CASES

LEADING BASIC INDICATIONS For

SOME DRUGS IN THEIR PRIMARY FORM.

Alcohol, Bad Effects from: Such as spasmodic hiccough, delirium tremens we

find ranunculus bulbosus a good remedy. Bad effects of drunkenness in light

complected people lobelia is a good remedy. In dark complected, nux vomica.

Anemia:

• Ferrum met. or acetate: Color grayish and in some cases grayish green. The

least exertion or excitement causes a rush of blood to the head.

• Kali carb: The patient is greatly debilitated, especially at the age of puberty. Pain

and great weakness in the back. Skin is of a milky white or watery color, puffing of

upper eyelids, often with a tendency to dropsy on account of lack of red blood

corpuscles.

• Natrum mur.: Gets exhausted from the least exertion. Although patient eats

well, will grow poorer and poorer. There is marked depression. Headache of

throbbing nature, There may be palpitation or fluttering of the heart. Menstruation

scanty. Although depression is marked does not want to be consoled.

• Other remedies that act favorably in anemic conditions are calcium phos.,

helonias, phosphorus, pulsatilla.

ANTI REMEDIES.

Antipsoric Remedies: Causticum, graphites, psorium, sulphur.

Antisycotic Remedies: Nitric acid, sabina, staphisagria, thuja o.

Antisyphilitic Remedies: Mercurius, nitric acid.

APPETITE.

Craving for certain food, etc.:

• Acid things: Calcium, hepar sulph., veratrum album.

• Bread and butter: Ferrum acetate, ferrum met.

• Eggs: Calcarea ost.

• Ham rind: Calcium phos.

• Matches: Sulphur.

• Meat in scrofulous children: Magnesium carb.

• Salt or salty food : Causticum, natrum mur., phosphorus.

• Starch, charcoal, etc., in anemic subjects: Alumina.

• Sugar: Argentum nit. Hunger and relief from eating:

Acetic acid: Hunger, eats well, still loses flesh.

Anacardium o.:Pain comes on a few hours after eating and eating then gives some

relief. Pain extending to spine with an all-gone sensation.

Chelidonium: Hunger, eating relieves pain in stomach if there are liver symptoms.

China: Full, oppressed feeling, eructations do not relieve. Still there is canine

hunger.

Ferrum met. or acetate: Canine hunger, alternate with complete loss of appetite.

Regurgitation of food after eating.

Iodium: Feels relieved after eating or while eating, canine hunger, but grows poor.

Wants to eat all the time, feels only good after eating or while stomach is filled.

Lycopodium: Feels hunger but the first few mouthful make patient feel filled up.

Natrum mur.: Is hungry but loses flesh. Feels dull after eating, with a sense of

fullness in liver and stomach until digestion has advanced.

Nux vomica: Pain in stomach 2 or 3 hours after eating, when digestion is over.

Petroleum: Pain in stomach relieved by eating.

Phosphorus: Faint feeling, must eat often to stop faint feeling.

Repugnance or aversion to certain food:

• Beer: Asafetida, belladonna, china, nux vomica, pulsatilla.

• Brandy: Ignatia am.

• Broth: Arnica.

• Cold water: Caladium, china, nux vomica, stramonium,tabacum..

• Fat food: Carbo an., carbo veg., hepar sulph., natrum mur.,petroleum.

• Fish: Zincum met.

• Hot food: Calcium, cuprum, graphites, ignatia am., lycopodium,mercurius,

petroleum, silica, veratrum album, zincum met.

• Hot water: Kali.

• Meat: Colchicum, drosera, zincum met.

• Milk: Ammonium carb., belladonna, ignatia ani., natrum, nux vomica, pulsatilla,

sepia, sulphur.

• Mother's milk: Cina, mercurius, silica, stannum met.

• Potatoes: Alumina.

• Salt food: Graphites, selenium.

• Sweet food: Graphites.

• Vegetables, green: Helleborus n., magnesium.

Suffering from certain food, etc.:

• Acid taste after eating, but especially after bread: Nitric acid.

• Acid food, suffering from, after taste: Natrum mur.

• Bread: Pulsatilla.

• Butter: Carbo an., carbo veg., pulsatilla.

• Eggs, nausea from.: Colchicum.

• Fat food: Pulsatilla, sulphur.

• Fat food, sour regurgitation from: Calcium, carbo veg.,ferrum acetate,

lycopodium.

• Fat food, acid taste from: Ambra g., carbo veg., lycopodium,sulphur.

• Milk: Chelidonium, nitric acid, sulphur.

• Milk, distention from: Carbo veg.

• Potatoes: Alumina.

• Salt food: Carbo veg.

• Tea: Ferrum, selenium, thuja oc.

During meal:

• Suffering with pain in abdomen: Arsenicum album.

• Suffering with pain in chest: Ledum p., magnesium mur.

• Cloudiness of sight: Natrum sulph.

• Distention: Conium m.

• Dizziness: Ammonium carb., oleander.

• Eructations: Natrum, oleander, sassafras.

• Hungry when eating: Veratrum album.

• Nausea: Baryta carb., belladonna, causticum, cicuta v., cocculus ind., colchicum,

digitalis, ferrum, kali, magnesium, nux vomica, ruta g., veratrum album.

• Nausea with inclination to vomit: Cocculus ind., ferrum acetate or met.

• Pain in the stomach which compels to eat: Graphites.

• Pain in the stomach relieved from eating food cold: Phosphorus.

• Pain in the stomach: Arnica, cicuta v., conium m., sepia,veratrum album.

Suffering from late suppers: China.

Suffering from fruit: Borax v., bryonia, carbo veg.. china, magnesium mur.,

natrum, pulsatilla, selenium., silica; veratrum album.

Suffering from raw food: Ruta g.

Suffering right after eating: China, kali bichrom., nitric acid.

Bitter taste, or bitter taste of food: Bryonia, chamomilla, chelidonium, china,

colocynthis, nux vomica, pulsatilla, sabina.

Bloating after eating, so much so as to oblige patient to loosen clothes: Calcium,

lachesis, lycopodium.

Bread and butter agree, meat, beer and tea disagree: China, ferrum acetate.

Bread and butter disagree, and meat agrees: Natrum mur.

Cachectic people, when the vital powers have become very weak, plainest food

cannot be tolerated, but fat food the least, we think of carbo veg.

Fullness of abdomen with heat and great distention right after eating a little,

appears as if everything turns into gas, feels as if it would burst, great sensitiveness

to touch of abdomen: Kali carb., nux moschata.

Obstructed respiration while eating: Magnesium mur., sulphur.

Perspiration at meals: Carbo an., carbo veg., natrum mur., nitric acid.

Perspiration after meals: Conium m., nitric acid, sepia.

Putrid eructations: Ruta

Regurgitation of food with burning in gullet: Cicuta v.

Throbbing or trembling in body: Lycopodium.

BREATH.

Cold: Camphor, tartar emetic, veratrum album.

Hot: Manganese, natrum mur.

Offensive: In young girls at puberty: Aurum met., belladonna, hyoscyamus,

pulsatilla, sepia, spigelia ant., sulphur.

Odor offensive in the morning only: Arnica, belladonna, nux vomica, silica,

sulphur.

— Offensive after meals only: Chamomilla, nux vomica, sulphur.

— Offensive evenings or at night: Pulsatilla, sulphur.

— Offensive from abuse of mercury: Aurum met., carbo veg., lachesis, sulphur.

Breath stopping when falling asleep, nervous origin: Grindelia r., lachesis.

— Same from heart trouble: Digitalis.

Frequent desire for long breath: Bryonia, cactus, ignatia am., natrum mur.

BURNING REMEDIES.

Apis mel.: Burning with stinging.

Arsenicum album: Burning ameliorated by heat. Especially in acute conditions.

Cantharides: Burning, cutting pains. Violent burning pain, especially in

gastro-intestinal tract from mouth to anus, with great thirst.

Capsicum: Burning not relieved by heat. Burning as if red pepper was on mucous

surfaces.

Causticum: Burning with soreness.

Chamomilla: Burning of feet, if otherwise indicated.

Phosphorus: Burning bands or burning feeling, if indicated.

Secale cornutum: Burning but objectively cold; covering cannot be tolerated,

especially of feet. May be numbness or paralysis. Burning of

all parts of the body as if sparks were falling on it.

Sulphur: Of feet or any part of body, especially in chronic cases.

CHILLS.

Begin between scapulae: Capsicum, sepia.

Begin in dorsal region: Eupatorium perf., lachesis.

Begin in lumbar region: Eupatorium purp., natrum mur.

Run up and down spine from sacrum to occiput in wave-like succession:

Gelsemium.

From 7 to 9 A. M. Intense aching in bones before chill. Vomiting of bile between

chill and heat: Eupatorium perf.

Irregular; thirst is intense during the hot stage, but little is drunk at a time:

Arsenicum album.

Persistent nausea all the time: Ipecac.

With red face, decreased by external heat, thirst during chill; sighs often:

Ignatia am.

Cannot uncover during the heat without getting chilled: Nux vomica.

From 10 to 11 A.M. headache, bursting, during heat; sweat relieves: Natrum

mur.

Sleeplessness during the hot stage and sweat, face pale: Antimonium tart.

Appear about 3 P.M.: Apis mel.

— 4 P.M. Lycopodium.

— 1 to 2 P.M. or A.M.: Arsenicum album.

Creeping chilliness, especially at night; after taking cold: Mercurius.

COLD.

Cold air aggravates or brings about conditions: Aconite, arsenicum album,

calcarea ost., capsicum, chamomilla, china, dulcamara, hepar

sulph., nux vomica, plumbum, psorium, silica, tuberculinum.

Cold applications give relief: Apis mel., pulsatilla, to some extent, belladonna,

mercurius, sabina.

Cold applications aggravate condition: Arsenicum album, bryonia, magnesium

phos., nux vomica, rhus tox.

Cold air gives relief: Pulsatilla, sabina, secale cornutum.

Cold drinks agree better than hot drinks: Phosphorus, pulsatilla.

Feel better in the open or cold air: Aconite, baryta carb., graphites, phosphorus,

platina, pulsatilla, rhus tox., sabina.

Feel worse in the open or cold air: Ammonium, belladonna, bryonia, chamomilla,

cocculus ind., conium in., hepar sulph., ignatia

am., lachesis, mercurius , nitric acid, nux vomica, selenium, silica , spigelia,

stramonium, veratrum album.

DREAMS.

Of things or matter all forgotten: Selenium.

Of business of the day: Bryonia, cicuta v., lycopodium, nitric acid, nux vomica,

phosphorus, pulsatilla, rhus tox., selenium.

Dreaming continues after apparently being awake: Calcium, china, natrum mur.

Singing when asleep: Belladonna, crocus s., phosphoric acid.

Somnambulism: Bryonia, kalmia l., natrum mur., phosphorus, silica, sulphur.

Screaming during sleep: Apis mel., belladonna, cina, nux moschata, rhus tox.

Snoring and talking when asleep: Arnica, arsenicum album, belladonna, calcium,

carbo an., carbo veg., chamomilla., kali bichrom., mercurius, muriatic acid, natrum

mur., nitric acid., nux vomica, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, pulsatilla, rhus tox.,

sabina, sepia, silica, sulphur, zincum met.

Nightmares: Aconite, nux vomica, pulsatilla, ruta g., silica, sulphur, valerian.

Laughs during sleep: Alum, causticum, lycopodium.

DRY AIR REMEDIES.

Conditions brought about or aggravated by dry, cold air:

• Aconite: Fevers and inflammation as a result.

• Causticum: Worse in dry and better in damp weather.

• Hepar sulph.: Hypersensitive to cold air and wind.

EMACIATION.

Abrotanum: Emaciates from below upwards, legs particularly.

Argentum nit.: Child looks dried tip like a mummy.

Iodium: Emaciates generally, wants to eat all the time.

Lycopodium: Emaciates from above downwards.

Natrum mur.: Eats well and emaciates all the time neck particularly, emaciates

from above downward.

Sarsaparilla: Neck emaciates and skin generally lies in folds.

EXPECTORATION.

Taste:

• Acid taste: Carbo animalis, nitric acid, pulsatilla.

• Bad taste: Carbo veg., chamomilla.

• Bitter taste: Bryonia, chamomilla, mercurius, natrum sulph., nitric acid,

pulsatilla.

• Herby taste: Borax v.

• Nauseous tasting: Arsenicum album, stannum met.,

• Salty taste: Kalmia l., natrum mur., phosphorus, sepia,

• — In pneumonia, kali iodide.

• Sour taste: Calcarea carb., iris v., lachesis, nitric acid, nux vomica, phosphorus,

phosphoric acid, zincum met.

• Sweetish taste: Calcium phos., phosphorus, sambucus nig., stannum met.

Color:

• Gray: Ambria g., lycopodium, sepia, thuja oc.

• Green: Cannabis s., carbo veg., ferrum, kali sulph., pulsatilla, stannum met.,

thuja oc.

• Pus color: Calcarea carb. (echinacea tincture), kali iodide, phosphoric acid,

phosphorus, silica, staphisagria.

• Transparent: Arsenicum album, china, ferrum mur.

• White: Aconite, ambra g., ammonium mur., argentum nit., china, cina, cuprum

met., kreosotum, lycopodium, phosphorus, rhus tox.,

sepia, silica, spongia t., sulphur.

• Yellow: Bryonia, calcarea carb., conium in., daphne ind., kali sulph., kreosotum,

nitric acid, phosphorus, pulsatilla, sulphur, veratrum album.

Nature:

• Cool: Phosphorus, sulphur.

• Foamy: Phosphorus, plumbum acetate, silica.

• Frothy: Arsenicum album, ferrum, daphne ind., lachesis.

• Globules or little balls: Argentum nit., manganese, thuja oc.

• Glue nature: Digitalis.

• Hardened: Iodium.

• Hot: Hot water coming up: Daphne ind.

• Liver colored: Graphites, lycopodium, pulsatilla, sepia, stannum met.

• Slimy: Argentum nit., arsenicum album, belladonna, china, mercurius,

phosphorus, pulsatilla, silica, stannum met., zincum met.

• Thick: Argentum nit., lycopodium, phosphorus, stannum met., sulphur, zincum

met.

• Tickling: Causticum, sanguinaria.

• Tough: Alum, arsenicum album, cannabis s., carbo veg., causticum, chamomilla,

dulcamara, iodium, phosphorus, sambucus n., sepia, stannum met., zincum met.

• Watery: Argentum nit., daphne ind., magnesium, natrum mur., stannum met.

Blood, expectoration:

• Black: Nitric acid.

• Bloody streaks with: Borax v., bryonia, china, daphne ind., ferrum, laurocerasus,

sabina.

• Pure coagulated: Sepia.

• Bright: Ammonium carb., ipecac, rhus tox., sabina.

Hawking expectoration: Argentum nit., calcium, carbo an., causticum,

cina, kali carb., lycopodium, phosphorus, rhus tox., stannum met.,

staphisagria, sulphur.

Profuse and frequent: Daphne ind., euphrasia, ferrum, hepar sulph.,

iodium, laurocerasus, lycopodium, pulsatilla, ruta g., sambucus nig.,

senega, sepia, stannum met., silica, sulphur, veratrum album.

Odor, offensive: Arsenicum album, calcarea carb., capsicum, ledum p.,

sanguinaria, sepia, stannum met., sulphur.

FAT PEOPLE.

Remedies acting on: Calcarea carb., calcarea ost.

FEAR IN SICKNESS.

• Of Solitude: Lycopodium, stramonium.

• Of contagious disease: Calcium.

• Of losing reason: Calcium, mercurius.

• Of death: Aconite , platina, raphan sat. nig.

• To be left alone in the dark or storm: Phosphorus.

FEELING HURRIED.

Mostly in uterine troubles: Argentum nit., and tiger lily.

— Often in other conditions also: Argentum nit.

FEVERS AND INFLAMMATION IN GENERAL.

Aconite: In inflammatory fevers, especially in the early stage. Acute inflammatory

conditions, result of dry, cold air. Skin hot and dry; there is thirst and great

restlessness with fear and often fear of death.

Antimonium crud.: Gastric fevers, worse at night with marked thirst with the

characteristic milky coat or thick layer on the whole tongue.

Arsenicum album: In acute conditions and especially in the latter stage when

patient is weak and feels helpless. Is restless but too weak to move and for that

reason wants to be moved all the time. Fear with hopelessness. Burning feeling and

symptoms and fear worse towards midnight, say from about 11 P.M. to 2 A.M.

Thirst, wants to drink often, but only little at a time.

Belladonna: Head hot and face red, throbbing carotids, marked restlessness.

Comes on suddenly as a rule. Starts up suddenly in sleep, rolls around, jerks and

often becomes actively delirious.

Chamomilla: Sensitive to pain, numbness, restlessness, ugly aggressive mood.

These are more often found in children at the time of dentition. Stool may be

green. In these cases it is a valuable adjunct to other indicated remedies.

Ferrum phos.: In the first stage of acute disease to control the circulation, it is one

of our best remedies.

Melilotus: Intense redness of face, throbbing carotids, symptoms are ameliorated

by epistaxis. This is especially the case in certain forms of congestion of the brain.

Nux vomica: In fevers or feverish conditions where there is a good deal of heat.

Whole body burning hot, but especially the face very red and hot, still patient

cannot move or be uncovered in the least without feeling chilly or chilled.

Congestion, passive: Chronic and local the result :of suppression of eruptions:

Sulphur.

Congestion in general: Gelsemium, glonoine, ferrum phos., kali iodide, melilotus,

phosphorus.

FIDGETY REMEDIES.

Although they act in general condition, as a rule the condition is marked in parts

mentioned:

• Kali brom.: Of upper extremities.

• Phosphorus: All over.

• Zincum met.: Of lower extremities.

FLATULENCE.

Accumulation in epigastrium: Carbo veg., graphites, lycopodium, natrum mur.,

nux vomica.

