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Viola tricolor.
Mind and Disposition.
Great dulness of the intellect.
Low spirited about domestic affairs.
Bad, morose humor, with disinclination to talk.
Very sensitive and inclined to scold.
[5] Vertigo when walking.
Heaviness of the head when raising it, which disappears by stooping.
Burning stitches in the scalp, especially in the forehead and temples.
Eyes.
Biting in the eyes.
The eyelids sink down as from sleepiness.
Face.
[10] Induration of the skin of the face.
Milk-crust, burning and itching especially at night, with discharge of tough yellow pus.
Heat and perspiration of the face after eating.
Heat of the side of the face on which he does not lie, in the evening in bed.
Mouth and Throat.
Tongue coated with white mucus and bitter taste.
[15] Sensation of dryness in the mouth, with much saliva.
Stomach and Abdomen.
Stitches and cutting pain in the abdomen, with urging to stool and crying and lamentations, followed by discharge of lumps of mucus and flatulence.
Pressing-stinging in the diaphragm.
Stool and Anus.
Chopped soft stools.
Stool with mucus and much flatulence.
Urinary Organs.
[20] Urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of urine.
Fetid urine ; it smells like the urine of cats.
Very turbid urine.
Stitches in the urethra.
Sexual Organs.
Swelling of the prepuce with itching.
[25] Stitches in the penis or pressing in the glans ; burning of the glans.
Itching stitches in the scrotum.
Involuntary seminal discharges, with lewd dreams.
Respiratory Organs.
Stitches in the chest, on the ribs, sternum and intercostal muscles.
Oppression and stitches in the heart, on bending the chest forward when sitting.
[30] Anxiety about the heart while lying, with beating like waves.
Back.
Tension between the shoulder-blades, with cutting and tingling in the skin.
Extremities.
Upper. Stitches in the shoulder-joints, elbows, forearms and fingers.
Lower. Stitches in the patella, tibia and feet.
Sleep.
Goes to sleep late on account of ideas crowding his mind.
[35] Awakens frequently from vigilance.
The child twitches with his hands in his sleep, with clenched thumbs, general dry heat and red face.
Fever.
General heat, especially in the face, with anxiety ; dyspnoea immediately after eating.
Skin.
Stinging-biting rash.
Dry scabs over the whole body ; when they arc scratched, they exude yellow water.
