CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS (Cact.)
CONSTRICTION – CONGESTION – CONTRACTION
MENTAL
Shrieking
from pain.
Delusion
that she is caught in wires, that the body is wrapped.
Anxiety
about health, reaches hypochondriasis. Despair of recovery. Desires to take
large doses of medicine. Delusion he’s about to die with rheumatism or heart
disease.
Fear
of death or that something will happen.
Delirium
during sleep.
Mania
during fever and heat.
Suspicious,
mistrustful.
PHYSICAL
HEART
AND CIRCULATION PROBLEMS: infarct, angina, etc. WITH CONSTRICTIVE
PAINS AND SWELLING OF LEFT HAND.
Numbness
or pains extend to the left arm, hand or even fingers.
Grasping
sensation of heart, constriction of chest as if from an armor.
Severe,
violent CONSTRICTING PAINS in which the patient cries out from pain. Pain as if from a
steel hand, as if a wire that gets twisted tighter and tighter. Whole body
feels caged. Constriction of vagina on touch and coition. Constriction and
choking sensation in oesophagus . Facial pain < fasting.
Violent
palpitation < lying on left side, menses.
Hæmorrhages with
constriction sensation.
Headache
with severe congestion, followed by epistaxis with redness of face. Hæmorrhage
from anus with heart symptoms.
Severe
dysmenorrhoea or metrorrhagia with clots. Pains as each clot is expelled with
constricting pains.
MODALITIES
AGG.: at
forenoon 11:00 and night 23:00, beginning of menses, lying on the left side.
AMEL.: slow,
continued motion.
CALADIUM SEGUINUM (Calad.)
IMPOTENCY WITH INCREASED SEXUAL DESIRE
MENTAL
Amorous,
lascivious with impotency. Symptoms from sexual excesses (ex.
memory weakness).
DEPRESSION
due to unsatisfied sexual desire. Sadness from masturbation. Lack
of enthusiasm. Indifferent to everything. Eventually becomes indifferent to sex.
Weakness
of memory. Very forgetful, absent-minded. Mental confusion, inability to
perform intellectual work.
Anxiety
about health, hypochondriacal anxiety. Very
careful about health- refuses to take medicine, fear of infection, of catching
contagious disease.
Fear
of cutting himself while shaving.
Nervous
excitement.
PHYSICAL
Special
action on the genitalia of both sexes.
IMPOTENCE
WITH SEXUAL DESIRE. Increased sexual desire without erection.
Flaccid
penis with sexual desire and excitement (Lyc., Sel.). Penis is
excited but relaxed.
Failing
to ejaculate during coition.
They
cannot perform the sexual act in a natural way and
they seek other ways of satisfying the excessive desire.
Pruritus
Vulvæ (voluptuous itching) in females, inducing masturbation and sleeplessness.
Coldness
of single parts of the body (lower limbs, single parts).
Organism
is sensitive to smoking and
is aggravated by it.
A burning
sensation, stays in the lungs for years after heavy smoking.
Sensitivity
of the skin, crawling itching. Sensation
of cobweb or formication in face. Tension
of skin, as if white of egg were dried in the face. Violent
itching on certain parts of the skin.
Insomnia.
Sensitive to slightest noise, startles from sleep (Asar., Nux-v., Tarent.).
Afraid to go to sleep.
Sleep is disturbed. Sleeps for 3-4h and then wakes up and cannot sleep for 2-3
hours.
The
perspiration attracts flies.
MODALITIES
AGG.: warmth,
yet desires warm drinks.
AMEL.: perspiration.
PALPITATIONS
WITH COMPLAINTS
MENTAL
ANXIETY
ABOUT MONEY MATTERS.
Fear
of poverty. Avarice.
Restlessness
in bed.
Peevish,
grumbling, lamenting , bad tempered, inwardly discontented displeased with
others and with themselves.
Anger
brings palpitations, headaches.
Fear
of earthquake.
Anxiety
about his salvation and fear of the beyond. Anxiety in evening, at night, in
bed, and during a chill.
Dullness.
Difficult concentration.
PHYSICAL
It
is indicated in cases of cancer of the pancreas. This
remedy relieves the burning pains of cancer of the pancreas and will cure where
there is enough vitality left. Also indicated in malignant affections situated
on the area of abdomen. Malignancy of the lymphatic glands, swelling of the
inguinal and mesenteric glands.
It
is indicated in cases where the kidneys have
been affected (cardiac and hepatic affections, nephritic syndrome, Addison’s
disease, nephritis) and there is strong,
excessive albuminuria. Albuminous urine consecutive to heart disease. Nephritis
with great sensitivity in the kidney region.
Fatty
degeneration of the organs. Enlargement of the liver and spleen in children.
PALPITATIONS
AFTER EXERTION, EXCITEMENT, ANGER AND AFTER EPILEPSY.
Mentally
and physically weak. Marked lassitude. Tremulous and paralytic weakness. Useful
remedy in anæmia.
Perspiration
after 03:00. A strange symptom is that the patient wakes up at this hour and
feels mischievous.
Epilepsy with
convulsions at night. Epileptic aura can come with palpitation, vertigo, aphonia,
congestion of head, pain in heart, loss of voice, urging to stool, pain in left
hand.
Complaints
are worse from exertion that can cause faintness, palpitation, dyspnoea and
weakness.
Chronic
or suppressed malaria.
Vertigo
as if floating.
MODALITIES
AGG.: cold,
03:00, corn.
DES.:
SOUP, liquid food, alcoholic drinks, cold drinks.
AVERS.: alcohol,
cold drinks, corn meal.
CALCAREA CARBONICA (Calc.)
Typical Calcarea is responsible, hard-working and practical. She is a bit slow and she seeks stability and security. She has numerous fears like high places, dogs, rats but with a prevailing fear of insanity. She undertakes many responsibilities until finally she collapses from overworking. The practitioner should not get lost in the vast array of symptoms but should look for the main keynotes of the remedy. There is a general aggravation from cold and wet weather. The patient has cold feet that may have a slight clammy sweat. A tendency to be overweight, perspiration during sleep around the neck, desire for sweets and soft-boiled eggs.
CHILLY, FLABBY, WITH NUMEROUS FEARS. DESIRES EGGS AND SWEETS
MENTAL
MANY
FEARS: HIGH PLACES, INSANITY, dogs, rats, death, disease, dark, ghosts,
thunderstorms, accidents.
