Limulus Cyclops

Limulus was proved in the lower triturations by Hering, Lippe, and others.

Among the symptoms recorded the most notable was a rush of blood to the face, with heat of

• ▸face and over whole body, recalling a similar symptom of As¢.
• ▸r.
• ▸, another sea-animal.
• ▸The

remedy does not appear to have been much used, and Hering has omitted it from his Guiding

Symptoms. The only italicised symptoms in Allen are these: "Frequent rush of blood to the face,

and painful fulness of the whole right half of the body, especially here and there, and in the lower

extremities" (a symptom of Hering's from the first centesimal trituration); and "heat, burning,

and constriction in abdomen" (Blumenthal, a grain of Ist trit). There was much gastro-intestinal

disturbance, and in one prover a choleraic condition. Headache caused by straining at stool. The

flushing of the face was < in afternoon. There was dyspnoea < by drinking. Coryza < drinking

cold water. Heat in face alternated with confusion in head.

Very indifferent mind with constant confusion of head.—The great disinclination to

wash and inability to accomplish much, which he had experienced since the sea-bath,

disappeared completely during the day and gave place to mental quiet, steadiness, with

constancy and perseverance in performing very irksome duties.—(Very difficult to recollect

names.)

Relaxation of mind and body.—Sudden great weakness.—Heat of day at noon

• ▸intolerable.
• ▸—Inclination to stretch.
• ▸—Peculiar feeling as if poisoned.
• ▸—Frequent rush of blood to

face, and painful fulness of whole r. half of body, esp. here and there and in lower limbs.

Mental depression. Difficult to remember names, confused with heat of face, rush of blood to face, worse when meditating. Pain behind left eye-ball.

Confusion of whole head attended with dulness and heat of face; together with dull

feeling over whole body, esp. in abdomen, where it increases to a kind of burning in

• ▸evening.
• ▸—Stool followed by headache.
• ▸—Pressure in head > after running from nose.
• ▸—Feeling of

• ▸warmth r.
• ▸side of forehead.
• ▸—Pressure on r.
• ▸side of head, deep internally, extending back and

forth several times during the day.

Feeling of warmth above eyes.—Pressure about eyes deep in bones.—Violent pains

drawing back and forth behind 1. eyeball —Lachrymation; of r. eye.

• ▸Fluent coryza.
• ▸Sneezing worse drinking water.
• ▸Constant nasal dropping.
• ▸Pressure above nose and behind eyes.

Sneezing and fluent coryza all day.—Running from nose renewed after a glass of cold

water; feeling of heat in face and over whole body as in fever; after a while prickling as in

perspiration with only moist skin.—Snuff has a greater effect than usual in evening.

Lines in face as in dying person (in a kind of cholera).—Rush of blood to face.—Jerking

pain in |. side upper jaw, evening.

Frequent gnawing pain in last upper back teeth, now r., now 1—Mouth slimy, with

small pasty, insufficient stools, morning.—Taste: metallic, of the drug, and general sensation as if

he had taken medicine; sweetish, coming from both sides as if from the teeth; earthy, extending

back into palate.

Pressure in pit of stomach, and decided heat of face —Eructations of water tasting

like bad eggs.—Nausea with general sweat.—Deathly nausea; became as white and cold as

marble; constant vomiting and diarrhoea; lines of face as in a dying person.

• ▸Colic with heat.
• ▸Cramp-like pain with watery stools.
• ▸Abdomen hot and constricted.
• ▸Piles, constriction of anus.

Profuse emission of loud (very offensive) flatus.—Pain here and there in all

places in abdomen.—Warmth and painful sensation in abdomen.—Heat, burning, and constriction

in abdomen.—Cramp-like pain.—Cutting colic, with feeling of heat—Sensation as though he had

a dissolving acid in intestines, and all the pains seemed to be caused thereby; as though a

gangrene in stomach, and then burning in intestines.

A painful swelling, thick as a finger, and very hard nodes, like peas, 1. side

of anus; he was obliged to lie with limbs spread apart—Piles |. of anus, following a hard,

nodular, lumpy stool, evacuated with pressure, < riding in carriage, very painful at night on

• ▸going out.
• ▸—Burning and constriction in anus.
• ▸—A cooling-burning in small spots in anus.
• ▸—Two

diarrhoea-like stools, greenish grey, without pain (first morning).—Stool very watery towards the

end.—Desire for stool after dinner; only wind, and after much pressing a few lumps; headache

caused by the straining.—Constipation; he feels the stool in the bowels long before the

evacuation, as if he were unable to evacuate it.—Hard stool.

Burning I. side of scrotum.—Increased sexual desire and power; but

more difficult emission of semen.—Emission wanting during coition.

Husky voice. Dyspnoea after drinking water. Oppression of chest.

Voice husky; must constantly hawk, though the voice remains weak

and hoarse, with difficult respiration, evening.—Cough during the afternoon sleep repeatedly

waking him.—Sudden violent cough.—Respiratory troubles after drinking water, in afternoon and

repeatedly afterwards.—Dyspneea after drinking water.—Peculiar difficulty of breathing in lower

chest as if an impediment below diaphragm, cannot take deep breath even when outstretched, as

if it were too full there, in afternoon, < evening.

Oppression of chest, weakness and yawning.—Suffocative swelling up in middle of

chest behind sternum, taking away breath, and, when violent, becoming painful, as from beating

of waves in aorta.—Violent pains below sternum, like transient cutting from above down, and

• ▸from r.
• ▸to l.
• ▸, < on stretching out r.
• ▸arm; in forenoon; then at noon; then at 2 p.
• ▸m.

Violent pain in |. metacarpal bone; then shivering and coldness with

headache above eyes; again in hands.

Painful sensation of fulness in lower limbs.—Pain in r. hip-joint, posteriorly,

as if dislocated, < by certain motions.—Violent bruised pain in both hip-joints, < l.—Right heel

feels benumbed on standing on it—Remarkably sore pain in both heels, when walking and

stepping.

• ▸Crural neuralgia.
• ▸Soles of feet ache, feel numb.
• ▸Pain in right hip-joint.
• ▸Heels sore.

Itching spots and vesicles on face and hands. Burning in palms.

Burning itching points here and there immediately.—Small burning itching spots on

face.—Small brownish spots on backs of both hands as if warts would form.—Itching and

eruptions like small weals on |. shoulder and in hollow of both knees, lasting more than a week,

• ▸<r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Eruptions on hands, small itching vesicles, esp.
• ▸on backs of fingers.

Much yawning with weakness evening.—Sleep and sleepiness all day.—Sleep at night

bad.

Chilliness with constant trickling from nose.—Cold and white like marble, in

cholera.—Feeling of heat in face and over whole body.—Reflexion causes heat of face in

evening.—Burning in palms.—General sweat with nausea.

• ▸Apoplexy.
• ▸Cholera.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Fever.
• ▸Heemorrhoids.
• ▸Sea-bathing,

effects of. Skin, affection of.

• ▸Compare: Homarus, Ast.
• ▸r.
• ▸; Fer.
• ▸(flushing); Indium.
• ▸(pains in head from straining at

stool); Ars. (ill-effects of sea-bathing).

Compare: Asterias; Homarus; Cuprum.

Sixth potency.