H WORD FOR BOARDS Flashcards
Aconitum napellus (wolfsbane)
Tremendous fear of death - “feels death is imminent”
Predicts time of death
Fears: Claustrophobia, earthquakes
Anxiety states following a strong fright
Complaints begin after a fright or sudden, shocking events
Shock and fear immediately after injury, exposure or accidents
Allium cepa (onion)
Primarily a remedy for coryza, either from allergic or infectious origin.
Anacardium
“Delusion of an angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other”
Very disturbed psychological condition
Unbearable inner conflict
Out of this internal strife come two strong and contradictory tendencies: inferiority and cruelty
Irresistible desire to curse, swear
MIND-DELUSIONS - devil - he is a devil
RECTUM - URGING - effort, great desire passes away with
Antimonium tartaricum
Primarily used in pulmonary conditions with great congestion and catarrh.
The chest symptoms are very characteristic with a coarse, rattling noise during the respiration and a wet sounding cough
OVERWHELMING SLEEPINESS DURING A COUGH OR BRONCHITIS
CYANOSIS during respiratory conditions, especially about the lips.
COARSE RATTLING IN THE CHEST OR LARYNX.
COUGH IS WET AND RATTLING BUT SCANTILY PRODUCTIVE.
COUGHS AND BRONCHITIS OF ELDERLY PATIENTS, ESPECIALLY IN THE WINTER MONTHS
Apis mellifica
Symptoms of a bee sting - burning, stinging, redness, and swelling. These are the main guiding symptoms of the remedy Apis, whether from infection, allergy, or inflammatory causes.
Swelling is so marked that it gives the impression of a balloon ready to burst
Active, vital and busy patients.
GENERAL AND LOCAL AMELIORATION FROM COLD APPLICATIONS.
SWELLING AROUND THE EYES.
ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA IN ALLERGIC CRISIS.
URTICARIA
ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA, OFTEN WITH MARKED SWELLING OF FACE, BETTER FROM COLD APPLICATIONS.
HERPES ZOSTER OR RHUS POISONING OF THE FACE WITH MARKEDLY SWOLLEN LIDS WHICH CAN HARDLY BE FORCED
OPEN.
Arnica montana
Arnica montana is typically used for bruises, drosera is used for whooping cough, and urtica urens is used for skin conditions such as urticaria.
INJURY WITH EXTRAVASATION OF BLOOD; CONTUSION, SPRAIN, ETC.
LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF TRAUMA.
Extremely useful in postoperative patients both for pain and to promote more rapid healing. General aggravation from exertion.
BRUISED SENSATION. MAY FEEL, “AS IF BEATEN”.
CONCUSSION.
COUGH FROM WEEPING.
ACUTE SPRAINS
MYALGIAS, ESPECIALLY AFTER OVER-EXERTION.
Arsenicum album
Anxious, proper, tense and worried patients.
TREMENDOUS ANXIETY, OFTEN WITH GREAT RESTLESSNESS.
PANIC ATTACK, ESPECIALLY AFTER MIDNIGHT, OR FROM 12 TO 2 AM. ANXIETY ABOUT HEALTH.
GREAT RESTLESSNESS, PACING OR FIDGETINESS.
CONSTANTLY CALLS THE DOCTOR AND IS REASSURED ONLY WITH DIFFICULTY.
FASTIDIOUS.
DESIRE TO REMAIN IN CONTROL AT ALL TIMES. CAREFUL PLANNING.
STOMACH PAINS AMELIORATED BY DRINKING MILK.
FOOD POISONING.
THIRSTY FOR SMALL SIPS FREQUENTLY.
Calcarea carbonica
Calcarea carbonica has keynotes of sour head perspiration, especially at night; obesity; chilliness; restless sleep, and cravings for sweets and eggs.
Gelsemium
Gelsemium has the keynotes listed in this case and is often remembered with the pneumonic dull, drowsy, droopy, and dumb.
Veratrum album
Veratrum album typically has severe, sometimes projectile vomiting often with diarrhea, and had cold perspiration on the forehead. Ipecac vomiting is characterized by nausea that is unrelieved by the vomiting and Nux vomica has ineffectual attempts to vomit. Arsenicum album vomiting is generally associated with food poisoning with marked fear when vomiting.
Aurum metallicum
Severe depression. Suicidal state
Relieved by thoughts of suicide
Suicidal impulse by jumping from a height
Suicidal from the pains
Amelioration from music; evenings. Deep love of music.
Fear of failure. Worse at night
Boring HA at inner angle of the right eye
Moaning and cries in sleep.
Baryta carbonica
Delayed mental development
Childish behavior. Needs reassurance. Easily influenced
Lack of self-confidence. Sense of inferiority
Immaturity or atrophy of parts of body: dwarfish
Chronic inflame, huge swelling of tonsils, may occlude throat
Belladonna
Hallucination
General aggravation at 3 pm, from jarring.
Intense heat in the affected part
Chronic/Acute vertigo, worse turning head, turning over in bed, and bending forward
Acute suppurative tonsillitis
Cold hands and feet but hot face
Bryonia
Averse to being disturbed; must be left alone and quiet
Preoccupied with business matters
Gen aggravation: motion, at 9pm, lying on painful side
HA over left eye or forehead extending to occiput
Thirst for large quantity of water, often or at great intervals.
Appendicitis
Fracture/sprain: pain with slightest movement.
Cantharis
Cystitis, urethritis, pyelo with tenesmus and dysuria
Great burning before, after, during urination “scalding water”
Hemorrhagic cystitis
Priapism
Relieves severe pain following a burn; promotes healing
Carbo vegetabilis
Desire to be fanned
Cold but adverse to being covered
Gen aggravation: lying flat, must sit up.
Ameliorated with frequent eructations, stomach and in general.
Dyspnea from flatus or over-eating, better with eructation
Can revive from death bed.
Causticum
Sincere, very intense, idealistic person
Great sympathy. Unable to tolerate other’s suffering
Anger over injustices
Rebellious. Political
Rechecking compulsion
Fear something bad will happen
Ameliorated by cloudy, wet, or rainy weather
Constant desire to clear the throat
Incontinence of urine from cough or sense
Cough deeper and deeper
Aurum metallicum
Mentals
- Known for its ability to cure the most severe depressions and suicidal states
- Relieved by thoughts of suicide
- Ailments after business problems or financial losses
- Fears: failure
- Ameliorated by music
Generals
- General amelioration in the evening
- Pain worse at night (headache, heart, bone pain)
Baryta carbonicum
-Prescribed on the basis of mentally handicapped pr emotional immaturity
Mentally
- Delayed mental development; childish behavior
- Needs reassurance; lack self-confidence and a sense of inferiority
- Extreme shyness (child hides behind mother)
- Anxiety
