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ABEL MOSCHUS (Abel.)


Mental

Extreme fear of poisonous creatures such as insects, spiders, scorpions, snakes, flies etc.

Fear that something will happen. Fear of staying alone at night. Fear with palpitation.

 

ABROTANUM (Abrot.)

In our literature we find for Abrotanum the word “metastasis”, meaning not the metastatic cancer but the alternation of pathological conditions. Example are: swelling of testes after parotitis (mumps), a rheumatic condition or heart condition after suppression of diarrhea.   

 ALTERNATION OF PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS. ACTS ON GLANDS

MENTAL

Irritability and maliciousness.

Alternate moods with elements of hysteria.

PHYSICAL

Ailments after suppression of discharges especially diarrhea. Suppression of hemorrhoids.

Pathology conditions change rapidly.

Marasmus (Aeth., Nat-m., Calc.) in children especially of legs (Iod., Sanic., Tub.) and then progresses upwards (which is the reverse of Lyc and Natr-m.). Newborns fail to gain weight although they have good appetite. The face looks old, the infant looks like a little old person. (Bar-c., Iodine, Natr-m., Op., Sulph.)

Discharge from the umbilicus, especially in newborns.

MODALITIES

AMEL: Diarrhea.(Nat-s., Zinc.)

AGG : cold and humid weather.  


ACETANILIDUM (Acetan.)

 

 RENAL FAILURE - DEPRESSION OF ALL FUNCTIONS

 

MENTAL

 

TIRED, PROSTRATION, WEARISOME.

Tired expression of face. They sit down and tell you in a wearisome manner how tired, weary and indifferent they are.

 

PHYSICAL

 

BRADYCARDIA, ANÆMIA, HYPOTENSION, KIDNEY FAILURE.

PALEWEAK.

 

The function of heart is suppressed. Pulse can be irregular.

 

Hypothermia. The body temperature is lower than the normal and in general the whole organism is functioning in a very low gear.

 

Fainting spells with cold perspiration, paleness and cyanosis. Orthostatic blood pressure, they will collapse if they get up suddenly.

 

The cyanosis has two peculiarities - greyish shade, grey-blue or grey-violet, mostly only visible on the peripheral parts of the body especially on the fingers and fingernails, toes, ears, and nose.

 

Difficult respiration. Shortness of breath with rapid and shallow respiration.

 

The urine is sometimes brownish in color and may contain methemoglobin, albumin, casts, and red blood cells and hæmaturia, oliguria or anuria may ensue.

 

Common colds easily and feel totally exhausted during the course of the cold.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: cold, becoming cold.

 

ACETIC ACID (Acet-ac.)

PALE, THIRSTY, ANAEMIC, EMACIATED, WASTED
 
MENTAL
 
Sour people (esp. when the stomach is chronically affected).
Anxiety about business, about his children.
 
Delirium with distension and constipation. Delirium during fever.
Irritable during headache.
 
Confusion of mind, dullness.
 
 
PHYSICAL
 
Profound ANEMIA, PALE FACE, DIMINISHED APPETITE LEADING TO EMACIATION AND CACHEXIA. Emaciation esp. of face, hands and thighs.
 
Gastritis with sour eructations, sour vomiting. Ulcerative pains in stomach. Induration of the stomach walls.
 
Impossible to sleep on back. The stomach problems and the acidity are aggravated when lying on the back.
 
Unquenchable thirst, for large quantities in chronic conditions, but thirstlessness in acute fever.
 
Fever dry heat, red discoloration of face <left side, with profuse perspiration at night and thirstlessness.
 
Copious urination.
 
EXCESSIVE WASTING (EMACIATION) AND DEBILITY (WEAKNESS).
 
MODALITIES
 
AGG.: lying on back, vegetables.
AVERS.: cold drinks, cold food.

 

ACONITUM NAPELLUS (Acon.)

  

All ailments acute or chronic are accompanied by fear of impending death and the feeling that death is imminent or near. Ailments that arise from fright that threatened the life of the person.

 

 

SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF SYMPTOMS. PANIC ATTACKS. FEAR OF IMPENDING DEATH

 

MENTAL

 

AILMENTS FROM FRIGHT.

 

FEARS: DEATH (during labor, pregnancy, menses, heart symptoms), predicts the time of death, presentiment of death. OPEN SPACES, NARROW PLACES, TUNNELS, EARTHQUAKES, CROWDS, AIRPLANES, heart diseases, darkness.

 

PANIC ATTACKS accompanied bypalpitations, red face, one sided numbness, faintness, restlessness, perspiration, trembling, vertigo, dyspnoea, fear of death.

 

Between the attacks (paroxysms) is silent and generally calm and quiet.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Acute symptoms arise from EXPOSURE TO DRY COLD AIR or WIND (cough, eye inflammation, coryza, prosopalgia). From becoming cold during perspiration.

 

During fever the skin is dry and hot, intense nervous restlessness and tossing around, chills, with intense thirst for cold water, one cheeck is red and hot and the other pale and cold.

 

Face bloated and red. Redness alternating with paleness.

 

Internal coldness felt in vessels.

Gastritis (stomach inflammation) after cold food and drinks.

 

Affections of heart, congestion, endocarditis, pericarditis. Heart affections with numbness on the left upper limb. Hypertrophy with tingling of fingers. Sensation as if the heart would cease.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: COLD, DRY WEATHER, cold wind.

DES.: cold water, beer, wine.




AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM (Aesc.)

 

 VENOUS CONGESTION - STASIS - SLOWING DOWN OF FUNCTIONS

 

MENTAL

 

MENTAL / EMOTIONAL STAGNATION. DULLNESS, HEAVINESS, CONFUSION.

 

Concentration difficult - unable to fix his attention. Wakes up in a dazed state, in total confusion, where he does not know where he is.

 

Irritable, loses temper easily. Fretful.

 

Sadness, despondency, gloomy during heat.

Attempts to escape from the windo (in delirium due to fever). 

Desire for rest.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Everything is SLOWED DOWN (digestion, heart). STASIS OF THE VENOUS SYSTEM, congestion of blood. Varicose veins, veins in pharynx distended (pharynx varicosis).

 

HAEMORRHOIDS: blind, painful, burning, purplish.

Pain in sacrum or sciatica combined with haemorrhoids.

Stitching pains extend upward, to back and sacroiliac region.

Pain in rectum as if filled with needles, dry feeling.

 

PAIN IN SACRUM AND HIPS WHILE WALKING (Ign.).

Pain in sacrum when stooping and walking.

Sensation of internal fullness and external heaviness.

 

Sensation of heat, dryness, in throat, nose, rectum etc.

 

Wandering pains all over the body especially abdomen and head.

Headache as if head would burst.

Metallic taste.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: motion of the affected part, walking, stooping, tea.

 


AETHUSA CYNAPIUM (Aeth.)

 

LOVES ANIMALS, INTOLERANCE TO MILK


MENTAL

Reserved personality. Do not communicate their emotions and are loners.

 

LOVES ANIMALS esp. CATS. SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS ANIMALS. 

Extraordinary communication skills with animals. Becomes animal protector.

 

Fear of death on falling asleep, fears on closing the eyes. Fear he will die if he goes to sleep.

 

Delusions that mice are under a chair, that rats are running across the room.

delusions of seeing rats, cats, dogs.

 

Fear of suffocation during night and especially in dark.

 

Fear of surgerical operations.

 Students cannot concentrate on their work (Pic-ac).


PHYSICAL

 

INTOLERANCE TO MILK. Indigestion, vomiting diarrhoea after milk.

(Mag-m., Nat-c., Lac-d., Sil.)

 

Eruption on tip of nose.

 

LIFE - THREATENING DIARRHOEA WITH VOMITING in children.

Vomiting curdled milk 1 h after a meal. Cholera infantum.

 

Weakness especially in children.

 

Hippocratic face, also in newborns.


MODALITIES

AGG.: 3:00 — 4:00 am.

DES.: wine.

AVERS.: milk, summer, bathing.

 

AGARICUS MUSCARIUS (Agar.)

Dependent, weak-willed individuals. Agaricus patients are frequently troubled by an extreme anxiety about their health that is centered on a tremendous fear of cancer. Neurological symptoms with twitching and even spasms.  

TREMENDOUS FEAR OF CANCER. TWITCHING.

MENTAL

Hypochondriacal ANXIETY ABOUT HEALTH; particulary FEAR OF CANCER.

Weak willed and over-dependent on their doctor. Their anxiety about health and fear of cancer is such that they torment everyone with their complaints.

Thoughts of death- i.e. delusions he’s in his grave.

PHYSICAL

TWITCHINGSCONVULSIONS, CHOREA.

Pathological conditions such as meningitis, multiple sclerosis, Bell's palsy, delirium tremens.

Chorea may arise after punishment, amel. during sleep and agg. from coition, 

< COITION (faintness, chorea, trembling, itching, convulsions, unconsciousness etc.).

Symptoms and pains appear diagonally, i.e. right shoulder and left hip.

COLDNESS is felt  IN SPOTS on the body (face, extremities, head etc.).

 Exaggerated motions. Ataxia. Awkwardness. Stumbling when walking. Drops things easily.

 MODALITIES 

AGG.: coition, eating, lying, motion.


AGNUS CASTUS (Agn.)

IMPOTENCY WITH DEPRESSION

 MENTAL

Premature old age from abuse of sexual power, after sexual excesses.

DESPONDENT, GREAT ANXIETY AND DESPAIR ABOUT HEALTH.

Sexual melancholy. Discouraged with himself. Apathetic.

 Presentiment of death, fears she will die soon. PREDICTS THE TIME of death. Sensation of death.

 Weak memory. Dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and comprehending (especially after sexual excesses).

Difficult concentration. Absent-minded, forgetful, goes off and leaves purchases.

 PHYSICAL

 Low sexual vitality with corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy.

 IMPOTENCY. SEXUAL ORGANS COLD, FLACCID AND RELAXED (even when excited). Sexual desire is diminished.

Testicles cold, swollen, hard and painful.

 Absence or disappearance of milk in nursing women, often with sadness and fear that she will die soon.

 Itching of the genitals.

Gnawing itching of skin. Itching of eyes. Pupils dilated.

Nausea with sensation as if intestines were pressing downwards.

Leucorrhoea, transparent, or yellow, staining linen.

 History of repeated gonorrhea.

MODALITIES

 AGG.: motion, walking, warm.

AMEL.: pressure, open air.

 

ALLIUM CEPA (All-c.)

 

 

HAY FEVER. EXCORIATING DISCHARGE FROM NOSE, DULLNESS.

 MENTAL

 

SLEEPINESS & DULLNESS.

Great dullness of mind < in afternoon.

Indifference, absent-minded. No perception of the surroundings, does not recognize his relatives, can urinate in front of everybody.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

Acts on the upper respiratory system. The coryza can move quickly downwards developing pharyngitis, violent laryngitis.

 

Hay fever with copiouswatery, excoriating discharge from nose causing redness around nose, in nose wings. >open air.

 

EXCORIATING DISCHARGE FROM NOSE WITH BLAND DISCHARGE FROM EYES.

 

Burning pain in eye, must rub.

 

Coryza from north east wind, from the odor of peaches, flowers.

Coryza extends from left  to the right nostril.

 

Cough hacking, tickling, from irritation in larynx. Tearing pain, as if something were being torn. Grasps, supports the larynx while coughing. >open air.

Coryza with cough.

Hoarseness especially in spring.

 

Headache with coryza > open air, closing eyes < warm room.

 

Threadlike pains following nerves injuries. Pain after amputation.

 

Ailments move from left to right.

 

Phantom linb pains.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: eveningwarm, warm roomcucumbers.

AMEL.: open air (Puls)

DES.: ONIONS ESP. RAW.


 

ALOE SOCOTRINA (Aloe)

 

 INVOLUNTARY STOOL, HAEMORRHOIDS, DIARRHOEA

 

 MENTAL

 

Dissatisfied and angry with themselves esp. when the process of digestion begins.

Discontent >evening.

 

Imbecility. Aversion to mental work. Suited to indolent, weary people.

Active memory alternating with lassitude.

 

Cannot look at blood or a knife.

 

HYPOCHONDRIACAL PATIENTS. Consider life a burden in the morning and in the evening they are cheerful.

 

Cheerful, happy, mirth in the evening. Changeable mood.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

INVOLUNTARY STOOL ON PASSING FLATUS, resulting in shame and irritability.

