This medicine acts powerfully upon the nervous system, and the abdominal viscera. It is applicable in gastric and bilious affections, in those which the symptoms are aggravated in the morning, and in many chronic diseases caused by the abuse of coffee or of spirituous liquors for those who lead a sedentary life, and fatigue themselves with mental labour.
It is proper for individuals who have black hair, dark complexion, and who are disposed to be constipated, for persons of a lively, ardent, active character, and who have a temper inclined to mischief, or anger.
This medicine is employed with success when the menses are apt to appear some days before their time, and when they are too abundant; in certain epidemic maladies or other acute febrile diseases, principally those in which the cold stage is preceded or accompanied by heats, as well as in complaints produced by cold.
Nux Vomica is applicable especially when the state of the patient is aggravated in the morning, when he awakes towards three o'clock, and cannot sleep again, on account of a succession of ideas which besiege him, or when he is kept awake till daybreak only to fall into a sleep full of anxious dreams, from which he wakes up more fatigued than when he lay down, and is reluctant to rise. It is applicable also to those who many hours before they lie down cannot resist sleep, and fall into slumber in a chair.
Nux vomica has cured many bronchial catarrhs, spasms in the stomach, chronic constipations, headaches, angina, diseases of the eye, inflammatory rheumatisms, bilious fevers, jaundices, hemorrhoidal diseases, hysteric indispositions, complaints of pregnant women, chronic gastro-enteritis, hepatitis; but, to obtain a clear idea of the power of the remedy, attentive regard must be paid to the numerous symptoms which it develops in healthy person, and this is moreover the only guide to be followed in the selection of a remedy, as we have already so many times observed.
Unless under pressing necessity, this medicine should be administered at night before the patient goes to bed.
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According to Hahnemann, Petroleum has been found efficacious when the following symptoms predominate:- loss of memory, vertigo, swimming in the head, heavy and lancinating headach; beating in the occiput, falling off of the hair, eruption on the head and neck, crusts on the scalp, eruptions on the neck, yellow complexion, appearance of gauze before the eyes, presbyopia, impossibility of reading small type without spectacles, tingling in the ears, buzzing and tingling in the ears, hardness of hearing (especially when use has previously been made of Nitric acid ); dryness and a painful sensation of it in the internal ear, dryness and painful sense of it in the nose, obstruction in the nose, swelling of the submaxillary glands, tongue white and clogged, noisy risings from the stomach, contraction of the throat, with afflux of water into the mouth; sickness, loss of appetite, repugnance for meat, canine appetite, great commotion in the abdomen, colics, hard stools, involuntary leaking of urine, narrowing of the ureter, heat in the ureter, itching and moistness of the scrotum, frequent pollution, hoarseness, coryza, cough after having gone to bed, dry cough during the night, shootings in the side of the chest, tetters on the chest, pain at the sacrum, which prevent the patient from standing; backach, bleeding cracks in the skin of the hands and fingers in winter, arthiritic stiffness of the articulations of the fingers, tearing pains in the hands, brown spots on the wrist, tetters on the knee, cracking noise and stiffness of the articulations, numbness of the limbs, repugnance to the open air, production of unhealthy flesh in ulcers, ebullition of the blood, vivid dreams, hard sleep in the morning, intermittent fever in the evening, cold and afterwards heat in the face, with cold in the feet; night sweats, irascible temper, inclination to mischief, disquietude.
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Phosphorus is most valuable in diseases of the eyes, especially in gutta serena, in an incipient state; violent headaches, discharges from the ears, spasmodic coughs, uneasiness of the stomach, pains in the epigastrium, colics of the lower belly, diarrhoea of a chronic kind, menstrual derangements, and, above all, diseases of the bones, rickets, and scrofula.
This remedy is seldom indicated in cases of chronic diseases, characterized by the loss of venereal appetite and feebleness of the genital organs, or when the periodical discharges appear before their epochs; so, in general, in all those where there is weakness from too great depression of vital energy.
This medicine is one the most appropriate in cases of habitually soft or liquid stools.
