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Pure Silica.
Silicic Oxide
Adapted to the nervous, irritable, sanguine temperament; persons of a psoric diathesis.
Persons of light complexion; find, dry, skin; pale face; weakly, with lax muscles.
Constitutions which suffer from deficient nutrition, not because food is lacking in quality or in quantity, but from imperfect assimilation ( Bar. c. , Calc. ); oversensitive, physically and mentally.
Scrofulous, rachitic children with large heads; open fontanelles and sutures; much sweating about the head (lower than Cal. ) which must be kept warm by external covering ( Sanic. ); distended abdomen; weak ankles; slow in learning to walk.
Great weariness and debility; wants to lie down.
Nervous debility; exhaustion with erythism; from hard work and close confinement; may be overcome by force of will.
Restless, fidgety, starts at least noise.
Anxious, yielding, fainthearted.
Mental labor very difficult; reading and writing fatigue, cannot bear to think.
Ailments: caused by suppressed foot-sweat ( Cup. , Graph. , Psor. ); exposing the head or back to any slight draught of air; bad effects of vaccination, especially abscesses and convulsions ( Thuja ); chest complaints of stonecutters with total loss of strength.
Want of vital heat, always chilly, even when taking active exercise ( Led. , Sep. ).
Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of glands, cervical, axillary, parotid, mammary, inguinal, sebaceous; malignant, gangrenous.
Has a wonderful control over the suppurative process - soft tissue, periosteum or bone - matturing abscesses when desired or reducing excessive suppuration (affecting chiefly the soft tissues, Calend. , Hep. ).
Children are obstinate, headstrong, cry when spoken kindly to ( Iod. ).
Vertigo: spinal, ascending form back of neck to head; as if one would fall forward, from looking up ( Puls. , - looking down, Kal. , Spig. ).
Chronic sick headaches, since some severe disease of youth ( Psor. ); ascending from nape of neck to the vertex, as if coming from the spine and locating in one eye, especially the right (left, Spig. ); < draught of air or uncovering the head; > pressure and wrapping up warmly ( Mag. m. , Stron. ); > profuse urination.
Constipation: always before and during menses (diarrhoea before and during menses, Am. c. , Bov. ); difficult, as from inactivity of rectum; with great straining, as if rectum was paralyzed; when partly expelled, recedes again ( Thuja ).
Faeces remain a long time in the rectum.
Fistulo in ano alternates with chest symptoms ( Berb. , Cal. p. ).
Discharge of blood from vagina every time the child takes the breast (compare Crot. t. ).
Nipple is drawn in like a funnel ( Sars. ).
Night walking; gets up while asleep, walks about and lies down again ( Kali br. ).
Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates ( Graph. , Hep. , Merc. , Petr. ).
Crippled nails on fingers and toes ( Ant. c. ).
Takes cold from exposure of feet ( Con. , Cup. ).
Sweat of hands, toes, feet and axillae; offensive.
Intolerable, sour, carrion-like odor of the feet, without perspiration, every evening.
Fistula lachrymalis; ingrowing toe-nails ( Mag. p. a., Mar. v. ); panaritium; blood boils; carbuncles; ulcers of all kinds; fistulae, painful, offensive, high spongy edges, proud flesh in them; fissura ani; great pain after stool.
Desire to be magnetized, which > ( Phos. ).
Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from the tissues; fish bones, needles, bone splinters.
Relations. - Complementary: Thuja , Sanicula.
Compare: Hep. , Pic. ac. , Kali p. , Hyper. , Ruta. , Sanic. , [Gettysburg.]
Follows well: after, Calc. , Graph. , Hep. , Nit ac. , Phos.
Is followed well: by, Hep. , Fluor. ac. , Lyc. , Sep.
Aggravation. - Cold; during menses; during new moon; uncovering, especially the head; lying down.
Amelioration. - Warmth, especially from wrapping up the head; all the symptoms except gastric, which are > by cold food ( Lyc. ).
Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla.
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Pinkroot.
Loganiaceae.
