MM4 Flashcards
· A CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOM IS COPIOUS HAEMORRHAGE WITH GREAT FAINTNESS AND DIZZINESS
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
· MOST CHARACTERISTIC AFFECTION IS SENSATION AS IF THE BONES OF PELVIS WERE BROKEN – RELAXATION OF PELVIC REGION
· CRAMP LIKE PAINS
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· BLOOD VESSELS OF VARIOUS ORGANS
· FEMALE ORGANS
· DENTAL
· LUNGS
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
MENSES – PROFUSE, EVERY TWO WEEKS; LASTING A WEEK OR LONGER = AFTER OVER EXERTION OR TOO LONG A RIDE
· FLOODING WITH FAINTING
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
PROFUSE UTERINE HAEMORRHAGE AT CLIMACTERIC; FLOW EVERY TWO WEEKS; PALE FACE, FAINTS EASILY, DIM SIGHT, PALPITATION; OBSTRUCTION AND NOISE IN EARS; PAINFUL SINKING AT PIT OF STOMACH
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
HAEMORRHAGE WITH A SENSATION AS THOUGH THE HIPS AND BACK WERE FALLING TO PIECES AND RELIEF FROM TIGHT BANDAGE
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
METABOLISM
CAUSATION:
DIABETES MELLITUS
SYZYGIUM JAMBOLANUM
IT HAS AN EFFECT OF DECREASING SUGAR ESPECIALLY IN THE URINE
SYZYGIUM JAMBOLANUM
· GREAT THIRST, WEAKNESS AND EMACIATION
PROFUSE AMOUNTS OF URINE – POLYURIA
SYZYGIUM JAMBOLANUM
Prickly heat in upper part of the body; small red pimples itch violently.
Great thirsts, weakness, emaciation.
Old ulcers of skin. Diabetic ulceration.
Very large amount of urine, specific gravity high.
SYZYGIUM JAMBOLANUM
- FEMALE REMEDY
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· OVER EXERTION
· TOO LONG A RIDE
· MOTION
· CLIMACTERIC
· AFTER EATING - AMELIORATIONS:
· OPEN AIR
· TIGHT BANDAGE
BENDING FORWARD
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
· MENSES – PROFUSE, EVERY TWO WEEKS; LASTING A WEEK OR LONGER = AFTER OVER EXERTION OR TOO LONG A RIDE
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
Threatened abortion. Relaxation of pelvic region.
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
Bleeding after tooth extraction. With faintness and dizziness
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
Uterine hæmorrhages, with sensation as though hips and back were falling to pieces; better tight bandages.
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
Uterine hæmorrhages, with sensation as though hips and back were falling to pieces; better tight bandages.
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
Vision blurred; everything looks bluish. Nose-bleed. Paled and faint
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
as if sacro-iliac synchondroses were falling apart, wants to be bound tightly; as if bones of pelvis were broken ( Aesculus ); with haemorrhage.
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
FEMALE COMPLAINTS WHERE THERE IS A COMPONENT OF CRAMPY PAIN WITH COLIC,
VIBURNUM OPULUS
GENERAL REMEDY FOR CRAMPS – ESP NOTED FOR COLICKY PAINS IN PELVIC ORGANS
VIBURNUM OPULUS
A general remedy for cramps. Colicky pains in pelvic organs. Superconscious of internal sexual organs. Female symptoms most important. Often prevents miscarriage
VIBURNUM OPULUS
Abdomen.–Sudden cramps and colic pains. Tender to pressure about umbilicus. Worse, lying on affected side, in warm room, evening and night. Better, in open air and resting.
VIBURNUM OPULUS
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· GI SYSTEM
· RESPIRATORY – CHEST, THROAT AND LARYNX
MALE AND FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS
Chief action is centered upon the nervous system and respiratory organs. Debility is very marked
STANNUM METALLICUM
especially the debility of chronic bronchial and pulmonary conditions, characterized by profuse muco-purulent discharges upon tuberculosis basis.
STANNUM METALLICUM
Pains that come and go gradually
STANNUM METALLICUM
Talking causes a very weak feeling in the throat and chest.
STANNUM METALLICUM
Head.–Aching in temples and forehead. Obstinate acute coryza and influenza with cough. Pain worse motion; gradually increasing and decreasing as if constricted by a band; forehead feels pressed inwards. Jarring of walking resounds painfully in head. Drawing pains in malar bones and orbits. Ulceration of ringhole in lobe of ear.
STANNUM METALLICUM
Stomach.–Hunger. Smell of cooking causes vomiting. Bitter taste. Pain better pressure, but sore to touch. Sensation of emptiness in stomach.
STANNUM METALLICUM
MOST CHARACTERISTIC AFFECTION IS PROFOUND WEAKNESS - NEUROLOGICAL
STANNUM METALLICUM
A CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOM IS THE NATURE OF PAIN – BEGINS AND ENDS INSIDOUOSLY
STANNUM METALLICUM
LIES IN BIZARRE POSITION WITH THE COMPLAINTS – LIES ON BACK WITH ONE LEG STRETCHED AND THE OTHER DRAWN UP
STANNUM METALLICUM
HEADACHE - BEGINS LIGHTLY AND INCREASES GRADUALLY TO THE HIGHEST POINT AND THEN GRADUALLY DECLINES [PLAT]
STANNUM METALLICUM
- MIND SYMPTOMS:
· SAD, DESPONDENT, FEELS LIKE CRYING ALL THE TIME, BUT CRYING MAKES HER WORSE [NAT M, SEP]
· WEEPING MOOD IS MARKED BEFORE THE MENSTRUATION
· A GREAT DISINCLINATION TO TALK
PROFOUND AVERSION TO COMPANY ESP OF MEN
STANNUM METALLICUM
WHILE DRESSING IN THE MORNING, HAS TO SIT DOWN SEVERAL TIMES TO REST
STANNUM METALLICUM
ONE OF THE MOST USEFUL REMEDIES IN COLIC
ii. COLIC > BY HARD PRESSURE OR BY LYING ON ABDOMEN ACROSS THE KNEE OR SHOULDER [COLO]
COLIC FINALLY RELIEVED BY PASSING OF WORMS;
STANNUM METALLICUM
MONDAY CONSTIPATION OR CONSTIPATION FOLLOWING THE REST DAY IS A PECULIAR SYMPTOM OF THIS DRUG IN DYSPEPSIA
STANNUM METALLICUM
GREAT WEAKNESS IN CHEST < TALKING, LAUGHING, READING ALOUD, SINGING; SO WEAK THAT HE OR SHE IS UNABLE TO TALK
SHE STOPS OFTEN WHILE TALKING AS SHE GETS OUT OF BREATH
STANNUM METALLICUM
ALL PERVADING WEAKNESS IS ALMOST ALWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH ALL THE COMPLAINTS:4.
AGGRAVATIONS:
· USING VOICE
· LYING ON RIGHT SIDE
· WARM DRINKS
AMELIORATIONS:
· COUGHING
· EXPECTORATING
HARD PRESSURE
STANNUM METALLICUM
· FEMALE :
i. MENSES – TOO EARLY, TOO PROFUSE; SADNESS BEFORE;
ii. LEUCORRHOEA WITH GREAT DEBILITY; WEAKNESS SEEM TO PROCEED FROM CHEST
STANNUM METALLICUM
RESPIRATORY –
i. COUGH – DEEP, HOLLOW, CONCUSSIVE AND IN PAROXYSM OF THREE COUGHS
ii. DRY COUGH WHILE IN BED, IN EVENING WITH EMPTY SESATION OF CHEST
iii. WITH THIS COUGH THERE WILL BE THE ALL PERVADING WEAKNESS WHICH IS PROFOUND
iv. EXPECTORATION – PROFUSE, LIKE THE WHITE OF AN EGG; SWEETISH, SALTY [KALI I, SEP]; SOUR, PUTRID; YELLOW GREEN PUS DURING THE DAY
HOARSENESS – DEEP, DUSLY, HOLLOW VOICE; RELIEVED FOR THE TIME BY COUGHING OR EXPECTORATING MUCUS
STANNUM METALLICUM
iv. NAUSEA AND VOMITING ARE NOTED ESPECIALLY FROM ODOR OF COOKING FOOD [ARS, COLCH]; ESP IN MORNING
A WEAK EMPTY ALL GONE FEELING IN STOMACH [SEP]
STANNUM METALLICUM
SYNONYMS: TIN
STANNUM METALLICUM
SYNONYMS: JAM / KALA JAM
SYZYGIUM JAMBOLANUM
SYNONYMS: WHITE BETH ROOT / LAMBS QUARTER
SYZYGIUM JAMBOLANUM
SYNONYMS: PINK ROOT / WORM GRASS
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
-HEART – PERICARDITIS, ENDOCARDITIS, VULVULAR PROBLEMS, RHEUMATIC HEART
-EYE
-NERVOUS SYSTEM – NEURALGIA, HEADACHE
-WORMS
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
MOST CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOM IS ‘PAIN’ – PAIN IS MOSTLY NEURALGIC – BURNING, STITCHING, TEARING AND RADIATING
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
SHARP PAINS WHICH ARE WORSE BY ANY MOVEMENT AND BETTER IN ABSOLUTE REST [[BRY] AND IN DARK CONDITIONS
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
OUTPRESSING OF PAINS – BEGINS FROM SOME INTERIOR PORTION OF THE BODY AND SHOOTS OUTWARD; SOMETIMES THE PAIN IS FROM BELOW UPWARD [LED]
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
· BODY PAINFULLY SENSITIVE TO TOUCH – PART TOUCHED FEELS CHILLY; TOUCH SENDS SHUDDER THROUGH THE WHOLE BODY [KALI C]
AFRAID OF SHARP POINTED THINGS
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
CAUSATION:
· NERVE DISORDER
· WORMS
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
AFRAID OF SHARP POINTED THINGS LIKE PINS AND NEEDLES OR EVEN KNIFE
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
· MENTAL IRRITABILITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH BODILY SENSITIVENESS OR IRRITABILITY
· RESTLESSNESS AND ANXIETY
ASSOCIATED IS A GREAT DISINCLINATION TO DO WORK AND MARKED SOLICITUDE FOR FUTURE
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
· NERVOUS HEADACHE – PERIODICAL
HEADACHE BEGINNING IN MORNING AT BASE OF BRAIN, SPREADING OVER THE HEAD AND LOCATING IN EYE, ORBIT AND TEMPLE OF LEFT SIDE[RIGHT SIDE – SANGUINARIA, SIL]
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
· HEADACHE: AT SUNRISE, AT IT’S HEIGHT AT NOON, DECLINES AT SUNSET [NAT MUR, TAB]
· HEADACHE – PAIN IS PULSATING, VIOLENT AND THROBBING – PAIN IS SO VIOLENT THAT AT TIMES IT FEELS AS IF THE NERVES WERE BEING TORN OUT BY A PAIR OF SHARP PINCERS
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
SENSATION AS IF THE HEAD WERE PRESSED OPEN ALONG THE VERTEX OR AS IF THE BRAIN WERE FORCING ITSELF OUT THROUGH THE FOREHEAD
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
· HEADACHE WORSE FROM NOISE, JARRING OF THE BODY, BRIGHT LIGHT, OPENING MOUTH, SPEAKING ALOUD, LAUGHING AND STOOPING
- PROFUSE LACHRYMATION, PHOTOPHOBIA, PULSATION OF THE TEMPORAL ARTERIES, CORYZA AND BILIOUS VOMITING ACCOMPANY THE HEADACHE
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
· HEADACHE WORSE FROM NOISE, JARRING OF THE BODY, BRIGHT LIGHT, OPENING MOUTH, SPEAKING ALOUD, LAUGHING AND STOOPING
- PROFUSE LACHRYMATION, PHOTOPHOBIA, PULSATION OF THE TEMPORAL ARTERIES, CORYZA AND BILIOUS VOMITING ACCOMPANY THE HEADACHE
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
- HEART SYMPTOMS:
- VALUABLE HEART REMEDY
- PAIN IS VERY SHARP, STITCHING LOCATED IN THE REGION OF THE HEART.
· SHARP STICTHES SOMETIMES SHOOTING INTO ARM AND NECK ARE REFERRED TO CARDIAC REGION.
- THESE STITCHES ARE SYNCHRONOUS WITH THE PULSE.
- ANXIETY OF MIND OFTEN ACCOMPANIES THESE STITCHING PAINS
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
IS KNOWN TO AFFORD GREAT RELIEF IN VULVULAR PROBLEMS, ENDOCARDITIS AND PERICARDITIS
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
ENDOCARDITIS WITH MITRAL VALVE INCOMPETENCE FOLLOWING ACUTE RHEUMATISM WHERE THE SYSTOLIC MURMUR IS HEARD AT THE APEX
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
· PALPITATION OR RATHER VIOLENT PALPITATION IS FREQUENTLY FOUND IN CARDIAC PROBLEMS
– IT IS SO VIOLENT THAT IT CAN BE DISCERNED THROUGH THE CLOTHES;
-IT SHAKES THE WHOLE CHEST AND
-EVEN THE CARDIAC MURMUR IS AUDIBLE FROM OUTSIDE.
· FOLLOWING THE VIOLENT PALPITATION THE PATIENT VERY OFTEN FAINTS – SYNCOPE
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
· THE PATIENT COMPLAINS OF A PECULIAR PARRYING (PURRING) SENSATION OVER THE HEART (MIGHT BE ARRHYTHMIA)
· SOMETIMES THE FEELING IN THE HEART IS THAT OF COMPRESSION AND SQUEEZING.[CACT]
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
DYSPNOEA AND SUFFOCATING ATTACKS FROM SLIGHT MOVEMENT;
AGGRAVATION FROM SLIGHT MOVEMENT LIKE DEEP BREATH, MOVING THE HAND IS A CARDINAL FEATURE OF THIS REMEDY
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
CLARKE FOUND IT USEFUL IN HEART CONDITIONS WHICH ARE COMPLICATED WITH TROUBLESOME CONSTIPATION
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
CILIARY NEURALGIA – PAIN IN EYE BALL RADIATING TO BACK WHICH IS SEVERE AND INTOLERABLE. PAIN ALSO RADIATES TO THE FRONTAL SINUS MIMICKING SINUSITIS. WITH THIS SEVERE RADIATING PAIN MANY OCULAR CONDITIONS LIKE GLAUCOMA, OPHTHALMIA, CONJUNCTIVITIS, KERATITIS ETC HAVE BEEN RELIEVED BY this remedy
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
PROSOPALGIA – NOWADAYS KNOWN AS FACIAL NERVE PAIN OR TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA IS COVERED BY THIS REMEDY WITH THE SYMPTOMS LIKE SHARP, PIERCING PAINS RADIATING ALL OVER THE FACE AND ALSO TO THE BACK.
THE PAINS ARE PERIODIC RETURNING AT REGULAR INTERVALS.
DURING THIS PAIN THERE WILL BE CONCOMITANT LACHRYMATION WITH THE PATIENT BETTER IN REST AND IN DARK ROOM
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
COMPARE: CINA, TEUCRIUM, SABAD IN WORM SYMPTOMS
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
CHRONIC OF ARNICA IN CARDIAC CONDITIONS
· COMPARE: ACON, ARN, CACTUS, NAJA, SPONG IN CARDIAC CONDITIONS
SPIG IS CHRONIC ARNICA
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
CARDIAC AND WORM REMEDY
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· MOTION IN ANY FORM
· TOUCH
· JARRING
· CONCUSSION - AMELIORATIONS:
LYING ON RIGHT SIDE WITH HEAD HIGH
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
A REMEDY FOR STITCHES DUE TO WORMS WHERE THE CHILD REFERS TO THE NAVEL AS THE MOST PAINFUL PART [GRANATUM, NUX MOS]. SCROFULOUS CHILDREN AFFLICTED WITH WORMS LIKE ASCARIDES AND LUMBRICI
SPIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· URINARY ORGANS - RENAL SYMPTOMS – COLIC, INFECTION, URETHRITIS
· SKIN AFFECTION – POST VACCINATION ERUPTIONS, BOILS
· RHEUMATISM, BONE AFFECTIONS
· RECTUM
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
SYNONYMS: WILD LIQUORICE / SMILAX
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
CAUSATION:
URINE INFECTION
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
SEVERE, ALMOST UNBEARABLE PAIN AT CONCLUSION OF URINATION [BERB, EQUIS, MED, THUJA]
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
- COLIC AND BACKACHE AT THE SAME TIME
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
EMACIATED, SHRIVELED, LIES IN FOLDS [ABROT, SANIC, IOD, NAT MUR]
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
USEFUL FOR RENAL COLIC, NEPHROLITHIASIS, URETHRITIS, CYSTITIS
THE MOST CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOM IN RENAL AFFECTION IS ‘SEVERE PAIN AT THE CONCLUSION OF URINATION’ [BERB, EQUIS, MED, THUJ]. PAIN IS SEVERE AND ALMOST UNBEARABLE
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
PAEDIATRIC INDICATION:
i. CHILD SCREAMS BEFORE AND WHILE PASSING URINE [BOR, LYC]
ii. WHITE SAND ON DIAPER
iii. RENAL COLIC AND DYSURIA IN INFANTS
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
CYSTITIS AND PROSTATIC AFFECTIONS:
i. URINE IS OFTEN PASSED WITHOUT SENSATION [CAUST]; URINE DRIBBLES WHILE SITTING, STANDING
ii. PAINFUL DISTENSION AND TENDERNESS IN BLADDER
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
· URINE PASSED IS OFTEN BLOODY
· URINE – DEPOSITS WHITE SANDS
URINE – BRIGHT AND CLEAR BUT IRRITATING; SCANTY, SLIMY, FLAKY, SANDY, COPIOUS
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
· PAIN FROM RIGHT KIDNEY DOWNWARDS [LYC] [LEFT KIDNEY DOWNWARDS – BERB]
· PAIN IS FELT MAXIMUM AT THE EXTERNAL URETHRAL MEATUS
- PASSAGE OF SMALL CALCULI FROM KIDNEY OR MORE FROM BLADDER;
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
KIN SYMPTOMS:
EMACIATED, SHRIVELED, LIES IN FOLDS; DRY SKIN
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
· RASH FROM EPOSURE TO OPEN AIR; DRY, ITCHING COMES ON IN SPRING AND BECOMES CRUSTY
· SKIN – CRACKED IN HANDS AND FEET [GRAPH, PET]
- SYCOTIC ERUPTIONS LIKE LITTLE SPOTS RAISED ABOVE THE SKIN LEVEL, OFTEN SCALING –ITCHING
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
· CLARKE SAYS – IS OFTEN USED FOR CLEARING THE COMPLEXION
ACC TO GRIMMER – ULCERS, CUTANEOUS ERUPTIONS, INDURATED GLANDS WITH JOINT SWELLING AND RHEUMATISM IMPROVE UNDER A COURSE OF THIS REMEDY
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
· LEUCORRHOEA WITH ODOR OF FISH BRINE OR OLD CHEESE [HEP SULPH]
· NIPPLES – SMALL, WITHERED, RETRACTED
· BEFORE MENSTRUATION, ITCHING AND HUMID ERUPTIONS OF FOREHEAD
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
GI:
TONGUE – WHITE, APHTHAE; SALIVATION
CONSTIPATION – IN SPITE OF BIG ACCUMULATION, HE HAS HARDLY ANY DESIRE TO PASS STOOL; STOOLS LARGE, HEAVY AND PAINFUL; AFTER GREAT STRAINING, PARTLY IS EXPELLED, RECEDES, CRUMBLING AT VERGE OF ANUS [MAG MUR] ; VERY OFFENSIVE ODOR OF STOOL
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· MOTION
· SITTING
· GOING UPSTAIRS AND DOWNSTAIRS
· TOUCH, PRESSURE, TIGHT CLOTHES
· YAWNING
· BEFORE MENSES - AMELIORATIONS:
· STANDING IMPROVES DIFFICULT URINATION
· UNCOVERING NECK AND CHEST - COMPARE:
· COMPARE: BERB, LYC, NAT-M, PETR, EQUIS IN URINARY PROBLEMS
COMPLEMENTARY: MERC, SEP
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
SYNONYMS: MINERAL SPRING WATER
SANICULA AQUA
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· CHILDREN REMEDY – ENURESIS, WEAKNESS, EMACIATION, DEVELOPMENTAL ERRORS, ATOPIC SKIN CONDITIONS
· SKIN – DERMATITIS, FUNGAL INFECTIONS, ULCERS, ERUPTIONS, DANDRUFF, BURNING OF SKIN
· GI SYSTEM – CAR SICKNESS, NAUSEA, CONSTIPATION
· FEMALE – MENSES DISTURBANCE, LEUCORRHOEA
SANICULA AQUA
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· EMACIATION [NAT MUR, ABROT, IOD, TUB] – SKIN IS WRINKLED[NAT, MUR, ABROT] AND HANGING DOWN IN FOLDS
· APPEARANCE – ILL NOURISHED, WEAK, SCROFULOUS AND HAVING DIRTY, GREASY APPEARANCE
· SMELL OF DISCHARGES IS OFFENSIVE AND DISGUSTING – OF FISH BRINE ODOR; ODOR OF STOOL FOLLOWS DESPITE BATHING [ SULPH]
· CHANGEABILITY OF SYMPTOMS[PULS, LAC CAN, KALI BICH]
· BURNING SENSATION IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE BODY – KEEPS SOLES OUT OF COVERS
· CONSTIPATION IS ITSELF CHARACTERISTIC – NO URGE FOR STOOL IN SPITE OF LARGE ACCUMULATION
CAR SICKNESS [COCC, PETROL]
SANICULA AQUA
Great emaciation: skin becomes shriveled or lies in folds (Abrot., Iod., Nat. m., Sanic.).
