RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS (Ran-b.)
AFFECTS THE NERVES AND MUSCLES, ESPECIALLY CHEST MUSCLES
MENTALS
Closed, careful, rigid people. Intellectual properness, wants to
do everything 'decently', even sex. However
they have aversion to responsibility, they have no ambition, out of sense of
weakness.
Difficult concentration. Dullness from mental exertion.
Depression, desire to die.
Irritability alternating with care, with cowardice.
Fear of ghosts in
evening, fear of being alone.
Oversensitive.
PHYSICAL
PAIN IN CHEST, in costal cartilages, in short ribs, in shoulders. Rheumatic
pains.
Muscular pains <change
of weather, damp, deep inspiration, turning in bed, touch, stretching the arms,
standing lying on painful side, after herpes zoster.
Burning pain in shoulder, in small spots.
Herpes zoster in chest, in back. Eruptions transparent, crusty, vesicular.
Coldness of
chest, of sternum <walking
in open air, breathing cold air.
Eye pains. Smarting
pain in eyes as from smoke.
Headache in forehead above eyes <right. Enlarged sensation of head.
Bad effects of alcohol. Hiccough
after alcohol.
MODALITIES
AGG.: alcohol, cold (becoming,
air, entering a cold place), change of weather or of temperature, wet or cold
wet weather, drafts, motion.
AMEL.: standing,
walking.
RATANHIA (Rat.)
SYMPTOMS OF THE RECTUM
MENTAL
Compulsive neurosis. Superstitions and compulsions of religious nature.
Compulsive in general or concerning their rectal hygiene.
PHYSICAL
Acts on RECTUM, eyes
and teeth.
Haemorrhoids. Protrude
after stool.
Fissures of anus with
constriction.
Excruciating burning and long-lasting pains in the rectum after
stool, which can be difficult
or even diarrhoea.
AS IF SPLINTERS OR GLASS WERE IN RECTUM (Aesculus, Nitric acid). This causes a great sensitivity and
anal fissures. Better with warm applications.
Important concomitant is bursting headache during straining during
stool: Pain in the middle of the forehead, as if brain would fall out.
Pin worms.
Pterygium of the eye: inflammation of the whole eye, when a
membrane extends to the pupil.
Burning pains. Eyelids feel stiff (Kalmia).
Toothache in pregnant women, who have to get out of bed at night
(Magnesia Carbonica).
Sensation as if coldness rushed out of painful molars. Feel
elongated. Worse lying down.
MODALITIES
AGG: night,
touch, exertion.
RHEUM (Rheum)
SOUR ODOR OF PERSPIRATION AND DISCHARGES - MAINLY IN CHILDREN
AND INFANTS WITH DIARRHOEA AND DURING DENTITION
MENTAL
Restlessness, with desire to weep. The child is demanding impatiently for many things, cries and dislikes even its favorite playthings.
SCREAMING OF CHILDREN WITH URGING AND SOUR STOOLS.
State as if half asleep. Unable to collect his thoughts for long
after waking.
PHYSICAL
SOUR ODOR OF PERSPIRATION AND DISCHARGES.
Sour perspiration of scalp and face, especially during sleep.
Excessive perspiration from slight motion. Easily tired.
Heaviness of entire body, after sleep, as after deep sleep.
Worse at night, sleeplessness and screaming.
Shivering with stool.
Tendency to frown (Lyc, Nux-v).
Difficult dentition (Cham).
Colic and diarrhoea during dentition.
Colic worse uncovering of an arm or leg; better by doubling up
(Coloc).
Profuse sour sweat on scalp (Calc.).
Good appetite, but stool soon becomes repulsive. Fullness as if
eating too much.
Desire for stool after a meal.
MODALITIES
AGG: uncovering,
eating, moving about.
RHODODENDRON (Rhod.)
COMPLAINTS < DAMP, BEFORE/DURING STORM
MENTAL
SYMPTOMS < BEFORE OR DURING THUNDER STORM.
Faintness, confusion, excitement before a storm. Fear of storms.
Forgetful of words while speaking. Omitting words when writing.
Anxiety on entering a house.
PHYSICAL
AGGRAVATION BEFORE STORMS, WIND AND COLD WET WEATHER (Rhus-t.).
