Materia Medica GV Note ‘S’


SABADILLA (Sabad.)

 

HAY FEVER, HAY ASTHMA WITH SNEEZING

 

MENTAL

 

Erroneous ideas as to the state of his body.

Delusions that parts of the body are DEFORMED, e.g. feel that the body is shrunken, that parts are shrunken. Delusions she’s pregnant.

Feels like there is a worm in the mouth, pharynx.

 

Imagines herself sick. Hypochondriac. Delusions that he has incurable disease.

Fear of death, evil, water.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Hay fever, hay asthma.

 

Affects the upper respiratory track with characteristic PAROXYSMAL SNEEZING with epistaxis and excessive lachrymation. Coryza > warm room.

 

Chilly. Warm room, warm bed, warm drinks, stove ameliorate.

 

Headache from mental exertion or putting too eager attention into anything. Pain in vertex on coughing.

 

Sensation of a lump, foreign body in the throat, or sensation something hanging there like a bundle of hair with a desire to swallow or hawk it.

 

Dry throat and cough. Sore throat in left side extending to right ear.

 

Worms in children. Convulsions from worms. Vomiting worms.

Formication in the anus. Itching in the ear alternating with itching in anus.

 

Restlessness of legs during heat.

Sore, bruised pains in spots.

 

Heat in head and face with chilliness in hands and feet.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: cold, cold drinks, beginning of motion, wine, lying.

AMEL.: walking, open air, warm drinks, warm bed, motion, wet weather.

DES.: raw onion, lemons, warm food and drinks, buttermilk.

AVERS.: wine, onion, garlic, sour fruit and acids, meat.

 

 

SABINA (Sabin.)

 

METRORRHAGIA WITH BIG CLOTS

 

MENTAL

 

Closed, feels forsaken, sad and melancholic < consolation.

 

Oversensitive to music, sadness from music. Music is intolerable, it goes through the bones. Oversensitive to slightest noise.

 

Crying or speaking about their emotions is difficult. Non communicative, indisposed to talk. Desire to be alone. The INTENSITY IS EXPRESSED AT NIGHT where they cry and talk during sleep.

 

Confusion. Tired, looks for the bed.


PHYSICAL

 

HORMONAL IMBALANCE resulting to excessive sexual desire, uterine complaints (polypus, myoma etc.), metrorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, abortions.

 

HAEMORRHAGES - (menses, metrorrhagia) always PROFUSE with BIG CLOTS.

Metrorrhagia gushing, in paroxysms, during and after labor, between menstrual periods. Metrorrhagia worse with motion but better walking.

 

PAIN IN THE LUMBAR / SACRAL REGION EXTENDING TO THE PUBIS - in nearly all pathology.

Pain in uterus extending back to groin.

 

Sexual desire greatly increased- insatiable, violent sexual desire < during metrorrhagia.

 

Miscarriages esp. in the 3rd month.

 

Pain in thigh esp. on the anterior part  <walking. Arthritic pain in joints.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: motion, touch, warmth (warm room, bed), change of temperature.

AMEL.: open air, cold.

DES.: juicy, refreshing things, lemonade.



 

SAMBUCUS NIGRA (Samb.)

  

RESPIRATORY AFFECTIONS WITH EXCESSIVE PERSPIRATION

 

MENTAL

 

Suffocative attacks of asthma after fright.

Mental symptoms during perspiration (confusion, restlessness, starting, unconsciousness, anxiety).

 

Fear and anxiety during suffocative attacks.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Mostly a children's remedy.

 

Perspiration in bed before sleep and after waking. Perspiration of the affected parts only while awake. AS SOON AS HE GOES TO BED THE PERSPIRATION STOPS AND THE SKIN BECOMES DRY AND BURNINGDry heat during sleep, profuse perspiration on waking. Perspiration with aversion to uncovering. General sweat except the head.

 

Wakes up after a few hours of sleep with dyspnea and profuse perspiration. The child wakes nearly suffocated, he cannot exhale the air.

 

Asthmadyspnoea worse at night. Frequent attacks of dyspnoea or asthma at night, esp. after  midnight, must spring out of bed. Bluish face in asthma.

 

Dry nose completely obstructed with suffocative feeling. Because of obstruction infants have difficulty in breastfeeding.

