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Antimony Crudum.

Sulphide of Antimony.

SbS3.

For children and young people inclined to grow fat ( Cal. ); for the extremes of life.

Old people with morning diarrhoea, suddenly become constipated, or alternate diarrhoea and constipation; pulse hard and rapid.

Sensitive to the cold. < after taking cold.

Child is fretful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at; sulky, does not wish to speak or be spoken to ( Ant. t. , Iod. , Sil. ); angry at every little attention.

Great sadness, with weeping.

Loathing life.

Anxious lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects her ( Puls. ); abject despair, suicide by drowning.

Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or repeat verses.

Sentimental mood in the moonlight, especially ecstatic love; bad effects of disappointed affection ( Cal. p. ).

Nostrils and labial commissures sore, cracked and crusty.

Headache: after river bathing; from taking cold; alcoholic drinks; deranged digestion, acids, fat, fruit; suppressed eruption.

Gastric complaints from over-eating; stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed; a thick milky-white coating on the tongue, which is the red strand of the remedy; very subject to canker sores in the mouth ( Arg. n. , Sulph. ).

Longing for acids and pickles.

Gastric and intestinal affections: from bread and pastry; acids, especially vinegar; sour or bad wine; after cold bathing; over-heating; hot weather.

Constant discharge of flatus, up and down, for years; belching, tasting of ingesta.

Mucus: in large quantities from posterior nares by hawking; from anus, ichorous, oozing, staining yellow; mucous piles.

Disposition to abnormal growths of the skin; fingernail do not grow rapidly; crushed nails grow is splits like warts and with horny spots.

Large horny corns on soles of feet ( Ran. b. ); very sensitive when walking, especially on stone pavements.

Loss of voice from becoming over-heated.

Cannot bear the heat of the sun; worse from over-exertion in the sun. ( Lach. , Nat. m. ); < from over-heating near the fire; exhausted in warm weather; ailments from sunburn.

Whooping cough: < by being over-heated in the sun or in a warm room; from cold washing.

When symptoms reappear they change locality or go from one side of the body to the other.

Aversion to cold bathing; child cries when washed or bathed with cold water; cold bathing causes violent headache; causes suppressed menses; colds from swimming or falling into the water ( Rhus ).

Relations. - Complementary: [Squilla.]

Similar: to, Bry ;, Ipec. , Lyc. , Puls. , in gastric complaints.

Follows well: after, Ant. c. , Puls. , Mer. , Sulph.

Aggravation. - After eating; cold baths, acids or sour wine; after heat of sun or fire; extremes of cold or heat.

Amelioration. - In the open air; during rest; after a warm bath.

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Tartar Emetic.

Adapted to torpid, phelgmatic persons; the hydrogenoid constitution (of Grauvogl).

Diseases originating from exposure in damp basements or cellars ( Ars. , [Aran.], Tereb. ).

Through the pneumogastric nerve it depresses the respiration and circulation, thus producing the keynote of the remedy, viz., when the patient coughs there appears to be a large collection of mucus in the bronchi; it seems as if much would be expectorated, but nothing comes up.

Child clings to those around; wants to be carried; cries and whines if any one touches it; will not let you feel the pulse ( Ant. c. , Sanic. ).

Face cold, blue, pale, covered with cold sweat ( Tab. ).

Tongue coated pasty, thick, white, with reddened papillae and red edges; red in streaks; very red, dry in the middle; extraordinary craving for apples ( Aloe - for acids, pickles, Ant. c. ).

Vomiting: in any position except lying on right side; until he faints; followed by drowsiness and prostration; of cholera morbus with diarrhoea and cold sweat, a dose after each attack ( Ver. ).

Asphyxia: mechanical, as apparent death from drowning; from mucus in bronchi; from impeding paralysis of lungs; from foreign bodies in larynx or trachea; with drowsiness and coma.

Great sleepiness or irresistible inclination to sleep, with nearly all complaints ( Nux m. , Op. ).

Child at birth pale, breathless, gasping; asphyxia neonatorum. Relieves the "death rattle" ( Taran. ).

Icterus with pneumonia, especially of right lung.

Relations. - Similar: to Lycopodium ; but spasmodic motion of the alae is replaced by dilated nostrils; to Veratrum , both have diarrhoea, colic, vomiting, coldness and craving for acids; to Ipecac , but more drowsiness from defective respiration; nausea, but > after vomiting.

When lungs seem to fail, patient becomes sleepy, cough declines or ceases, it supplants Ipec.

For bad effects of vaccination when Thuja fails and Silicea is not indicated.

Before Silicea in dyspnoea from foreign bodies in the larynx or trachea; Puls. in suppressed gonorrhoea; Tereb. from damp basements.

Children not easily impressed when Ant. tart. seems indicated in coughs, require Hepar.

