A perfect picture of epileptiform seizure is produced by this drug. Nervous tremors precede attack. Sudden and severe giddiness, delirium with hallucinations and loss of cbnsciousness. Nervous excitement and sleeplessness. Cerebral irritation, hysterical and infantile spasms come within range of this remedy. Poisoning by mushrooms. Chorea. Tremor. Nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children.
Mind.—Hallucinations. Frightful visions. Kleptomania. Loss of memory. Forgets what has recently happened. Wants nothing to do with anybody. Brutal.
Head.—Vertigo, with tendency to fall backward. General confusion. Wants head low. Pupils dilated unequally. Face blue. Spasmodic facial twitching. Dull occipital headache. [Gelsem. Picric ac.]
Mouth.—Jaws fixed. Bites tongue; trembles; feels as if swollen and too large; protruding.
Throat.—Scalded sensation; as of a lump.
Stomach.—Nausea; retching; eructation. Bloated around waist and abdomen. Wind colic.
Urine.—Constant desire. Very strong odor; deep yellow color. [Kali phos.]
Sexual.—Darting pain in right ovary. Spermatorrhaea, with relaxed, enfeebled parts. Premature menopause.
Chest.—Sensation of weight on chest. Irregular, tumultuous action of heart can be heard in back.
Extremities.—Pain in limbs. Paralytic symptoms.
Relationship.—Compare: Alcohol; Artemisia; Hydrocy. acid; Cina; Cicuta.
Dose.—First to sixth potency.
A drug having a marked action on the alimentary canal and respiratory organs. It is indicated in incipient phthisis, with bard, racliing cough, bloody expectoration, arterial hemorrhage, but no febrile disturbance. Very weak in the morning, gains strength during day. Progressive emaciation. All pathological hemorrhages having notably a morning aggravation.
Chest.—Cough dry, hard, followed by hcemoptysis; worse in morning and at night. Constant and severe pain in chest. Blood bright red and not profuse in morning; dark and clotted in afternoon. Pulse soft and compressible. Burning in pharynx, esophagus, and stomach.
Abdomen.—Burning in intestines. Spluttering diarrhea with forcible expulsion of noisy flatus, bearing down pains and tenesmus. Rumbling distention, and griping pain in abdomen. Rectal hemorrhage; worse in morning.
Skin.—Jaundice. Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like swellings.
Modalities.—Worse in morning.
Relationship.— Compare: Millefol.; Phosphor.; Acetic acid; Kali nit.
Dose.—Third to sixth potency.
Depresses heart, respiration and blood pressure, lowers temperature. Cyanosis and collapse. Increased susceptibility to cold. Destroys red blood corpuscles; pallor.
Head.—Enlarged sensation. Fainting. Moral depravity.
Eyes.—Pallor of optic discs, contracted visual field and shrinking retinal vessel; mydriasis.
Heart.—Weak, irregular, with blue mucous membranes, albuminuria, edema of feet and ankles.
Relationship.—Compare: Antipyrin.
Dose.—Used as a sedative and antipyretic for various forms of headache and neuralgia in doses of one to three grains. For the homceopathic indications use the third potency.
This drug produces a condition of profound anaemia, with some dropsical symptoms, great debility, frequent fainting, dyspnea, weak heart, vomiting, profuse urination and sweat. Hemorrhage from any part. Especially indicated in pale, lean persons, with lax, flabby muscles. Wasting and debility. Acetic acid has the power to liquify albuminous and fibrinous deposits. Epithelial cancer, internally and locally (W. Owens). Sycosis with nodules and formations in the joints. Hard chancre. The 1x solution will soften and cause formation of pus.
Mind.—Irritable, worried about business affairs.
Head.—Nervous headache, from abuse of narcotics. Blood rushes to head with deliriurn. Temporal vessels distended. Pain across root of tongue.
Face.—Pale, waxen, emaciated. Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark rings. Bright red. Sweaty. Epithelioma of lip. Cheeks hot and flushed. Aching in left jaw-point.
Stomach.— Salivation. Fermentation in stomach. Intense burning thirst. Cold drinks distress. Vomits after every kind of food. Epigastric tenderness. Burning pain as of an ulcer. Cancer of stomach. Sour belching and vomiting. Burning waterbrash and profuse salivation. Hyperchlorhydria and gastralgia. Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on forehead. Stomach feels as if she had taken a lot of vinegar.
Abdomen.—Feels as if abdomen was sinking in. Frequent watery stools, worse in morning. Tympanitic. Ascites. Hemorrhage from bowels.
Urine.—Large quantities of pale urine. Diabetes, with great thirst and debility. [Phos. ac.]
Female.—Excessive catamenia. Hemorrhages after labor. Nausea of pregnancy. Breasts painfully enlarged, distended with milk. Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, sour. Anaemia of nursing mothers.
Respiratory.—Hoarse, hissing respiration; difficult breathing; cough when inhaling. Membraneous croup. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes. False membrane in throat. Profuse bronchorrhaea, Putrid sore throat (gargle).
Back.—Pain in back, relieved only by lying on abdomen.
Extremities.—Emaciation. (Edema of feet and legs.
Skin.—Pale, waxen, cedematous. Burning, dry, hot skin, or bathed in profuse sweat. Dimished sensibility of the surface of body. Useful after stings, bites, etc. Varicose swellings. Scurvy; anasarca. Bruises; sprains.
Fever.—Hectic, with drenching night-sweats. Red spot on left cheek. No thirst in fever. Ebullitions. Sweat profuse, cold.
Relationship.—Acetic acid is antidotal to all anaesthetic vapors. Counteracts sausage poisoning.
Compare: Ammon. acet. (Profuse saccharine urine, patient is bathed in sweat.) Benzoin oderiferum - Spice-wood (night sweats.) Ars.; China; Digitalis; Liatris. (General anasarca in heart and kidney disease, dropsy, and chronic diarrhea.)
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency. Not to be repeated too often, except in croup.
A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body. Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of Aconite. Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever, call for it. Does not want to be touched. Sudden and great sinking of strength. Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air, checked perspiration, also complaints from very hot weather, especially gastro-intestinal disturbances, etc. First remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers. Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly. Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness. Influenza. Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms. When prescribing Aconite remember Aconite causes only functional disturbance, no evidence that it can produce tissue changeits action is brief and shows no periodicity. Its sphere is in the beginning of an acute disease and not to be continued after pathological change comes. In Hyperaemia, congestion not after exudation has set in. Influenza [Influenzin]
Mind.—Great fear, anxiety, and worry accompany every ailment, however trivial. Delirium is characterized by unhappiness, worry, fear, raving, rarely unconsciousness. Forebodings and fears. Fears death but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day. Fears the future, a crowd, crossing the street. Restlessness, tossing about. Tendency to start. Imagination acute, clairvoyance. Pains are intolerable; they drive him crazy. Music is unbearable; makes her sad. [Ambra.] Thinks his thoughts come from the stomach-that parts of his body are abnormally thick. Feels as if what had just been done was a dream.
Head.—Fullness; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning, undulating sensation. Intercranial pressure. (Hedera Helix.) Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water [Indigo.] . Vertigo; worse on rising [Nux. Opium] and shaking head. Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end. Nocturnal furious deliriuxrl.
Eyes.—Red, inflamed. Feel dry and hot, as if sand in them. Lids swollen, hard and red. Aversion to light. Profuse watering after exposure to dry, cold winds, reflection from snow, after extraction of cinders and other foreign bodies.
Ears.—Very sensitive to noises; music is unbearable. External ear hot, red, painful, swollen. Earache. [Cham.] Sensation as of drop of water in left ear.
Nose.—Smell acutely sensitive. Pain at root of nose. Coryza; much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils. Hemorrhage of bright red blood. Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza.
Face.—Red, hot, flushed, swollen. One cheek red, the other pale (Cham., Ipee.). On rising the red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes dizzy. Tingling in cheeks and numbness. Neuralgia, especially of left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness. Pain in jaws.
Mouth.—Numb, dry, and tingling. Tongue swollen; tip tingles. Teeth sensitive to cold. Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing. Gums hot and inflamed. Tongue coated white. [Antim. crud.]
Throat.—Red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning, stinging. Tonsils swollen and dry.
Stomach.—Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination. Thirst for cold water. Bitter taste of everything except water. Intense thirst. Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die. Vomiting, bilious, mucous and bloody, greenish. Pressure in stomach with dyspnea. Iiaematemesis. Burning from stomach to cesophagus.
Abdomen.—Hot, tense, tympanitic. Sensitive to touch. Colic, no position relieves. Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup. Burning in umbilical region.
Rectum.—Pain with nightly itching and stitching in anus. Frequent, small stool with tenesmus; green, like chopped herbs. White with red urine. Choleraic discharge with collapse, anxiety, and restlessness. Bleeding hemorrhoids. [Hamam.] Watery diarrhea in children. They cry and complain much, are sleepless and restless.
Urine.—Scanty, red, hot, painful. Tenesmus and burning at neck of bladder. Burning in urethra. Urine suppressed, bloody. Anxiety always .on beginning to urinate. Retention, with screaming and restlessness, and handling of genitals. Renal region sensitive. Profuse urination, with profuse perspirati,in and diarrhea.
Male.—Crawling and stinging in glans. Bruised pain in testicles, swollen, hard. Frequent erections and emissio) ts. Painful erections.
Female.—Vagina dry, hot, sensitive. Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late. Frenzy on appearance of menses. Suppressed from fright, cold, in plethoric subjects. Ovaries congested and painful. Sharp shooting pains in womb. After-pains, with fear and restlessness.
Respiratory.—Constant pressure in left chest; oppressed breathing on least motion. Hoarse, dry, croupy cough; loud, labored breathing. Child grasps at throat every time he coughs. Very sensitive to inspired air. Shortness of breath. Larynx sensitive. Stitches through chest. Cough, dry, short, hacking; worse at night and after midnight. Hot feeling in lungs. Blood comes up with hawking. Tingling in chest after cough.
Heart.—Tachycardia. Affections of the heart with pain in left shoulder. Stitching pain in chest. Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting, and tingling in fingers. Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding; sometimes interit Tlid ms.empora and carot arteries felt when sitting.
Back.—Numb, stiff, painful. Crawling and tingling, as if bruised. Stiffness in nape of neck. Bruised pain between scapulae.
Extremities.—Numbness and tingling; shooting pains; icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet. Arms feel lame, bruised, heavy, numb. Pain down left arm [Cact., Crotal., Kalmia, Tabac.] Hot hands and cold feet. Rheumatic inflammation of joints; worse at night; red shining swelling, very sensitive. Hip-joint and thigh feel lame, especially after lying down. Knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn. [Aescul.] Weak and lax ligaments of all joints. Painless cracking of all joints. Bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands. Sensation as if drops of water trickled down the thigh. il
Sleep.—Nightmare. Nightly ravings. Anxious dreams. Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about. [Use thirtieth potency.] Starts up in sleep. Long dreams, with anxiety in chest. Insomnia of the aged.
Skin.—Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning. Purpura miliaris. Rash like measles. Gooseflesh. Formication and numbness. Chilliness and formication down back. Pruritus relieved by stimulants.
Fever.—Cold stage most marked. Cold sweat and icy coldness of face. Coldness and heat alternate. Evening chilliness soon after going to bed. Cold waves pass through him. Thirst and restlessness always present. Chilly if uncovered or touched. Dry heat, red face. Most valuable febrifuge with mental anguish, restlessness, etc. Sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving all symptoms.
Modalities.—Better in open air; worse in warm room, in evening and night; worse lying on affected side, from music, from tobacco-smoke, dry, cold winds.
Vinegar in large doses is antidotal to poisonous effects.
Relationship.—Acids, wine and coffee, lemonade, and acid fruits modify its action.
Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and pyaemic conditions, and in inflammations when they localize themselves. Sulphur often follows it. Compare Cham. and Coffea in intense pain and sleeplessness.
Agrostis acts like Acon. in fever and inflammations, also Spiranthes.
Complementary: Coffea; Sulph. Sulphur may be considered a chronic Aconite. Often completes a cure begun with Aconite.
Compare: Bellad.; Cham.; Coffea; Ferr. phos.
Aconitine - (Heavy feeling as of lead; pains in supraorbital nerve; ice-cold sensations creep up; hydrophobia symptoms. Tinnitus aurium 3x.) Tingling sensation.
Aconitum Lycotonum. - Great yellow wolfsbane. - (Swelling of glands; Hodgkin's disease. Diarrhea after eating pork. Itching of nose, eyes, anus and vulva. Skin of nose cracked; taste of blood.)
Aconitum Cammarum. - ( Headache with vertigo and tinnitus. Cataleptic symptoms: Formication of tongue, lips and face.)
Aconitum ferox. - Indian Aconite. - Rather more violent in its actions than A. napellus. It is more diuretic and less antipyretic. It has proved valuable in cardiac dyspnea, neuralgia, and acute gout. Dyspnea. Must sit up. Rapid respiration. Anxiety, with suffocation from feeling of paralysis in respiratory muscles. Cheynes-Stokes breathing. Quebracho (cardiac dyspnea.) (Achyranthes. - A Mexican drug - very similar to Aconite in fevers, but of larger range, being also adapted to typhoidal states and intermittents. Muscular rheumatism. A great diaphoretic. Use 6x.) Eranthis hymnalis - (Winter Aconite - acts on solar plexus and works upwards causing dyspnea. Pain in occiput and neck.)
Dose.—Sixth potency for sensory affections; first to third for congestive conditions. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases. Acon. is a rapid worker. In Neuralgias tincture of the root often preferable, one drop doses (poisonous), or again, Zhe 30th potency according to susceptibility of patient.
Is a rheumatic remedy, especially of the small joints; tearing, tingling pains characterize it. Wrist - rheumatism. Pulsations over whole body, especially liver and renal region. Cardiovascular spasm. Pains worse from touch and motion.
Head.—Fearful, starts easily; confused. Ebullition of blood to head excited by drinking coffee. Vertigo, tearing headache, better in open air, throbbing in brain, pain from crown to between eyebrows; heat in forehead, pain in left frontal eminence as if bone were crushed. Itching of scalp alternating with heat; nose red at tip, fluent coryza.
Face.—Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through malar bones to temples. Perspiration on face and head.
Stomach.—Tearing, darting pains in epigastric region, with vomiting. Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium, with difficult breathing; sense of suffocation. Sudden lassitude after eating.
Abdomen.—Spasmodic retraction. Sticking pain and diste+lsion of hypogastrium.
Respiratory.—Short, irregular breathing at night, wni e lying. Great oppression. Shortness of breath on exposure to cold air.
Extremities.—Tearing pains in loins. Rheumatic pains in small joints, wrist, [Ulmus] fingers, ankles, toes. Swelling of joints from slight fatigue. Wrist swollen, red, worse any motion. Paralytic weakness in the hands. Lame feeling in arms. Pain in knee. Sudden lassitude after talking or eating.
Relationship.—Compare: Cimicif.; Cauloph.; Led.
Dose.—Third potency.
A heart medicine, after rheumatism or influenza, or Bright's disease, where the muscles of the heart are in stage of fatty degeneration, regulating the pulse and increasing the power of contractions of heart, with increased urinary secretions. Most valuable in cardiac dropsy. Low vitality, with weak heart and slow, weak pulse. Hydrothorax, ascites. Anasarca.
Head.—Feels light; aches across front, from occiput around temples to eyes. Vertigo on rising, turning head quickly or lying down. Tinnitus. Scalp feels tight. Eyes dilated.
Mouth.—Slimy- Tongue dirty yellow, sore, feels scalded.
Heart.—Mitral and aortic regurgitation. Chronic aortitis,
Fatty heart pericarditis. Rheumatic Endocarditis. [Kalnzia] . Praecordial pain, palpitation, and dyspnea. Marked venous engorgement. Cardiac asthma. [Quebracho.] Fatty heart. Myocarditis, irregular cardiac action, constriction and vertigo. Pulse rapid, irregular.
Stomach.—Heavy weight. Gnawing hunger. Faint feeling in epigastrium. Better out of doors.
Urine.—Oily pellicle on urine. Scanty, albuminous.
Respiratory.—Frequent desire to take a long breath. Feeling of weight on chest.
Sleep.—Restlesss, with horrible dreams.
Extremities.—Aching in nape. Spine stiff and aching. (Edema.
Relationship.—Adonidin is a cardiac tonic and diuretic. Quarter grain daily, or two to five grains of first decimal trit. increases arterial pressure and prolongs the diastole, favoring emptying engorged veins. Is an excellent substitute for Digitalis and is not cumulative in action.
Compare: Digit.; Crataeg.; Canval.; Strophantus.
Dose.—Five to ten drops of the tincture.
Adrenalin or Epinephrin, the active principle of the medulla of the suprarenal gland, (cortical secretion not as yet isolated), is employed as a chemical messenger in the regulation of the activities of the body; in fact, its presence is essential to the activity of the sympathetic nerve. Adrenalin action on any part is the same as stimulation of the sympathetic nerve endings thereto. Local application [l: 1,000 solution] to mucous membranes promptly induces transient ischaemia, seen in a blanching, persisting several hours from conjunctival instillation. Its action is very prompt, efficient, evanescent, owing to rapid oxidation and therefore practically harmless, unless too frequently repeated, when atheroma and heart lesions-myocardial-in animals have been reported. Arteries, heart, supra-renal bodies and vaso-motor system are prominently affected.
The main action of Adrenalin is stimulation of the sympathetic endings, notably the splanchnic area, causing constriction of the peripheral arterioles, with resulting rise in blood pressure.
This is especially observed in stomach, intestines; less in uterus, skin; nil in brain and lungs. Furthermore, is noticed, slowing of pulse, (medullary vagus stimulation), and strengthening of heart beat (increased myocardial contractility), resembling Digitalis; increased glandular activity, glycosuria; depression of respiratory center; contraction of muscular tissue of eye, uterus, vagina; relaxation of muscular tissue of stomach, intestines, bladder.
Uses. - Its chief therapeutic use depends on its vaso - constriction action; therefore a most powerful and prompt astringent and haemostatic; and invaluable in checking capillary hemorrhages from all parts, where local or direct application is feasible: nose, ear, mouth, throat, larynx, stomach, rectum, uterus, bladder. Hemorrhagic condition not due to defective coagulation of the blood. Complete bloodlessness, ischaemia, may be induced with impunity. Locally, solutions [1:10,000-1:1,000] sprayed or applied on cotton have been very efficient in bloodless operations about the eye, nose, throat, and larynx.
Congestions of the ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses, also hay fever, have been markedly alleviated by warm spray of Adrenalin chloride, 1:5,000. Here compare, Hepar 1x, which will start up secretions and so facilitate drainage. Werlhoff's disease, hypodermically, 1:1,000. Externally, it has beerr used in neuritis, neuralgia, reflex pains, gout, rheumatism, as an ointment, 1-2 m. of (1 : 1,000) solution, along the nerve trunk at point of skin nearest its origin which could be reached (H.G. Carlton).
Therapeutically, Adrenalin has been suggested in acute congestion of lungs, Asthma, Grave's and Addison's diseases, arterio-sclerosis, chronic aortitis, angina pectoris, haemophilia, chlorosis, hay fever, serum rashes, acute urticaria, etc. Dr. P. Jousset reports success in treating, homeopathically, cases of angina and of aortitis, sub-acute and chronic, when Adrenalin has been prescribed per os and in infinitesimal dose. The symptom guiding to this is, Sensation of thoracic constriction with anguish. This, with vertigo, nausea and vomiting have been produced by the drug. Abdominal pain. Shock or heart failure during anesthesia, as it causes very prompt rise of blood pressure by its action on nerve endings in the vessel wall.
Dose.—Hypodermically, 1-5 m. [1 : 1,000 solution, as chloride] diluted in water. Internally, 5-30 m. of 1: 1,000 solution.
Caution.—On account of its affinity for oxygen, the drug easily decomposes in watery and dilute acid solutions. The solution must be protected from air and light. It must not be too frequently repeated, owing to cardiac and arterial lesions. For homeeopathic use 2x to 6x attenuation.
The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel, producing engorged hemorrhoidal veins, with characteristic backache, with absence of actual constipation. Much pain but little bleeding. Venous stasis general, varicose veins of purple color; everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels, etc. Torpor and congestion of the liver and portal system, with constipation. The back aches and gives out and unfits the patient for business. Flying pains all over. Fullness in various parts; dry, swollen mucous membranes. Throat with hemorrhoidal conditions.
Head.—Depressed and irritable. Head dull, confused, aching as from a cold. Pressure in forehead, with nausea, followed by stitches in right hypochondrium. Pain from occiput to frontal region, with bruised sensation of the scalp; worse in the morning. - Neuralgic stitches from right to left through forehead, followed by flying pains in epigastrium. Vertigo when sitting and walking.
Eyes.—Heavy and hot, with lachrymation, with enlarged blood vessels. Eyeballs sore.
Nose.—Dry; inspired air feels cold, nasal passages sensitive to it. Coryza, sneezing. Pressure at root of nose. Membrane over turbinate bones distended and boggy, dependent upon hepatic disorders.
Mouth.—Scaided feeling.mso-tab-count:1'> Metallic taste. Salivation. Tongue thickly coated, feels as if scalded.
Throat.—Hot, dry, raw, stitching pain into ears when swallowing. Follicular pharyngitis connected with hepatic congestion. Veins in pharynx distended and tortuous. Throat sensitive to inspired air; feels excoriated and constricted, burns like fire on swallowing, in afternoon. Early stages of atrophic pharyngitis in dried-up, bilious subjects. Hawking of ropy mucus of sweetish taste.
Stomach.—Weight of a stone, with gnawing, aching pain; most manifest about three hours after meals. Tenderness and fullness in region of liver.
Abdomen.—Dull aching in liver and epigastrium. Pain at umbilicus. Jaundice; throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis.
Rectum.—Dry, aching. Feels full of small sticks. Anus raw, sore. Much pain after stool, with prolapse. Hemorrhoids, with sharp shooting pains up the back; blind and bleeding; worse during climacteric. Large, hard, dry stools. Mucous membrane seems swollen and obstructs the passage. Irritation caused by ascarides and aids their expulsion. Burning in anus with chills up and down back.
Urinary.—Frequent, scant, dark, muddy, hot urine. Pain in kidneys, especially left and ureter.
Male.—Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool.
Female.—Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis. Leucorrhea, with lameness of back across the sacro - iliac articulation; dark yellow, sticky corroding; worse after menses.
Chest.—Feels constricted. Heart's action full and heavy, can feel pulsations all over. Laryngitis; coughs depending on hepatic disorders; hot feeling in chest; pain around heart in hemorrhoidal subjects.
Extremities.—Aching and soreness in limbs, in left acromion process with shooting down arms; finger tips numb.
Back.—Lameness in neck; aching between shoulder blades; region of spine feels weak; back and legs give out. Backache affecting sacrum and hips; worse walking or stooping. When walking feet turn under. Soles feel sore, tired, and swell. Hands and feet swell, and become red after washing, feel full.
Fever.—Chill at 4 pm. Chilliness up and down back. Fever 7 to 12 pm. Evening fever, skin hot and dry. Sweat profuse and hot with the fever.
Modalities.—Worse, in morning on awaking, and from any motion, walking; from moving bowels; after eating, afternoon, standing. Better, cool open air.
Relationship.—Aesculus glabra - Ohio-Buckeye Proctitis. Very painful, dark purple, external hemorrhoids, with constipation and vertigo and portal congestion. Speech thick, tickling in throat, impaired vision, paresis. Phytolacca (throat dry, more often in acute cases.) Negundiuna Americanum - Boxelder - (Engorgements of rectum and piles with great pain, tendrop doses of tincture every two hours.) Compare also: Aloe, Collinson. Nux. Sulphur.
Dose.—Tincture, to third potency.
This preparation is of use in scrofulous affections, ophthalmia, otorrheea, painful, irritating, scabby eruptions, hereditary syphilis.
Skin.—Eruptions. Favus-like, scrofulous, herpetic and eczematous.
Dose.—The lower triturations, especially the second decimal.
Relationship.—Aethiops Antimonalis - (Hydrargyrum stibiato sulfuratum.) - (often more effective than the above in scrofulous eruptions, glandular swellings, otorrheea and scrofulous eye affections, corneal ulcers. Third trituration.) Cornpare: Calc.; Sil.; Psorin.
The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with gastrointestinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during dentition, summer complaint, when, with the diarrhea, there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation. Symptoms set in with violence.
Mind.—Restless, anxious, crying. Sees rats, cats, dogs, etc. Unconscious, delirious. Inability to think, to fix the attention. Brain fag. Idiocy may alternate with furor and irritability.
Head.—Feels bound up, or in a vise. Occipital pain extending down spine; better lying down and by pressure. Head symptoms relieved by expelling flatus [Sanguin.] and by stool. Hair feels pulled. Vertigo with drowsiness, with palpitation; head hot after vertigo ceases.
Eyes.—Photophobia; swelling of Meibomian glands. Rolling of eyes on falling asleep. Eyes drawn downward; pupils dilated.
Ears.—Feel obstructed. Sense of something hot from ears. Hissing sound.
Nose.—Stopped up with much thick mucus. Herpetic eruption on tip of nose. Frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze.
Face.—Puffed, red-spotted, collapsed. Expression anxious, full of pain; linea nasalis marked.
Mouth.—Dry. Aphthae. Tongue seems too long. Burning and pustules in throat, with difficult swallowing.
Stomach.—Intolerance of milk; vomiting as soon as swallowed or in large curds. Hungry after vomiting. Regurgitation of food about an hour after eating. Violent vomiting of a white frothy matter. Nausea at sight of food. Painful contraction of stomach.. Vomiting, with sweat and great weakness, accompanied by anguish and distress, followed by sleepiness. Stomach feels turned upside down, with burning feeling up to the chest. Tearing pains in the stomach extending to esophagus.
Abdomen.—Cold, internal and external, with aching pain in bowels. Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness, Tense, inflated, and sensitive. Bubbling sensation around navel.
Stool.—Undigested, thin, greenish, preceded by colic, with tenesmus, and followed by exhaustion and drowsiness. Cholera infantum; child cold, clammy, stupid, with staring eyes and dilated pupils. Obstinate constipation; feels as if all bowel action is lost. Choleraic affections in old age.
Urinary.—Cutting pain in bladder, with frequent urging. Pain in kidneys.
Female.—Lancinating pains in sexual organs. Pimples; itching when warm. Menses watery. Swelling of mammary glands, with lancinating pains.
Respiratory.—Difficult, oppressed, anxious respiration; erampy constriction. Sufferings render patient speechless.
Heart.—Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and restlessness. Pulse rapid, hard and small.
Back and Extremities.—Want of power to stand up or hold head up. Back feels as if in a vise. Aching in small of back. Weakness of lower extremities. Fingers and thumbs clenched. Numbness of hands and feet. Violent spasms. Squinting of eyes downward.
Skin.—Excoriation of thighs in walking. Easy perspiration. Surface of body cold and covered with clammy sweat. Lymphatic glands swollen. Itching eruption around joints. Skin of hands dry and shrunken. Ecchymosis. Anasarca.
Fever.—Great heat; no thirst. Profuse, cold sweat. Must be covered during sweat.
Sleep.—Disturbed by violent startings; cold perspiration. Dozing after vomiting or stool. Child is so exhausted, it falls asleep at once.
Modalities.—Worse, 3 to 4 a, m., and evenings; warmth, summer. Better in open air and company.
Compare: Athamantha (confused head, vertigo better lying down, bitter taste and saliva. Hands and feet icy cold); Antimon.; Calc.; Ars.; Cicuta. Complementary: Calc.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency.
This fungus contains several toxic compounds, the best known of which is Muscarin. The symptoms of poisoning do not develop at once, usuallly twelve to fourteen hours elapse before the Initial attack. There is no antidote, treatment, entirely symptomatic (Schneider). Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.
Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications. Incipient phthisis; is related to the tubercular diathesis, anaemia, chorea, twitching ceases during sleep. Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles are pictured in the symptomatdlogy of this remedy. It correeponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion. Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc. Generat paralysis. Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice. Sensitive to pressure and cold air. Violent bearing - down pains. Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg. Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.
Mind.—Sings, talks, but does not answer. Loquacity. Aver, sion to work. Indifference. Fearlessness. Delirium characterized by singing, shouting, and muttering; rhymes and prophesies. Begins Nith paroxysm of yawning.
The provings bring out four phases of cerebral excitement.
1. Slight stimulation - shown by increased cheerfulness, courage, loquacity, exalted fancy.
2. More decided intoxication - great mental excitement and incoherent talking, immoderate gaity alternates with melancholy. Perception of relative size of objects is lost, takes long steps and jumps over small objects as if they were trunks of trees-a small hole appears as a frightful chasm, a spoonful of water an immense lake. Physical strength is increased, can lift heavy loads. With it much twitching.
3. Third stage produces a condition of furious or raging delirium, screaming, raving, wants to injure himself, etc.
4. Fourth stage - mental depression, languor, indifference, confusion, disinclination to work, etc. We do not get the active cerebral congestion of Belladonna, but a general nervous excitement such as is found in delirium tremens, delirium of fevers, etc.
Head.— Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking. Head in constant motion. Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput. Lateral headache, as if from a nail. [Coff.; Ignat.] Dull headache from prolonged desk-work. Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters. Neuralgia with icy cold head. Desire to cover head warmly. [Silica.] Headache with nose - bleed or thick mucous discharge.
Eyes.—Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim. Vibrating specters. Double vision [Gels.] , dim and flickering. Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation. Twitching of lids and eyeballs. [Codein.] Margins of lids red; itch and burn and agglutinate. Inner angles very red.
Ears.—Burn and itch, as if frozen. Twitching of muscles about the ear and noises.
Nose.—Nervous nasal disturbances. Itching internally and externally. Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness; watery non-inflammatory discharge. Inner angles very red. Fetid, dark, bloody discharge. Nosebleed in old people. Sennation of soreness in nose and mouth.
Face.—Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns. Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters. Neuralgia, as if cold needles ran through nerves or sharp ice touched them.
Mouth.—Burning and smarting on lips. Herpes on lips. Twitching. Taste sweet. Aphthae on roof of mouth. Splinter like pains in tongue. Thirsty all the time. Tremulous tongue. (l.ach.] Tongue white.
Throat.—Stitches along eustachian tube to ear. Feels contracted. Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up. Dryness of pharynx, swallowing difficult. Scratching in throat; cannot sing a note.
Stomach.—Empty eructations, tasting of apples. Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough. Unnatural hunger. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Profuse inodorous flatus. Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure. Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region.
Abdomen.—Stitching pains in liver, spleen [Ceanothus] and abdomen. Stitches under short ribs, left side. Diarrhea with much fetid flatus. Fetid stools.
Urinary.—Stitches in urethra. Sudden and violent urging to urinate. Frequent urination.
Female.—Menses, increased, earlier. Itching and tearing, pressive pains of genitals and back. Spasmodic dysmenorrhaea. Severe bearing - down pains, especially after menopause. Sexual excitement. Nipples itch, burn. Complaints following parturition and coitus. Leukorrhea, with much itching.
Respiratory Organs. -Violent attacks of coughing th,`_ can be suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in head while cough lasts. Spasmodic cough at night after falling tisleep, with expectoration of little balls of mucus. Labored, oppressed breathing. Cough ends in a sneeze.
Heart.—Irregular, tumultuous palpitation, after tobacco. Pulse intermittent and irregular. Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed. Palpitation with redness of face.
Back.—Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region. Lumbago; worse in open air. Crick in back. Twitching of cervical muscles.
Extremities.—Stiff all over. Pain over hips. Rheumatism better motion. Weakness in loins. Uncertain gait. Trembling.
Itching of toes and feet as if frozen. Cramp insoles of feet. Pain in shin-bone. Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia. Paralysis of lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms. Numbness of legs on crossing them. Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation. Tearing painful contractions in the calves.
Skin.—Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as from frostbites. Pimples, hard, like flea-bites. Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning. Chilblains. Angioneurotic edema; rosacea. Swollen veins with cold skin. Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustuiar and edematous lesions.
Sleep.—Paroxysms of yawning. Restless from violent itching and burning. On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often. Vivid dreams. Drowsy in daytime. Yawning, followed by involuntary laughter.
Fever.—Very sensitive to cool air. Violent attacks of heat in evening. Copious sweat. Burning spots.
Modalities.—Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus. In cold weather, before a thunder-storm. Worse, pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter. Better, moving about slowly.
Relationship.—Compare: Muscarine, the alkaloid of Agaricus (has much power over secretions, increasing lachrymal, salivary, hepatic, etc., but diminishing renal; probably neurotic in origin, stimulating the terminal fibres of the secretory nerves of all these structures, hence salivation, lachrymation and excessive perspiration. Atropin exactly opposes Muscarine. Resembles Pilocarpin in action.) Amanita vernus-spring mushroom-a variety of Agar Phalloides - Death cup-active principle is Phallin, active like Muscarine. Amanita phalloides (Death Cup-Deadly Agaric.) The poison is a toxalbumin, resembling the poison in the rattle snake and the poison excreted by the cholera and diphtheria germs. It acts on the red blood corpuscles, dissolving them so that blood escapes into the alimentary canal and the whole system is drained. The amount of this toxic principle is small, even handling of specimens and breathing of spores affects some people unpleasantly. The poison is slow in development. Even 12 to 20 hours after taking it the patient feels all right, but vertigo violent choleraic symptoms with rapid loss of strength with death the second or third day, preceded by stupor and spasms. Fatty degeneration of liver, heart and kidneys, hemorrhages in lungs, pleura and skin (Dr. J. Schier). Vomiting and purging. Continuous urging to stool, but no gastric, abdominal or rectal pain. Intense thirst for cold water, dry skin. Lethargic but mentally clear. Sharp changes from rapid to slow and from slow to rapid breathing, extreme collapse, suppressed urine, but no cold extremities or cramps.) Agaric. emet. (severe vertigo; all symptoms better, cold water; longing for ice - water; gastritis cold sweat, vomiting sensation as if stomach was suspended on a string. Tamus (chilblains and freckles). Cimicif.; Cann. ind.; Hyos.; Tarantula.
Antidote: Absinth.; Coffea; Camphor.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency. In skin affections and brain exhaustions give the lower attenuations.
Indicated in stomacache, and painful erections in gonorrhea. Strangury. Hydrophobia. Scurvy; countenance pale, gums swollen and bleeding, legs covered with dark purple blotches, swollen, painful and hard. Appetite poor; bowels constipated.
Relationship.—Compare: Anhalonium; Lyssin; Lach.
Dose.—Tincture.
The most effective point of attack of Agnus upon the organism is the sexual organism. It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy. It shows this distinctive influence in both sexes, but is more pronounced in men. Premature old age from abuse of sexual power. History of repeated gonorrhmas. A prominent remedy for sprains and strains. Gnawing itching in all parts, especially eyes. Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men.
Mind.—Sexual melancholy. Fear of death. Sadness with impression of speedy death. Absentminded, forgetful, lack. of courage. Illusion of smell-herrings, rnusk. Nervous depression and mental forebodings.
Eyes.—Pupils dilated. [Bell.] Itching about eyes; photophobia.
Nose.—Odor of herring or musk. Aching in dorsum better pressure.
Abdomen.—Spleen swollen, sore. Stools soft, recede, difficult. Deep fissures in anus. Nausea with sensation as i,f intestines were pressed downwards; wants to support bowels.
Male.—Yellow discharge from urethra. No erections. Impotence. Parts cold, relaxed. Desire gone. [Selen.; Con.; Sabal.] Scanty emission without ejaculation. Loss of prostatic fluid on straining. Gleety discharge. Testicles, cold, swollen, hard, and painful.
Female.—Scanty menses. Abhorrence of sexual intercourse. Relaxation of genitals, with leucorrhma. Agalactia; with sadness. Sterility. Leukorrhea staining yellow; transparent. Hysterical palpitation with nose bleed.
Relationship.—Compare: Selenium; Phosph. ac.; Camphor; Lycop.
Dose. -First to sixth potency.
A relaxed condition of the sysLem generally and a proneness to take cold on exposure to cold winds.
Catarrhal conditions; obstruction of nostrils. Adenoids, throat deafnesa. Enlarged tonsils. Mucous diarrhea from cold. Chill from cold winds. Throat and ear troubles with tendency to free discharge from mucous membranes. Mutinism of childhood unconnected with deafness.
Relationship.—Compare: Hydrast.; Cepa; Calc. phos.; Sulph. jod.; Calc. jod.
Dose.—Third potency. Single doses of tincture. (Dr. Cooper).
This remedy shows by its peculiar skin symptoms its pronounced power of disorganizing the blood, causing conditions we meet with in low fevers, low types of eruptive diseases, diphtheria, follicular tonsillitis, Streptococcus infection, Hemorrhagic diathesis, etc. The skin appears livid or purplish; face dark as mahogany, hot; sordes; throat swollen, purple, livid; semi-conscious, delirious; weak puise, general torpor and prostration. Symptoms remarkably alike to malignant scarlatina. Diarrhea, dysentery and great weakness are very marked. Adynamia characterizes all its conditions. Lividity, stupor and malignancy. Mucous membranes hemorrhagic and ulcerative [Lach. Ars.]
Head.—General stupor, with sighing. Confused mind, mental depression. Headache, frontal, with drowsiness. Passive congestion headaches. Suffused, dilated eyes; phetophobia. Face dusky. Thin, copious, iclaorous, bloody nasal discharge.
Throat.—Inflamed, oydernatous, dusky red. Much swelling, internal and external. Dry, rough, scraping, choking feeling. Neck tender and swollen. Hoarse, croupy voice. Tongue wry and brown. Teeth covered with sordes. Pain in swallowing extends to the ears.
Respiratory.—Hurried breathing; irregular. Dry, hacking cough. Lungs sore and tired.
Sleep.—Drowsy, restless. Heavy, disturbed, unrefreshing.
Skin.—Miliary, livid rash, returns annually. Large blisters filled with dark serum. irregular, patchy, livid eruption, disappearing on pressure Ccld. Raynaud's disease.
Relationship.—Antidotes; Rhus; Nux.
Compare- Eimmon, carb.; Bapt.; Arn.; Mur. ac.; Lach.g Rhus.
Dose.—First to sixth potency.
An anaemic, relaxed condition, especially of the female organism, is protrayed by this remedy. The patient is tired all the time, and suffers from prolapsus, leukorrhea, rectal distress, etc. Marked anemia. Chlorotic girls and pregnant women.
Mind.—Power and energy weakened. Confused feelings. Cannot concentrate mind. Fainting, with vertigo.
Mouth.—Much frothy saliva.
Stomach.—Disgust for food. Least food causes distress. Fainting spells, with vertigo. Vomiting during pregnancy. Nervous dyspepsia. Flatulent colic.
Rectum.—Loads up with faeces-paretic condition. Stool large, hard, difficult, great pain.
Female.—Premature and profuse menses, with labor-like pains. [Bell.; Clam.; Kali c.; Plat.] Retarded and scanty flow. (Sznerioj Uterus seems heavy. Prolapse, with pain in right inguinal region. Leukorrhea due to weakness and anemia. Habitual tendency to abortion. Muscular pains during pregnancy.
Relationship.—Compare: Helonias.; Hydrastis; Tanacet.; China.
Dose.—Tincture to third potency.
From its action on the sympathetic, Alfalfa favorably influences nutrition, evidenced in "toning up" the appetite and digestion resulting in greatly improved mental and physical vigor, with gain in weight. Disorders characterized by malnutrition are mainly within its therapeutic range, for example, neurasthenia, splanchnic blues, nervousness, insomnia, nervous indigestion, etc. Acts as a fat producer, corrects tissue waste. Deficient lactation. Increases quality and quantity of milk in nursing mothers. Its pronounced urinary action suggests it clinically in diabetes insipidus and phosphaturia; and it isclaimed to allay vesical irritability of prostatic hypertrophy. The rheumatic diathesis seems especially amenable to its action.
Mind.—It induces mental exhilaration of buoyancy, i. e., a general feeling of well being; clear and bright, so that all blues are dissipated. Dull, drowsy, stupid [Gels.] ; gloomy and irritable, worse during evening.
Head.—Dull, heavy feeling in occiput, in and above the eyes, worse toward evening. Pain in left side of head. Violent headache.
Ears.—Stuffed feeling in eustachian tubes [Kali mur.] at night; patulous in morning.
Stomach.—Increased thirst. Appetite impaired, but chiefly increased even to bulimia. He must eait frequently, so that he cannot wait for regular meals; hungry in forenoon. [Sul.] Much nibbling of food and craving for sweets.
Abdomen.—Flatulence with distention. Shifting, flatulent pain along colon several hours after meals. Frequent, loose, yellow, painful stools, with burning of flatulence. Chronic appendicitis.
Urine.—Kidneys inactive; frequcni, nrgingr to urinate. PoIyuria. [Phos. ac.] Increased elimination of urea, indican and phosphates.
Sleep.—Slept better than usual; especially in early morning; it induces quiet, reposeful and refreshing sleep.
Relationship.—Compare: Avena sat.; Dipodium pun.ct.; Gels.; Hydr.; Kali phos.; Phos. ac.; Zinc.
Dose.—The best results are elicited with material doses (5-10) drops of tincture, several times daily. Continue its use until tonic effects ensue.
A picture of coryza, with acrid nasal discharge and laryngeal symptoms, eye secretion bland; singers' cold, worse in warm, room and toward evening; better in open air is presented by this remedy. Specially adapted to phlegmatic patients; colds in damp cold weather. Neuralgic pains, like a fine thread, following amputations or injuries to nerves. Traumatic chronic neuritis. Burning in nose, mouth, throat, bladder and skin. Sensation of glowing heat on different parts of the body.
Head.—Catarrhal headache, mostly in forehead; worse in warm room towards evening. Thread-like pains in face. Headache ceases during menses; returns when flow disappears.
Eyes.—Red. Much burning and smarting lachrymation. Sensitive to light. Eyes suffused and watery; profuse, bland lachrymation, better in open air. Burning in eyelids.
Ears.—Earache, shooting in eustachian tube.
Nose.—Sneezing, especially when entering a warm room. Copzous, watery and extremely acrid discharge. Feeling of a lump at root of nose. Hay-fever. [Sabad.; Sil.; Psor.] Fluent coryza with headache, cough, and hoarseness. Polypus.
Stomach.—Canine hunger. Pain in pyloric region. Thirst. Belching. Nausea.
Abdomen.—Rumbling, offensive flatus. Pains in left hypogastrium. Colic sitting, moving about.
Rectum.—Diarrhea with very offensive flatus. Stitches in rectum; itching and rhagades in anus. Glowing heat in rectum.
Urinary.—Sensation of weakness in bladder and urethra. Increased secretion of urine with coryza. Urine red with much pressure and burning in urethra.
Respiratory.—Hoarseness. Hacking cough on inspiring cold - air. Tickling in larynx. Sensation as if larynx is split or torn. Oppressed breathing from pressure in middle of chest. Constricted feeling in region of epiglottis. Pain extending to ear.
Extremities.—Lame joints. Ulcers on heel. Painful affections of fingers about nails. Neuralgia of stump. Bad effects from getting feet wet. Limbs, especially arms, feel sore and tired.
Sleep.—Yawning with headache and drowsiness. Gaping in deep sleep. Dreams. Wakes at 2 am.
Modalities.—Worse, in the evening, in warm room. Better, in open air, and in cold room.
Relationship.—Compare: Gels.; Euph.; Kali hyd.; Aconite; Ipecac.
Complementary: Phosphor.; Thu,ja; Puls.
Antidotes: Arn.; Cham.; Verat.
Dose.—Third potency.
Acts directly on intestinal mucous membrane increasing peristalsis. Colitis, with pathological flora. Has vaso-dilatory properties. Arterial hypotension begins usually in 30 to 45 minutes after twenty to forty drop doses of the tincture. Adapted to fleshy subjects with dyspepsia and catarrhal affections. High livers. Patients who eat a great deal more, especially meat, than they drink. Pain in hip, pain in psoas and iliac muscles. Pulmonary tuberculosis. Cough and expectoration diminishes, temperature becomes normal, weight is gained, and sleep becomes regular. Haemoptysis.
Head.—Heavy; pulsation in temples; catarrhal deafness.
Mouth.—Much sweetish saliva after meals and at night. Sensation of a hair on tongue or throat.
Stomach.—Voracious appetite. Burning eructations. Least change in diet causes trouble. Constipation, with constant dull pains in bowels. Tongue pale, red papillae.
Respiratory.—Constant rattling of mucus in bronchi. Cough in the morning after leaving bedroom, with mucous expectoration, which is tenacious and difficult to raise. Sensitive to cold air. Dilated bronchi, with fetid expectoration. Darting pain in chest.
Female.—Pain in swelling of breasts. Eruption in vagina and on breasts and vulva during menses.
Relationship.—Allium Sat., according to Dr. Teste, belongs to the Bryonia group, including Lycopod., Nux. Colocy, Digital, and Ignatia which affect deeply all flesh eating animals and hardly at all vegetarians. Hence their special applicability to meat eaters rather than to exclusive vegetarians.
Compare: Capsicum; Arsenic; Senega; Kali nit.
Complementary: Arsenic.
Antidote: Lycopod.
Dose.—Third to sixth potency. In tuberculosis, dose, four to six grammes in moderate state of dessication daily, in divided doses.
Has some reputation as a remedy for skin affections, glandular enlargements, and indigestion from imperfect secretion of gastric juice. It stimulates nutrition, and thus acts favorably upon strumous disorders, enlarged glands, etc. Ulcerated mucous membrane: of mouth and throat. Fingers covered by crust caused by pustules, disagreeable odor. Indigestion from imperfect secretion of gastric juice.
Female.—Leukorrhea, with erosions of cervix, bleeding easily. Amenorrhaea, with burning pains from back to pubis.
Skin.—Chronic herpes. Enlarged sub-maxiliary glands. Eczema, prurigo. Purpura hemorrhagia. Poison-oak. Use locally.
Dose.—Tincture to third potency.
An excellent remedy to aid in re-establishing physiological equilibrium after much dosing, where disease and drug symptoms are much mixed. There is no remedy richer in symptoms of portal congestion and none that has given better clinical results, both for the primary pathological condition and secondary phenomena. Bad effects from sedentary life or habits. Especially suitable to lymphatic and hypochondriacal patients. The rectal symptoms usually determine the choice. Adapted to weary people, the aged, and phlegmatic, old beer-drinkers. Dissatisfied and angry about himself, alternating with lumbago. Heat internally and externally. Has been used successfully in the treatment of consumption by giving the pure juice.
Head.—Headache alternates with lumbago, with intestinal and uterine affections. Disinclination to mental labor. Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them. Headache after stool. Dull, pressive pain; worse from heat.
Eyes.—Compelled to make small during pain in forehead. Flickering before eyes. Redness of eyes with yellow vision. Pain deep in orbits.
Face.—Marked redness of lips.
Ears.—Cracking when chewing. Sudden explosion and clashing in left ear. Tinkling as of some thin, shivered, metallic globe in head.
Nose.—Coldness of tip. Bleeding in morning on awakening. Full of crusts.
Mouth.—Taste bitter and sour. Tasteless eructations. Lips cracked and dry.
Throat.—Thick lumps of tough mucus. Varicose condition of veins in pharynx. Dry, scrapy feeling.
Stomach.—Aversion to meat. Longing for juicy things. After eating, flatulence, pulsation in rectum, and sexual irritation. Nausea, with headache. Pain in pit when making false step.
Abdomen.—Pain around navel, worse pressure. Fullness in region of liver, pain under right ribs. Abdomen feels full, heavy, hot, bloated. Pulsating pain around navel. Weak feeling, as if diarrhea would come on. Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards, causing distress in lower bowels. Sensation of plug between symphysis pubis and os coccygis, with urging to stool. Colic before and during stool. Burning, copious flatus.
Rectum.—Constant bearing down in rectum; bleeding, sore, and hot; relieved by cold water. Feeling of weakness and loss of power of sphincter ani. Sense of insecurity in rectum, when passing flatus. Uncertain whether gas or stool will come. Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed. Lumpy, watery stool. Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after stool. A lot of mucus, with pain in rectum after stool. Hemorrhoids protrude like grapes; very sore and tender; better cold water application. Burning in anus and rectum. Constipation, with heavy pressure in lower part of abdomen. Diarrhea from beer.
Urinary.—Incontinence in aged, bearing-down sensation and enlarged prostate. Scanty and high colored.
Female.—Bearing down in rectum, worse standing and during menses. Uterus feels heavy, cannot walk much on that account. Labor-like pains in loins; extend down legs. Climacteric hemorrhage. Menses too early and too profuse.
Respiratory.—Winter coughs, with itching. Difficult respiration, with stitches from liver to chest.
Back.—Pain in small of back; worse moving. Stitches through sacrum. Lumbago alternating with headache and piles.
Extremities.—Lameness in all limbs. Drawing pains in joints. Soles pain when walking.
Modalities.—Worse, early morning; summer; heat; in hot, dry weather; after eating or drinking. Better, from cold, open air.
Relationship.—Complementary: Sulphur; compare: Kali bich.; Lycop.; Allium sat.
Antidotes: Opium; Sulph.
Dose.—Sixth potency and higher. In rectal conditions, a few doses of the third, then wait.
Malarial diseases, with diarrhea, dysentery, anaemia, feeble digestion, are the general conditions suggesting this remedy. Characteristics are the gone sensation in stomach and sinking in abdomen, with debility. A tonic after exhausting fevers.
Abdomen.—Violent purging and cramp in bowels. Heat and irritation in lower bowels. Camp diarrhea, bloody stool, dysentery; diarrhea from bad water and malaria. Painless waiery stools. [Phosph. ac.] Diarrhea immediately after eating.
Relationship.—Compare: Similar in action to Alstonia constricta, the bitter bark or native quinine of Australia. Ditain (active principle, is anti-periodic, like quinine, but without unpleasant effects). Cinchona (similar in diarrhea, chronic dyspepsia and debility). Hydrastis; Fer. cit. et chin.
Dose.—Tincture to third potency. Locally, for ulcers and rheumatic pains.
