1. Give the six main remedies with craving for
salt:
A:
- Natrum muriaticum.
- Phosphorus.
- Veratrum.
- Argentum nitricum.
- Carbo vegetabilis.
- Medorrhinum.
- Nitricum acidum.
- Lac caninum.
- Causticum.
- Conium.
- Tuberculinum.
- Calcarea phosphorica.
R:This combination:
strong craving for salt + strong craving for pepper + strong craving for
whiskey: Lac caninum usually.
2. Give five keynotes or strong confirmatory
symptoms for Argentum nitricum:
A:
- Fear high places, fear of high buildings,
that they may fall upon them. Fear of high places and impulse to jump from the
high building.
- Desire sweets and desire salt.
R:If you see somebody comes in and you have
underlined three times: desire sweet + desire salt,
the first remedy to think of is Argentum nitricum.
- Aggravation from anticipation of an event.
R:In other words: they are anticipating going
to the movie and they are thinking so much about it, that they get into a
terrible anxiety state, or may be they have diarrhoea, something like this.
- Aggravation from sweets. Diarrhoea from
sweets also.
- Very superstitious, fixed
ideas.
- Hurry when walking.
R:Argentum nitricum has this tendency that they
start walking and they have a feeling something is going wrong, or something is
about to happen. And they get nervous and they start walking faster and faster
to get away from it and pretty soon all the sudden they stop, they go: "Ah,
I am running, what am I running for?" They slow down
and then it builds up again. Like Sulphuricum acidum which has that symptom
very strongly. (Tarentula can also have it).
- Very strong
claustrophobia.
- Splinter-like pains, especially in the
throat.
R: Pain
like a splinter in the throat. The other remedies: Hepar,
Nitricum acidum, Silicea, Kali carbonicum, Natrum muriaticum.
- Fear of losing self-control, especially in
terms of an impulse.
R:
Impulses is the main keynote for Argentum nitricum. Impulses to do
ridiculous things, to jump from a high place or to take a screw driver and put
it into the electric socket, or to touch something poisonous, or a bee, or
something like this. Where they feel that they may lose control and that they
may do something very dangerous. Or sometimes they may have fear that they will
lose control and hurt somebody in the family - their child, or something like
that.
- Great anxiety about health.
- Fear of fainting is a keynote.
R:
Although there is one remedy that has that more strongly: Lac caninum. Argentum
nitricum: feeling like they will faint in a crowd. Generally they don't
faint, they have very good circulation usually.
- Fear to be alone, you can consider that a
keynote. Need for company.
- Desire for strong cheese.
- Palpitations lying on the right side.
- Palpitations, feels as if the heart will
jump out of the chest, jump out of position.
- A spot on the eye.
R: They
develop a conjunctivitis in one spot, a raw spot very well circumscribed. A
small spot, about may be half a centimetre wide, very red, raw, looks like raw
meat.
- Aggravation from thinking about it.
R:
Oxalicum acidum is the main remedy that has aggravation from thinking of
the complaint.
A:
Forsaken feeling?
R: It
is not so strong to be a keynote. Argentum nitricum may have that, but the main
remedy for forsaken feeling will be Pulsatilla. Argentum
nitricum also has it.
A:
Desire for alcoholic drinks?
R: They
may desire, but it is not enough to be considered a keynote.
A:
Desire for fresh air?
R:
Desire fresh air, because Argentum nitricum is extremely hot. Desire
fresh air, but not enough for it to be considered a keynote.
A:
Desire to have the head bound?
R: They
do like to have the head bound, but maybe not enough to be a keynote though.
A:
Trembling?
R: Of
course they do have trembling, but I wouldn't consider that a keynote.
A:
Question (...).
R: The
main remedies that when they see somebody else standing at the edge, have fear
for that person standing at the edge: Sulphur and Calcarea.
3.
Give four remedies with stomach pain at 2 a.m. :
R:
- Medorrhinum, number 1.
- Kali carbonicum, number 2.
- Arsenicum, number 3.
- Lycopodium, number 4.
4. Give
the three main remedies for right shoulder pain:
R:
- Sanguinaria is the main remedy.
- Chelidonium.
- Ferrum muriaticum.
R: Sulphur has more left shoulder pain.
Lycopodium has right shoulder pain, but it is
not one of the main remedies for that.
Ledum has more left shoulder pain than right
shoulder pain.
5. Give the two main remedies for diarrhoea,
driving the patient out of bed in the morning, waking him to go for stool, the
first thing in the morning at 6 a.m. :
R: Sulphur and Aloe are the main ones.
R: All
the Natrums will usually wake up and after they are up, then they have the
diarrhoea. The main thing with Natrum sulphuricum is after they wake up, then
they go. Usually it does not wake them. If it wakes them we
think mostly of Sulphur or Aloe. If we just say diarrhoea
in the morning, then Natrum sulphuricum is the main remedy. But usually it is
after they wake up and they have been up for ten, fifteen, twenty minutes, then
they have to go immediately, they have to rush to the toilet. Amelioration
after stool, the main remedy is Natrum sulphuricum and Borax (another Natrum).
Nux vomica has stool and then they feel they
still must have more stool. Sometimes the pain will be temporarily ameliorated
by the stool.
6. Give the main remedy with aggravation at
9 a.m. and the main remedy with
aggravation at 9 p.m. :
R:
- Aggravation at 9 a.m. : Chamomilla.
- Aggravation at 9 p.m. : Bryonia.
7.
Give four remedies for the symptom silent grief:
A:
- Natrum muriaticum.
- Ignatia.
- Phosphoricum acidum.
- Staphisagria.
8. A
woman comes to your office and she says that her main problem is that she is
having menstrual troubles and great tiredness and fatigue ever
since the time she had an abortion. What is the most likely remedy that you are
going to be giving her?
A:
- Sepia.
R:
Sabina is very good for the abortion, but not so much for the consequent
effects after the abortion.
Kali carbonicum you may think of, but Sepia
should be the first.
Pulsatilla will develop menstrual problems,
but not usually fatigue.
But if we see both menstrual problems and
fatigue following an abortion: Sepia.
9.
Another woman comes to your office and she is complaining of
premenstrual syndrome and she has a very strong bearing down sensation. And you
notice that she is very aggressive. You say: "Are you irritable?" And
she says: "What do you mean, am I irritable!! Why you ask me this
question!? What kind of a doctor are you?" And you quiet her down a little
bit and you say: "Do you have any strong food craving?" And she says:
"I have a craving for meat." What remedy you are most likely going to
be giving her?
A:
- Lilium tigrinum.
R:
Tremendous bearing down sensation you will find in which remedies
mostly?
- Sepia.
- Lilium tigrinum
- Murex.
- Belladonna.
10. A man comes into your office. But he
doesn't just come into your office, he runs into your office. Very hurried.
Speaking rapidly. He takes a list out of his pocket and he starts to list you
some symptoms. He finishes his list, he puts it down and he pulls another list
out of his back pocket, that is on a little scrap of paper and tells you three
more symptoms. And then he has written down on his hand one other symptom. And
he says that he is in a terrible state with many compulsive activities. You see
that he is very thin and you say: "Are you eating okay? Do you have a good
appetite?" He says: "I eat like a horse, I eat
constantly, it is the only thing that helps me." You
notice that he is sweating in the room. What remedy are you most likely going
to be giving him?
A:
- Iodium (Argentum nitricum, Bromium).
