Final Flashcards

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A neurological remedy, slowness, dullness, confusion, and dryness. Gradual paralysis (MS, ALS). Extreme constipation. Great straining, even with soft stool. Confusion of identity.
Closed. Fear insanity. Very upset if hurried or pushed, get more confused and flustered. Slow to answer, reflects long. Fear knives and blood. Impulse to kill when sees a knife. Desires indigestibles. Intense itching, itching without eruption, scratches until it bleeds.

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alumina

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Electric shock sensation
Worse noon
Inflammation or swelling of cartilage, esp. of knee
Hoarseness
Vertigo, sudden onset
Testicular pain, esp. right side. Left ovarian pain

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argentum metallicum

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Depressed and anxious.
Fear of death
Fastidious
Worse around midnight
Suffered a lot, may be sympathetic
Tremendous guilt
Reproaches self or others
Forsaken feeling
Anxiety about health
Restlessness
Hx of suppressed anger and grief
Often desire company
Sensitive to quarrels
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aurum arsenicum

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serious, high standards, depressed, intense, likes music, reproaches self, etc.
soft, sympathetic, and desires company.
passionate
Strong sexuality
Silent grief
Can confuse with Aurum, Nat mur, Carcinosin Medorrhinum or Tuberculinum
Love wind, open air
May have desire for company
Anxiety about health
Heart problems (palpitations, arrythmias, angina, etc.)
AF grief, insults, mortifications
Angry thinking of his complaints
Sadness alternates with periods of joy
May appear abrupt, rough, but really affectionate
Sympathetic, warm-hearted person
Horrible stories affect her profoundly
Heart symptoms, esp. palpitations, angina, etc.
Romantic, passionate. open/outgoing
Love wind in their face, walking in wind or open air
Sycotic or Tubercular: high sex drive, warts on tongue or genitals

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aurum muriaticum

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Sensitive, refined, fragile
Hormonal imbalances in women, causing dysmenorrhea, fibroids, etc.
PMS, depression, anger, anxiety, headaches.
#1 remedy for uterine tumors (benign or malignant).
loving the sun.
May have salt issues, desire or agg from salt
May have low confidence
Fear of failure, compensate by planning excessively
Stuck in past griefs. Silent grief
Worse consolation
Forsaken feeling, fear rejection
May have a strong need for emotional support and nurturing, but may be quite independent.
May have history of conflict or grief with mother, such as mother dying when they were young
Sighing from controlling emotions
Tense, fastidious
Grief and disappointed love
Prone to deep pathologies, cancer, etc.

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aurum muriacticum natronatum

murex is other uterine remedy

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Jealousy. Irritable. Desire for green, sour, unripe fruit. Fear of birds or flying things.
Lamenting if not appreciated. Feels he never gets enough. Sweat on scalp. Obstinate.
Anxiety in the evening. Recurrent colds, coughs. Tendency to suppuration, injuries easily
suppurate. Thick yellow pus. Chronic otorrhea. Pimples, pustlules on the face.
Warm blooded and

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calc sulph

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Ailments from loss of sleep or night watching. Ailments from a combination of PHYSICAL and EMOTIONAL STRESS: NURSING THE SICK, i.e. LOSS OF SLEEP + anxiety about the health of the sick person.
Ailments from CARES, WORRIES + physical EXERTION.
All SLOWS DOWN due to the prostration. TIME passes tooQUICKLY. Slowness, reflects long before answering.
Worse MOVING SURROUNDINGS [i.e. looking outside when traveling in a car]. Slowness of accommodation. Weakness, vertigo, nervous symptom complaints, especially motion sickness, ailments from or aggravated by riding in boats, cars, planes, or from prolonged loss of sleep.
Dazed feeling. Things seem unreal. Spacey. Vertigo as if drunk, with nausea. Painful paralytic weakness of back and limbs, lassitude. Too weak to talk or stand. Weak, numb, empty feeling.
Cervical muscles too weak to hold the head up.
Extreme aversion to food, though hungry. Nausea at smell or sight of food. Great distention in abdomen. Seems full of sharp stones, on movement.
Dysmenorrhea, with crampy colic, distention, nausea. During menses too weak to stand or talk. Trembling of hands, arms. Hands numb. Hands and feet easily go to sleep. Knees give way while walking. Time passes too quickly.