— Hypochondrium: Chamomilla, lycopodium, nux vomica.

— Hypogastrium: Aconite, china.

— Inguinal region: Chamomilla, lachesis.

After eating, acid diet: Phosphoric acid.

— Fat or pork: China, pulsatilla.

— Gas producing food, in general: China.

— After drinking: Nux vomica.

Leaning forward, ameliorates suffering: Belladonna.

Movement aggravates suffering: Natrum, nitric acid.

Flatulence with headache: Calcium phos.

Contraction of intestines: China.

Flatus incarcerated: Calcium, cantharides, carbo an., iodium, kali, natrum mur.,

nitric acid, nux vomica, phosphorus, prunus, sulphur.

— Putrid: Arsenicum album, caladium, carbo veg., oleander, zincum met.

— Cold: Conium M.

— Hot: Plumbum acetate, staphisagria, zincum met.

— Fetid: China, ferrum, magnesium.

— Odor of rotten eggs: Arnica.

Flatulence ameliorated on lying down: Ferrum.

Aggravated on lying down: Belladonna, phosphorus.

External pressure ameliorates: Colocynthis, helleborus n., magnesium phos.

Rumbling of flatus, especially in right ileo-cecal region: Natrum sulph.

— In left splenic flexure of colon: Lycopodium.

— In right hypochondrium: Podophyllum.

Upper abdomen especially very much bloated: Carbo veg.

Whole abdomen bloated: China.

Lower abdomen bloated. Hungry, but after first mouthful feels distressingly full:

Lycopodium.

Abdomen enormously distended while eating or right after: Nux moschata.

Pain and distress immediately after eating: Kali bichrom.

Flatus, radiating pains all over, passing flatus does not give much relief. Worse at

midnight. Great distention of abdomen. May be a sensation as if sticks were in

abdomen: Cocculus ind.

Fright, effect of: Aconite, ignatia am., opium, veratrum album.

HEADACHE.

Aconite: Valuable adjunct to other indicated remedies, if from dry cold.

Antimonium crudum: If from cold baths this is a good adjunct to other indicated

remedies.

Belladonna: Neuralgic or congestive headache, worse stooping, bending forward,

lying down or turning eyes. Ameliorated bending or throwing head backwards and

in the vertical position. Violent headache with throbbing and determination of

blood to the head, face red and hot; although face may be pale. Worse from hair

cutting or having head uncovered.

Bryonia: Bursting headache, which feels as if head would burst. Motion of eyes or

head, hot weather or rising from horizontal position aggravate. lying still

ameliorates. Headache may be preceded by vertigo. Pains may be shooting,

stitching in small spots or boring.

Calcium phos.: Headache in anemic subjects. In girls at the age of puberty.

Headache in school children and the old. Ameliorated lying down.

Capsicum: Severe pain in head when coughing, as if the head would burst.

Causticum: Neuralgic, with pain of a drawing nature, with soreness, especially in

vertex, if indicated. Worse in the morning and open air. Pain may be shooting,

stitching. Easier in dark room.

China: With heat in head at night. Throbbing headache. Worse after heavy or late

supper.

Cimicifuga: With pressing pain as if top of head would come off. Ciliary

neuralgia.

Cocculus ind.: Sick headache which is accompanied by nausea and sometimes

vomiting. Headache precedes nausea. Worse when rising from horizontal position.,

and from riding, boating, on the sea, etc. Cold air ameliorates.

Coffea cruda: One sided headache. Pain as if a nail was driven through side of

head.

Colocynthis: Violent headache, worse lying down, especially when lying on back.

Neuralgic headache.

Dulcamara: Valuable adjunct to other remedies, if result of cold.

Epigaea repens: Headache from overwork or over study, excitement, etc. Comes

on when worn out or tired out.

Gelsemium: Nervous headache with prostration. Sick headache preceded by

blindness. There is little or no nausea and seldom vomiting but patient feels weak

and trembling. Pain in headache of gelsemium starts in occiput and from there

spreads over the head is aggravated by lying with head low, by motion, mental

exertion and smoking. Lying still and with head raised ameliorates. Profuse

urination often gives relief.

Glonoine: Throbbing headache with red face and throbbing carotids; cannot bear

to have head covered; least jar aggravates. Sun headache or headache from

sunstroke or when overcome by heat and especially by the heat of the sun. Feels as

if hair should be cut short.

Helleborus niger: Headache with coryza with 4 to 9 P.M. aggravation. Lying

down ameliorates.

Ignatia am.: Nervous and one sided headache, generally with sensation as if a nail

was driven through side of head. Lying down will often ameliorate. Very often

indicated in hysterical subjects.

Ipecac: With persistent nausea.

Iris v.: Sick headache which generally starts with a blur before the eyes. Burning

in the mouth, nausea and vomiting of sour, stringy mucus, in exceptional cases it is

watery and bitter.

Kali bichrom.: Headache is preceded by blindness, when the latter subsides the

former begins. Headache then settles in one spot and is generally very severe.

Blind and sick headache.

Kalmia 1. : Neuralgic right sided headache. Pain in eyes worse on turning, sense

of stiffness, at times numbness.

Lac defloratum: Sick headache beginning in forehead and extending to back of

head to occiput. Nausea and vomiting, especially when rising in the, morning,

blind headache with throbbing. Despondent.

Lachesis: Worse when awakening from sleep; sleeps into headache. Headache

from heat of sun, especially if chronic.

Lycopodium: Congestive headache aggravated by lying down, if indicated.

Magnesium phos.: Neuralgic headache. Heat and pressure ameliorate.

Melilotus: Congestive headache, face very red and throbbing carotids. Epistaxis

ameliorates headache.

Mercurius: Pain shooting, boring, stitching or tearing, relieved by cold

applications, worse nights. Sweating does not ameliorate but may aggravate.

Natrum carb.: Headache worse in sunlight and from mental exertion, generally

with depression.

Natrum mur.: Headache of anemic school girls and at the start of menses in such.

Chronic headache comes on in paroxysms, face more pale although it may be red;

in anemic patients. Headache is of throbbing nature.

Nitric acid: Shooting, tearing or throbbing headache in occiput, vertex or frontal

region, generally worse towards evening and nights. Sick headache.

Nux vomica: Headache aggravated by mental exertion, anger, sour stomach,

stooping, from light, noise, coughing, masturbation, constipation, high living, in

the open air or when opening or moving the eyes.

Onosmodium: Periodical headache, migraine, face red. General weakness and

prostration.

Petroleum: Heavy, dull headache in occiput.

Phosphoric acid: Headache in young people that grow too fast, and especially in

students or those that do a good deal of mental work.

Picric acid: Least mental exertion causes headache, especially in those who are

depressed and do too much mental work. Are weak, worn out, depressed and stiffer

from brain fag and general prostration.

Pulsatilla: Pressure, tight bandage and cold air or cold applications ameliorate

headache. Patient feels blue and depressed.

Sanguinaria can.: Sick headache with nausea and vomiting, headache starting in

back and spreading all over head, terminating in or over the right eye. Darkness

and quiet ameliorate condition.

Sarsaparilla: Headache caused by suppression of gonorrhea, congestive headache.

Sepia: Headache coming on in shocks so violent as to make patient start or jerk

head unawares. Especially in women of despondent nature who are suffering from

wrongs of the reproductive organs.

Silica: Starting at base of neck and extending over head to the eyes. This in cases

where silica is indicated.

Spigelia: Neuralgia, especially of the left side of -the head. Left-sided headache,

especially if beginning in occiput extending to left eye or just above it. Sun

headache that increases when sun rises and decreases as the sun sets. Any jar or

noise will aggravate headache. Water may run from the left eye.

Spongia t.: Sleeps into aggravation, headache worse when waking up.

Sticta p.: Headache at root of nose, generally result of cold where nose is stopped

up.

Sulphur: In many chronic headaches, where the indicated remedies do not act, it

will often cure or remove the predisposing cause so that indicated remedy can act.

Headache the result of suppressed eruption.

Thuja oc.: Sycotic headache. Headache from vaccination.

Bending or throwing head backward ameliorates: Belladonna,murex p., thuja o.

Cold air or draft, headache from: Aconite, belladonna, carbo an.,calcium phos.,

china, conium m., ferrum acetate, graphites, hepar sulph., kali, lachesis, muriatic

acid, natrum mur., nux vomica, spigelia, sulphur, valerian.

Cold air, headache ameliorated in: Aconite, antimonium, arsenicum album,

colocynthis, phosphorus., pulsatilla, tabacum, thuja o., zincum met.

Cold application ameliorates headache: Pulsatilla.

Congestive headache: Belladonna, bryonia, gelsemium, lycopodium, melilotus,

mercurius, nux vomica.

Coughing, headache when coughing: Capsicum, ferrum mur, kali, spigelia,

sulphur.

Eating ameliorates: Anacardium o., conium m., phosphorus.

Expansion, sensation as if head was expanded or too large: Apis mel., argentum

nit., pulsatilla.

Fear of losing reason with headache: Ambra g.

Heat, headache from heat and especially from the heat of the sun: Aconite,

bryonia, carbo veg., glonoine, lachesis, spigelia, veratrum album .

Heat in head with headache: Belladonna, calcium phos., causticum, china,

glonoine, lobelia, melilotus, nux vomica.

Hot applications ameliorate headache: Calcium phos., magnesium phos., nux

vomica.

Lying down aggravates headache: Belladonna, caladium, colocynthis, euphrasia,

lycopodium, magnesium phos.

Lying down ameliorates headache: Aethusa cy., calcium phos., helleborus n.,

ignatia am., nux vomica, oleander.

Morning, when rising: Ammonium mur., bryonia, nux vomica, pulsatilla.

Motion of carriage headache from or aggravation from: Cocculus ind., graphites

iodium, kali , nitric acid.

Moving eyes: Belladonna, bryonia, cuprum met., digitalis, hepar sulph., kalmia l.,

magnesium sulph., nux vomica, pulsatilla, rhus tox.

Moving head: Capsicum, bryonia, glonoine, graphites, lachesis, lycopodium,

natrum mur., phosphoric acid, podophyllum, pulsatilla, sepia, spigelia.

Music, headache from: Ambra g., phosphorus.

Nights: Arsenicum album, china, lycopodium, mercurius, sulphur, tartaricum.

Periodical: Belladonna, calcium phos., natrum mur., nux vomica, onosmodium v.,

Sulphur.

Periodical result of malaria: Arsenicum album, capsicum, china, eupatorium

perf., gelsemium.

Pressure ameliorates: Apis mel., argentum nit., colocynthis, calcium phos.,

magnesium phos., magnesium mur., natrum mur., nux vomica, pulsatilla.

Sleeps into headache, worse when waking up: Lachesis, spongia t.

Sick headache:

• Acidum nitricum: In many sick headaches with very sour or acid taste, teeth on

edge, there may be nausea and vomiting. Throbbing headache.

• Bryonia: Bitter taste, vertigo on rising from horizontal position. Sensation as if a

stone was in stomach.

• Iris v.: Generally starting with a blur before the eyes. Nausea and vomiting of

long, stringy, ropy, sour tasting mucus. There is often severe burning in mouth and

throat.

• Kali bichrom.: Sick headache preceded by blindness, when the latter subsides

the former begins.

• Natrum sulph.: Bitter taste, vomiting of bile, bloated, diarrhea if present is worse

in morning.

• Nux vomica: Confusion, nausea and faintness, worse in open air. Sour taste.

• Pulsatilla: Pain one sided, pressure ameliorates, feels better in the open air; taste

bitter.

• Sanguinaria: Starts in back of head, spreading over head, terminating above the

right eye. Feels better quiet and in dark room. There is nausea and often vomiting.

Throbbing headache: Belladonna, china, glonoine, melilotus, natrum mur., nitric

acid, nux vomica, sanguinaria.

HEAT AND HOT APPLICATIONS.

Hot applications give relief: Arsenicum album, bryonia, magnesium phos., rhus

tox.

Cold applications aggravate: Arsenicum album, bryonia,magnesium phos., rhus

tox.

Hot or warm applications aggravate: Apis mel., pulsatilla and sometimes

belladonna.

Heat aggravates: Sabina.

Warmth of bed aggravates condition: Mercurius.

Pain aggravated by heat; but not relieved by cold: Pulsatilla, chamomilla.

Condition resulting from damp, hot air: Carbo veg.

Lacks vital heat, sensitive to cold air, especially the head and feet: Silica.

INFANTS.

Remedies given below are those that are often indicated in infants or small

children. For special indications see drugs or special headings. Many other

remedies are often indicated, and if so, should be given to meet the conditions.

Agitation or nervous excitability in children: Belladonna, borax v., chamomilla,

coffea.

Aphthae: Borax v., echinacea, mercurius, phytolacca, sulphur, sulphuric acid.

Colic: Chamomilla, colocynthis, dioscorea V., magnesium phos.

— Children whose teeth get black and decay, often troubled with sore eyelids:

Staphisagria.

Constipation: Alumina, bryonia, causticum, magnesium mur., nux vomica.

Crying of new born children, constantly without apparent cause: Belladonna,

chamomilla.

Diarrhea: Arsenicum album, calcarea carb., calcarea ost., calcium phos.,

chamomilla, coffea, colchicum, colocynthis, ferrum, ipecac, jalapa, mercurius,

sulphur, veratrum album.

Dry spasmodic cough: Chamomilla, cina, nux vomica.

Tendency to bite or press gums together: Podophyllum, phytolacca.

Spasms: Belladonna, calcium, chamomilla, cicuta v., cina, ignatia am., passiflora,

stannum met., sulphur.

Teeth coming through very late: Calcium, sulphur.

ITCHING.

Intense, aggravated by warmth and especially by the warmth of the bed:

Mercurius.

When body becomes warm, scratches until it bleeds, itching between fingers,

toes and underjoints: Sepia.

Itching changing to burning when scratching: Murex p.

Aggravated by cold: Spongia t.

With burning: Sulphur.

With stinging: Apis mel.

When body becomes warm: Psorium.

Itching in general, is often benefited by: Rhus radicans.

LEFT-SIDED REMEDIES.

In left sided conditions, or those arising in the left side of the body.

Ceanothus am.: A remedy acting mostly on the left side, but especially on the

spleen.

Lachesis: In many conditions, but most often on left side.

Ovarian troubles on the left side: Lachesis, lilium tigrinum., ustilago.

MOTION AGGRAVATES.

Bryonia: Motion, or movement of parts involved aggravate pain. Pain keeps

patient quiet.

MOTION RELIEVES PAIN.

Pulsatilla: Motion or moving about in cool air ameliorates, especially in menstrual

wrongs.

Rhododendron: Motion ameliorates, while rest aggravates.

Rhus tox.: Motion in warm air ameliorates and is kept tip until tired out.

Zincum met.: Motion ameliorates conditions.

Walking slowly about relieves some: Ferrum acetate or met., platina, stannum

met., zincum met.

MUCOUS DISCHARGES FROM MUCOUS SURFACES FROM ANY

ORIFICE.

Thick, bland and yellowish green: Carbo veg., lycopodium, mercurius,

phosphorus, pulsatilla, sulphur, and in some cases natrum sulph., kali sulph.

Acrid corrosive, often burning: Arsenicum album.

Offensive discharge: Arnica, asafetida, baptisia, kreosotum, nitric acid, nux

vomica, sabina, sepia.

Thick bland, green or yellowish green: Pulsatilla, sepia.

Arnica: With putrid smell of month.

Hydrastis: If viscid and stringy.

Iodium: Acrid and corrosive; will eat holes in linen.

Iris v.: Viscid and stringy.

Kali bichrom: Viscid and stringy. May be consistency of jelly.

Kreosotum: Acrid, excoriating parts it comes in contact with, staining yellow.

Thuja oc.: Green discharge.

NAILS.

Finger nails grow in splits like warts with horny spots: Antimonium crud.

Nails crippled on fingers and toes, brittle or inflamed: Silica.

Nails, thick, crippled: Graphites.

Nails, brittle, crumbling, distorted: Thuja oc.

NAUSEA.

Antimonium crud.: Right after meals, with characteristic tongue.

Bryonia: Worse on motion or when rising from the recumbent position.Bitter taste.

Cocculus ind.1 : Nausea with inclination to vomit from motion of carriage, train,

boat, ship, etc.

Colchicum: Smell of cooking nauseates to faintness.

Ipecac: Persistent nausea not relieved by vomiting. Generally from digestive

errors. Tongue may be clean or little coated.

1 Note: Although cocculus ind. is our best remedy in nausea with vertigo from motion of

carriage, train, boat, ship, etc., borax, lycopodidium, nux moschata, petroleum, sepia and sulphur

are of some value.

Lachesis: Nausea on closing eyes with vertigo, if indicated.

Nitric acid: With sour or acid taste. Teeth feel as if on edge.

Nux vomica: After eating and mostly in the morning, there may be sour taste.

Pulsatilla: From digestive errors, from mixed diet, rich food, etc., coating of

tongue may be similar to antimonium crud. Taste may be bitter.

Theridion cur.: Nausea with vertigo, especially on closing the eyes. Noise appears

to cause nausea and vertigo.

Thuja oc.: Nausea with vertigo, especially when closing eyes, if indicated.

EDEMATOUS CONDITIONS.

Of upper eyelids: Kali carb.

Of lower eyelids, mouth, throat, often with stinging, burning pain: Apis mel.

Of whole face or all around the eyes. There may be puffy, relaxed appearance of

face: Phosphorus.

PAIN NEURALGIC.

Aconite, causticum, chamomilla, cimicifuga, coffea, colocynthis, epifagus,

gaultheria, gelsemium, kalmia l., magnesium carb., magnesium phos.,

onosmodium, spigelia, stannum met.

PAIN IN GENERAL.

Actaea (Cimicifuga) racemosa: Infra-mammary pain at climateric. Pain pressing

outward as if top of head would fly off; running in eye, which aches fearfully,

settles in occiput and shoots down the neck.

