GUANAVANTE S. M.

, The "Genius" of Homoeopathic Remedies

Content
Introduction.............................................................................................................................................................................6 The "three legged stool"..........................................................................................................................................................9 Minimum Syndrome of Maximum Value.............................................................................................................................15

True Characteristics cover the Totality.....................................................................................................16

Examples of "Minimum Syndrome.......................................................................................................................................17 How to use the "genius".......................................................................................................................................................20 Valuable pointers from masters.............................................................................................................................................23 The Second Prescription......................................................................................................................................................26 Let us learn from every case.................................................................................................................................................27 Exercises with case studies...................................................................................................................................................33 Materia medica.....................................................................................................................................................................71

Aconitum napellus....................................................................................................................................71 Aethusa cynapium....................................................................................................................................74 Aloe socotrina...........................................................................................................................................77 Alumina....................................................................................................................................................79 Anacardium orientale...............................................................................................................................82 Antimonium crudum................................................................................................................................85 Antimonium tartaricum.............................................................................................................................87 Apis mellifica...........................................................................................................................................90 Argentum nitricum...................................................................................................................................93 Arnica montana........................................................................................................................................96 Arsenicum album.....................................................................................................................................98 Arum triphyllum.....................................................................................................................................102 Aurum metallicum..................................................................................................................................103 Baptisia tinctoria....................................................................................................................................106 Baryta carbonica.....................................................................................................................................108 Belladonna..............................................................................................................................................111 Borax veneta...........................................................................................................................................115 Bryonia alba...........................................................................................................................................118 Calcarea carbonica.................................................................................................................................121 Calcarea fluorica....................................................................................................................................125 Calcarea phosphorica.............................................................................................................................127 Calcarea sulphurica................................................................................................................................130 Carcinosinum.........................................................................................................................................133 Causticum...............................................................................................................................................135 Chamomilla............................................................................................................................................138 Chelidonium majus................................................................................................................................142 China officinalis.....................................................................................................................................146 Cicuta virosa...........................................................................................................................................150 Cimicifuga racemosa..............................................................................................................................152 Cina maritima.........................................................................................................................................156 Cocculus indicus....................................................................................................................................159 Coffea cruda...........................................................................................................................................162 Conium maculatum................................................................................................................................165 Crotalus horridus....................................................................................................................................168 Cuprum arsenicosum..............................................................................................................................172 Cuprum metallicum................................................................................................................................173 Cyclamen europaeum.............................................................................................................................175 Drosera rotundifolia...............................................................................................................................178 Ferrum metallicum.................................................................................................................................180 Fluoricum acidum..................................................................................................................................183 Gelsemium sempervirens.......................................................................................................................187 Graphites................................................................................................................................................190 3

Helleborus niger.....................................................................................................................................193 Hepar sulphur.........................................................................................................................................196 Hydrastis canadensis..............................................................................................................................199 Hyoscyamus niger..................................................................................................................................202 Ignatia amara..........................................................................................................................................205 Iodium....................................................................................................................................................208 Ipecacuanha............................................................................................................................................211 Kalium bichromicum.............................................................................................................................214 Kalium carbonicum................................................................................................................................217 Kreosotum..............................................................................................................................................220 Lac caninum...........................................................................................................................................223 Lachesis mutus.......................................................................................................................................226 Latrodectus mactans...............................................................................................................................230 Ledum palustre.......................................................................................................................................232 Lilium tigrinum......................................................................................................................................234 Lycopodium clavatum............................................................................................................................237 Lyssinum ...............................................................................................................................................241 Magnesium carbonicum.........................................................................................................................243 Magnesium muriaticum.........................................................................................................................246 Medorrhinum..........................................................................................................................................248 Mercurius solubilis.................................................................................................................................252 Mezereum...............................................................................................................................................255 Naja tripudians.......................................................................................................................................258 Natrium carbonicum...............................................................................................................................260 Natrium muriaticum...............................................................................................................................263 Natrium sulphuricum.............................................................................................................................266 Nitricum acidum.....................................................................................................................................269 Nux moschata.........................................................................................................................................272 Nux vomica............................................................................................................................................275 Opium.....................................................................................................................................................278 Palladium metallicum.............................................................................................................................281 Petroleum...............................................................................................................................................283 Phosphoricum acidum............................................................................................................................286 Phosphorus.............................................................................................................................................289 Phytolacca decandra...............................................................................................................................293 Platinum metallicum..............................................................................................................................296 Plumbum metallicum.............................................................................................................................298 Psorinum................................................................................................................................................301 Pulsatilla pratensis..................................................................................................................................304 Pyrogenium............................................................................................................................................308 Rhus toxicodendron................................................................................................................................311 Sabina.....................................................................................................................................................315 Sarsaparilla officinalis............................................................................................................................318 Secale cornutum.....................................................................................................................................321 Sepia officinalis......................................................................................................................................324 Silicea terra.............................................................................................................................................327 Spigelia anthelmia..................................................................................................................................330 Stannum metallicum...............................................................................................................................333 Staphisagria............................................................................................................................................336 Stramonium............................................................................................................................................339 Sulphur...................................................................................................................................................343 Syphilinum.............................................................................................................................................346 Tarentula cubensis..................................................................................................................................349 Tarentula hispanica.................................................................................................................................350 Thuja occidentalis..................................................................................................................................353 4

Tuberculinum bovinum kent..................................................................................................................356 Veratrum album......................................................................................................................................360 Vipera berus............................................................................................................................................363 Zincum metallicum................................................................................................................................366

Introduction Preface - Four or five years ago I was struck by the expression "Minimum Syndrome of the Maximum Value" as a guide to the Simillimum. - I forget who is the master prescriber from whom I picked it up-probably Sir John Wier or Margaret Tyler or Eugene Candegabe. - Since then I have been constantly on the look out for any observations or cases which could throw light on the true meaning of this expression and its utility in practice. - The points I have thus collected from various masters are presented in this work, a labour of love of homoeopathy. - A mere elaboration of what the "Minimum Syndrome" is - which is not different from the celebrated Hering's "Three legged stool" approach - would have been of little use if it is not accompanied by the Peculiar Characteristic Symptoms of at least the most commonly used remedies which could form the source, the basis, from which the "three (or four) legged stool" symptoms are drawn. - It is thus that I went on collecting the most peculiar symptoms of remedies. - In the beginning this effort was limited to what is described hereafter as the "Synopsis" and the "Mind". - Very soon I found that the "Causation", "Modalities" and "Cravings and Aversions" are equally indispensable. - The sections on "Female/Male" complaints as well as those of the "Child" were then felt to be necessary. - The last section on "Peculiar, Uncommon" symptoms (relating primarily to "Particulars" was added, initially with reluctance (as they are "mere" particulars), but which on deeper reflection were felt to be as indispensable as others provided they are Peculiar and Uncommon. - The Section III "Objective Symptoms" was added last as they too are capable of putting us on the track of the simillimum. - It was also felt that the only way to make readers study and master the "Genius" of each remedy was to give cases and challenge them to find the solutions. - Hence the addition of "Case Studies". - I have drawn the "Genius" of a hundred remedies from standard well-known authors, but naturally I had to select the most peculiar symptoms and leave out the rest. - I crave the indulgence of users of this book if the symptoms they consider important have been left out. - It is suggested that such deficiencies be noted and communicated (quoting the authority) to Dr. Subodh Mehta Medical Centre, 16th Road, Khar, Bombay 52, so that they could be included in the next edition. - This book is my gift to the profession and I leave it to you all to help in keeping it up-to-date and enhance its usefulness to the practitioners. - I claim no originality for this work except for its presentation, which I think will help practitioners to more easily and accurately find the simillimum in any given case. - 10th April 1994& S.M. Gunavante - Moraya Villa - 12th Road, Khar - Bombay 400 052. - Tel : 6498146

The concept of the "genius" of remedies - My idea of compiling the Genius was prompted by three or four considerations. - First, the masters with one voice have stressed that while searching for the simillimum the rank of the symptoms must be the same both in the patient and the remedy. - This means that the symptoms must have been observed prominently in most of the provers and they must have received a lot of clinical confirmation. - Secondly, Pulford throws revealing light on the relative value of symptoms recorded in the provings and then taken into the materia medica and the repertory. - Says he: - "The very reason we do not have to include all the symptoms credited to any given remedy in the Materia Medica in our prescriptions is because the real symptom totality of the indicated drug must consist of the very few symptoms produced on the healthy human body, and NOT by symptoms produced in the arousing of semilatent predispositions in that body; they must be produced by the drug itself; and these must be CONSTANT IN ALL PROVERS while the others will be found to vary with different individuals, and in the same individual at different times; but the true pathogenetic never varies. - This primary true pathogenetic group that we term the rare, strange and peculiar symptoms, outstand all the rest of the symptoms put together. - With that SMALL pathogenetic group alone you can prescribe with confidence; without it your efforts will end only in failure... the rest of the symptoms are mere pointers to the drug and not its indicators (The Symptoms Totality).

- Thirdly, Dr. E.A. Farrington has presented the same idea in different words (Lesser Writings). - He calls the symptoms of a remedy which are highly characteristic and run like a red thread through the whole pathogenesis of a remedy as the "universal" quality of symptoms. - He says: - "In some instances the symptom or a group of symptoms plainly exhibit a universal quality of a drug; as when we select Bryonia in cases worse from motion; Thuja for nervous phenomena depending upon affections of skin and mucous membranes, or for warts; Rhus-tox for complaints of fibrous tissues better from continued motion; Causticum for paretic aphonia, even if of catarrhal origin, and so on. - In making use of a universal characteristic property, and wherever in the human body tissue like that under treatment exists, there the medicine can have an effect." - In fact, Farrington, while offering "Suggestions, for a Model Materia Medica, says : It seems to us that the most efficient scheme is one which begins with a description of the Universal qualities of a remedy ..... (Lesser Writings, p. 320). - Dr. W.A. Yingling was echoing a similar thought when he wrote on "Materia Medica Revision" (Medical Advance, 1891 - see Hom. Her. May, 1985) : - "In our humble opinion such a materia medica (which would open to the dullest the rich mines of useful and necessary golden nuggets of symptoms for the relief of every disease) must contain the following characteristics at least. - 1. Every known symptom of every known remedy, arranged... for easy reference, with different values, shown to catch the eye at a glance. - 2. A complete reference to other remedies of similar action... so as to avoid the necessity of turning to allied remedies - this would preclude many wrong prescriptions. - 3. A section of "red string" symptoms, those running throughout the indications of the remedy, in such remedies as have them. - 4. Symptoms peculiar to the remedy and contained in no other wherever possible." - Suggestions Nos. 1, 2 and 4 we would leave to more competent hands to implement than this humble writer. - It is obvious that Farrington and Yingling are both of one mind, as shown by the suggestion No. 3 above. - Pulford's statement that the "real symptom totality of the indicated drug consists of the very few symptoms which are constant in all provers", as well as Farrington's elucidation of the "universal characteristic property" of the symptoms of each remedy, both mean the "pure effects" of each remedy. - In Aph. 145 and 146 Hahnemann refers to the "pure modes of action" in altering the health of man. - He says the artificial morbific agents (medicines) have been proved on healthy individuals to ascertain their PURE action...." In his footnote 146 ( to Aph. 145) Hahnemann again states, "I was the only person who made the proving of the PURE POWERS of medicines the most important of my occupations". - He even called the materia medica "Materia Medica PURA". - We have therefore to weed out many symptoms from the materia medica that are not "pure", in the sense that they do not necessarily reflect the symptoms produced by the drug, but were the result of arousing the "semilatent predispositions in the body" of the provers. - Thus we come to the conclusion that the real GENIUS of a remedy lies in the "PURE" symptoms proved by most of the provers as a direct result of the remedy. - Going by the philosophical approach briefly outlined above, we have gathered the most characteristic singular and distinguishing "red line" symptoms of the leading, frequently used remedies, called the GENIUS of remedies. - We have drawn them from several sources, such as Dr. Bhanja's Master Key, Allen's Keynotes, Nash's Leaders, Phatak's Materia Medica, Tyler's Drug Pictures, Banerjee's Realistic materia medica, S.K. Dubey's Text-book of materia medica, Keynotes & Red Line symptoms by Adolph Lippe, etc. - A work like this cannot claim to be complete or perfect, and it is possible that after exposure to a large number of discerning practitioners, it can be improved substantially. - The Genius has been divided into nine Sections as follows: - I Synopsis (identifying features) : This contains a number of guiding symptoms, any one, two or three of which together will make us THINK of the remedy. - If one wants confirmation of that remedy, he can look into one or more of the remaining eight sections and if still not satisfied, he can go into a more detailed materia medica. - II MIND : Symptoms of Mind and Disposition. - IIIOBJECTIVE SYMPTOMS - IV CAUSATION (Ailments from) - Mental and Physical. - V MODALITIES (Agg. & Amel.) mainly general. - VI Food, Appetite & Thirst, Cravings, Aversions and foods that disagree. - VII MALE/FEMALE - VIIIChild - IXPECULIAR, UNCOMMON, CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS - General and Particular. - It is hoped and expected that the "Red line" symptoms which form the basis of the GENIUS of Remedies will enable the Homoeopaths to select the curative remedy quickly and accurately using the "three legged stool" approach which has been described in detail in the next chapter. On soles, near toes, warts, horny. - 19. General

- Continued drowsiness in old people. - 20. General - Symptoms change locality on recurrence. - 21. Generalities - Strange ABSENCE OF PAIN (bedsores, corns). - 22. Sleep - On back. - Dreams of being wounded; anxious; misfortune; of quarrels. Cases - Antim Crud.: - Painful, cross and peevish. - Cries if looked at or touched, esp. children. (Adults are sulky, do not wish to speak with anyone). - (H.K. Leonard - HH. 1981/712) - 86. Antim Crud. : - The only peculiarly characteristic symptom which guided to the remedy was "Tongue coated thick, white, as if white-washed." - (Edward Mahoney - HH. 1980/227) Antimonium tartaricum

The "three legged stool" - (The "Minimum Syndrome of the Maximum Value") - Taking the case : - Everyone agrees that unless the case is "well taken", we cannot think of finding the curative remedy. - In order to take the case well, in all essential details, we must understand the process of interrogating the patient. - This interrogation falls in five parts. - 1. Encouraging and guiding the patient to narrate his case in full detail - his mental and emotional state, including the causes which have caused deviation in his health from the normal state; his physical complaints; and his personal and family history of illnesses; and not the least the peculiar even "funny" symptoms he has noted even though they have no relevance (in his opinion) to his chief complaint. - 2. Recording the case as far as possible in the patient's words. - 3. If we find that the patient has not covered the points which can essentially aid in our search for the simillimum, or if we need to understand some symptoms more clearly, we have to suggest possible alternative conditions to jog the patient's thinking. - But this should be done without putting leading questions which can be answered with a "yes" or "no". - Leading questions may be in place only in the final stage for differentiating between two remedies. - 4. Observe the patient closely - his demeanor, facial expression, his nervous excitability or fear, anger, depression, his loquacity, taciturnity or secretiveness etc. - 5. Recognise or elicit those peculiar, uncommon, strange and rare symptoms (mental and physical) or his mental state of disappointment, grief, wounded pride, mortification, hatred or helpless resignation - which are spontaneously expressed or revealed while the patient narrates his case. - If these are not noticed or voluntarily expressed, he should be guided (with typical examples) and encouraged to report them. - The case cannot be said to have been taken fully and well until we have brought on record those characteristic symptoms of the patient which have their counterparts or similars in the materia medica. - This is a condition of utmost importance. - Classification of Symptoms - When we try to put these steps into practice, we at once come face to face with the question, what are the symptoms in the materia medica for which we "have to seek counterparts or similar symptoms in the patient"? - Hahnemann has referred to the "Totality" of symptoms, in Aphorism after Aphorism in the Organon, as being the guide to the simillimum. - This "Totality" has been more clearly described by various masters after Hahnemann to consist of : - 1. GENERALS (symptoms which refer to the patient as a whole). - The Generals comprise (a) the Mental generals and (b) the Physical generals. - 2. Particulars, i.e. , symptoms pertaining to parts of the body. - These are further sub-divided into - (a) Location of the complaint, - (b) Sensations of pain and - (c) Modalities, i.e. , conditions of aggravation or amelioration. - 3. PECULIAR, characteristic, uncommon, striking symptoms, some of which are described as "Keynotes" of remedies. - These peculiar symptoms pertain to the individual and not to the disease. - 4. Causations (ailments from certain causes) or "Never well since" a certain illness; and - 5. Concomitants, i.e. , symptoms associated with the chief complaint in point of time.

- This five-fold classification of symptoms of remedies can be mastered easily with a little practice. - But this is only the first step. - What is even more important is to master the next step, viz: of knowing the sub-classes of these symptoms. - We shall state how to know them well. - Study of symptoms - As regards symptoms of the Mind and Disposition, the drug pictures given by Kent and Tyler and others are no doubt helpful but it is better to complement that study, in the opinion of this writer, by studying them through repertorial rubrics. - The new comprehensive Materia Medica of Mind by Dr. H. L. Chitkara is helpful in this direction. - The advantage of studying Rubrics is that they represent specific symptoms into which expressions of symptoms or state of mind of the patient can be interpreted, and fitted. It is for this reason that repertories have been used by most homoeopaths from the early days of homoeopathy. - After long experience of this type one could dispense with repertorisation, using his intuitive knowledge of remedies. - But even here, Kent warned that intuition is only the growth of art in the artistic mind, is what is noticed in all artists. - "But IF CARRIED TOO FAR IT BECOMES A FATAL MISTAKE, and must therefore be corrected by REPERTORY WORK DONE IN EVEN THE MOST MECHANICAL MANNER." - The different types of symptoms which fall under the broad head of "Physical Generals" are given in Appendix "A". - The different types of symptoms which fall under the broad head of "Peculiar Symptoms" are given in Appendix "B". Of course there are many more peculiar symptoms, like "Keynotes" which are given in Dr. H.C. Allen's Keynotes and Dr. Lippe's "Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms". - The more one knows them well, the better. - Converting the emotional situations of patients from their basic expressions into specific Rubrics in the Repertory is difficult to begin with; it becomes easier with practice. - The Chapter, "The Application of the Repertory" (p. 190-204) in Dr. Rajan Sankaran's "Spirit of Homoeopathy" provides good guidance in this respect. - The book "Probing the Mind and other Guiding Symptoms" by this writer also gives 200 examples of conversions of patients' expressioricptec cec c x

more striking, singular, uncommon and peculiar (characteristic) signs and symptoms (which should be) chiefly and almost solely kept in view; for it is more particularly these that very similar ones in the list of symptoms of the selected medicine must correspond to, in order to constitute it the most suitable for effecting the cure". - In Aph. 211 Hahnemann states : "The state of the disposition of the patient often chiefly determines the selection of the homoeopathic remedy, as being decidedly a characteristic symptom which can least of all remain concealed from the accurately observing physician". - Hahnemann further narrows down the totality when he says in Aph. 164. - The small number of homoeopathic symptoms present in the best selected medicine is no obstacle to the cure in case where these few medicinal symptoms are chiefly of an uncommon kind and such as are peculiarly distinctive (characteristic) of the disease". - This means that we can find the simillimum on the basis of a FEW symptoms, PROVIDED THAT THEY ARE PECULIAR AND DISTINCTIVE. - The "three legged stool" approach - The writer feels that Herring drew his inspiration for and used his "three-legged" stool approach in hundreds of cases based on a strong conviction of the true meaning of these Aphorisms. - It is obviously this philosophical approach, confirmed by his unique insight into the nature of symptomatology of remedies as well as clinical experience, which led KENT to say : "It is sometimes possible to abbreviate the anamnesis by selecting ONE SYMPTOM, the key to the case, but this should be seldom attempted. - It is often convenient (and safe) to take a group of three or four ESSENTIALS". - The keynotes of Guernsey, H.C. Allen and E.B. Nash are justly popular for this same reason. - There has thus been a strong urge among homoeopaths to make the process of selection of the remedy as simple as possible. - However, though Guernsey justified the use of Keynotes as they indeed covered the totality, their abuse (through incorrect understanding and application) has been decried by Yingling, Kent, etc. - The reason why Keynotes alone are unsafe to use is in Boger's words, "The actual differentiating factor may belong to any rubric whatsoever". - H.A. ROBERTS makes the same point differently : "No disease can be represented by a single symptom. - The character of the drug is represented not by a single effect, but by a GROUP OF EFFECTS". - Achieving "break-through" through "weak spots" (Peculiar Symptoms) - The problem of finding the simillimum is similar to that facing the commander at the army headquarters. - His aim is to capture the enemy's "fortress" easily, with minimum loss of his men and materials. - What are the steps he takes to achieve his goal? - He surveys the field of operations thoroughly (through intelligence, spies, aerial survey, scouts etc.) in order to fully and correctly understand and assess the enemy's disposition of forces, his possible tactics and possible points of attack. - This is equivalent to our "Case-taking" to understand the "picture of the patient". - The Commander's object in doing all this is to find "chinks" (weak spots) in the enemy's defences through which he can attack and make a comparatively easy breakthrough in the enemy's defences. For the homoeopaths these "weak spots" correspond to the "peculiar, uncommon, characteristic" symptoms of the patient. - It is these which the homoeopath tries to identify. - The commander makes a frontal attack, throwing all his forces in battle all along the line, ONLY when he is unable to locate the "weak" entry points, but this is a costly process which he will resort to only if he has no other alternative. - In the same way, the experienced, "battle-scarred" homoeopath resorts to the "totality of symptoms" if he is unable to identify the outstanding "peculiar and characteristic" symptoms. - Once he is able to identify them, which necessarily are few in number, his path towards capturing the "fortress" (simillimum) is easy and quick, We have to understand Aph. 153 of the Organon (peculiar, characteristic, individualising symptoms), as well as Aph. 164 (the SMALL NUMBER OF PECULIARLY DISTINCTIVE symptoms is no obstacle to cure) in the light of the foregoing explanation of the strategy and tactics of a commander at war, or of a competent homoeopathic prescriber. - Master prescribers have taught, through their experiences, that the whole effort boils down to identifying the FEW PECULIARLY DISTINCTIVE symptoms. - Dr. BOGER says (Studies in the philosophy of Healing p. 79-80), "The GIST of the case my be featured in any one of the three parts (Constitutional, General and Peculiar). - Often it is the common factor of the ESSENTIAL PECULIARITIES; again it may come down through the anamnesis, hereditary predilection, etc." - He throws revealing light on the "Essential peculiarities" through three cases: - (1)A child had severe chills at 11 a.m. every alternate day, face very blue, followed by intense heat, then slight moisture. - Natrum mur 1M - and never another chill. - (2)Suppression of profuse leucorrhoea led to salpingitis, high fever. - Each paroxysm of pain gradually rose to a certain pitch, then suddenly ceased. - A dose of Puls. restored the discharge followed by complete recovery. - (3) Subacute pneumonia with gastritis. - The stomach pain always went to the side upon which she happened to turn. - Two doses of Puls. 1M stopped all distress, followed by much muco-pus expectoration... complete cure. - Now BOGER concludes with his lesson: "These cases emphasise the necessity of discovering the essential

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peculiarities which crop out from time to time in every sickness". - Readers would do well to study "Perceiving Crucial Symptoms" by this writer. - Few Symptoms cover the entire Symptom Totality - Why are the strange, rare and peculiar symptoms more important than the "totality, in general", including the numerous symptoms recorded under each drug in the materia medica? - PULFORD answers this question in clear words ("The Symptom Totality"). - "The real symptom totality of the indicated drug must consist of the very few symptoms produced on the healthy human body, and not by symptoms produced in the arousing of semi-latent predispositions in that body. - They must be PRODUCED BY THE DRUG ITSELF; and those must be CONSTANT IN ALL PROVERS, while the others will be found to vary with different individuals, and in the same individual at different times. - That makes the existing evaluation of symptoms as they appear in our repertories erroneous, as I have many times discovered...... - The proving drug always produces its own little pathogenetic group; IT NEVER VARIES, NO MATTER WHO OR WHAT THE INDIVIDUAL IS... - This true pathogenetic group which we term the rare, strange and peculiar symptoms, outstands all the rest of the symptoms put together. - And with the SMALL pathogenesis alone you can prescribe with confidence; without it, your efforts will end only in failure. . . the rest of the symptoms are mere pointers to the drug, and not its indicators....... - The mass of symptoms put through the repertory do not take us to the coveted goal...... - The RARE, STRANGE AND PECULIAR symptoms are the only ones that mark the TRUE INDIVIDUALITY OF THE DRUG". - As examples of the true pathogenetic symptom totality, Pulford cites four cases: - (i) A case of hepatic colic that occurred regularly every month for two years was relieved in five minutes with Acon. 30x and has remained so now for three years. - agonized TOSSING ABOUT, EXTREME FEAR OF DEATH, EXPRESSION OF ANXIETY AND INSATIABLE THIRST led to Aconite. - (ii) A case of renal calculi that has been from pillar to post for four years, was relieved at once and two calculi passed without pain in twenty four hours... no more attacks for over a year. - The symptoms that led to the remedy were the FLUSHED REDNESS OF FACE DURING THE PAINS, PUPILS DILATED TO THE LIMIT, THE PAINS CLUTCHING AND, TOGETHER WITH THE SWEATS, COMING AND GOING RAPIDLY. - A single dose of BELL. 10 M did the trick. - (iii) A case of diabetes (allopathically diagnosed) had resisted their treatment, and had to be placed in the hospital for observation. - This was practically restored to normal in six weeks by a single dose of CINA 1M. The CONSTANT PICKING AT THE NOSE, PALENESS AROUND THE NOSE AND MOUTH, CROSS AND CAPRICIOUS APPETITE led to the remedy. - No return of complaint for over two years. (iv) A case of erysipelas that had resisted all other remedies, was given CROTON-TIG. 30x on the basis of symptoms : YELLOW WATERY STOOL coming out like a SHOT, worse IMMEDIATELY AFTER EATING OR DRINKING. The result was both remarkable and permanent. - Pulford concludes: Four short groups, easy to the materia medica. - Yet, no case indicating any one of those drugs was ever cured that did not include its respective SMALL PRIMARY PATHOGENETIC GROUP, as indicated above. - How do we identify the peculiar and distinguishing symptoms? - DUNHAM says : - "The fact cannot be too often called to mind, nor too strongly insisted upon, that our most characteristic indications for the use of a drug, which presents well defined general symptoms... are derived not from its local action upon any organ or system, not from a knowledge of the particular tissues it may affect, and how it affects them, but upon the GENERAL CONSTITUTIONAL SYMPTOMS AND THEIR CONDITIONS AND CONCOMITANTS..." - This means that it is not the local, particular symptoms, but the GENERAL - Mental and Physical General symptoms that help us. - Importance of the Rank or Grade of symptoms - HERING observed that "The symptoms of a case and the symptoms of a medicine must not only be alike, one by one, but in BOTH, the same symptoms must also be of a LIKE RANK. - This same point was emphasised by YINGLING: "The symptoms that guide..... are those peculiar to the case, or else so PROMINENT AND STRIKING as to be PREDOMINANT in the case..... The SAME DEGREE OF PROMINENCE IN THE REMEDY AND THE PATIENT. - The most important symptom of the patient must not only be in the remedy, but it should be one of the most prominent of the remedy. - Here lies the skill of the prescriber......" - The importance of the rank given to a remedy in the repertory has been emphasised by MARGARET TYLER under Drosera in her "Drug Pictures". - She says, "Hahnemann was right when, in his Materia Medica Pura, under Drosera, he put "pain in the long bones" in big black type, and those who followed him in compiling the materia medica, and transcribed these symptoms of his (in ordinary type)... were wrong. - They have robbed us of many brilliant results, by reducing the type of what Hahnemann stressed as so important".

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- Reiteration of this view comes from another authority, viz. GIBSON MILLER. - He says in his "COMPARATIVE VALUE OF SYMPTOMS IN THE SELECTION OF THE REMEDY": - "When using these peculiar and characteristic symptoms as the main guides in the selection of the remedy, it is important to bear in mind that they must be EQUALLY WELL MARKED IN PATIENT AND IN REMEDY. - In other words, no matter how peculiar and outstanding a symptom may be, either in the patient or in the remedy, unless it be of equal grade in both, we must pay little heed to it". - What these masters said many years ago still largely holds true, but we have to take into account the large volume of clinical experience which has gathered after these observations were made, which has not been added to the repertories. - If we take this fact into account we will find that many 'single remedy rubrics', many delusions and even remedies in low grades would have to be upgraded. - When this point is kept in mind it will be found that many such "low grade" remedies also qualify for being taken as "high ranking" remedies of maximum value. - Kunzli's Repertorium Generale and Barthel's Synthetic Repertory have done this upgrading to some extent.

Minimum Syndrome of Maximum Value - The above discussion explains the meaning of the expression "Minimum Syndrome of the Maximum Value" which is used by a number of masters to describe their approach when searching for the simillimum. - The SMALL NUMBER of symptoms (characteristics needed) refers to the MINIMUM SYNDROME. - The high rank of symptoms needed in both patient and remedy refers to the MAXIMUM VALUE of the symptoms. - In his editorial for the Homoeopathic Heritage (May, 1989) Dr. S.P. Koppikar said, "There are conditions or, what may be called "syndromes" that are characteristic of a particular condition not found in any other situation, and the same can be said of drugs: those that can produce "identifiable" pictures or syndromes.... - In these types of prescriptions (Bell. for scarlet fever; Verat, Camph and Cuprum for cholera; Thuja for small pox) there is indeed the Totality principle, the totality of distinguishing, identifiable symptoms. - This GROUP of symptoms goes always together to make the picture. - Why should we not use one word "Syndrome" for the group, instead of "Symptoms", and call this "SYNDROMATIC SIMILARITY"? - If we build up the various syndrome pictures, I am sure that the scope of our system will grow ten times." - We submit that both these expressions, "Syndromatic Similarity" and "Minimum Syndrome of the Maximum Value" (which has its counterpart in the "GENIUS" of remedies), mean the same thing. - In fact each term helps us to understand the meaning of this comparatively easier way of matching the drug picture with the disease picture. - It is pertinent to refer here to HERING'S advice : "Characteristics ought always to be used in combination (GROUPS), not singly", a point which was also stressed by H.A. Roberts, saying "No disease can be represented by a single symptom. - The character of the drug is represented not by a single effect but by a GROUP OF EFFECTS".

True Characteristics cover the Totality - The reader may ask, how can a small number of symptoms, even if peculiar and distinguishing, relieve a vast range of symptoms of the remedy concerned? - Let HERING answer this : Among all the corroborations of our materia medica, the greatest and the most undeniable is the following : After we find one or a few such characteristics of a remedy, we find also the others, even ALL OF THEM. - All characteristic symptoms of the case are to be found in the very same drug together. - The best illustration of this was once given by Boenninghausen - the case of a girl with toothache, agg. every evening till midnight; amel. by going outdoors. She was given Puls. with dramatic effect. - As Boenninghausen predicted, the other characteristics of Puls. were also found among the symptoms of the patient, viz. thirstless, lachrymose, agg. warmth, sleeplessness before midnight, aversion to fats, slimy diarrhoea, menses late and short lasting, dysmenorrhoea. - This point about how a few of the most peculiar and characteristic symptoms of a remedy permeate the entire symptomatology of that remedy has been stressed by various masters. - This is how Dr. Frost has stressed this point (H.H. August, 1991): - "The most infallible characteristic symptoms are those that appear in groups. - Whenever a real characteristic symptom of a remedy presents itself, however obscurely, other indications for the same remedy may also be found present in greater or less abundance. - The highest use of the RECOGNISED characteristics is to lead us to inquire if the remedies they suggest are not the very ones most truly indicated by the accompanying symptoms. - WHEN AN ACTUAL GROUP APPEARS OF WHAT MAY BE TERMED THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A PARTICULAR REMEDY, THE CASE IS DECIDED AT ONCE". - Dr. P. Bender expresses this fact in these remarkable words : "....

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- The symptoms of a remedy are so linked together that each helps to explain the other, filling up with marvellous accuracy the picture of a remedy with which the homoeopath is familiar. - As the patient is unfolding his symptoms we often can anticipate the remainder of the picture and in that way if we wanted to resort to a little charlatanry, we might greatly astonish our clientele" by our foreknowledge of other symptoms.

Examples of "Minimum Syndrome - The great Dr. E.B. Nash reiterates the same point thus (Regional Leaders) : - "Take a patient who had, for instance, these four leading symptoms of Arsenicum : "Great prostration, excessive anguish and restlessness, burning thirst for cold water in small quantities at a time, all worse at 1 to 3 a.m. - The name of the disease or the general physiological or pathological action of the drug would have nothing to do with such symptoms as these; and yet what true homoeopath is there who does not know that these symptoms are in many different diseases valuable indications for its administration?" - A few examples from Tyler will further illustrate the points brought out above : - "Kent gives a case of uraemic coma in a doctor's wife. - Catheter showed that there was no urine in the bladder. She had the pulling sensation at the navel... - In the middle of the night her husband came in great distress; she was pale as death, and breathing slowly; deeply comatose. - A single powder of Plumbum high was given, and she passed urine in a couple of hours, roused up, and never had such an attack again". (Drug Picts. 665). - "A physician while observing the patient in one of the spasms noticed that she came out of it with a succession of long-drawn sighs. - He inquired if the patient had any recent mental trouble, and learned that she had lost her brother, of whom she was exceedingly fond, and for whom she mourned greatly a few weeks before. - Ignatia 30 quickly cured her." (Drug Picts. 426). - "A woman of 33 was brought into the Hospital with pyelitis, frequent heart attacks, temperature 104 of, pneumonia. - For fever at noon there is only one drug in italics, Stram. - The graceful spasms, the dry hot skin and the suppressed urine again suggested Stram. - Stram 1M three doses four hourly; the result was dramatic.... - This case shows how the curative remedy was found on a very few but characteristic symptoms, not of pneumonia or pyelitis, but of that individual patient". (Drug Pictures, 779-780). - It is obvious that Tyler drew her conclusions from experiences such as the above and said : - "If you are so skilful, or lucky, as to get two or three invaluable symptoms, your work may end here. - For, turning up the drugs that have caused these symptoms, you may find in one of them, a complete picture of the patient's case, disease and all. - This seems to have been a common method of finding the remedy with Dr. Erastus Case, and it led him to brilliant results with many remedies that would not "work out" by mere tedious repertory methods." (Different Ways of Finding the Remedy). - Experts at work - a few more examples - Sir John WEIR, DR. PASCHERO and Dr. CANDEGABE have found that the "Minimum Syndrome of the Maximum Value" (a typical group of characteristic symptoms) represents the vital essence of a drug. - They have not clarified how this typical group is to be found for each remedy, probably because the Group may consist of any symptoms provided they are of "Maximum Value" (high ranking in the remedy) and "Minimum in number". - Such minimum characteristics can only come from Mental and Physical Generals, and occasionally from qualified outstanding Particulars. - Dr. F. E. Gladwin, a student of Kent, wrote : I wrote down against each symptom all the remedies that the repertory gave. - On seeing this repertory work Kent remarked, "Lot of work...." - He took THREE OR FOUR symptoms, referred to the repertory and immediately found the remedy. He said they are symptoms of the PATIENT". - That Kent's reference to "selecting one symptom" (quoted earlier) was not just theoretical is shown by a case. - KENT gave a problem case to two of his students, Frank Kraft and Dr. C.O. Boyce, an expert in repertory work. - After a two day exercise with the repertory, Calcarea carbonica came at the top and Thuja at the bottom. - Kent ran his eyes over the tabulation and selected Thuja. - When the shocked pair questioned Kent, he turned up Thuja in Hering's Condensed Materia Medica and pointed out how the peculiar urethral discharge of the patient had its closest similarity to Thuja and explained that the whole case hinged on this leading characteristic of the case. - He went on to explain that one must study the materia medica and FIND OUT THE RED STRANDS running through the remedies and apply this knowledge to one's cases. (Homoeopathy, the modern medicine, Oct-Dec. 89) - Dr. J.H. Clarke in his monograph, "Dr. Skinner's Grand Characteristics" writes : "If practice depended entirely on books, the multiplication of these would soon make practice impossible; fortunately, there are many features of homoeopathy which tend to SIMPLIFICATION OF PRACTICE and none knew this better then Thomas SKINNER. When for instance, we have a feverish patient who turns deadly pale and faints on any attempt to rise from the

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horizontal posture, we have no need to make an hour's search in repertories....... - The patient is crying out for Aconite. - That symptom is a 'grand characteristic' in the phraseology of Skinner... - This term has the same meaning as LIPPE'S Keynotes, and NASH's `Leaders'. - All indicate a method of SIMPLIFYING A PRACTICE which is often very complicated". - Dr. E.B. Nash in his "Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics" and his other book "Testimony of the Clinic" has amply illustrated the advantage of a GROUP OF THE MOST CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS of a remedy being kept in mind in our search for the simillimum. H.C. ALLEN'S "Keynotes and Characteristics" follows the same pattern and justly enjoys great popularity with homoeopaths at all levels. - DR. H.C. ALLEN said that his aim in writing the Key-notes was "to place the mastery of the materia medica within the reach of every intelligent man or woman.... to master that which is GUIDING AND CHARACTERISTIC in the individuality of each remedy... to give only those symptom guides that mark the INDIVIDUALITY of the remedy, that the student may use as LANDMARKS to master the GENIUS of the remedial agent." - Dr. E.A. Farrington writing under the title "Use of universal symptoms" (Lesser Writings) says : The symptoms or a group of symptoms employed plainly exhibit a universal quality of a drug, as when we select Bryonia in cases worse from motion... - Causticum for paretic aphonia, even if of catarrhal origin and so on...... - In such cases, we are not prescribing for a single symptom; we are making use of a UNIVERSAL, CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTY. - To explain further, the modality "Worse from motion" is universally present in all tissues affected by exercise...... in Bryonia. Similarly, Thuja affects epithelia everywhere...... if wart is its characteristic...... it acts upon the whole `epithelial' man. - But when we prescribe for an isolated symptom (even a characteristic) we do violence to the principle of the Organon and violate common sense." - Entire case depends upon "Universal characteristics" - Farrington gives some more illustrations of the "Universal characteristic symptoms" of remedies. - He says that physicians, when unable to fit the "totality", have at times chosen a remedy that suits those characteristics upon which the entire disease seems to depend. - For example, Collinsonia has been employed for many diseases when there is a congestion of the lower bowels with piles, or piles bleeding, feeling of sticks in the rectum, uterine affections, varices, irritable heart - which have all yielded readily to this drug, just as though they depended for their existence upon pelvic stasis (a universal characteristic of Collinsonia). - Similarly, we have seen palpitation, vertigo and dyspepsia vanish under the influence of Pareira brava selected for its grand characteristic, "Must get down on all fours and strain to pass water; pains go down the thighs." - So, too, Berberis relieves a host of ailments when selected for its radiating renal pains, "Pains into the hips, urine with yellow, loamy sediment." - "Anisum stellatum has cured haemoptysis when selected by its key-note, "Pain at the junction of the third right rib with its cartilage." - Myrtus communis has retarded phthisis when there was present sharp pain through the upper part of the left lung. - Ceanothus has removed leucorrhoea when in addition there was sharp pain in the splenic region. - And so on almost indefinitely. - Now in all such cases there is, of course, a connection between symptoms treated as central and the others that disappear along with them, though often we are not able to detect it. - It would be very useful if we try to identify these "Universal characteristics" of as many remedies as possible. - For example, "constriction" as of an iron band seem to be such a feature of Cactus; constriction of heart, throat, chest, bladder, rectum, vagina. - Analogous parts - Farrington throws one more hint for studying the Genius of remedies. - He says, "Just as metastases are apt to take place in tissues of similar function, so are analogous parts prone to be affected by a drug. - Reasoning from such premises, Arum triphyllum, which causes rawness of the corners of the mouth, was successfully employed by Dr. B.F. Betts for a similar condition of the os uteri; and upon the same principle, drugs which disease the testicles have been used when the ovaries are affected." - On the same reasoning, the author used Apis for "incompetent os." - If apis has diarrhoea "as if the anus was wide open", why could we not extend the analogy to cervix (a contiguous part), "as if it is wide open"? - Ruling features of the case reflect the "Genius" of the remedy - Dr. C. M. BOGER'S "Studies in the Philosophy of Healing" says : "We are accustomed to find symptoms in ASSOCIATED GROUPS, and guided by their peculiarities, search out the simillimum for each... - The RULING FEATURE OF EVERY CASE puts the stamp of some particular type, such as bilious, haemorrhagic, etc. upon it, and when we select remedies which... conform to the present type, we say that the GENIUS of the drug corresponds to that of the disease." - Here is a sample of the GENIUS OF BRYONIA from the great homoeopathic physician, Dr. Margaret Tyler: - "And now, to sum up if you ever get a patient with severe stitching pains, worse for the SLIGHTEST MOVEMENT, worse for sitting up, better for pressure, very thirsty for long drinks of cold water, very irritable, angry, and not only angry, but with sufferings increased by being disturbed mentally or physically, white tongue, in delirium wants to go

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home (even when at home), busy in his dreams and in delirium with his everyday business, you can administer Bryonia and bet on the result." - To sum up, it is possible for a prescriber to identify the curative remedy in a case almost immediately on the basis of just a few symptoms which are most characteristic in the patient as well as the remedy. - To realise this possibility the prescriber should have a group of the outstanding characteristics of as many remedies as possible at his finger tips to the point of being able to differentiate between one remedy and another by the presence or absence of certain symptoms in one or the other. - This points to the necessity of acquiring a thorough grasp of the "GENIUS" of remedies given in this book.

How to use the "genius" - The object of presenting the "Genius" of Remedies is to help the practitioners to take one big step towards becoming experts. - How does an expert think when taking the case and searching for the remedy? - First of all, he has a thorough knowledge of the Comparative Value of Symptoms so that in a given case, as he listens to the patient, he is able to put his finger on the peculiar and characteristic symptoms. - In case he is not able to elicit them, or if some symptoms are not very clear, he will guide the patient through suggestions (to jog his memory), careful questioning, to lay bare his basic emotional make up, the disappointments and frustrations he has met with, etc. - The ambitious student should master the art of interrogation by a close study of books by Pierre Schmidt (The Art of Interrogation), Rajan Sankaran (Heart of Case Taking) and P. Bender (The Examination of the Patient). - We have seen in the last Section that the greater one's knowledge of the materia medica, the more quick, smooth and fruitful will the case taking session be. - For example, when the mother says that her son is very docile with older children and exacting with younger ones, we shall not know where to look for this state in the repertory; whereas it will not take us much time, with a good knowledge of the repertorial rubrics/materia medica, to find this under the rubric, "Contemptuous, hard for subordinates and agreeable pleasant to superiors or people he has to fear." - Another example : A lady, married since 20 years, is quarrelsome and insolent from the beginning, irritable and sulky; does not even prepare food for the husband; has no moral feeling of her duties. In short, we can conclude that she behaves as if (delusion that) "She does not belong to her family" (Synth. Rep. I/244). - If one does not know this rubric, he will be at a loss to understand the lady's state of mind, as reflected in her behaviour. - Importance of knowing the "Genius" of remedies - The "Genius" has been divided into nine Sections in order to make it easy for homoeopaths to study the peculiar Groups of Symptoms of each remedy, and also to facilitate reference to those Groups when necessary, to verify if the remedy in one's mind covers the symptom complex of the patient. - Section I (Synopsis) aims at giving a representative group of the "Universal Characteristic" symptoms which are more or less constant in the remedy no matter what the disease is. - This aims at giving the most peculiar identifying features of each remedy, irrespective of the class of symptoms. - Section II gives symptoms of the Mind and Disposition. - Section III covers the Objective Symptoms. - It will be found that some 'Subjective' symptoms have been included in this section, but they are essentially intended to prompt the practitioner to 'observe' them in the patient or elicit them by enquiring of the patient. - It is felt that this Section ranks in importance with the 'Synopsis' and the 'Mind' symptoms. - Section IV covers the Causations (or Ailments from or Ailments after). - They even include 'life-time' effects as described by C. M. Boger. - As is well-known, if we are able to identify a strong causative factor (mental or physical), our search for the simillimum is greatly simplified. - Section V covers the Modalities of Aggravation and Amelioration. - Those given are mostly "generals" (pertaining to the whole patient). - These are more important than modalities which cover the 'particular parts' of the body. - However, the latter type of modalities should not be neglected (though coming next only to the "General" modalities). - Section VI covers appetite, thirst, cravings and aversions as well as foods that disagree. - These features of a case many times play an important role in guiding us to the remedy or in differentiating one from another. - Section VII covers symptoms of both sexes-Female and Male. - Their importance, if they are peculiar and outstanding, needs no emphasis. - Section VIII covers the typical complaints of child life. - This section is not only useful when treating children, but it also shows the peculiar tendency of the adult from his childhood if this point is considered relevant in any given case. - Section IX covers the Peculiar, Uncommon, Grand characteristics not covered in earlier Sections. - They are arranged in the "schema" form to facilitate reference. - Of course, they are far from complete or comprehensive. - If you do not find any peculiar "Particular" in this Section, you will have to consult the Materia Medica.

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- By constant study of and reference to the "Genius" of remedies one can acquire a good understanding of the peculiar features of each remedy, so much so that certain remedy or remedies may suggest themselves even as the case is being finally processed, if not while taking the case. - However, it is not advisable to come to a hasty decision about the remedy without a thorough study of the case. - The temptation to come to a decision quickly should be resisted, since it is only from a thorough analysis of the case that we can avoid pitfalls in the selection of the guiding 'red line' symptoms. - It will not be out of place to stress here that the ENTRY POINT, the PIVOTAL POINT, for each case may be any Mental or Physical general (Time, Periodicity, Thirst, Cravings and Aversions or an unusual Modality, etc.) or some peculiar and uncommon symptoms (at any level -mental or physical), or Causation or Concomitants - whichever is PREDOMINANT, INTENSE and INDISPENSABLE. - Now take the following steps - 1. After deciding upon the MOST PECULIAR AND INDISPENSABLE symptoms to be referred to the Repertory or Materia Medica, one has to - 2. Convert the symptoms into appropriate rubrics. - 3. Next, delve into your study of the "Genius" of remedies and think as to which remedy covers the Group of Peculiar symptoms and refer to that Remedy in the "Genius" to check up if that remedy also covers the remaining prominent symptoms of the case. - 4. If your knowledge of remedies (through the "Genius") is not yet complete or dependable, follow the "eliminative" method of repertorising. - That is, select two crucial and indispensable symptoms, convert them into rubrics, and list the remedies in the form of a chart. - Work out the remaining rubrics, limiting yourself only to the remedies which have come out against the first two rubrics. - As one gains in experience, this process can be adopted even with ONE indispensable rubric, using this as the PIVOTAL RUBRIC, (with the confidence that the remedy must come out of it, and will cover the remaining symptoms). - This method was followed by Dr. Erastus Case with marvellous results. - 5. Refer the remedy that emerges in the preceding step to the "Genius" and see how far the remedy matches with the picture of the patient and his disease. - 6. If you cannot clinch the issue, and you cannot decide between two or three remedies, a reference to the Materia Medica, the final court of appeal, will be necessary. - Start with Phatak's Materia Medica, and if necessary go on to Clarke's Dictionary, Hering's Guiding Symptoms or T.F. Allen's E6.3339(e)]TJ.721099( )0.7210999(r)-4.55617(e)13.4978(m)-22.9486(a)1.4422(i)5(n)-10.6134(i)4.99766(.3"099(i)

- He was relieved when held up in sitting position, or when mucus was thrown out. - The first two rubrics were taken as "eliminative" or pivotal. - Ant. tart - 1. Asphyxia (Kent 763)3 - 2. Respiration difficult, amel. by sitting (K. 771)2Ant. t. 200 cured the baby with a few doses. - 3. Resp. difficult from mucus (770)3 - 4. Mucus in larynx (751)3 - 5. Expectoration amel. (769)3 - 14/5 - Case 3 - A girl, aged 15, used to return home very late every night. - When the father took her to task and said that he will no longer tolerate her wilful disobedience, she protested that her father was taking away her freedom. - She insisted on having her ways. - She was offended at the most harmless remark by her mother, and said that she loved her brother (5 years younger) more. - One day when the parents were away she beat her brother on flimsy grounds, because of which the mother said that she is afraid of leaving them together in her absence. - The first two were pivotal symptoms: - Ars.Nat. mur.Nux v.Sep. - 1. Jealousy between children (SR 675)1111 - 2. Anger violent (39)1232 - 3. Obstinate (787)2-31 - 4. Libertinism (707)-121 - 5. Offended easily (791)3232 - 6. Delusion persecuted (335)-11- 7/47/513/67/5 - As Nux-vom covered all the symptoms, and also matched the picture of the remedy given in the "Genius", one dose of 10M was given. - At the end of two weeks she was 70% better in her behaviour at home, needing only one more repetition of the dose.

Valuable pointers from masters - Successful practice of homoeopathy is inseparable from close and faithful adherence to the principles on which the science and art of this therapy is based. - Therefore, notable pointers on principles emphasised by the masters of this art are given here in short to enable readers to follow them in practice. - (For more detailed study read : The Genius of Homoeopathy by Stuart Close; Principles and Art of Cure by Homoeopathy by H.A. Roberts and Lectures on Philosophy by J.T. Kent). - Symptoms indicating the curative remedy often lie outside those that make up the pathology of the case. (C.G. Raue) - Hahnemann's central idea is fundamental that the farther an outstanding symptom seems removed from the ordinary course of disease, the greater is that symptom's value in determining the remedy. (Boger) - The principle of homoeopathy is applicable to any range of potency. (Boger) - After a prescription giving relief, do not give a remedy for any new symptom appearing in a less vital part. (Lippe) - In chronic cases do not repeat or change a remedy too soon. - This statement needs to be repeated a thousand times. (Sloan) - Minutes or hours in acute. Days, weeks or months in chronic cases. - Never repeat while amelioration holds. (Tyler) - Moving downward does not indicate progression, but diminution of a disease. (Lippe) - Do not dip into the chronic state when dealing with an acute condition and vice versa. (Roberts) - Why prescribe for a part of a patient when you have the whole patient with you? - The patient was sick before the glands were. (Hayes) - There is no better evidence of the good action of a remedy than mental improvement. (Kent) - In any complicated chronic case, the recent symptoms are the deciding ones. - Cure your case in layers, the last layer first. (Woobury) - If the general state be ameliorated, whatever the state of local symptoms, await the action of the remedy. (Jahr) - In the acute cases one must have a remedy of the highest rating in the outstanding symptom or symptoms. (Dixon) - In acute conditions it is often advisable to yield to the food cravings, but in chronics they must not be indulged. (G. Miller) - Let us apply the triangular test. - If we find three important characteristic symptoms pointing to one remedy, let me assure you that we can apply it

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with almost unerring certainty. - I have tested its application in hundreds of cases. (Hering) - In a cure, the original discharge may not come back at the original place but from some other mucous membrane. (G. Miller) - Local diseases do not exist. - What have been called so are localised morbid affections. (Schmidt) - The complementary remedy is always determined by the symptoms that arise. (Kent) - If the symptoms for which a remedy is given are removed and a new symptom appears, withhold the hand if you wish the case to go on to recovery. (Lippe) - The prodromal symptoms have the key to the homoeopathic remedy. (Boger) - Repeat the dose until an effect is produced, better or worse; then stop. (Erastus Case) - Always it is the positive symptoms at the moment that demand a certain remedy. - Negative symptoms must not be allowed to call us off. (Tyler) - It is the positive symptoms that decide the remedy. - Negative symptoms are of no use. (Clarke) - If I have a high fever and require a second dose, my first prescription was not right. - I have yet to see the simillimum requiring a second dose. - I don't care how acute the condition is. - My contention is that if you have your remedy, one dose is all that you need certainly at that time. (Dixon) - Whether you have tonsillitis, diphtheria, osteomyelitis of a chronic type, or anything, if the remedy is the simillimum or approaches it, there has to be relief from the first dose. (Moore) - About Dr. Case giving four doses in acute cases, I think that was his earlier practice, because I remember in one of his writings he spoke of doing that in the earlier part of his practice but later he used a single dose of the high potency. - I am quoting from Dr. Case's own book. (Stevens) - I have seen one single dose relieve the pain of renal stones. - I have seen Colocynthis, in one single dose, cure an acute abdominal pain. (Sherwood) - The simillimum (curative remedy) releases reactive power strong enough to re-establish harmony which in turn is capable of sweeping away almost any morbid condition. (Boger) - Let Kent's words of experience ever guide our action - When a patient returns and reports symptoms worse or changed, it is proper to look to see if the new symptoms are found under the medicine taken. - (For example, the patient says that sputa has changed in taste to "salty". - Stann. has the salty taste as well as sweetish, and it is very common for a drug to convert one symptom into another within its own sphere in curing). - If it converts a symptom into one not within its own sphere, the cure will be slow or prove to be not a cure. - If the new symptoms are in the medicine taken, the prescription is a good one and the physician may say to himself, sac. lac. - If however, the symptoms are not found in the same proving, there are two conclusions to be settled after waiting: - 1. The case may need another remedy. - 2. If the case goes on to quick recovery, it will be found that the new symptom or symptoms will some day belong to the pathogenetic symptoms. - It is well to keep a note of such symptoms, as they will some day fall into line as good symptoms to know. (Kent's Minor Writings p. 258) - When the cholera epidemic was raging, Hahnemann said that the remedies Veratrum, Cuprum and Camphor suited the cases. - Yet he had never seen a case of cholera. - He simply said that the provings had led him to these remedies, and therefore they ought to cure this sickness; they are our sheet-anchor in cholera even today, and they ever will be the dependability of remedies arrived at by comparing the provings and the disease which "gives homoeopathists a power that is not found elsewhere in medicine, viz. that of prevision." - Positive principles should govern every physician when he goes to the bedside of the sick. - The sick have a right to it, especially so since the advent of this most beautiful and perfect system. - Better to do nothing than to do something useless. - It is better to watch and wait than to do wrong. - Every action in homoeopathy must be based on a positive principle of the system. - Hahnemann has said : "The first and the sole duty of the physician is to restore health to the sick. - This is the true art of healing." (Kent's Minor Writings, p. 626) - Whenever a simillimum is found the remedy will act curatively in a series of potencies. - If the remedy is only partially similar, it will act in only one or two potencies and the symptoms will change, and a new remedy will be called for. - Many chronic cases will require a series of carefully selected remedies to effect a cure if the remedy is only partially similar, but the IDEAL in prescribing is to find that remedy similar enough to HOLD THE CASE THROUGH A FULL SERIES TO THE HIGHEST. Each time the patient will say that the new potency acted like the first one received. - The patient can feel the medicine when it is acting properly.

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- Some say that "suggestion has helped", but it is well to know that suggestion FAILS when a WRONG REMEDY has been given. (Kent's Minor Writings, p. 632) - The symptoms that represent the patient as a whole are of great, and often of the greatest value, especially such as are expressed in the patient's own speech. (K.M. W. 644) - AGGRAVATIONS - Two sets of aggravations and ameliorations must come into view, viz. those that apply to the whole being and those that apply to his parts. - These are often the opposite in parts or organs of what they are in general bodily states of the patient, and must be looked up in the repertory in sections that relate to the part mentioned. - A woman consulted me for a violent rheumatic pain in the shoulder. - She came into my office with her arm bound to her side to prevent moving the arm, as the motion of the arm increased the pain in the shoulder; yet the patient walked the floor constantly to ameliorate the pain in that painful shoulder. - The pain in the shoulder was worse before a storm. - DULCAMARA cured at once. - This shows how a part may have an opposite modality from the whole body. - (Obviously Kent was guided by the "general modality" of Dulc., viz., amel. from walking, or motion, rather than by the local agg. from motion).... - The circumstances that relate to the general bodily states and the circumstances that relate to the parts and organs must be considered SEPARATELY, or the view of a given case will be vastly changed. (K.M. W. p. 645) The Second Prescription - When the first prescription has been made .. we have but to wait for results... - (1) If the aggravation of existing symptoms comes on with general improvement of the patient, it is quite well. - (2) But if the aggravation of the symptoms is attended with decline of the patient, the cure is doubtful and the case must be handled with extreme care as it is seldom that such patients recover perfectly. - (3) If amelioration follows the prescription, we must ask if it applies to the general state or to the few symptoms. - If the patient does not feel the elasticity of life returning, we have to doubt the recovery. - The knowledge that the disease is incurable is often obtained in this way. - (4) In such cases every remedy may palliate his sufferings but cure does not come. - (5) After the curative impulse has entirely subsided, the symptoms will appear one by one falling into place to arrange an image of the disease before the intelligent physician for the purpose of cure... - When the remedy has been fully exhausted, then, and only then, can we trust the symptoms constituting the picture. - If the first prescription was the simillimum the symptoms will return, asking for the same remedy. - Too often the remedy has been only similar enough to the superficial symptoms to change the totality, and the image comes back changed, therefore, looking like the image of another remedy, which must always be regarded as a misfortune by which the case is sometimes spoiled and the hand of a master may fail to correct the wrong done. - I have observed that where a low potency has been administered in frequently repeated doses, some time must elapse before perfect action will follow the higher potency; but where the dose had not been repeated after its action was first observed, the new and higher potency will act promptly. - When the symptoms come back after prudent waiting, unchanged, the selection was correct, and if the same potency fail to act, a higher one will generally do so quite promptly, as did the lower one at first. - When the picture comes back changed only by the absence of some one or more symptoms, and no new symptoms, the remedy should never be changed until a still higher potency has been fully tested, as no harm can come to a case from giving a single dose of a medicine that has exhausted its curative powers; it is even negligence not to do just this thing. - When it is observed that the present remedy has done all it is capable of doing (and this cannot be done until much higher potencies have been tried), then the time has come for the next prescription. - In changing to the next remedy the last appearing symptoms shall be the guide to the next remedy - this only when the image has been permitted to settle by watching and waiting.... - Long have I waited after exhausting the power of a remedy, while observing a few of the old symptoms returning, till finally a new symptom appears. - This latest symptom (provided it is not an old symptom on its way to final departure), will be best related to some medicine having it as a characteristic which will most likely have all the rest of the symptoms. - Of course, so long as old symptoms come back and go, it is granted that no medicine is to be thought of. - It is an error to prescribe when a symptom image is changing; the physician must wait for permanency or firmness in the image before making a prescription. - All things oppose haste in prescribing. In very grave diseases haste is the common error, esp. with the second prescription. - I dare not tell you how long I waited on a child with diphtheria (waited until the poor child had threatened dissolution) before I saw an indication for the second remedy, one dose of which cured the child. (Kent's Minor Writings - pp. 234-5)

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Let us learn from every case - The clinical experiment is our ultimate test. - If we violate any (even the least well known) rules which should always guide us in our therapeutics, we have no right to expect that favourable success which is promised us if we strictly apply these rules; and if this is true, then it is also obvious that want of success generally depends upon a violation of these rules, and not, as is generally claimed, on the unreliability of them. - We propose to relate here a case in which some of the strict rules for the proper application of our law of cure were inadvertently violated, and how the discovery of this mistake led to a stricter application of them, with the usual good results which must necessarily follow the strictest homoeopathic practice. - We shall first give a plain narration of the case, and follow it with our comments. - Case - Mrs. B. 45, had for many years suffered from a very delicate and irritable stomach, from cancerous sore mouth (cured by Phytolacca), all in consequence of what is mis-termed scientific treatment; she also had suffered from hayfever, regularly returning every year on 16th September. - Mrs. B. returned from Europe, after an absence of several years, on 26th July last; the voyage had been a very unpleasant one; she had been very sea-sick all the time. - From the time she left Liverpool till she was visited by me on 27th July, she had taken literally no nourishment; broken ice was the only thing that had passed her lips. - I found her sitting up, occasionally straining to vomit, very weak, pulse 110 per minute; she complained of a violent pain in the occiput, with great heat which she had tried to relieve by applications of broken ice; urinary secretions suppressed; mouth dry and hot; she had not slept for a fortnight, and could not lie down on account of a great nervousness, as she expressed it, which compelled her to change her position and her chair so very often; she wandered about all night from chair to chair; taste very disagreeable; perfect loathing of food, and for a few days had a watery, very offensive, and black looking diarrhoea. - The choice of the remedy was easy enough. I gave her one dose of Arsenicum alb. 50M (Fincke) on her tongue 27th July, at 10 a.m. - 28 July. Had slept in her bed from 10 p.m. till 1 a.m. ; then became nervous and restless, but says that she feels better. No medicine. - 29th July : Has been in bed all night; slept, and no return of diarrhoea; urinary secretions re-established ; the hot water applications to her head have very much relieved the pain; has taken some milk-toast, and relished it; pulse below 90; is cheerful and hopeful. - 31st July : Had a still better night; is better in every respect, but complains of severe pains in the bunion on the left toe; it is much inflamed and stings (1) I gave her now one dose of Nitric acid CM (Fincke). - 1st August : The bunion is less painful; otherwise there is not much change perceptible. - 2nd August : Bunion still improving, and on 3rd August, no more pain or inflammation in it. - On the evening of 3rd August, I was again summoned to see her (7 p.m. ); found her quite ill; the diarrhoea and vomiting had returned with violence; pulse over 110; the same headache as on 27th July had also returned, also the great restlessness. - (2) Gave her one dose of Ars. alb. CM (F) dry on her tongue. Found her better next day and the improvement continued; on 6th August - (3) her bunion began to pain her again as on 31st July. - Gave no medicine - (4) The improvement continued satisfactorily; when 16th Sept. came, she had that night, about 1 a.m. some oppression of breathing, which reminded her of the terrible asthmatic attacks she once had years ago; she had to sit up for half-an-hour. - No medicine. - She fully recovered, and travelled for some weeks; had no hay-fever; really has had nothing to complain of since; enjoys better health than she had for years. - Comment on (1) - When the bunion appeared, no medicine should have been given because all the other symptoms for which Arsenic was clearly indicated, improved under its salutary action, clearly showing that the effect of the dose administered was not yet exhausted, and because this new symptom appearing on a less vital part of the body; also showing a moving downward of the disease did not indicate a progress of disease, but a descending diminution of the disorder. - Here were two important rules violated. - The remedy must be allowed to exhaust its effect before another dose of the same remedy, or a new remedy, shall be administered. - If the appearance of the painful bunion had demonstrated a progress of the disorder, a new remedy indicated by this last appearing symptom would have been in order; and above all, do we know that if a less vital organ becomes affected, and if the symptoms move from the centre to the extremities, or from above downwards, such symptoms do not indicate a progress of the disorder, and therefore no new remedy should be given, and especially not if the general or previous more serious condition of the patient improves. - Comment on (2) - Nitric acid had removed the symptoms for which it was given, namely, stinging pain in a bunion on the left foot, but as soon as this symptom had disappeared, the first symptoms, for which Arsenic had been beneficially administered,

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returned with great severity; this fact was a convincing evidence that the bunion should have been left alone, and that the improvement of the first symptoms would have most likely continued if there had been no interference. - As a rule, the last appearing symptoms are of most importance, and must guide us in the selection of the next remedy, but it is obvious that we must first determine whether such a new symptom, or symptoms, require a new remedy. - Our knowledge of pathology comes here to the rescue, as well as other well-known rules. - If, for instance, in a case of encephalitis, a profuse secretion of pale urine appears, we know well that we have a dangerous symptom added to the other symptoms, and that it must guide us in the selection of a new remedy, and must be promptly attended to; if the same increased discharge of pale urine appears in a case of rheumatic fever, we should look for diminution of all the former symptoms without giving a new remedy. - If the symptoms of a patient begin on the extremities, and if they improve, but symptoms appear in internal organs, then it becomes necessary to be guided by them in the prompt change of the remedy; if the reverse occurs, no new remedy should be administered. If the symptoms descend, we may safely wait and give no medicine, but if they ascend, every progress upwards shows us that we have not yet conquered the disorder; it reminds us of the necessity of re-examining the sick, and choosing the more similar remedy. In the case related, the symptoms left the internal organs, went to the extremities, and descended; it was therefore wrong to interfere with the beneficial action of the former remedy. - Comments on (3) - The previous symptoms returned and the same remedy in a higher potency again controlled them. - A higher potency was given, following one of Hahnemann's important injunctions, given in his chronic diseases, that the potency must be changed if the same remedy has to be repeated in a given case. - Now again, after this remedy had acted very beneficially for three days, there returned exactly the same symptoms. - There is still another lesson to be learned from this case, and that is, that we should again pay as much, pay more, attention to the critical days than did Hippocrates of Cos. - There is open to progressive homoeopathy a very large field. - We must continue to develop the healing art, guided by the well-established fundamental principles... left us as a legacy by Samuel Hahnemann. - There is a periodicity of the critical days, and the true healer observes and utilises them. - A person exposed to a contagion shows the infection after a certain lapse of time; for three days generally the organism remains undisturbed. - Later, but invariably on an uneven day, the disease develops itself. - In the case here related we find an illustration of these propositions; Arsenicum so clearly indicated in the case caused, after three days, twice, the same new symptom not known to belong to Arsenicum. - When it appeared the second time it was not interfered with, and disappeared with all the other symptoms belonging to the case. - How can we bring the critical days to guide us in our therapeutics? - Comments on (4) - The greatest and most important question arising in a given case is, whether a new remedy should be administered or the former one repeated, or no medicine should be given and we should wait. - This is surely very often a perplexing question. - In the case here stated an error was committed, and we have already dwelt on it; but in great majority of cases such an error is not so easily remedied. - It will very frequently happen that the disturbance created by this erroneously administered remedy interfering with the action of the health-restoring and truly homoeopathic medicine, will be followed by a new combination of symptoms not having any similarity with the first symptoms observed, and we then find a grave case before us. - This being so, the importance of the question of medicine or no medicine becomes apparent. - We are not quite certain whether the dose before administered has exhausted its effects, or whether new symptoms presenting themselves and not known to belong to the medicine then acting, are indicating an improvement or a progress of the disorder, then we should give the benefit of our doubt, and decide on no medicine. - If the new symptoms belong to the remedy administered, then it is evidently acting beneficially. - In an epidemic of croup here many years ago the children who always gave a hoarse barking cough in the early morning hours were comparatively well during the day, but were attacked during the following night with malignant membranous croup. - When a single dose of Belladonna was administered in the morning, they fully recovered; but at 4 p.m. a violent fever, with headache and drowsiness, would set in. - When no medicine was given for these symptoms characteristic of Belladonna, this fever would end by 6 or 7 p.m. in a perspiration, and without any more medicine the child would recover. - When medicine was given, and especially when Aconite was administered, which, from the absence of its characteristic restlessness, was unsuitable, then the child became very ill, the membranous croup became fully developed, and presented a very grave case. - Such cases were hard to manage. - No medicine in this case was the proper decision. - Today, 22nd October, Mrs. B, above referred to, reported herself unusually well. - She has not taken any medicine since the evening of 3rd August. - (Ad. Lippe, M.D. Courtesy : Organon. HH 1986/572).

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- Is homoeopathy slow acting? - One has heard people say, "Homoeopathy is all right, only it is slow." Is it? - It can be so strikingly fast like the "dreaded lightning." - Only, to make it work that fast, you must get the right drug. - Remedies have their pace; diseases have their pace; patients have their pace probably. - You will not cure a chronic disease of years' standing in five minutes, as people seem to expect; and you will not cure the most acute condition in five minutes or five hours or five weeks with a remedy that has not produced like symptoms when proved on a healthy person. - And such failure is not inspite of the law of similars but BECAUSE OF THE LAW OF SIMILARS. (Dr. M. L. Tyler, Homoeopathy, 1935) - A BRILLIANT RESULT - Dr. Royal E.S. Hayes, M.D. - We will not begin with any philosophic gyrations... - The case stands on its own legs, and good hard sinewy legs they are, indeed. - April, 1923. - I was called to a certain old farm house some miles out in the country. - I wondered how my reputation had ever staggered out so far. - I thought it could not have been by the impetus of "personality", for that had always been of such a tenuous constitution that I usually left it hung up in some safe place whenever I went out anywhere. - If it is not substantial enough to be a real support, you know it is better to strengthen one's reputation with other facilities. - So I concluded that I must have cured somebody sometime and that this patient must have heard of it. - Thinking over these things, I arrived and entered the room at the back of the house. - As I did so one of the most dreadful odours that I have ever smelled rose up and made a terrific swipe at me. - I grappled with it instantly, however, and with manful efforts succeeded in forcing my way into the kitchen. - Then I beheld as well as smelled one of the most abject objects it was ever my chance to see. - A spinster of sixty-five, of desert-island aspect, unwashed, uncombed and unkempt, sat in a chair in which I found she had been staying several weeks, being unable to lie down. - The aspect of a naturally strong, capable N. E. individual gone to seed served as a fitting centre of a picture of indescribably disordered surroundings. - She said her gait had been getting troublesome, and back and lower extremities weakening for a year or more. - At this time her sole mode of locomotion was hitching about while sitting in the chair. - The knee reflexes were gone. - The legs were greatly swollen, the lower two-thirds and proximal half of the foot a mass of deep ulceration, the skin being entirely gone. - Bandages consisting of old clothes had not been removed for several days. - She had no medical attention or other care, having remained day and night in the same chair several weeks, unable to lie down because of soreness. - The discharge from the ulcers was so copious that it ran in drizzling streams when the bandages were removed. - There was no history of previous disease except jaundice and bilious headaches when young. - Recently, however, a sister came to me from a distant state presenting a well-developed degeneration of the spinal cord. - The essential symptoms and prescribing chronologically are as follows: - Spinal paralysis with trophic ulceration of legs and feet with extensive gangrene threatening. - Intense burning spells in legs at night. - Dreadful odour. - Had copious urine all winter which became scanty and highly coloured as the gangrenous process advanced; at present 1030, no albumin or sugar. - Intense thirst - Craving sweets - Emaciation : skin like parchment. - Numbness and weakness of hands. - Pain worse at night, dampness or cold weather, east wind, from any variation from medium temperature. - Ars. 40M one dose was given with some rest and relief of pain. - Eight days later : Spells of irresistible lassitude. Increased sensitiveness to cold. - Intense thirst instead of appetite in the morning; faint stomach during the forenoon. - Legs smarting and itching aggr. by both heat and cold, in the evening and by bathing; feeling very light and stiff. - Craving sour. - SULPH. one dose. - Two days later the legs were seen to be distinctly smaller and the green discharges had reappeared. - The improvement ceased after six days and another remedy was sought. - The pains were worse now from 3 to 8 p.m. , smarting and aching., the discharges irritating and edges of ulcerated areas red and inflamed. - MERC. V. 1 M, one dose. - Improved five days and urine increased. - Then pain, swelling and inflammation increased, extending rapidly upward. - Stiffness all over at night. - Sensitive in general to both heat and cold. - MERC. V. 1 M, two doses, two hours apart.

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- Improved a few days and urine increased, but soon the patient became decidedly worse both generally and locally. - MERC. V. 1 M was given without relief. - The legs had now become intensely sore and swollen though small areas had become covered with skin. - They now became very sensitive to cold and drafts imperceptible to others, and to slightest touch. - Yellow crusts had formed. Smarting intense from evening to midnight. Teeth decaying rapidly. - Twitching of legs. - Agg. from thunder showers. - Contraction of flexors of lower extremities. - Feeling weak and all to pieces as if could not keep up, worse in the evening. - SILICA 1 M, one dose was given. - After seven weeks: there was great improvement; patient could lie down; the legs were healing, and puffiness was disappearing. - Another six weeks later : she could walk and the ulcers were entirely healed. - A month later : Walked about the house freely, slight swelling remaining. - But back and lower extremities bent with contractions. - Three and a half months later (seven months from last prescription) : RHUS TOX was given for stiffness and contractions with benefit. - She could not yet stand erect. - Three weeks later : Knees and back very stiff in the evening. - Ulcer appearing on one leg. - SIL. 1M, one dose. - Complete healing and capacity returned. - Ten months later SIL 1M third dose gave further constitutional uplift. - From a chair-ridden paralytic with practically gangrenous legs to an able-bodied woman in six months is doing fairly well. - The lengthening intervals of reaction from a strong vitality latent in this patient. - Dr. Waffensmith saw her after she was well on her feet and he said, - "That is what I call a brilliant result." - No antiseptics or chemical lavatures were used. - Patient was directed to put one powder of B& T's strong Saccharin lactis in a tub of water of comfortable temperature and bathe the legs 15 minutes strictly once a day only. - Probably it was that which cured after all!! - Editor's (S.P. K.'s) comments: See how the master prescriber manages his case. - Never hesitate to change to another complementary remedy when needed. - Even desperate cases can be (Homoeopathic Recorder) brought round if we prescribe sufficiently high, and have FAITH in our prescriptions. - (Homoeopathic Recorder)

Exercises with case studies - There are exercises to develop your skills. - Experience shows that there is no better method of developing one's skills in prescribing than through the working out of cases. - Naturally, the initial experience to be gained should be with "paper cases", i.e. cases taken by someone earlier, with presentation only of the essential details of the case. - With the aim of aiding the learner and incidentally inducing him to study the "Genius" of each remedy, we have selected a number of cases from Homoeopathic Heritage (H.H. ) and given them in this part of the book. - Readers are requested to study each case and, on the basis of the guiding symptoms/rubrics, find the remedy. - Whether the remedy you arrive at for each case is correct or not will be found by reference to Appendix "C", under the title "Solutions to Cases". - The actual symptoms or rubrics which led to the remedy in each case will be found at the end of the "Genius" of that remedy. - For example, if the remedy for a case (in Appendix C) is given as Sepia, the symptoms which led to Sepia will be found at the end of the "Genius" of Sepia. - Readers are advised to read all the nine sections of each remedy while referring to the "Solution". - It will be noticed that only a very few symptoms led to the remedy in most of the cases. - The cases were not chosen with this end in view, but this fact only confirms how the masters selected remedies with more or less the "Three legged stool" approach. - It will also be noticed that each case covers only a few peculiar symptoms of a remedy. - This is quite natural because it is just not possible for even the most important symptoms of a remedy to come out in every case. - A case can be solved correctly with a small group of symptoms of a remedy, so long as they are singular and peculiar in the case and they find their counterpart in point of peculiarity in the remedy too. - Enhance your Skill in identifying the few Most Peculiar and Outstanding symptoms and using them to find the

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Simillimum. - REMEMBER : NO PAIN, NO GAIN - 1. A female aged 50 with chronic vaginal thrush since 12 years ago. - Had profuse leucorrhoea which excoriated and caused severe itching. Swelling of the vulva, with stitching, burning pains in the vagina. - The discharge was always offensive. - Had hay fever since childhood. Mind : Shy, placid, bottled up her feelings. - Tidy but not fastidious. - Chilly. - Perspired easily. - Two young children. - Silicea and later Sepia (premenstrual tension) had no effect. - Came again, seven years later complaining of aversion to sex. - She was in a state of shock, acute grief and despair. - Her husband had lost his job unexpectedly - whereas they were living in the most expensive locality, with massive mortgage, the children in private (costly) schools. - Extreme stress. - The lowered libido was not due to stress. - She had a strong fear of intercourse. - The thought terrified her. - Very irritable before menses. - She had no fear of poverty as she had reconciled herself to the situation, had returned to a simple life and had taken up a job in order to survive. - The thrush seen seven years ago had disappeared under allopathic treatment. - --- 1M one dose. - The effect was excellent. - The fear of coition had disappeared soon after taking the remedy. - Her ability to cope with the worsening economic situation changed dramatically, and she became more relaxed. - 2. Acute bronchitis : A child of one year and 8 months was brought to casualty in the evening of January 19th, 1938. - Acute bronchitis, sudden onset in cold weather; flushed face; startled look; carotids throbbing. - Temp. 103.2 of. Pulse 158; Resp. 72. - Rx _______ 30, 2 hourly given. - Much improved in the morning; completely well the following day. - 3. Drunkenness - A man about 37 years of age had been badly wounded during the war and had acquired the liquor habit at the same time. - There were frequent outbreaks of drunkenness to the despair of his family and friends. - Shortly before Christmas he developed eczema all over the head, face and neck. - This almost disappeared under Sulphur when a huge carbuncle came on the nape of the neck. - This yielded to Rhus tox, but in two or three weeks the annoying eczema broke out again, with a new symptom; a strong disposition to curse and swear. - This furnished the classic trio, viz. - He eruption, agg. from dipsomania and the mental condition. - Rx _____ completed the cure and now there has been over six months freedom from the craving for liquor. - 4. Oedema of genitals : Boy, four years old, had scarlet fever five weeks ago. - Been well since, but not allowed to go out. - Sudden, pale doughy swelling of genitals during last 12 hours, rapidly increasing. - Urine can now hardly pass through the swollen prepuce. - Rx _____ Swelling stopped at once and was all gone in 24 hours. - 5. Varicose veins : Woman, age 55; large and fleshy; married; five children. - Varicose veins of both legs and vulva; very painful. - Veins on lower legs stood out like ropes. - Cries easily and without cause. - Oppression of breathing in damp, chilly weather. - Haemorrhoids for years. - Depressed. - Very anxious about her financial problems. - Rx ______ 30/1 was given with immediate relief after several remedies had been tried without effect. - This remedy was repeated in various potencies over a period of two years. - The varicose veins have not troubled her since. - Notices oppressed breathing in very damp weather. - Felt better "in her mind". - She knew that her financial troubles would straighten out somehow. - 6. A complicated case of rheumatism : A lady of 50 had rheumatic localisation of obscure origin in the neck, sciatic region and complicated with diarrhoea contracted at the seashore. - She had lymphatic swellings of the forearms and back of thighs, apparently of a myxoedematoid nature.

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- A sister had a condition resembling elephantiasis. - The rheumatic condition had been shifting slowly for several weeks. - Rhus radicans prescribed by Dr. Woodbury had helped temporarily. - But a more severe condition appeared in the foot which became swollen, slightly red, very sensitive to touch. - She was compelled to change position frequently but without relief. - The sciatica also became worse. - Pulsatilla was given without relief. - The patient then spent most of her time weeping, upsetting and discouraging her family. - It was now evident that the condition was worse at nights, especially the first part, the pain extending to the toes and shooting upward, by heat of bed, to even a suggestion of touch, unable to let the foot down at all. - Rx -------- 1M 6 hr. was given. - Next day showed little if any improvement with the weeping going on almost constantly. - The prescription was repeated, clearing up the arthritis effectively. - Moreover, the general improvement (three weeks later) was striking. - 7. Foul sweating girl : Miss E. aged 16, dark complexion, rather chubby. - Had fearful foul sweat which was such a nuisance that no one wished to have her in their house (employed as child's nurse). - Could not hold a job on that account. - The sweat was extremely offensive, of a sickening character; would soon scent the whole house. - Few other symptom13.5007(r)-422(g)-10.6134( )0.s okin uld-6.3350.721099(a-22.9479(p)1.4422(t)0.721099(o)a10.6134(w

- 12. Post-partum haemorrhage : A primipara had tedious labour of 36 hours, terminated at last by instrumental delivery. - The placenta was so firmly attached that it was only scratched away with great difficulty. - The haemorrhage was frightful, very fluid and gushing. - Rx _______ 2c in water every five minutes. - Ice applied externally. - Haemorrhage ceased in ten minutes; never returned. - Aconite 200 removed all soreness and lameness rapidly. - 13. Septic fever : Boy aged 14 complained of being tired. - Temperature 102 of. Pulse 108. - Tongue abnormally red, with a very thin white fur at the base. - Conspicuous absence of symptoms, but pulse and temperature continued to rise each day, reaching 120 and 104.5 respectively. - Tongue clean, fiery red, very dry, but no thirst. - Noticed defective sewer pipes in the basement. - Rx _______ 1M, one dose. - Rapid recovery. - Had one stool horribly offensive odour. - No complaint thereafter. - 14. Vomiting, uncontrolled : Mrs. A. vomited all food soon after eating, and 'naturally' had painful "goneness" or empty feeling in stomach all the time. - Sleep broken, does not refresh. - Bowels costive; stools knotty, very difficult. - Urine cloudy and offensive, with a hard crust settling at the bottom of the vessel which is difficult to scrape off. - Feels very weak and miserable. - Despairs of becoming better. - Rx ________ 55M, one dose. - Report after four days. - Got so well so fast, her husband could not understand it. - 15. Huge, septic tonsils : A young girl of 14 years. - Nice, obedient and wise for her age; had huge septic tonsils. - Had been given many homoeopathic remedies with no improvement. - It was noticed that she could swallow solids without pain, while empty swallowing was painful. - Rx ________ 10M, one dose. - At about 9 p.m. she got fits of cough and in two hours pieces of tonsillar tissue were coughed out. - After suffering for about two hours she slept well. - Next morning found the tonsils gone. - 16. Intolerable hypogastric and ovarian pain : A lady delivered at 8 a.m. - The same evening she complained of very annoying pain every minute all day. - Pains sore, bruised in character in hypogastric and right ovarian region. - Was sleepy but could not sleep for the pains. - She said, "The pains are not so severe, but I cannot bear them any longer; they distress me terribly." - Rx ________ 200 one dose. - No pain in 15 minutes. - The pains did not return. - 17. Rheumatoid arthritis - A lady, 78 years, in bed; hands and feet swollen and bandaged; much pain. - Hemiplegia left side, and speechless since two days. Uric acid 8.4. Leucocytes greatly in excess. - A careful study of history, modalities, desires and aversions and sensitiveness to metereological changes led me to Rx________ 10M with instructions not to disturb its action for three weeks. - She was worse from cold wet weather; was agg. at first motion and amel. from continued motion. - Liked milk very much. - Meantime, there was some improvement of the major symptoms as well as the generals. - Uric acid came down to 4.3. - During the warm days she took occasional walks in comparative comfort. - 18. Rheumatism : Mrs. X, aged 23, after an attack of cold, developed a large, soft swelling at the metatarsophalangeal joint of the left foot-red, hot and very tender to touch. - She said, with my slippers on I am in agony, but if I put on tight shoes, the foot feels pretty comfortable. - Rx________ 200. - The trouble entirely disappeared in a few days. - 19. Amenorrhoea : A married lady aged 30 complained of amenorrhoea (suppressed menses). - Though the husband was using contraceptive, she always feared becoming pregnant during and after coitus. - Had great drowsiness, but distant noises kept her awake. - Intense thirst. - Desire to uncover. - Hungry, but no desire to eat. - Rx________ 30 gave her sound sleep and mental calmness.

