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Cina.
Worm Seed.
Compositae
Adapted to children with dark hair, very cross, irritable, ill-humored, want to be carried, but carrying gives no relief; does not want to be touched; cannot bear you to come hear it; averse to caresses; desires many things; but rejects everything offered (compare, Ant. t. , Bry. , Cham. , Staph. ).
Constantly digging and boring at the nose; picks the nose all the time; itching of nose; rubs nose on pillow, or on shoulder of nurse ( Mar. v. ).
Children, suffering from worms; pitiful weeping when awake, starts and screams during sleep; grinding of teeth ( Cic. , Sulph. ); ascarides ( Mar. v. ).
Face is pale; sickly white and bluish appearance around mouth; sickly, with dark rings under the eyes; one cheek red, the other pale ( Cham. ).
Canine hunger: hungry soon after a full meal; craving for sweets and different things; refuses mother's milk.
Urine; turbid when passed, turns milky and semi-solid after standing; white and turbid; involuntary.
Cough: dry with sneezing; spasmodic, gagging in the morning; periodic, returning spring and fall.
Child is afraid to speak or move for fear of bringing on a paroxysm of coughing ( Bry. ).
Relations. - Compare: Ant. c. , Ant. t. , Bry. , Cham. , Kreos. , Sil. , Staph. , in irritability of children.
In pertussis, after Drosera has relieved the severe symptoms.
Has cured aphonia from exposure when Acon. , Phos. and Spong. had failed.
Is frequently to be thought of, in children, as an epidemic remedy, when adults require other drugs.
[Santonine] sometimes cures in worm affections when Cina seems indicated, but fails ( Mar. v. , Spig. ).
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Peruvian Bark
Rubiaceae
For stout, swarthy persons; for systems, once robust, which have become debilitated, "broken down" from exhausting discharges ( Carbo v. ).
Apathetic, indifferent, taciturn ( Phos. ac. ); despondent, gloomy, has no desire to live, but lacks courage to commit suicide.
Ailments: from loss of vital fluids, especially haemorrhages, excessive lactation, diarrhoea, suppuration ([Chin. s.]); of malarial origin, with marked periodicity; return every other day.
After climacteric with profuse haemorrhages; acute diseases often result in dropsy.
Pains: drawing or tearing; in every joint, all the bones. Periosteum, as if strained, sore all over; obliged to move limbs frequently, as motion gives relief; renewed by contact, and then gradually increase to a great height.
Headache: as if the skull would burst; intense throbbing of head and carotids, face flushed; from occiput over whole head; < sitting or lying, must stand or walk; after haemorrhage or sexual excesses.
Face pale, hippocratic; eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins; pale, sickly expression as after excesses; toothache while nursing the child.
Excessive flatulence of stomach and bowels; fermentation, borborygmus, belching gives no relief (belching relieves, Carbo v. ); < after eating fruit ( Puls. ).
Colic: at a certain hour each day; periodical, form gall-stones ([Card. m.]); worse at night and after eating; better bending double ( Coloc. ).
Great debility, trembling, aversion to exercise; sensitive to touch, to pain, to drafts of air; entire nervous system extremely sensitive.
Unrefreshing sleep or constant sopor; < after 3 a. m.; wakens early.
Haemorrhages: of mouth, nose, bowels or uterus; long continued; longing for sour things.
Disposition to haemorrhage from every orifice of the body, with ringing in ears, fainting, loss of sight, general coldness, sometimes convulsions ( Fer. , Phos. ).
Pains are < by slightest touch, but > by hard pressure ( Caps. , Plumb. ).
One hand icy cold, the other warm ( Dig. , Ipec. , Puls. ).
Intermittent fever: paroxysm anticipates from two to three hours each attack ([Chin. s.]); returns every seven or fourteen days; never at night; sweats profusely all over on being covered, or during sleep ( Con. ).
Relations. - Complementary: Ferrum.
Follows well: Cal. p. in hydrocephaloid.
Compare: [Chin. s.] in intermittent fever, anticipating type.
Incompatible: after, Dig. , Sel.
Is useful in bad effects from excessive tea drinking or abuse of chamomile tea, when haemorrhage results.
Aggravation. - From slightest touch; draft of air; every other day; mental emotions; loss of vital fluids.
Amelioration. - Hard pressure; bending double.
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For persons who are wearing out under the physical and mental strain of a busy life; who suffer from exhausted nerves and brains (compare, Fluor. ac. ).
Melancholy, from nervous exhaustion; bashful, timid, ill at ease in society.
Sad, irritable; delights in solitude and obscurity.
Longing for alcoholic liquors and tobacco; for the accustomed stimulants.
Want of breath: in those engaged in athletic sports; shortness of breath, in old people; in those who use tobacco and whiskey to excess.
Haemoptysis, with oppression of chest and dyspnoea.
