Midterm Flashcards
Constipation after injury
Fear lest he be touched
Increased urination after injury
Indicated when there is blunt-force trauma
Pt. doesn’t want to be touched/approached
Perseveration after head injury
Bed feels too hard
Arnica montana
CA after contusion, every movement of baby causes soreness in the abdomen, 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
Bellis perennis
Least motion, being DISTURBED, Being still, lying on affected/holding painful side
Bryonia alba
Induration AFTER A BLOW, unexpected blow, attack, trauma, affinity for glands, testes
Conium maculatum
Puncture wounds, injury is cold & pt. > cold application, injured parts are blue/purple/mottled
> cold,
Ledum palustre
Injury – rupture of blood vessels
Metrorrhagia after injury
Lots of hemorrhaging
Millefolium
Pinpoint pupils after head injury
Sleepiness after head injury
Dread, terror, and a hell-like state
They have been injured and are freaked out
Opium
Affinity for skin, scalp, tongue
Wounds where skin edges are ragged
Wounds bleed freely
Calendula
Delirium
Suddenness of onset
Right-sided
Belladonna
Dullness, can’t concentrate Rubs foreheads, try to think Can’t understand questions Confusion after head injury Hearing impaired from concussion
Helleborus
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
Cicuta verosa
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
Camphora
Great nausea, not relieved from vomiting
Chill from over-eating
Gastric HA & Gastric fever
Hemorrhage with bright red blood
Ipecacuanha
Watering of eyes with cough
Squirting of urine with cough
Chill
Squilla (aka Scilla)
Stiffness or immobility, ctn’d motion
warmth
Need to keep moving
Coldness in blood vessels, burning in veins
Rhus toxicodendron
Suicidal after head injury
Markedly depressed, relieved/cheerfulness after BM
Natrum sulphuricum
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
Gelsemium
Crush or puncture injury to nerve rich parts
Injuries to spine, esp. coccyx
Loss of memory or sadness after concussion
Lockjaw, prophylaxis of tetanus
Hypericum perfoliatum
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
Aconite
Face is dull, dusty red; drugged appearance
Offensive breath, offensive d/c
Delusions body is scattered around bed
Key remedy for typhoid fever
Baptisia
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)
Ruta graveolens
Burning, dry fever
Swelling of any type
No thirst
Always > cold,
Apis mellifica
Anxious/fearful restlessness
small sips cold water
sensation of ice water running through veins OR boiling water
Arsenicum album
Excessive salivation and/or perspiration
Pain in coccyx during fever
Mercurius
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)
Conium maculatum
Septic fevers As fever goes up, pulse goes Purulent, offensive infections Bed feels to hard Internal chill, as if in bones
Pyrogenium
Skin eruptions are suppressed/come on slowly
Drastically agg. from touching cold things
Agg. wine
Affinity for brain and nerves
Zincum
Insect bites and burns of skin w/ itching & prickling
> gentle rubbing
Bringing breast milk back when it’s drying up
Urtica urens
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.
Silicea
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
Nux vomica
Agg. 10-11AM (forenoon)
HA come on from sun
Fever burning, as if from sparks
Ascending fevers that come on in Autumn
Natrum muriaticum
Right-sided (RL)
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
Lycopodium
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
Hepar sulph
Burns & never well since
Causticum
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
Baryta muriaticum
Otitis media w/ eczema behind ear
Eruptions behind ear crack
Squashing noise in ear, agg. by swallowing
Noise in ear like cat spitting
Calcarea carbonica
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
Cantharis
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
Chamomilla
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
Carbo vegetabilis
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
Kali bichromicum
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
Chlorum
Cracks, eruptions, ulcerations in corners of mouth
Teeth swords (?)