In spring and autumn, when damp weather commences, coughs of children get worse.

Aggravation. - In damp, cold weather; lying down at night; warmth of room; change of weather in spring ( Kali s. , Nat. s. ).

Amelioration. - Cold open air; sitting upright; expectorating; lying of right side ( Tab. ).

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Poison of the Honey Bee

Apium virus.

Adapted to the strumous constitution; glands enlarged, indurated; scirrhus or open cancer.

Women, specially widows; children and girls who, though generally careful, become awkward, and let things fall while handling them ( Bov. ).

Bad effects of acute exanthema imperfectly developed or suppressed ( Zinc. ); measles, scarlatina, urticaria.

Ailments from jealousy, fright, rage, vexation, bad news.

Irritable; nervous; fidgety; hard to please.

Weeping disposition; cannot help crying; discouraged, despondent ( Puls. ).

Sudden shrill, piercing screams from children while waking or sleeping (Hellebore Ver. ).

Oedema; bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes (over the eyes, Kali c. ); of the hands and feet, dropsy, without thirst (with thirst, Acet. ac. , Apoc. ).

Extreme sensitiveness to touch ( Bell. , Lach. ).

Pain: burning, stinging, sore; suddenly migrating from one part to another ( Kali bi. , Lac c. , Puls. ).

Thirstlessness: in anasarca; acites ( Acetic acid , but face more waxy and great thirst).

Incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the parts; can scarcely retain the urine a moment, and when passed scalds severely; frequent, painful, scanty, bloody.

Constipation: sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if much effort were used.

Diarrhoea: of drunkards; in eruptive diseases, especially if eruption be suppressed; involuntary from every motion, as though anus were wide open ( Phos. )

Affects right side; enlargement or dropsy of right ovary; right testicle.

Intermittent fever; chill 3 p. m., with thirst, always ( Ign. ); < warm room and from external heat ( Thuja , 3 a. m., and at 3 p. m.).

Relations. - Complementary: Nat. mur.

Disagrees, when used either before or after Rhus.

Ars. and Puls. follow Apis well.

Has cured scarlatina albuminuria after Canth. , Dig. , Hell. failed.

Aggravation. - After sleeping ( Lach. ); closed, especially warmed and heated rooms are intolerable; from getting wet ( Rhus ), but better from washing or moistening the part in cold water.

Amelioration. - Open air; cold water or cold bathing; uncovering; pains by coughing, walking or changing position; when sitting erect;

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Indian Hemp.

Apocynaceae

Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat.

Dropsy of serous membranes; acute, inflammatory.

Dropsy: with thirst ( Acet. ac. ), water disagrees or is vomited ( Ars. ); most cases uncomplicated with organic diseases; after typhus, typhoid, scarlatina, cirrhosis; after abuse of quinine.

Acute hydrocephalus, with open sutures; stupor, sight of one eye lost; constant and voluntary motion of one arm and one leg (left arm and leg, Bry. ); forehead projected.

Amenorrhoea in young girls, with bloating or dropsical extension of abdomen and extremities.

Metrorrhagia: continued or paroxysmal flow; fluid or clotted; nausea, vomiting, palpitation; pulse quick, feeble, when moved; vital depression, fainting, when raising head from pillow.

Cough, short and dry, or deep and loose, during pregnancy ( Con. ).

Relations. - Similar: to, Acetic Acid , Apis (no thirst), Ars. , Cinch. , Dig. , in dropsical affections.

[Blatta orientalis] has cured bad cases of general dropsy, after Apis , Apoc. and Dig. failed. - Haynes.

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The Metal.

Pure Silver

Tall, thin, irritable persons.

Ailments from abuse of Mercury.

Constitutional effects of onanism.

Affects the cartilages, tarsal, ears, nose, Eustachian; the structures entering into joints.

Seminal emissions: after onanism; almost every night; without erection; with atrophy of penis.

Crushed pain in the testicles ( Rhod. ).

Prolapsus; with pain in left ovary and back, extending forward and downward (right ovary, [Pal.]); climacteric haemorrhage.

Exhausting, fluent coryza with sneezing.

Hoarseness; of professional singers, public speakers ( Alum. , Arum. t. ).

Total loss of voice of professional singers.

Throat and larynx feel raw or sore on swallowing or coughing.

Laughing excites cough ( Dros. , Phos. , Stan. ) and produces profuse mucus in larynx.

When reading aloud has to hem and hawk; cough with easy expectoration of gelatinous, viscid mucus, looking like boiled starch.

Great weakness of the chest ( Stan. ); worse left side.

Alternation in timbre of voice with singers and public speakers ( Arum t. ).

Raw spot over bifurcation of the trachea. worse when using voice, talking or singing.

Relation. - Follows well: after, Alum.

Similar: to, [Stan. in] cough excited by laughing.

