CASES

Homeopathy for mother and infant

Vomiting of pregnancy

Ipecacuanha

-Irritable and peevish.

-Nausea (SEPIA) constant, unrelieved by vomiting.

-Immediately after vomiting, wishes to vomit again.

-Distressing feeling, as i stomach were hanging down, relaxed.

-Where menses had been early, profuse and bright-coloured, with nausea.

-Disgust and loathing of food. Nosebleed, bright red.

-Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy: in some cases more nausea than vomiting.

-Stitches dart from navel to uterus.

Mental disturbances

Sepia officinalis

-Indifference. (PHOSPHOROUS).

-Indifference to husband, children, loved ones.

-Loses interest in what she ordinarily loves.

-Depressed Hates, and weeps with, sympathy.

-Only "wants to get away, and be quiet".

-Nausea: in the morning; from smell of cooking.

-Vomiting: of food and bile in the morning.

-Vomiting strains her greatly.

-Painful sensations of emptiness in stomach.

-Relief (of many symptoms) from eating.

-Intolerant of noise and smells.

-Nausea from smells of cooking.

-Feels the cold: but must have air.

-Feet clammy cold (CALCAREA): Offensive sweat, armpits.

-Sallow face: brown pigmentation nose and cheekbones ("the Sepia saddle"): brown pigmentation forehead.

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-The food cravings are for vinegar and sour things, perhaps for sweets and wine.

-Aversion to meat: fat: often bread, and milk.

-With such symptoms, SEPIA is the great remedy for the sickness of pregnancy and for all ills associated with pregnancy.

Phosphorus

-Also, indifference (SEPIA).

-But PHOSPHORUS loves sympathy_touch_massage (opposite of SEPIA).

-Anxiety for others (ARSENICUM, PHOSPHORUS).

-Fear alone in the dark of burglarproof ghosts.

-Fear of thunder.

-Desire for salt: for ices: for cold water: Thirst for cold drinks, which may be vomited when they become warm in stomach.

-Aversion to tea, coffee, meat, boiled milk; even to water, the sight of which may cause nausea.

-Women whose periods are profuse and bright colored: who bruise and bleed easily (Especially in the typical

PHOSPHOROUS patient: tall, slender, fine hair, long eyelashes.).

Pulsatilla pratensis

-Easy weeping.

-Changeable moods (CROCUS SATIVE, IGNATIA AMARA).

-Craves sympathy: yet changeable, irritable jealous, suspicious.

-Weeps, telling her symptoms, when nursing.

-Bursts into tears.

-(IGNATIA sighs: PULSATILLA weeps).

-Miserable restlessness at night, relieved by getting up and walking about.

-Better slow motion.

-During labour, PULSATILLA has often corrected want of expulsive power (inertia of uterus).

-Weeps because she is not delivered.

-The great remedy of mild, tearful women.

-Aversion to fat, meat, butter, pork, bread, milk.

-Desires sour, refreshing things.

Ignatia amara

-The remedy of contradictions: of cravings for foods that should be hurtful, but prove helpful.

-Great remedy of "verves"of hysteria.

-Sensation of lump in throat when not swallowing.

-Nervous spasm of throat and gullet: unable to swallow liquids or solids (especially during grief).

-When chilly, thirsty: no thirst with fever.

-Sensitive, and hyper-acute feeling.

-Slight blame excites anger, which makes her angry with herself.

-Much sighing.

-Incredible changes of mood: jokes and makes merry, then weeps.

-These moods alternate rapidly. (CROCUS).

-Great grief after losing what is dear to her.

-Craves something which, after a few mouthfuls, seems disgusting to her.

-Extreme aversion to tobacco smoke (PULSATILLA NIGRICANS).

-Copious, nervous discharge of watery urine.

-Does unaccountable and unexpected things.

-Full of contradictions and surprises.

-Fear that she will never sleep again.

-The remedy of grief - bereavement - with frequent sighing.

-Give for the colic of infants, breast-fed, whose mothers are suffering from grief.

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Aurum metallicum

-Deepest depression.

-Looks on the dark side.

-Weeps : prays : "is not fit for this world".

-Longs for death : even suicidal.

-In labour "thrashes around in bed, as if wishing to injure or kill herself".

-Moans in sleep.

-Frightful dreams.

-Sleepless and tossing after 4 a.m.

-Morose : quarrels.

Preparing for labour

Caulophyllum thalictroides

-(Squaw-root of the North American Indians).

