Remedy Keynotes Flashcards
Abrotanum (Abrot)
Southernwood
- diseases that shift locations (glands)
- discharges that ooze from the navel
- babies with failure to thrive/stunted growth
Absinthium (Absin)
Wormwood
- epilepsy
- kleptomania
Aesculus hippocastanum (Aesc)
Horse Chestnut
- hemorrhoids (with sticking pain)
- varicose veins - SI pain
Aethusa cynapium (Aeth)
Fool’s Parsley
- very shy people
- vomiting in babies
- agg from milk
- scared to close eyes at night because of fear of never waking up
Agaricus muscarius (Agar)
Fly/Bug Agaric
- nervous system disorders
- panic attacks
- fear of cancer
- frost bite
Agnus castus (Agn)
Chaste Tree
- depressed, melancholy states, esp in men who have become prematurely old because of sheer amt of sex they’ve had
Allium cepa (All-c)
Red Onion
- acrid nasal discharges
Aloe (Aloe)
Socotrine Aloe
- diarrhea with lots of gurgling in intestines; runs to the bathroom, but doesn’t quite make it (sounds like a volcano about to erupt)
Ambra grisea (Ambr)
Ambergis (secretion from a whale)
- agg from strangers
- agg from music
- very shy
- immature
Ambrosia artemisaefolia (Ambro)
Ragweed
- hay fever, esp with itch eyes
Ammonium carbonicum (Am-c)
Smelling salts
- lungs and heart fill ip with fluid which leads to CHF
- lots of weakness
Anagallis (Anag)
Scarlet Pimpernel
- eruptions on palms (psoriasis/eczema)
Angustura vera (Ang)
Bark of Galipea cusparia
- desire for coffee (very, very strong desire)
- violent temper outbursts
- osteomyelitis (infx of bone; bones being torn apart)
Anhalonium (Anh)
Anhalonium cactus
- spaced out people
- out of body feeling
- not able to function
Anthracinum (Anthr)
Anthrax poison
- abscesses that turn black very easily
Antimonium crudum (Ant-c)
Black Sulphide of Antimony
- warts
- loves pickles
- lots of stomach problems
- white coated tongue
- irritable children
- aversion to being looked at
Antimonium tartaricum (Ant-t)
Tartrate of Antimony and Potash
- weakness
- lots of mucus in chest, hard to bring up, rattling loose cough but doesn’t produce (cannot move fluid out of lungs)
Apis mellifica (Apis)
Honey-bee poison
- stinging pains
- hot but thirstless
- amel by cold applications
- swelling and edema
- painful urination
Aralia racemosa (Aral)
American spikenard
- asthma/URI, esp worse lying down and at 11 pm
Arnica (Arn)
Leopard’s Bane
- injuries worse touch
- sore, bruised
- when water hits face, nose bleeds
Arsenicum iodatum (Ars-i)
Iodide of Arsenic
- very hot-blooded kids
- hyper kids
Arum triphyllum (Arum-t)
Jack in the pulpit
- acrid nasal discharge
- with voice cracking
- will pick lip/nose to the point of bleeding
Asarum europaeum (Asar)
European Snake Root
- really hyped up nervous system with extreme sensitivity to noise
Bacillinum (Bac)
Maceration of Tuberculous Lung Tissue
- sim to Tuberculinum
- plus lots of ringworm
Badiaga (Bad)
Freshwater sponge
- HA that go right to eye ball
- no-nonsense, blatant cough with a bunch of mucus flying out at the same time
Baptisia tinctoria (Bapt)
Wild Indigo
- septic states (smells like rot)
- losing mental ability
- delusion as if body is being ripped apart
Belladona (Bell)
Deadly Nightshade
- sudden congestion/pulsations/inflm/abscesses anywhere in the body
- HA with the same feeling
- congestion, throbbing
- HA worse stooping, bending forward
- KN: heat, swelling, pain, redness
- hot head, cold extremities
Bellis perennis (Bell-p)
Daisy
- aches and pains sim to Arn, but tends to be more in the gut/pelvic area
Berberis vulgaris (Berb)
Barberry
- kidney stones/infx, esp where pain goes down thigh and bubble sensation in kidney area
Bismuthum (Bism)
Bismuth
- pyloric cancers/hard pyloris
- vomiting as soon as anything hits stomach
- vomiting better with chewing on/eating ice, ice cold drinks
Borax (Bor)
Biborate of Sodium
- canker sores, really bad and repeated
- fear of downward motion
- very hyper sensitive kids
Bothrops lanceolatus (Both)
Yellow Viper
- clots (thrombosis)
- strokes
- wants to form clots anywhere in the body where it shouldn’t
Bovista (Bov)
Puff Ball
- intense diarrhea during menses
Bromium (Brom)
Bromine
- URIs with intense cervical LAD
Bryonia (Bry)
Wild Hops
- lots of different inflms, traumas, infx
- worse motion
- better pressure, cold
- irritable, dryness
Bufo (Buf)
Toad
- developmentally delayed, autistic (MC remedy for it)
- frequent masturbation
Cactus grandiflorus (Cact)
Night-blooming Cereus
- sensation of constriction, like a band/vice around heart, ovaries, head (HA)
Caladium seguinum (Calad)
American Arum plant
- intensely craves tobacco
- men with really high sex drive once they get impotent
Calcarea fluorica (Calc-f)
Florida of Lime
- sim to Calc carb, but very warm-blooded
- tendency towards bony growths (heel spurs)
- gland/lump formation, uterine fibroids, breast tumor
- arthritis with Rhus tox modalities
Calcarea sulphurica (Calc-s)
Sulphate of Lime, Plaster of Paris, Gypsum
- combo btw Calc Carb and Gypsum
- tend to be warm-blooded
- craves oranges, green/sour fruit
Camphora (Camph) Camphor
- very, very chilly people, yet want to uncover
- very weak (w/flu or diarrhea)
Cantharis (Canth) Spanish Fly
- sudden, intense inflammation w/intense burning
- burns, 2nd/3rd degree
- drank really hot tea and burned themselves
- intense nymphomania
Capsicum (Caps)
Cayenne Pepper
- alcoholism
- intensely red cheeks
- mastoid problems
- home sickness
Carbo animalis (Carb-an)
Animal Charcoal
- cancers with intense weakness
- coccyx pain
Carcinosinum/Carcinosin (Carc)
Nosode from Carcinoma
- history of cancer in family
- cafe au lait spots
- really nice people
Castor equi (Cast-eq)
Thumbnail of the horse
- psoriasis of the tongue (cracked) and cracked nipples
Caulophyllum (Caul)
Blue Cohosh
- very painful labor, cervix is closed, hard, and doesn’t want to open
Cenchris contortrix (Cench)
Copperhead Snake
- lots of similarities with Lachesis
- PMS = intense/irrational jealousy and craziness
Chelidonium majus (Chel)
Greater celandine (weedy member of poppy family)
- right-sided liver pains that go to shoulder, back, scapula
