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Basics Flashcards

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Nosode

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made from diseased tissue (e.g. TB, cancer)

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Sarcode

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prepared from healthy tissues

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polycrest remedy

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long history, much known

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LM dilution

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1:50,000

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MM

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1:1,000,000

thousand thousand

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X

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1:10

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M

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1:1,000

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CM

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1:100,000

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C

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1:100

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standard avail potencies

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6X, 12C, 30C, 200C, 1M, 10M, 50M
# = # dilution cycles
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“H” designation

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potentized by hand using fresh piece of glassware for each dilution e.g. 12CH

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“K” designation

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Korsakoff - potentized entirely by machine, reusing same piece of glassware each time e.g. 12K

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“Classical” homeopathy

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Hahnemannian

practiced according to Law of Similars & Organon

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“Complex” homeopathy

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  • Other schools of thought
  • multiple remedies in 1 vial (pluricism)
  • tissue salts
  • Bach flower remedies
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In the Repertory :

Regular font

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Grade 1 - few provers had this sx (DOES NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT INTENSITY)

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italicized font

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minority of provers had this sx

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CAPITALIZED FONT

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most provers had this sx

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ITALICIZED & CAPITALIZED FONT

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ALL provers had this sx

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in what chapter are heart symptoms?

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Chest chapter

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Steps to taking an acute case

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  1. Perceive/identify sxs, pathology, disposition (intake)
  2. repertorize sxs (identify rubrics)
  3. valorize case sxs
  4. cross rubrics determine most likely remedy
  5. remedy selection (study materia medica for simillimum)
  6. choose posology
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Step 1 perceive/identify

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Listen
Perceive
Collecting info
Recording
analyzing
  • allow spontaneous description before asking questions - subjective
  • observe & record objective signs & sxs (physical exam, bloodwork, imaging, expression, mannerisms, voice, skin, odour)
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Step 2 Repertorize

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translate patient sxs description into language of repertory (key words)

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Step 3 valorization

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ranking "importance" of sxs or rubric
*CHI [the higher the CHI the more unique something is & more likely remedy will be in that rubric]
Characteristicness (uniqueness)
Hierarchy
Intensity
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Characteristicness

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0-5 scale:
0 = very common (head - pain)
1 = common (head-pain, throbbing)
2 = slightly characteristic (head-pain 4pm)
3 = moderately characteristic (head-pain, 4-8pm, daily)
4 = very characteristic (head-pain, vertex, wash hair)
5 = extraordinarily (head-pain, vertex, wash hair, annually, on her birthday)

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Hierarchy

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0 Local - physical
1 physical - general
2 mental - emotional

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Intensity

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0 common/unclear
1 slight intensity, somewhat clear, occasionally
2 moderately intense; clear; frequent
3 very intense; very clear; very often

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Step 5 Create remedy DDX list

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  • list 3-4 remedies w/highest totality
  • list key points that support and detract from each remedy as simillimum for case (R/I, R/O)
  • consult multiple materia medica sources
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Step 6 choose posology (prescribe)

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CH #, how much, how often

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Define “posology”

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potency (e.g. 30CH) & frequency of repetition (how often & for how long)

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What are the 5 CONSIDERATIONS in prescribing?

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2 px, 2 pathology, 1 doctor

1) patient sensitivity
2) vitality (resilience)
3) rapid &/or aggressive pathology may require “stronger” posology
4) severity of disease process & risk w/aggravation
5) degree of simillimum b/w px sx & remedy picture

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Patient sensitivity

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  • emotional
  • sensitivity to surroundings: light, noise, jarring
  • response to caffeine, drugs, smoke, odour, allergens, environmental chemicals, etc
  • barometric pressure, weather sensitivity
    • use lower potencies with higher sensitivity px (px will aggravate if too strong)
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vitality (resilience)

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energy, outlook, how they respond to change

use lower potency with lower vitality

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aggressive pathology may require stronger posology

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  • frequent repetition of lower potency or higher potencies

- artificial should be stronger than natural disease, but not strong enough to aggravate

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severity of disease process

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use lower potencies with higher severity/risk (e.g. suicide)

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degree of simillimum b/w px sx & remedy picture

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can use lower potencies, less frequently w higher clarity of remedy picture

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Miasm

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  • all disease has an underlying root, a morbific influence
  • sometimes has to be addressed directly before cure can be achieved with the usual homeopathic remedy
  • Hahnemann theorized that some infectious agents create long lasting disturbances of the vital force
  • more fundamental than the patient’s current illness
  • already in possession of the whole organism, having pervaded it in all of its parts, before the appearance of [any external, local] symptoms
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primary vs secondary sxs

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If the primary (local) symptoms are removed without addressing the underlying miasm, sooner or later secondary symptoms will erupt elsewhere in the body

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What are the 3 dominant miasms?

