MATERIA MEDICA

OF
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES

By
DR. S.R. PHATAK
M.B.B.S.

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WHY THIS BOOK
Students of Homeopathy who read different Materia Medicas written by various authors,
must have observed that some symptoms given under a particular remedy in one materia
medica are not given by other. Dr. Boger has selected the most important symptoms from
various materia medicas and has included them in his Synoptic Key. But while presenting
these symptoms, he has, at times, used such words, that unless the student has the ability to
read between the lines, he will miss their hidden meaning. Moreover, Dr. Boger has omitted
many important symptoms given by other authors. I will give some examples to illustrate my
point. Dr. Boericke has given “Retention of urine after operation” under ‘Causticum’. Boger
has not given this symptom. Dr. Boger has given “Distension of abdomen after operation”
under Carbo animals which is not given by other authors. Dr. Kent has not mentioned above
two symptoms in his repertory. But these two symptoms gave me opportunity to remove
these distressing conditions successfully. Dr. Boger has given a very curious symptom
“Breathes through a metallic tube as if” under Merc. Cor. which is not given by other authors.
Moreover he has made it a general symptom – under the heading “Tube metallic – Merc.
Cor.”. The meaning is obvious. If a person comes and says that while passing stools or urine
or even speaking, he is doing these functions as if through a tube, Merc. Cor is apt to be useful.
I had an occasion to give this remedy to a person who was speaking through a tube.
If well understood, Dr. Boger’s Materia Medica. and repertory are quite sufficient for most of
the cases. But we possess neither his intellect, nor his acumen.
In compiling this materia medica, I have given all the symptoms given by Dr. Boger. I have
tried to simplify many of his ambiguous words by explaining these meaning. Moreover I have
garnered many useful clinical and other symptoms from other materia medicas (which were
not given by Dr. Boger) and included them here.
The presentation of Materia Medica is on usual schematic basis. Under generalities the profile
picture of the remedy is given along with the regions on which it acts and how it acts, diseases
which it is liable to cure and causations. Then general modalities of the remedy are given,
after that regional symptoms with their particular modalities follow.
It is my belief that Dr. Boger wished to compile a concise repertory arranged in alphabetic
order rather than regional one. In the same way a concise materia medica, in which all
relevant symptoms pertaining to each remedy are given; was desirable. He has given clues in
his Synoptic key for compiling such books. With my poor intellect and limited knowledge of
homeopathy I have tried to fulfil his wish. How far I am successful in my attempt, only time
will show.

THANKS GIVING
My thanks are due to my friend Dr. (Miss) Homai Merchant for typing the manuscript twice
without a single murmur. Thanks are also due to my son Dr. D. S. Phatak, for correcting first
to final proofs several times and for making arrangement to print the book with Mouj Printing
Bureau. Mr. Datay who got the composing done and Mr. M. R. Sane who composed the book
single handed, deserve my thanks.
Readers are requested to have a look at the “Hints for the beginners” and Index of Surgical
remedies.
Finally I am very grateful to God for sparing me in spite my heart disease and old age to see
the book completed. I have done whatever I could. Capable young homeopaths should carry
on the work further.
July 1977
S. R. PHATAK

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HINTS FOR THE BEGINNERS
Materia Medica and Repertory are the twin pillars on which successful practice of
homeopathy stands. Both are complementary to each other. None is complete in itself.
Study of materia medica, is a long drawn out effort. There is no short or easy road to success.
Drugs should become your friends. You can identify your friend from, the way he rings the
bell, taps or opens the door, climbs the foot‐steps, etc. Similarly you should be able to know
the drug even when it is partially seen.
The marks of identification of the drug are found in its Generalities, Modalities (i.e. worse and
better) and Mind. A thorough grasp of these headings helps you to identify the drug in relation
to the patient.
To achieve this, when you read a drug each rubric should be seen in the repertory. The relative
importance of this drug is to be fixed in your mind by comparing it with other drugs under the
same rubric. This appears to be tedious. But the drug picture slowly gets firmly and clearly set
in your mind.

SYMPTOMS
The most difficult thing in homeopathy is interpretation of symptoms. When the patient is
telling his story in his own words, you should be able to fix these, in terms of rubrics given in
the repertory. If you have grasped the materia medica well, certain drugs will automatically
come to your mind. Verify them in repertory. Causation, modalities are more important. The
peculiar symptom ‐which, underlying pathology fails to explain‐ does many a time point
towards the suitable drug.
When a cup is half‐full, it is half empty also. While interpreting symptoms, try to look at the
same thing from various aspects.
While reading materia medica also, try to remember the peculiar things in the drug. Bland
discharges of Pulsatilla, “Can’t throw things off” in Zincum Met, “Great variety of symptoms”
in Mercurius, etc. As said before these are the identification marks of the drug.

CERTAIN SIGNS
< means worse from or after. > Better or relieved by. Semi colon; is used in this book with
care. For instance in Calcarea Carb under mind you will find, Fears; disease, misery, disaster,
insanity; of being poisoned. It means Fears (1) disease, (2) misery, (3) disaster, (4) insanity and
fears of being observed. In Phosphorous under generalities, “Ill effects of anger fear grief ;
worry ; exposure to drenching rains washing clothes ; tobacco ; etc. is to be interpreted
similarly. Suitable combinations can be profitably made.
Three types, are used in this book to show gradation. Relative importance of different
symptoms is given by this. But in a particular patient a low graded symptom may prove to be
the most important. So you need not be carried away by the gradations.

LASTLY,
give due respect to the authorities on homeopathy for what they say. But if your experience
is contrary to what the authorities say, do not get swayed by their opinions. Ultimately your
experience is the best authority as far as you are concerned.

S. R. PHATAK

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Contents
1. Abies canadensis [Abies‐c] ................................................................................................... 15
2. Abies nigra [Abies‐n] ............................................................................................................ 16
3. Abrotanum [Abrot]............................................................................................................... 17
4. Absinthium [Absin] ............................................................................................................... 19
5. Acetic acid [Acet‐ac] ............................................................................................................. 20
6. Aconite [Acon] ...................................................................................................................... 22
7. Actea spicata [Act‐sp]........................................................................................................... 25
8. Adonis vernalis [Adon] ......................................................................................................... 26
9. Aesculus hippocastanum [Aesc]........................................................................................... 28
10. Aethusa cynapium [Aeth].................................................................................................... 30
11. Agaricus muscarius [Agar] .................................................................................................. 33
12. Agnus castus [Agn] ............................................................................................................... 36
13. Agraphis nutans [Agra] ....................................................................................................... 38
14. Ailanthus glandulosa [Ail]................................................................................................... 39
15. Aletris farinosa [Alet] ........................................................................................................... 41
16. Alfalfa [Alf] ........................................................................................................................... 43
17. Allium cepa [All‐c] ................................................................................................................ 44
18. Allium sativum [All‐s] ........................................................................................................... 46
19. Aloe socotrina [Aloe] ............................................................................................................ 48
20. Alumen [Alumn] ................................................................................................................... 51
21. Alumina Silicata [Alum‐sil] ................................................................................................... 53
22. Alumina [Alum] .................................................................................................................... 54
23. Ambra grisea [Ambr] ............................................................................................................ 57
24. Ambrosia [Ambro] ................................................................................................................ 60
25. Ammonium bromatum [Am‐br] ........................................................................................... 61
26. Ammonium carbonicum [Am‐c] ........................................................................................... 62
27. Ammonium muriaticum [Am‐m] ........................................................................................ 65
28. Amyl nitrosum [Aml‐n] ......................................................................................................... 68
29. Anacardium orientale [Anac] ............................................................................................... 70
30. Anthracinum [Anthr] ............................................................................................................ 73
31. Antimonium crudum [Ant‐c] ................................................................................................ 74
32. Antimonium tartaricum [Ant‐t] ............................................................................................ 77
33. Apis mellifica [Apis] .............................................................................................................. 80
34. Apocynum cannabinum [Apoc] ............................................................................................ 84
35. Aralia racemosa [Aral] .......................................................................................................... 86
36. Aranea diadema [Aran] ........................................................................................................ 87
37. Argentum metallicum [Arg‐m] ............................................................................................. 89

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38. Argentum nitricum [Arg‐n] ................................................................................................. 92
39. Arnica montana [Arn] ........................................................................................................... 96
40. Arsenicum album [Ars] ....................................................................................................... 100
41. Arsenicum iodatum [Ars‐i] ............................................................................................... 104
42. Arsenicum Sulfuratum flavum [Ars‐s‐f] ............................................................................ 106
43. Artemesia vulgaris [Art‐v] ................................................................................................ 107
44. Arum triphyllum [Arum‐t] ................................................................................................ 108
45. Asafoetida [Asaf] ............................................................................................................ 110
46. Asarum europoeum [Asar] ............................................................................................... 113
47. Asclepias tuberosa [Asc‐t] ................................................................................................ 115
48. Astacus fluviatilis [Astac] .................................................................................................. 116
49. Asterias rubens [Aster] ..................................................................................................... 117
50. Aurum metallicum [Aur] .................................................................................................. 119
51. Aurum muriaticum [Aur‐m] ............................................................................................. 122
52. Avena sativa [Aven] .......................................................................................................... 123
53. Bacillinum [Bac] ................................................................................................................ 124
54. Badiaga [Bad] ................................................................................................................... 125
55. Baptisia tinctoria [Bapt] ................................................................................................... 127
56. Baryta carbonica [Bar‐c] ................................................................................................. 130
57. Baryta iodata [Bar‐i] ......................................................................................................... 133
58. Baryta muriatica [Bar‐m] .................................................................................................. 134
59. Belladonna [Bell] .............................................................................................................. 136
60. Bellis Perennis [Bell‐p].................................................................................................... 140
61. Benzenum [Benz] ............................................................................................................. 142
62. Benzinum nitricum [Benz‐n]............................................................................................. 143
63. Benzoicum Acidum [Benz‐ac] ........................................................................................... 144
64. Berberis Aquifolium [Berb‐a] ........................................................................................... 146
65. Berberis Vulgaris [Berb] ................................................................................................... 147
66. Bismuthum [Bism] .......................................................................................................... 150
67. Borax [Bor] ....................................................................................................................... 152
68. Boricum Acidum [Bor‐ac] ................................................................................................. 155
69. Bothrops Lanciolatus [Bothr‐l] ......................................................................................... 156
70. Bovista [Bov] .................................................................................................................... 157
71. Bromium [Brom] .............................................................................................................. 159
72. Bryonia Alba [Bry] ............................................................................................................ 162
73. Bufo [Bufo] ....................................................................................................................... 165
74. Cactus Grandiflorus [Cact] ............................................................................................... 167
75. Cadmium Sulphuratum [Cadm‐s] ................................................................................... 170

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76. Caladium Seguinum [Calad] ............................................................................................. 172
77. Calcarea Arsenicosa [Calc‐ar] ........................................................................................... 174
78. Calcarea Carbonica [Calc] ................................................................................................. 175
79. Calcarea Fluorica [Calc‐f] .................................................................................................. 179
80. Calcarea Hypophosphorosa [Calc‐hp] .............................................................................. 181
81. Calcarea Iodata [Calc‐i] .................................................................................................... 182
82. Calcarea Phosphorica [Calc‐p].......................................................................................... 183
83. Calcarea Sulphurica [Calc‐s] ............................................................................................. 186
84. Calendula [Calen] ............................................................................................................. 188
85. Camphora [Camph] ........................................................................................................ 190
86. Cannabis Indica [Cann‐i] ................................................................................................... 193
87. Cannabis Sativa [Cann‐s] .................................................................................................. 195
88. Cantharis [Canth] ............................................................................................................. 196
89. Capsicum [Caps] ............................................................................................................... 199
90. Carbo Animalis [Carb‐an] ................................................................................................. 202
91. Carbo Vegetabilis [Carb‐v] ............................................................................................... 205
92. Carbolicum Acidum [Carb‐ac] .......................................................................................... 209
93. Carboneum Sulphuratum [Carbn‐s] ................................................................................. 211
94. Carcinosin [Carc] .............................................................................................................. 212
95. Carduus Marianus [Card‐m] ............................................................................................. 213
96. Castor Equi [Cast‐eq] ........................................................................................................ 215
97. Castoreum [Cast] .............................................................................................................. 216
98. Caulophyllum [Caul] ......................................................................................................... 217
99. Causticum [Caust] ............................................................................................................ 219
100. Ceanothus Americanus [Cean] ......................................................................................... 223
101. Cedron [Cedr] ................................................................................................................... 224
102. Chamomilla [Cham] .......................................................................................................... 225
103. Chelidonium [Chel] ........................................................................................................... 228
104. Chenopodium Anthelminticum [Chen‐a] ......................................................................... 231
105. Chimaphila Umbellata [Chim] .......................................................................................... 232
106. China Officinalis [Chin] ..................................................................................................... 233
107. Chininum Arsenicosum [Chin‐ar] ..................................................................................... 236
108. Chininum Sulphuricum [Chin‐s] ....................................................................................... 237
109. Chionanthus [Chion]......................................................................................................... 239
110. Chloral Hydrate [Chlol] ..................................................................................................... 241
111. Chlorum [Chlor] ................................................................................................................ 243
112. Cholesterinum [Chol] ....................................................................................................... 244
113. Cimicifuga [Cimic] ............................................................................................................. 245

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114. Cina [Cina] ........................................................................................................................ 248
115. Cinnabaris [Cinnb] ............................................................................................................ 251
116. Cistus Canadensis [Cist] .................................................................................................... 253
117. Clematis Erecta [Clem] ..................................................................................................... 255
118. Cobaltum [Cob] ................................................................................................................ 257
119. Coca [Coca] ....................................................................................................................... 259
120. Cocaina [Cocain] ............................................................................................................... 261
121. Cocculus Indicus [Cocc] .................................................................................................... 262
122. Coccus Cacti [Coc‐c] ......................................................................................................... 265
123. Coffea Cruda [Coff]........................................................................................................... 267
124. Colchicum Autumnale [Colch] ........................................................................................ 270
125. Collinsonia [Coll]............................................................................................................... 273
126. Colocynthis [Coloc]........................................................................................................... 275
127. Comocladia [Com] ............................................................................................................ 278
128. Conium Maculatum [Con] ................................................................................................ 279
129. Convallaria Majalis [Conv] ................................................................................................ 283
130. Copaiva [Cop] ................................................................................................................... 284
131. Corallium Rubrum [Cor‐r]................................................................................................. 286
132. Cornus Circinata [Corn] .................................................................................................... 288
133. Crataegus [Crat] ............................................................................................................... 289
134. Crocus Sativa [Croc] ....................................................................................................... 290
135. Crotalus Horridus [Crot‐h] ................................................................................................ 293
136. Croton Tiglium [Croto‐t] ................................................................................................... 296
137. Cubeba [Cub] .................................................................................................................... 298
138. Culex Musca [Culx] ........................................................................................................... 299
139. Cundurango [Cund] ............................................................................................................ 300
140. Cuprum Aceticum [Cupr‐acet] ........................................................................................... 301
141. Cuprum Metallicum [Cupr] .............................................................................................. 302
142. Curare [Cur] ...................................................................................................................... 305
143. CYCLAMEN [Cycl] .............................................................................................................. 306
144. Daphne Indica [Daph] ...................................................................................................... 308
145. Dictamnus [Dict] ............................................................................................................... 309
146. Digitalis [Dig] .................................................................................................................. 310
147. Dioscorea Villosa [Dios] .................................................................................................... 313
148. Diphtherinum [Diph] ........................................................................................................ 315
149. Dolichos Pruriens [Dol]..................................................................................................... 317
150. Drosera Rotundifolia [Dros] ............................................................................................. 318
151. Dulcamara [Dulc] ............................................................................................................ 320

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152. Echinacea Angustifolia [Echi] ........................................................................................... 323
153. Elaps corallinus [Elaps] ..................................................................................................... 325
154. Elaterium [Elat]................................................................................................................. 327
155. Epiphegus Orobanche [Epip] ............................................................................................ 328
156. Equisetum [Equis] ............................................................................................................ 329
157. Erigeron [Erig] ................................................................................................................ 330
158. Eucalyptus [Eucal] .......................................................................................................... 331
159. Euonymus [Euon] ............................................................................................................. 333
160. Eupatorium Perfoliatum [Eup‐per] .................................................................................. 334
161. Eupatorium Purpureum [Eup‐pur] ................................................................................... 336
162. Euphorbium [Euph] .......................................................................................................... 337
163. Euphrasia [Euphr] ............................................................................................................. 338
164. Eupion [Eupi] .................................................................................................................. 340
165. Fagopyrum [Fago] .......................................................................................................... 341
166. Ferrum Iodatum [Ferr‐i] ................................................................................................... 343
167. Ferrum Metallicum [Ferr]................................................................................................. 344
168. Ferrum Phosphoricum [Ferr‐p] ........................................................................................ 347
169. Ferrum Picricum [Ferr‐pic] ............................................................................................. 350
170. Fluoricum Acidum [Fl‐ac] ............................................................................................... 351
171. Formica Rufa [Form] ........................................................................................................ 354
172. Fraxinus Americanus [Frax] .............................................................................................. 356
173. Gambogia [Gamb] ............................................................................................................ 357
174. Gelsemium [Gels] ............................................................................................................. 358
175. Glonoin [Glon] ................................................................................................................ 361
176. Gnaphalium [Gnaph] ........................................................................................................ 364
177. Gossypium [Goss] ............................................................................................................. 365
178. Graphites [Graph] ............................................................................................................ 366
179. Gratiola [Grat] ................................................................................................................ 370
180. Grindelia [Grin] ................................................................................................................. 372
181. Guaiacum [Guai]............................................................................................................... 373
182. Gymnocladus [Gymn] ....................................................................................................... 375
183. Hamamelis [Ham] ............................................................................................................. 376
184. Hecla Lava [Hecla] ............................................................................................................ 378
185. Helleborus [Hell] .............................................................................................................. 379
186. Heloderma [Helo] ............................................................................................................. 382
187. Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum [Hep] .................................................................................... 383
188. Hydrastis [Hydr] ............................................................................................................... 386
189. Hydrocotyle [Hydrc] ......................................................................................................... 388

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190. Hydrocyanic Acid [Hydr‐ac] .............................................................................................. 389
191. Hyoscyamine Hydrobromate [Hyosin] ........................................................................... 391
192. Hyoscyamus [Hyos] .......................................................................................................... 392
193. Hypericum Perforatum [Hyper] ....................................................................................... 395
194. Iberis [Iber] ....................................................................................................................... 397
195. Ignatia Amara [Ign] ........................................................................................................... 398
196. Indigo [Indg] ....................................................................................................................... 401
197. Iodoformum [Iodof] ......................................................................................................... 402
198. Iodum [Iod]....................................................................................................................... 403
199. Ipecacuanha [Ip] ............................................................................................................... 406
200. Iris Versicolor [Iris] ........................................................................................................... 409
201. Jaborandi [Jab] ............................................................................................................... 411
202. Jalapa [Jal] ........................................................................................................................ 413
203. Jatropha [Jatr] .................................................................................................................. 414
204. Justicia Adhatoda Basaka [Just] ....................................................................................... 415
205. Kali Arsenicosum [Kali‐ar] ................................................................................................ 416
206. Kali Bichromicum [Kali‐bi] ................................................................................................ 417
207. Kali Bromatum [Kali‐br] .................................................................................................. 420
208. Kali Carbonicum [Kali‐c] ................................................................................................... 423
209. Kali Chloricum [Kali‐chl] ................................................................................................... 427
210. Kali Cyanatum [Kali‐cy]..................................................................................................... 429
211. Kali Iodatum [Kali‐i] ........................................................................................................ 430
212. Kali Muriaticum [Kali‐m] .................................................................................................. 433
213. Kali Nitricum [Kali‐n] ........................................................................................................ 435
214. Kali Sulphuricum [Kali‐s]................................................................................................... 437
215. Kalmia Latifolia [Kalm]...................................................................................................... 439
216. Kreosotum [Kreos] ......................................................................................................... 441
217. Lac caninum [Lac‐c] .......................................................................................................... 444
218. Lac Defloratum [Lac‐d] ..................................................................................................... 447
219. Lachesis [Lach].................................................................................................................. 449
220. Lachnanthes [Lachn] ........................................................................................................ 453
221. Lacticum Acidum [Lac‐ac]................................................................................................. 454
222. Lactuca Virosa [Lact] ........................................................................................................ 455
223. Lapis Albus [Lap‐a] ........................................................................................................... 456
224. Lappa Arcticum [Lappa] ................................................................................................... 457
225. Latrodectus Mactans [Lat‐m] ........................................................................................... 458
226. Laurocerasus [Laur] .......................................................................................................... 459
227. Lecithin [Lec] .................................................................................................................. 461

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228. Ledum Palustre [Led] ....................................................................................................... 462
229. Leptandra [Lept] ............................................................................................................... 464
230. Lilium Tigrinum [Lil‐t] ....................................................................................................... 466
231. Lithium Carbonicum [Lith‐c] ............................................................................................. 469
232. Lobelia Inflata [Lob]........................................................................................................ 471
233. Lolium Temulentum [Lol] ................................................................................................. 473
234. Lycopersicum [Lycpr] ....................................................................................................... 474
235. Lycopodium [Lyc] ............................................................................................................. 475
236. Lycopus Virginicus [Lycps] .............................................................................................. 480
237. Lyssin [Lyss] ...................................................................................................................... 482
238. Magnesia Carbonica [Mag‐c] ........................................................................................... 484
239. Magnesia Muriatica [Mag‐m]........................................................................................... 487
240. Magnesia Phosphorica [Mag‐p] ..................................................................................... 490
241. Magnesia Sulphurica [Mag‐s] ........................................................................................... 492
242. Magnetis Polus Australis [M‐aust] ................................................................................... 493
243. Magnetis Polus Australis [M‐aust] ................................................................................... 494
244. Mancinella [Manc] ........................................................................................................... 495
245. Manganum [Mang] .......................................................................................................... 497
246. Marum Verum [Teucr] ....................................................................................................... 500
247. Medorrhinum [Med] ........................................................................................................ 502
248. Melilotus [Meli] ................................................................................................................ 505
249. Menyanthes [Meny] ......................................................................................................... 506
250. Mephitis [Meph] .............................................................................................................. 508
251. Mercurius Corrosivus [Merc‐c] ........................................................................................ 509
252. Mercurius Cyanatus [Merc‐cy] ......................................................................................... 512
253. Mercurius Dulcis [Merc‐d] ............................................................................................... 514
254. Mercurius Iodatus Flavum [Merc‐i‐f] ............................................................................... 516
255. Mercurius Iodatus Ruber [Merc‐i‐r] ................................................................................. 518
256. Mercurius Solubilis [Merc] ............................................................................................. 520
257. Millefolium [Mill].............................................................................................................. 524
258. Moschus [Mosch] ............................................................................................................. 526
259. Murex [Murx] ................................................................................................................... 528
260. Muriatic Acid [Mur‐ac] ................................................................................................... 530
261. Mygale Lasiodora [Mygal] ................................................................................................ 532
262. Myrica Cerifera [Myric] .................................................................................................... 533
263. Naja [Naja]........................................................................................................................ 535
264. Naphthaline [Naphtin] ..................................................................................................... 537
265. Natrum Arsenicosum [Nat‐ar] .......................................................................................... 538

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266. Natrum Carbonicum [Nat‐c]............................................................................................. 539
267. Natrum Muriaticum [Nat‐m] ............................................................................................ 542
268. Natrum Phosphoricum [Nat‐p] ........................................................................................ 546
269. Natrum Salicylicum [Nat‐sal] ............................................................................................ 549
270. Natrum Sulphuricum [Nat‐s] .......................................................................................... 550
271. Niccolum [Nicc] ................................................................................................................ 553
272. Nitricum Acidum [Nit‐ac] ................................................................................................. 554
273. Nitro Muriatic Acid [Nit‐m‐ac] ......................................................................................... 557
274. Nux Moschata [Nux‐m] .................................................................................................... 558
275. Nux Vomica [Nux‐v]........................................................................................................ 561
276. Ocimum Canum [Oci] ....................................................................................................... 565
277. Oenanthe Crocata [Oena] ................................................................................................ 566
278. Oleander [Olnd]................................................................................................................ 567
279. Oleum Animale [Ol‐an] .................................................................................................... 569
280. Oleum Jecoris Aselli [Ol‐j] .............................................................................................. 571
281. Onosmodium [Onos] ........................................................................................................ 572
282. Opium [Op] ....................................................................................................................... 574
283. Origanum [Orig] ............................................................................................................... 577
284. Osmium [Osm] ................................................................................................................. 578
285. Oxalicum Acidum [Ox‐ac] ................................................................................................. 579
286. Oxytropis [Oxyt] ............................................................................................................. 581
287. Paeonia [Paeon] ............................................................................................................... 582
288. Palladium [Pall] ................................................................................................................ 583
289. Pareira Brava [Pareir] ....................................................................................................... 585
290. Paris Quadrifolia [Par] ...................................................................................................... 586
291. Passiflora Incarnata [Passi]............................................................................................... 588
292. Petroleum [Petr] .............................................................................................................. 589
293. Petroselinum [Petros] .................................................................................................... 592
294. Phellandrium [Phel].......................................................................................................... 593
295. Phosphoricum Acidum [Ph‐ac] ......................................................................................... 594
296. Phosphorus [Phos] ........................................................................................................... 597
297. Physostigma [Phys] ............................................................................................................ 601
298. Phytolacca Decandra [Phyt] ............................................................................................. 603
299. Picric Acid [Pic‐ac] ............................................................................................................ 606
300. Piper Methysticum [Pip‐m] .............................................................................................. 608
301. Plantago Major [Plan] ...................................................................................................... 609
302. Platinum [Plat]................................................................................................................ 611
303. Podophyllum [Podo] ........................................................................................................ 614

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304. Polygonum [Polyg] ......................................................................................................... 616
305. Pothos Foetidus [Ictod] .................................................................................................... 618
306. Prunus Spinosa [Prun] .................................................................................................... 619
307. Psorinum [Psor] ................................................................................................................ 621
308. Ptelea [Ptel] ...................................................................................................................... 624
309. Pulex [Pulx] ....................................................................................................................... 625
310. Pulsatilla [Puls] ................................................................................................................. 626
311. Pyrogen [Pyrog] .............................................................................................................. 630
312. Radium Bromatum [Rad‐br] ............................................................................................. 633
313. Ranunculus Bulbosus [Ran‐b]........................................................................................... 635
314. Ranunculus Scleratus [Ran‐s] ........................................................................................... 637
315. Raphanus [Raph] ............................................................................................................ 639
316. Ratanhia [Rat]................................................................................................................. 640
317. Rheum [Rheum] ............................................................................................................... 641
318. Rhododendron [Rhod] ..................................................................................................... 643
319. Rhus Toxicodendron [Rhus‐t] ........................................................................................... 645
320. Robinia [Rob] .................................................................................................................. 649
321. Rumex Crispus [Rumx] ................................................................................................... 650
322. Ruta Graveolens [Ruta] .................................................................................................... 652
323. SABADILLA [Sabad] ........................................................................................................... 654
324. Sabal Serrulata [Sabal] ..................................................................................................... 657
325. Sabina [Sabin] ................................................................................................................. 659
326. Salicylicum Acidum [Sal‐ac] .............................................................................................. 661
327. Salix Nigra [Salx‐n] ............................................................................................................ 662
328. Sambucus Nigra [Samb] ................................................................................................... 663
329. Sanguinaria Canadensis [Sang] ........................................................................................ 665
330. Sanicula (Aqua) [Sanic] ..................................................................................................... 668
331. Santoninum [Sant] ......................................................................................................... 670
332. Sarsaparilla [Sars] ............................................................................................................. 671
333. Scoparius [Scopar] ............................................................................................................ 673
334. Secale Cornutum [Sec] ..................................................................................................... 674
335. Selenium [Sel]................................................................................................................... 677
336. Senecio [Senec] .............................................................................................................. 680
337. Senega [Seneg] ................................................................................................................. 682
338. Sepia [Sep] ........................................................................................................................ 684
339. Silica [Sil] .......................................................................................................................... 688
340. Solidago Virgaurea [Solid] ................................................................................................ 693
341. Spigelia [Spig] ................................................................................................................... 694

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342. Spongia Tosta [Spong] ...................................................................................................... 696
343. Squilla Maritima [Squil] ...................................................................................................... 699
344. Stannum [Stann] .............................................................................................................. 701
345. Stannum Iodatum [Stann‐i] .............................................................................................. 704
346. Staphysagria [Staph] ........................................................................................................ 705
347. Sticta [Stict] ...................................................................................................................... 708
348. Stramonium [Stram]....................................................................................................... 710
349. Strontium Carbonicum [Stront‐c]..................................................................................... 713
350. Strophanthus Hispidus [Stroph] ....................................................................................... 715
351. Strychninum [Stry] ........................................................................................................... 717
352. Succinum [Succ] ............................................................................................................... 718
353. Sulphonal [Sulfon] .......................................................................................................... 719
354. Sulphur [Sulph] ............................................................................................................... 720
355. Sulphur Iodatum [Sul‐i] .................................................................................................... 725
356. Sulphuricum Acidum [Sul‐ac] ........................................................................................... 727
357. Sumbul [Sumb] ............................................................................................................... 730
358. Symphoricarpus Racemosa [Sym‐r] ................................................................................. 732
359. Symphytum [Symph] ........................................................................................................ 733
360. Syphilinum [Syph]............................................................................................................. 734
361. Tabacum [Tab].................................................................................................................. 737
362. Taraxacum [Tarax] .......................................................................................................... 740
363. Tarentula Cubensis [Tarent‐c] .......................................................................................... 742
364. Tarentula Hispania [Tarent] ............................................................................................. 743
365. Tellurium [Tell] ................................................................................................................. 746
366. Terebinthina [Ter] ............................................................................................................ 748
367. Thallium [Thal] ............................................................................................................... 750
368. Theridion [Ther] ............................................................................................................... 751
369. Thiosinaminum [Thiosin] .................................................................................................. 753
370. Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris [Thlaspi] ........................................................................................ 754
371. Thuja Occidentalis [Thuj].................................................................................................. 755
372. Thymol [Thymol] ............................................................................................................ 759
373. Thyroidinum [Thyr] ........................................................................................................ 760
374. Tilia Europa [Til] ............................................................................................................... 762
375. Trifolium Pratense [Trif‐p] ................................................................................................ 764
376. Trillium Pendulum [Tril] ................................................................................................... 765
377. Trombidium [Trom] .......................................................................................................... 766
378. Tuberculinum [Tub] .......................................................................................................... 767
379. Uranium Nitricum [Uran‐n] ............................................................................................ 770

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380. Urtica Urens [Urt‐u] ......................................................................................................... 771
381. Ustilago Maydis [Ust] ....................................................................................................... 772
382. Vaccininum [Vac].............................................................................................................. 773
383. Valeriana [Valer]............................................................................................................... 774
384. Vanadium [Vanad]............................................................................................................ 776
385. Variolinum [Vario] .............................................................................................................. 777
386. Veratrum Album [Verat] .................................................................................................. 778
387. Veratrum Viride [Verat‐v] ................................................................................................ 781
388. Verbascum [Verb] ............................................................................................................ 784
389. Vespa Crabro [Vesp] ......................................................................................................... 785
390. Viburnum Opulus [Vib]..................................................................................................... 786
391. Vinca Minor [Vinc] ............................................................................................................ 788
392. Viola Odorata [Viol‐o] .................................................................................................... 789
393. Viola Tricolor [Viol‐t] ........................................................................................................ 791
394. Vipera [Vip] ...................................................................................................................... 792
395. Viscum Album [Visc] ......................................................................................................... 793
396. Xanthoxylum [Xan] ........................................................................................................... 794
397. Zinc Arsenite [Zinc‐ar] ...................................................................................................... 795
398. Zinc Chromate [Zinc‐chr] .................................................................................................. 796
399. Zinc Iodide [Zinc‐i] ............................................................................................................ 798
400. Zinc Phosphate [Zinc‐p] ...................................................................................................... 799
401. Zinc Sulphate [Zinc‐s] ....................................................................................................... 800
402. Zinc Valerianate [Zinc‐val] .................................................................................................. 801
403. Zincum Metallicum [Zinc] ................................................................................................. 802
404. Zingiber [Zing] .................................................................................................................. 806

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Abies canadensis [Abies‐c]

Generalities:
It affects the Mucous Membranes and Nerves. In stomach, it causes a catarrhal condition,
which increases the patient’s hunger and craving for coarse food, such as pickles, radishes,
turnips, etc. Patient wants to lie down, all the time, on account of nervous weakness and feels
faint. In women, it causes uterine displacement, due to defective nutrition and debility.
Peculiar sensations are‐right lung and liver, feel hard and small; uterus feels soft. Lies with the
legs drawn up.

Mind:
Easily fretful or quiet and careless.

Head:
Feels, as if it is light or there is swimming in the head.

Stomach:
Ravenous appetite. Tendency to eat, far beyond the capacity of digestion. Distension of
abdomen and stomach, with palpitation.

Females:
Sore feeling at the uterus better pressure. Uterus soft and feeble as if.

Fever:
Cold shivering, as if blood were ice‐water.

Skin:
Clammy and sticky.

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Abies nigra [Abies‐n]

Generalities: It is a useful remedy, in many diseased conditions, when they are associated
with gastric symptoms. It causes dyspepsia, with functional heart symptoms, especially in the
aged persons. It is also useful, in indigestion of those, who abuse the drinking of tea and
smoking, or chewing of tobacco. The chief, symptom in dyspepsia is a sensation, as if a hard‐
boiled egg has lodged in the cardiac end of the stomach. Patients describe this sensation, as
if a hard lump is felt in the pit of the stomach or in the lung which he wants to cough out.

Worse:
After eating.

Mind:
Very low spirited, unable to think or study.

Stomach:
Total loss of appetite, in the morning, but craves food, at noon and at night. Pain in the
stomach, always comes on after eating.

Chest:
Difficult breathing worse lying down. Heart’s action heavy and slow, there may be tachycardia
or bradycardia.

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Abrotanum [Abrot]

Generalities:
It affects nerves, causing numbness, weakness, trembling, and paretic conditions. It is the
remedy for marasmus in children when nutrition is affected. In spite of good appetite,
children emaciate, especially in lower extremities. It causes *true metastatic condition.
Rheumatism, occurs after checked diarrhoea. Gout recedes and other troubles follow. It has
*exudative tendency. Exudation may occur, as a metastatic condition or otherwise, into
pleura, joints etc. It also causes alternating conditions, one diseased condition disappears and
another appears, e.g. piles alternating with rheumatism. It is suitable, to newborn, or children
especially boys, who suffer from hydrocele, epistaxis; it removes weakness, remaining after
influenza. Oozing of blood, and moisture in newborn, from navel. Vomiting of large quantities
of offensive fluid. Effects, remaining after operation on chest.

Worse:
Cold air; wet. Checked secretions; esp. diarrhoea. Night. Fog.

Better:
Loose stools. Motion.

Mind:
Great anxiety and depression. Cross and irritable (children in marasmus). Thinking difficult;
loss of comprehension. Inhuman; would like to do something evil, cruel.

Head: Cannot hold the head up, on account of weakness of neck. Brain feels tired, after
conversation or mental effort. Veins distended on forehead.

Eyes: Blue rings, around the eyes. Hollow.

Nose: Bleed in boys.

Face:
Dry, cold, wrinkled, as if old, in marasmus. Acne, with emaciation. Angioma of the face. Pale,
hollow eyed.

Stomach:
Emaciation progresses, with good appetite. Food passes undigested. Craving for bread, boiled
in milk. Cutting, gnawing, burning pains, in stomach, at night in gastralgia. Feels, as if stomach
is swimming in water; with coldness.

Abdomen:Hard lumps are felt in different parts of abdomen. It is bloated. Tuberculous

peritonitis. Weak, sinking feeling in bowels. Piles, protruding, with burning from touch.
Frequent desire to stools, but only a little blood passed.

Male:
Hydrocele of children.

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Females:
Darting pain in left ovary. Menses suppressed.

Respiratory organs:
Dry cough, following diarrhoea. Pressing sensation remains, after Pleurisy, in the affected
side, impeding free breathing.

Neck and Back:

Sudden aching pain in the back worse night; better motion. Pain in sacrum, due to piles. Back
weak, with ovarian pain.

Extremities:
Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists and ankles. Legs greatly emaciated. Cold, prickling, numb,
fingers and toes. Inability to move the limbs, due to rheumatism. Contraction of limbs, from
cramps or following colic.
Skin:
Loose and flabby. Skin becomes purplish, after suppression of eruptions. Itching chilblains.

Follows well:
Acon and Bry in pleurisy.
Related:
Agar; Chin; Led; Nux‐v.

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Absinthium [Absin]

Generalities:
It causes convulsions, preceded by trembling. The patient, bites, tongue, foams at mouth and
makes grimaces. Tremor is a marked feature, tremor of tongue, heart. Sudden and severe,
giddiness; epileptiform seizures, delirium, with hallucinations and loss of consciousness.
Attacks occur in rapid succession. It is a useful remedy, for nervousness, excitement, and
sleeplessness, in children. Chorea. Opisthotonos.

Mind:
Vertigo, with tendency to fall backward. Forgets, what has recently happened, after and
before convulsion. Wants nothing to do with anybody. Brutal insanity. Kleptomania.

Ear:
Discharge from; after headache.

Face:
Spasmodic facial twitching. Foolish look.

Urine:
Very strong urine, of deep yellow colour.

Females:
Menopause, premature.

Heart:
Tumultuous action, beats can be heard in back.

Related:
Artem‐v; Cic; Cina; Hydr‐ac.

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Acetic acid [Acet‐ac]

Generalities:
The leading symptoms of this drug are, profound anaemia, with waxy pallor of the face;
excessive emaciation; great debility frequent fainting; difficult breathing; weak heart; profuse
urination vomiting; and sweat. It antidotes, the effects of all anaesthetic vapours In
convulsions, patient jumps out of bed, like a madman and crawls on the floor. It is a remedy,
for general anasarca and dropsical affections. Haemorrhage; from nose, stomach, rectum,
lungs, ulcers, etc. Child wants to be carried. Naevi; warts, corns.

Mind:
Grieves, about his sickness and his children. Worried about business affairs. *Borrows trouble.
Does not know her own children. Forgets what has recently happened.

Head:
Aches, from abuse of narcotics, tobacco. Child does not let its head to be touched.

Nose:
Bleed esp. from fall or blow.

Face:
Left cheek red, during fever. Pale, waxen, emaciated.

Throat:
Children thirsty, but swallow with difficulty, even a teaspoonful. (Diphtheria).

Stomach:
No thirst with fever. Great thirst with dropsy. Violent burning pain in stomach and chest,
followed by coldness of skin, and cold sweat on forehead. Vomiting, after every kind of food.
Ulcer, cancer, of the stomach. Cold drinks disagree; vegetables, except potatoes, disagree
Bread and butter disagree.

Abdomen:
Tympanitic. Ascites. Haemorrhages from bowels. Chronic diarrhoea, of emaciated children.
Scirrhus of pylorus.

Urinary Organs:
Large quantities of pale urine. Diabetes, with great thirst and debility.

Females:
Metrorrhagia, with great thirst; after parturition. Threatening abscess of the breast. Milk
impoverished, bluish, sour; suckling droop lose flesh, get marasmus.

Respiratory organs:
Cough when inhaling. Hurried and laborious breathing. Rattling in chest.

Neck and Back:

Pain (Myelitis) only relieved by lying on abdomen; with profuse urination.

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Extremities:
Oedematous swelling of feet and legs, with diarrhoea.

Fever:
Hectic; with drenching night sweats; sweat profuse and cold.

Skin:
Diminished sensibility of the whole body. Burning, dry, skin.

Related:
Follows China after haemorrhages.

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Aconite [Acon]

Generalities:
The rapidity of action of Acon, determines its symptomatology. Its symptoms are *acute,
*violent, and *painful. They appear *suddenly, remain for a short while, as of a big storm,
which soon blows over. Mind is affected by such emotional factors as ****FRIGHT; SHOCK
Vexation. *Nerves are excited and the patient remains under emotional and *nervous
tension. Neuralgic *pains are very intense. ****FEAR IS INTENSE, SO much so that the patient
becomes *frantic, *screams, groans, gnaws the fist, bites the nails, wants to die. Fear of fright
remains. Fear accompanying most trivial ailments. Heart and *arterial circulation is affected
strongly producing congestion to the head, (often apoplectic) and chest. It is a remedy for
acute *inflammation and congestion. *Haemorrhages are bright red. Pains are sticking,
tearing. Sensations of burning, numbness, tingling prickling or crawling are marked. Parts feel
big or deformed. External soreness, with internal heaviness. Sudden loss of
strength_*collapse. *Special senses acute. *Parts remain sore or numb, after the pains.
Convulsions. Faintness. Children put their hands to the affected part. Complaints caused by
exposure to cold, dry weather, especially respiratory affections. Gastro‐ intestinal
disturbances, are caused by exposure to very hot weather. It is adapted to persons of robust
habit. Complaints, after surgical shocks and injury, or checked perspiration. Remote effects of
fright. Cries out and grasps the genitals, Crepitation.

Worse:
*Violent emotions, ****FRIGHT; SHOCK Vexation. *Chilled by ****COLD; *dry weather, while
sweating. Pressure, touch. *Night, in bed p.m. Lying on side. *Noise. *light. Dentition. During
menses. Sleeping in the Sun. Music. Tobacco smoke. Inspiration.

Better:
Open air. Repose. Warm sweat.

Mind:
Great ****ANXIETY; AGONIZING FEAR and ****RESTLESSNESS, accompany every ailment
however trivial. *Fear of death, of crowds, or crossing the streets, of future, of touching
others passing by. *Impatient; besides himself; frantic; *from intensity of pain. ****WITH
FEAR, *screams, moans, *gnaws the fists, bites the nails; wants to die. Afraid to go out of the
house. *Forebodings, predicts the time of death. ****TERROR STRICKEN. Music makes him
sad. Clairvoyance. Feels as if what had just been done were a dream. Delirium. Fitful moods;
laughing, singing, then sad and fearful. *Anxious *excited, *nervous, *feverish. Imagines
some part of the body is deformed. Imagine they do all their thinking from stomach.

Head:
Heavy, *hot, bursting. *Burning; undulating sensation in the head. As of a hot band about
head, or boiling heat in brain. Violent squeezing or bursting in forehead or eyes. Headache
with increased secretion of urine. Vertigo worse on rising or any other motion of the head or
of the body. As if hair were pulled or stood on end. Crackling in head. Pulsation in forehead.
Knocks the head.

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Eyes:
Feel dry and hot as if sand in them. Lids; swollen, hard and red Shooting pain in eyeballs.
Cannot bear the reflection of Sun from the snow. Conjunctivitis from cinders or other foreign
bodies. Eyes, glitter stare, bleared. Aversion or desire for light.

Ears:
Very sensitive to noise. Music is unbearable. As of a drop of water in the ear.

Nose:
Numb with epistaxis. Smell acutely sensitive. Pain at the root of the nose. Nose dry, stopped
up or runs hot scanty watery discharge.

Face:
****ANXIOUS expression; becomes pale and red alternately. *Hot, *red *cheeks. Red face
becomes deathly pale on rising or he becomes dizzy. One cheek red hot other pale and cold.
Neuralgia with restlessness tingling and numbness. Lips black, dry, peeling off. Heavy feeling
of the whole face.

Mouth:
Toothache in sound teeth. Throbbing in, teeth and head. Grinding of the teeth. Gums hot and
inflamed. Tongue feels as if swollen. Everything tastes bitter except water, which has bad
taste. Trembling and temporary stammering. Mouth and tongue numb; dry burning heat in
mouth. Tingling on coughing and swallowing. Chewing motions of lower Jaw.

Throat:
Red, dry, hot, constricted, chokes on swallowing. Tonsils swollen and dry.

Stomach:
Vomiting with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination. ****INTENSE BURNING
THIRST. Craving for beer, acids, bitter drinks. Thirst worse after iced drinks. Hungry. Milk
disagrees. Projectile vomiting. Violent bilious or bloody vomiting. Pressure in stomach with
dyspnoea. Wine generally ameliorates. Nausea and sweating before and after loose stool.

Abdomen:
Sensitive to touch. Colic, no position relieves. Hot distended. Jaundice; of newborn; from
fright. Incarcerated hernia. *Stools; of pure blood; slimy, grass green or white worse hot days
and cold nights. Dysentery. Watery diarrhoea in children in hot days, they cry, are restless and
sleepless. Itching and sticking at anus; as of a warm fluid escaping from the anus.

Urinary Organs:
Urine scanty, red, hot, painful. Retention or suppression of urine; in new born; due to cold
exposure, with handling of genitals. Agonizing dysuria. Cystitis. Urethral chill.

Male:
Orchitis, testicles feel swollen and hard.

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Females:
Suppression of menses from fright or cold, in plethoric patients. After pains with fear and
restlessness. Maniacal fury, on the appearance of menses. Active uterine haemorrhage.
Ovaritis from sudden checked menstrual flow. Vagina hot, dry and sensitive. Milk fever with
delirium. Increase of milk in breast.

Respiratory organs:
*Hoarse, dry, croupy, painful cough or short barking, ringing, or whistling cough worse from
every inspiration, at night, drinking; grasps the throat. Cough better lying on back. Shortness
of breath during sleep; sits erect. Laryngitis. *Croup with fever. Violent congestion of blood
in the chest. Pneumonia. Oppression of the chest when moving fast or ascending; in heart
disease. Blood comes up on hawking. *Lungs feel hot. Stitches in chest. Pleurisy. Tingling in
chest after coughing.
Heart:
Feels swelled‐carditis. Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting and tingling in fingers, pain down left
arm. Heart pains into left shoulder, worse sitting erect. Tachycardia. Pulse fast, bounding,
shaking, forcible and tumultuous or wiry, very irritable. Arterial tension.

Neck and Back:

Pain in the back, prevents taking deep inspiration. Bruised pain between shoulders, and
sacrum.

Extremities:
Arms hang down powerless. Numbness of the left arm, tingling in fingers. Red finger tips. Hot
hands and cold feet. Red shining swelling of the joints. Hypothenar eminences bright red. Legs
powerless; feel tired during repose. Sensation as of drops of water trickling down the thighs.
Jerking of left leg or arm. *Palms hot.

Sleep:
Nightmares. Anxious dreams. Sleeplessness with restlessness and tossing about; caused by
fear, fright or anxiety. Insomnia of the aged.

Fever:
***CHILL passes through him in waves. Chill or coldness alternating with heat. ***HIGH
FEVER; *dry burning heat; in eyelids, nose, mouth, throat, lungs and palms, must uncover.
*Sweat drenching, wants to uncover. Sweat on uncovered parts or affected parts.

Skin:
***DRY, HOT or as if ice water on it. Miliary eruptions. Itching better by stimulants.

Related:
Bell; Cham; Coff.

Complementary:
Coff; Sulph.

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Actea spicata [Act‐sp]

Generalities:
It acts upon joints, especially small joints. Though it affects wrist joints prominently; other
joints like ankle and fingers are also affected. It causes tearing and tingling pains. Joints are
swollen and pains are worse by touch and movement. Slight fatigue, causes swelling of the
joints. It causes paralytic weakness of affected part. Symptoms are liable to appear from fright
and fatigue. Shortness of breath on exposure to cold. Old age. Hypersensitive to cold,
Weakness.

Worse:
Change of weather, slight exertion, cold; night; touch.

Eyes:
Objects look blue.

Ears:
Twitching pain on sneezing or blowing the nose.

Complementary:
Caul; Coloc; Sab; Stict; Viol‐o.

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Adonis vernalis [Adon]

Generalities:
It acts predominantly on heart when it is affected after rheumatism, influenza or nephritis,
where the muscles of the heart are in the stage of fatty degeneration. It regulates the pulse,
increases the contracting power of the heart, with increased urinary secretion. It is valuable
in cardiac dropsy, hydrothorax; ascites and anasarca. Pains wander from place to place.
Arrhythmia. It is not cumulative in action. Compensatory hypertrophy of heart in cardiac
stenosis and mitral regurgitation.

Worse:
Cold. Lying.

Better:
Exertion.

Mind:
Vertigo worse on rising, turning the head quickly or lying down; with palpitation. Aching from
occiput around temples to eyes. Scalp feels light.

Mouth:
Tongue sore, feels scalded. No thirst.

Stomach:
Faint feeling in epigastric region with vertigo better out of doors.

Abdomen:
Heavy weight; bowels seem as if breaking worse bending.

Urinary Organs:
Urging to urinate. Albuminuria; urine scanty, oily pellicle on urine.

Respiratory organs:
Frequent desire to take a deep breath. Dyspnoea worse touching back. Dry tickling, cardiac
cough.

Heart:
Weak, fatty, arrhythmic. Precordial pain, palpitation and dyspnoea. Pulse rapid, irregular.

Neck and Back:

Spine and neck stiff; aching pain with tired feeling.

Sleep:
Sleeplessness with rambling thoughts, or horrible dreams.

Skin:
Vesicles on the skin.

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Related:
Bufo.

Compare:
Conv; Crat; Dig; Strop.

Dose:
5 to l0 drops of tincture.

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Aesculus hippocastanum [Aesc]

Generalities
It has a marked action on the veins of the lower bowels and pelvic organs causing engorged
haemorrhoids. Veins of portal system are also engorged producing soreness and fulness of
the liver and abdomen. Many of the symptoms which *Aesc. produces are due to deranged
liver or *reflex from piles. It causes general venous stasis, making parts purple and puffy,
varicose veins become purple. Everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels. In
addition to the feeling of fulness in internal parts, it produces sensation of ****HEAT,
DRYNESS, STIFFNESS and ROUGHNESS in throat, nose, anus, etc. There is a characteristic
backache which unfits the patient for business. Pains are sticking or flying all over, hot like
lightning.

Worse
Morning on awakening. From any motion. Lying, stooping after stools; urinating. Cold air, and
after washing in water. Winter. Standing.

Better
Cool; open air, bathing. Bleeding (Piles); kneeling. Continued exertion. Summer.

Mind
Gloomy and *irritable; unable to fix his attention. Wake up with confusion of mind;
bewildered, especially children.

Head
Bruised pain in occiput to the frontal region, with flushes of heat over occiput, neck and
shoulders.

Eyes
Eyeballs feel heavy, dull, hot and sore, with lachrymation. Blood vessels enlarged.

Nose
Sensitive to cool inspired air, which causes burning, rawness and fluent coryza and sneezing.
Obstruction of nose due to hepatic disorders. Congestive catarrh.

Mouth
Scalded feeling in tongue and mouth. Tongue thickly coated. Salivation. Cannot control the
tongue so as to form words rightly. Taste sweet, bitter, metallic. Teeth as if covered with oil.

Throat
Follicular pharyngitis connected with hepatic congestion. Feeling of roughness, dryness,
stitching or burning like fire on swallowing. Neuralgic pains in the fauces. Hawking of ropy
mucus of sweetish taste.

Stomach
Pressure as from a stone, with gnawing, aching pain, about three hours after meals. Heart
burn and gulping up of food after eating. Desire to vomit with constant distress and burning.

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Abdomen
Throbbing deep in abdomen (hypogastrium and pelvis). Tenderness and fulness in the region
of liver. Jaundice.

Rectum
*Stools, *dry hard; of several colours. Feels full of small sticks. Piles with sharp shooting pains
*up the back; blind and bleeding, purple painful, external; worse standing and walking.
Constipation; hard, dry, knotty, white stools. Pains long after stools. As if a bug crawling from
anus. Stools first part hard and black, then white and soft. Burning in anus, with chills up and
down the back. Painful constrictions; as of a knife sawing up and down. Piles worse during
climaxis.

Urinary Organs
Frequent scanty urination, urine muddy, dark, hot.

Male
Discharge of prostatic fluid at every stool and urination.

Females
Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis. Leucorrhoea with lameness of back across sacro‐
iliac joint and aching in knees. Leucorrhoea; dark, yellow, sticky, corroding worse after
menses.

Chest
Feels constricted, hot feeling in. Cough depending upon hepatic disorders. Pain around heart
in haemorrhoidal subjects. Audible palpitation, when pulsation extends to extremities.

Back
*Laming, *dull lumbar pain. Small of the back gives out. Pain as if to break, has to make
repeated efforts at rising, worse walking and stooping. Bruised pain affecting sacrum and hips.

Extremities
Aching and soreness in limbs. Paralytic heaviness, of arms, spine, feet. Hands and feet swell,
and become red after washing. *Spine feels weak.

Sleep
Disposition to stretch and yawn.

Related
Aloe; Coll; Puls.

Complementary
Carb‐v; Lach; Mur‐ac.

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Aethusa cynapium [Aeth]

Generalities
It affects ****BRAIN and *nervous system, connected with gastrointestinal disturbances.
*Violence is one of the key notes of its action. Violent; vomiting, convulsions, pains, delirium.
On the other hand there is *profound prostration and stupor, and lack of reaction, even
speechless. Mind and body becomes weak. It is specially useful in children during dentition
and summer complaints when anguish, crying and expression of uneasiness, and discontent
are present. As the disease progresses the patient becomes more and *more retired in his
disposition, and more inclined to weep. In epileptiform spasms, the thumbs are clenched,
face becomes red, eyes turned downwards, pupils dilate and staring, foam at mouth. Patient
cannot stand, sit up or hold the head up. Weak nervous and prostrated from overwork.
Dotage. Lancinating pains. Parts feel screwed together. Improperly fed babies. Children who
lack the power to hold their heads up, with no particular ailment, sometimes they can’t even
stand or bear any weight on their limbs.

Worse
3 to 4 a.m. and evening. Warmth; *hot weather. MILK. Dentition. Frequent eating. Over‐
exertion.

Better
Open air, by walking in open air. Conversation.

Mind
*Inability to think or fix attention, from overstudy. Delirium, sees cats, dogs and rats etc.
Idiocy, alternate with furor. Wants to jump out of bed or out of window. Examination funk
from simple sense of incapacity. Idiotic children. Awkward.

Head
Distressing pains in the occiput down nape of neck and spine better lying down and pressure.
Head symptoms are better by passing flatus and by stool. Hair feels pulled. Vertigo; with
sleepiness, with palpitation with weakness. Cannot raise head. Head hot after vertigo.
Squeezing headache, with vertigo worse walking and looking upward. Dizzy and drowsy.

Eyes
Photophobia (chronic). Eyes brilliant and protruding. Eyes drawn downwards. Cornea sunken.
Objects seem larger or double. Swelling of meibomian glands. Rolling of eyes on falling asleep.

Ears
As if something hot streaming out. Feels obstructed; better by inserting the fingers and
drawing the parts apart.

Nose
Herpetic eruptions on tip of nose. Frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze. Alae nasi drawn in.

Face
Sunken; pale, puffed, spotted, red. *Linea nasalis marked Blue white pallor about the lips.
Deathly aspect. Chin and corners of mouth feel cold.

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Mouth
Tongue seems too long. Aphthae in the mouth. Speech slow embarrassed. Speechless. Taste
bitter; of onions; of cheese; sweetish in morning.

Stomach
Nibbling appetite. *Intolerance to milk Violent sudden vomiting of milk as soon as swallowed
or ***IN LARGE CURDS. Hungry after vomiting.LIMPNESS AND DEEP SLEEP AFTER VOMITING
DEATHLY NAUSEA. Regurgitation of food long after eating. Vomiting of frothy matter white
as milk; or yellow fluid. Stomach feels turned upside down. Digestion affected from brain
exhaustion. Retching.

Abdomen
Black bluish swelling of abdomen, coldness of abdomen, subjective and objective, with
coldness of legs, with aching in bowels better warm application. Colic, followed by vomiting,
vertigo and weakness. Bubbling sensation around navel.

Stool
Yellow green slimy diarrhoea. Stools undigested. Obstinate constipation, with feeling as if all
the action of the bowels has been lost. Choleraic affection of old age.

Urinary
Cutting pain in bladder with frequent urging.

Male
Right testicle drawn up with pain in kidney.

Female
Menses watery. Swelling of mammary glands with lancinating pain. Pimples on external parts;
itching on getting warm.

Respiratory
Short breath interrupted by hiccough. Suffering renders the patient speechless. Crampy
constriction in chest. Cough causes pain in head. Stitches in left side of chest.

Heart
Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and restlessness. Pulse rapid, hard, small,
unrhythmical.

Neck and Back

Want of power to stand to hold up head. Small of back as if in vise. Swelling of glands around
neck like string of beads. A feeling as if pain in back could be better by straightening out and
bending stiffly backwards.

Extremities
Fingers and thumbs bent inwards or clenched. Sensation as if arms had become much shorter.
Numbness of hands and feet. Heaviness, weakness, contraction of fingers. Excoriation of
thighs on walking.

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Sleep
Disturbed by violent startings and or by cold perspiration. Dozing after vomiting or stool.
Rolling of the eyes or slight convulsion on falling asleep.

Fever
Great heat without thirst. Must be covered during sweat. Sweating, on slightest physical
effort.

Skin
Lymphatic glands swelled like strings of beads. Skin cold and covered with cool clammy sweat.
Eruptions, itching; around the joints better from heat. Ecchymosis. Anasarca. Whole body
may be blue, black.

Related
Ant‐c; Cic.

Complementary
Calc.

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Agaricus muscarius [Agar]

Generalities
This poisonous mushroom, acts on *CEREBRO‐SPINAL Axis. Its action on brain produces more
vertigo and delirium. Affection of spinal cord, nerves and medulla, produces ***IRREGULAR,
***ANGULAR, ***UNCERTAIN and ***AGGRAVATED MOVEMENTS; patient reaches too far,
staggers or steps too high, *drops things etc. Symptoms appear slowly. Patient suffers from
***MANY AND DIVERSE. symptoms. TREMBLING; TWITCHING; JERKINGS *fibrillar spasms
here and there are very marked, ***EYELIDS and tongue are specially affected. Symptoms
appear diagonally as right arm and left leg. Shuddering. Nervousness and restlessness. Chorea
better during sleep Sensation as if pierced by cold needles, or hot needles, a cold drop or cold
weight on the parts. Painful twitching, then the parts become stiff and cold. In epilepsy and
convulsions physical strength is increased, can lift heavy loads. Twitching cease during sleep.
Convulsions after coition from suppressed milk; after being scolded; or punished. Young
nervous hysterical married women who faint after coition. Children walk and talk late on
account of brain complaints. Yawning before complaints.

Worse
***COLD air. ***FREEZING air. Before thunderstorms. *Mental exhaustion. *Coition.
Debauchery. *Alcohol *Pressure on spine. *Touch. *Morning. During menses. Sun. Fright.

Better
Gentle motion.

Mind
Sings, talks incoherently, changes rapidly from subject to subject but does not answer.
*Loquacity. Indisposed to perform any kind of work especially mental. Fearlessness. Makes
verses. Hilarious. Embraces and kisses hands. Selfish. Indifferent. Dull and dizzy as if drunk.
Morose self willed, stubborn; slow in learning to walk and talk. Awkward, clumsy Knows no
one; throws things. Pressure on spine causes involuntary laughter. Cannot do anything new,
cannot do his routine work or does the opposite.

Head
Vertigo; from sunlight. Dull headache; must *move the head to and fro. Headache better after
stool or urine; headache with nose‐bleed or thick mucus discharge. Pain as from nail in right
side of head. Head is in constant motion. Head drawn towards shoulders.

Eyes
Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim. Double vision oscillating eyeballs. Gum in
canthi. Muscae volitantes, brown. *Twitching of eyelids. Narrowing of space between eyelids.
Nystagmus; squint. Eyelids thick, dry, burning.

Ears
Itching in the ears with redness and burning pain, as if they had been frozen. Twitching of the
muscles about the ears. Noises.

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Nose
Frequent sneezing, without coryza. Flow of clear water, without coryza. Sneezing, after
coughing. Itches internally and externally. Foetid dark bloody discharge. Epistaxis; in old
people. Redness of. Obstruction on stooping.

Face
Facial muscles, feel stiff; twitch. Face, itches and burns. Pain in the cheeks, as of from
splinters. Neuralgia, as if cold needles run through nerves. Grimaces. Idiotic expression. Face,
blue and puffed.

Mouth
Angles of mouth droop; from paralysis; saliva runs out. Herpes on lips. Taste; sweet, bitter.
Aphthae on the roof of the mouth. Tongue; dry, tremulous; one side numb, with vertigo.
Indistinct, jerky speech. Offensive breath. Froth at mouth. Swelling and bleeding gums, with
pain.

Throat
Feels contracted. Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up, without coughing. Dryness with
difficulty in swallowing. Scratching on every attempt to sing.

Stomach
Always thirsty. Eructation; empty, tasting of apples; or of rotten eggs. Eructations, alternating
with hiccough. *As of a lump in epigastrium. Gastric disturbances, with sharp pain in liver
region. Vomiting; bitter, with prostration, with stitches in rectum and groins.

Abdomen
Rumbling and fermenting in bowels. Profuse inodorous flatus. Diarrhoea, with much foetid
garlicky odour flatus. Diarrhoea, of children, with grass green bilious stools. Flatus hot.
Sensation of writhing in. Stitch, in the splenic region; in runners.

Urinary Organs
Urine, profuse, colourless, clear, lemon coloured. Viscid, glutinous, mucus from urethra.
Frequent urination. Urine cold. Urine, flows slowly or in drops; has to press for passing urine.

Male
Sexual desire increased. After coition, great debility, profuse sweat, burning and itching of the
skin; tension and pressure under ribs. Seminal discharge hot. Palpitation during coition;
depressed afterwards (in both the sexes). Premature ejaculation. Testes painfully retracted.
Old gleet. Complaints after sexual debauches.

Female
Bearing down pain, especially after menopause. Sexual excitement. Menses, too profuse.
Nipples, itch and burn, look red; during pregnancy. Complaints following parturition and
coitus. Metastases, from suppressed milk; to the brain, abdominal troubles etc. Leucorrhoea,
dark, bloody, excoriating, patient is unable to walk. Itching, with sexual desire.

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Respiratory organs
Isolated coughing attacks, then sneezing. Cough comes as if from spine. Easy expectoration
of flocculi or balls of mucus. Laboured, oppressed breathing. Chest seems too narrow.

Heart
Palpitation, during coition. Palpitation, irregular, tumultuous; with redness of face, better
tobacco. Pressure or burning sticking, from heart to left scapula. Angina pectoris, with
excessive pain only. Shocks; at heart region, from sudden noise, from eructation or coughing.

Back
Single vertebra sensitive to heat. Pain, as from fatigue. Painful weakness and soreness. *Spine
sensitive to pressure and touch; everywhere on the body. Shooting, burning along spine.
Spine seems short. Pain in lumbar region and sacrum, a sort of crick in back, extending to
nape of neck worse stooping. Lumbago worse in open air; worse sitting. Twitching of cervical
muscles. Formication, along spine. Muscles of the back feel tight as if they would break on
bending. As if cold air were spreading, along the back, like an aura.

Extremities
Arms restless. Burning, itching of both hands as if frozen. Trembling of the hands. Right hand
unsteady while writing; arms feel paralyzed from much writing. Uncertain gait. Itching of toes
and feet as if frozen. Cramps in soles and feet. Pain in shin bone. Violent pain in thigh on
crossing them. Paralysis of lower limbs, with slight spasms of arms. Numbness of legs on
crossing them. Buttocks cold. Pain in the hips worse lying. Fingers fly spasmodically while
holding things. Legs feel heavy. Feels as if her limbs did not belong to her.

Sleep
*Yawning frequent; before pains or spasms; as a concomitant. Yawning followed by
involuntary laughter. On falling asleep, starts twitches and awakes often.

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Agnus castus [Agn]

Generalities
*Agn. produces its chief effect on ***SEXUAL ORGANS of both the sexes, also there are
characteristic symptoms in the ***MENTAL SPHERE. It lowers sexual vitality, with
corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy. There is a great sadness, with
a fixed idea of approaching death. It influences both the sexes, but its influence is more
pronounced in men. ***IMPOTENCY and ***PREMATURE OLD AGE, from abuse of sexual
power. History of repeated gonorrhoea. Self contempt from sexual abuse. Nervous debility in
unmarried persons. A prominent remedy for sprains and strains. Gnawing, itching in all parts
especially eyes. Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men. *jaded rakes. *Agn.
was used in early days, by both men and women to suppress sexual desire.

Worse
***SEXUAL EXCESS. Sprains of overlifting.

Mind
Absent minded. Despairing sadness with impression of speedy death. Distraction. Unable to
recollect things. Lack of courage. Says that she will die soon and there is no use doing
anything. Illusions of smells_ herrings, musk. ***BAD MEMORY.

Head
Pain as from staying in room, filled with thick and smoky atmosphere, looking to one point
better.

Eyes
Pupils dilated. Gnawing, itching in eyes.

Nose
Illusions of smell_of herring, musk. Hard ache on dorsum of nose better pressure.

Face
Corrosive itching on the cheeks. Formication in the cheeks. Rending, tearing under alveoli of
right lower jaw.

Mouth
Ulcers in the mouth and gums. Teeth are painful when touched by warm food or drink.

Stomach
Nausea with a sensation as if intestines were pressed downwards, wants to support bowels
with hands. Only the most simple food agrees. Eructations smell like urine.

Abdomen
Rumbling in abdomen during sleep. Spleen swollen and sore. Flatus smells like urine,
remaining long on clothes. Deep fissures, in anus. Sensation as of subcutaneous ulceration
near the anus, only while walking. Bowels as if sinking down, has to support with hands.

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Urinary
Passes more urine, frequently.

Male
Sexual desire almost lost. Testes; cold, swollen, hard, penis small, flaccid. Spermatorrhoea;
with impotence. Loss of prostatic fluid on straining. Yellow discharge from urethra.

Female
A transparent leucorrhoeal discharge passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed genital.
Aversion to coition. Leucorrhoea staining yellow. Agalactea, with sadness. Menses
suppressed; with abdominal pains. Hysterical palpitation with nose‐bleed. Sterility; with
suppressions of menses and no sexual desire. Sexual thrill absent, from excessive
masturbation .

Related
Olnd; Ph‐ac.

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Agraphis nutans [Agra]

Generalities
It relaxes the whole system. Patient is prone to take cold on exposure to cold winds. Adenoids
with enlarged tonsils. Throat deafness. Mucus diarrhoea following a suppressed cold.
Mutinism of childhood unconnected with deafness.

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Ailanthus glandulosa [Ail]

Generalities
It acts upon ***BLOOD; disorganizing it and producing conditions like low fevers; low types
of eruptive diseases, and haemorrhagic diathesis. It affects the ***THROAT causing
diphtheria and follicular tonsillitis. Streptococcus infection. The skin appears LIVID or purplish.
*Prostration is rapid. ***LIVIDITY, STUPOR, foetor and ***MALIGNANCY are marked
conditions. Discharges are thin and acrid. Sepsis. Rash often returns annually. It is suited to
nervous sensitive persons. Stout and robust, bilious temperament.

Worse
Suppressions. Raising up or sitting up. Sight of food. Motion, walking.

Better
Hot drinks. Lying on right side.

Mind
Stupor; or stoic indifference, with sighing. Dullness, must read a subject several times or
figures over and over again. All the antecedents are forgotten. Constant muttering delirium;
with sleeplessness and restlessness. Raging delirium with brilliant eyes.

Head
Ache in frontal, with dizziness and red hot face; cannot sit up. Faint on rising up, or vertigo
worse lying.

Eyes
Suffused and congested; startled look when roused. Pupils dilated. Photophobia.

Ears
Pain in, while swallowing. Parotid glands tender and enlarged.

Nose
Thin copious bloody ichorous nasal discharge. Nose dry. Itching and uneasy feeling around
the nose.

Face
Mahogany coloured; *dark and swollen. Chronic speckled spotted face; a kind of acne. Lips
swollen and cracked.

Mouth
Teeth covered with sordes. Tongue; dry and brown; parched and cracked.

Throat
Dry, foul fauces. Throat *dark and swollen. Tonsils *studded with many deep ulcers. (worse
left), with loose pultaceous discharge. Much swelling internal and external. Lacunar tonsillitis.
Irritation and itching of posterior pharynx. Diphtheria.

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Stomach
Sudden violent vomiting when sitting up. Peculiar feeling of emptiness in.

Abdomen
Diarrhoea, dysentery with great weakness. Stools, thin, watery offensive, passing
involuntarily with urine. Tapeworm. Sense of insecurity, stool, urine, etc.

Urinary Organs
Urine scanty, suppressed; passed unconsciously.

Female
Malignant puerperal fever.

Respiratory
Breathing hurried, irregular. Dry hacking cough. Lungs sore and tired.

Heart
Pulse rapid, small, weak.

Back and Neck

Neck tender and very much swollen.

Sleep
Drowsy, restless.

Fever
Adynamic fever with weak heart. Cold sweat.

Skin
*Eruptions in dark, sparse patches; appear slowly; disappear on pressure, but return slowly.
Skin mottled. Large blisters filled with dark serum. ***Scarlatina maligna. Petechiae. Crawling
all over the body.

Related
Arum‐t; Bapt; Lac‐c.

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Aletris farinosa [Alet]

Generalities
It affects the female organs. It is a remedy for anaemic, debilitated, relaxed females who
always feel tired, and suffer from prolapsus, leucorrhoea, rectal distress. Many symptoms
appear due to uterine disorder. *Parts feel heavy. Suitable for anaemic girls and pregnant
women. Weak emaciated persons. Haemorrhages.

Worse
Loss of fluids.

Better
Passing flatus. Bending backwards.

Mind
Confused feeling. Cannot concentrate mind.

Head
Weight in occiput; as if it would draw the head backwards. Vertigo with fainting, sleepiness,
vomiting or purging.

Ears
Feel as if open through from one to the other.

Mouth
Much frothy saliva.

Stomach
Want of appetite; disgust for food. Least food causes distress. Obstinate vomiting of
pregnancy. Nervous dyspepsia. Nausea better by coffee, by dinner; with pressure in forehead.

Abdomen
Colic settling in lower part better passing flatus; scanty diarrhoeic stools, pain better bending
backwards. Fearful pain during passing stools, as if forcing a passage. Stools large hard,
difficult. Constipation, as from rectal atony.

Urinary
Involuntary urination on walking fast or sneezing.