Headache and periosteal pains generally from mercury, syphilis or suppressed gonorrhoea.
In children; face like old people; enlarged abdomen; dry, flabby skin (Bar. c., Op.).
Herpetic eruptions on all parts of body; ulcers, after abuse of mercury, in syphillis.
Rash from exposure to open air; dry, itch-like eruptions, prone to appear in spring; become crusty.
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
Urinary.–Urine scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, bloody. Gravel. Renal colic. Severe pain at conclusion of urination. Urine dribbles while sitting. Bladder distended and tender. Child screams before and while passing urine. Sand on diaper. Renal colic and dysuria in infants. Pain from right kidney downward. Tenesmus of bladder; urine passes in thin, feeble stream. Pain at meatus.
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
CAUSATION:
· POOR DIET
· STRAINS
SANICULA AQUA
CHANGEABILITY OF SYMPTOMS[PULS, LAC CAN, KALI BICH]
SANICULA AQUA
BURNING SENSATION IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE BODY – KEEPS SOLES OUT OF COVERS (Sulph)
SANICULA AQUA
CAR SICKNESS [COCC, PETROL]
SANICULA AQUA
CONSTIPATION IS ITSELF CHARACTERISTIC – NO URGE FOR STOOL IN SPITE OF LARGE ACCUMULATION
SANICULA AQUA
- HEAD SYMPTOMS:
· PROFUSE SWEAT ON OCCIPUT AND IN NAPE OF NECK DURING SLEEP [ CALC, SIL]
· CANNOT BEAR COLD AIR ON OCCIPUT AND NECK
· PROFUSE SCALY DANDRUFF
· BURNING IN VERTEX
ELECTRIC CRACKING IN HAIR WHEN COMBED; HAIR WILL BE LUSTRELESS
SANICULA AQUA
- SKIN SYMPTOMS:
· DIRTY, GREASY, BROWNISH, WRINKLED
· PROFUSE SCALY DANDRUFF ON SCALP, EYEBROWS; FACE IS FULL OF PIMPLES [KALI BROM]
· SKIN ABOUT NECK WRINKLED, HANGS IN FOLDS [ABROT, IOD, NAT MUR, SARS]
· ECZEMA – FISSURED HANDS AND FINGERS
· ECZEMA -SORENESS BEHIND EARS WITH DISCHARGE OF WHITE, GRAY, VISCID FLUID [GRAPH, PSOR]
· ODOR – BODY ODOR IS DISGUSTING – FISH BRINE ODOR
· FOOT SWEAT – BETWEEN TOES, MAKING THEM SORE; OFFENSIVE [GRAPH, PSOR, SIL]; FOOT SWEAT ON SOLES AS IF HE HAD STEPPED IN COLDWATER
BURNING OF SOLES OF FEET – MUST UNCOVER THEM OR PUT THEM IN A COOL PLACE [LACH, MED, SANG, SULP]
SANICULA AQUA
- OTHER SYMPTOMS:
· CONSTIPATION – IN SPITE OF BIG ACCUMULATION, HE HAS HARDLY ANY DESIRE TO PASS STOOL; STOOLS LARGE, HEAVY AND PAINFUL; AFTER GREAT STRAINING, PARTLY IS EXPELLED, RECEDES, CRUMBLING AT VERGE OF ANUS [MAG MUR] ; VERY OFFENSIVE ODOR OF STOOL
LEUCORRHOEA WITH ODOR OF FISH BRINE OR OLD CHEESE [HEP SULPH]
SANICULA AQUA
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· MOVING ARMS BACKWARDS, MOTION
· STRAIN
· JARRING
· COLD WIND ON OCCIPUT - AMELIORATIONS:
· OPEN AIR
· WARMTH - COMPARE:
· COMPARE: ABOR, ALUM, CALC, SIL, SULPH, NAT MUR IN APPEARANCE, EMACIATION
· COMPARE: CALC C, GRAPH, MEDO, TELLURIUM FOR OFFESNIVE DISCAHRGE FROM SKIN LESION
· COMPARE: LACH, MED, SANG, SULPH, HEP S AND CALC IN BURNING SENSATIONS
COMPLEMENTARY: CHAM; GUERNSEY SAYS THAT SANICULA IS CHRONIC OF CHAM
SANICULA AQUA
Extremities.–Burning of soles of feet (Sulph; Lach). Offensive foot-sweat (Sil; Psor). Cold, clammy sweat of extremities.
Skin.–Dirty, greasy, brownish, wrinkled. Eczema, fissured hands and fingers (Petrol; Graph).
Modalities.–Worse, moving arms backward.
SANICULA AQUA
Modalities.–Worse, moving arms backward.
SANICULA AQUA
SYNONYMS: BLOODROOT
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· BLOOD – ANAEMIA
· RESPIRATORY – COUGH, WHOOPING COUGH, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, TUBERCULOSIS
· NEUROLOGICAL SYSTEM – HEADACHE, MIGRAINES, NEURALGIA, TINNITUS, LOSS OF SMELL, DEAFNESS
· MENOPAUSAL SYMPTOMS
MUSCULOSKELETAL – ARTHRITIS, FROZEN SHOULDER
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· PREDOMINANTLY RIGHT SIDED REMEDY
· AFFECTS THE MUCOUS MEMBRANES ESP THE RESPIRATORY TRACT; SUITED TO PULMONARY DISTURBANCES ASSOCIATED WITH LIVER DISORDERS
· CIRCULATORY OR VASO-MOTOR DISTURBANCES PRODUCING LOCALISED CONGESTION OR INFLAMMATION, FLASHES OF HEAT AND BURNING SENSATION LOCALLY OR IN GENERAL – BURNING SENSATION IS CHARACTERISTIC
· CLIMACTERIC DISTURBANCE IS A CHARACTERISTIC APPLICATION
· PERIODICITY – PERDIODICAL HEADACHE
· PAIN IN PLACES WHERE BONES ARE LEAST COVERED
· PAINS INCREASE AND DECREASE WITH THE SUN [NAT M, MEDO]
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
CAUSATION:
· SUN EXPOSURE OR EFFECTS OF SUN
· MENOPAUSAL AGE OR MENOPAUSAL CHANGES
· SUDDEN SUPPRESSION OF CATARRH
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
USEFUL IN SIMPLE HEADACHE, RECURRENT HEADACHE AND MIGRAINE
· PERIODICAL SICK HEADACHE – BEGINS IN MORNING, INCREASES DURING THE DAY, LASTS UNTIL EVENING;
· BURSTING HEADACHE – HEAD FEELS AS IF IT WOULD BURST OR AS IF EYES WOULD BE PRESSED OUT; RELIEVED BY SLEEP
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
· AMERICAN SICK HEADACHE (MIGRAINE) – AGGRAVATED BY TRIGGER FACTORS LIKE SUN, HEAT, EXCITEMENT, STRESS; CHARACTERISED BY THE TYPICAL PREPONDERANCE OF AFFECTING THE RIGHT SIDE AND ASSOCIATED WITH FLUSHES OF HEAT OR HEAT INTOLERANCE AND RELIEVED BY REMAINING PERFECTLY QUIET IN A DARK ROOM
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
· HEADACHE – BEGINS IN OCCIPUT, SPREADS UPWARDS AND SETTLES OVER RIGHT EYE [SIL; OVER LEFT EYE –SPIG]
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
· HEADACHE – BEGINS IN OCCIPUT, SPREADS UPWARDS AND SETTLES OVER RIGHT EYE [SIL; OVER LEFT EYE –SPIG]
RIGHT SIDED HEADACHE WITH FLU
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
· ACCORDING TO DR. COOPER – BILIOUS HEADACHE IF HE GOES WITHOUT FOOD. VIOLENT THROBBING HEADACHE WITH EXTREME NAUSEA AND VOMITING WITH FREQUENT, FETID BELCHINGS AND GREAT SALIVATION
· HEADACHE – RETURN AT THE CLIMACTERIC; OCCURS EVERY SEVENTH DAY [ SABAD, SIL, SULPH; EIGHTH DAY –IRIS]
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
MOSTLY USEFUL IN ACUTE MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM AND IS RARELY USEFUL IN RHEUMATISM AFFECTING THE JOINTS
ACUTE RHEUMATIC PAINS AFFECTING THE NECK AND BACK EXTENDING TO THE DELTOID MUSCLES [PHYT, FERR], ESP TO THE RIGHT SIDE
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
· RHEUMATIC PAINS ARE SHARP AND ERRATIC IN NATURE
· PAIN IN PLACES WHERE THE BONES ARE LEAST COVERED AS TIBIA, BACK OF HANDS ETC BUT NOT IN THE JOINTS
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
· PECULIAR CHARACTERISTIC: PAIN VANISHES FROM THE PAINFUL PART ON BEING TOUCHED AND APPEARS IN SOME OTHER PART OF THE BODY
· BURNING IN SOLES AND PALMS; TOES AND SOLES OF FEET BURN
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
- RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS:
· COUGH OF GASTRIC ORIGIN: RELIEVED BY ERUCTATION
· DRY COUGH: WAKING HIM AT NIGHT AND NOT CEASING UNTIL HE SITS UP IN BED AND PASSES FLATUS
· PNEUMONITIS:
i. COUGH WITH BURNING PAIN IN CHEST; WORSE RIGHT SIDE; AT NIGHT, ON LYING DOWN; BETTER SITTING UP
ii. COUGH WITH FEVER – CIRCUMSCRIBED RED CHEEKS
iii. FEVER WITH NIGHT SWEATS AND DIARRHOEA
iv. SPUTUM IS RUST COLOURED, OFFENSIVE AND TOUGH WHICH IS DIFFICULT TO RAISE
· SPASMODIC COUGH AFTER INFLLUENZA AND AFTER WHOOPING COUGH
· COUGH RETURNS WITH EVERY FRESH COLD
· SEVERE DYSPNOEA AND CONSTRICTION OF CHEST
· SUDDDEN STOPPING OF CATARRH OF RESPIRATORY TRACT FOLLOWED BY DIARRHOEA· TO SUM UP: IT IS INDICATED IN PNEUMONITIS, HYDROTHORAX, HAEMOPTYSIS, TUBERCULOSIS ETC
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
OTHER SYMPTOMS:
· NEURALGIA OF FACE > KNEELING DOWN AND PRESSING THE HEAD FIRMLY AGAINST THE FLOOR: PAIN EXTENDS IN ALL DIRECTIONS FROM THE UPPER JAW
· POLYPS FIND A SPECIAL REMEDY IN SANGUINARIA CAN – POLYPS IN EAR, NOSE [SANG N, PSOR, TEUC], LARYNX AND UTERUS ; THIS DRUG IS CAPABLE OF REVERSING PATHOLOGY AND AVOIDING SURGERY
· CLIMACTERIC OR MENOPAUSAL AILMENTS:
i. HOT FLUSHES AND LEUCORRHOEA;
ii. BURNING OF PALMS AND SOLES – COMPELLED TO THROW OFF BED CLOTHES;
iii. PAINFUL ENLARGEMENT OF BREASTS
iv. USEFUL AFTER LACHESIS AND SULPHUR FAILS TO RELIEVE
· ERUPTIONS ON FACE OF YOUNG WOMEN, ESP DURING SCANTY MENSES
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· SWEETS
· RIGHT SIDE
· MOTION
· TOUCH
· NIGHT
· MENOPAUSE - AMELIORATIONS:
· SLEEP
· DARKNESS
· ACID, SOUR THINGS
· PASSING FLATUS - COMPARE:
· COMPARE: BELL, IRIS, MELILOTUS IN SICK HEADACHE
· COMPARE: LACH, SULPH IN MENOPAUSAL AFFECTIONS
· COMPARE: CHEL, PHOS,SULPH, VER VIRIDE IN CHRONIC BRONCHITIS OR PNEUMONITIS
COMPLEMENTARY: ANT TART
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
· PREDOMINANTLY RIGHT SIDED REMEDY
· AFFECTS THE MUCOUS MEMBRANES ESP THE RESPIRATORY TRACT; SUITED TO PULMONARY DISTURBANCES ASSOCIATED WITH LIVER DISORDERS
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
CIRCULATORY OR VASO-MOTOR DISTURBANCES PRODUCING LOCALISED CONGESTION OR INFLAMMATION, FLASHES OF HEAT AND BURNING SENSATION LOCALLY OR IN GENERAL – BURNING SENSATION IS CHARACTERISTIC
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
PAIN IN PLACES WHERE BONES ARE LEAST COVERED
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
PAINS INCREASE AND DECREASE WITH THE SUN [NAT M, MEDO]
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
CIRCULATORY OR VASO-MOTOR DISTURBANCES PRODUCING LOCALISED CONGESTION OR INFLAMMATION, FLASHES OF HEAT AND BURNING SENSATION LOCALLY OR IN GENERAL – BURNING SENSATION IS CHARACTERISTIC OF SANGUINARIA
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
PERIODICITY – PERDIODICAL HEADACHE
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
SYNONYMS: SAVINE
SOURCE: PLANT – TINCTURE FROM YOUNG FRESH TOPS OF BRANCHES
SABINA
SUITED TO HOT BLOODED WOMEN WITH GOUTY OR RHEUMATIC DIATHESIS, ARTHRITIC PAINS
SABINA
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· BLOOD VESSELS – HAEMORRHAGIC REMEDY
· FEMALE ORGANS LIKE UTERUS; FOR FEMALES WITH CHRONIC TENDENCY TO HAVE MISCARRIAGE, HAEMORRHAGE, EPISTAXIS AND HAEMATURIA
SEROUS AND FBROUS MEMBRANES – GOUT, HEEL PAINS
SABINA
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
HAEMORRHAGE, EPISTAXIS AND HAEMATURIA
· SEROUS AND FBROUS MEMBRANES – GOUT, HEEL PAINS
· FEMALE ORGANS LIKE UTERUS; FOR FEMALES WITH CHRONIC TENDENCY TO HAVE MISCARRIAGE,
SABINA
CAUSATION:
· PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
ARTHRITIS
SABINA
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· INTERMITTENT AND PAROXYSMAL NATURE OF ALL THE SYMPTOMS – PAINS ARE PAROXYSMAL; HAEMORRHAGE IS PAROXYSMAL
· HAEMORRHAGIC NATURE ESP UTERINE HAEMORRHAGE IS CHARACCTERISTIC OF THIS DRUG
· DRAWING PAIN IS CHARACTERISTIC PAIN ASSOCIATED WITH HAEMORRHAGE ESP UTERINE HAEMORRHAGE
WORSE FROM SLIGHT MOVEMENT ESP HAEMORRHAGE
SABINA
- MENTAL SYMPTOMS:
· MUSIC IS INTOLERABLE – PRODUCES NERVOUSNESS
· MUSIC SEEMS TO GO THROUGH THEIR MARROW OF THEIR BONES AND MAKE THEM FIDGETY
· NERVOUSNESS LEADING TO HYSTERICAL MOOD
· HYPOCHONDRIACAL, IRRITABLE AND ANXIOUS
PECULIAR DELUSION AS IF SOMETHING LIVE IS THERE IN THE ABDOMEN
SABINA
PECULIAR DELUSION AS IF SOMETHING LIVE IS THERE IN THE ABDOMEN
SABINA
- FEMALE SYMPTOMS:
· ONE OF THE LEADING REMEDIES FOR GYNAECOLOGICAL USES – USEFUL IN PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASES LIKE UTERINE FIBROID, ENDOMETRIOSIS, MENORRHAGIA, METRORRHAGIA, POST PARTUM HAEMORRHAGE, VAGINITIS, MISCARRIAGES, MORNING SICKNESS
· MENSES – TOO PROFUSE, TOO EARLY, GUSHING OF HOT , WATERY, BRIGHT BLOOD MIXED WITH CLOTS [BELL – NOT CLOTTED]
· UTERINE HAEMORRHAGE IS WORSE FROM MOTION
· BLEEDING FIBROIDS [THLASPI] – PROMOTES EXPULSION OF MOLES FROM UTERUS
· DISCHARGE OF BLOOD PER VAGINA BETWEEN MENSES (METRORRHAGIA) WITH SEXUAL EXCITEMENT [AMBRA]
· INCREASED DESIRE FOR SEX
· UTERINE PAINS EXTEND INTO THE THIGHS. PAIN FROM SACRUM TO PUBIS AND BELOW UPWARDS
· TENDENCY TO MISCARRIAGE AT THE THIRD MONTH
· MENORRHAGIA IN WOMEN WITH A HISTORY OF ABORTION OR MISCARRIAGE
FARRINGTON SAYS IT IS SUITED TO PLETHORIC WOMEN WHO SUFFER FROM INFLAMMATION AND PAIN IN HEELS’
SABINA
- MUSCULO-SKELETAL SYMPTOMS:
· LOW BACK PAIN - PAIN BETWEEN SACRUM AND PUBIS FROM ONE BONE TO ANOTHER
· ARTHRITIC PAINS IN THE JOINTS – JOINTS ARE RED, SHINY AND SWOLLEN
· BRUISED PAINS IN ANTERIOR PORTION OF THIGHS
· SHOOTING PAIN IN HEELS AND METATARSAL BONES – PAINS SUDDENLY INCREASE AND SLOWLY DISAPPEARS
· PAINS OF ARTHRITIS ARE RELIEVED BY COLD APPLICATION[LED P, PULS, GUAICUM]
· GOUT – WORSE IN HEATED ROOM. BETTER COLD APPLICATION
· GOUTY NODOSITIES [AMM-P]
KNOTS AND ENLARGEMENTS IN VARICOSE VEINS - VARICOSITIES
SABINA
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· LEAST MOTION, EXERTION, TAKING A DEEP BREATH
· STOOPING
· HEAT, WARM AIR
· HEAT OF BED OR ROOM
· LETTING LIMBS HANG DOWN
· DURING PREGNANCY, MENOPAUSE - AMELIORATIONS:
· COLD APPLICATIONS, COOL AIR - COMPARE:
· COMPARE: SECALE, IPECAC, CROCUS, TRILLIUM, VIBURNUM, PULS, ERIGERON IN FEMALE DISEASES
· COMPARE: THUJ, GRAPH, NAT CARB, SEPIA IN INTOLERANCE TO MUSIC
· COMPARE: AMM-M, LEDUM, PULS, GRAPH IN AFFECTIONS OF HEELS
SABINA AND THUJA ARE COMPLEMENTARY TO EACH OTHER
SABINA
Has a special action on the uterus; also upon serous and fibrous membranes; hence its use in gout. Pain from sacrum to the pubis. Hæmorrhages, where blood is fluid and clots together. Tendency to miscarriage, especially at third month. Violent pulsations; wants windows open.