Phosphorus will be found very efficacious, chiefly in the cases in which the following symptoms predominate:- vertigo, of different kinds; stupifying headach, afflux of blood toward the head, morning headach, shootings externally at the side of the head, falling off of the hair, difficulty in opening the eyelids, heat and smarting in the external angles of the eyes, running from the eyes when exposed to the wind, weeping and suppuration of the eyes at night, inflammation of the eyes, heat within them and pressure, as if caused by a grain of sand; myopia, dim sight, dark spots flying before the eyes, blindness, by day every object appearing covered with a grey veil; dimness of sight in artificial light, sallow complexion of the face, beating in the ear, buzzing in the ears, difficulty of hearing the human voice, discharge of blood on blowing the nose, distressing dryness of the nose, continual running of mucus from the nose, bad smell exhaled by the nose, swelling of the neck, white tongue, erosion in the interior of the mouth, mucus in the mouth, mucous taste in the mouth, taste of cheese in the mouth, mucosities clinging to the throat in the morning, dryness in the throat day and night, risings from the stomach, spasmodic risings, acid risings, morning sickness caused by hunger, wish for restoratives, hunger after having eaten, uneasiness in the abdomen after having breakfasted, heat and anxiety after having eaten, burning heat in the hands after having eaten, indolence and drowsiness after eating, a kind of narrowing of the cardiac orifice which causes the food on being swallowed to rise again in the mouth, pain proceeding from pressure in the praecordial region, disturbance in the praecordial region, sense of fulness in the stomach, swelling in the same region caused by wind after dinner, borborygmi in the abdomen, pains caused by wind, discharges of wind, morning colic while in bed, tearings in the abdomen, accompanied by much desire to go to stool; discharge of blood on going to stool, piles in the rectum and at the anus, mucous running from the anus, which remains open; tension in the ureter, smarting in the ureter while passing urine, head of the urine, burning spasm in the ureter, very strong erections by night, continual desire of coitus, too quick ejaculation of semen in the venereal act, frequent pollutions, shootings in the vagina as far as the uterus, dry coryza, difficulty of breathing, tickling in the chest, cough provoked by tickling, roughness in the larynx, mucous expectoration from the larynx, cough, with hoarseness and harshness in the chest; cough at night, with shooting pains in the larynx; shooting pains in the left side of the chest, pain in the chest when the patient lies down, palpitation of the heart when sitting, stiffness in the neck, tearing shootings in the arms and shoulder blades, trembling of the hands, swelling of the bones of the leg, shakings of the feet day and night before sleeping, yellow spots on the abdomen and chest, brown spots on the body, transient heat, sleep long delayed, morning sweats, tendency to fear, moroseness, timidity, disquietude when along, great irritability and susceptibility, ill humour, aversion to work.
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The use of Pulsatilla will be found most salutary in those diseases, during the prevalence of which the patient exhibits a lowness of spirits and dejection of mind, or else a state of mildness and resignation, especially if, when in sound health, his temper was easy and his disposition benevolent. It is therefore chiefly useful for lymphatic temperaments, and consequently improper for persons of decided character and hasty temper. Most of all it is favourable when the patient feels from time to time a sense of chilliness and experience no thirst.
Pulsatilla is suitable to women whose monthly discharges are frequently obstructed, or whose sleep is long delayed at night, and whose sufferings are most acute at that time and in the evening. It is beneficial for indispositions produced by pork, and in numerous affections of the digestive organs. Chlorosis is often very speedily cured by this medicine, also certain kinds of ophthalmia, inflammations of the throat, acute incipient phthisis, affections of the stomach and intestines, puerperal fevers, certain intermittent fevers, hooping-coughs, chronic vomitings, acute rheumatisms, some kinds of headaches, measles, affections of the ear, incipient amaurosis, and lastly, affections caused by vexation. It displays its effect most frequently by symptoms shewn on one side of the body. The effects which are produced by it during sleep are soothed or dispelled by motion.
It is one of the most powerful antidotes to sulphur, and consequently a remedy against ailments produced by the use of sulphur baths.
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Cinchona is useful in scrofulous ophthalmias, delirium tremens, bilious fever, certain forms of intermittent fever, consequences of onanism, chlorosis, the effects of loss of blood and humours, rheumatic pains accompanied by heat and burnings, in amauroses.
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The principal symptoms produced by this remedy take place during sleep: no other medicine possesses this property in so remarkable a degree. There is much analogy between it and Bryony, but the preceding circumstance marks the difference between these two remedies. Rhus and Bryony conquer typhus in an infallible manner, and were employed with the greatest success against the terrible epidemic of the year 1813, which broke out in Germany after the great battles which were fought there.
Rhus is the best specific against the effects of muscular straining and contusions, certain paralyses, chronic rheumatisms, affections of the abdominal organs, headaches, tetters, eruptions, sprains, erysipelas, ophthalmia, ozena, pemphigus, peritonitis, puerperal peritonitis, pneumonia, scrofula, tetanus, vertigo, &c.
Rhus is applicable to persons of pusillanimous disposition, of a melancholy humour, and lovers of solitude, to those who readily weep, or who live in dread of death.
After the administration of this substance, it is often observed that the patient's malady is not alleviated till after twenty-four or thirty-six hours: we must therefore be on our guard as to the choice of this medicine, and bear in mind this last important circumstance in the repetition of the doses.