Acid sulphuric: Pain begins slowly and declines suddenly.

Ammonium muriate: Painful sensation as if muscles were contracted or too short.

Pain in heels. See other remedies in regard to latter.

Apis mel.: Stinging pain with burning; patient often cries out. with pain.

Argentum nit.: Pain in back relieved by walking or standing, bad when getting up

from seat. Pain and actual contraction of muscles of the legs or arms; not only the

sensation. Stitching pain in throat as if fish bone was in it. On left side, increased

by lying on left side.

Arsenicum album: Pain through upper right chest. Burning pain ameliorated by

heat in any part of the body.

Aurum: Bone pain.

Belladonna: Appears suddenly and disappears suddenly. Pain worse on lying

down. Pain ameliorated in headache if head is thrown backwards. Easiest in

vertical position.

Bryonia alba: Aggravated by motion; ameliorated by lying on affected part.

Stitching, sharp pain, pressure ameliorates pain. Cries out from sharp, stitching

pain.

Calcarea ost.: Pain through upper right chest if indicated.

Cantharides: Pain with cutting, cutting pain especially.

Causticum: Drawing pains, especially in arms and legs, better or rather

ameliorated in bed.

Chamomilla: Numbness with pain, angry, aggravated by heat, not relieved by

cold. Rheumatism in left shoulder with above symptoms. Sensitive to pain.

Chelidonium: Pain through lower right chest. Pain under right shoulder blade.

Chenopodium 30d: Pain under left shoulder blade.

Coffea: Pain unsupportable, driving to despair, sleeplessness.

Croton tig.: Pain drawing through from nipple to back while nursing.

Dioscorea vil.: Pain in early stage of felon when it is sharp and agonizing.

Eupatorium perf.: Bone pain. Pain makes patient restless.

Ferrum met. or acetate: Pain relieved by walking slowly about even if weak and

prostrated. Easily. flushed and red face.

Gelsemium: Neuralgic pains may be dull aching or darting, coming on

so suddenly as to make patient start.

Ignatia am.: Sharp pain shooting up the rectum, often accompanied by disposition

to sigh and draw a long breath.

Kali carb.: Stitching pain at any time not relieved by pressure or lying on painful

side or part. Edematous condition of the upper eyelid. Stitching pain or sensation in

throat as if a fish bone was in it. Pain through lower right chest, if indicated.

Magnesium mur.: Pain in region of liver aggravated by lying on right side, with

constipation.

Mercurius: Pain through lower right chest if indicated. Pain in region of liver

aggravated by lying on right side, with bowels loose.

Myrtus com.: Pain in upper left chest through to scapula.

Natrum sulph.: Pain in lower left chest. Stitching pain through left lung below left

nipple.

Nitric acid: Stitching pain in throat as if fish bone was in it, if indicated. (See also

Hepar Sulph.)

Phosphorus: On left side increased by lying on left side. Burning, especially of

hands. With pain or not.

Phytolacca: Aching, bruised feeling all over the body. Groans. Movement

aggravates pain.

Platina: Pain, gradual increase and gradual decrease; not so weak as in stannum.

Numbness with pain as in chamomilla but not such an ugly

disposition.

Ptelea trif.: Pain in region of liver aggravated by lying on left side.

Pulsatilla: If general symptoms are present, feels better in cold air,

from cold application, chilliness with pain, still wants cold room. Worse

in warm, closed room. Pain rapidly shifting from one place to another.

Rhus tox.: Burning marked with more or less pain. Restlessness.

Rumex crispus: Stitching pains through left lung, just below nipple.

Ruta g.: Wrist pain increased in. cold weather and on motion.

Silica: Pain drawing through from nipple to back, if indicated.

Stannum met.: Pain gradually increases to great height and

gradually decreases. Relieved by pressure.

Sulphur: Burning, especially of feet in chronic cases. Pain in upper left

chest through to scapula.

Theridion cur.: Pain in upper left chest to shoulder, if indicated.

PARALYSIS.

Left sided: Lachesis.

Right sided: Causticum.

After diphtheria. Paraplegia from debility: Argentum nit.

Post-diphtheritic with marked hyperesthesia of skin: Plumbum met. or acetate.

Of ankles late in the afternoon: Chamomilla,

Of wrists: Ferrum acetate, ruta g., silica, plumbum met or acetate.

From below going upwards: Lachesis.

Vocal organs in general: Causticum, cantharides.

Paresis, hands tremble, hands go to sleep, soles of feet go to sleep, a weakness in

back almost bordering on paralysis, marked prostration: Cocculus ind.

Prostration and entire relaxation of the muscular system and even motor

paralysis: Gelsemium.

PRESSURE.

Relieves: Bryonia, colocynthis, stannum met.

Aggravates: Kali carb., lachesis.

RESTLESS REMEDIES.

Aconite: Mostly in colds, continued fevers, and severe inflammatory fevers. Early

stage.

Arsenicum album: In inflammatory diseases in latter stages, low grade of fevers.

Weak condition.

Chamomilla: Restless and sleepless.

Rhus tox.: Restlessness on account of aching pains, temporarily relieved by

movement.

RIGHT-SIDED REMEDIES.

Indicated in conditions of right side or starting on right side.

Chelidonium: Especially if there are liver symptoms.

Conium m.: In hardness of mammae.

Lycopodium: In general conditions that arise on the right side.

Sanguinaria: Not a right sided remedy but acts more strongly on that side.

Remedies acting mostly on right ovary: Apis mel., belladonna, bryonia,

lycopodium, podophyllum.

SENSATION.

As if some thing were moving about in abdomen: Capsicum, sabadilla , sepia.

As if stomach were hanging down relaxed, all gone, weak sensation. A sinking

sensation in stomach: Staphisagria, ipecac, tabacum, thuja oc.

As if something was moving or hopping about in stomach, abdomen, or uterus:

Crocus sativus.

As if a splinter was in throat: Argentum nit., alumina, hepar sulph., nitric acid.

As if thread were hanging down throat: Valerian.

Sensation of coldness in back between shoulders: Ammonium mur.

Sensation of swelling in pit of stomach: Bryonia.

Sensation of bubbling in region of kidneys, great deal of prostration, often means:

Berberis vulgaris.

Sensation of rawness and soreness, dull, drawing, tearing pain in hands arms,

thighs, legs, knees and feet, worse in open air, better in bed. Weakness and

trembling of limbs: Causticum.

Feeling as if floating in the air: Valerian.

Feeling as if legs were floating in the air: Sticta pul.

Feeling as if falling, afraid of falling, child grasps nurse for fear of falling:

Gelsemium.

Of falling, only from downward motion: Borax v.

Sensation or feeling as if hair was on tongue, without there actually being any, if

indicated: Kali bichrom., natrum, murex p., silica.

Sensation as of cobweb on face, if indicated: Borax v., graphites.

Tingling of tongue, lips and nose: Natrum mur.

Empty, gone feeling in the stomach, if nervous condition Ignatia am.

— If connected with uterine troubles: Sepia.

— If from digestive wrongs: Hydrastis.

Empty, gone feeling all over the abdomen: Phosphorus.

Sensation of feeling of fullness: Aesculus hip.

— Of expansion: Argentum nit.

Coldness in parts or in general , if indicated. In feet and lower legs as if

patient had cold, damp stockings on: Calcarea ost.

Numbness in heels when stepping: Alumina.

Sensation of stone in stomach: Bryonia, pulsatilla, nux vomica.

Feeling of emptiness of all internal organs and head, depression: Cocculus ind.

Emptiness in stomach and abdomen, an all gone feeling, we think of: Hydrastis,

ignatia am., murex P., sepia.

SENSITIVE TO TOUCH OR PRESSURE.

Asafetida, antimonium crudum, capsicum, china, .hepar sulph., kali

carb., lachesis, plumbum.

Capsicum: Cannot bear to be touched or even shaved. Marked hyperesthesia.

China: Cannot bear to be touched, current of air causes pain. Hard pressure

relieves.

Hepar sulph.: Cannot bear to be touched, current of air causes pain. Cannot bear

to have any sore or abrasion touched. Marked hyperesthesia.

Lachesis: Sensitive to touch or pressure. Feeling of constriction.

Plumbum: Cannot bear to be touched or even shaved. Marked hyperesthesia.

SMELL.

Loss of: Belladonna, calcium hepar sulph., hyoscyamus, natrum mur., pulsatilla,

plumbum, sepia, silica, zincum met.

Abnormally acute: Aconite, aurum, belladonna, chamomilla, cocculus ind.,

colchicum, china, graphites, lycopodium, nux vomica, phosphorus, sepia.

SPARE PEOPLE.

Remedies acting best on thin, spare subjects, if indicated:

Calcium phos.: In spare and anemic subjects, especially children. There may be

tardy bone development.

Lycopodium: Look older than they are, well developed head, but puny, sickly

bodies.

Fluoric acid: Withered and dried up person, the result of disease. Young people

look old.

Phosphoric acid: Tall and slender, that is in young people growing too fast it acts

best.

Phosphorus: Tall and slender, that is in voting people growing too fast it acts best.

Silica: With sweaty hands and defective assimilation; looks shrunken and old.

Head sweats easily. Feet sweating which may be offensive.

SLEEP.

Before going to sleep:

• Dreads going to bed: Causticum, lycopodium, mercurius.

• Heavy and weary feeling in extremities and in general. There

may be pain in legs and arms: Kreosotum, natrum carb.

• Position: Cannot find rest in any position: Kali, lachesis.

• — Cannot find rest on back: Magnesium mur., sabina.

• Starting up just when about going to sleep: Ammonium, belladonna, rhus tox.,

tartar emetic.

• Stretching: Belladonna, china, ignatia am., nux vomica.

• Tossing about: Anacardium o., china, kreosotum, rhus tox., sabadilla, thuja oc.

• Twitching of arms or legs or any part of the body: Arsenicum album, ignatia

am., nux vomica.

When asleep:

• Moaning: Arnica, arsenicum album, baptisia, bryonia ,belladonna, caladium,

carbo an., helleborus n., lachesis, lycopodium,

mercurius, muriatic acid, nitric acid,, pulsatilla, rhus tox.

• Open mouth: Mercurius, rhus tox., sambucus nig.

• Dry mouth: Causticum, pulsatilla.

• Position: Arms above head: Nux vomica, platina, pulsatilla, sulphur, veratrum

album.

• — Hands crossed under head: Aconite, arsenicum album, china, colocynthis,

magnesium, tartaricum.

• Sleep retarded after going to bed late: Ammonium carb.

• — After waking in the night: Natrum mur.

• — Every second night: China, lachesis.

• Sleep with giddiness: Caladium.

• Sleeplessness after midnight: Arsenicum, belladonna, caladium,

• — Before midnight: Bryonia, nux vomica, pulsatilla.

• — With burning heat: Belladonna.

• Tossing in sleep: Aconite, arsenicum album, belladonna, rhus tox., sulphur.

• Uncover, desire to, in sleep: Arsenicum album, platina, magnesium.

• Unable to sleep

• — Lying on back: Phosphorus.

• — On left side : Lycopodium, ptelea.

• — On right side: Bryonia, magnesium mur.

• — With knees bent, or legs drawn up: Platina, pulsatilla.

• Waking caused by slightest noise: Selenium.

• Waking, anxious at certain time: Selenium.

SUN HEAT AND AFFECTIONS BEARING ON IT.

Prostration from heat: Glonoine is our best immediate remedy. Lachesis is our

next remedy.

Sun pain: Pain increased with rising sun; decreased with setting sun: Natrum mur.,

spigelia, tabacum.

Trouble caused or aggravated by heat and especially by the heat of the sun, still

cold baths aggravate conditions or may cause trouble:

Antimonium crudum .

Troubles caused or aggravated by heat and especially by the heat of sun:

Bryonia., gelsemium or natrum carb. may be indicated.

Aconite, belladonna, bryonia, calcium, lycopodium and nux vomica, have a less

marked action in this direction, still are useful if indicated

when overheated.

SWEATING.

Sweating impossible: Lachesis, staphisagria.

Apis mel.: Alternate dry and hot or perspiring.

Arsenicum album: Fever and headache are relieved by sweating.

Belladonna: Sweats on covered parts.

Calcarea ost.: Partial sweats, coldness of single parts as well as general. Profuse

sweating on head or head and face, especially while

asleep. In night sweats of the debilitated.

Caladium: Sweat is sweet, attracts flies.

Conium m.: Sweating day or night as soon as one sleeps or even closes eyes.

Ferrum phos.: Night sweats of weak and anemic subjects.

Mercurius: Pain increased by sweating at least not relieved. Sweats day and night

and no relief. If this fails try hepar sulph.

Natrum mur.: Fever and headache, and all other symptoms of natrum mur. are

relieved by sweating.

Pulsatilla: One sided sweats.

Sambucus nig.: Profuse sweating while awake; dry heat when asleep.

Stannum met.: Profuse night sweats; but especially on chest.

Thuja oc.: Sweats on uncovered parts.

Veratrum album: Cold sweats, sweating of face and forehead, with threatened

collapse.

Clammy: Arsenicum album, daphne ind., veratrum album.

Cold: Digitalis, dulcamara, lachesis, natrum, tartar emetic, veratrum album.

Colors linen yellow: Arsenicum album, belladonna, carbo an., mercurius.

Greasy, oily: Bryonia, china, magnesium, mercurius.

Hot: Antimonium, china, opium.

Smelling like urine: Berberis vul., colocynthis, nitric acid.

TASTE.

• Acid: Nitric acid.

• Bitter: Chelidonium, bryonia, pulsatilla, china, sabadilla, digitalis, natrum mur.

• Bloody: Ammonium carb., kali carb., natrum carb.,sabina, zincum met., silica.

• Disagreeable, disgusting, repugnant: Sabadilla.

• Earthy: Nux moschata.

• Greasy: Causticum, magnesium, muriatic acid, lachesis, sabina.

• Loss of taste: Belladonna, hepar sulph., kali carb., natrum mur., pulsatilla,

veratrum album.

• Metallic: Cuprum met., cocculus ind.

• Moldy: Ledum palustre.

• Oily: Magnesium, silica.

• Salty. Phosphorus, natrum mur., mercurius, carbo veg., kali iodide.

• Soapy: Dulcamara, iodium.

• Sour, salty: Cuprum met.

• Sour: Nux vomica, iris v., calcarea ost., nitric acid.

• Sweet: Stannum met., magnesium sulph.

• Taste of food eaten: Antimonium crud., ferrum acetate.

THIRST.

Drinking seldom but much at a time, there may be bad or bitter taste, coated

tongue, thirst increased by beer: Bryonia.

Moist mouth, with intense thirst: Mercurius.

Sense of dryness of mouth without actual dryness: Natrum mur.

Thirst, drinking often, but little at a time: Arsenicum album.

THIRST, ABSENCE OF.

Absence of thirst with marked dryness, tongue sticks to roof of mouth, especially

in the night: Nux moschata.

Bad taste in the mouth, especially in the morning, but no thirst. Mouth dry, but

no thirst: Pulsatilla.

Absence of thirst in general: Aethusa cy., belladonna, calcium, natrum mur.,

pulsatilla.

Dread of drinking: Belladonna, hyoscyamus, nux vomica, sambucus

nig., stramonium.

TIME WHEN SYMPTOMS ARE WORSE.

Aggravation in general at about 3 A.M., less so at 3 P.M.: Kali carb.

Aggravation in general at about midnight from 11 P.M. to 2 A. M., less so from

11 A.M. to 2 P.M. in day time, especially if there is pain, restlessness, burning or

prostration: Arsenicum album.

Aggravation of symptoms in general in the morning if indicated: Podophyllum,

nuphar lutea, nux vomica rumex crispus.

Aggravation of symptoms during the day in typhoid fever: Bryonia.

TEMPERAMENTS, CONDITION AND BY WHAT REMEDIES

INFLUENCED.

Antimonium crudum: Child cross, screams and cries, shows temper at every little

attention.

Aurum: Looks at dark side of life,, tendency to commit suicide; peevish, often the

least contradiction excites wrath.

Chamomilla: Patient feels snappish and ugly. Child wants this or that, but if

handed wants something else.

Natrum mur.: Patient is aggravated by comforting and consolation.

Pulsatilla: Patient is soothed and comforted by consolation.

Sepia: Patient is sad, cries often without knowing why.

Stannum met.: Patient is generally very sad, feels like crying all the time.

TREMBLING REMEDIES.

Gelsemium: From weakness, trembles all over. Sometimes so severe as to be

mistaken for a chill.

Zincum met.: General trembling from prostration.

Trembling: Sensation of internal trembling, without visible trembling,

especially in females: Caulophyllum

Sulphuric acid: In weak subjects, may be hemorrhage from every

outlet of the body..

TWITCHING REMEDIES.

Agaricus, ignatia am., zincum met.

VERTIGO.

Argentum nit.: In the dark or with eyes closed, vertigo with staggering. Buzzing

in ears, general debility and trembling.

Belladonna: When rising after stooping over.

Borax v.: When descending.

Bryonia: When getting tip from seat or bed or moving head. Whirling vertigo,

lying down relieves.

Calcarea ost.: When turning or moving head or while ascending.

Chelidonium: In liver trouble, if indicated. Vertigo on rising from bed.

Cocculus ind.: Whirling vertigo on rising up in bed, must lie down again. Feels as

if intoxicated. Headache precedes sickness of stomach. Vertigo increased by riding

in cars, boat, etc.

Conium m.: From turning or moving head, looking backward; turning in the bed;

whirling vertigo; vertigo lying in bed.

Ferrum: While descending.

Gelsemium: Occipital, with dimness of sight. Staggering vertigo.

Kali carb.: On turning the head.

Lachesis: After sleep.

Natrum mur.: While walking. While studying.

Nux vomica: From odor of flowers; while walking after eating; with fainting; with

staggering; with dimness of sight; when stooping.