 

Kidney problems with asthmatic attacks. Kidney problems with oedematous, dropsical swelling of extremities.

Coldness of feet and hands with heat of the body.

Cough with excessive mucus in the larynx.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: lying, uncovering, after midnight, beginning of motion, change of position.

AMEL.: continued motion, walking, perspiration, motion of the affected part.

 

 

SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS (Sang.)

 

COMPLAINTS ESPECIALLY HEADACHES > VOMITING

 

MENTAL

 

Delusions that people around her are talking rapidly.

 

LASSITUDE, indisposed to move or make any mental effort.

 

Delusion she was in some vehicle which was moving and jarring her, begs others to hold her.

Desires to be held.

Oversensitive to noise.

Irritable, morose.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Right - sided remedy affecting the head, liver, chest and right deltoid.

 

VOMITING AND NAUSEA accompany complaints. VOMITING AMELIORATES.

 

HEADACHE > VOMITING, sleep, passing flatus or eructation.

Headache starts from right occipital protuberance and extend to the eye.

Periodic headaches often every 7 days. Photophobia during headache.

 

PERIARTHRITIS OF SHOULDER JOINT < right arm and shoulder. Cannot raise the arm < AT NIGHT.

All arthritic complaints aggravated by wet weather.

 

Right-sided coryza (Ars.)

 

Sensitive to odors. Odors induce nausea, aggravate the hay fever.

 

Heat and burning of palms and soles. Uncovers the feet in bed at night.

 

Congestion of blood to head, chest and abdomen. Flushes of heat and general pulsations.
Redness of ears. Circumscribed red cheeks.

 

Cough > eructation, flatusvomiting.

Pain at the root of the nose.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG: lying, stormy weather, motion of affected part.

AMEL.: vomiting, lying on back.

DES.: highly seasoned, pungent things, spices.

AVERS.: butter.

 

SANICULA AQUA (Sanic.)

 

FISHY ODOR OF DISCHARGES

 

MENTAL

 

Irritable, peevish, restless, stubborn children.

 

Mental weakness, difficult concentration, unable to complete tasks.

Changing occupation constantly. Desire to travel.

 

Fears something will happen, dark, robbers, downward motion.

 

Aversion of being touched.

 

Desire for light.

  

PHYSICAL

 

OFFENSIVE DISCHARGES, ESPECIALLY WITH FISH-BRINE ODOR OR LIKE ROTTEN CHEESE (urine, leucorrhoea, stool, expectoration, breath etc.).

 

Odor of mouth like fish-brine before asthmatic attack. Vaginitis with fish-brine odor of genitalia.

 

Perspiration of scalp, especially the cervical region during sleep.

 

Burning pain in mouth, protrudes the tongue in order to cool it.

Ulcers under tongue.

 

Acne especially around the chin.

 

Pain in shoulder esp. on putting arm behind him.

 

Constipation, stool may recede and has to help mechanically.

Light colored stool, white. No desire unless a large accumulation.

 

Abdomen enlarged and flabby.

 

Feet burning, especially soles, with inclination to uncover them.

 

Offensive perspiration of feet.

 

Ulceration on margin of eyelids.

 

Lachrymation in wind or from cold application.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: 21:00-24:00, jar, warm room, drafts.

AMEL.: open air, loosening clothes.

DES: fat ham, bacon, salt, soft boiled eggs, cold milk.

 

SARSAPARILLA (Sars.)

 

MAINLY FOR URINARY TRACK INFECTIONS

 

MENTAL

 

Mental depression caused by the pains. Weeping before and during micturition.

Changeable mood, alternating.

Excitable, industrious during heat.

 

PHYSICAL

 

CYSTITIS WITH PAIN IN THE BLADDER and URETHRA AT THE CLOSE OF THE URINATION.

 

Frequent urging to urinate. Ineffectual urging.

Last part of urine is bloody with violent pain in the bladder. Burning pain after urination.

Can only pass urine while standing, dribbling while sitting but passes freely when standing.

Chills spread from the bladder. Coldness of back after urinating.

 

Sediment in urine.

 

Deep, bloody, burning cracks on bends of hands, fingers, thumb, feet.

Itching eruptions on the lids of eyes.

