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Arum Triphyllum.
Indian Turnip
Araceae
Coryza; acrid, fluent; nostrils raw.
Nose feels stopped up in spite of the watery discharge (compare, Am. c. , Samb. , [Sinap.]); sneezing < at night.
Acrid, ichorous discharge, excoriating inside of nose, alae, and upper lip ( Ars. , Cepa ).
Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds; boring with the finger into the side of the nose.
Picks lips until they bleed; corners of the mouth sore, cracked, bleeding (with malignant tendency, [Cund.]); bites nails until fingers bleed.
Patients pick and bore into the raw bleeding surfaces though very painful; scream with pain but keep up the boring (in diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid).
Children refuse food and drink on account of soreness of mouth and throat ( Mer. ); are sleepless.
Saliva profuse, acrid, corrodes the mucous membrane; tongue and buccal cavity raw and bleeding.
Aphonia: complete, after exposure to northwest winds ( Acon. , Hep. ); from singing ( Arg. n. , Caust. , Phos. , Sel. ).
Clergyman's sore throat; voice hoarse, uncertain, uncontrollable, changing continually; worse from talking, speaking or singing; orators, singers, actors.
Desquamation in large flakes, a second or third time, in scarlatina.
Typhoid scarlatina, with apathy, scanty or suppressed urine; threatened uraemia.
The sore mouth and nose are guiding in malignant scarlatina and diphtheria.
Relations. - Useful: after Hep. and Nit. ac. in dry, hoarse, croupy cough; after Caust. and Hep. in morning hoarseness and deafness, and in scarlatina.
Should not be given low or repeated often as bad effects often follow. - Dr. L.
The higher potencies most prompt and effective.
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European Snake Root
Aristolochiaceae
Nervous, anxious people; excitable or melancholy.
Imagines he is hovering in the air like a spirit ( Lac. c. ); lightness of all the limbs.
Cold "shivers" from any emotion.
Oversensitiveness of nerves, scratching of linen or silk, crackling of paper is unbearable ( Fer. , Tar. ).
Sensation as if ears were plugged up with some foreign substance.
When reading, sensation in eyes as if thy would be pressed asunder or outward; relieved by bathing them in cold water.
Cold air or cold water very pleasant to the eyes; sunshine, light, and wind are intolerable.
Nausea: in attacks or constant ( Ipec. ); < after eating, tongue clean ( Sulph. ); of pregnancy.
Unconquerable longing for alcohol; a popular remedy in Russia for drunkards.
"Horrible sensation" of pressing, digging in the stomach when waking in the morning (after a debauch).
Great faintness and constant yawning.
Relation. - Similar: to, Caust. in modalities; to Aloe , Arg. n. , Mer. , Pod. , Puls. , Sulph. ac. in stringy shreddy stools.
Followed: by, Bis. , Caust. , Puls. , Sulph. ac.
Aggravation. - In cold and dry, or clear, fine weather ( Caust. ).
Amelioration. - Washing face or bathing affected parts with cold water; in damp, wet weather ( Caust. ).
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Star-fish
Radiata
For the sycotic diathesis; flabby, lymphatic constitution; irritable temperament.
Easily excited by any emotion, especially by contradictions ( Anac. , Con. ).
Heat of the head, as if surrounded by hot air.
Sanguineous congestion to the brain.
Apoplexy; face red, pulse hard, full, frequent.
Cancer of mammae; acute lancinating pain; drawing pain in breast; swollen, distended, as before the menses; breast feels drawn in.
A livid red spot appeared, broke and discharged; gradually invaded entire breast, very fetid odor; edges pale, elevated, mamillary, hard, everted; bottom covered with reddish granulations.
Gait unsteady: muscles refuse to obey the will ( Alum. , Gels. ).
Epilepsy: twitching over the whole body four or five days before the attack.
Constipation: obstinate; ineffectual desire; stools of hard, round balls, like olives.
Diarrhoea: watery, brown, gushing out in a violent jet ( Crot. t. , [Grat.], Gum., Jatr. , Thuja ).
Sexual desire increased in women ( Lil. ).
Relations. - Similar: to, Murex , Sepia.
Compare: Carbo an. , Con. , Sil. in mammary cancer; Bell. , Cal. , Sulph. in epilepsy
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Gold
The Element
Sanguine, ruddy people, with black hair and eyes; lively, restless, anxious about the future.
Old people; weak vision; corpulent; tired of life.
For constitutions broken down by bad effects of mercury and syphilis.
Pinning boys; low-spirited, lifeless, weak memories, lacking in "boyish go;" testes undeveloped, mere pendent shreds.
Constantly dwelling on suicide ( Naja - but is afraid to die, Nux ).
Profound melancholy: feels hateful and quarrelsome; desire to commit suicide; life is a constant burden; after abuse of mercury; with nearly all complaints.