-Fretful apprehensive.

-Uterus feels congested.

-Tension and fullness.

-Spasmodic pains, uterus : and during menses.

-Leucorrhoea: with bearing down pains.

-Threatened abortion (VIBURNUM).

-Spasmodic rigidity of os, delaying labour.

-Labour pains, short, irregular, spasmodic, no progress being made.

-(CAULPHYLLUM has not been extensively proved: but taken, a dose daily, during the last two or three weeks of pregnancy,

it is found to make labour easy.

-12th or 30th potency.)

Sleeplessness

Aconitum napellus

-Sleeplessness with fear, and excitement.

-Anxiety: restlessness: disquiet.

-Skin dry hot.

-Tosses in agony.

-Anxiety and worry, with trivial complaints.

Belladonna

-Head hot and painful.

-Pupils dilated.

-Rush of blood to head and face.

-Twitching in sleep, especially in children with red, hot faces, and bright eyes.

Coffea cruda

-Sleepless from crowding of thoughts.

-Full of ideas: quick to act: no sleep on this account.

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-Sleepless from joy, or coffee.

-Any pains are insupportable, and drive her to despair:_ (like CHAMOMILLA: but CHAM. is also frightfully irritable).

Ignatia amara

-Sleepless from grief, care, sadness, anxious thoughts, depressing emotions.

-Child wakes with piercing cries and trembles.

Lycopodium clavatum

-Sleepy by day: sleepless at night: associated with flatulence, digestive disturbances_acidity.

Nux vomica

-Sleepless from mental strain: coffee, wine, etc.

-Sleepy in the evening: wakes at midnight, or 3 a.m. : only sleeps heavily towards morning.

Fears and fright

Aconitum napellus

-Kent says: 'The woman is a natural ACONITUM patient; with her sympathic nature, her natural state of sensitiveness.

-She takes on complaints from shock, fear, and causes other than those which affect men.

-With women, fear is a common cause of inflammation of uterus, ovaries, in plethoric, vigorous, excitable women.

-Fear will often cause or threaten abortion: but ACONITUM, given early, will check this (OPIUM).

-Sometimes the burning, stitching, tearing pains of ACONITUM follow fear, or sudden emotion.

-Or a pregnant woman will say: 'Doctor, it is no use your planning for my confinement.

-I know I am going to die in that confinement.' If there is any one thing that is really a strong symptom to prescribe on

it is that.

-A dose of ACONITUM and change the subject, and a few days after you ask about the fear, and she says, 'Oh, never mind

that!'"

Argentum nitricum

-Fear, with hurry.

-Fears of anticipation; of high places.

-Curious unreasoning fears, that she will not be able to pass that corner without disaster: that walls are closing in: that

houses will fall on her.

-Tormented by ideas and fears, and must walk, and walk.

-(The nearest here is LILIUM TIG..) .

-Feels the heat: craves sweets and salt.

-But the mental picture, so definite and peculiar, determines the remedy.

Arsenicum album

-Not unlike those of ACONITUM, but less acute.

-ACONITUM is a big storm, soon over.

-ARSENICUM an enduring and recurrent torment.

-ARSENICUM is described as "the gentleman with the gold-headed cane", so particular, so fastidious.

-But restless.

-Anxious.

-Chilly (usually).

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-Thirst for frequent, small, cold drinks.

-Fears alone: that things will injure her if alone.

-Fear of death.

-Fear of suffocation.

-Fear of robbers. Fear at night.

-(ACON.) Fear of knives: of killing: of suicide: fear for others.

-Marked periodicity: worse at 1 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Ignatia amara

-Anxiety, sleeplessness, despair.

-Unusual tendency to be frightened.

-Fear that she will never sleep again.

-Wakes at midnight with fear of robbers.

Opium

-Complaints from fear, and the fear remains (ACON.).

-A pregnant woman is frightened, and abortion threatens (ACON.), and the object of the fright looms up before her eyes.

-Opium is hot: has hot sweats: may be comatose, to complete insensibility.

-A typical OPIUM picture is, flushed, perspiring, hot face; cheeks blown out with every expiration; or, sleeplessness with

acuteness of hearing.

-Kept awake by distant noises, or the ticking of clocks.

-Excessive wakefulness.

Phosphorus

-Indifferent; or loves sympathy_touch_massage.

-Fear in the twilight_alone in the dark.

