Homeo Obesity - Liver Flashcards
What does the CLEMS framework stand for?
C: Complaints
L: Location
E: Etiology
M: Modalities
S: Sensations
What are the key characteristics of Phosphorus?
- Charming and magnetic appeal
- enlarged liver and elevated enzymes
- foggy vision under stress
- craves cold drinks and alcohol
what are the modalities associated with phosphorus?
Symptoms worsen with touch, exertion, and warm food and TWILIGHT or during a thunderstorm; improve with cold and sleep and with COLD FOOD
what are the mental picture of Kali Bichromicum?
- indifferent and avoids mental/physical exertion
- avoids human society
- anthropophobia
- weakness of memory (dates)
- frequent vanishing of thoughts
what are the modalities associated with Kali Bichromicum?
symptoms improve with heat and worsen in cold and wet conditions
- also worse with beer which they crave
what are the physical symptoms of Kali Bichromicum
- Greenish, thick, STICKY, stringy, lumpy discharge
what are the general symptoms of Kali Bichromicum?
pains occur in small spots or migrate quickly from place to place
what are the affinities of Kali Bichromicum?
- mucous membranes of stomach, bowels, and airways
- bones and fibrous tissue
- kidneys
- heart
- liver (Cirrhosis of liver)
what are the physical characteristics of Kali Phosphorus?
tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin, transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous debility, emaciation, amative tendencies, seem to be under the special influence of phosphorus
what are the physical symptoms of phosphorus?
- Pneumonia
- Laryngitis from talking, singing, with pain (dry, raw, sore throat)
- liver disease
- fatty degeneration, tumours, growths, caries
- Nausea/vomiting from hot drinks
- vomiting; water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach
- post-operative vomiting
what are the general symptoms of phosphorus?
- restless
- burning sensation
- hemorrhage (nose bleeds, profuse flow)
- weakness
- craves cold drink
what are the affinities of phosphorus?
- acute hepatitis
- pulmonary disease
- severe infectious syndromes
what does phosphorus mental picture look like?
- sympathetic
- sensitive
- social
- stimulated easily
- fearful
what does phosphorus toxicity look like?
- irritates (mucus membranes)
- inflames (serous membranes, spinal cord and nerves)
- degenerates/destroys (bones, especially lower jaw and tibia)
- increasing hemorrhage
- subacute hepatits
- great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch
