Midterm

Question 1

Nux Vomica - Sensation (Family: Loganaceae)

Answer 1

Sensation: shocked, shattered, shock paralyzes, feels dumbstruck, excitable/ convulsions or silent grief, speechless, numb, cannot week from the shock.

Question 2

Nux Vomica - Miasm

Answer 2

Miasm: Typhoid

Question 3

Nux Vomica - Aspects

Answer 3

Workaholics; irritable and impatient

Chilly:

Question 4

Curare - Sensation (Family: Loganaceae)

Answer 4

Sensation- Shocked, Shattered, Shock paralyzes/ Feels Dumbstruck, Excitable/ Convulsions or Silent Grief, Speechless, Numb, Cannot Weep from the Shock

Related remedies- Stry., Spig., Gels., Nux-v., Ign., Ho.

Question 5

Curare - Miasm

Answer 5

Leprosy

Question 6

Curare - Aspects

Answer 6

Abusive, Cruelty
Biting himself. Mutilating his body. Striking himself. Tearing himself.
Misanthropic. Mind- company- aversion to- sight of people- avoids the- SHUTS HERSELF UP
Delusion- abused/ everything is foul/ is dirty
Head, Drawn backwards. Abdomen-Shocks. Paralysis of lids; Quivering of lids; Liquids come out through nose on attempting to swallow; Face-Lockjaw. Mouth-Paralysis, tongue (3); Throat-Paralysis; Extremities- Paralysis- Hysterical
Stomach-Nausea-retains urine. Eyes- open lids- sleep-during
Abdomen- cirrhosis of liver- accompanied by- vomiting bile*
Female-Gangrene-Uterus

Question 7

Bryonia Alba - Sensation (Family: violales/cucurbitaceae)

Answer 7

Sensation: vexation, chagrin, irritability, pinching, cutting, stabbing, disturbed, interrupted, disrupted, interfere, bother, perturb, agitate, undisturbed, quiet, constant, smooth, left alone

Question 8

Bryonia Alba - Miasm

Answer 8

Typhoid

Question 9

Bryonia Alba - Aspects

Answer 9

Aversion to being DISTURBED, LEAST MOTION
Talks of business
Amel. Lying on painful side
Delirium- wants to go home, delusions- away from home, fear of POVERTY
Holds head with hands during cough (4)
Eyes sore moving eyelids agg.
Stomach vomiting after injury
Dryness of rectum, mucus membranes, and usually moist parts.
Stool clay-like, nausea most of the time, vomiting of mucus and bile in attacks, sour eructations.

Question 10

Aconite napellus, Ranunculus bulbosus, Staphysagria (Family Ranunculaceae) - Sensation

Answer 10

Sensation: vexed, morbid sensitivity, raw nerves, excessive anger with grief/shock/guilt. Sharp/stitching/stabbing pain with emotion.

Question 11

Aconite napellus, Ranunculus bulbosus, Staphysagria - Aspects

Answer 11

Passive: numbness, bluntness. 
Active: nervous tension, tremors with emotion, somatization, many emotions together.
Compensation: equanimity. 
Mind, anger, ailments
Mind, anger with silent grief, ailments from
Mind, emotions, ailments from
Mind, rudeness of others, ailments from
Mind, offended easily

Question 12

Aconite (acute miasm)

Answer 12

Suddenness of Sxs comes from the that fact that it is the acute miasm
Fear and presentiment of death also attributed to the acute miasm
Restlessness come from the anxiety and absolute helplessness of acute miasm
Complaints after fright and shock (miasm)
Complaints after anger due to family
Ailments from fright, accident, sight of
Beside oneself, teeth, from pain in
Mind, fear, subways
Gererals, faintness, numbness, tingling with
Eye, inflammation, foregin bodies/wind, cold.dry
Nose, epistaxis, gushing out
Dreams, prophetic
Chill, internal, coldness, blood vessels, in
Sleeplessness, fright, after

Question 13

Ranunculus bulbosus (malarial miasm)

Answer 13

Rheumatic complaints, skin and nerve pathology
Mind, joke, connot take a. Too proper.
Complaints of the head on entering a warm room
Herpes zoster ophthalmicus
Hiccoughs after alcoholic drinks
Stitching pain in liver- breathing agg.
Abdomen, pain, side, stitching, inspiration agg.
Pain in ovaries during change of weather
Chest, coldness, sternum

