Electricitas
Imponderable
Electricitas suits individuals who are profoundly sensitive to electrical storms and currents, with marked anxiety, tremors, and anguish. Injudicious use of electric baths can cause phthisis, chest stiffness, and paralysis. Phosphorus is the best antidote to effects of storms; Morphine acetate antidotes the electrical paralysis.
Key symptoms
- Nervous tremors, anxiety, fear, and restlessness on approach of a thunderstorm
- Violent headaches with palpitation
- Swelling of parts
- Feeling very heavy as if weighing a ton after electric bath
- Chest and shoulders feeling like marble after electric treatment
- Restlessness, anguish, timidity, and internal anxiety
- Tears, sighing, and involuntary laughter
Worse (aggravation)
- Approach of a thunderstorm
- Electric baths or current exposure
Electricity. The effects of atmospheric electricity and static electricity. Attenuations are made from sugar of milk saturated with the current.
Clinical
Chorea. Headache. Hysteria. Paralysis. Rheumatism.
Characteristics
Caspari is the authority for the symptoms caused by electricity, but every one knows the powerful effect exercised on some persons by the approach of a thunderstorm, and the influence of an electric current. Nervous tremors; anxiety; fear; restlessness, anxiety, and anguish; violent headaches; palpitation; swelling of parts, are among the most prominent symptoms. Dr. Seward (Med. Adv., xxvi. 150) has related a number of cases in which the injudicious use of electric baths brought on phthisis. In another case the chest and arms became stiff and paralysed. 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 phthisical …
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