TABACUM (Tab.)
NAUSEA, ICY COLDNESS, SWEAT
PHYSICAL
SEASICKNESS,
terrible faint, sinking
feeling at pit of stomach, better in fresh cold air and
by uncovering the abdomen.
Deathly nausea with
or without vomiting. The patient is clammy,
cold and pale.
Nausea of pregnancy, with spitting.
The nausea is worse when opening the eyes.
Prostration and relaxation of entire muscular system, with free
secretions.
Sensation as if stomach were hanging down.
Vertigo on opening eye’s.
Atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, esp. in tobacco users.
Constipation, esp. in tobacco users.
Hiccough after cough.
Desire for tobacco.
MODALITIES
AGG.: opening
eye’s, evening, extremes of heat and cold.
AMEL.: uncovering abdomen,
fresh open air.
TARENTULA HISPANICA (Tarent.)
Tarentula is a remedy with excess energy. They
are restless, quick in their motions, impatient, do many things together. They
feel better when they listen to loud, rhythmical music and when dancing. All
symptoms are ameliorated with dancing. The energy is so much that the sexuality
is increased to the point of nymphomania. When they get angry they get intense
too, they can become violent. In later stages of pathology they can become
manic-depressive or develop insanity with rage.
EXCESS ENERGY - RESTLESSNESS – HURRIEDNESS
MENTAL
HYPERACTIVE, RESTLESSNESS. Does many things at the same time.
Impatient, impulsive, cunning.
MUSIC (esp. loud and rhythmic) AMELIORATES PHYSICAL AND MENTAL
SYMPTOMS.
DES. DANCING which also ameliorates.
Sexual mania, erotic delirium. Lascivious hysteria.
Anger, rage. Violent,
destructive, tears or breaks things. Insanity with increased strength. Desire to attack others. Rage is
such that has to be chained.
Manic-depressive states.
PHYSICAL
Affects nerves which are highly strung. Symptoms appear suddenly with violence.
Excess energy is channeled through: RESTLESSNESS, HURRIEDNESS, INCREASED SEXUAL DESIRE. Hurry in
movements, while walking.
Restlessness of lower limbs >motion. Restlessness of
extremities >music.
Relieved by RHYTHMIC activity, dancing up and down.
Vomiting after going to bed.
Constipation with no urging and awful anxiety.
Dyspnoea with heart and ovarian troubles.
Abscesses, boils are a 'bluish
color' and burning pain.
MODALITIES
AGG.: cold
drinks, becoming cold, cold wet weather, exertion, coition.
AMEL.: motion,
walking slowly, physical exertion, dancing.
DES.: sand, highly
seasoned food, salt, cold drinks.
AVERS.: meat.
TEREBINTHINA (Ter.)
NEPHRITIS AND URINARY TRACK DISORDERS ESPECIALLY WITH SMOKE
COLOURED URINE, HAEMORRHAGES
MENTAL
Unconsciousness after stool.
Muttering, maniacal delirium. Delirium during fever.
Delusions is floating in the air. Fear of apoplexy.
PHYSICAL
Haemorrhagic tendency. Purpura
haemorrhagica. Ecchymosis on skin. Haemoptysis.
Severe urinary track infections, pyelonephritis or nephritis with
characteristic burning
pain over the kidneys.
Bladder pain, cutting or burning, which is ameliorated when
walking in the open air.
BLOODY, BLACK, SMOKE- COLOURED URINE.
Sweetish odor of urine, odor like violets.
Sediment like coffee grounds.
Pelvic peritonitis from metritis; nephritis from exposure to cold
rains, with scanty, high colored urine.
Smooth, shining, red tongue, as if deprived of papillae.
Capillary bronchitis (bronchiolitis) in children, with extreme
drowsiness and scanty bloody urine.
MODALITIES
DES.: dry
rice, bitter drinks.
THERIDION (Ther.)
SENSITIVE TO NOISE – SLEEPLESSNESS - DIZZINESS
MENTAL
Oversensitive to slightest noise. Anxiety from noise.
Startled, frightened easily.
Time passes too quickly. Feeling as if they don't have enough
time.
Confusion. Feel they cannot perform.
Dissatisfied. Finds pleasure in nothing. Sadness and mental
depression.
Cheerful during headache.
PHYSICAL
Hypersensitivity of nerves esp. to NOISE
WHICH PENETRATES WHOLE BODY ESPECIALLY TEETH.