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cocculus

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Stout, plethoric people. Anemia or circulatory problems. Weakness, face flushes easily. Can be aggressive, domineering, positive they are right. Can’t stand contradiction. Very sensitive to noise. Desire solitude. Worse exertion or sitting still. Better walking slowly. Flushes of heat from slight exertion. Face flushes easily from wine, excitement, emotion. GI symptoms, nausea, vomiting. Crave sweets, sour, averse eggs. Dictatorial. Tend to shoulder problems.

  1. Desire for solitude. Irritability. Intolerance of noise and contradiction.
 2. Irregular and changeable: moods and circulation.
 3. Redness of face from least pain, motion, emotion, exertion etc.
 4. Chilly persons.
 5. Desire for motion, slow motion >; restlessness. Better walking slowly outside.
 6. Desires sour, tomatoes
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ferrum metallicum

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High fever, flushed cheeks.
bleeding, thirst for cold, anxiety
Inflammations, acute illness lacking clear remedy picture (unlike Bell, Puls, Cham, etc.)
Headaches from noise, light. Dentition difficult. Whooping cough, bloody expectoration. Sleepless with measles, sleepless from pain.

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ferrum phos

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Ailments from sudden shock, children develop great fear of being alone. Great desire for
company, consolation. Jealousy. From fear, become dictatorial, abusive, violent, destructive,
malicious. Fear of dark, ghosts. Jealousy leads to controlling behavior. Can look like Stramonium
or Tuberculinum.

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gallic acid

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Sadness
Delusion despised. Delusion alone in world. Delusion lost affection of friends
Biting fingers, self
Unfortunate feeling
Floating sensation
Feel an outcast, as if a leper
Aversion to looking in a mirror
Dreams of destruction, buildings destroyed, dead people.
AF: being an unwanted child, being abused and neglected.
People with deformities, ridiculed or shunned by other kids

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hura

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Restlessness. A hot remedy. Trembling. Big appetite but emaciates. Hard, swollen lymph glands. Laryngismus.
Worse sitting. Impulsive; impulse to kill.

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iodum

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A hot, syphilitic
Worse heat, worse nights, worse touch and pressure. Better motion, walking in > cool air. Irritable. Abusive. Burning pains. Restless. 5 a.m. aggravation. Affinity for the nose and eyes. Sinusitis and/or hay fever with pain at root of nose. Eye pain and inflammation. Ulcerations, apthae. Atrophy of mammae in women.

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kali iodatum

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Yellow discharges. Warm, worse heat, need fresh air, outside. Warmth
agg. All sx better in cold air. Wandering joint pains. Want cold drinks, averse hot drinks. Fear
dying in night. Child may look like Pulsatilla, quite ill but want to play outside. Coughs, asthma,
otitis. Like a sycotic Sulphur (some psora too).

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kali sulph

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Alternation of sides
Affects throat, diphtheria, or tendency to sore throats, esp. at menses recurring sore throats and tender breasts.
Breast symptoms, very sore PMS or during menses.
Weeping during or after coition
Ailments from sexual abuse or traumas
PMS: sadness, despair, mood swings
Fear of and dreams of snakes
Oversensitive, mood swings, restless, spacey
Floating sensation, not fully in the body, at times
Full of imaginations. Believes every symptom a serious disease
Sudden anger. Hypersensitive, can’t stand fingers to touch so sensitive
Spacey, confused, easily distracted, absent-minded
Migraines, esp. changing sides every time
Rheumatic symptoms alternate sides

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lac caninum

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Sensitive and anxious. Sensitive to pain, to cold, to quarrels. Averse to be looked at.
Anxiety in bed. Anxious about robbers, about family. Anxiety disturbs sleep.
Peacemakers. Worse talking about their problems. Worse touch.
Problems around life changes: Menses, pregnancy, menopause.
Better motion, better pressure.
Sour: sour perspiration, sour taste, sour eructations, sour stool. Gas, poor digestion. Milk agg.
Unrefreshing sleep.
Chilly, a weak remedy.
Psora, a little syphilis.