Phosphorus: On looking down: while walking; from odor. of flowers; staggering

when rising from seat. Must lie down to get relief.

Pulsatilla: Looking u while walking as if whirling. Must lie down to get relief.

After suppressed menses.

Sabadilla: Ameliorated by resting head.

Sassafras: From looking fixedly at an object.

Silica: Looking up.

Stramonium: In the dark or with eyes closed.

Theridion cur.: Vertigo with nausea, especially on closing the eyes,

noise unbearable. Vertigo from noise.

Vertigo when reading: Ammonium carb., arnica, cuprum met.

Alternate with colic: Colocynthis, spigelia.

When lying on back: Mercurius, sulphur, nux vomica.

In morning: Conium m., graphites, lachesis.

In morning when rising: Belladonna, kali bichrom., bryonia,

phosphorus.

Vertigo from looking down: Oleander, spigelia.

When lying down: Caladium, conium m., rhododendron, staphisagria,

thuja oc.

When eating: Ammonium carb., magnesium mur.

Vertigo in occiput: Gelsemium, petroleum, silica.

VOMITING.

Vomiting when stomach is empty-coffee ground vomit. Vomit is dark,

pain most severe 2 or 3 hours after meals; eating relieves. Then patient

will eat to get relief: Anacardium 30d.

Vomiting water the moment it touches stomach: Subnit. of bismuth 30d.

Vomiting of large, sour curds, sour stool, sweaty head: Calcarea ost.

Vomiting of warm drinks, cold drinks retained, temporary amelioration

after vomiting: Pulsatilla.

Vomiting, but more gagging without vomiting, rumbling in abdomen,

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especially ascending colon: Podophyllum.

Wants cold things; as soon as they get warmed up in stomach they are

vomited up: Phosphorus.

Cold drinks vomited up, patient can retain nothing. but hot drinks on

stomach: Chelidonium.

Great nausea and vomiting of sour, glairy, stringy and ropy material.

So sour as to cause excoriation in throat. Burning of tongue, throat,

stomach and, if diarrhea, of anus also. Profuse flow of saliva; taste of

vomit may also be bitter or sweet, but -seldom. Burning should not be

forgotten: Iris V.

Vomiting of milk or milky nature, white color from side of nose to edge of

mouth, white upper lip. Vomiting of milk with great effort and

prostration afterwards. If not vomited up at once child will a little later

throw up great masses of curdled milk almost too large to be thrown up.

Stool not sour nor is there a rickety condition of patient: Aethusa cy.

More gagging than vomiting, if indicated: Secale cor.

Vomiting, chronic , with good appetite, generally profuse, sweet and

marked prostration. Face bathed in cold sweats and extreme nausea,

result of gastric derangements: Lobelia.

Cries when vomiting, tearful, fear of death. Severe pain in stomach,

often burning, aggravated by least food or drink, especially if cold:

Arsenicum album.

Vomiting of stringy matter may be of gelatinous consistency: Kali

bichrom.

Vomiting gives no relief, nausea persistent: Ipecac.

Vomiting from marked irritation in stomach, burning in stomach, where

the vomiting gives temporary relief, especially where there is marked

prostration, patient pale and drowsy: Antimonium tar.

Smell of cooking food nauseates even to vomiting at times, gets faint

feeling: Colchicum.

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Vomit sour: Borax, calcium, ferrum, nux vomica, phosphorus, pulsatilla.

Sweetish: Kreosotum.

Vomiting violently: Arsenicum album,, belladonna, cuprum met.

moschus, nux vomica, veratrum album.

Yellow, greenish: Oleander, veratrum album.

Resembling pitch: Ipecac.

With coldness of hands or feet: Kreosotum.

Vomiting and nausea from passive motion of ship, carriage, etc.:

Arsenicum album, cocculus ind., petroleum, silica, sulphur.

Vomiting sour with sour eructations. If in children they may smell sour

all over: Sulphuric acid.

Vomiting of food after it has lain in stomach for 5 to 6 hours or longer.

Coughing with vomiting of food: Ferrum acetate or ferrum met.

WET WEATHER REMEDIES.

Condition aggravated or brought about by wet weather:

Calcium phos.: Spring and fall when air is cold and damp. From change of warm

to cold, damp weather. From melting snow.

Dulcamara: Sudden change from warm to cold weather or in damp weather.

Natrum sulph.: Aggravation in damp weather. Especially before a storm, with

marked electrical disturbances.

Rhus, tox.: From cold, but especially wet cold.

WOUNDS AND FRACTURES.

Black eye from blow of fist: Ledum p.

Bruised wounds: Ledum p., arnica, hamamelis, sulphuric acid.

Fractures: Calcium phos.

Incised wounds: Staphisagria 200 P.

Lacerated wounds: Calendula.

Strains: Calcarea ost., nux vomica, rhus tox.

WOUNDING OF NERVES, BONE, PERIOSTEUM, BRUISES.

Wounding and bruising of periosteum: Ruta g.

Wounding and bruising of nerves: Hypericum Perf.

Wounding and bruising of bone: Calcium phos.

Black and blue spots from bruises or blows: Ledum p.

LEADING BASIC INDICATIONS OF SOME

DRUGS IN SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

ALOPECIA.

From abuse of quinine: Belladonna.

From abuse of mercury: Carbo veg., hepar sulph., kali iodide.

With violent itching: Graphites, lycopodium, silica, sulphur.

With many scales on head: Calcium, graphites, staphisagria.

From long grief: Graphites, ignatia ani., lachesis, phosphoric acid,

staphisagria.

From debilitating losses: China, ferrum acetate or ferrum met.

From frequent sweats: Mercurius.

From severe acute diseases: Calcium, hepar sulph., lycopodium,

phosphoric acid, silica, sulphur.

Hair falling out or if they grow too slowly or in splits, especially in

Sycotic: Thuja ox.

ANTIDOTES FOR EFFECTS OF ABUSE OF DRUGS, ETC.

Overdosing with mercury for syphilis: Nitric acid.

After effects of abuse of argentum nit.: Natrum mur.

After effects of vaccination: Echinacea, thuja ox.

Lead poisoning: Kali bichrom.

Iodide of potassium: Hepar sulph.

Mercurial salivation: Belladonna dulcamara, hepar sulph., iodium,

lachesis, nitric acid, sulphur.

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ANAL FISSURES.

Of eczematous nature, if indicated: Graphites.

Sore painful and sometimes bleeding: Natrum mur.

Where the skin and membranes join, very sore, may bleed: Nitric acid.

ANAL PROLAPSUS.

Frequent desire for stool, but in place of latter, rectum comes down,

afraid to strain or lift. After stool there may be contracting pains for

hours, shooting upwards, sharp pain in rectum: Ignatia am.

Prolapsus, occurring even at urinating, passage of flatus and when

bowels move. Cannot bear the least touch to parts, even underwear or

bed sheets: Muriatic acid.

Prolapsus of rectum or uterus after straining or lifting too hard, after or

in parturition or, with characteristic diarrhea: Podophyllum.

Prolapsus aggravated on stooping or lifting: Ruta g.

Congestion of rectum, feels as if a ball or weight was in it, oozing of

moisture from rectum; prolapsus ani: Sepia.

ASTHMA SPASMS.

Blatta orientalis: For spasms and general condition 10 to 20 drops in

2 ounces of water, 1/2 teaspoonful every 15 minutes to 1/2 hour until

easier, then at longer intervals. Ordinarily to correct condition it should

be taken regularly for a short while, about 2 to 3 doses a day.

Causticum: Asthma worse in dry weather, better in damp weather.

Sambucus nig: In asthma millari, it is a splendid remedy. The child

will turn blue in the face, gasp for breath and appears as though it

would die. Will go to sleep only to wake up again with another attack.

Attacks come on suddenly, generally in the night. Asthma with same

indications in grown people will be relieved by: Sambucus nig.

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Senega, mother tincture 10 to 20 drops in 2 ounces of water, 1/2

teaspoonful every 15 minutes to hour until easier, then at longer

intervals.

Asthma remedies that are at times indicated in spasms: Lachesis,

sambucus n., tartar emetic.

Asthma worse in cold weather, better in damp weather: Dulcamara,

natrum sulph.

BOILS.

In the early stage, belladonna will often abort them. If beyond that

stage calcium sulph., hepar sulph., mercurius or silica, will

hasten maturity, then assist in shortening their course. If they are very

painful and of bluish color lachesis is of value. However tarantula

cub. is the best remedy we have to ameliorate pain.

CATARRH IN THE HEAD IN GENERAL.

Dry nature, nose all stopped up. Worse at night, must breathe through

mouth. Maybe nose bleed while washing face: Ammonium carb.

Nose stopped up when going out in cold air: Hepar sulph.

Scabs and plugs which form in nose often cause ulceration of septum of

nose. Severe pain at root of nose: Kali bichrom.

Yellowish or greenish discharge of nose worse evenings and in hot

rooms. Feels better in open air. Cough loose, rattling: Kali sulph.

Chronic catarrh of nose, dry form, worse at night, must breathe through

mouth: Lycopodium.

Chronic. Much hawking and spitting of thick mucus that constantly

accumulates, extending from nose into throat: Natrum carb.

Chronic nasal, blows a little blood from nose frequently: Phosphorus.

Pain in frontal sinuses, discharge dry and hard, and generally hard to

dislodge. Continual tendency to blow nose, but none or very little result.

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Dry form of coryza with pain in frontal sinuses: Sticta p.

Catarrhal condition in head with fluent coryza, burning and a marked

sensitiveness to inhaling cold air. Raw throat: Aesculus hip.

Catarrh, chronic sore throat, dryness and rawness, continued hawking.

After a long while the patient raises a little thick, tough phlegm. Warm

drinks or food relieve temporarily; clergymen's sore throat: Alumina.

Post-nasal catarrh in which mucus drops continually in the throat; but

especially at night or when lying down: Corallium rubrum.

Discharge thick and bland, if indicated: Sepia.

Where dry crusts form in nose and reform if removed: Borax v.

In phlegmatic subjects if, indicated: Pulsatilla.

In dry, thin subjects if indicated: Alumina.

Where there is agglutination or ulceration of nostrils and nose

obstructed and filled with a crust, or where there is fetid discharge.

Melancholy disposition, tendency to suicide: Aurum met.

CHOLERA, CHOLERA MORBUS, CHOLERA INFANTUM.

Bismuth subnitrate: Especially in cholera infantum where the attack

comes on suddenly. Stool is watery and passed without pain. Water

cannot be retained and is vomited up as soon as it reaches the stomach.

Face has a deadly pallor with very dark rings around the eyes. There is

intense thirst and vomiting of severe nature. Skin is warm and may be

covered with warm sweats.

Camphor: Great external coldness, stool, if any, is painless. Cramps in

abdomen and extremities. Although objectively cold, patient does not

want to be covered.

Colocynthis: Violent cramps, pressure and bending double ameliorate

condition. In such cases this remedy is a valuable adjunct to other

indicated remedies.

Cuprum met.: Cramps of a violent nature.

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Kreosotum: In children with painful, swollen gums of bluish color,

with decayed teeth, this is a splendid remedy.

Secale cor.: Patient cold to the touch, still cannot bear to be covered.

Tartar emetic: Intense nausea not relieved by vomiting, especially if

there is very loose stool, prostration and even coma. Face is pale and in

severe cases, cyanotic.

Veratrum album: Cold sweats on face and forehead, also on body.

Body feels cold to touch. Breath cold, great prostration and collapse.

Evacuations are profuse.

COLD IN GENERAL.

To correct a tendency to always catch cold we think of: Hydrastis,

calcium, carbo veg., dulcamara., graphites, nitric acid, sepia, sulphur.

Cold right after taking: Nux vomica.

Later: Aconite, chamomilla, belladonna, bryonia, dulcamara.

Cold from getting wet: Calcium, dulcamara, rhus tox.

With acrid discharge from nose: Allium cepa, arsenicum album,

kreosotum.

COLIC AND CRAMPS.

Colic, alternate with vertigo: Colocynthis, spigelia.

Resembling labor pains: Pulsatilla, chamomilla.

Constant, violent pain with retraction of lower abdomen. Violent

spasmodic pain, constant unsuccessful desire to urinate: Aconite.

Where heat gives relief in cramping pains: Magnesium phos.

Where there is burning and pain relieved by heat: Arsenicum album.

Pressure relieves pain, especially in chronic cases and where colocynthis

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fails we think of: Stannum met.

Cramps and colic with sensation of fullness: Lycopodium, china,

aesculus hip.

With walls of abdomen retracted: Plumbum acetate.

Cramps and spasms, especially after bodily or even mental exhaustion,

spasmodic, violent griping: Cuprum met.

Cramp, colic and congestive pain in abdomen, face red, throbbing

carotids: Melilotus.

Colic from exposure to cold is often relieved by: Dulcamara.

Cramps and colic, with great distention of abdomen, flatus appears to

radiate from one. place to another, passing of same giving no relief, as it

forms again. Much pressure in inguinal region. May be sensation of

emptiness, especially in the head: Cocculus ind.

Wind colic aggravated by bending forward or double and relieved by

bending backwards, or straightening the body. Much pressure, pain

generally starts in region of navel and radiate all over, in some cases

even to the extremities: Dioscorea vil.

Wind colic, heat aggravates, but cold does not relieve. A green stool is

also a prominent indication. Patient is generally in a bad mood:

Chamomilla.

Doubling up after eating: Bovista.

Cramps of a violent nature, doubling up or pressing against something

hard ameliorates pain. Colic after eating, after anger, or colic, alternated

with vertigo with above indications: Colocynthis.

Walks around to get relief, cold sweats, especially forehead, prostration,

bends forward to ameliorate pain; Veratrum album.

Chronic tendency to colic or cramps, with a tendency to sore eyelids,

symptoms similar to chamomilla and colocynthis: Staphisagria.

Child cries continually, especially all night, with colic pains: Jalapa.

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Colic and cramps: As a local application to pit of stomach or abdomen

and between the shoulders, Lloyd’s libradol will generally assist the

internal treatment. This especially where a relaxant is indicated. Should

its application produce nausea, remove.

Colic, Nephritic: With marked smell of the urine. Urine that may be

in clothing scents the whole body, even the room: Benzoic acid.

Colic, Renal: In passage of renal calculi, pain attending the passage of

gravel, especially at conclusion of passing urine Pain is almost

unbearable. There may also be tenesmus of bladder: Sarsaparilla.

CONSTIPATION.

Aloe socotrina 200 P.: Inability to pass stool, still large hard chunks

sometimes will pass away unawares, sometimes much gurgling or

rumbling before stool.

Alumina: Stool adheres to the anus like soft clay. Inactivity of the

rectum., especially in dry spare subjects.

Ammonium mur.: Hard dry and crumbling feces, difficult to expel,

sometimes covered with mucus as if greased.

Antimonium crudum: Alternate constipation and diarrhea.

Aurum and natrum mur. 1000: Alternate black and white stool.

Bryonia: Where the cause is lack of secretion of intestines, stool hard

and dry as if burnt.

Causticum: Unsuccessful desire for stool with much pain and straining

with redness of face, stool passes better when standing, sensation of

rawness and soreness. Stool often covered with mucus as if greased.

Collinsonia: Constipation obstinate, with colic on account of it;

hemorrhoidal condition, piles often bleed, a feeling in rectum as if it was

filled with sticks. In chronic constipation where patient can go for days

or weeks without even desire for stool.

Graphites: Stool knotty, large lumps often connected by threads of

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mucus; mucus often follows stool.

Hydrastis can.: Chronic with dull, aching pain in stomach, a gone,

weak, faint feeling in epigastrium; stomach actually sunken.

Lycopodium: Spasmodic contraction of the anus, which prevents stool.

Magnesium mur.: Stool hard, slow to pass, like sheep's dung,

crumbling away at anus.

Natrum mur.: Stool hard and unsatisfactory, like sheep's dung,

obstinate retention of stool. If indicated.

Nitric acid: Great agony after passage of stool, even if soft, has to walk

floor in agony for 1 to 2 hours after stool.

Nux vomica: Impaired and irregular peristalsis, frequent and

ineffective desire to defecate, passing but small quantity at each

attempt.

Phosphorus: Stool slender, long, dry, tough like dog stool.

Platina: Stool adheres to the anus like soft clay.

Sepia: Great strain, manual aid necessary to pass stool; sensation as of

ball in rectum. Mostly in children.

Silica: Strains very hard but stool only will protrude partly and then

slip back, appears to be result of general weakness, or weakness of

abdominal muscles and rectum. General weak condition.

Thuja oc.: Large, black balls, large stool, partly recedes again,

rumbling in abdomen as if animal was in it. Abdomen puffed up

irregular.

Veronica Off . 500, 200, 30: Alternate black and white stool.

CONVULSIONS.

Aethusa cy.: Eyes turn downwards, a sunken appearance of face with

a pearly whiteness of upper lip and a white line from angle of nose to

angle of mouth. In children vomiting of curdled milk.

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Argentum nit.: Hour or days before attack pupils are dilated,

convulsions preceded by great restlessness.

Cicuta v.: Opisthotonos, head draws backward, convulsions violent and

patient violent.

Cina: During dentition with symptoms of worms.

Cuprum met.: Spasms start by twitching in extremeties, toes and

fingers and from there becomes general. Marked spasms.

Gelsemium: Prostration all over, drooping eyelids, general trembling.

Hyoscyamus: General twitching all over and the spasms are clonic.

Ignatia am.: From mental emotion, fright or fear. Coming out of

spasms with long, drawn sighs.

CORYZA IN GENERAL.

• Dry: Ammonium, calcium, lachesis, nux vomica, sulphur.

• Fluent: Arsenicum album, allium cepa, euphrasia, mercurius,

pulsatilla, sulphur.

• Secretion acid: Arsenicum album, mercurius.

• Greenish: Pulsatilla, sepia.

• Offensive: Calcium, pulsatilla, sepia, silica, sulphur.