 

DIARRHOEA: 5 or 6 a.m. driving them out of bed. Jelly-like mucus in stool.

Gurgling before stool.

 

Haemorrhoids: external, strangulated, congested, large, like bunch of grapesameliorated by cold bathing.

 

In chronic spastic colitis pains extend from abdomen to different parts – to rectum, to thighs, from side of abdomen to the umbilicus, from the inguinal region to the knees, from hypochondria to chest.

 

Pain and mucus in rectum after stool.

 

Headache in forehead (esp. pressing), above eyes > cold applications.

Cutting pain around umbilicus <after stool.

 

Back pain alternating with headache or haemorrhoids.

Sensation of fullness. Plug sensation internally. Sensation in rectum as if a weight or plug were wedged between the pubis and coccyx.

 

 MODALITIES

 

AGG.: eating.

AMEL.: open air, COLD APPLICATIONS.




ALUMINA (Alum.)

 

The patient cannot to express his/her feelings. The mind is slow, dry, paralyzed, confused. he has to make an effort to answer. There is also dryness and paralysis on the physical level manifesting in severe constipation, dry skin, paralytic states of muscles. It affects the central and peripheral nervous system.

 

 DRYNESS, SLOWNESS OF ALL LEVELS PROGRESSING TO A STATE OF PARALYSIS

 

MENTAL

 

SLOWNESS, CONFUSION, DULLNESS OF MIND. 

Cannot express himself, vague state of mind. Lack of discrimination. Answers slowly. 

 

Confusion of identity, ‘who am I?’ Everything seems unreal.

Time passes very slowly.

 

Fear of knives, pins, injections. Cannot look at blood or knife. Suicidal when seeing blood or a knife.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

Dryness of skin and mucus membranes.

 

SEVERE CONSTIPATION. INACTIVITY OF RECTUM, even soft stool requires great strain. No urging for many days, has to help mechanically.

 

Numbness of soles of feet, heaviness of legs, uncoordinated walking, ataxia.

Dryness of skin. Itching without eruption. Scratch until it bleeds.

 

Vertigo > rubbing or wiping the eyes. Vertigo with tendency to fall forward.

 

Aversion and aggravation from potatoes, craving for dry food.

Suitable for severe states of constipation, paralysis, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease.

 

 MODALITIES

 

AGG.: potatoes, exertion, talking after.

AMEL.: open air, warm drinks, bathing.

DES.: dry food, tea, rice, starch, coal.

AVERS.: potatoes, beer, meat.

 

 

 

AMBRA GRISEA (Ambr.)

 

 TIMIDITY, CONSTIPATION

  

MENTAL

 

TIMIDITY, BASHFULNESS. Low self-confidence. Fears the opinion of others. Tries to please everyone, cannot say 'no'.

 

AVERSION TO PRESENCE OF STRANGERS DURING STOOL, unable to pass the stool in presence of others.

 

Difficult to follow a conversation. Having a conversation aggravates, causes irritability, anxiety, restlessness, trembling. Ailments after embarrassment.

 

Confusion, difficult concentration. Asks questions without waiting for an answer.

Jumping from one subject to another.

 

Difficult to be in touch with others. State as if in a dream.

That is why there’s anxiety in company or crowd, aversion to company, to presence of strangers, to smiling faces. Disgust at laughing of others.

 

Weakness of memory, dullness, imbecility.

 

Dwelling on past occurrences.

 

PHYSICAL

 

CONSTIPATION, UNABLE TO PASS STOOL IN PRESENCE OF OTHERS.

 

Symptoms are aggravated in the presence of strangers, music, excitement.

 

Complaints from music: heat of head, cough, internal trembling, palpitation, back pain, ear pain, red face.

 

Prematurely old.

 

Metrorrhagia after stool, from passing hard stool.

One sided symptoms, perspiration, coldness, headache.

 

Eructations after coughing.

Numbness of extremities.

Symptoms come in the morning 5-9a.m.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: lying, evening, warm milk.

AMEL.: cold drinks, continued motion.



AMMONIUM CARBONICUM (Am-c.)

 

CIRCULATORY AND RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS

 


MENTAL

 

Obstinate. Irritable, unfriendly, malicious and abusive.

TIMID PEOPLE who remain in the background. Reserved people, SULKY.

Sad, morose and dissatisfied especially in cloudy and wet weather.

 

Difficult retaining thoughts, concentration difficult. Absent minded. Makes mistakes in calculating, speaking, writing, uses wrong words.

 

Wakes up startled or in a fright.

Talk in their sleep, revealing their thoughts, secrets they would not express while awake.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

ASTHMATIC RESPIRATION FROM HEART COMPLAINTS.

 

Sensation of weakness in heart. Tumultuous, audible PALPITATIONS < motion. Patient feels prostrated; every movement produces violent almost audible palpitations.

 

Asthma < in warm room, with slight exertion. Becomes pale and must remain quiet.

slight exertion, needs to make a tremendous effort to climb just a few steps.

Dyspnoea or arrested respiration when falling asleep or during sleep, must awaken to get breath.

Mucus in larynx and trachea. Rattling cough.

 

Face is BLOATED, pale, and puffy, much like the cortisone face.

Flabby, obese appearance.

Aversion to bathing or to anything wet on skin (sulph).

Acrid discharges (eye, nose, expectoration, menses, stool, leucorrhoea).

 

 MODALITIES

 

AGG.: bathing, eating, menses, wet cold.

 

 

AMMONIUM MURIATICUM (Am-m.)

 

 

AFFECTIONS OF CIRCULATION, MUSCLES AND MUCOUS MEMBRANES

 

MENTAL

 

Reserved, timid and closed.

Aversion to certain persons. Silent grief.

Frightened easily on waking.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

FEELING OF PULSATION in local parts, such as thumb, spermatic cords, glands, fingers, rectum etc.

 

FEELING OF TENSION in muscles, in thigh. Contraction of muscles and tendons esp. in leg, lower limbs, hip, heel as if they were short.

Tearing pain in extremities >lying. Tearing pain in toes.

Sciatica better lying down. Pain in lumbar region at night during sleep. Always feel tired and sore all over.

 

Frequent sneezing often without coryza. Sneezing wakes him from sleep. Epistaxis after itching. Profuse acrid discharges.

