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Homeopathy Overview Flashcards

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aconitum napellus

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a sudden fearful trauma
comes on suddenly
fear
trauma/exposure
dilated pupils
tachycardia
PTSD

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allium cepa

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Onion allergies make u Cry, snot, & sneeze in warm rooms
Allergies
Profuse watery discharge from the eyes
Acrid Nasal Discharge
Red nose
Worse in a warm room
Sneezing and coughing

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Anacardium

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Angel and Devil Argue Over Insecurity
Good Cop/Bad Cop/Angel and Demon
Give up their beliefs to be a part of the group
Worse high emotions
Sensation of a plug - keep emotions in and they like it
Better eating/full/
Worse hungry/empty/BM/Urination
Insecurity fear of proving themselves good

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Antimonium tartaricum

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Weak old lady coughing and rocking in a chair
Coughs, thick and rattling
No expectoration
Better sitting upright
Weak
Irritable (worse kids/heat)
Drowsy
Blue lips
Poor circulation
Crave cold water but makes them worse
Better with a fan

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Apis mellifica

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Bee Stings Bring Swollen Red Pain
Bumble bee sting
Red, hot and swollen
Gouty joint
Joint pain that is hot and swollen
They are warm
Better cold application
Kidney issues (urinary issues)
Edema

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Arnica montana

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I’m Fine After Trauma
Head injury
Trauma, bruising, bleeding - Not sore from working out
Everything feels firm to them
They brush things off like they are fine
Trauma emotionally

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Arsenicum album

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Chilly, anxious, and sip warm water slowly
Chilly
Crave warm water that they slowly sip
Adamant about their health
Very anxious about their health
Super compliant patients
Everyone is out to get them
OCD - controlling health, money and others
Desire company
Fastidious, organized
Burning pains, skin conditions
Better heat application (opposite of Sulphur)
Better with heat
Burning diarrhea

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Aurum metallicum

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The perfectionist king falls into depression.
Perfectionist
Going beyond capacity - they can’t quite make it
Depression/Suicide
Better with music
Better at night
Deep pains
Syphilinum - bone cancers, deep seeded pains, depression
The best CEO- something goes wrong they get depressed and suicidal
Duty, worth are very important to them

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Baryta carbonica

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Shy Mr. Magoo with a big head.
Very large head and atrophied body
Delayed development
Lack confidence
Very shy
Need Strong routine
Slow or late in getting out of the house - shy and lack confidence
Swollen tonsils
Hypertrophy of the prostate

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Belladonna

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Scarlet fever strikes with hammering pain.
Sudden onset
High fevers
HA’s (pounding like a hammer on R side)
Dilated Pupils
Head and face are hot
Cold extremities
Worse emotions
Scarlet ohara worse
R sided HA and ear infections
Crave lemonade/lemons
Sensation that they are being led to the gallows- reacting

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Bryonia

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Workaholic dried out and stiff.
Work, Dryness, Better Pressure, Worse Motions
Constipation
Dreams about work
Very hard workers
Appendicitis

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Calcarea carbonica

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The dutiful shell-builder fears the world.
All about duty with job and family
Work themselves to exhaustion
They live in a shell
Don’t read the newspaper
The world is scary and they always have to patch their shells
Great administrators
Detail oriented
Tend to be chilly
Profuse sweat (mainly on head and feet)
Cradle cap for pediatrics
Bone and joint issues (OA and RA)
Crave indigestible things
Fears resolved with work and having people around
Craves eggs

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Cantharis

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Fiery UTI barks for relief so they can have sex.
UTI’s - raw burning, stinging pains, need to urinate, scalding burning pain
Increased libido
Better rubbing, Worse touch from others
Mania and crying with burning UTI (1st and Equisetum 2nd for UTI’s)
Like to Bark
Little urine with voiding

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Carbo vegetabilis

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Collapse, can’t breathe, need air!
Collapsed state, Air-hunger
Have to be sitting up
Apathy and indifference
Irritable
Stagnation
Chilly

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Causticum

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**Burning pains & slow paralysis; better seattle worse spokane **
Acute:
Raw burning pains on skin and elsewhere
UTI’s if holding urine on long trips
Slow progressive paralysis
MS
Worse in Spokane and better in Seattle
Better Damp Cold
Worse Dry Cold
Group protection (Family, friends)
Intolerance for social injustices
Can lead to apathy if no change is seen
Desire heat on burning pains