Brown discoloration of tongue
Sepsis fevers
Echinacea
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
Lachesis
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
Sabadilla
Surgeon’s carbo-veg
Fainting, weakness, collapse after surgery
Photophobia or visual changes after surgery of eye
Weak ankles, recurrent ankle sprains
Strontium carbonicum
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
Natrum carbonicum
Very sensitive, morbidly sensitive
Sensitive to criticism
Extreme sensitivity of scars (cicatrices)
Pt. had operation & an orifice has been stretched
Staphysagria
HA, sunstroke, heat exhaustion much congestion
Glonoinum
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
Cactus grandifloras
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
Antimonium crudum
Anaphylaxis after bee sting Urticaria over body after insect bit Putrid/offensive discharges Chemical burns, burns that begin to ulcerate Laceration of soft tissues
Carbolic acid
High fever, slow pulse
Pyrogenium
Sleepiness
Opium
Voice loss of, heated, from becoming
Cough, sun aggravates
Antimonium crudum
Air hunger - desire to be fanned, windows opened
Carbo vegetalis
Forsaken feeling, summer influenza, heaviness in occiput/forehead
Gelsemium
Pulsing, flushing, feels like head will explode
Glonoinum
More sensitive to sun than nat mir, selfless, cold food/water agg.
Natrium carbonicum
Loss of fluid/blood - generals, death apparent, after hemorrhage
China officianalis
Anger, great sensitivity to PAIN, fear of being touched, demanding cry
Chamomilla
Delusion body is scattered about the bed (like seed pod)
Baptisia
Salivation + perspiration,
Mercurious
Sensitivity to touch/noise/uncovering, spasming, constipation, wants to but can’t
Nux vomica
Loud labored breathing
Opium
agg heat/lying down, forsaken feeling
Pulsatilla
Hand out of bed sheet feels cold (4 remedies)
Rhus tox, nux, hepar sulph, tuberculinum
Sooty nostrils, ashy/grey lips
Chlorum
Face, cracks, mouth, corner of
Tongue, brown
Echinacea
Acrid lacrimation
Bland coryza
Euphrasia
Stoic/emotionally flat
Chill accompanied by heat
Nitric acid
Fever, coughing increases the heat
COUGH
Squilla
Chill- anterior part of the body, turning over in bed, beginning in face
Stramonium
Chill/heat ascending
Warm bed agg.
Sulphur
Chill, touching anything cold, slightest draft.
Sens to alcohol esp wine
Eruptions, slow to appear, when eruption ins
Zincum
Ear, d/c, like rotten cheese
Water in sips, AMEL
Cracking sound w/ chewing/blowing/sneezing
Baryta muriaticum
Ear, noises in buzzing, SITTING agg.
Belladonna
Ear, noises in, cat, like a spitting
Calc carb
Ear, noises in, roaring, night
D/C sticky/gluey
Eczema behind ear
Graphites
Abcess in meatus of ear
D/c like rotten cheese
Hepar Sulph
Ear, thick yellow d/c
Ear, inflammation, eustachian tubes, accompanied by, head, noise in
Hydrastis
Pain in spots, STITCHING
Thick/ropey d/c - tenacious
Kali bichromicum
Ear, ulceration, lobes, holes of earrings in
Ear, d/c bloody
Lachesis
PUS, right sided or right going left
GI sx
Lycopodium
Ear, riding in car, AMEL
Sens of bread crumb or bone in throat
Nausea from milk
Nitric acid
Ear d/c, offensive, meat, like putrid
Psorinum
Ear, frozen, as if
Ear, noises in, synchronous w/ pulse
Ear, sensation of air, in ear, distending meatus, as if air were
Pulsatilla
Ear, eruptions, meatus boils
Ear, noises in, roaring, lying AGG
Hearing impaired, voice, the human
Sulphur
Ear polyps, soft polyps, bleeding easily.
Ear, eruptions, behind ears, boilds
As if fetus moving in abdomen.
Thuja
Mouth, folded tongue, like little bags on side, lead colic in
Throat, pain, swallowing AGG - stitching
Alumen
Throat, choking, writing AGG
In AM, feels leaf in throat
Baryta carbonica
Ascending sensation, drinks of
Belladonna
Periodicity
Throat, prickly, extending down esophagus
Cedron
