Midterm Flashcards
This remedy is known for:
sudden onset of symptoms
ailments from fright and shock
ailments from a near miss or witnessing an accident.
PANIC ATTACKS.
Claustrophobia, fear crowds, earthquakes, flying
Ailments from being in COLD WIND, esp cold dry
EARLY STAGES OF INFLAMMATION
fear of death, PREDICTS TIME OF DEATH
Great RESTLESSNESS and anxiety. Early CROUP. Thirst for cold drinks. URINE retention in infants or mothers after delivery. In labor, fear she will die. ANGINA with great fear of death and numbness in left arm or hand
Aconite
This remedy has STRONG duality, two wills, antagonism with self, good and evil, strong duality.
Extremely low confidence, compensated by toughness. Indecisive.
Poor memory, test anxiety. FEAR FAILURE
Unfeeling, hard-hearted, cruelty. NO MORAL VALUES
Cursing
Depression. Ailments from or history of being abused. Early stage can be close to staphysagria. Fright can be silent, cruel. Alcohol and drugs use common
Better when eating
Blunt plug or band sensation
Anacardium
This remedy has - swelling, burning, stinging, ALLERGIES, RESTLESSNESS, jealousy, inflammation. affects mucus and serous membranes. Swelling to the point feels like it will burst. VERY SENSITIVE TO TOUCH
Task oriented - busy. irritability.
Hot, WORSE HEAT, and thistles. Fainting or big aggravation from hot bath, sauna. May be chilly, but still WORSE HEAT.
Better cool air, cold bath, uncovering.
Worse hot weather, warm drinks, heat of fire, touch, pressure, after sleep, 3 p.m., suppressed eruptions
desires exercise which ameliorates.
Aggravation from loss of sexual partner. 3 p.m. agg. Swelling around eyes, genitals
HORMONAL REMEDY. Hot flashes, menopause, PMS.
Meningitis, high fever, boring head into pillow, . Coma. Worse heat. Stupor with sudden sharp shrill cries. Suffocation, feels every breath will be his last.
Measles. Bad effect of suppressed eruptions
Angioneuremetic edema in allergic crises
Glomerulonephritis. Cystitis, scalding or burning pain during urination
Right sided ovarian cysts. Cystic swelling anywhere in body. SEVERE dysmenorrhea
Urticaria with burning or stinging pains
Awkwardness,drops things
Herpes zoster or Rhus poisoning esp with swollen lids and face.
Apis
this remedy is IMPULSIVE, impulsivity to jump from heights, foolish impulses.
Suggestible. sympathetic. tend to be EXTROVERTS
Anticipatory anxiety.
MANY FEARS - claustrophobia, heights, bridges, fear being late, airplanes, accidents
Anxiety about health. Fear diseases.
anxiety alone, better company.
HURRIED
Warm blooded, agg by heat.
BETTER COLD, COLD APPLICATIONS
Periodic severe weakness, esp. during menses
WORSE EATING SWEETS
HUGE CRAVING FOR SWEETS, salt, craves cheese, fat.
Conjunctival irritation, redness.
SPLINTER-LIKE pain in THROAT
HOARSENESS
Palpitations, violent with sensation heart will jump out of chest
Loud eructations
Very gassy and distended. Rumbling, flatulent.
Diarrhea from anticipation
IMPOTENCE IN MEN, worse when thinking of the problem.
Argentum Nitricum
Effects of TRAUMA, recent or remote. SAYS HE IS WELL WHEN VERY ILL. Ailments from losing money (pecuniary loss). Sore, BRUISED feeling. BLACK AND BLUE spots, Averse or fear of being approached. Averse to touch. Anguish, with spells of fear as if he were going to die. Face and head hot, extremities comparatively cold. complaints of PREGNANCY.
Hemorrhagic tendency. CONCUSSION of brain. STROKE. A bleeding remedy, stops bleeding. Crops of small boils. Symmetrical eruptions on both sides of the body. Flu: Aching, BED FEELS TOO HARD, weakness, prostration, ecchymosis. Prevents suppuration and sepsis in simple or compound fractures. Better lying, lying with head low, motion. Clear cool weather.
Arnica
INSECURITY, anxiety, restlessness, pacing. FEAR DEATH. Great anxiety about health. Panic attacks. Fastidious, perfectionist, compulsive disorders. FEAR DISEASE, robbers, alone, poverty, death. avarice, stingy, selfish. DEPENDENT; desire company. Fear being alone. Constantly calls the doctor. Despair of recovery. Depression, even to suicide. Anorexia. Burning pains better heat. VERY CHILLY, worse cold. DESIRES HEAT.
