OPIUM (Op.)
The keyword for Opium is the sleepiness.
The opiates in the brain of these patients are so much increased that promote
sleep very easily leading even to narcolepsy. The opiates not only make the
patient sleepy but make them blissful. They are so blissful that they don’t
feel the pain of their complaints, they don’t realize the seriousness of their
condition. Sleepiness and other symptoms can come after a frightening
experience.
SLEEPINESS, BLISSFULNESS
MENTAL
AILMENTS FROM FRIGHT - convulsions,
chorea, neurological disturbances etc.
Sleepy expression of the face. Somnambulism.
Indifference to suffering. CHEERFUL AND HAPPY during sickness, during fever. Does not complain, wants
nothing, and seems to be in bliss though very sick. Says he’s well when sick.
Abundant ideas, vivid imagination. Ailments from excessive joy.
PHYSICAL
OVERPOWERING SLEEPINESS, NARCOLEPSY. Falls asleep while talking,
sitting, etc. Falls into a heavy stupid sleep.
PAINLESSNESS of usually painful complaints.
Snoring, respiration
is arrested, difficult,
slow <during sleep.
SEVERE CONSTIPATION. Constipation
of newborns. Inactivity of rectum. Stool recedes. Stool like black balls.
Diarrhoea alternating with constipation. Involuntary stool after fright. Diarrhoea from emotions,
excitement, fright, joy.
Obesity.
MODALITIES
AGG.: during
and after sleep, wine, warmth.
DES.: brandy,
alcohol.
PALLADIUM (Pall.)
GREAT NEED FOR APPROVAL
MENTAL
Tremendous emotional insecurity with strong emotions that cannot
be expressed.
GREAT NEED FOR APPROVAL AND FLATTERY. WANTS TO PLEASE.
Longing for the good opinion of others.
Easily offended, easily hurt, esp. if ignored by others. Wounded pride, feels everything is
said on purpose to wound her dignity. Takes everything in bad part. Delusions he’s neglected, not appreciated, insulted. Ailments from
mortification.
Excited in company but feels exhausted afterwards.
PHYSICAL
Convulsive movements due to emotional pressure and lack of
expression, ticks. Twitching of face. The main remedy for TURRETTE’S SYNDROM.
AFFECTIONS OF OVARIES. Ovarian cysts and tumors. Pains
and swelling in the region of the right ovary > flexing thigh, rubbing,
pressure.
Ovaritis. Enlargement of right ovary.
Prolapsus of uterus.
Lying on the left side ameliorates the pains (abdomen,
ovaries, chest, uterus).
Headache across the top of the head from ear to ear.
Sensation as if something is hanging from the throat.
As if he had grown taller.
MODALITIES
AGG.: after
menses.
AMEL.: rubbing, lying on the left side.
PETROLEUM (Petr.)
DRY SKIN, NAUSEA
MENTAL
THINKS HE IS DOUBLE OR SOMEBODY ELSE IS LYING NEXT TO HIM.
Feels that death is near and has to settle his affairs
(presentiment of death).
Depression with dim vision.
Loss of memory, confusion. Does not recognize well known streets.
Excited, irritable after coition.
PHYSICAL
Affects the skin and the mucus membranes.
SKIN: DRY, CRACKED, DIRTY, HARD, ROUGH, THICKENED, raw. Wounds heal slowly.
ERUPTIONS, usually with painful cracks. Eczema, psoriasis, herpes. <winter.
Itching of skin, must scratch until is raw.
DRY SKIN with INCREASED MUCUS SECRETIONS.
Diarrhœa during skin eruptions.
Sea-sickness, car-sickness.
Falling out of hair.
Weakness, stomach emptiness, hunger after stool or during diarrhœa.
Ravenous hunger, frequently awakened by it at night.
Burning sensation is marked.
MODALITIES
AGG.: cabbage,
flatulent food (beans and peas), after coition, eating after.
AMEL.: summer.
DES.: brandy,
beer.
AVERS.: fat,
meat.
PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM (Ph-ac.)
The characteristic of this remedy is the great weakness which
begins on the emotional level and gradually progresses to the mental and
physical levels. The most usual cause is grief which progresses to such depth
that freezes the individual. The patient becomes apathetic and indifferent that
nothing can excite them. They stare at the wall with an empty look. They don’t
care if they live or die.