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- This was followed by the remedy in 200th potency. - Menstrual discharge reappeared on the third day. - 20. Bones, tubercular disease of : A most stubborn case of disease of the rib co-existed with a chronic cough which defied any remedy I had used. - Through a period of several years the patient, a man of 40, had improved in general nutrition, with weight increase of 40 pounds. - Still the sinus existed leading to the sternal end of the sixth rib on the left side. - Two operations without avail. - Calc., Calc. fl., Fl. ac., Sil and Phos gave no result. - It remained for Rx__________ 200 to complete the cure. - 21. Caries of the spine : For two years the usual remedies could not help the spinal caries of a child. - The caries and curvature were very great; the occiput sinking to a level with it. - The amount of calcareous matter discharging from it would amount to a teaspoonful at a time, and when the moist part of the discharge evaporated, there would be left a large quantity of white dry powder, looking like phosphate of lime. - The pain was always in the curvature and always worse at night. - Rx _________ CM one dose in ten days. - Three doses cured in one month. - The discharge had ceased entirely and the child previously weak and emaciated grew ruddy and strong. - She is still hunch-back, and a dwarf, but no recurrence of the ulceration or pain in the last five years. - 22. Dry eczema : A man's occasional gastric ulcers (?) were generally cleared quickly, but I could not help his dry eczema of hands. - He expressed his anxiety to get well soon and said to another physician to whom he was taken : "It is affecting my business. - I have always been able to take quick decisions easily, but now I can't. - This is probably due to lack of nourishment. - I have always lived on fish, but I do not like it now". - The specialist noted that the palm was dry and it was starting to crack. - Rx ________ 10M one dose. - It cleared him quickly. - 23. Deep Coma - A boy was given up to die with double pneumonia and suppressed empyema. - Had been ill 5 days, had been given all kinds of mixtures. - Aspiration of chest was given up due to his low condition. - All medicines were stopped for several hours as I sat by the bedside to watch for the symptoms. - Suppression had been so violent that nothing could be observed but deep coma, irregular pulse and respiration, great pallor with bluish tint about the eyes and mouth. - He was barely alive. - After nearly four hours the eyelids parted with a highly shrill cry, "Rub my feet". - The child had asked this before going into coma, and was soothed by the rubbing. - The same cry after another long silence. - Rx ________ 10M, one dose brought him back to consciousness within an hour. - Pain in chest was better, he said. - The medicine repeated after ten days. - Within two weeks the boy was playing in the house. - 24. Allergic rash : A woman of 44 years with a severe sun allergy causing rashes and itching wanted me to reassure her that there would be no aggravation of her skin after starting the treatment. - She also suffered from acute vertigo and was afraid this would also be aggravated under homoeopathic treatment. - In fact she had delayed this consultation for four months on account of these fears. - Her previous physicians were very abrupt with her when she called on them at odd times. - She came for treatment on being amply assured on the phone that she could call me any time. - She vividly described her symptoms with exaggerated movement of her hands, with excitement. - She was a lively person and would answer with great haste; and in the process she used wrong words or misplaced words. - This would greatly amuse her children who were also present during the interview, and she would get very angry when they laughed at her. - She was also anxious about having a dental extraction under general anaesthesia that was due in two weeks. - Had dread of flying, and felt claustrophobic in closed places. - If she had to travel, she would always choose the aisle seat. - The remedy cured all her problems and she is well to this day. - 25. Chorea : A boy of 5 was rapidly developing chronic symptoms. - Nights as restless as days. - He would moan, groan, strike his head against the wall, and all the time - night and day - his feet were in constant motion. - He had a history of eczema from babyhood which was cured (suppressed) by ointments. - The boy grew more and more nervous as the eczema got better. - Rx _______ 200.

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- In one week the eczema started coming out again, and the boy's nerves began to get better as soon as the eczema began to return. - Report after several months: Quite well. - 26. Mitral systolic heart murmurs : A 3-1/2 year old girl with a definite systolic heart murmur, fast pulse, the residue of a mild tonsillitis. - Severe atonic constipation since she was a year old. - Fear of sleeping alone or of being alone. - Rx ________ 1M. - Two weeks later : sleeps alone. - Much of her fatigue and lethargy gone. - Amazed to find the heart murmur was gone. - Pulse still fast. Placebo. - Two months later no sign of heart murmur, but constipation continued. - Four months later systolic murmur noticed again. - The remedy 10M. - It cleared up both the aortic systolic murmur and constipation. - No further return of symptoms. - 27. Mammary carcinoma : Inoperable, of six years duration. - Tumour the size of an orange, indurated; showed signs of breaking down. - Conium stopped the shooting pains. - Later very profuse haemorrhage ensued. - Millefolium f in water, a teaspoonful every five minutes controlled it completely. - Then developed sloughing which was hot, acrid with intolerable odour. - Rx ________ 6, later 3x on indications of ulceration with thin discharge and bluish colour of the parts. - The odour went off promptly and the ulceration was checked. - She lived fifteen years from the time the growth was first discovered. - 28. Sleepless infant : A child, 18 months old, was restless. - It must be carried all the time to keep him quiet. - Very sleepless day and night. - Sleeps only in short naps. - Had a disagreeable filthy smell about him despite frequent bathing and changing of dress. - Vomited milk in sour curds soon after taking it. - Stools brown, fluid, smelling like rotten eggs. - Rx _________ 42 m, single dose. - He improved in every respect. - 29. Encysted abscess in the lungs : A boy, 8 years old, was believed to have 'consumption' since four years. - On examination : left lung was sound, except some mucus rales. - Right lung, no air in it. - No emaciation. - Plump but tired. - Always cold, wanted to be about fire, and wrapped up in cold weather. - No appetite; only milk and crackers could be retained - for four years. - Cough constant, hacking; would occasionally spit up chunks of solid pus, like lard, tasting cold and like iron. - Diagnosed as encysted abscess in right lung due to pneumonia. - Mother confirmed that before pneumonia the boy had swallowed a tack. - I told the mother that the homoeopathic medicine would rid the boy of the trouble or kill him in six weeks. - She agreed as it was death anyway. - Rx _________ 200 one dose at bed-time for two weeks. - One morning after a week he coughed hard and out came a pint of thick pus with a black ball, containing the eroded tack. - The medicine was stopped. - After two months he was declared cured. - He became as healthy and active as anyone. - 30. Panting, distressful respiration : Miss M. thought she was nearly dying; was in great distress with panting respiration. - Could speak only in whispers, each word uttered separately from the next by several respirations. - Each breath seemed to her as if it would be her last one. - No thirst. - Scanty urine and no sleep for two days. - Chest percussion gave clear and healthy sound. - Very loud bronchial rale. - No other remedy has this combination of symptoms, except ________. - She was too ill to bear a lower potency than 40M in water hourly till better. - After the third dose she became quiet, fell asleep for two hours. - Made a perfect recovery without a further dose. - 31. Obstinate constipation : A lady, 25 years, was afflicted with obstinate constipation from her youth; even 5 or 6 days passed without a desire to go to stool.

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- Had no power of rectum to expel the stool, unless she took an aperient. - Sulphur CM (hungry at 11 a.m. ), Natrum mur CM (pain in sacrum, sore anus) and Kali carb. 1M (woke at 3-5 a.m. ) failed to help the constipation though the indicating symptoms were relieved. - These reports she sent while travelling for several weeks. - Dr. J.B. Bell sent her a dose of _________ CM. - She reported that she had a natural stool every day - normal size and with little effort. - This, for the first time since early childhood. - 32. Delirium with unconsciousness : A girl, 10 years old. - Perfectly delirious day and night; cannot be roused to consciousness. - Urine and stool involuntary. - Very restless, particularly every night after midnight. - Breathing cold, skin cold and clammy. - Lips, teeth and tongue dry, black, covered with sordes. - Took a little water given from a spoon frequently or occasionally sucked a wet rag. - Seemed a hopeless case. - Rx _________ 8M in water, every one, two, three or four hours as it seemed best to the nurse. - Next morning somewhat better. - Medicine discontinued. - Worse before noon. - Medicine 15M given as before. - After a week 40M of the medicine given. - She is now fat and perfectly healthy. - 33. Salpingitis with high fever : The profuse leucorrhoea of a young woman suddenly ceased; quickly followed by a left-sided salpingitis with local swelling, high fever, restlessness and severe prostration. - Each paroxysm of pain gradually rose to a certain pitch, then suddenly ceased. - Rx_________ M, one dose. - The leucorrhoeal discharge was restored overnight, and steady and complete recovery followed. - 34. A case of prolapse - and insanity? : A young lady of 22 was treated for profuse bleeding (prolapsed uterus?) which was suppressed by allopathic medicine two years ago. - Since then her temper changed. - She took offence at trifles, angry and sullen for no reason; would shut herself in a closed room and weep. - Enquiry about her state would inflame her all the more. - She behaved altogether as if she was being slighted by every one in the family, husband not excepted. - Usually constipated; took bath in cold water. - Thirsty. - Was getting thinner and thinner gradually. - Had some bereavements in her father's family which touched her much. - Rx __________ 500; followed after two months by 1M, brought a magical improvement in her mental disposition and she returned to her original kindly, amiable disposition. - Husband reported also that her prolapsus uteri (not reported before) had also disappeared. - 35. The inappreciable heart patient : Miss L., aged 30, was convinced that she had heart disease - complaining of gasping pains, feeling of blood rushing to her heart causing palpitation. - All tests were negative, yet she remained in bed. - Made life miserable to her relatives who had to do her bidding all day long. - The psychiatrist who was called could not help. - To Dr. Borland, who was called, she complained in furious rage how they could call a psychiatrist to see her, the person who had always managed the affairs of the family - they could not do a thing without her advice - even when she was so ill. - Would she spoil her promising career (stage) if there was not something wrong with her, and so on. - The fact was that she was an utter failure in the career of her fancy. - By returning to bed and being the centre of the house, she was getting a kick that she had hoped for on the stage. - Dr. Borland pondered for a while and said she is a typical _______ (remedy). - 36. Epilepsy : (After hearing this case Dr. Carleton said : Never listened to a paper with more pleasure and profit) - Miss G, 44 years, has been having epileptiform attacks almost every month since four years. - The first attack after seeing an old lady fatally injured by falling down an elevator. - Very excitable and nervous since then. - Attacks usually come before or during menses; agg. from over-excitement or in an overheated room; she cannot bear heat, the blood rushes to her head. - Two or three days before an attack her head feels badly, as if all the blood were in the vertex; it burns and feels hot. - There is almost always an aura, a sizzling in the fore-part of the head; sometimes no warning at all. - At the time of this visit left eye and temple are black and blue from falling on the stove. - During attack, the convulsive movements are mostly in the lower limbs; bites her tongue, not much froth. - Urine and stool often involuntary. - Menses regular but scanty for 3 days. - Before menses head feels badly; during, flow relieves head.

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- Face flushed. - Tongue trembles on putting it out. - Cannot bear anything tight about neck. - Must have everything loose. - Legs go to sleep occasionally, generally the left. - Memory impaired for dates. - Expression rather dull, stupid. Is discouraged and depressed. - Last attack came suddenly two days after an attack, and she fell against the corner of the stove, towards the left side. - Was taking bromides off and on for four years. - Rx________ 1m. - No convulsions after March till January next, and menses came two days after it. - The last dose had evidently lost its forward impetus. - Though many symptoms entirely gone, there were no indications for a new remedy. - Another dose in CM. - The long swing towards health (no attacks) and the backward swing (two months) promises well for a complete cure. - 37. Haemorrhoids - Mr. X had chancre which healed up under allopathic treatment. - Within a month he had piles and swelling in groin and perineum (showing that he was not cured). - The swelling in perineum broke and discharged, then those in groins; but the piles unchanged. - The pile thick as the tip of little finger and one and a half inch in length; it bled occasionally. - It itched and shot when he was hot; shooting in it during stool. - Cold water relieved the itching and diminished the swelling. - For three weeks shooting from right elbow in front down front of arm to wrist, which made him drop what he had in his hand. - The pile was moist; easier after stool. - Had heat in pile. - Costive. - No relief from allopathic treatment. - 38. Virulent form of malaria : Miss T. N., age 20, while travelling in Italy with her parents contracted "Roman fever". - A homoeopath said with many apologies that his remedies were unable to cope with this virulent form of malaria, and gave enormous capsules of quinine. - Some time after her return to America the chills returned. - A homoeopath prescribed Arsenicum without result. - Now, her presenting record was as follows: - Severe chills daily at about 6.30 p.m. beginning between the scapulae, as though ice water were dashed down the back, preceded by faintness and yawning; accompanied by great thirst; intense restlessness, coldness, numbness, and aching of the hands, cold buttocks and sensation as though a cold wind blew on the feet and legs, worse from drinking cold water and the least motion or lifting of the covers. - Heat without thirst, but accompanied by throbbing headache, relieved by the ice bag. - Faintness, nausea, moaning, oppression of chest, gasping, wandering pains in the limbs and restlessness. - Face flushed, skin intensely dry and hot, yet she could not bear the least motion of the covers, as it chilled her. - The temperature rose daily to 104.5 of. - Rx_________ 1M was given. - No apparent change for three days; patient thought she was going to die. - From the fourth day the chill, fever and aching of limbs were less and less and by the sixth day all the symptoms gradually abated. - Nearly seven years have elapsed since then, and there has been no return of the chills. - 39. Phlyctenular conjunctivitis : Diagnosis rarely gives us the clue to the remedy. - Listen to the patient. - Boy, aged 18, had an acute inflammation of the eye - he could not do any work. - On rising from bed in the morning three days ago he noticed that his right eye was somewhat bloodshot; it felt dry as if dust were in it. - Eyes watered and were very sensitive to light. - Symptoms grew worse as the day advanced and next morning the left eye was also attacked. - Worse on moving the eyes; they felt hot. - He felt as if he had a cold in the head, discharge from the nose being thin and watery. - Rx________ CM. - Was followed by an improvement for 5 days only. - Repetition was beneficial for only two days. - Gave the medicine in 200th repeatedly and he recovered rapidly. - "Hahnemann taught that when repetition is necessary it is best to give a lower potency." - 40. The "Cross" boy with lung trouble ? : Called in consultation to a neighbouring town to see a child about three years old. - On the way the doctor gave a history of the case. - He was sick about a week; seemed to be lung trouble.

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- "I don't believe the boy is in any danger, but he don't get along and we are getting anxious about him. - But is he not cross? - If ever a kid needed walloping, he does. - He fights his mother; won't even let her look at him?" - I said, "Doctor, I guess you have an __________ case. - Have you given it ?" "No". - On our arrival that proved to be the remedy, and soon untangled the snarl. - 41. A sixty year old retired seaman, subject to a chronic cough. - While straining at stool an hour ago he was taken with such severe pain in the region of the appendix that he had to be carried bodily to bed. - A few weeks ago his nephew was attacked in the same way and was operated. He commanded : "Give me hypodermic injection". - I replied: "I never use them" and ask for symptom. - He refused to tell any, "Kill me" he said. - On my reassuring him that I did not come to kill or stupefy him (with morphine), but to cure him, I gathered : - 1. Severe cutting, lancinating pains extending from the ileocaecal region outward toward the hip-joint. - 2. So tender to touch that he cannot endure the weight of compresses. - 3. Some relief from heat. - 4. Slight swelling of the part. - 5. Face is pinched and haggard from the intensity of pain. - One powder of _________ 1M. - He was asleep within fifteen minutes, and awoke in two hours free from pain and soreness. - After three days there was a recurrence of the pain, but less severe. - It was again relieved by a dose (same). - Since then he is free from the trouble. - 42. Ovarian tumour : A lady called on me complaining that three days after the birth of her second child, the lochia suddenly ceased, succeeded by severe lancinations in the right ovarian region, with some swelling of the part affected. - The pain continued till the birth of her third child, when the part began to assume large proportions. - Eminent surgeons came to a unanimous decision that the patient was suffering from an ovarian tumour of three years duration, and the operation could not be safely postponed beyond six weeks. - Hoping to avoid the operation she consulted me though without the slightest faith in homoeopathy. - The increasing size of the tumour of right ovary was attended with grinding, wearying pain with a sense of weight which made her cry out, clench her teeth and hold her breath, while she doubled herself up, pressing the part, to try and benumb the pain for a time, with only partial relief. - Menstrual flow profuse. Prescribed opium virus at long intervals for some nine months. - The tumour reduced in size to about two-thirds; pain but slightly relieved. - As Apis had fairly exhausted its remedial action, the treatment was stopped for a short time hoping for some new development. - I was not disappointed. - Noticing one day with what energy and rapidity she was walking, I asked her how she could do so with so painful a malady; she promptly answered, "I feel a great necessity to be always on the move. - I cannot sit or stand or rest; it seems as if I could walk forever, and hardly lie still unless I am tired out with the incessant aching and fall asleep from sheer exhaustion. - Gave her __________ 30th (did not have higher potency) in rarely repeated doses. - At the expiration of three months, I had the satisfaction of finding all pain subsided, the tumour entirely removed, while all the various functions excepting that of a profuse menstrual flow, have gone on healthily ever since (now 15 years). - 43. Genuine Contracting Kidney : A lady, 40 years of age, suffering from what is called "Genuine Contracting Kidney", had improved from time to time under the effects of various remedies. - When such improvement secured her good sleep, she always awoke with an irresistible desire to urinate and then had great difficulty in passing the urine. - Cantharides would relieve for a time, but other symptoms, not coming under the pathogenesis of the drug, would supervene. - Other remedies would again relieve her, and as soon as her sleep was restored, the above symptom would again return. - Bronchial catarrh and palpitation of the heart (enlargement of the left ventricle) often became prominent symptoms. - Finally, a new symptom became prominent. - Pains in the lower vertebrae as if a hot iron were thrust through them. - This new symptom has been repeatedly found to belong to __________. - In studying this protractedly tedious case, another symptom of the remedy was found, viz., "in the morning, when waking, desire to pass urine with difficult and tardy emission of the urine in feeble (thin) stream from the female urethra". - At times she had also prominently found that she must rise frequently at night to urinate, with much pale urine. - One dose of the remedy, CM, was administered.

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- The improvement of the condition of the patient was quite astonishing. - Since then there are no nightly calls to urinate and when she awakes in the morning, much more normal urine is voided freely, as if she were in perfect health. - 44. Anuria : Mrs. X, age 63, had acute pain in the right loin, vomiting all day. - Couldnot pass urine. - T. 100. No distention of bladder. - Catheter passed, a few drops of urine only obtained. - Exquisite tenderness from loin over the kidney and in front. - Blood pressure 200/100. - The condition was apparently one of anuria. - She continued to vomit everything taken. - Still no urine in the bladder. - An X-ray showed a calculus in the right kidney and a ureteric stone in the right ureter. - Blood urea 80 mg % and rising her condition was so precarious that it was considered that she would not stand operation as there were now signs of congestion at the left base. - Her pain in the right loin radiated down towards the bladder. - She felt that if only she could pass urine she would be relieved, but still only an ounce was obtained by catheter; even the withdrawal of this amount seemed to relieve her pain. - Rx____________ 200 6 doses, 2 hourly. - Soon after the first dose she passed a little urine voluntarily with very great relief to her pain, and from the time onwards the flow of urine continued and increased. - She recovered completely except that she still has a stone in her kidney. - 45. Chronic skin-rash, forehead, arms and legs : Engineer, 53 years old. - Complained of pain and irritation of skin, during six years. - Past history : Enteric fever 15 years ago which left him with diarrhoea for several years. - Discharged from Army as "unfit". - Abdominal pain and diarrhoea off and on. - Operation at St. Bartholomew's; volvulus of caecum caused by bands due to old ulceration of bowel. - Pains and diarrhoea continued. - Operated again as upper two-fifths ileum distended, with thick and oedematous wall (?) due to venous thrombosis. - Still abdominal pain and diarrhoea. - No further operation considered possible. - For rash forehead, given iodides; head swelled up, neck, lips, eyes; difficulty in breathing (threatened tracheostomy). - Emergency operation for prolapsed bowel. - Rash extended to forearms, thighs, legs. - Twenty years ago he had 'worked a lot in mercury'. - Present state : Brownish, dirty looking swellings with deepish cracks. - Scaly eruption in patches on legs, oozing freely. - Great itching of skin worse at night and worse when warm, though patient is very chilly, and likes hot applications to abdomen if in pain. - Itching in scars. - Internal burning and itching in abdomen. - Salient symptoms : Stomach pains were better for food, better for hot food and drinks; better lying down. - Skin trouble was worse for washing. - Aversion to fish. - Unable to sweat. - Rx____________ 30, 200, 1M on three succeeding days; and in three or four days there was already marked improvement in the skin condition; the eruption was dying away, the cracks healing, and this went on rapidly, with amelioration of the abdominal condition as well. - Had lost his internal itching; also started perspiring. - Seen one month later: skin and stomach marvellously better. - 46. Swelling of spermatic cord : Mr. X for nine months has noticed a swelling of spermatic cord; when swollen, they ache, and are painful to touch. - He has noticed this four times in the last three weeks. - These symptoms come on when sexually excited. - Rx___________ CM. - In five days the cords were well. - The same circumstances no longer affected them. - Cured. - 47. Bright's disease : E. L., a lad of 16, was brought by his mother complaining of Bright's disease, since three months. - The allopathic doctor had said that he was in the last stage of the disease. - The urine was acid with a S.P. G. 1008. - There was a brownish-white deposit in urine, and the nitric acid test too confirmed the precarious condition. - His face was bloated; eyelids were swollen with dropsical swelling of the extremities.

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- Rapid breathing, hoarse cough day and night. - Every other morning about 8 a.m. , yawning, stretching, great thirst; chill at 9 lasting till noon, beginning in the toes and fingers, extending to back; violent headache, blue lips and nails; great thirst for large quantities of water; and often nausea and vomiting; sleepiness; tearing pains in extremities; desires to be heavily covered. - This was followed with burning heat; increased thirst; an intolerable hammering headache; cross and irritable when spoken to; great restlessness. - Fever blisters on lips like pearls since several days. - All food tasteless. - This was followed by profuse sweat, with thirst; gradually all bone pains were relieved, save the headache; this latter gave him great distress every time he was obliged to cough. - This was a typical case of _______ and the patient was asking for it in unmistakable tone. - So he was given the remedy, and see what followed. - Three doses of 200th six hours apart brought down the albumen; but chill and fever persisted till 10th day. - Now the remedy was given in CM potency after which he steadily improved. - Two more repetitions were needed in the next two months. - What wonderful results from the dynamic power of the drug! - 48. Nervous, trembling, numb : A woman, fifty-four, came with marked palsy of the hands. - Her history brought out the trembling nervousness, with physical exhaustion. - She could not endure excitement of any kind. - She complained of numbness of the hands and arms. - Had weakness of the eyes, with dizziness. - The mental condition was sad and gloomy. - She despaired of getting better. - All of these symptoms had been coming on gradually. - Rx_________ 1M, from which she greatly improved. - This was followed a month later with 10M potency. - Improvement continued. - 40 days later 50 M was given her. - She continued to improve. - 49. Mastitis : A woman has a child four weeks old; has been under allopathic treatment; abscess of the left breast; one has broken, another is rapidly forming. - The breast is swollen, very hard, red, tender, painful, aggravated from the slightest motion, from breathing deeply; thirst for large quantities of water; not very frequently. - Rx_________ 200 in water. Next day, reports had a chill very soon after taking the medicine, and felt much worse for an hour, then began to improve, and today the breast is soft, and she is feeling very much better. - 50. Lady in poor health with bladder trouble : Mrs. E - aet. 38, has been in poor health for three years and has been taking old school treatment without a particle of benefit. - Comes to homoeopathy with misgivings. - She had one symptom which was marked : "I feel as though I would like to take a ball as large as my fist and sit on it. - I feel that would relieve me." - This desire was a constant symptom when she was suffering with the bladder difficulty. - Rx__________ 30, every two hours. - Reports next day that she was feeling worse than ever. - S.l. 2 hourly. - On the third day she reported a complete cessation of all trouble and all pain. - 51. Pneumonia : Mrs. Y, aged 26, mother of two children, slight and slender lady, was taken sick with a slight fever and sore throat; inflammation gradually extended to the apex of the left lung. - She was subject to nightly aggravations of tickling cough, attended by almost complete aphonia. - Her strength, to use her own expression, had all left her. - Rx__________ 200 dissolved in water, a dose every two hours, with directions to stop the medicine if worse or better, brought about a favourable result. - The aphonia was relieved and there was expulsion of a membrane which was the exact shape of the glottis. - No more medicine, and discharged as cured after a week. - 52. Osteoarthritis : Mrs. 'C', aged 61. - Arthritis in the hips for many years, getting much worse in the last two years. - Pain very bad when walking. - Cannot get about. - Better resting, better sitting. - Worse hot bath. - Better lying flat out, stretched out lying that side. - Pain is worse cold weather but very much aggr. since snow arrived. - She herself is better in warm weather. - Very chilly. - Loves the fire and a warm room. - Menses did not cease till age of 58.

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- Appetite fairly good. - Has a very sweet tooth and loves eggs. - Not a worrier. - Would be described as placid (looked so). - Is upset most by reading or hearing about horrible and sad things; so she does not read papers now. - Rx_____________ 200 one dose was given. - That was 12 months ago, and it has not been repeated. - Did not sweat practically in the tropics, but now sweats freely, but mostly inside thighs and vulva. - Now walking about marvellously (could go about only with Aspirin). - 53. Cancrum oris : Was called to see a child five years old, suffering from sore mouth. - The roof of the mouth and the tongue were covered with small ulcers. - An abundance of saliva flowed from the mouth; the tongue was covered over with a thick white, exceedingly moist coat, the edges being red. - Breath fetid. - Mercurius had no effect for five days. - Studied the case anew and got the following symptoms : - (1) Putrid ulceration of buccal cavity with salivation - (2) Well-developed ulcers; - (3) Gums loose, flabby, dark red and fetid; - (4) Fauces dark red; putrid ulcers; could swallow liquids only - (5) Tongue white, with red papillae, the edges red and shining. - Rx__________ 1M. In three days the whole trouble had disappeared. - 54. Tumour above the right clavicle : Mrs. L - aged 43, blue eyes, full habit. - Five weeks ago noticed a small tumour, the size of a pea, just above the right clavicle, situated about its centre, and one inch above. - Since she first noticed it, it had enlarged to its present dimensions, viz. three inches in length, one and fourth through widest part and about two-thirds of an inch in thickness. - It was hard and nodular; pains at times pricking and shooting, at times burning. - The mental state was a noticeable feature - she was snappish and cross; could hardly give a civil answer. - She told me that she was given to attacks of rage on the slightest provocation, and exhibited to me a finger badly jammed from her rushing from the room and catching at the door as she slammed it at her husband. - Rx__________ 10M to be dissolved in water, a teaspoonful to be taken, and repeated only as an aggravation occurred in the mental condition. - In the first week it was taken two or three times a day, and in the next four weeks from once a day to once in three or four days. - In five weeks the tumour had entirely disappeared and the mental condition was greatly improved. - 55. Child without a gall bladder : An infant with obstructive jaundice. - Both parents of the child were reputed surgeons. - The child was born without a gall bladder. - They had predicted that the child would not survive more than a few weeks. - Dr. Kanjilal examined the child and found that the child was being given cold bath. - On asking why, he got the reply that whenever the child had colds, cold bath seemed to relieve it. - Rx.________. The child lived for months and even the jaundice was improving steadily when last seen by the reporting doctor. - 56. Amenorrhoea : Miss Rena, 14 years, dark hair and very rosy complexion, no menstruation; while in school began to grow languid, lose colour and appetite; became very irritable and nervous. - She emaciated greatly and weakened in the legs which trembled when she walked, so she could not walk even a short distance. - On these symptoms she received Phos. acid, but it did not benefit her in the least. - No albumen or sugar in urine found. - Helonias which had benefited with similar symptoms at her age, had no effect. - Finally, I learned that notwithstanding her loss of appetite for food in general she had an irresistible desire for sugar. - Her mother had to hide the sugar bowl and stop making sweet cakes as she felt that this abnormal hunger for sugar was the cause of the daughter's ill-health. - Rx__________ 200th one dose. - The improvement following was simply astonishing. - Every untoward symptom vanished and within a month's time she was the healthiest appearing girl in town. - 57. Epilepsy : A boy aged 14. - Epileptic attacks for three years. - First attack followed a fright caused by other boys' make-believe to hang him. - Attacks latterly occur every two weeks. - The attack begins by his running around in circle, then he falls down unconscious. - Attacks worse in cold dry weather and during new moon. - Involuntary urination during attacks. - Feels cold; wants to keep warm, summer and winter.

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- Very touchy; everything makes him cry. - Depressed all the time. - Averse to all kinds of sweets, of which he was very fond previously. - Rx_________ 200 two doses. - Only one attack in the next month. - No attacks since a year and a half. - 58. Febrile condition : Patient with violent pain in the back, limbs and head. - Pulse rapid, occasionally intermitting. - Tongue furred. - Not much thirst. - Wants to be quiet and left alone. - Does not want to talk or have persons about him in the room. - Rx__________ 30th in water, two teaspoonfuls every three hours. - Next day no fever. - 59. Swollen, bursting, extremely painful veins: A woman of about 40 years, was suffering very severely with varicose veins during her pregnant state. - Her trouble dated back nine years, since her last confinement, when she was kept in bed, at perfect rest, and had the limbs bandaged. - After six weeks rest, she was asked to wear elastic stockings which did not help. - Finally, several veins burst and she was operated upon by a surgeon, and a small varicose ulcer was also healed. - But she was in daily pain and unable to care for her children. - The other veins began to swell and became sore and inflamed. - One day when I was called to treat her child, she reported her complaints to me. - I did not think much could be done for her and I had no words in English to describe the appearance of her legs. - However, I prescribed Hamamelis, Carduus mar., Calc. fluor, Puls. with very little effect. - She refused hospitalisation. - At this stage a practical nurse who had been assisting the family, gave me the following symptoms : "Large swollen veins, some bordered by an area of inflammation, extremely sensitive to touch, limbs swollen, of bluish colour; foot oedematous, inability to let the leg hang down on account of the intense pain and a terrible bursting sensation." - The swelling three times its normal size and the bursting sensation came as soon as the leg was allowed to hang down. - After a careful study of the case in the Materia Medica, I prescribed _______ 30th, with a constant amelioration of all the symptoms. - The limb reduced in size, she had no pain, wore her elastic stocking, had gained in weight and had taken full charge of her four children. - 60. Epileptic fits : Mrs. L.S. , 39. - Epileptic fits at least once a week. - If arises quickly from bed, loses consciousness. - Attacks if she hurries. - In attack "goes stiff and black". - Enuresis once or twice. - Left leg gets numbed. - Convulsions as a baby; aura before attack - ears feel numbed and funny. - Worse from onions; they mean an attack in the morning. - Drops in sleep. - Twice vaccinated; the last took badly. - Numbness ears - worse for onions - drops in sleep. - Rx____________ 10M, one dose. - One month later, no attacks. - Used to get them if she hurried; has hurried and no attacks. - Another month no attacks, but feeling less well. - Rx the second dose of 10M. - Nine months after the first dose : No attacks. - 61. Forgetfulness : A patient suffering from peptic ulcer had been attending the O.P. D. of the homoeopathic college under various teacher-student combinations. - Though he was better, the pain was recurring. - The patient brought an O.P. chit where his name could not be deciphered. - When asked what his name was, he said, "My name is...... My name..... Ah!... ha... my name is P. Das." - What did `P' mean? - Again... "Pradosh". - I observed his hesitation in giving his name. - Why? - He had forgotten it!!. - A few direct questions clearly brought out the remedy, viz_________, which cured him. - I saw him later to find out the effect. - 62. Fish fin under the finger nail : A woman had run a fish fin under her finger nail.

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- It happened in the middle of the afternoon and by midnight the pain had become so unbearable that she felt she had to have medical attention immediately. - As soon as I reached, I gave her _____10m. - Within three minutes the throbbing had ceased, and at the end of ten minutes she was entirely free of pain. - It was like a miracle to her. - 63. Papilloma of breast : A lady of 37 came with a complaint of scaly dandruff. - While taking the case in full she disclosed that her real anxiety is about bleeding from the nipple (right) during menses. - One pathological report said it was malignant while the next denied it and advised operation of papilloma. - She had severe mastitis after her last child-birth 10 years ago, and since then she had been having pain in the breast during every menstruation. - The simillimum not only cured the bleeding but also the scaly dandruff. - 64. A woman aged 32 came complaining of boils and abscesses under the arm for two months. - This started after using some 'paste' to remove hair. - Had been treated at one hospital where she had three operations. - Then "sunlight" treatment by a specialist. - The whole of the right axilla was involved, red and inflamed with a number of indurated foci, one suppurating and another coming. - She was given _________ CM, 3 doses and a compress of Hyper. - A week later, practically well. - All inflammation gone. - Discoloration gone. - No discharge 'since the second day.' - Nothing left but a few indurated papules. - Five day later : Axilla perfectly soft and normal except two small red spots, with no inflammation round them. For these the same remedy was given, 3 doses. - 65. Extreme dullness : A boy aged 9 years was brought by his mother with the complaint that he was very dull, had no grasp, very slow in everything and absent-minded. - He forgot his seat, even bench, in the class. - Had to read his lesson alphabet by alphabet, not in words. - Mother took much pains to coach him, but to no effect. - Children did not take him in their games, as he tripped on their feet, which led to quarrels. - Rx______ within six months his mental capacity greatly improved. - 66. Cramping abdominal pain : Mr. S.Y. S., aged 32, complained of cramping pain in the abdomen, especially hypogastrium, better by pressure, from 2 to 4 a.m. every night for the last six months. - On enquiry it was found that the pain came gradually and also subsided gradually. - He did not have the pain at any time in the day. - Rx_________ 200th twice a day, gave him relief the very next night, and the medicine was discontinued from the fourth day. - Recurrence of the pain several months later was cured similarly. - 67. Hemiplegia, left sided : Mr. K.T. , aged 81, lay in bed with paralysis of the entire left side for over a year. - Speech was difficult and indistinct. - Hands and feet cold to touch. - If one tried to move his left arm, shoulder or wrist, it was painful. - Even touch was painful. - Wanted open air, fast fan; swallowing difficult. - Stool and urine involuntary. - Before paralysis he used to dream of robbers and once he tried to jump out of bed from fear. - A nurse was kept day and night to look after him and give allopathic medicines, which had not helped. - Rx_________ in suitable dose restored his speech, he was coherent, and he was able to walk with the support of his son in three months. - 68. Leucorrhoea : A lady came with a complaint of leucorrhoea which was worse while urinating. - Basing on this symptoms, I gave her Sil. but it had no effect even with 30, 200 or 1M. - She was then given Puls. on the symptom "Urinating agg". - This too had no effect. - Fifteen days later, the husband came and mentioned that his wife's leucorrhoea was worse whenever he was away for some days. - After intercourse it was better. - On these symptoms I gave her Rx_________, which cured her. - 69. Cystitis : A woman aged 40 was suffering from acute cystitis for three days. - She had burning in the urethra during and after urination, the pain being relieved only by sitting cross-legged and bending forward and applying continuous pressure over the genitalia. - It was worse on lying or in any other position. - She had already received Cantharis and Merc. cor from another physician (on the indication "Bending double, amel.") with no relief. - With the remedy I found on a proper understanding of the symptoms, she felt better within a day.

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- 70. Severe crushing pain in the head : A lady aged 38, married six years ago with no issues, complained of severe crushing headache, esp. vertex, without any relief from treatment by several doctors. - She had severe head injury, being thrown out of a car, at age 18, because of which she remained unconscious for six months in a hospital. - She regained her memory in the next two years, but developed severe crushing pain as if the vertex would be pushed in. - The pain was better by hard pressure with the hand on the vertex. - It is usually worse three days before menses. - One day while lying down in bed she had a jerk and as a result her head went over the side of the bed, and it was then that she accidentally discovered that the crushing pain was much better whenever the head was hanging over the side of the bed. - She was a teacher, and she said that she forgets the pain while she was teaching; similarly when visitors came and she was engaged in conversation with them. - Rx________ 30 given fifteen days before menses (once a day for three days) and a few doses of 200th to be taken instead of Aspirin if necessary. - Much relief before the menses. - After menses the pain entirely disappeared, and she continued to be free from pain. - 71. Repressed anger and indignation : A farmer desiring some needed repairs to a wagon on a Sunday applied to the blacksmith who was under obligations to him for previous service rendered. - Contrary to expectation, the latter refused to work on a Sunday and Mr. X returned home repressing his anger and indignation. - Within an hour he was seized with a general trembling, great oppression of the chest, until he feared he would suffocate. - Heavy crushing weight in the stomach, accompanied by nausea and bitter, salty eructations. - Allopathic Morphine did not help. - The patient cried for death as a relief till the homoeopath came, but Cham., Ign. and Col. were given without relief. - Another remedy, ______ 8 globules of the 30th in 12 teaspoonfuls of water, a teaspoonful every quarter of an hour were ordered. - After the fourth dose there was visible improvement, and medicine was now given every half hour. - In three hours the patient fell into a refreshing sleep and awoke cured. - 72. Uterine tumour : A German journal once reported a case treated I think by Von Keller. - It was a case of uterine tumour treated with Rx_______ on the basis of two symptoms : - (1) whenever the patient would close her eyes to sleep, she would get a strong feeling that she will not wake up next morning, and - (2) when she gets up in darkness, she feels breathless. - 73. Absence of any urge for urination : I was consulted regarding a girl of 18 years. - She had a peculiar complaint, viz., she had no sensation or urging for urine for three days at a time, and she passed urine only once in three days or so. - She had been suffering for six years and had been admitted to a leading hospital and thoroughly investigated. - Every two or three days she had to be catheterised and 100-150 ounces of urine was taken out. - No diagnosis could be arrived at this stage for consultation. - Rx__________ 200 t.d. s. for 4 days improved her considerably and she was soon able to pass stool and urine every day by herself. - 74. Shrieking for aid : A lady was telephoning me 2 or 3 times a day. - She couldn't cope with the way she was feeling. - She wanted to blame me. She wanted me to do something, and quick!! - I gave Puls. to no avail. - And it was not till I caught myself holding the telephone receiver 6 inches from my ear that I realised that she was indeed 'Shrieking for aid." - Some other symptoms: Her mother had told me that she would be heard laughing and singing with the children in the kitchen, but as soon as the mother entered the room, her face would drop like a ton of bricks into a serious, miserable expression. - Also she had a big problem with her sexuality. - She cannot bear her husband even to greet another woman - she wants to be the biggest and the best. - Rx_________ After the remedy she has hardly phoned me (a great relief). - I saw her yesterday, and she is much brighter, lighter and making great progress. - 75. Leucorrhoea : Mrs. L aged 28, tall, slim, had cough and throat trouble for three years. - Her father, brother and two sisters died in one year of consumption. - She had had leucorrhoea several years; had been treated by homoeopathic physicians in three cities without benefit. - Discharge was white, not very thick, felt like warm water running down her limbs. - Rx _____ one powder. - In ten days her leucorrhoea was all gone. - Could walk two miles in heavy fog without return of old symptoms. - 76. Neuralgia of stump after amputation : Mr. H.H. called with the following history. - Eighteen months ago his right leg was crushed under a piece of iron in the morning.

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- On arrival of the surgeon at 6 p.m. he said that amputation was unnecessary for he would not live being so weak after the great loss of blood. - On the patient's begging, he was finally amputated without anaesthetic. - After nine weeks he was dismissed from the hospital without the wound being fully healed. - Three months later he underwent another operation as necrosis of the bone had set in. - But the nerve irritation aggravated, for which iodine paint did not help. - Being unable to work he felt thoroughly despondent and wished he had died. - Was advised dissecting out the scar to release the nerve. - However, he came for homoeopathic treatment. - I gave him a single dose of ______ 10M. - There was gradual improvement in the 'electric shock' and the swelling during daytime. - Three weeks later he went back to his job where he was obliged to be on his feet most of the time, without the slightest inconvenience. - 77. Congenital syphilis : A child, about four months old, had congenital syphilis, such as the old school consider necessarily fatal. - The child had sores all over. - He could not bear to be touched or approached. - Rx_________ cured him right along. - Now, five years of age, he is bright and healthy. - 78. Toothache : A boy had toothache, the only reported peculiarity being worse from sweet things like 'molasses'. - Sent him _____ a high potency of the same (200th ?). - The report next day was that the medicine stopped the pain at once and that it had not recurred. - 79. Mr. M, aged 23, was taken ill with chill and high fever; in a few days' time he coughed up a quantity of pus. - An old school phyisician was called, who immediately summone two others in consultation. - Their diagnosis was abscess in the lower lobe of right lung, and the prognosis unfavourable. - On being called, I made an examination and found a large cavity in the lower lobe of the right lung; patient unable to lie down; high fever and profuse expectoration of pus. - I put him on _______ 30, every two hours; the improvement was rapid. In 12 days' time I had the satisfaction of discharging the case duly cured. - (This was in March 1884) - 80. Right lobar pneumonia : A boy of 10 years was admitted to hospital on 10-5-44. - According to the mother he had been shivering, had pain in his back, was feverish, talkative and seemed to be delirious at times. - Diagnosis : Right lobar pneumonia. Temp. 102 F, pulse 118; respiration 32. - The boy was delirious most of afternoon and evening; very thirsty, eager for fluids. - Persists in trying to get out of bed; expression anxious. - Next day slightly worse. - At 8 p.m. three doses of _______ 1M were given at intervals of two hours. - Before midnight a change was noted; patient began to sweat profusely. - At 1 a.m. fell into sound sleep till morning. - Next morning : Temperature normal; mental symptoms disappeared and physical signs showed that lung was clearing. - Uneventful recovery. - 81. Fever in an infant : Patient aged about 15 months had been suffering from fever since 2 days. - Aggr. at about 11 a.m. , thirst with agg. of heat; no sweat; no stool; restless. - Was given Acon. 6 two doses, b.d. one globule a dose. - Slight remission; repeated two doses as before. - The next day, no perfect remission; child irritable ill humoured; wants to be carried; desires many things but, rejects everything offered; rubs the nose all the time; uneasy. - First two or three days aggr. of heat (with previous chill) 9 a.m. - Abdomen puffed up and tympanitic under percussion; no vomiting; tongue clean but slightly whitish. - Rx________ 200 one globule, one dose only. - And no more medicine was required. - The fever gradually disappeared after the dose had been taken. - 82. Insomnia : Miss T., aged 46, not sleeping well for 12 months. - Worried about business; worrying nature. - So frightfully irritable. - Impatient. - Even dreams of quarrelling. - Wakes after an hour's sleep and lies awake the rest of the night. - Dreams of people being ill, always worrying dreams. - She eats well but has neither strong likes nor dislikes. - Better heat. - Chilly mortal. - Yet cannot stand too much heat in a room. - M.P. ceased over a year ago.

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- Gets heat and flushes but no sweat. - These are worse talking to people. - She is more irritable than depressed. - Frightfully touchy; shy, rather sympathetic with others; they come to her with their trouble. - She is critical; inclined to be. - And is a "fuss put" about the house. - B.P. 170/100. - No tremor. - Not anaemic. - Rx_________ 30 one dose given. - Returned: "better, sleeping a great deal better; can breathe better. "Quite well". - Discharged. - 83. Respiratory distress : Mrs. M. was seen in the knee-chest position; cyanosed, gasping and wheezing; her coarse unruly hair standing out in all directions; was muttering, "If I could get to the seashore..... if I only could....." - Rx________ 10M. - One dose with relief in five minutes while I watched. (Adrenalin in previous attacks with no help). - 84. Opacity of cornea : Miss Jennis, 14, complains of small white spot on the left cornea. - Left eye waters a little in the morning. - Right eye weak. - Sometimes constipated. - The left eye has been weak for more than 3 months. - It commenced with redness of white of eye and small pimples on forehead and eyelids, but no pain or loss of sight. - Suddenly it began to water, with great photophobia. - She is extremely tall, fair and well developed. - The oculist had declared, after two months' treatment, that he was disappointed with the result of his treatment. - The homoeopathic treatment is given entirely by correspondence, as she is living in a far off city. - Telegraphed yesterday right eye suddenly felt pricking pain in it like dust; this morning slight pain through eye, which is much bloodshot; cannot bear bandage off. - Previously she could open the left eye when the right was tied up, and the left eye did not water. - Rx__________ DM every six hours till better. - Took the medicine every four hours for two days, then resumed the daily dose. - Now the right eye is quite well, a week after the acute attack. - Left eye stronger, not watering. - Opacity very faint. - Less constipated. - No medicine. - After two weeks : the streak on left cornea continues. - When improvement began she saw double, and the light appeared as arches. - These symptoms have ceased. - After two months menses appeared slightly lasting only one day. - Spot smaller and sight rather better. - Rx_______ same remedy MM every other day for 14 days. - After two weeks: Spot remains but sight is better. - Pimples on forehead. - Slight return of menses last week : Rx______ same remedy DM every other day for 14 days. - After 10 months reports quite well. - Four months later : Sight is good; slight film on cornea in two places. - Occasional headaches. - Menses still scanty, late by two months. - Same remedy DM every day for 14 days. - Six months later : I saw (for the first time), a

- Took many drugs to rid herself of the foetus. - One day she rode on a horse about three miles, and noticed that she was flooding before reaching her destination. - Was put to bed, and after several severe pains the foetus was extruded. - The haemorrhage was profuse and painless, and bright red. - When I arrived, her face was blanched and she frequently gasped for breath. - The slightest motion would cause a gush of blood, which was followed by a deathly sinking at the epigastrium. - Rx_______ 200 - the haemorrhage was controlled at once. - The woman experienced a peculiar, indescribable sensation pass over her in a few seconds. - The gushes came at longer intervals, and the fainting ceased immediately. - The one dose was all-sufficient. - 88. Opioid dependence : At the Mumbadevi Homoeopathic Hospital, Bombay, a team was specially formed to treat drug addicts. - A total of 37 cases of opioid dependence were seen within a period of six months in 1988. - A trial with homoeopathic remedies was done. - The following is one of the cases treated. - Mr. S. K., 28, on the second day got such an uncontrollable urge for the drug that he escaped from the hospital inspite of the best efforts to make him understand his condition. - He returned about half an hour later, a miserable wreck and started weeping; he saw no hope for himself in the future; did not want to meet anyone and thought of committing suicide. - He was given _______ 10M half hourly and was much peaceful in just three doses. (Chronic or constitutional treatment was continued after discharge from the hospital based on symptoms before becoming an addict). - 89. Morning diarrhoea : Mrs. W., about 35, has been subject to morning diarrhoea since the latter months of pregnancy four years ago. - It commences on rising at 6 or 7 a.m. and is liable to recur until noon; before stool there is cutting pain at the lower part of the abdomen, and after stool there is pain up the nape of neck, followed by weakness at the bottom of the back. - Always worse during pregnancy. - Rx________ 30 one dose, was followed in about 15 minutes by nausea, then relief. - Did not require to be repeated. - Slight return of pain and looseness recurring now and again, but in less than a fortnight reports herself as feeling better in every way than she has done in the last four years. - 90. Diphtheria : Ella, aged 3 years, robust, good natured. - Found a hard swelling on both tonsils large, putrid ulcers; the fauces fiery red; tongue heavily coated; sticky mucus in throat and fauces. - Nares stuffed up. - Swallowing very difficult; dry hacking cough; urine scanty and high coloured. - All of the muscles sore to touch; rather restless. - Would stay alone but preferred to have her mother close by her. - Rx_________ 10M dry on the tongue; S. L. two hourly. - The next call found an improvement in all of the symptoms. - Next call, ulcers healed, the swelling gone, the tongue cleaned up. - Swallowing without difficulty. Slight redness of tonsils, but considered the case to be well. - 91. Pain eyeball : A boy, about 15 years old, was suffering from an excruciating pain in the left eye-ball. - He said it seemed to be in the centre. - It was a sticking, lancinating, burning pain, with an intolerable pressure aggravated every afternoon. - It had commenced at noon every day for 10 days, lasting all the afternoon, and until nearly midnight, when he would sleep, and wake up in the morning completely relieved, and remain so until noon. - The last six days he had taken medicine prescribed by the family physician (quinine) without relief. In fact, it was becoming more unbearable. - When I saw the boy he was walking the floor, holding his hand to his eye, and crying with pain. - Rx________ 3x a few pellets in a glass of water, teaspoonfuls every fifteen minutes. - He was free of pain before an hour had passed and it never came again. - 92. Convulsions following open-heart surgery : in the intensive care of a hospital - a boy of 2-1/2 years had, 3 weeks previously, undergone 10 hours open heart surgery for a ventricular-septal defect. - The operation was successful but he had picked up an infection of pseudomonas. - One little boy in the ward had died of this infection. - He was on a ventilator because his lungs were full of oedema and twice his lungs had collapsed. - He had convulsions on the day I saw him, and his temperature was sometimes 40 degree C. - I confess that I was frightened and felt inexperienced, but everybody including the child's doctor was desperate, and my first child had died of the self-same heart defect 15 years ago, to this day. - So I had to try. - When I saw him he was sort of asleep, boiling hot, arms twitching and thumbs clasped inside his fingers. - A bell rang in my memory! - He had a line of blue on his upper eyelid. - I rummaged around in the repertory no trusting to memory; but yes. - Then he woke up.

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- He stopped twitching, and his thumbs uncurled. - I thought I had missed the "definitive moment." - Now his tongue was darting in and out like a snake, and he was averse to touch. - I was amazed to find "Tongue, darting in and out, like a snake"; and only two medicines. - So he got it. - Two doses of 9x at night and the following morning. - The effect was immediate and brilliant - he had improved beyond measure, was off the ventilator successfully; temperature stabilised, white cell count down from 29 to 15 - sitting up, laughing, giggling and trying to pull the intravenous lines out the nurse's arms. - It was so easy!! - The consultant said, 24 hours after the remedy, "It's hard to believe this child had septicaemia; he looks so well." - 93. Chronic headache : The patient gave the following history : "Before marriage I was very shy and soft-spoken. - After marriage I went through lot of ups and downs with my mother-in-law (MIL). - Within a month of marriage my husband went back to sea. - MIL started harassing me; I was not supposed to visit my parents. - Was first teased for not conceiving, and when I conceived, I was harassed. I used to weep quietly and end up with a splitting headache; took Aspro to sleep off. MIL even started keeping me out of the house, saying the house belonged to her. - I would turn to one of my relatives or the parish priest for help. - I became very religious in this period, and kept praying and reading the Bible. - When my daughter was born, I was insulted a lot by people saying she did not resemble me (she was a carbon copy of my husband, complexion and all). - I was very much hurt. My MIL used to tease me, make noises when the child was sleeping, so that she would wake up and I could not do any housework. - She used to throw things at me even while I had my child in my arms. - I slowly turned to retaliation; was very tense and always on guard; never knew what would happen. - Eventually, on investigation, MIL was found to have a degeneration of the right side of her brain. - This meant that she did not know what she was doing. - She was sent to an elderly home. - "I am still not back to normal. - I lose temper, shout loudly; then after a short span I cool down and feel extremely sorry and repent for being so harsh. - I don't like being accused of something which I have not done or said. - I am afraid of dark, snakes, worms; upset over little things, become tense for no reason. - When my daughter is sick, I get so worked up about what might happen." - Summer heat agg. - Shooting pain in head with nausea, then likes to sleep. - Irritable before and during menses. - Cannot stand noise. - Anticipatory anxiety. - Had a marked desire for sour things, pickles and tamarind during pregnancy. - Rx_________ 1M 3 doses four hourly. - Marked improvement in her mind and headache. - Remedy repeated after four months. - She has been well since. - 94. Sensitive lumbar vertebrae : Male aged 25 years, large head and very small limbs. - Found him with his head thrown back, right leg drawn up, left perfectly straight; seemed sore and would cry upon being moved; lumbar vertebrae sensitive to touch; temperature of body normal; could stand on the right foot, but had no power over the left leg and little strength in the left hand. - He would eat nothing but meat, nor drink anything but soup made of meat. - Stools crumbling, infrequent. - He had been in this condition for several days, but having no fever his parents thought it would pass off. - Rx__________ 50M - upon which he commenced and continued to improve for some days, being able to sit up and play and move about, though he would drag the left leg. - His diet also became more extended, though the tenderness of the skin continued (on account of which I gave Gettysburg salt CM). - He had no other medicine excepting an intercurrent dose of Nat mur (200?) given on account of his aversion to bread and longing for salt. - In a short time his recovery was complete. - 95. Typhoid : A case of typhoid fever came for treatment when very low, from another physician. - The patient, a young lady, was trying to get off the bed, extending her legs to one side or the other, requiring an attendant on each side of the bed, to prevent her getting off the bed. - She would not speak; her mouth and throat were so dry and parched. - If offered water or drink, she would push away from it and refuse it. - The nurse said, "Let her alone, she will die." - The remedy _____ 30th potency, once in three or four hours until improvement, was given.

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- When better, on being asked if she remembered refusing drinks, she said it was like tearing her throat to swallow. - 96. Crying spells, with desire to pinch everybody : E. G., female aged nine months; large head, light hair and complexion. - Her father died of phthisis. - She had long continued crying spells, accompanied by a desire to pinch everybody and everything. - The attacks would last for hours, during which time it was impossible to induce sleep. - Rx________ 10M. Cured. - 97. Obstructive jaundice : Miss M., age 64, went off her food with slight indigestion and nausea. - Because of pain or the "hard boiled egg" type, Abies nigra was given with some relief. - Within a few days noticed bile in urine (jaundice), but the degree of weakness was unusual. - As the weeks went on the jaundice increased with wasting. - Hence, the surgeon concluded that she probably had cancer of the head of the pancreas, but the patient was not fit even for an exploratory operation. - Then van den Bergh test confirmed it was obstructive jaundice. - The abdomen though thin was rigid, not very tender; gall bladder was palpable, liver region tender, X-ray showed no calculi, ESR 84. - One was driven to the conclusion, together with the deepening jaundice, that it was as the surgeon had suggested, "carcinoma of the head of the pancreas." - Now developed an acute urticarial rash (?) due to bile in the skin. - She was indeed miserable. - There was mild fever, but the patient's great complaint was of fidgety legs which kept her constantly awake, and even in the day was a dreadful worry to her. - Rx________ 30th one dose. - She began to improve after a few days of increased fever. - The jaundice decreased, the appetite improved, the pain diminished. - The second dose 200 16 days later, and the third 1M 21 days later. - In 8 weeks went home well. - Alive and well four years later also. - 98. Apoplexy : Lippe once said: "You can't squeeze homoeopathy into that pathological livery; it is too big a thing." - Some time ago I had a case of apoplexy; the pati

- My old man has almost cleaned the house of victuals. - I can't find time to cook all he wants.." - 102. Violent cough with lockjaw : A man aged 71 was greatly relieved of fatty degeneration of heart with right hemiplegia followed by severe broncho-pneumonia because of negligent exposure to cold. - Being called one night I found him suffering from violent paroxysmal cough, each paroxysm being followed by lockjaw for a few minutes; there was also a new symptom not manifestly connected with the paroxysms of cough, jerking of the left arm. - Rx ________ 1M dissolved in water, a teaspoon every two hours till relieved. - Next day found he had good night, much less cough, and no return of the jerking of the left arm or the lock-jaw. - He lingered on in comparative ease for a few days, and then passed away quietly in sleep. - 103. Gout : A case of very bad gout you have ever heard, but as an example of prescribing it bears telling. - The patient had all sorts of treatment and was nearly crippled, having to lie up each week-end in order to be able to drag himself to work. - He had one-sided sweat. Rx________ was given with dramatic results. - 104. Rheumatic carditis : Miss B, aged 12, was troubled with inflammatory rheumatism a year ago, which left her with "heart trouble." - And her hands were somewhat deformed. - Two or three weeks ago she took a severe cold which caused her to suffer most intolerable pain in the region of the heart. - When I was called she had been attended by an old school physician who had said she would not live until morning. - When I called she was sitting in a rocking chair, having been in that position for a week, as she was unable to lie down for a moment, so great was the dyspnoea. - Her pulse was 120, full and strong; respiration 28; temperature 99.5. - She described a pain in the chest at about the sixth intercostal space, where the apex of the heart strikes the thorax, the spot that pained her seeming to be about the size of a quarter of dollar, and having three branches; one extending upwards across the left chest to the point of the left shoulder and down the arm and the third downward, across the lower part of the sternum, or epigastric region. - On moving or taking a long breath, the pain became worse, the act of moving being always followed by a momentary suspension of breath. - The heart's action vigorous, striking the chest so hard that it produced a waving, undulating motion of the carotids. - I thought from the heart striking further around to the left that there was hypertrophy of the left ventricle, but I could not detect any abnormal sounds, only increased intensity. - Prescribed ________ 200. - Next morning I found her lying in bed with two pillows under head sleeping soundly. - She improved rapidly from day to day with the dose being repeated whenever necessary. - By the end of a month as the pain abated, the respiration and pulse became normal with decreased heart action. In two months she had gained in flesh with improved appetite. - 105. Involuntary urination : I once cured an eleven-year old girl who had troublesome involuntary urination; the mother told me the following symptom : She said to her daughter one day in church, "Why don't you keep your foot still?" - The daughter replied, "Mams, if I do, I will lose my water." - I observed afterward that the feet were going all the time. - ________ cured that involuntary urination and made a healthy rugged child. - 106. Mrs. J. T. E., aged 45, complained : Feeling of shock in epigastrium as though she had been struck, when stomach is empty; getting gradually worse after gastric digestion and becoming unbearable before next meal. - Epigastrium very sensitive to least jar, walking, etc. Agg. when lying supine. - The epigastric pain was further described as between "wind cramp pain" and that due to being struck over the solar plexus. - Dyspnoea from exertion. - Better in A.M. , worse in P.M. until supper. - Feet and hands cold. - Rapid emaciation. - Stool hard and crumbling; lacked power to expel. - Sleep unrefreshing. - Choking pain at cardiac end of stomach. - Sensation from throat to stomach as if an apple core had been swallowed. - Spells of despondency about an incurable disease; worse towards evening, before dinner and supper. - Spasmodic yawning in evening. - Anacardium did no good. - On reviewing the case I gave _________one powder in water. - Improvement began at once and all symptoms disappeared after one more dose given after a lapse of two weeks. - 107. A lady, 44 years, had been a great sufferer from rheumatism of the neuralgic variety for more than ten years; now undergoing change of life. - There was valvular disease and very feeble action of the heart. - One morning she was suddenly taken with a very severe pain in the pit of the stomach, going through to the back

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at about the lower edge of the scapulae. - The hands and feet were icy cold; respiration so painful that she could expand the chest only slightly; she frequently gasped for breath. - Vomited her breakfast. - She was in agony and I could not obtain satisfactory answers. - Warm applications relieved. - Gave Cham. three days. - At noon the pain was more severe, going through to the lower point of the right shoulder blade. - A distinct fan-like motion of the alae nasi. - No thirst or fever. - Gave her Veratrum, after which she had some sleep. - Fresh questioning brought out that the seat of the pain had shifted to directly over the region of the liver and passed through to the region of the right kidney. - She also had pain, not severe, from nape of neck over the head to forehead. - Fan-like motion of alae nasi was marked. - Felt better from eating a crust of bread. Seat of the pain was acutely tender to touch. Was now given _______mm. - The next morning the patient's family expressed wonder at the decided and prompt relief which the final powder gave. - The patient could now move in bed freely without screaming in agony. - The tenderness to touch also disappeared in one more day without a repetition of the remedy. - 108. Under "old school" treatment for three weeks; semicomatose, roused with difficulty, then very slow in answering questions and only in monosyllables, dropping again into stupor. - Pulse 106 to 120; persistently lying on right side with knees hanging over edge of bed and hand under head. - When coughing profuse yellow blood streaked sputum dropped from mouth into vessel. - Tongue thickly coated yellow; mouth sore; breath offensive. - Abdomen distended and sensitive; consolidation at base of lungs; incessant cough. - Constant moaning. - Profuse drenching perspiration over entire body; restless. - ______ 50M one dose. - In ten days the patient was up and walking about. - 109. Typhoid : It was a very desperate case which had baffled my best efforts for a long time. - I had used Phos. ac. in different potencies, high and low, for it seemed to me that it must help the case, but to no effect. - The patient was in profound coma, lying silent, immovable, insensible; had difficult comprehension; slowness of ideas; dwelt long on her answer, or did not answer at all; very deaf. - She had putrid colliquative diarrhoea; rolling, rumbling and gurgling in bowels. - A dreamy state with drowsiness and falling of eyelids. - Dryness of the mouth, tongue and throat with fullness of stomach and loss of appetite; in the evening the dryness was so great that the tongue stuck to the roof of the mouth; yet there was no thirst. - Upon examination of the symptoms I found the whole case covered by ______, and with the 30th and 200th potencies made a brilliant cure. - 110. Gradually progressing paralytic weakness : A bachelor of fifty, was experiencing mental and physical progressive weakness. - In his earlier years he was of a lively nature, the clown of the family. - In the past years he had gradually become difficult of comprehension, had a dullness - like stupefaction. - He seemed to lose hold of the idea and became confused. - His disposition was entirely changed. - Silence and melancholy with ill-feeling towards his family. - He had developed the characteristic drooping eyelids. - All his movements had slowed down almost to a half. - He walked with his knees bent as though he would fall forward. - His complaints were a heaviness and sense of weariness with a paralysed feeling in the arms and legs, and exhaustion with a desire to sit or lie down. - The least excitement brought on weakness and trembling. - His family could now see this condition had been coming on for at least five years, becoming worse in the last few months. - I gave this man ______ in the 200th. - His family noted marked improvement in both the mental and physical condition. - I followed the 200th with 1M with the patient improving still further. - 111. Suicidal thought : I had a case at one time in which I failed to get all the symptoms when finally the patient told me that he "desired to jump from high places". - Needless to say, _____ cured him. - 112. Delusional psychosis (pre-senile state) : Mrs. M., aet 69. - For some months losing her memory for recent events. - Normal and quite good for things long past. - Takes offence unjustly.

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- Thinks people are conspiring against her; that they are trying to poison her. - Talkative. - Mutters to herself, laughs to herself. - Easy exhaustion. - Lies in bed quite content to do nothing. - Quite unlike her normal self. - Hears voices - people talking about her. - Talks about death. - B.P. 180/90. - Apathetic. - No interest in her house work, nor in shopping. - There is a history of concussion some years ago, but the other symptoms have been coming on for months. - Though not certifiable, she is becoming a nuisance to other people of whom she is suspicious, and whom she is accusing. - She had various remedies quite well indicated. - Baryta carb had helped, as has Stram. - She is very religious, and as so often seen in such cases, when annoyed, is prone to lewd talk. - Taking the characteristic symptoms present, __________ seemed to come through after reading the materia medica. _______ 30 was given, and within a week she was out doing her own shopping. - 113. Right ovary swollen and tender : Miss J. F., age 34, had suffered severely for ten years with painful menstruation. - Had undergone various operations and been treated by many doctors, without gaining any relief; and as a last resort had, while in woman's hospital, the operation of having the neck of the uterus cut open, and for months wore sponge-tents and stem-pessaries to prevent closing of the canal, but even this did not give her much relief. - When reporting to me, she was taken with severe pain in the limbs, back and bowels, as though the menses would appear, as she had run over her time a few days. - These pains continued with great severity up to the time of my first visit. - The pains were cutting and sharp in the bowels, with frequent desire to urinate; no flow. Amm. carb 200 (in water). - She now had pain in the right ovary, which was swollen and tender, and the desire to pass water was constant, as though there was something pressing upon the bladder. - Made an examination and found an ante-version of the uterus, but owing to an extreme tenderness of the parts I did not attempt to replace it. - Prescribed ______ 200. - Two days later: No pain in the ovary, and the urinary trouble was completely relieved; the bowels were very tender and painful. - She was under my care for three months when her symptoms (ovarian pain and urinary complications) were promptly relieved. - She called herself about well. - It is my experience, following Guernsey, that if the key-note is found, all the remaining symptoms are frequently found in the same remedy. - 114. Headache with vertigo : A few days ago I had prescribed a patient some powders of Glonoine for a congestive headache. - As she reached the door of my office on her way out, she said, "I forgot to tell you, I am so nervous when I walk downstairs. - I am in a mortal dread of falling. - I feel so dizzy." - I studied her case again and gave her _________ 200 which had a very gratifying result. - 115. Menses suppressed : A young lady, about 28 years, (single), ceased to menstruate after taking cold and suffered thereby for several months from dizziness in the head; face alternately flushed, and then pale; delirium at night; frequent feeling of chilliness; dull headache; restlessness; cannot keep the hands still; constantly making various motions with them, as in chorea; feet and hands cold. - After administering _______ the symptoms disappeared for 24 hours; and she was able to attend to her business. - The menses did not return at that time. - 116. Bronchial asthma : Mr. B., aged 35, came with the complaint of severe attack of bronchial asthma with cough, chest pain, backache and fever of 101 of. - This was one of the acute exacerbations of his chronic complaint of three years. - A peculiar feature was the continuous oscillatory (side to side) movement of the eyes. He was a very reserved and closed person. - He would not disclose any information about his grief. - When asked how his wife and mother get along with one another, tears formed in his eyes. - He confided that whenever quarrels took place, he went to his room (he always insisted on the windows remaining closed, his wife stated); he lied down alone and thought a lot about what happened. - "It affects me a lot" he said. - He did not feel like going out at all. - He was thirstless, had offensive sweat without staining. - He was chilly.

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- One dose of the remedy, ____________ 1M potency was given. - Next day reported no fever, no chest pain, no backache. - Felt hungry. - 117. Phthisis : Mrs. P., aged 25 y4422(d)-10.6134( )0.721099(2)1.4422(5)-10.6134( )0.721099( )0.721099(P)-(e)1.4422(d)-1 cs r 2 Feltis5no y

- During her mad freaks she demolished some fine portraits of his ancestors when the husband was in court. - Asked why, she said-"those things are the root of all our family troubles - they set one member of family against another." - She would laugh away serious matters and would appear to think over very deeply over an ordinary trifle. - Physical : inveterate constipation, for days together. - Stools intensely offensive. - Ate very little, drank much. - Cooling drinks much preferred. - Menses profuse, watery, offensive, generally aggr. at night. - Before she recouped from the exhausting menses she got another term. - Limbs were cold, still she had cold bath in a tank or river. - She must have her way, else she would raise an uproar. - Drenching perspiration towards dawn. - With all these, she was never morose or dull - rather gay and mirthful. - Did family work, but hardly any coherence in her work; as if by force of sheer habit. - Memory altogether banished. - Sexual desire more easily excited than ever before. - Husband had gonorrhoea at age 24, suppressed by injections. - Rheumatism, agg. in the rains. - On this record she was given _______ 5M in graduated doses. - A month later severe diarrhoea set in, treated with placebo. - For lack of further progress after one month of the diarrhoea the remedy in 10M one dose was given. - After a sharp aggravation in the first week, steady amelioration followed. - Needed no more medicine for ten months. - In view of another spell of insane talks and nonsensical behaviour, a dose of Bacill. 1M was given (F/H of T.B. ), which finished the case. - 122. Dysmenorrhoea : Miss A. P., 21 years old, came with complaints : - (1) Pain in the abdomen one day before menses, better by local heat. - (2) Depression two days before menses; felt unfortunate and wept. - (3) Occasionally fever two days before menses. - H/o eye injury, operated for corneal opacity. - Vegetarian; like all fruits; loved ice cream, hated fried food. - Very thirsty. - Sleep: sound. - Dreams : pessimistic; felt unlucky; something bad was going to happen. - Hobbies: listening to classical music. - Mind : very obstinate, fastidious, introvert; very sympathetic; does not like consolation. - Prescribed _____ 200 three doses; S.L. for 7 days. - After one week, patient better in general : One dose of the same remedy, 200th. - After 18 days : No pre-menstrual abdominal pain, no depression. - S.L. 15 days. - After 3 months c/o dandruff and falling of hair. - Was given the same remedy, one dose in 200th. - After this the patient has not reported back. - 123. Asthma : Prof. O. wrote to me that his mother of 60 years was suffering from asthmatic ailments, adding that these distressing attacks, strange to say, only appeared in wet, rainy weather, while during a clear sky she was always free from them. - For years she had been trying various remedies, but, sad to say, without any benefit. - Was given _____ and it proved excellent. - The professor wrote to me after using up his supply, that the remedy had acted excellently, as it had not only removed the asthmatic trouble, but also the stool troubles, from which his mother had always suffered. - I had sent him the sixth potency, directing him to give a few pellets in the morning and in the evening. - 124. Hydrocephalus : A boy, who later became a judge, bright and competent, was born with hydrocephaloid. - His head remained unusually large in his earlier years until he came under the treatment of Dr. Constantine Hering who prescribed ________ in a high potency. - At intervals the boy with a big head, as his deformity was corrected, required to be fitted with a smaller and smaller hat, and not a larger hat as is necessary with a growing lad. - 125. Asthma : A female, 69 years old, nervous and timid, who grew up as an only child, presented with asthma since last 39 years. - It started when she was 30 years; she felt it was caused by tension and anger in her marriage. - Asthma agg. night (especially from midnight to 4 a.m. ); agg. hot days, and wet rainy days. - Pea soup and bacon would trigger attacks. - She had a dry cough which preceded an attack. - Heart condition : enlargement and fatty degeneration of heart with symptoms of "racing heart beat" and the heart beat felt heavy; was advised pacemaker. - At this stage, she was encouraged to tell more about her marriage.

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- She had been widowed for 3 years now (she started crying); her husband was very critical and blamed her for everything that went wrong. - He would not give her any money to feed and clothe the children, with episodes of violence; a few times he had even taken her by the throat. - She lived in fear of what would happen next; she couldn't understand why she was being treated like this; she stayed on as she felt it was her duty to be by her children; it was not out of fear that she stayed. - She suppressed her emotions, "built up a brick wall." - She became deeply depressed; felt sorrow, with thoughts of suicide (throwing herself under a train), but she wouldn't because she couldn't let anyone in the family treat the children in the way she was treated; couldn't think of being guilty that way for a selfish reason. - She had no anger or resentment towards him; he had hated his job which did not give job opportunities. - She felt sorry for her husband who could not enjoy life; she said, "if only he could have enjoyed life." - 75 percent of the one hour of consultation was occupied with this "despair for her husband", which could be taken to mean as if she had anxiety of conscience as if she was responsible for his not enjoying life. - Therefore, was given ____ 200 two doses once a day. - Over the one month after the prescription 50% less occurrence of asthma; had a lot more energy; sleeping for full 8 hours; not feeling the sorrow and despair for the husband. Tachycardia (heart racing) also greatly subsided. - Two months later: further improvement. - Ten months later gradual return of symptoms from certain anxieties. - Repeat the remedy 200/2 doses O.D. - All symptoms cleared. - Felt great. - 126. Mrs. S., 36 years. - Two years before the onset of the present illness she had lost a little son through an accident. - She never regained her peace of mind. - In a state of utter physical exhaustion and emotional strain (disabled parents), she contracted a cold. - A few days later, she was completely immobilised by an excruciating pain in the right lumbosacral area. - The next day found her unable to void urine and to move her legs at all. - She was in a state of frenzied restlessness, screaming and crying with pain, unable to lie still, yet aggravated by any motion. - There was no urge for stool whatsoever; and urination could be induced only by pouring warm water over the perineum. - Low temperature. - Modalities : worse at night, very chilly, yet better open air; tearful disposition; restlessness. - The last period was extremely scanty. (Puls. gave only moderate relief). - The possibilities of myelitis and later conversion to hysteria were considered and ruled out. - The alarmed family suggested hospitalisation. - The symptoms before admission: extreme drum-like distension of the abdomen; loud belching, nausea, loss of appetite, at times brownish vomiting; great thirst for cold water, taken in little sips; aversion to sweets; offensive odour from the mouth; oppression in the chest. - Tearful and fearful. - The pain now cramping and shooting in waves like labour pains. - Hospitalisation (and Phos.) was unavailing. - A state of utter exhaustion dominated the picture. - Phos. acid seemed to help a bit. - However, the pains were still unbearable, particularly during the night, after the first sleep, and with every change of weather towards rain or electric storms. - Additional symptoms were flushes of heat and an inability to concentrate on any thoughts. - Lach., Sep., etc. were totally ineffective. - Now two months after the first onset of illness, _______ 200 was given. - There was such an immediate and gratifying relief of all mental and physical symptoms that there can be no doubt that this remedy was indicated from the very beginning. - Within a few days the patient walked freely and had only slight distress at night. - Within two weeks she became practically normal. - A sore throat after four weeks, and palpitation and hot flushes and bleeding spongy gums after five months responded on both occasions to this same remedy 200th. - 127. Kidney failure : A young student of 18 years developed anuria and was put on dialysis on the diagnosis of kidney failure. - On hearing this report I advised that he be given _____ 30th potency three times a day. - He was given discharge from the hospital within two days, and has remained quite well at the time of writing after two years. - 128. Bronchial asthma : Mr. X aged 25. - Parental history of bronchial asthma and pulmonary tuberculosis. - He was born with perpetual cold, agg. very much by change of season. - Aggr. draught of dry cold air or exposure to sea weather. - Up to the age of eight, he had these attacks of post-nasal drip, pharyngitis, deep cough followed by

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laryngopharyngeal spasmodic cough. - He took to bronchodilators for about 15 years. - He joined a lathe factory at the age of 24 years. - Here he had to deal with copper element and thus had to inhale copper vapour at work spot for nearly 8 hours a day. - Six months later he developed spasmodic cough with hoarseness of voice. - Sound production was difficult esp. on breathing cold dry air. - Symptoms : Cough with suppressed respiration; fatiguing with blowing of blood from nose. - Violent cough at night followed by chilliness and hoarseness of voice from morning till evening. - Dry cough usually worse between 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. , relieved by sitting, with tearing in head with anxiety. - At times tearing burning pain in upper region of sternum. - Difficult respiration "when walking fast." - Sensation of constriction esp. in larynx as if from sulphur fumes, agg. in morning with slimy expectoration. - The clinical picture valuable for selecting the remedy: - 1. While coughing patient clenched his thumbs in the palms. - 2. Violent spasmodic cough at times ended in vomiting. - 3. When vomiting, face would turn blue - in paroxysms, amel. by drinking water. - 4. Mind : Anxiety, with expression of fear of death; tossing about in bed during attacks. - Several drugs were given on local picture of symptoms, such as Ars. alb., Antim tart, Aralia rac., Spongia, etc. - Also Tuberc. on family history. - Ultimately _______ 200 cured his bronchial asthma and catarrhal symptoms. - 129. A child was so emaciated that it looked old and withered. - It had great longing for bacon and ham fat. - A few doses of _______ 30 at weekly intervals cured it; and the child put on normal weight and looks. Materia medica

Aconitum napellus Keywords - Intense fear. - Restlessness. - Anxiety. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Intense fear, nervous restlessness; frantic; screams, growls; tossing about in agony. - Inconsolable. - 2. Great fear and anxiety of mind, fear of DEATH, predicts the hour of death. - 3. Fear or fright remains after violent painful symptoms. - 4. Rapid action. - 5. Sudden manifestations with violent, painful symptoms. - 6. A/f exposure to cold with suddenness of attack, acute inflammation and congestion (heart, circulation, head). - 7. Pain burning, tingling; numbness; insupportable, drive him to despair. - 8. Fear of crowds, of crossing the street. - 9. Haemorrhage; bright red, copious (haemoptysis, piles with heat and sharp stitches, epistaxis). - 10. Sudden, severe pain in stomach with gagging and vomiting of blood. Mind - Great anxiety; agonising fear and restlessness accompany every ailment however trivial. - Fear; of death, of crowds, of crossing streets. - Impatient. - Frantic. - Terror- stricken from intensity of pain. - Clairvoyance. - Music is unbearable; makes her sad. - Inconsolable anxiety and piteous howling. - Extremely sensitive to pain. Objective - Great fear and anxiety; afraid to go out, to cross the street. - Intolerable fear; predicts the day he will die. - Music unbearable. - Skin dry and hot; face red or pale. - Burning thirst for large quantities of cold water. - Restless, tossing about in agony. - Remote effects of fright (OPIUM). - High fever; dry hot skin.

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- Everything tastes bitter except water (Stann). - Hot red cheeks. - Stools of pure blood. - Drenching sweats. - Retention of urine in new-born. - Frantic from intensity of pain. Causation (a.f. ) - 1. Exposure to cold, dry weather. (Respiration affected). - 2. Heat, especially of sun (Gastrointestinal). - 3. Shock, fright, vexation. - 4. Surgical shock, injury, checked perspiration. Modalities - Agg. - Fright, shock, violent emotions. - Evening and night. - Cold, dry weather (Caust., Hep-s., Nux-v.). - Chilled while sweating. - Rising from bed. - Lying on left or affected side. - Noise, during menses. - Amel. - Repose, warmth, sweat. Food & drinks - 1. Great thirst. - 2. Taste. - Everything tastes bitter except water, which has bad taste. - 3. Craving. - For beer, acids, bitter drinks, sour drinks, cold drinks. - 4. Intense burning thirst for large quantities of cold water. - 5. Disagrees. - Milk. Female - Amenorrhoea in plethoric girls - after fright. - Suppression of menses from fright or cold. - Active uterine haemorrhage. - Vagina hot, dry and sensitive. - Milk fever with delirium. - Ovarities from checked menses. - Fear of death during pregnancy. - Threatened abortion from fright or anger. Child - 1. Child cries out, grasps the genitals after fright. - 2. Grinding of teeth. - 3. Watery diarrhoea in children on hot days, they cry, are restless and sleepless. - 4. Retention or agonising strangury of urine; in new- born; due to cold exposure, with handling of genitals. - 5. Sudden watery diarrhoea and convulsion of teething children. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Vertigo - Agg. on rising or on any motion of head or body. - 2. Eye - Conjunctivitis from foreign bodies, or cinders. - 3. Face - One cheek red and hot, the other pale and cold. - 4. Face - Red and becomes deathly pale on rising; or he becomes dizzy. - 5. Mouth - Chewing motions of lower jaw. - 6. Stool - White faeces and red urine. - 7. Bladder - Urination involuntary, with thirst and fear. - 8. Respiration - Resp. affections from cold, dry weather; gastrointestinal disturbances from very hot weather. - 9. Cough - Agg. by every inspiration, or by lying on back. - Numbness of left arm, tingling in fingers.

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- 10. Cough - Croup, suffocating, whistling, on expiration. (Caust.; on inspiration, Spong.) - 11. Chest - Heart - Great distress with pains into left shoulders; agg. sitting erect. - Tingling in fingers. - Pulse fast, bounding. - Arterial tension. (Bell, in the head). - 12. Chest (a)1.448134354.5569125-6.3339(;)0.721099()13..721099(s)-6.33537(u)13.4978(f)12(o)-10.6134(n)1(o)-10.6134.4422(e)13.4921099( )0 - Boiling water were poured into ches sho

- Blue white pallor about lips. - White linea nasalis. (A drawn condition, beginning at the alae nasi, and extending to the angle of the mouth), giving the face an expression of great anxiety and pain. - 4. Lymphatic glands swelled, like a string of beads - round the neck, swelling of meibomian glands, axillary glands, with lancinating pain. - 5. Complete absence of thirst though there is great heat. Mind - Weak, nervous and prostrated; from over-exertion of mind. - Inability to think, to fix attention (in students from over-exertion of mind before exams.). - Great anxiety and restlessness. - Discontented; stupefied. Objective - Deathly nausea, vomits large, hard curds, then limpness and deep sleep. - Sudden violent vomiting of milk. - Lymphatics swelled like a string of beads. - Cool, clammy skin. - Epileptiform spasms with clenched thumbs. - Eyes turned downwards. - Intolerance of milk. - Inability to think or fix attention; Brain fag. - Hungry after vomiting; eats and vomits again. - An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a well-marked Linea nasalis. Causation (a.f. ) - Over-exertion of mind. - Gastrointestinal disturbances. - Improper feeding of babies. Modalities - Agg. - During dentition. - Milk. - Hot weather (summer). - Frequent eating. - Over-exertion of mind, 3 to 4 a.m. and evening. - After vomiting; after stool; after spasm. - Amel. - Walking in open air. - Conversation. Food & drinks - Appetite, Thirst, Cravings, Aversions : Appetite nibbling. Thirstlessness marked. - Aversion - Intolerance of MILK, vomits it as soon as swallowed, in large curds. - Hungry after vomiting. - Regurgitation of food long after eating. - DEATHLY NAUSEA; retching. - Then exhausted sleep; wakes up hungry, drinks milk and vomits again (Ant.c. does not want to nurse again). - Averse to wine. Female - Menses watery. - Lancinating pain in mammary glands and sexual organs. Child - Intolerance of milk which is vomited immediately in large curds; then exhausted and falls asleep. - On waking, takes milk and vomits again. - Constant nibblers. - Stools either curdled milk or light yellow and greenish. - Inability to stand or hold head up with no particular ailment. - Epileptic spasms with clenched thumbs and eyes turned downwards. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Head symptoms relieved by passing flatus. - 2. Mouth - Speech slow, embarrassed; even speechless from suffering. - 3. Mouth - Taste bitter - of onions, of cheese. Sweetish in morning. - 4. Mouth - Tongue seems too long.