 

Retraction of nipples.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: vomiting, bathing, motion of affected part, sexual excitement, bread, getting wet, night.

AMEL.: loosening clothing, haemorrhage, cold, standing.

DES.: juicy, refreshing things.

 

SECALE CORNUTUM (Sec.)

 

ACTS MAINLY ON THE CIRCULATION

 

MENTAL

 

Shameless, exposes the person. Wants to be naked.

Raging, violent, muttering, maniacal delirium.

Restlessness. Discouraged and anxious. Apathy. Suicidal disposition to throw himself from a height.

Senility. Confusion of mind.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Hot remedy. Aggravated by warmth both generally and locally.

 

Although he is hot and does not want covers, the skin feels cold to touch.

Icy coldness with sweat and blueness but cannot bear to be covered, desires to uncover.

Chill and coldness of extremities but uncovering ameliorates.

 

GANGRENE of any part of the body esp. distal parts of extremities (foot, toes, hand, fingers). Senile gangrene. Gangrenous swelling ulcers, eruptions, vesicles.

Gangrene of foot with burning, tearing pains.

 

ClaudicationCramps in legs while walking or from exertion.

Formication in thigh, fingers, hand, lower limbs, foot.

 

Haemorrhagic tendency (hematuria, epistaxis, purpura, metrorrhagia).

Epistaxis in young women, drunkards, old people. Dark, black blood, thin or clotted epistaxis. Often offensive.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: warm (stove, wraps, air, room, bed, becoming), touch, motion.

AMEL.: cold, open air, vomiting.

 

SELENIUM (Sel.)

 

IMPOTENCY, PROSTATE AFFECTIONS WITH EMISSION OF SEMEN DURING STOOL

 

MENTAL

 

Mental prostration, confusion, irritability esp. after emissions.

Weakness of memory, cannot concentrate. Dreads work.

Aversion to company and intimate friends.

 

Lascivious but impotent.

Dipsomania before menses.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Prostate affections. Inflammation, induration, swelling, enlargement of prostate esp. senile.

 

EMISSION OF PROSTATIC FLUID OR SEMEN DURING STOOL, during walking or sitting, during sleep.

Dribbling of urine after stool and urine.

 

Prematurely old - specific parts of the body seem old (e.g. sexual organs, thighs).

 

Falling of hair from different parts of the body (genitalia, eye, head).

 

Weakness is often sudden and is worse after emissions, in warmth, heat, warm weather, exertion, coition, after fever.

 

Sexual dreams with nocturnal emissions, wakes from the dream with incomplete erection.

 

Constipation with difficult, unsatisfactory stool and ineffectual urging.

 

During the night he thinks of business of the day.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: emissionstea, alcohol, heat, sun, drafts, lemonade, salt, sweets.

AMEL.: half-asleep, standing, wine, haemorrhages.

DES.: alcohol esp. before menses, coffee.

AVERS.: salt.

 

SEPIA (Sep.)

 

The word to describe Sepia is stagnation. The emotions are still and stagnant. There is indifference and detachment which lead to the characteristic aversion to coition, the irritability towards the husband and the aversion to the family. The physical exertion and dancing seem to stimulate the patient. The leucorrhoea and the aversion to sex are the main characteristics on the physical level.

 

STAGNATION OF EMOTIONS, AVERSION TO COITION, DETACHEMENT

 

MENTAL

 

STILLNESS of emotions and mind, DETACHED.

INDIFFERENCE to loved ones. Aversion to company, ameliorated when alone. Aversion to husband, to members of family, to going out.

 

Great sadness and weeping <consolation. Life has no joy.

 

Feels stimulation and amelioration through DANCING, PHYSICAL EXERTION, fast walking.

 

Anger and irritability <after coition, consolation, exertion, when spoken to.

Spiteful, malicious, critical of others.

Happy during thunders and lightning.

Fear of poverty.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Affects venous circulation and female pelvic organs.

 

LEUCORRHOEA esp. in young girls.

 

DIMINISHED SEXUAL DESIRE. AVERSION TO COITION.

Pain in vagina during coition. Dryness of vagina.

 

Prolapsus of uterus, pressure and bearing down sensation, as if everything would protrude from pelvis <standing, > crossing legs.

 

Ball sensation in inner parts.

Crack in middle of lower lip. Fever blisters on lips.

