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 BURNING. Dry
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.
Asthma, dyspnoea 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, flatus, vomiting.
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.
Claudication. Cramps 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.: emissions, tea, 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 excesses, after 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 drinks, eating, 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.
Lazy. Untidy. 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, sour, fish, olives, 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.: SMOG, SMOKE, 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.