Rheumatic-gouty drawing and tearing pains in all limbs < at
rest, > motion.
Pain in heels.
Orchitis. Epididymitis.
PAIN IN TESTICLE, may be described as CRUSHED < RIGHT SIDE, > motion.
EXTENDING TO ABDOMEN.
Facial pains >moving the lower jaw.
Sleeps on back with feet crossed - sleeplessness
unless they lie in this position.
Rapidly shifting, paralytic pains.
MODALITIES
AGG.: approach of storm, during storm, change of weather, weather cold wet, foggy, windy.
AMEL.: motion.
RHUS TOXICODENDRON (Rhus-t.)
RESTLESSNESS, AGGRAVATED BY KEEPING STILL
MENTAL
EXTREME RESTLESSNESS. Stiff,
unable to relax.
Anxious and sad.
SUPERSTITIOUS. Compulsive, ritualistic behavior.
Anxiety about his children, about business.
Delusions that he was about to be poisoned.
PHYSICAL
STIFFNESS of muscles, of joints. Ailments from straining muscles or tendons, over-lifting,
stretching, sprains. LUMBAGO.
< REST, BEGINNING TO MOVE AFTER REST
> MOTION, WARMTH
Restlessness in bed - must change position to obtain momentary
relief from pain.
Tongue - triangular red tip.
Cracking in joints, in jaw, in cervical region.
Skin eruptions >warm bathing.
Vertigo with tendency to fall on rising from bed.
Herpetic eruptions with much burning, itching and stinging >
warm bathing.
MODALITIES
AGG.: cold, damp, wet weather, beginning of motion, lying, uncovering.
AMEL.: MOTION (walking,
motion of affected part,) exertion, change of position, warm applications, hot
bath, warm dry weather.
DES.: MILK ESP.COLD.
AVERS.: soup.
RUMEX CRISPUS (Rumex)
AFFECTIONS OF RESPIRATORY SYSTEM < COLD
PHYSICAL
COUGH constant,
tickling, croupy, hoarse, whooping, hacking, paroxysmal.
< inhaling cold air, going from warm to cold, irregular breathing, touching the larynx,
eating, bending head backward.
>covering up mouth so the inhaled air is warmed, drinking,
turning from left to right side.
Early morning diarrhœa, driving patient out of bed, wakes with urging at 06:00 till
noon, but often accompanied
by the typical cough.
Rumbling in the abdomen.
Emptiness of stomach <talking. Eructations on waking, after
coughing, evening. Heaviness
after eating.
Itching of skin when undressing, in cold air, when uncovered.
Lump in oesophagus, descending when swallowing, going back up
after.
MODALITIES
AGG.: open
air, cold (air, becoming, cold food), bathing, after eating.
AMEL.: warm
bed.
RUTA GRAVEOLENS (Ruta)
AFFECTIONS OF FIBROUS TISSUES, TENDONS, JOINTS, PERIOSTEUM
MENTAL
PANIC, with fear of death ESP. DURING HEAT OR ON ENTERING A HOT ROOM.
Restlessness during fever, changes position frequently.
Sluggish, slow mind. Dissatisfied.
Aversion to company except when in panic where they need to feel
secure.
Fear of evil, of water.
Anxious, irritable and rigid persons.
PHYSICAL
INJURIES TO FIBROUS TISSUE, JOINTS, BONES, TENDONS AND PERIOSTEUM.
Bursitis, ganglion.
The affected parts are bruised
and sore with restlessness.
Stiffness of
the body. Bruised painful feeling on the parts lain on.
ACHING, BURNING PAIN IN EYES. AS IF STRAINED, like balls of
fire <fine work,
reading, sewing.
Dim vision on straining the eyes. Headache or vertigo from reading.
Paralysis of the bladder after over-distension or forcible
retention.
Intense feeling of weariness.
Back pain < inspiration >lying down.
Arthritic pains <cold and damp.
Skin- yellow
discoloration in spots.
Prolapse of rectum,
before or during stool, on stooping.
MODALITIES
AGG.: exertion,
cold, wet weather, exertion, lying on painful side, motion, using voice, 10
a.m., going up and downstairs.
AMEL: lying
on painless side, rubbing, walking, motion, hard pressure; coughing;
expectoration; rapid motion; bending double.