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- 5. Stomach - Hungry after vomiting - sensation as if stomach was turned upside down. - 6. Stomach - Regurgitation of food an hour after it has been taken (Kreos.). - 7. Stool - Stools undigested or obstinate constipation as if all action of the bowels has been lost. - 8. Gen. Male - Right testicle drawn up with pain in kidney. - 9. Back - Sensation as if pain in the back could be amel. by straightening out and bending backwards. - 10. Skin - Heat makes eruptions itch intolerably. - But cannot be uncovered during sweat. - 11. General - Parts feel screwed together. Cases - 72. Aethusa : - Fear on closing eyes (KR. 43); fear before sleep, to close the eyes, lest he should never wake (KR. 47); Respiration difficult in the dark (KR. 769). - (Rajan Sankaran - H.H. 1990/306)+

Aloe socotrina Keywords - All veins engorged, full, but anal sphincter relaxed. - Irritable, revengeful, with abdominal pain and constipation. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Sense of insecurity in the rectum, as if stool would escape while passing flatus or urine. - 2. Dissatisfied and angry about himself or his complaint, esp. when constipated. - 3. Diarrhoea; has to hurry to closet immediately after eating and drinking (Crot. t); with want of confidence in sphincter ani; diarrhoea drives him out of bed early in the morning (Psor, Rum, Sulph.). - 4. Stool, urging for, but passes only flatus. - Rumbling of flatus before stool. - 5. Piles, protrude like a bunch of grapes, sore and tender; amel. by cold washing (Ap., Kali.c. ). - 6. Hungry during diarrhoea. - 7. Solid stool and masses of mucus pass involuntarily. (Loss of sensation in the rectum). - 8. Fullness, heaviness or pressure in the pelvis (rectum or uterus); with a plug-like sensation; with dragging down pains. - 9. Alternating states; - (a)Lassitude alternating with great mental activity; - (b) Lumbago alternating with headache; - (c) Headache dependent upon bowel or uterine affections, and alternating with them. - 10. Pain from navel to rectum. - 11. Heat internal : Hot stool, flatus, urine, etc. - Burning in anus, piles, etc. - 12. Diarrhoea worse from standing (Sulph.) and walking (Thuj). - 13. Colic, cutting, excruciating, in right hypogastrium before and during stool; all pains cease after stool, with profuse sweating and extreme weakness. - 14. Colic described above; attacks preceded by obstinate constipation. Mind - Indolent, "weary"; averse to either mental or physical labour; mental labour fatigues. - Dissatisfied and angry, esp. when constipated. Objective - Want of confidence in sphincter ani; driving out of bed early in the morning; must hurry to closet immediately after eating or drinking. - Colic, excruciating, before and during stool. - Much flatus with small stool. - Haemorrhoids like a bunch of grapes. - Insecurity of rectum. - Solid stool passes unnoticed. - Lumpy gelatinous stool. - Hungry during diarrhoea. Causation (a.f. ) - Sedentary life. - Beer-drinking.

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Modalities - Agg. - Early morning; summer heat; in hot dry weather; after eating or drinking; standing or walking. - Amel. - Cold, open air; bathing with cold water. Food & drinks - Appetite, thirst, cravings etc. - Appetite - Good. Hungry during diarrhoea. - Desire : Juicy things; salty food; fruits. - Aversion - Meat; bread. Female - Uterine haemorrhage with great heaviness of uterus, and a sensation of plug between pubes and coccyx. Child - Sexual erethism in children. - Children, even old people, drop their stools all over the floor-pass stools without being conscious of it. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Dreams of soiling himself. - 2. Mind - Heat, sensation of heat in the orifices of the body. - 3. Head - Headache after insufficient stool. - Headache alternates with lumbago. - 4. Abdomen - Abdomen distended, not relieved by passing flatus even in great quantities. - 5. Abdomen - Liver, pain in the liver, worse on standing, so that he bends forward. - 6. Rectum - Diarrhoea from oysters, out of season (Lyc. in season). - 7. Rectum - Dysentery after parturition. - 8. Rectum - Cannot pass flatus or urine without passing stool. - Insecurity of rectum. - 9. Rectum - Itching of anus prevents sleep; has to bore into it with finger; it drives one to distraction, amel, by cold applications. - 10. Rectum - Haemorrhoids protrude like grapes, very sore. - 11. Stool - Hot stool, flatus, urine. - 12. Stool - Must keep mind on sphincter, else stool will escape. - (Sep. must keep mind on bladder or urine will escape). - 13. Stool - Extremely prostrated after stool. - 14. Back - Lumbago alternating with backache and piles. - 15. Extremities - Hot flushes; soles of feet burn and he uncovers them (Sulph.). Cases - 37. Aloes - The symptom, peculiar, characteristic and individualising, viz. relief of piles by cold bathing, pointed out years ago by C. Hering led to the prescription. - (This was omitted in the Cypher Repertory just published, then Dr. Berridge points out, "If the pain of any swelling decreases under homoeopathic treatment before the swelling decreases, it is a CURE; if only after the discharge, it is only a recovery. - Also look up KR. 620 (haemorrhoids amel. cold) and KR. 622 (Rectum itching, cold bathing amel). - It appears that the doctor did not take into account the other symptom like the shooting pain in the right elbow to wrist. - (E.W. Berridge - HH. 1984/36)

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Alumina Keywords - Confused : Sluggish, paretic. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Confused intelligence; disturbed judgement; indecisive; things he knows seem to him to be unreal (Med.). - 2. Confusion of his identify (when he says or sees anything, he feels as if another person said it, or saw it), as if he could transfer himself into another and only then could see. - 3. Mistakes in writing and speaking; uses words not intended. - 4. Sluggish and slow; sensations are slow in being transmitted to the centre (stool, urine, prick of a needle). - 5. Time passes too slowly, an hour seems half a day (Cann. ind). - 6. Paretic weakness (passing stool, tottering gait, etc.) - 7. Extreme dryness of skin or mucous membranes. - 8. Sensation of splinter in throat, fissures, cracks (Nit. ac). - 9. Must strain at stool to urinate. - 10. Gait tottering, after severe illness; unable to walk except with eyes open - staggers when walking with closed eyes and in darkness. - 11. Leucorrhoea acrid, profuse, running down to the heels (Syph.). - 12. Inactivity of rectum; no desire until accumulation of a large stool; stools dry like sheep dung. - Passes stool easily when standing. - 13. Craving for indigestible things. - Potatoes disagree. Mind - Confusion of mind and ideas. - Confusion as to his personal identity; not certain who he is with a sense of duality. - Hasty but slow of execution; hence mistakes in speaking and writing. - Time passes too slowly; an hour seems half a day. - Delusion everything seems unreal. - Desire to kill at the sight of blood or knife; or suicidal on seeing them. - Fears his own impulses. - Pessimist. - Despair of recovery. - Fears loss of reason. - Moods alternating. - Timidity alternating with sad thoughts constantly crowd upon the mind. - Inclined to weep. Anxiety of conscience as if guilty. Objective - Intolerable itching of whole body when getting warm in bed (Sulph); scratches until bleeds, then becomes painful. - Inability to walk except with the eyes open; totters and falls when closing eyes (Arg.n. , Gels.). - Has to strain hard at stool. - Strains at stool in order to urinate. - Exhausted physically and mentally, scarcely able to speak after menses. - Diarrhoea when she urinates. - Leucorrhoea profuse, runs down to heels. - Even a soft stool requires great straining. - Sore throat of public speakers. Causation (a.f. ) - Eating food cooked in aluminium vessels. Modalities - Agg. - Cold air; during summer, also winter. - Periodicity, every other day. - Agg. at new and full moon; after menses (exhaustion). - Amel. - Summer : open air, warmth, while eating (Psor.), warm drinks. - Alternate days. - In wet weather (Caust). - Evening. Food & drinks - Appetite, thirst, cravings. - Appetite: - No desire to eat. - Constriction of oesophagus, can swallow but small morsels at a time. - Thirst extreme, during chill. - Cravings - Abnormal craving for indigestible things like chalk, charcoal, earth, dry rice.

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- Desires fruits; vegetables. - Aversion - Potatoes; meat, beer. - Disagree - Potatoes, vinegar, pepper. - Onions (sore throat). - Drunkenness even from weak alcoholic drinks. - Tobacco smoking. Female - After menses exhausted physically and mentally; is scarcely able to speak (Carb. an., Cocc). - Leucorrhoea acrid and profuse, running down the heels (Syph.); worse during daytime; amel. by cold bathing. - Leucorrhoea during pregnancy. - Prolapsus uteri : ulcerated os. Male - Sexual desire without erections. Child - Constipation of sucklings; in children on artificial food or bottle fed babies. - Passes stool easily when standing (Caust.). - Craving for indigestible things; coarse food. - Stool difficult though soft; like sheep dung. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Hair falls out all over body. - Eye- lashes fall out. - 2. Eyes - Blepharitis, with great dryness of conjunctiva. - Chronic blepharitis. - Eyes dry on reading. - 3. Eyes - Direction of pains : Pains go upward. - Or upper left and lower right side are affected (Rev. Lyc.). - 4. Face - Sensation of dried white of egg on face, or of a cobweb on face. - 5. Rectum - Paretic weakness : of rectum. - Even a soft stool needs great straining. - Must strain at stool to urinate. - 6. Gen. Female - Leucorrhoea alternating with catarrh of nose and throat. - 7. Gen. Female - Gonorrhoea chronic : when no other medicine has acted deeply. - 8. Larynx- Voice - Paralytic weakness of vocal cords ending in hoarseness or loss of voice. - 9. Cough - Cough violent, caused by elongated uvula (Dunham). - 10. Eyes - Ptosis - paralytic drooping of eyelids (Caust.) - 11. Extremities - Feels as if walking on cushions. - 12. Extremities - Gait ataxic; unable to walk with eyes closed. - 13. Extremities - Great weakness and heaviness in legs, chiefly in hips. - Trembling of knees. - Slow tottering gait as after severe illness. - Unable to walk except with eyes open, and in the daytime. - 14. Skin - Absence of sweat with dryness and harshness of skin. - 15. Skin - All skin symptoms are worse in winter. - 16. Skin - Dryness of skin - perspiration rare and scanty. - Nails have a tendency to break when they are cut. - 17. Skin - Dryness of skin and mucous membranes or profuse secretion from the latter. - 18. Skin

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- Dryness of skin with tendency to itch (with or without eruptions); skin cracks, thickens, bleeds, or ulcerates and indurates. - 19. Skin - Intolerable itching of the whole body, esp. from warmth of bed. - Has to scratch until the skin bleeds. - 20. General - Chronicity, when complaints improve for a time and relapse for no reason. - 21. General - For old people with lack of vital heat, or for premature old age with debility. - 22. Sleep - Dreams anxious; confused; of falling; of fire; robbers; snakes; stars falling; water; wedding. Cases - 43. Alumina: - Look up the symptoms 831, 636, 637 and 638 in Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases. - "In the morning, when waking, desire to pass urine with difficult and tardy emission of the urine in a feeble (thin) stream from the female urethra." - The pathological condition of the patient had nothing to do with the selection of the remedy. - The more we know of our Materia Medica the more successfully we can apply our great therapeutic law. - (Adolph Lippe - H.H. 1986/83)

Anacardium orientale Keywords - Discontented, coward, with two wills, who becomes suspicious, abusive, cruel, and inhuman even to relatives. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Sudden loss of memory. - Suddenly forgets names, etc., in students before examinations (hence anticipatory fear of examination); in old age. - Brain fag. - 2. Want of moral sentiment - characterised by cruelty, malice, hatred. - Unsympathetic; unfeeling, hard hearted. Want of moral feeling. - 3. Anger from contradiction; violent anger. - 4. Discontented; dissatisfied; want of self-confidence. - 5. Delusions, fixed ideas - of being double, as if he has two wills each bidding him to do what the other forbids. - 6. Delusion that he was pursued by enemies. - 7. Irresistible desire to curse and swear; abuse. - 8. Symptoms relieved entirely when eating (Psor.). - Headache; dyspepsia (all-gone sensation in stomach). - 9. Manners awkward - laughs at serious matters and is serious over laughable things (Bar. c). - 10. Great desire for stool, but with the effort the desire passes away without evacuation. - Rectum seems powerless with the sensation as if plugged up. Mind - Great, sudden weakness of memory. - Hypochondriasis. - Discontented, dissatisfied. - Contradiction of will, cannot accept. - Cruel, inhuman. - Want of moral feeling. - Malicious. - Suspicious. - Delusion he is pursued by enemies. - Irresolution. - Contradiction between reason and will, one commanding to do what the other forbids. - Takes everything in bad part and becomes violent. - Everything perceived has no reality. - Her husband is not her husband; her child is not hers. - Morose and cowardly, yet quarrelsome and cruel. - Does not even recognise his relatives. Objective - Sudden loss of memory. - Patient greatly troubled by this forgetfulness. - He curses and swears, as he has an irresistible desire to do. - Strange temper; laughs at serious matters, and is serious over laughable things. - Hasty in swallowing food and drink. - Happy when eating (as symptoms disappear then). - Warts on palms of hands.

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- Breath stops on coughing or drinking. - Clammy sweat on palms. - Contradictory impulses - conflict between will and reason. Causation (a.f. ) - Deep discontent with intolerance of contradiction of his will, makes him highly contrary in dealings. - This combined with irresolution (two wills) and suspicious nature makes him Malicious, Hateful, Abusive and Violent in anger. Modalities - Agg. - Chilly, sensitive to cold air; worse morning and again evening to midnight. - Headache worse from mental exertion. - Amel. - After eating, but recurs after two or three hours. (dyspepsia, cough, morning sickness, headache). Food & drinks - Appetite, thirst - Empty feeling in stomach relieved by eating. - Apt to choke when eating or drinking. - Swallows food and drinks hastily. Aversion to food. - Desires - Milk. Female - Menses scanty. - Leucorrhoea with soreness and itching. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Clairaudient, hears voices far away, or of the dead. - 2. Mind - Sensation as of a hoop or band around a part, or as of a dull, blunt instrument, or a plug in inner parts. - 3. Gen. Male - Flow of prostatic fluid while at stool; semen passes after a hard stool. - 4. Cough - Abdomen feels as if it would burst when coughing. - 5. Chest - Dull pressure as from a plug in right side of chest. - 6. Heart - Two quickly succeeding stitches pierce through and through the heart at night. - 7. Sleep - Spells of sleeplessness last for several nights. - 8. Skin - Warts on palms of hands (Nat-m). - 9. General - Found to be efficacious in wounded tendon, that is in injuries of tendons. (Bhanja). - 10. General - Any part which he leaves unmoved, immediately goes to sleep. - 11. General - Symptoms are prone to go from right to left (Lyc.). - 12. General - Weakness of all senses - vision weak, indistinct. - Objects appear far off. - Hearing : hard of hearing. - Taste - lost. - 13. Rectum - Bowels inactive. - Rectum powerless, as if plugged up. - 14. Nose - Smell : Sense of smell perverted, esp. in the aged. - 15. Dreams - Anxious; of business; dead bodies; fire; disease; difficulties. Cases - 3. Anacardium: - 10x. - Irresistible desire to curse and swear (Allen). - Dermatitis, eczema (BSK). Dipsomania (SR-1). - (D.C. McLaren - H.H. 7/84).

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Antimonium crudum Keywords - Averse to being touched, looked at, or bathed. - White coated tongue, with disordered digestion & ecstatic sentimental or cross. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Excessive irritability and fretfulness - cannot bear to be touched or looked at (child). - ADULTS : Sulky, disinclined to speak. - 2. Sentimental mood in moonlight. - 3. Sadness with weeping. - 4. Thick, milky-white coating on tongue. - 5. Agg. from cold, cold bathing and also heat. - 6. SKIN : Tendency to corns and callosities; split, deformed, brittle nails; horny warts. - 7. Disordered digestion with vomiting. - 8. Cracked and crusty corners of mouth and nostrils. Mind - Love-sick. - Ecstatic (exalted state). - Sentimental in moonlight (talks in verses) OR cross and touchy. - Dreamy. - Gross feeder, a glutton. - Aversion to being touched or looked at. - Weeping when touched. - Aversion to speak or be spoken to. - Sulky. - Suicidal thoughts drive him out of bed. - Loathing of life, of food, of bathing. - Weeps from music. - Contrary. Objective - Fat, fretful, cross and peevish; cries if looked at or touched. - Gross feeder. - Tongue thickly coated like whitewash. - Disordered digestion, fullness in abdomen. - Horny or split nails; callosities on soles, near toes. - Nostrils sore, cracked and crusty; also corners of the mouth. - Disposition to grow fat; to abnormal organisations of the skin. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Disappointed love. - Physical - Agg. Extremes of heat and cold; overeating (aphonia). - Bathing; water on head. - Heat : of summer; of sun. - Never well since cold bath (swimming). - Chronic complaints traceable to suppression of eruptions or ulcers. Modalities - Agg. - Bathing cold (averse to); Suppressed menses; heat of summer, of sun; warm weather; overeating; vinegar, pork. - Moonlight aggr. mental symptoms. - Amel. - Applied heat from warm bathing. - Lying down. Food & drinks - Cravings - Acids, pickles, spices. - Agg. SOUR, acids, fruits, milk, pastry, pork, sweets, vinegar, wine, cucumber; pickles, cold food and drinks. - Aversion - Food. - Thirstless. - Disagree - Pork. - Appetite - Loss of appetite; fullness in abdomen, even without eating. Female - Menses too early, too profuse; toothache before menses.

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- Menses suppressed from cold bathing. Child - Fat, fretful, cross, irritable, peevish, sulky; cries if touched or looked at. - Averse to washing and mother's milk (Sil). - After nursing child vomits sour curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards (rev., Aeth). - Is very cross. - "Nausea without vomiting, OR vomiting without nausea", a striking symptom. - Summer diarrhoea after nursing. - Somnambulism. - Tendency to grow fat. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Headache - From deranged stomach. - 2. Eyes - Canthi raw cracked. - 3. Nose - Nostrils sore, cracked and crusty. - 4. Mouth - Tongue. - Thickly coated like white- wash; milky white. - 5. Mouth - Cracks in corners of mouth. - 6. Teeth - Carious teeth, pain at night. - 7. Stomach - Acute rheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms. - 8. Stomach - Gout recedes, and stomach and bowels are affected. - 9. Stomach - Nausea from sour wine. - 10. Rectum - Diarrhoea alternates with constipation in the aged. - 11. Gen. - Ovaries painful in lovesick girls. - 12. Gen. Female - Periodicity (5, 6, or 12 weeks). - 13. Larynx and trachea - Aphonia from overheating, amel. using voice. - 14. Extremities - Nails split, do not heal readily, tend to grow cracked and split. - 15. Extremities - Nodule. - On finger joints become painless as soon as stomach and bowels become distended and painful. - 16. Extremities - Rheumatoid arthritis. - 17. Sleep - Sleepy by day. - 18. Extremities - Callosities. - On soles, near toes, warts, horny. - 19. General - Continued drowsiness in old people. - 20. General - Symptoms change locality on recurrence. - 21. Generalities - Strange ABSENCE OF PAIN (bedsores, corns). - 22. Sleep - On back. - Dreams of being wounded; anxious; misfortune; of quarrels. Cases - Antim Crud.: - Painful, cross and peevish. - Cries if looked at or touched, esp. children. (Adults are sulky, do not wish to speak with anyone). - (H.K. Leonard - HH. 1981/712) - 86. Antim Crud. :

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Antimonium tartaricum Keywords - Impending paralysis of lungs. - Flapping nostrils. - Amel. sitting upright. (Weak, drowsy, relaxed). Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Irresistible inclination to sleep in almost all complaints. (Nux.m. , Op.) - 2. Dread of being left alone. - Frightened at trifles. - 3. Averse to being touched or looked at. - 4. Suffocative shortness or breath - cyanosis. - 5. Must SIT UP to breathe or cough (wants to be carried - or to sit up - UPRIGHT). - 6. Increasingly weak, drowsy, sweaty and relaxed (prostrated in mind and body). - 7. Nausea, forcible vomiting, then exhaustion and sleep. - 8. COARSE RATTLING OF MUCUS (in larynx and trachea), large accumulation of mucus in chest with little expectoration - inability to raise it; relieved by expectoration or vomiting. - 9. "When lungs seem to fail, patient becomes sleepy, cough declines or ceases (cannot raise expectoration), it supplants Ipec." (Allen). - 10. Thirstlessness in most complaints or drinks little and often. - 11. NOSTRILS FLAPPING, constant in pneumonia (Lyc.). - 12. Vomiting in any position, except lying on right side. - 13. Asphyxia from mucus in bronchi; from impending paralysis of lungs or foreign bodies in larynx with drowsiness or coma. Mind - Clings to attendants; dread of being left alone. - Apathy, or easily annoyed. - Aversion to being touched or looked at. - Frightened at night, at trifles. - Talking in sleep. - Peevish, whining and moaning. - Consciousness wanes on closing eyes (drowsy, comatose). Objective - Unwilling to be looked at or touched. - Wants to be carried UPRIGHT. - Vomits or expectorates with great effort. - Clings to attendants. - Flapping of nostrils. - Asphyxia neonatorum. - Nausea with weakness and cold sweat. - Forcible vomiting, then exhaustion and sleep. - Coarse, rattling cough, yet less and less phlegm is raised. - Must sit up to breathe or cough. Somnolency with all complaints. - "Pustules of Ant. t. are very similar to those of vaccinia or variola" - hence useful in smallpox or chicken pox. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Anger, vexation. - Physical - Vaccination (Thuja fails, etc); exposure to dampness; after eating. Modalities - Agg. - Warm room; wrap, weather. - Overheating, anger, lying, rising from seat, motion. - Amel. - LYING ON RIGHT SIDE (vomiting); sitting or being carried UPRIGHT. - Expectoration; eructations; vomiting (rev. Ipec.). Food & drinks - Thirst for cold water, little and often.

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- Craves - Apples (Aloes); ACIDS (which agg.). - Aversion to - Milk, food, tobacco. - Disagree - Milk, sour things. Genitalia - Male - Warts on back of glans penis, very characteristic. - Female - Restless during menses. - Puerperal convulsions amel. after child is born. Child - Child clings to those around. - Asphyxia neonatorum (Aco.) - breathless and pale when born. - Painful whining and crying before and during a paroxysm. - Restlessness relieved by being carried upright. - Weeps, shrieks, when touched - to feel the pulse; or when looked at (Ant.c. , Sanic). - Drowsy. - Averse to being spoken to. - Weeps before and during coughing. - Comatose (paralysis of lungs). - Cholera morbus. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Face - Face cold, blue, cyanotic or pale, covered with cold sweat (Tab.). - 2. Gen. Male - Pain in testes after checked gonorrhoea. - 3. Cough - Coarse rattling of mucus with inability to raise it. - 4. Chest - Pneumonia of right lung with jaundice (Chel.). - 5. Back - Violent pain in the sacro-lumbar region. - 6. Extremities - Wandering pain in the joints. - 7. Fever - Thirstlessness during fever. - 8. Skin - Pustular or blue eruptions like small-pox (delayed or receding). - 9. Generalities - Lies with "head back' in lung affections. - Must sit up to breathe or cough. - 10. Sleep - With arms under the head. - 11. Dreams - Preaching; unpleasant. Cases - 77. Antim Tart: - Child is unwilling to be looked at or touched. - Wants to be let alone. - Thick eruptions like pocks; blue eruptions (Phatak's materia medica). - (Dr. Hawley - H.H. 1985/611) - Nash adds - Tart. emetic has paleness of face. - Opium; red face and stertor. Have cured intermittent fever with Tart. emetic, when the patient slept continuously during the sweat and heat and was prostrated.

Apis mellifica Keywords - Fruitlessly busy; jealous. - Burning, stinging pains.

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- Worse heat. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Agg. from all forms of heat, even heat of bed. - 2. Pains burning, stinging. - 3. Oedematous swellings with waxy hue of skin. - 4. Thirstlessness in nearly all complaints. - 5. Piercing shrieking in sleep (cri encephalic). - 6. Side right, or right to left. - 7. Restless and fidgety. - 8. Jealousy. - 9. Scanty urine. - 10. Bag-like swelling under the eyes. - 11. Urticaria, large rose red, amel. cold applications. - 12. Awkwardness, drops things and laughs about it. - 13. Threatened miscarriage in the fourth month (from incompetent os). Mind - Jealous. - Restless, fruitlessly busy. - Irritable, fidgety; hard to please. - Awkward (drops things). - Childish. - Indifferent. - Says he is well when very sick. - Fear of being poisoned. - Foolishly suspicious. - Weeping, causeless. - Sudden piercing shrieks; rolls the head (meningitis). - Cannot bear to be left alone. - Nothing satisfied him - everything wrong and out of place. - Cannot concentrate on reading (hysterical girls). Objective - Oedema; bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes (over the eyes, Kali-c); dropsy without thirst. - Pains (burning, stinging, sore) suddenly migrating from one part to another (Kali bi., Lac.c. , Puls.). - Diarrhoea, involuntary from every movement, as though anus was wide open (Phos.). - Pains that extort sudden, shrill cries. - Puffiness, shiny redness, oedema (of eyelids or lips). - Face : puffy or red waxy pallor. - Very busy, restless, changing the work (like bees). - Awkwardness; breaks things. - Eruptions like hives. - Declares she is well during delirium (Arn., Ars.). - Great oppression and burning in chest with sensation as though he would not be able to breathe again. - Heat of one part with coldness of another. Causation (a.f. ) - Anger, vexation; bad news; grief; fright; rage; jealousy; shock; suppressed eruptions; sexual excesses. Modalities - Agg. - Heat; intolerance of heated rooms, even during chill of intermittent fever. - Agg. hot bath, warm drinks; lying down. - Suppressed or undeveloped eruptions (cerebral effusion). - Touch, pressure. - After sleep. 4 to 6 p.m. - Amel. - Cold bath; cool air. - Air hunger. - Increased flow of urine after Apis is a curative sign. Food & drinks - Thirst during chill; thirstless during heat. - Cravings - Milk, sour things. - Aversion : to drinks; water. Female - Amenorrhoea of puberty. - Stinging, burning pains in mammae, or ovaries or uterus. - Pain in ovaries agg. coition. - Menses last one day or appear at intervals of one day.

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- Abortion during early months. - Childish behaviour in women after delivery. - Sexual mania alternating with stupor. Child - Very restless. - Jealous of other children; will not share toys, or allow mother to be touched by other children. - Constant whining, causeless weeping day and night. - Retention of urine in new-born; cries out in sleep and kicks the covers off. - Diarrhoea during dentition. - Ulceration at navel of new-born. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Sudden shrill shrieking in sleep or deep stupor (cry encephalic) as in hydrocephalus, or meningitis. - 2. Head - Bores head into pillow (meningitis). - 3. Head - Dropsical swelling of lower limbs in albuminuria. - 4. Throat - Glazed or translucent pharynx, amel. by cold drinks. - 5. Throat - Uvula oedematous. - 6. Stomach - Thirst - absent with heat. - 7. Rectum - Stools occur with every motion of body, as if the anus was constantly open. - 8. Stool - Stool involuntary; as though rectum is wide open. - 9. Bladder - Urine - scanty, albuminous with thirstlessness. - 10. Urine - Milky in hydrocephalus, with unconsciousness and delirium. - 11. Genitalia - Ovaries (right), hardness and heaviness. - 12. Gen. Fem. - Tumour of right ovary. - 13. Respiration - Asthma from hives. - 14. Respiration - Difficult from suppressed eruption. - 15. Respiration - Panting - feels as if every breath would be his last. - Difficult inspiration. - 16. Extremities - Paralysis of the right side; twitching of the other half. - 17. Generalities - Ailments come with great rapidity and violence. - 18. Generalities - Closed rooms are intolerable. - 19. Generalities - Pains stinging, burning; suddenly migrate from one part to another. - 20. Generalities - "Whenever you have swelling - oedema - relief from cold - agg. from heat - burning and stinging pains, consider APIS" - (Tyler). - 21. Dreams - Absurd; anger; of business; busy; flying; full of inventions. Cases - 4. Apis 200 : - Puffiness, shiny redness, oedema (BSK). - Bad effects of acute exanthema imperfectly developed, or suppressed (Zinc) (Allen). - Dysuria; scanty foul urine (BSK). - (Tas. B. Bell - H.H. 4/84.) - 30. Apis: - Panting breathing; feels as if every breath would be his last. - Thirstlessness. (BSK) - Urine scanty, foul, high coloured (SRP) - (H.N. Guernsey - HH. 1982/357)

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Argentum nitricum Keywords - Anticipatory anxiety. - Extreme diffidence. - Easy fright Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Anticipatory anxiety before any important engagement, e.g. examination, etc. - Nervous diarrhoea. - 2. Delusions : he is despised; deserted and forsaken; or is neglected; that he cannot succeed, does everything wrong. - 3. Fear of being alone; in a crowd; fear of high bldgs. (impulse to jump). - 4. Craving for sweets and salt. - 5. Agg. from warmth, heat, summer. - 6. Fear of narrow places, closed rooms. - 7. Undertakes nothing lest he fails. - 8. Splinter-like pains. - 9. Impulsive; fear of losing self-control. - 10. Pains shooting, lightning-like, radiating - increase and decrease gradually. - 11. Expression : Dried up, withered, old looking - from disease. Mind - Anxiety of anticipation, even diarrhoea (Gels. Med). - Dreads ordeals. - Fear of heights; of narrow places, of lifts, cinema halls. - Fear he will be trapped. - Fear of failure in exams. - Delusion he cannot succeed. - Fear of being alone; of appearing in public. - Hesitates, falters in speech, in gait, in erections. - Fear that he does everything wrong, and he cannot succeed. - Hurry, impulsive; must walk fast. - Delusion he is despised, deserted and forsaken. - Tormented by strange ideas, and by strange emotions; does strange things. - Undertakes nothing, lest he fails. - Brain fag; loss of ambition. - Anxiety if time is set; hurry for the appointed time to arrive; must walk fast. - Obstinate against whatever was proposed. Indifference to business affairs. Objective - Craves sugar which aggravates. - Flatulent dyspepsia; belching after every meal. - Violent, purulent ophthalmia, with thick, yellow, bland discharge; profuse discharge characteristic. - Chronic laryngitis of singers. - Diarrhoea from anticipation of ordeals. - Hurried, impulsive. - Stool green mucus like chopped spinach. Causation (a.f. ) - Anticipation of ordeals; emotional excitement; anxiety, apprehension; fright; mortification; prolonged mental exertion. Modalities - Agg. - From closed places; sugar; lying on right side; warmth in any form. - Looking down from a height. - Before and during menses. - Amel. - Cool, fresh air. - Cold bath. - Hard pressure, bending double. - Eructations amel. - Chilly when uncovered, yet smothers when wrapped; craves fresh air. Food - Appetite good, but every kind of food disagrees. - Desires: SWEETS; sugar (which aggr); SALT; strong cheese. - Aversion food. Male

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- Impotence; erection fails when coition is attempted (Agn., Calad., Sel.). - Sexual desire wanting; organ shrivelled. Female - Coition painful in both sexes; followed by bleeding from vagina (Nit. acid). - Leucorrhoea profuse with erosion of cervix. - Infant dies early after delivery Metrorrhagia after coition; during menopause; in young widows; in sterility. Child - Ophthalmia neonatorum. - Diarrhoea, green mucus; stool turns green after remaining on diaper; after candy or sugar. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Headache (congestion) with throbbing carotids, obliging one to loosen collar; with a feeling of expansion of head amel. by tight bandage. - 2. Eyes - Ophthalmia neonatorum; purulent, thick yellow, profuse bland discharge. - 3. Throat - Pain as from splinter in throat when swallowing (Bell., Hep.s. , Nit. ac., Sil.). - 4. Stomach - Chronic gastritis of alcoholics. - 5. Stomach - Eructations loud, explosive, accompany most gastric complaints. - Stomach as if would burst with wind. - Eructation difficult. - 6. Stomach - Pain in small spots (stomach), radiates in all directions. - 7. Abdomen - Flatulence pressures up and causes dyspnoea. - 8. Rectum - Diarrhoea as soon as he drinks. - 9. Rectum - Diarrhoea, following colic, of greenish fetid mucus with a quantity of noisy flatus. - Or after excitement, as before going to the theatre. - 10. Bladder - Urine passes unconsciously day and night (Caust.). - 11. Gen. Male - Gonorrhoea (after Cann. i., Copaiva & Merc. have failed - Hering). - 12. Larynx - Voice. - Laryngitis (voice lost) in singers and speakers. - High notes cause cough. - 13. Chest - Palpitation after excitement; from exertion; amel. by pressure with the hand. - Agg. lying on right side. - 14. Extremities - Weakness. - Great weakness of lower extremities with trembling. - Ataxia, cannot walk with eyes closed. - 15. Sleep - Dreams horrible, of snakes and sexual gratification, anxious; confused; of the dead; of hunger. - 16. General - Convulsions - Epilepsy caused by fright, or occurring at menstrual period. - Pupils dilated days before attack. - 17. Generalities - Left sided symptoms (weakness). Cases - 56. Argentum nit.: - An examination of Arg. nit. will disclose the fact that all her symptoms were covered by this remedy. - Now, while other remedies have desire for sweets in various forms, such as China, Lyco. and Sulphur, only Arg. nit has it pathogenetically and curatively in just these words, "irresistible desire for sugar." - (E.B. Nash, Hom. Recorder - H.H. 1985/210)

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Arnica montana Keywords - Ill effects of falls, injuries, concussions. - Fear of being approached. - Says he is well though ill. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Says he is well even though seriously ill. - 2. Averse to answer questions. - 3. Indifference, wants to be left alone. - 4. Fears touch, being approached by anyone, lest he should be hurt. - 5. Answers correctly, but unconsciousness returns immediately. - 6. Feels sore, lame, bruised all over (as if beaten) - sensitive to touch. - 7. Involuntary discharge of urine and stool. - 8. Face alone hot, rest of body cool. - Heat of upper part of body, lower part cool. - 9. Black and blue spots on body - every little hurt makes a black & blue spot. - 10. Haemorrhagic tendency - eyes bloodshot; epistaxis; bleeding from uterus, bladder, ears; expectoration; postpartum haemorrhage. Mind - Fears being struck or approached; of sickness; of instant death. - Physically restless, but mentally prostrate, apathetic; says nothing ails him. - Nervous, cannot bear pain; oversensitive. Objective - Great fear of persons approaching, touching or striking them. - Sore, lame, bruised feeling all through the body. - Heat of upper part of body, coldness of lower. - Bad effects from injuries (falls, bruises and contusions); involuntary faeces and urine; haemoptysis. - Keeps moving from place to place in search of a softer spot - as everything on which he lies seems too hard. - Ecchymosis; extravasation of blood. - Conditions simulating injuries, blows, falls, retinal haemorrhage - expedites absorption of clots. - Absorbs apoplectic effusion. Causation (a.f. ) - Fright, shock, anger, rage, grief, emotional excitement, grief, pecuniary loss. - Mechanical injuries; concussion; chronic effects. Modalities - Agg. - Injuries; bruises; jarring; shock; overstrain; sprains. - TOUCH. - Motion, damp cold weather. - Amel. - Lying with head low (Ver. v); outstretched. Food & drinks - Appetite

- 5. Face - Eruptions. - Acne, very sore; crops of small painful boils one after another. - 6. Mouth - Red stripe down centre of tongue. - 7. Stomach - Appetite. - Anorexia by day, canine hunger before midnight. - 8. Stomach - Eructations tasting of bad eggs. - 9. Stool - Involuntary in apoplexy. - 10. Bladder - Urination - involuntary urination. - 11. Bladder - Urination. - Retention or incontinence of urine after labour (Op., Canth). - 12. Larynx - Voice - hoarseness agg. by exertion, colds or getting wet. - 13. Chest - Disappearing milk. - 14. Extremities - Deathly coldness in forearm of children in hydrocephalus (in diarrhoea : Brom). - 15. Extremities - Paralysis on the left side. - 16. Extremities - Rheumatism. - Chronic result of injury - articular rheumatism, etc. - 17. Extremities - Rheumatism ascending type (descending : Cactus, Kalmia). - 18. Fever - Bed feels too hard during fever (Bapt., Pyrog). - 19. Fever - Mind : Muttering. - During fever; muttering delirium, answers correctly, but unconsciousness returns at once. (Phos-ac. Falls asleep in the midst of an answer : Bapt.) - 20. Skin - SYMMETRICAL eruptions. - 21. General, side - Symptoms appear crosswise, left upper and right lower. - 22. Generalities - Acute attack of APOPLEXY with stupor. - 23. Generalities - Convulsions from injury of head (Cicuta). - 24. Generals - Pain - painlessness of complaints usually painful. - 25. Dreams -of animals ; anxious; cats; of death; exhausting; mental exertion; murder; of misfortune; robbers; graves; lightning; of dying; journey by railroad. Cases - 76. Arnica: - "Will someone kindly inform `em how the remedy relieved, and if the relief will be permanent?" - Editor's comment: - Arnica indeed is the first choice. - If it does not suffice, we have the following : - Allium cepa: - Pain streaks up, burning and stinging pain. - Ammon mur: - Neuralgia of stump, sense of shortening of hamstrings of amputated limb, especially at night. - Hypericum: - For nerve injuries. - Phosphoric acid: - Sensation as if the periosteum were Scraped with a knife; neurosis of stump; caries developing. - Symphytum: - For healing the fractured bones or bone pains early. - (F.H. Lockwood - H.H. 1985/402)

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Arsenicum album Keywords - Extreme anxiety, fastidiousness. - Restless. - Rapid prostration. - Worse when alone. - Burning pains amel by warmth. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Extremely fastidious - wants everything neat and clean; a perfectionist; "a gold headed cane". - 2. Extremely anxious and restless, with fear of death. - 3. Mentally restless, but physically too weak to move. - 4. Violent thirst, but drinks little and often. - 5. Burning pain (ulcers, pustules etc.) relieved by heat - except head. - 'Wants body in a hot room and the head in the refrigerator'. - 6. Great prostration, out of proportion to the illness. - 7. Mid-day and mid-night aggr. - 8. Cannot bear the smell or sight of food (Colch., Sep). - 9. Fears solitude; wants company (fear of death). - Agg. when alone. - 10. Rheumatism alternating with headache. - 11. Simultaneous vomiting and diarrhoea (from food poisoning ?) agg. after eating or drinking. Mind - 1. Intense restlessness and anxiety; keeps on changing position. - 2. Fastidious; very conscientious about trifles. - Cannot rest when things are not in their proper place. - 3. Exacting, fault-finding and censorious. - 4. Despair of recovery - thinks it is useless to take medicine. - 5. Miserly, malicious, spiteful, and selfish. - 6. Cruelty; loves to make others suffer. - Joy at the misfortune of others. - 7. Frightened easily. - Fear of death; of robbers, of financial ruin; of cancer, of being alone. - 8. Avarice. - Her desires exceed her needs. - 9. Anxiety of conscience as if guilty. - 10. Consolation, kind words agg. - 11. Never laughing. - Censorious. - 12. Suspicious, distrusts everything. - 13. Profound sadness after financial loss. - 14. Suicidal thoughts by hanging. - 15. Slowness. Objective - Very restless. - Sudden great weakness. - Rapid emaciation. - Acrid, scanty, thin secretions. - Malignancy, sepsis. - Putrid cadaveric odours. - Agonising fear of death. - Insatiable, burning thirst. - Craves ice-cold water which distresses and is vomited at once. - Drinks little and often. - Complaints return annually. - Ulcers turn black, burning, with high edges. - Vomiting of what has been eaten or drunk, with black water with it. - Mentally restless, physically too weak to move. - Asthmatic breathing; inability to lie down for fear of suffocation; must sit or bend forward. - Skin like parchment. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Anticipation; anger with anxiety; care, worry; grief; fright. - Physical - Ptomaine poisoning; spoiled fish (Ran. b); ice; ice-cream. - Fruits, esp. watery fruits (melons).

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- Alcoholism. - Tobacco chewing. - Stings of venomous insects; of rats. - Sea bathing. - Loss of vital fluids (metrorrhagia) = anaemia. Modalities - Agg. - Cold air; cold application. - Mid-day & midnight (1 to 3 a.m. ). - Night. - Periodically alternate days; every 14th day; annually. - Aggr. winter, cold food, iced drinks. (Except head). - Amel. - Company; heat; warm food, warm air, warm drinks; hot applications, wrapping. - Sweating; lying with head high (high pillows). - Sitting erect; motion, walking about. Food - Drinks often and little; eats seldom and much. - Craving - Milk; cold water; sour things; coffee; brandy. - Averse - Sweets; butter; fats; meat. - Agg. - Vegetables, cold food and drinks, bad meat. Female - Menses too frequent. - Leucorrhoea profuse, corrosive. - Menorrhagia with black blood. - Sexual desire increased at menses. Child - Capricious; wants to be carried from father to mother - carried fast. - Anxiety at night. - Biting nails. - Learns with difficulty - concentration difficult. - Peculiar, Uncommon, Grand characteristics: - 1. Stomach - Hiccough, during the hour when fever ought to come. - 2. Fever-Yellow-fever (prophylactic). - 3. Respiration - Asthma - caused by suppressed eruptions, measles etc. - 4. Respiration - Asthmatic respiration - unable to lie down for fear of suffocation. - Must sit up bent. - 5. Chest - Pleurisy. - Homoeopathic trocar causes absorption of pleuritic effusion (to remove effusion : Apis, Sulph). - 6. Chest - Cardiac symptoms : Sudden and complete. - Sinking of strength - agg. at night, esp. after midnight. - Anxiety. - Anguish, restlessness - prostration - burning pains relieved by heat. - Cadaveric odours. - Agg. cold. - Extremely fastidious (M. Tyler). - 7. Chest - Heart trouble due to abuse of tobacco. - 8. Chest - Pain. - Right lung, acute, sharp, fixed or darting pain in apex and upper third of right lung (left apex : Tub.). - 9. Chest - Pain. - Sudden attacks; inflammation; weakness; convulsions; tetanus - especially at NIGHT. - 10. Extremities - Hardness and thickness of skin of soles. - 11. Skin - Skin dry, scaly, unhealthy, like parchment.

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- 12. Skin - Urticaria. - Hives after eating fish. - 13. Skin - Ulcers. - Gangrenous ulcers amel. by hot applications. - 14. General. - Collapse, sudden - rapid sinking of vital force. - 15. General. - Emaciation. - Rapid emaciation with cold sweat and debility. - 16. General - Oedematous, puffy, "baggy' eyelids, face, lower extremities - whole body - skin pale, waxy. - 17. General - Prostration and weakness sudden, out of proportion to the cause and ailment. - 18. General - Weakness, parturition after. - 19. General - Destructive processes : Carbuncle, gangrene, cancer, malignancy. - 20. General - Side. - Right sided complaints (neuralgia). - 21. General - Pains - burning pains like fire, amel. by warmth. - 22. Generalities - Discharge. - All discharges offensive, corrosive, putrid, with cadaverous odour. - 23. Sleep - Disturbed, anxious, restless. - 24. Dreams -of accidents cats, of the dead, difficulties; darkness, fire; frightful; black ghost; spiders; of misfortune. Cases - 32. Arsenicum alb. - Delirium (SR-I-201). - Restlessness at night (SR-I-839); Midnight after (SR-I-841). - Unconsciousness (SR-I-1032). - Skin with cold, clammy perspiration (Allen). - Tongue, dry, clean and red (SRP). - Lips black, livid. - Thirst unquenchable; drinks little and often. - Stool, foul, small, involuntary. - Urine, scanty involuntary. (SRP). - (H.N. Guernsey - HH. 1982/246)

Arum triphyllum Keywords - Extreme irritation, mental and physical. - Intolerable tingling in raw flesh not amel. by scratching. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Malignant and zymotic (septic) type of affections characterised by the drug's peculiar bodily irritation, if not mental irritation too. - 2. Painfully SORE, RAW, bleeding and BURNING PARTS - with intolerable irritation (wants to scratch even on the raw and bleeding surface). - 3. Discharges acrid; raw spots even on the fingers with which the patient bores, digs and scratches. - Discharges excoriating. - 4. Itching with painful TINGLING and TICKLING of the raw surface. - 5. Mentally restless and irritable; sleepless; tossing about. - 6. Constant picking at nose, lips and the raw and sore surface until the parts bleed; yet the irritation and scratching continues. - Parts affected may be anywhere; mouth and throat, lips, cheeks, throat, anus, lungs. - 7. All discharges are acrid and excoriate the parts; Saliva profuse, acrid. - 8. Urine very scanty or suppressed. - 9. Skin peels; desquamation in large flakes. - 10. Voice hoarse, uncertain, uncontrollable (because of rawness, soreness). - Agg. cold winds; and over-exertion of voice.

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- 11. Eruptions leave a "brilliant red stain". - 12. Putrid smell from the mouth. - 13. Raw feelings in : chest, lungs, coccyx, roof of palate. - 14. Throat sore, painful on clearing or coughing; yet wants to scratch it. - 15. Tongue sore, red, papillae elevated; appears to be almost denuded (strawberry tongue). - 16. Pemphigus; impetigo contagiosa. Objective - Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds. - Picks lips until they bleed; bites nails until they bleed. - Voice hoarse, uncertain, uncontrollable. - Corners of mouth sore, cracked and bleeding. - Throat sore, cannot swallow. - He picks and bleeds the raw bleeding surfaces, though very painful; screams with pain, but yet keeps up the boring. - Excessive acrid saliva. Cases - Case 1. - A boy suffering from severe typhoid (before the days of Chloromycetin), was picking at the raw, sore lips and nostrils; did not stop scratching even the parts which were bleeding. - On these symptoms was a given Arum trip. 200 with marvellous recovery. (Dr. G.L. Koppikar in Hom. Outlook). - Case 2. - Fever, swelling of submaxillary glands, persistent picking of lips, and suppression of urine for nearly two days. - Just a dose of 30th potency of Arum trip. made the urine flow profusely in a few seconds. (Dr. K.C. Bhanja) - Case 3. - A girl 8 years old (daughter of a homoeopath) was scratching her cheeks, nostrils and lips continuously even when the parts were raw and bleeding. - Various remedies had failed. - Arum trip. 200th helped recovery very quickly Cases - 9. Arum triphyllum: - Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds. - Picks lips until they bleed. - Bites nails until the fingers bleed (Allen). - (H.N. Guernsey - H. H. 1982/245).

Aurum metallicum Keywords - High sense of duty; industrious. - Profound melancholy. - Suicidal, music amel. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Industrious - 2. Duty conscious - 3. Conscientious about trifles - 4. Religious; praying. - 5. Contradiction, intolerant of - 6. Profound melancholy - suicidal, weary of life. - 7. Music amel. symptoms - 8. High blood pressure. - Heart disease - 9. Cardiac dyspnoea. - Organic affections of heart - 10. Nightly boring pains in bones - 11. Nose, flattened; bones ulcerated, fetid discharge. - Nose tip knobby, red. - 12. Induration of testes, uterus. - 13. Low spirited, pining boys and girls. Mind - Unusual responsibility agg. - Industrious. - Religious. - Delusion he has neglected his duty to friends, family etc. and deserves reproach (i.e. he is very DUTY conscious). - Intolerant of contradiction. - Prostration of mind.

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- Forsaken feeling. - Despair with pains - suicidal. - Profound depression. - Weary of life. - Impulse to jump from a height. - Loquacity, asks many questions, yet does not wait for an answer. - Praying and self-reproach. - Brooding, pessimistic. - Horrible sad stories affect him profoundly. - Hurried, cannot do things fast enough. - Hopeless with heart and liver diseases; hopeful with lung affections. - Fear of crowds; of heart disease; of noise. - Talk, indisposed to. - Delusion, has lost the affection of friend. - Fidgetiness, as if something dreadful is going to happen. Objective - Intense depression; brooding melancholy. - Praying. - Self-reproaches. - Hard working, duty conscious. - Music very relaxing. - Loquacity; rapid questioning. - Red, knobby nose. - Violent palpitation. - Nightly bone pains. - Hurried; cannot do things fast enough. - Testes undeveloped; mere pendent shreds. - Offensive breath. - Caries of the nasal bone, and of palate; of the mastoid process. - Prolapsed or indurated uterus from over-straining. Causation (a.f. ) - Fright, grief, anger, least contradiction, vexation, disappointment. - Reserved displeasure. - Disappointed love. - Prolonged anxiety. - Unusual responsibility. - Loss of property. - Mortification, humiliation, frustrations. - Mental exertion. - Anger, with indignation or fright; with trembling. Modalities - Agg. - Cold weather, cold air; lying down; night (sunset to sunrise). - Alcohol. - Cloudy weather. - Periodicity (every 21 days). - Emotional excitement. Food - Appetite and thirst increased. - Desires - Milk, coffee, alcohol; indigestible things. - Aversions - Meat. Female - Menses late and scanty. - Sterility with profound depression. - Ulceration of womb from repeated abortions. - Constipation during menses. - Uterus prolapsed, indurated or hypertrophied. - Hysteria. Male - Pain and induration of testicles. - Sarcocele. - Epdidymitis. Child - Testes undescended, or atrophied, or undeveloped.

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- Testes mere pendent shreds in pining boys. - Excessive hunger but no appetite for plain food. - Emaciation in pining boys, with loss of appetite. - Hydrocele. - Hernia, inguinal. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Eyes - Vision. - Hemiopia; sees only the lower half. - 2. Throat - External - Thyroid enlarged, pulse rapid, full; eyes protrude. - 3. Kidney - Nephritis with cardiac and hepatic diseases. - 4. Gen. Female - Leucorrhoea - fetid smell from mouth (but leucorrhoea inoffensive). - 5. Chest - Sensation as if heart, ceased to beat, then suddenly gave one hard thump (Sep). - 6. Chest - Fat about the heart with nervous irritability. - 7. Chest - Heart. - Rheumatic endocarditis with excessive dyspnoea. - 8. Chest - Heart bruised, sore. - Agg. suppressed foot sweat. - 9. Chest - Palpitation - violent at puberty. - 10. Extremities - Perspiration, cold, foul foot sweat. - 11. Skin - Wart - warts, heavy ring of, around rectum. - 12. General - Caries with fetid discharges (nose, palate, ears, mastoid). - 13. General - Indurations, glandular swellings. - 14. General - Pains wander, compel motion and finally attack the heart (Benz. ac., Colch) Pains drive him out of bed and make him walk. - 15. General - Pains - Pains wander from joint to joint and finally end in angina pectoris. - 16. Generalities - Oversensitive - to all pains; drive him to despair; to smell, hearing, taste, touch. - 17. Dreams: of anger; amorous; of death; of dead bodies; darkness. Cases - 112. Aurum: - Rubric in Kent's Repertory : "Suicidal, by throwing himself from height". (Dr. Dever - H.H. 1983/19). - 126. Aurum: - The most important peculiar characteristic of the case was the strength of her despair for her husband, "Despair about others", and "Anxiety of conscience as if guilty of a crime". - Other important points that confirm Aurum are grief, suicidal thoughts, anguish, guilt and a strong sense of duty (to children). - Though not crucial, Aurum comes up with a "2" value for asthma. (Glenhouse, N., Newsletter No. 17 of Society of Classical Homoeopathy). Baptisia tinctoria Keywords - Septic state; dull, drowsy, drunken-like, besotted. - Sense of duality. - Rapid onset and progress. - Fetid discharges. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Face dark red, purple; the more dark red, the more Baptisia; expression besotted.

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- 2. Drowsy, but cannot sleep, because head and body feel scattered about bed; must toss about to get the pieces together. - 3. Offensiveness of all secretions, excretions and exhalation - offensive, cadaverous, penetrating odour - of body, of mouth, stool, urine, sweat. - 4. Sudden onset, great rapid prostration and distress, apparently almost desperate conditions. - Brings on the septic state more rapidly than most other remedies. - 5. In all septic states, fevers (scarlet fever, typhoid, surgical fever, puerperal fever, etc.), looks "drunk"; face besotted, bloated, purple, mottled. - When aroused, utters a word or two and goes into a state of stupor again. - 6. Throat dark, purple, livid, but unusually painless. - 7. Can swallow liquids only. - The least solid food gags, paralysis of deglutition (Gels.). - 8. Feverishness, with feeling all over as if bruised; as if lying on a hard bed, the parts on which he is lying soon ache, feel sore (Arn.) and he has to continually change position, though weak and prostrated. - 9. Hyperpyrexia - drowsy, stupid and languid; slides down in bed and lower jaw drops. Mind - Restless mind but lifeless body. - Bewildered, thick speech. - Dull, drowsy, besotted look. - Sense of duality; parts feel scattered about separated; numb or too large. - Falls asleep while answering or does not complete his sentence. - Prostration out of proportion to attack (Ars.). - Hopeless of recovery. - Wandering, muttering delirium. - Perfect indifference. Objective - Dusky, besotted, stupid countenance. - Dark red, tumid mouth and throat. - Stripe down the centre of tongue. - Thick speech. - Foul odour of body, excretions, stool, sweat. - Drowsy, stupid and languid. - Slides down in bed. - Hyperpyrexia. - Painless sore-throat. - Can swallow liquids only, but has aversion to them. - Tosses about to collect his head and body which he feels are scattered about in bed. - In whatever position he lies, the parts rested upon feel sore and bruised; hence restless, does not sleep quietly, though prostrated. - Falls asleep in the middle of an answer. Causation (a.f. ) - Septic condition of blood, from foul emanations; inhaling sewer gas. Modalities - Agg. - Humid heat; fog; indoors; cold wind; on waking. Food & drinks - Appetite, thirst, Cravings etc. Female - Threatened abortion from mental shock, depression. - Low fevers. - Lochia acrid, foul. - Puerperal fever. - Stomatitis of nursing mothers. Child - Sore mouth of suckling. - Intestinal toxaemia of children, with foetid stools. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mouth - Brown stripe down the centre of the tongue. - Ulcers in the mouth. - Dark, red, tumid mouth. - 2. Respiration - Respiration difficult from weakness of chest. - Craves air. - Afraid to go to sleep on account of sense of suffocation and nightmares. - 3. Sleep

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- Drowsy, stupid and languid. - Lies curled up like a dog on one side. - 4. Fever - Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea with fever. - 5. Skin - Livid spots all over the body and limbs. Cases - 53. Baptisia: - In Hering's Condensed Materia Medica I found all the symptoms given, which all agreed with the patient's condition. - (Try and see how many of these you can locate in Kent's Repertory). - (Walter M. James - H.H. 1985/123)

Baryta carbonica Keywords - Dull, backward, childish. - Irresolute. - Timid, bashful. - Self confidence totally lacking. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Want of self-confidence; fears to undertake anything. - 2. Cold offensive foot-sweat. - Cold clammy feet, making the toes and soles sore. - 3. Tendency to colds with inflammation of tonsils. - 4. Swelling and induration of glands (tonsils, parotid, submaxillary, prostate of old men, ovaries, testicles). - 5. Slightest exertion makes him tired and sleepy. - 6. Irresolution about trifles. - 7. Dull comprehension, stupid, childish. - 8. Timid bashful, frightened easily. - Presence of strangers agg. - 9. Delusion that he is criticised. - Suspicious that people are talking about him. - 10. Children have no disposition to play, sit down in a corner. - Indolence. Mind - Shy of strangers. - Hides behind the furniture and keeps the hand over the face, peeping through the fingers. - Mentally and physically dwarfish, immature. - Dull, backward, inept and slow in grasping things. - Childish and thoughtless behaviour. - Cowardly, timid, bashful. - Cannot learn due to deficient memory; forgets her errand or word in the mouth. - Vacant look. - Absent-mined. - Irresolution, tremendous, wavering mind; inability to take even simple decisions. - Very much dependent on others. - Concentration difficult in studying. - Late in taking up responsibility and doing work. - Suspicious and mistrustful; feels people are talking about him and laughing or mocking at him. - Inferiority complex. - Childishness of old people. - Concerned much about very trivial and petty matters. - Serious over laughable matter and laughs on serious occasions (Anac., Plat.). Objective - Glandular swellings. - Offensive foot sweat. - Tonsils enlarged. - Indurated testes. - Hypertrophied prostate. - Child sits in a corner doing nothing. - Shy of strangers. - Hides behind furniture, or keeps the hand over his face. - Lips pendulous. - Submaxillary gland swollen.

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- Dwindling of ovary and mammary gland. - Twitching in sleep. - Childish and thoughtless; almost imbecile. - Emaciation with bloated face and swollen abdomen. - Child appears stunted both physically and mentally. - Testicles indurated. Causation (a.f. ) - Anticipation; emotion; suppressed foot sweat; during puberty (girls). Modalities - Mind: Agg. - Company. - Presence of strangers. - Cold, damp air, Heat of sun. - After menses. - Washing affected part. - Lying on painful or left side. - When thinking of his ailments. - Odours. - Getting feet wet. - In winter. - Amel. - Walking in open air. - When alone. - Cold food. - Warm wraps (head amel. in open air). Food & drinks - Appetite, Thirst, Cravings. - Appetite - Hungry but refuses food. - Weak digestion of old people. - Aversions - Sweet things, fruits, esp. plums. Male - Flabby genitals. - Prostate enlarged. - Falls asleep during coition. - Premature emission. Female - Dread of men. - Menses scanty, too short; last only one day. - Amenorrhoea. - Dwindling of ovary and mammary glands. - Loquacity during menses. Child - Mentally deficient, idiotic and inattentive. - Weak mentally and physically. - Development arrested in every way. - Slow learning to talk (Agar., Nat. m) and walk. - Slow in every function. - Late to take on his responsibilities. - Hides behind furniture (in the presence of strangers) and keeps hands over his face, and peeps through his fingers. - Thinks he is laughed at and made fun of (for his image). Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Hair - loss of hair from the crown of head; baldness in young people. - 2. Teeth - Toothache in decayed teeth before menses. - 3. Throat - Cannot swallow anything but liquids (tonsils enlarged). - 4. Throat - Tonsils; chronic recurrent inflammation of tonsils. - 5. Abdomen - Enlarged with emaciation of all other parts. - 6. Rectum - Haemorrhoids protrude during urination and stool.

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- 7. Respiration - Suffocative catarrh of the aged (Ant-t. failing). - 8. Cough - Agg. in the presence of strangers. - 9. Cough - Amel. by lying on abdomen. - 10. Chest - Palpitation and distress in heart region, lying on the left side. - 11. Extremities - Swelling and induration (or incipient suppuration) of glands - cervical, inguinal, parotid, submaxillary etc. - 12. Sleep - Sleepy but cannot sleep. (Hungry but cannot eat). - 13. General - Development arrested (mental and physical); organs and physical parts of body undeveloped. - 14. General - Has prolonged life in cancerous affections (Kent). - 15. General - Paralysis extends from above downward. - 16. General - Rheumatic stiffness and aching of whole body in damp weather. - 17. General - Senility; premature. - 18. General - Paralytic conditions; general paralysis in old people; paralysis of tongue. - Penis relaxed; impotence: diminished sexual desire. - 19. General - Mental and physical weakness at both ends of life. - 20. Generals - Principally left sided but affects the right ear and parotid the most. Cases - 7. Baryta carbonica: - Cold, foul foot sweat. - Weeps, goes off alone and weeps as if she has no friends (SR-I-1079). - Lack of self-confidence. - Conscientious about trifles. - Sadness, mental depression. - Weeping, tearful mood (SR-L). - Warts on hand (KR-1223). - Perspiration, foot, suppressed (KR. 1184). - (J.H. Haynes - H.H. 8/84)

Belladonna Keywords - Suddenness. - Congestions. - Wildly delirious. - Photophobia. - Fear of dogs. - Wants to bite and strike. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Suddenness of all complaints (swelling, suppuration, hoarseness, gallstone colic, menstrual colic). - Pains violent - come and go suddenly. - 2. Head and face - bright redness, burning heat, congestion and throbbing. - Photophobia. - Bounding pulse. - 3. Extreme sensitiveness to pain aggr. by least jar, even of the bed. - Obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar. - 4. Spasms, jerkings, twitching, dilated pupils, photophobia. - 5. Sweat on covered parts (Aco : dry hot skin). - 6. Pains centre around the head (Aco: towards the heart and chest) - 7. Head hot, hands and feet cold; eyes BLOOD-SHOT. - 8. Sleepy but cannot sleep. - Starts from fright in sleep. - 9. While bleeding, blood feels hot.

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- 10. Restless; tries to escape; hide, desire to. - 11. Eyes sparkling, pupils dilated. - Red, sclerotics. - Photophobia- averse to light. - 12. All discharges are hot and scanty. Mind - He lives in his own world. - Oversensitiveness of all senses - very acute hearing. - Fear of dogs - of being struck by persons coming near him - presentiment of death. - Hurry in drinking, eating, in movements. - Hasty speech; stammering. - Spits in the face of people. - Striking, knocking head against the wall. - Tears things. - Dreams frightful, of quarrels, fire, etc. - Delirium, furious, with a wild look. - Wishes to strike, bite or quarrel. - Face flushed, eyes red. - Moaning, almost constant. - Delusions, fantastic; rage. - Tendency to dance, laugh, sing, whistle. - Delusions wants to go home. - Furious delirium, raging violent fury. - Inclination to bite and strike those around him. - Has to be restrained, lest he should attack some one; pulls at the hair of the bystander, or his own. - Is fierce and brave (Stram. - wild and cowardly). Objective - Sudden, violent effects. - Dryness, bright redness (congestion). - Burning heat with great pain. - Congestion to head, hence bright redness of face, throbbing. - Photophobia. - Maddening pains, coming and going suddenly in repeated attacks. - Biting mania; violent delirium. - Dilated pupils; prominent sparkling eyes. - Conjunctiva red. - Drinks in sips. - Hot, gushing menses. - Red-streaked mammae. - Bright, red glossy skin. intense dermatitis. - Sleepy but cannot sleep. - Jerks during sleep. - Hot head with cold limbs (Sul). - Convulsions during teething - with fever (without fever Mag. ph.) - Bores head into pillow. - Anything out of perpendicular makes him worse. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Agg. emotional excitement, fright, grief, disappointed love. - Anger with anxiety, fright. - Physical - Exposure to DRAUGHT of cold air; hair cut, getting head wet, sun, summer complaints, suppressed sweat. Modalities - Agg. - Heat of sun; afternoon (3 p.m. ); DRAUGHTS on head; washing head; least jar or motion; after midnight; lying down, looking at bright light, letting limbs hang down. - Amel. - Warm room. - Rest, wrapping up, standing or sitting erect; bending head backward. Food & drinks - Thirst for cold water. - Desire - Lemonade and snuff. - Aversion - Meat, acids, coffee, milk, beer. Female

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- Menses too frequent; gushing flow of bright red blood which feels hot as it passes, or dark, clotted, offensive. - Uterine hemorrhage with great soreness and sensitiveness to least jar. - Faintness during pregnancy. - Breasts feel heavy, very hard. - In mastitis, red streaks radiating from the nipples. - Throbbing, spasmodic contraction of os uteri during labour. - To dry up milk mix one drachm of Tr. with an ounce of olive oil and apply on the breasts. Male - Soft painless tumour on glans. Child - Convulsions of children after punishment (Ign.). - Convulsions during fever - in teething children. - Spasms of glottis. - An angel when well (jovial and entertaining), but a devil when sick (violent). - Teeth, grinding in sleep. - Child cries out in sleep (earache) suddenly and after a while stops crying suddenly as if nothing had happened. - Convulsion with fever, with hot head, red face, violent distortion of body (without fever : Mag-ph). Desire to bite. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind-Delirium - furious with a wild look. - Wishes to strike, bite or quarrel. Face flushed, eyes red. - 2. Mind - Delirium; wild - 3 p.m. till midnight; excited, ferocious. - 3. Mind - Hydrophobia. - 4. Head - Bores into pillow (hydrocephalus). - 5. Head - Head, pain, afternoon, 4 p.m. to 3 a.m. - 6. Throat - Exophthalmic goitre with extreme thyroid toxaemia. - 7. Throat - Glazed, congested, red. Agg. right side. - 8. Stomach - Pain extending to back, between shoulders. - 9. Abdomen - Pain from biliary colic. - 10. Abdomen - Transverse colon distends and protrudes like a pad, during colic. - 11. Bladder - Haematuria without pathological conditions. - 12. Bladder - Retention of urine, post-partum. - 13. Bladder - Sensation as if a worm were turning in. - 14. Extremities - Pain shooting, lower extremities, walking amel. - 15. Dreams - Frightful, of quarrels; of fire, robbers etc. - 16. Fever - Chill followed by heat with sweat. - 17. Fever - High, with comparative absence of toxaemia. - Hot head with cold limbs. - No thirst with fever. - 18. Perspiration - Perspiration sudden and disappears suddenly. - 19. General - Constriction - Throat feels constricted, must swallow in sips. - Os uteri rigid, as if constricted. - Abdomen; cramps, colic. - 20. General - Direction of pains upward, crosswise. - 21. General - Epileptic attacks commence in the arm and are followed by prolonged unconsciousness. - 22. General

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- Heat in the head, chest, stomach with cold extremities. - 23. Generalities - Side. - Right sided. Cases - 39. Belladonna: - Dryness of eyes (KR. 238). - Inflammation of eyes (KR. 241). - Eyes, redness (KR. 264). - Photophobia (KR. 261). - Heat in the eyes (KR. 241). - Lachrymation (KR. 245). - (Arthur G. Allen - H.H. 1982/491) - 41. Belladonna: - Abdomen, pain, agg. while straining at stool (K.R. 561); Abdomen pain, pressure agg. (KR. 559); Abdomen, inflammation, appendicitis (KR. 552); Shrieking with the pain (KR. 80); Touch, slight, agg. (KR. 1407) (Erastus Case - H.H. 1981/119) Borax veneta Keywords - Nervous, frightened by downward motion and sudden noise; Aphthous soreness of mucous membranes. Synopsis - 1. Dread of downward motion (when laying down the child, coming down in lifts; travelling in aeroplanes, cable railways). - 2. Startled by any sudden noise (crackers, door banging, gunfire, etc.). - 3. Anxiety when rocking or dancing (involuntary downward motion). - 4. Child awakes terrified, knows no one, screams and clings to mother (Stram). - 5. Aphthae in mouth, on tongue and inner surface of cheeks, bleed easily; with great heat and dryness of mouth. - Mouth of infant very hot; aphthae prevents the child from nursing. - 6. Aphthous condition from lips through oesophagus down to rectum. (In stomach prevents smooth digestion, with vomiting of slime; in abdomen pinching and diarrhoea; in rectum burning and ulcers; even to stricture of rectum). - 7. Aphthous nipples that will not tolerate suckling. - 8. Aphthous mouth as a concomitant of diarrhoea. - 9. Before urination, child cries and screams. - 10. Leucorrhoea white, albuminous or starchy; like the white of an egg, with sensation as if warm water were flowing down. - 11. Hair tangles at the tips, and sticks together; if cut off, they form again. - Hair frowsy, cannot be combed smoothly. - 12. Sensation of emptiness in mammae after suckling; better pressing it. - 13. Whiteness of parts usually red. - 14. Pain in opposite mammae when child nurses. - 15. Dysmenorrhoea, violent, membranous, with sterility (cured). - 16. Discharges are thick, hot and biting. - Leucorrhoea albuminous. - 17. Eructations which come on on pressure of painful part; they amel. Mind - Great anxiety and dread of downward motion. - Frightened at least noise (Bell., Asar., Ther.). - Irritable before stool, cheerful after. - Fear of contagious disease. - Fear of thunder. - Indolence, no desire to do anything. - All mental symptoms are ameliorated at 11 p.m. - Nervous, anxious, fickle. - Changes from one room to another, one business to another. Objective - Fright from sudden noises - report of gun even at a distance; noise of crackers during Diwali. - Fear of thunder. - Dread of downward motion. - Fear of falling in children, when they are carried downstairs, or being laid down in the cradle. - Sore mouth of nursing children - aphthae which bleed easily. - Lashes turn inward. - Inversion of eyelids.

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- Margins of eyelids red. - Leucorrhoea, copious, clear and albuminous; feels as if warm water were flowing. - Child screams before urinating; weeps during stools, with aphthous sore mouth. - Mucous membranes shrivelled. - Mother's milk is thick and tastes badly. - Dry skin. Ailments from (causation) - Uterine troubles (gastralgia). - Touch of affected part (bleeding). Modalities - Agg. - Downward or upward motion. - Rocking, or being dangled up and down. - Sudden noise. - After menses. - Nursing children. - Damp weather. - Riding in a carriage. - Eating fruits. - Amel. - Cold weather. - 11 p.m. - Pressure. - After stool. Appetite, thirst, cravings, aversion - Loss of taste. - Thirst in the morning. - Abdomen distended after eating, with pain as if diarrhoea would set in. - Diarrhoea aggr. by tobacco smoking. - Desires - Sour things. Female - Menses profuse, pale. - Leucorrhoea corrosive, acrid, thick like starch. - During pregnancy itching, burning of vagina, with a discharge like gonorrhoea. - False labour pains. - Pains dart upwards, head of child goes back. - Flow of milk which curdles easily. - Mouth of child feels hot to mother's nipple. - Leucorrhoea unnaturally hot. Male - Chancres studding prepuce; painful on being touched. - Desire absent. Child - Aphthae with hot mouth. - Child lets go the nipple and cries with pain; refuses breast altogether. - Child screams before urination (inflammation of mucous membrane. - Lyc. Sars., with red sand in urine). - Hot head of babies. - Infants cyanotic from birth. - Salivation during dentition. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Vertigo - Agg. by ascending stairs. - 2. Head - Hair tangled at tips, cannot be combed. - Plica polonica. - 3. Ears - Sensitive to slightest noise - not so much to louder noise. - 4. Nose - Red nose of young women. - Obstruction alternately with lachrymation. - Epistaxis on blowing nose. - 5. Face - Cobweb sensation; as of a bug crawling over lip. - 6. Stomach

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- Pain after lifting heavy objects, gastralgia, reflex from uterine troubles. - 7. Stool - Stools turn persistently green, like boiled starch. - 8. Bladder - Urine hot, acrid. - Loose, pappy, repulsive stool. - Smarting. - Nephritis. - Cystitis. - 9. Genitalia - Male - indifference to coition. - 10. Female - Mother's milk is thick and tastes badly. - 11. Respiration - Arrest of breath when lying down, must jump up for breath. - 12. Chest - Feels as if HEART is on the right side, and is being squeezed. - 13. Extremities - Feeling of cobwebs on hands; as if warm water running down thighs. - 14. Skin - DRY, festers easily. - Would not heal. - 15. Chest - Pleurisy with pain in the right pectoral region; cannot move or breathe without a stitch. - 16. Cough - Must hold chest with both hands while coughing. - 17. Sleep - During the day, sleepless at night. - Sleepless after awaking with activity of mind. - 18. Extremities - Corns, shooting, piercing pain, esp. in rainy weather. Cases - 75. Borax: - Allen's Keynotes says: Leucorrhoea, profuse, albuminous, starchy with sensation as if WARM WATER WERE FLOWING DOWN. (A.M. Cushing - H.H. 1985/415) Bryonia alba Keywords - Dryness. - Business minded. - Fears poverty. - Excessive thirst. - Worse any motion. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Aggravation from motion, all complaints. - Amel. by absolute rest. - 2. Amel. from pressure, even painful parts. - 3. Dryness of mucous membranes (from lips to anus, dry hard stools). - 4. Excessive thirst for large quantities of water at long intervals. - 5. Stitching pain amel. by pressure (in serous membranes and joints). - 6. Dizziness or fainting on sitting up (desires absolute rest, physical as well as mental). - 7. Talks and dreams of business; fear of poverty. - Inflammation; serous membranes (pleuritis, meningitis, peritonitis etc.) - 8. Vicarious menstruation; epistaxis instead of menses, also blood spitting. - 9. Tongue and lips dry with desire for cold drinks in large quantities. - Thickly coated tongue. Mind - Determined. - Taciturn. - Averse to being disturbed. - Fear of poverty. - Dread of future.

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- Despair of cure. - Dreams of hard work, about household affairs, about business of the day. - Anger. - Irritability, vehement and angry, talks of business - anxiety about business. - Delusion, fancies he is doing business. - Desire to go home when he is at home. - Thinks he is away from home. - Wants to be quiet. - Eccentricity, desires things which cannot be had, and when offered are refused. - Hasty speech and drinks hastily. Objective - Child averse to being carried or raised (any motion). - Frequent bleeding from the nose when the menses should appear. - Face bluish red. - Stools hard, as if burnt; constipation. - Mammae heavy, as of stony hardness; hot and painful. - Must support them while moving about. - In delirium talks constantly about business; wants to go home, though he is at home. - Nose-bleed; vicarious. - Dry mouth and tongue; thirst for large drinks. - Full, quick, hard pulse. - Undeveloped measles. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Anger with silent grief, chagrin, mortification, scorn, hurry. - Vexation. Modalities - Physical agg. - Motion in any form. - Coughing. - Exertion. - Becoming overheated. - Agg. hot weather, at 9 P.M. , suppression or non-appearance of eruptions and discharges (menses, lochia). - During inspiration, deep breathing. - Change of weather, from cold to warm. - Increasing moon. - Light and noise. - Aggr. - From least raising up, eating, touch. - Amel. - Absolute rest. - Pressure, lying on the painful side. - Free perspiration. - Cold food and drinks. - Open air; quiet; drawing knees up. - Warm applications to inflamed part. Food & drinks - Appetite - A glutton (Nux an epicure). - Thirst - Excessive, at long intervals - drinks hastily, eagerly. - Desires - Sweets, coffee, cold, sour drinks, wine. - Aversion - Milk, rich fatty food, warm drinks. - Agg. oysters (vomits immediately after eating). - Vegetables. Female - Menses frequent, copious, protracted. - Induration of mammae from diminished or retarded flow of milk. - Milk scanty. (Use 200th to promote, and 3x to dry up). - Frequent epistaxis instead of menses. - Mammae heavy; of stony hardness, yet pale; hot and painful; must support the breasts (Agg. jar, motion - Phyt.) - Menses suppressed with vicarious discharges; or splitting headache. Child - Dislikes to be carried or raised.

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- Desires uncovering, throws the covers off. - Presence of strangers agg. - Infant refuses breast till mouth becomes moist. - Sore mouth of infant. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Vertigo - Fainting on sitting up. - 2. Head - Headache from constipation (Aloe, Collin, Op.). - 3. Head - Pain - splitting, agg. motion, amel. by pressure and closing eyes. - 4. Vertigo - Before chill. - 5. Head - Pain on first motion; combing the hair; after eating, must lie down. - 6. Nose - Epistaxis - Nosebleed; vicarious in place of menses (Phos). - 7. Mouth - Taste - Everything bitter except water (Acon., Stann.). - 8. Stomach - Pressure as of a stone in pit of stomach, amel. by eructations (Nux.v. , Puls.). - 9. Rectum - Diarrhoea from suddenly checked sweat and hot weathero4978(.)-11.3y[( )-11.3345(-)7.49613099(o)1.4422(4.7(n)-1.3345( )o 0.6134(a)134(.)0.721099())-4.55617(.)278]TJT*[( )-11)6134(a)4613099(o)1.4422(4.7(n)-1.3345(442245(B.440.6134(a)1.4422(c)721099( -a;re m pre e gid asmbup.

- This was a case of aggravation more marked than is often seen. - Bry. is a great remedy for mastitis, and is also a prophylactic. - My patients in childbed almost always take it, the 200th potency, for the 2nd and 4th day. - The control over the flow of milk is beautiful. (Compare Phytolacca which is also very useful in mastitis with pain during suckling, cracked nipples). (Jas. B. Bell - H.H. 1984/175) Calcarea carbonica Keywords - Fat, flabby, fatigued - full of fears. - Sweats easily. - Sad stories disturb horribly. - Craves eggs. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Fat and flabby - or disposed to grow fat, unwildy, grows fast; and fatigued easily. - 2. Sweats easily in consequence takes cold easily. - Sweaty head, palms. - 3. Horrible, sad stories disturb her profoundly. - Sensitive to reports of cruelties. - 4. Fear of disease, contagion; fears of every kind; fear of insanity, despair of recovery. - 5. Menses too early, too profuse, protracted, bright red. - 6. Least mental excitement causes return of profuse menstrual flow. - 7. Craving for eggs, indigestible things, aversion to milk and meat. - 8. Suspicious, thinks people look at him suspiciously. - 9. Tardy development of bony tissues with lymphatic enlargement (glandular). - 10. Muscles soft and flabby. - 11. Stomach: Epileptic aura rising from stomach to head. Mind - Melancholic, sad, anxious, great apprehension. - Full of fear: fear of darkness, disease, misery, loss of reason, misfortune. - Indisposed to all work. - Obstinate, self willed. - Fears people will observe her mental confusion. - Looks at them with suspicion. - Great desire to be magnetised (Phos, Sil). - Excited by reports of cruelties, horror scenes. - Mentally indolent, sits and thinks of little affairs. - Over-apprehensive. - Despair of recovery. Objective - Fat, flabby and sweaty, profuse sweat during sleep, esp. on head or chest. - Discharges sour. - Open fontanelles. - Tardy teething and walking. - Big head with large hard abdomen. - Stomach like an inverted saucer. - Dilated pupils. - Short of breath on slight exertion. - Enlarged glands (cervical, mesenteric). - Cold, damp feet. - Polypi, nasal, uterine. - Chewing motion of the jaw during sleep. - Otorrhoea with muco-purulent discharge (Calc.s. , Hep., Merc.). - Longing for eggs. - Thick, milky, gushing leucorrhoea. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Fright, anticipation of bad news, emotional excitement, grief, pecuniary loss, rudeness of others. - Mental exertion. - Ill effects of alcohol. Modalities - Mind - Agg. mental exertion. - Physical

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- Agg. cold air. - Exertion physical and mental. - Ascending steps. - Dentition. - Puberty. - Anxiety, full or increasing moon, climaxis. - Overlifting. - Spraining parts. - Amel. - Dry weather. - Rubbing or soothing with hands (magnetised). - Darkness. - Aggr. pressure of clothes. Food & drinks - Craving - Unusual craving for eggs, chalks, coal and other indigestible things (Alum). Salty things. - Aversion - Meat, milk (vomits sour milk), fats; warm food. - Disagree - Milk. Female - Menses too early, too profuse, too long lasting. - Leucorrhoea; before puberty (Caulo) and in infants. - Uterine haemorrhage from over-lifting. - Least mental excitement causes profuse return of menstrual flow. - Galactorrhoea or deficient milk with breasts flabby; not swollen. - Sterility, because of relaxation of muscles. - Male - Erection too short; emission too quick. Child - Large head with large, hard abdomen. - Epilepsy during dentition; from fright. - Rickety; very slow bony development (curvatures, exostosis, rickets). - Slow teething, late walking. - Sour, offensive diarrhoea during dentition. - Profuse head sweat wetting the pillow. - Precocious. - Obstinate, cries persistently. - Sleep restless. - Anxious when lifted from cradle. (Open fontanelles). - Abdomen - hard, large like inverted saucer. - Big head; damp cold feet. Inclined to grow fat, flabby, fair, weak, lethargic, perspiring. - Night terrors; wakes up at 2 or 3 a.m. , screams, remembers nothing of it next morning. - Skin cold like a snake, clammy hands, knees. - Epistaxis in fat children. - Late learning to walk or stand; will not even try to walk. - Difficult dentition. - Body smells sour. - Out of breath from slight exertion. - Child chews and swallows in sleep. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Horrid visions when eyes are closed. - 2. Head - Vertex icy cold (hot : Sulph). - Internal and external coldness of various parts. - Great sensitiveness to cold. - 3. Nose - Nasal polyp with loss of smell. - Scurfy nostrils; obstruction of nose with headache. - 4. Throat - Pain; sore, from change of weather. - 5. Abdomen - Proud flesh; umbilicus. - 6. Rectum - Habitually constipated; feels better in every way when constipated.

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- 7. Larynx - Voice. - Painless hoarseness. - 8. Respiration - Dyspnoea on going upstairs or from slight exertion. - 9. Chest - Pain ulcerative; mammae. - 10. Chest - Boys and girls grow rapidly; boys with tubercular infiltration of the upper lobe of the right lung; the girl with anaemia and menstrual symptoms. - 11. Back - Curvature of spine, esp. dorsal. - 12. Extremities - Cramps and cramplike pains, (during pregnancy); calves, arms, hands, fingers, when stretching legs. - Palms so soft, as if they are boneless. - 13. Extremities - Trembling of lower limbs (thigh and legs)after coition. Feet: Cold and damp, as if wearing wet stockings. - 14. Skin - Induration of glands - maxillary, sub-maxillary, inguinal, parotid, cervical or mesenteric (tubercular). - 15. Skin - Skin unhealthy; every injury leads to ulceration (with hardness around). - 16. General - Emaciation everywhere except abdomen. - 17. General - Epilepsy - aura begins in solar plexus, sensation as if a mouse is running up the arm (Sulph.). - 18. General - Tendency to grow polypi (nasal, uterine). - 19. General - Principal remedy in three great assimilative disorders - Scrofula. & Rachitis. - Tuberculosis. (Hering). Cases - 52. Calcarea carb: - The outstanding mental, "Horrible things, sad stories affect her profoundly" (KR. 52) comes first. - Of those remedies choose the chilly (worse cold) remedies. - The desire for eggs and sweets confirms Calc. Agg. cold air (KR. 1402). - We had few symptoms, but those she had were fortunately typical of Calc. - One rarely sees the typical Calc. (fat, flabby) in adolescence, but the cravings and reaction to weather, the sweating (not now of head but genitals) remains. (Health Through Homoeopathy, 1948 - H.H. 1985/128) Calcarea fluorica Keywords - Stony hard indurations, nodosities. - Fear of poverty. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Diseases of glands, bones, veins. - 2. Enlarged glands with stony hardness. - 3. Bony growths, osteosarcoma, exostosis - rice bodies in cartilages. - 4. Induration threatening suppuration. - 5. Fear of poverty. - Miserly. - 6. Lumbar pain agg. first motion, amel. by continued motion (after Rhus tox fails). - 7. Tumours; encysted, of eyelids, ganglion on back of wrist. Mind - Fear of misfortune. - Anxious, depressed, sad, miserly. - Indecision. - Groundless fear of financial loss. - Fear of poverty. - Vivid dreams with weeping. - Jumps out of bed in a dream. - Delusion he will come to want. Objective - Indurations; of stony hardness; glands, tonsils, tumours.

