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homeo wk 3 and 5 Flashcards

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characteristic symptoms

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“… the most striking, strange (odd), unusual (distinctive), peculiar (characteristic) signs and symptoms in the case are especially… the ones to which close attention should be given, because it is these… which must correspond to very similar symptoms in the symptom list of the medicine being sought…”

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ranking symptoms; which are more important?

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Mental and emotional are considered more important, according to their peculiarity

The more a symptom reveals the core of an individual, its innate nature or identity, the more it is characteristic.

  • The more intense a symptom, the more it tends to increase its characteristic value.
  • If two symptoms are equal in characteristic value, the more recent symptom has more value than the first one.
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Phosphorus key notes

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  • Charming, magnetic appeal
  • Enlarged liver and elevated
    enzymes
  • Polyps in bowels (now removed)
  • Foggy vision, suddenly, when stressed
  • Great thirst, large amounts, wants alcohol
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what do you put in repororizge

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Find the characteristic symptoms, especially “SRP” symptoms and intense symptoms

File these symptoms according to the C,L,E,M,S (put the concomitants together, the location (pathology or main complaint) together, then the etiology (if known), the modalities and sensations

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5
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what is CLEMS

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complaints
location
ethology (cause)
modalities (better or worse < >)
sensations

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6
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phsosphor toxicity

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Irritates (mucus membranes)
Inflames (serous membranes, spinal cord and nerves) Degenerates/destroys (bones, especially lower jaw and tibia)
* Fatty degeneration of blood vessels and tissues and organs of the body
* Increasing hemorrhage
* Sub-acute hepatitis
* Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch

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what is phosphor

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A phosphor is a substance that exhibits the phenomenon
of luminescence; it emits light when exposed to some type of radiant energy.

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8
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mental picture of phosphorus (5 things)

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sympathetic
sensitive
social
stimulated easily
fearful

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phosphorus affinities (3)

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acute hepatitis
pulmonary diesease
severe infectious syndromes

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10
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what food/ drink does phosphorus crave

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icy cold water

refreshing juicy food

ice cream

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phosphorus general symptoms

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restless: constant motion, nervous

burning sensation: in stomach and liver

hemorrhage: nose bleeds, profuse flow

weakness: prostration, debility

craves cold drink:

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what makes phosphorus worse

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  • Touch, physical or mental exertion
  • Twilight
  • Warm food or drink
  • Change of weather
  • During a thunderstorm
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13
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what makes phosphorus better

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  • Cold food; cold; open air; washing with cold water
  • Sleep
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physical symptoms of phosphorus

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  • Pneumonia (left lower lobe)
  • Laryngitis from talking, singing, with pain (dry, raw, sore throat)
  • Liver disease (prophylactic against viral hepatitis)
  • 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
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physical characteristic of phosphorus

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Tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin, transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous debility, emaciation, amative tendencies,

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potassium bichromate toxicity

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Acute:
Gastroenteritis followed by collapse
Acute tubular nephritis and hepatitis

Chronic:
* Mucosal lesions (thick adhesive lesions)
* Cutaneous lesions (allergic contact eczema)

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kalium bichromicum affinities

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  • Mucous membranes of stomach, bowels, and airways (including sinuses)
  • Bones and fibrous tissue
  • Kidneys
  • Heart
  • Liver (Cirrhosis of liver
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kalium bichromicum mental picture

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  • Indifferent. Indolent; aversion to mental and physical exertion.
  • Avoids human society
  • Anthropophobia
  • Weakness of memory, for dates
  • Frequent vanishing of thoughts
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kalium bichromicum general symptoms

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  • Pains occur in small spots or migrate quickly from place to place
  • Pains appear and disappear suddenly
  • Disease conditions progress slowly but deeply
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kalium bichromicum physical symptoms

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  • Greenish, thick, STICKY, stringy, lumpy discharge
  • Chronic inflammation of frontal sinus with stopped up sensation
  • Coryza with obstruction of nose
  • Rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternate
  • Fatty infiltration of liver and increase in soft fibrous tissue.
21
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kalium bichromicum modalities