Uneasy, hurried, great desire for mental and physical activity; cannot do things fast enough ( Arg. n. ).
Ailments from fright, anger, contradictions, mortification, vexation, dread, or reserved displeasure ( Staph. ).
Oversensitive: least contradiction excites wrath ( Con. ); to pain; to smell, taste, hearing, touch ( Anac. ).
Headache of people with dark olive-brown complexion; sad, gloomy, taciturn; disposed to constipation; from least mental exertion.
Falling of the hair, especially in syphilis and mercurial affections.
Hemiopia; sees only the lower half (sees only the left half, [Lith. c.], Lyc. ).
Syphilitic and mercurial affections of the bones.
Caries: of the nasal palatine and mastoid bones; ozaena, otorrhoea, excessively fetid discharge, pains worse at night; drive to despair; of mercurial or syphilitic origin ( Asaf. ).
Prolapsed and indurated uterus; from over-reaching or straining ( Pod. , Rhus ); from hypertrophy ( Con. ).
Menstrual and uterine affections, with great melancholy; < at menstrual period.
Foul breath; in girls at puberty.
Sensation as if the heart stood still; as though it ceased to beat and then suddenly gave on hard thump ( Sep. ).
Violent palpitation; anxiety, with congestion of blood to head and chest after exertion; pulse small, feeble, rapid, irregular; visible, beating of carotid and temporal arteries ( Bell. , Glon. ).
Fatty degeneration of heart ( Phos. ).
Relations. - Aurum follows, and is followed well by Syphilinum.
Similar: to, Asaf. , Cal. , Plat. , Sep. , Tar. , Ther. , in bone, uterine disease.
Aggravation. - In cold air; when getting cold; while lying down; mental exertion; many complaints come on only in winter.
Amelioration. - In warm air, when growing warm, in the morning and during summer.
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Wild Indigo.
Leguminosae
For the lymphatic temperament.
Great prostration, with disposition to decomposition of fluids ( Pyr. ); ulceration of mucous membranes.
All exhalations and discharges fetid, especially in typhoid or other acute disease; breath, stool, urine, perspiration, ulcers ( Psor. , Pyr. ).
Aversion to mental exertion; indisposed, or want of power to think.
Perfect indifference, don't care to do anything, inability to fix the mind to work.
Stupor; falls asleep while being spoken to or in the midst of his answer (when spoken to, answers correctly, but delirium returns at once, Arn. ).
Tongue: at first coated white with red papillae; dry and yellow-brown in center; later dry, cracked, ulcerated.
Face flushed, dusky, dark-red, with a stupid, besotted drunken expression ( Gels. ).
Can swallow liquids only ( Bar. c. ); least solid food gags (can swallow liquids only, but has aversion to them, Sil. ).
Painless sore throat; tonsils, soft palate and parotids dark red, swollen; putrid, offensive discharge ( Diph. ).
Dysentery of old people; diarrhoea of children, especially when very offensive ( Carbo v. , Pod. , Psor. ).
Cannot go to sleep because she cannot get herself together; head or body feels scattered about the bed; tosses about to get the pieces together; thought she was three persons, could not keep them covered ( Petr. ).
In whatever position the patient lies, the parts rested upon feel sore and bruised ( Pyr. - compare, Arn. , Pyr. ).
Decubitus in typhoid ( Arn. , Mur. ac. , Pyr. ).
Relation. - Similar: to, Arn. , Ars. , Bry. , Gels. , in the early stages of fever with malaise, nervousness, flushed face, drowsiness, and muscular soreness.
When Ars. has been properly given or too often repeated in typhoid or typhus.
After Baptisia : Crot. , Ham. , Nit. ac. and Tereb. act well in haemorrhage of typhoid and typhus.
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Barium Carbonate.
BaCO3.
Especially adapted to complaints of first and second childhood; the psoric or tubercular.
Memory deficient; forgetful, inattentive; child cannot be taught for it cannot remember; threatened idiocy.
Scrofulous, dwarfish children who do not grow (children who grow too rapidly, Cal. ); scrofulous ophthalmia, cornea opaque; abdomen swollen; frequent attacks of colic; face bloated; general emaciation.
Children both physically and mentally weak.
Dwarfish, hysterical women and old maids with scanty menses; deficient heat, always cold and chilly.
Old, cachectic people; scrofulous, especially when fat; or those who suffer from gouty complaints ( Fluor. ac. ).
Diseases of old men; hypertrophy or induration of prostrate and testes; mental and physical weakness.
Apoplectic tendency in old people; complaints of old drunkards; headache of aged people, who are childish.
Persons subject to quinsy, take cold easily, or with every, even the least, cold have an attack of tonsillitis prone to suppuration ( Hep. , Psor. ).