The falling of hair and the desire for juicy things are
confirmatory symptoms for a Ph-ac. case.
INDIFFERENCE, APATHY, AILMENTS FROM GRIEF
MENTAL
Weakness on the emotional plane progressing to the physical and mental planes.
AILMENTS FROM GRIEF. Ailments from grief, disappointment. Prostrated
and stupefied with grief. Silent grief.
INDIFFERENCE TO EVERYTHING, APATHY.
Memory weakness, dullness. Has to reflect long before answering.
Forgetful of words while speaking.
PHYSICAL
WEAKNESS AND LASSITUDE <after emissions, after eating,
exertion, morning.
Faintness from loss of fluids.
AILMENTS FROM GRIEF: falling of hair, headache,
diarrhoea, palpitations etc.
Copious stool. Yellow stool.
Diarrhoea without weakness, after food, after taking a cold in the summer,
from weather changes, after becoming cold, after anticipation, after grief.
Seminal emissions at night (nocturnal) < with stool, during
erection, after coition or onanism. Too quick ejaculation.
Urine milky, curdled-like, cloudy, albuminous.
Diabetes,
sugar in urine.
Pale, sickly color of face.
Ailments in young when growing too fast with a lot of acute
diseases, growing pains.
MODALITIES
AGG.: after perspiration, becoming
cold, eating, emissions, evening.
AMEL.: after
sleep, motion.
DES.: JUICY, REFRESHING THINGS. Fruits,
tonics, cold drinks.
AVERS.: bread.
PHOSPHORUS (Phos.)
DIFFUSION IN ALL LEVELS
MENTAL
OPEN AND IMPRESSIONABLE.
OVER-SENSITIVE TO EXTERNAL IMPRESSIONS. Startles easily.
SYMPATHETIC. Naive, easily trusting.
ANXIETY, becomes
“free-floating” with no identifiable cause, fear that something will happen. Anxiety others for. Strong anxiety about health esp. relatives.
- easily reassured by the
doctor.
FEARS: thunderstorms,
dark, being alone, something
will happen, death, heart
disease.
Desires company.
PHYSICAL
HÆMORRHAGES. Menses copious, bright red. Epistaxis.
UNQUENCHABLE THIRST esp. FOR COLD DRINKS, experiences burning pains internally, relieved by cold
things. As soon as the water
(or other liquids) becomes warm in the stomach it is thrown up.
Nausea and vomiting when putting hands in warm water.
All sorts of affections of the respiratory tract. Pneumonia < left side.
Left sided, cannot
sleep on left side.
Sexual desire increased.
Chilly. Coldness
of extremities. Feet icy cold. Coldness of knees esp. at night.
Hoarseness. Lost
voice, painless or with painful raw feeling of throat.
Burning pain in spots along
the spine, between the scapula.
MODALITIES
AGG.: cold, twilight, lying on left side, warm food,
garlic, salt, change of weather.
AMEL.: cold drinks, short sleep, rubbing, warm bath
of head, eating.
DES.: COLD DRINKS, ICE-CREAM, SALT, CHOCOLATE, sweets, fish.
AVERS.: warm
food and drinks, fish, oysters.
PHYSOSTIGMA (Phys.)
EYE COMPLAINTS, NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS
MENTAL
Intense mental activity (Cann-i., Coff.), cannot stop thinking.
Cannot concentrate the mind.
PHYSICAL
Heaviness of lids (Gels.).
Night blindness; myopia.
Twitching lids.
Eye strain (Ruta, Onos., Nat-m.).
Contractions of pupils.
Defective accommodation; astigmatism.
Glaucoma.
Floating spots. Flashes.
Profuse lachrymation. Photophobia.
Could not get his will into his muscles.
Muscle spasms and cramps.
Numbness of distal extremities.
Dread of cold water.
Sudden jerking of extremities on falling asleep.
MODALITIES
AGG: Cold,
draft.
PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA (Phyt.)
CONSTANT INCLINATION TO CLENCH THE TEETH - AFFECTIONS OF MAMMAE
MENTAL
Wants to be naked during delirium. Shamelessness, exposes the person.
