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Remedies and Materia Medica Flashcards

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Left-sided remedy
  • Four key presentations:
    1. Physical neurologic - ataxia, clumsiness, paralysis, ALS
    2. Functional neurologic - poor memory, forgetful, mental exhaustion (old people, complaints of)
    3. GI - better with vomiting, crave sweets and salt, like strong tastes (cheese, ice cream), aggravation from sweets
    4. 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Delusions
    • Suspicious
    • Poisoned
    • Wronged
  • Immodest
    • Desire to be naked
      • Masturbation in public
      • Holds genitals
  • Twitch
  • Singing or joking
  • Strange gestures
    • Picking at bed clothes
    • Grasping at flocks
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Hyoscymas

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Better walking in open air/being outside
  • Desire to lie down
  • Constant fear of becoming insane
  • Restlessness with anxiety
  • Uncontrollable laughter
  • Confusion as to their identity
  • Clairvoyant
  • Fainting/losing consciousness
  • Forgetting words when speaking
  • Numbness
  • Epilepsy
  • Ravenous hunger
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Cannibus Indica

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  • Sleepiness
  • Talking nonsense
  • Shouts, leaps in the air
  • Paranoid delusions
  • Despairs, fear of being lost forever
  • Imagining he is christ/blood mary
  • Highly sexual
  • Thoughts persistent
  • Speech nonsensical
  • Aversion to mental work
  • Disassociation
  • Can’t stand conflict or any fighting
  • Interrupts
  • Anxiety
  • Jealous for attention
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Cannibus Indica

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  • Etiology:
    • After vaccination
    • Gonorrhea
    • Suppression of warts
    • Societal mistreatment/abused by parents or others
  • No sense of self
  • Feel as though if people really knew them, they would not be loved
    • Have to hide who they are
    • Imitate others to hide self
  • Secretive; holds things inside
    • Closed
    • Deceptive
    • Vague
    • Mumbles
    • Holding back information
  • Feeling separation
  • Feel that they are genuinely ugly
  • Degraded self-esteem
  • Over growths - tumors, warts, moles, cysts -> esp. in the GU tract
    • Suppression worsens
  • Worse in cold, wet weather
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Thuja occidentalis

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  • Joint complaints
  • Fears intimacy
  • Delusions something alive in the abdomen
  • Can be very fastidious
  • Ailments from vaccination
  • Left-sided remedy
  • Agg. around 2-3 AM and PM
    • Arthritic pain
      • Cervical pain, hands
  • Sensitive to touch/aversion to touch
  • Worse from onions and garlic
  • Midline deformities
  • Deformed, split, or thickened nails
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Thuja occidentalis

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  • Greasy or oily hair/face
  • Change in hair characteristics
  • GI complaints
    • bloating
    • gas
  • Agg. around menses
  • Pain radiating down the thigh
  • Chronic urethral discharges
  • Prostate/testicular problems
  • Perspiration
    • around the genitals
    • smells like onions, garlic, honey, or yeast
    • Sweat on the uncovered parts
  • Forked stream of the urine
  • Hx of gonorrhea
  • Condyloma hx
  • Dreams of dead people
  • Sleeps on the L-side
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Thuja occidentalis

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Cycle

  • Weakness - feeling vulnerable and fragile
    • Fragile body and hair growth slows, emotionally sensitive, rapid exhaustion, anxiety about salvation, confusion in the AM, chilliness
  • Intrusion from the outside
    • Vaccination, fear of strangers, bully
  • Feeling of duality
    • Immune system is compromised, confusion to identity, refers to self in 3rd person
  • Confusion and grief
    • Who they are, strange person, as if soul and body are separated, possessed, double, mistakes in writing and talking
  • Feeling guilty about on of the dualities
    • Stitching, tearing pains in gands, avoids people, aversion company, unattractive, spends time perfecting appearance, afraid to reveal themselves, discarges are nasty, oily, aversion to life, mental depression, secretive
    • Rigidity of ideas
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Thuja occidentalis

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  • Religious fanatics
  • Can be overbearing and dictatorial
  • Herpetic remedy
  • Sensation as if cold stream of air is in the eyes
  • Chronic sinusitis
  • High sex drive
  • Asthma
  • Brown spots on hands and arms
  • Abused by parents or other kids
  • Feel distant from people
  • Related to Medorrhinum
  • Conformists, not eccentric
  • Transform who they are to fit in to their environment
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Thuja occidentalis