BURNING PAINS BETTER HEAT. Worse around midnight. Offensive, thin, acrid d/c. RIGHT SIDED. Desires FAT, alcohol, warm drinks, sour, LEMON. Food poisoning, acute gastroenteritis. Diarrhea, worse cold drinks, worse fruit, worse ice cream. THIRST FOR FREQUENT SIPS. Insomnia, wakes 12-1am. Asthma. dryness. Tremendous WEAKNESS, out of proportion to pathology. Inflammation, anywhere in the body. Used from acutes to constitutional to severe late-stage illness (cancer or dying patients) Acutes with RESTLESSNESS, ANXIETY, CHILLINESS, thirst for small quantities often. PERIODICITY. Stomach pains better milk. Ulcers.
Miasma - Syphilis, Psora.
Arsenicum Album
Depression. Desires death. SUICIDAL (jumping). Pain, drives her to suicide. High standards. Reproach self, GUILT. Ailments from grief. Disappointed love, business failures, mortification. Anger, vindictive, ambitious. Praying, spiritual seekers, anxiety about salvation. SERIOUS. MUSIC AMELIORATES. Worse night but better evenings. Insomnia, MOANING IN SLEEP. FEAR FAILURE, HEIGHTS, HEART DISEASE.
Generals - Worse night. severe pains in bones, heart, sinus
Pathologies - palpitations, heart disease, cancer (esp of bones, uterus, testicles) hypertension
Aurum metallicum
TIMIDITY. LOW CONFIDENCE. Feel inferior, irresolution. Sensitive to ridicule, being teased or laughed at. Childish. IMMATURE on some level. May be intellectually bright by socially backward. Passive. Shy. Anxiety. FEELING INCOMPETENT. Fears: people, being laughed at, new situations.
Nervous NAIL BITING. conscientious about trifles. Abnormal concern over his appearance, very tide, neat handwriting.
Body parts immature (micro-genitalia). Chronically inflamed or HUGE TONSILS.
Hard swelling of cervical glands. FREQUENT COLDS, MUCUS, CONGETIONS. May be averse to fruits.
Miasm: Mostly Psora, a little sycosis (with swollen glands and tonsils.)
Baryta carb
Sudden onset. HEAT. INFLAMMATION, REDNESS. Right sided. Oversensitive to least noises, light jar. worse at 3PM. Head, FACE HOT, COLD HANDS and FEET. EYES GLISTENING, MAYBE RED, PUPILS DILATED. Throbbing carotids, pulsation, pounding headaches, throbbing earaches. Headaches worse stooping. RIGHT SIDED. SPASMS internally (intussusception of bowels) or externally. Febrile seizures. May have frightful HALLUCINATIONS and delirium with fevers. Worse cold, touch, jar, light, noise. Mouth and throat are DRY. Heat, REDNESS, BURNING with GREAT SENSITIVITIES TO TOUCH. Pains come suddenly, disappear suddenly. Intense dysmenorrhea. FEBRILE CONVULSIONS.
Miasm: Psora (oversensitiveness) and sycosis (excessive inflammation, fevers, etc.
Belladonna
Complaints tend to come on gradually. WORSE MOTION. DRYNESS (dry mouth, lips, dry cough, dry rectum, constipation). STITCHING PAINS, especially in serous membranes and joints. BETTER PRESSURE, BETTER LYING ON PAINFUL SIDE. Better fresh air. Irritable, materialistic. TALKS OF BUSINESS, wants to go home in delirium. THIRST FOR LARGE QUANTITIES at infrequent intervals. DRY, HARD WRACKING coughs, LEFT SIDED remedy. Important for SPRAINS, FRACTURES, PLEURISY, APPENDICITIS and many more problems. WORSE WARM AND WARM DRINKS. Better lying in a quiet room, undisturbed.
Bryonia
OVERWHELMED. Overworked. Task oriented. Anxiety about health, fear breaking down, fear high places, disease, doctors, hospitals. Fear insects, narrow places, accidents. Fear that his mind is weak, or he may go insane, and that others many notice his confusion. Sensitive to HORRIBLE STORIES. Obesity, chilly and WORSE COLD DAMP. Worse exertion, esp ASCENDING. Poor stamina. Sense of inner trembling. ASPIRIN AGGRAVATES!!!! Pale, swollen glands. PERSPIRATION ON HEAD, OCCIPUT, WORSE night, during sleep. Craves EGGS, SWEETS, DAIRY, MEAT and ICE CREAM. CONSTIPATION, no urge. Metrorrhagia, esp around menopause. Fibroids. Breast swell and hurt before menses. BACK PAIN, ARTHRITIS. Concern with metaphysical issues, especially in children. COLD, CLAMMY EXTREMITIES. Perspire in a COLD ROOM. Cold feet at night, wears socks to bed, then takes them off in the night. NAILS - WEAK, brittle.
