ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIN (A.C.T.H.) 1M

Action of Medicine:

• Forgetful with lack of concentration. Cannot remember names.
• Congestion and headache. Can sleep only after 1 a.m. Thinning of the skin.
• Nausea, especially from milk or fats, and when traveling on a bus. Food tastes unpleasant.
• Constriction in the pit of the stomach, with the sensation that food is stuck there. Pain around the umbilicus.
• Throat dry with the sensation of swollen tonsils. Pain at the back of the throat as from a splinter ameliorated by drinking a little cold water and aggravated by movement. Tickling at the back of the throat worse in a hot room. Cough, on waking, worse from 10 a.m. to midday and with cold air. Sputum frothy. Sighing in sleep.
• Skin is dirty and discharges pus from eruptions. Pruritus of the hands and knees is worse from the heat of the bed. Profuse sweating of the feet.
• Dryness of the palms of the hands, and of the nail beds. Fine, powdery exfoliation on the back of the fingers.
• Cervical pain, Pain in the knee. Weakness of the left leg and buttocks. Ankles swollen.
• Worse- From coughing, from walking, from any motion, from standing, in the morning. Better- in the afternoon.

Reference: Boericke’s New Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica with Repertory