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Ruta Graveolens.

Rue.

Rutaceae.

Scrofulous exostosis; bruises and other mechanical injuries of bones and periosteum; sprains; periostitis; erysipelas; fractures, and especially dislocations ( Symph. ).

Bruised lame sensation all over, as after a fall or blow; worse in limbs and joints ( Arn. ).

All parts of the body upon which he lies are painful, as if bruised ( Bap. , Pyr. ).

Restless, turns and changes position frequently when lying ( Rhus ).

Lameness after sprains, especially of wrists and ankles (chronic sprains, Bov. , Stron. ).

Phthisis after mechanical injuries to chest ( Mill. ).

Aching in and over eyes, with blurred vision, as if they had been strained.

After using eyes at fine work, watchmaking, engraving ( Nat. m. ); looking intently ( Sen. ).

Amblyopia or asthenopia from over-exertion of eyes or anomalies of refraction; from over-use in bad light; fine sewing, over-reading at night; misty, dim vision, with complete obscuration at a distance.

Eyes burn, ache, feel strained; hot, like balls of fire; spasms of lower lids.

Constipation; from inactivity, or impaction following mechanical injuries ( Arn. ).

Prolapse of rectum, immediately on attempting a passage; from the slightest stooping; after confinement; frequent unsuccessful urging.

Pressure on the bladder as if constantly full; continues after urinating; could hardly retain urine on account of urging, yet if not attended to it was difficult afterwards to void it; scanty green urine; involuntary.

Warts; with sore pains; flat, smooth on palms of hands ( Nat. c. , Nat. m. - on back of hands, Dul. ).

Backache, relieved by lying on the back.

Relations. - Compare: Arn. , Arg. n. , Con. , Euphr. , Phyt. , Rhus , Symph.

After Arnica , it hastens the curative process in the joints; after Symphytum , in injuries to bones.

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Cevadilla.

Liliaceae

Suited to persons of light hair, fair complexion with a weak, relaxed muscular system.

Worm affections of children ( Cina , Sil. , Spig. ).

Nervous diseases; twitching, convulsive tremblings, catalepsy; from worms ( Cina , Psor. ).

Illusions: that he is sick; parts shrunken; that she is pregnant when merely distended from flatus; that she has some horrible throat disease that will be fatal.

Delirium during intermittents ( Pod. ).

Sneezing: in spasmodic paroxysms; followed by lachrymation; copious watery coryza; face hot and eyelids red and burning.

Diphtheria, tonsillitis; can swallow warm food more easily; stitches and most symptoms, especially of throat, go from left to right ( Lach. , Lac. c. ).

Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat; must swallow over it.

Headache: from too much thinking, too close application of attention ( Arg. n. ); from worms.

Dryness of fauces and throat.

Parchment-like dryness of skin.

Relations. - Compare: Col , Colch. , Lyc. , where < is from 4 to 8 p. m.; Puls. , Sab. > in open air.

Follows: Bry. and Ran. b. well in pleurisy, and has cured after Acon. and Bry. failed.

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Savine.

Coniferae.

Chronic ailments of women; arthritic pains; tendency to miscarriages, especially at third month.

Music is intolerable: produces nervousness, goes through bone and marrow (causes weeping Thuja ).

Drawing pains in small of back, from sacrum to pubes, in nearly all diseases (from back, going round the body to pubes, [Vib. op.]).

Ailments: following abortion or premature labor; haemorrhage from uterus; flow partly pale red, partly clotted; worse from least motion ( Sec. ); often relieved by walking; pain extending from sacrum to pubes.

Menses: too early, too profuse, too protracted; partly fluid, partly clotted ( Fer. ); in persons who menstruated very early in life; flow in paroxysms; with colic and labor-like pains; pains from sacrum to pubes.

Discharge of blood between periods, with sexual excitement ([Amb.]).

Retained placenta from atony of uterus; intense after-pains ( Caul. , Sec. ).

Menorrhagia: during climacteric, in women who formerly aborted; with early first menses.

Inflammation of ovaries or uterus after abortion or premature labor.

Promotes expulsion of moles or foreign bodies from uterus ( Canth. ).

Fig warts with intolerable itching and burning; exuberant granulations ( Thuja , Nit. ac. ).

Relations. - Complementary: to, Thuja.

Compare: Calc. , Croc. , Millef. , Sec. , Trill.

Follows: Thuja in condyloma and sycotic affections.

Aggravation. - From least motion ( Sec. ); warm air or room ( Apis , Puls. ).