 

Sensation of 'emptiness', all gone feeling in stomach >eating.

Nausea during pregnancy.

 

Falling of hair.

 

Involuntary urination when laughing.

 

Yellow discoloration of face, yellow saddle across upper part of cheeks.

Tendency to abortion.

Headache < over the left eye > motion.

Faints easily- when kneeling, with heat and then coldness.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: cold (entering a cold place, becoming cold, cold bathing, cold wind), after sexual excessesafter coition, pregnancy, morning, evening, perspiration after, kneeling, stooping, loss of fluids, left side, seashore, 14:00-16:00.

AMEL.: PHYSICAL EXERTION, motion, crossing limbs, warmth (bed, applications), evening, pressure, cold drinks.

DES.: vinegar, sweets, alcohol.

AVERS.: meat, smell of food, salt, bread, fat.

 

SILICEA (Sil.)

 

CHILLY BUT PERSPIRES, SENSITIVE, REFINED

 

MENTAL

 

SENSITIVE, REFINED,  TIMID, yielding, reserved but obstinate.

 

Prostration of mind. Lack of mental stamina. Difficult concentration.

Weakness of memory for mental labor. Fear of literary work. Dread of work.

Timidity appearing in public. Fear that their mind won’t be able to withstand the stress of appearing in public.

Undertakes nothing due to fear he will fail.

 

Fear of pointed objects, esp. INJECTIONS, PINS.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Develops tumors, fibromas, breast cysts, swollen glands, warts which are usually hard. Caries of bones and spine. Scoliosis. Curvatures. Hip joint disease.

 

SENSITIVE TO COLD. General aggravation when becoming cold, esp. the head or feet. > wrapping up or covering.

Tendency to take cold.

 

PERSPIRATION - offensive acrid esp. feet.

CONSTIPATION, stool is hard, rectal muscles inactive. Stool RECEDES.

 

Nails are brittle, white spots on nails. Ingrowing toenails.

Stricture, inflammation of lachrymal duct.

Sensation of hair on the tongue.

Unhealthy tendency to suppuration. Discharges cheesy, offensive, purulent, thick.

 

Headache with violent and stitching pains.

Headache when head or feet get cold, from cold air, from becoming cold> wrapping up or binding up the head. Pain in the forehead associated with chronic coryza from sinuses. Inflammation of sinuses.

 

Children with large heads, open fontanelles, distended hot and hard abdomen, slow in walking and wasted in the body esp. legs.

Removes foreign bodies.

Stopped sensation in ear. Otitis media with impaired hearing.

Ulcers inside the nose.

Indicated in injuries of the coccyx. Coccygodynia after a fall <pressure, touch, rising.

 

Sensation of a stone pressing in breast.

  

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: COLD (becoming cold, touching cold things, part of the body becoming cold), air draft, suppression of perspiration esp. of the feet, mental exertion, pressure, full moon.

AMEL.: warmth (warm stove, bed, applications) esp. to head, copious urination, warm wet weather.

DES.: cold food and drinks, fried eggs, fat, ice-cream, indigestible things like lime, earth, chalk, sand, etc.

AVERS.: mother's milk, meat, cheese, salt, warm food, fat.

 

SPIGELIA ANTHELMIA (Spig.)

 

NEURALGIA

 

MENTAL

 

FEAR OF INJECTIONS, PINS.

 

Delusions floating in air.

 

Restless and anxious. Easily offended.

Weak memory. Buried in thought, absorbed.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Affects the nerves: trifacial nerves, heart, eyes, teeth, left side.

 

PAINS: neuralgic, burning, like hot needles, jerking, tearing, stitching, extending to other parts.

 

HEART AFFECTIONS COMBINED WITH EYE COMPLAINTS.

Violent, audible palpitations < bending chest forward.

 

Angina pectoris < least motion, lying on left side, deep inspiration. Pain extends to back.

 

Eye: Glaucoma, intolerable pressing pain in eyeballs <left.

Sensation of enlargement. As if eye is too large for the orbit.

 

Body sensitive to touch. Touched part feels chilly.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: smoke and tobacco, motion, cold, walking, dry weather, cold wet weather.

AMEL.: bathing- also the affected part, wet weather, lying (esp. right side), while eating, loosening the clothing.