Miasm - PSORA!
Calcarea carbonica
Family history of cancer, diabetes, alcoholism. History of SUPPRESSION, or OVER-RESPONSIBILITY as a child. History of mononucleosis. BLUE SCLERA. Sleeps KNEE-CHEST. FASTIDIOUS. Desire to TRAVEL. Passionate. GIVE or OVEREXTEND selves. LOVE music, dance, nature, thunderstorms. SYMPATHETIC. LOVE ANIMALS. Guilt. Craves salt, fat, spicy, chocolate.
CONSTIPATION
INSOMNIA. MOLES. NEVI. Passionate. Suppress themselves, serve others. Averse to consolation. VERY TIDY, NEAT. Responsible. PERFECTIONIST.
Pathologies - cancer, mononucleosis, insomnia, constipation, allergies, headaches.
Miasm - CANCER
Carcinosin
IDEALISTIC, sympathetic, intolerant of injustices, rebellious. ailments from grief, punishment. Can be depressed and despairing over injustices. Check and re-check compulsively. Fear something bad will happen, fear dogs, ghosts. HURRIED. BETTER in CLOUD and WET WEATHER. WORSE COLD WINDS, worse drafts. Eruptions or warts on nose, eyelids. Constant desire to clear throat. HOARSENESS. CRAVES SALT, SMOKED MEAT. Averse to sweets. URINARY INCONTINENCE from cough, sneeze. Aversion to coition in women. Cough deep, mucus, sticky. Cough better cold drinks. Rheumatic complaints, arthritis, CONTRACTORS. warts on fingers. Neurological conditions. Gradual paralysis. BELL’S PALSY. MS. STAMMERING.
Miasma: Psora, sycosis, syphilis - one of these 3 will be dominant.
Causticum
Slanders others. Malicious. Loquacious. Delusion he has suffered wrong. Ailments from disappointed love. Desire to kill. Jealousy. Shameless. Singing and jesting. Lascivious. Suspicious. Says he is well when VERY sick. Apoplexy (stroke). Convulsions in children. Bladder, urination involuntary convulsions during. Jerking and twitching.
Hyoscyamus
CRUSHED FINGER TIPS, pain after injuries to coccyx. Excessive painfulness. Can follow Arnica well, after injuries or falls. Dread of motion. Complaints from fright. Compound fractures.
INJURIES TO NERVES. Spinal cord injuries, whiplash, concussion, head injuries.
Sharp, SHOOTING PAINS (UPWARD), intense pains. Dullness, forgetfulness, depression after head injuries. Fright, shock after injuries. Head feels longer, pointed. Sensation of being lifted high up in the air. Worse COLD DAMP, fog, touch. Better bending head back. Pain after dental procedures. Injuries to coccyx.
Miasm: Psora
Hypericum
Sensitive, easily excited.
REFINED, IDEALISTIC. DISAPPOINTED. CONTRADICTIONS.
Rapidly changing moods; hysteria. Ailments from GRIEF, DISAPPOINTED LOVE, fright.
SILENT GRIEF
stormy relationships. OFFENDED EASILY. remain cramped inside. Sentimental. Involuntary weeping. SIGHING, SOBBING, AVERSE CONSOLATION. Quarrelsome, Impatient. Desires to be alone; brooding.
Ailments from being reprimanded. Can’t decide, irresolution. Headache as if nail in side of head, better lying on it. Perspires face.
Averse or craves fruit.
Travel ameliorates.
WORSE SWEETS, SPASMS. Emotional TENSION SOMATIZED.
creating tight traps, jaw muscles, rectum, etc.
Dysmenorrhea. Fear of birds, robbers, narrow places. Mental symptoms alternative with physical.
Miasm: Psora
Ignatia
Forceful, PASSIONATE, suspicious, JEALOUS, revengeful, LOQUACIOUS, sarcastic. competitive.
Ailments from GRIEF, Disappointed love, jealousy, anger. Fright. Mortification.
WORSE ANY SUPPRESSION, better with discharge (menses, etc)
FEAR snakes, being poisoned, robbers, evil, die, he will, if goes to sleep.
Anger, REVENGEFUL, malicious.
Ideas abundant. Clarity of mind. Anxiety about salvation. Anxiety on waking. contradict, disposition to.
DECEITFUL. delusions, sees images. Delusions, under superhuman control. Delucions, illusions of fancy. Delusions, poisoned. Delusions, pursued. EGOTISM. LASCIVIOUS. Quarrelsome. VIVACIOUS. Alcoholism.