• Yellow: Bryonia, carbo veg., hydrastis, pulsatilla, sepia, sulphur.

Arsenicum album: Acute, discharge fluent, corroding nose and lips,

burns.

Allium cepa: In coryza or influenza where there is sneezing all the

time, worse indoors, discharge of eyes bland, of nose acrid..

Ammonium carb.: Dry, stuffed up, especially at night, epistaxis while

washing face. Face may be bluish red.

Causticum: Coryza or influenza with cough and tickling in throat, dry

cough, some expectoration after long cough. Rawness and soreness in

throat.; burning pain in throat not aggravated by swallowing.

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Eupatorium perf.: Coryza or influenza where there is aching all over.

Euphrasia: The lacrimal secretion acrid and secretion of nose bland.

Mercurius vivus: Sweating does not relieve, worse evenings and

nights. Odor of mouth and discharge of nose and mouth fetid. In fluent

coryza.

Sambucus nig.: Snuffles in small children. The dry variety. Child

inspires but is unable or can only expire with difficulty.

COUGH.

Child cries before paroxysm as if sore: Arnica.

Result of enlarged tonsils: Baryta carb.

Nervous, followed by eructation of wind: Ambra g.

Pain in head when coughing: Capsicum.

With rawness and soreness. Hoarseness and even temporary loss of

voice, condition better in wet weather: Causticum.

Worse at night, but cough does not waken patient; tickling in throat:

Chamomilla.

With mucus dropping back in throat, continued hacking daytime,

whooping nights: Corallium rub.

Spasmodic, with constriction in chest and abdomen: cough after

measles: Drosera.

Cough worse during the day, eyes water, in coryza: Euphrasia.

With vomiting of food: Bryonia, ferrum met. or acetate.

Suffocating, child may become cyanotic, stiff: Ipecac.

Aggravated or starting about 3 A.M.: Kali carb.

Aggravated 11 P.M. to 1 or 2 A.M. in night especially: Arsenicum

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album.

Long continued cough after pneumonia or severe cold; expectoration

profuse night sweats: Kali iodide.

Loose, rattling, yellow or greenish expectoration, better in open air, may

be pain in head and chest when coughing: Natrum sulph.

During sleep, but does not awaken patient, aggravated by touching

throat, sleeps into aggravation. Sense of constriction: Lachesis.

With stitching pain in chest (pleurisy) : Bryonia.

With pain in upper left lung through to left shoulder: Myrtus com.

Loose, with severe pain through left chest, especially below nipple:

Natrum sulph.

With great hoarseness, can hardly talk, worse evening and fore part of

night, tries to suppress cough. Good in latter stages of hepatization:

Phosphorus.

With copious expectoration, purulent, with marked weakness:

Phosphoric acid.

Dry with stitching pain through left lung below nipple; inhaling cold air

aggravates: Rumex c.

Loose with offensive sputum often after pneumonia: Sanguinaria.

With much rattling of mucus, difficult breathing: Senega.

Dry from organic heart trouble: Spongia t.

Dry nose, dry cough, worse at night, restless: Sticta p.

With great accumulation of mucus with coarse rattling, unable to raise

it, patient may be drowsy: Tartar emetic.

Barking and hollow: Belladonna, drosera, hepar sulph., sambucus

nig., spongia t., tartar emetic, veratrum album.

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Hacking: Aconite., calcium, causticum, lachesis, dulcamara, mercurius,

muriatic acid, sulphuric acid, sulphur, zincum met.

Panting: Muriatic acid, sulphuric acid.

Spasmodic: Belladonna, bryonia, carbo veg., cuprum met.,

hyoscyamus, veratrum album; cina, ipecac, mercurius, magnesium

phos., nux vomica, pulsatilla, sambucus nig.

Tickling: Chamomilla, sanguinaria, cimicifuga, phosphorus, nux

vomica, lachesis, bryonia, causticum.

Vomiting or retching: Bryonia, carbo veg., ipecac, pulsatilla, nux

vomica, hepar sulph., tartar emetic, drosera, veratrum album.

Wheezing: Kreosotum, senega, spongia t., tartar emetic.

Night only: Rhus tox., mercurius, pulsatilla, aconite., belladonna,

chamomilla, graphites, hyoscyamus, cimicifuga, drosera, tartar emetic,

nux vomica, stannum met.

As from dust: Arsenicum album, ignatia am., pulsatilla.

Day time only: Euphrasia, lachesis, belladonna, bryonia, calcium,

stannum met.

In bed: Arsenicum album, calcium, kreosotum, petroleum, mercurius,

natrum mur., pulsatilla, stannum met.

In cold air: Arsenicum album, ipecac, lachesis, nitric acid, phosphorus,

rhus tox., sulphur.

From inhaling cold air: Phosphorus, spongia t., rumex crispus.

When drinking: Arsenicum album, bryonia, hepar sulph., lachesis,

squill.

When lying down: Arsenicum album, hyoscyamus, pulsatilla, sulphur.

Lying on back: Nux vomica, phosphorus.

With head low: Ammonium mur.

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Lying on left side: Ipecac, ptelea.

On right side: Ammonium mur., stannum met.

From accumulation of mucus: Kreosotum.

Relieved by swallow of cold water: Causticum.

When sleeping: Arnica, calcium, chamomilla, lachesis, mercurius.

When pressing on pit of stomach: Caladium.

Cough with suffocation or paroxysms of suffocation: Cina, cuprum

met., drosera, hepar sulph., ipecac, lachesis, sambucus nig., spongia t.,

tartar emetic.

Dry: Aconite, belladonna, bryonia, capsicum, chamomilla, cina, drosera,

hepar sulph., hyoscyamus, ignatia am., lachesis, lycopus v., mercurius,

natrum mur., nux vomica, phosphorus, rhus tox., spongia t., sticta p.,

sulphur.

Loose cough with copious expectoration: Bryonia, calcium, cannabis s.,

carbo veg., causticum, cuprum met.,dulcamara, kali, lycopus v.,

mercurius, natrum mur., phosphorus, pulsatilla, senega, sepia, silica,

stannum met., sulphur, tartaricum.

Fetid expectoration: Arsenicum album, calcium, capsicum, ledum p.,

stannum met., sulphur.

Difficult expectoration with cough: Arnica, arsenicum album,

bryonia, borax v., china, daphne ind., ferrum, kali mur., laurocerasus,

sabina.

Difficult expectoration without cough:, Arnica, nux vomica, silica,

ruta g.

Difficult expectoration of what cough has loosened: Arnica,

causticum tartar emetic.

Cough from getting cold: Allium cepa, belladonna, chamomilla,

carbo veg., dulcamara, euphrasia, hepar sulph., nitric acid, nux

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moschata, pulsatilla, sticta.

Evening: Arsenicum album, calcium, capsicum, cimicifuga, drosera,

hepar sulph., mercurius, nitric acid, pulsatilla.

Early morning: Arsenicum album, china, causticum, euphrasia, kali

bichrom., lycopus v., natrum mur., nux vomica, pulsatilla., sulphur.

When moving: Arsenicum album, bryonia, china, drosera, ferrum,

lachesis, nux vomica, pulsatilla .

Coughing hard hurts head, person holds head with both hands as it

hurts him so to cough: Bryonia, capsicum, eupatorium perf., natrum

sulph.

Coughing hurts so in chest that patient jumps up and holds chest

with both hands: Bryonia, eupatorium perf., natrum sulph.

CROUP.

Aconite: The remedy first thought of if aggravated in dry cold air.

Marked fear of spasm of cough.

Hepar sulph.: Wheezing and rattling of mucus; cough loose as if

mucus would come up but does not. It is generally indicated after

aconite or spongia. Cold air aggravates.

Iodium: Wheezing, dry, barking cough, holds throat with both hands

when coughing.

Lachesis:, Child gets worse in sleep. Marked sense of constriction and

suffocation, seems to sleep into attack.

Phosphorus: Often indicated after aconite or spongia, if there is

hoarseness in the evening with inclination to relapse and there is

involvement of the lungs.

Spongia t.: Comes on with excitement, high fever, result of exposure to

cold air or winds. Severe paroxysms, sleeps into paroxysms. In all severe

cases it is better to apply to chest and around neck Lloyd's libradol. A

general internal remedy that is very valuable is Abbott's iodized calcium

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in 1/8 grain doses dissolved in a little water every 5 to 10 minutes until

easier, then at longer intervals and in smaller doses.

DELIRIUM, MAIN REMEDIES.

Apis mel., arsenicum album, baptisia, belladonna, gelsemium,

helleborus n., hyoscyamus, lachesis, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, rhus

tox., stramonium.

Belladonna: Face red, eyes may be bloodshot. Blood rushing to head

while extremities may be cool. Persistent wild delirium, although there

may be at times stupid condition. Starts and jumps when falling asleep

or awakening.

Helleborus n.: In advanced brain disease. Head rolling from side to

side. Stupidity, forehead wrinkled, with cold sweats, jaws move as if

chewing, continued movement of one arm and leg, while the other side

is perfectly quiet. Pupils are dilated and patient often is insensible or

only partly sensible of what is going on around him, urine scanty or

suppressed.

Hyoscyamus: There may be violent delirium but if so it alternates

with low form and in most cases the latter only is present. Patient is

pale, weak, weakness increases although there may be momentary

violent outbreaking. Generally does not move much but picks and

reaches out.

Lachesis: Low muttering worse after sleep or sleeping into it.

Phosphorus: Better after sleep.

Stramonium: Ravings terrible, often wildly, loquacious. Singing,

whistling, laughing, screaming, praying, swearing, turns in all kinds of

shape, often will all of a sudden jerk up head from pillow. Later pupils

may dilate, there is loss of sight and hearing and speech; patient

drenched in sweat. Death from exertion.

DIARRHEA, DYSENTERY, ETC.

Aloe: Great rumbling in bowels just before stool.

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Antimonium crudum: Alternate with constipation, especially in old

people. From wrongs in diet and especially in heat of summer, stools

partly solid and partly fluid.

Argentum nit.: Apprehension brings on diarrhea, sputtering of stool

with much noisy flatus.

Bismuth subnitrate: Diarrhea coming on suddenly, with intense

thirst, water vomited up as soon as swallowed, restlessness. Weak and

pale; skin warm and may be covered with warm sweats.

Borax v.: Greenish stool day and night with aphthae.

Bryonia: Morning aggravation, after patient begins to move.

Calcium phos.: Sputtering of stool with much noisy flatus.

Chamomilla: Green, slimy stool smelling like rotten eggs. Especially

during dentition.

Colchicum: Symptoms aggravated from sundown to sunrise. Smell of

cooking nauseates to fainting.

Colocynthis: With cramps.

Croton tig.: Yellow, watery stool, coming out like a shot, least food or

drink aggravates.

Dulcamara: From taking cold or from sudden change to cold weather

from warm. From damp weather.

Gelsemium 30d: Diarrhea on excitement such as sudden emotion, bad

news, fright, anticipation of something unusual, etc.

Mercurius: Tenesmus all the time, a never get done feeling.

Natrum sulph.: Morning aggravation, after patient begins to move.

Nitric acid: Great pain after passage of stool, has to walk the floor for

hours in agony.

Nuphar: Morning aggravation.

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Nux vomica: Generally worse in morning, mostly from overeating. Of

slimy mucus and blood, small and unsatisfactory; pain greatly relieved a

short time after each stool.

Oleander: Diarrhea from undigested food, involuntary stool when

emitting flatus.

Phosphorus: Stool profuse, watery; pouring away as if from a hydrant

with lumps of white mucus like grains of tallow, bloody stool with white

particles like opaque frog spawn. Dysentery with wide open anus.

Phytolacca: Child wants to bite its gums on everything it can get a

hold of, with diarrhea.

Podophyllum: Morning aggravation. Profuse, offensive, aggravated

in morning and hot weather. Child wants to bite its gums on everything

it can get hold of.

Pulsatilla: Generally worse in the night, mostly from overeating.

Rumex crispus: Morning aggravation.

Rheum: Sour stool, child smells sour also.

Staphisagria: Diarrhea aggravated by the least food or drink.

Sulphur: Morning aggravation, drives patient out of bed.

Thuja oc.: Forcibly expelled, copious, gurgling like water from a

bunghole. Diarrhea from vaccination.

DIPHTHERIA.

It is not the object of the writer to give a full treatise on diphtheria, still

an outline of the form of treatment which will generally save the patient

where other means fail, will no doubt be welcomed by all well wishers of

humanity.

Lachesis 12 or 30d is our best remedy, especially if mucous surface of

the throat, not covered by the membrane, is of a bluish red color, and if

the membrane first started on the left side. However, it is one of our best

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remedies in any form. May be given in 6 to 10 drops in 2 ounces of

water, 1/2 to 1 teaspoonful every 2 hours. If throat is much swollen apis

2d gtt. v to viii added to above will make it more effective.

Lloyd's specific echinacea 3 to 4 drachms; Lloyd's specific phytolacca 2

drachms and kali mur. 3x, v to vi grains in 2 ounces of water, 1/2 to 1

teaspoonful every 2 hours to alternate with above, thus giving the

patient a dose of medicine every hour, will assist, lachesis and apis in

bringing about a rapid cure.

In severe cases a dose of medicine may be given every 1/2 hour; 1/2 hour

one and the next 1/2 hour the other.

In some cases, where prominently indicated, lycopodium 12d or

mercurius vivus 30d are very good remedies. Sanguinaria nit. 6x is

recommended and has proven to be a valuable adjunct to other remedies

in many cases.

Depressants should be avoided as well as harsh physics. The recumbent

position should be maintained as long as possible, especially in severe

cases. Tonics and stimulants should be given as indicated. Any danger

of paralysis can be met by argentum nit. 30d.

In all cases as the patient gradually improves give medicine at longer

intervals and in smaller doses. Although with above treatment local

applications are not necessary, at times they will assist the

constitutional remedies, in which case papain (L. & F.) in glycerine with

a little carbolic acid added is the best we can use. This can be applied to

the parts every 2 to 3 hours to advantage.

DEBILITY IN GENERAL.

Argentum nit., carbo veg., China, gelsemium, helonias, kali carb.,

selenium, zincum met.

DIABETES.

Lactic acid: With rheumatic pains in joints, great thirst and hunger.

Urine profuse, with large quantity of sugar.

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Natrum mur.: Hunger and intense thirst. Craving for salt and salty

food. Eats well, but still emaciates.

DROPSY.

Apocynum: In general dropsy. See part 1.

Acetic acid: With marked thirst. I

Arsenicum album: With marked thirst, but only drinks a little at a

time.

Apis mel.: In general or local dropsy without thirst Swelling of lower

eyelids.

Convallaria: In general dropsy, result of weak heart or heart trouble.

Digitalis: In general dropsy, result of weak heart or heart trouble.

Kali carb.: Mostly in anemic conditions with swelling of tipper eyelids.

Phosphorus: At times a valuable adjunct to control fatty degeneration.

A few doses a week are sufficient.

Note: If dropsy is the result of portal obstruction, see ceanothus,

carduus m., chelidonium and polymnia u. See part 1.

ECZEMA.

Calcarea ost.: If indicated, by temperament, etc., it is a fine remedy

where we have the milk crust in children's eczema capitis.

Causticum: Eczema with rawness or soreness.

Cicuta virosa: Eczema pustules running together forming thick scab

of yellowish color. Eczema capitis.

Croton tig.: Especially of scrotum where eruption itches intensely, but

is so sensitive and sore to touch that patient cannot scratch. In such

cases we think of above remedy.

Graphites: Eczema or eruptions oozing a thick honey like fluid.

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Natrum mur.: Raw and inflamed, worse at edges of hair.

Petroleum, high potency best: Eczema or eruptions that are bad in

winter and get better or well in summer. Slightest abrasion of the skin

suppurates. Chilblains moist, burn and itch much in cold weather.

Rhus tox.: Eczema of vesicular type, itch very much and not much

relieved by scratching. Burning, sometimes stinging.

Sulphur: Burning and itching.

EPILEPSY.

Arsenicum album 12x: Where there is burning in stomach patient

throws tip arms and finally falls down as if dead.

Belladonna 6d: Coming on from fright.

Causticum 15d: Right side mostly involved. Attacks come on generally

in the night, generally after taking cold.

Chamomilla 3d: From anger. (To be used with other indicated

remedies.)

Cicuta virosa 30d: Opisthotonos, spasm very violent and patient as

violent as the spasm,

Cina 30d: If the attacks are the result of worms.

Cuprum met. 12x: Where the face is red, opisthotonos, generally

comes on at menstrual period, spasm begins with twitching in fingers

and toes, from this spreading over the body.

Hyoscyamus 3d: Face dark red or bluish, pupils dilated, deep sleep

after the attack is over.

Ignatia am 3d: From grief or trouble. (To be used with other indicated

remedies.)

Lachesis 30d: Left side mostly affected, confused mind before attack,

impaired or loss of memory.

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Oenanthe crocata 1d: Where there is rush of blood to the head,

attack coming on suddenly without warning. A valuable remedy if

continued for some time. If it produces headache reduce dose. If any

nervousness is noticed before the attack give a few extra doses.

Pulsatilla 3d: Where face is pale and menses are suppressed.

Silica 12x: Those coming on at new moon and especially at night.

Stramonium 12d: If the attacks are very furious.

Sulphur 6x: If the attacks are the result of suppressed eruptions.

Solanum car.: Recommended in epilepsy; but especially in the female

where the attack comes on at the menstrual period. It needs further

investigation.

Teucrium marum 30d: If result of ascarides or growths in any part of

the body of the nature. of a Polypus.

GONORRHEA.

The remedy mostly indicated in the acute stage is cannabis sativa.

Others that may be indicated may be alternated with above.

After the acute stage has passed and discharge be come thick and

greenish mercurius 30d or pulsatilla 2d will generally correct the

condition.

If a scanty., thin discharge remains sepia 12d, kali iodide 3x or sulphur

6x will correct.