Question 14

Staphysagria

Answer 14

Ail from sexual abuse, anger with indignation, mortification, RUDENESS of others. Throws things around when angry. Anger after siesta. Ail after sexual excess. Throwing things at person who offends. Head PA after grief, after vexation. Styes. Sensitive wounds, teeth, tumors, scars. Pale face after anger.
Stomach pain after vexation. Bladder pain after coition, after lithotomy.
Affinity- Nerves, teeth, GU, Eyelids, Skin
Rectum- condylomata- SENSITIVE, EXTREMELY** (3 and only Rx)
Male genitalia/sex- condylomata- SENSITIVE (2)
Skin- excrescences- condylomata- pedunculate (2)/ sensitive
Skin- warts- SENSITIVE to touch (3)

Question 15

Spider themes: Latrodectus mactans, Tarentula

Answer 15

Teach you a lesson; key way spiders describe their revenge
Argue and betting are ways they use to show you up.
This theme of taking revenge and making them suffer slowly is a general spider feeling, the general sadistic feeling

Question 16

Tarentula

Answer 16

Rubrics
Mind- delusions- voices- hearing
Extremities- restless- lower limbs- NIGHT/Bed in AGG. (3)
Mind- impulsive
Mind- moral feeling- want of
Mind- destructive
Sensation- Impulsive, rhythmic, teach you a lesson, pounce/grab, survival
Related remedies- Tarantula-c., Atrax-r., Lat-m., Lat-h., Mygale
Miasm- Tubercular
Anger when touched. Threatening
Desire to attack others. Breaks things. Destructive of clothing
Hurry in movements, everyone must, walking. Hysteria, music AMEL.
Rage, has to be chained. Vomiting after going to bed. Constipation, stool remains in rectum with no urging and awful anxiety. Yellow leukorrhea after menses. Restlessness of extremities, amel. Music.
Desires to eat sand

Question 17

Lactodectus mactans

Answer 17

Mind- Death- AGONY before death
Mind- Death- sensation of
Mind- Fear- Death, of- ANGINA PECTORIS- during
Mind- MALICIOUS- hurting other people’s feelings
Mind- MOCKING- sarcasm- weakness- with great intuition concerning other people’s
Mind- rolling floor- on the- pain- from
Mind- shrieking- dying- thinks she will be
Head- pain- constant, continued- fixed, lasts for weeks, months, even years, with rare intermission
Complaints of HEART- accompanied by- upper limb- LEFT- NUMBNESS/PAIN
Pain- HEART- extending to LEFT AXILLA
Pain- HEART- Region of- TEARING pain (3)
Power play, ego, male/female
Sexual domination, sadistic enjoyment
Intense anger, clenched fists and teeth, kill
Wait for the right time and hurt them where it hurts most
Cold blooded,control
black

Question 18

Snake themes: Naja

Answer 18

Very sensitive neck, defenseless if their neck is not free
Tend to hold back their revenge or retaliation b/c it makes them feel dirty or guilty
Deadly instinct is camouflaged in shy, secretive, attempts to please or highly moral behavior
Clairvoyant
Jealousy, cunning, scheming, planning
Like other animals they attempt to get attention through music/dancing, sex, nice clothes/cars, money
Alcohol,smoking
Fear of or Hx of sexual abuse
Aversion/fear of cats, ghosts
When provocation is too much they often express their anger as insanity/madness

Question 19

Naja proving

Answer 19

Known for their intimidating behavior and deadly bite
Felt some strong duty to perform
Increased perception of what I ought to do and uncontrollable inclination not to do it
Morality is tinged with spirituality
If they feel revenge, they feel tremendous guilt & will be punished by higher power
The conflict of naja comes from the fact that their delusional situation is one where they feel wronged, harmed, tortured, and harassed by people towards whom they also feel they have a moral responsibility and duty, or need, to protect them.
The prover was then in a conflict between her duty and responsibility as a doctor which prompted her to go to the aid of her landlady, and her impulse to neglect her and make her suffer for the wrong that she had done to her. She woke up from this dream, feeling this “split” in her mind.
Mind- sadness- wrong way, as if having done everything in the
Complaints of LEFT OVERY- extending to HEART
Oppression of HEART- LYING- LEFT side- AGG.
Chest- pain- HEART- extending to- throat
Palpitations- SPEAK- UNABLE TO **
Palpitations- TALKING AGG., WINE AGG.
Pain- occiput- BLOW- as from a (3)
Cough- HEART affections- with (3)
Chest- murmurs- cardiac- valvular
Chest- weakness- HEART- about the heart- sensation of weakness