Female
Early and profuse menses, with labour‐like pains. Menorrhagia profuse, black, with clots.
Uterus seems heavy. Leucorrhoea white, stringy, due to weakness and anaemia. Habitual
tendency to abortion. Muscular pains during pregnancy. Menses copious followed by watery
copious oozing between periods.

Respiratory
Cough before menses.

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Neck and Back
Sensation as if back would break just above waist. Backache with dragging in sacral region,
with stringy colourless leucorrhoea.

Extremities
Leg (right) feels paralyzed below knee; numb, could not bear weight on it.

Related
Chin; Helo; Trill.

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Alfalfa [Alf]

General symptoms
This medicine favourably influences nutrition, and is considered as a tonic. Appetite and
digestion improves, mental and physical vigour returns, with gain in weight. It is a useful
remedy for neurasthenia, melancholy, nervousness and insomnia. It increases fat, corrects
tissue waste. It increases the quality and quantity of milk in nursing mothers. Clinically it
favourably influences diabetes insipidus and phosphaturia. Allays vesical irritability of
prostatic hypertrophy. Should be given 5 to 10 drops several times a day.

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Allium cepa [All‐c]

Introduction
Red Onion.

Generalities
It affects the mucous membranes of ***NOSE, ***EYES, *larynx and bowels, causing
increased secretion. Burning and stitches; in the eyes, nose, mouth, throat, bladder, skin are
marked. Nasal secretion is acrid; secretion from eye is bland. *Neuralgic pains are shooting,
*as fine as a thread, following injuries to the nerves or amputation or other surgical
operations. Traumatic chronic neuritis. Symptoms go from left to right. Singer’s coryza.
Neuroma. Senile gangrene. Sensation of glowing heat in different parts of the body.

Worse
***WARM ROOM. *Wet feet Singing. Damp weather. Spring. Evening. Eating spoiled fish;
cucumber; salads.

Better
Cool open air. Bathing. Motion.

Mind
Fear that pain will become unbearable. Melancholy.

Head
Aching in forehead, extending to eyes and face better free coryza or menses; returns when
flow ceases. Electric shock passes through head. Skull bones numb.

Eyes
Much burning, smarting; *profuse bland lachrymation worse coughing, wants to rub them.
Near objects seem distant, while yawning.

Ears
Aching extending to throat.

Nose
***FREQUENT, ***VIOLENT SNEEZING; ***CORYZA; with ***ACRID FLUENT discharge, with
burning and smarting in the nose. Nose drips. Sensitive to odours; of flowers and the skin of
peaches. Acrid discharge, when singing.

Face
Paralysis; left side, also of limbs of the same side.

Throat
Rawness of the throat. Pain extending to the ear. Dripping from uvula. As of a lump in throat
or one has swallowed a large lump.

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Stomach
Craving for raw onions, which agree. Pain in the region of pylorus. Prickling perspiration on
bald vertex worse after each meal. Voracious appetite with thirst. Nausea. Eructations.
Abdomen
Rumbling offensive flatus. Flatulent colic, worse sitting, motion. Glowing heat in rectum.

Urinary
*Copious urine; with coryza. Strangury after wet feet. Dribbling of urine in old people.

Male
Pain in bladder and prostate gland after coition.

Females
Phlegmasia alba dolens; after instrumental delivery.

Respiratory organs
*Hoarseness, *incessant, *hacking *tickling *cough, worse inspiring cold air; with a sensation
*as if larynx is split and torn; must grasp it; Cough is so troublesome that he wants to hold it
back. Larynx is painful when talking. Bronchitis in old people.

Extremities
Joints feel lame; Ulcers or skin is rubbed off by the shoes especially on the heels. Limbs,
especially arms feel sore and tired. Sore feet from long walking.

Sleep
Yawning; in deep sleep, or with headache and drowsiness, and cramp in stomach.

Skin
Red streaks running up; felon; of lying‐in women.

Related
Euphr; Gels; Kali‐i.

Complementary
Phos; Puls; Ther.

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Allium sativum [All‐s]

Introduction
Garlic.

Generalities
It acts on intestinal mucous membranes; increasing peristalsis. It is adapted to fleshy persons,
used, to high living who suffer from dyspepsia and catarrhal affections. Patients who eat a
great deal more especially meat, than they drink. Digestion is disordered by slightest error in
diet. Has vasodilatory properties. Acts better in meat eaters than strictly vegetarians. The
child is drowsy, lifeless, extremely pale, bowels torpid, will not walk, and the legs do not grow
as rapidly as rest of the body.

Worse
Change of temperature. Evening and night. Walking. Pressure. Drinking bad water. Gluttony.

Better
Sitting bent.

Mind
Fear; he will never get well, nor bear any medicine; of being poisoned. Wants many things,
pleased with nothing.

Head
Vertigo while reading. Head, aches before menses, ceases during worse afterwards. Dandruff.

Face
Spots on. Lips dry.

Mouth
Much sweetish saliva, after meals and at night. Hair sensation on tongue or throat. Tongue
pale, papillae red.

Stomach
Voracious appetite. Desire for butter. Complaints from bad water. Slightest error in diet
disturbs the stomach. Feeling of some cold and hot ascending oesophagus.

Female
Menses profuse. Soreness of vulva and thighs. Mammae swollen and tender; during menses.
Swelling of breast after weaning.

Respiratory
Cough in the morning, with much difficult expectoration. Cough when smoking.
Bronchiectasis, with foetid sputum. Haemoptysis.

Extremities
Pain in hips; pain in psoas and iliacus muscles, worse crossing legs.

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Complementary
Ars.

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Aloe socotrina [Aloe]

Generalities
It affects ***ABDOMINAL VEINS, causing congestion *relaxation in ***RECTUM; *liver, colon,
and pelvis. It establishes physiological equilibrium when disease and drug symptoms are
much mixed. Periodic headaches which alternate with *lumbago. It is remedy for bad effects
from sedentary life or habits. Adapted to weary people, aged, old beer‐drinkers. there is a
sensation of *fulness in The parts. ***HEAVY, ***DRAGGING, *as of a load. Drawing,
downward sensation. Discharges; gelatinous; post nasal, stools etc. *Sense of insecurity.
General weakness and weariness. Heat external and internal. Children, much emotional, chat
and laugh.

Worse
***HEAT, hot damp weather; summer. Early morning. After dysentery. Yawning or
mastication. Stepping hard. Evening. After eating and drinking.

Better
Cool open air. Cold application. Passing flatus. Closing eyes. Taking tea or stimulants.

Mind
Dissatisfied and angry about himself. Disinclination to mental labour. Hates people, repels
everyone. Ill humour worse in cloudy weather, or with constipation. Thinks, that she would
die in a week. Life is a burden. Trembling from musical sounds and other noises. Imagines that
persons are stepping hard or quickly.

Head
Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them. Vertigo with a sense
of insecurity. Head alternating with abdominal or lumbar symptoms better closing eyes.
Heavy pressure on vertex. Clinking in as of some thin shivered glass, extending to ears.

Eyes
Pain deep in orbit. Flickering, before the eyes. Closes eyes partially from pain in forehead.

Ears
Cracking in, when chewing.

Nose
Tip cold. Bleeding from me nose after awakening, in bed.

Face
Lips markedly red, dry, cracked; bleeding. Pain while yawning or chewing.

Mouth
Taste bitter and sour. Tongue, mouth dry.

Throat
Hawking of thick lumps of jelly‐like mucus. Raw and swollen feeling in.

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Stomach
Desire for juicy things, fruits, especially apples, salty food. Pain in pit, when making false step.
Aversion to meat. Eructations, with oppressions in stomach. Hungry after stools.

Abdomen
Feels; full, heavy, hot, bloated. Pain from navel to rectum. Sensation of a plug between
symphysis pubis and coccyx, with urging to stool. Heaviness; in hypogastrium; in rectum;
dragging down in the abdomen. Prolapsus recti. *Rumbling, *gurgling in bowels; *sudden
urging; ***SENSE OF INSECURITY *then hurriedly passes a gushing watery stool. Uncertain
whether gas or stool will come. Diarrhoea; with pain in the rectum after stool; lienteric.
***ANUS WEAK, oozes mucus. Stools escape with flatus or when urinating. Stools; mushy,
lumpy; watery, gelatinous; bloody; solid stools passed involuntarily, urging to stools with
passing flatus only. Piles, like a bunch of grapes, prolapsing better cold bathing. Burning and
stitching in anus and rectum, from piles, preventing sleep. Stool and flatus hot. Burning in
rectum. Pulsation in rectum after eating. The child goes around the house, dropping little hard
round marble‐like stools. Diarrhoea; after eating oysters; in hot season, or of beer drinkers. A
lot of mucus is passed, with pain in rectum, after stool lumpy, watery stools.

Urinary
Incontinence in aged. Prostate enlarged. Everytime on passing urine, feeling as if thin stool
would escape with it. Urine hot.

Male
Sexual irritability, after eating; after awakening (in children). Involuntary emissions during
siesta.

Female
Heavy congested uterus, with labour‐like pains, felt in groins and hips worse standing and
during menses. Climacteric haemorrhage. Menses too early and last too long. Leucorrhoea of
bloody mucus, preceded by colic. Dysentery, after parturition.

Respiratory
Winter cough, with itching. Difficult respiration, with stitches, from liver to chest. Cough,
when she would sit down, standing, or stand up, after sitting, with tears.

Neck and Back

Lumbago alternating with headache and piles. Pain in sacrum worse while sitting, better
moving about.

Extremities
Drawing pain in the joints. Lameness in all the limbs. Soles are painful when walking on the
pavement.

Sleep
Dreams of soiling himself.

Fever
*Internal heat.

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Related
Lil‐t; *Podo; Sep; Sulph.

Complementary
Sul.

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Alumen [Alumn]

Generalities
It causes paralytic weakness of me muscles in all parts of the body. Tendency to induration of
glands, and other tissues is very marked. Tongue, rectum, uterus etc., are hardened; ulcers
with indurated base. Adapted to old people suffering from bronchial catarrh. Sensation of
dryness, and of constriction. Constipation of the most aggravated kind, as in cancer of uterus
and rectum. Haemorrhages; from leech bite; with large clots. Sensitive to cold; exposure to
air causes roughness and chaps in the skin. Useful after operations on the eyes and teeth.
Yellow bland discharges. Sensation of constriction, as of a cord or band around limbs, in
paralytic states. Relaxation of muscles.

Worse
During sleep; lying on right side; cold. Bad news.

Mind
Nervous tremors, from bad news. Doubting people. Lectophobia.

Head
Burning pain, as of weight on top of head better pressure of cold hand. Vertigo with weakness
in the pit of stomach better opening eyes, better turning on right side. Headache better
drinking cold water.

Eyes
Prolapse of iris, after cataract operation. Right eye squints, towards the nose.

Ear
Hears every noise in sleep. Purulent otorrhoea.

Throat
Enlarged and indurated tonsils, from frequent colds. Uvula elongated, relaxed. Scraping in
throat with cough. Spasms of oesophagus, liquids can scarcely be swallowed. Complete
aphonia.

Abdomen
Very obstinate constipation; no desire for days. Hard, marble‐ like masses passed, but rectum
still feels full. Long lasting pain and smarting in rectum after stools. Haematemesis of hard
drinkers. Passes large clots from, rectum.

Female
Induration; of cervix uteri; and mammary glands. Chronic yellow vaginal discharge. Menses
watery. Hands weak, drops things during menses.

Respiratory
Copious ropy, expectoration, in a.m. in aged persons. Catarrh of chest; chest weak,
haemoptysis; and mucus expelled with difficulty.

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Palpitation; worse lying on right side, from thinking of her disease.

Skin
*Eczema on the back of penis and scrotum. Alopecia.

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Alumina Silicata [Alum‐sil]

Generalities
It affects spinal cord. Constriction is a marked general symptom. Constriction of orifices.
Aching and burning in spine. Formication, numbness and pain in all limbs. Epileptiform
convulsions. Coldness during pains.

Worse
Cold air; after eating; standing.

Better
Warmth; fasting; resting in bed.

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Alumina [Alum]

Generalities
It affects me ***CEREBRO SPINAL Axis causing *Disturbance in co‐ ordination, and paretic
effects. Paraesthesia. In mental sphere the consciousness of reality and judgement is
disturbed. It is suitable to old people, with lack of vital heat, or premature old age, with
debility. It causes DRYNESS of skin and mucous membranes; eyes, throat, rectum etc., or
*irritability and relaxation. Mucus discharges profuse. Discharges are thin, acrid and scanty.
Tendency to induration. Functions become sluggish, actions are delayed, e.g., prick of needle
will be felt with delay, impressions reach consciousness slowly. Patient *is thin, *inactive,
*wants to lie down, but it increases the fatigue. It is useful in delicate children, products of
artificial baby foods. Pulsations are felt in various parts; and pains go upwards. Patient gets
better entirely for sometime, then without apparent cause gets worse. Chronicity.
Exhaustion; after talking; after menses. Degeneration of spinal cord. Unable to walk, with
closed eyes. Involuntary movement of single parts. Girls, dried up and wrinkled, at puberty.
Ill effects of disappointments. Sensation of constriction. Trembling, convulsive movements,
spasms, with tears and laughter or alternately.

Worse
***WARMTH OF ROOM; of bed. Food; artificial, potatoes, starch, salt. *Speaking. *Dry
weather. *Early on awaking. Sitting. After menses.Periodically; on alternate days. Coition.
Tobacco smoke. Lifting. Exertion. Full and new moon.

Better
Evening. Open air. Moderate exertion and temperature. Damp weather, cold washing.

Mind
Illusions; of being larger; *numb; *smooth; heavy. *Hasty but slow of execution, hence makes
mistakes in speaking and writing. Depressive mental states. Timorous. Fears; his own
impulses; *sight of knife, of blood, fears loss of reason. When he sees or states something, he
has the feeling, as though another person had said or seen it or as though he was placed in
another person and could see only then. Time passes too slowly. Always groaning, moaning,
worrying, fretting. Memory bad, variable mood. Depressed on awakening. Peevish.
Everything is viewed in sad light. Alternating moods. Sensation as if he would fall forwards,
which he greatly fears. Things seem unreal. Laughs and talks between paroxysms of spasms.
Sneers at everything. Grumbles. Suicidal tendency on seeing knife or blood.

Head
Vertigo; worse talking, on closing or opening eyes, before breakfast. Vertigo; with white stars
before the eyes, when eyes suddenly went out of focus; one has to wait for normal vision,
better wiping eyes. Violent stitches in the brain, with nausea. Headache, as if one were
dragged by the hair. Falling of hair; scalp itches and is numb. Headache better by lying quiet
in bed. Dry hair.

Eyes
White stars before the eyes, with vertigo. Eyelids; weak, falling, thickened, dry, burning,
smarting. Double squint, worse teething. Objects look yellow. Eyes; inflamed, burning;
agglutination at night, lachrymation during day. Eyes feel cold.

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Ears
Heat and redness of one ear. Eustachian tube seems plugged. Crackling noises and buzzing in
ears when, chewing or swallowing.

Nose
Nostrils sore and red. Point of nose cracked. Scales with thick yellow mucus.

Face
*Old look; dusky, wrinkled. As of white of egg or a cobweb on face. Blood‐boils, and pimples.
Involuntary spasmodic twitchings of the lower jaw. Maxillary joints feel tight, while chewing
or opening mouth.

Mouth
Musty bad odour from mouth. Teeth; feel long; pain extends to other parts down larynx, neck,
shoulders. Mouth feels dry with increased saliva. Tingling, itching on tongue.

Throat
Dry, feels full of sticks, or *constricted, food cannot pass. Throat sore from eating onions.
Constant inclination to clear the throat. Uvula hangs down. Swallowing painful, worse solids
better empty swallowing, warm drinks. Tightness from pharynx down to stomach as if food
could not pass; can swallow but small morsels at a time. Clergyman’s sore throat. Feels food,
whole length of oesophagus.

Stomach
Abnormal craving; for coarse food, chalk, charcoal, dry food, clean white rags, tea or coffee
grounds, fruits, vegetables, dry rice and indigestible things. Constriction of oesophagus. Pain
lasting 3 hours after meals. Big bellied children. Aversion to potato, to meat, which disagrees.

Abdomen
Left sided abdominal complaints. Pressing in both groins, towards sexual organs. Pains from
rectum to ankle. Inactive rectum, even a soft stool is passed with difficulty, hard stools cause
severe cutting. Stools of small balls, hard knots or bright clots of blood. Evacuation is preceded
by painful urging, long before stool, then straining at stool. Constipation; of sucklings, old
people and women of sedentary habits. Can only pass stool when standing.

Urinary
Muscles of the bladder paretic *must strain at stool to urinate. Renal pains worse dancing.
Frequent desire to urinate in old people; slow flow. Fears he will wet the bed. Retention, with
dribbling. Smarting while urinating. Feeling of weakness in bladder and genitals.

Male
Sexual desire increased. Voluptuous itching or tickling in genitals. Involuntary emission; while
straining for stools, followed by old symptoms. Pains in the perineum, during coition and
while the erection continues. Priapism at night.

Females
Menses, too early, short, scanty, pale followed by great exhaustion. Leucorrhoea; acrid
profuse, runs to feet worse during daytime; before menses better by washing with cold water.

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Intolerable bearing down pain. Tickling and itching in genitals; with strong desire for embrace.
Nipples itch, burn, look angry (during pregnancy). It takes a woman all her time to recuperate
from one menstrual period to the next.

Respiratory
Cough, constant, dry, hacking interrupts breathing, with sneezing; worse after waking in the
morning; from elongated uvula; from condiments or eating irritating things, talking or singing.
Sudden loss of voice; on taking cold. Chest feels constricted, worse sitting bent or stooping.
Soreness of chest; on talking; on lifting.

Heart
Palpitation and shocks at heart. Wakes at 4 to 5 a.m. with anxiety at heart, better after rising.

Neck and Back

Pain in the back, as if hot irons were thrust through lower spine. Violent stitches in back. Back
feels bandaged by a cord.

Extremities
Pain in the arms and fingers, as if hot iron penetrated. Arms; feel heavy, as if paralyzed; short;
go to sleep. Lower limbs heavy. Staggering on walking. Legs feel numb, especially when sitting
cross legged. Heels feel numb, when stepping. *Festination. Locomotor ataxia. Nails brittle or
thick. Gnawing under nails. Inability to walk except when eyes are open or in daytime. Totters
if eyes were closed. Soles; painful, on stepping on them, as if they were too soft and on
walking; cramps when crossing legs. Bones feel squeezed.

Sleep
Anxious, restless, with confused dreams; about thieves, ghosts, of boats foundering.

Fever
Chilliness better open air. Heat with itching.

Skin
Intolerable itching, when getting warm in bed. Dry, rough, cracked skin. Itching, burning, over
seat of pain. Must scratch, until it bleeds. Eczema. The slightest injuries of the skin smart and
become inflamed. Skin symptoms, worse winter, full and new moon.

Related
Bry; Plb.

Complementary
Bry.

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Ambra grisea [Ambr]

Generalities
It affects the ***NERVES, causing nervousness, twitches and jerks. It is adapted; to hysterical
subjects; to thin scrawny women, to patients who are weakened by age and overwork; to The
aged with impairment of all functions. Patients *are worn out, yet over‐impressionable*.
Shock due to business failure or due to the deaths one after another in the family. Weakness
of upper parts of the body, with trembling of lower part. Slight or unusual things worse the
breathing, worse the heart, start the menses etc. One sided complaints. *Symptoms suddenly
change places*. Sensation of coldness, numbness, in spots or of single parts, fingers, arms
etc., with twitching. Itching, trembling and ebullition. General pulsation. Numbness and
torpor of the whole body esp., in the morning. Coldness of the body, with twitching. Effects
of domestic shock, business worry. Loss of near relatives. Imaginations. Young modern society
girls.

Worse
*Music. *Presence of others*. Embarrassment. Agitation, worry thinking of it. Overlifting.
From any unusual thing. Morning. Warmth. Warm milk.

Better
Slow motion, in open air. Lying on painful parts. Cold drinks.

Mind
Memory impaired; slow comprehension. *Dreamy. Flitting ideas or fixed disagreeable fancies.
Imagines diabolic faces, sights. Melancholy; sits for days weeping. Awkward. Flitting, flighty
talker, modern society girls. Dread of people. Desire to be alone. Cannot understand what
one reads. Sad. *Bashful*; blushes easily. Hearing others talk or talking himself affects him.
Time passes slowly. Aversion to laugh. jumping from one subject to another, never waiting to
have first question answered. Music causes weeping and trembling.

Head
*Vertigo*; senile; with weakness in head and stomach. Tearing pain in upper part of the brain.
Brain, feels loose, falls to side lain on. Hair falls out. *Confusion* in occiput, also sprained
feeling in. Headache worse blowing nose.

Eyes
Stitching in the eyelids as if a stye were being formed. Eyelids; heavy, cannot open them
though awake. Spots float before the eyes after sewing.

Ears
Hardness of hearing, with cold sensation in abdomen. Deaf in one, roaring and whistling in
the other.

Nose
Bleeds while washing the face in the morning. Epistaxis; during menses. Stoppage mostly at
night, must breathe through the mouth, with chronic coryza.

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Face
Twitching of the facial muscles. Cramps in lips; lips hot. Left cheek red. Flushes of the face,
jaundiced colour. Embarrassed look. Lock‐jaw in new born.

Mouth
Profuse bleeding from the gums; offensive breath. Ranula. Sour mouth worse after milk.
Salivation, with cough.

Throat
Sensation as if a plug in throat, with difficulty in swallowing. Sore, raw, from exposure to air,
worse motion of tongue.

Stomach
After eating; cough and gaping and a feeling, as if food did not go down into the stomach.
Eructations, with violent convulsive cough. Heartburn from drinking milk. Distention of
stomach, after midnight. Thirstlessness.

Abdomen
*Flatulence, cannot have others present during urination and stool*; worse during pregnancy.
Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. Constipation, during pregnancy, and after delivery.
Aching in small spot in the region of liver better pressure. Large flow of blood with stools.
Sweat on abdomen and thighs. Frequent ineffectual urging for stool.

Urinary
Pain in the bladder and rectum at the same time. *Can not pass urine in presence of others*.
Feeling in urethra, as if few drops passed out. Urine; turbid even during emission, forming a
brown sediment. Urinates more than drinks. Urine sour, during whooping cough. Burning,
smarting, itching in vulva, during urination.

Male
Voluptuous excitement of, and itching in genitals. Parts externally numb; burn internally.
Erections, without voluptuous sensation. Impotence.

Female
Itching of pudendum, with soreness and swelling. Itching labiae. Discharge of blood between
the periods, at every little accident, after hard stools, walking a little longer etc. Leucorrhoea
of bluish mucus; profuse. worse at night. Sexual desire increased. Lying down worse uterine
symptoms. Menses too early and too profuse.

Respiratory organs
Asthmatic breathing; in old people; worse by coition. Hollow spasmodic barking cough,
coming from deep in chest, then eructation. Bluish, white expectoration. Cough; worse music;
in presence of many people; talking, reading aloud, lifting weight. Loss of breath from cough.
Cough with emaciation.

Heart
Palpitation, with pressure in chest as from a lump lodged there; or as if chest was obstructed.
Palpitation, with pale face. Anxiety at heart.

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Extremities
Cramps, in hands and fingers worse grasping anything. Left leg becomes quite blue, during
menses. Twitching of limbs, with coldness of body, during sleep. Cramps, in legs and calves.
Limbs go to sleep easily. Finger nails brittle. Drops what one is carrying. Coldness of hand
(left), with headache. Sore and raw between thighs.

Sleep
Cannot sleep from worry, must get up. Retires tired, wakeful as soon as touches the pillow.

Fever
Frequent flushes of heat at short intervals. Sweat on slightest exertion esp. on abdomen and
thighs.

Skin
Itching and soreness esp. around genitals.

Related
Bar‐c; Ign.

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Ambrosia [Ambro]

Generalities
A remedy for hay fever, lachrymation and intolerable itching of the eyelids. Nosebleed.
Stuffed feeling in nose and head.

Related
Ars‐i; Sabad.

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Ammonium bromatum [Am‐br]

Generalities
It is indicated in laryngeal and pharyngeal catarrh. Sudden strangling, suffocating, cough.
Suffocating sensation before epilepsy. Irritable feeling in finger nails better by biting it.

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Ammonium carbonicum [Am‐c]

Generalities
It affects ***HEART; *circulation and blood* Heart becomes weak, collapse. Circulation
becomes sluggish and under‐oxygenation of blood produces ***LIVIDITY, ***WEAKNESS
*and drowsiness. *Vitality becomes low and there is lack of reaction*. It is adapted to fat
patients, with weak heart, with wheezing and suffocative feeling; to stout women who are
always tired and weary, take cold easily and suffer from cholera‐like symptoms before
menses; and who lead a sedentary life. Very *sensitive to cold air. Great aversion to water,
cannot bear to touch it. Heaviness in all organs. Uncleanliness in bodily habits. Pains are
bruised and sore. There is internal raw burning. Discharges are *hot, acrid*, adherent.
*Haemorrhages, *dark, *thin. Malignancy. Prostration from trifles. Scorbutic states. Old age.
Lies down, from debility or soreness of whole body. Ill effects of charcoal fumes.

Worse
***COLD; CLOUDY DAYS. ***DAMP COLD. *Raw cold open air. Falling asleep; 3‐4 a.m.
*During menses. Motion. Chewing. Pressing teeth. Bending down. New moon.

Better
*Pressure; eating; lying on abdomen. Dry weather. Lying on right side.

Mind
Active but soon exhausted. Forgetful, ill‐humoured, gloomy; during stormy weather. Heedless
and unruly. Depressed, with weakness of intellect. Vacant mind. Loss of memory worse
vexation. Hearing others talk or talking himself affects him. Aversion to work. Peevish,
fretting, as if crime has been committed. Disposed to weep. Tendency to make mistakes in
speaking, writing and calculating.

Head
Shocks, through head, eyes, ears and nose, on biting. Violent headache; full, bursting in
forehead. Brain seems loose.

Eyes
Burning and dry. Prolonged use of eyes cause asthenopia; with appearance of yellow spots
on looking at white objects. Flood of tears. Large black spots float after sewing. Pain in the
eyes better afternoon sleep.

Ears
Hardness of hearing. Itching above the ears, spreads over the whole body. Hard swelling of
parotid and cervical glands.

Nose
*Stoppage of nose, at night, with long continued coryza, must breathe through mouth.
Snuffles of children. Nose bleeds; if hands or face are washed, after eating, or on waking.
Continuous urging to sneeze. Profuse watery coryza. Catarrh starting in nose. Boil on tip.
Inability to blow the nose in children.

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Face
Boils and pustules, during menses. Corners of the mouth are sore, cracked and burn. Cracks,
and burning in lip. Hard swelling of the cheek.

Mouth
Tender, bleeding gums. Pressing teeth together, sends a shock through head, eyes, ears and
nose. Mouth and throat dry. Loose or blunt teeth. Vesicles on tongue. Burning, hindering
eating and speech. Teeth ache, during menses. Swelling inside cheek.

Throat
Enlarged tonsils, and glands of the neck. Gangrenous ulceration of the tonsils. Diphtheria,
when nose is stopped up, membrane extends to upper lip.

Stomach
Pain at the pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, water brash and chilliness. Flatulent
dyspepsia. Appetite, but easy satisfaction.

Abdomen
Bleeding piles worse during menses. Discharge of blood before and after stools. Protruding
piles worse after stools or without stools, better lying, cannot walk. Dark acrid diarrhoea.
Colic, with pain between the scapulae. Constipation; stools hard, dry.

Urinary Organs
Frequent desire. Urine; white, bloody, sandy, copious, turbid and foetid. Involuntary
urination, towards morning.

Male
Persistent erections, without desire or violent sexual desire without erection. Seminal
emissions frequent, after coition.

Females
Cholera‐like symptoms, with menses. Menses; too frequent, profuse, early, clotted, black
with colicky pains and hard difficult stools, with fatigue esp. of thighs, yawning and chilliness.
Menses flow more at night, then dyspnoea or weakness. Copious leucorrhoea, burning, acrid,
watery. Irritation of clitoris.

Respiratory organs
*Increasing difficulty in breathing, it wakes him, better cool air. Much oppression in breathing
worse every effort, entering a warm room. Emphysema. *Rattling in chest but gets up little.
Hoarseness. Pulmonary oedema. Cough, after influenza. Hypostatic congestion of lungs.
Expectoration; of pure blood, after cough.0.

Heart
***WEAK. Wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation. Palpitation; audible with fear, cold
sweat and lachrymation, inability to speak and trembling hands. Angina Pectoris. Weak heart
causes stasis.

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Extremities
Parts lain on become numb. Cramps, in calves and soles. Fingers and hands swell, when arms
are hanging down. Inclination to stretch limbs. Whitlow. Tearing pain better by heat of bed.
Right foot numb. Ganglion. Aching in bones better change of weather. Right arm heavy and
weak.

Sleep
Sleepiness during day. Wakes up with strangling. The sooner one goes to bed the better one
sleeps.

Fever
*Coldness. Burning heat with thirst.

Skin
Red or mottled skin. Erysipelas; in aged. Malignant scarlatina.

Related
Ant‐t; Carb‐v; Glon; Lach; Mur‐ac.

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Ammonium muriaticum [Am‐m]

Generalities
It affects ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES increasing the secretion and retaining them esp. in
***CHEST and *gall ducts*. It causes *irregular circulation, blood seems to be in constant
turmoil, causing *ebullitions, *burnings and *localized throbbing. Many group of symptoms;
are accompanied by cough or ***PROFUSE GLAIRY mucus discharges; with liver trouble.
Tension and *tightness, as if the muscles or tendons are too short; in groins, hamstrings,
lumbar region etc. It causes ulceration and ulcerative or festering pain. Neuralgic pains in the
stumps of amputated limbs. Haemorrhages. Boiling sensation. It is adapted to patients who
are fat, puffy and sluggish, with thin limbs, who always feel tired and sore. Effects of grief.

Worse
Morning_head and chest symptoms. Afternoon_abdominal symptoms; Evening_skin, fever
and limb symptoms. Chronic sprains. Walking erect. Periodically. Night from 2 to 4 a.m.

Better
Open air. Rapid motion; walking crooked.

Mind
Desire to cry, but cannot. Involuntary aversion to certain persons. Melancholy and
apprehensive; as from internal grief. Brain paralysis.

Head
Heaviness in the forehead; pressive pain towards the root of the nose, with a sensation, as if
brain were torn. Hair fall out, with itching and dandruff.

Eyes
Mist before eyes in bright light. Flying spots, yellow spots, before the eyes. Incipient cataract,
capsular cataract.

Nose
Free acrid, hot watery coryza; closing one nostril. Loss of smell. Obstructed stuffy feeling; with
a desire to blow it out. As of a rough body, obstructing upper nares. Nose sore to touch.
Sneezing; aroused her from sleep; with shooting pain in the nape of the neck as far as the
shoulders. Coryza in children, with bluish discharge.

Face
Pale. Lips burning like fire. Lips dry, shrivelled cracked, must moisten them with tongue.
Burning eruptions better cold application.

Mouth
Slimy. Burning blisters on tip of tongue.

Throat
*Slimy. Throbbing in, and swelling of the tonsils. Internal and external swelling of the throat,
with sticky mucus. Stricture of oesophagus.

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Stomach
Thirst for lemonade. Nausea, with bitter water‐brash, worse eating, with shuddering.
Gnawing burning, stitching in stomach, extending to right axilla and upper arm. Cancer of
stomach. Empty sensation in, but no desire to eat anything. Diarrhoea and vomiting, during
menses.

Abdomen
Stitches in spleen, while eating, with difficult breathing. Cough with liver symptoms. Excessive
fatty deposit around abdomen. Scanty hard, crumbling stools, changing colour and
consistency. Blood from anus or diarrhoea during menses. Haemorrhoids, after suppressed
leucorrhoea. Burning in the rectum, during and for hours, after stools. Tense sprained feeling
in groins; must walk bent. Groins feel swollen and sore.

Urinary Organs
Profuse and frequent urination. Urging yet a few drops pass, until next stool when it flows
freely. Profuse ammoniacal smelling urine.

Females
Menses too early, with pain in abdomen and small of the back; flow more at night. Prolapse
of uterus. Leucorrhoea, like white of an egg, with pain about the navel worse after every
urination.

Respiration
Hoarseness and burning in larynx. Cough with profuse salivation or with liver symptoms.
Cannot breathe from coughing. *Noisy, *rattling tenacious mucus in chest. Pulsation, burning
spots in chest. Cough worse lying on back or right side.

Neck and Back

*Swelled cervical glands. Sore sprain or icy coldness between scapulae, not relieved by
warmth. Lumbago. Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting. Fatty swelling on nape, extending
from ear to ear.

Extremities
Tense sprained feeling in the groins, must walk bent. Contraction of hamstring tendons.
Sciatica (left) worse sitting, better lying. Ulcerative pain in fingertips. Pain in or ulcer on heel.
Pain in feet during menses. Shooting pain in scapulae worse breathing. Buttocks large.
Hamstrings as if too short, pain on walking.

Sleep
Erotic dreams. Anxious fearful dreams. Starts out of sleep.

Fever
Chilly as often as he wakes. Sense of heat; better open air, alternating with chill. Chilly in the
evening after lying down. Profuse night sweat. Sweats by every motion.

Skin
Bleeding eruptions. Peeling of skin between fingers, and wrists. Itching on various parts of the
body esp. in the evening.

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Related
Calc; Caust; Seneg.

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Amyl nitrosum [Aml‐n]

Generalities
Vasomotor nerves are affected by *Amy.Nit causing dilatation of all arterioles and capillaries,
thereby flushing of face, heat and *throbbing in the head are produced. *Flushing heats,
followed by drenching sweats (unilateral) are marked symptoms. Cerebral vessels dilate.
Exophthalmic goitre, from grief. Unconsciousness, with inability to swallow. *Throbbing*,
esp. in head. Weak, emaciated, walking with tottering gait, inclined to go to one side when
walking. Cannot sit still.

Worse
***CLIMAXIS. SLIGHT CAUSES. *Emotions. Heat. Close room.

Better
Open air, exercise, in. Cold water.

Mind
Anxiety as if something might happen; must have fresh air.

Head
*Surging of blood to the head; with fiery red face. Migraine, with pallor.

Face
Easy flushing or blushing of the face, on slightest emotion. Chewing motion of the lower jaw.
Smacking of lips as if in act of tasting.

Throat
Choking feeling in the throat; collar seems too tight.

Stomach
Hiccough and yawning with stretching.

Females
Haemorrhages, with facial flushing. Neuralgia during menses. Climacteric flushings; with
headache, anxiety and palpitation. Convulsions immediately after delivery.

Chest
Pain and constriction around the heart. Fluttering of heart on least excitement. Tumultuous
palpitation. Angina Pectoris with great anxiety. Full soft pulse. Aching backward along the left
floating rib.

Sleep
Repeated yawning in coma. Yawns profoundly and repeatedly. Stretches almost constantly,
it is almost impossible to satisfy the desire. Stretching and yawning with hiccough.

Fever
Abnormal sweat after influenza.

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Related
Glon; Lach.

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Anacardium orientale [Anac]

Generalities
*Anac. patients are neurasthenic patients. ***MIND, nerves, muscles and joints are affected.
There is physical and mental ***LACK OF POWER *Special senses are weakened, sight,
hearing, touch etc. *Sensation of a plug, in various parts; or as of a ***DULL PRESSURE, which
is repeated from time to time. *Sensations of* a band or hoop. Intermittency of symptoms.
Fear of examination in students. *Trembling, on slight exertion, worse knees or arms.
Paralytic condition. Wants to lie or sit continually. Eating temporarily relieves all the
symptoms. Nervous exhaustion from over‐study. Paresis of muscles subject to volition.
Wounded tendons. Joints contracted. Old people. Ill natured children. Nervous hysterical
women. Diseases of spinal cord. Heaviness and fullness of the whole body after piano playing.

Worse
***MENTAL EXERTION. Emotions. *Anger. Fright, care. Mortification. *Stepping hard.
Motion. Draughts, open air; cold, Long after eating. Rubbing; scratching. Talking. Morning.
Evening to midnight. Checked eruptions. Strong smells.

Better
By eating. Lying on side. Rubbing. Heat; hot bath. In the sun.

Mind
Fixed ideas; thinks he is possessed of two persons or; two wills. Illusion of *duality, others are
present; behind her, etc. Her husband is not her husband, her child is not hers. There is no
reality in anything, all appears like a dream. Apprehends trouble from everything. Senseless
talk. Screams loudly; as if to call someone. Religious mania. ***BAD MEMORY. Suddenly
forgets names, those around her, what she has seen. Aversion to work. Lack of self
confidence; desire to swear and curse. Fear of paralysis. Despairs of getting well.
*Contradictory impulses*laughs at serious things, remaining serious when anything laughable
occurs. Cowardly. Vacillating. At odds with himself. Melancholy. *Ill natured, Profane*. Takes
everything in bad parts. Absent minded; as if in a dream. Clairaudient_hears voices far away
or of the dead. Suicidal tendency by shooting. Sees everybody’s faces in the mirror except his
own. Hard hearted, cruel. Hesitates; often does nothing. Unsocial. Neurotic. Suspicious. Very
easily offended. Senile dementia. Refuses to eat for fear of being poisoned.

Head
Vertigo worse walking; stooping and rising from stooping; objects seem too distant. Pressing
pain as from a plug; in temples, occiput, forehead and vertex, better during meals; falling
asleep; worse coughing, deep breathing. Itching and little boils on the scalp. Gastric and
nervous headaches. Headache from strong smells.

Eyes
Pressing pain as of a plug on upper orbit. Threads and black spots before the eyes. Objects
appear too far off. Vision indistinct. Short sightedness.

Ears
Hard of hearing. Pressing pain as of a plug. Imagines whispers in the ears.

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Nose
Sense of smell; perverted, lost or acute. Illusory smells. Frequent sneezing, followed by coryza
and lachrymation. Violent coryza with palpitation esp. in the aged.

Face
Pale, *wan looking. Blue rings around the eyes. Eczema of face and neck. Expressionless, wild,
childish.

Mouth
Bad breath and taste. Painful vesicles in the mouth. Tongue feels swollen and stiff_impeding
speech and motion; with much saliva in the mouth. Taste lost.

Stomach
Empty feeling in stomach. Weak digestion. Breath stops on eating and drinking. Gastric pain
better by eating, but worse again after 2 to 3 hours. Hastily drinks, and swallows food.
Vomiting better . Loss of appetite, alternating with violent hunger.

Abdomen
Pain as if a dull plug were pressed into intestine. Hardness of abdomen. Flatulent colic, with
rumbling, pinching and griping. Rectum feels plugged and powerless; cannot evacuate even a
soft stool. Ineffectual desire. Itching of anus; moisture from rectum.

Urinary Organs
Frequent discharge of clear watery urine; deposits, turbid, clay coloured sediment. Sensation
of burning in the glans during and after urination.

Male
Voluptuous itching of scrotum, exciting sexual desire. Seminal emissions without dreams.
Prostatic discharge during stool. Enjoyment absent.

Females
Leucorrhoea, with itching and excoriation of the parts. Frequent but scanty menses; with
spasmodic pain in abdomen; Nausea during pregnancy better eating.

Respiratory organs
Breath stops, on coughing or swallowing. Cough, excited by talking, after eating, with vomiting
of food, with pain in occiput; in children, after a fit of temper. Cough then yawns and sleeps.
Asthma, hysterical, ends in flow of tears.

Heart
Double stitch at the heart, passing into lumbar region. Palpitation; with coryza, in the aged.

Neck and Back

Dull pressure or as of a heavy load on shoulders. Stiffness, of nape and neck; down back, and
pain worse motion.

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Extremities
Neuralgia of the thumb. Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged. Dry hands. Cramps in the calves
worse walking or rising from a seat. Pain in ankle, as if sprained worse stepping. Painful
thumping on the middle upper arm (left). Cramps; from toe to instep; from heel up calf. Warts
on palms and hands. Writer’s cramps.

Sleep
Spells of sleeplessness, lasting for several nights. Anxious dreams.

Fever
Easily chilled better sunshine. Clammy sweat on palms esp. left. Heat from 4 p.m. till evening,
passing off after supper.

Skin
*Skin insensible; itching worse scratching. Dermatitis. Eczema, neurotic. Yellow vesicles.
Warts on palms and hands. Urticaria. Promotes expulsion of splinters.

Related
Ign; *Lyc, Plat; Rhus‐t.

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Anthracinum [Anthr]

Generalities
This nosode is a very valuable remedy in malignant or septic inflammation of connective or
cellular tissue. It produces boils or boil‐like eruptions; carbuncles; malignant ulcers, abscesses,
bubo, where there is purulent focus. Haemorrhages are thick, black tar‐like, from any orifice.
Glands swollen; cellular tissue oedematous and indurated. There is a terrible burning with
great prostration. *Black and blue blisters. Gangrene, dissecting wounds. Bad effects from
inhaling foul odour. *Abscess of septum. Quinsy. Succession of boils. Hard stony swelling at
right lower jaw and submaxillary gland.

Related
Ars; Tarent‐c.

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Antimonium crudum [Ant‐c]

Generalities
The choice of this remedy is determined by the symptoms which develop in mental and gastric
sphere. As the meaning of the last word of its name implies, the *Ant‐c patient is crude
mentally and physically. Patient is a *Gross feeder‐a glutton; he eats beyond the capacity of
his digestion or without discrimination; therefore the *mental and *skin symptoms are due
to the ***GASTRO‐INTESTINAL DISTURBANCE. It produces *lumpy effects; stools are watery,
containing lumps; leucorrhoea is watery, mixed with lumps; lumps appear upon the skin; nails
become thick, distorted and lumpy. There is a tendency to formation of *cracks in canthi;
nostrils, angles of the mouth. Mentally the patient is either sentimental esp. in moonlight,
and twilight, during diarrhoea and before menses; or cross and touchy. It produces strange
*absence of pain, where it could be expected e.g. bed sores. It is suitable to infants and
children; also to elderly persons and young persons who have a tendency to *grow fat. When
symptoms group recur, they change their locality or go from one side to the other; they recur
every five, six or twelve weeks. Gout recedes and stomach is affected. Nervous symptoms
such as restlessness, twitches in the muscles, and disposition to start on slightest noise are
also found. Ill effects of disappointed love and suppressed eruptions. Chronic complaints
traceable to suppression of eruptions or ulcers. Anasarca. Marasmus Trouble from swimming
or falling into water. Rheumatoid arthritis. He is always *sleepy and *weary.

Worse
***COLD BATHING; *Cold dampness; ***COLD WATER (on head). *Acids. Sweets. Moonlight.
Rising up. Ascending stairs. Touch. ***HEAT OF SUMMER, *of sun. Radiated heat.
***OVEREATING. Night debauches, after getting drunk. Vinegar. Pork.

Better
In open air; during rest; moist warmth. Lying down.

Mind
Great anxiety about his fate; inclination to shoot himself. *Fretful cross and *peevish; Cries if
looked at or touched or washed, esp. children; adults are sulky, do not wish to speak with
anyone. Loathing; of life, of food, bathing etc. *Ecstasy and exalted love. *Dreamy,
*sentimental. Angry at every little attention. Love sick. So busy with oneself one forgets to
urinate or defecate, eats only when asked. Excitability. Nervous hysterical girls and women,
who are overcome by mellow light from stained‐glass windows. Talks in rhymes or verses;
taciturn.

Head
Aches from bathing in cold water or from disordered stomach, worse candy or acid wines,
fruits, fats, ascending stairs. Tendency to take cold about head. Heaviness in forehead, with
vertigo, nausea and nosebleed. Itching of the head, with falling of hair. Headache after
stopped coryza.

Eyes
Canthi; raw, cracked, red and moist. Pustules on the margins of the lids, chronic blepharitis.
Lids red and inflamed. Looking into the fire causes cough. Chronic sore eyes of children.
Photophobia.

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Ears
Ringing and deafness. Moist eruptions around the ears. Otorrhoea. Deafness, as if bandaged
or a leaf lying on one.

Nose
*Nostrils scabby, sore and cracked. Nosebleed, after headache. Eczema of nostrils. Feeling of
coldness on inhalation.

Face
Sallow, haggard or sad. Pimples, pustules and boils on face. Yellow crusted eruptions on
cheeks and chin. Cracks in the corners of the mouth. Small, sore, honey coloured granules on
chin.

Mouth
***TONGUE COATED THICK WHITE, As IF WHITEWASHED. Toothache in hollow teeth, pain
extends to head, worse touching the tooth with tongue, better walking in open air. Grinding
of teeth, when sleeping in sitting position. Canker sores. Toothache before menses. Pimples
around the mouth. Aphthae. Gums bleed easily. Taste bitter. Salivation, taste salty.

Throat
Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares. Rough voice from over use. Hoarseness
after cold water bath. Sensation as if a foreign body had lodged, with constant desire to
swallow.

Stomach
Loss of appetite, with disgust for food. No thirst. Desire for acids, pickles. Eructation tasting
of the ingesta; food leaves an after taste or causes constant belching. DIGESTION DISORDERED
easily. Vomiting worse eating or drinking; without nausea or relief. Stomach is painful to
pressure. Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels. Sweetish waterbrash. Bloating after
eating. Child vomits its milk in curds, after nursing, and refuses to nurse afterwards (reverse
*Aeth). Appetite does not return after severe illness. Vomiting, fearful, with convulsions,
which nothing can stop. Great desire to eat, but no strength to do it (child). Pork disagrees.
Stomach seems to be always overloaded.

Abdomen
Diarrhoea, alternating with constipation esp. in old persons. Stools, pappy or *watery mixed
with lumps. Mucous piles_prickling and burning with continuous mucus discharge from anus,
staining yellow. Catarrhal proctitis. *Fulness in abdomen. Haemorrhage‐ with solid stools
piles. Stools entirely of mucus. Diarrhoea; summer, after nursing.

Urinary Organs
Cutting in urethra while urinating. Urination; frequent, profuse, with burning and backache.
Involuntary urination, on coughing. Foul odour.

Male
Atrophy of penis and testicle. Biting, itching of scrotum, with eruptions. Excited sexual desire,
with uneasiness of the whole body.

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Females
Menses; suppressed from cold bathing; with tenderness of the ovaries, pressure in womb as
if something would come out during menses. Nymphomania from checked menses.
Leucorrhoea, water,v containing lumps. Nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, during pregnancy.
Ovaries painful in love sick girls.

Respiratory organs
Cough worse coming in warm room; with burning in chest. First attack of cough is always most
severe, the subsequent attacks become weaker and weaker. Looking into fire worse cough.
Pain in the chest, with heat. Voice; lacks control, harsh, badly pitched better using it. Aphonia
from overheating. Itching in chest. Expectoration of large quantities of mucus, exhausts the
patient.

Neck and Back

Violent pain in small of back when rising, better when walking. Itching of neck and back.
Coccyx heavy.

Extremities
Arthritic pain in the joints of fingers. Horny or split nails; nails grow slowly; out of shape; horny
growth under the nails. Horny warts on hands and soles. Painful inflammation of the tendon
of elbows with great redness and curvature of the arms. Shiny elbows. Feet very tender; soles
tender while walking. Callosities on soles. Skin on soles is withered on account of foot sweat.
Weakness and shaking of hands in writing, followed by offensive flatus. Twitching in muscles.
Jerks in arms. Crippled feet. Growth beneath nails.

Sleep
*Sleepy and weary. Drowsy old people. Deep unrefreshing sleep.

Fever
Great heat from little exercise esp. in the sun. Heat and thirst after sweat. Disturbances of
stomach during apyrexia, in intermittent fevers.

Skin
Eczema, with gastric derangement. Eruptive tendency of pimples, vesicles and pustules.
Urticaria; white; with red areola, itching fearfully. Measly eruptions. Warts horny. Dry
gangrene. Itching when warm in bed. Callosities from slight pressure.

Related
Sulph.

Complementary
Squil.

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Antimonium tartaricum [Ant‐t]

Generalities
There is some similarity of symptoms between *Ant‐c and *Ant‐t esp. in mental and digestive
sphere. Ant‐t, affects the ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES esp. of *Bronchi and Lungs, causing
***GREAT ACCUMULATION OF Mucus, *with coarse rattling, thereby respiration is impeded
and heart action becomes laboured; defective oxygenation in the circulation *of blood
occurs*. All these conditions cause cyanosis, depression of vital power. Patient becomes
***INCREASINGLY WEAK, ***SWEATS, ***BECOMES DROWSY and RELAXED with LACK OF
REACTION. It is suitable to old people and children; to gouty subjects and drunkards, with
gastric affections. Trembling of whole body, great prostration and faintness. Sensation of
weight or heaviness in many parts; head, occiput, coccyx, limbs. Convulsive twitching.
Fretfulness, whining and crying, before the attack of sickness. Chronic trembling of head and
hands (as in paralysis agitans). Chills and contractures and pain in muscles. Dropsy of synovial
membrane. Convulsions when eruptions fail to appear. Child continuously wishes to be
carried erect, unwilling to be looked at or touched. Complaints arising in digestive sphere.
Effects of anger and vexation. Prostrated in mind and body. Nursing infants let go the nipple
and cry out as if out of breath Children have convulsions if attention is thrust upon them. Ill
effects of vaccination when *Thuja fails and *Silicea is not indicated. Sensation of coldness in
blood vessels. Bilharziasis. Clings to attendants.

Worse
***WARM; *room, *wraps, *weather. *Anger. *Lying. Morning. Overheating. Cold;
dampness. On sitting down, when seated, from rising from a seat. Motion. Sour things. Milk.

Better
*Expectoration. Sitting erect. Motion. Vomiting. Eructation. Lying on right side.

Mind
Fear of being alone. Bad humour. Despondent. Frightened, at every trifles. Muttering
delirium. Stupid on awakening. *Apathy or easily annoyed; wants to be let alone. Peevish;
whining and moaning. Despairs of his recovery. Clings to attendants. Consciousness wanes on
closing eyes. Melancholic; complains of numerous suffering.

Head
Band like feeling in the forehead. Head hot and sweaty Trembling of head, while coughing.
Vertigo; with dullness and confusion alternating with drowsiness. As of a lump in forehead.
Vertigo from lifting head from pillow. Fits of vertigo with sparking before the eyes. Head
better in open air, washing with cold water and motion. Head bent back.

Eyes
Dim, swimming eyes. Collection of mucus in margins of lids (in Pneumonia). One eye closed.
Pustular eruptions on the conjunctiva. Flickering; sparks before the eyes. Eyes staring.

Nose
Pointed. Nostrils, dilated, *black. Alae flapping.

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Face
Sickly, sunken. *Pale, *bluish or twitching with cough. Covered with cold sweat. Incessant
quivering of chin and lower jaw. Upper lip drawn up. Anxious, despairing. Pustules, leaving
ugly blue‐ red scars.

Mouth
Flow of saliva; during pregnancy. Tongue; thick, white pasty very red or red in streaks; dry in
the middle; papillae show through white coat. Mouth remains open after yawning. Taste;
bitter, flat. Tongue flaccid, dry. Imprints of teeth on border of the tongue.

Throat
Much mucus in throat with short breathing. Swallowing painful or impossible.

Stomach
Craves apples, fruits and *acids which disagree. ***NAUSEA; comes in waves; with weakness
and cold sweat; *Loathing, anxiety or fear, followed by headache, with yawning and
lachrymation and vomiting. *Vomiting *forcible, then exhaustion and *sleep. Violent
retching. Sinking at stomach. Vomits with great effort. Thirst for cold water little and often.
Eructations like bad eggs. Vomiting better lying on right side. Aversion to milk, to all kind of
nourishment. Thirstless.

Abdomen
Feels as if full of stones. Violent colic with drowsiness. *Diarrhoea, of eruptive diseases.
Stools_mucus, of grass green. Pain in the groins and cold creeps before menses. Palpitation
during stools.

Urinary Organs
Burning in urethra during and after urination. Last drop bloody, with pain in the bladder.

Male
Pain in testicles after checked gonorrhoea. Orchitis. Warts on glans penis.

Females
Leucorrhoea, of watery blood worse sitting. Puerperal convulsions better after the child is
born.

Respiratory organs
*Unequal breathing, *abdominal breathing, ***SUFFOCATIVE SHORTNESS OF BREATH;
before cough or alternating with cough. A leaflet seems to close the trachea. ***COARSE,
***LOOSE, ***RATTLING COUGH. ***CHEST SEEMS FULL YET LESS AND LESS Is RAISED. Cough
followed by vomiting or sleep worse anger. Must sit up to breathe or cough. Coughs and
yawns alternately. Expectoration thick. Asphyxia Neonatorum, child breathless and pale when
born. Paralysis of lungs, with oedema. Cough and dyspnoea better lying on right side, by
eructations, worse warm drinks. Capillary bronchitis; pleuro‐pneumonia. Emphysema.
Velvety feeling in chest. Child bends backwards, with cough.

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Heart
Great precordial anxiety, with vomiting of mucus and bile. Palpitation with uncomfortable hot
feeling. Paralytic depression of heart. Weak quick pulse. Sensation of coldness in blood
vessels. Palpitation with loose stools.

Neck and Back

*Violent pain in sacro‐lumbar region, slightest effort to move may cause retching and cold,
clammy sweat worse lifting. Sensation as of a heavy load was hanging on end of coccyx,
dragging downwards all time. Vertebrae seem to rub against each other.

Extremities
Trembling of the hands. Fingertips icy cold or dead, numb, dry and hard. Restless arms. Feet
go to sleep on sitting. *Dropsy of the legs; of knee joint (left) . Tension in hamstring when
walking. Synovitis. Joints swollen. Jerking up of limbs during sleep, with loose stools.

Skin
Pustular eruption leaving a bluish red mark. Thick eruptions like pocks. Sycosis barbae.
Smallpox. Impetigo. Delayed or receding eruptions. Blue eruptions.

Sleep
***GREAT DROWSINESS; with all complaints, or from warmth. *Yawning with many
complaints. Shocks on dropping to sleep. Cries during sleep with fixed eyes and trembling.
Lies on back with left hand passed under head.

Fever
***COPIOUS COLD CLAMMY SWEAT. Coldness, trembling and chilliness. Burning sensation.
Heat coming from heart. Cold creeping before menses.

Related
Aesc; Am‐c; Ip; Lob; Op.

Complementary
Bar‐c; Ip; Op.

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Apis mellifica [Apis]

Generalities
The well known effects of a bee sting; *burning, *stinging, *smarting, *prickling, *lancinating
pain, with excessive swelling; are the leading symptoms for the selection of this remedy. It
acts on ***CELLULAR TISSUE esp. of eyes, face, throat, ovaries, causing oedema of skin and
mucus membranes. In the ***SEROUS MEMBRANES of heart, brain, pleura etc. it produces
inflammation with effusion. Various parts are swollen, PUFFED UP; become oedematous and
of *shiny, red‐rosy colour. The burning is like hot needles. There is great debility, as if he had
worked hard; is compelled to lie down. *Symptoms develop rapidly. The *pains are sudden*
that extort cries. ***SUDDEN SHRILL CRIES in hydrocephalus and meningitis. Extreme
sensitiveness to touch and general bruised ***SORENESS is marked; of brain; ***ABDOMEN;
ovaries; bladder. Sensation of constriction. Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off
the interior part of the body. Great restlessness and fidgetiness. Trembling, jerking and
twitching. One half of the body twitching, the other, lame or paralyzed. Neuralgia of lips,
tongue, gums. Great prostration even to faintness. Infections. Ill effects of grief; fright; rage;
jealousy; hearing bad news; mental shock; suppressed eruptions. *Right side is affected more.
Symptoms go from right to left. Numbness. Thrombosis. Lymphangitis. Inflammation of
kidneys, bladder. Oedema; of eyelids, of lips; red, saccular. BURNING *itching Paralysis after
diphtheria and other severe diseases.

Worse
***HEAT of *room; of weather; of fire; *hot drinks, bath, bed. *Touch, even of hair. Pressure.
After sleep. Lying down. Suppressed eruptions. 4 p.m.

Better
***COOL AIR; cool bathing; uncovering. Slight expectoration. Motion. Sitting erect.

Mind
*Jealous, with lewd talk. *Fussy and fidgety; hard to please. *Awkward drops things and
laughs either due to nervousness, or absent‐mindedness. Foolishly suspicious. Childish, silly
behaviour in women, after delivery. Irritable, excitable. Fruitless activity. Frivolous, cheerful.
Constant whining in children. Great tearfulness, cannot help crying, weeps day and night
without any cause. Sexual mania alternating with stupor (in women.) *Indifference, says
nothing ails him. Cannot concentrate mind on attempting to read and write. (Hysterical girls
at puberty.) Cannot bear to be left alone. Nothing seems to satisfy; all wrong and out of place.
Premonition of death. Borrows trouble about everything. Fear of being poisoned.

Head
Brain feels very tired. Vertigo, with sneezing worse lying or closing eyes. Sudden stabbing in
head, or as of a blow worse occiput, with occasional ***SHARP SHRIEKS. Numb, tired
headache better pressure. Flow of tears, with headache. ***ROLLING OF THE HEAD from side
to side in hydrocephalus; *boring of the head backward in pillow in meningitis. Fontanelles
sunken Painful hair. Musty head sweat. Inability to hold the head, in meningitis. Head feels
swollen. Hair falls out; bald spots.

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Eyes
*Puffy; lids or conjunctiva red; oedematous like water‐bags, *red*, chemosed. Hot
lachrymation. Eyes brilliant. Burning, stinging, shooting pain in. Staphyloma of cornea. Bag
like swelling under eyes. Photophobia, yet covering intolerable. Blindness better stool. Squint.
Myopia. Puffy or red about eyes. Cannot look fixedly at any object; or cannot read in artificial
light. Cornea opaque. Styes_prevents their recurrence. Perforating corneal ulcer.

Ears
External ear red and inflamed. Raises the hand to the back of ear with each scream. Scarlatinal
otitis.

Nose
Swollen, red and oedematous. Nose and tip cold. Boils in nostril better cold. Coryza, with
feeling of swelling in nose.

Face
Expression; happy, terror stricken or apathetic. Face red, hot, swollen and oedematous with
piercing pains; or *waxy pale and oedematous. lips; bluish, oedematous, upper. Jaws stiff,
with stiffness of tongue. Paralysis of right side, with right eye closed. Desire for washing face
with cold water. Formication and prickling in face.

Mouth
*Tongue; red or vesicles on edge; swelled, raw, feels, as if burnt as if wooden; sore; stiff.
*Grinding of the teeth. Mouth glossy as if varnished. Tongue hangs out; or cannot be
protruded. Sudden involuntary biting teeth together.

Throat
Sandy, glossy or translucent better cold, swollen inside and outside. Throat purple. Tonsils;
swollen, fiery red, stinging pain, while swallowing, better cold drinks, Angina, Diphtheria with
early prostration; dirty membrane, oedema of uvula. Throat sore, swallowing painful worse
solids, sour or hot substances.

Stomach
***THIRSTLESS, with dropsy, Craving; for sour things, for milk which better. Child nurses by
day, refuses at night. Nausea. *Vomiting. Soreness in the pit of stomach when touched.
Neither eats nor drinks for weeks. Eructations; tasting of ingesta worse drinking water; flow
of water.

Abdomen
Feels *tight as if to break, on straining at stool. Sore; bruised on pressure, when sneezing.
Dropsy. Peritonitis. Diarrhoea; watery yellow orange yellow or tomato‐sauce like stools.
Stools; odourless, or offensive involuntary worse motion. Anus; sore, swelled, profuse
haemorrhage from, remains open; prolapsus ani. Electric shocks in rectum before urging to
stool. Burning, pain and tenderness in epigastrium. Pains from below ribs going upwards.
Burning or soreness below ribs.

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Urinary Organs
Burning urination. Dysuria with stinging pains. Urine, scanty foul, high coloured; last drops
burn and smart; milky in hydrocephalus. Albuminuria. Urine profuse, more than he drinks.
Coffee ground sediment. Incontinence of urine worse night, coughing. Cannot urinate without
a stool. Nephritis. Cystitis. Retention of urine in new born. Difficult, frequent or slow
urination, must press to pass urine, in prostatic affections.

Male
Dropsy of the scrotum. Hydrocele, in multilocular cysts. Affections of prostate gland.

Females
Amenorrhoea of puberty. Ovaries; numb, or congested, with suppressed menses. Ovarian
cysts. Oedema of labia. Burning, stinging pains in ovaries or uterus. Dysmenorrhoea, with
scanty discharge of slimy blood or with ovarian pains. Menorrhagia, with abortion.
Leucorrhoea; profuse, acrid, green. Stinging burning pains in mammae. Tumors or open
cancer of mammae. Abortion, during early months. Dropsy in later parts of pregnancy, with
puerperal convulsions. Mania in women from sexual excesses or suppressed menses. Pains in
ovaries worse coition. Menses last a day or appear at intervals of one day. Ulceration of navel
in new born.

Respiratory organs
*Panting breathing, feels every breath would be his last*. Air hunger. Oedema of larynx.
Burning stinging pains throughout entire front of the chest. Hydrothorax, after pleurisy. Chest
feels as if beaten or bruised. Painful shock in head and chest from every cough. Asthma, from
hives better small quantity of expectoration. Larynx drawn in. Hoarseness. Expectoration
sweetish.

Heart
Beats, shake the whole body. Heart stitches backward from apex. Palpitation of heart from
scanty secretion of urine. Pulse; hard small, intermittent, and quick, weak. Insufficiency of
mitral valves. Organic heart disease.

Neck and Back

Back of the neck stiff. Rheumatic pain in back. Burning pressing in coccyx worse when sitting
down. Back tired and bruised. Vascular goitre.

Extremities
Numbness of hands and tips of fingers. Palms hot. Oedema of hands. Felon in the beginning,
with burning_stinging throbbing pains. Limbs; immovable, heavy, numb. Feet numb and stiff.
Legs and feet waxy, pale swollen oedematous. Trembling of hands and feet. Nails feel loose.
Hemiplegia from severe mental shock. Staggers when eyes are shut.

Sleep
***GREAT INCLINATION To ***SLEEP; but cannot sleep from nervous restlessness.
Drowsiness during fever. ***SCREAMS, during sleep and suddenly starts from sleep. Kicks off
covers during sleep. Dreams full of care and toil.

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Fever
Chill; anticipating, with dyspnoea, urticaria, desire to uncover; alternate with heat.
***BURNING HEAT, but chilly when moved. *Thirstless during fever. *Heat of one part with
coldness of another*. Sweat in gushes, partial. Sweat breaks out and dries frequently. Thirst
during chill.

Skin
Rosy red, sensitive, sore. Rough eruptions or stinging‐like spots on skin. Large urticaria. Skin
dry; hot, alternating with gushes of sweat. Oedematous swellings. Erysipelas. Scarlatina.
Carbuncles.

Related
Ars; Canth; Graph; Iod; Lyc; Puls; Stram; Sulph; Urt‐u.

Complementary
Arn; Ars; Hell; Merc‐cy; Nat‐m; Puls.

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Apocynum cannabinum [Apoc]

Generalities
This remedy acts upon ***URINARY ORGANS, producing diuresis and removing the dropsical
effusions. Heart’s action is depressed. *Digestion is disturbed. It is a useful remedy for general
dropsies, with or without organic disease. Swelling of every part of the body, with scanty urine
and sweat, feels if he could only sweat he would get well. Dropsies are usually accompanied
by digestive disturbances_nausea, vomiting, and great thirst; drowsiness and difficult
breathing, may accompany these symptoms. In acute hydrocephalus the child lies in stupor,
with automatic motion of one arm and leg. Paralysis of left side; one eye motionless other
rolling. Weakness is marked. Dropsy; after haemorrhage; quinine. Uterine haemorrhage.
Scanty discharges.

Worse
***COLD; weather; *drinks. Uncovering. Lying. After sleep.

Better
Warmth.

Mind
Low spirited, nervous and bewildered. Cannot think. Faints when raised from pillow.

Head
Dull ache. Hydrocephalus, with loss of vision and projecting, forehead.

Eyes
Hot and red; as if sand in. One eye motionless and other rolling.

Nose
Filled with thick yellow mucus in morning, snuffles of infants. Takes cold easily.

Face
Bloated worse lying down, passes off after sitting up. Face pale, covered with cold sweat, in
diarrhoea. Dry; lips, mouth.

Stomach
Nausea, with drowsiness. Thirst, but water disagrees, vomits every drink or food at once,
(dropsy). Sensation of *sinking in the pit of stomach; after profuse urination_diabetes
insipidus. Uremic vomiting.

Abdomen
Ascites. Diarrhoea, with dropsy; yellow, painless; noisy, gushing stools. Feeling as if anus is
open and stools run through out.

Urinary Organs
Retention of urine, with paralysis of lower limbs. Urine; copious; scanty. Bed wetting in old
men.

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Male
Penis and scrotum dropsical. Prostate gland enlarged.

Females
Amenorrhoea of young girls, with bloating of abdomen and legs. Uterine haemorrhage, blood
expelled in large clots or sometimes in fluid state, at climaxis. Ovarian tumour. Cough during
pregnancy.

Respiratory organs
Breathing, short and unsatisfactory, difficult. Oppression of the chest. Short, dry cough,
sighing. Hydrothorax.

Heart
Pulse, slow, fluttering, irregular or intermittent. Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation.

Sleep
Sleepy. Great restlessness with little sleep.

Skin
Rough, *dry. Cannot sweat.

Related
Chin‐a; Nux‐v.

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Aralia racemosa [Aral]

Generalities.
This remedy affects respiration causing asthmatic condition with coughing, worse lying down.
Patient is weak, relaxed and exhausted. Biliousness. Mucus secretions acrid.

Worse
After a short nap. Drafts. Il p.m. (cough).

Better.
Lying, with head high. Sitting up.

Mind
Fear of lung disease; cannot be shaken off.

Nose
Sneezing worse least drafts, with copious, watery excoriating nasal discharge. Hay fever, with
frequent sneezing.

Mouth
Aphthae. As if foreign body in throat. Nausea in throat.

Abdomen
Pain from liver to right scapula.

Respiratory
Dyspnoea or violent cough after first sleep better slight expectoration. Raw, burning feeling
behind the sternum. Whistling breathing. Salty expectoration: feels warm in mouth.

Complementary
Lob.

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Aranea diadema [Aran]

Generalities
This spider poison is the remedy for the constitution, favourable to malarial poisoning. Patient
feels cold to the very bones, cannot get warm enough. There is abnormal susceptibility to
damp and cold. Inability to live near fresh water, rivers, lakes etc. or in damp chilly places. It
affects the nerves; causing neuralgic pains, which are violent and sudden and appear at the
same hour every day, every other day, week, month or at regular periods. Sensation ***AS
OF ENORMOUS ENLARGEMENT; *or numbness of parts worse on waking or he wakes with
such a feeling. It is a haemorrhagic remedy. It affects bones, causing periostitis. Punctured
wounds. Many symptoms appear on right side. Pains are like electric shocks. Great desire to
lie down. Creeping as of ants all over the body.

Worse
***EXACT PERIODICITY. *Cold. ***DAMPNESS. *Cold bathing*.

Better.
Tobacco smoking. In open air. Pressure. Summer.

Mind
Nervous. Despondent; longs for death.

Head
Ache better smoking and going out in open air. Vertigo, with flickering before the eyes.

Eyes
Heat and glittering before eyes; before headache.

Face
Trigeminal neuralgia. Cheeks feel as if swollen during toothache.

Mouth
Violent pain in all upper teeth at once, on retiring. Taste bitter better smoking.

Stomach
Epigastrium painful to pressure. Cramps, after eating a little.

Abdomen
Spleen enlarged. Colic occurring at the same hour. Pain better by rubbing.

Females
Menses too early; too copious. Lumbo‐abdominal neuralgia with vomiting and yawning;
during menstrual cycle.

Respiratory organs
Haemoptysis, bright red. Inter‐costal neuralgia extending to spine.

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Extremities
Bones painful. Pain in os calcis, better continued motion. Numbness of parts supplied by ulnar
nerve. Arms and legs feel numb. Bones cold as if made of ice. Ulcer on heel. Limbs feel heavy.

Sleep
Restless and waking, as if hands and forearms are swollen and heavy.

Fever
Chilliness, with pain in long bones, and feeling of a stone in abdomen. No sweat.

Complementary
Ced.

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Argentum metallicum [Arg‐m]

Generalities
Silver affects NERVES causing convulsive and spasmodic effects. It acts upon joints and their
component elements, bones, condyles, *cartilages and ligaments. Secretions of mucous
membranes are ***THICK, *grey or tenacious*; or like boiled starch. It THICKENS the tissue
esp, *cartilages, tarsi, LARYNX is also prominently affected. Symptoms appear insidiously;
slowly, lingering but progressing, deeply penetrating. Pains gradually increase, become
violent then suddenly cease, worse by touch. Pains are accompanied by polyuria. Painless
twitching or electric‐like shocks. *Loss of control over MIND *and body. Cramps in muscles;
limbs *feel powerless*. In epilepsy, the attacks are followed by delirious rage, jumping about
and striking those near. Arthralgia. Bones; painful, tender. It is adapted to tall thin irritable
people. Exostosis of skull. Ill effects of onanism and sunstroke. *Sore rawness*. Lies down on
account of tiredness and weakness. Emaciation. Caries.

Worse
*Using voice. Speaking, singing. *Mental strain. Noon. Cold damp. 3 to 6 p.m. Touch, pressure.
Riding in carriage. Lying on back. Sitting. Stooping. Entering warm room. Sun.

Better
Motion. Coffee. Wrapping up.

Mind
*Loss of mental power. *Forgetful Hasty; deceitful. Talkative, or disinclined to talk in society;
changes subjects. Restless anxiety which drives him from place to place. Time passes slowly.
Bars out all sympathy for friends. Takes on all sorts of whims, often does strange and
unaccountable things. Anxiety about his health.

Head
Vertigo; whirling; worse looking at running water, or entering warm room. Crawling and
emptiness in head. Scalp very tender to touch.

Eyes
Itching in eyelids and canthi. Abundant purulent discharge. Lachrymal stricture. Eyelids and
tarsi become thick.

Ears
Itching of ear lobes. Itching; has to scratch until it bleeds.

Nose
Violent fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, causing exhaustion. Nose bleed, with tickling;
worse blowing nose.

Face
*Pale, *sallow, with *weakness. Red. Sudden heat, with palpitation.

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Throat
Feels raw and sore, during expiration or when swallowing or coughing. Viscid, grey‐jelly like
mucus easily hawked up; in the morning. Tension in throat worse yawning. Hawks. Fauces
numb.

