The two run very closely together in the paralytic condition of the throat. There is a queer sensation in the stomach as if lime were slaking there. Bread causes a sensation of heaviness and pressure, coffee seems to aggravate all the symptoms of the stomach, but a swallow of cold water relieves. Many symptoms in this remedy are made better by a swallow of water. The violent spasmodic cough may be stopped at once by a drink of cold water.
Cold water seems to tone up the paralytic condition.
Warm water applied to the hands brings on pains in these old sensitive spinal conditions. Cold washing is their only relief. Causticum has belching, nausea, vomiting, distension and violent pains in the stomach. In the rectum there is the same tendency to paralytic weakness that is found in other parts of the body. It is inactive and fills up with hard faeces, which pass involuntarily and unnoticed.