Question 20

Reptiles

Answer 20

Hidden, planned, conspiracy, disguise, calculative, scheming
Competitive/ one-upmanship, superior and inferior, manipulative
Ambush, poison, deceit, vantage point, agile
Constrictors- squeezing, crushing
Cench, Crot-h, Crot-c, Naja, Elaps, Heloderma, Anaconda

Question 21

Mammal themes: Moschus, Lac leoninum, Ambra grisea

Answer 21

Connections with immediate family, submission/dominance, connections with community or group
Conflict regarding sexuality, self vs. the group, agg. Menses
Dirty feeling, most in sycotic miasm
Taking care of others, offspring, family members
Fight for supremacy within group or with a partner. The mechanism is about exerting one’s self to stop from feeling dominated or to dominate another, or how it is to be dominated when submissive, not about killing or eradicating completely. Not lethal
Fears of being alone, ostracized, kicked out, left out of the group/pack/herd/family/pride

Question 22

Moschus

Answer 22

Emotionally excitable/ HYSTERICAL
FAINTING. HYSTERIA WITH RESPIRATORY COMPLAINTS
Scolds until lips are blue, eyes staring, and then FAINTS*
Feigns sickness in children
Laughing alternating with WEEPING
HYSTERICAL Headaches
Face- lips- blue- from SCOLDING
Spasms of the Larynx
Asthma- HYSTERICAL/ SUDDEN ATTACKS
AWKWARDNESS FROM HURRY/ DROPS THINGS

Question 23

Ambra grisea

Answer 23

Introversion and shyness can be attributed to the secretive nature of the Sperm Whale (one of the deepest diving whales and rarely seen near the surface)
The keynote symptom of inhibition about passing stool or urinating when others are present, or even in the house is due to the disgust and distain of the Leprosy miasm
Emotional, sentimental people who suffer from inhibition.
Impossible to express himself, communicate, agg. company of strangers- AGG.
Cough- Strangers- presence of- AGG.
Must make tremendous effort to keep conversation going.
Cannot let go. Aversion to seeing or hearing others laughing.
Extremely conscious of what people will think about them.
Ailments from failure, being put down/insulted,
embarrassment in their work
lose confidence, become
bashful, avoid people
Mind- anxiety- crowd (3)
Head- confusion- occiput(3)
Empty eructations- cough- AFTER
Sleepless- conversation- after
Pain in hands- squeezed- as if

Question 24

Big Cats

Answer 24

Looking at the pictures of them they generate the feeling of Power, Control, Strength, Ego.
They say I am the Best.
I call the shots.
Here where the jungle law prevails I have won the battle, aggressively proved my strength, my guts.
If I lose the battle or become weak or disabled it means death
In the patient with this delusional state – we see Egotism, Authoritativeness, Strength.
They express their aggression & need to win in competitive sports like squash & tennis, a liking for action movies.
They like to push their limits but hate being pushed.
They fear failure, degeneration, incapacity where they are dependent, weak & their survival is at stake
Committed & responsible, they have a strong sense of right & wrong.
They hate injustice and cheats.
This proud , arrogant species fears nothing

