A study of Causticum will soon show you that it is a very weakening drug.
Children are slow in learning to walk.
The whole trend of the proving inclines toward paralytic weakness of one kind or another, although there are also some evidences of a preceding irritative action, as seen by an inclination to bite the teeth together, involuntary biting of the inside of the cheek and twitchings and spasms, sometimes returning at stated periods during sleep. Pains and sensations which cause powerlessness. It acts more on the right side. While perhaps not as prominently a right-sided remedy as some others, it is still enough so to furnish a very good point of differentiation in making comparisons. In left-sided palsies Lachesis and Rhus tox. come most prominently to mind.