• Primarily affects the brain and nervous system with pronounced gastro-intestinal disturbances.

• Symptoms develop with sudden violence.

• Great prostration, even to the point of collapse.

• Convulsions often linked to digestive upset.

• Particularly suited for children and young individuals.

• Marked problems digesting milk.

• Poor circulation and persistently cold extremities.

• Anguish, crying, and expressions of discontent, especially in children during dentition or summer illnesses.

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• Mental confusion and dullness.

• Anxiety and restlessness, particularly in children.

• Irritability and peevishness, easily angered.

• Apprehension and fearfulness, often without clear cause.

• Disinclination to play or be touched.

• Aversion to being looked at or approached.

• Loss of memory and difficulty concentrating.

• Child is fretful, cross, and cries easily.

• Extreme restlessness, cannot remain still.

• Vertigo, especially in children when attempting to sit or stand.

• Forehead feels constricted.

• Headache accompanied by nausea and vomiting.

• Pupils are dilated, with a staring gaze.

• Eyes may turn upwards during convulsions.

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Difficult and labored breathing.

• Gasping for air, especially during convulsions.

• Rattling sounds in the chest.

• Back arches during coughing.

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• Weak and rapid pulse.

• Coldness of the extremities.

• Cyanosis, particularly around the mouth.

• Loss of appetite, aversion to food.

• Violent vomiting, projectile vomiting of curdled milk or cheesy substance.

• Stomach extremely sensitive to touch.

• Intense nausea and retching.

• Frequent urination.

• Incontinence of urine.

• Enuresis, particularly at night.

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• Stiffness of the neck.

• Trembling of the limbs.

• Weakness and heaviness in the limbs.

• Convulsions, with clenched thumbs and arched back.

• Spasmodic movements of the limbs.

• Skin cold and clammy.

• Cyanotic appearance, particularly around the mouth.

• Sleeplessness due to restlessness and anxiety.

• Starting in sleep.

• Involuntary stools during sleep.

• In summer, during dentition, from milk, heat, exertion, morning.

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• Open air, rest, gentle motion.

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• Compare: Athamantha (confused head, vertigo better lying down, bitter taste and saliva, icy cold hands and feet); Antimon crudum; Calcarea Carbonica; Arsenicum album; Cicuta virosa; Belladonna (convulsions).

• Complementary: Calcarea Carbonica.

• Antidotes: Vegetable acids. Camphor.