Homeopathic Remedies Flashcards
Acontie Napellus
Trigeminal neuralgia w/ severe pain, tingling and numbness worse with cold
Fear of dying due to intensity of pain
Hypertension with tachycardia; one cheek red and one pale
Angina Attacks with fear of death
Etiology: Sudden frights, bouts of hypertension
AG: Sudden, sharp and cold, dry wind; around midnight (Insomnia)
IM: Onset of sweating
Intense thirst for large quantities of cold water
Sudden onset and intense reaction
Allium Cepa
Respiratory Infection
Eyes teary “Bland lacrimation”, nose running “like a faucet”
Better open air, cold
Worse warm air or heat
Amputation or fantum sensation
GI: Colicky pain with garlic-smelling gas
Anacardium
Ulcer and gastritis with pain that is relieve by eating
Sudden memory loss of names and things
Inferiority complex, low self-esteem, and feelings of worthlessness
Irresistible desire to cures and swear after taking bad news
Skin: Violent pruritis and eruptions; main remedy for Poison Ivy
Worse from intellectual work; on empty stomach
Improves with eating, but reappear about 2 hours later
Antimomium tartaricum
Acute cough, a lot of “rattling” mucus in the lungs they can’t bring up. Oxygenation is poor, cyanotic, whooping cough, acute drowning or near drowning
Old people, COPD
Can’t breathe well
Worse warm, better cold air
Worse lying down, better sitting up
Aversion to touch
Peevish children who cannot beat to be touched or even looked at
Apis Mellifica
Severe allergic rxn, drug rxn, “bee- sting”, edema, swelling hives , stinging & burning sensation
Swelling Eyes
Sudden onset
Worse with heat
Better cold
Thirst-less
Poor Kidney function associated with w/edema
Irritable, jealousy
Arnica Montana
Feel well and is adamant that there is no need to see a doctor
Irritable and adverse to company
Restless
Post-operative for pain
Nose bleeding while washing face
Blunt trauma to eye or orbit
Sprains, Bruises, Contusion, Muscular pain
AG: slightest touch, jolts, and movement
IM: rest and lying with head down
Arsenicum Album
Intense burning
Extreme weakness which is uncharacteristic
Extreme sensitivity to cold
Anxious about health, fear death
AG: Chilly people, COLD
IM: Ameliorated with heat
Germs, thieves; needing someone to save them
Increasingly acute, increase weakness
Very attentive and concerned about accuracy and detailed
Thirsty for sips, chilly aggravated at night/midnight to 2 AM
Aurum Metallicum (Gold)
Violent palpitation with great anxiety, that is worse at night
Heart feeling like it has stopped beating, followed by violent shock
Bones in the wrist feel like “tearing like cramps”
AG: Worse at night ; being contradicated leading to anger
IM: Open air, summer for depression, music
Desire for alcoholic drinks
Frequent and violent tendencies to anger
Sadness, despair, lacks self-confidence
Obsessive suicidal ideas
Baryta Carbonica
Delayed mental development; childish behavior
Anxiety of feeling incompetent
Needs reassurance
Agoraphobia
AG from the slightest cold leading to tonsillitis or enlargement of lymph nodes
Worse with mental exertion
Tends to be chilly
Desires eggs , sweets; aversion to fruit
Delayed intellectual progression
Slow, shy, hide when strangers are around
Belladonna
Fever with a sudden onset
Intense dryness of mucous membranes
Headache begins at 3 PM or at 11 PM and peaking at 3 PM
Craving a lemonade or lemon
Profuse sweating and variable thirst
Photophobia (AG)
Congested and warm face
AG: Change of temperature, motion, menstrual period and/or hormonal imbalance
Anything the provokes sudden reaction of the circulatory and nervous system
Bryonia
Intense drying of mucous membranes in the respiratory and digestive mucosa
Intense thirst for large quantities of cold water
Fever with progressive onset
Vertigo worsen by slightest motion
AG: Any motion, 9PM
IM: From rest, lying on painful side, better with strong pressure, relief from sweating
Mastitis
Painful joints aggrevated with movement
Calcarea Carbonica
AG: From cold, especially damp cold, from intellectual or physical effort, and full moon
IM: From dry weather
Desire eggs, sweets, and candy
Excretions with a sour and acidic odor
Localized cold sweat (esp. occiput area)
Hard working individuals that burned out to exhaustion, feels mind is weak and may go insane
Obese, gain weight quickly and easily
Cantharis
Intense burning sensation when urinating “each drop passes as if scalding water”
Ulceration of mouth and pharynx
Bloody diarrhea, foul-smelling stools
Vesiculobullous lesions with burning pains
Difficulty Breathing- Chest pains
Raw, grazed sensation of skin and mucosa
Intense burning
AG: from touch, when urinating
IM: Cold or Cold applications