DESPAIR
OF RECOVERY.
OBSTINATE.
Sensitive
when hearing cruelties.
Religious
affections in children. The child inquires about God, about the beyond etc.
PHYSICAL
CHILLY,
sensitive to cold (lack of vital heat).
Cold
extremities, esp. FEET (usually sleeps with socks or hot water bottle).
Profuse PERSPIRATION DURING
SLEEP esp. on the CERVICAL
REGION, chest and scalp.
Worse
from exertion in general esp. the headache. Out
of breath (difficult, panting respiration) from ascending.
OBESITY that
produces flabbiness.
BRITTLE,
SOFT NAILS.
Pains
and swelling of the mammae before menses.
Slow,
difficult dentition in children. Convulsions during dentition. Distended,
enlarged abdomen in children.
A bit slow individuals. Sluggishness. Hypothyreodism.
Constipation with no urging.
MODALITIES
DES.: SWEETS,
EGGS (ESP. SOFT BOILED), milk, strange things (i.e. coal, indigestible), farinaceous
food.
AVERS.: milk.
AGG.: exertion,
cold, cold wet weather, draft of air.
AMEL.: warm dry
weather, rising.
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA (Calc-p.)
The
most prominent characteristic of Calc-p. is the discontent that
is seen from children to adults. They don’t feel well but cannot define what is
wrong. The children moan all the time even in their sleep and drive the parents
crazy. These patients need change, their only outlet is to travel.
DISCONTENT,
NEEDS CHANGE, SENSITIVE TO DAMP
MENTAL
DISCONTENT,
COMPLAINING AND MOANING, esp. during sleep.
They
don’t know what is wrong. ENNUI, DESIRES TO TRAVEL, TO CHANGE PLACES. (Traveling
ameliorates psychological complaints not physical like in Ign.).
Thinking
of complaints aggravates.
Sighing,
cannot take a satisfying breath (Ign.).
Mental
dullness in adults and children. Mental exertion aggravates.
Duty
bound. They press themselves to do their duty and they get headaches.
Ailments
from bad news.
PHYSICAL
<
COLD AND WET WEATHER, melting of the snow, drafts,
exposure to cold air after perspiration.
Pain
in cervical region < DRAFT of air.
Headaches
after mental exertion esp. in school children.
SCOLIOSIS,
curvature of spine.
Children:
slow learning to walk and talk. Arrested development. Emaciation.
Fontanelles
remain open for long time.
Colic
pains in abdomen, at every attempt to eat.
MODALITIES
AGG.: draft
of air, exposure to damp, cold, melting snow; changeable weather; mental exertion.
AMEL.: summer; warm,
dry weather.
DES.: SMOKED
MEAT, bacon, strange, indigestible things.
CALCAREA SULPHURICA (Calc-s.)
In
Calc-s. we see suppuration in physical and psychological levels. We see
abscesses and discharges of pus and blood on the physical level and jealousy,
nastiness and maliciousness on the mental/emotional levels.
PUS
IN PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL LEVELS - ABSCESSES, DISCHARGING SUPPURATION
MENTAL
Great
jealousy. Nasty and malicious.
Irritable,
quarrelsome from jealousy.
Fear
of birds.
PHYSICAL
TENDENCY
TO SUPPURATION THAT DOES NOT HEAL. Pus
continues for months or years. CHRONIC ABSCESSES.
Purulent
discharges. Discharge or pus is yellow and bloody. (nose,
eye, ear, urethra, skin).
Crusty
eruptions on face. ACNE vulgaris with the whole face covered with crusts.
Painful
abscesses around rectum. Fistulae that
discharge constantly yellowish purulent matter.
Otitis
with yellow, purulent, bloody discharge. Suppuration of middle ear. Abscess
in meatus.
MODALITIES
DES.: green,
acid fruits.
AVERS.: meat.
CALENDULA (Calen.)
INJURIES,
LACERATED WOUNDS
MENTAL
Fear
that something bad is going to happen and this fear makes him/her restless.
Anxiety
felt in abdomen before or during stool. Aggravation in general during chill
becomes peevish, complaining a lot, becomes sleepy.
Bulimia.
Great irritability during a chill.
PHYSICAL
Open,
cut, LACERATED wounds, RAGGED, SUPPURATED where the pain is excessive and out
of all proportion to injury.
OPEN
WOUNDS that will not heal, ulcers etc. Suppurations, abscesses,
sepsis and gangrene.
Lacerations
in hand, nose. After injuries to genitalia, head, eye.
Injuries
of muscles, tendons < moving the part and > by lying. Sensitive
to touch.
After
labor esp. caesarean. After operations. Calculi after bladder operation.
Profuse gum bleeding after tooth extraction.
General weakness
after the injury that may be much more debilitating than expected given the severity of
wound. Nausea and other consequences after physical trauma (fever, chill,
headache).
The
injured part is worse on moving the part and relieved by lying perfectly still
(Bry.).
Individual
with low defenses, gets cold easily, gets tired easily, weak and frightened.
Great
disposition to take cold especially in damp weather.
Chill
is a marked feature with acute ailments.
Loss
of hearing, deafness from cicatricle tissue on the tympanum. Hearing is
affected in damp weather.
MODALITIES
AGG.: wet
weather, motion.
AMEL.: rest.
CAMPHORA OFFICINARUM (Camph.)
COLLAPSE
- EXTREMELY COLD BUT WANTS TO BE UNCOVERED
MENTAL
Thinking
of complaints ameliorates.
Anxiety
during chill, anxiety in bed. Fears to be alone at night, desires company.
Shrieking,
screaming, <before convulsions. Shrieking for help.
Puerperal
insanity. Delirium. Tears things.
Desire
to bite <during rage.
PHYSICAL
SKIN
IS ICY COLD, YET wants to be UNCOVERED. Throws
off all coverings (Carb-v., Sec., Med.). Coldness
of extremities, yet warm bed is unendurable.
Wants
to be uncovered with cold skin, but desires to be covered with heat and sweat.
Internal
heat with external chill during fever.
Sudden
collapse- weakness with chill and anxiety. Profound weakness. Sleep becomes
comatose; can alternate with sleeplessness.
Sudden
attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea with anxiety and restlessness.
Sensitive
to cold air.