The clinical application of this remedy points to its bowel symptoms, both in obstinate constipation and in hemorrhage from bowels in the course of typhoid-one phase of the paralytic weakness of the muscles in all parts of the body. Tendency to induration is also marked, a low form of tissue-making is favored. Hardening of tissues of tongue, rectum, uterus, et :.; ulcers with indurated base. Adapted to old people, especially bronchial catarrhs. Sensation of dryness and constriction. Mental paresis; dysphagia especially to liquids. Tendency to induration, Scirrhus of the tongue.
Head.—Burning pain as of weight on top of ',eo.d better by pressure of hand. Vertigo, with weakness in pit of stomach. Alopecia.
Throat.—Throat relaxed. Mucous membrane red and swollen. Cough. Tickling in throat. Tendency to throat colds. Enlarged and indurated tonsils. Burning pain down the esophagus. Complete aphonia. Every cold settles in throat. Constriction of esophagus.
Heart.—Palpitation, from lying down on right side.
Rectum. Constipation of the most aggravated kind. No desire for stool for days. Violent ineffectual urging to stool. No ability to expel stool. Marble-like masses pass, but rectum still feels full. Itching after stool. Itching in anus. Long lasting pain and smarting in rectum after stool; also hemorrhoids. Yellow, like an infant's. Hemorrhage from bowels.
Female.—Tendency to induration of neck of uterus and mammary glands. [Carb. an.; Con.] Chronic yellow vaginal discharge. Chronic gonorrhea, yellow, with little lumps along urethra. Aphthous patches in vagina. [Caul.] Menses watery.
Respiritory.—Haemoptysis, great weakness of chest; difilcult to expel mucus. Copious, ropy morning expectoration in old people. Asthma.
Skin.—Ulcers, with indurated base. To be thought of in indurated glands, epithelioma, etc.; veins become varicose. and bleed. Indurations resulting from long-continued inflammatory irritations. Glands inflame and harden. Alopecia. Scrotal eczema and on back of penis.
Extremities.—Weakness of all muscles, especially arms and legs. Constricted feeling around limbs.
Modalities.—Worse, cold except headache, which is relieved by cold.
Dose.—First to thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies have proved efficacious. Powdered alum, 10 grains, placed on tongue, said to arrest an attack of asthma.
A very general condition corresponding to this drug is dryness of mucous membranes and skin, and tendency to paretic muscular states. Old people, with lack of vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility. Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering, and the characteristic constipation find an excellent remedy in Alumina. Disposition to colds in the head, and eructations in spare, dry, thin subjects. Delicate children, products of artificial baby foods.
Mind.—Low-spirited; fears loss of reason. Confused as to personal identity. Hasty, hurried. Time passes slowly. Variable mood. Better as day advances. Suicidal tendency when seeing knife or blood.
Head.—Stitching, burning pain in head, with vertigo, worse in morning, but relieved by food. Pressure in forehead as from a tight hat. Inability to walk except with eyes open. Throbbing headache, with constipation. Vertigo, with nausea; better after breakfast. Falling out of hair; scalp itches and is numb.
Eyes.—Objects look yellow. Eyes feel cold. Lids dry, burn, smart, thickened, aggravated in morning; chronic conjunctivitis. Ptosis. Strabismus.
Ears.—Humming; roaring. Eustachian tube feels plugged.
Nose.—Pain at root of nose. Sense of smell diminished. Fluent coryza. Point of nose cracked, nostrils sore, red; worse touch. Scabs with thick yellow mucus. Tettery redness. Ozaena atrophica sicca. Membranes distended and boggy.
Face.—Feels as if albuminous substance had dried on it. Blood-boils and pimples. Twitching of lower jaw. Rush of blood to face after eating.
Mouth.—Sore. Bad odor from it. Teeth covered with sordes. Gums sore, bleeding. Tensive pain in articulation of jaw when opening mouth or chewing.
Throat.—Dry, sore; food cannot pass, esophagus contracted. Feels as if splinter or plug were in throat. Irritable, and relaxed throat. Looks parched and glazed. Clergyman's sore throat in thin subjects. Thick, tenacious mucus drops from posterior nares. Constant inclination to clear the throat.
Stomach.—Abnormal cravings-chalk, charcoal, dry fo-a, tea-grounds. Heartburn; feels cons'crictea. Aversion to meat. [Graph.; Arn.; Puls.] Potatoes disagree. No desire to eat. Can swallow but small morsels at a time. Constriction of esophagus.
Abdomen.—Colic, like painter's colic. Pressing in both groins toward sexual organs. Left-sided abdominal complaints.
Stool.—Hard, dry, knotty; no desire. Rectum sore, dry, inflamed, bleeding. Itching and burning at anus. Even a soft stool is passed with difficulty. Great straining. Constipation of infants [Collins.; Psor.; Paraf.] and old people from inactive rectum, and in women of very sedentary habit. Diarrhea on urinating. Evacuation preceded by painful urging long before stool, and then straining at stool.
Urine.—Muscles of bladder paretic, must strain at stool in order to urinate. Pain in kidneys, with mental confusion. Frequent desire to urinate in old people. Difficult starting.
Male.—Excessive desire. Involuntary emissions when straining at stool. Prostatic discharge.
Female.—Menses too early, short, scanty, pale, followed by great exhaustion. [Carb. an.; Coccul.] Leukorrhea acrid, profuse, transparent, ropy, with burning; worse during daytime, and after menses. Relieved by washing with cold water.
Respiratory.—Cough soon after waking in the morning. Hoarse, aphonia,' tickling in larynx; wheezing, rattling respiration. Cough on talking or singing, in the morning. Chest feels constricted. Condiments produce cough. Talking aggravates soreness of chest.
Back.—Stitches. Gnawing pain, as if from hot iron. Pain along cord, with paralytic weakness.
Extremities.—Pain in arm and fingers, as if hot iron penetrated. Arms feel paralyzed. Legs feel asleep, especially when sitting with legs crossed. Staggers on walking. Heels feel numb. Soles tender; on stepping, feel soft and swollen. Pain in shoulder and upper arm. Gnawing beneath finger nails. Brittle nails. Inability to walk, except when eyes are open or in daytime. Spinal degenerations and paralysis of lower limbs.
Sleep.—Restless; anxious and confused dreams. Sleepy in morning.
Skin.—Chapped and dry tettery. Brittle nails. Intolerable itching when getting warm in bed. Must scratch until it bleeds: then becomes painful. Brittle skin on fingers.
Modalities.—Worse, periodically; in afternoon; fronrt potatoes. Worse, in morning on awaking; warm roam. Better, in open air; from cold washing; in evening and on alternate days. Better, damp weather.
Relationship.—Compare: Aluminum chloridum (Pains of loco-motor ataxia. Lower trits in water, Slag Silico - Sulphocalcite of Alumina 3x (anal itching, piles, constipation, flatulent distention); Secale; Lathyr.; Plumb. Aluminum acetate solution. (Externally a lotion for putrid wounds and skin infections. Arrests hemorrhage from inertia of uterus. Parenchymatous hemorrhage from various organs 2-3 % solution. Hemorrhage following tonsillectomy is controlled by rinsing out nasopharynx with a 10% sol.
Complementary: Bryonia.
Antidotes: Ipecac.; Chamom.
Dose.—Sixth to thirtieth and higher. Action slow in developing.
Deep acting remedy for chronic complaints of brain, spine and nerves. Constriction is a marked general symptom, also constriction of orifices. Venous distention. Weakness, especially spinal. Aching and burning in spine. Formication, numbness, pain in all limbs. Epileptiform convulsion. Coldness during pains.
Head.—Congestion of brain. Constriction of scalp. Pain in head, better heat, perspires. Pain in eyes, flickering. Frequent coryzas. Swelling and ulceration of nose.
Respiratory.—Catarrh of chest, pain, raw feeling. Feeling of great weakness in chest. Stitching pains. Spasmodic cough with purulent viscid expectoration.
Extremities.—Heaviness, jerking, numbness, aching and pains.
Skin.—Formication along course of nerves, veins feel full and distended, Sore to touch and pressure.
Modalities-Worse, cold air, after eating, standing. Better, warmth, fasting, resting in bed.
Dose.—Higher potencies.
Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin, nervous patients. Extreme nervous hypersensitiveness. External numbness of whole body in the morning and weakness. Nervous bilious temperament. Thin, scrawny women. Adapted to hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive cough, eructation, etc. Also for patients weakened by age or overwork, who are anaemic and sleeplesso Great remedy for the aged, with impairment of all functions, weakness, coldness and numbness, usually of singie parts, fingers, arms, etc. One-sided complaints call for it. Music aggravates symptoms. Ebulitions and pulsations after walking in open air. One-sided complaints.
Mind.—Dread of people, and desire to be alone. Cannot do anything in presence of others. Intensely shy, blushes easily. Music causes weeping. Despair, loathing of life. Fantastic illusions. Bashful. Loss of love of life. Restless, excited, very loquacious. Time passes slowly. Thinking difficult in the morning with old people. Dwells upon unpleasant things.
Head.—Slow comprehension. Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach. Pressure on front part of head with mental depression. Tearing pain in upper half of brain. Senile dizziness. Rush of blood to head, when listening to music. Hearing impaired. Epistaxis, especially in the morning. Profuse bleeding from teeth. Hair falls out.
Stomach.—Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough. Acid eructations, like heartburn. Distention of stomach and abdomen after midnight. Sensation of coldness in abdomen.
Urinary.—Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time. Burning in orifice of urethra and anus. Feeling in urethra as it a few drops passed out. Burning and itching in urethra while urinating. Urine turbid, even during emission, forming a brown sediment.
Female.—Nymphomania, Itching of pudendum, with soreness and swelling. Menses too early. Profuse, bluish leukorrhea. Worse at night. Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident.
Male.—Voluptuous itching of scrotum. Parts externally numb; burn internally. Violent erections without voluptuous sensations.
Respiratory.—Asthmatic breathing with eructation of gas. Nervous, spasmodic cough, with hoarseness and eructation, on waking in morning; worse in presence of people. Tickling in throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, gets out of breath when coughing. Hollow, spasmodic, barking cough, coming from deep in chest. Choking when hawking up phlegm.
Heart.—Palpitation, with pressure in chest as from a lump lodged there, or as if chest was obstructed. Conscious of the pulse. Palpitation in open air with pale face.
Sleep.—Cannot sleep from worry; must get, up. Anxious dreams. Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep.
Skin.—Itching and soreness, especially around genitals. Numbness of skin. Arms "go to sleep."
Extremities.—Cramps in hands and fingers, worse grasping anything. Cramps in legs.
Modalities.—Worse, music; presence of strangers; from any unusual thing; morning, warm room. Better, slow motion in open air; lying on painful part; cold drinks.
Relationship.—Do not confound with Amber - Succinum. q. v. Moschus frequently follows advantageously.
Compare: Oleum succinum (hiccough). Sumbul; Castor.; Asaf.; Crocus. Litium.
Dose.—Second and third potencies; may be repeated with advantage.
A remedy for hay-fever, lachrymation and intolerable itching of the eye-lids. Some forms of whooping-cough. Respiratory tract in its entire length stopped up. Many forms of diarrhea, especially during summer months, also dysentery.
Nose.—Watery coryza; sneezing; watery discharge. Nosebleed. Stuffed up feeling of nose and head. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes, with asthmatic attacks. [Aral.; Eucalypt.] Wheezy cough.
Eyes.—Smart and burn. Lachrymation.
Relationship.—Compare in hay-fever: Sabadilla, Wyethia; Succin. ac.; Ars. jod.; Arundo.
Dose.—Tincture, to third potency; 10 drops in water during and after attack of epistaxis. In hay-fever high potencies.
A remedy for the aged and feeble, especially in chronic bronchitis. Ill humor. Sensitive to cold. Sensation of burning and scratching in neck and esophagus.
Head.—Catarrhal headache due to closure of frontal sinuses.
Eyes.—Dim sight. Stars and fiery points float before eyes. Easily fatigued from reading.
Throat.—Throat dry; worse inhaling fresh air. Full feeling, burning and scraping sensation. Immediately after eating, sensation as if something stuck in esophagus, causing swallowing.
Respiratory.—Difficult breathing. Chronic bronchial catarrh. Large accumulation of purulent matter and feeble expectoration; worse cold weather. Mucus tough and hard. Heart beats stronger, extends to pit of stomach. Coarse rattling of chest in old people.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Bry.; Arnica.
Compare: Senega; Tart. emet.; Balsam Peru.
Dose.—Third trituration,
One of the remedies for albuminuria, especially in the gouty. Gout, with deposits in joints. Urinary incontinence in the aged.
Head.—Heavy, stupid.
Face.—Bloated, swollen eyelids. Swelling under tongue like ranula.
Urine.—Smoky, scanty. Albuminous and thick deposits.
Back.—Pain across sacrum, with urgency to stool. Soreness in region of right kidney.
Relationship.—Compare: Terebinth.; Benz. ac.; Ammonia salts; Caust.
In albuminuria compare: Kalmia; Helon; Merc. corr; Berb.; Canth.
Dose.—Second trituration.
Indicated in chronic laryngeal and pharyngeal catarrh, neuralgic headaches, and obesity. Constrictive pain in head, chest, legs, etc. Irritable feeling under finger nails; relieved only by biting them.
Head.—Cerebral congestion. Feeling of a band above ears. Sneezing; thick nasal discharge.
Eyes.—Edges of lids red and swollen, also Meibomian glands. Eyeballs feel large and pain around eyes into head.
Throat.—Smarting in mouth. Tickling in throat, with inclination to dry, spasmodic cough, especially at night. Burning in fauces. White, sticky, mucus. Chronic speakers' catarrh.
Respiratory.—Sudden, short cough, strangling. Tickling in trachea and bronchial tubes. Wakes at 3 am. with cough, Feels suffocated; continuous cough, when lying down at night; sharp pain in lungs. Whooping Cough. - Dry, spasmodic cough on lying down.
Relationship.—Hyos.; Con.; Arg. nit.; Kali bich.
Dose.—First potency.
The diseased conditions met by this remedy are such as we find often in rather stout women who are always tired and weary, take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like symptoms belore menses, lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction generally, and are disposed to frequent use of the smelling-bottle. Too frequent and profuse menses. Mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are especially affected. Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel suffocated. Very sensitive to cold air. Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it. Malignant scarlatina, with somnolence, swollen glands, dark red sore throat, faintly developed eruption. Uraemia. Heaviness iii all organs. Uncleanness in bodily habits. Swelling of parts, glands, etc. Acid secretions. Prostration from trifles.
Mind.—Forgetful, ill-humored, gloomy during stormy weather. Uncleanliness. Talking and hearing others talk affects greatly. Sad, weepy, unreasonable.
Head.—Pulsating forehead; better, pressure and in warm room. Shocks through head.
Eyes.—Burning of eyes with aversion to light. Eye-strain. [Nat. mur.] Asthenopia. Sore canthi.
Ears.—Hardness of hearing. Shocks through ears, eyes, and nose, when gnashing teeth.
Nose.—Discharge of sharp, burning water. Stoppage at night, with long - continued coryza. Cannot breathe through nose. Snuffles of children. `Epistaxis after washing and after cating. Ozaena, blows bloody mucus from nose. Tip of nose congested.
Face.—Tetters around mouth. Boils and pustules, during menses. Corners of mouth sore, cracked, and burn.
Mouth.—Great dryness of mouth and throat. Toothache. Pressing teeth together sends shocks through head, eyes, and ears. Vesicles on tongue. Taste sour, metallic. Cracking of jaws on chewing.
Throat.—Enlarged tonsils and glands of neck. Burning pain all down throat. Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils. Diphtheria when nose is stopped up.
Stomach.—Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, waterbrash, and chilliness. Great appetite, but easily satisfied. Flatulent dyspepsia.
Abdomen.—Noise and pain in abdomen. Flatulent hernia. Stools difficult, hard, and knotty. Bleeding piles; worse during menses. Itching at anus. 'Protruding piles, worse after stool, better lying down.
Urine.—Frequent desire; involuntary at night. Tenesmus of bladder. Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and fetid.
Male.—Itching and pain of scrotum and spermatic cords. Erection without desire. Seminal emissions.
Female.—Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum. Leucorrh~a burning, acrid, watery. Aversion to the other sex. Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness.
Respiratory.—Hoarseness. Cough every morning about three o'clock, with dyspnea, palpitation, burning in chest; worse ascending. Chest feels tired. Emphysema. Much oppression in breathing; worse after any effort, and entering warm room, or ascending even a few steps. Asthenic Pneumonia. Slow labored, stertorous breathing; bubbling sound. Winter catarrh, with slimy sputum and specks of blood. Pulmonary wdema.
Heart.—Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat, lachrymation, inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands. Heart weak, wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation.
Extremities.—Tearing in joints relieved by heat of bed; inclination to stretch limbs. Hands cold and blue; distended veins. Fingers swell when arm is hanging down. Panaritium, deep-seated periosteal pain. Cramps in calves and soles. Big toe painful and swollen. Felons in the beginning. Heel painful on standing. Tearing in ankle and bones of feet, Detter when warm in bed.
Sleep.—Sleepiness during the day. Starts from sleep strangling.
Skin.—Violent itching and burning blisters. Scarlet rash. Miliary rash. Malignant scarlatina. Faintly developed eruptions from defective vitality. Erysipelas in the aged, with brain symptoms. Eczema in the bends of extremities, between legs, about anus and genitals.
Modalities.—Worse, evenings, from cold, wet weather, wet applications, washing, and during 3 to 4 am., during menses. Better, lying on painful side and on stomach; in dry weather.
Relationship.—Inimical to Lachesis. Similar in action.
Antidotes: Arnica; Camphor.
Compare: Rhus; Muriatic acid; Tartar emet.
Of use in poisoning by charcoal fumes.
Dose.—Lower potencies deteriorate with age. Sixth potency best for general use.
This is a powerful cardiac stimulant. As such in syncope, thrombosis, hemorrhage, snake-bites, chloroform narcosis, may be given by inhalation.
The edema and ulceration of mucous membranes produced by this powerful drug have been utilized as guiding symptoms f or its use; hence in membranous croup with burning in esophagus. Aphonia. See Causticum.
Respiratory.—Difficult respiration. Accumulation of mucus with incessant coughing. Loss of voice. Burning rawness in throat. Spasm of the glottis with suffocation; patient gasps for breath. Pain in esophagus on breathing deeply. Scraping and burning in throat and esophagus. Uvula covered with white mucus. Nasal diphtheria, with burning excoriating discharge.
Extremities.—Excessive exhaustion and muscular debility. Rheumatism of shoulders. Skin hot and dry.
Dose.—First to third potency; also five to ten minims, well diluted with water.
Indicated when iodine has but partially relieved its cases of laryngitis and bronchitis, catarrhal pneumonia, aedema of lungs.
Head.—Dull headache, especially in young people, face stupid, heavy; vertigo, Meniere's disease.
Dose.—Second and third trit.
Compare: Ammonium tartaricum (Dry hacking cough after every cold).
A state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state is produced by this remedy. All mucous secretions are increased and retained. It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles. Coughs associated with catarrhs and affections of liver. A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seems to be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc. Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse glairy secretions. Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings. "Boiling" sensation.
Mind.—Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief. Desire to cry, but cannot. Consequences of grief.
Head.—Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff. Feels full, compressed; worse mornings.
Eyes. —Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipient cataract; capsular cataract.
Nose.—Free acrid, hot watery discharge corroding the lip. Sneezing. Nose sore to touch; ulcerative pain in nostrils. Loss of smell. Obstructed, stuffy feeling; constant and unavailing efforts to blow it out. Itching.
Face.—Inflammatory faceache. Mouth and lips sore and excoriated.
Throat.—Throbbing in, and swEtling of tonsils, can scarcely swallow. Sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating. Internal and external swelling of throat with viscid phlegm. So tough, it cannot be hawked up. Tonsillitis. Stricture of esophagus.
Stomach.—Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter waterbrash. Nausea. Gnawing in stomach. Epigastric pain immediately after eating. Cancer of stomach.
Abdomen.—Splenic stitches, especially in the morning, with difficult breathing. Pain around navel. Abdominal symptoms appear during pregnancy. Chronic congestion of liver. Excessive fatty deposit around abdomen. Much flatus. Strained feeling in groin.
Rectum.—Itching and hemorrhoids, soreness with;oustuies. fIard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus. Stinging in perinaeum. Green mucus stools alternate with constipation. 1) uring and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum. 1Jaemorrhoids after suppressed leukorrhea.
Female.—Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; flow more at night. Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy. Diarrhea, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain during menses. Leukorrhea, like white of an egg [Alum.; Bor.; Calc. p.] ; with pain about the navel; brown, slimy after every urination.
Respiratory.—Hoarseness and burning in larynx. Dry, hacking, scraping cough; worse lying on back or right side. Stitches in chest. Cough loose in afternoon, with profuse expectoration and rattling of mucus. Oppression of chest. Burning at small spots in chest. Scanty secretion. Cough with profuse salivation.
Back.—Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching. Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting. Backache, as if in a vise when sitting.
Extremities.—Pain as from ulceration in finger tips. Shooting and tearing in tips of finger and toes. Ulcerative pain in heels. Contraction of hamstring tendons. Sciatica, worse sitting, better lying. Neuralgic pain in amputated limbs. Offensive sweaty feet. Pain in feet during menses.
Skin.—Itching, generally evenings. Blisters on various parts. Intense burning better cold applications.
Fever. —Chilliness evenings after lying down and on awakening, without thirst. Heat in palms and soles. Sub acute, low fevers due to unhealthy climate. Lowest potencies.
Modalities.—Better, open air. Worse, head and chest symptoms in itle morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Coffea; Nux; Caust.
Compare: Calcarea; Senega; Caustic.
Dose.—Third to sixth potency.
A remedy for chronic gouty patients uric acid diathesis, indicated in bronchitis and nodosities of the joints of the fingers and backs of the hands. Facial paralysis. Pain in shoulderjoint. Tightness around chest. Heavienss of limbs, unsteady, tottering gait. Coldness from least draft of air.
Head.—Sneezing with excessive running from nose and eyes, only in morning.
Respiratory.—Deep rough cough with greenish expectoratioti,
Urine.—Rose-colored sediment.
Dose.—Third decimal trituration.
A remedy for malarial fever and neuralgias and so-called bilious headaches. Pain in occiput and mastoid region. Whooping cough.
Head.—Periodical neuralgia in right side of occiput; boring oxtends to ear, orbit, and jaw. Vertigo on rising. Periodic bilious headaches. [Saraglcin]
Dose.—Third trituration.
A remedy for nervous, hysterical people, suffering with nenralaia headaches and insomnia. Great nervous erethism is always present.
Heart.—Pains in mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma; cardiac region. Functional disturbances, tachycardia.
Dose.—Lower triturations.
Renal dropsies, hydrocele, and chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients have been benefited by this drug. Choleric symptoms. Generally worse about 6 pm. Dilated pupils.
Left costal region sore and sensitive. Elbow joints pain, back sore. Soreness of all limbs. Vomiting, purging with tenesmus. Rumbling in abdomen.
Dose.—Second to third potency.
A most valuable remedy in vomiting of various kinds; morn. ing sickness. Irritation of eyes. Ischuria and Hematuria.
Hemorrhage from the bladder.
Gastric irritation of children; no form of food tolerated. Loss of smell and taste. Gastric and intestinal irritation when the tongue is elongated and pointed, tip and edges red. Constant nausea and vomiting.
Relationship.—Compare: Amygd. amara-Bitter Almond. (Pains through tonsils, throat dark, difficult swallowing, vomiting, cough with sore chest.)
Dose.—Fresh infusion or mother tincture.
On inhaling this drug, it rapidly dilates all arterioles and capillaries, producing flushings of face, heat, and throbbing in the head. - Superficial arterial hyperaemia. Palpitation of the heart and similar conditions are readily cured by it, especially the flushings and other discomforts at climacteric. Hiccough and yawning. Often relieves temporarily epileptic convulsions. Seasickness.
Head.—Anxiety, as if something might happen; must have fresh air. Surging of blood to head and face; sensation as if blood would start through skin, with heat and redness. Flushings, followed by sweat at climacteric. Ears hyperaemic. Throbbing.
Throat.—Constriction; collar seems too tight.
Chest.—Dyspncea and asthmatic feelings. Great oppression and fullness of chest; spasmodic, suffocative cough. Praecordial anxiety. Tumultuous action of heart. Pain and constriction around heart. Fluttering at slightest excitement.
Female.—After-pains; hemorrhage associated with facial flushing. Climacteric headache and flushes of heat, with anxiety and palpitation.
Fever.—Much flushing of heat; sometimes followed by cold and clammy skin and profuse sweat. Throbbing throughout whole body. Abnormal sweat after influenza.
Extremities.—Constant stretching for hours. Veins of hands dilated; pulsations felt in tips of fingers.
Relationship.—Compare: Glonoine; Lachesis.
Antidotes: Cactus; Strychn.; Ergot.
Dose.—Third potency.
For palliations. In all conditions where the blood-vessels are spasmodically contracted, as in angina pectoris, epileptic seizure, megrim, accompanied by cold, pallor, etc., also in paroxysms of asthma, chloroform asphyxia, inhalation of the Amyl. nit. will give immediate relief. For this non-homeopathic application, two to five minims (put up in pearls) dropped on a handkerchief and inhaled may be required.
The Anacardium patient is found mostly among the neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; impaired memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions. Intermittency of symptoms. Fear of examination in students. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. Sensation of a plug in various partseyes, rectum, bladder, etc.; also of a band. Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort. This is a sure indication, often verified. Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison-Oak.
Mind.—Fixed ideas. Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued. Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language. Brain-fag. Impaired memory. Absent mindedness. Very easily offended. Malicious; seems bent on wickedness. Lack of confidence in himself or others. Suspicious [Hyos.] . Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead. Senile dementia. Absence of all moral restraint.
Head.—Vertigo. Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion-in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; better during a meal. Itching and little boils on scalp.
Eyes.—Pressure like a plug on upper orbit. Indistinct vision. Objects appear too far off.
color:#00B050'>Ears.—Pressing in the ears as from a plug. Hard of hearing.
Nose.—Frequent sneezing. Sense of smell perverted. Coryza with palpitation, especially in the aged.
Face.—Blue rings around eyes. Face pale.
Mouth.—Painful vesicles; fetid odor. Tongue feels swollen, impeding speech and motion, with saliva in mouth. Burning around lips as from pepper.
Stomach.—Weak digestion, with fullness and distention. Empty feeling in stomach. Eructation, nausea, vomiting. Eating relieves the Anacardium dyspepsia. Apt to choke when eating or drinking. Swallows food and drinks hastily.
Abdomen.—Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines. Rumbling, pinching, and griping.
Rectum.—Bowels inactive. Ineffectual desire; rectum seems powerless, as if plugged up; spasmodic constriction of sphincter and; even soft stool passes with difficulty. Itching at anus; moisture from rectum. Hemorrhage during stool. Painful hemorrhoids.
Male.—Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams. Prostatic discharge during stool.
Female.—Leukorrhea, with soreness and itching. Menses scanty.
Respiratory.—Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug. Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air. Cough excited by talking, in childrei, after fit of temper. Cough after eating with vomiting of mod and pain in occiput.
Heart.—Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart region. Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches.
Back.—Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight. Stiffness at nape of neck.
Extremities.—Neuralgia in thumb. Paralytic weakness. Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged. Cramps in calves. Pressure as from a plug in the glutei. Warts on palms of hands. Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption.
Sleep.—Spells of sleeplessness Jasting for several nights. Anxious dreams.
Skin.—Intense itching eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; swelling, urticaria; eruption like that of Poison-Oak. [XerophyL; Grindel.; Croton.] Lichen planus; neurotic eczema. Warts on hands. Ulcer formation on forearm.
Modalities.—Worse, on application of hot water. Better front eating. When lying on side, from rubbing.
Relationship.—Antidote: Grindelia; Cofjca; Juglans; Rlans; Eucalyptus.
Compare: Anacard. occidentale (cashew nut:) (ersipelas, vesicular facial eruptions), anaesthetic variety of leprosy; warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet). Rhus; Cypriped.; Chelidon.; Xerophyl.
Platina follows well. Cereus serpentina (swearing).
Dose.—Sixth to two hundredth potency.
Marked action on skin, characterized by great itching and tingling everywhere. Favors expulsion of splinters. An old medicine for hydrophobia and dropsy. Possesses power of softening flesh and destroying warts.
Head.—Great hilarity; headache over supra-orbital ridges, with rumbling in bowels and eructations; better from coffee. Sick headache. Pain in facial muscles.
Extremities.—Rheumatic: and gouty pains. Pain in shoulder and arm. Cramp in ball of thumbs and fingers.
Urine.—More or less irritation in urethra, inclining to coition. Burning pain on urinating, with agglutination of orifice. Urine passes in several strcarns; must press before it passes.
Skin.—Itching; dry, bran-like eruption, especially on, hands and fingers. Palms especially affected. Vesicles in groups. Ulcers and swellings on joints.
Relationship.—Anagallis contains Saponin, q. v.
Compare: Cyclamen; Primula obcon.
Dose.—First to third potency.
A skin remedy of high order.
Painful swelling of various parts, going on to suppuration. Glandular inflammation.
Head.—Pains pierce brain like pointed arrows; worse in tvrnoon. Herpes, ulcers, and tumors on scalp. Wartlike growth on eyebrows. Boils and tumors on tip of nose. Tongue fih.sured, as if cut on edges; copious salivation.
Urine.—Turbid, thick, full of mucus. Constant urging. bladder cannot hold smallest quantity. Involuntary. Cystitis.
Sexual.—Chancre-like sores. Scirrhus-like swelling of cervix.
Breasts swollen, indurated, nipples excoriated.
Skin.—Diseased and deformed nails. Offensive foot-sweat. Abcesses, boils, ulcers. Erysipelas. Pruritus, herpes.
Relationship.—Compare: Staphisag.; Mercur.; Thuja.
Dose.—Third potency.
Mescal is a strong intoxicating spirit distilled from Pulque fuerte. Pulque is made from the Agave Americana of Mexico, locally known as Maguey and is the national beverage of Mexico. Indians call it Peyote. It weakens the heart, produces insanity. Its most striking effects appear in the auditory nerve for it makes "each note upon the piano a center of melody which seems to be surrounded by a halo of color pulsating to the rythm of the music." (Hom. World.)
Causes a form of intoxication accompanied by wonderful visions, remarkably beautiful and varied kaleidoscopic changes, and a sensation of increased physical ability. Also visions of monsters and various gruesome forms. A cardiac tonic and respiratory stimulant. Hysteria and insomnia. A remedy for brain-fag, delirium, megrim, hallucinations, with colored brilliant visions. Motor inco-ordination. Extreme muscular depression; increased patellar reflex. Paraplegia.
Mind.—Loss of conception of time. Difficult enunciation. Distrust and resentment. Lazy contentment.
Head.—Aches, with disturbed vision. Fantastic, brilliant, moving colored objects. Affected by beating time. Pupils dilated, vertigo, brain tired. Polychrome spectra: Exaggerated reverberation of ordinary sounds.
Dose.—Tincture.
Relationship.—Compare Agave. The intoxication of Anha. lonium is similar to that of Cannabis Indica and Oenanthe.
A mucous membrane medicine. Chronic forms of inflammation of the Schneiderian membrane with considerable relaxation and profuse discharge. Chief value in catarrhul staies, vvith full stuffy sensation in head and throat. Useful in cuts, bruises and sprains; and as a diuretic and in malaria. Not yet proven, but found useful in profuse mucous or serous discharges; in nasal and pharyngeal tarrh, diarrhea and urethritis. Recommended in heart disease, as a quieting agent when unduly excited. Flatulence; promotes digestion.
Relationship.—Compare Piper meth.
Dose.—The tincture internally and locally as a spray.
Rheumatic and paralytic complaints-great difficulty in. walking. Crackling in all joints.
The greatest craving for coffee is a characteristic symptom. Caries of long bones. Paralysis. Tetanus. Stiffness of muscles and joints. Oversensitive.
Principal action on spinal motor nerves and mucous membranes.
Head.—Oversensitive. Headache, with heat of face. Acute pain in cheeks. Drawing in facial muscles. -Pain in temporal muscles, when opening the jaws. Pain in articulation of jaw, in masseter muscles, as if fatigued by chewing too much. Cramp-pain on the zygomatic arch.
Stomach.—Bitter taste. Irresistible desire for coffee. Pain ironi navel into sternum. Atonic dyspepsia. Belching, with cough. [Ambra.]
Abdomen.—Diarrhea and colic. Tenesmus with soft stool; chronic diarrhea, with debility and loss of flesh. Burning in anus.
Back.—Itching along back. Pain in cervical vertebrae. Drawing in the neck. Pain in spine, at nape of neck and mitt-rum, worse on pressure. Twitching and jerking along back. fiends backward.
Extremities.—Stiffness and tension of muscles and joints. Pain in limbs on walking. Arms tired and heavy. Caries of long bones. Coldness of fingers. Pain in knees. Cracking in joints.
Skin.—Caries, very painful ulcers which affect the bone.
Relationship.—Compare: Nux; Ruta; Mercur.; Brucea. - Bark of Nux vomica or angustura falsa. (Tetanic spasms with undisturbed consciousness, worse noise, liquids, paralyzed lower extremities, worse least touch, cries for fear of being touched. Painful jerking of legs; cramp-like pain in knees; rigid and lame limbs of paralytics. For pain in the passing of calculus.)
Dose.—Sixth potency,
Marked giddiness and pain in head; face has a purple hue. Pain(s) in penis and scrotum with swelling. Tumors of the urinary passages. Profound anaemia with discoloration of skin, blue lips, anorexia, gastric disturbances. Swelling of skin.
Relationship.—Compare: Arsenic; Antipyrin.
This remedy is akin to the ordinary Chamomilia. Gastric disturbance with coldness. Sensitive to cold air and cold things.
Respiration.—Coryza with much lachrymation, sneezing, and discharge of clear water from the nose. Symptoms worse indoors. Constriction and rawness of throat. Cough, tickling; worse in warm room.
Abdomen.—Aching in region of liver; griping and chilliness inside of abdomen and into legs. Itching of anus, with white putty-like stools.
Urinary.—Bladder feels distended. Pain along spermatic cord, which feels full, as if varicosed. Frequent urination.
Skin.—Itching of the soles, as if from chilblains. Gooseflesh.
Dose.—Use the third potency.
This nosode has proven a great remedy in epidemic spleen diseases of domestic animals, and in septic inflammation, carbuncles, and malignant ulcers. In boils and boil-like eruptions, acne. Terrible burning. Induration of cellular tissue, abscess, bubo, and all inflammation of connective tissue in which there exists a purulent focus.
Tissues.—Hemorrhages, black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing, from any orifice. Glands swollen, cellular tissues (edematous and indurated. Septicemia. Ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning. Erysipelas. Black and blue blisters Dissecting wounds. Insect stings. Bad effects from inhaling foul odors. Gangrenous parotitis. Succession of boils. Gangrene. Foul secretions.
Relationship.—Similar to Arsenic, which it often follows.
Compare: Pyrogen; Lachesis; Crotalus; Hippozcen; Echinac.; Silica follows well. In the treatment of carbuncles, remember the prescription of the prophet Isaiah for King Hezekiah's carbuncle-i.e., the pulp of a fig placed on a poultice and apply,
Dose.—Thirtieth potency. Tarant. Cubensis.
Useful in skin affections, scabies, prurigo, chronic herpes, eacks and ulcerations. Papular-like eruption with a vesicular tendency, especially orn scrotum, also on hands, tibia, shoulders and dorsum of feet. Intense thirst. Chronic rheumatism. Bilious attacks, vomiting of bile, tympanic distention of abdomen.
Dose.—Low triturations.
Found useful in emphysema with excessive dyspnea.and cough, much mucous secretion. Worse on eating and lying down. Catarrhal pneumonia associated with ir.flaenza. Myocarditis and cardiac weakness. Pleurisy, especially of left side, with exudaiion, and pericarditis, with effusion. Sense of weakness. Infiamtrration of eyes and aedema of face.
Dose.—Third trituration.
For homeopathic employment, the mental symptoms, and those of the gastric sphere, determine its choice. Excessive irritability and fretfulness, together with a thickly-coated white tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy. All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold bathing. Cannot bear heat of sun. Tendency to grow fat. An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable. Gout with gastric symptoms.
Mind.—Much concerned about his fate. Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction. Sulky; does not wish to speak. Peevish; vered without cause. Child cannot bear to be touched or lootced at. Angry at every little attention. Sentimental mood.
Head.—Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing,) rom disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines. Suppressed eruptions. Heaviness in forehead with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed. Headache with great loss of hair.
Eyes.—Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated. Canthi raw and fissured. Chronic blepharitis. Pustules on cornea and lids.
Ears.—Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube. Ringing and deafness. Moist eruption around ear.
Nose.—Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts. Eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.
Face.—Pimples, pustules, and boils on face Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin. Sallow and haggard.
Mouth.—Cracks in corners of mouth. Dry lips. Saltish saliva. Much slimy mucus. Tongue coated thick white, as if whitewashed. Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily. Toothache in hollow teeth. Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus. Canker sores. Pappy taste. No thirst. Subacute eczema about mouth.
Throat.—Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nareE Hawking :n open air. Laryngitis. Rough voice from over use.
Stomach.—Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, pickles. Thirst in evening and night. Eructation tasting of the ingesta. Heartburn, nausea, vomiting. After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross. Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather. Constant belching. Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels. Sweetish waterbrash. Bloating after eating.
Stool.—Anal itching. [Sulpho - Calc. Alum.] Diarrhea alternotes with constipation, especially in old people. Diarrhea after acids, sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools. Mucous piles, continued oozing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed with watery discharge. Catarrhal proctitis. Stools composed entirely of mucus.
Urine.—Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul odor.
Male.—Eruption on scrotum and about genitals. Impotence. Atrophy of penis and testicles.
Female.—Excited; parts itch. Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse. Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region. Leukorrhea watery; acrid, lumpy.
Respiratory.—Cough worse coming into warm room, with horning ensation in chest, itching of chest, oppression. Loss of voice from becoming overheated. Voice harsh and badly pIh lccd, f:mcls. - Itching and pain of neck and back.
I;xtremities. - Twitching of muscles. Jerks in arms. Ar1,>rilic pain infingers. Nails brittle; grow out of shape. Horny w.rrts on hands and soles. Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence. Feet very tender; covered with large horny places. Inflamed corns. Pain in heels.
5kin. - Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, andpustules. Sensitive to cold bathing. Thick, hard, honeycolored scabs. Urticaria; measle-like eruption. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin. Warts. [Tianja; Sabina; C,aust.] Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.
Sleep.—Continual drowsiness in old people.
Fever.—Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhea. Hot nwcat.
Modalities.—Worse in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices. Better in open air, during rest. Moist warmth.
Relationship.—Compare: Antimonium Claloridum. Butter of Antimony. (A remedy for cancer. Mucous membranes des,t royed. Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. Great prostratimn of strength. Dose-third trituration.)
: I nfimon. jodat. (Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis; loss of strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy.) In sub-acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from bead and have fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes In the form of hard, croupy cough with a decided wheeze and Inability to raise the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients (Bacmeister). Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow And delayed.
Compare: Iier - mes naineral - Stibiat z~ulph. rub. (Bronchitis.)
Also Puls, Iprcac, Sulph. Complementary: Sulph. Antidote: Ilepar.
Dose.—Third to sixth potency.
A remarkable remedy for many forms of chronic nasal and bronchial catarrh. Acne. Amaurosis.
Nose and Throat.—Nosebleed on washing. Increased secretion in nose and throat. Rough and scrapy feeling. Loss of smell. Metallic styptic iss'r,e.
Respiratory.—Tickling in larynx. Increased mucus with fullness in bronchi. Respiration di:; ct!lt, pressuro in bronchi, with constriction, Tough mucus in bronchi and larynx. Dry hard cough. Congestion of upper lche of left hung. Winter coughs, patient is sore all over. Pneumonia, when hepatization occurred and resolution failed to take place.
Skin.—Acne (pustular variety). itching on hands and feet,
Dose.—Second or third trituration.
Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum but also many peculiar to itself. Clinically, its therapeutic apnlicatiorn has been confined argely to the treatment of respiratory diseases, raffling f mucus wilh little expectoration has been a guiding symptom. There is much drowsiness, debility and sweat characteristic of the drug, which group should always be more or less present, when the drug is prescribed. Gastric aifections of drunkards 2nd gouty subjects. Cholera morbus. Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels. Bilharzirsis. Antimonium tart is homeopathic to dysuria, s,1, augury, hzematuria, albuminuria, catarrh of bladder and urethra, burning in rectum, bloody mucous stec5, etc. Antimon tart acts indirectly on the parasites by stimulating the oxidizing action of the protective substance. By-effects following injection for Bilharziasis. Chills and contract ar. - and pain in muscles.
Trembling of whole hody, great prostration and faintness. Lumbago. Chills, cvntractures and muscular pains. Warts on glans penis.
Mind and Head.—Vertigo alternates with drowsiness. Great despondency. Fear of being alone. Muttering, delirium, and stupor. Vertigo, with dullness and confusion. Band-like feeling over forehead. Face pale and sunken. Child will not be touched without whining. Headache as from a band compressing. [Nit. ac.]
Tongue.—Coated, pasty, thick white, with red edges. Red and dry, especially in the cc-r.ter. Brown.
Face.—Cold, blue, pata; covered with cold sweat. Incessant, (In iaering of chin and lower jaw. [Gelsem.]
Stomach.—Difficult deglutition of liquids. Vomiting in any position, excepting lying on right side. Nausea, retching, and vomiting, especially after food, with deathly faintness and prostration. Thirst for cold water, little and often, and desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally. Nausea produces fear; with pressure in praecordial region, followed by headache with yawning and lachrymation and vomiting.
Abdomen.—Spasmodic colic, much flatus. Pressure in abdomen, especially on stooping forward. Cholera merbus. Diarrhea in eruptive diseases.
Urinary.—Burning in urethra during and after urinating. Last drops bloody with pain in bladder. Urging increased. Catarrh of bladder and urethra. Stricture_ Orchitis.
Respiratory Organs. -Hoarseness. Grcat, rattling of mucus, but very little is expectorated. Velvety feeling in chest. Burning sensation in chest, which ascends to throat. Rapid, short, difficult breathing; seems as if he would suffocate; must sit up. Emphysema of the aged. Coughing and gaping consecutively. Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus, Cough excited by eating, with pain in chest and larynx. (Edema and impending paralysis of lungs. Much palpitation, with uncomfortable hot feeling. Pulse rapid, weak, trernbiing. Dizziness, with cough Dyspnea relieved by eructaion. Cough and dyspnea better lying on right side - (opposite Badiaga).
Back.—Violent pain in sacro - lumbar region. Slightest effort to move may cause retching and cold, clammy sweat. Sensation of heavy weight at the coccyx, dragging downward all the time Twitching of muscles; limbs tremulous.
Skin.—Pustular eruption, leaving a bluish-red mark. Smallpox. Warts.
Fever.—Coldness, trembling, and chilliness. Intense heat Copious perspiration. Cold, clammy sweat, with great faintness. Intermittent fever with lethargic condition.
Sleep.—Great drowsiness. On falling asleep electric-like shocks. Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all complaints.
Modalities.—Worse, in evening; from lying down at night; from warmth; in damp cold weather; from all sour things and milk. Better, from sitting erect; from eructation and expectoration.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Puls.; Sepia.
Compare: Kali sulph.; Ipecac.
Dose.—Second and sixth trituration. The lower potencies sometimes aggravate.
Antipyrine is one of the drugs that induce leucocytosis, similar to ergotin, salicylates, and tuberculin. Acts especially on the vaso-motor centers, causing dilation of capillaries of skin and consequent circumscribed patches of hyperemia and swelling. In large doses causes profuse perspiration, dizziness, cyanosis, and somnolence, albumen and blood in urine. Acute erythema multiforme.
Mind.—Fear of becoming insane; nervous anxiety; hallucinations of sight and hearing.
Head.—Throbbing headache; sensation of constriction. Flashes of beat. Headache under ears with earache.
Eyes.—Pt:fizness of lids. Conjunctiva red and oeodematous, with lachrymation. Red spots. [Apis.]
Ears.—Pains and buzzing. Tinnitus.
Face.—Ocedema and puffiness. Red and swollen.
Mouth.—Swelling of lips. Burning of mouth and gums.
Ulceration of lips and tongue; vesicles and bullae. Small lump in cheek. Tongue swollen. Bloody saliva. Toothache along lower jaw.
Throat.—Pain on swallowing. Expectoration of fetid pus. Abscess, white false membrane. Sensation of burning.
Stomach.—Nausea and vomiting; burning and pain.
Urine.—Diminished. Penis black.
Female.—Itching and burning in vagina. Menses suppressed. Watery leucorrhma.
Respiratory.—Fluent coryza. Nasal mucous membrane swollen. Dull pains in frontal sinus. Aphonia. Oppression and dyspnma. Cheyne-Stokes repiration.
Heart.—Faintness, with sensation of stoppage of heart. Throbbing throughout the body. Rapid, weak, irregular pulse.
Nerves.—Epilegtiform seizures. Contractures. Trembling and cramps. Crawling and numbness. General prostration.
Skin.—Erythema, eczema, pemphigus. Intense pruritus. Urticaria, appearing and disappearing suddenly, with internal coldness. Angioneurotic-edema. Dark blotches on skin of penis, sometimes with ocedema.
Dose.—Second decimal potency.
Acts on cellular tissues causing edema of skin and membranes.
The very characteristic effects of the sting of the bee furnish unerring indications for its employment in disease. Swelling or puffing up of various parts, Edema, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat, and slightest touch, and afternoon aggravation are some of the general guidingsymptoms. Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acut--~, inflammation of kidneys, and other parenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis. Apis acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous membranes. It produces serums inflammation with effusion, membranes of brain, heart, pleuritic effusion, etc. Extreme sensitiveness to touch and gencral soreness is marked. Constricted sensations. Sereation of mucous
II kI stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of the body. Much prostration.
Mind.—Apathy, indifference, and unconsciousness. Awkward; drops things readi*. Stupor, with sudden sharp cries and startings. Stupor alternating with erotic mania. Sensation of dying. Listless; cannot think clearly. Jealous, fidgety, hard to please. Sudden shrill, piercing screams. Whining. Tearfulness. Jealously, fright, rage, vexation, grief. Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to rend or study.
Head.—Whole brain feels very tired. Vertigo with sneezing, worse on lying or closing eyes. Heat, throbbing, distensive pains, better on pressure, and worse on motion. Sudden stabbing pains. Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as from a blow, extending to neck (better on pressure), accompanied with sexual excitement. Bores head into pillow and screams out.
Eyes.—Lids swollen, red, Ødemxtous, everted, inflamed; burn and sting. Conjunctiva bright red, puffy. Lachrymation hot. Photophobia. Sudden piercing pains. Pain around orbits. Serous exudation, ocedema, end sharp pains. S uppura!it - e inflammation of eyes. Keratitis with intense chernosis of ocular conjunctiva. Staphy.oma of cornea following supparacive inflammation. St;res, also prevents their recurrence.
Ears.—External ear red, inflamed, sore; stinging pains.
Nose.—Coldness of tip of nose. Red, swollen, inflamed, with sharp pains.
Face.—Swollen, red, with piercing pain. 'I,;raxy, pale, cedematous. IJrys:ileius with stinging burning Edema. Extends from right to left.
Mouth.—lcn5ua fiery red, swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles. Scalding in mouth and throat. Tongue feels scalded, red hot, trembling. Gums s-,vcPe_~. Lips swollen, especially upper. Membrane of mouth and throat glcssy, as if varnished. Red, shi;aing, ard p?!,fcolor:red'>1/2g, 1ile erysipalss. Cancer of the tongue.
Throat.—Constricted., stinging pains. Urnia swollen, sacIl iilte. Throat swollen, inside and out; tonsils swollen, puffy, fiery red. Ulcers on tonsils. Fiery red margin around leathery merr.Lrano. Sensation of fiail'.a:jne in throat.
Stomach.—Sore feeling. Thirstless. Vomiting of food. Craving for wilt' - [Rhus.]
Abdomen.—Sore, bruised on pressure, when sneezing. Exfronrr'y tender. Dropsy of abdomen. Peritonitis. Swelling in right groin.
Stool.—Involuntary on every motion; anus seems open. Moody, painless. Anus feels raw. Hemorrhoids, with stinging pain, after confinenient. Diarrhea watery, yellow; cholera irrfaiatum type. Cannot urinate without a stool. Dark, fetid, worse after eating. Constipation; feels as if something would break on straining.
Urine.—Burning and soreness when urinating. Suppressed, loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; stinging pain and strangury; scanty, high colored. Incontinence. Last drops burn and smart.
Female.—CEdelna of labia; relieved by cold water. Soreness arid stinging pains; ovaritis; worse in right ovary. Menses suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in young girls. Dysmencrrhma, with severe ovarian pains. Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain. Sense of tightness. Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear. Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains. Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region.
Respiratory.—Hoarseness; dyspnea, breathing hurried and difficult. Edema of larynx. Feels as if he could not draw another breath. Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal. Hydrothorax.
Extremities.—Edematous. Synovitis. Felon in beginning. Knee swollen, shiny, sensitive, sore, with stinging pain. Feet swollen and sti.i. Feel too Iarge. Rheumatic pain in back and limbs. Tired, bruised feelin;. Numbness of hands and tips of fingers. Hives with intolerable itching. Edematous swellings.
Skin—Swellings after bites; sore, sensitive. Stinging. Eryeilrdas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue. Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain. [Ars.; Anthrac.] Sudden puffing up of whole body.
Sleep.—Very drowsy. Dreams full of care and toil. Screams und sudden starting during sleep.
Fever.—Afternoon chill, with thirst; worse on motion and heal. External heat, with smothering feeling. Sweat slight, with lieepiness. Perspiration breaks out and dries up freqnelltly.
Sleeps after the fever paroxysm. After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering.
