ABROTANUM (Kent)

(Abrot.)

This very valuable remedy should be more frequently used. It is indicated in such conditions
as are cured by BRYONIA and RHUS TOX., but its symptoms mark out its own individual
cases.

PHYSICALS
Rheumatic conditions with heart irritation; epistaxis; bloody urine; anxiety and trembling,
when there has been a history of diarrhoea. A suddenly checked diarrhoea will be followed by
the above symptoms in a case requiring Abrot. A suddenly suppressed rheumatism of any joint
followed by violent cardiac symptoms; it is much like LED., AUR. and KALM.
In marasmus of children it is a very useful remedy and not infrequently indicated. The
emaciation begins IN THE LOWER LIMBS AND GRADUALLY SPREADS UPWARD, so
that the face is the last affected; that is the opposite of LYC., NAT-M. and PSOR.
It has cured pleurisy after BRY., which seemed indicated, had failed. A woman lying in bed
with dyspnoea, anxiety, cold sweat and pain in the heart was surrounded by friends to see her
die. It was learned that she had suffered for many months with a rheumatism in one knee, that
she had used crutches to get about the house, and that she had recently been speedily cured (?)
by a strong liniment only a few days before this attack. Abrot. restored her to health promptly.
It has caused and cured burning ulcerative pains in the stomach with suspicious vomiting.
Metastasis is a marked feature in Abrot. The changing of one so-called disease into another
always calls attention to Abrotanum. Inflammation of the parotid (mumps) changing to testes
or mammae is generally cured by CARB-V. or PULS., but Abrot. has cured when these
remedies have failed.
A suddenly checked diarrhoea followed by piles and acute rheumatism, with bleedings, as
mentioned above, is further argument in favor of this idea.
The Abrot. patient is sensitive to cold air and cold damp weather. He suffers much from
backaches, and his symptoms are worse during the night.
In boys it cures hydrocele. In infants it cures feeding from the navel
There is either diarrhoea or constipation; with the latter he is rheumatic, with the former he is
at his best, as when the diarrhoea slacks up he is full of suffering. The diarrhoea is his great
relief, like NAT-S.. and ZINC.
Sharp pains here and there, but especially in ovaries and joints.
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 ANAEMIA, 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, 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.

Remedy Relations
Antidotes
Acon., Hep., Nux-v., Plb. (Colic), Sep., Stram., Tub.

Compare
Apis (Edema (Acet-ac is thirsty but Apis is thirstless)), Ars. (Weakness, chilly, emaciation), Carb-
ac., Chin., Dig., Lac-d., Nit-ac., Phos. (Hemorrhages)
ACONITUM NAPELLUS (Acon.)

All ailments acute or chronic are attended 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.

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, EARTHQUAKE, CROWD,
AIRPLANE, heart disease, darkness.

PANIC STATES accompanied by: palpitations, red face, one sided numbness, faintness, restlessness,
perspiration, trembling, vertigo, dyspnoea, fear of death.

Calm between panic states.

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, there is intense nervous restlessness and tossing
about, 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 after eating or drinking cold things.

Affections of heart, congestion, endocarditis, pericarditis. Heart affections with numbness of 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.
Remedy relations

Complementaries
Arn. (Arnica can complement its action especially in injuries), Coff., Sulph. (Paralysis from over doses
of Acon)

Follows well
Aur., Cham., Chel.

Antidoted by
Acet-ac., Bell. , Par. , Sulph. (Paralysis from over doses of Acon)

Antidotes
Bell. , Bry., Canth., Cimic., Nux-v. (Oversensitiveness and dyspnoea), Petr. , Sep. (Circulatory excitment.
) , Spong., Sulph. (Mitigates the excessive action of Sulph and does not destroy the favourable effect),
Verat. (Anguish with collapse, anxious state with coldness of body or burning sensation in brain.)

Compare
Arg-n. (Panic attacks), Bell. (ln fevers Bell. has red face and cold feet, where Acon. is more restless. ln
Belladonna the pupils are dilated), Cann-i. (panic attacks). Caust. (panic attacks) , KaIi-ar. (panic
attacks. in Kali-ar. the fear is focused on health and most specifically on heart disease.), Phos. (Panic
attacks), Stram. (Ailments from fright.)
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 window.
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.

Remedy relations

CompIementarie
Am., CaIc-i., Carb-v., Coll., Ham., Lach., Mur-ac., Sulph.

Antidoted by
Nux-v. (haemorrhoid symptoms), Sulph.

Compare
Aloe (Hemorrhoids with congestion.), Coll. (Hemorrhoids with sensation that the rectum is full of
small sharp sticks.), Kali-c. (Pain from sacral region to sciatic nerves.), Paeon. (Hemorrhoids), Rat.
(Hemorrhoids with “broken glass” sensation in the rectum where Aesculus feels like sharp sticks.)
AETHUSA CYNAPIUM (Aeth.)
LOVES ANIMALS, INTOLERANCE TO MILK

MENTAL
Reserved. Does not communicate his emotions and becomes a loner.
LOVES ANIMALS esp. CATS. SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS ANIMALS.
Extraordinary communication with animals. Becomes animal protector.
Fear of death on falling asleep, fears to close the eyes. Fear he will die if he goes to sleep.
Delusions that mice are under a chair, rats are running across the room.
Sees rats, cats, dogs.
Fear of suffocation at night and especially in dark.
Fear of operations.
Students cannot concentrate their mind 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 the 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.

Remedy Relations

Complementaries
Calc., Mag-c. (Vomiting of mother's milk in infants, vomiting and diarrhoea whenever taking milk,)

Followed well by
Asar., Chin., Psor.

Antidoted by
Camph., Nux-v., Op., Plb.

Antidotes
Plb. (Best antidote chronic poisoning)

Compare
Ant-c. (Ant-c. is more sentimental and Aethusa more introverted), Ign. (They are both introverted, but
Ign. is more hysterical), Lac-d (Milk intolerance), Nat-c. (Sensitive and aversion to milk), Nat-m.
(Introverted)
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; specifically FEAR OF CANCER.
Patient is weak willed and dependent mostly 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
TWITCHINGS, CONVULSIONS, CHOREA.
Pathological conditions such as meningitis, multiple sclerosis, Bell's palsy, delirium tremens.
Chorea is better during sleep and worse from coition and may arise after punishment.
< COITION (faintness, chorea, trembling, itching, convulsions, unconsciousness etc.).
Pains are exhibited diagonally, i.e. right shoulder and left hip.
COLDNESS IN SPOTS (face, extremities, head etc.).
Motions are exaggerated. Ataxia. Awkwardness. Stumbling when walking. Easily drops things.

MODALITIES
AGG.: coition, eating, lying, motion.

Remedy Relations

Follows well
Bell. , Calc., Merc., Op., Puls., Rhus-t. , Sil., Tub

Followed well by
Calc., Tarent., Tub.

Antidoted by
Absin., Atro., Calc., Puls.

Compare
Arg-n (Anxiety about health, neurological symptoms), Ars. (Anxiety about health), Nit-ac. (Fear of
cancer), Zinc. (Twitchings, neurological symptoms)
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.
Gnawing itching of skin. Genital itching. 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.

Remedy Relations

Complementaries
Calad.

Followed well by
Ars., Bry. , Ign., Lyc., Puls., Sel., Sulph.

Antidoted by
Camph., Nat-m. (Pain in head.), Nux-v., Rhus-t.

Compare
Calad. (Impotency. ), Lyc. (Impotency. Lyc is more frequently indicated than Agn.), Sel. (Impotency.),
Staph. (Impotency.)
ALLIUM CEPA (All-c.)

EXCORIATING DISCHARGE FROM NOSE, LETHARGY

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 go fast downwards developing pharyngitis,
violent laryngitis.

Hay fever with copious, watery, excoriating discharge from nose causing redness around nose, in
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 from left nostril extending to right.

Cough hacking, tickling, from irritation in larynx. Tearing pain, as if something were torn. Grasps,
supports the larynx on coughing. >open air.
Coryza with cough.
Hoarseness esp. in spring.

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

Threadlike pains following injuries to nerves. Pain after amputation.

Ailments move from left to right.

MODALITIES

AGG.: evening, warm, warm room, cucumbers.

AMEL.: open air.
DES.: ONIONS ESP. RAW.
Remedy Relations

Complementaries
Phos. (Chronic of All-c, hay fever (Puls, Thuja).), Puls., Sars., Sulph., Thuja

Antidoted by
Arn. (Pain in teeth), Ars., Cham. (Abdominal pains.), Nux-v. (Coryza periodically in every August.),
Phos. (When All-c drives simple nasal cattarrh to chest), Thuja (Offensive breath and diarrhoea after
onions),
Verat. (pain in abdomen with despondency)

Antidotes
Verat,

Compare
Ars. (Acrid nasal discharge.), Arund., Euphr. (Euphrasia has acrid coryza and bland lachrymation. ),
Sabad. (Hay fever and desire for onions), Sin-n., Wye. (Hay fever.)
ALLIUM SATIVUM (Boericke)
(All-s.)
(Garlic)

Acts directly on intestinal mucous membrane increasing peristalsis. Colitis, with pathological flora.
Has vaso-dilatory properties. Arterial hypotension begins usually in 30 to 45 minutes after twenty to
forty drop doses of the tincture. Adapted to fleshy subjects with dyspepsia and catarrhal affections.
High livers. Patients who eat a great deal more, ESPECIALLY MEAT, than they drink. PAIN IN HIP, PAIN
IN PSOAS AND ILIAC MUSCLES. PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. Cough and expectoration diminishes,
temperature becomes normal, weight is gained, and sleep becomes regular. HAEMOPTYSIS.

Head
Heavy; pulsation in temples; catarrhal deafness.

Mouth
Much sweetish saliva after meals and at night. Sensation of a hair on tongue or throat.

Stomach
Voracious appetite. Burning eructations. Least change in diet causes trouble. Constipation, with
constant dull pains in bowels. TONGUE PALE, RED PAPILLSE.

Respiratory
Constant rattling of mucus in bronchi. Cough in the morning after leaving bedroom, with mucous
expectoration, which is tenacious and difficult to raise. Sensitive to cold air. Dilated bronchi, with fetid
expectoration. Darting pain in chest.

Female
Pain in swelling of breasts. Eruption in vagina and on breasts and vulva during menses.

Relationship
ALLI-S., according to Dr. Teste, belongs to the Bry. group, including Lyc. Nux-v. Coloc., Dig., and Ign.
which affect deeply all flesh eating animals and hardly at all vegetarians. Hence their special
applicability to meat eaters rather than to exclusive vegetarians. Compare: CAPS.; ARS.; SENEG.; KALI-
N. Complementary: ARS. Antidote: LYC.

Dose
Third to sixth potency. In tuberculosis, dose, four to six grammes in moderate state of dessication
daily, in divided doses.

Complementaries
Ars.

Compare
Ars., Bell. (Upper abdomen pain which is aggravated from stepping), Caps., Kali-
n., Lach. (Amelioration when the flow of menses has been established.), Seneg.
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 grapes, ameliorated 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.
Remedy Relations

Complementaries
Sulph. (When Aloe has been used as purgative)

Followed well by
Kali-bi., Sep., Sulph.

Antidoted by
Alum. Sep. Sulph.

Antidotes
Sulph.

Compare
Aesc. (hemorrhoids), Podo., Sep.. Sulph. (diarrhea at 5 A.M.)
ALUMEN (Boericke)

(Alumn.)

(Common Potash Alum)

The clinical application of this remedy points to its bowel symptoms, both in obstinate constipation
and in haemorrhage from bowels in the course of typhoid-one phase of the PARALYTIC WEAKNESS of
the muscles in all parts of the body. Tendency to INDURATION is also marked, a low form of tissue-
making is favored. Hardening of tissues of tongue, rectum, uterus, et:.; ulcers with indurated base.
Adapted to old people, especially bronchial catarrhs. SENSATION OF DRYNESS AND CONSTRICTION.
Mental paresis; dysphagia especially to LIQUIDS. Tendency to induration, Scirrhus of the tongue.

Head
BURNING PAIN AS OF WEIGHT ON TOP OF HEAD BETTER BY PRESSURE of hand. Vertigo, with
weakness in pit of stomach. Alopecia. Throat. Throat relaxed. Mucous membrane red and swollen.
Cough. Tickling in throat. Tendency to throat colds. ENLARGED AND INDURATED TONSILS. Burning
pain down the oesophagus. Complete aphonia. Every cold settles in throat. Constriction of
oesophagus.

Heart
Palpitation, FROM LYING DOWN ON RIGHT SIDE. Bectum. CONSTIPATION OF THE MOST AGGRAVATED
KIND. No desire for stool for days. Violent ineffectual urging to stool. No ability to expel stool.
MARBLE-LIKE MASSES PASS, BUT RECTUM STILL FEELS FULL. Itching after stool. Itching in anus. Long
lasting pain and smarting in rectum after stool; also haemorrhoids. Yellow, like an infant's.
Haemorrhage from bowels.

Female
Tendency to induration of neck of uterus and mammary glands. (CARB. AN.; CON.) Chronic yellow
vaginal discharge. Chronic gonorrhoea, yellow, with little lumps along urethra. Aphthous patches in
vagina. (CAUL.) Menses watery.

Respiratory
Haemoptysis, great weakness of chest; difficult to expel mucus. Copious, ropy morning expectoration
in old people. Asthma.

Skin
ULCERS, WITH INDURATED BASE. To be thought of in indurated glands, epithelioma, etc.; veins
become varicose, and bleed. Indurations resulting from long-continued inflammatory irritations.
Glands inflame and harden. Alopecia, Scrotal eczema and on back of penis.

Extremities
WEAKNESS OF ALL MUSCLES, especially arms and legs. Constricted feeling around limbs.

Modalities
AGG.: cold except headache, which is relieved by cold.

Dose
First to thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies have proved efficacious. Powdered alum, 10
grains, placed on tongue, said to arrest an attack of asthma.
Remedy Relations

Complementaries
Bry.

Followed well by
Arg-met., Bry.

Similar to
Alum. (Dryness of the mucus membranes, constipation)
ALUMINA (Alum.)
The patient cannot express his/her feelings. The mind is slow, dry, paralyzed. They have 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.

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

MENTAL

SLOWNESS, CONFUSION, DULLNESS OF MIND. Cannot express oneself, vague state of mind. Lack of
discrimination. Answers slowly.

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

Time passes very slowly for them.

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

PHYSICAL

Dryness of skin and mucus membranes.

SEVERE CONSTIPATION. INACTIVITY OF RECTUM, even soft stool requires great straining. 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.
Remedy Relations
Complementaries

Bry., Ferr.

Follows well
Bov.

Followed well by
Arg-met., Bry., Lach., Sulph.

Antidoted by
Bry. (Fever), Camph., IP.

Antidotes
Aloe (Vomiting of blood)

Compare
Cocc., Graph., Hell. (Slow speech and ansewering of questions, weak memory), Nux-m. (Dreamy state,
constipation), Op.
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 over 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.
Remedy Relations
Complementaries
Nat-m.

Followed well by
Lyc., Puls., sep., Sulph.

Antidoted by
Nux-v., Puls.

Antidotes
Staph. (Especially voluptuous itching of scrotum. )

Compare
Bar-c. (Timidity), Ign., Nat-m. (Timid to urinate when they can be heard), Staph.
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.

Remedy Relations
Complementaries
Ars. (Respiratory manifestations in uraemia), Caust.

Followed well by
Bell. , Bry., Lyc., Phos., Puls., Rhus-t., sep., Verat.

Antidoted by
Arn. , Camph., Hep. , Lach.

Inimical
Lach.

Antidotes
Adren., Lach. (When Lach has been repeated too frequently or used too Iow potency, while Am-c is
inimical to Lach yet it will antidote in cases poisoned by Lach.)

Compare
Ant-t., Calc. (Dyspnea with exertion.), Carb-v., Stann. (weakness and exhaustion. Am-c. mostly affects
the heart.)
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, Iower
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 white, evening, lying on back or on the right side, rubbing, evening.
AMEL.: lying esp. on back, bathing, motion.

Antidotes
Hep.
ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE (Anac.)

Heartless individuals with characteristic cruelty towards people and animals. The patient
experiences great conflict by having two opposing wills or dilemmas and not being able to take a
decision. Severe feeling of inferiority and low self-esteem usually seen on the other type of
Anacardium which is nice and sweet.

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

MENTAL

Two types: cruel/unfeeling/malicious/sadistic and helpless, hopeless, pleading, needy and insecure.

Contradiction of will, sense of DUALITY. Thinks as if he had TWO WILLS, opposing each other.

GREAT LACK OF SELF - CONFIDENCE with inferiority complex.

DESIRE TO CURSE. Malicious, mischievous, wicked. Absence of all moral feeling.

Sudden loss of memory, as if mind is blocked.

PHYSICAL

SENSATION OF PLUG in various parts i.e. head, chest, ear, eye, abdomen.

Constriction, SENSATION OF A BAND AROUND A SINGLE PART like 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 he is
driven to despair.

MODALITIES

AGG.: rubbing, lying on side, motion.

AMEL.: eating (while or after).

Complementaries
Lyc., Plat. , Puls.

Followed well by
Kali-p. (Nervous dyspepsia when Anac seems indicated but fails to relieve)

Antidoted by
Coff., Jug-c.

Compare
Bar-c. (Low self-esteem.), Hyos. (Cursing.), Nux-v. (Anger and cursing.), Staph. (Anac. may be mistaken
for Staph. because of the internal anger and history of humiliation.), Stram. (Aggressive anger. )
ANGUSTURA VERA (Boericke)
(Ang. )

(Bark of Galipea Cusparia)

Rheumatic and paralytic complaints-great difficulty in walking. Crackling in all joints. The greatest
craving for coffee is a characteristic symptom. Caries of long bones. Paralysis. Tetanus. Stiffness of
muscles and joints. OVERSENSITIVE. Principal action on spinal motor nerves and mucous membranes.

Head
Oversensitive. Headache, with heat of face. Acute pain in cheeks. Drawing in facial muscles. Pain in
temporal muscles, when opening the jaws. Pain in articulation of jaw, in masseter muscles, as if
fatigued by chewing too much. Cramp-pain on the zygomatic arch.

Stomach
Bitter taste. IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE FOR COFFEE. Pain from navel into sternum. Atonic dyspepsia.
Belching, with cough. (AMBRA.)

Abdomen
Diarrhoea and colic. Tenesmus with soft stool; chronic diarrhoea, with debility and loss of flesh.
Burning in anus.

Back
Itching along back. Pain in cervical vertebrae. Drawing in the neck. Pain in spine, at nape of neck and
sacrum, worse on pressure. Twitching and jerking along back. Bends backward.

Extremities
Stiffness and tension of muscles and joints. Pain in limbs on walking. Arms tired and heavy. Caries of
long bones. Coldness of fingers. PAIN IN KNEES. Cracking in joints.

Skin
Caries, very painful ulcere which affect the bone.

Relationship
Compare: NUX; RUTA; MERCUR.; BRUCEA. Bark of Nux vomica or angustura falsa. (Tetanic spasms
with undisturbed consciousness, worse noise, liquids, paralyzed lower extremities, worse least touch,
CRIES FOR FEAR OF BEING TOUCHED. Painful jerking of legs; cramp-like pain in knees; rigid and lame
limbs of paralytics. For pain in the passing of calculus.)

Dose
Sixth potency,

Remedy Relations
Followed well by
Bell. , Ign., Lyc., Sep.

Compare
Caust., Rhus-t., Ruta
ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM (Ant-c.)

EMOTIONAL, SENTIMENTAL, AFFECTIONS OF STOMACH

MENTAL

ROMANTIC & SENTIMENTAL, ESPECIALLY DURING MOONLIGHT.

Emotionally immature.

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

Children are irritable, moaning, 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 esp. 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 his whole body.

DESIRE for CUCUMBERS.

Symptoms change with the weather changes.

MODALITIES

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

Antidotes
Sep.

Compare
Cham. (Irritable crying babies and children.), Graph. (Stomach affections, callouses.), Nux-v. (Stomach
affections.), Puls. (Worse from heat and sun. Sentimental.)
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

DES.: expectoration, sitting, sour fruit.

AVERS.: lying, milk.

Remedy Relations
Antidotes
Hep.
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. 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 LIPS, hands and feet esp. around and under THE EYES.
Pains are BURNING, STINGING (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. with thirst.
Relaxed anus. Sensation of open anus.(phosph., Puls.)
Cystitis with burning pain. Quincke's angioneurotic oedema. Allergic reactions.
MODALITIES
AGG.: HEAT.
AMEL.: COLD APPLICATIONS.

Remedy Relations

Complementaries
Nat-m. (The "chronic" Apis)

Antidoted by
Apis (Apis high Potency), Ars., Canth. (Drugging with Apis), Carb-ac. (Best antidote urticaria with
stinging and burning), Carb-v., Chin., Cit-l., Dig., Iod., Ip. (Low potency antidotes
overdosing), Lach., Lact-ac., Led., Nat-m. (Massive doses poisoning and stings are antidoted by crude
salt solutions, common salt solutions, common salt and potencies), Plan., Plat., Sulph., Urt-u. (Bee
stings)

Inimical
Rhus-t. (Apis, before or after, especially in skin affections (use only if picture is clear).)

Antidotes
Apis (Apis high Potency), Nat-m. (Fear of air raids), Sulph.

Compare
Canth. (Cystitis with high sexual desire), Lach. (Jealousy), Nux-v. (Cystitis, high sexual desire)
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.

Remedy Relations

Follows well
Alum., Alumn.

Antidoted by
Merc., Puls. (Flatulence)

Compare
Arg-n., Rhod., Rhus-t., Spig., Stann., Zinc.
ARGENTUM NITRICUM (Arg-n.)
Impulsive people, they speak out in an impulsive way, they have the impulse to do things that they
shouldn’t, that are dangerous (what will happen if I put my finger in the plug? how will it be falling
from this bridge?). They have anxiety about their health, they have many fears, they are open and
communicative. In that respect Arg-n. reminds the Phosphorus patient but the Arg-n. patient is
more impulsive and warm blooded.

OPEN, IMPULSIVE, ANXIOUS

MENTAL

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

IMPULSIVENESS. Impulse to jump from a height, to do dangerous things ex. putting the finger in the
plug. Speak out in an impulsive way.

FEARS high places, crossing bridges, that high buildings will fall upon him, 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 of stomach, 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.: heat, SWEETS, excitement.

AMEL.: open air, cold applications.
DES.: SWEETS, SUGAR, SALT.
Remedy Relations
Complementaries
Calc., Nat-m., Puls., Sep.

Antidoted by
Ars., Merc., Nat-m.

Antidotes
Nat-m.

Compare
Carb-v. (Distention), Chin. (Distention), Lyc. (Distention, desire sweets), Phos. (Open, fears, desires salt
and ice cream), Sulph. (Warm-blooded, desires sweets, extroverted, fear of heights)
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.

AILMENTS FROM INJURIES

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.

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.
Remedy Relations
Complementaries
Acon., Gels., Hyper., Nat-m., Puls., Rhus-t., Sep.

Follows well
Bell., Calen., Cham.

Antidoted by
Camph.. Ign.

Antidotes
All-c. (Pain in teeth), Am-c.
Compare
Bell-p. (Deep traumas, strained muscles or tendons), Bry. (Injury remedy), Led. (injury remedy), Rhus-
t. (Injury remedy), Ruta (Injury remedy)
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, COLDNESS

MENTAL

ANXIETY about HEALTH with FEAR OF DEATH <after midnight, being alone.
RESTLESS during anxiety, fears or acute disease.

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 poisoning. Great weakness from diarrhoea, after stool.
Diarrhoea before or during vomiting.

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.

Complementaries
Carb-v., Nat-s., Phos., Sulph., Thuja

Follows well
Agn.. Borx., Chel.. Ph-ac., Rhus-t.
Antidoted by
Camph., Carb-v., Chin., Ferr., Graph., Hep., Nux-v., Samb., Tab.

Antidotes
Adren., All-c., Apis, Arg-n., Carb-an., Carb-v., Chin., Ferr., Kali-bi., Lach., Nux-v., Phos.
(Over-action of Phos especially in tuberculosis of lungs also intoxicating effects agg after
Phos in morbid lesions, to be followed by Carb-v.), Sulph., Thyr., Verat.
Compare
Acon. (Restlessness, fear of death), Chin., Kali-ar., Lyc., Merc., Nit-ac. (Anxiety about health,
fear death, desires fat), Nux-v. (Chilly, fastidious, gastritis, desires fat), Phos. (Anxiety about
health, fear of death, anxiety for others, desires company, chilly, thirsty), Rhus-t.
(Restlessness, chilly), verat. (Restlessness, chilly)
ARSENICUM IODATUM (Ars-i.)
(Iodide of Arsenic)

ls to be preferred for persistently irritating, corrosive discharges. The discharge irritates the
membrane FROM which it flows and OVER which it flows. The discharge may be fetid, watery, and the
mucous membrane is always red, angry, swollen; itches and bums. Influenza, HAY-FEVER, old nasal
catarrhs, and catarrh of middle ear. Swelling of tissues within the nose. Hypertrophied condition of
eustachian tube and deafness. Senile heart, myocarditis and fatty degeneration. Pulse shotty. Chronic
aortitis. Epithelioma of the lip. Cancer of breast after ulceration has set in. It seems probable that in
Arsenic iod., we have a remedy mast closely allied to manifestations of tuberculosis. ln the early
stages of tuberculosis, even though there is an afternoon rise in temperature, ARS. IOD. is very
effective. It will be indicated by a profound prostration, rapid, irritable pulse, recurring fever and
sweats, emaciation; tendency to diarrhoea. Chronic pneumonia, with abscess in lung. Hectic; debility;
night sweats. This remedy is also to be remembered in phthisis with hoarse, racking cough and
profuse expectoration of a purulent nature, and attended with cardiac weakness, emaciation and
general debility; in chronic, watery diarrhoea in phthisical subjects; in cases of emaciation with good
appetite; in amenorrhoea, with anaemic palpitation and dyspnoea. ln chronic pneumonia, when
abscess is about to form. Great emaciation. Arteriosclerosis, myocardial degeneration and senile
heart. Threatened pyaemia. (PYROG.; METHYL, BLLIE.)

Head
VERTIGO, with tremulous feeling, especially in aged.

Nose
THIN, WATERY, IRRITATING, EXCORIATING DISCHARGE FROM ANTERIOR AND POSTERIOR NARES;
SNEEZING. Hay-fever. Irritation and tingling of nose constant desire to sneeze. (POLLANIN.) CHRONIC
NASAL CATARRH; swollen nose; profuse, thick, Yellow discharge; ulcers; MEMBRANE SORE AND
EXCORIATED. Aggravation by sneezing. Throat. Burning in pharynx. Tonsils swollen. Thick-membrane
from fauces to lips. Breath fetid, glandular involvement. Diphtheria. Chronic follicular pharyngitis.

Eyes and Ears

Scrofulous ophthalmia. Otitis, with fetid, corrosive discharge. Thickening of tympanum. BURNING,
acrid coryza.

Stomach
Pain and pyrosis. Vomiting an hour after food. Nausea distressing. Pain in epigastrium. Intense thirst;
water is immediately ejected.

Respiratory
Slight hacking cough, with dry' and stopped-up nostrils. Pleuritis exudativa. Chronic bronchitis.
Pulmonary tuberculosis. Pneumonia that fails to clear up. Broncho-pneumonia after grippe. Cough
dry, with little difficult expectoration. Aphonia.

Fever
Recurrent fever and sweats. DRENCHING NIGHT -SWEATS. Pulse rapid, feeble, weak, irregular. Chilly,
cannot endure cold.

Skin
Dry, scaly, itching. MARKED EXFOLIATION OF SKIN IN LARGE SCALES, leaving a raw exuding surface
beneath. ICHTHYOSIS. ENLARGED SCROFULOUS GLANDS. VENEREAL BUBO. Oebilitating
night-sweats. Eczema of the beard; watery, oozing, itching; worse, washing. Emaciation. Psoriasis.
Acne hard, shotty, indurated base with pustule at apex.
Relationship
Compare: TUBERCULINIJM; ANTIMON. IOD. ln hay fever, compare: ARALIA; NAPHTHALAN.; ROSA;
SANG. NIT.

Dose
Second and third trituration. Ought to be prepared fresh and protected from light. Continued for
same time. Clinically, it has been found advisable in tuberculosis to begin with about the 4x and
gradually go Iower to the second x trit., 5 grains 3 times a day.
ASA FOETIDA (Asaf.)

(Gum of the Stinkasand)

The flatulence and spasmodic contraction of stomach and oesophagus with reverse peristalsis are the
mast marked symptoms. ln its selection, its relation to the hysterical and hypochondriacal patients,
must be borne in mind. Besides these superficial symptoms, it has been found to affect favorably
deep ulcerations, caries of bones, especially in the syphilitic organism; here the EXTREME
SENSITIVENESS and terrible throbbing, nightly pains, guiding to its use.

Head
Irritable; complains of her troubles; sensitive. Boring above eyebrows. PRESSIVE PAIN FROM WITHIN
OUTWARD.

Eyes
Orbital neuralgia; better, pressure and rest. Iritis and intraocular inflammations, with boring,
throbbing pains at night. Stitches under left frontal eminences. Boring pains in and around
eyes. Syphilitic iritis. Superficial corneal ulcer with digging pains; worse at night.

Ears
Offensive otorrhoea, with boring pains in mastoid bone. Mastoid disease with pain in temporal region
with PLISHING OUT SENSATION. Offensive, purulent discharge.

Nose
Syphilitic ozaena, with very offensive purulent discharge. CARIES OF NASAL SONES. (ALIRUM.) Throat.
GLOBUS HYSTERICLIS. Ball rises in throat. Sensation as if peristaltic motion were reversed, and
oesophagus were driven from stomach to throat.

Stomach
Great difficulty in bringing up wind. FLATULENCE AND REGURGITATION OF LIQUID. Hysterical
flatulence. Great distention. Sensation of emptiness and weakness, with distention and beating in
stomach and abdomen. Forcible eructation of gas. PULSATION IN PIT OF stomach. Violent gastralgia;
cutting and burning in stomach and region of diaphragm. Gurgling and rolling of wind, which escapes
afterwards with loud and difficult eructation.

Female
Mammae turgid with milk in the unimpregnated. DEFICIENT MILK, with oversensitiveness.

Rectum
Distended, griping, with hunger. Obstinate constipation. Pain in perineum, as if something dull
pressed out. DIARRHOEA, EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE, WITH METEORISM, and regurgitation of food.

Chest
SPASMODIC TIGHTNESS, as if lungs could not be fully expanded. Palpitation more like a tremor.
Bones. Darting pain and caries in bones. Periosteum painful, swollen, enlarged. Ulcers affecting
bones; thin, ichorous pus.

Skin
Itching, better scratching; ulcers painful on edges. Suppressed skin symptoms produce nervous
disorders.

Modalities
AGG.: at night; from tough; left side, during rest, warm applications.
AMEL.: open air; from motion, pressure.

Relationship
Antidotes: CHINA; MERCUR. Compare: MOSCHUS; CHINA; MERCUR; AURUM.

Dose
Second to sixth potency.

Antidotes
Caust.

Compare
Carb-v. (Remedy with much distention), Chin. (Remedy with much distention),Colch. (Remedy with
much distention),Ign. ("Globus hystericus'), Lach. ("Glovus hystericus"), Lyc. (Remedy with much
distention)
ASARUM EUROPAEUM (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 MINO 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.
Follows well
Aeth.

Followed well by
Bism., Caust., Puls., Sil. , Sul-ac

Compare
Coff. (Acute senses), Nat-m. (Hysteric element, sensitive), . Nux-v. (Sensitive to noises), Ther. (Sensitive
to noises)
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.

AMELIORATION FROM MUSIC.

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

PHYSICAL

DESTRUCTIVE, SYPHILITIC PROCESSES.

Ulcers.
Caries of bones. Pain in bones.
Endocarditis.

Undescended testicles in young boys.

MODALITIES

AMEL.: motion (esp. slow), walking (esp. slowly), evening, music.

AGG.: cold (air, becoming), lying.
DES.: bread (esp. dry), alcoholic drinks, delicacies.
AVERS.: meat.

Follows well
Coff.

Followed well by
Acon., Bell., Calc., Chin., Lyc., Merc., Nit-ac., Puls., Rhus-t., Sep., Sulph., Syph.

Antidoted by
Bell., Coff., Cupr., Merc., Puls., Spig.

Antidotes
Merc.
Compare
Ign. (Grief), Merc. (Syphilitic miasm), Nat-m. (Depression), Nat-s. (Suicidal depression),
Nux-v. (Serious businessmen, irritability, suicidal thoughts)
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, by mortification.

Suicidal disposition from disappointed love. DEPRESSION IS BETTER IN THE OPEN AIR but what really
makes them feel good is strong wind blowing in their face.
Tormenting dreams of sadness.

An 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 extreme mental or physical restlessness, which must be relieved.

PHYSICAL

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

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

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

Haemorrhages from the uterus at climacteric period and after. Congestion of chest after uterine
haemorrhage.

Ulcers in mouth, penis, nose, lips, mouth, 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 nightly boring and gnawing pains. It has many bone
symptoms and pains worse on night.

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

Exertion and walking increase many symptoms. The palpitation, suffocation and great weakness come
from walking and exertion. Fast walking is impossible.

MODALITIES

AGG.: warm (wraps, room, air, becoming, bed), walking rapidly, while sitting.
AMEL.: open air, walking slowly, slow motion, cold bathing.

Compare
Aur., Lach., Lyc., Nat-m.
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA (Bapt.)

ln Baptisia we see the disintegration of the body and mind.

The high fever and the offensiveness show the decomposition processes that take place internally.
On the mental level the patient experiences this disintegration as a delusion that the body is
scattered, its parts are separated.
It's indicated in later stages of serious inflammatory processes.

DISINTEGRATION - OFFENSIVENESS - FEELS THE BODY IS SCATTERED

MENTAL

DELUSIONS HE IS SEPARATED OR SCATTERED (DUALITY).

Delusions-one part of body is talking, conversing to another (toe With thumb, legs).

Falls asleep in mid-sentence in semi-comatose states. Answers and returns to stupor quickly.

Dullness of mind. Great confusion. As if drunk, intoxicated.

Stupid, besotted expression of the face.

Aversion to mental work. Difficult concentration.

PHYSICAL

HIGH FEVER WITH DELIRIUM.

OFFENSIVE DISCHARGES, foul odor of body, offensive perspiration, urine, mouth etc.
STOOL VERY OFFENSIVE. Diarrhoea. Stool thin, dark, bloody.

PROSTRATION IS RAPID. Sudden weakness.

Dark red discoloration of gums.

Brown strip in center of tongue, feels burnt.

Feeling of soreness, heaviness and aching. Influenza With bruised pains, uncomfortable in any
position, the bed feels too hard- yet feels too weak to move, feels sore and bruised.

Ulcers are rapid and painless as if numb, without sensation.

Head feels enlarged, heavy, numb.

Tongue is thick, swollen and speech incoherent, difficult.

Painless tonsillitis, sore throat, tonsils dark red, swollen. Putrid, offensive odor of mouth.

Can only swallow liquids. Difficult to swallow solids, food gags.

Sinking feeling in stomach. Thirsty, constant desire for water.

MODALITIES

AGG.: lying on painful side, beer.

AMEL.: lying on painless side.
BARYTA CARBONICA (Bar-c.)

The word for Baryta carbonica is immaturity. The patient is immature, timid, lacks self-confidence,
depends on other people, needs protection. The mind is immature, cannot absorb easily, has a
weak memory.
On the physical level we see a kind of dwarfishness too. We may see that one part of the body is
underdeveloped as if it belongs to someone younger.

IMMATURITY MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL - LACK OF SELF CONFIDENCE

MENTAL

IMMATURITY, LACK OF SELF CONFIDENCE. Suspicious, delusions that she's laughed at, criticized, that
people are talking about her.

IRRESOLUTION cannot decide what to do on any serious project. Fear to take responsibility. Need
to feel security.

Children are timid/shy, they fear people, hide behind the mother.
Usually keep their mouths open.

Memory weakness; FORGETFUL, absent-minded.

Concentration difficult. Difficulty in comprehending esp. in children.

Used in children who are physically and mentally retarded and also in senility of old age.

PHYSICAL

DWARFISHNESS, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT.

Atrophy, underdevelopment of single parts, e.g. uterus, glands, genitalia etc.

Swelling and indurations, or incipient suppuration of glands, especially cervical, parotid, inguinal
and axillary.

Recurrent tonsillitis. Chronic hypertrophy, enlargement of tonsils is so much that causes dyspnoea.
Suppuration of tonsils.

Baldness esp. in young people.

Biting nails.

Diseases of old people; senile enlargement of prostate, induration of testes; mental and physical
weakness.

MODALITIES

AGG.: cold, becoming cold.

AVERS.: FRUIT, plums.
Complementaries
Lyc.

Antidoted by
Bell. , Camph., Oulc., Zinc.

Compare
Puls. (Timid and depented), Sil. (Timidity)
BARYTA MURIATICA

(Bar-m.)

(Barium Chloride)

The different salts of Baryta are called for in organic lesions of the aged and dwarfish, both mentally
and physically. Arteriosclerosis and cerebral affections due to this condition. Headaches, but without
an acute crisis, occurring in old people; heaviness rather than pain. Vertigo, due to cerebral anemia
and noises in the ears. Acts on the lower alimentary canal, especially on the rectum; on muscles and
joints, giving stiffness and weakness as if from over-walking. White blood corpuscles increased.
Hypertension and vascular degeneration. Increased tension of pulse. Arteriosclerosis (Aur., Sec.) with
a high systolic pressure with a comparatively low diastolic tension is attended by cerebral and cardiac
symptoms.

This remedy has indurated and NARROWING OF THE CARDIAC ORIFICE WITH PAIN immediately after
eating and epigastric tenderness, which has been repeatedly verified. Also of use in ANEURISM and
chronic hypertrophy of the tonsils. Nymphomania and satyriasis. Convulsions. In every form of mania
when the sexual desire is increased. ICY COLDNESS OF THE BODY, WITH PARALYSIS. Multiple sclerosis
of brain and cord. VOLUNTARY MUSCLILAR POWER LOST, BUT PERFECTLY SENSIBLE. Paresis after
influenza and diphtheria. General feeling of lassitude in the morning, especially weakness in the legs
with muscular stiffness. Children who go around with their mouth open and who talk through the
nose. Stupid appearing, hard of hearing.

Ears
Whizzing and buzzing. Noises on chewing and swallowing or sneezing. Otalgia; better sipping cold
water. Parotids swollen. Offensive otorrhoea. Inflates middle ear on blowing the nose.

Throat
Difficult swallowing. TONSILS ENLARGED. Paresis of pharynx and eustachian tubes, with sneezing and
noises. Tubes feel too wide open.

Respiratory
BRONCHIAL AFFECTIONS IN OLD PEOPLE with cardiac dilation. FACILITATES EXPECTORATION. Great
accumulation and rattling of mucus with difficult expectoration. Arteriosclerosis of the lung, thus
indicated in senile asthma, modifies the arterial tension.

Stomach
ALL GONE FEELING IN THE EPIGASTRILIM is a good guiding symptom for it in chronic affections.
Retching and vomiting. Sensation of heat ascending to the head.

Urine
GREAT INCREASE IN URIC ACID, diminution of chlorides in urine.

Abdomen
Throbbing (Sel.); INDURATION OF pancreas; abdominal aneurism. Inguinal glands swollen. Spasmodic
pain in rectum.

Relationship
Compare in sclerotic degenerations, especially of spinal card, liver, and heart. Plb. and Plb-i. ALSO
Aur-m. (which often accomplish more in sclerotic and exudative degenerations than any other
remedies. Multiple sclerosis, fulgurating pains, tremors, Morvan's disease, hypertrophy of fingers).
Dose
Third trituration. Bears repetition of dosage well.
BELLADONNA (Bell.)

ln Belladonna we see intensity in the acute states as well as in the constitutional characteristics.
The acute symptoms come suddenly and with great intensity. ln chronic cases, we see people with
intense emotions. This intensity is expressed in violence and aggressiveness and is so strong that
even during sleep they are talking loudly and grind their teeth.

INTENSITY OF SYMPTOMS, CONGESTION, RED FACE WITH COLD EXTREMITIES

MENTAL

People with intense emotions.

Rage, violent, biting people or objects, pulls hair, spits, kicks, impulse to set things on fire. Delirium
with congestion.

Many delusions. Oversensitive to light and shining objects.

Fears dogs, animals, imaginary things.
Talking in sleep.

PHYSICAL

Great intensity of symptoms, with sudden manifestation.

HEAT OF HEAD or FACE WITH COLD EXTREMITIES esp. feet, in acute conditions.

High fevers with dry burning skin, redness of face, glassy eyes and cold extremities.
Ailments from sudden exposure to cold.

HEAT, CONGESTION and REDNESS of mucus membranes, of skin eruptions.

Flushing and congestion causes radiating heat of the head and cold extremities.

HEADACHES with pulsating, throbbing pain < JAR, light, touch. Must lie down.

Irritation of meninges resulting to grinding of teeth, convulsions.

Right sided.

MODALITIES

AGG.: jar, touch, motion, heat, sun, drafts, sun, stooping.

AMEL.: cold applications, dark room, lying down.
DES.: LEMONS, LEMONADE.
AVERS.: light, noise, sun.

Complementaries
Calc.

Follows well
Am-c., Ang., Ars. , Aur., Calc., Cham., Cham., Cic. , Coff., Hyos., Lach., Merc., Nit-ac., Ph-ac.