Stomach
Burning in stomach, ascending to the chest. Anxiety and pressure in the pit of stomach.
Appetite increased or repugnance to all food. Hiccough on smoking. Nausea in dreams.

Abdomen
Loud croaking, with hunger in abdomen. Painful soreness of abdomen worse riding in a
carriage. Vomiting during stool.

Urinary Organs
Copious and frequent urination. Diabetes; if there is swelling of the ankles. Urine, like whey,
of sweet odour. Chronic urethritis.

Male
Crushed pain in (right) testicle. Clothing increases pain when walking. Seminal emissions
without sexual excitement, and erection. Yellowish green discharge.

Females
Pain in left ovary. Ovaries feel too large. Prolapsus uteri, with pain in left ovary and small of
the back, extending in front and downwards. Eroded spongy cervix. Scirrhus of uterus.
Climacteric haemorrhage. Leucorrhoea; foul, bloody water, excoriating. Ovarian cysts,
tumours. Palpitation during pregnancy.

Respiratory organs
Hoarseness and aphonia worse using voice. Total loss of voice in professional singers. Larynx
feel sore and raw. Cough worse laughing. *Easy expectoration of grey, gelatinous or starchy*
mucus. Feeling of raw spot near suprasternal fossa. Great weakness in the chest (left), stitches
in chest impeding breathing, while reading aloud or talking. Boil near the last rib, Neuralgic
pains along the entire border of left lower rib.

Heart
Stops, then trembles, then throbs, better inspiration. Palpitation with cardiac unrest, better
by lying on left side. Palpitation during pregnancy; better deep inhalations. Pulse intermittent
and very irregular, during palpitation.

Neck and Back

Severe backache must walk bent. Icy cold feeling near sacrum.

Extremities
Upper limbs feel powerless. Legs weak and trembling worse descending stairs. Calves feel as
if too short on going down stairs. Swelling of ankles (Diabetes). Contraction of the fingers,
with partial paralysis of the forearm. Writer’s cramps. Limbs feel numb or stiff. Burning in
corns.

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Sleep
Electric shocks on dropping to sleep. Nausea in dreams.

Fever
Hectic fever at noon. Sweat only on abdomen and chest.

Skin
Nervous itching, crawling, tickling on various parts.

Related
Calc; Puls; Sel; Sep; Stann; Zinc.

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Argentum nitricum [Arg‐n]

Generalities
This drug affects the ***MIND causing neurotic effects. By its action on *Cerebro‐Spinal
nerves, it produces incoordination, loss of control, and loss of balance, mentally and
physically. Mucous membranes are inflamed and ulcerated causing muco‐purulent discharges
and ***SPLINTER LIKE PAINS. It is a useful remedy for those persons *who are dried, withered
up and prematurely old*, with *trembling* and weakness. Hysterical nervous persons.
Emaciation is progressive. Ascending *paralysis. Parts seem ***ENLARGED or *bound up.
***VIOLENT PAINS; LIKE DEEPLY STICKING SPLINTER; or *sharp, *shooting like lightning,
grinding or radiating; cause starting; extending down back or legs. Pains increase and
decrease gradually, *Ulceration, with much bloody yellow pus. It is a convulsive remedy;
attacks of epilepsy; from fright. worse during menses, at night; pupils are always dilated for a
day or two before the attack, and followed by restlessness and trembling of hands. Periodical
trembling of the body. Loss of voluntary motion. Paraplegia. Sinking downward from head.
Myelitis. Disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord. Sensation of a sudden pinch. Ill effects of;
eating ices, onanism and venery. Tobacco. Symptoms appear on the left side. Conjoined
mental and digestive symptoms. Unable to walk with closed eyes. Pains cause starting.
Suitable to businessmen, students, brain workers. Examination funk. Desire to talk. Anaemia.
Errors of perception. Perversion of senses.

Worse
***EMOTION; ***ANXIETY, apprehension, fear or fright, suspense. *In room; in shut places.
Mental strain and worry. *Sugar. *Lying on right side. Looking down. Drinking. Crowds.
Warmth in any form. Cold food; ice creams. Before and during menses. Riding. Thinking
intently.

Better
***COOL AIR; *open air. Cold bath. Hard pressure, Motion. Eructations. Bending double.

Mind
Tormented by strange ideas and emotions. *Nervous impulsive and hurried, yet timid and
anxious. Fearsome, *Dreads ordeals. Fear, of impending evil, of crowds, passing a certain
point, of high buildings, of dark. *Hesitates. falters; in speech; in gait, erections etc. Loss of
ambition. Believes that he is despised by his family; that all his undertakings will fail.
Despondent. Melancholy. Impulse to jump when crossing a bridge; or from a window. Brain
fag. Loss of memory. Time passes slowly; time seems short, wants to do things in a hurry,
must walk fast etc. Weeps, says he is lost beyond hope. Everything seems changed. Irrational;
does strange things and comes to strange conclusions; does foolish things. Incoherence.
Childish talk. Talks about his sufferings. Remains in bed, with trifle indisposition.

Head
Nervous headache; with coldness and trembling worse mental exertion, dancing, better tight
bandaging. Head as if in a vise. Compressive or deep head pain. Loses his senses. Boring in left
frontal eminence. Migraine. Head feels much enlarged. Vertigo; before epilepsy; worse night,
with transient blindness, worse closing eyes. Itching, crawling sensation on the scalp. As if

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skull bones were separated. Headache ends in vomiting. Headaches of hysterical young
women; of delicate literary persons.
Eyes
Balls feel big. Violent purulent ophthalmia; ophthalmia neonatorum. Blepharitis, thick crusts
on eyelids. Pupils dilated. *Carunculae swollen; photophobia. Ulceration of cornea. Chemosis.
Acute granular conjunctivitis. Eye symptoms worse with abdominal symptoms. Opacity of
cornea. Pterygium of pink colour.

Ears
Buzzing in ears, with vertigo. Ringing, with deafness.

Nose
Loss of smell. Violent itching. Coryza with chilliness, lachrymation and headache. Violent
itching, rubs it.

Face
Sickly, sunken, grayish, of muddy colour. Old man’s look. Lips tremble while speaking. Lips
blue.

Mouth
Tip of the tongue is red and painful. Papillae erect and prominent. Tongue furred with clean
edges. Aphthae on edges of the tongue. Astringent, sour or bitter‐sour taste. Teeth pain
worse chewing, cold things; sour things. Food escapes from mouth during chewing. Cannot
talk; spasms of muscles of tongue and throat. Stammers.

Throat
Thick tenacious mucus in the throat, causes hawking. Uvula and fauces dark red. Sensation as
if a splinter were lodged in the throat worse when swallowing, breathing or moving the neck
better cool drinks. Food lodges in pharynx. Smoker’s catarrh, with sensation as of a hair in
throat. Strangulated feeling.

Stomach
Craves sugar, which disagrees. Desire for cheese. Loss of appetite. Appetite good, but every
kind of food disagrees. Astringent sour or bitter_sour vomiting. Alcoholic gastritis. Vomited
substances tinge the bedding black. Gastralgia; pain occurring in small spot, radiates in all
directions, worse slightest pressure. Painful swelling in the epigastrium. Ulceration of the
stomach worse cold food. Eating better nausea but worse stomach pain. Sour things better
nausea. Eructates ingesta. Wind presses upwards but the oesophagus seems spasmodically
closed. Trembling and throbbing in the stomach.

Abdomen
***FLATULENCE; causing distension and *bursting of abdomen. *Loud, *explosive belchings
discharged upwards and downwards. *Diarrhoea; emotional; *noisy worse immediately after
eating and drinking, after sweets. Fluids go right through him. *Stools; *shreddy, mucus,
turning green, like chopped spinach. Itching of anus. Shivering through bowels; extending up
the back; Diarrhoea, nervous, after sugar candy; of children, after weaning. Constipation;
worse every complaint; alternates, with diarrhoea.

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Urinary Organs
Violent pain from kidney to bladder (Nephralgia) worse touch, motion, deep inspiration.
Incontinence of urine day and night. Urging to urinate, urine passes less easily and freely.
Cutting in urethra, with painful erection. Divided stream. Yellow bloody gonorrhoea; early
stage. Urine; highly coloured, dark red; with albumin. Retention of urine.

Male
Impotence; erection, but it fails when coition is attempted. Coition painful_urethra as if put
on stretch or sensitive at orifice. Chancre like ulcers, on the prepuce. Testes drawn up high.

Females
Coition painful, followed by bleeding. Prolapsus, with ulceration of os or cervix uteri.
Metrorrhagia, with nervous erethism at the change of life; also of young widows and childless
women. Ovaries painful, with pains radiating to sacrum and thighs. Menses; irregular, too
soon, too late or last one day only. Pain in stomach and spasmodic contraction in chest before
menses. Menses scanty, with dyspnoea. Infants die early after delivery. Leucorrhoea; profuse,
with erosion of cervix.

Respiratory organs
Chronic laryngitis of singers, raising voice causes cough, high notes cause cough. Rawness,
soreness, high up in trachea worse coughing. Crowd, in a room takes away his breath. Desire
to take deep breath which worse dyspnoea. Dyspnoea, nervous or flatulent, worse gastric
pain. Cough; worse laughing, stooping, smoking, ascending stairs before menses. Chest feels
as if a bar were around it. As if weight of stone in middle of the sternum. *Craves fresh air.
Loss of voice. Pain in the chest on putting boots. Asthma; worse in summer, in cold weather
or taking cold.

Heart
Palpitation; with nausea, worse lying on right side, riding in car; better pressing by hand.
Unpleasant sensation of fullness about the heart better fresh open air. Pulse irregular
intermittent. Anxiety, with palpitation and throbbing throughout the whole body.

Neck and Back

Pain in the small of the back worse rising from sitting better standing or walking. Glands of
the neck indurated. Throbbing in spine or weak spine.

Extremities
Trembling of hands, cannot write. Numbness of finger tips; ring and little fingers. Fingers half
clenched, cannot be separated. Lassitude and weariness of forearm and legs, with trembling.
Weakness, rigidity or twisting in calves. Paralysis, with mental and abdominal symptoms.
Cannot walk with eyes closed. Walks and stands unsteadily worse when unobserved. As if a
weight hanging to coccyx. Chorea like convulsions; legs drawn up, arms jerked outwards and
upwards. Peripheral neuralgias. Oedema of legs. Legs feel as if made of wood or padded.
Paraplegia, after debilitating causes.

Sleep

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Horrible dreams of snakes and sexual gratification.

Fever
Chilly when uncovered, yet smothers when covered. Chill with nausea.

Skin
Brown, tense and hard. Ulcers; angry, deep, with hard edges. Warty granulations. Adherent
crusts.

Related
Lyc; Puls.

Complementary
Calc; Nat‐m; Puls; Sep.

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Arnica montana [Arn]

Generalities
It is a traumatic remedy par excellence. Trauma in all its varieties_mental or physical and their
effects recent or remote are met with by this remedy. It affects BLOOD, causing putrid and
septic conditions. ***BLOOD VESSELS are relaxed, causing ecchymosis, blue‐black spots; with
***TENDENCY To HAEMORRHAGE; *epistaxis etc. It acts upon nerves causing neuralgia.
*Muscles feel ***VERY SORE, ***PAINFUL, BRUISED; *all over. Parts become sore, after the
pains, or after bleeding. It is a prophylactic for pus formation. Burrowing pus. Has absorbent
action. Progressive emaciation. Great prostration; tired feeling. Discharges are ***FOUL;
*breath, taste, flatus, stools etc. Crushing pain. ***BED FEELS HARD or full of lumps.
*Involuntary evacuations. Abscesses that do not mature. Pains are paralytic; sudden, shifting
pains from joint to joint. It acts best in plethoric, dark, haired persons of rigid muscles, nervous
sanguine nature. It acts but feebly on persons who are positively debilitated, with
impoverished blood and soft flesh. Compound fractures. Twitching, in tendons, muscles.
Osteomyelitis. Ill effects of fright, financial loss, anger, repentance; excessive use of any
organ, vaginitis in females and impotence in males from excessive sexual indulgence.
*Exertion* of any kind. Mind and uterine symptoms alternate. Complaints when over hurried.
Apoplexy. Typhoid, septic fevers. Recurring boils. Surgical operations. Insect stings. Splinters.
Thrombosis.

Worse
***INJURIES *falls, *blows, ***BRUISES; *shock; *jarring; after labour; over‐exertion; sprains.
***TOUCH. After sleep. Motion. Old age. Alcohol. Damp cold. Coal gas. Lying on left side.

Better
Lying down and lying with head low or outstretched.

Mind
***FEAR; of being *struck or touched*; or approached; of sickness; of instant death; with
cardiac distress at night; of space; on awakening; of crowds, public places. Morose, repentant
mood. Mentally prostrate and apathetic, but physically *restless; says nothing ails him. When
spoken to, answers slowly with effort. Feels well in serious cases. Forgetful, what he reads,
quickly escapes his mind. After rage sheds tears and makes exclamations. Hopeless;
indifferent. Violent attacks of anguish_angina pectoris. Delirium tremens. A sudden fear that
rouses one from sleep at night esp. after an accident. Great desire to scratch; will scratch,
wall, bed, head, etc. *Coma. Muttering delirium. Sensation of being good for nothing. Easily
frightened, unexpected trifles cause him to start. Sits as if in thought.

Head
Brain; feels tired, burning in. Vertigo; chronic; of the aged; with nausea, vomiting and
diarrhoea; objects whirl worse walking. Vertigo worse walking, sitting erect, closing eyes.
Headache as from a nail. Head hot with cold body. Cold spot on the forehead, hot spots on
vertex. Meningitis from injury to head. Head throws backwards while walking.

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Eyes
*Bloodshot. Retinal haemorrhage. Photophobia. Feel tired and heavy, after sight seeing,
moving pictures. High objects appear to lean forward and about to fall. Right eye protrudes,
looks larger than left.

Ears
Hardness of hearing; noises in ears. Blood from ears. Bruised pain in external ears. Hearing
impaired from injury to the head. Sensitive to shrill noise.

Nose
Bleeding; after every fit of coughing; after washing face. Violent sneezing from over‐lifting.
Nose; feels sore, cold. Post nasal dropping. Catarrh of antrum. Burning in typhoid fever.

Face
*Ruddy congested, bluish red; in apoplexy, fevers. Sunken, pale. Lips; burn, swollen and
cracked. Lower lip trembles, while eating. Lower jaw hangs down, paralysis. Painful acne.
Cheeks puffed; red.

Mouth
Foetid breath. Dry, with much thirst. Taste; as from bad eggs, after operation_plugging etc.
Bright red, puffy fauces. Tongue; dry, almost black. Swallowing is prevented by sort of nausea
as if food would not go down.

Stomach
*Eructations; tasting of bad eggs*; after coughing. Loss of appetite by day, but canine hunger
before midnight. Nausea. Vomiting of dark, red coagulated blood. Feeling as if stomach were
passing against the spine. Foetid vomiting. As of a lump back of stomach. Aversion to milk and
meat. Longing for vinegar. Constant desire to drink, but knows not what for, as all drinks are
offensive.

Abdomen
Cramps from epigastrium down over the bowels, then foul stools. Sharp pains from side to
side. Stools; bloody, foamy, purulent, acrid; involuntary; during sleep; Dysentery; with
dysuria, all summer and autumn. Cramps in rectum, while standing. Flatus smelling of rotten
eggs. Must lie down after every stool. Prolapsus ani worse after walking for few minutes only
better washing the whole body.

Urinary Organs
Cutting pain in kidneys. Retention of urine in bladder, from over exertion, after labour.
Involuntary dribbling, with constant urging. Has to wait a long time for urine to pass. The
bladder feels full and sore; the pressure of urine hurts him.

Male
Impotence from excess or abuse. Phimosis, from friction. Seminal emission during caress.
Haematocele.

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Females
After‐pains worse suckling. Soreness of the parts after labour. Feeling as if foetus were lying
crosswise. Cannot bear foetal movements; cause nausea and vomiting. Haemorrhage after
coition. Nipples sore. Children lose their breath when angry. Mastitis. Threatened abortion
from falls etc. Labour, weak and ceasing. Menses; early, hot, profuse. Soreness of the whole
body during pregnancy. Tumours of mammae from injury. Puerperal fever.

Respiratory organs
Hoarseness; worse exertion, colds, or getting wet. Cough in sleep without waking. Cough
produced by yawning, weeping or lamenting. Child cries before paroxysms of whooping
cough. Cough causes bloodshot eyes or epistaxis. Cardiac cough. Dyspnoea, with
haemoptysis. Violent spasmodic cough, with facial herpes. Bones and cartilages of chest are
painful worse motion, breathing or coughing. Heavy lower chest. Stitching pains in chest,
taking the breath away; better pressure. Hoarse voice from over use.

Heart
Beats shake the whole body. Sudden pain as if the heart is squeezed or had got a shock, pain
felt in left elbow (angina pectoris). Strain of heart from violent running. Cardiac dropsy.
Hypertrophy of heart. Fatty heart. Heart pains; left to right. Pulse feeble and irregular.
Weakened heart muscles. Horror of constant death, with cardiac distress at night. Palpitation
after any exertion.

Neck and Back

Muscles of neck weak, head falls backwards, or any side. Back sore. Cervical vertebrae tender.

Extremities
Limbs ache as if beaten. Pain in arms better hanging down. Want of strength in the hands on
grasping. Cramps in the fingers_ writer’s cramp. Veins of hands distended. Cannot walk erect
on account of bruised pain in pelvic region. Hygroma patellae. Gout. Knee joints suddenly
bend when standing. Feet numb.

Sleep
*Comatose drowsiness*; drops to sleep as he answers. Dreams; of death mutilated bodies,
anxious and terrible, awakes in terror, then sleepless. Severe fatigue causes restlessness and
sleeplessness.

Fever
Chilly with heat and redness of one cheek. Head or face alone hot, body cold. Coldness of part
lain on. Thirst during chill. Must uncover but it chills him. Intermittent, typhoid, septic,
traumatic fevers.

Skin
Dusky, mottled. Every little hurt makes a black and blue spot. *Very sore acne or crops of
small boils. *Symmetrical eruptions*. Petechiae. Erysipelas. Bed sores. Tingling and itching
which moves from place to place; after scratching, itching begins somewhere else. Carbuncle;
of thigh.

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Related
Bell‐p; Echi; Hyper; Rhus‐t.

Complementary
Acon; Calc; Nat‐s; Psor; Rhus‐t; Sul‐ac.

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Arsenicum album [Ars]

Generalities
A very deep acting remedy, affecting every organ and tissue. ***MENTALLY the patient is
extremely nervous; restless and anxious. Discharges of ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES are
***ACRID, ***THIN and ***SCANTY; coryza, saliva, sweat etc. *Blood is disorganized causing
pernicious type of anaemia and severe septic conditions. Haemorrhages, black, offensive.
*Weakness and emaciation is rapid. The prostration seems to be out of proportion to the rest
of his illness. *Pains are maddening, ***BURNING LIKE FIRE; *hot needles or wires better
heat. Pains are even felt during sleep; awake the patient. Pains cause *shortness of breath or
chilliness. Pains alternating between head, stomach or body. It acts on the nerves producing
inveterate neuralgias and multiple neuritis better heat. Frequent fainting. Trembling, jerking,
convulsions and choreic twitchings. *Sudden intense effects; ***SUDDEN GREAT WEAKNESS
from trivial causes. ***VERY RESTLESS; restless even in affected part; even stupor is
interrupted by fits of restlessness, with anxious moaning. Low vitality. Gradual loss of weight.
***PUTRID CADAVERIC ODOURS. Emaciation. Paralysis. Destructive process_carbuncles,
gangrene, cancer; malignancy. Dropsy; *pale, puffy, baggy, SWELLING. Spleen is enlarged in
malarial fever, kala‐azar. Child better when carried about quickly. Ill effects of eating ices;
poor diet, fruits esp watery, tobacco, quinine, sea bathing and travelling, mountain climbing.
Care, grief, fright, ptomaine poisoning, dissecting wounds. It is a prophylactic for yellow fever.
Acute and chronic burns. Epilepsy; suddenly becomes unconscious with convulsions.
Restlessness; then becomes drowsy.

Worse
***PERIODICALLY; MIDNIGHT; *after midnight; *After. 2 A.M.; 14 days; yearly. ***COLD;
ICES, DRINKS; COLD FOODS; *Cold air, cold and damp*. ***VEGETABLES. Watery fruits.
***DRINKING LIQUIDS, ***ALCOHOLISM. Infections. Bad meat, food. Eruptions undeveloped
or suppressed. *Quinine. Lying on affected part. ***EXERTION. Tobacco, chewing. Sea shore.

Better
***HOT; APPLICATIONS (Dry); FOOD; *drinks. Warm wraps. Motion. Walking about.
***LYING, with head elevated. Sitting erect. Company. Sweating. Open air.

Mind
*Oversensitive. Anxious. *Fastidious. *Fault finding. ***ANGUISH; *despair of recovery.
***EXACTING. ***AGONISING FEAR OF DEATH; yet tired of living, worse night. Fear; of death,
from starvation; of financial loss. ***VIOLENCE; self torture, pulls her hair, bites her nails,
tears his own body. *Suicidal; *impulses, *mania *Restless, changes place continually, wants
to go from one bed to other; children are capricious, want to be carried; want to go from
father to mother, to nurse. Melancholy. Sees vermin; throws away bugs by handfuls.
*Suspicious. Fear of being left alone, lest he do himself bodily harm. Fears he has murdered
somebody. Miserly, malicious, selfish. Lacks courage. *Irritable; *increasingly. Sensitive to
disorder. Delirium tremens. Dotage. Fixed ideas, hallucinations. Imagines house full of
thieves; jumps and hides. Hasty. Sees ghosts day and night. Groans, moans and weeps, during
menses. Her desire exceeds her needs. Does not want to meet his acquaintances, thinks he
has offended them.

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Head
Ache, congestive better cold, *Restless head, it is in constant motion.Pain over left eye.
Hemicrania, with icy feeling. Vertigo; with loss of consciousness, during coughing fits, in
asthmatics, before epilepsy. Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair. Hair becomes grey early;
falling of hair. Dandruff. Chronic eruptions filled with pus. Pain alternates between head or
stomach or body worse by people’s talk. Walks with head thrown backwards.

Eyes
Sunken or protruding. Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation. Oedema around eyes. Intense
photophobia. Lids granulated. Spasms of the eye lids. Everything appears green; sees as
through a white gauze. Conjunctiva; injected; yellow. Scrofulous ophthalmia. Eyelids red and
ulcerated. Falling of lashes. Eye lids oedematous.

Ears
Thin, offensive, excoriating discharge. Roaring in ears, during pain. Hard hearing, to human
voice.

Nose
*Thin, *watery, *excoriating discharge*. Nose feels stopped up, with fluent coryza. Nose
colds descend to chest. *Cold sores; in nose. *Sneezing*, without relief. *Can not bear the
sight or smell of food. Hay fever. Knotty swelling of the nose. Nose pointed. Acne of nose.
Nose bleed, after fit of passion or vomiting. Dyspnoea felt in nose. *Sneezing, with biting
watery coryza.

Face
***PALE; *anxious, *sunken, haggard or *distorted, hippocratic, covered with cold sweat. Old
look; in children. Oedematous swelling of face. Burning, stinging pains as from red hot
needles. Lips; black, livid. Eruptions on lips. Cancer of lips. Black dots, acne.

Mouth
Tongue; dry, clean and red; *bluish white. Edge of tongue red, takes imprint of the teeth.
Burning pain in tongue. Tongue; burning, trembling; stiff; coated, white, yellowish; brown,
black. Swelling about the root of the tongue. Neuralgia of teeth; feel long; better heat; worse
night. Swollen bleeding gums, painful to touch. Grinding of the teeth in sleep. Bites tumbler
while drinking. Dryness of mouth. Aphthae in mouth. Fetor oris. Gulping up of burning water.
Taste; bitter to water; after eating and drinking; sour, foul, saltish, sweet in morning. Bloody
saliva. Speech rapid, lisping.

Throat
Swollen, oedematous, constricted, burning, unable to swallow. Everything swallowed seems
to lodge in oesophagus.

Stomach
*Can not bear the sight, smell or thought of food. ***INTENSE, ***UNQUENCHABLE,
***BURNING THIRST; DRINKS LITTLE AND OFTEN; CRAVES ICE COLD WATER, ***WHICH
DISTRESSES THE STOMACH AND Is VOMITED IMMEDIATELY. Loss of appetite; with thirst; with
nausea. Nausea, retching and vomiting, after eating and drinking. Anxiety felt in the pit of
stomach. Burning pain in stomach better by sweet milk. Heart burn, gulping of burning water.

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*Vomiting and purging*. Hiccough; frequent; also when fever ought to have come; with
eructations. Aversion to sweets, butter, fats, meat. Gastritis. ***DRINKS LITTLE AND OFTEN,
eats seldom and much. Qualmishness. Desire for sour things, brandy, coffee, milk. Gastralgia,
from slightest food or drink. Black vomit.

Abdomen
Induration and enlargement of spleen and liver. Violent pains in abdomen, with anguish. *Has
no rest anywhere, rolls about on floor and despairs of life. Epigastrium sore, tender. Stools;
rice water, foul, small, involuntary, acrid, *burning, black, mucus, lienteric worse cold drinks,
with much prostration. Ulcer above navel. Dysentery, cholera, in children. Anus, red and sore,
*burning Acute prolapse of anus. Prolapse of piles, with burning better hot application.
Itching and eczematous eruptions around anus. Peritonitis. Ascites.

Urinary Organs
Urine; scanty, burning, involuntary. Feeling of weakness in abdomen after urination. Atony of
bladder, in old persons. Uraemia. Albuminuria. Diabetes. Retention of urine, as if the bladder
were paralyzed, after parturition. Urine black as if mixed with dung. Dysuria.

Male
Scrotum oedematous. Emissions during diarrhoeic stools. Erysipelatous inflammation of
scrotum. Syphilitic ulcers; with burning, stitching.

Females
Profuse acrid, yellowish, thick leucorrhoea worse standing, passing flatus. Cancer of uterus.
Burning in ovarian region. Pressive, stitching pain in ovary, into the thigh, which feels numb
and lame worse motion or bending. Menorrhagia, with black blood. Burning in mammae
better motion. Increased sexual desire at menses. Menses suppressed, in weak, tired
careworn women. Stitching in rectum during menses. Dysmenorrhoea better heat.

Respiratory organs
***SHORTNESS OF BREATH; unable to lie down, must sit up; worse odours, laughing,
ascending, turning in bed, or receding eruptions, better coffee or sweet water. Whistling,
wheezing breathing. Asthma, worse taking cold, in mid summer. Cough alternating dry and
loose, dry at night better sitting up worse drinking. Expectoration scanty, frothy. Great
dyspnoea; in nose; face cyanotic, covered with cold sweat, great anxiety. Aphonia.
Emphysema. Pulmonary oedema. Burning or coldness in chest. Cough excited by smoking.
Sensation as of vapours of sulphur in larynx. Cough, with bloody sputum. Haemoptysis;
burning all over or with pain between scapulae; in drunkards; suppressed menses. Gangrene
of the lungs. Darting pain through upper third of the right lung. Yellowish spots on chest.

Heart
Weak, trembles. Palpitation, with anguish worse lying on back, ascending stairs, with slight
causes. Heart pains into neck and occiput, with anxiety, difficult breathing, fainting spells.
Angina Pectoris. Pulse more rapid in the morning. Hydro‐ pericardium. Palpitation, with
tremulous weakness after stools. Beats audible. Visible pulsations.

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Neck and Back
Stiffness of the back ascends from coccyx to nape. Cold creeps on back. As if warm air
streaming up spine to the head. Bruised pain in small of back. Weak lumbar region.

Extremities
Twitching, trembling, violent starting, during sleep. Drawing pain from elbow to axilla.
Weariness of limbs. Trembling of hands, of limbs. Tingling in fingers. Fingers cannot be
extended. Nails; blue, discoloured. Ulcers on finger tips, with burning pain. Feet; weak, weary
and numb, oedematous. Ulcers on soles and toes. Wooden feeling in soles. Sore pain in ball
of toes, while walking. Uneasiness in lower limbs, must move feet constantly or walk about.
Toes bend downwards. Peripheral neuritis. Cramps in calves. Swelling of feet. Limbs heavy.
Restless feet. Sciatica better walking and hot applications. Paraplegia, with atrophy. Paralysis,
with contraction of limbs.

Sleep
Disturbed, anxious, restless. Shocks on dropping to sleep. Dreams; of death, full of care,
sorrow, and fear. Sleeps with hands over head. Yawning, with stretching of limbs. Sleeping
sickness. Talks in sleep. Awakened by pains.

Fever
Externally ***COLD, with internal burning heat. ***Coldness, in spots. Sensitive to cold, yet
better in open air. *Chills irregular, shaking; craves hot drinks during chill; dyspnoea during
chill. Heat as of hot water in veins; or they burn like lines of fire. High fever, hectic fever.
Sweat, with great thirst, dyspnoea or exhaustion. Sweat cold. Waves of icy coldness in blood
vessels or intense boiling heat. Intermittent fever, yellow fever.

Skin
Dry, rough, scaly, dirty, shrivelled. *Looks seared Eczema. Acuminate eruptions. Free
desquamation. Hives worse eating shell fish. Ulcers; chronic, with burning, with cutting pain
and bloody discharge. Gangrene. Phagedena. Carbuncles. Psoriasis. Skin, like parchment. Skin
symptoms alternate with internal affections. Spots; blue, black, white. Pimples, vesicles,
burning violently.

Related
Sul‐ac; Verat.

Complementary
All‐s; Carb‐v; Lach; Nat‐s; Phos; *Puls; Sulph; Thuj.

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Arsenicum iodatum [Ars‐i]

Generalities
This remedy should be thought of when the *discharges of MUCUS MEMBRANES are
persistently *acrid, *profuse, thick, gluey, yellow like honey, in chronic affections; and thin in
acute conditions. Discharges cause ***BURNING of the part on which they flow. Its symptoms
are very similar to the symptoms of early stage of tuberculosis, with afternoon rise of
temperature. In chronic inflammatory state of the lungs and bronchial tubes, the
expectoration is greenish‐yellow, pus‐like, with short breadth, there is a profound
prostration, emaciation, recurring fever and sweats and tendency to diarrhoea. It is a remedy
for senile heart, and myocarditis and fatty degeneration of the heart. Heart weakened by
chronic lung affections. Sensations of *heaviness occurs in many parts. Axillary tumours.
Erethistic weakness; debility.

Worse
Dry, cold *weather. Windy, foggy weather. Exertion. In room. Apples. Tobacco smoke.

Better
Open air.

Mind
Unable to study, study causes headache.

Head
Vertigo with tremulous feeling esp. in aged. Dull heavy headache, across forehead or occiput.
Study causes headache. Pain over the root of nose, as if she would go silly.

Eyes
Eye balls feel heavy.

Ear
Foul otorrhoea. Tympanum thickened. Hypertrophy of eustachian tube; deafness from.

Nose
Drips water, which is *hot, *green, *acrid, *reddens upper lip. Persistent but unsatisfactory
sneezing. Tingling in the nose and constant desire to sneeze. *Coryza with dyspnoea. Post‐
nasal catarrh. Hay fever. Influenza. Colds with hunger.

Face
*Aching in malar bones. Cancer of lips.

Throat
Raw burning, tonsils swollen, Chronic follicular pharyngitis. Goitre.

Stomach
Intense thirst, with desire for cold water which is ejected at once. Vomiting an hour after food.
Uncomfortable nausea.

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Abdomen
Diarrhoea and dysentery; stools scalding, glass white. Enlarged mesenteric glands. Painful
swelling in right groin on extending leg.

Females
Lump in mammae worse touch. Nipple retracted. Foul, bloody, yellow irritating leucorrhoea,
with swelling of labia. Emaciation of mammae.

Respiratory organs
*Short of breath; air hunger. *Hacking cough. *Expectoration, *yellow‐green, *foul Asthma,
*in phthisis. *Pneumonia that fails to clear up. Burning heat in chest. Tubercular pleurisy.
*hoarseness. Aphonia.

Heart
Weak, irritable. Pulse rapid, irritable.

Neck and Back

Burning heat in lumbar region, as if clothes were on fire_.

Extremities
Pain in humerus worse writing. Clothes feel cold better walking.

Fever
Recurrent fever with sweat. Drenching night sweats, with weakness. Chilly, cannot endure
cold.

Skin
Dry, harsh, dusky. Psoriasis. Ichthyosis. Marked exfoliation of skin in large scales leaving a
exudating surface beneath. Acne hard, shotty. Venereal bubo. Eczema of beard worse
washing.

Related
Kali‐b.

Complementary
Kali‐i.

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Arsenicum Sulfuratum flavum [Ars‐s‐f]

Generalities
Leucoderma is supposed to be favourably influenced by this remedy. There is amelioration by
steam or hot water.

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Artemesia vulgaris [Art‐v]

Generalities
It has a prominent place in convulsive diseases of childhood and girls at puberty. The patient
is irritable and excitable before the attack of epilepsy. Epilepsy; without aura; after fright or
grief; after a blow on the head; with menstrual disturbances. Attacks are accompanied or
followed by profuse offensive sweat of garlicky odour; and seminal emissions.
Somnambulism. Gets up at night and works, but remembers nothing in the morning. Chorea,
with inability to swallow. Right side convulsed, left paralyzed. Coloured light produces
dizziness. Petit mal. Walks in the street, suddenly stops, stares into space, often mumbles a
few words, becomes normal and remembers nothing. Inclination to steal.

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Arum triphyllum [Arum‐t]

Generalities
It is an irritant poison causing excitability of mind and irritability of body. *Mucous
membranes of mouth, ***THROAT and *larynx are affected prominently. ***DISCHARGES
ARE ACRID, causing ***PAINFUL SORE, RAWNESS AND BURNING of parts. Rawness, with
itching. Jerking shooting pain. Children lose their appetite; do not want to play, lose flesh;
have headaches.

Worse
Over use of voice, ***TALKING, singing. Cold, wet; cold winds. Heat. Lying down.

Mind
Excessively cross and stubborn. *Nervous. ***PERSISTENTLY BORING INTO NOSE; or *picking
at lips, fingers, at one spot *until it is sore or bleeds, *esp. *children.

Head
Bores into pillow. Child puts hand on back of head and cries during headache. Headache
worse warm clothes, and hot coffee.

Eyes
Quivering of upper lid (left). Heavy, sleepy.

Nose
*Acrid fluent coryza Nose obstructed, must breathe through the mouth. Obstruction, with
foetid discharge, sneezing worse at night.

Face
Lips; dry, swollen, burning, cracked; corners of the mouth sore.

Mouth
Raw feeling at roof and palate. Mouth painfully *raw, sore, inflamed. Aphthae. Saliva profuse,
acrid. Tongue cracked and bleeding. Strawberry tongue.

Throat
Raw, sore, *painful on clearing or coughing, yet *grasps and wants to scratch it. Swelling of
glands on throat and neck.

Abdomen
Diarrhoea. Stools like corn meal. Thin stools, escaping from anus and keeping parts raw and
burning.

Urinary Organs
Very scanty secretion of urine. Uraemia.

Respiratory organs
Voice, hoarse, squeaky or breaks. Clergyman’s sore throat. Raw feeling in chest. Hay asthma.

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Skin
Itching of fingers and toes. Eruptions leave a brilliant red stain. Pemphigus. Impetigo
contagiosa.

Related
Ars; Merc‐c.

Complementary
Nit‐ac.

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Asafoetida [Asaf]

Generalities
Hysterical and hypochondriacal manifestations are covered by this remedy. Though the
patient is of *full habit, and *stout aspect yet he is intolerably nervous and OVERSENSITIVE.
In the digestive tract it produces flatulence and spasmodic contractions of stomach and
oesophagus, with reverse peristalsis, everything comes up, nothing goes down. It affects
bones and periosteum; caries of bones and deep ulcerations are favourably influenced by it.
*fits of hard, violent throbbing. Pains are pressive, sharp, stitching, *extending outwards;
associated with numbness; they change place and are better by touch. Aching, boring in
bones. Easy relapses. Blueness. Foul, thin, acrid secretions. As if a nail or plug driven in.
Twitching and jerking in muscles. Fistulae with foul pus. Glands all over the body are hot and
throb. Pains jerk and shoot. Clumsy children. Obesity. Left sided symptoms. Undulating,
twitching of muscles. Ill effects of checked skin eruptions or suppressed discharges. Neuralgia
of stump, after operations. Nervous disorders from suppressed skin eruptions.

Worse
*Night. In room. Rest. Eating. Suppressions. Mercury. Noise. *Sitting. Warm wraps.

Better
Motion in open air. Pressure; touch. Scratching.

Mind
Fickle, cannot persevere in anything. Wants now one thing, then another, walks hither and
thither. Magnifies her symptoms. Craves sympathy. Hysteria from suddenly suppressed
discharges. Fainting during pain. Faints when he thinks that he has taken medicine. Faints;
almost without cause, in a closed room, excitement or disturbance, after emission. I hysteria,
with much trouble about throat or oesophagus, clutches throat. Dissatisfied with oneself.
Complains of her troubles. Changing moods; fits of joy with burst of laughter.

Head
Aches in occipital region better stool.

Eyes
Throbbing pain in and around the eye worse at night. Orbital neuralgia better pressure and
rest. Eyelids stick to balls. Numbness about eyes; ulceration of cornea. Syphilitic iritis.

Ears
Offensive purulent otorrhoea, with hardness of hearing. Pain in mastoid with pushing out
sensation.

Nose
Offensive discharge from the nose. Ozena. Caries of nasal bones. Tension over nasal bones,
with numbness.

Face
Puffy, purple as if heated. Small tubercles in the cheek. Swelling of the lower lip. Numbness
of bones.

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Mouth
Greasy, rancid taste. Constant chewing, with frothy saliva from mouth; chorea.

Throat
*Everything presses towards throat. Globus_ball rising in the throat. Spasms of gullet and
stomach.

Stomach
*Explosive eructations smelling like garlic and rancid in taste. Regurgitation of liquids.
Pulsation in the pit of stomach; perceptible to the hand or even visible. Disgust for all food.

Abdomen
*Flatulence; sudden, pushing upwards, hysterical, wind colic with abdominal pulsations.
Bowels seem knotted. Diarrhoea, stools dark, watery with disgusting odour. Only mucus is
passed. Flatus passing upwards, none downwards. Heat in spleen and abdomen.

Urinary Organs
Urine brown and of pungent odour. Spasms in bladder during and after urination.

Male
Needle like stitches in penis. Fainting after seminal emissions.

Females
Mammae turgid with milk, when not pregnant. Deficient milk with oversensitiveness. Bearing
down in the genital esp. while riding in a carriage. Menses; too early, too scanty, last for a
short time. Leucorrhoea; profuse, greenish, thin; offensive.

Respiratory organs
Spasmodic tightness of chest, as if lungs could not be fully expanded. Asthmatic attacks at
least once in a day, worse bodily exertion, coition, satisfying meals. Spasms of the glottis,
alternating with contraction of finger and toes.

Heart
Palpitation more like a tremor. Heart seems full, distended. Reflex heart symptoms of nervous
origin.

Extremities
Pain and tenderness in tibia; intolerable, worse night. Cannot work on account of backache.
Cold swelling around ankles. Convulsive tremors better by holding.

Skin
Eruptions of air vesicles. Bluish ulcers, with highly sensitive edges. Itching better scratching.
Old cicatrices turn purple and ulcerate. Foul burrowing pus.

Related
Aur; Chin; Lach; Merc; Sumb; Valer.

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Complementary
Caust. Puls.

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Asarum europoeum [Asar]

Generalities
*Asarum produces a remarkable state of *OVERSENSITIVENESS OF NERVES; *scratching on
silk or linen, rattle of paper is unbearable, not only that but even the idea that someone might
scratch with finger tip or nail produces a disagreeable thrill, through him. Cold shivers from
any emotion is also a marked symptom. Pressure, tension and *contractive sensation are also
leading features; patient thinks that his whole body or single parts were being pressed
together. It is suitable to literary men of sedentary habits who shrink from cold or always feel
cold. Mucous discharges are glairy. *Lightness as if floating. Drunkards.

Worse
***PENETRATING NOISE. *Cold dry weather. Emotions. Retching, (except head).

Better.
*Cold bathing, of face. Damp, wet weather.

Mind
Gradual vanishing of thought Stupid feeling in the head better retching. Feeling of *lightness
as if floating, when walking in the open air.

Head
Compressive headache. Tension of whole scalp; cannot bear combing.

Eyes
Watering and burning of the eyes. Asthenopia. Darting pains in the eye; after operations.

Ears
*Painfully sensitive hearing. Plugged up sensation; with coryza. Sensation as if skin were
stretched over external ear (right).

Nose
Coryza with sneezing.

Face
Warm feeling in face better cold washing.

Mouth
Accumulation of cold watery saliva in the mouth, with nausea. Tobacco tastes bitter when
smoking. Clean tongue. Disgusting taste.

Stomach
Violent empty retching which worse all the symptoms, (except head). Violent vomiting, with
diarrhoea and violent colic. Desire for alcoholic drinks. Horrible feeling at epigastrium on
waking in the morning; drunkards.

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Abdomen
Strings of odourless, yellow mucus pass from bowels. Undigested stools. Stools worse after
eating and drinking. Gelatinous or shreddy mucus in stool; mucus colitis.

Female
Violent pain in small of back at the appearance of menses, scarcely permitting her to breathe,
worse motion. Tenacious yellow leucorrhoea. Threatened abortion from excessive sensibility
of nerves. Menses too ear!y and long lasting, blood black.

Respiratory
Nervous hacking cough. Asthmatic breathing worse odours and cold. Both lungs as if
constricted by wire. Stitches in larynx better cough.

Extremities
Lightness of all the limbs. Gurgling sensation in patella. Weakness, with staggering.

Sleep
Frequent yawning; great drowsiness.

Fever
Chilliness, single parts get icy cold. Cold feeling not better by covering or heat of room. Sweat;
sour, easily excited.

Related
Arg‐n; Castor; Ther.

Complementary
Caust; Puls, Sil.

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Asclepias tuberosa [Asc‐t]

Generalities
It increases the ***SECRETIONS OF SKIN’ serous and mucous membranes_causing *profuse
perspiration in pleuro‐pneumonia, diarrhoea or rheumatic conditions,_colliquative states. It
causes sharp, stitching, pricking pains worse motion. Excessive weakness, walking seems
impossible. Numbness of the whole body. Influenza with pleurisy. Sensitive to tobacco. Weak
and languid as if he had been sick a long time. Unfit for business from pain in bowels and
frequent stools.

Worse
Motion. Deep breathing. Lying. Tobacco. Rising. Coughing.

Mind
Memory weak.

Head
Ache better after foot bath.

Nose
Sticky yellow nasal discharge; Snuffles of children.

Mouth
Tough yellow coating on tongue. Taste; putrid, of blood.

Abdomen
*Stools smell like rotten eggs; or burn like fire. Catarrhal dysentery, with rheumatic pains all
over. Stools with a feeling as stream of fire passing through abdomen.

Male
Flabby genitals.

Respiratory organs
Dry cough, with constriction of throat. Chest pains better bending forward, worse lying,
breathing. Short of breath and weak on walking. Pleurodynia. Pericardial effusion. Pleurisy.
Pain beneath left nipple, with palpitation.

Related
Ant‐t.

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Astacus fluviatilis [Astac]

Generalities
Commonly known as river crab or crawfish. The tincture is prepared from the whole animal.
It marked affects the liver and lymphatic glands. It produces URTICARIA; with liver complaints;
jaundice of children. Itching in various parts. Crusta lactea, with enlarged lymphatic glands.
Enlarged glands of neck in children and old people. Stinging pains are felt in various parts.
Inward chilliness or shiverings. Nervous crawls over the body. Erysipelas, with nettlerash.
Cramps in liver region, liver inflamed t pressure. Cough better when walking but returns as
soon as he sits down. Violent fever, with headache; red glowing face. It constricts and may
completely close both the duodenum and esp. the opening of the gall duct into the
duodenum.

Worse
Air. Uncovering.

Related
Calc; Rhus‐t.

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Asterias rubens [Aster]

Introduction
Red Star Fish.

Generalities
This remedy produces disturbances of the circulation, with *pulsations and congestion, in
head, womb, chest etc. nervous affections include neuralgia, chorea, hysteria and epilepsy. It
has a decided action on female organs. Epilepsy is preceded by twitching over whole body.
Drawn back feeling in eyes, nipples etc. Cancer; of mammae. Flabby Lymphatic constitution.
Chorea, quiet only when the hands are in the pockets. Left‐sided symptoms.

Worse
Heat. Menses. Contradiction. Cold wet weather. Coffee. Night.

Mind
Easily excited by any emotion esp. contradiction; epilepsy. Weeps from least emotion.
Hallucinations; of hearing voices; away from; among strangers. Sense of impending
misfortune. Fears bad news.

Head
Rushes of blood to head, with throbbing. Heat in head as if surrounded by hot air. Shocks in
brain.

Eyes
Are drawn backwards. Winking of eyelids.

Face
Red, flushed face. Pimples on side of nose, chin and mouth. Acne.

Abdomen
Obstinate constipation. Diarrhoea; watery brown stools gushing out with force in jet.

Male
Sexual desire increased.

Female.
Violent and constant sexual desire; not better by coition, with nervous agitation, with
disposition to weep. Left breast feels as if pulled inward. Dull, aching neuralgia in mammae.
Nodes and indurations of mammary gland; nipples retracted; cancer even in ulcerative stage,
acute lancinating pains; axillary glands swollen, hard, and knotted. Vagina moist with feeling
of ease. Jerking or distress in uterus.

Extremities
Numbness of hand and fingers_left side. Pain from mammae extends over inner arm to end
of little finger. Gait unsteady muscles refuse to obey the will.

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Skin
Acne_black tipped puncta, small red base. Psoriasis. Herpes zoster.

Related
Murx; Sep.

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Aurum metallicum [Aur]

Generalities
Gold makes a profound impression on the ***MIND, producing acute mental depression,
hopelessness and loss of love of life. ***CIRCULATION IS DISTURBED; all the blood seems to
rush from head to lower limbs. Orgasms, as if blood were boiling in all the veins. *Erratic
ebullitions. *Venous congestion_more to head and chest. Caries of bones esp. of nose;
palatine and mastoid. Bone pains are boring and cutting. Pains wander, impelling motion,
finally attack heart. Indurations and glandular swellings. Exostosis, osteitis, Sclerosis of
arteries; coronary, liver, brain. Extremely violent symptoms. Mercuric syphilitic dyscrasia.
Chronicity of complaints. Heart feels loose on walking. As of air blowing on part. It is adapted
to nervous, hysterical women; girls at puberty; pining boys; old people with heart disease; to
persons who are low‐spirited, lifeless, weak memory; yet sensitive to pain; which drives them
to despair. Ill effects of grief, fright, anger, disappointed love, contradiction, reserved
displeasure. Prolonged anxiety; unusual responsibility. Loss of property. Hopeless with heart
disease; hopeful with lung disease. Cancerous ulcers. Necrosis. Dropsy.

Worse
Emotions. Depressing; disordered affections. Mental exertion. Cold, weather. Night_Sunset
to Sunrise. Mercury. Alcohol. Pot‐ Iodide. Cloudy weather. Winter.

Better
Cool; Open air. *Cold bathing Becoming warm. Music. Walking. Moonlight.

Mind
*Intense hopeless depression; and disgust of life. Talk of committing suicide. Suicidal anguish.
Peevish and vehement on least contradiction, or cheerful alternately. Brooding melancholy;
alternating with irritability or moroseness. Feeling of condemnation and utter worthlessness.
Weeping, praying and self reproaching from heart disease. Loquacity. Rapid questioning,
without waiting for a reply. Fears the least noise. Weak memory. Vexed mood. Violent
hysteria; with desperate actions; thrashes oneself about etc. Self reproach; self criticism.
Changing moods. She does everything wrong; thinks had neglected something; her friends;
her duty. Indisposed to talk. Hateful and quarrelsome. Future looks dark. Grumbling.

Head
Violent pain in head causing confusion. Headache of students, with precordial anxiety and
flushes of heat to the head. Head hot, full. Exostosis with boring pain. Boils on scalp. Lumps
under scalp. Baldness from syphilis. As if air passed over the brain.

Eyes
Photophobia. Hemiopia; upper half of objects invisible. Orbits feel sore. Glaucoma. Pupils;
irregular. Yellow crescent bodies floating obliquely upward. Black spots, flames, sparks before
the eyes. Everything looks blue.

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Ears
Caries of the mastoid. Obstinate foetid otorrhoea. Nerve deafness, with embarrassed speech.
Oversensitive to noise, but better music.

Nose
Ulcerated, painful swollen_caries; foetid discharge, purulent, bloody. Red, knobby tip of nose.
Ozena. Snubbed.

Face
Congested, bluish‐red. Parotids swollen, painful to touch. Pains in zygomae. Fine eruptions on
lips, face or forehead.

Mouth
Offensive odour; in girls at puberty. Tongue leathery, hard. Milky or sweetish taste, foul even
to water. Warts on tongue. Caries of teeth. Ulcers on palate. Gums swollen, dark red,
bleeding.

Throat
Stitches on swallowing. Caries of *palate. Drinks come through nose.

Stomach
Burning at stomach, with hot risings. Desire for milk and coffee. Loss of appetite in pining
boys. Thirst. Voracious appetite.

Abdomen
Liver region hot and painful. Hepatitis. Jaundice; of pregnancy. Liver with heart symptoms.
Ascites, with heart affections. Constipation better during menses. Stools, knotty, hard, large.
Warts around the anus. Grumbling and rumbling in. Inguinal hernia of children.

Urinary Organs
Urine turbid like buttermilk. Painful, paralytic retention.

Male
Pain and swelling of testicles_orchitis. Atrophy of testicles in boys. Hydrocele; of children.
Chronic induration of testicles. Sarcocele. Epididymitis.

Females
Syphilitic sterility; also of those women who are mentally depressed on account of their
barrenness. Uterus enlarged and prolapsed. Constant oozing from the vulva. Vaginismus.
Labour pains make her desperate. Uterine troubles, worse reaching high with arms.
Induration and ulceration of the womb from repeated abortions. Leucorrhoea worse walking.
Amenorrhoea with great sadness. Menses late, scanty.

Respiratory organs
Crushing weight under sternum worse ascending. Dyspnoea worse laughing, at night. Dry,
nervous spasmodic cough, peculiar to women, from sunset to sunrise. Always takes a deep
breath, and cannot get enough air.

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Heart
Sensation as if the heart stopped beating, immediately followed by hard rebound. Oppression
at the heart. *Violent palpitation, at puberty. Cardiac hypertrophy. Angina Pectoris. Aortic
disease. Carotids and temporal arteries throb visibly. Pulse, rapid, feeble, irregular. High blood
pressure. Feels loose on walking. Palpitation compels him to stop. Heart bruised, sore worse
suppressed foot sweat.

Neck and Back

Swollen cervical glands; like knotted cord. As if lower spine bulged backwards. Lumbar
muscles painfully stiff, thigh cannot be raised. Port’s disease.

Extremities
Nightly leg pains. Holds the left arm during attack of palpitation. Knees weak. Paralytic feeling
in legs. Nails turn blue. Pains in both the knees as if tightly bandaged. Trembling feet. Hot
bruised soles, at night. Cold foul foot sweat.

Sleep
Restless, with anxious, frightful dreams. Sobs aloud in sleep. Disturbed by sexual excitement.

Fever
Painfully sensitive to cold; shivering in bed. Cold and damp all over. Sweat about genitals.

Skin
Lipoma. Warts. Acne.

Related
Merc.

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Aurum muriaticum [Aur‐m]

Generalities
It is a sycotic remedy, causing suppressed discharges to reappear. Catarrhal and glandular
affections are marked. Sclerotic and exudative degenerations of nervous system. Valuable in
haemorrhage from the uterus at climacteric. Warts appear on various parts; on tongue, on
genitals. Cancer of the tongue. Tongue as hard as leather. Desires company, if left alone thinks
of nothing but of one’s ailments and becomes more out of humour. Hypertrophy of all the
fingers. Ill effects of chagrin, fright, vexation.

Better
Cold; washing, weather.

Worse
Ascending stairs. Warmth.

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Avena sativa [Aven]

Generalities
Avena Sativa (common oat) improves the nutrition of brain and nervous system. It is useful
therefore in nervous exhaustion, sexual debility; debility after exhausting diseases. Nervous
tremors of the aged, paralysis agitans, chorea and epilepsy. Inability to keep the mind fixed
on any one subject especially when due to masturbation. Bad effects of Morphine habit.
Insomnia.

Dose
Tincture 10 to 30 drops should be given in hot water.

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Bacillinum [Bac]

Generalities
This nosode is prepared from tuberculous sputum. It is indicated in chronic catarrhal
conditions, of the lungs when bronchorrhoea and dyspnoea are present. Constant disposition
to take cold. Tubercular meningitis. Eczema of eyelids. Ringworm, pityriasis. Glands of the
neck are enlarged and tender. Useful as an intercurrent remedy.

Worse
Night and early morning. Cold air.

Complementary:
Calc‐p; Kali‐c; Lach.

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Badiaga [Bad]

Generalities
*Badiaga is the Russian name for the river sponge. It makes the muscles and skin sore worse
motion, and friction of the clothes. Glands are swollen. General paresis. Buboes; chancres.
Carcinoma, of breast. Infantile syphilis.

Worse
Cold; air. Stormy weather. Pressure. Touch.

Better
Heat; warm room.

Mind
After pleasurable emotions palpitation.

Head
As if enlarged and full. Pain in forehead and temples extending to eyeballs. Scalp sore.
Dandruff. Headache, with inflammation of eyes.

Eyes
Neuralgia of eyeballs extending to temple. Twitching of eyelids (left).

Ears
Slight sounds are greatly accentuated.

Nose
Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge, with asthmatic breathing and suffocative cough.

Mouth
Hot. Much thirst. Breath hot.

Throat
Tonsils inflamed, swollen worse swallowing solids.

Stomach
Lancinating pain in pit of stomach extending to vertebrae, and scapula.

Male
Syphilis of infants. Chancres. Buboes.

Female
Carcinoma of mammae. Metrorrhagia worse night, with a feeling of enlargement of head.

Respiratory organs
Cough worse after noon better warm room; cough excited by sweets, candies etc.;
***EXPECTORATION *flies from mouth and nostrils.

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Heart
Tremulous palpitation. Heart beats are felt from chest to neck worse lying on right side.
Discomfort; soreness; pain about the heart, stitches flying all over.

Skin
Sore to touch. Freckles. Rhagades. Raised and discoloured scars.

Complementary
Iod; Merc; Sulph.

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Baptisia tinctoria [Bapt]

Generalities
Wild Indigo of America has its reputation as a remedy for typhoid fever. It affects the
***BLOOD, causing septic conditions, low fever and malaria poisoning. Feeling of
***SORENESS, ***HEAVINESS, and ***ACHING OF MUSCLES is very marked.
***PROSTRATION Is RAPID; *bed feels too hard on account of soreness of muscles, yet he
feels too weak to move. *Mucus membranes become dark. Discharges; stools, haemorrhages
etc. are dark in colour. Dark spots appear upon the body. ***FOUL; odour of the body, breath,
*of excretions, stools, sweat, urine etc. *Brown; sordes, stools, menses. Bed sores. Influenza.
Chronic intestinal toxaemia of children, with foetid stools and eructations. Lifeless body but
restless mind. Insensitive to pain. Parts feel numb or too large. Restless, always rubs the
hands, hysterical. In low potency it increases the resistant power of the body against typhoid.
Ill effects of antityphoid serum injections.

Worse
*Humid heat. Fogs. In room. Pressure. On waking. Walking. Open air. Cold wind. Autumn. Hot
weather.

Mind
Sense of ***DUALITY. Aversion to mental and bodily exertion. Thinks he is broken or double.
***PARTS FEEL SEPARATED or *scattered Tosses about in bed trying to get pieces together.
Hopeless of recovery; and certain of death. *Dull and confused. Falls asleep while answering
or does not complete his sentence. Wandering, muttering delirium. Perfect indifference.
Bewildered. Imagines his limbs are talking to each other.

Head
Feels, too large, heavy, numb. As of a blow or heavy pain on occiput. Vertigo, with weak
feeling esp. of lower limbs and knees. Vertex feels as if would fly off. Brain feels sore.

Eyes
Eyelids heavy. Eyes feel swelled. Half closed.

Ears
Early deafness in typhoid‐like conditions.

Nose
Pain at the root. Epistaxis of dark blood. Illusion of smell as of burnt feathers.

Face
***DUSKY, ***SODDEN, ***BESOTTED, stupid. Muscles of the jaw rigid. Cracked, bleeding
lips.

Mouth
*Brown strip down centre of the tongue. Tongue feels burnt. Breath foetid. Thick speech.
Ulcers in the mouth. Taste flat, bitter. *Dark, red, tumid mouth. Tongue; cracked, bleeds; feels
thick or is heavily coated. Lower jaw drops. Saliva viscid. Sore mouth of suckling. Tonsils and
soft palate swollen.

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Throat
*Dark, red, tumid. Numb inside but sensitive outside. Can swallow liquids only, least solid
food gags. Constriction of oesophagus at cardiac orifice. Ragged ulcers in the throat. Spasms
of gullet.

Stomach
Sinking feeling at stomach. Easy vomiting. Pain in epigastric region. Feeling of a hard
substance. Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea, with fever, Gastric fever. All symptoms
are worse by beer.

Abdomen
Right lilac region sensitive. Soreness of the gall bladder, with diarrhoea. *Diarrhoea_sudden,
horribly foul, mushy, painless, dark, slaty or bloody stools. Dysentery_of the old people; with
pain in limbs small of back and rigors. Painless dysentery; with fever. Intestinal toxaemia of
children, with foetid stools and eructations. Stricture from piles.

Urinary Organs
Urine; scanty, dark red, alkaline; foetid, light green. Uraemia.

Male
Orchitis. Pressing pain in testes as if squeezed.

Female
Threatened abortion, from mental shock, depression, low fevers. Menses; too early, too
profuse. Lochia; acrid, foul. Puerperal fever. Stomatitis of nursing mothers.

Respiratory organs
Breathing difficult from weakness of chest worse on waking, better standing; *Craves air.
Bronchial asthma. Lungs feel tight and compressed. Afraid to go to sleep on account of sense
of suffocation and nightmares.

Heart
Pulse first accelerated, then slow and faint.

Neck and Back:

Neck tired, cannot hold it easy in any position. Pain in sacrum around hips and legs. Back sore
and bruised. Bed sores. Feels as if lying on board. Symptoms radiate from small of back.

Extremities
Stiffness and pain, aching and drawing in arms and legs.

Sleep
*Drowsy, *stupid and *languid; slides down in bed. Nightmares, and frightful dreams. Lies
curled up like a dog on one side.

Fever
Hyperpyrexia. Adynamic fevers, typhoid; ship‐board fever. Sweat relieves. Gastric influenza.

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Skin
Livid spots all over the body and limbs.

Related
Arn; Gels; Hyos; Lach; Mur‐ac; Op; Rhus‐t.

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Baryta carbonica [Bar‐c]

Generalities
It has a marked influence on the ***GROWTH esp. of children and old people, who become
*childish. In children the growth is retarded; they become *dwarfish mentally and physically;
children are late coming into usefulness, to take on their responsibilities and do their work.
*Dull, *apathetic; or marasmic. There is a tendency to enlargement of the glands, with
indurations esp. tonsils, cervical and prostate. Prostration; weariness; constant inclination to
lie down, sit or lean on something. Upper half of the body feels stiff and numb. Too tired even
to eat. It is a remedy for early *senility and when degenerative changes in old men begin in
heart, brain and vascular system. *Tendency to take cold and every time tonsils are swollen.
*Paralytic effects. Symptoms occur in single parts, such as paralysis, numbness, burnings.
Sensation *as if forced through a narrow place is peculiar. *Vascular softening and dilatation,
aneurism, ruptures, apoplexy. Ill effects of checked foot sweat. Cysts. Sarcoma, with burning.
Lipoma. Emaciation of persons who were well nourished. Sleepiness and weariness on
slightest exertion.

WORSE
*Company. Thinking of symptoms. *Cold damp. Cold to feet and head. *Lying on painful part;
left side. Odours. Heat of Sun, of stove. Raising arms. Eating.

BETTER
Cold food. Warm wraps. When alone.

Mind
***SLOW ***GRASP; ***SILLY; *absurd and backward. Childish and thoughtless behaviour.
Timid. *Cowardly. Groans from every little thing. Whining mood. Increasing *mental
weakness. *Beclouded mind. *Bad Memory. Forgets her errand or word in her mouth.
Irresolute. *Mistrustful. *Shy of strangers. Thinks his legs are cut off and he is walking on his
knees. Child does not want to play but sits in the corner doing nothing. Children cannot
remember and learn. Grief over trifles. Thinks one is being laughed at and made fun of. Hides
behind the furniture and keeps the hands over the face, peeping through the fingers. Always
borrows trouble. Loss of self confidence. Talking mania; during menses, in young girls. Idiocy.

Head
Vertigo_of old people; with nausea worse stooping; when lifting arms up. Brain feels loose,
better cold air. Baldness of vertex. Wens on scalp. Heavy pressure over eyes. Dry eruptions or
moist crusts on the scalp. Stitching pain when standing in sun.

Eyes
Pupils dilate and contract quickly. Pressure deep in eyes better looking downward. Light
dazzles. Opaque cornea. Lids; granular; thickened. Fiery sparks before eyes, in dark.

Ears
Crackling noises; worse swallowing, walking. Glands around ear painful and swollen.
Eruptions on lobes of ears. Hardness of hearing. Sound on sneezing.

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Nose
Dry, worse blowing it. Coryza, with swelling of upper lip and nose (children with large
abdomen). Sensation of smoke in nose. Discharge of thick yellow mucus; scabs around wings
of nose. Epistaxis.

Face
Pale, puffed; sensation as if a cobweb. Upper lip swollen. Lips pendulous.

Mouth
Tongue; weak, paralyzed, hard in old people, cannot speak. Burning soreness or vesicles on
tip or under the tongue. Toothache worse before menses. Mouth feels numb. Whole mouth
filled with vesicles_ esp. inside the cheek. Saliva runs out, while asleep. Foetor oris, unnoticed
by himself. Frequent and considerable bleeding of gums.

Throat
*Tonsils are affected by every cold or worse menses. *Chronic quinsy. *Enlarged tonsils.
Spasms of oesophagus, as soon as food enters oesophagus, causing gagging and choking. Pain
in throat, worse empty swallowing. Can swallow liquids only. Waterbrash; sudden.
Submaxillary gland swollen. Much burning in throat. Throat trouble from overuse of voice.

Stomach
Sore spot in stomach. Hungry but refuses food. Aversion to sweet things, fruits esp. plums.
Sudden disgust while eating. Dyspepsia of young masturbators or with seminal emissions.
Pain while fasting and after eating. Weak digestion of old people with possible malignancy,
better cold food.

Abdomen
Hard and tense, tender, distended, with emaciation of body. Diarrhoea with lumbar ache. As
if intestines fell from one side to other on turning in bed. Stools; hard, knotty. Piles protrude,
while urinating. Crawling in the rectum. Oozing at anus. Habitual colic of children who do not
thrive, and though apparently hungry refuse food. Mesenteric glands hard and swollen.

Urinary Organs
Urging to urinate, cannot retain the urine. Burning in urethra, while urinating. Frequent
urination. Urine; dark brown, scanty.

Male
Genitals flabby. Enlarged prostate gland. Testicles indurated. Impotency. Premature
emissions. Erections when riding. Falling asleep during coition. Genitals feel numb. Painful
nodes in mammae, in old fat men.

Female
Menses scanty, last only one day. Before menses, pain in stomach and lumbar back. Genitals
feel numb. Dwindling of ovary and mammary gland. Amenorrhoea. Leucorrhoea, immediately
before menses.

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Respiratory organs
Paralytic aphonia. Asthma; of old people, worse wet, warm air. Larynx feel as if smoke were
inhaled. Lungs feel full of smoke. Cough worse in the presence of strangers; eating warm food.
Chronic bronchitis. Dry suffocative cough in old people, full of mucus but lacking strength to
expectorate.

Heart
Cardiac symptoms, after suppressed foot sweat or after masturbation. Heart feels bruised,
sore. Palpitation and distress in region of heart lying on left side. Palpitation felt in head.
Aneurism. Pulse; slow, small. High blood pressure. Arteriosclerosis.

Neck and Back

Glands swollen in nape and occiput. Chronic torticollis. Spine weak. Pulsation in back: after
mental emotion. Fatty tumours upon the neck.

Extremities
Fingers numb. Limbs feel numb. Trembling of feet, and of hands while writing. Soles feel hot
or bruised at night, during sleep. Numbness from knees to scrotum better when sitting. *Cold,
*foul foot sweat. Pain in deltoid worse raising arms. Pain in the knees, while kneeling.

Sleep
Talks in sleep (old men). Awakes frequently; feels hot. Twitching during sleep.

Fever
Flushes of heat, more at night. Sweat on single parts, one hand, one foot, one side of body,
face; stinking; of feet, worse in presence of strangers.

Skin
Warts. Acne. Lipoma. Cysts. Burning sarcoma.

Related
Kali‐p; Lyc; Med; Puls; Sep; Sil; Tub.

Complementary
Ant‐t; Dulc; Psor; Sil.

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Baryta iodata [Bar‐i]

Generalities
This remedy is used clinically for enlarged and indurated glands esp. tonsils and breasts.
*Leucocytosis.

Better
Cold open air.

WORSE
Walking.

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Baryta muriatica [Bar‐m]

Generalities
Like *Bar‐c, this salt is also useful in old age and childhood, when mental and physical
dwarfishness is present. It causes vascular degeneration causing hypertension when high
systolic pressure with comparatively low diastolic tension is present, with cerebral and cardiac
symptoms. It is a convulsive remedy. Convulsive attacks occur periodically, with starting and
excessive tossing about. Electric shocks, with convulsions. Mania in every form when sexual
desire is increased. Enlargement of the glands and induration, tonsils, pancreas. Multiple
sclerosis of brain and cord. Icy coldness of the body, with paralysis. Voluntary muscular power
gone, but perfectly sensible. Children who go around with their mouth open and who talk
through the nose. Great weakness, wants to lie down. Leucocytosis. Child lies on the abdomen
all the time, to shun the light. Stupid appearance. Hard of hearing.

Mind
Idiocy. Sexual mania.

Head
Vertigo due to cerebral anaemia and noises in the ears. Heaviness of head (old people).

Ears
Noises; on chewing and swallowing, sneezing, Earache better sipping cold water. Offensive
otorrhoea.

Nose
Sneezing in sleep; without waking.

Throat
Uvula elongated. Tonsils enlarged. Feels too wide open. Swallowing difficult. Spasms of gullet
at the cardiac end, pains immediately after eating, with tenesmus in epigastrium.

Stomach
Gone feeling in epigastrium. Sensation of heat ascending to head.

Abdomen
Distressing throbbing in abdomen_aneurism. Induration of pancreas.

Urinary Organs
Great increase in uric acid.

Female
Nymphomania. Tumour, or atrophy of ovaries. Sterility.

Respiratory organs
Bronchial affections of old people, with cardiac dilatation; expectoration becomes easy.

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Extremities
Toes cramp; better drawing up the limbs. Fatigue of legs as from long walk, with stiffness of
joints.

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Belladonna [Bell]

Generalities
Belladonna acts upon *nerve centres producing twitching, convulsions and pain. Its action
upon the *brain causes furious excitement and perversion of special senses. Circulation in
blood vessels and capillaries becomes active causing congestion, throbbing, and dilatation of
arteries. Mucous membranes become dry. Its effects are *sudden and violent. ***BURNING
HEAT, ***BRIGHT REDNESS and ***DRYNESS are very marked. ***HOT; body, part,
discharges etc. Redness occurs in streaks. ***SEVERE NEURALGIC PAIN, that comes and goes
suddenly. ***FULLNESS; CONGESTION esp. to head and ***SWELLING are other
characteristic features. ***PAINS ARE THROBBING; ***SHARP; ***CUTTING; ***SHOOTING;
or *clawing, of maddening severity; *coming and going in repeated attacks. *Discharges are
hot and scanty. ***SPASMS; ***SHOCKS; ***JERKS and ***TWITCHING. ***CONSTRICTIONS
occur in parts of the body like throat, vagina etc. or in whole body. *Sensitive to ***LIGHT,
***NOISE’ ***JARRING. Epileptic attacks are followed by nausea and vomiting. Convulsions
commence in the arm. Spasms are followed by prolonged unconsciousness. Throws body
forwards and backwards; chorea. Acts as a prophylactic in scarlet fever. Exophthalmic goitre,
with extreme thyroid toxaemia. Hydrophobia. Useful in air‐sickness. Its influence is felt more
in intelligent and plethoric persons who are jovial and entertaining when well, but violent
when sick, therefore a great children’s remedy. Ill effects of hair cutting, head getting wet.
Sausages. Sun. Walking in wind or draft. Haemorrhages, hot. Heat in body; parts are hot,
swollen, and dry. *Right sided symptoms.

WORSE
Heat of Sun; if heated. *DRAFTS_*on head; haircut; washing head. After taking cold. Light;
noise; jarring. ***CHECKED ***SWEAT. *Touch. Company. Pressure. *Motion. *Hanging
down affected part. Afternoon. Lying down. Looking at shining objects or running water.

BETTER
Light covering. *Bending backward, semi‐erect. Rest in bed. Standing. Leaning head against
something. Bending or turning the affected part.

Mind
Acuteness of senses. ***WILDLY DELIRIOUS. *Excited ferocious; *noisy; *cries out. Talks fast;
*VERY RESTLESS. Biting, striking, tearing mania. Spits on faces of other persons. Sees
monsters, hideous faces. Fear of imaginary things. Desire to escape or hide himself.
Perversity, with tears (children). Excitable, easily weeps. Quarrelsome. Tendency to dance,
laugh, sing, whistle. Starts in fright at the approach of others. Constant moaning. Craving for
snuff. An angel when well and a devil when sick. Sits and breaks pins. Mental symptoms better
taking light food. Patient lives in his own world.