SABINA
SYNONYMS: SAW PALMETTO
SABAL SERULATA
· VALUABLE FOR UNDEVELOPED MAMMARY GLANDS; OVARIES TENDER AND ENLARGED; BREASTS SHRIVEL; SUPPRESSED OR PERVERTED SEXUAL INCLINATION 2. AGGRAVATIONS: · COLD, DAMP, CLOUDY WEATHER · EARLY MORNING · AT BEDTIME 3. AMELIORATIONS: · AFTER SLEEP · FROM MILK 4. RELATIONSHIP: · COMPARE FERR PIC, THUJA, PIC ACID, BAR C, CON IN PROSTATIC SYMPTOMS
- IMPORTANT SYMPTOMS:
· USED FOR IRRITABILITY OR AFFECTIONS OF GENITO-URINARY ORGANS ESP THE PROSTATE, OVARIES, BREASTS, BLADDER AND URETHRA. IT IS SOOTHING TO THE MUCUS MEMBRANES AND IS TONIC, NUTRITIVE AND STIMULATING TO THE OVERWORKED BRAIN
SABAL SERULATA
CLINICAL USES:
· MALE: i. PROSTATE ENLARGEMENT AND WEAKNESS. ii. PROSTATITIS. EPIDYDIMITIS AND URINARY DIFFICULTIES; iii. IRITIS WITH PROSTATIC TROUBLE; iv. HOMEOPATHIC CATHETER FOR RETENTION OF URINE DUE TO ENLARGED PROSTATE v. ENURESIS – PARESIS OF SPHINCTER VESICAE vi. CYSTITIS WITH PROSTATIC HYPERTRPHY
SABAL SERULATA
VALUABLE FOR UNDEVELOPED MAMMARY GLANDS; OVARIES TENDER AND ENLARGED; BREASTS SHRIVEL; SUPPRESSED OR PERVERTED SEXUAL INCLINATION
SABAL SERULATA
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· COLD, DAMP, CLOUDY WEATHER
· EARLY MORNING
· AT BEDTIME - AMELIORATIONS:
· AFTER SLEEP
· FROM MILK - RELATIONSHIP:
COMPARE FERR PIC, THUJA, PIC ACID, BAR C, CON IN PROSTATIC SYMPTOMS
SABAL SERULATA
SYNONYMS: RUE [RUE –BITTERWORT]
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· INJURIES – OF BONES, CARTILAGES, PERIOSTEUM, FLEXOR TENDONS, EVEN IN FRACTURES
· RHEUMATISM – JOINT PAINS – BRUISED PAINS IN BONES OF JOINTS
· ANUS
· EYES
UTERUS
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· GREAT PAIN AND SORENESS AS AFTER A FALL OR A BLOW WHICH HE EXPERIENCES ALL OVER THE BODY – BRUISED SENSATION [ RHUS HAS THIS IN JOINTS, ARN HAS IN SKIN AND RUTA MORE IN THE DEEPER BONES AND TENDONS]
· SPRAINS –USEFUL AFTER ARNICA AND RHUS TOX
· RESTLESSNESS IS A VERY CHARACTERISTIC CONCOMITANT OF ESP AFTER A SHORT WALK
· TENDENCY TO THE FORMATION OF DEPOSITES IN THE PERIOSTEUM, TENDONS AND ABOVE JOINTS ESPECIALLY WRISTS
FEELING OF INTENSE LASSITUDE, WEAKNESS AND DESPAIR [BOERICKE]
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
CAUSATION:
· INJURIES – BRUISES, FRACTURES, SPRAINS; STRAINING FLEXOR TENDONS
· OVER EXERTION OR OVERSTRAIN OF EYES (OCULAR MUSCLES)
· CARRYING HEAVY WEIGHTS
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
- EYE SYMPTOMS:
· EYE-STRAIN FOLLOWED BY HEADACHE
· EYES BECOME RED, PAINFUL AND HOT AFTER READING FINE PRINT OR SEWING OR EXCESSIVE USE OF COMPUTERS OR MOBILES; ASSOCIATED PRESSURE OVER EYEBROWS AND FEELING OF DEEP PRESSURE IN THE ORBITS
· WEARY PAIN WHILE READING
· DR. CLARKE DESCRIBES “A FEELING OF HEAT AND BURNING IN THE EYES AND PAIN IN THEM WHEN HE READS (IN THE EVENING AND BY CANDLE LIGHT)
· WEAK PRESSIVE FEELING IN THE EYES WITH DIMNESS OF SURROUNDING OBJECTS, AS IF FROM HAVING LOOKED AT OBJECTS FOR TOO LONG THAT WAS FATIGUING TO THE EYES
· ACCOMODATION DEFECTIVE
TARSAL CARTILAGE FEELS BRUISED
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
VERY SPECIFIC REMEDY FOR GANGLION
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
CONTRACTION OF FINGERS – TRIGGER FINGER
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
RESTLESSNESS IS GREAT AND A SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTIC AS MENTIONED ABOVE. IT IS A CONCOMITANT TO MANY COMPLAINTS (Rhus tox)
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
- RECTUM SYMPTOMS:
· DIFFICULT FAECES , EVACUATED ONLY WITH STRAINING OR FREQUENT UNSUCCESSFUL URGING TO STOOL
· FREQUENT WANT TO EVACUATE WITH SCANTY BUT SOFT EVACUATIONS. INEFFECTUAL WANT TO EVACUATE WITH PROLAPSUS OF RECTUM
· PPROTRUSION OF RECTUM WHEN STOOPING, AFTER EVERY EVACUATION (WHETHER HARD OR SOFT)
· PROLAPSUS OF ANUS EVERY TIME THE BOWELS MOVE – AFTER CONFINEMENT
· CONSTIPATION, ALTERNATING WITH MUCUS, FROTHY STOOLS; DISCHARGE OF BLOOD WITH STOOL.
· WHEN SITTING, TEARING STICTHES IN RECTUM
· PRURITUS ANI WITH SMOOTH APPEARANCE OF SKIN ROUND THE ANUS – R.T.COOPER
SPECIFIC APPLICATION OF THIS DRUG IS FOUND IN PROLAPSE OF RECTUM, FISSURE AND CARCINOMA OF THE RECTUM
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· LYING DOWN
· COLD WET WEATHER
· ASCENDING OR DESCENDING STAIRS OR RISING FROM A CHAIR
· READING ESP IN DIM LIGHT; EXCESSIVE USE OF EYES - AMELIORATIONS:
· MOTION - COMPARE:
· COMPLEMENTARY: CALC PHOS IN JOINTS AFFECTIONS
· USEFUL AFTER ARNICA IN JOINTS AFFECTIONS; AFTER SYMPHYTUM IN BONE INJURIES; AFTER CALC, CAUST, SUL-AC IN DISEASES OF BONES
· RESTLESSNESS AND WORSE WET WEATHER – RHUS TOX
· EYE-STRAIN – ARN, NAT MUR, ONOS
PROLAPSE OF RECTUM – AESC, NIT-AC, PODO
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
Acts upon the periosteum and cartilages, eyes and uterus
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
Complaints from straining flexor tendons especially.
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
Overstrain of ocular muscles.
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
All parts of the body are painful, as if bruised. Sprains (after Arnica). Lameness after sprains. Injured “bruised” bones.
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
Jaundice.
Feeling of intense lassitude, weakness and despair.
Head.–Pain as from a nail; after excessive intoxicating drinks. Periosteum sore. Epistaxis.
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
Eyes.–Eyes-strain followed by headache. Eyes red, hot, and painful from sewing or reading fine print (Nat mur; Arg nit).
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
Rectum.–Difficult feces, evacuated only with straining. Constipation, alternating with mucous, frothy stools; discharge of blood with stool. When sitting, tearing stitches in rectum. Carcinoma affecting lower bowel. Prolapsus ani every time the bowels move, after confinement. Frequent, unsuccessful urging to stool. Protrusion of rectum when stooping.
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
Modalities.–Worse, lying down, from cold, wet weather.
Relationship.–Compare: Ratanhia; Carduus. Rectal (irritation); Jaborandi; Phyt; Rhus; Sil; Arn.
Antidote: Camph.
Complementary: Calc phos.
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
SYNONYMS: SNOW ROSE /
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
Rheumatism in the hot season. The modality (worse before a storm) is a true guiding symptom.
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
Mind.–Dread of a storm; particularly afraid of thunder. Forgetful.
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
Modalities.–Worse, before a storm. All symptoms reappear in rough weather, night, towards morning. Better, after the storm breaks, warmth, and eating.
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
OMPLAINTS ARE WORSE BEFORE THUNDERSTORM AND WANDERING FROM JOINT TO JOINT
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
RHEUMATIC REMEDY WITH FORGETFULNESS
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· BEFORE THUNDERSTORM [CILIARY NEURALGIA, TOOTHACHE, DIARRHOEA, DELTOID PAIN, ARTHRITIC PAINS ETC]
· DURING REST
· SITTING, STANDING
· COLD WEATHER, COLD WIND - AMELIORATIONS:
· MOTION
· WARMTH
· WRAPPING UP
· SUNSHINE
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
WIDE APPLICATION IN RHEUMATIC AND GOUTY COMPLAINTS
· SWELLING OF JOINTS – THE RHEUMATIC SWELLINGS OF RHOD ARE MIGRATORY, WANDERING FROM ONE JOINT TO ANOTHER[KALI BI, PULS, LAC CAN] AND FROM LIMB TO LIMB
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
· TEARING, RHEUMATIC PAINS IN ALL LIMBS ESP IN RIGHT SIDE WORSE AT REST AND IN STORMY WEATHER [RHUS TOX]
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
· SMALL JOINTS [E.G.WRISTS (RUTA)] ARE MOSTLY AFFECTED; ALSO AFFECTS THE LIGAMENTS OF SMALL JOINTS. IT IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT IN GOUTY AFFECTIONS OF THE GREAT TOE JOINT WHERE THERE IS A FIBRINOUS DEPOSIT IN THE AFFECTED PART.
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
· STIFFNESS OF NECK [CIMIC, RHUS T]
· PAIN IN SHOULDERS, ARMS, WRISTS WORSE WHEN AT REST [RHUS TOX; OPP OF BRY]
PAIN IN BONES IN SPOTS [KALI BI, OXALIC ACID] AND REAPPEAR BY CHANGE OF WEATHER
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
HEADACHE WORSE IN STORMY WEATHER OR BEFORE THUNDERSTORM OR IN COLD WEATHER
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
- GENITALIA:
· VALUABLE REMEDY IN EPIDIDYMITIS AND ORCHITIS WHERE THE TESTICLES ARE SWOLLEN AND INDURATED WITH DRAWING UP PAINS EXTENDING TO THE ABDOMEN
· PRONOUNCED SENSATION AS THE TESTICLES WERE BEING SQUEEZED OR CRUSHED
GOOD FOR HYDROCELE [SIL, ABROT] CASES AT LEAST IN MINOR CASES OF HYDROCELE
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
· FACE –PROSOPALGIA, VIOLENT JERKING PAINS INVOLVING DENTAL NERVES FROM TEMPLE TO LOWER JAW – PAINS ARE BETTER BY WARMTH AND EATING
TOOTHACHE WORSE BEFORE A STORM AND IN DAMP WEATHER
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists; worse when at rest. Pains in bones in spots, and reappear by change of weather. Cannot sleep unless legs are crossed.
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
Gouty inflammation of great toe-joint. Rheumatic tearing in all limbs, especially right side; worse, at rest and in stormy weather.
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
Face.–Prosopalgia; violent jerking pain involving dental nerves, from temple to lower jaw and chin; better, warmth and eating. toothache in damp weather and before a storm. Swollen gums. Stumps of teeth are loosened.
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
CAUSATION:
· CARRYING HEAVY WEIGHTS (Rhus t)
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
CAUSATION:
· INJURIES – BRUISES, FRACTURES, SPRAINS; STRAINING FLEXOR TENDONS (Arn, Rhus-t)
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
CAUSATION:
OVER EXERTION OR OVERSTRAIN OF EYES (OCULAR MUSCLES)
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
EYES BECOME RED, PAINFUL AND HOT AFTER READING FINE PRINT OR SEWING OR EXCESSIVE USE OF COMPUTERS OR MOBILES
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
DR. CLARKE DESCRIBES “A FEELING OF HEAT AND BURNING IN THE EYES AND PAIN IN THEM WHEN HE READS (IN THE EVENING AND BY CANDLE LIGHT)
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
WEAK PRESSIVE FEELING IN THE EYES WITH DIMNESS OF SURROUNDING OBJECTS, AS IF FROM HAVING LOOKED AT OBJECTS FOR TOO LONG THAT WAS FATIGUING TO THE EYES
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
EYE-STRAIN FOLLOWED BY HEADACHE
WEARY PAIN WHILE READING
· ACCOMODATION DEFECTIVE
TARSAL CARTILAGE FEELS BRUISED
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· PAEDIATRIC APPLICATION IN DIARRHOEA, URINARY DIFFICULTIES AND TEMPER TANTRUMS
· IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE IT IS USED TO TREAT GI AND LIVER DISORDERS, TO REDUCE PAIN, INFLAMMATION AND TUMORS
RHEUM PALMATUM
Whole child smells sour.
CHARACTERISTICS:
· GREAT GRAND CHARACTERISTIC IS SOURNESS – IT PERVADES THE WHOLE SYSTEM
ALL DISCHARGES AND EXHALATIONS ARE SOUR
RHEUM PALMATUM
· DR. N.M.CHOWDHURY NICELY DESCRIBES ‘EVEN THE MENTALITY OF THE CHILD IS SOUR’ – THE CHILD IS IMPATIENT, UGLY AND IMPOSSIBLE TO SATISFY
· CHILD KICKS, SCREAMS AND MAKES HIMSELF DECIDEDLY UNPLEASANT
· THE RESTLESSNESS AND IRRITABILITY IS LIKE CINA AND ANT-C BUT DIFFER IN THE ASPECT THAT THE FORMER BECOMES NORMAL AFTER THEIR WHIMS ARE SATISFIED UNLIKE THE LATTER TWO DRUGS
RHEUM PALMATUM
· SOUR SMELL OF A CHILD IS VERY IMPORTANT – HOWEVER WASHING IS DONE, THE SOUR SMELL OF THE BODY REMAINS
· FROM HIS SWEAT THE PILLOW AND BED SHEET SMELL SOUR
· DISCHARGES LIKE STOOL, SWEAT AND EVEN THE BREATH IS SOUR SMELLING
RHEUM PALMATUM
A SWEATY HEAD ASSOCIATED WITH NIGHT SCREAMING IS A VERY IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTIC
RHEUM PALMATUM
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT REMEDIES FOR CHILDREN DIARRHOEA AND DISORDERED STOMACH ARISING OUT OF EATING UNRIPE FRUIT
RHEUM PALMATUM
· ALL THE PARTICULAR SYMPTOMS OF CHILDREN MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY THE ALL PERVADING SOURNESS, IRRITABILITY AND COPIOUS SWEAT.