DES.: Warm drinks, alcohol.

AVERS.: Coffee.

 

SPONGIA TOSTA (Spong.)

 

RESPIRATORY AND HEART PROBLEMS

 

MENTAL

 

Weeping during heat.

 

Frightened easily at night, startled from sleep. Fear on waking.

 

Weeping, suicidal disposition during perspiration.

 

Terrified anxious expression of face.

 

Irresistible desire to sing, followed by sadness.

Anxiety about the future. Tired, loathing of life. Fear of death.

Despondent about loss of sexual power.

 

PHYSICAL

 

DRYNESS OF MUCOUS MEMBRANES (nose, larynx, throat, mouth).

Dryness of air passages "DRY AS A HORN".

 

Awakens in a fright and with dyspnoea, AS IF BREATHING THROUGH A SPONGE.

 

COUGH - dry, barking, rasping, whistling, "like a saw driven through a pine board".   > eating warm food, warm drinks.

 

Heart: Combination of respiratory and heart problems. Alternating or concomitant states (dyspnoea during pain in heart, during rheumatism of heart, during palpitation).

Pain in heart < lying with the head low, >lying on right side.

 

Heat of face after motion.

Throat pain <sweets.

Rushing of blood to legs.

 

Glands are easily affected, indurations.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: motion, cold (becoming, air, wind, weather, entering a cold place), lying, after sleep, exertion, undressing.

AMEL: warm food and drinkseating, loosening clothing, wet weather.

 

STANNUM METALLICUM (Stann.)

 

The essence of this remedy is the weakness. The patient feels weak, exhausted esp. in chest. The dyspnoea from slight motion is characteristic. The physical weakness makes him hopeless and despondent. There’s a particular affinity to respiratory system.

 

EXHAUSTION - RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS

 

MENTAL

 

MISERABLE, DISCOURAGED, HOPELESS AND DESPONDENT from the weakness.

 

No energy to react to external stimuli- feels like crying all the time but aggravates her. Aversion to company, misanthropy.

 

PHYSICAL

 

WEAKNESS, WEARINESS, LASSITUDE, EXHAUSTION.

Strong affinity to respiratory system.

Deep and chronic, DYSPNOEA from slightest motion.

WEAKNESS IN CHEST < talking, so weak that is impeding speech.

 

Eyes are burning from weakness.

Skin is copper colored.

 

Sleeps on back with crossed legs (right over left).

 

Stomach pain on coughing.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: motion, physical exertion, lying on side, cold.

AMEL.: lying (in bed, on abdomen, on back) , walking rapidly, warm bed, loosening clothing.

 

STAPHISAGRIA (Staph.)

 

The idea of this remedy is the suppression. The patients suppress their feelings, esp. anger. They are yielding, soft, very sensitive and lack self-confidence. They don’t stand up for themselves. The aggravation from siesta and the development of styes are confirmatory symptoms for this remedy.

 

SUPPRESSION OF EMOTIONS

 

MENTAL

 

SUPPRESSION OF EMOTIONS esp. centering on romantic relationships.

GREAT INDIGNATION- about things done by others or by himself.

 

Suppresses anger but can go to the other extreme and lose control- Violent outbursts where they throw things.

 

Yielding, sweet and sensitive. Very vulnerable, easily offended, sensitive to rudeness, to external impressions.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Development of hard dead tumors, chronic indurations of various kinds.

 

Affects the nervous system producing chorea, convulsions, jerking, trembling or paralysis from suppressed emotions, from indignation, anger, vexation.

 

Ailments from grief: psoriasis, chorea, stomach pain, falling hair, headache.

 

STYES - small hardened spots of induration which do not go away with time.

 

Excessive sexual desire, sexual thoughts leading to MASTURBATION- bad effects from onanism (indifference after onanism). Sexual excesses, however when confronted with actual situation they become impotent or frigid.

 

AGGRAVATION FROM AFTERNOON SLEEP.

 

Honeymoon cystitis. Urging to urinate or dysuria in newly married women.

Injuries from post-surgical operations, stinging, smarting pains like cutting of a knife. Cuts, stinging in wounds. Wounds heal slowly.