If I say food:
- A strong craving for sweets + salt, you will
be thinking of Argentum nitricum.
- A strong craving for sweets + salt + fat,
you will be thinking of Medorrhinum.
- A strong craving for sweets + fat + spicy,
you will be thinking of Sulphur.
- A strong craving for sweets + aversion to
eggs, you will be thinking of Sulphur or Ferrum.
So you see many times you reduce to just this
area.
If I say fears:
- Fear of dark +
thunderstorms, you will be thinking of Phosphorus, or Natrum muriaticum.
- Fear of animals + water + dark, you will be
thinking of Stramonium.
- Fear of heights + mice, you will be thinking
of Calcarea.
* E.g. all natrums produce a
tremendous tendency towards fever blisters and canker sores around the mouth.
We see a case that has a tremendous tendency towards canker sores and fever
blisters around the mouth, but it doesn't seem to be Natrum muriaticum, Borax,
or one of the main natrums. Then our mind may turn: "Well, could this be
one of the other natrums?"
if you can remember that
all of the carbons are very chilly,
then you may hear of a carbon you don't know well. Or you come across a small
symptom when you are taking a case, you look it up and it has a carbon:
Strontium carbonicum. The patient says also that he is very chilly. You know
that all the carbons are very chilly, and so your mind is reinforced along this
remedy. Then you can investigate more clear mindedly.
a case appears to you to
be Kali carbonicum, but something doesn't fit, the patient is too warm to be
Kali carbonicum. But you have this feeling deep inside: the patient must be a
Kali carbonicum, or something like a Kali carbonicum. Which of the other kalis
may it be? Kali sulphuricum, Kali iodatum, Kali nitricum (a
very warm blooded remedy generally).
- Let's say that it was
a kali with a large goitre and hyperthyroid symptoms, then we may be preferring
Kali iodatum, because all the iodiums have the tendency for goitre and for
hyperthyroid symptoms.
Let's say that it was a kali, but it had a
strong aversion to eggs, then we may be preferring Kali sulphuricum.
R: No. It is a good
thought, Kali phosphoricum can have uterine haemorrhage. But the main remedy
that has tremendous haemorrhage without pain is Kali ferrocyanicum. (Kent:
female, metrorrhagia, painless: Kali ferrocyanicum (3), page 730.)
stout : heavy built
* E.g. many of the calcareas will have a craving for
eggs:
- Calcarea carbonica very strong.
- Calcarea phosphorica, sometimes.
- Calcarea fluorica, sometimes.
The carbons will have
craving for eggs:
- Calcarea carbonica.
- Baryta carbonica.
- Natrum carbonicum can have it.
* E.g. all the carbons have a tendency for obesity:
- Calcarea carbonica.
- Kali carbonicum.
- Natrum carbonicum.
- Magnesia carbonica.
Also:
- Carbo vegetabilis is stout.
- Graphitis - all carbon and nothing else, is
very stout.
The carbon element has a stoutness to it, also
the calcarea element.
When we put them together, we find the
stoutest, or the most commonly stout remedy of all: Calcarea carbonica.
all the natrums have
aggravation from milk:
- Natrum muriaticum.
- Natrum carbonicum.
- Natrum sulphuricum.
- Natrum arsenicum, very strong.
Many of the carbons will have an aggravation
from milk.
- Kali carbonicum etc.
Natrum and carbon
together, it reinforces and gives us the strongest aggravation from milk in our
materia medica: Natrum carbonicum.
* E.g.
all the magnesias affect the nerves very much.
Also phosphorus affects the nerves very
strongly.
These two elements together: Magnesia
phosphorica, a tremendous effect on the nerves and our strongest remedy for
neuralgia.
Once you have learned these things you will be
able to almost mathematically predict in which ways these remedies will
reinforce each other.
II. Sometimes they will
diffuse the energy of one another.
* E.g.
the natrums are mostly warm blooded.
Arsenicum is mostly pretty chilly.
So Natrum arsenicum will be less warm and less
chilly, more moderate, than either one of the elements by themselves.
* E.g. the calcareas crave eggs.
Sulphur has aversion to eggs.
So Calcarea sulphurica of all the remedies,
will be the most neutral about eggs.
III. Some symptoms are specific and peculiar
for only that combination. It doesn't have anything to do with the two families
that they come from.
* E.g.
calcarea and phosphorus come together and produce a strong craving for
bacon and smoked meat. Which neither will have by themselves.
* E.g.
ferrum and iodium come together and produce a very strong craving for
salty fish. Which neither will have by themselves.
* E.g.
calcarea and silicea come together and produce a strong mental symptom:
speaks with the death. Which neither will have by themselves.
So there will be:
- Symptomatology that is specific, peculiar
for the combination itself.
- Symptomatology of both of the elements that
make up the combination.
It is very important to know both these types
of symptomatology.
IV. A phenomena called gradation, according to
which salt is added to the remedy.
* E.g.
the natrums have a great deal to do with grief that is imprinted on the
individual. Yet there will be a moderation; as we go through the different
salts of natrum, a downward gradation occurs:
- Natrum muriaticum, most affected by grief.
- Natrum carbonicum.
- Natrum sulphuricum.
- Natrum phosphoricum.
- Natrum arsenicum etc.,
least affected by grief.
The natural tendencies of the natrums are
grief (like the salt from our tears). And yet as you change the anion, which is
attached to this natrum, you will change the degree to which this symptom is
expressed.
* E.g.
the same sort of gradation with heat in the calcareas.
- Calcarea sulphurica will be most warm.
- Calcarea iodata, perhaps even warmer than
Calcarea sulphurica.
- Calcarea fluorica.
- Calcarea phosphorica.
- Calcarea carbonica, almost always chilly.
- Calcarea arsenica, even more chilly.
* Fluoricum acidum has a
very high sex drive and pushes the people around them into sexual situations,
which are for their own satisfaction, without any concern for the person that
they are manipulating. (Kent: indifference to loved ones, Fluoricum acidum
(2).)
* Nitricum acidum is
very selfish, irritable, unsympathetic to other people's problems. Only
concerned about themselves.
* Phosphoricum acidum emotionally becomes
flat; apathetic to every emotion.
* Sulphuricum acidum is extremely hurried, so
preoccupied and so mentally agitated that they begin to feel a type of
disconnection with the people around them. They feel a type of alienation from
their own emotions.
Physical \ general
- Very chilly generally. One of the more
chilly remedies, generally speaking.
* Nitricum acidum is extremely chilly.
* Phosphoricum acidum is very chilly.
* Sulphuricum acidum tends to be chilly, even
though sulphur is warm.
* Fluoricum acidum is the exception: it is
quite hot. (Here two elements are coming together and the fluoric element over
the temperature is so strong that it overcomes the coldness of the acids.)
-
Offensiveness is another strong characteristic. There are two remedies
that have urine that is so offensive, that after they have urinated and have
flushed the toilet, the odour is still so strong that you can't go into the
bathroom immediately afterwards:
* Nitricum acidum.
* Benzoicum acidum.
* Nitricum acidum has tremendous offensive
perspiration.
The breath can be quite offensive in the
acids, because there is an element of fermentation, or decay: in the urine, the
breath, the perspiration etc.
- Weakness. An element of weakness and
aggravation from exertion is usually quite common to all acids.
A: The weakest are Phosphoricum acidum,
Muriaticum acidum and Picricum acidum?