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Psora
Sycosis
Syphilis

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Psora

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  • Greek “itch”
  • reaction of the body to environmental stimuli, such as noise, light, and odors, producing headache, nausea, and discomfort.
  • struggle with outside world, triggered by stress, constant anxiety, insecurity, anxiety about the future but always having hope.
  • Dry, itching and/or scaly skin or mucous membranes without pus or discharge; with burning sensation, cracks in hands & feet, sweat profuse rest <motion
  • Acidity, constipation, flatus, hoarseness, itching, watery discharge from nose & eyes with burning sensations
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Primarily psoric remedies

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Calc-carb
Sulphur
Lycopodium

NO SPECIFIC NOSODE

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Sycosis (gonorrhea)

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  • Hides her weakness, covering up situations, keeping secrets. Fixed habits, suspicious, jealous, forgetful; riddled with guilt & insecurity. Inferiority complex
  • Growths: warts, moles, keloids, fibroids, cysts, tumours. Nails thick & irregular; oily skin with pus
  • Joint & rheumatic pains, < cold, damp; > motion. Stitching, pulsating, wandering pains
  • Genitourinary disease, dysmenorrhea, genital herpes, cystic acne, eczema, asthma, angina, anemia, appendicitis, gout, arthritis, tumours & neoplasms
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predominantly sycotic remedies

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Pulsatilla
Silica

Nosode: Medorrhinum

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Syphilis

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  • No point in trying, sudden impulsive violence towards self or others, distorted rigid ideas. Mental paralysis/ dullness, stubborn, suicidal & homicidal. Extreme nihilism
  • Destruction, disorder everywhere; ulceration, deformities
  • Ulcers, boils, discharge of fluid & pus, offensive, slow to heal, copper colored eruptions <heat of bed, spoon shaped thin nails that tear easily, gangrene.
  • Bone pains, tearing, bursting, burning.
  • Putrid discharges, blindness, internal & external ulcerations, carcinomas, fistulas, gangrene, rheumatism, sterility, advanced heart disease, late stage cancer or TB, suicide attempts, insanity, addiction.
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primarily syphilitic remedies

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Lachesis
Mercurius

Nosode: Syphilinum

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Arnica montana

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Arnica montana
Marked SORENESS, tender to touch or pressure; feels as if beaten; bed feels too hard
< Jarring; touch or pressure; cold; motion
Fear to have anybody touch the part: “It’s OK, I’m fine, just leave me alone”
Acute back strain from lifting or whiplash
Also for: black eyes, post-surgical bruising; labour & delivery; sore muscles
Chronic effects of old trauma
Sprains, especially of small joints: hand, wrist, ankle, foot

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Bellis perennis

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For deep muscle trauma & bruises; abdominal & pelvic trauma/surgery with bruised organs; traumatic arthritis; nerve injury with soreness & < Warm bathing; cold drinks; becoming cold
> Cold applications to bruised part

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Bryonia

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Bruising & aching so she can hardly lie still, but each movement hurts
Severe pain with sharp, excruciating, stitching or sore pains
< MOTION, even slight motion; jarring; heat
> FIRM PRESSURE; LYING on the PAINFUL part; cold

Sprains: wrist, hand, hip, ANKLE

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Ledum

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Bruise with excruciating pain & marked edema
PUNCTURE wounds & bites: snake, dog, cat; also simple stings & insect bites
Mottled, purplish bruising with excessive swelling
Wounds with threatened INFECTION
Icy coldness of injured part
< Any heat or warm applications
> Ice cold apps; can’t stand to remove the cold
Sprains: wrist, ANKLE

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Hypericum

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Injuries, bites, splinters to areas rich in nerves – fingers, tongue, genitals, vertebrae
Crushing injuries to fingers, esp’ly fingertips
Contusions to nerves
Injuries to coccyx
Sharp pains shooting upwards, or radiating centrally from the injured spot
For prevention of infection, even tetanus
Spinal injury <urinating

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Symphytum

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Specific remedy for blunt trauma, lacerations or puncture wounds to eyeball (not the orbit)
Promotes new bone growth in fractures
For painful fractures even if they have already healed
Penetrating injuries, puncture wounds, especially those that penetrate to the periosteum