- intense right-sided HA, > hot drinks, esp milk (also true of digestion)
Cicuta virosa (Cic) Water Hemlock
- injury to head or spine which leads to intense convulsions/epilepsy
- may desire indigestible foods, like sand
- tends to be a remedy for children
Cimicifuga (Cimic)
Black Snake-root
- (often in women) feels like black cloud landed over them and surrounds them
- HAs that feel like head is opening and closing
- hysterical, talkative, loud people
Cina
Wormseed
- very irritable children
- hungry, eating, throw up
- convulsions
Cinnabaris (Cinnb)
Red Sulphide of Mercury
- sinusitis feels like weight of glasses sitting on nose
- little red dots on head of penis
Cistus canadensis (Cist)
Rock Rose
- mononucleosis, chronic fatigue syndrome
- very chilly people
- big, big glands
- tonsils, cervical lymph nodes
- strong desire for dairy, cheese
Clematis erecta (Clem)
Upright Virgin’s Bower
- testicular problems, pain and swelling
- really bad skin eruptions
Cocculus indicus (Cocc)
Indian Cockle
- vertigo for any reason that is < motion
- sensation of head opening and closing
- nausea from smell/sight of food
- nausea from chemo/radiation (sick, throw up, dizzy)
Coccus cacti (Coc-c)
Cochineal insect (feeds on cacti)
- intense cough
- feeling like something/particle in eye or throat
Coffea cruda (Coff)
Coffee (unroasted bean)
“as if drank too much coffee”
- overexcited/stimulated
- cannot fall asleep
- oversensitive to pain, smells, touch, light, etc
Colchicum (Colch)
Meadow Saffron
- nausea from/hatred of smell of eggs
- gout, colitis doubling up/bending forward
Collinsonia (Coll)
Stone Root
- really bad hemorrhoids
- constipation
Colocynthis (Coloc)
Bitter Apple
- cramps and colics
> doubling up > heat > pressure
- used for sciatica, as well
Crocus sativus (Croc)
Saffron
- bleeding, esp from nose/vagina; blood is clotted, stringy, dark
Crotalus horridus (Crot-h)
Rattlesnake
- similar to Lach
- alcoholism
- tears of blood
- lots of bleeding easily, oozing out everywhere
Croton tiglium (Crot-t)
Croton oil seeds
- pain in nipples that goes straight back, like string pulling backwards (sharp and retracting)
- summer diarrhea that is explosive and over, then repeats
Cundurango (Cun)
- cancer/lots of cracking of the lips, esp corners
Cuprum metallicum (Cupr)
Copper
- cramps anywhere, for any reason
- cramps from injury that start in hand/outer extremity and work their way proximally
- fear of fire
- thirst for ice cold water
Curare (Cur)
Strychnos toxifera (used in S. American poison dart)
- paralysis with intact sensation (as in viral infx, e.g. polio)
Cyclamen (Cycl)
Sowbread
- like Puls but much chillier
- menstruation with lots of dark, clotted blood
Daphne indica (Daph)
Sweet-scented Spurge Laurel
- feels like head is separated from body
Digitalis (Dig)
Foxglove
- heart failure with pulse too slow/weak
- may have swelling of prostate with HF or solo
Dioscorea villosa (Dios)
Wild Yam
- colic (pain in area of gallbladder or back), wants to bend backwards to feel better
Dolichos pruriens (Dol)
Cowhage
- itching without eruptions, esp with hepatitis or other liver issues
Drosera (Dros)
Round-leaved Sundew
- severe, intense, dry cough with vomiting (whooping cough) that is < at night and lying down
Dulcamara (Dulc)
Bittersweet
- skin problems alternating with respiratory problems, i.e. hives or eczema with asthma (back and forth)
Elaps corallinus (Elaps)
Coral Snake
- fear of rain
- cold sensation in stomach
- likes to chew on ice/drink ice-cold drinks
Equisetum (Equis)
Scouring-rush
- severe bedwetting, urine is almost like water
Erigeron (Erig)
Fleabane/Horseweed/Butterweed
- uterine hemorrhage, if one lifts things with even the slightest exertion
Eupatorium purpureum (Eup-pur)
Queen of the Meadow
- bone pain, as if muscles were being scraped off bones with a knife
- periodicity (tendency to reoccur at regular intervals)
- pain often starts in back/pelvis and goes up and down
- good for flu
Euphorbium (Euph)
African cactus-like plant
- cancer with severe, burning pain, esp in bones (think of Euph when it’s hard to determine which remedy)
Euphrasia (Euphr)
Eyebright
- hayfever/colds with acrid discharge coming from eye
Ferrum iodatum (Ferr-i)
Iodide of Iron
- many thyroid problems, ever since period stopped d/t pregnancy, BC, menopause
Ferrum metallicum (Ferr)
Iron
- history of anemia (or person taking iron)
- alternating flushing/pale face
- aversion to eggs
- pulsating HAs
Ferrum muriaticum (Ferr-m)
Chloride of Iron
- pain from shoulder to elbow (right side)
Ferrum phosphoricum (Ferr-p)
Phosphate of Iron
- for 1st stage of inflm or fever (fever for no apparent reason, sim to Bell)
Fluoricum acidum (Fl-ac)
Hydrofluoric Acid
- hypersexual (“sexually adventurous on the farm”)
- nice old ladies with varicose veins
Formica rufa (Form)
Crushed live ants
- arthritis where joint blows/puffs up, calms down, and moves to another joint
- pterygium (covering over eye that starts in medial corner and moves outward)
Gambogia (Gamb)
Gummi Gutti (gum resin from SE Asian trees)
- diarrhea/UC
- very high sex-drive (sometimes)
Gelsemium (Gels)
Yellow Jasmine
- nervous system diseases with weakness and trembling
- cannot keep eyes open
Glonoinum (Glon)
Nitroglycerine
- sunstroke
- HTN/hypertensive crisis
- HAs look like Bell (except Bell is < leaning forward), and are
> leaning forward
< leaning back
Gnaphalium (Gnaph)
Eternal Flower
- really bad sciatica with pain that alternates with numbness
Gratiola (Gratt)
Hedge Hyssop
- UC
Guaiacum (Guaj)
Gum guaiacum
- arthritis with intense contractions or just contractions in general (inside palm, hamstring, etc)
> cold applications
Hamamelis (Ham)
Witch-hazel
- hemorrhoids with vein congestion and bleeding
- oozing blood anywhere in the body
- varicose veins
Hecla lava (Hecla)
finer ash from Mt. Hecla
- tumors of the jaw
Helleborus niger (Hell)
Christmas Rose (from family of winter-blooming plants)
- very, very slow reactions to stimuli, developmental differences, autism, neurological issues, hydrocephalus
Hepar sulphuris (Hep)