Cramps,
convulsions with coldness and mental anguish. Face is anxious, distorted,
bluish and cold.
Rashes
from exposure to sunlight.
Pain
> while thinking of it.
Ailments
from suppressed sexual desire (Con., Puls., Apis).
MODALITIES
AGG.: suppressed
perspiration, urine, cold air, exposure to sun, warm bed, warm wraps.
AMEL.: thinking
of pain, open air, drinking cold water.
DES.: cold
food without thirst.
CANNABIS INDICA (Cann-i.)
Usually
these patients have a history of cannabis abuse or they can be so sensitive to
cannabis that they can get ailments even after slight use. It activates
(quick mind, many ideas, loquacity, theorizing) but also confuses the mind
(gullible, no critical thinking, no discrimination) reaching to even delusional
states. The clarity of mental faculties is affected for many years after stopping
the use of cannabis. However we should remember that the abuse of cannabis can
produce the picture of any remedy if the symptoms match.
DELUSIONS,
CONFUSION, FEARS AS CONSEQUENCES FROM HASHISH USE
MENTAL
DELUSIONS:
time passes too slowly, a few seconds seem ages.
Objects
or distances are enlarged, he’s out of the body etc. Sensation that single
limbs are floating.
FEAR
OF INSANITY, OF LOSING SELF-CONTROL. Panic attacks, with fear of death.
LOQUACITY.
Theorizing.
CONFUSION.
Fast mind with abundant ideas. Inability
to recall any thought or event on account of other thoughts intrude and crowd
around each other in his brain.
Very
forgetful: forgets words while speaking; begins
a sentence, forgets what he’s about to say, for what has just thought; thoughts
are vanishing while speaking, writing, reading.
Laughs
immoderately and involuntary at trifles, at every word that is said.
Always
asking questions.
PHYSICAL
Internal
jerking, internal pulsation.
Sexual
desire increased, violent.
Back
pain on laughing.
Headache,
as if head is opening and shutting.
Burning
thirst and ravenous appetite.
MODALITIES
DES.: sweets.
CANTHARIS (Canth.)
This
is an intense remedy. The idea is of fire esp.
in genitourinary system.
The
inflammation is so intense that is life-threatening.
The
pains are intense, the sexuality is intense, the skin burns are severe.
INTENSITY
OF SYMPTOMS ESPECIALLY OF GENITO-URINARY SYSTEM
MENTAL
Adulterous,
erotic delirium, lascivious, nymphomania.
Rage
esp. on sight of water. Disposition to contradiction, insolent esp. in the
afternoon. Delirium with desire to bite. Maniacal delirium.
Fear
of mirrors and brilliant objects. Hydrophobia.
PHYSICAL
RAPID,
INTENSE AND DESTRUCTIVE symptoms.
BURNING,
CUTTING PAINS.
Affects
the URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS.
Burning,
cutting pain in neck of bladder extending through urethra.
Urination
is so painful so that he dances around the room in agony.
Frequent,
constant urging to urinate, passing a few drops at a time (dribbling),
sometimes mixed with blood.
Cystitis
with violent burning pain during urination, the
burning can be there before and/or after urination. Pain in bladder after few
drops pass.
Nephritis.
Kidney pain, tearing, cutting and burning. Contracting pain from kidneys down
ureters to penis.
BURNS which
have caused vesication. Gangrene from burns. Inflammation
of the eye from burns.
Strong,
excessive erections. Painful erections < at night.
Perspiration
has the odor of urine.
Chill
15:00, lasting 12 hours.
MODALITIES
AGG.: coffee, bathing,
pressure, touch, olive oil, bright objects, after urination.
AMEL.: lying,
alcoholic drinks, perspiration.
CAPSICUM (Caps.)
HOMESICKNESS,
THREATENED MASTOIDITIS
MENTAL
DEPRESSION
AND NOSTALGIA (HOMESICKNESS) which can even reach suicidal states. Ailments
from homesickness. Homesickness with sleeplessness, ennui, with red cheeks.
Prostration
of mind.
Children
obstinate, chilly and clumsy.
Desire
to be alone, aversion to company.
Aversion
to physical exertion.
PHYSICAL
Affects mucous
membranes, and bones esp. MASTOID.
MASTOIDITIS.
Pain
in distant parts on coughing, bladder, knees, legs, ears.
Flabbiness
of skin, flabby feeling.
Pains
are burning and smarting (as
from cayenne pepper), worse with cold water. Burning,
stinging and bleeding hæmorrhoids.
Offensive
breath, pungent eructations during cough.
Pain
in throat, head, ear, back, bladder etc. during cough.
Thirsty
after stool, with shivering. Much
thirst but drinking causes shivering.
Perforation
of tympanum, cavity is filled with thick yellow pus.
Children
dread open air, always chilly, clumsy, fat, dirty with aversion to work or
think. General uncleanliness of the body, filthy skin.
Awkwardness.
Acute
hearing during perspiration, during chill, during heat. Sensitive to noise
during chill.
MODALITIES
DES.:
pepper, alcohol, coffee.
CARBO ANIMALIS (Carb-an.)
BURNT-OUT WITH HOMESICKNESS
MENTAL
WEAK
WILL DUE TO THE EXHAUSTION. Lack of reaction. Too weak to set limits, react to
pressure or say no.
Sympathetic.
HOMESICKNESS.
Buried
in thought-meditative.
Keeps
feelings inside. Reserved. Avoids
conversation, indisposed to talk. Aversion to company.
Illusions
of hearing- as if tone came from another direction, or another world.
Fear
of heights. Fear of fainting. Fear of dark, aggravates on closing eyes.
PHYSICAL
Slow,
hard, painful processes.
GREAT
WEAKNESS < during menses.
Suitable
to old persons of feeble constitution or low vitality. Lack
of reaction. (Depleted vital energy all Carbo's).
SWOLLEN
AND INDURATED LYMPH GLANDS.
Susceptible
to malignancies, cancerous affections esp.,
stomach, uterus, glands, ovaries, testes, mammae, nose, tongue, eye, with burning pains.
Chill
when lying on bed.
Headache,
feels as if head would fly to pieces- must press it with hands. Head
pain on vertex after wet weather.
Impaired
hearing. Confusion of sounds. Cannot tell from what direction sound comes from.
Bluish
discoloration of skin. Bluish face, bluish circles around eyes.
Coppery
skin eruptions.