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- Exostoses, periostitis. - Varicose veins inflamed. - Slow, sluggish processes. - Discharges turn grass green. - X-ray burns. - Tonsils rough and ragged. - Ulcers with hard edges. - Encysted tumours at the back of wrist. - Rice bodies in joints. Causation (a.f. ) - Injury (exostosis). Modalities - Agg. - Rest, beginning to move; change of weather, cold/wet (damp) weather. - X-ray burns. - Amel. - Heat, warm applications, continued motion. Rubbing. Food & drinks - Cravings - Sweets - Aversion - Fats and rich food. Female - Hard knots in breast. - Flatulency of pregnancy. - Favours parturition. Male - Hydrocele with induration of testes. - Enlarged prostate. Child - Cephalhaematoma of newborn. - Vomiting of undigested food in infants. - Acute indigestion from fatigue and brain fag; or when overtaxed by studies. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Eyes - CATARACT - disperses growths - corneal opacity. - 2. Ear - Calcareous deposits on tympanum. - 3. Ear - Chronic suppuration of middle ear. - 4. Nose - Ineffectual effort at sneezing. - 5. Face - Periosteitis of lower jaw, ribs etc. - 6. Teeth - Deficient enamel of teeth. - 7. Teeth - Dental fistula, with bloody discharge of salty taste. - 8. Throat - Large indurated stony hard tonsils (after Bar. c.), cervical glands, testes, uterine fibroid. - 9. Rectum - Bleeding piles with pain sacrum. - 10. Rectum - Fissures, fistula. - Indolent, fistulous ulcers. - 11. Extremities - Indurations threatening suppuration. - 12. Extremities - Arteriosclerosis, aneurysm. - 13. Extremities - Encysted tumours on the wrist. Bursitis. - 14. Extremities - Gouty enlargement of joints of fingers. - 15. Extremities - Nails hypertrophied.

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- 16. Extremities - Recurrent fibroids in the hollow of the knee. - 17. Extremities - Knee - Synovitis of knee joint and exostosis after injury. - 18. Skin - Ulcers with hard elevated edges; surrounding skin purple and swollen. - 19. General - Discharges turn grass green. - 20. General - Removes tendency to adhesions after surgery. - Disperses bony growths. - 21. General - Varicose veins. - Vascular tumours with dilated blood vessels. - 22. General - X-ray burns; ill effects of. Cases - 5. Calc Fluor. - Fear of poverty (SR-I). - Indurations, of stony hardness. - Vascular dilatation; varicoses, inflamed. - Agg. cold, damp and change of weather (BSK).

Calcarea phosphorica Keywords - Slow dentition and development. - Wants to travel. - Soft bones. - Craves smoked meat. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Lean, spare, emaciated body; sunken, flabby abdomen - 2. Bones soft, thin, brittle, curved, defective development, non-union of fractures. - Osteoporosis. - Fontanelles remain open too long. - 3. Desire to travel. - Always wants to go somewhere (Tub). - 4. Spine so weak in lumbar region that he cannot sit upright unless back is supported. - 5. Craving for salted and smoked meat. - 6. Bladder aches when empty. Mind - Peevish, restless, fretful. - Desires to (travel) wander - always wants to go somewhere. - Discontented. - Wishes to go out and when there, to go back home. - Consolation aggravates weeping. - Likes to be alone to commune with her thoughts. - Involuntary sighing. - Slow comprehension. - Stupidity. - Memory weak. Objective - Slow learning to walk. - Flabby sunken abdomen. - Fontenelles remain open too long. - Teething delayed. - Child suffers from colic after every feed. - Spine weak, disposed to curvature. - Neck also weak, unable to hold the head. - Child loses its breath on being lifted up from the cradle. - Thin brittle bones. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Overstudy.

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- Grief; unpleasant news, or anger; unrequited affection. - Physical - Operation for fistula. Modalities - Mind Agg. - Consolation agg. - Thinking of symptoms. - Physical - Exposure to damp cold weather. - Change of weather, draughts, melting snow. - Dentition, puberty, mental exertion. - Loss of fluids. - Lifting. - Ascending. - Getting wet. - Amel. - In summer. - Warm dry weather. - Lying down. Food & drinks - Appetite - Infant wants to nurse all the time. - Craving - Salt, smoked meat, bacon, ham. - Indigestible things. - Raw piquant food. - Aversions - To coffee. - Disagree - Juicy fruits (diarrhoea); ice cream, cold water. - Nausea from smoking or coffee. Female - Menses too early, scanty or excessive or late with violent backache. - Abnormal cravings during pregnancy. - Exalted sexual instinct - nymphomania. - Leucorrhoea day and night, like white of egg. - Violent cramping in uterus and groin, making her cry out several hours before flow starts, relieved after flow has been fully established. - Uterine displacements with intense sexual excitement before menses, during lactation. - Tumours of mammae (left) painful to pressure, menses too early, scanty or excessive, or late menses with violent backache. Child - Delicate, anaemic child with soft thin bones, lean and tall. - Child refuses breast, milk tastes salty. - Infants want to nurse all the time and vomit easily, weak digestion. - Every bite hurts the stomach. - Retarded dentition. - Weak thin neck cannot hold head up, it wobbles. - Depression on occipital bone. - Convulsion without fever. - Oozing of bloody fluid from the navel of infants. - Persistent vomiting of milk (breast or other). - Loses breath on being lifted up (Bor), late learning to walk. - Grasps head with hands and screams (headache). Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Headache of schoolgirls with diarrhoea. - 2. Head - Hydrocephalus, acute or chronic. - 3. Nose - Large pedunculated polypus in nose. - Round ulcers of septum. - 4. Face - Acne in anaemic girls at puberty. - 5. Throat - Tonsils enlarged.

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- Adenoid growth. - 6. Throat - Tonsils chronically large. - 7. Stomach - Anxiety felt at the stomach. - 8. Abdomen - Abdominal colic at every attempt to eat, agg. ice-cream, cold water or fruits. - 9. Rectum - Fistula in an alternating with chest symptoms (Berb., Sil.). - 10. Urine - Sugar. - Diabetes with lung affections. - 11. Larynx - Tubercular laryngitis (Dros., Sil., Cal.c. ) - 12. Respiration - Involuntary sighing. - 13. Cough - Cough amel. lying. - 14. Chest - Pain in chest from draught. - 15. Back - Curvature of spine to the left. - 16. Back - Violent pain in back, agg. by least effort. - 17. Extremities - Caries of hip-joint and feet with offensive pus. - 18. Extremities - Cold limbs with digestive troubles. - 19. Extremities - Legs tired, weak, tingling. - Aversion to labour. - 20. Extremities - Rheumatism agg. at every cold, damp weather or melting snow (Med.). - 21. Dreams - Frightful dreams, wakes up with a start. - 22. Sleep - Sleepless till midnight or later. - Very sleepy in morning, difficult to wake her up. - 23. Sleep - Position on abdomen, genu-pectoral with face forced into the pillow. - 24. General - Pain in small spots. - 25. Generalities - Coldness (or soreness) in spots - vertex, tip of nose. Cases - 125. Calcarea phos. - Phatak's Materia Medica states: "Hydrocephalus; cannot hold the head up; it wobbles." - (Dr. Calvin B. Knerr - H.H. 1983/97) - 130. Calc. phos. - Longing for bacon and ham-fat was the single symptom (craving) which decided the choice of the remedy. - (Prescriber anonymous)

Calcarea sulphurica Keywords - Jealous; wants appreciation. - Glandular swelling. - Suppurative tendency. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Discontented Jealous. - 2. Profuse suppuration. (tonsils; abscess of cornea; in lungs, cystic fibroid tumours; pus in urine; wounds). - 3. Tendency to suppuration, after the pus has found a vent. - 4. Recurrent or running ABSCESSES (ears, teeth, cornea) (Pyro).

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- 5. Pus is thick, yellow, lumpy, bloody. - 6. Sensitive to draft, yet desires open air. - 7. Glandular swelling, cystic tumours, fibroids. Mind - 1. Discontented, easily angered. - 2. Jealousy - Lamenting that she is not appreciated. - 3. Malicious. - 4. Hates or despises those who do not agree with him. - 5. Grumbling that his value is not appreciated by others. - 6. Broods over imaginary misfortune. - 7. Hurried. Objective - Abscess, running; pus thick. - Tendency to suppuration. - Skin won't heal. - Easy sweat. - Eczema with many points of suppuration. - Comes in when pus has found a vent. - Nash cured a case of suppurating kidney with it. Causation (a.f. ) - Anger. Modalities - Agg. - Drafts. - Heat of room. - Overlifting, touch, wet cold weather (Hep. dry cold). - Amel. - Open air. - Cold bathing. - Uncovering. - Applied (local) heat. - Walking fast (vertigo). Food & drinks - Appetite - Great thirst and appetite. - Appetite wanting when thinking of food. - Craves - Fruit, tea, green and sour vegetables. - Sweets and salt. - Stimulants to overcome weakness. - Aversion - Milk, meat, to smoking. Female - Menses late, long lasting, with headache, and twitching. - Itching high up in vagina. - Cutting pain in right ovary. Male - Gonorrhoea with purulent, serous discharge. - Abscess of the prostate. Child - 1. Infants; with bloody coryza, diarrhoea or eczema. - 2. Scald head of children; with purulent yellow discharge. - 3. Diarrhoea; of children, with discharge of pus or bloody pus. - 4. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Eye - Injury to the eye from a splinter. - 2. Eyes - Conjunctivitis, with discharge of thick yellow matter. - 3. Eyes - Sees only half of the object.

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- 4. Ears - Otitis after a slap. - 5. Nose - Smell wanting or lost. - Epistaxis from washing face. - 6. Face - Pimples and pustules on face. - 7. Mouth - Tongue flabby, base yellow. - 8. Rectum - Painful abscess about anus in cases of fistula. - 9. Kidney - Pyelitis (Berb). - 10. Perspiration - Easy sweating, agg. coughing. - 11. Chest - Empyema, pus forming in the lungs or pleural cavities. - 12. Extremities - Burning, itching of soles of feet. (Hep - cold foul foot sweat). - 13. Extremities - Cold offensive sweat of feet. - 14. Extremities - Whitlow, when suppuration begins. - 15. Skin - Burns and scalds - after suppuration starts. - 16. Skin - Cracked in winter, especially hands after washing. - 17. Skin - Eczema, yellow scales with many points of suppuration. - 18. Skin - Removes purulent exudate, in serous sacs and carious ulcers. - 19. Skin - Unhealthy skin, cuts, wounds, etc. would not heal (Hep, -> festers). Cases - 55. Calcarea sulph. - Dr. Kanjilal took the symptom : "Coryza, cold bathing amel." - Kent Rep. (326) and also other symptoms and gave this remedy. - (Report by Dr. Rajan Sankaran - H.H. 1985/194)

Carcinosinum Keywords - Precocity, love of nature, dancing, music, animals, travelling, sea air, chocolates - OR the opposite; backwardness. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Family history (possibly personal history) of low resistance to more than one disease. - Indicated remedies have not achieved the desired results. - 2. Amel, by sea air (Med). - 3. Knee-elbow position in children during sleep-upto one year : (Older children : Tub, Phos, Calc. ph, Med.). - 4. Craving for salt, meat, milk, eggs, chocolates, sweets, highly seasoned food. - 5. Appearance : brownish complexion, numerous moles, blue sclerotics. - 6. Insomnia, even in young children.

- Enjoys thunderstorm (Sep); music and dancing (Sep). - Sympathy for others (Phos. Sep.). - Dreams prophetic. - Memory weak for everyday things. - Conscientious about trifles. Objective - Long h/o excessive parental control (or f/h of cancer) f/h of excessive sense of duty; industrious. - Compassion for animals only. - Loves thunderstorm. - Travel, desire to. - Blue : conjunctiva, sclera, lips. - Biting nails. - Speech stammering. - Sleep : genu-pectoral in children. - Sleeplessness in nurslings; child must be rocked. - Weeping when telling of her sickness. - Dancing. - Desires raw potatoes; smoked food; butter; chocolate. - Periodicity : annual. Causation (a.f. ) - Anticipation, fright, prolonged fear or unhappiness. - Suppressed emotions, reprimand. Modalities - Agg. - Consolation. - Amel. - Sea air (Med., Nat-m, Sep); warm blooded. Food & drinks - Cravings - Soup; bacon; butter; cold drinks; chocolates; sweets, salt, milk, eggs, fat. - Aversions - Fruit, meat, chocolates. Female Child - Children, shriek, in nightmares. - Somnambulism. - Inquisitive. - Precocious, talks like an adult. - Backward child dull, thinking difficult, apathetic, averse to conversation (Med). - Bites nails. - Weeps from reprimand. - Passion to read. - Insomnia (from overstimulation of mind). - Indisposition to play in a child. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Stomach - Vomiting, cyclical, from mental overstimulation, or overfatigue. - 2. General - Alternation of symptoms (Lac.c. , Sep). - 3. General - Family history of cancer, tuberculosis, diabetes, pernicious anaemia or a combination of all these. - 4. General - Past history of whooping cough, severe, at 5 months of age; or pneumonia - long history of severe inflammatory diseases. - 5. General - Reaction poor - Indicated remedies (or partially indicated) fail; viz. Tub., Med., Nat. mur., Sep., Syph., Lyc., Sulph., Psor, Dysentery co., Op. - 6. General - Useful as constitutional remedy, the further away the patient is from actual cancer. (Unsafe in patients suspected of cancer). Cases

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- 123. Carsinosin - The rubrics that led to this remedy in Syn. Rep : Fastidious (SR. 472). - Obstinate (SR. 787). - Consolation agg. (SR. 181). - Sensitive to music (SR. 901). - (Dr. R.K. Neera - National Journal of Homoeopathy - 2/1993 p. 37)

Causticum Keywords - Paralytic contractions. - Full of cares. - Over- sympathetic, weeping at trifles. Synopsis (a.f. ) - 1. Paralytic weakness; paralysis gradually appearing. - 2. Paralysis of single parts (face, lips, tongue, eyelids, throat, extremities, bladder, rectum). - 3. Right sided complaints. - 4. Contraction of tendons, ligaments, making joints stiff. - 5. Rawness and soreness, all over, in throat (with aphonia), in respiratory tract, rectum, urethra, vagina. - 6. Sympathy for the suffering of others. - 7. Hoarse voice (of singers), worse morning, amel by talking. - 8. Gradual onset and slow progress of complaints. - 9. Horrible things affect profoundly. - 10. Melancholy, full of grief and sorrow, with weeping. Mind - Oversympathetic; weeps from sympathy. - Full of cares. - Weeps easily at the least worry. - Cautiously anxious. - Anxiety with fear. - Censorious. - Quarrelsome. - A pessimist. - Dullness. - Repeats question before answering. - Hurry while eating. - Suspicious. - Fear, of darkness, death, ghosts, being alone; of evil (something will happen). - Anxiety of conscience as if guilty of a crime. - Weeping at trifles. Objective - Gradually appearing paralysis. - Contracted tendons, hamstrings. - Oversympathetic. - Heavy, drooping eyelids. - Can pass stool easier by standing; but must sit down to urinate. - Can't cough deep enough; expectoration slips back again. - Warts on nose, brows, lids, fingertips; seedy, bleeding, ulcerating. - Facial paralysis, esp. of right side. - Children slow learning to walk. - Cicatrices, esp. after burns, freshen up, become sore again. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Long lasting grief, care (Ign, Nat-m, Phos-ac). - Disappointed love; loss of sleep (Cocc., Ign); fear, fright; joy, sudden emotional excitement (Coffea). - Stammering from excitement, from vexation. - Anticipation and cares. - Physical - Suppressed eruptions. - Never well since burns, scalds, exposure to cold.

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Modalities - Agg. - Sensitive to both heat and cold. - Generally worse in clear fine weather. - Worse from exposure to dry, cold winds. - Amel. - Damp, wet weather. - Warmth, warmth of bed (rheumatic pains worse when out of bed). - Damp wet weather. Food & drinks - Appetite - Vanishes at the sight of food; at the thought or smell of food; during pregnancy. - Desire for smoked meat, pungent things. - Thirst - For beer. smoked meat, pungent things. - Aversion - Sweets. Fresh meat - nausea (smoked meat agrees). - Agg. fat food. Female - Menses late (or early), profuse. - Menses flow only during the day (Cycl., Puls), ceases at night. - Leucorrhoea flows during night, with great weakness; smelling like menses. - Dysmenorrhoea with tearing pains in back and thighs. - Disappearance of milk from night-watching. - Urine retention after labour. - Uterine inertia during labour. Male - Semen bloody during coition. Child - Weeps at least things. - Fear to go to bed alone at night, afraid of strangers. - Slow in learning to walk (Calc. ph). - Unsteady walking and easy falling. - Child delicate, puny, sickly. - Slow learning to talk as well. - Children emaciated about the feet with enlarged abdomen. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Eye - Cataract, incipient. - 2. Ears - Words re-echo (reverberate) in one's own ears. - 3. Face - Facial paralysis, right sided. - 4. Throat - Swallows the wrong way or it comes through nose. - 5. Stomach - Pain from ice-water. - 6. Stomach - Sits on the table hungry but the thought, sight or smell of food takes away the appetite. - Pain, burning as if lime is being slaked. - 7. Mouth - Tongue red stripe down the centre of tongue. - 8. Rectum - Fissures (and piles) burn like fire. - 9. Rectum - Haemorrhoids, sore pain, worse when straining the voice (preaching), or standing or walking. - Pain haemorr-hoids aggr. by thinking of complaints. - 10. Rectum - Stool passes easier when standing. - 11. Urethra - Burning - agg. after coition. - 12. Urine - Involuntary; while coughing, sneezing, blowing nose. (Puls., Squil, Natrum).

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- 13. Urine - Retention after labour (Canth., Hyos). - 14. Urine - Retention after surgical operations. - 15. Cough - Amel. by a drink of water, cannot expectorate, obliged to swallow sputum; it slips back. - 16. Extremities - Discoloration black, marbled (leg, thigh), shortening of muscles. - 17. Extremities - Contraction of flexors and stiffness of joints. - 18. Extremities - Finger nails crippled. - 19. Extremities - Hip joint, left, sudden severe pain. - 20. Extremities - Hip, pain in, while coughing. - 21. Extremities - Left sided sciatica with numbness. - 22. Extremities - Pain - burning in joints. - 23. Extremities - Restless legs at night. - 24. Skin - After effects of burns and scalds "Has never been well since that burn". - 25. Skin - Cicatrices (burns and scalds) and old injuries reopen, freshen up. - 26. Skin - Ulcers, with yellow looking skin. - 27. Skin - Warts; on nose, eyebrows, on finger tips; bleeding easily. - 28. General - Pain - Rawness, soreness of throat, respiratory tract, rectum, urethra, vagina. - 29. General - Paralysis from cold, from riding in wind; after getting wet. - 30. General - Paralysis, single parts. - (a)Ptosis (Sep., Gel.). - (b)Enuresis (paralysis of bladder). - (c)Facial paralysis due to exposure to dry cold winds. - (d)Pain in paralysed parts. - (e)Urethra or rectum insensible while passing urine or stool. - 31. General - Periodicity. - Convulsions, etc., twice a day; every 2, 3 or 4 weeks. - Agg. at new moon. - 32. General - Epilepsy. - Attacks in sleep with involuntary urination. - Runs in circles, then falls down. Cases - 57. Causticum - Complaints from fright (KR. 49): Averse to sweets (KR. 482). - Cold dry weather aggr. (KR. 1349). - Urine, involuntary during convulsions (KR. 659). - Weeping at trifles (KR. 94). Agg. new moon (SR. - II -370). - (Glenn Bidwell - H.H. 1989/161)

Chamomilla Keywords - Oversensitive. - Ugly temper; cross; opium of homoeopathy. - One cheek hot, the other pale or cold.

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- Child quiet by carrying. - 1. Irritable temperament - in newborn, during dentition, pregnancy, parturition. - Leader for Anger with pain. - 2. So irritable, oversensitive and snappish - can hardly return a civil answer. - Mental calmnesscontra indicates (rev. Puls). - 3. Fretful, child will be quiet only when carried and petted, desire to be rocked. - 4. Great sensitiveness to pain, with irritability and snappishness. - 5. Complaints agg. from 9 P.M. to midnight. - 6. Rheumatic pains compel him to get up and walk about. - 7. Numbness with pains - hot sweat with the pains. - 8. One cheek red and hot the other pale and cold. Mind - Rude, cross, ugly & uncivil behaviour. - Irritable & snappish. - Pains are intolerable, exaggerates her pains; demands immediate relief of pains or she would rather die. - Vexed at every trifle. - Mentally agitated & restless, tosses & groans. - Oversensitive to everything. - Menstrual colic from anger. - Sends the doctor out of the room saying she is not sick. - Restless & impatient, every thing moves too slowly, which irritates her. - Desire to be carried which relieves her. - Likes to be rocked. - Aversion to being spoken to, aversion to being touched. - People who cannot bear to be interrupted while conversing, irritable when questioned. - Desire to break and smash things during pains. - Over-sensitive to pain, shrieking. (Cham. is the "Opium of Homoeopathy"). Objective - Snappish, cross, uncivil, averse to being spoken to or touched. - Intolerant of, frantic with, pain. - Spells of irritability and restlessness. - Wants to be carried. - Quiet only when carried. - Wants things, but when offered throws them away. - Twitchings and convulsions of children during dentition. - Diarrhoea, stool smells like rotten eggs, like chopped eggs and spinach. - Heat and redness of one cheek. - Abdomen distended like a drum. - Thirsty and hot sweat with the pains. - Coldness of one part with heat of another. - Can hardly bear the spasmodic and distressing labour pains; is very impatient. Causation (a.f. ) - Fits of anger; from being scorned, dentition, cold. - Tobacco. - Chagrin. - Physical - Abuse of coffee & narcotics. - Pain, oversensitiveness (out of proportion). Modalities - Mental - Agg. - Anger; being looked at. - Physical - Agg. 9 P.M. to midnight (Bry 9 P.M. ). - Being touched. - Warmth in general. - Coffee, alcohol, music, dentition. - In childbed, downward motion (Bor, Sanic). - Amel. - Being carried and petted. - Warm wet weather. - Cold application, toothache agg. from warm drinks & food. - Amel. after perspiration.

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Food & drinks - Thirst for cold drinks, sour drinks. - Aversion - Coffee. Female - Menses frequent, copious, dark, membranous, offensive. - Labour pains spasmodic, irregular, distressing, can hardly bear them. - Toothache during menses or pregnancy. - Menorrhagia, paroxysmal - dark clotted blood. - Unbearable afterpains. - Pain in uterus when nursing child (Arn., Pul., Sil.). - Becomes obstinate & quarrelsome before menses. - Puerperal convulsion, after anger. - False labour pains. - Rigidity of os uteri during labour. - Intolerable labour pains, Sends the doctor away, calls him again. - Milk is spoiled, baby would not suckle. Child - Obstinate crying, screaming of children. - Cross, unappeasable. - Convulsion during dentition & anger. - Toothache agg warmth. - Abdomen colic amel. warmth, amel. coffee. - Irritability during dentition - difficult dentition, sends the nurse out of room. - Snappish; aversion to being touched or spoken to. - Desire to be carried, rocked. - Capricious. - Convulsions of children from nursing after a fit of anger in the mother. - Head perspiration during sleep. - Children put fingers in mouth. - Striking in children - averse to being spoken to. - Stools hot, acrid, grass-green, slimy, hacked or LIENTERIC. - Stools smelling of bad eggs. - Colic, cutting, agg. night. - Twitching and convulsions during dentition. - Stools like chopped eggs and spinach; child makes itself stiff, bends backwards, kicks & screams when carried, wants different things, petulently pushes them off when offered. - Infant's breasts tender. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Pain amel. when mind is engaged. - 2. Ear - Earache violent, amel. warmth (Bell.) Ears sensitive to cold air. - 3. Ear - Earache, infantile. - 4. Ear - Tympanitis, hysterical (traditional treatment - 1st.). - 5. Teeth - Ache agg. after warm drinks, and coffee, during pregnancy. - 6. Stomach - Hot and thirsty with pain. - 7. Stomach - Vomiting after anger. - 8. Abdomen - Jaundice, after anger. - 9. Rectum - Dentition diarrhoea : green stools, foul odour like rotten eggs, colicky pain, abdomen bloated. - 10. Rectum - Diarrhoea during dentition. - 11. Gen. Female - Dysmenorrhoea after anger or emotions, (in those who do not suffer from it) - sexual desire. - 12. Respiration - Asthma from anger, agg. dry weather, amel, bending head back. - 13. Chest

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- Milk runs out in nursing women; suppressed from anger, (after weaning : Con.) - 14. Extremities - Rheumatic pains violent, drive him out of bed at night; compel him to walk about. - 15. Extremities - Burning of soles at night; puts feet out of bed. - 16. Extremities - Sensation of walking on ends of the bones of legs. - 17. Fever - Fever, burning heat (chill absent) 9 a.m. to 12 noon. - 18. Fever - High - one cheek red, the other pale, with sweat esp. on the head. - Agg. 9 p.m. - 19. Perspiration - Complaints from suppression of perspiration. - 20. Perspiration - Profuse on covered parts (Thuja of uncovered parts). - 21. General - Convulsion of child after punishment. - Child becomes stiff, rolls eyes, face distorted, muscles twitch, clenches thumbs, bends body backward - often during dentition. - 22. General - Violent Rheumatic or neuralgic pain, prosopalgia, sciatica - must walk about. - 23. Generalities - Numbness of suffering parts with pains. - Numbness alternating with pain. Cases - 54. Chamomilla - To the intelligent healer the character of the tumour, the pathology, is not a guide to the treatment. - The character of the pain, the conditions of agg. or amel., and the mental peculiarities of every case he looks to. - The mental state was in this case the only guide. - Read Aphorism 213 of the Organon. - (J.H. Jackson - H.H. 1985/331)

Chelidonium majus Keywords - The yellow hypochondriac, amel. by hot drinks. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Distressing pain under the right scapula. - 2. Fan-like motion of the alae nasi (Ant.t. , Lyc.). - 3. Constant pain under the lower and the inner angle of the right scapula. - 4. Constipation; stool hard, round balls, like sheep dung. - 5. Gallstones with pain under the right shoulder blade. - 6. Jaundice with deep yellowness of sclera, face, urine, stool. - 7. Right sided complaints (eye, lung, hypochondria, abdomen, hip, leg). - 8. Pneumonia of right lung with liver complications. - 9. One foot cold, the other hot. - Right foot cold as ice; left natural. - 10. Fear (delusion) that he has ruined his health; that he has incurable disease. - 11. Weeping from despair. Mind - Despondency; aversion to mental exertion, even conversation. - Remarkable tranquillity of mind from 2-3 days, followed, after a while, by ill humour. - Low spirited, desponding, with inclination to weep. - Forgetful, absentminded. - Restlessness. - Uneasy conscience; felt she has committed an unpardonable sin. - Anxious about the future. - Fear of her condition being observed. Objective - Face, forehead, nose, cheeks - all remarkably yellow.

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- Yellow or gray colour of skin; wilted skin of the palm of the hand (Sep.). - Flapping of alae nasi. - Pain in the right shoulder blade (hepatic disease; jaundice). - When coughing, small lumps of mucus fly from the mouth (Bad., Kali. c). - Desire for very hot drinks (stomach will not retain unless boiling hot). - Tongue coated thickly yellow with red edges, showing imprint of teeth (Pod. Tongue large, flabby - Merc.). - Tears fairly gush (Rhus), in periodical right-sided orbital, neuralgia. - Feels tired after little exertion; horror of motion. - Great - lethargy. - Nausea amel. by drinking milk. - Stools pale, bright yellow or hard balls. - Navel drawn in during colic. - Urine yellow like beer, stains. Causation (a.f. ) Modalities - Aggr. - Touch. - Change of weather. - Warmth. 4 p.m. ; afternoon. - Motion. - Lying on right side. - Early in the morning. - Amel. - After dinner. - Milk. - Hot drinks. - Pressure. - Hot food. - Bending backward. - Lying on abdomen. - Hot bath. Appetite, thirst, cravings, aversions, etc - Desire for hot drinks and hot food, for milk. - Aversion - To cheese; meat; coffee. - Appetite - Lost. - Taste : bitter; pasty. Female - Menses too late, too profuse, too long lasting. - Pain in the right ovary. - Milk diminished in nursing women. - During pregnancy longing for unusual articles of food. - Leucorrhoea stains linen; white or yellow. - Burning in vagina, recurs at the same hour during the day. Male - Drawing pain in the spermatic cord, in testicles. - Eczematous excoriation on male genitalia and anus. - Painful swelling of right testicle with drawing in the spermatic cord. - Frequent erections even during the day. Child Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Icy coldness of occiput from nape of neck; head feels heavy as lead; with drowsiness. - 2. Vertigo - With hepatic disturbances. - Inclination of fall forward. - 3. Headache - With excessive lachrymation preceded by pain in the liver. - Neuralgic pain.

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- 4. Eyes - Lachrymation with pain in eyes or from tickling in the larynx. - 5. Eyes - Mucus in the eyes; could not open them. - Pupils contracted. - Pressure amel. - 6. Ears - Sensation as if wind were rushing out or of something crawling out. - 7. Ears - Loss of hearing during cough. - 8. Nose - Red. - Flapping of alae nasi. - 9. Nose - Obstruction, with liver complaints. - 10. Nose - Dryness; tip of nose swollen red. - 11. Face - Sallow, sunken, yellowish, esp. forehead, nose, cheeks. - 12. Mouth - Tongue yellow with imprint of teeth; large, flabby, offensive breath. - 13. Mouth - Tongue narrow, pointed. - 14. Throat - Left sided goitre. - 15. Stomach - Nausea amel. by drinking milk. - 16. Stomach - Vomiting amel. by very hot water. - 17. Stomach - Gastric pains, gnawing, scraping; amel. by eating. - 18. Stomach - Sensation of plug. - 19. Abdomen - Gall-stones with pain under the right shoulder blade (Card.m. , China, Pod.). - 20. Abdomen - Epigastric region tender. - Liver pains going backward or fixed at angle of right scapula. - 21. Stools - Pasty, pale; bright yellow, clayey or hard balls like sheep dung. - 22. Abdomen - Navel drawn in during colic. - 23. Urine - Profuse, foaming; yellow, dark brown urine like beer; stains linen dark yellow. - 24. Kidney - Spasmodic pain in right kidney. - 25. Cough - As from dust, with much rattling but little expectoration. - 26. Chest - Deep-seated, stitching pain in chest. - 27. Heart - Violent palpitation with tightness in chest, periodic. - 28. Neck & back - Pain from neck to temple. - Pain from right scapula extends into chest and stomach, causing nausea or vomiting (Hernio-bronchial neuralgia). - 29. Extremities - Very sore to touch. - Cold finger tips. - Limbs feel paralysed. - 30. Ankles - Stiff. - Oedema around ankles and feet. - Rigidity of ankles. - 31. Sleepless - Though sleepy. - 32. Sleep

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- Lethargic, drowsy. - Falls asleep while speaking. - 33. Dreams - Corpses; funerals. - 34. Fever - Burning heat spreads from hands over the body; sweating with aversion to uncover, without relief. - Sweat during sleep after midnight. - 35. Sweat - After slight exertion. - 36. Fever high - Fluctuating temperature. - 37. Skin - Yellow, itching, amel. by eating. - 38. Skin - Painful pimples and pustules. - 39. Skin - Wrinkled. - 40. Ulcers - Old, putrid, with history of liver disease or tubercular diathesis. Cases - 108. Chelidonium - Symptoms which guided : Stomach pain, stitching, extending to back (K. 524). - Stomach pain, warm applications amel. (K. 515). - Stomach : Thirstlessness (K. 530). Nose : Motion of alae nasi, fan-like (K. 340). (Dr. J.A. Biegler - H.H. 1984/77) China officinalis Keywords - Debility - Exhausting discharges. - Periodicity. - Ailments from loss of vital fluids. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Bad effects of loss of vital fluids, as seen from - a.Pale, sickly expression; eyes sunken. - b. Throbbing headache. - c. Perspiration very profuse and debilitating at night. - Sweats easily on least exertion. - d. Ringing in the ears. - e. Great debility, trembling. - 2. Sensitive to slightest touch to the diseased part, but hard pressure relieves. - (Liver pain. Cannot ride in a carriage because of the jolts). - Aversion to being touched. - 3. Inability to bear least noise. - 4. Delusion - he is persecuted; he is hindered at work; feels unfortunate. - 5. Theorising and making many plans in the evening and night. - Ideas abundant, clearness of mind in the evening and night. - 6. Periodicity of complaints - every night; during increasing moon; every 14 days; every three months. - 7. Haemorrhagic tendency - with coldness, fainting weakness, or loss of sight, with oppressed breathing (Ipecac has nausea), desire to be fanned. - 8. Abdomen distended, flatulent and bloated. - Loud belching gives no relief. Mind - Fixed idea he is unfortunate. - Averse to company. - Indifferent; taciturn. - Delusion of persecution by enemies. - Disposition to hurt other peoples' feelings. - Fear of dogs and animals. - Theorising and planning many things, clearness of mind in the evening and night (air castles). - Dislike of all physical and mental work. - Depressed, no desire to live, wants to commit suicide, but lacks courage.

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- Mistakes in speech and writing. - Loss of control over mind. - Thoughts sexual day and night. - Excitement on hearing horrible things. Objective - Profuse, exhausting discharges, haemorrhages. - Stools lienteric; dark; foul; watery; BLOODY; painless. - Blood spitting. - Drenching sweats at night, agg. by least motion. - Pale, earthy, sickly look. - Pains aggr. by slightest touch, but AMEL. by HARD pressure. - Great debility (from loss of vital fluids); trembling; aversion to exercise, to pain, to drafts of air. - Yellow colour of skin; jaundice. Causation (a.f. ) - Long continued drain on the system (thro. haemorrhages, seminal emission, nursing child, salivation). - Anger with silent grief. Bad news. Modalities - Agg. - Cold air, draft, shock from injury. - Vital losses. - Oversensitive to touch, jar, light, noise, odour, pain. - Periodicity, alternate days. - Cold winds, fruits, mental exertion, during and after stool. - Odour of flowers, of cooking, of tobacco. - Amel. - Hard pressure. - Bending double. - Warmth. Food & drinks - Appetite, thirst, cravings. - 1. Hunger yet appetite is wanting; satiated quickly after eating a mouthful. - Loud belching without relief. - 2. Thirst for small quantities and often. - Heat without thirst. - Thirstless at the height of paroxysm, great thirst during sweat. - 3. Craves - Delicacies, sour things, sweets, pungent, spicy things; stimulants. - 4. Aversion : to food when thinking of it, bread, butter, coffee, meat, fat. - 5. Disagree : fruit, milk, excessive tea. Female - Toothache while nursing the child (Puls. - pain in uterus). - Menses dark, profuse, CLOTTED, too frequent, protracted, with abdominal DISTENSION. - Leucorrhoea bloody, offensive. - Albuminuria during pregnancy. - Weakness before menses. - Ovaritis from sexual excesses. Male - Frequent emission followed by great weakness. - Sexual desire with craving for dainties. - Impotency after sexual excesses. - Debilitating nocturnal emissions. Child - Emaciation of children with ravenous appetite. - Ill humour, agg. by petting and caressing. - Children desire various things without knowing what. - Diarrhoea after weaning in children. - Pupils dilated, body becomes cold especially chin, nose, with rapid respiration. - Snoring in sleep. - Chronic debilitating diarrhoea with emaciation, agg. at night (Petr. worse daytime). - Teeth discoloured black. - Jaundice of newborn.

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- Obstinate. - Asphyxia of newborn due to great loss of blood by the mother. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Pain in the occiput extending to the head. - 2. Teeth - Toothache agg. touching. - Amel. by clenching teeth tightly. - 3. Stomach - Eructations do not amel. distension. - 4. Stomach - Vomiting bloody. - 5. Abdomen - Abdomen tympanitic. - 6. Abdomen - Colic, biliary, gall-stones (Chin 6th is said to eradicate). - 7. Abdomen - Jaundice in nursing children. - Spleen and liver enlarged. - 8. Abdomen - Liver enlarged, sensitive to touch and pressure. - 9. Abdomen - Spleen enlarged - STICKING pain (Ceon, Cedr). - 10. Rectum - Diarrhoea - painless, undigested, putrid, profuse, very debilitating. - 11. Stools - Dark, lienteric, foul, watery, bloody, painless, agg. night, eating. fruits. - 12. Urine - Albuminuria during pregnancy. - 13. Respiration - Asthma in wet weather. - 14. Chest - As well as interscapular spine are painfully sore. - 15. Extremities - Floating, gliding in air, as if feet did not touch the ground - with vertigo. - 16. Sleep - Dreams, cannot get rid of his dream even after waking. - 17. Sleep - Sleep unrefreshing, wakes up at 3 a.m. - 18. Sleep - Sleeplessness - alternate nights (see periodicity). - 19. Fever - Fever intermittent, periodical, never at night. - 20. Fever - Shaking chill with thirst, heat with no thirst, then sweat with great thirst. - 21. Perspiration - Drenching, debilitating, night and morning, with great thirst. - Agg. least motion. - Sleeplessness as a prodrome. - 22. Perspiration - On the side lain on; on covered parts. - 23. Skin - Gangrene - moist blackness of external parts. - 24. General - Anaemia - from prolonged nursing - also haemorrhage from lungs, from same cause. - 25. General - Convulsions in the midst of haemorrhage. - Chin is the principal remedy (Pulford). - 26. General - Haemorrhages passive - oozing, from orifices of body, Haem. with retained placenta (F). - 27. General - Loss of blood with coldness; with faintness and loss of vision; with ringing in the ears. - 28. General - Loss of vital fluids, acute effects (chronic: Phos-ac). - 29. General

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- Numbness - of parts lain on. - 30. General - Periodicity - every night, midnight, alternate days, every seventh day, every fourteenth day. - 31. General - Perspiration, complaints from, suppression. - 32. General - Side - Symptoms on left side. - 33. General - Pain agg. by movement, and esp. touching. - Pain renewed (when not present) by merely touching the part. - 34. General - Weakness, with faintness - from loss of fluids. Cases - 18. China - Agg. from cold in general (KR. 1348). - Touch agg. (KR. 1407). - Pressure amel. (KR. 1392). - (C.M. Boger - HH. 1989/167)

Cicuta virosa Keywords - Violent convulsions with unconsciousness, the spasm spreading downward, from concussion of brain or spine or suppressed eruptions. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Violent convulsive phenomena, followed by prolonged unconsciousness. - Most violent tonic spasm, so that neither the curved limbs could be straightened, nor the straight limbs curved. - 2. Feels as if he were in a strange place (Op.); every thing appeared strange and almost frightful. - 3. Horrible, sad stories, scenes, affect her profoundly. - 4. Stares with unaltered look at one and the same place. - Cannot help doing so; if she tries to turn her head, loses consciousness. - 5. OPISTHOTONOS and frightful facial contortions, then utter prostration. - 6. Jerks of head, twitching of arms and fingers; then rigidity or shrieking, a terrific spasm moves downwards (reverse : Cup.). - 7. Pustules (eczema) coalesce into thick yellow massive crusts, on head and face; no itching. - 8. Convulsion with loss of consciousness; clonic, tonic. - 9. Desire strange. - Abnormal appetite for chalk and indigestible things, for coal or charcoal. - Unable to decide what is edible and what is not. - 10. Senses of sight, taste and smell are disturbed. - Familiar face and place seem strange. Confounds the present with the future. - 11. Head bent backwards with convulsions; pupils dilated and insensible. - 12. Epileptic aura from solar plexus. Mind - Anxiety - Violently affected by sad stories. - Very violent in all his actions. - Suspicious. - Strong aversion to company. - Contemptuous (despises) of others. - Shuns the foolishness of men. - Feels that everything that happens to him is full of danger. - Childish behaviour. - Sings, dances, shouts. - Laughing and ridiculous gestures. - Objects are very dear and attractive, as toys are to a child. - Between attacks patient is mild, gentle, placid, yielding (opp. Cupr. which is spiteful and violent between fits; and Nux and Cham. which are very irritable). - Moaning, weeping and howling (like a child). - Injuries of head leading to : Dullness, loss of memory, sadness. - Does not remember what has happened; does not recognise anybody, but answers well. - Confounds present with the past. Objective

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- Convulsions in children from worms. - Convulsions. - Violent, with frightful distortion of limbs and whole body; renewed by slightest touch, noise or jar. - Abnormal appetite for charcoal and other indigestible things. - Hiccough violent with convulsions. - Momentary loss of sight or objects appear double. - Opisthotonos; bends backwards like an arch. - A terrific spasm moves downward (reverse : Cupr); the eyes jerk and stare. - Pustules coalesce into thick yellow (loose) massive crusts. - Trismus. Causation (a.f. ) - Concussion of brain or spine (chronic effects when Arn. has not relieved). - Suppressed eruptions. - Getting splinters, fishbone, etc. into flesh (trismus). - Errors in diet. - Ill effects of fright; injuries of head. Modalities - Agg - Slightest touch, noise, loud talking. - Drafts. - Concussion. - Tobacco smoke. - During dentition. - From worms. - Amel - Thinking of pain. - Warmth, want to be near a warm stove. Food & drinks - Appetite, Thirst, Cravings. - Abnormal appetite for indigestible things (unfit to be eaten, like chalk, charcoal, etc. - Eats them with apparent relish). Female - Spasmodic states when menses do not appear. - Puerperal convulsions; frequent suspension of breathing for a few moments, as if dead; continue after delivery. Male - Testes drawn up towards external abdominal ring. Child - During dentition, grinding of the teeth or gums; compression of the jaws as in lockjaw. - Eats indigestible things like coal, raw potatoes with relish. - Convulsions during dentition or due to worms (when Bell., Chin. fail). Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Memory blank for hours or days, with or without convulsions (Nat. mur, Nux mosch). - 2. Head - Head drawn backwards; back also bent backward like an arch. - 3. Eyes - Convergent strabismus in children, periodic, caused by a blow or fall. - 4. Ext. throat - Neck - Cramp in the muscles of neck; if he turns head, cannot easily turn it back again. - 5. Abdomen - Loud, violent, hiccough in cholera. - Vomiting alternates with violent tonic spasms of the pectoral muscles. - 6. Bladder - Violent urging to urinate. - 7. Extremities - Feet and toes turn upwards in spasms. - 8. General - Brain affections from suppressed eruptions (Cup., Zinc.). - 9. General - In epilepsy, spasm renewed from slightest touch or jar (Nux, Strych, Bell). - 10. General - Violent moaning, howling, odd motions, great agitation (as violent as the spasms).

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Cases - A girl 3-1/2 years old has a fall on head. - In bed for four months, "unconscious and blind". - On recovery a pustular rash all over head, cured with ointments. - Ever since epileptic fits (even 20-30 fits in one night) with enuresis. - Whole body VIOLENTLY convulsed, followed by prolonged sleep. - Very intelligent before the fall; just like a baby now, age 23. - Cannot wash, feed herself, or dress. - Cicuta 200 one dose given on the indications : - a. violence of the convulsions; - b. the pustular rash, and for - c. "after effects of blows on the head." - Such a girl was quickly transformed into a useful and fairly intelligent member of society by a few doses (at long intervals) of Cicuta in the 200 potency. - (Margaret Tyler in "Drug Pictures"). Cases - 102. Cicuta - I found in the late Dr. C. Lippe's invamb ecnrly tol" sry heh21099(h)-10.6134(e)I10.893(e)13.4978(m)-1)11.3345(o)a.3345(a)1. ont

- Mania, before menses, tries to injure herself, puerperal mania following disappearance of neuralgias. - Takes no interest in housework. - Despondent, seems to feel under a heavy black cloud. - Mental symptoms are amel. by diarrhoea or menses; agg. after rheumatism. - Gloomy, sad and sleepless. Objective - During labour : shivers in the first stage. - Rigid os. - Pains spasmodic, tedious, aggr. by least noise. - Convulsions from nervous excitement. - Pleurodynia. - Alternation of physical and mental symptoms; or mental and rheumatic. - Pains violent, wander here and there; go upwards or side to side. - Trembling of tongue; cannot speak a word though she tries. - Thyroid aches before menses. - More menstrual flow more pain. - Ovarian pains radiate in all directions, side to side. - Inframammary pains, left side. - Stiff, contracted neck and back. - Muscular rheumatism : Stiff neck, drawing head back. - Cannot turn the head. - Rheumatism of the belly of muscles by preference. - Menorrhagia; pains pass down through hips into thighs. - Heart troubles reflex from symptoms of uterus or ovaries. - Aching pains in the eyeballs, or in temples, extending to eyes. Causation (a.f. ) - Ill-effects of anxiety, fright, disappointed love, overexertion; business failures; child bearing. Modalities - Agg. - During menses, more profuse the flow, greater the mental distress; suppressed menses, emotions, alcohol, night, change of weather. - Heat and cold. - During pregnancy, loss of sleep. - Puberty and climaxis. - Damp cold air. - Wine. - Noise. - Amel. - Warm wraps - pressure; Eating. - Continued motion. - Bending double. Food & drinks - 1. Coppery taste; saliva thick. - 2. Eructations; with nausea, vomiting and headache (women). Female - Menses irregular, exhausting, profuse, dark, coagulated, scanty, with backache, nervousness, irregular in time and amount. - More flow, more pain. - Ovarian neuralgia, pain across pelvis, from ovary to ovary, or goes upwards or downwards through hips into thighs (Vib-op.). - Menses suppressed from emotions, from cold. - Hysterical or epileptic spasms at the time of menses. - Slow labour pains with nervous shivers in the first stage. - Intolerable after, pains agg. in groins. - Shudders. - Tendency to abort in 3rd month (Sab). - Rigid os with severe spasmodic pains, false labour pains. - Given before the term, it renders labour easier, cures sickness of pregnancy, prevents the after-pains. - It has also ensured living births, in women who have previously had only dead children without any discoverable cause. - (Give doses of 1x potency for 2 months before term.) Child

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- Agg. of complaints during dention. - Brain irritation. - Sleeplessness. - Headache of students. - Morning diarrhoea of children. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Increase of mental symptoms during menstrual flow (flow amel., Lach). - 2. Mind - Mania after disappearance of neuralgia. - 3. Mind - Puerperal mania with suppression of lochia; tries to injure herself. - 4. Head - Vertex feels as if it would fly off. - 5. Eyes - Pain from eyes to top of head. - 6. Throat - External pain - thyroid aches before menses. - 7. Gen. Female - Pains in uterine region darts from side to side. - 8. Gen. Female - Labour - Shortens labour when given in the last month of pregnancy (Caul., Puls.). - 9. Gen. Female - Labour. - Nervous shuddering before a labour. - 10. Chest - Heart stops suddenly with suffocation, from uterine reflex. - 11. Chest - Pains in the heart (angina pectoris) extends to left arm which feels as if bound tightly to the body. - 12. Chest - Inframammary pains worse left side at menopause (Ust.). - 13. Back - Neck - Muscular rheumatism, can't turn the head. - 14. Back - Stiffness, head drawn back from contraction, or stiffness of the cervical region (Caust). - 15. Extremities - Numbness of left arm. - Sensation as if bound to side (angina pectoris). - 16. Sleep - Comatose. - 17. General - Alternating effects - mental and physical, constipation and diarrhoea; diarrhoea with rheumatism. - 18. General - Chorea. - Jerking on the whole of the side lain on. - Can find no place to rest upon. - 19. General - Convulsions. - Hysterical or epileptic spasms during menses. - 20. General - Discharges amel. - diarrhoea, menstrual flow. - 21. General - Excessive muscular soreness after violent muscular exertion. - 22. General - Sensitive to cold air, every inhalation seems to bring the cold air in contact with brain. - 23. General - Side. - Left sided complaints. - 24. General - Symptoms are irregular, changing or they alternate in groups; alternation of physical (especially rheumatic) and mental effects. Cases - 116. Cimicifuga

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- Rubrics - Menses suppressed, cold, from. - Extremities, chorea. - Extremities, coldness of hands and feet. - Extremities, restlessness. - (Dr. Richard Kock - H.H. 1984/158)

Cina maritima Keywords - All nutrition "taken up" by WORMS. - Causes emaciation, petulence etc. - Violent rocking amel. - Canine hunger with clean tongue. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Averse to being touched, spoken to or looked at. - Averse to caresses. - 2. Desires things, but pushes them away when offered. - 3. Child wants to be carried (Cham) or rocked rapidly. - 4. Child stiffens out if cross; or before cough. - 5. Tongue clean (Ip, Dig). - 6. Canine hunger; hungry soon after a full meal or alternates with want of appetite. - 7. Unstable, cross, continually crying, strikes anyone around him. - 8. Obstinate children (2 to 10 yrs of age). Mind - Irritability in children with worm complaints. - Very touchy mentally and physically, ugly, cross, whining and dissatisfied. - Striking. - Aversion to being touched or looked at or caressed. - Children go into convulsions when scolded or punished. - Capricious, wants to be carried but not amel. by it, wants to be rocked. - Restless. - Tosses about in bed esp. in night. - Grinds teeth during sleep. Objective - Much fever with clean tongue. - Pale, sickly look about the eyes; or white and blue about the mouth. - Choking cough, then gurgling down the throat. - Child becomes stiff before attack of whooping cough. - Urine turns milky after standing a little. - Canine hunger - after a full meal; during or before intermittent fever. - Grinds teeth in sleep. - Bores fingers into nose; averse to being touched. Causation (a.f. ) - Worms; esp. roundworms. - Sweets, over-eating, eating indigestible things (coal, chalk). - Reprimand. - Difficult dentition. Modalities - Agg. - Touch, being looked at, reprimand or punishment, during sleep. - Sweets, milk. - Yawning, full moon. - Amel. - Rubbing eyes, lying on abdomen, violent rocking. - Not amel. by being carried. Food & drinks - Capricious appetite. (Canine hunger, hungry shortly after a meal). - Thirst during chill.

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- Craving - Sweets, bread, indigestible things. - Aversion - Mother's milk. Female - Leucorrhoea in little girls. - Menses too frequent, copious. Child - Child does not want to be touched or carried, wants to be rocked. - Petulent, dissatisfied - proof against all caresses. - Shy of strangers. - Face pale; white or bluish around mouth; picks nose or rubs the nose. - Chews, swallows or grinds teeth in sleep (Cic, Spig). - Hungry soon after eating (capricious appetite). - Infant wants to be nursed all the time. - Lies on abdomen or gets on hands and knees during sleep. - Stiffens out when looked at. - Sleeps only when violently rocked. - Screams out sharply in sleep (worms). - Leans head sideways all the time. - Cannot have the hair combed. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Eyes - Strabismus from worms. - 2. Nose - Desire to pick and bore at nose, or rub it on pillow. - 3. Face - Intense circumscribed redness of both the cheeks, dark ring around eyes. - 4. Stomach - Appetite. - Child hungry even after a full meal, or at odd time; during fever. - 5. Stomach - Appetite. - Emaciation with ravenous appetite. - 6. Stomach - Vomiting with a clean tongue. - 7. Throat - Gurgling when swallowing fluids (Cup., Hell.) - 8. Abdomen - Twisting at navel, amel. pressure. - 9. Rectum - In worm affections (when Cina is indicated but fails) give Santonin 2x or 3x, often curative. - 10. Rectum - Itching of anus, discharge of worms from anus. - 11. Rectum - Worms. - Cina tackles all types of worms, round, thread or Msw-worms, but not pinworms. - 12. Bladder - Urination involuntary. - Bed-wetting every full moon. - 13. Bladder - Urine - Milky urine on standing. - 14. Larynx - Voice. - Aphonia from exposure (when Aco, Phos and Spongia fail). - 15. Cough - In whooping cough after Dros. has relieved the severe symptoms. - 16. Cough - Stiffness before cough, or whooping cough. - 17. Sleep - Position. - Child lies on abdomen or gets on hands and knees during sleep.

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- 18. Sleep - Yawning is concomitant to most of the complaints, or complaints come on when one yawns. - 19. Fever - Fever with pale cold face and warm hands. - 20. Fever - Intermittent, with vomiting and ravenous hunger. - 21. General - Convulsion during fever; from worms. - 22. General - Restless nights, dilated pupils, grinding of teeth, boring in nose, irritation at the anus - from worms. - 23. General - Spasm agg. by touch. - 24. General - Spasms from worms - wakes up in terror (Bell., Kali-br.) Cases - 81. Cina - This is a remarkable case of Cina-cure. - The symptoms from the words, "irritable, ill-humoured.....uneasy", are good reliable symptoms of Cina. - It is remarkable that they occurred in an infant of 15 months, and still so, as it required only one globule dose. - Cina has a "clean tongue and abdomen distended, hard". (Phatak's M.M. ) - (J.A. Tomhagen - H.H. 1985/169)

Cocculus indicus Keywords - Absorbed in reverie - thoughts fixed on one unpleasant subject. - Silent grief. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Prostration of mind. - 2. Anxiety of conscience. - 3. Offended easily. - 4. Contradiction, intolerant of. - 5. Anxiety for others. - 6. Ailments after anger with silent grief. - 7. Agg. from loss of sleep, night-watching. - 8. Sea or carriage riding causes nausea and vomiting. - 9. Nausea and vertigo with nearly all complaints. - 10. Slow reaction; slow response to pain; slow to answer. - 11. Paralytic weakness - too weak to talk or stand. - 12. Aversion to food from smell or sight of it, though hungry. - 13. Ataxic gait; staggering, clumsy. Mind - Sadness as if from insult. - Absorbed in thought, notices nothing. - Thoughts fixed on a single disagreeable subject, slow thinking. - Answers slowly and reflects long before answering. - Anxiety of conscience, as if guilty of crime. - Anxiety for others; about trifles. - Intolerant of contradiction. - Dwells on disagreeable occurrences. - Mildness. - Sits wrapped in deep thoughts and notices nothing. - Taciturn. - Time passes too quickly, appears shorter. - Easily offended. - Cannot accomplish anything at her work. - Fear of death and unknown dangers. - Recognises but cannot move, indifference, lies with eyes closed. Objective - Seasickness; nausea while riding in boat, car, carriage. - Aversion to food; loathing at the look of it. - Neck weak - cannot hold it erect.

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- Paralytic weakness of lower extremities - difficult to walk. - One-sided paralysis with numbness of limbs. - Scarcely able to stand during menses, so weak; too weak to talk aloud. - Umbilical hernia with obstinate constipation. - Reads a passage several times - dullness and confusion of mind. Causation (a.f. ) - Vexation. - Loss of sleep. - Sea or carriage riding. - Anger. - Silent grief. - Mental or emotional excitement. - Fright. - Anxiety. - Disappointment. Modalities - Mind - Sensitive to fear, anger, grief, all emotions. - Agg. - Cold, open air, slightest loss of sleep. - During menses (violent headache, weakness). - Lying on back of head (headache). - Sitting up, eating and drinking, smoking, talking. - Pregnancy (leucorrhoea). - Lying on left side impossible. - Amel. - Lying quiet (rest). - Warm room. Food & drinks - Appetite - Extreme aversion to food, though hungry. - Agg. at smell or sight of food (Ant-t., Colch. Sep). - Cravings - Cold drinks, beer, warm drinks. - Aversion - Sour food. - Disagree - Coffee, cold drinks. Female - Menses too early with distension of abdomen and contraction of rectum. - Depleting menses. - Dysmenorrhoea, with crampy colic and distention. - Too weak to stand or talk during menses (Alum., Carb-an). - Haemorrhoids after menses. - Leucorrhoea in place of menses, like washings of meat; during pregnancy. Child - Umbilical hernia with obstinate consipation (after Nux failed). Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Vertigo - As if drunk; "everything rolls" (Nux-m, Bufo); can't stand firmly; with nausea; agg. rising up in bed. - Vertigo, nausea, vomiting or sick headache; agg. riding in a car or boat. (Arn., Nux-m, Petr.) - 2. Head - Ache in occiput, violent as if opening and shutting; amel. during menses; agg. lying on back of head; with nausea; amel. rest in warm room. - 3. Eyes - Rolling of eyeballs, eyes being closed. - 4. Vision - Muscae volitantes - hemianopia; right half of the field lost. - 5. Face - Paralysis of facial muscles. - Spasticity with loss of power.

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- Exalted, overactive state of mind - from surprises, joy, theorising, planning. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Oversensitive to and acuteness of all external impressions (pain, sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste. Bell., Cham., Op). - 2. Sleeplessness from an overactive, excited mind and mental exaltation. - 3. Noises intolerable - Distant noises seem to be magnified. - 4. Unusual activity of mind and body - Full of ideas, quick to act. - 5. Fear of death during labour or after pains. - 6. Aversion to coition, from extreme sensitivity of vulva and vagina. - 7. Eyes brilliant, face flushed, pupils dilated, face hot. - 8. Pains seem almost insupportable; drive him to despair (Acon. Cham.). Mind - Vivacity; excessive loquacity. - Oversensitiveness, mentally and physically, exaltation of all senses. - Can read fine prints clearly, can hear distant sounds; very sensitive to smell. - Unusual activity of mind and body. - Cannot bear noise which seems painful and increases the pain. - With fancies, imaginations and plans, no sleep on this account. - Mind over-active full of ideas - theorising, planning; quick to act. - Increased sense of insight about trifles. - Cannot sleep because of overactivity of mind and alertness. - Pains are intolerable, seem to drive him to despair. - Weeps and laments; tosses about over trifles. Objective - Excited. - Oversensitive to pain; driving to despair with weeping. - Bad effects from over-joy with exaltation. - Insomnia from activity of the mind. - Awakes at or hears every sound. - Mind active with plans and fancies; acute hearing. - Overhears distant sound. - Toothache relieved by ice water. - Hasty eating and drinking. Causation (a.f. ) - Mental - Sudden emotions, fear, fright, from pleasant surprises, excessive joy. - Physical - Coffee, wine, long journeys. - Narcotic medicines. Modalities - Mental agg. - Joy, noise (Ther), sudden surprises, fright or emotions. - Physicial agg. - Cold open air in general. - Noise, TOUCH, mental exertion, strong odours, narcotics. - Amel. - Warmth (except toothache). - Lying, sleep. Food & drinks - Aversion to his accustomed cigar. - Disagrees - Bread (Puls). Female - Salivation during pregnancy. - Nymphomania. - Menses too early, long lasting. - Dysmenorrhoea with black clots. - Vulva too sensitive, aversion to coition. - Toothache during menses.

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Child - Cannot bear to be carried about. - Short, dry, hacking cough in nervous, delicate children. - Convulsions of teething children with grinding of teeth and cold limbs. - Convulsion from excessive playing or laughing in weak children. - Child cannot go to sleep, talks to mother rapidly. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Toothache amel. ice cold water, and agg. as it becomes warm. - 2. Pain in abdomen, driving to despair. - 3. Sleeplessness, convulsion, palpitation from pleasant surprise. - 4. Vulva and vagina are extremely sensitive to touch with voluptuous itching (a case of gonorrhoea). - 5. Nervous sleeplessness from rush of ideas, after joyful excitement. - 6. Sudden spasmodic emotion, or surprise produces symptoms which are sometimes dangerous. - 7. Hemicrania, as if a nail was driven through (Ign, Nux). - 8. Sleepless from eruptions which cause itching till the parts bleed. - 9. Eats and drinks hastily. Cases - 16. Coffea - Senstive to pain (SR. 905). - Sleeplessness with sleepiness. - Sleepless, from thoughts, from activity of mind (KR. 1254). - Pains are felt intensely; seem almost insupportable, driving patient to despair (Acon., Cham); tossing about in anguish. (Allen) - (R. Farley - HH 1982/251) - 96. Coffea - The doctor does not mention how he came to Coffea. - In Synthetic Rep. (p. 671) there is a rubric, "irritability with sleeplessness" with Coffea in two marks, along with Hyos (3) and Kali-brom and Nat. m (2 marks). - But with sleeplessness in children only Psor. is found. - Coff-t. is found in the rubric, "Striking, desire to push things" (p. 964), Dr. Custis adds, "The symptom of pinching everything was cured in another child with the same remedy." (J.B. Gregg Custis - H.H. 1986/640) Conium maculatum Keywords - Dull, forgetful, hypochondriac. - Sexual abstinence. - Atrophied mammae, testes, glands. - Old age. - Ascending paralysis. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Debility (old age, over-indulgence) or paralysis spreads from below upward. - Lower part of the body gives way before the upper. - Weakness of legs; tottering gait. Inability to expectorate, must swallow what is coughed up. (Arn, Caust.) - 2. Sexual abstinence, or suppressed sexual desire. - 3. Tremulous weakness. - Tremulous look. - Unable to watch/see moving objects. - 4. Weakness of body and mind, gradually developing into paralysis. - Numbness of all parts with weakness and cold feet. - 5. Painlessness. - Ulcers with hard infiltrated base. - 6. Vertigo agg. turning the head sideways (both upright and horizontal position). - 7. Ulceration in cancerous diathesis. (Bone, stomach, cornea). - 8. Enlargement or dwindling of mammae. - Also induration or atrophy of testes. - 9. Alternating states : (a) excitement with sadness; (b) insanity with other mental symptoms; (c) quarrelsomeness with silent depression, or indisposition to talk. Mind - Dullness or prostration of mind; difficult thinking and comprehending. - Very forgetful; weak memory, esp. for dates.

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- Averse to, even indifference to, business/work. - Depressed, cannot bear contradiction. - Wants to wear his best clothes (insanity). - Trifles seem important. - Fear of being alone, yet avoids society. - Makes useless purchases, wastes or ruins them. - Fear and timidity. - Hypochondriasis. - Sadness from suppressed sexual excitement, or prolonged continence. - Insanity, makes useless purchases or dresses in his best clothes. - Aversion to light, shuns it. - Fastidious. Objective - Glands harden and get sore. - Nodes in mammae; mammae congested before and during menses. - Skin greenish, as if an old bruise. - Hot flushes or sweat on dropping off to sleep. - Induration of glands after contusions. - Flow of urine intermits; suddenly stops after each emission. - Induration of testicles. - Hypochondriacal after entire abstinence. - Paralysis ascends from lower to upper limbs, falling off of eyelids. - Shrivelling of mammae with increased sexual desire. - Urticaria from violent exercise. - Senile vertigo. Causation (a.f. ) - Mental - Unsatisfied or suppressed sexual desired. - Sexual excesses or abstinence. - Emotional excitement. - Disappointed love. - Physical - Injuries to glands, from falls, blows etc. - Suppressed menses. Modalities - Mind: Agg. - Consolation. - Physical: Agg. - Winter; at night; lying down. - Alcohol (easily intoxicated). - Seeing objects in motion. - Cold food. - Turning in bed and moving the head quickly (vertigo). - Periodicity - every 14 days. - Amel. - After coition, continued motion. Food & drinks - Craving - Salt, coffee, sour things. - Aversion - Bread. - Disagrees: Milk (distension of abdomen). - Alcohol (easily intoxicated). Female - Dwindling of mammae or swelling during and before menses. - Dysmenorrhoea, with drawing pains down thighs, with cardiac pain, with rashes over body which vanish with the menses (Dulc). - Leucorrhoea acrid, bloody or milky. - Hysteria from suppressed sexual urges. - Epistaxis from suppressed menses. - Menses suppressed by putting hands in cold water. - False labour pains. - Atrophy of mammae. - Nodules or stitching pains in mammae.

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- Aversion to company during pregnancy. Male - Emission of prostatic fluid with every emotion, while fondling women, during lascivious thoughts. - Intense sexual desire with erections. Child - Prematurely old, with scrofulous tendency. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Vertigo - Vertigo agg. turning head, turning sideways; amel. closing eyes. - 2. Eyes - Heaviness (drooping) of eyelids. - Cataract from contusion. Intense photophobia; out of all proportion to, or even without, inflammation. - 3. Ear - Earwax blood red. - 4. Throat - Constant desire to swallow from a lump in the throat. - Food goes the wrong way when swallowing. - 5. Rectum - Coldness of stool & flatus. - 6. Urine - Intermittent flow of urine (Clem). - 7. Kidneys - Pain in the kidneys if urge to urinate is not attended to quickly (Sul. ac.). - 8. Prostate - Old men with enlarged prostate. - Flow of urine intermits. - 9. Male Genit. - Seminal emission at the thought, touch or presence of women (Calad., Sel.). - 10. Cough - Dry spasmodic cough from dry spot in larynx, agg. night and lying down; must sit up for relief. - 11. Chest - Breasts sore, enlarged, painful, before and during menses (Calc., Lac. c, Kali.c. ). - 12. Chest - Breasts flabby and shrunken (Iod.). - Stony hard induration of breasts, with piercing pains, agg. at night. - Burning, stinging or darting pains. - Scirrhous affections of the breast. - 13. Extremities - Yellowness of the nails. - Complaints amel. hanging down the limbs (rheumatic pains). - 14. Sleep - Dreams : Enemies, confused, anxious, accidents, fights, frightful. - 15. Perspiration - Sweat copious, on lying down and closing the eyes (opp. Samb.). - 16. General - Ulceration, with cancerous diathesis. - 17. General - Easy intoxication when taking alcohol. - 18. General - Stony hardness of the glands (induration) after contused injury (mammae or even soft parts). - Paralysis, ascending type. - 19. General - Tremulous weakness and palpitation after every stool. (Inability to strain at stool). - 20. General - Direction of pain downward. - Paralysis extends upwards. - 21. General - Chronic inflammation of ovaries or prostate gland. - Cancerous adhesions; epithelioma, scirrhus; ulcer of glands. - 22. General - Discharges (ulcers, leucorrhoea, lochia) bloody, corrosive; offensive, ropy, tenacious. - 23. General - Useful for old people; premature old age; senile decay. - 24. General - Painless paralysis; old people.

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Cases - 48. Conium - Phatak's materia medica gives this picture : Gradual weakness. - Trembling of all the limbs. - Useful for those who become old early. - Women broken down, discouraged. - Progressive (gradual) paralysis. - (H.F. Kancy - H.H. 1984/125) - 70. Conium - I combined 'Hanging down part amel.' and 'Diversion amel' in my repertory and found only Conium coming out. - It also covers Injuries, Pressure amel., Agg. before menses etc. - (S.R. Phatak - Clinical Experiences) - 98. Conium - We have to marvel at the confidence with which Nash was led to Conium on the basis of its very peculiar, individualising symptom, "sweat as soon as he falls asleep", regardless of pathology. - (E.B. Nash - H.H. 1986/565) - 111. Conium - The gradual and progressive deterioration of health, physical and mental, which calls for Conium, is illustrated by this case. - The rubrics which cover this case. - (1) Dullness, sluggishness; difficulty of thinking and comprehending. - (2) Confusion of mind. - (3) Indifference, apathy. - (4) Extremities trembling. - (5) Ailments from emotional excitement. - (6) Eyes, opening difficult. - (7) Weakness, nervous; paralytic - general. - (Dr. H.F. Kancy - H.H. 1984/125)

Crotalus horridus Keywords - Haemorrhage; Malignancy; Sepsis. - Deathly prostration. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Haemorrhage from every orifice and surface of the body; even from pores of the skin; from gums, nose, stomach, lungs, urethra, womb, under the nails. - Haemorrhage slow, oozing. - 2. Malignant jaundice (haemolytic rather than hepatic). - Jaundice from blood transfusion. - 3. Face dark, besotted or yellow; mouldy breath; swollen, scarlet red tongue. - 4. Haemorrhagic and malignant conditions; sepsis; diphtheria, jaundice. - 5. Tongue fiery red, smooth and polished; intensely swollen with difficulty in swallowing. - 6. Symptoms agg. after sleep (Lach). - 7. Right side of body mostly affected (left : Lach). - 8. Sudden deathly prostration (sinking) of vital force (Ars.). - 9. Intolerance of clothing around the stomach. - 10. Violent, burning pains (Ars. amel. hot applications, Secale amel. cold. Lach., Euphorbium, Anthracin). - 11. Vomiting, purging and urination simultaneously. - 12. Sloughing, a strong indication. Mind - Easily moved to tears. - Weeps with timidity, fear, and anxiety. - Great loquacity; desire to escape from bed. - Plaintive speech. - Fears evil. - Forgets figures, names, places. - Mistakes in speech, stumbles over his words; speech incoherent; mistakes in writing. - Low form of delirium. - Faintings. - Horrible dreams of the dead. - Sad; his thoughts dwell on death. - Antipathy to his family and to certain persons. - Suspicious about his friends. - Feels as if he is surrounded by foes.

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- Delusion, thinks he is pursued by enemies. - Suicidal disposition, by throwing himself. Objective - Haemorrhages from every orifice of the body, even from the pores of the skin. - Blood exudes from the eyes. - Haemorrhage from the gums, nose, stomach, lungs, urethra, womb and bowels. - Bloody SWEAT too. - Sudden and great prostration of the vital force. - Malignant jaundice (sometimes following blood transfusion. - Purpura haemorrhagica - all orifices, skin, nails and gums. - Tongue : scarlet-red or brown and swollen. - Anxious and laboured breathing. - Haemorrhagic blood dark, fluid, non-coagulable. - Loquacity with desire to escape. - Unquenchable thirst. - Yellow : face, conjunctiva, urine, whole body. Causation (a.f. ) - Fright, sun, blood poisoning (transfusion), alcohol; foul, noxious effluvia; foul water and food (diarrhoea); vaccination, lightning. Modalities - Agg. - Agg. when falling to or during sleep; (the longer he sleeps the more severe the headache). - Empty swallowing. - Lying on the right side. - Warm weather or spring. - Alcohol. - Yearly. - Amel. - Light; rest. Food & drinks - Cravings - Pork, stimulants, sugar. - Averse - Meat. Female - Dysmenorrhoea, with pains going down the thighs, or with aching in the region of the heart. - Puerperal fever. - Offensive lochia. - Palpitation during menses. - Cancer of uterus with haemorrhage. Child Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Headache so severe, it is impossible to raise head from the pillow. - Extends into the eyes. - 2. Head - Headache, must walk on tip-toes to avoid jarring. - 3. Throat - Diphtheria with profuse epistaxis. - 4. Stomach - Stomach or abdomen; coldness in, as if from a piece of ice. - 5. Stomach - Vomiting - bilious; mixed with blood; dark, green, black or coffee grounds - agg. lying on the right side. - 6. Rectum - Diarrhoea from putrid food or drink; bad odour. - 7. Stool - Black, coffee ground, offensive. - Vomiting, purging and urination simultaneously. - 8. Stool - Intestinal haemorrhage during septic typhoid.

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- 9. Urethra - Uterine cancer; dark haemorrhage. - Prolonged metrorrhagia of dark, thin, offensive blood. - 10. Gen. Female - Discharges putrid, bloody; rapid decomposition of blood. - MALIGNANCY. - 11. Respiration - Anxious, laboured. - 12. Chest - Heart weak, trembles, sensitive to lying on the left side. - 13. Extemities - Numbness, first one limb, then the other. - 14. Extremities - Rheumatoid arthritis. - 15. Sleep - Cannot lie on the right side. - (But headache with pain in the heart agg. on lying on the left side.) - 16. Fever - A specific for black water fever ( Tyler). - Yellow fever; low malignant fevers. - Puerperal fever. - 17. Perspiration - Sweat : bloody (Curare, Lach, Petr). - 18. Skin - In drunkards, tendency to carbuncle or blood boils. - 19. Skin - Blood boils. - Yellow (jaundice). - Petechie. - Cold and dry (cold and clammy : Lach.). - 20. Skin - Purpura haemorrhagica. - Sudden bleeding from all orifices. - 21. General - Decomposition of blood, producing haemorrhage from all orifices of body (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, throat, urethra, esp. pharynx). - 22. General - Haemorrhagic diathesis; blood - fluid, dark, non-coagulable and offensive. - 23. General - Intolerance of clothing around the stomach. - 24. General - Pains appear and disappear suddenly after lasting some time (except headache). - 25. General - Gangrene; parts dark or bluish; general burning; gangrene of tonsils. - 26. General - Septic tonsils, goitre, ulcers, abscesses, diphtheria, typhoid, puerperal fever. Cases - 11. Crotalus horridus - Indicated in strumous, debilitated haemorrhagic, broken-down constitutions; exhausted vital force; genuine collapse. - Haemorrhagic diathesis. - Haemorrhage comes suddenly from all orifices. - Prostration of vital force. - Vomits dark, green; black or coffee ground. - Intestinal haemorrhage. (Allen's Keynotes). - (Allen Neiswander - H.H. 1979/228)

Cuprum arsenicosum Keywords - Violent cramps, Uraemia. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Renal insufficiency and uraemia = increased acetones and diacetic acid. - 2. Uraemic convulsions - preceded by gastrointestinal symptoms. - 3. Uraemia with obstinate hiccough and icy cold body.

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- Violent cramps in chest, fingers, calves, toes - amel. only by getting out of bed and standing. - Leg cramps amel. by pressing foot on floor (Stry-f.). - 4. Nephritis of pregnancy. - 5. Cardiac rhythm and force altered due to defective elimination. - 6. Intense thirst. Causation (a.f. ) - Chorea after fright. Modalities - Aggr - Touch, pressure, dampness. - Motion, after eating and drinking, at a fixed time; during diarrhoea. - Amel. - Hard pressure. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Throat - Intense burning pain along oesophagus and in the urethra. - 2. Throat - Obstinate hiccough. - 3. Stomach - Violent cramps and colics - periodical. - Burning along the oesophagus from stomach to mouth. - 4. Stomach - Vomiting & diarrhoea with uraemia. - 5. Abdomen - Terrible abdominal neuralgia with great restlessness. - 6. Abdomen - Terrible enteralgia, or abdominal neuralgia with great restlessness. - Violent cramps and periodical colic. - 7. Urine - Urine of garlicky odour. - 8. Extremities - Numb paralysed feeling in legs. - Sharp shooting abdominal pains. - 9. Fever - Cholera infantum (rice-water stools). - 10. General - Icy coldness of the whole body. - 11. Chest - Emphysema, bronchial asthma. Cases - 128. Cuprum ars. - Boericke's materia medica says: "A remedy for symptoms depending on deficient kidney action.... renal inefficiency...." - 129. Cuprum ars. - The clinical picture tilted towards Cuprum. - Also note the causation from copper fumes; and symptoms of Ars. - Hence Cupr. ars. - (Ulhas Gariwala - H.H. 1992/571)

Cuprum metallicum

Keywords - Cramps, Convulsions, Coldness and Collapse (the big four "C"s of Cuprum) Synopsis - 1. Strong metallic taste (Cocc., Merc., Nat.c. , Rhus, Senega) - 2. SPASMS - in limbs, muscles, soles, in throat prevents speech or swallowing; of thumbs and fingers which are flexed inwards (rev. Secale). - Begin in extremities and spread over the whole body, extort cries; prevent coition. - 3. Violence of attacks. - Convulsions; contraction of muscles. - 4. Coldness - Icy-coldness and blueness of body (lips, nails) with cold sweat and SINKING OF STRE.4422(s)-6.33684(e)-5(l)4.997(.)0.721

- 6. Drinks descend with a gurgling sound. - 7. Convulsions of every degree of violence - from little twitchings to convulsions of all the muscles of the body; starting with clenching of thumbs. - Spasms followed by the appearance as if the patient were dead. - COLD WATER RELIEVES THE SPASM. - 8. Spasmodic breathing - dyspnoea; great rattling in chest; thumbs clenched and fingers cramped over them. - 9. Convulsions with violent shooting out flexion and extension of limbs. - 10. Imperfect, stammering speech. Mind - Malicious. - Desire to injure. - Unconquerable sadness. - Screaming with cerebral symptoms. Objective - Convulsions and cramps of violent form; clonic or tonic - start in toes or fingers and radiate over the whole body, with piercing cries. - Children lie on abdomen and jerk the buttocks up; convulsion during dentition. - Eyes fixed, staring, glistening, turned upwards. - Eyeballs rotate quickly behind closed lids. - Face blue, livid; lockjaw. - Chewing motion of lower jaw. - Violent cramps in abdomen before and during menses. - Loud rattling in chest. - Severe itching without eruptions. - Knotting of muscles extort cries. - Can't hold head erect, or bores it into pillow. - Icy coldness of whole body. - Convulsions with blue face and clenched thumbs. Ailments from (causation) - Cessation or suppression of discharges result in sudden convulsions. - Cupr. will re-establish the discharges. - Similarly, suppressed inflammation, diarrhoea, or repercussed eruption, when they lead to convulsions, think of Cuprum. - Suppressed foot-sweat, or menses. Modalities - Agg. - Hot weather; contact renews spasm (Nux-v). - New moon. - Loss of sleep. - During pregnancy or labour (puerperal conv.) - Amel. - Cold drinks. - During perspiration. - Pressure. Appetite & thirst - Greediness in eating and drinking. - Desires - Warm food and drinks. Female - Convulsions before menses. - Painful (crampy) menses. - Convulsions during pregnancy. - Puerperal convulsions. - After-pains, severe and distressing. Child - Convulsions during dentition with shrieking. - Complete cataleptic spasm with each paroxysm of whooping cough. - Child lies on belly and spasmodically thrusts breech up. - Cough in children threatens suffocation (Tyler). Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Eyes - Eyeballs rotate behind closed lids. - 2. Mouth

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- Tongue constantly protruded and retracted, like a snake's (Lach). - 3. Throat - Fluids descend with a gurgling sound when drinking (Ars., Thu.) - from spasm of oesophagus. - (In Phos. fluids gurgle as they enter the stomach, and gurgle all through the intestines. - With Cuprum this gurgling commences at the throat and continues in the oesophagus when swallowing - Tyler). - 4. General - Cholera. - Three remedies tend to collapse and death, viz., Cup., Camph., and Verat. alb. - Cuprum - Most intense CRAMPS and convulsions. - Camphor - Extreme COLDNESS and collapse, and more or less dryness. - Veratrum - Copious SWEAT, vomiting and purging are the features. - Podophyllum - Has profuse stools (with cramps), but they are frightfully offensive. - 5. Bladder - Urine suppressed or scanty; uraemic convulsions. - 6. General - Epilepsy from suppressed eruptions, or from a blow on the head. - 7. General - Eruptions (measles, etc.) non-development of, or repercussed (Zinc.). - 8. General - Metastasis to brain from other organs (Zinc). - 9. General - Paralysis of isolated muscles (tongue) after apoplexy or typhoid. - 10. General - Reaction poor, due to over-exertion. - 11. Cough - Cough with breathlessness, blue face and rigidity; in three successive attacks (Stann.) - 12. General - Epilepsy - aura begins in knee and ascends; nocturnal, during sleep. - Aggr. - New moon. Cases - 92. Cuprum - Phatak's M.M. - Clenching of thumb over palms. - Mouth firmly closed or open, with tongue darting in and out like a snake (in convulsions). - Kent's Rep - Twitching, upper limbs (1216); Clenching thumbs (956); Mouth, motion, constant lapping of tongue to and fro (407). - ALLEN - Convulsions with blue face and clenched thumbs. - Blue line on upper eyelid.(?) - (Dr. Alison Hargreaves - H.H. 1990/449)

Cyclamen europaeum Keywords - Sad as if guilty of a crime; silent grief; reserved; taciturn. - Flickering before eyes. Vertigo. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Undemonstrative grief - silent weeping. - 2. Delusion she has done wrong; is a criminal; has neglected duty. - 3. Anxiety of conscience. - Indisposed to talk - averse to going out. - Remorse; self-reproach. - 4. Offended easily - broods over imaginary grief. - Absorbed in thoughts. - 5. Averse to jesting, mental work; impossible. - 6. Dreads cold; dread of fresh open air; very chilly (rev. Puls.). - 7. Pain in thinly covered bones; tibia. - 8. Delusion she is deserted; is forsaken; is persecuted. - 9. Desires lemonade.

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- Aversion to bread and butter; MEAT; fats. - 10. Thirstless (Puls.). - 11. Sad, sleepy; indolent, averse to work. Mind - Introspective. - Sad as if she has neglected her duty. - Self-reproach; remorse. - Averse to company; reserved. - Indisposed to talk. - Absorbed in thoughts. - Answers incoherently. - Undemonstrative grief. - Weeps easily. - Fancies he has done wrong. Objective - Menses too early, too profuse; feels better during the flow. - Post-partum haemorrhage with bearing down pains which are relieved after a gush of blood. Milk in virgin breasts. - Silent grief; silent weeping. - Complaints relieved by continued walking about. - Nasal catarrh with loss of taste and smell. - Chill (reverse : Puls). - Convergent squint. - Desires solitude. Causation (a.f. ) - Suppressed grief; terrors of conscience, from duty not done, or bad act committed. Modalities - Agg. - Open air; cold water; cold bathing. - Menses worse sitting and lying at night. - Amel. - Moving about; rubbing parts; lemonade. Appetite, thirst, craving, etc - Satiety after a few mouthfuls (Lyco.). - Food then becomes repugnant, causes nausea. - Saliva and all food has a salty taste. - Thirstlessness. - Craving:for lemonade. - Inedible things. - Sardines. - Aversion - Bread, butter, fats. - Meat, cold food. - Beer. - Disagree: Pork, fat food. Coffee (diarrhoea). Female - Menses early, profuse, black clot (Puls is reverse). - Less while moving about. - Labour-like pains from back of pubis (Cimic, Puls, agg. during flow). - Hyperemesis. - Hiccough during pregnancy. - Feels as if something alive in abdomen (Croc., Thuja). Child Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Visual - Aberrations (flickering; dimness; convergent strabismus). - 2. Rumbling -in hypogastrium immediately after a meal; every day. - 3. Cramp-like -pain in the right thigh. - 4. Extremities - Pain, like dislocation, in the right foot. - 5. Extremities - Heels, sore pain (Petr.). - 6. Vertigo - Severe, whirling; objects turn in a circle about her. - 7. Female - Breasts swell, esp. after menses. - 8. Head

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- One-sided pain with flickering before the eyes. - 9. Eyes - Disturbance of vision with gastric disturbance. - 10. Cough - Dry cough at night while asleep, suffocative. - 11. Rectum - Diarrhoea after every cup of coffee. - Pain as if a spot was suppurating when walking or sitting. Cases - 117. Cyclamen: - The rubrics selected were; Grief, undemonstrative. - Going out, aversion to. - Delusion, criminal, he is. - Peculiar eye movements, plus the strong desire to keep the windows closed. - Occupation amel. - Brooding. - On physical side : Amel. warm room. - Aversion, fresh air. - Thirstlessness. - (Dr. Falguni Khariwala - Hom. Links, 3/93)

Drosera rotundifolia Keywords - Delusion persecuted. - Suspicious. - Spasmodic or whooping noctural cough, agg. lying down. - Tubercular diathesis. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Delusion, persecuted, that he is. (paranoia). - 2. Anxiety when alone - desire for company. - Sad when alone. - 3. Mistrust, full of; imagines that he was being deceived by spiteful, envious people. - 4. Fear of hearing disagreeable news; fear of misfortune. - 5. Rage, beside himself with; excited by trifling circumstances. - 6. Cough, in violent paroxysms, from tickling/crawling in larynx with vomiting of food. - Cough coming from deep down in chest (whooping cough). - 7. Tubercular diseases of bones (long bones, tibia), joints (shoulder joint, hip-joint, ankle-joint) and glands (lymphatic, abdominal, mesenteric). - 8. Caries, spinal; tubercular sinuses. - 9. Diarrhoea; loose stools with mucus. - (Tubercular abdomen: boggy with a nodule on the left side). - 10. Exophthalmic goitre (protrusion of eyes). - Rheumatoid arthritis - with family history of T.B. - 11. Pain, severe, in tibia, foot and leg; unbearable. - 12. Hypertrophy of Peyer's patches, with tubercular history. - 13. Scar tissue (Graph., Sil.) with tubercular history. - 14. Cough, paroxysms so rapid that the child loses breath. - 15. Cough, deep sounding, barking, choking, with retching, gagging and vomiting. - 16. Haemorrhage of bright red blood from nose, mouth, stools; haemoptysis. - 17. Voice hoarse, deep, toneless, or trumpet-like, cracked - requires exertion to speak (Arum tr.). - 18. Cough as soon as head touches the pillow at night, esp. after midnight (Bell., Hyos, Rumex). Mind - Suspicious. - Imagines he is being deceived or persecuted by spiteful, envious people. - Dejection caused by ideas of imaginary enmity. - Things put the sufferer beside himself. - Restless in mind, cannot concentrate on one subject for long. - Loquacity following choking cough. - Fear of being alone. - Easily angered. - Suicidal thought by drowning, not by any other means. - Obstinately carries out decisions, long thought out, in spite of opposition. - Anxiety when alone, at night, suicidal; with fear.