Modalities.—Worse, heat in any form; touch; pressure; late in afternoon; after sleeping; in closed and heated rooms. Right side. Better, in open air, uncovering, and cold bathing.
Relationship.—Complementary: Nat. mur. The "chronic," Apis.; also Baryta carb., if lymphatics are involved. Inimical. Rhus.
Compare: Apium virus (auto-toxaemia, with pus products); Zinc.; Canth.; Vespa; Lachesis.
Dose.—Tincture to thirtieth potency. In cedematous conditions the lower potencies. Sometimes action is slow; so several days elapse before it is seen to act, and then urine is increased. Apium virus, sixth trituration.
Contains a soporific active principle. Obstinate retention of urine, throbbing headaches and heartburn, have been produced by celery. Swelling of throat, face, and hands. Rheumatic nain in muscles of neck also in sacrum. Growing pains. Hungry for åpples. Dysmenorrhea [painful menstruation] , with sharp, short pains, better flexing legs.
Head.—Depressed; energetic; feeling of fidgets; cannot sleep from thinking. Headache; better eating. Eyeballs feel sunken. Itching in eyes. Itching and smarting in inner canthus of left eye.
Abdomen.—Sore; sharp sticking pain as if stool was coming on; diarrhea, sharp pain in left iliac region going over to right. Nausea increases with pains.
Female.—Sharp sticking pains in both ovarian regions, left, better bending over, by lying on left side, with legs fl:xed; nipples tender.
Respiratory.—Tiekling, dry cough. Intense constriction over sternum, with drawing feeling through to back on lying down. Throat swollen, dyspnea.
Skin.—Itching blotches; burning, creeping sensation. Profuse discharge from granulating ulcers. Urticaria with shuddering.
Sleep.—Unrefreshed; sleepless. Wakes from 1 to 3 am. I~;;iting does not help sleep. Not fatigued from loss of sleep.
Dose.—First to thirtieth potency.
The rheumatic symptoms of this remedy promise most curative results. Its pains are of a wandering nature, with much stiffness and drawing. Everything smells and tastes like honey. Worms. Trembling and prostration. Swollen sensations.
Extremities.—Pain in all joints. Pain in toes and soles. .Swelling of hands and feet. Profuse sweat, with much heat in soles. Tingling pain in toes. Cramps in soles. Violent heat in soles. [Sulph.]
Dose.—Tincture and first potency.
Increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes and acts on cellular tissue, producing edema and dropsy and on skin causing diaphuresis. Acute hydrocephalus. A diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication. This is one of our most efficient remedies, in dropsies, ascites, anasarca and hydrothorax, and urinary troubles, especialy suppression and strangury. In the digestive complaints of liright's disease, with the nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, difficult breathing, it will be found of frequent service. The dropsy is characterized by great thirst and gastric irritability. Arhythmia. Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. Acute alcoholism. Relaxation of sphincters.
Mind.—Bewildered. Low spirited.
Nose.—Long-continued sneezing. Snuffles of children. [Sambuccus.??] Chronic nasal catarrh with tendency to acute stuffiness with dull, sluggish memory. Dull headache. Takes cold easily, nostrils become congested and blocked up easily.
Stomach.—Nausea, with drowsiness. Thirst on walking. Excessive vomiting. Food or water is immediately ejected. Dull, heavy, sick feeling. Oppression in epigastrium and chest, impeding breathing. [Lobelia infl.] Sensation of sinking in stomach. Abdomen bloated. Ascites.
Stool.—Watery, flatulent, with soreness in anus; worse after eating. Feeling as if sphincter were open and stools ran right ou-6.
Urine.—Bladder much distended. Turbid, hot urine, with thick mucus and burning in urethra, after urinating. Little expulsive power. Dribbling. Strangury. Renal Dropsy.
Female.—Amenorrhaea, with bloating; metrorrhagia with nausea; fainting, vital depression. Hemorrhages at change of life. Blood expelled in large clots.
Respiratory.—Short, dry cough. Respiration short and unsatisfactory. Sighing. Oppression about epigastrium and chest.
Heart.—Tricuspid regurgitation; rapid and feeble, irregular cardiac action, low arterial tension, pulsating jugulars, general cyanosis and general dropsy.
Sleep.—Great restlessness and little sleep.
Modalities.—Worse, cold weather; cold drinlås; uucovering.
Relationship.—Cynaarin is the active principle of Apocyn., lowers pulse rate and increases blood-pressure. Sirophanthus (extreme cardiac depression with intense gastric disturbance; dropsy). Aralia hispida - Wild Elder-a valuable diuretic. useful in dropsy of the cavities, either due to hepatic or renal disease with constipation. Urinary disorders, especially with dropsy. Scudder advises doses of five to thirty drops in sweetened cream of tartar, Solution). Apis., Arsenic; Digital.; Helleb.
Dose.—Tincture (ten drops three times daily) and in acutø alcoholism 1 dram of decoction in 4 oz. water.
The chief power of this drug lies in the speedy and effective vomiting that it produces, which becomes a strong guiding symptom to its hommopathic use. The vomiting is preceded by nausea, lassitude and increased secretion of sweat, saliva, mucus and tears. Pneumonia with vomiting. Combined alcoholism, with constant nausea, constipation, insomnia.
Head and Stomach-Vertigo. Dilated pupils. Nausea and vomiting. Violent inclination to vomit. Hot feeling all over body, especially head. Empty retching and headache; heartburn; pain between shoulder-blades. Reflex vomiting-pregnancy. Seasickness.
Non-homeopathic Uses.—The hypodermic injection of onesixteenth of a grain will cause full emesis within five to fifteen minutes in an adult without developing any other direct action apparently. Do not use in opium poisoning. Apomorph. hypodermically, one-thirtieth grain or less, acts as a safe and sure hypnotic. Acts well even in delirium. Sleep comes on in half an hour.
Dose.—Third to sixth potency.
A remedy for hysteria. Globus and clavus hystericus. Women at climaxis, with vomiting of green substance, especially in the morning. Sleeplessness. Nervous trembling of body; sensitive to light and noise. DysmenorrhØa of young girls. hemale. - Menses scanty, with dull, painful, nightly increasing pressure in the right lumbar region.
Dose.—First potency.
Acts principally on nervous system, producing a bewildered, confused state. Symptoms of incoordination and paralysis. Locomotor ataxia. Tired in the morning.
Mind.—Great depression; worse in morning or evening. Cannot study. Cross, irritable, restless. Bewildered. Mental confusion and apathy. Desires to be alone. Difficulty in concentrating mind, absent-minded. Lack of ambition. Defective expression in writing. Restlessness and aimless wandering. Must concentrate his mind on walking.
Head.—Diplopia. Burning in eyes. Cracking of lower lip.
Throat.—Aches. Feels full. Sore with nausea. Pharynx dark, swollen, glazed.
Respiratory.—Weight on chest in region of ensiform cartilage. Constriction as of a wide band. Soreness of chest under sternum. Oppression.
Extremities.—Weakness of limbs. Pain in left sciatic nerve. Cramps of muscles on front of leg while walking
Relationship.—Compare: Astragallus and Oxytropis, two varieties of Loco Weed; also Baryta.
Dose.—Sixth and two hundredth potencies.
This is a remedy for asthmatic conditions, with cough aggravated on lying down. Drenching sweat during sleep. Extreme sensitiveness to draughts. Diarrhea, prolapse of rectum. Aching in rectum extending upwards; worse lying on side lain upon.
Respiratory.—Dry cough coming on after first sleep, about middle of night. Asthma on lying down at night with spasmodic cough; worse after first sleep, with tickling in throat. Constriction of chest; feels as if a foreign body were in throat. Obstruction worse in spring. Hay-fever; frequent sneezing. Itawness and burning behind sternum.
The least current of air causes sneezing, with copious watery, excoriating nasal discharge, of sally acrid taste.
Female.—Menses suppressed; leukorrhea foul-smelling, acrid, with pressing-down pain. Lochia suppressed, with tympanites.
Modalities.—Worse about 11 pm. (cough).
Relationship.—Compare: Pecten - Scallop (humid asthma. Quick, labored breathing. Constriction of chest, especially right side. Asthma preceded by coryza and burning in throat and chest. Attack ends with copious expectoration of tough, frothy mucus. Worse at night.) Ars. iod.; Naphthaline; Cepa; Rosa; Sabad.; Sinapis.
Dose.—Tincture, to third potency.
All spider poisons powerfully affect the nervous system. (See tarentula, Ivlygale, etc.)
All symptoms of Aranea are characterized by periodicity, and coldness, and great susceptibility to dampness. It is the remedy for the constitution favorable to malarial poisoning, where every damp day or place favors chilliness. Patient feels coid to the very bones. Coldness not relieved by anything. Feeling as if parts were enlarged and heavier. Wake up at night with hands feeling twice their natural size. Spleen swollen. Hydrogenoid Constitution, i. e., Abnormal sensitiveness to damp and cold, inability to live near fresh water, lakes, rivers, etc., or in damp, chilly places. [Nat. Sulph. Thuja.]
Head.—Pain in right trifacial nerve from periphery inwards. Confusion; better by smoking in open air. Heat and flickering in eyes; worse in damp weather. Sudden violent pain in teeth at night immediately after lying down.
Female.—Menses too early, too copious. Distention of abdomen. Lumbo-abdominal neuralgia.
Chest.—Pain in intercostal nerve from nerve endings to spine. Bright red hemorrhage from lungs. [Millefol.; Ferr. phos.]
Stomach.—Cramps after eating a little; epigastrium painful to pressure.
Abdomen.—Enlarged spleen. Colic returns same hours. Heaviness in lower abdomen, as of a stone. Diarrhea. Arms and legs feel as if asleep.
Extremities.—Bone-pains in extremities. Pain in os calcis. Sensation of swelling, and of parts going to sleep.
Sleep.—Restless and waking, as if hands and forearms were swollen and heavy.
Fever.—Coldness, with pain in long bones, and feeling of stone in abdomen at the same hour daily. Chilly day and night; always worse during rain.
Modalities.—Worse, damp weather; late in afternoon, and at midnight. Better, smoking tobacco.
Relationship.—Tela aranearum - Spider's web - (Cardiac sleeplessness, increased muscular energy. Excitement and nervous agitation in febrile states. Dry asthma. Harassing coughs; periodic headaches with extreme nervous erethism. Obstinate intermittents. Acts immediately on arterial system, pulse full, strong, compressible.
Lowers pulse rate frequency. Masked periodical diseases, hectic, broken down patients. Symptoms come on suddenly with cool, clammy skin. Numbness of hands and legs when at rest. Continued chilliness.
Aranea Scinencia - Grey Spider - (constant twitching of under eyelids. Sleepiness. Worse in warm room.)
Heloderma; Cedron; Arsenic.
Dose.—Tincture to thirtieth potency.
A remedy for eczema associated with gouty and rheumatic symptoms. Arthritis; especially larger joints. Urine rendered more clear. Lumbago. Symptoms shift from slyin to joints. Veskal symptoms.
Relationship.—Arbutin; Ledum; Bryonia; Kalmia.
Dose.—Tincture, to third potency.
Of use in Helminthiasis. Its alkaloid, Areolin hydrobrom contracts the pupil, acting more promptly and energetically but of shorter duration than Fscrine. Serviceable in glaucoma. Acts also as a salivatory like Pilocarpin. Also increases the amplitude of pulsations of the heart and promotes the contractibility of the intestines.
Colicky cramp and spasm of bowels. Painful neuro-muscular conditions, preventing sleep. Rheumatic disease associated with Bright's disease. (D. MacFarlan.)
Head.—Throbbing headache in eyes and temples. Head hot. Throat very dry, pain on swallowing.
Stomach.—Feels sick, like vomiting. Griping in pit of stomach. No appetite. Belching and passing gas.
Urinary.—Passes less urine. Changing color.
Female.—Menses suppressed. Diminished sexual desire with weakness.
Extremities.—Left knee stiff and painful. Feet swollen.
Modalities.—Worse at noon (weakness).
Dose.—Sixth potency. Fresh juice is applied to ulcers and warts.
Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnea, sensation of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic. The chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligamen+s. Here the small blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious affections result. They come on insidiously, lingering, but progress. The larynx is also a special center for this drug.
Mental.—Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy.
Head.— -Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly. Scalp very tender to touch. Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on looking at running water. Head feels empty, hollow. Eyelids red and thick. Exhausting coryza, with sneezing. Pain in facial bones. Pain between left eye and frontal eminence.
Throat.—Raw, hawking, grey, jelly-like mucus, and throat sore on coughing. Profuse and easy morning expectoration.
Respiratory.— Hoarseness Aphonia. Raw, sore feeling when coughing. Total loss of voice of professional singers. Larynx feels sore and raw. Easy expectoration, looking like boiled starch. Feeling of raw spot near supra sternal fossa. Worse from use of voice. Cough from laughing. Hectic fever at noon. On reading aloud, must hem and hawk. Great weakness of chest,; worse left side. Alteration in timbre of voice. Pain in left lower ribs.
Back.—Severe backache; must walk bent, with oppression of chest.
Urine.—Diuresis. Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor. Frequent urination. Polyuria.
Extremities.—Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow and knee. Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs. Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer's era—n-ip. Swelling of ankles.
Male.—Crushed pain in testicles. Seminal emissions, without sexual excitement. Frequent micturation with burning.
Female.—Ovaries feel too large. Bearing-down pain. Prolapse of womb. Eroded spongy cervix. LeucorrhØ foul, excoriating. Palliative in scirrhus of uterus. Pain in left ovary. Climacteric hemorrhage. Sore feeling throughout abdomen; worse by jarring. Uterine disease with pain in joints and limbs.
Modalities.—Worse from touch, toward noon. Better in open air; cough at night when lying down (opposite Hyoscy.)
Relationship.—Antidotes: Mercur.; Puls.
Compare: Selen.; Alum.; Platina; Stannum; Ampelopsis. (Chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients.)
Dose.—Sixth trituration and higher. Not too frequent repetition.
In this drug the neurotic effects are very marked, many brain and spinal symptoms presenting themselves which give certain indications for its homceopathic employment. Symptoms of inco-ordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically; trembling in affected parts. Is an irritant of mucous membranes, producing violent inflammation of the throat, and a marked gastro-enteritis. Very characteristic is the great desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free muco-purulent discharge in the inflained and ulcerated mucous membranes. Sensation as if a part were expanding and ether errors of perception are characteristic. Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action, especially when associated with unusual or long ---llnurd rimtal exertion. Head symp-coms often deter.°:nine the rhnirc of this remedy. Pains increase and decreaso gradually. Flatulent state and prematurely aged look. Explosive belching, especially in neurotics. Upper abominal affections brought on by undue mental exertion. Paraplegia Myelitis and disMvminated sclerosis of brain and cord. Intolerance of heat. Sensation of a sudden pinch. (Dudgeon). Destroys red blood corpuscles, producing anemia.
Mind.—Thinks his understanding will and must fail. Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window. Faintish and tremulous. Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease. Time passes sExwl?y. [Cann. ind.] Memory weak. Errors of porception. Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry. [Lilium.] l'rculiar mental impulses. Fears and anxieties and hidden Irrational motives for actions.
Head.—Headache with coldness and trembling. Emotional ,G:;turbances cause appearance of hemi-cranial attacks. Sense ~,i expansion. Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling. I{o,tda. - he from mental e::ertion, from dancing. Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections. Aching in frontal -rninence, with enlarged fe:^,ling in corresponding eye. Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure. Itching of scalp. Hemi-crania; bones of head feel as if separated.
Eyes.—Inner, canthi swollen and red. Spots before the vision. Blurred vi.;ion. Photophobia in warm room. Purulent ophthalmia. Great swelling of conjunctiva; dischage abundant and purulent. Chronic ulceration of margin of lids; sore, thick; swollen. Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily. Eye-strain from sowing; worse in warm room. Aching, tired feeling in eyes, better closing or pressing upon them. Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscles. Paretic condition of ciliary muscle. Acute granular conjunctivitis. Cornea opaque. Ulcer irr cornea.
Nose.—Lass of smell. itching. Ulcers in septum. Coryza, with chilliness, lachrymation, and headache.
Face.—Sunken, old, pale, and bluish. Old man's look; tight ctrawing of skin over bones.
Mouth.—Gums tender and bleed easily. Tongue has prominent papillae; tip is red and painful. Pain in sound teeth. Taste coppery, like ink. Canker sores.
Throat.—Much thick mucus in throat and mouth causes hawking. Raw, rough and sore. Sensation of a splinter ir throat on swallowing. Dark redness of throat. Catarrh of smokers, with tickling as of hair in throat. Strangulated feeling.
Stomach.—Belching accompanies most gastric ailments. Nausea, retching, vomiting of glairy mucus. Flatulence; painful swelling of pit. Painful spot over stomach that radiates to all parts of the abdomen. Gnawing ulcerating pain; burning and constriction. Ineffectual effort at eructation. Great craving for sweets. Gastritis of drunkards. Ulcerative pain in left side under ribs. Trembling and throbbing in stomach. Enormous distention. Ulceration of stomach, with radiating pain. Desire for cheese and salt.
Abdomen.—Colic, with much flatulent distention. Stitchy ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs.
Stool.—Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of abdomen; very offensive. Diarrhea immediately after eating or drinking. Fluids go right through him; after sweets. After any emotion with flatulence. Itching of anus.
Urine.—Urine passes unconsciously, day and night. Urethra inflamed, with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter. Urine scanty and dark. Emission of a few drops after having finished. Divided stream. Early stage of gonorrhea; profuse discharge and terrible cutting pains; bloody urine.
Male.—Impotence. Erection fails when coition is attempted. Cancer-like ulcers. Desire wanting. Genitals shrivel. Coition painful.
Female.—Gastralgia at beginning of menses. Intense spasm of chest muscles. Orgasms at night. Nervous erethism at change of life. Leukorrhea profuse, with erosion of cervix. bleeding easily. Uterine hemorrhage, two weeks after menses; Painful affections of left ovary.
Respiratory.—High notes cause cough. Chronic hoarseness. Suffocative cough, as if from a hair in throat. Dyspncea. Chest feels as if a bar were around it. Palpitation, pulse irregular and intermittent; worse lying on right side; [Alumen.] Painful spots in chest. Angina pectoris, nightl,y aggravation. Many people in a room seem to take away his I) reath. itacl (. - Much pain. Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, ®,ol. acid.] paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis.
Extremities.—Cannot walk with eyes closed. Trembling, with general debility. Paralysis, with mental and abdominal Mynupt.oms. Rigidity of calves. Debility in calves especially. N':rll;s and stands unsteadily, especially when unobserved. Numbness of arms. Post-diphtheritic paralysis (after Gelsem.)
Skin.—Brown, tense, and hard. Drawing in skin, as from a Pj,ider-web, or dried albuminous substance, withered and dried up. Irregular blotches.
Sleep.—Sleepless, from fancies befole his imagination; her. rible dreams of snakes, and of sexual gratification. Drowsy stupor.
Fever.—Chills with nausea. Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up.
Modalities.—Worse, warmth in any form; at night; from cold food; sweets; after eating; at mentsrual period; from r,motiors, left side. Better, from eructation; fresh air; cold; pressure.
Relationship.—Antidote: Nat. mur.
Compare: Ars.; Merc.; Phos.; Pulsat.; Argent. cyanatum (angina pectoris, asthma, spasm of esophagus); Argent, iodat. (throat disorders, hoarseness, gland a,ffected.) Protargol (gonorrhea after acute stage 2 percent. solution; syphilitic mucous patches, chancres and chancroids, 10 percent. solution applied twice a day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2 drops of 10 percent. solution).
Argent. phosph. (An excellent diuretic in dropsy.)
Argent. oxyd. (Chlorosis with menorrhagia and diarrhea.)
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency
Best form an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drop doses. This solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose into the oxide.
Stitching pains in various parts. Pain in heels, burning in anus and frequent irritation. Flatulence in stomach and abdomen. Pain in back and extremities. Stiffness of legs. Pain in tendo-Achillis, Itching and swelling around the malleoli.
Relationship.—Compare: Aristolochia Serpentaria - Virginia Snake Root - (Symptoms of intestinal tract; colliquative diarrhea, n.ateorism. Flatulent dyspepsia. Brain congestion. Distention and cutting pains in abdomen. Symptoms like these of Poison-Oak.)
Dose.—Lower potencies.
Produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those resulting frominjuries, falls, blows, contusions. Tinnitus aurium. Putrid phenomena. Septic conctitions; prophylactic of pus infection. Apoplexy, red, full face.
It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to hate caused the present trouble. After traumatic injuries, overuse of any organ, strains. Arnica is disposed to cerebral congestion. Acts best in plei;horic, feebly in debilitated with impoved isl_ed blood, cardiac dropsy with dyspnea. A muscular tonic. Traumatism of grief, remorse or sudden realization of financial loss. Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained. Bed feels too hard. Marked effect on the blood. Affects venous system inducing stasis. Echymosis and hemorrhages. Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots. Tendency to hemorrhages and low-fever states. Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature. Sore, lame and bruised feeling. Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumo-gastric. Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders. Aversion to tobacco. lnfluenza. Thrombosis. Hematocele.
Mind.—Fears touch, or the approach of anyone. UnconL;cicns; when spcken to answers correctly, but relapses. Indifference; inability to perform continuous active work; morose, delirious. ivervous; cannot bear pain; whoie body oversen6itive. Says there is nothing the matter with him. Wants to ne let alone. Agoraphebia (fear of space). After mental strain or shock.
Head.—Hot, with cold body; confused, sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains. Scalp feels contracted. Cold spot on forehead. Chronic vertigo; objects whirl about especially when walking.
Eyes.—Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal non-norrhage. Bruised, sore feeling in eyes after close work. N1 rc,t. keep eyes open. Dizzy on closing them. Feel tired and wary after sight-seeing, moving pictures, etc.
Ears.—Noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the head. Shooting in and around ears. Blood from ears. Dullness of having after concussion. Pain in cartilages of ears as if llrll l.sed.
Nose.—Bleeding after every fit of coughing, dark fluid blood. Nose feels sore; cold.
Mouth.—Fetid breath. Dry and thirsty. Bitter taste. [Colocy.] Taste as from bad eggs. Soreness of gums after teeth extraction. [Sepia.] Empyema of maxillary sinus.
Face.—Sunken; very red. Heat in lips. Herpes in face.
Stomach.—Longing for vinegar. Distaste for milk and meat. Canine hunger. Vomiting of blood. Pain in stomach during eating. Repletion with loathing. Oppressive gases pass upward and downward. Pressure as from a stone. Feeling as if stomach were passing against spine. Fetid vomiting.
Abdomen.—Stitches under false ribs. Distended; offensive flatus. Sharp thrusts through abdomen.
Stool.—Straining of tenesmus in diarrhea. Offensive, brown, bloody, putrid, involuntary. Looks like brown yeast. Must lie down after every stool. Diarrhea of consumption; worse lying on left side. Dysenteric stools with muscular pains.
Urine.—Retained from over-exertion. Dark brick-red sediment. Vesical tenesmus with very painful micturition.
Female.—Bruised parts after labor. Violent after-pains. Uterine hemorrhage from mechanical injury after coition. Sore nipples. Mastitis from injury. Feeling as if fetus were lying crosswise.
Respiratory.—Coughs depending on cardiac lesion, paroxysmal, at night, during sleep, worse exercise. Acute tonsillitis, swelling of soft palate and uvula. Pneumonia; approaching paralysis. Hoarseness from overuse of voice. Raw, sore feeling in morning. Cough produced by weeping and lamenting. Dry, from tickling low down in trachea. Bloody expectoration. Dyspnea with haemoptysis. All bones and cartilages of chest painful. Violent spasmodic cough, with facial herpes. Whooping cough, child cries before coughing. Pleurodynia [Ranunc.; Cimicif.]
Heart.—Angina pectoris; pain especially severe in elbow of left arm. Stitches in heart. Pulse feeble and irregular. Cardiac dropsy with distressing dyspnea. Extremities distended, feel bruised and sore. Fatty heart and hypertrophy.
Extremities.—Gout. Great fear of being touched or approached. Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten. Sprained and dislocated feeling. Soreness after overexertion. Everything on which he lies seems too hard. Deathly coldness of forearm. Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain in pelvic region. Rheumatism begins low down and works up. [Ledum.]
Skin.—Black and blue. Itching, burning, eruption of small pimples. Crops of small boils. [Ichthyol; Silica.] Ecchymosis. Bed sores. [Bovinine locally.] Acne indurata, characterized by symmetry in distribution.
Sleep.—Sleepless and restless when overtired. Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible. Horrors in the night. Involuntary stools during sleep.
Fever.—Febrile symptoms closely related to typhoid. Shivering over whole body. Heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body. Internal heat; feet and hands cold. Nightly sour sweats.
Modalities.—Worse, least touch; motion; rest; wine; damp cold. Better, lying down, or with head low.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Camph.
Vitex trifolia. - Indian Arnica. (Sprains and pains, headache in temples, pain in joints; pain in abdomen; pain in testicles.)
Complementary: Acon.; Ipec.
Compare. Acon.; Bapt.; Bellis; Hamam; Rhus.; Hyperic.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency. Locally, the tincture, but should never be applied hot or at all when abrasions or cuts are present.
A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many wvere types of disease make its homeopathic employment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to it., successful application. Among these the all-prevailing dehility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly oggravation, are most important. Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion. This, with the peculiar irritability of fibre, gives the characteristic irritable weakness. Burning pains. Unquenchable thirst. Burning relieved by heat. Seaside complaints [Nat. mar.; Aqua Marina]. Injurious effects of fruits, especially more watery ones. Gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency. Fear fright and worry. Green discharges. Infantile Kala-azar. (Dr. Neatby).
Ars. should be thought of in ailments from alcoholism, ptoinaine poisoning, stings, dissecting wounds, chewing tobacco; ill effects from decayed food or animal matter; odor of discharges is putrid; in complaints that return annually. Anaemia and chlorosis. Degenerative changes. Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition. Reduces the refractive index of blood serum (also China and Ferr. phos.) . Maintains the system under the stress of malignancy regardless of location. Malarial cachexia. Septic inflammation and low vitality.
Mind.—Great anguish and restlessness. Changes place continually. Fears, of death, of being left alone, Great fear, with cold sweat. Thinks it useless to take medicine. Suicidal. Hallucinations of smell and sight. Despair drives him from place to place. Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage. General sensibility increased [Hep.]. Sensitive to disorder and confusion.
Head.—Headaches relieved by cold, other symptoms worse, Periodical burning pains, with restlessness; with cold skin. Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness, Sensitive head in open air. Delirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious. Head is in constant motion. Scalp itches intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered with dry scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff. Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair.
Eyes.—Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation. Lids red, ulcerated, scabby, scaly, granulated. (Edema around eyes. External inflammation, with extreme painfulness; burning, hot, and excoriating lachrymation. Corneal ulceration. Intense photophobia; better external warmth. Ciliary neuralgia, with fine burning pain.
Ears.—Skin within, raw and burning. Thin, excoriating, offensive otorrhaea. Roaring in ears, during a paroxysm of pain.
Nose.—Thin, watery, excoriating discharge. Nose feels stopped up. Sneezing without relief. Hay-fever and coryza; worse in open air; better indoors. Burning and bleeding. Acne of nose. Lupus.
Face.—Swollen, pale, yellow, cochectic, sunken, cold, and covered with sweat. [Acetic acid.] Expression of agony. Tearing, needle-like pains; burning. Lips black, livid. Angry, circumscribed flush of cheeks.
Mouth.—Unhealthy, easily-bleeding gums. Ulceration of mouth with dryness and burning heat. Epithelioma of lips. Tongue dry, clean, and red; stitching and burning pain in tongue, ulcerated with blue color. Bloody saliva. Neuralgia of teeth; feel long and very sore; worse after midnight; better warmth. Metallic taste. Gulping up of burning water.
Throat.—Swollen, edematous, constricted, burning, unable to swallow. Diphtheritic membrane, looks dry and wrinkled.
Stomach.—Cannot bear the sight or smell of food. Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time. Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking. Anxiety in pit of stomach. Burning pain. Craves acids and coffee. Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat. Long-lasting eructations. Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or brown-black mixed with blood. Stomach extremely irritable; seems raw, as if torn. Gastralgia from slightest food or drink. Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-crea, ice-water, tobacco. Terrible fear and dyspnea, with gastralgia; also faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion. Malignant symptoms. Everything swallowed seems to lodge in the esophagus, which seems as if closed and nothing would pass. Ill effects of vegetable diet, melons, and watery fruits generally. Craves milk.
Abdomen.—Gnawing, burning pains like coals of fire; relieved by heat. Liver and spleen enlarged and painful. Ascites and anasarca. Abdomen swollen and painful. Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing.
Rectum.—Painful, spasmodic protrusion of rectum. Tenesmus. Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus.
Stool.—Small, offensive, dark, with much prostration. Worse at night, and after eating and drinking; from chilling stomach, alcoholic abuse, spoiled meat. Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive. Cholera, with intense agony, prostration, and burning thirst. Body cold as ice. [Verat.] Hemorrhoids burn like fire; relieved by heat. Skin excoriated about anus.
Urine.—Scanty, burning, involuntary. Bladder as if paralyzed. Albuminous. Epithelial cells; cylindrical clot's of fibrin and globules of pus and blood. After urinating, feeling of weakness in abdomen. Bright's disease. Diabetes.
Female.—Menses too profuse and too soon. Burning in ovarian region. Leukorrhea, acrid, burning, offensive, thin. Pain as from red-hot wires; worse least exertion; causes great fatigue; better in warm room. Menorrhagia. Stitching pain trr polvis extending down the thigh.
Respiratory.—Unable to lie down; fears suffocation. Air-passages constricted. Asthma worse midnight. Burning in chest. Suffocative catarrh. Cough worse after midnight; lying on back. Expectoration scanty, frothy. Darting pain through upper third of right lung. Wheezing respiration. Hemoptysis with pain between shoulders; burning heat all over. Cough dry, as from sulphur fumes; after drinking.
Heart.—Palpitation, pain, dyspnora, faintness. Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers. Pulse more rapid in morning. [Sulph.] Dilatation. Cyanosis. Fatty degeneration. Angina pectoris, with pain in neck and occiput.
Back.—Weakness in small of back. Drawing in of shoulders. Pain and burning in back. [Oxal. ac.]
Extremities.—Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swelling of feet. Sciatica. Burning pains. Peripheral neuritis. Diabetic gangrene. Ulcers on heel [Cepa; Lamium] . Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy.
Skin.—Itching, burning, swellings; edema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching. Malignant pustules. Ulcers with offensive discharge. Anthrax. Poisoned wounds. Urticaria, with burning and restlessness. Psoriasis. Scirrh.zs. Icy coldness of body. Epithelioma of the skin. Gangrenous inflammations.
Sleep.—Disturbed, anxious, restless. Must have head raised by pillows. Su`:oo—ative fits during sleep. Sleeps with hands over head. Dreanis are full of care and fear. Drowsy, sleeping sickness.
Fever.—High temperature. Periodicity marked with adynårrcia. Septic fevers. Intermittent. Paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion. Hay - fever. Cold sweats. Typhoid, not too early; often after Rhus. Complete exhaustion. Delirium; worse after midnight. Great restlessness. Great heat about 3 am. Sordes.
Modalities.—Worse, wet weather, after midnight; from cold, cold drinks, or food. Seashore. Right side. Better from heat; from head elevated; warm drinks.
Complementary: Rhus; Carbo; Phos.; Thuja; Secale. Antidotal to lead poison.
Antidotes: Opium; Carbo; China; Hepar; Nux. Chemical Antidotes: Charcoal; Hydrated Peroxide of Iron; Lime Water.
Compare: Arsenic. stibiatum 3x (Chest inflammations of children, restlessness with thirst and prostration, loose mucous cough, oppression, hurried respi.ratio:i, crepitant rales). Cenchris contortrix; Iod.; Phosph.; China; Verat. alb.; Carbo; Kali phos. Epilobium (intractable diarrhea of typhoid). Hoang Nan. Atoxyl. - Sodium arseniate 3x, sleeping sickness; commencing optic atrophy. Levico Wiater - (containing Ars., Iron and Copper of South Tyrol). (Chronic and dyscratic skin diseases, chorea minor and spasms in scrofulous and anaemic children. Favors assimilation and increases nutrition. Debility and skin diseases, especially after the use of higher loncies where progress seems suspended. Dose. Ten drops wine glass of warm water 3 times a day after meals. (Burnett). Sarcolactic acid (influenza with violent vomiting).
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies often yield brilliant results.
Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases; higher in neuralgias, nervous diseases, and skin. But if only surface conditions call for it, give the lowest potencies, 2x to trit. Repeated doses advisable.
Has proven a great anti-psoric and anti-syphilitic remedy. Herpetic eruptions, syphilitic excrescences, glandular tumors and indurations, carcinoma, locomotor ataxia, and obstinate intermittents, and diabetes are all greatly influenced by this preparation.
Face.—Acne rosacea, with violet papules on nose; worse in Ihw spring. Acne in young people.
Dose.—Tincture; two to four drops daily in water. In diabetes, three drops three times a day in a glass of water.
The general action of Arsenic more accentuated. Annemia. Anxiety; despair. Hematuria, with general blood disorganization. Hemorrhages from mucous membranes. Urine suppressed, followed by vomiting. Prepuce and glans covered with pustules and round superficial ulcers. Collapse. Coldness; prostration. Sudden weakness and nausea. Skin becomes dark brown.
Head.—Violent vertigo on going upstairs. Eyes sunken; broad, blue circles around. Violent sneezing. Nose cold. Must be wrapped up with warm cloths.
Mouth.—Tongua enlarged; deep, irregular ulcer; nodular swelling. Mouth hot and dry; little thirst.
Dose.—Third potency.
Is to be preferred for persistently irritating, corrosive discharges. The discharge irritates the membrane from which it flows and over which it flows. The discharge may be fetid, watery, and the mucous membrane is always red, angry, swollen; itches and burns. Influenza, hay fever, old nasal catarrhs, and catarrh of middle ear. Swelling of tissues within the nose. Hypertrophied condition of eustachian tube and deafness. Senile heart, myocarditis and fatty degeneration. Pulse shotty. Chronic aortitis. Epithelioma of the lip. Cancer of breast after ulceration has set in.
It seems probable that in Arsenic iod., we have a remedy most closely allied to manifestations of tuberculosis. In the early stages of tuberculosis, even thouglh there is an afternoon rise in temperature, Ars. jod. is very cd'ective. It will be indicated by a profound prostration, rapid, irritable pulse, recurring fever and sweats, emaciation; tendency to diarrhea. Chronic pneumonia, with abscess in lung. Hectic; debility; night sweats.
This remedy is also to be remembered in phthisis with hoarse, racking cough and prof;-se expectoration of a purulent nature, and attended with cardiac weakness, emaciation and general debility; in chronic, watery diarrhea in phthisical subjects; in cases of c:a-inciation with good appetite; in amenorrhaea, with anwmic palpitation and dyspnea. In chronic pneumonia, when abscess is about to form. Great emaciation. Arteriosclerosis, myecardiall degeneration andd senile heart. Threatened pyaemia. [Pyrog.; Methyl. blue.]
Head.—Vertigo, with tremulous feeling, especially in aged.
Nose.—Thin, watery, irritating, excoriating discharge from anterior and posterior nares; sneezing. Hay-fever. Irritation and tingling of nose constant desire to sneeze. [Pollanin.] Chronic nasal catarrh; swollen nose; profuse, thick, yellow discharge; ulcers; membrane sore and excoriated. Aggravation by sneezing.
Throat.—Burning in pharynx. Tonsils swollen. Thick membrane from fauces to lips. Breath fetid, glandular involvement. Diphtheria. Chronic follicular pharyngitis.
Eyes and Ears.—Scrofulous ophtalmia. Otitis, with fetid, corrosive discharge. Thickening of tympanum. Burning, acrid coryza.
Stomach.—Pain and pyrosis. Vomiting an hour after food. Nausea distressing. Pain in epigastrium. Intense thirst; water is immediately ejected.
Respiratory.—Slight hacking cough, with dry and stoppedup nostrils. Pleuritis exudativa. Chronic bronchitis. Pultn"nary tuberculosis. Pneumonia that fails to clear up. Itrmncho-pneumonia after grippe. Cough dry, with little difficult expectoration. Aphonia.
Fever.—Recurrent fever and sweats. Drenching night-sweats. Pulse rapid, feeble, weak, irregular. Chilly, cannot endure cold.
Skin.—Dry, scaly, itching. Marked exfoliation of skin in large scales, leaving a raw exuding surface beneath. Ichthyosis. Enlarged scrofulous glands. Venereal bubo. Debilitating night-sweats. Eczema of the beard; watery, oozing, itching; worse, wishing. Emaciation. Psoriasis. Acne hard, shotty, indurated base with pustule at apex.
Relationship.—Compare: Tuberculinum; Anlimon. ioj. In hay-fever, compare: Aralia; Naphtiaali;z; Kosa; Sa -;2 (7.
Dose.—Second and third trituration. Oa~'~t 'Lo be prepared fresh and protected from light. Continue,! :or so:-ne thne. Clinically, it has been found advisable in tuberculosis to with about the 4x and gradually go lower to the second x trit., 5 grains 3 times a day.
Arouses latent syphilis. Periodicity very marked; symptoms recur every two and three weeks. Weakness. Swollen Poling of parts.
Head.—Low spirited, memory weak. Desire to be alone. Annoyed by visions, causing her to cry. Head feels too large. Left-sided headache up to eyes and into ears. Headache worse i,) uping and lying down. (Edenlatous swelling of forehead.
Face.—Red, itching, burning and bloated. Eyes swelled and b'fi watery, burn with coryza. Eyes weak, day and gas light unpleasant. li7oratde. - The tongue coated white, and shows imprint of the teeth. Mouth sore and ulcerated.
Abdomen.—Sore pain in liver goes through to shoulders and spine. Pain in spleen down to groin. Pain in breast extends to hip and spleen. Diarrhea, burning watery stools with relief of pain.
Dose.—Sixth potency.
Needle pricks from within outwards in chest; also on forehead, right side. Sticking behind ear. Difficult respiration. Skin chafed about genitals.
Leucoderma and squamous syphilides. Sciatica and pain around the knee.
Relationship.—Arsenic sulph. rub. (influenza with 'intense catarrhal symptoms, great prostration and high temperature, purulent discharges, psoriasis, acne, and sciatica. Chilly even before a fire. Itching in various parts. Pellagra.)
Dose.—Third trituration.
Has some reputation as a remedy for epileptic conditions, and convulsive diseases of childhood and girls at puberty. Locally and internally is injurious to eyes. Petit mal. Epilepsy without aura; after fright and other violent emotions and after masturbation. Several convulsions close together. Sonmatnbulism. Gets up at night and works, remembers nothing in the morning. [Kali phos.]
Head.—Drawn back by spasmodic twitchings. Mouth drawn to left. Congestion of brain.
Eyes.—Colored light produces dizziness. Pain and blurring of vision; better, rubbing; worse, using eyes.
Female.—Profuse menses. Violent uterine contractions. Spasms during menses.
Fever.—Profuse sweat, smelling like garlic.
Relationship.—Compare: Absinth.; Cina; Cicuta.
Dose.—First to third potency. Said to act better when given with wine.
A remedy for Pharyngitis with sore, raw and tender throat.
Head.—Heavy; shooting pain in ears, aching pain behind right ear.
Throat.—Dry, sore, worse swallowing. Raw and tender. Continued disposition to clear throat. Croupy, hoarse cough with sore throat.
Urinary.—Irresistible desire to pass urine, burns and smarts.
Respiratory.—Hoarseness; excess of mucus in larynx. Asthmatic at night. Expectoration thick, heavy.
Relationship.—Arum Italicum. (Brain-fag, with headache in occipital region.) Arum maculatum (inflammation and ulceration of mucous membranes. Nasal irritation with polypus).
Dose.—First potency.
Arum maculatum, Italicum, Dracontium, have the same action as the Triphyllum. They all contain an irritant poison, causing inflammation of mucous surfaces and destruction of tissue. Acridity is the keynote of the kind of action characteristic of Arum.
Head.—Bores head in pillow. Headache from too warm clothing, from hot coffee.
Eyes.—Quivering of upper eyelids, especially left.
Nose.—Soreness of nostrils. Acrid, excoriating discharge, producing raw sores. Nose obstructed; must breathe through mouth. Boring in the nose. Coryza; discharge blood-streaked, watery. Nose completely stopped, with fluent, acrid discharge. flay-fever, with pain over root of nose. Large scabs high up on right side of nose. Face feels chapped, as if from cold wind; feels hot. Constant picking at nose until it bleeds.
Mouth.—Raw feeling at roof and palate. Lips and soft palate sore and burning. Lips chapped and burning. Corners of mouth sore and cracked. Tongue red, sore; whole mouth raw. Picking lips until they bleed. Saliva profuse, acrid, corroding.
Throat.—Swelling of sub-maxillary glands. Constricted and swollen; burns; raw. Constant hawking. Hoarseness. Expectoration of much mucus. Lungs feel sore. Clergyman's sore throat. Voice uncertain, uncontrollable. Worse, talking, singing.
Skin.—Scarlet rash; raw, bloody surfaces anywhere. Impetigo contagiosa.
Modalities.—Worse, northwest wind; lying down. Relationship.—color:#0070C0'>Compare: Ammon. carb.; Ailanthus; Cepa
Antidotes: Buttermilk; Ace!. ac.; Puls.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency.
A remedy for catarrhal states. Hay-fever.
Head.—Itching; falling off of hair; roots of hair painful. Pustules. Pain in occiput, extends to right ciliary region. Deep seated pain in sides of head.
Ears.—Burning and itching in auditory canals. Eczema behind ears.
Nose.—Hay-fever begins with burning and itching of palate and conjunctiva. Annoying itching in the nostrils and roof of the mouth. [Wyethia.] Coryza; loss of smell. [Nat. mur.] Sneezing, itching of nostrils.
Mouth.—Burning and itching; bleeding of gurns. Ulcers and exfoliations in the commissures. Fissures in tongue.
Stomach.—Coldness in stomach. Longing for acids.
Abdomen.—Movement as from something alive. Flatulence pain at pubic region.
Stool.—Greenish. Burning at anus. Diarrhea of nursing children. [Cham.; Calc. phos.]
Urine.—Burning. Red sediment. [Lyc.]
Male.—Pain in spermatic cord after embrace.
Female.—Menses too early and profuse. Neuralgic pains from face to shoulders and pubis. Desire with vaginal pruritus.
Respiratory.—Dyspnea; cough; bluish expectoration. Burning and pain in nipples.
Extremities.—Itching, burning; edema of hands and feet. Burning and swelling of soles. Copious and offensive sweat of of feet.
Skin.—Eczema; itching and crawling, especially of chest, upper extremities. Fissures in fingers and heels.
Relationship.—Compare: Anthoxantum - sweet vernal grass (a popular medicine for hay-fever and coryza). Lolium; Cepa; Sabad.; Silica.
Dose.—Third to sixth potency.
The flatulence and spasmodic contraction of stomach and, nwwphagus with reverse peristalsis are the most marked symgtunc:. In its selection, its relation to the hysterical and hypochwnrLriacal patients, must be borne in mind. Besides these upwrficial symptoms, it has been found to affect favorably deep ulcerations, caries of bones, especially in the syphilitic organism; here the extreme sensitiveness and terrible throbbing, nightly pains, guiding to its use.
Head.—Irritable; complains of her troubles; sensitive. Boring above eyebrows. Pressive pain from within outward.
Eyes.—Orbital neuralgia; better, pressure and rest. Iritis and intraocular inflammations, with boring, throbbing pains at night. Stitches under left frontal eminences. Boring pains in and around eyes. Syphilitic iritis. Superficial corneal ulcer Milli digging pains; worse at night.
Ears.—Offensive otorrhea, with boring pains in mastoid bone. Mastoid disease with pain in temporal region with pushing out sensation. Offensive, purulent discharge.
Nose.—Syphilitic ozaena, with very offensive purulent disthurl;c. Caries of nasal bones. [Aurum.]
Throat.—Globus hystericus. Ball rises in throat. Sensation as if peristaltic motion were reversed, and esophagus were driven from stomach to throat.
Stomach.—Great difficulty in bringing up wind. Flatulence and regurgitation of liquid. Hysterical tlatulence. Great distention. Sensation of emptiness and weakness, with distention and beating in stomach and abdomen. Forcible erucsation of gas. Pulsation in pit of stomach. Violent gastralgia; cutting and. burning in stomach and region of diaphragm. Gurgling and rolling of wind, which escapes afterwards wit;! loud and difficult eructation.
Female.—Mammae turgid with milk in the un'mpregnated. Deficient milk, with oversensitiveness.
Rectum.—Distended, griping, with hunger. Obstinate constipation. Pain in perineum, a.F, if something dull pressed out. Diarrhea, extremely offensive, with meteorism, and regurgitation of food.
Chest.—Spasmodic tightness, as if lungs could not be fully expanded. Palpitation more like a tremor.
Bones.—Darting pain and caries in bones. Periosteum painful, swollen, enlarged. Ulcers affecting bones; thin, ichorous pus.
Skin.—Itching, better scratching; ulcers painful on edges. Suppressed skin symptoms produce nervous disorders.
Modalities.—Worse, at night; from tough; left side, during rest, warm applications. Better, open air; from motion, pressure.
Relationship.—Antidotes: China; Mercur.
Compare: Moschus; China; Mercur; Aurum.
Dose.—Second to sixth potency.
A remedy for nervous affections, loss of energy, with excessive erethism. Scratching on silk or linen or paper unbearable. Pains and spasmodic muscular actions. Nervous deafness and asthenopia. Cold shivers from any emotion. Fecis as if parts were pressed together. Tension and contractive sensations. Always feels cold.
Mind.—Thoughts vanish, with drawing pressure in forehead. Sensibility increased, even from mere imagination.
Head.—Compressive pain. Tension of scalp; hair painful. [China.] Coryza, with sneezing.
Eyes.—Feel stiff; burn; feel cold. Better, in cold air or Water; worse, sunlight and wind. Darting pains in eyes after operations. Asthenopia.
Ears.—Sensation as if plugged up. Catarrh with deafness. Heat of external ear. Noises.
Stomach.—Loss of appetite, flatulence, eructation, and vomiting. Desire for alcoholic drinks. Smoking tobacco tastes lotter. Nausea; worse after eating. Clean tongue. Great faintness. Accumulation of cold, watery saliva.
Rectum.—Strings of odorless, yellow mucus pass from bowels. Diarrhea of tough mucus. Undigested stools. Prolapse.
Female.—Menses too early, long lasting, black. Violent pain in small of back. Tenacious, yellow leucorrhooea.
Respiratory.—Nervous, hacking cough. Short respiration.
Itack. - Paralytic pain in muscles of nape of neck. Weaknw:tis, with staggering.
Fever.—Chilliness, single parts get icy cold. Easily excited perspiration.
Modalities.—Worse, in cold dry weather; penetrating sounds. Better, from washing; in damp and wet weather.
Relationship.—Asarum Canadensa - Wild Ginger. (Colds, followed by amenorrhaea and gastro-enteritis. Suppressed Colds.)
Compare: Ipecac., especially in diarrhea; Silica; Nux; China.
Dose.—Third to sixth potency,
Seems to act especially on nervous system and urinary organs. A remedy for dropsy, hepatic, renal or cardiac and post-scarlatinal; causes diaphoresis and augments the urinary secretion. "cute rheumatic inflammation of large joints. Intermittent, pressing-down uterine pains.
Head.—Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple. Constriction across forehead. Nervous headache, after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine, with increase of specific gravity. Headache from retention of effete matters in system.
Relationship.—Compare: Asclepias Vincetoxicum - Swallow-wart - Cynanchum - (A gastro-intestinal irritant, producing vomiting and purgation. - (Useful in dropsy, diabetes, great thirst, profuse urination.)
Dose.—Tincture.
Its action on the chest muscles is most marked and has been verified. Sick headache, with flatulence in stomach and bowels. Dyspepsia. Bronchitis and pleurisy come within its range. Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather. Irritation of larynx with huskiness; grip, with pleuritic pain.
Respiratory.—Respiration painful, especially at base of left lung. Dry cough; throat constricted; causes pain in head and abdomen. Pain in chest; shooting downward from left nipple. A general eliminative remedy, acting specially on the sudoriparous glands. Chest pains are relieved by bending forward. Spaces between ribs close to sternum tender. Lancinating pain between shoulders. Catarrh, with frontal headache, and sticl.y yellow discharge.
Stomach.—Fullness, pressure, weight. Flatulence after meals. Sensitive to tobacco.
Rectum.—Catarrhal dysentery, with rheumatic pains all over. Stools smell like rotten eggs.
Extremities.—Rheumatic joints give sensation as if adhesions being broken up on bending.
Relationship.—Compare: Asclepias Incarnata - Swamp Milk-Weed. (Chronic gastric Catarrh and leukorrhea. (Dropsy with dyspncza.) Periploca graeca - One of the Asclepiades (Cardiac tonic, acts on circulation and respiratory centre, accelerating respiration in a ratio disproportionate to pulse.) Bryonia; Dulc.
Dose.—Tincture and first potency.
Produces a series of symptoms much like scarlet fever; sore throat, fever, vomiting, scarlet eruption; tonsils and submaxillary glands enlarged, with diarrhea. Fauces red and swollen, face swollen. Desire for ice-cold things. Hoarseness. Languid, drowsy irritable.
Acne. Itching in evening on undressing.
Relationship.—Compare: Capsic., Bellad.
Its marked and immediate action on the urinary secretion is well known. It causes weakness and cardiac depression with dropsy. Rheumatic pains. Especially about left shoulder and heart.
Head.—Confused. Coryza, with profuse, thin fluid. AchInr; in forehead and root of nose. Migrainous morning headache with scotoma. Throat feels rough, with hawking copious, tenacious mucus from throat.
Urine.—Frequent, with fine stitches in orifice of urethra; burning; of peculiar odor. Cystitis, with pus, mucus and b-nesmus. Lithiasis.