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The sufferings and pain occasioned by gravel are sensibly calmed by this medicine; it is appropriate in great sensibility of the scalp, in chronic arthritis, stiffness of the joints, painful constrictions of the bladder, mercurial ulcers, and chronic diseases of the skin.
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This medicine is extremely beneficial in megrim, congestions of the head, falling of the eyelids, prolapse of the anus and uterus, sharp pains in the womb, incontinence of urine, convulsive cough, chronic amenorrhoea, growths.
It is found chiefly useful in cases in which the patient presents some of the following symptoms:- vertigo, attacks of piercing headach, so violent as to extort cries, and accompanied by vomitings, commonly called gouty headach, pulsating headach, chiefly in the occiput, the head confused, and inaptitude of mental labor, afflux of blood toward the head on stooping, itching in the head, nose, and ears; falling-off of the hair, impossibility of opening the eyelids during the night, heaviness and falling of the upper eyelid, an appearance of gauze before the eyes and black flying spots, the eyelids glued during the night, buzzing and tinkling in the ears, excessive sensibility to sound, hardness of hearing, yellowness of the face, distressing dryness of the interior of the nose without obstruction, want of smell, swelling of the gums, lancinating pains in the teeth, excoriation of the tip of the tongue, which is white and clogged, dryness in the mouth, thirst in the morning, constriction in the throat, risings, contraction of the throat chiefly after having drunk, acid taste in the mouth after having eaten, reluctances to eat, difficulty to swallow food, distaste for meat and for milk, great appetite, voracity, beating in the region of the heart while walking, stomach-ache after supper, sweating after having eaten, heat in the stomach and abdomen, piercing sensation n the hypochondriac region, sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, sensation of hardness in the abdomen, swelling of the abdomen in women after fecundity, abundant production and expulsion of wind, borborygmi and gurgling in the belly, especially after having eaten, colics after motion, itching in the rectum and at the anus, afflux of blood toward the anus, protrusion of the rectum in going to stool, projection of hemorrhoids from the rectum, leaking from the anus, delayed stools, evacuation too lax, earnest desire to pass urine at night, involuntary flow of urine during the first sleep, during deep in colour, smarting in the ureter in passing urine, pain in the testicles, feebleness of the genital organs, suppression of the menses, white and yellow discharges from the vagina, coryza, dry coryza, hoarseness, ebullition in the chest, sensation of excoriation in the middle of the chest, pain in the chest on moving, oppression on the chest, shooting pains in the left side of the chest, shootings on the chest during mental applications, pain in the side on breathing and coughing, cough evening and morning, with ejections of saline spittings, phlegm difficult to be cast off, pain in the sacrum, shiverings in the back, itching eruptions on the back, tearings and cramps in the back, stiffness in the back, stiffness in the neck, sweatings in the axilla, stiffness in the arms, lassitude of the arms, shootings in the articulation of the hand when moved, heat in the palms of the hands, paralysis of the legs, cold in the legs and feet, plucking pains in the legs and in the great toe, convulsions of the feet during sleep at mid-day, cramps in the calfs of the legs, swelling of the legs and feet, abundant perspiration of the feet, or its suppressions, violent heat in the feet, formication and deadness of the soles of the feet, numbness of the arms and legs, especially after mechanical employment, stiffness and inflexibility of the joints of the hand, knee, and foot, ulcers on the articulations of the fingers and toes, agitation and beatings in all the limbs, burning pains in many parts of the body, transient feelings of heat, sense of ebullition in the blood, palpitations of the heart, attacks of heat when seated, and while walking in the open air, copious perspiration on the slightest motion of the body, want of natural heat, great tendency to take cold, great tendency to sprain the back, baneful effects of grief, lassitude causing tremor, indolence and difficulty of moving the body, sense of exhaustion on rising, drowsiness in the day, frequent and unquiet dreams giving alarm, nocturnal perspiration, morning sweats of an acid quality, anxiety, anxiety at night when in bed, anxiety and uneasiness with transient heat, tendency to be alarmed, aversion to habitual duties, indifference to kindred, discouraged, melancholy.
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This medicine proves of great use in whitlows,, in old fungous ulcers of a bad kind, in glandular indurations, scrofula, deviations of the spine, white swellings, chronic catarrhs, phthisis, corrodings white discharges.