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Chamomilla

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The teething tantrum baby
Want to be held but worse with consolation - arch their back
Throw them out the window - frustrating
Irritable
Teething
Worse being carried

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Cina

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Super irritable child with pinworms.
Worse than chamomila
Pinworms
Super irritable - arch their back
Otitis media
Might hit the person trying to console them
Desire attention and will act out to receive it

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Cinchona officinalis (china)

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malaria cycles through painless symptoms.
First used for Malaria
Cyclical nature
Painless diarrhea, fevers, ideas
All cyclical
Slow digestion
HA’s
Fevers
All cyclical
Can be paired with Nat mur - has periodicity

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Colocynthis

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Angry kidney stone needs pressure, giving me sciatica.
Kidney stones
Better bending forward
Better firm pressure - pressing into abdomen
Come on with anger, humiliation, or big emotions
Sciatic pain

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Pulsatila

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Want to be held, sweet, and better with consolation

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Conium

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Stony, paralyzed, and suppressed.
slow progressive ascending paralysis
Prostate cancers
Hard stony glands or lymph nodes
Closed off or fixed people
Worse with suppressed sexuality
High libido

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Drosera

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bending over backwards for everyone has me coughing and suffocating, not fair.
Coughs
Venus fly trap
Feeling suffocated, trapped, suppressed
Act out violently because you feel cheated
Better bending backwards

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Equisetum

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UTI with lots of pee but no relief
UTI’s has a dull pain
Right sided kidney pain
Fullness of bladder and not better with urination
A lot of urine when voiding
Burning/cutting at the end of urination

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Eupatorium perfoliatum

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The flu gives me Bone pain and makes me crave cold drinks.
Influenza - late stage flu
Deep bone and muscle pain
Crave cold drinks
Chilly with the fever

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Euphrasia

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Opposite of allium cepa; burning eyes, bland nose
Burning, acrid eye discharge
Bland nasal discharge
Cheeks or eyes are red and irritated
Cough, day time

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Ferrum phosphoricum

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First fever, fast nosebleeds.
First sign of onset of fever
No other Sx’s besides a fever
Epistaxis - Bloody nose, quickly and often

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Gelsemium

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droopy, drowsy, dull stage fright.
Dull, drowsy, and droopy
Drooping eyelids
Everything feels heavy and will lean over in chair
Walk around slowly and get things done slowly
Everything comes on and recovers slowly
Stage freight because they lack confidence
Seem calm on the outside but are anxious on the inside
Common for the flu

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Glonoinum

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Gunpowder headache bursts in heat.
Gun powder
HA - Bursting, pulsating
Heat stroke/sun stroke
Irritable with HA
Worse sun exposure
Confusion

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Graphites

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Thick-skinned but thin body & timid.
Skin conditions
Thick skin
Skin eruptions
Can look dirty
Skinny people
Timid and lack confidence
Poor concentration and slow thinking
Excitement from small things
Laughing or crying
Better weeping
Like music cause it makes them cry

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Hepar sulphuris

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Cold abscess with fish bone throat.
Coldest remedy we have
Calc carb that has been burned
Feels like they have icicle in their veins
Icy cold pain
Abscesses, boils, otitis media
Teeth - jaw and dental abscesses
Sensation of fish bone stuck in their throat

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Hyoscyamus

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Shockingly crude and loquacious.
Shock
Hyper sexual
Crude talking/joking
Loquacious - looking for shock to see if you push them away
Fear of being abandoned or being unloved
ADD/ADHD
Aggression

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Hypericum

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pain from nerves won’t heal.
Highly nervous ending tissue
Concussions - similar to Arnica
Whiplash
Injuries that aren’t healing
Strong pain with falling on tail bone
Sciatic
Shock after injury - similar to Aconite

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ignatia amara

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Grief brings sighs and muscle spasms
Nux, Nat mur all in the same plant family
Spasticity
Quick ups and downs
Over sensative
Sighing and deep breaths
Lump sensation in their throat
Grief - Romantic idealist, things go bad and there’s lots of grief
Muscle spacity
HA’s like a nail driven into head

