CHOREA

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(Disease of the nerves attended with involuntary twitching) (See also HYSTERIA) Ignatia. Chorea due to fright, threat, punishment, or bad news. After grief or after emotion. Tingling in limbs, pain in joints. Obstinate and irritable. Cuprum met. After seeing a child in convulsion creeping under table. Choreic movement starts in fingers and toes and extends to limbs. Better during sleep, but when awake terrible contortions and awkward movements start again. Stramonium. Chorea preceded by inclination to weep, with laughing and sprightly humor. Rotates the arms and clasps the hands over the head. Nux Vom. Spinal chorea with unsteady gait and dragging of the feet. Constipation. Causticum. When right side is more affected than the left, the muscles of the face, tongue, arms and legs are all involved. Words are jerked out when talking. Patient continually changes position until he falls asleep exhausted Children who have learnt to walk fall easily, clumsy in their gait. Mygale. For uncomplicated cases of chorea. The legs are in motion while sitting or dragged while attempting to walk. Agaricus Mus. Cerebral chorea with twitching and spasms of the eye-balls and eye-lids. Spasmodic motions of the extremities which run diagonally, i.e., it affects upper part of one side and the lower part of the other. Tarentula His. Chronic movements of right leg and right arm which continue even at night and are brought on by fright, grief, etc. Restlessness with sensitiveness of spine and trembling. The patient can run better than he can walk. Diversion of mind, especially music relieves. Zincum Met. Constant motion of feet which may continue during night, especially when brought on by suppression of eruptions or by fright. Actea Racemosa. For spinal irritation with rheumatism mostly in females at the time of puberty and the menopause. Going crazy, talkative. Frequently changing from one subject to another. Jerking of the muscles when in a state of emotion or from becoming chilled. Jerking of the side lain oil or of the parts pressed. Numbness or jerking of the muscles. Thaspium. Chorea, hysteria, epilepsy. Suicidal ; depressed, laughing and weeping moods alternate. Ferrum Ars. Chorea due to anemia (loss of blood). Rhododendron. Chorea of left leg, arm and face, worse at the approach of storm. Avena Sat. Nerve tremors of the aged; numbness of limbs as if paralyzed. Viscum Alb. An excellent remedy for chorea with vertigo.