Homeopathy Flashcards
Silicea
POLYCREST
Acute: abscesses, foreign bodies, swellings, inflammation, sweaty
Constitution: stubborn with strong opinions and won’t change opinions but also yielding, delicate, and weak. They tend to fear failure.
Other: sweaty and perspiration that smells
Spongio tosta
Acute: COUGH with SEAL bark, goiter, testicular issues
Staphysagria
POLYCREST
Acute: styes, sharp cuts, sexual abuse, issues after pelvic surgery
Constitutional: sweet but suppressed anger that will throw shit when gets mad, passive, pelvic and abdominal issues, sexual excess
**think S in staphysagria and all the S’s in this picture
Stamonium
A: intense fever with delirium and fear
C: VIOLENT and FEARFUL with a murderous rage and impulsive issues. Feear of a lot of shit like death, dark, water, alone, and sexual abuse. Often sexual abuse hx
Sulphur
POLYCREST
A: SKIN and blood Sugar issues
C: intellectual with social and emotional lack of skills but also a huge ass ego that is very critical of others
To note: diarrhea in the morning (5 am) drives them out of bed
Symphytum
A: eye injuries(sympheyetum) and fractures
*specific remedy for blunt trauma to the eye or pain in periosteum after an injury heals
Syphilinum
A; profuse, thin, watery, green, acid leukorrhea in females
C: ulcers and tissue necrosis with destructive behaviors - alcoholics and gamblers. They may also have strong fears of getting infections, OCD, going insane and not recovering
*always washing their hands and excessive saliation while sleeping
Tabacum
A; N/V, motion sickness
*icy cold and always clearing throat
Thuja occidentalis
A; Warts, lumps, bumps, BPH
C: these individuals feel like they have never been ok since they got the vaccine and like so hide their true self because they have feelings of fragility and deep isolation
*craves raw onons
Tuberculinum
A: URTI, bronchitis, coughs, OM
C: tend to be romantic but dissatisfied. They want to travel to mountains and areas with dry air because they feel better but they are restless, and violen
*dark hair along spine with midline deformities
Urtica urens
A: skin conditions - excellent for 1st-degree burns, prickly sensations, and also hives
*urticaria alternating with rheumatic pain
Veratrum album
A: Diarrhea, dysmenorrhea, shock/collapse, exhaustion
C: Extreme cold to the point of being blue with a cold sweat on my forehead. Think restless, religious manic, delusions, doomsdayers, manipulative, then collapses
Euphrasia
A: conjunctivitis, allergies, hay fever, nasal discharge and tears that are bland or acrid
Ferrum phosphoricum
A: SUDDEN high fever with few other sx
C: bright, easy to talk to but easily flushes. If they become ill, they get irritable, nervous, sensitive, etc
*Bright red blood and feeling of sand under eyelid
Causticum
POLYCREST
A: burns, neuro problems and ailments after rape
C: sympathetic, activists, grief
SRP: must swallow scanty expectorations, craves salt and meat
Chamomilla
A; teething, painful OM and colic
C: wants to be firmly held by loved ones but inconsolable. Intense sweating.
SRP: fever with one cheek pale and one red
Cina
A: Convulsions, worms, ADHD
C: CHILDRENS REMEDY d/t extreme irritability and tantrums
SRP: nose picking and wants to be rocked but not touched
Cinchona officinalis (china)
A: nervous exhaustion, debility, shock
C: introverted + moody + artistic + very sensitive with sudden outbursts
SRP: fantasizes about heroic deeds
*better with firm pressure when touched but worse with light pressure
Colocynthis
A: acute abdomen and colic of any type
C: rigid, black/white types, averse to Contradiction and easily angered.
Doubled over in pain and better leaning forward
Conium
A: glandular enlargements of many types - tumors, BPH, etc
C: affinity for GLANDS with slow progressive onset, person feels “bruised by blows” and can be down to earth or practical. They can become emotionally hard = closed, flat, indifference
Drosera
A: paroxysmal cough, hoarse voice, holds chest d/t pain of cough
*cough and unable to catch breath and may vomiting from cough
Equisetum
A: URINARY ISSUES
*urging when bladder is almost empty
SRP: flow or urine is drop-by-drop
Eupatorium perfoliatum
A: Bone pains + fever or flu
- better with perspiration and talking
*worse with movement
Sepia
POLYCREST
A: pregnancy complaints - nausea from smell of food, PMS, menopause, etc.