Adapted to anaemic debilitated subjects of rheumatic diathesis; to scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides and lumbrici ( Cina , Stan. ).
Persons with light hair; pale, thin, bloated, weak; wrinkled, yellow, earthy skin.
Body painfully sensitive to touch; part touched feels chilly; touch sends shudder through the whole frame ( Kali c. ).
Afraid of sharp, pointed things, pins, needles, etc.
Rheumatic affections of heart (Kali, Led. , Naja ); systolic blowing at apex. Aneurism.
Nervous headache; periodical, beginning in morning at base of brain, spreading over the head and locating in eye, orbit and temple of left side (right side, Sang. , Sil. ); pain, pulsating, violent, throbbing.
Headache; at sunrise, at its height at noon, declines till sunset. ( Nat. m. , Tab. ).
Intolerable, pressive pain in eyeballs; could not turn the eyes without turning the whole body; worse, especially on making a false step.
Sensation: as if eyes were too large for the orbits ( Act. , Com.); sensitive to touch; as if a band around head ( Cac. , Carb. ac. , Sulph. ).
Copious offensive mucus from posterior nares, drops into throat, causing choking at night ( Hydr. ).
Sharp, stabbing, sticking pains through eyeballs back into the head; from cold, damp, rainy weather.
Prosopalgia: periodical, left-sided, orbit, eyes, malar bone, teeth; from morning until sunset; pain tearing, burning, cheek dark red; during cold, rainy weather; from tea.
Toothache from tobacco smoking; > only on lying down and while eating (Plan.); worse from cold air and water; returns from thinking about it.
Scirrhus of sigmoid or rectum, atrocious unbearable pain ([Alumen]).
Dyspnoea: must lie on right side or with head high ( Cac. , Spong. ); pains in chest are stitching, needle-like.
Chest affections with stitching pains synchronous with pulse, < from motion, < cold, wet weather.
Palpitation: violent, visible and audible; from least motion; when bending forward; systolic blowing at apex.
Stammering, repeats first syllable three or four times; with abdominal ailments; with helminthiasis.
Relations. - Compare: Acon. , Ars. , Cact. , Dig. Kali c. , Naja , Kal. , Spong. in heart affections.
Aggravation. - From motion, noise, touch, turning the eyes; from every shaking, commotion, or concussion.
Amelioration. - Lying on right side with the head high ( Ars. , Cac. , Spong. ).
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Roasted Sponge.
Spongia.
For the tubercular diathesis.
Especially adapted to diseases of children and women; light hair, lax fibre, fair complexion ( Brom. ).
Swelling and induration of glands; goitre ( Brom. ).
Awakens in fright and feels as if suffocating; as if head to breathe thru a sponge.
Every mental excitement < or increases the cough.
Worse after sleep or sleeps into < ( Lach. ).
Sore throat, < after eating sweet things.
Thyroid gland swollen even with chin: with suffocative paroxysms at night. Goitre.
Great dryness of mucous membranes of air passages - throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi - "ddry as a horn."
Cough: dry, barking, croupy; rasping, ringing, wheezing, whistling; everything is perfectly dry, no mucous rale.
Cough: dry, sibilant, like a saw driven through a pine board; < sweets, cold drinks, smoking, lying with head low, dry cold winds; < reading, singing, talking, swallowing; > eating or drinking warm things.
Croup: anxious, wheezing, < during inspiration (< during expiration, Acon. ); < before midnight (< before morning, Hep. ).
Palpitation: violent with pain and gasping respiration; awakened suddenly after midnight with suffocation and great anxiety; valvular insufficiency; before and during menses.
Angina pectoris; contracting pain, heat, faintness, suffocation, anxiety and sweat; < after midnight.
Spermatic cord swollen, painful; testicles swollen, bruised, squeezed; after suppressed gonorrhoea or maltreated orchitis.
Relations. - Spongia follows well: after, Acon. , Hep. , in cough and croup when dryness prevails; after Spong. , Hep. , when mucus commences to rattle.
Compare: Arn. , Caust. , Iod. , Lach. , Nux m. , sputa loosened but must be swallowed again.