RHEUM PALMATUM
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· UNCOVERING
· AFTER EATING
· UNRIPE FRUIT – CAUSE STOMACH UPSET - COMPARE:
· CHILDREN PROBLEMS: CINA, ANT-C, MAG-C, CHAM, PODO, MAG PHOS
COMPLEMENTARY: MAG CARB
RHEUM PALMATUM
synonym: ROTTEN MEAT PUS
PYROGENIUM
PRODUCT OF DECOMPOSITION OF CHOPPED LEAN BEEF IN WATER; ALLOWED TO STAND IN THE SUN FOR 2-3 WEEKS. IT IS A NOSODE
PYROGENIUM
PRODUCT OF DECOMPOSITION OF CHOPPED LEAN BEEF IN WATER; ALLOWED TO STAND IN THE SUN FOR 2-3 WEEKS. IT IS A NOSODE
PYROGENIUM
CAUSATION:
· ANY CURRENT ONGOING INFECTION CAUSING FEBRILE OR SEPTIC CONDITION
CHRONIC CONDITIONS SINCE SEPTIC COMPLAINTS
PYROGENIUM
·A/F:
AFTER EFFECTS OF MISCARRIAGE
AFTER EFFECTS OR REMOTE EFFECTS OF HEPATITIS, MALARIA, DIPHTHERIA, TYPHOID FEVER, BITES, CUTS OR DISSECTING WOUNDS
PYROGENIUM
A/F : GAS POISONING
PYROGENIUM
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· SEPTIC STATES WITH INTENSE RESTLESSNESS. SEPTIC STATES WHEN BLOOD IS DISORGANISED, HEART BECOMES WEAK & PROSTRATED
PYROGENIUM
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· RESTLESSNESS – ACHING, BRUISED, SORE PAINS & PROSTRATION YET THE PATIENT IS VERY RESTLESS. BED IS VERY HARD YET CANNOT LIE IN A SINGLE POSITION FOR MORE THAN A FEW MINUTES, HAS TO CHANGE POSITION (Arn)
·
PYROGENIUM
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· CHRONIC COMPLAINTS THAT DATE BACK TO ANY SEPTIC CONDITION
PYROGENIUM
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· WHEN OTHER REMEDIES FAIL TO ACT OR IMPROVE IN SEPTIC OR INFECTIVE CONDITIONS
PYROGENIUM
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· GREAT HEAT (FEVER) WITH PROFUSE SWEAT BUT SWEATING DOES NOT CAUSE A DROP IN TEMPERATURE – SWEATS WITHOUT RELIEF
· ALL DISCHARGES ARE HORRIBLY OFFENSIVE – BODILY EXCRETIONS AND SECRETIONS
PYROGENIUM
- MENTAL SYMPTOMS:
· RESTLESS
· WEEPING, TEARFUL MOOD. SENSITIVE, ANXIOUS, CONFUSED
· DELUSIONS – SEES IMAGES, PHANTOMS; THAT HE IS VERY WEALTHY
PROSTRATION OF MIND, MENTAL EXHAUSTION, BRAIN FAG
PYROGENIUM
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
FOR SEPTICEMIA OR INFECTIVE CONDITIONS WHEN THE BEST SELECTED REMEDY FAILS TO ACT OR IMPROVE
PYROGENIUM
- FEMALE SYMPTOMS:
· MENSES OR UTERINE HAEMORRHAGE – BRIGHT RED, CLOTTED; FEVER AT EACH MENSTRUAL PERIOD
· MENSES – HORRIBLY OFFENSIVE, CARRION LIKE
MENSES – TOO SHORT; LASTS ONE DAY ONLY FOLLOWED BY A HORRIBLY OFFENSIVE, BLOODY LEUCORRHOEA
PYROGENIUM
- GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYMPTOMS:
· COFFEE GROUND VOMITING. VOMITS WATER, WHEN IT BECOMES WARM IN STOMACH
· INTOLERABLE TENESMUS OF BOTH BLADDER AND RECTUM. BLOATED, SORE CUTTING PAIN.
· STOOL
o DIARRHOEA – HORRIBLY, OFFENSIVE, DARK BROWN; PAINLESS, INVOLUNTARY
CONSTIPATION WITH COMPLETE INERTIA [OPIUM]; OBSTINATE FROM IMPACTION
PYROGENIUM
GREAT HEAT WITH PROFUSE HOT SWEAT BUT SWEATING DOES NOT CAUSE A FALL IN TEMPERATURE
PYROGENIUM
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· SITTING
· MOVING EYES
· PASSING FLATUS - AMELIORATIONS:
· FROM HEAT
· FROM HOT BATHING, HOT DRINKS
· PRESSURE, STRETCHING;
· MOTION, CHANGING POSITION
· HARD ROCKING AND WALKING - COMPARE:
· STREPTOCOCCIN, STAPHYLOCOCCIN, ECHINACEA, CARBO ANIMALIS, ARSENIC, BAPTISIA, CALENDULA
PYROGENIUM
- MOUTH SYMPTOMS:
· TONGUE – RED AND DRY, CLEAN, CRACKED, SMOOTH AS THOUGH VARNISHED
· BREATH OFFENSIVE
TASTE TERRIBLY FOETID
PYROGENIUM
remedy for septic states, with intense restlessness.
PYROGENIUM
Heart.–Tired feeling about heart. Palpitation. Sensation as if heart were too full. Always can hear her heart beat. Pulse abnormally rapid, out of proportion to the temperature pain in region of left nipple. Conscious of heart
PYROGENIUM
Stool.–Diarrhśa; horribly offensive, brown-black, painless, involuntary. Constipation, with complete inertia (Opium); obstinate from impaction. Stools large, black, carrion-like, or small black balls.
PYROGENIUM
SYNONYMS: SCABIES NOSODE
PSORINUM
SYNONYMS: SCABIES NOSODE
PSORINUM
FOR PSORIC DIATHESIS – SCROFULOUS GLANDS, RASH, ECZEMA, PEMPHIGUS, ULCERS, PSORIASIS ETC
PSORINUM
HARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· GREAT FILTHY ODOUR OF WHOLE BODY
· CARRION LIKE SMELL OF ALL DISCHARGES. ALL DISCHARGES ARE HORRIBLY OFFENSIVE – SO MUCH SO THAT THE ODOUR CAUSES NAUSEA
· GREAT SENSITIVENESS OF THE PATIENT TO COLD AIR
· GENERAL AMELIORATION OF ALL COMPLAINTS BY LYING DOWN
· POWER TO ROUSE THE LATENT DEFECTIVE VITALITY IN CASES WHERE A WELL SELECTED REMEDY FAILS TO ACT OR REACT – CLEARS UP CONFUSED CASES
· WEAKNESS: REMAINING AFTER ACUTE DISEASES OR AFTER LOSS OF FLUIDS
· ILL EFFECTS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES LASTING FOR YEARS
· GREAT SUSCEPTIBILITY TO ALL KINDS OF SKIN DISEASES –FOLDS OF SKIN, GLANDS ETC
PSORINUM
· HUNGRY BEFORE AN ATTACK
PSORINUM
UNUSUALLY WELL BEFORE AN ATTACK
PSORINUM
· HUNGRY OR UNUSUALLY WELL BEFORE AN ATTACK
PSORINUM
· GREAT FILTHY ODOUR OF WHOLE BODY
· CARRION LIKE SMELL OF ALL DISCHARGES. ALL DISCHARGES ARE HORRIBLY OFFENSIVE – SO MUCH SO THAT THE ODOUR CAUSES NAUSEA
GREAT SENSITIVENESS OF THE PATIENT TO COLD AIR
PSORINUM
· GENERAL AMELIORATION OF ALL COMPLAINTS BY LYING DOWN
· POWER TO ROUSE THE LATENT DEFECTIVE VITALITY IN CASES
· WEAKNESS: REMAINING AFTER ACUTE DISEASES OR AFTER LOSS OF FLUIDS
PSORINUM
WHERE A WELL SELECTED REMEDY FAILS TO ACT OR REACT – CLEARS UP CONFUSED CASES
PSORINUM
GREAT SUSCEPTIBILITY TO ALL KINDS OF SKIN DISEASES –FOLDS OF SKIN, GLANDS ETC
PSORINUM
CAUSATION:
· ILL EFFECTS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES LASTING FOR YEARS
OVER LIFTING, INJURIES, BLOWS, SPRAINS, DISLOCATIONS
PSORINUM
· WEAKNESS: REMAINING AFTER ACUTE DISEASES OR AFTER LOSS OF FLUIDS
ILL EFFECTS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES LASTING FOR YEARS
PSORINUM
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· COLD AIR, OPEN AIR
· CHANGING WEATHER, STORMS, THUNDERSTORMS
· EVENING, BEFORE MIDNIGHT, NIGHT
· SUPPRESSIONS
· LIVER WORSE LYING ON RIGHT SIDE
· OVER LIFTING
· WINTER - AMELIORATIONS:
· HEAT
· WARM CLOTHING
· SUMMER
· WASHING
· HARD PRESSURE
· REST, BEING IN A ROOM
· LYING WITH HEAD LOW OR QUIETLY
· WHEN EATING - COMPARE:
· LACK OF REACTION: OP, CALC, SULPH
COMPLEMENTARY: SULPHUR
PSORINUM
- SKIN SYMPTOMS:
· UNHEALTHY SKIN; ABNORMAL TENDENCY TO SKIN DISEASES
· SEBACEOUS GLANDS SECRETE EXCESSIVELY – OILY SKIN
· URTICARIA ON EXERTION
· ENLARGED GLANDS
· SKIN SYMPTOMS DISAPPEAR IN SUMMER ONLY TO RETURN IN WINTER
· HERPETIC ERUPTIONS ESPECIALLY ON SCALP AND BENDS OF JOINTS WITH ITCHING
ERUPTIONS BLEED EASILY AND CONSTANTLY SUPPURATE; DIRTY, ROUGH, SCABBY, GREASY SKIN ERUPTIONS OOZING OFFENSIVE DISCHARGE
PSORINUM
· FEMALE SYMPTOMS:
· LEUCORRHOEA – FOETID, LUMPY WITH BACKACHE AND DEBILITY
· MENSTRUAL DISORDERS DURING MENOPAUSE
· OBSTINATE VOMITING DURING PREGNANCY; FOETUS MOVES TOO VIOLENTLY
PSORINUM
- MOUTH SYMPTOMS:
· OBSTINATE RHAGADES AT CORNERS OF MOUTH
· OFFENSIVE ODOR OF MOUTH - NOSE SYMPTOMS:
· DRY CORYZA WITH STOPPAGE OF NOSE
· CHRONIC CATARRH – DROOPING FROM POSTERIOR NARES - EAR SYMPTOMS:
· OFFENSIVE DISCHARGE (OTORRHOEA ) FROM EARS – CHRONIC OTORRHOEA
· OFFENSIVE DISCHARGE FROM ECZEMA AROUND EARS; INTOLERABLE ITCHING - THROAT SYMPTOMS:
· ERADICATES TENDENCY TO QUINSY
· TONSILS GREATLY SWOLLEN – PAINFUL SWALLOWING WITH PAIN IN EARS
PROFUSE OFFENSIVE SALIVA; TOUGH MUCUS IN THROAT
PSORINUM
- HEAD SYMPTOMS:
· CHRONIC HEADACHES;
· HUNGRY DURING ATTACKS ; OFTEN WITH VERTIGO
· HAMMERING PAINS –BRAIN FEELS TOO LARGE
· AWAKES AT NIGHT WITH PAIN AS FROM A BLOW ON THE HEAD - EYE SYMPTOMS:
· CHRONIC OPHTHALMIA – CONSTANTLY RECURS
· BLEPHARITIS – AGGLUTINATED EDGES, RED EDGES - MOUTH SYMPTOMS:
· OBSTINATE RHAGADES AT CORNERS OF MOUTH
· OFFENSIVE ODOR OF MOUTH
PSORINUM
SYNONYMS: SPURGE OLIVE
MEZEREUM
CAUSATION:
· ILL EFFECTS OF SUPPRESSED ECZEMA CAPITIS
· ILL EFFECTS OF VACCINATION [SILICEA, THUJA, ANT TART]
ILL EFFECTS OF MERCURY
MEZEREUM
ADAPTED TO:
· FOR LIGHT HAIRED, IRRESOLUTE PERSONS [BAR-C, GRAPH, CAPS]
GOUTY, RHEUMATIC, SYPHILITIC MIASMATIC PROBLEM
MEZEREUM
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· DERMATOLOGICAL SYSTEM: ABSCESS, ECZEMA, ENLARGED GLANDS, HERPES, IMPETIGO, SCROFULA, TINEA
· MUSCULO-SKELETAL SYSTEM: BONE DISORDERS, PAIN IN COCCYX, OSTEOMA
- NEUROLOGICAL SYSTEM: NEURALGIA LIKE FACIAL NEURALGIA, BONY NEURALGIA
MEZEREUM
- MENTAL SYMPTOMS:
· HYPOCHONDRIAC AND DESPONDENT
· SADNESS WHEN ALONE
FORGETFUL. VANISHING OF THOUGHTS WHILE SPEAKING, UNABLE TO REPEAT WHAT HAS BEEN LEARNED BY HEART
MEZEREUM
ANY SKIN DISEASE WHICH IS CHARACTERISED BY CRUSTY ERUPTIONS WITH SCABS FOLLOWED BY BLEEDING WHEN SCRATCHED OR TOUCHED IS THE MAIN INDICATION
MEZEREUM
· HEAD IS COVERED WITH THICK LEATHER LIKE CRUST UNDER WHICH THICK AND WHITE PUS COLLECTS HERE AND THERE; PUS AFTER A TIME BECOMES ICHOROUS AND OFFENSIVE; HAIR IS GLUED AND MATTED TOGETHER
MEZEREUM
ULCERS WITH THICK YELLOWISH-WHITE SCABS UNDER WHICH THICK YELLOW PUS COLLECTS
MEZEREUM
VESICLES APPEAR AROUND THE ULCERS, ITCH VIOLENTLY, BURN LIKE FIRE WITH SHINY FIERY RED AREOLA AROUND
MEZEREUM
· LINEN STICKS TO THE ULCERS AND THEY BLEED WHEN IT IS TORN AWAY
· ECZEMA – INTOLERABLE ITCHING < IN BED AND FROM TOUCH
CHILD SCRATCHES FACE CONTINUOUSLY [VIOLA-TRI] WHICH IS COVERED WITH BLOOD; ERUPTIONS MOIST; ITCHING < NIGHT
MEZEREUM
- BONE /EXTREMITIES SYMPTOMS:
· INFLAMMATION AND SWELLING OF BONES ESP LONG BONES < NIGHT
· PAIN IN PERIOSTEUM OF LONG BONES < AT NIGHT, IN BED, LEAST TOUCH, DAMP WEATHER (MERC, PHYT)
· PAIN IN BONES GOING FROM ABOVE DOWNWARDS
· BURNING IN TIBIA AND LONG BONES
· BONE PAINS AFTER VENEREAL DISEASES (SYPHILIS);
· BONE CARIES , EXOSTOSES, TUMORS SOFTEN FROM WITHIN OUT
BONES LIKE TIBIA, FEMUR ETC ARE AFFECTED
MEZEREUM
- GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYMPTOMS:
· CHRONIC GASTRITIS – BURNING, CORRODING PAINS
· CONSTANT , SEVERE PAIN AND PRESSURE IN STOMACH EVEN AFTER LIGHT FOODS
· STOMACH ULCER WITH MUCH BURNING; BURNING > MILK, EATING
· SENSATION AS IF FOOD REMAINED FOR A LONG TIME UNDIGESTED IN STOMACH AND CAUSED PRESSURE
· STOMACH PAIN CULMINATES AND ENDS WITH RETCHING AND VOMITING OF ALL FOODS TAKEN
VOMITING OF CHOCOLATE COLOURED SUBSTANCE WITH NAUSEA
MEZEREUM
- TOOTH SYMPTOMS:
· TOOTHACHE IN CARIOUS TEETH
· TEETH – FEELS ELONGATED; DULL PAIN WHEN BITING ON THEM AND WHEN TOUCHED WITH TONGUE
TOOTHACHE < NIGHT > WITH MOUTH OPEN AND DRAWING IN AIR
MEZEREUM
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· COLD AIR
· COLD WASHING
· NIGHT
· TOUCH OR MOTION
· BAD EFFECTS OF MERCURY OR ALCOHOL
· VACCINATION - AMELIORATIONS:
· OPEN AIR
· WRAPPING UP - HEAD PAINS BETTER BY WRAPPING
· EATING
· FACIAL PAINS BETTER BY RADIATED HEAT - COMPARE:
· CAUST, GUAICUM, PHYT, RHUS TOX
MEZEREUM
A/F: ILL EFFECTS OF VACCINATION [SILICEA, THUJA, ANT TART]
MEZEREUM
A/F: ILL EFFECTS OF MERCURY
MEZEREUM
A/F: ILL EFFECTS OF SUPPRESSED ECZEMA CAPITIS
MEZEREUM
THE VEGETABLE ANALOGUE OF MERCURY – they ANTIDOTE EACH OTHER
MEZEREUM
SYNONYMS: YARROW; ALSO KNOWN AS NOSEBLEED
MILLEFOLIUM
SYNONYMS: NOSEBLEED
MILLEFOLIUM
An invaluable remedy for various types of hæmorrhages; blood bright red.
