Homeopathy IV Midterm Flashcards

1
Q
Anaphylaxis after bee sting
Urticaria over body after insect bit
Putrid/offensive discharges 
Chemical burns, burns that begin to ulcerate
Laceration of soft tissues
A

Carbolic acid

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2
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Injury – rupture of blood vessels
Metrorrhagia after injury
Lots of hemorrhaging

A

Millefolium

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3
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Pinpoint pupils after head injury
Sleepiness after head injury
Dread, terror, and a hell-like state
They have been injured and are freaked out

A

opium

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4
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Affinity for skin, scalp, tongue
Wounds where skin edges are ragged
Wounds bleed freely

A

calendula

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5
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Delirium
Suddenness of onset
Right-sided

A

belladonna

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6
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Dullness, can’t concentrate
Rubs foreheads, try to think
Can’t understand questions
Confusion after head injury
Hearing impaired from concussion
A

helleborus

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7
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Pt. development is arrested after head injury
Childish behavior after head injury
Strabismus-convergent
Convulsions - from being touched, from splinter, during delivery
Sadness after head injury

A

cicuta

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8
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Icy coldness but pt. doesn’t want to be covered
Sweat/breath/skin is cold
Coldness in chest comes from abdomen 
Heat in face but coldness of hands, feet, abdomen 
Heat of sun agg. diarrhea 
Chill when overheated 
Rice-water stools (cholera)
Coldness & collapse
A

camphora

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9
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Great nausea, not relieved from vomiting
Chill from over-eating
Gastric HA & Gastric fever
Hemorrhage with bright red blood

A

ipecacuanha

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10
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Watering of eyes with cough
Squirting of urine with cough
Chill

A

squilla (aka Scilla)

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11
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Stiffness or immobility, ctn’d motion
warmth
Need to keep moving
Coldness in blood vessels, burning in veins

A

Rhus toxicodendron

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12
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Suicidal after head injury

Markedly depressed, relieved/cheerfulness after BM

A

natrum sulphuricum

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13
Q

Puncture wounds
Injury is cold & pt. > cold application
Injured parts are blue/purple/mottled
> cold,

A

ledum palustre

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14
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perfectly still, lying on injured side
Dry
Have to hold chest during cough
Vomiting after injury (esp. head injury)
White tongue
Extreme thirst for cold drinks
A

bryonia alba

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15
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Influenza w/ heaviness in occiput
Ptosis of eyelids
Chills in waves up and down spine
Chills begins in hands/feet
Lots of fright and apprehension 
Never well since influenza 
Influenza in summertime
A

gelsemium

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16
Q

Injury to soft tissues that are very deep
Bruised/sore feeling after abd/pelvic surgery
Tumors form in breast after contusion
Coldness of extremity after injury

A

bellis perennis

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17
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Crush or puncture injury to nerve rich parts
Injuries to spine, esp. coccyx
Loss of memory or sadness after concussion
Lockjaw, prophylaxis of tetanus

A

hypericum perfoliatum

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18
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Lots of shock with injury 
Fearful, anxious, restless
Think they’re dying
Ailments from cold, dry wind 
Fever at night with dry burning heat 
Fever with one cheek pale/cold and other red/hot 
Lost voice after head injury 
Sunstroke from sleeping in sun 
Head congestion from exposure to sun
A

aconite

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19
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Indicated when there is blunt-force trauma
Pt. doesn’t want to be touched/approached
Perseveration after head injury
Bed feels too hard

A

arnica montana

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20
Q

Face is dull, dusty red; drugged appearance
Offensive breath, offensive d/c
Delusions body is scattered around bed
Key remedy for typhoid fever

A

baptisia

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21
Q

Affinity for periosteum
Injuries to ligaments and wrists
Injuries to eyes, cartilage, & periosteum
Injury to orbit
Infraction that heals slow
Eye strain from candlelight, sewing, and fine-work
Injuries to bone, where bone is close to skin (e.g. shin)

A

ruta graveolens

22
Q

Burning, dry fever
Swelling of any type
No thirst
Always > cold,

A

apis mellifica

23
Q

Anxious/fearful restlessness
small sips cold water
sensation of ice water running through veins OR boiling water

A

arsenicum album

24
Q

Excessive salivation and/or perspiration

Pain in coccyx during fever

A

mercurius

25
Q
Cataracts after injury to eye 
Injury is unexpected 
Vertigo  closing eyes 
Indurations 
Tumor of breast after injury 
Gradual weakness/paralysis 
Triplopia (triple vision, esp. after head injury)
A

conium maculatum

26
Q
Septic fevers
As fever goes up, pulse goes 
Purulent, offensive infections 
Bed feels to hard 
Internal chill, as if in bones
A

pyrogenium

27
Q

Sentimental in moonlight
Ecstasy while walking alone in midnight; writing poetry
White coat of tongue
Lots of eruptions
Vomiting & losing voice when becoming heating
Fever in heat of sun
Very romantic & very sentimental