Indigestion.
Flatulence. Eructations are acrid and foul.
Vertigo
after shaving.
Pain
in teeth, salty food amel.
Coldness
in foot between 9-15h.
MODALITIES
AGG.: eating
while, lying on side, evening.
CARBO VEGETABILIS (Carb-v.)
The
idea of Carbo vegetabilis is the emptiness that
we see in all levels. The person feels that life is leaving him, he feels like
an empty sac. The circulation is poor and produces weakness and faintness in
both acute and chronic states.
EMPTINESS
IN ALL LEVELS, POOR CIRCULATION - WEAKNESS, FAINTNESS WITH COLD PERSPIRATION
AND DESIRE TO BE FANNED
MENTAL
The
emptiness on the emotional level is manifested by indifference,
apathy, discouragement and on the mental level by slow
thinking, dullness, weak memory, confusion, indecision.
Before
these states you may see irritability and anger. The patient is abrupt and
critical.
Anxiety
on closing the eyes, at evening in bed. Delirium in the dark.
PHYSICAL
Acts
upon the venous circulation, esp. capillaries. Poor circulation and imperfect oxygenation. Disintegration. Bad
effects from exhausting illness (ex. measles, scarlet fever, intoxication) and
loss of vital fluids. Used after anaesthesia to bring back the patient quickly. Last
stages of disease.
FAINTNESS on
rising, on waking, on exertion. Faintness
with cold perspiration esp. on forehead, cold breath, cold tongue, cold face
and general coldness of body.
DESIRE
TO BE FANNED.
Tympanitic
distention of abdomen <eating, drinking, stool after >eructations, flatus. Indigestion
<ice-cream.
Chilly.
Waking from coldness of limbs. Always
suffering from coryza.
Hæmorrhage
from mucous membranes or orifices.
Gums
are spongy, detached from teeth and bleed easily on sucking them or cleaning
them.
Headache
or constriction of head <pressure of hat. Head
sensitive from walking in cold air.
Sensitive
to tight clothing (esp. around stomach and abdomen )>loosening clothing.
MODALITIES
AGG.: warm
wet weather, olive oil, pork, rich foods, butter and fat, eating while.
AMEL.: open
air, loosening clothing, lying.
DES.: salt,
sweets, coffee.
AVERS.: fat
meat, salt, milk, meat.
CARCINOSINUM (Carc.)
The vulnerability
and emotional oversensitivity are
the characteristics of this remedy. The patient since early age is very proper,
disciplined, yielding, wants to please everybody in order to gain appreciation
and love from others. They’re so sensitive that the impact of an even slight
remark is disproportionate on them.
VERY
SENSITIVE TO REPRIMANDS, PLEASING OTHERS, FAMILY HISTORY OF CANCER OR DIABETES
MENTAL
EASILY
OFFENDED, OVERSENSITIVE TO CRITICISM AND
REPRIMANDS. Fear of humiliation. SYMPATHETIC,
YIELDING DISPOSITION.
Lack
of self-confidence, WANTS TO PLEASE EVERYBODY.
Craving
for affection.
Timid.
Fastidious. Sentimental. Passionate.
History
of suppression and guilty feelings. Sad
but cannot weep. Silent grief.
Desires and ameliorated by dancing and
music.
Loves
the excitement of thunder storms and lightnings.
Anxiety about
health. Fear of cancer.
Horrible
things, sad stories affect them profoundly.
Children
1st type
(usual): obedient, responsible, disciplined in order to please parents.
2nd type
(rare): insensitive, dissatisfied, self-centered, misbehaving.
PHYSICAL
LACK
OF REACTION, e.g. ABSENCE OF FEVER.
Past
history of cancer or family history of cancer or diabetes. Complaints
develop at the time of puberty.
Complexion is
dark, earthy, “café au lait”. Often the patient has dark
moles.
Blueness
of conjunctiva, esp. in children.
Insomnia. Child
must be rocked. Sleepless from thoughts. Early waking at 4am.
Warm
blooded and generally worse from heat.
Sexual
desire increased, too frequent or early masturbation.
Sleeps
in knee-chest position (Med.).
Frequent
winking of the eyes.
Cough
from a tickle in the throat. Cough < yawning, talking,
laughing.
MODALITIES
AGG.: afternoon
from 13:00-18:00 or esp. 17:00-18:00.
AMEL.: sea,
seashore, evening, short sleep.
DES.:
chocolate, salt, fat, fat ham, spicy foods, eggs, alcoholic drinks,
cold drinks.
AVERS.: fat.
CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES (Caul.)
FOR WOMEN DURING DIFFICULT CHILDBIRTH.
AFFECTIONS
OF SMALL JOINTS
MENTAL
Irritability
on abortion and prostration of mind after abortion.
Anxiety
during pregnancy.
Nervous,
excitable, easily displeased.
PHYSICAL
AFFECTIONS
OF SMALL JOINTS.
Rheumatic
pains in hand, fingers, wrist, ankle, thumb.
Pain
in small joints esp. fingers > after menses.
Wandering, shifting
pains of extremities.
WEAK
LABOR PAINS, spasmodic, short, irregular, with thirst. Contractions
may be spasmodic and long, needle-like pains in cervix.
Rigid
opening of uterus during labor.
Complaints
during pregnancy. Abortion from uterine debility.
Bitter
vomiting before menses. Bitter taste at beginning of menses.
Internal
trembling with weakness.
Spasmodic
pains across lower abdomen extending to groins after long exhausting labor
(Carb-v, Cocc.).
Pains
during menses extending downwards, to thighs and feet.
Stiffness
and pains better warmth.
MODALITIES
AGG.: cold,
during menses, after midnight.
CAUSTICUM (Caust.)
The
Causticum people are sensitive and easily affected by the environment. They
develop very strong feelings about the suffering of others (especially the
social suffering rather than the physical like Phosphorus). They get so angry
with injustice that they can become activists, anarchists or even violent. The
neurological system is mostly affected on this remedy.
SENSITIVE
TO INJUSTICE, SYMPATHETIC, NEUROLOGICAL COMPLAINTS
MENTAL
SYMPATHETIC.
CANNOT SUPPORT INJUSTICE. Strong sense of justice. Idealists. They rebel against
authority, they are exhilarated with politics. Can
become anarchists or fanatics.
Sympathetic
towards animals. They cannot see an animal suffering.