Head
***THROBBING, ***HAMMERING, ***HEADACHE worse *temples; worse motion; better
letting hair down; laying the hand on head; bending head backwards. Feeling in the brain like
swashing of water. It rises and falls in waves. Cold sensation in head at the middle of the
forehead. Vertigo worse stooping and rising from stooping. Hydrocephalus, with boring of
head in the pillows. Hairs split, are dry and come out. *Rolls head. Pulls her hair. Meningitis.
Sunstroke. Pains go downward from head. *Head sensitive to drafts and cold, or washing hair.

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Eyes
*PUPILS DILATED. Eyes, *sparkling, *prominent, *staring. *Red conjunctiva. Fiery, red, vivid
hallucinations; even on closing the eyes. *Attacks of blindness, then yellow vision. Sees red
flashes before vision. PHOTOPHOBIA. Diplopia. Triplopia. Moon light blindness. Sensation as
if eyes were half closed. Eyelids; feel sore, congested and swollen. Exophthalmus.
Lachrymation like brine. Lines appear crooked when reading.

Ears
Pain causes delirium; child cries out in sleep. Otitis media. Autophony_hearing one’s voice in
the ear. Haematoma. Noises in ears.

Nose
Red; swollen. Imaginary odours; odour of tobacco intolerable. Bleeding from nose, with
flushed face.

Face
Fiery; RED; *turgid and *hot; or becomes pale and red alternately. Semilateral swelling of the
face. Spasmodic distortion of mouth (risus sardonicus). Convulsive motions of muscles of face.
Facial neuralgia, with twitching of muscles and flushed face. Lower jaw, as if drawn
backwards.

Mouth
***DRY, ***HOT. Tongue; red, hot, swollen. Edges of tongue red. Strawberry tongue. Red
streak in middle of tongue, wider at tip. Grinding of the teeth. Tongue hangs out of the mouth
(children). Forepart of the tongue cold and dry. Toothache better biting. Chewing motions of
the mouth as though chewing or sucking. Stammering speech. Lock‐jaw. Hot breath.

Throat
***DRY and ***HOT. Tonsils enlarged. *Tonsillitis worse right side. Urging to swallow, with
choking. Throat feels constricted. Swallowing difficult; *Drinks in sips. Must take a drink to
swallow solid food. When swallowing, bends head forward and lifts up knees. Clutches at,
during epilepsy.

Stomach
Desire for lemonade or lemons (which agree). Distaste for meat, acids, coffee, milk, beer.
Vomits everything, with paleness and weakness. Great thirst for cold water. Dread of drinking.
Spasmodic hiccough, with sweat and convulsions. Pain in stomach extending to shoulder and
throat worse pressure.

Abdomen
Distended, hot worse touch of bed‐clothes. Cutting pain in epigastrium better bending
backwards. Transverse colon distends and protrudes, like a pad, during abdominal colic.
Cramp and colic, as if a hand has clutched some part. Acute pain in liver region, extending to
shoulder and neck worse lying on it. Clawing pain around the navel. Downward forcing in
abdomen as if all the viscera would protrude through genitals. Acute prolapsus ani. Stools;
green, dysenteric or contain chalky lumps. Involuntary stools. Piles, with back pain as if
breaking. Pain in splenic region worse sneezing, coughing, touch.

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Urinary Organs
Involuntary urination, on lying down; or when standing, or at night; when sleepy, during day.
Retention of urine; with paralysis of bladder; post partum. Fiery red urine; frequent and
profuse urination. *Haematuria without pathological conditions. Sensation in bladder as if a
worm were turning in, without desire to micturate.

Male
Testicles; hard, drawn up, inflamed. Sweat on genitals. Soft painless tumour on glans.

Female
Menses; bright, red, with clots, too early, too profuse, *hot, *gushing, offensive. Metritis.
Rigidity of the os. Violent bearing down towards genitals, as if everything would fall out,
better standing and sitting erect worse lying down. Mastitis; pain throbbing, redness, *streaks
radiate from the nipples. Breast; heavy, hard and red. Lochia; diminished, hot offensive.
Useful in confinement of women who have their children late in life. Leucorrhoea, with colic.
Labour pains come and go suddenly; or ceasing.

Respiratory organs
Tickling, short, dry cough worse night. Larynx very painful, feels as if foreign body were in it,
with cough. Cough worse fine dust in air. Child cries before cough. Cough worse yawning. High
piping voice. Barking cough or voice. Whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack;
with haemoptysis. Cheyne‐Stokes respiration. Moaning at every breath. Difficult, short quick
respiration. Asthma in hot damp weather.

Heart
Throbbing in carotid and temporal arteries. Pulse full, hard, tense. Violent palpitation, with
laboured breathing. Bubbling at the region of the heart.

Neck and Back:

Stiff neck and shoulder (right). Swelling of glands in the nape of the neck. *Back feels broken.
Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.

Extremities
Jerks or spasms in limbs. Joints, swollen, red, shining; with red streaks radiating. Heaviness
and paralytic feeling in limbs. *Cold extremities. Involuntary limping. Phlegmasia alba dolens.
Trembling of limbs. Weakness and tottering gait. Lies or sits with feet crossed, cannot uncross
them.

Sleep
*Sleepy but cannot sleep. Moans and tosses about in sleep. ***JERKS DURING SLEEP. Frightful
dreams of quarrels, fire, robbers, assassins. Sees frightful visions on closing eyes. Sleeps with
hands under the head. Heavy sleep with hot skin.

Fever
High fever with comparative absence of toxaemia. Internal coldness, with external *pungent,
*burning, *steaming heat ***HOT HEAD, *with cold limbs. Skin hot; but moist and dry
alternately. No thirst with fever.

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Skin
***BRIGHT, ***RED, *glossy. Dry and hot. Alternate paleness and redness of skin. Intense
dermatitis. Scarlatina. Erysipelas. Boils, returning every spring.

Related
Glon; Hyos; Stram.

Complementary
Bor; Calc; Hep; Merc; Nat-m.

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Bellis Perennis [Bell‐p]

Generalities
Bellis is known commonly as a wound wort, therefore like *Arnica it is a great traumatic
remedy. It is especially useful in *deep trauma or septic wounds of abdominal and pelvic
organs; after major surgical operations. It removes the ill effects of auto‐ traumatism_excess
of masturbation. It affects ***BLOOD VESSELS causing venous stasis, and varicose veins.
Injuries to the *nerves, with intense soreness better by cold bathing. *Muscles become
***SORE AND BRUISED. Pains are hard, aching, squeezing or throbbing. It removes the
exudations of swelling of many kinds due to injury. It is a suitable remedy to old labourers,
and commercial travellers. Patients feel tired and fagged, desire to lie down. Boils all over.
*Near and remote effects; of blows, falls, accidents, railway spine. Ill effects of cold drinks,
when overheated; wetting or getting chilled when overheated. Haemorrhages. Pus acrid
destroying hair. Unbearable pain that drives to distraction, worse heat better cold. Sprains
and bruises. Tumours from injury.

Worse
***INJURIES; *Sprains. ***TOUCH. ***Cold baths or drinks. *Becoming chilled when hot. Hot
bath; warmth of bed. Before storms. *Surgical operations.

Better
Continued motion. Cold (locally).

Mind
Impulse to move.

Head
Vertigo; in elderly persons (cerebral stasis). Headache from occiput to vertex, or sinciput.
Shooting pain.

Stomach
Effects of cold or iced drinks when heated.

Abdomen
Soreness of abdominal walls. *Fulness about the spleen, and stitches. Foul, painless yellow
diarrhoea worse at night.

Female
Breasts and uterus engorged; uterus feels squeezed, sore. Inability to walk during pregnancy.
Varicose veins during pregnancy.

Neck and Back:

Falls on coccyx.

Extremities
Pain down anterior of thigh. Wrists, feel contracted as if from elastic band.

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Sleep
Wakes too early, 3 a.m. and cannot get to sleep again.

Skin
Boils all over. Ecchymoses, swelling sensitive to touch.

Related
Arn.

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Benzenum [Benz]

Generalities
Benzol affects the blood causing decrease of red and increase of white cells, so it ought to be
of use in Leukaemia. Patients are tired and nervous. Hallucination as of a great white hand
appeared to him in darkness. Pain travels from below upwards. Sense of falling through bed
and floor. Epileptiform attacks, coma and anaesthesia.

Worse
Night. Right side.

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Benzinum nitricum [Benz‐n]

Generalities
It produces faintness, sinking, convulsions, twitching and sopor. Blueness of lips, face and
fingernails. Head drawn backwards and to the left in spasms. *Rolling of the eyeballs in their
vertical axis is prominent feature. *Pupils dilated. Nystagmus. Respiration, slow, difficult,
sighing. Involuntary evacuation. Paralysis of all limbs. Secretions smell strongly of bitter
almonds.

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Benzoicum Acidum [Benz‐ac]

Generalities
It is a remedy for uric acid diathesis. The urine is highly coloured, very offensive with gouty
symptoms. Urination profuse and scanty alternately. Patient gives out a very strong urinous
odour. *Pains suddenly change their locality but are mostly felt in the region of the heart or
they alternate with urinary symptoms. Pains alternate with heart symptoms. Renal
insufficiency. Gouty and asthmatic. Hygroma, bunions. Meniere’s disease. Painful gouty
nodes. Highly intensified odour of urine as a concomitant to any diseased condition.
Symptoms fluctuate according to the fluctuation of urine.

Better.
Heat. Profuse urination.

Worse
Open air. Cold. Changing weather. Motion. By uncovering.

Mind
Inclined to dwell on unpleasant things. Omits words in writing. Child cross, wants to be nursed
in arms, will not be laid down. Shudders if he sees anyone deformed.

Head
Aches, when urine becomes scanty. Vertigo, with inclination to fall sideways.

Ears
Noise, as of confused voices in ears worse swallowing or walking in open air.

Nose
Seems to smell cabbage, dust, or something stinking. Itching of septum.

Face
Copper coloured spots on face. Involuntary biting of lower lip, while eating.

Mouth
Tongue; spongy on surface, with deep cracks and spreading ulcers. Mouth and throat
symptoms are better eating. Toothache worse lying down.

Throat
Sensation as of a lump, swelling and constriction better eating.

Stomach
Vomiting of salty or bitter substance. Sweat while eating.

Abdomen
Cutting about navel better stool. Stitching in liver region. *Copious grayish stools, like soap
suds; of a pungent urinous odour; very foul; white.

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Urinary Organs
***URINE; ***HOT, DARK BROWN; ***STRONG, *of foul ammoniacal, *or odour of horse
urine. Eneuresis; dribbling of offensive urine of old men. Gravel. Sheets are, unusually stained
brown in enuresis. Retention of urine in infants.

Female
Prolapse of uterus, with foul urine.

Respiratory organs
Hard, dry cough; followed by expectoration of green mucus. Asthma, with rheumatic
complaints. Cannot tolerate pressure of clothes on chest. Cough worse night, Lying on right
side.

Heart
Pains change places, but are most constant about the heart. Awakes after midnight, with
violent pulsation or burning at heart.

Neck and Back:

Coldness in sacrum. Dull pain in region of kidney; stiffness in loins. Trembling in lumbar region.

Extremities
*Cracking in joints; in knee. Ganglion of the wrist. Bunion of great toe. Pain in tendo‐Achillis,
at the os calcis, with pain in heart, when stepping on foot.

Fever
Profuse sweat, without relief. Night sweats. Hands, feet, back, knees cold, as from a cold wind.
Sweat, with aromatic odour.

Skin
Red spots. Itching with agreeable sensation on being scratched, but leaving a burning.

Related
Calc.

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Berberis Aquifolium [Berb‐a]

Generalities
It affects the skin which becomes dry, rough, scaly, pimply. Eruptions on scalp extending to
face and neck. Acne. Psoriasis. Dry eczema. Clears the complexion. It should be given in
mother tincture in rather material doses.

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Berberis Vulgaris [Berb]

Generalities
It acts upon urinary organs, when there is tendency to the formation of calculi and lithaemia.
It affects the liver markedly‐promotes the flow of bile, therefore it is a useful remedy for
fleshy persons with good livers, but with little endurance. Often useful in arthritic and hepatic
affections with urinary, haemorrhoidal, or menstrual complaints. Venous stasis occurs in
pelvic region, causing haemorrhoids. Patient is mentally and physically tired‐not inclined to
do anything. Prematurely old and worn out men and women. *Pains rapidly change their
locality and character. Symptoms *rapidly alternate, thirst alternates with thirstlessness;
hunger alternating with loss of appetite etc. *Pains; are ***RADIATING, *from one point,
*shooting outward or all over; *sticking; *burning‐smarting, soreness. Numbness; insensible
to extreme heat and cold. ***GURGLING or bubbling sensations. *Mucous membranes
become dry‐ mouth, vagina etc. Discharges or skin is *dirty gray. Cold feeling in the bones,
eyes, ears etc. Chest affected after operations‐piles, fistula, 1 etc. Sees things in twilight.

Worse
*Motion; *jarring, *stepping hard. Rising from sitting. Standing. Fatigue. Urinating. Twilight.

Mind
Mental labour, requiring close thinking very difficult; the least interruption, breaks the chain
of thought. Apathetic. Indifferent. Objects seem twice as large as natural. Sees terrifying
apparitions in twilight; esp. children.

Head
Sensation as if the head were becoming larger. Cold temples. Vertigo, with attacks of fainting.
Sensation as of a tight cap on head.

Eyes
Dry. As of a sand between the lids, and eyes. Eyes feel cold as from a cool wind, with
lachrymation on closing the eyes. Quivering of the eyelids when reading. Eyes sunken; with
dark‐ bluish circles around.

Ears
Stopped up feeling with pressure. Nodes on auricle. Tumour behind the ear. Sensation of
coldness or bubbling in.

Nose
Dry. Crawling, itching in nostrils.

Face
Dirty grey, sickly. Bilious. Suppurating acne. Sensation as if cold drops were spurted into the
face when going into the open air.

Mouth
Sticky. Viscid, foamy, cottony saliva. Tongue; feels scalded; painful pimple on tip. Gums dirty
grey. Small white nodes in the gums. Teeth feel as if too long or too large. Taste bitter.

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Throat
Sensation of plug in the side of the throat with dryness.

Stomach
Nausea; before breakfast; after dinner. Pains from stomach to back; or the reverse. Nausea
before breakfast better after.

Abdomen
Torn loose feeling in the epigastrium. *Colic, pain from gall bladder to stomach worse
pressure. Biliary calculi. Stools; dirty grey, smarting tough; watery, with jaundice. Fistula in
ano; with itching; with chest complaints. Colic, biliary or urinary arresting breathing.

Urinary Organs
Pain from kidney, extending along ureter, or to liver, stomach, spleen; arresting breathing.
*Renal colic. Burning, soreness, or bubbling in kidney region. Clear discharge from meatus
before urinating. *Urine; thick, *turbid, yellow; red, mealy, *sandy or slimy *sediment.
Sensation as if some urine remained after urination. Urethra burns when not urinating. Pains
in thighs and hips, on urinating. Prostate gland enlarged, with pressure in perineum. Dysuria.

Male
Neuralgia of testes and spermatic cord. Testicles drawn up. Pain changes sides. Genitals cold
and sweaty. Prepuce and glans cold and numb. Penis hard and contracted, bends upwards.

Female
Menses; too slight; of watery blood or brown or grey mucus, replaces menses. Vagina
sensitive; cutting pain during coition; vaginismus. Enjoyment absent during coition. Neuralgia
of ovaries and vagina. Pain changes sides. Prostration after coition. Dysmenorrhoea, with
blood looking like grey serum. Urinary symptoms, with menses and leucorrhoea.

Respiratory organs
Hoarseness; polypus of larynx. Obstruction of breath when raising arms. Short dry cough, with
stitches in chest.

Head
Stitches about the heart. Pulse becomes very slow.

Neck and Back:

Stitches in neck and back worse respiration. *Backache, *with severe prostration worse sitting
or Lying. Sore spot under (right) scapula. Crushing, stitching, paralysing pain, in lumbar region.
Pain from *iliac crests down front of thighs; when urinating. Post‐operative pain in lumbar
region.

Extremities
Neuralgia, under finger nails, with swelling of finger joints. Outer side of the thighs cold,
ulcerative pain in heels. Pain in balls of feet on stepping. Intense weariness and lameness of
legs after walking a short distance. Stitches between metatarsal bones as from a nail worse
standing.

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Fever
Chilly. Sensation of coldness in various parts as if spattered with cold water. Lower parts of
the back, hips, thighs, warm. Everything excites sweat.

Skin
Flat warts. Itching, burning and smarting worse scratching better cold application. Eczema of
anus and hands. Eruptions leave a brown stain.

Related
Benz‐ac; Coc‐c; Kali‐b; Lyc; Puls.

Complementary
Mag‐m.

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Bismuthum [Bism]

Generalities
Bism exerts its chief action on *stomach and alimentary canal, causing catarrhal
inflammation. *Pains are tearing, *pinching, *burning, *screwing. Sensation of heaviness in
internal parts. Prostration. Affections, after abdominal operations.

Worse
*Eating, over eating.

Better.
Cold; drinks; applications. Bending backwards. Motion.

Mind
Apathetic. Discontented; complains about his condition. Desire for company; children hold on
to mother’s hand. Anguish; never long in one place or position. Fickle minded.

Head
Cutting or pressure above (right) orbit extending to occiput worse eating, better cold;
alternating with gastric pain. Headaches return in winter.

Eyes
Eyeballs ache. Thickened mucus in both canthi.

Nose
Bleed, dark blood. Heaviness at the root of the nose.

Face
Earthy; blue around the eyes. Pain in cheek bones better running about and holding cold
water in mouth. Face pale and cold. Face pain alternating, with gastric pain.

Mouth
Gums swollen. Toothache better cold water in the mouth worse when it becomes warm.
Taste; sweetish, sour or metallic. Black gangrenous looking wedges on dorsum and sides of
tongue.

Throat
Difficult swallowing of fluids, which return through nose.

Stomach
*Craves cold drinks, which is vomited *at once, *or in great quantities when stomach
becomes full; at internal of days. Vomits fluids only. Burning, cramping, feeling of a load in
stomach. Slow digestion, with foetid eructations. Bilious vomiting, after eating. Food presses
like a load in one spot. Stomach pains better bending backwards. Cancer of stomach, vomiting
of brownish water. Gastralgia, not associated with any catarrh or any symptoms of
indigestion. Cold water better. Atrophy of stomach. Stomach hangs down; hard lumps are felt
below navel.

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Abdomen
Flatulence. Prostration; after stool. Painless diarrhoea, with thirst and frequent vomiting, and
micturition. Painless discharge of blood from rectum. Cholera infantum, when the body
remains warm.

Urinary Organs
Urine; frequent, copious; pale, suppression of.

Heart
Violent beating of heart.

Extremities
*Dry palms and soles. Tearing under nails. Limbs cold. Blue colour of forearm and thigh.

Sleep
Restless on account of voluptuous dreams; with emissions or without.

Skin
Ulcers; gangrenous black, bluish.

Related
Ars; Cadm.

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Borax [Bor]

Generalities
It affects the ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES causing *aphthous, *catarrhal conditions.
*Discharges are thick, *hot, biting. Excessively *nervous; easily frightened; sensitive to
sudden noises. Heat in single parts, mouth, vagina, palms etc. Sticking or drawing pains;
*internal, *intercostal, soles etc. Poorly nourished, soft and flabby; children. Parts which are
usually red turn white. Sensation of cobweb, on hands, face. Tousy persons. Skin and mucous
membranes *shrivelled. Restlessness in afternoon. General emaciation. Marasmus.
Eructation, when painful parts are pressed. Favours easy conception. Infants cyanotic from
birth. Valuable in epilepsy.

Worse
***DOWNWARD OR UPWARD MOTION. *Sudden noises Cold; wet; least uncovering. Fruit.
Nurslings; children. Smoking. Warm weather. After menses. Rocking; being dangled up and
down.

Better
11 p.m. Pressure. Evening. Cold weather.

Mind
*Nervous; *anxious; *fidgety, fickle. *Fears downward motion. *Starts or frightened at every
noise or *sudden noise; or at trifles. Irritable before stool, cheerful and happy after. Babies
cry and *scream, *when nursing, or before passing stool or urine. Fear of thunder. Children
awake, suddenly, scream, hold the sides of cradle, without any apparent cause. Fault finding.
Does not wish to do anything. All the mental symptoms are better at 11 p.m. Changes from
one business to another, from one room to another. Fear of being infected by some
contagious disease.

Head
Vertigo worse ascending stairs or any elevation. Headache, with nausea and trembling of the
whole body. Hot head of babies. Hair entangled at tips, stick together cannot be separated.

Eyes
Gummy, crusty, sticky eyelids. Redness about eyes. Entropion. Raw tarsi. Granular eyelids.

Ears
Sensitive to slightest noise, not so much disturbed by louder ones. As if ear opened and
closed.

Nose
Acrid coryza. Dry crusts in nose. Red nose of young women. Red shining swelling of the nose,
with throbbing and tensive sensation. Stoppage of nostrils alternately; with lachrymation.

Face
Pale, dirty. Puffy face; bluish in infants. Anxious, during downward motion. Cobweb sensation.
As of a bug crawling over lip.

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Mouth
Dry, hot, tender, *aphthous; after taking sour or salty food. Dry cracked; or puffy indented
tongue. Toothache worse wet weather better by smoking. Palate, hard and wrinkled; as if
burnt; pains when chewing; while nursing, in children. Painful gumboil. Taste bitter, even
saliva. Thrush. Ulcers, bleed on eating or by touch.

Stomach
Eructations, on pressing painful part. Nausea; when thinking hard; with trembling of body and
weakness of knees. Desire for sour things. Pain in the region of stomach, after heavy
lifting_stitching_ extending to small of back. Sweat on stomach. Vomiting after drinking; of
sour mucus. Gastralgia, reflex from uterine troubles.

Abdomen
Belly soft, flabby, sunken. Flatulent,_distension after every meal. Pain as if diarrhoea would
set in. Stools; turning green, or persistently green; like boiled starch. Mucous diarrhoea then
weakness. Loose, pappy, foul smelling stools. Stools slender. Catch in groin on coughing.
Pulling from spleen to chest. Stitching pains in the groins before or during menses. Burning in
rectum during stool.

Urinary Organs
Hot acrid, smarting urine, of pungent smell. Child screams before the passage. Frequent every
10 to 15 minutes. Small red particles on diaper. Nephritis. Cystitis.

Male
Indifference to coition.

Female
Indifference to coition. Menses too early, too profuse; attended with colic and nausea.
Leucorrhoea_albuminous, clear, hot, pasty, with sensation as if warm water was flowing
down legs. Membranous dysmenorrhoea. Empty feeling in mammae, after child nurses, with
stitches better compressing. When nursing, pain in opposite breast. Labour pains with
frequent eructations. Mother’s milk is thick and tastes badly. Sensation of distension in
clitoris, with sticking. Sterility. Favours easy conception.

Respiratory organs
Sticking pain in chest (intercostal) worse coughing, inspiration, yawning or any physical
exertion. Shortness of breath worse ascending stairs; stitches on speaking. Hacking and
violent cough; expectoration blood streaked or mouldy. Pain in chest better Lying on back,
washing with cold water, or pressure. Arrest of breath when Lying down, must jump up and
catch breath.

Heart
Feels *as if on night side; and being squeezed. Infants, cyanotic from birth. Violent palpitation.

Neck and Back:

Pain in back, inability to stoop.

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Extremities
Limbs tremble at 10 a.m. Feeling of cobweb on hands. Stitches in soles. Weakness in calves.
Pain in heel. Eczema of fingers and toes with loss of nails. As if warm water running down
thighs. Palms hot. Itching on back of hands. Want of strength esp. in joints.

Sleep
Voluptuous dreams; dreams of coition. Cries out in sleep, as if frightened (children). Cannot
sleep on account of excessive heat, esp. of head. Starts from deep as if to fall.

Fever
Flushes of heat.

Skin
***DRY; *festers easily, won’t heal. Psoriasis. Trade eruptions, on fingers and hands, itching
and stinging eczema. Wilted wrinkled skin. Whitish pimples, with areola. Ulcerations on feet
from rubbing of shoe, or boots.

Related
Bell, Bry; Calc; Nux‐v; Sul‐ac.

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Boricum Acidum [Bor‐ac]

Generalities
It affects the skin causing extensive exfoliative dermatitis. Oedema around the eyes. It is
useful in climacteric flushing. Vagina cold as if packed with ice. Coldness; of saliva, vagina.
Diabetes; tongue dry red and cracked. Pain along ureters with frequent urination.

Better
Walking in open air.

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Bothrops Lanciolatus [Bothr‐l]

Generalities
The venom of this snake is most coagulating, therefore it is expected to be useful in
thrombosis and thrombotic affections as hemiplegia. Aphasia, without the affection of
tongue. Nervous trembling. Great lassitude and sluggishness. Blindness from haemorrhage
into retina. Day blindness_can scarcely see her way after sunrise. Paralysis of one arm or one
leg only. Slight shivering, followed by profuse sweat. Intolerable pain in the big toe. Bone
becomes bare from gangrene and becomes necrotic. Worse right side.

Worse
Right side.

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Bovista [Bov]

Generalities
This fungus commonly known as puff ball, exerts its influence on ***CIRCULATION, causing
relaxation of capillary system, thereby producing *haemorrhagic diathesis. On *skin it causes
*herpetic eruptions. There is a *general puffiness; bloated condition of body surface, which
produces *easy indentations with blunt instrument (scissors etc.). Laxity esp. more felt in
joints, which seem loose. *Enlarged or swelled feeling in head, heart, etc. It is adapted to old
maids, with palpitation; and stammering children. Multiple neuritis, with numbness and
tingling. Asphyxia due to charcoal fumes. Effects of over‐exertion, and application of tar
locally. Nervous and weak jointed.

Worse
*Menses. Full moon. Hot weather. *Getting warm. Cold food. Wine. Coffee.

Better
Bending double. Hot food. Eating.

Mind
*Awkward in speech and action; drops things, stutters etc. Ineffective. Absent minded. Weak
memory. Irritable, takes everything amiss. Laughs and cries alternately. Stares vacantly into
space. Sad when alone. Quarrelsome.

Head
Confusion on awakening. Sensation as if head were enlarging. As if wedge is pressed in
occiput. Staggering, confusion and numbness in head, after coition. Itching of the scalp worse
warmth.

Heart
Visible palpitation of heart; of old maids. Palpitation as if heart working in water. Palpitation,
with tremor of hands, worse bathing, excitement.

Eyes
Objects seem to be nearer than they really are. Staring at one point. Loss of vision from
paralysis of optic nerve.

Ears
Boil in right ear, with pain worse swallowing. Discharge of foetid pus. Hearing indistinct,
misunderstands much that is spoken.

Nose
Stringy, tough discharge from nose. Nose stopped up; cannot breathe, worse lying down.
Scurfs and crusts about nostrils. Bleeding early in the morning; (during sleep); few drops
escape on sneezing.

Face
Cheeks and lips swollen. Crusts about corners of mouth. Acne worse in summer or use of
cosmetics. Twitching of muscles, before asthma. Lips cracked, crusty.

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Mouth
Numb. Increases saliva. Gums bleed easily on sucking them. Cutting pain in tongue; before
asthma.

Stomach
Sensation as of a lump of ice. Nausea better breakfast. Vomits watery fluid.

Abdomen
Colic, with bright red urine better eating and bending double. *Diarrhoea worse during and
before menses. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. Stitches through perineum
towards rectum and genitals. Chronic diarrhoea of old people worse night, early morning.
First portion of stool is hard; latter part thin and watery.

Urinary Organs
Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately after urination (Diabetes Mellitus).

Male
After coition, reeling and confusion in head. Sexual desire increased.

Female
Voluptuous sensation. *Menses; *early, oozing, every two weeks, *more at night; *less while
moving. Occasional show between the periods. Parovarian cyst. Thick, acrid, yellow‐green
leucorrhoea, leaving green spots on linen worse while walking; after menses. Jaundice of new
born.

Respiratory organs
Shortness of breath on moving the arms. Viscid expectoration. Spasmodic laughing and
crying, with asthma.

Neck and Back:

Pain in the back with heaviness, after stooping. *Itching coccyx.

Extremities
Great weakness of all joints. Weakness; clumsiness with her hands. Heavy painful legs.
Oedematous swelling of (right) foot even years after a sprain. Sweat in axilla; onion like.
Oedema of joints after fracture. Weak hands.

Fever
Chill with pain.

Skin
Blunt instruments leave a deep impression. *Itching eruptions; oozing; forming *thick crusts
or scabs, with pus beneath. Shooting pain in corns and warts. Urticaria covering whole body,
with diarrhoea or metrorrhagia. Pellagra. Eczema.

Related
Apis; Calc; Rhus‐t; Sep; Ust.
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Bromium [Brom]

Generalities
Marked effects of Bromine are seen on the ***RESPIRATORY TRACT; esp. ***LARYNX and
*trachea. It is useful in scrofulous children, with enlarged glands; *parotid, thyroid, ovaries
and mammary glands are esp. affected, which are swollen and indurated; but seldom
suppurate. Constriction and membranous formation occur in larynx, spreading upwards.
Patient is *weak and easily overheated, *then sweaty and sensitive to draughts. Blondes.
Tremulous all over. Fainting. Emaciation. Boring pains in bones. Cancer.

Worse
***WARMTH; ***DAMP WARM; *overheating; warm room. Chilled when hot. Sea bathing.
Dust. Draught. Evening, until midnight. Lying on left side.

Better
Nose bleed better (vertigo, head, chest). At sea. Motion. Shaving. Riding.

Mind
Feels that strange persons are looking over patient’s shoulders; or that he would see one on
turning, as if someone were at the back of him. Takes no interest in household duties.
Cheerful mood; desire for mental labour. Sad. Indifferent. Low spirited, inconsolable. Does
not feel normal; but cannot tell why. Sits alone in her room without doing anything; looks
constantly in one direction without saying anything.

Head
Vertigo worse on bridge, at the sight of running water. Head congested, fears a stroke.
Headache worse drinking milk, stooping. Headache in sun, passes off in shade. Headache
deep in vertex, with palpitation.

Eyes
Lachrymation, with swelling of tear glands. Pupils dilated. Protruding eyes. Flashes before
eyes.

Ears
Hard swelling of the parotid gland, warm to touch; after eruptive fevers.

Nose
*Acrid, *burning coryza, with violent sneezing and soreness of the nose. Tickling smarting as
from cobweb. Nosebleed. Fan like motion of alae. Long continued obstinate coryza.

Face
Sensation of cobweb. Seems drawn to a point at nose. Ashy grey. Pale, red, alternating.

Mouth
Dry and parched. Aphthae, with affection of eyes. Water tastes saltish.

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Throat
Tonsils; swollen, deep red, with network of dilated blood vessels, pain worse swallowing fluids
than solids. Even a small goitre oppresses. Stony hard, swollen glands. Diphtheria.

Stomach
Sharp burning from tongue to stomach. Pressure like from a stone. Gastralgia better eating.
Sour things disagree. Vomiting; like coffee ground; bloody mucus. Aversion to customary
tobacco smoking.

Abdomen
Tympanitic, distended. Diarrhoea, after eating oysters and sour things. Piles; bleed, intensely
painful, worse application of cold or warm water. Spleen enlarged, indurated.

Urinary Organs
Urine high coloured.

Male
Swelling and induration of testes worse slight jar.

Female
Flatus from vagina; noisy. Dysmenorrhoea. Swelling of ovaries. Queer ill feeling few days
before menses. Tumour in breast, stitching pain from breast to axilla. Menses, with
membranous shreds. Itching in vagina. Suppression of menses, in scirrhus mammae.

Respiratory organs
Inhaled air seems smoky, cold or raw. Dry cough, with hoarseness and burning pain behind
sternum. *Wants to take a deep breath, but it excites cough. *Suffocative fits; he starts up
with *choked or croupy or wheezing cough or with palpitation. Asthma. Spasms of glottis.
Asthma of sailors going ashore. Deep hoarseness if heated. Lungs feel coated with down.
*Larynx cold. Colds start in larynx, go *upward and downward. Thick white expectoration.
Dyspnoea, with great swelling.

Heart
Hypertrophy; from gymnastics, with palpitation. Cutting pain running upwards, heart disease.
Violent palpitation worse lying on left side. Nervous palpitation; with nausea; with headache.

Neck and Back:

Glands enlarged, cystic tumours on both sides of neck.

Extremities
Icy cold forearms or only cold hands. Boring pain in one or both tibiae. Left arm, lame, in
cardiac affections.

Sleep
Continued yawning, with respiratory trouble, with drowsiness. Great drowsiness when
reading.

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Skin
Boils on arms and face. Acne, pimples and pustules.

Related
Lach; Samb.

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Bryonia Alba [Bry]

Generalities
Bryonia develops a marked action on all ***SEROUS MEMBRANES and the viscera they
contain, causing ***INFLAMMATION *and exudation. It disorders *circulation, producing
congestion; alters the blood, giving rise, to typhoid, bilious, rheumatic and remittent types of
fevers. ***AVERSION TO LEAST MOTION, even to distant parts, is due to its action on nerves
and *muscles. *Mucous membranes become dry, hence discharges are scanty and adherent.
Complaints, develop slowly, but forcibly. Pains are ***BURSTING; ***Stitching or *heavy
sore; going backwards. *Effects are very painful; on coughing holds sides, chest, head. Joints
painful. Streaks of red‐lymphangitis. Gastro‐bilious‐rheumatic constitution. Every spot in the
body is painful to pressure. Dropsical swellings gradually increase as the day progresses and
disappear during the night. Children dislike to be carried or raised. Physical weakness; on
slightest exertion; all pervading apathy. Ill effects; of anger, fright; chagrin. Suppressed
eruptions and discharges. Alcohol. Gluttony. Wounds. Complaints from taking cold drinks, in
hot weather. Often indicated in injury of the joint when *Arnica fails. Muscles become hard,
after neuralgia. Dryness everywhere, of mouth, throat etc. It is adapted to nervous dry,
slender people. Right sided effects. Vicarious bleeding.

Worse
***MOTION‐***LEAST; ***RAISING UP; ***STOOPING; ***COUGHING; ***EXERTION;
***DEEP BREATHING. Dry cold or heat. ***BECOMING HOT; ***IN ROOM. *Hot weather.
Drinking; while hot. ***EATING. Vegetables. Acids. Calomel. ***VEXATION. ***TOUCH.
Suppressions. Taking cold. Early a.m.

Better
***PRESSURE; ***LYING ON PAINFUL PART. Bandaging. ***COOL OPEN AIR. ***QUIET.
Cloudy, damp days. *Drawing knees up. Heat to inflamed part. Descending. Sitting up. Cold
food, drink.

Mind
Very irritable and *ugly in behaviour. Determined. Taciturn. Delirium, *wants to go home,
thinking he is not there. Talks of business. Wants to be let alone. Desire for things which are
rejected when offered. Dull. Apprehension and dread for future. Despair of being cured, with
fear of death.

Head
***DIZZY OR FAINT ON RISING UP. Vertigo felt in occiput. ***BURSTING; ***SPLITTING OR
HEAVY *crushing headache; *fronto‐ occipital worse moving eyes, coughing, straining at
stools etc. Vertigo; as though all objects are whirling, or as if sinking deep down in the bed,
better cold. Pain over left eye, pressive, going to occiput, thence spreading over whole body.
Scalp very sensitive, cannot bear even a soft brush, every hair pains. Oily hair. Headache; from
ironing; when constipated.

Eyes
Eyeballs sore; *pains behind the eyeballs. Glaucoma. Lachrymation, during day esp. in the
sun. Lids swollen and puffed.

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Ears
Aural vertigo. Ringing, humming in ears. Vicarious bleeding from ears.

Nose
Nose bleeding; vicarious; when menses should appear; in pregnancy. Swelling of tip of the
nose, feels as if it would ulcerate when touched. Boils. Descending colds.

Face
Dark red, hot, bloated. Chewing motions, in brain affections, of children. Lips; dry, as if burnt,
parched, cracked, wants to moisten them. Burning of lower lip in old smokers. Picking of lips.

Mouth
*Dry. Tongue; very dry, rough, coated along centre; red at base. Taste ***BITTER, cannot
swallow food, better cold drinks. Toothache better cold water, worse brushing teeth. Jerking
toothache when smoking or chewing tobacco. Collection of soapy, frothy saliva.

Throat
Hawks brown lumps, with effort. Throat; dry, scraping roughness in. Back of throat seems
swollen. Aphthous patches; recurring.

Stomach
***THIRST, ***FOR LARGE QUANTITY OF COLD WATER; also for warm drinks which better.
Craves what he cannot relish. Loathing for food. Nausea worse rising up, lying on right side.
Bitter vomiting; of bile and water, immediately after eating. Vomits solid food only. *Heavy
load in stomach worse eating. Stomach sensitive to touch. Great desire for coffee, wine and
acid drinks. Aversion to milk, but when he takes it he relishes it. Tasteless eructations. Vomits
warm drinks. Drinks hastily and eagerly.

Abdomen
Epigastrium; tender, throbbing. Liver, heavy, sore swollen, better lying on it. Abdominal wall
very tender. Appendicitis. Peritonitis. Stools; ***LARGE DRY, ***VERY HARD, as if burnt;
loose, painless, undigested, involuntary, during sleep. Constipation. Diarrhoea; gushing worse
in the morning, on rising, eating cabbage. Diarrhoea; in hot weather; after cold drinks. Lumps
of tough mucus, after stools. Burning in anus, with stools. Yellow, mushy stools. Jaundice.
Groins sore before menses. Complaints from over lifting, concussion.

Urinary Organs
Urine; red, brown like beer; scanty, hot. Inclination to make water, with suspended
respiration on lifting loads. Involuntary urination during exertion. Burning in urethra, when
not urinating.

Female
Menses; suppressed with vicarious discharges or splitting headache. Pain in breast at
menstrual period. Breast; hot and painful, hard. Milk fever. Intermenstrual pain, with great
abdominal and pelvic soreness. Mastitis, stony hard mammae. Abscess of mammae. Ovaritis.
Infant_sore mouth; child does not want to take hold of breast, but after mouth becomes
moist it nurses well. Menses; dark, foul. Stitches in the ovaries on taking deep breath.
Frequent nosebleed at the appearance of menses.

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Respiratory organs
Cough; ***DRY, ***HARD, ***VERY PAINFUL, at night as of from stomach, must sit up worse
eating and drinking. Wants to take deep breath, but cannot or it excites cough. Expectoration;
rusty blood streaked or tough. Bronchitis. Asthma. Pneumonia. ***SHARP STITCHES IN CHEST
or at right *scapula, worse deep breathing and coughing. Pleurisy. Coming into warm room
excites cough. Holds chest, or presses the sternum when coughing. Dry friction sound. Cough,
with sneezing.

Heart
Stitches in cardiac region. Pulse; ***FULL, ***QUICK, *harsh.

Neck and Back:

Intrascapular numbness or pain going to epigastrium or from left scapula to heart. Painful
stiffness of neck. Pain in the small of back worse walking or turning. Stitches and stiffness in
small of back. Lumbago worse stooping.

Extremities
Joints red, swollen hot. Pins and needles in soles, preventing walking. Constant motion of left
arm and leg, with sighing. Swelling of elbow. Knees totter and bend under him when walking.
Tendency to run backwards. Sciatica better Lying quietly and Lying on painful side.

Sleep
Dreams; of hard work, about household affairs, about business of the day, in delirium.
Drowsy. Starting when falling asleep. Walks in sleep.

Fever
Chill with hot head and red face; worse warm room. Dry burning heat; with worse of all the
symptoms. Blood seems hot. Painful continued fevers. Sweat; sour or oily.

Skin
*Slow development or sudden receding of rash, in eruptive fevers. *Undeveloped measles.
Skin; yellow, pale swollen, dropsical.

Related
Phyt; Rhus‐t.

Complementary
Abrot; Alum; Kali‐c; Lyc; Nat‐m; Rhus‐t; Sep; Sulph.

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Bufo [Bufo]

Generalities
The poison of this toad has a remarkable action on nervous system, and sexual organs. It
arouses lowest passions; patient is not only *low minded but develops low type of disease
also. It is a remedy for *depravities, *due to bad inheritance. Early broken down, prematurely
senile person. It affects circulation, causing ebullitions of heat, flushings; *burnings in
different parts. Bloody oozing; from nipples, bloody saliva etc. Trembling like paralysis agitans.
Electric‐like shocks, are felt throughout the whole body. Feels whole body as if swollen; in
a.m. Festering sensation. Falls down unconscious, with a blood curdling scream. Obesity.
Epileptic seizures; occur during night; connected with sexual sphere‐ at the time of menses,
in women when sexual desire is excited; in young men due to onanism or during coition,
attacks are followed by headache. As of a peg in joint. Dropsy. Paralysis. Cancer, Carbuncle.
Buboes. Septic lymphangitis, due to injuries, when pain runs up in streaks. Spasms in children,
after nursing angry or frightened mother. Anaesthetic spots on skin. Aversion to the sight of
brilliant objects. Variety of symptoms occur before epileptic spasms. The mind remains
childish, only the body grows. Foetid discharges, and exhalations. Convulsions from
suppurative conditions.

Worse
Warm room. Sexual excitement. Masturbation. Least motion. Injuries.

Better
Bleeding. Cool air. Cold bathing. Feet in hot water.

Mind
Moral depravity. Idiocy; childish, silly, tittering. Feeble minded. Fears; animals, strangers.
Talks nonsense, then angry if not understood. Walks the floor and wrings the hands. Desire
for solitude, to practice masturbation. Inclination to bite. Deceitfulness. Music is unbearable.

Head
As of a hot vapour, rising to the top of head. Brain numb. Pillow hurts occiput.

Eyes
Sight of brilliant objects intolerable. Objects appear crooked. Left lid paralyzed. Pupils dilated.
Eyes sunken.

Ears
Least noise distresses. Music is intolerable.

Nose
Epistaxis, with flushed faced and pain in forehead.

Face
Bloated and distorted. Bathed in sweat (in spasms). Lips black.

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Mouth
Paralysis of tongue, lapping motions of tongue. Bloody saliva. Stammering. Desire for sweet
drinks. Tongue; cracked, bluish black. Convulsions, after extracting teeth.

Abdomen
As of cold balls running through bowels. Buboes in groins. Convulsive movements in, after
spasms. Vomiting after drinking. Yellow fluid in vomit. Vomiting of blood and bile.

Male
Spasms, during coition. Disposition to handle organ. Disposition to masturbation. Impotency.

Female
Epilepsy at the time of menses. Menses, too early and too copious. Milk bloody. Cancer of
mammary gland. Tumours and polypi of uterus; ulcers of cervix. Burning in ovaries and uterus.
Cord like swelling from groin to knee, milk leg. Violent pain in mammae worse at night.
Hydatids in ovaries. Offensive purulent leucorrhoea.

Respiratory organs
Burning like fire in lungs. Suffocative cough. Asthma.

Heart
*Seems to float in water or air. Rapid heart action; in exophthalmos. Feels too large.
Palpitation; with headache during menses.

Neck and Back:

Jerks in nape of neck, before spasms. Lumbago worse rising up or least motion.

Extremities
Trembling of limbs. Cramps. Staggering gait. Feeling as if a peg were driven in joint. Limbs,
become stiff, numb.

Sleep
Comatose, after spasms.

Skin
*Red streaks under skin. Lymphangitis. Panaris. Yellow bullae. Yellowish, corrosive fluid oozes
out. Horripilation (Goose‐skin).

Related
Bar‐c; Graph Tarent.

Complementary
Calc.

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Cactus Grandiflorus [Cact]

Generalities
Chief action of *Cactus centres around the ***HEART and ***CIRCULATION. It affects the
*circular muscles, thereby producing ***CONSTRICTIONS; of the *heart, throat, chest,
bladder, rectum, vagina, neck. **Circulation becomes irregular, causing *violent congestion
or localized pulsations, behind stomach, at odd places. It is a ***HAEMORRHAGIC remedy,
favours formation of clots speedily. Constrictive or spasmodic pains, that extorts cries.
*Periodicity is marked, *and neuralgic pains occur periodically. *Body feels tight or wrapped.
Hot gushing into chest. Toxic goitre, with cardiac symptoms. General weakness and
prostration. Fainting. Dropsical affections. Ill effects of sun, damp, disappointment in love.
Many complaints are associated with heart affections. Pulseless, panting and prostration. Low
blood pressure, from weakness of heart.

Better
Open air. Pressure on vertex.

Worse
*Lying, on left side, on occiput. Periodically. Exertion. 10‐11 a.m. or 11 p.m. Night. Walking.
Going upstairs. Noise. Light. Sun heat.

Mind
Taciturn. Weeps, knows not why worse consolation. Believes that his disease is incurable. Sad.
Ill humoured. Easily frightened. Cheerful. Fear; of death, of something will happen.

Head
Heavy pain, as of a load on vertex better pressure worse talking, strong light. Headache worse
by seeing opera; missing of meals, noise, light, periodic, compressive, pulsating. Vertigo worse
deep breathing, exertion.

Eyes
Dimness of sight. Eyes blood shot. Exophthalmic goitre.

Ears
Pulsation in ears. Singing, ringing in ears.

Nose
Profuse epistaxis, but soon ceases.

Face
Right sided prosopalgia worse missing of meals. *Face; *red bloated, pale, emaciated.

Throat
Constriction of oesophagus, must drink to swallow. Suffocative constriction, with full
throbbing carotids.

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Stomach
Pulsation in coeliac artery behind the stomach. Vomiting of blood. Nausea in the
morning_continuous all day. Loss of appetite. Aversion to meat of which he was fond.

Abdomen
Intense burning in abdomen. As of a weight in anus. Pricking as from a pin in anus, better
slight friction. Fistula in ano, with violent palpitation of heart. Engorgement of liver due to
heart disease. Sharp pain shooting through diaphragm and up into chest. As if a cord was tied
tighter and tighter around attachment of diaphragm, taking his breath away.

Urinary Organs
Constriction of neck of bladder, causing retention of urine. Urine suppressed in fevers.
Haematuria; urination prevented by clots, in vagina in females.

Female
Menses; lumpy; *black; too soon, cease on lying. Constriction of vagina preventing coition;
vaginismus. Painful menses, extorting loud cries. Menstrual disorders, with heart symptoms.
Pulsation in ovarian region. Cyanotic infants.

Respiratory organs
Oppression of breathing, going upstairs. Cough, from heart affections. Continuous rattling of
mucus in chest. Constriction in chest, as if bound; hindering breathing. Periodical suffocation;
with fainting, sweat on face and loss of pulse. Haemoptysis, with convulsive cough.
Inflammation of diaphragm, with difficulty in breathing.

Heart
***FEELS CLUTCHED AND RELEASED ALTERNATELY BY AN IRON BAND BAND, or feels it
expand and contract; seems to turn over. Endocarditis, with mitral insufficiency. Palpitation;
worse lying on left side; at the approach of menses; during the day while walking; from
disappointed love. Stitches in heart. Endocardial murmurs. Hypertrophy. Low blood pressure.
Pulse; irritable, intermittent, feeble. Irregular and intermittent action, after forceps delivery.
Heart disease, with oedema of left hand. As if heart would fly to pieces on holding the breath.
Pulsations increase on holding the breath. Aneurism of large arteries and heart. Tobacco
heart.

Extremities
Left arm numb. Fingers tingle. Icy cold hands. Oedema of hand (left) in heart disease; and of
feet, extending to knees. Hands soft, feet enlarged. Pain in left arm down to fingers.

Sleep
Sleeplessness, on account of strong pulsations in different places. Dreams; of falling; frightful;
lascivious. Awakes in fright.

Fever
Chilly not worse by covering. Persistent subnormal temperature.

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Related
Acon; Coc‐c; Dig; Lach; Nux‐v; Sulph.

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Cadmium Sulphuratum [Cadm‐s]

Generalities
Its chief action centres on stomach and respiration. There is extreme exhaustion and
prostration, with vomiting. Patient must keep quiet. Icy coldness even near a fire. Low form
of diseases run to deathward. Weakness remaining after epileptic attacks, of one arm and
one leg. Formication between the skin and deep tissue. Numbness; of parts, nose, head etc.
Paralyzed parts painful or crawling in.

Better
Eating. Rest.

Worse
Raising up. Least motion. Carrying burdens. After sleep. Stimulants. Open air. Cold. Sunshine.
Walking. Ascending stairs. Vexation. Swallowing.

Mind
Horror of solitude and work.

Head
*Faintness on rising. Vertigo; room and bed seem to spin around.

Eyes
Opacity of cornea; from injuries or inflammation. Night blindness. Tears hot. Cannot read
small type.

Nose
Ozaena. Polypus. Boils on nose. Nose numb.

Face
Distortion of mouth; from facial paralysis. Trembling of lower jaw. Facial paralysis, left side;
worse cold air; cannot close eyes; difficult talking and swallowing.

Stomach
Craves little drinks of cold water which are vomited at once. Burning and cutting pain; intense
retching and gagging. Intense nausea and vomiting better quiet. Black vomit. Coffee ground
vomit. Cancer of stomach. Least thing touching lips will excite nausea and vomiting.
Dysphagia. Stomach symptoms worse carrying burden.

Urinary Organs
Urine mixed with pus and blood.

Respiratory organs
Suffocation on dropping to sleep. Chest contracted with asthma. Chest symptoms worse
squatting.

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Skin
Blue, yellow, scaly. Horripilation; after drinking, with hot hands, with heartburn. Chloasmae
worse exposure to sun.

Sleep
Breathing stops on going to sleep. Fears to go to sleep again. Protracted sleeplessness. Sleeps
with open eyes.

Fever
Yellow fever. Body icy cold.

Related
Zinc.

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Caladium Seguinum [Calad]

Generalities
It has a special action on ***GENITAL ORGANS of both sexes. Masturbation, and its results in
men; pruritus vulvae in females; which may sometimes be due to thread worms finding their
way into vagina, inducing masturbation and even nymphomania. There is a great desire to lie
down and aversion to motion; but if he makes the effort he is strong enough. Attacks, like
fainting, after writing and thinking; when lying down or when rising. ***DRYNESS of parts
which are usually moist. *Dry feeling Modifies craving for tobacco. Tobacco heart. Asthma,
alternating with itching rash. Lascivious, ogles women on the street; but impotent. Unable to
walk with closed eyes. Mosquito bites that itch and burn intensely.

Better
Cold air. Short sleep. Sweating.

Worse
*Sexual excess. Motion. Sudden noises. On falling asleep. Tobacco.

Mind
Very careful about his health. Restless, cannot control himself after smoking. Refuses to take
medicine. Forgetfulness. *Nervous excitation. Fear of catching disease. Afraid of his own
shadow. Foolish boldness.

Head
Vertigo; as if rocked, worse closing eyes and lying down. Numbness in side of head.

Eyes
Close, even while walking in open air.

Ears
Sensitive to noise; slightest noise startles from sleep.

Nose
Discharge of bloody mucus on blowing nose.

Face
Sensation as of a cobweb or crawling.

Mouth
Food eaten seems too dry; must drink to swallow *Red, *dry stripe, *down centre of tongue
widening towards tip. Saliva like white of an egg. Milk tastes sour.

Stomach
Feels full of dry food (with asthma). Burning in. worse deep breathing; taking tea or chocolate.
Fluttering sensation. Tolerates only warm drinks. Eats without hunger and drinks without
thirst. Thirstless for days.

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Abdomen
Sensation as of a long worm writhing in transverse colon.

Urinary Organs
Urine; offensive, scanty.

Male
Flaccid, sweaty genitals. Impotence. Pruritus. Impotency, after gonorrhoea; with mental
depression. Organs seem larger, as if puffed. Glans like a rag. Atonic pollution. Prepuce
retracted, after coition. Genitals cold.

Female
***PRURITUS VULVAE, inducing masturbation, with burning; from pin worms; during
pregnancy. Violent sexual erethism or neurasthenia.

Respiratory organs
Catarrhal asthma, mucus not readily raised, but better expectoration. Hard cough, with
asthma. Sighing respiration.

Extremities
Weak, cannot get out of bed. Hands numb. Cannot walk or stand, with closed eyes.

Skin
Feels rough and dry. Burning in spots; must touch the part, but cannot scratch them.

Sleep
Groans and moans anxiously; loudly in sleep. Vivid dreams.

Fever
Cold single parts; feet. Sweat of sweetish odour, attracting flies. Low fevers. Falls asleep
during fever, wakes up when it stops.

Related
Caps.

Complementary
Nit‐ac.

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Calcarea Arsenicosa [Calc‐ar]

Generalities
This remedy was found useful clinically, in complaints of fat women around climacteric; when
slightest emotions cause palpitation. In children with enlarged liver and spleen; in complaints
of drunkards after abstaining. Nephritis, albuminuria, and dropsy. In epilepsy with rush of
blood to the head; aura felt in the region of heart. Epilepsy, with heart disease. Flying
sensation or swimming sensation, as if feet did not touch the ground.

Worse
Slight exertion. Errors in diet. Cold air.

Mind
Depression and anxiety. Desire for company.

Head
Rush of blood to the head, with vertigo. Weekly headaches better lying on painful side.
Headache, with palpitation, increase and decrease together.

Abdomen
Enlarged liver and spleen in chronic malaria; in children. Pancreatic diseases. *Relieves
burning pain in cancer. Diarrhoea worse sweet potato or yam. Swollen inguinal glands, with
tearing pain in legs.

Urinary Organs
Kidney region sensitive to pressure. Passes urine every hour.

Female
Offensive bloody leucorrhoea. Cancer of the uterus. Burning in uterus and vagina.

Respiratory organs
Burning heat in chest. Feeling, as if he would suffocate, with palpitation. Drawing as with a
thread from larynx backwards.

Heart
Palpitation and heart pains before epileptic attack. Pulse intermittent_every 4th beat
regularly.

Neck and Back:

Pain and stiffness near nape of neck. Violent throbbing pain, drives out of bed.

Extremities
Weariness and lameness of lower limbs. Removes inflammatory products in veins of lower
limbs.

Fever
Marked malaria. Chilly.
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Calcarea Carbonica [Calc]

Generalities
Calc is the chief representative of Calcium compounds. Calcium metabolism is active during
childhood and becomes defective after middle age. Improper assimilation of calcium gives
rise to defective ***NUTRITION of ***GLANDS (cervical and mesenteric in children);
***BONES and ***SKIN. It alters the ***BLOOD causing anaemia. ***GLANDULAR SWELLING
below the jaw and in the neck; *faulty development of bones. ***OPEN FONTANELLES.
Curvature; exostosis; rickets. Muscles and skin become lax or *flabby; patient grows ***FAT,
but not strong ***SWEATING IS EASY; partial‐on ***HEAD; ***CHEST; ***DURING SLEEP.
***DISCHARGES ARE PROFUSE; ***OFTEN SOUR, stools, *sweat, odour of the body; saliva
etc. It is suitable to ***BLONDES *of soft and *sluggish habit. Complaints of teething children‐
convulsions, sour diarrhoea; *tardy teething and *late walking‐children do not put their feet
down on the ground. Emaciated children, with big head and big belly. Patients are susceptible
to ***COLD; *Cold moist air chills through and through; *takes cold easily esp. in chest.
Tendency to sprain the muscles easily. Parts lain on become numb. Tendency to the formation
of calculi. Malnutrition. Muscular atrophy. Early stage of tuberculosis of lungs; with tickling
cough; fleeting chest pains; nausea; acidity and dislike for fats. A jaded mental and physical
stage due to over work. Cramps in muscles which draw limbs. Abscess deep in muscles. Polypi;
nasal, uterine etc. cysts. In short *Calc. patient can be described as *fat, *flabby, *fair, *forty,
*perspiring, *cold and damp. In epilepsy the aura spreads up from solar plexus or as of a
mouse running up the arm or down epigastrium to uterus or limbs. Twitching, trembling,
chorea; neuralgias, horrible phantasies, paralysis are among the *Calc. effects. Varicose veins;
burning in veins. Osteomyelitis. Ill effects; of alcohol; loss of vital fluids; excessive venery,
masturbation; strains; over lifting; suppressed sweat, eruptions, menses; fright, egotism.
Affections of stonecutters. Dull lethargic children who do not want to play. Pituitary and
thyroid dysfunction. Diarrhoea, tremors, after burns.

Better
Dry climate and weather. Lying; on painful side, on back. Sneezing (headache). Rubbing,
scratching. Wiping or soothing with hands. After breakfast. Dark.

Worse
***COLD; ***RAW AIR; ***BATHING. Cooling off. Change of weather to cold. ***EXERTION–
*physical, mental. *Ascending Eye strain. ***DENTITION. Puberty. ***PRESSURE OF
CLOTHES. ***MILK. Anxiety. Awakening. Full moon. Standing. Looking up. Climaxis. Turning
head.

Mind
Forgetful; learns poorly. *Depressed. *Melancholic or Doubting Mood. Fears; disease, misery,
disaster, insanity; of being observed. Fear excited by reports of cruelties. Cautious. Confused,
misplaces words and expresses himself wrongly. Sad. Apathetic. Taciturn. Indolent; suddenly.
Visions; of fire, murder, rats and mice, in delirium. Melancholy; desire to weep, to go home.
Hopeless of ever getting well. Suspicious; thinks people look at him suspiciously, and he looks
at them suspiciously. Inability to apply himself. Sits and thinks about little affairs, that amount
to nothing. Sits and breaks sticks etc. all day long. Imagines someone walking behind her.
Feels as if she would run up and down and scream. Easily frightened or offended. Children are

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self willed. Child is afraid of everything it sees. Mischievous. Obstinate. Irritable, cries about
trifles; borrows trouble.

Head
Vertigo; with many conditions, worse ascending or turning head, scratching head; after
epilepsy. Rush of blood to the head. *Icy cold in, and *on the head; much perspiration worse
occiput; wets the pillows. *Scratches head; on waking. Deep head pains, beating, shattering
worse wind, better dark; closing eyes, pressure; with eructations. Headache from overlifting
or other muscular strain. *Thick foul, *milk crusts; with swollen cervical glands. ***BIG HEAD
WITH LARGE HARD ABDOMEN. ***VERTEX ICY COLD. Head hot with mental exertion. Cold
spots on head. Hydrocephalus; chronic. Burning in vertex; after grief. Sweat, with palpitation.
Falling of hair.

Eyes
***DILATATION OF PUPILS. Sees; visions on closing eyes; besides field of vision. Spots and
ulcers on cornea. Suppurating fistula; lachrymation. *Great photophobia. Itching. Cannot
read in gas light. Feels as if she squinted. Ophthalmia; in newborn; after taking cold. Vision
dim by constant reading, writing etc. Easy fatigue of eyes. Ulcers of cornea. Opacities of
cornea.

Ears
Deafness; from working in water or quinine. Perversions of hearing. Easily bleeding polypus.
Aching, when blowing nose and coughing. Purulent offensive discharge, and enlarged glands.
Illusory noises, on swallowing, chewing. Throbbing pain, with sensation of something coming
out.

Nose
Nostrils; dry, sore, ulcerated. Coryza, with polyuria. Offensive odour in nose; offensive yellow
discharge. *Swelling of the nose ***AND UPPER LIP; in children. Polypus, with loss of smell.
Senile catarrh. Sneezes, frequently, without a cold. Epistaxis in children inclined to be fat.
Obstruction in nose.

Face
Pale, puffy, pasty. Old, wrinkled. *Swelling of upper lip, in the morning; with cracks and
bleeding. Submaxillary glands swollen. Chewing, and swallowing in sleep; in children. Itching
eruptions on chin.

Mouth
Sour taste. Mouth fills with sour water. Ranula under the tongue. Epulis; soft, painless.
Tongue dry, at night, does not like to talk. Tip of tongue feels scalded worse warm food. Teeth
pain worse cold air or hot things.

Throat
Swelling of tonsils. Goitre. Parotid fistula. Stitching pain on swallowing. Small ulcers spreading
up to palate. Uvula; swollen, oedematous. Hawks salty mucous.

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Stomach
Anorexia from over work. Craving for indigestible things_ chalk, coal, pencils, also for eggs,
ice‐creams, salt and sweets. Aversion to meat, milk, boiled things, fat. Sour eructations, sour
vomiting of curdled milk. loss of appetite, but when he begins to eat he relishes it. Thirst for
cold water at night. *Swelling over pit of stomach like an inverted saucer. hyperchlorhydria.
Water drunk, if ever so little, causes nausea, but not, if iced. Milk disagrees. Sensation as if
rising something to head.

Abdomen
***LARGE AND HARD. Colic; with coldness of thighs; after stopped coryza; or with cold feeling
in abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence. Distended better slightest pressure. Liver region painful
worse stooping. Gallstone colic. Peritonitis when pain better by cold application. Twisting or
cramps about umbilical region. Navel; sore, excrescences like proud flesh in infants.
Mesenteric and inguinal glands swollen and painful. Chalky, grey or green watery stools.
Children’s diarrhoea with ravenous appetite. Stools; at first hard, then pasty then liquid.
Prolapsus ani, crawling in rectum. Haemorrhoids, painful when walking better sitting. Stools
worse eating and drinking. Undigested stools_substances eaten are passed without any
change. Feels best when constipated. Persistent tenesmus, after dysentery. Worms; tape,
round. Diarrhoea; chronic, after burns.

Urinary Organs
Urine; dark; brown, sour, foul or of *strong odour. White urinary sediment, with milky urine.
Urine bloody. Polypus of the bladder. Renal colic. Enuresis; in bed; when walking.

Male
Increased sexual desire, with retarded erections. Frequent emissions. Burning, with seminal
emission. Coition; followed by profound weakness, vertigo, irritability, lameness of back and
knees, headache and sweat. Itching and burning in genitals. Impotence, from sexual abuse or
indulgence. Seminal discharge premature. Hydrocele, of children.

Female
Menses too early (in girls); too profuse, too long; with vertigo, toothache and cold damp feet.
Thick, milky, gushing or yellow leucorrhoea, worse during urination, with itching and burning.
Breast tender and swollen, before menses. Abundant milk, but disagreeable to the child.
Deficient milk. Sterility, with copious menses. Uterine polypus. Nipples; cracked, ulcerated;
very tender. Mental excitement brings on dysmenorrhoea or causes menses to return.
Cramps in toes, or soles, during pregnancy. Menses late in fat, flabby girls; with palpitation,
dyspnoea and headache. Coition followed by sweat and prostration. Itching and burning in
genitals. Absence of menses in plethoric women; from fright. Clumsy, awkward and tired,
during pregnancy. Severe stitches in mammae, when nursing.

Respiratory organs
Painless hoarseness worse morning. Everything makes him *short of breath. Emphysema.
Tickling cough as from dust or feather in throat. Cough; worse inspiration, playing on piano,
eating. Sharp pains in chest going backwards. Purulent, loose, sweet, expectoration. Chest
very sensitive to touch, percussion or pressure. Suffocative spells. Weak feeling in chest,
cannot even speak. Ulcers or abscesses in the lungs. Habit cough.

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*Weak. Palpitation, with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of the chest.

Neck and Back:

Neck pains worse lifting. Pain in back as if sprained, can scarcely rise from his seat. Pain
between shoulder blades impeding breathing. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Cannot sit upright
in the chair from weakness of back. Vertebrae; feel loose; painful on pressure.

Extremities
***COLD DAMP FEET; feel as if damp stockings were worn. Cold, clammy, hands; knees.
Cramps in calves when stretching out leg, at night. Burning of soles. Soles raw. Arms; weak,
lame. Hands numb, when grasping. Want of mobility of fingers. Creeping on the limbs like a
mouse. Chapped hands. Clumsy, awkward, easily falls. Weakness of ankles in children, turn
inward, while walking. Tired from short walk. Swelling of joints esp. knee. Weakness and
trembling of limbs. Arthritic; nodosities; deformans.

Skin
Cold, like snake; flaccid; unhealthy. Small wounds do not heal readily. Psoriasis. Urticaria
better in cool air. Visible quivering of skin from head to foot, followed by giddiness. Blood
boils; recurring. Milk white spots. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. ***COLDNESS; ***ICY, on
*vertex. Cold spots on head or *coldness; of head, hands, knees, feet, of affected part.

Sleep
Sleepless from rush of ideas; some disagreeable idea always arouses from slight slumber.
*Nightmares; children scream after midnight and cannot be pacified. Fearful and fantastic
dreams. Horrible visions on closing eyes.

Fever
Chill with thirst. *Coldness; *icy in different parts of the body; of affected part. Internal heat
with external coldness and sweat. Fever with sweat. Sweat cold; partial. Heat; at night, during
menses.

Complementary
Bar‐c; Lyc; Sil.

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Calcarea Fluorica [Calc‐f]

Generalities
This tissue salt relaxes the *Elastic Fibres; esp. of veins and glands. *Glands enlarge and
***BECOME STONY HARD. *Veins dilate and become varicose, inflamed. It disperses bony
growths, osteo‐ sarcoma, *exostosis; after injury. Cephal‐haematoma. *Deficient enamel of
teeth . Removes the tendency to adhesions after operations. *Indurations of stony hardness;
tonsils; tumours, neck, after injury; margins of ulcers etc., Aneurysm. Indurations threatening
suppuration. Arteriosclerosis. *Fistula. *Cataract. *Discharges turn grass green. General
stiffness. Weakness, in the morning. Feeling of fatigue all day. Numbness, in different parts.
Threatened apoplexy. Sluggish temperament. Nails hypertrophied. X‐Ray burns. Stinking pus.
Periosteitis of lower jaw, ribs etc. Congenital syphilis manifesting itself in ulceration of mouth
and throat. Nodes in breast.

Better
Continued motion. Warm applications. Heat. Rubbing.

Worse
*Beginning of motion. Cold; wet. Drafts; changing weather. Sprains.

Mind
Indecision. Groundless fear of financial loss. Fear of poverty.

Head
Cracking noise in head, disturbing sleep. Cephalhaematoma, of new born infants.

Eyes
Aching in eyes better closing and pressure. Sparks and flickering before the eyes. Phlyctenular
keratitis. Subcutaneous palpebral cysts. Cataract. Cornea opaque, in spots.

Ears
Chronic otorrhoea. Calcareous deposit on tympanum.

Nose
Copious, yellowish, thick, lumpy, offensive discharge. Ozaena.

Face
Hard swelling on jaw bone. Hard swelling on the cheek, with pain or toothache. Small, hard,
cold sores on lips.

Mouth
Gumboil, with hard swelling of the jaw. Teeth loose. Tongue; indurated, hard. Toothache, if
any food touches the tooth. Periosteitis of lower jaw.

Throat
Tonsils *rough and ragged; forming plugs of mucus. Pain and burning better warm drinks.

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Stomach
Vomiting; of infants of undigested food. Acute indigestion from fatigue and brain‐fag; in over
taxed children, Hiccough, when one hawks off mucus.

Abdomen
Flatulency; of pregnancy. Stools; gushing, watery of foetid odour. Bleeding piles; with pain in
sacrum. Fissures. Fistula.

Male
Hydrocele. Testes indurated.

Female
Hard knots in mammae. Favours parturition.

Respiratory organs
Cough, with expectoration of tiny, tough yellow lumps. Hoarseness, after laughing or reading
aloud. Difficulty in breathing as if epiglottis is nearly closed.

Heart
Fibroid deposits about the endocardium. Valvular disease.

Neck and Back

Goitre. lumbago; from strain, better motion and warmth. Backache after a long ride. Rachitic
enlargement of femur in infants.

Extremities
Encysted tumours at the back of wrist. Bursitis. Chronic synovitis; of knee joint. Cold wrists
and ankles. Swelling and indurations around tendons and joints. Recurrent fibroids in the
hollow of the knee. Hip joint disease. Rice bodies in joints.

Skin
Cracked, dry, hard, and of alabaster whiteness. Birth marks. Ulcers with hard edges. Warty
growths.

Sleep
Vivid dreams, with weeping. Jumps out of bed in a dream.

Related
Graph; Hekla.

Complementary
Rhus‐t.

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Calcarea Hypophosphorosa [Calc‐hp]

Generalities
Hypophosphate of Calcium is indicated in those persons who become pale, weak, with violent
drenching sweat, rapidly emaciate, with extreme debility, on account of vital losses or
continued abscesses having reduced the vitality. Emaciation of children.

Worse
Vital losses.

Mind
Excitable nervous and sleepless. Talks rapidly, and easily angered.

Ears
Frying or sizzling in ears.

Stomach
Ravenous hunger worse 2 hours after meals better when stomach is full. Loss of appetite.

Abdomen
Sore throbbing in spleen. Mesenteric tuberculosis. Diarrhoea; of phthisis.

Respiratory organs
Acute pain in chest. Cough; of phthisis. Bleeding from the lungs. Asthma. Bronchitis.

Heart
Angina Pectoris. Veins stand out like whip‐cord.

Extremities
Habitually *cold extremities.

Skin
Exhausting night sweat. Acne pustulosa all over the body.

Sleep
Starts in sleep.

Related
Chin.

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Calcarea Iodata [Calc‐i]

Generalities
It is usually used for induration of glands, suggested by its two components. It can be given in
enlarged tonsils filled with little crypts. Thyroid enlargement about the time of puberty.
Adenoids. Flabby children subject to colds. Discharges profuse and yellow. Indolent ulcers
accompanying varicose veins. Headache while riding in cold winds. Indurated growth in
mammae, movable, painful on pressure, and on movement on arm. Profuse sweat.

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Calcarea Phosphorica [Calc‐p]

Generalities
This tissue remedy though resembles in many aspects *Calc. *Carb, it has its own
characteristic symptoms. It affects the ***NUTRITION of bones and glands; bones become
*soft, *thin and brittle; it promotes ossification of bones in non union of fractures. *Glands
are swollen. It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or symphysis; pain, burning
along sutures. Patients esp. children are delicate, *tall, *thin or scrawny; with dirty brownish
skin. Anaemia, after acute diseases or chronic wasting diseases. Trembling or trembling
hands; with pain or other complaints. *Coldness or soreness in *spots; *vertex, eyeballs, tip
of nose, fingers etc. Sensation of *crawling and numbness; after bad news. Anaemic children
who are peevish, flabby, have cold extremities and weak digestion; they start convulsively
when lying on back better lying on side. They lose breath when they are lifted. Discharges are
albuminous. Shifting pains. Arthritis. Rheumatism. Mal‐assimilation. Rickets. Addison’s
disease. Ill effects of over‐growth. Lifting. Overstudy. Sexual excess or irregularities. Grief.
Disappointed love. Unpleasant news. Operations for fistula. Getting wet. Girls slow in
maturing. Effects of taking cold during first menses. Slow ossification; non union of bones.
Idiocy of children. Diabetes, with lung affections.

