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Action of Medicine:

• For the bad effects of: onanism, sexual excesses, loss of vital fluids; chagrin, mortification; unmerited insults; indignation, with vexation or reserved displeasure.
• Mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments; post-surgical operations; stinging, smarting pains, like the cutting of a knife.
• Styes, chalazae on eyelids or upper lids, one after another, leaving hard nodosities in their wake.
• Teeth turn black, show dark streaks through them; cannot be kept clean; crumble decay on edges; scorbutic cachexia.
• Urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours; in young married women; after coition; after difficult labor.
• Croupy cough in winter alternating with sciatica in summer.
• Arthritic nodosities of joints, especially of the fingers; inflammation of phalanges with sweating and suppuration.
• Aggravation from mental affections; from anger, indignation, grief, mortification; loss of fluids; tobacco; onanism; sexual excesses; from the least touch on affected parts.

Reference: Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica with Bowel Nosodes by H.C. Allen.