Homeo Keynotes Flashcards
Aconite
Acute shock and fear, sudden onset sxs
Worse: cold, wind, night
Wants to be covered
Allium cepa
Nasal discharge, tears, allergies
“Like a faucet,” burning (onion)
Anacardium
Inner conflict or mental schism
Profound inferiority complex, anxiety about the future
Antimonium
Rattling of mucus with little expectoration
Drowsiness, debility and sweat
Apis
Edema, allergy, cystitis with burning
Think: burning bee sting
Arnica
Bruise, trauma
Pain after any trauma, feels the bed is too hard (Pyro, Rhus-t)
Worse: touch
Arsenicum
Gastroenteritis, GI purging “from both ends”, burning pain
Fear of disease, calls you for reassurance
Desires sips of warm water with great thirst
Aurum
Heart problems, bone pain, suicidal
Picture: Failed CEO
Grief, ambitious
- Worse*: night
- Better*: music
Baryta carb
Swollen tonsils/glands, aneurism/CVA, childishness
Indicated more in infancy and elderly
Dependent, lack self-confidence
Mental/emotional/physical immaturity
Belladonna
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”
Bryonia
Pain worse from slightest touch, dry cough
Dry hacking cough, bronchitis, pleurisy
Worse any movement, better pressure or laying on painful area (prevents movement)
Calc carb
Obesity with dyspnea on exertion, swollen glands, eczema, constipation
- Worse*: cold, fatty food
- Better*: heat
Cantharis
Burning pain: UTI, scalds
Sexual mania
Urine passes “drop by drop”
Ddx: Apis
Carbo veg
Severe bloating and indigestion
Wants to be fanned, “while they veg”
Causticum
Burns, cannot stand injustice (physical and mental burns)
Is a victim, paralyzed
Chamomile
Think sick kiddo: teething, otitis, colic/GI, desires to be held
Intense sweating, thirst, fever
One cheek pale, the other red
Ddx: Belladonna
Cina
Think “a sinner (cina) in hell”: anal worms with itching, convulsions, picks nose
Children who react to discipline with a tantrum
Cinchona (China)
Think malaria: debility from fluid loss and periodic fever
Colocynthis
Think cholecystitis: acute abdomen with pt doubled over in pain
Gallbladder, kidney, GI
Perspiration smells like urine
“Iron bands” around abdomen
Conium
CANCER
Enlarged glands, tumours, BPH, hardness
Emotional hardness
Drosera
Whooping cough (pertussis)
- Violent paroxysmal cough
- Hold chest d/t pain, hoarse voice
- Can’t catch breath, vomit, epistaxis
Equisetum
Irritated bladder
- UTI, cystitis, incontinence
- Urging when bladder is empty
- Flow of urine drop-by-drop (ddx Cantharis [has burning])
Eupatorium
Bone pain with fever
Influenza with great soreness
Better: perspiration (except during headache)
Euphrasia
Eye: burning tears, allergies
Nasal discharge is bland (ddx Allium, has discharge like faucet)
Hayfever
Ferrum phos
Fever sudden, bright red blood
Sudden high fever with few other symptoms
Hemorrhage
Sand under the eyelids
Gelsemium
Flu remedy for flu with dull, drowsy, droopy, dizzy
Fright causing them to freeze –> “freeze like GEL”
Better: continued motion
Glonoinum
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)
Graphites
Skin eruptions that ooze like honey
For example, scaly, cracked skin, eczema, psoriasis
Hepar sulph
Sharp splintering pains
Throat infection with sharp splinter pains and boils
Vulnerability on all levels
Hyocymus
Mania of quarrelsome and obscene character
Similar to Belladonna
Fantastic mania (Vithoulkas)
Picture aggravated homeless person
Hypericum
Nerve injuries
Shooting pains
Injury to fingers/toes/coccyx
Ignatia
Grief, spasticity
Ailments after grief, with hysteria
Sensation of a lump in the throat, sighing
- Fears*: birds
- Worse*: coffee
Ipecac
Persistent nausea and vomiting with no relief
A clean tongue
Kali bich
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”)
Kali carb
Asthma, chronic sinusitis, back pain
Respiratory problems, stitching pains
Rigid, dogmatic, conservative, proper, loyal
Lachesis