C: hormonal stasis, apathy, indifferent, burned out and irritable and the person is introverted. Will yell at children then feel guilty and also involuntarily weeps, doesnt want sex
Rhus toxicodendron
POLYCREST
A: ligament and joint injuries, herpetic eruptions and chicken pox
C: cheerful and friendly but also shy, they have an inner aggitation and restlessness = frustration = depression or OCD. they will have lots of physical complaints - muscle and joint stiffness but wont have mental sx
*think arthritis pain that gets better once movement like a rusty hinge and also worse with cold
Pyrogenium
A: pus/infx/sepsis
*SRP = disparity between pulse rate and temp = high temp with slow pulse
Pulsatilla
POLYCREST
A: measles, OM, cough, HORMONAL issues, bronchitis, etc.
C: very weepy and emotions that change very quickly. they do not like fatty foods but they crave them. they can also be clingy, indecisive, and are run by their emotions
Rumex crispus
A: cough from tickle in suprasternal fossa hat is better covering head and mouth
*pressure in suprasternal fossa triggers their cough
Ruta graveolens
A: periosteal and tendon injuries: tendinitis, MSK, S/S
C: stiffness, anxious, critical, feels injured part is weak and they feel better with movement
Psorinum
A: only in chronic conditions
C: ALl secretions have filthy smell - ears, skin, eyes, nose. Perspiration with slight exertion. They are very melancholy with SI and so focused on dsappointment, poverty.
*very chilly and has extreme cold sensitivity - they even wear warm clothes in the summer (SRP)
Sanguinaria
A: acute headaches - R sided, and migraines that are worse with light and noise but better when lying down and peeing a lot
*easy flushing and red flushed face, rust-colored sputum
pattern: start in am, worsen in the afternoon, improve in PM
Gelsemium
A; weakness, HA, and fever - main flu remedy
C: Think dull, drowsy, dumb, droopy, dizzy and weak
SRP: lump in throat which cant be swallowed
Glonoinum
A: THROBBING headaches, migraines that come and go
* left sided
C: Confusion, suddenly violent
SRP: worse heat around the head and feels like head with explode or their skull feels too small for brain
Graphites
A: skin eruption with scaly, cracked skin, and fissures, impetigo, eczema, etc that has ozzy honey-like fluid
C: simple and down to earth but obese, cold and constipated
*left sided
Hepar sulphuris
A: croup, asthma, otolaryngeal infx that smell like old cheese
C: vulnerable - easily suppurates, irritable, peevish
SRP: extremely sensitive to cold air
*ONE OF COLDEST REMEDIES
Hyoscyamus
A: MANIA, tics, spasms, seizures, convulsions
C: talks a lot, wants to expose self, uncontrollable nerve movements, they tend to be jealous, aggressive, and suspicious
*worse after eating, sleep, menses, evening/night
Hypericum
A: nerve injuries, shooting pains, injuries to fingers/toes
Ignatia amara
POLYCREST
A: ailments AFTER GRIEF WITH SPASTICITY, HYSTERIA OR SENSATION OF LUMP IN THROAT and spasms
C: SIGHING, spastic, sensitivive and tends to be a perfectionist and artitistic but feels betrayed and in denial
SRP: fear of birds
Ipecacuanha
A: persistent N/V without relief
SRP: nausea with clear tongue and is full of desires but doesnt know for what, tends to be irritable and obese
Kali bichromicum
A: MAIN REMEDY FOR SINUSITIS WITH THICK, STRINGY, YELLOW MUCUS
C: conformists with “gluey” personality - sticks to rigid rules
Kali carbonicum
POLYCREST
A: asthma, chronic sinusitis, respiratory issues, insomnia d/t inability to stop thinking
C: rigid, dogmatic, proper, loyal, doesnt like change, anxious
Lachesis
POLYCREST
A: L-sided - purple red sore throat or abscess, CNS sx, circulatory issues
C: L -sided and cant stand constraints, talkative, jealous, lashes out, paranoid, suffocation
*any flow brings relief
Ledum
A: Puncture wounds, bites, rheumatic complaints
C: irritable, alcoholics
SRP: wounded part feels cold but wants cold
Lycopodium
POLYCREST
A: GI/liver disorder - R to left sore throat and respiratory issues
C: inferiority complex and a bully, Right sided, superficial, flam boyant, fear of commitment, grump and hungry when waking
FULL OF HOT AIR d/ sx of gas and bloating and intellectual posturing
Magnesium phosphorica
A: cramping pain/spasm, neuralgia, teeth issues
C: oversensitive and irritable, mentally similar to phosphorus
Medorrhinum
A: chronic vaginal sx at onset of new sexual partner with high sex drive
C: excess in all things and passion and promiscuity
*craves thrills to the point of dangerous activities but better near the seaside and at night
Mercurius vivus
A: tonsilitis and glandular swelling with profuse suppuration, bone cancer/dz
C: extreme weakness with no relief from excessive oily perspiration and very sweaty with excessive salivation
Natrum muriaticum
POLYCREST
A: GRIEF, water d/c disorders
C: emotionally vulnerable with respressed feelings but a perfectionist. AILMENTS FROM OR DISAPPOINTED LOVE, depression after loss
Natrum sulphuricum
A: chronic bronchitis or pneumonia with rattling cough
C: suicidal melancholy, serious, responsible. Problems after head injury - depression or SI, diabetes after grief
*worse with tight belt and pants
Natrum phosphoricum
A: any dz with yellow creamy d/c and GREEN diarrhea
C: yellow, creamy dx from eyes or as tongue coat, forgetful and easily frightened
*grief + depression + sympathy + fear
worse with mental exertion and butter/fat/sour vinegar
Nitricum acidum
A: splitter or splitter-like pain - mucus membrane with cracks, pain, and ulcers
C: offensive odor with perspiration and d/c and overall just negative about life. Very irritable with family feuds and friend feuds. Selfish and hypochondriacs
CHILLY
Nux vomica
POLYCREST
A: dyspepsia and complaints from overeating, headaches/migraines
C: TYpe A personalities and oversensitive with foody mind, bad tempers, etc.