Heart.—Palpitation, with oppression of chest. Pulse intermits,, weak, pain about left shoulder and heart, associated with ludder disturbances. Great oppression in breathing. Hydrothorax.
Extremities.—Rheumatic pain in back, especially near alder and limbs. Pain at acromion process of left scapula under clavicle and down arm, with feeble pulse.
Relationship.— - Antidote: Acon.; Apis.
Compare: Althaea - Marshmallow - (contains asparagin; irritable bladder, throat and bronchi.) Physalis Alkekengi. Digul.; Sarsap.; Spigelia.
Dose.—Sixth potency.
The digitalis of the lungs. (Hale.) Removes temporary obstruction to the oxidation of the blood by stimulating respiratory centres, increasing oxidation and excretion of carbonic acid. Pulmonary stenosis. Thrombosis of pulmonary artery. Uraemic dyspnea. An effective remedy in many cases of asthma. It stimulates the respiratory centers and increases the oxygen in the blood. Want of breath during exertion is the guiding symptom. Cardiac asthma.
Relationship.—Compare: Coca; Arsenic; Coffea - Catalpa (difficult respiration).
Dose.—First trituration or tincture, or Aspidospermin hydrochlorid I grain of 1x trit. Every hour for a few doses.
Skin symptoms most important. Urticaria.
Skin.—Nettle-rash over whole body. Itching. Crusta lactea, with enlarged lymphatic glands. Erysipelas, and liver affections with nettle-rash. Swelling of cervical glands. Jaundice.
Fever.—Inward chilliness; very sensitive to air, worse uncovering; violent fever, with headache.
Relationship.—Compare: Bombyx -Caterpillar - Itching of whole body. (Urticaria.) Apis; Rhus; Nat. m.; Homar.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency.
A remedy for the sycotic diathesis; flabby, lymphatic constitution, flabby with red face. Lancinating pains, Nervous disturbances, neuralgias, chorea, and hysteria come within the range of this remedy. Has been used for cancer of the breast, and has an unquestioned influence over cancer disease. Excitement in both sexes.
Head.—Cannot bear contradiction. Shocks in brain; throbbing; heat in head, as if surrounded by hot air.
Face.—Red. Pimples on side of nose, chin and mouth. Disposition to pimples at adolescence.
Female.—Colic and other sufferings cease with appearance of flow. Breasts swell and pain in breasts; worse left. Ulceration with sharp pains, piercing to scapulae. Pains down left arm to fingers, worse motion. Excitement of sexual instinct with nervous agitation.
Nodes and indurations of mammary gland, dull aching, neuralgic pain in this region. [Conium.]
Chest.—Breasts swollen, indurated. Neuralgia of left breast and arm. (Brom.] Pain under sternum and in muscles of praecordial region. Left breast feels as if pulled inward, and pain extends over inner ann to end of little finger. Numbness of hand and fingers of left side. Cancer mammae even in ulcerative stage. Acute, lancinating pain. Axillary glands swollen hard and knotted.
Nervous System.—Gait unsteady; muscles refuse to obey the will. Epilepsy; preceded by twitching over whole body.
Stool.—Constipation. Inefflectual desire. Stool like olives. Diarrhea, watery brown, gushing out in jet.
Skin.—Destitute of pliability and elasticity. Itching spots. Ulcers, with fetid ichor. Acne. Psoriasis and herpes zoster worge left arm and chest. Enlarged axillary glands, worse, at night and in damp weather.
Relationship.— Antidotes: Pluntb.; Zinc.
Compare: Conium; Carbo; Ars.; Condurango.
Incompatible: Nux; Coffea.
Modalities.—Worse, coffee, night; cold damp weather, left side.
Dose.—Sixth potency.
Affects animals like effects of alcohol, tobacco and morphine in man. First stage, period of hallucination or mania with defective eye sight during which the animal performs all sorts of ---antics. After acquiring a taste for the plant it refuses every other kind of food. Second stage brings emaciation, sunken eyeballs, lusterless hair and feeble movements—after a few months dies as from starvation. (U. S. Dept. Agriculture.) Irregularities in gait-paralytic affections. Loss of muscular co-ordination.
Head.—Fullness in right temple and upper jaw. Pain over left eyebrow. Painful facial bones. Dizzy. Pressive pain in temples. Pain and pressure in maxilla-.
Stomach.—Weakness and emptiness. Burning in esophagus and stomach.
Extremities.—Purring sensation in right foot outer side from heel to toe. Icy coldness of left calf.
Relationship.—Compare: Aragallus Lamberti - White Loco-Weed - Rattleweed; Baryta; Oxytropis.
Dose.—Sixth potency.
Given full play, Aurum develops in the organism, by attacking the blood, glands, and bone, conditions bearing striking resemblance to mercurial and syphilitic infections; and it is just for such deteriorations of the bodily fluids and alterations in the tissues, that Aurum assumes great importance as a remedy. Like the victim of syphilis, mental states of great depression are produced by it. Hopeless, despondent, and great desire to commit suicide. Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction. Exostosis, caries, nightly bone-pains, especially cranial, nasal, and palatine. Glands swollen in scrofulous subjects. Palpitation and congestions. Ascites often in conjunction with heart affections. Frequently indicated in secondary syphilis and effects of mercury. This use of gold as an anti-venereal and anti-scrofulous remedy is very old, but has been well-nigh forgotten by the old school until rediscovered and placed on its scientific basis by homeopathy, and now it can never be lost again. When syphilis is implanted on the scrofulous constitution, we have one of the most intractable morbid condition, and gold seems to be especially suited to the vile combination. Ennui. Ozaena; sexual hyperesthesia.
Arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure; nightly paroxysms of pain behind sternum. Sclerosis of liver, arterial system, brain. Pining boys; low spirited, lifeless, weak memory.
Mind.—Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness. Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide. Talks of commiting suicide. Great fear of death. Peevish and vehement at least contradiction. Anthropophobia. Mental derangements. Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply. Cannot do things fast enough. Oversensitiveness; [Staph.] to noise, excitement, confusion.
Head.—Violent pain in Icead; worse at night, outward pressure. Roaring in head. Vertigo. Tearing through brain to forehead. Pain in bones extending to face. Congestion to head. Boils on scalp.
Eyes.—Extreme photophobia. Great soreness all about the eyes and into eyeballs. Double vision; upper half of objects invisible. Feel tense. Sees fiery objects. Violent pains in bones around eye. [Asaf.] Interstitial keratitis. Vascular cornea. Pains from without inward. Sticking pains inward. Trachoma with pannus.
Ears.—Caries of ossicula and of mastoid. Obstinate fetid otorrhaea after scarlatina. External meatus bathed in pus. Chronic nerve deafness; Labyrinthine disease due to syphilis.
Nose.—Ulcerated, painficl, swollen, obstructed. Inflammation of nose; caries; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody. Boring pains in nose; worse at night. Putrid smell from nose. Sensitive smell. [Carbol. ac.] Horrible odor from nose and mouth. Knobby tip of nose.
Mouth.—Foul breath in girls at puberty. Taste putrid or bitter. Ulceration of gums.
Face.—Tearing in zygoma. Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed.
Throat.—Stitches when swallowing; pain in glands. Caries of the palate.
Stomach.—Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness. Swelling of epigastrium. Burning at stomach and hot eructations.
Abdomen.— Right hypochondrium hot and painful. Incarcerated flatus. Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.
Urine.—Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment. Painful r®tention.
Rectum.—Constipation, stools hard and knotty. Nocturnal diarrhea, with burning in rectum.
Male.—Pain and swelling of testicles. Chronic induration of testicles. Violent erections. Atrophy of testicles in boys. Hydrocele.
Female.—Great sensitiveness of vagina. Uterus enlarged and prolapsed. Sterility; vaginismus.
Heart.—Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for two or three seconds, immediately followed by a tumultuous rebound, with sinking at the epigastrium. Palpitation. Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular. Hypertrophy. High Blood Pressure - Valvular lesions of arterio-sclerotic nature (Aurum 30).
Respiratory.—Dyspncea at night. Frequent, deep breathing; stitches in sternum.
Bones.—Destruction of bones, like secondary syphilis. Pain in bones of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis with nightly pains in bones. Caries of nasal, palatine and mastoid bones. Soreness of affected bones, better in open air, worse at night.
Extremities.—All the blood seems to rush from head to lower limbs. Dropsy of lower limbs. Orgasm, as if blood were boiling in all veins. Paralytic, tearing pains in Joints. Knees weak.
Sleep.—Sleepless. Sobs aloud in sleep. Frightful dreams.
Modalities.—Worse, in cold weather when getting cold. Many complaints come on only in winter; from sunset to sunrise.
Relationship.—Compare: Aur. ars. (chronic aortitis; lupus, phthisis in syphilitic headaches; also in anaemia and chlorosis. It causes rapid increase of appetite.)
Aur. brom. (in headaches with neurasthenia, megrim, night terrors, valvular diseases.
Aur. mur. (Burning, yellow, acrid leukorrhea; heart symptoms, glandular affections; warts on tongue and genitals; sclerotic and exudative deg~neration of the nervous system. Multiple sclerosis. Morvan's disease. Second trituration. Aur.mur. is a sycotic remedy, causing suppressed discharges to reappear. Valuable in climacteric hemorrhages from the womb. Diseases of frontal sinus. Stitching pain in left side of forehead. Weariness, aversion to all work. Drawing feeling in stomach. Cancer, tongue as hard as leather; induration after glossitis.)
Aur. mur. Kali. - Double chloride of Potassium and gold. (In uterine induration and hemorrhage.)
Aur. iod. (Chronic pericarditis, valvular diseases, arteriosclerosis, ozaena, lupus, osteitis, ovarian cysts, myomata uteri, are pathological lesions, that offer favorable ground for the action of this powerful drug. Senile paresis.)
Aur. sulph. (Paralysis agitans; constant nodding of the head; affections of memmae; swelling, pain, cracked nipples with lancinating pains.)
Also, Asafaet. (in caries of bones of ears and nose). Syphilin: Kali iod.; Hep.; Merc.; Mez.; Nit. ac.; Phosph.
Antidotes: Bell.; Cinch.; Cupr; Mere.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency. Latter potency especially for increased blood pressure.
This remedy has a inost pronounced effect on the female organs, and most of its clinical application has been based thereon. Has more power over uterine tumors than any other remedy (Burnett). Psoriasis syphilitica. Periosteal swelling on lower jaw. Swelling of testicle. High blood pressure due to disturbed function of nervous mechanism. Artario-sclerosis. Syphilitic ataxia.
Tongue.—Burning; stitches, and induration. Old cases of rheumatism and gouty pains. Hepatic cirrhosis. Interstitial nephritis.
Female.—Indurated cervix. Palpitation of young girls. ('oldness in abdomeu. Chronic metritis and prolapsus. Uterus fills up whole pelvis. Ulceration of neck of womb and vagina. Lcucorrhcaa, with spasmodic contraction of vagina. Ovaries Indurated. Ovarian dropsy. Sub-involution. Ossified uterus.
Dose.—Second and third trituration.
Has a selective action on brain and nervous system, favor, ably influencing their nutritive function.
Nervous exhaustion, sexual debility, and the morphine habit call for this remedy in rather material dosage. Best tonic for debility after exhausting diseases. Nerve tremors of the aged; chorea, paralysis agitans, epilepsy. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Rheumatism of heart. Colds. Acute coryza (20 drop doses in hot water hourly for a few doses). Alcoholism. Sleeplessness. especially of alcoholics. Bad effects of Morphine habit. Nervous states of many female troubles.
Mind.—Inability to keep mind on any one subject.
Head.—Nervous headache at menstrual period, with burning at top of head. Occipital headache, with phosphatic urine.
Female.—Amenorrhma and dysmenorrhaea, with weak circulation.
Male.—Spermatorrhaea: impotency; after too much indulgence.
Extremities.—Numbness of limbs, as if paralyzed. Strength of hand diminished.
Relationship.—Compare: Alfalfa. (General tonic similar to avena-also in scanty and suppressed urine.)
Dose.—Tincture ten to twenty drop d) ses, preferably in hot water.
An afternoon fever and rheumatic pains in various parts are caused by this remedy. Pain in sternum and ribs, in back and shoulders and extremities; heat, pricking and aching in hands, especially palms, fingers, also toes.
Head.—Forgetful; giddy on rising; head aches, scalp sensitive; eyes burn, pain in right eyeball.
Fever.—Slight chill, afternoon fever, glowing heat in face, hands, and feet, copious sweat on upper part of body.
Relationship.—Compare: Cedron; Natr, mur.; Arsenic.
Introduced by Dr. Burnett.
Has been employed successfully in the treatment of tuberculosis; its good effects seen in the change of the sputum, which becomes decreased and more aerated and less purulent. Many forms of chronic non-tubercular disease are influenced favorably by Bacillinum, especially when bronchorrhaea and dyspnea are present. Respiratory pyorrhaea. The patient expectorates less.
Bacillinum is especially indicated for lungs of old people, with chronic catarrhal condition and enfeebled pulmonary circulation, attacks of suffocation at night with difficult cough. Suffucative catarrh. Tubercular meningitis. Favors falling off of tartar of teeth. Constant disposition to take cold.
Head.—Irritable, depressed. Severe, deep-in headache, also as of a tight hoop. Ringworm. Eczema of eyelids.
Abdomen.—Abdominal pains, enlarged lands in groins, tabes mesenterica. Sudden diarrhea before breakfast. Obstinate constipation, with offensive flatus.
Respiratory.—Oppression. Catarrhal dyspnea. Humid asthma. Bubbling rates and muco-purulent expectoration. Note. This muco-purulent expectoration of bronchitic patients is equally poly-bacillary; it is a mixture of diverse species and hence Bacillinum is truly indicated. (Cartier.) Often relieves congestion of the lungs, thus paving way for other remedies in Tuberculosis.
Skin.—Ringworm; pityriasis. Eczema of eyelids. Glands of neck enlarged and tender.
Modalities.—Worse, night and early morning; cold air.
Relationship.—Antimon. iod.; Lach.; Arsenic. iod.; Myosotis. Levico, 5 - 10 drops, follows as an intercurrent where much debility is present (Burnett).
Complementary: Cale. phos.; Kali carb.
Compare: Its effects seem to be identical to that of Koch's Tuberculinum. Both are useful in the tubercular diathesis before phthisis has developed. In the early stages of tubercular disease of glands, joints, skin and bones. Psorinum. Seems to be its chronic equivalent. Bacillin. testium (acts especially on lower half of the body.
Dose.—The dose is important. Should not be given below the thirtieth, and not repeated frequently. One dose a week often sufficient to bring about reaction. It is rapid in action. and good results ought to be seen soon, otherwise there is no need of repetition.
Soreness of muscles and integuments; worse motion and friction of clothes, with sensitiveness to cold. Glands swollen. General paresis. Basedow's disease. Lues, bubo, roseola.
Head.—Sensation of enlargement and fullness. Pain in forehead and temple, extending to eyeballs, worse in afternoon. Blueness under eyes. Dandruff; scalp sore, dry, tetter-like. Dull, dizzy feeling in head. Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge, with asthmatic breathing and suffocative cough. Influenza. Slight sounds are greatly accentuated.
Eyes.—Twitching of left upper lid; eyeballs tender; aching in eyeballs. Intermittent sore pain in eyeball, coming on at 3 p.m.
Respiratory.—Cough; worse in afternoon, better in warm room. The mucus flies out of mouth and nostrils. Whoopingcough, with thick yellow expectoration; flies out. Hay-fever, with asthmatic breathing. Pleuritic stitches in chest, neck, and back.
Stomach.—Mouth hot. Much thirst. Lancinating pain in pit of stomach extending to vertebra and scapula.
Female.—Metorrhagia; worse at night, with feeling of enlargement of head. [Arg.] Cancer of breast. [Asterias; Con.; Carbo an.; Plumb. iod.]
Heart.—Indescribable bad feeling about the heart with soreness and pain, flying stitches all over.
Skin.—Sore to touch. Freckles. Rhagades.
Back.—Stitches in nape, scapulae. Pain in small of back, hips and lower limbs. Very stiff neck. Muscles and skin sore, as if beaten.
Modalities.—Worse by cold. Better, by heat.
Relationship.—Compare: Merc. similar but opposite modalities. Spongia; Kali hyd.; Phytol.; Conium.
Complementary: Sulph.; Mere.; Iod.
Dose.—First to sixth attenuation.
Useful in bronchial catarrh, with copious, purulent expectoration. Debility; hectic fever.
Nose.—Profuse, thick discharge,. Eczema, with ulceration. Chronic, fetid, nasal catarrh.
Stomach.—Vomiting of food and mucus. Catarrh of stomach.
Chest.—Bronchitis, and phthisis., with, muco-purulent; thick, creamy expectoration. Loud rales in chest. [Kali sulph.; Ant. tart.] Very loose cough. Hectic fever and night-sweais, with irritating, short cough and scanty expectoration.
Urine.—Scanty; much mucus sediment. Catarrh of bladder. [Chimaph.]
Relationship.—Balsamum Tolutanum - the balsam of Myroxylon toluifera - (chronic bronchitis with profuse expectoration). Oleum caryophyllum - oilof cloves - in profuse septic expectoration - 3 to 5 minims in milk or capsules.)
Dose.—First attenuation: In hectic 6x.
Extra homceopathic uses locally: As a stimulant to raw surfaces in indolent ulcers, scabies, cracked nipples, rhagades, itch. Promotes granulation, removes fetor. A one percent. solution in alcohol or ether may be used with the atomizer in respiratory affections. Internally, as an expectorant, in chronic bronchitis. Dose, 5 to 15 M., made into an emulsion with mucilage or yolk of egg.
The symptoms of this drug are of an asthenic type, simulating low fevers, septic conditions of the blood, malarial poisoning, and extreme prostration. Indescribable sick feeling. Great muscular soreness and putrid phenomena always are present. All the secretions are offensive - breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc. Epidemic influenza. Chronic intestinal toxaemias of children with fetid stools and eructations.
Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of anti-bodies to the bac. typhosus, viz., the agglutinins. [Mellon.] Thus it raises the natural bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary intoxication, which produces the typhoid syndrome. Typhoid carriers. After inoculation with anti-typhoid serum. Intermittent pulse, especially in the aged.
Mind.—Wild, wandering feeling. Inability to think. Mental confusion. Ideas confused. Illusion of divided personalty. Thinks he is broken or double, and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together. [Cajeput.] Delirium, wandering, muttering. Perfect indifference. Falls asleep while being spoken to. Melancholia, with stupor.
Head.—Confused, swimming feeling. Vertigo; pressure at root of nose. Skin of forehead feels tight; seems drawn to back of head. Feels too large, heavy, numb. Soreness of eyeballs. Brain feels sore. Stupor; falls asleep while spoken to. Early deafness in typhoid conditions. Eyelids heavy.
Face.—Besotted look. Dark red. Pain at root of nose. Muscles of jaw rigid.
Mouth.—Taste flat, bitter. Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated. Breath fetid. Tongue feels burned; yellowish-brown; edges red and shining. Dry and brown in center, with dry and glistening edges; surface cracked and sore. Can swallow liquids only; least solid food gags.
Throat.—Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate. Constriction, contraction of esophagus. [Cajeput.] Great difficulty in swallowing solid food. Painless sore throat, and offensive discharge. Contraction at cardiac orifice.
Stomach.—Can swallow only liquids, vomiting due to spasm of esophagus. Gastric fever. No appetite. Constant desire f or water. Sinking feeling at stomach. Pain in episgastric region. Feeling of hard substance. [Abies nig.] All symptoms worse from beer. [Kali bich.] Cardiac orifice contracted convulsively and ulcerative inflammation of stomach and bowels.
Abdomen.—Right side markedly affected. Distended and rumbling. Soreness over region of gall-bladder, with diarrhea. Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody. Soreness of abdomen, in region of liver. Dysentery of old people.
Female.—Threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock, watching, low fevers. Menses too early, too profuse. Lochia acrid, fetid. Puerperal fever.
Respiratory.—Langs feel compressed, breathing difficult; seeks open window. Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and sense of suffocation. Constriction of chest.
Back and color:#00B050'>Extremities.—Neck tired. Stiffness and pain, aching and drawing in arms and legs. Pain in sacrum, around hips and legs. Sore and bruised. Decubitus.
Sleep.—Sleepless and restless. Nightmare and frightful dreams. Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed. Falls asleep while answering a question.
Skin.—Livid spots all over body and limbs. Burning and heat in skin. [Arsenic.] Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium end prostration.
Fever.—Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body. Heat all over, with occasional chills. Chill about 11 n. m. Adynamic fevers. Typhus fever. Shipboard fever.
Modalities.—Worse; Humid heat; fog; indoors.
Relationship.—Compare: Bryonia and Arsenic may be needed to complete the favorable reaction. Ailanthus differs, being more painful. Baptisia more painless. Rhus; Muriat. arid; Arsenic; Bryon.; Arnica; Echinac. Pyrogen.
Baptisia confusia. (Pain in right jaw and oppression in left hypochondrirum, producing dyspnea and necessity to assume erect position.)
Dose.—Tincture, to twelfth attenuation. Has rather short action.
Marked specific effects on genito-urinary system; mucopurulent discharges. Irritable bladder, with vesical catarrh; prostatic diaordc-rs. Gravel. Leukorrhea.
Relationship.—Compare: Copaiva; Thuja; Populus; Chimaph. See Diosma.
Dose.—Tincture or tea from leaves.
Produces paralysis beginning at the extremities and spreading upward. Pruritus of aged.
Mind.—Forgetful; wavering long between opposite resolutions. Lack of self-confidence.
Face.—Feeling of cobweb in face.
Extremities.—Drawing pain down whole left leg. Crawling, with burning stitches. Paralysis. Lumbago and rheumatic pain in muscles and joints.
Dose.—Second and third trituration in repeated dosage.
Specially indicated in infancy and old age. This remedy brings aid to scrofulous children, especially if they are backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop, have scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen abdomen, take cold easily, and then always have swollen tonsils. Persons subject to quinsy which is prone to suppurate; gums bleed easily. Diseases o1 old men when degenerative changes begin;-cardiac vascular and cerebral;-who have hypertrophied prostate or indurated testes, very sensitive to cold, offensive foot-sweats, very weak and weary, must sit or lie down or lean on something. Very averse to meeting strangers. Catarrh of posterior nares, with frequent epistaxis. Often useful in the dyspepsias of the young who have masturbated and who suffer from seminal emissions, together with cardiac irritability and palpitation. Affects glandular structures, and useful in general degenerative changes, especially in coats of arteries, aneurism, and senility. Baryta is a cardio-vascular poison acting on the muscular coats of heart and vessels. Arterial fibrosis. Blood-vessels soften and degenerate, become distended, and aneurisms, ruptures, and apoplexies result.
Mind.—Loss of memery, mental weakness. Irresolute. Lost runfidence in himself. Senile det-nentia. Confusion. Bashful. Aversion to strangers. Childish; grief over trifles.
Head.—Vertigo; stitches, when standing in the sun, extending through head. Brain feels as if loose. Hair falls out. Confusion. Wens.
Eyes.—Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils. F'}iotophobia. Gauze before eyes. Cataracts. [Calc.; Phos.; sit.]
Ears.—Hardness of hearing. Crackling noise. Glands around rars painful and swollen. Reverberation on blowing nose.
Nose.—Dry; sneezing; coryza, with swelling of upper lip and nose. Sensation of smoke in nose. Discharge of thick, y (Ilow mucus. Frequent bleeding. Scabs around wings of nose.
Face.—Pale, puffed; sensation as of cobweb. [Alumina.] I f pper lip swollen.
Mouth.—Awakes with dry mouth. Gums bleed and retract. Teeth ache before menses. Mouth filled with inflamed vesicles, foul taste. Paralysis of tongue. Smarting, burning pain in lip of tongue. Dribbling of saliva at dawn. Spasm of gus oesopha~,rtts when food enters.
Throat.—Submaxil_laiy glands and tonsils swollen. Takes rcld easily, with stitches and smarting pain. Quinsy. Suppuraling tonsils from every cold. Tonsas inflamed, with swollen veins. Smarting pain when swallowing; worse empty swallowing. Feeling of a plug in pharynx. Can only swallow liquids. tipasm of Grsophagus as soon as food enters esophagus, causes gagging and choking. [lrlerc. cor.; Graphit.] Throat troubles from over use of voice. Stinging pain in tonsils, pharynx or larynx.
Stomach.—Waterbrash, hiccough, and eructation, which relieves pressure as of a stone. Hungry, but refuses food. Pain and weight immediately after a meal, with epigastric tendern~ss. [Kali carb.] Worse after warm food. Gastric weakness In the aged with possible malignancy present.
Abdomen.—Flard and tense, distended. Colicky. Enlarged moyenteric glands. Pain in abdomen swallowing zoo i. Habitual c (iIic, with hunger, but food is refused.
Rectum.—Constipation, with hard, knotty stools. Hemorrhoids protrude on urinating. Crawling in rectum. Oozing at anus.
Urinary.—Every time patient urinates, his piles come down. Urging to urinate. Burning in urethra on urinating. color:#00B050'>Male.—Diminished desire and premature impotence. Enlarged prostate. Testicles indurated.
Female.—Before menses, pain in stomach arid small of back. Menses scanty.
Respiratory.—Dry, sufxocative cough, especially in old people, full of mucus but lacking strength to expectorate, worse every change of weather. [Senega.] Larynx feels as if smoke were inhaled. Chronic aphonia. Stitches in chest; worse inspiration. Lungs feel full of smoke.
Heart.—Palpitation and distress in region of heart. Ar.eurism. [Lycop.] Accelerates the heart's action at first, blood pressure much increased, contraction of blood vessels. Palpitation when lying on left side, when thinking of it especially; pulse full and hard. Cardiac symptoms after suppressed footsweat.
Back.—Swollen glands in nape of occipat. Fatty tumors about neck. Bruised pain between scapulae. Stiffness in sacrum. Weakness of spine.
Extremities.— Pain in axiIIary glands. Cold, clammy feet. [Calc.] Fetid foot - sweats. Numbness of limbs. Numb feeling from knees to scrotum; disappears when sitting down. Toes and soles sore; soles painful when walking. Pain in joints; burning pains in lower limbs.
Sleep.—Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot. Twitching during sleep.
Modalities.—Worse, while thinking of symptoms; from washing; lying on painful side. Better, walking in opern air.
Relationship.—Compare: Digitalis; Radium; Aragallus; Oxytrop; Astrag. Complementary: Dulc.; Silica; Psorin. Incompatible: Cale. Antidote for poisonous doses: Epsom salts.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency, the latter to remove the predisposition to quinsy. Baryta is slow in action, bears repetition.
Acts on the lymphatic system, increased leucocytosis. Quinsy. /nulurated glands, especially tonsils and breasts. Strumous r,pht;halmia, with tumefaction of cervical glands and stunted k,rvrwth. Tumors. ftelationshipcolor:#00B050'>.—
Compare: Acon. lycotonum (swelling of cervir•al, axillary, and mammary glands). Lapis; Con. Mere. iod.; Crrrbo an.
Dose.—Second and third trituration.
The different salts of Baryta are called for in organic lesions of the aged and dwarfish, both mentally and physically. Arterw -sclerosis and cerebral affections due to this condition. Ilcadaches, but without acute crisis, occurring in old people; lw;iviness rather than pain. Vertigo, due to cerebral anaemia Mud noises in ears. Acts on lower alimentary canal, especially n•otum; on muscles and joints, giving stiffness and weakness as tron ver walking. The white blood corpuscles increased. Hypertension and vascular degeneration. Increased tension of pirlse. Arterio-sclerosis [Aurum; Secale] where a high systolic pn~:sure with a comparatively low diastolic tension is attended I,y cerebral and cardiac symptoms.
This remedy has indurated and narrowing of the cardiac orifice with pain, immediately after eating, and epigastric tendersess, which has been repeatedly verified, also its use in aneurism and chronic hypertrophy of the tonsils. Nymphomania and luttyria~sis. Convulsions. In every form of mania when the sexual desire is increased. Icy coldness of body, with paralysis. Multiple sclerosis of brain and cord. Voluntary muscular pclrver gone but perfectly sensible. Paresis after influenza and dipfitheria. General feeling of lassitude in the morning, especiully weakness of the legs, with muscular stiffness. Children Who go around with their mouth open and who talk through the nose. Stupid-appearing, hard of hearing.
Ears.—Whizzing and buzzing. Noises on chewing and swallowing, or sneezing. Earache; better sipping cold water. Parotids swollen. Offensive otorrhaea. Inflates middle ear on blowing nose.
Throat.—Difficult swallowing. Tonsils enlarged. Paresis of pharynx and eustachian tubes, with sneezing and noises. Tubes feel too wide open.
Respiratory.—Bronchial affections of old people with cardiac dilation. Facilitates expectoration. Great accumulation and rattling of mucus with difficult expectoration. Arterio-sclerosis of the lung, thus in senile asthma, modifies the arterial tension.
Stomach.—Gone feeling at epigastrium a good guiding symptom for it in chronic affections. Retching and vomiting. Sensation of heat ascending to head,
Urine.—Great increase in uric acid, diminution of chlorides,
Abdomen.—Throbbing [Selen.] ; induration of pancreas; abdominal aneurism. Inguinal glands swollen. Spasmodic pain in rectum.
Relationship.—Compare in sclerotic degenerations, especially of spiral cord, liver, and heart. Plumbum met. and Plunab. iod. Also Aurum mur. (which will often accomplish more in sclerotic and exudative degenerations than other remedies. Multiple sclerosis, fulgurating pains, tremors, Morvan's disease, hypertrophy of fingers.)
Dose.—Third trituration. Bears repetition of dosage well.
Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands. Belladonna always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperaesthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness o mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly. [Oxytropis.] Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Great children's remedy. Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting. Sear - let fever and also prophyBELLADONNAmso-tab-count:1'> 111 lactic. Here use the thirtieth potency. Exophlhalmic goitre: Corresponds to the symptoms of "air-sickness" in aviators. Give as preventive. No thirst, anxiety or fear. Belladonna :;tands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset. Bell. for the extreme of thyroid toxaemia. Use 1x (Beebe).
Mind.—Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by spectres and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities. While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within. He is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of subjective visual impressions and fantastic illusions. Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces. Delirium; frightful images; furious; rages,_ bites, strikes; desire to escape. Loss of consciousness. Disirrc•lined to talk. Perversity, with tears. Acuteness of all senses. Changeableness.
Head.—Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards. Sensitive to least contact. Much throbbing and heat. Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing. Pain; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples. Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow. Sudden outcries. Pain worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure and semi-erect posture. Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side. Constant moaning. Hair splits; is dry and comes out. Headache worse on right side and when lying down; ill effects, colds, etc.; from having hair cut.
Face.—Red, bluish - red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of face. Swelling of upper lip. Facial neuralgia with twitching muscles and flushed face.
Eyes.—Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down. Pupils dilated. [Agnus.] Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry, burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes. Exophthalmus. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance. Diplopia, squinting, spasms of lids. Sensation as if eyes were half closed. Eyelids swollen. Fundus congested.
Ears.—Tearing pain in middle and external ear. Humming noises. Membrana tymp3ni bulges and injected. Parotid gland swollen. Sensitive to loud tones. Hearing very acute. Otitis media. Pain causes delirium. Child cries out in sleep;, throbbing and beating pain deep in ear, synchronous with heart beat. flematoma au-is. Acute and sub-acute conditions of Eustachian tube. L"9utophony—hearing one's voice in ear.
Nose.—Imaginary odors. Tingling in tip of nose. Red and swollen. Bl: eding of nose, with red face. Coryza; mucus mixed with blood.
Mouth.—Dry. Throbbing pain in teeth. Gumboil. Tongue red on edges. Strawberry tongue. Grinding of teeth. Tongue swollen and painful. Stammering.
Throat.—Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion [Ginseng] ; red, worse on right side. Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition; worse, liquids. Sensation of a lump. (Esophagus dry; feels contracted. Spasms in throat. Continual inclination to swallow. Scraping sensation. Muscles of deglutition very sensitive. Hypertrophy of mucous membrane.
Stomach.—Loss of appetite. Averse to meat and milk. Spasmodic pain in epigastrium. Constriction; pain runs to spine. Nausea and vomiting. Great thirst for cold water. Spasms of stomach. Empty retching. Abhorrence of liquids. Spasmodic hiccough. Dread of drinking. Uncontrollable vom.iting.
Abdomen.—Distended, hot. Transverse colon protrudes like a pad. Tender, swollen. Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar, pressure. Cutting pain across; stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching it. Extreme sensitiveness to touch, bed-clothes, etc. [Laches.]
Stools.—Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk. Shuddering during stool. Sting:.ig pain in rectum; spasmodic stricture. Piles more sensitive with backache. Prolapsus ani. [Ignatia; Podoph.]
Urine.—Retention. Acute urinary infections. Sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm. Urine scanty, with tenesmus; dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates. Vesical region sensitive. Incontinence, continuous dropping. Frequent and profuse. Haernaturia where no pathological condition can be found. Prostatic hypertrophy.
Male.—Testicles hard, drawn up, inflamed. Nocturnal sweat of genitals. Flow of prostatic fluid. Desire diminished.
Female.—Sensitive forcing downwards, as if all the viscera would protrude at genitals. Dryness and heat of vagina. Dragging around loins. Pain in sacrum. Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse. Haernorrhage hot. Cutting pain from hip to hip. Menses and lochia very qffe7asive and hot. Laborpains come and go suddenly. Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from nipple. Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red. Tumors of breast, pain worse lying down. Badly smelling hemorrhages, hot gushes of blood. Diminished lochia.
Respiratory.—Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea. Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night. Larynx feels sore. Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. Cheyne-Stokes respiration [Cocain; Opium.] Hoarse; loss of voice. Painless hoarseness. Cough with pain in left hip. Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with expectoration of blood. Stitches in chest when coughing. Larynx very painfal; feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough. High, piping voice. Moaning at every breath.
Heart.—Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, with labored breathing. Palpitation from least exertion. Throbbing all through body. Dichrotism. Heart seemed too large. Rapid but weakened pulse.
Extremities.—Shooting pains along limbs. Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating. Tottering gait. Shifting rheumatic pains. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Jerking limbs. Spasms. Involuntary limping. Cold extremities.
Back.—Stiff neck. Swelling of glands of neck. Pain in nape, as if it would break. Pressure on dorsal region most painful. I,umbago, with pain in hips and thighs.
Skin.—Dry and hot; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, r:moath. Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading. Erylhema; pustules on face. Glands swollen, tender, red. Boils. Acne rosacea. Suppurative wounds. Alternate redness and paleness of the skin. Indurations after inflammations. Erysipelas.
Fever.—A high feverish state with comparative absense of t,) r.emia. Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Feet icy cold. `uperficial blood-vessels, distended. Perspiration dry only on hiad. No thirst with jever.
Sleep.—Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth. Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels. Screams out in sleep. Sleeplessness, with drowsiness. Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep. Sleeps with hands under head. [Ars.; Plat.]
Modalities.—Worse, touch, jar, noise, draught, after noon, lying down. Better, semi-erect.
Relationship.—Compare: Sanguisorba officinalis 2x-6x, a member of the Rosaceae family, (Profuse, long-lasting menses, especially in nervous patients with congestive symptoms to head and limbs. Passive hemorrhages at climacteric. Chronic metritis. Hemorrhage from lungs. Varices and ulcers). Mandragora - (Mandrake). A narcotic of the ancients-Restless excitability and bodily weakness. Desire for sleep. Has antiperiodic properties like China and Aranea. Useful in epilepsy and hydrophobia, also Cetonia (A. E. Lavine). Hyos. (less fever, more agitation); Stram. (more sensorial excitement, frenzy); Hoitzia - A Mexican drug, similar in action to Bellad. (Useful in fever, scarlatinal eruption, measles, urticaria, etc. High fever with eruptive fevers. Dry mouth and;hroat, red face, injected eyes, delirium.) Calcar is often required after Bell.; Atropia. Alkaloid of Belladonna covers more the neurotic sphere of the Belladonna action. (Great dryness of throat, almost impossible to swallow. Chronic stomach affections, with great pain and vomiting of all food. Peritonitis. All kind of illusions of sight. Everything appears large. Platina opposite.) Hypochlorhydria; pyrosis. Motes over everything. On reading, words run together; double vision, all objects seem to be elongated. Eustachian tube and tympanic congestion. Affinity for the pancreas. Hyperacidity of stomach. Paroxysms of gastric pain; ovarian neuralgia.)
Non-Homeopathic Usescolor:#00B050'>.—Atropia and its salts are used for ophthalmic purposes, to dilate the pupil and paralyze the accommodation.
Given internally or hypodermically, it is antagonistic to Opium and Morphine. Physostigma and Pi ussic Acid. Narcotic poisons and mushroom poisoning. Renal colic 1-200 of a grain hypodermically.
Atropin injected subcutaneously in doses from a millegram upwards for intestinal obstruction threatening life.
Hypodermically 1-80 gro night sweats in phthisis.
Atropia 1-20 gr. is antagonistic to 1 gr. Morphine.
Also used as a local anaesthetic, antispasmodic, and to dry up rocretions, milk, etc. Hypodermically 1-80 gr. night sweats in
Idhthisis.
Dose.—Atropia Sulph., 1-120 to 1-60 grain.
Antidotes to Belladonna. Ca.mph.; Coff.; Opi) sn; Acon. Complementary: Cat. Bellad. (contains lime). Especially in semi-chronic and constitutional diseases.
Incompatible: Acet. ac.
Dose.—First to thirtieth po ( (nc3- and higher. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases.
It acts upon the muscular fibers of the blood-vessels. Much muscular soreness. Lameness, as if shraiited. Venous congestion, due to mechanical causes. First remedy in injuries to the deeper tissues, after major surgical work. Results of injuries to nerves with intense soreness and intolerance of cold bathing. After gout, debility of limbs.
Traumatism of the pelvic organs, auto-traumatism, expresses the condition calling for this remedy; ill effects from masturbation. Excellent remedy for sprains and bruises. Complaints due to cold food or (hink when the body is heated, and in affections due to cold wind. Externally, in naevi. Acne. hnils all over. Sore, bruised feeling in the petuic region. Exudations, stasis, swelling, come within the range of this remedy. Rheumatic symptoms. Does not vitiate the secretions. "It is a princely remedy for old laborers, especially gardeners." (}turnett.)
Head.—Vertigo in elderly people. Headache from occiput to top of head. F~) n2h2ad feels contracted. Bruised soreness. Itching-around scalp and over back, worse from hot bath and bed.
Female.—Breasts and uterus engorged Varicose veins in pregnancy. During pregnancy inability to wollc. Abdominal muscles lame. Uterus feels sore, as if squeezed.
Sleep.—Wakes early in morning and cannot get to sleep again.
Abdomen.—Soreness of abdominal walls and of uterus. Stitches in spleen, sore, enlarged. Yellow, painless diarrhea, foul odor, worse at night. Bloated; rumbiing in bowels.
Skin.—Boils. Ecchymosis, swelling, very sensitive to touch. Venous congestion due to mechanical causes. Varicose veins with bruised sore feeling. Exudations and swellings. Acne.
Extremities.—Joints sore, muscular soreness. Itching on back and flexor surfaces of thighs. Pain down anterior of thighs. Wrist feels contracted as from elastic band around joint. Sprains with great soreness. Railway spine.
Relationship.—Compare: Arnica; Arsenic; Staphis.; Hamamelis; Bryonia; Vanadium (degenerative states).
Modalities-Worse, left side; hot bath and warmth of bed; before storms; cold bathing; cold wind.
Dose.—Tincture to third potency.
The most striking fact in the proving of Benzol seems to be the influence it had on the circulatory system. It caused a slowing of the pulse stream which in the guinea-pigs brought about the formation of infarcts. In the human provers it resulted in a decrease of the red and increase of white cells. (R. F. Rabe, M.D.)
It ought to be of use in Leucaemia. Eye symptoms striking. Hallucinations-Epileptiform attacks, coma, and anasthesia.
Head.—Sense of falling through bed and floor. Pains from below upward. Tired and nervous. Frontal headache to root of nose. Dizzy. Pressing feeling in head. Right sided headache.
Eyes.—Illusion of vision with wide open eyes. Twitching of lids. Photophobia, objects blurred. Aching in eyes and lids. Marked dilatioa of pupils. Failure to react to light, particularly daylight.
Nose.—Profuse fluent coryza. Especially in afternoon. Violent sneezing.
Male.—Swelling of right testicle. Severe pain in testicles. Itching of scrotum. Profuse urination.
Extremities.—Heavy limbs, cold legs, exaggerated knee;elk. Pains from below upward.
Skin.—Eruption like measles. Perspiration on side not lain upon. Itching all over back.
Modalities.—Worse at night. Worse right side.
Dose.—Sixth potency.
Relationship.—Compare: Benzin-Petroleum ether - not as pure a compound as Benzene (Benzol). It is the same,, but with a mixture of hydrocarbons. It seems to exercise a special influence on the nervous system and on the blood. QxyhaemoOobinaemia. Physical weakness; cramps, exaggeration of knee jerks, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, heaviness and coldness of limbs. Tremor of eyelids and tongue. Benzin. dinitricum1). N. B. - (The most obvious results of poisoning by skin ab.,orption are changes in the red blood corpuscles and liver degeneration in amblyopia, color-blindness, retinitis. Field of vision contracted. Black urine). Benzin. nitricum. Mirbane. (Dark, black blood, coagulates with difficulty; venous hyper:emia of the brain and general venous engorgement. Burning taste in mouth. Blue lips, tongue, skin, nails and conjunctivae. Cold skin, pulse small, weak, breathing slow and irregular, unconsciousness, symptoms of apoplectic coma. Rolling of eyeballs in their vertical axis; pupils dilated. Nystagmus. Respiration very slow, difficult, sighing.) Trinitrotoluene (T. N. T.) , Trotyl-is a high explosive, obtained by nitrating toluene-a product of coal tar distillation.
When the skin or hair is exposed to T. N. T. by contact a characteristic yellow or tawny-orange stain is produced, which lasts for some weeks. Indicated in graver forms of anemi (pernicious) and jaundice. Produces fatal toxic jaundice.
Dose.—Sixth potency.
The most marked characteristic pertains to the odor and color of the urine. It has a marked action on metabolism. It produces and cures symptoms of a uric acid diathesis, with urine highly colored and very offen'sive, and gouty symptoms. Renal Insufficiency. Child wants to be nursed in the arms, will not be laid down. Pains suddenly change their locality. Antisycotic. Gouty and asthmatic.
Mind.—Prone to dwell on unpleasant things in the past. Omits words in writing. Depression.
Head.—Vertigo inclination to fall sideways. Throbbing in temporal arteries, causes puffing around ears. Noises when swallowing. Ulceration of tongue. Swelling behind ears. [Caps.] Cold sweat on forehead. Pricking, puckered constriction of mouth, bluish and bleeding gums. Wens.
Nose.—Itching of septum. Pain in nasal bones.
Face.—Copper-colored spots. Red, with little blisters. Circumscribed redness of cheeks.
Stomach.—Sweat while eating; pressure in stomach, sensation of a lump.
Abdomen.—Cutting about navel. Stitching in liver region.
Rectum.—Stitches and constricted feeling. Puckering constriction of rectum. Itching and watery elevations around anus.
Stool.—Frothy, offensive, liquid, light-colored, like soapsuds, bowel movements mostly windy.
Urine.—Repulsive odor; changeable color; brown, acid. Enuresis; dribbling, offensive urine of old men. Excess of uric acid. Vesical catarrh from suppressed gonorrhcaa. Cystitis.
Respiratory.—Hoarse in morning. Asthmatic cough; worse night; lying on right side. Chest very tender. Pain in region of heart. Expectoration, green mucus.
Back.—Pressure on spinal column. Coldness in sacrum. Dull pain in region of kidneys; worse, wine.
Extremities.—Joints crack on motion. Tearing with stitches. Pain in tendo Achillis. Rheumatic gout; nodes very painful. Gouty deposits. Ganglion; swelling of the wrist. Pain and swelling in knees. Bunion of great toe. Tearing pain in great toe.
Fever.—Cold hands, feet, back, knees. Chilliness; cold sweat. Internal heat on awakening.
Skin.—Red spots. Itching in spots.
Modalities.—Worse, in open air; by uncovering.
Relationship.—Useful after Coichic. fails in gout; after Copaiva in gonorrhoa.a.
Compare: Nitric acid; Ammon. benz.; 'Sabina; Tropteolum -Garden Nasturtium- - (fetid urine).
Antidote: Copaiva. Incompatible: Wine.
Dose.—Third to sixth potency.
A remedy for the skin, chronic catarrhal affections, secondary syphilis. Hepatic torpor, lassitude and other evidences of incomplete metamorphosis; stimulates all glands and improves nutrition.
Head.—Sensation of a band just above ears. Bilious headache. "Scald head." Scaly eczema.
Face.—Acne. Blotches and pimples. Clears the complexion
Stomach.—Tongue thickly coated, yellowish-brown; feels blistered. Burning in stomach. Nausea and hunger after eating.
Urine.—Stitching, crampy pains; thick mucus, and brightred, mealy sediment.
Skin.—Pimply, dry, rough, scaly. Eruption on scalp exlending to face and neck. Tumor of breast, with pain. Psoriasis. Acne. Dry Eczema. Pruritus. Glandular induration.
Relationship.—Carbol. acid; Euonym.; Berb. vulg.; Hydr.
Dose.—Tincture in rather material doses.
Rapid change of symptoms-pains change in regard to place and character-thirst alternates with thirstlessness, hunger, and loss of appetite, etc. Acts forcibly on the venous system, producing pelvic engorgements and hemorrhoids.
If epatic, and rheumatic affections, particularly with urinary, hwmorrhoidal and menstrual complaints.
Old gouty constitutions. Pain in region of kidneys is most marked; hence its use in renal and vesical troubles, gall-stones, and vesical catarrh. It causes inflammation of kidneys with bmmaturia. Pains may be felt all over body, emanating from pnull of back. It has also marked action on the liver, promoting The flow of bile. Often called for in arthritic affections with urinary disturbances. Wandering, radiating pains. Acts well in fleshy persons, good livers, but with little endurance. Spinal irritation. All Berberis pains radiate, are not worse by pressure, but worse in various attitudes, especially standing and active exercise.
Head.—Listless, apathetic, indifferent. Puffy sensation, feeling as if becoming larger. Vertigo with attacks of fainting. Frontal headache. Chilliness in back and occiput. Tearing pain in auricle, and gouty concretions. Sensation of a tight cap pressing upon the whole scalp.
Nose.—Dry; obstinate catarrh of left nostril. Crawling in nostrils.
Face.—Pale, sickly. Sunken cheeks and eyes, with bluish circles.
Mouth.—Sticky sensation. Diminished saliva. Sticky, frothy saliva, like cotton. [Nux mosch.] Tongue feels scalded; vesicles on tongue.
Stomach.— Nausea before breakfast. Heartburn.
Abdomen.—Stitches in region of gall-bladder; worse, pressure, excending to stomach. Catarrh of the gall-bladder with constipation and yellow complexion. Stitching pain in front of kidneys extending to liver, spleen, stomach, groins, Poupart's ligament. Sticking deep in ilium.
Stool.—Constant urging to stool. Diarrhea painless, claycolored, burning, and smarting in anus and perineum. Tearing around anus. Fistula in ano.
Urinary.—Burning pains. Sensation as if some urine remained after urinating. Urine with thick mucus and brightred, mealy sediment. Bubbling, sore sensation in kidneys. Pain in bladder region. Pain in the thighs and loins on urinating. Frequent urination; urethra burns when not urinating.
Male.—Neuralgia of spermatic cord and testicles. Smarting, burning, stitching in testicles, in prepuce and scrotum.
Female.—Pinching constriction in mons veneris, vaginismus, contraction and tenderness of vagina. Burning and soreness in vagina. Desire diminished, cutting pain during coition. Menses scanty, grey mucus, with pain in lddneys and chilliness, pain down thighs. Leucurrhasa; grayish mucus, with painful urinary sumptoms. Neuralgia of ovaries and vagina.
Respiratory.—Hoarseness; polypus of larynx. Tearing stitches in chest and region of heart.
Back.—Stitches in neck and back; worse, respiration. Sticking pain in region of kidneys radiating thence around abdomen, to hips and groins. Numb, bruised sensation. Stitches from kidneys into bladder. Tearing, sticking with stiffness, making rising difficult, involving hips, nates, limbs, with numbness. Lumbago. [Rhus; Tart. em.] Metatarsus and metacarpus feel sprained. Post-operative pain in lumbar region; soreness with sharp pain following course of circumflex iliac nerve to bladder with frequent urination.
Extremities.—Rheumatic paralytic pain in shoulders, arms, hands and fingers, legs and feet. Neuralgia under finger - nails, with swelling of finger-joints. Sensation of cold on outside of thighs. Heels pain, as if ulcerated. Stitching between metatarsal bones as from a nail when standing. Pain in balls of feet on stepping. Intense weariness and lameness of legs after walking a short distance.
Skin.—Flat warts. Itching, burning and smarting; worse, scratching; better, cold applications. Small pustules over whole body. Eczema of anus and hands. Circumscribed pigmentation following eczematous inflammation.
Fever.—Cold sensation in various parts, as if spattered with cold water. Warmth in lower part of back, hips, and thighs.
Modalities.—Worse, motion, standing. It brings on, or increases, urinary complaints.
Relationship.—Compare: Ipomea - Convolvulus Duartinus Morning Glory. - (Pain in left lumbar muscles on stooping. Kidney disorders with pain in back. Much abdominal flatulence. Aching in top of right shoulder renal colic; aching in small of back and extremities), Aloe.; Lycopod.; Nux.; Sarsap. Xanthorrh (ea arborea (severe pain in kidneys, cystitis and gravel. Pain from ureter to bladder and testicles; pain in small of back returns from least chill or damp). Xanthorrhiza apifolia - Shrub Yellow Root-contains Berberine. Dilatation of stomach and intestines, atony, enlarged spleen.
Antidotes: Camphor; Bell.