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
Ledum
Puncture wounds, tetanus, bites, injuries to eyeballs, black eyes
“Punctured by a piece of LED”
Wounded part feels cold (like cold LED)
Lycopodium
GI and LV problems, superficial, cowardly
Hepatitis, sore throat
Mag phos
Cramping pains, spasms (think of supplemental mag)
Neuralgia, spasmodic dysmennorhea, spasmodic cough
- Better*: heat, pressure
- R-sided complaints*
Medorrhinum
STIs, chronic vaginitis, urethritis, cystitis, warts
High sex drive
Excess in all things
Better: seaside (sxs clear), night
Mercurius
Profuse discharges: salivation, sweat, pus
Bullae, abscess, weak immune system
- Worse*: night, during perspiration
- Worse both cold and heat*
Nat mur
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
Nat sulph
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
Nitricum
Splinters, sticking pains
Better: riding in a carriage
Nux vomica
Dyspepsia, HA, migraines, hangovers
- Worse*: cold
- Better*: warm
Type A personality
Urge to cough, deficate, urinate, but inability to do so
Phosphorus
Respiratory complaints (pneumonia, asthma)
Effervescent, gullible, hypersensitive, hemorrhage
Craves cold drinks
Phytolacca
Breast problems
Hard lesions, lymphadenopathy, mastitis
Painful red throat with burning
Platina
Localized numbness and coldness
Better walking, worse sitting and standing
Female remedy
Podophyllum
“Need a pod to poop in, in the morning”
Painless diarrhea, IBS, IBD, gurgling abdomen
Worse: early morning
Psorinum
Offensive discharges, itchy, anxious/hopeless/suicidal
Extreme sensitivity to cold (wears warm clothes in summer), frequent acute illness
Filthy smell, sweaty
Pulsatilla
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)
Pyrogenium
Sepsis, infection, cellulitis, severe influenza with delirium
Better: movement
Disparity between pulse rate and temperature
Rhus tox
“rhusty hinges”
Ligament or joint injury, arthritis
Rigidity of mind
- Better*: warm, moving
- Worse*: rest
Rumex
Cough from tickle in suprasternal fossa
Violent explosive cough with mucus
Worse: uncovering, undressing, cold air
Ruta
Lame, weak, gives out –> tendon injuries
Tendonitis, bursitis
Better: movement (pain) (ddx Rhus tox)
Sanguinaria
Acute right-sided headache
Migraines, easy flushing
Worse: light, noise
Ddx: gLonoine, Leftsided HA
Sepia
Hormonal shifts (PMS, pregnancy, menopause), nausea, weeping, irritable
Female remedy, morning sickness
Involuntary weeping (ddx Pulsatilla)
Craves: acidic foods, pickles, vinegar
Silica
Bone, tooth, and nail conditions (deficient in mineral)
Sand everywhere: teeth, shoes, bone
“Bashful stool”– constipation without urge
Worse: thunderstorms, cold
Spongia
“Sponge in your throat, so it’s all dried up”
Croup, barking cough, dry cough
Seal’s bark, burning in throat from cough
Staphysagria
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”
Stramonium
Intense fever with delirium and fear
Febrile seizures, night terrors, sunstroke
All symptoms violent, fearful
Sulphur
Skin conditions, heat, diarrhea
Intellectual, egotistical, lazy
5am diarrhea, burning feet stick out of covers
Think: dirty professor
Symphytum
Fractures and eye injuries
Blunt trauma to the eye –> Arnica for the eye
Pain in periosteum long after injury heals
Syphilinum
Ulceration (mouth, nose, genital, skin)
Abscess
Tabacum
Nausea, vomiting, motion sickness
Sudden onset motion sickness with excessive salivation
Constantly clearing throat (think smoker)
Worse: odor of tobacco, motion
Thuja
Warts, low self-esteem
Skin tags
Perfecting appearance
“Others wouldn’t like me if they knew me”
Tuberculinum
URI and bronchitis, dissatisfaction
Changes jobs frequently, desires travel, restless
Craves: smoked meats, milk
Urtica urens
Prickly feeling on skin, hives, urticaria
Skin conditions, first-degree burns, scalds
Worse: touch
Veratrum album
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”