 

Obesity with fat body but thin legs.

 

Coldness like ice between the scapulae.

 

Usually the face is pale but gets red on excitement.

 

Weakness, diarrhoea, vomiting and nausea during menses. Dark, clotted menses.

 

Contracting pain in inguinal region that forces her to walk bent esp. during menses.

Prolapsus of uterus, has to walk bent.

 

"Ghost pains" in amputated limbs (All-c.).

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: on first sitting down, sitting while, evening, lying on back or on the right side, rubbing, evening.

AMEL.: lying esp. on back, bathing, motion.

 

 


AMYL NITRITE (AMYLENUM NITROSUM) (Aml-n.)

 

 LOCAL FLUSHES OF HEAT AND ANXIETY

 

MENTAL

 

FLUSHES OF ANXIETY sudden and intense AND RESTLESSNESS.

Restlessness, nervousness, anxiety about health. Anxiety as if something will happen.

 

Jealousy.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Vasomotor nerves are affected dilating all arterioles and capillaries.

 

EXPLOSION OF SUDDEN AND INTENSE HEAT ON UPPER PART OF BODY. Craves open air.

 

Flushing, congestion of the face; heat and throbbing in head. These flushings are LOCAL with other areas cold.

 

Flushing heat with/ followed by drenching sweat esp. in head.

 

Palpitations. Fluttering of chest after excitement. Throbbing head. Pulsation in ears (Bell.).

 

Indicated in menopause/climaxis with anxiety, facial flushing.

 

Frequent and violent yawning which does not satisfy - ineffectual.

Constant unsatisfactory stretching. Convulsions just after delivery.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: warm air, warm room.

AMEL.: Open air.

 

 

 

ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE (Anac.)

 

 

 Great conflict, having two opposing wills in constant dilemma and not being able to take a decision. Heartless, characteristically cruel towards people and animals.  Deep feeling of inferiority and low self-esteem usually seen to the other type of Anacardium which is nice and sweet.

 

 DUALITY-TWO OPPOSING WILLS, LACK OF SELF CONFIDENCE, CRUELTY

 

 MENTAL

 

Severe mental and emotional disorders.

 

Two types: one is cruel, unfeeling, malicious, sadistic and the other is helpless, hopeless, pleading, needy, insecure.

 

Contradiction of will, sense of DUALITY. Thinks as if with TWO WILLS, one opposing the other.

 

GREAT LACK OF SELF - CONFIDENCE with inferiority complex.

 

DESIRE TO CURSE. Malicious, mischievous, wicked. Absence of any moral feelings.

 

Sudden loss of memory, as if mind has been blocked.

 

  PHYSICAL

 

SENSATION OF A PLUG in various parts of the body i.e. head, chest, ear, eye, abdomen.

 

Constriction, SENSATION OF A BAND AROUND A SINGLE PART OF THE BODY such as in: head, knee, back etc.

 

Eruptions with intolerable VOLUPTUOUS ITCHING < warmth of bed.

 

The more he scratches the more he wants to scratch and the worse the itching becomes until  driven to despair.

 

 MODALITIES

 

AGG.: rubbing, lying on side, motion.

AMEL.: eating (while or after).

 


ANTHRACINUM (Anthraci.)

 

 BLACKNESS ON EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL LEVEL

 

 MENTAL

 

Silent suffering (grief), as if everything inside himself is kept in a “big black boil” (metaphorically speaking). Cannot express oneself. Unable to feel or express emotions.

Confusion of mind.

Weak memory for what has happened. Cannot remember incidences in spite of the emotional trauma caused in life and health.

 

Face is old looking.

Fear to go outdoors. Fear of death.

 

PHYSICAL

 

BOILS, ABSCESSES, PUSTULES, ULCERS which are purple, BLACKBURNING with EXTREME PAIN.

Black pustules on the lips. Carbuncles. Gangrenous ulcer on leg. Black blisters on thigh.

 

Burning pains.

Haemorrhages - thick, black, tar-like from any orifice.

Coldness in abdomen extending to knees. Coldness in legs and back when dressing.

 

Premature old age.

Aversion to coition. Sexual desire is diminished.

All discharges relieve constitutional symptoms.

 

MODALITIES

 

AVERS.: eggs esp. soft boiled.

 

 

ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM (Ant-c.)

 

 EMOTIONAL, SENTIMENTAL, AFFECTIONS OF STOMACH. WHITE COATED TONGUE

 

 MENTAL

 

ROMANTIC & SENTIMENTAL, ESPECIALLY IN THE MOONLIGHT.

Emotionally immature.

 

Aversion to be looked at and to be touched especially children. Capricious.

Children get irritable, moan, feel dissatisfied. Cannot bear anyone coming near them.

 

Ailments from grief, from disappointed love. Sulky, sadness, loathing of life.

 

Introvert.

Emotionally unbalanced, solar plexus, stomach or entire digestive tract is affected by every emotion. Emotions are felt especially in the stomach.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

Affections of STOMACH and digestion.

 

EMOTIONS ARE FELT IN STOMACH.

Nausea and vomiting <sour wine, bread, mother’s milk.

 

Symptoms < HEAT, WARMTH OF STOVE and FIRE.

 

Gastric headache. Nausea during headache. Headache alternating with stomach pain.

 

Milky, heavily coated white tongue.

 

Dry, hacking spasmodic cough, shaking of the whole body.

 

DESIRE for CUCUMBERS.

 

Symptoms change with the changes in the weather .

 

 MODALITIES

 

AGG.: sour wine and food, vinegar, sun, bathing, warmth (warm stove, room, bed, becoming warm), moonlight.

AMEL.: open air.

 


 

ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM (Ant-t.)

 

 CATARRH OF THE LUNGS

 

MENTAL

 

AVERSION TO BEING TOUCHED.

Irritable and peevish, especially during acute phase of illness.

Child is fretful, peevish, whining, moaning, shrieking < being touched or looked at. Angry child that coughs when angry. Shrieking, shouting and screaming at night. Child clings to the mother (Bar-c).

 

Looks anxious and desperate.

Confusion of mind on waking.

Mental restlessness. Apathetic-easily annoyed, aversion to company.

Ailments after anger or vexation.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

Affects mucous membranes especially: trachea, bronchi and lungs.

