– Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.
Darnel
Region
Neuro-musculature (of co-ordination)
Nerves of brain and spine esp, posterior spinal roots
Less on blood (unlike Sec.)
Worse
Wet weather
Morning
Better
Eating; dinner
Free micturition
Narcoto-irritant. Ataxic-paralytic
Action :
A narcoto-irritant (like Op., Zinc.). Severe affections of brain and spinal marrow. Ataxia. (Paralysis).
Ataxic ramifications of Sec., but less spasmodic (like Naph.), titillating, sweaty and enervating than it. Not putrescent.
Dysphagia, Dysphonia, Dysphasia, Dyskinesia, Dysgraphia, Dysgrapia, Dyspraxia, Dysphoria, Dyspepsia, Dyspnea (Op.,Onos.).
Its toxic effects include : epilepsy, insanity, ataxia, incoordination, vomiting, irritation of mucous membranes; rarely, gangrene (because it contains some ergot infestation).
Universal spasmodic trembling with drowsiness (Gels.) and cold limbs. Spasmodic motions of arms and legs (a chorea). Trembling of limbs.
Prostration and restlessness; a general uneasiness, malaise, a sense of intoxication, lameness, torpor, exhaustion. Paralysis with restlessness. paralysis agitans.
A feeling of fullness in internal parts. Perhaps no twitching or numbness.
Select Particulars
Mind : Professional (or occupational neuroses). Anxious restlessness. Depressed. Delirium – wild, raving, frenzied, tremens. Confused, stupefied, after inability of hand to write (writer’s cramp). Failing of memory. Insanity. Loss of judgement. Distraction of mind. Cretinism.
Head : Vertigo, reeling, staggering (on rising), must close eyes, worse sitting, motion, walking; with nausea, and aphonia. Head feels full, heavy, intoxicated as if. cephalagia. Stitching pains.
Meningitis rheumatica, cerebralis (Hell.); narcoto-irritation of brain; with trembling (Arg-n.).
Eyes : Pupils dilated. Scintillation before eyes. Vision: dim; uncertain; lost.
Ears : Feel stopped with wool. Tingling in. Noises like playing of drums and cymbals; roaring. Meniere’s disease. Deafness.
Nose: epistaxis.
Face : Red, hot, puffy, pale.
Mouth : Tongue : first white; then back; tremulous. Burning in mouth and throat. Taste repulsive, offensive.
Speech : Difficult, cannot pronounce a whole word; indistinct; lost.
Throat : Paralysis of deglutition.
Alimentary : Loss of appetite (opp.Sec.). Irritation / inflammation of the whole alimentary canal with fever. Gastric toubles () eating (pressing). Pain in pit of stomach and abdomen, (>) eating. Uneasiness in epigastrium, with waterbrash-offensive or of a bile taste. Eructations of a peculiar nasty taste. Nausea, vomiting. Abdomen distended (with gas). Gastro-enteritis. Severe colic, with purging. Obstinate constipation, copious micturition.
Respiratory : Difficult breathing (Hay asthma). (Whooping cough). Stitching pain in sides. Pulse small, irregular.
Locomotor : Loss of power (a sense of lameness) in limbs. Trembling of all limbs; of hands (when grasping, in paralysis) (