• Catnip (Nepeta cataria).

• Tincture used.

• A children's remedy, especially for colic and teething troubles.

• Also useful for nervous headache and hysteria.

• The patient has abdominal complaints with marked irritability.

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• The patient has twisting of body in attempts to relieve discomfort.

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• The patient is sensitive to pain and contradiction.

• Symptoms often arise suddenly and intensely.

• A general sense of unease and discomfort.

• Great nervous excitability.

• Symptoms are changeable and contradictory.

• General aggravation from being looked at.

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• Restlessness and fidgeting.

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• The patient is easily angered by trifles.

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• Nervousness and anxiety.

• Mental confusion and difficulty concentrating.

• Whining and complaining demeanor.

• Aversion to being touched or looked at.

• Desire to be carried.

• Changeable mood, alternating between laughter and tears.

• Fear of being alone.

• Impatient and hurried.

• Aversion to play.

• Sentimental mood.

• Vertigo with nausea.

• Scalp feels sensitive to touch.

• Head feels hot.

• Headache better from wrapping head up warmly.

• Redness and inflammation of the eyes.

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• Dim vision or blurred vision.

• Pupils dilated or contracted.

• Burning in the eyes.

• Earaches, especially in children.

• Sensation of fullness in the ears.

• Sensitive to sounds.

• Frequent sneezing.

• Nosebleed.

• Dryness of nasal passages.

• Sore throat with difficulty swallowing.

• Rawness in the throat.

• Hoarseness.

• Short, dry cough.

• Cough with gagging and vomiting.

• Rapid, weak pulse.

• Angina-like pains.

• Feeling of weight on chest.

• Appetite:

• Loss of appetite or erratic appetite.

• Thirst increased or decreased.

• Craving for certain foods.

• Aversion to milk.

• Stomach

• Nausea and vomiting.

• Sour eructations.

• Waterbrash.

• Stomach feels distended.

• Abdomen

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• Rumbling in the abdomen.

• Abdomen sensitive to touch.

• Stool

• Diarrhea, often watery and offensive.

• Constipation with hard, difficult stools.

• Stools green or undigested.

• Rectum:

• Tenesmus.

• Prolapsus of the rectum.

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• Burning during urination.

• Involuntary urination.

• Sexual:

• Increased sexual desire.

• Menstrual irregularities.

• Amenorrhea.

• Dysmenorrhea.

• Leucorrhea.

• Nymphomania.

• Back

• Pain in the back, especially in the lumbar region.

• Stiffness of the back.

• Extremities

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• Numbness of limbs.

• Heaviness of limbs.

• Weakness of limbs.

• Skin

• Dry, itchy skin.

• Eruptions, vesicular or papular.

• Urticaria.

• Skin sensitive to touch.

• Sleep

• Sleeplessness, especially in children.

• Restless sleep with frequent waking.

• Nightmares.

• Drowsiness during the day.

• Grinding teeth during sleep.

• Sleeplessness from nervous excitement.

• After eating.

• During teething (in infants).

• From being looked at.

• From pressure.

• From cold.

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• From rubbing.

• From warmth of bed.

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• Similar to Chamomilla and Magnesia Phosphorica (especially in colic and irritability).

• Consider Coffea Cruda for nervous excitement and sleeplessness.

• Complementary: Aconitum (for acute onset of symptoms)

• Antidotes: Camphor, Coffea.

• Follows well: Belladonna.