# Electricitas

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
While Caspari is the au thority for the symptoms caused by electricity, the powerful effect 
exercised on some by the approach of a thunderstorm and the influence of an electric current is well known.  
In those who have be en electrified, there is shaking of the whole body, commencing in the maxillary bones, 
tingling in the parts electrified, and violent burning. Effects of atmospheric electricity and static electricity. 
Dreads approach of thunderstorms. 
General relaxation, sometimes with moral depression and headache. Anxiety, nervous tremors, restlessness, 
palpitations. Relaxation of the nerves and muscles. Las situde and stiffness of the limbs. Heaviness of limbs, 
swelling of parts. Heat in the whole body. 
Loss of the weight of the body, weakness of the parts shaken. Dragging sensations in all the limbs, as far as 
the ends of the fingers and toes, nocturnal shootings in parts that are paralyzed. St. Vitus' dance. Epileptic fits 
hastened and aggravated.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Intense nervous anxiety.
- Nervous tremors.
- Restlessness, anxiety and anguish.
- Fear on the approach 
of a thunderstorm.
- Anxiety, restlessness with palpitations and headaches.
- Internal anguish.
- Violent agitation.
- Timidity.
- Sighs and screams through nervous fear.
- Weeps in paroxysms.
- General depression after a meal.
- Depres sion and weariness, sometimes with giddi ness or drowsiness.
- Ill -
humor.
- Furor.
- Errors in the perception of time.
- Loss of memory.
- Involuntary laughter.
- Insensibility, foolish 
actions.
- Loss of consciousness.
- Intense nervous anxiety.
- Nervous tremors.
- Restlessness, anxiety and anguish.
- Fear on the approach 
of a thunderstorm.
- Anxiety, restlessness with palpitations and headaches.
- Internal anguish.
- Violent agitation.
- Timidity.
- Sighs and screams through nervous fear.
- Weeps in paroxysms.
- General depression after a meal.
- Depres sion and weariness, sometimes with giddi ness or drowsiness.
- Ill -
humor.
- Furor.
- Errors in the perception of time.
- Loss of memory.
- Involuntary laughter.
- Insensibility, foolish 
actions.
- Loss of consciousness.

### Vertigo
- Giddiness, especially on stooping.
- Confusion of head.
- Syncope and tendency to fall down.
- Vision - Clouded vision.
- Objects all appear yellow to the sight.
- Everything appears pale.
- A dark room appears 
to be illuminated.
- Little black spots before right eye.
- Blindness.
- Sight improved (curative symptom).
- COMMENTS - Dr.
- Seward related a number of cases in which the injudicious use of electric baths brought on 
tuberculosis.
- In another case, the chest and arms became stif f and paralyzed.
- A young married woman, who 
had general and local (uterine) electric treatment, complained after it of feeling very heavy, as if she weighed 
a ton.
- One patient after a bath, said his chest and shoulders “felt like marble.” He became tubercu lar and died.
- The 
paralysis caused by electricity was in several cases quickly relieved by Morph -acet., both in the solution and 
in the potencies.

### Head
- Pains in the head, sometimes  drawing.
- Bruise-like pain in occiput.
- Crushing pressure in forehead, as 
from a stone.
- Shootings in right side of head or from vertex to the temple and right side of forehead.
- Tearings 
in the occiput from the nape of the neck to the forehead.
- Painful cram ps in the head.
- Violent pulsations 
(beatings), or else heat throughout the head.
- Disagreeable shaking, most fre quently from behind.
- Pains in the head, sometimes  drawing.
- Bruise-like pain in occiput.
- Crushing pressure in forehead, as 
from a stone.
- Shootings in right side of head or from vertex to the temple and right side of forehead.
- Tearings 
in the occiput from the nape of the neck to the forehead.
- Painful cram ps in the head.
- Violent pulsations 
(beatings), or else heat throughout the head.
- Disagreeable shaking, most fre quently from behind.

### Eyes
- Haggard eyes.
- Wandering and haggard looks.
- Gnawing sensation in left eye or violent dr awing pains, 
extending to forehead.
- Sensation as if the eyes were much sunken.
- Sensation as if something were passing 
out of the eye.
- Aching in the eyes, as from dryness.
- Redness of conjunctiva.
- Inflammation of the eyes.
- Swelling 
of edges of eyelids, at th e external angle.
- Lachrymation, especially of right eye.
- Contraction of pupils, which 
were abnormally dilated.

### Ears
- Pains in the ear.
- Drawing pains from the jaws to the ears.
- Lancinations in right ear, proceeding from the 
neck.
- Pulsations in the ear.
- Redness and heat of the ear.
- Swelling of the interior of the ear.
- Suppuration and 
a small pustule in the auditory duct.
- Vesicles full of acrid serum behind the ear.
- Augmented secre tion of wax.
- Murmuring, sometimes with a sensation as if a flock of wool were before the ears.