Inability to swallow anything but liquids ( Bap. , Sil. ).
Haemorrhoids protrude every time he urinates ( Mur. ac. ).
Chronic cough in psoric children; enlarged tonsils or elongated uvula; < after slight cold ( Alum. ).
Swelling and indurations, or incipient suppuration of glands, especially cervical and inguinal.
Offensive foot sweat; toes and soles get sore; of the heels; throat affections after checked foot sweat (compare, Graph. , Psor. , Sanic. , Sil. ).
Great sensitiveness to cold ( Cal. , Kali c. , Psor. ).
Relation. - Frequently useful before or after Psor. , Sulph. , and Tub.
After Bar. c. , Psor will often eradicate the constitutional tendency to quinsy.
Similar: to, Alum , [Cal. iod.], Dul. , Fluor. ac. , Iod. , Sil.
Incompatible: after Calc. in scrofulous affections.
Aggravation. - When thinking of his disease ( Oxal. ac. ); lying on painful side; after meals; washing affected parts.
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Deadly Nightshade.
Solanaceae
Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions; persons who are lively and entertaining when well, but violent and often delirious when sick.
Women and children with light hair and blue eyes, find complexion, delicate skin; sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions; tuberculous patients.
Great liability to take cold; sensitive to drafts of air, especially when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut; tonsils become inflamed after riding in a cold wind ( Acon. , Hep. , Rhus - takes cold from exposure of feet, Con. , Cup. , Sil. ).
Quick sensation and motion; eyes snap and move quickly; pains come suddenly, last indefinitely and cease suddenly ( Mag. p. ).
Pains usually in short attacks; cause redness of face and eyes; fulness of head and throbbing of carotids.
Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects ( Stram. ); black animals, dogs, wolves.
Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them; hallucinations.
Violent delirium; disposition to bite, spit, strike and tear things; breaks into fits of laughter and gnashes the teeth; wants to bite and strike the attendants ( Stram. ); tries to escape ( Hell. ).
Head hot and painful; face flushed; eyes wild, staring, pupils dilated; pulse full and bounding, globular, like buckshot striking the finger; mucous membrane of mouth dry; stool tardy and urine suppressed; sleepy; but cannot sleep ( Cham. , Op. ).
Convulsions during teething, with fever (without fever, Mag. p. ); come on suddenly, head hot, feet cold.
Rush of blood to head and face ( Amyl. , Glon. , Mel. ).
Headache, congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain and carotids ( Mel. ); < from slight noise, jar, motion, light, lying down, least exertion; > pressure, tight bandaging, wrapping up, during menses.
Boring the head into the pillow ( Apis , Hell. , Pod. ).
Vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stooping ( Bry. ); on every change of position.
Abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even of the bed; obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar.
Pain in right ileo-coecal region, < by slightest touch, even of the bed-cover.
The transverse colon protrudes like a pad.
Skin: of a uniform, smooth, shining scarlet redness; dry, hot, burning; imparts a burning sensation to examining had; the true Sydenham scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet.
Pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the vulva; > standing and sitting erect; worse mornings ( Lil. , Mur. , Sep. ).
Relations. - Complementary: Calcarea.
Belladonna is the acute of Calcarea, which is often required to complete a cure.
Similar: to, Acon. , Bry. , Cic. , Gels. , Glon. , Hyos. , Mel. , Op. , Stram.
Aggravation. - From touch, motion, noise, draught of air, looking at bright, shining objects ( Lys. , Stram. ); after 3 p. m.; night, after midnight; while drinking; uncovering the head; summer sun; lying down.
Amelioration. - Rest; standing or sitting erect; warm room.
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C6H5COOH.
A gouty, rheumatic diathesis engrafted on a gonorrhoeal or syphilitic patient.
Gouty concretions; arthritis vaga; affects all the joints, especially the knee, cracking on motion; nodosities ( Berb. , Lith., Lys. ).
Urine dark brown, and the urinous odor highly intensified.
Enuresis nocturna of delicate children; dribbling urine of old men with enlarged prostrate; strong characteristic odor; excesses of uric acid.
Catarrh of bladder after suppressed gonorrhea.
Diarrhoea of children; white, very offensive, exhausting liquid stools, running "right through the diaper" ( Pod. ); urine offensive and of a deep red color.
Cough: with expectoration of green mucus ( Natr. s. ); extreme weariness, lassitude.
Pains tearing, stitching, in large joints of big toe; redness and swelling of joints; gout < at night.
Relation. - Similar: to, Cop. , Nitr. , Fer. , Thuja , especially in enuresis after Nitr. has failed; Berb. , [Lith. c.], in arthritic complaints.
Useful after Colch. fails in gout; after abuse of Cop. in suppression of gonorrhoea.