Followed well by
Arn. , Cham., Chin., Dulc., Hep., Hyos., Lach., Rhus-t., Seneg., Stram., Ter. , Valer., Verat.

Similar to
Acon. , Bry. , Cic. , Gels., Glon., Hyos., Meli., Op., Stram.

Antidoted by
Acon. , Camph., Coff., Hep., Hyos.

Antidotes
Acon. , Aur., Bar-c., Bell-p. Dulc., (Boils), Hep., Lach., Merc., Op., Sars. , Stram.

Compare
Atro-s., Caps. , Con.,., Hyos., Lycpr., Stram.
BERBERIS VULGARIS (Berb.)

AFFECTIONS OF KIDNEYS, BLADDER AND BACK WITH RADIATING PAINS.

MENTAL

Fear of solitude.
Feels anxiety in different body positions.
Mentally and physically tired. Weakness of mind that is especially apparent in twilight.
Weakness of memory. Dullness of mind esp. on waking.
The patient sees terrifying apparitions at twilight, including ghosts or imaginary forms surrounding
him.
Melancholy, sadness, apathy and inclination to weep. Darkness aggravates.

PHYSICAL

Acts on KIDNEYS, BLADDER LIVER. Arthritic affections with urinary disturbances.

RADIATING PAINS from kidneys, renal region. Kidney stones, colic. Kidney pain extending into thigh,
calves, bladder, ureter, testes, hip, downward.
Kidney pains < jar, pressure, motion.
Numbness in region of kidneys.
Cholocystitis and gallstone colic.

BACK PAIN EXTENDING TO or AROUND ABDOMEN, thighs esp. posterior portion.

WANDERING PAINS.
Burning pain in urethra >urination.
Stiffness, sore pains, heaviness of tower limbs, of extremities - as if beaten.
Anal fistula with radiating pains.

MODALITIES
AGG: standing, motion (also sudden motion), walking, spoiled fish.

Follows well
Bry., Cean., Kali-bi., Rhus-t., Sulph.

Antidoted by
Calc., Caps. , Nux-v.

Compare
Aloe, Ant-t., Ars., Calc-p. (Fistula in ano; chest symptoms, especially after surgical operation), Calc.,
Canth., Carb-v., Cham., Chin., Colch., Lyc., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Puls., Rheum
BORAX (Borx.)

FEAR OF DOWNWARD MOTION, APHTHAE

MENTAL

FEAR AND ANXIETY ON DOWNWARD MOTION, riding down hill.

Startled easily esp. at sneezing, hawking, from noise, from fright.
Oversensitive to noise. Fear or even diarrhoea from sudden noise.
Makes involuntary motions of the hands.
Fear of falling, of infections.

PHYSICAL

Affects MUCOUS MEMBRANES, causing catarrhal conditions.

Children or infants cry and scream before the urine passes. Frequent urging to urinate, shrieking
before urinating or before stool. Painful urging, the child cries.
DESCENDING AGGRAVATES SYMPTOMS. It causes fullness of head, impeded respiration, vertigo.
APHTHAE of tongue, of mouth, genitalia, nipples. Bleeding aphthae.
Sleeplessness with heat in head, 03:00-05:00 from heat.
Milk of chest is cheesy, thick and tastes bad.

Sensation of cobweb on hands and face.

Wrinkled palate.

Leucorrhoea between menses, like boiled starch, white as thick paste, burning. Leucorrhoea with
sensation of warm water flowing down.

External trembling on sneezing, after sneezing.

MODALITIES

AGG: DOWNWARD MOTION, DESCENDING, lying, v,arm, cold wet weather, fruit.
AMEL.: seashore, bathing, rising, pressure.

Follows well
Calc., Psor., Sanic., Sulph.

Followed well by
Ars., Bry'. , Lyc., Phos., Sil.

Antidoted by
Cham. (Pains and the swelling of cheeks), Coff. (Sleeplessness and pain in head)
Incompatible
Acet-ac.

Compare
Agis, Bry., Calc., Merc., Nat-c., Nat-m. (Aphthae, infertility, headache at 10 AM.), Nat-s., Sanic., Sul-ac.
BOVISTA (Bov.)

ENLARGED SENSATION - ANXIETY - AWKWARDNESS

MENTAL

ANXIETY and inner HURRIEDNESS. Chaotic.

Everything is EXAGGERATED: awkward in speech and action- stammers, drops things, laughs and
cries alternately. Alternating mood. Sub-manic states. ENLARGED SENSATION.

Absent minded - staring thoughtless, looking fixedly at one point.

Closed - cannot connect.

Sensitive, easily offended.

Anxiety about anything, not easy to define it.

PHYSICAL

Influences circulation, causing relaxation of capillary system.

ENLARGED, SWOLLEN FEELING IN HEAD AND HEART.

General puffiness- swelling. Skin gets indented easily from pressure.

Perspiration smells like anions.

Diarrhoea before or during menses. Menses flow only at night. Traces of menses between periods.

Herpes, esp. of the lower extremities.

Cannot bear tight clothing around abdomen, stomach, throat, chest.

Skin eruptions with excessive itching. Tip of coccyx itches intolerably.

Leucorrhoea before and after menses. Thick leucorrhoea when walking.

Numbness on the root of tongue.

Paralysis in right optic nerve.
Eructations before breakfast.

MODALITIES

DES.: bread.

Followed well by
Alum., Calc., Rhus-t. (Chronic urticaria), Sep.

Antidoted by
Camph.

Antidotes
Tarent.
Compare
Apis (Awkvwrdness), Borx., Calc., Mag-c (Menses flow during night), Rhus-t., Sep
BROMIUM (Bram.)

SWOLLEN LYMPH NODES - RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS

MENTAL

Hard, not flexible individuals. The mind loses its flexibility and becomes as immovable as a stone and
quite unable to function.

Inability to 'eliminate', keeps emotions inside. Eventually becomes emotionless.

Sad, indifferent, discontented.

Sits alone in room without doing anything, staring in one direction without saying anything, without
emotions, without thoughts. The patient is deeply despondent.

Delusions that strange persons are looking over their shoulder or that they would see someone on
turning.

PHYSICAL

Affects respiratory tract especially larynx and trachea.

Worse when overheated. Complaints come in the summer.

ASTHMA < ON LEAVING THE SEA (as soon as they go ashore).

Hoarseness or tickling cough from being over-heated.

Dyspnoea, cannot inspire deep enough, as if breathing through a sponge <dust. Much rattling of
mucus during cough (Ant-t.)
Left sided tonsillitis or pharyngitis. Suffocative cough on swallowing.

Swelling and INDURATION OF GLANDS with stony hardness, esp. on parotid and submaxillary glands.

Hardening or even tumors of the teft testicle or ovaries.

Primarily a left sided remedy. Symptoms go from left to right.

Patient is weak and easily overheated, then sweats and becomes sensitive to drafts.

Sensation of cobweb on the face.

Migraine after milk.
Heaviness in occiput of head from heat of sun.
Chill on inspiring

MODALITIES

AGG.: dust, becoming heated.

Follows well
Arg-n., Kali-c.

Useful after
lod., Phos.
Compare
Arg-n., Aster., Con. (Swelling and induration of glands), lod., Lach. (Worse from heat, left sided,
symptoms go from left to right), Med. (Amelioration by the Sea), Spong. (Cough and hoarseness)
BRYONIA ALBA (Bry.)

ln Bryonia the characteristic is aggravation from motion. On the mental level we see great irritability with the
desire to be left alone.

WORSE FROM SLIGHTEST MOTION, DRYNESS WITH THIRST

MENTAL

Irritable, wants to be quiet.

Anxiety about the future. Strong fear of poverty, anxiety about money matters, talks about business.

Delusions he is away from home.

PHYSICAL

All ailments are WORSE FROM MOTION; even the slightest, such as inspiration, coughing, stepping.
Pain takes away the breath.

>REST, PRESSURE, LYING ON THE PAINFUL SIDE.

Cough is painful, he has to hold the chest.

THIRSTY FOR LARGE QUANTITIES. Dryness of mouth with thirstlessness.

Dryness of mucus membranes (mouth, nose, throat, rectum, eye, lips

Constipation, with very hard and dry' stool; as if burned.

Headache on left side; over the teft_eye extending to occiput. < moving the eyes.

Sleeps on left side; but is aggravated on lying on left side in gall bladder or liver problems.

One of the main remedies for appendicitis.

Faintness from sitting up/rising from bed.

MODALITIES

AGG.: MOTION, coughing, breathing (inspiration), change of temperature.

AMEL.: rest, lying/ pressure on the painful side, lying, perspiration

DES.: warm milk.

Complementaries

Alum., Nat-m., Rhus-t., Sulph.

Follows well

Acon. , Agn., Alum., Alumn., Am-c., Ant-c., Borx., Cham. , Chel., Con

Antidoted by

Acon. , Chel., Clem., Coff., Nux-v., Rhus-t , Seneg.

Antidotes

Alum. (Fever), Rhus-t.

Compare

Bell.(Acute infections), Cham.(Irritability, worse at 9 pm.), Nux-v (Irritability and constipation), Stel.(Rheumatic
cases Horse from motion)
BUFO RANA (Bufo)

(Poison of the Toad)

Acts on the nervous system and skin. Uterine symptoms marked. Lymphangitis of septic origin.
Symptoms of paralysis agitans. Striking rheumatic symptoms.
Arouses the Iowest passions. Causes a desire for intoxicating drink, and produces impotence.
Of use in feeble minded children. Prematurely senile. Epileptic symptoms. Convulsive seizures occur
during sleep at night. More or less connected with derangements of the sexual sphere, seem to come
within the range of this remedy. Injuries of the fingers; pain runs in streaks up the arms.

Mind
Anxious about health. Sad, restless. Propensity to bite. Howling; impatient; nervous, imbecile. DESIRE
FOR SOLITUDE. FEEBLE MINDED.

Head
Sensation as if hot vapor to the top of the head. Numbness of brain. Face bathed in sweat. Epistaxis
with a flushed face and pain in the forehead, better, nosebleed.

Eyes
Cannot bear sight of brilliant objects. Little blisters form on the eye.

Ears
Music is unbearable (Ambr.). Every little noise distresses.

Heart
Feels too large. Palpitations. Constriction around the heart. Sensation of heart swimming in water.

Female
Menses too early and copious, clots and bloody discharge at other times; watery leucorrhoea.
Excitement with epileptic attacks. Epilepsy at time of menses. Induration in mammary glands.
Palliative in cancer of the mamme. Burning in ovaries and uterus. Ulceration of the cervix. Offensive
bloody discharge. Pains run into the legs. Bloody milk. Milk-leg. Veins swollen. Tumors and polypi of
womb.

Male
Involuntary emissions; IMPOTENCE, discharge too quick, spasms during coition. BUBOES. Disposition
to handle organs (Hyos., Zinc.). Effects of onanism.

Extremities
Pain in loins, numbness of limbs, cramps, staggering gait, feels as if a peg was driven into the joints;
swelling of bones.

Skin
Panaritium; PAIN RUNS UP THE ARM. Patches of skin lose sensation. Pustules, suppuration from every
slight injury. Pemphigus. Bulle which open and leave a raw surface, exuding an ichorous fluid. Blisters
on palms and soles. Itching and burning. Carbuncle.

Relationship
Compare: Bar-c., Aster. , Salam. (Epilepsy and softening of brain)
Antidotes: Lach., Seneg.
Complementary: Salam.
Modalities
AGG.: in a warm room, on awakening.
AMEL.: from bathing or cold air; from putting feet in hot water.

Compare
Ars., Art-v. (Epitepsy), Aster. , Bar-c. (Arrested development), Calc., Canth., Cic (Mental retardation.
Convulsions), Hep. (Panaritia and Bullae ( are blisters that appear fluid is trapped under a thin layer of
your skin)), Hyos. (Masturbation), Lach., Merc., Nux-v., Ph-ac., Salam., Sil. , Sulph., Tarent.
CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS (Cact.)

CONSTRICTION – CONGESTION – CONTRACTION

MENTAL

Shrieking from pain.

Delusion that she is caught in wires, that the body is wrapped.

Anxiety about health, reaches hypochondriasis. Despair of recovery. Desires to take large doses of medicine.
Delusion he’s about to die with rheumatism or heart disease.
Fear of death or that something will happen.

Delirium during sleep.

Mania during fever and heat.

Suspicious, mistrustful.

PHYSICAL

HEART AND CIRCULATION PROBLEMS: infarct, angina, etc. WITH CONSTRICTIVE PAINS AND SWELLING OF
LEFT HAND.
Numbness or pains extend to the left arm, hand or even fingers.
Grasping sensation of heart, constriction of chest as if from an armor.

Severe, violent CONSTRICTING PAINS in which the patient cries out from pain. Pain as if from a steel hand, as
if a wire that gets twisted tighter and tighter. Whole body feels caged. Constriction of vagina on touch and
coition. Constriction and choking sensation in oesophagus . Facial pain < fasting.

Violent palpitation < lying on left side, menses.

Hæmorrhages with constriction sensation.

Headache with severe congestion, followed by epistaxis with redness of face. Hæmorrhage from anus with
heart symptoms.

Severe dysmenorrhoea or metrorrhagia with clots. Pains as each clot is expelled with constricting pains.

MODALITIES

AGG.: at forenoon 11:00 and night 23:00, beginning of menses, lying on the left side.
AMEL.: slow, continued motion.

Follows well
Cham.

Compare
Acon., Dig., Kalm., Lach., Lat-m., Naja, Phos., Rhus-t., Spig. (Heart pains)
CALADIUM SEGUINUM (Calad.)

IMPOTENCY

MENTAL

Amorous, lascivious with impotency. Symptoms from sexual excesses (ex. memory weakness).

DEPRESSION due to unsatisfied sexual desire. Sadness from masturbation. Lack of enthusiasm. Indifferent to
everything. Eventually becomes indifferent to sex.

Weakness of memory. Very forgetful, absent-minded. Mental confusion, inability to perform intellectual work.

Anxiety about health, hypochondriacal anxiety. Very careful about health- refuses to take medicine, fear of
infection, of catching contagious disease.

Fear of cutting himself while shaving.

Nervous excitement.

PHYSICAL

Special action on the genitalia of both sexes.

IMPOTENCE WITH SEXUAL DESIRE. Increased sexual desire without erection.
Flaccid penis with sexual desire and excitement (Lyc., Sel.). Penis is excited but relaxed.
Failing to ejaculate during coition.
They cannot perform the sexual act in a natural way and they seek other ways of satisfying the excessive
desire.

Pruritus Vulvæ (voluptuous itching) in females, inducing masturbation and sleeplessness.

Coldness of single parts of the body (lower limbs, single parts).

Organism is sensitive to smoking and is aggravated by it.

A burning sensation, stays in the lungs for years after heavy smoking.

Sensitivity of the skin, crawling itching. Sensation of cobweb or formication in face. Tension of skin, as if
white of egg were dried in the face. Violent itching on certain parts of the skin.

Insomnia. Sensitive to slightest noise, startles from sleep (Asar., Nux-v., Tarent.). Afraid to go to sleep. Sleep
is disturbed. Sleeps for 3-4h and then wakes up and cannot sleep for 2-3 hours.

MODALITIES

AGG.: warmth, yet desires warm drinks.

AMEL.: perspiration.

Complementaries
Nit-ac.

Incompatible
Arum-t.

Compare
Agn. (Impotence), Caps., Caust., Lyc. (Impotence), Phos., Sel. (Impotence), Staph.
CALCAREA CARBONICA (Calc.)

Typcal Calcarea is responsible, hard-working and practical. She is a bit slow and she seeks stability and
security. She has numerous fears high places, dogs, rats but with a prevailing fear of insanity. She takes
many responsibilities until finally she collapses from overworking. The practitioner should not get lost in the
vast array of symptoms but should look for the main keynotes of the remedy. There is a general
aggravation from cold and wet weather. The patient has cold feet that may have a slight clammy sweat.
A tendency to be overweight, perspiration during sleep around the neck, desire for sweets and soft-
boiled eggs.

CHILLY, FLABBY, FEARFUL, DESIRING EGGS AND SWEETS

MENTAL
MANY FEARS: HIGH PLACES, INSANITY, dogs, rats, death, disease, dark, ghosts, thunderstorms, accidents.
DESPAIR OF RECOVERY.
OBSTINATE.
Sensitive when hearing cruelties.
Religious affections in children. The child inquires about God, about the beyond etc.
PHYSICAL
CHILLY, sensitive to cold (lack of vital heat).
Cold extremities, esp. FEET (usually sleeps with socks or hot water bottle).
Profuse PERSPIRATION DURING SLEEP esp. on the CERVICAL REGION, chest and scalp.
Worse from exertion in general esp. the headache. Out of breath (difficult, panting respiration) from
ascending.
OBESITY that produces flabbiness.
BRITTLE, SOFT NAILS.
Pains and swelling of the mammae before menses.
Slow, difficult dentition in children. Convulsions during dentition. Distended, enlarged abdomen in children.
Hypothyreodism. Constipation.
MODALITIES
DES.: SWEETS, EGGS (ESP. SOFT BOILED), milk, strange things (i.e. coal, indigestible), farinaceous food.
AVERS.: milk.
AGG.: exertion, cold, cold wet weather, draft of air.
AMEL.: warm dry weather, rising.

Complementaries
Bell., Nit-ac., Rhus-t.

Follows well
Agar., Aur., Bov., Caust., Cham., Rhus-t., Sulph. (Circle Sulph to Calc to Lyc)

Followed well by
Lyc. (Circle Sulph to Calc to Lyc)

Antidoted by
Camph., Nit-ac., Nux-v.

Inimical
Bry. (Only in chronic conditions)

Antidotes
Agar., Berb., Chin., Nit-ac., Sep., Sulph., Tub., Verat. (Pressing pain in head with coldness of body.)

Compare
Phos. (Chilly, fears), Sil. (Chilly, constipation, nail affections)
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA (Calc-p.)

The most prominent characteristic of Calc-p. is the discontent that is seen from children to adults. They
don’t feel well but cannot define what is wrong. The children moan all the time even in their sleep and
drive the parents crazy. These patients need change, their only outlet is to travel.

DISCONTENT, NEEDS CHANGE, SENSITIVE TO DAMP

MENTAL

DISCONTENT, COMPLAINING AND MOANING, esp. during sleep.

They don’t know what is wrong. ENNUI, DESIRES TO TRAVEL, TO CHANGE PLACES. (Traveling ameliorates
psychological complaints not physical like in Ign.).

Thinking of complaints aggravates.

Sighing, cannot take a satisfying breath (Ign.).

Mental dullness in adults and children. Mental exertion aggravates.

Duty bound. They press themselves to do their duty and they get headaches.

Ailments from bad news.

PHYSICAL

< COLD AND WET WEATHER, melting of the snow, drafts, exposure to cold air after perspiration.

Pain in cervical region < DRAFT of air.

Headaches after mental exertion esp. in school children.

SCOLIOSIS, curvature of spine.

Children: slow learning to walk and talk. Arrested development. Emaciation.

Fontanelles remain open for long time.

Colic pains in abdomen, at every attempt to eat.

MODALITIES

AGG.: draft of air, exposure to damp, cold, melting snow; changeable weather; mental exertion.
AMEL.: summer; warm, dry weather.
DES.: SMOKED MEAT, bacon, strange, indigestible things.

Complementaries
Hep., Ruta (Affections of joints and periosteum), Sulph.

Follows well
Ph-ac.

Compare
Calc., Phos., Tub. (Dissatisfied, desires traveling, desires smoked food )
CALCAREA SULPHURICA (Calc-s.)

In Calc-s. we see suppuration in physical and psychological levels. We see abscesses and discharges of
pus and blood on the physical level and jealousy, nastiness and maliciousness on the mental/emotional
levels.

PUS IN PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL LEVELS - ABSCESSES, DISCHARGING SUPPURATION

MENTAL

Great jealousy. Nasty and malicious.

Irritable, quarrelsome from jealousy.

Fear of birds.

PHYSICAL

TENDENCY TO SUPPURATION THAT DOES NOT HEAL. Pus continues for months or years. CHRONIC ABSCESSES.

Purulent discharges. Discharge or pus is yellow and bloody. (nose, eye, ear, urethra, skin).

Crusty eruptions on face. ACNE vulgaris with the whole face covered with crusts.
Painful abscesses around rectum. Fistulae that discharge constantly yellowish purulent matter.
Otitis with yellow, purulent, bloody discharge. Suppuration of middle ear. Abscess in meatus.

MODALITIES

DES.: green, acid fruits.

AVERS.: meat.

Antidotes
Sil.

Compare
Hep. (Absecces), Med., Sil. (Absecces), Sulph.
CAMPHORA OFFICINARUM (Camph.)

COLLAPSE - EXTREMELY COLD BUT WANTS TO BE UNCOVERED

MENTAL

Thinking of complaints ameliorates.

Anxiety during chill, anxiety in bed. Fears to be alone at night, desires company.

Shrieking, screaming, <before convulsions. Shrieking for help.

Puerperal insanity. Delirium. Tears things.

Desire to bite <during rage.

PHYSICAL

SKIN IS ICY COLD, YET wants to be UNCOVERED. Throws off all coverings (Carb-v., Sec., Med.). Coldness of
extremities, yet warm bed is unendurable.

Wants to be uncovered with cold skin, but desires to be covered with heat and sweat.

Internal heat with external chill during fever.

Sudden collapse- weakness with chill and anxiety. Profound weakness. Sleep becomes comatose; can
alternate with sleeplessness.

Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea with anxiety and restlessness.

Sensitive to cold air.

Cramps, convulsions with coldness and mental anguish. Face is anxious, distorted, bluish and cold.

Rashes from exposure to sunlight.

Pain > while thinking of it.

Ailments from suppressed sexual desire (Con., Puls., Apis).

MODALITIES

AGG.: suppressed perspiration, urine, cold air, exposure to sun, warm bed, warm wraps.
AMEL.: thinking of pain, open air, drinking cold water.
DES.: cold food without thirst.

Complementaries
Canth.

Antidotes
Aeth., Agn., Alum., Am-c., Arn., Ars., Bar-c., Bell., Bov., Calc., Canth., Carb-an., Carb-v., Cham., Coloc., Hell
., Kali-c., Lyc., Nux-v., Petr., Ruta, Sars., Sil., Spong., Staph., Stram., Sulph., Thuja, Verat. (Pain in head with
coldness; pressive pain in head with coldness of body and unconsciousness after: sudden serious
symptoms), Zinc. (Sometimes)

Compare
Ars., Carb-v., Phos., Verat.
CANNABIS INDICA (Cann-i.)

Usually these patients have a history of cannabis abuse or they can be so sensitive to cannabis that they
can get ailments even after slight use. It activates (quick mind, many ideas, loquacity, theorizing) but
also confuses the mind (gullible, no critical thinking, no discrimination) reaching to even delusional
states. The clarity of mental faculties is affected for many years after stopping the use of cannabis.
However we should remember that the abuse of cannabis can produce the picture of any remedy if the
symptoms match.

DELUSIONS, CONFUSION, FEARS AS CONSEQUENCES FROM HASHISH USE

MENTAL

DELUSIONS: time passes too slowly, a few seconds seem ages.

Objects or distances are enlarged, he’s out of the body etc. Sensation that single limbs are floating.

FEAR OF INSANITY, OF LOSING SELF-CONTROL. Panic attacks, with fear of death.

LOQUACITY. Theorizing.

CONFUSION. Fast mind with abundant ideas. Inability to recall any thought or event on account of other
thoughts intrude and crowd around each other in his brain.

Very forgetful: forgets words while speaking; begins a sentence, forgets what he’s about to say, for what has
just thought; thoughts are vanishing while speaking, writing, reading.

Laughs immoderately and involuntary at trifles, at every word that is said.

Always asking questions.

PHYSICAL

Internal jerking, internal pulsation.

Sexual desire increased, violent.
Back pain on laughing.
Headache, as if head is opening and shutting.
Burning thirst and ravenous appetite.

MODALITIES

DES.: sweets.

Complementaries
Med.

Compare
Anth., Ars., Calc., Cann-s., Manc., Nit-ac., Nux-m., Phos., Sulph.
CANNABIS SATIVA

(Cann-s.)

(Hemp)

Seems to affect especially the urinary, sexual and respiratory organs. It has characteristic sensations
of dripping water. Great fatigue, as if from over-exertion; weary after meals. Choking on swallowing;
things go down the wrong way. STUTTERING. Confusion of thought and speech. Wavering speech,
hasty, incoherent.

Head
Lectophobia. Vertigo; sensation of dropping water on the head. Pressure at the root of nose.

Eyes
OPACITY OF CORNEA. Cataract from nervous disturbances, abuse of alcohol and tobacco; patient feels
deeply approaching blindness. Misty sight. Pressure from the back of the eyes, forward. Gonorrhœal
ophthalmia. Eyeballs ache. Scrofulous eye problems (Sulph., Calc.).

Urine
Retained, with obstinate constipation. Painful urging. Urine in split stream. Stitches in the urethra.
Inflamed sensation, with soreness to touch. BURNING WHILE URINATING, EXTENDING TO THE
BLADDER. Urine scalding, with spasmodic closure of sphincter. Gonorrhoea, acute stage; urethra very
sensitive. Walks with legs apart. Dragging in the testicles. Zigzag pain along the urethra. Sexual over
excitement. Urethral caruncle (Eucal.), phimosis. Stoppage of urethra by mucus and pus.

Female
Amenorrhoea when physical powers have been overtaxed with constipation.

Respiratory
Oppression of breathing and palpitation; MUST STAND UP. Weight on chest; rattling wheezing
breathing. Cough, with green viscid, also bloody, expectoration.

Heart
Sensation as if drops were falling from the heart. Painful strokes and tension with palpitations.
Pericarditis.

Sleep
Frightful dreams. More tired in the morning. Sleepy during the day.

Extremities
Contraction of fingers after a sprain. Dislocation of patella on going upstairs. Feet feel heavy on going
upstairs. Paralytic tearing pains. Affections in the ball of the foot and in the under part of toes.

Modalities
AGG.: lying down; going upstairs.

Relationship
Antidotes: Camph., Lemon juice.

Compare: Hedysarum ildefonsianum-Brazilian Burdock-(Gonorrhoea and inflammation of penis);

Canth., Apis, Cop., Thuj., Kali-n.
Dose
Tincture to third attenuation. In stuttering the 30th.

Compare
Cann-i., Canth., Sars., Thuja
CANTHARIS (Canth.)

This is an intense remedy. The idea is of fire esp. in genitourinary system.

The inflammation is so intense that is life-threatening.
The pains are intense, the sexuality is intense, the skin burns are severe.

INTENSITY OF SYMPTOMS ESPECIALLY OF GENITO-URINARY SYSTEM

MENTAL

Adulterous, erotic delirium, lascivious, nymphomania.

Rage esp. on sight of water. Disposition to contradiction, insolent esp. in the afternoon. Delirium with
desire to bite. Maniacal delirium.
Fear of mirrors and brilliant objects. Hydrophobia.

PHYSICAL

RAPID, INTENSE AND DESTRUCTIVE symptoms.

BURNING, CUTTING PAINS.

Affects the URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS.

Burning, cutting pain in neck of bladder extending through urethra.

Urination is so painful so that he dances around the room in agony.

Frequent, constant urging to urinate, passing a few drops at a time (dribbling), sometimes mixed
with blood.

Cystitis with violent burning pain during urination, the burning can be there before and/or after
urination. Pain in bladder after few drops pass.

Nephritis. Kidney pain, tearing, cutting and burning. Contracting pain from kidneys down ureters to
penis.

BURNS which have caused vesication. Gangrene from burns. Inflammation of the eye from burns.

Strong, excessive erections. Painful erections < at night.

Perspiration has the odor of urine.

Chill 15:00, lasting 12 hours.

MODALITIES
AGG.: coffee, bathing, pressure, touch, olive oil, bright objects, after urination.
AMEL.: lying, alcoholic drinks, perspiration.

Complementaries
Camph.

Antidoted by
Acon., Camph.

Antidotes
Apis (Drugging with Apis)

Compare
Apis, Merc-c., Nux-v., Sars.
CAPSICUM (Caps.)

HOMESICKNESS, THREATENED MASTOIDITIS

MENTAL

DEPRESSION AND NOSTALGIA (HOMESICKNESS) which can even reach suicidal states. Ailments from
homesickness. Homesickness with sleeplessness, ennui, with red cheeks.

Prostration of mind.

Children obstinate, chilly and clumsy.

Desire to be alone, aversion to company.

Aversion to physical exertion.

PHYSICAL

Affects mucous membranes, and bones esp. MASTOID.

MASTOIDITIS.
Pain in distant parts on coughing, bladder, knees, legs, ears.

Flabbiness of skin, flabby feeling.

Pains are burning and smarting (as from cayenne pepper), worse with cold water. Burning, stinging and
bleeding hæmorrhoids.

Offensive breath, pungent eructations during cough.

Pain in throat, head, ear, back, bladder etc. during cough.

Thirsty after stool, with shivering. Much thirst but drinking causes shivering.

Perforation of tympanum, cavity is filled with thick yellow pus.

Children dread open air, always chilly, clumsy, fat, dirty with aversion to work or think. General uncleanliness
of the body, filthy skin.

Awkwardness.

Acute hearing during perspiration, during chill, during heat. Sensitive to noise during chill.

MODALITIES

DES.: pepper, alcohol, coffee.

Antidotes
Berb.

Compare
Ant-c., Calc., Carb-an., Ferr., Graph., Sulph.
CARBO ANIMALIS (Carb-an.)

BURNT-OUT WITH HOMESICKNESS

MENTAL

WEAK WILL DUE TO THE EXHAUSTION. Lack of reaction. Too weak to set limits, react to pressure or
say no.
Sympathetic.

HOMESICKNESS.
Buried in thought-meditative.
Keeps feelings inside. Reserved. Avoids conversation, indisposed to talk. Aversion to company.
Illusions of hearing- as if tone came from another direction, or another world.

Fear of heights. Fear of fainting. Fear of dark, aggravates on closing eyes.

PHYSICAL

Slow, hard, painful processes.

GREAT WEAKNESS < during menses.

Suitable to old persons of feeble constitution or low vitality. Lack of reaction. (Depleted vital energy
all Carbo's).

SWOLLEN AND INDURATED LYMPH GLANDS.

Susceptible to malignancies, cancerous affections esp., stomach, uterus, glands, ovaries, testes,
mammae, nose, tongue, eye, with burning pains.

Chill when lying on bed.

Headache, feels as if head would fly to pieces- must press it with hands. Head pain on vertex after wet
weather.

Impaired hearing. Confusion of sounds. Cannot tell from what direction sound comes from.

Bluish discoloration of skin. Bluish face, bluish circles around eyes.

Coppery skin eruptions.

Indigestion. Flatulence. Eructations are acrid and foul.

Vertigo after shaving.
Pain in teeth, salty food amel.
Coldness in foot between 9-15h.

MODALITIES
AGG.: eating while, lying on side, evening.

Complementaries
Calc-p.

Antidoted by
Ars., Camph., Nux-v.

Compare
Am-c., Calc., Caps., Carb-v., Chin., Con., Sep., Sil., Stann., Sulph.
CARBO VEGETABILIS (Carb-v.)

The idea of Carbo vegetabilis is the emptiness that we see in all levels. The person feels that life is
leaving him, he feels like an empty sac. The circulation is poor and produces weakness and faintness in
both acute and chronic states.

EMPTINESS IN ALL LEVELS, POOR CIRCULATION - WEAKNESS, FAINTNESS WITH COLD PERSPIRATION AND
DESIRE TO BE FANNED

MENTAL

The emptiness on the emotional level is manifested by indifference, apathy, discouragement and on the
mental level by slow thinking, dullness, weak memory, confusion, indecision.

Before these states you may see irritability and anger. The patient is abrupt and critical.

Anxiety on closing the eyes, at evening in bed. Delirium in the dark.

PHYSICAL

Acts upon the venous circulation, esp. capillaries. Poor circulation and imperfect
oxygenation. Disintegration. Bad effects from exhausting illness (ex. measles, scarlet fever, intoxication) and
loss of vital fluids. Used after anaesthesia to bring back the patient quickly. Last stages of disease.

FAINTNESS on rising, on waking, on exertion. Faintness with cold perspiration esp. on forehead, cold
breath, cold tongue, cold face and general coldness of body.

DESIRE TO BE FANNED.

Tympanitic distention of abdomen <eating, drinking, stool after >eructations, flatus. Indigestion <ice-cream.

Chilly. Waking from coldness of limbs. Always suffering from coryza.

Hæmorrhage from mucous membranes or orifices.

Gums are spongy, detached from teeth and bleed easily on sucking them or cleaning them.

Headache or constriction of head <pressure of hat. Head sensitive from walking in cold air.

Sensitive to tight clothing (esp. around stomach and abdomen )>loosening clothing.

MODALITIES

AGG.: warm wet weather, olive oil, pork, rich foods, butter and fat, eating while.
AMEL.: open air, loosening clothing, lying.
DES.: salt, sweets, coffee.
AVERS.: fat meat, salt, milk, meat.

Complementaries
Ars., Kali-c., Phos.

Antidoted by
Ars., Camph., Coff., Lach.

Antidotes
Apis, Ars., Chin., Merc., Psor. (Burning especially about nipples), Tarent.

Compare
Chin. (Flatulence), Lyc. (Flatulence), Sep. (Chilly, indifference, weakness )
CARBOLIC ACID

(Carb-ac.)

(Phenol, Carbolic Acid)

Carbolic Acid is a powerful irritant and anesthetic. A languid, foul, painless destructive remedy.
Stupor, paralysis of sensation and motion, feeble pulse and depressed breathing, death due to
paralysis of respiratory centres. Acts primarily on the central nervous system. INCREASED OLFACTORY
SENSIBILITY.

Produces mental and bodily languor, disinclination to study, with headache like a band. Very marked
ACUTENESS OF SMELL is a strong guiding symptom. Stomach symptoms are also important. Pains are
terrible; come and go suddenly. Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere. Putrid discharges
(Bapt.). Scarlet fever, with marked tendency to destruction of tissue internally and a fetid odor.
Spasmodic cough. Arthritis (See Dose).

Head
Disinclined to mental work. Tight feeling, as if compressed by a rubber band (Gels., Berb-a.). Orbital
neuralgia over the right eye. Headache, better by green tea; while smoking.

Nose
SMELL VERY ACUTE. Putrid discharge. Ozena with fetor and ulceration. Influenza and resulting
debility.

Throat
Ulcerated patches on the inside of lips and cheeks. BURNING IN THE MOUTH, EXTENDING TO the
stomach. Fauces red, and covered with exudation. Uvula whitened and shriveled. PUTRID
DISCHARGE. Almost impossible to swallow. DIPHTHERIA, FETID BREATH, REGURGITATION on
swallowing liquids, but little pain (Bapt.). Face dusky red; white around the mouth and nose. Rapid
sinking of vital forces.

Stomach
Appetite lost. DESIRE FOR STIMULANTS AND TOBACCO. Constant belching, nausea, VOMITING, dark
olive green. Heat rises up the esophagus. Flatulent distention of the stomach and abdomen. Painful
flatulence often marked in one part of the bowel. FERMENTATIVE DYSPEPSIA with bad taste and
breath.

Stool
Constipation, with VERY OFFENSIVE BREATH. Bloody, like scrapings of intestines. Great tenesmus.
Diarrhoea; stools thin, black, putrid.

Urine
Almost black. Diabetes. Irritable bladder in old men with frequent urination at night, probably
prostatic in nature (Use 1x).

Female
Discharges always offensive (Nit-ac., Nux-v., Sep.). Pustules around the vulva containing bloody pus.
Agonizing backache across the loins, dragging down the thighs. Pain in the left ovary; worse walking
in open air. Erosions of cervix; fetid, acrid discharge. Leucorrhoea in children (Cann-s., Merc., Puls.,
Sep.). Puerperal fever with offensive discharge. Irritating leucorrhoea, causing itching and burning
(Kreos.).

Extremities
Cramps in the fore part of the leg, close to the tibia DURING WALKING. Gnawing pains in the shin
bones. Arthritis.

Skin
Itching vesicles with burning pain. Burns tend to ulcerate.

Relationship
Compare: Chrysarobinum (locally IN RINGWORM of the scalp, 5-10 percent in glycerine and alcohol.
Equal parts). Ars., Kreos., Carb-v., Guano australis (violent headache as if from a band around the
head. Itching in the nostrils, back, thighs, genitals. Symptoms like hay fever).
Antidote: Alcohol, Vinegar, Chalk, Iod. Glauber's salt in watery solution.
Incompatible: GLYCERINE and VEGETABLE OILS.

Dose
Third to thirtieth potency. Phenol in Arthritis, according to Goodno. Must be absolutely pure. Crystals
Solution (25%) in equal parts of water and glycerine, dose 20 minims well diluted 3 times daily
(Bartlett).

Antidotes
Apis (Best antidote urticaria with stinging and burning)

Compare
Colch., Cuc-p. (Nausea of pregnancy), Sep. (Nausea of pregnancy), Tab. (Nausea of pregnancy)
CARBONEUM SULPHURATUM
(Carbn-s.)
(Alcohol Sulphuris-Bisulphide of Carbon)

This drug has a deep and disorganizing action and an immense range of action judging from
the symptomatology. Very useful in patients broken down by abuse of alcohol. Sensitive
patients worse cold, wasted muscles, and skin and mucous membranes anaesthetic. Special
affinity for eyes. Chronic rheumatism, sensitive and cold. Lack of vital heat. Diarrhoea every
four to six weeks. Paralysis with intense congestion of nerve centres. Tabes. Sensory
difficulties in limbs. IMPOTENCE, sciatica, come within the therapeutic sphere of this
remedy. Chronic plumbism. DIMINISHED SENSIBILITY of arms, hands and feet. Peripheral
neuritis.

Mind
Irritable, anxious, intolerant; STUPOR. Sluggishness of mind. Hallucinations of sight and
hearing. Changeable mood. Dementia alternating with excitement.

Head
Headache and dizziness. Aches as from a tight cap. Ears feel obstructed. NOISES IN HEAD.
Ulceration of the lips, anaesthesia of mouth and tongue.

Eyes
Myopia, asthenopia, and dis-chromotopsia, cloudiness and atrophy of optic disc and central
scotoma for light and for red and green not for white. Optic neuritis advancing toward
atrophy. Arteries and veins congested. Retinal congestion; optic disc pale. Everything seems
in a fog. Vision greatly impaired. Color-blindness.

Ears
Hearing impaired. Buzzing and singing noises like an aeolian harp. TINNITUS AURIUM.
MENIERE'S DISEASE.

Abdomen
Pain with WANDERING SWELLINGS as from flatus. Distention, with soreness and
rumbling.

Genitalia-Male
Desire lost, parts atrophied. Frequent profuse emissions.

Extremities
Herpes on dorsal surface of hands. Sore, bruised limbs; anaesthesia of arms and hands.
Cramps in limbs. Lightning-like pains, with cramps. Fingers swollen, INSENSIBLE, rigid,
stiff. Gait unsteady, tottering; worse in dark. Feet insensible. SCIATICA. FLYING PAINS,
RETURNING REGULARLY for a long time. Pain in lower limbs, with cramps and
formication. NEURITIS.

Sleep
Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams.
Skin
Anaesthesia; burning; itching; ulcers; small wounds fester. Useful in restraining the growth of
cancer. Furunculosis. Chronic skin diseases with much itching.

Modalities
AGG.: after breakfast; bathing. Sensitive to warm, damp, weather.
AMEL.: in open air.

Relationship
Compare: POTASS. XANTATE-(Similar in action. Acts on cortical substance; loss of
memory, marked blood degeneration; impotence and senility. TUB; RAD.; CARB-V;
SULPH.; CAUST.; SAL-AC.; CINCH. In eye symptoms compare: BEN-D. THYR.
(progressive diminution of sight with central Scotoma).

Dose
First attenuation. Locally in facial neuralgia and sciatica.

Compare
Alum. (Meniere's disease), Anac. (Hears voices), Bapt. (Meniere's disease), Ben-d. (Vision), Cann-i. (Opening and
shutting sensation in head), Carb-v. (Flatulence), Caust. (Meniere's disease), Chin. (Meniere's disease), Kali-bi. (Hair
sensation in throat), Sil. (Hair sensation in throat), Sulph. (Sensitiviness of abdomen)
CAUSTICUM (Caust.)

The Causticum people are sensitive and easily affected by the environment. They develop very strong
feelings about the suffering of others (especially the social suffering rather than the physical like
Phosphorus). They get so angry with injustice that they can become activists, anarchists or even violent.
The neurological system is mostly affected on this remedy.

SENSITIVE TO INJUSTICE, SYMPATHETIC, NEUROLOGICAL COMPLAINTS

MENTAL

SYMPATHETIC. CANNOT SUPPORT INJUSTICE. Strong sense of justice. Idealists. They rebel against authority,
they are exhilarated with politics. Can become anarchists or fanatics.

Sympathetic towards animals. They cannot see an animal suffering.

Oversensitive when hearing of cruelties.

Ailments from long lasting grief and sorrow.

Stammering < excitement, vexation.

Weeping at trifles, spasmodic.

PHYSICAL

The nervous system is weak, in excitable state and predisposed to diseases.

GRADUAL PARALYSIS, paralysis of SINGLE PARTS, esp. of right side.

Paralysis with numbness of left side.
Facial paralysis esp. one-sided, after getting wet, after riding in the wind.

INVOLUNTARY URINATION when coughing, sneezing, blowing the nose due to the weakness of the sphincter
of the urethra.

Sudden LOSS OF VOICE (HOARSENESS) due to the paralysis of the vocal cords, from overuse, from singing.