R: Yes, but you will also see strong elements
of weakness that will go along with all of the acids.
* Sulphuricum acidum can be extremely weak in
certain stages.
* Nitricum acidum has a great tendency to
weakness as well.
Physical
- Diarrhoeas. Very often associated with
diarrhoeas, all the acids.
- Increased appetite. Often associated with
increased appetite.
- Urinary troubles are quite common.
- Excitement of the sexual sphere is a very
strong element in almost all acids. The acid element will often produce this
exaltation of the sexual sphere:
* Fluoricum acidum has a strong perversion.
* Nitricum acidum also has a very strong sex
drive.
* Picricum acidum sometimes has a tremendous
sex drive etc.
* Phosphoricum acidum in the early stages will
have a high sex drive. Then will later go to collapse of the sexual element and
then goes to impotence and indifference to sex.
Many of the carbons will
have a strong tendency to stomach disorders:
* Natrum carbonicum.
* Calcarea carbonica.
* Magnesia carbonica.
* Carbo vegetabilis.
* Carbo animalis.
* Graphitis.
* Kali arsenicosum
strongest anxiety.
* Kali carbonicum strong anxiety.
* Kali phosphoricum can be quite anxious, to
say the least.
* Kali iodatum the
hottest.
* Kali sulphuricum also quite warm.
* Kali nitricum also quite warm.
* Kali phosphoricum is between here, not so
chilly.
* Kali carbonicum to the chilly side.
* Kali bichromicum even more chilly usually.
* Kali arsenicosum quite chilly.
- Aggravation at night,
especially:
* Kali arsenicosum, Kali bichromicum more
around midnight, or 1 a.m.
* Kali carbonicum 2 a.m. especially and 2 till 4 a.m. quite strong.
* Kali nitricum 3 a.m.
* Kali sulphuricum usually 3 a.m.
* Kali iodatum 5 a.m.
- The sinus troubles of
the kalis are almost legendary, quite strongly running through all. Quite
strong sinus trouble and lots of mucus: thick mucus, often green or yellow
(depending on which one of the remedies), ugly mucus.
See CASE 5.
* Kali bichromicum is more green.
* Kali sulphuricum is more yellow.
* Kali carbonicum has
the keynote swelling in this region. But under the eyes: most of the kalis have
this.
* Kali carbonicum is one
of the most important remedies for pneumonias.
* Muriaticum acidum
tremendous aggravation by the sea.
* Magnesia muriatica very much aggravated by
the sea.
* Natrum muriaticum, usually aggravated by the
sea, sometimes ameliorated.
- Headaches, the main
remedies for headaches and migraines:
* Natrum carbonicum.
* Natrum muriaticum.
* Natrum arsenicum.
- Amelioration from
stool, common in them. (You find it in different places: anxiety - better
stool; irritability - better stool; anger - worse before stool. Not one rubric
that is better from stool.)
* Natrum sulphuricum and Borax are the main
remedies.
* Natrum muriaticum.
* Zincum.
A: Fastidiousness, a
keynote for Arsenicum.
A: Sudden urging for stool, a keynote for
Sulphur.
A: Amelioration at sea, a keynote for
Medorrhinum.
A: Craving fruit, a keynote for Veratrum and
Phosphoricum acidum.
A: Aversion to fat, a keynote for Pulsatilla.
A: Worse lying on the left side, a keynote for
Phosphorus.
Colchicum: sensitive to
odours, aversion to eggs, motion ameliorates, swelling of the eyelids,
headaches.
A: Ferrum: arthritis in
the shoulder, palpitations, high blood pressure, chilly, craving for bread,
hernia, sleeping on the back, irritability,
sensitive to odours.
A: Colchicum: sensitive
to odours, aversion to eggs, motion ameliorates, swelling of the eyelids,
headaches.
A: Calcarea fluorica.
R: Usually Calcarea fluorica will have craving
for eggs.
A: She is putting on weight easily, like with
Calcarea. She is fatigued etc.
R: Calcarea fluorica can
sometimes have modalities like Rhus tox:
Better from motion, better from exertion,
better from heat.
Nodosities, bunions, desires fruit, sensitive
to odours.
A: Crotalus horridus:
numbness of hands when sewing, difficulties in speech, forgetfulness for
names.
A: Ptelea.
R: It is really one of the main remedies for
strong aggravation from cheese. They hate cheese and fats. They get bloated and
diarrhoea, get pains in the liver etc. Strong aversion to fat (3).
Strong tendency to
indigestion from eggs: Colchicum, Ferrum and China arsenicosum should be there
(add it).
A: Sleeplessness from grief: Natrum muriaticum,
Ignatia, Kali bromatum.
R: There are many points
for Staphisagria, but the essence of Staphisagria is what? Very sweet,
repressed, never
hurt anybodies feelings, meek. That is not this patient.
R: Biting the
fingernails. A very strong keynote for Medorrhinum. Many other remedies have
this, but let me describe each of those.
Biting nails:
- Natrum muriaticum: you see them biting the
fingernails like this (...), it is because of their inner tension and they
can't express clearly.
- Baryta carbonica bites the fingernails very
much. You see these little children, they are very afraid and they are biting
their fingernails.
- Medorrhinum, this type of biting their
fingernails, where they bite the nails all the way down until the fingers
bleed, they bite the nails down till there is nothing. And when the fingernails
are completely bitten, then she takes her toenails, and she bites the toenails too. This
is only Medorrhinum. To this extreme, this is a strong keynote for Medorrhinum.
- Sulphur bites the fingernails. Not because
of itching, but it is because they are too lazy to go and find the scissors to
clip the fingernails (laughter). You have to differentiate even between
something like this.
Feeling that they are taller than other people
even when they are not, is a keynote for Platinum.
So when you are seeing a
case which says: "Every time I get a cold, it goes to my chest." the
first remedy you think of is Phosphorus.
R: Moving around all the
time, yes. So, we can look this up under desire to travel. So, if we take:
desire to travel and dissatisfaction, then we will think of what remedy?
A:
Tuberculinum, Calcarea phosphorica, Ignatia.
- Aurum. It comes out
Aurum. Can he be an Aurum? Maybe, but why don't we like Aurum? He has a
depression, but not suicidal. Aurum should have some thoughts of death.
- Lycopodium. Why not Lycopodium? He has lack
of confidence, he has symptoms with his stomach, he is timid. Lycopodium is
usually quite timid inside, very timid. They have a bluff, that they are very
arrogant, but inside they feel afraid. Why not Lycopodium? When Lycopodium is
irritable with people, they get irritated with people that are below them or
above them? Irritable with persons below him, but this patient has irritability
with people above him.
- Argentum nitricum. He has the impulse to
jump, he has aggravation from sweets; impulses in general. But what did I say
for his personality; he is more serious and reserved, whereas Argentum nitricum
is very extroverted. So, again it does not come out with anything that seems to
help us.
Did you hear the rest of
the description? A deep distrust and a feeling of uncertainty, like: "What is going to happen to me?" That
is exactly what you will hear over and over again for Arsenicum.
R: So the first part she
says: "I am going to get sicker and die," a despair about
recovery. This goes mostly for Arsenicum, Calcarea and Nitricum acidum. So
then the next words out of her mouth: "And I want to have a baby and I am
upset about that." Which goes more for what remedy?
A: Pulsatilla.
First of all we have
very severe itching
of the rectum. The main remedy for that is Sulphur. The
itching is worse at night and worse from heat, which are also symptoms of
Sulphur.