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Ipecacuanha

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Nausea never relieved by vomiting.
Nausea/Vomiting
Worse vomiting
Bleeding or hemorrhaging issues with N/V
Motion sickness and worse with vomiting
No relief by vomiting
Tobaccum is better vomiting
Diarrhea tends to be fermented, fowl, slimy - makes you nauseaous

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Kali bichromicum

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Thick, gluey mucus plugs the nose.
Potassium theme:
Routine, duty, family, and feeling let down by family
Everything has to be perfect
Plug, strong fixity
Allergies with pain at bridge of nose
Thick, ropey, gluey stuck mucus
Chilly
Pains that move - Pulsatilla has wondering pains (larger areas
Small area

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Kali carbonicum

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Rigid sciatica, better upright or forward with family
**Wants company, often irritable with loved ones
Fear losing control - rigid
Pains (Sciatica)
Cough
Better upright or bending forward
**

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Lachesis

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Jealous loquacious lefty.
Who’s on top? - one up someone else
Jealous
Suspicious
Better discharge
Worse going to sleep and better waking up
Better menses
Very loquacious
Tend to HTN and CV problems
Tend to not like heat
Violent
Don’t like things around their neck
Left-sided - can begin on the left and move to right
Lycopodium is opposite
Sore throat/Strep throat/ Pharyngitis (constriction)

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Ledum

A

Cold puncture wound needs ice.
Puncture wounds
Tetanus
Area looks red hot and swollen but feel cold to the person
Comes after arnica - helps get fluid back into the tissue
Chilly
Better cold applications

39
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Lycopodium

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Bloated but confident at 4pm
Lacking self confidence
Want to big and well known again
Gas and bloating
Worse 4-8pm
Right sided
Sleep on right side
Can have grief and Liver problems
Like Gelsimium and silica they struggle with public speaking
If they mess up - they will think you don’t know as much
Kiss butt to upper management and go home and kicked the dog
Treat authority better to gain respect
Impotence
Issue with wife not girlfriend on side

40
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Magnesia phosphorica

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Crampy orphan student with a hot water bottle
Orphans
Might cry themselves to sleep
Cramps: muscles, menses
Better leaning over
Better heat
Fears are like Phosphorus
Worse at twilight, thunderstorms, feeling unloved

41
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Medorrhinum

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Night owl with wild cravings and burning pee.
Recurring Cystitis,
Worse suppressed Gonorrhea
Greenish discharge
High libido
Nosode for psychotic miasm
Go to extremes to cover up a perceived weakness
Straight A’s or F’s
Adrenaline junkie because they want to cover up

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Mercurius vivus

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Sweaty, smelly, and suspicious.
Fight not Flight
Everyone is attacking me
Feels threatened
Constantly on guard
Business men can be this often
Take things personally
Stains the linens yellow - sweat
Dentition in their tongue
Metallic taste in their mouth (mercury)
Abscesses and boils on skin (foul stuff trying to get out)
Don’t like extreme temperatures
Ear infections
Tonsillitis

43
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Natrum muriaticum

A

Salted tears for the introverted loner.
Fear rejection
Hiding who they are
Huge fear of robbers - also Arsenicum (they’ll take what I have)
Going to find out who they ae
Raw emotion
Everything they talk about seems like it is fresh
Crave salt
Silent grief/Hiding who they are
Worse sun
Classic migraines
HA’s feel like tiny hammer
Dry lips - cracked in the middle
Awesome caregiver’s
Going to cry at the movies but not at a funeral
Don’t want to be seen having emotions
MS
Malaria
Bashful kidneys - try not to use a public restroom

44
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Nux vomica

A

Hungover workaholic snaps at everything.
Type-A
Super driven
EtOH
Only sympathetics are working
Parasympathetics are Not working well
Constipated - straining with stools
Stressed about the day
Feel threatened - going to extremes so gathering resources to protect themselves
Worse draft
GERD
GI complaints
Punctual
Prim/Proper business oriented

45
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Natrum sulphuricum

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The head-hit hero, green and dutiful, but hot and heavy.
Head injuries that change their personality
Can be depressed after the head injury
Suicide - won’t do it because duty prevents them
Green discharge form sinus
Hot