LEFT SIDED
worse sleep, sleeps into aggravation. SENSITIVE TO TOUCH. WORSE SUPPRESION of discharges, menses. Sleep apnea. Hemorrhagiv, dark blood, bluish. THROAT problems: pharyngitis. Hot, WORSE HEAT.
Worse lying on left side. Tongue trembles. Intolerance of tight collars, clothes. Craves farinaceous, alcohol. PMS, menopause. Greatly relieved by menses flow. Asthma. chest oppression.
Miasm: Sycosis, some syphilis, little psora
Lachesis
COWARDICE.
Low confidence, bluffing, egotism. Fear commitment. Love of power. Anxiety about health. Domineering or subservient. Performance anxieties.
Generals/Physicals:
Right sided, Right to Left.
Worse morning and especially 4-8 PM. BETTER EVENING, midnight. Better OPEN AIR. GI and blood sugar problems. GRAY HAIR. Craves sweets. Bloating, distention, rumbling.
Big appetite, or easily satiated. Bulimia. Dieting alternates with binge eating.
Impotence. Sleeps right side. Wakes UNREFRESHED.
Worse beans, cabbage.
Pathologies:
GI problems, gas, URI, UTI, liver problems, IBS, otitis, sexual problems.
Miasm: primarily psora, some sycosis and syphilis
Lycopodium
EXCESSES AND EXTREMES!! Desire to experience everything.
Extremists. Erratic performance. Sycosis. PROFUSE DISCHARGES. Problems since birth. Strong SEXUALITY.
Cruelty, but may be sensitive. CRAVE SOUR FRUIT, citrus, fat, alcohol, drugs,. Asthma, arthritis.
ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY.
Ailments from anticipation.
BITES NAILS. Clairvoyance.
Concentration difficult. confusion of mind. Delusions, someone touched her head.
DELUSION SOMEONE BEHIND HIM.
Weak memory, for names, for what he’s read, said, about to say, just thought, about to write.
Mistakes in speaking, spelling.
Play, desire to, night. suspicious.
thinking of complaints aggravates. Wild feeling in head. Time passes too slowly. Mental work impossible. ASTHMA. BETTER AT SEA.
BETTER EVENING AND NIGHT
History or FHx of Gonorrhea. Chronic rhinitis or sinusitis. constant clearing of throat.
Averse eggplant, slimy foods.
CHRONIC VAGINITIS, URETHRITIS, CYSTITIS.
Sex drive, extreme. PID. soles of feet, sensitive. Hot feet, uncover them in bed. Sleeps abdomen, knee-chest position.
Pathologies:
Allergies, sinusitis, UTI’s, asthma, arthritis, warts, PID, vaginitis, prostatitis
Miasm: strongly sycotic
Medorrhinum
Restless. Hurried. Fear of insanity.
Introversion. Impulsive.
COMPULSIVE DISORDERS. Violent. DESTRUCTIVE. Dullness, SUSPICIOUS.
Generals/Physicals:
Sensitive to heat and cold. NARROW TOLERANCE. Lack of reactive power along with an inefficiency of function. Trembling, Neurological problems. Paralysis. STAMMERING.
Worse from Perspiring, from heat of bed. NIGHT SWEATS.
Chronic infections, otitis. Indented tongue.
Metallic taste. OFFENSIVE BREATH.
SALIVATION.
gingivitis. Pharyngitis with salivation, cervical adenopahy. Craves bread and butter. Averse sweets.
THIRST for COLD WATER.
TREMOR OF HANDS
Insomnia. Generally worse nights.
VERY SENSITIVE TO TEMPERATURE CHANGES. Stinking discharges.
Pathologies:
Chronic infections, otitis, pharyngitis, teeth and bone decay, behavioral disorders, cancer.
Miasm: Syphilis
Mercurius
VULNERABLE TO EMOTIONAL INJURY.
Avoids hurting others, sympathetic. SERIOUS, AVERSE CONSOLATION.
BROODS, dwells int he past. Sensitive. INTROVERTED, closed. Romantic, PERFECTIONIST.
AILMENTS FROM GRIEF.
Silent grief, disappointed love. Dignity. Can’t weep. AVERSE COMPANY.
Fastidious. FEAR ROBBERS. PMS sad, irritable. WORSE SUN (
Natrum muriaticum
CHILLY, SPASMS, DRUGGING, OVERSENSITIVE TO LIGHT, NOISE, ETC.
Ambition and COMPETITIVE, Fastidious. efficient. GI COMPLAINTS, painful spasms.
Irritable, excitable and IMPATIENT. Easily offended, irritable, angry, intolerant of contradiction. WORSE ANGER. WORSE COLD, DRAFTS, better warmth in any form.
