Quiz 4

Question 1

This remedy is useful in childbirth when labor pains are weak, irregular, intermittent, and cease from exhaustion. Pains are sharp, crampy and useless, “flying about”. Useful in labor that starts productively, then stops due to exhaustion or when the cervix fails to dilate.

Answer 1

Caulophylum

Question 2

Pains move from side to side, or wander. In labor OS is rigid and fails to dilate despite contractions. The woman is gloomy and depressed, yet restless and excitable. There may be a “dark cloud” that envelops her. Thirstless, desires little sips of cold water only.

Answer 2

Cimicifuga

Question 3

This remedy is useful in mastitis, when there is the sensation of a lump in breast, hard nodules, or abscesses. Breasts are painful while nursing; pain radiates to entire body.

Answer 3

Phytolacca

Question 4

This remedy is exhausted and sensitive. Dissatisfied, complains, wants change and travel. Easy temper, rages. Fear of dogs. Restlessness. Changeable symptoms. Asthma, pneumonia, chronic respiratory illness. Takes cold easily and frequently from changes in weather, slight draft. Worse in closed room, exertion, motion. Better open air, in the mountains. Painful bones. High sexual desire. Profuse night sweats. Desires smoked meat, ham, ice cream. Children have temper tantrums; sleep in knee-chest position.

Answer 4

Tuberculinum bovinum

Question 5

True or False: Tuberculinum avis (aviaire) is made from chicken or bird tuberculosis and is recommended for bronchitis.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

True or False: Bacillinum is known for treating tuberculosis and lung conditions, also treats skin conditions.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

This remedy is fastidious and tends to be a perfectionist. Blue sclera, especially in children. Cafe au lait complexion and/or dark moles. Insomnia in children. Loves dancing, music, and thunderstorms. Craves salt, fat, spicy foods, chocolate, and butter. Never well since glandular fever (mononucleosis).

Answer 7

Carcinosin

Question 8

Affinity to nerves, muscles and glands. Gradual paralysis and weakness with slow onset. Ascending paralysis. Aversion to company. Emotionally introverted with a lack of expression. Physical and mental rigidity, fixed ideas, indifference. Suppression of sexual desire and premature aging. Prostate enlarged with difficult urination. Breast cancer following bruising injury.

Answer 8

Conium

Question 9

In labor, women needing this remedy may display “over-the-top behavior” that seems out of proportion to the progress of their labor. Mentally, they are described as hysterical with changeable mood and loquacity. Also a leading remedy for post-natal depression that clients describe “as if a black cloud descended.”

Answer 9

Cimicifuga

Question 10

Morning sickness with nausea and burning head and abdomen though the body is cold. Sick feeling all day without vomiting. Desire to uncover the abdomen. Death-like paleness, weakness. Better open air, worse from least movement.

Answer 10

Tabacum

Question 11

A leading remedy in perinatal homoeopathy. It has a strong affinity with inefficient uterine activity; it may be indicated not only in premature labour but also in slow progress of labour. Rigid os. Weakness and exhaustion. Uterine pains that “flay from one place to another.”

Answer 11

Caulophyllum

Question 12

When breastfeeding, nipples can be sore, fissured, lumpy hard with painful nodisities. Pain radiates throughout the body. Mammary abscesses.

Answer 12

Phytolacca

Question 13

Leading remedy in uterine hemorrhage and threatened abortion. Client feels hot and is worse hot applications, but feels cold to the touch. Bleeding flows only when client is moving about. Violent uterine contractions. Can be useful with retained placenta, uterine atony and protracted labor. Beside herself with anguish, anxiety, delirium.

Answer 13

Secale

Question 14

Mastitis with acute inflammation; breasts swollen and engorged. Discharges thick, bland, greenish-yellow. Shifting, changing pains that wander. Ameliorated by open air and cold applications.

Answer 14

Pulsatilla

Question 15

Morning sickness characterized by nausea and fainting. Nausea at the thought and smell of food. Weakness from constant vomiting, difficulty standing. Vertigo. Worse from eating, drinking or prolonged loss of sleep.

Answer 15

Cocculus

Question 16

Tendency towards frequent or early miscarriage where the main feature is pain radiating from the sacrum to the pelvis and even extending into the upper and inner thighs. Dysmennorhea with pains extending into the thighs. Cramping predominates and often strong nausea with pains. Profuse urination.

Answer 16

Viburnum opulis

Question 17

Menses too early, too profuse, dark, black coagulated, foul smelling, long black strings of blood, especially after much exertion. Aggravated by least motion.

Answer 17

Crocus sativa

Question 18

Often referred to as the “chilly Pulsatilla”; General aggravation for suppressed menses. Menses too frequent and profuse, much worse in evening when sitting down, less flow when moving about, often black and clotted; vision and thinking foggy. Migraine headache with vertigo or flickering vision. Worse from cold. Aversion fats, pork, meat.

Answer 18

Cyclamen

Question 19

Bright red uterine hemorrhage with cramping (threatened abortion), especially in first trimester and post-partum. Bleeding brought on by the slightest motion but ceases when walking about. Pains from sacrum to pubis. Violent pains from small of back to pelvis and down the thighs.

Answer 19

Sabina

Question 20

Lack of reaction with insensibility and sleepiness or overexcitement and sleeplessness from slight noises. Stupor and coma. Coma from injury. Pain in back of head, as if a great weight.

Answer 20

Opium

Question 21

Stupefies the mind. Answers slowly and reflects long. Forgetful of what has just been read, done, or was about to say. In concussion of the brain, from blow on the head, after Arnica has failed.

Answer 21

Helleborus niger

Question 22

Mental ailments from head injury. Irritability and depression; mood swings; so severe that the person feels suicidal. There may be ringing in the ears, as well as vertigo. All the symptoms worse in damp, wet weather.

Answer 22

Natrum sulphuricum