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magnesium carbonicum

mag carb averse to being looked at, lac caninum averse to be touched

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Liver remedy. Nervous, irritable, suppressed anger. chilly but need cool air. Anxious and restless. Need to uncover. Anxiety on closing the eyes. Anxiety better open air. Closed, few or no friends. Delusion friendless. Morose. Obstinate. Sensitive to noise. Mental exertion is difficult. Silent but irritable inside. Better stretching, hanging. Liver pain can’t lie on right side. Heaviness in liver. Milk agg. Constipated. Fats aggravate, milk agg. Cold food agg. Fruit agg. Sun agg.
Dreams of robbers.

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magnesium muriaticum

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A bleeding remedy, syphilis and sycosis. Bright red blood. Bleeding without complaining. Memory weak, dullness, confusion. Feel as if they have forgotten something. Bleeding after childbirth, after tooth extraction. Strokes; cerebral hemorrhage with red face. Menses copious.

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millefolium

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Fear of possession by devil, space aliens, etc. AF watching horror movies
Fear of insanity
Weakness of will, vulnerability, so overwhelmed by a strong fright. Obsessed, persistent thoughts about the event, can’t get it out of their mind
Psoriasis and eczema type skin eruptions.
Warm

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mancinella

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Ailments from fright. Oversensitive to pain. Shriek with pain, faint from pain. Not in reality. Concentration difficult. Liar; lack of moral feeling. Weak will, easily influenced by others. Eyes half open, paralysis of lids. Mouth open. Fantastic, pleasant dreams.

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morphinum

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A hormonal remedy for women, with high sex drive, easily aroused, going towards nymphomania. Impatient with herself, with the pain. A weak remedy (Sepia much stronger, more althletic). Awareness of the uterus. Amorous disposition. Shameless. Bearing down pains. Uterine pain extending to c chest. Breast pain during menses. Uterine displacements. Menses protracted, too long, too frequent. Weak lumbars.

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murex

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Sadness, grief, but try to act cheerful. Dignity. Sensitive to music. Many food allergies, especially milk. Can’t digest certain people or foods. Aversion to certain people. Sun aggravates, sun headaches, sunstroke. Weak ankles. Herpetic eruptions.

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Nat carb

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Anxiety about health
Fear cancer, death, aids
Irritable in morning
Hatred, grudges, unmoved by apology
Hardness
Nihilistic, pessimism, depression
Cursing
Selfish
Sympathy for suffering of helpless people
Chilly
Stitching or splinter-like pains
Eruptions or fissures, herpes, warts about lips, corners of mouth
Craves fat, salt, strong cheese, indigestibles
Hemorrhoids with pain that lasts for hours after stool
Rectal warts, Genital warts
Urine very strong odor, like horse’s urine
Cracks at bends of joints, cracks on fingers
Warts, eczema, psoriasis, herpes.

