Final Material Flashcards
Acute Miasm
sudden, terror, panic, immediate danger, reflex action
Typhoid miasm
Crisis, sinking, critical, collapse, impatient and demanding
Malarial miasm
stuck, hindered, intermittent harassment, unfortunate
Ringworm miasm
Accepting alternating with trying, trying and giving up
Sycotic miasm
Covered up, hide, avoidance, accepting, fixed weakness
Cancer miasm
perfection, superhuman control, stretching beyond capacity
Tubercular miasm
oppression, suffocated, hectic, change, defiant, freedom
Leprosy miasm
disgust, condemned to isolation, mutilation, dirty, outcast, sadism, self loathing
Syphilis miasm
Homicide, total destruction, total hopelessness, ulcers, given up
What is a miasm?
Measure of how much, how intensely, how acutely or chronically or how deeply or desperately the situation is perceived to be.
Aconite Napellus
Suddenness, usually a fear of death! Acute fear/anxiety of death. Restlessness. Fever is quick, high, and dry. Affinity for the eye.
Worse with cold, dry air
Arnica Montana
Bruised, beaten. Injuries from blunt trauma. Says he is well when he isn’t. Fear of being touched, least he be harmed. Does not want to be touched or approached.
Calendula
Healing of wounds of the dermis, tongue, fingernail tears. Wound is lacerated and ragged. Prevents suppuration. Affinity to skin, soft parts and spine. Traumatic fever (patient gets injured so severely they develop a fever). Injuries, compound fractures.
Bellis Perennis
Affinity for deep in the abdomen, pelvis.
If they are gravid (pregnant) they can feel every movement of the fetus with pain. Deep tissue pain after surgery.
Induration/cancer of breast after contusion (rubric)
Injury to coccyx.
If they injure their arm for example, the entire extremity gets cold.
Papaveracae
Half alive/half dead after wounding
Belladonna
Pupils dilated and eyes glistening with wild look. Face flushing. Head and face hot, hands and feet cold. Fits of rage, biting, spitting, pulling hair.
Delirium and loss of voice after head injury
Fever worse at 3pm with delirium. When head congested, parotid pulsating with temple. Hands and feet cold. THROBBING pain in head.
Conium Maculatum
Socrates drank poison and got slow gradual paralysis until it hit the diaphragm and death. Slow paralysis of mental faculties. Induration of glands. Gradual weakness, paralysis, induration.
Cicuta verusa
Convulsions during delivery or from being touched. Convergent strabismus usually after head injury. Leprosy miasm. Development arrested after injury to the head. Childish/foolish behavior. Convulsions with hiccoughs.
Helleborus niger
Thoughtlessness - inability to think clearly, they rub their head. They have a hard time thinking, they don’t understand your questions. Staring blankly, dull, stupefy. Awkwardness of hands when talking. Answers slowly. For confusion of mind, dull, sadness, all after head injury.
Bryonia Alba
Aversion to being disturbed. Worse from the least motion. Talk of business (in typhoid miasm) need to accumulate money to get out of crises. Fear of poverty, holds head with hands during cough or chest. Vomiting after injury.
Hypericum perfoliatum
Neuralgic pain. Typically in nerve rich areas: tongue, fingertips, toes, genitals, nose, coccyx, teeth. Sudden and sharp. Injury to the coccyx. Main remedy for puncture wounds. Crush or puncture injuries to the nerve (bitten tongue). Laceration would be calendula.
Symphytum Officianale
Affinity for the periosteum. Injuries to bones and eyes. Injuries of the eyeball. Cataracts or inflammation of conjunctiva.
Antimonium Tartaricum
Patient is so weak they can’t bring it up, Can hear it rattling in their chest. You want to tell them to cough it up. They are so weak they will be pale or cyanotic. Small infants or elderly people. Loose weak rattling cough.
Badiaga
Weeping, sneezing during cough. Cough is so forceful that the mucus flies from the mouth with the cough. Forcible, Spasmodic cough. As if sugar is dissolving in the larynx.
Bromium
Croup from becoming heated, dry cough with scraping in the larynx. Stony hard glands. Like a sailer as soon as they come ashore.
Causticum
Passing urine with cough and cannot cough deep enough to raise the mucus. Rawness of larynx during cough. Main remedies for bells palsy, paralysis.
Cold drinks and wet weather ameliorates.
Corallium Rubrum
Red coral. Rapid cough and patient falls back as limp as a rag. They don’t have the energy after the rapid succession spasmodic cough to sit up after. Icy cold air in the passages.