- very overly sensitive to pain and cold/abscesses overly sensitive, cannot touch
- sharp, sticking pains heat
Hura brasiliensis (Hura)
Assacu (S. American tree)
- leprosy
- feels totally separate from everyone else, outcast, no friends, no one loves them
Hydrophobinum (Hydroph) aka Lyssinum (Lyss)
Saliva of rabid dog
- neurological issues in kids (intense and violent seizures)
- aversion to shiny things and water
- history of rabies shots
Hypericum (Hyper)
St. John’s Wort
- injury to nerves with sharp pain going upwards after injury
- depression
- upward mvmt on the whole, individual tries to ride above the pain
Ipecacuanha (Ip)
Cephaelis ipecacuanha
- lots of N/V with vomiting that doesn’t help and **tongue is clean (no coating)**
- heavy arterial bleeding, bright red
Iris versicolor (Iris)
Blue Flag
- HAs/migraines with intense visual changes
Kali arsenicosum (Kali-ar)
Potassium arsenite (Folwer’s Solution)
- sim to Ars alb/Kali carb
- main thing: fear of heart disease/panic attacks
Kali bromatum (Kali-br)
Bromide of potassium
- acne alternating with epilepsy
- feels like did something really, really wrong
- guilty with no way to make it to heaven (may or may not have actually done something bad)
Kalmia latifolia (Kalm)
Mountain Laurel
- arthritis with pain shooting down the arm (esp right before menses)
- affects heart with RF/RHD (flairs up right before menses)
Kreosotum (Kreos)
Beechwood creosote
- acrid discharges that burn
- teeth falling apart in babies
- vomiting food 3-5 hrs after eating, in which food looks totally undigested
Lac caninum (Lac-c)
Dog’s milk
- spaced out, out of body experiences with complaints that shift sides LRLRLR
- dislike the sensation of fingers touching each other
Lachnanthes (Lachn)
Red Root/Spirit-weed
- torticollis, stiff neck from lateral neck muscles spasming
- sinusitis
- feels like pinches on bridge of nose
Lathyrus (Lath)
Sweet Pea
- nervous system diseases (MS/ALS, e.g.); hyperreflexia with touch
Latrodectus mactans (Lat-m)
Black Widow spider
- Cardiac stuff
- spasmodic event/angina (more of a pain issue than MI/clot)
- severe, intense pains from heart down to left hand, crushing pain
Laurocerasus (Laur)
Common Laurel
- babies that come into the world blue, not breathing, unconscious
Ledum (Led)
Marsh/Labrador Tea
- gout and bad arthritis
- injuries where area feels cold to the touch
- injuries, feet, and extremities > in ice cold water
(> cold applications)
Lilium tigrinum (Lil-t)
Tiger Lily
- weak pelvic floor, feels like uterus dropping (sim to Sepia)
- high sex drive fighting with high sense of morality
Lobelia inflata (Lob)
Indian Tobacco
- asthma that comes on suddenly with lots of sweating, N/V
Magnesia carbonica (Mag-c)
Carbonate of Magnesia
- sour diarrhea in babies, everything is sour (sweat, etc)
- agg from milk
Magnesia muriatica (Mag-m)
Chloride of Magnesia
- agg from milk
- liver complaints
- agg from confrontation
Magnesia phosphorica (Mag-p)
Phosphate of Magnesia
- cramping pain that is > with heat, pressure, doubling/bending forward (as in severe menstrual cramps)
Melilotus (Meli)
Sweet Clover
- throbbing, congested HAs that improve when blood escapes (nose bleeds, menses)
Mercurius corrosivus (Merc-c)
Chloride of Mercury
- like Merc, but a lot faster, more intense
- bladder info with intense bleeding and pain within hrs
- really bad diarrhea with tenesmus
- intense tenesmus: urethra, rectum, anus, bladder, end of labor (pushing continues)
Mercurius iodatus flavus (Merc-i-f)
Protoiodide of Mercury
- typical Merc sxs, mostly on right side
Mercurius iodatus ruber (Merc-i-r)
Biniodide of Mercury
- typical Merc sxs, only occur on left side
Mezereum (Mez)
Spurge Olive
- pains worse from cold/cold wind
- fear felt in stomach
- skin eruptions, key feature = lots of cracks
Muriaticum acidum (Mur-ac)
Muriatic acid
- extreme physical weakness with fever and/or huge, purple, bulging hemorrhoids that are worse with touch
Mygale lasiodora (Mygal)
Black Cuban Spider
- Tourette’s syndrome, twitching, tics, esp around the mouth and chin area
Naja
Cobra
- heart problems, esp involving valves
- ovarian pains that shoot upwards
Natrum carbonicum (Nat-c)
Carbonate of Sodium
- history of sunstroke, with a general sensitivity to the sun/agg from the sun
- bad problems with milk (agg)
- weak ankles, turn all the time, ankles twist/turn too easily
- agg from thunder storms
Natrum phosphoricum (Nat-p)
Phosphate of Sodium
- shares sxs with Nat-m and Phos
- unusual desire for eggs
- base of tongue is yellow
- stomach complaints
- nocturnal emissions in men
Nux moschata (Nux-m)
Nutmeg
- narcolepsy
- very dry (mouth, eyes)
- forgetful and confused
Ocimum canum (Oci)
Brazilian Alfavaca
- kidney stones, really severe and more on right side
- main thing = vomiting all over, intense and frequent
Oenanthe crocata (Oena)
Hemlock Water Dropwort
- epilepsy that comes on at night or only during pregnancy/menses
Oleander (Olndn)
Rose Laurel
- agg from oranges (i.e. eczema)
- diarrhea
- nervous system diseases with double vision
Onosmodium (Onos)
False Gromwell
- really, really bad eye strain that leads to HAs
Opium (Op)
Poppy
- strokes with flaccid paralysis
- unconsciousness/narcolepsy
- lack of sensation
- AF fright
Origanum (Orig)
Sweet Marjoram
- little girls who masturbate constantly
Oxalicum acidum (Ox-ac)
Oxalic/Sorrel Acid
- bad allergies to strawberries
- heart complaints where pain goes down either hand
- agg by thinking about complaints
Paeonia (Paeon)
Peony
- hemorrhoids that are aggravated by touch
Palladium (Pall)
- “nobody likes me” (persecution complex/woe is me)
- does stuff to make others like them
- pain in right ovary
Pareira brava (Pareir)
Virgin Vine
- severe pain due to kidney stones/UTI that refers downward to thighs
- must be on hands and knees or leaning forward to urinate
Paris quadrifolia (Par)
One-berry/True Love
- HA centered in the eye, which feels like rope pulling eye backwards (to back of skull)
Petroleum (Petr)
Crude Rock Oil
- car sickness/motion sickness
- cracked skin, esp in winter and on fingertips
Petroselinum (Petros)
Parsley
