Materia Medica Flashcards
Give the hereditary or personal history elements we consider for the prescription of Lycopodium
Hereditary:
- Atopic terrain
- Migraines
- Gastro-duodenal ulcers
- Hypercholesterolemia
- Hyperuricemia
Personal:
- As above +
- Tics of the face
- Acetone vomiting during childhood
- Hepatic colic
Give the characteristic behavior or general symptoms often found in patients sensitive to Sepia
Usually a woman: depressed, exhausted, irritable, indifferent to those around her, introvert, melancholic, hepatic and gall bladder disorders, skin problems, bearing down sensation, circulatory disorders
Give the characteristic behavior or general symptoms often found in patients sensitive to Nux vomica
- Active person (man or woman)
- Sedentary
- Nervous
- Impatient
- Aggressive
- Authoritarian
- Overworked
- Digestive disorders, spasmodic coryza
Give the characteristic behavior or general symptoms often found in patients sensitive to Lycopodium
- Lively and precise intelligence
- Lack of self-confidence
- Intolerant to contradiction
- Self-control
- Seeks affection
- Hepatic, renal, skin and allergic disorders
Give the characteristic behavior or general symptoms often found in patients sensitive to Pulsatilla
- Gentle and variable nature
- Tendency towards sadness
- Changeable mood
- Timid and fearful
- Circulatory disorders
- Mucous membranes catarrh
Give the characteristic behavior or general symptoms often found in patients sensitive to Argentum nitricum
- Nervous
- Always in a hurry
- Anxious - Fearful
- Hyperactive, disorganized, inefficient - Phobic
- Digestive disorders, acidity, diarrhea, eructation
Give the characteristic behavior or general symptoms often found in patients sensitive to Calcarea carbonica
- Slowness
- Late milestones
- Fear of the future
- Tendency towards spasms
- Hypersensitivity
- Intellectual slowness
Give the characteristic behavior or general symptoms often found in patients sensitive to Phosphorus
- Hypersensitive to the environment
- Alternation excitement/weakness
- Easily tired
- Tendency towards hemorrhages
- ENT or pulmonary inflammations
Give the characteristic behavior or general symptoms often found in patients sensitive to Arsenicum album
- Fatigue
- Weakness
- Anxiety
- Meticulous, even obsessive
- Respiratory and skin allergies
- Gastroenteritis
Give the characteristic behavior or general symptoms often found in patients sensitive to Aurum metallicum
- Short tempered, authoritarian
- Violent, tyrannical
- Tendency towards depression
- Obsessive suicidal thoughts
- Cardiovascular disorders
- Short bone infections
Give the characteristic behavior or general symptoms often found in patients sensitive to Lachesis
- Alternation between excitement/depression - Talkativeness
- Distrust, jealousy
- Circulatory disorders
Give the characteristic behavior or general symptoms often found in patients sensitive to Natrum muriaticum
- Respiratory and skin allergies
- Acrocyanosis
- Chronic ENT disorders
- Desire to be alone
- Appetite disorders
- Phobia about self-image
What symptoms of Sulfur make this medicine one of the Psoric reactional mode?
- Respiratory and skin allergies
- Recurring periodical manifestations (migraines, herpes)
- The tendency towards parasites
- Lack of good reaction to well indicated acute medicines
- Difficult convalescence
What symptoms of Psorinum make this medicine one of the Psoric reactional mode?
- Respiratory and skin allergies
- Recurring periodical manifestations (migraines, herpes)
- The tendency towards parasites
- Lack of good reaction to well indicated acute medicines
- Difficult convalescence
What symptoms of Lycopodium make this medicine one of the Psoric reactional mode?
- Respiratory and skin allergies
- Recurring periodical manifestations (migraines, herpes)
- The tendency towards parasites
- Lack of good reaction to well indicated acute medicines
- Difficult convalescence
What symptoms of Arsenicum album make this medicine one of the Psoric reactional mode?
- Respiratory and skin allergies
- Recurring periodical manifestations (migraines, herpes)
- The tendency towards parasites
- Lack of good reaction to well indicated acute medicines
- Difficult convalescence
What symptoms of Thuya make this medicine one of the Sycotic reactional mode?
- After-effects of vaccinations or chronic infections
- Aggravation by humidity
- Mucous membranes catarrh
- Benign tumors
- Phobic tendencies
- Slow and progressive installation
What symptoms of Medorrhinum make this medicine one of the Sycotic reactional mode?
- After-effects of vaccinations or chronic infections
- Aggravation by humidity
- Mucous membranes catarrh
- Benign tumors
- Phobic tendencies
- Slow and progressive installation
What symptoms of Medorrhinum make this medicine one of the Sycotic reactional mode?
- Mucous membranes catarrh
- Phobic tendencies
- Benign tumors (warts, condylomas, polyps)) - Slow and progressive installation
What symptoms of Sepia make this medicine one of the mixed Psoro Sycotic reactional mode?
- Psoric: herpes, migraines, respiratory allergies
- Sycotic: chronic eczema or suppurations, depressive tendency
What symptoms of Silicea make this medicine one of the mixed Psoro Sycotic reactional mode?