MILLEFOLIUM
CAUSATION:
· ILL EFFECTS OF OVER-LIFTING
· ILL EFFECTS OF OVER EXERTION
· ILL EFFECTS OF A FALL
· ILL EFFECTS OF MECHANICAL WOUNDS RESULTING IN HAEMORRHAGES E.G. ILL EFFECTS FROM OPERATIONS FOR KIDNEY STONES, GALL STONES
SUPPRESSED LOCHIA OR HABITUAL DISCHARGES
MILLEFOLIUM
SUPPRESSED LOCHIA OR HABITUAL DISCHARGES
MILLEFOLIUM
CAUSATION:
· ILL EFFECTS OF OVER-LIFTING
· ILL EFFECTS OF OVER EXERTION
· ILL EFFECTS OF A FALL
MILLEFOLIUM
CAUSATION:
· ILL EFFECTS OF MECHANICAL WOUNDS RESULTING IN HAEMORRHAGES E.G. ILL EFFECTS FROM OPERATIONS FOR KIDNEY STONES, GALL STONES
SUPPRESSED LOCHIA OR HABITUAL DISCHARGES
MILLEFOLIUM
CHARACTERISTIC – HAEMORRHAGE IS ALMOST ALWAYS PAINLESS [HAM] AND THE BLOOD PASSED IS BRIGHT RED.
MILLEFOLIUM
· USEFUL FOR VARIOUS TYPES OF HAEMORRHAGES AND FROM VARIOUS SYSTEMS AND ORGANS
HAEMORRHAGE OR BLEEDING IS WITHOUT FEVER
MILLEFOLIUM
· HAEMORRHAGES OF MECHANICAL ORIGIN [ARN]; OF WOUNDS [HAM] – WOUNDS WHICH BLEED PROFUSELY ; ESPECIALLY AFTER A FALL [ARN, HAM]
HAEMORRHAGES – IN INCIPIENT PTHISIS; IN HAEMORRHOIDAL PATIENTS; FROM A RUPTURED BLOOD VESSEL; AFTER LABOUR OR ABORTION; AFTER GREAT EXERTION; AFTER MISCARRIAGE
MILLEFOLIUM
PREGNANCY – IMP REMEDY FOR PAINLESS OR BLEEDING VARICES IN PREGNANT WOMEN. DR. LIPPE WRITES ‘HAEMORRHAGE AFTER LABOUR, ABORTION OR MISCARRIAGE’
MILLEFOLIUM
PREGNANCY – IMP REMEDY FOR PAINLESS OR BLEEDING VARICES IN PREGNANT WOMEN. DR. LIPPE WRITES ‘HAEMORRHAGE AFTER LABOUR, ABORTION OR MISCARRIAGE’
MILLEFOLIUM
ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC WITH THE HAEMORRHAGE OF THIS REMEDY IS - THE WANT OF ANXIETY - AND HERE IT DIFFERS FROM ACONITE
MILLEFOLIUM
- NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS:
· IT IS A NOTED CONVULSANT TOO – CONVULSIONS DUE TO SUPPRESSION OF HAEMORRHAGES OR OTHER SECRETIONS
INDICATED IN CONVULSIONS OF WOMEN DUE TO SUPPRESSION OF MENSES OR LOCHIAL DISCHARGE
MILLEFOLIUM
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· AFTER VIOLENT EXERTION
· 4 PM
· SUPPRESSION OF HABITUAL DISCHARGE - AMELIORATIONS:
· WHEN TAKING VIOLENT EXERCISE [SEPIA, RHUS TOX, IGN, NAT-M, PLB, STANN]
· RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF DISCHARGES [LACHESIS] - COMPARE:
· FOLLOWS WELL AFTER ACON AND ARNICA IN HAEMORRHAGES
COMPARE: ARN, CALC, ERIG, FERR-P, HAM, IPEC, RHUS T, SABINA, TRILL ETC
MILLEFOLIUM
· WOUNDS, INJURIES CAUSED BY OVER LIFTING
- HYPERPYREXIA
MILLEFOLIUM
Nose.–Nosebleed (Erecht). Piercing pain from eyes to root of nose.
MILLEFOLIUM
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· FOR RHEUMATIC PROBLEMS - ARTHRITIS
· BONE DISEASES
- SKIN AFFECTIONS LIKE DERMATITIS, ACNE, NAEVI, ULCERS AND SKIN CANCERS
RADIUM BROMIDE
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· APPLICABLE FOR BURNS OR ANY SKIN DISEASE WHICH ARE OBSTINATE AND TAKE A LONG TIME TO HEAL
SEVERE ACHING PAINS ALL OVER WITH RESTLESSNESS, BETTER MOVING ABOUT [RHUS TOX]
RADIUM BROMIDE
CAUSATION:
· ILL EFFECTS OF X-RAY
RADIATION BURNS
RADIUM BROMIDE
- MENTAL SYMPTOMS:
· APPREHENSIVE AND DEPRESSED
FEAR OF BEING ALONE; GREAT DESIRE TO BE WITH PEOPLE
RADIUM BROMIDE
- MUSCULO-SKELETAL SYMPTOMS:
· SEVERE PAIN IN ALL JOINTS - MORE IN KNEES AND ANKLES; PAIN MAKE THE PATIENT RESTLESS; TOSSING RELIEVES THE PAINS OR MOTION RELIEVES
· ARTHRITIS , ACHING PAINS WORSE AT NIGHT
· STIFFNESS WORSE WHEN GETS UP IN MORNING OR WHEN QUIET OR WHEN STARTS USING HANDS, WET WEATHER; BETTER CONTINUED MOTION
· SHARP, PRICKING PAIN IN SHOULDER, ARMS, HANDS AND FINGERS
· LEG, ARMS AND NECK FEEL BRITTLE AND HARD AS THOUGH THEY WILL BREAK ON MOVING
· CRACKING IN SHOULDER
· PAIN IN TOES, CALVES, HIP JOINTS AND POPLITEAL FOSSA
· ACHING PAIN IN BACK. PAIN IN CERVICAL VERTEBRAE WORSE BENDING HEAD FORWARD BETTER STANDING OR SITTING ERECT
· LUMBAR AND SACRAL BACKACHE BETTER BY MOTION [RHUS T]
PAINS ASSOCIATED WITH ANXIETY, FEAR AND APPREHENSION; FEAR SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN
- SKIN SYMPTOMS:
· DERMATITIS – ITCHING, BURNING, SWELLING AND REDNESS;
· ADVANCED OR CHRONIC OBSTINATE DERMATITIS – SKIN ROUGH, SCALY, CRACKS ALL OVER BODY, HEAVY, OOZING BETTER BY WARM APPLICATION
· ECZEMA – CRACKS & SCALY WORSE IN WINTER
· NECROSIS AND ULCERATION
· ITCHING ALL OVER THE BODY – BURNING OF SKIN AS IF ON FIRE
SKIN DISEASES – EPITHELIOMA, NAEVI, PIGMENTED MOLES, LUPUS VULGARIS, CARCINOMA ETC
- SKIN SYMPTOMS:
· DERMATITIS – ITCHING, BURNING, SWELLING AND REDNESS;
· ADVANCED OR CHRONIC OBSTINATE DERMATITIS – SKIN ROUGH, SCALY, CRACKS ALL OVER BODY, HEAVY, OOZING BETTER BY WARM APPLICATION
· ECZEMA – CRACKS & SCALY WORSE IN WINTER
· NECROSIS AND ULCERATION
· ITCHING ALL OVER THE BODY – BURNING OF SKIN AS IF ON FIRE
SKIN DISEASES – EPITHELIOMA, NAEVI, PIGMENTED MOLES, LUPUS VULGARIS, CARCINOMA ETC
RADIUM BROMIDE
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· MORNING, NIGHT
· BEGINNING OF MOTION - AMELIORATIONS:
· CONTINUED MOTION
· PRESSURE
· WARMTH, HOT BATH
· LYING DOWN - COMPARE:
X-RAY, RHUS T, ANAC, SEPIA
RADIUM BROMATUM
SYNONYMS: BUTTERCUP
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· AFFECTS SEROUS MEMBRANES LIKE PLEURA
· MUSCLES LIKE INTERCOSTAL MUSCLES
SKIN AFFECTIONS LIKE HERPES ZOSTER
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· CHARACTERISTICALLY AFFECTS THE CHEST WALLS CURING CONDITIONS LIKE COSTO CHONDRITIS
· CHARACTERISTICALLY AFFECTS THE SEROUS MEMBRANES CAUSING CONDITIONS LIKE PLEURODYNIA, HYDROTHORAX
· PAINS ARE STITCHING, SHARP, SHOOTING, NEURALGIC, MYALGIC OR RHEUMATIC
· PAINS COME IN PAROXYSMS
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
- MUSCULO-SKELETAL SYMPTOMS:
· PAINS – STITCHING, SHARP, SHOOTING, NEURALGIC, MYALGIC OR RHEUMATIC IN WALLS OF CHEST COMING IN PAROXYSMS CAUSED BY ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES OR EXPOSURE TO COLD WHEN OVERHEATED E.G. PLEURISY OR PNEUMONIA CAUSED BY SUDDEN EXPOSURE TO COLD OR EXPOSURE WHILE OVERHEATED
· THE WHOLE BODY FEELS AS IF BEATEN
· MUSCULAR PAINS ABOUT THE MARGINS OF SHOULDER BLADES IN WOMEN OF SEDENTARY HABITS OR EMPLOYMENT –OFTEN BURNING IN SPOTS FROM NEEDLE WORK, TYPE WRITING AND PIANO PLAYING
INTERCOSTAL RHEUMATISM – CHEST SORE, BRUISED, WORSE FROM TOUCH, MOTION OR TURNING THE BODY; IN WET,STORMY WEATHER
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
- OTHER SYMPTOMS:
· SPASMODIC HICCOUGH. HICCOUGH IN DRUNKARDS. HICCOUGH AFTER ALCOHOLIC DRINKS. HICCOUGH WITH CONVULSIONS
· ENLARGED SENSATION IN THE HEAD
· CILIARY NEURALGIA – CLUSTTER HEADACHE
· IRITIS
· BLISTER LIKE ERUPTIONS IN THE PALMS OF THE HANDS
· BURNING AND ITCHING VESICULAR ERUPTIONS
· HERPES ZOSTER – LESIONS LOOK LIKE BURNS.
· SHINGLES PRECEDED OR FOLLOWED BY INTERCOSTAL NEURALGIA; VESICLES MAY HAVE A BLUISH APPEARANCE
CORNS SENSITIVE TO TOUCH [ANT C, HYP, FER-PIC]
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· MORNING, EVENING
· CHANGE OF WEATHER OR TEMPERATURE
· FROM MOTION
· STORMY WEATHER
· ALCOHOL - AMELIORATIONS:
· REST
· WARM APPLICATION
· WARM WEATHER
· EVENING - COMPARE:
ACON, ARN, BRY, CLEM. EUPHORB, MEZ
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
Acts especially upon the muscular tissue and skin, and its most characteristic effects are upon the chest walls, like pleurodynia.
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
Bad effects of Alcohol; delirium tremens. Spasmodic hiccough. Hydrothorax. Shocks throughout the whole body. Sensitive to air and touch. Chronic sciatica.
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
Chest.–Various kinds of pains and soreness, as if bruised in sternum, ribs, intercostal spaces, and both hypochondria. Inter-costal rheumatism. Chilliness in chest when walking in open air.
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
SYNONYMS: GLINICUM / GONORRHOEA NOSODE
MEDORRHINUM
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· CHRONIC AILMENTS ARISING FROM SUPPRESSED GONORRHOEA, SYCOSIS
· GYANAECOLOGICAL USES – CHRONIC PELVIC DISORDERS LIKE DYSMENORRHOEA, METRORRHAGIA, TUMORS, INFERTILITY
· NEUROLOGICAL SYSTEM – CONVULSIONS, SPASMS, SCHIZOPHRENIA
· MUSCULO-SKELETAL SYSTEM – CHRONIC ARTHRITIS, OSTEOARTHRITIS,
PAEDIATRIC USES – DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS AND CHRONIC CATARRHAL CONDITIONS IN CHILDREN
MEDORRHINUM
ADAPTED TO:
· CONSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS OF MAL TREATED AND SUPPRESSED GONORRHOEA OR PELVIC PROBLEMS OR SYCOTIC PROBLEMS WHEN THE BEST SELECTED REMEDY FAILS TO RELIEVE OR PERMANENTLY IMPROVE
· DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN
· ALLERGIC PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN
· PERSONS SUFFERING FROM GOUT, ARTHRITIS, NEURALGIA AND DISEASES OF SPINAL CORD, EVEN LESIONS ENDING IN PARALYSIS WHICH CAN BE TRACED BACK TO SYCOSIS
· WOMEN WITH CHRONIC OVARITIS, SALPINGITIS, PELVIC CELLULITIS, FIBROIDS,CYSTS OF UTERUS AND OVARIES ESPECIALLY IF SYMPTOMS POINT TO MALIGNANCY OR THERE IS A HISTORY OF SYCOSIS
MEDORRHINUM
A powerful and deep-acting medicine, often indicated for chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhśa. For women with chronic pelvic disorders. Chronic rheumatism. Great disturbance and irritability of nervous system. Pains intolerable; tensive; nerves quiver and tingle. Children dwarfed and stunted. Chronic catarrhal conditions in children. Nose dirty, tonsils enlarged, thick yellow mucus from nostrils; lips thickened from mouth breathing. State of collapse and trembling all over. History of sycosis. Often restores a gonorrhśal discharge. Intensity of all sensations. Śdema of limbs; dropsy of serous sacs. Disseminated sclerosis.