Wants to but can’t (vomit, defecate, etc).
Craves fat, alcohol and stimulants which aggravate. Muscle spasms abound. Sneezing in the morning. Worse mornings.
Cystitis with frequent urging for small amounts. better heat or warm bathing.
INSOMNIA.
Nux Vomica
Ailments from fright. PAINLESSNESS OF COMPLAINTS. Dullness, sleepiness. Sleep heavy, deep sleep. NARCOLEPSY. Spacy, dreamy. SAYS HE IS WELL WHEN VERY ILL. loud snoring, sleep apnea Severe constipation. Lies, untruthful. Using drugs or alcohol since fright. Ailments from embarrassment. Stupid and coma, CVA. Head injuries, seizures. Dullness. Warm, WORSE HEAT Face flushed deep red or mottled purple pupils constricted senses very acute, hyper alert or dullness, confusion frightful dreams
Miasm: Psora
Opium
DIFFUSION. No strong boundaries, clairvoyant. Imaginative and ANXIOUS. Desire and ameliorated by company.
Social WARM, OPEN, SYMPATHETIC.
VERY FEARFUL - anxiety about health, fear death, disease, dark, thunderstorms, alone, something will happen. Better consolation, better massage. Better eating, better cold drinks, better sleep.
WORSE TWILIGHT, worse alone.
Spacey.
Very THIRSTY FOR ICE COLD DRINKS. Diabetes.
Worse fasting, better eating. Crave or averse sweets. Crave spicy, salty, cold drinks, chocolate, ice cream, milk.
Worse lying on left side.
sleeps right side, better from sleep.
LEFT SIDED REMEDY
Hemorrhagic tendency, epistaxis, etc.
HOARSENESS, problems easily got to lungs, coughs.
Miasm: primarily Psora, some sycosis and syphilis
Phosphorus
Mild, yielding. CHANGEABLE DISPOSITION, dependent and needy.
SEEK CONSOLATION, fear ABANDONMENT. Conscientious about TRIFLES. Want to make everything look good so they are loved. Jealousy. WEEPS EASILY. Seeks consolation which ameliorates. Easily influenced. Malleable. Soft, timid, DEPENDENT.
warm, WORSE HEAT, HATE STUFFY ROOMS. Worse warm applications. Worse hot sun, BETTER COOL.
Need open aid, better walking slowly in open air. in cool weather. faintness in a closed room.
Craves butter, cream, cheese, ice cream, peanut butter. Averse fat, butter.
WORSE FATTY FOODS, pork, bread. HORMONAL REMEDY
agg during menarche, before or during menses, during pregnancy, at menopause.
DRY MOUTH BUT THIRSTLESS.
Otitis media. Symptoms change. Menses irregular. coughs, otitis. GI problems, headaches.
Miasm: Psora, some sycosis
Pulsatilla
STIFFNESS. WORSE DAMP WEATHER. Worse before a storm, worse cold, worse being still, worse first motion, better continued motion.
BETTER HEAT.
Injuries, sprains, acute or chronic rheumatic complaints. WORSE NIGHT AND MORNING.
Flu remedy with aching of joints and muscles. SKIN ERUPTIONS, vesicles, with tremendous itching. RESTLESSNESS, must move. Impatient.
VERY COLD BUT DESIRES COLD things, cold milk. Dreams of work and activity, may wake exhausted. Ailments from over-exertion, excess physical activity, from overuse of voice, etc. Anxious, must move.
LEFT-SIDED REMEDY. Cracking of joints.
Herpetic eruptions. Herpes zoster. Major flu remedy.
LOTS OF SKIN SYMPTOMS: itching lesions better in extremely hot water.
Miasm: Psora, syphilis (
Rhus tox
Stasis. Loss of ability to feel love for children, husbnad.
IRRITABLE, sarcastic, critical. Anger from conslation. better vigorous exercise. Averse to sex. Nausea. Weeping involuntarily, causeless weeping.
PMS with sadness, weeping, irritability. Averse company, better alone. Chilly. Worse cold.
better in the evening.
Worse 3 or 3-5 PM.
Worse before or during menses.
LEFT SIDED REMEDY
N/V of pregnancy.
Craves sweets, vinegar or sour.
Sensation of lump in rectum. Vaginitis with acrid discharge. Menses scanty. Amenorrhea or dysmenorrhea. Infertility or miscarriage.
Stress incontinence. Psoriasis. Fear ghosts and poverty.
Miasm: Sycosis
Sepia
REFINED. sensitive, yielding, yet obstinate. Conscientious about trifles. LOW CONFIDENCE. Avoids argument. Stage fright or performance anxiety. Fear pins.
