Remedies and Materia Medica Flashcards
1
Q
- Sxs R to L
- Sxs disappear while eating
- Numbness externally
- Aggravation from ascending stairs
- Eczema with excessive itching
- Anxiety as if being pursued
- Childish behavior
- Clairvoyant
- Afternoon ameliorates mental sxs
- Weeping ameliorates
- Objects seem far away
- Raw throat after eating
- Coldness of the foot while walking in open air
- Perspiration from fright
- Warts on hand or palm
- Desires: milk
- Worse: warm food, cold drinks (except during heat)
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Anacardium
2
Q
- Impulsive - can’t control thoughts or emotions
- Tremendous amounts of anxiety
- Health
- People in their life
- Being on time
- Tons of fears - disease, hospitals, death, evil, fainting, flying, narrow places, buildings falling on them, heights
- Walk to clear their minds
- Under-developed psyche - childish behavior
- Want company
- Oppositional behaviors - irresolute; changing or fluctuating moods
- Confusion with coffee
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Argentum Nitricum
3
Q
- Hatred towards those that put them down
- Delusions
- Cannot succeed
- Committed a crime
- Has two wills
- Hears (evil) voices
- He’s the devil
- Fear insanity
- Dream, as if in a dream
- Excessive or inappropriate cursing
- Cruel, yet can be overly sweet
- Skin eruptions, loose dermatitis - poison oak
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Anacardium
4
Q
- Hx of abuse or alcoholism in parents
- Hard to accept kindness, they’ve not been given much in life
- Anger suppressed - results in violent outbursts
- Jealousy/Envy
- Lack of moral feeling, unfeeling
- Hx of LSD or drug use
- Irresolution
- Worse mental exertion
- Anger from contradiction - takes everything personal
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Anacardium
5
Q
- Left-sided remedy
- Four key presentations:
- Physical neurologic - ataxia, clumsiness, paralysis, ALS
- Functional neurologic - poor memory, forgetful, mental exhaustion (old people, complaints of)
- GI - better with vomiting, crave sweets and salt, like strong tastes (cheese, ice cream), aggravation from sweets
- Abundance of fears and anxieties
- Hoarse/raspy voice
- splinter like pain in the throat
- Warts or growths on the hand
- Vertigo
- Loud eructations
- High sex drive
- Men often have problems erectile dysfunction (performance anxiety)
- Women can have left ovarian cysts/pain
- Generally warm
- Cold ameliorates - windows must be open
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Argentum Nitricum
6
Q
- Delusions
- Religious Despair
- Not refined, but have expensive tastes
- Eccentric
- Worse mental exertion
- Loquacious
- Forgetful/weak memory
- Suicidal disposition
- OCD - rituals
- Undertake nothing from fear of failure
- Open and communicative
- Really good with people - sales, teachers, preachers, actors
- Love praise and affection
- Gossip
- Gullible
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Argentum Nitricum
7
Q
- Have been put down (physical, emotional)
- Consequently have poor self-esteem; often feel like failures
- Poor memory, concentration, and follow-through
- Better eating
- High sex drive
- Might be more into alternative forms of sex - BDSM
- Sexual fantasies
- Feel separate from others in their feelings
- Delusions, separated from the world
- Child is not her child
- Plug-like sensations
- Band-like sensations around head, chest, or waist
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Anacardium
8
Q
- Emotional abuse during childhood
- Expressed in cunning personality and lewd behavior
- Ailments from disappointed love in childhood
- Fears:
- Fear of being betrayed
- Fear of failure
- Fear of being killed
- Self-centered, preformance
- No scruples or morals- have no problem lying
- Low self-esteem
- Arrogance used to hide feelings of inadequacy
- Jealous
- Competitive
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Hyoscymas
9
Q
- Delusions
- Suspicious
- Poisoned
- Wronged
- Immodest
- Desire to be naked
- Masturbation in public
- Holds genitals
- Desire to be naked
- Twitch
- Singing or joking
- Strange gestures
- Picking at bed clothes
- Grasping at flocks
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Hyoscymas
10
Q
- Involuntary stool
- Paralysis, epilepsy, seizures
- Diplopia, aneuresis during convulsions
- Violent temper
- Impulse to kill
- Malicious
- Violent physical sxs
- ADD/ADHD, hyperactive aggressive kids
- Aversion to light, like darkness
- Religious fanaticism
- Sadness from continence
- Sadness from smelling flowers
- Mind, spit
- Mind, stupefaction
- Mind, well, says he is well when he is very sick
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Hyoscyamus
11
Q
- Desire to hide
- Like to be observed, but not in a refined way
- Fear of water because it’s clear, like darker things
- Set a goal, and nothing will stop them from avhieving it
- Many singers could be this remedy
- Mind, singing, obscene songs
- Convulsions during dentition
- Convulsions from worms
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Hyoscyamus
12
Q
- Rubrics
- Mind, fear, something happen, will
- Argues, bread and butter
- Anatagonism with self
- Face, expression, suffering
- Controlling and possesive as partners
- Rigidity
- Literal
- Cannot bend the rules at all
- Inability to stand up for themselves - keep it all inside
- Irritable
- Desire company, ameliorates –> being alone aggravates
- Aggravation between 2-4am
- Aggravation after coition
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Kali Carbonicum
13
Q
- Fluid retention
- Swelling bag-like fluids, around eyelids
- Obesity
- Lungs - bronchitis, ammonia, asthma
- Only way to get relief is to sit and lean far forward
- Liver and kidney dz
- Suppressed menses
- Anemia
- Inflammation of the mucosal membranes
- Arthritic remedy
- Gout
- Wandering pains
- Sharp, stabbing, stitching pains
- Worse lying on painful side
- Cold/chilly –> worse in cold, wet, or wind
- Profuse, stringy discharges
- Bleeding hemorrhoids
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Kali Carbonicum
14
Q
- Anxiety felt around the solar plexus
- Good workers, hard workers, follow the rules
- Want support - religion, politics
- Want self-confidence
- Consolation aggravates
- Psoric remedy
- Startle easily
- Startle when touched
- Persistent thoughts
- Dwell on past occurences
- Buys coffin - controlled and planned out
- Fears
- Death, disease
- Weeping at night
- Difficulty swallowing
- Worse change
- Nursing aggravates
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Kali Carbonicum
15
Q
- Delusions
- Animals
- Ghosts
- Hearing
- As if in a dream
- Laughing immoderately
- Unreal
- Impulsive, morbid
- Generals
- Numbness
- Mind dancing
- Thoughts intrude and crowd each other
- Psychosis
- Sexually “liberated”
- Silly laughter
- Spacing out
- Less efficient when using cannibis
- Intense exhalation
- Nothing usually troubles them but sometimes can be agonizing and full of terror
- Dementia, delirium, tremors
- Convulsions
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Cannibus Indica
