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CHAPTER 3

Comparison OF
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES
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ABOUT THE CHAPTER

Homoeopathy is a settle science with remedies looking very similar but with fine
distinctions. Unless these are mastered or are available at fingers end there is bound
to be confusion and consequently failure. The blame unfortunately goes to
Homoeopathy and not to the prescriber, Hahnemann' s rule of ‘Perfect similimum’ has
never failed.

It is hoped that this little chapter will prove useful in the hands of the prescriber
especially those who are beginners.

Numbers in the margin refer to Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics by E.B. Nash

Reprinted 1988 by B. Jain Publisher (P) Ltd.

A.N. Chatterji
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83 1. Aconite Belladonna

(a) Dry hot skin, no sweat Greater heat, sweats on covered parts.

(b) Tosses about. Semi stupor, jerks in sleep.

(c) Distress in heart and chest. Distress in head.

(d) Fears death, no delirium. Fears imaginary things, delirium.

85 2. Aconite Arsenic Alb. Rhus Tox.

87 (a) Not in typhoid. Often in typhoid. Often in typhoid.

96 (b) Excitement. Prostration, anxiety Not so.

(c) Fear of death. Fears he is incurable. Not so.

(d) Restless-early stage Restless-later stage wants Because of aching pain.

because of fear and pain. to move from place to Get relief from
place but too weak to do movement.
so. No relief from
movement.

278 3. Aconite Hepar Sulph

(a) Croup comes on in evening after Croup comes in the early morning
first sleep. hours.

(b) Both have croup due to exposure to dry cold air.

321 4. Aloe Mu rati c Acid

(a) Relieved by cold water. Relieved by hot application.

(b) Itches intensely. Sore and sensitive to touch.

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(c) Both have blue Hemorrhoids.

438 5. Aesculus Collinsonia

(a) Sense of fullness in rectum. Not so.

(b) Does not bleed. Bleeds.

(c) Aching in the back. Not so.

(d) Not so. Constipation and colic.

(e) Both have hemorrhoids—as if rectum was filled with sticks.

144 6. Apis Mel. Arsenic Alb.

(a) Burning relieves by cold. Burning relieves by heat.

(b) Thirst less. Great thirst.

149 6. Apis Mel. Cantharis

(a) More edema. More blistering.

(b) More stinging. More burning.

(c) Not so. Urinary symptoms intense.

(d) Cries out sharply. Restlessness and moaning.

(e) Both have erysipelas.

275 8. Apis Mel. Causticum Sulphur

(a) With stinging. With soreness. With itching.

(b) All have burning.

145 9. Apis Mel. Baptisia

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(a) Stinging burning, pain in throat Painlessness.

affections, sometimes painlessness.

(b) Edematous condition in almost any part Swelling not so rapid, No edema.
of the body; lower lids hang down like
bags of water.

(c) Both have throat affections—

diphtheria.

387 10. Arnica Baptisia

(a) Stool and urine passed unconsciously. Stool, urine, sweat very offensive.

(b) Suggillation under skin. In delirium complains he cannot get

himself together.

(c) In typhoid both have sore bruised feeling, bed feels hard; both have stupor—answers
but falls back into it again; both have deep red face; both have dark streak
running through the tongue etc.

391 11. Arnica Hamamelis

(a) Acts upon capillaries. Acts upon veins.

(b) Both have sore bruised feeling.

341 12. Arsenic Magnesia Phos.

(a) Burning pain. All kinds of pain especially cramping

but not burning.

(b) Both are relieved by hot application.

212 13. Arsenic Secale Cor.

(a) Burning better by heat. Part very cold yet burns.

Heat intolerable, cannot even bear to
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have it covered.

(b) Both have burning of gangrene.

451 14. Belladonna Glonoine

(a) Better bending head backward. Worse bending head backward.

(b) Worse having head uncovered Can't put on hat, wants haircut.
or haircut.

(c) Worse lying with head low Better lying still.

(d) Even later. First stage of congestion.

(e) Not so. More intense and sudden and subsides

more rapidly.

(f) Both have the fullness, pain and throbbing in lite head. Least jar aggravates.
Both have disturbance in the heart.