Generals/Physicals:
CHILLY WORSE COLD
Worse drafts or uncovering. Worse suppressed food sweat.
Fatigue and weakness. Scoliosis and bony or nail problems. Failure to thrive in infants. Infants cannot tolerate mother’s milk or any milk. Hard, large glands. Worse at new or full moon. frequent colds, sinusitis. Sweats on scalp and feet. Infection of tear duct. Dental abscesses. constipation, bashful stool.
Miasm: Psora.
Silica
AILMENTS FROM GRIEF. from suppressed anger, mortification, grief, rudeness of others, disappointed love, indignation, sexual excesses.
Offended easily.
Sensitive to rudeness. Trembles or throws things when angry. Worse confrontation.
LOW SELF-ESTEEM.
Conscientious about trifles. Horrible things, SAD STORIES PROFOUNDLY AFFECT HER.
thought, intrude, sexual, persistent.
Feels unfortunate. Will, weakness of.
Yielding disposition.
Masturbation, sexual fantasies. Worse after siesta.
Honeymoon cystitis. Psoriasis after a grief.
HEAD LIKE BLOCK OF WOOD
worse after coition or masturbation. Guilt. Sensitive., wants to please.
Styes. Condylomata. Bad teeth.
Miasm: Psora, sycosis, syphilis
Staphysagria
Ailments from fright, head injuries, fevers, meningitis.
Fears and violence - Tremendous energy in fearful or violent state.
Ailments from fright, from fever, from cerebral congestion or seizures, from head injury.
Fears and night terrors. Fear of dark, of death, of injury, of being alone. Clings to people from fear. Better days, worse nights.
Delusions and ghastly hallucinations. Delusion alone int he wilderness with great fear. Fear of animals. Rage and violence, kicking, biting, striking, cursing. Desire to kill.
Great LOQUACITY.
Stammering, tics, spasms, jerking, chorea. JERKY MOVEMENTS
Grinding teeth in sleep. Enuresis.
Sardonic laughter, cruelty. Wildness.
Painless of complaints usually painful. Indifferent to suffering.
Pupils dilated. Strabismus.
Face, Ears may be BRIGHT RED.
Thirst, but dread of water. Throat spasms on attempt to swallow.
Periodic foul, loose stools.
Hiccough.
Dryness of mouth, throat, lips.
Fevers, febrile convulsions. Convulsions after a fright.
Worse along, int he dark, WORSE looking at BRIGHT SHINING OBJECTS
Better company, light, warmth.
SEXUAL EXCITEMENT.
Wake in fear, screaming, staring.
Miasm: Psora (fears, dryness) some syphilis and sycosis
Stramonium
Hot, burning, 5 AM diarrhea. Worse 11 AM.
hunger, weak, empty feeling.
skin problems - itching skin, rectum.
Red lips, orifices.
Poor posture, slumps, back pain. burning eructations. Stomach burning pains.
Craves sweets, spicy, fat, beer, alcohol.
THIRST FOR COLD DRINKS.
Averse to eggs.
OFFENSIVE DISCHARGES, gas, stool.
Worse standing. Worse washing. Messy, dirty. Egotism. Intellectual, curious, theorizes, acquires knowledge.
Critical, argues. Indolence. Disgust. Fear heights. Collects things. Rags are beautiful. Anxiety for family.
Insomnia. catnaps.
Nightmares if sleeps on back. itching worse heat, bathing.
Scratches til burns or bleeds.
WARM WORSE HEAT.
Worse standing. Worse bathing.
Miasm: Psora
Sulphur
Restless, romantic.
Longing, DESIRE TO TRAVEL or change (job, relationship, location).
Irritable, violent, Malicious behavior.
Hyperactive, obstinate. Disobedient children. Fear cats. Compulsive behavior. Head banging.
Generals/Physicals:
Weakness in chest.
History of asthma. Bronchitis.
Worse wet weather, before storms.
BETTER IN THE MOUNTAINS, dry high air.
Night sweats. Milk allergy, though may crave COLD MILK. Craves milk. Smoked meats, fat.
Bruxism. Hard swollen glands. Alopecia. Long eyelashes.
Pathologies:
Allergies, chest problems, asthma, teeth problems, autoimmune diseases, birth defects.
Tuberculinum
MORALITY - what is right, what is wrong. Mind rules the emotion.
Heading for a breakdown.
STRONG MENTAL CONTROL. fear of losing this control.
Weeping when discussing her symptoms. sense of DUTY.
CANNOT STAND BEING TOUCHED.
talk to themselves, rocking. Must sit up or bend forward.
warm, open air, cold bathing.
Very nice people, can be too strict.