- bladder infx or irritation of urethra that feels better when the opening is rubbed or scratched
Phellandrium (Phel)
Water Dropwort
- pain in breast btw nursing, for plugged ducts in breasts, more on right side
Phytolacca (Phyt)
Poke Root
- glands that swell anywhere, esp neck, tonsils, breast
- common for mastitis, esp when nipples crack
Picricum acidum (Pic-ac)
Trinitrophenol
- high sex drive in men where they burn out and develop neurological diseases
Podophyllum (Podo)
May Apple
- intense shooting diarrhea with prolapsed anus (mainly in children)
Pyrogenium (Pyrog)
Decomposed lean beef
- septic, infected states (smells horrible)
- incr temp with normal heart rate or fast pulse with normal temp (normal is 10 beats faster pulse with every 1 degree increase in temp)
- an infx that causes the room to stink
Ranunculus bulbosus (Ran-b)
Buttercup
- shingles with lots of intercostal pain, esp on left side
Raphanus (Raph)
Radish
- colic, intense trapped gas, esp at splenic flexure and esp with abd surgery
Ratanhia (Rat)
Mapato
- hemorrhoids with fissures and cracks
Rheum
Rhubarb
- most sour remedy: smell, personality, diarrhea (even more than Mag-carb)
Rhododendron (Rhod)
- sim to Rhus tox (achy stuff/arthritis from continued motion)
- lots of sharp/needling pains
- agg around thunderstorms
- testicular swelling
Rumex crispus (Rumx)
Yellow dock
- little coughs with irritation being in the pit of throat
- cough with change of environmental temp
- often needed after bad bronchitis, when cough remains
Ruta graveolens (Ruta)
Herb-of-Grace
- eye strain leading to HAs
- injuries with periostial pains, like a kick to the shin
Sabadilla (Sabad)
member of lily family
- hay fever with intense sneezing
Sabina (Sabin)
Sabine (shrub in cypress family)
women hemorrhaging from uterus, miscarriage, menorrhagia:
- w/ bright blood with clots
- w/ severe pains in sacrum alternating back-front, back-front
- hemorrhage worse lying down, better standing and walking around
Sambucus nigra (Samb)
Elder
- asthmatic cough crisis in middle of night
- cannot breath, turns blue, accompanied by lot of sweats (more so in kids)
Sanguinaria (Sang)
Bloodroot
- right-sided HAs that start at the back of neck/shoulder and go up to forehead (or other way around)
- right-sided shoulder bursitis (like Lyc)
Sarsaparilla (Sars)
Red-bearded Sarsaparilla
- skin eruptions that crack
- esp for bladder infx with increased pain at the very end of urination
Secale cornutum (Sec)
Ergot
- gangrene with black blood, where skin is cold on outside, but burning on inside and wants to be uncovered
Selenium (Sel)
constituent of bones and teeth
- dirty old men (trench coat), dribbling semen as they watch school children
- women with alcoholic binges before their menses
Spigelia (Spig)
Demerata Pinkroot
- HAs on left eye brow at trigeminal N ending, sharp and specific (all pains = sharp and localized to little spots)
Spongia tosta (Spong)
Roasted Sponge
- acute hyperthyroid diseases
- cough in pit of throat, will cough if looks up (when trying to confirm, if pt doesn’t cough when looking up, ask them to breath in)
Squilla maritima (Squil)
Sea Onion
- cough and lose urine and stool and sweat (everything squeezed out)
Stannum (Stann)
Tin
- intense weakness, esp in chest area that feels empty and hollow
Sticta (Stict)
Lungwort
sinusitis and colds where:
- feels like nose dried up
- severe pain on bridge of nose
- really internally dry air passages
- feels like breathing in fire
Sulphuricum acidum (Sul-ac)
Sulphuric Acid
- lots of black and blue bruises (either from platelet problem or injury)
- menopause with lots of hot flashes and ulcers
- hurried, talk/walk very fast in everything they do
Symphoricarpus racemosa (Sym-r)
Snowberry
- for pregnant women with incredible/intense/frequent N/V that is < motion/food
(huge remedy needing re-hydration in emergency room)
Symphytum (Symph)
Comfrey
- eye or bone injuries that don’t heal quickly
Tabacum (Tab)
Tobacco
- motion/car/sea-sickness, N/V, esp with person lifts up shirt and lets cool breeze touch abdomen
- often same color as the sea - green, warm, sweaty
- kidney stones
Tarentula cubensis (Tarent-c)
Cuban spider
- abscesses that turn blue/black/purple quickly and are incredibly painful
Tellurium (Tell)
- most severe sciatica, esp if one sneezes, coughs, or has BM
- ear discharges that are acrid, excoriating, and may smell like fish
Terebinthina (Ter)
Turpentine
- often seen in late stages of cancer with urine that is cloudy or black
Theridion (Ther)
Orange Spider
- oversensitive to noise (and just oversensitive in general)
- intense vertigo, < closing the eyes
Uranium nitricum (Uran-n)
- diabetes with stomach ulcers and a hx of living near a nuclear power plant
Urtica urens (Urt-u)
Stinging Nettles
- rashes and hives that itch worse with heat
Veratrum album (Verat)
White Hellebore
- intense diarrhea or vomiting
- weak, cold, sweaty
- kids with intense hyperactivity
Veratrum viride (Verat-v)
Green Hellebore
- bad heart disease (often requiring operations)
- skin looks mottled
- tongue has darker discoloration running down the center
Vipera (Vip)
- mottled skin
- varicose veins
- diabetic gangrene with agg if limbs hang down (filling up and ready to explode if below the heart)
Wyethia (Wye)
Poison Weed
- really bad hayfever with an itchy, clucking sound in the back of throat
Zincum metallicum (Zinc)
- restlessness, esp in feet
Keynotes
- diseases that shift locations (glands)
- discharges that ooze from the navel
- babies with failure to thrive/stunted growth
Abrotanum (Abrot) Southernwood
Keynotes
- epilepsy
- kleptomania
Absinthium (Absin) Wormwood
Keynotes
- hemorrhoids (with sticking pain)
- varicose veins
- SI pain
Aesculus hippocastanum (Aesc) Horse Chestnut
Keynotes
- very shy people - vomiting in babies - agg from milk - scared to close eyes at night because of fear of never waking up
Aethusa cynapium (Aeth) Fool’s Parsley
Keynotes
- nervous system disorders - panic attacks - fear of cancer - frost bite
Agaricus muscarius (Agar) Fly/Bug Agaric
Keynotes