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Objective - Whooping cough with bleeding from the nose and mouth. - Nightly aggravation. - Cough as soon as the head touches the pillow at night. - Constriction of chest. - Deep sounding, hoarse barking cough. - Tickling like a crumb or feather in larynx. - Voice hoarse, toneless. - Spinal caries, tubercular. - Ankle joint inflexible. - Tuberculosis of bones. Causation (a.f. ) - Grief. Modalities - Agg. After midnight; lying down; warmth; talking; laughing, singing, cold food; sour things. - After measles. - Amel. - Pressure of hand on chest or abdomen; open air. Food & drinks - Putrid taste. - Aversions - Pork; sour foods which degree. - Fatty foods cause nausea. - Disagrees - Salt and rich food. Female - Menses too late. - Leucorrhoea with labour-like pains. - Menses absent, scanty, bright red. Child - Cough (whooping cough) with its characteristic symptoms. - Laryngeal phthisis. - Emaciation; does not put on weight despite good food, tonics, etc. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Eyes - Eyes become prominent during cough, agg. lying down. - 2. Nose - Epistaxis and cold sweat with loquacity. - 3. Stomach - Vomiting of blood (haemoptysis) after convulsions. - 4. Larynx - Laryngeal phthisis with emaciation and h/o whooping cough; or family h/o tuberculosis. - 5. Larynx - Violent tickling in larynx brings on nocturnal cough. - 6. Larynx - Voice hoarse, toneless; speaker's sore throat. - 7. Respiration - Asthma when talking, with constriction of throat, with every word uttered. - 8. Cough - Agg. by laughing, talking, singing or weeping. - 9. Cough - Child holds the chest during the cough. - 10. Cough - Choking, prolonged, incessant, seems to come from the abdomen; takes the breath away. - 11. Extremities - Cramps of hand when trying to grasp anything. - 12. Extremities - Laming pain in right hip joint, with pain in the ankle. - Must limp when walking. - 13. Extremities - Pain in long bones, esp. humerus and tibia; agg. at night only. - 14. Fever - Profuse discharge of saliva in febrile stage (Hahnemann). - 15. Generalities - Tuberculosis of bones, gnawing, stinging in long bones, worse rest.

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Cases - 20. Drosera - Cough deep (KR. 785), barking (KR. 782), dry. - Agg. at night (KR. 787). - Tuberculosis of bone (Tyler's Drug Pictures). - (James W. Ward - HH. 1982/438)

Ferrum metallicum Keywords - Confident, inflexible will - intolerant of opposition. - Debility with false plethora. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Positive and confident. - Always feels that she is in the right and therefore she can be haughty, dictatorial and in the wrong. - Hence firm and unyielding. - 2. Serious, earnest in achieving her goals. - 3. Company aversion; amel. when alone; even avoids the sight of people. - Feels relieved by solitude. - 4. Walking slowly about always relieves her (though weakness obliges her to lie down). - Rapid motion (and rest) aggr. - 5. Anomalies/contradictory symptoms : - Agg. - Motion and rest; sitting still brings on pains and sufferings. - Diarrhoea from slightest motion. - Chilly, dreads open air. - All pains are worse from motion. - Amel - In children dribbling of urine ceases when keeping still. - By slow motion, but must lie down from weakness. - But open air relieves headache. - Toothache amel. only by ice cold water. - Neuralgia - from overheating as well as by washing in cold water. - 6. Canine hunger alternates with complete loss of appetite. - 7. Vagina extremely sensitive or insensibility of vagina during coition. - 8. Great paleness of face and all mucous membranes (anaemia) with sudden fiery-red flushing of the face, on the least pain, emotional excitement or exertion (false plethora). - 9. Red parts become white : Face, lips, tongue, mucous membrane of mouth, even glans penis becomes white and shrivelled. - 10. Haemorrhagic tendency - epistaxis, haemoptysis. - Bright red blood, coagulates easily. - 11. Vomiting of food as soon as taken (emptying the stomach like a "leather bag"), without nausea - and can sit down and eat again after vomiting. - 12. Diarrhoea, undigested, painless stools at night or WHILE eating and drinking (Chin., Croton-t.). Mind - "Haughty, self-contented look". - Positive, determined and confident that what she thinks and does is right, yet sober, well-balanced and tranquil when facing difficult situations. - Excited by slightest oppositions everything irritated or depressed her; she hates to talk or see anybody (even her own children); desires solitude and that alone is pleasing to her. - Sensitive to noise, the cracking of paper annoys him. - Occupation amel. - Cheerfulness alternates with sadness. - Fear of apoplexy. - Intolerance of contradiction. - Obstinate. - Fear in a crowd; of people; of misfortune. Objective - General anaemia but with tendency to flushing of face and head. - Menses too long lasting. - Extreme paleness of face which becomes red and flushed on the least pain, motion or exertion. - Red parts become white : Lips, face, tongue. - Metrorrhagia with red face and swollen veins. - Blood bright red; coagulates easily. - Palpitation with fear, ameliorated by slowly walking about.

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- Spitting blood with pains in chest, relieved by slowly walking about. - Nose-bleeding. - Circumscribed red area on the cheeks. Causation (a.f. ) - Loss of vital fluids; masturbation; sweating, abuse of quinine. - Anaemia from whatever cause with Ferrum symptoms. Modalities - Agg. - Night. - Rest; sitting still; sudden, rapid motion. - Noise. - Violent exertion. - Tea drinking. - Amel. - Walking SLOWLY about. - Leaning hand on something (headache). Food & drinks - Appetite, Thirst etc. - Canine hunger with loss of appetite and dislike for all food (Ant.c. , Nux, Puls.) or appetite increased and lost alternately. - Desires - Sour; sweets; raw tomatoes; warm food (agg.); indigestible things (lime, slate pencil, chalk, clay). - Butter (agg.). - Aversions - Sour, acids; eggs, fat and rich food; meat. - Agg./intolerance. - Cold drinks and food. - Tea; warm milk; EGGS meat. - Tobacco. Female - Menses too early, too profuse, last too long; pale and watery, debilitating. - Weakness and relaxation of genital organs - prolapsus of vagina, uterus drags down. - Menses intermit two or three days and then return. - Vagina extremely sensitive; painful during coition. - Leucorrhoea milky, corrosive. Male - Emission nightly; with backache after over-exertion. Child - Urine dribbling all day; dribbling ceases when he is perfectly quiet. - Prolapsus recti of children; itching of anus at night. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - A woman who blushes easily. - 2. Vertigo - Vertigo when crossing a bridge or on seeing flowing water (Lyss.). - 3. Vertigo - Vertigo while descending (Bor.). - 4. Head - Headaches: violent, hammering, agg. after midnight; periodical; last for two or three days, return after two or three weeks; with aversion to eating or drinking. - 5. Nose - Nose-bleed with bright red flushing of cheeks. - 6. Mouth - In morbid dentition persistent diarrhoea (stools of mucus and undigested food); face flushes or has a red spot on each cheek. - 7. Gen. Female - Exophthalmic goitre, after suppression of menses. - 8. Gen. Female - Profound prostration during menses - hence irritable and sad before, during, after menses. - 9. Gen. Female - Vomiting - of pregnancy, sudden, of all the food taken; but appetite not impaired; can sit down and eat again. - 10. Respiration - Asthma, most violent when lying or sitting still without doing anything, better by walking slowly and talking. - 11. Respiration - Asthma, with orgasm of blood to chest, patient uncovers the chest. - 12. Cough

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- Cough only in daytime, relieved by lying down. - 13. Sleep - Sleeps easily, irresistible from debility, while sewing, sitting or studying. - 14. Sleep - Sleeps with eyes half-open (Lyc.). - 15. Chill - Red face during chill. - 16. Skin - Dropsy, puffed, flesh pits on pressure. - Skin pale, yet face is flushed. - 17. Skin - Skin cold, but heat within. - 18. General - All pains and sufferings come on during rest. - 19. General - Gentle motion ameliorates rheumatic pains, lumbago, palpitation, vomiting of blood too. - 20. General - Nightly pains that compel motion of the part. - 21. General - Pulse accelerated towards evening. - 22. General - Weakness, long-lasting, after prolonged haemorrhage - (loss of vital fluids); bones soft and bend - with FALSE PLETHORA. Cases - 115. FERRUM MET. - Rubrics in Kent's Repertory: - (1) Head, congestion - (2) Vertigo, agg. when descending. - (Dr. P. Bender, Medical Advance, 1901, H.H. 1980/14).

Fluoricum acidum Keywords - Slow, deeply destructive processes. - Intolerance of heat. - Must walk fast notwithstanding contra-indication. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Slow, deeply destructive effects - caries of long bones, ulcerations, varicosities. - Tissues indurated, fistulous. - 2. Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue, even in excessive heat or cold. - 3. Excessive sexual desire and enjoyment. - Stands in the street ogling the women as they pass by; so great is his lust. - 4. Impulse to walk fast - no matter painful conditions. - 5. Intolerance of warm weather, warm bathing. - Cold bathing amel. - 6. Discharges thin, foul, acrid; copious. - 7. Varicose veins, obstinate, longstanding; and ulcers specially in women who have borne many children. - 8. Old cicatrices threaten to become open ulcers (Caust., Graph.). - 9. Numbness of the part not lain on. - Sensation as if sleeping on side not lain on. - 10. Aversion to marriage; to family members, but converses pleasantly with strangers. - 11. Diseases of bones, especially long bones - caries, necrosis. - 12. Fistula dentalis or lachrymalis. - Tongue fissured in all directions; distorted nails; onychia, felon. - Brittle, lousy hair. - Falling off of hair; alopecia. Mind - Great buoyancy and self-satisfaction. - Aversion to his own family. - Impulse to walk fast; necessity to be always on the move. - Inability to realise his responsibility. - Lecherousness. - Delusion must dissolve marriage. - Sits silently, does not answer. - Hatred of absent persons, better on seeing them.

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- Depression of mind. - Forgetful of dates, even of his own employment. - Fantastic, repulsive imaginations (sending away his own people). - Libertinism. - Mistakes, uses wrong words, in spelling, in localities. Objective - Young people look old. - Rapid caries of teeth. - Old cicatrices become inflamed around the edges and itch violently. - Alopecia. - Exostoses of bones of face. - Diseases of the bones, esp. of long bones. - Too hot, wants to bathe in cold water. - Onychia. - Can put in much exertion without fatigue. - Impulse to walk fast. - Ogles women as they pass by. - Fistula dentalis or lachrymalis. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Debauchery. Modalities - Agg. - Heat; of room. - Night. - Alcohol. - Sour foods. - Amel. - Cool bathing. - Rapid motion. - Short sleep. - Bending head back. Eating. - Pain amel. by shaking part. Appetite, thirst, cravings, etc - Gnawing hunger temporarily relieved by eating. - Thirst: increased for cold drinks. (Warm drinks cause diarrhoea). - Desire - Pungent, spicy, highly seasoned food. - Cold drinks. - Aversion - Coffee. - Warm drinks. Female - Menses too early, copious, too long. - Profuse, acrid leucorrhoea. - Feels distressed if flow is slightly delayed. - Metrorrhagia with difficult breathing. - Nymphomania. Male - Increased sexual desire in old men; violent erections at night. - Excessive enjoyment. - Varicocele. - Oily pungent smelling sweat on genitals. Child - Teeth decay rapidly, especially at the roots. - Naevi. - Late dentition. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Stunning headache, amel. by urinating. - Puffy glabella. - Hair -falling; brittle; towsy. - 2. Eyes - Sensation as if cold wind blowing through the eyes; as if something in the eyes, that could not be rubbed off; must wink. - Fistula lachrymalis.

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- 3. Ears - Deafness amel. by bending head back. - Caries of mastoid. - 4. Nose - Ulceration of nasal septum. - Fluent coryza during sleep. - 5. Mouth - Fistula dentalis. - Tongue fissured in all directions. - Dentition late; teeth decay rapidly at roots. - Saliva, increased flow. - 6. Throat - Syphilitic ulceration. - Slightest cold causes inflammation with painful swallowing. - 7. Stomach - Warm drinks and salmon produce diarrhoea. - Bilious vomiting on slightest errors of diet. - Stomach symptoms amel. by tight clothes. - 8. Abdomen - Ascites; hepatic disorders. - Frequent flatus and eructations relieve. - Sensation of emptiness in the region of navel with desire to take deep breath, amel. by eating and bandaging. - Sore pain in liver. - HYDROTHORAX. - 9. Rectum - Protrusion of haemorrhoids after drinking coffee. - 10. Bladder - Upward drawing in urethra. - Urine scanty, dark. - Helps increase urine in dropsy. Intolerable burning in urethra during and after urination. - 11. Respiration - Difficulty in breathing with or alternating with metrorrhagia. - Oppression of chest amel. by bending back. - 12. Extremities - Felon with pain as of a splinter under the nail. - Numbness of feet, hands, extending upwards. - Dropsy of limbs in old feeble constitutions. - Caries and necrosis of long bones. - Palms sweaty and hot; constant redness of hands, esp. palms. - 13. Skin - Varicose veins and ulcers, obstinate, longstanding. - Sweat acrid, corroding, excites itching. - Feels as if burning vapour is emitted from the pores of body. - Bed-sores; keloids. - Hardened, horny skin. - Sore corns. - Scars become red around the edges. - Margins of ulcers are hard. - Pains like streaks of lightning confined to small spots. - 14. Sleep - Sleeplessness without inclination to sleep. - Short sleep amel. - Sensation as if sleeping on side not lain on. - 15. Fever - Nightly fever coming on periodically. - 16. Sweat - one-sided. - Acrid, eroding sweat which excites itching. - 17. Fever - With inclination to uncover and wash body with cold water. Cases - 42. Fluoric acid: - In Hering's Condensed Materia Medica the text runs thus: "Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue, regardless of the most excessive heat of summer or cold in winter." - I wondered "what possible benefit could result from Fl. acid in tumour of the right ovary which contains no ovarian symptoms among the provings."

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- Drew inspiration from Aph. 153 of the Organon, the indispensable treasure of therapeutic knowledge, in which pathological name of a malady is not even hinted at as a guide in the selection of the remedy, while the extraordinary, peculiar and I will add INEXPLICABLE symptoms furnish full data. - (John Hall - H.H. 1986/149).

Gelsemium sempervirens Keywords - Weakness, Trembling (Mind & Body). - Apprehensive - Paralytic. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Dull, dizzy (as if intoxicated); drowsy (languid), dazed (confused), and trembling. - 2. Visual effects (dimness, diplopia). - 3. Dread of falling. - Desires to be held. - 4. Depressing emotions. - Trembling of limbs (tongue, hands, legs). - 5. Heaviness : drooping of eyelids, cannot keep them open. - Of single parts (uterus, heart, liver). - 6. Inco-ordination of muscles. - Paretic effects; on bladder, eyelids (droop), throat, rectum, tongue (trembling speech), voice (loss of). - 7. THIRSTLESS during fever. Mind - Anticipatory anxiety (exams; going to a physician; before an engagement). - Fear appearing in public, of failure; in a crowd. - Anxiety from downward motion. - Fears heart will cease to beat unless on the move. - Desire for light. - Quiet disposition; desire to be left alone. - Taciturn. - Grief, cannot cry. - Hysteria. - Fear of death. - Stage fright in speakers and singers. - Averse to company, yet fear of being alone. - Utter lack of courage; fear of death. - A coward. Objective - Dull, drowsy, dizzy. - Overpowering aching. - Lies quietly, half reclining; wants head high. - Tremor or twitching of single parts. - Dread of falling; wants to be held. - Heavy drooping eyelids. - Face full, dusky red, besotted. - Thick speech. - Thirstless. - Pulse : full, round, soft, dicrotic. - Lack of muscular co-ordination. - Patient forced to move to stimulate heart; sensation as if heart stopped breathing on dropping asleep. - False, or inefficient labour pains, or none at all; os widely dilated; rigid os; complete atony. - One pupil dilated, the other contracted. - Eyeballs oscillate laterally. - Great muscular and nervous prostration. - Diarrhoea from bad news. - Dread of appearing in public. Causation (a.f. ) - Fright; fear; bad news (diarrhoea); stage fright. - Anticipation, emotional excitement (Ign.); grief (cannot cry, broods over her loss). - Mental work. - Emotions, shocks, ordeals. Examination tension. Modalities - Mind - Agg. emotions, dread, shocks, bad news, surprises.

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- Physical - Aggr. - Heat of sun or summer. - Motion. - Humid weather, foggy weather. - Before thunderstorm, periodically. - Tobacco smoking. - When thinking of his ailments. - Mental work. - Amel - Profuse urination (headache); sweating. - Alcoholic stimulants. - Bending forward; continued motion; Reclining with head held high. Appetite, thirst, craving, etc - Thirstless in all complaints. - Thirst with sweat. - Little appetite, but can take food or drink. Female - Threatened abortion from depressing emotions. - Vertigo and diplopia during pregnancy. - Labour - os uteri unyielding, rigid, undilatable. - False labour pains. - Pains insufficient from uterine inertia. - Pains run up, backward, or down the thighs. - Epistaxis from suppressed menses. - Leucorrhoea gushing. Child - Agg. - During dentition. - Seizes the nurse or screams as if afraid of falling when being carried (Bor from downward motion). - Starts in sleep. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Hoarseness after depressing emotions. - 2. Vertigo - Gait - Reeling, staggering, wavering, with closed eyes. - 3. Head - Headache begins in the cervical spine, extends over the head and settles over the eyes; amel. by profuse urination. - 4. Head - Headache preceded by blindness. - 5. Head - Sick headache preceded by blindness. - 6. Eyes - (a) Paralysis of upper eyelids; - (b) Detachment of retina. - (c) Nystagmus. - 7. Eyes - Glaucoma from increased secretion rather than from obstructed exertion. - 8. Vision - Diplopia, hemiopia, upper field lost. - 9. Mouth - Tongue trembles when protruded, speech difficult. - 10. Throat - Pain on swallowing extending to the ear (Phyt.). - 11. Stomach - Thirstlessness. - 12. Stool - Stool difficult, though soft, as if from contraction of sphincter ani. - 13. Gen. Female - Coition difficult from contraction of vaginal muscles. - 14. Gen. Female - Epistaxis from suppressed menses.

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- 15. Gen. Female - Hysterical women; "lump" sensation in throat that cannot be swallowed. - Constant urination. - 16. Gen. Female - Voice lost, only during menses. - 17. Chest - Heart - Fears that unless constantly on the move, the heart will cease to beat (rev. Dig.). - 18. Chest - Heart - Lowered force and rate. - 19. Extremities - Muscles refuse to obey the will. - Cannot direct the legs while walking. - Ataxic gait. - 20. Extremities - Paralysis which begins with fever (poliomyelitis). - Chills run up and down the back. - 21. Extremities - Paralysis of organs of deglutition; postdiphtheritic paralysis. - 22. Extremities - Prostration of the whole muscular system with motto paralysis. - 23. Sleep - Overpowering sleepiness, with nearly all complaints. - 24. Sleep - Sleepiness of students; from mental exertion. - Sleeplessness from excitement. - 25. Fever - Loquacity during fever (Tub.). - 26. Fevers - Sluggish - Influenza, typhoid, cerebro-spinal, measles. - 27. General - Old age - slow, weak pulse. - 28. General - Prostration of whole muscular system - the weakness gradually leading to complete paralysis. - 29. General - Trembling of the whole body, shaking without chill; from weakness; wants to be held tight, lest he should fall. Cases - 58. Gelsemium: - Thirstless during heat (KR. 530). - Company, averse to (KR. 12). - Pulse accelerated, fast (KR. 1394). - Talk, indisposed to (KR. 86). - (J.B. Bell - H.H. 1979/308)

Graphites Keywords - Sad, Fearful, unhealthy skin. - Fat, chilly. - Timid, weeps from music. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Fat, flabby, chilly, costive people. - 2. Sad, fearsome, irresolution over trifles. - 3. Timid, easily frightened. - Feels miserable and unhappy. - 4. Weepy without cause. - Weeping amel. - 5. Contradictory symptoms, viz, - a. Sensitive to cold, winter and heat of summer. - b. Easily chilled and easily overheated. - c. Agg. of complaints by riding in a carriage, yet hearing improved in the noise of a carriage. - 7. Cracks, fissures, bleeding at folds of skin or muco-cutaneous junctions (corners of mouth, ends of fingers,

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nipples, labial commissures; anus, between toes, behind ears). - 8. Decided aversion to coition (both sexes). - 9. Skin unhealthy - every injury suppurates. - Sticky gluey, transparent, honey-like fluid oozes from eruptions. - Eczema. - 10. Sensitive to odour of flowers. - 11. Cancerous diathesis (pylorus, mammae, cicatrices). Mind - Sad, fearful, irresolute, cautious. - Anxiety over trifles. - Despair over trifles. - Discontented, dissatisfied with everything, miserable and unhappy. - Frightened easily. - Dull. - Indolent, dreads work. - Weeping from music. Objective - Thickening and induration of skin, glands, tarsi, nails, scars; produces excoriations, cracks or fissures in mucocutaneous junctions of folds of skin. - Emaciation of suffering parts. Weeps without cause; or from music. - Abdomen distended as from incarcerated flatus. - Foul acrid foot sweat, chafes the toes. - Skin dry, rough, breaks easily and exudes a gluey moisture. Causation (a.f. ) - Fright, anticipation; grief, over-lifting. Modalities - Agg. - Cold, drafts, light, during and after menses, suppression of eruption or secretions, warmth of bed, night, wet feet (delayed menses). - Amel. - Walking in open air. - Hot drinks, especially hot milk; eating, eructations. Food & drinks - Cravings - Aversion - Meat, fish, cooked food, salt, sweets. - Disagree - Hot drinks. Female - First menses delayed. - Morning sickness during menses. - Menses late, scanty, short, painful. - Leucorrhoea excoriating, in gushes, day and night. - Decided aversion to coition (both sexes). - Vagina dry, hot or cold. - Nipples cracked, sore. Male - Ejaculation too early during coition. - Desire without erections. - Cramps in calves during coition. Child - Impudent, teasing, laughs at reprimands. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Sensation of cobweb on forehead. - Tries hard to brush it off. - 2. Ear - Pain goes to parts not lain on; behind ears. - 3. Throat - Voice lacks control (modulation), amel. using it. - 4. Stomach - Alternate digestive and skin symptoms. - 5. Stomach - Colic; immediately after eating. - 6. Stomach - gastralgia, periodical, with vomiting of food immediately after eating (cancer of pylorus). - 7. Stomach

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- Burning in stomach, by eating. - 8. Abdomen - Abdomen distended as from incarcerated flatus. - Everything eaten seems to ferment and turn to gas. - 9. Rectum - Chronic constipation, stool hard, covered with mucus or conjoined with threads of mucus. - 10. Rectum - Diarrhoea of intolerable odour from suppressed eruptions (Psor.). - 11. Gen. Female - Absorbs cicatrices remaining after abcesses, esp. mammary abcesses. - Also when old cicatrices break open again. - 12. Female - Induration and congestion of the neck of uterus (cancer). - 13. Extremities - Arthritic nodosities of finger joints. - 14. Extremities - Cracks and fissures in outer canthi, labial commissures, ends of fingers, nipples, between toes. - 15. Extremities - Eruption (moist eczema) in the bends of joints hollow of knees. - 16. Extremities - Foot sweat foul, acrid, chafes toes. - 17. Extremities - Horny callosities on hands. - 18. Extremities - Nails brittle, thick, crippled, crumbling, deformed (Ant-c), painful as if ulcerated. - 19. Perspiration-Stains yellow. - 20. Skin - Obstinate dryness of skin and absence of sweat. - 22. General - Cataleptic condition - conscious but has no power to move or speak. Cases - 22. Graphites: - Aversion to fish3 marks KR. 480 - Irresolution 2 marks KR. 57 - Eczema 3 marks KR. 312 - Skin, dry 2 marks KR. 1308 - Skin, cracking 3 marks KR. 1305 - Stomach pain amel. eating (KR. 513) Graph (3). - (Margery Blackie - HH. 1989/390) - 45. Graphites: - Everyone of the symptoms given in "Salient symptoms" is covered by Graphites (all repeatedly observed). - It is one of the remedies that stirs up old scars. - Skin condition exactly as in proving viz. dirty, rough, thickened skin, with the cracks. - (Margaret Tyler - H.H. 1986/227).

Helleborus niger Keywords - All senses dull, stupefied, sluggish. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. All senses blunted (thinking, feeling, seeing, hearing). - Dullness, deficiency of ideas, dazed, stupefied. - Heightened sensorial depression. - 2. Responses sluggish - answers slowly, stares at the person talking. - Stupid expression. - Eyes wide open, but insensible to light. - 3. Mind seems to have lost command over body. - Muscles refuse to obey the will unless close attention is paid to the activity. - (If he talks, the pen in his hand falls. - He reads A-N-D to see it is "And"). - 4. Rolling head - boring it into pillow, beating head with hands. - 5. Fever worse from 4 to 8 P.M. (Lyc). - 6. Automatic actions and movements. - Chewing motion of the mouth. - 7. Loss of sensitiveness to touch, pricking, pinching, to heat or cold. - 8. Cri encephalique. - (Meningitis - acute, cerebrospinal, tubercular).

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- 9. Curative indication : increased flow of urine. - (Apis, Arum triph.). - 10. Parts usually red turned white. Mind - Dull, apathetic, inattentive. - Despair. - Insensibility and stupor. - Very slow reaction accompany most of the complaints. - Stupefaction - just sits, says nothing, does nothing. - Vision and hearing are unimpaired but patient cannot recall anything she hears or sees (senses blunted). - They do not register or make any impression on the mind. - Eyes fixed, staring at one point. - Stupidity bordering on imbecility. - Inability to think, takes a long time to answer or does not answer. - Extreme forgetfulness - weak memory. - Muscles refuse to obey the will when attention is diverted. - Easily angered; consolation agg. - Does not want to be disturbed. Objective - Blunted senses and sluggish responses. - Forehead drawn in folds and covered with perspiration. - Drinks greedily. - Chewing motion of the mouth. - Child suddenly screams and bores its head into the pillow. - Soporous sleep with screaming and starting. - Automatic motion of one arm and one leg. - When inattentive the muscles refuse their office. - Hydrocephalus. - Head rolls from side to side on the pillow, or is drawn backward. - Rigidity of the muscles of the neck and limbs, one or both. - Automatic motion of one arm and one leg. - Fetor oris. - Urine scanty. Causation (a.f. ) - Mental - Disappointed love, checked exanthemata, grief, blows and injuries. - Physical - Cerebrovascular accident. - Head injuries. - Checked exanthemata. - Dentition. Modalities - Anorexia with brain complaints. - Greedily swallows cold water. - Bites the spoon. - Mentals - Agg. constipation; when thinking of his complaints. - Physical - Agg. - 4-8 p.m. - Puberty. - Pregnancy. - Agg. - Cold air, dentition, suppressions. - Exertion. - Amel. - Lying quietly, warmth, wrapping up. Food & drinks - Aversion - Vegetables, meat. - Thirstlessness with most complaints. Female - Suppressed menses from disappointed love. - Extreme anguish in girls at puberty when menses fail to return after appearing. Child - Nurses greedily.

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- Convulsions with extreme coldness of body; head hot (Arn., Zinc.). - Brain symptoms during dentition (diarrhoea - (Bell. Podo.). Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Involuntary sighing. - 2. Head - Concussion of brain from blow on the head (after Arnica). - 3. Head - Meningitis, cerebrospinal - head drawn back as far as it will go. - 4. Head - Neck rigid (meningitis). - 5. Head - Tendency to bore head into the pillow. - 6. Head - Wrinkling of forehead in brain troubles. - 7. Eyes - Stupor with unequal pupils. - Sleep with half closed eyes. - 8. Face - Puckering of the mouth and twitching of facial and eye muscles, as if he was going to speak or say something. - 9. Bladder - Suppression of all discharges esp. urine which may be very scanty (bladder over-distended); or mixed with coffeeground sediment. - 10. Urine - Urine suppressed (in brain troubles or dropsy). - Scanty. - Nephritis, uraemia. - 11. Chest - Angioneurotic oedema. - 12. Extremities - Automatic motion of one arm and leg or of one side while other side is paralyzed. - 13. Extremities - Lies on the back with limbs drawn up. - 14. Extremities - Picking of fingers and lips. - 15. Sleep - Soporous sleep; with shrieks and starts. - 16. General - Convulsions with extreme coldness of body. - 17. General - Dropsy of brain, chest, face, abdomen; with fever; albuminous (or suppressed) urine (meningitis). - 18. General - Gradual onset, progressive weakness. - 19. General - Puerperal convulsions, arrested by sudden noise. Cases - 65. HELLEBORUS 200 and later 1M : The rubrics used were : - KR.37 - Slow, comprehension difficult - Dullness. - KR. 81 - Slow - KR.1 - Absent-minded - KR.13 - Comprehension difficult - KR.65 - Memory weak, for what he has read - KR.95 - Will, muscles refuse to obey the will, when attention is turned away; can read only alphabets, i.e. has to "concentrate attention" on every alphabet. - He trips on children's feet, as he has to concentrate his will (attention) on every step. - (S. M. Gunavante - H.H. 1988/233)

Hepar sulphur Keywords - Oversensitive physically, mentally. - Every little injury suppurates. - Horrid impulses.

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Synopsis (identifying features) - Oversensitive touchy. - 1. General tendency to suppuration - abscesses of glands or elsewhere. - Even a scratch on the skin suppurates. - 2. Sweats easily and profusely. - Sweat does not relieve (rev. Psor.). - 3. Chilly, agg. cold dry air/weather. - Wears an overcoat even in hot weather. - Better from warmth. - 4. Extremely sensitive physically and mentally to - (a) Cold air, esp. dry; cannot bear to be uncovered. - (b)Touch, faints from pain caused by slightest touch, esp in inflamed parts; cannot bear clothes to touch painful parts. - (c)Noise. - 5. Mentally oversensitive. - Angry at trifles, irritable, dissatisfied, violent, with murderous impulse. - Hasty. - Horrid impulses. - Rage leads to violence. - 6. Pain - Sharp splinter-like or like fish-bone (throat - Arg. nit., Nit. ac.), in inflammation - boils, eruptions and pustules - in chancres (Nit. ac.), in felons. - 7. Glands become hard and suppurate - groin, axilla, mammary. - 9. Semi-paralytic conditions : - a.Urine flows intermittently (Con); no force; drops vertically. - b.Cough loose, but cannot expectorate. - c.Soft stool, difficult to expel. - d.Digestion difficult, impeded. Mind - Oversensitive (mentally and physically), and irritable to slight things. - Quarrelsome, hard to get along with. - Nothing pleases him. - Dissatisfied with oneself and others. - Wants to kill those who offend him, even loved ones; to set things on fire. - Horrid impulses to kill, or throw child in the fire. - Hasty in speech, drinking and eating, suicidal disposition with fear of death. Objective - Chilly, oversensitive to COLD, to pain. - Sweats easily and profusely; but dare not uncover. - Every injury or hurt FESTERS, suppurates; much thick pus. - Weakness and much rattling in chest; choking, barking cough, but cannot expectorate. - Body exudes a foul odour. - Enlargement of glands. - Chapped skin with deep cracks on hands and feet. - Sweat profuse, sour, sticky, offensive; from least exertion. Causation (a.f. ) - Suppression of skin affections asthma, diarrhoea, dysentery; injuries; suppressed eruptions. Modalities - Agg. - Cold dry weather, winter, cold wind, drafts of air. - Part of body becoming cold. - Least uncovering. - Touch. - Noise. - Lying on painful part. - Night. - Periodically; everyday - four weeks - four months; every winter. - Amel. - Wet weather. - Heat. - Warm wraps to head. - Moist head. - Damp weather. - Warm wet applications. - Physical exertion. Food & drinks

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- Appetite - Capricious - Desires something, but when he gets it does not like it. - Thirst - Drinks hastily. - Craving - Longing for sour pungent things; (condiments); highly seasoned food; stimulants; vinegar. - Aversion - Fatty food. Female - Pussy leucorrhoea, smells like old cheese. - Anteverted uterus causes painful coition. - Menses too erratic, scanty or copious; membranous. Male - Flow of prostatic fluid after urination; during stool. - Obstinate gonorrhoea. Child - Smells sour. - Very cross. - Does not laugh or amuse itself. - Sits silent and speechless in a corner; aversion to play; cries before cough. - Diarrhoea in children, green sour stool (Calc, Mag-c). Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Eyes - Herpes following the course of the supraorbital nerve; severe pain as if the eye would be drawn back into the head. - 2. Ears - Mastoiditis. - Throbbing in ears. - 3. Nose - Nosebleed after singing. - 4. Teeth - Toothache, worse in warm room. - 5. Throat - Splinter-like sticking in throat extends to ear on yawning. - 6. Throat - Chronic hypertrophy of tonsils, with hardness of hearing (Bar. c, Lyc., Psor., Quinsy. - 7. Bladder - Atony; must wait a while for the the urine to pass. - Feeble, stream drops vertically; bladder can't be emptied. - 8. Respiration - Asthma; moist wheezing; agg. in dry cold air, better in damp. - Rattling mucus which the the child cannot raise; choking, strangling cough spells; must sit up and bend head backward for relief of asthma. - 9. Respiration - Cough from least uncovering - barking, croupy, choking; aggr. cold air, cold drinks. - 10. Respiration - Weakness of chest with much rattling respiration (when Ant. t fails). - 11. Sleep - Sleeps on back, with head inclined backward; in sitting position. - 12. Dreams - Anxious; or escaping danger; vexatious; of window broken. - 13. Skin - Itching of skin during jaundice. - 14. Skin - Nettlerash, chilly, violent itching, stinging disappears as heat begins. - Moist eruptions in folds of skin. - 15. Skin - Skin suppuration if inevitable give low 30 or 200 to hasten suppuration. - Higher to prevent suppuration. - Suppurative process; Hep.s. before abscess opens, after opening Calc. s or Sil. - 16. Skin - Skin unhealthy - ulcers, herpes, surrounded by little pimples, pustules. - They spread by coalescing. - Violent itching. - Carbuncles surrounded by indurated spots.

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- 17. General - Alternations - Asthma with eruptions. - Constipation with diarrhoea. - 18. General - Discharges profuse, foul, sour-smelling like old cheese. Cases - 85. Hepar sulph: - Kent's Repertory (p. 822) gives Hep., Phos. and Sil. with three marks for "Abscess Lungs". - Even after taking other rubrics, we find it difficult to clinch in favour of Hepar. - Cough agg. cold air (KR. 784); Cough, uncovering agg. (KR. 809); Emaciation (KR. 1357); Cold, tendency to take (KR. 1349). - Obviously he had other indications which he has not mentioned. - (F. Bruns - H.H. 1990/370)

Hydrastis canadensis Keywords - Catarrhal. - Ulcerative. - Cancerous cachexia. Synopsis - 1. Thick, yellow, tenacious, viscid, stringy discharges (Kali bi.) with or without ulceration. - 2. Catarrh of almost all mucous membranes with profuse discharges. - 3. Yellow hue of body or jaundice. - Jaundiced eyes and face. - 4. Gallstone colic with jaundice (Card.m. , Chel.). - 5. Tongue large, flabby; golden yellow; takes the the imprint of teeth. - 6. Haemorrhagic : Ulcers bleed much on slight touch, bleeding from vagina after coition. - 7. Emaciation and prostration. - 8. Suffocation when lying on left side. - 9. Malignancy - cancerous growths; ulceration; fissures - with burning pains. - Induration in pre-cancerous stage. - 10. Ulcers with false granulations. - Slight touch excites much bleeding. - 11. Liver enlarged, hard; obstinate constipation. - 12. Cancer : hard, adherent. - Skin mottled or puckered; knife-like pains. Nipple retracted. - 13. Chronic obstinate constipation of children and the aged. - No desire for days - in pregnancy. - Must take enemas (use f to 200 potencies). - 14. Sweat copious, intolerable odour. - 16. Ulceration of rectum, the cervix or vagina. - Leucorrhoea with thick, yellow, stringy discharge (Kali bi.). - 17. Precancerous states (liver, breast, uterus, lips, cervix, palate). - Cancerous growths, bleeding painful. - 18. Stomach - constant "gone" empty feeling; yet averse to food; in fact eating causes weight and fullness. Mind - Feels run down, debilitated. - Indifferent to everything. - Memory weak for what he has read or what he is about to do. - Forgets words while speaking. - Restless at night. - Indisposed to talk; averse to company. - Averse to mental work. - Frightful fancies. - Fear in crowded and public places. - Fear of impending disease. - Depression : sure of death and desires it. Objective - Profuse discharge of thick, yellow, stringy mucus from nasal passage. - Leucorrhoea ropy, thick, viscid, yellow; hangs from the os in long strings. - Malignant ulcerations; catarrhal diseases of various parts. - Pre-cancer states, before ulceration, when pain is the principal symptom. - Cancer : skin mottled, puckered; adherent; pains knife-like, sharp, cutting.

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- Nipples retracted. - Tongue large, flabby, shows imprint of teeth. - Chronic catarrh of the bladder, with thick ropy mucus in the urine. - Torpid liver; catarrhal jaundice. - Ulceration of os, cervix, vagina. Causation (a.f. ) - Excessive use of alcohol; bread and vegetables cause acidity and indigestion. Modalities - Agg. - Lying on the left side. - Abuse of alcohol and drugs. - During pregnancy. - Every other day. - Open air. - Ulcers agg. by warmth and washing. - Amel. - Dry weather; warm covering; pressure. Appetite, thirst, etc - Empty "gone" feeling in stomach, yet fullness after eating. - Can only take milk and water. - Desires - Bread, milk, water. - Aversion - Loathing of food with hunger; averse to meat. - Disagree bread and vegetables. - Eructations sour or putrid. Female - Intense pruritus vulvae. - Profuse leucorrhoea-thick, yellow, stringy, offensive. - Cancer of breast (Ars., Bapt., Con., Kreos., Phyto). - Pain like knife thrust into part. - Cracks and sore nipples of nursing women. - Menorrhagia or metrorrhagia with fibroid tumours. - Hard, irregular tumours of left breast, nipple retracted. - Uterine haemorrhage. - Vagina sore during coition. - Bleeding from erosion of cervix and vagina. - Removes tendency to habitual adherent placenta. Male - Gleety discharges. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Nose - Soreness of septum of nose; bleeds when touched. - Ozaena with bloody, purulent discharge. - 2. Abdomen - Nodules; liver enlarged, hard. - 3. Rectum - Ulceration, fissures, cracks, with burning pain. - 4. Stool - Knotty, like sheep dung. - Obstinate constipation. - 5. Bladder - Chronic catarrh of bladder with thick, ropy mucus in urine. - 6. Female - Haemorrhagic - bleeding on slight touch from ulcers with false granulation. - Metrorrhagia with fibroid tumours. - 7. Female - Erosion and ulceration of cervix and vagina with tenacious discharge. - 8. Female - Goitre of puberty and pregnancy. - 9. Back - Backache - has to walk about bent before straightening up. - 10. Chest - Left breast, nipple retracted. - 11. Perspiration - Excessive, offensive, especially on genitals and armpits.

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- 12. Skin - Bedsores. - Ulcers burning, destructive, malignant (stomach, or os uteri, cervix or vagina). - Varicose ulcers. - 13. Skin - Eczema, that dries into crusts and burns like fire. - 14. General - Pains : Knife-like, sharp, cutting. - 15. General - Small wounds bleed and suppurate. - 16. General - Convalescence retarded, after typhoid, etc. - 17. General - "In cancer Hydrastis removes the pain and modifies the discharge, depriving it of its offensiveness, and improves the health in a marked degree." (Hering). Cases - 101. Hydrastis - Dr. Hering once said, "Hydrastis is the only pure tonic in the homoeopathic materia medica". - I said to myself, as the woman left, here is a first-rate chance to test Dr. Hering's veracity and the efficacy of high potencies (I had given 200th). - I have given a "tonic", "high", to a man who distrusts doctors, and has no faith in anybody. (George B. Pek - H.H. 1981/518 - Medical Advance, 1886) Hyoscyamus niger Keywords - Delusions. - Aberrations. - Suspicious and jealous. - Lascivious mania. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Ailments from unhappy/disappointed love with jealousy. - Suspicious, fear of being betrayed. - 2. Fear of being alone, of being poisoned and hence refuses to take medicine. - 3. Many bewildering aberrations. - Lascivious mania, exposes his person, sings obscene songs. - Illusions of fancy. - Sees images; hears voices. - Familiar things seem strange. - 4. In the course of fevers, especially typhoid, delirium, twitching of muscles, picking of bed-clothes, or catches things in the air. - The delirium is not violent and active as in Bell. or Stram., but passive, muttering. - 5. Foolish look, silly laughter, hysteria. - 6. Lives an inward life of delusions and hallucinations. - Smiling in sleep. - 7. Cough dry, spasmodic; agg. lying down, at night. - Completely relieved by sitting up. - 8. Long continued sleeplessness. Mind - Mania, erotic - Desire to uncover his private parts, fumbles with his genitals. - Loquacity : talks much more than usual and louder, talks of all those things a sane man would have kept secret all his life. - Lies in bed naked and prattles. - Sings amorous songs, laughs loudly at everything, foolishly. - Alternates with weeping or quietness. - Babbles, talks of quarrels, behaves like a mad man. - Does not recognize relatives. - Jealousy with disappointed love, even attempts to kill. - Mania with increased strength, rage with increased strength. - Restless - wants to get out of bed and escape. - Suspicious - of being poisoned, of wife being unfaithful; that people would betray him; poison him. - Fear - of being alone, pursued, fear of being betrayed, bitten by beasts. - Delusion of imaginary harm which others have done; imagines objects appear near and of unusual size. - Stupor with plaintive cries, agg. even by light touch.

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Objective - Involuntary motions. - Poor bladder control for micturition. - Spasms during pregnancy and during parturition. - Spasms when trying to swallow fluids and from worms. - Spasms without consciousness. - Twitching of every muscle in the body. - Lascivious mania; immodesty; will not be covered; kicks off the clothes; exposes the person. - Sings obscene songs; lies naked in bed and chatters. - Fears being poisoned; being sold. - Suspicious; jealous. - Fears being pursued; wants to escape. - Averse to light. - Stools involuntary; urine retained. - Many bewildering aberrations. - Carphology. Causation (a.f. ) - Mental - Disappointed love, jealousy, fright, grief. - Physical - Suppressed milk, suppressed lochial discharge. Modalities - Agg. - Before and during menses. - Mind Agg. - Emotion, jealousy, fright. - Physical Agg. - Cold in general, night, touch, fright, jealousy, lying down, narcotics, before and during menses. - Amel.: - Sitting up, stooping, warmth, motion. Female - Convulsions during and after labour, paralysis of bladder after labour. - Nymphomania. - Retention of urine after confinement. - Eclampsia. - Ill effects of suppressed lochia. Male - Erections violent without sexual desire. Child - Spasms and convulsions of children from fright or worms (Cina, Cicuta). - After meals child vomits, shrieks out suddenly and is then unconscious. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Delirium - low muttering - alternates between mild and violent. - 2. Mind - Delirium - with pale weak face (Bell. - red face and throbbing carotids). - 3. Mind - Extreme fear of water (Stram., Lyss.). - 4. Mind - Objects appear larger than they really are. - 5. Mind - Senile dementia. - 6. Ear - Deafness due to paralysis of auditory nerve. - 7. Throat - Choking, constricting when drinking. - 8. Abdomen - Hiccough after abdominal operation. - 9. Urine - Involuntary urination and stool (typhoid) - local paralysis. - 10. Cough - Cough amel. sitting up (ceases totally - Dros.). - 11. Cough - Cough from elongated uvula, agg. night, agg. lying down, agg. eating, drinking, cold air. - 12. Extremities - Angular motion of arms and body.

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- 13. Sleep - Sleeplessness from cares of business, real or imaginary. - 14. Sleep - Sleeplessness from nervous excitement (Cimic., Coff.). - 15. Dreams - Of animals; busy; frightful. - 16. Fever - Fever with desire to uncover. - 17. General - Epileptic attacks end in sleep and snoring. - 18. General - Shrieking before and during epileptic convul-sions. - 19. General - Twitching of muscles from head to toe, even of solitary muscles. Cases - 95. Hyoscyamus: - The rubrics which covered the case : Tongue dry. - Mouth, dryness of lips and fauces. - Speech impaired. - Swallowing difficult; inability to swallow. - Escape, wants to, from bed. - Dr. Seward says : In Allen's Encyclopaedia, in the provings of Hyoscyamus, under mouth symptoms, 476, tongue dry; 477, tongue dry and clean; 478, tongue and mouth parched; 475, dryness of the mouth, lips and fauces; 514, speech impaired; 520, they lost their speech. - 521, speechless, with wild look; 522. dumb. - Throat 546, swallowing difficult; 549, inability to swallow. - The above are some of the principal symptoms in this case. - (Dr. S. Seward - H.H. 1982/573).

Ignatia amara Keywords - Suppressed silent grief - great contradictions - Supper Sensitive. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Erratic, contradictory, contrary symptoms. - 2. Rapid alternation of moods. - Quick to perceive, rapid in execution. - 3. Grief, suppressed, silent, long continued -mental and Physical exhaustion from it. - 4. Spasms, jerkings all over body. - 5. yawning, sighing, long drawn involuntary, spasmodic. - Desire to take deep breaths (Lach.). - 6. Weeps or laughs by turns. - 7. Offended easily, super sensitive. - 8. Brooding over one's condition. - 9. Intolerant of contradiction, and also of reprimands. - 10. Chilly, sensitive to open air. - 11. Tobacco smoke agg. - 12. Desire to be alone. - 13. Mildness; bears suffering, even outrage, without complaining. - 14. Inward weeping; introspective. - 15. Secretive. Mind - Great grief after losing very dear persons or objects, if recent. - Unhappy love. - Intolerant of contradiction; reprimand, even gentle admonition. - Capricious. - Girls who fall in love with married men. - Hurried during menses. - Enjoys being sad and create a scare. - Secretive - not communicative. - Fear of robbers at night. - Very conscientious. - Delusion everything is ruined. - Sympathetic.

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- Sadness, cannot weep. - Hysteria from grief. - Rapidly changing moods. - Nurses her sorrow, keeping it from others. - Broods over imaginary troubles. Objective - Involuntary sighing ; must take a long breath. - Swallowing of liquids difficult; of solids easy. - Fickleness of mind. - Incredible change of moods. - Pain in small circumscribed spots. - Complaints return at precisely the same hour. - Extreme aversion to tobacco smoke. - Symptoms pass off with a profuse flow of urine. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Grief, long continued, concentrated; effect of grief of recent origin, or felt as if very recent. - Worries, jealousy, shame and mortification. - Bad news. - Disappointed love. - Suppressed sexual desire; reserved displeasure. - (Suppressed mental suffering). - Physical - Old spinal injuries. Modalities - Mind - A.F. grief, fright (spasms), disappointed love, emotion, chagrin, shock, losing of objects. - Physical gen. agg. - Touch, odours, coffee, tobacco smoke. - At the same hour or day. - Agg. cold, open air. - Amel. - Lying on affected part; profuse urination. - When alone. - Deep breathing. - Swallowing. - Eating. - Sour things. Food & drinks - Cravings - Cold food; sour, acid things; raw indigestible things; onion, fruit, bread and butter; raw foods. - Aversions - Warm food; meat, milk, spirituous liquors. Female - Menses suppressed from grief. Child - Wakes up from sleep with piercing cries and trembles all over. - Ill effects of reprimand or correction, or from worms. - Convulsions after punishment or fright with a fixed staring look. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - Contradictory symptoms - 1. Mind - Spasmodic laughter from grief; laughs when he should be serious. - 2. Ear - Roaring in the ears relieved by music. - 3. Face - Face red during chill - pale during heat. - 4. Mouth - Toothache agg. between (not during) acts of deglutition. - 5. Throat - Sore throat, pain amel. by swallowing something solid. - 6. Throat - "Lump" in throat when not swallowing. - 7. Throat - Swallowing of liquids difficult; of solids easy. - 8. Stomach

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- Empty feeling in stomach not amel. by eating. - 9. Stomach - Thirst during chill and at no other stage. - 10. Rectum - Piles pain and bleeding agg. when stool is loose, amel. from walking. - 11. Cough - The more he coughs, more irritation leading to more coughs. - Spasms without fever (rev. Bell.). - 13. General - Inflamed part not painful, sometimes. - Painful parts amel. by hard pressure. - 14. Head - Headache, with hunger. - As if a nail were driven through it, amel. by lying on it. - 15. Throat - Laryngismus that can be heard all over the house. - 16. Rectum - Direction of pain. - Sharp pains shoot upwards into rectum from anus (piles) and vagina up into the body towards the umbilicus. - 17. Rectum - Fissure without constipation. - 18. Rectum - Rectum prolapsed from moderate exertion at stool, stooping or lifting (Podo., Ruta). - 19. Rectum - Tearing pain in rectum for hours after stool (Rat., Sulph), amel. sitting. - 20. Extremities - Pain in a small spots, "tip of finger" etc. (Headache). - 21. Extremities - Chill, shaking, with thirst and redness of face; heat without thirst. - 22. Extremities - Pains : come and go suddenly or appear gradually and disappear suddenly. - 23. Extremities - Spasms and convulsions from fright or other strong emotions. - 24. Sleeps on back, with head inclined backward. - 25. Dreams - Amorous, anxious; sick people; vexatious. - 24. General - Heat with aversion to uncover, but no thirst. Cases - 15. Ignatia: - The remedy of great contradictions : Sore throat feels better when swallowing (Allen). - Indurated tonsils. - Swallows over a lump, better solids (BSK). - Swallowing liquids more difficult than solids (KR. 468). - Pain, throat, when not swallowing (KR. 459). - (S.P. Koppikar - HH. 1982/125)

Iodium Keywords - Ravenous appetite with emaciation. - Strange impulses. - Heat aggr. - Discontented, cross, restless. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Always hungry yet emaciated, amel. while eating. - Increased HUNGER and THIRST. - 2. Always feels too hot; wants to bathe in cold water; to be in a cool place. - 3. Extreme restlessness; runs about; must be busy and occupied; anxiety when at rest; yet easy sweat and easy exhaustion from motion. - 4. Strange impulses to kill. - Violent acts. - Discontented with everything; yet horrible news affect him profoundly.

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- 5. Averse to company of intimate friends. - 6. Hypertrophy of all glands (thyroid), except mammary, ovaries and testes which dwindle. - Body withers and glands enlarge. Mind - Intolerably cross, restless. - Sudden impulse to run and to do violent acts. - Amel. when busy and occupied. - Tendency to do strange things; to kill somebody without any cause; to kill himself. - Aversion to the company of intimate friends. - Wants to be let alone, avoids the sight of people. - Horrible things, sad stories affect her profoundly. - Easily offended. - Averse to being spoken to, sits with head on hands and elbows on knees. - Discontented with everything. - Memory poor. - Forgets to take away his purchases. Objective - Always hungry, yet emaciates. - ALWAYS TOO HOT. - Glands swelled, hard or heavy - later dwindling. - Dejected, or intolerably cross and RESTLESS. - Excited. - Sudden dreadful impulses. - Amel. if busy. - Prominent eyes. - Nose red and swelled. - Dry, tickling, croupy cough. - Short breath. - Leucorrhoea erodes thighs and linen. - Hard goitre. - Hyperpyrexia. - Emaciation of single parts. Causation (a.f. ) - Nervous shock. - Fright. - Disappointed love. - Sexual excesses. Modalities - Agg. - Heat, of summer, of room; warm wraps. - Exertion. - Ascending. - Talking. - Fasting. - Night. - Rest. - Pressure. - Amel. - Cold air, Becoming cold, cold bathing. - Walking about in open air. - Eating. - When busy and occupied. Food & drinks - Appetite - Ravenous; esp. at 11 am - anxious if he does not eat. - Ravenous appetite soon after eating. - Thirst - Increased - Taste - Metallic. - Bitter to solids (not drinks). - Cravings - Cold milk (amel. constipation). Female - Metrorrhagia after every stool. - Mammae dwindle way and become flabby.

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- Nodosities in the skin of mammae with black points. - Tumours. - Leucorrhoea acrid, corroding thighs and linen. - Sterility from atrophy of ovaries and mammae. - Cancerous degeneration of cervix. Male - Testicles swollen, indurated or atrophied, with loss of sexual power. - Sarcocele. - Hydrocele. Child - Hyperactive. - Child grasps the larynx during cough (croupy). - Face pale and cold in scrofulous children. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. tigo - Lying on left side agg. - 2. Eye - Exophthalmos. - 3. Face - Facial paralysis after reduction of goitre. - 4. Throat - Goitre - hard with sensation of constriction (Give when moon is waning after full moon). - 5. Throat - Goitre, exophthalmic. - 6. Stomach - Empty eructations, as if every particle of food turned to gas. - 7. Abdomen - Liver region sore to pressure - cirrhosis. - 8. Rectum - Drinking cold milk amel. - Constipation alternates with diarrhoea. - 9. Gen. Male - Orchitis with pain, extending to abdomen. Hard swelling in inguinal glands. - 10. Gen. Female - Leucorrhoea - acrid, excoriating - eats holes in linen. - 11. Lar. & Tra. - Inflamed - amel. cough. - 12. Respiration - Wheezing and sawing respiration (Spongia). - Croup - hoarse voice, difficult inspiration. - Agg. in long continued damp weather. - Child grasps the throat. - 13. Chest - Atrophy of mammae, nodules in mammae, suppressed milk. - 14. Chest - Heart. - Sensation as if heart were squeezed together; as if grasped with an iron hand (Cact., Lil-t., Sulph), followed by great weakness and faintness. - Palpitation from least exertion. - 15. Back - Spleen - chronic enlargement of spleen. - 16. Extremities - Panaritum. - Excoriating perspiration of feet. - 17. Skin - Complexion dark, coldness with internal heat, dirty discolouration. - Reopening of old cicatrices. - 18. General - Blood pressure. - Acute nasal engorgement, associated with high B.P. - 19. General - Glands - first swollen, hard, heavy; atrophy later. - 20. Generalities - Side - left sided symptoms. - a) Pain - right hypochondria (liver) extends to back.

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- b). Motion in general amel. - 21. Dreams - of water; unremembered; mental exertion; of being murdered; hunger; accidents. Cases - 100. Iodium: - Warm air agg. (KR. 1412); Anxiety, walking in open air Amel. (KR. 9); Ravenous appetite, after every 3 hours (KR. 479) - (Rajan Sankaran - H.H. 1990/305)

Ipecacuanha Keywords - Persistent nausea. - Breathlessness. - Haemorrhagic. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Constant nausea in all diseases - with clean tongue profuse saliva and thirstlessness. - 2. Horrid continuous nausea, not relieved by vomiting; vomits food, blood, mucus. - 3. Oppressed breathing with nausea. - 4. Haemorrhage from womb - bright red gushing (steady flow) haemorrhage with nausea and shortness of breath. - 5. Stool as if fermented, or grass-green, with colic and nausea. - 6. Nausea from the smell of food. - 7. Cough asthmatic, wheezing respiration; child becomes rigid and turns blue. - 8. Cough with accumulation of mucus in bronchi, without expectoration. - Threatened suffocation from mucus. - 9. Cold sweat on forehead. Mind - Holds everything in contempt and desires others should also do the same. - Child screams, howls, is hard to please. Objective - Faints suddenly in summer and in warm room. - Horrid nausea not amel. by vomiting. - Continuous nausea in gastric disturbances. - Bright red, gushing haemorrhage accompanies most complaints. - Face pale, with white linea nasalis. - Tongue clean or red, pointed. - No thirst. - Uterine haemorrhage; gasps with each gush of blood. - Loose rattle in chest without expectoration. - One hand cold, the other hot. - Hands and feet drip cold sweat. - During haemorrhage from the womb she commences to breathe heavily. - Constant nausea with post-partum haemorrhage of bright red blood. - Epistaxis with whooping cough. Causation (a.f. ) - Mental - Vexation, anger, suppressed anger, reserved displeasure. - Physical - Haemorrhages, mechanical injuries, suppressed eruption, foreign body in wind pipe, abuse of quinine. Modalities - Agg. - Stooping, tobacco, pregnancy. - Over-sensitive to heat and cold. - Slightest motion, periodically, over-exertion, warmth in general, over-eating, indigestible food, ice, pork, rich food, candy, fruits. - Agg. vomiting, lying down. - Amel. - Open air, closing eyes, rest, cold drinks. Foods & drinks - Aversion to food. - Thirstless. - Craving - Delicacies. - Disagree - Rich, fatty foods (Ant-c, Puls).

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Female - Uterine bleeding with stitching pain from navel to uterus, uterine haemorrhage, gasps with each gush, bright red profuse. - Post partum haemorrhage - profuse bright red blood, with constant nausea, agg. by slightest motion. - Haemorrhage of placenta praevia (post-partum h.). Child - Full of desires, but knows not for what, screams, is hard to please. - Asthma in children, whooping cough. - Child loses breath, turns pale, stiff and blue. - Vomiting of infants at the breasts. - Bleeding from nose or mouth. - Infantile pneumonia with threatened suffocation (Ant.t. ). - Rapid wheezing respiration. - Cyanosis. - Puts fingers in mouth. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mouth - Clean or not so dirty tongue; red pointed tip. - 2. Stomach - Cutting colic about the navel, agg. motion. - 3. Stomach - Persistent nausea - not relieved by vomiting, nothing relieves. - Nausea accompanies most of the complaints. - 4. Stomach - Sensation as if hanging down (Ign., Tab.). - 5. Stomach - Thirstless with most complaints. - 6. Abdomen - Haemorrhage with pain in abdomen around the umbilicus extending to the uterus. - 7. Stool - Stool grassy green or white mucus, bloody, fermented, foamy, slimy, like frothy molasses. - 8. Respiration - Asthma - humid, with skin symptoms, with nausea, agg. damp warm weather. - 9. Respiration - Asthma, from accumulated mucus, has to stand by the window. - 10. Respiration - Spasmodic suffocating asthma agg. by motion. - 11. Cough - Cough with nausea, with gagging, redness or blueness of the face and tips. - Amel. warmth, repose. - Rattling cough with scanty expectoration; child stiffens out during cough. - 12. Cough - Epistaxis with whooping cough. - 13. Cough - Whooping cough incessant with strangling and vomiting of mucus. - Loses breath, turns pale and rigid (Cupr-m). - 14. Expectoration - Loose (coarse) rattle in chest without expectoration. - 15. Chest - Chest affections from retrocession of measles rash (Bry.). - 16. Extremities - Convulsion with suppressed eruption, affecting the whole left side, followed by paralysis with flushed redness of the face. - Convulsion with cough. - 17. Extremities - Pain as if bones were all torn to pieces. - 18. Dreams - Anxious; frightful; vivid. - 19. Fever - Hint - when there is no clear indication for any other remedy in intermittent fever, give Ipecac. - 20. Skin - Despair with itching or itches till he vomits. - 21. General - Haemoptysis from slightest exertion. - 22. General

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- Haemorrhages, gushing, of bright red blood, accompanied by nausea, gasping, faintness or sinking. - Haemorrhage of noncoagulable blood. - 23. General - Haemorrhages from all orifices of body, profuse, bright red, active (Bell., Erig., Mill., Sab.) with heavy breathing and nausea. - 24. General - Opium habit - of great value in weaning from (Hahnemann). - Prostration is out of proportion to the haemorrhage, prostration is in spells. Cases - 12. Ipecac: - Bright red, gushing haemorrhage. - Uterine haemorrhage; gasps with each gush of blood (BSK). - Better than Secale in post-partum haemorrhage. - In uterine haemorrhage give Pyro if Ipec. fails. (Tyler). - (J.B. Bell - HH. 1979/329) - 87. Ipecac: - Metrorrhagia, labour, during and AFTER (KR. 730); Metrorrhagia, gushing (730); motion agg. (930); profuse (731); Resp. gasping (772). - (J.A. Tomhagen - H.H. 1980/406)

Kalium bichromicum Keywords - Catarrhal; stringy discharges; pains spotty or migrating; "punched out" ulcers. Synopsis - 1. Discharges are adhesive, viscid, stringy (can be drawn out in strings). - 2. Pain in "small spots" (Ign.); or migrating rapidly from place to place, finally ending in the stomach. - 3. Stitching pains (joints, pleurisy, etc.). - 4. Pains appear and disappear suddenly (Bell., Ign. Mag. ph.). - 5. Gastric pains, chills, heat, etc., are ASCENDING in nature. - 6. Rheumatic symptoms alternating with gastric symptoms. - 7. Ulcers - dark, "punched out" (round, deep) with typical (stringy) discharge. - 8. Cracking of joints. - 9. Periodicity - Neuralgias appear at the SAME HOUR every day. - Nightly, 2-3 a.m. aggravations. - 10. Catarrhal remedy - in air passages : Nose OBSTRUCTED. - Discharges greenish. - 11. Suppurative tendency. - 12. Slow and deep progress of disease conditions. Mind - Sadness after being annoyed. - Averse to business and company. - Fear in a crowd. - Indifference to business affairs. - Impatient. - Weeping, tearful mood. - Averse to mental work. - Starts during sleep. - Sadness, amel. after eating. - Loathing of life. Objective - Discharge of tough, stringy mucus which adheres to the parts and can be drawn into long strings (Hyd., Lyss). - Pain in small spots; shift rapidly; appear and disappear suddenly. - Oedematous, bladder-like appearance of uvula; swollen but little redness. - Deep-eating ulcers in fauces. - Yellowness : of discharges, eyes, tongue. - Blindness before headache. - Sticky sweat. - Discharge of plugs and clinkers from the nose. - Epistaxis with whooping cough. Ailments from (causation) - Indulgence in beer and malt liquor.

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Modalities - Aggr. - Cold; damp. - Undressing. - Morning. - 2-3 a.m. - Hot weather (asthma, prolapsed uterus). - BEER. - Suppressed catarrh. - Amel - Most complaints amel. by WARMTH. - Pressure. - Skin eruptions amel. by cold weather (rev. Alum, Petr.). Appetite & thirst - Eating anything causes nausea. - Food lies like a load in the stomach; but faintness causes him to eat more. - Cravings - BEER (which causes diarrhoea). - Acid drinks. - Aversion - Meat (which aggravates). - Water. Female - Leucorrhoea, ropy, tough, which may be drawn out in long strings. - Menses too soon. Male - Chancre as on the penis with elevated margins and cheesy base (Hep.s. ). - Prostatic fluid escapes at stool. Child - Fat, fair, chubby children with scrofulous and catarrhal diseases. - Tendency to take cold in open air. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Blindness of vision followed by headache. - Pain at the root of the nose. - Supraorbital pain which is amel. by pressure of fingers. - Aversion to light and noise. - 2. Eyes - Sac-like swelling between the eye-brows and eyelids. - Vision seems crossed, amel. by seeing with one eye. - Deep ulcers of cornea, as if punched out, without much pain, photophobia or lachrymation. - 3. Eyes - Sight becomes lost as headache starts, but it returns as the headache increases. - 4. Nose - Pain at the bridge of nose; stuffed feeling at the root of nose (forehead and root of nose : Sticta). - Discharge of plugs and clinkers. - Ulcers in the nose tend to perforate deeply. - Chronic sinus (sinusitis); catarrh. - Syphilitic ulcers of septum. - Diphtheria. - 5. Throat - Oedematous, bladder-like appearance of the uvula; much swelling, but little redness (Rhus). - Diphtheria : pseudo-membranous deposit, firm, pearly, fibrinous, prone to extend downwards to the larynx and bronchi (Lac c., reverse of Brom.). - 6. Tongue - Coated with a thick yellow felt. - Mapped. - Aphthous. - Pain at the root, on protruding. - Sensation of hair on tongue (Sil). - 7. Stomach - Ulceration of the stomach and duodenum (Ars., Merc. c, Nit. ac, Phos). - Vomiting of ropy mucus and blood; round ulcer of the stomach. - Chronic intestinal ulceration; it vies with Mercury (Hering). - 8. Rectum - Diarrhoea alternating with rheumatism (Cimic., Dulc).

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- Dysentery periodic, coming on in spring; chronic (Aloes, Merc., Sulph). - 9. Bladder - A drop remains after urinating. - Deep red urine. - Complete suppression of urine, with dull pain in the small of the back. - 10. Extremities - Sciatica left side, amel. by flexing the leg; agg. standing. - 11. Bladder - Jelly-like discharge from the urethra. - Dreams of danger, of fights; frightful. - 13. Skin - Cutaneous eruptions, worse in summer (Led). - Eruptions, like measles, over the whole body. - Dryness of skin, with itching of the whole body. - Indolence : inflammations; ulcers. - 14. Rectum - Sensation of anus being closed with a plug (Anac., Lach. - Sep. has feeling of weight in anus). - 15. Cough - Worse after eating. - 16. Coccyx - Neuralgia, agg. sitting. - 17. Fever - Hot flushes followed by sticky sweat - then comes the chill. - 18. Respiration - Rawness under sternum. - Pain extends through to the back and shoulders on coughing. - 19. Extremities - Rheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms. - 20. Urine - Frequent micturition; scanty urine with profuse whitish or mucous deposit. Cases - 90. Kali bichromicum: - Ulcers on tonsils (KR. 470). - Throat, pain swallowing (KR. 459). - Throat, mucus tenacious (KR. 457). - Mouth, odour putrid (KR. 409). - Nose obstruction (KR. 340). (J.R. Haynes - H.H. 1980/517)

Kalium carbonicum Keywords - Desires company, yet quarrels with them. - Backache, easy sweat and debility. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Baglike swelling of upper eyelids agg. on coughing. - 2. Agg. of complaints between 2 and 4 a.m. esp. 3 a.m. - 3. Backache, debility and sweat concomitants (as if back and legs will give out). - 4. Eight peculiar features (Dr. K.C. Bhanja): - A) Easily - a.Irritated - b. Startled - c. Tickled (soles) - d. Catching cold - e. Sweating - f. Choking of oesophagus - g. Prolapses rectum - h. Urinates (involuntary) - B) Difficult - a. Swallowing of food (fish-bone sensation) - b. Breathing - c. Stool

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- d. Urination - e.Cough - f. Moving of knees (ascending or descending) - g. Hawking up of mucus - h. First menstruation - 5. Weeps when telling her symptoms. - 6. Quarrels with his family, his bread and butter. - 7. Stitching pains everywhere agg. at rest and lying on painful side (rev. Bry). - 8. Pains from within out, sharp, stinging and cutting. - 9. Insidious onset of complaints. - 10. Patient covers up the painful part. - Pains go to the part uncovered. - 11. Perspiration of the painful part. Mind - Cannot bear to be alone, full of fears. - Anxiety felt in stomach. - Weeping when telling her symptoms. - Whimsical Irascible. - Desires company, yet treats them outrageously. - Quarrels with his family, with his bread and butter. - Hurry while eating, in occupation. - Starts easily, from fright or as from fright; from noise. - Averse to being touched. Objective - Baggy upper lids. - Sensitive, distended stomach and abdomen. - Hard tympanites. - Stool difficult; of large, hard lumps. - Inefficient labour pains. - Weakness: back and legs give out. - Talks in sleep. - Pulse small, soft, variable, intermittent or dicrotic. - Back feels as if broken; compelled to lie down or lean on something. - Sweat, backache and weakness are the three characteristics. - Pains go to uncovered parts, parts not lain on. - Soles very sensitive. Causation (a.f. ) - Suppression of eruptions in childhood. - Sexual excesses. - Mental work. - Fright, suppressed menses. - Pregnancy. - Never well since pneumonia (badly treated). Modalities - Agg. - Sensitive to every atmospheric change, to COLD. Agg. 3 a.m. - (A patient woke up regularly at 3 a.m. , hydrothorax. - Symptoms agg. 3 a.m. Clarke). - Winter, before menses, lying on painful or left side, after coition, touch, motion. - Amel. - Warmth. - Sitting with elbows on knees (asthma); by day. Food & drinks - Appetite - Wants to eat frequently but the least food oppresses. - Aversion, disgust for food in general, esp. for brown bread. - Craving - Sweets, acids (sour). - Disagree - Milk and warm food. - Aggr. - Cold drinks when heated. Female - Feels very weak before menses. - Menses too early, too profuse, too long lasting. - Backache before, during and after menses.

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- Leucorrhoea with labour-like pains. - Labour pains inefficient, felt in back, down the hips and thighs; wants the back rubbed (Caust.). - Haemorrhage after curating. - Disposed to phlebitis. Male - Prostration after coition, or sleepless for 2-3 days. - Averse to coition. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Nose - Epistaxis from washing face. - 2. Throat - Stricture of oesophagus, small particles of food go easily in wind pipe. - Sticking pain as from fish bone. - 3. Stomach - Excessive flatulence, everything he eats seems to turn into gas. - 4. Stomach - Fullness after eating a little. - Easy satiety. - 5. Abdomen - Distended, hard tympanitis. - Pain in right hypochondrium extending to back. - 6. Rectum - Constipation during or after menses. - Constipation alternating with diarrhoea. - Easy prolapse. - Piles; inflamed; descend on urination or coughing. - 7. Bladder - Nocturnal enuresis of adults, agg. coughing. - 8. Kidney - Nephritis - from exposure to cold or injury. - 9. Asthma - Amel. by bending forward or by rocking. - Worse from 2 to 4 a.m. - 10. Respiration - Asthmatic, agg. least motion; alternating with diarrhoea. - Amel. leaning forward with head on knees. - Choking cough with a very sensitive chest. - 11. Expectoration - Difficult; round balls fly from the mouth. - 12. Chest - Lungs : persons suffering from ulceration of lungs can scarcely get well without this antipsoric (Hahnemann). - 13. Chest - Lungs, affections of the right lower lobe. - Stitching pain in chest (esp. r. lower); independent of motion; agg. at rest and lying on painful side (Bry. reverse). - 14. Chest - Heart - hypertrophy from over-exertion. - Sensation as if heart is suspended by a thread. - Pulse small, soft, variable, intermittent, dicrotic. - 15. Back - Pain at 3 a.m. driving him out of bed. - Pain during labour. - Pain amel. by pressure or rubbing or lying on something hard. - Lumbar pains extend down the thighs to legs, making walking erect impossible; so has to walk bent. - 16. Extremities - Soles very sensitive, even to slight touch. Legs give out (weak). - Oedema of left foot. - 17. Skin - Dry due to inability to perspire. - 18. Generalities - Paralysis extends upwards. - Cold descending to lungs. - Pains go to uncovered parts; on parts not lain on. Cases - 79. Kali carb: - Hahnemann says in his introduction to Kali carb. that "Persons suffering with ulceration of the lungs can scarcely get well without this anti-psoric" (also quoted in Allen's Keynotes).

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- We have many times verified this observation, esp. when the lower lobe of right lung was affected. Repertorial rubrics: Chest, ulcer, lungs : Calc., Kali c, Phos, Sil. (all 3 marks). - Expectoration copious : Calc (3), Kali c (2), Phos (3) Sil (2). - Expectoration purulent (all four remedies have 3 marks) - Phos. is left-sided remedy. Hence : KALI CARB. - (W.D. Cooper - H.H. 1986/407)

Kreosotum Keywords - Haemorrhagic. - Discharges acrid, corroding, offensive. - Malignancy. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Haemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed profusely; flow passive, brown, dark or bright red (Lach., Phos). - 2. Menstrual flow profuse, agg. lying down, amel. when sitting or walking. - 3. Discharge profuse, acrid, corrosive, hot, foul (putrid), redden the parts, (sputum, eructations, tears, urine); soreness burning and itching in labia, vagina. - 4. Painful dentition; teeth begin to decay as soon as they appear. - Hot gums with much thirst during dentition. - Gums soft, spongy, bleeding, inflamed, scorbutic, ulcerated. - 5. Rapidity of effects : rapid decay of teeth; rapid emaciation. - 6. Putridity : of secretions, fetid pus from nostrils. - Leucorrhoea very fetid and exhausting. - Bad odour from decayed teeth. - Urine fetid. - Putrid ulcers. - Putrid diarrhoea. - 7. Severity : Very severe old neuralgias. - Terrible burning in chest as if from hot coals. - Children struggle and scream during stool, as if they would go into fits. - Corrosive itching of pudenda, vagina, between labia and thighs; esp. towards evening, driving one almost mad. - 8. Fear at the thought of coition in women. - 9. Hoarse voice with pain in larynx amel. by sneezing. - 10. Urticaria after menses (before menses: Dulc.). - 11. Malignancy : Gangrene of lungs; senile gangrene. - Cancerous and other malignant ulcerations of the cervix uteri, with burning, sensitiveness and tumefaction of cervix, with bloody putrid discharges. - Cancer of stomach with vomiting. - 12. Child old looking, wrinkled, emaciated during difficult dentition. - 13. Music and other emotional causes impel him to weep. Mind - Dissatisfied with everything. - Irritable, cross, wilful and obstinate. - Wants things, but when given throws them away and wants something else. - Emotional music causes weeping and palpitation and pulsations that are felt in the limbs. - Desires death from despair. Objective - Small wounds bleed profusely. Foul, hot, acrid discharges; redden the part. - Rawness. - Burning like fire. - Leucorrhoea putrid, corrosive; severe itching of vulva follows. - Leucorrhoea stains linen yellow. - Cancer of uterus. - Menses flow on lying down; cease on sitting or walking. - Awful burning, like red-hot coal, in the pelvis. - Bleeding from vagina after coition, and burning. - Urination hurried; involuntary when lying. - Gums bluish, bleeding, painful. - Teeth soon decay. - Painful dentition. Causation (a.f. ) - Bad (foul or putrid) smell or inhalations (Bapt., Ars., Pyr). - Sprains. - Non-appearance of menses (climaxis).

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Modalities - Agg. - Dentition; pregnancy; milk delays menses. - Cold; rest; fasting; lying; before and during menses (roaring and deafness in ears). - 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. - Coition, lifting, exertion (uterine bleeding). Appetite, thirst, cravings, aversions - Appetite - Disgust for food during convalesence. - Taste, bitter, after drinking water. - Mouth - Foul odour. - Craves - Meat, smoked meat. - Spirituous drinks. - Loathing of milk during pregnancy. - Agg. - Cold food; acid food (stomachache). - Amel. - Hot food. Female - Menses too early, profuse, protracted. - Flow on lying down, ceases on sitting or walking about. - Cold drinks amel. menstrual pains. - Flow intermittent, at times almost ceasing, then commences again. - Leucorrhoea gushing, like bloody water, with itching. - Leuc. acrid, corrosive, offensive; has the odour of green corn. - Stiffens the linen like starch; stains yellow. - Lochia dark, brown, lumpy, offensive, acrid. - Intermits. - Post-climatic diseases of women. - Dwindling of mammae with small, hard, painful lumps in them. Male - Burning in genitals during coition from coming in contact with acrid vaginal discharge. - Penis swells next day after coition. - Prepuce bluish black with haemorrhage and gangrene. Child - Old looking, wrinkled children with rapid emaciation. - Painful dentition; teeth begin to decay as soon as they erupt. - Incontinence of urine during first sleep, from which child is roused with difficulty. - Child will not sleep unless caressed and fondled. - Syphilis, congenital. - Screaming at night. - Cross and sleepless during dentition, or moans or dozes with half open eyes. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Dreams of urination in a normal way, but when wakes up cannot stop it. - 2. Head - Headache, severe, before and during menses. - 3. Nose - Constant motion of wings, fan-like, in pneumonia. - 4. Stomach - Incessant vomiting with cadaverous stools. - 5. Stomach - Malignant diseases of the stomach, cervix uteri. - 6. Stomach - Nausea, vomiting, of food several hours after eating (Aeth., Ferr., Plat), of sweetish water; during pregnancy, of undigested food. - 7. Rectum - Stool slips back; extremely painful, tears the anus, extorts cries. - 8. Urine - Urination, must hurry when desire comes. - 9. Gen. Female - Leucorrhoea during pregnancy. - 10. Gen. Female - Salivation during pregnancy.

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- 11. Gen. Female - Agg. lying down - menstrual flow or even micturition. - 12. Gen. Female - Sterility from copious acrid leucorrhoea and irregular menses. - 13. Sleep - Yawning, complaints accompany. - 14. Sleep - Dreams of accident; of disease; of fire, of being poisoned; that he has taken poison; snowstorm; of man come to violate her. - 15. General - Left sided predominantly. Cases - Gentry has recorded the following : Lady, 45, on visiting a friend ill with dysentery, was struck with the odour; went home, commenced to vomit, and vomited all food or drinks and continued without ceasing, vomiting or retching for three weeks, being fed by the rectum all the time. - She had to be held up by the nurse. - She was greatly emaciated. - Kre. 200 one dose given. - In twenty minutes the retching ceased. - The patient fell asleep, had no more vomiting and rapidly recovered. - Allopaths had advised they could do no more. - (Clarke's Dictionary of Mat. Medica) - Kreosotum: - Most often I use three or four mental symptoms and one or two general symptoms. - But in this case there is one symptom of "Fear of coition" with only Kreosotum. - She needed this remedy seven years previously. - The other rubrics were: - Itching, leucorrhoea, from - Leucorrhoea copious - Leucorrhoea offensive - Leucorrhoea chronic, constant - Leucorrhoea, acrid, excoriating - Swollen, vagina - Pain, burning, vagina, coition, during - Fear at the thought of coition. - (Dr. Robin Logan, RS Hom., Director and Editor of the Journal of the Society of Homoeopaths - "Homoeopath", No. 51 1993). - 27. Kreosotum: - Cancerous affections. - Excoriations, burning like fire. - Profuse, acrid, hot, FOUL discharges. - Haemorrhages from small wounds (SRP). - (Daniel E.S. Coleman - HH. 1979/318)

Lac caninum Keywords - Feels despised, insulted. - Hatred and rage at her condition. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Complaints alternate sides (shift back and forth) every few hours or days or wander, change place. - 2. Forgets her purchases, leaves them behind. - 3. Pain and swelling of mammae (nodes) before menses. - 4. Thinks she is of little consequence (contempt of self); she is despised, insulted. - 5. Fear to be alone; of going insane. - Thinks she has no friend; her disease is incurable. - 6. Mistakes in speaking, writing. - 7. Stammering if she talks fast (tongue semi-paretic). - 8. Post-diphtheritic convalescence; paralysis. - 9. Feels floating in air while walking, or not touching the bed. - 10. Always washing her hands. - 11. Periodicity : Complaints in morning one day and evening or afternoon next day. - 12. Ravenous appetite - as hungry after as before eating. - 13. Menses bright red, ropy, tenacious, stringy (dark, stringy - Crocus). - 14. Sleeps on abdomen; dreams of snakes. - 15. Symptoms go from right to left, then back again or the reverse. - 16. Cannot bear one part of her body to touch another; must keep even her fingers apart. Mind - Fear: of death, of being alone, of fainting, of impending disease.