Oversensitive
when hearing of cruelties.
Ailments
from long lasting grief and sorrow.
Stammering
< excitement, vexation.
Weeping
at trifles, spasmodic.
PHYSICAL
The
nervous system is weak, in excitable state and predisposed to diseases.
GRADUAL
PARALYSIS, paralysis of SINGLE
PARTS, esp. of right side.
Paralysis
with numbness of left side.
Facial
paralysis esp. one-sided, after getting wet, after riding in the wind.
INVOLUNTARY
URINATION when coughing, sneezing, blowing the nose due
to the weakness of the sphincter of the urethra.
Sudden
LOSS OF VOICE (HOARSENESS) due to the paralysis of the vocal cords, from
overuse, from singing.
Sensation
in throat as if there is mucus which he must swallow. Constant
disposition to swallow and to hawk. Ineffectual hawking.
Pain
as if the place is RAW.
Constipation:
stool passes better when person is standing;
hæmorrhoids prevent stool.
Ailments from
suppressed eruptions, from anger or vexation.
MODALITIES
AGG.:
dry, cold dry weather.
AMEL.: WET,
warm wet weather, cold drinks.
DES.:
SMOKED MEAT.
AVERS.:
SWEETS.
CHAMOMILLA (Cham.)
Chamomilla
patients are oversensitive people to an extreme degree. Oversensitivity and
irritability run through the whole symptom picture. Chamomilla is very much
indicated in children during the period of dentition.
EXCITABLE,
REACTIVE NERVOUS SYSTEM, CAPRICIOUSNESS
MENTAL
GREAT
IRRITABILITY <touched, spoken to, during pain, during dentition. Cannot bear
to be looked at. Sends nurse out of the room.
CAPRICIOUSNESS.
Rejecting the things he has been longing when offered.
CHILDREN
WANT TO BE CARRIED AND ROCKED.
OVER-SENSITIVE
to pain.
Common
in children esp. during dentition.
PHYSICAL
AILMENTS
FROM ANGER: pains in uterus, metrorrhagia, vomiting, convulsions, dyspnoea,
metritis, asthma etc.
GREAT
SENSITIVENESS TO PAIN. Pain is unbearable, drives
to despair. Labor pains spasmodic and distressing, make her desperate.
REDNESS
OF ONE CHEEK, PALENESS OF THE OTHER.
DENTITION with
irritability.
Toothache < warm drinks
or food, bed, warm room.
Stools hot,
like chopped eggs & spinach, smelling like rotten eggs (esp. during dentition).
Hot
sweat on head.
MODALITIES
AGG.: 09:00, touch
or touching anything, lying on painless side, coffee, cold becoming.
AMEL.: coffee, after
perspiration, cold.
DES.: cold
drinks, bread.
AVERS.: warm
drinks, beer, coffee, aversion to food after eating a little.
CHELIDONIUM MAJUS (Chel.)
GALL
BLADDER AND LIVER AFFECTIONS
MENTAL
Powerful,
domineering, dictatorial. Wants others to listen to her advice and likes to run
others' lives.
PHYSICAL
GALL-BLADDER
AND LIVER AFFECTIONS.
Gall-stones,
cholocystitis.
PAIN
IN RIGHT HYPOCHONDRIA EXTENDING TO BACK, TO THE INFERIOR ANGLE OF RIGHT SCAPULA
< breathing, inspiring.
Right
sided complaints. Eye or ear pain extending to teeth. Toothache
extending to eyes. Headache <right side, with lachrymation.
Jaundice
(also in newborns).
Constipation
alternating with diarrhoea, like sheep's dung. Constriction
of rectum preventing the stool, alternating with itching.
Stomach
pain or umbilicus pain extending transversely across stomach or abdomen.
MODALITIES
AGG.: eating
after.
AMEL.: eating
after esp. noon, warm milk, warm drinks.
DES.: cheese, warm
drinks, strange things.
AVERS.:
cheese.
CHINA OFFICINALIS / CINCHONA OFFICINALIS (Chin.)
This
is a touchy person. The nervous system is in a state of irritation. Touch
aggravates them in the physical and emotional levels. They react badly with the
least offence and they are aggravated by touch.
TOUCHY, AILMENTS AFTER LOSS OF VITAL FLUIDS, DISTENTION
MENTAL
TOUCHY,
EASILY OFFENDED.
FEAR
OF ANIMALS.
Great
imagination. Abundant ideas at evening or night. They
fantasize about all sorts of things and play the hero in these fantasies. Mirth,
liveliness at night esp. after midnight.
Oversensitive
to noise.
Dullness
of mind or delirium after loss of fluids.
PHYSICAL
GALL
BLADDER STONES.
AILMENTS
FROM LOSS OF BLOOD, OF FLUIDS (emaciation, faintness, chorea, stomach pain,
inflammation of lungs, diarrhoea).
DISTENTION
OF ABDOMEN, tympanitic, with a lot of flatus, but passing
flatus does not ameliorate. Worse after drinking, eating.
PERIODICITY.
Periodic fever, headache, eye pain, face pain, diarrhoea etc.
Headache
ameliorated with hard pressure.
Cold
perspiration around nose, around mouth.
MODALITIES
AGG.:
SLIGHT TOUCH, slight pressure, fruit,
milk.
AMEL.:
HARD PRESSURE.
DES.: sweets,
spices, delicacies, highly seasoned food.
AVERS.: hot
food, butter, fruit, beer.
CICUTA VIROSA (Cic.)
CONVULSIONS FROM INJURIES OF HEAD WITH FRIGHTFUL DISTORTIONS OF THE FACE
MENTAL
FRIGHTFUL
DISTORTIONS OF THE FACE, DURING CONVULSIONS.
Convulsions
with bizarre distortions.
Shrieking,
screaming, shouting, fear before convulsions.
Childishness
with strabismus. Foolish jesting.
Retardation
esp. after head injury. Weakness of memory.
Aversion
to company. Answers abruptly when spoken to.
Moaning
and groaning during sleep.
Affected
profoundly after hearing horrible things, by sad stories.
Delirium
with singing and dancing. Dementia.
PHYSICAL
Affections
of the nervous system. Indicated in epilepsy, mental retardation, trismus, tetanus and
convulsions. Clenching of thumbs in epilepsy.