Sleepy, but can find no rest anywhere.
Violent palpitation: from incarcerated flatus ( Arg. n. , Nux ); from overexertion; from heart strain ( Arn. , Bor. , Caust. ).
Bad effects: from mountain climbing or ballooning ( Ars. ); of stimulants, alcohol, tobacco.
Prevents caries of teeth.
Relations. - Compare: patient desires light and company, Stram. ; desires darkness and solitude, Coca.
Was first used as a tobacco antidote.
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Cocculus Indicus
Menispermaceae
For women and children with light hair and eyes, who suffer severely during menstruation and pregnancy; unmarried and childless women.
Adapted to book-worms; sensitive, romantic girls with irregular menstruation; rakes, onanists and persons debilitated by sexual excesses.
Nausea or vomiting from riding in carriage, boat or railroad car ( Arn. , Nux m. ), or even looking at at a boat in motion; sea-sickness; car-sickness.
Headache: in nape and occiput; extending to the spine; as if tightly bound by a cord; with nausea, as if at sea; at each menstrual period; < lying on back of head.
Sick-headache from carriage, boat or train riding.
Diseases peculiar to drunkards.
Loss of appetite, with metallic taste ( Mer. ).
Time passes too quickly (too slowly, Arg. n. , Can. I. ).
Great lassitude of the whole body; it requires exertion to stand firmly; feels too weak to talk loudly.
Bad effects: from loss of sleep, mental excitement and nigh watching; feel weak if they lose but one hour's sleep; convulsions after loss of sleep; of anger and grief.
Trembling of arms and legs; from excitement, exertion or pain.
Vertigo, as if intoxicated upon rising in bed; or by motion of the carriage ( Bry. ).
Sensation: in abdomen of cutting and rubbing on every movement, as of sharp stones; of hollowness in head and other parts ( Ign. ).
During the effort to menstruate she is so weak she is scarcely able to stand from weakness of lower limbs ( Alum. , Carbo an. ); after each period haemorrhoids.
Leucorrhoea in place of menses, or between periods ( Iod. , [Xan.]); like the washings of meat; like serum, ichorous, bloody; during pregnancy.
Cannot bear contradiction; easily offended; every trifle makes him angry; speaks hastily ( Anac. ).
When fever assumes a slow, "sneaking," nervous form, with vertigo; with disposition to anger.
Relations. - Compare: Ign. , Nux , in chorea and paralytic symptoms; Ant. t. in sweat of affected parts.
Has cured umbilical hernia with obstinate constipation after Nux failed.
Aggravation. - Eating, drinking, sleeping, smoking, talking, carriage riding, motion or swing of ship; rising up during pregnancy.
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Coffee
Rubiaceae
Tall, lean, stooping persons, dark complexion, sanguine choleric temperament.
Oversensitiveness; all the senses more acute, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch ( Bell. , Cham. , Opium ).
Unusual activity of mind and body.
Full of ideas; quick to act, no sleep on this account.
Ailments: the bad effects of sudden emotions or pleasurable surprises ( Caust. - exciting or bad news, Gels. ); weeping from delight; alternate laughing and weeping.
Pains are felt intensely; seem almost insupportable, driving patient to despair ( Acon. , Cham. ); tossing about in anguish.
Sleepless, wide-awake condition; impossible to close the eyes; physical excitement through mental exaltation. (Compare, [Senecio], for sleeplessness form prolapsus, uterine irritation, during climacteric.).
Headache: from over-mental exertion, thinking, talking; one-sided, as from a nail driven into the brain ( Ign. , Nux ); as if brain were torn or dashed to pieces; worse in open air.
Hasty eating and drinking ( Bell. , Hep. ).
Toothache: intermittent, jerking, relieved by holding ice-water in the mouth, but returns when water becomes warm ( Bis. , Bry. , Puls. , Caust. , Sep. , Nat. s. ).
Relations. - Compare: Acon. , Cham. , Ign. , Sulph.
Incompatible: Canth. , Caust. , Coc. , Ign.
Aggravation. - Sudden mental emotion; excessive joy; cold, open air; narcotic medicines.
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Meadow Saffron.
Liliaceae
Adapted to the rheumatic, gouty diathesis; persons of robust vigorous constitution; diseases of old people.
External impressions, light, noise, strong odors, contact, bad manners, make him almost beside himself ( Nux ); his sufferings seem intolerable.
Ailments: from grief or misdeeds of others ( Staph. ).
Pains are drawing, tearing, pressing; light or superficial during warm weather; affect the bones and deeper tissues, when air is cold; pains go from left to right ( Lach. ).
Smell painfully acute; nausea and faintness from the odor of cooking food, especially fish, eggs or fat meat ( Ars. , Sep. ); bad effects from night watching ( Coc. ).