Question 25

Lac- leoninum proving

Answer 25

Imagined admonitions and “fired” back. Felt that people were trying to put me down, blame me, find fault with me, criticize me (victimization that all animals feel)
Felt that they were making me feel inferior or low. (High vs. low)
Felt how dare people tell me these things for no fault of mine; they had no right to. Advised an aunt not to let people to take advantage, and to give back shrewdly, and teach others a lesson.
Anger, offended, ego hurt.
Very irritable and quarrelsome from interference in my matters. Flared up, and had a desire to smash my brother who I felt was interfering, but controlled myself.
Would jump at husband pounce upon him, quarrel with him to make her leave.
I felt that they were all trying to show that I was inferior and foolish and that I had to give back and fight at any cost, insult them. Fretted and fumed. Decided that if I didn’t win, I would get out.
While I am determined to fight the problem by hook or by crook, I am also feeling attacked.
Vehemently assertive attitude.
Felt very strong and great like a king, and thought of others that they were slow creatures who were in my way.
I felt of her that she is next to Mrs. Indira Gandhi 1 with the same look, confident talk and leadership qualities. I was attracted and allured by her craving for power. She gains power by appearing modest and adopting a low profile.
The lion, the king of the jungle is in a position of power & control.
He is a perfectionist, strong, the leader, responsible & committed to the right way and justice
Protective of his pride, he is none the less a dictator, used to things, his way.
Her/His battle is the battle against losing this position of authority or control

Question 26

Dulcamara (bittersweet nightshade)

Answer 26

Can be domineering, possessive, self- centered
Eruptions- brown crusts/scabs of the head. Herpes circinatus of the head
COLD WET WEATHER AGGRAVATES**
Occipital H/A WET WEATHER AGG*
Diarrhea- WEATHER- COLD- WET- AGG
Diarrhea- WET- ground- after standing on
ASTHMA- WEATHER- COLD- WET- AGG
Back pain/Lameness after getting COLD/WET
JOINT/Shoulder pain- weather- COLD/ WET- AGG
FLAT/SMOOTH WARTS- Hands
Urticaria- COLD AGG.- becoming
Pains from SUPPRESSED Catarrh/ eruptions

Question 27

Cactus gradiflorus (Cactaceae): Shrinking down and swelling, constricting in the vagina and heart

Answer 27

Sensation: Constricted, made smaller, shrunk, contracted, bound, trapped, oppressed, clutched, downtrodden, weighed down
Passive: Trapped
Active: Expansion, becoming bigger, boundless and released
Compensation: Not affected by contraction and oppression
Constricted, contracted, made smaller, shrunken, shrink, trapped, pressed, clutched, weighed down, oppressed, downtrodden, bound, crammed, packed together, grasp, clasp, grab, grip, compact, tighten, force down, squeeze, constrain, condense, get smaller, grow smaller
Expansion, boundless, released, unlimited, endless, limitless, infinite, ceaseless, never ending, vast, without end, spreading out, get bigger, make bigger
CONSTRICTING Pains, like a wire, as from a cage. Hemorrhages WITH Constriction.
Vaginismus*- Preventing COITION(constricting), CONSTRICTION of VAGINA- COITION- DURING. Constriction about the heart
Affinity for HEART, Female Genitalia
Constriction of the heart with GRASPING sensation
Gen-Pain-Grasping (don’t make this mistake)
Sadness in Heart Dz
EDEMA of LEFT HAND with HEART Dz
Fullness of the head- &laquo_space;Mental Exertion
Respiration- difficult- Lying- back- on- AMEL- SHOULDERS ELEVATED
NUMBNESS of LEFT UPPER LIMB- with complaints of HEART
Chest- pain- Diaphragm- CONSTRICTING PAIN
Generals- CONSTRICTION- external- caged with wires twisted tighter and tighter

Question 28

Carbo vegetablis

Answer 28

Desire to be FANNED**
Anxiety on CLOSING EYES, with HEAT of the FACE
Constriction- as from ARMOR/ pressure of a HAT. Sensation of a SKULLCAP
Burning pain of the Eyebrows
Sneezing during heat (fever)
Acne on the forehead
Bleeding of gums when sucking on them/ RECEDING GUMS THAT BLEED EASILY*
Pain- SPLEEN- Heat- during/ Perspiration
Abdomen- rumbling- FLATUS- PASSING- amel.
Distention of the stomach that is GREATLY AMEL by ERUCTATIONS*
ERUCTATIONS from Butter, causing FAINTNESS
Abdomen- FLATULENCE- HYPOCHONDRIA
Rectum- Diarrhea- bad drainage*
Voice lost in the evening. Generals- Reading- aloud- AGG.
COLDNESS of the BREATH (CAMPH, VERATRUM, HELO)
DIFFICULT RESPIRATION- from FLATULENCE**
Chest- oppression- ERUCTATIONS AMELIORATE
Waking from COLDNESS of limbs
Chill- ICY COLDNESS of the body- skin- of- whole body- COLD breath- with
Generals- WEAKNESS- COLDNESS- from

