Causticum caust.

Weakness of memory; absent-minded.
Inattentive and distracted.
Taciturn, distant; disinclined to work.
Full of timorous fancies, evenings, child fears to go to bed alone.
Great anxiety.
Melancholy mood.
Hopelessness.
Peevish, irritable mood.
Thinking of complaints aggravates them, especially hemorrhoids.

Vertigo: tending forwards and sideways; at night in bed, on rising and on lying down again, or at 11 A.M.; on looking fixedly at an object; better in open air; with weakness in the head and anxiety.
Anæmia.
Dulness of the head.

Painless commotion in the whole head.
Pressive pain in right frontal eminence; dull, pressive headache.
Stitches in the temples, worse from sitting or reading.
Throbbing and stitches in the vertex.
Sensation as of an empty space between the forehead and brain.

Pain at a small spot on the vertex, as if bruised, only on touch.
Tension or itching on the scalp.

Photophobia whole day, constantly obliged to wink.
Flickering or sparks before the eyes.
Sight obscured: as from a gauze before the eyes; as from a mist; momentarily, on blowing the nose.
Perpendicular half sight in cataract; has arrested cataract.
Pain in the eyes, as if sand were in them.
Pressive pain in the eyes, worse from touch.
Constant inclination to touch and rub the eye, which seems to relieve a pressure in it.
Eyes: inflamed; burning, red, dry, stinging.
Smarting and pressure in eyes, which seem heavy; lids red.
Itching of the eyes, especially of the lids.
Inclination to close the eyes, lids seem heavy; even paralysis of upper lids.

Roaring, or buzzing in the ears.
Words and steps re-echo in the ears; hears with difficulty.
Stitches in right ear, paroxysmal, and in rapid succession.
Feeling of obstruction in ears, with offensive purulent discharge.
Herpes on the ear-lobe.
Meatus dry, with a little brown wax.

Frequent sneezing.
Fluent coryza, with pain in chest and limbs.
Dry coryza, with stoppage of nose.
Blowing blood from nose, mornings.
Profuse nosebleed.
Pimples on the tip of the nose.
Itching of tip and alæ.
Old warts on the nose.

Face: yellow; sickly-looking.
Neuralgia: right side; worse at night, chilly, no thirst; drawing pains extending into cheeks and ear; spasm of muscles and numbness; menses scanty.
Pimples on left cheek, with severe itching.
Acne burning after scratching, better washing.
Paralysis of one side of face.

Sensation of tension and pain in the jaws could only with difficulty open the mouth, and could not eat well, because a tooth seemed too long.
Arthritic pains in lower jaw.

Painful looseness and elongation of the teeth.
Tooth as if being crowded out of the alveoli.
Teeth painful when chewing.
Pain in sound teeth, or drawing in cold air.
Stitching and tearing toothache.
Swelling of the gums.
Tedious suppuration of the gums. θ Fistula dentalis.

Taste: greasy; of rancid fat; putrid; bitter; as from disordered stomach.
Speechlessness, from paralysis of the organs of speech.
Distortion of the tongue and mouth when talking.
Stuttering, difficult, indistinct speech.
Painful vesicle on the tip of the tongue.
Tongue coated white on both sides, red in the middle.

Dryness of the mouth and tongue.
Much phlegm in the mouth and throat.
Sore, painful spot on the hard palate.
Swelling inside the cheek; bites it when chewing.

Dryness in throat, posteriorly.
Mucus collects in the throat, cannot be raised by hawking; obliged to swallow it.
Hawking of mucus, with pain in pit of throat.
Rawness in throat, with sensation like heart-burn.
Rawness and tickling in the throat, with dry cough and some expectoration only after long coughing.
Must swallow continually, feels as if the throat were too narrow.
Swelling like goitre, on the throat.

Desire for beer.
Thirst for cold drinks; thirst, with aversion to drink.
Aversion to sweet things.
Sits down to the table with some appetite, but can scarcely eat a morsel.

Fresh meat causes nausea; smoked meat agrees; bread causes pressure in stomach.
Coffee seems to aggravate every symptom.

Eructations: frequent, empty; tasting of the food; of food; burning.
Nausea during and after meals.
Sour vomiting, followed by sour eructations.
Vomiting of blood, at night.

Pain in the stomach in the morning, increased by every quick movement; must lie down.
Cramp in the stomach; pressure in the pit of stomach.
Pinching, clawing in pit of stomach on deep breathing.

