(Marking Nut) The Anacardium patient is found mostly among the neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; IMPAIRED MEMORY, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions. Intermittency of symptoms. Fear of examination in students. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. SENSATION OF A PLUG in various parts- eyes, rectum, bladder, etc.; also OF A BAND. Empty feeling in stomach; EATING TEMPORARILY RELIEVES ALL DISCOMFORT. This is a sure indication, often verified. Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison-Oak.
Mind
Fixed ideas. Hallucinations; THINKS HE IS POSSESSED OF TWO PERSONS OR WILLS. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued. Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with TENDENCY TO USE VIOLENT LANGUAGE. BRAIN-FAG. IMPAIRED MEMORY. ABSENT MINDEDNESS. VERY EASILY OFFENDED. Malicious; seems bent on wickedness. Lack of confidence in himself or others. Suspicious (HYOS.). Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead. Senile dementia. Absence of all moral restraint.
Head
Vertigo. Pressing pain, AS FROM A PLUG; worse after mental exertion-in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; BETTER DURING A MEAL. Itching and little boils on scalp.
Eyes
Pressure LIKE A PLUG on upper orbit. Indistinct vision. OBJECTS APPEAR TOO JAR OFF.
Ears
Pressing in the ears as from a plug. Hard of hearing.
Nose
Frequent sneezing. SENSE OF SMELL PERVERTED. Coryza with palpitation, especially in the aged.
Face
Blue rings around eyes. Face pale.
Mouth
Painful vesicles; fetid odor. Tongue feels swollen, impeding speech and motion, with saliva in mouth. Burning around lips as from pepper.
Stomach
Weak digestion, with fullness and distention. EMPTY FEELING IN STOMACH. Eructation, nausea, vomiting. EATING RELIEVES THE ANACARDIUM DYSPEPSIA. Apt to choke when eating or drinking. Swallows food and drinks hastily.
Abdomen
PAIN AS IF DULL PLUG WERE PRESSED INTO INTESTINES. Rumbling, pinching, and griping.
Rectum
Bowels inactive. INEFFECTUAL DESIRE; RECTUM SEEMS POWERLESS, AS IF PLUGGED UP; spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani; even soft stool passes with difficulty.ITCHING AT ANUS; MOISTURE FROM RECTUM. Haemorrhage during stool. Painful haemorrhoids.
Male
Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams. Prostatic discharge during stool.
Female
Leucorrhoea, with soreness and itching. Menses scanty.
Respiratory
Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug. Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air. Cough excited by talking, in children, after fit of temper. Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput.
Heart
Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart region. Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches.
Back
Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight. Stiffness at nape of neck.
Extremities
Neuralgia in thumb. Paralytic weakness. Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged. Cramps in calves. Pressure as from a plug in the glutei. Warts on palms of hands. Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption.
Sleep
Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights. Anxious dreams.
Skin
INTENSE ITCHING eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; SWELLING, urticaria; eruption like that of Poison-Oak. (XEROPHYL.; GRINDEL.; CROTON.) Lichen planus; neurotic eczema. Warts on hands. Ulcer formation on forearm.
Modalities
WORSE, on application of hot water. BETTER, from eating. When lying on side, from rubbing.
Relationship
Antidote: GRINDELEIA; COFFEA; JUGLANS; RHUS; EUCALYPTUS. Compare: ANACARD. OCCIDENTALE (cashew nut) (erysipelas, vesicular facial eruptions), anaesthetic variety of leprosy; warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet). RHUS; CYPRIPED.; CHELIDON.; XEROPHYL. Platina follows well. CEREUS SERPENTINA(swearing).
Dose
Sixth to two hundredth potency.