Dose.—Tincture, to sixth potency.
Influences chronic catarrhal states and tuberculosis. The salt Betainum hydrochloricum obtained from the Beet root itself seems to be the best adapted to phthisical patients. Children yield very quickly to the action of the remedy. Use about the 2x Trit.
Produces pains in various parts.
Head.—Stitches in right temple. Inability to concentrate mind.
Abdomen.—Pains in abdomen, hepatic region and of transverse colon, also in gall-bladder and right inguinal region and spermatic cords.
Extremities.—Shooting pain in back of both wrist joints. Wrist drops. Pain in right popliteal space down leg, which feels paralyzed.
Irritation and catarrhal inflammation of the alimentary canal, is the chief action of this drug.
Mind.—Solitude is unbearable. Desire for company. Complains about his condition. Anguish. Discontented.
Head.—Headache alternates with gastralgia. Neuralgic pain, as if torn by pincers; involves face and teeth; worse, eating; better, cold; alternate with gastralgia. Cutting or pressure above right orbit extending to occiput. Pressure in occiput; worse, motion; with heaviness.
Mouth.—Gums swollen. Toothache; better, cold water in mouth. [Coff.] Tongue white. Swollen. Black, gangrenous looking wedges on dorsum and sides of tongue. Profuse salivation, teeth loose. Thirst for cold drinks.
Stomach.—Vomits, with convulsive gagging and pain. Water is vomited as soon as it reaches the stomach. Eructation after drinking. Vomits all fluids. Burning; feeling of a load. Will eat for several days; then vomit. Slow digestion, with fetid eructations. Gastralgia; pain from stomach through to spine. Gastritis. Better, cold drinks, but vomiting when stomach becomes full.
Tongue coated white; sweetish, metallic taste. Inexpressible pain in stomach; must bend backwards. Pressure as from a load in one spot, alternating with burning, crampy pain and pyrosis.
Stool.—Painless diarrhea, with great thirst, and frequent micturition and vomiting. Pinching in lower abdomen, with rumbling.
Respiratory.—Pinching in middle of diaphragm, extending transversely through chest. Angina pectoris; pain around heart, left arm to fingers.
Extremities.—Cramps in hands and feet. Tearing in wrist. Paralytic weakness, especially right arm. Tearing in tips of fingers under nails. [Berb.] Itching erosion near tibia and back of feet near joints. Cold limbs.
Sleep.—Restless on account of voluptuous dreams. Sleepy in morning, a few hours after eating.
Relationship.— Anti dotes: Nux; Capsic.; Calc.
Compare: Antimon.; Ars.; Bellad.; Kreosot.
Dose.—First to sixth potency.
Ascites. Various forms of dropsy. Yellow complexion. Extreme weariness. Pain in urethra on urinating. Weariness on going upstairs.
Dose.—Sixth potency.
A remedy for asthma. Especially when associated with bronchitis. Indicated after arsenic when this is insufficient.
Cough with dyspnea in bronchitis and phthisis. Acts best in stout and corpulent patients. Much pus-like mucus.
Dose.—Lowest potencies during an attack. After the spasm, for the remaining cough, use the higher. Stop with improvement to prevent return of aggravation.
Quotidian intermittent fever. Sweat is light, and without relief. Night-sweat in phthisis.
Head.—Feels light and hollow with deep frontal headache. Thick, yellow coating of tongue; teeth indented. Constant nausea.
Fever.—Chilliness along spine, with frequent, hot flashes. Yawns and stretches when chilly. Severe aching in shoulders and joints and small of back. Profuse perspiration at night, with hectic chills and fever.
Skin.—Hot and dry, especially in palms. Itching more between scapula—and on forearms.
Relationship.—Compare: Agaricin, active constituent of Polyporus officinale (phthisical and other enervating nightsweats 1-1 to 1-2 gr. doses; also in chorea, in dilatation of heart with pulmonary Emphysema, fatty degeneration, profuse perspiration and erythema.) Boletus luridus. (Violent pain in ep:yastriarn, urticaria tuberosa.) Boletus satanus (dysentery, gre.rt debility, cold extremities, spasm of extremities and face).
Dose.—First atteuuation.
Used as an antiseptic disinfectant, since it arrests fermentatior3 and putrefaction.
Pain in region of ureters, with frequent urging to urinate. Coldness. (I3eloderln.1 Diabetes, tongue dry, red, and cracked. Cold saliva.
Skin.—Multiform erythema of trunk and u;color:#00B050'>.—) er ek.trernities. (Edema around eyes. Exfoliating dermatitis. vederna. of tissues around eyes.
Female.—Climacteric flushings. [Loch.; Amyl. nit.] Vagina cold, as if packed with ice. Frequent urination with burning and tenesmus.
Dose.—Third trituration.
Non-homeopathic Uses.—When the diplococcus of tiVeichselbau-iTr is present in the sputum of pharyngitis or bronchitis. pneumonia with tenacious sputum, hacking cough and pain, iive-grain doses six times daily. A solution of Boracic Acid, :is an injection, in chronic, cystitis, or, a teaspoonful to a glass of hot milk, taken internally. Boro-Glyceride in solution --- 1:40) is a powerful antiseptic. Slyes, 15 gr. to 1 oz. water externally. As a dusting powder on ulcerated surfaces. In cystitis as an irrigating fluid.
Gastro-intestinal irritation. Salivation, nausea, vomiting, volic, diarrhea, collapse, alburninuria, casts and vesical spasm. I) elirium, visual changes, Hematuria, and skin eruptions have all been observed from over-dosing.
Dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints. For homeopathic purposes, the peculiar nervous symptoms are very characteristic, and have frequently been verified, esperially in the therapeutics of children. Of much value in epilcpsy. Aphthous ulceration of mucous membranes.
Mind.—Extreme anxiety, especially from motions which have a downward direction, rocking, being carried downstairs, laid down. Anxious expression of face during the downward motions, starts and throws up hands on laying patient down, its if afraid of failing. Excessively nervous; easily frightened. Sensitive to sudden noises. Violent fright from report of a gun, even at a distance. Fear of thunder.
Head.—Aches, with nausea and trembling of whole body. 1[air tangled at tips, cannot be separated, as in Plica Monica. (Vinca min.]
Eyes.—Lashes turn inward. Visions of bright waves. Eyeli,ls ir.flamed, lids cut against eyeball. Entropium.
Ears.—Very sensitive to slightest noise; not so much disturbed by louder ones,
Nose.—Red nose, of young women. [Nat. carb.] Red and shining swelling, with throbbing and tensive sensation. Tip swollen and ulcerated. Dry crusts.
Face.—Pale, earthy, with suffering expression. Swollen, with pimples on nose and lips. Feeling of cobwebs.
Mouth.—Aphthae. White fungous like growth. Mouth hot and tender; ulcers bleed on touch and eating. Painful gumboil. Crying when nursing. Taste bitter. [Bry.; Puls.; Cup.] Taste of "cellar mould."
Stomach and Abdomen.—Distention after eating; vomiting. Gastralgia, depending upon aterine disturbance. Pain as if diarrhea would result.
Stool.—Loose, pappy, offensive stools in children. Diarrhea, offensive, preceded by colic; stools mucous, with aphthous sore mouth.
Urine.—Hot, smarting pain in orifice. Pungent smell. Child afraid to urinate, screams before urinating. [Sarsap.] Small red particles on diaper.
Female.—Labor pains with frequent eructations. Galactorrhaea. [Cal.; Con.; Bell.] In nursing, pain in opposite breast. Leucorrheea like white of eggs, with sensation as if warm water was flowing. Menses too soon, profuse, with griping, nausea and pain in stomach extending into small of back. Membranous dysmenorrhaea. Sterility. Favors easy conception. Sensation of distention in clitoris with sticking. Pruritus of vulva and eczema.
Respiratory.—Hacking and violent cough; expectoration, mouldy taste and smell. Stitches in chest, with inspiration and cough. Cough with mouldy taste-breath smells mouldy. Pleurodynia; worse upper part of right chest. Arrest of breathing when lying; is obliged to jump and catch breath, which causes pain in right side. Out of breath on going up stairs.
Extremities.—Feeling as of cobwebs on hands. Itching on back of finger-joints and hands. Throbbing pain in tip of thumb. Stitches in sole. Pain in heel. Burning pain in great toe; inflammation of balls of toes. Eczema of toes and fingers with loss of nails.
Skin.—Psoriasis. Erysipelas in face. Itching on back of finger-joints. Unhealthy skin; slight injuries suppurate. Herpes. [Rhus.] Erysipelatous inflammation with swelling and tension. Chilblains relieved in open air. Trade eruptions on fingers and hands, itching and stinging. Ends of hair become tangled.
Sleep.—Voluptuous dreams. Cannot sleep on account of heat, especially in head. Cries out of sleep as if frightened.
[Bell.]
Modalities.—Worse, downward motion, noise, smoking, warm weather, after menses.
Better, pressure, evening, cold weather.
Relationship.—Acetic acid, vinegar, and wine are incompatible.
Antidote: Cham.; Coffea.
Compare: Calc.; Bryon.; Sanicula; Sulph, ac.
Dose.—First to third trituration. In skin diseases continue its use for several weeks. Locally in pruritus pudendi. A piece of borax, the size of a pea, dissolved in the mouth, acts magically in restoring the voice, in cases of sudden hoarseness brought on by cold, and frequently for an hour or so, it renders the voice silvery and clear.
Its venom is most coagulating, (also Lachesis) . We should expect to find under these remedies the symptomatology of thrombosis, also thrombotic phenomena, as hemiplegia, aphasia, inability to articulate. (Linn J. Boyd.)
Broken-down, hemorrhagic constitutions; septic states. Great lassitude and sluggishness; hemorrhages from every orifice of the body; black spots. Hemiplegia with aphasia. Inability to articulate, without any affection of the tongue. Nervous trembling. Pain in right big toe, Diagonal course of symptoms. Pulmonary congestion.
Eyes.—Amaurosis; blindness from hemorrhage into retina. Hemoralopia, day blindness, can hardly see her way after sunrise; conjunctivial hemorrhage.
Face.—Swollen and puffy. Besotted expression.
Throat.—Red, dry, constricted.; swallowing difficult, cannot pass liquids.
Stomach.—Epigastric distress. Black vomiting. Intense ha::rratemesis. Tympanais and bloody stools.
Skin.—Swollen, livid, cold with hemorrhagic infiltration. Gangrene. Lymphatics swollen. Anthrax. Malignant erysipelas.
Midalities. - Worse, right side.
Relationship.—Compare: Toxicophis- Moccasin Snake (pain and fever recur annually, after bite from this snake, and sonetimes change location with disappearance of first symptoms. An unusual dryness of skin follows the bite. (Edematous swellings and periodical neuralgia. Pain travels from one part to another.) Other snake poisons, notably I ochesis.
Trachinus. - Stingfish (intolerable pains, swelling, acute blood poisoning, gangrene.)
color:red;Dose.-Sixth to thirtieth potency.
Food poisoning from canned spinach produced a clinical picture suggested in a bulbar paresis.
Eye symptoms, ptosis, double vaio:l, blurred vision.
Difficulty in swallowing and breathing, choking sensation; weakness and uncertainty in walking, "blind staggers," dizziness, thickening of speech. Cramping pain in stomach.
Mask-like expression of face, due to weakness of facial muscles. Severe constipation.
Dose.—Higher potencies.
Has a marked effect on the skin, producing eruption, like eczema, also upon the circulation, predisposing to hzemorrhages,; marked languor and lassitude. Adapted to stammering children, old maids with palpitation; and "tettery" patients. Stage of numbness and tingling in multiple neuritis. Asphyxia due to charcoal fumes.
Mind.—Enlarged sensation. [Arg. n.] Awkward; everyfulls frø~n han:~s. Sensitive.
Head.—Sensation as if head were enG;irging, especially of occiput. Distensive headache; worse early morning, open air, lying. Discharge from nose stringy, tough. Dull, bruised pain in brain. Sta;ramering. [Strant.; Mere] Scalp itches; worse, warmth; sensitive; must scratch until sore.
Face.—S: urf and crusts about nostrils and corners of mouth. Lips chapped. Bleeding of nose and gums. Cheeks and lips feel swollen. <ene worse in summer; due to use of cosmetics.
Stomach.—Sensation as of a lump of ice. Intolerant of tight clothing around waist.
Female.—I ) iarrhaea before and during n7enses. Menses too early and profuse; worse at nighf,. Voluptuous sensation. Leucorrhcn, acrid, thick, tough, greenish, follows menses. Cannot bear tight clothing around [Larh..] . Traces cf menses between menstruation. Soreness of pubes during menses. 1Vletrorrl?aöia; Parovarian cysts.
Abdomen.—Colic, with red urine; relieved by eating. Must bend double. Pain around ambilicus. Stitches through perineum towards rectum and genitals.
Chronic diarrhcza of old people; worse at night and early morning.
Extremities.—Great weakness of ail joints; clumsiness with her hands, drops things from hands. Weariness of hands and feet. Sweat in axihae; onion snneDi, Tip of coccyx itches into~ erably. Moist eczema on back of hand. Itching of feet and legs. C, dema in joints after fracture.
Skin.—Blunt instrumeiits leave deep impression on the skin. Urticaria on excizement, with rheumatic lameness, palpitation and di::rrhma. [Dulc.] Itching on getting warm. Eczema, moist; for-mation of thick cä•tzsts. Pimples cover the entire body; scurvy; herpetic eruptions. F':•uritus ari. T7rticaria on waking in the morning, worse from bathing. Peiiv.l;i°a. rntidotes tar aNl+'_:atio:IS. Sufloca~ tion from gas.mso-tab-count: 1'> Rie7cs in chronic urt;icaFia., r,or~.pare: Cai?e.; Riins; Sepia; f"icutr.
Dose.—Third to sixth potency.
Fluttering sensation. [Caladium.] Kidney and bladder symptoms predominate. Produces symptoms of albuminuria. Itchingin ears and nostrils. Bright's disease. Oppression of chest. Writer's cramp.
Abdomen.—Feeling as if something rolling about. Fluttering in region of ovary.
Urinary.—Pressure in neck of bladder; urging to urinate. Sense of swashing in bladder. Soreness in urethra; feeling as if urine could not be retained. Urine contains mucous corpuscles and epithelium, albumen and casts.
Extremities.—Cramp in fingers, thumb, and wrist when writing-soreness extending along flexor carpi ulnaris.
Relationship.—Compare: Apis; Helonias; Merc. cor.; Plumbum.
Dose.—Third potency.
Most marked effects are seen in the respiratory symptoms, especially in larynx and trachea. It seems to affect especially scrofulous children with enlarged glands. Blond type. Enlarged parotid and goitre. Tendency to spasmodic attacks. Left-sided mumps. Sense of suffocation; excoriating discharges, profuse sweats and great weakness. Complaints from being over-heated. Tendency to infiltrate glands, become hard, but seldom suppurate.
Mind.—Delusion that strange persons are looking over patient's shoulder and that she would see some one on turning, Quarrelsome.
Head.—Megrim of left side; worse stooping, especially after drinking milk. Headache; worse heat of sun and by rapid motion. Sharp pain through eyes. Dizzy when crossing stream of water.
Nose.—Coryza, with corrosive soreness of nose. Stoppage of right nostril. Pressure at root of nose. Tickling, smarting, as from cobwebs. Fan-like motion of alae. [Lyc.] Bleeding from nose relieving the chest.
Throat.—Throat feels raw, evening, with hoarseness. Tonsils pain on swallowing, deep red, with network of dilated blood 'vessels. Tickling in trachea during inspiration. Hoarseness coming on from being overheated.
Stomach and Abdomen.—Shagp burning from tongue to stomach. Pressure as of stone. Gastralgia; better eating. Tympanitic distention of abdomen. Painful hemorrhoids, with black stool.
Respiratory.—Whooping cough. (Use persistently for about ten days.) Dry cough, with hoarseness and burning pain behind sternum. Spasmodic cough, with rattling of mucus in the larynx; suffocative. Hoarseness. Croup after febrile symptoms have subsided. Difficult and painful breathing. Violent cramping of chest. Chest pains run upward. Cold sensation when inspiring. Every inspiration provokes cough. Laryngeal diphtheria, membrane begins in larynx and spreads upward. Spasmodic constriction. Asthma; difficulty in getting air into lung. (Chlorum, in expelling.) Better at sea, of seafaring men when they come on land. Hypertrophy of hvart from gymnastics. [Rhus.] Fibrinous bronchitis, great dyspneea. Bronchial tubes feel filled with smoke.
Male.—Swelling of testicles. Indurated, with pains worse slight jar.
Female.—Swelling of ovaries. Menses too early; toc profuse, with membranous shreds. Low spirited before menses. Tumor in breasts, with stitching pains; worse left. Stitch pains from breast to axillae. Sharp shooting pain in left breast, worse, pressure.
Sleep.—Full of dreams and anguish; jerking and starting during sleep, full of fantasy and illusions; difficult to go to sleep at night, cannot sleep enough in morning; trembling and weak on awaking.
Skin.—Acne, pimples and pustules. Boils on arms and face. Glands stony, hard, especially on lower jaw and throat. Hard goitre. [Spong.] Gangrene.
Modalities.—Worse, from evening, until midnight, and when sitting in warm room; warm damp weather when at rest andd lying left side. Better, from any motion; exercise; at sea.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Ammon, carb.; Camph. Salt inhibitcolor:#00B050'>.—, the action of Brom,
Compare. Conium; Spongia; Iod.; Aster.; Arg. nit. Avoid milk when taking Brom. Flydrobromic acid. (Throat dry and puckering; constriction in pharynx and chest, waves of heat over face and neck; pulsating tinnitus with great nervous irritability (Houghton); vestigo, palpitation; arms heavy; seemed as if parts did not belong to him. Seers to have a specific effect on the inferior cervical ganglion, increasing the tonic action of the sympathetic, thus promoting vaso-constriction. Relieves headache, tinnitus and vertigo, especially in vasomotor stomach disturbance. Dose, 20 minims.)
Dose.—First to third attenuation. Must be prepared fresh, as it is liable to rapid deterioration.
Acts on all serous membranes and the viscera they contain. Aching in every muscle. The general character of the pain here produced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest. These characteristic stitching pains, greatly aggravated by any motion, are found everywhere, but especially in the chest; worse pressure. Mucous membranes are all dry. The Bryonia patient is irritable; has vertigo from raising the head, pressive headache; dry, parched lips, mouth; excessive thirst, bitter taste, sensitive epigastrium, and feeling of a stone in the stomach; stools large, dry, hard; dry cough; rheumatic pains and swellings; dropsical effusions into synovial and serous membranes.
Bryonia affects especially the constitution of a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability. It prefers the right side, the evening, and open air. warm weather after cold days, to manifest its action most markedly.
Children dislike to be carried or raised. Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy. Complaints apt to develop slowly. Mired. - Exceedingly irritable; everything puts him out of humor. Delirium; wants to go home; talks of business.
Head.—Vertigo, nausea, faintness on rising, confusion. Bursting, splitting headache, as if everything would be pressed out; as if hit by a hammer from within; worse from motion, stooping, opening eyes. Headache becomcs seated in occiput. Drawing in bones towards zygoma. Headache; worse on motion, even of eyeballs. Frontal headache, frontal sinuses involved.
Nose.—Frequent bleeding of nose when menses should appear. Also in the morning, relieving the headache. Coryza with shooting and aching in the forehead. Swelling of tip of nose, feels as if it would ulcerate when touched.
Ears.—Aural vertigo. [Aur.; Nat. sal_; Sil.; Chin.] Roaring, buzzing.
Eyes.—Pressing, crushing, aching pain. Glaucoma. Sore to touch and when moving them.
Mouth.—Lips parched, dry, cracked. Dryness of mouth, tongue, and throat, with excessive thirst. Tongue coated yellowish, dark brown; heavily white in gastric derangement. Bitter taste. [Nux; Cod.] Burning in lower lip in old smokers. Lip swollen, dry, black and cracked.
Throat.—Dryness, sticking on swallowing, scraped and constricted. [Bell.] Tough mucus in larynx and trachea, loosened only after much hawking; worse coming into warm room.
Stomach. Nausea and faintness when rising up. Abnormal hunger, loss of taste. Thirst for large draughts. Vomiting of bile and water immediately after eating. Worse, warm drinks, which are vomited. Stomach sensitive to touch. Pressure in stomach after eating, as of a stone. Soreness in stomach when coughing. Dyspeptic ailments during summer heat. * Sensitiveness of epigastrium to touch.
Abdomen.—Liver region swollen, sore, tensive. Burning pain, stitches; worse, pressure, coughing, breathing. Tenderness of abdominal walls.
Stool.—Constipation; stools hard, dry, as if burnt; seem too large. Stools brown, thick, bloody; worse in morning, from moving, in hot weather, after being heated, from cold drinks, every spell of hot. weather.
Urine.—Red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot.
Female.—Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion, with tearing pains in legs; suppressed, with vicarious discharge or splitting headache. Stitching pains in ovaries on taking a deep inspiration; very sensitive to touch. Pain in right ovary as if torn, extending to thigh. [Lilium; Croc.] Milk fever. Pain in breasts at menstrual period. Breasts hot and painful, hard. Abscess of mammae. Frequent bleeding of nose at appearance of menses. Menstrual irregularities, with gastric symptoms. Ovaritis. Intermenstrual pain, with great abdominal and pelvic soreness. [Ham.]
Respiratory.—Soreness in larynx and trachea. Hoarseness; worse in open air. Dry, hacking cough from irritation in upper trachea. Cough, dry, at night; must sit up; worse after eating or drinking, with vomiting, with stitches in chest, and expectorution of rust-colored sputa. Frequent desire to take a long breath; must expand lungs. Difficult, quick respiration; worse every movement; caused by stitches in chest. Cough, with feeling as if chest would fly to pieces; presses his head on sternum; must support chest. Croupous and pleuro-pneumonia. Expectoration brick shade, tough, and falls like lumps of jelly. Tough mucus in trachea, loosened only with much hawking. Coming into warm room excites cough. [Nat. carb.] Heaviness beneath the sternum extending towards the right shoulder. Cough worse by going into warm room. Stitches in cardiac region. Angina pectoris (use tincture).
Back.—Painful stiffness in nape of neck. Stitches and stzjfness in small of back. From hard water and sudden changes of weather.
Extremities.—Knees stiff and painful. Hot swelling of feek. Joints red, swollen, hot, with stitches and tearing; worse on least movement. Every spot is painful on pressure. Constant motion of left arm and leg. [Helleb.1
Skin.—Yellow; pale, swollen, dropsical; hot and painful. Seborrhaea. Hair very greasy.
Sleep.—Drowsy; starting when falling asleep. Delirium; busy with business matters and what he had read.
Fever.—Pulse full, hard, tense, and quick. Chill with external coldness, dry cough, stitches. Internal heat. Sour sweat after slight exertion. Easy, profuse perspiration. Rheumatic and typhoid marked by gastro-hepatic complications.
Modalities.—Worse, warmth, any motion, morning, eating, hot weather, exertion, touch. Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick. Better, lying on painful side, pressure, rest, cold things.
Relationship.—Complementary: Upas when Bryonia fails.
Rhus; Alumina. Illecebrum. - A Mexican drug. - (Fever with catarrhal symptoms, gastric and typhoid fever symptoms.)
Antidotes: Acen.; Cham.; Nux.
Compare: Asclep. tub.; Kali mur.; Pteliae
Dose.—First to twelfth attenuation.
Acts on the nervous system and skin. Uterine symptoms marked. Lymphangitis of septic origin. Symptoms of paralysis agitans. Striking rheumatic symptoms.
Arouses the lowest passions. Causes a desire for intoxicating drink, and produces impotence.
Of use in feeble-minded children. Prematurely senile. Epileptic symptoms. Convulsive seizures occur during sleep at night. More or less connected with derangements of the sexual sphere, seem to come within the range of this remedy. Injuries to fingers; pain runs in streaks up the arms.
Mind.—Anxious about health. Sad, restless. Propensity to bite. Howling; impatient; nervous; imbecile. Desire for solitude. Feeble - minded.
Head.—Sensation as if hot vapor rose to top of head. Numbness of brain. Face balhed in sweat. Epistaxis with flushed face and pain in forehead, better, nosebleed.
Eyes.—Cannot bear sight of brilliant objects. Little blisters form on eye.
Ears.—Music is unbearable. [Ambra.] Every little noise distresses.
Heart.—Feels too large. Palpitation. Constriction about heart. Sensation of heart swimming in water.
Female.—Menses too early and copious, clots and bloody discharge at other times; watery leukorrhea. Excitement, with epileptic attacks. Epilepsy at time of menses. Induration in mammary glands. Pallative in cancer of the mammae. Burning in ovaries and uterus. Ulceration of cervix. Offensive bloolly discharge. Pains run into legs. Bloody milk. Milkleg. Veins swollen. Tumors and polypi of womb.
Male.—Involuntary emissions; impotence, discharge too quick, spasms during coition. Buboes. Disposition to handle organs. [Hyos.; Zinc.] Effects of onanism.
Extremities.—Pains in loins, numbness of limbs, cramps, staggering gait, feeling as if a peg were driven in joints; swelling of, bones.
Skin.—Panaritium; pain runs up arm. Patches of skin lose sensation. Pustules, suppuration from every slight injury. Pemphigus. Bullae which open and leave a raw surface, exuding and ichorous fluid. Blisters on palms and soles. Itching and burning. Carbuncle.
Relationship.—Compare: Baryt. carb.; Asterias; Salamand. (Epilepsy and softening of brain.)
Antidotes: Laclaes.; Seneg.. Complementary: Salamandra.
Modalities.—Worse, in warm room, on awakening, Better, from bathing or cold air; from putting feet in hot water.
Dose.—Sixth potency and higher.
Head.—Worries over trifles; impulsive thoughts of suicide; constant state of fear and nervousness. Headache makes him appre.Iensive about trifles; worse going upstairs or rapid motion. Dull, hazy ache of head.
Stomach.—Poor appetite. Much gas in stomach and bowels. Cramps in pit of stomach, worse at night. Stomach feels heavy and overloaded. Cramp in abdomen below umbilicus. Bowels irregular. Stool accompanied by pain and straining.
Back.—Tired feeling and dull pain in small of back, worse walking. Pain in ankles and up back of leg. Pain low down in back and extremities.
Sleep.—Pronounced. sleeplessness; dreams of serious nature while asleep.
Skin.—Perspiration on slight exertion. Profuse, njffen~s•"rae sweat of feet. Crumbling away of finger-nails.
Modalities.—Worse, at night, fast walking, going upstairs.
Dose.—Third attenuation.
Acts on circular mumcular fibers, hence constrictions. It is the heart and arteries especially that at once respond to the influence of Cactus, producing very characteristic, constrictions as of an iron band. This sensation is found in various places, eesophagus, bladder, etc. The mental symptoms produced correspond to those found when there are heart affections, sadness, and melancholy. Hemorrhage, constrictions, periodicity, and spasmodic pains. Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter. Atheromatous arteries and weak heart. Congestions; irregular distribution of blood. Favors formation of clots speedily. Great periodicity. Toxic goitre with cardiac symptoms. Cactus is pulseless, panting and prostrated.
Mind.—Melancholy, taciturn, sad, ill-humored. Fear of death. Screams with pain. Anxiety.
Head.—Headache if obliged to pass dinner hour. [Ars., Lach.; Lyc.] Sensation as of a weight on vertex. Right-sided pulsating pain. Congestive headaches, periodical, threatening apoplexy. Blood-vessels to the head distended. Feels as if head were compressed in a vise. Pulsation in ears. Dim sight. Right-sided prosopalgia, constricting pains, returns at same hour daily. [Cedron.]
Nose.—Profuse bleeding from nose. Fluent coryza.
Throat.—Constriction of esophagus. Dryness of tongue, as if burnt; needs much liquid to get food down. Suffocative constriction at throat, with full, throbbing carotids in angina pectoris.
Stomach.—Constriction, pulsation, or heaviness in stomach. Vomiting of blood.
Stool.—Hard, black stools. Diarrhea in morning. Hemorrhoids swollen and painful. Sensation of great weight in anus. Hemorrhage from bowels in malarial fevers and with heart symptoms.
Urine.—Constriction of neck of bladder, causing retention of urine. Hemorrhage from bladder. Clots of blood in urethra. Constant urination.
Female.—Constriction in uterine region and ovaries. Dysmenorrlcaea; pulsating pain in uterus and ovaries. Vaginismus. Menses early, dark, pitch-like. [Cocc.; Mag. c.] ; cease on lying down, with heart symptoms.
Chest.—Oppressed breathing as from a weight on chest. Constriction in chest, as if bound, hindering respiration. Inflammation of diaphragm. Heart - constriction, as from an iron band. Angina pectoris. Palpitation; pain shooting down left arm. Haemoptysis, with convulsive, spasmodic cough. Diaphragmitis, with great difficulty of breathing.
Heart.—Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency together with violent and rapid action. Acts best in the incipiency of cardiac incompetence. Heart weakness of arteriosclerosis. Tobacco heart. Violent palpitation; worse lying on left side, at approach of menses. Angina pectoris, with suffocation, cold sweat, and ever-present iron-band feeling. Pain in apex, shooting down left arm. Palpitation, with vertigo, dyspnea, flatulence. Constriction; very acute pains and stitches in heart; pulse feeble, irregular, quick, without strength. Endocardial murmurs, excessive impulse, increased praecordial dullness, enlarged ventricle. Low blood pressure.
Extremities.—Ocedema of hands and feet. Hands soft; feet enlarged. Numbness of left arm. Icy-cold hands. Restless legs.
Sleep.—Sleepless on account of pulsation in different parts of body. Frightful dreams.
Fever.—Fever every day at same hour. Coldness in back and icy-cold hands. Intermittent; paroxysms about midday (11 am.) incomplete in their stages, accompanied by hemorrhages. Coldness predominates; cold sweat, with great anguish. Persistent subnormal temperature.
Modalities.—Worse, about noon, lying on left side; walking, going upstairs, 11 am. and 11 pm. Better, open air.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Acon.; Camph.; China.
Compare. Digital.; Spigel.; Convallar.; Kalmia; Naja; Magnol.
Dose.—Tincture (best made from flowers), to third attenuation. Higher in nervous palpitation.
Its pathogenesis gives symptoms corresponding to very low forms of disease, as in cholera, yellow fever, where, with exhaustion, vomiting, and extreme prostration, the disease runs deathward. Important gastric symptoms. Carcinoma ventriculi; persistent vomiting.
The attack is upon the stomach more especially. Patients must keep quiet. Chilliness and coldness even when near the fire.
Mind and Head.—Unconscious. Vertigo; room and bed seem to spin around. Hammering in head. Heat in head.
Nose.—Ozcena. Tightness at root. Nose obstructed; polypus. Caries of nasal bones. Boils on nose. Nostrils ulcerated.
Eyes.—Opacity of cornea. Blue circle around eyes. One pupil dilated. Night blindesss.
Face.—Distortion of mouth. Trembling of jaw. Facial paralysis; more left side.
Mouth.—Difficult swallowing. CEsophagus constricted. [Bapt.] Salty belching. Intense nausea, with pain and cold. Stringy, offensive exudation on mucous membrane. Salty taste.
Throat.—Sore throat, constant tickling; gagging and nausea, worse deep breathing; chilliness and aching.
Stomach.—Soreness in pit of stomach on pressure. Violent nausea; retching. Black vomit. Vomiting of mucus, green slime, blood, with great prostration, and great tenderness over the stomach. Burning and cutting pains in stomach. Carcinoma, helps the persistent vomiting. Coffee ground vomiting.
Abdomen.—Sore, tender, tympanitic. Region of liver sore. Coldness. Black, offensive clots of blood from bowels. Pain in abdomen, with vomiting. Tenderness and tympanites.
Stool.—Bloody, black, and offensive. Gelatinous, yellowish green; semi-fluid, with urinary suppression.
Urine.—Rawness and soreness in urethra, urine mixed with pus and blood.
Heart.—Palpitation, with constriction of chest.
Fever.—Icy coldness. [Camph.; Verat.; Heloderm.] Yellow fever. [Crotalus; Carbo.]
Skin.—Blue, yellow, sallow, scaly, cracking. Itching; better scratching. Chloasma, yellowish stains on nose and cheeks; worse exposure to sun and wind. Chilblains.
Sleep.—Stops breathing on going to sleep. Wakes up suffocating. Fears to go to sleep again. Protracted sleeplessness.
Modalities.—Worse, walking or carrying burdens; after sleep; from open air, stimulants. Better, eating and rest.
Relationship.—Compare: Cadmium oxide; Cad. brom. (pain and burning in stomach, and vomiting); Cadmium jodat. (Itching of anus and rectum ielt during the day only; constipation, frequent desire, tenesmus, abdomen bloated); Zinc.; Ars.; Carbo; Verat.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency.
This remedy has been found of use in dropsicai affections. Its urinary symptoms are well marked. Albuminuria, with dyspne,.;a on lying down at night. Ascites and anasarca, with dry skin.
Urinary.—Constant desire to urinate. Polyuria while traveling. Urine fiery. Burning pain in urethra, especially glandular portion.
Male.—Drawing in of testicles and spermatic cord. Pain worse during passage of pungent smelling urine.
Back.—Pain in region of kidneys; better lying bent backward. Genenal fatigue.
Relationship.—Co7n,3ar:,: 4pee,at7a.; Ars.; Coffea (similar botanicaily and in relieving effects of fatigue).
Dose.—Tbird potency or lower.
Acts like Oil of Cloves. A remedy for flatulence and affections of the tongue. Sense of enlargenaent. Causes copious diaphoresis. Retrocedent gout. Neuralgic affections not inflamnØtory. Nervous dyspnea.
Head.—Feels much enlarged. As if he cou'd not get himself together. [Baptisia.]
Mouth.—Persistent sensation of choking. Spasmodic stricture of (esophagus. Constricted sensation on swallowing solid food. Tongue feels swollen, fills whole mouth.
Stomach.— Hiccough, on slightest provocation.
Abdomen.—Flatulence colic; tympanites. [Tereb.] Nervous distention of bowels. Urine smells like cat's urine. Spasmodic cholera.
Modalities.—Worse, about 5 am.; night.
Relationship.—Compare: Bovist.; Nux mosch.; Asaf.; Ign.; Bapt.
Dose.—First to third potency. (5 drops of oil.)
This remedy has a marked action on the genital organs, and pruritus of this region. Coldness of single parts and inclination to lie down, with aggravation on lying on left side. Slightest noise startles from sleep. Dread from ynotion. Modifies craving for tobacco. Tobacco heart. Asthmatic complaints.
Head.—Headaches and mental states of smokers. Very forgetful, does not know about the occurrences of things. Confused headache with pain in shoulder, pressure in eyes and forehead; extremely sensitve to noise, throbbing in ear.
Stomach.—Gnawing in orifice of stomach, which prevents deep breathing, and eructations. Eructations. Stomach feels full of dry food; sensation of fiaci (ering. Acrid vomiting, thirstless and tolerates only warm drinks. Sighing respiration.
Male.—Pruritus. Glans very red. Organ,,, sa:em larger, puffed, relaxed, cold, sweating; skin of scrotum thick. Erections when half-asleep; cease when fully awake. Impotency; relaxation of penis during excitement. No emission and no orgasm during embrace.
Female.—Pruritus of vulva [Ambr.; Kreos.] and vagina during pregnancy. (Hydrogen peroxyd 1: 12 locally). Voluptuousness. Cramp pains in uterus at night.
Skin.—Sweet sweat-attracts flies. Insect bites burn and itch intensely. Itching rash alternates with asthma. Burning sensation and erysipelatous inflammation.
Respiratory.—Larynx seems constricted. Breathing impeded. Catarrhal asthma; mucus not readily raised. Patient afraid to go to sleep.
Modalities.—Better, after sweat, after sleeping in daytime. Worse, motion.
Relationship.—Incompatible: Arum triph.
Complementary: Nitr. ac.
Compare: Capsic.; Phosph.; Caust.; Selen.; Lyc. Ikshugandha (sexual weakness, emissions, prostatic enlargement).
Dose.—Third to sixth attenuation.
Has had brilliant clinical results in inflammations of mucous membranes characterized by a membranous exudation; otherwise its action and application is like the carbonate. Cancer pains.
Head.—Vertigo in open air. Senses obscure while reading, Megrim, with great coldness in head and sour taste.
Female.—Membranous dysmenorrhaea [Borax.].
Respiratory.—Rattling expiration. Cough loose, with expectoration of large pieces like casts of bronchial tubes. Breathinp difficult; better bending shoulders backward. Constrictivc. anxious sensation in chest.
Relationship.—Compare: Brom.; Borax; alsc Calc. oxal, in excruciating pains of open cancer.
Dose.—Third trituration.
Epilepsy with rush of blood to the head before attack; aura felt in region of heart; flying sensation. Complaints in fat women around climacteric. Chronic malaria. infantile enlarged liver and spleen. Nephritis, with great sensitivenss in kikney region. Complaints of drunkards after abstaining. [Carbon. sulph.] Fleshy women at climacteric, slightest emotion causing palpitation. Dyspncea, with feeble heart. Chilliness. Albuminuria. Dropsy. Affections of spleen and mesenberic glands. Haemoglobin and red corpuscles are low.
Mind.—Anger, anxiety. Desire for company. Confusion, delusions, illusions. Great depression.
Head.—Violent rush of blood to head with vertigo. Pain in head better by lying on painful side. Weekly headache. Benumbing headache mostly around ears.
Stomach.—Region of stomach distended. Enlarged liver and spleen in children. Pancreatic disease; relieves burning pain in cancer of pancreas. Belching with saliva and beating of heart.
Urinary.—Kidney region sensitive to pressure. Albuminuria, passes urine every hour.
Heart.—Constriction and pain in region of heart, suffocating feeling, palpitation, oppression and throbbing and pain in back extending to arms.
Female.—Offensive, bloody leukorrhea. Cancer of uterus; burning pain in uterus and vagina.
Back.—Pain and stiffness near nape of neck. Violent back ache, throbbing, drives out of bed.
Extremities.—Removes inflammatory products in veins of lower extremities. Weariness and lameness of lower limbs. color:#00B050'>Modalities.—Worse from slight exertion.
Dose.—Third trituration.
This great Ha.hneinannian anti-psoric is a constitutional remedy pur excellence. Its chief action is centered in the vegetative sphere, impaired nutrition being the keynote of its action, the glands, skin, and bones, being instrumental in the changes wrought. Increased local and general perspiration, swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions generally offer numerous opportunities for the exhibition of Calcarea. Incipent phthisis. [Ars. jod.; Tuberculin.] It covers the tickling ceugh, fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity and dislike of fat. Gets out of breath easily. A jaded state, mental or phys?.cal, doe to overwork. Abscesses in deep nmscles; polypi and sxostoses. Pituitary and thyroid disfunction.
Raised blood coagulability [Strcntium] . Is a definite stimul,int to the periosteum. Is a haemostatic and gives this power probably to the gelatine injections.
Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence. Persons of scrofulous type, who take cohld easily, with increased mucous secretions, children who grow fat, are large-bellied, with large head, pale skin, chalky look, the so-called leuca-phlegmatic temperament; affections caused by working in water. Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats. Children crave eggs and eat dirt and other indigestible things; are prone to diarrhma. Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour.
Mind.—Apprehensive; worse towards evening; fears loss of reason, misfortune, contagious diseases. Forgetful, confused, low-spirited. Anxiety with palpitation. Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head. Averse to work or exertion.
Head.—Sense of weight on top of head. Headache, with;old hands and feet. Vertigo on ascending, and when turning head. Headache from overlifting, from mental exertion, with nausea. Head feels hot and heavy, with paleface. Icy coldness ix, end on the head, especially right side. Open fontanelles; head enlarged; much perspiration, wets the pillow. Itching of the scalp. Scratches «ead on waking.
Eyes.—Sensitive to light. Lachrymation in open air and early in morning. Spots and ulcers on cornea. Lachrymal ducts closed from exposure to cold. Easy fatigue of eyes. Far-sighted' Itching of lids, swollen, scurfy. Chronic dilatation of pupils. Cataract. Dimness of vision, as if looking through a mist. Lachrymal fistula; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Ears.—Throbbing; cracking in ears; stitches; pulsating pain as if something would press out. Deafness from working in water. Polypi which bleed easily. Scrofulous inflammation with muco-purulent otorrhaea, and enlarged glands. Perversions of hearing; hardness of hearing. Eruption on and behind ear [Petrol.] . Cracking noises in ear. Sensitive to cold about ears and neck.
Nose.—Dry, nostrils sore, ulcerated. Stoppage of nose, also with fetid, yellow discharge. Offensive odor in nose. Polypi; swelling at root of nose. Epistaxis. Coryza. Takes cold at every change of weather. Catarrhal symptoms with hunger; coryza alternates with colic.
Face.—Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with deep-seated eyes, surrounded by dark rings. Crusta lactea; itching, burning after washing. Submaxillary glands swollen. Goitre. Itching of pimples in whiskers. Pain from right mental foramen along lower jaw to ear.
Mouth.—Persistent sour taste. Mouth fills with sour water. Dryness of tongue at night. Bleeding of gums. Difficult and delayed dentition. Teeth ache; excited by current of air, anything cold or hot. Offensive smell from mouth. Burning pain at tip of tongue; worse, anything warm taken into stomach.
Throat.—Swelling of tonsils and submaxillary glands; stitches on swallowing. Hawking-up of mucus. Difficult swallowing. Goitre. Parotid fistula.
Stomach.—.Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things - - chcelk; coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets. Milk disagrees. Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting. Dislike of fat. Loss of appetite when overworked. Heartburn and loud belching. Cramps in stomach; worse, pressure, cold water. Ravenous hunger. Swelling over pit of stomach, like a saucer turned bottom up. Repugnance to hot food. Pain in epigastric region to touch. Thirst; longing for cold drinks. Aggravation while eating. Hyperchlorhydria [Phos.] .
Abdomen.—Sensitive to slightest pressure. Liver region painful when stooping. Cutting in abdomen; Swollen abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence. Inguinal and mesenteric glands swollen and painful. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. Distention with hardness. Gall - stone colic. Increase of fat in abdomen. Umbilical hernia. Trembling; weakness, as if sprained. Children are late in learning to walk.
Stool.—Crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and hard [Bry.] ; whitish, watery, sour. Prolapse and, and burning, stinging hemorrhoids. Diarrhea of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appeite. Children's diarrh (ea. Constipation; stool at first hard, then pasty, then liquid.
Urine.—Dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody. Irritable bladder. Enuresis. (Use 30th, also Tuberculin. 1 m.)
Male.—Frequent emissions. Increased desire. Semen emitted too soon. Coition followed by weakness and irritability.
Female.—Before menses, headache, colic, chilliness and leukorrhea. Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation. Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return. Uterus easily displaced. Leucorrhcsa, milky [Sepia] . Burning and itching of parts before and after menstruation; in little girls. Increased sexual desire; easy conception. Hot swelling breasts. Breasts tender and swollen before menses. Milk too abundant; disagreeable to child. Deficient lactation, with distended breasts in lymphatic women. Much sweat about external genitals. Sterility with copious menses. Uterine polypi.
Respiratory.—Tickling cough troublesome at night, dry and free expectoration in morning; cough when playing piano, or by eating. Persistent, irritating cough form arsenical wail paper. (Clarke.) Extreme dyspnea. Painless hoarseness; worse in the morning. Expectoration only during the day; thick, yellow, sour mucus. Bloody expectoration; with sour sensation in chest. Suffocating spells; tightness, burning and soreness in chest; worse going upstairs or slightest ascent, must sit down. Sharp pains in chest from before backwards. Chest very sensitive to touch, percussion, or pressure. Longing for fresh air. Scanty, salty expectoration. [Lyc.]
Heart.—Palpitation at night and after eating. Palpitation with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of chest; after suppressed eruption.
Back.—Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from overlifting. Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. Rheumatism in lumbar region; weakness in small of back. Curvature of dorsal vertebrae. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Renal colic.
Extremities.—Rheumatoid pains, as after exposure to wet. Sharp sticking, as if parts were wrenched or sprained. Cold, damp feet; feel as if damp stockings were worn. Cold knees. cramps in calves. Sour foot-sweat. Weakness of extremities. Swelling of joints, especially knee. Burning of soles of feet. Sweat of hands. Arthritic nodosities. Soles of feet raw. Feet feel cold and dead at night. Old sprains. Tearing in muscles.
Sleep.—Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep. Horrid visions when opening eyes. Starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy. Drowsy in early part of evening. Frequent waking at night. Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber. Night terrors [Kali phos.] Dreams of the dead.
Fever. Chill at 2 pm. begins internally in stomach region. Fever with sweat. Pulse full and frequent. Chilliness and heat. Partial sweats. Night sweats, especially on head, neck and chest. Hectic fever. Heat at night during menstruation, with restless sleep. Sweat over head in children, so that pillow becomes wet.
Skin.—Unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flacid. Small wounds do not heal readily. Glands swollen. Nettle rash; better in cold air. Warts on face and hands. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. Boils.
Modalities.—Worse, from exertion, mental or physical; ascending; cold in every form; water, washing, moist air, wet weather; during full moon; standing. Better, dry climate and weather; lying on painful side. Sneezing (pain in head and nape).
Relationship.—Antidotes: Camph.; Ipec.; Nit ac.; Nux.
Complementary: Bell.; Rhus; Lycop.; Silica.
Calcar. is useful after Sulphur where the pupils remain dilated. When Pulsatilla failed in school girls.
Incompatible: Bry.; Sulphur should not be given after Calc.
Compare: Aqua calcare Lime-water - (color:#00B050'>1/2 teaspoonful in milk); (as injection for oxyuris vermicularis), and Calc. caust. - slaked lime- (pain in back and heels, jaws and malar bones; also symptoms of influenza). Calc. brom. (removes inflammatory products from uterus; children of lax fiber, nervous and irritable, with gastric and cerebral irritation. Tendency to brain disease. Insomnia and cerebral congestion. Give l x trituration). Sulph. (differs in being worse by heat, hot feet, etc.).
Calcar. calcinata - Calcined oyster-shell-a remedy for warts. Use 3d trituration. Calcarea ovorum. Ova tosta-Toasted eggshells - (backache and leukorrhea. Feeling as if back were broken in two; tired feeling. Also effective in controlling suffering from cancer).
Calcar. lactic. (anemias, haemophilia, urticaria, where the coagulability of the blood is diminished; nervous headache with mdema of eyelids, lips or hands; 15 grains three times a day, but low potencies often equally effective).
Calcar. lacto - phosph. (5 grains 3 times a day in cyclic voming and migraine).
Calc. m,,cr. Calcium chloratum-Rademacher's Liquor - (1 part to 2 of distilled water, of which take 15 drops irn half a cup of water, five times daily. Boils. Porrigo capitis. Vomiting of all food and drink, with gastric pain. Impetigo, glandular swellings, angioneurotic ocedema. Pleurisy with effusion. Eczema in infants).
Calcar. picrata, (peri—follicular inflammation; a remedy of prime importance in recurring or chronic boils, particularly when located on parts thinly covered with muscle tissue, as on shinbones, coccyx, auditory canal, dry, scurfy accumulation and exfoliation of epithelial scales, etc., styes, phlyctenules. Use. 3x trit.)
Compare also with Calcarea: Lycop.; Silica; Pulsat.; Chamom.
Dose.—Sixth trit. Thirtieth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too frequently in elderly people.
A powerful tissue remedy for hard, stony glands, varicose and enlarged veins, and malnutrition of bones. Hard knots in female breast. Goitre. Congenital hereditary syphilis. Induration threatening suppuration. Many cases of cataract have undoubtedly been influenced favorably by it. Congenital syphilis manifesting itself in ulceration of mouth and throat, caries and necrosis with boring pains and heat in parts. Arteriosclerosis; threatened apoplexy. Tuberculosis. Used after operations, the tendency to adhesions is reduced.
Mind.—Great depression; groundless fears of financial ruin:
Head.—Creaking noise in head. Blood-tumors of newborn infants. Hard excrescences on the scalp. Ulcers on the scalp with callous, hard edges.
Eyes.—Flickering and sparks before the eyes, spots on the cornea; conjunctivitis; cataract. Strumous phlyctenular keratitis. Subcutaneous palpebral cysts.
Ears.—Calcareous deposits on tympanum; sclerosis of ossicula and petrous portion of temporal bone, with deafness, ringing and roaring. Chronic suppuration of middle ear.
Nose.—Cold in the head; stuffy cold; dry coryza; ozaena. Copious, offensive, thick, greenish, lumpy, yellow nasal catarrh. Atrophic rhinitis, especially if crusts are prominent.
Face.—Hard swelling on the cheek, with pain or toothache, hard swelling on jaw-bone.
Mouth.—Gum-boil, with hard swelling on the jaw. Cracked appearance of the tongue, with or without pain. Induration of the tongue, hardening after inflammation. Unnatural looseness of the teeth, with or without pain; teeth become loose in their sockets. Toothache, with pain if any food touches the tooth.
Throat.—Follicular sore throat; plugs of mucus are continually forming in the crypts of the tonsils. Pain and burning in throat; better by warm drinks; worse, cold drinks. Hypertrophy of Luschka's tonsil. Relaxed uvula, tickling referred to larynx.
Stomach.—Vomiting of infants. Vomiting of undigested food. Hiccough [Cajup.; Sulph. ac.] . Flatulency. Weakness and daintiness of appetite, nausea and distress after eating in young children who are overtaxed by studies. Acute indigestion from fatigue and brain-fag; much flatulence.
Stool and Anus.—Diarrhea in gouty subjects. Itching of anus. Fissure of the anus, and intensely sore crack near the lower end of the bowel. Bleeding hemorrhoids. Itching of anus as from pin-worms. Internal or blind piles frequently, with pain in back, generally far down on the sacrum, and con stipation. Much wind in lower bowels. Worse, pregnancy.
Male.—Hydrocele; indurations of the testicles.
