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