-Fear of thunder: of disease: of misfortune: of death. Fears for others (ARSEN.).

-Fear of something creeping out of every corner.

-A horrible face looking out of every corner.

-Much vertigo. As if chair rising: as if blood rushed to head; or empty sensations in head.

-Earthy-coloured, or waxy face.

-Eyes with blue rings round them. Easy haemorrhages, of bright blood.

-Bruises easily.

Pulsatilla pratensis

-Suspicious: disturbed: very easily frightened.

-Diarrhoea from fright: hot inside, yet chilly.

-Fear alone: in the dark (PHOS.), of meting people.

-Forebodings of impending disaster.

-PULSATILLA is tearful: changeable: irritable: suspicious; but craves sympathy.

-Is jealous.

-Weeps telling symptoms: when nursing.

-IGNATIA sighs; PULSATILLA weeps.

-Not hungry, thirsty, or constipated.

-Malposition: to correct, and ensure easy labour.

After labour

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Aconitum napellus

-Shock: excitement: fears: sleepless.

-Retention of urine (CAUST.).

Arnica montana

-The great remedy after delivery, for relief and comfort, and to avoid sepsis.

-Sore: feels bruised.

-Bed feels too hard.

-The great remedy of bruised parts.

-(In serious illness says, "Nothing the matter!")

Causticum

-Lon, slow labour: overstretched bladder.

-Retention with overflow.

Rhus toxicodendron

-After long Labour: patient strained and chilled.

Staphisagria

-Stretched-sphincter pain: lacerations. After cauterization.

Mother and infant : rescue of the newly-born

Carbo vegetabilis

-Collapsed, limp, flaccid, cold.

-Almost dead.

Laurocerasus

-Blue asphyxia; pulse failing.

Haematoma (intracranial haemorrhage)

Arnica montana

-As in other injuries: to help the absorption of blood, and get maximum recovery.

Mother and infant : haemorrhages

Aconitum napellus

-Passive flow of dark, offensive blood.

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-Worse for motion. (SECALE).

-Or active, bright, with great fear and anxiety.

-Fear of death: tossings.

Belladonna

-Bright red, hot blood: feels like hot water.

-Clots easily and becomes dark red.

-Congested, hot face and head.

-Full bounding pulse.

-Worse jar, light, motion, noise.

Bryonia alba

-Dark, fluid blood.

-Headache, worse motion.

-Nausea and faintness, worse raising head.

-Worse movement, speaking.

Carbo vegetabilis

-Haemorrhages with indescribable paleness of body.

-Coldness_face_nose_breath_tongue.

-Icy coldness of legs and feet.

-Cold sweat (VERATRUM ALB.).

-Almost entire collapse.

-Yet air-hunger, wants to be fanned.

Caulophyllum thalictroides

-After hasty labour.

-Tremulous weakness.

-Soft, flabby uterus.

-Free, passive haemorrhage.

China officinalis

-Haemorrhages with fainting, loss of sight, and ringing ears.

-Debility from loss of blood.

Cinnamomum zeylanicum

-Profuse flow: bright red (IPECACUANHA, BELLADONNA, etc.).

-Severe flooding.

-Hammering temporal headache.

Hamamelis virginiana

-Slow, steady flow; passive, profuse: dark.

-Exhausted, but no alarm or anxiety. (Opposite of ACONITUM.)

-Bursting headache, worse bending down.

-Pressing, temporal headache.

-"A bolt, temple to temple, screwed tight."

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Ipecacuanha

-"Bright red, profuse, with heavy breathing and nausea."

-With threatening abortion.

-Postpartum.

-Metoffhagia: menorrhagia.

-Dark, bluish rings under eyes.

-Pale.

-Persistent nausea. Blood bright red, liquid: gushes with every attempt to vomit.

-Gasps for breath, as if panting.

-Weak pulse.

-Heat of head: cold sweat where covered.

-(Sweat where uncovered. THUJA.)

Lachesis mutus

-Haemorrhage: will not coagulate: decomposes.

-Worse for heat: for pressure on abdomen.

-Suspicious disposition.

Phosphorus

-Bright, free, persistent; stops and starts.

-Weakness: coldness, or emptiness in abdomen. Abdomen sensitive (LACHESIS. Small of back, as if broken.

-Heat running up back.

-Thirst for cold drinks.

-Craves ices. (PHOSPHORUS).

Secale cornutum

-Passive flow of dark, offensive blood. Chilly, but wants to be uncovered.