A

Antimonium crudum

28
Q

Unconsciousness in sunstroke
Constricting pains like a wire/cage/hand that is shrinking/grasping
Coition is prevented by vaginismus (d/t constriction of vagina)
Affinity for heart
Sensation of expanding or constricting
Chill after exposure to heat of sun
Fever in heat of sun

A

Cactus grandifloras

29
Q

HA, sunstroke, heat exhaustion → much congestion

A

Glonoinum

30
Q

Very sensitive, morbidly sensitive
Sensitive to criticism
Extreme sensitivity of scars (cicatrices)
Pt. had operation & an orifice has been stretched

A

Staphysagria

31
Q
Sensitive to heat of sun 
HA from sun (even more so than Nat-mur)
Sensitive to piano music 
Vertigo, confusion when in sun
Selfless, don’t want to impose on others 
GI issues
Aversion to certain persons
A

Natrum carbonicum

32
Q

Surgeon’s carbo-veg
Fainting, weakness, collapse after surgery
Photophobia or visual changes after surgery of eye
Weak ankles, recurrent ankle sprains

A

Strontium carbonicum

33
Q

Pharyngitis w/ sensation of bread crumbs in throat
Loose skin in the throat, feel like they have to swallow over it
Delusions body is deformed
Lots of sneezing (can sneeze 20 times in a row)
Delusions of pregnancy when abdomen is distended

A

Sabadilla

34
Q

Left-sided
Otitis media & pharyngitis
During otitis media, very sensitive to open air & swallowing
Jealous, loquacious
Sensitive to heat of sun; HA from exposure to sun
Difficult protrusion of tongue, catching on teeth
Weakness & cold feet from walking in sun
Complaining of disease, lamenting about sickness

A

Lachesis

35
Q

Cracks, eruptions, ulcerations in corners of mouth
Teeth swords (?)
Brown discoloration of tongue
Sepsis fevers

A

Echinacea

36
Q

Sooty, black discoloration of nose and/or tongue
Black lips, grayness of face
Unconsciousness in scarlatina
Petechial w/ typhus fever
Want to escape from bed in delirium during fever

A

Chlorum

37
Q
Stitching pains 
Pains tend to be in spots 
d/c from ear is yellow
mucous & expectoration is tenacious & ropey 
Pt. is narrow-minded & rigid
Burns from steam/vapor/x-ray
A

Kali bichromicum

38
Q

Strong desire to be fanned, due to air hunger
Weakness, collapse
Marked distention of abdomen and eructations that relieve
Chill when overheated, nauseous from heat of sun

A

Carbo vegetabilis

39
Q
Irritable, cranky, demanding
Aversion to being touched, approached, looked at 
Otitis media, very sensitive to open air & wind
Teething, pain from dentition 
Headache 
Temper tantrums
Quarrelsome during delivery 
One cheek has a lot of heat to it
A

Chamomilla

40
Q

Third-degree burns, exquisite burning pain and blistering
Burns are better from cold application, cannot remove cold pack
Burning is more intense that burning of apis
Strong affinity for GU tract w/ bleeding tissues & severe burning
Burning is so bad that they dance around room in agony

A

Cantharis

41
Q

Otitis media w/ eczema behind ear
Eruptions behind ear crack
Squashing noise in ear, agg. by swallowing
Noise in ear like cat spitting

A

Calcarea carbonica

42
Q

Affinity for tonsils, LN, & inner-middle ear
d/c from ear is fetid, rotten
cracking noises in ear from chewing, blowing nose, sneezing
Noises in ear reverberate
LN around ear swell
Drinking water in sips ameliorates

A

Baryta muriaticum

43
Q

Burns & never well since

A

Causticum

44
Q

Very sensitivity to drafts and cold air
Suppuration w/ infx and wounds that heal slowly
Discharge like rotten cheese
Wants to set things on fire

A

Hepar sulph

45
Q

Right-sided (R→L)
Fanlike motion of ala nasi
Agg. 4-8PM
Purulent discharge
Chill and fever on left side of body (even though R-sided remedy)
Affinity for GI tract
Like to drink tepid/warm drinks, esp. when sick

A

Lycopodium

46
Q

Agg. 10-11AM (forenoon)
HA come on from sun
Fever burning, as if from sparks
Ascending fevers that come on in Autumn

A

Natrum muriaticum

47
Q

Very sensitive to touch & noise, esp. during fever
Vertigo during fever
White tongue & burping during fever
Chills from anger, putting hands out of cover, and uncovering

A

Nux vomica

48
Q
Wounds heal slowly & may reopen 
Splinters & other foreign objects that lead to suppuration
Sensation of hair/thread in throat
Can swallow fluids but gage on solids
Punctures 
Cat bite that festers
Lifting agg
A

Silicea

49
Q

Insect bites and burns of skin w/ itching & prickling
> gentle rubbing
Bringing breast milk back when it’s drying up

A

Urtica urens

50
Q

Skin eruptions are suppressed/come on slowly
Drastically agg. from touching cold things
Agg. wine
Affinity for brain and nerves

A

Zincum