MEDORRHINUM
CAUSATION:
- SUPPRESSED GONORRHOEA / SYCOSIS LIKE PELVIC PROBLEMS
- VERBAL OR SEXUAL ABUSE
ANTICIPATION, BAD NEWS (ARG NIT, GELS, IGN, NAT MUR) ETC
MEDORRHINUM
· DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN
· ALLERGIC PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN
MEDORRHINUM
· PERSONS SUFFERING FROM GOUT, ARTHRITIS, NEURALGIA AND DISEASES OF SPINAL CORD, EVEN LESIONS ENDING IN PARALYSIS WHICH CAN BE TRACED BACK TO SYCOSIS
· WOMEN WITH CHRONIC OVARITIS, SALPINGITIS, PELVIC CELLULITIS, FIBROIDS,CYSTS OF UTERUS AND OVARIES ESPECIALLY IF SYMPTOMS POINT TO MALIGNANCY OR THERE IS A HISTORY OF SYCOSIS
MEDORRHINUM
- MENTAL SYMPTOMS:
· COGNITIVE DIFFICULTY
o WEAK MEMORY – CAN’T REMEMBER NAMES, WORDS OR INITIAL LETTERS; HAS TO ASK THE NAME OF KNOWN PERSONS; ALLEN WRITES ‘EVEN FORGETS HIS OWN NAME’
o CANNOT SPELL CORRECTLY – WONDERS HOW A WELL KNOWN NAME IS SPELLED
o LOSES THE THREAD OF CONVERSATION
o GREAT DIFFICULTY IN STATING HER SYMPTOMS
·
MEDORRHINUM
EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS:
o CANNOT SPEAK WITHOUT WEEPING (PULS, NAT M)
o IRRITATED AT TRIFLES – CROSS DURING DAY, JOVIAL AT NIGHT TIME
o ANXIOUS, NERVOUS, EXTREMELY SENSITIVE – STARTS AT LEAST SOUND
o FEAR – DARK; SOMEONE BEHIND HER
o ALWAYS ANTICIPATING - ANTICIPATES DEATH; ANTICIPATES MATTERS BEFORE THEY OCCUR AND ALMOST CORRECTLY
o TIME PASSES TOO SLOWLY (ALUM, ARG N, CANN)
MANY SYMPTOMS ARE AGGRAVATED WHEN THINKING OF THEM (OX-AC)
MEDORRHINUM
- GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYMPTOMS:
· RAVENOUS HUNGER IMMEDIATELY AFTER EATING (CINA, LYC, PSOR)
· CONSTANT THIRST – EVEN DREAMS OF DRINKING
· CRAMPS IN STOMACH DUE TO GAS – INTENSE PAIN IN STOMACH AND UPPER ABDOMEN WITH SENSATION OF TIGHTNESS
· NAUSEA IN MORNING DURING PREGNANCY; PERNICIOUS VOMITING OF PREGNANCY
· INSATIABLE CRAVING FOR LIQUOR, SALT (CAL, NAT), SWEETS (SULPH), ICE, ACIDS, ORANGES, GREEN FRUITS
· AGONISING COLIC IN ABDOMEN , BETTER LYING ON ABDOMEN
· CAN PASS STOOL COMFORTABLY BY LEANING BACK; THERE IS CONSTRICTION AND INERTIA OF BOWELS WITH BALL LIKE STOOLS; STOOL IS PAINFUL TO PASS WITH AN OBSTRUCTIVE LUMP LIKE SENSATION IN ANUS; SO PAINFUL AS TO CAUSE TEARS
OOZING OF FOETID MOISTURE FROM THE RECTUM (CAUST, HEP)
MEDORRHINUM
EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS:
o CANNOT SPEAK WITHOUT WEEPING (PULS, NAT M)
o IRRITATED AT TRIFLES – CROSS DURING DAY, JOVIAL AT NIGHT TIME
MEDORRHINUM
EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS:
o ANXIOUS, NERVOUS, EXTREMELY SENSITIVE – STARTS AT LEAST SOUND
o FEAR – DARK; SOMEONE BEHIND HER
o ALWAYS ANTICIPATING - ANTICIPATES DEATH; ANTICIPATES MATTERS BEFORE THEY OCCUR AND ALMOST CORRECTLY
MEDORRHINUM
o TIME PASSES TOO SLOWLY (ALUM, ARG N, CANN)
o MANY SYMPTOMS ARE AGGRAVATED WHEN THINKING OF THEM (OX-AC)
MEDORRHINUM
· NAUSEA IN MORNING DURING PREGNANCY; PERNICIOUS VOMITING OF PREGNANCY
· INSATIABLE CRAVING FOR LIQUOR, SALT (CAL, NAT), SWEETS (SULPH), ICE, ACIDS, ORANGES, GREEN FRUITS
MEDORRHINUM
CAN PASS STOOL COMFORTABLY BY LEANING BACK;
THERE IS CONSTRICTION AND INERTIA OF BOWELS WITH BALL LIKE STOOLS;
STOOL IS PAINFUL TO PASS WITH AN OBSTRUCTIVE LUMP LIKE SENSATION IN ANUS; SO PAINFUL AS TO CAUSE TEARS
MEDORRHINUM
· RAVENOUS HUNGER IMMEDIATELY AFTER EATING (CINA, LYC, PSOR)
· CONSTANT THIRST – EVEN DREAMS OF DRINKING
MEDORRHINUM
OOZING OF FOETID MOISTURE FROM THE RECTUM (CAUST, HEP)
INSATIABLE CRAVING FOR LIQUOR, SALT (CAL, NAT), SWEETS (SULPH), ICE, ACIDS, ORANGES, GREEN FRUITS
MEDORRHINUM
- FEMALE SYMPTOMS:
· INTENSE MENSTRUAL COLIC - DYSMENORRHOEA BETTER PRESSING FEET AGAINST SUPPORT; MENSTRUAL COLIC WITH DRAWING UP OF KNEES
· OVARIAN PAIN, WORSE LEFT SIDE. PAIN FROM OVARY TO OVARY , BETTER PRESSURE
· MENSES STAIN IS DIFFICULT TO WASH (MAG C)
· MENORRHAGIA – PROFUSE, VERY DARK, CLOTTED (SAB); METRORRHAGIA AT CLIMACTERIC – CONTINUES FOR WEEKS; MENSTRUAL PROBLEMS WITH MALIGNANT DISEASES OF UTERUS
· VAGINITIS – LEUCORRHEA OR CERVICAL DISCHARGE – EXCORIATING, FISHY ODOR WITH INTENSE ITCHING IN VAGINA WHICH IS BETTER BY RUBBING AND WARM WASHING
· SYCOTIC WARTS IN GENITAL REGION
· INFERTILITY
· PASSIONATE AND STRONG CRAVING FOR SEX
MEDORRHINUM
- FEMALE SYMPTOMS:
· INTENSE MENSTRUAL COLIC - DYSMENORRHOEA BETTER PRESSING FEET AGAINST SUPPORT; MENSTRUAL COLIC WITH DRAWING UP OF KNEES
· OVARIAN PAIN, WORSE LEFT SIDE. PAIN FROM OVARY TO OVARY , BETTER PRESSURE
·
MEDORRHINUM
- MENSES STAIN IS DIFFICULT TO WASH (MAG C)
-VAGINITIS – LEUCORRHEA OR CERVICAL DISCHARGE – EXCORIATING, FISHY ODOR WITH INTENSE ITCHING IN VAGINA WHICH IS BETTER BY RUBBING AND WARM WASHING
MEDORRHINUM
ANKLES TURN EASILY WHILE WALKING (CARB AN, LED)
BURNING OF HANDS AND FEET (SULPH)
MEDORRHINUM
- EXTREMITIES /MUSCULO-SKELETAL SYMPTOMS:
· BACK PAIN – IN SPINE BETWEEN SCAPULA WITH SORENESS TO TOUCH (CHIN S); BURNING HEAT IN BACK BEGINNING FROM NAPE OF NECK GOING DOWN SPINE WITH STIFFNESS <STRETCHING
· ARTHRITIC PAINS IN SHOULDERS AND ARMS WITH EXTENSION OF PAIN TO FINGERS > MOTION (RIGHT SHOULDER –SANG; LEFT – FERR)
· LUMBAR VERTEBRAE PAINFUL AND SORE TO TOUCH
· HEAVINESS AND PAIN IN LEGS <WALKING (WALKING IS VERY DIFFICULT), NIGHT (PREVENTING SLEEP)
· HEELS AND BALLS OF FEET TENDER (THUJ) – SORENESS OF SOLES (LED PAL)
· DEFORMITY OF FINGER JOINTS; LARGE, PUFFY KNUCKLES; SWELLING AND PAINFUL STIFFNESS OF ANKLES
· INTENSE RESTLESSNESS AND FIDGETY OF LEGS AND FEET (ZINC)
· ANKLES TURN EASILY WHILE WALKING (CARB AN, LED)
· BURNING OF HANDS AND FEET (SULPH)
MEDORRHINUM
NOCTURNAL ENURESIS < BY OVER WORK, OVER PLAY, EXTREMES OF HEAT AND COLD; WHEN THE BEST REMEDY FAILS; WITH A HISTORY OF SYCOSIS
MEDORRHINUM
- OTHER SYMPTOMS:
· SORE THROAT WITH DISTRESSING PAIN IN BONES; DEGLUTITION OF EITHER SOLIDS OR LIQUIDS IMPOSSIBLE (MER); THROAT CONSTANTLY FILLED WITH THICK, GRAY OR BLOODY MUCUS FROM POSTERIOR NARES (HYD)
· SEVERE PAIN (BACK) IN RENAL REGION > PROFUSE URINATION (LYC); RENAL COLIC – INTENSE PAIN IN URETERS WITH SENSATION OF PASSING CALCULUS (BERB, LYC, OCM CAN)
· NOCTURNAL ENURESIS < BY OVER WORK, OVER PLAY, EXTREMES OF HEAT AND COLD; WHEN THE BEST REMEDY FAILS; WITH A HISTORY OF SYCOSIS
· BREASTS AND NIPPLES SORE AND SENSITIVE TO TOUCH – BREASTS COLD AS ICE
· VERY THIRSTY
MEDORRHINUM
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· WHEN THINKING OF COMPLAINTS (HELON, OX-AC)
· HEAT
· COVERING
· STRETCHING
· THUNDERSTORM
· LEAST MOVEMENT
· FROM DAYLIGHT TO SUNSET (REV OF SYPH) - AMELIORATIONS:
· SEASHORE (REV OF NAT)
· LYING ON STOMACH/ ABDOMEN
· DAMP WEATHER (CAUST, NUX) - COMPARE:
· PIC-AC, GELS (IN INABILITY TO WALK)
· ALOE, SULPH (MORNING DIARRHOEA)
· IP (DRY COUGH)
· BETTER BY LEANING ON BACK (LAC CAN)
· SANICULA (FISH BRINE ODOR)
MEDORRHINUM
▪ Irritated at trifles - cross during day, jovial at night time
(opposite is Syphilinum worse at night) (Lyc is worse on waking)
MEDORRHINUM
Weak memory - cant remember names, words or initial letters. Has to ask the name of known persons, Allen says”forgets his own name” (Anacardium)
MEDORRHINUM
A powerful and deep-acting medicine, often indicated for chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhśa
MEDORRHINUM
Stomach.–Coppery taste and eructations of sulphuretted hydrogen. Ravenous hunger soon after eating. Very thirsty. Cravings for liquor, salt, sweets, etc, warm drinks. Pernicious vomiting of pregnancy
MEDORRHINUM
PALE, SCROFULOUS CHILDREN WHO HAVE SWELLING OF CERVICAL & OTHER GLANDS
MERCURIUS DULCIS
CLINICO –PATHOPHYSIOLOGY (REGION):
· EAR – EUSTACHIAN TUBE, MIDDLE EAR
· EYE
· THROAT
· GI SYSTEM
MERCURIUS DULCIS
CAUSATION:
ACUTE INFECTIONS IN EAR
MERCURIUS DULCIS
- EAR SYMPTOMS:
· OTITIS MEDIA (INFLAMMATION OF MIDDLE EAR); SCROFULOUS OTITIS
· EAR TROUBLES OF SCROFULOUS CHILDREN
· ITCHING IN EXTERNAL MEATUS
· EUSTACHIAN CATARRH (KALI-M) – CLOSURE OF EUSTACHIAN TUBES
· GLUE EAR; SWIMMER’S EAR INFECTION
· DEAFNESS, OCCASIONED BY A SWELLING, WHICH COMPRESSES EUSTACHIAN TUBE
DEAFNESS OF OLD AGE – FROM SLIGHTEST EXPOSURE TO COLD - AGGRAVATIONS:
· ACIDS - AMELIORATION:
· COLD DRINKS - COMPARE:
KALI MUR
MERCURIUS DULCIS
- EAR SYMPTOMS:
· OTITIS MEDIA (INFLAMMATION OF MIDDLE EAR); SCROFULOUS OTITIS
· EAR TROUBLES OF SCROFULOUS CHILDREN
· ITCHING IN EXTERNAL MEATUS
· EUSTACHIAN CATARRH (KALI-M) – CLOSURE OF EUSTACHIAN TUBES
· GLUE EAR; SWIMMER’S EAR INFECTION
· DEAFNESS, OCCASIONED BY A SWELLING, WHICH COMPRESSES EUSTACHIAN TUBE
DEAFNESS OF OLD AGE – FROM SLIGHTEST EXPOSURE TO COLD - AGGRAVATIONS:
· ACIDS - AMELIORATION:
· COLD DRINKS - COMPARE:
KALI MUR
MERCURIUS DULCIS
- EAR SYMPTOMS:
· OTITIS MEDIA (INFLAMMATION OF MIDDLE EAR); SCROFULOUS OTITIS
· EAR TROUBLES OF SCROFULOUS CHILDREN
· ITCHING IN EXTERNAL MEATUS
· EUSTACHIAN CATARRH (KALI-M) – CLOSURE OF EUSTACHIAN TUBES
· GLUE EAR; SWIMMER’S EAR INFECTION
· DEAFNESS, OCCASIONED BY A SWELLING, WHICH COMPRESSES EUSTACHIAN TUBE
DEAFNESS OF OLD AGE – FROM SLIGHTEST EXPOSURE TO COLD - AGGRAVATIONS:
· ACIDS - AMELIORATION:
· COLD DRINKS - COMPARE:
KALI MUR
MERCURIUS DULCIS
- EAR SYMPTOMS:
· OTITIS MEDIA (INFLAMMATION OF MIDDLE EAR); SCROFULOUS OTITIS
· EAR TROUBLES OF SCROFULOUS CHILDREN
· ITCHING IN EXTERNAL MEATUS
· EUSTACHIAN CATARRH (KALI-M) – CLOSURE OF EUSTACHIAN TUBES
· GLUE EAR; SWIMMER’S EAR INFECTION
· DEAFNESS, OCCASIONED BY A SWELLING, WHICH COMPRESSES EUSTACHIAN TUBE
DEAFNESS OF OLD AGE – FROM SLIGHTEST EXPOSURE TO COLD - AGGRAVATIONS:
· ACIDS - AMELIORATION:
· COLD DRINKS - COMPARE:
KALI MUR
MERCURIUS DULCIS
- OTHER CLINICAL USES:
· PROSTATITIS – AFTER SUPPRESSED GONORHHOEA WITH INTENSE DYSURIA AND SCANTY URINE
· DROPSIES DUE TO COMBINED RENAL AND CARDIAC DISEASES ESPECIALLY WITH JAUNDICE (HALE)
· CIRRHOSIS OF LIVER – USE 1X (JOUSSET)
· OFFENSIVE BREATH; SALIVATION; SORE GUMS; CONSTANT FLOW OF PUTRID SALIVA. GRANULAR PHARYNGITIS
DYSENTERY – SCANTY, BLOODY MUCUS WITH CONSTANT DESIRE BUT WITHOUT TENESMUS (IN MERC COR AND MERC SOL, THERE WILL BE CONSTANT DESIRE WITH TENESMUS) - AGGRAVATIONS:
· ACIDS - AMELIORATION:
· COLD DRINKS - COMPARE:
KALI MUR
MERCURIUS DULCIS
- EYE SYMPTOMS:
· SCROPHULOUS OPHTHALMIA
· IRIDO –CHOROIDITIS
· CILIARY BLEPHARITIS
SYMPTOMATICALLY EYES ARE RED & DRY WITH GUMMY SECRETION ON EDGES OF LIDS WITH INDISTINCT VISION; RAPID WINKING OF THE EYES - AGGRAVATIONS:
· ACIDS - AMELIORATION:
· COLD DRINKS - COMPARE:
KALI MUR
MERCURIUS DULCIS
CLIICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM
· GYANAECOLOGICAL SYSTEM
· NEUROLOGICAL SYSTEM
· PAEDIATRIC SYSTEM
ADAPTED TO:
· WOMEN OF CLIMACTERIC (MENOPAUSAL) AGE, SUFFERING FROM UTERINE PX
· PEOPLE USED TO TAKE PROLONGED COURSES OF ANTACIDS
CHILDREN WITH BOILS (ANT CRUD)
MAGNESIUM CARBONICA
Broken-down, “worn-out” women, with uterine and climacteric disorders.
CAUSATION:
- INJURIES, ACCIDENTS
- SUDDEN EXCITEMENT, MENTAL DISTRESS
- ANGER, VEXATION OR FEAR
- EFFECTS FROM SORROW, SHOCK
AILMENTS DURING PREGNANCY, DENTITION
MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
Gastro-intestinal catarrh, with marked acidity. Often used with advantage for complains arising in people who have been taking this drug to sweeten the stomach. Is frequently indicated in children; whole body smells sour, and disposed to boils. Broken-down, “worn-out” women, with uterine and climacteric disorders. With numbness and distension in various, parts and nerve prostration.
MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· REST,
· WARMTH OF BED,
· UNCOVERING;
· WORSE EVERY SECOND DAY, EVERY THIRD WEEK;
· CHANGE OF WEATHER; AT NIGHT - AMELIORATIONS:
· MOTION
· WALKING IN OPEN AIR
· COLD WATER IMPROVED TOOTHACHE SOME TIME - COMPLEMENTARY: CHAM
1
10. COMPARE:
· CHAM (IN NEURALGIA)
· CALC, RHEUM (SOUR STOOLS)
· COCC, SEP (WORSE FROM KNEELING)
COLO (COLIC) COMPARE:
· CHAM (IN NEURALGIA)
· CALC, RHEUM (SOUR STOOLS)
· COCC, SEP (WORSE FROM KNEELING)
COLO (COLIC)
MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
Key spheres
* Acidity
* Flatulence. Bloated abdomen
* Dysepsia
MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
· CORYZA AND NASAL STOPPAGE BEFORE MENSES
· SORE THROAT BEFORE MENSES APPEAR
· MENSES PRECEDED BY LABOR LIKE PAINS
· MENSES TOO LATE AND SCANTY WITH DRAGGING PAINS
MENSES FLOW ONLY IN SLEEP, MORE PROFUSE AT NIGHT
MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
SYNONYMS: MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM –
▪ CONSTIPATION,
▪ FLATULENCE,
▪ INDIGESTION,
▪ CIRRHOSIS
· GYANAECOLOGICAL SYSTEM –
▪ METRORRHAGIA,
▪ PREGNANCY,
▪ PAIN IN UTERUS
· NEUROLOGICAL SYSTEM-
HYSTERICAL COMPLAINTS LIKE GLOBUS HYSTERICUS
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
ADAPTED TO:
· WOMEN – SPASMODIC AND HYSTERICAL COMPLAINTS WITH UTERINE DISEASE
· WOMEN SUFFERING FROM CHRONIC INDIGESTION
· CHILDREN WITH LIVER DISORDERS AND DURING DENTITION
CAUSATION:
- ILL EFFECTS OF SEA BATHING
- AILMENTS FROM ANGER, VEXATION
AILMENTS FROM SEXUAL EXCESSES (AGN CAST, STAPH)
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
- MENTAL SYMPTOMS:
· MENTAL EXERTION AGGRAVATES – DIFFICULT CONCENTRATION;
· AVERSION TO CONVERSATION – PREFERS SOLITUDE
· OVERWHELMING ANXIETY WHICH IS AGGRAVATED AT NIGHT - HEADACHE:
· EVERY SIX WEEKS – IN FOREHEAD AND AROUND THE EYES; AS IF IT WOULD BURST
· < MOTION, OPEN AIR
> LYING DOWN, STRONG PRESSURE (PULS), WRAPPING WARMLY (SIL)
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
- GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYMPTOMS:
· PRESSING PAIN IN LIVER < WHEN WALKING, TOUCHING, LYING ON RIGHT SIDE (MER, KALI-C) – LIVER HARD, ENLARGED
· CONSTIPATION – HARD, SCANTY STOOL – LARGE , SOMETIMES KNOTTY LIKE SHEEP’S DUNG – DIFFICULT TO PASS; CRUMBLING AT VERGE OF ANUS (AMM M, NAT M); CONSTIPATION OF INFANTS DURING DENTITION
CANNOT TOLERATE MILK
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
- FEMALE SYMPTOMS:
· MENSES WITH GREAT EXCITEMENT AT EVERY PERIOD
· PAINS IN BACK <WHEN WALKING; PAIN EXTENDS TO THIGHS > PRESSING BACK
· METRORRHAGIA < NIGHT IN BED; FLOW OF BLOOD IS WORSE AT NIGHT
· METRORRHAGIA CAUSES HYSTERIA (ACT, CAUL)
· LEUCORRHOEA – AFTER EXERCISE AND WITH EVERY STOOL; WITH UTERINE SPASM
· LEUCORRHOEA FOLLOWED BY METRORRHAGIA
· LEUCORRHOEA – 2WEEKS AFTER MENSES FOR 3 –4 DAYS (BAR, BOV, CON)
SLEEPS A LOT DURING THE DAY TIME AND SUFFERS FROM SLEEPLESSNESS AT NIGHT.
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
- OTHER SYMPTOMS:
· CHILDREN ARE UNABLE TO DIGEST MILK DURING DIFFICULT DENTITION
· MILK CAUSES PAIN IN STOMACH IN CHILDREN AND IT PASSES UNDIGESTED; CHILDREN CRAVE SWEETS (ARG)
· GREAT SENSITIVENESS TO NOISE (IGN, THER, NUX)
· GREAT TENDENCY OF HEAD TO SWEAT (CALC CARB, SANIC, SIL)
· CONTINUAL RISING OF WHITE FROTH INTO MOUTH
· TOOTHACHE UNBEARABLE WHEN FOOD TOUCHES TEETH
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· SEA BATHING
· LYING ON RIGHT SIDE [FOR LIVER DISEASE]
· TOUCH, NOISE
· NIGHT [MENSTRUAL SYMPTOMS]
· MENTAL EXERTION
· IMMEDIATELY AFTER EATING - AMELIORATIONS:
· COOL, OPEN AIR (EXCEPT HEADACHE)
· HARD PRESSURE
· HANGING DOWN AFFECTED PART
· GENTLE MOTION - COMPARE:
· CHAM (IN DISEASES OF CHILDREN)
CHEL, NAT-S, LYC, ARS, NUX-V, PHOS,SULPH (LIVER AFFECTIONS)
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
A liver remedy with pronounced characteristic constipation. Chronic liver affections with tenderness and pain, extending to spine and epigastrium, worse after food. Especially adapted to diseases of women, with a long history of indigestion and uterine disease; children who cannot digest milk. Evil effects of sea bathing
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
Stomach.–Appetite poor, had taste in mouth. Eructations like rotten eggs. Continued rising of while froth into mouth Cannot digest milk. Urine can be passed only by pressing abdominal muscles.