Aversion to food; loathing even the sight of still more the smell of it.
The abdomen is immensely distended with gas, feeling as if it would burst.
Burning, or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen.
Autumnal dysentery, discharges from bowels contain white shreddy particles in large quantities; white mucus; "scrapings of intestines" ( Canth. , Carb. ac. ).
Urine: dark, scanty or suppressed; in drops, with white sediment; bloody, brown, black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar.
Affected parts very sensitive to contact and motion.
Arthritic pains in joints; patient screams with pain on touching a joint or stubbing a toe.
Relations. - Compare: Bry. in rheumatic gout with serous effusions; in rheumatism in warm weather.
Often cures in dropsy after Apis and Ars. fail.
Aggravation. - Mental emotion or exhaustion; effects of hard study; odor of cooking food.
Motion: if the patient lies perfectly still, the disposition to vomit is less urgent. Every motion renew it ( Bry. ).
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Stone Root.
Labiatae
Pelvic and portal congestion, resulting in dysmenorrhoea and haemorrhoids.
Congestion of pelvic viscera, with haemorrhoids, especially in latter months of pregnancy.
Dropsy from cardiac disease.
Palpitation; in patients subject to piles and indigestion; heart's action persistently rapid but weak.
After heart is relieved old piles reappear, or suppressed menses return.
Chronic, painful, bleeding piles; sensation as if sticks, sand or gravel had lodged in rectum ( Aesc. ).
Haemorrhoidal dysentery with tenesmus.
Alternate constipation and diarrhoea; congestive inertia of lower bowel; stools sluggish and hard with pain and great flatulence. Constipation.
Pruritus in pregnancy with haemorrhoids, unable to lie down
Relations. - in heart disease complicated with haemorrhoids consult Collinsonia when Cac. , Dig. , and other remedies fail.
Has cured colic after Col. and Nux had failed.
Compare: Aesc. , Aloe , Cham. , Nux , Sulph.
Aggravation. - The slightest mental emotion or excitement aggravates the symptoms ( Arg. n. ).
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Squirting Cucumber.
Cucurbitaceae
Agonizing pain in abdomen causing patient to bend double, with restlessness, twisting and turning to obtain relief; > by hard pressure (> by heat, Mag. p. ).
Pains: are worse after eating or drinking; compel patient to bend double ( Mag. p. - < by bending double, Dios. ); menses, suppressed by chagrin, colic pains.
Extremely irritable, impatient; becomes angry or offended on being questioned.
Irritable; throws things out of his hands.
Affections from anger, with indignation - colic, vomiting, diarrhoea and suppression of menses ( Cham. , Staph. ).
Vertigo: when quickly turning head, especially to the left, as if he would fall; from stimulants.
Sciatica: crampy pain in hip, as though screwed in a vise; lies upon affected side.
Shooting pain, like lightning-shocks, down the whole limb, left hip, left thigh, left knee, into popliteal fossa.
Relations. - Complementary: Merc. in dysentery, with great tenesmus.
Compare: Graph. intense pain along right sciatic never, darting, cutting, from right hip joint down to foot; < lying down, motion, stepping; > by sitting.
Compare with Staph. in ovarian or other diseases from bad effects of anger, reserved indignation or silent grief.
Aggravation. - Anger and indignation; mortification caused by offense ( Staph. , Lyc. ); cheese < colic.
Amelioration. - From doubling up; hard pressure.
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Hemlock Poison
Umbelliferae
The "Balm of Gilead" for diseases of old maids and women during and after climacteric.
Especially for diseases of old men; old maids; old bachelors; with rigid muscular fibre; persons with light hair who are easily excited; strong persons of sedentary habits.
Debility of old people; complaints caused by a blow or fall; cancerous and scrofulous persons with enlarged glands; rigid fibre.
No inclination for business or study; indolent, indifferent, takes no interest in anything.
Memory weak, unable to sustain any mental effort.
Morose; easily vexed; domineering, quarrelsome, scolds, will not bear contradiction ( Aur. ); excitement of any kind causes mental depression.
Dreads being alone, yet avoids society ( Kali c. , Lyc. ).
Glandular induration of stony hardness; of mammae and testicles in persons of cancerous tendency; after bruises and injuries of glands (compare, Aster. rub. ).
Breasts sore, hard and painful before and during menstruation ( Lac c. , Kali c. ).
Vertigo: especially when lying down or turning in bed; moving the head slightly, or even the eyes; must keep the head perfectly still; on turning the head to the left ( Col. ); of old people; with ovarian and uterine complaints.
Cough: in spasmodic paroxysms caused by dry spot in larynx (in throat, Act. ); with itching in chest and throat ( Iod. ); worse at night, when lying down, and during pregnancy ( Caust. , Kali br. ).
Great difficulty in voiding urine; flow intermits, then flows again; prostatic or uterine affections.