Better
In summer. Warm dry weather. *Lying down.

Worse
*Exposure to weather changes. Drafts. Cold; *melting snow. *Dentition. Mental exertion.
*Loss of fluids. Puberty. Fruits, cider. Motion. Thinking of symptoms. Lifting. Ascending.

Mind
*Peevish, *restless and fretful. Forgetful. Always wants to go somewhere; when away from
home, wants to go there and when there, wants to go some other place. Idiocy, agile
cretinism.

Head
Ache; in occiput; down spine better cool bathing, or sneezing. Headache of *school children;
with diarrhoea. Burning; worse near the *region of sutures. As if brain was pressed against
skull. Delayed closure or reopening of fontanelles. Skull soft and thin, cracking like paper,
worse at occiput. *Cold or sore vertex. Head hot, with smarting at the root of hair. As of ice
in occiput. Depression on occipital bone. Hydrocephalus. Cannot hold the head up, it wobbles.

Eyes
Cool feeling behind the eyes. As if something in, worse thinking of it. Diffused opacity of
cornea. Cannot use the eyes in gas light.

Ears
Sudden swelling of external ear. Cold feeling in; noises in after stools.

Nose
Tip icy cold. Polypi; large, pedunculated. Coryza, with salivation.

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Face
Pale, yellowish, earthy; full of pimples. Cold sweat on face. Upper lip swollen.

Mouth
Retarded *dentition. Teeth; soft, decay easily. Complaints during teething; convulsions
without fever. Teeth sensitive to chewing. Disgusting taste worse in morning; on awakening;
bitter, with headache.

Throat
Sore aching in throat; feels hollow. Pain on opening the mouth. Tonsils enlarged. Adenoids
growths.

Stomach
Infants want to nurse all the time and vomit easily. Craving for raw, salty, piquant food, ham,
salted or smoked meat or bacon. Weak digestion; every bite hurts the stomach. Persistently
vomits milk; of breast or other. Desire for tobacco smoke which better headache. Vomiting;
while hawking mucus, with trembling hands.

Abdomen
Colic, at every attempt to eat; by taking ice cream, cold water or fruits. ***FLABBY SUNKEN
abdomen. Oozing of bloody fluid from navel of infants. *Festering navel. Tendency to
diarrhoea; from juicy fruits; during dentition. Stools; foul, hot, lienteric, spluttering, watery,
green, slimy, undigested; with foetid flatus. As if something alive in. Fistula in ano, alternating
with chest symptoms. Fissure of anus, in tall, slim children. Haemorrhoids, oozing watery fluid
all the time.

Urinary Organs
Urine increased, with sensation of weakness. Pain in region of kidneys worse blowing nose or
lifting. Pain in bladder worse when empty.

Male
Stitching in perineum extending to penis. Erections while riding in carriage, without desire.
Weak feeling in sexual organs, after stools.

Female
Menses; early, scanty; every two weeks; excessive, bright; in girls; too late, with dark blood.
Sexual desire increased; before menses, during lactation. Abnormal craving during pregnancy.
Burning leucorrhoea; albuminous, from one term to another, follows pain in abdomen.
Crawling; voluptuous in genitals. Prolapsus; in debilitated women; worse while passing urine
or stool; with menses; with rheumatic pains. Child refuses breast; milk, tastes salty. Uterus;
heavy, weak, or aching. Eruption worse during menses. Late menses, with violent backache.
Tumours in mammae (left), male, painful on pressure. Mammae; sore, feel large.

Respiratory organs
Child loses breath on being lifted up. Cough better lying; during dentition. Involuntary sighing.
Phthisis; with cavities; with night sweats; yellow expectoration. *Pain in chest from drafts.
Must scrape mucus from larynx before one can sing or talk. Whooping cough, obstinate.

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Heart
Dropsy from heart disease. Palpitation, with trembling weakness in calf.

Neck and Back

*Neck painful from drafts, Neck *weak, *thin; head bobs about. Curvature of the spine to the
left. Violent pain worse least effort, screams, with pain. Sacrum numb and lame. Lumbar
vertebrae bend to the left. Spina bifida. Pott’s disease.

Extremities
Rheumatism in cold season. Fingers lips sore. As of a splinter under the nails. Buttocks numb.
Weakness through the hips. Hip joint disease. Cold limbs with digestive troubles. Pain, burning
along edges of nails. Hard bluish lumps in axillae. Trembling of arms and hands, with many
complaints. Fistulous ulcers on ankle joint.

Sleep
Constant stretching and yawning. Children cry in sleep. Cannot get awake in early morning.

Skin
Dark, brown, yellow. Scars from amputation, ulcerate. Ulceration from mustard poultice.

Fever
Easily chilled. Chilly with pains. Chills up the back, but heat down the back. Sticky sickly sweat
worse head and throat; at night.

Related
Carb‐a; Chin; Ferr‐p; Nat‐m.

Complementary
Hep; Ruta.

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Calcarea Sulphurica [Calc‐s]

Generalities
It is Dr. Schussler’s ***CONNECTIVE TISSUE remedy. Affects *glands, *mucous membranes,
bones and skin Torpid glandular swellings. Cystic tumours. Fibroids. *Tendency to
suppuration, after pus has found its vent, comes within the range of this remedy. *Pus; is
*thick, *yellow, lumpy, bloody. *Mucus discharges; *are yellow; *thick and lumpy. Recurrent
or *running ***ABSCESSES. Ulcers; malignant, corneal, deep. Fistula. Pains are cutting. Poor
reaction. Infants; with bloody coryza, diarrhoea or eczema. Burns and scalds after suppuration
starts in. Malignant growth after ulceration has set in.

Better
*Open air. *Bathing. Eating. Heat (local). Uncovering.

Worse
*Drafts; Touch; Cold; wet. Heat of room.

Mind
Hurried. Despises those who do not agree with him. Grumbling, that his value is not
understood by others. Sits, and meditates over imaginary misfortune.

Head
Scald head of children; with purulent yellow discharge.

Eyes
Conjunctivitis, with discharge of thick yellow matter. Red, itching tarsi.

Ears
Flow dark wax. Pimples around the ear. Otitis after a slap.

Nose
Bloody coryza; infants. Sneezing better open air.

Face
Pimples and pustules on the face.

Mouth
Tongue flabby. Taste soapy.

Abdomen
Diarrhoea; of children, with discharge of pus or bloody pus. Stools, coated white. Painful
abscess about anus, in cases of fistula. Diarrhoea, after maple sugar.

Urinary Organs
Pyelitis. Chronic nephritis.

Female
Thick white leucorrhoea. Cutting pain in (right) ovary. Menses; late, long lasting.

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Respiratory organs
Choking croup. Empyema.

Extremities
Foot sweat foul, cold. Burning, itching in soles.

Skin
*Unhealthy; cuts, wounds etc. *would not heal. Dry eczema worse in infants.

Sleep
Starts from sleep, as if wanting air.

Fever
Hectic fever caused by formation of pus. Averse to covers, when cold. Dry heat at night. Easy
sweating worse coughing.

Related
Hep; Sil.

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Calendula [Calen]

Generalities
It acts on ***MUSCLES; *spine, liver, and is a remarkable healing agent in open, torn, *cut,
*lacerated, *ragged or *suppurating wounds; *pain is excessive, *and out of all proportion to
the injury. Haemorrhages; in scalp wounds; after tooth extraction. Disposition to take cold.
*Prevents pyemia. Sensitive to damp or open air. Cancer, as an intercurrent remedy.
Application of sponge, saturated with hot solution of *Calendula, after delivery, gives the
greatest comfort to the patient. Paralysis after apoplexy. Promotes healthy granulation and
rapid healing by first instance. Prevents gangrene.

Better
Walking about or lying perfectly still.

Worse
Damp, cloudy, weather. During chill.

Mind
Extremely nervous, easily frightened, starts, with fright.

Head
Weight on brain.

Eyes
Blenorrhoea of lachrymal sac; yellow vision.

Ears
Hears best on a train and distant sounds. Hearing acute.

Nose
Coryza; in one nostril; with much green discharge.

Throat
Painful swelling of submaxillary gland worse on moving head.

Stomach
Heartburn, with horripilation. Nausea in chest. Hiccough, when smoking.

Abdomen
Epigastric distension. Stools curdy. Jaundice. Stretching and dragging in groins.

Male
Excoriation of prepuce after coition.

Female
Warts at os cervix; os lower than normal. Hypertrophied uterus. Menorrhagia. Profuse
offensive discharge after forceps delivery.

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Neck and Back
Bruised pain at angle of right scapula. Cold hands.

Skin
Yellow. Horripilation.

Fever
Coldness, great sensitiveness to open air. Shuddering in back, with warm skin. Heat in
evening.

Related
Arn; Bell‐p.

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Camphora [Camph]

Generalities
Coldness, cramps and convulsions, with mental anguish are the marked features of *Camphor
indications. Convulsions with blue lips, froth at mouth and lock‐jaw. It is a remedy for sudden
collapse, from over‐powering influences acting on nervous centres. Patient becomes ***ICY
COLD; ***YET HE IS AVERSE TO COVERS, or wants them off; and then on alternately with
*internal burning heat and anxiousness. *Sudden; *weakness; fainting spells growing worse.
Dry collapse, with little vomiting and purging; in cholera. *Tetanic spasms with showing of the
teeth, with retraction of the lips, followed by stupor, with coldness. Trismus of new born.
Chilly at the start of colds. *Scanty or retained discharges. *Very sensitive to cold air or taking
cold. Suppressed eruptions. Awkwardness. Soft parts drawn in. Ill effects, of shock; from
injury; operations, sunstroke. Vexation. Corrects spoiled cases and antidotes most of the
medicines (specially Vegetable kingdom). ***DIGESTIVE TRACT; Cerebro‐Spinal nerves,
urinary organs and nose are prominently affected. Feeling of hot waves, during pain, with
restlessness.

Better
*Free discharges. *Sweat. *Thinking of it. Drinking cold water.

Worse
*Cold; *drafts. *When half asleep. Mental exertion. Shock. ***SUPPRESSIONS. Inattention.
Motion. Night.

Mind
*Insensibility, vanishing of all senses or anxiety. Awkwardness. Loss of memory. Delirium.
Mania; religious, puerperal. Wants to jump out of bed or window. Does not like any one near
him. Nothing satisfies him. Excited, talks constantly, scolds, in indecent language. Feeling that
she is going to die, relieved, when she finds herself alive. Attacks of anguish at night. State of
frenzy, hysterical; scratches; spits, bites, tears her clothes. Screams and calls for help. Closes
her eyes and answers no questions.

Head
Feels knotted up. Occiput throbbing, synchronous with the pulse, better standing; when
deprived of sexual intercourse. Fleeting stitches in temples and orbits. Head is drawn to one
side (in spasms). Pains run from head to tip of fingers.

Eyes
Objects appear too bright; or move to one side with a jerk. Fixed, staring, turned upwards or
outwards. Pupils dilated. Eyes protrude, with mania. Eyes deeply sunken.

Ears
Ear‐lobes hot and red.

Nose
Cold and pinched. *Coryza; in old age. Inhaled air seems cold. Persistent epistaxis, with goose‐
flesh state of the skin.

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Face
Haggard, pale, bluish, old, pinched. Pale and red by turns. Cold sweat. Upper lip retracted.
Lockjaw. Distorted. Grimaces. Froth or foam at the mouth.

Mouth
Tongue, bluish. Cold, trembling. Speech; broken, feeble, hoarse. Cold breath. Boiling hot tea
seems cold. Toothache better beer.

Stomach
Burning thirst. Burning; in stomach; in abdomen. Asiatic cholera. Little vomiting or purging;
with dry collapse. Rice water stools. Vomiting in morning; bilious, sour.

Urinary Organs
Strangury. Haematuria. Retention.

Male
Sexual excitement. Satyriasis. Priapism, during dreams. Impotence.

Female
Sexual desire increased. Hot flushes with coldness of abdomen and limbs, at climaxis.
Constantly bares her breasts; mania.

Respiratory organs
Asphyxia neonatorum. Hoarse, squeaking voice. Cold breath. Suspended respiration. Violent
attacks of dry cough.

Heart
Pulse; weak, not perceptible, frequent, small. Palpitation after eating.

Extremities
Thumbs drawn backwards. Cramps in calves. Cracking in joints. Cold, numb, tingling. Feet
cold, pains as if sprained.

Skin
Dry; livid, blue, *cold, cannot bear to be covered. *Erysipelas. All sequelae of measles.

Sleep
Insomnia with cold limbs. Very restless. Comatose sleep.

Fever
Shaking chill with *cold skin; wants covers during the hot stage only. Sudden inflammatory
fevers, with rapid alternation of heat and cold; followed by rapid prostration. Heat or sweat
better covers. Chilly; below scapula; before colds. Sweats when covered; body becomes cold,
when uncovered.

Related
Carb‐v; Cupr; Op; Sec.

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Complementary
Canth.

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Cannabis Indica [Cann‐i]

Generalities
*Cannabis Indica is used as an intoxicant. It produces most marked effects on ***MIND and
***EMOTIONS; which are ***EXALTED INTENSELY, and in which ***CONCEPTIONS AND
PERCEPTIONS ARE EXAGGERATED to the utmost degree. Patient experiences the most
*wonderful hallucinations and imaginations; feels very happy and contented; or sometimes
the hallucinations may be of agonizing terror and pain. Sense of proportion; or sense of time
and space is lost. Mania of grandeur. Levitation. Gaiety; uncontrollable laughter. Violence.
Delirium tremens. Feels weak and all gone to nothing. Exophthalmic goitre. Catalepsy. When
***URINARY AND SYMPTOMS *of acute gonorrhoea are most marked–*Cann. *sat. should
be used in preferences to *Cann. *Ind. *Trickling sensation as if hot water were poured over
him or *as if drops of cold water were falling; on head; from the anus, *from the heart found
in *Cann. *sat. Paralysis, with tingling of the affected part.

Worse.
***URINATING (*Cann. *sat.). ***DARKNESS. *Exertion. Talking. Walking. Coffee. Liquor.
Tobacco. Lying down and going upstairs (*Cann. *sat.).

Better
Fresh air. Cold water. Rest.

Mind
*Loquacity. Very forgetful cannot finish the sentence. Time seems too long. Distance seems
immense. Craves light. Lectophobia; (*Canth. *sat.) fear of going to bed. Laughs
immoderately; at serious remarks, or at mere trifles. Laughs and weeps. Ecstatic, heavenly.
Hears; voices, bells, music. Fixed ideas, *extreme psychic mobility. Thinks everything is unreal.
Clairvoyance. When he speaks it seems as though someone else is speaking. Moaning and
crying.

Head
Violent headache; with hallucinations. *Vertex seems to open and shut, worse noise. Head
seems separated from the body. Involuntary shaking of the head. Shocks through brain.

Eyes
Fixed gaze. Letters run together while reading. Weak vision. Sees objects outside of visual
field. Opacity of cornea (*Cann. *sat.).

Ears
Noise like boiling water.

Face
Skin of the face seems tight. Dejected and careworn. Lips glued together. Chin drawn to
sternum.

Mouth
*Grinding of teeth in sleep. Saliva; white, thick, frothy. Stammering and stuttering. Every
article of food is extremely palatable. Aversion to meat of which she was fond (*Cann. *sat.).

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Abdomen
As if something alive in abdomen. Sensation in anus as if sitting on a ball. Throbbing here and
there.

Urinary Organs
Pain in kidney; while laughing. Must strain to urinate: has to wait for sometime before the
urine flows; dribbles after flow ceases. ***SCANTY BURNING URINE PASSED DROP BY DROP;
with pain going backwards (to bladder). Acute stage of gonorrhoea,–urethra sensitive; walks
with legs apart (*Cann. *sat.). Nephritic colic. Irritable carbuncle.

Male
Swelled prepuce. Sexual desire increased. Priapism. Erections without amorous thoughts.

Female
Profuse menses; with violent uterine colic; with dysuria. Sexual desire increased in sterile
women or with dysmenorrhoea. Threatened abortion; from too frequent sexual intercourse,
or complicated with gonorrhoea. (*Cann. *sat.). Infantile leucorrhoea (*Cann. *sat.).

Respiratory organs
Humid asthma. Difficulty in breathing with palpitation better standing up (*Cann. *Sat.).
Cannot control voice. Suffocative attacks.

Heart
Palpitation wakes him. Pulse slow. Sensation as if drops were falling from the heart (*Cann.
*Sat.).

Neck and Back:

Pain across shoulder and spine, must stoop; cannot walk erect. Torticollis, chin drawn to the
sternum.

Extremities
Pain in the limbs worse deep breathing. Entire paralysis of lower limbs. Contraction of fingers,
after sprain (*Cann. *Sat.). Feels very exhausted after a short walk. As if bird’s claws were
clasping the knees. Dislocation of patella on going upstairs (*Cann. *Sat.).

Sleep
Dreams; erotic, of the dead. Sleepy but cannot sleep.

Related
Antidote: Apis.

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Cannabis Sativa [Cann‐s]

General Symptoms
When ***URINARY AND SYMPTOMS of *acute gonorrhoea are most marked‐Cann‐s. should
be used in preference to Cann‐i. *Trickling sensation as if hot water were poured over him or
*as if drops of cold water were falling, on head; from the anus, *from the heart. Paralysis,
with tingling of the affected part.

Worse
***URINATING. Lying down and going upstairs.

Mind
Lectophobia.

Eyes
Opacity of cornea.

Mouth
Aversion to meat of which she was fond.

Urinary Organs
Pain in kidney; while laughing. Must strain to urinate; has to wait for some time before the
urine flows; dribbles after flow ceases. ***SCANTY BURNING URINE PASSED DROP BY DROP;
with pain going backwards (to bladder). Acute stage of gonorrhoea,_urethra sensitive, walks
with legs apart.

Female
Threatened abortion; from too frequent sexual intercourse, or complicated with gonorrhoea.
Infantile leucorrhoea.

Respiratory organs
Difficulty in breathing with palpitation better standing up.

Heart
Sensation as if drops were falling from the heart.

Extremities
Contraction of fingers, after sprain. Dislocation of patella on going upstairs.

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Cantharis [Canth]

Generalities
Commonly known as Spanish fly, attacks ***THE URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS; perverting
their function, and setting violent inflammation, causing frenzied delirium. Its action is *rapid
and intense. ***INFLAMMATIONS ARE VIOLENTLY ACUTE, or *rapidly destructive; in the
mucous and serous membranes. ***PAINS ARE CUTTING, SMARTING OR BURNING‐BITING or
*as if raw, causing mental excitement. Discharges are bloody, acrid, watery, tenacious.
Sudden attacks of weakness that takes the voice away. Serous effusions. Nephritis; acute
parenchymatous. Expels moles, dead foetus, placenta; promotes fecundity. Hemiplegia of
(right) side, with aphasia. In any condition when the urine is scanty, cutting and burning
*Canth. should be considered. Convulsions, with dysuria and hydrophobic symptoms.
Excitement, during pains. Valuable remedy for *burns and scalds*. Painful urination, as a
concomitant in any diseased condition.

Better
Warmth. Rest. Rubbing.

Worse
***URINATING. *Drinking; *cold. *Bright objects. *Sound of water. Touch esp. larynx. Coffee.

Mind
Amorous frenzy. Acute mania; of sexual type. Excessive sexual desire; not better by coition.
Paroxysms of rage with crying, barking, biting and worse by bright objects; by touching the
larynx, drinking cold water. Sudden loss of consciousness, with red face, (dentition).
Constantly attempts to do something but accomplishes nothing. Sings lewd songs. Prattles
about genitals, urine, faeces. Insolent, contradictory mood.

Head
Sensation of burning or as of boiling water in brain. Head heavy; aches from bathing or
washing. Hair falls when combing.

Eyes
Objects look yellow. Fiery sparkling, staring look.

Ears
Sensation as if wind were coming from ear or hot air.

Face
Pale wretched, death‐like. Expression of extreme suffering, terror or despair. Hot and red.
Itching vesicles on face. Jaws tightly closed; acute mania.

Mouth
Grinding of the teeth, with lock‐jaw. Burning in mouth, pharynx and throat. Swelled
*tremulous tongue; *edges raw. Saliva disgustingly sweet.

Throat
As if on *fire. Painfully constricted; great difficulty in swallowing liquids. Full of blisters.

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Stomach
*Burning thirst; but aversion to all fluids. Violent retching and vomiting. Sensitiveness over
stomach; slightest pressure produces convulsions. Aggravation from drinking coffee, even in
small quantity. Aversion to everything.

Abdomen
Violent burning pain through the whole intestinal tract; with painful sensitiveness to touch.
***SHREDDY BURNING STOOLS, *with tenesmus of rectum and bladder, with shuddering
after stools. Dysentery or diarrhoea, with dysuria. Cutting in rectum partially better by flatus,
entirely by stools. Constipation, with retention of urine. Desire for stool while urinating.

Urinary Organs
*Kidney region very sensitive. ***URINE; ***BURNING, SCALDING; ***WITH CUTTING
INTOLERABLE URGING, AND FEARFUL TENESMUS OR DRIBBLING. *Strangury. Dysuria. Bloody
urine. Griping in bladder. Acute nephritis; nephritic colic; cystitis. Dropsy. Renal colic better
somewhat by pressure on glans penis. Atony of bladder, from long retention of urine.

Male
Painful swelling of genitals. Priapism. Pulls at penis. *Sexual desire increased not better by
coitus. Bloody semen. Pollutions. Gonorrhoea. Burning in urethra, after coition.

Female
Nymphomania. Cutting burning in ovaries; ovaritis. Menses, too early; too profuse, blood
black or scanty. Breasts painful, with dysuria. Expels moles, dead foetus and placenta.
Pruritus, with strong sexual desire; at climaxis. leucorrhoea, with sexual excitement, causing
itching and masturbation.

Respiratory organs
Voice hoarse, feeble. Tenacious mucus in air passages. Short dry coughing spells. Pleurisy with
exudation. Chest pains better eructations. Burning in chest. Stitches at sternum.

Heart
Tendency to syncope. Pericarditis with effusion. Pulse; feeble, irregular.

Neck and Back:

Emprosthotonos and opisthotonos. Pain in loins with frequent desire to urinate.

Extremities
Knees totter when ascending steps. Ulcerative pain in soles, cannot step.

Skin
Vesicular eruptions; turning black; with burning and itching. Erysipelas; vesicular. Burns and
scalds, better cold water. Tendency to gangrene. Eruptions burn when touched.

Fever
Chilly; as if cold water poured over him; during stool. Hands and feet cold. Urinous sweat; on
genitals.

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Related
Apis; Ars; Merc‐c.

Complementary
Apis.

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Capsicum [Caps]

Generalities
It acts with great intensity on the *Mucous membranes; and also on the bones esp. *Mastoid.
Mucous membranes, become dark, red, spongy or ooze bloody mucus. Pains are
***BURNING‐SMARTING, pungent or *strangling, *thread like, worse by cold water.
Sensation of ***SORENESS and constriction. It seems suitable to those persons who are of
*lax fibres, weak, *lazy, indolent, *fat, *red, *clumsy, *awkward and *of unclean habits. Such
persons are opposed to physical exertion, averse to go outside of their routine and get *home
sick easily. Old people who have exhausted their vitality esp., by mental work and poor living.
Persons *react poorly and are *afraid of cold. Abstainers from accustomed alcoholics.
Discharges are foul. Myalgia. Neuralgia. Deep abscesses. The circulation is sluggish and parts
pinched remain in raised position for a long time. *Shuddering, during pain or drinking.

Better
Continued motion. Heat. While eating.

Worse
***SLIGHT DRAUGHT; *even warm. ***COLD AIR; water. Uncovering. Dampness. Bathing.
Empty swallowing. *Drinking; worse throat or excited urination. After eating. Drunkards.

Mind
Capricious and changeable mood. *Homesick with red face and sleeplessness, and disposition
to suicide. Peevish, irritable, angry, easily offended. Clumsy. Awkward; runs into everything.
Refractory esp. children. Dipsomania. Jocular and sings, yet at slightest cause gets angry.
Always on the look out for insults. If she wants a certain thing, she will oppose, if proposed by
someone else. Laughs and weeps alternately.

Head
Bursting headache worse coughing; better heat; movement, lying with head high.

Eyes
Objects appear black. Eyes prominent; with burning and lachrymation; during cough.

Ears
Affected alternately. Swelling and pain behind the ears. Mastoiditis. Tenderness over petrous
bones. Hot ears. Otalgia; then deafness. Affections of ears during pregnancy. Tympanum
perforated.

Nose
***RED BUT COLD; tip very hot. Nosebleed in the morning; in bed.

Face
***RED, BUT COLD or pale and red alternately. Pain in fine line coursing along the nerve. Lips;
swollen, cracked, burning.

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Mouth
Vesicles or flat painful aphthae. Stomatitis. Foetid odour from the mouth. ***TONGUE
GREENISH AT BASE. Gums; hot, spongy, retracted. *Burning‐smarting at the tip of tongue.
Saliva increased. Taste; foul, like putrid water; sour to food.

Throat
*Burning smarting in throat. Constriction of throat with urging to swallow. Sore throat of
smokers and drinkers. Pain and dryness extending to ears. *Uvula; *swelled; elongated, with
sensation as if it were pressing on something hard. Hot, pungent air comes up from the throat,
tasting foul when coughing. Pains when coughing. Paralytic dysphagia.

Stomach
Craves stimulating, pungent things; wants a bracer. Much thirst but drinking causes
shuddering. Water brash. *Acid dyspepsia; burning or trembling in stomach, or icy coldness,
or as if cold water. Desire for coffee, but it nauseates. Vegetables cause flatulence.

Abdomen
Flatulent colic. Colic about umbilicus with mucous stools. Small, hot, burning, bloody, mucus
stools; with tenesmus of rectum and bladder, then thirst *worse drinking Burning piles;
bleeding, with soreness in anus. Dysentery. Violent pulsations of arteries in abdomen.
Mucous diarrhoea.

Urinary Organs
Frequent almost ineffectual urging to urinate. Strangury. Burning orifice. Urine comes first in
drops, then in spurts. Thick white creamy discharge from urethra; gonorrhoea. Drinking
excites urination and stool. Meatus everted.

Male
Scrotum cold, and shrivelled. Atrophy, softening of testes, with loss of sensibility; spermatic
cord shrivelled. Excessive burning pain in prostate; gonorrhea. Trembling of the whole body
during amorous caresses. Prepuce swollen. Cramps in testes; after emission.

Female
Climacteric disturbances, with burning of tip of tongue. Pushing or sticking sensation in
ovarian (left) region, with disorders of menses. Menorrhagia, with nausea.

Respiratory organs
Wants to take deep breath, thinking that it would relieve all her symptoms. *Cough causes
distant pains; in bladder, ear, legs etc.; or raises foul air, better drinking cold water. Too weak
to cough out expectoration. Constriction of chest arrests breathing. Hoarseness, in singers
and preachers. Asthma with redness of face, worse ascending. Ribs seem dislocated.
Gangrene, of lung.

Neck and Back:

Lumbar pain after stools. Pain in sacrum with piles and dysentery. Pain in the back while
drinking water. Sensation as if cold water dropping down back.

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Extremities
Joints crack; stiff; painful on beginning to move; pain as if paralysed. Pain from hips to feet
worse coughing. Sciatica worse bending backwards and *coughing. Leg (left) atrophied, with
violent pain. Staggers when walking.

Skin
Burning. Bloated, flabby.

Sleep
Sleeplessness; from emotions; from homesickness or from cough. Sleepy after meals. As if
falling from a height during sleep. Yawning by day.

Fever
*Chilly, *with the pains. Chill begins in back with violent thirst, but *shivers from every drink;
with excruciating backache. Chill alternating with heat; mounting to head; then sweat.
Coldness of affected part. Sweats easily. Cold sweat on thighs. Fevers; after emotions; with
homesickness.

Related
Canth.

Complementary
Nat‐m.

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Carbo Animalis [Carb‐an]

Generalities
*Carb‐an. or animal charcoal is made from charred ox‐hide; it contains *Calc‐p. in small
quantity. It is suitable to *old persons of feeble constitution or to those persons whose vitality
becomes low on account of some serious, or deep seated diseased condition, or loss of fluids.
*Patients are susceptible to colds and easy sprains. *They are over affected by small vital
losses. On account of venous stasis, *the skin becomes blue. *Glands enlarge, slowly and
painfully, and become indurated burning like fire. Tendency to malignancy. Ulcerations,
decompositions. *Discharges are acrid and foul. Sensations; of looseness; crawling as of bugs.
Gummae. Neglected buboes. Weakness of nursing women, they weep while eating, unable
to walk even across the room. Stitch remaining after pleurisy. Haemorrhages. Copper
coloured eruptions. Slow, *hard, *painful processes. More deep‐ acting than *Carbo‐veg. Ill
effects of eating spoiled fish or decayed vegetables.

Better
Laying hand on affected part.

Worse
*Slight causes; small losses of vital fluids, sprains, lifting. Taking cold. *Dry, *cold air. After
menses. Shaving. ***EATING; while.

Mind
*Whining. Desire to be alone. Sad and reflective. Avoids conversation. Weeps during meals.
Easily frightened. Homesick. Fear of the dark, worse closing eyes.

Head
Brain feels loose worse motion and coughing. As if skull had been split or blown to pieces;
must press it with both hands, better eating. Throbbing headache after menses. Vertigo
followed by nosebleed. Vertigo; after shaving, better reeling.

Eyes
Pains down through (right) eyeball. Sensation as if something lay above eyes, so that she could
not look up. As if eyeball were loose in the socket. Objects seem to be far off. Dimness of
vision when reading, better rubbing eyes. Senile cataract.

Ears
Does not know from what direction the sound comes. Ringing in ears, when blowing the nose.
Parotid gland swollen. Lancinating pain. Otorrhoea, with swelling of mastoid.

Nose
Hard, red, swelled, hot, with itching pimples and desquamation. Brown stripe across the nose.
Hard, bluish tumours on tip of nose. Fluent coryza; with loss of smell; with yawning and
sneezing.

Face
Bluish cheeks and lips. Copper coloured eruptions. Acne. Large number of pimples.

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Mouth
Knotty indurations in the tongue. Bites cheeks while eating. Teeth loose worse chewing and
least cold. Toothache better eating salty things.

Throat
Raw feeling like heartburn better eating.

Stomach
Eating causes fatigue. Saltish water runs from the mouth. Retching; vomiting; hiccough;
cancer. Faint gone feeling in stomach not better by eating; in suckling women. All food
distresses the stomach. Nausea from smoking, which causes aversion to tobacco. Digestion
weak. Nausea worse at night; of pregnancy. Sensation of coldness around the stomach better
rubbing and pressure.

Abdomen
Great distension; after operation. As of a hard body in groin (left) worse sitting better pressure
and passing flatus. Neglected bubo. Anus sore. Moisture; oozing from anus; and on perineum.
Feeling of coldness rising into the throat. Induration of pancreas.

Male
Syphilis. Bubo.

Female
Menses; dark, clotted, putrid, flow in morning only; followed by great exhaustion; so weak
can hardly speak. Right ovary seems a heavy ball. Leucorrhoea; watery; burning, biting. worse
walking or standing; stains linen yellow. Cancer uteri; burning pain down thighs; pelvic bones
pain on sitting. Indurated os, with burning. Darting pains in mammae, while nursing, arresting
breathing. Painful induration in breast (right). Hard painful nodes in breast. Uterine
haemorrhage, with affections of glands. Lochia; long lasting, thin offensive, with numb limbs.

Respiratory organs
Suffocation on closing eyes. Nervous dyspnoea. Ulceration of lungs, with feeling of coldness
in lungs. Cough with discharge of greenish pus. Stitch remaining after pleurisy. Sputum, dark,
brown tough, syrup‐like.

Heart
Palpitation when hearing singing in church, or in public places. Coldness in precordial region,
with horripilation.

Neck and Back:

Coccyx feels bruised, burns when touched worse sitting or lying. Coldness and aching in
lumbar region, with cough.

Extremities
Axillary glands, swollen; indurated. Ankles turn easily. Hands numb, with chest affections.
Joints weak, easy dislocation.

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Skin
*Bluish; affected part. Spongy ulcers. Copper coloured eruptions. Unsightly scars from
eruptions.

Sleep
Full of vivid fancies; Talks, groans, sheds tears in sleep.

Fever
Surgings or hot flushes. Sweat; foul, exhausting, at night, *staining yellow.

Related
Calc‐f; Graph.

Complementary
Calc‐p.

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Carbo Vegetabilis [Carb‐v]

Generalities
*Carbo‐veg, or charcoal, is itself a product of imperfect oxidation; therefore imperfect
oxidation and disintegration is the key note of this remedy. It contains small quantity of *Kali‐
carb. Its deodorant, disinfectant and antiseptic properties are more enhanced in potencies. It
acts upon the ***VENOUS CIRCULATION, esp. capillaries, where blood seems to stagnate,
causing blueness, coldness and ecchymoses. *Vital power becomes low from loss of vital
fluids; *from grave or serious diseases; *from effects of drug and disease or from obstinate
complications. It is suitable to atonic conditions where *there is lack of reaction. The typical
*Carbo‐veg. patient is fat, sluggish, lazy and has a tendency to chronicity of complaints.
Complaints of old people. Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some
previous illness. State of collapse; in cholera, typhoid, or other grave diseases, when the
patient is almost lifeless, cold body, breath cold, pulse imperceptible, respiration quickened,
must be fanned very hard, *but head remains hot. ***HAEMORRHAGE; blood dark, oozing,
from shock, after surgical operations, persistent for hours or days. Numbness, of parts lain
on. *Burning, *sense of weight or heavy aching in bones, ulcers etc. ***WEAKNESS,
FLATULENCE, FOETOR OR AIR HUNGER, are present with most of the complaints. *Tremulous.
Always ***WEAK, SICK AND EXHAUSTED; but those states may occur suddenly. Fainting fits.
*Thick acrid discharges. *Cold; *but wants air to be fanned, or thirst for cold water.
***BLUENESS and *decomposition. Septic conditions. *Sensation of overfullness. *Venous
stasis. *Ulcerations, aphthous. General bruised soreness, old catarrhs. School girls and boys
are sluggish, slow to learn, suffer from night terrors, will not sleep alone or go to bed in the
dark. Lack of reaction; after some violent attack, violent shock, violent suffering. Never well
since. Lymphatic glands; swollen; indurated or suppurating. Gangrene, humid, senile.

Better
***ERUCTATIONS. *Cool air. *From fanning. Elevating feet.

Worse
***WARMTH. ***DEPLETIONS. *Cooling off ***EXHAUSTING DISEASES. ***HIGH LIVING;
***RICH FOOD; decayed food; poultry. ***DISSIPATION. Overlifting. Walking in open air.
Pressure of clothes. Weather; extremes of temperature, cold night air, frosty, humid, wind on
head. Suppressions. Old age. Reading aloud. Singing. Icy drinks.

Mind
Slow thinking. Indolent. Anxious. *Irritable. Dejected. Unhappy. Indifference, hears
everything without pleasure or pain. Aversion to darkness. Fear of ghosts. Sudden loss of
memory. Sluggish, stupid, lazy. Easily frightened or startled.

Head
Dull, compressive, heavy headache; worse occiput; worse overheating, lying or pressure of
hat, over‐indulgence. Vertigo, with nausea and tinnitus. Scalp itches when warm in bed. Hair;
sore, falls off easily, in handfuls, after severe illness, after parturition. Cold sweat on forehead.
Head hot; with cold extremities. Takes cold in head easily.

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Eyes
As of heavy weight on eyes. Haemorrhages from eyes with congestion to head. Vision of
floating black spots. Burning in eyes. Muscles of eyes pain when looking up. Pupils do not
react to light.

Ears
Something heavy seems to lie before the ears. Deafness or otorrhoea, following exanthemata.
Deficient or badly smelling yellow wax. Mumps, with metastases.

Nose
Sneezing from irritation in larynx; worse blowing nose. Ineffectual effort to sneeze. Epistaxis
in daily attacks, with pale face. Descending colds. Red. Nose cold; hay asthma. Frequent
sneezing, much coryza. Sneezing worse sneezing.

Face
***PINCHED, HIPPOCRATIC or *dusky. Face cold, with cold sweat. *Twitching upper lip,
Brown or blackish looking, cracked lips. Great paleness of face.

Mouth
Breath cold. Tongue; cold, black; swollen, covered with white yellow‐brown mucus. Aphthae;
bluish, blackish ulcers, with burning. Loose teeth. Scorbutic gums. Blood oozes from gums
when cleaning teeth. Pyorrhoea. Taste bitter, sour. Bad smell from. Increased saliva. Gums
painful while chewing. Gums black. Teeth pain while eating hot or cold things.

Throat
Sensation as if closed. Aphthous, sore. Hawking of bloody black mucus. Painful on swallowing
food.

Stomach
Digestion slow, food turns to gas. Aversion to meat, to fat things, to milk which causes
flatulence. Loathes even the thought of food. Desire for salty‐sour things or sweet things,
coffee. Nausea in the morning. ***ERUCTATIONS; ***RANCID; *loud; *without better; with
cough. Heaviness, fulness and sleepiness after food. Contractive pain extending to chest.
Burning in stomach extending to back along spine, with coldness. Gastralgia of nursing
women. Dyspepsia. Aversion to most digestible and the best kind of food. Vomiting of blood;
ulcers, cancer.

Abdomen
***EXCESSIVE FLATULENCE; greatly distending the abdomen, esp. *upper part worse lying
down. Obstructed flatulence, with complaints arising from. The simplest or smallest portion
of food worse the sufferings in abdomen. Colic forcing the patient to bend double. Epigastric
region very tender. Pain in the liver. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. Abdomen
feels as if hanging down; walks bent. Burning in rectum. Itching in anus. Flatus; hot, moist,
offensive. Acrid moisture from rectum. Moisture on perineum. Bluish, white, burning piles,
pain after stools. Colic brought on by riding in cars, better passing flatus. Painful diarrhoea of
old people. Stools; putrid; ineffectual urging; even soft passed with difficulty. Faeces escape
with flatus. Jaundice; from over eating or eating too rich food.

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Urinary Organs
Albumin in the urine. Nephritis; septic or from alcohol. Urine‐ copious of clear yellow colour
or thickish and whitish_ diabetes. Wetting the bed at night. Urine; suppressed in cholera; and
retained from standing on cold pavements.

Male
Seminal discharge too soon, during coitus, followed by roaring in head. Discharge of prostatic
fluid, while straining at stool. Itching and moisture at thighs near scrotum. Swelling of testes
from metastasis of mumps.

Female
Menorrhagia, burning across sacrum, passive flow. Sore, hot, itching, swelled, vulva.
Leucorrhoea; thick, greenish, milky, causing itching and burning, worse before menses. Lumps
in mammae, with indurations of axillary glands. Mammae; hard, swollen, with impending
abscess. Feels at her best when she has a free leucorrhoea. Menses too early. Varices on
pudendum and vulva, with burning, bluish ulcers. Prostration after suckling. Vaginal fistula,
burning pains.

Respiratory organs
Voice hoarse in the evening. Cough, with itching in larynx. Attacks of tormenting hollow or
choking cough, with headache and vomiting and burning in chest worse cold drinks and in
bed. Roughness in larynx, with deep rough voice. Expectoration, with retching. Whooping
cough; with bluish face and its complications. Heavy sore or weak chest; on awakening.
Breathing, laborious, quick and short, worse walking. Asthma; in aged with blue skin; better
summer. Cheyne‐Stokes breathing in organic heart disease. Wants to take a deep breath.
Burning in chest; with haemoptysis. Brown yellow spots on chest. Destructive lung diseases.
Sore ribs. Expectoration; thick, sticky, yellowish and profuse.

Heart
Continuous anxious palpitation; worse eating, sitting. Pulse; thread like, weak and small,
intermittent. Burning around the heart. Pulsation throughout the body.

Neck and Back:

Severe pain in small of back, with a sensation of a plug; unable to sit down; had to put a pillow
under it when lying. Burning behind shoulder.

Extremities
Heavy stiff, feel paralysed. Numb when lying on them. Paralytic weakness of the wrists and of
the fingers, when seizing anything. Arms weary when writing. Cramps in soles. Feet numb and
sweaty. Cold from knees down. Senile gangrene of fingers and toes, with fiery burning
vesicles, oozing bloody water. Foul foot sweat, worse walking.

Sleep
Horror during sleep. Awakes often, from cold limbs esp. cold knees. Unrefreshing. Comatose
sleep, with rattling in throat. Frequent yawning and stretching which seems to better.

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Fever
Alternate chill and heat. ***ICY COLDNESS; unilateral; of tongue, *knees; legs; foot, at night.
Warm head and cold limbs. *Internal burning heat; at heart, chest; with cold icy skin and cold
sweat. Sweats easily. Sweat sour, cold worse coughing; on face. Yellow fever.

Skin
Raw, mottled, blue, cold, ecchymosed. Ulcers; foul, burning and bleeding. Varicose ulcers.
Carbuncles. Senile gangrene beginning in toes. Bed sores, bleed easily. Varicose veins during
pregnancy. Wounds heal and break out again. Burning in various places. Blue colour. Fine
moist rash with burning. Ulcers; varicose, easily bleeding, pus smelling like Asafoetida; heal
and break out again.

Related
Amm‐c; Ars; Colch; Graph; Lyc.

Complementary
*Ars; *Chin; *Kali‐c; Lach; Phos.

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Carbolicum Acidum [Carb‐ac]

Generalities
*Carbolic Acid, is a powerful antiseptic, irritant and anaesthetic. It affects the *mucous
membranes; *heart; *blood and respiration. It is a *languid, *painless, *foul and destructive
remedy. ***PROSTRATION *is very marked; even paralytic, with loss of sensation and motion.
Discharges are *foul, *burning. Terrible pains coming and going suddenly. Acuteness of smell
is a strong guiding symptom. Pricking, burning sensation. Malignant and *septic conditions.
Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere. In cholera when *Verat‐alb is indicated but
fails. Collapse. Bloody exudations. Unfit for study, as reading **worse** all symptoms.
Trembling; uncertain, staggering walk.

Worse
Jar. Reading. Pregnancy. Combing hair.

Mind
Mental and bodily languor, disinclination to study or to do any physical work.

Head
Tight feeling as if compressed by a rubber band better green tea and smoking. As of a hot ball
in forehead. Scalp tender. Headaches appearing at the time of menses.

Eyes
Severe orbital neuralgia over right eye.

Nose
Smell very acute. Ozaena with great foetor and ulceration.

Face
***PALE ABOUT NOSE AND MOUTH. Dusky face.

Mouth
*Intensely foul breath, with constipation. Burning in mouth to stomach.

Throat
Glazed. Uvula whitened and shrivelled. Diphtheria_foetid breath, regurgitation on swallowing
liquids, but little pain.

Stomach
Nausea and vomiting; of pregnancy, sea sickness, cancer, dark, olive green. Heartburn. Sore
stomach. Fermentative dyspepsia with bad breath and taste. Craving for stimulants or for
smoking.

Abdomen
Flatulence. Constipation with retraction of abdomen. *Shreddy stools. Passes mucus from
anus while urinating. Diarrhoea; rice water, foetid.

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Urinary organs
Urine, scanty, green or dark, almost black. Frequent urination at night in old men. Diabetes.
Albuminuria.

Female
Leucorrhoea; thick, causing itching. Severe backache across loins, with dragging down thighs;
uterine displacement. Foetid acrid discharges; erosion of cervix.

Heart
*Thready pulse.

Back and Neck

Aching between scapulae.

Skin
Burning, itching vesicles and pustules. Burns tend to ulcerate. Erysipelas. Bloody vesicles or
pustules.

Sleep
*Very sleepy.

Fever
Profuse cold sweat.

Related
Kreos.

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Carboneum Sulphuratum [Carbn‐s]

Generalities
It has a specific affinity for eyes. It is useful for loss of vision; progressive, with central
scotoma. Colour‐blindness_red and green, not for white. Ill effects of coal gas.

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Carcinosin [Carc]

Generalities
A nosode prepared from Carcinoma is claimed to act favourably, modifying the cases in which
there is a history of carcinoma or the disease itself exists. Can be used as an intercurrent
remedy along with indicated.

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Carduus Marianus [Card‐m]

Generalities
It is primarily a *liver and spleen remedy and for haemorrhages due to the affections of those
organs, which gives relief. It acts on veins causing blood stasis, varicose veins and ulcers.
Diseases of miners associated with difficult breathing. Dropsical conditions depending upon
portal congestion and congestion of pelvic organs. Abuse of beer. Debility, fatigue; worse
eating and riding, with frequent yawning. Stitching, drawing, burning pains. Liver affections
associated with lung affections.

Worse
Lying on left side. Beer. Eating. Touch. Motion. Cellars.

Better
Bleeding.

Mind
Forgets what he has just intended to do. Hypochondriacal. Despondent. Joyless.

Head
Dull frontal headache. Vertigo with tendency to fall forward better by nosebleed.

Eyes
Burning and pressure in eyeballs.

Nose
Epistaxis, habitual in psoric young persons.

Face
Earthy, yellowish grey or florid. Weak upper lip.

Mouth
Tongue has white centre, with red indented edges. Tongue weak. Taste bitter.

Stomach
Poor appetite. Nausea, retching and *vomiting of green acid fluid, or blood. Aversion to salted
meat.

Abdomen
*Liver, *engorged, swelled laterally painful to pressure; Jaundice. Stitches near splenic region
worse on inspiration, on stooping. Stitches in liver worse lying on left side. Liver affections
cause lung diseases, causing haemoptysis. Gall stones. Cirrhosis, with dropsy. Distension of
abdomen with rumbling. Diaphragm high. Hard, difficult, knotty, *clayey stools.
Haemorrhagic piles. Profuse diarrhoea due to rectal cancer. Melaen. Sensation of motion in
intestines on expiration, around navel.

Urinary organs
Urine; turbid; *golden yellow.

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Female
Chronic uterine haemorrhage, with portal derangement.

Respiratory organs
*Pain in chest going to shoulders, back, loins and abdomen, with urging to urinate. Asthmatic
respiration. Cough; with stitches in sides of chest, with bloody sputum.

Extremities
Pain in hip joint spreading through buttocks down the thighs, worse stooping, with difficult
rising. Feet weak; on sitting. Drawing pain in entire back.

Fever
Chill and fever, with jaundice.

Skin
*Broken or hard thrombosed veins. Varicose ulcers.

Related
Calc; Sang.

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Castor Equi [Cast‐eq]

Generalities
Triturations are made from the scales of Rudimentary Thumb‐ nail of the horse. It acts on
skin_causing its thickening, on nails, which become brittle and fall off. Bones esp. tibiae and
coccyx_are painful. It is a highly useful remedy in cracked and ulcerated nipples of nursing
women, excessively tender, cannot bear touch of clothing. Breasts swollen, sensitive worse
descending stairs. Itching in breast, areola reddened. Nipples almost hanging. Warts on
forehead and mammae. Psoriasis of tongue.

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Castoreum [Cast]

Generalities
Tincture prepared from the secretion found in preputial sacs of beaver. It is suitable to
*nervous, hysterical women, with cramps, pains, weakness after severe illness. Nervous
women who do not recover fully, but are continually irritable, and suffer from debilitating
sweats. *Weak and lack of reaction. Reflex uterine effects; nervous and spasmodic. Fibrillar
twitchings. Heaviness of the whole body. Yawning continuous. Chorea. Epilepsy. Nervous
palpitation.

Worse
Emotions. Cold. During menses. Debilitating diseases.

Better
Pressure.

Mind
*Irritability. Easily sheds tears. Melancholic and full of anxious longings.

Eyes
Day blindness. Cannot endure the light.

Mouth
Tongue; swollen; twitching. Round pea‐like elevation in centre of tongue, with redness
around. Tongue sensitive to touch or food, with drawing pain towards hyoid bone.

Abdomen
Colic or other abdominal complaints are accompanied with yawning. *Colic with weakness
better pressure. Summer diarrhoea with green mucus stools. Violent thirst, could not drink
enough.

Female
Violent cutting dysmenorrhoeal colic, with few drops of blood, then cold sweat.
Amenorrhoea, with painful tympanites.

Sleep
Constant yawning as accompanied symptom. Restless sleep with frightful dreams and starts.
Yawns in sleep.

Fever
Chilliness with icy coldness in back. Exhausting sweats, after fevers.

Related
Mosch; Valer.

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Caulophyllum [Caul]

Generalities
It is a woman’s, as well as rheumatic remedy esp. acting on small joints. It causes ***ERRATIC
PAINS flying about from place to place, *drawing, cramping, shooting, *rheumatic in
character; ending in neck which gets stiff. Many of the complaints are due to uterine
disorders. *Internal tremors, with weakness. Want of tonicity in womb. Hysterical or
epileptiform spasms at puberty, during dysmenorrhoea. Paraplegia, after child birth.
*Exhaustion. General debility. Chorea at puberty.

Mind
Fretful and fearsome. *Nervous. Excitable. Easily displeased.

Head
Aches from uterine or spinal troubles, with pressure behind the eyes worse stooping, from
light, from noon to night.

Face
Moth spots; on forehead, with leucorrhoea. Heavy upper lid has to raise them with fingers;
leucorrhoea.

Mouth
Aphthae. Thrush_(locally and internally).

Stomach
Frequent gulping of sour, bitter fluid, with vertigo. Vomiting of uterine origin.

Female
Violent, intermittent cramping pains, with little flow; dysmenorrhoea_uterus retroverted.
***LABOUR LIKE PAINS, ***FLY ABOUT to breast. In labour, the pains are ***WEAK OR
IRREGULAR, they cease from exhaustion or they are too painful; *false labour pains. *Eases
labour, when the patient is exhausted from a long continuance of labour. *Habitual abortions;
from want of tonicity of uterus. After pains; after protracted and exhausting labour. Os rigid,
needle‐like pains in cervix. Profuse acrid leucorrhoea; often in little girls. Menses late. Irritable
vagina, spasmodic intense pains. Menorrhagia; after hasty labour, flow very profuse. Lochia,
profuse and prolonged.

Neck and Back:

Stiff. Head drawn to left.

Extremities
*Sore nodes on finger joints. *Rheumatism of small joints*. Cutting pain in fingers joints on
closing hands. Aching sore lower limbs, before menses. Paraplegia after child birth.

Fever
As if overfull of blood. High fever.

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Skin
*Chloasma; on neck.

Worse
Pregnancy. Suppressed menses. Open air. Coffee.

Related
Cimic; *Pul; *Sep.

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Causticum [Caust]

Generalities
The chemical composition of *Causticum is still uncertain though it is considered to be
potassium hydrate or Caustic potash. It is a great polychrest remedy, acting upon ***NERVES,
*motor and sensory and on ***MUSCLES voluntary and involuntary; of ***BLADDER, *larynx
and limbs. *Weakness; progressive; loss of muscular strength, causing increasing uncertainty
of control over the muscles, finally ending in ***PARALYSIS; *of single organs or parts.
Paralysis; from exposure to cold; post‐diphtheritic; from lead. Chronic rheumatic affections
cause contraction of tendons and deformities about the joints. Pains are tearing, drawing,
*burning, of the part grasped by hand. *Soreness, *rawness. *Trembling, convulsions, chorea,
in nervous girls worse during menses. Sympathetic jerkings, twitching, startings and
restlessness are other characteristic symptoms. Cramps here and there. Emaciation; due to
disease, fright, worry, grief, and of long lasting illness. Children are slow in learning to talk and
walk. Anaesthesia. Epilepsy, runs in circle, then falls down; at puberty. Patient is susceptible
to both cold and heat. Joints stiff. It is adapted to broken down, worn out senile persons or
to dark complexioned rigid fibered persons. Restlessness at night, esp. the legs are constantly
on the go. Ill effects of burns and scalds, fright, grief, worry, sorrow, night watching. Ulcers
maltreated with lead. Warts. Cold water tones the paralysis. Fissures; from least provocation,
about wings of nose, lips, anus etc. Motion as of coition; chorea. Awkward at talking, chewing,
walking. Mental effects; convulsions, from suppressed eruptions. As if cold water was running
from clavicle down to toes.

Worse
***DRY COLD or raw air. *Winds. Drafts. Extremes of temperature. Stooping. Suppressed
eruptions. Coffee. Fats. 3‐4 a.m. or ***EVENING. Exertion. Change of weather. After stool.
Motion of carriage. Twilight. Darkness. Taking hold of anything. Sour things. Bathing in river
in summer.

Better
***COLD DRINKS (even chill). Damp wet weather. Washing. *Warmth; *of bed. Gentle
motion.

Mind
Hopeless, despondent, wants to die. Ambitionless. *Mental fatigue. *Anxious forebodings*
worse in twilight. Reticent. Over sympathetic. Child does not want to go to bed alone; least
thing makes him cry. Thinking of complaints worse them esp. haemorrhoids. Weeps, laughs;
chorea. Laughs before, with or after spasms. Conscious‐stricken as if she had committed some
crime. Sadness. Whining mood. Suspicious, mistrustful; absent minded. Looks on the dark
side. Lacks control, balance. Spoonerisms, confounds letters and syllables. Vexed with
business worries.

Head
Painless commotion in the whole head. Sensation as of an empty space between the forehead
and brain, better hot application. To and fro or nodding motions, or turning to right. Tight
scalp. Stitches in temples on mental exertion. Nausea and vomiting or blindness during
headache; then paralysis. Vertigo; during sleep; at night; in the morning, while lying down, on
stooping; at menstruation; looking up. Small soft round nodes on scalp or glabella.

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Eyes
Sparks and dark spots before the eyes. Paralysis of one eyelid (right). Heavy drooping eyelids.
Ptosis. Weakness of recti muscles_ diplopia better looking to right. Continuous eye pain with
inclination to touch and rub the eyes which seems to relieve the pressure in it. Vision obscured
as from gauze; on blowing nose. Objects look large. Profuse acrid tears. Cataract. Rolling of
eyes; epilepsy. Eyelids quiver. Warts on eyebrows. Fissures in canthi. Eyes remain open;
without winking; paralysis.

Ears
Ringing, roaring, pulsating, with deafness. Words and steps re‐echo in ears. Burning in ears,
they become red. Much foul ear wax; brown. Meniere’s disease. Thick gluey purulent
discharge.

Nose
Coryza with hoarseness. Pimples on tip of nose. Old warts. Sneezing in the morning. Thick
yellow or greenish‐yellow discharge. Nosebleed, during spasms.

Face
*Prosopalgia better cold water. *Facial Paralysis (right) worse opening mouth. Pain in jaw,
cannot open the mouth. Face yellow, sickly looking. Cramps in lips. Feels furry. Eruption on.

Mouth
Bites inside cheek, while chewing. Paralysis of tongue, with indistinct speech, words seem to
jerk out. Swelling at root of tongue. Gums bleed easily. Recurrent abscess in gums_dental
fistula. Fatty taste. Gums spongy, receding. Teeth; feel loose, elongated; ache; worse from
cold or warmth. Swelling of inner side of cheek; or induration. Tongue; red in middle, sides
coated. Painful vesicles on tip.

Throat
Urging to swallow continuously as if the throat were too narrow. Swallows the wrong way, or
comes through nose. Throat symptoms worse stooping. Difficulty in swallowing, from
paralysis of throat; unable to hawk out mucus, swallows it. Scraping, burning, rawness in
throat.

Stomach
Greasy; taste, eructations. Waterbrash, salty. Aversion to sweets. Feels as if lime were burning
in stomach. Pain in stomach from ice water. Sensation of a ball rising in the throat. Sour
vomiting followed by sour eructations. Fresh meat causes nausea; smoked meat agrees. Feels
hunger but appetite vanishes at the sight of food or with thought or smell, during pregnancy.
Vomiting of blood at night. Acid dyspepsia.

Abdomen
Enlarged in children. Colic, spasmodic. Pain radiates to back and chest, better bending double,
worse least food. Stools; hard, tough, covered with mucous, shines like grease; soft and small,
size of gooses *quill. Stool passes easily when standing. Cramps in rectum on stooping, with
desire for urination. Anus prolapses on coughing. Itching in anus better cold water. Small hard
pustules around anus. Large piles impeding the stools worse walking, standing and when
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stool. Diarrhoea from cold. Painful swelling of the navel. Constipation, with frequent
ineffectual urging.

Urinary Organs
Paralysis of bladder, from long retention of urine, and consequent incontinence (as in sleep
or in school girls) *INVOLUNTARY PASSAGE OF URINE; *ON COUGHING, walking, blowing
nose, sneezing. *Retention of urine; *after labour, after surgical operations. Burning in
urethra when urinating, worse after coition. Urine dribbles or passes slowly. Insensibility of
urethra while passing urine. Urine is passed better sitting. Bed wetting, during first sleep, at
night. Urine; black, cloudy, white. Itching of meatus.

Male
Increase of smegma about the glans. Semen bloody, during coition. Red spots on penis.
Bruised soreness in testes.

Female
Aversion to coition. Menses; flow only during day; with clots; scanty, with prosopalgia.
Leucorrhoea; profuse, flow during night, with great weakness. Uterine inertia during labour.
Smarting in the pudendum after urination. Nipples; sore, cracked, surrounded with herpes.
Leucorrhoea smelling like the menses. Disappearance of milk; from fatigue, night‐watching,
or anxiety. Dysmenorrhoea, with tearing pains in back and thighs. Anxiety, sadness and
weakness, during menses. Dreams during menses. Menses late and profuse. Sticking pain
below left mammae; dysmenorrhoea. Violent itching about mammae in nursing women.

Respiratory organs
Aphonia; or *hoarseness; with pain in chest; worse a.m., of speakers, singers worse stooping,
better talking. Cough; hollow, hard, dry, during pregnancy, from tickling in throat pit or larynx;
incessant; dry, night and morning; worse stooping, heat of bed, cold air, better sips of cold
water. Cannot cough deep enough; *expectoration; *slips back again; *scanty; greasy, ropy,
like soapsuds, must be swallowed. Sore streak in larynx. Chest tight sore, vest seems tight.
Short breath, before coughing. Purring in chest. Wandering chest pains better pressure, worse
sneezing. Pain in the larynx worse blowing nose. Oppressive breathing while talking and
walking. Tightness or scraping in chest.

Heart
Palpitation, with pain in chest, burning and languor.

Neck and Back

Stiffness of neck, or back on rising from a chair. Stiff neck, could scarcely move the head. Back
pain goes forwards or to the thighs. Pain in spine worse swallowing. Pain in hips worse
coughing. Torticollis. Bruised, darting pains around coccyx. Cramps in lumbar region and
buttock.

Extremities
Paralytic feeling in the right hand, with paralysis of tongue. Paralysis of deltoid, cannot raise
hand to head. Trembling of hands. Writer’s cramp. Numbness of hands. Fulness of hands
while grasping anything. Bursting in finger tips; warts on. Cramps in calves, feet, toes and
tendo‐achillis. Unsteady walking and easy falling; of children. Weak ankles. Tearing rheumatic

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pain in limbs better warmth; of bed. Cracking and tension in the knees. Disposition to stretch,
bend or crack the joints. Stiffness in the hollow of the knees, worse sitting better continued
walking. Burning in joints. Tendons contracted. Twisting and jerking in limbs; chorea. Arthritis
deformans. Cracking in knees worse walking and descending. Restless legs at night. Pain like
electric shocks, in legs. Cannot stand on heels. Whitlow of great toes.

Skin
Cracks, ulcers. Soreness in folds of skin. Warts; seedy, large, jagged, bleeding easily,
ulcerating; on tip of fingers, nose, lids, brows. *Itching. *Deep burns and their effects.
Cicatrices reopen. Skin prone to intertrigo during dentition.

Sleep
Frequent movements of arms and legs during sleep. Laughs and cries during sleep. Very
drowsy, can hardly keep awake. Yawning and stretching. Nocturnal sleeplessness with dry
heat, inquietude. Wakes with slightest noise. Yawning; when listening or paying attention to
others.

Fever
Coldness not better by warmth. Sweat about 4 a.m.; profuse, on slight exertion, open air.
Heat from 6 to 8 p.m. Coldness; left sided, of diseased part, with pain. Flushes of heat followed
by chill.

Related
Gels; Kali‐b; Phos; Rhus‐t; Sep.

Complementary
Carb v; Graph; *Lach; *Stann; Staph.

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Ceanothus Americanus [Cean]

Generalities
This remedy has a special affinity to the spleen, which enlarges enormously. Pain in left
hypochondria; with dyspnoea, diarrhoea, profuse or suppressed menses, leucorrhoea.
Menses every two weeks. Anaemic patients where liver and spleen are at fault. Leukaemia.
Enlargement of liver. Urine, green, frothy. Periodical neuralgia.

Worse
Cold weather. Lying on left side. Motion.

Related
Chin.

Complementary
Nat‐m.

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Cedron [Cedr]

Generalities
Neuralgias occurring at ***EXACT PERIODICITY is the most marked feature of this remedy. It
is adapted to persons of voluptuous disposition, and of an excitable nervous temperament.
Antidotes the effect of snake bite and stings of insects. Complaints after coition‐chorea in
women; neuralgia in men. Trembling. Numbness of the whole body. Malarial affections of
damp, warm, marshy countries. Convulsions during menses. Lectophobia.

Better
Standing erect.

Worse
*Periodically; at the same hour. Open air. Lying down. Before storm. After sleep.

Head
Orbital neuralgia. Crazy feeling from pain across forehead. Whole body feels numb, during
headache. Stammers after coition. Head feels as if swollen.

Eyes
*Burn like fire. Severe pain in eyeballs, with radiating pains around the eye; scalding
lachrymation. Iritis. Choroiditis. Eyes red. Pain over the eye worse coition. Objects appear red
at night and yellow by day.

Extremities
Acute sudden pain in ball of right thumb up arm to shoulder, same in right foot to knee,
causing her to drop to the floor.

Fever
Excitement before chill. Malaria.

Related
Aran.

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Chamomilla [Cham]

Generalities
It is a highly ***EMOTIONAL; ***TEMPERAMENTAL and ***OVERSENSITIVE remedy,
oversensitiveness from abuse of coffee and narcotics. It is particularly suited to diseases of
pregnant *women, nurses and little ***CHILDREN. *Bad temper, frantic irritability and
snappish. *Pain is intolerable; *becomes mad with pain*, or magnifies her pains *and
prostrated, with pain. Very cross, cannot be appeased. Tosses about. Cries out or walks the
floor. Demands instant relief for his suffering; he would rather die than suffer. Mental and
physical symptoms appear in paroxysms; *irritability, *restlessness, ***COLIC; cough etc.
*Numbness; *after pain; on awakening. Repeated spasms; of face, arms, legs etc. Colic,
diarrhoea, jaundice, twitching and convulsions after anger. Neuralgic or gouty rheumatic
diathesis. *Cramps; with bilious vomiting; of muscles. Convulsion during dentition. *Hot and
thirsty. *Hot sweat, *with pains. Opium of Homoeopathy. Bad effects of bad temper. During
convulsions body becomes stiff, with opisthotonus; eyes roll about, face becomes wry;
thumbs turn inwards.

Better
***BEING CARRIED. Mild weather. Heat. *Sweating. Cold applications.

Worse
***ANGER. ***NIGHT. ***DENTITION. Cold air, damp air. Wind. Taking cold. ***COFFEE.
*Narcotics. Alcohol. Lying in bed. Music. Eructations. Heat. Warm food, covering. Touch.
*Being* looked
at.

Mind
***UGLY *in behaviour. ***CROSS and ***UNCIVIL. ***QUARRELSOME. *Vexed at every
trifle. Abrupt. *Averse to being spoken to or touched; or being looked at. Children ***WANT
TO BE CARRIED, and petted. Want many things, *but refuse them when given. Piteous
moaning because he cannot have what he wants. Aversion to talking. Omits words while
writing and speaking. Women become suddenly capricious, quarrelsome, obstinate, before
menses. Hasty, hurried. Cannot bear anyone near him.

Head
Throbbing headache in one half of the brain; inclination to bend head backwards. As if hair
stood on end, with shivering. Hot clammy sweat on forehead and scalp; during sleep, wetting
the hair. Headache of delicate over fatigued women. Headache better when mind is engaged.
Headache worse morning and 9 p.m.

Eyes
Yellow conjunctiva. Spasmodic closing of lids. Bloody water from the eyes of new born babies.

Ears
Sensitive to cold wind about ears, or noise. Earache, sticking better warmth. Ears feel stopped.
Hear voices of absent persons, at night. Ringing after haemorrhages. Roaring in the ears as of
rushing water. Music is insupportable. As if hot water was running out of.

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Nose
Extremely sensitive to all smells. Hot coryza, with obstruction of nose; inability to sleep. Skin
wrinkled. Crawling in, until eyes water.

Face
*Swelling or ***REDNESS OF THE CHEEK. One cheek red and hot, other pale and cold. Face
pale, sunken, distorted by pain. Neuralgia of the face, with hot sweat about the head; pain
extending into ear. Jerking of facial muscles. Jaws feel tired. Sweats after eating or drinking.

Mouth
Toothache worse after warm drinks; during pregnancy, coffee. Jerking in tongue. Thick white
yellow fur on tongue. Nightly salivation of sweetish taste. Bad, sour breath. Bitter taste. Teeth
feel elongated.

Throat
Inability to swallow solid food when lying. Constricted feeling or as of a plug.

Stomach
Eructations like bad eggs. Severe bitter bilious vomiting, with griping. Vomiting after morphia.
Gastralgia as from a stone on stomach. Sweats after eating and drinking. Thirst; for cold water,
sour drinks. Aversion to coffee. Violent retching before vomiting.

Abdomen
Distended. ***SPELLS OF COLIC; from time to time. Pain from side to side; or going upward;
after anger. *Cutting wind colic worse night; worse urinating, better warm applications.
***STOOLS, *hot ***SOUR; ***GRASS GREEN; ***SLIMY; ***HACKED; *yellow green; or
***LIENTERIC; *smelling like bad eggs. Haemorrhoids, with painful fissures. Diarrhoea, during
dentition, from cold, from anger. Jaundice; after anger. Cheek becomes red during colic, with
hot sweat. Anus swollen and pouting. As if bowels were knotted and abdomen empty.

Urinary organs
Urine hot and yellowish. Stitches in urethra.

Female
Irregular labour like pains; going up; down inner thighs; with profuse discharge of clotted,
dark blood. Puerperal convulsions, after anger. Distressing after pains. Breasts sore, nipples
inflamed and very tender. Infants’ breasts tender. Cramps, when child nurses. Yellow, dark
lumpy acrid leucorrhoea. Membranous dysmenorrhoea, specially at puberty. Milk is spoiled,
baby won’t suck. Dysmenorrhoea; from anger or emotions in those women who do not suffer
from it, with sexual desire. Oozing of dark foul blood, with occasional gush of bright red blood.
Menorrhagia, with black clots, profuse, with coldness of extremities and much thirst.
Intolerable labour pains; sends the doctors and nurse away, then calls again. Lochia too
profuse and bloody or suppressed.

Respiratory organs
Spells of dry tickling cough. Asthma; from anger, worse dry weather, better bending head
back. Rattling of mucus in child’s chest. Anger provokes the cough; in children. Whooping

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cough, suffocating, then vomits. Cough worse 9 to 12 p.m.; during sleep; does not wake up
the child.

Back
Severe pains in loins and hips, opposite to that on which patient is lying. Lumbago.

Extremities
Numbness and stiffness of hands, when grasping objects. Cramps in calves. Violent rheumatic
pains driving him out of bed, at night; compelled to walk about. Burning of soles, at night.
Ankles give way in the afternoon. Feel as if she is walking on the ends of bones of her legs.
Feet as if paralysed, cannot step on them, at night. Palms dry.

Skin
Rash of infants and of nursing mothers. Jaundice. Burning, smarting in ulcers, at night. Skin
unhealthy, every injury suppurates.

Sleep
Drowsiness; with moaning, weeping and wailing in sleep. Pain disturbs sleep. Sleepless from
abuse of narcotics. Sleeps with thighs separated. Drowsy, but cannot sleep.

Fever
Chilly yet easily overheated; hence takes cold. Coldness of one part, with heat of another
worse uncovering. Alternate chill and heat. Feverish from suppressed discharges. Sweat on
head. Thirst during fever.

Related
Nux‐v; Staph.

Complementary
*Bell; Mag‐c; Sanic.

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Chelidonium [Chel]

Generalities
It is predominantly a *right sided remedy. It acts upon the *liver; *portal system; *right side
of abdomen and right lower lung. It is closely allied to *Lyc.; when *Lyc. seems indicated but
fails to act *Chel should be given. ***YELLOWNESS *and bilious disturbances* are its marked
features. Constant pain at the inferior angle of the right scapula is its chief indication. Pains
shoot *backwards or in all directions. Stitching pains due to serous effusions. *Heavy, stiff,
sore, paralysed, dislocative or broken feeling. Numbness. There is great general lethargy and
indisposition to make any effort. Horror of motion. Feels tired on little exertion. Bilious
complications; during gestation, lung affections. Jaundice.

Better
*Hot food. Eating. Dinner. Milk. Pressure. Hot bath. Bending backward. Lying on abdomen.

Worse
*Motion. *Cough. *Touch. *Change of weather. North east wind. 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. Looking
up.

Mind
Aversion to mental exertion or conversation. Despondent. Anxiety as if she had committed a
crime; fear of *going* crazy. Feels like crying with ill humour or without any reason. Restless;
hence agile.

Head
Vertigo; felt in vertex; worse closing eyes, with bilious vomiting and pain in liver. Headache
extends backwards. Occiput feel heavy as lead; *icy coldness of occiput from nape of neck.
Neuralgia over right eye, right cheek bone and right ear, with excessive lachrymation. Cranium
feels too small.

Eyes
Dirty yellow colour of whites. Soreness of eyes worse looking up. Dazzling spot before the
eyes. Lachrymation; when looking intently, with pain in eyes, or from tickling in larynx. Mucus
in eyes. Could not open eyes, with prosopalgia.

Ears
Sensation in both the ears, as if wind were rushing out, or something crawling out. Loss of
hearing during cough.

Nose
Red. *Flapping of the alae nasi. Obstruction, with liver complaints. Tip of nose swollen and
red. Dryness.

