LAC CANINUM (Lac-c.)
SYMPTOMS ALTERNATE SIDES, FEAR OF SNAKES
MENTAL
FEAR OF SNAKES. Has hallucinations or dreams about them.
Fear of fainting, death, falling, impending diseases.
Very forgetful, absent-minded. Goes off and
leaves purchases.
Delusions is swimming in the air.
Low confidence.
PHYSICAL
SYMPTOMS APPEAR IN ALTERNATING SIDES.
Vertigo with feeling as if he’s not touching the bed, as if
floating, as if gliding and feet did not touch the ground.
Shining, glazed appearance of throat.
White, pearly membrane in throat esp. when alternating sides.
Migratory diphtheria. Post diphtheritic paralysis.
Sore throats and cough are apt to begin and end with menstruation.
Food does not taste salty enough, it only tastes natural.
Desires PEPPER.
MODALITIES
AGG.: warm
(wraps, bed), beginning of sleep.
AMEL.: bathing,
cold.
DES.: pepper,
salt, spices, highly seasoned food, warm drinks, whisky.
LACHESIS (Lach.)
The Lachesis patient is passionate with
strong emotions, jealous. We see hypertension, hypersexuality, loquacity. Any
constriction or suppression is intolerable. Often the patient experiences
chocking, suffocative feeling in the throat, intolerance to tight clothing.
There’s the need to bring out, to release the emotions or the discharges (on
the physical level) in order for the patient to be ameliorated.
LOQUACITY, JEALOUSY, FEAR OF SNAKES
MENTAL
JEALOUSY, ailments from jealousy. Delirium from jealousy. Envy.
LOQUACITY. Changing from one subject to another.
FEAR OF SNAKES. Dreams of snakes.
Premenstrual syndrome. Sadness before menses. >beginning of menses, during menses.
Mental symptoms are worse on waking in the morning. (anxiety, confusion, dullness, forsaken feeling, sadness,
loathing).
Religious affections, religious despair.
PHYSICAL
Left sided complaints
usually, where the heart is involved. Sciatica is right sided.
Complaints may go from LEFT TO RIGHT.
PAINS COME IN WAVES.
Symptoms (dysmenorrhoea, back pain, head pain and mental symptoms etc.)
< BEFORE MENSES > BEGINNING OF MENSES, when flow begins.
Affections of ovaries (induration,
pains, tumors, swelling, abscess, inflammation, cysts etc.). Ovarian complaints
are worse around menses (before,
during, after).
Constriction on various parts of the body esp. throat.
THROAT IS SENSITIVE TO SLIGHTEST TOUCH. CANNOT TOLERATE CLOTHING
AROUND THROAT.
Arrested respiration on going to sleep, or during sleep that makes her jump with terror of suffocation. Difficult respiration <touching the larynx, exertion of hands
and arms.
Impossible to lie on left side. Palpitations
worse lying on left side.
Heat flushes esp.
in face during climaxis. Heat flushes with perspiration.
Slight pressure aggravates but hard pressure ameliorates.
Unrefreshing sleep.
Skin has bluish, red, purple discoloration (eruptions, boils, ulcers, swelling).
MODALITIES
AGG.: touch, on waking, suppressed discharges, sleep (before, during, after, beginning of), lying on left side, warm
wet weather, change of temperature from cold to warm, spring, autumn.
AMEL.: BEGINNING OF MENSES, DISCHARGES, loosening
clothing, hard pressure.
LEDUM PALUSTRE (Led.)
PAINFUL ARTHRITIC NODOSITIES, GOUT >COLD APPLICATIONS
MENTAL
Restless, must move constantly.
Aversion to company. Dread of men. Misanthropy, hatred.
Morose, malicious.
PHYSICAL
RHEUMATIC COMPLAINTS. Painful ARTHRITIC NODOSITIES.
GOUT. The toe is red, swollen, painful.
Rheumatic pain in extremities ascending upward.
Rheumatic pain in right hip and left shoulder.
Inflammation of periosteum.
PAINS > COLD APPLICATIONS although there is coldness of
affected part.
< warm, warmth of bed, night.
For penetrating wounds, stings and bites with swelling.
Tetanus where the injured parts become cold and spasms begin in
the wound.
Skin eruptions > cold applications <warmth.
MODALITIES
AGG.: warm wraps or
bed, motion, walking.
AMEL.: COLD APPLICATIONS, cold bathing.
LILIUM TIGRINUM (Lil-t.)
CONFLICT BETWEEN MORALITY AND SEXUALITY
MENTAL
STRONG RELIGIOUS AND SEXUAL FEELINGS leading to INNER
CONFLICT.
Religious despair alternating with sexual excitement.
SUPPRESSION OF SEXUAL DESIRE (e.g. by keeping busy).
Irritable, nasty, snappish. Depression
of spirits.
Hurried. Nervous.
Conscientious,
duty-bound, domineering people.
Anxious about disease. Anxiety about salvation. Fear of evil.
Constant inclination to weep.
PHYSICAL
Main action upon the venous circulation of the heart and female
organs.
Increased sexual desire. Nymphomania.
Prolapsus of uterus.
BEARING DOWN AS IF EVERYTHING WOULD COME OUT
< standing, >crossing limbs, pressing vulva.
Flow of menses only
during motion.
Frequent urging to urinate. Feeling of congestion in chest if
urination is postponed.
Alternating symptoms (pain
in uterus with pain in heart or chest, mental symptoms alternate with physical,
alternating sides in headache).
Tottering. Can't walk straight or on uneven ground.
Pressure in the rectum during stool.
MODALITIES
AGG.:, sexual excitement, suppression of sexual desire, heat, pressure, evening
standing, warm room, after menses, after coition.
AMEL.: pressure,
open air, motion.
DES.: meat.