Carbo Vegetabilis
Foul-smelling breath, flatulence
Tremendous bloating and indigestion
Venous stasis, cyanosis of the extremities
AG: Rich Foods or fat, from lying flat, must sit up
IM: from being fanned, on belching
Great indifference and apathy with harsh remarks, and always negative and depressed
Great irritability, especially towards family
After a debilitating illness which the individual never recovered
Overeating food and alcohol leading to dyspepsia
Respiratory failure
Causticum
Paralysis (facial, vocal cords)
Difficulty swallowing
Arthralgia (retracted tendons & muscular contracture)
Warts
Soreness and rawness of the mucous membranes
AG: Dry cold, dry wind, 4 PM
IM: Cloudy, wet or rainy weather, cough is better with cold drinks
Fear “bad will happen”
Constant desire to clear the throat with difficulty
Craving for salty foods, bacon and smoked meats
Aversion to sugar and sweets
Children are easily and excessively upset
Chamomilla
Abnormally sensitive to pain (hyperalgesic syndrome)
Agitation, anger, irritable
Children may become violent, scream, break things; inconsolable
Adults may be aggressive, despite being usually courteous and respectful
Pains are unbearable that are characterized as tingling and numbness
AG: from anger, opposition, in the evening until midnight, coffee and stimulants
IM: passive moment (being rocked, or in a car or train)
Infants that are teething
Irritable infants or children, they may hit the parent or doctor
Inconsolable children and infants, aversion to being touched
Feel hot and needs to get rid of the covers at night
Cina
Nasal and anal pruritis
Abdominal pains
Infestation with worms; pinworms
Children with a pale face and large bluish discoloration around the mouth
Convulsions or tantrums from being disciplines
Angry children who pinch at people, very frustrated and does not like parental authority
Screams when first picked up & relaxed while being carried; like to be rocked
Grinds teeth in sleep
Constant need to bore fingers into nose
Cinchona officinalis (china)
Bloated, distention of the abdomen, no relief from eructation or expelling gas
Diarrhea worse from fruit, milk
Tinnitus
Headache amerliorated from hard pressure
Disturbed thermoregulation
Hypersensitivity to touch especially the scalp (even with hair)
Heroic fantasies
Bitter taste
Fear of animals
AG: Fluid loss, from light, from cold drafts; fog; damp weather, after eating fruit, from milk
IM: From hard or strong pressure, better bending double, from heat
Colocynthis
Right-sided neural pain
Violent, cramping pains; sensation of constriction, “as if in an iron clamp”
AG: From anger, indignation, Excitement, worse with strong emotions
IM: From strong pressure on the painful area, on bending double, from heat
Aversion for all food
Highly agigtated and irritable during the painful pase
Conium
Visual disturbances, lacrimation with marked photophobia
Vertigo worse by head movement
Paralysis of the motor and sensory nerves, progressive and ascending
Difficulty emptying bladder
Adenopathy, hypertrophic tonsils
Sexual Difficulties
AG: Suppression of sexual desires, movement of the head or eyes, vertigo
IM: From heat
Drosera
Larynx and trachea irritation
Spasmodic cough at night, gasping for breath
Tickling in the larynx like it’s a feather
Oppression in the chest, must hold chest when coughing, so intense patient may vomit
AG: At night (after midnight), when lying down, from warmth in the bed, when speaking, laughing (coughing)
IM: From pressure of the hands (rib pain caused by coughing)
Cyanosis of the face due to the violent, paroxysmal coughing that the patient can’t catch breath’ can be extreme enough to cause epistaxis
Equisetum
Inflamed mucosa of the urethra and bladder
Urethral pain during micturition, burning and stinging
Bladder pain with a sensation of heaviness and fullness, not improved with urination
Urgency, decreases with full bladder
AG: Wore with motion, pressure, from pressure or contact on the bladder
IM: Better lying down in the afternoon
Equatorium perfoliatum
Influenza-type infections
Sensations of muscular aches (generalized aching)
Excruciating back pain
Constant need to change position
Tenderness of eyeballs
Intense thirst for cold water; especially during chill and rigors
Nausea, vomiting, worse during the chills, worse with motion
High fever, flu chills, especially from 7 to 9 AM
AG: From pressure on the eyeballs (think from sinuses), from movement despite agitation
Euphrasia
Clear, profuse and corrosive lacrimation, with irritation and redness of the conjunctiva
Inflammation of the eyelids with edema
Clear nasal flow which is profuse, but not an irritant