311 15. Berberis Rhus Tox.

(a) In connection with kidney or Not so.

urinary trouble.

(b) Both have backache worse when sitting or lying, especially when lying in
bed in morning.

127 16. Bryonia Kali Carb.

(a) Pain comes with movement only, Pain comes independent of movement.
rarely when at rest.

(b) Pain in serous membrane, lower right Everywhere especially in lower right
chest. chest.

(c) Better lying on affected side. Aggravated lying on affected side.

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(d) Both have stitching pain in pleuritis, meningitis, peritonitis, pericarditis etc.
Both cry out sharply with the pain like Apis, but Apis has stinging pain like the
sling of bee.

34 17. Bryonia Nux Vom. Pulsatilla

(a) Great thirst. Less thirst. No thirst even with dry

mouth.

(b) Bitter taste. Sour taste. Bitter taste.

(c) Nausea and vomiting Worse in A.M. and after Worse evening and after
worse motion. eating. eating.

(d) Due to dietetic error in Due to overeating, Due to rich food, fat.
warm weather. inactivity and abuse of pastries, ice cream.
drugs.

(e) Constipation, stool dry Constipation, Frequent Not So.

and hard. No desire. ineffectual desire.

(f) Diarrhoea worse in Worse morning. Worse night with rumbling

morning on moving. of the bowels.

173 18. Bryonia Cocculus

(a) Nausea and vomiting precede the Headache first, nausea and vomiting
headache. after.

(b) Both have headache, vertigo, nausea and inclination to vomit more by eating and
drinking or rising up in bed.

325 19. Bryonia Natrum Sulph.

(a) Loose cough. Dry cough.

(b) Both have great soreness of chest with the cough. Patient springs right up in
bed or holds the chest with the hands.

264 20. Camphor Veratrum Alb.

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399 (a) Scanty or no stool. Stools are profuse.

(b) Cramp in stomach and extremities. Cold sweat on forehead.

(c) Both have great coldness and collapse in cholera.

410 21. Cantharis Colchicum Colocynth

(a) Pain and tenesmus affect Affects abdomen only Affects abdomen only
urinary organs as well. with great distention. better by doubling up.

(b) All have autumnal dysentery with while or bloody mucus as if mucous
membranes had been scraped off the intestines with pain and tenesmus.

417 22. Capsicum Eupatorium Purfoliatum

(a) Chill begins exactly between shoulders. Chill begins in dorsal or lumbar region.

(b) Violent chill with general. Violent shaking with little coldness.
Coldness of the body.

(c) Both have chill in intermittent and vesical irritability in women, and bone pains
before chill.

392 23. Chamomilla Colocynth

(a) Distention of abdomen; child tosses Child doubles up or presses something

about in agony but does not double up. against the abdomen.

(b) Both have colic from fit of anger or neuralgic affection from the same cause.

359 24. Chamomilla Cina

(a) Red and hot cheek on one side Both cheeks red and hot alternating with
and pale on the other. pale face and dark circles around eyes.
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(b) Not so. Bores the nose, grinds teeth

(c) Not so. when asleep, jerks in sleep. Urine turns

milky after standing a while.

(d) Both are cross and ugly, strike the nurse.

188 25. Chamomilla Platinum

(a) Cross and ugly. Proud.

(b) Both have pain attended with numbness.

290 26. China Psorinum

(a) Due to loss of vital fluid blood, Itching eruption or tendency thereto
suppuration etc. before or during sickness.

(b) Weakness during convalescence from

acute disease.

393 27. Colocynth. Magnesia Phos.

(a) Relieved by doubling up. Relieved by hot application.

(b) Both have colic with crampy pain.

290 28. Graphites Psorinum

(a) Moisture from eruption is sticky. Not so.

(b) Both have dark brown, watery and offensive stool.

137 29. Kalmia Spigilia

(a) Right sided Left sided.

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(b) Stiffness in eyes. As if eyes were too large.

(c) Both have neuralgia of face, heart troubles of rheumatic origin and violent
palpitation.

193 30 Kali Carb. Apis Mel. Phosphorus

(a) Upper eye lids bloat and Lower lids bloat. Whole face bloats.
hang down like bags of
water.