VIOLENT
CONVULSIONS, WITH FRIGHTFUL DISTORTIONS OF FACE, with bizarre distortions.
OPISTHOTONOS.
ARCHING OF THE BACK.
Head
drawn backward, drawn sideways.
Convulsions
after injuries esp. head.
Strabismus.
Vomiting
during or alternating with convulsion.
Sudden
jerks and spasms through head, stomach, extremities, forearms, fingers. Chorea.
Spinal
chorea.
Eruptions
on head, pustules which burn and run together, forming thick yellow, honey like
scabs on the face or scalp.
MODALITIES
AGG.: tobacco
smoke (Ign.), touch.
DES.: indigestible
things - dirt, charcoal or chalk (Alum, Psor), cabbage.
CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA (Cimic.)
CHRONIC HEADACHES AND RHEUMATIC COMPLAINTS
MENTAL
Incessant
talking, loquacity changing from one subject to another. Loquacious delirium.
Restlessness
and uneasiness, difficult concentration, cannot fix attention. Jerky.
Dullness
with headache.
Delusion
that heavy black clouds envelope her, that she’s encaged in wires, that sees
sheeps, rats.
Fear
of insanity esp. in menopause. Very
suspicious, fear of being poisoned or murdered, of impending danger. Fear of
death and rats.
2nd
stage: Depressed, gloomy, miserable, with frequent sighing.
PHYSICAL
Women’s
remedy. Complaints during the climacteric period. Cramp in uterus,
bearing down pains, ovarian neuralgia.
Menses irregular,
profuse or scanty. More pain the more the flow.
Congestion
of head, restlessness, sadness from suppressed menses.
Menses
from suppressed emotions or suppressed cold. Unable to open the lids during
menses.
Tendency
to abortion. After-effects of abortion.
Nausea
in pregnancy.
Headache
as if the vertex is pressing outward. Fullness in vertex with vertigo.
Sore
pain, sensitive to pressure. Redness
of eyes during headache. Pain from occiput extending to vertex, headache <opening and
shutting or turning eyes, warm room, after sleep. >open air, pressure, tea.
Rheumatic
complaints. Rheumatic back pain, headache, toothache, chest pain, joint
pain, facial pain, chorea. Stiffness of cervical region.
Gagging
when drinking. Faint, sinking, empty feeling in stomach.
Pain
extending from heart to left arm.
Mouth:
gluey, viscid saliva. Trembling of tongue (Lach.).
MODALITIES
AGG.: cold (air,
becoming), during menses, evening, motion, sudden change of weather.
AMEL.: open
air.
CINA (Cina)
The
irritation of the nervous system in Cina is such that they cannot have peace.
We see the irritation in all levels. In the mental level there’s irritability
and capriciousness and on the physical level we see itching of the nose,
grinding of teeth, convulsions. Imagine the irritation of an organism full of
worms.
IRRITATION
OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
MENTAL
EXTREME
CAPRICIOUSNESS esp. in CHILDREN. Aversion to being TOUCHED, caressed,
approached.
REJECTING
EVERYTHING OFFERED. Striking, throws things away.
Shrieking on
waking, during sleep, before convulsions.
Weeping
when carried.
PHYSICAL
Nervous
erethism.
MAINLY
A REMEDY FOR WORMS.
CONVULSIONS FROM
WORMS, from anger. Convulsions of extensor muscles.
Constantly
PICKING AND BORING AT THE NOSE.
ITCHING
of nose. RUBS the nose constantly.
Grinding
of teeth during sleep.
Ravenous
appetite soon after eating. Capricious, changeable appetite. Appetite
in unusual time.
Sleeps
in knee-chest position.
MODALITIES
AGG.: pressure, pepper.
AMEL.: lying
on abdomen, motion.
DES.: many
things, cold drinks, bread
AVERS.: milk,
mother’s milk.
CITRICUM ACIDUM (Cit-ac.)
Seemed beneficial in a number of cases of diphtheria.
Checks
excessive menstruation.
Diarrhoea
after lemonade.
COCCULUS INDICUS (Cocc.)
In
Cocculus the vision is not adjusted as the person is moving. The accommodation
of the eye is slow resulting to dizziness, headaches, vomiting and vertigo.
They are very sensitive to loss of sleep.
AILMENTS FROM NIGHT - WATCHING OR LOSS OF SLEEP ESPECIALLY VERTIGO
MENTAL
AILMENTS
FROM CARES ABOUT OTHERS.
ANXIETY from LOSS
OF SLEEP and NIGHT WATCHING.
Slowness
of perception. Dullness, answers slowly.
Profound
sadness. Sits as if wrapped in deep, sad thoughts. Sentimental.
Intolerant
of contradiction, easily offended.
Anxiety
about health and health of relatives. Anxiety others for.
PHYSICAL
Disturbances
of the sensorium and cerebrospinal axis. Slowness, slow reflexes, slow
accommodation of eye. NERVOUS WEAKNESS. AILMENTS
FROM NIGHT-WATCHING.
VERTIGO
FROM NIGHT-WATCHING < MOTION OF EYES, moving objects. Vertigo with tendency
to fall sideways.
NAUSEA
/ VOMITING on motion, from riding in a carriage, car or train, from thought or
smell of food, on becoming cold. SEA-SICKNESS.
The
slowness of the nervous system can reach to the state of painless paralysis.
Paralytic weakness, stiffness of extremities. Paralysis
of muscles.
Weakness
esp. of lower limbs < during menses, riding in a car.
Unable
to hold the head up from the weakness. Weakness
of neck muscles with heaviness.
Sensation
of hollowness or emptiness in head, chest and abdomen.
Cutting
pain in uterus <motion, breath.
MODALITIES
AGG.: riding,
rising, motion, walking in open air.
AMEL.: lying
on side, lying in bed.
DES.: refreshing
things, beer, mustard.
AVERS.: food,
smell of food, sour, beer.
COFFEA CRUDA (Coff.)
Oversensitive people, too sensitive to external impressions who get excessively excited and who suffer from insomnia. The Coffea patient has extreme alertness with all the senses under high tension especially the sense of hearing.
OVERSENSITIVITY OF NERVOUS SYSTEM, SLEEPLESSNESS
MENTAL
EXCITEMENT,
OVER-SENSITIVITY, ACUTENESS.
Oversensitive
to pain, to noise, to odors, to all external impressions. Fear of death from
pain.