Respiratory Organs. -Hoarseness. Croup. Cough with expectoration of tiny lumps of yellow mucus, with tickling sensation and irritation on lying down. Spasmodic cough. Calc. Fluor. removes fibroid deposits about the endocardium and restores normal endocardial structure. (Eli G. Jones, M. D.)
Circulatory Organs.—Chief remedy for vascular tumors with dilated blood-vessels, and for varicose or enlarged veins. Aneurism. Valvular disease. When the tuberculous toxins attack the heart and blood-vessels.
Neck and Back.—Chronic lumbago; aggravated on beginning to move, and ameliorated on continued motion. Osseous tumors. Rachitic enlargement of femur in infants. Pain lower part of back, with burning.
Extremities.—Ganglia or encysted tumors at the back of the wrist. Gouty enlargements of the joints of the finger3. Exostoses on fingers. Chronic synovitis of knee-joint.
Sleep.—Vivid dreams, with sense of impending danger. Unrefreshing sleep.
Skin.—Marked whiteness of skin. Scar tissue; adhesions after operations. Chaps and cracks. Fissures or cracks in the palms of the hands, or hard skin. Fissure of the anus. Suppurations with callous, hard edges. Whitlow. Indolent, fistulous ulcers, secreting thick, yellow pus. Hard, elevated edges of ulcer, surrounding skin purple and swollen. Knots, kernels, hardened glands in the female breast. Swellings or indurated enlargements having their seat in the fasciae and capsular ligaments of joints, or in the tendons. Indurations of stony hardness.
Modalities.—Worse, during rest, changes of weather. Better, heat, warm applications.
Relationship.—Compare: Con.; Lapis; Baryt. mur.; Hecla; Rhus; Cacodylate of Soda (Tumors).
Calcar. sulph - stibiata (acts as an haemostatic and absorptive in uterine myoma).
Mangifera indica (varicose veins).
Dose.—Third to twelfth trituration. A "chronic" remedy. Needs some time before manifesting its effects. Should not be repeated too frequently.
It is in the treatment of scrofulous affections, especially enlarged glands, tonsils, etc., that this remedy has gained marked beneficial results. Thyroid enlargements about time of puberty„ Flabby children subject to colds. Secretions inclined to be profuse and yellow. Adenoids. Uterine fibroids. Croup.
Head.—Headache while riding against cold wind. Lightheaded. Catarrh; worse at root of nose; sneezing; very little sensation. Polypi of nose and ear.
Throat.—Enlarged tonsils are filled with little crypts.
Respiratory.—Chronic cough; Pain in chest, difficulty breathing after syphilis and mercurialization (Grauvogl). Hectic fever; green, purulent expectoration. Croup. Pneumonia.
Skin.—Indolent ulcers, accompanying varicose veins. Easy perspiration. Copper-colored and papulous eruptions, tinea, favus, crusta lactea, swelling of the glands, skin cracked, falling out of heir.
Relationship.—Compare: Agraphis - Bluebell (adenoids with enlarged tonsils). Here Sulph. iod. follows both Agraphis and Calc. iod. Acon. lycoionum (swelling of glands, Hodgkin's disease).
Compare also: Calc. fluor.; Sil.; Mere. iod.
Dose.—Second and third trituration.
One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many symptoms in commor, with Calcarea carb., there are some differences and characteristic features of its own. It is especially indicated in tardy dentition and troubles incident to that period, bone disease, non-union of fractured bones, and the anaemias after acute diseases and chronic wasting diseases. Anaemic children who are peevish, flabby, have cold extremities and feeble digestion. It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or symphyses, and all its symptoms are worse from any change oi weather. Numbness and crawling are characteristic sensations, and tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement are symptoms it shares with the carbonate. Scrophulosis, chlorosis and phthisis.
Mind.—Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation. [Igraat.; Phos. a.;.; Always wants to go somewhere.
Head.—Headache, worse near the region of sutures, from change of weather, of school children about puberty. Fontanelles remain open too long. Cranial bones soft and tnin. Defective hearing. Headache, with abdominal flatulence. Head hot, with smarting of roots of hair.
Eyes.—Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess.
Mouth.—Swollen tonsils; cannot open mouth without pain. Complaints during teething; teeth develop slowly; rapid decay of teeth. Adenoid growths.
Stomach.—Infant wants to nurse all the time and vomits easily. Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much flat - tslen.ce. Great hunger with thirst, flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations. Heartburn. Easy vomiting in children.
Abdomen.—At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen. Sunken and flabby. Colic, soreness and burning around navel.
Stool.—Bleeding after hard stool. Diarrhea from juicy fruits or cider; during dentition. Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested, with fetid flatus. Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.
Urine.—Increased, with sensation of weakness. Pain in region of kidneys when lifting or blowing the nose.
Female.—',Ienses too early, excessive, and bright in girls. If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent backache. During lactation with sexual excitement. Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine region. [Plat.] After prolonged nursing. Leukorrhea, like white of egg. Worse morning. Child refuses breast; milk tastes salty. Prolapsus in debilitated persons.
Respiratory.—Involuntary sighing. Chest sore. Suffocacative cough; better lying down. Hoarseness. Pain through lower left lung.
Neck and Back.—Rheumatic pain from draught of air, with stiffness and dullness of head. Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if broken. [Aesc. hip.]
Extremities.—Stiffness and pain, with cold, numb feeling, worse any change of weather. Crawling and coldness. Buttocks, back and limbs asleep. Pains in joints and bones. Weary when going upstairs.
Relationship.—Complementary: Ruta; Hepar.
Compare: Calcar. hypophosporosa (is to be preferred when it seems necessary to furnish the organism with liberal doses of phosphorus in consequence of continued abscesses having reduced the vitality. Give first and second decimal trits. Loss of appetite, rapid debility, night sweats; Acne pustulosa.Pallor of skin, habitually cold extremities. Phthisis-diarrhma and cough; acute pains in chest. Mesenteric tuberculosis. Bleeding from lungs; angina pectoris; asthma; affection of arteries. Veins stand out like whipcords. Attacks of pain occurring two hours after meals (relieved by a cup of milk or light food). Cheiranthus (effects of cutting wisdom teeth). Calcarea renalis - Lapis renalis - (arthritic nodosities. Rigg's disease; lessens tendency to accumulation of tartar on teeth; gravel and renal calculi). Conchialin. - Mater perlarum.Mother of pearl (Osteitis. - Has a wide range of action in bone affections, especially when the growing ends are affected. Petechia;) . Silica; Psorin.; Sulph.
Modalities.—Worse, exposure to damp, cold weather, melting snow. Better, in summer; warm, dry atmosphere.
Dose.—First to third trituration. Higher potencies often more effective.
A deep, long acting medicine for complaints which come on slowly and reach their final development after long periods. Hydrogenoid constitution [Nat. sulph.] . Very sensitive to cold. Patient is weak, emaciated, cold and chilly, but worse from being overheated; sensitive generally. Atrophy of children.
Mind.—Absent-minded, irritable, irresolute, lacks self-confidence. Fearful.
Head.—Vertigo, head cold, especially at vertex; catarrh of nose and posterior nares, discharge thick, yellow, hard crusts. Corneal exudation.
Stomach.—Sensation of coldness, especially when empty. Sinking sensation at pit. Great thirst. Flatulence and distention after eating. Vomiting and eructations.
Female.—Uterus heavy, prolapsed. Leukorrhea, painful and irregular menses. Flow between periods.
Respiratory.—Sensitive to cold air. Difficult respiration. Chronic irritation of air passages. Copious, yellow-green mucus. Coughs with coldness, weakness, emaciation, sensitiveness and peevishness, worse from cold air. Pain in chest walls.
Skin.—Itching, burning, cold and blue, very sensitive. Pimples, comedones, wens. P: oric eruptions.
Relationship.—Compare: Arsenic; Tubercul.; Baryt. carb.; Iod.
Dose.—All potencies from lowest to high.
Eczema and torpid glandular swellings. Cystic tumors. Fibroids. Suppurative processes come within the range of this remedy, after pus has found a vent. Mucous discharges are yellow, thick and lumpy. Lupus vulgaris.
Head.—Scald-head of children, if there be purulent discharge, or yellow, purulent crusts.
Eyes.—Inflammation of the eyes, with discharge of thick, yellow matter. Sees only one-half an object, Cornea smoky.
Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Ears.—Deafness, with discharge of matter from the middle ear, sometimes mixed with blood. Pimples around ear.
Nose.—Cold in the head, with thick, yellowish, purulent secretion, frequently tinged with blood. One-sided discharge from nose. Yellowish discharge from posterior nares. Edges of nostrils sore.
Face.—Pimples and pustules on the face. Herpes.
Mouth.—Inside of lips sore. Tongue flabby, resembling a layer of dried clay. Sour, soapy, acrid taste. Yellow coating at base.
Throat.—Last stage of ulcerated sore throat, with discharge of yellow matter. Suppurating stage of tonsillitis, when abscess is discharging.
Abdomen.—Pain in region of liver, in right side of pelvis, followed by weakness, nausea, and pain in stomach.
Stool.—Purulent diarrhea mixed with blood. Diarrhea after maple sugar and from change of weather. Pus-like, slimy discharge from the bowels. Painful abscesses about the anus in cases of fistula.
Female.—Menses late, long-lasting, with headache, twitching great weakness.
Respiratory.—Cough, with purulent and sanious sputa and hectic fever. Empyema, pus forming in the lungs or pleural cavities. Purulent, sanious expectoration. Catarrh, with thick, lumpy, white-yellow or pus-like secretion.
Extremities.—Burning - itching of soles of feet.
Fever.—Hectic fever, caused by formation of pus. With cough and burning in soles.
Skin.—Cuts, wounds, bruises, etc., unhealthy, discharging pus; they do not heal readily. Yellow, purulent crusts or discharge. Purulent exudations in or upon the skin. Skin affections with yellowish scabs. Many little matterless pimples under the hair, bleeding when scratched. Dry eczema in children.
Relationship.—Compare: Hepar; Silica.
Dose.—Second and third trituration. The twelfth potency has been found effective in Lupus.
A most remarkable healing agent, applied locally. Useful for open wounds, parts that will not heal, ulcers, etc. Promotes healthy granulations and rapid healing by first intention. Haemostatic after tooth extraction. Deafness. Catarrhal conditions. Neuroma. Constitutional tendency to erysipelas. Pain is excessive and out of all proportion to injury. Great disposition to take cold, especially in damp weather. Paralysis after apoplexy. Cancer, as an intercurrent remedy. Has remarkable power to produce local exudation and helps to make acrid discharge healthy and free. Cold hands.
Head.—Extremely nervous; easily frightened; tearing headache; weight on brain. Submaxillary glands swollen, painful to touch. Pain in right side of neck. Lacerated scalp wounds.
Eyes.—Injuries to eyes which tend to suppuration; after operations; blenorrhaea of lachrymal sac.
Ears.—Deafness; worse in damp surroundings and with eczematous conditions. Hears best on a train, and distant sounds.
Nose.—Coryza in one nostril; with much green discharge.
Stomach.—Hunger immediately after nursing. Bulimia. Heartburn with horripilations. Nausea in chest. Vomiting. Sinking sensation. Epigastric distention.
Respiratory.—Cough, with green expectoration, hoarseness; with distention of inguinal ring.
Female.—Warts at the os externum. Menses suppressed, with cough. Chronic endocervicitis. Uterine hypertrophy, sensation of weight and fullness in pelvis; stretching and dragging in groin; pain on sudden movements. Os lower than natural. Menorrhagia.
Skin.—Yellow; goose-flesh. Promotes favorable cicatriza, tion, with least amount of suppuration. Slough, proud flesh, and raised edges. Superficial burns and scalds. Erysipelas (use topically).
Fever.—Coldness, great sensitiveness to open air; shuddering in back, skin feels warm to touch. Heat in evening. color:#00B050'>Modalities.—Worse, in damp, heavy, cloudy weather.
Relationship.—Compare: Hamamel.; Hyperic.; Symph., Arn.
Compare in deafness: Ferr. pic.; Kal. iod.; Calc.; Mag. c; Graph.
Antidote: Chelidon.; Rheum Complementary: Hepar.
Dose.—Locally. Aqueous Calenduia (Marigoldin.] for all wounds, the greatest healing agent. Also as an injection in leukorrhea; internally, tincture, to third potency. For burns, sores, fissures, and abrasions, etc., use Calendula Cerate.
Has been used with marked success in the treatment of syphilis following Mercury; also, in elephantiasis, leprosy, and acute dysentery. Pneumonic phthisis. Tuberculosis.
Increases the circulation in the skin; has powerful effects as a sudorific. In the secondary symptoms of syphilis, where -Mercury has been used but cannot be pushed safely any farther, it rapidly recruits the constitution, heals the ulcers and blotches from the skin, and perfects the cure. Primary anaemia of syphilis. Heat in stomach is a good guiding symptom. Obesity, while flesh decreases, muscles become harder and firmer.
Relationship.—Compare: D2erc.; Potass. iod.; Berb. aqui.; Sarsap; Ipecac.
Dose.—Tincture, one to five drops; three times a day.
Pain in abdomen, vomiting, headache, singing in ears, dysuria and diarrhea. Anasarca.
Skin.—Pemphigus. Bullae are surrounded by a ring. Much itching. Face much swollen, especially around the eyes. Itching eruption on thighs. Pustules. Uterine cancer.
Dose.—Tincture.
Hahnemann says: "The action of this substance is very puzzling and difficult of investigation, even in the healthy organism because its primary action, more frequently than with any other remedy, alternates and becomes intermixed with the vital reactions (after effects) of the organism. On this account it is often difficult to determine what belongs to the vital reactions of the body and what to the alternating effects due to the primary action of the camphor."
Pictures a state of collapse. Icy coldness of the whole body; sudden sinking of strength; pulse small and weak. After operations, if temperature is subnormal, low blood pressure, 3 doses camph. lY, 15-minute intervals. This condition is met with in cholera, and here it is that Camphor has achieved classical fame. First stages of a cold, with chilliness and sneezing. Subsultus and extreme restlessness. Cracking of joints. Epileptiform convulsions. Camphor has a direct relationship to muscles and fascia. In local rheumatic affections in cold climates necessary. Distention of veins. As a heart stimulant for emergency use of Camphor is the most satisfactory remedy. Drop doses on sugar as often as every five minutes.
It is characteristic of Camphor that the patient will not be covered, notwithstanding the icy coldness of the body. One of the main remedies in shock. Pain better while thinking of it. Very sensitive to cold and to touch. Sequelae of measles. Violent convulsion, with wandering and hysterical excitement. Tetanic spasms. Scrofulous children and irritable, weakly blondes especially affected.
Head.—Vertigo, tendency to unconsciousness, feeling as if he would die. Influenza; headache, with catarrhal symptoms, sneezing, etc. Beating pain in cerebellum. Cold sweat. Nose cold and pinched. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling. Fleeting stitches in temporal region and orbits. Head sore. Occipital throbbing, synchronous with the pulse.
Eyes.—Fixed, staring; pupils dilated. Sensation as if all objects were too bright and glittering.
Nose.—Stopped; sneezing. Fluent coryza on sudden change of weather. Cold and pinched. Persistent epistaxis, especially with goose-flesh state of skin.
Face.—Pale, haggard, anxious, distorted; bluish, cold. Cold sweat.
Stomach.—Pressive pain in pit of stomach. Coldness, followed by burning.
Stool.—Blackish; involuntary. Asiatic cholera, with cramps in calves, coldness of body, anguish, great weakness, collapse, tongue and mouth cold.
Urine.—Burning and strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. Retention with full bladder.
Male.—Desire increased. Chordee. Priapism. Nightly emissions.
Respiratory.—Praecordial distress. Suffocative dyspnea. Asthma. Violent, dry, hacking cough. Palpitation. Breath cold. Suspended respiration.
Sleep.—Insomnia, with cold limbs. Subsultus and extreme restlessness.
Extremities.—Rheumatic pain between shoulders. Difficult motion. Numbness, tingling and coldness. Cracking in joints. Cramps in calves. Icy cold feet, ache as if sprained.
Fever.—Pulse small, weak, slow. Icy coldness of the whole body. Cold perspiration. Congestive chill. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling.
Skin.—Cold, pale, blue, livid. Cannot bear to be covered. [Secale.]
Modalities.—Worse, motion, night, contact, cold air. Better, warmth.
Relationship.— Camphor antidotes or modifies the action of nearly every vegetable medicine-tobacco, opium, worm medicines, etc. Laffa acutangula (whole body ice-cold, with a restlessness and anxiety; burning thirst). Camphoric acid - (a prophylactic against catheter fever; cystitis 15 grains three times a day; also for prevention of night sweats).
Incompatible: Kali nit.
Complementary: Canth.
Antidotes: Opium; Nitr. sp. dulc.; Phos.
Compare: Carbo; Cuprum; Arsenic; Veratr,
Dose.—Tincture, in drop doses, repeated frequently, or smelling of Spirits of Camphor. Potencies are equally effective.
Nervous excitability is the guiding condition. Suppression of milk. Nightly emissions. Painful erections. Paralysis agitans. Cholera infantum, and infantile convulsions. Intensifies the action of Quinine and renders it more permanent.
Mind.—Directions appear reversed, i. e., north seems south, and east seems west. Hysteria; weeping and laughing alternately. Trance-like state.
Dose.—Second trituration.
Used extensively as a fever remedy and bitter tonic [C.en;iana] , antimalarial and antiseptic. Of use in severe type of intermittent fever in hot countries; also, in influenza. Sore, as if bruised all over. Sensation of drops falling from and upon different spots.
Head.—Congested. Scalp feels tight; head feels as if bound; burning in eyes; buzzing in ears.
Fever.—Chill all over; worse in bed at night. Sensitive to cold trade-winds on Pacific Coast. General sore and bruised feeling; nausea and retching.
Skin.—Wrinkled like a washerwoman's. Scalp feels tight, as if drawn together by India-rubber.
Dose.—Tincture, in drop doses. Must pe made from the fresh plant. Its medicinal properties are lost in the dry.
Inhibits the higher faculties and stimulates the imagination to a remarkable degree without any marked stimulation of the lower or animal instinct. A condition of intense exaltation in which all perceptions and conceptions, all sensations and emotions are exaggerated to the utmost degree.
Subconscious or dual nature state. Apparently under the control of the second self, but, the original self, prevents the performance of acts which are under the domination of the second self. Apparently the two natures cannot act independently, one acting as a check,upon the other. (Effects of one Dram doses by Dr. Albert Schneider.)
The experimenter feels ever and anon that he is distinct from the subject of the hashish dream and can think rationally.
Produces the most remarkable hallucinations and imaginations, exaggeration of the dwration of tinte and extent of space, being most characteristic. Conc•eption of time, space and place is gone. Extremely happy and contented, nothing troubles. Ideas crowd upon each other. Has great soothing influence in many nervous disorders, like epilepsy, mania, dementia, delirium tremens, and irritable reflexes. IPxophthalmic goitre. Catalepsy.
Mind.—Excessive loquacity; exuberance of spirits. Tinte seems too long; seconds seem ages; a few rods an immense disface. Constantly theorizing. Anxious depression; constant fear of becoming insane. Mania, must constantly move. Very forgelful; cannot finish sentence. Islost in delicious thought. Uncontrollable laughter. Delirium tremens. Clairvoyance. Emotional excitement; rapid change of mood. Cannot realize her identity, chronic vertigo as of floating off.
Head.—Feels as if top of head were opening and shutting and as if calzariunz were being lifted. Shocks through brain. [Aloe; Coca.] Uraemic headache. Throbbing and weight at occiput. Headache with flatulence. Involuntary shaking of head. Migrain attack preceded by unusual excitement with loquacity.
Eyes.—Fixed. Letters run together when reading. Clairvoyance. Spectral illusions without terror.
Ears.—Throbbing, buzzing, and ringing. Noise like boiling water. Extreme sensitiveness to noise.
Face.—Expression drowsy and stupid. Lips glued together. Grinding of teeth in sleep. Mouth and lips dry. Saliva thick, frothy, and sticky.
Stomach.—Increased appetite. Pain at cardiac orifice; better, pressure. Distention. Pyloric spasm. Sensation of extreme tension in abdominal vessels-feel distended to bursting.
Rectum.—Sensation in anus as if sitting on a ball.
Urinary.—Urine loaded with slimy mucus. Must strain; dribbling; has to wait some time before the urine flows. Stitches and bnrning in urethra. Dull pain in region of right kidney.
Male.—After sexual intercourse, backache. Oozing of white, glairy mucus from glans. Satyriasis. Prolonged thrill. Chordee. Sensation of swelling in perineum or near anus, as if sitting on a ball.
Female.—Menses profuse, dark, painful, without clots. Backache during menses. Uterine colic, with great nervous agitation and sleeplessness. Sterility. [Borax.] Dysmenorrhea [painful menstruation] with sexual desire.
Respiratory.—Humid asthma. Chest oppressed with deep, labored breathing.
Heart.—Palpitation awakes him. Piercing pain, with great oppression. Pulse very slow. [Dig.; Kalmia; Apocyn.]
Extremities.—Pain across shoulders and spine; must stoop; cannot walk erect. Thrilling through arms and hands, and from knees down. Entire paralysis of the lower extremities. Pain in soles and calves; sharp pains in knees and ankles; very exhausted after a short walk.
Sleep.—Very sleepy, but unable to do so. Obstinate and intractable forms of insomnia. Catalepsy. Dreams of dead bodies; prophetic. Nightmare.
Modalities.—Worse, morning; from coffee, liquor and tobacco; 'lying on right side. Better from fresh air, cold water, rest.
Relationship.—Bellad.; Hyoscy.; Stram.; Laches.; Agaric.; Anhalon (time sense disordered; time periods enormously overestimated, thus, minutes seem hours, etc.).
Dose.—Tincture and low attenuations.
Seems to affect especially the urinary, sexual, and respiratory organs. It has characteristic sensations as of dropping water. Great fatigue, as from over-exertion; weary after meals. Choking in swallowing; things go down the wrong way. Stuttering. Confusion of thought and speech. Wavering speech. Wavering speech, hasty, incoherent.
Head.—Lectophobia. Vertigo; sensation of dropping water on head. Pressure on root of nose.
Eyes.—Opacity of cornea. Cataract from nervous disturbances, abuse of alcohol and tobacco; patient feels deeply approaching blindness. Misty sight. Pressure from back of eyes, forward. Gonorrheal ophthalmia. Eyeballs ache. Scrofulous eye troubles. [Sulph.; Calc.]
Urine.—Retained, with obstinate constipation. Painful urging. Micturition in split stream. Stitches in urethra. Inflamed sensation, with soreness to touch. Burning while urinating, extending to bladder. Urine scalding, with spasmodic closure of sphincter. Gonorrhea, acute stage; urethra very sensitive. Walks with legs apart. Dragging in testicles. Zigzag pain along urethra. Sexual overexcitement. Urethral caruncle [Eucalypt.] , phimosis. Stoppage of urethra by mucus and pus.
Female.—Amenorrhaea when physical powers have been overtaxed, also with constipation.
Respiratory.—Oppression of breathing and palpitation; must stand up. Weight on chest; rattling wheezing breathing. Cough, with green viscid, also bloody, expectoration.
Heart.—Sensation as if drops were falling from the heart. Painful strokes and tension with palpitation. Pericarditis.
Sleep.—Frightful dreams. More tired in morning. Sleepy during day.
Extremities.—Contraction of fingers after a sprain. Dislocation of patella on going upstairs. Feet feel heavy on going upstairs. Paralytic tearing pains. Affections of the ball of the foot and under part of toes.
Modalities.—Worse, lying down; going upstairs.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Camph.; Lemon juice.
Compare: Hedysarum - Brazilian Burdock- - (Gonorrhea and inflammation of penis); Cantlc.; Apis; Copaiva; Thuj.; Kal. nit.
Dose.—Tincture to third attenuation. In stuttering the 30th.
This powerful drug produces a furious disturbance in the animal economy, attacking the urinary and sexual organs especially. Derverting their function, and setting up violent inflammations, and causing a frenzied delirium, simulating hydrophobia symptoms. [Anagallis.] Puerperal convulsions. Produces most violent inflammation of the whole gastro-intestinal canal, especially lower bowel. Oversensitiveness of all parts. Irritation. Raw, burning pains. Hemorrhages. Intolerable, constant urging to urinate is most characteristic. Gastric, hepatic and abdominal complaints that are aggravated by drinking coffee. Gastric derangements of pregnancy. Dysuria, with other complaints. Increases secretion of mucous membranes, tenacious mucus. The inflammations cantharis produces (bladder, kidneys, ovaries, meninges, pleuritic and pericardial membranes) are usually associated with bladder irritation.
Mind.—Furious delirium. Anxious restlessness, ending in rage. Crying, barking; worse touching larynx or drinking water. Constantly attempts to do something, but accomplishes nothing. Acute mania, generally of a sexual type; amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire. Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking. Sudden loss of consciousness with red face.
Head.—Burning in brain. Sensation as if boiling water in brain. Vertigo; worse in open air.
Eyes.—Yellow vision. [Sonlon.] Fiery, sparkling, staring look. Burning in eyes.
Ears.—Sensation as if wind were coming from ear, or hot air. Bones about ear painful. [Capsic.]
Face.—Pale, wretched, death-like appearance. Itching vesicles on face, burning when touched. Erysipelas of face, with burning, biting heat with urinary symptoms. Hot and red.
Throat.—Tongue covered with vesicles; deeply furred; edges red. Burning in mouth, pharynx, and throat; vesicles in mouth. Great difficulty in swallowing liquids. Very tenacious mucus. [Kal. bich.] Violent spasms reproduced by touching larynx. Inflammation of throat; feels on fire. Constriction; aphthous ulceration. (Hydr. mur.; Nit. ac.] Scalding feeling. Burnt after taking too hot food.
Chest.—Pleurisy, as soon as effusion has tal~en place. Intense dyspnea; palpitation; frequent, dry cough. Tendency to syncope. Short, hacking cough, blood-streaked tenacious mucus. Burning pains.
Stomach.—Burning sensation of esophagus and stomach.[Carb.] Disgust for everything-drink, food, tobacco. Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids. Very sensitive, violent burning. Vomiting of blood-stlaaried membrsne and violent retching. Aggravation from drinking coffee; drinking the smallest quantity increases pain in bladder, and is vomited. Thirst unquenchable.
Stool.—Shivering withh burring. Dysentery; mucous stools, like scrapings of intestines. Bloody, with burning and tenesmus and shuddering after stool.
Urine.—Intolerable urging and tenesmus. Nephritis with bloody urine. Violent paroxysms of cutting and burning in whole renal region, with painful urging to urinate; bloody urine, by drops. Intolerable tenesmus; cutting before, during, and after urine. Urine scalds him, and is passed drop by *op. Constant desire to urinate. Membranous scales looking like bran in water. Urine jelly-like, shreddy.
Male.—Strong desire; painful erections. Pain in glans. [Prunus; Pareira.] Priapism in gonorrhea.
Female.—Retained placenta [Sep.] , with painful urination. Expels moles, dead fa-Auses, membranes, etc. Nymphomania. [Plat.; Hyos,; Lach.; Stram.] Puerperal metritis, with inflammation of bladder. Menses too early and too profuse; black swelling of vulva with irritation. Constant discharge from uterus; worse false step. Burning pain in ovaries; extremely sensitive. Pain in os coccyx, lancinating and tearing.
Respiratory.—Voice low; weak feeling. Stitches in chest. [F3ry.; Kal. c.; Sqazilla.] Pleurisy, with exudation.
Heart.—Palpitation; pulse feeble, irregular; tendency to syncope. Pericardilis, with effusion.
Back.—Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate.
Extremities.—Tearing in limbs. Ulcerative pain in soles; cannot step.
Skin.—Dermatitis venenata with bleb formation. Secondary eczema about scrotum and genitals, following excessive perspiration. Tendency to gangrene. Eruption with mealy scales. Versicul¢r eruptions, with burning and itching. Sunburn. &urw~, scalds, with rawness and smarting, relieved by cold applications, followed by undue inflammation, Erysipelas, vesicular type, with great restlessness. Burning in soles of feet at night.
Fever.—Cold hands and feet; cold sweat. Soles burn. Chill, as if water were poured over him.
Modalities.—Worse, from touch, or approach, urinating, drinking cold water or coffee. Better, rubbing.
Puls Compare: Acon.; Camph.;
Compare: Cantharidin - (Glomerular nephritis). The imme diate pharmacological action of Cantharidin is irritability of the capillaries, rendering the passage of nutritive fluids through them less difficult. This is most marked in the capillaries of the kidneys. The increase of blood sugar coincident with the glomular nephritis appears to be a valuable observation.
Vesicaria - (Urinary and kidney remedy. Smarting, burning desire sensation along urethra and in bladder with irritable bladde to void urine often with strangury. Tincture 5-10 drop doses). Fuschina coloring substance used
in adulteration of wine. (Cortical nephritis with albuminuria, 6th-30th potency. Redness of ears, mouth, swollen gums; deep, red urine; red, profuse diarrhea, with severe abdominal pains). Androsace lactea (urinary troubles, diuretic; dropsy).
Apis; Ars.; Mere. cor.
Complementary: Camph.
Dose.—Sixth to thirtieth potency. Bears repeated doses well. Locally, in burns and eczema, 1x and 2x, in water, or as cerate.
Seems to suit especially persons of lax fiber, weak; diminished vital heat. A relaxed plethoric sluggish, cold remedy. Not much reactive force. Such persons are fat, indolent, opposed to physical exertion, averse to go outside of their routine, get homesick easily. General uncleanliness of body. Abstainers from accustomed alcoholics. It affects the mucous membranes, producing a sensation of constriction. Inflammation of petrous bone. Burning pains and general ehallnesbs.
Older people who have exhausted appearance; who do mental work, and poor living; ear not react. Fear of slightest draught. Marked tendency to suppuration in every inflammatory process. Prostration and feeble digestion of alcoholics. Myalgia, aching and jerking of muscles.
Mind.—Excessive peevishness. Homesickness, with sleeplessness and disposition to suicide. Wants to be let alone. Peppery disposition. Delirium tremens.
Head.—Bursting headache; worse, coughing. hot face. Red cheeks. Face red, though cold. [Asafaet.]
Ears.—Burning and stinging in ears. Swelling and pain behind ears. Inflammation of mastoid. Tenderness over the petrous bone; extremely sore and tender to touch. [Onosmod.] Otorrhaea and mastoid disease before suppuration.
Throat.—Hot feeling in fauces. Subacute inflammation of Eustachian tube with great pain. Pain and dryness in throat extending to the ears: Sore throat of smokers and drinkers. Smarting in; constriction. Burning constriction worse between acts of deglutition. Inflamed uvula and palate; swollen and relaxed.
Mouth.—Herpes labialis. (Apply one drop of the mother tincture.) Stomatitis. Disagreeable smell from mouth. Fetid odor from mouth.
Stomach.—Burning in tip of tongue. Atonic dyspepsia. Much flatulence, especially in debilitated subjects. Intense craving for stimulants. Vomiting, sinking at pit of stomach. Much thirst; but drinking causes shuddering.
Stool.—Bloody mucus, with burning and tenesmus; drawing pain in back after stool. Thirsty after stool, with shivering. Bleeding piles, with soreness of anus. Stinging pain during stool.
Urine.—Strangury, frequent, almost ineffectual urging. Burning in orifice. Comes first in drops, then in spurts; neck of bladder spasmodically contracted. Ectropion of meatus.
Male.—Coldness of scrotum, with impotency, atrophied testicles, loss of sensibility in testicles, with softening and dwindling. Gonorrhea, with chordee, excessive burning, pain in prostate.
Female.—Climacteric disturbances with burning of tip of tongue. [Lathyrus.] Uterine hemorrhage near the menopause, with nausea. Sticking sensation in left ovarian region.
Respiratory.—Constriction of chest; arrests breathing. Hoarseness. Pain at apex of heart or in rib tegion, worse touch. Dry, hacking cough, expelling an offensive breath from lungs. Dyspnea. Feels as if chest and head would fly to pieces. Explosive cough. Threatening gangrene of lung. Pain in distant parts on coughing-bladder, legs, ears, etc.
Extremities.—Pain from hips to feet. Sciatica, worse bending backward; worse, coughing. Tensive pain in the knee.
Fever.—Coldness, with ill-humor. Shivering after drircHng. Chill begins in back; better, heat. Must have something hot to back. Thirst before chill.
Modalities.—Better, while eating, from heat. Worse, open air, uncovering, draughts.
Relationship.—Antidote: Cina; Calad.
Compare: Pulsat.; Lycop.; Bell.; Centaurea (surging of blood; homesickness; intermittent fever).
Dose.—Third to sixth attenuation. In delirium tremens, dram doses of tincture in milk or tincture of orange peel.
Seems to be especially adapted to scrofulous and venous constitutions, old people, and after debilitating disease, with feeble circulation and lowered vitality. Glands are indurated, veins distended, skin blue. Stitch remaining after pleurisy. Easily strained from lifting. Weakness of nursing women. Ulceration and decomposition. All its secretions are offensive. Causes local congestions without heat.
Mind.—Desire to be alone, sad and reflective, avoids conversation. Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood.
Head.—Headache, as if head had been blown to pieces. Rush of blood with confusion. Sensation as if something lay above eyes so that she could not look up. Bluish cheeks and lips. Vertigo followed by nose-bleed. Nose swollen, tip bluish small tumor on it. Hearing confused; cannot tell direction of sound.
Stomach.—Eating tires patient. Weak, empty reeling in stomach. Burning and griping. Weak digestion. Flatulence. Ptomaine poisoning. Repugnance to fat food. Sour water from mouth. Pyrosis.
Female.—Nausea of pregnancy; worse at night. Lochia offensive. [Kreos.; ILlaus; Secale.] Menses too early, frequent long lasting, followed by great exhaustion, so weak, can hardly spea's. [Cocc.] , flow only in morning. [Bor.; Sep,] Burning in vagina and labia. Darting in breast; painful indurations in breast, especially right. Cancer of uterus, burning pain down thighs.
Respiratory.—Pleurisy, typhoid character, and remaining stitch. Ulceration of lung, with feeling of coldness of chest. Cough, with discharge of greenish pus.
Skin.—Spongy ulcers, copper-colored eruption. Acne rosacea. Chilblains, worse in evening, in bed and from cold. Verruca on hands and face of old people, with bluish color of extremities. Glands indurated, swollen, painful, in neck, axillae, groin, mammae; pains lancinating, cutting, burning. [Con.; IVIerc. iod. ,flav.] Burning, rawness and fissures; moisture. Bubo.
Extremities.—Pain in coccyx; burns when touched. Ankles turn easily. Straining and over-lifting produce great debility. Joints weak. Easy discoloration. Pain in hip joints at night. Night sweat fetid and profuse. `Vrist pain.
Modalities.—Worse, after shaving, loss of animal fluids.
Relationship.—The Carbon group all have putrid discharges and exhalations. All act on the skin, causing interrigo and excoriations. Glandular enlargements and catarrhal states, flatulency and asphyxiation.
Carbon Tetrachlorid is said to cause fatty liver. [Phosph.; Ars.; Chlorof.] Paralysis of interosseus muscles of feet and hands. Wonderful clinical results in the treatment of Hook worm disease. See Thptnol (Relationship).
Complementary: Ca.lc. phos.
Antidotes: Ars.; Nux.
Compare: Badiaga; Sepia; Sulpla.; Plumb. iod.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency. The third trituration for insufflation in aural polypt,
Disintegration and imperfect oxidation is the keynote of this remedy. The typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chranicit,y in his complaints. Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis. Body becomes blue, icy-cold. Bacteria find a rich soil in the nearly lifeless blood stream and sepsis and typhoidal state ensues.
A lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after drugging; after other diseases; in old people with venous congestions; states of collapse in cholera, typhoid; these are some of the conditions offering special inducements to the action of Carbo veg. The patient may be almost lifeless, but the head is hot; coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open. This is a typical state for Carbo veg. The patient faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh air. Hemorrhage from any mucous surface. Very debilitated. Patient seems to be too weak to hold out. Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness. Sense of weight, as in the head (occiput), eyes and eyelids, before the ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere in the body; putrid (septic) condition of all its affections, coupled with a burning sensation. General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold.
Mind.—Aversion to darkness. Fear of ghosts. Sudden loss of memory.
Head.—Aches from any over-indulgence. Hair feels sore, falls off easily; scalp itches when getting warm in bed. Hat pressed upon head like a heavy weight. Head feels heavy, constricted. Vertigo with nausea and tinnitus. Pimples on forehead and face.
Face.—Puffy, cyanotic. Pale, hippocratic, cold with cold sweat; blue. [Cup.; Opium.] Mottled cheeks and red nose. color:#00B050'>Eyes.—Vision of black floating spots. Asthenopia. Burning in eyes. Muscles pain.
Ears.—Otorrhaea following exanthematous diseases. Ears dry. Malformation of cerumen with exfoliation of dermoid layer of meatus.
Nose.—Epistaxis in daily attacks, with pale face. Bleeding after straining, with pale face; tip of nose red and scabby, itching around nostrils. Varicose veins on nose. Eruption in corner of alae nasi. Coryza with cough, especially in moist, warm weather. Ineffectual efforts to sneeze.
Mouth.—Tongue coated white or yellow brown, covered with aphthce. Teeth very sensitive where chewing; gums retracted and bleed easily. Blood oozing from gums when cleaning teeth. Pyorrhaea.
Stomach.—Eruclations, heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness; tense from flatulence, with pain; worse lying down. Eructations after eating and drinking. Temporary relief from belching. Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations. Waterbrash, asthmatic breathing from flatulence. Nausea in the morning. 13urning in stomach, extending to back and along spine. ConIractive pain extending to chest, with distention of abdomen. Faint gone feeling in stomach, not relieved by eating. Crampy pains forcing patient to bend double. Distress comes on a half-hour after eating. Sensitiveness of epigastric region. Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests. Gastralgia of nursing women, with excessive flatulence, sour, rancid belching. Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things. The simplest food dislresses. Epigastric region very sensitive.
Abdomen.—Pain as from lifting a weight; colic from riding in a carriage; excessive discharge of fetid flatus. Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen. Ailments accompanying intestinal fistulae. Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind. Flatulent colic. Pain in liver.
Rectum and Stool.—Flatus hot, moist, offensive. Itching, gnawing and burning in rectum. Acrid, corrosive moisture from rectum. A musty, glutinous moisture exudes. Soreness, itching moisture of perineum at night. Discharge of blood from rectum. Burning at anus, burning varices. [Mur. ac.] Painful (liarrheea of old people. Frequent, involuntary cadaveroussmelling stools, followed by burning. White hemorrhoids; excoriation of anus. Bluish, burning piles, pain after stool.
Male.—Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool. Itching and moisture at thigh near scI`otum.
Female.—Premature and too copious menses; pale blood. Vulva swollen; aphthae; varices on pudenda. Leukorrhea before menses, thick, greenish, milky, excoriating. [Kreos.] During menstruation, burning in hands and soles.
Respiratory.—Cough with itching in larynx; spasmodic with gagging and vomiting of mucus. Whooping cough, especially in beginning. Deep, rough voice, failing on slight exertion. Hoarseness; worse, evenings, talking; evening eppression of breathing, sore and raw chest. Wheezing and rattling of mucus in chest. Occasional spells ei long coughing attacks. Cough, with burning in chest; worse in evening, in open air, after eating and talking. Spasmodic cough, bluish face, offensive expectoration, neglected pneumonia. Breath cold; naust be fanned. Hemorrhage from lungs. Asthma in aged with blue skin.
Extremities.—Heavy, stiff; feel paralyzed; limbs, go to sleep; want of muscular energy; joints weak. Pain in shins. Cramp in soles; feet numb and sweaty. Cold from knees down. Toes red, swollen. Burning pain in bones and limbs.
Fever.—Coldness, with thirst. Chill begins in forearm. Burning in various places. Perspiration on eating. Hectic fever, exhausting sweats.
Skin.—Blacc, cold ecchymosed. Marbled with venous over dpstension. Itching; worse on evening, when warm in bed. Moist skin; hot perspira'ion; senile gangrene beginning in toes; bed sores; bleed easily. Falling out of hair, frem a general weakened condition. Indolent ulcers, burning pain. Ichorous, offensive discharge; tendency to gangrene of the margins. Purpura. Varicose ulcers, carbuncles. [Ars.; Anthrac.]
Modalities.—Worse, evening; night and open air; cold; from fat food, butter, coffee, milk, warm damp weather; wine. Better, from eructation, from fanning, cold.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Spirits Nitre; Camph.; Ambra; Arsenic.
Compare: Carboneum-Lampblack. (Spasms commencing in tongue, down trachea and extremities. Tingling sensation.) Lycop.; Ars.; China.
Complementary: Kali carb.; Dros.
Dose.—First to third tritu;ration in stomach disorders. Thirtieth potency and higher in chronic conditions, and in collapse.
Carbolic Acid is a powerful irritant and anaeathetic. A languid, foul, palmess destructive remedy. Stupor, paralysis of sensation and motion, feeble pulse and depressed breathing, death due to paralysis of respiratory ceacres. Acts primarily on the central nervous system. Increased olfnctnrly scnsibihty.
Produces mental and bodily languor, disinclination to study, with headache iil,:e a band. Very marked acuteness of smell is a strong guiding symptom. Stomach symptoms are also important. Pains are terrible; come and go suddenly. Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere. Putrid discharges. [Bapt.] Scarlet fever, with marked tendency to destruction of tissue internally, and fetid odor. Spasmodic coughs. Arthritis. (See Dose.)
Head.—Disinclined to mental work. Tight feeling, as if compressed by a rubber band. [Gels.; Mahonia.] Orbital neuralgia over right eye. Headache, better, by green tea; while smoking.
Nose.—Smell very acute. Putrid discharge. Ozaena, with fetor and ulceration. Induenza and resulting debility.
Throat.—Ulcerated patches on inside of lips and cheeks. Burning in mouth to stomach. Fauces red, and covered with exudation. Uvula whitened and shriveled. Putrid discharge. Almost impossible co swallow. Diphtheria, fetid breath, regurgitation on swallowing liquids, but little pain. [Bapt.] Face dusky red; white about mouth and nose. Rapid sinking of Vital forces.
Stomach.—Appetite lost. Desire for stimulants and tobacco. Constant belching, nausea, vomiting, dark olive green. Heat rises up msophagus. Flatuient distention of stomach and abdomen. Painful flatulence often marked in one part of the bowel. [Szclpho - Carbolate of Soda.] Fermentative dyspepsia with bad taste and breath.
Stool.—Constipation, with very offensive breath. Bloody, like scrapings of intestines. Great tenesmus. Diarrhea; stools thin, black, putrid.
Urine.—Almost black. Diabetes. Irritable bladder in old men with frequent urination at night, of probable prostatic nature. Use 1x).
Female.—Discharges always offensive. [Nitr, ac.; Nux.; Sep.] Pustules about vulva containing bloody pus. Agonizing backache across loins, with dragging-down thighs. Pain in left ovary; worse walking in open air. Erosions of cervix; fetid, acrid discharge. Leukorrhea in children. [Cann. s.; 1Vlerc.; Puls.; Sep.] Puerperal fever, with offensive discharge. Irritating leukorrhea, causing itching and burning. [Kreos.]
Extremities.—Cramps in fore part of leg, close to tibia during walking. Gnawing pains in shin bones. Arthritis.
Skin.—Itching vesicles, with burning pain. Burns tend to ulcerate.
Relationship.—Compare: Chrysarobin (locally in ringworm of the scalp 5-10 per cent. in glycerine and alcohol. Equal parts). Ars.; Kreosot.; Carbo; Guano. (Violent headache as from a band around head. Itching of nostrils, back, thighs, genitals. Symptoms like hay-fever.)
Antidote: Alcohol; Vinegar; Chalk; Iod. Glauber's Salt in watery solution. incompatible- Glycerine and vegetable oils.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency. Phenol in Arthritis, according to Goodno. Must be absolutely pure. Crystals Solution (251/2) in equal parts of water and glycerine, dose 20 minims well diluted 3 times daily (Bartlett).
Symptoms resemble an apopletic attack. Spasm as in lockjaw. Trismus. Involuntary stools and urine.
Mind.—Stupefaction. Extraordinary sensation of contentment. All thoughts appear in a moment as if seen in an inner mirror.
Eyes.—Lids half closed. Oscillation of eyeballs. Pupils insensible to light.
Herpes zoster, pemphigus, and trismus are produced by this drug. Coldness, sleepiness, loss of consciousness are marked. Vertigo.
Head.—Cerebral congestion; hallucination of vision, hearing and touch. Inclination to turn in a circle. Jaws firmly clenched. Trismus. Heaviness of head. Sticking pain in temples. Roaring ears.
Eyes.—Ocular paralysis, h~mianopsias, disturbed pupilary reaction, optic neuritis and atrophy, subconjunctival and retinal hemorrhages.
Skin.—Anaesthesia; vesication along course of nerves; herpes zoster; pemphigus, with large and small vesicles. Hand icy cold.
Sleep.—Deep. Prolonged; sleepiness for several days.
Dose.—First attenuation.
This drug has a deep and disorganizing action and an immense range of action judging from the symptomatology. Very useful in patients broken down by abuse of alcohol. Sensitive patients worse cold, wasted muscles, and skin and mucous membranes anaesthetic. Special affinity for eyes. Chronic rheumatism, sensitive and cold. Lack of vital heat. Diarrhea every four to six weeks. Paralysis with intense congestion of nerve centres. Tabes. Sensory difficulties in limbs.
Impotence, sciatica, come within the therapeutic sphere of this remedy. Chronic plumbism. Diminished sensibility of arms, hands and feet. Peripheral neuritis.
Mind.—Irritable, anxious, intolerant; stupor. Sluggishness of mind. Hallucinations of sight and hearing. Changeable mood. Dementia alternating with excitement.
Head.—Headache and dizziness. Aches as from a tight cap. Ears feel obstructed. Noises in head. Ulceration of the lips, unaesthesia of mouth and tongue.
Eyes.—Myopia, asthenopia, and dis-chromotopsia, cloudiness and atrophy of optic disc and centrol scotoma for light and for red and green not for white. Optic neuritis advancing toward atrophy. Arteries and veins congested. Retinal congestion; optic disc pale. Everything seems in a fog. Vision greatly impaired. Color-blindness.
Ears.—Hearing impaired. Buzzing and singing noises like an aeolian harp. Tinnitus aurium. Meniere's disease.
Abdomen.—Pain with wandering swellings as from flatus. Distention, with soreness and rumbling.
Male.—Desire lost, parts atrophied. Frequent profuse emissions.
Extremities.—Herpes on dorsal surface of hands. Sore, bruised limbs; anaesthesia of arms and hands. Cramps in limbs. Lightning-like pains, with cramps. Fingers swollen, insensible, rigid, stiff. Gait unsteady, tottering; worse in dark. Feet insensible. Sciatica. Flying pains, returning regularly for a long time. Pain in lower limbs, with cramps and formication. Neuritis.
Sleep.—Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams.
Skin.—Anaesthesia; burning; itching; ulcers; small wounds fester. Useful to restrain the growth of cancer. Furunculosis. Chronic skin diseases with much itching.
Modalities.—Better, in open air. Worse, after breakfast; bathing. Sensitive to warm, damp, weather.
Relationship.—Compare: Potass. Xantate - (Similar in action. Acts on curtica'l substance; loss of memory, marked blood degeneration; impotence and senility. Tuberculin; Rodium; Carbo; Sulph.; Caust.; Salicyl. ac.; Cinch. In eye symptoms compare: Benzin. dinitric. Thyroidin (progressive diminution of sight with central Scotoma).
Dose.—First attenuation. Locally in facial neuralgia and sciatica.
The action of this drug is centered in the liver, and portal system, causing soreness, pain, jaundice. Has specific relation to the vascular system. Abuse of alcoholic beverages, espe cially beer. Varicose veins and ulcers. Diseases of miners, i associated with asthma. Dropsical conditions depending on liver disease, and when due to pelvic congestion and hepatic disease. Disturbs sugar metabolism. Influenza when liver is affected. Debility. Hemorrhages, especially connected with hepatic disease.
Mind.—Despondency; forgetful, apathetic.
Head.—Contractive feeling above eyebrows. Dull heavy, stupid, with foul tongue. Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward. Burning and pressure in eyes. Nose-bleed.
Stomach.—Taste bitter. Aversion to salt meat. Appetite small; tongue furred; nausea; retching; vomiting of green, acid fluid. Stitches in left side of stomach, near spleen. [Ceanoth.] Gallstone disease with enlarged liver.
Abdomen.—Pain in region of liver. Left lobe very sensitive. Fullness and soreness, with moist skin. Constipation; stools hard, difficult, knotty; alternates with diarrhea. Stools bright yellow. Swelling of gall bladder with painful tenderness. Ifyperaemia of liver, with jaundice. Cirrhosis, with dropsy.
Rectum.—Hemorrhagic piles, prolapse or rectum, burning pain in anus and rectum, hard and knotting, clayey stools. Prof use diarrhea due to rectal cancer. 10 drop doses (Wapler).
Urine.—Cloudy; golden-colored.
Chest.—Stitching pains in lower right ribs and front; worse, moving, walking, etc. Asthmatic respiration. Pain in chest, going to shoulders, back, loins and abdomen, with urging to urinate.
Skin.—Itching on lying down at night. Varicose ukers. (Clematis vitalba.] Eruption on lower part of sternum.
Extremities.—Pain in hip-joint, spreading through buttocks arid down thigh; worse from stooping. Difficult rising. Weakness felt in feet, especially after sitting.
Relationship.—Compare: Card. benedictus (strong action on ryes, and sensation of contraction in many parts; stomach rymptomssimilar); Chelidon.; Chionanthes; Mere.; Podophyl.; /fry.; Aloe.
Dose.—Tincture and lower potencies.
Famous for its action on the liver and in the treatment of obesity, diabetes, and gout. In homceopathic potencies useful in weakness of all organs, constipation, great liability to take cold. Periodicity, effects repeated after from two to four weeks. [Oxal. ac.; Sulph.] Flashes of heat all over. Itching on various pa,rts.
