Remedies - Final Exam

Question 1

Aconite napellus

Answer 1

Injury: Suddenness of sxs, restlessness from anxiety & helplessness. Predicts time of death, fear of death -> acute miasma. Mental symptoms, redness of eye, shock from injuries. Injury of eye from foreign body

Cough: Illness comes on VERY SUDDENLY. ANXIETY & FRIGHTENED easily during cough. Cough from DRY, COLD WIND. Loud, dry barking cough worse from cold, dry air.

Influenza/Fever: SUDDEN ONSET w/fever, chills, throbbing pulse, and GREAT RESTLESSNESS from anxiety. Exposure to dry cold weather with bitter winds. *Coldness in BLOOD VESSELS. *Fever with one cheek PALE/COLD and the other RED/HOT. Fever with internal heat & external chill.

Question 2

Antimonium tartaricum

Answer 2

Cough: Weak, drowsy, face pale or cyanotic. Face twitches during cough, YAWNING after cough. Respiration suffocative and wheezing. Cough is loose, weak, and rattling. Cough with great sleepiness.

Question 3

Apis mellifera

Answer 3

Influenza/Fever: HOT RED DRY FACE with SWELLING or congestion. NO SWEAT at all, which the patient longs for. ALL sx ameliorated by COLD/COLD APPLICATIONS. Oppression in chest aggravated in a WARM ROOM. *Chill in AFTERNOON 3-4PM, begins in chest or abdomen. Burning dry fever at night without THIRST, with STINGING sensations

Question 4

Arnica montana

Answer 4

Injury: BRUISED sensation as if “BEATEN,” everything feels “too hard,” Injuries from BLUNT TRAUMA. *Says they are well when they are very sick. Does not want to be touched or approached, Fear of being touched least he be harmed.

Influenza/Fever: Terrible ACHING of whole body, as if from fall. Bed feels TOO HARD. Chill in lower half of body as if COLD WATER DASHED OVER HIM. CHILLINESS FROM SLIGHTEST MOVEMENT of bed clothes. Heat in head/face, cold body. Sore pain on parts LAIN ON.

Question 5

Arsenicum album

Answer 5

Influenza/Fever: CHILLY, RESTLESS, W/ANXIETY and FEAR OF DEATH. BURNING (like red hot needles) pain AMEL. By HEAT! Ice or boiling water running through veins. Thirst for SIPS of COLD water. Flu with VOMITING/DIARRHEA and weakness. Drinking INCREASES CHILL & CAUSES VOMITING.

Question 6

Badiaga (freshwater sponge)

Answer 6

Cough: WEEPING during cough, SNEEZING during or after cough. Mucus FLIES FROM MOUTH when coughing, COUGH FORCIBLE, SPASMODIC. Cough from tickling in larynx *as if sugar was dissolving. Worse from cold drinks & cold air

Question 7

Baptisia tinctoria

Answer 7

Influenza/Fever: Rapid onset, SINKING into DULL TYPOHOID state (has been used to tx typhoid fever). DULL RED, DUSKY face, BESOTTED, DRUGGED appearance, falls asleep while answering questions. Delusions body is SCATTERED about the bed. FOUL, OFFENSIVE odor from mouth. ‘Gastric flu’ with putrid diarrhea, eructations, and vomiting.

Question 8

Belladonna

Answer 8

Injury: Great INTENSITY of sx, SUDDEN. Fits of rage, biting, spitting, pulling hair, senses acute. Fear of dogs/impending death, delirium frightful, rageful, violent wild. High sudden fevers. Glassy, wild look in eyes. Delirium/*LOST VOICE after head injury. HA after mechanical injury.

Influenza/Fever: RAPID ONSET OF EXTREMELY HIGH FEVER worse around 3pm, Delirium, FLUSHED RED FACE, DILATED PUPILS, GLISTENING EYES (crave lemonade?) Agg by JARRING. Hands & feet icy cold with hot face/body. Severe THROBBING H/A w/Bounding Pulse. Chill begins in arms, worse after eating. Burning dry heat.

Question 9

Bellis perennis (cute little daisies)

Answer 9

Injury: Sprains, bruises, injuries to DEEP TISSUES. After SURGERY (abdomen/pelvis), trauma to pelvic organs. Can’t walk during pregnancy due to PAIN. MOTHER FEELS EVERY MOTION OF BABY - SORE CRUISED FEELING. INDURATION/CANCER OF BREAST AFTER CONTUSION. Injury to coccyx (Hypericum). Extremities - coldness after injuries. Injuries from over -exertion & strain.