Ailments
from excessive joy. Ecstasy.
Abundant
ideas esp. evening and night. Rapid thoughts.
Active
memory and concentration.
Quick
to act.
PHYSICAL
Overexcitement
of nervous system.
SLEEPLESSNESS from
physical and mental excitement, from excessive joy, from thoughts, from same
idea repeating.
Ailments
from joy (diarrhoea, palpitation, catalepsy, metritis, headache, trembling).
ACUTE
SENSES. Acute hearing, smell, taste, vision.
SENSITIVENESS
TO PAIN, pains are felt INTENSELY, ESP.
WITH NOISE. Painful sensitiveness of the skin.
Headache
from noise, music, excessive joy. Nervous
headache.
One-sided as
from a nail. Congestion of head after a surprise or excitement.
Neuralgic
toothache <warm food and drinks, external warmth > cold drinks.
MODALITIES
AGG.: noise,
heat, touch, cold wind, wine.
AMEL.: sitting,
open air, lying, sleep, warm.
AVERS.: coffee.
COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE (Colch.)
GOUT, NAUSEA AND FAINTNESS FROM ODORS
MENTAL
SENSITIVE
TO ALL EXTERNAL IMPRESSIONS, LIGHT, ODORS, NOISE, RUDENESS. Ailments
from rudeness. Wildness in bright light, odors etc.
Prostration
of mind. Dissatisfied with everything.
Memory
weakness. Forgetful esp. of words while speaking.
Absent
minded. Says nothing when questioned.
Picks
at bed clothes. Restlessness during pregnancy.
Unconsciousness
during fever.
PHYSICAL
SENSITIVE
TO ODORS.
NAUSEA
ON LOOKING, SMELLING OR EVEN THINKING OF FOOD.
Craving
for various things, but averse to them when smelling them.
Sensitive
to odors esp. of cooking food, fish, eggs, broth. Nausea from
smell of fish, eggs, soup. Fainting from odors of eggs and fish. Nausea during
pregnancy.
Tympanitic
abdominal distention < after eating. Obstructed flatulence.
GOUT.
Gouty pain of joints, gouty inflammation of eyes, gouty heart.
Pain
in joints <slight motion. Gouty pains in joints extend from left to right.
Paralytic
pain in extremities.
Arthritic
nodosities.
Urine
like black ink, bloody, albuminous.
Electric
like shocks esp. of extremities.
Icy
coldness in stomach esp. with pain. Great
prostration with internal coldness and tendency to collapse.
White
stool with shreddy particles.
Complaints
from suppressed perspiration (lameness or paralysis of extremities).
MODALITIES
AGG: smell
or sight of food, odor of eggs, motion, cold wet weather, touch.
AMEL.: sitting,
waking, lying.
AVERS.: smell
of food, eggs, pork, fish, fat.
COLLINSONIA CANADENSlS (Coll.)
PORTAL, PELVIC CONGESTION, HAEMORRHOIDS, CONSTIPATION
MENTAL
Very
excitable individuals. Ailments from emotional excitement.
FEELING
OF ENLARGEMENT IN PHYSICAL PARTS (head,
face, genital organs, anus). Delusions that parts -legs, hands etc. do not
belong to her body.
Itching
in the genitalia during pregnancy can be so strong as to cause delirium.
Palpitation
brings on excitement.
Anxiety
felt in stomach.
PHYSICAL
Try
this remedy after bigger remedies have failed.
SYMPTOMS
ALTERNATING OR CONCOMITANTS TO HAEMORRHOIDS.
Haemorrhoids
and heart affections alternate. Hemorrhoids and palpitation. Severe
constrictive heart pains but every time he has a stool, passes blood and during
the oozing of the blood the pains are relieved.
Haemorrhoids
and dysmenorrhoea.
Haemorrhoids
and constipation.
Chronic,
painful, bleeding haemorrhoids, especially in the latter months of pregnancy.
Obstinate
constipation with flatulence and haemorrhoids. Constipation
with inactivity of rectum. Ineffectual urging and straining. Has
to take cathartics which aggravate.
Great
uneasiness, weight, pressure and pain in the rectum. Prolapsus of rectum.
Feeling
of swelling or actual swelling of parts. Head feels distended. Inflammations
with swelling. Genitals are swollen and inflamed. Extreme soreness that
does not allow her to work, lie down or sit.
Hysterical
convulsions during menses.
Sleepiness
during headache.
MODALITIES
AGG.: walking
in the open air, slightest mental emotion or excitement of any kind.
COLOCYNTHIS (Coloc.)
COLICY
PAINS >BENDING DOUBLE, SUPPRESSED ANGER
MENTAL
EXTREMELY
IRRITABLE, becomes ANGRY when QUESTIONED. Throws things away.
Ailments
after anger with indignation. Ailments after mortification.
Aversion
to company even of intimate friends. Indisposed to talk, aversion to answer.
PHYSICAL
Used
in acute affections of the DIGESTIVE TRACT & INTESTINES, with
long lasting action on NERVES. Pains appear in the larger nerves.
AILMENTS
AFTER VEXATION OR ANGER (stomach pain, diarrhoea, cough, suppressed menses).
PAIN
IN ABDOMEN or STOMACH: cramping , cutting, tearing, like electric shock darting through the anus.
> BY BENDING DOUBLE, lying on abdomen, pressure and warmth.
Cramping
pain in umbilicus >bending forward.
Great
remedy for babies with colics/cramps.
Back
pain and headache get worse when lying on back.
Shooting
pains extending down to sciatic nerve <
right.
MODALITIES
AGG.: lying
on painless side, cold (becoming, air, drinks, food), fruit, after eating,
motion, potatoes, lying on back.
AMEL.:
DRAWING UP THE LOWER LIMBS, pressure, warm
applications, lying on painful side.
DES.: cold
food and drinks without thirst, bread, beer.
CONIUM MACULATUM (Con.)
All processes take place gradually. Gradual development of tumors, gradual weakness with indurations, gradual loss of intellectual powers.
HARDNESS, TUMORS, AILMENTS FROM SUPPRESSED SEXUAL DESIRE. VERTIGO
MENTAL
AILMENTS
FROM SUPPRESSED SEXUALITY.
Anxiety
from suppressed sexual excess. Sadness after suppressed sexual desire. Hysteria
after suppressed sexual excitement.