Question 29

Thuja (Conifer themes)

Answer 29

Family- Conifer
Sensation- Fragile, delicate, weak, fragmented
Related remedies- Agathis-a., Pix., Ter., Seq-s., Sabina, Tax.
Miasm- Sycotic
Hair falling in handfuls
Pain in forehead, as from a nail
H/A in sides after dinner, as from a nail
Eczema of eyelids. Warts of lids. Soft polyps of the ears that bleed easily. Warts on chin.
Abdomen, as if fetus moving. As if SOMETHING ALIVE
Forked stream of urine. Condylomata of penis, of scrotum, like a cock’s comb.
Felon runs around nail, after vaccination. Swelling of upper arm after vaccination.

Question 30

Kali nitricum

Answer 30

Respiration- asthmatic- night- midnight- after- sitting up in bed- MUST SIT UP
Menses- Black- inky (2)
Numbness- lower limbs- WALKING AGG.
Pain- Paralyzed Parts (Kunzli)
Hands FEEL WOODEN
WOODEN SENSATION-Lower Limbs- WALKING- AGG.
VEAL AGG. Diarrhea from VEAL
Pulse- frequent- afternoon- slow in the morning, but (3)
Pulse- frequent- evening- slow in the morning, but (3)

Question 31

Silicea

Answer 31

Family 3rd row 10th column
Sensation- fixed identity
Related remedies- silica salts Kali-sil, Mag-sil, Nat-sil, Lith-sil, stront-sil
Miasm- Sycotic
Arguing- not arguing, despite having firm convictions and keeping them
Fear of pins, the wind. Sensitive to steel points directed at her. Weeping, consolation agg. (Like Nat-M and Sepia)
Eruptions, pustules on occiput. Head- pain-coition. Fontanelles, open
Perspiration, scalp, sour
Head, sensitive to brushing hair, to hat.
Inflammation, iris, hypopyon. Inflammation lids/ducts in newborns. Abscess of meatus (Infections fester)
Tumors of gums, size of a walnut. Nausea after vaccination.

Question 32

Tuberculinum

Answer 32

Family- Nosodes
Sensation- Oppressed. Time is running out. Desire for travel.
Related remedies- All tubercular remedies.
Miasm- Tubercular
Abusive children- insulting parents
Anxiety- children- night (3). Mind- fear- children- NIGHT (3)
Desire for change in life, excitement (3). Morbid impulse to run(4). Desire to wander.
Shrieking before menses
Striking himself. Knocking head against things. Tantrums. Bores head into pillow. Desires to break things.
Falling- Hair- Spots. Motions of head- rolling (4)
Offensive nasal discharge, like cheese. Perspiration on nose. Slow dentition
External Throat- INDURATION of glands- CORDS- LIKE KNOTTED (3)
Dark, long hair along spine in infants/children
Cold perspiration of palms. Chill on putting hand out of bed. Red stripe down center of the tongue
Vision- hemiopia- horizontal (Kunzli)
Coryza- odor- ROSES- AGG. (Kunzli)
Discoloration- bluish- red- EYELASHES- above- Hairs- at the roots of (only Rx). Comedones- Nose (3)
Diarrhea- morning- bed- driving out of (Kunzli)
Chest- milk- pregnancy- in women when not related to (Kunzli)
Skin, allergies to milk.
Emaciation in pining boys. Desire smoked meat

Question 33

Histaminum

Answer 33

Mind- anxiety- MOTION- AMEL./ WALKING- AMEL
HURRY- occupation-in/ WALKING- while
Mind- sadness- WALKING- AMEL
WANDERING- desire to wander- RESTLESSLY
Eye pain/ Vertigo- BENDING HEAD FORWARD- AGG.
Nose- wet- too- sensation in nose- discharge- but no
Mouth- taste- perfume- wine tastes like
External Throat- Torticollis (Kunzli)- Spasmodic
Nausea- food- thought of
Chest- water- sensation of- cold drops were falling into the water