Materia Medica GV Note ‘D’

 

DIGITALIS PURPUREA (Dig.)

 

 

BRADYCARDIA

 

MENTAL

 

FEAR OF DEATH FROM CARDIAC SYMPTOMS. FEAR HEART WILL STOP FROM MOTION. Fear of death while walking. Fear he will die if he goes to sleep.

 

Every shock strikes in the epigastrium.

 

Fearful apprehensiveness with sadness, extremely aggravated by music.

 

Remorse guilty feelings. Suspicious and mistrustful. Unsympathetic.

Dull and lethargic. Indisposed to talk.

 

Anguish with nausea. Anxiety from motion. Anxiety with great dread of future < about 6 p.m. with sadness and weeping which brings relief. Anxiety felt in stomach.

 

Attempts to escape.

 

PHYSICAL

 

PULSE IS WEAK, IRREGULAR, INTERMITTENT, ABNORMALLY SLOW 40-45 beats/min. Pulse slower than the beat of the heart.

 

Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium. Respiration is irregular, difficult, with deep sighing and constant desire to breathe deeply.

 

The least motion causes violent palpitation and sensation as if the heart would cease on exertion (opposite to Gels.).

 

Sinking of strength, faintness with cold perspiration, coldness of skin and irregular respiration.

 

Jaundice with heart involvement. This remedy will be indicated in severe cases of jaundice where you have the nausea, the slow pulse and the fear that the heart will stop.

 

Weak feeling in stomach. Fullness after eating little. Discomfort, nausea even on sight or smell of food, better if stomach is empty. Tenderness of epigastrium.

 

Stitching pain at the neck of bladder, as if a straw was being thrust back and forth.

 

Blue tongue and lips. Blueness of eyelids.

Objects appear green and yellow. Yellow colors before the eyes.

 

After cold water or ice cream sharp pain in forehead and extend down the nose.

Vertigo with anxious sensation as though would faint. Faintness and vomiting from motion.

 

DIOSCOREA VILLOSA (Dios.)

 

 

ABDOMINAL PAINS BETTER WITH STRETCHING

  

MENTAL

 

CONFUSED AFTER STOOL, after coition.

 

Tired individuals who want to be quiet. Aversion to company and conversation. Has lost ambition.

Mind becomes more and more tired and eventually forgets words, makes mistakes in using words, in writing. Calls things by using the wrong words, ex. confusing left for right, etc.

 

Fear of people. Feels restless <night, yet walking ameliorates.

 

Anxiety after a stool. Anxiety on waking.

  

PHYSICAL

 

Severe cramping, gripping, cutting ABDOMINAL PAIN, as if the intestines are twisting >STRETCHING, BENDING BACKWARD.

 

Severe cases of colic not relieved by stool.

 

Pains shift to distant parts, fingers or toes. As these pains get stronger, the abdominal pains lessen.

Pains in liver extending to chest, arm, nipple. Pains in rectum extending to liver.

Pains in ureters extending to penis and testes.

 

Albuminous stool.

Haemorrhoids <morning.

Coldness of genitals esp. in evening.

Cramps in fingers during parturition.

Stomach pulsation while lying on back.

Gas and eructation after tea.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: coition, night, stool, tea.

AMEL.: motion, walking, stretching.

 

DIPHTHERINUM (Diph.)

 

AILMENTS AFTER DIPHTHERIA OR VACCINATION FOR DIPHTHERIA.

 

MENTAL

 

The patient is weak, apathetic, greatly prostrated but restless, with no pain.

Delirium with sopor. Lies in a semi-stupid condition. Weak and exhausted vitality.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

AILMENTS AFTER DIPHTHERIA or VACCINATION FOR DIPHTHERIA.

 

Personal history of diphtheria. Paralysis from diphtheria. Post diphtheritic paralysis of extremities.

Paralysis may have happened even many years after the infection or vaccination.

 

Catarrhal affections of the throat and respiratory mucous membranes.

 

Thick gray membrane, esp. on the left tonsil. Obstinate tonsillitis. Dark red tonsils.

 

Tongue swollen and very red.

 

Offensive mucous in throat, offensive discharge from nose, offensive breath.

 

Used in tubercular patients and for glandular swellings.

 

Swelling of tongue, tonsils, parotid gland, cervical gland.

 

Swallows without pain but fluids are vomited or returned by the nose.

 

 MODALITIES

 

AMEL.: drinking cold drinks.

 

DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA (Dros.)

 

 RESPIRATORY AFFECTIONS

 

 MENTAL

 

DELUSION HE IS PERSECUTED, he’s pursued by enemies. Suspicious and mistrustful.

 

Fear of hearing bad news. Anxiety about the future. The anxiety comes mostly in the evening or at night on waking and is increased when alone. Can become suicidal anxiety. Suicidal thoughts by drowning.

 

Alternating mood.

Confusion of mind esp. during chill. Difficult concentration, restless esp. while reading.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

Predominantly a cough remedy. Phthisis of larynx and trachea with rapid emaciation.

 

MARKED AFFECTS ON THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. Well known for its relationship with pertussis.

 

DRYNESS AND IRRITATION OF THROAT OR LARYNX, PROVOKING COUGH.

 

COUGH tickling, dry, suffocative, hoarse, paroxysmal.

 

<LYING, AS SOON AS THE HEAD TOUCHES THE PILLOW, eating, drinking, after midnight, singing and laughing, warm room.

>holding the pit of stomach, open air.

 

Painful chest during cough, holds the chest with hands.

Vomiting from coughing. Epistaxis during cough.

Constricting pain in throat < talking > walking.

 

Salivation during heat.

 

Stitching pain in calf (<right), comes when sitting and > walking.

 

Burning pain at the corner of the mouth.

 

Frequent urging to urinate with very scanty urine, often passing only by a few drops.

 

Coldness of left side of face, with prickling, tingling, burning pain in the skin of the cheek, below the left eyelid.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: lying, midnight after, undressing, warm (room, bed, becoming).

AMEL.: walkingmotion, pressure, open air, cold.

AVERS.: to acids.




DULCAMARA (Dulc.)

 


RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS & SKIN PROBLEMS, <COLD WET WEATHER

 

 MENTAL

 

Domineering, dictatorial. Quarrelsome and abusive without anger.

 

They take care of others, they are loving, but in a domineering way. Anxiety for others.

 

Restless, cannot keep still.

 

Memory weakness for words. Uses the wrong words.

Confusion, dullness esp. from damp air.

 

Depression.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

Complaints brought on or aggravated by DAMP, WET or COLD, DAMP, WET WEATHER or GETTING WET (pain in back, extremities, abdomen, head, teeth, inflammation of eye, asthma, suppressed menses etc.). Urticaria from becoming wet.

Diarrhoea after standing on damp ground. Catarrhal inflammation eyes from cold.

 

PARALYSIS OF SINGLE PARTS from exposure to wet or from lying on damp ground. Paralysis of upper limbs with icy coldness during rest. Parts feel icy cold.

 

Brown crusts on head and face, with reddish borders (circumscribed), bleeding after scratched.

 

Chill from 07:00 to 09:00 morning, perceived by great thirst and pains.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: COLD WET WEATHER, CHANGE OF WEATHER, cold (air, becoming, drinks, entering a cold place).

AMEL.: dry weather (esp. warm dry), hot bath, motion, walking, discharges, warm.

DES.: ice cream and cold drinks during chill, cold drinks.

AVERS.: coffee, food.