If there is marked burning in gonorrhea in the latter stage, capsicum is

to be remembered.

Involvement of the testicles, inflammation and swelling as a result or

suppression of gonorrhea, pulsatilla or thuja oc. are the remedies.

In any tendency to stricture clematis erecta is a useful adjunct as well as

for suppressed gonorrhea where testicles become large, swollen and

hard.

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As constitutional remedies to alternate with any of the above remedies

tincture of echinacea and kali mur. 3x are very useful in fair sized

doses. A much better and safer way to treat gonorrhea than by the old

method of injecting. Do not give these remedies too often or too strong. If

they increase trouble reduce dose 1/2 or more. A dose of medicine 2 to 3

times a day is sufficient.

GOITRE.

Iodium: Give in small doses, high potency for a week, then discontinue

for 2 or 3 weeks and again give for a week, etc.

Lapis albus: Give high potency and not too frequently. Especially

indicated where there are burning and shooting pains.

Spongia tosta: In goitre where there is a sense of suffocation after

awakening from sleep.

HAY FEVER.

Arundo mauritanica 3d is claimed to be a fine remedy. Lachesis 200 p. is

a good remedy. The 1000 or 2000p. often acts better.

HEMORRHOIDS.

Aesculus hip.: Feels as if rectum was filled with sticks. Hemorrhoids as

a rule do not bleed; but there is great soreness, aching and pain in the

back. As a rule no constipation.

Aloe: Rectum comes out like a bunch of grapes, color blue, itches

intensely. Relieved by cold applications.

Antimonium crudum: Mucous hemorrhoids where there is a

continual oozing of mucus, staining underwear.

Causticum: Swollen, itching, smarting rawness, stinging, burning,

and soreness. Aggravated when walking, talking or thinking, about

them.

Collinsonia: Feels as if rectum was full of sticks; piles often bleed

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continually. Constipation with colic at times as a result.

Muriatic acid: Relieved by hot applications, very sore and sensitive to

touch. Blue color of the hemorrhoids.

Nitric acid: They protrude, crack, bleed and are very sore. Severe pain

after each stool.

HEMORRHAGES.

Acid acetic: From every outlet of the body, the result of decomposition

of the blood, a condition found in many forms of fevers, especially in the

tropical regions.

Acid sulphuric: From all outlets of the body. There may form under

the skin ecchymosed spots, showing that even the capillaries break

down. Sense of internal trembling. Weak and prostrated condition of

patient as a rule.

Alumina: Blood in large clots like pieces of liver, in typhoid.

Carbo veg.: In weak patients very much debilitated, pale even before

hemorrhage. It appears as if tissues are not strong enough and are so

relaxed as to let the blood ooze out. Collapse, “want to be fanned”

condition.

Ipecac: Active hemorrhage from any outlet of body. Blood bright red

and profuse.

Phosphorus:. In purpura hemorrhagica. The blood so broken down

that it will not clot.

Sabina: Uterine hemorrhages worse from motion, coming on in

paroxysms with pain running from back to pubes. Feels better in open

or cold air.

Secale cor.: Useful in passive hemorrhage from all outlets of the body

and especially useful in weak, thin and scrawny women with lax

muscular fibers. Although cold to touch they cannot bear to be covered.

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LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA.

Alumina, argentum nit., causticum, conium in., phosphorus, silica. Any

of the above remedies if indicated may be of service in this trouble.

MIND SYMPTOMS IN GENERAL.

Absence of mind: Anacardium o., kreosotum, lachesis, mercurius,

natrum mur.

Anxiety, spells of: Aconite, arsenicum album, belladonna, chamomilla,

ignatia am., nux vomica, pulsatilla.

Contradiction, tendency to: Causticum, ferrum acetate or met.

Contradiction internal, mental: Anacardium o.

Cowardice: As a result of sickness or nervous condition: Baryta carb.

Cross and ugly: Chamomilla, cina, colocynthis, nux vomica,

staphisagria.

Depressed remedies: Causticum, cocculus ind., pulsatilla, sepia, silica.

Fear of death: When physical symptoms disappear mind symptoms

appear and vice versa. Changeable, moody, gay or sad: Platina.

Fear of death, especially in fevers: Aconite.

Fitful, changing moods and dispositions: Aconite, crocus sativus,

ignatia am., platina.

Hypochondriasis: Anacardium o., aurum, argentum nit., conium m.,

eupatorium perf., kali brom., natrum mur., nux vomica, phosphoric acid,

spongia t., staphisagria.

Globus hystericus: Asafetida, belladonna, ignatia am., lachesis,

platina, sepia.

Memory, loss of: Anacardium o., baryta carb., lycopodium, natrum

mur., sulphur.

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Thoughts, vanishing: Camphor, cannabis ind., lachesis, nux

moschata.

Weak memory in general from fatigue of mental labor: Aurum,

calcium, lachesis, natrum mur., nux vomica, phosphoric acid, pulsatilla,

silica.

Headache or other conditions aggravated by the least mental

exertion: Argentum nit., natrum carb., sabadilla. Mind symptoms:

Aconite: Fear of death, attacks of anxiety. Anger, the result of fright or

fear. Conditions resulting from fright or fear.

Anacardium orientale: Loss of memory, especially in old people that

are broken down in health. There is desire to curse and swear, which

they cannot resist. Patient seems to have two wills; one will command

him to do one thing, the other, another.

Antimonium crudum: Child cross, does not want to be touched or

even looked at, will cry and scream at every little attention paid to it.

This applies to grown people to some extent. In grown people there may

be a tendency to commit suicide, the result of digestive wrongs.

Argentum nit.: The sight of high houses makes patient dizzy, often

makes him stagger. It appears to him that the houses on both sides of

the street lean toward him or are about to approach and crush him. He

dreads to pass a street corner for fear that he will run against the corner

of a house, as it seems to project so far. Is very impulsive, cannot help

but walk fast. Hurried feeling; this may be result of wrongs of the

sexual organs.

Arsenicum album: Mental and physical restlessness is very marked,

still is too weak to toss about; a feeling as if there is no hope, it is useless

to take medicine. Wants to continually change places even if there is no

pain, can't keep still, wants to be moved or if strong enough walks

about.

Marked anxiety, restlessness and weakness. May be a tendency to

commit suicide but hesitates. Much anxiety nights.

Aurum met.: This remedy is indicated where there is a strong

tendency to commit suicide. Patients look at the dark side of life, will

weep and pray and think that they are not fit for this world. Patient is

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in despair, life seems to be a burden and death seems to be the only

relief: Suicide is continually in their minds. In men this mental condition

is often connected with liver trouble and in women with uterine trouble.

Religious melancholy with a desire to die or commit suicide.

Baptisia: Weak, drowsy, mind confused and senses so blunted that

patient will fall asleep before be can answer a question, or may fall

asleep in the middle of an answer. As condition goes on he mutters,

tosses about trying to get himself together as he feels as if he is

scattered all over the bed. This is a typhoid condition.

Belladonna: In acute diseases with wild delirium, patient imagines he

sees wild animals, insects, etc., laughs, screams, gnashes teeth, bites and

strikes, wants to run away, is afraid of imaginary things. Hard to

control. This where blood rushes to the head. In other general conditions

sensitive to cold, wants head wrapped up, gets cold from having hair cut

or head uncovered. Belladonna patients often have attacks of anxiety.

Causticum: Melancholy, sadness, looks on the dark side of life.

Hopelessness. This melancholy disposition may be the result of sorrow,

grief, anxiety, and care; of trouble, business or worry. This disposition

may be alternated with an irritable or hysterical condition.

Chamomilla: Feels mean, cross, snappish, but cannot help it. For

conditions the result of anger this is a splendid remedy, The child is

cross, wants things only to reject them if handed. In adults we find that

they are cross, ugly, snappish and even spiteful. Patient knows it,

admits his fault, begs pardon, promises not to act so any more: only to

repeat the offense.

Cimicifuga: Nervous symptoms, chilliness without coldness, fainting,

talk uninterrupted, changing subject often. There is a gloomy

disposition, sighs, and feels grieved and troubled. Thinks that he will

lose his reason.

Coffea cruda: Nervous conditions calling for coffea cruda are that all

senses are more acute than normal. Activity of body and mind, full of

fancies and plans for the future, quick to act; smell, taste and touch all

are more acute than usual. There is sleeplessness on that account. In

pain, cannot bear pain, there is great anguish. If in coffee drinkers we

would have to give chamomilla.

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Crocus sativus: Patient is alternately cheerful or depressed, hysterical.

Sings, dances, jumps, laughs, loves and wants to kiss everybody as

Nash says. Again when depressed cries, often flies into a fit of rage,

abuses and is uncivil to friends. Sensation as if there was something

hopping in the chest, stomach or uterus, which latter is many times

mistaken for pregnancy.

Helleborus niger: In severe acute diseases Head rolls from side to side,

patient is stupid, there are cold sweats; motion of jaws as if chewing;

pupils dilated and patient often cannot be made to see or hear.

Continual motion of one arm and leg while other arm and leg lie as if

paralyzed. Great thirst, wants water. There is great indication for

helleborus in such desperate conditions.

Hyoscyamus: In acute delirium where there is stupid muttering; there

may be occasionally an outbreak of violence, I but if so it does not last

long as patient is too weak. Face pale and sunken. Any wild delirium

decreases gradually, on account of weakness, until it often ends in

unconsciousness. Tongue dry, mind blurred, cannot answer questions

correctly or does not hear them, stares, looks around but sees nothing,

eyes wide or half open. Picks at or grasps at something in the air, picks

at bed clothes, lower jaw drops, teeth covered with sordes, bowels move

involuntarily and the urine passes away involuntarily. A picture of a

desperate typhoid condition, scarlet fever or typhoid pneumonia, in

which it is a good remedy. In mania or mania after acute delirium it is a

good remedy, where patient is very suspicious, thinks lie is to be

poisoned, on that account does not want to take medicine. Thinks there

is a plot against him, is jealous or thinks the attack is caused by

jealously. Patient will expose him or herself, and talk and sing

amorously. May be tendency to suicide after grief, trouble or a fit of

anger.

Ignatia am.: Sadness and silent grieving. Suppressed grief, sobbing,

long drawn sighs with tendency to hide grief from others. Patient

desires to be alone with grief. Weak, faint and all gone feeling in the

stomach Changeable mood in hysterical subjects who may be merry

and full of joy suddenly followed by sadness with tears and a general

melancholy condition. Being so easily impressed patient is easily

frightened. Therefore good in effects of fright. Especially a remedy for

nervous conditions in hysterical subjects of the female sex. Useful in

angry and irritable moods the result of grief, trouble or a fit of anger in

which case there may be a tendency to commit suicide. Attacks of

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anxiety at times.

Lachesis: Alternate action of the mind, excitation and depression is the

most important indication for this remedy. There is abnormal mental

activity and perceptibility. Talks very freely but changes subjects

rapidly; jumps from one idea to another. When depression is present we

find that the memory is weak, there is confusion of time, makes

mistakes when writing. Delirium may be present at night, patient

muttering; drowsy; face red; speech difficult and lower jaw dropped

down. Patient feels very sad, distressed and depressed in mind. This

condition is worse on awakening in the morning or in fact from

awakening from sleep at any time. These symptoms may be found in

acute and chronic cases, very often in chronic alcoholism, run down

conditions and at the climateric. Circulation of lachesis patient is very

uncertain, there may be rush of blood to head or anemia of the brain.

Natrum carb.: Unable to think or do mental labor without headache,

vertigo or stupefaction. Headache worse by light or sunlight. Sadness,

oversensitive to noise, especially music.

Natrum mur.: Patient is aggravated by consolation and comforting.

Nux moschata: Absence of mind, must collect his thoughts before he

can answer a simple question. There is stupor and unconquerable desire

to sleep. Thoughts vanish while talking, reading or writing. May

suddenly change from deepest sorrow to joy. Now gay, then again grave.

Weakness and loss of memory. Excessive dryness of mouth. Fainting

easily.

Nux vomica, Hypochondriasis; gloomy disposition, easily roused from

this condition to anger or becomes irritable. Oversensitive, easily

offended; when excited to anger is spiteful and even mean. Desire to

commit suicide after grief, trouble or fit of anger. Nux vomica patients

often have attacks of anxiety or worry a great deal.

Phosphorus: Anxiety and restlessness precede other conditions.

Therefore indicated in irritations of the brain and nervous system which

if not checked may result in severe disease or even softening of brain.

Patient fears to be alone, afraid in the dark, in thunder storm, in the

woods, etc. In brain softening or latter stage-of brain or nerve trouble.

May be indifferent or refuse to talk or talk very slowly; cannot think

clearly, cannot study, ideas come too slowly or not at all. Sometimes

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patient becomes amative or exposes him or herself shamelessly.. Empty ,

gone feeling in the stomach, in fact in the whole abdomen.

Phosphoric acid: Feeling of heavy weight on vertex or pain in occiput.

Prostration and marked despair. May be in severe disease such as

typhoid or other conditions, or from emotion. The depression is almost

stupefying. Is weak and feels exhausted, does not care to talk but wants

to be left alone. So weak as to want to lie down whenever possible. These

conditions may be the result of overstrain, bodily or mentally or result

of onanism or sexual excesses. This remedy is also often indicated and of

value in young people who grow too fast. In tall and slim subjects.

Pulsatilla: Mild, yielding disposition. Cries, is sad and weeps over

almost everything. Gloomy disposition; feels blue. Pulsatilla

temperament is the fair subject; with light hair, eyes blue, face pale, and

is inclined to always look at the dark side of life and often has attacks of

anxiety. There may be a desire to commit suicide but patient fears

death.

Rhus tox.: Aggravation when quiet. In fevers dry or dark tongue with

red edges. Stupefaction and delirium mild but persistent. Patient tosses

around without knowing what is going on around. May answer

question correctly but will not remember afterwards. Nervous

restlessness. May be tendency to commit suicide with a marked restless

and stupid condition.

Sepia: Sad and cries frequently not knowing the reason why. This

generally in uterine troubles but applies to other conditions as well. This

remedy as we see has similar indications to pulsatilla, however it differs

in this: there being no sign of brain lesion or dementia; the patient will

lose interest in comfort, family, occupation, household and even those

she loves; which is contrary to her usual habits.

Staphisagria: Sudden outburst of passion, feels dissatisfied with what

he or others have done and continually worries about the future.

Becomes indignant; at the table he pushes things away as if they were

in his way. Often what he handles he will throw away indignantly.

There is oversensitiveness to impression, the least word seems wrong

and hurts him. A hypochondriacal disposition, memory weak, all of

which are often the result of disappointments, sleeplessness, sexual

excesses, insults that were not earned or of continually having the mind

on sexual subjects. Anger with indignation.

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Stramonium: The most prominent delirium, remedy. Raving of the

worst kind. Sing, whistle, grin, laugh, scream, pray or swear and are

loquacious. Patient throws him or herself in all kinds of shapes, stiffens,

rolls up in a ball, turns in all directions, jerks head from pillow.

Everything looks crooked or oblique to him and we can thus see that the

condition is a pitiable one. This may be followed by loss of senses, dilated

pupils, loss of speech, sweats without relief and death, if not checked by

this remedy. It is the remedy in the most wildly loquacious conditions, as

Nash states. Patient wants to escape, feels as if lost. Face very red and

often bloated. There may be present a desire to commit suicide with

marked anxiety, delirium and restlessness. Feeling as if head, legs or

body were greatly enlarged or. expanded. Wants light; fears solitude.

There may be fear of or aversion to water or fluids.

Thuja: Thinks a certain person was beside him; has an idea that soul

and body are separate; thinks body, but especially the limbs, were made

of glass, therefore thinks legs will break. Feels as if there was a living

animal in the abdomen. Insane women will not be approached or

touched. Think they are under the influence of a superior power. Has

an idea a strange person is beside him or her.

Veratrum album: There is a mania with desire to tear and cut

anything they, get hold of; but especially clothes. Their talk is lewd,

lascivious, amorous, religious. Patient is very loquacious and religious.

Face pale, sunken or hippocratic with general weakness. There may be

violent mania alternating with disposition to be quiet; but if aggravated

will scold, call names, and find fault with others. These may be in acute

or chronic cases. The result of suppressed menses in women or any other

cause. Sick of life, desire to commit suicide, with cold extremities or cold

sweats or both. Useful in effects of fright or tear.

ORIFICES OF THE BODY.

Graphites: In eczematous conditions or fissures of the orifices of the

body.

Natrum mur.: In cracked and fissured orifices where mucous

membrane joins skin.

Nitric acid: In cracked and fissured orifices where mucous membrane

joins skin.

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Sulphur: Red and burning, acrid discharge from all orifices of the body,

causing redness and burning.

Thuja oc.: In warts near orifices or any other place.

PERTUSSIS.

Antimonium tartaricum: Much accumulation of mucus with coarse,

rattling, filling tip but unable or too weak to raise. May feel drowsy.

Cina: As a general remedy, better where there are worm symptoms.

Corallium rub.: Continual hacking during day, severe paroxysms

during the night. Given a few times a day it may often abort the trouble

when child has been exposed.

Cuprum met.: Twitching, get stiff and may become unconscious.

Drosera: Barking cough, feeling of constriction in chest.

Ipecac: Suffocating cough, child will become blue in the face.

Magnesium phos.: For spasms, to be given whenever there is marked

spasm or one is expected.

Sambucus nig.: Gets blue in face as if suffocating.

Solanum car.: Take Lloyd’s specific solanum drachm one-half;

glycerine and water of each two ounces. Of this one teaspoonful 2 to 3

times a day or in severe spasm of cough. If it causes dullness or

drowsiness reduce dose. A very good remedy.

PROSTRATION, COLLAPSE, CYANOSIS, DYSPNEA, STUPOR

OR WANT OF REACTION AND DESPERATE CONDITIONS.