Serious inflammation of the lower respiratory tract (bronchitis, pneumonia, pleura-pneumonia). Indicated in children or infants and old age (when the patient doesn’t have the force to expel the mucus).

 

GREAT ACCUMULATION OF MUCUS.

RATTLING RESPIRATION WITH NO EXPECTORATION. NO POWER TO EXPEL THE MUCUS. Expectoration ameliorates the dyspnoea.

 

Vomiting on coughing. Respiration is accelerated. Any disturbance increases the breathing and makes the patient feel that he is dying. Filling up of chest that is suffocating the patient.

 

WEAKNESS, GREAT SLEEPINESS during /after coughing.

 

Weakness, profuse perspiration, lack of reaction.

Unconsciousness between attacks of cough.

Intense nausea, vomiting and weakness.

 

Face cold, cyanotic, pale, shrunken, covered with cold perspiration and a suffering expression. Bluish lips.

 

Toes and fingers are drawn inwards.

 

MODALITIES

 

AMEL.: expectoration, sitting,

DES: sour fruit.

AVERS.: milk.



APIS MELLIFICA (Apis)


People suffering from heat and who have sharp, stinging pains. People with strong emotions, passionate, jealous, sexually active and easily excited but also very awkward.

 

 

OEDEMATOUS SWELLING, STINGING PAIN, WORSE FROM HEAT

 

MENTAL

 

Ailments from JEALOUSY, rage, vexation. Have a sharp, stinging tongue.

 

Restlessness, busy, insanity.

 

Causeless weeping.

Irritable, dissatisfied. Discouraged.

Fear birds, pins, death.

Presentiment of death.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

OEDEMATOUS, DROPSICAL SWELLING OF THE EXTREMITIES due to dysfunction of kidneys.

 

Swelling, inflammation of joints, especially ankles.

Puffy swelling of EYE LIDS, particulary  around and under the eyes, swelling of lips, of hands and feet.  

 

BURNING, STINGING pains  (like a bee sting).

AWKWARDNESS, clumsiness, drops things easily.

Erysipelatous inflammation.

 

URTICARIA (face, extremities, back) >cold applications <warmth, perspiration, night, exercise.

 

Thirstless despite the heat and the burning.

Intermittent fever, with chill at 3 p.m. and thirst.

Relaxed anus. Sensation of open anus.

Cystitis with burning pain. Quincke's angioneurotic oedema. Allergic reactions.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: HEAT.

AMEL.: COLD APPLICATIONS.


 

ARGENTUM METALLICUM (Arg-met.)

 

AFFECTIONS OF JOINTS, BONES AND CARTILAGES

 

MENTAL

 

Nervous sensitive person.

Prostration of mind from mental exhaustion, confused. Sudden loss of memory. Indisposed to talk, too tired to talk (Stann., Mur-ac., Sep., Ph-ac). Answers monosyllable.

 

Delusion that head would fall out of bed, that he’s drunk, he would have apoplexy.

Startled, as if electric shocks though the body.

 

Anxiety that clothes are too tight when walking out of doors.

Loquacity alternating with sadness. Sadness during menopause.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

It acts upon the JOINTS, BONES, CARTILAGES and LIGAMENTS.

Tearing pains in bones and joints.

 

AFFECTIONS OF CARTILAGES: SWELLING, INDURATION, INFLAMMATION.

Loss of voice/hoarseness from overuse (e.g. speakers, singers).

 

Pain and rawness in trachea < talking, coughing, singing. Expectoration is easy but thick, like starch, stringy and globular.

 

Weakness. Face looks tired, older, worn out. Broken down nervous constitutions. No stamina to face stressful situations.

Palpitations > sighing.

 

Blepharitis. Thickening of the eyelids with purulent discharge and photophobia.

Pustules on margins of lids.

 

Jerking of extremities, of muscles, esp. in sleep or on going to sleep. To the extent that they jump.

 

Affects the testes/ovaries esp. left ovary and right testes. Pain in testes crushed, bruised, cramping esp. right. < when clothing touches the testes, walking, in bed.

 

Weakness in chest, left sided < talking.

Back pain < on sitting.

Swelling on left side of face with heat and burning.

Cramping pain  transversely across stomach.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: touch, motion, lying.




ARGENTUM NITRICUM (Arg-n.)

 

 

Impulsive people, tend to speak out in an impulsive way, they have the impulse to do things that they sould not, that are dangerous (such as: what will happen if I stick my finger in the plug? how will it feel falling from this bridge?).  They have anxiety about their health, have many fears, are open and communicative reminding us of Phosphorus but the Arg-n. patients are more impulsive and warm blooded.

 

 

OPEN, IMPULSIVE, ANXIOUS

 

MENTAL

 

Extrovert, superstitious, impulsive with fears and great anxiety about health. (Phos.).

 

IMPULSIVENESS. Impulse to jump from a height, to do dangerous things such as sticking a finger in a plug. Speak out in an impulsive way.

 

FEARS of high places, of crossing bridges, that high buildings will fall upon him, of crowds, narrow/closed places, etc.

 

ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY leading to diarrhoea, frequent urination.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

WARM BLOODED PATIENTS. Warm, sensation of heat, becoming heated aggravates.

 

DIARRHOEA related to anticipation, emotions, excitement, exalted imagination, mental exertion.

EATING SUGAR, drinking water. Retching, vomiting during diarrhoea.

 

Loud and violent eructation which ameliorates the diarrhoea and the stomach distension. Loud flatus <eating sugar.

 

Abdomen distention accompanies most gastric ailments.

Acute granular conjunctivitis in one spot, red, like raw beef with photophobia.

Sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing.

Chilly when uncovered, yet aggravated if wrapped up.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: heatSWEETS, excitement.

AMEL.: open air, cold applications.

DES.: SWEETS, SUGAR, SALT.


 

ARNICA MONTANA (Arn.)

 

Ailments after injuries is the central idea for Arnica esp. where we have haematomas. Arnica will absorb the haematoma even after many years. We must bear in mind that Arnica should not be given in open wounds which bleed.

The patient does not want to be approached or touched because of the fear of being hurt. We meet this in women who cannot have sexual intercourse due to their fear of penetration.

 

 

INJURIES WITH BRUISES


MENTAL

 

FEAR OF OTHERS APPROACHING THEM, BEING TOUCHED.