Sadness, indifference and apathy. Desires to be killed. Aversion to mental work, to business.
Refuses to eat.
Weeping during menses.
Delusions as if snakes all around her.
Sensitive to pain.
Desire to bite.
PHYSICAL
Affects bones, glands and the throat. Most symptoms are in the glands esp. breast, parotids and tonsils. Glandular swellings with heat and inflammation.
AFFECTIONS OF MAMMAE. Pain in left mammae extending to the whole body.
Inflammation, induration, fistulous openings, ulceration, nodules,
cancer etc.
Pain in mammae while nursing the child.
Pain in nipples radiating to the whole body <while nursing.
CONSTANT INCLINATION TO CLENCH FIRMLY THE TEETH esp. DURING SLEEP.
Painful dentition or teeth pain > clenching the gums and teeth,
biting on to something hard. Clenching or biting teeth ameliorates.
Pain in throat feels as if it is burning like a hot ball.
Throat pain > cold drinks and < warm drinks.
Tip of tongue is fiery-red with smarting pain. Pain in root of
tongue on swallowing or on putting the tongue out.
Tonsillitis with
marked pain, swelling, enlargement and dark red discoloration of tonsils.
Ulcers of tonsils. Inflammation
of tonsils, pharynx or root of the tongue < on the right side.
Stitching pain in ears on swallowing.
Aching, soreness, restlessness, prostration.
Pain in forehead extending backward. Headache <rain.
Abundant hot lachrymation with cough or during coryza.
Pains fly like electric shocks, shooting, shifting, wandering.
MODALITIES
AGG.: wet
weather, cold weather, night, sleep after, motion.
AMEL.: open
air, biting teeth together.
PICRICUM ACIDUM (Pic-ac.)
MENTAL EXHAUSTION
MENTAL
PROSTRATION OF MIND. Begins
on the mental level and works through emotions to physical plane. Exhaustion
comes suddenly.
BRAIN FATIGUE. Dullness, CANNOT CONCENTRATE, cannot think long -
mind is stopped. Paralytic state of mind. Imbecility.
Indifference. Lacks will power to undertake anything.
PHYSICAL
WEARINESS- progressing
from weariness to paralysis. Sleep does not refresh. Heaviness of limbs <while walking, after exertion.
Numbness.
Burning pain along the spine with great weakness < mental and physical exertion.
Pain in posterior part of lower limbs.
Excessive sexual desire, easy erections, easy excitement. Lasciviousness.
Occipital headache. Bursting headaches.
Oily looking yellowish skin. Jaundice with itching.
MODALITIES
AGG: physical and mental exertion, emissions, warm, wet weather.
AMEL: lying,
rest, bathing, bandaging.
PLATINUM METALLICUM (Plat.)
In Platina we see excessive sexuality to the point of nymphomania.
We see the inflated, enlarged ego which usually takes two directions: if the
sexuality is suppressed, the person is mentally inflated and shows egotism,
pride and haughtiness to the pathological extent that they can feel they’re
someone important (king, queen) or if the sexuality is expressed and released
we don’t see the haughtiness so much.
On the physical level there is predisposition to enlargements and
tumors of the genital system.
HAUGHTY, HYPERSEXUAL, EGOTISTICAL
MENTAL
HAUGHTY, CONTEMPTUOUS, PROUD. Superiority complex. Looking down upon people. EGOTISM. Desires grandeur. They want to have impressive look.
NYMPHOMANIA. Lascivious. Religious affections alternate with
sexual excitement. Disposition to MASTURBATION.
DELUSIONS; DISORDERED
SENSE OF PROPORTION- Things appear smaller. People seem physically and mentally inferior. Humility and lowness of others while he’s great.
Delusions she’s a noble, does not belong to her own family.
This delusion extends to body. Fancies herself very tall. Taller than others or she looks down to others from a higher
place. Everything in the room are diminished while she’s tall.
You will see this mental picture esp. when the sexuality is
suppressed. Mental symptoms alternate with sexual hyperactivity.
Ailments from grief-
disappointments in love/sexual sphere.