-In feeble, cachectic women.

Cracked nipples

Nitricum acidum

-Cracks: intensely sensitive nipples.

-Sticking pains, like a splinter.

-Nipples discoloured.

-ACID. NIT. is chilly: hates fuss: craves salt and fat.

Chamomilla

-Nipples inflamed and very tender.

-Can hardly bear the the pain of nursing.

-CHAM. is intolerant of pain: "cannot bear it!" Very irritable. (STAPHISAGRIA).

Croton tiglium

-Nipples very sore to touch.

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-Excruciating pain runs round to scapula.

-Radiating pain runs round intercostal nerves.

Lycopodium clavatum

-Sore, fissures, covered with scurf.

-Bleeding from ducts: child draws blood from nipples, and seems to be vomiting blood (SILICEA).

Petroleum

-Itching, mealy covering of nipples.

Phytolacca decandra

-Nipples sore and fissured.

-Intense suffering on putting child to breast.

-Pain starts from nipple and radiates all over body.

-Breast feels like a brick, lumpy and nodular.

Pulsatilla pratensis

-Weeps as often as she has to nurse.

-Pain extends to chest, neck, down back.

-Changes from place to place.

Sepia officinalis

-Deep sore cracks across crown of nipple.

-In the the SEPIA patient.

Staphisagria

-Pains when the the milk begins to flow.

-Nursing almost impossible.

-Emotional upset with partial suppression.

-Ill-humored and oversensitive.

-Broods on old injuries, or her past deeds.

-Least word seems wrong and hurts very much.

Sulphur

-After nursing, nipple smarts and burns: chaps badly.

-Breast looks unwashed.

-(In a SULPHAR patient:feels the heat: sinking at 11 a.m. : puts feet out of bed: loves fat: hungry: gets hot at night and

uncovers.)

Remedies of lactation

Belladonna

-Too copious flow of milk.

-Inflammation of breasts, in streaks or rays, diverging from centre to circumference.

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-Breast red, hot, swollen, very tender.

-Breasts dry, stony-hard; frightfully tender.

-Erysipelatous inflammation of breasts, especially from weaning.

-Face flushed.

-Pupils dilated.

-Skin hot and dry.

-Perhaps twitchings: even delirium.

Calcarea carbonica

-Profuse secretion of watery milk, which the child refuses to take.

-Excessive lactation, with hectic fever, and sweat, and debility.

-Breasts distended, milk scanty.

-She is cold, feels cold air very readily.

-Want of vital activity to secrete the milk.

-Milk disagrees with the infant.

-Milk has a disagreeable, nauseating taste; child will not nurse, and cries much.

-Hot swelling of mammae.

-The CALCAREA patient is chilly.

-Head is apt to sweat at night.

-CALCAREA is the remedy of persons of plus tissue of minus quality; chalky complexion.

-Anxiety and fear: that something will happen; that she will lose her reason: of death; of being alone.

-Aversion to the open air.

Lac caninum

-Galactorrhoea.

-Or, loses milk while nursing.

-Serviceable in almost all cases were it is required to dry up milk. (ALUMEN, BELL.).

Lac vaccinum defloratum

-Herring says, "has never failed to bring the milk back in from twelve to twenty-four hours".

-"Or, decrease in size of breasts, and diminished secretion of milk." Depression.

-Does not care to live (PHYTO.).

-Imagines her friends will die.

-Has no fear of death, but says she is going to die in twenty-four hours (ACON.).

-Intense thirst.

Phytolacca decandra

-Excessive flow of milk: nipples so sensitive that nursing produces intense suffering, which radiates all over the body and to

spine.

-Nipples excoriated and fissured.

-Breast stony-hard, painful.

-Caked breasts.

-Breast full of hard, painful nodosities.

-Mammary abscess: pus.

-Large fistulous, gaping, angry ulcers, discharging a watery, fetid pus.

-Pain is unbearable.

-Irritable.

-Restless.

-Indifferent to life: or death: sure she will die.

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Pulsatilla pratensis

-Mild, tearful women who have but little milk.

-Weeps every time the child is put to the breast.

-Pain extends to chest and neck, down back.

-Changes from lace to place.

-Milk thin and watery.

-Acrid milk.

-Suppression of milk; in mild, tearful women.

-Or galactorrhoea in women who are not nursing their children: but always in the gentle, tearful type of patients.

-After weaning, breasts swell, feel stretched and tense, intensely sore.