Antagonism with self - mind will will, allowing them to suppress themsevles
DESIRE SELF-CONFIDENCE
RIGID. Worse touch, consolation agg. Do not want to be seen as vulnerable.
Swelling. Stiff. Constipation, averse to public restrooms.
IRRATIONAL- almost bipolar at extremes
sacrifice themselves so others can have fun.
Doesn’t tolerate fluctuation. REGULATION is big, contained, conservative and CANNOT CUT LOOSE.
better stuffed up nose, worse draining nose.
ticklish feet
STARTLE EASY.
solid, stocky frame.
Pathologies:
Liver, kidney, acute and chronic lung affections
Kali carbonicum
freaked out. anxious, sensed isolation. In their head. NEED FRESH COLD AIR.
Sensation of duality.
Silly, funny, giggly. INAPPROPRIATE LAUGHTER. JESTING. MAKING PUNS.
eccentric. zany.
VERY SYMPATHETIC
brain too big for skull, soul too big for body.
Theorizing. Dissociation - dream state.
Kiddos - run their hands over fabrics, dreamy, messy eaters.
Trauma creates loss of reality.
DELUSIONS: altered reality, beauty of surroundings, greatest, many thoughts, short period of time.
Floating sensations
out of body experiences.
cannabis indica
Spaciness, dissociation, going into a dream, staring out the window. Catatonic. Haziness, absent minded, forgetfulness. Ecstasy.
Difficult concentration and memory problems, confusion. Loses track of thoughts and forgets what’s she’s saying in midst of a sentence.
Lack of boundaries.
Delusions: hears music. Del. Soul separated from body. Imagines he’s Christ. Imagines he’s transparent, weightless. Grandiose delusions.
Delusion body becomes larger and larger.
Dream, as if in a.
Theorizing
Clairvoyance.
Altered perceptions: Time passes too slowly. Distances seem immense. Ordinary things look beautiful.
.Loquacity. Excitable.
Fear of insanity, panic attacks. Suspicious, paranoid.
Hilarity, laughter
Physicals: red eyes, ravenous hunger, increased thirst, desire open air which ameliorates, top of head (vertex) open sensation, or opening and closing sensation.
Apprehension of approaching death.
Nymphomania or satyriasis, increased sexual desire.
Ailments from emotional trauma, abuse, can put someone in this state. Also drug use, or parent’s drug use while patient was in utero.
Cannabis Indica
Conservative, proper, dislike change, rigid. Fear impending disease. Anxiety felt in solar plexus. Aversion to touch. Startle easily.
Generals:
worse 2-4 a.m.
Stitching pains.
Worse rest.
Bag-like swelling between upper eyelids. Backache, sweating, weakness.
Chilly.
Craves sweets.
Must sit up or lean forward with dyspnea.
Miasm: 1˚ psora, some sycosis
Pathologies: asthma, arthritis, hemorrhoids, hormonal problems, prob. Since IUD, hysterectomy, childbirth.
Kali carb
A sycotic remedy, worse dampness and wet weather, with characteristic traits of emotional vulnerability,
grief, protecting self.
Serious, can be suicidal with thoughts of hanging or a gun, but restrains himself out of responsibility.
Personality changes, especially depression, after a head injury or brain trauma such as stroke, encephalitis, etc.
Generally worse sun.
Sycotic so may see warts, genital condylomata. A big respiratory and sinusitis remedy, with coughing, thick yellow or yellow-green mucus, asthma, all worse wet weather.
Arthritic symptoms
worse wet weather.
Diabetes after a grief. Colitis. Tend to loose stools. May have early morning diarrhea (Sulph).
Miasm: sycosis, some psora and syphilis
Nat Sulph
Anxiety, hopeless despair, pessimism
Feel better just before an aggravation or illness
Huge fear of poverty, failure, health, cancer
Feel forsaken
Very chilly, may even wear hat in summer.
Worse drafts or open air
Worse before a storm
Worse fasting
Frequent acute illness
Offensive discharges
Skin looks dirty though washed
Appetite increased at night during pregnancy
Cough or asthma better lying on back with arms spread as if crucified
Eruptions in folds of joints
Many skin complaints
Itching night in bed, worse heated, scratches until it bleeds
Depression, suicidal thoughts with offensive odors
Great chilliness with frequent acute illness
Psorinum
Feels fragile. Feel unlovable. Depression, low self-esteem. Reproaches herself. Secretive.
Generals/physicals: Main sycotic remedy (Med). Warts, condylomata, polypi. Ailments from vaccination. Catarrh of ear, nose, chest
worse cold wet weather.
Left sided.
Perspiration sweet or like garlic.
Perspires on genitals, or on uncovered parts. Feelings as if something alive in abdomen. Feels fragile.
