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Homeo Keynotes Flashcards

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Aconite

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Acute shock and fear, sudden onset sxs

Worse: cold, wind, night

Wants to be covered

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Allium cepa

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Nasal discharge, tears, allergies

“Like a faucet,” burning (onion)

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Anacardium

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Inner conflict or mental schism

Profound inferiority complex, anxiety about the future

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Antimonium

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Rattling of mucus with little expectoration

Drowsiness, debility and sweat

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Apis

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Edema, allergy, cystitis with burning

Think: burning bee sting

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Arnica

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Bruise, trauma

Pain after any trauma, feels the bed is too hard (Pyro, Rhus-t)

Worse: touch

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Arsenicum

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Gastroenteritis, GI purging “from both ends”, burning pain

Fear of disease, calls you for reassurance

Desires sips of warm water with great thirst

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Aurum

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Heart problems, bone pain, suicidal

Picture: Failed CEO

Grief, ambitious

  • Worse*: night
  • Better*: music
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Baryta carb

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Swollen tonsils/glands, aneurism/CVA, childishness

Indicated more in infancy and elderly

Dependent, lack self-confidence

Mental/emotional/physical immaturity

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Belladonna

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Red face (whole face), throbbing, fever

Toothache

Right-sided

“Blind as a bat, red as a beet, dry as a bone, hot as a hare, mad as a hatter”

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Bryonia

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Pain worse from slightest touch, dry cough

Dry hacking cough, bronchitis, pleurisy

Worse any movement, better pressure or laying on painful area (prevents movement)

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Calc carb

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Obesity with dyspnea on exertion, swollen glands, eczema, constipation

  • Worse*: cold, fatty food
  • Better*: heat
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Cantharis

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Burning pain: UTI, scalds

Sexual mania

Urine passes “drop by drop”

Ddx: Apis

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Carbo veg

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Severe bloating and indigestion

Wants to be fanned, “while they veg”

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Causticum

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Burns, cannot stand injustice (physical and mental burns)

Is a victim, paralyzed

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Chamomile

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Think sick kiddo: teething, otitis, colic/GI, desires to be held

Intense sweating, thirst, fever

One cheek pale, the other red

Ddx: Belladonna

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Cina

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Think “a sinner (cina) in hell”: anal worms with itching, convulsions, picks nose

Children who react to discipline with a tantrum

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Cinchona (China)

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Think malaria: debility from fluid loss and periodic fever

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Colocynthis

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Think cholecystitis: acute abdomen with pt doubled over in pain

Gallbladder, kidney, GI

Perspiration smells like urine

“Iron bands” around abdomen

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Conium

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CANCER

Enlarged glands, tumours, BPH, hardness

Emotional hardness

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Drosera

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Whooping cough (pertussis)

  • Violent paroxysmal cough
  • Hold chest d/t pain, hoarse voice
  • Can’t catch breath, vomit, epistaxis
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Equisetum

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Irritated bladder

  • UTI, cystitis, incontinence
  • Urging when bladder is empty
  • Flow of urine drop-by-drop (ddx Cantharis [has burning])
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Eupatorium

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Bone pain with fever

Influenza with great soreness

Better: perspiration (except during headache)

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Euphrasia

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Eye: burning tears, allergies

Nasal discharge is bland (ddx Allium, has discharge like faucet)

Hayfever

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Ferrum phos

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Fever sudden, bright red blood

Sudden high fever with few other symptoms

Hemorrhage

Sand under the eyelids

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Gelsemium

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Flu remedy for flu with dull, drowsy, droopy, dizzy

Fright causing them to freeze –> “freeze like GEL”

Better: continued motion

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Glonoinum

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Migraines that wax and wane with the sun

Throbbing HA, heat stroke, hot flash

“Glow hurts my head”

gLonoine, Leftsided HA

(ddx SanguinaRia, is Right sided)

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Graphites

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Skin eruptions that ooze like honey

For example, scaly, cracked skin, eczema, psoriasis

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Hepar sulph

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Sharp splintering pains

Throat infection with sharp splinter pains and boils

Vulnerability on all levels

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Hyocymus

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Mania of quarrelsome and obscene character

Similar to Belladonna

Fantastic mania (Vithoulkas)

Picture aggravated homeless person

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Hypericum

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Nerve injuries

Shooting pains

Injury to fingers/toes/coccyx

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Ignatia

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Grief, spasticity

Ailments after grief, with hysteria

Sensation of a lump in the throat, sighing

  • Fears*: birds
  • Worse*: coffee
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Ipecac

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Persistent nausea and vomiting with no relief

A clean tongue

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Kali bich

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Sinusitis with thick, stringy, yellow mucus

Gluey personality, tend to stick to rigid rules, like their mucus sticks to the membranes

Allergic to beer (think “beer is congesting”)

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Kali carb

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Asthma, chronic sinusitis, back pain

Respiratory problems, stitching pains

Rigid, dogmatic, conservative, proper, loyal

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Lachesis

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L-sided complaints, sore throat, circulation

Purple-red sore throat or abscesses, varicose veins, migraines

Loquacious, jealous, suspicious, “lashes out”

  • Fears:* snakes
  • Better*: any flow like menses
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Ledum

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Puncture wounds, tetanus, bites, injuries to eyeballs, black eyes