-Milk continues to be secreted.

-In the typical PULSATILLA patient.

Silicea terra

-Sharp pain in breasts or uterus: pain in back: increase in lochia.

-Pure blood flows every time she put the child to breast (LYC.).

-Aversion to mother's milk (CALC.); child refuses to nurse, or if it does nurse it vomits. Milk suppressed (LAC DEF.).

-Inflammation of nipples: darting, burning pain in nipple.

-Nipple drawn in like a funnel.

-Inflamed breast, deep red in centre, rose-colored towards periphery, swollen, hard, sensitive: constant burning pain,

prevents rest.

-High fever.

-Excited (BELL.).

-The SILICIEA patient is yielding: anxious: head sweats at night (CALC.).

-Constipation with "bashful stool", comes to verge of anus, then slips back.

-No power to expel it.

Intolerance of milk

Phosphoricum acidum

-Vomiting of milk in a suckling.

-Waxy face: blue rings round eyes.

-Child does not cry.

Aethusa cynapium

-Intolerance of milk (CALC., SIL.).

-Vomits everything taken, especially milk_ejected in greenish or yellowish curds.

-After vomiting, the child is so exhausted, it falls asleep at once.

-After vomiting, relaxed and drowsy.

-Or, hungry after foiling.

-AETHUSA is a remedy of violent vomiting convulsions_violent pains_violent diarrhoea.

-In convulsions, eyes turn down.

-The mental symptoms, "peculiar to children, and frequently of adults", are great anguish and crying.

-Later somnolence.

-Adults with regurgitation of food (PHOS.- an hour after eating.

-Copious vomiting, with a feeling of distress.

-Sensation as if stomach turned upside down.

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Calcarea carbonica

-Large, open fontanelles.

-Much perspiration about the head in large drops which wets the pillow far around where child is sleeping (SIL.).

-Large head, chalky look.

-More inclined to grow fat than strong.

-Plus tissue of minus quality.

-Chalky stools.

-Teething delayed.

-CALC. CARB. has, desire for milk, aversion to milk, worse from milk.

-Night terrors.

-Child wakes screaming.

Lac caninum

-Intolerance of milk (AETHUSA, CALC. CARB., SIL.).

-Distension of abdomen with tenderness.

Magnesium carbonicum

-Intolerance of milk with dry constipation.

-Stools pale, dry, crumbling.

-In marasmic children.

Natrium carbonicum

-Aversion to milk, which disagree (CALC. SIL.).

-Abdomen hard, bloated, swollen.

-Accumulation of flatus; loud rumbling; swellings here and there as from incarcerated wind.

-Flatus changing place, and causing pain.

-Aversion to milk and diarrhoea from milk.

Silicea terra

-The child refuses to take the breast, and vomits after milk (AETHUSA).

-Hardness and bloatedness of abdomen.

-Aversion to mother's milk.

-Head-sweats, and open fontanelles.

-Head sweats profusely in sleep (CALC.); extends down neck; may be offensive.

-Scabby, offensive eruptions on scalp; may discharge pus.

The great teething remedies

Calcarea carbonica

-Fat and flabby, with sweating head, and fontanelles wide.

Calcarea phosphorica

-The more wiry, perhaps emaciated child.

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Chamomilla

-Very painful dentition, with intense irritability.

-(See Medicines of Dentition, HOMOEOPATHY, June, 1934).

Spasmodic croup

-Boenninghausen's Croup Powders (five in number, should so many be required) were sold for years by homoeopathic

chemists.

-They were ACON., SPONG., HEP., SPONG., HEP., all in the 200th potency (2-4 hourly), in sequence 1 powder of each if

required.

Constipation

Alumina

-Inactivity, rectum.

-Must strain for a soft stool.

-Cannot pass stool, till a large accumulation.

-Abnormal cravings: chalk, charcoal: coffee grounds: for indigestible things.

Nux vomica

-Frequent and ineffectual desire for stool: or passes only small quantities at each attempt. Alternate constipation and

diarrhoea.

-Irritable, and easily angered. Impatient. Oversensitive to noise, light odors (?music). Chilly: if perspiring and feverish, must

be covered.

-Chilly if she moves.

Opium

-Want of susceptibility. Complains of nothing. Bowels seem closed.

-No desire for stool. Even urine may be retained, with full bladder.

-Bed too hot. Hot sweat. Sleepy but can't sleep. Moves to find a cool place. Must be uncovered.