Drosera Rotundifolia
Sundew (Carniverous plant). Big cough remedy. Nose bleeds during whooping cough. AS SOON AS THE HEAD TOUCHES THE PILLOW= gasping, choking, suffocative cough. Retching and vomiting.
Hepar Sulphur
Extremely sensitive to cold air with feeling of bone or splinter in the throat. Weeping before or during the cough. COLD is the issue. Grasp at the larynx because of stitching feeling.
Ipecacuanha
Hemorrhage, nausea. Usually nausea with cough. It’s an incessant nausea, even after vomiting the nausea doesn’t go away even though it normally should. Anxiety or sneezing before cough. CONSTANT NAUSEA.
Lobelia inflata
Eructations during and after the cough. Burping makes the cough worse.
Rumex crispus
Inspiring cold air induces cough, so patient puts scarf over mouth to warm air up. Pressing on pit of throat excites the cough. Worse with irregular breathing.
Spongia tosta
Dry, raspy, croupy cough like a handsaw through wood. Better with drinking and eating warm things. Sawing respirations between cough.
Squilla maritima or scilla
Lacrimation or spurting of urine during cough. Sneezing with cough. Cough is dry in evening and loose in the morning, with expectoration only in the morning.
Stannum
Tin. Weakness. Cough exhausts them. They feel empty in chest or throat. Difficulty breathing from weakness. Sputum can be salty or sweet.
Apis Mellifera
Swelling, redness, heat, worse from heat and better with cold. No sweat at all but the patient yearns for. Patient is ameliorated from all applications of cold. Brain cry - shrieking (3). Burning, dry, fever at night.
Arsenicum Album
Chilly, restless with anxiety. fear of being alone and like they’re going to die. Better with ***consolation. a lot of burning ameliorated by heart. Small sips of cold water. Usually vomiting/diarrhea with weakness afterwards.
Freezing cold and want to be covered.
Babtisia Tinctoria
Dull, besotted red face. Delusion that their body is scattered around the bed. Foul or offensive odors from the body. Stupor with red dusky face. Comatose, falling asleep answering questions.
Camphora
The body is cold but they don’t want to be covered. breath can be cold. Like the fresh air
Chelidonium Majus
Brown tongue or cracked during flu. Right sided remedy. Chills begins in feet or hands as if cold water was doused over them. Related to opium. Burning heat spreading from hands all over the body.
Ledum Palustre
Purple, blue, cold to the touch. injured part becomes cold as ice and spasms begin in the wound. Better with cold.
Eupatorium Perfoliatum
Bones feel injured, pain as if broken, intense pain in bone. Violent chill 7-9 am and slight chill next day at 12pm.
BONE PAIN and in extremities.
Gelsemium Sempervirens
Heaviness, the eyes are heavy (ptosis). Head is heavy and hard to hold up. Pain in the occiput. The chills run up and down the back/spine. Heaviness in legs, coldness in spine in waves.
Main remedy for FLU in summer (august)
Mercurius Solubilis
Salivation during fever, worse at night. Tongue is flabby and indented. Pain in coccyx during fever. Fever at night with perspiration.
Nux-vomica
Sensitivity to being touched, noise, vertigo during fever. head pain in occiput during fever. White tongue. Eructations during fever. Affinity for GI tract. Spasms with constipation and BM. Chilly from drafts.
Pyrogenium
Pulse goes down as temp goes up or vice versa. Feeling as though the bed is too hard.
Rhus-toxicodendrum
Restlessness. Worse sitting still, better with motion. Worse from cold and damp, better from heat. Coldness in blood vessels or burning in the veins.
Sulphur
Chill and fever are ascending. Start in lower body and move upward. The heat of the fever comes on after sleep. Picking at the bed clothes during fever. No heat during fever - chilled perspiration. Fever from worms.
Opium
Dread, terror, delusion about being killed. Fear of being executed. All from the sight of the accident. Fear and fright are big component. Snoring is important (during sleep).
Delirium and vertigo. Sleepiness after head injury.
Natrum Sulphuricum
Better after bowel movement. Better with wet weather. Suicidal after head injury. Liver and gallbladder diseases. Sadness and loathing of life after head injury. Loss of vision after head injury.
Ruta Graveolans
Affinity for eyes, cartilage, fibrous tissue, joints, wrists, periosteum.
Anxiety when warm. Head pain as if crushed.
Low light aggravates.
Injury of orbit, injuries to ligaments, tendons or wrists, ankles, tendons. Nodules after injury.
