Physalia Pelagica

G. Bennett was stung by the animal on second and ring fingers. The sensation

was as if stung by a nettle, succeeded in a few minutes by violent aching, affecting the finger-

joints and spreading up arm, involving elbow-joint. The pain was < by application of water; < by

motion; and < when joints became affected. The pain spread to the shoulder-joint and pectoral

muscles causing oppression of breathing. After half an hour the symptoms began to abate,

leaving numbness of the limb and a vesicle at the spot which was stung.

• ▸Vertigo, hazy feeling; memory weakness; desire to talk constantly.
• ▸Throbbing pain, heavy over eyes in forehead.
• ▸Facial paralysis.
• ▸Dryness of mouth.

• ▸Acrid, foul, retained, abundant.
• ▸Polyuria.
• ▸Sudden inability to hold it in women.
• ▸Nocturnal incontinence.
• ▸Enuresis.

Cough. Hoarse voice; throat irritated; chest oppressed, causing insomnia. Stabbing in chest.

Stiff limbs; tonic cramps. Paralysis. When walking, every jar seems repeated in the head.

Excoriation between fingers and toes; pustules on thighs; nodes on forehead.

• ▸Chilly in open air.
• ▸Feverish in evening.
• ▸Sweat during stool, with creeping sensation, with abundant urine.
• ▸Pain in liver during, fever.

Tincture to third attenuation. The juice of the berries is used in dropsical conditions and irritable bladder.

Alkekengi-Winter Cherry (PHYSALIS - SOLANUM VESICARIUM)

Marked urinary symptoms confirming its ancient uses in gravel, etc. Lithiasis; marked diuretic action. Languor and muscular weakness.