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- Antagonism with self. - Absent-minded. - Contemptuous of self. - Delusion he is dirty, that he is despised; has no friend. - That she is looked down upon. - Imaginations of snakes, vermin; of being incurable. - Delusion she is rejected. - Thinks that whatever she says is a lie. - Thinks himself of little consequence. - Chronic "blue" (pessimistic) condition. - Attack of rage and cursing at slightest provocation (Anac, Lil.-t. Nit-ac.). Objective - Symptoms erratic; constantly flying from one part to another; changing from side to side. - Shining, glazed appearance of diphtheritic deposits, chancres and ulcers. - Breasts very sore at each menstrual period; cannot bear a jar; must support them. - Sexual organs easily excited from touch, pressure or friction. - Very forgetful, absent-minded. makes purchases and walks away without them. Causation (a.f. ) - Anticipation; fall, injury. Modalities - Agg. - Touch; jar; eye-strain; during menses; cold air, wind or drafts; after sleep. - Amel. - Becoming cold;. cold wet applications; cold drinks; turning on the right side. Food & drinks - Gnawing hunger not amel. by eating. - Craving : Milk (drinks much of it). - Highly seasoned dishes (uses pepper, mustard). - Only salty food tastes natural. - Fish. - AVERSION: LIQUIDS, esp. water. - Sweets. - Agg. from everything except fish. Female - Menses too early, profuse (Chin., Ferr., Sab.). - Ropy, tenacious, stringy. - Leucorrhoea in daytime only. - Breasts swollen, agg. least jar; agg. before menses. - Throat sore (hoarse) during every menstrual period. - Breasts cannot bear the jar; must hold them while stepping. - Hysteria at the height of sexual orgasm. - Serviceable to dry up milk in women who cannot nurse the baby. - Flatus from vagina. - Sex organs easily excited-putting hand on breast, pressure on vulva. - Sore throat or cough begins and ends with menstrual flow. Child - Cross, irritable, screams all the time, esp. at night (Jal.). - Nocturnal enuresis (specific). Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Headache aggr. by noise, with nausea and vomiting at the height of attack. - 2. Ear - Deafness from hereditary syphilis. - 3. Nose - Sensitive to odours of flowers. - 4. Throat - "Lump" in throat - desire to swallow. - 5. Throat - Diphtheria - "curative and prophylactic" (Clarke). - 6. Throat - Diphtheria, ovaritis, Rheumatism, etc. with the peculiar symptom of alternation of sides. - 7. Throat - Hyperaesthesia of throat; tonsils exceedingly sensitive to touch. - 8. Throat - Pain while swallowing extends to the ear. - 9. Throat

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- Shining, glazed appearance of diphtheric deposits, chancres and ulcers. - 10. Throat - Fluids escape though the nose while drinking. - 11. Chest - Loss of milk while nursing; for no reason. - Also to dry up excessive milk (Lac-d-to bring back or increase). - 12. Chest - Palpitation; violent; agg. lying on the left side (Tab. - amel. lying on the right side. - 13. Back - Spine very sensitive to touch and pressure. - 14. Extremities - Abnormal sensations. - Cannot bear one part of the body touch the other. - 15. Extremities - Sensation of gliding in air while walking, as if feet did not touch the ground. - 16. Sleep - Dreams of snakes; of urinating. Cases - 73. Lac can.: - I referred to various repertories but could not find this symptom. - But in my own repertory I had noted down from somewhere a symptom. - "Urination once in a day but profuse with difficulty," and under this symptom only Lac caninum is given. - Refer to Kent's Rep. p. 653 - Urging absent - 653 - with dragging down in pelvis - 685 - Urine copious - (S.R. Phatak - Clinical Experiences).

Lachesis mutus Keywords - The ladies' friend, though loquacious, jealous and hot. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Left-sided complaints or from left to right. - 2. Agg. during sleep (wakes up with complaints); agg. after sleep. - 3. Sleep unrefreshing. - 4. Agg. warmth in any form - cannot stand heat of sun, warm food or drinks. - 5. Amel. with discharges - onset of menses, discharges established. - 6. Very sensitive to touch and pressure. - 7. Dark, clotted blood (menstrual, epistaxis). - 8. Agg. during climaxis (hot flushes; hot sweat). - 9. Frantic loquacity (jumps from one subject to another). - 10. Unwarranted jealousy. - 11. Suspiciousness, mistrust. - 12. Tight pressure of clothing agg. (around neck, waist). - Wants loose clothing. Mind - Jealousy, insane. - Extreme loquacity, rambling. - Suspicious. - Religious. - Delusion : thinks she is under superhuman control. - Great sensitiveness to touch. - Cheerful, gay, happy. - Fancies, exaltation of; lively. - Memory weak for what he has read. - Mistakes in writing and speaking. - Speech hasty, incoherent, slow or wandering. - One up manship; wants to be ahead of others in competition. - Ideas abundant, rush of. Objective - Left-sided complaints, or they go from left to right. - Small wounds bleed much, blood dark and uncoagulable. - Liquids more painful than solids when swallowing. - Sensitive to touch or pressure (throat, stomach, abdomen). - Great loquacity.

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- Inflamed parts bluish or dark coloured. - Wants to be fanned. - Aggr. of complaints before menses, amel. with the flow. - Aggr. after sleep. - Insane jealousy and suspiciousness. - Menses regular, but too short and feeble. Causation (a.f. ) - Long lasting grief, sorrow, fright, mortification, jealousy, vexation, disappointed love. - Bad effects of injuries, punctured or dissecting wounds. - Drunkenness. - Never well sin7ns. excl.t11.52 TLT*[( )0.721 TL'0.721099(C)-1.13.134e1( )0.72109dug

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- Pain in throat extends to ear; labour pains surge up and clutch at the throat. - 5. Throat - Swallowing - empty swallowing is agonising. - Liquids with less pain. - Solids with least pain. - 6. Abdomen - Iliac region - tenderness in left iliac region with intolerance of the slightest pressure (Bhanja cured with a single dose of Lach 200). - 7. Gen. Female - Faintness - from slightest motion of foetus during pregnancy. - 8. Gen. Female - Pregnancy - albuminuria during. - 9. Gen. Female - Tumours - cysts of ovaries; of the left ovary. - 10. Respiration - Almost stops (suffocation) on falling asleep. - Sufferings associated with danger of suffocation (asphyxia, syncope). - 11. Respiration - Suffocation from the least thing that comes near the mouth or nose (interferes with breathing). - 12. Chest - Heart - Palpitation with fainting spells. - Intolerance of pressure, numbness in left arm; unable to lie on left side. - 13. Back - Neck - Sensitive to touch. - Must loosen collar. - Intolerance of heat or of tight clothes. - 14. Extremities - Paralysis of left side. - 15. Extremities - Sciatica right side. - 16. Sleep - Agg. during sleep. - Epilepsy comes on during sleep. - Breathing stops as soon as he falls a sleep. - 17. Sleep - Drunkards - sleeplessness from cerebral irritation. - 18. Dreams - Amorous; of danger; of death; of business; journey; fantastic; of being accused of theft; of spinning. - 19. Skin - Blue or purple affected parts. - 20. General - Abscesses. - Remedy to hasten opening. - 21. General - Haemorrhage - dark, like charred straw. - Small wounds bleed easily and profusely (Kreos., Phos.) - 22. General - Left-sided complaints; or they go from left to right (throat, ovaries). - 23. General - Malignant or septic states; diphtheric, gangrenous, diabetic, traumatic, senile. - Carbuncle with dark, bluish or purple appearance. - 24. General - Periodicity - Tertian etc. every 14 days; every summer; annually. - 25. General - Rapid onset of disease with great prostration. - 26. General - Swelling - black and blue varicose swelling; purplish, dark, mottled. - 27. General - Time deranged sense of time. - 28. General - Varicose ulcers, phlebitis, milk leg. - 29. Generalities - Constriction of orifices (rectum, throat).

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Cases - 36. Lachesis: - The symptoms point to one remedy : the heat and burning in the vertex, the regular but scanty menstruation, the relief by the flow of all head symptoms before menstruating, the inability to bear anything tight about the neck, the trembling of the tongue on putting it out; all these with the general left-sided tendency of the symptoms, point unmistakably to LACHESIS. - (S.A. Kimball - HH. 1984/27) - 67. Lachesis 200: - A few doses in water, gave a feeble response. - After a month LM in water, only two teaspoonfuls taken at monthly intervals, in all three doses. - As the patient was bed-ridden for over a year, the dosage had to be decided with great care to avoid aggravation. - The rubrics: - KR. 1390 -Paralysis left side - 959 -hands cold - 963 -feet cold - 468 -difficult swallowing - 47 -Fear of robbers - 419 -Speech indistinct - 1407 -Touch aggravates - 1412 -Warm air aggr. - (S.M. Gunavante H.H. 1988/234)

Latrodectus mactans Keywords - Frightful heart condition - angina pectoris. Synopsis - 1. Heart affection producing a typical picture of ANGINA PECTORIS with precordial pain. - 2. Painful grimace, with flushed, sweating face. - 3. Restlessness with cardiac pains, and fear of death - moaning, even rolling on the floor. - 4. Convulsions - tetanic effects lasting for several days. - 5. Collapse and prostration. - 6. Oversensitive to noise and to pain. - 7. Haemorrhages - thin, non-coagulable, dark. - 8. Inability to stand, sit, or to understand even the simplest of words. - 9. Pains worse from slightest touch. - 10. Abdomen stiff like a board. - Cramping pains extend to chest. - Amel. by warmth. - 11. Extreme apnoea - fears that each breath would be his last. Mind - Anguish, fear of death from loss of breath. - Screams with pain. - Restless from extreme pain. - Oversensitive to noise. - Anxious sleep with dreams of flying. Objective - Pain in the region of the heart, extending to the left arm. - Quick, feeble, thready pulse. - Precordial anxiety. - Gasps for breath; fears will lose breath and die. - Screams with pain. - Restless. - Pain may extend to both arms. - Skin cold as marble. Modalities - Agg. - Least motion, even of hands. - Slightest touch. - Exertion from talking. - Before thunderstorm. - Night. - Alcohol. - Cold damp air. - Amel.

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- Warmth. - Hot bath. - Vomiting. - Sitting quietly. Appetite & thirst - Thirst for ice-cold drinks. Female - Menses suppressed, scanty, delayed. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Respiration - Gasping for air - laboured breathing with expiratory grunt. - 2. Skin - Icy-cold from hip downwards. - 3. Heart - Violent cardiac pain, extending to left shoulder, or both arms, to fingers, with numbness. - 4. Stomach - Black vomit; passage of black stools. - 5. General - Coldness of the whole body, cold as marble. - 6. Chest - Pulse quick and thready; can be hardly counted; or very slow and feeble, cannot be felt at all. - 7. Extremities - Of arms, numbness, paralytic weakness, with heart pains. - Heat and burning in soles of feet. - 8. Spine and back - Paralysis of all functions associated with lumbosacral nerve plexus. - 9. Reaction - Absolute inactivity. - 10. Respiration - Extreme apnea - 11. Respiration - Fear of losing breath and dying. - 12. Respiration - Gasping for breath. - 13. Respiration - Feels every breath is her last. - 14. Skin - Cold as marble; icy coldness from hip downwards. - 15. Bladder - Retention of urine. - 16. Bladder - Paralysis of bladder. - 17. Circulation - Pulse : Quiet, thready; can be hardly counted or so very slow and feeble that it cannot be felt at all. - 18. Circulation - Elevation of blood pressure. Cases - 127. Latrodectus mactans: - It was rather embarrassing to find that the symptoms of this case represented a perfect picture of the toxicological symptoms of the drug, and hence this remedy would have been indicated from the beginning had this picture only been known then to the prescriber. - Unfortunately, Lat-mac. had been mentally associated with angina pectoris and nothing else, a very unhomoeopathic mental attitude indeed. - (Dr. Edward C. Whitmont - H.H. 1988/280)

Ledum palustre Keywords - Contradictory. - Desperately chilly, yet relieved by cold. Synopsis - 1. Wounds, septic foot etc. are tender and cold to touch, yet relief by cold application (Ars. burns, amel. by heat). - 2. Mottled, puffy, bloated face, also hands and feet, cold to touch. - Chilly patient AMEL. by ice-cold water. - 3. Punctured wounds (from nails, needles) which bleed scantily but become pale, mottled, puffy, cold, paralysed;

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give Ledum at once before tetanus results (Hypericum when tetanus comes). - 4. Black eye from a blow or contusion, Led. better than Arnica. - 5. Stiffness of all joints, can only move them after applying cold water. - 6. Oedematous joints, cold to touch, and amel. by cold. - 7. Pains change locality suddenly. - 8. Emaciation of affected limb. - 9. Ascending effects - paralysis; gouty deposits; rheumatic pains travel upwards. - 10. Ecchymosis in any part from slight injuries. Mind - Cross, surly; everything is disagreeable. - Restless, cannot work steadily or reflect quietly. - Hates his fellow beings. - Avoids the sight of company, of friends. - Fear of people. - Prostration of mind. - Repulsive mood. - Averse to answer. - Fears he will die if he goes to sleep after nightmare. - Tearful mood. - Weary of life. Objective - Chilly, yet averse to warmth. - Ascending effects, from feet up. - Eye bloodshot or bruised. - Much uric acid sand in urine. - Persistent nose-bleed. - Punctured wounds (from nails, stings). - Stiff, crampy back, agg. rising from sitting. - Haemoptysis alternating with rheumatism or coxalgia. - Easy spraining of ankles. - Haemorrhage into the anterior chamber after iridectomy. - Ball of great toe swollen and painful (Colch.). - Tetanus with twitching of muscles near wound. - The wounded parts are cold to touch. - Gout. Ailments from (causation) - Physical - Abuse of alcohol (Colch.); stings of insects, especially mosquitoes and rat bites. Modalities - Aggr. - Warmth of bed; get up and walks about Wine. - Evening till midnight. - Movement. - Amel. - Application of ice-cold water (rheumatic pains). - Repose. - Uncovering. Appetite & thirst - Desires - alcoholic drinks; cold drinks. Female - Menses too early, too copious; bright red blood. - Uterine fibroids, bleeding, metrorrhagia. - Dysmenorrhoea in gouty subjects. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. General - Rheumatic, gouty diathesis. - 2. Eyes - Bloodshot eye - haemorrhage in anterior chamber after iridectomy. - 3. Eyes - Bloodshot - Ecchymosis of conjunctiva intra-ocular or spontaneous (Hering). - Led. finishes up after Arn. Led. removes ecchymosis and discoloration more rapidly. - (If there is great pain in eyeball: Symphytum). - Chronic, characterised by cold and deficiency of animal heat.

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- 5. Expectoration - Bright red blood with violent cough. - 6. Skin - Whitlows from punctured wounds, needle pricks, splinters. - 7. Extremities - Ball of big toe is soft, swollen and painful when treading; tendons stiff. - 8. Gout - Worse in feet; gouty nodosities on joints; fine tearing in toes. - Gouty deposits travel upwards. - 9. Rigor - Over whole back, with rather hot cheeks and hot forehead, without redness of face, or thirst; with cold hands. - 10. Extrem. - Sprains of ankles and feet. - 11. Skin - Sensation as if lice were crawling over surface; agg. from heat, motion, and at night. - Soles of feet painful when walking, as if filled with blood. - 12. Rheumatism - Rheumatism and rheumatic gout begins in lower limbs and ascends; joints become the seat of very painful "gout stones". - 13. Sides - Affects principally left shoulder and right hip joint. - 14. Chilliness - Without subsequent heat; limbs extremely cold while rest of body was warm. - 15. Skin - Urticaria, itching over whole body, agg. heat; shifts from place to place; agg. in habitual drunkards. - 16. Nose - Rum-blossom. - 17. Ears - Noises as from roaring wind or ringing of bells. - 18. Chest - Haemoptysis alternates with attacks of rheumatism. - 19. Extrem. - Pain in ankle as from sprain. - Acute articular rheumatism of small joints. - Knees, great sensitiveness of knees (synovitis), but joints seldom hot or swollen. - Shift location. - 20. Wounds - Cold to touch, but not so felt by patient. - 21. Head - Red pimples or tubercles on the forehead, as in brandy drinkers, stinging when touched. - 22. Sleep - Dreams amorous; of mental exertion, of murder; anxious. Cases - 62. LEDUM: - Let us look up Allen's Keynotes : "Punctured wounds by sharp-pointed instruments, such as awls, nails, stings of insects etc. - Pains are sticking, tearing, throbbing. - "I have used Ledum many times with the same result." - (A. Dwight Smith. HH. 1989/237)

Lilium tigrinum Keywords - Mind and heart affections from utero-ovarian pathology. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Reflex conditions of mind and heart, rectum and bladder dependent on utero-ovarian pathology. - 2. Hysterical patient with uterine and cardiac troubles. - 3. Must keep oneself busy all the time to repress her sexual desire. - 4. Menstrual flow only when moving about. - Flow stops when she stops walking. - 5. Aimlessly hurried and worried; yet unable to perform anything. - 6. Warm blooded. - Desires a cool room. - Suffocates in warm or crowded room, theatre, church. - 7. Disposition to curse, swear, strike and think obscene things.

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- 8. Bearing or dragging down of the whole abdominal contents and the uterine region (even extending to the chest) as though everything were coming through the vagina; must support the abdomen and cross the limbs, or press the vulva with hands. - Worse standing. - 9. Frequent urging to stool and urinate (from uterine pressure). - 10. Irritable when spoken to, and worse from consolation (Nat-m). - 11. Heart feels alternately grasped (squeezed) and relaxed. - Fluttering amel. by rubbing and pressure. - Heart beat 150 to 170 per minute. - 12. When uterus does not regain its normal size after delivery. Mind - Hurried fruitlessly. - Walks fast, does not know why. - Can hardly speak a decent word to anyone. - Depressed with inclination to weep. - Erotic. - Disposed to curse and strike. - Dread of insanity, being incurable. - Desires finery. - Dissatisfied with her things, envious of others. - Has to keep busy to repress her sexual desire. - Sits alone and broods over imaginary troubles. - Listless, yet restless, confused, crazy feeling in vertex. - Nervous, timid, fears being alone, of insanity, of heart disease, she is incurable (males also). Objective - Hurried (as if of imperative duties); nervous, snappish and erotic - or depressed. - Fruitless activity. - Dread of insanity; of being incurable. - Desires refinery. - Heavy dragging or outward urging in pelvis. - Utero-ovarian sagging. - Backward pains (eyes to occiput; from heart to scapula). - Wants to urinate all the time - continued pressure on the bladder; also frequent desire for stool. - Bearing down in pelvis relieved by pressing with the hand against the vulva. - Indifferent about anything done for her. - Must keep busy to repress her sexual desire. - Sensation as if the heart was grasped in visc. - Pain in small spot (Ign); constantly shifting (Kali-bi, Kali-s). Causation (a.f. ) - Symptoms from sexual excitement. Modalities - Agg. - Warmth, sexual excitement, miscarriage, consolation, walking, standing, jarring. - Amel. - Cool, open, fresh air. - When busy. - Lying on back. - Pressing against vulva. - Crossing legs. Food & drinks - Thirsty, before severe symptoms. - Craving for meat, and sour or sweet dainties. - Aversion to coffee and bread. Female - Uterine displacements, especially versions with pressure against rectum (causing constant urge to stool) and against bladder (causing frequent urging to urinate). - Bearing down in the lower part of the abdomen amel. by pressing with the hand against the vulva. - Sexual desire increased, must keep herself busy to repress it. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Backward pains - Eyes to occiput; nipples through chest; heart to left scapula. - 2. Eyes - Asthenopia, esp. astigmatism; has to turn the head side-ways to see clearly. - "Restores power to weakened ciliary muscle" : (Boericke). - 3. Stomach

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- Vomiting from displacement of uterus. - 4. Urine & Stool - Frequent desire for urine and stool with uterine displacement. - If not attended to, sensation of congestion in the chest. - 5. Gen. Female - Ovaries. - Left ovarian pain down thighs or up below the left breast. - 6. Chest - Concomitants. - Ovarian symptoms associated with reflex heart symptoms of pain, fluttering, palpitation. - 7. Chest - Heart. - Angina pectoris with pain in right arm (Phyt.). - 8. Chest - Heart - feels alternately grasped and relaxed. - Bursting sensation in heart and blood vessels. - Throbbing all over. - Rapid heart beat, 150-170 per minute. - 9. Extremities - Pain- in small spot, "tips of finger" (Ign.), constantly shifting (Bell., Kali-bi., Kali-s). - 10. Extremities - Gait staggering. - Cannot walk straight. - 11. Dreams - Amorous; frightful; unpleasant. - 12. General - Side : Principally left-sided. - Lil-t versus Sepia. - Both have bearing down sensation and intolerance of sympathy but - Lil-t - Agg. heat - Hurried and worried - Craves meat - Great sexual desire - Amel. when busy - Desire company - Sepia - Agg. cold - Indifferent - Averse to meat - No sexual desire - Amel. occupation - Averse to company - (Dr. S.K. Dubey) Cases - 35. Lilium tigrinum : - Fear of disease of heart (SR-504) - Hunting for something to grieve over (SR-568) - Forsaken feeling (SR-546) - Indifference, ABOUT ANYTHING BEING DONE FOR HER (SR-614) - (Margery Blackie - HH. 1989/389) - 50. Lilium tigrinum: - Sensation of a lump in the rectum, standing agg. (KR. 623). - "Constant pressure on bladder, with constant desire to urinate; with a sensation as of a ball in rectum." - (G.W. Sherbino -H.H. 1984/343)

Lycopodium clavatum

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- Sexual excesses. - Tobacco chewing. - Loss of fluids (emaciation). Modalities - Agg. - 4 to 8 P.M. (Chel., Hell), or 3 to 7 P.M. - Cold drinks (rev. Lach). - First motion. - Amel. - Warm drinks. - Loose clothes. - Continued motion. - After midnight. - Eructations. - Urination. Food & drinks - Appetite - Easy satiation. - Thirst for small quantities, often. - Craving: Sweets. - Warm food and drinks (Chel). - Meat. - Aversion - Bread, milk, onions, oysters. - Cabbage which agg. - Coffee, tobacco. - Disagree - Sweets. - Oysters. - Bread. Female - Menses too late and protracted, or irregular. - Gushing leucorrhoea. - Dryness of vagina with burning during coition and after. - Flatus from vagina (physometra). - Foetus appears to be turning somersaults. - Delayed start of menses at puberty with undeveloped breasts. Male - Impotence or diminished sexual power. - With desire too strong. - Averse to coition. - Premature seminal emission. Child - Sickly babies cry all day, sleep at night (rev. Jalapa, Borax). - Keen intellect with weak muscles. - Child emaciated, wrinkled forehead, prematurely old, malnutrition. - Sleeps with eyes half open. - Nose stopped at night; must breathe through mouth. - Inguinal hernia, right sided. - Red sand in urine. - Child cries before urinating. - Dry teasing cough in emaciated boys. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Early greying of hair. - 2. Eyes - Hemiopia - sees only the left half of the object (Aur. sees lower half). - 3. Nose - Nose blocked at night. - 4. Throat - Diphtheria patches spread from upper pharynx down into throat (rev. Brom). - 5. Abdomen - Distension of abdomen after eating. - Loosening clothing around abdomen amel. - 6. Abdomen - Lyco. flatulence is in lower abdomen.

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- 7. Kidney - Renal colic, right sided. - 8. Kidney - Uric acid diathesis (renal calculi, gall stones). - 9. Urine - Frequent urination at night. - 10. Urine - Rheumatic pains with urinary complications. - 11. Gen. Male - Strong sexual desire, but weak erection. - 12. Extremities - Arthritic nodosities of finger joints. - 13. Extremities - Chronic rheumatism, aggr. damp weather, amel. by motion, warmth. - 14. Extremities - Heat in the soles of feet; uncovers them. - 15. Extremities - One foot hot (right), the other (left) cold. - 16. Extremities - Painless paralysis. - 17. Fever - Neglected or maltreated pneumonia. - 18. Fever - Pneumonia : fan-like motion of the wings of the nose; eyes half open during sleep; loud rattling in chest; circumscribed redness of cheeks. - 19. General - Downward direction of symptoms. - Emaciation above downwards. - 20. General - Lightning-like pains, appear and disappear suddenly. - 21. Dreams - Swimming in water; of urinating; sad; murder; disease; anxious; drowning on a foundering boat. Cases - The urinary symptoms of Lyco. were exactly like those of the patient, particularly the miraculous relief from the pain after passing urine. - The complaints were right-sided. - Pain in kidney amel. after urination (KR. 663). - Pain kidneys, extends to bladder (KR. 664). - (Homoeopathic Hospital - H.H. 1986/231)

Lyssinum Keywords - Sharp, quick, understanding. - Suffering unbearable; bites, spits, stabs, abuses, prays. Synopsis (identifying) - 1. Impatient, violent, feels he cannot physically endure his fears (pains and sufferings) much longer. - 2. Reckless actions - rude, abusive, biting, striking. - 3. Worse from bright light, glistening objects, heat of sun. - 4. Impulse to stab his flesh with the knife; to kill, to cut others. - 5. Delusion he has suffered wrong. - 6. Fear of WATER ; of being ALONE; of evil; of mirrors in the room. - Fear from noise of running water. - 7. Speech hasty - makes mistakes; uses wrong words. - 8. Praying. - Forsaken feeling. - 9. Offended easily; restless; nervous. - 10. Delusion, being injured, insulted. - Something terrible is going to happen. - 11. Desire to urinate or for stool on seeing running water or cannot urinate unless he hears running water. - 12. Saliva viscid, frothy; spitting constantly. - 13. Speech impeded from spasm of throat; gags when swallowing water. - 14. Bluish discoloration of wounds. - 15. Clairvoyance. Mind

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- Senses acute : quick comprehension, astounding sharpness of the understanding and quickness with which questions are answered. (Mezger). - Fear of dogs and history of dog bites in mother. - Fear of being alone; of narrow places. - Fear of insanity, of losing his reason. - Delusions of strange notions. - Fear anticipating an engagement, an ordeal. - Fear of going mad. - Delusion, familiar things seems strange. - Suicidal by jumping from height; jumps out of bed. Objective - Impatience and violent temper. - Rapid speech. - Wants water but cannot drink it. - Hearing running water aggravates (diarrhoea, convulsions). - Cannot bear heat of sun. - Bluish discoloration of wound. - Saliva tough and ropy; causes continued spitting. - Vagina sensitive; renders coition painful.

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- 3. Head - Headache chronic, boring pain in forehead, with history of dogbite. - 4. Mouth - Saliva tough, ropy, viscid, frothy in mouth and throat with constant spitting. - 5. Throat - Swallowing difficult, gagging when swallowing water. - 6. Throat - Throat sore, constant desire to swallow (Lac-c., Merc). - 7. Chest - Dull pain all day, with pinching about the fourth rib, right side. - 8. Chest - Heart, pain constant, in lower part (Knerr). - 9. Extremities - Limbs, loss of power in; gait unsteady. - 10. Extremities - Limbs, tearing pain, agg. from stepping hard during catamenia. - 11. Extremities - Sciatica, acute - twitching in the right femur as if someone was pulling from below (Allen's Nosodes). - Along sciatic nerve dull pain, agg. when rising from sitting. - 12. Extremities - Spasm of single muscles, or of the whole muscular system or convulsions, esp. of clonic type, often brought on by dazzling light or sight or sound of running water. - 13. Dreams of churches; frightful. - 14. General - Convulsions brought on by reflected light from water or mirror (Stram); or current of air or slightest touch (Strych). Cases - 93. Lyssin: - The rubrics were : - (1) Anger alternating with quick repentance (SR. I-30). - (2) Praying (SR. 301). - (3) Delusions, something terrible is going to happen (SR. 298). - (4) Delusion, abused, being (SR. 232). - (5) Delusion, hell, is in (SR. 301). - (6) Fear, pregnancy, during (SR. 516). - (7) Strange desires during pregnancy (Phatak MM). - (8) Sensitive to noise (SR. 902). - (9) Sun, from exposure to (SR-ii - 617) - (10) Effects of fright (SR. 18)

Magnesium carbonicum Keywords - Anxious, fearful - Excessive care and worry - Exhausted nerves. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Pains neuralgic, insupportable; agg. left side. - Walking amel. (At night; before menses; during pregnancy). - 2. Nervous, irritable children with sour diarrhoea and sour smell of whole body. - 3. Great craving for meat (especially in children of tubercular parentage), aversion to milk. - 4. Chilly, wants to be covered; dread of exposure, yet wants open air. - 5. Nursing children pass undigested milk with stool (Calc). - 6. Diarrhoea. - Stools green, frothy (like scum of frog pond); white lumps float like tallow, on watery stool, preceded by griping colic, doubling patient up (Colo.). - 7. Menses (copious) only at night or when lying; cease while walking (Am.m. , Kreos). - 8. Intense neuralgic toothache and nausea during menses. - 9. Sensitive to least start; noise; touch. - 10. Sore throat before menses appear. - 11. Constipation after mental shock or nervous strain. Mind - Anxious fearful, absent-minded. - Anguish as if some accident would happen. - Disconsolate.

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- Morose, sulky. - Changeable moods. - Discontented with everything. - Weeps in sleep. - Restlessness amel. by walking about. - Dreams, anxious, of dead persons, of fire, or thieves. - Forsaken feeling. Objective - Sour smell of body (children), vomiting, regurgitation, stools, etc. - Sharp shooting pain along nerves, must walk about for relief. - Emaciation; marasmus, children will not thrive. - Deafness on taking cold; cutting wisdom tooth; comes suddenly. - Frequent, sudden stammering speech. - Stools frothy; greenish, like a scum on frog pond. - Menses tarry (dark), viscid; leaves a fast stain. - Falls down in a dead faint at each menstrual period. Causation (a.f. ) - Shock, blows, fright, mental distress, vexation. - Fit of anger, cutting wisdom teeth. - Excess of care or worry. - Pregnancy. Modalities - Agg. - Cold weather, change of weather. - Night, warmth of bed, every day or every three weeks, during pregnancy, during menses. - Rest. - Starts from least touch. - Talking. - Amel. - Motion, walking about, open air, warm air. Food & drinks - Appetite - Nibbling; Thirst: violent. - Craving - Meat, fruits, acids, vegetables. - Aversion - Green food, cabbage. - Disagree - Potatoes, milk (pain in stomach), starchy food. Female - First menses delayed. - Menses ropy, tarry, tenacious, stringy, difficult to wash off (Med) flow only or more profuse at night, on lying, cease on walking (Am.m. , Kreos.), Leucorrhoea, regularly after the menses. - Fainting spell at each menstrual period. - Flatus from vagina. - Toothache during pregnancy, at night. Male - Discharge of prostatic fluid when passing flatus. Child - Emaciated, does not thrive inspite of feeding. - Child refuses mother's milk. - Difficult dentition (diarrhoea). - Emaciation with ravenous appetite. - Diseases of nursing children. - Milk passes undigested. - Desire for meat in children. - Disposed to boils. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Ears - Sudden deafness, which varies, on taking cold or cutting wisdom teeth. - 2. Nose - Discharges - fetid (menses, leucorrhoea). - Sour (eructations, perspiration, stool). - Sour taste in the mouth. - Ropy, tenacious blood Menses, with mucous secretions). - Yellow : leucorrhoea; pus, perspiration.

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- 3. Face - Epistaxis from washing the face. - 4. Teeth - Toothache at night; before menses, during pregnancy (Cham, Ratan). - Amel. by walking. - Agg. in decayed teeth; in wisdom tooth. - 5. Stomach - Colic doubling up, relieved after stool (Nux-v.). - 6. Stomach - Nausea while riding in car. - 7. Chest - Heartburn, sour, of pregnancy. - 8. Gen. Female - Periodicity; every 3 weeks (diarrhoea every third day in pregnancy). - 9. Extremities - Right shoulder painful, cannot raise it. - 10. Sleep - Awakes at 2-3 a.m. , sleepless thereafter. - Sleeps during day, sleepless at night. - Sleep unrefreshing (tired on rising). - 11. Perspiration - Sweat sour, greasy, indelible. - 12. General - "What China is to exhaustion from loss of fluids, Mag.c. is to exhausted nerves" (Clarke). - 13. General - More tired in the morning than in the evening. - 14. General - Tubercular state : tired on walking, losing flesh. - Muscles flabby. - Back of head begins to sink, craving for meat. - Expectoration of blood when coughing (spasmodic). Cases - 94. Magnesia carb: - On account of his desire for meat and the large, crumbling, infrequent stools, I gave Mag. carb. 50 M. - I have frequently noticed this symptom (craving for meat) in children of tuberculous parentage, and in many cases Mag. carb. has been a constitutional remedy for their stomach disorders. - (J.B. Gree Custis - H.H. 1986/639)

Magnesium muriaticum Keywords - Sad, taciturn, sulky - weeps readily. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Worse at seashore, sea bathing, salty food, cannot digest milk. - 2. Liver hard, worse touch and lying on right side (Merc.). - 3. Anxious nervous restlessness - fidgety all over (feet, zinc). - 4. Yellow all over. - Yellow sclerotics (liver affections). - Urine yellow. - Tongue large, yellow, takes the imprint of teeth. - 5. Stool hard, knotty, like sheep dung, crumbling at verge of anus. - 6. Palpitation and cardiac pains while sitting. - Amel. by moving about, or lying on left side. - 7. Cardiac affections with liver enlargement. Mind - Fretful, morose, peevish (Cina, Nux, Sulph). - Sad, taciturn. - Great sensitiveness to noise (Ign. Nux., Ther.). - Dreams of robbers in the house; will not believe to the contrary until a search is made. - Delusion he is friendless; forsaken. - Aversion to company and to talk. - Unfriendly humour. - Repulsive mood. - Indifference to pleasure. Objective

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- Broad, yellow, scalloped tongue. - Sore, enlarged liver with bloating of abdomen, aggr. lying on right side; drags if lies on left side. - Stools: Dry, knotty; of little balls, like sheep dung. - Urine passed in drops; some always seems to remain. - Gushes of leucorrhoea follow colic in abdomen, or stool. - Yellow sclera. Causation (a.f. ) - Sea bathing. - Salt food. - Inactivity (powerlessness) of rectum and bladder. Modalities - Agg. - Sensitive to cold (wraps up head warmly); to noise. - Seashore (chest and liver complaints. Rev Brom). - Salty food. - Sea bath. - Lying on right side. - Milk. - Touch. - Amel. - Chilly but amel. by open air; gentle motion; hard pressure (headache). - Hanging down limbs. Food & drinks - Appetite - Poor - Cravings - Sweets - Disagree - Milk, salty food. Female - Menses with great excitement at every period. - Profuse black, clotted (Cham), pitch-like, with backache and pains extending to thighs. - Metrorrhagia worse at night causing hysteria (Actea, Caul). - Leucorrhoea gushing, preceded by cramps in abdomen; with uterine spasms, during movement and after every stool. Child - Cannot digest milk - causes pain in stomach and passes undigested (Mag-c). - Stools, like sheep dung, during dentition. - Enlarged liver (Calc. ars.). - Tendency to head sweat. - Puny rachitic children who crave sweets. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. General - Electric-like shocks when awake. - 2. Head - Headache amel. by strong pressure and wrapping up warmly. - 3. Mouth - Loss of smell and taste following catarrh (Nat.m. ). - 4. Mouth - Tongue large, yellow, takes the imprint of teeth. - 5. Teeth - Gums swollen, bleed easily (Merc., Nit-ac). - 6. Teeth - Toothache unbearable when food touches the teeth. - 7. Stomach - Eructations taste like rotten eggs, like onions. - 8. Abdomen - Chronic liver affections (Mag.c. ). - 9. Abdomen - Tenderness and pain in liver with tendency to diarrhoea. - Liver hard and enlarged, agg. touch, walking and lying on right side (pressure). - 10. Rectum - Constipation; stools knotty or lumpy, like sheep dung (Dentition Am.m. , Nat-m.). - 11. Rectum - Inactivity of rectum and bladder; expulsive power wanting. - 12. Bladder

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- Cramp in gall bladder, amel. by eating. - 13. Urine - Urine can only be passed by bearing down with abdominal muscles; passed in drops (Clem., Hep. s). - 14. Chest - Cardiac affections with liver enlargement. - 15. Chest - Palpitation with cardiac pain when sitting; amel. when moving about or lying on left side. - 16. Sleep - Sleep unrefreshing. - 17. Dreams - Anxious; of dead bodies; fire; of falling; of robbers; jumping from window; falling into water. - 18. Perspiration - Perspiration on scalp (Calc., Sanic., Sil). Cases - 106. Magnesia muriatica : - "Shocks through the body like electric shocks." - "Cramp in gall bladder" amel. by eating. - Stools dry, knotty, of little balls like sheep dung. - Absence of desire for stools. - Sleep unrefreshing. (Phatak's M.M. ) - (Dr. A. Farley - H.H. 1982/251/2).

Medorrhinum Keywords - Selected remedies fail - sycotic taint. - Avoids responsibilities, postpones work. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Chronicity, malignancy - conditions for which the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve. - A combination of these at once suggest Med. - 2. Deep seated chronic affections involving spinal cord and sympathetic nervous system. - Chronic pelvic disorders of women; chronic rheumatism. - 3. Memory very weak - for names, even his own; cannot finish a sentence. - Forgets his errand. - 4. Melancholy, suicidal thoughts, cannot speak without weeping. - 5. Intensity of all sensations - soles tender, burning, itching, sweating. - Dysmenorrhoea. - Restlessness of legs. - Renal colic. - Burning of hands and feet, wants them to be fanned. - 6. Clairvoyance, foretells correctly. - 7. Lies in knee-chest position or on abdomen. - Asthma amel. by lying on face and protruding tongue. - Can inhale but no power to exhale (Samb.). - 8. Ravenous appetite even after eating. - Craves ice, salt and sweet, oranges and sour things. - 9. Amel. at seaside. - 10. Breasts, especially nipples, sore and sensitive, icy cold to touch especially at menses. - 11. Sensitive to cold, yet great desire to be fanned, especially feet. - 12. Things seem strange, unreal (Alum). - 13. Many ideas, but uncertain of execution. - 14. Hurried, anxious, fastidious about punctuality (if time is set). - Time passes too slowly (Alum., Arg.n. ). - Sad, tearful and fearful. - 15. Discharges profuse, acrid, itching, fishy odour. - Offensive odour of the body. - Concentration difficult; loses the thread of conversation; questions have to be repeated. - Is in a great hurry. - Time passes too slowly. - Fear of insanity. - Despair of recovery. Mind - Anxiety from anticipation before any engagement. - Idea of marriage seems unendurable. - Postpones everything to next day.

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- Prophesying disagreeable events (clairvoyance). - Cannot speak without weeping when telling of her sickness. - Morose in daytime, exhilarated at night; wants to play; intolerant of contradiction. - Fear of misfortune as if something will happen. - Dread of saying wrong things. - Intense selfishness, meanness. Objective - Burning of hands and feet; wants them uncovered and fanned. - Chronic pelvic disease of women. - Ravenous hunger immediately after eating. - Is in great hurry, though it fatigues her. - Cannot speak without weeping (Puls., Sep). - Nocturnal enuresis. - Sycotic warts on female genitals. - Asthma relieved only by lying on the face and protruding the tongue. - Cough better by lying on the abdomen. - Many ideas but uncertain of execution. - Avoids responsibility. - Fiery red, violently itching anus. - Discharges of fish brine odour. - Cross through day; merry at night. - Soles of feet tender; cannot walk on them. Causation (a.f. ) - Anticipation. - Bad news. Modalities - Agg. - Daytime (sunrise to sunset), cross through day, merry at night. - Amel. - Seaside. - Lying on abdomen; knee elbow position, hard rubbing, short sleep. Food & drinks - Ravenous appetite - constant thirst. - Dream of drinking water. - Craves ice, ice cold drinks. - Ice cream, salt, + Sweet + sour. - Oranges, green fruits, ale and brandy which he hated before. Female - Sterility. - Menses extremely painful, offensive, dark, stains, difficult to wash off. - Increased metrorrhagia at climacteric, agg. in morning - with malignant disease of uterus; cutting knife-like in the pelvic region. - Violent itching of vulva and vagina, agg. by thinking of it. - Breasts cold, painful at menses. Child - Children of sycotic parents. - Dwarfish, backward. - Dull - understands questions only after repetition (Bar.c. ). - Bites nails. - Fiery red rash about the anus of babies. - Sleeps in knee-chest position. - Pale, rachitic, dwarfed, stunted growth. - Mentally dull and weak. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - 2. Nose - Intense itching of nose, soles, labia, vagina, agg. by thinking of it. - 3. Nose - Obstinate cases of nasal catarrh, obstruction with loss of smell. - Obstinate leucorrhoea. - Pain in ovarian region. - Chronic ovaritis, salpingitis pelvic disorders. - Fibroids and other growths, morbid growths in womb. - 4. Teeth - Teeth serrated.

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- 5. Throat - Spasm of glottis with clucking in larynx; easy to inhale but difficult to exhale (Samb.). - Amel. by lying on face and protruding tongue. - 6. Stomach - Craves ice-cream during renal colic. - 7. Stool - Stool can be passed only by leaning very far back; so painful as to cause tears. - 8. Urine - Bed wetting of children agg. over-play; when best selected remedy fails. - 9. Respiration - Asthma in cold damp weather and 3-4 a.m. - Amel. lying on face and protruding tongue. - Sycotic (Nat.s. ). - 10. Cough - Cough, amel. lying on face. - Expectoration greenish-yellow mucus. - 11. Chest - Stitching pain in heart from apex to base. - 12. Extremities - Burning feet (Sulph.) with restless, fidgety legs and feet (Zinc. Found at the same time in Med.) - 13. Extremities - Burning heat in feet, uncovers them. - Desire to be fanned. - 14. Extremities - Corns very tender.

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- Stings of insects. - Suppressed foot sweat, sugar, vapours. - Suppressed gonorrhoea. Modalities - Agg. - Night (sunset to sunrise). - Sweating. - Lying on right side. - When heated; heat of bed or fire (rev. Ars.). - Drafts to head, weather - changing; cloudiness; damp cold; rainy weather. - Wet feet, before stool. - During and after urination. - Touching anything cold. - Amel. - Moderate temperature. - Coition, rest in bed (rev. Ars.). Food & drinks - Taste - Metallic; sweetish, bread tastes sweet. - Craves - Sweets and milk, which disagree. - Aversion - Meat, coffee, butter and oily things. - Weak digestion with continuous hunger. - Thirst - Intense, for cold drinks and beer. Female - Suicidal thoughts during menses, amel. weeping. - Collapse and fainting at the start of menses. - Sterility, with profuse menses. - Cancer of mammae and uterus. - Leucorrhoea and prolapse of uterus amel. by coition. - Milk in breasts instead of menses. - Ulcerative pain in breasts at every menses. Male - Bloody emissions. - Gonorrhoea. - Milk in breast of boys. - Ulcers on glans with cheesy base. Child - Precocious. - Children pull and scratch at genitals; from a kind of itching which makes them do so. - Leucorrhoea in small girls causing prostration. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Restless. - 2. Eyes - Cold travel upward or attacks eyes. - 3. Nose - Drinks run through the nose. - 4. Nose - Nasal bones swollen, painful to touch with greenish fetid discharge, (Aur., Hep.). - 5. Face - Mumps, especially right side, agg. night. - 6. Mouth - Corners of mouth ulcerated, sore. - 7. Mouth - Quinsy, with difficult swallowing after pus has formed. - Sore; raw, smarting burning in throat as of a hot vapour ascending. - Ulcers on tonsils, on pharynx. - Constant inclination to swallow. - 8. Mouth - Saliva increased, flows during sleep; yellow, bloody, offensive. - 9. Mouth - Tongue moist with intense thirst. - 10. Teeth

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- Crowns of teeth decay, roots are sound (Opp. Mez.). - 11. Teeth - Gums swollen, spongy, easily bleeding. - 12. Stomach - Ulcers, irregular, shallow, spreading; agg at night. - Bleeding with cheesy base. - 13. Abdomen - Jaundice in pneumonia. - Jaundice of the new-born. - Eyes inflamed, sensitive to glare of fire. - 14. Urine - Haematuria, painless (Mill.). - 15. Urine - Urination, frequent urging day and night. - 16. Cough - Cough in double bouts; dry, fatiguing at night. - 17. Cough - With yellow muco-purulent expectoration, worse lying on the right side. - 18. Chest - Pneumonia : lower lobe of right lung affected (Bry., Chel., Kali-c, Lyc). - 19. Extremities - Cold heels. - 20. Extremities - Sensation of shivering in an abscess or in a sinus from diseased bone. (Sarabhai). - 21. Extremities - Trembling, esp. hands, paralysis agitans. - 22. Skin - Itching agg. from warmth of bed. - 23. Skin - Moist. - 24. General - Pains extend to ear; from teeth, throat, etc. - Yellowness; of eyes, teeth, nasal discharges; biliousness; jaundice. Cases - 68. Merc. sol: - Boger gives under Merc. sol., "Leucorrhoea, while urinating" (Synoptic Key, p. 253) and Clarke gives under this remedy "Coitus amel." (Dictionary, p. 413). - On these symptoms Merc. sol. cured her. (S.R. Phatak - Clinical Experiences).

Mezereum Keywords - One-sided symptoms. - Apprehensive. - Indifference. - Melancholic. - Averse to talk. - Sudden neuralgic pains; affected parts numb or cold. - Intolerable itching, changes place on scratching. - Thick leather-like crusts on head. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Neuralgic pains come and go quickly, leave the part numb, amel. by heat of stove (ciliary, intercostal, trigeminal/facial neuralgia). - 2. Burning in internal parts with quivering or chilliness in external parts. - 3. Pains boring, pressing, coming like lightning which leave the parts numb. - 4. Affected parts become cold or emaciate. - 5. One-sided symptoms, whole or partial. - 6. Sudden pains followed by chilliness, numbness and soreness. - 7. Herpes zoster with intercostal neuralgia. - 8. Eczema with intolerable itching and copious serous exudations, aggr. in bed and from touch. - 9. Head is covered with a thick leather-like crust, under which thick white pus collects; hair is glued and matted together. - Pus after a time is ichorous, becomes offensive and breeds vermin. Mind

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- Fearful depression; miserable feeling. - Indifference to everything and everybody; looks through a window for hours without being conscious of objects around. - Apprehensive at the pit of stomach when expecting some very unpleasant information, or pain or shock. - Religious and financial melancholy. - Aversion to talk; it seems to him to be hard work to utter a word. - Quarrelsome. - Hypochondriacal humour with sadness, and tears. - Easily confused, with vanishing of thoughts. Objective - Tongue coated along one side only; middle of tongue fissured. - Throat dark red, burning, sore, agg. winter. - Paralysis of finger (flexor); cannot hold anything. - Teeth carious (toothache). - Pain amel. by drawing in air with mouth open. - Roots decay. - Headache right-sided - painful on slightest touch. - Thick, yellow pus collects under thick scabs or crusts on the head or on ulcers. - Vesicles around ulcers which itch violently. - Shining fiery red areola around the vesicles. - Ulcers bleed when the linen which is sticking is torn away. - Child scratches face continuously which is covered with blood; agg. by cold washing (Arum trip. - cold bathing amel). - One foot hot, the other cold. Causation (a.f. ) - Anger. - Vaccination. - Bad effects of alcohol. Modalities - Aggr. - Night, suppressions. - Warmth of bed, of fire. - Dampness. - Motion. - Touch. - Amel. - Open air. - Radiated heat; heat of stove. - Drawing in air with mouth open. Appetite, thirst, cravings, aversions - Violent hunger or loss of appetite. - Desires - Ham, fat, coffee, wine. - Stomach - Sensation of nausea in the throat. - Nausea with accumulation of water in the mouth. - Vomiting of green, bitter, bloody mucus with headache. - Disagrees : beer. Female - Chronic leucorrhoea like the white of an egg (malignant, corroding); serous. - Menses too frequent and lasting too long. - Menses scanty with leucorrhoea. - During pregnancy diarrhoea and prolapsus recti. - After confinement : constipation; burning stitches in rectum. Male - Painless swelling of the penis and scrotum. - Testicles enlarged. - Gonorrhoea with haematuria. - Itching of glans penis with violent erections. Child - Child scratches face continually which is covered with blood. - Agg. by cold washing. - Child with large abdomen. - Snoring in children. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head

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- Headache, right-sided, violent after slight vexation; aggr. from slightest touch. - 2. Head - Headache, left side, into eyes, left malar bones, neck, with lachrymation; aggr. talking. - 3. Head - Hair falls in handfuls; dandruff, white, dry. - 4. Head - Covered with thick, leather-like crust, under which thick white pus collects. - Hair matted together. - 5. Eyes - Dryness; feels too large. - Ciliary neuralgia. - Winking. - Twitching of upper eyelids. - 6. Ears - Deafness after suppression of head eruptions. - Thickening of tympanum. - Desire to bore fingers in ear. - 7. Face - Neuralgic pains come and go quickly, and leave the part numb. - 8. Mouth - Breath smells like rotten cheese. - Roots of teeth decay; violent nightly pains. - 9. Stomach - Gastric pain, burning, corroding, amel. by milk and eating. - Gastric ulcers - Vomiting of chocolate coloured substance; with nausea. - 10. Rectum - Prolapse of rectum, difficult to replace. - 11. Stools - Large, hard, as if they would split the anus. - 12. Bladder - Haematuria, preceded by cramps in bladder; a few drops of blood passed after urination. - Red pellicle on urine. - 13. Cough - Dry tickling cough; aggr. by hot drinks. - 14. Back - Coccyx painful after a fall (Hyper.). - 15. Extremities - Pain and burning in tibia and long bones. - 16. Extremities - Paralysis of flexors of fingers, cannot hold things. - 17. Skin - Intolerable itching; aggr. by warm bath. - Changes place on scratching. - 18. Skin - Eruptions ooze acrid, gluey moisture; form thick crusts with pus beneath. - Ulcers, deep, hard, painful; agg. touch and warmth. - 19. Fever - Chill of single parts as if dashed with cold water. Cases - 99. Mezereum : - The thickness and the colour of the scabs called my attention to Mez. (Lyco. has moist scabs. - Rhus eruptions destroy the hair. - Staph, the part becomes more humid, though both Staph. and Mez. have itching changes place on scratching). - (C. Lippe - H.H. 1987/667)

Naja tripudians Keywords - Stitching pain in the heart region. - Speech difficult. - Suicidal insanity. - Audible heart beat. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Speech difficult - inability to speak, with choking; nervous, chronic palpitation esp. after public speaking; pain

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agg. by carriage riding or lying on side. - 2. Severe stitching pain in region of heart. - 3. Respiration very slow; scarcely perceptible. - Great dyspnoea esp. lying on left side. - 4. Angina pectoris; severe stitching pain in cardiac region. - 5. Palpitation, fluttering, audible heart-beat; agg. walking (Spig). - 6. Heart, violent pain; shooting to left scapula, shoulder or neck; cramp ascends into neck. - Must hold hand over chest. - 7. Ribs feel broken. - 8. Left sided complaints. - 9. Organs seem to be drawn together, esp. ovary and heart. - 10. Nervous, excited and tremulous, with heart affections. - 11. Upward surging of blood. Mind - Broods constantly over imaginary troubles and makes himself wretched. - Suicidal, brooding insanity. - Depressed with distress about sexual organ; agg. evening. - Aversion to talking. - Dreads to be left alone. - Feels as if everything were done wrong and cannot be rectified. Objective - Staring, ptosis of both lids. - Nervous, excited, tremulous. - Inability to speak with choking from palpitation. - Puffing breathing (cardiac asthma). - Heart affections with paucity of symptoms. - Left-sided complaints; insensible right side. Causation (a.f. ) Modalities - Agg. - Lying on left side. - After sleep; menses. - Agg. - Air cold; drafts. - Pressure of clothes. - Alcohol. - Amel - Riding in open air. - Sneezing; smoking. - Holding hand on chest. - Lying on the right side (respiration). Food & drinks - Appetite, Thirst, Cravings. - Craves stimulants which disagree. Female - Obscure pain in left groin, post-operative. Child - Young persons who grow up with cardiac valvular disease. - Congenital valvular trouble. - All the symptoms have settled about the heart. - In school boys and girls who have no symptoms, this is the generic remedy for this kind of complaint. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Throat - "Choking" in the throat; tightness of collar is disquieting, grasps the throat. - 2. Gen. Female - Pain in left ovary while coughing. - 3. Chest - Asthma, cardiac; begins with coryza; constriction of chest; great dyspnoea esp. on lying on left side. - 4. Chest - For relief of suffering of chronic hypertrophy and valvular lesions of heart. - 5. Chest - Neuralgic crampy pain in left ovary with palpitation and pain in heart. - Ovary and heart seem to be drawn together. - 6. Chest - Valvular disease of the heart, with a dry, teasing cough.

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- 7. Sleep - Sleep deep, comatose, with stertorous breathing. - 8. General - Body "cold and collapsed", pulseless, difficult breathing. - 9. General - Right side insensitive; loss of sensation. Cases - 26. Naja: - Dreads to be left alone (SRP). - Nervous, excited and tremulous in heart affections (SRP). - Heart (mitral valve) (BSK). - None of Allen, Boger or Phatak mentions 'atonic constipation', but Phatak's mention of "Constrictions: in chest, throat, etc." could be extended to "rectum" to understand this constipation. - (Allen C. Neiswander - HH. 1979/224)

Natrium carbonicum Keywords - Effects of sunstroke. - Dread of thunderstorm. - Hypochondriac. - Weak digestion. - Milk causes diarrhoea. - Great flatulency with debility. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Emaciated dyspeptic; weak in body and mind. - 2. Brain fag; unable to think or do any mental labour without headache (Arg. nit., Sabad). - 3. Great debility; caused by heat of summer (Ant.c. ); from least effort (mental or physical). - Chronic effects of sunstroke. - 4. Inability to think or to perform any mental labour which causes headache, dullness; comprehension slow, difficult. - 5. Slightest noise, slaming of the door, causes nervous excitement, palpitation, prostration. - All these amel. by eating (Anac., Ign., Sep., Sulph). - 6. Milk, intolerance of; it causes flatulence and diarrhoea. - 7. Anxious and restless during electric or thunderstorms (Phos). - Agg. by music; amel. by eating. - 8. Discharge of mucus from vagina after an embrace; causing sterility. - 9. Ankle so weak that it gives way; easy dislocation and spraining of ankle (Led.) Mind - Cross and irritable. - Gloomy. - Lively yet fearful. - Agg. thunderstorms. - Averse to company, even to his own family. - Depressed; intolerable melancholy and apprehension; is wholly occupied with sad thoughts. - Stupefied if he tries to do any mental labour. - Comprehension difficult. - Delusion that he is marching in the air in the evening while half asleep; sees ghosts, spirits, images, phantoms. Objective - Exhaustion from least effort, mental or physical. - Debility caused by heat of summer. - Ankles weak; easy dislocation and spraining of ankles. - Weak digestion (acid dyspepsia; diarrhoea from starches. - Averse to milk which disagrees. - Sweats easily. - Urine of bright or dark yellow colour; smells like horse's urine. - Greedy, always nibbling; always belching. - Sleepy after meals. - Anxiety and nervousness worse during thunderstorm. Causation (a.f. ) - Chronic effects of sunstroke. Modalities - Agg. - Summer heat; thunderstorm; change of weather; least draft; music. - Amel.

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- Moving; eating; rubbing. Food & drinks - Appetite, Thirst, Cravings. - "Greedy, loves sweet and nibbling". - Nervous hunger with pain in stomach early morning or at 11 p.m. - Sinking in stomach amel. by eating (but hypochondriasis is worse after eating). - Great thirst for cold water, but worse on drinking it. - Aggr. milk; vegetables; starchy food. Female - Bearing down, as if everything would come out (Agar, Lil, Murx, Sep); heaviness, agg. sitting, amel. moving. - Thick, yellow, putrid leucorrhoea, amel. after passing urine. - Sterility, caused by gushing out of semen from vagina after coition. - Noisy flatus from vagina (Brom, Lyc, Sang). Child - Nursing sore mouth (Bor). Profuse salivation. - Diarrhoea from milk. - Ankles weak, easily sprained. - Starts from sleep; grasps the mother. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Eyes - Cannot read small print. - 2. Head - Feels stupefied. - Headache from slightest mental exertion. - 3. Stomach - Acidity, nervous hunger, relieved by eating. - 4. Rectum - Diarrhoea from milk; from starches. - 5. Stool - Stool sudden, noisy; yellow, like pulp of orange. - 6. Urine - Urine smells like that of a horse (Benz. ac, Nit. ac). - 7. Gen. Female - Discharges : thick, green, offensive (gonorrhoea and leucorrhoea); often cease after a meal. - Catarrh extends to posterior nares and throat; profuse during day, stopped at night. - Worse slightest draught. - 8. Cough - Cough with purulent, green salty sputum, agg. entering warm room, with coldness of left side of chest. - 9. Chest - Palpitation, anxious, of heart; on going upstairs at night, while lying on the left side (Nat. m, Phos). - 10. Extremities - Ankle - easy dislocation and spraining (Led). - Weakness of ankle from childhood; walks on inside of ankles, feet bent outwards (Carb. an, Nat. m). - Old sprains (Stront.c. ). - 11. Extremities - Eruptions on knuckles, toes, dorsum of hands, fingertips (Ars, Bor, Sep). - 12. Sleep - Dreams of weddings; riding horses. Cases - 78. Natrum carb : - Hering mentions only Nat. carb as having that characteristic (agg. from sweets). - I therefore thought it probably more strongly characteristic of Nat. carb (than other remedies like Sep. or Amm.c. and Phos. given in Lippe's Redline symptoms and Keynotes). - Phatak's Materia Medica mentions: "Toothache aggr. by sweets and fruits". - (E. Rushmore - H.H. 1986/636)

Natrium muriaticum Keywords - Great emaciation, esp. neck, though eating well. - Mapped tongue. Sad, weeping. - Averse to consolation. - Disappointed love. - Hammering headache, morning.

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- Great thirst: craving for salt. - Constipation. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Sad, depressed, weeps bitterly, but not in the presence of others: weeps when alone. - 2. Averse to company, prefers to be alone. - 3. Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences, even tormented by them. - 4. Consolation agg. her state of mind - irritability as well as weeping. - 5. Emaciation inspite of eating well. - Emaciation marked in the neck. - Emaciation above downwards. - 6. Anger with pale, livid face. - 7. Headache from eye-strain, preceded by blurred vision. - 8. History of grief, mortification or disappointed love. - 9. Dreams of robbers; will not be quiet until a search is made. Mind - Excessive irritability. - Anger over trifles. - Consolation agg. - Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences. - Hatred of those who offended. - Delusion, she looked wretched when looking in a mirror. - Searching for thieves in the house, after having dreamt of them. - Mortification. - Mildness. - Weeping agg. by consolation, kind words. - Weeps if he believes he is pitied. - Jealousy between women, between children. - Cheerfulness alternates with sadness. - Sad, indifferent to pleasures, or in grief cannot weep. - Sympathetic to others. - Young girls who become love-lorn or fall in love with married men. - Discontented with everything. Objective - Face pale or shiny as if greased. - Crack in the middle of lower lip. - Emaciation of neck. - Easy exhaustion. - Goitre; hyperthyroidism. - Trembling of whole body from tobacco smoking. - Tongue mapped with red insular patches. - Itching nettle-rash after bodily exertion. - Infantile marasmus; loss of flesh though eating well. - Craving for salty food. - Fever blisters on lips. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Grief; silent grief, anger; suppressed anger; vexation, fright, mortification. - Reserved displeasure (Staph.). - Old disappointment; emotional excitement, disappointed love, being scorned, from anticipation. - Modalities - Agg. - Mind - Sympathy; violent emotions. - Physical - Exact periodicity. - Alternate days 9 to 11 A.M. with - Agg. - The sun, at the seashore or from sea air, heat of sun. - Exertion of eye or mind : talking, writing, reading. - Lying down. - Puberty. - Coition. - Noise, music. - Touch, pressure. - Full moon. - Amel:

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- Open air (Apis, Puls). - Cold bathing. - Going without regular meals. - Lying on the right side (painful side. Bry, Ign, Puls). - Tight clothing. - Sweating. perspiration relieves all suffering. - Pressure. Rubbing. Food & drinks - 1. Hunger without relish. - 2. Thirst for large quantities of water; unquenchable. - 3. Craving - Salt, sour things, farinaceous food, Oysters, fish, milk, bitter things. - 4. Aversion - Bread, meat, coffee, tobacco, fats. - 5. Disagree - Bread, fat, acid food. Female - Delayed and scanty menses. - Aversion to coition from dryness of vagina, smarting in vagina during coition. - Sterility with too early and too profuse menses. - Leucorrhoea, watery, debilitating, turns green; gradually replaces menses. - Mammary glands emaciate. - Falling of hair after parturition. - Hysteria, weeps and laughs alternately. Male - Seminal emission even after coition. Child - Late learning to talk or walk. - Headache of school children. - Buttocks emaciated in infants. - Epistaxis. - Emaciation of neck in boys or girls. - Biting of nails. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Headache, hammering, maddening, agg. on awakening; from sunrise to sunset. - Hemiopia before headache. - 2. Eyes - Exophthalmic goitre. - 3. Eyes - Strabismus, divergent. - Eyes - Stricture of lachrymal duct. - 5. Face - Falling of whiskers and beard. - 6. Mouth - Crack in the middle of lower lip. - 7. Mouth - Numbness of tongue, whole or one sided. - 8. Mouth - Tongue mapped; beaded or striped along edges, sensation of a hair on tongue. - 9. Rectum - Constipation, alternate days, hard, crumbling. - 10. Urination - Must wait long for urine to start, agg. in the presence of others. - 11. Urination - Urination involuntary when coughing, laughing. - 12. Chest - Heart palpitates, shaking the whole body; worse, emotions and from lying on the left side. - 13. Back - Painful stiffness of back, agg. after coition, amel. lying on back or something hard. - 14. Extremities - Ankles weak and turn easily. - 15. Extremities - Warts on palms of hands, on soles. - 16. Sleep

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- Sleepless after 5 a.m. - 17. Sleep - Dreams of robbers; cannot sleep until the house is searched (Sani). - Dreams of thirst, crimes, quarrels; fantastic; of fire; vexatious. - 18. Fever - Intermittent fever with splitting headache, great thirst, regularly agg. at 10 to 11 a.m. - 19. Fever - Intermittent fever, chronic, suppressed, or not cured by quinine. - Chill 9 to 11 a.m. - 20. Skin - Dry eruptions on margin of hair. - 21. Skin - Eruptions in the bends of joints (elbows, hollow of knees). - 22. Skin - Herpetic eruptions, agg. flexures or about knuckles. - 23. Skin - Urticaria, agg. after violent exercise. - 24. General - Pain appears and disappears gradually. Cases - 34. Natrum mur: - The rubrics for repertorisation are - Offended easily (SR-I-791) Nat. mur 2 marks - Anger at trifles (SR-I-38) Nat. mur 2" - Company, averse to (SR-I-147) Nat. mur 2" - Weeping, when alone (SR-1070) Nat. mur 2" - Consolation, kind words, agg. (SR. 181) 3" A.F. grief (SR-19)3" - Delusion, persecuted, he is (SR-19) 1" - Emaciation (KR. 1358)3" - 47. Natrum mur : - Kent's Repertory covers all the symptoms, viz., chill in the morning through afternoon; great thirst for large quantities of water; desire to uncover (aggr. warm); cross and irritable; intolerable hammering headache, worse coughing, etc. - (W.L. Reed - H.H. 1984/65)

Natrium sulphuricum Keywords - Ailments from damp weather or damp houses (asthma). - Suicidal thoughts, has to restrain himself. - Sad from music. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Periodicity marked. - 2 a.m. - Violent colic worse every spring. - 2 to 3 a.m. - Flatulent colic - 4 to 5 a.m. - Asthma, pneumonia, phthisis. - 9 a.m. - Diarrhoeas. - 2. Complaints are aggr. by or dependent on dampness of weather. - 3. Mental effects from injuries to head. - Chronic effects of blows (weak memory, epilepsy), of concussion of head. - 4. Wants to die, and yet does not want to die. - Depressed. - Must use great self-control to prevent shooting himself. - 5. Discharges copious, green, greenish, thick, from nose, from posterior nares; green sputum, even leucorrhoea. - Greenish discharges from eyes. - Greenish-yellow, thick pasty coating on the back of tongue. - 6. Nosebleed before and during menses (Ham. Instead of menses: Bry., Puls.). - 7. Dyspnoea in damp, cloudy weather; desire to take a deep breath.

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- Humid asthma in children, rattling of mucus, from general bronchial catarrh. - 8. Loose cough, with soreness and pain through the left lower chest (very characteristic); he springs up in bed, the cough hurts him so. - Must hold the chest with both hands when coughing for support, feels as if chest will fly to pieces (Bry. cough also hurts, but it is dry. - Pain through right lower chest is Kali carb.) - 9. Lively music makes her sad. - 10. Thirst for something very cold; desire for ice, or ice-cold water (Med.). Mind - Depressed; irritable; worse mornings. - Hates to speak or be spoken to. - Satiety of life; has to use self-control to prevent shooting himself. - Inability to think (Nat.c. ). - Lively music makes her sad. - Mental effects of blows on head (weak memory; epilepsy). - Melancholy, with periodical attacks of mania. Objective - Rumbling in the abdomen, especially in the right ileo-caecal region. - Thin, yellow, fluid gushing stools in the morning after rising and moving about. - Liver engorged, and symptoms are worse from lying on the left side. - Nose-bleed during menses. - Asthma worse from change to damp weather; with much rattling in chest. - Sputum copious, of greenish colour. - Yellow-greenish discharges of gonorrhoea. Causation (a.f. ) - Damp weather; damp houses and cellars. - Eating vegetables which thrive near water; eating farinacious food. - Injuries, concussion of head. Modalities - Agg. - Damp, cloudy or wet weather. - Living near water, even by the sea. - Every change to DAMP weather. - Rest. - Lying. - Music (makes him sad). - Lying on left side. - Amel. : - Dry weather; (Amel. in wet weather is Caust.). - Pressure; sitting up (cough); changing position Open air. Appetite, thirst, etc - Acid dyspepsia with heartburn and flatulence. - Wind colic right side, amel. by passing flatus. - Aversion - Starchy foods (cannot digest them). - Meat, bread of which he was fond. - Disagree - Milk and potatoes (Alum.). - Fruit (watery). Female - Nosebleed during menses. - Leucorrhoea yellowish green following gonorrhoea in the female. - Leucorrhoea with hoarseness. Male - Condylomata, soft, fleshy excrescences. - Gonorrhoea, greenish-yellow, painless, thick discharge (Puls.), chronic or suppressed. (Thick, green : Kali-iod). Child - Humid, loose asthma in children with every change to WET, DAMP weather. - Sycotic asthma in children agg. early morning (constitutional remedy). Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Epileptiform fits after a blow on the head, driving him to desperation. - Never knew when they were coming on. - Very irritable; wanted to die. - Photophobia. - Constant pain in head.

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- 2. Head - Spinal meningitis : violent crushing, gnawing pains at base of brain; head drawn back; delirium; opisthotonos. - 3. Mouth - Tongue coated grey. - 4. Stomach - Colic amel. by rubbing or kneading abdomen; flatulent, wakes her at 2 a.m. - 5. Teeth - Toothache better by cold air, or by holding cold water in the mouth. - Teeth become loose and fall out. - 6. Stool - Flatus, excessive discharge of flatus with the stools. - 7. Stool - Rumbling, gurgling in bowel, then sudden gushing, noisy, spluttering stool, after rising in a.m. - 8. Prostate - Prostate enlarged, with pus and mucus in urine; sycosis. - 9. Urine - Polyuria, esp. in diabetes. - 10. Respiration - Asthma with early morning diarrhoea. - 11. Extremities - Inflammation around root of nails. - Panaritium, pain amel. outdoors. - 12. Skin - Skin affections reappear every spring. - 13. General - Slow recovery from every sickness. - 14. Sleep - Dreams that daughter is in water crying for help; of disease; apoplectic fit; of wedding. Cases - 124. Natrum sulph: - The rubrics for this case are : - Asthmatic respiration, agg. in wet weather (K.R. 765) - Rectum - Diarrhoea in the morning (K.R. 609) - (Dr. A.M. Prior - H.H. 90/144)

Nitricum acidum Keywords - III-humoured, vindictive, hateful. - Splinter-like pains, agg. touch. - Bleeding, zig-zag ulcers. - Fissures, long lasting rectal pain. - Cracking in joints. - Ptyalism. - Foul smelling urine. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Broken down, debilitated, anaemic, emaciated persons, with tendency to morning diarrhoea (Phos) and haemorrhagic diathesis. - 2. Urine, strong-smelling like horse's. - 3. Pains : splinter-like, sticking, pricking, come and go suddenly. - 4. Cracks and fissures at muco-cutaneous junctions with pricking pains. - 5. Rude, unsympathetic, vindictive, irritable. - Hates those who offend him; unmoved by apologies. - Desire to curse and swear (Anac). - 6. Bleeding easily, on slightest touch or washing (warts, ulcers, cracks and fissures). - Small wounds bleed freely. - 7. Blood bright red, profuse and coagulable. - (Haemorrhages from everywhere-mouth, nose, lungs, stomach; haematuria, haemoptysis; rectal, ulcers, postpartum due to overexertion). - 8. Ulcers with irregular (zig-zag) edges, look like raw flesh and exuberant granulations. - 9. Discharges - Bloody, thin, offensive, acrid, yellow, green. - Rarely pus. - 10. Exhaustion after stool.

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- 11. Lean people - very sensitive to high potencies. Mind - Great anxiety about his disease. - Easily frightened. - Irritable, violent anger. - Irascible, headstrong; trembles from anger. - Hateful. - Mischievous and vindictive. - Hatred of persons who have offended him, unmoved by apologies. - Constantly thinking of his past mistakes. - Pities himself but refuses consolation on his misfortune. - Discontented, displeased with everything including himself. - Weeps from discontent. - Impetuous. - Angry; he trembles, curses, uses vulgar language. - Indifference to his business. - Utter despair. - Weary of life but fears death. - Delusion engaged in a lawsuit (Knerr). Objective - Discharges acrid, cause redness or destroy hair. - FOUL foot sweat, night sweats. - Haemorrhage, easy, bright, of bloody water. - Cracked orifices, red, swelled. - Nose red; scurfy tip. - Face yellow, sickly, cracked or scabby in angles. - Tongue fissured or mapped. - Stools tear anus, even if soft. - Urine strong smelling like horse's. - Phagedenic chancre. - Oedematous. - Shattering cough. - Warts on back of hands. - Skin cracks in every angle. - Ulcers raw, stubborn suppuration; burrowing pus. - Bones painfully sore. - Fissures in rectum. - Ozaena, green casts. - Ulcers with irregular edges. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Mental exertion or shock. - Long lasting anxiety. - Anguish from the loss of his dearest friend. - Physical - Continued loss of sleep. - Overexertion of body and mind from nursing the sick (Coca). Modalities - Agg. - Cold air. - Dampness. - Evening, night. - Touch, jarring. - Rattling noise. - Change of weather. - Amel. - Riding in a carriage (all symptoms amel.). - Steady pressure. - Mild weather, wet weather. Food & drinks - Thirstless in all stages. - Cravings - Fats, salt, indigestible things like chalk, earth. - Aversions - Meat, bread; things sweetened with sugar. - Disagree

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- Milk, bread. Female - Itching in vagina after coition. - Metrorrhagia after parturition, after cureting. - Leucorrhoea only at night. - Stains yellow. - Hard nodes in, or atrophy of mammae. - Abortion from syphilis. Male - Chancres phagedenic. - Oedematous prepuce. - Phimosis. Child - See male. - Hernia, inguinal, of weak infant boys, with strong smelling urine. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Pain from rattling noise or jar of vehicles. - 2. Eyes - Ophthalmia neonatorum. - 3. Eyes - Ulceration of cornea tending to perforation. - 4. Hearing - Hardness of hearing amel. riding in a car or train. - 5. Mouth - Corners of mouth ulcerated and scabby. - 6. Mouth - Foul cadaverous smell from mouth. - 7. Mouth - Saliva acrid, excoriates lips. - 8. Mouth - Tongue cracked in the centre (Rhus-v). - 9. Abdomen - Liver enormously enlarged; clay coloured stools. - 10. Rectum - Fissures, tearing, spasmodic pains during stools; lancinating even after a soft stool. - 11. Rectum - Stricture. Pus accumulates in fistulous ulcers. - 12. Rectum - Violent, cutting, piercing pain after stool lasting for hours (Rat, Sulph. - During and after: Merc.). - 13. Ears - Deafness amel. by riding in a carriage, or pains with induration of tonsils. - 14. Urine - Scanty, strong smelling like horse's urine. - Cold when it passes. - 15. Cough - Chronic cough agg. in winter. - 16. Extremities - Perspiration of hands and feet in injuries of spine. - 17. Sleep - Nightmares; dreams of death; anxious; confused. - 18. Fever - Typhoid haemorrhage - 1) bright red, - 2) profuse, with - 3) prostration (Bhanja saved a pt.) - 19. Skin - Ulceration of bones (mastoid) agg. at night; softening of bones. - 20. Skin - Wounds heal slowly; painful reopening of old cicatries in cold weather. - 21. Skin - Ulcers - offensive, irregular in edges, looks like raw flesh at base (deeper than Merc-sol. ulcer which is superficial). - Spreads more in circumference than in depth. - Bleeds on slight touch. - 22. Skin

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- Excrescences - sticking pain. - 23. General - Band-like sensation around head and bones. - 24. General - Affections of muco-cutaneous junctions (mouth, nose, rectum, urethra, vagina). - 25. General - Bone pains worse at night. - Amel. riding in a carriage. - 26. General - Epilepsy amel. riding in a car. - 27. General - Left-sided complaints. - 28. General - Pains sticking, pricking, as from splinters. (Hep., Arg. nit.). Cases - 69. Nitric acid - Was prescribed on the symptom "Steady pressure amel.", and she felt better within a day. - (S.R. Phatak - Clinical Experiences).

Nux moschata Keywords - Dull, dazed, drowsy, comatose, sleepy. - Confused, chilly and thirstless. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Clarke emphasizes three great keynotes of Nux moschata: - Drowsiness, overpowering; in almost every condition. - Chilliness - worse cold wet weather; wet, windy weather. - Dryness - (mouth, tongue sticks to palate; of eyes - too dry to close lids; of skin, cool and dry; want of sweat. - Thirstlessness inspite of dryness of mouth. - 2. Faints easily; on prolonged standing, agg. stool or menses. - 3. Laughs or cries by turns, hysterical; chronic tics, convulsive motions. - Sleepy as if intoxicated; coma, lies silent, immovable; eyes closed. - 4. Dreamy, clairvoyant state. - Dazed; objects seem changed or to grow larger (hands, head, etc.). - 5. Slow ideation. - Thoughts suddenly vanish. - Uses wrong words. - Brain exhaustion. - Thoughts vanish while talking, reading or writing (for exams). - 6. Flatulent colic; enormous distension of abdomen after eating; all food turns into wind (Iod, Kali. c). - 7. Fatigue, must lie down after least exertion. Mind - Bewildered, as in a dream. - Changeable; laughing and crying by turns, confused; dazed; impaired memory. - Automatic conduct. - Thinks she has two heads. - Stupor, insensibility; unconquerable sleep. - Thoughts vanish while talking; surroundings seem changed; does not recognise well-known streets (Op). - Dual personality (Bapt., Petrol., Pyrog). - Conscious of self watching his other self. Objective - Overpowering drowsiness. - Mouth dry without any thirst. - Laughs or cries by turns. - Thoughts vanish suddenly, while talking, reading or writing. - Uses wrong words. - Enormous bloating of abdomen; all food turns to gas. - Leucorrhoea in place of menses. - Hysterical attacks; disposition to faint from pains even when slight. Causation (a.f. ) - Living in damp place. - Hysterical temperament. Modalities - Agg. cold, damp, wet, windy weather.

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- Getting wet, cold food or water. - After eating (bloating), carriage riding - sacral pain (Cocc). - Lying on painful side. - Pregnancy. Menses. Food & drinks - Appetite, Thirst, Cravings. - Flatulent dyspepsia. - Retrocession of gout to stomach. - Craves highly seasoned food. Female - Thick, dark, irregular menses. - Flatus from vagina. - Leucorrhoea replaces menses. - Deficient, irregular labour pains. - "At every menstrual nisus, mouth throat and tongue become intolerably dry, especially when sleeping." - Fears she will abort. - Continued and obstinate flooding. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Eyes - Too dry to close the lids. - 2. Gen. Female - Lean women who have lost flesh and the breasts (once well-rounded) become flat. - 3. Gen. Female - Nervous and hysterical during pregnancy (Con, Kali-br). - 4. Gen. Female - Toothache during pregnancy from damp, cold evening air. - 5. Chest - Dyspnoea with a feeling of weight in the chest. - Inhalation difficult; hysterical asthma. - 6. Chest - Sensation as if chest is too narrow; as if dry everywhere-eyes, nose, lips, etc. - 7. Extremities - Sensation as if limbs are floating in air. - Rheumatic pains, left shoulder (Ferr) or elsewhere. - 8. General - Weakness or dyspepsia of old people. - 9. Throat - Sudden hoarseness, worse walking against the wind (Euphrasia, Hepar-s) - 10. Rectum - Diarrhoea from cold drinks in summer; from boiled milk; during dentition; during pregnancy. - 11. Sleep - Irresistible desire to sleep; drowsy. - 12. Dreams - Falling from high places; disgusting. Cases - A homoeopath had bouts of indifference and automatic conduct after frequent attacks of influenza (severe in those days). - He would carry his letters about unopened for days; took interest in nothing and was pretty useless to his patients.... Nux mosch. proved the magic remedy and restored him to usefulness. (Tyler). - A patient of 80 with cerebral thrombosis; paralysed and comatose for nine weeks; the coma was so deep that it was almost impossible to get a mouthful of anything down.... and just a dose of Nux mosch. 200 and all anxiety about the patient was at an end. - She promptly woke up and made a marvellous recovery. (Tyler). - 110. Nux moschata : - "Each of the symptoms I have mentioned I was able to find arranged in Herring's Guiding Symptoms, under Nux moschata, because it was from this arrangement that I was enabled to prescribe this remedy in a very desperate case. - I was led to examine Nux mosch. from the intense, persistent dryness of the mouth, yet without thirst, and upon examination I found the whole case covered by that remedy". - The rubrics in Kent's repertory corresponding to the symptoms are : - Page90 - Unconsciousness, as in a dream3 marks - 3- Answers slowly 2 - 37 - Dullness, difficult comprehension 3 - 3 - Reflects long to answer 2 - 1250 - Sleepiness, overpowering 3 - 640 - Stool offensive 3

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Nux vomica Keywords - Ardent, fastidious, zealous, fiery temperament. - Ineffectual urging-nausea, vomiting, stool, urine, labour pains. - Violent anger. Chill. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Sedentary life with exhausting mental labour. - 2. Ambitious, zealous, easily angered and offended. - Malicious, spiteful. - Rage leads to violence. - 3. Ardent, fastidious, vehement. - Angry from contradiction. - 4. Gastric complaints with constipation; ineffectual desire for stool or vomiting or urination. - 5. Sleepy in evening; wakes up at 2, 3 or 4 a.m. , lies awake for an hour or two, then falls into heavy sleep and awakes late, tired and unrefreshed. - 6. Ill effects of disappointments, ambition deceived. - 7. Much relieved after stool. - With nausea feels, "If only I could vomit I would feel better". - The more retching prevails over the vomiting the more it is Nux. - 8. Desire for fats, alcoholic stimulants, pungent things. - 9. During labour, os rigid, with constant urging to stool and urinate. - (Dysmenorrhoea or pain in sacrum also with the same peculiar symptoms). - 10. In lumbago must sit up in bed to turn over. - 11. Shaking chill, cannot stand the least uncovering, even of part of body. - Must be covered well during every stage of fever. - 12. Extreme sensitiveness to pain, or trifling ailments, so much so that he "prefers death" to suffering; faints from odours, from every labour pain. - 13. Convulsions with consciousness; worse anger, emotion, touch. Mind - Ardent, zealous. - Easy anger. - Violent anger. - Easily excited. - Extremely fastidious, fault finding. - Hurried, impatient, quarrelsome. - Jealous, Malicious, spiteful. - Tenacious. - Vehement. - Head-strong. - Self-willed. - Easily offended. - Angry when contradicted. - Over-sensitive to slightest noise, odours, even trifling ailments. - Company, averse to. - Agg. by mental exertion. - Concentration difficult while studying. - Suicidal thoughts, but lacks courage. - Sudden impulse to kill for a slight offence. - Rage leading to deeds of violence. - Generosity to strangers, avarice in regard to family. Objective - Over-sensitive to noise, odours, light or music. - Trifling ailments are unbearable. - Fastidious; easily angered even to violence. - Nausea, feels "if I could only vomit, I would be much better." - Ineffectual desire for stool; must attend toilet again and again. - Hernia, strangulated, esp. umbilical. - Must be covered in every stage of fever; cannot bear to be uncovered, without being chilly. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Anger, fright, indignation.

