| HOME | arndt | lippe | stacy | curie |
Sulphur
Brimstone; Flowers of Sulphur.
The Element.
Adapted to persons of a scrofulous diathesis, subject to venous congestion; especially of portal system.
Persons of nervous temperament, quick motioned, quick tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes ( Hep. , Kali c. , Psor. ).
For lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooping; walk stooping like old men.
Standing is the worst position for Sulphur patients; they cannot stand; every standing position is uncomfortable.
Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections ( Psor. ).
Aversion to being washed; always < after a bath. Too lazy to rouse himself; too unhappy to live.
Children: cannot bear to be washed or bathed (in cold water, Ant. c. ); emaciated, big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off the clothes at night ( Hep. , Sanic. ); have worms, but the best selected remedy fails.
When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favorable effect, especially in acute diseases, it frequently serves to rouse the reactive powers of the system; clears up the case (in chronic diseases, Psor. ).
Scrofulous, psoric, chronic diseases that result from suppressed eruptions ( Caust. , Psor. ).
Complaints that are continually relapsing (menses, leucorrhoea, etc.); patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns again and again.
Congestion to single parts; eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, ovaries, arms, legs, or any organ of the body marking the onset of tumors or malignant growths, especially at climacteric.
Sensation of burning: on vertex; and smarting in eyes; in face, without redness; of vesicles in mouth; and dryness of throat, first right then left; in stomach; in rectum; in anus, and itching piles, and scalding urine; like fire in ripples ( Ars. ); in chest, rising to face; of skin of whole bloody, with hot flushes; in spots, between scapulae ( Phos. ).
Sick headache every week or every two weeks; prostrating, weakening ( Sang. ); with hot vertex and cold feet.
Constant heat on vertex; cold feet in daytime with burning soles at night, wants to find a cool place for them ( Sang. , Sanic. ); puts them out of bed to cool off ( Med. ); cramps in calves and soles at night.
Hot flushes during the day, with weak, faint spells passing off with a little moisture.
Bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst through ( Tub. ).
Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in the stomach about 11 a. m. (10 or 11 a. m. > by eating, Nat. c. ); cannot wait for lunch; frequent weak, faint spells during the day (compare, Zinc. ).
Diarrhoea: after midnight; painless; driving out of bed early in the morning ( Aloe , Psor. ); as if the bowels were too weak to retain their contents.
Constipation: stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt ( Bry. ); large, painful, child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain, or pain compels child to desist on first effort; alternating with diarrhoea.
The discharge both of urine and faeces is painful to parts over which it passes; passes large quantities of colorless urine; parts round anus red, excoriated; all the orifices of the body are very red; all discharges acrid, excoriating whenever they touch.
Menses: too early, profuse, protracted.
Menorrhagia, has not been well since her last miscarriage. "A single dose at new moon." - Lippe.
Boils: coming in crops in various parts of the body, or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as first is healed ( Tub. ).
Skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching >; "feels good to scratch;" scratching causes burning; < from heat of bed ( Mer. ); soreness in folds ( Lyc. ).
Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes; haemorrhoids, that have been treated with ointments.
To facilitate absorption of serous or inflammatory exudates in brain, pleura, lungs, joints, when Bryonia , [Kali mur.] or the best selected remedy fails.
Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; "they reform," but are continually relapsing ( Psor. , Tub. ).
Nightly suffocative attacks, wants the doors and windows open; becomes suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night.
Happy dreams, wakes up singing.
Everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to; even rags seem beautiful.
Movement in abdomen as of a child ( Croc. , Thuja ).
Relations. - Complementary: Aloe , Psor.
Ailments from the abuse of metals generally.
Compatible: Calc. , Lyc. , Puls. , Sars. , Sep.
Sulph. , Calc. , Lyc. ; or Sulph. , Sars. , Sep. frequently follow in given order.
Calcarea must not be used before Sulphur.