Wants to but cant
Phosphorus
POLYCREST
A: respiratory complaints, hemorrhage
C: effervescent, gullible, hypersensitive, fearful, fears loneliness and death
SRP: craves cold drinks
Phytolacca
A: hard lesions, lumps, breast problems and lymphadenopathy
glandular remedy and right sided
Plantina
A: cramp-like and squeezing pain
C: pride and contempt for others, vacillate between sadness and happiness, mental symptoms alternate with physical sx - ALWAYS genital involvement of some sort
Podophyllum
A: painless diarrhea, alternating constipation and diarrhea - offensive and exploding diarrhea
C: affinity for intestines, liver, uterine, and ovarian with depression and talkative
SRP: scalloped moist burning tongue
Carbo vegetabilis
A: shock, hypothermia, asthma, COPD
C: apathetic, negative, irritable, collapsed states and weakness
SRP: wants to be fanned
Cantharis
A: UTI and cystitis with urging, pain, severe burning
C: angry, irritable, sexual mania, rapid onset, destructive to tissue and excessive sexual desire unrelieved by masturbation or sex
BURNING PAIN
SRP: scalding urine passed drop by drop
Calc Carb
POLYCREST
A: Dyspnea on exertion, swollen glands, premenstrual breast pain, soft or brittle nails
C: obstinate, responsible, lots of fears and anxieties but workaholic that crashes when the task is finished
*common remedy for chubby, sweaty and sour-smelling babies with large heads
SRP: worse cold but wants cold drink
Bryonia
A: pain worse with the slightest touch or motion and acute conditions that slowly develop
C: material success is a major concern and will become depressed and anxious if financial security is threatened
better lying on injured part (like arnica)
Aconite
A: sudden acute conditions with any element of fright, shock, exposure, sudden onset of illness, inflam, and trauma, anxiety and fear of death
**predicts the time of their feared death and fear of failure*
C: strong and healthy, low self esteem so therefore feels like they need to prove themselves
ailment from exposure to cold, dry wind, fright, or sudden shock, and sudden onset
Allium cepa
A: acrid nasal discharge and bland tears (opposite of euphrasia), common cold with burning pain that alternates from side to side (left to right usually(
Anacardium
A: nervous dyspepsia and reflux that is better with eating
C: delusions, hallucinations, hearing voices, lack of confidence, poor memory, itchy skin conditions
SRP: for rheumatic conditions - feels like as if a band were around it
Antimonium tart
A: rattling mucus in chest and can’t expectorate, cyanosis, coated white tongue that is better sitting up
*SRP: averse touch but likes to be carried (like cina)
Apis mellifica (Apis)
A: edema, shock, allergy, anaphylaxis, bee stings, inset bites, hives
C: queen bees, over protective, loyal with a tendency for jealousy and angered when pestered
Arnica montana (arnica)
A: bruising, S/S
C: morose imagination, restless, pessimistic
*they think they are well but they arent and injured part feels bruised
Arsenicum album
POLYCREST
A: food poisoning, excessive diarrhea and/or vomiting - purging from both ends
C: restless, anxious, fear of disease - may even call doctor often for reassurance and question treatment plan, physical weakness, perfectionist that are meticulous
Aurum metallicum
A: heart conditions, grief, depression with suicidal ideation (same with nat mur)
C: serious, intimidating, hopeless, angry, successful, perfectionists, SI and grief
*better with music
Baryta carbonicum
A: enlarged glands or organs
C: mental, emotional or physical immaturity, mental weakness, dependent on caregivers and lack of self-confidence
tends to be chilly and desires sweets
Belladonna
POLYCREST
A: bright red face, red throat, violent, head
CL violent, sensitive to everything when ill, strong, energetic, upbeat
blind as a bad, red as a beet, dry as a bone, hot as a hare, mad as a hatter