Diarrhea

Aethusa cynapium

-Face expresses anxiety and pain. Linea nasalis pearly whiteness on upper lip, bounded by a distinct line to angles of mouth.

Intolerance of milk. Violent vomiting: of milk: after milk.

-Stool undigested: thin: green: bilious. Violent straining before stool and after stool. Collapse_almost as bad as

ARSENICUM, only not restless.

Aloe socotrina

-Has to hurry after eating or drinking: with want of confidence to retain stool. Diarrhoea drives out of bed in the morning.

-Or, difficulty to pass a solid stool, which presently escapes unnoticed.

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Arsenicum album

-Worse at night, 1 to 3 a.m. Rapid emaciation, exhaustion and collapse. Intense restlessness. (Opposite to AETHUSA.)

-Painless, offensive, watery stools. (?) simultaneously vomiting and diarrhoea. After ices: or cold food or drink.

Cactus grandiflorus

-Bilious diarrhoea preceded by great pains.

-Great weight in anus, desire to pass a quantity, but nothing comes.

Croton tiglium

-Yellow, watery stools, coming out like a shot. Any food or drink starts this, or nursing.

Ignatia amara

-Colic of breast-fed infants whose mothers are suffering from grief.

Mercurius solubilis

-Stools slimy-even body: with straining, and followed (?) by chilliness.

-Profuse perspiration which does not relieve, Salivation: with intense thirst.

-Mouth offensive.

-Tongue large, flabby, shows imprints of teeth.

-Worse at night: from warmth of bed.

Podophyllum peltatum

-Diarrhoea, stools profuse and offensive.

-Worse morning, and in teething babies.

-Prolapse rectum with soft stool.

-Rumbling.

Sulphur

-Morning diarrhoea, drives her out of bed.

-Great hurry.

-Stool acrid.

-Anus red.

-Can't get rid of odour of stool.

Albuminuria

Phosphoricum acidum

-Diarrhoea: white or yellow, watery; without pain or marked debility.

-Copious and frequent urination.

-Urine so thigh that flow is interrupted: as if mixed with flour: containing stringy, jelly-like masses, or cheesy masses.

-Pain in back and kidneys.

-Pressure bladder: emaciation during pregnancy.

-Milky urine: bloody clots: decomposes rapidly.

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-Weak and indifferent: drowsy.

-Deterioration of health from nursing (CHINA) Scanty milk, with debility and great apathy.

Apis mellifica

-Pain in kidney regions.

-Morbid irritability of urinary organs.

-Frequent, painful, scanty, bloody urine.

-Retention of urine.

-Strangury.

-Eyelids and lips swollen and oedematous.

-Oedema.

-Dropsy.

-Thirstless dropsy.

-The pains of Apis burn, and sting, and rend, and tear.

-Sensation of tightness.

-Cannot strain at stool, lest something break.

-Cannot cough, lest something burst or tear.

-Worse heat; warm room.

-Worse hot bath. Sadness and weeping without cause.

-Joyless: indifferent: suspicious; jealous. Foolish talk.

-Childish behavior.

Plumbum metallicum

-Slow.

-Slow of perception.

-Slow in answering.

-Sallow, pale face.

-Sweetish taste.

-Frequent vomiting of food.

-Violent colic.

-Violent pain umbilical region.

-Navel seems to draw to spine.

-Sensation in abdomen at night, causes her to stretch violently for hours.

-Feels a lack of room for foetus in uterus.

-Threatened abortion.

-Constipation with urging and terrible pain.

-Anus feels drawn up, and painfully contracted.

-Difficulty in passing water.

-Retention.

-Urine albuminous: dark: scanty: drop by drop.

-Excessive hyperaesthesia.

-Convulsions; lightning-like pains: extremely acute pains.

-Pains or loss of power with hyperaesthesia.

-Anaemia.

-Emaciation.

-Hysterical state: inclination to deceive: to feign sickness; to exaggerate her sufferings.

Terebinthinae oleum

-Violent burning, drawing pains in kidneys.

-Dysuria: strangury, with great loss of blood.

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-Urine scanty, smoky, bloody, albuminous, or profuse and black.

-Smell of violets.

-Congestion and inflammation of kidneys, bladder, lungs, intestines, uterus.

-Tongue smooth, glossy, red.

-Purpura haemorrhagica: fresh bruises in great numbers from day to day.

-Distension of abdomen, with much flatus.

CASES