Anacardium orientale

Common name: marking nut.

Excessive anger at slight offence, breaking out in personal violence (Nux-V., Sulph.). (R.).

Fixed ideas; that he is double; that there is no reality in anything, all appears like a dream; and that the mind and body are separated (G.).

MALICIOUSNESS (Ars., Bell., Canth., Cupr., Hep., Hyos., Lach., Nux-V., Stram.).

Imagines that he hears voices afar off (Hyos.) (D.).

CURSING AND SWEARING (Ars., Bell., Cann-I., Canth., Hyos., Lyc., Nit-Ac., Nux-V., Stram.).

VACILLATING (Ign., Lyc., Puls.) (B.).

LOSS OF MEMORY (Ambr., Arg-N., Ars., Bar-C., Bufo, Caust., Cocc., Con., Glon., Hell., Hyos., Kali-P., Lach., Lyc., Med., Merc., Nit-Ac., Nux-M., Phos-Ac., Phos., Plat., Plb., Sep., Verat.).

He fears demons, is suspicious, endeavours to escape, refuses to eat and fears being poisoned (Bl.).

WHEN WALKING, FEELS AS IF SOME ONE WERE PURSUING; SUSPECTS EVERYONE AROUND, AND IS CONSTANTLY APPREHENDING TROUBLE FROM EVERYTHING, WHICH GIVES HIM NO PEACE (G.).

Lack of confidence in himself and others.

FEELS AS THOUGH HE HAD TWO WILLS, ONE COMMANDING HIM TO DO WHAT THE OTHER FORBIDS (A.).

Crampish pains in the muscles (Cup., Mag-P., Sec.).

Ugly, irritable (Cham., Nux-V., Stram.) (N.).

Paralytic weakness (Cocc., Plb., Sep.) (Br.).

Contraction of the joints.

BRAIN-FAG (Kali-P., Phos-Ac., Sil.) (Br.).

SENSATION OF A BAND OR HOOP AROUND THE PARTS.

Bad effects of over-use of the mind (Kali-P., Nux-V., Phos.) (F.).

PAIN IN DIFFERENT PARTS, AS IF A PLUG HAD ENTERED.

Has unpleasant dreams of fire (Ars., Hep.), being near dead bodies (Calc., Mag-M., Thuj.) and tombs (Bl.).

Mental exertion brings on a tearing headache, the pains being situated mostly in the forehead and back part of the head (F.).

Trembling debility and paralytic weakness (Gels., Kali-P., Lach., Phos., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Zinc.).

The knees feel paralyzed (F.).

Has a feeling, as though the knees were bandaged tightly (F.).

Incomplete paralysis of the voluntary muscles (Bl.).

DIMINUTION OF THE SENSES (SMELL, SIGHT AND HEARING).

Loss of comprehension, with confusion and empty feeling in the head (R.).

Liability to catch cold, and sensitiveness to the draft of air (Bell., Hep., Rumx., Psor., Sil).

Palpitation of the heart, associated with pericarditis, especially of a rheumatic character; there are stitching, sticking pains referred to the parts (Bl.).

Periodicity of symptoms (Ars., Kali-B., Nat-M., Sulph.).

The eruption of Anacardium is analogous to that of variola (T.).

Warty excrescences, with thickened epidermis (D.).

Wheals, exuding a viscid, yellowish fluid (Rhus-T.) (D.).

Intense itching and pustular eruptions; parts swollen, with burning pains (D.).

DERMATITIS (Canth., Ran-B., Rhus-T., Sulph.) (B.).

Warts on palms of hands (Nat-M.) (A.).

Itching of the skin, worse from scratching (Rhus-T.).

White, herpetic spots (C.).

Tasteless or sour eructations (D.).

GREAT DESIRE FOR STOOL, BUT WITH THE EFFORT THE DESIRE PASSES AWAY WITHOUT EVACUATION; RECTUM SEEMS POWERLESS, PARALYZED, WITH SENSATION AS IF PLUGGED UP (A.).

Can't evacuate, even a soft stool (Alum., Plat., Sep.) (B.).

Hæmorrhage during stool. Painful hæmorrhoids (Br.).

GASTRIC PAIN, RELIEVED BY EATING (Brom., Graph., Kali-B., Med., Phos., Sep., Stann.), BUT AGAIN WORSE IN 3 HOURS (B.).

Pain around the navel, as if a blunt plug were squeezed into the intestines (N.).

Faint feeling in the stomach, one or two hours after eating, extending to the spine (D.).

Violent gastralgia, and urging to stool, which passes off on going to stool (D.).

Symptoms are prone to go from right to left (Lyc.; left to right-Lach., Rhus-T.) (A.).

Swallows food and drink hastily (A.).

ALL SYMPTOMS ARE RELIEVED BY EATING, BUT THEY RETURN AND CONTINUE UNTIL THE PATIENT EATS AGAIN (D.).

Many symptoms appear after eating, while more of them appear during dinner.

Vertigo, as if turning in a circle, aggravated from stooping (Bell., Calc., Caust., Graph., Lach., Nux-V., Puls., Sulph.) (R.).

Vomiting of ingesta, during pregnancy, ameliorated by eating (R.).

Very faint, on going upstairs (C.).

Male sexual organs: Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions, without dreams; prostatic discharge during stool (Br.).

AGGRAVATION: When lying on the side; from rubbing; from taking hold of anything; from remaining without food: and from mental occupation.

AMELIORATION: From eating.

RELATIONSHIP: Similar to: Canth., Ran-B., Rhus-R., Rhus-T., Rhus-V., and Sulph.

Follows well after: Lyc., Plat., and Puls.

It antidotes Rhus-T.