• Principal action on spinal motor nerves and mucous membranes.

• Rheumatic and paralytic complaints.

• Great difficulty in walking; feels weak and unsteady.

• Stiffness of muscles and joints; a sensation of contraction.

• Oversensitive to pain, touch, and noises.

• General feeling of rigidity and inflexibility, both physically and mentally.

• Marked muscular debility and trembling.

• Great prostration and exhaustion, even after slight exertion.

• Symptoms are often one-sided.

• Aggravation from cold and damp weather.

• General sensation of contraction.

• Aching pains in various parts.

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• Angustura Vera acts profoundly on the digestive and nervous systems.

• Suited to individuals with a hypersensitive nervous system.

• Primarily indicated for individuals who are irritable and easily vexed.

• Marked stiffness and soreness, especially in the back and joints.

• General sensation of stiffness, as if bruised, all over the body.

• Pains are aching, drawing, and sometimes burning.

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• ; easily angered by trifles.

• Obstinacy and contradiction; resists advice and suggestions.

• Discontented and dissatisfied; nothing pleases.

• Mental dullness and difficulty concentrating.

• Apprehension and anxiety, especially in the evening.

• Hypersensitivity to criticism.

• Aversion to mental work.

• Impatience and restlessness.

• Morose and taciturn.

• Easily offended.

• Loss of memory.

• Vertigo on rising or moving the head.

• Scalp sensitive to touch.

• , as if strained.

• Photophobia.

• Dim vision.

• Tinnitus; ringing or buzzing in the ears.

• Oversensitivity to noises.

• Dryness of the nasal mucosa.

• Epistaxis (nosebleeds).

• Sore throat with dryness and a sensation of rawness.

• Difficulty swallowing.

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• Difficult and labored breathing.

• Shortness of breath on exertion.

• Cough, dry and hacking, worse at night.

• Palpitations, especially after exertion or excitement.

• Irregular heartbeat.

• Pain in the chest, as if bruised.

• Loss of appetite.

• Nausea and vomiting.

• Acidity and heartburn.

• Craving for coffee.

• Abdominal pain and distension.

• Flatulence.

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• Ineffectual urging to stool.

• Sensation as if rectum is not completely emptied after stool.

• Frequent urination, with burning sensation.

• Diminished sexual desire.

• Stiffness and pain in the joints, especially in the back and limbs.

• Crackling in all joints.

• Articulation of jaw, in masseter muscles, as if fatigued by chewing too much.

• Cramp-pain on the zygomatic arch.

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• Tetanus-like symptoms.

• Caries of long bones; pain in the bones, especially at night.

• Rheumatic pains, worse in cold, damp weather.

• Great weakness and heaviness in the limbs.

• Trembling of the hands and feet.

• Difficulty walking, with a feeling of unsteadiness.

• Sciatica, with shooting pains down the leg.

• Pain as if muscles were bruised.

• Skin feels tight and drawn.

• Sleep restless and disturbed.

• Vivid dreams.

• Sleeplessness.

• Cold, damp weather; motion; touch; pressure; evening; after eating; least exertion.

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• Rest; warmth; dry weather; lying down.

• Nux Vomica (often follows Angustura Vera well, especially in cases of irritability and constipation).

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• Nux Vomica, Bryonia, Rhus Toxicodendron.

• Camphor, Nux Vomica.

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• Camphor.

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• Nux Vomica (irritability, constipation), Bryonia (stiffness, pain worse with motion), Rhus Tox (stiffness, pain better with motion), Causticum (paralysis, stiffness), Strychninum (tetanus).

• Useful in cases of over-medication with patent medicines.

• , particularly after exertion.

• Symptoms are often associated with digestive disturbances and spinal irritation.

• Great prostration, even from slight exertion.

• Aversion to open air.

• Tendency to catch cold easily.

• Increased susceptibility to pain.

• Symptoms often one-sided.

• Irritable and easily angered; trifles provoke.

• Discontented, uneasy, and restless.

• Aversion to mental work; difficulty concentrating.

• Anxiety and apprehension, especially in the evening.

• Depressed mood with a tendency to dwell on unpleasant thoughts.

• Oversensitivity to noise and external impressions.

• Easily startled.

• Impatient.

• Fear of imaginary things.

• A tendency to be quarrelsome.

• Weakness of memory.

• Indecision.

• Melancholy.

• Sensitive and easily offended.

• Morose mood.

• Frontal headache with pressure in the forehead.

• Vertigo on rising or moving the head.

• Heaviness and fullness in the head.

• Scalp feels tight and sensitive to touch.

• Headache as if the head would burst.

• Throbbing headache.

• Dull, aching headache in the occiput.

• Photophobia (sensitivity to light).

• Dim vision.

• Pain in the eyes on moving them.

• Lachrymation, with burning sensation.

• Diplopia (double vision).

• Styes on the eyelids.

• Hypersensitivity to noise.

• Buzzing in the ears.

• Impaired hearing.

• Pain behind the ears.

• Dryness of the nasal passages.

• Frequent sneezing.

• Coryza with watery discharge.

• Epistaxis (nosebleed).

• Loss of smell.

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Sensation of a lump in the throat.

• Hoarseness.

• Shortness of breath, especially on exertion.

• Oppression of the chest.

• Dry, hacking cough.

• Cough worse at night.

• Difficult breathing.

• Tightness in the chest.

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• Palpitations, especially after eating or excitement.

• Weakness of the heart.

• Rapid pulse.

• Intermittent pulse.

• Angina-like pains.

• Pain in the chest on coughing.

• Sensation of constriction in the chest.

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• Bitter taste in the mouth.

• Nausea and vomiting.

• Ineffectual urging for stool.

• Diarrhea alternating with constipation.

• Abdomen feels bloated and distended.

• Pain in the stomach after eating.

• Dyspepsia with flatulence and eructations.

• Anal itching and burning.

• Burning in the stomach.

• Waterbrash.

• Hiccoughs.

• Colic.

• Rumbling in the abdomen.

• Offensive flatus.

• Hemorrhoids.

• Prolapsus of the rectum.

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• Frequent urging to urinate.

• Burning sensation during urination.

• Scanty urine.

• Turbid urine.

• Involuntary urination.

• Pain in the kidneys.

• Sediment in urine.

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• Increased sexual desire.

• Soreness and pain in the testicles (males).

• Increased menstrual flow (females).

• Dysmenorrhea.

• Leucorrhea.

• Impotence.

• Sterility.

• Aching pains in the joints.

• Weakness and trembling of the limbs.

• Sciatica with shooting pains down the leg.

• Coldness of the hands and feet.

• Numbness and tingling in the fingers and toes.

• Cramps in the calves.

• Stiffness of the neck and shoulders.

• Pain in the bones.

• Gouty pains.

• Rheumatism.

• Contraction of muscles.

• Skin dry and itching.

• Eruptions with burning and itching.

• Urticaria (hives).

• Boils.

• Carbuncles.

• Sweat profuse, especially at night.

• Restless sleep.

• Sleeplessness.

• Frequent waking.

• Anxious dreams.

• Vivid dreams.

• Dreams of business.

• Dreams of falling.

• Unrefreshing sleep.

• Motion.

• Cold.

• Damp weather.

• Touch.

• Eating.

• Morning.

• Evening.

• Night.

• Exertion.

• Better (>): Rest.

• Warmth.

• Lying down.

• Open air.

• Gentle motion initially.

• Arsenicum Album (anxiety, restlessness).

• Sulphur (skin conditions, burning).

• Lycopodium (abdominal bloating, right-sided symptoms).