Sensation in throat as if there is mucus which he must swallow. Constant disposition to swallow and to hawk.
Ineffectual hawking.

Pain as if the place is RAW.

Constipation: stool passes better when person is standing; hæmorrhoids prevent stool.
Ailments from suppressed eruptions, from anger or vexation.

MODALITIES

AGG.: dry, cold dry weather.

AMEL.: WET, warm wet weather, cold drinks.
DES.: SMOKED MEAT.
AVERS.: SWEETS.

Complementaries
Carb-v., Coloc., Staph.

Follows well
Asar., Coloc. (In colic), Ph-ac.

Followed well by
Ant-t., Arum-t., Calc., Coloc., Kali-i., Lyc., Nux-v., Puls., Rhus-t., Ruta, Sep., Sil., Stann., Sulph.

Antidoted by
Asaf., Coff., Coloc., Nux-v.

Antidotes
Coloc., Lyc., Sulph. (Abuse of Sulphur in scabies)
CHAMOMILLA (Cham.)

Chamomilla patients are oversensitive people to an extreme degree. Oversensitivity and irritability run
through the whole symptom picture. Chamomilla is very much indicated in children during the period of
dentition.

EXCITABLE, REACTIVE NERVOUS SYSTEM, CAPRICIOUSNESS

MENTAL

GREAT IRRITABILITY <touched, spoken to, during pain, during dentition. Cannot bear to be looked at.
Sends nurse out of the room.

CAPRICIOUSNESS. Rejecting the things he has been longing when offered.

CHILDREN WANT TO BE CARRIED AND ROCKED.

OVER-SENSITIVE to pain.

Common in children esp. during dentition.

PHYSICAL

AILMENTS FROM ANGER: pains in uterus, metrorrhagia, vomiting, convulsions, dyspnoea, metritis, asthma etc.

GREAT SENSITIVENESS TO PAIN. Pain is unbearable, drives to despair. Labor pains spasmodic and distressing,
make her desperate.

REDNESS OF ONE CHEEK, PALENESS OF THE OTHER.

DENTITION with irritability.

Toothache < warm drinks or food, bed, warm room.

Stools hot, like chopped eggs & spinach, smelling like rotten eggs (esp. during dentition).

Hot sweat on head.

MODALITIES

AGG.: 09:00, touch or touching anything, lying on painless side, coffee, cold becoming.
AMEL.: coffee, after perspiration, cold.
DES.: cold drinks, bread.
AVERS.: warm drinks, beer, coffee, aversion to food after eating a little.

Complementaries
Bell., Calc., Mag-c.

Follows well
Bell.

Followed well by
Acon., Arn., Bell., Bry., Cact., Calc., Cocc., Form., Merc., Nux-v., Puls., Rhus-t., Sep., Sil., Sulph.

Antidoted by
Camph., Coff., Nux-v.

Inimical
Zinc. (Should not be used before or after.)

Antidotes
All-c. (Abdominal pains.), Borx. (Pains and the swelling of cheeks), Hep., Lyc., Puls. (Principal antidote of Puls, Cham
and Puls antidote each other and also follow each other well , if either one has over acted the other will probably
neutralize ill effects and carry on the good drowsiness axhaustion and diminution od senses), Sars., Sulph., Thuja (Pain in
teeth worse night)

Compare
Ant-c. (Capriciousness), Calc-p. (Complaining), Cina (Capriciousness, must be carried)
CHELIDONIUM MAJUS (Chel.)

GALL BLADDER AND LIVER AFFECTIONS

MENTAL

Powerful, domineering, dictatorial. Wants others to listen to her advice and likes to run others' lives.

PHYSICAL

GALL-BLADDER AND LIVER AFFECTIONS.

Gall-stones, cholocystitis.

PAIN IN RIGHT HYPOCHONDRIA EXTENDING TO BACK, TO THE INFERIOR ANGLE OF RIGHT SCAPULA <
breathing, inspiring.

Right sided complaints. Eye or ear pain extending to teeth. Toothache extending to eyes. Headache <right
side, with lachrymation.

Jaundice (also in newborns).

Constipation alternating with diarrhoea, like sheep's dung. Constriction of rectum preventing the stool,
alternating with itching.

Stomach pain or umbilicus pain extending transversely across stomach or abdomen.

MODALITIES

AGG.: eating after.

AMEL.: eating after esp. noon, warm milk, warm drinks.
DES.: cheese, warm drinks, strange things.
AVERS.: cheese.

Complementaries
Lyc.

Followed well by
Acon., Ars., Bry., Cor-r., Ip., Led., Lyc., Nux-v., Sep., Spig., Sulph.

Antidotes
Bry., Tarent.

Compare
Bry. (Worse motion), Chin., Lyc. (Right sided, liver and gallbladder disorders, desires warm drinks), Sang., Sulph.
CHINA OFFICINALIS / CINCHONA OFFICINALIS (Chin.)

This is a touchy person. The nervous system is in a state of irritation. Touch aggravates them in the
physical and emotional levels. They react badly with the least offence and they are aggravated by
touch.

TOUCHY, AILMENTS AFTER LOSS OF VITAL FLUIDS, DISTENTION

MENTAL

TOUCHY, EASILY OFFENDED.

FEAR OF ANIMALS.

Great imagination. Abundant ideas at evening or night. They fantasize about all sorts of things and play the
hero in these fantasies. Mirth, liveliness at night esp. after midnight.

Oversensitive to noise.
Dullness of mind or delirium after loss of fluids.

PHYSICAL

GALL BLADDER STONES.

AILMENTS FROM LOSS OF BLOOD, OF FLUIDS (emaciation, faintness, chorea, stomach pain, inflammation of
lungs, diarrhoea).

DISTENTION OF ABDOMEN, tympanitic, with a lot of flatus, but passing flatus does not ameliorate. Worse
after drinking, eating.

PERIODICITY. Periodic fever, headache, eye pain, face pain, diarrhoea etc.

Headache ameliorated with hard pressure.

Cold perspiration around nose, around mouth.

MODALITIES

AGG.: SLIGHT TOUCH, slight pressure, fruit, milk.

AMEL.: HARD PRESSURE.
DES.: sweets, spices, delicacies, highly seasoned food.
AVERS.: hot food, butter, fruit, beer.

Complementaries
Ferr.

Follows well
Aeth., Aur., Bell.

Antidoted by
Ars., Calc., Carb-v., Hep., Ip., Nat-m., Nux-v., Sep., Sulph., Verat.

Antidotes
Apis, Ars., Ferr., Hell., Merc., Sep., Sulph. (Centrifugal action of Sulph.), Verat. (Chronic affections for abuse of
Verat e.g. daily forenoon fever.)

Compare
Carb-v. (Flatulence), Chinin-s., Coff. (Quick thoughts in Cof. but vivd imagination at night in bed in
Chin.), Ip., Lyc. (Flatulence), Nat-m., Nux-v.
CHININUM ARSENICOSUM Clarke

(Chinin-ar.)

Arsenite of Quinine. (C20H24N2O2) 3H3 As O4 2H2O. Trituration or solution.

Clinical.-Angina pectoris. Asthma. Bright's disease. Diarrhœa. Diphtheria. Epilepsy. Gastralgia. Hectic fever.
Hemicrania. Intermittent fever. Keratitis. Ophthalmia. Scarlatina. Sore-throat, malignant. Spinal irritation.
Syphilis. Tobacco, effects of. Tuberculosis.

Characteristics.-The Arsenite of Quinine combines many of the properties of its two components, but having
been proved it can be treated as a separate individuality. The periodicity is intensified, and this is especially
noted in the neuralgias. An irritable mood precedes the headache, which is < by mental and bodily exercise.
The gastralgia of Chinin-ar. is pressure in solar plexus with tender spine just at back of it. Nausea and vomiting
are followed by sleep. Bonino (H. R., iv. 210), who gave it a prolonged proving, found the symptoms < at rest ;
in the morning ; and when the stomach was empty. They were > by motion (vertigo) ; and by eating
(gastralgia). The chief effects were manifested on the stomach, solar plexus, ligaments and skin. According to
him it corresponds to tobacco intoxication and its effects ; indigestion from unripe fruits ; gastralgia from
coarse food or ill-baked bread; chronic rheumatism of joints without swelling ; tertiary syphilis of periosteum ;
colic from incarcerated flatus ; intermittent fever with predominating chills, little thirst and continuous almost
convulsive yawning ; effects of severe and depressing influences on the mind ; to convalescence from long-
lasting
sickness. The circulation was slow, and limbs relaxed. Weakness, prostration, and disinclination for mental
exertion were marked in several provers.

Relations.-Compare:Apis (diphtheria) ; æthusa (sleep after vomiting) ; Cact (constricting sensations).

Causation.-Tobacco.

Compare
Ars., Chin., Phos., Stann.
CHININUM SULPHURICUM Clarke

(Chinin-s.)

Sulphate of Quinine. (C20H24N2O2 )2 H2SO4 15H2O. Trituration.

Clinical.-Angina pectoris. Asthma. Brow ague . Cancerous ulcers. Cholera. Delirium. Diarrhoea. Dropsy.
Dysmenorrhoea. Ear affections. Gangrenous and fetid suppurations. Gravel. Hæmaturia. Hæmoglobinuria.
Hæmorrhages. Headache. Intermittent fever. Menière's disease. Neuralgia. Noises in the head. Parotitis.
Pruritus vulvæ. Puerperal convulsions. Pyæmia.Rectum, prolapse of. Remittent fever. Rheumatism. Scarlatina.
Spinal irritation. Spleen, enlarged. Typhus-fever. Urticaria. Varicose veins. Variola.

Characteristics.-Sulphuric acid and Sulphur are themselves in the first rank of periodic remedies, and
combined with the chief alkaloid of China they enhance the powerful periodic properties of that drug. In old-
school practice the Sulphate of Quinine has almost entirely taken the place of the crude Bark as a
remedy. Chinin-s. closely resembles China in its effects, but as it has been proved separately, and as
observations of the effects of over-dosing have supplied many additional symptoms, the homeopathist has
plenty of guidance in the selection of one in preference to the other. Chinin-s. is even more powerful as an
antiseptic than China , and it is probable that it is in virtue of its property of antagonising the malarial poison
that it suppresses intermittent fever when it does not cure. It only cures when the fever corresponds to its own
type. When a fever is "suppressed" there is generally an unholy alliance between disease-force and drug-force,
which is expended on some part of the organism, resulting at times in lifelong ill-health. The "Quinine
cachexia" is well known - sallow complexion, emaciation, deafness and singing in the ears, enlarged spleen,
disposition to shiver, and great debility. Periodicity is extremely well marked, the attacks returning at the
same hour each day. In intermittents the onset may anticipate. Skin flaccid and sensitive to touch. Red rash
over whole body, with severe stinging, followed by desquamation. Other prominent symptoms are: Headache
extending from occiput to forehead. Whirling in the head like a mill-wheel. Twitching of left eyelid, < in the
evening. Aphthæ in weakly people. Tartar on teeth. Hunger at night. Prolapse of rectum, especially in
children. Hæmaturia and hæmoglobinuria. ("Black-water fever" has been developed through
administering Chinin-s. in intermittents. Koch deserves much credit for showing that the worst features of
African fevers are due to over-dosing with Quinine and not to the disease). E W. Sawyer ( Med. Advance , 1887)
relates this instructive history: He learned from his cook that her brother (æt. 16) could not take a particle of
Quinine without causing a profuse flow of blood with the urine, sometimes within half an hour, always without
pain. This had followed every time his doctors had tried to "break his ague" with Quinine. A year later a
farmer's wife, æt. 60, came to Dr. Sawyer to be treated for bloody urine unattended with pain or
uneasiness. She attributed it to strain from walking two miles on a slippery road. She had been for months
under Hygienist treatment without benefit, and was alarmingly weak from loss of
blood. Rhus 200, Ham . 1x, Erig . 1x, Chin . 1x, Ferr-m. 2x were given in succession in vain. At last, calling to
mind the case of the youth, he gave Chinin-s. in 1 / 16 gr. doses three times a day, and a prompt cure was
effected. Chinin-s. causes painfulness and swelling of varicose veins during a chill. (Julius E. Schmitt cured a
case on this last indication.) Great sensitiveness to external influences. All discharges debilitating. Weak and
nervous; a little exercise = sweat from least exertion. Head gradually breaks into sweat when perfectly
quiet. Chinin-s. is one of the medicines which have the "sinking sensation." Tyrrell had a patient in whom in any
potency it caused her to become "deathly sick and faint, thought she would die, could not raise her head, felt
she would sink through the bed ." Sacch. produced in her the same symptoms, and she accused the doctor of
having given her Quinine. ( Ars. has "sinking sensation," "as if bed had gone from under her and she had
alighted on the floor." Bell., Dulc., Rhus-t, Lach ., have "sinking through the bed.") Palpitation. Touch < ;
pressure > Wants to lie down. Motion = chilliness. Stooping = giddiness. Bending forward > . Sleeplessness and
over-stimulation of nervous system.

Relations.-Compare: See China. It is antidoted by: Arn., Ars., Carb-v., Ferr., Hep., Lach., and especially Nat-
m., which antidotes effects of over-dosing with Quinine; Puls. Compare: Cinch., Apis (chill 3 p.m..);
Ars. (pyæmia, spinal irritation, periodically returning neuralgias); Bry. (sweat from least exertion); Carb-
an. (all discharges debilitating); Eup-per. (sweat relieves all symptoms but headache); Nux-v. (blue lips and
nails with chill); Puls. (rheumatic erratic pains); Stann. (supra-orbital neuralgia); Staph. (head gradually breaks
into sweat while perfectly quiet). In headache from before backward (Gels., Lac-c., Sang., Sil.).

Compare
Cedr., Chin., Con. (Meniere's syndrome), Phos.
CICUTA VIROSA (Cic.)

CONVULSIONS FROM INJURIES OF HEAD WITH FRIGHTFUL DISTORTIONS OF THE FACE

MENTAL

FRIGHTFUL DISTORTIONS OF THE FACE, DURING CONVULSIONS.

Convulsions with bizarre distortions.

Shrieking, screaming, shouting, fear before convulsions.

Childishness with strabismus. Foolish jesting.

Retardation esp. after head injury. Weakness of memory.

Aversion to company. Answers abruptly when spoken to.

Moaning and groaning during sleep.

Affected profoundly after hearing horrible things, by sad stories.

Delirium with singing and dancing. Dementia.

PHYSICAL

Affections of the nervous system. Indicated in epilepsy, mental retardation, trismus, tetanus and convulsions.
Clenching of thumbs in epilepsy.

VIOLENT CONVULSIONS, WITH FRIGHTFUL DISTORTIONS OF FACE, with bizarre distortions.

OPISTHOTONOS. ARCHING OF THE BACK.

Head drawn backward, drawn sideways.

Convulsions after injuries esp. head.

Strabismus.
Vomiting during or alternating with convulsion.

Sudden jerks and spasms through head, stomach, extremities, forearms, fingers. Chorea.
Spinal chorea.

Eruptions on head, pustules which burn and run together, forming thick yellow, honey like scabs on the face or
scalp.

MODALITIES

AGG.: tobacco smoke (Ign.), touch.

DES.: indigestible things - dirt, charcoal or chalk (Alum, Psor), cabbage.

Followed well by
Bell., Hep., Op., Puls., Rhus-t., Sep.
CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA (Cimic.)

CHRONIC HEADACHES AND RHEUMATIC COMPLAINTS

MENTAL

Incessant talking, loquacity changing from one subject to another. Loquacious delirium.
Restlessness and uneasiness, difficult concentration, cannot fix attention. Jerky.
Dullness with headache.

Delusion that heavy black clouds envelope her, that she’s encaged in wires, that sees sheeps, rats.

Fear of insanity esp. in menopause. Very suspicious, fear of being poisoned or murdered, of impending
danger. Fear of death and rats.

2nd stage: Depressed, gloomy, miserable, with frequent sighing.

PHYSICAL

Women’s remedy. Complaints during the climacteric period. Cramp in uterus, bearing down pains, ovarian
neuralgia.

Menses irregular, profuse or scanty. More pain the more the flow.
Congestion of head, restlessness, sadness from suppressed menses.
Menses from suppressed emotions or suppressed cold. Unable to open the lids during menses.
Tendency to abortion. After-effects of abortion.
Nausea in pregnancy.

Headache as if the vertex is pressing outward. Fullness in vertex with vertigo.

Sore pain, sensitive to pressure. Redness of eyes during headache. Pain from occiput extending to vertex,
headache <opening and shutting or turning eyes, warm room, after sleep. >open air, pressure, tea.

Rheumatic complaints. Rheumatic back pain, headache, toothache, chest pain, joint pain, facial pain, chorea.
Stiffness of cervical region.

Gagging when drinking. Faint, sinking, empty feeling in stomach.

Pain extending from heart to left arm.

Mouth: gluey, viscid saliva. Trembling of tongue (Lach.).

MODALITIES

AGG.: cold (air, becoming), during menses, evening, motion, sudden change of weather.
AMEL.: open air.

Antidoted by
Acon., Puls.

Compare
Arg-n., Calc-p., Caul., Ign., Lac-c., Lach., Phos., Puls.
CINA (Cina)
The irritation of the nervous system in Cina is such that they cannot have peace. We see the irritation in
all levels. In the mental level there’s irritability and capriciousness and on the physical level we see
itching of the nose, grinding of teeth, convulsions. Imagine the irritation of an organism full of worms.
IRRITATION OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
MENTAL
EXTREME CAPRICIOUSNESS esp. in CHILDREN. Aversion to being TOUCHED, caressed, approached.
REJECTING EVERYTHING OFFERED. Striking, throws things away.
Shrieking on waking, during sleep, before convulsions.
Weeping when carried.
PHYSICAL
Nervous erethism.
MAINLY A REMEDY FOR WORMS.
CONVULSIONS FROM WORMS, from anger. Convulsions of extensor muscles.
Constantly PICKING AND BORING AT THE NOSE.
ITCHING of nose. RUBS the nose constantly.
Grinding of teeth during sleep.
Ravenous appetite soon after eating. Capricious, changeable appetite. Appetite in unusual time.
Sleeps in knee-chest position.
MODALITIES
AGG.: pressure, pepper.
AMEL.: lying on abdomen, motion.
DES.: many things, cold drinks, bread
AVERS.: milk, mother’s milk.

Follows well
Ant-t., Dros.

Compare
Ant-c., Ant-t., Cham. (Irritable children)
CINNABARIS

(Cinnb.)

(Mercuric Sulphide)

For certain forms of ciliary neuralgia and ulceration on a syphilitic base, this remedy is most effective.
Sleepless during night.

Head
Congestion of the head.

Eyes
PAIN FROM THE LACHRYMAL DUCT RADIATES AROUND THE EYE, TO THE TEMPLE, FROM THE INNER CANTHUS,
ACROSS THE BROW TO THE EAR. SEVERE SHOOTING PAIN IN THE BONES OF ORBIT, ESPECIALLY RUNNING FROM
THE INNER TO THE OUTER CANTHUS IN THE BONE. REDNESS OF THE WHOLE EYE. Lids granulated; canthi and
lids red.

Nose
Pressive sensation, as if from heavy spectacles. Pain around the root, extending into the bones on each side
(Aur., Kali-i.).

Throat

Stringy mucus passed through the posterior nares into the throat. Dryness of the mouth and throat; must rinse
the mouth. Fiery looking ulcers in the mouth and throat.

Male
Prepuce swollen; WARTS on it, which bleed easily; testicles enlarged; buboes; angry looking chancres.
Syphilides, squamous and vesicular.

Female
Leucorrhoea. Feeling of pressure in the vagina.

Extremities
Pain in the forearm from the elbow down, including hands. Pain in long bones when barometric level lowers;
coldness in the joints.

Skin
VERY FIERY RED looking ulcers. Nodes on shin bones. Buboes. Condyloma, easily bleeding.

Modalities
AGG.: lying on the right side (feels as if the contents of the body were being dragged over to that side).

Relationship
Compare: Hep., Nit-ac., Thuj., Sep.

Antidotes: Hep., Sulph.

Dose
First to third trituration.

Compare
Hep., Merc. (Cinnabaris has an affinity for genitalia and rectum), Nit-ac., Sep., Thuja
CLEMATIS ERECTA

(Clem.)

(Virgin's Bower)

Scrofulous, rheumatic, gonorrhoeal and syphilitic patients. Acts especially on the skin, GLANDS and genito-
urinary organs, especially on the testicles. A remedy of much importance in disturbances of sleep and neuralgic
PAINS in various parts. Many of these pains are relieved by perspiration. Muscles relaxed or twitching. Great
emaciation. GREAT SLEEPINESS. Distant pulsations in the entire body.

Head
Boring pains in the temples. CONFUSED FEELING; BETTER IN THE OPEN AIR. Eruption on the occiput at the base
of hair, moist, pustular sensitive, itching.

Eyes
Heat in the eyes and SENSITIVE TO AIR; must close them. Chronic blepharitis with sore and swollen Meibomian
glands. Iritis, great SENSITIVENESS TO COLD. Flickering before the eyes. Pustular conjunctivitis with tinea
capitis; eyes inflamed and protruding.

Face
White blisters on the face and nose, as if burned by sun. Swelling of the submaxillary glands with hard
tubercles; throbbing, aggravated on being touched. Pain on the right side of the face radiating to the eye, ear
and temple; better, holding cold water in the mouth.

Mouth

TOOTHACHE; WORSE, AT NIGHT AND FROM TOBACCO. Teeth feel too long.

Stomach
After eating, weakness in all the limbs and pulsation in arteries.

Male
Ilio-scrotal neuralgia. TESTICLES INDURATED WITH A BRUISED FEELING. Swelling in the scrotum (ORCHITIS),
right half only. Troubles from suppressed gonorrhoea. Violent erections with stitches in the urethra. Testicles
hang heavy or retracted, with pain along the spermatic cord; worse, right side.

Urinary
Tingling in the urethra lasting some time after urinating. Frequent, scanty urination; burning at the orifice.
INTERRUPTED FLOW. Urethra feels constricted. Urine emitted drop by drop. Inability to pass all the urine;
dribbling after urinating. Pain worse at night, pain along the spermatic cord. Commencing stricture.

Skin
Red, burning, vesicular, scaly, scabby. Itches terribly; worse, washing in cold water; worse face, hands and
SCALP AROUND THE OCCIPUT. GLANDS hot, painful, SWOLLEN; worse inguinal glands. Glandular indurations and
tumors of breast. Varicose ulcers.

Modalities
AGG.: at night, and by warmth of bed washing in cold water; new moon (monthly aggravation).
AMEL.: in open air.

Relationship
Compare: CLEMATIS VITALBA (varicose and other ulcers). Sil., Staph., Petr., Olean., Sars., Canth., Ph-ac., Puls.

Antidotes: Bry., Camph.

Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.

Antidotes
Bry.

Compare
Arg-mur., Ars., Bell., Bry., Calc., Canth., Caust., Con., Dulc., Graph., Med., Merc., Petr., Puls. (Orchitis), Rhod
., Rhus-t., Sars.
COCCULUS INDICUS (Cocc.)
In Cocculus the vision is not adjusted as the person is moving. The accommodation of the eye is slow
resulting to dizziness, headaches, vomiting and vertigo. They are very sensitive to loss of sleep.
AILMENTS FROM NIGHT - WATCHING OR LOSS OF SLEEP ESPECIALLY VERTIGO
MENTAL
AILMENTS FROM CARES ABOUT OTHERS.
ANXIETY from LOSS OF SLEEP and NIGHT WATCHING.
Slowness of perception. Dullness, answers slowly.
Profound sadness. Sits as if wrapped in deep, sad thoughts. Sentimental.
Intolerant of contradiction, easily offended.
Anxiety about health and health of relatives. Anxiety others for.
PHYSICAL
Disturbances of the sensorium and cerebrospinal axis. Slowness, slow reflexes, slow accommodation of eye.
NERVOUS WEAKNESS. AILMENTS FROM NIGHT-WATCHING.
VERTIGO FROM NIGHT-WATCHING < MOTION OF EYES, moving objects. Vertigo with tendency to fall
sideways.
NAUSEA / VOMITING on motion, from riding in a carriage, car or train, from thought or smell of food, on
becoming cold. SEA-SICKNESS.
The slowness of the nervous system can reach to the state of painless paralysis. Paralytic weakness,
stiffness of extremities. Paralysis of muscles.
Weakness esp. of lower limbs < during menses, riding in a car.
Unable to hold the head up from the weakness. Weakness of neck muscles with heaviness.
Sensation of hollowness or emptiness in head, chest and abdomen.
Cutting pain in uterus <motion, breath.
MODALITIES
AGG.: riding, rising, motion, walking in open air.
AMEL.: lying on side, lying in bed.
DES.: refreshing things, beer, mustard.
AVERS.: food, smell of food, sour, beer.

Follows well
Acon., Cham., Cham., Ign., Nux-v.

Antidotes
Nux-v. (Paralytic symptoms also intoxicating effects.), Petr., Thuja (Fever)

Compare
Alum. (Mental slowness), Calc., Caust., Cimic., Con., Ip., Nat-m., Ph-ac., Phos., Puls., Staph.
COCCUS CACTI

(Coc-c.)

(Cochineal)

The clinical application of the symptoms of this remedy, place it among the medicines for spasmodic and
whooping coughs and catarrhal conditions of the bladder; spasmodic pains in kidneys, with visceral tenesmus.
Anuria, anasarca., ascites.

Mind
Early morning or afternoon sadness.

Head
Suboccipital soreness; worse after sleep and exertion. Headache, worse from lying on back, better with the
head high.

Eyes
Dull pain over right eye in the morning. SENSATION OF A FOREIGN BODY BETWEEN UPPER LID AND EYEBALL.
Distress from cinders lodged in eye.

Respiratory
Constant hawking from an enlarged uvula; coryza, with inflamed fauces; ACCUMULATION OF THICK VISCID
MUCUS, which is expectorated with great difficulty. TICKLING IN THE LARYNX. Sensation of a crumb behind the
larynx, must swallow continuously; brushing teeth causes cough. Fauces very sensitive. Suffocative cough;
worse, on waking with tough, white mucus, which strangles. Spasmodic morning cough. WHOOPING COUGH
ATTACKS END WITH VOMITING OF TOUGH MUCUS. Chronic bronchitis complicated with gravel; large quantities
of albuminous, tenacious mucus are expectorated. Walking against the wind takes the breath away.

Heart
Sensation as if everything weas pressed toward the heart.

Urinary
Urging to urinate; BRICK RED SEDIMENT. URINARY CALCULI, HEMATURIA, URATES and uric acid; lancinating
pains from the kidney to the bladder. Deep colored, thick urine. Dysuria.

Female
Menses too early, profuse, BLACK and thick; DARK CLOTS with dysuria. Intermittent menstruation; flow only in
the evening and at night. LARGE CLOTS escape when passing urine. LABIA inflamed.

Modalities
AGG.: left side, after sleep, touch, pressure of clothing, brushing teeth, slightest exertion.
AMEL.: walking.

Relationship
Compare: Canth., Cact., Sars.

Dose
Lower triturations.

Compare
Dros. (Cough), Kali-bi. (Thick or ropy expectoration), Puls. (Cough worse lying), Rumex (Cough), Spong. (Cough)
COFFEA CRUDA (Coff.)

Oversensitive people, too sensitive to external impressions who get excessively excited and who suffer
from insomnia. The Coffea patient has extreme alertness with all the senses under high tension
especially the sense of hearing.

OVERSENSITIVITY OF NERVOUS SYSTEM, SLEEPLESSNESS

MENTAL

EXCITEMENT, OVER-SENSITIVITY, ACUTENESS.

Oversensitive to pain, to noise, to odors, to all external impressions. Fear of death from pain.

Ailments from excessive joy. Ecstasy.

Abundant ideas esp. evening and night. Rapid thoughts.

Active memory and concentration.

Quick to act.

PHYSICAL

Overexcitement of nervous system.

SLEEPLESSNESS from physical and mental excitement, from excessive joy, from thoughts, from same idea
repeating.

Ailments from joy (diarrhoea, palpitation, catalepsy, metritis, headache, trembling).

ACUTE SENSES. Acute hearing, smell, taste, vision.

SENSITIVENESS TO PAIN, pains are felt INTENSELY, ESP. WITH NOISE. Painful sensitiveness of the skin.

Headache from noise, music, excessive joy. Nervous headache.

One-sided as from a nail. Congestion of head after a surprise or excitement.

Neuralgic toothache <warm food and drinks, external warmth > cold drinks.

MODALITIES

AGG.: noise, heat, touch, cold wind, wine.

AMEL.: sitting, open air, lying, sleep, warm.
AVERS.: coffee.

Followed well by
Aur., Bell., Lyc., Nux-v., Op.

Antidotes
Anac., Aur., Bell., Borx. (Sleeplessness and pain in head), Bry., Carb-v., Caust., Cham., Coloc., Kali-c., Nux-
v. (Pain in head anorexia), Psor. (Frequent repetition), Puls., Rhus-t., Stram., Sulph., Thuja, Verat.

Compare
Bry., Cham. (Toothache better from cold), Nux-v., Ther.
COLOCYNTHIS (Coloc.)
COLICY PAINS >BENDING DOUBLE, SUPPRESSED ANGER
MENTAL
EXTREMELY IRRITABLE, becomes ANGRY when QUESTIONED. Throws things away.
Ailments after anger with indignation. Ailments after mortification.
Aversion to company even of intimate friends. Indisposed to talk, aversion to answer.
PHYSICAL
Used in acute affections of the DIGESTIVE TRACT & INTESTINES, with long lasting action on NERVES. Pains
appear in the larger nerves.
AILMENTS AFTER VEXATION OR ANGER (stomach pain, diarrhoea, cough, suppressed menses).
PAIN IN ABDOMEN or STOMACH: cramping , cutting, tearing, like electric shock darting through the anus. >
BY BENDING DOUBLE, lying on abdomen, pressure and warmth.
Cramping pain in umbilicus >bending forward.
Great remedy for babies with colics/cramps.
Back pain and headache get worse when lying on back.
Shooting pains extending down to sciatic nerve < right.
MODALITIES
AGG.: lying on painless side, cold (becoming, air, drinks, food), fruit, after eating, motion, potatoes, lying on
back.
AMEL.: DRAWING UP THE LOWER LIMBS, pressure, warm applications, lying on painful side.
DES.: cold food and drinks without thirst, bread, beer.

Complementaries
Caust., Merc. (In dysentery with much tenesmus), Staph.

Follows well
Caust.

Followed well by
Caust. (In colic)

Antidoted by
Camph., Caust., Coff., Staph.

Antidotes
Caust.

Compare
Bry., Caust. (Rheumatism, ailments for anger.), Cham., Colch. (Stiffness in joints, esp.
knees), Dig. (Paraphimosis), Dios. (Tearing pains in body, better by motion), Mag-p., Nux-v., Staph. (Anger, vexation,
neuralgia)
CONIUM MACULATUM (Con.)

In Conium all processes take place gradually. Gradual development of tumors, gradual weakness with
indurations, gradual loss of intellectual powers.

HARDNESS, TUMORS, AILMENTS FROM SUPPRESSED SEXUAL DESIRE

MENTAL

AILMENTS FROM SUPPRESSED SEXUALITY.

Anxiety from suppressed sexual excesses. Sadness after suppressed sexual desire. Hysteria after
suppressed sexual excitement.

‘sclerosis’ of brain: develops fixed ideas, becomes superstitious.

Sadness from masturbation, from suppressed menses, from continence, during perspiration, periodical.

Materialistic, practical, business type.

Aversion to mental work. No inclination for business or study, indifference, takes no interest in anything.
Dreads being alone, yet aversion to company. Weeping alone.

PHYSICAL

Affects nerves and muscles.

Bad affects from SUPPRESSED SEXUAL DESIRE or from sexual excesses.

AFFECTION OF GLANDS: INDURATION, HARD SWELLING, ulcers, atrophy, itching, pain. esp. after injury.
Affections of mammae, prostate, testes, ovaries, cervical, mesenteric, submaxillary.

Prostatic / uterine affections. Prostatitis, hardness, enlargement, swelling of prostate.

Emission of prostatic fluid during lascivious thoughts, with every emotion. Interrupted urination. Urine flows
better when standing.

Uterus: induration, enlargement, cancer.

VERTIGO as if bed turned about < turning in bed, moving the head quickly, motion of eyes, rising.

Paralysis of various parts (extremities, optic nerve, lids, tongue, bladder). Painless paralysis of lower limbs.
Trembling of limbs.

Cough hacking from dryness or tickling in larynx < lying, must sit up.

Perspiration during sleep, on beginning to sleep, even when closing the eyes. Waking from perspiration.

MODALITIES

AGG.: suppression of sexual desire, snow-air, rubbing, beginning of motion, lying on side, milk, cold food,
walking fast, coition after, menses after.
AMEL.: continued motion, wine, touch, lying on back, open air.
DES.: coffee, salt, sour.
AVERS.: bread.

Complementaries
Bar-m., Caust., Phos.

Follows well
Cean.

Followed well by
Bry., Psor. (In tumors of mammae with threatening malignancy)
Antidotes
Ant-t., Nit-ac., Sulph. (Swollen glands)

Compare
Brom. (Enlarged glands), Carb-an., Caust., Cocc. (Vertigo), Ph-ac., Sep.
COPAIVA OFFICINALIS

(Cop.)

(Balsam of Copaiva)

Acts powerfully on the mucous membranes, especially that of the urinary tract, the respiratory
system and the skin, here it produces a well-marked nettle-rash. Colds and catarrhs.

Head
Excessive sensitiveness; pain in the occiput. Dull, frontal headache, passes to the occiput and back
again with throbbing, worse right side and motion. Scalp sensitive. Sensitive to sharp sounds.

Nose
Rawness and soreness of the nostrils with a stopped up feeling; dryness of the posterior nares.
Profuse, thick, fetid discharge from the nasal passages, running down the throat at night. BURNING
AND DRYNESS, crusts on turbinate bones. Marked catarrhal condition in the upper respiratory tract.

Stomach
Food seems too salty. Gastric troubles during menstruation or following urticaria. Gas and intestinal
flatulence, urging to stool and difficult passage with pain.

Urinary
Burning pressure; painful micturition with dribbling. Retention, with pain in the bladder, anus and
rectum. CATARRH OF THE BLADDER; dysuria. Swelling of the orifice. Constant desire to urinate. Urine
smells of violets. Greenish, turbid color; peculiar pungent odor.

Rectum
MUCOUS COLITIS. Stools covered with mucus accompanied, with colic and chills. Burning and itching
in the anus, caused by piles.

Male
Testicles sensitive and swollen.

Female
Itching in the vulva and anus with a bloody purulent discharge. Profuse, strong smelling menstrual
discharge, with pains radiating to the hip bones and nausea.

Respiratory
Cough with profuse, gray, purulent expectoration. Tickling in the larynx, trachea and bronchi.
Bronchial catarrh, with profuse greenish, offensive discharge.

Skin
HIVES, with fever and constipation. Roseola. Erysipelatous inflammation, especially around the
abdomen. Circumscribed, lenticular patches with itching; mottled appearance. Chronic urticaria in
children. Bullous eruptions.

Relationship
Antidotes: Bell., Merc.
Compare: SANTALUM (aching in kidneys); Cann-s., Canth., Baros., Cub., Apis., Vesp., Erig., Senec., Sep.

Dose
First to third attenuation.

Compare
Apis, Cann-s., Canth., Cub., Erig., Senec., Sep., Vesp.
CROCUS SATIVUS

(Croc.)

(Saffron)

Is a remedy often useful in hemorrhages that are black and stringy. Tingling in various parts. Chorea and
hysterical affections. Frequent and extreme changes in sensations and mental conditions. Anger with violence
followed by repentance. LAUGHING mania. Drowsiness and LASSITUDE; better by literary labor.

Mind
VACILLATING; pleasant mania; sings and laughs. Happy and affectionate; then angry. Sudden changes from
hilarity to melancholy. Vivid recollection from music heard (Lyc.).

Head
Throbs, pulsates, during climacteric; worse during menses.

Eyes
Appearance as of electric sparks. Must wipe the eyes as if mucus or water were in them. FEELING IN EYES AS
AFTER VIOLENT WEEPING. Sensation as if she had been looking through very sharp spectacles. EYES FEEL AS IF
IN SMOKE. Pupils enlarged and react slowly. Lids heavy. Ciliary neuralgia, pain from the eyes extending to the
top of the head. SENSATION AS IF COLD AIR WAS RUSHING THROUGH THE EYE (Fl-ac., Syph.). Asthenopia with
extreme photophobia. Threatened glaucoma; embolism in central retinal artery.

Nose
Epistaxis. DARK, STRINGY, CLOTTED. STRINGS OF DARK BLOOD hanging down the nose.

Abdomen
OBSTINATE CONSTIPATION due to portal stagnation. Constipation in infants. Crawling and stitches in the anus.
SENSATION OF SOMETHING ALIVE IN THE ABDOMEN, STOMACH, ETC., especially on the left side (Calen.).
Abdomen swollen, feeling of something heavy.

Female
Threatened abortion, especially when hemorrhage is DARK AND STRINGY. Surging of blood to genitals. Menses
dark, viscid, too frequent and copious, BLACK AND SLIMY. Uterine hemorrhage; CLOTS WITH LONG STRINGS;
worse from least movement. Jerking pain in the interior of the left breast, as if drawn towards the back by
means of a thread (Crot-t.). A bounding feeling, as if something alive in the right breast.

Respiratory
Wheezy cough, with frothy expectoration, containing threads like fine twine; worse lying down. Breath has an
offensive, sickly smell. Feeling as if the uvula is elongated in hysterical patients.

Back
Sudden feeling of coldness in the back, as if cold water was thrown over him; icy-cold extremities.

Extremities
Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of a single set of muscles. Chorea and hysteria with great alterations in
mood. The entire upper extremity falls asleep. Cracking in hip joint and KNEES. Weakness in the knees and
legs. Pain in the ankles and soles.

Modalities
AGG.: lying down, hot weather, warm room, in the morning, fasting, before breakfast, looking fixedly at an
object.
AMEL.: in open air.

Relationship
Antidote: Op., Bell.

Compare: Ip., Tril-p., Plat., Chin., Sabin.

Dose
Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation.

Compare
Agar. (Wants to kiss and Wants to jump ), Asar. (Wants to jump), Calc., Cod. (Twitching of muscles, especially of
eyeballs), Crot-t. (Pain through left chest to back ), Fl-ac. (Sensation of cold wind blowing across
eyes), Hyos., Ign., Ip., Lach. (Pains in eye to top of head), Lachn. (Heat in heart), Op. (Violent movements of foetus;
heat in heart), Plat. (Dark or black clotted flow), Rhod. (Heat in heart ), Sil. (Violent movements of
foetus), Staph. (Better by yawning), Stict. (Wants to jump), Stram. (Wants to jump), Sulph. (Violent movements of
foetus), Tarent. (Contractions of single groups of muscles; hysteria; hearing music wants to join in; music subsequently
improves), Thuja (Violent movements of foetus), Zinc.
CROTALUS HORRIDUS (Crot-h.)

HAEMORRHAGIC DIATHESIS

MENTAL

Anger.
Delirium loquacious, muttering, maniacal <during fever, during convulsions.
Incoherent speech. Delirium during sepsis or from cerebral accidents.

Delusions is surrounded by enemy, is falling out of bed, of animals, of phantoms.

Dreams of the dead. Aversion to members of family. Suspicious.

Attempts to escape, springs out of bed. Anxiety with cold perspiration.

Melancholic, depressed and sluggish, seems half alive.

Dullness of mind and weak memory. Forgets proper names, dates, words. But has active memory when
suppressing the sexual desire.

Disconnected answers with coldness of the skin and rapid pulse.

PHYSICAL

HAEMORRHAGES esp. BLACK. Haemorrhages from orifices of the body (nose, urethra, ear, bladder, anus etc.).
Even perspiration is bloody. Septic fever, septicaemia.

Stomach is so irritable that it is unable to retain anything. Vomits blood. Vomiting everything. Vomiting of
bile < least motion, lying on right side or back.

Varicose veins as a network in skin esp. in nose. Mottled spots on chest.

Difficult respiration from constriction of larynx.

Tenesmus of bladder with vomiting, purging and micturition.

Yellow discoloration of skin, face and eyes.

Tongue swollen, fills the whole mouth.

Paralysis, hemiplegia of right side.

Headache from occiput extending into spine and arms.

Sudden attacks of cold perspiration.

MODALITIES

AGG.: beginning of sleep, exertion, bad meat.

DES.: pork, alcohol.

Compare
Ars., Carb-v., Crot-c. (Thoughts dwell on dead and dremas of the dead), Lach., Laur. (Tetanus, whooping-
cough), Phos., Sec., Tarent-c.
CROTON TIGLIUM (Crot-t.)

DIARRHOEA - INFLAMMATION OF THE NIPPLES IN NURSING WOMEN

MENTAL

ANXIETY AMELIORATED IN OPEN AIR.

Dullness, confusion of mind from beer, from bread.

Morose, dissatisfied, with aversion to work.

Fear with diarrhoea as if something will happen.

PHYSICAL

DIARRHOEA with stool which is gushing

< IMMEDIATELY AFTER EATING OR DRINKING.
Rumbling and gurgling before and after stool. Copious stool at night.
Abdominal pain ameliorated by passing flatus.

Drawing pain in the nipples, as with a string when the child nurses.
PAIN IN NIPPLES <WHILE NURSING, TOUCH OF CLOTHING.

Pain in eye drawing the eyeball backward.

Eruptions start with redness and then itchy vesicles develop. There’s a tendency the eruptions to be
constantly renewed.
Eruptions about the eyes with vesicles. Itching of scrotum. Intense itching, but scratching is painful.