Stitches in the region of the liver.

Pains in the abdomen, must bend double; worse after the least nourishment or from tightening the clothes.
Colic: in the morning; pain radiates to back and chest.
Stitches in the right side of the abdomen.
Painful distention of the abdomen.
Flatulency, loud rumbling and rolling in the bowels.
Tumid abdomen, in children.

Pressure in the rectum.
Itching and sticking in the rectum.
Frequent, sudden, penetrating, pressive pain in rectum.
Frequent passage of offensive flatus.
Stools: tough and shining; first hard and in pieces, the last soft; knotty, like sheep's dung.
Frequent ineffectual efforts to stool with much pain, anxiety and redness in face.
The stool passes better standing.
Pulsations in the perineum.
Fissure of the anus, pains worse when walking.
Itching in the anus.
Large, painful pustule near the anus, discharging pus, blood and serum.
Hemorrhoids: impeding the stool; swollen; itching, stitching, moist; stinging, burning; painful when touched, when walking, or when thinking of them.

Paralysis of bladder from long retention of urine.
Involuntary passage of urine: when coughing, walking or blowing the nose; at night when asleep.
Diabetes insipidus.
Retention of urine, with frequent and urgent desire, occasionally a few drops or small quantity may dribble away.
Burning in the urethra when urinating.
Itching of the orifice of the urethra.
Urine: dark brown; turbid and cloudy on standing.

Increase of smegma about the glans.
Continuous loss of prostatic fluid; memory weak.
Pressive pains in testicles.
Itching of the scrotum and skin of the penis.

Aversion to coitus.
Menses: too early and too profuse, and after ceasing, a little is passed from time to time for days; smell badly and excite itching of vulva; only during the day; with violent pains in abdomen and discharge of large clots; scanty, with prosopalgia.
Leucorrhœa: profuse, flows like the menses and has the same odor; only at night and worse then; with scanty menses.
Soreness in the vulva and between the legs.
Smarting, as from salt, in the pudendum, after urinating.

Spasmodic labor-pains. Labor-pains insufficient, irregular; os dilated, but patient has become tired and fretful.
Milk almost disappeared in consequence of overfatigue, night watching and anxiety.
Nipples sore, cracked, surrounded with herpes.

Hoarseness: worse morning and evening, with scraping in the throat; for several days could not speak loud.
Croup, especially when there is a raw sensation in the larynx.
Catarrhal croup.
The laryngeal muscles refuse their service; cannot speak a loud word. When he tries to raise his voice, it fails or becomes a squeak.

Arrest of breathing when talking or walking rapidly; must suddenly catch after (for) breath.
Shortness of breath.

Violent, hollow, at times dry, with pain in right chest; hollow, especially night and morning, with tightly adhering mucus in the chest, and with sensation of soreness on the chest; hacking, from creeping and rawness in the throat; with pain above left hip, and involuntary passage of drops of urine; dry, remaining after pertussis.
Cough worse evening till midnight; from exhaling; drinking coffee; cold air; draught of air; when awaking.
Cough relieved by a swallow of cold water.

Soreness in the chest.
Burning soreness in a stripe down under the sternum, with cough, etc.
Tightness of chest, must frequently take a deep breath.
Stitches in the chest below the arms, extending to the pit of the stomach, with anxiety.
Rattling in the chest.

Stitches about the heart.
Palpitation of the heart.
Oppression at the heart, with lowness of spirits.
Pulse excited towards evening, with orgasm of blood.

Sensation as if the clothing were too tight.
Painful compression of chest from both sides toward the sternum, with oppression of breath and weakness of voice.
Stitches in the sternum from deep breathing or lifting.

Stiffness of the neck, could not move head.
Stiffness and pain in neck and throat, with pain in occiput, muscles felt as if bound, could scarcely move the head.
Painful stiffness of back, especially when rising from chair.
Stitches: in the back; in left lumber region.
Pressing, cramp-like pain in small of back, in region of kidneys.
Dull, drawing pain in region of os coccygis.
Bruised pain in the os coccygis.

Pressure on the shoulders.
Dull drawing and tearing in the arms and hands.
Paralytic feeling in the right hand.
Sensation of fulness in the palm when grasping.
Contraction and induration of the tendons of the fingers.
Drawing pains in the finger-joints.
Trembling of the hands.
Convulsion of the fingers in writing; writer's cramp.
Warts on tip of the fingers.
Itching on the arms.