Amelioration. - In cool, open, fresh air.

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Elder.

Caprifoliaceae.

Adapted to diseases of scrofulous children, which affect the air passages specially.

Persons formerly robust and fleshy, suddenly become emaciated ( Iod. , Tub. ).

Bad effects of violent mental emotions; anxiety, grief, or excessive sexual indulgence ( Phos. ac. , Kali p. ).

Oedmatous swelling in various parts of the body, especially in legs, instep and feet.

Dry coryza of infants (sniffles); nose dry and completely obstructed, preventing breathing and nursing ( Am. c. , Nux ).

Dyspnoea: child awakens suddenly nearly suffocated, face livid, blue, sits up in bed; turns blue, gasps for breath, which it finally gets; attack passes off but is again repeated; child inspires but cannot expire ([Chlorine], [Meph.]); sleeps into the attack ( Lach. ). Compare: [Arum drac.] in Miller's asthma.

Attacks of suffocation as in last stage of croup.

Cough: suffocative, with crying children; worse about midnight; hollow, deep whooping, with spasm of chest; with regular inhalations but sighing exhalations.

Cough deep, dry, precedes the fever paroxysm.

Fever: dry heat while he sleeps; on falling asleep; after lying down; without thirst, dreads uncovering (must be covered in every stage, Nux ).

Profuse sweat over entire body during waking hours; on going to sleep, dry heat returns (sweats as soon as he closes his eyes to sleep, Cinch. , Con. ).

Relations. - Compare: Cinch. , [Chlor.], Ipec. , [Meph.], Sulph.

Relieves ailments from abuse of Arsenicum.

Compare: [Arum drac.] in Miller's asthma.

Follows well: after, Opium , in bad effects of fright.

Aggravation. - During rest; after eating fruit.

Amelioration. - Sitting up in bed. Motion; most of the pains occur during rest and disappear during motion ( Rhus ).

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Bloodroot.

Papaveraceae.

The periodical sick headache; begins in morning, increases during the day, lasts until evening; head feels as if it would burst, or as if eyes would be pressed out; relieved by sleep.

American sick headache, > by perfect quiet in a dark room ("tired headache" from over mental or physical exertion, epigea; sick headache < during rest > by rubbing, pressure, motion, [Indigo]).

Headache begins in occiput, spreads upwards and settles over right eye ( Sil. , - over or in left orbit, Spig. ).

Headaches, return at the climacteric; every seventh day ( Sabad. , Sil. , Sulph. - eight day, [Iris]).

Neuralgia of face > by kneeling down and pressing the head firmly against the floor; pain extends in all directions from the upper jaw.

Circumscribed red cheeks in afternoon; burning in ears; in bronchitis, pneumonia, phthisis.

Rheumatic pain in the right arm and shoulder (left, Fer. ); cannot raise the arm, < at night.

Pains in places where the bones are least covered, as tibia, backs of hands, etc ([Rhus ven.]).

Burning in pharynx and oesophagus.

Laryngeal or nasal polypi ( Sang. n., Psor. , Tuec. ).

Climacteric ailments: flushes of heat and leucorrhoea; burning of palms and soles; compelled to throw off bedclothes; painful enlargement of breasts; when Lachesis and Sulphur fail to relieve.

Asthma after the "rose cold," < from odors.

Cough: dry, waking him at night and not ceasing until he sits up in bed and passes flatus; circumscribed red cheeks; night sweats; diarrhoea.

Severe cough after whooping-cough; the cough returns every time patient takes cold.

Eruption on face of young women, especially during scanty menses ([Bellis], Cal. , [Eug. j.], Psor. ).

Relations. - Compare: Bell. , [Iris], Melil. , in sick headache; Lach. , Sulph. , Ver. v. , in chronic bronchitis or latent pneumonia.

After Bell. fails in scarlatina.

As a dynamic remedy for the narcosis of Opium.

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Mineral Spring Water.

Ottawa, Ill.

Dread of downward motion ( Bor. ).

Child headstrong, obstinate, cries and kicks; cross, irritable, quickly alternates with laughter; does not want to be touched.

Constantly changing his occupation.

Head and neck of children sweat profusely during sleep; wets the pillow far around ( Cal. , Sil. ).

Profuse, scaly dandruff on scalp, eyebrows, in the beard.

Soreness behind ears with discharge of while, gray, viscid fluid ( Graph. , Psor. ).

Tongue: large, flabby; burning, must protrude it to keep it cool; ring-worm on tongue ( Nat. m. ).