Arnica: Feels sore and bruised all over, stupor from which patient can

be aroused only momentarily. Dark streak along center of tongue. Urine

and stool pass away involuntarily. Breath fetid. Face dark red.

Arsenicum album: Especially in latter stage of inflammatory fevers,

marked prostration and restlessness. Too weak to move; but wants to be

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changed from one position to another almost continually. Symptoms

aggravated about midnight. Although anxious about condition feels

hopeless as to recovery. May be burning sensation.

Baptisia: Prostration, mind confused, drowsy, may be in a stupor from

which he may be only momentarily aroused. Feels sore all over, bed

feels too hard, feels about to gather himself together, moves almost

continually to. get easier. Stool and sweat very offensive. Face dark red

and at times puffed up. Dark streak along center of tongue. In fact a

picture of typhoid condition.

Camphor: Sudden and marked prostration. Cold all over, still cannot

bear to be covered.

Carbo veg.: Vital forces almost exhausted, patient lies as if dead and is

indifferent to everything going on around him. Pulse faint and thready

and may be slow or rapid. Breath may be cold, legs often covered with

cold sweats. So weak as to be in a “want to be fanned condition” in order

to breathe. Facies hippocratica, in these desperate conditions carbo veg.

12x will often save life where all other means would fail. Hemorrhage

from any surface of the body of dark blood which is in such a broken

down condition that if will not clot.

Digitalis: Cyanosis or dyspnea worse lying down. Pulse slow, irregular

and may be intermittent.

Helleborus niger: Head rolls from side to side. There is a marked

degree of stupidity, still may scream at times. Forehead wrinkled and

covered with cold sweat. Arm and leg on one side move continually

while, arm and leg on other side lie as if paralyzed. Urine scanty with

coffee ground sediment, may be suppression of urine. All these

symptoms are often found in brain complication in severe diseases.

Laurocerasus: Dyspnea or cyanosis worse sitting up.

Muriatic acid: Sliding towards the foot of the bed from general

weakness, moaning and dropping of lower jaw. Tongue shrunken, pulse

is weak and intermittent. Stool and urine pass involuntarily.

Hemorrhage if present is dark but blood- is. not clotted. It shows that

blood is broken down. A picture which we often see in typhoid

conditions.

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Psorium: Dyspnea or cyanosis worse sitting up.

Sambucus nig.: Cyanotic condition can inspire freely but expire only

with difficulty.

Senega: Labored breathing, asthmatic or suffocating spells.

Tartar emetic: Great drowsiness and prostration, even coma. Face

pale or cyanotic.

Valerian: If of nervous origin and the indicated remedy fails as a

result.

Veratrum album: Collapse, fainting or great prostration with cold

sweat on forehead. May be cold all over with clammy perspiration.

RHEUMATISM AND SCIATICA.

Antimonium crud.: Chronic rheumatism where feet are covered with

corns and callosities, which are tender, can hardly walk on them on

account of tenderness. With tongue indication.

Arsenicum album: Sciatica worse at midnight, 1 to 3 A. M.

Cactus g.: Pain goes downward in rheumatism.

Calcium phos.: Rheumatism aggravated in spring and fall. In cold,

damp air, especially from melting snow.

Causticum: Chronic rheumatism, drawing and tearing pain in legs or

joints; stiffness in sacrum when rising from chair, dull, drawing pain in

hands and arms. Worse in open air; better in bed. Also useful in

inflammatory rheumatism. Condition aggravated in clear weather and

decreased in damp weather.

China: Every other day aggravation.

Colocynthis: Sciatica pain extends from hip down posterior portion of

thigh into popliteal fossa. Decrease of pain on lying on affected side.

Ferrum met.: Worse in wet weather, drives patient but of bed.

Rheumatism in right deltoid muscle.

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Kali bichrom.: Pain does not stay long in one place nor is there a

tendency to swelling.

Kali sulph.: Wandering rheumatic pains.

Kalmia l.: Pain goes downward, shifts suddenly.

Lac caninum: Pain alternates sides, one day one side is worse, next

day the other side, etc.

Ledum p.: In chronic, patient is generally unnaturally cold. Warmth

aggravates. condition, cold seems to relieve. Begins in feet and goes

upward.

In acute pain begins in feet and travels upwards. Swelling is

white, worse at night and hot. Covering tip nights makes it worse. Cold

relieves.

Lithium carbonicum: Rheumatic soreness in cardiac region, violent

pain in heart when bending over. Pains in heart when urinating or at

menstrual period. Swelling with redness of small joints.

Manganum: Pain shifts crosswise from joint to joint.

Mercurius: Sweat does not relieve pains; may make them worse.

Phytolacca: In sciatica the pain runs down the outer side of limb.

Silica: Patient cold, lacks animal heat, aggravated at night, warmth

ameliorates pain in legs and feet.

Sticta p.: Rheumatism of knee joints, it is of value..

Valerian: In some forms of rheumatism this is a valuable adjunct.

Veratrum album: Worse in wet weather, drives patient out of bed; if

indicated otherwise. Pain so severe as to sometimes drive patient to

delirium.

Marked wandering pains or erratic pains: Kali bichrom., kali

sulph., lac caninum, pulsatilla. As a general remedy for rheumatism to

add to other indicated remedies or alternate with same, fluid extract of

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rhamnus californica, one drachm to 2 ounces of water is a very good

remedy. For particulars see rheumatism in part I.

REPRODUCTIVE WRONGS OF FEMALE.

Before going into the general symptomatology of wrongs of the

reproductive organs in the female sex I wish to call attention to a few

causes of congested or engorged ovaries and uterus, which are often

overlooked. Engorgement and congestion of the ovaries and uterus are

often the result of the abuse of harsh physics, especially if the patient is

in the general habit of taking them. Emmenagogues so extensively used

are another cause which is to be deplored. The corset is another cause

and the medical profession should step in and see that laws are passed

to prohibit the use and sale of corsets. In coition, continued excitement

without performing of function, in other words without orgasm is quite

often the cause of congested ovaries. Masturbation is another well

known cause. Cancers of uterus from various local irritations. Cancers or

tumors of the mammae from pressure of corsets.

Ovaries: Inflammation in general of the ovaries, remedies most often

indicated are: Aconite, apis mel., arsenicum album, belladonna or

bryonia. However at times cantharides, lachesis or mercurius are

indicated.

Trouble arising in the left ovary: Lachesis, lilium tigrinum, ustilago.

Trouble arising in the right ovary: Apis mel., belladonna, bryonia,

Lycopodium, podophyllum.

Pain in ovaries ameliorated by lying on painful side, the pain sharp and

cutting: Bryonia.

Pain sharp, cutting, stinging in ovaries, ovarian dropsy: Apis mel.

Pain in left ovary, aching, burning, ovaries hard and swollen and very

sore to the touch: Ustilago.

Pain in ovaries, sharp cutting, extending across abdomen, also down left

thigh: Lilium tigrinum.

Pain burning in ovaries., if indicated: Cantharides.

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Pain in right ovary running down thigh of same side, ovarian tumors

with this indication have disappeared by the use of: Podophyllum.

Arnica: Bruised, sore feeling in uterus, cannot walk erect.

Belladonna: Pressure downward in vulva as if it would come out,

aggravated in the morning. Pain in back as if it would break.

Conium m.: Scirrhous affections of uterus, ovaries or breasts with

burning, darting or stinging pain.

Graphites: Lumps in breasts. Hard cicatrix in breasts from abscess.

These can be softened and absorbed by graphites, if indicated.

Kreosotum: Ulcers on uterus, tendency to uterine hemorrhages. The

hemorrhages are intermittent, may be leucorrhea.

Lilium tigrinum: Sensation of constriction of heart, weight as if the

pelvic contents would press out. Menses flow only when moving about.

Pain and fluttering of the heart. Frequent desire to urinate. Reflex

irritation in bladder, rectum or urethra. Hurried feeling, Pain in left

ovary running down left thigh, often with numbness in leg. In

nymphomania.

Murex purpurea: Excessive sexual desire. Sinking sensation in

stomach and bearing down pressure. Uterus feels sore and tender.

Sexual desire brought on by the least contact of parts.

Platina: Excessive sexual desire in virgins and others. Mental and

physical symptoms alternate. Pruritis vulvae worse on sitting.

Pulsatilla: Pale face, headache, nausea, vomiting, or stitches in the

side, before, during or after menses. Menses scanty and too late.

Frequent desire to urinate during or after menses. Gastralgia before

menses. Despondent and blue, cries often without knowing why.

Sepia: Aversion to sexual intercourse. No desire. Labor-like bearing

down pain coming on from back, going to abdomen. Flashes of heat with

perspiration and weakness. Hands hot and feet cold or vice versa.

Tearful mind and loss of interest in house and home, etc. In ulceration

of the os uteri it is a fine remedy.

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Staphisagria: Cauliflower excrescence on os uteri or female genitals.

As a general sexual sedative in masturbation, nymphomania and to

tone the organs to normal condition, 4 drachms of Lloyd's specific salix

nigra aments to 4 ounces of water and a teaspoonful 3 to 4 times a day

is our best remedy, especially if result of local irritation. If more of

mental than local irritation, 10 drops of pulsatilla should be added to

above. Locally in nymphomania a 50% solution of tincture of calendula

applied to clitoris whenever the desire cannot be controlled is very

effective to relieve the temporary condition as well as assist the internal

treatment.

Coition: Increased desire.: Cantharides, china, murex P., nux vomica,

platina, veratrum album, zincum met.

Disposition to coition in females: Hyoscyamus, kali, kreosotum,

murex p., sabina, sulphuric acid.

Absence of or retarded enjoyment during same: Berberis vul.,

ferrum, ferrum mur.

Painful: Berberis vul., ferrum mur., kreosotum.

Repugnance to: Causticum, kali, natrum mur., petroleum.

Conception taking place very easily: Mercurius, natrum.

Abdomen enlarged in women who have born many children:

Aurum met., aurum mur., belladonna, fraxinus am., helonias,

phosphorus, sepia.

Abdomen enlarged in girls at puberty: Calcium phos., graphites,

lachesis, sulphur.

Excoriating of the genitals: Carbo veg., graphites, kreosotum,

mercurius, nitric acid, rhus tox., sepia, staphisagria.

Genital hair falling out: Mercurius, nitric acid, sassafras.

Genitals, sensation of heat in: Sulphuric acid.

Inflammation and swelling of vulva: Belladonna, bryonia, carbo

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veg., mercurius' sepia, sulphur.

Itching of vulva: Carbo veg., kreosotum, nitric acid, natrum sulph.,

platina, sepia, sulphur, tarantula hisp.

Ulcers on the vulva: Graphites, nitric acid, mercurius, sepia.

Uterus, burning in: Bryonia.

Uterus, sensation of dryness in: Murex p.

Vagina:. Dryness of vagina: Belladonna, lycopodium.

— inflammation of: Mercurius.

— chronic burning in: Sulphur.

Menses.

Painful in general: Belladonna, cimicifuga, cocculus ind., crocus s.,

gelsemium, ignatia am., magnesium phos., platina, pulsatilla, veratrum

album.

Pain in back during: Ammonium mur., belladonna, causticum,

lycopodium, phosphorus.

Pain bearing down during: Belladonna, china, conium m., nux

moschata, platina, sepia.

Pain in back with suppression: Arsenicum album.

Pain in mammae before menses, aggravated by walking, pain is of

a burning, stinging or darting nature: Conium m.

Pain or soreness in mammae, with swelling before menses:

Calcium.

Pain in stomach before or during menses: Lachesis, magnesium

phos., nux moschata, pulsatilla, sulphur, viburnum opulus.

Abdomen, distention of during menses: Berberis vul., cocculus ind.,

kreosotum, zincum met.

Epistaxis before menses: Lachesis, sulphur, veratrum album.

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— During menses: Natrum sulph., sepia, sulphur.

— With suppressed menses: Bryonia, phosphorus.

Face bloated during menses: China.

Fainting during menses: Berberis vul., ignatia am., nux vomica.

Feels better during menstruation than at other times: Zincum met.

Feet swelling during menses: Graphites, lycopodium.

Headache before menses: Calcium phos., carbo veg., conium in.,

cuprum met., ferrum acetate, lachesis, natrum carb., natrum mur., nux

moschata, sulphur, veratrum album.

Headache during: Borax v., calcium phos., carbo veg., graphites,

hyoscyamus, ignatia am., lycopodium, magnesium carb., natrum mur.,

natrum sulph., nux vomica, lachesis, phosphorus., platina, pulsatilla,

sulphur, veratrum album.

Headache after: Lachesis, natrum mur., pulsatilla.

Heat in genitals before menses: Kreosotum, mercurius, nitric acid,

rhus tox.

— During menses: Calcium phos., ignatia am.

Irritable before or during menses: Conium in., kreosotum, natrum

mur., platina, sulphur.

Melancholy before menses: Causticum, natrum mur., lycopodium,

stannum met.

Melancholy during: Pulsatilla, sepia.

Spasms, hysterical before: Hyoscyamus, kreosotum. During:

Lachesis, pulsatilla.

Sensation of fullness in pit of stomach during menses: Daphne ind.,

digitalis, lycopodium, phosphorus, sulphur.

Stomach, fullness of, during menses which appears to obstruct

respiration: Natrum sulph., nux moschata.

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Swelling in pit of stomach during: Aconite, arsenicum album,

calcium phos., causticum, hepar sulph., lycopodium, natrum mur.

Sensation of heat in pit of stomach during: Bryonia, sabadilla.

Urination, frequent desire before: Phosphorus, sulphur. During:

Hyoscyamus, pulsatilla. After: Pulsatilla.

Yawning frequent during day time, coldness of left lower leg.

Weariness of lower limbs. Unable to sleep at menstrual time: Agaricus.

For hysterical symptoms, see mind symptoms.

Menstrual Period, Colic or Cramps.

Cimicifuga racemosa: Pain in back to hips and then down along the

thighs.

Caulophyllum: Intermittent and spasmodic pain Screams with pain.

Internal trembling.

Chamomilla: Menstrual colic following anger. Laborlike pains begin in

back and pass oft inner side of thigh or press upwards.

Cocculus ind.: Great distention of abdomen, griping, cramping pain.

Flow scanty or becomes scantier. Depression. May be empty feeling.

Coffea: Black clots with almost unbearable pains. If this does not

correct see chamomilla.

Cuprum met.: Spasm from bodily exhaustion from overexertion.

Begins in fingers and toes and spreads generally.

Magnesium mur.: Flow worse at night, very painful, accompanied by

severe cramps, so severe as to throw patient into hysterical spasms at

times.

Magnesium phos.: Cramp-like pain. Hot application ameliorates pain.

Pulsatilla: Menses stop and flow. Painful menstruation with marked

restlessness, suppressed menses from chilling or getting feet wet. Menses

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too late and scanty. Feels better in the open, cool air.

Sabadilla: Cramps or flatulence with red spots forming on abdomen at

times.

Viburnum opulus: Pains beginning in back, radiating to loins and

ending in cramps in uterus, especially if of neuralgic nature.

Menorrhagia or Metrorrhagia.

Bovista: Flow. worse in bed at night. Generally profuse.

Calcarea carb.: Too early and profuse, generally in spare subjects.

Calcarea ost.: Profuse menses, especially in fleshy subjects, inclined to

obesity, generally menses are too early.

Capsella bursa pastoris: In persistent metrorrhagia from general

weakness and weakness in lining membrane of uterus as well as

capillaries, the least exertion bringing on the flow. Condition as above

are often the result of abortion; 1 or 2 drops of the mother tincture in

water 2 to 4 times a day is average dose.

Carbo animalis: Flow weakens patient so she can hardly walk,

especially in delicate women; may be too long or too early or both.

Carbo veg.: Flow weakens much, may be “want to be fanned”

condition.

Caulophyllum: Bearing down pain (pain in fingers) blood dark, liquid.

Also in passive hemorrhages.

Cimicifuga: Marked pressing down pain in back, through hips down

to thighs. Sharp uterine pain darting to either or both sides.

Ferrum met. or acetate: Anemic condition, with rush of blood to

head. Menses too soon and too profuse and last too long, with marked

red face, ringing in the ears, flow watery and weakening.

Lac caninum: If throat and breasts get sore at period. Menses flow in

great gushes only.

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Magnesium carb.: Blood black and offensive, stains napkin. Hard to

clean.

Nux vomica: A few days too early and at times lasts too long. Copious.

Platina: Too profuse, black and clotted blood. Genitals excessively

sensitive to touch. Changing mood, gay and sad.

Sabina: Marked hemorrhage comes in paroxysms. Pain from back to

pubes.

Secale cor.: Coldness of surface of body, but cannot bear to be covered.

Best adapted to feeble women with lax muscles. Motion increases

hemorrhage.

Ustilago: More irritation and pain in ovaries. Especially at climateric.

Menstrual Irregularities.

Menses flow all night: Bovista, ammonium mur.

Flow only when moving about: Lilium tigrinum.

Flow only at night or when lying down: Magnesium carb.

Vicarious menstruation: Bryonia, phosphorus.

Menses before proper age: Calcium, calcium phos., carbo veg., china,

cocculus ind., sabina, silica, veratrum album.

Irregular: Ferrum, phosphorus, pulsatilla, secale cor., sepia, sulphur.

Recurring too. early every time: Calcium phos., carbo an., ignatia

am., kreosotum, nux vomica, sabadilla, secale cor.

Recurring too late: Phosphorus, pulsatilla, sepia. Suppressed from

Cold:

Antimonium crud.: Caused by cold bath or baths.

Dulcamara: From getting cold in change of warm to cold weather.

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Pulsatilla: From getting feet wet or chilled.

Suppressed from fright: Aconite, coffea, ignatia am., lycopodium,

veratrum album.

Suppressed.

Aconite: Especially if from fright or inflammatory condition.

Antimonium crud.: Caused by cold bath or baths.

Arsenicum album: With pain in back and loins.

Bryonia: Bursting headache. Epistaxis in place of menses.