FEARS: death (esp.
when they get symptoms such as numbness), disease, ghosts (thinks he’s conversing with ghosts), something
will happen to her husband, fear of being hanged, of knives.
Desire to kill, the husband.
Aversion to, even hatred of children. The world is bad to have
children.
Mental symptoms alternate with physical symptoms.
PHYSICAL
EXCESSIVE, VIOLENT SEXUAL DESIRE that can lead to involuntary
orgasms or even convulsions.
Cramp-like pains.
NUMBNESS of
parts especially face
(cheek, about mouth). In coccyx while sitting. Numbness in spots.
Fear that face is distorted (Bell's Palsy).
BANDAGED SENSATION, sensation
of a band around affected part.
Feeling of contraction or constriction in umbilicus. Pain in
umbilicus extending to back.
Malignancy, tumors in uterus, ovaries, testes, external genitalia.
Menses dark clotted, offensive with bearing down pain.
Loud eructations in stomach while fasting.
Sensitiveness of genitalia. Painfully sensitive genitals.
Sticky discharges.
MODALITIES
AGG.: lying.
AMEL.: motion,
walking, wet weather.
AVERS.: meat
esp. during menses.
PLUMBUM METALLICUM (Plb.)
ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
MENTAL
Suitable to people that are ‘bon viveur’,
have the best of everything. Materialistic. Amorous.
SLUGGISHNESS OF MENTAL FUNCTIONS.
SLOWNESS of
perceiving external impressions, comprehension, answering.
WEAKNESS OF MEMORY – esp. for words, for expressing oneself.
Apathetic, boredom.
Fear of being poisoned.
Sadness with anxiety.
Desire to do self-destructive things.
PHYSICAL
SLOWING DOWN OF ALL FUNCTIONS.
Affects the TENDONS, muscles, nerves
and spinal cord. Contraction of tendons and muscles, esp. flexor
muscles of hand. Cannot abduct the finger. DUPUYTREN'S CONTRACTURE.
TREMBLING of
muscles (hand, tongue, upper and lower limbs etc.).
Tremulous weakness, Parkinson’s disease, arteriosclerosis.
Emaciation of affected part. Atrophy of muscles. Sunken cheeks, face and eyes.
RETRACTION OF ABDOMEN, SENSATION AS IF ABDOMEN WAS DRAWN BY A STRING TO THE SPINE.
Radiating pains to
all parts of body esp. stomach and abdomen.
Distinct blue line along the margin of gums.
CONSTIPATION - stools hard,
lumpy, black like balls, like sheep's dung.
Painful constriction of rectum.
MODALITIES
AGG.: fish.
AMEL.: pressure,
rubbing,
DES.: fried
food, salt, sweets, bread.
PODOPHYLLUM (Podo.)
ACUTE PROFUSE SPUTTERING, GUSHING DIARRHOEAS
MENTAL
Delirious loquacity during chill and fever.
Melancholia, sadness.
Moaning in sleep, during cough.
PHYSICAL
Profuse diarrhoea. FORCIBLE, EXPLOSIVE, SPUTTERING STOOL.
The diarrhoea soils the whole toilet bowl.
Offensive stool. If
the diarrhoea is not offensive, forget Podophyllum (Kent).
Thin, liquid stool, pouring out. Involuntary stool on passing
flatus.
Stool with meal-like sediment, like chalk lumps.
Diarrhoea < 04:00, after sour fruit, sour milk, drinking water,
oysters, after bathing.
>warm applications, lying esp. on the right side.
Prolapsus of rectum during or after stool. Prolapsus and dragging down of uterus, ovaries, rectum.
Gurgling before stool. Faintness after diarrhoea, weakness from
diarrhoea.
Alternating diarrhoea with constipation, alternating diarrhoea
with headache.
Periodical diarrhoea.
The liver is out of order, bitter taste in the mouth, vomits bile.
Pain in liver >rubbing.
The tongue is yellow, as if mustard were spread upon it and indented.
Right sided remedy.
MODALITIES
AGG.: yoghurt,
oysters, fruit, exertion, eating, warm air, midnight after (03:00, 04:00.
05:00).
PSORINUM (Psor.)
