# Cimex Lectularius

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Cimex is an ancient remedy for intermittent fever. Nash recorded the fol lowing cure by Dr. 
BrewsterofSyracuse. After driving a fractious horse that tried to run away over a very rough road, a man was 
so bruised and sprained about the buttocks and legs that he was confined to the house for a long time.  
It settled finally into what appeared likely to be permanent contraction of the 
lower limbs. No remedy relieved until Dr. Brewster remembered a case of intermittent fever that he had cured 
twenty years before, being guided by this symptom. Cimex 600c (Jenichen) promptly cured.  
Characteristic weariness a nd inclination to stretch.  The flexors are most affected, pains in all joints as if 
tendons were contracted and too short,  every motion or stretching of arms or legs causes tightening pain 
in them. Hamstrings feel too short (Am-m.). Sensation of retraction of arm tendons. The whole right side is 
especially affected.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse motion. Worse stretch ing or extending the part. Worse in morn ing. Worse from drinking. 
 
 
Weariness compels to lie down. Pain in small of back worse sitting. Sweat on nose during rest in morning.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Anxiety, after chill.
- Clenching of hands with violent rage at beginning of chill.
- Sensation as if he could 
creep into himself and on that account could not sufficiently crouch together.
- His own sweat is disgusting to 
him.
- Abdomen - Pain in the liver, as if it had been strained by bending the right side inward, the spot is painful 
when touching it or coughing.
- Colic, followed by emissions of flatulence or liquid stools.
- Anxiety, after chill.
- Clenching of hands with violent rage at beginning of chill.
- Sensation as if he could 
creep into himself and on that account could not sufficiently crouch together.
- His own sweat is disgusting to 
him.
- Abdomen - Pain in the liver, as if it had been strained by bending the right side inward, the spot is painful 
when touching it or coughing.
- Colic, followed by emissions of flatulence or liquid stools.

### Head
- Confusion of head as if headache would ensue.
- Pain like needle stitches in vertex with cough.
- Pain 
under right frontal bone.
- Violent headache, caused by drinking.
- Great rage, vehement at beginning of chilly 
stage.
- Would like to tear everything to pieces.
- Sweating on head, nose and chest.
- Confusion of head as if headache would ensue.
- Pain like needle stitches in vertex with cough.
- Pain 
under right frontal bone.
- Violent headache, caused by drinking.
- Great rage, vehement at beginning of chilly 
stage.
- Would like to tear everything to pieces.
- Sweating on head, nose and chest.

### Mouth
- Tongue coated white.
- Swollen feeling of the tongue.
- Feeling as if burnt on the tongue in the region of 
the palate and the upper anterior gums.
- Nose - Annoying dryness of nostrils.
- Fluent coryza with pressure in frontal sinuses.
- Constant sneezing in 
forenoon.
- Sweat on nose, morning during rest.

### Throat
- Dryness, causing him to drink all day.
- Esophagus becomes constricted during the hot stage.
- COMMENTS - Tertian and quartan intermittents.
- Musty smelling sweats.
- Night -sweats.
- Heat with gagging, 
esophagus feels con stricted.
- Before chill, thirst and heaviness in legs, less thirst with chill, still less with dry 
heat, none with sweat.
- Chill commences with clenching of hands and violent raging.
- Pains in all joints as if tendons contracted during 
chill.
- Sensation as of a cold wind blowing on knees.
- After the chill, thirst, but drinking causes violent headache, 
tickling in larynx causing dry, continuous cough.
- Gagging and belching at end of cough.
- Urging to stool.
- Hard stool, in small balls.
- Discharges of a small piece of white stool, then rectum closes firmly.
- Stools with hemorrhoidal sufferings.
- Incontinence of urine.
- Hot urine, brown or red sediment.
- Urticarious eruption.
- Irresistible sleepi ness.
- Frequent yawning.
- Frequent erections i n morning, seminal 
emissions.
- A.
- W.
- K.
- Choudhury related a case of intermittent (quotidian) cured with Cimex 30c, the chiefindicationsbeing: 
“Chill slight, thirst some days, none other days, shiverings, passed water twice during chill, chill worse by lying 
down increase of cough if he drinks water during chill.”

### Chest
- Chest feels oppressed during chill.
- After chill, heaviness in chest, anxiety.
- Pulse feeble, intermitting.
- Kidneys - Urine brown with a deposit of sediment (during the fever, when he drinks).
- Dry cough with gagging, as if he would vomit with perspiration.
- Breathing oppressed after chill.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Sour belchings.

### Urinary & Genital
- Shooting pain from vagina up towards left ovary.

### Extremities
- Hamstrings feel too short, knees flexed,  attempting to stretch them causes pain in thighs.
- Pains 
in all joints, as if tendons were too short, especially knee joints.
- Knees feel cold, as from a cold wind.
- Pain 
in right shoulder and the anterior muscles of the chest, extending through the whole arm down to the nails, the 
fingers 
feel as if they had gone to sleep.

### Neck & Back
- Pain in the small of the back, extending over the abdomen with distention of the abdomen, worse when 
sitting.
- Weariness in loins, must sit down.

### Sleep
- Great drowsiness, falls asleep when sitting in the morning.
- Irresistible sleepiness during chill.
- Frequent 
yawning with cold feeling on skin.