Incompatible: wine, which aggravates urinary gouty and rheumatic affections.
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Barberry
Berberidaceae
The renal or vesical symptoms predominate.
Pain in small of back; very sensitive to touch in renal region; < when sitting and lying, from jar, from fatigue.
Burning and soreness in region of kidneys.
Numbness, stiffness, lameness with painful pressure in renal and lumbar regions.
Pale, earthy complexion, with sunken cheeks and hollow, blue-encircled eyes.
Rheumatic and gouty complaints, with diseases of the urinary organs.
Colic from gall-stones.
Bilious colic, followed by jaundice; clay-colored stools; fistula in ano, with bilious symptoms and itching of the parts; short cough and chest complaints, especially after operations for fistulae ( Cal. p. , Sil. ).
Stitching, cutting pain from left kidney following course of ureter into bladder and urethra ( Tab. , - r. kidney, Lyc. ).
Renal colic. < left side ( Tab. - either side), with urging and strangury. ( Canth. ).
Rubbing sensation in kidneys ( Med. ).
Urine: greenish, blood-red, with thick, slimy mucus; transparent, reddish or jelly-like sediment.
Movement brings on or increases urinary complaints.
Relation. - Similar: to, Canth. , Lyc. , Sars. , Tab. , in renal colic.
Acts well after, Arn. , Bry. , Kali bi. , Rhus , Sulph. , in rheumatic affections.
Aggravations. - Motion, walking or carriage riding; any sudden jarring movement.
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Hydrated Oxide of Bismuth
Bi2O3OH2.
Solitude is unbearable; desires company, child holds on to its mother's hand for company ( Kali c. , Lil. , Lyc. );
Anguish; he sits, then walks, then lies, never long in one place.
Headache returning every winter; alternating with, or attended by gastralgia.
Face, deathly pale, blue rings around the eyes. Toothache > holding cold water in mouth. ( Bry. , Coff. , Puls. ).
Vomiting: of water as soon as it reaches the stomach, food retained longer (vomits food and water, Ars. ); of enormous quantities, at intervals of several days when food has filled the stomach; of all fluids as soon as taken; and purging, offensive stools (watery stools, Ver. ); with convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain, after laparotomy ( Nux , Staph. ).
Stomach: pressure as from a load in one spot; alternating with burning; pain crampy, spasmodic; with irritation, cardialgia and pyrosis.
Cholera morbus and summer complaint, when vomiting predominates; stools foul; papescent, watery, offensive very prostrating ( Ars. , Ver. ).
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Biborate of Soda
Dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints.
Great anxiety from downward motion; when laying the child down on a couch or in the crib, cries and clings to the nurse; when rocking, dancing, swinging; going down stairs or rapidly down hill; horseback riding (compare Sanic. ).
Children awake suddenly, screaming and grasping sides of cradle, without apparent cause ( Apis , Cina , Stram. ).
Excessively nervous, easily frightened by the slightest noise or an unusual sharp sound, a cough, sneeze, a cry, lighting a match, etc. ( Asar. , Calad. ).
Hair becomes frowsy and tangled; splits, sticks together at eh tips; if these bunches are cut off, they form again, cannot be combined ( Fluor. ac. , Lyc. , Psor. , Tub. ).
Eyelashes: loaded with dry, gummy exudation; agglutinated in morning; turn inward and inflame the eye, especially at outer canthus; tendency to "wild hairs."
Nostrils crusty, inflamed; tip of nose shining red; red noses of young women.
Stoppage of right nostril, or first right then left with constant blowing of nose ( Am. c. , Lac c. , Mag. m. ).
Aphthae: in the mouth, on the tongue, inside of the cheek; easily bleeding when eating or touched; prevents child from nursing; with hot mouth, dryness and thirst ( Ars. ); cracked and bleeding tongue ( Arum. ); salivation, especially during dentition.
Aphthous sore mouth; is worse from touch; eating salty or sour food; of old people, often from plate of teeth ([Alumen]).
Child has frequent urination and screams before urine passes ( Lyc. , Sanic. , Sars. ).
Leucorrhoea: profuse, albuminous, starchy, with sensation as if warm water were flowing down; for two weeks between the catamenia (compare, Bov. , Con. ).
Skin: unhealthy, slight injuries suppurate ( Calend. , Hep. , Mer. , Sil. ).
Relation. - Borax follows: Calc. , Psor. , Sanic. , Sulph.
Is followed: by, Ars. , Bry. , Lyc. , Phos. , Sil.
Incompatible: should not be used before or after, Acetic acid , vinegar, wine.
Aggravation. - Downward motion; from sudden, slight noises; smoking, which may bring on diarrhoea; damp, cold weather; before urinating.
Amelioration. - Pressure; holding painful side with hand.
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