Nausea and vomiting from car or carriage riding.

Thirst; drinks little and often; is vomited soon as it reaches the stomach ( Ars. , Phos. ).

Symptoms constantly changing ( Lac. c. , Puls. ).

Incontinence of urine and faeces; sphincter unreliable ( Aloe ); urging from flatus, must cross legs to prevent faeces from escaping.

Constipation: no desire until a large accumulation; after great straining stool partially expelled, recedes ( Sil. , Thuja ); large evacuation of small dry, gray balls, must be removed mechanically ( Sel. ).

Stool: hard, impossible to evacuate; of grayish-white balls, like burnt lime; crumbling from verge of anus ( Mag. m. ); with the odor of limburger cheese.

Diarrhoea: changeable in character and color; like scrambled eggs; frothy, grass-green, turns green on standing; like scum of a frog pond; after eating, must hurry from table.

The odor of stool follows despite bathing ( Sulph. ).

Excoriation of skin about anus ( Sulph. ); covering perineum and extending to genitals.

Leucorrhoea with strong odor of fish brine (oozing from rectum smelling like herring brine, Cal. ; fish brine discharge from ear, [Tel.]).

Weakness, bearing down as if contents of pelvis would escape; < walking, misstep, or jar, > by rest, lying down; desire to support parts by placing hand against uvula ( Lil. , Mur. ); soreness of uterus.

Foot sweat: between the toes, making them sore; offensive ( Graph. , Psor. , Sil. ); on soles as if he had stepped in cold water.

Burning of soles of feet; must uncover or put them in a cool place ( Lach. , Med. , Sang. , Sulph. ).

Child kicks off clothing even in coldest weather ( Hep. , Sulph. ).

Emaciation, progressive; child looks old, dirty, greasy and brownish; skin about neck wrinkled, hangs in folds ( Abrot. , Iod. , Nat. m. , Sars. ).

Relations. - Related to: Abrot. , Alum. , Bor. , Cal. , Graph. , Nat. m. , Sil. , and others of our great antipsorics.

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Wild Liquorice.

Smilaceae

For dark-haired persons, lithic or sycotic diathesis.

Great emaciation: skin becomes shriveled or lies in folds ( Abrot. , Iod. , Nat. m. , Sanic. ).

Headache and periosteal pains generally from mercury, syphilis or suppressed gonorrhoea.

In children; face like old people; enlarged abdomen; dry, flabby skin ( Bar. c. , Op. ).

Herpetic eruptions on all parts of body; ulcers, after abuse of mercury, in syphilis.

Rash from exposure to open air; dry, itch-like eruptions, prone to appear in spring; become crusty.

Severe, almost unbearable pain at conclusion of urination ( Berb. , Equis. , Med. , Thuja ).

Passage of gravel or small calculi; renal colic; stone in bladder; bloody urine.

Urine: bright and clear but irritating; scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, copious, passed without sensation ( Caust. ); deposits white sand.

Painful distention and tenderness in bladder; urine dribbles while sitting, standing, passes freely; air passes from urethra.

Sand in urine or on diaper; child screams before and while passing it ( Bor. , Lyc. ).

Gonorrhoea checked by cold, wet weather, or mercury, followed by rheumatism.

Neuralgia or renal colic; excruciating pains from right kidney downwards ( Lyc. ).

Intolerable stench on genital organs; fluid pollutions; bloody seminal emission ( Led. , Mer. ).

Retraction of nipples; nipples are small, withered, unexcitable ( Sil. ).

Rheumatism, bone pains after mercury or checked gonorrhoea; pains < at night, in damp weather or after taking cold in water.

Itching eruption on forehead during menses ([Eug. j.], Sang. , Psor. ).

Rhagades: skin cracked on hands and feet; pain and burning particularly on sides of fingers and toes; skin hard, indurated.

Relations. - Complementary: Merc. , Sep. , either of which follows well.

Compare: Berb. , Lyc. , Nat. m. , Phos.

Frequently called for after abuse of Mercury.

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Spurred Rye; Ergot.

A Fungus; a Nosode.

Adapted to women of thin, scrawny, feeble, cachectic appearance; irritable, nervous temperament; pale, sunken countenance.

Very old, decrepit, feeble persons.

Women of very lax muscular fibre; everything seems loose and open; no action; vessels flabby; passive haemorrhages, copious flow of thin, black, watery blood; the corpuscles are destroyed.

