Cimex lectularius
Acanthia lectularia · Bed bug,Cimex lectularius,Acanthia lectularia · Animal
Cimex is most appropriate for those who are prey to anxiety, especially after a chill or drinking alcohol. They may adopt a crouching position, desiring to creep into their own body because they are unable to curl themselves up sufficiently. A chilly stagemay develop prior to fever, during which they may be violent, wanting to tear everything to pieces or clenching their hands in rage.
Cimex is typically prescribed for certain types of joint or muscle aches accompanied by a strong compulsion to stretch and, sometimes, chills and fever. Muscles and tendons such as hamstrings may feel too short for the limbs.
Key symptoms
- Pains in all joints as if tendons were too short
- Hamstrings feel too short; flexors mostly affected
- Weariness with inclination to stretch
- Intermittent fever with thirst only during apyrexia
- Chilliness of whole body; sensation of cold wind on knees
- Violent headache caused by drinking
- Musty, offensive sweat
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Bedbug (CIMEX - ACANTHIA)
Of use in intermittent fever, with weariness and inclination to stretch. Hamstrings feel too short (Ammon mur). Flexors mostly affected. Sensation of retraction of arm tendons. Stretching.
Head
Violent headache, caused by drinking. Great rage; vehement at beginning of chilly stage. Would like to tear everything to pieces. Pain under right frontal bone.
Female
Shooting pain from vagina up towards left ovary.
Fever
Chilliness of whole body. Sensation as of wind blowing on knees. Pains in all joints, as if tendons were too short, especially knee-joints. Chill; worse lying down. Thirst during apyrexia, but little during chilly stage; still less during hot stage, and none during sweating. Musty, offensive sweat.
Bowels
Constipation, feces dry and in small balls (Op; Plumb; Thuj) and hard. Ulcer of rectum.
Dose
Sixth to two hundredth attenuation.
Acanthia lectularia. Cimex lectularius. Bedbug. N. O. Hemiptera. Tincture or trituration.
Clinical
Constipation. Cough. Hæmorrhoids. Intermittent fever. Liver, complaints of. Muscles, contraction of. Seminal emissions. Skin, affections of. Yawning.
Characteristics
Cimex is an ancient remedy for intermittent fever. A characteristic symptom is: "Weariness and 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. (Nash records the following cure by Dr. Brewster, of Syracuse. After driving a fractious horse 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 in consequence. It settled finally into what appeared likely to be permanent contraction of the lower limbs. No remedy relieved till Dr. Brewster remembered a case of intermittent fever that he had cured twenty years …
Chill, Fever, and Sweat
During chilliness all her joints are painful, as if tendons were too short.
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