- depressed, melancholy states, esp in men who have become prematurely old because of sheer ant of sex they’ve had
Agnus castus (Agn) Chaste Tree
Keynotes
- acrid nasal discharges
Allium cepa (All-c) Red Onion
Keynotes
- diarrhea with lots of gurgling in intestines; runs to the bathroom, but doesn’t quite make it (sounds like a volcano about to erupt)
Aloe (Aloe) Socotrine Aloe
Keynotes
- agg from strangers
- agg from music
- very shy
- immature
Ambra grisea (Ambr)
Ambergis (secretion from a whale)
Keynotes
- hay fever, esp with itch eyes
Ambrosia artemisaefolia (Ambro) Ragweed
Keynotes
- lungs and heart fill up with fluid which leads to CHF
- lots of weakness
Ammonium carbonicum (Am-c) Smelling salts
Keynotes
- eruptions on palms (psoriasis/eczema)
Anagallis (Anag) Scarlet Pimpernel
Keynotes
- desire for coffee (very, very strong desire)
- violent temper outbursts
- osteomyelitis (infx of bone; bones being torn apart)
Angustura vera (Ang)
Bark of Galipea cusparia
Keynotes
- spaced out people
- out of body feeling
- not able to function
Anhalonium (Anh)
Anhalonium cactus
Keynotes
- abscesses that turn black very easily
Anthracinum (Anthr) Anthrax poison
Keynotes
- warts
- loves pickles
- lots of stomach problems
- white coated tongue
- irritable children
- aversion to being looked at
Antimonium crudum (Ant-c)
Black Sulphide of Antimony
Keynotes
- weakness
- lots of mucus in chest, hard to bring up, rattling loose cough but doesn’t produce (cannot move fluid out of lungs)
Antimonium tartaricum (Ant-t)
Tartrate of Antimony and Potash
Keynotes
- stinging pains
- hot but thirstless
- amel by cold applications
- swelling and edema
- painful urination
Apis mellifica (Apis)
Honey-bee poison
Keynotes
- asthma/URI, esp worse lying down and at 11 pm
Aralia racemosa (Aral)
American spikenard
Keynotes
- injuries worse touch
- sore, bruised
- when water hits face, nose bleeds
Arnica (Arn)
Leopard’s Bane
Keynotes
- very hot-blooded kids
- hyper kids
Arsenicum iodatum (Ars-i)
Iodide of Arsenic
Keynotes
- acrid nasal discharge
- with voice cracking
- will pick lip/nose to the point of bleeding
Arum triphyllum (Arum-t)
Keynotes
- really hyped up nervous system with extreme sensitivity to noise
Asarum europaeum (Asar)
Keynotes
- sim to Tuberculinum
- plus lots of ringworm
Bacillinum (Bac)
Keynotes
- HA that go right to eye ball
- no-nonsense, blatant cough with a bunch of mucus flying out at the same time
Badiaga (Bad)
Freshwater sponge
Keynotes
- septic states (smells like rot)
- losing mental ability
- delusion as if body is being ripped apart
Baptisia tinctoria (Bapt)
Wild Indigo
Keynotes
- sudden congestion/pulsations/inflm/abscesses anywhere in the body
- HA with the same feeling
- congestion, throbbing
- HA worse stooping, bending forward
- KN: heat, swelling, pain, redness
- hot head, cold extremities
Belladona (Bell)
Deadly Nightshade
Keynotes
- aches and pains sim to Arn, but tends to be more in the gut/pelvic area
Bellis perennis (Bell-p)
Daisy
Keynotes
- kidney stones/infx, esp where pain goes down thigh and bubble sensation in kidney area
Berberis vulgaris (Berb)
Barberry
Keynotes
- pyloric cancers/hard pyloris
- vomiting as soon as anything hits stomach
- vomiting better with chewing on/eating ice, ice cold drinks
Bismuthum (Bism)
Bismuth
Keynotes
- canker sores, really bad and repeated
- fear of downward motion
- very hyper sensitive kids
Borax (Bor)
Biborate of Sodium
Keynotes
- clots (thrombosis)
- strokes
- wants to form clots anywhere in the body where it shouldn’t
Bothrops lanceolatus (Both)
Yellow Viper
Keynotes
- intense diarrhea during menses
Bovista (Bov)
Puff Ball
Keynotes
- URIs with intense cervical LAD
Bromium (Brom)
Bromine
Keynotes
- lots of different inflms, traumas, infx
< motion
> pressure, cold
- irritable, dryness
Bryonia (Bry) Wild Hops
Keynotes
- developmentally delayed, autistic (MC remedy for it)
- frequent masturbation
Bufo (Buf)
Toad
Keynotes
- sensation of constriction, like a band/vice around heart, ovaries, head (HA)
Cactus grandiflorus (Cact)
Night-blooming Cereus
Keynotes
- intensely craves tobacco
- men with really high sex drive once they become impotent
Caladium seguinum (Calad)
American Arum plant
Keynotes
- sim to Calc carb, but very warm-blooded
- tendency towards bony growths (heel spurs)
- gland/lump formation, uterine fibroids, breast tumor
- arthritis with Rhus tox modalities
Calcarea fluorica (Calc-f)
Florida of Lime
Keynotes
- combo btw Calc Carb and Gypsum
- tend to be warm-blooded
- craves oranges, green/sour fruit
Calcarea sulphurica (Calc-s)
Sulphate of Lime, Plaster of Paris, Gypsum
Keynotes
- very, very chilly people, yet want to uncover
- very weak (w/flu or diarrhea)
Camphora (Camph)
Camphor
Keynotes
- sudden, intense inflammation w/intense burning
- burns, 2nd/3rd degree
- drank really hot tea and burned themselves
- intense nymphomania
Cantharis (Canth)
Spanish Fly
Keynotes
- alcoholism
- intensely red cheeks
- mastoid problems
- home sickness
Capsicum (Caps)
Cayenne Pepper
Keynotes
- cancers with intense weakness
- coccyx pain
Carbo animalis (Carb-an)
Animal Charcoal
Keynotes
- history of cancer in family
- cafe au lait spots
- really nice people
Carcinosinum/Carcinosin (Carc)
Nosode from Carcinoma
Keynotes
- psoriasis of the tongue (cracked) and cracked nipples
Castor equi (Cast-eq)
Thumbnail of the horse
Keynotes
- very painful labor, cervix is closed, hard, and doesn’t want to open
Caulophyllum (Caul)
Blue Cohosh
Keynotes
- lots of similarities with Lachesis
- PMS = intense/irrational jealousy and craziness
Cenchris contortrix (Cench)
Copperhead Snake
Keynotes
- right-sided liver pains that go to shoulder, back, scapula
- intense right-sided HA, > hot drinks, esp milk (also true of digestion)
Chelidonium majus (Chel)
Greater celandine (weedy member of poppy family)
Keynotes
- injury to head or spine which leads to intense convulsions/epilepsy
- may desire indigestible foods, like sand
- tends to be a remedy for children
Cicuta virosa (Cic)
Water Hemlock
Keynotes
- (often in women) feels like black cloud landed over them and surrounds them