So, when somebody says
that they are so angry, all the time angry at everybody and they are very
sensitive to noise, they have to keep
turning the sound down and down, we think of Nux vomica.
So I asked her:
"Are you impatient?", because Nux vomica should be very impatient.
She says: "Yes, I am impatient." The way she answers, do you think
she is very impatient? No. She is not really impatient.
R: Yes, I asked. And
what came out (but I didn't tell you, it came up later in the case), is that
she is neither warm nor cold. We would expect, as you point out, Sepia should
be on the chilly side and Sulphur should be on the warm side, but we didn't get
any information.
R: It is like coca-cola.
Fizzy drinks. You know the remedy that has aversion to fizzy drinks? Aversion
to soda pop? It is Phosphorus. You know the main remedy that is craving soda
pop? It is Phosphorus.
R: Yes, there are two
different rubrics and what he does is picking. Parents make no such
distinction. Picking is actually to take something out, to try and to take
something out. Boring is just ... The
two main remedies for boring into the nose? Cina and Arum triphyllum.
R: Yes, there are two
different rubrics and what he does is picking. Parents make no such
distinction. Picking is actually to take something out, to try and to take
something out. Boring is just ... The two main remedies for boring into the
nose? Cina and Arum triphyllum.
A: Cina.
R: Yes, that is a possibility. Cina is boring
and they are very aggressive children. They slap the mother.
R: Good, this is a case
of Veratrum album, why? From the totality? No, it does not come up in the
totality. From keynotes? No. So it comes up from the essence. Now remember this
picture, it is exactly the essence of the Veratrum child. Extreme restlessness, where they cannot even sit
down to eat. Usually they are being
restless, doing useless things. Tearing up a piece of paper to smaller and
smaller pieces. Or very often they like to cut with scissors. They will just
take a piece of paper and zzzjjjj, for hours just cutting something. Or in your
library they start to take the books, they take each book of the shelf and put
it over here. And then they get done and then they put each one back on the
shelf and then back again. That kind of useless behaviour.
R: No, not always
autistic. It may be indicated in autistic children. The usual Veratrum child is precocious,
very intellectually developed beyond their years.
R: Very good question.
It is sometimes very hard to differentiate Tarentula and Veratrum. The main
difference will be that Tarentula will have much more aggressiveness than
Veratrum. You see, this child here is not very aggressive. He is restless, but
he is not doing naughty things. He
is disobedient, but not malicious. Whereas Tarentula, if
they have so much energy, they can be so restless, they will also be smacking
the mother, they will be kicking, they will be biting, pulling the hair. All
these other things as well, usually. Another difference between Tarentula and
Veratrum is that Tarentula will be much more sexual very early. Veratrum out of
the mania remedies is the least sexual and Tarentula is the most sexual.
A: How do we
differentiate between Chamomilla, Cina, Tuberculinum?
R: All these will be sometimes hyperactive
remedies and naughty children. Generally speaking, bad children. The difference
will be: in Veratrum the degree of the physical restlessness. They will be the
most restless children. Much more restless than Chamomilla, Cina and
Tuberculinum. Physically restless. You see, this child cannot even sit down to
eat. Tuberculinum, Chamomilla will sit down at least. So that will be the main
thing that will indicate towards Veratrum.
He said in Bells palsy
many cases are Platinum. I said: "I found the remedy, now I am sure, it has
to be Platinum." I gave Platinum 1 M.
R: Because Rhus tox has fear that they may kill, they have
superstition, they have delusions to be murdered. How to rule out Rhus tox?
A: Restlessness.
R: Rhus tox is generally
restless, but if it goes to a deep mental state like this, they won't be
physical restless anymore. We want to find a remedy that has fear of death to
the strongest degree possible. She has fear of death underlined once, twice? A
hundred times! You never will find a case that will have fear of death stronger
than this. So we want a remedy, it has to have fear of death in capitals. It
has to be not just that it is in capitals, it has to be a remedy that has a
tremendous fear of death. Rhus tox can have a fear of death, okay, but this degree
of fear of death you will find in Aconitum and Stramonium.
A: Wouldn't you expect
more violence in Stramonium?
R: Not necessarily. In Stramonium you may have a strong element of
violence, or you may have a strong element of fear,
either one just by themselves. The three elements in Stramonium to look for:
-
Tremendous fear.
- Tremendous violence.
- Convulsions.
If you find a case with
convulsions and anger, it is Stramonium.
If you find a case with convulsions and great
fear, again it is Stramonium. But you may just get the fear, or just get the
violence, either one.
R: It was tried already
twice. There is itching at the bends of the joints, the main remedy for this is
Graphitis. You see eruption around the mouth: Graphitis. Itching in the ear:
also Graphitis. And she said there was one time a crack behind the ear. And
what is the other thing she says? He is not so thin!
Aversion to lemon is a strong keynote for Sulphur,
you didn't know that?
She said: "Oh,
constipation, so bad, I used to put my finger inside and pull the stools
down." Which is another keynote for Alumina and Nux moschata.
All I have to do is just
change some of the symptoms so that it fits let's say for Rhus tox. Much worse in wet weather, better from heat and
craving milk.
So here we have a case
with aversion to salt, meat,
fish and we have to think of Graphitis. Also we have the craving for chicken, which is
for Graphitis. And Graphitis is a remedy which will produce cracks in the skin
and eczema very much. And also you see she is unrefreshed in the morning,
another hint for Graphitis.
- A strong craving for
sweets + salt, you will be thinking of Argentum nitricum.
- A strong craving for sweets + salt + fat,
you will be thinking of Medorrhinum.
- A strong craving for sweets + fat + spicy,
you will be thinking of Sulphur.
- A strong craving for sweets + aversion to
eggs, you will be thinking of Sulphur or Ferrum.
- Fear of dark + thunderstorms,
you will be thinking of Phosphorus, or Natrum muriaticum.
- Fear of animals + water + dark, you will be
thinking of Stramonium.
- Fear of heights + mice, you will be thinking
of Calcarea.
So we can make a
Calcarea sulphurica if we say also craving for green fruit; then it can be
Calcarea sulphurica, but not without one strong keynote.
(Kali sulphuricum has
aversion for eggs, also Ferrum, Nitricum acidum, Sulphur).
First of all: the main
remedy for asthma
in the evening is Natrum muriaticum (keynote).
It is not so strong listed in the repertory, but it is the main remedy. You
know the remedy that likes to drive fast and dangerous and almost suicidal with
their driving? Aurum. For daredevil, this sort of doing dangerous things on
purpose, for the thrill, think of Medorrhinum and Platinum. So if we say that
this case has a grief, a romantic disappointment and then comes on
an asthma that is worse in the evening, and he is craving lemon, and salt, who
is very fastidious and easily offended and he closes up. Then we are going to
think of Natrum muriaticum.
Now I will read it in a
different way: here is a man, he is a very sweet likeable person, he wants
everybody to like him, he is craving
sweets, spicy and salt very much, easily moved, liked consolation, fear of dark
and storm. Then we are going to think of Phosphorus.
What are the main
remedies for pain in the right shoulder? Sanguinaria, Chelidonium, Ferrum
muriaticum. What are some of the main remedies for obesity? Capsicum, Calcarea carbonica,
Graphitis, Ferrum. Ferrum is usually a chilly remedy, they sometimes can be
warm. We see hints (obesity, craving for sweets, pain in the right shoulder)
for Ferrum but the patient is warm, so we want a Ferrum which is warm, which
will be?