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Tin.
The Element.
Extreme exhaustion of mind and body.
Sinking, empty, all-gone sensation in stomach ( Chel. , Phos. , Sep. )
Sad, despondent, feels like crying all the time, but crying makes her worse ( Nat. m. , Puls. , Sep. ); faint and weak, especially when going down stairs; can go up well enough ( Bor. , - rev. of Calc. ).
Headache or neuralgia; pains begin lightly and increase gradually to the highest point and then gradually decline ( Plat. ).
Colic: > by hard pressure, or by laying abdomen across knee or on shoulder ( Col. ); lumbrici; passes worms.
Menses; too early, too profuse; sadness before; pain in malar bones, during.
Leucorrhoea; great debility; weakness seems to proceed from chest (from abdomen, pelvis, Phos. , Sep. ).
Prolapsus, worse during stool (with diarrhoea, Pod. ); so weak she drops into a chair instead of sitting down.
While dressing in the morning has to sit down several times to rest.
Nausea and vomiting; in the morning; from the odor of cooking food ( Ars. , Colch. ).
When singing or using the voice, aching and weakness in deltoid and arms.
Great weakness in chest; < from talking, laughing, reading aloud, singing; so weak, unable to talk.
Cough: deep, hollow, shattering, strangling; concussive, in paroxysms of three coughs (of two, Merc. ); dry, while in bed, in evening; empty sensation in chest.
Expectoration: profuse like the white of an egg; sweetish, salty ( Kali i. , Sep. ); sour, putrid, musty; yellow, green pus (heavy, green, salty, Kali i. ); during the day.
Hoarseness; deep, husky hollow voice; relieved for the time by coughing or expectorating mucus.
Sweat: mouldy, musty odor; after 4 a. m. every morning; on neck and forehead; very debilitating.
Relations. - Complementary: Pulsatilla.
Stannum follows well; after, Caust. , and is followed by Cal. , Phos. , Sil. , Sulph. , Tub.
Aggravation. - Laughing and singing, talking, using the voice; lying on right side; drinking anything warm (from cold drinks, Spong. ).
Amelioration. - Coughing or expectorating relieves hoarseness; hard pressure ( Col. ).
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Stavesacre.
Ranunculaceae.
For the mental effects of onanism and sexual excesses.
Very sensitive to slight mental impressions; least action or harmless words offend ( Ign. ).
Great indignation about things done by others or by himself; grieves about consequences.
Apathetic, indifferent, low-spirited, weak memory from sexual abuses ( Anac. , Aur. , Nat. , Phos. ac. ).
Ailments from pride, envy or chagrin.
Ill-humored children cry for things which, after receiving, they petulantly push or throw away ( Kreos. ) [ Cina , Bry. ].
Was insulted; being too dignified to fight, subdued his wrath and went home sick, trembling and exhausted (the rev. of Nux ).
Sensation of a round ball in forehead sitting firmly there even when shaking the head.
Mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments; post-surgical operations; stinging, smarting, pains, like the cutting of a knife.
For the bad effects of: onanism, sexual excesses, loss of vital fluids; chagrin, mortification, unmerited insults; indignation, with vexation or reserved displeasure ( Aur. ).
Nervous weakness; as if one up after much hard work.
Styes, chalazae on eyelids or upper lids, one after another, leaving hard nodosities in their wake ( Con. , Thuja ).
Toothache: during menses; sound as well as decayed teeth; painful to touch of food or drink; but not from biting or chewing; < drawing cold air into mouth; < from cold drinks and after eating.
Teeth turn black, show dark streaks through them; cannot be kept clean; crumble; decay on edges (at the roots, Mez. , Thuja ); scorbutic cachexia.
Craving for tobacco.
Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food.
Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down relaxed ( Agar. , Ipec. , Tab. ).
Colic: after lithotomy or ovariotomy; attending abdominal section ( Bis. , Hep. ).
Urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours; in young married women; after coition; after difficult labor ( Op. ); burning in urethra when not urinating; urging and pain after urinating in prostatic troubles of old men; prolapse of bladder.