Soreness high up, between the thighs.
Aching in the hip-joint, as if dislocated.
Bruised pains in the thighs and legs, mornings in bed.
Cramp in the calf, mornings in bed.
Drawing and tearing in thighs and legs, knees and feet, worse in open air, better in warmth of bed.
Cracking in the knees when walking.
Tension in the knee and ankle-joints.
Tensive pain and stiffness in hollow of knee, when walking.
Marbled skin of thighs and legs.
Unsteady walking and easy falling, of little children.
Cramp in the feet.
Ball of the great toe: crawling, burning; severe pressive pain; burning stitches.
Phagedenic blisters and ulcers on the heel.
Sudden cramp in tendo-achillis at night.
Crawling in both soles as from something alive.
Itching on the dorsum of feet.

Arthritic pains in all the limbs.
Weakness and trembling of all the limbs.
Paralytic weakness of the limbs.
Intolerable uneasiness in the limbs in the evening.

At night cannot get a quiet position, nor lie still a minute.
Partly laid on feels sore, must turn often.
Lifting: 30. Motion: 40, 44. Quick motion: 17. Can scarcely move the head: 31. Walking: 20, 26, 33, 40. Standing: 20. Sitting: 3. Must sit up: 37. Rising: 2, 31. Lying down: 2. Must lie down: 17, 37. In bed: 2, 33, 40.

Weakness and trembling.
Faint-like sinking of strength.
Restlessness of the body.
Hemiplegia after cerebral hemorrhage or softening.
Epileptic attacks during time of puberty, also worse during new moon.
Convulsions: with screams, gnashing of the teeth, and violent movements of the limbs; with feverish heat and coldness of hands and feet.
Chorea even at night, right side of face and tongue may be paralyzed.

Yawning and stretching.
Intense sleepiness, can scarcely withstand it, must lie down.
Sleeplessness at night on account of dry heat.
Very uneasy all night, after a short sleep awakened by anxiety and restlessness, which scarcely allowed ten minutes quiet in one place; must sit up; involuntary throwing of the head from side to side, until exhaustion brought on sleep.
Starting from sleep; many motions with arms and legs, during sleep, at night.
Dreams: anxious; quarrelsome.

Morning: 7, 17, 19, 25, 27, 33, 40. 4 A.M.: 40. Evening: 1, 25, 27, 29, 34, 40. 6 to 8 P.M.: 40. Evening, till midnight: 27. Night: 2, 8, 16, 21, 23, 27, 34, 36, 37, 40. Midnight: 40. Day: 5, 23.

Warmth of bed: 33. Room: 5. Open air: 1, 5, 33, 40. Cold air: 27. Cold water: 27. Draught: 27.

Chill and chilliness; predominating, frequently with coldness of the whole left side; on diseased parts.
Much internal chilliness, immediately followed by sweat without intervening heat; severe internal chill about midnight.
Shivering beginning in and spreading from the face.
Chill lessened by drinking, and in bed.
Heat from 6 to 8 P.M., heat descending.
Flushes of heat followed by chilliness.
Profuse sweat: when walking in open air; from motion.
Sour-smelling night-sweat.
Morning-sweat toward 4 A.M.

New moon: 36.

Right: 3, 6, 8, 18, 19, 27, 32, 36. Left: 8, 31, 40.

Rheumatic and arthritic inflammations, with contraction of the flexors and stiffness of the joints.
Tearing, piercing pains at night, compelling motion, but not thereby relieved.
Emaciation of the feet.
Hemorrhages of very dark blood.
Painful varices, ulcers, or warts; net-like appearance of the capillaries.

Touch: 4, 5, 20, 35. Rubbing: 5. Tight clothing: 19, 30.

Intertrigo, during teething.
Excessively itching moist tetter on the neck.
Eruption of pimples on the tip of the nose.
Itching: over the whole body; at various parts, especially on tip and wings of the nose; face; scrotum; back; arms; palms; dorsum of feet.
Injuries of the skin which had healed, become sore again.

Dark hair and rigid fibre most affected.
Children with delicate skin.

After the abuse of sulphur and mercury in scabies, Caustic. may be indicated.
Antidotes to Caustic.: Asaf., Coffea, Coloc., Nux vom., Spir. nitr. dulc.
Rheumatic contraction of tendons of arms and legs much increased by Caustic., was promptly relieved by Guaiac.
Inimicals: Acids, Coffea, Phosphor.