Haemorrhagic diathesis; the slightest wound causes bleeding for weeks ( Lach. , Phos. ); discharge of sanious liquid blood with a strong tendency to putrescence; tingling in the limbs and great debility, especially when the weakness is not caused by previous loss of fluids.

Leucorrhoea; green, brown, offensive.

Boils: small, painful with green contents, mature very slowly and heal in the same manner; very debilitating.

Face: pale, pinched, ashy, sunken, hippocratic; drawn, with sunken eyes; blue rings around eyes.

Unnatural, ravenous appetite; even with exhausting diarrhoea; craves acids, lemonade.

Diarrhoea: profuse, watery, putrid, brown; discharged with great force ([Gamb.], Crot. ); very exhausting; painless, involuntary; anus wide open ( Apis , Phos. ).

Enuresis: of old people; urine pale, watery, or bloody; urine suppressed.

Burning; in all parts of the body, as if sparks of fire were falling on the patient ( Ars. ).

Gangrene; dry, senile, < from external heat.

Large ecchymosis; blood blisters; often commencement of gangrene.

Collapse in cholera diseases; skin cold, yet cannot bear to be covered ( Camph. ).

The skin feels cold to the touch, yet the patient cannot tolerate covering; icy coldness of extremities.

Menses: irregular; copious, dark, fluid; with pressing, labor-like pains in abdomen; continuous discharge of watery blood until next period.

Threatened abortion especially at third month ( Sab. ); prolonged, bearing down, forcing pains.

During labor: pains irregular; too weak; feeble or ceasing; everything seems loose and open but no expulsive action; fainting.

After pains: too long; too painful; hour-glass contraction.

Suppression of milk; in thin, scrawny, exhausted women; the breasts do not properly fill.

Pulse small, rapid, contracted and often intermittent.

Relations. - Compare: Cinnamon in post-partum haemorrhage; it increases labor-pains, controls profuse or dangerous flooding, is always safe, while Ergot is always dangerous.

Similar: to, Arsenicum , but cold and heat are opposite.

Resembles Colchicum in cholera morbus.

Aggravation. - Heat; warmth from covering, of all affected parts; in all diseases worse from heat.

Amelioration. - In the cold air; getting cold; uncovering affected parts; rubbing.

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Selenium.

The Element.

Adapted to light complexion; blondes; great emaciation of face, hands, legs and feet, or single parts.

Very forgetful in business, but during sleep dreams of what he has forgotten.

Headache: of drunkards; after debauchery; after lemonade, tea, wile; every afternoon.

Hair falls off, on head, eyebrows, whiskers, genitals.

Coryza ending in diarrhoea.

Hungry: at night ( Cina , Psor. ); longing for spirituous liquors, an almost irresistible maniacal desire.

Constipation: stool large, hard, impacted so that it requires mechanical aid ( Aloe , Cal. , Sanic. , Sep. , Sil. ); after serious illness, especially enteric fevers.

Urine: red, dark, scanty; coarse, red, sandy, sediment; involuntary dribbling while walking.

Impotence, with desire; lewd thoughts, but physically impotent (sudden impotence, [Chlor.]).

Erections slow, insufficient, too rapid emission with long-continued thrill; weak, ill-humored after coitus, often involuntary dribbling of semen and prostatic fluid which oozes while sitting, at stool, during sleep; gleet ( Calad. ).

Priapism, glans drawn up ( Berb. , - drawn down, Canth. ).

Aphonia: after long use of voice; husky when beginning to sing; obliged to clear the throat frequently of a transparent starchy mucus ( Arg. n. , Stan. ); tubercular laryngitis.

Weak, easily exhausted; from either mental or physical labor; after typhoid, typhus, debauchery.

Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep; strength suddenly leaves him; especially in hot weather.

Very great aversion to a draft of air either warm, cold or damp.

After typhoid, great weakness of spine, fears paralysis.

Emaciation of affected parts.

Relations. - Compare: Phos. in genito-urinary and respiratory symptoms; Arg. m. and [Stan. in] laryngitis of singers or speakers; Alum. hard stool, inactive rectum.

Follows well: after, Calad , Nat. , Staph. , Phos. ac. , in sexual weakness.

Itch checked by Mercurials or Sulphur often requires Selenium.

Aggravation. - Draught of air; in the sun; from lemonade, tea or wine.

Amelioration. - Taking cold water or cold air into mouth.

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Cuttle Fish.

Mollusca.

Adapted to persons of dark hair, rigid fibre, but mild and easy disposition ( Puls. ).

