Homeopathy review Flashcards
bone remedy
trauma to eyes and orbit
phantom limb pain, or bone pain after healed fracture
droopy eyelids
sensation as if eyelid passed over a lump when it closed
Symphytum
Cough remedy Rattling mucus in chest on inspiriation, can't expectorate asthma at 3 am cough in elderly in winter months cyanosis sleepiness during cough violent low back pain "coccyx is dragging" Better: sitting up, being held, belching Worse: cold weather, sour, milk
Ant. Tartaricum
Cough remedy
Convulsions: shrieking, jerking, twitching paroxysms of cough, spasms, spastic pains.
asthma, epilepsy, convulsions after suppressed eruptions
blue face during convulsions, sudden suffocation
uses unintended words, thumbs drawn down, fists clenched
Better: cold water, left side
Worse: 3am, sleep or lying in bed, coition, suppression
Cuprum
Cough remedy
paroxysmal cough caused by lying down, holds chest during cough
vomiting with cough, whooping cough
cough causes nose bleed
asthma while talking
Worse: lying down, after midnight, using voice, warmth, drinking
Drosera
Cough remedy
Worse: cold open air, uncovering, inspiration, on waking, touch, changes in temperature
Cold air causes a tickle in the throat triggering cough
May have skin itching
Worse undressing or uncovering
pressure in sternal fossa causes cough
Rumex
Cough remedy Better: farting, vomiting, right side Sudden HA/Migraines on right side easy flushing Hay fever, coryza, Cough is hacking, substernal, tickling sensation, Hot palms and soles
Sanguinaria
Cough remedy dry cough, harsh or barking Worse: before midnight, sweets, eating or drinking, extends head back, leans forward Cough like a saw through wood Better with heat
Spongia
Cough remedy
weakness and debility in respiratory conditions, debilitated, discouraged
hoarseness, green-yelllow copious expectoration
empty feeling in chest
cannot speak due to weakness
cough during the day comes and goes with the sun
Better: lying down
Worse: slight exertion, talking, 4-6PM
Stannum
Fever/URI remedy
profuse acrid water discharge from nose, bland eye discharge
hay fever, common cold, HA during coryza, nasal discharge may excoriate the lip
HA from closing eyes, sensitive to flower odors
Tearing pain in larynx on coughing
Worse: warm rooms, wet feet, evening, cold air
Better: open air, menses
Allium cepa
Fever/URI remedy thirstless Right Sided MUCH WORSE: heat sudden screams, burning, stinging pain First Remedy for allergic reactions!!! Worse: touch, sexual suppression, 3 AM Better: cold, exercise
Apis
Fever, URI Remedy
Malodorous, offensive secretion, rapid onset of flu
diarrhea with putrid stool
purple face (heavy and numb), painless, dusky red throat
falls asleep mid-sentence
feeling of being scattered around the bed
gags on solids but not liquids
Worse: after 2am, after first waking, after food
Baptisia
Fever, URI Remedy thirstless, right sided OM dilated pupils, dry high fever obstinate, violent, hallucinations Bruxism, sleeps on abdomen fears: dogs and water Worse: 3PM, heat, sun, right side, turing in bed, bending forward Better: pressure
Belladonna
Fever, URI Remedy
bone pain
great thirst for cold drinks, especially during chill
chills begin in lower back, ascend
pain in eyeballs
Better: on hands and knees, conversation, perpiration
Eupatorium
Fever, URI remedy
acrid tears with bland nasal dc
conjunctivitis, allergies, eyes burning/irritated
Cough only in daytime
Better: lying down, at night, open air
Worse: sun, heat
!!!!!Tears burn but bland nasal discharge!!!!!
Euphrasia
(Compare to Allium Cepa:
Allium has bland eye discharge but acrid/burning nasal discharge.
Euphr has acrid/burning eye discharge but bland nasal discharge!)
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But
AAAAlium burns the nAAAAAsals
Fever, URI Remedy
bright red blood
anemic, pale, nervous, sensitive, flushes easily
sudden onset of flu
tonsils are red, swollen, high fever but no localizing symptoms
Feeling of sand under eyelids
Better: cold
Worse: night, 4-6am, motion or touch, right side
Ferrum p.