Face
Dark red or *sallow, *sunken. Yellow esp. forehead, nose and cheeks. Right cheek bone feels
as if swollen, with tearing pain. Flushes of heat. Nodular eruptions on.

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Mouth
Taste bitter. *Tongue; *yellow, with imprint of teeth; large, flabby. Offensive breath. Tongue
narrow pointed. Salivation with nausea, giddiness. Bitter water collects in mouth.

Throat
Choking; worse breathing, as from hasty swallowing or as if too large a morsel had been
swallowed. Left sided goitre.

Stomach
Craves milk, piquant or hot food and drinks. Nausea, better drinking milk. Vomiting better
very hot water. Gastric pains, gnawing scraping better ***EATING. As of a plug in stomach.
Aversion to meat; coffee, cheese. Loss of appetite.

Abdomen
Epigastric region tender. ***LIVER PAINS GOING BACKWARD; or *fixed at angle of right
scapula. Liver enlarged; tender. Gall‐stones. Constriction across abdomen, as by a string.
Stools; pasty, *pale, *bright yellow, clayey, or hard balls. Alternation of diarrhoea and
constipation. Ascites, with yellow palms. Crawling and itching in rectum. As of an animal
wriggling in epigastrium. Navel drawn in during colic.

Urinary organs
Profuse foaming, yellow urine like beer. Spasmodic pain in right kidney and liver. Urine stains
the diaper dark yellow.

Male
Frequent erections, even during day. Pain in glans. Itching creeping on scrotum and glans.

Female
Menses too late and too profuse. Longing for unusual articles of food during pregnancy.
Leucorrhoea; white, stains linen yellow. Burning in vagina, recurs at the same hour during
day.

Respiratory organs
Short breath and tight chest, clothing seem too tight; better deep breathing. Dyspnoea worse
urinating. Pain pressive in chest on deep inspiration. *Cough; as from dust; *with much
rattling; *but little expectoration, or it *flies from mouth. Deep seated pain or *nail, deep in
right chest. Bilious pneumonia. Respiratory symptoms with liver symptoms. Pressure in larynx
as if air could not pass through. Stitches in chest.

Heart
Violent palpitation, with tightness in chest. Periodic palpitation.

Neck and Back:

Fixed pain under inner and lower angle of the right scapula; which may extend into chest and
stomach causing nausea or vomiting. Pain from neck to temple; (right). Pressing pain in
vertebrae worse bending backwards and forwards. Occiput heavy with pain in right side of
back. As of a string, around the neck. Cervico‐brachial neuralgia.

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Extremities
Very sore to touch. *Cold finger tips. Pain in heels as if pinched by too narrow a shoe. Burning
and stiffness in right knee worse moving. Limbs feel paralysed. Heavy lower limbs. Ankles stiff.
Oedema around ankles and feet. Paresis of lower limbs, with rigidity of muscles. One foot
cold, other hot.

Skin
Yellow. Itching better eating. Painful pimples and pustules. Skin wrinkled .

Sleep
*Lethargic. ***DROWSY *and chilly. Dreams of corpses and funerals. Sleepiness, without
being able to sleep. Falls asleep while speaking.

Fever
Burning heat spreads from hands over the body. Sweaty, with aversion to uncover and
without relief. Sweat; during sleep, after midnight, from slight exertion. Fluctuating
temperature. High fever.

Related
Bry; Kali‐b; Merc; Op.

Complementary
*Lyc, Merc‐d.

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Chenopodium Anthelminticum [Chen‐a]

Generalities
Just like *Chel. it causes dull pain below the right angle of right scapula, but nearer to spine.
It causes apoplexy and consequent right hemiplegia with aphasia. Stertorous breathing with
a rattle as of a ball rolling loose in trachea. Heavy breathing with flapping of cheeks. Repeats
the same action over and over again. Deafness progressive for human voice but great
sensitiveness to sound as of a passing vehicle, or to distant sounds. Paralysis; with spasms of
forearms and hand in flexion contraction of limbs. Jaundice. Aural vertigo. Meniere’s disease.
Urine, profuse, foamy, yellow, burning.

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Chimaphila Umbellata [Chim]

Generalities
It acts principally on kidneys and bladder, producing gravel in kidneys, and acute and chronic
catarrh in the bladder (cystitis). Also acts on the glands, mesenteric, *prostate, mammary and
liver. Useful in hepatic and renal dropsies. Women, with large breasts; or plethoric women,
with dysuria. Incipient and progressive cataract.

Better
Walking.

Worse
Cold damp. Standing. Sitting; on cold stones. Beginning urination.

Head
Pain in frontal eminence.

Eyes
Halo around the light. Stabbing pain in left eye, with lachrymation.

Mouth
Jaws feel stiff, cannot close mouth at night; sleeps with the mouth open. Toothache as if being
gently pulled worse after eating and exertion, better cold water.

Urinary organs
Urine; ***ROPY or *muco‐purulent, *foul; *scanty; *thick, *turbid. Must strain before urine
flows. Acute prostatitis with retention and dysuria, and *feeling of a ball in perineum; as if
sitting on a *ball. Gonorrhoeal prostatitis. Fluttering in kidney region. Vesicle tenesmus worse
sitting better walking. Cannot pass urine without standing with feet apart and body inclined
forwards. Acute inflammation of urinary tract. Suppressed urine in infants. Clots of blood
pass, with urine.

Female
Painful tumour in mammae; with undue secretion of milk; in women of large breasts, sharp
pain through mammae. Rapid atrophy of the breasts.

Related
Berb; Cocc‐c; Sabal.

Complementary
Kali‐m.

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China Officinalis [Chin]

Generalities
This was the first remedy proved by Dr. Hahnemann. It affects the *blood, making it thinner,
and impoverished. It weakens the heart and impairs the ***CIRCULATION, producing
congestion and ***HAEMORRHAGES; anaemia, complete relaxation and collapse. The
*debility in China, is due to ***PROFUSE, EXHAUSTING DISCHARGES; loss of vital fluids,
excessive suppuration, diarrhoea, haemorrhages etc. ***INTERMITTENT periodicity is very
marked in fever and neuralgias. Patient becomes *weak, oversensitive and nervous;
everything upsets him; *light, *noise, *odours, *pain etc. Bursting pain. Neuralgia. Dropsy,
after loss of fluids, haemorrhages. Emaciation esp. of children, Anaemia. Hard swelling.
Rheumatism. Sepsis. Inflammation of bleeding organ, after haemorrhages, and the part
rapidly turns black. Convulsions, during haemorrhages. Haemorrhages, profuse; with loss of
sight, faintness, and ringing in ears. Post operative gas pains no better from passing it. Ill
effects of; masturbation, vexation, cold, stopped coryza, tea, mercury, alcohol. Psoas abscess.
It is suited to persons of thin, dry, bilious constitution. Wounds become black and gangrenous.
Epilepsy; chorea; paralysis; from loss of fluids.

Better
*Hard pressure. Loose clothes. Bending double. In room; warmth.

Worse
***VITAL LOSSES. ***TOUCH. *Jar. *Noise. ***PERIODICITY; *alternate days. *Cold. *Winds,
*drafts*. Open air. Eating. *fruits*. Milk. Impure water. Fish, meat, spoiled. Tea. Mental
exertion. During and after stool. Smoking. Autumn. Summer.

Mind
Disobedient; stubborn; contempt for everything. Fixed ideas, that he is unhappy, persecuted
by enemies. Disposition to hurt other people’s feelings. Fear of dogs and other animals; at
night. Sudden crying and tossing about, when cheerful. Ill humour worse petting and
caressing. Dislike of all mental and physical work. Air castles. Indifference, sad, no desire to
live. Wants to commit suicide but lacks courage. Reluctant to speak. Mistakes in speech and
writing. Spoonerism. Loss of control over mind.

Head
Bursting, throbbing pain, with throbbing of carotids. Sensation as if brain were swashing to
and fro, causing pain, bruised pain in brain, worse temples. Vertigo; falls backwards; while
walking. Stitches from temple to temple. *Sore sensitive scalp* worse touching or combing
hair. Headache worse in sun, better by moving head up and down, hard pressure, rubbing.
Sweats when walking in open air. Head heavy.

Eyes
Blue colour around the eyes. Night blindness, due to anaemic retina. Scalding tears. Pressure
in eyes as from drowsiness. Black spots before the eyes. Pupils dilated. Intermittent ciliary
neuralgia. Smart as from salt. Stitching as from sand. Eyes painful on reading and writing.

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Ears
Red, hot. Ringing in ears; with headache. *Tinnitus*; then vertigo. Stitches in ears. Hardness
of hearing. Foul purulent bloody discharge.

Nose
Ill effects from suppressed coryza; headache. Habitual easy bleeding from the nose esp.
morning on rising. Smell too acute. Cold sweat about nose. Nose; hot, red. Violent dry
sneezing.

Face
Earthy, sickly, pale; hippocratic, bluish around the eyes. Face; bloated; red. Lips; dry, blackish
and shrivelled. Swelling of veins. Red hot face, with cold hands. Flushed; after haemorrhage,
sexual excess or loss of vital fluids, in coma.

Mouth
Toothache while infant sucks the breast; better by pressing teeth firmly together and by
warmth. Toothache, with sweat. Food taste bitter, even water or too salty. Tongue; thick,
dirty coated; tip burns, followed by salivation. *Taste bitter, salty or acute. Gums swollen.

Stomach
*Bitter or sour eructations, after milk. Craving; for dainty; sour or sweet things, highly
seasoned food, desires various things without knowing what (children). Quick satiety.
*Anorexia, feels satiated all the time, aversion to all food, to bread, butter, coffee. Voracious
appetite in emaciation of children. *Loud belching without relief. Digestion slow. Milk
disagrees. Weight, after eating small quantity of food. Ill effects of tea. Cold feeling in
stomach. Thirst for cold water that worse diarrhoea. Pulsations and rumbling, in epigastrium.
Frequent vomiting. Hiccough. Haematemesis. Stomach sore. Fermentation after eating fruits.
Thirst; during apyrexia, before chill. Hungry and yet want of appetite; only while eating some
appetite and natural taste for food return.

Abdomen
Liver and spleen enlarged. *Flatulent bloating, better motion. Colic better by bending double.
Post operative gas pains, no relief from passing it. Heat in abdomen as if hot water running
down. Periodical liver symptoms. Pain from rectum to genitals. Gall stone colic. Jaundice; after
leucorrhoea, masturbation, sexual excess, diarrhoea. ***STOOLS; ***LIENTERIC; *dark,
*foul; *watery*; ***BLOODY; painless; worse eating; at night, from fruits; milk, beer, during
hot weather. Diarrhoea; after weaning, in children; chronic in children, who become drowsy,
pupils dilated, body becomes cold esp. chin, nose and rapid respiration. Involuntary stools.

Urinary organs
Frequent urination. Burning at meatus worse rubbing of clothes. Urine turbid, dark, scanty.
Pinkish sediment. Haematuria. Enuresis of weakly children.

Male
Impotence, or morbid sexual desire, with lascivious fancies. Frequent emissions followed by
great weakness. Swelling of testes and spermatic cord_after gonorrhoea. Orchitis. Sexual
desire, with craving for dainties.

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Female
Ovaritis from sexual excess. Desire too strong in lying‐in women. Menses; too early, dark,
profuse, clotted, with abdominal distension. Bloody leucorrhoea; seems to take the place of
the usual menstrual discharge. Metrorrhagia‐blood dark, with fainting, convulsions. Asphyxia
of new born due to great loss of blood by the mother. Painful induration in the vagina.

Respiratory organs
*Haemoptysis. Puffy, rattling, breathing; suffocative catarrh; cannot breathe with head low.
Asthma; worse damp weather, autumn or after depletion. Every motion excites palpitation
and takes his breath. *Painfully sore chest, with a soreness between scapulae, cannot bear
percussion or auscultation. Suppurative phthisis. Paroxysms of cough after eating or laughing
worse evening, night. Wants to be fanned but not too hard, for it takes her breath.

Heart
Every movement excites palpitation.

Neck and Back

*Pressure as of a stone between scapulae. *Inter‐scapular spine painful. Sharp pains across
kidneys worse movement, at night. Knife like pains around the back. Heavy pressure on
sacrum. Backache as from sitting bent for long time. Lumbago worse slight motion.

Extremities
As if heavy load on shoulders. Spasmodic stretching of arms, with clenched fingers. Hands
tremble, (while writing). Twitching in knees. As of a band about legs, or arms. One hand is icy
cold other is warm. Swelling of veins of the hands. Nails blue. Pain in limbs and joints as if
sprained worse slight touch; better hard pressure. Weariness of joints worse morning sitting.
Pain in marrow. Caries of bones with profuse sweat.

Skin
Extreme sensitiveness to touch; hard pressure relieves. Dermatitis. Humid gangrene. Yellow
colour.

Sleep
Drowsiness. Heavy, snoring sleep; esp. in children. Anxious frightful dreams; fear of dreams
remains. Sleeplessness as a prodrome.

Fever
*Marked prodrome. Stages of chill, heat and sweat well marked. Chill, then thirst, then heat,
then thirst. Chill begins in the breast. Red hot face, with cold hands. *Hectic fever.
*DRENCHING SWEATS; *AT NIGHT; worse *least motion*; from weakness; from depletions
etc. Tropical fevers. Sepsis.

Related
Carb‐v.

Complementary
Carb‐v; Ferr; Kali‐c.
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Chininum Arsenicosum [Chin‐ar]

Generalities
Weakness, weariness, prostration and disinclination for mental work are marked symptoms
of this remedy. Irritability precedes headache. Sudden attacks of vertigo worse looking up.
Hemicrania (left), from fright. Anorexia. Eggs and fish produce diarrhoea. Short breath on
ascending. Cardiac dyspnoea; early myocardial degeneration, after acute infections.
Palpitation. Sensation as if heart had stopped. Periodic asthmatic attacks, with great
prostration. Sleeplessness due to nervous causes. Coldness; of hands and feet; knees and
limbs. Continuous fever; with oscillating temperature. Sweat; profuse, exhaustive; at night. Ill
effects of tobacco. Pressure in the Solar plexus with tenderness. Hyperacidity alternating with
decrease of acidity.

Better
Motion.

Worse
Rest. In the a.m. When stomach is empty.

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Chininum Sulphuricum [Chin‐s]

Generalities
Quinine sulphate acts on the ***NERVES causing great *sensitiveness to external influences
and periodical neuralgia. In ***BLOOD it causes rapid decrease of red blood cells and
reduction of haemoglobin; with tendency to leucocytosis. Weak and nervous, little exertion
causes palpitation. Retro‐bulbar neuritis, with sudden loss of sight. Inability to remain
standing. Falling in street. Wants to lie down. Deathly sick and faint; felt as if she would sink
through bed.

Mind
Nervous. Lost power of naming objects.

Better
Yawning. Pressure. Bending forwards.

Worse
***EXACT PERIODICITY. Cold 10‐ 11 a.m. Touch.

Head
Pain of malarial origin increasing gradually at noon worse at left side. *Vertigo with tinnitus;
with twitching of the eyelids; with throbbing headache. Orbital neuralgia.

Eyes
A net, fog or mote before the eyes. Can see objects only when looking sideways. Squint on
alternating days (children).

Ears
Tinnitus. Deafness. Meniere’s disease.

Face
Neuralgia pains return with great regularity better by pressure. Brow ague. Pale anxious face.

Urinary organs
Deposit of straw yellow, granular or brick red sediment. Urine bloody.

Back
*Cervico‐dorsal spine aches or very tender; with oppression of breath.

Extremities
Acute articular rheumatism. Joints very sensitive.

Skin
Itching. Petechiae. Urticaria.

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Fever
Anticipating chills. Thirst in all stages. Delirium during heat. Increasing fever and prostration,
with profuse night sweats. Profuse sweat amel. but exhausts. Clear apyrexia. Typical malaria.
Subnormal temperature.

Related
Chin.

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Chionanthus [Chion]

Generalities
It has a powerful action on ***LIVER; and on head, where it is useful for neurasthenia;
periodical; sick, menstrual or bilious headaches. *Bruised, *soreness is felt in various organs;
*liver, eyeballs etc. Pains ascend upwards, from forehead, stomach etc. Jaundice occurring
every summer.

Better
*Lying on abdomen.

Worse
Jarring. Motion. Cold.

Mind
Feels played out. No desire to do anything; wants to be let alone.

Head
Severe *bilious‐sick headaches worse stooping, motion, jarring.

Eyes
Eyeballs feel bruised. Yellow conjunctiva.

Nose
Pressing at the root of nose, or squeezing on bridge.

Mouth
Dry, not better by water. Tongue; broad, with thick greenish yellow fur; feels drawn up.
Salivation.

Stomach
Bitter, sour, hot; bilious; ropy, gushing; vomiting; sets the teeth on edge. Vomiting; with colic
and *cold sweat on forehead and *back of hands.

Abdomen
Liver enlarged enormously; with uneasy ache and jaundice. Gripping at navel. As if a string
were tied in a stop‐knot, around the intestines; which was suddenly drawn tight and gradually
loosened. Cholecystitis. Gall stones. Jaundice, with arrest of menses. Weakness in
hypogastrium. Stools; tarry; clay coloured or undigested. Cold sweat on forehead and back of
hand during stool. Affections of pancreas.

Urinary organs

Urine; orange yellow colour; thick black, syrupy. Bile and sugar in urine. Diabetes Mellitus.
High specific gravity.

Respiratory organs
Astringent expectoration.

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Skin
Yellow all over. Jaundice; chronic; recurring every summer; caused by drinking too much
cider.

Fever
Heat with aversion to uncover. Cold sweat on back of hands.

Related
Bry; Iris; Lept; Merc.

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Chloral Hydrate [Chlol]

Generalities
This drug affects the *brain causing cerebral excitement with hallucinations, and night terrors
in children. Heart is dilated or weakened with peculiar fulness and lightness in chest and sense
of emptiness in stomach. Muscular prostration. Chorea; long standing, obstinate; patient
could neither lie not stand.

Better
Open air. Being fanned.

Worse
*Alcohol Night. Exertion. Lying down. Hot drinks. Stimulants.

Mind
Melancholia, idiocy and insanity. Hurried and excited, walks up and down the room,
conversing with imaginary beings, or with himself.
Head
As of a hot band from temple to temple.
Eyes
Eyeballs; feel too large; blood shot and watery. Objects look white; colour blindness. Eyelids
heavy, can hardly lift them.

Ears
Hears voices.

Face
Face and eyelids are swollen, can hardly see, urticaria.

Stool
Bileless.

Urinary organs
Bed wetting; passes water in bed copiously without knowing it, during later part of night.

Respiratory organs
Dyspnoea. As of a weight on chest. Inspires through the nose, expires through the mouth
when lying on back.

Heart
Weak or dilated.

Skin
Urticaria; worse by night disappears by day; suddenly appear from chill, better by warmth;
worse alcohol. Skin stone cold.

Sleep
Sleepless from fatigue. Horrid dreams.

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Related
Apis., Canc‐fl.

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Chlorum [Chlor]

Generalities
This gas is proved in the form of Chlorine water. It has a marked action on *respiratory organs
producing spasms of the glottis. Sensation of *constriction is another marked feature.
Patients rapidly emaciate. *Mucous membranes are inflamed and ulcerated.

Better
Open air. Motion.

Worse
*Expiration. After midnight. Lying.

Mind
Fears insanity or losing senses. Forgets names and persons.

Eyes
*Protruding.

Nose
Smoky or sooty. *Coryza; acrid; with headache, suddenly running in drops, with lachrymation.

Face
Swollen with protruding eyes.

Mouth
Putrid odour from mouth. Putrid aphthae. *Tongue; *dry, black.

Throat
Choking sensation, inability to swallow. Aching tickling or whistling in throat pit.

Respiratory organs
Sudden ****DYSPNOEA from spasms of the vocal cords, with protruding eyes, blue face, cold
sweat. Inspiration free but ***CAN NOT EXHALE. Laryngitis. Laryngismus stridulous. Asthma
of hay fever. As if air were forced into upper chest.

Skin
Sensitive, dry, yellow, shrivelled.

Fever
Easy sweat.

Related
Ars‐i; Iod; Meph; Merc.

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Cholesterinum [Chol]

Generalities
This substance is abundantly present in bile and biliary calculi. It is a useful remedy for
obstinate hepatic engorgements; for cancer of the liver; for obstinate gall stones; for vitreous
opacities and obstinate jaundice.

Worse
Touch or jar. Lying on side. Bending or sudden motion.

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Cimicifuga [Cimic]

Generalities
This remedy has a wide action on ***NERVES and ***MUSCLES. It causes *depression of mind
with low spirits; and exhaustion along with *oversensitiveness esp. for pain. It is a great
female remedy. Plump, delicate, sensitive, *nervous, chilly women who complain of aching
pain in back, neck, here and there; many of the complaints are dependent upon utero‐ovarian
irritation. *General sick feeling, with exhaustion. Many of the symptoms are *irregular,
changeful or they alternate in groups; alternation of physical and mental effects. Alternate
mental and rheumatic symptoms. Pains are violent, achings, shooting, wander *here and
there, shock like; with *cries, *faints etc*.; go upwards or *side to side up the neck; about the
throat; from *ovary to ovary. Belly of the *muscles feel bruised, *sore, *heavy aching*.
*Trembling, twitching in various organs or of part lain on. Compressive pains. Hysterical and
epileptic convulsions at the time of menses. Alternating clonic and tonic spasms. Sore and
tender along the tract of pain. *Nervous shuddering. Given before the term; it renders labour
easier, cures sickness of pregnancy, prevents the after pains. It has also ensured living births,
in women who have previously borne only dead children without any discoverable cause.
(should be given in daily doses in low 1x potency two months before term). Myalgia.
Ovaralgia. Lumbago. Spasms of cerebro‐spinal fever. Influenza. Chorea; at puberty; with
delayed menses; cardiac. Ill effects of anxiety; fright, disappointed love; over exertion;
business failures; child bearing. Children during dentition.

Better
*Warm wraps. Open air. Pressure. Eating. Continued motion. Grasping things.

Worse
*Menstruation; suppressed. During labour. Emotions. Alcohol. Night. Change of weather.
Heat and cold. Sitting. Puberty and climaxis. Motion. *Damp cold air. *Wine. Draught.

Mind
Desire to wander from place to place. Melancholy. Agitation. *Nervous, *fidgety, *excitable*
and jerky. Irritable, least thing which goes wrong makes her crazy. Depressed and *talkative;
with constant change of subjects. Suspicious. Gloomy forebodings; of death; of insanity, of
impending evil etc. *Thinks she is going crazy. Feels faint in epigastrium when meeting a
friend. Fear of riding in a closed carriage. Fears, those in house will kill him. *Deathly fear of
rats*. Vision of rats, mice, various colours and forms. Mania; before menses; alcoholic; tries
to injure himself; puerperal; following disappearance of neuralgias. Weak will. Takes no
interest in house work. Indifferent. Despondent, seems to feel under a heavy black cloud.
Suspicious; would not take medicine. Sits and mopes in, in great sadness; when questioned
breaks into tears. Mental symptoms are better by diarrhoea or menses; worse after
rheumatism.

Head
Waving or wild sensation in brain. *Head retracted* (meningitis). Shooting throbbing pains,
after mental worry, over‐ study or from reflex uterine disease better open air. Head or brain,
feels too large. Opening and shutting sensation in brain. *Vertex feels as if it would fly off,
worse going upstairs, or as if it opened and let in cold air, as if cold air was blowing upon the

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brain, or heat on. Feeling as of a *blow* or as if a bolt has been driven from *occiput to vertex
up to the eyes. (left). Headache of students.

Eyes
*Intense aching in eyeballs or behind it, better pressure worse slightest motion. Pain from
eyes to vertex. Eyes feel big; wild look in. Sees red flashes with dark borders. Cannot tolerate
artificial light. As if a needle were run into the eyeballs, worse closing eyes. Ciliary neuralgia.

Ears
Tinnitus. Sensitive to least noise; with spasmodic labour pains. Violent noises in ear with
deafness.

Nose
Sensitive to cold air; every inhalation seems to bring the cold air in contact of brain.

Face
Pale, hot. Neuralgia affecting malar bones, better night, reappears the next day. Forehead
cold. Facial blemishes in young women. Forehead feels cold. Wild fearful expression.

Mouth
*Saliva thick Coppery taste. Hawks up viscid coppery tasting mucus. Trembling of tongue.
Thick mucus on teeth. Cannot speak a word though she tries. Tongue and mouth feel warm.
Tongue swollen.

Throat
Burning in. Thyroid aches before menses.

Stomach
*Nausea; in morning; of pregnancy; of alcoholism; felt in bowels; worse pressure on spine
and cervical region. Vomits green substance, groans, raves and presses the head with both
the hands for relief. Sinking in epigastrium; on meeting a friend. Eructations; with nausea,
vomiting and headache (women).

Abdomen
Colic better bending double and after stools. Frequent thin, dark offensive stools. Morning
diarrhoea of children. Sharp pains across hypogastrium. Alternate diarrhoea and constipation.

Urinary Organs
Profuse clear urine; causing weakness; with yellow sand. Nervous urination.

Female
Menses; profuse, dark, coagulated, *scanty with backache, nervousness; irregular in time and
amount; *more *flow, *more *pain. Great debility between menses. Ovarian neuralgia; pain
across pelvis, from *ovary to ovary*, or goes upwards or downwards along the thighs. Menses
suppressed; from emotions, from cold. Hysteric or epileptic spasms at the time of menses.
Uterine atony. Presses mammae as though in pain. Mania. Burning in mammae. Slow labour
pains with nervous shivers. Intolerable after pains worse in groins. Leucorrhoea; with a
sensation of weight in the uterus. Cardiac neuralgia in parturition. Inframammary pains worse

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left side. Lochia suppressed by cold or emotions. Nervous, when coughing and urinating.
Shudders.

Respiratory organs
Tickling, short, dry, constant cough worse at night, speaking. Sharp stitches in left chest,
motion extorting cries. Pleurodynia. Nervous cough.

Heart
Sore; swelled; or enlarged as if. Needle like pains at heart. Angina Pectoris‐pain spreads all
over the chest to the back, and down the left arm which feels numb and as if bound to the
side. Heart action ceases suddenly impending suffocation. Pulse weak, irregular, trembling;
drops every 3rd, or 4th beat.

Neck and Back:

Neckache, throws the head back. Stiff neck, pain worse moving the hands. Neck retracted.
Spine, cervical and upper dorsal very sensitive worse pressure, which causes nausea and
retching. Soreness of all the muscles. Stiff contracted neck and back. Pain in the angle of left
scapula. Heavy pulsating lumbar pain, through hips and down the thighs.

Extremities
Uneasy and restless feeling in the limbs. Left arm feels as if bound to the side; constant
irregular motion of left arm (Chorea). Hands tremble while writing. Cramps in limbs; in calves.
Tendo‐achillis stiff and contracted. Soles itching. Cold sweat on hands and feet. Alternation
of rheumatic and mental symptoms. Trembling of legs, can scarcely walk. Numbness of limbs.

Sleep
Comatose; as if drunk. Sleeplessness. Sleeps; with arms overhead or yawning.

Related
Bap.; Caul.; Gel.; Ign;, Puls.

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Cina [Cina]

Generalities
*Cina is the source of the alkaloid Santonin. ***NERVOUS mental and bodily symptoms which
are produced by this drug may be due to the presence of round worms or reflex from
*abdominal irritation, and affections of the *digestive tract*. It is a children’s remedy;
children who are big, fat, rosy and scrofulous; they stiffen out; when *looked at, *during
cough or when they become *cross. Child is restless, tosses about. Twitching. Spasms; due to
worms; unilateral. In spasms, children throw arms from side to side. Whole body is painfully
sore to motion and touch; bruised soreness. Children are hungry and greater the hunger
greater the emaciation. Complaints concomitant to yawning, which comes on whenever
someone yawns. Sour smell of body esp. children. Shocks as from pain. Patient will jump
suddenly as though he felt pain. Trembling; with shivering, when yawning. Convulsions, with
consciousness. Paraplegia, with unnatural hunger. Chorea.

Better
*Lying on abdomen. Wiping eyes. Motion. Shaking head. Rocking.

Worse
***TOUCH. Worms. Vexation. *Looked at. ***DURING SLEEP. Staring. Yawning. *Full moon.
In sun, summer. Looking fixedly at any object.

Mind
Very ***TOUCHY; *ugly, *cross; *petulant and *dissatisfied. Children do not want to be
touched, or carried, *wants to be *rocked; they desire many things, but reject everything
offered; uneasy and distressed all the time. Nervous. Unreal feeling of having done something
wrong. Convulsions in children when they are scolded or punished. Children proof against all
the caresses. Good natured children become cross.

Head
Ache, alternating with pain in abdomen better stooping. Pain in head when reading or staring.
Child leans his head sideways all the time. Turning the head from one side to other. Women
must let hair down during headache. Children cannot have the hair combed. Headache,
before and after epileptic attack.

Eyes
*Pupils dilated. Pulsation in super‐ciliary muscles. Eyebrows twitch when staring at any
object, he sees as through gauze better wiping eyes. Fatigue of eyes. Vision; yellow, blue,
violet or green. Squint; from worms. *Dark ring around the eyes. Weak sight, from
masturbation.

Nose
Itching; ***PICKS AND BORES AT NOSE, till it bleeds; wants to rub it. Sneezing, with whooping
cough. Nostrils drawn in.

Face
Pale, with sickly look; during cough. ***BLUISH WHITE ABOUT the mouth. Face alternately
pale and cold or red and hot. Choreic movements of the face and hands.

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Mouth
***GRINDS THE TEETH; at night, *during sleep. Chews and swallows in sleep. Clean tongue.

Throat
Difficult swallowing of liquids; noisy swallowing. Clucking noise from throat to stomach; after
coughing, or convulsions. Constant motion of swallowing, involuntary.

Stomach
*Hunger; *voracious; *after eating, after vomiting; with gnawing feeling in stomach;
alternating with loss of appetite; before chill or follows sweat; in paraplegia. Desires many
and different things; craving for sweets, for bread. Vomiting with a clean tongue. Vomiting
and diarrhoea immediately after eating and esp. drinking. Aversion to mother’s milk.

Abdomen
Twisting pain about the navel better pressure. Distended and hard. Cutting, pinching pain
from worms. Stools, white, watery. Itching at anus. Unpleasant warm feeling.

Urinary organs
Bed wetting worse every full moon. Urine; turbid, WHITE; MILKY; or turn milky on standing.

Male
Bad effects on onanism; weakness of sight.

Female
Uterine haemorrhage before puberty. Child refuses breast. Menses; too early and profuse.

Respiratory organs
Regularly recurrent choking cough, with sneezing. Violent cough bringing tears and sternal
pains; feels as if something is torn off. Gurgling from throat to stomach after coughing. Child
keeps still and does not talk or move because of the fear of cough. Sternum as if lying too
close to back. Cough ends in spasm. Suffocative attacks. Expectoration difficult.

Extremities
Tosses arms from side to side (children). Sudden inward jerking of fingers of right hand .
Stretches out feet spasmodically (children) . Twitching and jerking in limbs. Left foot in
constant spasmodic motion. Paraplegia; sudden, with unnatural hunger.

Sleep
Restless. Gets on hands and knees or on abdomen in sleep. Night terrors of children. *Cries
out, screams, wakes frightened. Screams and talks in sleep.

Fever
With pale cold face and warm hands. Much fever; clean tongue during fever. Cold sweat on
forehead, nose and hands. Hungry before chill and after sweat.

Related
Cham; Nat‐p.

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Complementary
Calc; Dros; Rat.

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Cinnabaris [Cinnb]

Generalities
Mercuric Sulphide is an antisycotic and anti‐syphilitic remedy. Indolence and indisposition to
mental work. General sensitiveness to touch; bones, scalp etc. While lying on right side, feels
as if contents of body were being dragged to that side.

Worse
Touch. Light. Dampness. Walking.

Better
Open air. Sunshine. After dinner.

Eyes
*Pain outward along brows; encircling the eyes or like a saddle at the root of the nose.
Redness of the whole eye.

Nose
*Heavy pressure at the root of the nose* worse pressure of glasses. Discharge from the nose
is acrid, foul, burning, watery or dark lumps.

Mouth
Dry mouth and throat, wakes from sleep; must rinse the mouth Hawks stringy mucous from
throat; or lumpy mucous drops from the posterior nares. Naso‐pharyngeal catarrh.

Abdomen
Formication in the anus; as from a large worm. Bloody dysentery. Thin white stools. Green
mucus diarrhoea, which stains the skin about anus and scrotum a copper colour.

Male
Jerking in penis; during sleep. Foul acrid sweat between scrotum and thighs. Warts on
prepuce, esp. fan‐shaped. Small red pimples on glans. Old hard chancres. Itching of corona
glandis. Redness and swelling of prepuce.

Female
Leucorrhoeal discharge with a feeling of pressure in vagina.

Heart
Heart flutters, then rushes of blood to the head.

Extremities
Nodes on shin bones. Left leg feels shorter than the right, while walking. Cramp in calves after
walking. Pain in tendo achillis and os calcis when walking. Cold knees; or joints. Pain from
elbow downwards into hands.

Skin
*Fiery red ulcers on skin and mucous membranes. Red eruptions. Violent itching and pricking.
Sweat on nose. Honey combed ulcers.

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Related
Merc.

Complementary
Thuj.

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Cistus Canadensis [Cist]

Generalities
Commonly known as Rock Rose is an ancient remedy for scrofulosis. It affects the ***GLANDS
esp. of *naso‐pharynx; *neck and mammae (left). It also produces herpetic eruptions,
scorbutic states, chronic swellings and gangrenous ulcerations. The patient is *painfully
sensitive to cold; *to cold inspired air. *Feeling of coldness in various parts; of tongue, saliva,
in *throat; eructations, in stomach; worse sweating; even the discharges. Mucus discharges
are *thick, *yellow, *foul*; leave a painful rawness. *Suppurations. Internal and external
*itching. Formication through the whole body, with anxious, difficult breathing. Malignant
diseases of glands of neck. Poisoned wounds, bites, phagedenic ulcers. *Burnings*.
Indurations. Callosities, with cracks.

Better
Eating. Expectoration.

Worse
*Cold; taking; *draughts; inspired air. Cold water. Mental *exertion; excitement. Touch.
Motion.

Mind
Bad effects of vexation. Fear.

Head
Aches when he misses the meals, better eating. Head drawn to one side by swelling in the
neck.

Eyes
Feeling as if something passing around the eye. Canthi cracked.

Ears
Watery foetid discharge of pus; after eruptive diseases. Tetters on and around the ear
extending to external meatus.

Nose
Cold feeling or burnings in. Tip painful. Eczema of the nose. As of a lump in naso‐pharynx.
Chronic nasal catarrh, frequent violent sneezing. Pressing pain at the root of the nose, with
headache.

Face
Itching, burning and crusts, on zygoma. Caries of the lower jaw, with suppurating glands on
neck. Open bleeding cancer on lower lip. Lips cracked.

Mouth
Scorbutic, receding gums, easily bleeding; disgustingly putrid. Tongue feels cold. Breath cool.
Saliva cold. Hurts when protruding the tongue. Pyorrhoea.

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Throat
Cold affects the throat; which feels cold. Soft, spongy feeling; itching in the throat. Becomes
sore on inhaling least cold air. Dry spot in throat better by sipping water. Pains when coughing.
Glands swollen and suppurating. Goitre, with frequent diarrhoea.

Stomach
Cool feeling in; before and after eating. Desire for cheese; for pungent things. Eructations
cold.

Abdomen
Cool feeling all over. Diarrhoea; from coffee and fruits, with goitre, with nausea. Thin hurried
stools worse in morning.

Male
Itching on scrotum.

Female Genitalia
Induration and inflammation of mammae (left). Sensitive to cold air. Cancer. Bad smelling
leucorrhoea.

Respiratory organs
Larynx and trachea feel cool on inhaling cold air. Coldness in chest. Expectoration of quantities
of glairy, tenacious mucus, on lying down. Trachea feels narrow and breathing becomes
difficult preceded by formication. Chest feels raw, after expectoration.

Neck and Back

*Hard swollen glands* in the neck. Burning bruised pain in coccyx preventing sitting, worse
touch.

Extremities
Cold feet. Cracked finger tips, sensitive to cold. Workmen develop hard place on their hands,
with cracks.

Skin
Hard, thick, *dry, cracked. Itching, crawling all over, without eruptions.

Fever
Chilliness. Sweats, easily; at night.

Related
Calc; Helod; Hep.

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Clematis Erecta [Clem]

Generalities
It affects *mucous membranes of eyes and urethra and the ***GLANDS esp. ***TESTES,
mammary, ovaries; which become ***VERY HARD and ***PAINFULLY *swollen. Neuralgic
pains in various parts. Burning, itching, stinging, crawling. Great debility. Muscles flaccid or
twitch. Vibrating sensation through the body after lying down. Emaciation. Aversion to
washing. Rheumatic, gonorrhoeal and syphilitic patients. Organic strictures.

Better
Sweating. Open air.

Worse
***GONORRHOEA. *Heat of bed ***NIGHT. *Cold washing. Cold air. Light. Moon worse and
better with. Mercury.

Mind
*Indifference. Fear of being alone, but disinclined to meet even agreeable company. Ailments
from homesickness. Peevish, dissatisfied without any cause. Melancholy.

Head
Confused feeling better open air. Eruptions; on occiput at the base of hair, moist, pustular,
sensitive itching.

Eyes
Iritis. Chronic conjunctivitis. Lachrymation. Sensitive to air, must close them. Complaints from
bright sunlight. Burning, as if fire were streaming out and smarting worse closing eyes.

Ears
Ringing as from bells.

Face
Pain in right side of face, to eye, ear and temple better holding cold water in the mouth.
Swelling of sub‐maxillary glands, with hard tubercles, throbbing worse touch. Cancer of the
lip.

Mouth
Teeth ache worse at night and tobacco; better drawing in air, cold water. Breath offensive to
others.

Stomach
Weakness in all the limbs after eating, with pulsation in arteries. Nausea on smoking tobacco,
with weakness of legs. Disagreeable sensation of coldness in stomach.

Abdomen
Pain from abdomen to chest worse breathing and during urination. *Swelling of inguinal
glands with jerking pains; with scirrhus, suppressed gonorrhoea, rheumatism of joints.

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Urinary organs
Urine stops and starts, or *dribbles after urination. Has to strain for passing few drops, then
full stream follows. Stricture of urethra. Urethra feels like a large whip‐cord painful on
pressure. Burning in urethra during urination. Inability to evacuate all the urine at once. Last
drops of urine cause violent burning.

Male
Aversion for coition. Testes indurated, with bruised feeling. Orchitis. Testes hang heavy or
retracted. Swelling of the spermatic cord, with burning and soreness, extending to abdomen.
Burning in penis during seminal discharge in coitus. Swelling of right half of the scrotum.
Violent erections, with stitches in urethra.

Female
Full, heavy, sensitive breasts; outward darts in. Swelling and induration of mammary glands.
Cancer of the breast, with stitches in shoulders and uterus. Menses too early. Shooting pain
in breast worse urinating.

Respiratory organs
Respiration impaired worse ascending the hill or walking over uneven road. Barking, dry
cough, with stitches in chest.

Heart
Sharp stitches at heart, from within outwards.

Extremities
Weakness in limbs after eating; or with nausea on smoking tobacco. Axillary glands swollen.

Skin
Itches violently with profuse desquamation, worse washing in cold water. Vesicles, pustules.
Corroding eruptions, ending in flat eating ulcers with thick crusts and eczema worse occiput
and lower legs. Varicose ulcers. Herpes zoster.

Sleep
*Sleepiness. Restless dreamy sleep with vibratory sensation throughout the body.

Related
Phos; Rhod; Staph.

Complementary
Merc.

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Cobaltum [Cob]

Generalities
This metal affects the spine (Lumbar region); genitals, kidneys and bones; and is useful for
neurasthenic states of spinal origin; with sexual disturbances. Discharges frothy. Soreness.
Aching in bones. Sour; taste, stomach, foot, sweat etc. Fatigue.

Worse
Sexual losses. Sitting. Heat of bed or sun. Morning.

Better
Hawking mucous. Continued motion.

Mind
Sense of guilt. All mental excitement worse sufferings. Thinks too little of himself.

Head
Vertigo, with feeling as if head grows large, worse stools. Headache worse stooping; jarring.
Sensation as if the brain went up and down, on stepping.

Eyes
Photophobia in spring. Spring catarrh. Darting pain in the eyes on coming into sunshine.

Face
Disposition to keep jaws tightly closed.

Mouth
Teeth feel too long. Tongue coated white. Cracks across the middle. Taste sour.

Stomach
Sour or bitter water rises up with pain in stomach.

Abdomen
Shooting from liver region down into the thighs. Empty feeling at naval. Desire for stool; while
walking, worse on standing; followed by diarrhoea. Constant dropping of blood from anus; no
blood from stools. Yellow spots on. Shooting pains in the region of the liver and sharp pains
in the region of spleen worse taking deep breath.

Urinary Organs
Albuminuria. Smarting at the meatus at the end of urination. Urine has a strong pungent
smell.

Male
Pain in the right testicle better after urination. Frequent nocturnal emissions, with lewd
dreams, headache and backache. Yellow‐brown spots on genitals. Discharge of semen
without erections. Impotency.

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Respiratory Organs
Cough with copious, frothy sweetish white mucous, with lumps in
it.

Back and Neck

Aching pain in lumbar, worse coition; sitting, better on rising, walking or lying down; with
weak knees; cannot straighten up. Weakness and backache after emissions. Pain along the
spine, and from the sacrum down through the legs into the feet.

Extremities
Shooting into thighs from liver. Weak knees. Flushes of heat along legs. Trembling of limbs
esp. legs, aching when sitting. Foot sweat mostly between the toes, smelling sour. Tingling,
pricking in feet. Sudden weakness in left hip worse walking.

Sleep
Wakeful; can do with less sleep. Disturbed by lewd dreams. Drowsy, and can hardly get
enough sleep.

Skin
Pimples about nates, chin, hairy scalp. Itching all over when getting warm in bed.

Related
Eup‐p.

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Coca [Coca]

Generalities
*Coca is the source of alkaloid Cocaine, is a local anaesthesic. It is the remedy for the
exhaustion of ***BRAIN and ***NERVOUS SYSTEM; from physical and mental strain, and for
those who suffer from *dizziness, *dyspnoea and exhaustion on going to high altitudes,
mountain climbing, aeroplane flying etc. A characteristic sensation as if a worm or small
foreign bodies were under the skin, moving away when touched; if this symptom is associated
with any diseased condition coca is indicated. Suitable to old people. Short breathed people,
weakly, nervous, fat, plethoric people. Children with marasmus. Muscle exhaustion.

Better
*Rapid motion, riding in *open air. After sunset. Lying on face.

Worse
Ascending. High altitudes. Cold. Mental exertion. Walking. Sitting. Salty food.

Mind
Mental prostration alternating with exhilaration. *Timid, bashful, ill at ease in society; craves
solitude and obscurity. Sense of impending death. Hallucinations of hearing; unpleasant
about himself. Loquacious excitement with blissful visions. Exhilaration; before menses.
Sense of right and wrong abolished. Personal appearance neglected.

Head
Ache, with vertigo, preceded with flashes of light before the eyes. Shocks coming from
occiput, with vertigo. Migraine, worse coughing better eating; sunset.

Eyes
Flickering before the eyes. White, dark and fiery spots before the eyes. Pupils dilated.
Diplopia.

Ears
Noises in ears. Tinnitus.

Nose
Sense of smell greatly diminished.

Mouth
Caries of teeth. Tongue furred. Peppery sensation in the mouth.

Throat
Eructations; rise with noise and violence, as if it would split the oesophagus.

Stomach
Great satiety for long time. Retards hunger and thirst. Craving for alcohol and tobacco. No
appetite but for sweets. Aversion to solid food.

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Abdomen
Dysentery of high altitudes. Abdomen distended.

Male
Sensation as if penis were absent. Diabetes, with impotency.

Female
Menses flow in gushes, waking her from sleep.

Respiratory organs
Loss of voice (5 or 6 drops of every 2 hour before the expected demand on voice). Senile
asthma. Emphysema. Want of breath short breath esp. in aged athletes. Hoarseness worse
talking.

Heart
Palpitation; with flushing, excessively rapid pulse; with violent sweating.

Extremities
Crawling, numbness of arms. When walking takes involuntary quick steps, head inclined
forward with vertigo.

Skin
Like a worm under the skin moving away when touched.

Sleep
Sleeplessness. Can find no rest anywhere but sleepy. Awaken with a shock in brain.

Related
Cann.

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Cocaina [Cocain]

Generalities
The symptoms of *coca and *cocaine are mostly similar. Sensations as if a small foreign body
or a worm under the skin, seeing and feeling of bugs on his own person and on his clothes,
and as if parts of the body were absent, are more pronounced in cocaine. Moral sense
blunted. Frightful persecutory hallucinations. Personal appearance neglected. Thinks he hears
unpleasant remarks about himself. Irrational jealousy. Constant desire to do something great;
to undertake vast feats of strength. Chorea. Paralysis agitans. Alcoholic or senile trembling.

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Cocculus Indicus [Cocc]

Generalities
It is a stupefying poison, hence it causes disturbances of the *sensorium and affections* of
*cerebro‐spinal axis*; producing paralytic muscular relaxation, with heaviness. The patient is
very susceptible to fear, anger, grief and all mental disturbances. *He is too weak to hold up
his head, *stand or even speak. Paralysis_of face; tongue, pharynx; paraplegia, with
numbness and tingling. Suitable to light haired, timid, nervous, persons; bookworms;
unmarried, childless women; and sensitive, romantic girls Hysteria. Numbness. Sensation of
***HOLLOWNESS or ***EMPTINESS; head, chest, abdomen. As if single parts *had gone to
sleep. Shuddering. Painful contractions of the limbs and the trunk. *Tremors; of head, lower
jaw; from excitement, exertion, pain. Intentional tremors. *Cramps; in muscles; in masseters;
in abdomen; dysmenorrhoea, in the heart. Spasms, through the body like electric shocks.
Convulsions; from non‐ appearance or suddenly checked menses. Alternating symptoms. Ill
effects of anger, fright, grief, anxiety, disappointment. Night watching. Overstrain mental and
physical. Travelling. Sun. Tea drinking. *Sensitive to cold. Falls down suddenly to ground
unconscious. Senses acute. *Train and sea sickness. Slowness; in moving; m answering; wants
plenty of time to do everything. Unilateral affections. Twitching of isolated groups of muscles.

Worse
*Motion; of ***BOAT; ***CARS; *swimming. *Loss of sleep. Touch. Noise. Jar. Emotions.
Kneeling. Stooping. At menses. Eating. *Anxiety. Cold Open air. Exertion. Pain.

Better
Sitting. In room. Lying on side.

Mind
Dazed. Profound sadness. Thoughts fixed on one unpleasant subject, sits as if absorbed in
deep and sad thoughts and observes nothing about her. Sudden great anxiety. Things seem
unreal. Slow grasp. Easily offended, cannot bear contradiction. Extremely sad, taciturn and
peevish. Takes everything m bad pat Time passes too quickly. Drunkards; reeling, roaring,
quarrelsome, singing. Very anxious about health of others. Talkative, witty, joking, dancing,
gesticulating. Sees something alive on walls, floor, chair etc. Vaccillatory, does not accomplish
anything at her work. Fears death and unknown dangers.

Head
***VERTIGO; with nausea; with palpitation worse in a.m.; raising head; felt in forehead.
Heavy head. Pain in occiput and nape worse lying on it; better bending backwards, worse
coffee. Cannot lie on back during the headache. *Opening and shutting sensation worse
occiput. Convulsive trembling of head from weakness of muscles of neck. Cramps in left
temporal muscles.

Eyes
Pain as if torn out of head (with headache). Eyes closed, with the balls constantly rolling about;
in spasms. Protruding eyes. Pupils; contracted or dilated. Objects seem to move up and down.
Jerking of eyelids.

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Ears
Sensitive to hearing, dreads sudden noise. Feel closed (right). Noises as from rushing water.
Hardness of hearing.

Nose
Sense of smell acute.

Face
Paralysis, of one side. Cramps in masseter muscles worse opening mouth. Prosopalgia, with
wide radiating pain to fingers. Tremor of lower jaw, and chattering of teeth, when attempting
to speak. Bloated, distorted and cold to touch.

Mouth
Tongue; as if paralysed, speech difficult; or hasty; pains at the base when protruded. Metallic
taste. Food tastes as if salted too little; tobacco tastes bitter. Pain in teeth better when biting,
with empty mouth. Teeth feel chilly.

Throat
Paralysis preventing swallowing. Tickling in throat, with lachrymation. Oesophagus dry,
burning. Constriction in throat; with difficult breathing and inclination to cough.

Stomach
Loathing of all food and drink. Nausea; rising to head or felt in head. Retching. *Vomiting,
with profuse flow of saliva; with headache, pain in bowels; on taking cold; of sour, bitter bad
odour. As if a worm moving in. Hiccough and spasmodic yawning. Disgust for smell of food.
Vomiting, with syncope. Vomiting from cerebral tumours; from loud talk. Craves beer.
Sensation as if one has been a long time without food, until hunger is gone.

Abdomen
Bloated. *Seems full of sharp stones; on every movement; diarrhoea better lying on sides.
Cold, wind, twisting, hysterical, nervous, with faintness, with salivation. Cramps in
epigastrium, with difficulty in breathing. Liver more painful, after anger worse least jar.
Abdominal muscles weak. Pain in abdominal ring as if something were forced through.

Urinary organs
Frequent desire to urinate, with small discharge in pregnant women. Urine watery.

Male
Drawing sore pain in testes when touched. Genitals sensitive, with desire for coition.

Female
Menses; early, profuse, too often, gushes out in stream when rising on feet on tiptoe. Very
weak during menses, can scarcely stand. Purulent, gushing leucorrhoea between menses; or
in place of menses; weakening; can scarcely speak. Dysmenorrhoea followed by
haemorrhoids. Clutching in uterus. Shivering over mammae. Leucorrhoea gushing, when
squatting and stooping; during pregnancy, with frequent urging to urinate.

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Respiratory organs
Sensation of emptiness or of cramps in chest. Hysterical asthma. Cough from choking in
throat. Audible rumbling in chest (left) as from emptiness worse walking.

Heart
Palpitation worse quick motion, mental excitement; with vertigo and faintness, then
stretching of arms, thumbs drawn inwards.

Neck and Back:

Weak neck, cannot hold up head. Pain in neck or cracking in cervical vertebrae when moving
head, and on yawning. *Spinal weakness in lumbar region; worse walking. Paralytic pain in
small of the back.

Extremities
Pain in shoulder and arms as if bruised. Hands; numb; or hot and cold alternately become
numb on grasping objects; trembles while eating. Takes hold of things awkwardly and drops
them. Limbs go to sleep. Trembling and pain in limbs. Knees weak; crack, on motion.
Paraplegia. Alternation between arms. Limbs straightened out, painful when flexed or vice
versa. Clumsy gait. Oedema of feet with paralysis of lower limbs. Humerus feels broken. Soles
numb; while sitting. Involuntary motion of right arm and right leg better during sleep.

Sleep
Sleepless from mental or physical exhaustion. Constant drowsiness; after night watching,
nursing. Spasmodic yawning, with hiccough. Anxious frightful dreams.

Fever
*Chilliness, with perspiration and heat of skin. Chill alternating with heat. Nervous form of
low fever; from fits of anger. Chill with colic, nausea, vertigo. Sweat; from slight exertion, on
affected part.

Skin
Much itching worse undressing; in a feather bed. Ulcers very sensitive to touch.

Related
Gels., Ign.

Complementary
Petr.

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Coccus Cacti [Coc‐c]

Generalities
This is an insect infesting the *cactus plant. The tincture is prepared from the dried bodies of
the female insects. It affects the ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES, causing *catarrhal condition and
irritation of throat, respiratory and genito‐urinary organs. ***DISCHARGES ARE STRINGY;
including *haemorrhages, which are apt to be in large black clots. *Intolerable internal
itchings, burning like pepper. *Pulsation in different organs. Sensation as of a fluid forcing its
way during pain. *Spasms. *Uric acid; gouty, rheumatic diathesis. Anuria. Anasarca. Ascites.
General lassitude.

Worse
*Periodically. *Heat. *Lying. *Cold exposure. Awakening. Touch. Pressure of clothing.
Brushing teeth. Slightest exertion ***IRRITATION OF THROAT. Rinsing mouth.

Better
Washing in cold water. Walking. Cold drinks.

Mind
Sadness, early morning on waking or afternoon 2‐3 p.m.

Head
Throbbing pain with sensation as if fluid were forcing its way.

Eyes
Sensation as of a foreign body between the upper lid and the eyeball.

Ears
Cracking in ears, when swallowing.

Nose
Burning as of pepper in nostrils. Accumulation of thick viscid mucus in naso‐pharynx.

Face
Crawling sensation. Becomes purple, red worse coughing.

Mouth
Loud speaking or brushing of teeth causes cough. Tip of tongue burns like pepper. Sweetish,
metallic taste. Salivation, constant desire to spit.

Throat
Accumulation of much viscid mucus; hawking it, excites cough, retching and vomiting.
Sensation as of a thread hanging down the back of the throat. Any irritation in throat causes
cough, retching and vomiting. Constricted throat; or as of a plug lodged in it. Profuse post‐
nasal discharge. Sensation as if uvula is elongated, causing constant hawking.

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Stomach
Irritation of throat, hawking, brushing of the teeth causes retching and vomiting. Thirst; drinks
water often and in large quantities.

Abdomen
Excruciating pain from left iliac region, extending to the groins half way down the thighs; as if
fluid were forcing its way there.

Urinary organs
Lancinating, violent pain from kidneys to bladder; with dysuria. Nephritic colic. Constant
urging to urinate, better after passing blood clots from the vagina in females. Sticking pain
along ureters. Urine; scanty, thick, heavy, sour; sediment; *sandy, dark red, brown or white;
bloody mucus. Nephritis.

Male
Pulsation in glans.

Female
Vulva sensitive worse when urinating. Menses too early, profuse, black and thick, dark clots,
with dysuria. Large clots escape from the vagina when passing urine, when quiet or when
rising up. Menses; intermittent; flow only in the evening or at night.

Respiratory organs
***REGULAR PAROXYSMS OR VIOLENT TICKLING, ***RACKING COUGH ENDING IN VOMITING
OR RAISING MUCH CLEAR ROPY MUCUS, hanging from mouth, *with purple red face and
internal heat. Chronic bronchitis complicated with gravel. Whooping cough. Cough; periodical
slowly increasing then gradually decreasing in its intensity, better cold air or cold drinks.
Walking against the wind takes the breath away. Soreness or stitches in apices of lungs.
Shortness of breath. Cough of drunkards.

Heart
Sensation as if everything were pressed towards the heart.

Back
Coldness in. Region of kidneys painful to pressure.

Extremities
Sensation as if a fine splinter were under the nails of fingers.

Fever
*Burning, as of pepper.

Related
Apis; Berb; Lach; Phos.

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Coffea Cruda [Coff]

Generalities
There is no difference between symptoms of roasted coffee and raw coffee. It is believed that
coffee antidotes almost all homoeopathic medicines; but it is doubtful whether it could do so
esp. when remedies are given in high potency (Clarke). Experience shows that correctly
selected homoeopathic remedy acts in spite of taking coffee. Coffee increases the sensibility
of ***NERVES; ***MAKING THEM OVER EXCITABLE AND OVER SENSITIVE; special senses
become OVER ACUTE; emotions esp. joy and *pleasurable surprise, produces dangerous
symptoms. *Pain, *touch, *noise, odours become intolerable. Unusual activity of mind and
body. Convulsions of teething children, with grinding of the teeth and coldness of the limbs.
Convulsion from excessive playing or laughing, in weakly children. It is suited to tall, lean,
stooping persons, with dark complexion; of choleric temperament. Ill effects of fear, fright,
disappointed love, *over fatigue; excessive laughing, long journey. Sensation of warmth.
Great nervous agitation and restlessness. Hysteria; screaming weeping. Pains intolerable,
drives to despair.

Worse
*Noise. Touch. Odours. Air; open, cold windy. *Mental exertion; emotions. Overeating.
Alcohol. Night. Narcotics. Strong smells.

Better
Lying. Sleep. Warmth.

Mind
Ecstasy; full of ideas, quick to act, therefore *wakeful. *Weeps, *laments and tosses about;
over trifles. Cry and laugh easily; while crying, suddenly laughs quite heartily and finally cries
again. Now joyous now gloomy. Resents sympathy. Faints easily. *Irritable and wakeful. Fright
from sudden pleasant surprise. Trembles. Throws things about.

Head
Seems as if brain were torn to pieces, shattered or crushed. As if a nail were driven into the
head. Clavus. Tight pain. Head feels too small. Feels and hears a cracking in vertex. Temples
throbbing, with burning in eyes.

Eyes
Can read fine print more distinctly. Pupils dilated. Bright eyes.

Ears
Noise is painful. Hearing is more acute; overhears distant sounds. Hardness of hearing, with
buzzing as of a swarm of bees.

Nose
Acute, sensitive smell. Nosebleed; with heaviness of head, and ill humour; during straining at
stool.

Face
Ache, (right), radiating. Dry, hot, with red cheeks.

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Mouth
Toothache; better holding ice water in mouth; worse as it warms, extends down arms to the
finger tips; during menses. Taste delicate. Salivation; during pregnancy.

Throat
Pain as from a plug, with constant desire to swallow. Uvula too long.

Stomach
Immoderate hunger; eats and drinks hurriedly. Stomach feels over loaded; during colic.

Abdomen
The clothes are oppressive. Abdominal pains, with despair (women). Diarrhoea; in
housewives from too much care about domestic affairs; during dentition.

Urinary Organs
Suppression of urine. Frequent, profuse urination, of colourless urine.

Male
Hot itching genitals.

Female
Menses; too early and long lasting. Dysmenorrhoea, large clots of black blood. Voluptuous
itching in the vulva, but vagina and vulva are too sensitive to rub or scratch, aversion to
coition, there from. Afterpains. Toothache; during menses. Severe afterpains or labour pains;
with fear of death. Nymphomania.

Respiratory organs
Short, dry hacking constant cough; of measles; in nervous delicate children.

Heart
Nervous palpitation, with trembling of limbs worse sun heat; after excessive joy or surprise.
Sudden rise of blood pressure.

Extremities
Trembling of hands, cannot hold the pen. Sciatic or crural neuralgia worse motion, better
pressure. Twitching in the limbs.

Sleep
***NERVOUS SLEEPLESSNESS; from rush of ideas, mental activity; awakes at, or hears every
sound; after pleasurable excitement.

Fever
Feverish, with pain and always ready to weep. Traumatic fever.

Skin
*Painfully sensitive. Itching_scratches until it bleeds.

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Related
Coca; Ign.

Complementary
Acon.

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Colchicum Autumnale [Colch]

Generalities
It affects markedly ***MUSCLES; *fibrous tissue; *serous membranes; ***JOINTS, esp. small.
It causes extreme relaxation of muscles; the head falls forwards or backwards when the
patient is raised from the pillow; arms fall helpless. Patient is ***WEAK, ***COLD, (internally),
***BUT SENSITIVE AND RESTLESS. Pains are, tearing, digging, drawing. Pains worse by mental
exertion and emotions, slightest touch and vibrations. Many joints are affected at the same
time. Small, rapidly shifting areas of severe pain, but little swelling. Tingling, crawling. Cardio‐
arthritic affections. Dropsy. Hydropericardium, hydrothorax; ascites, hydrometra. *Tendency
to collapse; moist collapse; due to dehydration i.e. after repeated vomiting or purging. Shock
as from electricity through one half of the body; worse motion. Bad effects of grief;
disbehaviour of others; wetting; *checked sweat; night‐watching; hard study. Irritable and
sensitive to impressions, strong odours etc. *Rapid sinking. Creeping. Every little hurt pains
terribly. Stubbing the toes hurts exceedingly. Paralysis after sudden suppression of sweat esp.
of foot, by getting wet.

Worse
*Motion. *Touch. *Night. Stubbing toes. Vibrations. ***WEATHER, *cold; *damp. *In damp
room. Changing weather. Autumn. Slight exertion, (mental or bodily). Stretching. Checked
sweat. Sunset to sunrise. Loss of sleep. Smell of food.

Better
*Warmth. Rest. Doubling up. Sitting. After stools. Stooping.

Mind
*Depressed; *irritable and sensitive. Can read, but cannot understand a short sentence.
Memory weak. Extreme impressions such as bright light, strong odours, contact, misdeeds of
others make him quite beside himself.

Head
Creeping in forehead. Pressive headache better supper, warmth, lying quiet.

Eyes
Pupils unequal. Pain in and around the eyeball, to occiput. Acrid tears. Variations in visual
acuity. Eyes half open. Visible contraction in lower lid. Dim vision after reading.

Ears
Hearing very acute. Itching in ears. Feels stopped up.

Nose
Nostrils dry and black. ***SMELL MORBIDLY ACUTE; *odours nauseate even to fainting etc.
Obstinate coryza.

Face
Pinched. Sunken. Tingling and oedematous swelling; cheek red, hot sweaty. Pain behind the
angle of lower jaw.

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Mouth
Tongue; bright red, heavy, stiff and numb, projected with difficulty. Glossitis. Taste; flat,
bitterish. Mouth hangs open. Flow of saliva with a sense of dryness. Heat in the mouth with
thirst. Toothache worse cold and warmth.

Throat
Much greenish, thin mucus in the throat; comes involuntarily in the mouth.

Stomach
Thirsty, but ***LOATHES THE SMELL OR SIGHT OF FOOD; better lying quietly. ***NAUSEA;
retching. Burning or *icy coldness in stomach; with colic. Craving for various things but averse
to them when smelling them. Wants aerated waters or effervescent drinks. Eggs disagree.
Nausea and inclination to vomit, caused by swallowing saliva.

Abdomen
Distended; contracts when touched; with inability to stretch the legs. Ascites, with fold over
the pubic region. Diarrhoea then gouty effects. Stools; very painful, offensive, choleric; of
shreddy, bloody, gelatinous, mucus, then tenesmus or spasms of anus. Mucous colitis; after
dysentery. Autumnal dysentery. Colicky pains. Agonizing pains remain long after stool.

Urinary Organs
More urging, more discharge of urine. Urine; hot, highly coloured, watery, frequent; bloody,
black almost like ink; black sediment. Albuminuria, diabetes. Nephritis.

Male
Oedema of scrotum.

Female
Coldness of thighs; after menses. Sensation of swelling in vulva and clitoris. Feverish
restlessness in last month of pregnancy.

Respiratory organs
Chest seems squeezed by a hand. Night cough, with involuntary spurting of urine. Great
dyspnoea.

Heart
Cutting or stinging at heart; weak heart. Heart disease; following rheumatism.
Hydropericardium. Cardiac dyspnoea. Pericarditis. Pressure and oppression in the region of
the heart better walking. Pulse, thready, imperceptible.

Back:
Ache better pressure and rest. Tension in cervical muscles felt even on swallowing. Violent
pain in region of kidneys better lying on back only.

Extremities
Limbs cold. Pins and needles in the hands and wrists; finger tips numb. Joints red hot swollen;
stiff; shifting rheumatism; worse at night. Swelling of great toe. Cannot bear to have it
touched. Tingling in finger nails. Finger joints distorted, fingers flexed but in constant motion.

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Knees knock together, can hardly walk. Oedematous swelling and coldness of feet and legs.
Buttocks hot.

Sleep
Falls asleep while reading. Lies on back.

Fever
Copious sour sweat suddenly coming and going rheumatism. Body hot, limbs cold. Sweat cold
on face. Sour sweat; nightly.

Skin
Pink spots on back, abdomen and chest. Urticaria. Skin dry, sweat suppressed or profuse.

Related
Ars; Carb‐v; Verat.

Complementary
Ars; Spig.

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Collinsonia [Coll]

Generalities
This remedy produces *congestion in pelvic organs esp. *anus, *rectum and uterus; resulting
in *haemorrhoids and constipation esp. in females. It is useful in affections due to *piles or
*alternating with piles esp. heart. Congestion in portal system causes chronic nasal, gastric
and pharyngeal catarrh. Constipation of children from intestinal atony. Sensations of
constriction and *feeling of enlargement are felt in various parts and organs of the body,
limbs, vulva, clitoris etc. When given before operation on rectal disease it is apt to reduce,
after complications. Dropsy from cardiac disease.

Worse
*Piles; during or suppressed. *Night; *Pregnancy. Cold. Excitement.

Better
Heat. Morning.

Mind
Gloomy.

Head
Dull frontal headache, with constipation or piles or from suppressed haemorrhoidal
discharge.

Mouth
Tongue yellow, with bitter taste.

Throat
Speaker’s sore throat.

Abdomen
Dull distress in liver region. Heavy digging ache in pelvis. Diarrhoea; acrid, destroying hair.
Stools; light coloured, lumpy, with hard straining. Mucus or black stools. Constipation, or piles
of pregnancy. *Rectum; aches, burns, seems dry and full of sticks or sand; with *cardiac pain.
*Piles; bleeding; chronic; *alternating with heart, chest or rheumatic symptoms. *Prolapsus
ani. *Itching of anus. Alternate constipation and diarrhoea. Chronic diarrhoea of children.
Diarrhoea, after delivery. Obstinate constipation, with piles, stools hard.

Male
Varicocele; with rectal symptoms.

Female
Prolapse of uterus; with haemorrhoids. *Itching of vulva; with piles; during pregnancy.
Sensation of swelling of labia and clitoris; Dysmenorrhoea; with piles, membranous. Cold
feeling in thighs, after menses.

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Respiratory organs
Cough from excessive use of voice. Spitting of blood after suppression of haemorrhoids. Chest
pains alternating with haemorrhoids.

Heart
Palpitation; in pile subjects. After heart symptoms are relieved piles or menses return.

Extremities
Sensation as if limbs were enlarged. Lower limbs seem not to belong to him.

Fever
*Flushes of heal; with oppressive breathing; with piles.

Related
Lycops; Nux‐v; Sulph.

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Colocynthis [Coloc]

Generalities
In ordinary practice *colocynth was used as a drastic purgative. In homoeopathy not only it is
useful in acute affections of ***DIGESTIVE TRACT AND INTESTINES; but it has a long lasting
action on ***NERVES (Large) esp. ***TRIFACIAL; ***SCIATIC and *spinal. In abdomen it
produces, ***SUDDEN ATROCIOUS, ***CRAMPINGS; *griping, tearing *pains which make the
patient ***TWIST; and *turn, *cry out; or wriggle for relief or bend him double; patient
presses something hard against the abdomen, pains are accompanied by nausea and diuresis
and the patient vomits from intensity of pain. Neuralgic pains are ***CUTTING; *pinching,
*clamping, *gnawing or boring, followed by numbness; better by pressure. Cramps and
twitching and shortening of the muscles; or parts seem too short. *Constrictions. It is suitable
to easily angered, irritable persons; with tendency to corpulency. To women of sedentary
habits with copious menstruation. Cysto‐spasms after operations on orifices. Ill effects of
anger, indignation, chagrin; grief, catching cold. Excessive venery. Convulsive jerks and
constrictions, during pain. Sensation as of being encircled with an iron band, screwed up
tightly. Throbbing throughout the whole body. Burnings. Prostration, as if all his strength was
failing. Faints; with pain and with coldness. Formication in affected part.

Worse
***EMOTIONS; ***VEXATION; *chagrin. Anger. *Lying on painless side. *Night, *in bed
Draughts. Taking cold. Before and after urination.

Better
***HARD PRESSURE; on edge. *Heat. *Rest. *Gentle motion. After stool or flatus. Doubling
up.

Mind
Greatly affected by the misfortunes of others. *Anger, easily vexed during pain. Want of
religious feeling. Screams with pain; wants to walk about, disinclined to talk, to answer.
Impatient. Does not want to meet the friend. Morose; becomes offended at everything.

Head
Vertigo when quickly turning the head; to the left. Head pains worse stooping, lying on back
and moving eyelids, with nausea, and vomiting. Roots of hair painful. Head hot.

Eyes
On stooping feeling as if eyes would fall out. Violent pains before development of glaucoma;
eyes become stony hard. Pain and twitching in eyelids. Burning eyelids.

Ears
Sounds re‐echo in ears. Crawling, itching, stitching, aching better by putting finger into ear.

Face
Prosopalgia, with eye symptoms, or alternating, with pain in coeliac region, with chilliness.
*Face distorted Cheeks cold. Pain anywhere is reflected on the face.

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Mouth
Persistent bitter taste. Burning on the tip of the tongue. Scalded sensation of the tongue.
Teeth feel too long.

Throat
Cramps in gullet, with empty eructations and palpitation of the heart.

Stomach
Vomits from pain. Sensation in stomach as if something would not yield; drawing pain in the
stomach. Very thirsty. Vomiting of bitter water. Pain in stomach, with pain in teeth and head.
Potatoes and starchy food disagree. Coffee better colic.

Abdomen
***VIOLENT, ***CUTTING, ***GRIPPING, ***GRASPING, ***CLUTCHING OR RADIATING,
***COLICKY PAINS; ***COME IN WAVES; better ***DOUBLING UP; ***HARD PRESSURE;
worse *least food; or drink, except coffee and tobacco smoking. Flatulent colic. *Intestines
feel squeezed between stones. Colic, with a cramp in calves, from drinking when over heated.
Cutting in bowels at navel. Pressure better the pain in abdomen in acute stage but when pain
remains for a long time, parts become tender then pressure worse the pain. *Stools; *frothy,
*watery, *shreddy, *yellow, sourish or gelatinous; *with flatulence and pain. Dysenteric
stools, renewed each time by least food or drink. Slippery bubbles escape from anus. During
colic infant lies on abdomen and screams when he is slightly moved. Chronic watery diarrhoea
worse in the morning. Diarrhoea; from pain, from anger with indignation.

Urinary organs
Burning along urethra during stools. Pain on urination over the whole abdomen. Renal colic,
with diuresis; Cysto‐spasms after operation on the orifices. Urine; gelatinous, sticky, stringy.
Red hard crystals adhering to the vessels. Urine, milky white coagulates on standing; diabetes.

Male
Sensation as if everything were flowing towards genitals, from both sides of the abdomen,
causing seminal emission. Para‐ phimosis.