CHILLY, DIRTY, DESPERATE WITH ITCHING ERUPTIONS
MENTALS
ANXIETY ABOUT FUTURE. INSECURE.
FEELS HOPELESS, DESPERATE.
Anxious about health, DESPAIR OF RECOVERY.
Fear of being alone, of business failure, of poverty.
Forsaken feeling.
Religious despair.
Fears busy streets.
PHYSICAL
LACK OF VITAL REACTION.
CHILLY. Wears
hat or overcoat in hot weather. Great sensitiveness to
cold air or change of weather.
OFFENSIVENESS. Skin DIRTY-as if never washed, greasy.
Profuse and offensive perspiration.
Acts on skin
esp. folds. Eruptions with
offensive discharges. Driven to despair with ITCH <wool, night.
Feels unusually
well before an attack of symptoms esp. faintness.
Always hungry during headache > eating. Increased appetite at night.
Dyspnoea > lying down on the back with arms outstretched <
sitting up.
MODALITIES
AGG.: cold air, change of temperature or of weather, warm bed, suppression of discharges, eruptions,
perspiration.
AMEL.: warm
wet weather, perspiration, bathing, lying, constipation, summer.
DES.: alcohol.
AVERS.: pork.
PULSATILLA (NIGRICANS) PRATENSIS (Puls.)
In this remedy we see that the main characteristic is the changeability.
The physical symptoms are changing, the nature of the discharges is changeable,
the pains are wandering. On the mental level we see indecision, the mood is
alternating. The Pulsatilla individual is soft, yielding and insecure. She
usually relies on other people and needs their attention and reassurance. She’s
sensitive, weeps very easily and is ameliorated by consolation and affection.
CHANGEABILITY
MENTAL
Malleable and changeable.
MILD, YIELDING, GENTLE, SOFT AND TIMID.
WEEPS EASILY.
> CONSOLATION AND AFFECTION.
Forsaken feeling.
Fears: INSANITY, dark
and dogs.
PHYSICAL
CHANGING AND WANDERING SYMPTOMS. Wandering
pains.
Menses change color every month, pains in body move from one place
to the other.
WARM BLOODED < HEAT. Complaints are aggravated in heat.
> OPEN AIR, cold applications.
THIRSTLESSNESS with all complaints.
Hot feet, uncovers them at night.
Sensation of cold water poured down the back.
Sleeps on the back, arms raised over the head, or on the abdomen.
Styes esp. upper lid.
Mucus discharges are increased, bland, thick, yellowish-green <
warm room.
MODALITIES
AGG.: fat, pork, rich food, heat.
AMEL.: open air, cold applications, walking.
DES.: butter, cold food, creamy things, cheese, ice cream, hard-boiled eggs, sweets.
AVERS.: FATS, pork, butter, warm food and drinks.
PYROGENIUM (Pyrog.)
SEPTIC CONDITIONS WHERE PULSE IS DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE TEMPERATURE
MENTAL
GREAT RESTLESSNESS, tossing about in bed.
Loquacious. Rapid thoughts. Thinks and talks faster than ever before during fever.
Delusions as
if crowded with arms and legs, that the body covered the whole bed, that
someone is in bed with him, that self seems too large.
PHYSICAL
Pyrogenium is a remedy for SEPTIC conditions
(peritonitis, septicemia, last stages of tuberculosis).
FEVER septic,
puerperal, hectic, zymotic, typhoid, intermittent.
The PULSE RATE is ACCELERATED, DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE TEMPERATURE,
or the reverse, e.g. high fever with not so high heart or low fever with high
heart rate.
SORE, bruised, aching pains. Bed feels too hard. Aching through the whole body, extremities and bones esp. during
chill.
>motion, warmth, walking. Must move to relieve the soreness of the part.
CHILL of
the bones and extremities. Chill
beginning between the scapula and followed by coldness of bones.
Tongue red, smooth and glistening. Red stripe in center of tongue.
Lochia thin, acrid, offensive, suppressed esp. from cold.
Sweetish, putrid taste in the mouth.
Offensive, putrid stool like black balls.
VERY AWARE OF THE HEART throbbing.
MODALITIES
AGG.: cold (weather,
becoming, touching cold things), bad meat.
AMEL.: motion,
walking.