Fear of sudden death.

Says he’s well when very sick, sends the doctor home.

 

Answers a question then returns quickly to stupor or falls asleep when answering.

 

Fear of penetration brings on fear of coition in women.

Fear that high walls and buildings will fall upon him.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

AILMENTS from INJURY (even after years). Shock from injury.

After injuries with BLUNT INSTRUMENTS (not after laceration of skin or open wounds). Head injury with haematoma. After sprains, strains, concussion, tooth filling.

 

BLUENESS OF THE SKIN, EXTRAVASATION OF BLOOD. HAEMATOMAS.

 SORE, bruised feeling.

The pain of the head is such that the pillow feels too hard.

Symmetrical eruptions.

Eructation and flatus have the smell of spoiled eggs.

Apoplexy, heart infarction.

  

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: jar, motion of affected part, exertion, touch.

AMEL.: cold bathing, lying, rubbing.

AVERS.: brandy, soup, sight of food.

 

ARSENICUM ALBUM (Ars.)

 

The Arsenicum patient feels insecure. He  feels he doesn’t have support, he’s alone. This deep feeling of insecurity brings on many fears and anxieties such as the characteristic anxiety about health, the fear of death, the fear of poverty and of being alone. He is very fastidious; order makes him feel in control whereas untidiness and disorder make him anxious.  

The anxiety and fears are accompanied by restlessness and are aggravated at night.

 

WEAKNESS, RESTLESSNESS, ANXIETY, CHILLINESS. FOOD POISONING.

MENTAL

 

ANXIETY about HEALTH with FEAR OF DEATH <after midnight, being alone.

RESTLESS during anxiety. Acute diseases with anxiety about his health.

 

FASTIDIOUS, wants everything in order and very clean.

Selfish. Critical. Reproaches about others and about himself.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

BURNING PAINS; the affected parts burn > warm drinks, warm applications.

 

CHILLY, lack of vital heat. Wants to be covered with many blankets.

Heat of head with coldness of body. Wants it exposed to open air.

 

Great thirst for small quantities often.

Diarrhoea after FOOD POISONINGGreat weakness from diarrhoea, after stool.

Diarrhoea with vomiting. GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS.

 

Difficult respiration (asthma) is worse when lying; it’s impossible to lie. Patient is unable to lie down for fear of suffocation.

 

Itching, must scratch until it bleeds.

Nausea, deathly <smell of food.

 

< AFTER MIDNIGHT, 1-2 A.M.

 

MODALITIES

 

AMEL.: warmth, warm applications, hot drinks, sun.

AGG.: after midnight, esp. 1-2 a.m., lying with head low, becoming cold, entering a cold place.

AVERS.: food, smell of food, oil.



 

ARUM TRIPHYLLUM (Arum-t.)

 

 

ITCHING OF NOSE & LIPS WITH MARKED DESIRE TO PICK THE DRIED AND CHAPPED LIPS

 

MENTAL

 

Biting nails, biting fingers. Delirium with picking of nose or lips.

 

Restlessness in bed, tossing around.

 

Absent-mindedness, weakness of memory, confusion in the morning, sadness and mental depression.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

Main remedy for allergic disorders affecting the mucous membranes of the lips.

Mucous membranes of mouth, throat, and larynx are prominently affected.

 

Discharges are acrid, causing rawness and burning of parts (nose, mouth).

 

IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE TO BORE FINGERS INTO THE NOSTRILS (Cina).

 

Face looks red, lips are red, swollen, dry, chapped and have many bleeding cracks.

Scabs around the inside of the nostrils. Peels off, picks scabs of dried and cracked skin, even if it is painful.

 

Marked tingling and itching of nose & lips.

 

Hay fever, violent attacks of coryza with fluent discharge, mainly left side.

Headache from hot things, from becoming warm <hot drinks, warm food, warm room.

 

Hoarseness from overuse of voice, where there’s changeable voice, voice becomes deep. Voice lost after exposure to northwest wind.

 

Swelling of glands.

Left sided symptoms.

 

Biting nails, so much that they bleed.

 

ASARUM EUROPEAN (Asar.)

 

OVERSENSITIVITY OF NERVOUS SYSTEM

 

MENTAL

 

MENTAL OVEREXERTION. They cannot take the least pressure.

Cannot tolerate any stress that excites them e.g. strong light, strong noises, strong wind, any kind of violence.

 

SENSITIVITY TO NOISE, esp. scratching on blackboard, silk, linen or paper.

FEEL THAT THEIR MIND WILL DISINTEGRATE FROM NOISE. The sensitivity is such that they imagine they're hearing noises.

 

Nervous euphoria- nerves on edge. Hysterical laughing or crying. Nervous laughter. The idea of opposing states runs throughout Asarum.

Absent-minded, confused, delusions that she’ll become insane.

 

Child develops a constant sense of hurriedness due to its mental inefficiency.

Fidgety, wringing hands. Hysterically oversensitive children who have been pushed too hard to achieve.

 

Feeling of lightness as if floating (Lac-c).

Alcoholism.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

OVERSENSITIVENESS OF NERVOUS SYSTEM esp. auditory nerve.

 

Painfully sensitive ears- sensation as if ears were plugged up with foreign substances.

Noise causes chills.

 

Deafness, eventually this over-reactive nerve breaks down.

 

Chill from any emotion, after excitement. Aversion to being touched, to coition, to any contact that irritates the nervous system.

Feels cold (lack of vital heat) but warm covering does not ameliorate.

 

Sensitive to all chemicals.

Pressure, tension and contractive sensation, feels whole body or single parts were being pressed together.

 

Eyes feel as if they are stuck in their sockets.

 

Strong desire for alcohol.

Nausea and vomiting during first months of pregnancy, stomach rejecting everything.

  

MODALITIES

 AMEL.: bathing (face, the affected part), wet weather, vinegar, cold drinks.

AGG.: dry, cold weather, motion, wind, jar.





ASTERIAS RUBENS (Aster.)

 

DISTURBANCE ON THE CIRCULATION - MALIGNANT TUMORS OF BREAST

 

MENTAL

 

EXCITEMENT, ANXIETY AT NIGHT. Fears evil, misfortune, fainting.