Abdomen.–Pressing pain in liver; worse lying on right side. Liver enlarged with bloating of abdomen; yellow tongue. Congenital scrotal hernia. Must use abdominal muscles to enable him to urinate.
Bowels.–Constipation of infants during dentition; only passing small quantity; stools knotty, like sheep’s dung, crumbling at verge of anus. Painful smarting hćmorrhoids.
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
SYNONYMS: LYSSINUM
HYDROPHOBINUM
SYNONYMS: RABIES NOSODE
LYSSINUM
CAUSATION:
▪ ILL EFFECTS OF DOG BITES
ILL EFFECTS OF RABIES VACCINATION
LYSSINUM
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· PSYCHOLOGICAL APPLICATION -
▪ ANXIETY,
▪ CLAIRVOYANCE,
▪ FEAR OF BECOMING MAD / FEAR OF INSANITY
▪ MANIA,
▪ NERVOUSNESS
· NEUROLOGICAL SYSTEM –
▪ CONVULSIONS,
▪ NEURALGIA,
▪ PARALYSIS,
▪ HEADACHE,
▪ SCIATICA
LYSSINUM
- MENTAL SYMPTOMS:
· LYSSOPHOBIA – FEAR OF BECOMING MAD / FEAR OF INSANITY
· FEAR OF DRIVING, SUFFOCATION;
· FEAR SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN – MANIFESTATIONS OF CLAIRVOYANCE
· FEAR OF BEING ALONE
· CLAUSTROPHOBIA – FEAR OF NARROW SPACES OR CLOSED SPACES
· FEAR OF MIRRORS IN ROOM; FEAR DURING PREGNANCY
· HYPERACTIVITY OF MIND; HYPERSENSITIVENESS OF ALL SENSES
· HISTORY OF PHYSICAL OR SEXUAL ABUSE
· ANXIETY, RESTLESSNESS WITH PROSTRATION; ANXIETY FROM HEARING CHURCH BELLS
INDECISION IN SMALL MATTERS
LYSSINUM
WHAT IS SOURCE: LYSSINUM
SOURCE: ANIMAL – PREPARED FROM SALIVA OF RABID DOG
HEADACHE IS WORSE BY NOISE OF RUNNING WATER OR BRIGHT LIGHT
LYSSINUM
- HEADACHE:
FROM BITES OF DOGS WHETHER RABID OR NORMAL
LYSSINUM
THE SIGHT OR SOUND OF RUNNNING WATER OR POURING WATER AGGRAVATES ALL COMPLAINTS
LYSSINUM
· CANNOT BEAR HEAT OF SUN (GLON, GELS, LACH, NAT M) (BELL)
LYSSINUM
· SALIVA: TOUGH, ROPY, VISCID; FROTHY IN MOUTH AND THROAT WITH CONSTANT SPITING
· SORE THROAT - DIFFICULTY IN SWALLOWING; ON ATTEMPTING TO SWALLOW LIQUIDS LIKE WATER – ALWAYS GAGS
· SORE THROAT – CONSTANT DESIRE TO SWALLOW (LAC-C, MER)
LYSSINUM
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· SIGHT OR SOUND OF WATER
· BRIGHT LIGHT, SUN LIGHT, REFLECTIONS FROM MIRROR
· CARRIAGE RIDING (COCC)
· THINKING OF FLUIDS
· MENTAL EXERTION, BAD NEWS - AMELIORATIONS:
· GENTLE RUBBING, BENDING BACKWARDS
STEAM OR HOT WATER BATHING
LYSSINUM
- AMELIORATIONS:
· GENTLE RUBBING, BENDING BACKWARDS
· STEAM OR HOT WATER BATHING
LYSSINUM
· PROLAPSUS UTERI OF MANY YEARS CURED BY THIS REMEDY
· SENSITIVENESS OF VAGINA RENDERING COITION PAINFUL
· COMPLAINTS RESULTING FROM ABNORMAL SEXUAL DISORDER (FROM ABSTINENCE – CON)
LYSSINUM
· CONVULSIONS FROM DAZZLING LIGHT OR REFLECTED LIGHT FROM WATER OR MIRROR (STRAM)
LYSSINUM
· CONVULSIONS FROM EVEN THINKING OF FLUIDS OF ANY KIND AND SLIGHTEST TOUCH OR CURRENT OF AIR
LYSSINUM
CAUSATION:
ACUTE INFECTIONS IN THROAT
MERCURIUS CYANATUS
- MAIN KEYNOTE:
IN ANY COMPLAINTS (BE IT THROAT INFECTION, NEPHRITIS) EARLY, RAPID AND EXTREME PROSTRATION ALONG WITH TREMOR, COLDNESS AND CYANOSIS SHOULD BE PRESENT – . - MALIGNANT TYPE PROSTRATION
MERCURIUS CYANATUS
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· SWALLOWING
· SPEAKING
· EATING - AMELIORATION:
· WARMTH - COMPARE:
ARUM, CAUST, HEP, KALI-BI, PHYT, ECHI, LACH, GELS (IN THROAT PROBLEMS MOSTLY
MERCURIUS CYANATUS
MALIGNANT DIPHTHERIA OR THROAT SYMPTOMS WITH INTENSE REDNESS OF FAUCE
MERCURIUS CYANATUS
ACUTE INFECTIONS OF THROAT WHERE THERE IS AN EARLY, RAPID AND EXTREME PROSTRATION
MERCURIUS CYANATUS
· ASSOCIATED PUTRIDITY AND LOCAL DESTRUCTION OF TISSUES
TENDENCY OF HAEMORRHAGES FROM DIFFERENT ORIFICES OF DARK FLUID BLOOD
-MARKED PROSTRATION
MERCURIUS CYANATUS
Affects most prominently the buccal cavity. This, together with marked prostration
MERCURIUS CYANATUS
· GREAT DIFFICULTY IN SWALLOWING - DYSPHAGIA
· PSEUDO MEMBRANOUS FORMATIONS EXTENDS ALL OVER FAUCES AND DOWN THE THROAT
· NECROTIC DESTRUCTION OF SOFT PARTS OF PALATE AND FAUCES
· HOARSENESS AND TALKING IS PAINFUL
APHTHAE ON TONGUE; TONGUE SWOLLEN, EDGES RED; TIP OF TONGUE IS RED (RHUS TOX)
MERCURIUS CYANATUS
SYNONYMS: SKUNK SECRETION
MEPHITIS PUTORIUS
SYNONYMS: MUSTELA FOETIDA
MEPHITIS PUTORIUS
- RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS:
· SPASMODIC COUGH OR WHOOPING COUGH – A GREAT MEDICINE FOR WHOOPING COUGH
· COUGH IS VERY VIOLENT – SEEMS LIFE WILL TERMINATE WITH EVERY SPELL
MEPHITIS PUTORIUS
FEW PAROXYSMS AT DAY TIME BUT MANY AT NIGHT – VIOLENT SPASMODIC COUGH WORSE AT NIGHT
MEPHITIS PUTORIUS
DR. NEIDHARD CONSIDERED THIS A VALUABLE SPECIFIC FOR WHOOPING COUGH
MEPHITIS PUTORIUS
· WHEN THERE IS NO CLEAR CUT INDICATION OF DROSSERA OR OTHER DRUGS, GIVE THIS
- AGGRAVATIONS:
· NIGHT, DAYBREAK, MORNING
· LYING DOWN,
· AFTER MENSES - AMELIORATIONS:
· COLD ICY WEATHER
· BATHING, SITTING UP (BELL) - COMPARE:
· COUGH – DROSS, CORAL, STICTA, RUMEX
SHORT SLEEP REFRESHES – ACID FLUORIC, MENTH
MEPHITIS PUTORIUS
· FALSE CROUP – CANNOT EXHALE
· EXTREME COUGH MAKES THE PATIENT WARM, CAUSES CONGESTION – HENCE PATIENT WANTS TO BATHE IN ICE COLD WATER
MEPHITIS PUTORIUS
CHILD’S COUGH IS VIOLENT – MUST BE RAISED UP, GETS BLUE IN FACE, CANNOT EXHALE. PECULIARLY THESE CHILDREN, THOUGH HAS A TENDENCY TO SUFFER FROM VIOLENT COUGH, HAS A LIKING TO PLAY WITH WATER ALWAYS.
MEPHITIS PUTORIUS
A great medicine for whooping-cough. Suffocative feeling, asthmatic paroxysms, spasmodic cough; cough so violent, seems as if each spell would terminate life. Child must be raised up, gets blue in face, cannot exhale, Mucous rales through upper part of chest. Patient wants to bathe in ice-cold water.
MEPHITIS PUTORIUS
Respiratory.–Sudden contraction of glottis, when drinking or talking. Food goes down wrong way. False croup; cannot exhale. Spasmodic and whooping-cough. Few paroxysms in day-time, but many at night; with vomiting after eating. Asthma, as if inhaling sulphur; cough from talking; hollow, deep, with rawness, hoarseness, and pains through chest. Violent spasmodic cough; worse at night.
MEPHITIS PUTORIUS
Sleep.–Awakes at night with rush of blood to lower legs. Vivid dream of water, fire, etc.
· COUGH IS VIOLENT, SUFFOCATIVE, SPASMODIC AND NERVOUS – WORSE AT NIGHT, TALKING, LOUD READING OR DRINKING
COUGH WITH VOMITING AFTER EATING (IPEC)
Relationship.–Compare: Dros; Coral; Sticta.
Dose.–First to third potency. Has a very short action
MEPHITIS PUTORIUS
SYNONYMS: RHATANY ROOT; MAPATO; KRAMERIA
RATANHIA PERUVIANA
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
ANO –RECTAL CONDITIONS LIKE FISSURE AND HAEMORRHOIDS
CAUSATION:
CONSTIPATION – HARD STOOL
RATANHIA PERUVIANA
CHARACTERISTIC:
· PAIN IN ANUS IS SEVERE AND BURNING IN NATURE WHICH CONTINUES FOR MANY HOURS AFTER PASSING STOOL
SEVERE ITCHING ACCOMPANIES THE ANO-RECTAL CONDITIONS
RATANHIA PERUVIANA
· BURNING PAIN IN ANUS WHICH IS LONG LASTING; AMEL COLD WATER
· PAIN IN ANUS AFTER STOOL – SENSATION OF SPLINTERS OF GLASS IN ANUS AND RECTUM
· GREAT SENSITIVENESS OF THE ANUS NOTED IN FISSURE OF ANUS
· ITCHING OF ANUS – LIKE PIN WORMS
· SENSATIONS IN ANUS
o CONSTRICTING PAIN OR FEELING OF SHARP SPHLINCTERS OF GLASS IN RECTUM
DRY HEAT IN THE ANUS WITH SUDDEN KNIFE LIKE STICTHES
RATANHIA PERUVIANA
- OTHER SYMPTOMS:
· REPORTED TO CURE PTERYGIUM AND TWITCHING OF EYELIDS
· TOOTHACHE – GREAT USE IN TOOTHACHE DURING EARLY MONTHS OF PREGNANCY – THE TOOTHACHE IS SO INTOLERABLE THAT COMPELS THE PATIENT TO GET OUT OF BED AND WALK ABOUT
· DR. CUSHING REPORTS GREAT SUCCESS IN CASES OF PIN WORMS
· FISSURES OF NIPPLES IN NURSING WOMEN [GRAPH, SEP] - AGGRAVATIONS:
· AFTER STOOL [NIT-AC, COLLINSONIA] - AMELIORATIONS:
· COLD BATHING/APPLICATION – THIS IS PROVIDING TEMPORARY RELIEF IN THE BURNING PAIN AFTER STOOL
· WARM APPLICATIONS –RELIEVE THE PROLONGED ,CONTINUOUS PAIN THAT FOLLOWS THE STOOL - COMPARE:
· RECTAL PROBLEMS: AESC, COLLINSONIA, PAEONIA, NIT-AC
· ANALOGOUS TO LYC
PIN WORMS: TEUCRIUM, SANT, SPIG
RATANHIA PERUVIANA
The rectal symptoms are most important, and have received much clinical confirmation. It has cured pterygium. Violent hiccough. Cracked nipples (Graph; Eup ar). Pin worms.
RATANHIA PERUVIANA
Rectum.–Aches, as if full of broken glass. Anus aches and burns for hours after stool. Feels constricted. Dry heat at anus, with sudden knife-like stitches. Stools must be forced with great effort; protrusion of hæmorrhoids. Fissures of anus, with great constriction, burning like fire, as do the hæmorrhoids; temporarily relieved by cold water. Fetid, thin diarrhœa; stools burn; burning pains before and after stools. Oozing at anus. Pin-worms (Sant; Teuc; Spig). Itching of anus.
RATANHIA PERUVIANA
Male.–Testicles, worse left, swollen, painful, drawn up. Orchitis; glands feel crushed. Induration and swelling of testes after gonorrhśa. Hydrocele (Sil).
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
Rheumatic and gouty symptoms well marked. Rheumatism in the hot season. The modality (worse before a storm) is a true guiding symptom.
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
· FEAR SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN – MANIFESTATIONS OF CLAIRVOYANCE
· FEAR OF BEING ALONE
· CLAUSTROPHOBIA – FEAR OF NARROW SPACES OR CLOSED SPACES
· FEAR OF MIRRORS IN ROOM; FEAR DURING PREGNANCY
LYSSIN
NAME 4 FEARS (MIND SYMPTOMS) OF LYSSIN
· LYSSOPHOBIA – FEAR OF BECOMING MAD / FEAR OF INSANITY
· FEAR OF DRIVING, SUFFOCATION;
· FEAR SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN – MANIFESTATIONS OF CLAIRVOYANCE
· FEAR OF BEING ALONE
· CLAUSTROPHOBIA – FEAR OF NARROW SPACES OR CLOSED SPACES
· FEAR OF MIRRORS IN ROOM; FEAR DURING PREGNANCY
· HYPERACTIVITY OF MIND; HYPERSENSITIVENESS OF ALL SENSES
· ANXIETY, RESTLESSNESS WITH PROSTRATION;
· ANXIETY FROM HEARING CHURCH BELLS
LIST 2 CAUSATIONS OR MODALITIES OF HEADACHE OF LYSSIN?
HEADACHE:
· FROM BITES OF DOGS WHETHER RABID OR NORMAL
· CHRONIC HEADACHE FROM MENTAL EXERTION OR ANY EXERTION
- HEADACHE IS WORSE BY NOISE OF RUNNING WATER OR BRIGHT LIGHT
WHAT ARE 2 TRIGGERS OF CONVULSIONS IN A LYSSIN CASE?
· CONVULSIONS FROM DAZZLING LIGHT OR REFLECTED LIGHT FROM WATER OR MIRROR (STRAM)
· CONVULSIONS FROM EVEN THINKING OF FLUIDS OF ANY KIND AND SLIGHTEST TOUCH OR CURRENT OF AIR
WHAT AGGRAVATION DOES LYSSIN AND STRAMONIUM HAVE IN COMMON
AGGRAVATIONS FROM DAZZLING LIGHT OR REFLECTED LIGHT FROM WATER OR MIRROR (STRAM, LYSS)
LIST 2 AGGRAVATIONS OF LYSSIN
AGGRAVATIONS:
· SIGHT OR SOUND OF WATER
· BRIGHT LIGHT, SUN LIGHT, REFLECTIONS FROM MIRROR (Stram)
· CARRIAGE RIDING (COCC)
· THINKING OF FLUIDS
· MENTAL EXERTION, BAD NEWS
LIST 2 AGGRAVATIONS OF LYSSIN
AGGRAVATIONS:
· SIGHT OR SOUND OF WATER
· BRIGHT LIGHT, SUN LIGHT, REFLECTIONS FROM MIRROR (Stram)
· CANNOT BEAR HEAT OF SUN (GLON, GELS, LACH, NAT M)
· CARRIAGE RIDING (COCC)
· THINKING OF FLUIDS
· MENTAL EXERTION, BAD NEWS
LIST 1 AMELIORATION OF LYSSIN
AMELIORATIONS:
· GENTLE RUBBING, BENDING BACKWARDS
· STEAM OR HOT WATER BATHING
LIST ANY OTHER SYMPTOMS OF LYSSIN
· COMPLAINTS RESULTING FROM ABNORMAL SEXUAL DISORDER (FROM ABSTINENCE – CON)
· CANNOT BEAR HEAT OF SUN (GLON, GELS, LACH, NAT M)
· CONVULSIONS FROM DAZZLING LIGHT OR REFLECTED LIGHT FROM WATER OR MIRROR (STRAM)
· CONVULSIONS FROM EVEN THINKING OF FLUIDS OF ANY KIND AND SLIGHTEST TOUCH OR CURRENT OF AIR
· SALIVA: TOUGH, ROPY, VISCID; FROTHY IN MOUTH AND THROAT WITH CONSTANT SPITING
· SORE THROAT - DIFFICULTY IN SWALLOWING; ON ATTEMPTING TO SWALLOW LIQUIDS LIKE WATER – ALWAYS GAGS
· SORE THROAT – CONSTANT DESIRE TO SWALLOW (LAC-C, MER)
· CONSTANT DESIRE TO URINATE ON SEEING RUNNING WATER (CANTH, SULPH)
· PROLAPSUS UTERI OF MANY YEARS CURED BY THIS REMEDY
SENSITIVENESS OF VAGINA RENDERING COITION PAINFUL
LIST ONE MOUTH OR THROAT SYMPTOM OF LYSSIN
· SALIVA: TOUGH, ROPY, VISCID; FROTHY IN MOUTH AND THROAT WITH CONSTANT SPITING
· SORE THROAT - DIFFICULTY IN SWALLOWING; ON ATTEMPTING TO SWALLOW LIQUIDS LIKE WATER – ALWAYS GAGS
· SORE THROAT – CONSTANT DESIRE TO SWALLOW (LAC-C, MER)
LIST ONE GENITO-URINARY SYMPTOM OF LYSSIN
· CONSTANT DESIRE TO URINATE ON SEEING RUNNING WATER (CANTH, SULPH)
· PROLAPSUS UTERI OF MANY YEARS CURED BY THIS REMEDY
· SENSITIVENESS OF VAGINA RENDERING COITION PAINFUL
WHAT ARE THE AFFINITIES OF MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM?