So when you are seeing a
case which says: "Every time I get a cold, it goes to my chest." the
first remedy you think of is Phosphorus. (Sticta, the cold usually goes deeper into the nose.)
R: Moving around all the
time, yes. So, we can look this up under desire to travel. So, if we take:
desire to travel and dissatisfaction, then we will think of what remedy?
A:
Tuberculinum, Calcarea phosphorica, Ignatia.
R: Yes, he wants
alcohol, which Tuberculinum will like.
You know where his acne is? You know, what is
called barbers itch? Tuberculinum is one of the main remedies to be thought of,
when there is acne all in
the area of the beard. So, it is a simple case of Tuberculinum.
She
has a condition that started when she left the security of the family. So I am
thinking: "Maybe she is Arsenicum."
R: If Arsenicum has
e.g. an erysipelas, then cold will
ameliorate. If they have a chronic pain of the face, then heat will ameliorate.
Asarum is very strong for cold bathing
ameliorates, not just the face but in general. But of course if she would be
Asarum, we would expect a different personality: wringing of the hands, the great sensitivity to noise etc., which
she doesn't have. And Asarum will be people that may try to contain their
emotions, but they never will be able to be like this woman. In Asarum the
emotions are bursting out, because of the hysterical element. Here we get the
impression of great energy held in check, held in a type of a balance. She is
very sharp.
R: No, it is not
particulary known for Apis, although it may be. One other feature here is:
strong claustrophobia. So if we find a person that:
- Is very self-contained.
- Is very neat.
- With claustrophobia.
We will be thinking of Natrum
muriaticum. So there is maybe a hint that perhaps
underlying will be Natrum muriaticum and on the surface is Apis, the acute
remedy.
- Asthma, worse in the
evening: Natrum muriaticum main remedy.
-
Ailments after grief: Natrum muriaticum, Ignatia main remedies.
-
Craving for salt - Natrum muriaticum.
-
Craving for ice-cream - Phosphorus.
-
Craving for chocolate - Phosphorus, Natrum
muriaticum.
-
High sex - with this high sex drive he
gives a peculiar symptom: frequent nocturnal
emission,
a keynote for Natrum phosphoricum.
We
cross off Calcarea
sulphurica and Calcarea fluorica, mostly because they are warm
R: Her main complaint is asthma, where
as Calcarea carbonica is not so common a remedy for asthma. It can have asthma
of course, but the arsenicums all have the tendency to asthma.
R: Calcarea arsenica has
fear of birds. Like: Ignatia, Calcarea sulphurica.
R: There are quite a few points for China:
Touch. Worse from slight
touch,
which is often with China.
Waking up at night with the headaches.
Headache after midnight, 3 a.m.
Gas, some flatulence. Craving for sweets.
R: This was one of the earlier cases I had of
China sulphuricum, with this type of headache. But then I started to see a
pattern: almost every time I had found a case that was waking up between these
hours, 1 and 3 a.m. and waking up from sleep with very severe
migraine headaches, this would be a very strong keynote for China sulphuricum.
One prescriber I know had a case of
somebody that had a broken arm and who was in a lot of pain. He gave first
Symphytum, Arnica and Bryonia: without effect. Then he said: "Okay, let's
try," and he gave Eupatorium, because it felt like it was broken; it gave the patient
a lot of relief. You may keep that in mind if you are treating a fracture and
you don't get relief from the typical remedies known for fracture.
R: Kali phosphoricum is usually
associated with lots of anxiety, as well as the mental weakness.
Alumina. If it is Alumina you like to
see a strong tendency to constipation. Sometimes it will be constipation
alternating with diarrhoea.
Another thing that will run through
almost all cases of Alumina: they can't be
hurried. If you tell them to hurry they fall to pieces.
R: Calcarea carbonica:
He is little bit stout and has fatigue.
He doesn't like damp and cold.
He has weakness in his mind.
He perspires at night.
He is craving salty food.
What he doesn't have for Calcarea
carbonica are the common fears that we expect to see: heights, claustrophobia, animals, mice.
A:
Mistakes, speaking and using wrong words. The strongest which come up are:
Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum, China and Nux moschata.
A: Difficulty in speech, heaviness of tongue:
Gelsemium, Crotalus cascavella.
A: Clothing aggravates, external throat:
Lachesis, Crotalus horridus, Naja, Cenchris, Elaps (all the snakes).
A: Diarrhoea after breakfast: Natrum
sulphuricum, Thuja.
We know the type of Thuja quite well. The Thuja type is quite
sensitive and has this very strong tendency to want to please others. Very low
self-confidence and feeling that they want other people to like them. So they change what
they make out from themselves. Thuja tells lies, it is not exactly
that, except in the very deep cases where they tell exact lies. They try to make themselves
into what other people like. Here we don't see the personality for
Thuja.
A: Sulphur: she wants cold on the head.
She wants open air. Wanting milk - Sulphur
can have it. The main remedy for wanting milk is Rhus tox, also Phosphorus and
Tuberculinum.
Ferrum is the main remedy that has these
headaches that go on for a long time. Four days up to a week. Severe headaches
lasting for a long time. Ferrum can have periodicity. Ferrum can be related to
the menstrual period.
You see the idea: there
was the weight, the obesity, the arthritis, the sardines and the heat. Just a few points,
but enough to go along with Ferrum iodatum. You see how easily you could
prescribe Pulsatilla in this case. Against Pulsatilla
goes that she was craving fat. Ferrum typically has aversion to eggs,
but not always. And this is Ferrum iodatum, which doesn't even much have the
aversion to eggs. Pulsatilla will crave eggs, especially hard-boiled eggs.
The number-one remedy for craving pickles is
Antimonium crudum (and for cucumbers). But also you will see Sulphur, Sulphur
iodatum, Hepar, Lachesis. You will see craving for mayonnaise quite often. I
have seen it once in Pulsatilla. But I haven't found exactly what remedies
stick to that. She has an aversion to fat, but mayonnaise is
quite a lot of fat.
A: Ptelea.
R: It is really one of the main remedies for
strong aggravation from cheese. They hate cheese and fats. They get bloated and
diarrhoea, get pains in the liver etc. Strong aversion to fat (3).
R: She is a woman with arthritis in the
shoulders, neck and hand. The first remedy you think of in an old person with arthritis
which is better from exertion, is Rhus tox. Rhus tox, perhaps then going to
Calcarea. Better from exertion, you go away from Calcarea carbonica -
which is worse from exertion. She is also worse as the day goes on,
something that Calcarea carbonica will say, but also Rhus tox can say the same
thing: they will say that they are better from motion, but they wear out.
R: Ptelea is a remedy mostly affected in
the liver and the intestines. She is waking refreshed, a very strong sign
against liver problems. She is relatively healthy. With liver problems you
almost always expect gas and fermentation and very common is
craving for either alcohol or sweets with liver problems. But she doesn't have
any of these characteristics. You don't expect the liver to be very much
affected and, despite the aversion to fat and aggravation of cheese, Ptelea is
not a remedy that covers arthritic problems very well.
R: Pulsatilla? She is chilly and better
from heat with the arthritis. Pulsatilla is better from cold. She does have the aversion to fat and craving for cheese,
which is common for Pulsatilla, but ...
A: Ferrum: numbness, better from motion.