Eruptions alternate with complaints like cough, rheumatic pains, diarrhoea, respiratory symptoms.

Sensation of a plug externally. Sensation in the rectum as if a plug were pressing out.

Pain in heart extending to back.

Pain in umbilicus extending downward, to anus.

Pustular eruption, especially on face and genitals with fearful itching, followed by painful burning.

MODALITIES

AGG.: bread, water, fruit.

Antidotes
Sulph. (Skin symptoms)

Compare
Ars., Borx. (Pain in breast), Bry. (Pain in breast), Gamb., Phel. (Pain in breast), Rhus-t., Sil. (Pain in breast), Verat.
CUPRUM METALLICUM (Cupr.)

In Cuprum, cramps are the main characteristic in all levels. The emotions are cramped, not released
although they are passionate and sexual people. They hold back and then we see total frigidity. They
don’t allow themselves to feel so the intense feelings that they have are suppressed and end up to
convulsions or cramps. On the physical level we see that again suppression of skin eruptions or
discharges lead to cramps or even convulsions.

CRAMPS ON ALL LEVELS

MENTAL

CRAMPED EMOTIONS. Passionate people who don’t express themselves.

Intense feelings that end up to convulsions or cramps. The least emotions can induce a cramp.

Makes grimaces (like a facial cramp- as if they want to hide things).

Shrieking before convulsions.
Weeping during perspiration.

PHYSICAL

SEVERE CRAMPS, mainly in LOWER LIMBS, calves and soles, making the person shriek from pain.

CONVULSIONS with CLENCHED THUMBS, cyanotic face and bluish lips.

Convulsive constriction of chest.
Convulsions when eruptions fail to break out, from suppressed eruptions.
Convulsions from vexation.
Convulsions begin in fingers and toes, and spreading over entire body.

Involuntary urination during convulsions.

Ailments from suppressed eruptions; suppression of foot sweat resulting in brain affections, spasms,
convulsions, vomiting.

Spasms of face.
Copper taste in the mouth.
Grayish discoloration of face. There’s something unhealthy on their skin.
Paralysis of tongue; difficult, stammering speech.

MODALITIES

AGG.: mental exertion, vomiting.

AMEL.: perspiration.

Complementaries
Calc., Gels. (Overworked brain)

Antidoted by
Nux-v.

Antidotes
Aur., Verat.

Compare
Bufo, Calc., Caust., Cic., Zinc.
CYCLAMEN EUROPæUM

(Cycl.)

(Sow-bread)

Large doses produce violent purging and vomiting; disturbed digestion with very salty saliva. Anemic and
chlorotic conditions. Affections of the uterus. Gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary tracts affected, inducing
secondary anemia and various reflexes. SLEEPINESS, MOROSENESS AND LASSITUDE. Cough at night while asleep
without waking, especially in children (Cham., Nit-ac.).

Mind
Terrors of conscience. Grieves over duty neglected. Depression, with weeping, desire to be alone.

Head

Aching in the morning, with FLICKERING BEFORE THE EYES.Vertigo; things turn in a circle; better in room;
worse, open air. One sided headache.

Nose

Frequent sneezing with itching in the ears.

Eyes
Dim vision, worse on waking up, with spots before the eyes. FLICKERING OF VARIOUS COLORS. Convergent
strabismus. SEES COUNTLESS STARS. Diplopia. Disturbance of vision, associated with gastric disturbances.

Stomach
SALTY TASTE; hiccough-like eructation worse, after fatty food. Diarrhoea after every cup of coffee; HICCOUGH.
Satiety after a few mouthfuls only. Disgust for meat, especially pork. Desire for lemonade. No thirst all day.

Rectum
PAIN AROUND THE ANUS AND PERINEUM, as if a spot was suppurating, when walking or sitting.

Female
Menses PROFUSE, BLACK, membranous, CLOTTED, TOO EARLY WITH LABOR-LIKE PAINS from back to pubes.
Flow less when moving around. Menstrual irregularities with migraine and blindness, or fiery spots before the
eyes. HICCOUGH DURING PREGNANCY. Post-partum hemorrhage with colicky bearing down pains, relief after
gush of blood. After menses, swelling of breasts, with milky secretion.

Extremities
Pains in parts where bones lie near the surface. Burning, SORE PAIN IN THE HEELS. Cramp-like contractions in
the right thumb and index finger. Pains in the periosteum. Chilblains.

Skin
Acne in young women, pruritus better scratching and by appearance of menses.

Modalities
AGG.: open air, evenings, sitting, standing, and cold water.
AMEL.: during menstrual flow, by moving around, rubbing parts; in warm room, lemonade.

Relationship
Compare: Ambr., Puls., Chin., Ferr-cit-et-chin.

Dose
Third attenuation.

Compare
Chin., Nat-m., Puls. (Menstrual irregularities, desire consolation, aversion and aggravation from fats and pork,
prostatitis), Sep.
DIGITALIS PURPUREA (Dig.)

BRADYCARDIA

MENTAL

FEAR OF DEATH FROM CARDIAC SYMPTOMS. FEAR HEART WILL STOP FROM MOTION. Fear of death while
walking. Fear he will die if he goes to sleep.

Every shock strikes in the epigastrium.

Fearful apprehensiveness with sadness, extremely aggravated by music.

Remorse guilty feelings. Suspicious and mistrustful. Unsympathetic.

Dull and lethargic. Indisposed to talk.

Anguish with nausea. Anxiety from motion. Anxiety with great dread of future < about 6 p.m. with sadness
and weeping which brings relief. Anxiety felt in stomach.

Attempts to escape.

PHYSICAL

PULSE IS WEAK, IRREGULAR, INTERMITTENT, ABNORMALLY SLOW 40-45 beats/min. Pulse slower than the
beat of the heart.

Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium. Respiration is irregular, difficult, with deep sighing and constant
desire to breathe deeply.

The least motion causes violent palpitation and sensation as if the heart would cease on exertion (opposite
to Gels.).

Sinking of strength, faintness with cold perspiration, coldness of skin and irregular respiration.

Jaundice with heart involvement. This remedy will be indicated in severe cases of jaundice where you have
the nausea, the slow pulse and the fear that the heart will stop.

Weak feeling in stomach. Fullness after eating little. Discomfort, nausea even on sight or smell of food, better
if stomach is empty. Tenderness of epigastrium.

Stitching pain at the neck of bladder, as if a straw was being thrust back and forth.

Blue tongue and lips. Blueness of eyelids.

Objects appear green and yellow. Yellow colors before the eyes.

After cold water or ice cream sharp pain in forehead and extend down the nose.
Vertigo with anxious sensation as though would faint. Faintness and vomiting from motion.

Antidotes
Adren., Apis
DIOSCOREA VILLOSA (Dios.)

ABDOMINAL PAINS BETTER WITH STRETCHING

MENTAL

CONFUSED AFTER STOOL, after coition.

Tired individuals who want to be quiet. Aversion to company and conversation. Has lost ambition.
Mind becomes more and more tired and eventually forgets words, makes mistakes in using words, in writing.
Calls things by using the wrong words, ex. confusing left for right, etc.

Fear of people. Feels restless <night, yet walking ameliorates.

Anxiety after a stool. Anxiety on waking.

PHYSICAL

Severe cramping, gripping, cutting ABDOMINAL PAIN, as if the intestines are twisting >STRETCHING, BENDING
BACKWARD.

Severe cases of colic not relieved by stool.

Pains shift to distant parts, fingers or toes. As these pains get stronger, the abdominal pains lessen.
Pains in liver extending to chest, arm, nipple. Pains in rectum extending to liver.
Pains in ureters extending to penis and testes.

Albuminous stool.
Haemorrhoids <morning.
Coldness of genitals esp. in evening.
Cramps in fingers during parturition.
Stomach pulsation while lying on back.
Gas and eructation after tea.

MODALITIES

AGG.: coition, night, stool, tea.

AMEL.: motion, walking, stretching.

Compare
Bell., Bry., Cham., Coloc., Nux-v.
DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA (Dros.)

RESPIRATORY AFFECTIONS

MENTAL

DELUSION HE IS PERSECUTED, he’s pursued by enemies. Suspicious and mistrustful.

Fear of hearing bad news. Anxiety about the future. The anxiety comes mostly in the evening or at night on
waking and is increased when alone. Can become suicidal anxiety. Suicidal thoughts by drowning.

Alternating mood.
Confusion of mind esp. during chill. Difficult concentration, restless esp. while reading.

PHYSICAL

Predominantly a cough remedy. Phthisis of larynx and trachea with rapid emaciation.

MARKED AFFECTS ON THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. Well known for its relationship with pertussis.

DRYNESS AND IRRITATION OF THROAT OR LARYNX, PROVOKING COUGH.

COUGH tickling, dry, suffocative, hoarse, paroxysmal.

<LYING, AS SOON AS THE HEAD TOUCHES THE PILLOW, eating, drinking, after midnight, singing and
laughing, warm room.
>holding the pit of stomach, open air.

Painful chest during cough, holds the chest with hands.

Vomiting from coughing. Epistaxis during cough.
Constricting pain in throat < talking > walking.

Salivation during heat.

Stitching pain in calf (<right), comes when sitting and > walking.

Burning pain at the corner of the mouth.

Frequent urging to urinate with very scanty urine, often passing only by a few drops.

Coldness of left side of face, with prickling, tingling, burning pain in the skin of the cheek, below the left
eyelid.

MODALITIES

AGG.: lying, midnight after, undressing, warm (room, bed, becoming).

AMEL.: walking, motion, pressure, open air, cold.
AVERS.: to acids.

Complementaries
Nux-v.

Compare
Bell., Caust. (Inability to expectorate), Coc-c., Cor-r., Cupr., Hyos., Ip., Kali-c. (Inability to
expectorate), Sep. (Inability to expectorate), Spong.
DULCAMARA (Dulc.)

RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS & SKIN PROBLEMS, <COLD WET WEATHER

MENTAL

Domineering, dictatorial. Quarrelsome and abusive without anger.

They take care of others, they are loving, but in a domineering way. Anxiety for others.

Restless, cannot keep still.

Memory weakness for words. Uses the wrong words.

Confusion, dullness esp. from damp air.

Depression.

PHYSICAL

Complaints brought on or aggravated by DAMP, WET or COLD, DAMP, WET WEATHER or GETTING WET (pain
in back, extremities, abdomen, head, teeth, inflammation of eye, asthma, suppressed menses etc.). Urticaria
from becoming wet.
Diarrhoea after standing on damp ground. Catarrhal inflammation eyes from cold.

PARALYSIS OF SINGLE PARTS from exposure to wet or from lying on damp ground. Paralysis of upper limbs
with icy coldness during rest. Parts feel icy cold.

Brown crusts on head and face, with reddish borders (circumscribed), bleeding after scratched.

Chill from 07:00 to 09:00 morning, perceived by great thirst and pains.

MODALITIES

AGG.: COLD WET WEATHER, CHANGE OF WEATHER, cold (air, becoming, drinks, entering a cold place).
AMEL.: dry weather (esp. warm dry), hot bath, motion, walking, discharges, warm.
DES.: ice cream and cold drinks during chill, cold drinks.
AVERS.: coffee, food.

Complementaries
Alum., Bar-c. (Glands problems), Sulph.

Follows well
Bell.

Antidotes
Bar-c., Merc., Nat-s.

Compare
Calc. (Think when Calc. and Kali-c. fail, when worse from wet weather. Rheumatism), Kali-bi., Kali-c. (Think when Calc.
and Kali-c. fail, when worse from wet weather. Rheumatism.), Nat-s. (Worse from wet), Petr., Rhus-t. (Worse from wet)
ELAPS CORALLINUS

(Elaps.)

(Coral-snake)

Similar to snake poisons generally. Has very marked BLACK DISCHARGES. COLD THINGS DISAGREE. Desire for
sweetened buttermilk. Nausea and vomiting. Prostrating diarrhoea of consumption. Acidity of the stomach,
with a faint feeling. Sudden pain in the stomach. Spasm of the esophagus; pharynx constricted; food and
liquids suddenly arrested, and then fall heavily into the stomach. Spasms followed by paresis. COLD FEELING IN
THE STOMACH. Fruits and ice water lie very cold. RIGHT SIDED PARALYSIS. Must have oscillatory motion.
Rheumatic constitutions. Ear, nose and throat symptoms important.

Mind
Depressed; imagines that he hears someone talking; dreads to be left alone. FEAR OF RAIN. Can speak, but
cannot understand speech. Fears apoplexy.

Head
Violent headache, extending from the forehead TO THE OCCIPUT; first one eye, then the other. Otalgia.
Vertigo with a tendency to fall forward. Weight and pain in the forehead. Fulness of the head.

Eyes
Aversion to light; letters run together when reading. Veil before the eyes. Burning in lids. Edema around the
eyes in the morning. Large, red, fiery spots before the eyes.

Ears
Cerumen BLACK and hard with difficult in hearing; a serous, GREENISH discharge, offensive; buzzing, and
illusion of hearing. Sudden attack of nightly deafness with roaring and crackling in the ears, crackling in ears on
swallowing. Intolerable itching in the ear.

Nose
CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH, WITH FETID ODOR AND GREENISH CRUSTS. Ozena; yellowish-green discharge.
Mucous membrane wrinkled; nostrils plugged up with dry mucus. Pains from the nose to the ears on
swallowing. NOSTRILS STOPPED UP. Nasal bleeding. Pain at the root of nose. Eruption around the nose.

Throat

Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yellow crusts on the posterior pharyngeal wall and extremely foul breath.
Spasmodic contraction of the ESOPHAGUS; passage of fluids arrested.

Chest
COLDNESS IN THE CHEST AFTER DRINKING. Hemorrhage from the lungs, black like ink and watery; stitches IN
THE APEX OF RIGHT LUNG. Fainting caused by stooping. Oppression on going upstairs. Peeling off of skin from
palms and fingers. COUGH, with terrible pain through the lungs. Worse right side and expectoration of black
blood. Sensation of a sponge in the esophagus.

Stomach
FEELS COLD. Sensation as if the food turns like a corkscrew on swallowing; desire for sweetened buttermilk.
Acidity after every mouthful.

Female
Dysmenorrhoea with black blood. Discharge of black blood between menses. Itching of vulva and vagina.

Sleep
Dreams about dead persons.

Skin
Glands and skin of axillæ affected; itching with tetter. Tips of fingers peel off. Itching eruption in the axillæ.

Extremities
Icy cold feet. Vesicular eruptions on feet. Arms and hands swollen bluish. Knee joints feel sprained. Pricking
under the nails.
Fever
Cold perspiration all over. Typhoid when ulcers have eaten into the tissues and black blood is discharged.

Modalities
AGG.: eating fruit; cold drinks; WET WEATHER.

Relationship
Compare: KINO-from PTEROCARPUS ERINACEUS (hemoptysis and hemorrhage from intestines). EUCALYPTUS
ROSTRATA (offensive dark discharge from the right ear). Crot-h., Alumn., Carb-v., Ars., Lach.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Compare
Ars., Carb-v., Crot-c., Dulc., Lach., Mur-ac., Nit-ac.
EUPHORBIUM

(Euph.)

(Spurge-The Resinous Juice of Euphorbia Resinifera)

An irritant to the skin and mucous membranes. Burning pain in bones. Pains in limbs and paralytic weakness in
the joints. Important respiratory and skin symptoms. Terrible burning pains. PAINS OF CANCER. Everything
appears larger than it really is.

Head
Acute mania. Violent, pressive headache.

Face
Erysipelas; yellow blisters. Burning in cheek; worse, left. Red swelling of cheeks.

Eyes

Iinflamed and agglutinated in the morning.

Nose

Nasal pruritus with mucous secretions from the nasopharynx.

Stomach
Great hunger. Sialorrhoea (profuse salty saliva). Waterbrash. Thirst for cold drinks.

Abdomen
Sunken; spasmodic, flatulent colic. Stools fermented, profuse, clayey. Feels hollow.

Respiratory
Breathing oppressed, as if the chest was not wide enough. Spasmodic, dry cough, day and night, with asthma.
Violent, fluent coryza, with burning and cough. Constant cough, with stitches radiating from the pit of the
stomach to the sides of the chest. Croup, dry, hollow, cough. A warm feeling in the chest, as if hot food had
been swallowed.

Extremities
Paralytic pains. Pain in the hip joint and coccyx.

Skin
Erysipelatous inflammation, especially of the cheek. Biting and stinging, red, swollen. VESICULAR ERYSIPELAS.
Carbuncle; old, torpid, indolent ulcers with biting, lancinating pain. Old torpid ulcer, pustules; GANGRENE
(Echi., Sec.). Ulcerating carcinoma and epithelioma of the skin.

Relationship
Compare: EUPHORBIA AMYGDALOIDES-Wood Spurge (pain in the antrum, illusion of smell, ODOR OF MICE. Sense
of taste blunted. Diarrhoea; stools difficult, with painful anal spasm).

EUPHORBIA COROLLATA-Large Flowering Spurge-(a diaphoretic expectorant and cathartic of the old school in
gastro-enteric disturbances, with deathly nausea. Vomiting of food, water, and mucus, copious evacuations.
Attacks recur after short intermissions. Feeling of clawing in the stomach; cold sweat) (Verat.).

EUPHORBIA MARGINATA-Snow on the mountain (honey from the flowers is poisonous, detected by the hot, acrid
taste. The milky juice produces skin symptoms like Rhus-t.).

EUPHORBIA PILULIFERA-Pillbearing Spurge (humid asthma, cardiac dyspnea, hay fever and bronchitis. Urethritis
with intense pain on urinating and much urging. Acrid leucorrhoea; worse least movement. Hemorrhages from
sunstroke and traumatism).
Compare, also: PSORALEA-A Columbian plant (pain of cancer, ulcers. Leucorrhoea fetid. Pruritus. Uterine
tumors.). Crot-t., Jatr-c., Colch.

Antidotes: Camph., Op.

Dose
Third to sixth potency.

Follows well
Graph., Lach., Puls., Sep., Sulph.
EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS (Euphr.)

AFFECTIONS OF EYES WITH ACRID LACHRYMATION

MENTAL

CONFUSION BETTER BY WASHING FACE.

Inclination to sit. Sad, general depression, weeping when lying down at night.
Buried and lost in thoughts.

PHYSICAL

Hay fever affecting mainly the eyes.

INFLAMMATION OF CONJUCTIVA.
RED, BURNING, LACHRYMATING EYES.
ACRID lachrymation and bland coryza.

Lachrymation in wind, in cold air, in open air.

Photophobia, with constant inclination to wink.
Burning and swelling of lids. Little blisters, vesicles on cornea.

Catarrhal headache with profuse discharge from eyes and nose. Catarrhal inflammation of eye from cold.
Heaviness of the head, dizziness worse when lying down,better in the open air, better with cold applications.

Cough only in daytime > lying, in bed at night. Cough with great lachrymation.
Tickling in air passages > lying amel.

Eye pain alternating with pain in abdomen.

Menses painful, late, scanty, flow lasts only an hour.

MODALITIES

AGG.: evening, sleep, sun, night.

AMEL.: bathing the affected part, rubbing, dark.

Compare
All-c. (Tears bland: of Euphr., corrosive), Apis, Arg-n., Ars., Hep., Kali-bi., Kali-i., Merc-c., Merc., Puls., Sabad.
FERRUM METALLICUM (Ferr.)

ANAEMIA – FALSE PLETHORA

MENTAL

SENSITIVE and excitable < on least contradiction.

IRRITABILITY to slight noises like crackling paper drive him to despair.

PHYSICAL

ANAEMIA - extreme paleness - Red parts become white, lips, face and tongue.

FALSE PLETHORA, looks healthy but are very weak. Pale face that flushes easily. Face becomes red and
flushed on least pain, emotion or exertion.

SLOW MOTION, WALKING SLOWLY AMELIORATES complaints of pain, palpitations, dyspnoea.

Restless when keeping still, must keep the limbs moving. It seems that motion stimulates circulation.

Vertigo coming from disturbed circulation. Vertigo when looking at running water.
Disturbance of the circulation with irregularities in the heart function such as palpitations.

Vomiting immediately after eating, esp. eggs without nausea, < after midnight.

Rheumatic pains of upper limbs, esp. shoulders appear during rest.

Irresistible desire to bend arm. Fear of being touched on affected joints.

Periodic headaches lasting 3-4 days during which there’s nausea and vomiting on eating.
Menses too early, copious, protracted, pale, thin (thin with clots), with weakness.

Diarrhœa while eating or from drinking.

Epistaxis alternating with spitting of blood.

MODALITIES

AGG.: night, exertion, EGGS, eating, loss of vital fluids, cold, change of temperature to warm.
AMEL.: slow, continued motion, walking.
DES.: sweets, tomatoes, bread and butter, soup.
AVERS.: eggs

Complementaries
Chin.

Antidoted by
Ars., Chin., Hep., Puls.

Antidotes
Ars., Verat.

Compare
Nux-v. (Irritability), Puls. (Worse warm and red cheeks, better slow motion )
FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM

(Ferr-p.)

(Phosphate of Iron)

In the early stages of febrile conditions, it stands midway between asthenic activity of Acon. and Bell., with
the asthenic sluggishness and torpidity of Gels. The typical Ferr-p. subject is not full blooded and robust, but
nervous, sensitive, anemic with the false plethora and easy flushing of Ferr. Prostration is marked; face more
active than Gels. The superficial redness never assumes the dusky hue of Gels. Pulse soft and flowing; no
anxious restlessness of Acon. Susceptibility to chest troubles. Bronchitis in young children. In acute
exacerbation of tuberculosis, a fine palliative with a wonderful power. Corresponds to Grauvogl's Oxygenoid
Constitution, the inflammatory, febrile, emaciating, wasting consumptive.

Remedy for the first stage of all febrile disturbances and inflammations before exudation sets in; especially for
catarrhal affections of the respiratory tract. Ferr-p. 3x increases hemoglobin. In pale, anemic subjects, with
violent local congestions. Hemorrhages, bright from any orifice.

Head
Soreness to touch, cold, noise, jar. Rush of blood to the head. Ill effects of sun. Throbbing sensation. Vertigo.
Headache BETTER COLD APPLICATIONS.

Eyes
Red, inflamed, with a burning sensation. Feeling of sand under the lids. Hyperemia of the optic disc and retina
with blurred vision.

Ears
Noises. Throbbing. First stage of otitis. Membrana tympani red and bulging. Acute otitis; when Bell. fails,
prevents suppuration.

Nose
First stage of cold in the head. Predisposition to colds. EPISTAXIS; bright red blood.

Face
Flushed; cheeks sore and hot. Florid complexion. Facial neuralgia; worse, shaking the head and on stooping.

Throat

Mouth hot; fauces red, inflamed. Ulcerated sore throat. Tonsils red and swollen. Eustachian tubes inflamed.
Sore throat of singers. Subacute laryngitis with fauces inflamed and red (2x). After operations of throat and
nose to control bleeding and to relieve soreness. First stage of diphtheria. Ranula in vascular, sanguine
constitutions.

Stomach
Aversion to meat and milk. Desire for stimulants. VOMITING OF UNDIGESTED FOOD. Vomiting of bright red
blood. SOUR ERUCTATIONS.

Abdomen
First stage of peritonitis. Hemorrhoids. Stools watery, bloody, undigested. First stage of dysentery, with blood
in the discharges.

Urinary
Urine spurts with every cough. Incontinence. Irritation at the neck of the bladder. Polyuria. DIURNAL ENURESIS.

Female
Menses every three weeks, with bearing-down sensation and pain on top of the head. Vaginismus. Vagina dry
and hot.

Respiratory
FIRST STAGE OF ALL INFLAMMATORY AFFECTIONS. Congestion of the lungs. Hemoptysis. Short, painful tickling
cough. Croup. Hard, dry cough, with sore chest. Hoarseness. EXPECTORATION OF PURE BLOOD IN PNEUMONIA
(Mill.). Cough better at night.
Heart
Palpitations; pulse rapid. First stage of cardiac diseases. SHORT, QUICK, SOFT PULSE.

Extremities
Stiff neck. Articular rheumatism. Crick in back. Rheumatic pain in the shoulder; pain extends to the chest and
wrist. Whitlow. Palms hot. Hands swollen and painful.

Sleep
Restless and sleepless. Anxious dreams. Night sweats of anemia.

Fever
Chill daily at 1 p.m.. All catarrhal and inflammatory fevers; first stage.

Modalities
AGG.: at night and 4 to 6 a. m., touch, jar, motion, right side.
AMEL.: cold applications.

Relationship
Compare: (Oxygenoid Constitution. Acon., Chin., Ars., Graph., Petr.). FERRUM PYROPHOSPHORICUM
(congestion of brain and headache following great loss of blood; tarsal cysts); Acon., Gels., Chin.

Dose
Third to twelfth potency.

Follows well
Ph-ac.

Compare
Acon., Bell., Phos.
FLUORICUM ACIDUM (Fl-ac.)

MENTAL

DOMINEERING, MATERIALISTIC WITH STRONG SEXUAL DESIRE.

LASCIVIOUS THOUGHTS.
Egotism, focus on their pleasure, isolated from others, indifferent to loved ones.
Inability to realize responsibility.

Hurriedness, rapid speech, rapid eating. Mistakes in spelling, putting right for left and vice versa.

Anxiety. Strong anxiety about health. Fear of cancer, of apoplexy.

Fear of suffering, but endures it well.

PHYSICAL

VARICOSE VEINS, ulcers, ulcerations (of uterus) etc.

Indicated in deep, destructive processes such as bedsores.

EXCESS SEXUAL DESIRE, PROMISCUITY. Increased desire with violent erections at night, during sleep.
Swollen scrotum. Gangrene of scrotum.

Sleepless, wakes after 3-4 hours with sexual thoughts.

Restlessness.

Coryza, copious watery discharge, "runs like a faucet".

Sudden watery discharge from eyes, nose and mouth.

Falling of hair in spots, alopecia areata.

Early, rapid decay of teeth. Discoloration of teeth. Teeth feel warm. Fistula on gums with bloody, salty
discharge.

Sensation of heat, generally < from heat, extremely warm blooded. Worse from both heat and cold. Feet
feel hot and must be uncovered at night.

Diarrhoea from warm drinks. Bilious diarrhoea.

Corrugated and weak nails. Feeling as if a splinter under nails.

Tongue cracked in all directions.

Sensation as if air is blowing through eyes.

Ulceration of uterus, copious and excoriating leucorrhea.

Emptiness of abdomen relieved by tight clothing.

MODALITIES

AGG.: summer, sensation of heat, fish, dry weather, warm wraps.

AMEL.: wet weather, bathing (esp. cold), walking in open air.
DES.: pungent, refreshing things, highly seasoned food, sour.
AVERS.: warm drinks.

Complementaries
Sil.

Followed well by
Nit-ac., Sulph.

Antidotes
Sil. (Abuse of Sil especially in bones affections, suppurations; when suppuration and destruction of tissue has been
increased by the too frequent repetition of Sil in low potency. )

Compare
Calc-f., Hyos., Med., Nit-ac., Plat., Sul-ac., Sulph.
GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS (Gels.)

In Gelsemium the weakness and trembling are the main characteristics. Those individuals are totally
afraid, they are trembling psychologically and physically especially from anticipation or when they
have to perform.
The mind is weak and confused. The muscles feel also weak to a state of paralysis.

WEAKNESS & TREMBLING ON ALL LEVELS

MENTAL

COWARDICE.
TIMIDITY APPEARING IN PUBLIC, even in a small group.
AILMENTS FROM BAD NEWS, FROM ANTICIPATION.
Dullness of mind, difficulty of thinking > flow of urine.

PHYSICAL

Lack of muscular coordination- TREMBLING OF LOWER LIMBS.

AILMENTS FROM ANTICIPATION, FRIGHT, EXCITEMENT, BAD NEWS, GRIEF. DIARRHŒA from anticipation.

HEAVINESS OF LIDS, falling of lids esp. during headache, but can accompany any disease.

HEADACHE AMELIORATED BY URINATION.

Feeling as if HEART WOULD STOP BEATING, UNLESS HE’S CONSTANTLY ON THE MOVE.

Chilliness up and down the back.

Occipital vertigo with disturbances of vision (dim vision, obscuration or loss of vision). Diplopia.

MODALITIES

AGG.: fright, anger, physical exertion, wet weather.

AMEL.: copious urination, alcoholic drinks, stimulants, perspiration.

Compare
Con. (Paralysis), Lyc., Mur-ac., Ph-ac., Sep., Sil. (Weakness, stage-fright), Stann. (Weakness, trembiling of
extremities)
GLONOIN (Glon.)

AGGRAVATION FROM SUN AND HEAT, SUNSTROKE.

MENTAL

Confusion as if being intoxicated, forgets or does not recognize well-known streets, which side is his
house. Makes mistakes in localities, does not recognize his relatives.

Mental symptoms from injuries to head.

Concentration difficult. Memory weakness. Time passes too slowly.
Depression. Desires death. Aversion to answering, desire to be silent. Aversion to husband, dislikes
her children.

Delusions chin is too long, enlarged.

Fear of being poisoned. Attempts to escape, springs suddenly from bed.

Shrieking screaming, shouting in children. Striking after convulsions.

PHYSICAL

<SUN, HEAT.

CONGESTION OF BLOOD. FLUSHES OF HEAT UPWARDS esp. TO HEAD. Hypertension.

Heat in chest extending to head. Heat of face with headache, during palpitation.
PULSATIONS. Pulsating headache esp. forehead and temples.

HEADACHE /CONGESTION FROM EXPOSURE TO SUN. SUNSTROKE.

Cannot bear heat or sun on head, even artificial light. Bursting, pulsating headaches.
Heaviness of head as if it would burst.
Heat and burning of vertex. Heat on cervical region extending up.

Eyes staring during headache.

Headache instead of menses.

Enlarged feeling i.e. head, tongue. Brain feels large.

MODALITIES

AGG.: SUN, warm (stove, air, becoming, room, bed, wraps), wine, lying, motion.
AMEL.: cold, lying, pressure, sitting.
DES.: tobacco, cold drinks.
AVERS.: food.

Antidotes
Carc. (Unconsciousnees)
Compare
Aml-n. (Hot flushes), Apis, Bell., Ferr., Gels., Lach. (Hot flushes), Meli., Nat-c., Puls., Sang.
GRAPHITES (Graph.)

SKIN ERUPTIONS, GLUEY DISCHARGES, OBESITY, THICK NAILS

MENTAL

Simple, practical, down to earth people.

Dullness, SLOWNESS, irresolution.
SENSITIVE TO MUSIC, WEEPING FROM MUSIC.

Restless while sitting, or working.

Fear ameliorated by weeping.
Anxiety about trifles, trifles seem important.

PHYSICAL

Obese, sensitive individual with a lot of eruptions.

AILMENTS FROM SUPPRESSED ERUPTIONS esp. stomach problems.
DISCHARGES yellow, sticky, thick, honey-like, offensive (eruptions, ear, nose, urethra)

Crusty, scabby eruptions, cracks of skin, fissures. Fissures in anus, corners of mouth etc.
Moist, offensive, excoriating, painful eruptions. Eczema esp. behind ears, around mouth.

NAILS DESTORTED, BRITTLE, CRIPPLED, THICK AND HARD. Psoriasis of nails. Ingrowing toe nails.

Hearing is impaired. Chronic gluey, offensive discharge from ears. Abscess of ear which discharges
often (every two weeks)
Impaired hearing > noise.

Photophobia.
Numbness on various parts of the body. Numbness or empty feeling in head.

Callosities of palms and soles.

High sexual desire or lack of interest. Ailments from sexual excesses.

Chilly persons with lack of vital heat.

MODALITIES
AGG.: becoming cold, sweets, cold food or drinks.
AMEL.: warm drinks, perspiration, lying.
DES.: CHICKEN.
AVERS.: SALT, SWEETS, FISH, meat, warm food.
Follows well
Rhus-t.

Antidotes
Ars., Lyc.

Compare
Ant-c., Calc., Ferr., Phos., Sulph.
GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS

(Grat.)

(Hedge Hyssop)

Acts especially on the gastro-intestinal tract. Chronic catarrhal conditions, leucorrhoea and gonorrhoea.
Obstinate ulcers. Useful in mental troubles from overweening pride. Especially useful in females. Nux-v.
symptoms in females often met by Grat.

Head
Sick headache. RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD with loss of vision. Sensation as if the brain was contracting and
head was becaming smaller. Tightness in the forehead, with wrinkles on the skin.

Eyes
Loss of vision with rush of blood to the head. Eyes dry, burn. Myopia.

Stomach
Vertigo during and after meals; hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals. Dyspepsia, with distention of the
stomach. Cramps and colic after supper and during night, with swelling of the abdomen and constipation.
Dysphagia for liquids.

Stool
Diarrhoea; GREEN, FROTHY WATER, followed by anal burning, FORCIBLY EVACUATED WITHOUT PAIN.
CONSTIPATION, with gouty acidity. Hemorrhoids, with hypochondriasis. Rectum constricted.

Sleep
Insomnia.

Female
NYMPHOMANIA. Menses too profuse, premature, and too long. Leucorrhoea.

Modalities
AGG.: drinking too much water.

Relationship
Compare: Dig., Euph., Tab., Cham., Am-pic., Nux-v.

Dose
Second to third potency.

Compare
Gamb., Lach., Lyc., Nux-v., Plat.
GUAIACUM
(Guaj.)
(Resin of Lignum Vitae)

Chief action on fibrous tissue, and is especially adapted to the arthritic diathesis, rheumatism,
and tonsillitis. Secondary syphilis. Very valuable in acute rheumatism. FREE FOUL
SECRETIONS. UNCLEAN ODOR FROM WHOLE BODY. Promotes suppuration of
abscesses. Sensitiveness and aggravation from local heat. Contraction of limbs, stiffness and
immobility. Feeling that he must stretch.

Mind
Forgetful; thoughtless; staring. Slow to comprehend.

Head
GOUTY AND RHEUMATIC PAIN IN HEAD and face, EXTENDING TO NECK. Tearing
pain in skull; worse, cold, wet weather. Feels swollen, and blood-vessels distended. Aching in
left ear. PAINS OFTEN END IN A STITCH, especially in head.

Eyes
Pupils dilated. Eyelids appear too short. Pimples around eyes. Throat. Rheumatic sore throat
with weak throat muscles. Throat dry, burns, swollen, stitches toward ear. ACUTE
TONSILLITIS. Syphilitic sore throat.

Stomach
Tongue furred. DESIRE FOR APPLES and other fruits. Aversion to milk. Burning in
stomach. Constricted epigastric region.

Abdomen
Intestinal fermentation. Much wind in bowels. Diarrhoea, cholera infantum.

Urinary
Sharp stitches after urinating. Constant desire.

Respiratory
FEELS SUFFOCATED. Dry, tight cough. Fetid breath after coughing. PLEURITIC
STITCHES. Chest pains in articulations of ribs, with shortness of breathing till expectoration
sets in.

Female
Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhoea, and irritable
bladder.

Back
Pain from head to neck. ACHING IN NAPE. STIFF NECK AND SORE SHOULDERS.
Stitches between scapulae to occiput. Contractive pain between scapulae.

Extremities
Rheumatic pain in shoulders, arms and hands. GROWING PAINS. (PHOS. AC.) Pricking in
nates. Sciatica and lumbago. Gouty tearing, with contractions. Immovable stiffness. Ankle
pain extending up the leg, causing lameness. Joints swollen, painful, and intolerant of
pressure; can bear no heat. Stinging pain in limbs. Arthritic lancinations followed by
contraction of limbs. A FEELING OF HEAT in the affected limbs.

Modalities
AGG.: from motion, heat, cold wet weather; pressure, touch, from 6 p.m. to 4 a. m.
AMEL.: external pressure.

Relationship
GUAIACOL (in the treatment of gonorrhoeal epididymitis, 2 parts to 30 vaselin, locally).
Antidote: NUX. Follows Sepia. Compare: MERC; CAUST.; RHUS; MEZER.; RHODOD.

Dose
Tincture, to sixth attenuation.

Compare
Caust., Led., Puls., Sulph.
HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA (Ham.)

AFFECTIONS OF CIRCULATION, VARICOSE VEINS

MENTAL

ANGER, IRRITABILITY. Aversion to company, to being spoken to.

Gloomy, depressed.

Aversion to work. Absorbed, buried in thoughts. Thinking constantly of his ailments.

Abundant of ideas in the morning after a night of restless sleep.

Forgetful esp. of words while speaking.

PHYSICAL

The main pathology of this remedy centers on the circulation with extraordinary weakness of the
veins.

Venous congestion and hæmorrhages.

VARICOSE VEINS in any part of the body. Painful, sore, bleeding, stinging, inflamed.
Passive hæmmorrhages from any part. Hæmmorrhage from suppressed menses. Vomiting black
blood instead of menses or from suppressed menses.
Epistaxis combined with varicosities or hæmorrhoids.

Bruised soreness of affected parts. Sore pain in eyes. Eyes feel as if forced out.

Menses dark, copious with soreness in abdomen.Metrorrhagia occurring between menstrual periods.

Stitching pain in testes extending to stomach.

MODALITIES

AGG.: touch, 15:00, exertion, milk.

Compare
Aesc., Arn., Fl-ac., Puls.
HELLEBORUS NIGER (Hell.)

DESPAIR, AGONY, TREMENDOUS ANXIETY with ROLLING OF THE HEAD

MENTAL

DULLNESS, STUPEFACTION (SENSORIAL DEPRESSION) nothing is seen or heard distinctly. ABSORBED

IN THOUGHTS.
Answers slowly, reflects long before answering. Weakness of memory. Forgets what he has just
read, said, heard or done. Irresolution.

He is in DESPAIR and EXTREME ANXIETY and seeks help.

Breathing ameliorates the anxiety.

PHYSICAL

Ailments after meningitis, encephalitis, concussion, apoplexy, fright, grief, suppressed eruptions.

Meningitis, encephalitis with stupefaction.

ROLLING OF HEAD FROM SIDE TO SIDE, chewing motion of jaw, constant motion of lips without
speaking, bores head in pillow, VACANT expression, brain cry (“cri encephalique’’).

Urine is dark red, almost black, scanty, coffee ground sediment.

Stool with colorless, transparent, tenacious mucus.

Chill beginning in arms. Internal chill esp. on lying down.

Wrinkled eyebrows.

MODALITIES

AGG.: 16:00 – 20:00 p.m., cold air, evening, vegetables.

AVERS.: apples.

Antidoted by
Camph., Chin.

Compare
Alum., Bapt., Cocc.
HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM (Hep.)
Abusive because of his need to protect himself from others.
OVERSENSITIVE AND ABUSIVE
MENTAL
OVERSENSITIVITY TO PAIN. Fears bees, wasps that sting. They panic and flee. Fears suffering.
Irritable. The slightest cause irritates him. Impulses to kill for slight offenses, or wants to set things on
fire. Very abusive, angry, impolite. Violent from pain.
PHYSICAL
Extremely SENSITIVE TO COLD AIR OR THE SLIGHTEST DRAFT. Must be wrapped up even to the face.
Uncovering, exposure to cold, becoming cold or even touching cold things aggravates all
complaints. Croupy, choking cough when any part of the body is uncovered.
Warmth, wrapping up, warm drinks ameliorate all complaints. Throat pain, stitching, as from
splinter when swallowing > warm drinks, covering the throat.
STITCHING, SPLINTER LIKE PAINS.
Suppurations. The slightest inflammation or injury causes suppuration.
Glands swell and suppurate.
Discharges are offensive, fetid, smelling like old cheese.
Boils, acne, abscesses where the skin is very sensitive to touch and to cold air. There’s even
intolerance of clothing.
MODALITIES
AGG.: cold, air draft, uncovering, change of temperature, cold drinks.
AMEL.: warmth, wrapping up, warm drinks, damp weather.
DES.: vinegar, sour food, pungent things, highly seasoned food, alcohol.
AVERS.: strong cheese, pungent things.

Complementaries
Bell., Calc-p., Calc., Calen., Graph., Iod., Lach., Psor., Sil., Spong., Sul-ac.

Follows well
Acon. (Group. ), Bell., Calen., Cic.

Antidoted by
Acet-ac., Am-m., Bell., Cham., Iodof., Sil.

Antidotes
Am-c., Ars., Bell., Chin., Ferr., Merc., Nit-ac., Sil., Zinc.

Compare
Acon. (Group. Acon. is anxious, high fever, distressed breathing. ), Ant-c. (Aversion to be
washed. Aversion to be touched. ), Ant-t. (Aversion to be touched. ), Arg-n. (Sharp splinter or
fish-bone sensation.), Arn. (Cries before and after cough), Ars. (> from warmth. Agoraphobia,
irritability, anxiety, chilly and worse cold, craves fat and sour, offensive odors.), Bell. (Cries
after cough. Hasty speech and hasty
drinking. ), Brom. (Group. ), Bry. (Constipation. ), Cact. (Irritable heart. ), Calc-
s. (Suppuration), Calc. (> from warmth. Sour stools. ), Cham. (Every little scratch suppurates.
Pains-fainting. ), Cina (Aversion to be touched. ), Clem. (Aversion to be washed), Dulc. (Hasty
speech and actions.), Euphr. (Little pimples round eye.), Fl-ac. (Sharp splinter or fish-bone
sensation.), Graph., Iod. (Group.), Kali-bi., Lach. (Hasty speech and actions. Sensitiveness of
ulcers. ), Lyc. (Every little scratch suppurates.), Mag-c. (Sour stools. ), Mag-m. (> from
warmth), Merc. (Suppuration. Every little scratch suppurates. Sharp splinter or fish-bone
sensation.), Mez., Myris., Nat-c. (Constipation.), Nit-ac. (Sharp splinter or fish-bone
sensation.), Nux-m. (> from warmth), Nux-v. (> from warmth. Constipation. ), Phos. (Irritable
heart. . Little pimples round eye.), Psor. (> from warmth), Rheum (Sour stools. ), Rhus-
t. (Aversion to be washed), Sep. (Aversion to be washed), Sil. (> from warmth. Aversion to be
touched. Suppuration. Every little scratch suppurates.Sharp splinter or fish-bone sensation.
Chilly, worse uncovering, abscesses and suppuration, splinter-like pains, otitis media,
tonsillitis, felons, adenopathy, cold, clammy feet, offensive perspiration.), Spig. (Aversion to
be washed), Spong. (Dry, hard cough; little or no expectoration; starts from sleep chocking, <
before midnight.), Staph., Sulph. (The psoric skin affections of Sulph. are dry, itching, > by
scratching, and not sensitive to touch. Aversion to be washed..Hasty speech and
actions. ), Thuja (Aversion to be touched. ), Valer. (Pains-fainting. ), Verat. (Pains-fainting.)
HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS (Hydr.)

