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tanacetum vulgare
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Abnormal lassitude. Nervous and tired feeling. "Half dead, half alive feeling" all over. Of use in chorea and reflex spasms (worms). Said to be a specific against effects of poison ivy.
Head: Heavy, dull, confused. Headache with least exertion.
Mental: Irritable, sensitive to noise. Mental fatigue, nausea and vertigo, worse in a closed room.
Ears: Roaring and ringing; voice sounds strange; ears seem to close up suddenly.
Abdomen: Pain in bowels; relieved by stool. Desire for stool immediately after eating. Dysentery.
Female: Dysmenorrhoea, with bearing-down pains, tenderness, drawing in groins. Menses suppressed; later, profuse.
Respiratory: Hurried, labored, stertorous respiration. Frothy mucus obstructs the air-passages.
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Cimicif; Cina; Absinth. Nux follows well