R:
Cataract, Calcarea fluorica is one of the main remedies for that. The first
remedy I think of when I see very severe or early cataract, is Calcarea
fluorica.
R: Aggravation from eggs, the food cravings
are somewhere in all of these remedies. Strong tendency to indigestion from
eggs: Colchicum, Ferrum and China arsenicosum should be there (add it).
V: Fears of darkness.
Desires spicy food, milk, soft eggs and sweets. "My hands and feet are
cold. I wear socks to bed and in the middle of the night, I take my socks
off."
N: Aurum cleared the case and now a beautiful
Calcarea is there. Calcarea worked beautifully; she has done really well.
A: Sleeplessness from grief: Natrum
muriaticum, Ignatia, Kali bromatum.
N: She is so emotional, that she doesn't have
control. (Arsenicum wants to control in anything that makes her anxious.)
In-between she laughs. She has extreme ups and downs, emotionally. Ignatia has
a little of rage and so does Natrum muriaticum.
A: Nux vomica: impatience and anger.
A:
Psorinum: eruptions and despair.
N: Aurum. The aggravation at night is on the
emotional level. Mostly despair at night. Sleepless at night and worse. The
only thing that relieves is music. This is the strongest symptom in the case.
Deep despair, grief. So much pain, she wants to get out. Violence. Aurum will
think: "I am so good, how can anyone leave me!" Suicidal thoughts, but not seriously in this case. Grief + worse at night, during sleep + amelioration from
music + very much in love, idealistic: Aurum.
A: Ignatia: grief,
sleeplessness, intolerance to contradiction, she sighs.
N: Ignatia will have the most bitterness.
Ignatia won't be so violent.
N: A great reaction to being left: Aurum,
Ignatia, Natrum muriaticum.
N: This is absolutely a classical thing for
Aurum to do. When they feel the grief, they work. They push themselves
really hard and they achieve more and more and more. Outside you can't see
anything going on. But inside they are extremely sensitive and especially to
criticism. They really can't
tolerate any criticism. They are absolutely perfectionist. They want to do
things in the very best possible way. If someone criticizes them they will just
say: "Oh thank you, I appreciate that.", and they go off and feel
remonstrated by it.
V: After the grief she just threw herself into
work and became very organized.
N: That way she is indus
N: Particulary Aurum teenagers are
compulsively praying for hours and hours.
N: An other way they do it (suicide) is by driving
a car, they are driving and then they get upset and angry. Then they have the
strong compulsion to just drive into a wall.
N: Aurum females
tend to be somewhat unfeminine. Often they don't have children. Businessworld
women. Passionate inside but cold and dead outside.
N: Pulsatilla and Ignatia have more
femininity. Aurum and Natrum muriaticum will have long periods without
relationship. They want it so much. Staphisagria, Pulsatilla and Ignatia: more
relationships and in the relationship they complain about it.
N: A few confirmatory points for Aurum:
Suicidal depression with outburst of temper.
Religious obsession, praying obsessively.
Strong outburst of temper. Complaints from
grief.
Fear of heart disease. Cardiac disorders.
Physical complaints better in the evening.
Emotional complaints worse in the evening.
Undescended testicles, a keynote for Aurum.
Headache with boring pain, in the right inner
corner of the eye.
Better from music. Sensitivity to pain.
Moaning in sleep.
There are remedies I
think of when they come in and the first thing they start talking about is
their work: Nux vomica and Aurum. Usually people talk more
about relationships, feelings, physical problems. But Nux vomica and Aurum talk
about their work because it is the centre of their life.
N: With the suicidal depression, the
seriousness, the industrious aspect of the case, we think strongly of Aurum and
strongly of Natrum muriaticum. But there is a particular remedy that has this
particular symptom: palpitations at night, sleeplessness from palpitations:
Aurum muriaticum.
N: Aurum muriaticum:
The aurum part.
The muriaticum part also.
Suicidal depression.
Haemorrhaging at menopause.
Keynote: warts on the tongue.
Pain in the tibia.
N: Aurum muriaticum
kalinatum:
Uterine haemorrhage. When you see uterine
haemorrhage in general, think of this aurum.
N: Aurum muriaticum natronatum:
Uterine fibroids are a keynote.
Boring pain, but in the left eye.
Aurum case plus fibroids, give this remedy.
Keynote is the strong thing, when you have an Aurum case plus fibroids.
Induration of the uterus.
N: Aurum sulphuratum:
Aurum and Sulphur, with the redness of the
orifices - the sulphur kind of area.
Constant nodding of the head is an indication
for this remedy.
Natrum muriaticum: the
grief, the sensitivity, the closeness, the romantic problems.
Silicea: she is a sort of a delicate type, so
you can see how Silicea was given.
Psorinum: if you put
together the idea of rash, eczema, severe depression and suicidal feelings, you
will think of Psorinum.
R: So this was a case
where we don't have a clear picture, we have a strong symptomatology from the
past which fits for Hyoscyamus: she was ecstatic (joyful excitement),
she was having religious delusions, she was talking a lot, she was dancing,
taking off her clothes, the symptom of the restless fingers.
I have had cases like this where the parents
say: "Well there was a funny thing, whenever he had he asthma he wanted to
get down on his hands and knees on the floor." Medorrhinum! So you can do
that in these circumstances.
N: A thirty-eight-year-old male who has
extreme anxiety. With this impending sense of doom, very pessimistic, very
negative. When you hear
this kind of very negative, very strong 'everything is going to go bad' what do
you think of?
A: Nitricum acidum.
N: But then, there is not so much anxiety
about health.
N: Coffea has thoughts, but
more thoughts of happy things. Coffea is not the deep serious, heavy thoughts.
It is: "Oh
I am going to meet a friend tomorrow" and anticipation and joy. Or they
had something good happen to them and they wake all night, thinking about that.
Which remedies wake with anxiety in the night?
A: Arsenicum!
N: Very conscious of how things look on him.
The colour of his hair, he is white and he colours his hair and beard so he
will look younger. What
is the main remedy for tremendous awareness of how they look?
A: Baryta carbonica.
N: Baryta carbonica is very concerned about
their appearance. "I must be just right, so that I look normal." The
other remedy that wants to look normal and be normal like other people, but often more in the thoughts than in the dress
is Thuja. They want to sound like other people and seem
like other people, because they feel inside they are so different.
N: Arsenicum for being
neat and perfect.
N: Isolates himself. "I don't like dealing with things, so no
one can bother me." What remedies?
A: Natrum muriaticum, Aurum, Sepia.
N: Sepia isolate themselves, they don't want
anyone bothering them.
N: Fear of intimacy, fear of relationship.
Prefer lover to be blind, to not see me. This is a kind of deep introversion. It is more than a lack of self-confidence (like in
Lycopodium).
A: Think of Natrum muriaticum?
N: Anacardium has the tremendous lack of
self-confidence and a hardness, but not this exact kind of quality of intimacy.
N: The main remedy that never sleeps on his
back is Sulphur, because of nightmares.
N: Mercurius has a fear
of his own impulses. This is what is behind his anger and his fear of
confrontation. He
is deeply afraid of his own inner violence, that it is just
going to come out. They have the impulses to stab, the impulses to kill. And he
is held within, so repressed.
Also the trembling and the hurry. Mercurius is
a very big remedy for this,
all kinds of hurry. Suspicion.
A very strong, clear Arsenicum picture.