SLEEPLESSNESS. Sleeplessness from slight noise.
Light sleep, they cannot have a deep, proper sleep. Sleeplessness
from weariness. Catnaps.
Dizziness to the point of VERTIGO < from
noise, on going to sleep, on closing eyes, on motion. Nausea
from noise.
Wakes at 11 p.m. with vertigo and slow pulse.
Anxiety in heart region.
Chronic nasal discharge thick, yellow, greenish, offensive.
Spinal irritation. Back pain <jar, leaning against a chair,
noise.
MODALITIES
AGG.: noise,
jar, closing eyes, beginning of motion, cold.
DES.: does
not know what desires, bananas, alcoholic drinks.
THUJA OCCIDENTALIS (Thuja)
SECRETIVE - TENDENCY TO GROWTHS
MENTAL
RESERVED. Secretive. Manipulative.
Delusions that the body is brittle, is delicate, that she’s made
of glass, that animals are in abdomen, that soul and body were separated.
Lack of self-confidence, delusions he’s worthless.
Dullness <morning.
PHYSICAL
OVERGROWTHS: WARTS, CONDYLOMATA, tumors,
fibroids, cysts.
Used for treating bad effects of vaccination esp.
smallpox.
Ailments from suppressed gonorrhea (rheumatic pains of joints,
prostatitis, eye inflammation etc.). Urethritis.
Forked stream of urine.
Sensation that something is alive in the abdomen.
Coryza during stool. Strong
tendency to catarrhs. Leucorrhœa, nasal, urethral.
Perspiration is oily, of sweetish odor, offensive.
Headache as from a nail. Begins
in forehead over left eye then occiput.
DREAMS OF FALLING
Constipation, stools recedes.
Fingernails and toe-nails are brittle, crumbling, distorted, corrugated.
MODALITIES
AGG: ONIONS,
uncovering, tea, night, 3 p.m. & 3 a.m., wet weather.
AMEL: touch,
perspiration, lying on back, coryza, rubbing.
DES.: ONIONS
(raw), garlic, tea.
AVERS.: onions,
garlic, tea.
TUBERCULINUM BOVINUM (Tub.)
Romantic and unfulfilled. Enthusiastic but soon bored, they need
change in their life. They cannot stick in one place, with one person, with one
job, hence their love of travelling.
Tuberculinum is a remedy that is very often indicated when there
is a history of tuberculosis in the patient or his/her family. The grinding of
teeth during sleep is a strong indication for this remedy.
PASSIONATE, EXCITED, DESIRING CHANGE - GRINDING OF TEETH
MENTAL
PASSIONATE, ROMANTIC, UNFULFILLED “COSMOPOLITAN” PATIENTS.
DISCONTENT, NEEDS CHANGE AND EXCITEMENT. DESIRES
TRAVELLING.
Moaning and groaning.
CHILDREN: Hyperactivity.
Behavior disorders.
Obstinate, disobedient, destructive children. Malicious behavior.
Temper tantrums. Striking, breaks things.
Compulsive and ritualistic behavior. Constant belief that something has been forgotten. Tormenting
persistent thoughts during the night.
Fear of cats, dogs. Disgust with cats and furry animals.
Contradictory characteristics, mania and melancholia, insomnia and sleepiness.
Anxiety at night. Fear something will happen. Irritable esp. on waking.
Shrieking in sleep, esp. before menses.
Loquacity during fever.
PHYSICAL
FAMILY HISTORY OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Tendency to take cold. FREQUENT COLDS AND INFLUENZAS esp.
CHEST COLDS, BRONCHITIS OR PNEUMONIA.
GRINDING OF TEETH DURING SLEEP.
Weak, depleted constitutions. Emaciated
despite eating heavily.
Night sweats.
Allergy to cats. Allergy
to milk.
Generally worse in wet weather, before storms or any change in weather. Better in mountains, esp. in pine forests.
Periodicity of symptoms.
Induration of glands. Glands
hard, knotty like ropes < cervical, inguinal.
MODALITIES
AGG.: change of weather, wet weather, cold (air, bathing, entering a cold place), change of temperature
from cold to warm, seashore.
AMEL.: in pine forest, warm
and dry weather, walking fast, in the mountain, open air.
DES.: pork, ham, bacon, SMOKED MEAT, COLD MILK, fat ham, bananas, ice cream.
AVERS.: food, meat, milk.