Kali carb.: Weak, anemic, skin milky white, weakness, pain in lumbar

region. Swelling of upper eyelid. May bloat in face.

Phosphorus: If menses do not appear there may be epistaxis or

bleeding of the lungs.

Pulsatilla: From getting wet feet, or chilled feet. Weeping disposition,

wants to be comforted.

Veratrum album: Mental symptoms as a result, if indicated.

Scanty.

Cocculus ind.: Scanty and get scantier, changing at times to

leucorrheal discharge. Weakness and depression.

Graphites: Scanty and too late.

Kali carb.: Weak and anemic, skin milky white, weak, pain in lumbar

region. Swelling of upper eyelids. Bloat in face.

Natrum mur.: Weak, anemic, throbbing headache, palpitation of

heart. Shortness of breath; despondent, weeping disposition, comforting

aggravates feeling.

Pulsatilla: Scanty and delayed, changeable, stop and flow.

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Caladium, calcium, causticum, kreosotum, lobelia, mercurius, nitric acid,

platina, sepia, staphisagria, sulphur, tarantula his., thuja oc.

Mechanical displacement of uterus: Secale cornutum.

Climateric.

Flushes of heat, if indicated: Sulphuric acid.

Flushes of heat, sudden: Lachesis.

Flushes of heat, in climateric, if indicated, especially with heat in

the soles of the feet and palms of the hands: ,Sanguinaria can.

Cancers of Breast and Uterus.

Carbo an.: Hard nodular mammary tumors; swelling in axillary,

mammary or inguinal region, especially in those that are subject to

glandular swelling'.

Conium m.: If from a blow or injury. (Hard and heavy feeling.) Pain

may be darting, stinging or burning.

Graphites: Nodular breast tumors. Lumps in breasts. Hard and old

cicatrices, the result of abscesses of the breasts, will soften and

disappear by the use of this remedy.

Kreosotum: Uterus hard , bleeds easily, but changes off-bleeds easily,

then stops, etc. Mammae hard, bluish red, covered with protuberances.

Lachesis: Bluish nature, very sensitive to touch, if open bleeds easy,

latter giving temporary relief. Marked blueness or swelling. Blue any

part of the body or in mouth, uterus, etc.

Lapis albus: Tumors and cancers in general, with burning pain.

Ova testa 3x: Pain of cancer, of mammae and uterus.

Tarantula cub.: Bluish swelling, very painful.

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Leucorrhaea.

Thick, bland and yellowish green: Carbo veg., pulsatilla,, sepia,

stannum met.

Greenish: Carbo veg., lycopodium, nitric acid, phosphorus, pulsatilla,

sepia, sulphur.

Discharge thin, afterwards becomes thicker and more bland, worse

in night:, Mercurius.

Viscid, stringy: Hydrastis, iris v., kali bichrom.

Jelly-like discharge, gringy: Aloe, kali bichrom.

Thin, watery, burning discharge: Arsenicum album, natrum mur.

Sticky: Graphites.

Corrosive: Arsenicum album, iodium , kreosotum, mercurius, natrum

mur., sulphur, sulphuric acid.

Acrid, corrosive, leucorrhea, chronic, so sharp as to eat holes in

linen: Iodium.

Corrosive, putrid leucorrhea, staining linen yellow. Parts it comes in

contact with itch, burn; scratching only increases inflammation:

Kreosotum.

Profuse, as if menstruating, running down to heels at times: Alumina.

Suppressed: Sabina.

Starchy, with sensation of warm water running down: Borax v.

Offensive discharge, fetid odor: Asafetida, baptisia, china, kreosotum,

nitric acid, psorium.

Purulent: Calcium, kreosotum,, mercurius, sabina, sepia.

Brown: Ammonium mur., nitric acid.

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Cervical: Hydrastis, phytolacca.

Bloody: Arsenicum album, carbo veg., china, ferrum acetate, nitric

acid, sepia, sulphuric acid.

Burning: Arsenicum album, kreosotum, sulphuric acid.

Itching: Kreosotum, mercurius, sepia.

Smarting: Conium m., ferrum, hepar sulph., lachesis, mercurius,

phosphorus, sepia, sulphur.

Syphilitic: Mercurius, nitric acid, thuja oc.

Leucorrhea before menstruation: Baryta carb., calcium phos., carbo

veg, china, kreosotum, lachesis.

After: Bovista, phosphoric acid, pulsatilla, ruta g., sabina.

Leucorrhea in general, discharge profuse, pain in ovaries; ova testa 2x

or 3x 1 or 2 tablets before retiring, acts favorably.

With marked prostration, periodical headache, flushed, face, weak,

but cannot remain quiet: Onosmodium v.

Pregnant women, bloody discharge during the time if no other

remedies are indicated we may think of: Kali, phosphorus, rhus tox.

Toothache, suffering from, as a result, is often benefited by:

Magnesium carb.

Pruritis vaginae: Caladium is useful or any of the other remedies

indicated in pruritis of the vagina or vulva.

Pregnancy, Vomiting In.

Aconite: Elevation of temperature, restlessness and where the os uteri

shows active irritation, color bright red as a result.

Arsenicum album: Where there is restlessness, but almost too weak to

move, burning in stomach showing considerable gastric disturbances.

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Belladonna: Where os uteri is more of bluish color, showing

congestion.

Bryonia: With dizziness, especially on rising from bed.

Ipecac: Persistent nausea, vomiting does not relieve.

Nux Moschata: Where mouth is very dry, especially nights.

Nux vomica: In some cases this is useful, if indicated.

Sepia: Smell. of food causes nausea and vomiting. Empty and gone

feeling in stomach.

In Nursing Women.

Milk scanty or suppressed: Bryonia, phytolacca, pulsatilla.

If there are brain symptoms: Belladonna.

With much fever: Aconite.

Milk, too much: Calcarea carb., iodium, phosphorus.

If there is general weakness:. China.

Early Signs of Pregnancy.

It is claimed by many that the earliest signs of pregnancy are dilated

pupils, Pulse high, about 102 of little below or above, and marked

throbbing of the abdominal aorta.

REPRODUCTIVE WRONGS OF MALE SEX.

As a general sexual sedative where the irritation is in the sexual organs

themselves, spermatorrhea, etc., our best remedy is Lloyd's specific salix

nigra aments 4 drachms in 4 ounces of water, 1 teaspoonful 2 to 4 times

a day as the case demands.

If condition is one more of the mind than due to local causes 10

drops of pulsatilla should be added to above.

Acetic acid: Prostatic fluid oozes when sleeping, walking, sitting or at

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stool. In this condition where weakness is of long standing acetic acid

acts well. Hungry, yet will lose weight, while eating heartily.

Caladium: Sexual excitement with desire and relaxed penis. No

emission or orgasm during embrace.

Cannabis ind.: Sensation of swelling in perineum or near anus as if

sitting on a ball, if otherwise indicated. However, this sign is more

prominent in chimaphila umbellata, patients.

Chimaphila umbellata: Sensation of swelling in perineum or near

anus, as if sitting on a ball.

Conium m.: Intense desire and amorous thoughts but, unable to

perform act. Has emission at the very thought or presence of women.

The erections are insufficient, last only a short time, go back on him in

the act. As a result of this becomes despondent. This condition of mind

may be present in either sex, the result of overindulgence; or especially

too infrequent indulgence.

Corallium rubrum: Chancroid or soft chancre, red, coral red, flat,

sensitive, sore. Use internally.

Dioscorea villosa: Emissions during sleep with dreams of women all

night, knees weak, genitals cold, despondency.

Lupulin ix: Is one of our best remedies for sexual debility, emissions of

semen in the night, etc. One or two grains, once or twice a day, for a few

weeks, then discontinued for a week and used again for a few weeks

until condition is corrected.

Lycopodium 200 P.: If from onanism or sexual excess the penis

becomes small, cold and relaxed; desire as strong, as ever and perhaps

more so, but no power, this is a good remedy.

Platina: Excess of sexual desire, overestimation of self, etc. This applies

to females; but may be tested in the male.

Selenium 200 P.: General weakness, also of the male organs. Although

desire is strong, erections are weak and ejaculation in coition is too

quick. Feels weak and out of humor afterwards. Frequent oozing of

prostatic fluid. Is forgetful, weak and easily exhausted from physical or

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mental exertion. Strong desire for liquor but feels worse after using it.

This remedy is also useful in bad after-effects of tea.

Sepia 12 to 30d: There is aversion to sexual intercourse. No desire .

Staphisagria: Burning in urethra except when urinating; backache,

always worse at night in bed and in morning before rising. One of our

best remedies in prostatic troubles in old men with frequent urination

and dribbling of urine afterwards. Also good in onanism.

Coition, aversion to: Agnus cast., caladium, conium m., lycopodium.

— During sleep: Lycopodium.

— Prepuce retraction after: Caladium.

— Odontalgia after: Daphne ind.

— Pain after in urethra: Cantharides.

— Pain in perineum during: Alum.

— Vertigo after: Bovista.

— Vomiting after: Moschus.

— Weakness after: Calcium, conium m., lycopodium,. petroleum,,

selenium, sepia, silica.

— Weakness in parts after: berberis vul.

Ejaculation of semen, absence of, in coition: Caladium, graphites,

lycopodium.

Without energy: Calcium, conium m., natrum mur., ,phosphorus,

sulphuric acid.

Too speedy: Berberis v., caladium, conium m., lycopodium, phosphorus,

platina, selenium,, sulphur, zincum met.

Too slow: Calcium, lycopodium, zincum met.

Emission of prostatic fluid after every emotion.: Conium. m.

— During evacuation: Anacardium, calcium, carbo veg., Causticum,

conium m., selenium, silica, sulphur.

Ruta g.: Feels sore and bruised in parts he lies on.

Staphisagria: Upper and lower extremities feel sore, bruised and weak.

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SPASM.

Of bladder: Gelsemium, hyoscyamus, pulsatilla.

Of glottis: Gelsemium, apis mel., cicuta v.

Of larynx: Cicuta v., cimicifuga, lobelia.

Of uterus: Gelsemium.

TOOTHACHE.

Chamomilla: Taking anything warm in the mouth aggravates; but

cold does not relieve. Very sensitive to pain. May be irritable.

Coffea: Easy as long as cold water is in contact with tooth. Very

sensitive to pain, cannot bear it.

Kalmia l.: A valuable adjunct to any indicated remedy if toothache is

on right side.

Magnesium carb.: In decayed teeth, pain easier during the day, worse

in the night. Must walk about to get a little easier. Especially useful in

toothache in pregnant women.

Mercurius: Worse at night, sweating does not relieve or even

aggravates.

Spigelia: A valuable remedy to any of the above indicated remedies if

toothache is on the left side.

Valerian: The mother tincture of valerian is a valuable adjunct as a

rule in any form of toothache.

URINARY ORGANS.

Aconite: Constant unsuccessful want to urinate with violent pain in

lower abdomen, with retraction of same. Violent spasmodic pain in lower

abdomen.

Apis mel.: Burning and stinging pain in urethra.

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Benzoic acid: Urine scanty and of dark brown color, smells bad, no

deposits. Urine scents the clothes it comes in-contact with.

Berberis vulgaris: Suffering in back aggravated by fatigue. Burning

on passing urine. Bubbling sensation in region of kidneys. Soreness.

Camphor: Strangury, if from cantharides. Useful sometimes in other

forms of strangury.

Cannabis sativa: Urethra very sensitive to touch. Specially useful in

early stages of gonorrhea.

Cantharides: Burning and cutting pain in urethra. Violent bladder

pain, frequent urging to urinate with intolerable tenesmus. Violent

burning, cutting pain in neck of bladder. Before, during and after

urinating fearful cutting pains. Constant urging to urinate; urine

passed off drop by drop. Where there is great cutting and burning pain

in urinating, it is a good remedy in affections of the respiratory tract.

Causticum: Itching of orifice of urethra, constant ineffectual desire to

urinate, often only a few drops passed at a time, with spasm of rectum

and constipation. Sensation of soreness and rawness. Involuntary

passage of urine when coughing or sneezing, blowing nose, at night

when asleep, when walking. Hardly knows when he urinates until by

sense of touch. Urine loaded with lithic acid. There are thick deposits or

sediments of various colors from dark to light.

Chimaphila: Large amount of mucus in urine. Cystitis.

Clematis: Result of enlarged prostate gland.

Conium m.: Intermittent flow of urine.

Digitalis: Urine brown, color of dark beer, may be bile in it; in jaundice,

pulse slow and weak and often intermittent.

Equisetum: Urinating very painful. In inflammation of the bladder

and urethra. Violent pain as in cantharides, but there is no decrease in

quantity of urine, in fact in some cases large quantity is voided, instead

of drop by drop as in cantharides.

Gelsemium: Involuntary urination from paralysis of neck of bladder.

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Helleborus niger: Scanty, with coffee ground sediment, may be

suppression, especially in severe acute diseases.

Hepar sulph.: Waits a while before urine starts, flows slowly, never

finishes, feels as if some urine was left in bladder. Urine drops straight

down on account of weakness of muscles of bladder.

Kreosotum: Copious urine, pale color, they cannot go quick enough.

Can only urinate when lying down. Wets bed in first sleep. Sleep

profound, can hardly wake lip.

Lycopodium: Red sand with urine. Pain in kidneys relieved after

passing sand with urine.

Mullein oil: In difficult urination, strangury, 1 drop every 1/2 to 2

hours, is useful. In enuresis, it is one of our best remedies, 2 to 3 drops

3 to 4 times a day.

Natrum mur.: After urinating cutting and burning pain in urethra.

Nitric acid: Urine has odor like horse urine.

Petroselinum: Great and sudden desire to urinate, itching in urethra.

Cannot go quickly enough.

Sarsaparilla: White sand with scanty, slimy or flaky urine, may be

tenderness of bladder; much pain at conclusion of passing water,

sometimes almost unbearable. These symptoms also apply to a lesser

degree to: Berberis vulgaris, equisetum, thuja oc.

Selenium: Involuntary dripping of urine while walking or after

urinating at stool.

Sepia: Wetting bed during first sleep; which is very profound, can

hardly wake up. Urine very offensive, cannot bear to have it in room,

especially in women. Sourish.

Staphisagria: Burning in urethra, but not when urinating.

Terebinthina: Urine brown, black or smoky from admixture of blood.

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Strangury. Burning and smarting on passing urine. In kidney and

bladder troubles.

Zincum met.: Can only urinate when sitting bent back.

For inflammatory retention see: Aconite, cannabis ind.,

cantharides, nux vomica, pulsatilla.

For paralytic retention see: Arsenicum album, dulcamara,

hyoscyamus.

For spasmodic retention of urine see: Aurum, cantharides, conium

m., digitalis, hyoscyamus, lachesis, nux vomica, opium, pulsatilla, rhus

tox., veratrum album.

For thickening of the viscus see: Dulcamara, mercurius, pulsatilla.

Periosteal pain from suppressed gonorrhea: Sarsaparilla.

Cystitis: Causticum, chimaphila, equisetum, dulcamara, cantharides,

terebinthina.

Urine, Color and Nature:

Brownish: Arnica, causticum, colchicum, digitalis, kreosotum, lachesis,

mercurius, nitric acid, pulsatilla.

Clear: Belladonna, dulcamara, kreosotum, phosphoric acid, sulphur.

Deep color: Belladonna, calcium, digitalis, helleborus nig., lachesis,

lycopodium, mercurius, nitric acid, sepia.

Milk white: Aurum,, berberis vul., chelidonium, colchicum, croton tig.,

iodium, nitric acid, phosphoric acid, pulsatilla.

Reddish: Bryonia, cantharides, carbo veg., mercurius, nux vomica,

platina, squill, valerian, zincum met.

Whitish: Mercurius.

White, turbid, dirty:. Causticum,. china, conium m. rhus tox.

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Yellow: China, croton tig., hyoscyamus.

Diminished secretion: Belladonna, bryonia, carbo veg., colchicum,

colocynthis, digitalis, dulcamara, graphites, kreosotum, pulsatilla,

stannum met., sulphur, sulphuric acid, veratrum album.

Feeble stream: Chamomilla, helleborus, mercurius.

Interrupted: Clematis e., conium in., pulsatilla, sulphur, zincum met.

Retarded: Hepar sulph.

Suppressed: Belladonna, cantharides, iodium, stramonium.

Too frequent urinating: Lycopodium, mercurius.

Too great increase in urinating: Alum, ammonium mur., china,

kreosotum, magnesium sulph., phosphorus.

Nausea, hunger or headache with flow of urine: Veratrum album.

Redness of orifice of urethra: Hepar sulph.

Urethra, pain in during urination: Colchicum.

— After urination: Bovista.

WARTS.

Causticum, nitric acid, thuja oc. If the result of suppressed gonorrhea

thuja oc. is the best remedy.

WORMS.

Belladonna: Worms with head symptoms. In these cases belladonna

should be alternated with the indicated remedy.

Cicuta v. 30d or higher: Worm symptoms with opisthotonos, this

remedy should be alternated with the indicated remedy.

Cina 30d or higher: Restless in the night, jumps, jerks and rolls

around in bed, grinds teeth and often screams in sleep. Sometimes

swallowing as if something was coming tip in throat. Child cries a great

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deal and is cross and contrary. Wants things only to reject them; wants

to be carried around and then again not. Picks nose a great deal. Dark

circles around the eyes. Face may be pale or glowing red, in which latter

case the child is generally pale around the mouth. Alternate loss of

appetite with canine hunger. A valuable remedy to remove lumbricoides

or conditions the result of this pest.

Chamomilla: We have similar symptoms, but in this drug the face is

red and hot on one side, while the other is pale and cool.

Teucrium Marum, 30d or higher: Children or grown people that are

troubled with ascarides will find this an effective remedy. In these cases

there is generally a great deal of itching of the nose. Examination of the

feces will often show little worms. There is generally also itching of the

rectum.

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CASES