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Nitricum acidum

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The anxious fighter doesn’t trust but stays sympathetic.
Very sympathetic
Extremely anxious
Fighting against someone they’ve been harmed by
They don’t trust well
Feel dependent but they want space
Prostatitis after gonorrhea
Medorrhinum
Thuja
Emissions from a little bit of excitement

47
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Phosphorus

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Bright, bubbly, and bleeding easily
Burning pains
Chilly but crave cold - until they warm up and vomit it out
Bleed easily - Bright read blood
Nose, gums, rectal, vaginal
Extroverted
Never feel loved so they need others
They crave deep friendship but only surface level
They’re anxious because they took on others energy
Take on other peoples energy
Golden Retriever
Worse twilight
Worse thunderstorms

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Phytolacca

A

Hard swellings
Mastitis
Sensation of a burning hot ball
Throat or rectum
Dark red throat
Huge for Lymph issues

49
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Platina (Queen)

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Feel haughty and superior
Dislike kids
High libido
Using it to get what they want
Impulse to kill husband if there is one
Can feel isolated - not involved, stand off
Kardashians
They think everything everyone is smaller than them

50
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Podophyllum

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Diffuse, exhaustive, painless, coating the bowl diarrhea

51
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Psorinum

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Has to struggle to succeed
Doubt their own ability
Hopeful
Failure is not the end of the road
Optimistic (most optimistic remedy)
The original miasm

52
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Pulsatilla

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Thirstless
Shy and sweet
They fear forsaken and fear for survival
Malleable and change opinions easily
Can be flirty - makes them feel safe
Sx’s are always changing
Cycle problems - late or early
Lots of UTI’s
Otitis media
Teething
Yellow or green discharge
Crave cheese, ice cream, sweets

53
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Pyrogenium

A

Septic and rotten - states
Very sick
Very conscious of their heart
Everything feels hard
Offensive odor discharges
Pulse and temperature don’t match

54
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Rhus toxicodendron

A

Rusty gate feels stiff but better with motion.
Rusty gait
Worse first motion
Better movement
Stiffness
Restless legs at night
Red tip of tongue
Poison oak/ivy
Hardworking
Rhus tox (Joints) - Ruta (tendons)

55
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Sepia

A

Mom’s burnt out and says ‘Leave me alone!
Laxity of muscles
Prolapse - rectal, vaginal, uterine
Heaviness of the stomach and pelvic region
Love extreme workouts - exacerbates laxity
Menses dysregulation
Chilly
Worse 3-5pm
Irritated by family
Fight between dependence and independence
Soccer mom’s

56
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Rumex crispus

A

Coughs
Worse on inspiration
Worse change of temperature
Hair triggered cough
Worse touch
Better drinking

57
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Ruta graveolens

A

Tendon issues
Sprained ankle
Eye strain
Overuse injuries
Worse cold or getting wet

58
Q

Sanguinaria

A

HA’s/Migraines - redness and burning of cheeks (not seen in Bryonia)
Right sided
Start on occiput and radiate forward to the eye
Worse movement
Better pressure

59
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Silicea

A

Shy perfectionist feels cold and pus-filled.
Chilly
Worse cold
Very yielding but as soon as you go away they stick to their opinion
Lack grit in self-esteem
The hide a weakness (hide behind their public image)
Bashful stool
Hair and nail issues/pathologies
Worse suppression of sweat on their feet

60
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Spongia tosta

A

Croupy cough sounds like a saw.
Coughs- dry barking cough
Croup
Dry
Increased thirst
Plug in the larynx

61
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Staphysagria

A

Lords and Ladies are Quietly furious after humiliation.
Everything looks really good on the outside
All about honor and respect
Keeping up appearances
Suppressed anger - until they release with aggression
Not going to leave an abusive relationship because people will
Honeymoon cystitis
Recurrent UTI after sex
Recurrent yeast infections
They feel every drop of urine
Worse insertion
Sexual or Surgery

62
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Sulphur

A

Hot, itchy philosopher avoids bathing.
Psoric
Worse heat
Burning and sweaty hot
Have a lot of body odor
Messy appearance
Act as if they are crazy
Theorizing
Diarrhea - driven out of bed 5-6am
Egotistical
Psoriasis, Eczema
Skin conditions that produce heat
Better cold application (Opposite of Arsenicum)
Craves eggs and can smell like eggs

