty.Another feature to be considered in this remedy is its relation to Rhus. It is an antidote to Rhus.Croton tig. is closely related in its vesicular eruptions to the Rhus family (particularly Rhus tox.).Anacardium, Sepia and Anagallis. The eruptions of Croton tig. very often select as a location thegenital organs. Rhus does the same, and when the genital organs are the principal seat of the eruptionsin Rhus poisoning Croton tig. will commonly be its antidote; also when the eruptions are most aboutthe eyes and scalp Croton tig. will often furnish an antidote. When the symptoms, however, confinethemselves to the palms of the hands Croton tig. is not the remedy, but it is Anagallis. Anagallis doesupon the palms of the hands just what Croton tig. does upon the genitals. If you examine Anagallis youwill find that the eruptions will come out and desquamate, and no sooner does the surface look as if itwould heal than a new crop comes out. Rhus. is similar in that it locates upon the palms of the hands,but Rhus does not repeat itself upon inflamed surfaces. In the Croton tig. eruption there is someburning, but nothing like that of Rhus. The Rhus burning pain in eruptions that are marked is almostlike fire. It is worse from the air, and it is better from dipping the part in water as hot as it is possible toendure it. Persons who have these Rhus eruptions talk about scalding their hands to relieve the itchingand burning.S(' it is with Croton tig., but it is usually so sore he cannot touch it; when the eruption is so mildthat he can handle it, we find that the slightest rubbing relieves the itching. In Rhus touch aggravatesthe itching. In bad cases of Rhus poisoning he will hold his fingers far apart if they have very largeblisters upon them, and he will not touch the place because it establishes a voluptuous itching thatnearly drives him wild. Although this is not so with Croton tig., still they are similar enough to eachother to be antidotal; they do not have to be exactly alike, but they need to be similar. It is true thatremedies that are.relieved by scratching are more nearly antidotal to such remedies as are relieved by scratching.The more similar the better; but medicines will antidote each other when they are similar only ingeneral character, and they will cure disease when they are similar in general character. It is also truethat medicines while they are not similar in general character may be similar enough in speciallocalities to remove the symptoms in these localities, while the disease will go on. The remedy in thiscase is not similar enough to cure the disease, but it has removed some of the symptoms. That is themost miserable kind of a prescription, as it changes the manifestations of the disease without changingits nature. In that way a very poor prescriber may hunt around and get one remedy for one group ofsymptoms and another remedy for another group, and the patient be worse off than before. If theremedies are similar as to their general nature, then the little superficial symptoms are not so extremelyimportant."Frequent, corrosive itching on glands and scrotum"."Vesicular eruptions on scrotum and penis". It is a remedy for vesicular and pustular eruptionsupon the genital organs. It is closely related to Petroleum, which has fine red vesicular and granularelevations, intermingled with fine red rash upon the genitals, itching intensely, worse at times byscratching until burning comes on and then bleeding which relieves.CULEX MUSCA [culx] [Kent’s]When this remedy is needed your patient will present to you a picture of something on fire; heburns like something he would like to mention, and perhaps does mention the place; the itching andburning are present every where in this remedy; he rubs and scratches wherever the eruptions appears.The mental symptoms are just what you would expect would follow the physical symptoms ofCulex; impatience, a willingness to quarrel, anxiety and fear or death; poor memory and adisinclination for all work; he is so busy scratching to relieve the itching and so busy walking to relievethe restlessness, that any interruption makes him impatient and ready to quarrel.The dull frontal headache begins on waking at five A.M. and passes away after lying awake fora while; during the forenoon there is pain, fullness and pressure in the forehead with heat of the face,getting worse by spells until afternoon when it extends to the outer part of the right orbital ridge andextending through to the occiput is accompanied by nausea which lasts until evening. Some of the headpains go from the cerebellum to the forehead or right temple; the boring pains in the temples come on