Fever, URI remedy
oversensitivity to all stimuli
irritable, chilly
WORSE cold, alone, touch
intolerant to drafts, odors,
swelling and itching of glands with stitching/needle-like pains
Croup after cold
Extreeemely sensitive to cold, coldest remedy
Pharyngitis like a fish bone in the throat
Hep. Sulph
Fever, URI remedy Thick gluey, stringy, ropey dc esp from nose pains in one spot sensation of hair on tonuge asthma worse at night, esp 1-2AM stomach complaints (PUD, colitis) alternate with asthma, rheumatism chilly, worse cold Worse: undressing, cold, in AM, Better: heat, motion, pressure Allergic to Beer!
Kali Bichromm
Fever, URI remedy
Fearful, night terrors, tempre probnlems, murderous rage
Fears: death, dark, water (but thirsty), alone
febrile convulsions, violent epilepsy
Worse: bright shiny objects, fright, darkness, alone, during sleep, swallowing,
Better: bright light, company, warmth
Stramonium
Fever, URI remedy
romantic, unfulfilled, needs change and excitement
frequently changes jobs
desire and passion for travel
irritable, obstinate, hyperactive, restless
Milk allergy
Worse: before storms, cold damp weather, from getting wet, in evening
Better: in mountains, warm dry weather, open air
Tuberculinum
GI remedy anal or rectal problems diarrhea from beer tip of nose feels cold Worse: heat, early AM, food or drink (esp beer)
Aloe
GI Remedy
convulsions associated with worms
pale or blue discoloration around mouth
pinworms, rectal itching
grinds teeth in sleep
cramping diarrhea
Better: knee-to-chest position or with pressure
Worse: light touch, mothers milk, night, summer
convulsions from being scolded, tantrums in children
irresistible urge to bore finger into nose
Cina
GI remedy
colic- biliary/kidney stones
R sided dysmenorrhea, doubled over in pain
impatient, easily angered
neuralgia, feeling of being clamped with iron bands
Better: pressure, lying face-down, bending double, heat
Worse: anger, 6AM or 4-5PM
feeling of stones being ground in abdomen
perspiration smells of urine
colocynth
GI remedy
persistent nausea and vomiting (nausea not relieved by vomiting)
gushing red blood
full of desires but doesn’t know for what
Worse: warmth, moist
Better: open air
Ipecac
GI remedy; R sided
cowardice, low confidence, bluffing, egotism
anxiety about health
domineering/subservient, performance anxieties, premature ejaculation
craves sweets; big appetite but easily satiated
Bloating, distension, rumbling
deep furrows of brows, cracks in heels
Better: farting, evening, midnight, open air
Worse: morning, 4-8PM, missing meals
Lycopodium
GI Remedy
HA with deathly nausea
sinking in stomach, suden onset
Better: open air, uncovering abdomen, constantly clears throat
Worse: opening eyes, movement of any kind, tobacco odor
incapacitation motion sickness
salivation, pallor, nervous tremor, loquacity, spasms
Tabacum
GI Remedy
acute diarrhea, travelers diarrhea, alternating constipation with diarrhea
offensive liquid sputtering diarrhea esp in AM, soils whole toilet bowl.
empty, sinking feeling after stool
gurgling in abdomen before stooling
scalloped tongue, thirsty for cold water
Worse: early am, 4-5AM, heat
Podophyll.