VISCID, ROPY DISCHARGES

MENTAL

Suited to people that are old, weak, easily tired persons with emaciation, depressed, sure of death
and desires it.

Irritability. Curses his mother, throws food or medicine across room.

Weakness of memory for what is about to do, say, what has happened.

Sadness, loathing of life, aversion going out, desires death.

PHYSICAL

Acts on the mucus membranes producing increased VISCID, THICK YELLOW, ROPY SECRETIONS/
DISCHARGES (Kali-bi).
Discharges, catarrh from ear, larynx, throat, eye, nose, bladder, chest, urethra.

Catarrhal conditions esp. of the upper respiratory tract. SINUSITIS.

Post-nasal catarrh. Yellow and thick post-nasal discharge. Constant inclination to blow the nose.
Bronchitis in old, exhausted persons. Cough > lying, < inhaling cold air.

Leucorrhœa ropy, thick, purulent.

Action on the liver is marked: cirrhosis, atrophy, congestion, enlargement of liver.

Constipation with ineffectual urging <pregnancy, after abuse of drugs.

Headache connected with constipation.

Tongue indented, flabby, yellow white. Sensation as if the mouth is enlarged. Inflammation of mouth
in nursing women.

Cancerous ulcers of the skin. Ulcers are burning, sensitive, deep, bleeding when touched. Cracks
between toes.

Periodical faintness every day with cold perspiration.

MODALITIES

AGG.: after emissions.

AMEL.: milk.
AVERS.: food, vegetables.
Compare
Kali-bi., Kali-s., Merc., Puls.
HYDROPHOBINUM / LYSSIN (Lyss.)

VIOLENT TEMPER & FEAR OF WATER

MENTAL

VIOLENT, IMPATIENT TEMPER, impelled to do reckless things, desire to throw child out of the
window.
RUDE, ABUSIVE, BITES AND STRIKES. (Reminds Stram. but Lyss. has more verbal violence). Rapid,
hasty speech. Spitting.

FEARS: water, narrow places, crowd, bright objects, mirrors, animals, being alone, something bad
will happen

Anticipatory anxiety.

Feelings of being tormented, esp. by someone on whom he depends.

Sympathetic. They can paralyze when they see suffering.

PHYSICAL

Affects the nervous system, throat, and sexual organs.

Acute senses- noise, light, odors.
Bitter taste in mouth at night, spitting constantly.

Convulsions and spasms brought on by DAZZLING light or sight of RUNNING WATER. Convulsions
from strong odors, noises, light.

Cannot bear heat of the sun.

Difficult swallowing. Gagging on swallowing water, pills

Chocking feeling in the throat during agoraphobia.

Bluish discoloration of the wounds.

Eructations amel. gastric problems.

MODALITIES

AGG.: hearing or seeing running water, exposure to sun, dust, drafts.

AMEL.: bending backwards; gentle rubbing, hot water bathing.
DES.: strange things during pregnancy, salt, chocolate.
AVERS.: drinks, water, apples.
HYOSCYAMUS NIGER (Hyos.)

Hyoscyamus has jealousy, envy. This jealousy is not simple. The patient has a desire to attack and
kill in a cold and calculating way. They can become paranoid that other people are plotting to harm
them.
The sexuality is perverted, they touch their genitals all the time (esp. children) and they
masturbate quite a lot. Another perversion is that they like to talk about feces or even play with
them. The shameless is characteristic. We see a tendency to expose their nudity. They are going
around the house naked, they leave the toilet door open, or they can become exhibitionists.

JEALOUSY, SUSPICIOUSNESS, TOUCHING GENITALS, SHAMELESSNESS

MENTAL

JEALOUS. Ailments from jealousy. Desire to kill, sudden impulse. Desire to attack.
SUSPICIOUS that he will be poisoned, that there is some plot against him.
SHAMELESS, exposing the person. Obscene behavior. EXHIBITS HIS GENITALS. Takes off the clothes
very easily, wants to be naked.

Lascivious. Nymphomania. Perversions.

PLAYING WITH FECES, URINE, AND THINGS THAT NAUSEATE. Talks about feces urine, genitalia, with
no shame but rather with pleasure. Passes his feces on the floor.

OBSESSIVE behavior, persistent thoughts. Counting all the time one, two, three, one two three etc.
Repeating words etc.

Loquacity. Delirium where he’s loquacious, maniacal, raging, violent, mutters.

Hasty, incoherent speech. Grimaces of face.

Fear of water.

PHYSICAL

HANDLES HIS GENITALIA. Lies in bed with hands between thighs.

Restless hands, PICKING AT BEDCLOTHES.

Twitching, jerking, spasms, convulsions.

Ringing noises in ear before epileptic fit. Grinding during epilepsy.

Cough, constant, spasmodic, dry <lying down.

MODALITIES
AVERS.: water, drinks, tomatoes.

Follows well
Bell.

Followed well by
Bell., Puls., Stram., Verat.

Antidotes
Bell.

Compare
Anac. (Cursing), Bell., Lach. (Loquacity, jealousy.), Stram. (Behavior disorders)
HYPERICUM PERFORATUM (Hyper.)

INJURIES TO PERIPHERAL NERVES

MENTAL

MENTAL SYMPTOMS FROM HEAD INJURIES: depression, prostration, dullness.

Oversensitive to pain.

Delusions that hears the voice of dead people.

Mistakes in writing, omits letters.

PHYSICAL

INJURIES OF NERVES WITH GREAT PAIN.

Constitutional effects from wounds.

Injuries of parts rich in nerves, esp. fingertips, toes and coccyx, spine, nails, eye, head. Concussion of
the spine, brain. Injuries to dental nerves.

Lacerated, crushed finger tips. Lacerated tongue. Laceration of hands.

Bad effects from falls or blows upon head or coccyx. Bruised coccyx after labor, after a fall or injury.
Asthmatic respiration after injury to spine.

Pain shooting upwards, along nerve.

Pain appears suddenly and disappears gradually. Phantom pains (pain after amputation).

Prevents lockjaw, tetanic convulsions, tetanic rigidity.

Headache extending to zygoma, to cheek. Head, sensation as if being lifted up high into the air.
Bunions and corns with excruciating pain.

Pain in gums after extraction of teeth.

MODALITIES

AGG.: cold (air, becoming), foggy weather.

DES.: warm drinks.

Antidotes
Sulph.

Compare
Arn. (Injuries), Led., Nat-s., Rhus-t., Ruta
IGNATIA AMARA (Ign.)

Ailments from grief is the central idea of Ignatia. Grief, especially when concerning romantic
relationships, usually results to the characteristic sighing and oppression of chest. They are
disappointed, want to be alone and have aversion to consolation. The mood alternates. They may
develop hysterical symptoms and behavior.
The aversion to fruits is a confirmatory symptom.

SILENT GRIEF, SIGHING, HYSTERICAL SYMPTOMS

MENTAL

High expectations, idealistic, sentimental, easily disappointed. Romantic idealism.

DISAPPOINTED LOVE LEADING TO SILENT GRIEF (divorce, separation, death, rejection).

SIGHING, CHEST OPPRESSION, LUMP IN THE THROAT AFTER GRIEF esp. when trying to express
emotions. Aversion to consolation. Aversion to company.

Highly sensitive persons, excitable HYSTERICAL.

Changeable moods, erratic, inconstant, paradoxical symptoms. Irritable, intolerant to

contradiction. Irritable when consoled.

PHYSICAL

AILMENTS FROM GRIEF.

Esp. in nervous system causing cramps, spasmodic effects, chorea, convulsions.
Stomach pain or indigestion, menses problems.

Paradoxical symptoms e.g. stinging pain in throat when not swallowing, cough aggravated by
coughing.

Jerking of extremities on falling asleep.

Cannot bear smoke of tobacco.

Stitching pain in rectum that extends upward.

Biting the cheek when talking or chewing.

MODALITIES

AGG.: sweets, tobacco.

AVERS.: FRUITS, whiskey, wine.

Complementaries
Ambr., Apis, Ars., Aur., Bell., Calc., Caust., Chin., Coff., Ip., Lyc., Nat-m., Nux-v., Ph-ac., Pu
ls., Rhus-t., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Tab., Zinc.

Follows well
Apis, Aur., Nat-m., Sep., Sulph.

Inimical
Nux-v.

Antidotes
Arn., Puls., Zinc. (Effects on nervous system; negative effects on brain.)

Compare
Calc-p., Caust., Chin., Nat-m., Nux-v., Stry.
IODIUM (Iod.)

The word for Iodum is overactivity. The body is burning literally and metaphorically. It burns its
energy quickly. These patients are very restless, must move all the time. They eat but are lean or
even emaciated, the body burns the calories so quickly that they feel hungry all the time. They
cannot go on if they don’t eat, they feel ameliorated by eating.
They are one of the warmest remedies, they burn. On the mental level we see this overactivity too.
The mind is so active as to become obsessive and compulsive.

RESTLESS & WORSE FROM HEAT

MENTAL

OVERACTIVITY ON ALL LEVELS. RESTLESSNESS, cannot sit down. Must move constantly, impulse to
run. Hurried. Anxiety during work.

Feel they have forgotten something. Goes off and leaves purchases.
COMPULSIVE NEUROSIS. Checking twice. Ritualistic behaviour.

Physical exertion ameliorates.

Anxiety when hungry.

PHYSICAL

HYPERTHYROIDISM. Protrusion of eyes (exophthalmus). Goitre painful, exophthalmic.

EMACIATION. Eats a lot but still loses weight. Ravenous appetite with emaciation or marasmus.
Ravenous appetite soon after eating.

Hard swelling, induration of glands. Atrophy of testes/ovaries/mammæ.

Weakness from heat, perspiration, hunger, ascending.

Violent palpitation <exertion.

MODALITIES

AGG.: WARMTH, becoming warm.

AMEL.: WHILE EATING OR AFTER EATING, motion, cold, open air, exertion.

Antidotes
Apis, Merc., Thuja

Compare
Arg-n. (Warm remedy), Ars-i., Brom. (Warm remedy), Calc-i., Kali-i., Lach. (Warm remedy), Tarent.
IPECACUANHA (Ip.)

VOMITING AND NAUSEA

MENTAL

Capricious, contemptuous, critical.

Restless in bed.
Ailments after anger, from suppressed anger.

PHYSICAL

COMPLAINTS ASSOCIATED WITH NAUSEA AND VOMITING.

Nausea with profuse saliva. Nausea during fever, gastric disturbances, abdominal pain.

Suffocative, choking cough <19:00. Vomiting while coughing. Bluish discoloration of face during
cough. Sneezing before cough.
Child becomes stiff and blue in face. Stiffness of facial muscles during cough.

HAEMORRHAGE FROM ALL ORIFICES OF THE BODY THAT IS COMING IN GUSHES AND IS
ACCOMPANIED BY NAUSEA.

Sensation that the stomach is relaxed, is hanging down.

Pain in umbilicus extending to uterus.

MODALITIES

AGG.: veal, vomiting, fruit, pork, rich foods, cold dry weather, becoming cold.
AMEL.: wet weather, open air.
DES.: delicacies, sweets.
AVERS.: smell of food.

Follows well
Chel.

Antidotes
Alum., Ant-t., Apis (Low potency antidotes overdosing), Chin., Med. (Dry cough), Verat.
IRIS VERSICOLOR

(Iris)

(Blue Flag)

Thyroid, PANCREAS, salivary, intestinal glands, and gastrointestinal mucous membrane are
especially affected. Increases the flow of bile. Sick headaches and cholera morbus provide the
special therapeutic field for its action.

Head
Frontal headache, with nausea. Scalp feels constricted. Right temples especially affected. Sick
headache, worse rest; begins with a blur before eyes, after relaxing from a mental strain.
Pustular eruption on the scalp.

Ears
Roaring, buzzing, RINGING in ears, with deafness. Aural vertigo, with intense noises in the
ears.

Face
Neuralgia after breakfast, beginning in the infra-orbital nerve and involving the whole face.

Throat

Mouth and tongue feel scalded. Heat and smarting in the throat. BURNING. Profuse flow of
saliva; ropy. GOITRE.

Stomach
BURNING IN THE WHOLE ALIMENTARY CANAL. VOMITING, sour, bloody, biliary.
Nausea. Profuse flow of saliva (Merc., Ip., Kali-i.). DEFICIENT APPETITE.

Abdomen
Liver sore. Cutting pain. Flatulent colic. Diarrhoea; stools watery, with BURNING IN THE
ANUS and throughout the intestinal canal. Periodical night diarrhoea with pain and green
discharges. CONSTIPATION (give 30th).

Extremities
Shifting pains. Sciatica, as if left hip-joint were wrenched. Pain extends to the popliteal space.
Gonorrheal rheumatism (use IRISINUM).

Skin
Herpes zoster, associated with gastric derangements. Pustular eruptions. Psoriasis; irregular
patches with shining scales. Eczema, with nightly itching.

Modalities
AGG.: in the evening and at night, from rest.
AMEL.: from continuous motion.

Relationship
Antidote: Nux-v.
Compare: IRIS FLORENTINA-Orris-root-(delirium, convulsions, and paralysis); IRIS
FACTISSIMA (headache and hernia); IRIS GERMANICA-Blue Garden Iris-(dropsy and
freckles); IRIS TENAX- IRIS MINOR-(dry mouth; deathly sensation at a point in the
stomach, PAIN IN THE ILEO-CæCAL REGION; appendicitis. Pain from adhesions after).
PANCREATINUM-a combination of several enzymes-(Indicated in intestinal indigestion;
pain an hour or more after eating. Lienteric diarrhoea. Dose. 3-5 grains, better not given
during the active period of gastric digestion). PEPSINUM-(Imperfect digestion with pain in
the gastric region. Marasmus in children who are fed on artificial foods. Diarrhoea due to
indigestion. Dose. 3-4 grains. Diseases of pancreas, gout, diabetes); Ip., Podo., Sang., Ars.,
Ant-c.

Dose
Tincture to thirtieth potency. Favorable reports from the very highest potencies.

Compare
Ip., Kali-bi., Nat-m., Sang.
KALI ARSENICOSUM (Kali-ar.)

TREMENDOUS FEAR OF HEART DISEASE

MENTAL

Tremendous ANXIETY about health (Ars.) esp. HEART DISEASE. Hysterical "heart attacks". Fear of
death when alone. Restless esp. at night.

Sudden fear and panic attacks of the worst type, the patient feels he is going to die. Fear that
something will happen, like a catastrophe concerning life and death. Desires company.

Rigid, closed, critical, matter of fact, quarrelsome, discontented, jealous.

Indifferent to everything and depressed at later stages.
Aversion to answering questions, or refuses to.
Delusion head is enlarged.

PHYSICAL

Tendency toward malignancy. Tumors, skin cancer.

CHRONIC ECZEMA, PSORIASIS, and other SKIN DISEASES.

ASTHMA <02:00-03:00

HEAD FEELS LARGE.

SENSATION TONGUE IS ENLARGED. Burning and numbness of tongue.

Swelling of lower lids. Protrusion of eyes.

Chilly, worse from cold. Cold extremities.

Itching < in cold air, undressing, becoming warm.

MODALITIES

AGG.: night, cold (entering a cold place, becoming cold, uncovering, cold air), cold drinks when
heated.

Compare
Acon., Ars., Lach., Nit-ac.
KALI BICHROMICUM (Kali-bi.)

In this remedy stickiness is the main idea. The mind, the emotions and the discharges are stuck.
Sticky thoughts, sticky pus, sticky discharges, sticky vomiting. The pains do not move, they are
stuck in a spot.

SINUSITIS- STRINGY, THICK DISCHARGES

MENTAL

STICKY THOUGHTS. Fixed ideas.

NARROW-MINDED. Emotionally closed and anti-social. Misanthropy, avoids human society. General
loathing, loathing life.

Aversion to mental work.

PHYSICAL

Affects mucous membranes of air passages. Sluggish reaction in many conditions, ulcers and
inflammations.

MUCUS AND DISCHARGES ARE YELLOW, VISCID, STICKY, STRINGY, can be drawn in long strings.

Catarrh extending to frontal sinuses. Postnasal catarrh. Catarrhal inflammation of eyes, catarrhal
headache. SINUSITIS with pain in the root of nose. Sinusitis with profuse discharge.

Crusts, scabs inside the nose.

Rattling respiration, chest full of mucus. Rattling cough.

Expectoration difficult, stringy, ropy, adhering to throat, teeth and lips.

Pains in SMALL SPOTS, wandering from one point to another, appear and disappear
suddenly. Diagonal pains.

Sensation of hair on tongue, palate, throat.

Profuse perspiration esp. while sitting quietly.

Gastric symptoms alternating with rheumatic symptoms or pulmonary troubles. Eruptions alternating
with rheumatic pains.
Cracking in joints. Rheumatic pains in fingers.
Tongue is red and glistening.

MODALITIES

AGG.: beer, summer, after 02:00, motion.

AMEL.: warmth, warmth of bed, pressure.
DES.: beer, sweets.
AVERS.: water, meat.

Complementaries
Ant-t., Ars., Phos.

Follows well
Aloe

Antidoted by
Ars., Lach.

Compare
Cinnb., Hydr., Merc., Puls., Sil., Thuja
KALI CARBONICUM (Kali-c.)

SERIOUS, RIGID, DUTY-BOUND, COMPLAINTS <02:00-04:00

MENTAL

RIGID, INFLEXIBLE, DUTY BOUND.

Aversion to being touched. Startled, frightened easily <when touched.

Fear of impending disease. Of being alone.

Irritable, shrieking at trifles.

PHYSICAL

COMPLAINTS <02:00-04:00 a.m.

RESPIRATION ASTHMATIC / DIFFICULT, COUGH.

< 2 - 4 a.m., LYING, lying with the head low.
> LEANING FORWARD, sitting with head bent forward on knees.

BAG-LIKE SWELLING AROUND, UNDER and esp. ABOVE THE EYES.

SLEEPLESSNESS after midnight. Wakes up 2 or 3 a.m. and remains awake.

Sleep is light and unrefreshing, thinks he has not slept at all.

Worse from coition. Weak eyes after coition.

Back pain and sciatica worse turning in bed, almost impossible. Back pain extending to glutei
muscles and thighs or hips. < night at 03:00, before, during and after menses, during labor, or
walking. Back pain at 03:00a.m., driving him out of bed, must get up and walk. Has to sit bent, must
walk bent.

General weakness <after coition, after emissions, mental exertion.

MODALITIES

DES.: sugar, sweets, sour.

AVERS.: bread, meat.
AGG.: 02:00 – 04:00 a.m., COLD (air, becoming), drafts of air, cold dry weather, emissions, touch,
drinking cold drinks in hot weather or when heated.
AMEL.: warm (bed, stove, bathing, applications).

Complementaries
Carb-v., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Phos., Sep.

Antidoted by
Camph., Coff.
Antidotes
Zinc.

Compare
Ars., Calc., Kali-bi., Nat-m.
KALI IODATUM

(Kali-i.)

(Iodide of Potassium)

The profuse, watery, acrid coryza that the drug produces serves as a sure guiding symptom, especially
when associated with pain in the frontal sinus. It acts prominently on the fibrous and connective
tissues, producing infiltration. Edema, etc. GLANDULAR SWELLINGS. Purpura and hemorrhagic
diathesis. SYPHILIS may be indicated in all stages:

1. In acute form with evening remitting fever, going off with nightly perspiration.

2. Second stage, mucous membranes and skin ulcerates.

3. Tertiary symptoms; nodes. Give material doses.

DIFFUSED SENSITIVENESS (glands, scalp, etc.). Rheumatism of the NECK, BACK, feet, especially heels
and soles; worse, cold and wet. Iodide of Potass, in material doses acts in different forms of fungal
disease, (thrush, ringworm, etc.), offer simulating syphilis and bacterial diseases like tuberculosis.
Symptoms like loss of weight, spitting of blood, etc. Tea taster's cough after inhaling the fungus; often
brings about a favorable reaction in many chronic ailments even when not clearly symptomatically
indicated.

Mind
Sad, anxious; harsh temper. Irritable; congestion of the head, heat and throbbing.

Head
Pain through THE SIDES of head. Violent headache. Cranium swells up in a hard lump. Pain intense
over the eyes and at THE ROOT OF NOSE. Brain feels enlarged. Hard nodes, with severe pain;
PNEUMOCOCCIC MENINGITIS.

Nose
Red, swollen. Tip of the nose red; PROFUSE, ACRID, HOT, WATERY, THIN DISCHARGE. OZENA, WITH A
PERFORATED SEPTUM. Sneezing. Nasal catarrh, involving the frontal sinus. Stuffiness and dryness in
the nose, without discharge. Profuse, COOL, greenish, unirritating discharges.

Eyes
Conjunctiva red, injected; profuse lachrymation. SYPHILITIC IRITIS. Pustular keratitis and chemosis.
Bony tumors of the orbit.

Ear

Noises in the ear. Boring pain in the ears.

Stomach
Saliva increased. Faintness in the epigastrium. Cold food and drink, especially milk, aggravate. Marked
thirst. Throbbing, painful burning. Flatulence.

Female
Menses late, profuse. During menses uterus feels as if squeezed. Corrosive leucorrhea, with subacute
inflammatory conditions of the womb in young married women. Fibroid tumors, metritis, sub-
involution, hypertrophy, 1x or 1 gr. crude, 3 times a day.
Respiratory
Violent cough; worse in the morning. Pulmonary edema. LARYNX FEELS RAW. Laryngeal edema.
Awakes choking. EXPECTORATION LIKE SOAP SUDS, GREENISH. Pneumonia, when hepatization
commences. Stitching pains through the lungs extending to the back. Asthma. Dyspnea on ascending,
with pain in the heart. Hydrothorax (Merc-sul.). PLEURITIC EFFUSION. COLD TRAVELS DOWNWARD
TO THE CHEST.

Extremities
Severe bone pains. Periosteum thickened, especially the tibia; sensitive to touch (Kali-bi., Asaf.).
Rheumatism; pains at night and in damp weather. Contraction of joints. RHEUMATISM OF THE KNEES
WITH EFFUSION. Pain in the small of back and coccyx. Pain in the hip, forcing limping. SCIATICA;
cannot stay in bed; worse at night and lying on the affected side. Formication in the lower extremities
when sitting, better lying down.

Skin
Purple spots; worse on the legs. Acne, hydroa. Small boils. GLANDS enlarged, indurated. Hives.
ROUGH NODULES all over, worse covering; heat of body intense. Fissured anus of infants. Tendency to
edematous swellings, eyelids, mouth, uvula, etc. ACNE ROSACEA.

Modalities
AGG.: warm clothing, warm room, at night, damp weather.
AMEL.: motion, open air.

Relationship
Antidote: Hep.

Compare: Iod., Merc., Sulph., Mez. CHOPHEENEE, a Hindu remedy for syphilitic eruptions, ulcerations
and bone pains. Used in tincture.

Dose
Crude drug, in material officinal dosage, but remember Dr. Meyhoffer's statements in his chronic
diseases of organs of respiration: "From the moment the drug produces pathogenetic symptoms, it
exaggerates the function of the tissue, exhausts the already diminished vitality and thence, instead of
stimulating the organic cell in the direction of life, impairs or abolishes its power of contraction. We
use, as a rule, the first dilution, 6 to 20 drops a day; if after a week no decided progress is visible, one
drop of the tincture of Iodine is added to each hundred of the first dilution. In this way, the mucus
tubercles, gummy deposits and ulcerations resulting therefrom in the larynx undergo a favorable
termination in laryngeal syphilis." When strictly homeopathically indicated, as in acute respiratory
affections the third potency is indicated.

Follows well
Caust., Merc.

Followed well by
Nit-ac.

Compare
Ars-i., Ferr-i., Iod., Kali-n., Kali-s., Lach., Puls.
KALI NITRICUM

(Kali-n.)

(Nitrate of Potassium-Saltpeter)

Often indicated in asthma, also valuable in cardiac asthma; of great value in SUDDEN DROPSICAL
SWELLINGS OVER THE WHOLE BODY. Gastro-intestinal inflammation, with much debility and relapse
in phthisis, call for this remedy. Suppurative nephritis.

Head
Scalp very sensitive. Headache, with vertigo, as if falling to the right side and backwards; worse,
stooping. Ennui.

Eyes
Vision becomes clouded. Turbid corpus vitreum (Arn., Ham., Sol-n., Phos.). Variegated colored rings
before eyes. Burning and lachrymation.

Nose
Sneezing. Swollen feeling; WORSE, RIGHT NOSTRIL. Point red and itching. Polypus. (Sangin-n.).

Mouth
Tongue red, with burning pimples; burns at tip. Throat constricted and sore.

Stool
Thin, watery, bloody. Membranous shreds, with tenesmus. DIARRHEA FROM EATING VEAL.

Female
Menses too early, profuse, BLACK; preceded and with violent backache. Leucorrhea. Burning pain in
the ovarian region only during menses (Zinc., after).

Respiratory
Hoarseness. Dry, morning cough, with pain in chest and bloody expectoration. Bronchitis, with sharp,
short, dry, hacking cough. ASTHMA, with excessive dyspnea, nausea, dull stitches and burning in the
chest. Dyspnea so great that breath cannot be held long enough to drink, though thirsty. Chest feels
constricted. Oppression worse in morning. Sour-smelling expectoration. Expectoration of clotted
blood, after hawking mucus. Acute exacerbations in phthisis; congestion of the lungs. SPASMODIC
CROUP; paroxysm of crowing respiration. Laryngeal diphtheria.

Heart
Pulse weak, SMALL, thready. Violent stitch in precordia, and beating of heart.

Extremities
Stitches between the shoulder-blades. Tearing and sticking in the shoulders and joints. Hands and
fingers seem swollen.

Modalities
AGG.: eating veal; towards morning and in the afternoon.
AMEL.: drinking sips of water.

Relationship
Antidotes: Op., Nit-s-d.
Antidote to Opium and Morphine poisoning, 8-10 grains to glass of water.

Compare: GUNPOWDER (Nitre with sulphur and charcoal- 2x trituration. "Blood poisoning." Septic
suppuration. Protective against wound infection. Antidote to Ivy and Primula rash (Clarke). HERPES
FACIALIS; crops of boils. Carbuncles. Osteomyelitis. Cann-s. (which contains a large amount OF Kali-
n.). Lyc., Sang., All-s., Ant-i.

Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.

Compare
Kali-bi., Kali-i., Kali-s., Nit-ac., Sang., Stict., Thuja
KALI PHOSPHORICUM

(Kali-p.)

(Phosphate of Potassium)

One of the greatest nerve remedies. PROSTRATION. Weak and tired. Especially adapted to the young.
Marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system. Conditions arising from WANT OF NERVE
POWER, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression, are wonderfully improved by this remedy. The
causes are usually excitement, overwork and worry. Besides, IT CORRESPONDS TO STATES OF
ADYNAMIA AND DECAY, gangrenous conditions. In these two directions it has won many clinical
laurels. Remember it in the treatment of suspected malignant tumors. After removal of cancer when
in healing process skin is drawn TIGHT over the wound. Delayed labor.

Mind
Anxiety, NERVOUS DREAD, lethargy. Indisposition to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression.
Very nervous. starts easily, IRRITABLE. Brain fag; hysteria; NIGHT TERRORS. Somnambulance. Loss of
memory. SLIGHTEST LABOR SEEMS LIKE A HEAVY TASK. Great despondency about business. Shyness;
disinclined to converse.

Head
Occipital headache; better, after rising. Vertigo, from lying or standing up from sitting and when
looking upward (Gran.). CEREBRAL ANEMIA. Headache in students, and those worn out by fatigue.
Headaches are relieved by gentle motion. Headache, with a weary, empty, all gone feeling in the
stomach (Ign., Sep.).

Eyes
Weakness of sight; loss of perceptive power; after diphtheria; from exhaustion. Drooping of eyelids
(Caust.).

Ears
HUMMING AND BUZZING IN THE EARS.

Nose
Nasal disease, with offensive odor; fetid discharge.

Face
Livid and sunken, with hollow eyes. Right sided neuralgia, relieved by cold applications.

Mouth
BREATH OFFENSIVE, FETID. Tongue coated brownish, like mustard. EXCESSIVELY DRY, in the morning.
Toothache with easily bleeding gums; they have a bright red seam on them. Gums spongy and
receding (Caps., Ham., Lach.).

Throat

Gangrenous sore throat. Paralysis of the vocal cords.

Stomach
A nervous "gone" sensation in the pit of the stomach (Ign., Sep., Sulph.). Feels seasick without
nausea.

Rectum
Diarrhea; foul, PUTRID ODOR; occasioned by fright, with depression and exhaustion. Diarrhea while
eating. Dysentery; stools consist of pure blood; patient becomes delirious; abdomen swells. Cholera;
stools have the appearance of rice water (Verat., Ars., Jatr-c.). Prolapsus recti (Ign., Podo.).

Female
Menstruation TOO LATE OR TOO SCANTY in pale, irritable, sensitive, lachrymose females. Too profuse
discharge, deep-red or blackish-red, thin and non-coagulating; sometimes with an offensive odor.
Feeble and ineffectual labor pains.

Male
Nocturnal emissions; sexual power diminished; utter prostration after coitus (Kali-c.).

Urinary

Enuresis. Incontinence of urine. Bleeding from the urethra. VERY YELLOW URINE.

Respiratory
Asthma; least food aggravates. Short breath on going upstairs. Cough; YELLOW expectoration.

Extremities
Paralytic lameness of the back and extremities. Exertion aggravates. Pains, with depression and
subsequent exhaustion.

Fever
Subnormal temperature.

Modalities
AGG.: excitement, worry, mental and physical exertion; eating, cold, early morning.
AMEL.: warmth, rest, nourishment.

Relationship
Compare: KALIUM HYPOPHOSPHORICUM (DEBILITY WITH WASTING OF MUSCULAR TISSUE.
Phosphaturia with general anemia or leucocythemia. Effects of excessive tea drinking. Chronic
bronchitis where the expectoration is THICK and FETID, sometimes SCANTY AND TOUGH. Dose. 5
grains of crude to 3x). GENISTA TINCTORIA- Dyer's Weed-(contains scopolamin; frontal headache and
vertigo, worse motion, better open air and eating. Dry throat, awakes with waterbrash. Itching
eruption on the elbows, knees and ankles. Promotes diuresis in dropsical conditions). MACROZAMIA
SPIRALIS (extreme debility after severe illness; collapse. Weariness from no assignable cause, no
pains. Boring pain in the vertex; vomiting and retching all night; impossible to open eyes, giddiness
and cold). Zinc., Gels., Cimic., Lach., Mur-ac.

Dose
Third to twelfth trituration. The highest potencies seem to be indicated in certain cases.

Complementaries
Caust., Lyc., Mag-p.

Follows well
Anac. (Nervous dyspepsia when Anac seems indicated but fails to relieve), Ph-ac.

Compare
Calc., Gels., Nux-v., Phos., Pic-ac., Sep.
KALI SULPHURICUM (Kali-s.)

COUGH WITH RATTLING

MENTAL

Timid, lack of self confidence.

Irritable.

PHYSICAL

Warm blooded, worse from heat. Better from cold and cold air (Puls).
RATTLING in chest, esp. in children.
Asthma worse evening, night, < warm room, > open air.
Bronchitis with loose rattling cough, with thick yellow expectoration.
Snoring.
Otitis with yellowish discharge.
Epithilioma, esp of the NOSE.

MODALITIES

AMEL.: cold air.

AGG.: warmth.
DES.: sweets, cold food.
AVERS.: EGGS.

Compare
Calc-s., Puls. (Warm-blooded, respiratory problems in children), Sulph.
KALMIA LATIFOLIA (Kalm.)

RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS ESPECIALLY OF HEART

MENTAL

Excitement in the morning.

Thoughts rapid and quick. Anxiety about future.
Fear of evil.
Memory weakness.
Averse to being spoken to.

PHYSICAL

Rheumatic remedy.

PROMINENT ACTION ON THE HEART.

Gouty heart. Fatty degeneration of heart. Rheumatic endocarditis. Affection of the heart after
rheumatism. Pain in heart alternating with rheumatism.
Stitching pain in heart extending to left hand, to left scapula. Paroxysmal anxiety in heart region.
Hypertrophy of heart.

Palpitation < bending forward. Arrested respiration during pains.

Rheumatic inflammation of iris, inflammation of retina, of cornea, sclera.

Eye pain on motion, on turning sideways. Stiffness of eyeballs and muscles about the eyes. Eye pain
increases till noon and ceases in the evening, sunrise until sunset.

Pain in the pit of stomach < bending forward, > sitting erect.

Facial pain often with numbness esp. right sided <after suppressed eruption, exposure to cold.
Come and go with sun.

Wandering pains.
Pains in extremities and head extend downward with numbness (Acon., Cham., Plat.).
Sudden, severe, acute arthritis < night, motion.

Pain in tongue when talking < left side.

MODALITIES

AGG.: exposure to sun, ascending, motion, cold, exertion.

AMEL.: lying on back.

Complementaries
Benz-ac., Spig.
Follows well
Spig. (In heart disease)

Compare
Berb., Bry., Cact., Cimic., Lach., Spig., Spong.
KREOSOTUM (Kreos.)

EXCORIATION OF MUCUS MEMBRANES WITH ACRID DISCHARGES.

MENTAL

Irritable and peevish. Irritable infants and children. Capriciousness in children.

Irritability during headache.

Restless at evening and night, from 18:00 till 06:00. Must move constantly <before menses.

Anxiety and fear at thought of coition in women. Aversion to coition.

Oversensitive to music. Music causes excitement, weeping, sadness.

Absent-minded. Confusion of mind. Anxiety with fear.

PHYSICAL

EXCORIATION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE MUCUS / SEROUS MEMBRANES.

LEUCORRHEA yellow, putrid, burning, and acrid. Stains linen, causes itching.
< pregnancy, between menses, before menses.

Headache extending to teeth or teeth pain extending to head.

Headache < before or during menses, lying on side.

Voluptuous itching of vagina. Soreness. Cancer of vagina. Itching, biting between labia. Pains from
coccyx, back and abdomen extend to rectum and vagina.

Metrorrhagia after coition, with dark blood, black. Metrorrhagia during third month of pregnancy.

Menses intermittent, excoriating and offensive. Suppressed menses on walking.

Hæmorrhages and abnormal, profuse bleeding from wounds, gums, ulcers, chest, rectum, mucus
membranes.

Teeth decay, premature caries in children. Difficult dentition.

Gums inflamed, spongy, soft, bleed or ulcerate easily.
Mouth offensive, esp. from inflamed gums or decayed teeth.
Reopening of old ulcers esp. when partly healed.

Urine copious, offensive, brown, acrid with white sediment, brown, acrid.

External pulsation < music, excitement >motion.

MODALITIES
AGG:. cold food, cold (bathing, becoming, air), after menses, 18:00- 06:00.
AMEL.: motion.
DES.: smoked food, meat, alcoholic drinks.

Complementaries
Ars. (In malignant diseases), Phos. (In malignant diseases), Sulph. (In malignant diseases)

Compare
Ars., Merc-c., Merc., Murx., Nit-ac., Sep.
LAC CANINUM (Lac-c.)

SYMPTOMS ALTERNATE SIDES, FEAR OF SNAKES

MENTAL

FEAR OF SNAKES. Has hallucinations or dreams about them.

Fear of fainting, death, falling, impending diseases.

Very forgetful, absent-minded. Goes off and leaves purchases.

Delusions is swimming in the air.

Low confidence.

PHYSICAL

SYMPTOMS APPEAR IN ALTERNATING SIDES.

Vertigo with feeling as if he’s not touching the bed, as if floating, as if gliding and feet did not touch
the ground.

Shining, glazed appearance of throat.

White, pearly membrane in throat esp. when alternating sides.
Migratory diphtheria. Post diphtheritic paralysis.

Sore throats and cough are apt to begin and end with menstruation.

Food does not taste salty enough, it only tastes natural.

Desires PEPPER.

MODALITIES

AGG.: warm (wraps, bed), beginning of sleep.

AMEL.: bathing, cold.
DES.: pepper, salt, spices, highly seasoned food, warm drinks, whisky.

Compare
Arg-n., Lach. (Fear of snakes), Phos. (Sociable, fear of thunderstorms and anxiety, desire for
salt and spices)
LACHESIS (Lach.)

The Lachesis patient is passionate with strong emotions, jealous. We see hypertension,
hypersexuality, loquacity. Any constriction or suppression is intolerable. Often the patient
experiences chocking, suffocative feeling in the throat, intolerance to tight clothing. There’s the
need to bring out, to release the emotions or the discharges (on the physical level) in order for the
patient to be ameliorated.

LOQUACITY, JEALOUSY, FEAR OF SNAKES

MENTAL

JEALOUSY, ailments from jealousy. Delirium from jealousy. Envy.

LOQUACITY. Changing from one subject to another.
FEAR OF SNAKES. Dreams of snakes.

Premenstrual syndrome. Sadness before menses. >beginning of menses, during menses.

Mental symptoms are worse on waking in the morning. (anxiety, confusion, dullness, forsaken
feeling, sadness, loathing).

Religious affections, religious despair.

PHYSICAL

Left sided complaints usually, where the heart is involved. Sciatica is right sided.

Complaints may go from LEFT TO RIGHT.

PAINS COME IN WAVES.

Symptoms (dysmenorrhoea, back pain, head pain and mental symptoms etc.)
< BEFORE MENSES > BEGINNING OF MENSES, when flow begins.

Affections of ovaries (induration, pains, tumors, swelling, abscess, inflammation, cysts etc.). Ovarian
complaints are worse around menses (before, during, after).

Constriction on various parts of the body esp. throat.

THROAT IS SENSITIVE TO SLIGHTEST TOUCH. CANNOT TOLERATE CLOTHING AROUND THROAT.

Arrested respiration on going to sleep, or during sleep that makes her jump with terror of
suffocation. Difficult respiration <touching the larynx, exertion of hands and arms.

Impossible to lie on left side. Palpitations worse lying on left side.

Heat flushes esp. in face during climaxis. Heat flushes with perspiration.
Slight pressure aggravates but hard pressure ameliorates.

Unrefreshing sleep.

Skin has bluish, red, purple discoloration (eruptions, boils, ulcers, swelling).

MODALITIES

AGG.: touch, on waking, suppressed discharges, sleep (before, during, after, beginning of), lying on
left side, warm wet weather, change of temperature from cold to warm, spring, autumn.
AMEL.: BEGINNING OF MENSES, DISCHARGES, loosening clothing, hard pressure.

Complementaries
Hep., Lyc., Nit-ac.

Follows well
Alum., Bell., Led. (Kent: This remedy comes up well after the study of Lachesis, for we find
in the pathogenesis many features similar to those in Lachesis.)

Followed well by
Led. (Kent: This remedy comes up well after the study of Lachesis, for we find in the
pathogenesis many features similar to those in Lachesis.)

Antidoted by
Am-c. (When Lach has been repeated too frequently or used too low potency, while Am-c is
inimical to Lach yet it will antidote in cases poisoned by Lach.), Ars., Bell.

Antidotes
Am-c., Apis, Carb-v., Carc., Kali-bi., Lyc. (Most comprehensive antidote of Lyc), Merc., Nux-
v. (Especially), Verat.

Compare
Apis, Cimic. (Loquacity.), Crot-h., Hyos. (Loquacity, jealousy, high sexual desire.), Lac-
c. (Fear of snakes), Med., Phos., Sulph.
LAUROCERASUS

(Laur.)

(Cherry-laurel)

Spasmodic tickling cough, especially in cardiac patients, is often magically influenced by this drug.
LACK OF REACTION, especially in chest and heart affections. DRINK ROLLS AUDIBLY THROUGH THE
ESOPHAGUS AND INTESTINES. General coldness, not ameliorated by warmth. Violent pain in the
stomach with loss of speech. Spasm of facial muscles and esophagus. Asphyxia neonatorum.

Fever
Coldness; chills and heat alternate. Thirst, with a dry mouth in the afternoon.

Respiratory
Cyanosis and dyspnea; worse, sitting up. Patient puts hands on the heart. Cough, with valvular
disease. Exercise causes pain around the heart. Tickling, DRY COUGH. Dyspnea. Constriction of the
chest. Cough, with copious, jelly like or bloody expectoration. Small and feeble pulse. Threatening
paralysis of the lungs. GASPING FOR BREATH; clutches at the heart.

Heart
Mitral regurgitation. Clutching the heart and palpitations. Cyanosis neonatorum.

Sleep
Spells of deep sleep, with snoring and stertorous breathing.

Extremities
Toe and finger nails become knotty. Skin blue. Sprained pains in hips, thighs and heels. Cold, clammy
feet and legs. Clubbing of fingers. Veins of hands distended.