Question 10

Bromium

Answer 10

Cough: COLD sensation in larynx during breathing, CROUP from BECOMING HEATED. (Asthma in sailors as soon as they come ashore.) DRY cough from SCRAPING in larynx. SWALLOWING aggravates suffocative cough. *Stony hard glands (cervical, submaxillary, testes, ovaries, parotid).

Question 11

Bryonia alba

Answer 11

Injury: Aversion to being DISTURBED, worse from LEAST MOTION. Talks of business (typhoid miasma). Amel. by lying on painful side. Delirium wants to go home, delusion away from home. Fear POVERTY. *Vomiting after injuries. Lumbar sensitive to jar of walking after injury. Injuries to elbow, wrists, dislocations & sprains.

Cough: Weeping before cough, shrieking w/cough. MUST HOLD head or chest during cough (AVERSION to being DISTURBED). DRY cough as if coming from stomach. PAINFUL cough, must sit up, pressing/stitching pain. Very thirsty. Better with constant pressure.

Influenza/Fever: *White tongue. EXTREME THIRST for COLD drinks. Attacks of DRY Heat with EVERY MOVEMENT, EVERY NOISE, averse to being disturbed. Lie quiet, still, be left alone. Pleurisy. HA pains better from CONSTANT PRESSURE.

Question 12

Calendula

Answer 12

Injury: HEALING OF WOUNDS - raw, inflamed, stinging, Lacerated, Ragged, prevents suppuration, Affinity for skin, soft parts & spine. Head fractures, mouth/tongue laceration, hand lacerations, Gen: Traumatic fever & compound fractures. Inflammation to conductive after injury.

Question 13

Camphora

Answer 13

Influenza/fever: Chill beginning in abdomen. Chilliness before stool. ICY COLDNESS, BLUE DISCOLORATION, but DOES NOT WANT TO BE COVERED, COLD SWEAT, COLD BREATH. RICE WATER STOOLS, external COLD as in CHOLERA. Shaking with COLD BLUE skin. Influenza begins RAPIDLY.

Question 14

Causticum

Answer 14

Cough: *Passes urine with cough. Rawness of larynx during cough. Cold DRINKS, WET weather ameliorates. SENSATION AS IF HE COULD NOT COUGH DEEP ENOUGH TO RAISE MUCUS. Hollow, hoarse HISSING cough. Exhaustion from coughing.

Influenza/Fever: Pain in extremities & WEAKNESS during influenza. CHILL on LEFT SIDE, at MIDNIGHT, DURING H/A, DRINKING AMELIORATES. Chill BEGINNING IN FACE, Coldness of SINGLE PART, External chill IN SPOTS. Perspiration after chill. DRINKING COLD WATER AMEL. FEVER.

Question 15

Chelidonium majus

Answer 15

Influenza/Fever: TONGUE BROWN &/or CRACKED during influenza. Chill on *RIGHT SIDE, chill beginning in FEET or HANDS. Chill as if COLD WATER DASHED OVER HIM (Arn. Rhus-t.) Burning heat spreading FROM HANDS ALL OVER BODY. Gastric fever.

Question 16

Cicuta virosa

Answer 16

Injury: Childish/foolish behavior (jumping out of bed happy), avoids sight of strangers (miasm). HATRED & shuns foolishness of human kind. Shrieks before CONVULSIONS, head drawn back in convulsions. HICCOUGHS W/CONVULSIONS, convulse during delivery, from being touched. CONVERGENT STRABISMUS. As if heart stopped beating. Development arrested after injuries to head. Dullness/memory loss/stupefaction/sadness after head injury.

Question 17

Conium maculatum

Answer 17

Injury: Gradual WEAKNESS, Paralysis, Induration. Gloomy Indifference leading to Selinity; Ail. from Celibacy. Induration of Glands, Slowness of Elderly. Vertigo improved by closing eyes, worsened by looking at moving objects, turning in bed. Triplopia. Testes. Sadness after injuries to head, *Cataract after injury to eye. Tumor of testes or mama after injury. Induration of glands after injury. Skin ulcers/convulsions after injury.

Question 18

Corallium rubrum

Answer 18

Cough: EPISTAXIS during cough, Spasmodix/paroxysmal short, hacking cough. *Cough RAPID until pt falls back limp as a rag. Cough from sensation of ICY COLD AIR in air passages.