Aggravation. - Riding in a carriage ( Coc. ); when touched or pressed upon; talking, singing, reading aloud.

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The Silver Nitrate

AgO,NO5

Acute or chronic diseases fro unusual or long-continued mental exertion.

Always think of Argentum nit. on seeing withered, dried-up, old-looking patients (thin, scrawny, Sec. ).

Emaciation, progressing every year; most marked in lower extremities ( Am. m. ); marasmus.

Apprehension when ready for church or opera, diarrhoea sets in ( Gels. ).

Time passes slowly ( Can. I. ); impulsive, wants to do things in a hurry; must walk fast; is always hurried; anxious, irritable, nervous ( Aur. Lil. ).

Headache: congestive, with fullness and heaviness; with sense of expansion; habitual gastric, of literary men; from dancing; hemicrania, pressive, screwing in frontal eminence or temple; ending in bilious vomiting; < from any exhaustive mental labor; > by pressure or tight bandaging ( Apis , Puls. ).

Acute granular conjunctivitis; scarlet-red, like raw beef; discharge profuse, muco-purulent.

Ophthalmia neonatorum: profuse, purulent discharge; cornea opaque, ulceration; lids sore, thick, swollen; agglutinated in morning ( Apis , Mer. s. , Rhus ).

Eye strain from sewing, < in warm room > in open air ( Nat. m. , Ruta ); diseases due to defective accommodation.

Craves sugar; child is fond of it, but diarrhoea results from eating (craves salt or smoked meat, Cal. p. ).

Belching accompanies most gastric ailments.

Flatulent dyspepsia: belching after every meal; stomach, as it it would burst with wind; belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence.

Diarrhoea: green mucus, like chopped spinach in flakes; turning green after remaining on diaper; after drinking; after eating candy or sugar; masses of muco-lymph in shreddy strips or lumps ( Asar. ); with much noisy flatus ( Aloe. ).

Diarrhoea as soon as he drinks ( Ars. , Crot. t. , [Trom.]).

Urine passes unconsciously day and night ( Caust. ).

Impotence: erection fails when coition is attempted ( Agnus , Calad. , Selen. ).

Coition: painful in both sexes; followed by bleeding from vagina ( Nit. ac. ).

Metrorrhagia: in young widows; in sterility; with nervous erethism at change of life ( Lach. ).

Great longing for fresh air ( Amyl. , Puls. , Sulph. ).

Chronic laryngitis of singers; the high notes cause cough ( Alum. , Arg. m. , Arum. ).

Great weakness of lower extremities, with trembling; cannot walk with the eyes closed ( Alum. ).

Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when he thinks himself unobserved.

Convulsions preceded by great restlessness.

Sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing ([Dolich.], Hep. , Nit. ac. , Sil. ); in or about uterus when walking or riding.

Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up; craves fresh air.

Relation. - Natrum mur , for the bad effects of cauterizing with nitrate of silver.

Coffea increases nervous headache.

Boys' complaints after using tobacco ( Ars. , Ver. ).

Similar: to, Nat. m. , Nit. ac. , Lach. , Aur. , Cup.

After Ver. ; Lyc. follows well in flatulent dyspepsia.

Aggravation. - Cold food; cold air; eating sugar; ice cream; unusual mental exertion.

Amelioration. - Open air; craves the wind blowing in his face; bathing with cold water.

The 200 or 1000th potency in watery solution as a topical application in ophthalmia neonatorum has relieved when the crude Silver nitrate failed.

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Leopard's Bane

Compositae

Nervous women, sanguine plethoric persons, lively expression and very red face.

For the bad effects resulting from mechanical injuries; even if received years ago.

Especially adapted to those who remain long impressed by even slight mechanical injuries.

Sore, lame, bruised feeling all through the body, as if beaten; traumatic affections of muscles.

Mechanical injuries, especially with stupor from concussion; involuntary faeces and urine;

After injuries with blunt instruments ( Symph. ).

Compound fractures and their profuse suppuration ( Calend. ).

Concussions and contusions, results of shock or injury; with laceration of soft parts; prevents suppuration and septic conditions and promotes absorption.

Nervous, cannot bear pain; whole body over-sensitive ( Cham. , Coff. , Ign. ).

Everything on which he lies seems too hard; complains constantly of it and keeps moving from place to place in search of a soft spot (the parts rested upon feel sore and bruised, Bap. , Pyr. ; must move continually to obtain relief from pain, Rhus ).

Heat of upper body; coldness of lower.

The face or head and face alone is hot, the body cool.

Unconsciousness; when spoken to answers correctly but unconsciousness and delirium at once return (falls asleep in the midst of a sentence, Bap. ).

Says there is nothing the matter with him.

Meningitis after mechanical or traumatic injuries; from falls, concussions of brain, etc. When suspecting exudation of blood, to facilitate absorption

Hydrocephalus; deathly coldness in forearm of children (in diarrhoea, Brom. ).