“Punctured by a piece of LED”

Wounded part feels cold (like cold LED)

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Lycopodium

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GI and LV problems, superficial, cowardly

Hepatitis, sore throat

39
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Mag phos

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Cramping pains, spasms (think of supplemental mag)

Neuralgia, spasmodic dysmennorhea, spasmodic cough

  • Better*: heat, pressure
  • R-sided complaints*
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Medorrhinum

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STIs, chronic vaginitis, urethritis, cystitis, warts

High sex drive

Excess in all things

Better: seaside (sxs clear), night

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Mercurius

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Profuse discharges: salivation, sweat, pus

Bullae, abscess, weak immune system

  • Worse*: night, during perspiration
  • Worse both cold and heat*
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Nat mur

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Grief, retention (of feelings, stool/stool, amenorrhea, scanty discharge)

“Bashful kidneys” (difficulty urinating in public)

Allergic rhinitis with watery discharge

Migraines, worse with sun, 10am-3pm

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Nat sulph

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Head injury causes depression and bronchitis

Chronic bronchitis or pneumonia with rattling cough

Must hold chest when coughs (ddx drosera)

Head injuries, meningitis

Problems after head injury

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Nitricum

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Splinters, sticking pains

Better: riding in a carriage

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Nux vomica

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Dyspepsia, HA, migraines, hangovers

  • Worse*: cold
  • Better*: warm

Type A personality

Urge to cough, deficate, urinate, but inability to do so

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Phosphorus

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Respiratory complaints (pneumonia, asthma)

Effervescent, gullible, hypersensitive, hemorrhage

Craves cold drinks

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Phytolacca

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Breast problems

Hard lesions, lymphadenopathy, mastitis

Painful red throat with burning

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Platina

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Localized numbness and coldness

Better walking, worse sitting and standing

Female remedy

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Podophyllum

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“Need a pod to poop in, in the morning”

Painless diarrhea, IBS, IBD, gurgling abdomen

Worse: early morning

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Psorinum

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Offensive discharges, itchy, anxious/hopeless/suicidal

Extreme sensitivity to cold (wears warm clothes in summer), frequent acute illness

Filthy smell, sweaty

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Pulsatilla

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Weepy kid or female, mood changes constantly

Otitis media, cough at night, bronchitis, teething, URI

No two stools are alike

Better: open air

Ddx chamomilla (intense sweating, fever)

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Pyrogenium

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Sepsis, infection, cellulitis, severe influenza with delirium

Better: movement

Disparity between pulse rate and temperature

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Rhus tox

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“rhusty hinges”

Ligament or joint injury, arthritis

Rigidity of mind

  • Better*: warm, moving
  • Worse*: rest
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Rumex

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Cough from tickle in suprasternal fossa

Violent explosive cough with mucus

Worse: uncovering, undressing, cold air

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Ruta

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Lame, weak, gives out –> tendon injuries

Tendonitis, bursitis

Better: movement (pain) (ddx Rhus tox)

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Sanguinaria

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Acute right-sided headache

Migraines, easy flushing

Worse: light, noise

Ddx: gLonoine, Leftsided HA

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Sepia

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Hormonal shifts (PMS, pregnancy, menopause), nausea, weeping, irritable

Female remedy, morning sickness

Involuntary weeping (ddx Pulsatilla)

Craves: acidic foods, pickles, vinegar

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Silica

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Bone, tooth, and nail conditions (deficient in mineral)

Sand everywhere: teeth, shoes, bone

“Bashful stool”– constipation without urge

Worse: thunderstorms, cold

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Spongia

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“Sponge in your throat, so it’s all dried up”

Croup, barking cough, dry cough

Seal’s bark, burning in throat from cough

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Staphysagria

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Sharp cuts, sexual abuse, cystitis

Black, crumbling teeth

Throws things when angry

“Abused and hit with a STAPH in the pelvis and in the teeth”

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Stramonium

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Intense fever with delirium and fear

Febrile seizures, night terrors, sunstroke

All symptoms violent, fearful

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Sulphur

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Skin conditions, heat, diarrhea

Intellectual, egotistical, lazy

5am diarrhea, burning feet stick out of covers

Think: dirty professor

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Symphytum

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Fractures and eye injuries

Blunt trauma to the eye –> Arnica for the eye

Pain in periosteum long after injury heals

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Syphilinum

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Ulceration (mouth, nose, genital, skin)

Abscess

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Tabacum

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Nausea, vomiting, motion sickness

Sudden onset motion sickness with excessive salivation

Constantly clearing throat (think smoker)

Worse: odor of tobacco, motion

66
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Thuja

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Warts, low self-esteem

Skin tags

Perfecting appearance

“Others wouldn’t like me if they knew me”

67
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Tuberculinum

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URI and bronchitis, dissatisfaction

Changes jobs frequently, desires travel, restless

Craves: smoked meats, milk

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Urtica urens

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Prickly feeling on skin, hives, urticaria

Skin conditions, first-degree burns, scalds

Worse: touch

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Veratrum album

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Shock or collapse (acute) with copious secretions, exhaustion

Extreme cold to the point of being blue

Religious mania (think vera = truth/faith), delusions

“Comes out your BUM so much you turn blue”

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