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Better:
From heat

Worse:
Beer (which they crave), morning, COLD, wet weather, hot weather, undressing

22
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what are the 2 ways disease can be classified in the organon

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  1. physical/external trauma
  2. dynanmic
23
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how can dynamic diseases be subdivide into 2

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dynamic can be acute or chronic

24
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3 acute dynamic diseases

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epidemic
sporadic
individual

25
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2 chronic dynamic diseases

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miasmatic’
non-miasmatic

26
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chart of slide 5 of homeo wk 5 for dynamic disease classifciation

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27
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when does case taking begin in homeopathy

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starts right from the time the patient enters the clinic and continues until they exit the clinic. This is
even more important in acute cases.

28
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important factors in case taking

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-observation
-detail history (complete symptoms)
-physical exam
-emergency?

29
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most important skill of being a homeopath?

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unprejudiced observer

30
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what does the physician need to do when examining patienet

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  • Impartiality
  • Sound senses
  • Attentiveobservation
  • Faithfulness in recording the disease picture
31
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examples of objective symtpoms

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  • Partial heat/ partial coldness/ partial sweat
  • Position of amelioration (lying/ sitting/ carrying/
    rocking in particular position)
  • Gait – Different gaits are characterized
    by differences in limb movement patterns
32
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what is the key to homeo

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silence

Let patient speak uninterrupted

33
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when to ask direct questions in homeo

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at the end

once the patient is not able to give you more information, or if some information is missing, or the patient needs some probing or examples or other motivations to give you more information.

34
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complete symptoms- SMILE or CLEMS— what does SMILE stand for

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sesnations
modalities (< >)
intesnsity
location
ethology

35
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what to do in acute cases

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only focus on acute timeline

  • Keep in mind that acute diseases tend to have severe, more intense and clear symptoms than chronic diseases do.
  • In an acute case, limit the inquiry to the acute state only, do not dip into what has been the chronic state.
  • Record the “recent” changes that happened due to the acute state (whether related to the cause or not…)
    Get complete
36
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arnica montana- toxicity

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  • Produces conditions upon the system quite like those resulting from injuries, falls, blows, contusions or bruising.
37
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common conditions for use of arnica Montana

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Shock or trauma of injury; surgical shock; muscle injuries.

  • ARNICA is the most common medicine used in first aid. It helps reduce shock, relieve pain, diminish swelling, and begin healing.
  • ARNICA is also an excellent medicine before or after surgery since the body experiences a state of shock from these medical procedures.
  • It is used as well before and after dental surgery, and before, during, and after labor to help the mother and infant deal with the shock and stress of birth.
38
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arnica mental picture

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  • Fears touch, or the approach of anyone
  • Wants to be left alone
  • Feels bed is so hard
  • After mental strain or shock (doesn’t have to be physical)
39
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is arnica for physical or mental/emotional injuries

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both

40
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ARNICA- PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS

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Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten

Sprained and dislocated feeling

  • Soreness after overexertion
  • Everything on which he lies seems too hard.
  • symmetrical distribution of eruptions
41
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arnica modalities

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  • worse: least touch, motion, rest, wine, damp cold

-better: lying down or with head low

42
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Natrum sulphuricum affintiies

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  • a liver remedy
  • hydrogenous constitution (feels every change from dry to wet)
  • head symptoms from injuries to head, mental troubles therefrom
43
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Natrum sulphuricum - MENTAL PICTURE

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  • Lively music saddens
  • Melancholy, with periodical attacks
    of mania
  • Suicidal tendency; must exercise restraint
44
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Natrum sulphuricum physical symptoms

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  • Hepatitis; icterus and vomiting of bile
  • Liver sore to touch, with sharp, stitching pains
  • Bruised pain and urging to stool
  • Loose morning stools, worse, after spell of wet weather
  • Rheumatism, worse in damp cold weather
45
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Natrum sulphuricum modalities

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Worse:
music (makes her sad), lying on left side, dampness of basement, damp weather.

Better:
dry weather, pressure, changing position.

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NMT200 midterm (wk1-6) (22 decks)

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