134 31 Kali Bi. Nux Vom. Anacardium

(a) Immediately after eating 2 or 3 hours after eating, 2 or 3 hours after eating,
like Nux Mosch. relieved on completion of pain lasts until he eats
digestion. again which relieves.

(b) All have great weight in the stomach, fullness and distress.

115 32. Lachesis Gelsemium

123 (a) Tongue dry. Not so.

(b) Second or third week. Comes in early stage.

(c) Both have trembling of tongue (typhoid) on trying to protrude it which catches
under lower teeth.

115 33. Lachesis Merc Sol.

(a) Gums turn purple. Not so.

(b) Both have swollen and spongy gums, easily bleeding, bad odour from mouth,
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tenacious mucus. Lachesis often follows Merc. well.

194 34. Lachesis Phosphorous

(a) Worse after sleep. Better after sleep.

(b) Slight wounds bleed easily. Both are great remedies in typhoid with stupor and
low muttering delirium.

114 35. Lachesis Sulphur

(a) Preferable during climaxes (চরম অবস্থা) With psoric complication.

(b) Both have burning on the vertex.

208 36. Lilium Tigrinum Sepia

(a) Recent. Chronic.

(b) More painful, distressing. Not so.

(c) Frequent desire to urinate. Not so.

(d) Not so. With sadness and indifference to loved

one.

(e) Both have uterine displacement as if the pelvic contents would pass out through the
vagina.

227 37. Ledum Kalmia

(a) Travels upwards. From above downward.

(b) Not so. Shifts rapidly.

(c) Parts cold, uncovering or cold water Not so.

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relieves.

(d) Both have rheumatism.

366 38. Ledum Merc. Sol.

(a) Not so. Profuse sweat without relief, saliva,

offensive odour of mouth.

(b) Both have rheumatism worse at night and from heat of bed.

367 39. Ledum Silicea

(a) Relief from cold; want to put feet in cold Wants to be covered warmly.
water.

(b) Both have rheumatism of feet, ankles and soles. Both arcs aggravated at night.
Both are cold and lacks vital heat.

425 40. Medorrhinum Syphilinum

(a) Pain worse during day. Worse at night.

(b) Both arc good for chronic rheumatism.

169 41. Nux Vom. Ignatia

(a) Chill not relieved by external heat Chill relieved by external heat.
of stove or bed.

(b) During heat must be covered. Least Heat aggravated by external covering,
uncovering brings chill.

(c) Chill of intermittent fever.

16 42. Nux Vom. Merc. Sol.

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(a) Pain and tenesmus greatly relieved for a Never get done feeling. Pain and
short time after every stool. tenesmus continue after stool.

(b) Both have dysentery with slimy mucus and blood.

188 43. Platinum Stannum

(a) Not so. Great weakness in chest, on going

downstairs. Can't talk.

(b) Both have pain gradually increasing, gradually decreasing.

229 44. Pulsatilla Ipecacuanha

(a) Tongue coaled. Tongue cleaned

(b) Nausea so long as food is in the After food is out, n ausea persisting.
stomach.

(c) Both have gastric troubles from dietetic errors—pastry, ice cream, pork, fatly food
etc.

327 45. Pulsatilla Natrum Mur.

(a) Soothed and comforted by consolation. Consolation aggravates weeping.

(b) Both have depression of spirits, weep much.

216 46. Pulsatilla Sabina

(a) Not so. Pain from back to pubes.

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(b) Both have profuse menstruation in menorrhagia, metrorrhagia or abortion. Both

are aggravated from warm air and in warm room.

28 47. Pulsatilla Rhus Tox. (Ferrum)

(a) Better in open air. Better in warm dry air.

(b) Both better by slowly moving.

217 48. Sabina Viburnum Opulus.

(a) Pain from back to pubes. Pain begins in the back and ends with
cramp in uterus.

(b) Both have threatened abortion at the third month.

263 49. Stramonium Veratrum Alb.

(a) Face red and bloated. Face pale and sunken.

(b) Not so. Greater general weakness.

(c) Both have mania with loquacity and are strongly religious, consequent upon suppressed
menses or in puerperal state.