GI Remedy
Hyperactive, restless, obedient children
meaningless, repetitive actions, precocity,
delusions of religion
extremely cold to the point of being blue
profuse cold, sweats on forehead
gastroenteritis with vomiting and diarreha
simultaneous vomiting and diarrhea during menses
faints at least exertion
religious mania- street corner preacher
Desires: sour, fruit, ice, cold drinks even though they are cold
Veratrum album
Glandular Remedy responsible, strong sense of duty. Anxiety of health and others. works to exhaustion, obese, flabby skin, puts on weight easily, DOE ASA allergy constipation without urge Craves: eggs, sweets, ice cream Fears: mice, heights cold yet desires cold drinks perspires on head during sleep, frequent sour belches cold feet at night, wears socks to bed
Calc Carb
Glandular Remedy
tumors are hard, induration of glands, tissue feels hard
Breast cancer, breast tenderness
vertigo, lacrimation, photophobia, night sweats
Progressive ascending paralysis,
Perspiration on closing eyes to sleep
Right sided, Worse: light
Conium
Glandular Remedy
Hardness, breast problems Right sided complaints, LA
Throat better cold drinks, worse warm drinks
Weight loss, abcesses after injury, mastitis
pain at tendon insertions
Phytolacca
Grief Remedy suicidal Better: music grief from financial loss, losses or romantic loss perfectionist, high standards religious, spiritual, desires prayer
Aurum
Grief Remedy idealistic, sympathetic, intolerant of injustices R sided bell's palsy fear that something bad will happen constant desire to clear throat Craves: salt, smoked meats Urinary incontinence from sneezing/coughing neurological conditions
Causticum
Grief Remedy Ailments from grief, fright, romantic disappointments easily offended, sighs Avoids crying desire to be alone HA as if nail in side of head perspires only on face, lump in throat Fears: birds Worse: consolation, sweets, tobacco, coffee, AM, open air Better: traveling, lying down, eating
Ignatia
Grief Remedy vulnerability to emotional injury sad yet unable to weep, averse to consolation herpetic eruptions on face HA like hammer beating on head school-girl HA
Nat Mur
Grief remedy weepy, emotional, thirstless symptoms constantly changing, empathetic, yielding, run by emotions Better: consolation, cold crisp air Worse: heat, fatty foods, 2-4PM conjunctivitis, OM, throbbing and pulsating pains sleeps with hands over head sense of cold water running down back dry mouth without thirst "Mommy do you still love me?"
Pulsatilla
Grief remedy sweet, suppressed patients ailments from grief throws things when angry, weeps during interview low self-esteem, depression sexual excesses HA like a block of wood trembles from emotion or anger psoriasis honeymoon cystitis Worse: anger, sleep, napping, grief, masturbation, after surgery Better: after breakfast, warmth
Staphysagria
Hemorrhage remedy, L sided sympathetic, hypersensitive, Fears: lonliness, death, easily frightened, spiders, lightning easily dehydrated, blood sugar problems nose bleeds in children tremendous thirst for cold every cold goes to chest craves: cold drinks, ice cream, chocolate, salt, spicy foods, alochol
Phos.
Injury remedy with bruising, contusion, injured part feels bruised everything feels too hard think they are well, "leave me alone, I'm OK" cough from weeping fear of being approached nose bleed from washing face worse exertion
Arnica
Injury remedy- puncture wounds, stings, bites with much swelling, inflammation
wounded part feels cold
worse cold applications
tetanus, swollen, numb injury with ascending rheumatism
Ledum
Injury remedy, esp head injuries Diabetes after grief morning diarrhea brown bitter tongue coat cheerful after stool weeps from music
Nat Sulph
Acute
muscle twitch, loquacious, fear of cancer
pain like being pierced by needles of ice
neurological remedy
cough ends in sneeze
Worse: before thunderstorm, coition
spasms of eyelids or face, MS, convulsions, chorea
Agaricus
Acute confusion as to location sunstroke pulsating, bursting HA, feeling as if head will explode skull feels too small for brain HA worse alcohol, motion, jarring, heat irritability from slight opposition
Glonoinum
Acute cramping pains, spasms right sided, worse cold Right sided facial neuralgia abdominal colic, dysmenorrhea irritable, sensitive
Mag Phos
Anxiety, especially of health, insecurity, restless, fastidious Right sided Worse: cold, 12-2AM, at the seaside, being alone desires sips of warm water fears: death, disease, robbers, poverty offensive, acrid dc acute water diarrhea Better: milk, heat
Arsenicum
Weakness, dull, drowsy
trembling after fright