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- Deceived ambition. - Disappointment, emotional excitement, wounded honour. Modalities - Aggr. - Cold, open air (dry), draft, early morning. - Coffee, drugs, purgatives. - Liquor. - Over-eating. - Noise; odours; touch; pressure of clothes at waist; new moon. - Suppressed hemorrhoidal flow. - Amel: - Evening, while at rest. - Damp weather (Caust., Hep, Med). - Free discharges. - Naps. - Hot drinks, milk, fats. - Moist air. Lying on sides. Food & drinks - Appetite, thirst - Emptiness yet aversion to food. - Fullness after eating a small quantity. - Craves - Piquant food; beer; fat food, chalk, stimulants. - Amel. - Hot drinks (gastralgia). - Disagree - Coffee, tobacco, alcoholic stimulants. Female - Menses profuse, early, protracted. - Dysmenorrhoea, cramps extend to whole body; with constant urging to stool. - Inefficient labour pains, with urging to stool or urinate. - Menses return at full moon. Male - Sexual desire easily excited, cannot be in female company without having emission. - Premature ejaculation. - Nocturnal emissions. Child - Snuffles of infants. - Frequent and unsuccessful desire for stool, or passes a small quantity at a time. - Emaciation with ravenous appetite. - Nose stuffed, prevents nursing in infants. - Colic from flatulence and constipation. - Shrieking at night. - Left inguinal hernia in children. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Drunkenness - abusive, brutal, striking, jealous, sad. - Sexual excitement. - Desire for suicide. - 2. Mind - Shrieking of children at night before epileptic convulsions. - 3. Vertigo - At night waking him from sleep; after coffee, from odour of flowers; with obscuration of vision. - 4. Stomach - Colic, renal, right side, extends to genitals. - 5. Stomach - Epilepsy-aura in stomach, in solar plexus. - 6. Stomach - Haemorrhoidal flow suppressed from epistaxis or vomiting blood or haemoptysis. - 7. Stomach - Nausea while riding in a carriage. - 8. Stomach - Vomiting after anger; immediately after drinking; before menses. - 9. Abdomen - Swelling of liver from alcoholic excesses, colic, biliary; gallstone colic. - 10. Rectum

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- Constipation alternating with diarrhoea. - 11. Rectum - Hernia - incarcerated or otherwise, in children from constipation and crying, especially if they are cross. - 12. Bladder - Retention after confinement. - Urination involuntary during cough, laughing or sneezing. - 13. Kidneys - Pain in ureters extends to penis and testes. - 14. Urine - Frequent ineffectual urging to urinate but the urine only dribbles. - 15. Chest - Heart - Angina pectoris from suppressed piles. - 16. Back - Backache, must sit up to turn over in bed. - Lumbago from sexual excesses; weakness from masturbation. - 17. Sleep - Sleepiness after eating - cannot use the mind for two or three hours after eating. - 18. Sleep - Dreams of misfortune; of cats; mental exertion, quarrels, worms, vermin, creeping; of teeth falling out; vexatious. Cases - 82. Nux vomica: - Chilly, irritable, impatient, sympathetic, fussy (i.e. fastidious), critical-a combination admirably covered by Nux vomica. - (Ign., a 'female' remedy, has tears more common than anger; in this case we have "more irritable than depressed" which takes us to Nux vom). - Over-excitability of Nux vom is exhibited by anger, vehemence, and irascibility; in IGNATIA by melancholy, weeping, resulting from nursing one's sorrows. - NUX explodes and "gets rid of it". - Is overbearing, could kill and strike. - IGNATIA on the surface might seem as vehement but, on the slightest provocation, will melt in tears. - Ign. may "charge", but quickly "buckle down", whereas Nux would never admit doubt or modify his stand. - (Health through Homoeopathy - H.H. 1985/629)

Opium Keywords - Senses benumbed - functions sluggish - painless - paralytic - unconscious. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. BENUMBED nervous system causing drowsy stupor, painlessness, inactivity, torpor and partial or complete paralysis. - 2. Painlessness with almost all complaints. - Complains of nothing, asks for nothing. - 3. State of TORPOR (i.e. dull, sluggish, inactive, stupid). - Sleep is stupefying, unrefreshing. - a.Inactivity of intestines, causes obstinate constipation. - Inactivity of bladder causes retention of urine, insensible to a full bladder (Stram. has no urine in bladder). - b.Inactivity of uterus results in suspension of menstrual function. - c. Inactivity of uterus during labour - labour pains cease suddenly followed by a comatose condition. - d.Inactivity of rectum : stools protrude and recede (Sil., Thu.). - e.Sluggishness of intestines, so much that strong purgative has no power. - f.Bladder has no power to expel urine, though distended; must use the catheter. - Retention of urine after confinement. - 4. Want of susceptibility to indicated remedies. - Complete insensibility. - Impossible to excite any signs of uneasiness by pulling the hair, or pinching the skin, or sudden splashing of cold water. - Insensibility with apoplectic respiration. - 5. Ailments from fright, the fear remaining; cannot recover from shock of horrible things (Aco., Hyos., Verat.). - 6. Bed feels too HOT, cannot lie on it; moves often to find a cool place. - 7. Opposite states too - e.g. , stools involuntary after fright; or hard, round, black balls, like sheep dung. - Feels as if rectum were closed; unconquerable, chronic constipation. - Drowsiness or sleeplessness (wakefulness) with acute sensibility to faintest sound (clock striking etc.), light, odours and slightest pains (Cham.). - If sleeping, sleep is heavy, stupid, with body covered with hot sweat.

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- 8. Delusion she is not at home, a persisting thought (Bry.). - 9. Fear of fright, remaining long after. Mind - Dull, stupid. - Want of reaction to surroundings, even to painful stimuli. - Painlessness in almost all complaints. - Unable to understand and appreciate his sufferings. - Placidity. - Wants to go home; persistent thoughts about it. - Wants nothing, complaints about nothing. - Sees frightful visions of mice, scorpions, etc. - Delusion he is lighter than air. - Tendency to tell lies. - Fear of impending death. - Unconsciousness with stuporous breathing, pupils contracted, face purple, hot with hot sweat (a picture of apoplexy). Objective - Breathing slow, stertorous, irregular. - Eyes glistening. - Face puffed, red, besotted. - Pupils contracted. - Retention of urine. - (Excretions checked, except of skin). - Sleepless with acute hearing. - Painlessness of normally painful condition, e.g. ulcers. - PLACID : wants nothing, says nothing ails him. - Dreamy, sluggish; dull; stupid. - Carphology. - SOMNOLENCY. Paralytic atony of bowels and bladder. - Hot, sweaty and drowsy. Causation (a.f. ) - Fear, fright, anger, shame, sudden joy. - Charcoal fumes. - Sun. - From lead poisoning. Modalities - Agg. - Heat. - During and after sleep (Apis, Lach). - Fright. - Suppressed discharges. - Receding eruptions. - While perspiring. - Stimulants (alcoholic). - Amel. - Cold; uncovering; constant walking. Food & drinks - Appetite & Thirst - Hungry, but no desire to eat. - Thirst - Intense. - Disagree - Alcohol. - Desires - Alcoholic drinks, brandy, bread, sweets. - Aversion to food, meat, tobacco. - Amel. from vinegar. Female - Menses suppressed from fright. - Dysmenorrhoea very painful, forcing her to bend double, with urging to stool. - Amenorrhoea from fright. - Threatened abortion and suppression of lochia from fright, with sopor. - Prolapsus from fright. Child - Child emaciated with wrinkled skin; looks like a little dried up old man (Abrot. Sars.). - Urine retained in children from sucking a frightened or excited mother.

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Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Picking of bed-clothes while asleep (Bell. While awake : Hyos.). - 2. Head - Head hot, limbs cold. - Sweat hot without relief, with internal dryness. - 3. Eyes - Pupils contracted; glassy, staring; immovable; half-closed; upturned. - 4. Face - Bloated, red, hot. - 5. Mouth - Aphonia from fright. - 6. Mouth - Tongue paralysed; difficult speech. Bloody froth. - 7. Stomach - Painless, indolent ulcers. - 8. Stomach - Thirsty with dropsical swelling of whole body. - 9. Abdomen - Intussusception and intestinal obstruction with colicky pain and reversed peristalsis; faecal vomiting. (Plb.). - Paralysis of intestines (Plb.) - 10. Respiration - Breathing stops on going to sleep, and does not start unless the patient is moved. - 11. Respiration - Rattling, unequal breathing; tickling cough with dyspnoea and blue face. - Amel. drinking water. - 12. Extremities - Feels as if lower limbs were severed and they belong to someone else. - Numbness, weakness and painless paralysis. - 13. Extremities - One or the other arm moves convulsively to and fro. - 14. Sleep - Epilepsy in sleep; from approach of strangers; from anger, insult. - 15. Sleep - Heavy, stupid, with stertorous breathing, red face, eyes half-closed, skin covered with hot sweat. - 16. Dreams - Skeletons, amorous, anxious, of falling from heights, pleasant, journey, of misfortune. Cases - 19. Opium - "The peculiar extraordinary symptom is generally the keynote leading to the case, the essences of the disease". - In this Boericke's repertory and materia medica, and Kent's repertory (Fright, complaints from KR. 49) confirmed the remedy, with fright being taken as the cause. - Desire to uncover. - Agg. warm. - Sleepless with sleepiness (KR. 1254). - (Menses absent, amenorrhoea - Op. absent, KR. 724). - (Devi Priyan - HH. 1989/231)

Palladium metallicum

Keywords - Love of approbation; easily hurt; bright in company, exhausted afterwards. - Pains : neuralgic, fleeting. - Itching after undressing. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Longs for the good opinion of others. - 2. Delusion she is not appreciated; she is insulted; forsaken. - Easily offended. - 3. Does everything to win appreciation by being the "life of the party/society" though she is much exhausted ng a369(y)17.77518-10.6134(g)1.4(y)17.77518-10.6134(g(h)1.4422(e)1.4422( )0721099(o)13.4922(s)-6.3339(d)1.4422(;)o)13.

- 9. Menses flow when nursing. - 10. Leaden heaviness in pelvis, shooting pain from navel into pelvis, or breasts amel. after stools. - 11. Ovarian pain (right) amel. by pressure. - 12. Bladder feels full, but passes little urine. Mind - Love of appreciation, of approbation and praise. - Longs for the good opinion of others. - Offended easily, irritable, takes everything in bad part. - Desire for company; agg. while alone. - Delusion : she has neglected her duty; that she is neglected; that she is not appreciated; that she is insulted; that she is very tall, enlarged; that she is forsaken. - Egotism. - Impatience. - Insolent. - Quarrelsome. - Discontented. - Inclined to use violent language. - Keeps up brightly in company, much exhausted afterwards. Objective - Menses flow when nursing. - Glairy leucorrhoea. - Leaden heaviness of pelvis. - Fleeting pains, transient. - Will go out of her way, even at considerable strain, to win appreciation. - Keeps up a bright show in society, parties, etc., much exhausted afterwards. - Takes offence easily, if she feels neglected or slighted. - Passes little urine, though bladder is full. - Fleeting neuralgic pains in various parts. - Itching after undressing. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Bad, depressing news. - Mortification. - Egotism. - Emotional excitement. Modalities - Agg. - Excitement in company. - Cold. - Motion. - After exertion. - Social functions. - Coffee (headache). - Amel. - Touch (headache). - Pressure (pain in Ovary). - Rubbing. - Rest, open air. - Sleep. - Diversion (headache). - Stool (pain in bladder or pelvis). Female - Uterine prolapse or retroversion. - Bearing down pains, amel. rubbing. - Cutting pain in uterus, amel. after stool. - Menstrual discharge while nursing. - Ovarian pain, amel. pressure. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Headache - from ear to ear, across vertex, amel. by fixing attention on it. - 2. Face - Pimples on lower lip, tip of nose, whiskers, which bleed on pressing. - 3. Mouth - Tongue, red stripe down the centre. - 4. Abdomen - Sensation as if an animal were snapping and tearing off small portions inside the abdomen.

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- 5. Abdomen - Shooting pain from navel into mammae or pelvis, amel. after stool. - 6. Bladder - Feels full, but little urine is passed. - 7. Gen. Female - Pain and swelling in region of right ovary, amel. by pressure. - 8. Gen. Female - Uterus - cutting pain is relieved after stool. - 9. Extremities - Fleeting neuralgic pains in various parts of body. - 10. Skin - Itching all over body after undressing. - 11. General - Glairy mucus, from throat or as leucorrhoea. Cases - Palladium - Guiding symptoms. - Pain in the right ovary. - Constant desire to pass urine. - Anteversion of the uterus. - Bladder feels full. - Dr. C.A. Cochran, Hahnemannian Monthly 1868 - H.H. 1987/104.

Petroleum Keywords - The hungry dyspeptic, cracked and fissured in winter. Synopsis - 1. Cracked, fissured palms (finger tips) worse in winter, and better in summer (Alum., Ars., Aloe). - 2. Diarrhoea from suppression of skin eruptions, cracks, etc. - 3. Chronic affections : dyspepsia, diarrhoea; skin affections; gonorrhoea; otorrhoea; even chronic sprains; moist eczema. - 4. Over-sensitiveness - of hearing, of touch and smell (but hardness of hearing in old people). - 5. Symptoms appear and disappear suddenly (Bell., Mag. ph. - reverse : Plat., Stann.) - 6. Sea and train sickness; and nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (Cocc., Sep.). - 7. Coldness in spots (in stomach, abdomen, uterus; cold spot between scapulae; sensation as if heart were cold). - 8. Diarrhoea during the day (better at night) and cough worse during the night. - 9. Ravenous appetite or canine hunger with diarrhoea. - Gastric troubles of pregnant women. (Puls., Sep). - 10. Gastralgia, whenever the stomach becomes empty - amel. by eating something constantly (Anac., Brom., Chel., Cina, Graph., Hep., Ign.) - 11. Suppuration of slight injuries (Hep., Merc., Sil., Sulph). Mind - Inclined to anger and scolding. - Easily offended. - Irritable, quarrelsome. - Death seems near; so must hurry to settle affairs. - Anxiety inconsolable about family. - Sense of duality (Anac., Bapt.). - Imagines that another person lies in the same bed. - Delusion that there are two babies in the bed (during puerperium); that one leg is double. - Irresolution. - Sensation as if everything in head were alive. Objective - Itching, sore, moist surfaces or deep cracks. - Ragged, chapped, cracks on hands, fingers; bleeding, agg. in winter. - Unhealthy skin; small wounds ulcerate and spread. - Emaciated children with diarrhoea during day only. - Swelling of submaxillary glands. - Face : yellow complexion. - Car, train or sea sickness (Cocc.). - Emaciation esp. of chest. - Unhealthy granulations after severe burns. Ailments from (causation)

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Modalities - Aggr. - Riding in a carriage or ship. - Before and during thunderstorm. - In WINTER; during daytime; when fasting; during pregnancy; from touch; from taking sauerkraut or cabbage. - Amel: - In summer; after eating; in warm air; from lying with the head high. Appetite & thirst - Ravenous appetite or cannine hunger with diarrhoea. - Empty, hungry feeling and nausea, which lasts all day. - Sensation of repletion after a little food (Lyc., Nux-m.). - Gastralgia whenever the stomach is empty; amel. by eating constantly. - Thirst, violent for beer. - Hunger immediately after stool. - Aversion: - DISGUST for meat (Calc., Chin., Graph). Averse to fat food. - Agg. from cabbage, sauerkraut (diarrhoea). Female - Menses cause itching in genitals. - Profuse leucorrhoea like the white of egg every day, with lascivious dreams every night. - Labia majora perspires and itches. Male - Gleet with milky discharge. - Chronic inflammation of prostatic part of urethra. - Chronic gonorrhoea. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Vertigo - On rising from recumbent position; agg. on closing eyes. - 2. Headache - In the occiput, which is as heavy as lead; pulsating pain as if everything in the head were alive; numb, as if made of wood. - 3. Eyes - Inflamed tarsi (Alum., Graph., Sep., Sulph). - Marginal blepharitis - Fistula lachrymalis. - 4. Ears - Chronic foetid discharge from the ear (Calc.s. , Graph, Hep., Merc., Sil., Tell.) - Eustachian catarrh. - Impaired HEARING. - Humid soreness behind the ear. - 5. Bladder - Great desire to urinate, with itching of the meatus (Petrosel). - 6. Stools - Yellow, watery, gushing; slimy, with pain in the rectum. - 7. Skin - Tendency to fester, ulcerate and suppurate - hard to heal. - Skin symptoms are worse in WINTER, better in summer - and if suppressed, cause diarrhoea. - BLEEDING ERUPTIONS. - Chronic moist eczema; parts seem excoriated. - Slight injury suppurates (Hep., Merc., Sil., Sulph). - Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured every winter. - Tenderness of feet which are bathed in foul-smelling sweat. - Herpes of the genital organs, extending to the perineum and thighs; itching, red; skin cracked, rough, bleeding, dry or moist. - 8. Extremities - Burning soles and palms; wants to keep them out of bed. - 9. Perspiration - fetid from axillae; feet. - 10. Joints - Cracking of joints; inflexibility; chronic sprains. - 11. Itching - (irritation) dreadful all over - in vagina, anus, perineum prevents sleep. - Stitches in the heel, as if a splinter were lodged in it. Cases - 89. Petroleum : - Diarrhoea, daytime only (KR. 609; also Allen's Keynotes and Phatak's M.M. ). - Sharp pains shooting up dorsal spine into occiput (Phatak's M.M. ). - Diarrhoea during pregnancy (Allen).

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- W.I. Pierce quotes Lilienthal, "applicable to all gastric troubles of pregnant women." - (Edward Mahoney - H.H. 1980/226)

Phosphoricum acidum Keywords - Indifference. - Prostration of mind. - Painless non-debilitating diarrhoea. - Homesickness. - Debilitating seminal emissions. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Mental debility first, then physical. - 2. Prostration of mind with stupefaction followed by emaciation, physical debility. - Too exhausted to think or talk. - 3. Indifference to everything. - Apathetic, listless. - 4. Mild, quiet disposition. - Broods over his condition, settled despair. - 5. Homesickness, with silent ill-humour. - 6. Deception causes grief and mortification. - 7. Painless, watery, non-debilitating diarrhoea. - 8. Frequent, profuse, debilitating seminal emissions. - 9. Short sleep refreshes. - 10. Glycosuria with polyuria. - 11. Bone : inflammation (esp. periosteum), burning at night; offensive caries. - 12. Desire for juices, refreshing things. - 13. Sleepy by day, wakeful at night. - 14. Whiteness - Urine milky white; hair gray; stools white. Mind - Apathetic, indifferent to everything, even to subjects of most interest, prostration of mind with stupefaction and grief, especially with debility and emaciation. - Anger or disappointed love, with silent grief. - Brooding over one's condition. - Concentration difficult. - Dullness, unable to think long. - Deficiency of ideas, forgets words while speaking, quiet, mild, tranquil disposition. - Wants nothing and cares for nothing. - Indisposed to talk. - Takes long to answer. - Home sickness. - Despair of recovery. - Sleepy and disposed to weep. - Mild delirium; lies in stupid sleep unconscious of surroundings; when aroused, answers slowly and correctly in mono-syllables and relapses into stupor. - Delusion, phantoms frightful. Objective - Debilitated, emaciated and apathetic. - Pale sickly complexion. - Hair turns gray; hopeless. - Inflammation and swelling of bones; offensive caries. - Frequent urination at night; passes large quantities of colourless urine (Merc., Sulph.). - Milky urine. - Indifferent to affairs of life - wants nothing, cares for nothing. - Memory weak. - Exhaustion after coition (Calc.). - Chest weak from talking or coughing (Stann.). - Painless, non-debilitating diarrhoea. - Paralytic weakness along spine, sleepy by day, wakeful at night. - Grows too fast, too tall. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Ill effects of shock, injuries. - Emotional excitement, care, grief, mortification, mental shock, disappointed love.

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- Anger with silent grief, fright (characteristic). - Home sickness, bad news, unequal struggle with adverse circumstances, nursing prolonged. - Physical - Sexual excesses, loss of vital fluids. - Masturbation, convalescence following acute diseases, fevers etc., mental exertion. Modalities - Agg. - Drafts, cold, Cover-lifting, emotions. - Exertion from being talked to light, noise and odours. - Amel. - Warmth, short sleep. - Juices, cool refreshing things. Food & drinks - Appetite lost. - Awakened by canine hunger, thirsty. Craving for juicy, refreshing things, cold drinks, pungent things. - Aversion - Bread - (tastes bitter). - Disagree - Sour food and drinks. Female - Hysteria at change of life. - Menses too early, too long, too profuse. - Health deteriorated from long continued nursing of child. - Dysuria during pregnancy; leucorrhoea profuse. Male - Sudden weakness of genitals during coition preventing emission. - Several nightly emissions with lascivious dreams. - Prostatorrhoea during soft stool, crop of warts on prepuce. Child - Infants vomit milk constantly. - Young people who grow rapidly tall, slender and are overtaxed mentally and physically. - Growing pains in back and limbs, in bones. - Feeling as if bones are scraped with a knife. - Palpitation in children who grow fast. - Headache from eyestrain. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Vertigo - As if floating in the air while lying in bed. - 2. Head - Hair turns grey early. - Hair of beard falls out. - Turns grey from chronic effect of grief. - 3. Head - Headache - after coition. - 4. Head - Headache - of schoolgirls, from overuse of eyes. - 5. Eyes - Blue rings around. - 6. Vision - Vision affected by masturbation. - 7. Face - Acne from onanism. - 8. Mouth - Red strip in the middle of the tongue; lips dry and cracked. - Taste of rotten eggs. - 9. Nose - Bores fingers into the nose. - Pimples on the tip of nose. - 10. Rectum - Diarrhoea, painless, lienteric, watery nondebilitating, from fright or from sour foods. - 11. Abdomen - Ileo-caecal region sensitive (Bapt.); meteoric distension. - 12. Urine - Glycosuria with polyuria. - Frequent urination at night, passes large quantities of colourless urine.

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- 13. Urine - Turns milky immediately. - Phosphaturia. - 14. Gen. Male - Seminal emissions - several Emissions in one night - when pressing at soft stool - discharged shortly after, or without erection. - Emission after coitus. - 15. Chest - Weak from talking or coughing (Stann). Amel. walking. - Pressure behind sternum causes breathing difficulty. - 16. Back - Paralytic weakness along spine. - 17. Extremities - Feels light (as if floating) while walking. - 18. Extremities - Stumbles easily and makes mis-steps. - 19. Sleep - Short sleep amel. weakness. - Somnolency. - 20. Sleep - Sleepy by day. - Wakeful at night. - 21. Fever - Sluggish, painless, agg. night. - Profuse sweat. - 22. Skin - Ulcers painless, with stinking pus. - 23. General - Bones pain at night as if scraped; caries. - Necrosis of stump after amputation (Cepa). - 24. General - Faintness after eating, after emission or on excitement. - 25. General - Profuse - a. Seminal emission. - b. Perspiration at night. - c. Flatulence. - d. Menses - e. Leucorrhoea. - 26. Sleep - Dreams anxious, of the dead, of previous events, of falling; vivid; vexatious. Cases - Phosphoric acid: - Extremities, lightness, sensation of (KR. 1033). - (Margaret B. Webster - H.H. 1979/p. 76)

Phosphorus Keywords - Smart (brain and look), lustful; sympathetic; haemorrhagic; phthisical. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Tall, slender, delicate, graceful persons who have grown too rapidly and are inclined to stoop. - 2. Craving for salt, salty food, fish, ice-cream, cold milk; juicy refreshing things. - 3. Desires company. Fear of being alone. - 4. Keen intellect, quick perception, with dread of mental exertion. - 5. Very sympathetic to the sufferings of others. - 6. Haemorrhagic tendency; profuse bright red, non-coagulable, vicarious etc. - 7. Increased sexual desire. - 8. Desire to be magnetised. - Amel. of complaints by rubbing. - 9. Amel. by sympathy, consolation. - 10. Cannot stand loss of sleep. - Amel. by a short nap. - 11. Anxious at sudden electric changes in weather, esp. thunderstorms which aggr. all existing symptoms. - 12. Agg. of complaints from lying on left or painful side. - Can only lie on the right side.

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- 13. Ravenous hunger. Must eat often or he faints, even at night; or during fever. - Sinking, gone feeling in stomach, sometimes at 11 a.m. (Sulph.). Mind - Affectionate. - Desires company; fear of being alone. - Sympathetic to other's sufferings. - Desires sympathy. - Clair-voyance. - Lascivious. - Increased sexual desire; satyriasis in the company of women, or nymphomania in women. - Anxious and fearful before and during a thunderstorm. - Timid and irresolute. - Desires to be magnetised. - Restless, fidgety cannot sit still for a moment. - Full of gloomy forebodings, weary of life. - Slowness, answers slowly. - Indifference to one's own children. Objective - Tall, slender persons with delicate eyelashes. - Restless, fidgety; cannot sit or stand still a moment. - (Fidgety feet : Zinc) - Young people who grow too rapidly, are inclined to stoop (to walk stooped, Sulph.). - Apathetic, unwilling to talk; answers slowly; moves sluggishly. - Desires to be magnetised. - Regurgitation of ingesta in mouthfuls (Alum). - Haemorrhagic diathesis - from every outlet. Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Anxiety, emotional excitement, grief, fright, brooding on sexual subjects. - Disappointed love. - Physical - Sexual excesses; excessive consumption of salt. - Loss of vital fluids. Modalities - Mind - Mental fatigue. - Physical - Aggr : lying on left or painful side. - Sensitive to touch, odours, light; cold, windy weather, or sudden change in weather; putting hands in cold water. - Puberty; loss of fluids. - Thunderstorm (a human barometer); lightning, twilight. - Loss of sleep. - Amel: - Eating, sleeping, cold food and cold water. - Washing face with cold water. - Rubbing, sitting. Food & drinks - Appetite - Hunger, ravenous, nightly. - Cravings - Ice-cold drinks which amel. (but are vomited after becoming warm in stomach). - Juicy, refreshing things, ice-cream, fish; cold milk; spicy food. - Salt; acid and spicy things. - Aversion - Food, beer, bread, butter, warm food, meat, boiled milk. - Oysters. Female - Menses too early, not profuse but prolonged. - Leucorrhoea, corrosive; instead of menses. - Nymphomania. - Sterility from excessive voluptuousness. - Amenorrhoea with vicarious bleeding. - Violent desire during pregnancy and lactation; during pregnancy unable to drink water - it causes nausea and vomiting; must close her eyes while bathing (Lyss). - Cancer; of uterus, breasts; uterine polypi. - Left infra-mammary pains.

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Male - Lascivious; even strips himself. - Shameless. - Irresistible desire but impotent. Child - Emaciation or atrophy of child with ravenous appetite. - Grows too fast, tall, stooping. - Late learning to walk. - Somnambulism. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Insanity, from mental labour; with an exaggerated idea of one's own importance. - 2. Head - Hair falls out in bunches; baldness in spots. - 3. Eye - Atrophy of the optic nerve. - 4. Eyes - Blindness; attacks of sudden blindness from a lightning stroke (even without apparent cause). - 5. Eyes - Glaucoma. - Green halo about objects; or sparks. - Appear red with cataract. - Myopia. - 6. Hearing - Hearing difficult, esp. of human voice. - 7. Nose - Bones swell; carious affections; necrosis of lower jaw (Hecla-l.). - 8. Nose - Faintness from odours; odour of flowers. - 9. Nose - Polyp; easily bleeding (Calc., Sang.). - 10. Stomach - Pylorus feels too narrow. (Vomiting). - 11. Stomach - Regurgitation of ingesta by mouthful. - 12. Stomach - Ulcer, perforating coffee with ground vomiting (Con.). - 13. Stomach - Vomiting - throws up ingesta by the mouthful. - 14. Abdomen - Cirrhosis or fatty degeneration of liver with malignant jaundice. - 15. Rectum - Constipation; stool difficult, slender, long, dry. - 16. Rectum - Diarrhoea - great weakness after, painless, copious, debilitating diarrhoea. - 17. Rectum - Diarrhoea as soon as anything enters rectum. - Profuse pouring away as from a hydrant. Morning diarrhoea in old people. - 18. Rectum - Sensation as if rectum remains open (Ap.). - 19. Stool - Great weakness and prostration, from loss of vital fluids (Chin, Phos. ac.); after stool (Con.). - 20. Gen. Female - Metrorrhagia in nursing women (also in uterine cancer). - 21. Larynx - Painful hoarseness; cannot talk on account of pain; worse evening. - Clergyman's sore throat. - 22. Chest - Acute pain in lower part of left lung; agg. by lying on left side. - Oppression of chest. - Pneumonia. - 23. Chest - Pain in intercostal spaces, amel. lying on left side. - Open air intolerable. - 24. Sleep - Refreshed after sleep; loss of sleep aggr.

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- 25. Sleep - Sleep unrefreshing. - 26. Sleep - Dreams, of animals which bite, of anger; anxious; of business; stung by insects; of fire. - 27. Fever - Ravenous hunger during fever. - 28. General - Burning sensation in every tissue or organ (Ars., Sulph) - in mouth, chest, stomach, lungs, intestines, anus. - Burning in spots; along the spine; between scapula. - 29. General - Chilly person, wants to keep the body warm, - but wants head and face cold. - 30. General - Empty, all-gone sensation in head, chest, stomach, entire abdomen. - 31. General - Haemorrhagic diathesis; bleeding from various organs. - Small wounds bleed much (Lach., Nit. ac.); frequent, profuse; cease for a time; vicarious; in amenorrhoea. - Restlessness - constant fidgety feeling all over the body, esp. evening (Zinc. Med., Merc.). - 33. Skin - Purpura haemorrhagica. Cases - 51. Phosphorus : - Inflammation of lungs (KR. 836). - Cough from tickling in chest (KR. 808). - Cough, dry, agg. night (KR. 787). - Voice lost (KR. 760). - Weakness, during fever (KR. 1417). - (I. Dever - H.H. 1984/388).

Phytolacca decandra Keywords - Inflammation and swelling of glands; rheumatic affections; shooting lightning-like pains, aggr. at night. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Prominent action on mammae - Mastitis; breasts hard, swollen, hot, painful; aggr. motion; amel. support; impending suppuration. - Pains radiate all over body from nipples (Crot. t goes to back; Pul., Sil - to uterus, esp. when child nurses). - 2. Breasts painful during menses (Con., Lac-c.). - 3. Abscesses or fistulous, gaping, angry ulcers of breasts (Hep., Phos., Sil.). - 4. Completely shameless about her female delicacies (Bar.c. , Hyos.). - 5. Constantly bites his gums together (infants during dentition). - 6. Throat dark red, or dark-purple, dry, burning, as if a red-hot ball in throat - with continuous desire to swallow. - 7. Great pain at the root of tongue on swallowing, shooting into ears (Bell., Kali bi., Merc.); agg. drinking hot fluids (Lach. Amel. hot fluids : Lyc., Sabad.). - 8. Tonsils, esp. right., enlarged, blue, ulcerated; with hard throbbing. - 9. Uvula large, dropsical, almost transparent (Kali bi., Rhus). - 10. Excessive flow of milk with great exhaustion - or milk absent or scanty - bloody milk (Bufo, Phos.). - Milk dries up. - 11. Intercostal rheumatism from or agg. from cold, damp weather and at night. - 12. Pain in right arm with pain in the region of heart. - 13. Right side most affected. - 14. Shooting pains come and go suddenly (Bell., Mag. ph.); shift from place to place (Kali bi., Lac-c., Puls.); agg. motion (Bry.), but must move (Rhus); agg. at night (Merc. Kali bi.). Mind - Complete shamelessness and indifference to exposure of her person. - Brain feels sore; indifference to life. - Melancholy; is sure he will die. - Refuses food. - Disgust for business. Objective - Mastitis. - Mammae stony hard, heavy, swelled or tender. - Yellowish, sickly face.

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- Everted lips. - Clenches teeth. - Tongue fiery red at tip. - Stringy saliva. - Throat dark red, burning like a hot ball. - Nipples sore, fissured. - Irresistible desire to bite teeth or gums together, during dentition. - Pains electric shock-like, rapidly shifting, worse motion and at night. Causation (a.f. ) - Exposure to cold and damp weather. Modalities - Aggr. - Damp cold weather, or changes in weather. - Raising up. - Motion. - Swallowing; hot drinks. - Cold nights. - Menses. - Rain. - Stepping down form high steps. - Nursing the child. - Amel. - Lying on abdomen; or on left side. - Rest. - Dry weather. Appetite, thirst, cravings, etc - Hunger soon after eating. Female - Menses with flow of saliva and tears. - Swollen or tender mammae. - Hard nodes in breasts, with enlarged axillary glands. - Nipples cracked, inverted; before and during menses. - Dysmenorrhoea in barren women; with erosion of cervix. - Galactorrhoea. - Cicatrices on mammae inflamed. - Bloody watery discharge from mammae. - Ovarian neuralgia, right side. Male - Spermatic cord sore. - Complete loss of desire. - Painful induration of testicles. Child - Irresistible desire to bite the teeth or gums together during dentition. - Difficult dentition; retarded dentition. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Pain comes every time it rains (damp weather). - Nausea with headache amel. by eating. - 2. Eyes - Eyeballs ache on reading and writing. - Motion of one eye only, independent of the other. - 3. Ears - Pain in both the ears, aggr. swallowing. - 4. Face - Jaws ache, as in mumps. - Mumps. - 5. Mouth - Tongue : fiery red at tip; feels burnt or pain at root; protruded. - Much stringy saliva. - Painful ulcers on inside of cheek. - 6. Throat - 'Hot ball' Sensation. - Diphtheria. - Follicular pharyngitis. - 7. Stomach - Violent vomiting with retching; desires death to vomiting.

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- Hunger soon after eating. - 8. Abdomen - Chronic hepatitis. - 9. Rectum - Dysentery - passes mucus and blood. - Bloody discharge, with heat in rectum. - Cancer of rectum. - Constipation of the aged. - Diarrhoea from lemonade. - 10. Bladder - Hard ache in kidneys; with scanty suppressed urine. - Albuminuria; urine stains the clothes yellow. - 11. Respiration - Panting breathing. - Cough with burning in trachea. - 12. Heart - Pain leaves heart and goes into right arm. - 13. Back - Neck stiff. - Pain streaking up and down the spine. - 14. Extremities - Right arm numb and fuzzy; inability to raise it. - Pains fly like electric shocks. - Aching heels amel. by elevating feet. - Shiny swelling of finger joints. - Sharp cutting pain in the hip; legs drawn up; cannot touch the floor. - 15. Skin - Corns. - Barber's itch. - Ringworm. Cases - 63. Phytolacca, 200th : - The rubrics that led to the remedy were : - KR. 836 - Bleeding nipples - Phyt. NOT in this. - KR. 836 - Inflammation, mammae - KR. 882 - Tumour, mammae - KR. 824 - Cancer, mammae - KR. 846 - Pain, mammae, during menses - KR. 114 - Dandruff - Phyt. NOT in it. - KR. 1318 - Eruptions, scaly. - (S.M. Gunavante - H.H. 1988/230)

Platinum metallicum Keywords - Haughty. - Contemptuous. - Alternating states. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Pains begin slowly, increase gradually, and disappear just as slowly. - 2. Profound conceit. - He thinks little of anyone besides himself - haughty, proud, egotistical, looks down on everything with contempt. - 3. Alternating moods - gay and sad. - 4. Premature and excessive development of sexual instinct and desire in virgins. - Genitals excessively sensitive to napkin, examination or coition. - Nymphomania. - 5. Constipation from inertia of bowels. - Even soft stools are difficult to evacuate. - 6. Sleeps with legs apart - due to sensitiveness of genitals. - 7. Irresistible impulse to kill even her loved ones. - 8. Alternating physical, mental or sexual symptoms. - Body suffers when mind is cheerful etc. - 9. Disordered sense of proportion (both ocular and mental). - Objects seem smaller, strange, frightful, mentally proud. - 10. Contradictory states; serious or irritable over trifles.

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- Eructations loud on empty stomach. - 11. Dislikes her children; calls them too little. Mind - Feels she does not belong to her own family; feels forsaken, deserted. - Dread; fears death. - Screams for help. - Weeps with pains. - Thinks her husband will never return; something will happen to him. - Whistles, sings, dances, unchaste, lewd talk. - Proud, self-centered with contempt for others. - Pompous (important). - Aversion to company. - Taciturn. - Haughty. - Egotism. - Delusion that he is a great person. - Disordered sense of proportion, size and situation. - Moods alternate from one extreme to another. - Alternating mental, physical or sexual symptoms. - Weeps and laughs alternately. - Wounded pride (or sexual excitement) brings on mental symptoms. - ANXIOUS sadness. - Anxiety of conscience as if guilty of crime. - Capricious. - Censorious, fault finding, quarrelsome. - Unkind. - Contemptuous of everything - insolent, offended easily. - Indifference to loved ones, aversion to her own children. - Contradiction, intolerant of. - Del. all persons are devils. - Discontented. - Envy. Female - Excessive sexual desire, especially in virgins (Kali phos). - Premature and excessive development of sexual consciousness, instinct and sex organs. - Masturbation before puberty (Grat., Orig.). - Nymphomania. - Plat may completely uncover during sleep. - Genitals excessively sensitive; to touch; to examination; faints during intercourse. - Cramps and spasms before menses. - Menses too early, too profuse, too long lasting. - Flow dark, clotted. Male - Satyriasis. - Masturbation before puberty. - Perverted sexual desire. Child - Excessive sexual development and desire in virgins. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Hysterical spasms, tonic and clonic, with laughter. - 2. Mind - Kill, impulse to; her own child; husband. - 3. Mind - Puerperal nymphomania or insanity. - 4. Stomach - Loud eructations while fasting. - 5. Abdomen - Pain umbilical, goes through to back (Plb). - 6. Rectum - Ineffectual desire for stool. - Stool adheres to rectum and anus like soft clay (Alum). - 7. Extremities - Complaints from right to left (more right sided). - 8. Sleep - Dream lascivious.

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- 9. Sleep - Position - sleeps with legs apart. - 10. Dreams - Amorous; confused; of dead; of fire; battle. - 11. General - Alternating; complaints of uterus with rheumatism. - 12. General - Catalepsy during menses. - 13. General - Convulsions - cramping pains and spasm develop into convulsion. - 14. General - Numbness (with stiffness) of suffering parts, with coldness. - 15. General - Pain increases gradually and as gradually decreases (Arg. n, Stann). - 16. General - Parts affected by cramp-like pain are painful to pressure, as if bruised. - 17. General - Sensation as if bandaged around parts. - 18. General - Sensation of growing larger in every direction. - 19. Generalities - Alternation of physical and mental symptoms. - Laughs and cries by turns. Cases - 1. Nash cured a case of insanity where the mental symptoms alternated with pain along the whole length of spine. - 2. Jules Gandy cured a woman who was tormented with an almost irresistible impulse to kill her husband whom she loved passionately, and with whom she was perfectly happy. - 3. A borderline case of paranoia where Plat. restored to sanity a woman whose sensations of local physical enlargement had created a suspicion of poisoning against her husband. - This is one of several border-line cases, saved from a mental hospital. - 31. Platina: Constipation - While travelling; from inertia of bowels; obstinate cases after Nux has failed. - (Allen's Keynotes). - (William Wesselhoeft - HH. 1982/692) - 74. Platina: - "Shrieking for aid" (KR. 80). - Censorious, faultfinding (KR. 10); hysterical (laughing and singing) - KR. 52. - Haughty (She is the biggest and best) KR. 51. - Suspicious (Syn. Rep. 983). - (Alison Hargreaves - H.H. 1990/448)

Plumbum metallicum Keywords - Sluggish - Intellect, perceptions, processes, colicky, constipation. - Atrophy, emaciation, paresis. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Thinks that everyone around her is a murderer, fear of assassination, of being poisoned. - 2. Slow perception; intellectual torpor; gradually increasing apathy (in fevers, Phos. ac.). - 3. Violent colic; sensation as if abdominal wall was drawn in by a string to the spine. - 4. Excessive and rapid emaciation, general or partial paralysis. - Emaciation of suffering parts. - 5. Emaciation of limbs with plump body; emaciation of paralysed parts, of single parts; after neuralgia. - 6. Severe colic accompanied by obstinate constipation, with hard, tense, "boat-shaped" abdomen, or sense of retraction of abdomen. - 7. Hyperaesthesia of skin, can't bear to be touched anywhere; with loss of power; later anaesthesia or loss of sensation. - 8. Violent, lightning-like neuralgic pains in lower limbs; aggr. evening, night; amel. by rubbing, pressure. - 9. Distinct blue line along margin of gums; gums swollen, pale. - 10. Constipation - Stools hard, lumpy, black like sheep dung (Chel., Op.); with terrible pain from spasm of anus; during pregnancy, when Platina fails.

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- 11. Slow, progressive muscular atrophy, paralysis. - 12. Atrophy of organs; of liver (cirrhosis), kidneys, uterus, spinal cord, etc. Mind - Slow of perception; gradually increasing apathy. - Weakness or loss of memory; unable to find the proper word (Anac., Lac-c.). - Lassitude; faints on going into a room full of people. - Amnesic aphasia. - Mental depression. - Fear of being assassinated. - Inclined to deceive, to cheat, to feign or exaggerate sickness. - Indifference, depression, somnolence and melancholy. - Hysterics only while being watched. - Physical labour exhausts the mind. - Intensely emotional while intellect is slowed down. Objective - Distinct blue line along margin of gums. - Extreme emaciation. - Rapid muscular atrophy from sclerosis of spinal system. - Assumes strange attitudes and positions in bed. - Slowness of perception; intellectual torpor. - Anaemia; anaesthesia, hyperaesthesia, paralysis. - "Wrist drop". - Sheep dung stools. - Impulse to stretch with abdominal distress. - Violent retraction of abdomen (navel), anus, testes. - Exaggerates her condition. - Skin wrinkled, shrivelled and drawn over the bones. - Trembling tongue; sticky saliva. Causation (a.f. ) - Ill effects of repelled eruptions and sexual excesses. - Odour of paints, or exposure to paints (colic). Modalities - Agg. - At night (pain in the limbs); exertion; motion. - Amel: - Hard pressure and rubbing. - Bending backward relieves pain in stomach. Food & drinks appetite & thirst - Desires - Bread; alcoholic drinks; sour; sweets; tobacco. - Aversion to food. Female - Vaginismus with emaciation and constipation. - Induration of mammary glands. - Vulva and vagina hypersensitive. - Menorrhagia with sensation of retraction of abdomen. - Ovarian pain amel. by stretching legs. - Menses arrested by colic (Mag.c. ). - Uterus fails to develop with the foetus, causing or threatening abortion (feels lack of room for foetus in uterus at night, and must stretch limbs violently. - So also with ovarian pains). - Eclampsia. Male - Testicles drawn up, feel constricted. - Loss of sexual power. - Impotence with emaciation and debility. Child - Marasmus of infants in apparently hopeless cases. - Abdomen large and hard with extreme constipation. - Obstinate constipation and colic of infants. - Infantile paralysis. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Throat - Paralysis of throat, with inability to swallow. - 2. Extremities - Colic with paralysis of lower extremities.

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- 3. Abdomen - Excessive pain in abdomen, radiating to all parts of body. - 4. Abdomen - Gastralgia amel. by hard pressure and bending backwards (Diosc.). - 5. Abdomen - Hernia : umbilical, inguinal or femoral; strangulated (Nux). - 6. Sleep - Impulse to stretch (and assume strange position in bed) in abdominal distress. - 7. Abdomen - Intestinal obstruction with colic and faecal vomiting (Cup., Op.). - 8. Abdomen - Syphlitic, abdomen painful to contact or least motion (Nash and Raue's Special Pathology). - Tabetio crisis. - 9. Kidneys - Bright's disease with small granular, contracted kidney. - 10. Extremities - Locomotor ataxia with fulgurating pains. - 11. Abdomen - Pain in atrophied limbs alternates with colic. - 12. Extremities - Paralysis (wrist-drop) from over-exertion of extensor muscles in piano players (Curare). - 13. Sleep - Assumes strange attitude and position in bed. - 14. Sleep - Sleeplessness, total. - 15. Skin - Yellow skin; dark brown "liver spots" in climacteric years. - 16. Face - Expression of great anxiety and suffering; cheeks sunken; complexion pale, ash-coloured, yellow, corpse-like. - 17. General - Feels must stretch in every direction, but cannot, as if from paralysis. - 18. General - Paralysis of extensor muscles, so that extension becomes difficult or impossible. Cases - 113. Plumbum : - Rubrics selected from Kent's Repertory : - (1) Delusion that he is about to be poisoned. - (2) Hears voices. - (3) Involuntary laughter. - (4) Del. that there were conspiracies against him. - (5) Loquacity. - (6) Suspicious. - (Health through Homoeopathy, Sep. 1947 - H.H. 1987/400).

Psorinum Keywords - Despair. - Filthy. - Chilly. - Foul discharges. - Unhealthy skin - sensitive to cold air. - Fear of misfortune. Synopsis (a.f. ) - 1. Filthy body odour, filthy like rotten eggs (Kreos). - 2. Unhealthy skin. - Dirty appearance though washed. - Face greasy. - 3. Excretions foul, carrion-like odour. - Odour permeates the house. - 4. Excessive itching. - Despair from itching of skin. - 5. Great sensitiveness to cold. - "Wears a fur coat in summer". - 6. Hungry in the middle of the night.

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- 7. Profuse perspiration, relieves complaints. - 8. Complaints preceded or accompanied by hunger - very hungry a day before attack (of diarrhoea) (N.V. ). - 9. Unusually well before the attack. - 10. Washes his hands and feet constantly. Mind - Easily angered, sad and joyless. - Despair of recovery (of health, business, money). - Fear of failure in business. - Anxiety with fear. - Forsaken feeling. - Anxiety about the future. - Delusion, was going to lose his fortune; that he is poor. - Discouraged. - Fear of misfortune. - Fear of disaster, of fire, of being alone, of apoplexy, of cancer. - Indolence; aversion to work. - Sadness, depression. - "No joy in anything". - Fear of busy streets; of death. - Anxiety of conscience. - Always washing her hands and feet. - Sleep unusually sound. - Dreams frightful; of robbers. - Suicidal thoughts. Causation (a.f. ) - Suppression of sweat. - Emotional excitement. - Stretching to reach high places. - Loss of fluids. - Over-lifting. - Sprains. - Injuries. - Long past infectious diseases. Modalities - Agg: - Cold air (a human barometer); a verse to open air. - Change of weather. - (Wears a warm wrapper even in summer). - Averse to washing. - Stormy weather. - Heat of bed, of woollens; yearly; full moon. - Amel: - Profuse sweat amel. all complaints. - Lying with head low. - Hard pressure. - Washing parts. - Eating. - In a warm room. Food - Anorexia with great thirst or ravenous appetite soon after eating. - Great thirst. - Desires - Acids, beer; charcoal, indigestible things. - Aversion - Pork. Female - Menses early, profuse or too late and for one day only. - Very offensive. - Obstinate vomiting of pregnancy not amel. by other drugs. - Leucorrhoea, fetid, horribly putrid, large clotted lumps. Male - Impotence; no emission at coitus. Child - Baby fretful day and night. - Restless, tossing about, screaming. - Easily startled.

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- Delicate, puny, sickly. - Obstinate. - Shrieks at night. - Bedwetting at full moon. - Obstinate caries with f/h of eczema. - Bores finger in his ears; grinds teeth in sleep. - Emaciation with ravenous appetite. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Headache alternates with toothache or cough, or with eruptions. - 2. Head - Headache with hunger, amel. eating (Anac, Lyc.). - Dandruff; herpetic eruptions on scalp, especially temples; crusts, scabs which ulcerate. - Eczema. - 3. Eyes - Chronic recurring ophthalmia. - 4. Throat - Quinsy, eradicates tendency to repeated attacks. - 5. Stool - Dark, gushing, horribly putrid stools of penetrating odour. - 6. Chest (heart) symptoms, better lying down. - 7. Gen. Female - Foul, fetid odour or discharges (leucorrhoea, stool, sweat, menses, otorrhoea, saliva). - Odour permeates the house. - 8. Respiration - Asthma amel. only by lying down with arms stretched far apart (cannot breathe when standing or sitting). - 9. Expectoration - Expectorates only after coughing for a long time (phthisis). - Sputa green, yellow, salty mucus; or streaked with blood. - 10. Sleep - Sleepless from itching, which is intolerable. - 11. Sleep - Dreams anxious; of business; danger; frightful; robbers; of stools. - 12. Fever - Hay fever, same day of the month every year. - 13. Perspiration - Sweats easily from least exertion. - Profuse sweat amel. all complaints. - 14. Skin - Coarse, greasy as if smothered in oil. - 15. Skin - Constantly recurring body lice. - 16. Skin - Dirty. Chaps and cracks easily; thick; scaly; hard; dry or moist. - Amel. in summer, worse in winter (Petr.). - 17. Skin - Urticaria after exertion (Nat.m. ). - 18. General - Debility extreme, lingering after acute or violent diseases. - 19. General - Lack of reaction, when well chosen remedies fail. - 20. Sleep - Dreams anxious; of business; danger; frightful; robbers; of stools. Cases - 28. Psorinum : - Adapted to dirty persons, with filthy smelling body even after a bath; delicate, unhealthy looking children, who have a disagreeable smell around them. - Foul discharges, odour of body, stools, eruptions, sweat (SRP). - Vomiting : sour, stools : smelling like rotten eggs. - (H. N. Guernsey - HH 1982/245)

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- Changeable, Mild, Tearful, Yielding. - Fastidious. - Craves sympathy. - Aggr. warmth. - Thirstless. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Mild, gentle, affectionate and yielding disposition. - 2. Weeps easily, impossible to detail her ailments without weeping. - Consolation ameliorates. - 3. Symptoms ever-changing, apparently contradictory (Ign). - a.Very well one hour, very miserable the next. - Laughing, to tears. - Indifference changes to irritability. - Moods ever changing, variable, says she is well when very sick (Arn). - b. Physical - No two stools alike, no two chills, no two attacks alike. - Lacks vital heat but warmth agg. - 4. Symptoms rapidly shifting, wandering from one part to another. - 5. Pains appear and disappear gradually or appear gradually and when at height "let up with a snap". - Pains with chilliness. - 6. Thirstless in nearly all complaints. - 7. Craves fresh, cool air. - Agg. heat, warm rooms, sun. - 8. Agg. from fat foods, rich food, eggs, warm drinks. - 9. Menses too late, scanty, intermittent flow; flow more during daytime. - 10. Sleeps late, after midnight. - Sound sleep when it is time to get up. - Awakes unrefreshed. Mind - Extremely mild, gentle, fearful, timid, yielding and tearful disposition. - Weeps very easily; can hardly tell her symptoms without weeping. - Emotional weeps at every thing, joy or sorrow. - Easily moved to laughter and tears. - Consolation, sympathy amel. - Craves sympathy. - Fear to be alone, of dark, ghosts, of men, in narrow places (claustrophobia). - Moods changeable and fickle; capricious. - Abrupt, rough, yet affectionate. - Fastidious. - Miserly; suspicious; irritable and touchy. - Offended easily. - Slow and irresolute. - Forsaken feeling. - Sad from disagreeable news. - Dreams of cats. Objective - Weeps when telling of her sickness (Sep). - Discharges profuse, bland, thick, yellow-green. - Mild, timid, weepy. - Craves sympathy. - Cannot lie with head low. - Veins full, varicose, painful. - Chilly, yet averse to heat. - Styes, blepharitis. - Mouth slimy or dry, thirstless; licks lips. - Better by tying clothes tightly. - Child wants to be carried slowly (fast : Ars.). Causation (a.f. ) - Mind - Fright, grief, anticipation, jealousy, mortification, hurry, disappointment, emotional excitement. - Physical - Irregular menses. - Ovarian and uterine troubles. - Eating fatty and starchy food; ice-cream, tea or coffee. - Suppressed gonorrhoea; getting feet wet. Modalities

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- Agg. - Warmth of air, of room, but also occasionally becomes chilly (changeability). - Sun. - Evening; at twilight. - Beginning motion. - Lying on left side or painless side. - Eating, long after. - Warm applications. - Puberty. - Pregnancy. - Before menses. - Hanging down limbs. - Tea. - Thunderstorms. - Getting wet. - Amel. - Cold, fresh open air and uncovering. - Gentle, slow motion, continued motion. - Erect posture. - After a good cry (weeping). - Lying with head high; on painful side. - Cold applications. - Cold food and drinks. Food & drinks - Appetite - Wanting. - Thirstless with nearly all complaints. - Craving - Refreshing things, cheese, pungent spicy food. - Aversion - Water, fats, bread, milk, pork, warm food and drinks, smoking. - Disagree - Rich foods, fat, ices, eggs, onions. Female - Menses delayed at puberty. - Menses too late, scanty, dark changeable. - Flows more during the day. - Milky fluid in mammae in virgins, before puberty. - Milk suppressed, scanty. - Malposition of foetus. - Breasts swell after weaning. - Weep every time the child is put to breast. - Milk-leg. - Leucorrhoea milky white, acrid (though all other discharges are bland). - Mania from suppressed menses. Male - Burning in left spermatic cord. - Acute prostatitis. - Orchitis. Child - Likes fuss and caresses. - Hydrocele of boys. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Eyes - Styes on upper lid, from eating fatty rich food. - 2. Ear - Greenish yellow discharge from ear, after measles. - 3. Gen. Female - Abortion - threatened, flow ceases and then returns with increased force. - Must have fresh air. - 4. Mouth - Taste - everything tastes bitter, especially early morning. - Cotton-like saliva. - 5. Stomach - Vomiting of food some hours (4 to 5 hrs) after eating. - 6. Thirst

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- Thirstless during chill and heat, but it begins as fever subsides; sweat with great thirst. - 7. Rectum - Diarrhoea - usually at night; very changeable; from fruit, cold food and drinks. - 8. Bladder - Retention of urine after confinement. - 9. Bladder - Urination - involuntary, when sitting, coughing or walking, laughing, sneezing. - 10. Genit. Male - Testicles - acute inflammation. - 11. Genit. F. - Menstrual pain begins with the flow. - (Lach pain subsides as flow begins). - 12. Gen. F. - Menses cease while lying (rev : Kreos). - 13. Extremities - Dry sensation in the joints. - 14. Extremities - Oedematous swelling of one foot only. - 15. Chill - More severe the pains the more severe the chill. - 16. General - Contradictory and alternating states of mind and body. - 17. Sleep - Sleepy but cannot sleep. - Lies awake. - Sleeps with arms over head. - Sleeps on abdomen. - 18. Dreams - Anxious; of business; frightened by a black dog; nightmare. - 19. General - Direction of pain : downward. - 20. General - Hanging down of affected limbs (feet) increases the suffering. - 21. General - Metastasis - of mumps to mammae or testicles. - 22. General - Motion - beginning agg., continued, amel., slow motion amel. - 23. General - Numbness of part lain on. - 24. General - Pains - tearing, rapidly shifting from one part to another; amel. by slow motion in open air. - 25. General - Pains - wandering, often with swelling and redness of joints. - 26. General - Secretions from all mucous membranes are thick, bland and yellowish-green (Kali-s, Nat-s) except leucorrhoea which is acrid. - 27. General - One sidedness of complaints - headache on one side; sweat only on left side, or only on the right, in fever. - One hand, foot cold, the other hot. Cases - 33. Pulsatilla: - Suppressions-otorrhoea, menses, lochia, etc. (will include leucorrhoea), then metastasis (BSK). - Pain (tension) much increases (gradually) until very acute and then "lets up with a snap". - (C. M. Boger - HH. 1989/167) - 103. Pulsatilla : - One sided sweat was the guiding indication. KR. 1300. - It is not the only drug, but other confirmatory modalities led to its choice. - Conium : sweats as soon as he closes eyes. - Thuja sweats on uncovered parts only. - Bell. sweats on covered parts only. - (W. Lees Templeton - H.H. 1981/38)

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- High grade sepsis and disproportionate pulse. - Restlessness. - Duality. - Loquacity. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. For all types of septic states (puerperal, surgical, ptomaine or sewer gas infection), when blood is disorganised, heart becomes weak and muscles prostrated. - When the best selected remedy fails to relieve. - 2. The bed feels hard (Arn.), the parts lain on feel sore and bruised (Bapt.). - 3. Great restless amel. by first beginning to move (rev. Rhus tox.). - So restlessness, and better by motion for a very short time, then he must keep on moving, to relieve the soreness of parts. - 4. Horribly foul discharges-menses, sweat, vomitus, body odour; also lochia, diarrhoea. - Foul breath. - 5. Tongue large, flabby; clean and smooth as if varnished; fiery red. - 6. Pulse abnormally rapid, out of proportion to temperature (Lil.), or the reverse. - 7. Abscesses, recurrent, with pain and violent burning. - 8. Loquacity during fever; with a sense of duality and sensation as if limbs are spread over the bed. Mind - Brain active; he makes speeches and writes articles at night. - Loquacious; thinks and talks faster than ever before during fever. - Sense of duality, feels as if crowded with arms and legs. - Talks in sleep. - Restlessness. - Thinks he is very wealthy. - Full of anxieties and insane notions; hallucinations. Objective - Chronic complaints dating back to septic conditions. - Loquacious; insane notions. - Restless. - Aching all over, bed feels hard. - Foul, putrid secretions and excretions. - Feels disgusted with his own body odour. - Tongue clean, smooth as if varnished; fiery red. - Pulse quick, out of all proportion to temperature, or vice versa. - Quickly oscillating temperature. - Septic haemorrhages (if Ipec. fails when indicated - Yingling). - Frequent urging to urinate before fever comes. Causation (a.f. ) - Chronic complaints that date back to septic conditions. - (When patient continually relapses after apparent simillimum in latent pyogenic processes). - Never well since attack of septic fever, following abortion or confinement. Modalities - Agg. - From becoming cold. - In damp cold weather. - Amel: - From motion; continual change of position; heat, hot bath; and hot drinks. - Pressure. - From hard rocking. Appetite, taste, cravings etc - Taste. - Sweetish; terribly fetid, pus-like. - Thirst. - Great thirst for small quantities of cold drinks, but the least liquid is instantly rejected. Female - Menses horribly offensive. - Fever at each menstrual period. - Septic, infectious fever during puerperium. - Lochia suppressed followed by fever, chill and profuse, fetid sweat. - Septicaemia following abortion. - Puerperal peritonitis. Male - Testes hang down, relaxed. - Scrotum looks and feels thin. Child

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Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Nose - Fanlike motion of alae nasi (Ant.t. , Lyc., Phos, etc.). - 2. Face - Sunken, sordes on teeth. Bloated. - 3. Extremities - Varicose ulcers of old people, obstinate, offensive (Psor.). - 4. Rectum - Constipation obstinate, from complete inertia, impaction; stools hard, dry, putrid, carrion-like odour; black balls (Op., Plb.). - 5. Stool - Involuntary stool and urine in septic fevers. - 6. Urination - As a prodrome of fever. Frequent urination as soon as fever comes on. - 7. General - "Never well since" septic fever, after abortion - to arouse vital activity of uterus. - 8. Gen. Female - Haemorrhages septic, uterine, nose bleed, dark blood. - In uterine haemorrhages, if Ipecac fails when indicated, Pyrogen is to be given (Yingling). - 9. Gen. Female - Sepsis - from wounds, after abortion, accouchement or from retained secondines or dead foetus - think of Pyrogen (H.C. Allen). - 10. Gen. Female - Suppressed lochia or urine, or when flow from an open abscess becomes scanty. - Great pain, chill, fever and profuse putrid sweat follow. - 11. Chest - Heart - threatened heart failure in zymotic and septic fevers. - Distinct consciousness of heart with whizzing and purring which prevents sleep. - 12. Extremities - Automatic movement of arm and leg (right). - 13. Sleep - Frightful dreams in sleep; cries out in sleep from oppression in chest. - 14. Fever - Chill violent during puerperal fever. - When chilly no fire would warm up the patient; sits by fire and wants to breathe of it. - Lungs feel heated at night, then must have fresh air which relieves. - 15. Fever - Temperature quickly oscillating - hot sweat with high temperature (103 to 106); pulse rapid, out of proportion. - Sweating does not cause fall in temperature - 16. Fever - Chronic malaria with cold sweat all over the body. - 17. Skin - Dissecting wounds or abscesses with burning pains. - 18. Skin - Rapid decubitus of septic origin. - 19. Skin - Small cut or injury becomes much swollen and inflamed - discoloured. Cases - 13. Pyrogen - For septicaemia ... from ptomaine or sewer gas infection. - Tongue clean, smooth as if varnished; fiery red; dry, cracked (Allen's Keynotes). - Pulse abnormally rapid, out of all proportion to temperature (A). - (H.C. Allen - HH. 1979/626) - 109. Pyrogenium : - Rubrics selected. - Pulse, accelerated, frequent - Abdomen distended. - Perspiration profuse. - Horribly offensive breath (Phatak's M.M. ). - Great restlessness (Lippe). - (Margaret Burgess Webster - H.H. 1983/368)

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- Extremely restless; must move constantly; though exhausted, cannot rest. - Worse getting wet when heated and over-exertion of mind and body. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Extreme restlessness, with continual change of position which relieves temporarily. - Irresistible desire to move continually. - 2. Rest agg. - suffering increased when the body or the limb is at rest without movement. - 3. Complaints excited or increased by exposure to wet cold, dampness and change of weather to cold, esp. when perspiring and the skin is moist; after getting heated. - 4. Agg. when first beginning to move and amel. from continued motion, and from heat; bathing with hot water. - 5. Agg. at night, especially after midnight. - 6. Pains - aching; tearing; sore; bruised; stiff; numbness and tingling, lame (rheumatic; paralytic) all agg. by rest, amel. by continued motion; agg. by exposure to cold, wet air. - 7. Paretic, paralytic effects, usually functional, less often from spinal inflammation. - May be of single parts; affected part cold and numb. - Aggr. from wet cold, or over-exertion. - "The great antiparalytic." - 8. Great thirst with dry tongue, mouth and throat. - 9. Straining or spraining of muscles or tendons; from overlifing or from stretching high up to reach things, or from lying on damp ground, or too much summer bathing in a lake or river. - 10. Anxiety; profound despondency. - Forgetful, cannot remember the most recent events. - Fearful in the evening without knowing why. - 11. When acute diseases take a typhoid form - dysentery, peritonitis, pneumonia, scarlatina, diphtheria. Mind - Sad, anxious, depressed, beclouded. - Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences after midnight. - Apprehension at night, cannot stay in bed. - Continued exertion of mind exhausts (Phos). - Weeps, knows not why. - Delirium in low fevers, usually mild delirium (rev. Bell), especially with fear of being poisoned (but not so marked as with Hyos). - Thoughts of suicide by drowning (Lac-c., Puls.), yet fears death. - Forgets recent events. - Anxiety respecting one's children. - Mood very restless. Objective - Tongue-red triangle at tip. - Fine vesicular eruptions, crusty, eczematous, moist. - Anxious restlessness. - haemoptysis from over-exertion; blowing wind instruments. - Rheumatoid inflammation of joints. Causation (a.f. ) - Getting wet while perspiring. - Spraining or straining a single part, muscle or tendon. - Over-lifting; stretching high up to reach things. - Lying on damp ground. - Being in water too long (swimming). - After-effects of syphilis. Modalities - Agg. - At rest; when first beginning to move; at night, esp. after midnight. - Before a storm. - Cold, wet rainy weather. - Getting wet while perspiring. - Cold bathing; sea bathing. - On waking in the morning (after a night's repose). - Winter. - After surgical operation (injury needing rest). - Amel. - Continued motion; change of position; moving affected part. - Warm, dry weather, wrapping up; warm or hot things. - Amel. by heat in general (wraps, hot bath), rubbing. Food & drinks - Appetite, Thirst, Cravings. - Hunger without appetite. - Great thirst, but no appetite for any kind of food.

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- Great thirst from dryness of throat.. - Craves cold MILK, cold drinks (which cause cough). - Desire for sweets, oysters. - Averse : to meat (rev. Mag. c.). - Disagree - Ice-water causes pain in stomach. - Nausea from eating ice-cream; or after eating. - Aversion to beer; fats; soup; rich food. Female - Amenorrhoea from getting wet; with milk in breast, Prolapsus uteri from lifting or over-straining. - Abortion threatened after a sprain or strain. - Puerperal fever or milk- leg with typhoid-like symptoms. Child - Incontinence of urine, agg. night or lying, in boys. - Nosebleed from physical exertion. - Tendency to catch cold easily; from getting wet. - Eczema of infants. - Infantile paralysis (when the child is taken to the bath and made to sit on cold ground). Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Vertigo - Vertigo, agg. lying down (reverse of Apis). - 2. Head - Headache - "swashing in brain"; agg. stepping; returns from least chagrin; agg. in cold, sitting; amel. warmth, motion. - 3. Eye - Orbital cellulitis (almost a specific); saccular conjunctiva. - Photophobia. - Tears gush; pus forms rapidly. - 4. Eyes - Corneal pustules. - Styes on lower lid (Puls. upper). - 5. Nose - Epistaxis at night from bending forward while straining at stool. - 6. Mouth - Saliva bloody, runs out at night during sleep. - 7. Mouth - Lower jaw cracks on every motion and dislocates easily. - 8. Tongue - Triangular red tip, white on one side, yellow at base. - 9. Throat - Glands - parotid and submaxillary glands hard and swollen. - 10. Abdomen - Colic amel. bending double (Colocy), but motion amel. - 11. Rectum - Diarrhoea with typhoid - involuntary, with great exhaustion; tearing pain down the posterior part of limbs during stool. - 12. Stool - Dysentery - stool thin, red mucus, or like meat water with marked craving for cold milk. - 13. Cough - Cough excited by cold drinks (rev. Caust) or putting hand out of bed (Hep). - 14. Chest - Heart, hypertrophy of heart, uncom-plicated; not associated with valvular lesions.... from effects of over-exertion (athletes, those who handle heavy loads). - 15. Chest - Heart, palpitation, following over-exertion with usually numbness of left arm and shoulder. - 16. Back - Lumbago, no matter whether better from motion or not; but great pain on attempting to rise; stiff neck; amel. warmth. - 17. General - Continued motion relieves many complaints - pains, soreness, stiffness; sore nipples amel. by suckling; parotid gland (right side) with rigid, stiff neck, amel. for continued motion. - This illustrates the note of paresis that runs through the remedy. - Thus we study "the spirit of the drug". - The homoeopath must be an artist (Bhanja). - 18. Extremities - Erysipelas-dark red, itching, tingling, high fever, mild delirium; goes from left to right (Apis: r to l., rosy red. Lach : l

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to r., purple red). - 19. Extremities - Paralysis in various forms, esp. in rheumatic patients from over-exertion or exposure to wet, damp. - Affects the fibrous tissues, tendons, fasciae, sheaths of nerves, ligaments and tissues external to joints (joints themselves : Bry). - 20. Extremities. - Sides. - Left side of body; arm; chest; lower extremity. - Right abdominal ring (ileo-caecal region). - 21. Extremities - Hard swelling of big toe ("rheumatic gout"). - 22. Sleep - Dreams of great exertion; rowing, swimming, working hard at his daily occupation (Bry.). - 23. Sleep - Dreams of rowing; world on fire; of water. - 24. Sleep - Yawning so violent and spasmodic - causes pain in maxillary joint which is in danger of being dislocated. - 25. Fever - Typhoid - at beginning lies perfectly quiet due to great weakness, indifferent. - Mild delirium. - Mental and physical restlessness. - May try to jump out of bed. - Refuses medicine and food; fears he will be poisoned. - 26. Skin - Eczema, chronic, vesicular, surface raw, excoriated (Graph., Sul), with great itching not amel by scratching. - 27. Skin - Itching, incessant; amel. only with "almost scalding" water. - 28. Skin - Skin diseases alternating with dysentery or asthma. - 29. Skin - Vesicular eruptions, accompanied by oedema, with burning itching and tingling (more itching than in Apis). - Esp. skin of face and genital organs. - Dusky redness of affected part. - 30. General - Complaints of Rhus-t from getting wet stay in the part affected; those of Puls. ascend; those of Bell. descend (Pulford). - 31. General - Periodicity. Cases - 17. Rhus tox: - Agg. eet weather (KR. 1421). - Agg. at beginning of motion and amel. by continued motion (KR. 1374-75). - Desires milk (KR. 485). - Paralysis, hemiplegia, left side (KR. 1176). - (G.E. Dienst - HH. 1982/571) - 38. Rhus tox : - This case only shows what this remedy can accomplish in serious cases of this disease, but also points a moral. - In treating malaria homoeopathically, one must obtain an accurate picture of the case, for a remedy that is near the mark will not help. - It is sometimes difficult to differentiate between Arsenicum and Rhus tox. - Since the Arsenicum was prescribed by an experienced homoeopath, and the case presented several Ars. symptoms I worked it out with unusual care, using Kent's Repertory as my guide. - When in doubt it is always advisable to consult a good repertory, esp. in malarial fevers, for the distinguishing features of the case are often obscure. - Further, Rhus tox is not indicated in intermittent fever as frequently as are Nat. mur and Ars., but when the symptoms call for it, there is no substitute. - The following rubrics were taken for the repertorial analysis. - Restlessness (the most marked general symptom), "tossing about". - p. 73. - Restlessness during chill - p. 73. - Restlessness during heat - p. 74. - Thirst during chill - p. 528. - Chill at 6 p.m. - p. 1274 - Chill beginning in the back - p. 1236 - - between the scapulae - p. 1263 - Chill, worse on uncovering - p. 1275 - Chilliness from uncovering during heat - p. 1292

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- As if cold water were dashed over him - p. 1276 - Yawning before chill - p. 1275 - Extremities - Pain in upper limbs during chill - p. 1050 - Extremities-Pain in lower limbs - p. 1063 - Numbness of extremities in general - p. 1035 - "Coldness as though a wind were blowing on the body" - p. 1277 - Chill aggr. by drinking - p. 1266. - The "time agg." and "nature of thirst" of Ars. and Rhus are different. - (Harvey Farrington - H.H. 1984/13)

Sabina Keywords - Haemorrhagic. - Pain from back to pubes. - Music intolerable. - Abortion in third month. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Drawing pain in the small of back from sacrum to pubes with nearly all complaints. - 2. Pain from lumbar region forward to pubes or reverse, or shooting up to the vagina. - 3. Discharge of blood between the periods with sexual excitement. - 4. Haemorrhages coming in gushes, suddenly increasing and slowly disappearing. - 5. Haemorrhage from uterus, flow partly pale red, partly clotted; worse from least motion, relieved by walking. - 6. Threatened abortion about the third month with pain in the small of the back going down the thighs. - 7. Music is intolerable; produced nervousness; goes through the bone and marrow (causes weeping : Thuj). - 8. Uterine haemorrhage always attended with pain in the joints. - 9. Figwarts with intolerable itching and burning. Mind - Very irritable. - Hypochondriasis. - Music is intolerable. - Dejected and discouraged. - Sad. - Great anxiety and apprehension. - Morose, with dislike of conversation. - Listless. - Weak memory. Objective - Complaints of fibrous tissue of small joints. - Hot blooded women of gouty-rheumatic diathesis and haemorrhagic tendency. - Acutely inflamed arthritic nodes. - Music produces nervousness. - Urine bloody with much burning. - Insatiable desire for coition (both sexes). - Premature labour. - Crawling or voluptuous itching in nipples. - Haemorrhage, metritis or ovaritis after abortion. - Dysmenorrhoea amel. by lying flat on back with limbs extended. - Black pores in skin esp. face. - Figwarts, foul, itching, burning. Causation (a.f. ) - Ailments after abortion or premature labour. Modalities - Agg. - At night; least motion; foggy weather; stooping; sitting bent; warm in bed. - Music. - Worse taking a deep breath. - Letting limbs hang down. - Amel. - Pressure. - Walking; lying flat on back with limbs extended. - Open air. - Exhalation. Appetite, thirst, cravings, etc - Appetite poor.

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- Taste bitter to food, esp. milk or coffee. - Craves : lemonade, acids. Female - Menses too early, too profuse, too protracted; only when lying down. - Partly fluid, partly clotted; in women who menstruated very early in life. - Flow in paroxysms with colic and labour-like pains. - Metrorrhagia with paroxysmal flow of bright colour, with pain in the joints. - Menorrhagia during climacteric in women who aborted or with early first menses. - Threatened abortion, third month. - Intense after-pains. - Promotes expulsion of moles or foreign bodies from uterus. - Placenta retained due to atony of uterus; discharge of clots with each pain. - Leucorrhoea, foul, acrid, yellowish like starch, itching of genitals. - Menses suppressed followed by fetid leucorrhoea. Male - Warts itching, burning of genitals. - Phimosis. - Swelling of dorsum of penis. - Deep redness of glans. - Sycotic excrescences. - Violent erections. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Bursting headache, esp. in temporal eminences; often appears suddenly, diminishes slowly and returns frequently. - 2. Ears - Gets deaf on foggy weather or in any change of weather. - 3. Face - Black pores in cheeks and around nose. - 4. Stomach - Nausea with fullness in stomach. - 5. Rectum - Bleeding haemorrhoids. - Piles alternate with pain in limbs. - Excessive discharge of bright red blood or blood and mucus. - 6. Bladder - Painful inflammation of urethra, with discharge of pus as in gonorrhoea. - 7. Abdomen - Quivering abdomen, resembling foetal movements. - 8. Back - Pain felt all the way between the sacrum and the pubes, from one bone to the other. - 9. Extremities - Cracking in joints. - Distortion of fingers. - Tearing pains most in wrist joints and toes with shiny swelling. - 10. Sleep - Sleeplessness, restlessness after midnight; talking and loud snoring during sleep. - 11. Kidneys - Throbbing, burning in the region of kidneys. - 12. Fever - Shuddering and shivering with cloudiness of sight. - Intolerable, burning heat of whole body with great restlessness. - 13. Skin - Itching; excoriation; ulceration. - 14. Female - Pruritus of pregnancy. Cases - 119. Sabina: - Rubrics - (1) Back, pain, sacral region, extends to pubes. - (2) Menses copious. - (3) Menses frequent, too early. - (Dr. Jas. B. Bell - H.H. 1984/180)

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Keywords - Multi-miasmatic, despondent, despairing, persons with genito-urinary complaints, associated with emaciation and shrivelled skin. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Marasmus - neck is greatly emaciated; skin all over body lies in folds. - 2. Child screams before and while passing urine (due to passage of small stones. Bor., Lyc.) - 3. Can only pass urine while standing (Alum., Caust., Hyper.). - Urine dribbles while sitting. - 4. Much pain at the conclusion of urination (Berb.v. , Med., Thu.) - 5. White sand in urine (red sand: Lyc., brown sand: Phos.). - 6. Rheumatic pains worse at night, or after taking cold water. - 7. Nodes, gouty, very sore. - 8. Urine turbid, scanty, slimy, clayey, sandy or bloody - passed without sensation (Caust.). - 9. Bone pains, nightly. - 10. Eruptions looking like the roseola of syphilis, itching intolerably. - 11. Retraction of nipples - or nipples small, withered, unexcitable (Sil., Hydr.). - 12. Renal colic extends downward from right kidney - with a shower of small, light coloured calculi and excruciating pain at the close of urination. - 13. Side - Affections of right lower extremities. - 14. Pains shooting, radiating, accompanied by depression and anxiety. Mind - Despondency, amounting to despair. - Sensitive, easily offended, ill-humoured; taciturn. - Anger at past events. - Capricious. - Intolerant of contradiction. - Discontented, dissatisfied. - Dullness, difficulty of thinking. - Fear of heart disease. - Moods alternating, changeable. - Starting from sleep. - Feels unfortunate. - Weeping before and during urination. - Prostration of mind; brain fag; work impossible. Objective - Thin, frail and old looking. - Blotchy, hard, shrivelled skin. - Deep cracks on fingers and toes. - Very sore gouty nodes. - Crusty urinary sediment. - Retracted or cracked nipples. - Itching eruptions. - Nightly bone pains. - Painful urination at the close, extorts cries. - Copper coloured eruptions. - Suppressed gonorrhoea. Causation - Abuse of mercury. - Syphilis or gonorrhoea suppressed. Modalities - Aggr. - Dampness; night. - At close of urination. - Cold, wet. - Suppressed gonorrhoea. - Yawning. - Warm diet. - Bread. - Going up or down stairs. - Washing. - Amel: - Uncovering neck or chest; loosening garments. - Cold drinks. - Standing (urination). - Rest.

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- Warmth. Appetite, thirst, cravings, aversions, etc - Food tastes insipid. - After eating a little feels stuffed. - Bread has a bitter taste. - Want of thirst. - Craving for cold food and drinks (Phos., reverse : Lyc.) - Aggr. from warm diet. Female - Menses late, scanty or (in an old maid) very profuse even to haemorrhage. - During menses, frequent urination. - Dysmenorrhoea, accompanied by retracted nipples, or sore breast. - Nipples retracted, small and shrivelled. Male - Fetid odour of genitals. - Bloody semen (Led., Merc.). - Spermatic cords ache on sexual excitement. - Spermatic cords tender if desire not gratified (Mag.m. ). - Pain from the back down the cords after emission. - Herpes on prepuce. - Desire for coition with frequent and painful pollution. Child - Marasmus of children with syphilitc parents. - Face like an old man with big abdomen, dry flabby skin (Bar. c., Op.). - Milk crust begins in the face. - Emaciation from above downwards. - Skin shrivelled, lies in folds (Abrot). - Renal colic with dysuria in infants, with passage of sand. - Sand on diaper. Peculiar, uncommon, characteristics symptoms - 1. Head - Pain as if a ball was striking in head when talking. - 2. Head - Pain as of a tight band around the head. - 3. Eyes - Foggy vision aggr. from seminal emission. - 4. Nose - Swelling at the root of nose. - 5. Face - Yellow, wrinkled, old looking. - 6. Mouth - Aphthae; salivation. - Offensive breath. - Pain in the jaw aggr. bending head back. - 7. Stomach - Drinking water causes vomiting. - 8. Abdomen - Colic and backache at the same time, with diarrhoea. - Rumbling with sensation of emptiness. - 9. Abdomen - Moist eruptions and soreness in groins before menses. - 10. Rectum - Obstinate constipation with frequent desire to urinate. - 11. Bladder - Profuse urination, extorts screams agg. at the close of urination. - 12. Bladder - Can pass urine only when standing, during the day, but at night urine flows freely in bed; it dribbles while sitting. - 13. Back - Emaciation of neck. - Pain from the small of back down the spermatic cord; after emission. - Backache with colic. - 14. Extremities - Ulcerated finger tips; affections of any kind in general in right lower extremity. - 15. Kidney - Renal colic; excruciating pain from right kidney downward (Lyc., Ocim.). - Dissolves stone in the bladder.

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- 16. Urethra - Air passes from urethra. - 17. Chill - Starts from the region of the bladder, to back. - 18. Skin - Black and blue spots on the back of hands, toes, shin bones. - 19. Skin - Shrivelled, or lies in fold (Abrot., Iod., Nat., Sanic.). - 20. Skin - Ulcers refuse to heal or become phagedenic (Ars., Lach., Merc. cor.). - 21. Skin - Herpetic eruptions on all parts of body. - 22. Generalities - Emaciation and debility persistent. - Prematurely old, shrivelled, emaciated. - 23. Sleep - Complaints concomitant to yawning. Cases - 46. Sarsaparilla : - These were my own symptoms when proving the remedy. - Rubrics - Pain, aching, spermatic cords. - Swelling of spermatic cords. - Sexual excitement, after. (Phatak's M.M. ) - (Dr. E.W. Berridge - H.H. 1984/58)

Secale cornutum Keywords - Violent, continuous contraction of muscles, arterioles. - Violent burning internally and icy coldness externally. - Haemorrhagic. Synopsis - 1. Internal burning as from sparks, with external coldness. - 2. Skin feels cold to touch, yet cannot tolerate covering. - 3. Haemorrhagic diathesis - slightest wound causes bleeding for weeks - thin, black, horribly offensive blood. - 4. Oozing of thin, watery, black blood - passive, in any part of body (nosebleed). - 5. Wants abdomen to be uncovered. - 6. Laxity of parts - everything seems loose and open. - 7. Formication under skin. - 8. Convulsions of single parts or of whole muscular system. - 9. Suppressed urination - pale, watery or bloody. - 10. Enuresis in old people. - 11. Dry gangrene. Mind - Anxiety with fear. - Confusion of mind. - Conscientious about trifles. - Delirium, raving, raging. - Fright, complaints from. - Indifference to exposure of her person. - Wants to be naked in delirium. - Mania with deeds of violence. - Nymphomania during menses. - Unconsciousness during parturition or during pregnancy. - Fear of death before and during menses. - Tears her genitals. - Forgetful after coition. - Dullness, sluggishness. - Despair. Objective - Old people. - Shrivelled skin. - Scrawny old women. - Dry gangrene developing slowly.

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- Skin cold, yet cannot bear to be covered. - Purpura haemorrhagica. - Eyes sunken, blue rings around. - Aversion to be covered and to heat. - Cramps in calves and feet; fingers spread apart. - Raynaud's disease; tingling and formication. - Prolonged and ineffectual pain during labour. - Postpartum haemorrhage. - Threatened abortion esp. at third month. - Painful colic with convulsions. - Coagulability of blood diminished. - Wants abdomen uncovered (Tab.). - Ravenous hunger and unquenchable thirst. Ailments from (causation) - Injury. - Exertion/lifting. - Sexual excesses. Modalities - Agg. - Heat; warmth; covering. - Drawing up the limbs; during pregnancy. - During menses. - Loss of fluids - Amel. - Uncovering; cold air; rubbing. - Violent stretching of limbs. - After vomiting. - From cold and bathing. Appetite & thirst - Unnatural, ravenous appetite; even with exhausting diarrhoea he is hungry. - Retching and vomiting of undigested food; body wasted; mouth distorted; profuse painless diarrhoea, ejected with violence. - Cold clammy sweat. - Desires - Lemonade; acids. - Averse to fat and meat. - THIRST : unquenchable. Female - Thin, scrawny, feeble. - Menses irregular, profuse, dark, watery blood - continues till next period. - Every discharge of blood is preceded by a painful contraction of uterus. - Threatened abortion especially at the third month. - Prolonged bearing down forcing pains. - Labour pains irregular, prolonged, and ineffective or pains entirely absent. - After-pains too long and painful. - Hour-glass contractions of uterus. - Suppression of milk in mother; breasts do not fill properly. - Leucorrhoea green, brown, offensive, alternating with metrorrhagia. - Lochia very offensive, thin. - Failure of lactation. - Puerperal convulsions with too feeble labour pains. Child - Pale face, sunken eyes, skin dry, shrivelled looking like an old man (Abrot) with convulsive twitching of limbs mostly at night. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Rectum - Diarrhoea, involuntary, profuse, putrid, with sensation as if anus was wide open. - 2. Eyes - Sunken and surrounded by blue margins. - 3. Tongue - Dry and cracked with oozing of blood like ink; tip of tongue tingling. - Haemorrhages preceded by formica-tion and tingling. - 5. Extremities - Spasmodic pains. - Fingers spread wide apart.