Fear of apoplexy at night, with the feeling as if the head would burst.

 

Excitement, restlessness at night.

 

Quarrelsome, esp. between 12:00-14:00.

 

Insanity during menopause, the patient has delusions that is under the control of strangers. Hears voices and answers.

 

Irritable, angry, impatient and explosive individual.

 

Cannot tolerate contradiction and is always ready to get into a fight. Irritability before convulsions, convulsions from contradiction.

 

They tend to weep from the slight emotion.

Prostration of mind. Aversion to work.

 

A restless, tired sensation in upper brain with mental exertion.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

Strong action on the female organs and the hormonal system. Overstimulation of functions.

 

Disturbances of the circulation, with pulsations and congestion in head, uterus, chest, mammæ etc.

 

TUMOR/CANCER IN THE BREAST esp. LEFT with nightly pains and a FEELING AS IF THE BREAST OR THE NIPPLE IS DRAWN BACK.

 

Tumors in the uterus. Bearing down sensation (less intense than Sep. or Lil-t.).

 

Resembles Sepia, however Aster. has an overstimulation of the hormones, resulting in excessive sexual desire. The sexual desire is violent and seeks an outlet. Insatiable, not satisfied by sexual intercourse. Nervous agitation with sexual thoughts.

 

Epileptic fits or convulsions appear usually towards the afternoon or evening, preceded by twitching over whole body 2-3 days before the attack. Great weakness and anxiety in upper part of abdomen after the epileptic attacks.

 

Electric shocks in the brain with internal pressure. It powerfully affects the circulation in the head, producing symptoms of apoplexy.

 

Headache after mental exertion.

Increased general heat in the body, followed by coldness.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: cold wet weather, heat, 14:00-15:00.

AMEL.: eating after.

DES.: cheese (esp. strong), tea.

 

AURUM ARSENICUM (Aur-ar.)

 

DEPRESSION WITH RESTLESSNESS ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT

 

MENTAL

 

DEPRESSION WITH RESTLESSNESSparticularly if the time of aggravation is during the night. Loathing of life.

Depression with suicidal thoughts and impulses. Suicidal disposition during perspiration. Sadness in the evening; from suppressed menses.

 

Angry about himself and others. he is critical of himself and constantly finds fault with others. Anger that turns inwards, becomes self-destructive.

Contradiction is intolerable and will anger them very much.

 

Hard individual, hard with himself and others. He is hard working, precise, conscientious, but without many feelings. His mental faculties are clear, but the emotions are hardened.

Malicious in his conduct with others. Aurum arsenicum sexuality tends toward deviations, and they develop perverted desires. Sadism, etc. due to lack of feelings.

Despair that he will never be well.

Fear in the night, in a crowd; fear of death and of heart disease; fear of people, and when alone.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

Cancerous affections, malignancies, epithelioma, caries of bone, cancer of mammae.

Induration in glands; cancerous induration.

Glands, the liver, etc. are hardened.

Convulsions; clonic spasms with consciousness; epileptiform, hysterical convulsions.

After-effects of syphilis e.g. chronic headaches.

Desire to lie down, but lying brings on great restlessness, and many symptoms are worse lying. Restlessness at night; anxious.

Persistent catarrh of bloody, purulent, offensive discharge.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: winter, during and after eating, mental exertion, cold wet weather.

AMEL.: summer.

 

AURUM BROMATUM (Aur-br.)


DEEP DEPRESSION WITH ACNE

 

MENTAL

 

ENDOGENOUS DEEP DEPRESSION WITH ACNE.

Antisocial behavior. Feel dissatisfied with and suffocated by what they have.

Fears related to close contacts, estranged from society, withdrawn, eventually they do not to communicate the other sex. Eventually they become indifferent to everything. Tremendous weakness, almost exhaustion.

 

Dreams are vivid and often terrifying. Nightmares and sleepwalk.

Faintness where the patients do not lose awareness entirely; they feel as if they are leaving their body, and such a state could be accompanied by epilepsy.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

ACNE.

Nervous affections of an epileptiform character, migraines, night terrors, somnambulism (sleepwalk).

Valvular diseases of the heart and cardiac hypertrophy.

Attacks of faintness with coldness and feeble pulse alternating with attacks of congestion and red face with palpitations.

 



AURUM IODATUM (Aur-i.)

 

AFFECTIONS OF HEART AND THYROID

 


MENTAL

 

RESTLESSNESS AND DEEP DEPRESSION.

 

Deep periodical depressions, during which time they lose their appetite, do not want to see anybody or communicate in any way with anyone.

 

Meticulous, over-conscientious about matters, even insignificant ones, overworking.

Constant anxiety, as if they have done something wrong, which is worse at night.

Timid and can break out into hysterical crying.

 

PHYSICAL

 

It is a remedy that primarily affects the HEART AND THE THYROID.

 

Hypertrophy of heart. Chronic pericarditis, valvular disease, arteriosclerosis.

Exophthalmic goitre. Enlarged thyroid with fast pulse and protruding eyes.

Pulmonary oedema.

Constriction felt in the heart region, oppression, tumultuous palpitations worse at night, aggravation from exertion, ameliorated in the open air and aggravated by warmth (Puls.).

Flushed face with cold extremities (Bell.).

Swollen, indurated, painful glands (<right-side). Indurated testes and ovaries.

 

Feeling of a band around organs or parts of the body (Plat., Anac.).

Cancer metastases to the bones with extreme pain and restlessness, when there is also numbness.

Right-sided sciatica where pain and numbness occur simultaneously (Gnaph., Coloc.).

 


MODALITIES

 

AGG.: motion, physical exertion, warmth, night.

AMEL.: slow motion, open air.


AURUM METALLICUM (Aur.)

 

 

The patient is deeply depressed so much that he’s thinking of committing suicide. The thought of death is an outlet to his despair and make him feel better. He is perfectionist, industrious, wants to be the first, to be in a high position, to be recognized. Once they lose these standards, once they face failure they feel they’ve lost everything, life has no meaning anymore and then they think of suicide esp. by jumping. Only praying to God can relieve them.  

 

DEPRESSION WITH SUICIDAL DISPOSITION.

MENTAL

 

Ailments from grief, deception, business failure. They need to be on the top, on a high position. Industrious, ambitious.