Its efficacy particularly shews itself in circumstances in which the following symptoms predominate:- vertigo, loss of memory, affection of the head caused by reading and writing, giddiness in the evening as if in a state of intoxication, heaviness in the head, headach from the nape of the neck to the top of the head which prevents sleep in the night, daily headach, tearing with heat of the forehead during the morning, heaviness as if something were about to issue from the forehead, dragging pain in the head extending to the forehead, pain in the head as if bursting, pulsating headach, headach on one side only, tearing and shooting pains meeting at the eyes and in the bones of the face, night sweats in the head, moist and itching crusts on the head, tuberculous elevations on the scalp, falling-off of the hair, cracks in the skin of the face, presbyopia, blindness in broad day, black spots flying before the eyes, whilst the sight seems veiled as if by a grey body, amaurosis, sparks of fire before the eyes, feebleness of the sight, so that letters seem confused together when reading, paleness of the face while reading, attack of sudden blindness which takes away the sight for several minutes, running of the eyes in the open air, smarting in the eyes, suppuration of the eyes which glues together the eyelids, redness with pain in the angles of the eyes, ophthalmia, noise in the ears, stoppage in the ears which sometimes passes off with noise, hardness of hearing, piercing pain in the ears, shootings from within to the outer part of the ears, bleeding at the nose, painful sensation of dryness in the nose, want of smell, eruptions of pimples in the nose, swelling of the lower jaw-bone, pluckings and shootings during the night in the lower jaw, ulceration in the interior of the lower lip, tetters on the chin, swelling of the submaxillary glands, piercing pains in the teeth, tearing pains in the teeth and along the jaws day and night, excoriation of the tongue, privation of taste, constant presence of mucus in the mouth, risings, risings taste of food just eaten, morning nausea, continual nausea and vomiting, nausea succeeding every motion producing excitement, nausea every morning with headach and pains in the eyes when they are turned, tightness of the throat with shivering, much thirst, distaste for all food, aversion to meat, disgust for meat, in children refusal of the breast or vomiting after having sucked, heaviness of the stomach after drinking too fast, painful sensibility in the praecordial region when it is pressed upon, the same after having eaten, heaviness of the stomach for years, tightness of the throat followed by vomiting after having eaten any food, fulness after having eaten, tension and hardness of the belly in infants, gurgling in the belly during bodily motion, expulsion of wind, painful inguinal hernia, gripings, colics, tearing pains in the abdomen without diarrhoea, belly-ache with diarrhoea, many stools soft during the day, constipation, delayed stools, constipation with frequent and useless endeavours to go to stool, excessive venereal appetite, menses in too small quantity, suppression of the menses for several months, emission of blood from the womb during suckling, white discharges preceded by colics in the umbilical region; itching of the genitals, incessant or too frequent sneezing, obstruction in the nose for years, dry coryza, running coryza which overcomes a chronic obstruction of the nostrils, hoarseness, asthma, short breathing on the least mechanical exertion, short breathing or panting on walking quickly, suspended breathing when lying on the back, suspension of respiration in walking, running, or coughing; cough with expectoration of a purulent kind, phlegm, or of suffocating cough in the night, spitting of pus, oppression on the chest, oppression of the chest in coughing or sneezing, pulsation in the sternum, shooting pains from the chest to the back, shootings under the left false ribs, pain at the sacrum, with or without being touched; spasmodic pullings in the sacrum, which will not allow of an erect posture and oblige the patient to lie down; shooting pains in the back, tearings in the trunk of the body, as if from the rack; pains, when sitting or lying down, in the loins above the pelvis, numbness in the arms on placing them on the table or lying on one of them; pain and numbness in the arm which has been lain on, state similar to paralysis and trembling in the right arm on the least exertion, plucking pain in the arm, tearing pain in the arm, commencement of paralysis of the fore-arm, the hand involuntarily letting slip what it holds, shootings at night in the wrist, which ascend toward the arm; formication in the fingers, plucking pains and stiffness in the legs, pressure felt in the muscles of the thigh, swelling of the knee, pulling pains in the legs, numbness of the calfs of the legs, numbness of the feet at night, cramps in the calfs of the legs on leaving off employment in the evening, shootings in the ankle in walking, cold feet, perspiring of the feet, suppression of the natural perspiration in the feet, cold in the feet, a sensation of tickling in the sole of the feet which becomes so intolerable that it almost distracts the patient, fetid smell of the feet, swelling, swelling of the feet, shooting pains in corns, ebullition of the blood, and thirst after having drank a little wine, great tendency to sprain the back, perspiration from walking a little, great tendency to take cold in uncovering the feet, shiverings, ganglions, fetid smelling ulcers, unsightly ulcers on the legs, itching ulcers on the thigh and ankle, nocturnal shootings in all the limbs, tearing pains in the arms and legs, cramps in the arms and legs, numbness of the limbs, state similar to paralysis of the limbs at night, bruised sensation of the limbs in the evening, general debility, tendency to fainting on lying down on the side, frequent gapings, difficulty of obtaining sleep at night in bed, unsound sleep at night, similar to a mere state of drowsiness; much dreaming and frequent waking during the night, repeated dreams every night, uneasy dreams, convulsions of the body at night, while sleeping, frequent and painful dreams in the night, speaking aloud during sleep, night sweats, abundant acid sweats at night, ill-humour.
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