### Face
- Bright red.
- Expression of terror.
- Increase of sweat on the face.
- Swelling of the face.
- Violent drawing 
pain above left eyebrow.
- Contraction of the muscles of the face, especially of the mouth.
- Scabby eruption on 
the face, on the arms and over the body.
- Eruption about the mouth and on the chin.
- Large blisters on the 
cheeks.
- Lips cracked, the upper lip puffed out.

### Mouth
- Great dryness of the mouth.
- Augmented secretion of saliva, foam at the mouth.
- Increased excoriation, 
painful, in the interior of right cheek.
- On the palate, vesicles with desquamation of the epidermis.
- Dumbness, 
inability to utter a sound.
- Nose - Tingling or outward pressure in the nose.
- Sneezing.
- Augmented secretion of nasal mucus.
- Discharge, 
on blowing the nose of a liquid like milk, aggravation of preexisting coryza.
- Nosebleed.
- Loss of smell.
- Perspiration - Increased perspiration.
- Excessive nocturnal sweat, in gouty persons without mitigation, with 
anxiety during a storm.

### Throat
- Constant tickling in the throat.
- Pressure on swallowing.
- Difficult deglutition.
- Inflammation of the gullet.
- Tongue - Sensitiveness of the tongue, at the point, which is also red.
- Papillae very prominent.
- Dry tongue, 
charged with a yellow coating.
- Swelling, thickness of the tongue.
- Vesicles on the tongue with excoriation pain.

### Chest
- Constriction of the chest.
- Pains in the chest, sensation of coldness in the left side.
- Chest and shoulders 
feel like marble.
- Palpitations, especially at the approach of a storm.
- Palpitations with fever, headache, or with 
restlessness and vi vid redness of the face.
- Disposition to fall in syncope.
- Painful and rapid, sharp pain 
proceeding from the heart across the chest.
- Kidneys - Sensations as though the bladder were going to burst.
- Augmented secretion of urine.
- Very frequent 
emission of urine.
- Involuntary emission of urine.
- Orangeyellow urine in the morning; during the day, like water 
in which meat has been washed.
- Urine thick, deep -colored, red like blood, abundantly charged with mucus.
- White sediment.
- Discharge of blood with the urine.
- Leucorrhea, at first serous, afterwards thick in pieces of the 
size of a hazelnut.
- Respiration accelerated.
- Feeble and faint respiration.
- Respiration ar rested.
- Dyspnea.
- Oppression of 
the chest.
- Asthma, with palpitations and disposition to syncope.
- Cough, with much tickling in throat, or pressure 
in forehead from within outwards.
- Short, irritable cough.
- Spitting of blood.
- Rough larynx.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Fullness of the stomach after eating the least thing.
- Loathing.
- Abundant saliva.
- Sour taste.
- Heartburn.
- Nausea, after a meal.
- Retching and vomiting with inflammation of throat and cough.
- Vomit ing of 
blood.
- Spasmodic tension and contraction in the abdomen.
- Aching in the abdomen.
- Colic.
- Cutting pains, 
on the approach of a storm, or with diarrhea.
- Darting 
pains from left to right side.
- Shivering in the abdomen dr else burning, sometimes with tension.
- Inflation of the 
abdomen, borborygmi in the abdomen, sometimes with fermentation.
- Increased appetite, great inclination to eat between meals.
- Thirst during febrile shivering.

### Urinary & Genital
- Copious menses, some times with pressure in the rectum.
- Black and thick blood of the menses.
- Appearance of the 
menses (in the electric bath).

### Extremities
- Grievous pains in the limbs, pains in old wounds or in enfeebled bodies from a change of temperature.
- Stiffness of the limbs.
- Paralysis, especially of the inferior limbs .
- Trembling of the limbs, chiefly of those which 
have been shaken, general trembling.
- Springing up of the tendons.
- Convulsions of the limbs.

### Neck & Back
- Difficulty in moving the neck.
- Tingling in a muscle shortened by sup puration.
- Tingling in the vertebral 
column.
- Darting pains in an enlarged gland of the neck.
- Furu nculi on the back and nape of the neck.
- Drawing 
pains across the shoulder blades, as by a thread.
- Burning in the shoulder.

### Skin
- Itching or tingling over the whole body.
- Eruption of small nodosities on the spots touched by electrical 
sparks, eruption like miliary or measles, white vesicles, itch -like eruption at the joints of carbuncles, which 
proceed to suppuration.
- The skin becomes black, wheals on the skin.
- Violent pains and swelling of one of the 
feet which had been frozen twelve years before.

### Sleep
- Great drowsiness.
- Yawning and stretching, sometimes with shuddering over the whole body.
- Profound 
sleep.
- Sleeplessness, with tossing, for long periods.
- Confused and disquieting dreams.