Sulphur is the chronic of Aconite and follows it well in pneumonia and other acute diseases.
Aggravation. - At rest; when standing; warmth in bed; washing, bathing, changeable weather ( Rhus ).
Amelioration. - Dry, warm weather; lying on the right side (rev. of Stan. ).
| HOME | arndt | lippe | stacy |
Sulphuric Acid.
HNO4.
Adapted to the light-haired; old people, especially women; flushes of heat in climacteric years.
Unwilling to answer questions not from obstinacy, but inaptness.
Feels in a great hurry; everything must be done quickly ( Arg. n. ).
Pain of gradual and slowly-increasing intensity which ceases suddenly when at its height, often repeated ( Puls. ).
The pain is pressure as of a blunt instrument.
Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries, especially of old people.
Child has a sour odor despite careful washing ( Hep. , Mag. c. , Rheum ).
Sensation as if the brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side ( Bell. , Bry. , Rhus , Spig. ).
Aphthae; of mouth, gums, or entire buccal cavity; gums bleed readily; ulcers painful; offensive breath ( Bor. ).
Chronic heartburn, sour eructations, sets teeth on edge ([Rob.]).
Water drunk causes coldness of the stomach unless mixed with alcoholic liquor.
Sensation as if trembling all over, without real trembling; internal trembling of drunkards.
Bad effects of mechanical injuries, with bruises, chafing and livid skin; prostration ( Acet. ac. ).
Ecchymosis; cicatrices turn blood-red or blue, are painful (turn green, Led. ).
Petechia: purpura haemorrhagica; blue spots; livid, red itching blotches.
Haemorrhage of black blood from all the outlets of the body ( Crot. , Mur. ac. , Nit. ac. , Ter. ).
Concussion of brain from fall or blow where skin is cold and body bathed in cold sweat.
Weak and exhausted from deep-seated dyscrasia; no other symptoms ( Psor. , Sulph. ).
Relations. - Complementary Puls.
Compare: Ars. , Bor. , Calend. , Led. , Ruta , Rheum , Symp.
In contusion and laceration of soft parts it vies with calendula
Follows well: after, Arn. with bruised pain, livid skin and profuse sweat; after, Led. in ecchymosis.
Ailments from brandy-drinking.
Sulphuric acid , one part, with three parts of alcohol, 10 to 15 drops, three times daily for three or four weeks, has been successfully used to subdue the craving for liquor - Hering.
| HOME |
Comfrey
Borraginaceae
Facilitates union of fractured bone ( Cal. p. ); lessens peculiar pricking pain; favors production of callous; when trouble is of nervous origin.
Irritability at point of fracture; periosteal pain after wounds have healed.
Mechanical injuries; blows, bruises, thrusts on the globe of the eye.
Pain in eye after a blow of an obtuse body; snow ball strikes the eye; infant thrusts its fist into its mother's eye (to soft tissues around the eye, Arn. ).
Relations. - Compare: Arn. , Calend. , Cal. p. , Fluor. ac. , Hep. , Sil.
Follows well: after Arnica for pricking pain, and soreness of periosteum remaining after an injury.
| HOME |
Syphilitic Virus.
A Nosode.
Pains from darkness to daylight; begin with twilight and end with daylight ( Merc. , Phyt. ).
Pains increase and decrease gradually ( Stan. ); shifting and require frequent change of position.
All symptoms are worse at night ( Merc. ); from sundown to sunrise.
Eruptions: dull, red, copper-colored spots, becoming blue when getting cold.
Extreme emaciation of entire body ( Abrot. , Iod. ).
Heart: lancinating pains from base to apex, at night (from apex to base, Med. ; from base to clavicle or shoulder, Spig. ).
Loss of memory; cannot remember names of books, persons or places; arithmetical calculation difficult.
Sensation: as if going insane, as if about to be paralyzed; of apathy and indifference.
Terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical exhaustion on awakening; it is intolerable, death is preferable.
Fears the terrific suffering from exhaustion on awakening ( Lach. ).
Leucorrhoea; profuse; soaking through the napkins and running down the heels ( Alum. ).
Headache, neuralgic in character, causing sleeplessness and delirium at night; commencing at 4 p. m.; worse from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight (ceases at 11 or 12 p. m., Lyc. ); falling of the hair.
Acute ophthalmia neonatorum; lids swollen, adhere during sleep; pain intense at night < from 2 to 5 a. m., pus profuse; > by cold bathing.
Ptosis: paralysis of superior oblique; sleepy look from drooping lids ( Caust. , Graph. ).
diplopia, one image seen below the other.
Teeth: decay at edge of gum and break off; are cupped, edges serrated; dwarfed in size, converge at their tips ( Staph. ).
Craving alcohol, in any form. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism ( Asar. , Psor. , Tuber. , Sulph. , Sulph. ac. ).
Obstinate constipation for year; rectum seems tied up with strictures; when enema was used the agony of passage was like labor ( Lac. c. , Tub. ).
Fissures in anus and rectum ( Thuja ); prolapse of rectum; obstinate cases with a syphilitic history.
Rheumatism of the shoulder joint, or at insertion of deltoid, < from raising arm laterally ( Rhus - right shoulder, Sang. ; left, Fer. ).
When the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve, in syphilitic affections.
Syphilitics, or patients who have had chancre treated by local means, and as a result have suffered from throat and skin troubles for years, are nearly always benefited by this remedy at commencement of treatment unless some other remedy is clearly indicated.
Relations. - Compare: Aur. , Asaf. , Kali i. , Merc. , Phyt. , in bone diseases and syphilitic affections.
Aggravation. - At night, from twilight to daylight.
| HOME | stacy |
Tobacco.
Solanaceae
Diseases originating in cerebral irritation followed by marked irritation of functions of vagi.
Emaciation of cheeks and back.
Complete prostration of entire muscular system.
Sensation of excessive wretchedness.
Icy coldness of surface; covered with cold sweat.
Symptoms occur in paroxysms - asthma, sick headache, vertigo, sneezing.
Great despondency with indigestion, palpitation, intermittent pulse.
Vertigo: death-like pallor, increases to loss of consciousness; relieved in open air and by vomiting; on rising or looking upward; on opening the eyes.
Sick headache coming on in early morning, intolerable by noon, deathly nausea, violent vomiting; < by noise and light; periodical, lasting one or two days.
Sudden pain on right side, of head as if struck by a hammer or a club.
Dim-sighted: see as though a veil; strabismus, depending upon brain troubles.
Amaurosis, from atrophy of retina or optic nerve.
Face pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, covered with cold sweat (cold sweat on forehead, Ver. ).
Nausea: incessant, as if seasick; vomiting, on least motion; with faintness; > in open air.
Vomiting: violent, with cold sweat; soon as he begins to move; during pregnancy, when Lactic acid fails ( Psor. ).
Seasickness; deathly nausea, pallor, coldness; < by least motion and > on deck in fresh, cold air.
Terrible, faint, sinking feeling at pit of stomach.
Sense of relaxation of stomach with nausea ( Ipec. , Staph. ).
Child wants abdomen uncovered; relieves nausea and vomiting; coldness in abdomen ( Colch. , [Elaps], Lach. ).
Constipation: inactive bowel or paralysis of rectum; spasms of sphincter; prolapsus ani; of years' standing; herpes of anus.
Diarrhoea: sudden, yellowish, greenish, slimy; urgent, watery; with nausea, vomiting, prostration and cold sweat ( Ver. ); with extreme faintness; from excessive smoking.
Renal colic: violent spasmodic pains along ureter left side ( Berb. ); deathly nausea and cold perspiration.
Palpitation: violent when lying on left side; goes off when turning to the right.