Worse tea, onions.
Miasm: sycosis, a little syphilis
Thuja
Delusional egotism or religiosity
Extreme restlessness
Weak, collapse states
Gastroenteritis with vomiting and diarrhea simultaneously
Egotistical, haughty, rude
Delusion, great person
Coldness. Profuse cold sweat, esp. on forehead
Hyperactive, disobedient kids
Projectile vomiting. Profuse diarrhea.
Precocity
Craves cold drinks, ice, salt, sour fruit, lemons, pickles
Feigns illness
Severe dysmenorrhea with coldness, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness
Critical, scolding, gossiping
Veratrum Alb
Fear of high places, narrow places, when a time is set, impending disease.
Numbness, tingling, trembling, distention, bloating.
Thinking of complaints, agg.
Desires sweets and salt.
HOARSENESS. Anticipatory anxiety, impulsive.
Desires company which amel.
Warm, WORSE HEAT
Ailments from fright, from loss of sleep.
SPLINTER-LIKE pains
Excitable.
worse Physical exertion, worse Motion.
Ovarian cysts.
Argentum nitricum
ecstasy, ailments from embarrassment or mortification
dreams, frightful
respiration arrested during sleep, sleep apnea
face, discoloration, redness
clarity of mind
head injuries
convulsions, worse becoming heated.
dream, as if in
indifference to suffering, convulsions, constipation in babies, sleepiness after eating
Dryness of skin, hair
anxiety about health
better diarrhea, perspiration, urination (better D/C)
desire to lie down
hemorrhagic tendency
suspicious, fixed ideas. OCD.
opium
Hahnemann taught that miasms are responsible for recurring illness, due primarily to suppression.
True
Tremendous fear of death
Feels death is imminent. Predicts of has a sized idea of some specific time when death will come
Presentiment of death
Fears: Claustrophobia, being in a crowd or a crowded room, earthquakes.
Panic disorder
Anxiety states following a strong fright (car accident, earthquake)
Restlessness
Desires company.
Aconite
One cheek red, other cheek white.
Bitter taste in mouth.
Great thirst, cold drinks.
Urine retention in infants or mothers right after delivery
Especially useful for women during labor, they feel absolutely certain they are about to die.
Main remedy for early stages of croup.
Pneumonia, sudden onset
worse lying left side
angina or acute myocardial infarction with numbness into the left arm
general agg after exposure to wind, especially cold, dry wind.
complaints begin after a fright or sudden, shocking events
symptoms come on suddenly (Bell)
Aconite
pathological inferiority and low self-esteem
hardness and cruelty to animals (med) or people.
desire to prove himself
irresistible desire to curse, swear (nit-ac, hyos, nut-v)
severe depression, even suicidal
hx abusive family/relationships
anacardium
definite amelioration from eating
sensation of a blunt plug stuck in a location of the body (joints, stomach, etc)
sensation of a band around a single part of the body
tremendous itching
anacardium
Active, vital, busy patients busy intensity task-oriented straight forward, not introspective Jealousy. Strong jealousy. irritable, especially when crossed practical, business oriented
apis
marked agg from heat, waiting when entering a steam bath or sauna
described as warm-blooded, may be chilly
amel from cold applications
stinging pains, causing great swelling
swelling and edema
desires exercise which amel.
gen agg from suppression of sexual expression as from loss of spouse
swelling around eyes conjunctival swelling flushes of heat pharyngitis with amel from cold drinks bag-like swelling of uvula THIRSTLESS glomerulonephritis, dramatic edema of the entire body (anasarca) cystitis with scalding pain during urination right side ovarian cysts dysmenorrhea edema of extremities AWKWARDNESS - drops things urticaria
apis
Nervous system - main focus
Pathologically open patient - extroverted, cheerful.
Impulsive, impulses to jump from a height. unexplainable, foolish impulses
suggestibility
sympathetic
claustrophobia, FEAR heights, bridges, diseases, fear being later
Anxiety for health.
anxiety while anticipating an engagement or test
Anxiety when alone, amel company.
argentum nitricum
warm-blooded, one of the hottest remedies general and local agg from heat. better cold and cold application periodic, severe weakness general agg from eating sweets
ataxia, staggering gait
MS
Bright red spots on the sclera - looks like raw meat
conjunctival irritation
splinter-like pain in the throat
hoarseness*
violent palpitations with the sensation that the heart will jump out of place
palpitations worse lying right side
eructations, frequent and loud enough to earn a “reputation” with friends and family
distention, may or may not be amel by eructations
craves: sweets (sugar) salt
diarrhea from anticipation
impotence, worse when thinking of the problem
intense craving for both salty and sweet!!
argentum nitricum