WHAT PATIENT TYPES WOULD SUIT MAG MUR
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM –
▪ CONSTIPATION,
▪ FLATULENCE,
▪ INDIGESTION,
▪ CIRRHOSIS
· GYANAECOLOGICAL SYSTEM –
▪ METRORRHAGIA,
▪ PREGNANCY,
▪ PAIN IN UTERUS
· NEUROLOGICAL SYSTEM-
▪ HYSTERICAL COMPLAINTS LIKE GLOBUS HYSTERICUS
ADAPTED TO:
· WOMEN – SPASMODIC AND HYSTERICAL COMPLAINTS WITH UTERINE DISEASE
· WOMEN SUFFERING FROM CHRONIC INDIGESTION
CHILDREN WITH LIVER DISORDERS AND DURING DENTITION
LIST 3 AETIOLOGIES OF MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM?
CAUSATION:
- ILL EFFECTS OF SEA BATHING
- AILMENTS FROM ANGER, VEXATION
AILMENTS FROM SEXUAL EXCESSES (AGN CAST, STAPH)
Children: during difficult dentition are unable to digest milk; it causes pain in stomach and passes undigested
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
WHICH ORGAN OF THE BODY DOES MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM HAVE THE GREATEST ACTION ON?
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF THAT ORGAN?
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM - A liver remedy with pronounced characteristic constipation. Chronic liver affections with tenderness and pain, extending to spine and epigastrium, worse after food.
Pressing pain in liver; worse lying on right side. Liver enlarged with bloating of abdomen; yellow tongue.
· PRESSING PAIN IN LIVER < WHEN WALKING, TOUCHING, LYING ON RIGHT SIDE (MER, KALI-C) – LIVER HARD, ENLARGED
LIST 2 AGGRAVATIONS OF MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
. AGGRAVATIONS:
· SEA BATHING
· LYING ON RIGHT SIDE [FOR LIVER DISEASE]
· TOUCH, NOISE
· NIGHT [MENSTRUAL SYMPTOMS]
· MENTAL EXERTION
IMMEDIATELY AFTER EATING
LIST 1 AMELIORATION OF MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM :
AMELIORATIONS:
· COOL, OPEN AIR (EXCEPT HEADACHE)
· HARD PRESSURE
· HANGING DOWN AFFECTED PART
GENTLE MOTION
LIST 3 GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYMPTOMS OF MAG CARB
MAG CARB
GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYMPTOMS:
· BLOATED ABDOMEN – HEAVINESS
· RUMBLING AND GURGLING – MUCH FLATUS WITH DIARRHOEA
· CUTTING PAIN IN NAVEL > PASSING FLATUS
· COLIC BETTER BENDING DOUBLE (COLO) (OPP – DIOSCOREA)
· CUTTING, GRIPING, PRESSING COLIC FOLOWED BY GREEN STOOLS
· GREEN WATERY DIARRHOEA – LIKE FROG POND’S SCUM PRECEDED BY COLICKY PAIN
· MILD PASSES UNDIGESTED IN NURSING CHILDREN
· CONSTIPATION AFTER MENTAL SHOCK OR SEVERE MENTAL STRAIN
· AVERSION TO VEGETABLES, GREEN FOOD, GREEN FRUIT, SWEETS
· CRAVING FOR MEAT, FRUITS, ACIDS (ANT-C), VEGETABLES, BREAD AND BUTTER
· MILK IS REFUSED, PASSES UNDIGESTED IN NURSING CHILDREN
· WORSE FROM MILK; WORSE STARCHY FOOD, POTATOES, CABBAGES
LIST 2 FEMALE SYMPTOMS OF MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
FEMALE SYMPTOMS:
· CORYZA AND NASAL STOPPAGE BEFORE MENSES
· SORE THROAT BEFORE MENSES APPEAR
· MENSES PRECEDED BY LABOR LIKE PAINS
· MENSES TOO LATE AND SCANTY WITH DRAGGING PAINS
·MENSES FLOW ONLY IN SLEEP, MORE PROFUSE AT NIGHT
· FALLS DOWN IN A FAINT AT EACH MENSES
LIST 2 MENTAL SYMPTOMS OF MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
MENTAL SYMPTOMS:
· MENTAL EXHAUSTION – WORSE FROM MENTAL EXERTION, WORRIES, SORROW
· CONCENTRATION DIFFICULT
· TREMBLING, ANGUISH AS IF SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN, BETTER WHEN GOING TO BED
· FEAR – OF MISFORTUNE, ROBBERS, OF SOMETHING EVIL, ANTICIPATORY; FEAR OF LOSING NEAR AND DEAR ONES
· CHANGEABLE MOODS
· SENSITIVE – PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY
DESPAIR WITH PAINS (CHAM)
LIST 1 AGGRAVATION OF MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
AGGRAVATIONS:
· REST,
· WARMTH OF BED,
· UNCOVERING;
· WORSE EVERY SECOND DAY,
·WORSE EVERY THIRD WEEK
· CHANGE OF WEATHER;
- AT NIGHT
LIST 1 EXTREMETIES SYMPTOM OF MAGNESIUM CARBONICA
MAGNESIUM CARBONICA
EXTREMITIES SYMPTOMS:
· HEAVY, TIRED AND PAINFUL LEGS
· CAN’T PUT LEFT FOOT ON GROUND WHEN WALKING
· SWELLING IN BEND OF KNEE
· **TEARING IN SHOULDERS AS IF DISLOCATED – RIGHT SHOULDER PAINFUL – CAN’T RAISE IT **
Affects principally the nervous system; aching in bones.
Complaints from abnormal sexual desire.
Convulsions brought on by dazzling light or sight of running water.
LYSSIN
LIST 3 MIND SYMPTOMS OF MEDORRHINUM
Mind.-
-Weak memory. Loses the thread of conversation.
-Cannot speak without weeping.
-Time passes too slowly (Cannab ind; Arg n). Is in a great hurry.
-Hopeless of recovery.
-Difficult concentration.
-Fears going insane (Mancinella).
-Sensibility exalted. Nervous, restless.
-*Fear in the dark and of *some one behind her.
-Melancholy, with suicidal thought
WHAT ARE CAUSATION OF RADIUM BROMIDE
RADIUM BROMIDE
CAUSATION:
· ILL EFFECTS OF X-RAY
· RADIATION BURNS
WHAT ARE THE AFFINITIES OF RADIUM BROMIDE?
WHAT ARE KEYNOTES OF RADIUM BROMIDE
RADIUM BROMIDE
CLINICO -PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
· FOR RHEUMATIC PROBLEMS - ARTHRITIS
· BONE DISEASES
· SKIN AFFECTIONS LIKE DERMATITIS, ACNE, NAEVI, ULCERS AND SKIN CANCERS
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· APPLICABLE FOR BURNS OR ANY SKIN DISEASE WHICH ARE OBSTINATE AND TAKE A LONG TIME TO HEAL
· SEVERE ACHING PAINS ALL OVER WITH RESTLESSNESS, BETTER MOVING ABOUT [RHUS TOX]
LIST 3 GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOMS OF MEDORRHINUM
MEDORRHINUM
GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYMPTOMS:
· *RAVENOUS HUNGER IMMEDIATELY AFTER EATING (CINA, LYC, PSOR)
· CONSTANT THIRST – EVEN DREAMS OF DRINKING
· CRAMPS IN STOMACH DUE TO GAS – INTENSE PAIN IN STOMACH AND UPPER ABDOMEN WITH SENSATION OF TIGHTNESS
· NAUSEA IN MORNING DURING PREGNANCY; *PERNICIOUS VOMITING OF PREGNANCY
· INSATIABLE CRAVING FOR *LIQUOR, *SALT (CAL, NAT), SWEETS (SULPH), ICE, ACIDS, ORANGES, GREEN FRUITS
· AGONISING COLIC IN ABDOMEN , BETTER LYING ON ABDOMEN
· CAN PASS STOOL COMFORTABLY BY LEANING BACK; THERE IS CONSTRICTION AND INERTIA OF BOWELS WITH BALL LIKE STOOLS; STOOL IS PAINFUL TO PASS WITH AN OBSTRUCTIVE LUMP LIKE SENSATION IN ANUS; SO PAINFUL AS TO CAUSE TEARS
· OOZING OF FOETID MOISTURE FROM THE RECTUM (CAUST, HEP)
LIST 3 FEMALE SYMPTOMS OF MEDORRHINUM
MEDORRHINUM
FEMALE SYMPTOMS:
· INTENSE MENSTRUAL COLIC - DYSMENORRHOEA BETTER PRESSING FEET AGAINST SUPPORT; MENSTRUAL COLIC WITH DRAWING UP OF KNEES
· OVARIAN PAIN, WORSE LEFT SIDE. PAIN FROM OVARY TO OVARY , BETTER PRESSURE
· MENSES STAIN IS DIFFICULT TO WASH (MAG C)
· MENORRHAGIA – PROFUSE, VERY DARK, CLOTTED (SAB); METRORRHAGIA AT CLIMACTERIC – CONTINUES FOR WEEKS; MENSTRUAL PROBLEMS WITH MALIGNANT DISEASES OF UTERUS
· VAGINITIS – LEUCORRHEA OR CERVICAL DISCHARGE – EXCORIATING, FISHY ODOR WITH INTENSE ITCHING IN VAGINA WHICH IS BETTER BY RUBBING AND WARM WASHING
· SYCOTIC WARTS IN GENITAL REGION
· INFERTILITY
· PASSIONATE AND STRONG CRAVING FOR SEX
LIST 3 EXTREMITIES SYMPTOMS OF MEDORRHINUM
EXTREMITIES /MUSCULO-SKELETAL SYMPTOMS:
· BACK PAIN – IN SPINE BETWEEN SCAPULA WITH SORENESS TO TOUCH (CHIN S); BURNING HEAT IN BACK BEGINNING FROM NAPE OF NECK GOING DOWN SPINE WITH STIFFNESS <STRETCHING
· ARTHRITIC PAINS IN SHOULDERS AND ARMS WITH EXTENSION OF PAIN TO FINGERS > MOTION (RIGHT SHOULDER –SANG; LEFT – FERR)
· LUMBAR VERTEBRAE PAINFUL AND SORE TO TOUCH
· HEAVINESS AND PAIN IN LEGS <WALKING (WALKING IS VERY DIFFICULT), NIGHT (PREVENTING SLEEP)
· HEELS AND BALLS OF FEET TENDER (THUJ) – SORENESS OF SOLES (LED PAL)
· DEFORMITY OF FINGER JOINTS; LARGE, PUFFY KNUCKLES; SWELLING AND PAINFUL STIFFNESS OF ANKLES
· INTENSE RESTLESSNESS AND FIDGETY OF LEGS AND FEET (ZINC)
· ANKLES TURN EASILY WHILE WALKING (CARB AN, LED)
BURNING OF HANDS AND FEET (SULPH)
DESCRIBE BEDWETTING SYMPTOMS OF MEDORRHINUM
MEDORRHINUM
· NOCTURNAL ENURESIS
< BY OVER WORK, OVER PLAY, EXTREMES OF HEAT AND COLD;
WHEN THE BEST REMEDY FAILS; WITH A HISTORY OF SYCOSIS
LIST 3 KEYNOTE SYMPTOMS OF STANNUM METALLICUM
Stannum metallicum
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· MOST CHARACTERISTIC AFFECTION IS PROFOUND WEAKNESS - NEUROLOGICAL
· A CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOM IS THE NATURE OF PAIN – BEGINS AND ENDS INSIDOUOSLY
· LIES IN BIZARRE POSITION WITH THE COMPLAINTS – LIES ON BACK WITH ONE LEG STRETCHED AND THE OTHER DRAWN UP
LIST 3 RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS OF STANNUM METALLICUM
STANNUM METALLICUM
· RESPIRATORY –
i. COUGH – DEEP, HOLLOW, CONCUSSIVE AND IN PAROXYSM OF THREE COUGHS
ii. DRY COUGH WHILE IN BED, IN EVENING WITH EMPTY SENSATION OF CHEST
iii. WITH THIS COUGH THERE WILL BE THE ALL PERVADING WEAKNESS WHICH IS PROFOUND
iv. EXPECTORATION – PROFUSE, LIKE THE WHITE OF AN EGG; SWEETISH, SALTY [KALI I, SEP]; SOUR, PUTRID; YELLOW GREEN PUS DURING THE DAY
v. HOARSENESS – DEEP, DUSLY, HOLLOW VOICE; RELIEVED FOR THE TIME BY COUGHING OR EXPECTORATING MUCUS
LIST 3 KEYNOTES OF PYROGEN
PYROGEN
KEYNOTES
§ Septic states with intense restlessness, septic states when blood is disorganised, heart becomes weak and prostrated
§ Restlessness - aching, bruised, sore pains and prostration yet the patient is very restless, bed is very hard yet cannot lie in a single position for more than a few minutes, has to change position
§ Chronic complaints that date back to any septic condition
§ When other remedies fail to act or improve in septic or infectious conditions
§ All discharges are horribly offensive - bodily excretions
§ Great heat (fever) with profuse sweat but sweating does not cause a drop in temperature - sweats without relief.
LIST 2 CAUSATION FACTORS FOR PYROGEN
PYROGEN
CAUSATION
§ Any current ongoing infection causing febrile or septic condition
§ Chronic conditions since septic complaints
§ After effects of miscarriage
§ After effects oR remote effects of hepatitis, malaria, diphtheria, typhoid fever, bites, cuts or dissecting wounds
§ Gas poisoning
LIST 3 FEVER SYMPTOMS OF PYROGEN
PYROGEN
. FEVER SYMPTOMS:
· SEPTIC FEVERS – ZYMOTIC FEVERS, TYPHOID, INFLUENZA, CHRONIC MALARIA, FOOD POISONING, MENINGITIS
· LATENT PYOGENIC CONDITION
· COLDNESS AND CHILLINESS – CHILL BEGINS IN BACK BETWEEN SCAPULAE; TEMPERATURE RISES RAPIDLY
· GREAT HEAT WITH PROFUSE HOT SWEAT BUT SWEATING DOES NOT CAUSE A FALL IN TEMPERATURE
FEVER WITH ACHING, BRUISED, SORENESS OF PARTS WITH PROSTRATION YET HE IS RESTLESS; BONE PAINS; RESTLESS – MUST MOVE TO AMELIORATE THE SORENESS OF PARTS. CANNOT LIE MORE THAN FEW MINUTES IN ONE POSITION, BETTER CHANGE
LIST 3 KEYNOTES OF RUTA GRAV
RUTA GRAV
CHARACTERISTICS/ KEY NOTES:
· GREAT PAIN AND SORENESS AS AFTER A FALL OR A BLOW WHICH HE EXPERIENCES ALL OVER THE BODY – BRUISED SENSATION [ RHUS HAS THIS IN JOINTS, ARN HAS IN SKIN AND RUTA MORE IN THE DEEPER BONES AND TENDONS]
· SPRAINS –USEFUL AFTER ARNICA AND RHUS TOX
· RESTLESSNESS IS A VERY CHARACTERISTIC CONCOMITANT OF RUTA ESP AFTER A SHORT WALK
· TENDENCY TO THE FORMATION OF DEPOSITES IN THE PERIOSTEUM, TENDONS AND ABOVE JOINTS ESPECIALLY WRISTS
· FEELING OF INTENSE LASSITUDE, WEAKNESS AND DESPAIR [BOERICKE]
LIST 2 CAUSATION FACTORS OF RUTA GRAV
RUTA GRAV
CAUSATION:
· INJURIES – BRUISES, FRACTURES, SPRAINS; STRAINING FLEXOR TENDONS
· OVER EXERTION OR OVERSTRAIN OF EYES (OCULAR MUSCLES)
· CARRYING HEAVY WEIGHTS
LIST 5 MUSCULOSKELETAL SYMPTOMS OF RUTA GRAV
RUTA GRAV
4. MUSCULO-SKELETAL SYMPTOMS:
· GREAT WEAKNESS AFTER A SHORT WALK, LIMBS FEEL BRUISED, SMALL OF BACK AND LOINS PAINFUL. TOTTERING AS IF THE THIGHS WERE WEAK, LIMBS PAIN WHEN WALKING. DOES NOT KNOW WHERE TO LAY HIS LEGS ON ACCOUNT OF HEAVINESS AND UNEASINESS, LIES NOW IN ONE PLACE, NOW IN ANOTHER, AND TURNS FROM SIDE TO SIDE
· LEGS GIVE OUT WHILE RISING FROM A CHAIR – HIPS AND THIGHS ARE SO WEAK. HAMSTRINGS FEEL SHORTENED
· THIGHS PAIN WHEN STRETCHING THE LIMBS
· SCIATICA - WORSE LYING DOWN AT NIGHT; PAIN FROM BACK DOWN HIPS AND THIGHS
· CONTRACTION OF FINGERS – TRIGGER FINGER
· PAIN AND STIFNESS IN WRISTS AND HANDS. ‘RHEUMATIC PARALYSIS OF WRISTS AND ANKLE’ ACCORDING TO DR. CLARKE
· VERY SPECIFIC REMEDY FOR GANGLION
· PAIN IN NAPE, BACK AND LOINS. BACKACHE BETTER PRESSURE AND LYING ON BACK. LUMBAGO WORSE MORNING BEFORE RISING
· ACHING PAIN IN ACHILLES TENDON
· ALL PARTS OF THE BODY ON WHICH HE LIES, EVEN IN BED, ARE PAINFUL AS IF BRUISED
· RESTLESSNESS IS GREAT AND A SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTIC AS MENTIONED ABOVE. IT IS A CONCOMITANT TO MANY COMPLAINTS
LIST 2 AGGRAVATION AND 1 AMELIORATION OF RUTA GRAV
RUTA GRAV
AGGRAVATIONS:
· LYING DOWN
· COLD WET WEATHER
· ASCENDING OR DESCENDING STAIRS OR RISING FROM A CHAIR
· READING ESP IN DIM LIGHT; EXCESSIVE USE OF EYES
AMELIORATIONS:
MOTION
