Acalypha indica (indian nettle)

* A drug having a marked action on the alimentary canal and respiratory organs.

* It is indicated in incipient phthisis, with hard, racking cough, bloody expectoration, arterial haemorrhage, but no febrile disturbance.

* Very weak in the morning, gains strength during day.

* Progressive emaciation.

* All pathological haemorrhages having notably a morning aggravation.

Chest

- Cough dry, hard, followed by hoemoptysis; worse in morning and at night.

- Constant and severe pain in chest.

- Blood bright red and not profuse in morning; dark and clotted in afternoon.

- Pulse soft and compressible.

- Burning in pharynx, oesophagus, and stomach.

Abdomen

- Burning in intestines.

- Spluttering diarrhoea with forcible expulsion of noisy flatus, bearing down pains and tenesmus.

- Rumbling distention, and griping pain in abdomen.

- Rectal haemorrhage; worse in morning.

Skin

- Jaundice.

- Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like swellings.

Modalities

- Worse in morning.

Source book:

HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA

By William BOERICKE