Question 19

Drosera rotundifolia

Answer 19

Cough: Epistaxis during whooping cough. Cough violent, spasmodic, dry, suffocative, follow each other rapidly. AS SOON AS HEAD TOUCHES THE PILLOW. With retching and vomiting. Must hold chest when coughing (Bry., Arn.)

Question 20

Eupatorium perfoliatum (**Nor purpureum!!*)

Answer 20

Influenza/Fever: Sore eye pain, BONE PAIN during INFLUENZA. VIOLENT CHILL 7-9AM with slight CHILL NEXT DAY at NOON, CHILL 8AM. Chill begins dorsally. DRINKING HASTENS/INCREASES CHILL & NAUSEA. Fever only during the DAY, FROM INFECTION. Chill, then heat, then perspiration. Fever with DESIRE to UNCOVER - INTOLERANCE of CLOTHING DURING FEVER. Extremity pain. Screwing or jerking pain in teeth. Pain in joints as if PARALYZED.

Question 21

Gelsemium sempervirens

Answer 21

Influenza/fever: Chill begins in HANDS/FEET, Agg by FRIGHT. Shill - SHAKING, fright Agg. CEREBROSPINAL FEVER. HEAVY SENSATION after flu, OCCIPITAL PAIN, SORE EYE PAIN, COLDNESS IN SPINE IN WAVES, HEAVY LEGS during flu, NEVER WELL since flu.

Question 22

Helleborus niger

Answer 22

Injury: Absorbed, lack of concentration, weak memory, dull senses, STARING THOUGHTLESSLY. Ail. from suppressed anger/disappointed love. RUBS FOREHEAD when trying to CONCENTRATE, doesn’t understand question. Awkwardness of hands when talking or diverted attention. DULLNESS, STUPEFIED, ANSWERS SLOWLY. Sadness after head injury. Concussion. Shock after injury.

Question 23

Hepar sulph

Answer 23

Cough: Chilly parts WORSE FROM COLD, UNCOVERING, drafts, a single part becoming cold. Better from warm. WEEPING BEFORE/DURING cough. Stitching pain in throat, RETCHING & vomiting, grasping larynx w/cough. Cough from evening until MIDNIGHT. *Closing eyes at night excites the cough.

Influenza/fever: ?? Nothing in the flu set…

Question 24

Hypericum perfoliatum

Answer 24

Injury: Concussion of brain, of SPINE. Eye inflammation, retina. INJURY TO COCCYX, stitching back pain, raising arms agg. Lacerations of finger nails. Convulsions aftr injuries to FINGERS/SOLES/PALMS. *Prophylaxis of tetanus. CRUSHING OR PUNCTURING INJURIES TO NERVE RICH PARTS. (Coccyx, fingertips, fingernails, toes.) NERVE PAIN shoots UPWARDS.

Question 25

Ipecacuanha

Answer 25

Cough: Anxiety during cough HA as from a blow, during cough. Coryza, epistaxis during whooping cough. *Sneeze BEFORE cough, CYANOSIS of face during cough. NAUSEA/vomiting during cough, Loathing of food during cough. SUFFOCATING, RETCHING, NAUSEA during cough.

Question 26

Ledum paulstre

Answer 26

Injury: PUNCTURE WOUNDS. Rheumatic complaints. Coldness of a part better with cold & worse from heat. Blue/purplish injured area. Affections traveling upward from feet. Parts become COLD, PUFFY, MOTTLED, and AMEL. from COLD. Eye - paralysis of upper lid after injury. Penetrating injuries (Hypericum). Spasms begin in the wound.

Question 27

Lobelia inflata

Answer 27

Cough: ERUCTATIONS during/after cough, ERUCTATIONS also excite the cough. Cough fromCONSTRICTION in LARYNX & from tickling in throat. Cough seems to come from stomach. Also burping…

Question 28

Mercurius solubilis

Answer 28

Influenza/Fever: SALIVATION and vomiting of bile during fever. CONSTRICTION OF CHEST and palpitation during fever. DESIRES COLD FOOD/DRINKS with fever. *PAIN IN COCCYX during fever. Fever at night with PERSPIRATION. ALTERNATING HEAT & SHIVERING. Inflammation of lungs during influenza.

Question 29

Natrium sulphuricum

Answer 29

Injury: SUICIDAL after HEAD INJURY, Loathing life, must restrain self. Also loss of vision/ vertigo after head injury. Worse from WET WEATHER. Better after STOOL. Chronic green nasal discharge. Dz of liver/gall bladder.