The restlessness. The sipping.
The wanting company. The extreme anxiety. The
suicidal thoughts.
The temperature is unimportant, it is not an
issue at this point. He was telling very clearly that he was at the end of the line,
he couldn't take it any more. He was weeping and hysterical in the office. He
came in with his sister, trembling and weeping and pacing, he couldn't sit
down.
R: Waking at 2 - 3
a.m. What is the main remedy with that
symptom?
A: Kali carbonicum.
R: She has to get up out of bed and walk
around. Arsenicum gets up and paces. Also Kali carbonicum very frequently has
to get up out of bed at night. It is a keynote for Kali carbonicum. With the
back pain, the kidney, the asthma: they have to get up out of bed at night and
move around. The magnesias may have that as well.
R: Cold food aggravation in diarrhoea?
A: Arsenicum.
R: Arsenicum is the main remedy.
A: Natrum sulphuricum:
asthma, worse at night, colitis, worse in wet weather.
A: Dulcamara: diarrhoea, worse from cold food,
worse from damp weather.
A: Lachesis: sleeps right side, headaches
worse from sun, doesn't forgive easily.
R: What is the main remedy that has asthma 2 -
3 a.m. , that has to get up, that is worse from cold and damp, that may have or
not have colitis and who
is a person that respects people who do what they say?
A: Kali carbonicum and Kali
arsenicosum.
R: We
know that kalis are chilly. Arsenicum is chilly. She is not chilly. We
want perhaps a kali to cover this and we want a warm kali. So: Kali
sulphuricum, Kali iodatum and Kali nitricum.
* Kali iodatum, time aggravation is usually
around 5 a.m.
* Kali sulphuricum, sticking the feet out.
Although Kali sulphuricum is not one of the remedies that we know for putting
the feet out of the covers.
* Kali nitricum, time aggravation around 3
a.m. Strong desire for fat. And we see
strong symptoms of Nitricum
acidum: unmoved by apologies. The nitrics have a strong tendency for colitis
and diarrhoeas. So this was a case for Kali nitricum.
RM Yes, and anything
that makes him feel more walledin, it symbolically represents to him what's his
chief problem. And why the fear of robbers? Somebody will break into the wall
or break through the wall. That's why there's fear of robbers, dreams of
robbers, delusions of robbers; all these things. Phosphorus, for example, has
fear of the dark, of deep water and of death. Why those fears? Because the
basic pathology of Phosphorus is that they have no limit. Just the opposite of
Natrum muriaticum. Everything diffuses outwards. With the dark you can't see
your boundaries, so when they are in the dark, they can't tell where they are.
The same with death. Death is a leaving outward. This is what they fear. And
deep water as well. It's these symbolisms. Arsenicum has a big fear of robbers,
because they are avaricious, greedy. They are afraid somebody will take from
them something that they want. And also because the greed, the avarice, it's symbolically that they like to rob from somebody
else. So sometimes the fear is symbolic of what's wrong with the patient
himself.
Other times the fear is
a sign of an impulse that the patient has. For example, Stramonium has fear of
being murdered. Why? Because they want to murder. They have fear of animals.
Why? Because of the animal inside of them. Aurum has a fear of heights because
they have the impulse to jump and because they have the fear of failure. The
height is where they are turning to and they have the fear that they will not
be able to stay at the height. Lachesis has the fear of poison, because they
would like to poison somebody. Argentum nitricum has the fear of hurting their
family, because they have the impulse. So sometimes the fear is a reflection of an inner impulse, or
it can be symbolic of the basic problem.
* E.g. all natrums produce a
tremendous tendency towards fever blisters and canker sores around the mouth.
We see a case that has a tremendous tendency towards canker sores and fever
blisters around the mouth, but it doesn't seem to be Natrum muriaticum, Borax,
or one of the main natrums. Then our mind may turn: "Well, could this be
one of the other natrums?"
if you can remember that
all of the carbons are very chilly,
then you may hear of a carbon you don't know well. Or you come across a small
symptom when you are taking a case, you look it up and it has a carbon:
Strontium carbonicum. The patient says also that he is very chilly. You know that all the carbons are very chilly,
and so your mind is reinforced along this remedy. Then you can
investigate more clear mindedly.
a case appears to you to
be Kali carbonicum, but something doesn't fit, the patient is too warm to be
Kali carbonicum. But you have this feeling deep inside: the patient must be a
Kali carbonicum, or something like a Kali carbonicum. Which of the other kalis
may it be? Kali sulphuricum, Kali iodatum, Kali nitricum (a
very warm blooded remedy generally).
- Let's say that it was
a kali with a large goitre and hyperthyroid symptoms, then we may be preferring
Kali iodatum, because all the iodiums have the tendency for goitre and for
hyperthyroid symptoms.
Let's say that it was a kali, but it had a
strong aversion to eggs, then we may be preferring Kali sulphuricum.
R: No. It is a good
thought, Kali phosphoricum can have uterine haemorrhage. But the main remedy
that has tremendous haemorrhage without pain is Kali ferrocyanicum. (Kent:
female, metrorrhagia, painless: Kali ferrocyanicum (3), page 730.)
stout : heavy built
* E.g. many of the calcareas will have a craving for
eggs:
- Calcarea carbonica very strong.
- Calcarea phosphorica, sometimes.
- Calcarea fluorica, sometimes.
The carbons will have
craving for eggs:
- Calcarea carbonica.
- Baryta carbonica.
- Natrum carbonicum can have it.
* E.g. all the carbons have a tendency for obesity:
- Calcarea carbonica.
- Kali carbonicum.
- Natrum carbonicum.
- Magnesia carbonica.
Also:
- Carbo vegetabilis is stout.
- Graphitis - all carbon and nothing else, is
very stout.
The carbon element has a stoutness to it, also
the calcarea element.
When we put them together, we find the
stoutest, or the most commonly stout remedy of all: Calcarea carbonica.
all the natrums have
aggravation from milk:
- Natrum muriaticum.
- Natrum carbonicum.
- Natrum sulphuricum.
- Natrum arsenicum, very strong.
Many of the carbons will have an aggravation
from milk.
- Kali carbonicum etc.
Natrum and carbon
together, it reinforces and gives us the strongest aggravation from milk in our
materia medica: Natrum
carbonicum.
* E.g.
all the magnesias affect the nerves very much.
Also phosphorus affects the nerves very
strongly.
These two elements together: Magnesia phosphorica,
a tremendous effect on the nerves and our strongest remedy for neuralgia.
Once you have learned these things you will be
able to almost mathematically predict in which ways these remedies will
reinforce each other.
II. Sometimes they will
diffuse the energy of one another.
* E.g.
the natrums are mostly warm blooded.
Arsenicum is mostly pretty chilly.
So Natrum arsenicum will be less warm and less
chilly, more moderate, than either one of the elements by themselves.
* E.g. the calcareas crave eggs.
Sulphur has aversion to eggs.
So Calcarea sulphurica of all the remedies,
will be the most neutral about eggs.
III. Some symptoms are specific and peculiar
for only that combination. It doesn't have anything to do with the two families
that they come from.
* E.g.
calcarea and phosphorus come together and produce a strong craving for
bacon and smoked meat. Which neither will have by themselves.
* E.g.
ferrum and iodium come together and produce a very strong craving for
salty fish. Which neither will have by themselves.
* E.g.
calcarea and silicea come together and produce a strong mental symptom:
speaks with the death. Which neither will have by themselves.
