- Cimex is an ancient remedy for intermittent fever.
- Nash recorded the fol lowing cure by Dr. BrewsterofSyracuse.
- After driving a fractious horse🌿 HorseMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. that tried to run away over a very rough road, a man was so bruised and sprained about the buttocks and legs that he was confined to the house for a long time.
- It settled finally into what appeared likely to be permanent contraction of the lower limbs.
- No remedy relieved until Dr. Brewster remembered a case of intermittent fever that he had cured twenty years before, being guided by this symptom.
- Cimex 600c (Jenichen) promptly cured.
- Characteristic weariness a nd inclination to stretch.
- The flexors are most affected, pains in all joints as if tendons were contracted and too short, every motion or stretching of arms or legs causes tightening pain in them.
- Hamstrings feel too short (Am-m.).
- Sensation of retraction of arm tendons.
- The whole right side is especially affected.
- COMMENTS-Tertian and quartan intermittents.
- Musty smelling sweats.
- Night-sweats.
- Heat with gagging, esophagus feels con stricted.
- Before chill, thirst and heaviness in legs, less thirst with chill, still less with dry heat, none with sweat.
- Chill commences with clenching of hands and violent raging.
- Pains in all joints as if tendons contracted during chill.
- Sensation as of a cold wind blowing on knees.
- After the chill, thirst, but drinking causes violent headache, tickling in larynx causing dry, continuous cough.
- Gagging and belching at end of cough.
- Urging to stool.
- Hard stool, in small balls.
- Discharges of a small piece of white🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. stool, then rectum closes firmly.
- Stools with hemorrhoidal sufferings.
- Incontinence of urine.
- Hot urine, brown or red sediment.
- Urticarious eruption.
- Irresistible sleepi ness.
- Frequent yawning.
- Frequent erections i n morning, seminal emissions.
- A W. K. Choudhury related a case of intermittent (quotidian) cured with Cimex 30c, the chiefindicationsbeing: “Chill slight, thirst some days, none other days, shiverings, passed water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. twice during chill worse by lying down increase of cough if he drinks water during chill.”