- HAs that feel like head is opening and closing
- hysterical, talkative, loud people
Cimicifuga (Cimic)
Black Snake-root
Keynotes
- very irritable children
- hungry, eating, throw up
- convulsions
Cina
Wormseed
Keynotes
- sinusitis feels like weight of glasses sitting on nose
- little red dots on head of penis
Cinnabaris (Cinnb)
Red Sulphide of Mercury
Keynotes
- mononucleosis, chronic fatigue syndrome
- very chilly people
- big, big glands
- tonsils, cervical lymph nodes
- strong desire for dairy, cheese
Cistus canadensis (Cist)
Rock Rose
Keynotes
- testicular problems, pain and swelling
- really bad skin eruptions
Clematis erecta (Clem)
Upright Virgin’s Bower
Keynotes
- vertigo for any reason that is < motion
- sensation of head opening/closing
- nausea from smell/sight of food
- nausea from chemo/radiation (sick, throw up, dizzy)
Cocculus indicus (Cocc)
Indian Cockle
Keynotes
- intense cough
- feeling like something/particle in eye or throat
Coccus cacti (Coc-c)
Cochineal insect (feeds on cacti)
Keynotes
“as if drank too much coffee”
- overexcited/stimulated
- cannot fall asleep
- oversensitive to pain, smells, touch, light, etc
Coffea cruda (Coff)
Coffee (unroasted bean)
Keynotes
- nausea from/hatred of smell of eggs
- gout, colitis doubling up/bending forward
Colchicum (Colch)
Meadow Saffron
Keynotes
- really bad hemorrhoids
- constipation
Collinsonia (Coll)
Stone Root
Keynotes
- cramps and colics
> doubling up
> heat
> pressure
- used for sciatica, as well
Colocynthis (Coloc)
Bitter Apple
Keynotes
- bleeding, esp from nose/vagina; blood is clotted, stringy, dark
Crocus sativus (Croc)
Saffron
Keynotes
- similar to Lach
- alcoholism
- tears of blood
- lots of bleeding easily, oozing out everywhere
Crotalus horridus (Crot-h)
Rattlesnake
Keynotes
- pain in nipples that goes straight back, like string pulling backwards (sharp and retracting)
- summer diarrhea that is explosive and over, then repeats
Croton tiglium (Crot-t)
Croton oil seeds
Keynotes
- cancer/lots of cracking of the lips, esp corners
Cundurango (Cun)
Keynotes
- cramps anywhere, for any reason
- cramps from injury that start in hand/outer extremity and work their way proximally
- fear of fire
- thirst for ice cold water
Cuprum metallicum (Cupr) Copper
Keynotes
- paralysis with intact sensation (as in viral infx, e.g. polio)
Curare (Cur) S
trychnos toxifera (used in S. American poison dart)
Keynotes
- like Puls but much chillier
- menstruation with lots of dark, clotted blood
Cyclamen (Cycl)
Sowbread
Keynotes
- feels like head is separated from body
Daphne indica (Daph)
Sweet-scented Spurge Laurel
Keynotes
- heart failure with pulse too slow/weak
- may have swelling of prostate with HF or solo
Digitalis (Dig)
Foxglove
Keynotes
- colic (pain in area of gallbladder or back), wants to bend backwards to feel better
Dioscorea villosa (Dios)
Wild Yam
Keynotes
- itching without eruptions, esp with hepatitis or other liver issues
Dolichos pruriens (Dol)
Cowhage
Keynotes
- severe, intense, dry cough with vomiting (whooping cough) that is
Drosera (Dros)
Round-leaved Sundew
Keynotes
- skin problems alternating with respiratory problems, i.e. hives or eczema with asthma (back and forth)
Dulcamara (Dulc)
Bittersweet
Keynotes
- fear of rain
- cold sensation in stomach
- likes to chew on ice/drink ice-cold drinks
Elaps corallinus (Elaps)
Coral Snake
Keynotes
- severe bedwetting, urine is almost like water
Equisetum (Equis)
Scouring-rush
Keynotes
- uterine hemorrhage, if one lifts things with even the slightest exertion
Erigeron (Erig)
Fleabane/Horseweed/Butterweed
Keynotes
- bone pain, as if muscles were being scraped off bones with a knife
- periodicity (tendency to reoccur at regular intervals)
- pain often starts in back/pelvis and goes up and down
- good for flu
Eupatorium purpureum (Eup-pur)
Queen of the Meadow
Keynotes
- cancer with severe, burning pain, esp in bones
(think of this one when it’s hard to say which remedy)
Euphorbium (Euph)
African cactus-like plant
Keynotes
- hayfever/colds with acrid discharge coming from eye
Euphrasia (Euphr)
Eyebright
Keynotes
- many thyroid problems, ever since period stopped d/t pregnancy, BC, menopause
Ferrum iodatum (Ferr-i)
Iodide of Iron
Keynotes
- history of anemia (or person taking iron)
- alternating flushing/pale face
- aversion to eggs
- pulsating HAs
Ferrum metallicum (Ferr)
Iron
Keynotes
- pain from shoulder to elbow (right side)
Ferrum muriaticum (Ferr-m)
Chloride of Iron
Keynotes
- for 1st stage of inflm or fever (fever for no apparent reason, sim to Bell)
Ferrum phosphoricum (Ferr-p)
Phosphate of Iron
Keynotes
- hypersexual (“sexually adventurous on the farm”)
- nice old ladies with varicose veins
Fluoricum acidum (Fl-ac)
Hydrofluoric Acid
Keynotes
- arthritis where joint blows/puffs up, calms down, and moves to another joint
- pterygium (covering over eye that starts in medial corner and moves outward)
Formica rufa (Form)
Crushed live ants
Keynotes
- diarrhea/UC
- very high sex-drive (sometimes)
Gambogia (Gamb)
Gummi Gutti (gum resin from SE Asian trees)
Keynotes
- nervous system diseases with weakness and trembling
- cannot keep eyes open
Gelsemium (Gels)
Yellow Jasmine
Keynotes
- sunstroke
- HTN/hypertensive crisis
- HAs look like Bell (except Bell is < leaning forward)
> leaning forward
< leaning back
Glonoinum (Glon) Nitroglycerine
Keynotes
- really bad sciatica with pain that alternates with numbness
Gnaphalium (Gnaph)
Eternal Flower
Keynotes
- UC
Gratiola (Gratt)
Hedge Hyssop
Keynotes
- arthritis with intense contractions or just contractions in general (inside palm, hamstring, etc)
> cold applications
Guaiacum (Guaj)
Gum guaiacum
Keynotes
- hemorrhoids with vein congestion and bleeding
- oozing blood anywhere in the body
- varicose veins
Hamamelis (Ham)
Witch-hazel
Keynotes
- tumors of the jaw
Hecla lava (Hecla)
finer ash from Mt. Hecla
Keynotes
- very, very slow reactions to stimuli, developmental differences, autism, neurological issues, hydrocephalus
Helleborus niger (Hell)
Christmas Rose (from family of winter-blooming plants)
Keynotes