Pulse: quick, full, large; small intermittent, exceedingly slow; feeble, irregular, almost imperceptible.
Hands icy cold, body warm.
Legs icy cold, from knees down; trembling of limbs.
Relations. - Antidotes, for abuse of tobacco, are:
Ipec. , for excessive nausea and vomiting.
Ars. , for bad effects of tobacco chewing.
Nux , for the gastric symptoms next morning after smoking.
Phos. , palpitation, tobacco heart, sexual weakness.
Ign. , for annoying hiccough from tobacco chewing.
Clem. , or [Plant.], for tobacco toothache.
Sep. , neuralgic affections of right side of face; dyspepsia; chronic nervousness, especially in sedentary occupations.
Lyc. , for impotence, spasms, cold sweat from excessive smoking.
Gels. , occipital headache and vertigo from excessive use, specially smoking.
Tabacum , potentized (200 or 1000) to relieve terrible craving when discontinuing use.
Amelioration. - Open, fresh, cold air; uncovering.
| HOME | lippe |
Dandelion.
Compositae.
For gastric and bilious attacks, especially gastric headaches.
Mapped tongue ( Lach. , Mer. , Nat. m. ); covered with a white film with sensation of rawness. This film comes off in patches, leaving dark red, tender, very sensitive spots ( Ran. s. ).
Jaundice with enlargement and induration of liver (mapped tongue).
Debility, loss of appetite, profuse night sweats, especially when convalescing from bilious or typhoid fever.
Restlessness of limbs in typhoid ( Rhus , Zinc. ).
Relations. - Compare: Bry. , Hydr. , Nux , in gastric and bilious affections.
Aggravation. - Almost all symptoms appear when sitting; lying down; resting.
| HOME |
Tarantula; Cuban and Spanish.
Araneideae
Adapted to highly nervous organisms, especially choleric affections where whole body, or right arm and left leg are affected (left arm and right leg, Agar. ).
Constant movement of the legs, arms, trunk, with inability to do anything; twitching and jerking of muscles.
Restlessness, could not keep quiet in any position; must keep in motion, though walking < all symptoms (rev. of Rhus , Ruta ).
Hyperaesthesia: least excitement irritates, followed by languid sadness; extreme of tips of fingers.
Slight touch along the spine provokes spasmodic pain in chest and cardiac region.
Headache: intense, as if thousands of needles were pricking the brain.
Abscesses, boils, felons, affected parts of a bluish color ( Lach. ), and atrocious burning pain ([Anth.], Ars. ); the agony of a felon, compelling patient to walk the floor for nights.
Malignant ulcers; carbuncle, anthrax; gangrene.
Symptoms appear periodically.
Headache, neuralgic < by noise, touch, strong light, > by rubbing head against pillow.
At every menstrual nisus, throat, mouth and tongue intolerably dry, especially when sleeping ( Nux m. ).
Sexual excitement extreme even to mania; spasms of uterus pruritus vulva becomes intolerable.
Relations. - Similar: to, Apis , Crot. , Lach. , Plat. , [Mygale], Naja , Ther.
Aggravation. - Motion; contact; touch of affected parts; noise; change of weather.
Amelioration. - In open air; music; rubbing affected parts.
Termini of nerves becomes so irritated and sensitive that some kind of friction was necessary to obtain relief.
| HOME | arndt | stacy |
Oil of Turpentine
A Volatile Oil.
The urine has the odor or violets.
Tongue: smooth, glossy, red, as if deprived of papillae, or as if glazed ( Pyr. ); elevated papillae; coating peels off in patches leaving bright red spots, or entire coating cleans off suddenly (in exanthemata); dry and red; burning in tip (compare, Mur. ac. ).
Abdomen: extremely sensitive to touch; distention, flatulence, excessive tympanitis; meteorism ( Colch. ).