Female
Clutching pain in ovarian region better drawing up double, with restlessness. Dysmenorrhoea
worse eating and drinking. Ovarian cyst, with pain better flexing thigh on pelvis. Suppression
of menses or lochia from indignation. Menses copious in women with sedentary habits.
Painful nodes in mammae. Ovarian tumours, cysts.

Respiratory organs
Short cough when smoking tobacco. Difficulty of breathing during menses; ovarian tumour.

Heart
Feels pushed up by a distended stomach. Strong throbbing in all blood vessels.

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Back
Pain under right scapula; better pressure. Lumbar ache better pressure. *Cramp like pains in
the hips better lying on the affected side. Neck stiff worse moving head. As of a heavy weight
in lumbo‐dorsal region better lying on left side.

Extremities
Contraction of muscles. Sciatic pain, shooting, band‐like, screwing better pressure, heat;
worse least motion, rotation, at night. Limbs drawn up like hedge hog. Cramps in muscles
during coition. Pain in deltoid (right). Knees feel stiff, cold. Feet cold, with colic.

Sleep
Sleeplessness and restlessness, with pains; after anger.

Fever
Coldness of hands and soles, rest of the body warm. Chill and shivering with pains. Sweat; at
night, cold, smelling like urine.

Related
Staph.

Complementary
Caust.

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Comocladia [Com]

Generalities
It is an irritant poison like *Rhus‐t, causing malignant inflammation of the skin, with enormous
swelling or OEDEMA; of left leg and foot. Burning, itching of the eyes, which feel too large.
Right eye very painful, feels large, protruded than left. Ciliary neuralgia. Burning itching of the
nose with violent sneezing. Pain under the left breast or nipple extending to left scapula, when
coughing. Wandering rheumatic pains. Deep ulcers, with hard edges. Leprosy. Skin red all
over. Recurrent eczema.

Better
Open air. Motion. Scratching.

Worse
Touch. Warmth. Rest. Night.

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Conium Maculatum [Con]

Generalities
This is the poison which was supposed to have been given to the Greek philosopher Socrates
for causing his death. It affects the ***NERVES, ***AND MUSCLES, causing incoordination
and paralysis; uncertain gait, difficult speech; patient becomes gradually ***WEAK.
*Irregular, *action; development of symptoms. Sudden loss of strength while walking.
*Trembling of all the limbs. *Suddenly sick and weak, with *numbness. Useful in old age or
for those persons who become old early; for old maids, for bachelors, for youths who suffer
from ill effects of masturbation. Glands esp. ***MAMMARY and ovaries are affected with
engorgement, and ***STONY INDURATIONS. *Sensation as of a lump; in *brain; in
epigastrium. Ascending symptoms; paralysis; after diphtheria. Tearing, stabbing pains. New
growths. Arteriosclerosis. Multiple neuritis. Cancerous diathesis. Patients who are worse
when idle. Paroxysms of hysteria and hypochondriasis from sexual abstinence or sexual
excess. Hysterical convulsions. Ill effects of contusions, blows, overstraining, overwork. Grief.
Easily intoxicated. Women broken down, tired of life, discouraged; who feel as if they were
to cry; and swallow and choke as from a lump in the throat. Progressive *debility. *Chronicity.
Clothes distress. Faints at stool. Sensation as of a hoop or band or something tight around the
part.

Worse
***SEEING MOVING OBJECTS. ***ALCOHOL. *Raising arms. *After exertion_bodily or mental.
*Injury. Sexual abuse or excess. *Continence. *Cold; *taking cold. *Old age. Lying; with head
low. Turning in bed. Pressure of tight clothing. Jar. Night. Standing. Before and during menses.
Dry, hot air. Spring.

Better
Letting affected part hang down. Stooping. Moving, walking. In the sun. Dark. Pressure.
Walking bent. On sitting down. Fasting.

Mind
Depressed, timid, averse to society, yet fears being alone. Slow grasp; difficult understanding.
Weak memory. No inclination for business or study. Indifferent. Difficulty in understanding
what he is reading. Superstitious. Unable to sustain mental effort. Periodical insanity, of
alternating type. While walking on the road wants to hold somebody and abuse him. Trifles
seem important. Thinks that animals are jumping on his bed. Sad; dissatisfied with herself and
Surroundings. Cannot think after using eyes. Cares very little for things; makes useless
purchases, wastes or ruins them. Likes to wear his best clothes. Sadness worse by sympathy.
As if great guilt weighed upon him. Fears when alone, but dread of strangers or company,
during menses.

Head
***VERTIGO; *whirling. worse *lying, *turning over in bed; *least motion of the yes or head;
of old age. Hot spots on head. Temples compressed worse after meals. Sensation as of a lump
in right half of brain. Sick headaches, with inability to urinate. Pain in head from sinciput to
occiput better stooping and moving the head. Sensation of fulness, bursting in brain during
headache. One side numb and cold.

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Eyes
*Feel crossed *Lids; *heavy, *droop worse outside. *Photophobia and excessive
lachrymation; without inflammation or from slightest abrasion or ulceration of the eye.
Burning in eyes. Vision coloured; red. As of fringe falling over eyes. Vision diminished in
artificial light. Cataract after eye injury. Ptosis of eyelids. Sweats on closing eyes. Diplopia.
Black spots before eyes, with vertigo. Myopia. Vision becomes blurred when vexed.

Ears
Accumulation of ear wax like pulp of paper; or blood red hard wax, causing hardness of
hearing. Oversensitive to noise. Parotid gland swollen and hard. Ears feel stopped on blowing
nose.

Nose
Smell acute. Easy bleeding, picks nose constantly. Polypus. Frequent sneezing. Obstinate
obstruction of nose.

Face
Moist and spreading herpes on face. Cancer of the lip (from pressure of pipe). Sub‐maxillary
glands are swollen and hard.

Mouth
Toothache worse cold food, not by cold drinks. Speech difficult from paralysis of tongue.
Cancer of tongue. Sour saliva. Distortion of tongue and mouth.

Throat
As if a round body were ascending from stomach (globus). Food goes down the wrong way
and stops while swallowing. Paresis of oesophagus. Constant inclination to swallow as from a
lump in the throat worse walking in open air. Tonsils enlarged.

Stomach
Acrid heartburn and acrid eructations worse on going to bed. Distention of stomach after
taking milk. Pain in stomach better eating but worse few hours (2 or 3) after eating, better in
knee chest position. Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. Craves coffee, salt, sour things.
Aversion to bread. Vomiting; of coffee grounds, chocolate coloured lumps or clear sour water.
Cancer, ulcer.

Abdomen
Distension worse after taking milk. Cutting pain before passing flatus. Severe aching in and
around the liver. Chronic jaundice and pain in right hypochondrium. Trembling of whole
abdomen. Abdomen hard and distended. Tremulous weakness, palpitation of heart after
every stool. Involuntary stool; during sleep. Cold; flatus; stool; Constipation on alternate days.
Burning or coldness in rectum. Hypogastric pain goes down legs. Ineffective urging to stool.

Urinary organs
Interrupted urination, urine stops and starts; better standing. Dribbling in old men. Cutting
and burning after urination. Difficulty in passing urine in the beginning even when standing,
then it flows freely. Urine feels hot.

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Male
Testes enlarged. Erections imperfect and of too short duration. Seminal discharge, provoked
by mere presence of a woman or contact. Sexual nervousness, dejection; after coition. Ill
effects of suppressed sexual appetite. Cutting in urethra while semen passes. Dribbling of
prostatic fluid worse stools, emotions etc. Itching in prepuce. Sexual desire without erection.
Impotence.

Female
Menses; irregular; too late; scanty. Dysmenorrhoea, with drawing down thighs. *Breast
enlarged and become painful before and during menses, worse at every step. Wants to press
breast hard with hand. Mammae lax and shrunken with or without sexual desire. Hard
tumours in mammae; with stitches or piercing pain. Cancer. Stitches in mammae and in
nipples, on taking deep breath or walking. Too much milk before menses. *Leucorrhoea;
white, *acrid; preceded by griping in abdomen; after urination. Cutting pain in ovaries and
uterus. Ovaries enlarged and indurated; lancinating pains. Ovaritis. Fears when alone, but
dread of strangers or company during menses. Ill effects of suppressed sexual desire, of
suppressed menses. Motion of child painful during pregnancy. Prolapse of uterus from
straining at a hard stool. Itching deep in vagina.

Respiratory organs
Constant, tormenting cough, from dry spot in the larynx or tickling in chest and throatpit,
worse when lying down, laughing, talking and during pregnancy, has to sit up. Cough seems
to come from abdomen. Loose cough without expectoration, has to swallow what he coughs
up. Caries of the sternum. Want of breath worse least exertion. The clothes lie like a weight
on chest and shoulders. Cough on taking deep breath. Tightness of chest better by coughing.
Sharp pain from sternum to spine.

Heart
Palpitation, worse exertion, drinking, at stools, etc. Pulse unequal, irregular.

Neck and Back:

Pain between shoulders. Spinal injuries. Drawing pain in the lumbar vertebrae worse
standing. Coccygodynia. Pediculated tumour at the centre of back. Neck cold. Enlargement of
neck. Small, flat wart like growths on buttocks.

Extremities
Shoulders feel bruised; clothes lie like a weight on them. Hands; weary, heavy, trembling,
unsteady. Axillary glands enlarged. Nails yellow. Fingers and toes numb. *Heels, as if bone
would push through them. Shooting in heels. Perspiration on hands. Weak lower limbs, as if
paralysed. Cracking in knee joint. Can walk straight and steadily, with eyes closed, but
staggers, becomes giddy, is nauseated when walking with open eyes.

Sleep
Drowsiness by day. Sleeps after midnight. Nightmares in sleep.

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Fever
Coldness of nape, of calf etc. Hot *flushes; *or sweat; *on dropping to sleep, or even when
closing the eyes. Sweat; under the eyes, on chin, in poplitea; cold on nape and palms;
offensive causing smarting of skin.

Skin
*Greenish, like an old bruise. Red spots turning yellow or green. Urticaria from violent bodily
exertion. Foul or eczematous eruptions. Gangrenous ulcers. Petechiae in old persons.
Anaesthesia or inactivity of the skin. Pimples, small red, burning appear with scanty menses
and disappear after menses.

Related
Arn; Bar‐c; Calc‐f; Caust; Gels; Iod.

Complementary
Phos.

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Convallaria Majalis [Conv]

Generalities
It is useful for heart affections. Dilatation of heart without compensatory hypertrophy; when
venous stasis is marked. Increases heart’s action, renders it more regular. Soreness of uterine
region, with palpitation of heart. Sensation as if heart ceased beating, then starting very
suddenly. Movement in abdomen as from a fist of a child. Dyspnoea; dropsy; anuric tendency.
Tobacco heart.

Better
Open air.

Worse
Lying on back. Warm room.

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Copaiva [Cop]

Generalities
It acts on ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES *of genito‐urinary tract, and bronchial tubes; producing
excessive discharge. ***FOUL; ***BLENORRHOEA; *bronchorrhoea, suppuration.

Mind
Weeps on hearing a piano.

Head
Occipital headache better gentle hand pressure. Flushes of blood to the head, and face.

Ears
Excessive sensitiveness to sharp sounds.

Nose
Burning and dryness. Epistaxis, lasting several days in small boys. Profuse thick, foetid
discharge.

Face
Acne. Disfiguring the face. Face red, flushed.

Mouth
Chronic catarrh of the throat. Teeth cold.

Urinary organs
Pulsations in penis. Urethra feels wide open. Urine acrid, scanty, bloody; odour of violets.
Dysuria. Catarrh of the bladder. Suppuration, ascends urinary tract. Purulent or acrid milky
gonorrhoea.

Respiratory organs
Cough; with profuse, grey, purulent, greenish, offensive sputum. Bronchiectasis. Painful
cough, with heat and oppression of chest. Burning in lungs. Foul bloody expectoration.

Skin
Hives, with fever and constipation. Chronic urticaria in children.

Worse
Morning. Taking cold.

Related
Ter.

Complementary
Sep.

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Stomach and abdomen
Food tastes too salty. Stools of masses of mucus or covered with mucus. Mucus colitis.

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Corallium Rubrum [Cor‐r]

Generalities
Red Coral contains *calcium carbonate, and iron oxide. It affects the ***MUCUS MEMBRANES
esp. ***OF RESPIRATORY ORGANS; producing ulcerations and stringy discharges. Feeling as if
cold air were steaming through skull and air passages. Patient is too cold when uncovered
and too hot when covered better by artificial heat. Suited to nervous persons; syphilis and
psora.

Worse
Inhaling *air, change of air; eating. Towards morning.

Mind
Peevish, inclined to scold and swear at his pains.

Head
As if forehead were flattened. Headache, with severe pain in back of the eyeballs, worse
inhaling cold air. Head feels large, empty, hollow. As if cold air were blowing through, when
head is moved quietly or shaken.

Eyes
I lot and painful; bathed in tears on closing.

Nose
Profuse secretion of mucus dropping through posterior nares, causing frequent hawking. Post
nasal catarrh. Air feels cold. Epistaxis.

Face
Grows purple and black, with cough.

Mouth
Food tastes like sawdust. Bread tastes like straw. Beer tastes sweet. Craves salt.

Respiratory organs
*Almost continuous paroxysms of violent spasmodic cough; which begins with gasping for
breath, and accompanied by purple face, and followed by vomiting of stringy mucus and by
*exhaustion. Reverberating minute‐gun cough. Cough as soon as he eats. Continuous
hysterical cough; or cough when the patient gives an isolated cough at regular intervals
throughout the whole day. Air passages feel cold on deep inspiration. Whooping cough.

Sleep
Sleeps with head under cover.

Skin
Very red flat venereal ulcers, on glans and under surface of prepuce. Psoriasis of palms and
soles. Smooth spots of very deep red colour; changing to copper colour.

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Related
Coc‐c.

Complementary
Sulph.

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Cornus Circinata [Corn]

Generalities
Remedy for old malaria. The patient is weak and depressed. *Liver symptoms with aching in
eyeballs. Dark foul stools, with burning in anus. Diarrhoea, dark bilious offensive with sallow
complexion. Vesicular eczema of face of infants with nursing sore mouth. Sleepy, before chill
with heat; after meals.

Worse
Taking cold. At night.

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Crataegus [Crat]

Generalities
Acts on muscles of the *heart and is a heart tonic; does not produce any cumulative action.
Patient is weak and exhausted, sometimes suddenly becomes weak. Cardio‐haemorrhagic or
lithemic cases. High arterial tension. Arteriosclerosis. Collapse from typhoid. Haemorrhages
from bowels. Dyspnoea. Dropsy.

Worse
Warm room.

Better
Rest. Quiet. Fresh air.

Mind
Irritability, crossness and melancholy; despairing.

Urinary organs
Diabetes esp. in children.

Respiratory organs
Cough with albuminous expectoration.

Heart
***WEAK, with oppression, stitches and *insomnia. Cardiac dyspnoea. Myocarditis.
Incompetent valves. Cardiac dilatation. Angina Pectoris. Cardiac dropsy. Pulse rapid, irregular
and small, intermittent. Pain under left scapula; and under left clavicle.

Fever
Excessive perspiration. Palms sweaty.

Skin
Burning smarting eruptions on back of neck, axillae and chin; worse heat and sweating better
washing. Fingers and toes blue.

Related
Apoc; Strop.

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Crocus Sativa [Croc]

Generalities
Saffron affects the ***NERVES and MIND, producing *rapidly changing or alternating mental
disposition; opposite to each other; anger with violence rapidly followed by abject
repentance; laughter quickly followed by tears. Symptoms rapidly change sides, or mental
and physical symptoms alternate. Jerking or spasmodic contraction of single sets of muscles.
Chorea and hysteria. Chorea every seven days, with hilarity, singing and dancing. Prostration,
weariness, fainting; with epistaxis, metrorrhagia. Drowsiness; better by literary occupation.
Tingling, crawling, pricking and itching sensations. *Sensation as if something alive were
moving internally, in abdomen, chest etc.; with nausea, faintness and shivering; or *jumping
about, in various parts. ***HAEMORRHAGE_dark, viscid, clotting, forming itself into long
black strings hanging from the bleeding orifice. Suitable to hysterical persons. Tumours.
Lipoma. Encephaloma. Effects of blows.

Worse
*Motion. Puberty. Pregnancy. Heat. Fasting. Lying down. Reading. During new and full moon.
Looking fixedly.

Better
After breakfast. Open air. Yawning.

Mind
*Impressionable; *affectionate and moody. Vacillating. Changeable disposition. Laughing
mania. Jumping, dancing, laughing, whistling, wants to kiss everybody. Sings on hearing a
single note sung. Involuntary laughter and weeping; worse music.

Head
Throbbing, pulsating headache at climacteric period, during menses or instead of menses;
better pressure.

Eyes
Dry, burning, as after weeping; as if cold air was rushing through eyes. Eyes feel as if smoke is
in. Must wink and wipe the eyes frequently, as though a film of mucus were over them; must
close eyes tightly. Sensation as if looking through sharp spectacles. Electric sparks or jumping
spots before the eyes. Lachrymation when reading. Twitching of the upper eyelid.

Ears
Noises in ears with hardness of hearing, worse stooping.

Nose
Nosebleed; strings of dark blood hanging down the nose; with faintness and cold sweat on
forehead. Epistaxis at puberty; of young girls.

Face
Hot, red or alternating with paleness.

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Mouth
Unusual warmth in mouth. Sour taste. Foul odour.

Throat
Feeling as if uvula were elongated, during and when not swallowing; in hysteria. Feeling of
nausea in throat and chest.

Male
Excitement of sexual desire.

Female
*Menses; *dark, *foul and stringy. Threatened abortion. Uterine haemorrhage worse least
movement; worse during full or new moon. Metrorrhagia. Jumping pain in left breast, as if
drawn towards the back; as if jumping alive in right breast. False pregnancy. Movements of
foetus are violent and painful.

Respiratory organs
Dry cough better laying the hand on the pit of the stomach. Expectoration stringy like thread.
Heaviness in chest, must take deep breath.

Heart
Sensation of heat ascending to the heart impeding breathing better yawning. Dull stitches in
the left chest. Palpitation, anxious worse ascending stairs.

Back
Sudden feeling of coldness, as if cold water were thrown over him.

Extremities
Cracking in hip joint and knees, worse stooping. Cold as ice; metrorrhagia, epistaxis.

Sleep
Deep sleep. Sings in sleep.

Fever
Flushes of internal heat, with prickling and crawling in skin. Sweat only on lower half of the
body. Continuous foul smelling sweat, worse debility; haemorrhages after parturition.

Skin
Prickling and crawling. Scarlet redness or spots, on the skin; old cicatrices open and suppurate.
Disperses tumours. Lipoma. Encephaloma.

Related
Ign; Tarent.

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Stomach and Abdomen
Excessive thirst for cold drinks. Sensation as if something living were jumping about in the
stomach and abdomen (left side). Stools contain dark stringy blood. Obstinate constipation;
of infants. Crawling and stitches in the anus. Gastric troubles, bloatedness, eructations,
vomiting etc. after operations for haemorrhoids.

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Crotalus Horridus [Crot‐h]

Generalities
Rattle snake poison affects ***BLOOD; *heart; *liver. It produces profound nervous shock;
with *deathly *sickness, *trembling and prostration. Easily tired by slight exertion. Paralysis;
post‐ diphtheritic, of the insane. It causes disorganisation of blood and tissues.
***HAEMORRHAGES are slow, oozing, of dark thin blood not clots; from all the orifices; and
surfaces esp. from *pharynx. Bloody pus, sweat. Tissues rapidly decompose producing *putrid
and ***MALIGNANT CONDITIONS. Dark or *bluish parts. *Septic conditions, tonsils; goitre,
ulcers, abscesses, *blood boils. Petechiae. Gangrene. Neuralgia as a sequel to sepsis. Chronic
biliousness, climacteric conditions. Faintings. Convulsions; epilepsy, with trembling of the
limbs, foaming at the mouth, violent cries, delirium. Plague. Yellow fever. Jaundice. General
burning. Mouldy odours; of secretions. Sclerosis; multiple, lateral. Progressive muscular
atrophy. Suitable in broken down constitutions, and for old age nutritional troubles. Ill effects
of fright; sun; lightning; foul water; noxious effluvia. Affects the right side. Oedema general
or of affected part.

Worse
*Lying on right side. *Falling to sleep. Warm weather. *Spring *Alcohol. Damp and wet.
Yearly. Jar. On awakening.

Better
Light. Motion.

Mind
Weeping mood. Weak memory; cannot express himself correctly. Plaintive speech. Timid.
Fears evil. Mistakes in writing. Delirium; muttering; mumbles, jumbles and stumbles over his
words; tremens. Melancholy. Sad. Thoughts dwell on death. Senile dementia; incipient,
forgets figures, names and places, or suspicious about his friends or feels as if surrounded by
foes or hideous animals. Antipathy to his family. Irritable, cross.

Head
Vertigo; with faintness; weakness; trembling. *Pain in occiput; as of a blow; in waves from
spine. Severe pain at the centre of forehead. Headache, with pain in the heart on lying on left
side. Headache worse jarring, must walk on tip toe.

Eyes
Burning, red; with lachrymation. Yellow colour of eye. Neuralgia, as if a cut had been made
around the eye. Absorbs the intra‐ocular haemorrhage esp. non inflammatory; retinal.
Amblyopia, from grief or from over use of vision.

Ears
Auditory vertigo. Blood oozes from the ear.

Nose
Epistaxis esp. during diphtheria; or other septic diseases. Ozaena; syphilitic; from
exanthemata. Tip of nose, blue and red.

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Face
Distorted on waking. Lips; swollen, stiff and numb. Dark, besotted face. Face yellow; death
like pallor. Lock jaw. Acne; of masturbators, of drunkards; with delayed menses.

Mouth
Mouldy breath. Grinds the teeth; at night. Tongue; yellow, swollen, protruded; to the right.
Fills up with saliva. Saliva bloody, frothy. Cancer of the tongue with haemorrhage. Stiff palate.
Cannot speak on account of sensation of constriction around tongue and throat.

Throat
Dry with thirst. Tight constriction. Difficulty in swallowing anything solid. Throat gangrenous,
swollen.

Stomach
Craves; pork, stimulants, sugar. Vomiting; bilious; grass green; cannot retain anything. Cannot
bear clothes round the stomach. Vomiting, purging and urination simultaneously. Cancer,
ulcer, of the stomach; vomits on lying right side. Vomiting of blood; black. Monthly nausea
and vomiting; after menses.

Abdomen
Swollen, hot, tender. Peritonitis. Inguinal glands enlarged. Bleeding from anus when standing
and walking. Stools; black, thin, offensive. Perineal abscess. Jaundice; haematic, malignant.
Coldness in the stomach or abdomen as from a piece of ice. Pain in the liver and top of
shoulders. Intestinal haemorrhage.

Urinary Organs
Dark, bloody urine; albuminous, scanty, green‐yellow. Haematuria, with cancer of bladder or
prostate.

Female
Dysmenorrhoea, with pain in hypogastrium, down the thighs, with aching in the region of the
heart. Sensation as if the uterus would drop out. Puerperal fever. Offensive lochia. Phlegmasia
alba dolens worse touch.

Respiratory organs
Anxious, laboured breathing. Cough, with bloody sputum of mouldy odour. Oppression in old
people.

Heart
Weak, trembles; loose, turns over. Palpitation during menses. Heart tender when lying on left
side.

Extremities
Arms and legs become numb; first one and then the other. Pain in top of shoulders. Right
sided paralysis. Paralysis of left hand and leg. When sewing the hands feel dead. Cannot keep
legs still.

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Sleep
Drowsy but cannot sleep. Sleepless from nervous agitation. *Horrible dreams, of dead.
Suffocation awaking after.

Fever
Malignant fevers, high fever; yellow fever; cerebrospinal meningitis. Black water fever. Sweat
cold; bloody.

Skin
Yellow; jaundice, septicaemia. Purpura haemorrhagica. Blood boils, carbuncles; felons. Old
cicatrices break open again. Oedema about the affected part. Skin; cold and dry. Skin shows
every tint of colour.

Related
Lach; Sul‐ac.

Complementary
Lycops.

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Croton Tiglium [Croto‐t]

Generalities
It was used as a powerful purgative and irritant of the skin in ordinary practice; therefore it
affects the *mucous membranes of the intestines causing watery discharges. Skin esp. of
***FACE *and scrotum is more affected. It has a peculiar *feeling as if parts were drawn
backwards, eyes, nipples etc. Skin symptoms alternating with internal symptoms, diarrhoea
etc. Skin feels hide‐bound.

Worse
***DRINKING; *least food. Washing. Summer. Touch. Motion. Receding eruptions.

Better
After sleep. Gentle rubbing.

Mind
Feeling of anxiety; as though some personal misfortune would befall him. Not disposed to
work. Cannot think outside himself. Feels all spent up. Morose, dissatisfied.

Head
Weight of the hat causes headache. Vertigo worse drinking.

Eyes
Purulent ophthalmia; red and raw appearance. Pustules on cornea, with eruptions around
eyes. Eyes feel drawn backwards. Tensive pain above the orbit (right).

Ears
Otorrhoea, when there is a great itching.

Face
Pustular eruptions on the face. As though insects were creeping.

Mouth
Neuralgia of the tongue. Burning in oesophagus.

Stomach
Excessive nausea, with vanishing of sight.

Abdomen
Pressure on the navel causes pain in the rectum or urging for stool. Pain in the anus as if a
plug were forcing outwards. *Gurgling or swashing as of water in bottles; ***THEN PROFUSE
SUDDEN GUSHING STOOLS OF YELLOW WATER. worse drinking the least quantity or while
eating; then prostration. Summer diarrhoea. Cholera infantum. Colic better hot milk.

Urinary organs
Night urine; foaming, dark orange coloured, turbid on standing, greasy particles floating on
top. Day urine is pale with white sediment.

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Male
Eczema of scrotum. Vesicular eruptions on scrotum and penis. Left testes retracted, right
pendent.

Female
Intense itching of genitals better by gentle rubbing. Pain from nipple to back as child nurses.
Nodes in mammae; with pain from nipple to scapula. Breast hard, swollen. Nipples very sore
to touch.

Respiratory organs
Cough as soon as he touches the pillow, must sit up. *Feels as though he could not inhale
deeply enough. Could not expand the lungs.

Extremities
Neck and shoulders painful.

Skin
Feels hide‐bound, tense. Violently itching, burning, red skin; sore if scratched better gentle
rubbing. *Eruptions, pustular, *blisters, clustered; which burst and form crusts worse
genitals, temples, vertex. Herpes‐zoster. Eczema.

Related
Rhus‐t.

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Cubeba [Cub]

Generalities
It produces catarrh of the *mucous membranes of ***URETHRA; bladder, vagina. Burning,
rawness is felt in the throat, in stomach, abdomen, rectum, urethra, fossa navicularis.
Discharges; are thick, acrid, *yellow, pus like, green, offensive, after violent inflammation.
Suitable to persons of bilious constitution, with tendency to constipation.

Worse
Night, in bed.

Better
Getting up and walking about.

Head
Veins of the forehead and temples are distended.

Mouth
On attempting to smile or speak his mouth seems to twist to one side.

Throat
Swallows saliva constantly to relieve burning and dryness of the throat. Catarrh.

Stomach
Craving for oranges, onions, almonds and nuts.

Abdomen
Burning in stomach and abdomen. Stools; gelatinous of transparent mucus, mixed with
whitish, shining particles like rice worse night, in bed better getting up and walking about.
Stools cold.

Urinary
Cramp, cutting, burning in urethra, after urination. Cystitis. Prostatitis with thick yellow
discharge. Stringy gonorrhoea.

Female
Urethro‐vaginitis, chronic, with profuse discharge. Acrid leucorrhoea in children.

Respiratory organs
Catarrh of nose and throat with foetid expectoration.

Related
Cist. Cop.

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Culex Musca [Culx]

Generalities
(Mosquito) It produces vertigo on blowing the nose. Sensation as of cold air blowing through
a hole in clothes on the chest or back. Menses stain indelibly. Griping pain down over hips,
then into the womb. Oedematous swelling.

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Cundurango [Cund]

Generalities
*Condor plant was introduced as a cancerous remedy. Painful cracks in the corners of the
mouth is a guiding symptom in cancerous or syphilitic conditions. Tumours; strictures of the
oesophagus. Cancer of the stomach, with constant burning and vomiting; food seems to stick
behind the sternum. Cancer of the mammae with retraction of the nipples, with lancinating
pains emanating from the tumour over the whole breast. Jagged ulcers of the tongue. This
remedy is worth trying when other seemingly indicated remedies fail to impress the disease.

Related
Aster; Con; Hydr.

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Cuprum Aceticum [Cupr‐acet]

Generalities
Head reels when in a high‐ceiled room. Facial neuralgia in cheek bone, upper jaw and behind
the ear better by chewing; pressure and hot applications. Chorea; periodical, with melancholy
and dread of society. Chronic psoriasis and leprous‐like eruption over whole body, in spots of
various sizes, *without itching. In epilepsy aura begins in the knee and ascends to
hypogastrium. Protracted labour.

Better
Chewing. Pressure. Warmth.

Worse
Heat. Motion. Mental emotions. Touch.

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Cuprum Metallicum [Cupr]

Generalities
Metallic copper is one of the most important remedies, where the diseased conditions ‘Strike
in’, on account of the non appearance or suppressions of eruptions and the discharges. It
affects the ***NERVES, of the *cerebro‐spinal axis and muscles, causing ***SPASMODIC
EFFECTS; convulsions and *cramps of violent form. Convulsions may be either tonic or clonic;
start in the knees, toes or fingers and radiate over the whole body; with *piercing cries,
twisting of the head to one side; *trismus followed by headache, spasmodic laughter,
shivering, deathly exhaustion cold perspiration etc.; epilepsy; at night, during menses. In
epilepsy the patient falls with a shriek, passes urine and faeces; headache follows after
spasms or a group of symptoms followed by the appearance as if the patient were dead or in
a state of ecstasy. Convulsions of children, during dentition; children lie on abdomen and jerk
the buttock up. Spasms, with blue face and clenched thumbs. Cramps may occur in the chest;
(angina pectoris) behind the sternum, toes, fingers, calves_where the *muscles are knotted
better stretching the leg out; in soles etc. *extorting cries. *Jerking, during sleep. Pains worse
touch and motion. Pains are *pressive; as from a blow being broken; racking darts through
the whole body. Chorea from fright periodical. Symptoms appear in groups; periodically or
recurring at short intervals. Complaints begin on left side. Nervous trembling, with acute
senses. Continued weakness. Poor reaction. Latency. Ill effects of mental and bodily
exhaustion; loss of sleep. *Blueness. *Easy *relapses. The patient is *hypersensitive; every
drug overacts without curing. Collapse. Paralysis of isolated muscles. Women who have borne
many children (after pains).

Worse
Emotions; anger, fright. *Suppressions. Over‐worked mentally and bodily. Motion. *Touch.
Loss of sleep. *Hot weather. Vomiting. Raising arms. Before menses. At new moon.

Better
Being mesmerized, laying hand on affected part. Cold *drinks. Pressure over heart.

Mind
Nervous. *Uneasy. Says words not intended. *Piercing shrieks. Weeps violently. Convulsive
laughter. Delirium; cold sweat. Fear of society, shuns everybody. Confusion, afraid of
everybody who approaches him. Loquacious; then melancholy; with spells of fear of death.
Sense of losing consciousness. Attacks of rage; wants to bite the bystanders. Sullen; tricky;
alternating yielding and head‐strong. Malicious. Mania; bites, beats, tears the things. Imitates;
mimics.

Head
*Vertigo; with internal tremors, head sinks forwards on the chest better stool; lying down,
worse looking up. Cannot hold head erect or bores into the pillow; meningitis. Strange
tingling, crawling in the vertex (suppressed menses). Empty feeling, with pain. Headache after
epilepsy. Sensation as if water were poured over the head, with headache. Pulls her hair.
Shakes the head from side to side.

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Eyes
Fixed, staring, sunken, glistening, turned upwards. Eyeballs rotate quickly behind *closed lids,
or roll from side to side. Bruised pain in the orbits worse moving the eyes. Lids spasmodically
closed. Twitching of lids (left) and photophobia; asthma.

Face
*Blue, *livid; pale or distorted; sunken, pinched. Icy cold. Lips blue. Lock jaw. Chewing motion
of lower jaw.

Mouth
Firmly closed or open, with tongue darting in and out like a snake (in convulsions). Grinds the
teeth. Slimy or metallic sweetish taste. Loss of speech; stammering; paralysis of the tongue.
Froth from mouth. Food tastes like clear water.

Throat
Unable to talk on account of spasms of throat. Gurgling noise when swallowing fluids.

Stomach
Desire for cold drinks. Milk causes water brash. Hiccough; before vomiting; convulsions or
asthma. Nausea, more pronounced. Vomiting; violent, tormenting; with *agonizing colic,
diarrhoea; shrieks or convulsions; better cold drinks. Painful crampy pressure in epigastrium
worse touch and movement. Lies on stomach and jerks the buttocks up (colic, convulsions).
Vomits always on waking up a.m. Vomits on least motion. Periodical attacks of vomiting. As if
something bitter were in.

Abdomen
Tense, contracted, hot and tender to touch. *Frightful colic, with contraction of the abdomen.
better pressure; worse raising arms. Intussusception; with faecal vomiting. Diarrhoea;
profuse; spurting out; of green water. Cholera; summer diarrhoea in children. Round; tape,
thread worms. Constipation with great heat of body. Spasmodic movements of abdominal
muscles. Cirrhosis of liver.

Urinary organs
Suppression of urine (in cholera); uremic. Passes clear watery urine during or after spasms.

Male
Cramps in calves prevents coition, esp. old men or nervous young men.

Female
Menses absent due to suppression of foot sweat. Violent cramps in abdomen extending into
the chest before or during menses; or from suppressions of the menses; convulsions before
menses. Puerperal convulsions with open mouth and opisthotonos. Most distressing after‐
pains esp. in women who had borne many children.

Respiratory organs
Spasms of glottis. Dyspnoea_cannot bear anything near the mouth worse coughing, laughing,
bending backwards, before the menses. Asthma; hiccough before; alternating with spasmodic
vomiting. Cough, in violent paroxysms; coughs herself out of breath; better *cold drinks;

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worse deep breathing, bending backwards; with cramps, lachrymation; whooping cough.
Painful constriction of the chest (lower). *Loud rattling in chest. Trembling after coughing.
Round balls moving to and fro under the ribs better tight clothing and lying quiet. Hoarseness
worse breathing cold air. Intermittent aphonia in professional singers.

Heart
Angina, with asthmatic symptoms and cramps. Palpitation before menses. Pulse slow, hard,
full and quick.

Neck and Back

Paralysis of all the muscles up to the neck.

Extremities
Jerking in hands and feet. Clenching of thumb in palms. Cramps in palms, calves and soles.
Joints contracted. Ankles painfully heavy. Knees; aura begins in; feel as if broken. Ankylosis of
shoulder joint. Knees double up involuntary when walking, bringing him down.

Sleep
Profound sleep; with shocks in the body. Constant rumbling in abdomen during sleep.

Fever
Icy coldness of skin. Chilly. Sweat; cold, clammy, at night; sour smelling, after convulsions.

Skin
Suppressed or undeveloped eruptions. Ulcers; itching spots and pimples at the folds of joints.
Severe itching without eruptions. Yellow scaly eruptions (bend of elbow). Chronic psoriasis.
Leprosy.

Related
Verat.

Complementary
Calc.

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Curare [Cur]

Generalities
It is a muscular poison; causing paralysis of muscles without impairing sensations and
consciousness. Sensation as if the brain were full of fluid. Discharges are foetid. Paralysis;
facial, buccal, threatened of respiration; pseudo‐hypertrophic. Diabetes mellitus. Catalepsy.
Leprosy. As of a heavy weight hung to the parts_arms, legs etc.

Worse
Motion. Dampness. Cold weather. 2 a.m. Right side.

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CYCLAMEN [Cycl]

Generalities
It affects the digestive tract and female sexual organs; producing disturbances ***IN VISION
*or vertigo, due to the gastric or menstrual disorders. Anaemic persons. Disinclined for labour
and easily fatigued. Dreads open air. Pressive pains in thinly covered bones. Stitching pains.
Ill effects of inward grief and terror of conscience.

Worse
Cold. Evening. Sitting. Standing. Fresh air. Fats.

Better
Motion. During menses. Rubbing. Warm room. Lemonade. Weeping. Bathing the part.

Mind
Dull, sleepy and morose. Joyous feeling alternating with irritability. Self‐reproaches. Sadness
as if he had committed a bad act or not done his duty. Silent weeping. The room seems too
small. Hallucinations as if two persons were lying in her bed. Tearful and broods over
imaginary grief. Thinks she is alone and persecuted.

Head
Vertigo_objects turn in circles, or look pale, worse open air; better in a room, and sitting.
Brain as if wrapped up in a cloth. Headaches, with flickering before eyes, better cold water.
*Pain in left temple. Prolonged migraine. As if brain wobbled about while walking; menses
absent or scanty.

Eyes
Dim vision, with headache. *Fluttering, *glittering or black spots, squint esp. connected with
menstrual irregularities. Convergent squint, after convulsions; left eye drawn inwards. Sees
countless stars. Diplopia. Hemiopia.

Ears
Itching in the ears, with increased cerumen.

Nose
Sneezing with itching in the ear. Loss of smell.

Face
Pale, anaemic. Upper lip as if numb or indurated.

Mouth
Taste lost or salty, which is communicated to all food. Food tastes over salty. Saliva salty.

Stomach
Satiety after a few mouthfuls; loathing and nausea from the least food afterwards. Loss of
appetite after taking beef tea or a cup of tea. Hiccoughy eructations. *Hiccough; worse
pregnancy; with yawning. Nausea felt in throat. Hyperemesis; of pregnancy. Desire for

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lemonade; inedible things. Pork disagrees. Craves sardines. Aversion to bread, butter, meat,
fat, beer.

Abdomen
Diarrhoea worse coffee. Running in bowels as if something alive. Pain about anus and
perineum as if a spot were suppurating worse walking or sitting.

Urinary organs
Urine profuse, watery and frequent.

Male
Prepuce and corona glandis feel sore after slight rubbing. Stitches and pressure in prostate,
with urging to stool and urination.

Female
Menses; profuse, black changeable, membraneous, clotted, too early, with labour‐like pain
from back to pubes, less when moving. Dysmenorrhoea. Painful post‐partum haemorrhage
better after a gush of blood. Menses suppressed. Swelling of breast, with milky secretion after
menses. Air seems to stream from the nipples. Milk in virgin breast, in non‐pregnant women.
Suppression of menses after excessive dancing or being over heated. Leucorrhoea, with
retarded or scanty menses.

Respiratory organs
Coughing without waking.

Heart
Frequent palpitation from suppressed menses.

Extremities
Pains in parts where bones lie near the surface. Burning sore heels, better walking, worse
sitting, standing. Weakness of knees. Cramp‐like slow contractions of the right thumb and
index finger; they have to be extended by force. Writer’s spasms.

Sleep
Dreamy; frightful, lascivious.

Fever
Chilly all over, not better by covers. Offensive sweat.

Skin
Acne in young women. Pruritus better scratching and appearance of menses, worse at night,
in bed.

Related
Puls.

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Daphne Indica [Daph]

Generalities
Acts on lower tissues_muscles, bones and skin. Sudden lighting jerks in different parts of the
body. Craving for tobacco. Parts of the body feel separated. Bruised pain. *Foetid
discharges_breath, urine, sweat. Exhaustion. Exostoses, with stitching, pressing or dull pain
worse at night.

Worse
Cold air. Waning moon. Evening, in bed.

Mind
Sad. Absence of mind and indecisions. Despondent. Agitated.

Head
As if separated from the body; feels big. Soft nodular swellings on bones about vertex, pain
worse at night and touch.

Mouth
*Tongue coated on one side only. Saliva; hot, foul smelling.

Abdomen
Stools scanty, bloody at end.

Urinary
Urine; thick, turbid, yellow, foul like rotten eggs.

Male
Prostatorrhoea worse tobacco. Erection during toothache. Toothache after coition.

Extremities
Shooting pains shift rapidly; upwards towards the abdomen and heart. Buttocks cold.

Sleep
Sleepless from *bone aching. Dreams of black cats.

Fever
Clammy sweat; offensive.

Related
Rhus‐t.

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Dictamnus [Dict]

Generalities
It acts on the female organs. Secretions are increased. Sensation of a lump rising in the throat.
Frequent emission of copious offensive flatus. Increased secretion of urine. Bearing down
with bilious vomiting worse standing. *Menses; early of black clots; preceded by blindness.
Sensation of milk flowing into mammae. Cramps from anterior thighs into the uterus before
the menses. Profuse corrosive leucorrhoea with tenesmus. *Somnambulism. Dreams of
piecing bodies of her children together.

Worse
Standing.

Related
Pul.

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Digitalis [Dig]

Generalities
Digitalis is a heart remedy. It also affects liver, lungs, stomach and genito‐urinary organs. It
should be considered in all diseases where the heart is chiefly involved, with abnormally
***SLOW, *irregular or intermittent pulse, along with indefinite and causeless symptoms.
***GREAT WEAKNESS, can hardly talk; *sinking of strength, *faintness; coldness of skin and
irregular respiration are other symptoms of organic heart troubles. *Hypertrophy of liver,
with induration and jaundice, calls for dig, when characteristic pulse is present. Pulse is slow
in recumbent posture, quick on motion; irregular and dicrotic on sitting up. Slow pulse after
sexual abuse or at puberty. *Must talk about with precordial anxiety; with urging to urinate.
Cyanosis. Dropsy, with suppression of urine. As of an electric shock going through the body.
Prostration from slight exertion. Ill effects of high living Sexual abuse or excess. Alcohol.

Worse
*Exertion. *Raising up. *Lying on left side. Motion. Smell of food. Cold; drinks, food; weather.
Heat. Sexual abuse or excess. Music.

Better
Rest. Cool an. Lying flat on back. Empty stomach. Sitting erect.

Mind
Anxious about the future. Sadness; with sleeplessness, from unhappy love; from music.
Lascivious thoughts in old men, with enlarged prostate. Fearful. Feels as if he would fly to
pieces. Fear of suffocation at night. Wants to be alone. Despondent. Every shock is felt in
epigastrium. Great anxiety like from troubled conscience.

Head
Vertigo; when walking, or riding, with trembling, worse rising up; from cardiac or hepatic
affections. Frontal headache, into nose, after drinking cold drinks or eating ice creams.
*Crashes in head, on dropping to sleep. Bores head in the pillow; pulls the hair. Spastic
hemicrania. Head falls back while sitting or walking.

Eyes
Yellowish, red. Lachrymation worse in bright light or cold air. Objects appear either green or
yellow. Both the eyes turned to left. Detachment of retina. Pupils irregular. Diplopia. Eyelids
blue. Veins distended on eyes.

Ears
Hissing in the ear like boiling water. Veins distended on ears.

Nose
Pain at the root of the nose, after vomiting.

Face
Pale, *bluish; lips blue. Veins distended on. Lips dry.

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Mouth
Tongue blue; clean, with nausea and vomiting. Tongue thick flabby. Bitter taste. Sweetish
taste; with salivation; after smoking tobacco. Veins distended on tongue.

Stomach
Much thirst, but little appetite. *Deathly nausea; not better by vomiting or *with faint sinking
at the pit of the stomach. Persistent nausea and vomiting, with clean tongue. The mere sight
or smell of food excites nausea. Epigastric region tender. Neuralgic pain in the stomach
unconnected with food. Drinks much and eats little. Desire for bitter things. Nausea before
and after urination.

Abdomen
Liver; enlarged, sore, hard painful. White chalk like, ashy, pasty stools. Diarrhoea, during
jaundice. Ascites.

Urinary
Feeling of fulness after urination. Continued urging; urine; dribbles; (enlarged prostate) hot,
burning with throbbing pain at the neck of bladder; as if a straw were being thrust back and
forth. Urine; suppressed; difficult. Uraemia; contracted kidneys.

Male
*Atonic nightly emissions; after coition. Gonorrhoea; balanitis, with oedema of prepuce.
Prostate enlarged; senile. Dropsical swelling of genitals. Testicles swollen. Hydrocele. Profuse
thick yellow white gonorrhoeal discharge. Early morning erections. Amorous desire without
ability. As if something were running out in urethra after emission.

Female
Labour‐like pains in the abdomen and back before menses. Vicarious menses from lungs.

Respiratory
Desire to take deep breath; with dyspnoea. Breathing slow, worse talking, walking, drinking
cold things. Cough causes pain in shoulders and arms, or sore, raw feeling in the chest.
Expectoration; sweetish, like boiled starch; mixed with bloody mucus. Haemoptysis; with
weak heart or from chronic bronchitis; before menses. Senile pneumonia. Cannot expectorate
without vomiting. Great weakness in the chest, cannot bear to talk. Suffocates when he drops
to sleep; hence fear of suffocation at night. Cough from suppressed menses.

Heart
*Weak, *feels like stopping if he moved, must hold the breath and keep still. Least movement
causes palpitation. Frequent stitches at the heart. Attacks of angina worse raising arms. Heart
tired, after sprains. Dilated heart. Hypertrophy with dilatation. Cardiac dropsy. Palpitation;
with depression; from grief. Pulse; slow, weak, irregular, intermittent.

Extremities
Numbness; heaviness or paralytic weakness worse left arm. Fingers become numb easily and
frequently. Fingers swell at night. Coldness of hands and feet. Sensation in the legs as if a red
hot wire suddenly darted through them. Nails blue. One hand hot the other cold.

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Skin
Bluish. Dropsical. Cold. Measly eruptions on back. Creeping all over; Angina Pectoris.

Sleep
Starts from sleep in alarm, that he is falling from a height‐ in a dream. *Drowsy.

Fever
Flushes of heat, then great nervous weakness, at climacteric period. Chilliness and shivering
of the whole body. Cold clammy sweat.

Related
Glo; Spig.

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Dioscorea Villosa [Dios]

Generalities
It is a remedy for many kinds of pains and colics. It acts on ***NERVES_*abdominal; sciatic,
and on spinal cord. ***PAINS ARE UNBEARABLE, ***SHARP; ***CUTTING, ***TWISTING,
***GRIPING, ***GRINDING, *that dart about or radiate to distant parts; they occur *in
paroxysms, suddenly cease in one part, then start in another part. *Nervous shuddering, from
pain. It is suitable to persons of feeble digestive power; excess in eating or errors of diet easily
affect them. Ill effects of excessive tea drinking. Fasting. Masturbation. Chorea, with seminal
emissions.

Worse
Lying; *doubling up. Tea. Eating. Evening. Night.

Better
*Stretching out; or bending back. Motion; in open air. Hard pressure. Standing erect.

Mind
Calls things by wrong names. Feels cross, nervous and easily troubled. Depressed, after
seminal emissions.

Head
Dull pain in both the temples; or as if squeezed in a vice Better pressure but worse afterwards.
Sensation as if head were crushed down. Confused, full head.

Eyes
As of a round ball or stick in the eyes. Hot air steaming out of them.

Ears
Pain worse blowing nose or coughing. Nausea felt in. Small balls of wax fall out.

Nose
Any bad smell remains in the nose for a long time.

Mouth
Bitter, dry, in the morning. Bites the tongue, when not eating or drinking. Spasmodic closure
of the jaw.

Stomach
Eructations; with hiccough. Sharp cramping pain in the pit of the stomach, then belching,
hiccough and passing flatus; Better standing erect. Gastrodynia.

Abdomen
Sharp pains in the liver extending to the nipples. Gall bladder colic_pain extending to the
chest, back and arms. Pain suddenly shifts to different parts, appear in remote localities, as
fingers and toes. Renal colic, pain extending to testicles, and the extremities. Flatulence. Piles
like a bunch of cherries, with darting pain from anus to liver. Morning diarrhoea driving out
of bed, causing weakness. Hurried desire for stool. Stools do not relieve the pain in abdomen.

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Darting from anus to liver. Constant aching, cutting, griping pains in and around umbilical
region.

Male
Erections lasting all night. Cold relaxed sexual organs. Seminal emission, without erection;
then weakness esp. in the knees. Strong smelling sweat on scrotum and pubes.

Female
Violent dysmenorrhoea_pains radiate from the uterus; alternating with cramps in fingers and
toes.

Respiratory
Chest does not seem to expand on breathing. Chest pains radiate to both the arms. Dyspnoea
from slight exertion.

Heart
Pain back of sternum into arms; angina pectoris; with laboured breathing and feeble action
of the heart.

Neck and Back

Lame worse stooping.

Extremities
Felon_in the beginning when pricking is felt or when pains are sharp and agonizing. Limbs feel
weak esp. knees; after seminal emission. Sciatic pain (right) shoot down the thighs, with
burning or numbness worse motion, sitting up; Better standing on toes, lying still. Hamstring
seems too short. Nails brittle.

Fever
Sweats easily when chilly. Sweat; cold, clammy; or of strong odour, on genitals.

Related
Colo; Mag‐c.

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Diphtherinum [Diph]

Generalities
The potencies of this nosode are prepared either from the Diphtheritic virus or membranes.
It is useful as a prophylactic in Diphtheria and post‐diphtheritic complication, paralysis etc.,
when *anti diphtheritic toxin is used. In Diphtheria the malignancy is present from the start.
Patient is *greatly prostrated, *yet restless; *without any pain. Wants to be held. Jerking in
single muscles. Internal trembling. Drawing in muscles then sudden snap. Catarrhal affections
of the respiratory passage. Offensive discharges. Carphology. Relapsing diphtheria.

Worse
Lying.

Better
Cold. Drinking milk in sips.

Mind
Carphology. Sees imaginary objects.

Head
Moisture at the margin of hair.

Eyes
Sees visions.

Nose
Fanning of the alae nasi with snoring. Yellow thick nasal discharge. Epistaxis.

Face
Flushed, centre of cheeks purple.

Mouth
Tongue moist, with red tip; or dark red spot back of tip. Red papillae.

Throat
Dark. *Thick grey membrane; on tonsil (left). *Painless diphtheria, swallows without pain but
fluids are vomited or returned through the nose. Relapsing diphtheria. Obstinate tonsillitis.
Wants cold air down the throat or craves cold drinks.

Stomach
Faintness at; better sips of milk.

Sleep
Talks in sleep, with open eyes.

Fever
Chilly, then hot. Low temperature.

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Related
Carb‐ac.

Skin
Dry, hot palms; they feel withered. Dry skin.

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Dolichos Pruriens [Dol]

Generalities
Intense itching of the skin without the appearance of a rash or swelling. Yellow spots all over.
Itching excessively at night; jaundice. Neuralgia following herpes zoster. Cold water better
itching but it burns the skin and causes trembling.

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Drosera Rotundifolia [Dros]

Generalities
Affects markedly the ***RESPIRATORY ORGANS, producing spasmodic, catarrhal and
haemorrhagic effects. As it raises the resistance against tuberculosis; it is a useful remedy for
*tuberculosis of the lungs, larynx and bones; of joints. Tubercular glands. Constrictive pains
in the throat, larynx, stomach etc. Sticking lancinating pains. Convulsions, followed by
haemoptysis and sleep. Haemorrhages of bright red blood, from nose, mouth, stools etc.

Worse
*After midnight. *On lying down. Warmth. Talking. Cold food. Laughing. After measles.
Singing. Stooping. Vomiting. Sour things.

Better
Pressure. Open air.

Mind
Easily angered; a trifle makes him beside himself. Inclination to drown himself. Cannot
concentrate on one subject, must change, changes to something else. Fears being alone and
is suspicious of his friends. Delusions of persecution. Restlessness. Anxiety when alone.
Extremely uneasy. Imagines he was being deceived by spiteful envious people.

Head
Heavy, pressing pain. Vertigo when walking in the open air.

Eyes
Become prominent, from coughing, during measles, in convulsions.

Nose
Sensitive to sour smells. Painful sneezing. Bleeding; from coughing; stooping.

Face
Left side cold, right side hot; with stinging pain. Face hot, with cold hands.

Mouth
Putrid taste. Bloody saliva. Toothache from hot drinks. Small round painless swelling in middle
of tongue.

Stomach
Nausea after fatty foods. Aversion to pork and sour foods; which disagree. Difficulty in
swallowing solid foods.

Abdomen
Painful after sour foods.

Female
Leucorrhoea, with labour‐like pains.

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Respiratory
***PERIODICAL FITS OF RAPID, ***DEEP BARKING or ***CHOKING PROLONGED AND
INCESSANT COUGH. Cough seems to come *from the abdomen; *takes the breath away;
*compel holding the sides followed by *retching, *vomiting, first of ingesta then of mucus;
*nose bleed; *cold sweat and loquacity. Whooping cough. Tickling like a feather or crumb in
larynx. *Deep hoarse voice requires exertion to speak. *Voice hollow, *toneless. Bloody,
yellow purulent expectoration. *Constriction of chest worse talking, singing. Asthma when
talking, with contraction of throat with every word uttered. Stitches below axillae.
Haemoptysis after convulsions. Concomitants to coughing. Scraping in larynx and cough, after
eating. Stitching pains in chest when sneezing or coughing. Harassing cough, as soon as head
touches the pillow at night not during day. Cough worse singing, talking.

Extremities
Fingers contract spasmodically with rigidity when grasping anything. Writer’s cramp. Laming
pain in right hip joint and thigh with pain in ankle; must limp when walking. Limbs feel sore;
bed feels too hard. Pain in the long bones. Pain in humerus at night only.

Fever
Always too cold even in bed. Fever with whooping cough. Shivers when at rest better moving.
Face becomes hot and hands become cold, with shivering. Measles.

Skin
Itching better by rubbing or wiping with hand worse undressing.

Related
Coc‐c; Cor‐r.

Complementary
Sul.

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Dulcamara [Dulc]

Generalities
This remedy is useful to those persons who are prone to catarrhal, rheumatic and herpetic
affections on account of exposure to cold and damp. It affects the ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES
producing *excessive secretions, esp. of bronchi, bladder and eyes. Stiffness, numbness,
aching and soreness of *muscles on every exposure to cold esp. of ***BACK and ***LOINS.
Skin affections are liable to appear before menses. *Paralytic effects; of single parts, vocal
cords, tongue etc. *Paralysed parts icy cold. Tearing pains. *Griping in bowels around the
***UMBILICUS; in testes. One sided spasms with loss of speech. Enlarged glands. *Every cold
settles in the eyes; *throat or affects the bladder, respiration or bowels. Dropsy. Complaints
of workers in ice‐factory. Men who are exposed to constant change of temperature (air
condition). Glands; swollen, indurated. Dropsy; anasarca. Exostoses. Haemorrhages; blood
watery or bright red.

Worse
***BEING CHILLED ‐WHILE HOT. *Sudden changes of temperature.***COLD WET. Cold
drinks, ice creams. Damp ground, cellars, beds. Cold to feet. *Suppressed discharges;
*eruptions, *sweat etc. Autumn. Night. Rest. Injuries. Before storms. Mercury. Uncovering.
Hot days and cold nights.

Better
Moving about. Warmth. Dry weather.

Mind
*Confusion, cannot find the right word, can’t concentrate his thoughts. *Depression. *Scolds
without being angry. Rejects the things asked for. Easily becomes delirious; with pain. Difficult
speech.

Head
Occiput feels large; cold. Sensation as if a board were pressing against the forehead.
Headache Better conversation. Ring worm of scalp. *Scald head; thick brown crusts, bleeding
when scratched, causing hair to fall out. As if hair stood on end.

Eyes
Aching when reading. Ophthalmia from catching cold. Paralysis of upper lid. Thick yellow
discharge. Twitching of eyelids in cold air.

Ears
Ache; with nausea; whole night, preventing sleep. Swelling of parotids; after measles. Buzzing
in ears.

Nose
Aching in. Dry or profuse coryza. Stuffs up in cold rain. *Summer colds: with diarrhoea. Least
cold air stops the nose. Wants to keep it warm, with hot wet clothes. Nosebleed; in place of
menses. Coryza of new born.

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Face
Thick, brown, yellow crusts on face. Tearing in cheeks extending to ear, orbit and jaw,
preceded by coldness of parts and attended with canine hunger. Facial neuralgia worse slight
exposure to cold. Cold sores on lips. Warts and eruptions on face. Twitching of lips in cold air.

Mouth
Distorted, drawn to one side. Tongue; swollen; hindering speech; paralysed; inarticulate or
difficult speech. Saliva; tenacious, ropy; with toothache.

Throat
Pressure as if uvula were too long. Tonsillitis from every cold change.

Stomach
Aversion to food. Great thirst for cold drinks. Nausea, with desire for stool. Shivering while
vomiting. Eructations, with shuddering.

Abdomen
Cutting pain at navel followed by painful, green, *slimy stools. Diarrhoea. Sour watery stools,
worse night, summer, damp cold weather. Bowels cold. Eruptions or pain about the navel.

Urinary
Frequent urination. Cystitis. Strangury. Retention of urine, from cold or cold drinks.
Involuntary urination from paralysis of bladder. Urine; *cloudy, *slimy or foul. Nephritis from
cold. Bladder wall thickened.

Male
Enlarged testes; with griping pain. Impotence. Herpes preputialis.

Female
Menses watery. Rash appears on the skin before menses. Dysmenorrhoea, with blotches all
over. Herpes on mammae in nursing women. Menses, milk, lochia suppressed by cold.
Mammae; engorged, hard, sore, with absent menses, or leucorrhoea. Eruptions on skin after
weaning.

Respiratory
Cough; caused by tickling in the back of throat; in prolonged fits; with much loose easy
expectoration; after physical exertion. Winter cough. Pain in left chest as if lung moved in
waves.

Neck and Back

Neck stiff. Pain in small of back as after long stooping. Lumbar region, and sacrum feel cold.

Extremities
Exostosis on arms after suppressed itch. Palms sweaty. Trembling of arm (right), with urinary
difficulty. Rheumatic symptoms alternating with diarrhoea or acute eruptions. Warts on
hands and fingers. Swelling of calf of leg.

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Fever
*Coldness; in different parts, *icy of paralysed parts; with pain. Chill starts in the back, not
Better by warmth worse evening. Chill with urging in stool and urination. Foul sweat.

Skin
*Eruptions, scaly, thick, crusty, moist, bleeding or herpetic worse before menses. *Urticaria
better cold worse sour stomach. Warts large, smooth, fleshy, flat. Pruritus. Rash in new born.
Ringworm, in the hair; in children. Eczema of infants. Small furuncles on places hurt. Thick
crusts all over body.

Related
Rhus‐t.

Complementary
Bar‐c; Nat‐s.

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Echinacea Angustifolia [Echi]

Generalities
This remedy corrects the *blood dyscrasias; hence it is useful in all types of blood poisonings.
Auto‐infection, septic conditions, bites of poisonous animals, Lymphangitis, gangrene,
vaccinosis etc. Symptoms tend towards malignancy in acute and subacute disorders. Patient
feels *weak and *tired and *aching in muscles. Slowness in every action_speaks slowly,
replies slowly, walks slowly. *Weakness is felt more in *stomach, bowels; *in heart, in knees;
with vertigo. Rheumatism. *Eases the pains of cancer in the last stage. Foul discharges.
Valuable as a local cleansing and antiseptic wash.

Worse
Eating. Injury. Operations. Cold air.

Better
Lying. Rest.

Mind
Depressed or crossed. Becomes angry when corrected; does not wish to be contradicted. Out
of sorts. Cannot exert mind. Does not wish to think or study.

Head
Vertigo, with weakness. Headache, with flushing of face. Sharp pain deep in brain; it seems
too large. Throbbing through the temples. Hot burning forehead.

Eyes
Brows twitch. Feel hot on closing them.

Nose
Foul discharge. Feels stuffed up. Bleeding from the right nostril.

Face
Bluish.

Mouth
Frothy mucus; hawks from throat. Tongue, lips and fauces tingle with sense of fear about
heart. Tongue; numb, peppery taste. Aphthae. Teeth sensitive to draught of air.

Stomach
*Nausea, *with chilliness. Sour, bloody vomitus; like coffee grounds.

Abdomen
As of a load in back part of the liver. Blood flows after stools.

Male
Seminal emissions.

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Female
Puerperal septicaemia; discharges suppressed. Abdomen tender and distended.

Respiratory
Pain as of a lump under the sternum. Burning under the left scapula.

Heart
Sense of fear about the heart. Increasing but variable pulse.

Extremities
Aching in the limbs. Hands, numb alternately or restless; on awakening.

Sleep
Dreams of difficulties; laborious or quarrelsome.

Fever
*Irregular, *chills; *rise of temperature and sweat. Chill in left occiput. Sweat on upper parts;
on forehead.

Skin
Recurring boils. Carbuncles.

Related
Arn; Pyrog; Rhus‐t.

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Elaps corallinus [Elaps]

Generalities
Like all other snake poisons; the poison of Coral snake disorganises the blood, producing
*black discharges esp. haemorrhages. Sensation of *internal coldness in chest, stomach
worse after cold drinks. Adynamic sepsis. Spasms, then paralysis. Oscillatory movements.
Right side feels weak, insensible or paralysed. Mucous membranes wrinkled. As of a heavy
load or weight on the affected part. Twisting sensation.

Worse
*Approach of storms. Cold; drinks, food, air. Dampness. Night. In room. Touch. Warmth of
bed. Fruits.

Better
Rest. Walking Better nosebleed and pain in abdomen and chest.

Mind
Horror of rain. Fear; being left alone; causes chattering of the teeth and trembling.
Shuddering from least contradiction, with pricking. Imagines he hears someone talking;
dreads to be left alone. Can speak but cannot understand speech. Angry about one’s self,
does not wish to be spoken to.

Head
Vertigo‐falls forwards. Weight and pain in forehead. Rushes of blood to the head. Faints, with
vomiting or on stooping.

Eyes
Black rings before eyes (left). Large red fiery spots, before the eyes.

Ears
Cerumen black and hard. Sudden nightly deafness, with roaring, cracking in ears. Illusions of
hearing. Otorrhoea; offensive, watery; with deafness, itching.

Nose
Naso‐pharynx stuffed up. Chronic nasal catarrh; with foetid odour and greenish crusts. Pain
from nose to ears, on swallowing. Ozaena. Nosebleed, black like ink; after a blow.

Face
Red spots on face. Bloated. Dull yellowish colour.

Throat
Spasmodic contractions of oesophagus and pharynx; food and liquids are suddenly arrested
and then fall heavily into the stomach. Sensation of a sponge in oesophagus. Painful, difficult
swallowing for solids and liquids. Paralysis of oesophagus.

Stomach
Drinks and fruits feel like ice in stomach, and causes coldness in chest. Desire for sweetened
buttermilk. Sensation as if food turned like corkscrew on swallowing. Thirst.

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Abdomen
Bowels feel twisted together in a knot. Stools of black frothy blood.

Urinary
Urine red. Discharge of mucus from urethra.

Female
Dysmenorrhoea with black blood. Sensation as if something burst in the womb, then
continuous stream of dark coloured blood, Better when urinating. Discharge of black blood
between menses.

Respiratory
Air hunger. Coldness in chest after drinking. Stitches in apex of right lung. Cough with terrible
pain through lungs. Lungs seem forcibly separated. Haemoptysis; black, like ink and watery.

Extremities
Arms weak. Arms and hands swollen bluish. Knee joints feel sprained. Pricking under the nails.
Peeling off_palms and finger tips. Icy cold feet.

Sleep
Dreams of business; of dead persons. Bites hand, during sleep.

Fever
Cold perspiration all over. Skin hot, dry.

Related
Crot‐h; Helo.

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Elaterium [Elat]

Generalities
It is a valuable remedy for certain forms of dropsy esp. Beriberi. It produces violent vomiting
and purging, with copious forceful watery, olive green, bilious or frothy evacuations. Cholera.
Infantile diarrhoea. Jaundice of the new born, with bilious stools, urine staining the diaper.
Irresistible desire to wander from home to home. Chilliness with much yawning and
stretching. Urticaria better rubbing.

Worse
Damp weather. Standing on damp ground.

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Epiphegus Orobanche [Epip]

Generalities
The use of this remedy is exclusively confined to headaches of neurasthenic types, esp. in
women, brought on or made worse by any unusual exertion, shopping, nervous strain etc.
Pressive pain, as if finger tips were pressing into the temples inwards; or compressive pain
going backwards worse until 4 p.m. then better; with *spitting of viscid saliva and nausea.
Weekly sick headaches. Headaches preceded by hunger. Tartar on teeth. Neurasthenia.
Confusion.

Better
Sleep.

Worse
Fatigue_nervous; of shopping. Eyestrain.

Related
Ign; Iris.

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Equisetum [Equis]

Generalities
It acts principally on *genito‐urinary tract. Aching, full, tender bladder; not Better after
urinating Constant desire to urinate and passes large quantities of clear, light coloured urine
without relief Pricking, burning, cutting pain in urethra while urinating. Cystitis. Dysuria.
***NOCTURNAL *enuresis: of children, without causes except habit. Retention and dysuria in
pregnancy and after delivery. Dribbling urine; in old women, with involuntary stool. *Much
mucus in urine.

Worse
*At close of urination. Pressure. Motion. Sitting down.

Better
*After noon; Lying.

Related
Canth.

Complementary
Sil.

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Erigeron [Erig]

Generalities
A haemorrhagic remedy esp. when haemorrhages are profuse, *bright red, *gushing. It acts
also on the genito urinary organs; chronic gonorrhoea. *Congestions_*smarting burning.
Hard aching.

Worse
Rainy weather. Exertion.

Head
Congested, red face. Nosebleed.

Eyes
Smarting, burning. Ecchymosis around, from below.

Stomach
Burning in stomach and abdomen. Vomitus or stool of pure blood. Abdomen distended. Anus
feels torn. Haemorrhoids.

Urinary
Persistent haemorrhage from the bladder. *Dysuria; during dentition; crying when urinating.
Aching in bladder. Retention of urine. *Vesico‐rectal tenesmus, with metrorrhagia.

Male
Sticky sweat on genitals. Gonorrhoea and gleet. Blue, black spots on genitals.

Female
Metrorrhagia; with vesico‐rectal tenesmus; after abortion; with diarrhoea or dysentery; after
least motion. Leucorrhoea, with urinary irritability. Abortion because of exertion.

Respiratory
Cough, bloody expectoration. Incipient phthisis.

Extremities
Hard aching in all the limbs.

Skin
Ecchymoses.

Related
Canth; Ter.

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Eucalyptus [Eucal]

Generalities
It is a powerful antiseptic and disinfectant. It affects the *mucous membranes, *producing
profuse catarrhal discharges; which are acrid, and *foul; with *aching, *stiffness and
weariness as from taking cold. Malaria. Influenza. Sticking jerking pains at night. Exhausted
with toxaemia and haemorrhage. Rheumatism. Said to be a preventive of influenza.

Worse
Periodically. Night.

Mind
Mental exhilaration. Desire to move about.

Head
Congestive headaches. Migraine. Vertigo during all stages of fever.

Eyes
Smart and bum.

Ears
Tinnitus.

Nose
Watery coryza. Stuffed up sensation. Chronic purulent foetid discharge. Tension across the
nose.

Mouth
Tongue pasty. Aphthae; mouth burns, feels full.

Throat
Aphthae, with burning. Constant sensation of mucus in throat.

Stomach
Digestion slow, with putrid gas. Throbbing in stomach. Nausea and vomiting, with chill.
Vomiting of blood and sour fluid. Cancer.

Abdomen
As of a weight in bowels. Acute diarrhoea; stools thin, watery, preceded by sharp pains.
Dysentery, with heat in rectum.

Urinary
Acute nephritis, complicating influenza. Diuresis. Catarrh of the bladder. Urethral carbuncle.
Urine has the odour of violets.

Female
Small nodule below nipple (right) with stabbing darting pains.

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Respiratory
*Bronchial asthma. Profuse offensive expectoration of muco‐pus. Bronchorrhoea; senile.
Cough of influenza.

Extremities
Pricking followed by painful aching in the limbs.

Fever
With aching. Chill then nausea and vomiting. Continued, typhoid like fevers. Vertigo in all
stages of malarial fever.

Related
Chin; Dulc; Echi.

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Euonymus [Euon]

Generalities
Affects the liver and the kidneys. Crawling in back. *Vertigo; in forehead, as if drawn up and
pitched forward. Bilious headaches; pressure over brows: compressing eyes. Liver engorged.
Gall stones. Pain about navel. Profuse stools; varying or of several colours. Albuminuria.

Better
Cool air. Pressure.

Worse
Eating; Evening.

Related
Rheum.

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Eupatorium Perfoliatum [Eup‐per]

Generalities
The leading characteristic is ***VIOLENT ACHING, ***BONE BREAKING PAINS. *Muscles of
chest, *back and limbs feel *bruised, *sore aching It affects the liver producing *bilious
effects. Patient is restless, chilly and nauseated. Colds. *Influenza. Dengue. Sluggishness of all
organs and functions. Useful in broken down constitutions of inebriate. *Weakness.

Worse
***COLD AIR. ***PERIODICALLY; 7 to 9 a.m.; 3rd or 4th day. Lying on part. Coughing. Smell
or sight of food. *Motion.

Better
*Vomiting bile. Sweating. Lying on face. *Conversation.

Mind
Moans with aching pain.

Head
Vertigo; sensation of falling to left; worse lying on right side; Better vomiting. Sore throbbing
pain; in occiput, after lying down, with a sense of weight. Head pains alternating with gouty
pains. Sensation as of a metal cap on head. Headaches Better by vomiting of bile, by
conversation. Sick headaches every 3rd and 7th day. Lifts head with hands, during headache.

Eyes
Sore aching eyeballs; with headache. Yellow.

Nose
Coryza with sneezing, with aching in every bone.

Face
Sudden severe contraction of muscles of right cheek. Yellow.

Mouth
Tongue yellow. Taste bitter. Cracks on corners of the mouth.

Stomach
Thirst for cold water; but after drinking shuddering and *vomiting of bile. Nausea with smell
or sight of food. Craving for ice cream, for acid drinks. Hiccough. Distressing pain in the
stomach not Better until all is vomited. Tight clothing is oppressive. Retching and vomiting of
bile. Thirst before vomiting.

Abdomen
Liver sore. Whitish or frequent, green watery stools.

Urinary
Urine alternately profuse and scanty.