stage fright, fever, shaking
Worse: anticipation, fright
HA at occiput that is better with urination
lump in throat which cannot be swallowed
feels need to be in motion or heart will stop beating
Better: being alone, alcohol, leaning forward, continued motion
Worse: bad news, damp
Gelsemium
Rigid, dogmatic, conservative
stitching pains, swollen eyelids
Worse: cold, drafts, 2-4AM, lying flat
cannot break even a trivial rule
Kali Carb
Left sided, forceful, passionate, jealous
Fears: snakes
hemorrhagic with dark bluish blood
sensitive to touch
Better: flow of dc/ menses
Worse: heat, on waking, suppression of dc
Craves: alcohol, wheat
Lachesis
Extreme, passionate behavior problems, esp in children chronic vaginitis, urethritis or cystitis esp after new relationship with high sex drive burning on soles of feet Averse: eggplant sleeps knee-to-chest Better: Seaside, at night Hx of gonorrhea or early heart disease (PMHx or FHx)
Medorrhinum
Type A, workaholic, irritable, ambitious, always cold, oversensitive
Craves: spicy, fatty foods
constipation with ineffectual rg
imsonia- wakes at 3AM and cannot sleep dt thoughts about work
ambdominal cramps, constipated
abuses stimulants
Nux Vom
Ailments from hormonal changes indifference, involuntary weeping, sarcastic aversion to company, indifferent to family menopause pregnancy complaints averse to smell of food craves: vinegar, sour lump sensation in rectum
Sepia
Obstinate but appears yielding, delicate, lacks confidence, anxiety about small details. perpires on hands and feet pitting acne defects of spine, hair, nails, feet sour sweat Foreign bodies in body Worse: suppressed sweat, cold, warm stuffy rooms, drafts, uncovering Better: warmth
Silica
Egotism, bragging, 5-6AM diarrhea offensive stool and farts fear of heights, excessive sweat, burning pains sleeps with feet outside of covers
Sulphur
Pediatric remedy Intense sweating diarrhea like chopped spinach must be firmly held by loved one onconsolable, warm, worse heat rotten egg farts screaming, schrieking OM, colic, teething
Chamomile
Rheumatic remedy
Irritable, pain with slightest motion
Worse: any motion, being disturbed, fractures, sprains, injuries 9AM, cold dry weather
Better: being alone, lying on painful side, pressure
L sided HA, worse motion
pneumonia, pleurisy, holds chest when coughin
thirst for large quantities at great intervals
Bryonia
Rheumatic remedy
arthritis,
Red tip of tonuge or triangle of redness on the tongue
cough from uncovering hands
Worse: cold wet weather, 1st motion, damp, AM, with rest
Better: lying on hard surface, continued motion
restless legs, restles sleep,
skin afflictions with red itchy skin
Rhus Tox
Rheumatic remedy
stiff throughout body, tendon and periosteal injuried
injured part feels weak or lame
injured part gives out on rising/weight bearing
chronic overuse injury
Better: moving
Worse: lying on injured part (except for back pain, which is improved on lying down)
Ruta grav.
Skin remedy wounds, cuts, abrasions fears something bad will happen yellow skin exhausted by pain, abscess and suppurating wounds Pain out of all proportion better warmth, worse in cloudy weather
Calendula
Skin remedy, Urinary Tract Remedy burning pains in affected area cystitis burning before but especially during urination "each drop like scalding water" burn first aid remedy strong sexual desire urge to urinate, but only a few drops burning thirst but averse to liquids, violent burning
Cantharis
unjury, contusion, lacerations or punctures to parts rich in nervous tissue whiplash injuries to spine/ coccyx head feels touched by icy hand Worse: cold, touch or pressure
Hypericum p.
Skin remedy allergic reactions to shellfish urticaria, minor burns, stinging pains ailments from: overheating, exertion insect bites, sting prickly feeling on the skin Worse: touch, cold
Urtica
Shock remedy suddennes, restlessnes, wants to be covered Fears: closed spaces, crowds, death predicts time of death shock/fear/fright red face pales on rising one cheek red, the other is pale Worse: cold dry weather, midnight, fright, being in warm room, tobacco smoke,
Aconite
Shock remedy collapsed states, "reviver of the corpse" apathy or critical great weakness Air hunger cold but averse to being covered Better: farting, belching, cold
Carbo Veg
Irresistible urge to bore finger into nose
shock
convulsions
pale or blue discoloration around mouth, pinworms
Cina
Urinary Remedy urging when bladder almost empty dysuria, with pain at end of urination urine passes drop by drop cutting/sharp pain in ureter/urethra Worse: movement, right side Better: lying down in afternon
Equisetum