Relationship
Compare: Hydr-ac., Camph., Sec., Am-c., Ambr.

Dose
Tincture, to third potency. Cherry laurel water, two to five drop doses.

Compare
Ant-t., Camph. (Coldness and collapse states), Carb-v., Stann. (Respiratory problems and
great weakness)
LEDUM PALUSTRE (Led.)

PAINFUL ARTHRITIC NODOSITIES, GOUT >COLD APPLICATIONS

MENTAL

Restless, must move constantly.

Aversion to company. Dread of men. Misanthropy, hatred.
Morose, malicious.

PHYSICAL

RHEUMATIC COMPLAINTS. Painful ARTHRITIC NODOSITIES.

GOUT. The toe is red, swollen, painful.

Rheumatic pain in extremities ascending upward.

Rheumatic pain in right hip and left shoulder.
Inflammation of periosteum.

PAINS > COLD APPLICATIONS although there is coldness of affected part.

< warm, warmth of bed, night.

For penetrating wounds, stings and bites with swelling.

Tetanus where the injured parts become cold and spasms begin in the wound.

Skin eruptions > cold applications <warmth.

MODALITIES

AGG.: warm wraps or bed, motion, walking.

AMEL.: COLD APPLICATIONS, cold bathing.

Follows well
Chel., Lach. (Kent: This remedy comes up well after the study of Lachesis, for we find in the
pathogenesis many features similar to those in Lachesis.)

Followed well by
Lach. (Kent: This remedy comes up well after the study of Lachesis, for we find in the
pathogenesis many features similar to those in Lachesis.)

Antidotes
Apis
Compare
Apis, Arn., Guaj., Hyper., Puls., Ruta
LILIUM TIGRINUM (Lil-t.)

CONFLICT BETWEEN MORALITY AND SEXUALITY

MENTAL

STRONG RELIGIOUS AND SEXUAL FEELINGS leading to INNER CONFLICT.

Religious despair alternating with sexual excitement.

SUPPRESSION OF SEXUAL DESIRE (e.g. by keeping busy).

Irritable, nasty, snappish. Depression of spirits.

Hurried. Nervous.

Conscientious, duty-bound, domineering people.

Anxious about disease. Anxiety about salvation. Fear of evil.

Constant inclination to weep.

PHYSICAL

Main action upon the venous circulation of the heart and female organs.

Increased sexual desire. Nymphomania.

Prolapsus of uterus.
BEARING DOWN AS IF EVERYTHING WOULD COME OUT
< standing, >crossing limbs, pressing vulva.

Flow of menses only during motion.

Frequent urging to urinate. Feeling of congestion in chest if urination is postponed.
Alternating symptoms (pain in uterus with pain in heart or chest, mental symptoms alternate with
physical, alternating sides in headache).

Tottering. Can't walk straight or on uneven ground.

Pressure in the rectum during stool.

MODALITIES

AGG.:, sexual excitement, suppression of sexual desire, heat, pressure, evening standing, warm
room, after menses, after coition.
AMEL.: pressure, open air, motion.
DES.: meat.
Compare
Lach. (Suppressed sexual desire, intense behavior), Murx. (Bearing down sensation), Nux-
v. (Irritability, premenstrual syndrome), Sep. (Bearing down sensation. In Sepia the bearing
down sensation is better by crossing the limbs, in Lil-t it is better by lying down.)
LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM (Lyc.)
The central idea of Lycopodium is cowardice. The patient has feelings of inferiority that tries to
hide, showing a facet of being sociable and friendly. The cowardice is apparent when confronted
with someone superior but at the same time they are hard and dictatorial with the ones they
consider inferior to them. On the physical level they often suffer from gastrointestinal complaints
with distention.

COWARDICE WITH GASTROINTESTINAL DISTENTION

MENTAL
DICTATORIAL BUT AT THE SAME TIME COWARD AND TIMID.
Ailments from egotism. Intolerant to contradiction, gets angry.
BOASTER, haughty. LIKES TO SHOW OFF, but inside he feels insecure, weak.
LOW SELF-CONFIDENCE. COWARDICE. Fear of responsibility, of undertaking anything. The idea of
marriage seems unendurable.
Timidity appearing in public. They don’t believe in themselves, they fear the opinion of others, that is
why they weep when thanked.
FEARS people, dark, ghosts, being alone in the house, tunnels. Fears his position in society.
Weak memory (for names, words, for what has read).
Makes mistakes in writing (transposes letter, omitting words or letters, confounding letters), in
speaking, in calculating, in spelling.

PHYSICAL
Liver affections.
Right sided remedy. Ailments go from right side to left.
SYMPTOMS < 16:00-20:00, ON WAKING IN THE MORNING.
DISTENSION OF ABDOMEN
> FLATUS, ERUCTATIONS.
<16:00-20:00, after eating, after stool.
Eating increases the appetite, increases the hunger. Ravenous appetite soon after eating.
Increased appetite with stomach pain, in gastralgia, with diarrhoea, with marasmus, with headache.
Easy satiety. Fullness after eating little.
UNREFRESHING SLEEP.
Impotency, penis is relaxed when excited. Incomplete erection during coition.
Ejaculation too quick or failing during coition.
One foot hot, the other cold.
Heels are cracked.
Fan-like motion of nostrils especially during an acute disease.
Sleeps on right side, impossible on left (Lach., Phos.).
MODALITIES
AGG.: 16:00-20:00, onions, eating after, cold, cold food, change of temperature from cold to warm,
oysters, cabbage.
AMEL.: after midnight, sweets,loosening clothing, warm bed, motion, cold.
DES.: SWEETS, WARM DRINKS, olives, oysters.
AVERS.: cold drinks, beans, peas, bread.

Complementaries
Lach., Nat-m., Puls., Sep., Sulph.

Follows well
Agn., Am-c., Ambr., Ang., Aur., Borx., Calc. (Circle Sulph to Calc to
Lyc), Caust., Chel., Coff., Ph-ac.

Antidoted by
Camph., Caust., Cham., Graph., Lach. (Most comprehensive antidote of Lyc), Puls.

Antidotes
Carc. (Right sided symptoms), Nat-s., Nit-ac.

Compare
Arg-n. (Warm-blooded), Nat-m. (Warm-blooded, closed), Sulph. (Warm-blooded, uncovers
feet)
MAGNESIA CARBONICA (Mag-c.)

GASTROINTESTINAL COMPLAINTS WITH ACIDITY

MENTAL

FORSAKEN FEELING, feels he’s not loved by parents or friends.

Irritability in children.

PHYSICAL

GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS WITH MARKED ACIDITY.

SOURNESS: perspiration, taste, eructation, stool, menses, expectoration, vomiting.

Menses are more copious at night or when lying or only during sleep and cease while
walking. Flow comes only after the pain. Coryza before and during menses.

< MILK (indigestion, eructations, stomach pain, diarrhoea, abdomen pain).

Unrefreshing sleep.

Neuralgic pains. Trigeminal neuralgia <left side, lying, night, rest, sitting >walking,
motion, pressure, jar, open air.

Abdomen distention <night, soup, eating after > passing flatus.

Stool is frothy, watery with green scum. Lienteric stool in children.

MODALITIES

AGG.: during menses, pregnancy, evening, cabbage, night, lying after.

AMEL.: open air, walking, motion.
DES.: meat (esp. in children), bread and butter.
AVERS.: vegetables, artichokes, fruit.
MAGNESIA MURIATICA (Mag-m.)

PACIFISTS, WEAKNESS OF LIVER, <MILK

MENTAL

PACIFIST, INTOLERANT OF AGGRESSION, TRY TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS.

Restlessness, anxiety at evening in bed, on closing the eyes at night.

Unconsciousness after eating, while lying.

PHYSICAL

LIVER AFFECTIONS (inflammation, jaundice, enlarged liver).

UNREFRESHING SLEEP esp. in the morning.

< MILK. Diarrhœa, stomach/abdomen pain, indigestion.

Undigested stool after milk.

Periodic headache every six weeks, with vomiting and thirst. Eructations during
headache. Thirsty during headache.

Constipation during dentition.

They feel old. They have an old looking expression in the face.

Adapted to diseases of women; spasmodic and hysterical complaints.

MODALITIES

AGG.: MILK, bathing in the sea, seashore.

AMEL.: pressure, open air, motion.
DES.: indistinct - does not know what desires, vegetables, sweets.
AVERS.: MILK.
MAGNESIA SULPHURICA

(Mag-s.)

(Epsom Salt)

The skin, URINARY, and female symptoms are most marked. The purgative action of
the Sulphate of Magnesia is not a quality of the drug, but a quality of its physical
state, which renders its absorption impossible. The properties inherent in the
substance itself can only be discovered by attenuation (Percy Wilde).

Head
Apprehensive; vertigo; head heavy during menses. Eyes burn, noises in ears.

Stomach
Frequent eructations, tasting like bad eggs. Rising of water in the mouth.

Urinary
Stitches and burning in the orifice of the urethra after urinating. Stream intermits
and dribbles. Urine passed in the morning is copious, bright yellow, it soon
becomes turbid, and deposits a copious red sediment. Urine is greenish when
passed; is of a clear color, and in a large quantity. Diabetes (Phos-ac., Lac-ac., Ars-
br.).

Female
Thick leucorrhea, as profuse as menses, with weary pain in the small of the back
and thighs, on moving about. Some blood from the vagina between the menses.
Menstruation returned after fourteen days; the discharge is thick, black, and
profuse. Menses too early, intermits.

Back
Bruised and ulcerative pain between the shoulders, with a feeling as of a lump as
large as the fist, on account of which she cannot lie upon her back or side; relieved
by rubbing. Violent pain in the small of the back, as if bruised, and as before
menstruation.

Extremities
The left arm and foot fall asleep in bed, in the morning after waking.

Skin
Small pimples over the whole body, that itch violently. Suppressed itch (Sulph.).
Crawling in the tips of the fingers of the left hand; better on rubbing. WARTS.
Eyrsipelas (applied locally as a saturated solution). Dropsy (physiological doses).

Fever
Chills from 9 to 10 a. m. Shuddering in the back; heat in one part and chill in
another.
Relationship
It is claimed that the addition of a small amount of Mag-s. to the usual hypodermic
of Morphine increases the value of the hypodermic from 50 to 100%.

Physiologic Dosage

Mag-s. is of diagnostic and therapeutic value in Gallstone colic. From 2 to 4

teaspoonfuls in a glass of hot water taken at the onset of a colicky attack may
abort or stop the colic.

Epsom salt is one of the most active saline cathartics, operating with little pain or
nausea, especially if pure. It has but little, if any effect on intestinal peristalsis, its
action causes a rush of fluid into the intestine, which by producing a distention of
the bowel produces evacuation. It causes little or no irritation in the intestine. In
common with the other salines, it is the classical evacuant to be employed in
connection with mercurials and anthelmintics and in cases of poisoning. Epsom salt
usually acts within from one to two hours, more quickly if taken in hot water and in
the morning before breakfast. The ordinary dose as a mild laxative is a heaping
teaspoonful; as a cathartic, two to four teaspoonfuls. The taste may be improved,
if necessary, by the addition of a little lemon juice and sugar.

Besides its chief use as a saline cathartic, magnesium sulphate is used to a

considerable extent externally in saturated solution as an antiphlogistic and
antipruritic in erysipelas, ivy poisoning, cellulitis and other local inflammations.
Use as a compresses saturated with the solution.

Dose
The pure salt to the third potency. Locally 1:4 in water in septic conditions,
erysipelas, orchitis, boils, etc.

MANCINELLA (Manc.)
FEAR OF DEVIL, OF INSANITY

MENTAL

FEARS EVIL SPIRITS, GHOSTS, BEING TAKEN BY THE DEVIL.

This brings FEAR OF INSANITY. Delusions that she will become insane.
Afraid to pronounce the word 'devil'.

Superstitious (Arg-n., Con., Rhus-t., Stram.).

Obsessive thoughts. Fear of their own thoughts. Have to restrain them.
Praying, hoping God will help them.

Sexual thoughts, obsessions. Perverse fancies; can't put them aside.

PHYSICAL

Allergies, postnasal catarrh.

Constricting pain in throat < speaking, swallowing, drinking.

Dysphagia from constriction of oesophagus. Spasms when drinking. Clothing aggravates the
throat symptoms. Constriction, oppression in the chest > expectoration.

Flushes of heat in stomach extending upwards.

Cramping pain in abdomen after drinking water.
Vesicular, desquamating eruptions in feet. Yellow vesicles in face.

Shocks in cervical region < on waking.

Palpitations < evening, turning in bed.
Bloody taste after sleep.

MODALITIES

AGG.: heat, puberty, climaxis.

AMEL.: motion.
DES.: strange things, salt.

Compare
Arg-n. (Fixed ideas), Calc. (Fear of insanity), Cann-i. (Fear of insanity, delusions), Puls. (Fear of
insanity, dark, worse from heat.)

MANGANUM
(Mang.)

(Manganese Acetate)

Manganum causes anemia with destruction of the red corpuscles. Jaundice,

nephritis with albuminuria. Fatty degeneration of liver. Paralysis agitans.
CELLULITIS, subacute stage, promotes suppuration and hastens regeneration.

Symptoms of chronic poisoning, according to Professor von Jaksch, were

involuntary laughter and involuntary weeping and walking backwards. Strongly
exaggerated reflexes and physical disturbances, evidenced by men making fun of
each other's gait. Paraplegia progressive; wasting, feeble and staggering gait.

Inflammation of bones or joints, with nightly digging pains. Asthmatic persons who
cannot lie on a feather pillow. Syphilitic and chlorotic patients with general anemia
and paralytic symptoms often are benefitted by this drug. Gout. Chronic arthritis.
For speakers and singers. Great accumulation of mucus. Growing pains and weak
ankles. General soreness and aching; every part of the body feels sore when
touched; early stage of tuberculosis.

Head
Anxiety and fear; BETTER LYING DOWN. Feels large and heavy, with rush of blood;
pain from above downward. Field of vision contracted. Stolidy mask-like face.

Mouth
Nodes on palate. Toothache; WORSE, anything cold (Coff. opposite). Hemming all
the time. Low, monotonous voice. Tongue sore and irritable with ulcers or warts.

Nose
Dry, obstructed. Chronic catarrh, with bleeding, dryness; WORSE IN COLD DAMP
WEATHER.

Ears
Feel stopped; cracking on blowing the nose. PAIN FROM OTHER PARTS EXTENDS TO
THE EARS. Deafness IN DAMP WEATHER. Whistling tinnitus.

Abdomen

Flatulence; chronic enlargement of liver.

Respiratory
CHRONIC HOARSENESS. Larynx dry, rough, constricted. Tuberculosis of the larynx.
Cough; worse evening, and BETTER LYING DOWN and worse in damp weather.
Mucus difficult to loosen. Stitches in the larynx extending to the ear. Heat in the
chest. Hemoptysis. EVERY COLD ROUSES UP A BRONCHITIS (Dulc.).

Female
Derangements of menstruation, amenorrhea; menses too early and scanty, in
anemic subjects. FLUSHES OF HEAT AT CLIMACTERIC.

Extremities
Muscular twitching. Cramps in calves. Stiffness in muscles of legs. Inflammation of
bones and joints with insupportable nightly digging pains. EVERY PART OF BODY
FEELS SORE WHEN TOUCHED. Cannot walk backwards without falling. TENDANCY TO
FALL FORWARD. WALKS STOOPING FORWARD. Legs feel numb. Wilson's disease.
Paralysis agitans. Peculiar slapping gait, walks on the metatarso-phalangeal joint;
walks backwards. Ankles painful. Bones very sensitive. Shiny red swelling of joints.
KNEES PAIN and itch. Rheumatism of feet. Intolerable pain in the skin of the lower
limbs. Burning spots around the joints. Periosteal inflammation. Suppuration of skin
around the joints.

Sleep
Languor and sleepiness. Vivid dreams. Sleepy very early in the evening.

Skin
Suppuration of skin around joints. Red. elevated spots. ITCHING; better,
scratching. Deep cracks in bends of elbows, etc. Psoriasis and pityriasis. Burning
around ulcers. CHRONIC ECZEMA associated with amenorrhœa, worse at menstrual
period or at menopause.

Modalities
AGG.: cold wet weather, change of weather.
AMEL.: lying down (cough).

Relationship
Compare: COLLOIDAL MANGANESE (Boils and other staphylococcal infections);
MANGANUM MURIATICUM (painful ankles, bone-pains); MANGANUM OXYDATUM (pain
in the tibia, dysmenorrhea, colic and diarrhea. Easily fatigued and heated; sleepy.
Stolid, mask like face; low monotonous voice "Economical Speech." Muscular
twitching, cramps in calves; stiff leg muscles; occasional uncontrollable laughter.
Peculiar slapping gait. Similar symptoms to paraylsis agitans, progressive lenticular
degenerations and pseudo-sclerosis. Workers in Manganum binoxide are frequently
affected with bulbar paralysis. Use 3x homeopathically). MANGANUM SULPHURICUM
(liver affections, excess of bile; a powerful intestinal stimulant); Arg-met., Rhus-t.,
Sulp.

Antidotes: Coff., Merc.

Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.
MEDORRHINUM (Med.)

The Medorrhinum persons are passionate with everything they do. They are
passionate with their relationships, their beliefs, their interests. They are
very sexual. They enjoy sex as long as the passion lasts.
They enjoy the sea and are markedly ameliorated in the sea.
There’s usually a history of venereal disease or early heart disease in the
patient’s or his parents’ history.

PASSIONATE, LOVES SEA, HISTORY OF VENEREAL DISEASE

MENTAL

Passionate, hypersexual. EXHILARATION AT NIGHT.

Powerful, extrovert, passionate people, egotistical. They put passion in whatever

they do, they enjoy relationships, but you can also get the opposite type who is
very introverted, not able to express themselves.

Fear that somebody is behind him.

Rapid thoughts. Hurried.

PHYSICAL

PERSONAL OR FAMILY HISTORY OF VENEREAL DISEASE (SUCH AS GONORRHOEA), OF

HEART AFFECTIONS IN YOUNG AGE.

Gonorrhoeal discharge. Urethritis. Condylomata. Herpetic eruptions in genitals.

RED RASH IN THE GENITALIA OF NEWBORNS.

GENERAL AMELIORATION IN THE SEA.

General amelioration in the evening.

Warm blooded. HOT FEET, uncovers them at night.

Painful soles, cannot walk on beach pebbles easily.
Sleeps on abdomen or in knee-chest position.
Asthmatic respiration > in knee-chest position.

Constant disposition to hawk due to mucus stuck in throat.

Increased sexual desire.

MODALITIES

AMEL.: SEA (bathing, seashore), EVENING, lying on abdomen.

AGG.: cold wet weather, becoming cold.
DES.: SOUR, oranges. ACID, GREEN OR UNRIPE FRUITS. Salt, fat, ice, sweets,
alcoholic drinks (esp. sweet).
AVERS.: aubergine.

Complementaries
Nat-m., Nat-s. (Chronic rheumatism, also Rhus-t, Thuja.), Psor., Rhus-t., Sulph., Syph., Thuja

Follows well
Syph.

Antidoted by
Ip. (Dry cough), Nux-v., Thuja

Antidotes
Nat-s.
MENYANTHES (Meny.)

A REMEDY FOR CERTAIN HEADACHES, INTERMITTENT FEVER

MENTAL

Confusion > open air.

Discontent. Restlessness.
Forsaken feeling.
Fear of being alone with headaches.
Dwells on disagreeable occurrences (Nat-m.).
Anxiety about heart.

PHYSICAL

Headaches: as if weight on vertex pressing down, better pressing hard with hand
in the same direction, better stooping (lgn., Cina), worse ascending (Calc.).
Cold hands and feet (Calc., Sep.), cold tip of nose, tension in root of nose.
Coldness of abdomen.
Icy cold toes and fingers extending to knees and elbows.
Fever: Cold stage predominates. Coldness of the tip of the nose.
Thirstless.
Twitchings. Diabetes.

MODALITIES

AGG.: rest and lying down, evening.

AMEL.: hard pressure with hands (China), motion.
MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS (Merc-c.)

VIOLENCE OF SYMPTOMS, INTENSE BURNING, RAPID SPREAD

MENTAL

Impulsive, violent and active in movements.

Startled from sleep, or on falling asleep.

Dullness, memory weakness, stupefaction.

Anxious and restless.

PHYSICAL

BURNING: discharges, urine, urethral discharge, aphthae, pains.

All discharges are acrid, excoriating, causing burning.

Feeling of constriction and internal burning in rectum, neck of bladder.

TENESMUS of bladder and rectum. Continuous urging for stool and urination.
Only few drops of urine are coming out. Urine hot, burning, passed drop by
drop, albuminous and bloody.
Little stool is coming out with burning and blood. Remedy par excellence
for ulcerative colitis.

Conjunctivitis painful and severe. With acrid lachrymation. Specific for syphilitic
iritis.
Gingivitis, with swelling, bleeding and burning pains.

Salivation.

Sweats from every motion.

Throat intensely inflamed, burning <on pressure. Spasmodic constriction of throat

compelling him to retch and swallow constantly.

Swelling of throat, cervical and submaxillary glands.

Cracks and swelling of nipples.

MODALITIES

AGG.: NIGHT pressure, lying on the side, exertion, after urination.

AMEL.: rest, lying on back, motion.
DES.: cold drinks, sour food.
AVERS.: hot or warm food.

Antidotes
Sep.

MERCURIUS IODATUS FLAVUS

(Merc-i-f.)

(Proto-iodide of Mercury)

Throat affections, with greatly swollen glands and characteristic coating of the
tongue. Worse, right side. Chancre; induration remains for a long time. Swollen
inguinal glands, large and hard. MAMMARY TUMORS, with a tendency to profuse,
warm perspiration and gastric disturbances.

Mouth
Tongue COATED THICKLY, YELLOW AT THE BASE. Tip and edges may be red
(glossitis) and take imprint of teeth.

Throat
Lacunar tonsillitis. When only the superficial part of the tonsil is involved. Cheesy
exudates with offensive breath. Swelling begins on the right side. Small ulcers on
the posterior pharynx. Easily detached patches on the inflamed pharynx and fauces
(diphtheria); WORSE ON THE RIGHT TONSIL; profuse tenacious mucus. Sensation of
a lump. CONSTANT INCLINATION TO SWALLOW.

Relationship
Compare: PLB-I. (in mammary tumors).

Dose
Second trituration.
Compare
Merc-i-r. (Merc-i-f is right sided and Merc-i-r is left sided), Merc.

MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS (Merc.)

INTROVERT WITH OFFENSIVE BREATH, METALLIC TASTE, SALIVATION
MENTALS
INTROVERT, FEELS THREATENED
Aggressive- impulse to kill, to do violent things.
STAMMERING, mild, not violent.
Impolite, contrary, reproaches others, aversion to his family, discontented.
PHYSICAL
EXCESSIVE SALIVATION, wets the pillow during sleep.
METALLIC TASTE IN THE MOUTH.
OFFENSIVE BREATH.
WHITE TONGUE. Tongue swollen, flabby, indented.
Complaints of mucous membranes, excoriation (burn like fire).
Aphthae. Gums are bleeding.
PROFUSE PERSPIRATION with every complaint <night.
Perspiration gives no relief. All symptoms are aggravated during or after
perspiration.
PAINS WORSE AT NIGHT.
Worse both extremes of temperature, heat and cold.
Great weakness and trembling from slight exertion.
MODALITIES
AGG.: night, perspiration, touch, heat and cold, lying on right side, warm air.
AMEL.: sleep, falling asleep, cold, sour food.
DES.: bread and butter, cold drinks, liquids, lemons.
AVERS.: brandy, strong cheese, butter.

Complementaries
Bad., Bell., Hep., Lyc., Nit-ac.

Follows well
Aur., Cham., Rhus-t.

Antidoted by
Aur., Bell., Carb-v., Chin., Dulc., Hep., Iod., Lach., Nit-ac., Phyt., Staph.

Inimical
Sil.

Antidotes
Arg-met., Arg-n., Aur., Nat-s., Nit-ac., Sars., Sep., Sil., Staph., Sulph., Thuja, Verat.

Compare
Nat-m. (Reserved), Nit-ac., Plb. (Trembling), Puls. (Otitis, desire for butter)

MEZEREUM (Mez.)

THICK, CRUSTY, DISCHARGING ERUPTIONS

MENTAL

ANXIETY, FEAR FELT AND ARISING IN STOMACH (Calc., Kali-c.).

Empty feeling, as if something was going to happen.
Anxiety when alone.

Confusion of mind from interruption, knows not where he is, cannot distinguish
objects around him. Vanishing thoughts while speaking.

Causeless anger.
Apathy, indifference, everything seems dead to him.

PHYSICAL
ERUPTIONS: THICK, CRUSTY, discharging WHITE PUS BENEATH (esp. scalp).

Ailments from suppressed eruptions (Graph., Sulph., Zinc.)

Eczema on back of hand with itchy vesicles.

Chilly, aggravated by cold - 'cold to the bone'. Affected parts become cold.

Internal burning with external violent, burning itching in spots. Skin burning
from perspiration.
Produces violent, burning, stitching pains in the muscles.

Sudden pains followed by chilliness, numbness and soreness.

Burning in urethra at close of urination with mucous. Discharge from urethra.

MODALITIES

DES.: FAT, HAM, bacon.

AVERS.: milk.
AGG.: evening, touch, cold, bathing.
AMEL.: eating while, open air.

Compare
Graph., Hep., Merc., Nit-ac., Psor., Rhus-t., Sulph.

MOSCHUS

(Mosch.)

(Musk)

A remedy for hysteria and nervous paroxysms, FAINTING FITS and convulsions,
catalepsy, etc. The characteristic condition being aggravation by cold; there is
great sensitiveness to air. Marked nervous trembling and frequent fainting. Great
flatulence. Diseases do not follow a normal course. COLDNESS. Tension in the
muscles, skin and mind.

Mind
UNCONTROLLABLE LAUGHTER. Scolding. Anxiety, with palpitations; starting as if
frightened. Sexual hypochondriasis.
Head
Compressive pain over the root of nose. Pressure on top of the head. Vertigo on
least motion; sensation as if falling from a great height. Scalp sensitive. Sounds in
the ears as if from the retort of a cannon.

Stomach
Desire for black coffee, stimulants. Aversion to food. Everything tastes flat. With
stomach symptoms, anxiety in the chest. Distended. Faints when eating. Abdomen
greatly distended. SPASMODIC, NERVOUS HICCOUGH (Hydr-ac., sul-ac., Ign., Caj.).

Male
VIOLENT DESIRE; involuntary emissions. Impotence, associated with diabetes
(Coca). Premature senility. Nausea and vomiting after coition.

Female
Menses too early, too profuse, with a disposition to faint (Nux-m., Verat.). Sexual
desire, with intolerable titillation in parts. Drawing and pushing in the direction of
the genitals; sensation as if menses would appear.

Urine

Profuse urination. DIABETES.

Respiratory
Tightness of the chest, is obliged to take a deeper breath. Sudden constriction of
larynx and trachea. DIFFICULT RESPIRATION; CHEST OPPRESSED; hysterical spasm
of chest; asthma. Spasm of the glottis. Impending paralysis of lungs. Asthma, with
intense anxiety, fear and smothering sensation. COUGH CEASES, MUCUS CANNOT BE
EXPECTORATED. Globus hystericus.

Heart
Hyterical palpitations. Trembling around the heart. Weak pulse and fainting.

Modalities
AGG.: cold. Open air feels very, very cold.
AMEL.: in the open air, rubbing.

Relationship
Compare: Nux-m., Asaf., Valer., Sumb., Ign., Castm.

Compatible: Ambr.

Antidotes: Camph., Coff.

Dose
First to third potency.

Compare
Cupr., Ign., Lil-t., Tarent., Valer.
MURIATICUM ACIDUM (Mur-ac.)

This remedy is exhausted on the physical level. The exhaustion is such that
they cannot support the body. They slide down in bed, the lower jaw is
hanging down. The organs are collapsing, the rectum is prolapsed with
haemorrhoids. The mind is also so tired and weak, that they are sad and
indifferent to everything.

WEAKNESS
MENTAL

WEAKNESS, WEARINESS- feels too weak to live on his own.

Indifference and sadness due to exhaustion. Taciturn. Introvert.

Persistent loud moaning. Muttering.

Restlessness.

PHYSICAL

Affinity to blood and muscles esp. heart and mucous membranes.

GREAT DEBILITY AND WEAKNESS dropping down of lower jaw, slides down in
bed.

Muscular prostration from blood poisoning going onto paralysis. Toxic paralysis.

HÆMORRHOIDS, bluish, sensitive, painful < touch.

Offensive secretions, breath, flatus, stool and body odor.

Vertigo comes on moving eyes and lying on right side.

Tongue, dry, stiff and paralyzed.

Urine passes slowly, feeble stream. Involuntary stool while urinating.

Burning, tearing pains.

MODALITIES

AGG.: bathing in sea, seashore, standing.

AMEL.: touch, pressure, rubbing, motion.
DES.: alcohol.
AVERS.: meat (also agg.).

Follows well
Bry., Merc., Rhus-t.

Antidotes
Op.

Compare
Carb-an., Carb-v., Gels., Ph-ac., Pic-ac., Sel., Stann.
NAJA TRIPUDIA

(Naja)

(Virus of the Cobra)

Naja produces a typical bulbar paralysis (L. J. Boyd). Causes no hemorrhage but only
edema, hence the victims of this reptile frequently bear very little sign of external injury,
a small scratch or puncture being the only indication where the fangs have worked their
havoc. The tissue lying beneath the wound is dark purple and a large quantity of viscid
blood-like fluid collects in the vicinity of the wound. An intense burning pain at the spot
bitten is the first symptom. In man there follows an interval before fresh symptoms occur.
The average is about an hour. Once developed, the symptoms follow a rapid course. A
feeling of intoxication is produced, followed by a loss of power over the limbs. The patient
is bereft of speech, swallowing, and looses control over the movement of lips. The saliva is
ejected in large quantities, respiration gradually becomes slower and slower, and at length
ceases. Conscious all the time. Is not a hemorrhagic or septic, medicine like Lach. and
Crot-h. Its action settles around the heart; valvular troubles. Marked surging of blood
upwards, marked dyspnea, inability to lie on the left side. Hypertrophy, and valvular
lesions. ORGANS SEEM TO BE DRAWN TOGETHER. Very susceptible to cold. With heart
symptoms, pain in the forehead and temples. Diseases primarily depending upon
degeneration of motor cells. Control of sphincters lost.

Mind
Broods constantly over imaginary troubles. Suicidal insanity (Aur.). Depressed. Aversion to
talking. Blurred speech. Melancholy. Dread to being left alone. Fear of rain.

Head
PAIN IN THE LEFT TEMPLE AND LEFT ORBITAL, EXTENDING TO THE OCCIPUT WITH NAUSEA
AND VOMITING. Hay-fever, with dry larynx. Suffocative spells after sleeping (Lach.).

Eyes

Staring. Ptosis of both lids.

Ears
Illusions of hearing; otalgia; chronic otorrhea, black discharges; smells like herring brine.

Respiratory
Grasping at the throat, with sense of choking. IRRITATING, DRY COUGH, DEPENDENT ON
CARDIAC LESIONS (Spong., Laur.). Sticky mucus and saliva. Asthmatic constriction in the
evening. Asthma beginning with coryza.

Heart
Dragging and anxiety in the precordia. Feeling of weight on the heart. Angina pains
extending to the nape of neck, left shoulder and arm with anxiety and fear of death. With
the heart symptoms pain in the forehead and temples. Pulse IRREGULAR IN FORCE.
Threatened paralysis of the heart, body cold, pulse slow, weak, irregular, tremulous.
ACUTE AND CHRONIC ENDOCARDITIS. Palpitations. Stitching pain in the region of heart.
DAMAGED HEART AFTER INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Marked symptoms of LOW tension (Elaps,
Vip.).
Female
Neuralgia in the left ovary; often serviceable in obscure pains of left groin, especially in
post-operative cases; SEEMS: TO BE DRAWN TO THE HEART.

Sleep
Profound, like a log with stertorous breathing, a typical reptilian state.

Modalities
AGG.: from use of stimulants;
AMEL.: from walking or riding in open air.

Relationship
Compare: Serpent poisons generally. BUNGARUS FASCIATUS (Banded Krait). This venom
produces a condition like acute polioencephalitis and myelitis, both symptomatically and
histologically. Lach., Crot-h., Spig., Spong.

Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Compare
Crot-h., Kalm., Lach. (Snake poisons generally), Phos., Spig., Spong.

NATRUM ARSENICATUM

(Nat-ar.)

(Arseniate of Sodium)

A remedy for nasal catarrh with headache, pain at the root of the nose, dry and painful
eyes. Psoriasis (Ars., Chry-ac., Thyr.). Bronchitis in children over seven years. Facilitates
the termination of cold and conserves strength and appetite (Cartier.).

Head
Floating sensation on turning the head quickly; aching in the frontal region and root of the
nose, over the orbits. Headache; worse, pressure and tobacco smoke.
Nose
Watery discharge; drops into the throat. FEELS STOPPED; PAIN AT THE ROOT. Dry crusts,
on removal, leave mucous membrane raw. Post-nasal dropping of thick, bland, yellowish
mucus. CRUSTS IN NOSE.

Ears
Catarrhal conjunctivitis and blepharitis marginalia. Eyes feel weak, stiffness of the balls
and tendency of the lids to close. Feel heavy and droop. Lachrymation in wind.
Agglutination in the morning. Dry, painful, burning; soon tire. Edema in the orbital region.
Supraorbital pain.

Throat

Dark, PURPLISH, SWOLLEN, EDEMATOUS; red and glassy.

Respiratory
Racking cough, with profuse greenish expectoration. OPPRESSION OF THE CHEST AND
AROUND THE HEART, also in the larynx. Miner's asthma. Lungs feel as though smoke had
been inhaled.

Extremities
Aching in the arms; worse in the shoulder. Pain in anterior crural nerves. Joints stiff. Feels
tired all over. Knee-joints crack.

Relationship
Compare: Ars., Kali-c., Apis.

Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.

Compare
Ars., Kali-c., Nat-s.

NATRUM CARBONICUM (Nat-c.)

In this remedy the sensitivity is prominent in all levels. They are sensitive like all
Natrums but they have a characteristic sensitivity to the presence of other people.
They can perceive the ‘aura’ of people and sometimes they find it intolerable to stay
around certain persons. They cannot explain it logically, it’s rather an intuitive
reaction. They are very refined people who are moved by music, they are very giving
people who like to take care of others, putting themselves second.
Physically we see strong sensitivity to certain foods (milk) and to sun.

AFFECTIONS OF STOMACH, INTOLERANCE TO SUN, AVERSION TO MILK

MENTAL
AVERSION TO CERTAIN PERSONS. SENSITIVE TO CERTAIN IMPRESSIONS. Sensitive to
music.

Depression from errors of diet.

PHYSICAL

THE STOMACH IS MAINLY AFFECTED (indigestion, pain, nausea etc.).

Stomach pain <touch. Nausea in warm room. INDIGESTION.

Indigestion from farinaceous food.

AVERSION TO AND AGGRAVATION FROM MILK (disordered stomach, flatulence,

diarrhoea, stomach pain , vomiting).

WORSE FROM EXPOSURE TO SUN (weakness, headache, confusion, vertigo, fever, head
heaviness). SUNSTROKE.

Great weakness caused by summer heat.

Mental exertion causes or aggravates vertigo, headache, weakness, coldness of feet,

asthmatic respiration etc.

MODALITIES

AGG.: SUN, heat, milk, mental exertion, cold drinks in hot weather or when heated,
summer.
AMEL.: pressure, rubbing, eating after.
DES.: beer, sweets, cold drinks, potatoes.
AVERS.: MILK.

Compare
Carc., Lyc., Nat-m., Sil., Staph.

NATRUM MURIATICUM (Nat-m.)

The characteristic of Nat-m. is the fear of rejection, of being ridiculed. They are very sensitive and
vulnerable, so if they get hurt they close up, keeping their sorrow inside and eventually become
hard, with no emotions to the extent that they cannot cry.
The fear of being ridiculed prevents them from doing things. If they cry they’ll be alone to avoid the
ridicule to others. They are proper and perfectionists.
The grief leaves scars on them, they change and become closed and mistrustful. They think of the
grief for a long time after, cannot overcome it.

INTROVERTED, VULNERABLE, AILMENTS FROM GRIEF

MENTAL
Emotional vulnerability makes her reserved and oversensitive.
AILMENTS FROM GRIEF, FROM DISAPPOINTED LOVE.
Silent grief. Dwells on past, disagreeable circumstances. Cannot weep though sad.
Aversion to company. CONSOLATION AGGRAVATES. Prefers to be alone.
Presence of people is intolerable during urination. Cannot urinate.
Avoids being hurt at all cost. Fear of rejection. Fear of being ridiculed.
Fear of robbers.
Hysterical weeping. Weeping alternating with laughing. Laughing immoderately, at unsuitable times.
Uncontrollable emotions, falls in love with unsuitable persons.

PHYSICAL
SALT desire. FAT aversion. SUN aversion.
Headache from sun. Photosensitivity.
HEADACHE esp. hammering < 10:00-15:00.
HERPES ABOUT LIPS.
Sleeplessness from grief or thoughts of past disagreeable occurrences. Sleeplessness after waking.
Back pain >pressure, esp. lying on the back with firm pressure.
Sleeps on left side.

MODALITIES
AGG.: warm (air, bed, stove, room, becoming), farinaceous food, seashore.
AMEL.: perspiration, cold, lying, pressure.
DES.: SALT, fish, salty fish, bitter food and drinks, black pepper.
AVERS.: FAT, slimy food, chicken.

Remedy Relations
Complementaries
Apis, Ign., Sep.

Follows well
Eup-per. (Compatible)

Antidoted by
Apis (Fear of air raids), Arg-n., Nit-s-d., Nux-v. (Pain in head, prostration, vertigo.), Phos.

Antidotes
Agn. (Pain in head.), Apis (Massive doses poisoning and stings are antidoted by crude salt solutions,
common salt solutions, common salt and potencies), Arg-n., Chin., Nat-s., Sep., Tub. (Overwhelming
agg after prescription of Tub.)

Compare
Apis (Fear of air raids), Aur. (Serious, grief), Ign. (Grief), Nat-c. (Emotional, worse
sun), Sep. (Emotionally close), Staph. (Emotionally weak)

NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM

(Nat-p.)

(Phosphate of Sodium)

Natrum phosphoricum is the remedy for conditions arising from excess of lactic acid, often
resulting from too much sugar. Ailments, with EXCESS OF ACIDITY. Sour eructations and
taste. Sour vomiting. YELLOW, CREAMY COATING OF THE BACK OF THE ROOF OF MOUTH
AND TONGUE. Inflammation of any part of the throat, with sensation of a lump in the
throat. Flatulence, with sour risings. Colic, with symptoms of worms. Cracking of joints.
JAUNDICE (lx trituration). Oxaluria.
Mind
Imagines, on waking at night, that pieces of furniture are persons; that he hears footsteps
in the next room. FEAR.

Head
Feels dull in the morning, feels full and throbbing.

Eyes
Discharge of A GOLDEN-YELLOW, CREAMY MATTER from the eyes. Dilation of one pupil.
Whites of eyes dirty yellow.

Ears
One ear red, hot, frequently itchy, accompanied by gastric derangements and acidity.

Nose
Offensive odor. Itching in the nose. Naso-pharyngeal catarrh, with thick, yellow, offensive
mucus.

Face
Paleness or a bluish, florid appearance of the face.

Mouth
Canker sores of lips and cheeks. BLISTERS ON THE TIP OF THE TONGUE, with stinging in the
evening. THIN, MOIST COATING ON THE TONGUE. YELLOW, CREAMY COATING AT THE BACK
PART OF THE ROOF OF THE MOUTH. DYSPHAGIA. Thick, creamy membrane over the tonsils
and soft palate.

Stomach
SOUR ERUCTATIONS, SOUR VOMITING, GREENISH DIARRHEA. Spits mouthful of food.

Male
Emissions without dreams, with WEAKNESS IN THE BACK AND TREMBLING IN LIMBS. Desire
without erection. Gonorrhea.

Female
Menses too early; pale, thin, watery. Sterility, with acid secretions from the vagina.
Leucorrhea; discharge creamy or honey colored, or acid and watery. Sour smelling
discharges from the uterus. Morning sickness, with sour vomiting.

Extremities
Rheumatism of the knee joint.

Back
Weariness; aching in the wrists and finger-joints. Hamstrings sore. SYNOVIAL CREPITATION.
Rheumatic arthritis.

Skin
Yellow. Itching in various parts, ESPECIALLY OF ANKLES. HIVES. Smooth, red, shining.
Erysipelas. Feet icy cold in daytime, burn at night. Swelling of lymphatic glands.
Relationship
Compare: NATRUM LACTICUM (rheumatism and gout; gouty concretions; rheumatism with
diabetes); NATRUM NITROSUM (angina pectoris. Cyanosis, fainting, copious liquid stools at
night; throbbing and fullness; faintness, nervous pain in the head, nausea, eructations,
blue lips). NATRUM SILICOFLUORICUM -SALUFER (a cancer remedy; tumors, bone affection,
caries, lupus, ethmoiditis. Must be used carefully); NATRUM SELENICUM (chronic laryngitis
and laryngeal phthisis; hoarseness of singers, expectorate small lumps of mucus with
frequent clearing of throat); NATRUM SULPHUROSUM (diarrhea with YEASTY STOOLS);
NATRUM SULPHOCARBOLICUM (pyemia; purulent pleurisy, 3 to 5 grains every three hours);
NATRUM TELLURICUM (breath has an odor of garlic; night sweats of phthisis). Calc., Rob.,
Phos. In oxaluria lx four times daily prevents formation of calculi; keeps the oxalate of
lime in solution (Schwartz).