Burning of the eyes; photophobia with intense blinking
AG: From heat, sunlight
IM: Open air, cough better lying down, better in bed at night
Cough only in the daytime
Ferrum phosphoricum
Gradual slight onset of fever
Tachycardia
Alternation between paleness and redness of the face
Moist skin with out profuse perspiration
Earache
Spasmodic dry cough
Inflammation
Localized hemorrhages: epistaxis, blood-streaked sputum with a cough, otitis
AG: From movement or prolonged effort, at night when lying down and from cold air leading to coughing, from noise and light leading to headache
IM: From local cold (for headache and joint pain)
Gelsemium
First phase excitation with tremor, cramps, motor incoordination
Second phase with partial paralysis and weakness
Bradycardia, hypotension
Diarrhea (from fright, anticipation or bad news)
Great fatigue & weakness; drowsiness and stupor
Occipital headache
Diplopia
Sense heart is going to stop beating if the patient does not move
Chills running up and down the back
Thirstless during fever
Quiet individuals, reserved and timid
AG: From bad news, fright, excitement, from emotion, headache worse at 10 AM
IM: From profuse urination, from sweating, from movement or jolts (bradycardia)
Glonoimum
Violent and sudden congestive headache that is bursting and pulsating
Sudden tachycardia and/or palpitations
Intolerance to constriction like tight collars
AG: From heat (sun, heat from stove), alcoholic drinks, motion, shaking and jolts, tight collars
IM: Open air, lying in the dark, pressing head between the hands
Confusion and disorientation; sudden vertigo and LOC
Graphites
Eruptions of vesicles with vicious oozing liquid (like honey); Golden yellow to brown yellow
Pruritic and burning dermatoses, aggravated by warmth and washing
Flatulent dyspepsia with gastric pain
Constipation without urging; stools are large dry masses
Sensations: Spider cobweb on face, cold in the body and shivering, numbness of the limbs at rest
Epigastric pain with burning sensation and cramps, improved when eating with warm drinks and food, even if there is no appetite for them
Anal pains that are burning, pruritic, and stinging (hemorrhoids)
AG: From cold (but desire for fresh air), from warmth in bed, during menses
IM: from movement in open air, when eating (for gastric pain)
Hepar sulphuris
Hypersensitive to pain & cold air, sensitive to contact
Children have sour-smelling stool
Pain feels like a thorn or splinter in the are of the local inflammation
Ears are sensitive to wind or open ear
head is sensitive to touch
AG:From cold, cold drafts, winter, from the slightest contact, when uncovering a hand or foot
IM: from heat, and when warmly wrapped
Purulent excretions, like old cheese, sour odors in chronic cases
Sweat is sour
Desire for acidic food
Agoraphobia
Cold Extremities
Hypersensitive children, they are quick in action like speaking and eating quickly, impulsive, irritable inclined to sudden violent bouts of anger
Etiology: Infectious disease with suppurative (pus
Hyoscyamus
Spasms, muscular tremor or jerking, convulsions
Tremors can be rhythmic and bizarre
Spasmodic cough that is worse lying down
Drowsiness followed by agitation, insomnia, delirium, hallucinations
Cal delirium with mumbling and a tendency to fall asleep
Hyoscyamus involves short periods of excitation and long periods of fatigue
Incontinence (rectal and urinary)
Sensation of levitation, letters seen to jump or move when reading
AG: When lying down (cough), from emotions, jealousy, fright
IM: when sitting up (cough)
Etiology: Nervous exhaustion from intellectual work, sleep deprivation, prolonged worrying
Hypericum
Intense pain of nerve endings
Unbearable pain
Injury remedy, especially for injuries to the nerves and spine
Sharp and shooting quality pain
AG: From contact and joiting, in the cold and damp weather
Etiology:
All types of trauma that affects the central and peripheral nervous system
Cutaneous photosensitization
Ignatia amara
Hypersensitivity to emotion and grief; feelings are easily hurt, easily offended
Ailments after grief, or romantic disappointments; tendency to be jealous
Paradoxical symptoms- inflamed joints are better when pressed, sore throat is better when swallowing
Fear of bird
Hypersensitive to the smell of tobacco, sensation of lump in throat
Headache feels like a “nail is driven in the parietal or occipital region”
AG: from emotion, from stimulants like sugar, from strong tobacco smell
IM: from traveling, in the rain
They have deep says, cheerful, but become sad, tearful with grief when stressed or upset. Easily cry, but mood is changeable.
Craves cheese, aversion to fruit. Dreams of water