Painful sensitiveness of sexual organs, vulva so sensitive can scarcely wear a napkin ( Plat. ).
Onanism; persistently dwelling on sexual subjects; constantly thinking of sexual pleasures.
Spermatorrhoea: with sunken features; guilty, abashed look; emission followed by headache, weakness; prostration and relaxation or atrophy of sexual organs.
Cough: only in the daytime, or only after dinner, worse after eating meat; after vexation or indignation; excited by cleaning the teeth.
Croupy cough in winter alternating with sciatica in summer; cough excited by tobacco smoke ( Spong. ).
Backache, < at night in bed, and in the morning before rising.
Arthritic nodosities of joints, especially of the fingers ( Caul. , Colch. , Lyc. ); inflammation of phalanges with sweating and suppuration.
Sleepy all day, awake all night; body aches all over.
In fever; ravenous hunger for days before attack.
Eczema: yellow, acrid moisture oozes from under crusts; now vesicles form from contact with exudation; by scratching one place itching ceases, but appears in another.
Fig-warts: dry, pediculated, cauliflower-like; after abuse of mercury ( Nit. ac. , Sab. , Thuja ).
Relations. - Compare: Caust. , Col. , Ign. , Lyc. , Puls. , Col. and Staph. act well after each other; Caust. , Col. , Staph. , follow well in order names.
Aggravation. - Mental affections; from anger, indignation, grief, mortification; loss of fluids; tobacco; onanism; sexual excesses; from the least touch on affected parts.
Inimical: Ran. bulb. , either before or after.
Amelioration.
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Thorn Apple
Solanaceae.
Adapted to: ailments of young plethoric persons ( Acon. , Bell. ); especially children in chorea; mania and fever delirium.
Delirium: loquacious, talks all the time, sings, makes verses, raves; simulates Bell. and Hyos. , yet differs in degree.
The delirium is more furious, the mania more acute, while the congestion, though greater that Hyos. , is much less that Bell. , never approaching a true inflammation.
Disposed to talk continually ( Cic. , Lach. ); incessant and incoherent talking and laughing; praying, beseeching, entreating; with suppressed menses.
Desires light and company; cannot bear to be alone ( Bis. ); worse in the dark and solitude; cannot walk in a dark room.
Awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the first object seen.
Hallucinations which terrify the patient.
Desire to escape, in delirium ( Bell. , Bry. , Op. , Rhus ).
Imagines all sorts of things; that she is double, lying crosswise, etc. ( Petr. ).
Head feels as is scattered about ( Bap. ).
Eyes wide open, prominent, brilliant; pupils widely dilated, insensible; contortion of eyes and eyelids.
Pupils dilate when child is reprimanded.
Face hot and red with cold hands and feet; circumscribed redness of cheeks, blood rushes to face; risus sardonicus.
Stammering; has to exert himself a long time before he can utter a word; makes great effort to speak; distorts the face ( Bov. , Ign. , Spig. ).
Vomiting: as soon as he raises head from pillow; from a bright light.
Convulsions: from consciousness ( Nux - without, Bell. , Cic. , Hyos. , Op. ); renewed by sight of bright light, of mirror or water ( Bell. , Lys. ).
Twitching of single muscle or groups of muscles, especially upper part of body; chorea.
Hydrophobia: fear of water, with excessive aversion to liquids ( Bell. , Lys. ); spasmodic constriction of throat.
No pain with most complaints; painlessness is characteristic ( Op. ).
Sleepy, but cannot sleep ( Bell. , Cham. , Op. ).
Relations. - Stramonium often follows: Bell. , Cup. , Hyos. , Lys.
In metrorrhagia from retained placenta with characteristic delirium, Sec. often acts promptly when Stram. has failed (with fever and septic tendency, Pyr. ).
After overaction, from repeated doses of Bell. , in whooping cough.
Aggravation. - In the dark; when alone; looking at bright or shining objects; after sleep ( Apis , Lach. , Op. , Spong. ); when attempting to swallow.
Amelioration. - From bright light; from company; warmth.
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