Apoplexy; loss of consciousness, involuntary evacuation from bowels and bladder; in acute attack, controls haemorrhage and aids absorption; should be repeated and allowed to act for days or weeks unless symptoms call for another remedy.

Conjunctival or retinal haemorrhage, with extravasation, form injuries or cough ( Led. , Nux. ).

Gout and rheumatism, with great fear of being touched or struck by persons coming near him.

Cannot walk erect on account of a bruised sort of feeling in the pelvic region.

Tendency to small, painful boils, one after another, extremely sore (small boils in crops, Sulph. ).

Paralysis (left-sided); pulse full strong; stertor, sighing, muttering.

Belching; eructations; foul, putrid, like rotten eggs.

Dysentery; with ischuria, fruitless urging; long interval between the stools.

Constipation: rectum loaded, faeces will not come away; ribbon like stools from enlarged prostrate or retroverted uterus.

Soreness of parts after labor; prevents post-partum haemorrhage and puerperal complications.

Retention or incontinence of urine after labor ( Op. ).

Relation. - Complementary: to, Acon. , Hyper. , Rhus.

Similar: to, for soreness as if bruised, Bap. , China , Phyt. , Pyr. , Rhus , Ruta , Staph.

Arnica follows well: after, Acon. , Apis. , Ham. , Ipec. , Ver. , is followed by Sul. ac.

In ailments from spirituous liquors or from charcoal vapors, Arn. is often indicated ( Am. c. , Bov. ).

In spinal concussion, compare, Hyper.

Aggravation. - At rest; when lying down; from wine.

Amelioration. - From contact; motion ( Rhus , Ruta ).

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White Oxide of Arsenic

As2O3.

Great prostration, with rapid sinking of the vital forces; fainting:

The disposition is:

a -

Depressing, melancholic, despairing, indifferent.

b -

Anxious, fearful, restless, full of anguish.

c -

Irritable, sensitive, peevish, easily vexed.

The greater the suffering, the greater the anguish, restlessness and fear of death.

Mentally restless, but physically too weak to move; cannot rest in any place: changing places continually; wants to be moved from one bed to another, and lies now here now there.

Anxious fear of death; thinks it useless to take medicine, is incurable, is surely going to die; dread of death, when alone, or, going to bed.

Attacks of anxiety at night driving out of bed, < after midnight.

Burning pains; the affected parts burn like fire, as if hot coals were applied to parts ( Anthr. ), > by heat, hot drinks, hot applications.

Burning thirst without special desire to drink; the stomach does not seem to tolerate, because it cannot assimilate cold water; lies like a stone in the stomach. It is wanted, but he cannot or dare not drink it.

Cannot bear the smell or sight of food ( Colch. , Sep. ).

Great thirst for cold water; drinks often, but little at a time; eats seldom, but much.

Gastric derangements; after cold fruits; ice cream; ice water; sour beer; bad sausage; alcoholic drinks; strong cheese.

Teething children are pale, weak, fretful, and want to be carried rapidly.

Diarrhoea, after eating or drinking; stool scanty, dark-colored, offensive, and whether small or large, followed by great prostration.

Haemorrhoids: with stitching pain when walking or sitting, not at stool; preventing sitting or sleep; burning pain < by heat; fissures make voiding urine difficult.

Breathing: asthmatic; must sit or bend forward; springs out of bed at night, especially after twelve o'clock; unable to lie down for fear of suffocation; attacks like croup instead of the usual urticaria.

Rapid emaciation: with cold sweat and great debility ( Tub. , Ver. ); of affected parts; marasmus.

Anasarca, skin pale, waxy, earth-colored ( Acet. ac. ).

Excessive exhaustion from least exertion.

Exhaustion is not felt by the patient while lying still; when he moves he is surprised to find himself so weak.

Symptoms generally worse 1-2 p. m., 12-2 a. m.

Skin: dry and scaly; cold, blue and wrinkled; with cold, clammy perspiration; like parchment; white and pasty; black vesicles and burning pain.

Bad effects from decayed food or animal matter, whether by inoculation, olfaction or ingestion.

Complaints return annually ( Carbo. v. , Lach. , Sulph. , Thuja ).

Relation. - Complementary: [Allium s.], Carbo. v. , Phos. , Pyr.

Ars. should be thought of in ailments from: chewing tobacco; alcoholism; sea bathing; sausage poisoning; dissecting woulds and anthrax poison; stings of venomous insects.

Aggravation. - After midnight (1 to 2 a. m. or p. m.); from cold; cold drinks or food; when lying on affected side or with the head low.

Amelioration. - From heat in general (reverse of Sec. ) except headache, which is temporarily > by cold bathing ( Spig. ); burning pain > by heat.

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