Menses: feeble, suppressed; too late, scanty, of short duration; with rash of small red pimples over body which ceases with the flow ( Dul. ); stopped by taking cold; by putting hands in cold water ( Lac d. ).
Leucorrhoea: ten days after menses ( Bor. , Bov. ); acrid; bloody; milky; profuse; thick; intermits.
Bad effects: of suppressed sexual desire, or suppressed menses; non-gratification of sexual instinct, or from excessive indulgence.
Aversion to light without inflammation of eyes; worse from using eyes in artificial light; often the students' remedy for night work; intense photophobia ( Psor. ).
Sweat day and night, as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing the eyes ( Cinch. ).
Relations. - Patients requiring Conium often improve from wine or stimulants, though persons susceptible to Conium cannot take alcoholic stimulants when in health.
Compare: Arn. , Rhus in contusions; Ars. , Aster , in cancer; Cal. , Psor. in glandular swellings.
Is followed well: by, Psor. in tumors of mammae with threatening malignancy.
Aggravation. - At night; lying down; turning or rising up, in bed; celibacy.
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Saffron
Iridaceae
Frequent and extreme changes in sensations; sudden, from the greatest hilarity to the deepest despondency ( Ign. , Nux m. ).
Excessively happy, affectionate, wants to kiss everybody; next moment in a rage.
Haemorrhage from any part, blood black, viscid, clotted, forming into long black strings hanging from the bleeding surface ([Elaps]).
Headache; during climacteric, throbbing, pulsating, < during two or three days of accustomed menstrual flow; nervous or menstrual headache before, during, or after flow ( Lach. , Lil. , Sec. ).
Eyes: sensation, as if room were filled with smoke; as if had been weeping; as of cold wind blowing across the eyes; closing lids tightly gives >.
Nosebleed: black, tenacious, stringy, every drop can be turned into a thread; with cold sweat in large drops on forehead (cold sweat, but wants to be fanned; with bright red blood, Carbo veg. ); in children who develop too rapidly ( Cal. , Phos. ).
Dysmenorrhoea: flow black; stringy, clotted ( Ust. ).
Sensation as if something alive were moving in the stomach, abdomen, uterus, arms or other parts of the body ( Sab. , Thuja , Sulph. ); with nausea and faintness.
Chorea and hysteria with great hilarity, singing and dancing ( Tar. ); alternating with melancholy and rage.
Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single sets of muscles ( Agar. , Ign. , Zinc. ).
Relation. - Nux , Puls. or Sulph. follow Crocus well in nearly all complaints.
Compare: In menstrual derangements ( Ust. ).
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Poison of Rattlesnake
Crotalidae
Is indicated in strumous, debilitated, haemorrhagic, broken-down constitutions; during zymotic diseases; in inebriates; tendency to carbuncles or blood boils ( Anthr. ).
Diseases caused by a previous low state of the system; low septic typhoid or malarial fever; chronic alcoholism; exhausted vital force; genuine collapse.
Apoplexy; apoplectic convulsions in inebriates, haemorrhagic or broken down constitutions.
Haemorrhagic diathesis; blood flows from eyes, ears, nose, and every orifice of the body; bloody sweat.
Yellow color of conjunctiva; clears up vision after keratitis, or kerato-iritis.
Malignant jaundice; haematic rather than hepatic.
Purpura haemorrhagica; comes on suddenly from all orifices, skin, nails, gums.
Tongue fiery red, smooth and polished ( Pyr. ); intensely swollen.
Malignant diphtheria or scarlatina; oedema or gangrene of fauces or tonsils; pain < from empty swallowing; if vomiting or diarrhoea come on.
Prostration of vital force; pulse scarely felt; blood poisoning ( Pyr. ).
Vomiting: bilious, with anxiety and weak pulse; every month after menstruation; cannot lie on right side or back without instantly producing dark, green vomiting; black or coffee grounds, of yellow fever.
Diarrhoea; stools black, thin; like coffee-grounds; offense; from noxious effluvia or septic matters in food or drinks; from "high game" ( Pyr. ); during yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, typhus.
Intestinal haemorrhage when occurring in typical septic, or zymotic disease; blood dark, fluid, non-coagulable.
Dissecting wounds; insect stings; bad effects of vaccination.
Vicarious menstruation; in debilitated constitutions ( Dig. , Phos. ).
Menopause: intense flushings and drenching perspirations; faintness and sinking at stomach; prolonged metrorrhagia, dark, fluid, offensive; profound anaemia.
Malignant diseases of uterus, great tendency to haemorrhage, blood dark, fluid, offensive.
Relations. - Compare: [Elaps], Lach. , Naja , Pyr.
In Lach. , skin cold and clammy; Crot. cold and dry; [Elaps], affections of right lung, expectoration of black blood.
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