 

Toothache during menses, teeth turn black, DECAY on edges.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: AFTERNOON SLEEP (SIESTA), emissions, coition, milk, tobacco, exertion, onanism, after sexual excesses, after emotions, touch.

AMEL.: breakfast, lying, rest, warm.

DES.: sugar, rice, liquid food.

AVERS.: fat, milk, solid food.

 

STRAMONIUM (Stram.)

 

In Stramonium the words to remember are aggressiveness and violence. They can become so violent as to kill.

There is a dark element in these patients and it’s interesting here to mention the extreme fear of darkness. They have fear of tunnels, of closed or narrow places, of water, of shining surfaces.

These patients (esp. the children) can get into a Stramonium state after a frightening experience. They get terrible nightmares where they wake up in terror, with eyes wide open, but not recognizing anyone. They need some time to get out of the nightmare and come to their senses.

Their physical symptoms are also aggressive. Their convulsions are aggressive, their stammering is aggressive, the grimaces are aggressive.

 

 

AGGRESSIVENESS, VIOLENCE, FEARS

 

MENTAL

 

AILMENTS FROM FRIGHT.

 

FEARS: DARK, WATER, DOGS, TUNNELS, ANIMALS, BEING ALONE esp. at night.

Fear of shining objects, mirrors, brilliant objects, surface of water. Fear of VIOLENCE, of being injured. Anxiety, fear from the noise of running water.

 

Strong fears at night. Terror at night. Nightmares. Child wakes up in terror, with so vivid nightmare that knows no one around. Shrieking in sleep.

 

Wild look in the eyes. Desires light and company.

 

VIOLENT FITS OF ANGER, out of control. Mania, rage. They get destructive, malicious. Striking, biting, shrieking, cursing, breaking things, attacking others. Rage at sight of water.

 

Delirium wild, violent with open eyes, loquacity, desire to bite.

 

PHYSICAL

 

AILMENTS FROM FRIGHT (twitching, chorea, convulsions, cough, palpitations).

 

Violent STAMMERING. Has to exert himself long before uttering a word.

 

Vomiting as soon as he’s raising the head.

 

Heat, congestion of face with cold hands and feet. Congestion of head.

 

TWITCHING of foot, of single muscles or groups of muscles esp. upper part of body. Twitching of one side, paralysis of the other.

 

Painlessness of usually painful complaints.

 

Cough: barking, deep-sounding, sonorous, croupy. Jerking of lower limbs on coughing while sitting.

 

Spasmodic openness of eye. Protrusion of eye, brilliant, pupils are widely dilated.

 

Ailments from suppressed secretions and excretions, discharges, perspiration  (convulsions, insanity).

 

Difficult, impossible swallowing.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: DARK, sleep after or during, bright objects, alcohol, cellars.

AMEL.: lying after, sun, vinegar.

DES.: sweets, sour.

AVERS.: water, cold drinks, milk.

 

SULPHUR (Sulph.)

 

Sulphur produces such a huge variety of symptoms that it is difficult to find one word to describe it. However we can say that there are some characteristic tendencies that run through the remedy. The redness, burning, congestion, aggravation from warmth and offensiveness are very characteristic traits of Sulphur.

On the mental level we see the selfishness and criticism in most cases.

The desire for fat and the heat on soles are confirmatory symptoms.

 

CRITICAL, SELFISH, UNTIDY - WARM BLOODED, DESIRES SWEETS & FAT

 

MENTAL

 

Philosophical, intellectual type: reclusive, looking for truth behind things. Theorizing.

 

Practical type: over enthusiasm, practical idealist, social, extroverted. Hopeful dreamers.

 

SELFISH, CRITICAL, HAUGHTY. EGOTISM. Thinks himself better.

 

LazyUntidy. Aversion, dread of bathing. Indifferent about his appearance, dirty, smelling but at the same time easily disgusted.

 

Fear and vertigo in high places. Fear of contamination, infection.

 

Nervous temperament, hurried and irritable.

 

PHYSICAL

 

BURNING PAINS AND SENSATIONS. CONGESTIONS OF SINGLE PARTS, head, face, ovaries, uterus, genitalia, nose, eyes, rectum, liver. All orifices of the body are very red.

Constant heat on vertex. Burning soles at night. UNCOVERS FEET.

Burning pain in foot but sole to cold touch.