Question 30

Nux-vomica

Answer 30

Influenza/fever: SENSITIVE TO TOUCH/NOISE during fever. VERTIGO/HEAD PAIN IN OCCIPUT during fever. WHITE TONGUE, difficult speech, ERUCTATIONS during fever. Chill in AM if uncovered, chill in evening not abel. by external warmth. CHILL FROM ANGER, AFTER ANTICIPATION.

Question 31

Opium

Answer 31

Injury: Ail. from SIGHT of an ACCIDENT. No sense of danger. Diarrhea with/from fear, involuntary stool from fright. Stool like black balls. Liar, never speaks the truth. Pupils - pinpoints. Red face during convulsions. Abdominal impaction/ intussusception. Delirium/confusion/vertigo/sleepiness after head injury. Generals - shock after injury

Question 32

Pyrogenium

Answer 32

Influenza/Fever: CHILL at 7pm BEGINNING in DORSAL REGION, internal as if in bones, desires warm, which does not relieve. PULSE goes DOWN as temperature INCREASES. SEPTIC FEVER. Restlessness during INFLUENZA.

Question 33

Rhus - toxicodendron

Answer 33

Injury: Anxiety in bed, IN THE HOUSE. Saddness in the house, fear that things will catch fire. *Sensation - LOOSENESS of the brain on shaking head/stepping. Red triangular tip of tongue, one side white. Tooth/head pain from damp. Diarrhea from GETTING FEET WET. Worse from: sitting still, cold damp. Better from motion (opposite of Bryonia). VOMITING AFTER INJURY. Sleeplessness after injury. Injuries of spine after lifting/straining, dislocations/sprains, tennis elbow.

Influenza/Fever: SITTING STILL Agg, MOTION Amel. Chill - COLD R, HEAT L. Chill as if COLD WATER dashed on them, COLD WATER in VESSELS! Or blood burning in veins. Chill followed by heat.

Question 34

Rumex crispus

Answer 34

Cough: Sneezing AFTER cough. Pain in L eyebrow with cough. Worse from INSPIRING COLD/OPEN air, UNDRESSING/UNCOVERING. Better from lying on R, covering mouth, drinking. Cough from PRESSING ON THROAT. Involuntary stole from coughing/sneezing. Worse from IRREGULAR BREATHING.

Question 35

Ruta graveolens

Answer 35

Injury: Affinity for eyes, cartilage, fibrous tissue, joints, wrists, periosteum, uterus. Ail from anxiety, ANXIETY WHEN WARM, fear of death during fever. Head pain - CRUSHED. Heat in eyes, worse from exertion, aug by candle light, sewing, reading, fine works. NODULES after injury. Slow repair of fractures. INJURY TO ORBIT.

Question 36

Spongia tosta

Answer 36

Cough: Anxiety/fear with cough. DRY, CROUPY, RASPY cough like HANDSAW THROUGH WOOD. Better from DRINKING/EATING WARM things. Raw/Burning pain in throat during cough. SAWING rough respirations between cough. *Agg by ascending stairs, brushing teeth, and milk. Drinking Amel.

Question 37

Squilla (Scilla) maritima

Answer 37

Cough: *LACRIMATION, SPURTING URINATION during cough. Also sneezing with cough, rubbing face/eyes with fists, and abdominal pain. Irritation increases the more they cough. EXPECTORATION in AM ONLY. Cough Sudden & Violent in Morning.

Question 38

Stannum

Answer 38

Cough: WEAKNESS in CHEST and THROAT, EXHAUSTION. Dry cough at night w/sweet or salty expectoration in daytime. Cough from EXERTION, worse from lying on R side. Sore pain in STOMACH, Larynx/Trachea w/cough. Cough evening-midnight.

Question 39

Sulphur

Answer 39

Influenza/Fever: CHILL & FEVER ASCENDING. HEAT comes on AFTER SLEEP. Fear of fever while chilly, frightened easily DURING FEVER, numbness of feet. PICKING AT BEDCLOTHES during fever. Salivation. Septic fever. FEVER FROM WORMS.

Question 40

Symphytum officinale

Answer 40

Injury: Silent grief, irresolution about trifles. INJURIES TO BONES & EYES. Affinity for periosteum, phantom limb pains. CATARACTS or inflammation of CONJUNCTIVA after injury. Injury of SACROILIAC SYMPHYSIS during delivery. Slow repair of FRACTURES.