Scrofulous, rheumatic, gonorrhœal, and syphilitic patients. Acts especially on skin, glands and genito-urinary organs, especially testicles. A remedy of much importance in disturbances of sleep, and neuralgic pains in various parts. Many of these pains are relieved by perspiration. Muscles relaxed or twitching. Great emaciation. Great sleepiness. Distant pulsation in whole body.

Head.--Boring pain in temples. Confused feeling; better in open air. Eruption on occiput at base of hair, moist, pustular sensitive, itching.

Eyes.--Heat in eyes and sensitive to air; must close them. Chronic blepharitis, with sore and swollen meibomain glands. Iritis, great sensitiveness to cold. Flickering before eyes. Pustular conjunctivitis, with tinea capitis; eyes inflamed and protruding.

Face.--White blisters on face and nose, as if burned by sun. Swelling of submaxillary glands, with hard tubercles, throbbing, aggravated on being touched. Pain in right side of face to eye, ear and temple; better, holding cold water in mouth.

Teeth.--Ache; worse, at night and from tobacco. Teeth feel too long.

Stomach.--After eating, weakness in all limbs and pulsation in arteries.

Male.--Ilio-scrotal neuralgia. Testicles indurated with bruised feeling. Swelling of scrotum (Orchitis). Right half only. Troubles from suppressed gonorrhœa. Violent erections with stitches in urethra. Testicles hang heavy or retracted, with pain along spermatic cord; worse, right side.

Urinary.--Tingling in urethra lasting some time after urinating. Frequent, scanty urination; burning at orifice. Interrupted flow. Urethra feels constricted. Urine emitted drop by drop. Inability to pass all the urine; dribbling after urinating. Pain worse at night, pain along the spermatic cord. Commencing stricture.

Skin.--Red, burning, vesicular, scaly, scabby. Itches terribly; worse, washing in cold water; worse face and hands and scalp around occiput. Glands hot, painful, swollen; worse inguinal glands. Glandular indurations and tumors of breast. Varicose ulcers.

Modalities.--Better, in open air. Worse, at night, and warmth of bed (washing in cold water); new moon--(monthly aggravation).

Relationship.--Compare: Clematis vitalba (varicose and other ulcers); Sil; Staph; Petrol; Oleand; Sarsap; Canth; Phos ac; Pulsat.

Antidotes: Bryon; Camph.

Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.

REGION: MUCOUS MEMBRANES: EYES. URETHRA. GLANDS: TESTES. Epididymis. Mammæ. Ovaries. Skin; scalp. Occiput.

WORSE: GONORRHŒA. Heat of bed. NIGHT. Cold washing. Light. Moon, < and > with (Phel. Tarn.).Mercury.

BETTER: Sweat.

Flaccid muscles. VERY HARD, PAINFULLY SWOLLEN GLANDS; TESTES (r). Burning, itching, stinging, crawling pains. .................... Indifference. Chronic conjunctivitis. Iritis. Lachrymation. Urine flows by starts, or dribbles; strains out a few drops, then full stream follows. Stricture (Con.). Mucus in urine. Swelled inguinal glands and spermatic cord; with cutting, sore pains. Orchitis. Loathes coition. Full, heavy, sensitive breasts; outward darts in. Skin itches violently, with profuse desquamation. Vesicles. Pustules. Corroding eruptions; ending in flat, eating ulcers; with thick crusts and eczema; < occiput and lower legs. Sleepiness.

Complementary: Merc.
Related: Pho. Rhod. Stap.

Clematis erecta
[Clem.]

Mind.-- Sadness, and fear of impending misfortunes. Morose discontent.

Head.-- Boring pain in temples. Moist vesicles and excoriation on occiput.

Eyes.-- Inflamed, with profuse lachrymation. Inflammation of iris. Biting, smarting in margins of lids when closing eyes. Stitches in angles of. Extreme photophobia.

Face.-- Pale, sickly countenance. Moist eruption on it, starts with a stitching pain. White, sticking blisters on, and on nose, as from sun burn. Cancer of lips. Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

Teeth.-- Stitching and jerking drawing toothache, when lying in a horizontal position at night, driving him to despair. Worse: Smoking.

Abdomen.-- Swelling, and induration, with twitching pain in inguinal glands.

Urine.-- Increased discharge of. Discharge of purulent urine. Stopped, of discharged drop by drop, from narrowing of urethra.

Sexual Organs.-- Painfully swollen and indurated testes. - Thickened scrotum. Aversion to coition, as after excessive sexual indulgence.

Back.-- Neck: Encircled by an itching pimply eruption having purulent tips, with soreness and rawness after scratching. Moist eruption on, extending up to occiput.

Chest.-- Swelled and indurated mammae. Cancer of mammae.

Upper Extremities.-- Swollen axillary glands. Spreading vesicles on the hands and fingers. Worse by cold water.

Lower Extremities.-- Scaly, crusty tetter on thighs or legs.

Generalities.-- Extraordinary emaciation. Flaccidity of all muscles. Twitching of muscles. Vibration though entire body after lying down.

Tissues.-- Glands painfully swollen and indurated.

Skin.-- Crawling, throbbing and burning in ulcers, with sticking in their edges when touched. Chronic, humid herpes itching intolerably from warmth of bed and after washing. The painful, non - itching, tettery eruption over entire body is red and moist during the increasing, but pale and dry during the waning moon. Scaly herpes with thick crusts. Itching, moist eruption spreads by a corrosive ichor with redness, heat and swelling of skin.

Sleep.-- Day sleepiness with nightly sleeplessness.

Fever.-- Pulse: Excited, with throbbing in all blood vessels. Chill: With shuddering, then sweat without previous heat. Shivering c. every time he uncovers. Heat: Dry, with general hot feeling, only at night. Sweat: Profuse at nights, most toward morning, with aversion to uncovering.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Bry., Graphs, Merc., RHOD., Rhus-t.