Mind.—Discouraged and anxious about domestic duties.
Head.—Aches, with swollen temporal veins [Sang.] ; better, motion, in open air.
Face.—Yellow; sallow; red and hot; pain in zygomatic process; feels as if cobwebs were on it.
Stomach.—Tongue coated white. Offensive smell from mouth. Furry sensation. Sour or salty taste. Hiccough and yawning. Heartburn. [Carbo.]
Urine.—Stream weak and slow; only passed by pressing addominal muscles.
Rectum.—Faeces held back. Stool slow, and only passed by much abdominal pressure. Burning in rectum and anus. Bleeding piles.
Relationship.—Compare: Nat. sulph.; Nux.
Dose.—Lower potencies.
Introduced as aa palliative for constipation (non-homeo• pathic), fifteen drops of fluid extract here it restores normal function by its tonic effects, but it has a wider sphere of action, as careful provings will show. Chronic indigestion, cirrhosis and jaundice. Hemorrhoids and constipation. Gastric headache. Broad, flabby tongue; foul breath.
Urine.—Must wait for minute before flow starts then first in drops.
Extremities.—Rheumatism of muscles and joints, with obstinate constipation.
Relationship.—Compare: Hyd.; Nux.; Rhamnus Californica (tincture for constipation; tympanites and appendicitis and especially rheumatism) .
Dose.—Tincture to sixth potency.
Acts on the digestive tract; constipation. Aversion to smell of tobacco. Inclination to vomit very marked.
Stomach.—Hunger after meals. Desire for hot drinks. Nausea and vomiting. Pain in stomach as from a shock. Pressing colic.
Rectum.—Constipation; stools hard, covered with mucus. [Graph.] Bright blood with stool. Diarrhea alternating with hard, lumpy stool, with backache and lassitude, preceded by griping. Gnawing pain high up in rectum.
Dose.—First to third potency.
It is claimed the Carcinosin acts favorably and modifies all cases in which either a history of carcinoma can be elicited, or symptoms of the disease itself exist. (J. H. Clarke, M. D.)
Carcinoma af the mammary glands with great pain and induration of glands; of uterus, the offensive discharge, hemorrhage and pain are greatly relieved.
Indigestion, accumulation of gas in stomach and bowels; rheumatism-Cancerous cachexia.
Relationship.—Compare: Bufo; Conium; Phytolacca, Asterias.
Dose.—Thirtieth and 200th potency, a dose at night or less frequently.
A useful remedy in whooping - cough, especially in the early stage, with dry, ringing, violent, spasmodic cough. Desire for warm drinks. Very thirsty. Loss of appetite. D:arrhma. Thick urine.
Lumbago, weak back, can hardly straighten up.
Relationship.—Compare: Pertussin-Whooping-cough (when symptoms return again after being allayed. Dros.; 114Pphitis; Naphthal.; Ammon. brom.
Dose.—Tincture.
General action on thickening of the skin and epithelium. Psoriasis linqux. The clinical experience of I3ering and his fellow-provers has shown this to be highly useful remedy in cracked and ulcerated nipples. Affects principally female organs. Acts on the nails and bones; pain in right tibia and coccyx. Warts on forehead. Warts on breast. Chapped hands.
Chest.—Cracked, sore nipples, excessively tender. Swelling :) f mammae. Violent itching in breasts; areola reddened.
Relationship.—Compare: Graphites; Hip,ooman.es, Calc.p - al,
Dose.—Sixth and twelfth potency.
A great remedy for hysteria. Prostration marked.
Hysterical symptoms. Day-blindness; cannot endure the light. Nervous women who do not recover fully, but are continually irritable, and suffer from debilitating sweats. Spasmodic affections after debilitating diseases. Constant yawning. Restless sleep with frightful dreams and starts.
Tongue.—Swollen. Rounded elevation size of a pea in center, with drawing sensation from center to hyoid bone.
Female.—Dysmenorrhea [painful menstruation] ; blood discharged in drops with tenesmus. Pain commences in middle of thighs. Amenorrhaea, with painful tympanites.
Fever.—Predominant chilliness. Attacks of chilliness with ice-coldness in back.
Relationship.—Compare: Ambra; Moschus; Mur. acid; Valeriana.
Antidote: Colch.
Dose.—Tincture, and lower potencies.
Children's remedy for Colic, also for nervous headache and hysteria, abdominal complaints, pain, flexing of thighs, twisting of body, crying. Similar to chamomilla and magnes. phosph.
Dose.—5 to 10 drops of the tincture.
This is a woman's remedy. Want of tonicity of the womb. During labor, when the pains axe deficient and the patient is exhausted and fretful. Besides, it has a special affinity for the smaller joints. Thrush, locally and internally.
Stomach.—Cardialgia, spasms of stomach. Dyspepsia with spasmodic symptoms.
Female.—Extraordinary rigidity of os. [Bell.; Gels.; Ver. v.] Spasmodic and severe pains, which fly in all directions; shivering, without progress: false pains. Revives labor pains and furthers progress of labor. After pains. Leukorrhea, with moth-spots on forehead. Habitual abortion from uterine debility. [Helon.; Puls.; Sab.] Needle-like pains in cervix. Dysmenorrhma, with pains flying to other parts of body. Lochia protracted; great atony. Menses and leukorrhea prof use.
Skin.—Discoloration of skin in women with menstrual and uterine disorder.
Extremities.—Severe drawing, erratic pain and stiffness in small joints, fingers, toes, ankles, etc. Aching in wrists. Cutting pains on closing hands. Erratic pains, changing place every few minutes.
Relationship.—Incompatible: Coffea.
Compare: Viol. Odor. (rheumatic carpal and metacarpal joints); Cilnieif.; Sepia; Pulsat.; Gels.
Dose.—Tincture to third attenuation.
Manifests its action mainly in chronic rheumatic, arthritic and paralytic affections, indicated by the tearing, drawing pains in the muscular and fibrous tissues, with deformities about the joints; progressive loss of muscular strength, tendinous contractures. Broken down seniles. In catarrhal affections of the air passages, and seems to choose preferably dark-complexioned and rigid-fibered persons. Restlessness at night, with tearing pains in joints and bones, and faint-like sinking of strength. This weakness progresses until we have gradually appearing paralysis. Local paralysis, vocal cords, muscles of deglutition, of tongue, eyelids, face, bladder and extremities. Children are slow to walk. The skin of a Causticum person is of a dirty white sallow, with warts, especially on the face. Emaciation due to disease, worry, etc., and of long standing. Burning, rawness, and soreness are characteristic.
Mind.—Child does not want to go to bed alone. Least thing makes it cry. Sad, hopeless. Intensely sympathetic. Ailments from long-lasting grief, sudden emotions. Thinking of complaints, aggravates, especially hemorrhoids.
Head.—Sensation of empty space between forehead and brain. Pain in right frontal eminence.
Face.—Paralysis of right side. Warts. Pain in facial bones. Dental fistula. Pain in jaws, with difficulty in opening mouth.
Eyes.—Cataract with motor disturbances. Inflammation of eyelids; ulceration. Sparks and dark spots before eyes. Ptosis. [Gels.] Vision impaired, as if film were before eyes. Paralysis of ocular muscles after exposure to cold.
Ears.—Ringing, roaring, pulsating, with deafness; words and steps re-echo; chronic middle-ear catarrh; accumulation of ear-wax.
Nose.—Coryza, with hoarseness. Scaly nose. Nostrils ulcerated. Pimples and warts.
Mouth.—Bites inside of cheek from chewing. Paralysis of tongue, with indistinct speech. Rheumatism of articulation of lower jaw. Gums bleed easily.
Stomach.—Greasy taste. Aversion to sweets. Feels as if lime were burned in stomach. Worse after eating fresh meat; smoked meat agrees. Sensation of ball rising in throat. Acid dyspepsia.
Stool.—Soft and small, size of goose-quill. [Phos.] Hard, tough, covered with mucus; shines like grease; small-shaped; expelled with much straining, or only on standing up. Pruritus. Partial paralysis of rectum. Rectum sore and burns. Fistula and large piles.
Urine.—Involuntary when coughing, sneezing. [Puls.] Expelled very slowly, and sometimes retained. Involuntary during first sleep at night; also from slightest excitement. Retention after surgical operations. Loss of sensibility on passing urine.
Female.—Uterine inertia during labor. Menses cease at night; flow only during day. [Cyct.; Puls.] Leucorrhcoa at night, with great weakness. [Nat. mur.] Menses delay, late. [Con.; Graph.; Puls.]
Respiratory.—Hoarseness with pain in chest; aphonia. Larynx sore. Cough, with raw soreness of chest. Expectoration scanty; must be swallowed. Cough with pain in hip, especially left worse in evening; better, drinking cold water; worse, warmth of bed. Sore streak down trachea. Mucus under sternum, which he cannot quite reach. Pain in chest, with palpitation. Cannot lie down at night. Voice re-echoes. Own voice roars in ears and distresses. Difficulty of voice of singers and public speakers (Royal).
Back.—Stiffness between shoulders. Dull pain in nape of neck.
Extremities.—Left-sided sciatica, with numbness. Paralysis of single parts. Dull, tearing pain in hands and arms. Heaviness and weakness. Tearing joints. Unsteadiness of muscles of forearm and. hand. Numbness; loss of sensation in hands. Contracted tendons. Weak ankles. Cannot walk without suffering. Rheumatic tearing in limbs; better by warmth, especially heat of bed. Burning in joints. Slow in learning to walk. Unsteady walking and easily falling. Restless legs at night. Cracking and tension in knees; stiffness in hollow of knee. Itching on dorsum of feet.
Skin.—Soreness in folds of skin, back of ears, between thighs. Warts large, jagged, bleeding easily, on tips of fingers and nose. Old burns that do not get well, and ill effects from burns. Pains of burns. Cicatrices freshen up; old injuries reopen. Skin prone to intertrigo during dentition.
Sleep.—Very drowsy; can hardly keep awake. Nocturnal elecplessness, with dry heat, inquietude.
Relationship.—According to the careful investigations of I) r. Wagner of Basel, Causticum corresponds to Ammor.. causticum 4x. Causticum does not agree with Phosphorus; the remedies should not be used after each other. Diphtitero• toxin follows, causticum in chronic bronchitis.
Antidote: Paralysis from lead-poisoning. Complementary: Carbo; Petrosel.
Compare: Rhus; Arsenic; Amin. phos. (facial paralysis).
Modalities.—Worse, dry, cold winds, in clear fine weather, cold air; from motion of carriage. Better, in damp, wet weather; warmth. Heat of bed.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth attenuation. In chronic ailments and especially in paralytic states, the higher potencies once or twice a week.
This remedy seems to possess a specific relation to the spleen. Ague cake of malaria. A left-sided remedy generally. Anaemic patients where liver and spleen are at fault. Chronic bronchitis with profuse secretion. Marked blood pressure, reducing powers. Active hemastatic, materially reducing the clotting of blood.
Abdomen.—Enormous enlargement of the spleen. Splenitis; pain all up the left side. Deep-seated pain in left hypochondrium, hypertrophy of spleen. Leucaemia. Violent dyspnea. Menses profuse, and yellow weakening leukorrhea. Unable to lie on left side. Pain in liver and back.
Rectum.—Diarrheea; bearing down in abdomen and rectum.
Urine.—Constant urging to urinate. Green; frothy; contains bile, sugar.
Relationship.—Compare: Tinospora cordifolia (a Hindoo medicine for chronic cases of fever with enlarged spleen). Polymnia uvedalia - Bearsfoot- (acute splenitis with tenderness over left hypochondriac region; spleen enlarged, ague cake. Vascular atony, tissues sodden, flabby and non-elastic. Enlarged glands; influences all ductless glands). Ceanothus thrysifiorus - California Lilac- (Pharyngitis, tonsillitis, nasal catarrh, diphtheria. Tincture internally and as a gargle.)
Compare: Berberis; Myrica; Cedron; Agaricus (spleen).
Modalities.—Worse, motion, lying on left side.
Dose.—First attenuation. Locally as hair tonic.
Periodicity is the most marked characteristic of this drug. Is particularly useful in tropical or in damp, warm, marshy countries. It has been found curative in malarial affections, especially neuralgia. Adapted to persons of a voluptuous disposition, excitable, nervous temperament. Has powers of antidoting snake-bites and stings of insects. Tincture of pure bean scraped on wound. Mania.
Head.—Pain from temple to temple across eyes. Pain over whole right side of face, coming on about 9 am. Crazy feeling from pain across forehead; worse, working on black. Roaring in ears produced by Cinchona. Whole body seems ntimb with headache..
Eyes.—Shooting over left eye. Severe pain in eyeball, with radiating pains around eye, shooting into nose. Scalding lachrymation. Supra - orbital neuralgia periodic. Iritis, choroiditis.
Extremities.—Lancinating pain in joints; worse, feet and hands. Sudden pain in ball of right thumb, extending up arm to shoulder. Pain in ball of right foot, extending to knee. Shingles, with radiating pain. Dropsy of knee-joint.
Fever.—Chilliness towards evening; then frontal headache extending into parietal region. Red eyes. Heat, with itching of eyes, tearing pain in limbs, numbness of limbs.
Relationship.—Antidote: Lach.
Compare: Ars.; China.
Dose.—Tincture to third attenuation.
Like the other snake poisons, it affects the system profoundly. Like arsenic, it has dyspnea, mental and physical restlessness, thirst for small quantities of water, necessity for having clothing loose, like Laches. Marked alternation of moods; vivid dreams. Is a wonderful restorative and deep acting remedy. Increased sexual desire in both sexes. Ineffectual attempts to recline. Right ovarian region painful.
Head.—Forgetful, absent-minded, alternating moods. Aching pain in left frontal eminence and left side of teeth. Swelling around eyes, aching and itching in eyes.
Heart.—Feels distended, fills whole chest, as if it fell down in abdomen; sharp stitches, fluttering under left scapula.
Sleep.—Dreams horrible and vivid; lascivious.
Modalities.—Worse, pressure; lying down; afternoon and night.
Relationship.—Compare: Ars.; Laches. Clotho Arictans Puff Adder. - Should have a great sphere of usefulness in many conditions where excessive swelling is a leading feature. (John H. Clarke, M. D.)
Dose.—Sixth potency.
Mind.—Great desire to work and to be doing something useful.
Head.—Occipital headache and pain through the globe of the eyes and orbits. [Cedron; Ones.] Pain across the brain from left to right. Pain along right malar bone running to temple.
Chest.—Convulsive pains at the heart; feels as if transfixed. Pain in chest through heart, with pain running toward spleen. Pain in left pectoral muscle and cartilages of left lower ribs. Sensation of a great weight on heart, and pricking pain. Hypertrophy of heart. Difficult, sighing respiration, as from some compression of chest.
Skin.—Itching of skin. [Dolich.; Sulph.]
Extremities.—Pain in neck, back, shoulders, down arms, hands and fingers. Pain in knees and joints of lower extremities.
Relationship.—Compare: Cactus; Spigel.; Kalmia; Cereus serpentinus. (Very irritable with tendency to swear; wild anger and low morals. Disturbance in speech; in writing leaves off the last syllable. Paralyzed feeling. Pains in heart, and dwindling of sexual organs. Emissions, followed by pain in testicles.)
Dose.—Third to sixth attenuation.
Spasmodic reflex vomiting and spasmodic cough are within the sphere of this remedy. Vomiting of pregnancy, and of halfdigested food. Whooping cough, with vomiting and hemorrhage. Dysmenorrhea [painful menstruation] in fleshy, robust women. Better when flow is established.
Relationship.— color:#0070C0; Compare: Ingluvin - (made from gizzard of a fowl). Vomiting of pregnancy; gastric neurasthenia. Infantile vomiting and diarrhea. 3x Trit. Amygdal.; Lactic ac.; Ipecac.
Dose.—First trituration.
The chief guiding symptoms belong to the mental and emotion group, which lead to this remedy in many forms of disease. Especially of frequent employment in diseases of children, where peevishness, restlessness, and colic give the needful indications. A disposition that is mild, calm and gentle; sluggish and constipated bowels contra-indicate chamomilla.
Chamomilla is sensitive, irritable, thirsty, hot, and numb. Oversensitiveness from abuse of coffee and narcotics. Pains unendurable, associated with numbness. Night-sweats.
Mind.—Whining restlessness. Child wants many things which he refuses again. Piteous moaning because he cannot have what he wants. Child can only be quieted when carried about and petted constantly. Impatient, intolerant of being spoken to or interrupted; extremely sensitive to every pain; always complaining. Spiteful, Snappish. Complaints from anger and vexation. Mental calmness contraindicates Chamom.
Head.—Throbbing headache in one-half of the brain. Inclined to bend head backward. Hot, clammy sweat on forehead and scalp.
Ears.—Ringing in ears. Earache, with soreness; swelling and heat driving patient frantic. Stitching pain. Ears feel stopped.
Eyes.—Lids smart. Yellow sclerotic. Spasmodic closing of lids.
Nose.—Sensitive to all smells. Coryza, with inability to sleep.
Face.—One cheek red and hot; the other pale and cold. Stitches in jaw extending to inner ear and teeth. Teeth ache worse after warm drink; worse, coffee, at night. Drives to distraction. Jerking of tongue and facial muscles. Distress of teething children_ [Ca.lc. plws.; Terebinth.]
Throat.—Parotid and submaxillary glands swollen. Constriction and pain as from a plug.
Mouth.—Toothache, if anything warm is taken, from coffee, during pregnancy. Nightly salivation.
Stomach.—Eructations, foul. Nausea after coffee. Sweats after eating or drinking. Aversion to warm drinks. Tongue yellow; taste bitter. Bilious vomiting. Acid rising; regurgitation of food. Bitter, bilious vomiting. Pressive gastralgia, as from a stone. [Bry.; Abies n.]
Abdomen.—Distended. Griping in region of navel, and pain in small of back. Flatulent colic, after anger, with red cheeks and hot perspiration. Hepatic colic. Acute duodenitis. [Kali bich. (chronic).]
Stool.—Hot, green, watery, fetid, slimy, with colic. Chopped white and yellow mucus like chopped eggs and spinach. Soreness of anus. Diarrhea during dentition. Hemorrhoids, with painful fissures.
Female.—Uterine hemorrhages. Profuse discharge of clotted, dark blood, with labor-like puins. Labor pains spasmodic; press upward. [Gels.] Patient intolerant of pain. [Caul.; Caust.; Gels.; Hyos.; Puls.] Nipples inflamed; tender to touch. Infants' breasts tender. Yellow, acrid leucorrha;a. [Ars.; Sep.; Sulph.]
Respiratory.—Hoarseness, hawking, rawness of larynx. Irritable, dry, tickling cough; suffocative tightness of chest, with bitter expectoration in daytime. Rattling of mucus in child's chest.
Back.—Insupportable pain in loins and hips. Luinbayo. Stiffness of neck muscles.
Extremities.—Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night; compelled to walk about. Burning of soles at night. (Sulph.J Ankles give way in the afternoon. Nightly paralytic loss of power in the feet, unable to step on them.
Sleep.—Drowsiness with moaning, weeping and wailing during sleep; anxious, frightened dreams, with half-open eyes.
Modalities.—Worse, by heat, anger, open air, wind, night. Better, from being carried, warm wet weather.
Relationship.—Compare: Cypriped; Ant hemis; Aconite; Puls.; Coffea; Bellad.; Staphis.; Ignat. Follows Belladonna in diseases of children and abuse of opium. Rubus villosus - Blackberry - (diarrhma of infancy; stools watery and clay colored).
Antidotes: Camph.; Nux; Puts.
Complementary: Bell.; Mag. c.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth attenuation.
Chronic diarrhea. Tenderness over liver. Stools little pain, but with much mucus. Dysentery. Acts as a tonic and antiperiodic.
Compare: Kali carb.; Cup, ars.; Caps.
Dose.—Third attenuation.
A prominent liver remedy, covering many of the direct reflex symptoms of diseased conditions of that organ. The jaundiced skin, and especially the constant pain under inferior angle of right scapula, are certain indications. Paralytic drawing and lameness in single parts. The great general lethargy and indisposition to make any effort is also marked. Ailments brought on or renewed by change of weather. Serous effusions. Hydroeele. Bilious complications during gestation.
Head.—Icy coldness of occiput from the nape of neck; feels heavy as lead. Heavy, lethargic; drowsiness very marked, with general numbness; vertigo, associated with heptic disI urbance. Inclination to fall forward. Right-sided headache down behind ears and shoulder-blade. Neuralgia over right rye, right cheek-bone and right ear, with excessive lachrymation, preceded bv pain in liver.
Nose.—Flapping of alae nasi. [Lyc.]
Eyes.—Dirty yellow color of whites. Sore sensation on looking up. Tears fairly gush out. Orbital neuralgia of right eye, with profuse lachrymation; pupils contracted, relieved by pressure.
Face.—Yellow; worse nose and cheeks. Wilted skin.
Stomach.—Tongue yellow, with imprint of teeth; large and flabby. [Merc.; Hyd.] Taste bitter, pasty. Bad odor from mouth. Prefers hot food and drink. Nausea, vomiting; better, very hot water. Pain through stomach to back and right shoulder-blade. Gastralgia. Eating relieves temporarily, especially when accompanied with hepatic symptoms.
Abdomen.—Jaundice due to hepatic and gall-bladder obstruction. Gall-colic. Distention. Fermentation and sluggish bowels. Constriction across, as by a string. Liver enlarged. Gallstones. [Berberis.]
Urine.—Profuse, fcaming, yellow urine, like beer. [Chenop.] dark, turbid.
Stool.—Constipation; stools hard, round balls, like sheep's dung, bright yellow, pasty; clay-colored, stools float in water; alternation of diarrhea and constipation. Burning and itching of anus. [Ratanh.; Sulph.]
Female.—Menses too late and too profuse.
Respiratory.—Very quick and short inspirations; pain on deep inspiration. Dyspnea. Short, exhausting cough; sensation of dust not relieved by cough. Whooping-cough; spasmodic cough; loose, rattling; expectoration difficult. Pain in right side of chest and shoulder, with embarrased respiration. Small lumps of mucus fly from mouth when coughing. Hoarse in afternoon. Constriction of chest.
Back.—Pain in nape. Stiff neck, head drawn to left. Fixed pain under inner and lower angle of right scapula. Pain at lower angle of left scapula.
Extremities.—Pain in arms, shoulders, hands, tips of fingers. Icy coldness of tips of fingers; wrists sore, tearing in metacarpal bones. Whole flesh sore to touch. Rheumatic pain in hips and thighs; intolerable pains in heels, as if pinched by too narrow a shoe; worse, right. Feels paralyzed. Paresis of the lower limbs with rigidity of muscles.
Skin.—Dry heat of skin; itches, yellow. Painful red pimples and pustules. Old, spreading, offensive ulcers. Wilted skin. Sallow, cold, clammy.
Modalities.—Worse, right side, motion, touch, change of weather, very early in morning. Better, after dinner, from pressure.
Relationship.—ChelidoninSpasin of smooth muscle everywhere, intestinal colic, uterine colic, bronchial spasm, tachycardia, etc.) Boldo-Boldoa fragrans - (Bladder atony; cholecystitis and biliary calculus. Bitter taste, no appetite; constipation, hypochondriasis languor, congestion of liver; burning weight in liver and stomach. Painful hepatic diseases. Disturbed liver following malaria.) Elemuy Gauteria - (Stones in kidneys and bladder; grain doses of powdered bark in water or 5 drops of tincture. Pellagra).
Sulph. often completes its work.
Complementary: Lycop.; Bryon.
Antidote: Chamom.
Compare: Nux; Sulph.; Bry.; Lyc.; Opium; Podophyl.; Sanguin.; Ars.
Dose.—Tincture and lower attenuations.
Characteristic pain in scapula very marked. Symptoms of apoplexy, right hemiplegia, and aphasia. Stertorous breathing. [Opium.] Sudden vertigo. Meniere's disease. Affections of auditory nerves. [Nat. salicyl.J Oil of Chenopodium for hookworm and roundworm.
Ears.—Torpor of auditory nerve. Hearing better for highpitched sounds. Comparative deafness to sound of voice, but great sensitiveness to sound, as of passing vehicles and also a shrinking from low tones. Buzzing in ears. Enlargement of tonsils. Aural vertigo.
Back.—Intense pain between angle of right shoulder - blade near spine, and through the chest.
Urine.—Copious, yellow, foaming urine, with acrid sensation in urethra. Yellowish sediment. [Chel.]
Relationship.—Compare: Opium; China; Chelid.
Dose.—Third potency. Oil of Chenopodium for hookworm, 10 minim doses every 2 hours for 3 doses; also Carbon tetrachloride.
Partakes largely of the properties of the plant upon which the insect lives.
Head.—Sad; aching, worse from motion. Brain seems swashed hither and thither. Coryza, with burning or biting in nostrils. Noise in ears, as of cannon. Yellow face. Orbital right neuralgia, with profuse lachrymation. Toothache, relieved by general warm sweat. [Cham.] Toothache extends to ear, temple, and cheek-bone. [Plantago.]
Stomach.—No appetite for meat and bread. Vesicles at end of tongue. Much mucus. Colic with much rumbling and ineffectual urging to stool.
Stools.—Hard and knotty. Diarrhea in morning, with painful urging and burning in anus, and pressure in rectum and bladder.
Urine.—Voluptuous feeling in glans. Burning in urethra. Urination frequent, copious, frothy.
Back.—Severe pains in region of lower inner angle of left shoulder - blade, running into chest.
Fever.—Shuddering all over; burning in palms; hot sweat in bed.
Relationship.—Compare: Nat. sulPh.; Nux.
Dose.—Sixth to thirtieth potency.
A remedy in liver affections with pain or soreness of the left lobe of the liver and extending downwards. Dumb ague. Soreness of external parts, as if skin were off; debility. Malaise, following intermittents. Dyspepsia with hepatic torpor. Jaundice. Round and thread worms. It is an enemy to every kind of worm infesting the human body.
Dose.—Tincture, in one to five drop doses.
Acts principally on kidneys, and gen-[to-urinary tract; affects also lymphatic and mesenteric glands and female mamma-. Plethoric young women with dysuria. Women with large breasts. Hepatic and renal dropsies; chronic alcoholics. Incipient and progressive cataracts.
One of the remedies whose symptoms point to its employment in bladder affections, notably catarrh, acute and chronic.
Scanty urine, and loaded with ropy, muco-purulent sediment. Prostatic enlargement.
Head.—Pain in left frontal protuberance. Halo about the light. Itching of eyelids. Stabbing pain in left eye with lachrymation.
Mouth.—Toothache, worse after eating and exertion, better cool water. Pain as if tooth was being gently pulled.
Urinary.—Urging to urinate. Urine turbid, offensive, containing ropy or bloody mucus, and depositing a copious sediment. Burning and scalding during micturition, and straining afterwards. Must strain before flow comes. Scanty urine. Acute prostatitis, retention, and feeling of a ball in perineum. [Cann. ind.] Fluttering in region of kidney. Sugar in urine. Unable to urinate without standing with feet wide apart and body inclined forward.
Female.—Labia inflamed, swollen. Pain in vagina. Hot flashes. Painful tumor of mammce, not ulcerated; with undue secretion of milk. Rapid atrophy of breasts. Women with very large breasts and tumor in the mammary gland with sharp pain through it.
Male.—Smarting in urethra from neck of bladder to meatus. Gleet. Loss of prostatic fluid. Prostatic enlargement and irritation.
Skin.—Scrofulous ulcers. Glandular enlargements.
Extremities.—Feeling of a band above left knee.
Modalities.—Worse, in damp weather; from sitting on cold stones or pavements: left side.
Relationship.—Compare: Chimaph. maculata (intense gnaw~ ng hunger; burning fever; sensation of swelling in arm pits) Jva.; Ledum; Epigcea.
Dose.—Tincture, to third attenuation.
The symptoms of general weariness and prostration produced by the drug have been utilized in prescribing it homeopathically as a general tonic, often with very marked beneficial and prompt effect. In diphtheria with great prostration, cases that are prolonged, especially, and in malarial affections, neuralgia, etc., it has been found curative. Asthmatic attacks which recur eriodically, with great prostration. Icy skin. Pressure in the soiar plexus, with tender spine back of it.
Head.—Tired feeling. Head feels too full. Throbbing. Great anxiety. Great irritability. Vertigo; worse looking up, Dull, heavy headache, frontal and occipital. Darting pains running up into head.
Eyes.—Intense photophobia and orbicular spasm; gushing hot tears. Flickering with pain and lachrymation.
Mouth.—Tongue thickly furred; yellow, slimy coating. iitter taste. No appetite.
Stomach.—Alternation of hyperacidity and decrease of acid. Hyperchlorhydria. [Pobirtia; Arg. nit.; Orexine tannatel. Thirst for water, yet it disturbs. Anorexia. Eggs produce diarrhea.
Heart.—Palpitation. Sensation as if heart stopped. Suffocative attacks, occurrng in periodical paroxysms. Must have open air. Short of breath on ascending; cardiac dyspnma; circulatory weakness after acute infections; early myocardial degeneration.
Sleep.—Sleeplessness due to nervous causes. (Single dose of 5th or 6th potency.)
Extremities.—Weak limbs. Coldness of hands ana feet, knees ,and limbs. Tearing pains.
Fever.—Continuous, with weakness. System depleted.
Relationship.—Compare: Chininum; also Ferrum Citricum (in nephritis with great anaemia; acid dyspepsia in chloros's.
Morbus maculosus Werlhoffli); Chinin. mur. (in severe neuralgic pains around eyes, with chills; exaggerated sensitiveness to alcohol and tobacco; prostration and restlessness). (T, nothera (effortless diarrhea with nervous exhaustion; incipient hydrocephaloid). Macrozamia spiralis (extreme debility after illness; collapse).
Dose.—Second and third trituration.
A dose of Chinin, sulph. in high potency sometimes arouses suppressed malaria, and brings back the paroxysm. Aside from its undoubted influence over malaria, it is indicated hommopathically whenever there is marked periodicity and spinal sensitiveness. Acute articular rheumatism. Polyarticular gout. Pruritus and congested conditions of the rectum. Symptoms of chronic interstitial nephritis. Retro-bulbar neuritis with sudden loss of sight. Thready vessels. Hiccough.
Blood.—An immediate and rapid decrease in red blood cells and reduction in haemoglobin with increase in elimination of chlorides. Tendency to polynucleated leucocytosis.
Head.—Pain in forehead and temples, increasing gradually at noon, of malarial origin, with vertigo and pulsation. Worse left side. Falling in street. Inability to remain standing. Amaui osis.
Ears.—Violent ringing, buzzing, and roaring in ears, with deafness.
Face.—Neuralgia commences under eye; extends into and around it. Pains return with great regularity; relieved by pressure.
Spine. - Great sensitiveness of the dorsal vertebrae; pain on pressure. Last cervical sensitive. Pain extends to head and neck.
Urine.—Bloody. Turbid, slimy, clay-colored, greasy sediment. Small amount of urea and phosphoric acid with excess of uric acid and abundance of chlorides, accompanied by subnormal t-nerature. Excessive flow. Albuminuria.
Skin.—Itching; erythema, urticaria, icterus, vesication, pustules, purpura. Great sensitiveness. Shriveled skin.
Fever.—Chill daily at 3 pm. Painful swelling of various veins during a chill. Shivering even in a warn- room. Anguish. Subnormal temperature.
Relationship.—Compare: Chin. salicyl. (Deafness, tinnitus, and Meniere's disease.) Ars.; Eupat.; Methyl. blue. Camphor mono - bromide (is said to intensify the action of Quinine and render it more permanent.) Boja, an East Indian drug, (said to be almost infallible in intermittent fever, quartan type; pulsating headache injected eyes, flushed face. Liver and spleen enlarged. (Edema.) Also Pambotano, Mexican remedy for intermittent and tropical fevers.
Antidotes: Parthenum; Natr. mur.; Loch.; Arn.; Puls.
Dose.—First to third triturations; also thirtieth potency and higher.
This remedy is often of service in many types of headaches, neurasthenic, periodical sick, menstrual and bilious. Taken for several weeks, drop doses, will often break up the sick headache habit. The pain in the forehead, chiefly over eyes. Eyeballs very painful, with pressure over root of nose. Hepatic derangements. Jaundice. Enlarged spleen. [Ceanoth.] Jaundice, with arrest of menses. A prominent liver remedy. Gallstones. [Berberis; Cholest.; Cale.] Diabetes mellitus. Paroxysmal, abdominal pain.
Head.—Listless, apathetic. Dull frontal headache, over root of nose, over eyes, through temples, worse stooping, motion, jar. Yellow conjunctiva.
Tongue.—Broad with thick yellow fur.
Mouth.—Dry sensation not relieved by water, also profuse saliva.
Abdomen and Liver.—Aching in umbilical region, griping. Feels as if a string were tied in a "slip-knot" around intestines which was suddenly drawn tight and then gradually loosened. Sore; enlarged, with jaundice and constipation. Clay-colored stool, also soft, yellow and pasty. Tongue heavily coated. No appetite. Bilious colic. Hepatic region tender. Pancreatic disease and other glandular disorders.
Urine.—Large amount of high specific gravity; frequent urination; bile and sugar in urine. Urine very dark.
Skin.—Yellow; marked moisture of skin. Sallow, greenish, itching.
Relationship.—Compare: Cinchona; Ceanoth.; Chelidon.; Carduus; Podophyl.; Lept.
Dose.—Tincture and first attenuation.
This drug, used in physiological doses, is a powerful hypnotic and cardiac depressant. It has a marked effect on the skin, producing erythema, ecchymosis, etc., which symptoms have been utilized homeopathically with much success, especially in the treatment of hives. Emotional excitability, hallucinations. Night terrors in children. Muscular prostration.
Head.—Morning headache; worse in forehead, also in occiput, on motion; better in open air. Passive cerebral hyperaemia (use 30th). Feeling as if hot band were drawn from temple to temple. Hears voices.
Eyes.—Eyes blood-shot and watery. Circles of light, black spots. Illusions of sight where eyes are closed or at night. Dim vision. Conjunctivitis, burning in eye and lids; eyeball feels too large; everything looks white.
Skin.—Red blotches, like measles. Urticaria, worse, spirituous liquors, hot drinks. Erythema aggravated by alcoholic drinks, with palpitation; causes pain in tendons and extensors. Intense itching. Surface of body stone - cold. Wheals come on from a chill; better, warmth. Purpura. [Phos.; Crotal.]
Respiratory.—Extreme dyspnea, with sensation of weight and constriction of chest. Asthma, with sleeplessness.
Sleep.—Insomnia, hallucinations, horrid dreams. Somnolence.
Modalities.—Worse, after hot drinks, stimulants, eating, night.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Ammon.; Atrop.; Dig.; Mosch.
Compare: Bell.; Opium; Apis; Veronal - (a dangerous drug made by the action of alcohol upon urea and contains the same radical that alcohol does. Makes a man just as drunk as pure alcohol. Staggers, cannot stand up. (Dr. Varney.) (Confluent, reddish spots; dermatitis, itching of glans and prepuce; circumscribed dermatitis patch on first metacarpal phalangeal joint.) Luminal - (Sleeplessness with skin symptoms in migraine; lethargy like epidemic encephalitis). (Dr. Royal.)
Dose.—First trituration in hives, otherwise, higher potencies. Locally, in offensive foot-sweat, bathe with one percent. solution. For its physiological effects, five to twenty grains. Use cautiously.
General anaesthetic, antispasmodic. Complete muscular relaxation. Weak and quick pulse, shallow or stertorous breathing. Convulsions, nephritic or biliary colic, gastralgia.
Symptoms obtained by Dr. D. Macfarlan with the 6th potency.
Great weakness, especially on right side. Limbs very tired from knees down. Much perspiration all over face and chest; drowsy and dizzy; dry lips and throat; dry tickling cough at night. Flatulence; food regurgitates; sore and bruised feeling in stomach; catching pain around heart. Sharp pain in right chest when he takes long breath; shortness of breath on exertion.
Head.—Delirium where excitement and violence predominate. Head drawn down upon the shoulders, eyes opened and closed rapidly, pupils contracted; rapid convulsive movements of face, of muscles, of extremities.
Relationship.—Ether Post-operative Bronchitis (Prof. Bier). Spiritus Aetheris Compositus. - (Hoffman's Anodyne) - (Flatulence; angina pectoris. Dose 5m to 1 dram in water.)
Dose.—Higher attenuations, or sixth. Phosphorus is the remedy to give in narcosis of chloroform.
The marked effect on the respiratory organs, producing spasm of the glottis, is the chief symptom of the drug. Asthma to relieve the spasm of glottis. Useful externally and internally in gangrene.
Mind.—Fear of becoming crazy. M~jrked loss of memory, especially for names.
Respiratory.—Sooty, smoky nostrils. Coryza with sudden gushes of sharp, corroding fluid, making nose sore inside and about the aloe. Constriction, with suifocation. Spasm of the glottis. Irritation of epiglottis, larynx, and bronchi. Loss of voice from damp air. Sudden dyspnrca from spasm of the vocal cords, with staring protruding eyes, blue face, cold sweat, pulse small. Inspiration free, with obstructed expiration. [Mephit.] Livid face. Prolonged, loud, whistling rales. Extreme dryness of tongue.
Dose.—Chlorine water, when required of full strength, must be freshly prepared. _-•nnrtn tio slxtin N.,;,ancy.
(Cholesterine - The proximate principle Furnished by the epithelium lining of gall bladder and the larger ducts)
For cancer of the liver. Obstinate hepatic engorgements. liurning pain in side; on walking holds his hand on side, hurts him so. Opacities of the vitreous. Jaundice; gallstones. Cholesterine is the physiological opponent of Lecithin. Both seem to play some unknown part in the growth of tumors. Gallstones and insomnia.
Relationship.—Compare: Taurocholate of soda in Homceoputhy. - Dr. I. P. Tessier, in an interesting study of the action of bile and its salts, in hepatic affections, analyzes a number of experiments by leading authorities, with the object of deterInining this action, and concludes that in the Taurocholate of goda, homeopathy has a useful remedy against certain forms of hypoglobular anaemia. The claim that its pathogenesis and toxicology clearly indicate its value, and that it should also serve us as a remedy in cases of hypertrophy of the spleen and ganglia. He calls our attention to the fact, that it produces dyspnea, the Cheyne-Stokes rhythm, acute pulmonary aedema, and intense exaggeration of the cardiac pulsations, offering a good field for clinical studies and experimentation of great interest, which may give fruitful and important results.
Dose.—Third trituration.
Diphtheria, post-nasal tumors, and epithelioma of the tongue have been benefited by this drug. Bloody, foul-smelling lochia. Symptoms come and go suddenly, and return periodically; offensive discharges.
Nose.—Ulcer and scabs in nose. Offensive smell. Corrosive pain. Ozaena. [Aur.]
Throat.—Diphtheria; sore throat. Tough mucus, with inclination to swallow it; worse, causing hawking. Post-nasal tumors.
Extremities.—Uneasiness in limbs. Pain in shoulder-blades and back of neck. Pain in knees and balls of feet. Drawing pain in soles while walking.
Stool.—Watery, frequent, copious, with nausea and vertigo. Hemorrhoids, internal and bleeding. Weakness in small of back.
Relationship.—Compare: Kali bich.; Rhus; Chromium Sulphate (in locomotor ataxia, goitre, prostatic hypertrophy. Herpes preputialis. Wry neck. Also exophthalmic, inhibits the vagus, relieving tachycardia. Acts like a nerve tonic where there is lack of nervous tone. Fibroid tumors. Infantile paralysis. Dose for adults, 3 to 5 grains after meals and at bedtime).
Dose.—Homeopathically, third to sixth trituration.
Acts as a powerful irritant of the skin and used successfully in skin diseases especially in ringworm, psoriasis, herpes tonsurans, acne rosacea. Vesicular or squamous lesions, associated with foul smelling discharge and crust formation, tending to become confluent and to give the appearance of a single crust covering the entire area. (Bernstein.) Violent itching, thighs, legs and ears. Dry, scaly eruption, especially around eyes and ears, scabs with pus underneath. [Mezer.]
Eyes.—Blepharitis, conjunctivitis keratitis. Intense photophobia. Optical hyperaesthesia. '
Ears.—Eczema behind ears. Filthy, scabby condition with tendency to form thick crust. Whole ear and surrounding tissue appears to be one scab.
Relationship.—Chrysarobinum contains chrysophan, which is rapidly oxydized into chrysophanic acid. This is also contained in Rhubarb and Senna.
Dose.—Locally, as a cerate, 4-8 grains to the ounce, of vaseline. Internally, third to sixth potency. Used externally; should be used with caution on account of its ability to produce inflammation.
The action on the nervous system, producing spasmodic affections, viz., hiccough, trismus, tetanus, and convulsions, give the pathological picture calling especially for this remedy, whenever this is further characterized, by the more individual symptoms of the drug. Among these, are the bending of the head, neck, and spine backwards, and the general action of the patient is violent, with frightful distortions. Violent, strange desires. Sensation of internal chill. Moaning and howling. Does absurd things. Marked action on the skin.
Mind.—Delirium, with singing, dancing and funny gestures. Everything appears strange and terrible. Confounds present with the past; feels like a child. Stupid feeling. Melancholy, with indifierence. Mistrustful. Epilepsy; moaning and whining. Vivid dreams.
Head.—Head turned or twisted to one side. Cerebro - spinal meningitis. Cervical muscles contracted. Vertigo, with gastralgia, and muscular spasms. Sudden, violent shocks through head. Stares persistently at objects. Convulsions from concussion of brain. Thick, yellow scabs on head. Head symptoms relieved by emission of flatus.
Eyes.—When reading, letters disappear. Pupils dilated, insensible strabismus. Objects recede, approach, and- seem double. Eyes stare. Pupils get behind upper lids as head inclines. Effects of exposure to snow. Spasmodic affections of eyes and its appendages. Strabismus; periodic, spasmodic after a fall or a blow.
Ears.—Difficult hearing. Sudden detonations especially on swallowing. Hcemorrhage from ears.
Face.—Pustules which run together forming thick, yellow scabs on face and head, corners of mouth and chin, with burning pain. Red face. Trismus; disposition to grind teeth.
Throat.—Dry. Feels as if grown together. Spasms of cesophagus; cannot swallow. Effects on wsophagus from swallowing sharp piece of bone.
Stomach.—Thirst; burning pressure; hiccough. Throbbing in pit of stomach, which has become raised to size of fist. Desire for unnatural things, like coal. [Alum.; Calc] Indigestion, with insensibilty, frothing at mouth.
Abdomen.—Flatulence with anxiety and crossness. Rumbling in. Distended and painful. Colic, with convulsions.
Rectum.—Diarrlleea in morning, with irresistible desire to urinate. Itching in rectum.
Respiratory.—Chest feels tight; can hardly breathe. Tonic spasm in pectoral muscles. Heat in chest.
Back and Extremities.—Spasms and cramps in muscles of nape of neck, and spasmodic drawing backward of head. Curved limbs cannot be straightened nor straight ones bent. Back bent backward like an arch. Jerking, tearing in coccyx, especially during menses.
Skin.—Eczema; no itching; exudation forms into a hard, lemon - colored crust. Suppressed eruption causes brain disease. Elevated eruptions, as large as peas. Chronic impetigo.
Modalities.—Worse, from touch, draughts, concussion, tobacco smoke.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Opium; Arn.
Compare: Cicuta Maculata - Water Hemlock - (Effects very similar; the most prominent symptoms being: Falls unconscious, tetanic or clonic convulsions. Body covered with sweat. Consider in epilepsy and tetanus. Tincture and lower potencies.) Hydrocy. acid; Con.; iEnanth.; Strychnia; Bellad.
Dose.—Sixth to two hundredth attenuation.
Of use in intermittent fever, with weariness and inclination to stretch. Hamstrings feel too short. [Ammon mur.] Flexors mostly affected. Sensation of retraction of arm tendons. Stretching.
Head.—Violent headache, caused by drinking. Great rage; vehement at beginning of chilly stage. Would I~ke to tear everything to pieces. Pain under right frontal bone.
Female.—Shootång pain from vagina up towards left ovary.
Fever.—Chilliness of whole body. Sensation as of wind blowing on knees. Pains in all joints, as if tendons were too short, especially knee-joints. Chill; worse lying down. Thirst during apyrexia, but little during chilly stage; still less during hot stage, and none during sweating. Musty, offensive sweat.
Bowels.—Constipation, faeces dry and in small balls [Op.; Plumb.; Thuj] and hard. Ulcer of rectum.
Dose.—Sixth to two hundredth attenuation.
Has a wide action upon the cerebrospinal and muscular :;ystem, as well as upon the uterus and ovaries. Especially useful in rheumatic, nervous subjects with ovarian irritation, uterine cramps and heavy limbs. Its muscular and crampy pains, primarily of neurotic origin, occurring in nearly every part of the body, are characteristic. Agitation and pain indicate it. Pains like electric shocks here and there. Migraine. Symptoms referable to the pelvic organs prominent. "It lessens the frequency and force of the pulse soothes pain and allays irritability."
Mental.—Sensation of a cloud enveloping her. Great depression, with dream of impending evil. Fears riding in a closed carriage, of being obliged to jump out. Incessant talking. Visions of rats, mice, etc. Delirium tremens; tries to injure himself. Mania following disappearance of neuralgia.
Head.—Wild feeling in brain. Shooting and throbbing pains in head after mental worry, over-study, or reflex of uterine disease. Waving sensation or opening and shutting sensation in brain. Brain feels too large. Pressing - outward pain. Tinnitus. Ears sensitive to least noise.
Eyes.—Asthenopia associated with pelvic trouble. Deepseated throbbing and shooting pains in eyes, with photophobia from artificial light. Intense aching of eyeball. Pain from eyes to top of head.
Stomach.—Nausea and vomiting caused by pressure on spine and cervical region. Sinking in epigastrium. [Sep.; Sulph.] Gnawing pain. Tongue pointed and trembling.
Female.—Amenorrhaea (use Macrotin preferably (. Pain in ovarian region; shoots upward and down anterior surface of thighs. Pain immediately before menses. Menses profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive with backache, nervousness; always irregular. Ovarian neuralgia. Pain across pelvis, from hip to hip. After-pains, with great sensitiveness and intolerance to pain. Infra-mammary pains worse, left side. Facial blemishes in young women.
Respiratory.—Tickling in throat. Dry, short cough, worse speaking and at night. Cough when secretion is scantyspasmodic, dry with muscular soreness and nervous irritation.
Heart.—Irregular, slow, trembling pulse. Tremulous action. Angina pectoris. Numbness of left arm; feels as if bound to side. Heart's action ceases suddenly, impending suffocation. Left-sided infra-mammary pain.
Back.—Spine very sensitive, especially upper part. Stiffness and contraction in neck and hack, Intercostal rheumatism. Rheumatic pains in muscles of back and neck: Pain in lumbar and sacral region, down thighs, and through hips. Crick in back.
Extremities.—Uneasy, restless feeling in limbs. Aching in limbs and muscular soreness. Rheumatism affecting the belly of muscles, especially large muscles. Choreic movements, accompanied by rheumatism. Jerking of limbs. Stiffness in tendo-Achilles. Heaviness in lower extremities. Heavy, aching, tensive pain.
Sleep.—Sleeplessnes. Brain irritation of children during dentition.
Skin.—Locally and internally for ivy poisoning.
Modalities.—Worse, morning, cold (except headache), during menses; the more profuse the flow, the greater the suffering. Better, warmth, eating.
Relationship.—Compare: Rhamnus Californica (muscular pains, lumbago, pleurodynia, acute rheumatism). Derris pinnata (Neuralgic headaches of rheumatic origin). Aristolochia milhomens (pain in tendo-Achilles; diabetes). Caulophyl.; Pulsat.; Lilium; Agar.; Macrotin (especially for lumbago).
Dose.—First to thirtieth attenuation, third most frequently used.
This is a children's remedy. - big, fat, rosy, scrofulous, corresponding to many conditions that may be referred to intestinal irritation, such as worms and accompanying complaints. An irritability of temper, variable appetite, grinding of teeth, and even convulsions, with screams and violent jerkings of the hands and feet, are all within its range of action. The Cina patient is hungry, cross, ugly, and wants to be rocked. Pain in shocks. Skin sensitive to touch.
Mind.—Ill-humor. Child very cross; does not want to be touched, or crossed, or carried. Desires many things, hut rejects everything offered. Abnormal consciousness, as if having committed some evil deed.
Head.—Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen. Relieved by stooping. [Mezer.] Pain in head when using eyes.
Eyes.—Dilated pupils; yellow vision. Weak sight from masturbation. Strabismus from abdominal irritation. Eyestrain, especially when presbyopia sets in. Pulsation of superciliary muscle.
Ears.—Digging and scratching in ears.
Nose.—Itching of nose all the time. Wants to rub it and pick at it. Bores at nose till it bleeds.
Face.—Intense, circumscribed redress of cheeks. Pale, hot, with dark rings around eyes. Cold perspiration. White and bluish about the mouth. Grits teeth during sleep. Choreic movements of face and hands.
Stomach.—Gets hungry soon after a meal. Hungry, digging, gnawing sensation. Epigastric pain; worse, first waking in morning and before meals. Vomiting and diarrhea immediately after eating or drinking. Vomiting with a clean tongue. Desires many and different things. Craving for sweets.
Abdomen.—Twisting pain about navel. [Spig.] Bloated and hard abdomen.
Stool.—White mucus, like small pieces of popped corn, preceded by pinching colic. Itching of anus. [Teuc.] Worms. [Sabad.; Naphth.; Nat. phos.]
Urine.—Turbid, white; turns milky on standing. Involuntary at night.
Female.—Uterine hemorrhage before puberty.
Respiratory.—Gagging cough in the -morning. Whoopingcough. Violent recurr-ng paroxysms, as of down in throat. Cough ends in a spasm. Cough so violent as to bring tears and sternal pains; feels as if something had been torn off. Periodic; returning spring and fall. Swallows after coughing. Gurgling from throat to stomach after coughing. Child is afraid to speak or move for fear of bringing on paroxysm of coughing. After coughing, moaning, anxious, gasps for air and turns pale.