- very overly sensitive to pain and cold/abscesses overly sensitive, cannot touch
- sharp, sticking pains heat
Hepar sulphuris (Hep)
Keynotes
- leprosy
- feels totally separate from everyone else, outcast, no friends, no one loves them
Hura brasiliensis (Hura)
Assacu (S. American tree)
Keynotes
- neurological issues in kids (intense and violent seizures)
- aversion to shiny things and water
- history of rabies shots
Hydrophobinum (Hydroph) aka Lyssinum (Lyss)
Saliva of rabid dog
Keynotes
- injury to nerves with sharp pain going upwards after injury
- depression
- upward mvmt on the whole, individual tries to ride above the pain
Hypericum (Hyper)
St. John’s Wort
Keynotes
- lots of N/V with vomiting that doesn’t help and **tongue is clean (no coating)**
- heavy arterial bleeding, bright red
Ipecacuanha (Ip)
Cephaelis ipecacuanha
Keynotes
- HAs/migraines with intense visual changes
Iris versicolor (Iris)
Blue Flag
Keynotes
- sim to Ars alb/Kali carb
- main thing: fear of heart disease/panic attacks
Kali arsenicosum (Kali-ar)
Potassium arsenite (Folwer’s Solution)
Keynotes
- acne alternating with epilepsy
- feels like did something really, really wrong
- guilty with no way to make it to heaven (may or may not have actually done something bad)
Kali bromatum (Kali-br)
Bromide of potassium
Keynotes
- arthritis with pain shooting down the arm (esp right before menses)
- affects heart with RF/RHD (flairs up right before menses)
Kalmia latifolia (Kalm)
Mountain Laurel
Keynotes
- acrid discharges that burn
- teeth falling apart in babies
- vomiting food 3-5 hrs after eating, in which food looks totally undigested
Kreosotum (Kreos)
Beechwood creosote
Keynotes
- spaced out, out of body experiences with complaints that shift sides LRLRLR
- dislike the sensation of fingers touching each other
Lac caninum (Lac-c)
Dog’s milk
Keynotes
- torticollis, stiff neck from lateral neck muscles spasming
- sinusitis
- feels like pinches on bridge of nose
Lachnanthes (Lachn)
Red Root/Spirit-weed
Keynotes
- nervous system diseases (MS/ALS, e.g.); hyperreflexia with touch
Lathyrus (Lath)
Sweet Pea
Keynotes
- Cardiac stuff
- spasmodic event/angina (more of a pain issue than MI/clot)
- severe, intense pains from heart down to left hand, crushing pain
Latrodectus mactans (Lat-m)
Black Widow spider
Keynotes
- babies that come into the world blue, not breathing, unconscious
Laurocerasus (Laur)
Common Laurel
Keynotes
- gout and bad arthritis
- injuries where area feels cold to the touch
- injuries, feet, and extremities > in ice cold water (> cold applications)
Ledum (Led)
Marsh/Labrador Tea
Keynotes
- weak pelvic floor, feels like uterus dropping (sim to Sepia)
- high sex drive fighting with high sense of morality
Lilium tigrinum (Lil-t)
Tiger Lily
Keynotes
- asthma that comes on suddenly with lots of sweating, N/V
Lobelia inflata (Lob)
Indian Tobacco
Keynotes
- sour diarrhea in babies, everything is sour (sweat, etc)
- agg from milk
Magnesia carbonica (Mag-c)
Carbonate of Magnesia
Keynotes
- agg from milk
- liver complaints
- agg from confrontation
Magnesia muriatica (Mag-m)
Chloride of Magnesia
Keynotes
- cramping pain that is > with heat, pressure, doubling/bending forward (as in severe menstrual cramps)
Magnesia phosphorica (Mag-p)
Phosphate of Magnesia
Keynotes
- throbbing, congested HAs that improve when blood escapes (nose bleeds, menses)
Melilotus (Meli)
Sweet Clover
Keynotes
- like Merc, but a lot faster, more intense
- bladder info with intense bleeding and pain within hrs
- really bad diarrhea with tenesmus
- intense tenesmus: urethra, rectum, anus, bladder, end of labor (pushing continues)
Mercurius corrosivus (Merc-c)
Chloride of Mercury
Keynotes
- typical Merc sxs, mostly on right side
Mercurius iodatus flavus (Merc-i-f)
Protoiodide of Mercury
Keynotes
- typical Merc sxs, only occur on left side
Mercurius iodatus ruber (Merc-i-r)
Biniodide of Mercury
Keynotes
- pains worse from cold/cold wind
- fear felt in stomach
- skin eruptions, key feature = lots of cracks
Mezereum (Mez)
Spurge Olive
Keynotes
- extreme physical weakness with fever and/or huge, purple, bulging hemorrhoids that are worse with touch
Muriaticum acidum (Mur-ac)
Muriatic acid
Keynotes
- Tourette’s syndrome, twitching, tics, esp around the mouth and chin area
Mygale lasiodora (Mygal)
Black Cuban Spider
Keynotes
- heart problems, esp involving valves
- ovarian pains that shoot upwards
Naja
Cobra
Keynotes
- history of sunstroke, with a general sensitivity to the sun/agg from the sun
- bad problems with milk (agg)
- weak ankles, turn all the time, ankles twist/turn too easily
- agg from thunder storms
Natrum carbonicum (Nat-c)
Carbonate of Sodium
Keynotes
- shares sxs with Nat-m and Phos
- unusual desire for eggs
- base of tongue is yellow
- stomach complaints
- nocturnal emissions in men
Natrum phosphoricum (Nat-p)
Phosphate of Sodium
Keynotes
- narcolepsy
- very dry (mouth, eyes)
- forgetful and confused
Nux moschata (Nux-m)
Nutmeg
Keynotes
- kidney stones, really severe and more on right side
- main thing = vomiting all over, intense and frequent
Ocimum canum (Oci)
Brazilian Alfavaca
Keynotes
- epilepsy that comes on at night or only during pregnancy/menses
Oenanthe crocata (Oena)
Hemlock Water Dropwort
Keynotes
- agg from oranges (i.e. eczema)
- diarrhea
- nervous system diseases with double vision
Oleander (Olndn)
Rose Laurel
Keynotes
- really, really bad eye strain that leads to HAs
Onosmodium (Onos)
False Gromwell
Keynotes
- strokes with flaccid paralysis
- unconsciousness/narcolepsy
- lack of sensation
- AF fright
Opium (Op)
Poppy
Keynotes
- little girls who masturbate constantly
Origanum (Orig)
Sweet Marjoram
Keynotes
- bad allergies to strawberries
- heart complaints where pain goes down either hand
- agg by thinking about complaints
Oxalicum acidum (Ox-ac)
Oxalic/Sorrel Acid
Keynotes
- hemorrhoids that are aggravated by touch
Paeonia (Paeon)
Peony
Keynotes
- “nobody likes me” (persecution complex/woe is me)
- does stuff to make others like them
- pain in right ovary
Palladium (Pall)
Keynotes
- severe pain due to kidney stones/UTI that refers downward to thighs