Diseases of women: especially those occurring during pregnancy, child-bed and lactation; or diseases attended with sudden prostration and sinking faintness ( Murex , Nux m. ); "the washer woman's remedy." complaints that are brought on by or aggravated after laundry work.

Pains extend from other parts to the back (rev. of Sab. ); are attended with shuddering (with chilliness, Puls. ).

Particularly sensitive to cold air, "chills so easily;" lack of vital heat, especially in chronic diseases (in acute diseases, Led. ).

Sensation of a ball in inner parts; during menses, pregnancy, lactation; with constipation, diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, leucorrhoea and all uterine affections.

Faints easily: after getting wet; from extremes of heat or cold; riding in a carriage; while kneeling at church.

Coldness of the vertex with headache ( Ver. - heat of vertex, Calc. , Graph. , Sulph. ).

Anxiety: with fear, flushes of heat over face and head; about real or imaginary friends; with uterine troubles.

Great sadness and weeping. Dread of being alone; of men; of meeting friends; with uterine troubles.

Indifferent: even to one's family; to one's occupation ( Fl. ac. , Phos. ac. ); to those whom she loves best.

Greedy, miserly ( Lyc. ).

Indolent: does not want to do anything, either work or play; even an exertion to think.

Headache: in terrific shocks; at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow; in delicate, sensitive, hysterical women; pressing, bursting < motion, stooping, mental labor, > by external pressure, continued hard motion.

Great falling of the hair, after chronic headaches or at the climacteric.

Yellowness: of the face; conjunctiva; yellow spots on the chest; a yellow saddle across the upper part of the cheeks and nose; a "tell tale face" of uterine ailments.

All the coverings of the neck felt too tight and were constantly loosened ( Lach. ).

Herpes circinatus in isolated spots on upper part of body (in intersecting rings over whole body, [Tell.]).

Pot-belliness of mothers (of children, Sulph. ).

Painful sensation of emptiness, "all-gone" feeling in the epigastrium, relieved by eating ( Chel. , Mur. , Phos. ).

Tongue foul, but becomes clear at each menstrual nisus, returns when flow ceases; swelling and cracking of lower lip.

Constipation: during pregnancy ( Alum. ); stool hard, knotty, in balls, insufficient, difficult; pain in rectum during and long after stool ( Nit. ac. , Sulph. ); sense of weight or ball in anus, not > by stool.

Urine: deposits in a reddish clay-colored sediment which adheres to the vessel as if it has been burned on; fetid, so offensive must be removed from the room (horribly offensive after standing, [Indium])..

Enuresis: bed is wet almost as soon as the child goes to sleep ( Kreos. ); always during the first sleep.

Gleet: painless, yellowish, staining linen; meatus glued together in morning; obstinate, of long standing ( Kali iod. ); sexual organs, weak and exhausted.

Violent stitches upward in the vagina; lancinating pains from the uterus to the umbilicus.

Prolapsus of uterus and vagina; pressure and bearing down as if everything would protrude from pelvis; must cross limbs tightly to "sit close" to prevent it; with oppression of breathing (compare Agar. , Bell. , Lil. , Murex , Sanic. ).

Irregular menses of nearly every form - early, late, scanty, profuse, amenorrhoea or menorrhagia - when associated with the above named symptoms.

Morning sickness of pregnancy: the sight or thought of food sickens ( Nux ); the smell of cooking food nauseates ( Ars. , Colch. ).

Dyspnoea: < sitting, after sleep, in room, > dancing or walking rapidly.

Erythism; flushes of heat from least motion; with anxiety and faintness; followed by perspiration over whole body; climacteric ( Lach. , Sang. , Sulph. , Tub. ); ascends, from pelvic organs.

Itching of skin; of various parts; of external genitalia; is > scratching; and is apt to change to burning ( Sulph. ).

Relations. - Complementary: Natrum mur.

Inimical: to, Lach. , should not be used before or after; to, Puls , with which it should never be alternated.

Similar: to, Lach. , Sang. , Ustil. , in climacteric irregularities of the circulation.

Frequently indicated after: Sil. , Sulph.

A single dose often acts curatively for many weeks.

Aggravation. - In afternoon or evening; from cold air or dry east wind; sexual excesses; at rest; sultry moist weather; before a thunderstorm ( Psor. ).

Amelioration. - Warmth of bed, hot applications; violent exercise.

Many symptoms, especially those of head, heart and pelvis, are both < and > by rest and exercise.

It antidotes mental effects of overuse of tobacco, in patients of sedentary habits who suffer from over-mental exertion.

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