63
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Stramonium

A

Reacting because they feel that they are lost and alone in the woods
Fear
Feeling abandoned or forsaken
Fear of dogs, noises, anything because everything can attack them
Nightmares
Desire light - Worse light (exposed or attacked)
Anxious about salvation(religious)
Acute (everything is acute)

64
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Symphytum

A

Broken bones need a swift knitter.
Broken bones - don’t give if the bones are not set
Trauma to the orbit of th eye
Worse touch, motion, and pressure
Better warm application

65
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Tabacum

A

Seasick and pale, better with fresh air.
Sudden onset N/V
Better after vomiting
Better fresh air
Worse smoke
Worse motion
Better uncovering their abdomen
HA - feels as if there is a band around head
Stress HA

66
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Syphilinum

A

Slow physical or psychological destruction
Bone pains
Neuralgias
Depression
OCD

67
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Thuja occidentalis

A

Warty perfectionist hides flaws.
They hide things (Secrets, identities)
Forked urine stream
Feels like they have someone alive inside of them
Fear stranger, medicine, water - Everything can hurt them
If they are seen they will fall from a social height
Legs made of wood or glass
Gonorrhea,
Warts/Growths

68
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Tuberculinum

A

Better fresh air open spaces
Feeling trapped and suffocated
Affinity for the lungs
Better mountains and movement
Worse rules (kids/adults)
Difficulties in relationships
Smoked or cured meats
Like to pinch or bite mom - kids act sweet and nice
Adrenaline junkie - because they feel stuck

69
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Urtica urens

A

Food allergies/Allergies
Shell fish
Rashes
Wheals
Burns - scalding hot
Burns from the stove

70
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Veratrum album

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Stramonium, Bell, Hyoc combination
Religious - hear gods voice (for show or gain)
Lost a great social position - do whatever they can to regain their position
Desire for ice
Fevers/Flus
Cruelty
Sweating (Calc carb head, silicae feet, veratrum - forehead)

71
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Acute/Physical dosing:

A

30c

72
Q

Mental/Emotional/Constitutional dosing:

A

200c, 1M

73
Q

Potency:
X
C
M
LM

A

X - 1:10
C - 1:100
M - 1:1000
LM: 1:50,000

74
Q

With single dose homeopathy, describe what to do in the following follow up situation:
small aggravation, new sx appear

A

retake case

75
Q

With single dose homeopathy, describe what to do in the following follow up situation:
small aggravation, old sx appear

A

ideal, stay on current remedy

76
Q

With single dose homeopathy, describe what to do in the following follow up situation:
sx healing in wrong order

A

bad, antidote

77
Q

what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation:

nausea and vomiting

A

arsenicum album - fear
ipecac - unrelieved by vomiting
mag phos
sepia - vomit is milky and white
tabacum - motion sickness

78
Q

what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation:

diarrhea

A

podophyllum - water, profus, explosive with farting
veratrum album - gastritis, simultaneous vomiting

79
Q

what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation:

severe abdominal pain

A

colocynthis

80
Q

what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation:

gastritis

A

nux vomica

81
Q

what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation:

peptic ulcer

A

lycopodium - wakes at night and must eat

82
Q

what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation:

worms

A

cina

83
Q

what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation:

hemorrhage

A

ferrum phos - bright red hemoptysis and epistaxis
ipecacuanhua - hemorrhages dushing red blood, blood clots rapidly
phosphorus - post surgical bleeding

84
Q

what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation:

injury

A

hypericum - nerve injuries, shooting pain
ledum - puncture / eye wounds
nat sulph - head injury, meningitis

85
Q

what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation:

shock

A

aconite - fright/sudden
arnice - bruise, trauma
carbo veg
cinchonia - shock from hemorrhage/fluid loss

86
Q

what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation:

urinary sx

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cantharis - rapid, burning pains, hemorrhagic cystitis, dribbling after urination

equisetum - cystitis, irritable bladder, incontinence

nux vomica - cystitis with constant urge for small amts

pulsatilla - inc urgency, involuntary urination, burning during and after urinating, bladder pain after

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