- must be on hands and knees or leaning forward to urinate
Pareira brava (Pareir)
Virgin Vine
Keynotes
- HA centered in the eye, which feels like rope pulling eye backwards (to back of skull)
Paris quadrifolia (Par)
One-berry/True Love
Keynotes
- car sickness/motion sickness
- cracked skin, esp in winter and on fingertips
Petroleum (Petr)
Crude Rock Oil
Keynotes
- bladder infx or irritation of urethra that feels better when the opening is rubbed or scratched
Petroselinum (Petros)
Parsley
Keynotes
- pain in breast btw nursing, for plugged ducts in breasts, more on right side
Phellandrium (Phel)
Water Dropwort
Keynotes
- glands that swell anywhere, esp neck, tonsils, breast
- common for mastitis, esp when nipples crack
Phytolacca (Phyt)
Poke Root
Keynotes
- high sex drive in men where they burn out and develop neurological diseases
Picricum acidum (Pic-ac)
Trinitrophenol
Keynotes
- intense shooting diarrhea with prolapsed anus (mainly in children)
Podophyllum (Podo)
May Apple
Keynotes
- septic, infected states (smells horrible)
- incr temp with normal heart rate or fast pulse with normal temp (normal is 10 beats faster pulse with every 1 degree increase in temp)
- an infx that causes the room to stink
Pyrogenium (Pyrog)
Decomposed lean beef
Keynotes
- shingles with lots of intercostal pain, esp on left side
Ranunculus bulbosus (Ran-b)
Buttercup
Keynotes
- colic, intense trapped gas, esp at splenic flexure and esp with abd surgery
Raphanus (Raph)
Radish
Keynotes
- hemorrhoids with fissures and cracks
Ratanhia (Rat)
Mapato
Keynotes
- most sour remedy: smell, personality, diarrhea (even more than Mag-carb)
Rheum
Rhubarb
Keynotes
- sim to Rhus tox (achy stuff/arthritis from continued motion)
- lots of sharp/needling pains
- agg around thunderstorms
- testicular swelling
Rhododendron
(Rhod)
Keynotes
- little coughs with irritation being in the pit of throat
- cough with change of environmental temp
- often needed after bad bronchitis, when cough remains
Rumex crispus (Rumx)
Yellow dock
Keynotes
- eye strain leading to HAs
- injuries with periostial pains, like a kick to the shin
Ruta graveolens (Ruta)
Herb-of-Grace
Keynotes
- hay fever with intense sneezing
Sabadilla (Sabad)
member of lily family
Keynotes
women hemorrhaging from uterus, miscarriage, menorrhagia:
- w/ bright blood with clots
- w/ severe pains in sacrum alternating back-front, back-front
- hemorrhage < lying down, > standing and walking around
Sabina (Sabin)
Sabine (shrub in cypress family)
Keynotes
- asthmatic cough crisis in middle of night
- cannot breath, turns blue, accompanied by lot of sweats (more so in kids)
Sambucus nigra (Samb)
Elder
Keynotes
- right-sided HAs that start at the back of neck/shoulder and go up to forehead (or other way around)
- right-sided shoulder bursitis (like Lyc)
Sanguinaria (Sang)
Bloodroot
Keynotes
- skin eruptions that crack
- esp for bladder infx with increased pain at the very end of urination
Sarsaparilla (Sars)
Red-bearded Sarsaparilla
Keynotes
- gangrene with black blood, where skin is cold on outside, but burning on inside and wants to be uncovered
Secale cornutum (Sec)
Ergot
Keynotes
- dirty old men (trench coat), dribbling semen as they watch school children
- women with alcoholic binges before their menses
Selenium (Sel)
constituent of bones and teeth
Keynotes
- HAs on left eye brow at trigeminal N ending, sharp and specific (all pains = sharp and localized to little spots)
Spigelia (Spig)
Demerata Pinkroot
Keynotes
- acute hyperthyroid diseases
- cough in pit of throat, will cough if looks up (when trying to confirm, if pt doesn’t could when looking up, ask them to breath in)
Spongia tosta (Spong)
Roasted Sponge
Keynotes
- cough and lose urine and stool and sweat (everything squeezed out)
Squilla maritima (Squil)
Sea Onion
Keynotes
- intense weakness, esp in chest area that feels empty and hollow
Stannum (Stann)
Tin
Keynotes
sinusitis and colds where:
- feels like nose dried up
- severe pain on bridge of nose
- really internally dry air passages
- feels like breathing in fire
Sticta (Stict)
Lungwort
Keynotes
- lots of black and blue bruises (either from platelet problem or injury)
- menopause with lots of hot flashes and ulcers
- hurried, talk/walk very fast in everything they do
Sulphuricum acidum (Sul-ac)
Sulphuric Acid
Keynotes
- for pregnant women with incredible/intense/frequent N/V that is
Symphoricarpus racemosa (Sym-r)
Snowberry
Keynotes
- eye or bone injuries that don’t heal quickly
Symphytum (Symph)
Comfrey
Keynotes
- motion/car/sea-sickness, N/V, esp with person lifts up shirt and lets cool breeze touch abdomen
- often same color as the sea - green, warm, sweaty
- kidney stones
Tabacum (Tab)
Tobacco
Keynotes
- abscesses that turn blue/black/purple quickly and are incredibly painful
Tarentula cubensis (Tarent-c)
Cuban spider
Keynotes
- most severe sciatica, esp if one sneezes, coughs, or has BM
- ear discharges that are acrid, excoriating, and may smell like fish
Tellurium (Tell)
Keynotes
- often seen in late stages of cancer with urine that is cloudy or black
Terebinthina (Ter)
Turpentine
Keynotes
- oversensitive to noise (and in general)
- intense vertigo, < closing the eyes
Theridion (Ther) Orange Spider
Keynotes
- diabetes with stomach ulcers and a hx of living near a nuclear power plant
Uranium nitricum (Uran-n)
Keynotes
- rashes and hives that itch worse with heat
Urtica urens (Urt-u)
Stinging Nettles
Keynotes
- intense diarrhea or vomiting
- weak, cold, sweaty
- kids with intense hyperactivity
Veratrum album (Verat)
White Hellebore
Keynotes
- bad heart disease (often requiring operations)
- skin looks mottled
- tongue has darker discoloration running down the center
Veratrum viride (Verat-v)
Green Hellebore
Keynotes
- mottled skin
- varicose veins
- diabetic gangrene with agg if limbs hang down (filling up and ready to explode if below the heart)
Vipera (Vip)
Keynotes
- really bad hayfever with an itchy, clucking sound in the back of throat
Wyethia (Wye)
Poison Weed
Keynotes
- restlessness, esp in feet
Zincum metallicum (Zinc)