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  • Acute collapse with copious secretions
  • Manic conditions
    • Many delusions
    • Delirium from fever
    • Schizophrenic disorders
  • Profuse, copious discharges
  • Extreme coldness, with cold perspiration
  • Voracious thirst for ice cold drinks, crave ice cubes
  • Sweat on forehead
  • Pale, bluish shriveled sunken in features
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Veratrum album

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  • Weak voice
  • Very chilly
  • Profuse sweats
  • Loss of bodily fluids causes profuse weakness
  • Blue, especially the face - cyanosis
  • Delirium that is intense and violent
  • Fainting from emotions, exertion, stool, retching, or vomiting
  • Stomach sxs
    • increased appetite
    • hunger for: cold food, ice, ice water, ice cream
    • Also crave: salt, fruit (sour), acid things
  • Gastroenteritis with violent vomiting and profuse diarrhea
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Veratrum album

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  • Dryness
  • Neuralgic
  • Tickling sensations
  • Constant activity, turmoil, overactivity
  • Mistaken identity
  • Haughtiness
  • Complaining, scoulding, preaching
    • May pray or scream and rant at people
  • Easily frightened
  • Inconsolable - despair about the future
  • Loquacious
  • Delusions and manic state
  • Etiology: fright, shock, injury, disappointed love
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Veratrum album

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  • Responsible
  • Depressed
    • Leading remedy for suicidal tendencies
    • But probably wont do it because of their responsibilities
  • Want to be a good provider for the family
  • More reserved emotionally
  • Holds grudges
  • Pragmatic
  • Serious, closed, proud, dependable
  • Hate to fail
  • Emotional changes after a head injury (confusion, mental dullness, sadness)
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  • Remorse
  • Guilt
  • Sensitive to music
  • Irritable - especially in the AM
  • Proper, orderly
  • Child can feel overburdened
  • ASTHMA, ASTHMA, ASTHMA
  • Big effect on the nervous system
  • Diabetes after a grief
  • Worse from damp weather
  • Liver remedy
  • Dullness in the AM
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  • Big effect on the colon - loud rumbling, pain on R side, digestive pain
  • Early AM diarrhea
  • Mom with asthma during pregnancy, resulting in childhood diarrhea
  • Affects the lower lobe of the lung - productive cough with green sputum
  • Sciatica
  • Meningitis - esp with irritability and delirium
    • Photophobia
    • Slime, mucus in mouth
    • Bitter taste in mouth
    • Tongue coated in green
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Natrum sulphuricum

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  • Poverty, foulness, odors, itching
  • Dire pessimists
  • Fear of poverty
  • Recurring illness
    • Long recovery - low grade fever for weeks
  • Really chilly, chilly remedy
  • Think sulphur… but cold
  • Sleep with hate and tons of covers
    • Uncovering head aggravates
  • Sensitive defense mechanism - easily gets sick
    • Immunological
    • Emotional
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  • Rubrics:
    • Nose, choryza, chronic, long, continue
    • Delusions, loose his fortune
    • Fear, something will happen
  • Thin, eat tons, but can’t gain
  • Sweat, with sour or bad odors
    • Breath
    • Genitals
    • Skin
    • D/C from ear smells like rotten meat
    • Bad smelling mucus from sinusitis
  • Skin
    • Looks dirty, even when washed
    • Eruptions that never quite heal
    • Never looks healed
    • Itching
      • scratch until it bleeds
    • Worse from heat of bed
    • Ailments from suppressed eruptions
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  • Just before they get sick, they feel really good
  • Lack of vitality
  • Worry and anxiety
  • Guilt
  • Irritable - sullen, insolence
  • Needy and dependent upon others
  • Restless
  • Loose sleep from guilt, despair, anxiety, etc
  • HA are better from eating or keeping head warm
  • Patch of grey hair
  • Recurrent otitis media
  • Loose teeth
  • Feels like arms are stretched out like a crucifix
  • Ravenous appetite
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  • Ravenous appetite
  • Tend toward diarrhea with awful smelling stool
  • Night sweats
  • Worse in winter
  • Worse bathing
  • Worse in sun
  • Averse sex
  • Prone to miscarriages
  • Sensitive to barometric pressure changes

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