"Sclerosis"
of brain: develops fixed ideas, becomes superstitious.
Sadness from
masturbation, from suppressed menses, from continence, during perspiration,
periodical sadness.
Materialistic,
practical.
Aversion
to mental work. No inclination for business or study, indifference, no
interest in anything.
Dreads
being alone, yet aversion to company. Weep alone.
PHYSICAL
Affects nerves
and muscles.
Bad
affects from SUPPRESSED SEXUAL DESIRE or
from sexual excess.
AFFECTION
OF GLANDS: INDURATION, HARD SWELLING, ulcers, atrophy, itching, pain.
especially after injury.
Affections
of mammae, prostate, testes, ovaries, cervical,
mesenteric, submaxillary.
Prostatitis,
hardness, enlargement, swelling of prostate.
Emission
of prostatic fluid during lascivious thoughts, with every emotion. Interrupted
urination. Urine flows better when standing.
Uterus: induration,
enlargement, cancer.
VERTIGO as
if bed turned about < turning in bed, moving the head quickly, motion of
eyes, rising.
Paralysis
of various parts of the body (extremities,
optic nerve, lids, tongue, bladder). Painless paralysis of lower limbs.
Trembling of limbs.
Cough hacking
from dryness or tickling in larynx < lying, must
sit up.
Perspiration
during sleep, on beginning to sleep, even when closing the eyes. Waking from
perspiration.
MODALITIES
AGG.: suppression
of sexual desire, snow-air, rubbing, beginning of motion, lying on side, milk,
cold food, walking fast, coition after, menses after.
AMEL.: continued
motion, wine, touch, lying on back, open air.
DES.: coffee,
salt, sour.
AVERS.: bread.
CROTALUS HORRIDUS (Crot-h.)
HAEMORRHAGIC DIATHESIS
MENTAL
Anger.
Delirium loquacious,
muttering, maniacal <during fever, during convulsions.
Incoherent
speech. Delirium during sepsis or from cerebral accidents.
Delusions is
surrounded by enemy, is falling out of bed, of animals, of phantoms.
Dreams
of the dead. Aversion to members of family. Suspicious.
Attempts
to escape, springs out of bed. Anxiety with cold perspiration.
Melancholic,
depressed and sluggish, seems half alive.
Dullness
of mind and weak memory. Forgets proper names, dates, words. But has active memory when
suppressing the sexual desire.
Disconnected
answers with coldness of the skin and rapid pulse.
PHYSICAL
HAEMORRHAGES esp. BLACK. Haemorrhages
from orifices of the body (nose, urethra, ear, bladder, anus etc.). Even
perspiration is bloody. Septic fever, septicaemia.
Stomach
is so irritable that it is unable to retain anything. Vomits
blood. Vomiting everything. Vomiting of bile < least motion,
lying on right side or back.
Varicose
veins as a network in skin esp. in nose. Mottled
spots on chest.
Difficult
respiration from constriction of larynx.
Tenesmus
of bladder with vomiting, purging and micturition.
Yellow
discoloration of skin, face and eyes.
Tongue
swollen, fills the whole mouth.
Paralysis,
hemiplegia of right side.
Headache
from occiput extending into spine and arms.
Sudden
attacks of cold perspiration.
MODALITIES
AGG.: beginning
of sleep, exertion, bad meat.
DES.: pork,
alcohol.
CROTON TIGLIUM (Crot-t.)
DIARRHOEA - INFLAMMATION OF THE NIPPLES IN NURSING WOMEN
MENTAL
ANXIETY
AMELIORATED IN OPEN AIR.
Dullness,
confusion of mind from beer, from bread.
Morose,
dissatisfied, with aversion to work.
Fear
with diarrhoea as if something will happen.
PHYSICAL
DIARRHOEA
with stool which is gushing
<
IMMEDIATELY AFTER EATING OR DRINKING.
Rumbling
and gurgling before and after stool. Copious
stool at night.
Abdominal
pain ameliorated by passing flatus.
Drawing
pain in the nipples, as with a string when the child nurses.
PAIN
IN NIPPLES <WHILE NURSING, TOUCH OF CLOTHING.
Pain
in eye drawing the eyeball backward.
Eruptions
start with redness and then itchy vesicles develop. There’s a tendency the
eruptions to be constantly renewed.
Eruptions
about the eyes with vesicles. Itching
of scrotum. Intense itching, but scratching is painful.
Eruptions
alternate with complaints like cough, rheumatic pains, diarrhoea, respiratory
symptoms.
Sensation
of a plug externally. Sensation in the rectum as if a plug were pressing out.
Pain
in heart extending to back.
Pain
in umbilicus extending downward, to anus.
Pustular
eruption, especially on face and genitals with fearful itching, followed by
painful burning.
MODALITIES
AGG.: bread,
water, fruit.
CUPRUM METALLICUM (Cupr.)
In Cuprum, cramps are the main characteristic in all levels. The emotions are cramped, not released although they are passionate and sexual people. They hold back and then we see total frigidity. They don’t allow themselves to feel so the intense feelings that they have are suppressed and end up to convulsions or cramps. On the physical level we see that again suppression of skin eruptions or discharges lead to cramps or even convulsions.
CRAMPS ON ALL LEVELS
MENTAL
CRAMPED
EMOTIONS. Passionate people who don’t express themselves.
Intense
feelings that end up to convulsions or cramps. The
least emotions can induce a cramp.
Makes
grimaces (like a facial cramp- as if they want to hide things).
Shrieking
before convulsions.
Weeping
during perspiration.
SEVERE
CRAMPS, mainly in LOWER LIMBS, calves and soles, making the person shriek from
pain.
CONVULSIONS
with CLENCHED THUMBS, cyanotic face and bluish lips.
Convulsive
constriction of chest.
Convulsions
when eruptions fail to break out, from suppressed eruptions.
Convulsions
from vexation.
Convulsions begin
in fingers and toes, and spreading over entire body.
Involuntary
urination during convulsions.
Ailments
from suppressed eruptions; suppression of foot sweat resulting in brain affections, spasms,
convulsions, vomiting.
Spasms
of face.
Copper
taste in the mouth.
Grayish
discoloration of face. There’s something unhealthy on their skin.
Paralysis
of tongue; difficult, stammering speech.
MODALITIES
AGG.: mental
exertion, vomiting.
AMEL.: perspiration.