Write down the child symptoms of sanicula aqua.

Sanicula Aqua — Child Symptoms (Homeopathic Materia Medica)

Compiled from Boericke, Henry C. Allen (Keynotes), C.M. Boger (Synoptic Key), and J.H. Clarke (Dictionary).

Mind & Behaviour

1. Headstrong, obstinate: cries and kicks; cross and irritable, but quickly alternates with laughter (a striking contradiction: rage → laughter within moments).
2. Does not want to be touched; averse to being looked at.
3. Dread of downward motion (a keynote shared with Borax) — child cries when laid down, when the crib is lowered, or when carried downstairs.
4. Restless, constantly changing occupation: picks up one toy, drops it, picks up another.
5. Grows very violent if his opinion is contradicted.
6. Wakes at night screaming, but cannot tell why (or says “I don’t know”).
7. Cries during sleep, sometimes without waking.

Appearance & Constitution

1. Looks old, dirty, greasy and brownish: face and body have a prematurely aged, unwashed look even when freshly washed.
2. Skin about the neck wrinkled, hangs in folds (compare Abrot., Iod., Nat-m., Sars.) — a marasmic, “dried-up” look.
3. Progressive emaciation despite a reasonably good appetite; child wastes while eating.
4. Tall and very thin, with blue-green eyes: (clinical keynote from the Heuristic cases).
5. Body (and sometimes the stool/urine) smells like old cheese: a strong, characteristic foul body odour.
6. Rachitic tendency: rickets; delayed dentition and fontanelle closure.

Sweat

1. Profuse sweat on the occiput and neck during sleep, wetting the pillow “far around” (compare Calc., Sil.).
2. Foul, sticky foot-sweat: chafes the toes, stiffens socks, rots the shoes.
3. Cold, clammy hands and feet.

Thermals & Sleep

1. Kicks off the covers at night, even in the coldest weather (compare Hep., Sulph.) — yet often lacks vital heat.
2. Sleep is disturbed, with the crying/screaming episodes noted above.

Head & Scalp

1. Profuse, scaly dandruff.
2. Soreness behind the ears; eruptions and rawness in the retro-auricular folds.
3. Lachrymation in cold air, or from cold applications to the face.

Mouth & Teeth

1. Tongue large, flabby; takes the imprint of the teeth.
2. Aphthae (oral thrush/ulcers) — common in the marasmic child.
3. Teething troubles; dentition delayed or difficult.

Throat

Thick, ropy, tenacious mucus in the throat — child hawks and gags to clear it.

Stomach & Cravings

1. Craves bacon, and ice-cold milk.
2. Aversion to many foods, yet wastes despite eating — “assimilation gone wrong.”

Stool & Rectum

1. Constipation with a stool of one large, heavy, impacted mass— hard as a ball, requires great effort; even soft stool is passed with difficulty (lack of rectal power).
2. Chronic diarrhoea in poorly nourished children; stools often changeable in character.
3. Stools may have the same “old cheese” / musty odour as the body.

Extremities

1. Cracks in the feet (especially heels) — painful in cold weather.
2. Cold, clammy hands and feet noted above.
3. Burning of the soles of the feet at night (children kick covers off partly for this reason).

Skin

1. Skin dirty-looking, brownish, greasy; wrinkled folds about neck.
2. Recurrent eruptions behind the ears.
3. General tendency to chafing and rawness in skin folds.