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- 6. Skin - Small painful boils with green contents. - Boils mature and heal very slowly. - Ulcers, old sluggish, indolent. - Leprosy - principal remedy (Bhanja). - 7. Perspiration - Cold, clammy sweat over the whole body. - 8. Fever - Violent shaking chill followed by violent heat with anxiety, delirium and almost unquenchable thirst. - Severe, long-lasting dry heat, with great restlessness and VIOLENT THIRST. - 9. Extremities - Cramps in hands, legs and feet. - Fingers spread apart. - Paralysis of limbs with convulsive jerks and shocks in the paralysed limbs. - Tension in limbs relieved by violent stretching of them. - 10. Abdomen - Empty feeling in the abdomen. - Hiccough, wants abdomen to be uncovered (Tabac). - 11. Rectum - Exhausting diarrhoea, putrid, foetid, profuse, watery, brown, with ravenous appetite. - 12. Urine - Enuresis of old people. - Suppression of urine. - 13. Skin - Skin feels cold to touch, yet patient cannot tolerate covering. Cases - 120. Secale cornutum : - Rubrics - Contractions, uterus, hour-glass. - Metrorrhagia, labour, during and after. - (Dr. W. Leroy Bonnell - Hom. Recorder, 1939 - H.H. 1988/503)

Sepia officinalis Keywords - Discontented; miserable; averse to all pleasures, even to family members. - Fearful. Synopsis - 1. Despair about his miserable existence. - 2. Indifferent to one's occupation, to family, to those loved best; to her off-spring. - 3. Exercise, fast walking, OCCUPATION amel. - 4. Anger from contradiction. - 5. Nausea at the thought, or sight of food (Ars., Nux); or at the smell of food (Colch.). - 6. Weeps when telling her symptoms. - 7. Yellow saddle across upper part of cheeks and nose. - 8. "Dragging down" (bearing down) pressure as if everything is coming out through vagina. - 9. Diseases of women esp. during pregnancy, childbed and lactation. - 10. Pot bellied of mothers (children : Calc.). - 11. Menses for one day only; agg. getting wet. - 12. Rheumatic pains with urinary complaints. - 13. Cases confused after bad selection of homoeopathic remedies. Mind - Aversion to family, to those loved best. - Aversion to sympathy; to company. - Stifled affections. - Aversion to milk; to coition (enjoyment absent). - Indifferent to family, to occupation. - Marked dullness of intellect. - Averse to business. - Unfortunate feeling, without cause. - Sits quietly, answers in monosyllables. - Great sadness and weeping over domestic affairs. - Constantly worries about real or imaginary illness. - Anxious fear about trifles.

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- Seems never to be happy unless annoying someone. - Industrious, amel. when occupied. - Discontinued, and displeased with everything. - Discouraged. - Shrieking unless she held on to something. - Offended easily. - Fear of men; of impending disease, of evil, of insanity; of poverty. - Delusion family will starve. - Greedy; miserly. - Consolation, kind words agg. - Action contradictory to intentions (undertakes things opposed to her intentions). - Sensitive to noise. - Frightened easily. - Timidity. - Impatience, while sitting. Objective - Yellow saddle across nose. - Drooping eyelids. - Odours and noise repulsive. - Jerks head back and forth. - Urine thick, foul, adhesive - with red sandy sediment. - Sits with thighs crossed - to reduce dragging down pains of uterus. - Hot hands and cold feet, or vice versa. Causation (a.f. ) - Working in water (laundry work); getting wet. - Sexual excesses. - Childbearing. - Blows and injuries; Over-lifting; falls; jars. Modalities - Agg. - Consolation. - Contradiction. - Cold air (chills so easily). - Pregnancy. - Agg. at rest. - Before thunderstorm. - Lying on left side. - Carriage riding = nausea (Cocc). - Amel: - Warmth of bed. - Violent exercises or occupation. - Short sleep. - Eating. Food & drinks - Appetite - Voracious, yet has "all-gone" empty sensation in stomach. - Thirst - Burning during chill. - Thirstless during heat. - Desires - Vinegar, acids, pickles. - Aversions - Meat, milk (Nat. c). - Disagree - Milk (boiled); fat food, pork. Female - Menses early and profuse - or late and scanty - or absent at puberty; or absent after weaning. - Menses for one day only. - Leucorrhoea yellow, milky, very fetid, only in daytime. - Tendency to abortion (5th to 7th months). - Coition painful from dryness of vagina. - Aversion to coition. - Irritable after coition. - Bearing down pains in uterus, must cross legs to prevent prolapsus of uterus. Male - Complaints after coition; offensive sweat on the scrotum; genitals cold; condylomata surrounding the head of

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penis; impotency with increased sexual desire. Child - Diarrhoea of infants (agg. milk). - Enuresis as soon as child sleeps (Kreos). - Ankles weak and turn easily when walking. - Leucorrhoea in little girls. - Jaundice in NEWBORN. - Atrophy, face like old man; big belly, dry flabby skin. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Great falling of hair during menopause or after chronic headache. - 2. Eyes - Eyelids droop (ptosis) as from paralysis (Caust., Gels.). - 3. Ears - Discharge thick yellow pus, offensive. - Swelling of external ear with eruptions. - 4. Stomach - Gone feeling in stomach not amel. by eating. - 5. Stomach - Intolerance of tobacco in any form (tobacco dyspepsia). - 6. Abdomen - Upward direction of symptoms (flushes of heat, of pain from uterus to navel). - 7. Rectum - Constipation obstinate; sense of weight or ball in rectum not amel. by stool. - 8. Urine - Urine deposits red sand which is difficult to remove from the vessel. - Urine turbid, offensive. - 9. Gen. Female - Ball-like (heavy) sensation in inner parts (rectum, vagina, uterus). - 10. Gen. Female - Morning sickness during pregnancy. - Agg. by sight or thought of food or smell of cooking. - 11. Respiration - Dyspnoea amel. by rapid motion, aggr. after sleep. - 12. Back - Pains from other parts settle in back. - 13. Extremities - Hands hot and feet cold, or vice versa. - 14. Extremities - Rheumatic pains with urinary complaints. - 15. Sleep - Talks loudly during sleep. - Dreams body is disfigured; anxious; of mice; of urinating; threats of rape. - 16. Skin - Herpes circinatus (ringworm) in isolated parts (Tell.-intersecting). - 17. General - Easily fatigued, easily benumbed. Cases - 14. Sepia: - "I always prescribe Sepia when a train of symptoms like these occur." - Painful sensation of emptiness, "all-gone" feeling, in the epigastrium, relieved by eating. - Constipation.....stool hard, knotty, in balls, difficult. - Urine deposits a reddish clay-coloured sediment which adheres to the vessel as if it had been burned on; so offensive, it must be removed from the room. - (Allen's Keynotes). Despair of recovery (SR. I). - (H.N. Guernsey - HH. 1982/244)

Silicea terra Keywords - Extremes of timidity, diffidence, non-thriving, chilliness to the bone, and a home for suppuration. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Timidity appearing in public. - 2. Want of self-confidence - want of grit, moral and physical. - 3. Noise, very sensitive to - starts at least noise.

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- 4. Anxious, yielding, faint-hearted. - Shrinks from the least responsibility; utterly lacking in self-confidence and self-assertion, seems to have no "go", no grit, in him. - 5. Dreads failure in examination; or the lawyer appearing before the judge, although he knows his subject well, and does well once he is "in harness". - 6. Great weakness, debility; wants to lie down. - 7. Always chilly, even if working hard (Led., Sep.); too sensitive to cold; hugs the fire, wants plenty of warm clothing. - 8. Hands and feet cold, esp. in winter. - Takes cold from exposure of feet and head, which must be kept warm by covering. - 9. Fetid, horribly offensive sweat of feet and soles, even with no bodily sweat; every evening. - The feet become sore with the sweat. - Sore between the toes too. - 10. Stool also horribly offensive; often it is hard and difficult and when it is half out, it slips back again; "bashful stool". - 11. All his PAINS are like splinters; or stitching pains; or pain like a gathering. - 12. Sweat profuse on the head; at night; running down the face (Calc.). - Bar.c. though similar to Sil. in many other respects does not have his sweat on the head. - Also Sil. is self-willed, and contrary. - 13. Desire to be magnetised or rubbed which amel. (Phos.). Mind - Mild, yielding and timid, yet obstinate and conscientious about trifles. - Mental acuteness with physical weakness and torpidity. - Unwarranted loss of self-confidence and fear of failure. - Anxiety when appearing in public. - Complaints from anticipation. - Brain fag; cannot stand mental exertion. - Very sensitive to noise. - Weeping, tearful mood. Objective - Open fontenelles with distended abdomen (in children). - Malnutrition; emaciation. - Keenly sensitive to noise, pain or cold. - Large head with wasted body (child). - Stubborn suppuration of every hurt. - FOOTSWEAT FOUL, acrid, itching. - Sweat profuse, head or affected parts, at night. - Want of vital warmth even while taking exercise. - Ailments from foreign body embedded in the tissues. Causation (a.f. ) - Suppression of sweat, esp. foot-sweat. - Vaccination. - Loss of vital fluids. - Injuries, sprains or splinters. - Exposing the head to any slight draft of air. - Stone cutters (or those working in textile mills and have to breathe fine particles of cotton) with chest complaints and total loss of strength. Modalities - Aggr. - Cold air; draft; warm, wet weather. - Checked sweat of feet. - Nervous excitement; jarring of spine; new and full moon (epilepsy, insanity); mental exertion. - Alcohol. - Amel. - Warmth; wrapping up head; profuse urine. - Rubbing. Food & drinks - Appetite, Thirst etc. - Want of appetite; excessive thirst. - Desires - Ice-cream and ice-water; feels comfortable when it is in the stomach. - Aversion - Disgust for meat and warm food. - Aversion to mother's milk, child vomits. Female - Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body.

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- Discharge of blood from vagina every time child is nursed. - Constipation always before and during menses. - Discharge of blood between menstrual periods. - Nipples very sore; ulcerated easily; drawn in. - Fistulous ulcer of breast. Male - Elephantiasis of scrotum; hydrocele. - Nocturnal emissions. - Extreme exhaustion after coition; takes a week to overcome weakness. - Prostatorrhoea while straining at stool. Child - Rachitis, marasmatic, with disproportionately large, sweaty head (Calc., Sanic). - Open fontanelles and sutures; big abdomen and emaciated limbs; poorly developed bones and muscles; sunken eyes, old-looking pinched face. - Weak ankles. - Slow in learning to walk; all due to defective assimilation of whatever nutrition is given. - Aversion to mother's milk, which is vomited or causes diarrhoea. - Tabes mesenterica. - Child doesn't thrive, doesn't learn; doesn't even play; utterly lacking in self-assertiveness. - Always tired, lies down. - Cries when kindly spoken to. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Headache, chronic, since some severe illness, ascending from nape of neck to the vertex, as if coming from the spine, on uncovering the head. - Amel. by pressure and wrapping up warmly. - Amel. by profuse urination. - 2. Eyes - Lodging of foreign bodies in eyes (after Acon.). - 3. Mouth - Sensation of a hair on forepart of tongue. - 4. Rectum - Fistula-in-ano alternates with chest symptoms, esp. asthma. - 5. Rectum - The coccyx is painful, as after a long carriage ride; painful to pressure. - 6. Urine - Nocturnal enuresis in children, from worms. - 7. Gen. Male - Nausea during coitus. - 8. Ears - Caries of mastoid (Aur.). - 9. Expectoration - Purulent, when coughing. - 10. Extremities - Crippled nails fingers and toes. - 11. Sleep - Night-walking, gets up while asleep, walks about and lies down again. - 12. Sleep - Hands fall asleep at night. - 13. Nose - Itching at the tip of the nose; dry, hard crusts form, bleeding when loosened; perforated septum. - 14. Sleep - Dreams of animals, battles, cruelty, large dogs following him; of earthquake; of epilepsy, ghosts, wild beasts, vertigo. - 15. Ears - Foetid discharge; sensitive to noise; roaring in ears. - 16. Skin - Unhealthy, every little injury suppurates. - (After Hep.s. or Calc. s. has expedited discharge of pus, Sil. comes in for healing; promotes granulation and cicatrisation). - 17. Bones - Caries or curvature. - Swelling and distortion of spine. - 18. Sweats - All over only after a good deal of exertion. - But he sweats as soon as he falls asleep.

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- 19. Suppression- of footsweat : convulsions, dullness of sight, cataract, paralysis, locomotor ataxia, etc. - Asthma from suppressed gonorrhoea. - 20. Generals - Epilepsy, noturnal, esp. appearing about the time of the new moon. - 21. General - Expels foreign bodies (when surgically not possible), such as fish-bone, thorn or a needle, by setting up suppuration of the affected part. - 22. General - Upward and outward direction of symptoms. - In epilepsy aura begins in solar plexus and moves upwards. - Headache ascends from nape to vertex. - Pains shoot out through eyes.

Spigelia anthelmia Keywords - Left-sided, radiating neuralgic pains agg. motion, touch, rising sun. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Violent pains characteristic. - 2. Left-sided neuralgias radiate from a spot (head, face, eyes). - 3. Pains increase and decrease with the rising sun and amel. with the setting sun. - 4. Pains: stinging, tearing, with twitching of the affected areas. - 5. Side affected : mostly LEFT. - 6. Intolerable pressive pain in eyeballs; cannot turn them; worse on making a false step. - 7. Palpitation : violent, visible and audible; from least motion. - 8. Combined symptoms of heart and eyes. - 9. Vertigo : feels as though the feet are higher than the head. - 10. Heart: violent, sticking or compressive pains, radiating to throat, arms, scapula; agg. by least motion or bending double. - 11. Angina pectoris with craving for hot water which relieves. Mind - Anxiety on breathing deeply. - Shrieking with pain. - Fear of suffering; of being hurt; of suffocation; of pins, pointed things. - Suicidal from sadness. - Easily offended. - Sits as if lost in thought; stares at a single object. - Memory weak. - Absence of ideas. - Difficult thinking; unfit for intellectual labour. Objective - Sun headache. - Prosopalgia from morning until sunset. - Dyspnoea, must lie on right side or with head high (Cact., Spong). - Palpitation violent, visible, audible; from least motion; when bending forward. - Systolic blowing at apex. - Stammering with abdominal ailments or with helminthiasis. Causation (a.f. ) - Tobacco-smoking (toothache). - Chill. - Rheumatic tendency. Modalities - Aggr. - Periodically, with the sun. - Tobacco. - Coition. - Raising arms. - After eating. - Thinking of it. - Stooping. - Blowing nose. - Expiration. - Amel - Lying on right side with head high. Inspiring.

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- Steady pressure. - While eating. Appetite, thirst, cravings, etc - Taste - Putrid; fetid. - Appetite - Ravenous with nausea and thirst. - Desires - Alcoholic drinks. - Aversion - Coffee. Male - Erections with lascivious ideas. Child - Children afflicted with worms refer to navel as the most painful part. - Strabismus with worms. - Cutting colic at navel. - Itching and tickling in anus and rectum. - Stool of mucus with tenesmus; faeces with masses of worms. - Reflex symptoms from worms. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Pain from left occiput to over left eye, agg. stooping. - Supra-orbital neuralgia; sun pains. - 2. Vertigo - As if feet higher than the head; agg. looking down. - 3. Eyes - Eyes hurt on motion, as if too large for the orbit. - Ciliary neuralgia; pains radiate; cold feeling in the eye. - Disposition to squint. - Eyeballs feel too large and sore. - Jerking, twitching or spasmodic movements of the eyelids. - Hemicrania; aggr. by motion, noise, esp. by stooping. - One or both the eyes are involved. - 4. Head - Headache increases with the rising sun and decreases with the setting of the sun. - 5. Ears - Periodical deafness. - 6. Face - Prosopalgia, involving eyes, zygoma, cheek, teeth, temples; suddenly going and coming or from morning until sunset. - 7. Throat - Sensation of a worm rising in throat. - 8. Abdomen - Colic with pinching pains in the umbilical region. - Itching tickling in the rectum; worms. - Very offensive flatus. - 9. Respiratory - Must lie on the right side with head high. - Hydrothorax. - Stitches in chest, aggr. from least motion. - 10. Chest - Palpitation of the heart worse when bending the chest forward. - 11. Chest - Valvular affections with loud, blowing sounds and attacks of violent palpitation. - He can only lie on the right side, or with head very high; least motion aggravates. - 12. Chest - On placing the hand over the cardiac region there is a purring feeling as when stroking a cat's back. - 13. Chest - Rheumatic affections of the heart; systolic blowing at the apex. - 14. Abdomen - Colic around the navel. - Nausea every morning before breakfast. - 15. Rectum - Itching and tickling in the anus and rectum. - Scirrhus of the sigmoid flexure or rectum with atrocious unbearable pain.

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- 16. General - Stammering; repeats the first syllable three or four times with abdominal ailments; with helminthiasis. - 17. Extremities - Left arm numb. Pulsation in patellae. Cases - 91. Spigelia: - Take Phatak's M.M. - Neuralgia; sun pain. - Severe pain around the eyes, extending deep into socket. - Marked preference to the left side. - Periodicity. - Pains violent, burning like hot needles, radiating to other parts. - Great sensitiveness to touch; least touch sends a shudder through the whole frame. (Dunham). - (A.A. Whipple - H.H. 1980/367) - 104. Spigelia: - Pains radiating to other parts; agg. by least motion. - Pericarditis; throbbing of carotids. (Phatak's M.M. ). - Hypertrophy of heart (Kent's Rep.). - Dr. C.W. Sherbino - Med. Advance, 1885 - H.H. 1982/563)

Stannum metallicum Keywords - Extreme nervous weakness, esp. in chest and limbs. - Forgetful, absent-minded, miserable and discouraged. Synopsis - 1. Extreme weakness which is especially felt in CHEST, throat, stomach, upper arms and thighs. - 2. Great weakness in chest, agg. from talking, laughing, reading aloud, singing. - So weak, he is unable to talk. - He drops into a chair, instead of sitting down. - Trembles on moving. - 3. Pains increase GRADUALLY and also subside GRADUALLY. - 4. Pains relieved by hard pressure over an edge, esp. colic. - 5. Sad, despondent; feels like crying all the time, but crying makes her worse. - 6. Faint and weak, especially when going downstairs; can go up well enough. - 7. While dressing up in the morning, has to sit down several times to rest. - 8. Short of breath from every effort; must loosen clothes. - 9. Cough; easily expectorates quantities of sweetish or bright yellow pus or balls of mucus. - 10. Chest feels raw or hollow. - 11. Cramps in hands, cannot let go the broom. - 12. Yellowness of secretions, marked, worth noting (tongue, sputa, leucorrhoea). Mind - Anxious, nervous and sad - almost weeping; esp. before menses. - Weak, miserable and discouraged. - Very sensitive to what others say about her. - Taciturn; dislikes society. - Sudden fits of passion. - Uneasy, knows not what to do with himself. - Nervous excitement. - Cannot get rid of an idea once fixed in her mind. - Forgetful, absent-minded. Objective - Extreme weakness, esp. in chest. - Short of breath from every effort. - DROPS INTO A CHAIR, can't even talk; trembles on moving. - Profuse muco-purulent expectoration, easily comes out. - Chest feels raw, hollow and WEAK. - Child wants to be carried over the shoulder. - Expectoration sweet, greenish. - Complaints increase gradually and subside slowly. Ailments from (causation) - Emotions; fright; masturbation; dentition; using voice. Modalities - Agg. Using voice. - Cold. 10 a.m.

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- Lying on right side. - After gentle motion. - Motion. - Warm drinks. - During stool. - Going down stairs (not going up). - Touch. - Amel. - Hard pressure, even over an edge. - Lying across something hard. - Rapid motion. - Bending double (coloc. Expectoration on coughing). Appetite, thirst, cravings, aversions, etc - Taste - Sour; sweet; bitter to all food except water. - Smell of cooking causes nausea and vomiting. - Sensation of emptiness in stomach. Female - Increased sexual desire; easy orgasm. - Scratching of distant part (e.g. arms) produces an intolerable sensation of pleasure in genital organs, producing orgasm. - Strong odour of body during menses. - Mania erotica, before menses. - Leucorrhoea, transparent, yellowish mucus; gushing with much debility. - Uterine symptoms with a weak sensation in the chest. - Leucorrhoea with considerable prostration of strength. - Itching in vulva, aggr. evening. Male - Voluptuous feeling in genitals ending in emission, which exhausts. - Emissions with excessive prostration. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Headache or neuralgia - pains begin lightly and increase gradually to the highest point and then gradually decline. - 2. Eyes - Sunken. - Convulsed or prominent eyes. - 3. Ears - Ulceration of earring holes (on piercing). - Screeching noise in ears on blowing nose. - 4. Mouth - Convulsions from teething, amel. by lying on abdomen across something hard; with clenched thumbs. - 5. Throat - Rawness, dryness in throat without thirst. - 6. Stomach - Nausea after a meal followed by bitter and watery vomiting. - Squeezing pain as from a claw in stomach and intestinal region. - Incarcerated flatus. - 7. Stools - Green, curdy with colic. - Violent diarrhoea, passes worms, lumbrici, taenia. - 8. Female - Spasmodic labour pains; they exhaust her. - She is out of breath. - A child leaves the breast and will not suck. - 9. Larynx - Voice louder in singing, after having hawked up the mucus. - 10. Extremities - Insupportable restlessness in all the limbs. - Swollen ankle in delicate girls, agg. evening. - 11. Perspiration - Profuse debilitating, hot; even on slight movement. - 12. Skin - Itching, shooting over skin of painful hangnails. - 13. Sleep - Dreams vivid, anxious or lascivious; moaning, weeping. - 14. General

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- Spasms hysterical with pain in abdomen and diaphragm; epileptic, with tossing of limbs; clenching of thumbs; opisthotonos, unconsciousness and sexual complication. - 15. General - Neuralgia, diaphragmatic; suppressed. - 16. General - Hemiplegia; part constantly moist. - 17. Extremities - Limbs suddenly give out when attempting to sit down. - Fingers jerk when holding pen. - Neuritis. - Type-writer's palsy. - 18. General - Using voice or singing causes weakness in upper arm, which extends all over the body. - 19. Sleep - Position - Sleeps with one leg drawn up, the other stretched out. - 20. Fever - Burning palms and soles. Cases - 66. Stannum, 200th: - The rubrics in Kent's repertory: - 1377 - Pain appears gradually and disappears gradually. - 576 - Pain cramping, hypogastrium. - 514 - Pain abdomen. - 515 - Pain abdomen, better from pressure. - 1390 - Periodicity (rubrics in "Abdomen" for the specific time could not be found). - (S.M. Gunavante - HH. 1988/234) - 118. Stannum: Rubrics : - (1) Expectoration, mucopurulent. - (2) Cough, dry, hard. - (3) Pain, right lung, after coughing. - (4) Agg. sitting up. - (5) Extreme emaciation. - (6) F.H. of consumption. - (7) Phthisis, incipient. - (Dr. L.M. Kenyon - H.H. 1981/96)

Staphisagria Keywords - INDIGNATION, suppressed anger - wounded honour. - Lascivious thought. - Fears (losing self-control) Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Easily offended; sufferer from wounded pride and honour, but suppresses his indignation. - 2. After cumulative effects of suppressed anger, bursts out in anger; throws things at those who offended him; or becomes taciturn. - Trembles and becomes red in face with anger. - 3. Lascivious, lustful, but does not show it - masturbates. - 4. History of lacerated or stretched sphincters (wounded tissue); - (a)Cystitis of newly married brides, frequent ineffectual urge to urinate. - (b)In surgical operation; of rectum, etc. - (c)Stitching pain in surgical clean-cut (sutures) wounds. - 5. Sleepy in daytime, sleepless at night. - 6. Itching changes place on scratching. - 7. Teeth turn black, crumble, decay as soon as they erupt. Mind - Easily offended. - The least harmless word that seems wrong hurts very much. - Anger from unmerited insult. - When insulted or mortified, feels too dignified to fight, controls his wrath and goes home sick, trembling from head to foot, unable to speak or work. - Indignation at the rudeness of others. - Throws away things at persons who offend him, in anger. - Suffers from wounded honour.

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- Aversion to mental work. - Constantly thinks of sexual pleasures, and masturbates. - Tormenting sexual thoughts. - Trembles from anger. - Delusion, everything is unreal, strange. - Impetuous, fear of losing self-control. - Offended easily. Objective - Sickly, peaked, hollow-eyed. - Nodes on lids; styes. - Loose, aching, black crumbling teeth. - Nodes on finger joints. - Lacerated wounds and sphincters. - Blepharitis, margins of lids dry. - Trembling from anger, and after emotions. - Arthritic nodosities on fingers. Causation (a.f. ) - Anger, with indignation, pride, envy or chagrin. - Suppressed anger (reserved displeasure). - Disappointment. - Unmerited insults. - Mortification. - Wounded honour. - Rudeness of others. - Being reproached; scorned. - Silent grief. - Disappointed love. - Brooding on sexual subjects. - Sexual excesses or masturbation. - Anxiety and cares. Modalities - Mind Agg. - Quarrels, suppressed anger. - Mental exertion, unmerited insults, hurt pride, chagrin. - Anger with indignation. - Phys. Agg. - Onanism; loss of vital fluids. - Mechanical injuries from sharp instruments. - Post-surgical complaints. - Laceration or stretching of sphincters; rectal (piles) operations; vagina (coition). - Cannot tolerate tobacco. - Touch, noise, odour, cold drinks, new moon, before full moon. - Amel: - Lying in bed. - Warmth, rest, coition. Food & drinks - Ravenous hunger even when stomach is full; or for days before attack of fever. - Craving for tobacco, which agg; milk, bread and stimulants. Female - Toothache during menses. - Unsatisfied sexual desire in widows. - Vulva so sensitive, she can scarcely wear a napkin (Plat). - Menses suppressed from vexation. Male - Sexual passion increased. - Irresistible desire to masturbate. - Pain in urethra after urinating, in prostatic troubles of old men. - Relaxation of sex organ (due to masturbation). - Erection wanting. - Soft excrescences on penis which are moist, offensive. Child - Ill-humoured, cries for things, which when given are petulently pushed or thrown away. - Sensitive, easily hurt (A.F. ). - Admonition and reprimand. - Premature caries. - Diarrhoea on being punished (Colo. Cham.).

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Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Lice on scalp; yellow thick scabs with offensive pus and breeding lice. - Itching changes place on scratching. - 2. Ears - Hearing impaired from enlarged tonsils. - 3. Teeth - Premature decay and discoloration (Kreos). - They turn black and crumble as soon as they appear. - 4. Abdomen - Colic every time he eats or drinks (Coloc.). - 5. Abdomen - Pain, after indignation. - 6. Bladder - Retention of urine after confinement. - 7. Urethra - Burning and smarting in, when not urinating. - Ceases when passing urine. - 8. Urination - Dysuria of newly wed brides, or in pregnancy. - Ineffectual urge for hours. - 9. Urination - Painful, frequent urging for, esp. in young wives or after difficult labour. - 10. Gen. Male - Dyspnoea and prostration, after coition. - 11. Gen. Male - Sexual desire; old men, increased desire in. - 12. Gen. Female - Salpingitis. - 13. Cough - excited by cleaning teeth or tobacco smoke; only in the day time. After vexation or indignation. - 14. Back - Lumbar pain, as if sprained. - Agg. at rest and at night; and when rising from seat. - 15. Extremities - Arthritic nodosities on joints. - 16. Extremities - Glands. - Painful swelling. - 17. Extremities - Paralysis one sided, from anger. - 18. Sleep - Sleepy all day, awake all night, with violent yawning and stretching. - Body aches all over. - 19. Skin - Herpes zoster with shooting pain down the thighs. - 20. Skin - Eczema; yellow acrid moisture oozes from under crusts. - 21. Skin - Sycotic growths. - Styes on upper eyelids, leaving hard nodosities; with itching. - Warts, dry cauliflower-like. - 22. Skin - Warts sensitive to touch. - 23. General - Alternations. - Cough in winter, sciatica in summer. - 24. General - Bones; swelling. - Suppuration of bones; of periosteum. - Exostosis. - 25. General - Injuries, wounds. - Painfulness in clean-cut (surgical) wounds. - Colic after lithotomy, ovariotomy., - 26. General - Staph. will cause disgust for tobacco.

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- 27. Dreams - Amorous; anxious; fights; vexatious. Cases - 71. Staphisagria : - Ailments from suppressed anger (KR. 2). - Trembling from anger (KR. 1408). - Chest, oppression after anger (KR. 839). - Respiration difficult after anger (KR. 768). - (H.C. Allen - H.H. 1984/113)

Stramonium Keywords - Full of terrors; clings to those around. - Fear of water, glistening objects. - Furious delirium. - Insane loquacity. - Insanity: religious, puerperal, erotic, megalomaniac. - Prays. - Suppressed secretions. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Dread - terror - of darkness, of being alone. - Wants hand to be held (Zinc). - Fear of death. - Pupils widely dilated; stares at persons in terror till satisfied that there is no need to fear. - 2. Child awakes terrified, knows no one, screams in fright and clings to those around. - Awakes with shrieking, looks as if afraid of things she sees. - 3. Loquacity with red face, delirium, mania. - Speech incoherent, - excessive loq. during menses. - 4. Weeps and prays. - Praying, beseeching; entreating. - 5. Delusions of all sorts, absurd, fantastic; of animals biting; of fire, of parts of body being enormously large, being double; of ghosts, etc. - FEAR from the delusions. - 6. Violent effects; typhoid. - Violent convulsions; - Violent distortions and haemorrhages. - Violent perspiration. - Vicious septic states and catarrhal inflammation. - 7. Painlessness with most complaints usually painful (except severe hip-joint pain); abscesses esp. left hip driving one to despair. - 8. Jerking head up from pillow and then letting it drop back (in unconscious delirium). - 9. Suppressions of all secretions and excretions - urine, stool, menses, lochia, sweat, eruptions (but saliva copious). - 10. Gestures, motion of hands, graceful, rhythmic or disorderly. - 11. Fear of water - hydrophobia - excessive aversion to liquids; spasms of throat on attempting to drink. Mind - 1. Fear; frightened easily. - Fear or dark; of tunnels, as if a dog is attacking him. - 2. Mania for light (fears darkness). - 3. Desire for company; cannot bear to be alone, esp. at night. - 4. Clings to those around. - 5. Suspicious. - 6. Destructive. - 7. Exaltation of fancies. - 8. Loquacity - talks incessantly, absurdly, laughs, clasps hand. - 9. Alternation of religious feelings and sensuality. - 10. Sexual excitement; uncovers genitals; handles genitals; indecent talk. - 11. Delirium, furious. - 12. Desire to escape. - 13. In delirium struggles hard (with great strength) to get out of bed. - 14. Pangs of conscience; thinks he is not honest. - 15. Screams till hoarse, loses his voice day and night, with fever or mania. - 16. Restlessness; runs about.

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- 17. Desire to spit in the face of people. - 18. Delusion of all kinds - frightful, obscene, strange, auditory hallucinations. - 19. Clairvoyance. Objective - Dread of darkness. - Loquacity; sings, makes verses, raves. - Incoherent talking and laughing. - Praying, beseeching, entreating. - Desires light and company. - Clings to persons or furniture. - Eyes wide open, prominent, brilliant; pupils widely dilated. - Stammering, has to exert himself a long time before he can utter a word. - Twitching of muscles. - NO pain with most complaints. - Dreads water; it chokes him. - Expression of terror. - Constant restless movements of limbs and body. Causation (a.f. ) - Ill-effects of shock, fright; sun; child-birth. - Suppressed excretions. Modalities - Agg. - Fright; when alone; darkness. - Glistening objects; after sleep (Ap., Lach, Op., Spong). - Motion (renews spasms). - On attempting to swallow. - Amel. - Light, company, warmth. Food & drinks - Appetite, Thirst, Cravings. - Thirst - Violent for sour drinks. - Craving - Acids. - Better from vinegar. - Aversion to all fluids. Female - Excessive loquacity during menses. - Praying, supplication during menses; or during suppressed menses puerperal fever with delusions that she is double or three is someone in bed with her. - Metrorrhagia with excessive loquacity, singing, prayers. - Nymphomania, lewd talk, obscene singing. Male - Sexual passion exalted, with indecent speech and action. - Hands constantly kept on genitals. Child - Child rigid as a board when loudly spoken to or when touched. - Shrieks in a hoarse voice; will not go to sleep in the dark, but soon falls asleep in lighted rooms. - Very cross, strikes and bites. - Religious affections in children. - Grinding of teeth during sleep. - Little boys constantly pull at genitals. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Bites or tears things with his teeth. - 2. Mind - Delirium more than the temperature warrants. - 3. Mind - Religious mania; praying, despair of her salvation. - 4. Mind - Speech stammering, difficult, unintelligible, makes great effort to speak. - 5. Mind - Things look black. - Spoke of black objects, people and black clouds. - 6. Eye - Squint, in brain affections during convulsions, aggr. from terror or fear.

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- 7. Eyes - Pupils dilated immediately the child is reprimanded. - 8. Nose - 9. Face - Expression - anxious look, of great suffering; forehead wrinkled. - Face flushed, hot, raging fever, hot head, cold extremities. - Fever usually continuous (Bell. intermittent). - 10. Face - Wrinkles on forehead in brain symptoms or associated with headache. - (Caust., Hyos., Phos., Sulph). - 11. Mouth - Chewing motion, lockjaw. - 12. Mouth - Tongue - rough, raw, stiff as if paralysed. - 13. Stomach - Vomiting as soon as he raises the head from the pillow. - 14. Back - Lies on back with thighs and knees flexed. - 15. Extremities - Abscess of left hip joint (or panaritium), with inflammation, pus, vicious septic state. - 16. Fever - At noon. - 17. Generalities - Graceful twitching of facial muscles. - 18. Generalities - Convul. - spasm violent the moment the cup of water touches his lips. - 19. Generalities - Convulsions alternating with excitement or rage. - Convulsions in children. - Clonic - with consciousness, sometimes without. during dentition, epileptiform, during heat - puerperal- at sight of water. - One side paralysed, the other convulsed. - 20. Urine - Flows slowly in old men; no force to the stream; dribbling urine. - Strong odour of urine during menses. - Urine suppressed - bladder empty. - 21. Skin - Hot, burning, with oily sweat (Phos.). - 22. Sweat - During sweat cannot bear to be uncovered. - 23. Sleep - Restless tossing about; children cry out in sleep. - Sleep in kneeling position. - 24. Dreams - Anxious; confused; historic; frightful. Cases - 80. Stramonium: - The homoeopathic physician prescribes on the 'mentals' when these are outstanding, and as in this case, Stram. cleared up the physical and the mental symptoms. - A few quotations from Hahnemann and others on Stram. - "There is an extreme muscular mobility affecting the muscles of expression and the muscles of locomotion. - The delirium of Stram. is for the most part terrifying - high mental exaltation, with feverish delirium and short intervals of lucidity". - "Intense thirst with delirium and hallucinations". - "Drinks with avidity". - "Talks incessantly, continual motion with hands and arms, tendency to throw himself out of bed." - Readers should refer to repertory and find the rubrics. - (Health through Homoeopathy, June 1944 - H.H. 1986/592)

Sulphur Keywords - An unclean, lazy, egotistical philosopher with burnings of hell-fire all over. Synopsis (identifying features)

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- 1. Indifference to personal appearance - dirty, filthy, puts on "threadbare clothes and battered hats". - 2. Those who are lean, stoop-shouldered and walk and sit stooped. - Drop into a chair because standing is the worst position. - 3. Cannot stand hunger; famished before meals; esp. at 11 a.m. must have something to eat. - 4. Averse to heat - intolerant of much clothing; throws off bedclothes. - 5. Craving for fats, sweets, alcoholic drinks. - 6. Speculates on religious or philosophical subjects; "ragged philosophers". - Indifference about the lot of others. - Selfish. - 7. Egotist - foolish happiness and pride. - Thinks himself to be in possession of beautiful things; everything looks pretty which the person takes a fancy to. - 8. They are not disturbed by uncleanliness; yet are oversensitive to filthy odours. - Have a desire to wash. - 9. Burning sensation in various parts (one of Nash's burning trio). - Constant heat on top of head, while the feet are cold. - Burning of palms, soles. - Burning in urethra after coition or when semen is discharged. - Burning in bowels, in rectum, in eruptions after scratching. - Flushes of heat at the climacteric. - 10. Redness - Orifices of the body very red; red anus, red mouth of urethra; lips bright red as if blood would burst through. Red eyelids, ears or nostrils. - 11. Itching violent, voluptuous (feel pleasant when scratching); but burning follows scratching. - Sensitive to washing. - 12. Puts feet out of bed at night to keep them cool. - 13. Drinks much, eats little. - Has to get upat night to eat. - 14. Sleep in cat-naps; irresistible sleepiness during the day; wakeful whole night. - Disturbed (awakens) at the slightest noise. - 15. Skin - Apt to be hard, rough, coarse and measly; offensive smell despite frequent bathing. Mind - Unclean body and habits. - Quick tempered, quick motioned. - Quarrelsome. - Egotism. - Peevish, mean and selfish; no regard for others. - Slow, lazy and hungry; always tired; averse to work. - Highly emotional, religious, philosophical dreamer. - Delusion he is wealthy. - Timidity. - Capricious, discontented. - Indolent, aversion to work. - Prostration of mind. - Suspicious; taciturn. - Causeless weeping. Objective - Redness of orifices or single parts. -r099(u)1.44293(p)-10.6134(a)1.1(e)1.44293( )0.7210974(d)1.4422(e)1.34(11.3345( )0.721099(l)5(a)-10.6134(z)-6.33537(y - Stoop-shouldered; cannot wal-10.6134(.)278]TJT*[JT*[( )-11.3345(-)fEs.8915(e)1.4422(a)d721099(uo)1uo dd;s.52 Td[( )-11.

- Dry, warm weather. - Lying on the right side. - Open air. Food & drinks - Appetite, Thirst - Appetite lost, or excessive. - Eats little and drinks much. - Great acidity, sour eructations; burning in stomach. - Suddenly hungry and faint at 11 a.m. , must eat. - Desire - Great for sweets, alcoholic drinks; apples; cold drinks; milk. - Disagrees - Milk, sweets, raw food; sour apples. - Aversion - Bread; fat and rich food; tobacco; meat. Female - Menses acrid, make parts burn. - Vagina burns. - Burning leucorrhea too, and excoriating; nipples cracked, smart and burn. - Sterility with too early, copious menses. - Never been well since last miscarriage. - Puerperal septicaemia; after suppressed lochia (Pyro). - Phlegmasia alba dolens. - Pruritus pudendi. - Movement in abdomen as of a child Pseudo-pregnancy (Croc., Thu.). Male - Sexual weakness from orgasm. - Penis cold, relaxed, powerless; semen thin watery inodorous. Child - Lips bright red, complexion sallow. - Restless, hot and kicks off the clothes at night. - Emaciated with old looking face, big belly, dry, flabby skin. - Child grasps everything within reach and thrusts it into its mouth. - Stool is large and painful. - Child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain; it desists on first effort. - Fontenelles close too late. - Child dreads to be washed or bathed (in cold water : Ant.c. ). Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mouth - Tongue dry, red at the edges and tip. - 2. Rectum - Diarrhoea after midnight, painless; driving out of bed early in the morning (Aloe., Psor.). - 3. Rectum - Itching, burning; haemorrhoids with burning and sticking; congestion. - 4. Stool - Both discharge of urine and discharge of faeces are painful to parts over which they pass. - 5. Stool - Discharge of prostatic fluid after passing urine and stool. - 6. Gen. Female - When complaints relapse continually (menses, leucorrhoea, etc.), patient seems to get well when the disease returns again and again. - 7. Chest - Haemorrhoids suppressed - with colic, palpitation, congestion to lungs; back feels stiff as if bruised. - 8. Chest - Sharp pain at heart going through chest to between shoulders, esp. with dyspeptic symptoms. - 9. Back - Pain in small of back; was obliged to walk bent over; violent pain on stooping, on rising from a seat. - 10. Sleep - Wakes up singing due to happy dreams on the previous day. - 11. Dreams - of wild animals; clairvoyant; danger; disease; falling from high places; fire; ghosts; spectres; murder; misfortune; wild beasts; vexations. - 12. Sleep - Dreams; vivid, anxious, horrible, with great palpitation; that he has been bitten by a dog; that he is falling. - 13. Skin - Dry, offensive, easily bleeding, burning eruptions; begin on back of head and behind ears; pains and cracks; amel. by scratching.

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- Also eruptions humid, offensive with thick pus, yellow crusts, bleeding and burning. - 14. General - Alternation of complaints; pale and red cheeks; diarrhoea and constipation; asthma or gout and skin eruptions. - 15. General - Facilitates absorption of serous or inflammatory exudates in brain, pleura, lungs, joints, when Bry., Kali-mur or well-selected remedy fails. - 16. General - Hot flushes at climacteric period, with hot head, hands and feet, and a great goneness in stomach. - 17. General - Lack of reaction. - When carefully selected remedies fail Sulph. will arouse the reactive energy of the system; will prepare the way for some other remedy; esp. in acute cases (chronic : Psor.) Cases - 84. Sulphur : - Lachrymation in the morning (KR. 245). - Photophobia (KR. 261). - Eyes red (KR. 264). - Vision dim (KR. 275). - Opacity of cornea (KR. 247) - Menses late (KR. 727); and Scanty (KR. 728) - all these covered by Sulphur with three marks. - Noteworthy in this case is the repetition of high potencies by this able doctor in a case which he had not seen at all. - (E. W. Berridge - H.H. 1986/583)

Syphilinum Keywords - Deep, destructive, chronic processes; aggr. at night; fear of insanity and despair of recovery. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. All sufferings are worse at night (Merc. Agg. day- Med.) - from sunset to sunrise. - 2. Exhaustion, mental and physical, on awakening. - It is intolerable; death is preferable. - Terrible fear of this suffering. - 3. Pains increase and decrease gradually (Plat., Stan.). - Pain shifts and requires frequent change of position. - 4. Loss of memory - cannot remember names of books, persons or places; arithmetical calculations difficult. - 5. Constipation, obstinate; for years; rectum seems tied up with strictures; when enema is used the agony of passage is labour-like (Lac.c. , Tub.). - 6. Leucorrhoea profuse, soaking through the napkins and running down the heels (Alum.). - 7. Despair of recovery - hopeless; despondent; does not think will ever get better. - 8. Pains, violent, in the bones, as if they are being sawed. - 9. Chronicity; persisting, recurring complaints; continued depression; obstinate constipation; gnawing bone-pains lead to despair of recovery when they become chronic. - 10. Caries and curvature of bones; of spine; pain in long bones; sore to touch; aggr. at night. - 11. Fissures and cracks; deep longitudinal cracks on tongue. - Fissures and fistulous openings in rectum. - 12. Saliva, copious flow, runs out of mouth at night, when sleeping. - 13. Sleeplessness, absolute, may be without any reason; or because of violent nightly pains, or as if bitten by bugs at night. - 14. Asthma, spasmodic, bronchial, which comes on at night after lying down, or during a thunderstorm; with intense sleeplessness. - (Such a case of 25 years standing was cured by Clarke with Syph. CM). - Also asthma in warm damp weather. Mind - Fears the night, as well as the exhaustion on waking. - Hopeless; despair of recovery. - Feels as if going insane or being paralysed. - Loss of memory; remembers everything previous to his illness. - Apathy, indifference; no joy. - Cross, irritable; violent if opposed. - Obsessive washing of hands. - Nervous; walks much of the time; weeps without cause. Objective - All sufferings agg at night; begin with twilight and end with daylight. - Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stan.).

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- Also wandering pains in bones, periosteum, joints; neuralgic. - Extreme emaciation of entire body. - Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. - Crying infants. - Dwarfish, old-looking, marasmic children. - Sawing pains in bones. - Impulse to wash hands. - Despair of recovery. Causation (a.f. ) - Syphilitic inheritance; chancre treated by local means and suppressed leading to throat and skin troubles. - Hereditary tendency to alcoholism, or a syphilitic taint. Modalities - Agg. - Sundown to sunrise waking in the morning; seashore; in summer; extreme heat or cold. - Thunderstorm. - Amel. - During the day; walking slowly; inland and at high altitudes (hill stations). - Cold bathing; warmth. Food & drinks - Appetite, thirst, cravings. - Appetite perverted; no desire to eat; aversion to all food; to meat. - Craving for alcohol. Female - Menses painful, every two weeks. - Menses have odour of rotten meat. - Profuse acrid leucorrhoea, runs to heels; with itching. - Aphonia before and epileptic fits after menses. - Profuse leucorrhoea with knife-like pain in ovaries; of little girls; agg. at night. Male - Nodular formation on testes, spermatic cord and scrotum with chancres. Child - Acute ophthalmia neonatorum; pain intense at night from 2 to 5 a.m. ; profuse pus; amel. by cold bathing. - Teeth decay at edge of gums and break off; are cupped; edges serrated, dwarfed (Staph). - Dwarfed; shrivelled-up, old-looking babies and children. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Head - Falling of hair, profuse. - Baldness. - 2. Head - Violent neuralgic headache from 4 p.m. , increases until midnight, then gradually abates, ceases at daylight. - 3. Eyes - Atrophy of the optic nerve. - Ulcer on cornea. - Ptosis; strabismus. - Diplopia, one image seen below the other. - 4. Nose - Caries of the mastoid; of the nasal bone, nose depressed; of the hard palate (Aur.). - 5. Kidney - Kidney region painful, agg. after urinating (amel. : Lyc). - 6. Gen. Female - Abortions, frequent. - 7. Gen. Female - Cutting pain in ovary, during coitus at the moment of orgasm. - Os sensitive, agg. at menses; amel. by touch of finger or penis. - Ulcers on labia, of os uteri; cervix indurated. - 8. Chest - Heart - lancinating pain from base to apex, at night (reverse : Med. Base to clavicle or shoulder : Spig). - 9. Heart - Large soft pulse; pain from base to apex of the heart, as if hot water flowing in the veins. - 10. Neck & back - Neck feels short. - Pain in coccyx with sensation as if it is swollen, worse sitting. - 11. Extremities - Exostosis, bilateral (symmetrical). - 12. Extremities - Leg - severe pain in long bones and swelling in legs at night drive him out of bed.

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- 13. Extremities - Rheumatism - stiffness of all joints; muscles caked in hard knots. - 14. Extremities - Sciatica - tearing in hip and thigh, agg. at night; amel. at day-break and by walking. - 15. Extremities - Rheumatism of shoulder joint, at the insertion of deltoid, aggr. raising arm laterally. - (Rhus. Sang : right; Ferr : left). - 16. Extremities - Ulcers, indolent, on legs. - Psoas abscess. - Offensive greenish pus. - 17. Sleep - Absolute sleeplessness, with great restlessness; cannot keep long in one position. - 18. Skin - Intolerable itching of skin, esp. at night. Cases - 21. Syphilinum : - There was negative history of syphilis. - Yet the characteristic symptom of "always worse at night" led me to the remedy ..... - "Aggravations, no matter the disease, if they occur at night, Syphilinum will relieve, and frequently it will cure". - This was Dr. Skinner's advice to me while sending me a phial of his CM potency. - Dr. Skinner had cured a frightful case of spinal caries with this remedy on this symptom. - (E.B. Nash - HH. 1986/451)

Tarentula cubensis Keywords - Violent, sudden effects. - Terrible burning pains. - Restless and heedless. - Eruptions with purplish hue. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Sudden, sly, destructive tendency; a tendency to change one's disposition altogether from a sweet rational person, to one so terribly self-centered and selfish. - Wants everyone to wait on him. - 2. Flies into a rage and throws whatever is in his hand, heedless of the damage he may cause. - 3. Those heart symptoms which are sudden and violent; a condition called "St. Vitus's dance of the heart". - 4. Magical action in the most terrible burning, stinging pains in gangrene, carbuncle, even sloughing, with a great prostration and diarrhoea, intermittent fever of evening exacerbation. - 5. A purplish hue with the above pains is characteristic (Compare Lach., Anthracin, Sil.) - 6. Diphtheria, malignant type, septic fever, deposit dark coloured; breath fetid. - 7. Curative and preventive of bubonic plague with early and persistent prostration. - 8. Urine, retention of (Ars., Caust., Lyc., Nux-v. Op., Pareira br.). - 9. Cannot hold urine on coughing (Caust., Nat. m., Puls). - 10. Sleep prevented by harsh cough (Lyc., Puls

Tarentula hispanica Keywords - A foxy, tirelessly restless dancer who revels in music. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Extreme restlessness; must be in constnat motion though motion aggravates. - He runs about rather than walk. - Must be doing something all the time (Kali br.). - 2. Hysterical. - Twitching and jerking, as soon as attention is turned to her. - When there are no observers, she has no hysterical attacks. - 3. Feigned paroxysms; feigns fainting and insensibility; looks sideways to observe the effect on those around her. - Foxy. - 4. Sudden fox-like destructive efforts, requiring utmost vigilance to prevent damage; followed by laughter and apologies. - Suddenly sprang away from attendants, swept ornaments from mantlepiece; said she was sorry but could not help it. - 5. Incredible quickness; jumps out of bed and smashes something before she can be prevented. - 6. Unusually sensitive to music which ameliorates all complaints. - When music is turned on, she would jump about and dance. - 7. Mood changeable; from gaiety to sadness; from fixed ideas or uneasiness of mind. - Fits of nervous laughter; desire to joke, play, laugh. - 8. Very mischievous and destructive; amusing and cheerful. - 9. Colours, sensitive to - averse to green, red, yellow or black. - Attracted by them alternately. - 10. Periodicity of complaints - at the same hour, yearly, on the day she was bitten by the spider, or every 21st day. Mind - Intense listlessness, must be in constant motion, dancing, jumping. - Very much amel. by music. - Wants to hide for fear or being assaulted. - Throws things. - Pulls her hair, strikes her head or body, or strikes others. - Feigns sickness (hysterical). - Foxy, cunning, deceitful, selfish, hateful, esp. when NOT being observed. - Sings and dances in tune with music until exhausted, then relieved of suffering (Croc. no relief). - Facial expression of terror. - Periodical mania; refuses to eat. - Averse to company, but wants someone present. - Ungrateful, capricious. Objective - Extremely restless, fidgety and hurried. - Symptoms appear suddenly with violence. - Rolls on ground from side to side. - Rubbing ameliorates. - Aversion, or strong attraction to colours (black, red, yellow, green). - Destructive. - Feigning; threatening; cunning, deceitful. - MUSIC ameliorates all complaints. - Dances to music. - Craving for sand or raw food. - Restless hands; keeps hands busy. - Violent nymphomania, aggr. by coition. Causation (a.f. ) - History of bites from a spider (?). - Disappointed love. Modalities - Agg. - Noise, motion; touch; grief; excitement. - When observed; cold, damp; periodically at the same hour or yearly. - Seeing others in trouble. - Amel. - MUSIC. - Open air; in the sun. - Bright colours.

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- Smoking. - Rubbing; the nerve terminals which are sensitive are soothed by friction. Food & drinks - Appetite & thirst. - Desire to eat with intense thirst. - Constant desire for large quantity of cold water. - Or loss of appetite. - Desire for raw articles; indigestible things; sand, spices. - Aversion: - Bread and roasted meat. - Agg. - Fats. Female - Profuse menstruation with frequent erotic spasms. - Onanism; violent nymphomania. - Pruritus vulvae intense, unbearable. - Pruritus as of insects creeping and crawling. - Great sexual erethism, agg. by coition which does not satisfy. - Genitals too sensitive (Plat.). - Uterus relaxed; burning in uterus. - Cancer of cervix; fibroid tumours. Male - Semen hot. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Choreic movements; restlessness; apparent imminent choking, relief by music, which first excites then relieves. - 2. Mind - Fear, constant fear that something would happen, that something would fall on her. - Fear or striking against some imaginary object while walking. - 3. Mind - Sensation of a living body moving or tingling in the stomach, with tendency to ascend to the throat. - 4. Head - Headache, intense, as if thousands of needles were pricking brain. - 5. Eye - Right pupil much dilated, left contracted. - Loss of vision in right eye, till dilated pupil contracts. - 6. Mouth - Pain in lower jaw as if all the teeth were going to fall out. - 7. Chest - Precordial anxiety, tumultuous beating of heart, thumping and trembling as if from a fright. - 8. Chest - Movement of heart not felt. - Heart ceases to beat and patient fears will die. - Angina pectoris. - 9. Skin - Dark red, or purplish swelling of skin and tissue. - 10. Fever - Alternate chill and heat; intermittent fever with choreic convulsions. - 11. Sleep - Dreams of animals; dead bodies; fire; has come down from heaven; water. - 12. General - Diabetes - constant craving for raw articles. - Disgust for meat; polyuria. - 13. General - Has a reputation for cancer of tongue etc. and for "fibrous tumours, abdominal, with discharge of pale blood from uterus." Cases - A man with inveterate constipation, who had physics till they would no longer serve, was encouraged by his daughter to wait for further action until the proper remedy could be recognised, as advised by the doctor. In his distress he rolled from side to side on the bed, wailing, "Oh dear me". - Tarentula suited him. - Two days later he had a normal stool, and thereafter had no difficulty. - (Kent in New Remedies, etc.). - 10. Tarentula hisp. - Restlessness, could not keep quiet in any position; must keep in motion.

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- Music ameliorates (Allen). - (W.B. Griggs - HH. 1979/18)

Thuja occidentalis Keywords - Fixed ideas, wierd sensations and deep constitutional disturbances from sycotic (gonorrhoeal) poison. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1 A remedy of fixed ideas of delusions and sensations, - As if a strange person were at his side. - Soul and body were separated. - A living animal were in abdomen - Her limbs were made of glass and would break easily. - a nail were pressing into vertex. - A cold stream of air were blowing through eyes. - Moisture is running in urethra. - A single drop of urine were trickling down the urethra. - Legs are made of wood when walking. - Delusion, She is pregnant. - Sensation of a movement like the fist of a foetus in the abdomen. - Feeling of lightness in body when walking. - Frequent dreams of falling from height. - Eyelids feel heavy as lead. - Flesh feels as if beaten off bones. - 2. Severe cutting pain at the close of urination. - 3. Forked stream of urine (as in gonorrhoea). - 4. History of vaccination, esp. if it did not take; and of animal poisoning, such as snakebite, small-pox. - 5. Wart-like excrescences on mucous and cutaneous surfaces - moist excrescences on glans, prepuce and arms; polypus of ears or uterus or vagina. - 6. Enlargement of glands, esp. the left ovary. - 7. Sweats only on uncovered parts; or all over except the head. - Sweats when she sleeps; stops when she awakes. - 8. Left-sided complaints. - (A left-sided inguinal hernia of long standing was cured by a single dose of Thuja 200 by Dr. Bhanja). - Distressing left ovarian pain; left sided headache; numbness of left foot. - 9. Greasy, oily, shiny skin, face; stool; sweat. - 10. Vagina extremely sensitive; coition is impossible or extremely difficult. - 11. Luxurious growth of hair on parts otherwise not covered by hair. Mind - Ill-humoured, sad. - Loathes life (Aur.). - Hasty, anxious. - Talks hastily when angry. - Cannot think, talks slowly. - Fixed ideas and delusions as given in Synopsis. - Fixed idea of being under the influence of a superior power. - Insane women will not allow to be touched or approached. - Anxious apprehensions about the future. - Music causes weeping and trembling. - Conscientious about trifles. Objective - Soft fungoid, exuberant tissue (polypi; pediculated warts). - Oily stool, skin or sweat. - Hasty and anxious over trifles. - Teeth decay at the edge of gums. - Noisy swallowing or belching. - Speech slow, hunts for words. - Face shiny, greasy. - Urinary stream split and small. - Recto-vaginal fistula. - Perspiration sweetish and strong. - Cough by day only. - Nails ribbed, soft, brittle, crumbling, discoloured or distorted. - Sweat on uncovered parts; profuse on genitals. - Skin hairy; hirsutism.

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Causation (a.f. ) - Suppressed gonorrhoea (Med.). - Vaccination (Sil., Ant.t. ). - Animal poisoning. Modalities - Agg. - At night; from heat of bed; at 3 a.m. and 3 p.m. from cold, damp air; narcotics. - Tea, fat, coffee. - Letting a limb hang down. - Amel. - While drawing up a limb (flexing the limb). - (Pain in the left inguinal region relieved when the thigh is flexed on the abdomen. Bhanja). Food & drinks - Appetite and Thirst. - Loss of appetite. - Drinks fall audibly into stomach (Cup., Lauro). - Averse to potatoes. - Disagree: - Onion, tea, acid. - Fat food causes rancid eructations. Female - Vagina very sensitive (Berb., Kreos., Plat., Lyss.). - Warty excrescences on vulva and perineum. - Profuse leucorrhoea, thick, greenish. - Ovaritis, worse left side, at every menstrual period (Lach.). - Profuse perspiration before menses. Male - Chronic induration of testes, with thick greenish discharge and scalding urine. - Sweat smelling like honey on the genitals. - Nocturnal erections. Child - Teeth decay next to gums; gums very sensitive; retract. - Ranula. - Constipation with violent rectal pain, causing stool to recede (Sil., Sanic). - ASTHMA IN ChildREN (Nat- sulph.). Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Vertigo - Vertigo when closing the eyes (Lach., Ther). - 2. Head - Dandruff, white, scaly; hair dry and falling out. - 3. Head - Hair grows slowly, splits (Fluor. ac.) - 4. Eyes - Eyelids agglutinated at night; styes and tarsal tumours; chalazae (when Staph. partially relieves but does not cure). - 5. Eyes - Ophthalmia neonatorum; large granulations like warts or blisters; amel. by warmth and covering; agg. uncovering. - 6. Ears - Chronic otitis, discharge putrid. Polypi bleed easily. - 7. Mouth - Ranula (bluish). - 8. Teeth - Decay at the roots, the crown remaining intact; crumble and turn yellow. - Toothache worse form tea drinking. - 9. Urine - Frequent micturition with severe cutting pain at the close of urinating. - Sensation after urinating, as if urine thickening in the urethra. - Forked Stream. - 10. Rectum - Diarrhoea, early morning, expelled forcibly with much flatus (Aloe); gurgling as water from a bunghole. - 11. Prostate - Prostatic enlargement (Ferr. pic; Thiosinam., Iod., Sabal). - 12. Gen. Male - Many constitutional troubles from suppressed gonorrhoea - articular rheumatism, prostate gland enlargement; impotence; condylomata; sycosis. - 13. Extremities

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- Nails deformed, brittle (Ant. c). - 14. Dreams - Anxious, on sleeping on left side; of the dead, of falling from a height; of flying. - 15. Sleep - Persistent insomnia. - 16. Skin - Eruptions only on the covered parts, burn after scratching. - Skin looks dirty (Psor., Sulph.); brownish white spots here and there. - Epithelioma. - 17. Fever - Chill begins in the thighs, violent shaking chill at about 3 a.m. - Shivering through and through from the slightest uncovering of the body. - 18. Perspiration - Only on uncovered parts, or all over except the head; with dryness of the covered parts. - Sweat when he sleeps, stops when he wakes (rev. Sambucus). - 19. Perspiration - Sweat on the side not lain on (Ben. acid., Sanic). - 20. Nose - On blowing the nose pain in the hollow of teeth or at the side of it. - 21. Rectum - Fistula in ano. - Anus fissured or surrounded with condylomata. - Piles swollen, pain most severe when sitting. - 22. Stools - Expelled forcibly; loose bowels; oily stools (Iodum, Pic-acid). - 23. Stomach - Thirst with a gurgling sound in the oesophagus on drinking (Ars., Hydro. acid). - 24. Cough by day only. (Arg. met., Calc.c. , Euphr.) Cases - 60. Thuja: - "The characteristics of the case of Thuja" (Drops, falling, in sleep; Agg. from onions; Onions agg. (KR. 1363). - Dreams of falling from a height (KR. 1239). - She is a "hurrying" person, that is why she gets into trouble when "hurrying". - Hurry, (KR. 52). - "The vaccination gave the casting vote." - (Margaret Tyler - H.H. 1980/320)

Tuberculinum bovinum kent - (Bacillinum) Keywords - Depressed, dissatisfied; deep destroyer going down to pregnancy. - Happy travelling, drinking cold milk. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Symptoms ever-changing; ailments affecting one organ, then another - lungs, brain, kidneys, liver, stomach, nervous system - beginning suddenly, ceasing suddenly. - 2. Mentally active and precocious, but physically weak; always tired, with no cause; averse to work. - 3. Wants constant change, to travel, to go somewhere, to do something different (Calc. ph.). - 4. Depressed, melancholy - desire to use foul language, curse and swear. - 5. Fear of animals, esp. dogs. - 6. Symptoms constantly change; well selected remedies fail to improve; patient takes cold from the slightest exposure. - 7. Emaciation great, with incredible rapidity. - Phthisical parents. - Feeble vitality; get sick easily. - Tall, slim, flat and narrow chested, anaemic. - 8. Menses too early; too profuse; too long lasting; tardy in starting with frightful dysmenorrhoea; in patients with a tubercular history. - 9. Chilly, yet desires fresh air. Warm room suffocates; easy breathing in strong cold wind, but takes cold every time he breathes fresh air. - 10. Desires cold milk; aversion to meat. Mind - Dissatisfied; always wants a change (of place, doctor etc.); wants to travel. - Fits of violent temper. - Depressed, melancholy.

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- Loquacity during fever. - Thoughts intrude and crowd upon one another during the night. - Fear of dogs. - Changing moods. - Inclined to use foul language, to curse and swear. - Despondent; cannot help weeping even for nothing; once sweet, now on the borderland of insanity. - Things look strange, as if in a strange place. - Insanity, acute or chronic. Objective - Symptoms constantly changing; begin suddenly, cease suddenly. - He takes cold easily. - Mentally deficient children. - Enlarged glands, adenoids. - Craves cold milk. - Dissatisfied; always wants a change. - Likes to travel; likes open air (air hunger). - Aversion to mental work. - Loquacity during fever. - Aversion to meat. - Fear of cats, dogs. - So hungry, gets up at night to eat; yet emaciates. - Itching amel. by the heat of stove; worse at night, and from bathing. Causation (a.f. ) - Tubercular parentage. - Or close contact with one suffering from tuberculosis. - Emotional excitement. - Mental work. Modalities - Agg. - Closed room; motion; changing weather; damp weather. - Music; thinking of it; noise; early morning; standing; before a storm; draught; after sleep. - Periodically. - Amel - Cold open air. Food & drinks - Loses flesh while eating well. - So hungry, must get up at night to eat (Psor). - OR nausea at sight or odour of food. - Desires - Cold milk or sweets. - Aversion - Meat. Female - Menses too early, too profuse, etc. with frightful dysmenorrhoea. - Pain increases with the flow. - Severe pain in the breasts at the beginning of menses. Child - Nervous, weak, irritable; mentally deficient. - Tardy dentition; fontanelles open. - Hydrocephalic, cold sweat on head. - Indurated, palpable glands everywhere (cervical, inguinal). - Tabes mesenterica. - Ringworm. - Talks and cries in sleep. - Drum-belly, splenic region bulges out. - Grinds teeth in sleep. - Broncho-pneumonia of children. - Children bear Tub. treatment well, and need more frequent repetition. - "Children and young people of tubercular parents may be immunised from their inheritance by way of the Tuberculinum preparations, given in 10M, 50M and CM potencies, two doses of each at long intervals". - Kent. - Diarrhoea runs for weeks with wasting. Bedwetting. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Persons on the borderland of insanity - phthisis and insanity are convertible conditions, the one falls into the other. - 2. Head - Headache chronic, long-standing of schoolgirls; intensely sharp cutting pains from above rt. eye to occiput; as of

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an iron hoop around head (Anac., Sulph) agg. by study or slight mental work; from sunrise to sunset (Calc. ph., Nat.m. ). - Pain "deep" in the head, worse on shaking the head. - 3. Head - Headache, deep inside - mostly in temples and occiput - with stinging, stitch-like pains through piles; and creeping pain through left lung and tickling cough. - 4. Head - Acute meningitis (cerebral or basilar); tubercular, with effusion; nocturnal hallucinations and fright; wakes from sleep frightened; screams in his sleep. - 5. Head - Plica polonica (Vinca), cured after Bor., Psor. failed. - 6. Ear - Glands swollen around ears and on neck - no pain; Hodgkin's disease (Dros.). - 7. Ear - Otorrhoea, persistent, offensive, membrane tympanic perforated. - 8. Nose - Successive crops of intensely painful small boils in nose; green fetid pus. - 9. Nose - Nasal catarrh with pricking in throat. - Sudden cough. - 10. Throat - Tonsils enlarged; laryngeal phthisis; external throat swollen. - 11. Rectum - Diarrhoea, early morning, sudden, drives out of bed (Rum, Sul). - 12. Rectum - Diarrhoea, early morning, sudden, imperative; stool offensive, discharged with great force - with great weakness and profuse night sweats. - 13. Rectum - Must strain at stool to pass water. - 14. Respiration - Sensation of suffocation even with plenty of fresh air. - 15. Respiration - When tubercular deposits begin in the apex of left lung, an indication verified by a number of observers. - 16. Cough - Cough dry, shaking; during sleep without awaking (Calc. p.). - Single cough on rising in the morning. - 17. Extremities - Wandering pains in limbs and joints; stiff when beginning to move; agg. standing and amel. by continued motion. - 18. Perspiration - Perspiration from mental exertion; stains linen yellow. - 19. Skin - Eczema all over body, in patches; intensely itching, changing place on rubbing; agg. at night, by heat, touch, cold water. - 20. Skin - Psoriasis; large quantity of white brainy scales; behind ears, in the hair, in folds of skin; sore, raw, oozing (Thyroid). - 21. Skin - Ringworm. - 22. Fever - Shivering when beginning to sleep. - 23. General - A powerful intercurrent where cases with that history hang fire. - "Wish, I'd only started with it." (Tyler). - 24. General - Development arrested (mental and physical); helped even teething in a young woman. - 25. General - Hydrocephalus - when Apis, Hell or Sulp. though indicated fail. - 26. General - "Tuberculinum is more useful in "consumptives", i.e. in cases where structures other than lungs are affected". (Tyler). - 27. General - Weakness in the evening with rapid pulse. - 28. General - When the consumptive process is in full blaze (galloping), the virus (bacilli) is unavailing" (Burnett). - 29. General - Worse before a thunderstorm, sensitive to every electric change in the weather.

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- 30. Generalities - Cases of insanity always benefited by an attack of an acute infectious disease, esp. if it is accompanied with high fever. - Insanity is frequently a manifestation of a consumptive taint. (Dr. Clarke). - 31. Sleep - Dreams snakes. Cases - 121. Tuberculinum: - Kent's repertory does not give Tuberculinum under the above rubrics. - But Dr. Phatak's Materia Medica gives the following symptoms which exactly fit the case: - Head - Deep violent pains; brain feels loose. - Mind - Children awake screaming with restlessness. - Stomach - Craves cold milk or sweets. - Female - Severe pain in breasts at the beginning of menses. - Sleep - Restless at night and screams in sleep. - Fever - Wants covers in all stages of chill. - (Dr. Mohd. Azmal Houssain - H.H. 1988/132)

Veratrum album Keywords - Icy cold parts. - Profuse exhausting discharges. - Inconsolable over fancied misfortune. - Rude, insolent, loquacious, liar. Synopsis (identifying features) - 1. Violent physical as well as mental, emotional effects. - 2. Rapid sinking of the vital forces; complete prostration and collapse. - 3. Cold perspiration on the forehead (over entire body, Tab.) with nearly all complaints. - 4. Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhoea. - 5. Icy coldness - of face, tip of nose, feet, legs, hands and many other parts. - Sensation of a lump of ICE on vertex; as if brain were torn to pieces. - 6. Face : pale, blue, collapsed; features sunken, hippocratic. - 7. Despair of social position. - Delusion, he is unfortunate; inconsolable over fancied misfortune. - 8. Delusion, he is a great person; imaginations of wealth. - Thinks himself a person of rank. - 9. Religious affections; praying. - Delusion he is in communication with God. - 10. Forsaken feeling. - Does not recognise his relatives. - Sits still, wrapped in deep sad thoughts and notices nothing. - 11. Loquacity, lascivious, lewd talk. - Jesting, ridiculous or foolish. - 12. Rudeness, haughty, insolent, offended easily. - 13. Untruthful, liar, never speaks the truth; does not know what he is saying. - 14. Delusion he is deaf, dumb or blind. - 15. Violent thirst for large quantities of very cold water or ice. Mind - In addition to symptoms mentioned in "Synopsis" :- Mania with desire to cut and tear things, esp. clothes (Bell, Stram, Tarent). - Religious frenzy; believes himself a god; preaches, howls, sings obscene songs, exposes genitals (Hyos). - Praying, cursing, howling all night, very loud. - Fear and the effects of fear (Acon., Op.). - Despair of his social position; of recovery; attempts suicide; never smiles. - Extravagance; wants to show off; never speaks the truth. - Sits in sullen indifference. - Aimless wandering from home. - Delusions of impending misfortune.

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- Violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk. Objective - Extravagant habits; never speaks the truth; prays, sings - everything aimed at upholding his social position. - Cold perspiration on forehead. - Profound prostration; cold, blue and collapsing. - Sudden violent effects. - Excessive diarrhoea and vomiting. - Aphonia. - Cramps in calves. - General COLDNESS, icy (on vertex). - Burning thirst; craves ice water or sour drinks. - Loquacity or lewdness. - Face deathly pale, bluish, frowning; terrific look. - Rapid sinking of vital force. - Rheumatism worse wet weather, which drives him out of bed. - Chronic constipation with faintness and cold sweat. - Insanity after fright with great coldness of body and diarrhoea. Causation (a.f. ) - Fright; shock. - Disappointed love. - Injured pride or honour. - Opium eating; tobacco chewing. - Overuse of alcohol. Modalities - Agg. - Exertion. - Drinking, cold drinks. - Wet cold weather. - Before and during menses. - Before, during and after stools. - Amel. - Warmth, lying, walking about. Food & drinks - Appetite - Gnawing, voracious appetite inspite of nausea and vomiting. - Thirst - Burning thirst; craves ice cold water, which is vomited as soon as swallowed. - Desires - Everything cold; sour drinks, juicy fruits and salt. - Disagree - All fruits disagree causing painful distention. - Potatoes and vegetables disagree. - Taste - Peppermint-like. Water tastes bitter. Female - Menses too early, profuse and exhausting. - Dysmenorrhoea with coldness, purging, cold sweat. - Faints from least exertion. - Sexual mania precedes menses. - Nymphomania from disappointed love, unsatisfied passion; Puerperal mania. - Menorrhagia with nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea. Male - Excessive sensibility of genital organs. Child - Children feel better when carried about quickly. - Constipation of nursing infants from very cold weather. - Neck so weak, the child can scarcely keep it erect, agg. during whooping cough. - Constipation painful, of infants and children (stool large, hard, from inactive rectum), after Lyc. and Nux. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Mind - Delusion she is pregnant, will soon be delivered. - 2. Head - Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex with chilliness. - 3. Abdomen - Cutting colic in abdomen as if bowels were twisted in knots, with cramps in limbs and rapid prostration. - 4. Abdomen

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- Painful retraction of abdomen while vomiting. - 5. Stool - Stool large with much straining until exhausted, with cold sweat. - 6. Chest - Tobacco heart from chewing tobacco. - One of the best heart STIMULANTS in homoeopathic doses. (J.S. Mitchell). - 7. Extremities - Cramps in calves during stools. - 8. Extremities - Paralysis; after cholera, from debilitating vital drains. - 9. Extremities - Rheumatic pains during wet weather, aggr. from warmth of bed (Merc.). - Pains are maddening, drive out of bed, amel. by walking about (Ferr.). - 10. Extremities - Sciatica - pains like electric flashes. - Cramps in claves. - 11. Sleep - Dreams of anger; anxious; confused; dogs; exhausting; frightful; hunting; misfortune. - Position - on back, with arms over the head. - 12. Fever - Cholera (Asiatica, Morbus or Infantum). - Stools frequent, copious, gushing, involuntary, rice-watery; agg. by least motion, with violent vomiting and cold sweat ON FOREHEAD, then prostration. - (Hahnemann's trio of CHOLERA remedies.). - The collapse in VERAT ALB. is the result of profuse, draining discharge. - Cup. met is indicated by the predominance of cramps. - Camphor collapses with scanty sweat, vomiting and purging or NONE of them at all, i.e. "dry cholera". - 13. Fever - Fever, intermittent or pernicious, with extreme COLDNESS, or internal heat with cold, wrinkled surface, cold sweat on forehead, deathly pale face (collapse). - 14. General - Sensation of cold water running through veins. Cases - Margaret Tyler summarises. - "The cry for VERATRUM then consists of excessive coldness, excessive cold sweat; extreme thirst; extreme violence of evacuations; extreme copiousness of vomiting, purging and sweat; collapse; paralytic weakness and loss of power; with violence of reactions to pain and mania". Cases - 122. Veratrum alb. - The rubrics corresponding to the more outstanding and peculiar symptoms are : - Insanity puerperal (S.R. 644). - Restless tossing about at night, in bed (SR. 845). - Destructiveness (SR. 197) . - Insanity (SR. 634). - Shrieking (SR. 911). - Foolish behaviour (SR. 537). - Censorious (SR. 126). - Amorous (SR. 25). - Memory weak (SR. 734). - (Dr. N. Ghatak - H.H. 1987/671)

Vipera berus Keywords - Congestion of blood in veins with intolerable, bursting pains agg. by hanging down the affected part (amel. horizontal position). Synopsis - 1. Bursting (fullness sensation) in blood vessels, esp. VEINS, with unbearable pain. - Aggr. by hanging down of the limbs; must sit up or lie down with elevated parts (acute phlebitis). - 2. Haemorrhagic tendency - even chronic epistaxis, haematuria. - 3. Varicose veins and ulcers with the characteristic modality. - 4. Persistent oedema with tendency to ulcers (of legs); with septic conditions following. - 5. Haemorrhage red, black, dark clots, excessive bleeding; prostration and faintness. - 6. Black, petechial spots all over body; blisters.

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- 7. Symptoms return annually for years. - 8. Paralysis, ascending; paraplegia; multiple neuritis. - Poliomyelitis. Mind - Raving delirium with vomiting, alternates with sopor; coma; with thirst for water. - Loss of mental functions. Objective - Tongue swollen, protruding; speech difficult. - Unbearable BURSTING pain in limbs amel. only by elevating them. - Varicose veins, acute phlebitis. - Ascending paraplegia of lower extremities. Ailments from (causation) - Unidentified septic (Poisoned) condition of blood. Modalities - Agg. - Letting the affected limbs hang down. - Cold, yearly. - Touch. Appetite, thirst, cravings, aversions, etc Female - Climacteric haemorrhage; flow red with dark clots, not profuse, but continuous. - Prostration and faintness from nursing the child, with epistaxis. Child - Development arrested. Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics - 1. Vertigo - With epistaxis, loss of vision and anxiety. - 2. Eyes - Paralysis of lids, with dim vision (left) or lost (or). - 3. Face - Red or pale. - Hippocratic, with cold sweat on forehead. - Lips blue, tongue swollen, livid; protruding. - 4. Mouth - Scorbutic line on gums. - Tongue moist on edges with thirst for cold drinks. - 5. Mouth - Speech difficult - inarticulate; thick, lost on account of weakness. - 6. Throat - Swelling like a goitre. - Oedema of glottis. - Viscid mucus adheres to pharynx. - 7. Stomach - Vomiting after milk with shivering. - Coldness of body with colic. - Slow digestion. - 8. Rectum - Diarrhoea, green substances; yellow, viscid fluid; fetid; black. - 9. Bladder - Involuntary urine, dark yellow (jaundice). - 10. Abdomen - Excruciating pain in epigastrium, agg. by pressure. - Violent pain in enlarged liver, extending to shoulder and jaundice with fever. - 11. Stomach - Vomiting a mass of roundworms. - 12. Bladder - Haematuria - 13. Respiration - Anxious breathing as in croup, threatening asphyxia. - 14. Respiration - Breathing ceased suddenly, heart stopped. - Violent effort to breathe and swallow. - 15. Chest - Dragging pains in chest; he tears his clothes, becomes faint. - 16. Extremities - Stitches in finger tips after a bite on arm.

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- 17. Extremities - Shuffling gait caused by paralysis, followed by ulcers. - 18. Skin - Gangrene with crawling in soles and palms. - 19. Sleep - Restless; must change position. - Sleepiness with inability to sleep. - Exhausting dreams. - 20. Extremities - Fullness and unbearable pain as if limb would burst; must keep parts elevated; with feet high. - Cramps in or blueness of lower limbs. - Varicose veins and acute phlebitis. - 21. Skin - Ulcer; gangrene; boils. - Carbuncles, with BURSTING sensation. - Peeling off in large plates. - Lymphangioma. - 22. Fever - Heat with restlessness, delirium, then shivering. - 23. Fever - Burning heat rising from heel to tongue, with longing for cold application though skin is cold to touch. Cases - 6. Vipera torva: - Hanging down of limb extremely painful. - "The symptom aggr. by heat and relieved by cold runs through all cases of this remedy and is a valuable modality because it differentiates it from other remedies having similar local manifestations. - Extremely sensitive to touch." - (Royal E.S. Hayes - H.H. 10/84) - 59. Vipera: - The rubrics which cover the case are : - Extremities, varices, lower limbs. - Hanging down the limbs aggr. - Fullness, veins of legs. - (Dr. William B. Griggs - H.H. 1984/228)

Zincum metallicum Keywords - Fagged - enfeebled, exhausted - neurological effects. Synopsis - 1. Dull, fagged out physically and mentally. - Comprehension difficult. - Memory weak. - Averse to work or talk. - 2. Brain and nerves fagged out, causing depression and enervation. - Enfeeblement throughout. - 3. Inability to develop complete exanthema or discharges. - 4. Progressive weakness with restlessness. - 5. Child repeats all questions before answering them. - 6. Fidgety feet; almost constant nervous movement of feet in bed after retiring - or even when asleep. - 7. Automatic motion of hands and head, or of one hand and head. - 8. Suppression of discharges (even eruptions) cause cerebral symptoms. - 9. All symptoms ameliorate as soon as discharges begin to flow (e.g. menses, leucorrhoea, lochia, diarrhoea, otorrhoea, foot-sweat, etc.) - 10. Ailments following non-appearance of eruptions in measles, or their suppression (squinting, or rolling of head from side to side). - Difficult breathing amel. by expectoration. - Backache amel. by seminal emission. - 11. Paralysis - descending. - 12. Partial effects - formications, convulsions, twitching, jerking, spasms - chorea. - 13. Pains, shooting; transverse. Mind - Confused; repeats all questions before answering. - Forgetful. - Sensitivity - to noise, touch.

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- Hyperactivity of brain. - Nervousness leading to diarrhoea. - Easily startled. - Superstitious. - Stares as if frightened. - Delusion, being chased by police. - Hyperactivity (mental exertion) leads to fag-out of brain, then lethargy, and finally he thinks calmly of death. Objective - Signs of weak memory. - Slow, sluggish mind; repeats the question. - Twitching and jerking of various muscles. - Varices in legs. - Mental exhaustion. - FIDGETY FEET AND LEGS. - Isolated effects; one part numb, another sensitive. - Complaints amel. by FREE discharges. Ailments from (causation) - Mental - Affections of brain from sudden stoppage of discharges or suppressed eruptions, e.g. measles. - Grief; anger; fright; night watching (Nux-v., Cocc). - Excessive mental exertion. - Suppressed emotions. - Physical - Operations; concussion of brain; suppressed eruptions and discharges or acute illnesses. Modalities - Aggr. - Exhaustion, mental or physical. - After, eating. - Touch; wine; noise. - Suppressed discharges. - Loss of sleep (neurological symptoms). - Amel. - Motion. - Free discharges. - Rubbing parts. Appetite, thirst, cravings, aversions - Hunger, ravenous at 11 a.m. (Sulph). - Weakness after eating. - Heartburn agg. after taking sugar. - Craving - Beer, cold food, cold drinks. - Aversion - To meat (veal). - Sweets, warm food, fish. - Disagree - Intolerance of wine. Female - Feeble functions: when a girl approaches puberty and menarche there is no flow of menses. - Instead choreic symptoms appear. - Other neurological symptoms like twitchings, jerking and burning pains along the spine and hysteria manifest. - Hypersensitive to talk and to listen to others talking. - Even noise of crumpling of paper is intolerable. - Becomes averse to company, even of those she is fond of. - Menstrual flow more at night. Male - Grasps the genitals during cough. Child - Feeble children - feeble mind, memory poor; physically exhausted. - History of 'hard work' (studies), play, etc. - Docile but irascible when aroused. - Convulsions from suppressed scarletina, measles. - Constipation of newborn. - Child screams whenever it is moved. - SLOW development of teeth causes Zinc. symptoms. Peculiar, uncommon, rare and grand characteristics - 1. Head

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- Rolls head and bores it into pillow. - Occiput hot and forehead cold. - 2. Stomach - Hasty in eating and drinking. - 3. Head - Headache with sympathetic amblyopia; weakness of vision. - 4. Head - Brain symptoms from checked diarrhoea. - 5. Urine - Urinates only in odd positions, e.g. bending backwards, or crossing limbs. - Urination involuntary, unless feet are in constant motion. - 6. Sleep - Shrieking in sleep without waking up. - Jerks on falling to sleep. - Automatic effects - motion of hands and head, or of one hand and head. - 7. Back - Very sensitive - cannot bear it to be touched. - 8. Dreams - of the dead; of falling; fire; drowning; of being murdered; of being strangled; robbers; water. Cases - 23. Zincum: - Persons suffering from cerebral and nervous exhaustion; defective vitality. - Incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or lower extremities (the child was so exhausted and in low state that his "fidgety feet' expressed itself as a shrill, urgent call (in his comatose condition) for "rubbing" his feet. (Keynotes, Allen). - Zinc. is also worse from "suppressions" (BSK). - Brain paralysis (BSK). - Julia M. Green - HH. 1989/119) - 25. Zincum: - Fidgety feet of Zincum - a keynote. - Suppressed eruptions profoundly affect the nervous system causing brain-fag, paralysis of brain; tremors, jerking, spasms. - Screams during sleep (BSK). - (Margaret B. Webster - HH. 1979/78) - 97. Zincum: - The "fidgety feet" immediately suggested Zinc. - On referring to the materia medica, it seemed to fit the whole case. - This case shows the use of an unusual drug suggested by an outstanding symptom, which covered the whole picture. Zinc means 'fag'. - The tissues wear out faster than they are repaired. - Marked anaemia, profound prostration; in chronic cases twitchings and fidgety feet are the guiding symptoms. - Depression, coldness, restless feet. - She scarcely had any strength to move; overpowering weakness. - Depression, both physical and mental. - Advice - See if the drug fits not one symptom but the whole case. - (Health through Homoeopathy, Oct. 1947 - HH. 87/689) - 105. Zincum: - "Fidgety feet = Zincum." - Kent's Rep. p. 600. - Urination involuntary, while sitting; she must swing her foot constantly or the urine will escape. - (Dr. J.T. Kent - H.H. 1986/624)

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