 

Offensive odor of body in spite of washing. Aversion to odors of others, loves his own.

 

Weak empty feeling in stomach 11a.m. > eating.

Diarrhœa, driving out of bed early in the morning.

 

Conjunctivitis with burning pain, itching and pain as from "sand in the eyes" > cold applications, cold bathing.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: warm (wraps, room, bed, air, becoming, touching warm things), bathing, standing, evening, night, left side.

AMEL.: motion of affected part, motion, cold, lying (also on right side), rubbing.

DES.: SWEETS, FAT, cold drinks, highly seasoned food, raw, spices, alcohol.

AVERS.: EGGS, sourfisholives, chicken, strong cheese.

 

SULPHURIC ACID (Sul-ac.)

 

HURRIEDNESS WITH EXHAUSTION

 

MENTAL

 

HURRIEDNESS. Cannot do things fast enough. Everybody must hurry. So hurried that he does things out of order.

 

Impatient, feels there’s not enough time to get things done, things move too slowly.

Hasty speech.

 

Fretful and irritable over the slightest cause.

 

Prostration of mind after an injury.

Changeable mood during perspiration.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Sensation of weakness in the abdomen.

 

APHTHÆ on the tongue , inside of cheeks and whole gastro-intestinal tract which are painful, often periodical.

 

SENSITIVE TO SMOKE, FUMES, SMOG, STRONG ODORS (asthma).

 

Sensation as if the brain is loose in the forehead.

 

Bluish or black spots in skin, esp. face, extremities.

 

Sourness of the body and stomach (Hep., Mag-c., Rheum)

 

Diarrhœa very foul, offensive , from unripe fruit and oysters, after the slightest indiscretion in eating.

 

Yellow, saffron-like, stringy stool.

Eructation like spoiled eggs.

 

Profuse, acrid or stringy discharges.

 

Bruising and ecchymosis. Follows Arn. in acute injuries.

 

Pains increase gradually and end suddenly.

 

As if a blunt plug being driven in.

Pains felt during sleep, disappear on waking.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: SMOGSMOKE, becoming cold, oysters.

AMEL.: air, walking fast.

DES.: brandy, fruit, alcohol, sweets.

AVERS.: water (unless alcohol is added), coffee.

 

SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE (Symph.)

 

PROMOTES THE REPAIR OF BROKEN BONES ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY HEAL SLOWLY.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Injuries, fractures of bones. Brittle bones. HELPS THE SLOW REPAIR OF BROKEN BONES, lessens peculiar bone pain, favors production of callous.

 

Mechanical injuries to EYES, from a BLUNT INSTRUMENT causing sore, bruised pain.

 

Inflammation of periosteum.

 

Injuries to cartilages with excessive pain.

 

SYPHILINUM (Syph.)

 

DESTRUCTIVE PROCESSES ON ALL LEVELS

 

MENTAL

 

ANXIETY ABOUT HEALTH.

 

FEAR OF INFECTION, of contagious disease, of syphilis. DISGUST.

Delusions that he’s dirty. DESIRES TO WASH HER HANDS.

 

Compulsive checking.

 

HOPELESS, DESPAIR OF RECOVERY, DEPRESSION.

 

Great irritability during headache.

Weakness of memory, cannot remember names or dates.

 

Erosion of the emotional level the patient may have a feeling to let everything crash down around him. On the mental level we see a breakdown into insanity.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Affects mucous membranes, nerves and bones.

 

DESTRUCTIVE, SYPHILITIC PROCEESES on all levels.

 

Syphilitic eruptions and inflammations. Ulcers. Abscesses. Caries of bones. Distortion of facial features e.g. ulcers in palate (cleft palate). Teeth are dwarfed, loose, feel sticky. Curvature of spine.

 

Bone pains < warmth of bed, > cold applications. Back pain from sunset to sunrise.

 

ALL SYMPTOMS < NIGHT (sunset to sunrise) esp. 02:00 – 04:00.

 

Headache, with pain in the bones of head, worse at night.

 

Strong desire for ALCOHOL esp. liquers. Alcoholism.

 

Sleeplessness after midnight.

 

Back pain after urinating.

Salivation during sleep.

Acne.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: night, 02:00 to 04:00.

DES.: alcoholic drinks.

AVERS.: meat.