Dose
Third to twelfth trituration. In Jaundice lx.

Non-homeopathic Uses

Phosphate Soda is used hypodermically for Morphine habit, by Dr. M. J. Luys. Phosphate
Soda, 75 gr. daily, for constitutional iodism, thyroidism and Grave's disease.

Follows well
Ph-ac.

Antidotes
Sep.

Compare
Nat-m., Phos., Sel., Staph.

NATRUM SULPHURICUM (Nat-s.)

WORSE IN WARM WET WEATHER - CHEERFUL AFTER STOOL

MENTAL

Loathing life, SUICIDAL THOUGHTS by shooting but restrains himself because of grief
given to relatives.

CHEERFUL AFTER STOOL.

Mental symptoms AFTER INJURIES TO HEAD OR SPINE (confusion, dullness, sadness,

insanity).

Fastidious, too much sense of duty.

PHYSICAL

<WET WEATHER.

Feels every change in weather from dry to wet.

Difficult, asthmatic respiration, < 04:00 to 05:00, <wet, damp weather.

Diarrhoea with loud flatus, on rising and moving about.

Diarrhoea from sudden joy, after rich food, during jaundice.

HIP JOINT DISEASE <LEFT (almost a specific remedy).

Liver and gall bladder affections (inflammation, swelling, enlargement, atrophy,

congestion, gall stones, etc.).

Warts. Condylomata red and soft.

Ailments after head injuries (headache, vertigo, mental symptoms).

Photophobia during headache.

MODALITIES

AGG.: wet weather esp. warm, farinaceous food, fruits, vegetables, potatoes.
AMEL.: after stool, diarrhoea, open air.
DES.: cold drinks, salty fish, ice, beer.
AVERS.: sour milk and yoghurt, beer, bread.

Complementaries
Ars., Thuja

Antidoted by
Dulc., Lyc., Med., Merc., Nat-m., Puls., Rhus-t., Sulph., Thuja

Compare
Nat-m., Sulph., Thuja
NICCOLUM (Boericke)

(Nicc.)
(Metallic Nickel)

Periodical nervous sick headaches with asthenopia, weak digestion, constipation. Catarrh. Suits
debilitated, nervous, literary patients, with frequent headaches, dyspepsia and constipation.

Head
Cracking in cervical vertebræ when moving the head. Pain on top as if from a nail. Pressure on the
vertex, in the morning; worse till noon and in a warm room. Stitches. Objects appear too large.
Migraine; first on the left side. Twitching of the upper lip.

Nose
Violent sneezing; stopped up. Nasal catarrh, with redness and swelling of the tip of the nose. Acute
pain at the root of the nose, extending to the vertex and through the temples.
Throat
Sore, right side with great tenderness; SORENESS TO TOUCH EXTERNALLY. Strangulated feeling.

Stomach
All gone, empty feeling in the epigastrium, WITHOUT A DESIRE FOR FOOD. Acute gastralgia with pains
extending to the shoulder. Thirst and INTENSE HICCOUGH.

Mouth
Sour, fetid secretions ooze from the molar teeth.

Rectum
Diarrhea and tenesmus after milk.

Female
Menses late, scanty, with great debility and burning in the eyes. Profuse leucorrhea; worse, after
urinating (Mag-m., Plat.); also worse after menses.

Respiratory
Hoarseness. Dry, hacking cough, with stitches in the chest. OBLIGED TO SIT UP AND HOLD THE HEAD.
MUST PUT THE ARMS ON THE THIGHS WHEN COUGHING.

Skin
Itching all over, worse on the neck, not relieved by scratching.

Modalities
AGG.: periodically, every two weeks; yearly, forenoon.
AMEL.: in the evening.

Dose
Third trituration.

NITRICUM ACIDUM (Nit-ac.)

The Nit-ac. patient is miserable, in a state of constant dissatisfaction. They are never pleased by
anything. They become nihilistic to the point that life is meaningless.
The characteristic on the physical level is the sluggish circulation, the splinter-like pains and the
offensiveness of the discharges.

MISERABLE, ANXIOUS WITH STITCHING PAINS AND OFFENSIVE DISCHARGES

MENTAL
ANXIETY ABOUT HEALTH.
Fear of impending disease, cancer, death. Hypochondriacal anxiety.

Unforgiving, bears a grudge. Unmoved by apologies.

NIHILISTIC. Irritable, sad, cursing. Never cheerful. Suicidal disposition.

PHYSICAL
STITCHING, SPLINTER-LIKE PAINS. Their special seat of action is where mucous membranes and skin
meet.
OFFENSIVE DISCHARGES. URINE SMELLS LIKE HORSE’S URINE.
Offensive perspiration. Excoriating perspiration of feet that destroy the socks.

UNREFRESHING SLEEP. Waking at 2 a.m.

CRACKS about lips, corners of mouth. Fissured tongue.
Cracking in jaw when chewing, in joints, in ankle or knee while walking.
Warts.
Chilly.

MODALITIES

DES.: FAT, salt, indigestible things, earth, chalk, clay.

AVERS.: cheese esp. strong, eggs.
AGG.: milk, eating, jar, after stool, after coition.
AMEL.: riding, loosening clothing, lying, wet weather.

Remedy Relations
Complementaries
Ars., Calc., Lach., Nat-m.

Follows well
Aur., Fl-ac., Kali-i.

Antidoted by
Calc., Con., Hep., Lyc., Merc., Sulph.

Antidotes
Calc., Merc.

Compare
Agar. (Fear of cancer), Ars. (Anxiety about health, desires fat), Nat-m. (Hypochondriacal, desires salt)
NUX MOSCHATA (Nux-m.)

DRYNESS & SLEEPINESS

MENTAL
DULLNESS, CONFUSION AND SLEEPINESS.

STATE AS IF IN A DREAM. Clairvoyance.

Weakness or loss of memory, lack of concentration, abstraction of mind. Confusion when
walking in the open air.
Does not recognize, forgets well known streets. Makes mistakes in localities, uses the
wrong words. Vanishing thoughts while reading, speaking or writing.
Periodical attacks of short lasting absent-mindedness.

Delusions he’s three persons, of being double, of floating in the air, that everything is
strange.

Hysteria. Changeable mood esp. during heat. Weeping alternating with laughter.

Stupefaction < menses, pregnancy.

PHYSICAL

GREAT DRYNESS OF MUCOUS MEMBRANES esp. MOUTH, EYES.

Dryness of mouth with thirstlessness <during menses, evening, night.

Tongue so dry that adheres to roof of mouth.
They sip water only to moist the mouth, they can even spit it afterwards. Sensation of
dryness when mouth is moist.
Indicated in Sjogren’s syndrome.

OVERPOWERING SLEEPINESS (Op.). Narcolepsy.

Disposition to FAINT from sight of blood, pains, hysteria, during palpitations, during stool
etc.

Anxious, accelerated respiration during headache.

Sensation of fullness in stomach during pregnancy.

Irregular, late, copious menses. Menses during pregnancy. Suppressed menses from
exertion, from chill, from getting wet.

Constipation, soft but difficult stool, has to help mechanically.

Tendency to abortion.

MODALITIES

AGG: change of weather, wet weather, lying on painful side, uncovering, cold (air,
becoming), open air.
AMEL.: warm (bed, drinks, stove, weather), lying on painless side, pressure, walking.

Complementaries
Calc., Lyc.
Compare
Cann-i. (Dreamy state), Op. (Sleepiness)

NUX VOMICA (Nux-v.)

The central idea in this remedy is the irritation of the nervous system. The individual
is excited, impatient, quick to act and very irritable. It is often used in states of
exhaustion from over-working, where the nervous system cannot tolerate the
slightest stimulus. The noise, the light, the traffic, every little stress is intolerable.
The irritability is found and is a leading characteristic during acute diseases.
On the physical level, this over excitability manifests in twitching, jerking,
headaches but primarily in the sensitivity of the stomach.

OVEREXCITABILITY OF NERVOUS SYSTEM, IRRITABILITY

MENTAL

ANGRY, IRRITABLE, IMPATIENT, quarrelsome.

Easily offended. May become violent. Sudden impulse to kill even for a slight offense.
Sudden impulse to throw the child out of the window or into fire. Desires to kill the
husband.

Critical.
Increased ambition, competitive, industrious.

Jealous. Ailments from jealousy.

Fastidious, wants things in certain place

Oversensitive to external impressions: noise, music, odor, light.

PHYSICAL

STOMACH AFFECTIONS: gastritis, indigestion, duodenal ulcers, sensation of stone after

eating.

CHILLY, easily susceptible to drafts <uncovering.

CONSTIPATION. Constipation from portal stasis. INEFFECTUAL URGING.

Urging to urinate with urging to stool.

Cystitis with frequent or constant urging which is ineffectual, only passes a few drops.
Sudden urging to urinate, must hasten or urine will escape.

SLEEPLESSNESS from excitement, after mental strain, from thoughts.

Sleeplessness after 3 - 4 a.m.

Increased sexual desire.

Photophobia (esp. in morning).

MODALITIES

AGG.: cold, drafts, undressing, touch, alcohol, coffee, tobacco.

AMEL.: warm (drinks, stove, bed, applications), lying, loosening the clothing.
DES.: stimulants, brandy, spices, fat, beer, earth/chalk/clay/lime, charcoal, highly
seasoned food.
Complementaries
Lyc., Phos., Sep., Sulph.

Follows well
Caust., Cham., Chel., Coff., Ph-ac., Rhus-t.

Antidoted by
Acet-ac., Acon. (Oversensitiveness and dyspnoea), Ars., Camph., Cocc. (Paralytic symptoms
also intoxicating effects.), Coff. (Pain in head anorexia), Lach. (Especially), Thuja (Ineffectual
desire to urinate)

Inimical
Ign., Zinc. (Should not be used before or after.)

Antidotes
Aesc. (Haemorrhoidal symptoms), Aeth., Agn., All-c. (Coryza periodically in every
August.), Ambr., Ars., Berb., Bry., Calc., Carb-an., Carc., Caust., Cham., Chin., Cupr., Med
., Nat-m. (Pain in head, prostration, vertigo.), Petr., Phos., Psor. (Frequent
repetition), Puls., Syph., Tub., Verat.

Compare
Cham. (Anger, over-sensitive to pain.), Med. (Irritability, desires fat and spices, urinary track
infections.), Sep. (Irritability, thin, sensitive to noise, premenstrual syndrome, constipation,
cystitis.), Sulph. (Desires fat and alcohol)
OLEANDER - NERIUM ODORUM

(Olnd.)

(Rose-laurel)

Has a marked action on the skin, heart and nervous system, producing and curing paralytic conditions with
cramp-like contractions of upper extremities. Hemiplegia. Difficult articulation.

Mind
Memory weak; slow perception. Melancholy, with obstinate constipation.

Head
Vertigo and diplopia, when looking down. Vertigo, when looking fixedly at an object, and on rising from bed.
Pain in the brain, as if the head would burst. Numb feeling. Dull, unable to think. Indolence. ERUPTION ON THE
SCALP. Humid, fetid spots BEHIND THE EARS (Graph., Petr.) and occiput, with red, rough, herpetic spots in
front. CORROSIVE ITCHING ON THE FOREHEAD AND EDGE OF HAIR; worse, heat.

Eyes
Can see objects only when looking at them sideways. Eyes water on reading. Double vision. SENSATION AS IF
THE EYES WERE DRAWN BACK INTO THE HEAD.

Face

Pale, sunken, with blue rings around the eyes (Ph-ac.).

Stomach
CANINE HUNGER, WITH HURRIED EATING, without appetite. Thirst. Empty belching. Vomiting of food; bile.
Throbbing in the pit.

Abdomen
Borborygmus, with profuse, fetid flatus. Gnawing around the navel. Ineffectual urging. UNDIGESTED FECES.
STOOL PASSES WHEN EMITTING FLATUS. Burning pain in the anus.

Chest
Oppression as if from a weight; asthmatic when lying down. PALPITATION, with weakness and empty feeling in
the chest. Dyspnea. Obtuse stitches in the chest.

Extremities
WEAKNESS OF THE LOWER LIMBS. Paralysis of legs and feet. Want of animal heat in limbs. Painless paralysis.
Constant cold feet. Swelling, burning stiffness of fingers. Veins on hands swollen. Edema. Stiffness of joints.

Skin
Itching, scurfy pimples; herpes; sensitive and numb. Nocturnal burning. VERY SENSITIVE SKIN; slightest friction
causes soreness and chapping. VIOLENT ITCHING ERUPTION, BLEEDING, OOZING; want of perspiration. Pruritus,
especially of scalp, which is sensitive.

Modalities
AGG.: undressing, rest, friction of clothes.

Relationship
Compare: Con., Nat-m., Rhus-t., Caust., Lath. Oleander contains Oleandrin and also Nerein of which the latter
is said to be closely related if not identical with Digitalin. The pulse becomes slower, more regular, more
powerful. DIURESIS; palpitation, edema and dyspnea of valvular disease, disappear.

Antidotes: Camph., Sulph.

Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.

Compare
Graph., Petr., Sulph.
OLEUM ANIMALE

(Ol-an.)

(Dippel's Animal Oil)

Acts on the nervous system, especially in the pneumo-gastric region. Useful in migraine and neuralgia
of spermatic cord. Burning pains and stitches. "PULLED UPWARD" and "FROM BEHIND FORWARD"
PAINS.

Head
Tearing pain, with sadness and irritability; worse after dinner; relieved by nibbing. Itching, burning
vesicles; better, friction. Malar bones feel pulled forcibly upward. Migrain with polyuria.

Eyes
Smarting in the eyes; misty vision. Glistening bodies before eyes. Lachrymation when eating. Short
sighted. Twitching of lids (Agar.).

Nose
Watery, excoriating discharge; worse in the open air.

Face
Feels drawn. Cramp-like pains. TWITCHING OF LIPS. Malar bone feels pulled upward. Toothache,
BETTER PRESSING TEETH TOGETHER.

Mouth
Bites cheek while eating (Caust.). Tongue feels sore. Greasy feeling in the mouth.

Throat

Sore, dry, constricted. Air feels cold.

Stomach
Sensation OF WATER WERE IN THE STOMACH; of coldness, of constriction, and of burning; better,
eructations.

Abdomen
Flatulence and rumbling. Ineffectual urging for stool, with burning in the anus. After stool, bruised
pain in the abdomen.

Urine

POLYURIA. Greenish urine, frequent and urgent want to urinate, with tenesmus and scanty emission.
Itching in urethra.

Male
Desire increased; ejaculation too soon. Pain along the spermatic cord to testicles. TESTICLES FEEL
SEIZED AND PULLED FORCIBLY UPWARD; worse, right. PRESSURE IN THE PERINEUM. Prostatic
hypertrophy.

Female
EARLY AND SCANT MENSTRUATION; flow black.
Respiratory
Chest feels constricted. Asthma from suppressed foot sweat. Oppression. STITCHES IN THE BREAST
FROM BEHIND FORWARD.

Extremities
Sprained feeling in the small of back. Cracking of vertebræ on raising the head (Aloe, Nat-c., Thuj.).
Restlessness. Rheumatic pain in shoulders. Fish-brine odor of sweat of heels.

Modalities
AGG.: after eating, from 2 to 9 p.m..
AMEL.: by rubbing, eructation, open air.

Relationship
Compare: Puls., Ars., Sil., Sep.

Antidotes: Camph., Op.

Dose
Third to thirtieth potency and higher.
OPIUM (Op.)

The keyword for Opium is the sleepiness. The opiates in the brain of these patients are so much
increased that promote sleep very easily leading even to narcolepsy. The opiates not only make the
patient sleepy but make them blissful. They are so blissful that they don’t feel the pain of their
complaints, they don’t realize the seriousness of their condition. Sleepiness and other symptoms
can come after a frightening experience.

SLEEPINESS, BLISSFULNESS

MENTAL

AILMENTS FROM FRIGHT - convulsions, chorea, neurological disturbances etc.

Sleepy expression of the face. Somnambulism.

Indifference to suffering. CHEERFUL AND HAPPY during sickness, during fever. Does not complain,
wants nothing, and seems to be in bliss though very sick. Says he’s well when sick.

Abundant ideas, vivid imagination. Ailments from excessive joy.

PHYSICAL

OVERPOWERING SLEEPINESS, NARCOLEPSY. Falls asleep while talking, sitting, etc. Falls into a heavy
stupid sleep.

PAINLESSNESS of usually painful complaints.

Snoring, respiration is arrested, difficult, slow <during sleep.

SEVERE CONSTIPATION. Constipation of newborns. Inactivity of rectum. Stool recedes. Stool like
black balls.
Diarrhoea alternating with constipation. Involuntary stool after fright. Diarrhoea from emotions,
excitement, fright, joy.

Obesity.

MODALITIES

AGG.: during and after sleep, wine, warmth.

DES.: brandy, alcohol.

Follows well
Cic., Coff.

Antidoted by
Bell., Mur-ac.
Antidotes
Aeth., Sang. (nausea and heat in stomach, vertigo, blood congestion), Verat.

Compare
Alum. (Mental confusion), Bapt. (Coma), Bell. (Red face with fever), Hell. (Dullness), Nux-
m. (Sleepiness)
OXALICUM ACIDUM

(Ox-ac.)

(Sorrel Acid)

Although certain oxalates are constant constituents of vegetable food and of the human body, the
acid itself is a violent poison when taken internally, producing gastroenteritis, motor paralysis,
collapse, stupor and death.

Influences the spinal cord, and produces motor paralysis. Pain very violent, IN SPOTS (Kali-bi.),
WORSE, motion, and THINKING OF IT. PERIODICAL REMISSIONS. Spasmodic symptoms of throat and
chest. RHEUMATISM OF THE LEFT SIDE. NEURASTHENIA. Tuberculosis.

Head
Sense of heat. Meningitis. Confusion and vertigo. Headache, before and during stool.

Eyes
Severe pain in the eyes; feel expanded. HYPERESTHESIA OF RETINA.

Stomach
Violent pain in the epigastrium discharge of flatus relieves. Gastralgia, pyrosis, sensation of coldness
below epigastrium. Burning pain, extending upwards; slightest touch causes excruciating pain. Bitter
and sour eructation, worse at night. Cannot eat strawberries.

Abdomen
Pain in the upper part and region of naval two hours after eating, with much flatulence. Stitches in
the liver. Colic. Burning in small spots in the abdomen. Diarrhea from coffee.

Male
TERRIBLE NEURALGIC PAINS IN THE SPERMATIC CORD. Testicles feel contused and heavy. Seminal
vesiculitis.

Urinary
Frequent and copious. Burning in the urethra and pain in the glans when urinating. Must urinate
when thinking of it. Urine contains oxalates.

Respiratory
Nervous aphonia with cardiac derangement (Coca, Hydr-ac.). Burning sensation from throat down.
Breathing spasmodic, with constriction of the larynx and chest. HOARSENESS. LEFT LUNG PAINFUL.
APHONIA. Paralysis of the tensors of vocal cord. Dyspnea; SHORT, JERKING INSPIRATIONS. Sharp pain
through the lower region of left lung, extending down to the epigastrium.

Heart
Palpitations and dyspnea in organic heart disease; WORSE, when thinking of it. Pulse feeble. Heart
symptoms alternate with aphonia, ANGINA PECTORIS; SHARP, LANCINATING PAIN IN THE LEFT LUNG
COMING ON SUDDENLY, DEPRIVING BREATH. Precordial pains which dart to the left shoulder. Aortic
insufficiency.

Extremities
Numb, weak, tingling sensation. Pains start from the spine and extend through the extremities.
Drawing and LANCINATING PAINS shooting down the extremities. BACKACHE; numb, weak. Myelitis.
Muscular prostration. Wrist painful, as if sprained (Ulm.). Lower extremities blue, cold, insensible.
Sensation of numbness. Multiple cerebral and posterior spinal sclerosis. Lancinating pains in various
parts; jerking pains.

Skin
Sensitive, smarting and soreness, worse shaving; mottled, marbled in circular patches. Perspires
easily.

Modalities

AGG.: LEFT side; slightest touch; light; shaving. Aroused about 3 a. m. with gastric and abdominal
pain. ALL CONDITIONS MADE WORSE BY THINKING ABOUT SELF.

Relationship
Compare: Ars., Colch., Arg-met., Pic-ac., CICER ARIETINUM-Chick-pea-(lithiasis, jaundice, liver
affections; diuretic). SCOLOPENDRA MORSITANS-Centipede-(terrible pains in the back and loins,
extending down the limbs; return periodically, commencing in the head, extending to the toes.
Angina pectoris. Inflammation, pain and gangrene. pustules and abscesses). CæSIUM METALLICUM-
(Pain in the lumbar region and testicle. Headache, darting through the temples. Diarrhea and colic.
Languor).

LIME WATER: Antidote to poisoning of Ox-ac.

Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Compare
Cact. (Angina pectoris, left arm numbness), Helon., Lach., Lat-m., Spig.
PARIS QUADRIFOLIA

(Par.)

(One-berry)

Head symptoms marked and verified. Sensation of expansion and consequent tension. Coldness of
the right side of body, left hot. Catarrhal complaints, stuffed feeling in the root of nose. Disorder of
sense of touch.

Mind
Imaginary foul smells. Feels too large. GARRULOUS, prattling, vivacious.

Head
Sensation as if the scalp weas contracted and bones scraped. Soreness on top of the head; cannot
brush hair. Aches, as if PULLING A STRING FROM THE EYES TO THE OCCIPUT. Occipital headache, with
a feeling of weight. Head feels very large, expanded. Scalp sensitive. Numb feeling on the left side of
head.

Eyes
Affections of the eyebrows. Eyes feel heavy, as if they were projected; SENSATION OF A STRING
THROUGH THE EYEBALLS. Expanded, as though lids cannot cover.

Face
Neuralgia; hot stitches in the left malar bone, which is very sore. Has relieved inflammation of the
antrum, where eye symptoms coexisted.

Mouth
TONGUE DRY WHEN AWAKING-Coated white, WITHOUT THIRST, with bitter or diminished taste.

Respiratory
Stuffed condition and fullness at the root of nose. Periodical, painless HOARSENESS. Cough as if from
vapors of sulphur in the trachea. Constant hawking, on account of viscid, green mucus in the larynx
and trachea.

Extremities
Sense of WEIGHT AND WEARINESS IN THE NAPE OF NECK and across the shoulders. Neuralgia,
beginning in the left intercostal region and extending into the left arm. Arm becomes stiff, fingers
clenched. Neuralgia of coccyx; pulsating, sticking, when sitting. FINGERS OFTEN FEEL NUMB.
Numbness of the upper limbs. Everything feels rough.

Relationship
Compare: PASTINACA SATIVA-PARSNIP-(loquacity; delirium tremens; illusions of vision; intolerance of
milk; roots used dietetically, cooked in water or as a broth or as a salad for consumptives and "kidney
stones"). Sil., Calc., Nux-v., Rhus-t.

Incompatible: Ferr-p.

Antidote: Coff.
Dose
Third potency.

Antidotes
Acon.

Compare
Crot-t., Lach., Nux-v., Ruta, Sep., Staph.
PETROLEUM (Petr.)

DRY SKIN, NAUSEA

MENTAL

THINKS HE IS DOUBLE OR SOMEBODY ELSE IS LYING NEXT TO HIM.

Feels that death is near and has to settle his affairs (presentiment of death).

Depression with dim vision.

Loss of memory, confusion. Does not recognize well known streets.

Excited, irritable after coition.

PHYSICAL

Affects the skin and the mucus membranes.

SKIN: DRY, CRACKED, DIRTY, HARD, ROUGH, THICKENED, raw. Wounds heal slowly.

ERUPTIONS, usually with painful cracks. Eczema, psoriasis, herpes. <winter.

Itching of skin, must scratch until is raw.

DRY SKIN with INCREASED MUCUS SECRETIONS.

Diarrhœa during skin eruptions.

Sea-sickness, car-sickness.
Falling out of hair.

Weakness, stomach emptiness, hunger after stool or during diarrhœa.

Ravenous hunger, frequently awakened by it at night.

Burning sensation is marked.

MODALITIES

AGG.: cabbage, flatulent food (beans and peas), after coition, eating after.
AMEL.: summer.
DES.: brandy, beer.
AVERS.: fat, meat.

Complementaries
Calc., Lyc., Psor. (Completes its action), Sep., Sil., Squil.
Antidoted by
Acon., Camph., Cocc., Nux-v., Phos.

Compare
Graph. (Skin affections, aversion meat.), Mez., Nit-ac., Psor., Rhus-t., Sulph.
PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM (Ph-ac.)

The characteristic of this remedy is the great weakness which begins on the emotional level and
gradually progresses to the mental and physical levels. The most usual cause is grief which
progresses to such depth that freezes the individual. The patient becomes apathetic and indifferent
that nothing can excite them. They stare at the wall with an empty look. They don’t care if they live
or die.
The falling of hair and the desire for juicy things are confirmatory symptoms for a Ph-ac. case.

INDIFFERENCE, APATHY, AILMENTS FROM GRIEF

MENTAL

Weakness on the emotional plane progressing to the physical and mental planes.
AILMENTS FROM GRIEF. Ailments from grief, disappointment. Prostrated and stupefied with grief.
Silent grief.

INDIFFERENCE TO EVERYTHING, APATHY.

Memory weakness, dullness. Has to reflect long before answering. Forgetful of words while
speaking.

PHYSICAL

WEAKNESS AND LASSITUDE <after emissions, after eating, exertion, morning.

Faintness from loss of fluids.

AILMENTS FROM GRIEF: falling of hair, headache, diarrhoea, palpitations etc.

Copious stool. Yellow stool.

Diarrhoea without weakness, after food, after taking a cold in the summer, from weather changes,
after becoming cold, after anticipation, after grief.

Seminal emissions at night (nocturnal) < with stool, during erection, after coition or onanism. Too
quick ejaculation.

Urine milky, curdled-like, cloudy, albuminous.

Diabetes, sugar in urine.

Pale, sickly color of face.

Ailments in young when growing too fast with a lot of acute diseases, growing pains.

MODALITIES
AGG.: after perspiration, becoming cold, eating, emissions, evening.
AMEL.: after sleep, motion.
DES.: JUICY, REFRESHING THINGS. Fruits, tonics, cold drinks.
AVERS.: bread.

Complementaries
Chin., Nux-v.

Followed well by
Ars., Bell., Calc-p., Caust., Ferr-p., Kali-p., Lyc., Nat-p., Nux-v., Puls., Sep., Sulph.

Compare
Aur., Gels., Ign., Sep.
PHOSPHORUS (Phos.)

DIFFUSION IN ALL LEVELS

MENTAL

OPEN AND IMPRESSIONABLE.

OVER-SENSITIVE TO EXTERNAL IMPRESSIONS. Started easily.
SYMPATHETIC. Naive, easily trusting.

ANXIETY, becomes “free-floating” with no identifiable cause, fear that something will
happen. Anxiety others for. Strong anxiety about health esp. relatives. - easily reassured by the
doctor.

FEARS: thunderstorms, dark, being alone, something will happen, death, heart disease.

Desires company.

PHYSICAL

HÆMORRHAGES. Menses copious, bright red. Epistaxis.

UNQUENCHABLE THIRST esp. FOR COLD DRINKS, experiences burning pains internally, relieved by
cold things. As soon as the water (or other liquids) becomes warm in the stomach it is thrown up.
Nausea and vomiting when putting hands in warm water.

All sorts of affections of the respiratory tract. Pneumonia < left side.

Left sided, cannot sleep on left side.

Sexual desire increased.

Chilly. Coldness of extremities. Feet icy cold. Coldness of knees esp. at night.

Hoarseness. Lost voice, painless or with painful raw feeling of throat.

Burning pain in spots along the spine, between the scapula.

MODALITIES

AGG.: cold, twilight, lying on left side, warm food, garlic, salt, change of weather.
AMEL.: cold drinks, short sleep, rubbing, warm bath of head, eating.
DES.: COLD DRINKS, ICE-CREAM, SALT, CHOCOLATE, sweets, fish.
AVERS.: warm food and drinks, fish, oysters.

Complementaries
Ars., Carb-v., Kali-c., Sep., Sil., Tub.
Follows well
Am-c., Borx., Calc., Chin., Rhus-t.

Antidoted by
Ars. (Over-action of Phos especially in tuberculosis of lungs also intoxicating effects agg
after Phos in morbid lesions, to be followed by Carb-v.), Nux-v., Ter.

Incompatible
Caust. (Don’t use after Caust, if Caust has acted and if the picture is not clear. Also don’t give
Caust after Phos if the picture is again not clear)

Antidotes
All-c. (When All-c drives simple nasal cattarrh tochest), Nat-m., Petr., Rumex, Sep., Tub.

Compare
Arg-n. (Open with fears, desires salt. But Arg-n is warm-blooded and Phos usually cold-
blooded.), Ars. (Anxiety for others, thirsty), Caust. (Sympathetic, fear that something bad will
happen, desire salt), Med. (Open, fear of ghosts), Puls. (Open, like consolation, desire ice
cream, worse at twilight.), Sep. (Sep. children may resemble Phosphorus with openness and
excitability.), Sulph. (Anxiety for his children, desire sweets, thirsty.), Tub. (Excitable, desire
cold milk.)
PHYSOSTIGMA (Phys.)

EYE COMPLAINTS, NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS

MENTAL

Intense mental activity (Cann-i., Coff.), cannot stop thinking.

Cannot concentrate the mind.

PHYSICAL

Heaviness of lids (Gels.).

Night blindness; myopia.
Twitching lids.
Eye strain (Ruta, Onos., Nat-m.).
Contractions of pupils.
Defective accommodation; astigmatism.
Glaucoma.
Floating spots. Flashes.
Profuse lachrymation. Photophobia.
Could not get his will into his muscles.

Muscle spasms and cramps.

Numbness of distal extremities.

Dread of cold water.

Sudden jerking of extremities on falling asleep.

MODALITIES

AGG: Cold, draft.

Compare
Agar., Gels., Onos., Ruta
PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA (Phyt.)

CONSTANT INCLINATION TO CLENCH THE TEETH - AFFECTIONS OF MAMMAE

MENTAL

Wants to be naked during delirium. Shamelessness, exposes the person.

Sadness, indifference and apathy. Desires to be killed. Aversion to mental work, to business. Refuses
to eat.

Weeping during menses.

Delusions as if snakes all around her.

Sensitive to pain.

Desire to bite.

PHYSICAL

Affects bones, glands and the throat. Most symptoms are in the glands esp. breast, parotids and
tonsils. Glandular swellings with heat and inflammation.

AFFECTIONS OF MAMMAE. Pain in left mammae extending to the whole body.

Inflammation, induration, fistulous openings, ulceration, nodules, cancer etc.
Pain in mammae while nursing the child.

Pain in nipples radiating to the whole body <while nursing.

CONSTANT INCLINATION TO CLENCH FIRMLY THE TEETH esp. DURING SLEEP.

Painful dentition or teeth pain > clenching the gums and teeth, biting on to something hard. Clenching
or biting teeth ameliorates.

Pain in throat feels as if it is burning like a hot ball.

Throat pain > cold drinks and < warm drinks.

Tip of tongue is fiery-red with smarting pain. Pain in root of tongue on swallowing or on putting the
tongue out.
Tonsillitis with marked pain, swelling, enlargement and dark red discoloration of tonsils. Ulcers of
tonsils. Inflammation of tonsils, pharynx or root of the tongue < on the right side.

Stitching pain in ears on swallowing.

Aching, soreness, restlessness, prostration.

Pain in forehead extending backward. Headache <rain.
Abundant hot lachrymation with cough or during coryza.
Pains fly like electric shocks, shooting, shifting, wandering.

MODALITIES

AGG.: wet weather, cold weather, night, sleep after, motion.

AMEL.: open air, biting teeth together.

Complementaries
Bry., Sil.

Antidotes
Merc.

Compare
Bell., Calc., Con., Merc., Sil.
PICRICUM ACIDUM (Pic-ac.)

MENTAL EXHAUSTION

MENTAL

PROSTRATION OF MIND. Begins on the mental level and works through emotions to physical plane.
Exhaustion comes suddenly.
BRAIN FATIGUE. Dullness, CANNOT CONCENTRATE, cannot think long - mind is stopped. Paralytic
state of mind. Imbecility.

Indifference. Lacks will power to undertake anything.

PHYSICAL

WEARINESS- progressing from weariness to paralysis. Sleep does not refresh. Heaviness of limbs
<while walking, after exertion. Numbness.
Burning pain along the spine with great weakness < mental and physical exertion.

Pain in posterior part of lower limbs.

Excessive sexual desire, easy erections, easy excitement. Lasciviousness.

Occipital headache. Bursting headaches.

Oily looking yellowish skin. Jaundice with itching.

MODALITIES

AGG: physical and mental exertion, emissions, warm, wet weather.

AMEL: lying, rest, bathing, bandaging.

Compare
Bar-c., Kali-p., Mur-ac., Ph-ac., Zinc-p.
PLATINUM METALLICUM (Plat.)

In Platina we see excessive sexuality to the point of nymphomania. We see the inflated, enlarged
ego which usually takes two directions: if the sexuality is suppressed, the person is mentally
inflated and shows egotism, pride and haughtiness to the pathological extent that they can feel
they’re someone important (king, queen) or if the sexuality is expressed and released we don’t see
the haughtiness so much.
On the physical level there is predisposition to enlargements and tumors of the genital system.

HAUGHTY, HYPERSEXUAL, EGOTISTICAL

MENTAL

HAUGHTY, CONTEMPTUOUS, PROUD. Superiority complex. Looking down upon people. EGOTISM.
Desires grandeur. They want to have impressive look.

NYMPHOMANIA. Lascivious. Religious affections alternate with sexual excitement. Disposition to

MASTURBATION.

DELUSIONS; DISORDERED SENSE OF PROPORTION- Things appear smaller. People seem physically
and mentally inferior. Humility and lowness of others while he’s great.
Delusions she’s a noble, does not belong to her own family.
This delusion extends to body. Fancies herself very tall. Taller than others or she looks down to others
from a higher place. Everything in the room are diminished while she’s tall.
You will see this mental picture esp. when the sexuality is suppressed. Mental symptoms alternate
with sexual hyperactivity.

Ailments from grief- disappointments in love/sexual sphere.

FEARS: death (esp. when they get symptoms such as numbness), disease, ghosts (thinks he’s
conversing with ghosts), something will happen to her husband, fear of being hanged, of knives.

Desire to kill, the husband.

Aversion to, even hatred of children. The world is bad to have children.

Mental symptoms alternate with physical symptoms.

PHYSICAL

EXCESSIVE, VIOLENT SEXUAL DESIRE that can lead to involuntary orgasms or even convulsions.

Cramp-like pains.
NUMBNESS of parts especially face (cheek, about mouth). In coccyx while sitting. Numbness in spots.

Fear that face is distorted (Bell's Palsy).

BANDAGED SENSATION, sensation of a band around affected part.
Feeling of contraction or constriction in umbilicus. Pain in umbilicus extending to back.
Malignancy, tumors in uterus, ovaries, testes, external genitalia.

Menses dark clotted, offensive with bearing down pain.

Loud eructations in stomach while fasting.

Sensitiveness of genitalia. Painfully sensitive genitals.

Sticky discharges.

MODALITIES

AGG.: lying.
AMEL.: motion, walking, wet weather.
AVERS.: meat esp. during menses.

Antidotes
Apis, Plb.

Compare
Aur. (Syphilitic miasm), Hyos. (Increased sexuality), Lach., Med. (Increased sexuality,
egotism.), Nux-v. (Inseased sexuality, anger, egotism, weeps with anger.), Pall., Sulph.
PLUMBUM METALLICUM (Plb.)

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS

MENTAL

Suitable to people that are ‘bon viveur’, have the best of everything. Materialistic. Amorous.

SLUGGISHNESS OF MENTAL FUNCTIONS.

SLOWNESS of perceiving external impressions, comprehension, answering.

WEAKNESS OF MEMORY – esp. for words, for expressing oneself.

Apathetic, boredom.

Fear of being poisoned.

Sadness with anxiety.

Desire to do self-destructive things.

PHYSICAL

SLOWING DOWN OF ALL FUNCTIONS.

Affects the TENDONS, muscles, nerves and spinal cord. Contraction of tendons and muscles, esp.
flexor muscles of hand. Cannot abduct the finger. DUPUYTREN'S CONTRACTURE.

TREMBLING of muscles (hand, tongue, upper and lower limbs etc.).

Tremulous weakness, Parkinson’s disease, arteriosclerosis.

Emaciation of affected part. Atrophy of muscles. Sunken cheeks, face and eyes.

RETRACTION OF ABDOMEN, SENSATION AS IF ABDOMEN WAS DRAWN BY A STRING TO THE SPINE.

Radiating pains to all parts of body esp. stomach and abdomen.

Distinct blue line along the margin of gums.

CONSTIPATION - stools hard, lumpy, black like balls, like sheep's dung.

Painful constriction of rectum.

MODALITIES

AGG.: fish.
AMEL.: pressure, rubbing,
DES.: fried food, salt, sweets, bread.

Antidoted by
Acet-ac. (Colic), Aeth. (Best antidote chronic poisoning), Plat.

Antidotes
Aeth., Thuja (Genito-urinary agg)

Compare
Alum. (Slowness, constipation), Cocc. (Slowness), Lyc., Med., Merc. (Tremor), Plat.
PODOPHYLLUM (Podo.)

ACUTE PROFUSE SPUTTERING, GUSHING DIARRHOEAS

MENTAL

Delirious loquacity during chill and fever.

Melancholia, sadness.
Moaning in sleep, during cough.

PHYSICAL

Profuse diarrhoea. FORCIBLE, EXPLOSIVE, SPUTTERING STOOL.

The diarrhoea soils the whole toilet bowl.

Offensive stool. If the diarrhoea is not offensive, forget Podophyllum (Kent).

Thin, liquid stool, pouring out. Involuntary stool on passing flatus.

Stool with meal-like sediment, like chalk lumps.

Diarrhoea < 04:00, after sour fruit, sour milk, drinking water, oysters, after bathing.
>warm applications, lying esp. on the right side.

Prolapsus of rectum during or after stool. Prolapsus and dragging down of uterus, ovaries, rectum.

Gurgling before stool. Faintness after diarrhoea, weakness from diarrhoea.

Alternating diarrhoea with constipation, alternating diarrhoea with headache.

Periodical diarrhoea.

The liver is out of order, bitter taste in the mouth, vomits bile. Pain in liver >rubbing.
The tongue is yellow, as if mustard were spread upon it and indented.

Right sided remedy.

MODALITIES

AGG.: yoghurt, oysters, fruit, exertion, eating, warm air, midnight after (03:00, 04:00. 05:00).

Complementaries
Calc., Nat-m., Sulph.

Compare
Aloe, Ars., Crot-t., Gamb., Lyc., Nat-s., Verat. (Explosive diarrhea)
PSORINUM (Psor.)

CHILLY, DIRTY, DESPERATE WITH ITCHING ERUPTIONS

MENTALS

ANXIETY ABOUT FUTURE. INSECURE.

FEELS HOPELESS, DESPERATE.
Anxious about health, DESPAIR OF RECOVERY.

Fear of being alone, of business failure, of poverty.

Forsaken feeling.

Religious despair.
Fears busy streets.

PHYSICAL

LACK OF VITAL REACTION.

CHILLY. Wears hat or overcoat in hot weather. Great sensitiveness to cold air or change of weather.

OFFENSIVENESS. Skin DIRTY-as if never washed, greasy.

Profuse and offensive perspiration.

Acts on skin esp. folds. Eruptions with offensive discharges. Driven to despair with ITCH <wool, night.

Feels unusually well before an attack of symptoms esp. faintness.

Always hungry during headache > eating. Increased appetite at night.

Dyspnoea > lying down on the back with arms outstretched < sitting up.

MODALITIES

AGG.: cold air, change of temperature or of weather, warm bed, suppression of discharges,
eruptions, perspiration.
AMEL.: warm wet weather, perspiration, bathing, lying, constipation, summer.
DES.: alcohol.
AVERS.: pork.

Complementaries
Sulph., Tub.

Follows well
Aeth., Con. (In tumors of mammae with threatening malignancy)
Antidoted by
Carb-v. (Burning especially about nipples), Coff. (Frequent repetition), Nux-v. (Frequent
repetition)

Inimical
Lach.

Compare
Ars. (Anxiety about health, fear of poverty, chilly.), Calc. (Despair of recovery, anxiety about
the future, chilly.), Mez. (Skin diseases), Nit-ac. (Anxiety about health, chilly,
miserable.), Sulph. (Skin diseases)
PULSATILLA (NIGRICANS) PRATENSIS (Puls.)

In this remedy we see that the main characteristic is the changeability. The physical symptoms are
changing, the nature of the discharges is changeable, the pains are wandering. On the mental level
we see indecision, the mood is alternating. The Pulsatilla individual is soft, yielding and insecure.
She usually relies on other people and needs their attention and reassurance. She’s sensitive,
weeps very easily and is ameliorated by consolation and affection.

CHANGEABILITY

MENTAL

Malleable and changeable.

MILD, YIELDING, GENTLE, SOFT AND TIMID.

WEEPS EASILY.
> CONSOLATION AND AFFECTION.

Forsaken feeling.

Fears: INSANITY, dark and dogs.

PHYSICAL

CHANGING AND WANDERING SYMPTOMS. Wandering pains.

Menses change color every month, pains in body move from one place to the other.