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Rhus toxicodendron

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Sprains with annoying, STIFF, PAINFUL, restless feeling
Restlessness after injury
< FIRST MOTION, keeping still; over-use; lifting
> CONTINUED MOTION; heat; massage; hard pressure
Sprains: SHOULDER, WRIST, hip, knee, ANKLE, foot

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Ruta

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Specific for injuries to tendons
Marked STIFFNESS and BRUISED pain
Fractures esp’ly in areas where bone is near the surface: olecranon, patella, iliac crest
Injuries to the periosteum
Sciatica after injury
>Lying; pressure; heat; gentle motion
<inspiration; morn in bed; exertion; cold; damp
Sprains: WRIST, hand, ankle
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Aconite

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First hours after a major trauma
Patient is in shock, trembles; moaning or hysterical
Trauma accompanied by great FRIGHT
Muscle weakness, lameness & numbness in limbs after injury
Foreign bodies or sharp wounds to orbit (eye)
Simple sunburn with sudden onset of burning, often with chills
Sudden, intense sunstroke with face congested & pupils constricted

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Cantharis

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Second & third degree burns
Chemical burns
Horribly painful BURNING
Burns to mucous membranes: mouth & throat
< FIRST MOTION, keeping still; over-use
> COLD; cannot remove ice-pack for an instant

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Apis

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Minor burns or stings & bites with marked pain, redness & swelling
Allergic reactions to bites; urticaria
Burning or stinging pains, >cold apps
Penetrating wounds with deep redness or purple, intensely swollen & hot with threatened infection
Chemical burns to the eyes
> only relieved by ice cold apps

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Calendula

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Early stages of infection with whitish pus draining from a closed wound

Post-surgical wound infection
Open wounds and abrasions to prevent infection
To promote healing in wounds where the edges cannot be approximated

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Hering’s Law

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The cure must proceed from within out, from above downward, from more important to less important organs, in reverse order of symptom appearance. Every homeopathic practitioner who understands the art of healing knows that the symptoms which go off in these directions remain away permanently.

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return of old symptoms

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  • A “return of old symptoms” is an excellent indication that the remedy given is a simillimum
  • A simillimum may cause a slight aggravation of current symptoms at the beginning of treatment
  • As cure progresses, “older” symptoms, i.e. symptoms the patient has experienced in the past but not recently, may reappear for short durations of time.
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Obstacles to cure

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  1. Coffee, tea, alcohol, chocolate, perfumes, mouthwashes, highly seasoned foods, herbs and vegetables containing medicinal powers, old cheeses, putrid meats, excess sugar & salt.
  2. Heated rooms, woolen clothing next to the skin, sedentary lifestyle, excessive breast-feeding, long afternoon naps lying down, reading horizontally, keeping late hours, uncleanliness, unnatural voluptuousness, reading lubricious material, onanism, incomplete or absent coition, objects of anger, grief or vexation, mental or bodily overexertion, dwelling in marshy regions or stuffy rooms.
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add elements of diet/regimen that may engender health, such as:

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Innocent mental & emotional diversion
Active movement in the fresh air
Appropriate, nutritious, non-medicinal foods & drinks

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Nat-mur

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RIGHT SIDED
10-15% of headaches will require this remedy
Bursting pain; sensation of a small hammer in one spot. Like a vise.
Favors the R side; temple; occiput.
Cold applications; perspiring; pressure; must lie down in a dark room
Periodic headaches
HA associated with anemia; vomiting; visual disturbances

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Belladonna

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RIGHT SIDED
Most intense HA in the materia medica
THROBBING; exploding; maddening
PRESSING OUTWARD sensation; as if eyes will pop out
Comes & goes suddenly
Begins in Right occiput & extends to R forehead or eye
LYING IN DARK, QUIET ROOM; cold apps; hard pressure; binding the head
BOUNDING PULSE in head & throat; sharp pain with each throb
Hands & feet icy cold with HA.
Concomitant: hypertension; hormone changes; vomiting

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Sanguinaria

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RIGHT SIDED
HA begins in R shoulder or neck & radiates to R forehead or eye
Throbbing, burning; congestive
SLEEP, AFTER VOMITING; passing flatus or eructation; pressing head against something hard
Periodic HA
Indigestion, burning, sour stomach with HA; vomiting
Flushed face & pulsing carotids

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