 

Severe depression with SUICIDAL DISPOSITION, RELIEVED BY THOUGHTS OF SUICIDE. Desires death. Loathing of life, despair. Impulse to JUMP from a height, throwing himself from window. Even physical pains make him suicidal.

 

They feel that one thing that can keep them is God, so they start PRAYING for hours to feel relief.

Moaning in sleep.

Anxiety of conscience, feels as if guilty. Anxiety about his salvation, religious despair.

Delusions he is worthless, reproaches himself.

 

THE DEPRESSED MOOD GETS BETTER WITH MUSIC.

 

Insomnia, wakes up after a few hours of sleep in deep depression.

 

PHYSICAL

 

DESTRUCTIVE, SYPHILITIC PROCESSES.

Caries of bones. Pain in bones. Deformed teeth.

Severe heart affections 

Endocarditis. 

Congenital heart defects. Congenital defects in general,

Ulcers.

Undescended testicles in young boys.

 

MODALITIES

 

AMEL.: EVENING, MUSIC (soft music, classical)  

 

DES.: bread (esp. dry), alcoholic drinks, delicacies.

AVERS.: meat.




AURUM MURIATICUM (Aur-m.)

 

HEART AFFECTIONS, SENTIMENTAL, SENSITIVE, DEPRESSION >WIND

 

MENTAL

 

Sentimental, passionate and romantic. Delicate constitution, sensitive people who are deeply affected by grief, by insults, and mortification.

 

Suicidal disposition from disappointed love. DEPRESSION AMELIORATES IN OPEN AIR but what really makes them feel better is strong wind blowing in their face.

Tormenting dreams of sadness.

 

Extremely anxious person prone to palpitations. Anxiety about health.

 

Feels really angry because he is sick. Angry when thinking of his complaints.

Preoccupation with death, and fear of death.

They suffer from intolerable and excessive mental or physical restlessness, which need to be relieved.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Combination of heart affections, insomnia, sciatica, neuralgias and depression.

 

HEART AFFECTIONS. Oppression or pressing pain in the heart when ascending stairs. Fullness of the heart. Endocarditis. Hypertrophy of the heart. Palpitations < walking rapidly, at night in bed, thinking of  palpitations, ascending, excitement, exertion. Restlessness with palpitation.

 

Diabetes whith polyuria mostly during the night. Albuminous urine from dropsical states of heart disease, liver affections, during pregnancy, after scarlet fever.

 

Haemorrhages from the uterus during climacteric period (menopause) and after. Congestion of chest after uterine haemorrhage.

 

Ulcers in mouth, penis, nose, lips, throat, gums, skin.

 

Catarrhal and glandular affections are marked. Inflammation and swelling of submaxillary and parotid glands.

 

Caries of the joints, of jaw, of nose, with boring and gnawing pains during night. Several bone symptoms and pains worse at night.

 

Fullness of the veins all over the body (Vipera).

 

Exertion and walking increase many symptoms. Palpitation, suffocation and pronounced weakness come from walking and exertion. Walking fast is impossible.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: warm (applications, room, air, becoming, bed), walking rapidly, while sitting.

AMEL.: open air, walking slowly, slow motion, cold bathing.

 

 

 

 

AURUM MURIATICUM NATRONATUM (Aur-m-n.)

 

 ACTS ON FEMALE HORMONAL SYSTEM, FIBROIDS & TUMORS

 

MENTAL

 

Ailments from disappointed love. Depression.

Sensitive, refined people who are subject to many fears (Phos.).

Fear that something bad will happen at any moment.

Insecure people with strong sexual desires. Reserved, timid and rather closed people.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

PRIMARILY AFFECTS THE SEXUAL-HORMONAL BALANCE IN WOMEN.

Increased sexual passions in women and if not satisfied increases the fibroids in uterusUterus becomes HARDENED, full of FIBROIDS and tumors, while at the same time the sexual desire diminishes and becomes deficient due to suppression most of the times.

Enormous INDURATION OF AN OVARY. OSSIFIED uterus. Induration of one part, softening of another part of the uterus. Scirrhus or carcinoma of breast or uterus. 

 

Congestion and/or irritation of the uterus and ovaries, ulceration of the uterus, metritis, inflammation of the ovaries, profuse and premature menses, habitual abortion etc.

 

Pain in tibia >motion.

Ulcers inside the nose.

Periosteal induration, caries of bone on lower jaw.

 

Constipation (like Hydrastis), being accompanied with catarrh.

Nervous dyspepsia with a tendency to diarrhoea after eating.

 

 MODALITIES

 

AGG.: rest, bending head to right, lying down, slight motion, walking, cold, wet weather, from October to spring (headache).

AMEL.: dry, warm weather.

 

AURUM SULPHURATUM (Aur-s.)

 

IRRITABILITY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, NODDING OF HEAD AND SENSITIVENESS TO TOUCH

 

 

MENTAL

 INTROVERTED AND CRITICAL towards himself and esp. towards others.

Never satisfied with himself or others, his mood is usually disagreeable.

Constant state of irritation of the nervous system coupled with depression.

Sadness, loathing of life, desires death.

Moaning and lamenting. Argumentative.

 

Gloomy and anxiousAnxiety of the conscience, a deep anxiety or guilt, with fear and self-doubt.

 

Aversion to company. Desire for solitude. Aversion to be touched.

There is an aggravation from coming into close contact with anybody. As the pathology progresses they may become irritableirascible, or sometimes violent.

 

Feeling of weak- mindedness and indolence with loss of initiative and dislike for doing anything.

Chronic complaints that date back to prolonged grief.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

Irritability of nervous system resulting to CONSTANT NODDING OF HEAD (suggesting paralysis agitans) and GREAT SENSITIVENESS TO TOUCH.

 

Oversensitivity to pain. Complaints are predominantly right-sided.

Parkinson's disease.

Desire for open air but open air aggravates many symptoms.

Cancerous affections. Ulcers. Induration of glands. Pain in bones and glands. Soreness of nasal bone.

 

Bearing downward sensations in different parts.

Congestion of blood. Violent orgasm of blood in chest and head.

Paralysis of organs.

Staggering gait. Hysterical convulsions.

Mucous secretions much increased.

Pulsation in internal parts, in eye. The pulse is small, fast, irregular and weak.

Swelling of affected parts; of the glands.