WARM BLOODED < HEAT. Complaints are aggravated in heat.

> OPEN AIR, cold applications.

THIRSTLESSNESS with all complaints.

Hot feet, uncovers them at night.

Sensation of cold water poured down the back.

Sleeps on the back, arms raised over the head, or on the abdomen.
Styes esp. upper lid.

Mucus discharges are increased, bland, thick, yellowish-green < warm room.

MODALITIES

AGG.: fat, pork, rich food, heat.

AMEL.: open air, cold applications, walking.
DES.: butter, cold food, creamy things, cheese, ice cream, hard-boiled eggs, sweets.
AVERS.: FATS, pork, butter, warm food and drinks.
Complementaries
Calc., Fl-ac., Kali-s. (Asthma worse when over-heated, cough worse at night.), Lyc., Sil., Tub.

Follows well
Agn., Am-c., Ambr., Asar., Aur., Caust., Cham., Cic., Hyos., Ph-ac., Rhus-t.

Antidoted by
Cham. (Principal antidote of Puls, Cham and Puls antidote each other and also follow each
other well , if either one has over acted the other will probably neutralize ill effects and carry
on the good drowsiness axhaustion and diminution od senses), Coff., Ign., Nux-v.

Antidotes
Agar., Ambr., Arg-met. (Flatulence), Aur., Cimic., Ferr., Lyc., Nat-s., Sulph., Thuja, Verat.

Compare
Arg-n. (Emotional, warm-blooded, desires ice cream.), Bar-c. (Timidity), Lyc. (Desires sweets
on foot colder than the other.), Med. (Uncovers feet, aversion fat.), Merc. (Ear inflammation,
desires bread and butter.), Phos. (Open, likes consolation, desires ice cream and cold
foods.), Staph. (Sweet character), Sulph. (Warm-blooded, better cold, uncovers feet.)
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS (Ran-b.)

AFFECTS THE NERVES AND MUSCLES, ESPECIALLY CHEST MUSCLES

MENTALS

Closed, careful, rigid people. Intellectual properness, wants to do everything 'decently', even
sex. However they have aversion to responsibility, they have no ambition, out of sense of weakness.
Difficult concentration. Dullness from mental exertion. Depression, desire to die.

Irritability alternating with care, with cowardice.

Fear of ghosts in evening, fear of being alone.

Oversensitive.

PHYSICAL

PAIN IN CHEST, in costal cartilages, in short ribs, in shoulders. Rheumatic pains.

Muscular pains <change of weather, damp, deep inspiration, turning in bed, touch, stretching the
arms, standing lying on painful side, after herpes zoster.
Burning pain in shoulder, in small spots.

Herpes zoster in chest, in back. Eruptions transparent, crusty, vesicular.

Coldness of chest, of sternum <walking in open air, breathing cold air.

Eye pains. Smarting pain in eyes as from smoke.

Headache in forehead above eyes <right. Enlarged sensation of head.

Bad effects of alcohol. Hiccough after alcohol.

MODALITIES

AGG.: alcohol, cold (becoming, air, entering a cold place), change of weather or of temperature, wet
or cold wet weather, drafts, motion.
AMEL.: standing, walking.

Compare
Bry. (Intercostal neuralgia), Calc., Dulc., Kali-c., Rhod., Rhus-t. (Worse from cold wet
weather)
RATANHIA (Rat.)

SYMPTOMS OF THE RECTUM

MENTAL

Compulsive neurosis. Superstitions and compulsions of religious nature.

Compulsive in general or concerning their rectal hygiene.

PHYSICAL

Acts on RECTUM, eyes and teeth.

Haemorrhoids. Protrude after stool.

Fissures of anus with constriction.
Excruciating burning and long-lasting pains in the rectum after stool, which can be difficult or even
diarrhoea.

AS IF SPLINTERS OR GLASS WERE IN RECTUM (Aesculus, Nitric acid). This causes a great sensitivity
and anal fissures. Better with warm applications.

Important concomitant is bursting headache during straining during stool: Pain in the middle of the
forehead, as if brain would fall out.

Pin worms.

Pterygium of the eye: inflammation of the whole eye, when a membrane extends to the pupil.

Burning pains. Eyelids feel stiff (Kalmia).

Toothache in pregnant women, who have to get out of bed at night (Magnesia Carbonica).
Sensation as if coldness rushed out of painful molars. Feel elongated. Worse lying down.

MODALITIES

AGG: night, touch, exertion.

Compare
Aesc., Ars., Coll., Nit-ac., Paeon.
RHODODENDRON (Rhod.)

COMPLAINTS < DAMP, BEFORE/DURING STORM

MENTAL

SYMPTOMS < BEFORE OR DURING THUNDER STORM.

Faintness, confusion, excitement before a storm. Fear of storms.

Forgetful of words while speaking. Omitting words when writing.

Anxiety on entering a house.

PHYSICAL

AGGRAVATION BEFORE STORMS, WIND AND COLD WET WEATHER (Rhus-t.).

Rheumatic-gouty drawing and tearing pains in all limbs < at rest, > motion.
Pain in heels.

Orchitis. Epididymitis.

PAIN IN TESTICLE, may be described as CRUSHED < RIGHT SIDE, > motion.
EXTENDING TO ABDOMEN.

Facial pains >moving the lower jaw.

Sleeps on back with feet crossed - sleeplessness unless they lie in this position.

Rapidly shifting, paralytic pains.

MODALITIES

AGG.: approach of storm, during storm, change of weather, weather cold wet, foggy, windy.
AMEL.: motion.

Compare
Dulc., Rhus-t.
RHUS TOXICODENDRON (Rhus-t.)

RESTLESSNESS, AGGRAVATED BY KEEPING STILL

MENTAL

EXTREME RESTLESSNESS. Stiff, unable to relax.

Anxious and sad.

SUPERSTITIOUS. Compulsive, ritualistic behavior.

Anxiety about his children, about business.

Delusions that he was about to be poisoned.

PHYSICAL

STIFFNESS of muscles, of joints. Ailments from straining muscles or tendons, over-lifting, stretching,
sprains. LUMBAGO.

< REST, BEGINNING TO MOVE AFTER REST

> MOTION, WARMTH

Restlessness in bed - must change position to obtain momentary relief from pain.

Tongue - triangular red tip.

Cracking in joints, in jaw, in cervical region.

Skin eruptions >warm bathing.
Vertigo with tendency to fall on rising from bed.
Herpetic eruptions with much burning, itching and stinging > warm bathing.

MODALITIES

AGG.: cold, damp, wet weather, beginning of motion, lying, uncovering.

AMEL.: MOTION (walking, motion of affected part,) exertion, change of position, warm applications,
hot bath, warm dry weather.
DES.: MILK ESP.COLD.
AVERS.: soup.

Complementaries
Bry.

Follows well
Am-c., Aur., Bell., Bov. (Chronic urticaria), Caust., Cham., Cic.

Followed well by
Ars., Calc., Graph., Merc., Nux-v., Phos., Puls., Sep., Sulph.

Antidoted by
Bry., Coff., Sulph., Thyr.

Inimical
Apis (Apis, before or after, especially in skin affections (use only if picture is clear).)

Antidotes
Agn., Bry., Nat-s., Sang., Sep., Verat.

Compare
Ars. (Chilly, restless.), Bry. (Bry is worse with motion but Rhus-t is better with motion.), Calc-
p. (Stiffness in cervical region.), Calc. (Chilly, worse from cold wet weather, worse from over-
exertion, arthritis.), Cimic. (Worse from cold or drafts), Dulc. (Rheumatism worse in wet cold
weather.), Phos. (Arthritis, chilly, craves cold milk.), Rhod. (Worse from cold wet weather,
morning aggravation.), Ruta (Arthritis and injuries, stiffness.), Tub. (Arthritis worse from
cold wet weather, worse from drafts, desires cold milk, eruptions.)
RUMEX CRISPUS (Rumex)

AFFECTIONS OF RESPIRATORY SYSTEM < COLD

PHYSICAL

COUGH constant, tickling, croupy, hoarse, whooping, hacking, paroxysmal.

< inhaling cold air, going from warm to cold, irregular breathing, touching the larynx, eating,
bending head backward.
>covering up mouth so the inhaled air is warmed, drinking, turning from left to right side.

Early morning diarrhœa, driving patient out of bed, wakes with urging at 06:00 till noon, but often
accompanied by the typical cough.
Rumbling in the abdomen.
Emptiness of stomach <talking. Eructations on waking, after coughing, evening. Heaviness after
eating.

Itching of skin when undressing, in cold air, when uncovered.

Lump in oesophagus, descending when swallowing, going back up after.

MODALITIES

AGG.: open air, cold (air, becoming, cold food), bathing, after eating.
AMEL.: warm bed.

Complementaries
Nat-s., Tub.

Antidoted by
Phos.

Compare
Coc-c. (Cough remedy), Dros. (Cough remedy), Spong. (Cough remedy)
RUTA GRAVEOLENS (Ruta)

AFFECTIONS OF FIBROUS TISSUES, TENDONS, JOINTS, PERIOSTEUM

MENTAL

PANIC, with fear of death ESP. DURING HEAT OR ON ENTERING A HOT ROOM.
Restlessness during fever, changes position frequently.

Sluggish, slow mind. Dissatisfied.

Aversion to company except when in panic where they need to feel secure.

Fear of evil, of water.

Anxious, irritable and rigid persons.

PHYSICAL

INJURIES TO FIBROUS TISSUE, JOINTS, BONES, TENDONS AND PERIOSTEUM. Bursitis, ganglion.

The affected parts are bruised and sore with restlessness.

Stiffness of the body. Bruised painful feeling on the parts lain on.

ACHING, BURNING PAIN IN EYES. AS IF STRAINED, like balls of fire <fine work, reading, sewing.
Dim vision on straining the eyes. Headache or vertigo from reading.

Paralysis of the bladder after over-distension or forcible retention.

Intense feeling of weariness.

Back pain < inspiration >lying down.

Arthritic pains <cold and damp.
Skin- yellow discoloration in spots.
Prolapse of rectum, before or during stool, on stooping.

MODALITIES

AGG.: exertion, cold, wet weather, exertion, lying on painful side, motion, using voice, 10 a.m., going
up and downstairs.
AMEL: lying on painless side, rubbing, walking, motion, hard pressure; coughing; expectoration; rapid
motion; bending double.

Complementaries
Calc-p. (Joint affections), Calc., Puls., Sil., Sulph.

Follows well
Caust.
Antidoted by
Camph.

Compare
Acon. (Panic attacks), Arg-n. (Fears), Arn. (Injuries, bruised pains.), Caust. (Panic attacks,
contraction of tendons.), Euph. (Conjunctivitis), Kalm., Plb., Ran-b., Rhus-t. (Stiffness, worse
in cold and wet
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.

Complementaries
Sep., Thuja
Compare
All-c. (Allergies), Euphr. (Allergies)
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.

Complementaries
Thuja

Antidotes
Thuja (Warts)
Compare
Ip., Phos. (Uterine hemorrhages), Sec. (Hemorrhages with dark blood.)
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.

Antidotes
Ars.

Compare
Kali-c. (Respiratory problems with profuse perspiration.), Kali-s. (Cough worse during
night.), Tub. (Respiratory problems with profuse perspiration.)
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.
Complementaries
Ant-t.

Antidoted by
Op. (nausea and heat in stomach, vertigo, blood congestion), Rhus-t.

Compare
Bell. (Right sided headaches), Chel. (Pain in right shoulder, liver affections.), Ferr. (Shoulder
pains (also ferr-m), headaches, flushes.), Lyc. (Right-sided symptoms,
eructations.), Puls. (Desires consolation (sang. desires to be held) uncovers feet.)
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.

Complementaries
All-c., Apis, Merc., Sep.

Antidoted by
Bell., Camph., Cham., Merc., Sep., Sulph.

Antidotes
Sep.
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.

Follows well
Agn.

Compare
Agn. (Impotency), Calad. (Impotency), Nat-p. (Nocturnal emissions), Ph-
ac. (Weakness), Puls. (Aggravation from heat and sun)
SENEGA

(Seneg.)

(Snakewort)

Catarrhal symptoms, especially of the respiratory tract, and distinct eye symptoms of a paralytic type,
are most characteristic. Circumscribed spots in the chest left after inflammations.

Mind
Suddenly remembers unimportant regions which he saw long ago. Inclined to quarrel.

Head
Dullness, with pressure and weakness of eyes. Pain in temples. BURSTING pain in forehead.

Eyes
Hyperphoria, better by bending head backwards. Acts on the rectus superior. Blepharitis; lids dry and
crusty (Graph.). Dryness, with sensation AS IF TOO LARGE FOR THE ORBITS. Staring. Lachrymation.
Flickering; must wipe eyes frequently. Objects look shaded. Muscular asthenopia (Caust.). Double
vision; better only by bending head backward. Opacities in vitreous humor. Promotes absorption of
fragments of lens, after operation.

Nose
Dry. Coryza; profuse watery mucus and sneezing. Nostrils feel peppery.

Face
Paralysis of the left side of face. Heat in face. Burning vesicles at the corners of mouth and lips.

Throat

Catarrhal inflammation of the throat and fauces, with scraping hoarseness. Burning and rawness.
Sensation as if the membrane had been abraded.

Respiratory
Hoarseness. Hurts to talk. Bursting pain in the back on coughing. Catarrh of larynx. Loss of voice.
Hacking cough. Thorax feels too narrow. COUGH OFTEN ENDS IN A SNEEZE. RATTLING IN CHEST (Ant-
t.). Chest oppressed on ascending. Bronchial catarrh, WITH SORE CHEST WALLS; much mucus;
sensation of oppression and weight on chest. DIFFICULT IN RAISING TOUGH, PROFUSE MUCUS, in the
aged. Asthenic bronchitis in old people with chronic interstitial nephritis or chronic emphysema. Old
asthmatics with congestive attacks. EXUDATIONS IN PLEURA. Hydrothorax (Merc-sul.). Pressure on
the chest as though the lungs were forced back to the spine. Voice unsteady, vocal cords partially
paralyzed.

Urinary
Greatly diminished; loaded with shreds and mucus; scalding before and after urinating. BACK,
bursting distending pain in kidney region.

Modalities
AGG.: walking in open air, during rest.
AMEL.: from sweat; BENDING HEAD BACKWARDS.
Relationship
Compare: Caust., Phos., Saponin., Ammc., Calc., NEPETA CATARIA-Catnip (to break up a cold; infantile
colic; hysteria).

Dose
Tincture, to thirtieth potency.

Follows well
Bell.

Antidotes
Bry.

Compare
Ant-t. (Rattling chest), Phos. (Rattling chest, worse lying left side )
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.

Complementaries
Nat-m., Nux-v., Phos.

Follows well
Aloe, Am-c., Ambr., Ang., Aur., Bov., Caust., Cham., Chel., Cic., Eup-per. (Compatible), Ph-
ac., Rhus-t.

Antidoted by
Acet-ac., Acon. (Circulatory excitment.), Ant-c., Ant-t., Calc., Chin., Merc-c., Merc., Nat-
m., Nat-p., Nit-s-d., Phos., Rhus-t., Sars., Sulph.

Inimical
Lach., Puls.

Antidotes
Carc. (Indifference, sadness), Chin., Sars., Tub.

Compare
Carb-v. (Indifferent, irritable, chilly, exhausted.), Nat-m. (Introverted, aversion
company.), Nux-v. (Irritability, aggression, premenstrual syndrome,
constipation.), Puls. (Weeping, irritability, cough better sitting and worse night.)
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.

Complementaries
Puls., Thuja (Dairrhoea after vaccination, vaccination high fever.)

Follows well
Anthraci., Asar., Borx., Caust., Cham.

Antidoted by
Calc-s., Camph., Fl-ac. (Abuse of Sil especially in bones affections, suppurations; when
suppuration and destruction of tissue has been increased by the too frequent repetition of Sil
in low potency. ), Hep., Merc., Sulph.

Inimical
Merc.

Antidotes
Hep., Thuja
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.

Follows well
Chel.

Antidotes
Aur.

Compare
Cact. (Heart affections), Kalm. (Neuralgias), Lach. (Left sided, heart affections), Naja (Heart
affections)
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.

Complementaries
Hep., Phos., Puls., Spig.
Antidoted by
Acon., Camph., Tub.

Compare
Bry. (Cough), Coc-c. (Cough), Lach. (Worse lying at left side. Suffocation sensation during
sleep), Phos. (Respiratory infections worse lying on the left side)
SQUILLA (HISPANICA) MARITIMA

(Squil.)

(Sea-onion)

A slow acting remedy. Corresponds to ailments requiring several days to reach their maximum.
Persistent, dull, rheumatic pains permeate the body. A splenic remedy; stitches under the left free
ribs. Important heart and kidney medicine. BRONCHO-PNEUMONIA.

Acts especially on the mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive tracts, and also upon the
kidneys. Valuable in chronic bronchitis of old people with mucous rales, dyspnea and scanty urine.

Eyes
Feels irritable; child bores into them with fists. Sensation as if swimming in cold water.

Stomach
Pressure like a stone.

Respiratory
Fluent coryza; margins of nostrils feel sore. Sneezing; throat irritated; short, dry cough; must take a
deep breath. DYSPNEA, STITCHES IN THE CHEST and painful contraction of abdominal muscles.
VIOLENT, furious, exhausting cough, with profuse mucus, salty, slimy expectoration, and with
INVOLUNTARY SPURTING OF URINE AND SNEEZING. CHILD RUBS FACE WITH FIST DURING COUGH
(Caust., Puls.). Cough provoked by taking a deep breath or cold drinks, from exertion, change from
warm to cold air. Cough of measles. Frequent calls to urinate at night, passing large quantities (Phos-
ac.). SNEEZING WITH COUGHING.

Heart
A cardiac stimulant affecting the peripheral vessels and coronary arteries.

Urinary
Great urging; PROFUSE WATERY URINE. INVOLUNTARY spurting of urine when coughing (Caust.,
Puls.).

Skin
Small, red spots all over the body, with a prickling pain.

Extremities
Icy cold hands and feet, with warmth of the rest of the body (Meny.). Feet get sore from standing.
Tender feet in shop girls.

Modalities
AGG.: motion.
AMEL.: rest;

Relationship
Compare: Dig., Stroph-h., Apoc-h., Bry., Kali-c., Squil. follows Dig., if it fails to relieve water-logged
cases.

Dose
First to third potency.
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.

Follows well
Caust.

Compare
Gels. (Weakness), Mur-ac. (Weakness)
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.

Complementaries
Caust., Coloc., Nux-v., Thuja

Antidoted by
Ambr. (Especially voluptuous itching of scrotum.), Camph., Merc., Thuja

Antidotes
Coloc., Merc., Thuja (Chronic effect), Verat. (Most cases)

Compare
Anac. (The helpless, hopeless type), Caust. (Sensitivity to injustice), Coloc. (Ailments from
anger), Lyc. (Male impotency), Nat-m. (Ailments from grief), Nux-v. (Ailments from
anger), Puls. (Mild character), Sil. (Timidity)
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.

Complementaries
Apis (Hydrocephalus, cerebrospinal meningitis), Bell., Calc-p. (Hydrocephalus,
cerebrospinal meningitis), Hyos., Sulph.

Follows well
Bell., Hyos.

Antidoted by
Acet-ac., Bell., Camph., Coff.

Compare
Bell., Hyos.
STRONTIUM CARBONICUM
(Stront-c.)
(Carbonate of Strontia)

Rheumatic pains, chronic sprains, stenosis of oesophagus. Pains make patient faint or sick all
over. Chronic SEQUALAE OF HEMORRHAGES, after operations with much cozing of
blood and coldness and prostration. Arterio-sclerosis. High blood pressure with flushed face
pulsating arteries, threatened apoplexy. Violent involuntary starts. Affections of bones,
especially femur. Restlessness at night, smothering feeling. FOR SHOCK AFTER
SURGICAL OPERATIONS. NEURITIS, great sensitiveness to cold.

Head
VERTIGO WITH HEADACHE AND NAUSEA. Distensive pressure. Aches from nape of
neck, spreading upwards; better wrapping head up warmly. (SIL.) Flushes in face; violent
pulsating. Supraorbital neuralgia; pains increase and decrease slowly. (STANN.) Bloody
crusts in nose. Face red; burns, itches. Itching, redness and burning of nose.

Eyes
Burning and redness of eyes. Pain and lachrymation on using eyes, with dancing and
chromatic alterations of objects looked at.

Stomach
Loss of appetite, aversion to meat, craves bread and beer. Food tasteless. Eructations after
eating. Hiccough causes chest pains; cardialgia.

Abdomen
Sticking in abdominal ring. Diarrhoea; WORSE AT NIGHT; CONTINUOUS URGING;
better towards morning. Burning in anus lasts a long time after stool. (RATANH.)
Uncomfortable fullness and swelling of abdomen.

Extremities
Sciatica with oedema of ankle. Rheumatic pain in right shoulder. Rheumatism with diarrhoea.
Gnawing as if in marrow of bones. Cramps in calves and soles. CHRONIC spasms,
particularly of ankle-joint. Oedematous swelling. Icy-cold feet. Rheumatic pains, especially in
joints. Veins of hands engorged.

Fever
Heat, with aversion to uncover or undress.

Skin
Moist, itching, burning eruption; better in open air, especially warm sunshine. SPRAINS OF
ANKLE-JOINT, WITH OEDEMA. Violent perspiration at night.

Modalities
AGG.: change of weather; from being quiet; when beginning to move; great sensitiveness to
cold.
AMEL.: immersing in HOT WATER;
Relationship
Compare: ARNICA; RUTA; SIL.; BARYTA C; CARBO.; STRONT. IODAT. (arterio-
sclerosis.) STRONTIUM BROM. (often gives excellent results where a bromide is indicated.
Vomiting of pregnancy. Nervous dyspepsia. It is anti-fermentative and neutralizes excessive
acidity.) STRONT. NIT. (Morbid cravings; headache and eczema behind ears.)

Dose
Sixth trituration and thirtieth potency.

Compare
Calc., Carb-v. (Post-surgical weakness)
STRYCHNINUM PURUM

(Stry.)

(Alkaloid of Nux Vomica)

Its primary function is to stimulate the motor centers and the reflex action of the spinal cord.
Homeopathic to spasms of muscles, cramps from an undue reflex excitability of the cord, spasms of
the bladder, etc. STRY. stimulates the central nervous system, mental activities and the special senses
are rendered more acute. Respiration increased. All reflexes are made more active. Stiffness in
muscles, face and neck. Opisthotonos. Tetanic convulsions with opisthotonos. The muscles relax
between paroxysms; worse slightest touch, sound, odor. Influences the spinal cord more directly and
is less appropriate in visceral derangements than NUX-V. TETANUS. Explosive nervousness. Pain and
sensations come SUDDENLY and return at INTERVALS.

Head
Restless. OVER IRRITABILITY. Full and bursting headache, with heat in eyes. Vertigo, with roaring in
ears. Jerking of head forward. Scalp sore. Itching of scalp and nape.

Eyes
Hot, painful, protruding (expohthalmos), staring. Pupils dilated. Sparks before eyes. Spasmodic
contraction of ocular muscles; trembling of lids (chorea).

Ears
Hearing very acute; burning, itching and roaring.

Face
Pale, anxious, livid. Jaws stiffened; lower jaw spasmodically closed (tetnus).

Throat
Dry, contracted; feeling of a lump. Deglutition impossible. Burning along the oesophagus with spasms
of the oesophagus. Violent itching in roof of mouth.

Stomach
Constant retching. Violent vomiting. Nausea of pregnancy.

Abdomen
Sharp pain in abdominal muscles, griping pain in bowels.

Rectum
Feces discharged involuntarily during spasms. Very obstinate constipation.

Genitalia-Female
Desire for coitus (CANTH., CAMPH., FL-AC., LACH., PHOS., PLAT.). Any touch on the body excites a
voluptuous sensation (nymphomania).

Respiratory
SPASM OF MUSCLES around the larynx. Excessive dyspnea. Sharp, contractive pains in muscles of
chest. Persistent cough, recurring after influenza.
Back
RIGIDITY OF CERVICAL MUSCLES. Sharp pains in the nape and down the spine. BACK STIFF; violent
jerks in the spinal column. ICY SENSATION DOWN THE SPINE.

Extremities
Limbs stiff. Rheumatism with stiff joints. VIOLENT JERKING (athetosis), TWITCHING, AND TREMBLING
(chorea). Tetanic convulsions and opisthotonos; spasms provoked by the slightest touch and by any
attempt to move. Shocks in the muscles. CRAMP-LIKE PAINS.

Fever
Cold chills flowing down the spine. Perspiration in a stream down head and chest. Lower extremities
cold.

Skin
Itching in the whole body, especially nose. Icy sensation down the spine.

Modalities
AGG.: morning; touch; noise; motion: after meals.
AMEL.: lying on the back.

Relationship
Compare: EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS (neutralizes ill effects of STRY.). STRYCHNINUM ARSENICOSUM
(paresis in the aged, relaxed musculature. Prostration. Psoriasis; chronic diarrhea with paralytic
symptoms; compensatory hypertrophy of heart with beginning of fatty degeneration; marked
dyspnea on lying down; edema of lower extremities, urine scanty, high specific gravity, heavily loaded
with glucose. Diabetes. 6x trituration). STRYCHNINI ET FERRI CITRAS (chlorotic and paralytic
conditions; dyspepsia with vomiting of ingesta; 2x and 3x trituration); STRYCHNINUM NITRICUM (2x
and 3x. Said to remove craving for alcohol. Use for weeks); STRYCHNINUM SULPHURICUM (gastric
atony); STRYCHNINUM VALERIANICUM. (exhaustion of brain power: women of high nervous
erethism).

Non-homeopathic Uses
To produce its direct physiological effects in paralysis, the dose will range from one-fiftieth to one-
twentieth of a grain, repeated three times a day. Under twelve years of age, fiftieth to one two-
hundredth of a grain. STRY., hypodermically, is capable of arresting progressive muscular atrophy, is a
stimulant to the respiratory centers, and is useful in embarrassed breathing, in the course of
pneumonia especially. Is an antidote to CHLOL., used in asphyxia from gas and chloroform and early
stages of opium poisoning. Dose, one one-hundredth to one-sixtieth grain every three hours.

Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.

Compare
Ign., Nux-v.
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.

Complementaries
Acon., Aloe, Ars., Calc. (Cycle: Sulph-Calc-Lyc-Sulph.), Lyc. (Cycle: Sulph-Calc-Lyc-
Sulph.), Merc., Nux-v., Psor., Puls., Rhus-t., Sep., Sil.

Follows well
Agn., Aloe, Alum., Ambr., Aur., Caust., Cham., Chel., Fl-ac., Ph-ac., Rhus-t.

Antidoted by
Acon. (Mitigates the excessive action of Sulph and does not destroy the favourable
effects), Aloe, Apis, Ars., Asc-t., Calc., Camph., Caust. (Abuse of Sulphur in
scabies), Cham., Chin. (Centrifugal action of Sulph.), Coff., Con. (Swollen glands), Crot-
t. (Skin symptoms), Hyper., Merc., Puls., Sulph. (Sulph. in potency eliminates the effects of
crude Sulphur.), X-ray (Over use of Sulph.)

Antidotes
Acon. (Paralysis from over doses of Acon), Aesc., Aloe, Apis, Chin., Nat-s., Nit-ac., Rhus-
t., Sars., Sep., Sil., Sulph. (Sulph. in potency eliminates the effects of crude
Sulphur.), Thuja, Tub.

Compare
Aloe (Diarrhea at 5am), Arg-n. (Warm-blooded, extroverted, fears heigh places, craves
sweets.), Graph. (Skin problems), Lyc. (Craves sweets), Med. (Uncovers feet, desires
fat.), Mez. (Skin problems), Nux-v. (Egotistical, impatient, desires fat. But Nux-v. is chilly
while Sulph. usually warm-blooded.), Plat. (Egotistical), Psor. (Mostly is skin
problems), Puls. (Warm-blooded, uncovers feet. But Puls. has aversion to fat while Sulphur
usually desires fat.)
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.

Complementaries
Arn., Puls.

Follows well
Asar.

Compare
Arn. (Bruises), Med. (Hurriedness), Merc. (Hurriedness, aphthae), Tarent. (Hurriedness)
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.

Antidotes
Ars., Zinc. (Smelling of preparation of Sulph.)

Compare
Ars., Cocc., Con. (Closes eyes during vertigo), Gels. (Closes eyes during vertigo), Ip., Nux-
v., Puls. (Weeps easily and desires fresh air. Puls uncovers the feet and Tab uncovers the
abdomen), Sep., Verat.
TARAXACUM

(Tarax.)

(Dandelion)

For gastric headaches, bilious attacks, with characteristically mapped tongue and jaundiced skin.
Cancer of the bladder. Flatulence. HYSTERICAL TYMPANITES.

Head
Sensation of great heat on top of the head. STERNOMASTOID muscle is very painful to touch.

Mouth
Mapped tongue. Tongue covered with a white film; feels raw; comes off in patches, leaving RED,
SENSITIVE SPOTS. Loss of appetite. Bitter taste and eructations. Salivation.

Abdomen
Liver enlarged and indurated. Sharp stitches in the left side. Sensation of bubbles bursting in bowels.
Tympanites. Evacuation difficult.

Extremities
Very restless limbs. NEURALGIA OF THE KNEE; BETTER, PRESSURE. Limbs painful to touch.

Fever
Chilliness after eating, worse drinking; FINGER TIPS COLD. BITTER TASTE. Heat without thirst, in the
face, TOES. Sweat on falling asleep.

Skin
PROFUSE NIGHT SWEATS.

Modalities
AGG.: resting, lying down, sitting.
AMEL.: touch.

Relationship
Compare: CHOLINUM, a constituent of Taraxacum root, has given encouraging results in the
treatment of cancer. Cholinum is closely related to NEURINUM, it is the "Cancronie" of Prof.
Adamkiewicz (E. Schlegel.) Bry., Hydr., Nux-v. TELA ARANEæ (nervous asthma and sleeplessness).

Dose
Tincture, to third potency. In cancer 1-2 drams fluid extract.

Compare
Chel. (Cholecystitis)
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.

Follows well
Agar.

Antidoted by
Bov., Carb-v., Chel.

Compare
Lil-t. (Hurriedness, anger), Med. (Hurriedness), Nux-v. (Hurriedness, anger, impatience,
increased sexual desire, desires spices.), Plat. (Increased sexual
desire), Stram. (Destructiveness), Sul-ac. (Hurriedness)
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.

Follows well
Bell.

Antidotes
Phos.

Compare
Apis (Edema), Canth. (Cystitis with bloody urination.), Kreos. (Inflammation of the
urogenital system.), Merc-c. (Cystitis), Nux-v. (Cystitis)
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.
Complementaries
Ars., Lach., Med., Nat-s., Sabin., Sil.

Antidoted by
Camph., Cham. (Pain in teeth worse night), Cocc. (Fever), Coff., Colch. (Best antidote
according to Teste), Iod., Merc., Plb. (Genito-urinary
agg), Puls., Sabin. (Warts), Sil., Staph. (Chronic effect), Sulph.

Antidotes
All-c. (Offensive breath and diarrhoea after onions), Med., Nat-s., Nux-v. (Ineffectual desire
to urinate), Staph.

Compare
Con. (Prostate affections), Lyc. (Aggravation from onions.), Med. (Warts), Nit-
ac. (Condylomata), Puls. (Manipulative), Sil. (Distorted or brittle nails, constipation.)
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.

Complementaries
Bry., Calc-p., Calc., Phos., Puls., Sil., Stann., Sulph.

Follows well
Agar.

Antidoted by
Acet-ac., Calc., Nat-m. (Overwhelming agg after prescription of Tub.), Nux-
v., Phos., Sep., Sulph.

Antidotes
Spong.

Compare
Bac. (Tubercular miasm, frequent colds.), Calc-p. (Desires to travel, worse from cold damp
weather, craves smoked meat and bacon.), Med. (Respiratory problems, desires fat and salt,
high sexual drive.), Rhus-t. (Joint pains worse in wet cold weather.), Stram. (Grinding of
teeth)
VALERIANA (Valer.)

HYSTERIA, ARTHRITIC PAINS, WANDERING SYMPTOMS

MENTAL

Animated, anxious, irritable, restless patients with changeable mood.

ACTS HYSTERICALLY. Weeping alternating with laughter.

Over sensitiveness of all senses.
Mental symptoms alternating with physical.
Cheerful in evening, mirth, hilarity.

Various delusions she is someone other person, he’s poor, people are beside him, is away from
home, floating in air.

Fear on entering a room. Fear ameliorated in open air.

Restlessness at night, open air amel.
Mental symptoms are worse in darkness.

PHYSICAL

RHEUMATIC AND NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS.

Sensation as if a thread were hanging in the throat.
Stitching pain in heels when sitting >walking.

Sciatica < standing, stretching the leg, sitting, hanging down the limb.

Slimy taste in the morning on waking.

Pressing pain in forehead alternates with stitching pain.
Child vomits curdled milk, in large lumps after nursing.
Diarrhœa, with lumps of coagulated milk, with violent screaming in children.

Jerking pains in the upper and lower limbs >walking. Jerking internal and external.

MODALITIES

AGG.: after motion, sitting, standing, evening.

AMEL.: walking, motion, ascending.

Follows well
Bell.

Compare
Ign. (Excitable, hysterical), Rhus-t. (Rrestlessness), Zinc. (Rrestlessness)
VERATRUM ALBUM (Verat.)

The prominent characteristic of this remedy is the overactivity, mental and physical. There’s an
exaggeration in all levels. On the mental level we see a restless, overactive and overstimulated
mind. The mental abilities are over developed. We see too clever children, with skills beyond their
age.
These people can impress you with their knowledge and acuteness of mind.
On the physical level, there is restlessness in chronic as well as in acute states.

RESTLESSNESS - MENTAL & PHYSICAL

MENTAL

MENTAL OVER-STIMULATION. Unhealthy acuteness of mind, precocity.

CONFUSION AS TO HIS IDENTITY. Religious delusion he is Christ or a person that has to save the
world. Delusions he’s a great person. Feel they must protect the weak.

RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS. Religious delirium. Praying. Preaching.

Religious despair. Anxiety about salvation. Doubtful of the soul’s welfare.

Despair of social position. Never happy with social position, feel they deserve better.
Brooding < evening.

Violent. Mania with desire to tear things. Erotic, puerperal insanity. Delirium with loquacity, with
open eyes, raging.

PHYSICAL

RESTLESSNESS - go up and down. The moment the mind is working, the restlessness becomes more
and more. Restlessness in chronic as well as in acute states.

CHILLY (esp. during the acute state). Internal chill, coldness in blood-vessels. Chill as if coldness in the
bones.

Cold perspiration (forehead, feet, face, hand). <during menses, during stool, fainting.

Great thirst for COLD DRINKS with ice.

Vomiting / diarrhœa- violent vomiting and profuse diarrhœa with coldness and cold perspiration.
Vomiting during diarrhoea.
Rocket vomiting. Collapse from vomiting.

Rapid sinking of vital forces- complete prostration and collapse. Faints easily.

MODALITIES
AGG.: fruit, cold, pears, raw food, potatoes, warm (becoming, wraps, room, sensation of heat),
during menses.
AMEL.: continued motion, after perspiration, walking.
DES.: sour, salt, salt and lemon, unripe fruit, ice, cold drinks, cucumber, herring, sardines.

Complementaries
Ars., Carb-v.

Follows well
Am-c., Bell., Hyos.

Antidoted by
Acon. (Anguish with collapse, anxious state with coldness of body or burning sensation in
brain.), All-c., Ars., Calc. (Pressing pain in head with coldness of body.), Camph. (Pain in
head with coldness; pressive pain in head with coldness of body and unconsciousness after:
sudden serious symptoms), Chin. (Chronic affections for abuse of Verat e.g. daily forenoon
fever.), Coff., Cupr., Ferr., Ip., Lach., Merc., Nux-v., Op., Puls., Rhus-t., Staph. (Most cases)

Antidotes
All-c. (pain in abdomen with despondency), Chin.

Compare
Ars. (Restlessness and chilliness), Camph. (Diarrhea (camph., cupr., verat. was Hahnemann’s
trio of cholera remedies)), Carb-v. (Chilliness, cold nose, cold breath.), Cupr. (Diarrhea
(camph., cupr., verat. was Hahnemann’s trio of cholera remedies)), Med. (Desires sour fruits,
salt, lemon.), Rhus-t. (Restlessness)
VERBASCUM THAPSUS

(Verb.)

(Mullein)

Has a pronounced action on the inferior maxillary branch of the fifth pair of cranial nerves; on the
ear; respiratory tract and bladder. CATARRH and colds, WITH PERIODICAL PROSOPALGIA. Quietens
nervous, bronchial and urinary irritation and cough.

Ears
Otalgia, with a sense of obstruction. Deafness. Dry, scaly condition of the meatus (use locally).

Face
Neuralgia affecting the zygoma, temporo-maxillary joint and ear (Meny.), particularly of the left side,
with lachrymation, coryza and sensation AS IF THE PARTS WERE CRUSHED WITH TONGS. Talking,
sneezing and change of temperature aggravate the pain; also, pressing teeth together. Pain seems to
come in flashes, excited by least movement, occurring periodically at the same hour in the morning
and afternoon each day.

Abdomen
Pain extends deep down, causing contraction of the sphincter ani.

Rectum
Many movements a day, with twisting pains around the navel. Hemorrhoids with obstructed, hard
stool. Inflamed and painful piles.

Urinary
Constant dribbling. ENURESIS. Burning micturition. Increases with pressure in bladder.

Respiratory
HOARSE; voice deep, harsh; sounds like a trumpet; "basso profundo." Cough; worse at night. Asthma.
Soreness in pharynx, cough during sleep.

Extremities
Cramp-like pain in soles, right foot, and knee. Lower extremities feel heavy. Thumb feels numb.
Neuralgic pain in left ankle. Stiffness AND SORENESS OF JOINTS OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES.

Modalities
AGG.: change of temperature, talking, sneezing, biting hard (inferior dental nerve); from 9 a. m. to 4
p.m..

Relationship
Compare: Rhus-a., Caust., Plat., SPHINGURUS MARITINI (pain in zygoma).

Dose
MULLEIN OIL (locally for otalgia and dry, scaly condition of the meatus. Also for teasing cough at night
or lying down. Internally, tincture and lower potencies. ENURESIS, five drop doses at night and in the
morning).
Compare
Coloc. (Facial neuralgia), Mag-c. (Facial neuralgia), Mag-p. (Facial neuralgia)
ZINCUM METALLICUM (Zinc)

Hyperactivity is the word for Zincum and we observe this mostly in feet and mind. We see constant
motion of the feet, twitching, spasms, jerking. Usually the moment they go to sleep there is an
electrical stimulation that comes out in the lower extremities and they jerk. On the mental level
there’s restlessness too. The brain is overstimulated but not in the way that Verat. and Coffea is. In
Zincum the over activity causes a kind of dissatisfaction. It’s one of the main remedies for
dissatisfaction and complaining.

HYPERACTIVITY OF NERVOUS SYSTEM

MENTAL

RESTLESSNESS. HYPERACTIVE. Active concentration. - ‘Brain fag’ from over study.

Mental dullness. Repeats question first before answering. Understands question only after
repetition.

Moaning, complaining, esp. of not being treated well by others. Torments everyone with his
complaints.

Delusions devil is after her < during menses. Delusions is about to be arrested.
Sees devils, phantoms.

Sensitive to noise, to voices. Indisposed to talk.

PHYSICAL

OVERACTIVITY OF NERVOUS SYSTEM (esp. nerve endings are affected).

RESTLESSNESS of extremities esp. FEET- in bed or while sitting.
Jerking of extremities during sleep.

Twitching, facial spasms, convulsions, epilepsy esp. after suppression of eruptions <after exposure to
sun. Convulsions when eruptions fail to break out.
Convulsions during dentition with pale face.

Ailments from suppressed eruptions: mania, comatose sleep, neurological complaints, convulsions,
unconsciousness, chorea, scabies.

Strong sexual desire < before menses, > by the flow.

Defective vitality- lack of reaction. Too weak to develop menstrual function, to expectorate, to
urinate, to comprehend.

Burning whole length of spine < sitting > walking.

Expectoration bloody with dry cough in the morning before menses.

Intolerance to wine, however craves stimulants.

MODALITIES

AGG.: sitting, sleep during, after eating, after breakfast, drinking wine, after vaccination.
AMEL.: rubbing, eating while, motion, wet weather, walking, open air, during menses.
AVERS.: veal, fish, sweets.

Antidoted by
Camph. (Sometimes), Hep., Ign. (Effects on nervous system; negative effects on brain.), Kali-
c., Lob., Tab. (Smelling of preparation of Sulph.)

Inimical
Cham. (Should not be used before or after.), Nux-v. (Should not be used before or after.)

Antidotes
Bar-c.

Compare
Agar. (Twitching and jerking of single muscles (Ign.)), Arg-met., Calc-p. (Discontented and
complaining), Cupr. (Convulsions and jerkins), Hell. ( In incipient brain diseases from
suppressed eruptions.), Ign. (Twitching and jerking of single muscles (Agar.)), Lach. (Amel.
by secretions), Mosch. (Amel. by secretions), Nux-v. (Irritability), Puls., Rhus-t. (Restless
legs), Stann. (Amel. by secretions), Tub. (In incipient brain diseases from suppressed
eruptions.), Zinc-ac. (Boericke: effects of night-watching and erysipelas; brain feels sore;
Rademacher's solution, five-drop doses three times a day in water, for those who are
compelled to work, on an insufficient amount of sleep.), Zinc-ox. (Boericke : Nausea and sour
taste)