Extremities.— Twitching and jerking distortion of limbs, trembling. Paralyzed shocks; patient will jump suddenly, as though in pain. Child throws arms from side to side. Nocturnal convulsions. Sudden inward jerking of fingers of rigla, hand. Child stretches out feet spasmodically. Left foot in constant spasmodic motion.
Sleep.—Child gets on hands and knees in sleep; on abdomen. Night terrors of children; cries out, screams, wakes frightened. Troubles while yawning. Screams and talks in sleep. Grits teeth.
Fever.—Light chill. Much fever, associated with clean tongue. Much hunger; colicky pains; chilliness, with thirst. Cold sweat on forehead, nose, and hands. In Cina fever, face is cold and hands warm.
Modalities.—Worse, looking fixedly at an object, from worms, at night, in sun, in summer.
Relationship.—Compare: Santonin - (often preferable in worm affections; same symptoms as Cina; corresponding to the "pain in shocks" produced by Cina. Visual illusions, yellow sight; violet light not recognized, colors not distinguishable. Urine deep saffron color. Spasms and twitchings, chronic gastric and intestinal troubles sometimes removed by a single dose (physiological) of Santonin. Dahlke.) HelmintochortosWorm-moss (acts very powerfully on intestinal worms, especially the lumbricoid.) Teucrium; Ignat.; Cham.; Spig.
Antidote: Camph.; Caps.
Dose.—Third attenuation. For nervous irritable children, thirtieth and two-hundredth preferable. Santonin in first (with care) and third trituration.
Debility from exhausting discharges, from loss of vital fluids, together with a nervous erethism, calls for this remedy. Periodicity is most marked. Sensitive to draughts. Seldom indicated in the earlier stages of acute disease. Chronic gout. Chronic suppurative pyelitis. Post operative gas pains, no relief from passing it.
Mind.—Apathetic, indifferent, disobedient, taciturn, despondent. Ideas crowd in mind; prevent sleep. Disposition to hurt other people's feelings. Sudden crying and tossing about.
Head.—As if skull would burst. Sensation as if brain were balancing to and fro, and striking against skull, receiving greatt pain. [Sulph.; Sulph. ac.] Intense throbbing of head and carotids. Spasmodic headache in vertex, with subesquent pain, as if bruised in sides of head. Face flushed after hemorrhages, or sexual excesses, or loss of vital fluids. Relieved from pressure and warm room. Scalp sensitive; worse combing hair. Aches worse in open air, from temple to temple. Worse by contact, current of air, stepping. Dizzy when walking.
Eyes.—Blue color around eyes. Hollow eyes. Yellowish sclerotica. Black specks, bright dazzling illusions; night blindness in anaemic retina. Spots before eyes. Photophobia. Distortion of eyeballs. Intermittent ciliary neuralgia. Pressure in eyes. Amaurosis; scalding lachrymation.
Ears.—Ringing in ears. External ear sensitive to touch. Hearing sensitive to noise. Lobules red and swollen.
Nose.—Checked catarrh. Easily bleeding from nose, especially on rising. Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge. Violent dry sneezing. Cold sweat about nose.
Face.—Sallow complexion. Face bloated; red.
Mouth.—Toothache; better pressing teeth firmly together, and by warmth. Tongue coated thick, dirty; tip burns, succeeded by ptyalism. Bitter taste. Food tastes too salty.
Stomach.—Tender, cold. Vomiting of undigested food. Slow digestion. Weight after eating. Ill effects of tea. Hungry without appetite. Flat taste. Darting pain crosswise in hypogastric region. Milk disagrees. Hungry longing for food, which lies undigested. Flatulence; belching of bitter fluid or regurgitation of food gives no relief; worse eating fruit. Hiccough. Bloatedness better by movement,
Abdomen.—Much flatulent colic; better bending double. Tympanitic abdomen. Pain in right hypochondrium. Gallstone colic. [Triumfetta semitriloba.] Liver and spleen swollen and enlarged. Jaundice. Internal coldness of stomach and abdomen. Gastro-duodenal catarrh.
Stool.—Undigested, frothy, yellow; painless; worse at night, after meals, during hot weather, from fruit, milk, beer. Very weakening, with much flatulence. Difficult even when soft. [Alum.; Plat.]
Male.—Excited lascivious fancy. Frequent emissions, followed by great weakness. Orchitis.
Female.—Menses too early. Dark clots and abdominal di,,; tantion. Profuse menses with pain. Desire too strong. Bloody leucorrhma. Seems to take the place of the usual menstrual discharge. Painful heaviness in pelvis.
Respiratory.—Influenza, with debility. Cannot breathe with head low. Labored, slow respiration; constant choking. Suffocatiue catarrh; rattling in chest; violent, hacking cough after every meal. Hemorrhage from lungs. Dyspnea, sharp pain in left lung. Asthma; worse damp weather.
Heart.—Irregular with weak rapid beats followed by strong, hard beats. Suffocative attacks, syncope; anaemia and dropsy.
Back.—Sharp pains across kidneys, worse movement and at night. Knife-like pains around back. (D. MacFarlan.)
Extremities.—Pains in limbs and joints, as if sprained; worse, slight touch; hard pressure relieves. Sensation as of a string around limb. Joints swollen; very sensitive, with dread or open air. Great debility, trembling, with numb sensation. Averse to exercise; sensitive to touch. Weariness of joints; worse, mornings-and when sitting.
Skin.—Extreme, sensitiveness to touch, but hard pressure relieves. Coldness; much sweat. One hand ice cold, the other warm. Anasarca. [Ars.; Apis.] Dermatilis; erysipelas. Indurated glands; scrofulous ulcers and caries.
Sleep.—Drowsiness. Unrefreshing or constant stupor. Wakens early. Protracted sleeplessness. Anxious, frightful dreams with confused consciousness on waking, so that the dream cannot be rid of and fear of dream remains. Snoring, especially with children.
Fever.—Intermittent, paroxysms anticipate; return every week. All stages well marked. Chill generally in forenoon, commencing in breast; thirst before chill, and little and often. Debilitating night-sweats. Free perspiration caused by every little exertion, especially on single parts. Hay fever, watery coryza, pain in temples.
Modalities.—Worse, slightest touch. Draught of air; every other day; loss of vital fluids; at night; after eating; bending over. Better, bending double; hard pressure; open air; warmth.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Arn.; Ars.; Nux; Ipec.
Compare: Quinidin - (Paroxysmal tachycardia and auricular fibrillation. Heart is slowed, and the auriculo-ventricular conduction time is lengthened. Dose color:red'>½ grain t. i. d.) Cephalanthus - Button Bush - Intermittent fever, sore throat, rheumatic symptoms, vivid dreams). Ars.; Cedron; Nat. sulph. Cydonia vulgaris - Quince (supposed to be of use to strengthen the sexual organs and stomach).
Complementary: Ferrum; Calc. phos.
Dose.—Tincture, to thirtieth potency.
Has some reputation in the cure of cataract and corneal opacities. Is used externally, by instilling into the eye one drop four or five times a day. This must be kept up for several months. Most effective in traumatic cases. Compare in cataract Phosph.; Platanus; Cannabis; Causticum; Naphthalin; Ledum; Nat. mur.; Silica.
For certain forms of ciliary neuralgia and ulceration upon a syphilitic base, this remedy is most effective. Sleeple5s during night.
Head.—Congestion to head; face purple red.
Eyes.—Pains from lachrymal duct around eye to temple, from inner canthus across brows to ear. Severe shooting pain in bones of orbit, especially running from inner to outer canthus in the bone. Redness of whole eye. Lids grantifated; canthi and lids red.
Nose.—Pressive sensation, as from heavy spectacles. Pain about root, extending into bones on each side. [Aur.; Kal. hyd.]
Throat.—Stringy mucus passed through posterior nares into throat. Dryness of mouth and throat; must rinse the mouth. Fiery-looking ulcers in mouth and throat.
Male.—Prepuce swollen; warts on it which bleed easily; testicles enlarged; buboes; angry-looking chancres. Syphilides, squamous and vesicular.
Female.—Leukorrhea. Feeling of pressure in vagina. color:#00B050'>Extremities.—Pain in forearm from elbow down, including hands. Pain in long bones when barometer lowers; coldness of joints.
Skin.—Very fiery - red looking ulcers. Nodes on shin-bones.
Buboes. Condyloma, easily bleeding.
Modalities.—Worse, lying on right side (feels as if contents of body were being dragged over to that side). Relationship.—color:#0070C0'>Compare: Hepar; Nitr. ac.; Thuja; Sep.
Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph.
Dose.—First to third trituration.
Cancer where pain and fetor are present. Best when skin is intact. Its use in hemorrhagee has abundant clinical verification. Nosebleed. Hemorrhages from bowels, haemotysis, etc. A strain in loins or false step brings on a profuse flow of bright blood. Post - partum hemorrhage. Flatulency and diarrhma. Feeble patients with languid circulation.
Female.—Bearing-down sensation. Menses early, profuse, prolonged, bright red. Sleepy. No desire for anything. Fingers seem swollen. Uterine hemorrhages caused by overlifting, during puerperal state; menorrhagia.
Relationship.—Compare: Ipec.; Sil.; Trill.
Antidote: Acon.
Dose.—Tincture to third potency. For cancer, strong decoction, one-half pint in a day. Oil of cinnamon in aqueous solution best local disinfectant. 3-4 drops in two quarts of water as a douche, wherever a germicide and disinfectant is needed. Three drops on sugar for hiccough.
lang=EN-GB>CISTUS CANADENSIS (Rock Rose)
A deep-acting anti-psoric remedy, with marked action in glandular affections, herpetic eruptions, chronic swellings, whey, patient is extremely sensitive to cold. Sensation of coldness in various parts. Scrofulous ophthalmia. Poisoned wounds, bites, phagedenic ulcers. Malignant disease of the glands of the neck. Cistus has affinity for naso-pharynx; aborts colds that center in posterior nose. Sniffling.
Face.—Itching, burning, and crusts on right zygoma. Lupus, caries; open, bleeding cancer. Tip of nose painful.
Mouth.—Scorbutic swollen gums. Mouth feels cold; putrid, impure breath. Pyorrhwa. [Mere. car.; Caust.; Staph.; Kreos] Hurts to protrude the tongue.
Ears.—Watery discharge; also fetid pus. Tetter on and around ears, extending to external meatus.
Throat.—Spongy feeling; very dry and cold air passing over parts causes pain. Breath, tongue, and throat feel cold. Uvula and tonsils swollen. A small, dry spot in throat; must sip water frequently. Hawking of mucus. Swelling and suppuration of glands of throat. Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck. Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air. Heat and itching in throat.
Stomach.—Cool feeling in stomach before and after eating. Cool feeling in whole abdomen. Desire for cheese.
Stool.—Diarrhea from coffee and fruit, thin, yellow, urgent; worse in morning.
Chest.—Coldness in chest. The neck is studded with tumors. induration of mammae. Hemorrhage from lungs.
Extremities.—Sprained pain in wrist. Tips of fingers sensitive to cold. Tetter on hands. Cold feet. Syphilitic ulcers on lower limbs, with hard swelling around. White swelling.
Sleep.—Cannot sleep from coldness in throat.
Female.—Induration and inflammation of mammae. Sensitive to cold air. Bad smelling leukorrhea.
Respiratory.—Asthmatic after lying down (trachea feels narrow), preceded by formication.
Skin.—Itching all over. Small, painful pimples; lupus. Glands inflamed and indurated. Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers. Skin of hands hard, thick, dry, fissured; deep cracks. Itching of swollen hands and arms; general itching which prevents sleep. Hemicrania.
Modalities.—Worse, slightest exposure to cold air; mental exertion, excitement. Better after eating.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Rhus; Sepia.
Compare: Conium; Carbo; Calc; Arg. n.mso-tab-count:1'>
Dose.—First to thirtieth attenuation. Locally as a wash to arrest fetid discharges.
Headache with nausea, vomiting and vertigo. Facial neuralgias mostly right-sided. Thoracic oppression. Frequent and irresistible yawning. Disturbed sleep.
Relationship.—Citrus decumana - Grape - fruit. (Tinnitus, head noises and ringing in ears. Sensation of pressure in the temporal region.) Aurantium - Orange (neuralgic and skin symptoms. Itching, redness and swelling of hands. Diseases of the aged with coldness and chilliness. Boiled dried orange peel excites the intestine in a manner similar to other forms of cellulose or agar. There is an increased flow of bile which continues for hours. It unites both a cholagogue action with a mechanical stimulus to peristalsis.)
Compare: Citrus Limonum (scorbutus, sore throat and cancer pains; checks excessive menstruation.) (Citric Acid. - Useful in scurvy and chronic rheumatism and hemorrhages. All forms of Dropsy are benefitted with Citric acid and lemon juice, tablespoonful every 3-4 hours. Pain from cancer of tongue. Used as a local application and mouth wash, one dram to 8 ozs. of water. For cancer pains generally, often effective.)
Scrofulous, rheumatic, gonorrheal, and syphilitic patients. Acts especially on skin, glands and genito-urinary organs, especially testicles. A remedy of much importance in disturbances of sleep, and neuralgic pains in various parts. Many of these pains are relieved by perspiration. Muscles relaxed or twitching. Great emaciation. Great sleepiness. Distant pulsation in whole body.
Head.—Boring pain in temples. Confused feeling; better in open air. Eruption on occiput at base of hair, moist, pustular sensitive, itching.
Eyes.—Heat in eyes and sensitive to air; must close them, Chronic blepharitis, with sore and swollen meibolnian glands. Iritis, great sensitiveness to cold. Flickering before eyes. Pustular conjunctivitis, with tinea capitis; eyes inflamed and protruding.
Face.—White blisters on face and nose, as if burned by sun. Swelling of sublnaxalary glands, with hard tubercles; throbbing, aggravated on being touched. Pain in right side of face to eye, ear and temple; better, holding cold water in mouth.
Teeth.—Ache; worse, at night and from tobacco. Teeth feel too long.
Stomach.—After eating, weakness in all limbs and pulsation in arteries.
Male.—Ilio-scrotal neuralgia. Testicles indurated with bruised feeling. Swelling of scrotum. [Orchitis.] Right half only. Troubles from suppressed gonorrhea. Violent erections with stitches in urethra. Testicles hang heavy or retracted, with pain along spermatic cord; worse, right side.
Urinary.—Tingling in urethra lasting some time after urinating. Frequent, scanty urination; burning at orifice. Interrupted fiow. Urethra feels constricted. Urine emitted drop by drop. Inability to pass all the urine; dribbling after urinating. Pain worse at night, pain along the spermatic cord. Commencing stricture.
Skin.—Red, burning, vesicular, scaly, scabby. Itches terribly; worse, washing in cold water; worse face and hands and scalp around occiput. Glands hot, painful, swollen; worse inguinal glands. Glandular indurations and tumors of breast. Varicose ulcers.
Modalities.—Better, in open air. Worse, at night, and warmth of bed (washing in cold water; new moon - (monthly aggravation).
Relationship.—Compare: Clematis vitalba (varicose and other ulcers); Sil.; Staph.; Petrol.; Oleand.; Sarsap,,; Canth.; Phos. ac.; Pulsat.
Antidotes: Bryon.; Camph.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency.
Adapted to neurasthenic spinal states. Sexual disturbances. Fatigue, agitation, and bone pains, worse in morning.
Mind.—All mental excitement increases suffering. Constant interchange of mental moods.
Head.—Aches; worse, bending head forward. Itching of hairy scalp and beard.
Teeth.—Feel too long. Pain in teeth. Cracks across tongue. Coated white. [Ant. cr.]
Abdomen.—Shooting in liver. Pain in spleen.
Rectum.—Constant dropping of blood from the anus, no blood from the stools.
Male.—Pain in right testicle; better, urinating. Emissions without erection. Impotence. Backache in lumbar region and weak legs. Lewd dreams. Pain in end of urethra; greenish discharge; brown spots on genitals and abdomen.
Back.—Pain in back and sacrum; worse while sitting; better, walking or lying. Weakness in legs and backache after emissions.
Extremities.—Aching in wrist-joints. Shooting into thighs from liver. Weak knees. Trembling in limbs. Tingling in feet. Foot-sweat, mostly between toes.
Sleep.—Unrefreshing; disturbed by lewd dreams.
Skin.—Dry and pimply. Pimples about nates, chin, hairy scalp.
Relationship.—Compare: Cannab. Ind.; Sepia; Zinc.; Agnus; Selen.
Dose.—Sixth to thirtieth potency.
(The Divine Plant of the Incas-but the Spanish priests denounced it as "un delusio del demonio")
The mountaineer's remedy. Useful in a variety of complaints incidental to mountain climbing, such as palpitation, dyspnea, anxiety and insomnia. Exhausted nervous system from physical andd mental strain. Caries of teeth. Loss of voice. - Give 5-6 drops, every half hour, two hours before expected demand on voice. Nocturnal enuresis. Emphysema [Quebracho] .
Mind.—Melancholy; bashful, ill at ease in society, irritable, delights in solitude and obscurity. Sense of right and wrong abolished.
Head.—Fainting fit from climbing mountains. Shocks coming from occiput with vertigo. Noises in ear. Headache with vertigo, preceded by flashes of light. Like a band across forehead. Diplopia. Tongue furred. Headaches of high altitudes Tinnitus.
Stomach.—Peppery sensation in mouth. Longing for alcoholic liquors and tobacco. Great satiety for a long time. Incarcerated flatus; rises with noise and violence, as if it would split the cesophagus. Tympanitic distention of abdomen. No appetite but for sweets.
Heart.—Palpitation, with weak heart and dyspnea.
Male.—Diabetes, with impotency. [Phos. ac.l,
Respiratory.—Hawking of small, transparent pieces of mucus.
Weak vocal cords. Hoarseness; worse after talking. Want of breath, short breath, especially in aged athletes, and alcoholic users. Haemoptysis. Asthma, spasmodic variety.
Sleep.—Can find no rest anywhere, but sleepy. Nervousness and nightly restlessness during teething.
Modalities.—Better, from wine; riding, quick motion in open air. Worse, ascending, high altitudes.
Relationship.—Compare: Ars.; Paulin.; Cyp.; Chamom. Antidote: Gels.
Dose.—Tincture to third attenuation,
Besides the great usefulness of Cocaine as a local anaesthetic, it has specific homeopathic uses, though the symptoms are mainly clinical only.
Sensation as if small foreign bodies or worms were under [hr skin.
Mind.—Talkative. Constant desire to do something great, zo undertake vast feats of strength. Cerebral activity. Frightful persecutory hallucinations; sees and feels bugs and wornax. Moral sense bluntpd. Personal appearance neglected. Thinks he hears unpleasant remarks about himself. Hallucinations of hearing. Irrational jealousy. Insomnia.
Head.—Throbbing and bursting sensation. Pupils dilated. Hearing greatly increased. Roaring and noises in head.
Eyes.—Glaucoma, increased tension, decreased corneal sensibility. Eyes staring, expressionless.
Throat.—Dry, burning, tickling, constricted, paralysis of muscles of deglutition. Speech difficult.
Stomach.—Loss of appetite for solid food. Likes sweets. Hemorrhages from bowels, stomach.
Nervous System.—Chorea; paralysis agitans; alcoholic tremors and senile trembling. Local sensory paralysis. Formication and numbness in hands and forearms.
Sleep.—Restless, cannot sleep for hours after retiring.
Fever.—Coldness with intense pallor.
Relationship.—Compare: Stovain (an analgesic, a vasomotor dilator). Antidote to disagreeable effects occasionally resulting from injection of cocaine into skin or gums, drop doses of nitro-glycer. 1color:red'>1/2a sol.
Dose.—Lower potencies. As a local application to mucous membranes, 2-41/2.
This remedy ought to be remembered in neuralgias, teeth, gums, mouth, etc. Is awakened by profuse accumulation of saliva. Uvula feels too long. Symptoms of hydrophobia; worse, by any bright object.
Head.—Pain in forehead over right eye, sensitive to touch; from superior molars to forehead. Aching in temples and occiput. Rush of blood to face. Throbbing toothache. Cold sensation in teeth and mouth. [Cistzes.] Periodical attacks of frontal neuralgia. Carnot open eyes during paroxysm. Pain worse from any bright object; better, sleep.
Stomach.—Hiccough and burning in stomach.
Back.—Pain in region of kidneys and loins. Icy cold extremities.
Relationship.—Compare: Canth.; Magn. c.
Dose.—Third potency.
Within the sphere of action of Cocculus are many spasmodty and paretic affections, notably those affecting one-half of the body. Affects the cerebrum, will not cure convulsive seizures proceeding from the spinal cord. (A. E. Hinsdale.) Painful contracture of limbs and trunk; tetanus. Many of the evil effects of night - watching are relieved by it. It shows a special, attraction for light - haired females, especially during pregnancy, causing much nausea and backache. Unmarried and childless women, sensitive and romantic girls, etc. All its symptoms are worse riding in a carriage or on shipboard; hence its use in seasickness. Sensation of hollowness, or emptiness, as if parts had gone to sleep. Feels too weak to talk loud.
Mind.—Capricious. Heavy and stupid. Time passes too quickly; absorbed in reveries. Inclination to sing irresistible. Slow of comprehension. Mind benumbed. Profound sadness. Cannot bear contradiction. Speaks hastily. Very anxious about the health of others.
Head.—Vertigo, nausea, especially when riding or sitting up. Sense of emptiness in head. Headache in occiput and nape; worse, lying on back of head. Sick headache from carriageriding, cannot lie on back part of head. Pupils contracted. Opening and shutting sensation, especially in occiput. Trembling of head. Pain in eyes as if torn out of head.
Face.—Paralysis of facial nerve. Cramp-like pain in masseter muscle; worse, opening mouth. Prosopalgia in afternoon, with wide radiations of pain.
Stomach.—Nausea from riding in cars, boat, etc., or looking at boat in motion; worse on becoming cold or taking cold. Nausea, with faintness and vomiting. Aversion to food, drink, tobacco. Metallic taste. Paralysis of muscles preventing deglutition. Dryness of esophagus. Seasickness. [Resorcin. 1x.] Cramp, in stomach during and after meal. Hiccough and spasmodic yawning. Loss of appetite. Desire for cold drinks, especially beer. Sensation in stomach as if one had been a long time without food until hunger was gone. Smell of food disgusts. [Colch.] coccuLUSmso-tab-count:1'> 219
Abdomen.—Distended, with wind, and feeling as if full of sharp stones when moving; better, lying on one side or the other. Pain in abdominal ring, as if something were forced through. Abdominal muscles weak; it seems as if a hernia would take place.
Female.—Dysmenorrhea [painful menstruation] , with profuse dark menses. Too early menses, clotted, with spasmodic colic. Painful pressing in uterine region, followed by hemorrhoids. Purulent, gushing leukorrhea between menses; very weakening, can scarcely speak. So weak during menstruation, scarcely able to stand.
Respiratory.—Sensation of emptiness and cramp in chest. Dyspnoya as from constriction of trachea, as if irritated by smoke. Choking constriction in upper part of aesophagus, oppressing breathing and inducing cough.
Back.—Cracking of cervical vertebrae when moving head. Paralytic pain in small of the back. Pain in shoulder and arms as if bruised. Pressure in scapula and nape. Stiffness on moving shoulders.
Extremities.—Lameness; worse by bending. Trembling and pain in limbs. Arms go to sleep. One-sided paralysis; worse after sleep. Hands are alternately hot and cold; numbness and cold sweat now of one, now of the other hand. Numb and unsteady. Knees crack on motion. Lower limbs very weak. Inflammatory swelling of knee. Intensely painful, paralytic drawing. Limbs straightened out, painful when flexed.
Sleep.—Spasmodic yawning. Coma vigil. Constant drowsiness. After loss of sleep, night-watching, nursing.
Fever.—Chill, with flatulent colic, nausea, vertigo, coldness of lower extremities, and heat of head. Sweat general. Nervous form of low fever. Chilliness, with perspiration, and heat of skin.
Modalities.—Worse, eating, after loss of sleep, open air, smoking, riding, swimming, touch, noise, jar; afternoon. Menstrual period. After emotional disturbance.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Coffee; Nux.
Compare: Picrotoxin - alkaloid of Cocculus - (epilepsy, attacks in the morning on leaving horizontal position, hernia, locomotor ataxia, night-sweats); Symphoricarpus (morning sickness); Petrol.; Puls.; Ignat.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth potency.
The clinical application of the symptoms of this remedy, place it among the medicines for spasmodic and whooping coughs, and catarrhal conditions of the bladder; spasmodic pains in kidneys, with visceral tenesmus. Anuria, anasarca; ascites.
Mind.—Early morning or afternoon sadness.
Head.—Suboccipital soreness; worse after sleep and exertion. Headache, worse from lying on back, better with the head high. Dull pain over right eye in morning. Sensation of a foreign body between upper lid and eyeball. Distress from cinders lodged in eye.
Respiratory.—Constant hawking from enlarged uvula; coryza, with inflamed fauces; accumulation of thick viscid mucus, which is expectorated with great difficulty. Tickling in larynx. Sensation of a crumb behind larynx, must swallow continually; brushing teeth causes cough. Fauces very sensitive. Suffocative cough; worse, first waking, with tough, white mucus, which strangles. Spasmodic morning cough. Whooping cough attacks end with vomiting of this tough mucus. Chronic bronchitis complicated with gravel; large quantities of albuminous, tenacious mucus, are expectorated. Walking against wind takes breath away.
Heart.—Sensation as if everything were pressed toward the heart.
Urinary.—Urging to urinate; calculi, Hematuria, urates, and uric acid; lancinating pains from kidney to bladder. Deep-colored, thick urine. Dysuria.
Female.—Menses too early, profuse, black and thick; dark clots, with dysuria. Intermittent menstruation; flow only in evening and at night. Large clots escape when passing water. Labia inflamed.
Modalities.—Worse, left side, after sleep, touch, pressure of clothing, brushing teeth, slightest exertion. Better, walking. Relationship.—color:#0070C0'>Compare: Canth.; Cact.; Sars.
Dose.—Lower triturations.
Frontal bone and sinus, antrum and salivary glands are specifically affected by this drug. Bloated sensation. Raises vital forces. Used as a gargle in scorbutic gums and sore throat. Hoarseness and in relaxed conditions of the fauces. Internally in gonorrhea. Useful as a condiment in enfeebled states of the stomach. An infusion of the root in cider, for dropsy, causes copious diuresis. Locally cures dandruff.
Head.—Thinking is difficult. Anxiety, driven to despair by pain. Pressing, boring pain as if frontal bone would fall out. Violent headache with vomiting. Impaired hearing.
Eyes.—Sore and scrofulous; traumatic inflammation of eyes, blearedness and cataract. Copious running from eyes.
Stomach.—Pain towards back; worse, pressure on dorsal vertebra--. Belching and cramps. Colic with backache. Violent cramp from stomach through both sides around to back. Griping around navel.
Back.—Pain in back as from incarcerated flatulence from abdomen through to back and down into sacrum.
Respiratory.—Dry, hacking, laryngeal cough, also postinfluenzal cough, dry or loose, worse lying down. Chest painful to touch. Coryza, with hoarseness. Mucous asthma. (Edema of lungs. Throat feels rough and hoarse.
Urinary.—Burning and cutting at glans penis before, during, and after urination. Frequent urination.
Modalities.—Worse evening and at night.
Relationship.—Compare: Cannab; Sinapis; Caps.
Dose.—First to third attenuation.
Trembling of whole body. Involuntary twitching of muscles of arms and lower limbs. Itching, with feeling of warmth, numbness and prickling. Diabetes.
Head.—Pain from occiput to back of neck. Skin of face and scalp sore after neuralgia.
Eyes.—Involuntary twitching of lids. [Agar.]
Stomach.—Spasmodic pain at pit of stomach. Eructations.
Great thirst, with desire for bitter substances.
Respiratory.—Short and irritating cough; worse, at night:
Copious, purulent expectoration. Night cough of phthisis.
Relationship.—Compare: Opium; Agaricus; Hyoscy.; Ammon. brom.
Dose.—One-quarter of a grain doses to third trituration:
Stimulates the functional activity of all organs, increasing the nervous and vascular activity. The drinking of coffee by the aged is likely to increase production of uric acid, causing irritation of kidneys; muscle and joint pains, and with the increased susceptibility of old people to the stimulating action of coffee and tea, their use should be curtailed or carefully watched. Great nervous agitation and restlessness. Extreme sensitiveness characterizes this rernedy. Neuralgia in various parts; always with great nervous excitability and intolerance of pain, driving to despair. Unusual activity of mind and body. Bad effects of sudden emotions, surprises, joy, etc. Nervous palpitation. Coffea is specially suited to tall, lean, stooping persons with dark complexions, temperament choleric and sanguine. Skin hypersensitive.
Mind.—Gaiety, easy comprehension, irritability, excited; senses acute. Impressionable, especially to pleasurable impressions. Full of ideas, quick to act. Tossing about in anguish. [Acon.]
Head.—Tight pain, worse from noise, smell, narcotics. Seems as if brain were -torn to pieces, as if nail were driven in head. Worse in open air. Sensitive hearing.
Face.—Dry heat, with red cheeks. Prosopalgia extending to molar teeth, ears, forehead, and scalp.
Mouth.—Toothache; temporarily relieved by holding icewater in the mouth. [Mangan. opposite.] Hasty e4ing and drinking. Delicate taste.
Stomach.—Excessive hunger. Intolerance of tight clothing. After wine and liquor.
Female.—Menses too early and long lasting. Dysmenorrhea [painful menstruation] , large clots of black blood. Hypersensitive vulva and vagina. Voluptuous itching.
Sleep.—Wakeful; on a constant move. Sleeps till 3 am., after which only dozing. Wakes with a start, sleep disturbed by dreams. Sleepless, on account mental activity; flow of ideas, with nervous excitability. Disturbed by itching of anus.
Respiratory.—Short, dry cough of measles in nervous, delicate children.
Heart.—Violent irregular palpitation especially after excessive joy or surprise. Rapid high tension pulse and urinary suppression.
Extremities.—Crural neuralgia; worse, motion, afternoon and night; better, by pressure.
Modalities.—Worse, excessive emotions (joy), narcotics. strong odors, noise, open air, cold, night. - Peller, warmth, from lying down; holding ice in mouth.
Relationship.—Incompatible: Camph.; Coccul. Complementary: Acon.
Compare: Coffea tosta. (Roasting develops certain vitaminlike substances (P. T. Matteil. Pigeons which have developed "deficiency" neuritis and paralysis on diet of polished rice lost their disabilities on the addition of 8cc to a 5% infusion of coffee to their food. Unroasted coffee was useless.) Ca, (jein. - (A crystalline alkaloid-is a direct heart stimulant and diuretic. Dropsy depending on cardiac insufficiency. Myocardial degeneration. Cardiac insufficiency in pneumonia and other infectious diseases. Raises the blood pressure, increases pulse rate and stimulates the heart muscle; hence, a support in extreme feebleness or threatened failure. Stimulates the respirato.•y centre, nerve centres and increases diuresis. One of the best stimulants of the vaso-motor centres. Acute pulmonary edema. Brachialgia and other neuralgias characterized by nocturnal exacerbations. Jousset uses equal parts of caffein and sachar. lac. 3 grains taken in divided doses every other day. Hypodermically, color:red'>½ grain. Excruciating facial neuralgia from decayed teeth); Acon.; Cham.; Nux; Cyp.; Caffein and plants containing it, as Kola, Thea, etc.
Strong black coffee, drunk as hot as possible, is indispensable as an antidote in a large number of poisons, especially narcotics. Hot coffee by rectum in cases of extreme collapse.
Antidotes: Nux; Tabac.
color:red;Dose.-Third to two hundredth potency.
Affects markedly the muscular tissues, periosteum, and synovial membranes of joints. Has specific power of relieving the gouty paroxysms. It seems to be more beneficial in chronic affections of these parts. The parts are red, hot, swollen. Tearing pains; worse, in the evening and at night and from touch; stubbing the toes hurts exceedingly. There is always great prostration, internal coldness, and tendency to collpase. Effects of night watching and hard study. Shocks as from electricity through one half of body. Bad effects from suppressed sweat. Dreams of mice.
Head.—Headache chiefly frontal and temporal, but also occipital and in nape of neck, worse afternoon and evening.
Eyes.—Pupils unequal; left pupil contracted. Variations in visual åcuity. Lachrymation worse in open air; violent tearing pain in eyes. Dim vision after reading. Spots before eyes.
Ears.—Itching in ears; sharp, shooting pains below right tragus.
Face.—Pain in facial muscles, moving about. Tingling and cedematous swelling; cheeks red, hot, sweaty. Very irritable with the pains. [Cham.] Pain behind angle of right 1,#ver jaw.
Stomach.—Dry mouth, tongue burns, gums and teeth pain. Thirst; pain in stomach and flatulence. The smell of food causes nausea even to fainting, especially fish. Profuse salivary secretion. Vomiting of mucus, bile and food; worse, any motion; great coldness in stomach. Craving for various things, but is averse to them when smelling them, seized then with nausea. Gouty gastralgia. Burning or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen. Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages. Pain in transverse colon.
Abdomen.—Distention of abdomen, with gas, inability to stretch out legs. Borborygmi. Pain over liver. Caecum and ascending colon much distended. Fullness and continuous rumbling. Ascites.
Stool.—Painful, scanty, transparent, jelly-like mucus; pain, as if anus were torn open, with prolapse. Autumnal dysentery; stools contain white shreddy particles in large quantities. Ineffectual pressing; feels faeces in rectum, but cannot expel them.
Female.—Pruritus of genitals. Cold feeling in thigh after period. Sensation of swelling in vulva and clitoris.
Urine.—Dark, scanty or suppressed; bloody, brown, black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar.
Heart.—Anxiety in region of heart. Impulse not felt. Pericarditis, with severe pain, oppression and dyspnea, pulse threadlike. Sound of heart become weaker, pulse of low tension.
Extremities.—Sharp pain down left arm. Tearing in limbs during warm weather, stinging during cold. Pins and needles in hands and wrists, fingertips numb. Pain in front of thigh. Right plantar reflex abolished. Limbs, lame, weak, tingling. Pain worse in evening and warm weather. Joints stiff and feverish; shifting rheumatism; pains worse at night. Inflammation of great toe, gout in heel, cannot bear to have it touched or moved. Tingling in the finger nails. Knees strike together, can hardly walk. (Edematous swelling and coldness of legs and feet.
Back.—Aching in lumbar and lumbo-sacral region. Dull pain across loins. Backache, better, rest and pressure.
Skin.—Blotchy papular rash on face. Pink spots on back, chest and abdomen. Urticaria.
Modalities.—Worse, sundown to sunrise; motion, less of sleep, smell of food in evening, mental exertion. Better, stooping.
Relationship.—Antidotes: Thuja; Camph.; Coccul.; Nux; Puls.
Compare: Colchicine (intestinal catarrh with shreddy membranes; convulsive jerkings of right hand; rheumatic fever, gout, endo and pericarditis, pleurisy, arthritis, deformans in early stages; intense pain of rheumatism 3x trit.). Also, Carbo; Arnica; Lilium; Arsen.; Verat.
Dose.—Third to thirtieth attenuation,
Pelvic and portal congestion, resulting hmmorrboids and constipation, especially in females. Depressed arterial tension, general atony of muscular fiber. Chronic nasal, gastric,'and pharyngeal catarrh, due to portal obstruction. Dropsy from cardiac disease. Pruritus in pregnancy, with piles. Constipation tion of children from intestinal atony. Said to be of special value when given before operations, for rectal diseases. Sense of weight and constriction. Venous engorgement.
Head.—Dull frontal headache; from suppressed haemorrhoåds. Chronic catarrh. Yellow-coated tongue. Bitter taste. [Colocy.; Bry.]
Rectum.—Sensatdon of sharp sticks in rectum. Sense of constriction. Vascular engorgement of rectum. Dry faeces. Most obstinate constipation, with protruding hemorrhoids. Aching in anus and hypogastrium. Constipation during pregnancy; with membranous dysmvnorrhaea, following labor. (Nux.] Painful bleeding piles. Dysentery, with tenesmus. Alternate constipation and diarrhea, and great flatulence. Itching of anus. [Teucrium; Ratanh.]
Female.—Dysmenorrhea [painful menstruation] ; pruritus of vulva; prolapse of womb; swelling and dark redness of genitals; pain on sitting down. Membranous dysmenorrhaea, with constipation. Pruritus. Cold feeling in thighs after menstruation. Sensation of swelling of labia and of clitoris.
Respiratory.—Cough from excessive use of voice; "minister's sore throat;" sharp pain in larynx. Hoarseness. Harassing, dry cough.
Heart.—Palpitation; rapid but weak. Dropsy. After heart symptoms relieved, piles or menses return. Chest-pains alternate with hemorrhoids. Oppression, faintness, and dyspnea. [Acon. ferox.]
Modalities.—Worse, from the slightest mental emotion or excitement; cold. Better, heat.
Relationship.—Antidote: Nux.
Compare: Aescul.; Aloes; Ilamam.; Lycopus; Negundo;
Sulph.; Nux.
Dose.—Tincture, to third attenuation. Higher potencies where there is organic heart affection.
Often indicated in the transition season when the air is cold, but the sun is still powerful enough to heat the blood.
Develops most of its symptoms in the abdomen and head, causing intense neuralgias. It is especially suitable for irritable persons easily angered, and ill effects therefrom. Women with copious menstruation, and of sedentary habits. Persons with a tendency to corpulency. The neuralgic pains are nearly always relieved by pressure. Cramps and twitching and shortening of muscles. Constrictions and contractions. Cystospasm following operations on orifices. [Hyper.] Urinous odor of perspiration. [Berb.; Nitr. ac.] Agonizing pain in abdomen, causing patient to bend double, is most characteristic. Sensations: Cutting, twisting, grinding, contracting and bruised; as if clamped with iron bands.
Mind.—Extremely irritable. Becomes angry when questioned. Mortification caused by offense. Anger, with indignation. [Cham.; Bry.; Nux.]
Head.—Vertigo when turning head to the left. Lateral cutting headache, with nausea, vomiting. Pains (better pressure and heat), with soreness of scalp. Burning pains, digging, rending, and tearing. Frontal headache; worse, stooping, lying on back, and moving eyelids.
Eyes.—Pains sharp, boring, better pressure. Sensation on stooping, as if eye would fall out. Gouty affections of eyes. Violent pain in eyeballs which precede the development of glaucoma.
Face-' Tearing, shooting, and swelling of face; left side great soreness. Get relief from pressure. [China.] Neuralgia, with chilliness; teeth seems too long. Sounds re - echo in ears. Pain in stomach, always with pain of teeth or head.
Stomach.—Very bitter taste. Tongue rough, as from sand, and feels scalded. Canine hunger. Feeling in stomach as if something would not yield; drawing pain.
Abdomen.—Agonizing cutting pain in abdomen causing patient to bend over double, and pressing on the abdomen. Sensation as if stones were being ground together in the abdomen, and would burst. Intestines feel as if bruised. Colic with cramps in calves. Cutting in abdomen, especially after anger. Each paroxysm is attended with general agitation and a chill over the cheeks, ascending from the hypogastrium. Pain in small spot below navel. Dysenteric stool renewed each time by the least food or drink. Jelly-like stools. Musty odor. Distention.
Female.—Boring pain in ovary. Must draw up double, with great restlessness. Round, small cystic tumors in ovaries or broad ligaments. Wants abdomen supported by pressure. Bearing-down cramps, causing her to bend double. [Opium.]
Urine.—Intense burning along urethra during stool. Vesical catarrh, discharge like fresh white of egg. Viscid. [Phos. acid] fetid; small quantities, with frequent urging. Itching at orifice. Red, hard crystals, adhering firmly to vessel. Tenesmus of bladder. Pains on urinating over whole abdomen.
Extremities.—Contraction o,1 muscles. All the limbs are drawn together. Pain in right deltoid. [Guaco.] Cramp-like pain in hip; lies on affected side; pain from hip to knee. Spontaneous luxation of the hip-joints. Stiffness of joints and shortening of tendons. Sciatic pain, left side, drawing, tearing; better, pressure and heal; worse, gentle touch. Contraction of the muscles. Pain down right thigh; muscles and tendons feel too short; numbness with pains. [Gnaphal.] Pain in left knee joint.
Dlodalities. - Worse, from anger and indignation. Better, doubling up, hard pressure, warmth, lying with head bent forward.
Relationship.—Antidote: Coffea; Staphis.; Cham. Colocynth is the best antidote to lead poisoning (Royal).
Compare: Lobelia erinus (violent cork-screw-like pains in abdomen). Dipodium punctatum (Writhing. Twisting like a dying snake. Intractable insomnia.) Dioscor.; Chamom.; Coccizl.; Mere.; Plum.; Magn. phos.
Dose.—Sixth to thirtieth potency.
Important eye and skin symptoms. Affections of antrum. Sacro-iliac and abdominal pain. Throbbing pains worse by heat. Pain in joints and ankles.
Eyes.—Ciliary neuralgia with eyes feeling large and protruded, especially right. Worse, near warm stove; feels as if pressed outward. Sees only glimmer of light with left eye. Glaucoma, sense of fullness; eyeball feels too large. Motion of eyes aggravates.
Face.—Swollen, with eyes projecting.
Skin.—Itches, red and pimples. Redness all over, like scarlatina. Erysipelas. Deep ulcers, with hard edges. Leprosy. Red stripes on skin. [Euphorb.] Eczema (papular) of the trunk and extremities; also pustular type.
Chest.—Acute pain in left mammary gland. Pain from right side of chest down arm to fingers. Cough with pain under left breast, going through to left scapula.
Modalities.—Better, open air, scratching; by motion. Worse, touch, warmth, rest; night.
Relationship.—Compare: Rhus; Anacard.; Euphorb.
Dose.—First to thirtieth potency.
Stimulates the digestive functions and thus improves the general•health. Allays the pain in gastralgia accompanying cancer of stomach. Modifies secretions of digestive glands. Varicose ulcers. Lupus.
Painful cracks in corner of mouth is a guiding symptom of this drug. Chronic gastric catarrh, syphilis, and cancer. Tumors; stricture of esophagus. The active principle [CondicranginJ produces locomotor ataxia.
Stomach.—Painful affections of the stomach; ulceration. Vomiting of food and indurations, constant burning pain. Stricture of esophagus, with burning pains behind sternum, where fooa seems to stick. Vomiting of food, and indurations in left hypochondrium with constant burning pain.
Skin.—Fissures form about the muco-cutaneous outlets. Epithelioma of lips or anus. Ulcerative stage of carcinoma cutis when fissures form.
Relationship.—Compare: Asterias; Conium; Hydrast.; Arsenic.
Dose.—Tincture, or bark, 5-grain doses before meals in water. Also the thirtieth potency, in tumors.
An old remedy, rendered classical by Plato's graphic description of its employment in the death of Socrates. The ascending paralysis it produces, ending in death by failure of respiration, shows the ultimate tendency of many symptoms produced in the provings, for which Conium is an excellent remedy, such as difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength while walking, painful stiffness of legs, etc. Such a condition is often found in old age, a time of weakness, languor, local congestions, and sluggishness. This is the special environment that Conium chooses to manifest its action. It corresponds to the debility, hypochondriasis, urinary troubles, weakened memory, sexual debility found here. Troubles at the change of life, old maids and bachelors. Growth of tumors invite it also. General feeling as if bruised by blows. Great debility in the morning in bed. Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation. Cancerous diathesis. Arterio-sclerosis. Caries of sternum. Enlarged glands. Acts on the glandular system, engorging and indurating it, altering its structure like scrofulous and cancerous conditions. Tonic after grippe. Insomnia of multiple neuritis.
Mind.—Excitement causes mental depression. Depressed, timid, averse to society, and afraid of being alone. No inclination for business or study; takes no interest in anything. Memory weak; unable to sustain any mental effort.
Head.— Vertigo, when lying down, and when turning over in bed, when turning head sidewise, or turning eyes; worse, shaking head, slight noise or conversation of others, especially towards the left. Headache, stupefying, with nausea and vomiting of mucus, with a feeling as of foreign body under the skull. Scorched feeling on top. Tightness as if both temples were compressed; worse after a meal. [Gels.; Atropine.] Bruised, semilateral pains. Dull occipital pain on rising in morning.
Eyes.—Fhotophobia and excessive lachrymation. Corneal pustules. Dim-sighted; worse, artificial light. On closing eyes, he sweats. Paralysis of ocular muscles. [Caust.] In superficial inflammations, as in phlyctenular conjunctivitis and keratitis. The slightest ulceration or abrasion will cause the intensest photophobia.
Ears.—Defective hearing; discharge from ear blood colored.
Nose.—Bleeds easily-becomes sore. Polypus.
Stomach.—Soreness about the root of tongue. Terrible nausea, acrid heartburn, and acid eructations; worse on going to bed. Painful spasms of the stomach. Amelioration from eating and aggravation a few hours after meals; acidity and burning; painful spot the level of the sternum.
Abdomen.—Severe aching i_^_ and around the liver. Chronic jaundice, and pains in right hypochondrium. Sensitive, bruised, swollen, knife-like pains. Painful tightness.
Stool.—Frequent urging; hard, with tenesmus. Tremulous weakness after every stool. [Verat.; Ars.; Arg. n.] Heat and burning in rectum during stool.
Urine.—Much difficulty in voiding. It flows and stops again. [Ledum.] Interrupted discharge. [Clematis.] Dribbling in old men. [Copaiva.]
Male.—Desire increased; power decreased. Sexual nervousness, with feeble erection. Effects of suppressed sexual appetite. Testicles hard and enlarged.
Female.—Dysmenorrhea [painful menstruation] , with drawing-down thighs. Mammae lax and shrunken, hard, painful to touch. Stitches in nipples. Wants to press breast hard with hand. Menses delayed and scanty; parts sensitive. Breasts enlarge and become painful before and during menses. [Calc. c.; Lac can.] Rash before menses. Itching around pudenda. Unready conception. Induration of os and cervix. Ovaritis; ovary enlarged, indurated; lancinating pain. Ill effects of repressed sexual desire or suppressed menses, or from excessive indulgence. Leukorrhea after micturition.
Respiratory.—Dry cough, almost continuous, hacking; worse, evening and at night; caused by dry spot in larynx with itching in chest and throat, when lying down, talking or laughing, and during pregnancy. Expectoration only after long coughing. Want of breath on taking the least exercise; oppressed breathing, constriction of chest; pains in chest.
Back.—Dorsal pain between shoulders. Ill effects of bruises and shocks to spine. Coccyodynia. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region.
Extremities.—Heavy, weary, paralyzed; trembling; hands unsteady; fingers and toes numb. Muscular weakness, especially of lower extremities. Perspiration of hands. Putting feet on chair relieves pain.
Skin.—Axillary glands pain, with numb feeling down arm. Induration after contusions. Yellow skin, with papular eruption; yellow finger-nails. Glands enlarged and indurated, also mesenteric. Flying stitches through the glands. Tumors; piercing pains; worse, at night. Chronic ulcers with fetid discharge. Sweat as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing eyes. Night and morning sweat, with offensive odor, and smarting in skin.
Modalities.—Worse, lying down, turning or rising in bed; celibacy; before and during menses, from taking cold, bodily or mental exertion. Better, while fasting, in the dark, from letting limbs hang down, motion and pressure.
Relationship.—Compare: Scirrhin.um-Cancernosode- (cancerous diathesis; enlarged glands; cancer of breast; worms); Baryt.; Hydrast.; led.; Kali phos.; Hyos.; Curare.
Dose.—Best in higher potencies given infrequently, especially for growths, paretic states, etc. Otherwise sixth to thirtieth.
A heart remedy. Increases energy of hearts' action, renders it more regular. Of use when the ventricles are overdistended and dilatation begins, and when there is an absence of compensatory hypertrophy, and when venous stasis is marked. Dyspnea, dropsy, aneuric tendency. Anasarca.
Mind and Head.—Dull intellect. Grieves easily. Dull headache; worse, ascending, hawking. Scalp sensitive. Irritability. Hysterical manifestations.
Face.—Hydroa in nose and lips; raw and sore. Epistaxis. Sees imaginary grey spot about three inches square.
Mouth.—Grating of teeth in the morning. Coppery taste. Tongue feels sore and scalded; broad and thick with heavy, dirty coating.
Throat.—Raw feeling in back of throat when inspiring.
Abdomen.—Sensitive. Clothes feel too tight. Gurgling and pain on taking deep breath. Movement in abdomen like fist of a child. Colicky pains.
Urinary Organs.—Aching in bladder; feels distended. Frequent urination; offensive; scanty urine.
Female.—Great soreness in uterine region, with sympathetic palpitation of heart. Pain in sacro-iliac joints, running down leg. Itching at urinary meatus and vaginal orifice.
Respiratory.—Puhnonary congestion. Orthopncea. Dyspncea while walking. Hot feeling-in throat.
Heart.—Feeling as if heart beat throughout the chest. Endocarditis, with extreme orthopneea. Sensation as if heart ceased beating, then starting very suddenly. Palpitation from the least exertion. Tobacco heart, especially when due to cigarettes. Angina pectoris. Extremely rapid and irregular pulse.
Back and Extremities.—Pain and aching in lumbar region; aching of legs; in big toe. Trembling of hands. Aching in wrists and ankles.
Fever.—Chilly in back and down spine, followed by fever, little sweat. Thirst and headache during chill. Dyspnea during fever.
Relationship.—Compare: Digit.; Crataeg.; Lilium; Adonis (feeble heart action due only to functional disturbance).
Modalities.—Better, in open air. Worse, in warm room.
Dose.—Third attenuation, ånd for symptoms of heart failure, tincture, one to fifteen drops.
Acts powerfully on mucous membranes, especially that of the urinary tract, the respiratory organs, and the skin, here producing a well-marked nettle-rash. Colds and catarrhs.
Head.—Excessive sensitiveness; pain in occiput. Dull, frontal headache, passes to occiput and back again, with throbbing, worse | 