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nitric acid

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AF Fright
Painless of complaints
Snoring, Stertorous Respiration, 
Sleep apnea (Respiration arrested during sleep). 
Sleep heavy, difficult to disturb
Narcolepsy
Spacey, dreamy state
Severe constipation, no urge
Liar
Using drugs or alcohol since a fright (PTSD)
Stupor and coma, CVA
Head injuries
Warm,
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opium

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Disconnected from others. Despair, hopelessness.
Compulsive checking. Obsessive/compulsive disorders. Fixed ideas. Tremendous anxiety.
Fear infection, contagion, disease, insanity. Paranoid, suspicious. Washing compulsively. Loss of confidence.
Alcoholism. Craves alcohol, drugs.
Pale skin, translucent
Dreads night, worse night
Bones pain,

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syphilinum

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Delusional egotism or religiosity
Extreme restlessness
Weak, collapse states
Gastroenteritis with vomiting and diarrhea simultaneously
Egotistical, haughty, rude
Delusion, great person
Coldness. Profuse cold sweat, esp. on forehead
Hyperactive, disobedient kids
Projectile vomiting. Profuse diarrhea.
Precocity
Craves cold drinks, ice, salt, sour fruit, lemons, pickles
Feigns illness
Severe dysmenorrhea with coldness, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness
Critical, scolding, gossiping

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veratrum album

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which is not a Hura sx? delusion alone in world, floating sensation, dreams of destruction, restlessness

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restlessness

28
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which is not a cocculus sx? ailments from loss of sleep, night watching, time passes too quickly, anemia, worse moving surroundings

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anemia

29
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which is not a mag mur sx? suppressed anger, fear of insanity, delusion friendless, heaviness in liver, nervous

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fear of insanity

30
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duty, guilt and grief are three things to think about, people who always feel like they haven’t done enough, PMS, worse rich foods, chilly, forsaken, can look like aurum, puls, carcinosin, ailments from grief, delusion done wrong, neglected his duty, changeable mood, yielding disposition, conscientious about trifles, want house to look neat, tend to be mroe introverted than puls, visual disturbances with HA, thirstless and chilly (puls warm), doesn’t like open air (puls does)

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cyclomen

31
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which is not a nat carb sx? sadness and grief but try to act cheerful, sensitive to music, sensitive to food and people, better sun

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better sun

32
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which is not a gallic acid sx? fear of being alone, dictatorial, fear of infection, fear of dark

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fear of infection

33
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which is not a syphilinum sx? disconnected from others, compulsiveness, delusion he’s a great person, bone pains, fear infection, disoriented facial features

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delusion he’s a great person

34
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which is not an opium sx? sleep apnea, liar, spacey-dreamlike state, AF fright, skin looks dirty-unwashed, painlessness of complaints

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skin looks dirty-unwashed

35
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which 2 are not veratrum album sxs? egotism, delusion he’s a great person, bone pains, profuse sweat on forehead, hot, precocity, vomiting and diarrhea simultaneously

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bone pains and heat

36
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which is not a murex sx? high sex drive, sunstroke, bearing down pains, uterine extending to chest

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sunstroke

37
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which is not a mancinella sx? AF horror movies, shriek with pain, fear insanity, weakness of will, obsessed persistent thoughts, psoriasis and eczema type skin eruptions

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shriek with pain

38
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which 2 are not lac caninum sxs? yellow discharges, alteration of sides, affects throat, laughing after/during coition, ailments from sexual abuse, traumas, dreams of snakes, floating sensation, delusion all she says is a lie

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yellow discharges, laughing during intercourse (weeping!)

39
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which 2 are not cyclomen sxs? hot, delusion neglected his duty, yielding, changeable mood, guilt, AF grief, better open air

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hot (chilly!) better open air (worse open air)

40
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what body structures do aurum’s target?

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heart, bones and glands

41
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where does kali carb feel pain?

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solar plexus

42
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what are some commonalities in the fluoride family?

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hot, varicosities, bone problems, high sex drive

43
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commonalities in iodums?

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hot, restless, big appetite but thin, hard glands, anxiety, allergies, exopthalamus, goiter, eczema

44
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what body structures do magnesias target

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liver and nerves

45
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commonalities in magnesias

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need nourishment, forsaken feeling, caregivers, peacemakers, chilly worse cold, unrefreshing sleep, averse arguments

46
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commonalities in ferrums

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forceful, determined, flushed face, crave open air, better slow motion, shoulder problems, ailments from bleeding