So there will be:
- Symptomatology that is specific, peculiar
for the combination itself.
- Symptomatology of both of the elements that
make up the combination.
It is very important to know both these types
of symptomatology.
IV. A phenomena called gradation, according to
which salt is added to the remedy.
* E.g.
the natrums have a great deal to do with grief that is imprinted on the
individual. Yet there will be a moderation; as we go through the different
salts of natrum, a downward gradation occurs:
- Natrum muriaticum, most affected by grief.
- Natrum carbonicum.
- Natrum sulphuricum.
- Natrum phosphoricum.
- Natrum arsenicum etc.,
least affected by grief.
The natural tendencies of the natrums are
grief (like the salt from our tears). And yet as you change the anion, which is
attached to this natrum, you will change the degree to which this symptom is
expressed.
* E.g.
the same sort of gradation with heat in the calcareas.
- Calcarea sulphurica will be most warm.
- Calcarea iodata, perhaps even warmer than
Calcarea sulphurica.
- Calcarea fluorica.
- Calcarea phosphorica.
- Calcarea carbonica, almost always chilly.
- Calcarea arsenica, even more chilly.
* Fluoricum acidum has a
very high sex drive and pushes the people around them into sexual situations,
which are for their own satisfaction, without any concern for the person that
they are manipulating. (Kent: indifference to loved ones, Fluoricum acidum
(2).)
* Nitricum acidum is
very selfish, irritable, unsympathetic to other people's problems. Only
concerned about themselves.
* Phosphoricum acidum emotionally becomes
flat; apathetic to every emotion.
* Sulphuricum acidum is extremely hurried, so
preoccupied and so mentally agitated that they begin to feel a type of disconnection
with the people around them. They feel a type of alienation from their own emotions.
Physical \ general
- Very chilly generally. One of the more
chilly remedies, generally speaking.
* Nitricum acidum is extremely chilly.
* Phosphoricum acidum is very chilly.
* Sulphuricum acidum tends to be chilly, even
though sulphur is warm.
* Fluoricum acidum is the exception: it is quite hot.
(Here two elements are coming together and the fluoric element
over the temperature is so strong that it overcomes the coldness of the
acids.)
-
Offensiveness is another strong characteristic. There are two remedies
that have urine that is so offensive, that after they have urinated and have
flushed the toilet, the odour is still so strong that you can't go into the
bathroom immediately afterwards:
* Nitricum acidum.
* Benzoicum acidum.
* Nitricum acidum has tremendous offensive
perspiration.
The breath can be quite offensive in the
acids, because there is an element of fermentation, or decay: in the urine, the
breath, the perspiration etc.
- Weakness. An element of
weakness and aggravation from exertion is usually quite common to all acids.
A: The weakest are Phosphoricum acidum,
Muriaticum acidum and Picricum acidum?
R: Yes, but you will also see strong elements
of weakness that will go along with all of the acids.
* Sulphuricum acidum can be extremely weak in
certain stages.
* Nitricum acidum has a great tendency to
weakness as well.
Physical
- Diarrhoeas. Very often associated with diarrhoeas,
all the acids.
- Increased appetite. Often associated with
increased appetite.
- Urinary troubles are quite common.
- Excitement of the sexual sphere is a very
strong element in almost all acids. The acid element will often produce this exaltation
of the sexual sphere:
* Fluoricum acidum has a strong perversion.
* Nitricum acidum also has a very strong sex
drive.
* Picricum acidum sometimes has a tremendous
sex drive etc.
* Phosphoricum acidum in the early stages will
have a high sex drive. Then will later go to collapse of the sexual element and
then goes to impotence and indifference to sex.
Many of the carbons will
have a strong tendency to stomach disorders:
* Natrum carbonicum.
* Calcarea carbonica.
* Magnesia carbonica.
* Carbo vegetabilis.
* Carbo animalis.
* Graphitis.
* Kali arsenicosum
strongest anxiety.
* Kali carbonicum strong anxiety.
* Kali phosphoricum can be quite anxious, to
say the least.
* Kali iodatum the
hottest.
* Kali sulphuricum also quite warm.
* Kali nitricum also quite warm.
* Kali phosphoricum is between here, not so
chilly.
* Kali carbonicum to the chilly side.
* Kali bichromicum even more chilly usually.
* Kali arsenicosum quite chilly.
- Aggravation at night,
especially:
* Kali arsenicosum, Kali bichromicum more
around midnight, or 1 a.m.
* Kali carbonicum 2 a.m. especially and 2 till 4 a.m. quite strong.
* Kali nitricum 3 a.m.
* Kali sulphuricum usually 3 a.m.
* Kali iodatum 5 a.m.
- The sinus troubles of
the kalis are almost legendary, quite strongly running through all. Quite
strong sinus trouble and lots of mucus: thick mucus, often green or yellow
(depending on which one of the remedies), ugly mucus.
See CASE 5.
* Kali bichromicum is more green.
* Kali sulphuricum is more yellow.
* Kali carbonicum has
the keynote swelling in this region. But under the eyes: most of the kalis have
this.
* Kali carbonicum is one
of the most important remedies for pneumonias.
* Muriaticum acidum
tremendous aggravation by the sea.
* Magnesia muriatica very much aggravated by
the sea.
* Natrum muriaticum, usually aggravated by the
sea, sometimes ameliorated.
- Headaches, the main
remedies for headaches and migraines:
* Natrum carbonicum.
* Natrum muriaticum.
* Natrum arsenicum.
- Amelioration from
stool, common in them. (You find it in different places: anxiety - better
stool; irritability - better stool; anger - worse before stool. Not one rubric
that is better from stool.)
* Natrum sulphuricum and Borax are the main
remedies.
* Natrum muriaticum.
* Zincum.
A: Fastidiousness, a
keynote for Arsenicum.
A: Sudden urging for stool, a keynote for
Sulphur.
A: Amelioration at sea, a keynote for
Medorrhinum.
A: Craving fruit, a keynote for Veratrum and
Phosphoricum acidum.
A: Aversion to fat, a keynote for Pulsatilla.
A: Worse lying on the left side, a keynote for
Phosphorus.
Colchicum: sensitive to odours, aversion to eggs, motion
ameliorates, swelling of the eyelids, headaches.
A: Ferrum: arthritis in
the shoulder, palpitations, high blood pressure, chilly, craving for bread,
hernia, sleeping on the back, irritability,
sensitive to odours.
A: Colchicum: sensitive
to odours, aversion to eggs, motion ameliorates, swelling of the eyelids,
headaches.
A: Calcarea fluorica.
R: Usually Calcarea fluorica will have craving
for eggs.
A: She is putting on weight easily, like with
Calcarea. She is fatigued etc.
R: Calcarea fluorica can sometimes have modalities like Rhus tox:
Better from motion, better
from exertion, better from heat.
Nodosities, bunions, desires
fruit, sensitive to odours.
RM Arthritic pains
better from cold; Lac caninum, Ledum, Guaiacum, Pulsatilla, Sulphur. And then
one other very special one.
AD Fluoricum acidum.
RM Fluoricum acidum also has pains better from
cold, but specifically in rheumatism: Radium bromide. Don't forget. If you find
a case that's like Rhus tox - arthritic pains worse at night, better from motion,
having to get up and move around - but better from cold as opposed to better
from heat, and actually
worse from the heat of the bed, think of Radium bromide.