Diarrhoea: stool, watery, greenish, mucous; frequent, profuse, fetid, bloody; burning in anus and rectum, fainting and exhaustion, after ( Ars. ).
Worms: with foul breath, choking ( Cina , Spig. ); dry, hacking cough; tickling at anus; ascarides, lumbrici, tapeworm segments passed.
Haematuria: blood thoroughly mixed with the urine; sediment, like coffee-grounds; cloudy, smoky, albuminous; profuse, dark or black, painless.
Congestion and inflammation of viscera; kidneys, bladder, lungs, intestines, uterus; with haemorrhage, and malignant tendency.
Purpurea haemorrhagica; fresh ecchymosis in great numbers from day to day ( Sulph. ac. ).
Ascites with anasarca, in organic lesions of kidneys; dropsy after scarlatina ( Apis , Hell. , Lach. ).
Haemorrhages; from bowels, with ulceration; passive, dark, with ulceration or epithelial degeneration.
Violent burning and drawing pains in kidney, bladder and urethra ( Berb. , Can. , Canth. ).
Violent burning and cutting in bladder; tenesmus; sensitive hypogastrium; cystitis and retention from atony of fundus.
Albuminuria; acute, in early stages, when blood and albumin abound more than casts and epithelium; after diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid.
Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few if any casts; < from living in damp dwellings.
Strangury; spasmodic retention of urine.
Relations. - Compare: [Alumen], Arn. , Ars. , Canth. , Lach. , Nit. ac.
Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.
| HOME |
Orange Spider
Araneideae
Time passes too quickly (too slowly, Arg. n. , Can. I. , Nux m. ).
Vertigo: on closing the eyes ( Lach. , Thuja - on opening them, Tab. ; on looking upward, Puls , Sil. ); from any, even the least noise; aural or labyrinthine (Meniere's disease).
Nausea: from least motion, and especially on closing the eyes; from fast riding in a carriage.
Headache: when beginning to move, as of a dull heavy pressure begin the eyes; violent, deep, in the brain; < lying down ( Lach. ); very much < from others walking on the floor, or from least motion of head.
Every sound seems to penetrate through the whole body, causing nausea and vertigo.
Chronic nasal catarrh; discharge thick, yellow, greenish, offensive ( Puls. , Thuja ).
Toothache: every shrill sound penetrates the teeth.
Seasickness of nervous women; they close their eyes to get rid of the motion of the vessel and grown deathly sick.
Violent stitches in upper left chest, below the scapula, extending to neck ([Anis.], [Myr.], [Pix], Sulph. ).
Pains in the bones all over, as if broken.
Great sensitiveness between vertebrae, sits sideways in the chair to avoid pressure against spine ([Chin. s.]); < by least nose and jar of foot on floor.
For extreme nervous sensitiveness; of puberty, during pregnancy and climacteric years.
"In rachitis, caries, necrosis, it apparently goes to the root of the evil and destroys the cause." - Dr. Baruch.
Phthisis florida, often affects a cure if given in the early stages of disease.
In scrofulosis where the best chosen remedies fail to relieve.
Relations. - Follows well after, Cal. and Lyc.
| HOME |
Shepherd's Purse.
Cruciferae
Profuse passive haemorrhage from every outlet of the body; blood dark and clotted.
Metrorrhagia: with violent cramps and uterine colic; in chlorosis; after abortion, labor, miscarriage; at climacteric; with cancer uteri ( Phos. , Ust. ).
Menses: too early; too profuse; protracted (eight, ten, even fifteen days); tardy in starting, first day merely a show; second day colic, vomiting, a haemorrhage with large clots; each alternate period more profuse.
Haemorrhage or delaying menses from uterine inertia; exhausting, scarcely recovers from one period before another begins.
Leucorrhoea: bloody, dark, offensive; some days before and after menses.
Relations. - Compare: [Sinapsis], Trillium , [Viburnum], Ustilago.
Home Contact Us Beginning Continue