- Psoro-tuberculinic:closely recurring ENT infections, sensitivity to cold, emotional sensitivity
- Sycotic: chronic suppurations
Among the different “Kalium”, give 3 specifying on which symptoms they are indicated
- Kalium carbonicum: digestive slowness with stomach flatulence, lumbar pains in tired individuals
- Kalium phosphoricum: intellectual fatigue, headache due to intellectual overwork
- Kalium muriaticum: inflammation of the cavum with white or grayish discharge and Eustachian tube catarrh
- Kalium Bromatum: papulo-pustular acne
- Kalium sulfuricum: coryza with mucous or mucopurulent discharge, anosmia and ageusia
- Kalium iodatum: irritating aqueous coryza becoming rapidly purulent with pains in the sinuses, mainly frontal
Among the different “Natrum”, give 3 specifying on which sensations and modalities they are indicated
- Natrum muriaticum: aggravation at the seaside, in the sun, sensation of pins and needles
- Natrum carbonicum: aggravation by sun, by mental efforts, noise, sensorial hyperesthesia
- Natrum sulfuricum: aggravated by humidity, sensation of bruising and abdominal bloating
What are the characteristic symptoms indicating Drosera in case of cough?
A dry, spasmodic and fitful cough
What are the characteristic symptoms indicating Bryonia in case of cough?
Dry, painful and improved by holding the painful area
What are the general symptoms indicating the prescription of Kalium bromatum in children?
Night frights in a nervous child who sleepwalks, moves his hands and sees his symptoms aggravated at new moon
What are the nervous symptoms indicating Stramonium?
Nightmares, night frights and fear of dark
What are the nervous symptoms indicating Hyosciamus?
Night frights in an emotional and jealous child who talks and laughs during his sleep and presents with tics
What are the nervous symptoms indicating Lachesis?
Nightmares with suffocating sensations in a child who has difficulties in falling asleep before midnight and who wakes up depressed. Can be jealous
What symptoms indicate Ipecac in an asthma attack?
Spasmodic coughing with nausea (vomiting), disseminated fine rales, hyper salivation and clean tongue
What are the symptoms indicating the prescription of Kalium carbonicum in an asthma attack?
Aggravation between 2 and 4 am
Improved sitting, thorax bent forward with elbows on the knees
What are the symptoms indicating the prescription of Antimonium tartaricum in an asthma attack?
Breathing is difficult and noisy with heavy humid rales inducing a very difficult expectoration and severe dyspnea
What are the symptoms indicating the prescription of Drosera in an asthma attack?
Nighttime attacks of dry cough accompanied by cyanosis and hypochondrium pains
What are the symptoms indicating the prescription of Arsenicum album in an asthma attack?
- Dyspnea with difficult expectoration of white mucus
- Asthenia with anxious agitation
- Occurs between 1 and 3 am
- Sitting up because aggravated lying
Give the symptoms indicating Ferrum phosphoricum in a fever
Asthenia, fever under 102 appearing progressively, tendency towards localized congestive phenomenon (epistaxis), the skin is clammy without abundant perspiration, the face alternates between paleness and redness
Give the symptoms indicating Belladonna in a fever
Tumor, rubor, calor, dolor. Thirst, sweating of the face, dryness of the mucous membranes, alternation between agitation and prostration
Give the general symptoms indicating Silicea
Tired, easily tired, cold sensitive, abundant and foul smelling perspiration of head and feet, chronic infections
Give the aggravation modalities indicating Silicea
Cold, badly indicated vaccinations that are not well tolerated, new moon, humidity and suppression of the perspiration
Give the improvement modalities of Silicea
Heat, dry and warm weather, warm wraps (head)
Give the modalities indicating Natrum muriaticum in pediatrics
- Aggravation: in the morning around 10 am - Improvement: by perspiration
- Improvement: outside
- Aggravation: at the seaside (after a stay)
- Rhythm: Frequent and short periodicity
Give the privileged targets of Cimicifuga
- Female genital tract: PMS, dysmenorrhea
- Muscles and tendons: neck and back pains
- Neurological and emotional tract: headache, excitement logorrhea
Give the main clinical symptoms indicating the prescription of Cimicifuga
- Sensitivity (spontaneous or with pressure of the spinous process of T4, T5 and T8
- Dysmenorrhea proportional to the menstrual flow
- Pain under the left breast
- Cervix spasms
- Regulation of obstetrical work
Give the privileged targets of Phytolacca and give some clinical examples
- Mucous membranes of the pharynx
- Mammary glands
- Locomotor system and sciatica
- Infectious syndromes
What are the symptoms indicating Sepia in PMS?
- Bearing down sensation in the pelvis
- Migraine
- Sadness, depression
- Leucorrhea before the periods
- Herpes
What are the symptoms indicating Lachesis in PMS?
- Symptoms improved by the appearance of the periods
- Headaches
- Irritability, jealousy, nervousness
- Insomnia, nightmares
- Painful congestion of the lower abdomen and breasts