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Male
Itching of mons veneris.

Respiratory
Hoarseness worse morning. Cough; with soreness of chest, from laryngeal tickling; it hurts
head and *must hold the chest better lying on knee and hands. Raw; hot, *sore chest and
*bronchi worse inspiration.

Heart
Pressure as if heart is in too small a space.

Neck and Back

Pain in back of neck and between the shoulders. Intense backache, as if beaten; pain ascends
Trembling in back during fever.

Extremities
Aching of bones and soreness of muscles of the lower limbs. Bruised pain in calves. Dropsy of
legs, feet and ankles. Painful gouty nodes, associated with headache.

Fever
*Thirst or nausea, *then violent shaking chill; begins in the small of the back. *Bitter vomiting
after chill or during heat. Burning heat. Sweat; relieves all the symptoms except the headache.
Sweat scanty.

Related
Bry; Nux‐v.

Complementary
Nat‐m; Sep.

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Eupatorium Purpureum [Eup‐pur]

Generalities
The bone breaking pains and other fever symptoms are similar to *Eup‐p; but less
pronounced; it has many more symptoms regarding the urinary and the sexual organs esp.
females.

Worse
Motion. Changing position.

Mind
Homesick; even though at home and amongst the family. Sighing.

Head
Left sided headache, with vertigo, as if falling to the left side.

Stomach
Wants lemonade or cold drinks during chill. Colic all over the abdomen after voiding urine.

Urinary
Constant desire; even after frequent urination, the bladder feels full. Cystitis in pregnant
women on riding on rough roads; dysuria. Vesical irritability in women. Urine smells sweet.
Urinary stream smaller. Diabetes insipidus.

Female
Quick jerking pain in left ovary. Profuse leucorrhoea. Vulva feels as if wet. Sterility from
ovarian atony.

Respiratory
Dyspnoea with dropsy.

Neck and Back

Weight and heaviness in back and loins.

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Euphorbium [Euph]

Generalities
It irritates the *mucous membranes and skin, causing much secretion with a sense of dryness.
*Internal burning; in bones, at night. *Pains of cancer. Slow inflammations. Blisters. Gangrene
of old persons. Caries, Paralytic weakness in joints. Everything appears larger than it really is.

Worse
*Sitting. Rest. Beginning of motion. Mercury. Touch.

Better
Application of oil. Cold application. Motion.

Eyes
Sees same person walking in front and behind him. Diplopia.

Nose
Much abortive sneezing. Coryza, with swelling. Acrid ozoena.

Face
Yellow blisters. Burning in cheek. Red swelling of cheeks.

Mouth
Teeth as if screwed together, brittle, crumbling; caries of. Mouth feels coated with rancid
grease. Profuse saliva; salty. Thirst for cold water. Burning like fire in abdomen and stomach.

Respiratory
Cough, with stitches from the pit of the stomach to side of the chest, day and night; with
asthma.

Back and Neck

Pain in coccyx worse on rising from sitting, worse after stool.

Fever
*High.

Skin
*Erysipelas; *bullosum; of mucous membranes. Torpid, indolent ulcers. Vesicular erysipelas.
Vesicles filled with yellow lymph or liquid. As if thin cord lay under skin.

Related
Nit‐ac; Sulph.

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Euphrasia [Euphr]

Generalities
The common name ‘Eye bright’ gives the indication for the use of this remedy. It affects the
***MUCOUS MEMBRANES; of ***EYES, nose, and chest, producing acute catarrh, with *free,
*acrid, *watery secretions. Tears are acrid; *nasal discharge is bland. Acrid pus.

Worse
***SUNLIGHT. ***WIND. *Warmth. Room. Evening.

Better
*Open air. Winking, wiping eyes.

Head
Catarrhal headache with profuse discharge from the nose and eyes. Bursting headache with
dazzling of the eyes.

Eyes
***WATERY EYES; as if swimming in tears. As of a hair before them; wants to wipe them.
***PROFUSE HOT OR ACRID TEARS worse open air, *lying or coughing; *leaving a varnish like
mark. Sticky eye gum. Photophobia, with spasms of the lids. Pressive, cutting pains in the
eyes. Thick acrid yellow discharge from the eyes. Conjunctivitis, with violent injection; of
measles; instead of menses. Chronic sore eyes. Opacities of cornea; after injury. Red,
*burning, itching tarsi. Cataract, with watery eyes. Pain in the eye, alternating with pain in
abdomen.

Nose
Profuse *bland fluent coryza; with cough and much expectoration, less when lying down. Flat
cancer on the right side of the nose.

Face
Stiffness of left cheek; of tongue. Upper lip stiff as if made of wood.

Stomach
Vomiting from hawking mucus.

Male
Prostatitis. Nocturnal irritability of bladder, dribbling or urine.

Female
Menses; painful, flow lasts only one hour or a day. Amenorrhoea, with ophthalmia and ulcer
on right side of the nose. Stitching pains and itching when walking in open air.

Respiratory
Cough with easy expectoration, in day time only; less on lying down; at night.

Sleep
Yawning when walking in open air.

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Related
All‐c.

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Eupion [Eupi]

Generalities
It is a lighter volatile oil obtained from distillation of wood tar. It has marked female
symptoms, with backache. Menses; too early and copious; irritable and disinclined to talk
during the menses. Yellow leucorrhoea, staining the linen yellow, with severe backache, after
menses; when pain in the back ceases, leucorrhoea gushes out. Burning in right ovary. Sacrum
pains as if broken; backache extends to pelvis better leaning against anything for support or
bending backwards. Cramps in calves at night. A sense in the feet as if walking on needles.
Uterine displacements. Sensation as if whole body were made of jelly. Profuse sweat from
slight exertion.

Related
Graph; Kreos; Lach.

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Fagopyrum [Fago]

Generalities
Commonly known as Buckwheat, acts upon the skin and the digestive organs. *Itching is
marked and is felt in different parts of the body, eyes, posterior nares; anus; deep in hands;
legs etc. Visible pulsations of carotids and other arteries. Discharges are offensive. Pain in
streaks. Senile pruritus.

Mind
Inability to study, or remember. Depressed. Irritable. Exceedingly happy.

Head
Pain deep in head with upward pressure. Headache with tired neck, better bending
backwards.

Eyes
Itching of the eyes. As if eyeballs were pushed out. Pain along lachrymal duct. Swollen, red,
hot.

Ears
Itching in and around.

Nose
Sore, red. Fluent coryza, with sneezing.

Throat
Itching in posterior nares. Post‐nasal catarrh.

Stomach
Scalding, hot, sour eructations. Nausea persistent better eating.

Abdomen
Itching in anus.

Female
Pruritus vulvae with yellow leucorrhoea, worse rest.

Heart
Pain around the heart extending to the left shoulder and arm better lying on back.

Neck and Back

Stiffness and bruised feeling in the muscles of the neck, with sensation as if nape would not
support the head.

Extremities
Pain in shoulders, with pain along fingers. Itching in arms and legs. Itching deep in hands.
Feet numb, with pricking. Streaking pains in arms and legs.

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Skin
Itching better cool bathing worse scratching, touch and retiring. Eczema. Erythema.
Intertrigo. Blind boils. Skin hot, swollen.

Better
Cold applications. Pressure. Coffee.

Worse
Scratching. Sunlight. Motion.

Related
Puls.

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Ferrum Iodatum [Ferr‐i]

Generalities
This is a useful remedy for glandular enlargements; new growths and uterine displacements
esp. retroversion. Debility following drain upon vital forces.

Eyes
Exophthalmic goitre; after suppressed menses.

Ears
Roaring.

Nose
Thick.

Stomach
Food seems to push up in the throat, as if it had not been swallowed.

Abdomen
Stuffed feeling, as if she could not lean forward. Crawling in rectum. As if a cord were drawn
connecting the navel and anus.

Urinary
Crawling in urethra. Urine; sweet smelling, dark coloured; depositing thick white sediment.

Female
Constant bearing down. Feeling as if something pressed upward in vagina on sitting.
Retroversion of uterus. Leucorrhoea; like boiled starch when bowels move. Menses; absent
with exophthalmic goitre. Prolapsus, difficult to retain the urine.

Better
Open air.

Worse
Motion. Night. Touch.

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Ferrum Metallicum [Ferr]

Generalities
Iron is present in considerable quantity in blood; also in many articles of daily food. It affects
the ***CIRCULATION, producing irregular distribution of blood; congestions, *irregular
surgings etc. and *pulsations It relaxes the blood vessels causing *haemorrhages which are
bright or with small clots esp. in rapidly growing youth; or the veins dilate, during neuralgia,
menses or fever. It is adapted to young; anaemic; pseudo‐ plethoric persons, who though
looking strong are so weak that they are unable even to speak or walk, want to lie down.
Pallor of the skin and mucous membranes, alternating with flushes. *Dryness; of mouth; of
food, vagina etc. *Anaemia of young persons, with flushed cheeks but pale lips; delicate girls,
constipated with low spirits. Muscles flabby and relaxed. *Dropsy or paralysis, after loss of
vital fluids; haemorrhages etc. *Red faced old men. Rapid emaciation. Nightly pains that
*compel motion of part. Pressure; on chest, stomach etc. Irritable mind and body. Cachexia.
Cracking in joints. Softening of bones. Red parts become pale. Catalepsy. Goitre, exophthalmic
from suppressed menses. Spleen, digestion and left deltoid are also affected.

Mind
Always in the right; *sensitive and excitable, worse on least contradiction. Weeps and laughs
immoderately. Nervous, hysterical. Slight noise intolerable. Anxiety as after committing a
crime. Despondent; after menses.

Head
Vertigo; worse rising suddenly, on crossing the bridge, over water. Brain‐fag. *Throbbing,
*hammering headache, starts in the temples, extending to occiput, worse cough, stooping,
descending stairs; better letting hair down. Sudden pain over left eye. Head hot, feet cold.
Writing causes headache to reappear. Vertigo during headache.

Eyes
At night can see in the dark, hysteria. Blind attacks. Letters run together when reading or
writing. Puffy eyelids. Pain over eyes (left). Exophthalmic goitre, after suppression of menses.

Ears
Oversensitive to noise. Noises in ears better leaning the head on table. Ringing in the ears
worse before menses.

Nose
*Bleeding, in anaemic patients; alternating with haemoptysis.

Face
Pales and *flushes or *redness from least pain, emotions, or exertion. Florid; feels as if
bloated. Lips pale. Neuralgia, after cold washing and overheating, worse lying down; better
sitting up.

Mouth
Toothache better icy water. Taste of blood or of rotten eggs. Mouth dry, food seems too dry.

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Throat
As if something rolling in the throat and closing it like a valve. Exophthalmic goitre. Sensation
as of a lump (left) worse swallowing empty only.

Stomach
Increase and loss of appetite alternately. Stomach won’t tolerate any food, causes distension
and pressure. Aversion; to meat; to eggs, to sour fruits, to his accustomed tobacco, beer.
Desire for bread, raw tomatoes. *Spits up food by the mouthful Vomiting; easy, without
nausea; immediately after eating; after midnight, during pregnancy. Burning in. Vomits after
eggs.

Abdomen
Hard, distended, sore, bruised when walking. Bowels feel sore to touch. Diarrhoea; painless,
worse while eating; (attempt to eat brings on diarrhoea); nightly; gushing, spluttering; of
undigested food; alternating with constipation; worse if nervous or tired. Stools; hard
difficult, followed by backache, or cramps in rectum; prolapsus recti. Itching of anus due to
ascarides; in children. Stools undigested. Summer diarrhoea.

Urinary
Albuminuria. Chronic nephritis. Involuntary urination; esp. during day only; when standing,
from sudden movement, walking; in children. Copious urination with, nervousness. Urine hot;
with menorrhagia.

Male
Emissions; nightly; with backache; after over‐exertion.

Female
Vagina too dry, pain as if raw; or insensible during coition. Menses; pale, watery; too early,
too profuse and protracted; intermit; with labour like pains. Leucorrhoea; milky, acrid,
watery, at puberty. Tendency to abortion. Prolapse of vagina. Itching of vulva.

Respiratory
Voice, hoarse or changeable. Dry tickling cough worse moving; better lying down. Spitting of
blood; of masturbators, in consumption. Surgings of blood to the chest. Chest; oppressed,
constricted; or flying stitches in the chest. Dyspnoea better walking slowly, and talking. Cough,
with pain in the occiput. Breath hot. Neglected pleuro‐pneumonia, absorbs exudation.

Heart
Palpitation worse least motion; better walking slowly; of masturbators; after loss of fluids.
Throbbing in all blood vessels. Pulse full, soft, yielding.

Neck and Back

Neck and shoulder painful. Lumbago all night, goes off on rising.

Extremities
Sudden cramps or tearing pains in the limbs, when writing, hands tremble better when writing
fast. Irresistible desire to bend the arm with intense pain. Swelled hands and feet. Heels pain
worse lying on back. Cracking in joints. Omodynia. Contraction of limbs.

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Sleep
Falls asleep; from debility; while sewing, sitting and studying. Sleepless.

Fever
Chill with red face and thirst. Heat with distended veins. Extremities cold; head and face hot.
Sweat; clammy, yellow, cold, acrid or debilitating.

Skin
Pale. Flushes easily; pits on pressure. Black or dark violet spots.

Better
*Gentle motion. Slight bleeding. Leaning head on something.

Worse
***NIGHT. *Emotions; *anger. *violent exertion. *Eating. Drinking. *Loss of vital fluids,
*sweats. *Eggs. *Heat and told. Sudden motion. Raising arms. Tea.

Related
Arn; Mang.

Complementary
Chin.

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Ferrum Phosphoricum [Ferr‐p]

Generalities
Like *Fer., *Fer‐hp. affects venous circulation causing *local passive congestions and
haemorrhages due to hyperaemia; so the *discharges are blood streaked or meat‐water like.
It is suitable to nervous, sensitive, anaemic (blonds) persons. It is a very useful remedy in
acute exacerbation of tuberculosis; rheumatism etc. Emaciation. Takes cold easily. Bruised
*soreness; chest; *shoulders; muscles. Inflammation of the soft parts. Burning rawness. Ill
effects of *checked sweat; mechanical injuries. Initial stage of fever and inflammation. Great
prostration, could hardly move about.

Mind
Very talkative, hilarious and *excited Keeps quiet. Anger. Transient mania from cerebral
irritation. Indifferent to pleasurable things. Averse to company. Fear of going into a crowd.

Head
Throbbing headache with sensitive scalp. Headache, shooting, aching from vertex down over
the sides of the head; with *earache; better nosebleed, cold application. Ill effects of heat of
sun. Head often feels as if pushed forward while walking; with vertigo. Empty sensation in the
head, during menses.

Eyes
Red, inflamed with burning sensation. Feeling of a tiny particle in upper eyelid. Encysted
tumours of the eyelids. Eyes suffused, cannot see on stooping.

Ears
*Violent earache: acute otitis media when Bell fails. Deafness; from colds, worse during
menses. Tinnitus worse lying.

Nose
Epistaxis. Bright red blood; in children. Controls soreness and bleeding after operations.

Face
Pales and reddens alternately. Hot cheeks with toothache.

Mouth
Hot. Toothache better cold.

Throat
Tonsils red and swollen. Sore throat of singers. Pain worse empty swallowing. Soreness after
operation.

Stomach
Vomits; ingesta; at irregular times; of undigested food; green matter. Haematemesis. Sour
eructations. Aversion to meat and milk. Desires sour things.

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Abdomen
Distended; intolerance of clothes. Chronic diarrhoea. *Stools; of bloody water; of yellow
water. Dysentery with fever. Summer diarrhoea.

Urinary
Diurnal enuresis better lying down. Urine spurts, with every cough. Urinates after every drink.
Urine retained, in children, during fever.

Female
Menses; early; every three weeks; with heavy pain on vertex. Vagina dry and hot. Pain during
coition. Vaginismus.

Respiratory
Laryngitis; with hoarseness; of *singers. Short painful, tickling, hacking, tormenting,
spasmodic cough worse morning and evening. Haemoptysis; of pure blood; in pneumonia;
after concussion or fall. Chest heavy, sore or *congested. Pleurisy; stitching pain worse
coughing and deep breathing.

Heart
Palpitations; with rapid pulse. ***FULL, ***SOFT FLOWING PULSE.

Neck and Back

*Crick in neck and back.

Extremities
Rheumatism attacking one joint after another; worse slightest motion. Sore bruised pain in
*shoulders extending to chest and wrist. Wrists ache with loss of power to grasp. Palms hot;
in children. Jerking in limbs. Omodynia. Sprains of the elbows. Hands swollen and painful.

Fever
Chill, with desire to stretch; at 1 p.m. Heat with sweaty hands. *Fevers; continued; infectious,
*pneumonia; intermittent; measles; haemorrhagic.

Skin
Measles. Acne.

Sleep.
Drowsiness. Restless and sleepless.

Better
Cold application. Bleeding. Lying down.

Worse
*Night. 4‐6 a.m. Motion. Noise. Jar. Cold air. Touch. *Checked sweat. Cold drinks and sour
food. Meat. Herring. Coffee. Cake.

Related
Gels.

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Complementary
Kali‐m.

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Ferrum Picricum [Ferr‐pic]

Generalities
It is a very useful remedy for senile hypertrophy of the prostate gland; with frequent urination
at night, with full feeling and pressure in rectum. Smarting at neck of the bladder and penis.
Retention of urine.

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Fluoricum Acidum [Fl‐ac]

Generalities
Destructiveness is the keynote of this acid. It produces slow deeply destructive effects,caries
of bones esp. long bones; ulcerations, bedsores; varicose veins. It is suitable to complaints of
old age or prematurely aged. Pale, miserable, *cachectic, *flabby and broken down patients.
*Always feels too hot; *wants to bathe in cold water. Tissues are *puffy, *indurated and
fistulous. Discharges are *thin; *foul, *acrid or salty, causing itching. Oedema. Felon. Naevi.
Secondary syphilis. Increased ability to exercise his muscles, without fatigue, regardless of
most excessive heat of summer or cold of winter. Numbness; of the part not lain on; in brain
diseases, spinal affections. Calcareous degeneration. Naevus, flat. Suffering if the call for
evacuation is not immediately attended to. Dropsy; with numbness or without. Goitre.

Mind
*Impulse to walk fast; necessity to be always on the move. Aversion; to his own family, to
those loved best; becomes interested and converses pleasantly with strangers. Inability to
realize responsibility. Depression of mind. Stands on the street ogling the women as they pass
by, so great is his lust. Elated and gay. Sits silently, does not utter a single word, nor answers
when questioned.

Head
Stunning headache, better urinating. Pressure in occiput. Pain along the sutures. *Puffy
glabella. Falling out of hair; after fevers. Brittle, tousy hair.

Eyes
Sensation as of a cold wind blowing through the eyes. Fistula lachrymalis. As if something in
the eyes, that could not be rubbed off; must wink. Left eye smaller than right.

Ears
Deafness better bending head back.

Nose
Fluent coryza; during sleep. Sneezing, with salivation.

Face
Heat in face, wants to wash it in cold water. Pale.

Mouth
Teeth; decay rapidly; worse at roots; feel warm. Thin enamel. Dental fistula. Tongue; fissured
in all directions; painful when talking. Late dentition. Ulcer on and under tongue.

Stomach
Desire for pungent, spicy, highly seasoned food; cold water; warm drinks produce diarrhoea.
Gnawing hunger, is always eating which temporarily relieves. Stale eructations. Bilious
vomiting on slightest errors in diet. Stomach symptoms better tight clothes. Averse to coffee.

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Abdomen
Soreness over liver. Warm drinks and salmon produce diarrhoea. Itching and burning at anus.
Sensation of emptiness at the region of navel, with a desire to draw a deep breath better
bandaging. Ascites; from hepatic disorders; induration, enlargement and portal congestion .

Urinary
Upward drawing in the urethra. Urine; scanty, dark. Increases urine in dropsy.

Male
Increased sexual desire; in old men. Violent erections at night. Oily pungent smelling sweat
on genitals. Oedema, of scrotum. Varicocele. He stands on the street ogling the women as
they pass by, so great is his lust. Enjoyment excessive.

Female
Menses; too early, copious, frequent, too long. Metrorrhagia, with difficulty of breathing.
Copious excoriating leucorrhoea. Nymphomania. Nipples sore, cracked. Feels distressed if the
flow is slightly delayed.

Respiratory
Oppression in chest better bending backwards. Hydrothorax. Difficulty of breathing; with or
alternating with metrorrhagia.

Extremities
Felon. As of a splinter under the nail. Nails distorted, crumble, grow rapidly. Dropsy of limbs
in old feeble constitutions. Feeling of hair on back of fingers. Constant redness of the hands
esp. the palms. Ulcers over tibia. Hot sweaty palms. Soreness between toes. Corns sore.

Sleep
Sensation as if sleeping on side not lain on.

Fever
Ebullitions of heat with pain in bones. *Acrid, *eroding sweat; *excites itching. Sweat on
hands and feet. Nightly fevers coming on periodically. One sided sweat (left). Sweat on
diseased part.

Skin
*Varicose veins. Feels as if hot vapour were emitted from all the pores. Dry, harsh, itching or
cracked skin. Scars; surrounded by pimples; become red around the edges. Keloids.

Better
***Cool BATHING. *Rapid motion. Short sleep. Bending head back. Eating.

Worse
***HEAT; of room. Night. Alcohol, (Red wine). Sour foods.

Related
Calc‐s; Puls; Sul‐ac.

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Complementary
Sil.

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Formica Rufa [Form]

Generalities
Tincture is prepared from crushed live red ants. It is an arthritic remedy; for *sudden
rheumatic or gouty pains. Tuberculosis. Complaints from over‐lifting. Checks the formation of
polypi. Atrophy of wounds. Takes cold easily. Carcinoma. It affects spine; liver; kidneys and
right side. Checked foot sweat; chorea from.

Mind
Exhilarated; after pain. Forgetful in the evening. Morose; fearful.

Head
Brain feels too heavy and large. Headache better after combing hair. As if bubbles bursting in
forehead.

Eyes
Pain in the eyes on waking, better washing.

Ears
Cracking in ear, with headache. Polypus. Parts around ear feel swollen.

Nose
Coryza and stopped up feeling. Polypus.

Throat
Pain in neck when hawking or gargling.

Stomach
Pain shifts from stomach to vertex. Water tastes sweetish.

Abdomen
Drawing pain around navel before stools. Light foaming stools.

Urinary
Quantity of urine increased_double. Urine like saffron.

Female
Ovarian cysts containing water, or blood.

Respiratory
Nervous asthma. Cough mostly at night.

Neck and Back

Pain in neck when chewing, esp. on closing jaws.

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Extremities
Sudden rheumatic pains with restlessness. Weakness of lower extremities. Paraplegia.
Muscles feel strained and torn from their attachment. Hands numb. Hard nodes around joints
in and out.

Fever
*Profuse sweat without relief.

Skin
Red, itching and burning. Hives in flat plaques. Wounds that atrophy.

Better
Rubbing. Combing hair. Pressure. Warmth. After midnight.

Worse
*Cold; wet. Motion. Before snow‐storms.

Related
Rhus‐t; Urt‐u.

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Fraxinus Americanus [Frax]

Generalities
It is an uterine tonic; for nervous females. It is apt to be a useful remedy for all types of uterine
displacements and fibroids. Said to be the medical pessary of the first order.

Mind
Depression with nervous restlessness and anxiety. Must talk.

Head
Hot spot or dryness on *vertex. Throbbing pain in occiput.

Abdomen
Heavy bearing down, extending to the thighs, or falling out sensation; with fibroids.

Female
Uterus enlarged; heavy, prolapsed. Dysmenorrhoea. Profuse menses or leucorrhoea.
Subinvolution. Sensitive ovary (left).

Extremities
Cramps in feet; after midnight.

Fever
Cold creeping and hot flushes.

Skin
Infantile eczema.

Worse
Injury. Sprains. Lifting.

Dose
Ten to fifteen drops of tincture 3 times a day.

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Gambogia [Gamb]

Generalities
The action of this medicine is confined to *stomach and ***BOWELS. *Burnings in different
organs are prominent. Body feels sore all over.

Mind
Cheerful and talkative. Irritable.

Eyes
Burning in eyes; itching of eyelids; he rubs them; lids stick together, with sneezing.

Nose
Violent chronic sneezing, in daytime only.

Mouth
Feeling of coldness at the edge of teeth. Burning, smarting and dryness of tongue and throat.

Abdomen
Burning in liver. *Pinching, *gurgling in bowels, then sudden yellow or *green, ***THIN
STOOLS COMING OUT *In prolonged gushes; with *burning at anus; *and much relief
Vomiting and purging with fainting.

Urine
Urine smells like onions.

Better
*After stools.

Worse
Motion in open air. After stools.

Related
Crot‐t.

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Gelsemium [Gels]

Generalities
*Gels. centres its action upon the ***MUSCLES and ***MOTOR NERVES. In muscles it causes
*overpowering ***ACHING; ***TIREDNESS; ***HEAVINESS; ***WEAKNESS AND SORENESS
esp. felt in the muscles of the extremities. Affection of motor nerves produce all types of
*functional paralysis_of eyes, throat larynx, anus, bladder etc. or ***TREMORS or twitchings;
of single muscles, face, *chin, tongue etc. Circulation becomes sluggish causing passive
*arterial or *venous congestion; with *sense of fulness and heaviness in different organs;
heart, liver etc. Catarrh of ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES cause watery discharges. General state
of paresis, bodily and mental. Complete relaxation and prostration. Wants to lie down quietly;
half reclined; wants to be held. *Dullness; *dizziness, *drowsiness; *eye or visual effects;
tremors; and *polyuria; one or two of these symptoms usually accompany most of the
diseased conditions in which *Gels. is indicated. Inco‐ordination of muscles, which do not
obey the will. Chorea of pregnancy. Convulsions; hysterical. Nervous affections of cigar
makers. Body feels light in onanists or hysterical subjects. Influenza. Measles. Pellagra. Post
diphtheritic paralysis. Paralysis agitans. Ill effects of fright, fear, depressing emotions, anger,
bad news, unpleasant surprise. Masturbation, traumatic shock. Alternate pelvic organ
symptoms with head symptoms. Weak, tired, delicate, timid, excitable, easy to anger persons,
children and adolescents. Never well since the flu. Coma, and apoplexy; sub‐arachnoid.

Mind
Confusion; acts as if crazy. Dazed. Apathetic. Desire to be quiet or left alone. Wants to throw
himself from a height. ***DREAD; *of falling, of *ordeals, death, pain. Indifferent regarding
his illness. Answers slowly. Cataleptic immobility, with dilated pupils, closed eyes but
conscious. Child starts, grasps the nurse and screams as if afraid of falling. Discerning power
slow. Effects of grief, cannot cry; broods over her loss.

Head
***VERTIGO; spreads from occiput; as if drunk, with visual symptoms. Dull ***HEAVY or
band‐like headache; around the occiput; to over eyes; t tight cap; better shaking; lying with
head high; after profuse urination. Swelled feeling in head. Meningitis_congestive stage; pain
at the back of head and dilated pupils. Pressure pain from the vertex to shoulders. Pain in
temples extending into ear, wing of nose and chin. Soreness of the scalp. Apoplexy; sub‐
arachnoid. Blood rushes from the occiput to the forehead. Hot, with cold limbs. Migraine
beings at 2 or 3 a.m. t in the afternoon. Cannot hold erect. Fontanelle pulsate strongly.

Eyes
Pupils dilated. ***HEAVY DROOPING EYELIDS. *Diplopia; when looking sideways, during
pregnancy. Blind spells. Sight dim or swimming. Photomania. Affections of vision before
migraine. Eyes; red sore *aching, suffused. Detached retina; from injury, or myopia.
Glaucoma. Orbital neuralgia with contraction and twitching of muscles. Amaurosis from
masturbation. Hysterical amblyopia. Eye pains extend to *occiput. Retinitis. Gauze before.
Corrects discomfort in eyes even after accurately adjusted glasses. Vitreous hazy.

Ears
Sudden loss of hearing for a short time. Pain while swallowing. Impaired hearing from cold.
Nose

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Stuffed. *Coryza, *with thin acrid watery discharge. Sensation as if hot water flowing from
the nostrils. Summer cold. *Sneezing, early morning.

Face
Hot, heavy, *full, *dusky red; besotted or expressionless. Chin quivers. Lower jaw dropped.
Lower jaw wags sideways. Paralysis.

Mouth
Tongue; heavy, *numb, partially paralysed; *speech thick, as if drunk, he can hardly speak.
Saliva coloured yellow as from blood. Tongue, numb, trembles while protruding. Thick yellow
coating on tongue. Muscles around the mouth seem contracted.

Throat
Swallowing difficult. Paralytic dysphagia esp. worse from warm food. Swallowing causes pain
into the ear. Feeling of a painful lump in throat that cannot be swallowed, in hysterical
women. Pain from throat to the ear. Tonsillitis. Post‐diphtheritic paralysis. Sore throat during
menses. Paralytic dysphagia after cerebral apoplexy.

Stomach
Usually *thirstless; but thirst with sweat. Little appetite but can take food or drink. Feeling of
emptiness or weakness in the stomach, or bowels. Cramps in stomach, worse riding or sitting
erect. Hiccough, worse evening.

Abdomen
Passive congestion of liver. Griping in the gall bladder. Periodical colic. Copious yellow stools.
Diarrhoea; painless; in nervous persons; after sudden emotions as grief, fright, bad news
anticipation of an unusual ordeal. Stools, cream coloured; tea‐ green. Paralysis of sphincter
ani. Prolapse or rectal pains after labour. Involuntary stools.

Urinary
Profuse, clear, watery urine; with chill and trembling, better headache. Incontinence from
excitement; from paralysis of sphincter. Alternate dysuria and enuresis. Flow intermittent.
Retention. Constant urination; hysterical.

Male
Involuntary emissions without erections. Genitals cold, relaxed. Dragging pain in testes.
Profuse warm sweat on scrotum. Sexual power exhausted, slightest caress causes an
emission.

Female
*Uterus heavy sore; feels as if squeezed (anteflexion). Dysmenorrhoea; with scanty flow;
pains extend to back and hips. Labour pains go up; backward or down the thighs. Deep yellow
leucorrhoea; with aching across lower part of the back. Os rigid. False labour pains.
Threatened abortion from sudden depressing emotions. As of a wave from uterus to throat,
with choking feeling,_impedes labour. Nervous chills_first stage of labour. Coition difficult
from contraction of vaginal muscles. Epileptiform convulsions at menstrual period or from
suppressed menses. Twitching of muscles of the whole body with drowsiness, before
puerperal convulsions. Severe after pains.

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Respiratory
Hoarseness; during menses; in hysteria or after depressing emotions. Tiresome, slow
breathing. As of a lump behind the chest. Spasms of glottis; long crowing inspiration, sudden
and forcible expiration. Dry cough, with sore chest and fluent coryza. Burning in larynx and
chest, when coughing.

Heart
Sore. Feeling as if heart would stop beating, if she did not move about. Pulse *slow, *soft,
weak, *full and flowing. Weak slow pulse; of old age. Pain in heart on rising from seat.

Neck and Back

Neck feels bruised, unable to hold the head. *Dull pain up and down in spine; better walking;
with occipital pains. *Pains under scapula.

Extremities
Hard aching in humerus (right). Hands; hot dry numb esp. palms. Wants hands in cool water.
Cramps in muscles of the forearm. Professional neurosis. Writer’s cramp. Heavy lower limbs.
Excessive trembling and weakness of limbs. *Knees weak worse descending; *tottering gait;
cannot direct his legs. Coldness of wrists and hands. Feeling of partial luxation of patella when
walking.

Sleep
***DROWSINESS. Starts on falling to sleep. Heavy stupid sleep. Sleepiness of students.
Sleeplessness from mental excitement; thinking or tobacco.

Fever
*Chill with aching and languor; mixed *with heat or alternating with heat; *chill up and down
back. Cold hands and feet. *Heat_*with drowsiness, ***THIRST ABSENT; with trembling. Cold
sweat. Bilious remittent; malarial; typhoid; cerebro‐spinal fevers. *Measles. Nervous,
shuddering, chill; preceded by visual disturbances.

Skin
Hot dry; *moist; *yellow.

Better
*Profuse urination; *sweating. *Shaking. *Alcoholic drinks. Mental efforts. Bending forwards.
Continued motion. Afternoon. Reclining, with head held high.

Worse
***EMOTIONS. ***DREAD *Shocks. *Ordeals. Motion. Surprise. *Weather ***HUMID;
***SPRING; *foggy. *Heat of sun; summer. Periodically. Tobacco. Thunderstorms. Cold_damp
weather. Dentition. When thinking of his ailments.

Complementary
Arg‐n; Sep.

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Glonoin [Glon]

Generalities
Nitro‐glycerine is an explosive substance, therefore its action is quick and violent; with
bursting and expansion; a tempestuous remedy. It acts upon the ***CIRCULATION where it
causes ***VIOLENT PULSATIONS, ***EBULLITIONS and *irregular congestions. ***BLOOD
RUSHES UPWARDS. General pulsations; with numbness. Bursting, expansion or *enlarged (or
even being smaller), feeling in different organs; eyes; head; tongue etc. Pains that come long
after injuries. Convulsions; epileptiform, from cerebral congestion or suppressed menses.
Burning in small areas or single parts. Climacteric disturbances. Clothing seems tight. Ill effects
of sun heat, bright snow; fire heat; fear or fright. Old scars break out again. Sunstroke.
Apoplexy. Working under electric or gas light. Eclampsia. Sea‐sickness. Walks in shade or with
an umbrella.

Mind
Loses senses, sinks down unconscious. Confused, bewildered loses himself in well‐known
localities. Frantic, with pain, attempts to run away or jump out of a window. Shudders and
weeps during intermissions of pain. Fears she has been poisoned. Shock, sudden attacks of
terror, dares not go out into the street. Recognizes nobody; repulses her husband and
children. Disinclined to speak.

Head
***WAVES OF TERRIBLE, ***BURSTING, ***POUNDING, ***HEADACHE; with feeling as if
standing on the head; with expanding and contracting sensation or as if blood were surging
back and forth in the head; from carotids to heart; better vomiting, alternating between
temples worse sunshine, damp days. Cracking, snapping, shocks, explosions or soreness deep
in brain. Head heavy but cannot lay it on a pillow. Headache before, during, after or in place
of menses. Numb; sore; hot; *vertex. Veins of temples swelled. Headache better from long
sleep. Holds the head tightly. As if skull were too small for the brain.

Eyes
Red, lower eyeballs or lids. Eyes protrude, look wild. Eyes, upturned or rolled outwards and
upwards, in convulsions. Sees everything half light and half dark. Lids stick to ball. Blind spells.
Eyes sunken. Eyes dry. Lids red. Black specks, sparks, flashes, before the eyes. Letters appear
smaller.

Ears
Throbbing; each heart beat is heard in the ears. Sharp shooting behind ears. Mastoiditis.
Deafness; paralysis of auditory nerve.

Nose
Bleeding on going out in the heat of sun.

Face
*Bluish. Flushed, hot. Pain at the root of the nose. Chin feels too long. Pain in malar bones,
ending in headache. Lower lip feels swollen; or numb. Jaws clenched in sunstroke.

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Mouth
Throbbing pain in teeth; teeth feel elongated. Tongue; heavy; cannot protrude straight;
conversation difficult with confused ideas. Saliva; increased; thick, in a.m. Froth at mouth.

Throat
Feels swelled; collars must be opened.

Stomach
Nausea and vomiting. Horrible faint feeling at the pit of stomach; with throbbing. Rumbling
in hypogastrium esp. Worse lying on left side. Diarrhoea, with sudden stoppage of menses.

Urinary
Profuse pale, albuminous urine; more frequent at night.

Female
Climacteric flushing. Headaches after profuse menses. Sudden cessation of menses with
congestion to head. Eclampsia. Throbbing pain begins in breast (left), darts suddenly to head
worse motion.

Respiratory
Heavy laboured breathing. As of a load on chest. Takes deep breath. Sighing. Numbness
moves upwards in chest and down left arm. Oppression of chest alternating, with headache.

Heart
*Violent palpitation; throbbing carotids. Heart seems full, quivers. Pulsations in the whole
body to the finger tips. Purring noise at the region of the heart. Cardiac pain radiates to all
parts, towards arms worse leaning back or taking wine. Full tense pulse. Venous pulse. Boiling
sensation in the region.

Neck and Back

Neck feels full and stiff; weak and tired; cannot support the head. Hot sensation down back;
along spine; burning between the scapulae.

Extremities
Trembling hands. Knees give way. Thighs and knees weak and knock together, during
headache. Unsteady gait. Fingers and toes spread apart during convulsions. Sciatica better
flexing legs on abdomen.

Sleep
Awakes with fear of apoplexy.

Fever
Heat with hot sweat. As if warm water running upward from nape of neck. Flushes of heat.

Skin
Itching all over, worse the extremities.

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Better
*Open air. *Elevating head. Cold things; cold application.

Worse
***HEAT ON HEAD; ***OF SUN. Overheated. ***HOT WEATHER. ***MOTION. ***JARRING,
***SHAKING. Bending head back. *Injury. *Suppressed menses. Fruits. Weight of a hat. Wine.
*Gas light *Cutting hair. Peaches.

Related
Amyl‐n; Bell.

Complementary
Bell.

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Gnaphalium [Gnaph]

Generalities
This remedy is mainly used in the affections of the Sciatic nerve; though it has some useful
abdominal and female symptoms. Offensive diarrhoea with colic worse morning. Weight and
heaviness in pelvis. Dysmenorrhoea, with scanty menses and very painful the first day.
*Intense sciatic pain; alternating with or followed by numbness worse lying down, motion,
stepping; better by flexing the limbs on abdomen, by sitting in a chair. Lumbago with
numbness of part and weight and heaviness in pelvis. Anterior crural neuralgia. Pain in joints
as if they lacked oil.

Better
Flexing limbs. Sitting; in a chair.

Worse
Walking. Lying. Cold damp.

Related
Coloc.

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Gossypium [Goss]

Generalities
In ordinary practice it was used as a powerful emmenagogue; but in homoeopathy it
corresponds to many *reflex conditions dependent upon disturbed uterine function and
pregnancy. Nausea; with flow of saliva and inclination to vomit, in the morning; before
breakfast, with sensitive uterine region. Sensitive stomach with much gas. Vomits on motion
or raising up. Hyperemesis. Intermittent pain in ovaries, extending towards uterus. *Uterine
torpor, sterility from. Sensitive womb. Menses; late, scanty, watery. Subinvolution. Fibroids.
Tumours in breast with swelling of axillary glands. Pain in neck. Menses tardy with sensation
that the flow is about to start yet does not do so.

Worse
Motion.

Related
Senec; Ust.

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Graphites [Graph]

Generalities
It is a mineral carbon in which there is a small percentage of iron. It affects the *nutrition in a
peculiar way; it is a remedy for those persons who have a tendency to put on unhealthy fat
or for those who begin to emaciate. *Circulation is affected, causing irregular distribution of
blood, producing rushes of blood esp. to the head; flushing and pallor of the skin and the
mucous membranes. Its chief action is on the ***SKIN esp. at *flexures or folds of skin, muco‐
cutaneous junction; *behind the ears. It produces ***THICKENING and ***INDURATION of
*skin; glands; tarsi, nail, *scars. Thick *crusts are formed on the skin. Tendency to callosities.
It has a tendency to produce ***EXCORIATIONS; ***CRACKS or ***FISSURES; at muco‐
cutaneous junction; of eyes, nostrils, mouth, *anus, nipples, fingertips,*folds of skin. The
patient is usually *fat, *relaxed; *chilly and costive. *Discharges are, *thin, *foul, *scanty, and
*acrid. *Sourness; of taste, eructations, stools, urine, *blood about teeth etc. Haemorrhages
are watery. *Emaciation; of suffering parts. Sensation of *burning, numbness and deadness.
Pains go to parts not lain on. General sense of uneasiness, tremulousness; which extort
groans. Sudden sinking of strength. Frequently feels faint with partial loss of senses. Aids
absorption of cicatricial tissues. Eradicates tendency to erysipelas. Contractions; of muscles.
Ill effects of grief, fear, overlifting. Cataleptic conditions; consciousness but without power to
move or speak. Infiltrations. Cramps and burning in different places. Alternate digestive and
skin symptoms. *Supersensitive to cold. *Cold, which worse bone‐pains; coryza and stomach.
Cancerous diathesis; in old cicatrices. Paralysis or sensation of paralysis. Tendency to grow
cystic tumours; wens. Dropsy; oedema.

Mind
*Sad; *fearsome; *irresolute, hesitates at trifles. Impulse to groan. Timid. Dread of work.
Fidgety, while sitting at work. Feels miserable and unhappy. Weeps; without cause, from
music. Forgetful, makes mistakes in speaking and writing. Child impudent, teasing, laughing
at reprimands. Thinks of nothing, but death. Remembers all the events of youth, recent
events are forgotten. Fatigue from scientific labour.

Head
Vertigo worse looking upwards, reading or sewing. Rush of blood to head, with flushed face
and feeling of heat. Brain feels numb. Head feels numb and pithy. Skin of forehead as if drawn
into folds. As of a cobweb on forehead. Heavy weight or dull pressure at the occiput; as if
head is drawn back. Pressive pain or *burning spot on vertex. Headache with nausea, during
menses. Matted, brittle or falling hair worse vertex and sides. Milk crusts. Eczema capitis;
scabs sore to touch. Bald spots.

Eyes
Shuns daylight. *Photophobia. Ophthalmia. Eyelids red and swollen. Sore or cracked outer
canthi. Ingrown lashes. Sight vanishes during menses. Inflamed or dry, scaly or pale tarsi.
Recurrent Keratitis. Eyelids fissured; eczema of. Phlyctenae. Hot tears. Eyelids heavy and
falling. Letters appear double, when writing; seem together when reading. Cystic tumours on
eyelids.

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Ears
Dryness of inner ear. Thin, white scaly membrane covering the tympanum. *Moisture and
eruptions behind the ears. Briny otorrhoea. As of hard body behind ear. Deafness_hears
better in a noise. Tinnitus_hissing, detonation like report of a gun. Feel stuffed at full moon.
As if air inside; as if filled with water. Snapping after every eructation.

Nose
Dryness; with loss of smell. Nosebleed with rush of blood to the head; worse before menses.
Colds at menses. Smell acute; cannot bear the smell of flowers. Stuffed coryza. Scabs and
fissures in the nostrils. Sneezing on opening the eyes. Coryza from cold. Painful internally.
Chronic catarrh. Discharge offensive esp. during menses. Excoriated.

Face
As of a cobweb on the face. Pale, bloated, haggard, flushed. Acne before the menses. Lips
cracked and sore. Moist eczema around the mouth and nose. Barber’s Itch. Facial paralysis,
with distortion of muscles and difficult speech. Formication on lips, during menses. Painful
nodules on the lower jaw. Falling of hair from chin.

Mouth
Angles of the mouth ulcerated. Taste; sour; like rotten eggs. Breath smells like urine. *Dots of
thick white fur on tongue. Burning blisters on tongue. Easy bleeding and swelling of the gums.
Sour; foul odour from the mouth. Blood from teeth, tastes sour. Salivation; at night. Teeth on
edge.

Throat
Nodulated goitre. *Choking, on swallowing, from goitre. As of a lump in throat t empty
swallowing; urging to swallow; from constant spasms. Chronic sore throat. Tonsils enlarged.
As if food would not go down, from spasms.

Stomach
Aversion to meat, fish, cooked food, salt, sweets. Hot drinks disagree. Excessive hunger or no
appetite; worse when hungry. Sour or foul eructations. Burning in stomach; causing hunger;
better by eating; hot drinks esp. milk; lying down. Morning sickness during menses. Vomiting;
sour; of food. Periodical gastralgia, with vomiting of food immediately after eating, stomach
t by cold. Cancer of pylorus. Vomiting and purging, and icy cold sweat, with headache.

Abdomen
*Flatulence. Cannot bear tight clothes around the waist. *Abdomen distended; as from
incarcerated flatus. Cramp like pain in abdomen, with deficient secretion of urine; at night.
Pain as if intestines were torn. *Stools; *large, *knotty; *difficult; *stringy; slimy coated; or
loose, brown, lienteric and very foul. *Intestinal torpor, constipation for days. Fissures at
anus; cutting pain during stool; followed by constriction and aching for several hours; bleed
and ulcerate. Stools or masses of mucus; stools slender; pasty. Easy prolapse of rectum. Piles;
pain worse sitting down, or on taking a wide step. Itching of anus and pudenda, before
menses. Smarting sore pain in anus on wiping it. Diarrhoea, from slightest indiscretion in
eating. Tape worms.

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Urinary
Urine; sour smelling; turbid; stream slender. Pain in sacrum or os coccyx while urinating.
Stricture of urethra.

Male
Sexual debility, with increased desire. Averse to coition. Ejaculation; too early or failing during
coition. Want of sexual enjoyment. Hydrocele Priapism. Cramps in calves during coition.
Impotence from excessive indulgence or masturbation.

Female
Great aversion to coition. Menses; *late, scanty, pale, irregular, painful. Swelling and hardness
of ovary (left) worse after menses. Induration of ovaries and mammae. Hoarseness, coryza,
cough, morning sickness and sweats, swelling of feet or headache, during menses.
Leucorrhoea; pale, thin, profuse, excoriating, in gushes, with weakness in back; worse before
and after menses. Leucorrhoea in place of menses. Cancer of mammae, from old cicatrices;
remaining after mammary abscess. Nipples; sore, cracked and blistered. Pain in the uterus
when reaching high with arms. Retroversion of uterus; heaviness in hypogastrium with cutting
pain down thighs; uterus feels coming out through vagina. Vagina; dry, hot or cold.
Eczematous eruptions around the vulva.

Respiratory
Constriction of chest, as if too narrow, as if about to suffocate when falling asleep; jumps out
of bed, takes hold of something and must eat something; worse after midnight. Cramps in the
chest. Voice lacks control better using it. Hoarseness as soon as he starts singing. Voice husky.
No control on modulation of voice better if continues to talk. Asthma; spasmodic, suffocative
paroxysms, which wakes one from sleep better eating. Dry troublesome cough, with sweat
on face. Lachrymation worse taking deep breath.

Heart
As of an electric shock from heart to neck. Strong pulsations in the whole body. Palpitation of
heart, with anxiety; with nosebleed. Cold feeling in precordium. Pulse slows during day, fast
in the morning.

Neck and Back

Pain in the nape of neck and shoulders t looking up and stooping the head. Sacral pains with
crawling. Numbness of sacrum, down the legs. Pain in the lumbar region as if vertebrae were
broken.

Extremities
Burnings; cramps, jerking. Burning pressure beneath the arm pit. Arms and legs go to sleep.
Hands or feet either hot or cold. Paralysed feeling in the limbs. Oedema of legs. Nails; thick;
rough, crippled, crumbling, ingrown. Horny callosities on hands; with cracks. Pain in thumb
joint as if sprained. Cannot stretch enough. Excoriation of thighs while walking. Cracks and
fissures in tips of fingers. Bunions worse fire heat, better pressure. Burning in soles and heels.
Feet cold, wet. Feet become cold, with foul *excoriating sweat worse evening. Toes become
wet from sweat.

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Sleep
Excessively tired and sleepy. Sleeplessness till midnight. Sleepy during day. Horrible dreams.
Does not feel fresh in the morning.

Fever
Sweats often on front of the body only. Sweat; offensive, sour, stains yellow, and cold. Entire
inability to sweat. Recurrent periodical fever. Chill in the evening worse eating better open
air and drinking water. Wants covers in all stages of fever.

Skin
Rawness in the folds of the skin. Eruptions; cracked, moist and bleed easily worse on head;
behind the ears. *Skin, ***DRY, *rough; *irritable; *that breaks easily and exudes a gluey
moisture, worse in folds, *and slow to heal. ***MOIST, ***CRUSTY *eruptions. Eczema; anal,
crural, palmar. Wandering or *recurrent erysipelas. *Foul, *acrid, *foot sweat; *chafes the
toes. Eruptions worse from heat. Old scars ulcerate. Burning in old cicatrices. Old scars, with
indurated base and margins, with burning.

Better
Open air; after walking in. Hot drinks, esp. milk. Eating. Eructations. Touch.

Worse
*Cold; draughts. *Light. *During and after menses. Motion. *Suppression; of eruptions; of
secretions. Empty swallowing. Fats. Hot drinks. Warmth of bed. *Night. Wet feet. Scratching.

Related
Calc‐fl; Carb‐an; Carb‐v; Kali‐b; Puls.

Complementary
Ars; Caust; Ferr; Hep; Lyc. Sulph.

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Gratiola [Grat]

Generalities
Though this remedy acts especially on the *gastro‐intestinal tract; it has some mental and
sexual symptoms also. *Paralytic pains and feeling of coldness esp. in the abdomen are
marked symptoms. Neuralgia due to abuse of coffee. Mental effects from overweening pride.
Nervous prostration.

Mind
Weak will. Ill humour; tired of life, want of perseverance. Apprehensive of future. Hysteria.
Nymphomania. Hypochondriasis.

Head
Rush of blood, with vanishing of sight. Vertigo, during or after meals. Forehead wrinkled
during headache. Sensation as if brain were contracted and head became smaller.

Eyes
All objects seem white, even green trees.

Stomach
Emptiness after eating. As of a cold water or *loose heavy load in stomach. Craves nothing
but bread.

Abdomen
*Profuse, *yellowish, *green, *gushing, *watery or *frothy exhausting diarrhoea, with,
coldness in the abdomen, followed by soreness or burning of anus. Summer diarrhoea, from
drinking of excess of water.

Male
Painful rigidity of the penis, after seminal emission; nightly.

Female
Tendency to masturbation; nymphomania. Menses; too profuse; premature and too long.
Leucorrhoea, persistent. Darting pain in mammae (right) when stooping, during menses.

Heart
Palpitation; after stools, with oppression of chest.

Neck and Back

Pain in coccyx, after stool. Neck as if seized by hands.

Extremities
Limb gives way with sciatic pain.

Better
Open air.

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Worse
Eating. *Drinking too much water hot or cold. Summer. Motion. Abuse of coffee. Dinner.

Related
Mag‐c.

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Grindelia [Grin]

Generalities
It produces paresis of the pneumo‐gastric nerve interfering with respiration and producing
profuse secretion in bronchial tubes. *Suffocation on falling to sleep or on awakening. Asthma
and emphysema with dilated heart. Rattling breathing. Bronchorrhoea with tenacious,
whitish expectoration. Cannot breathe when lying down. Cutting sore pain in the region of
spleen extending to hips. Spleen enlarged. Cheyne Stroke respiration.

Worse
Falling to sleep. Motion. In the dark.

Related
Lach.

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Guaiacum [Guai]

Generalities
It chiefly acts on fibrous tissue of joints, a useful remedy for *arthritic diathesis. Muscles and
tendons are contracted resulting in painful, rigidity and swelling of the joints. ***FREE FOUL,
***SECRETIONS; expectoration, sweat, etc. *Hastens suppuration in abscesses. Tonsillitis
with rheumatism. *Burning heat; in affected part. Gnawing or sticking pains; in chest.
*Muscles seem too short_eyelids, back, thigh etc. or *feel sore. *Contractions between
scapulae; palms etc.; causing distortions; and immobility. *Growing pains. Short tendons.
Nodes. Unclean odour of the body. Clothes feel damp. Pains often end in stitch esp. head.
Bones become spongy or suppurate. Progressive emaciation. Feeling that he must yawn,
stretch, with uneasy feeling in the whole body. Exostosis.

Worse
***HEAT. *Touch. *Motion. Exertion. Rapid *growth. *Mercury. 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. Puberty.
Cold damp weather.

Better
Cold (locally). Apples. Yawning and stretching.

Mind
*Forgetful esp. for names. Strong desire to criticise and despise everything. Thoughtless
staring. Indolent, obstinate, fretful.

Head
Pains extend to neck; often ending in stitch. Brain feels loose. Headache better walking,
pressure; worse sitting, standing.

Eyes
Eyeballs seem too big to be covered by the eyelids. Hard pimples around the eyes.
Exophthalmos.

Face
Neuralgia of the left side of the face daily from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. Face like an old person.

Throat
*Dry, *burning, painful to touch; acute tonsillitis. Sharp stitches towards the ear on
swallowing; cannot swallow without a drink; recurrent tonsillitis; then rheumatism.

Stomach
Thick white fur on tongue. Aversion to milk; to all food; could not eat anything. Desire for
apples, which relieves the gastric symptoms. Burning in stomach. Vomits a mass of watery
mucus, then exhaustion. Stomach affections return every summer.

Abdomen
Sensation of constriction or stoppage in epigastrium; causing cough, dyspnoea etc. Cholera
infantum, face like an old person, emaciation. Distension, flatulent.

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Urinary
Continuous urging even after urination. Sharp stitches while or after urination.

Male
Seminal emissions without dreams. Discharge from urethra.

Female
Ovaritis in rheumatic persons, with irregular menses, and dysmenorrhoea with irritable
bladder. Cold crawling over mammae. Shuddering in the mammae with gooseflesh.

Respiratory
Feels suffocated from stoppage at epigastrium, causes dry cough, frequently repeated, until
expectoration appears. Foetid breath after coughing. Pleuritic stitches worse deep breathing.
Recurrent pleurisy. Stitching in apex of (left) lung. Phthisis. Pain in the chest while riding in
the open air, better pressure and walking, worse sitting and standing.

Neck and Back

Stiff neck and sore shoulders. One sided stiffness of back from neck to sacrum. Constrictive
pain between the scapulae.

Extremities
Tense, short thigh muscles better sitting. Pricking in buttocks, as if sitting on needles. Pain
from ankles upwards. Arthritis deformans. Burning in affected limb. Hamstrings short.

Sleep
Yawns and stretches for relief of general ill feeling. Frequent waking from sleep, as if from
falling.

Fever
Sweat profuse on single parts, face etc. Night sweats. Fever with chill in the evening. Burning
of body. Hot palms. Burning fever with hot face and dry cough.

Related
Ferr; Kali‐b; Kreos; Ph‐ac; Phyt.

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Gymnocladus [Gymn]

Generalities
It causes numbness and bluishness esp. of the tongue.

Worse
Cold. Walking.

Better
Rest. Leaning against something. Rubbing eyes.

Mind
Forgets everything. Slow grasp; cannot think, comprehend or study.

Head
Tight feeling, as if bound.

Eyes
As if were pushed forward; wants to rub them. Pain under brows into the nose.

Face
Crawling as of flies over the face. Erysipelatous swelling.

Mouth
Teeth sensitive to cold air. ***BLUISH, ***WHITE TONGUE.

Stomach
Hot, sour eructations. Burning spot in stomach.

Extremities
Violent pain in forearm (left), in radius, as if the bones were crushed.

Related
Opium.

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Hamamelis [Ham]

Generalities
The principle action of this drug is on the ***VEINS esp. of rectum; genitals, limbs and throat;
producing venous congestion; varicose veins, haemorrhoids and haemorrhages. It is also a
valuable remedy for open painful wounds and burns of the first degree as a local application.
It produces *bruised ***SORENESS; of the affected part; from which blood flows; in blood
vessels; in abdomen etc. Tense bursting feeling; in piles, joints or lower limbs. Congestive
fulness. Veins; painful, sore, cutting, swollen; inflamed. *Painful, *hard, *knotty; * varicoses.
*Haemorrhages; capillary, dark, fluid, relieves or *causes undue weakness. Prickling, stinging
pain; in veins, muscles, skin. Relieves the pain after operations.

Worse
*Injuries. Bruises. *Pressure. *Air, open; humid, cold. Jar. Motion. Touch. During day (pains).

Mind
Forgetful. No desire to study or work. Wants the ‘respect due to me’ shown. Irritable.
Haemorrhages, with tranquil mind.

Head
*Hammering headache; worse left temple. Stupid feeling in head. As if a bolt were passed
from temple to temple. Headache after emission.

Eyes
Feel forced out, better pressure of finger. Blood shot eyes. Sore pain in the eyes. Hastens
absorption of intraocular haemorrhage. Traumatic effects, iritis, conjunctivitis etc.

Nose
Bad odour from nose. Epistaxis, flow passive non‐coagulable, with tightness at the bridge of
the nose. Nose bleeding; in hemiplegia; in old men.

Mouth
Passive haemorrhage from gums, after tooth extraction, with soreness of the gums. Bloody
taste. Tongue feels burnt. Burns of tongue and lips.

Throat
Sore, with distended veins. Stinging, breaking pain in uvula, while coughing.

Stomach
Pain and heaviness at the back of stomach. Vomiting of black blood. Averse to water, makes
him sick to think of it. Nausea from pork.

Abdomen
Piles; bleeding profusely, with soreness. Large quantities of tar‐like blood in stools. Bloody
dysentery. Varicose veins of abdomen.

Urinary
Haematuria, with increased desire for urination. Dull ache about kidneys.

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Male
Severe neuralgic pain in spermatic cord and testicles, with nausea. Orchitis, worse touch.
Varicocele. Emission at night without being aware of it. Haematocele.

Female
Menses; dark, profuse, with soreness of abdomen. Metrorrhagia, midway between menstrual
periods; only in daytime. Ovaritis; after a blow; after abortion, with soreness over the whole
abdomen. Sore nipples, bleeding. Milk leg. During pregnancy, legs become painful, can
neither stand or walk. Leucorrhoea; bloody, with soreness of vagina. Vagina; sore, tender,
vaginismus. Jolting brings on menses.

Respiratory
Haemoptysis, tickling cough, with Taste of blood.

Neck and Back

Sore pain down cervical vertebrae. Breaking backache. Painful scapulae. Dull ache about
kidneys.

Extremities
Tense, bursting feeling in limbs and joints.

Skin
Phlebitis. Ecchymoses. Varicose ulcers with bloody bases. Burns.

Related
Am; Puls; Vip.

Complementary
Ferr; Fl‐ac.

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Hecla Lava [Hecla]

Generalities
It has marked action on the lower jaw, and has the power to arrest many forms of bone
diseases, osteo‐sarcoma, osteitis, caries and necrosis; exostosis, which are sensitive and
painful to touch. Facial neuralgia from carious teeth and after extraction.

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Helleborus [Hell]

Generalities
Commonly it is known as Christmas Rose or black hellebore. If the abbreviation ‘Hell’ and the
adjective black is remembered, many of its typical symptoms will be understood. It is a
remedy for low states of vitality and serious diseases, when everything around the patient
looks dark. Patient’s face, lips, hands etc. become dark, nostrils sooty; hence it is a dark and
dusky remedy. It affects the ***MIND and the ***BRAIN; *senses become blunt and
responses are sluggish; sees, hears, tastes imperfectly. Muscles do not obey the will, hence
staggers, drops things etc. Muscular weakness ending in complete *paralysis. Convulsions,
and twitching of muscles; automatic acts; automatic motion of one arm and leg. Onset of the
disease is gradual with progressive weakness. Lies on back, with knees drawn up, or with legs
spread apart. Dropsical swellings. Epilepsy; with consciousness, followed by deep sleep.
Convulsions, with extreme coldness; in sucklings. Noise arrests the paroxysms of convulsions.
Ill effects of checked exanthemata; blows, disappointed love. Feeble and delicate. One side is
paralysed, other keeps up automatic motions. Serous, effusions. Parts usually red turn white.

Worse
*Cold air. Puberty. Dentition. *Suppressions. Exertion. Evening, 4 to 8 p.m. Touch. Stooping.

Better
When thinking of it or when mind is diverted.

Mind
Complete unconsciousness. Inattention. Dull, stupid; slow of perception or *apathetic.
*Gloomy. Dismal; *despair, blank. Envious seeing others happy. Thoughtless staring.
Hysterical mania, from self accusation. Involuntary sighing. Irritable worse consolation; does
not want to be disturbed. Would not eat or speak. Fixed ideas. Melancholy; during puberty.
Things look new. Picks at lips and clothes. Believes she is doing wrong, thinks she is going to
die on a certain day; just sits and says nothing, does nothing. Idiocy after apoplexy.

Head
Stupefying headache, worse stooping. Shooting pains, causing sudden screams. *Rolls the
head constantly; with moaning (Hydrocephalus) or *bores into pillow for relief. (Meningitis).
As if water swashing inside. Headache ends in vomiting. Strikes the head. Forehead wrinkled
in folds (brain affections). In concussion of the brain, from blow on the head, after *arnica has
failed. Electric shock passes through brain before spasms.

Eyes
*Half open; sunken; turned upwards; squinting. *Stupid staring or tired look. Night blindness.
Photophobia, without inflammation.

Nose
Smell diminished. Nostrils; sooty, dilated. Nose pointed, rubs.

Face
*Pale; oedematous; red hot; or cold. Neuralgia; unable to chew. Constant chewing motion of
the lower jaw; hangs open. Cold sweat on.

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Mouth
Grinds the teeth. *Horrible smell from mouth. Tongue; numb, dry, trembling; or covered with
yellow ulcers. Ptyalism, with sore corners of the mouth. Aphthous, lienteria. Bitter taste in
the throat worse eating.

Stomach
Aversion to vegetables, meat, sauerkraut. Greedily swallows the cold water, bites the spoon,
but unconsciousness (Hydrocephalus). Children nurse greedily. Vomiting of greenish‐black
substance; with colic. Anorexia, with brain complaints. Thirst absent in most complaints, or
thirst with disgust for drinks. Intense burning, extending to oesophagus, during pregnancy.

Abdomen
Gurgling as if bowels were full of water. Distended. Stools; loose, watery, or of white *jelly
like mucus; involuntary. Ascites.

Urinary
*Urine; suppressed, scanty, with dark flakes or sediment; retained; bladder over‐distended;
during pregnancy. Nephritis. Uraemia. Dropsy. Frequent urging to urinate with scanty
discharge.

Male
Hydrocele from suppressed eruption, on either side.

Female
ppression of menses, from cold or disappointed love. Uterine dropsy, with piercing pain in
limbs. Puerperal convulsions; arrested by sudden noise. Pains all over her body forces her
menses on.

Respiratory
Sighing respiration. Chest constricted. Gasps for breath with open mouth, propped up in bed
(Hydrothorax). Cough, dry worse at night; smoking or suddenly appears while smoking.

Heart
Slow, *small, *soft pulse.

Neck and Back

Neck rigid; (Meningitis).

Extremities
Automatic motion of one arm and leg except when asleep. Thumbs drawn into the palms.
Legs drawn up with every attempt to change the position. Limbs stretched. Oedema of legs.

Sleep
Sopor; cannot be fully aroused. Soporous sleep, *with shrieks and starts. Muscles twitch
during sleep.

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Fever
Chill spreads from arms. Gooseflesh. Chill; with fever; with sweat; with aversion to uncover.
Coldness; of sweat.

Skin
Pale. Anasarca. Hair and nails fall off. Angio‐neurotic oedema.

Related
Bry; Op; Zinc.

Complementary
Zinc.

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Heloderma [Helo]

Generalities
The poison of this lizard which is known as Gila Monster causes benumbing paralysis like
paralysis agitans and locomotor ataxia. the most peculiar symptom of this poison is the
***INTENSE ICY COLDNESS; as if frozen; from within outwards. Breath, tongue cold; cold
feeling in lung and chest; coldness across scapula; burning in spine. Cold creeping ring around
the body. In addition patient staggers while walking. Steps high and puts down heel hard;
sensation as if walking on a sponge or as if with swollen feet. Turns to right when walking.

Better
Stretching. Warmth.

Worse
After sleep; at night.

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Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum [Hep]

Generalities
An impure sulphate of calcium. It affects the ***NERVES making the patient
***OVERSENSITIVE *to all impressions; *to cold; *to pain; touch, noise, odours, to draught of
air; slightest pain causes fainting. The patient is of *sluggish character, and weak muscles,
blondes. ***CONNECTIVE TISSUE is affected producing ***THE TENDENCY To SUPPURATION;
which is very marked. It has a special affinity to ***RESPIRATORY MUCOUS ***MEMBRANES
producing profuse secretions. All the *discharges are profuse; foul; *like old cheese; *sour,
stools, smell of the body, sweat etc. ***SWEATS EASILY and *profusely, but dares not
uncover; sweats without relief. *Glands inflamed; swell and suppurate. The patient is
***CHILLY; even wears overcoat in hot weather. *As of a wind blowing on part. Takes cold
from exposure to damp cold weather. Pains are *sore, ***STICKING; *like sharp splinters.
Skin is usually affected in folds; ***EVERY HURT FESTERS. Abscess, threatening; *much thick
pus. Establishes suppuration around and removes foreign body. Yellow; expectoration,
sclerotic, sweat etc. Mastoiditis. The side lain on at night becomes gradually very painful; he
must turn. Pellagra. Hard, burning nodes. Touchy mentally and physically. Ill effects of injury;
suppressed eruptions; mercury. Trembling weakness after tobacco smoking. Pains in bones;
*caries. Spasms after injury.

Worse
***COLD dry ***AIR. ***WINTER. ***COLD WIND_***DRAFTS. ***PART BECOMING COLD.
LEAST_***UNCOVERING; ***TOUCH; noise, exertion. *Lying on painful part. Mercury. Night.

Better
***HEAT. ***WARM WRAPS_***To HEAD. ***MOIST HEAT. ***DAMP WEATHER.

Mind
Dejected and sad. Sudden weak memory. *Touchy; mentally and physically; easily.
Quarrelsome, hard to get along with, nothing pleases him, dislikes persons, places; becomes
cross and violent. *Irritable or ***DISSATISFIED, with oneself and others. Ferocious; wants to
kill who offends him; wants to set things on fire. Horrid impulses. *Hasty; in speech, and
drinking. The words roll out tumbling over each other. Cross children. Child does not laugh,
amuse itself. Sits silent and speechless in a corner.

Head
Vertigo worse riding in a carriage or shaking head. Boring headache in right temple and at the
root of the nose, worse motion; stooping. Hair falls; in spots, after headache. Scalp, sore and
sensitive. Sore nodosity on head. Cold sweat on head. Constant pressive pain in half of brain,
as from a plug.

Eyes
Ulcers on cornea or maculae. Hypopion. Objects appear red and too large. Little pimples
surround the inflamed eye. Photophobia. Field of vision one half. Anaesthesia of retina, from
looking at an eclipse.

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Ears
Darting pain in the ears. Wax increased. Perforation of the drum. Foetid otorrhoea.
Mastoiditis. Scurf on and behind the ears.

Nose
Stops up or sneezing and running from the nose every time he goes into cold dry wind.
Nosebleed; after singing. Sore pain at the root of nose. Stuffed painful nose. Smell like old
cheese. Hay fever. Ripened colds and old catarrh. Sneezes from every cold wind.

Face
Yellow, with blue rings around the eyes. Lower lip cracked in the middle. Bones painful to
touch. Shooting in jaw on opening the mouth. Ulcers in the corner of the mouth. Upper jaw
projects. Herpes following the course of the supra‐orbital nerve. Pimples on forehead which
disappear in open air. Hard swollen cheek; with a hard growth over it.

Mouth
Teeth loose. Hollow teeth feel too long. Gums bleed easily. Ulcers of the soft palate that eat
away the uvula. Offensive breath. Aphthous pustules on inside lips and cheeks.

Throat
Swelling of tonsils and glands of the neck. Quinsy. Sensation as if a fish bone or splinter
sticking in the throat, extending to ears on yawning. Sensation of a plug. Hawks mucus. Goitre
(right), pains into the head. Stitches extending to ear when swallowing. Chronic tonsillitis,
with hardness of hearing.

Stomach
Longing for acids, *condiments and stimulants; vinegar. Stomach; weak; burning and
heaviness in stomach, after slight meal, easily upset. Constant acid rising sensation into
oesophagus. Eating refreshes but causes heaviness. Drinks hastily. Aversion to fatty food. At
times desires something but when he gets it does not like it. Painful on walking, as if it hangs
loose.

Abdomen
Stitching in the region of liver worse walking, coughing, breathing or touching it. Stools soft
but expelled with difficulty. Abdomen; distended, tense. Foul mucus from anus. Bleeding from
rectum with soft stool. Diarrhoea after drinking cold water. Hepatitis. Hepatic abscess. Stools;
sour, white. Piles.

Urinary
Urine is passed slowly; with difficulty; drops out perpendicularly. Must wait to urinate. Passing
of blood or pus after urination. Nephritis, after exanthemata. It seems that some urine always
remains in the bladder; after urination.

Male
Chancre‐like ulcers on prepuce. Flow of prostatic fluid after urination, during stool.
Condylomata, foul. Obstinate gonorrhoea. Skin of folds between scrotum and thighs becomes
moist and sore. Glands in groins suppurate.

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Female
Discharge of blood from the uterus during or after stools. Very foul, hot, membranous, pussy
leucorrhoea; smells like old cheese. Abscess of labia with great sensitiveness. Itching of
nipples and pudenda worse menses. Cancer, with ulceration. Coitus very painful from
enlarged and anteverted uterus, with congestion of ovaries.

Respiratory
Larynx; sensitive to cold air; painful. Loss of voice, and cough when exposed to dry cold wind.
Cough from least uncovering. Hoarseness; chronic; of singers. Whistling, choking; breathing,
must bend head back. Cough choking, barking worse cold drinks or in a.m.; hacking; as from
feather. ***WEAKNESS AND MUCH *rattling in chest; *expectoration ***LOOSE; but *cannot
expectorate; tightens up in cold air. *Much, *thick, *yellow expectoration. Recurrent
bronchitis, from every cold. Sensation as of drops of hot water in chest. Asthma; after
suppressions. Cries before cough. Aphonia. Cough worse evening till midnight.

Heart
Palpitation, with stitches.

Neck and Back

Crawling in right scapula.

Extremities
Encysted tumour at the point of elbow. Whitlow. Nail of great toe painful on slight pressure.
Easy dislocation of finger joints. Laming pain in hip joint worse walking. Swelling of knee, ankle
and foot. Drawing pains in limbs. Abscess in axilla. Swelling of feet around ankles, with difficult
breathing.

Sleep
Sleeplessness; anxious dreams of fire. Unrefreshing. Wakes at night, with erection and desire
to urinate.

Fever
Low fevers; hectic. Profuse sweat; with least exertion; day and night; sour, sticky, offensive.
Night sweats.

Skin
Sensitive to cool air. Foul moist eruptions in folds. Torpid pulsating ulcers, encircled by smaller
ones or by pimples or boils. Skin; chapped, deep cracks on hands and feet. Very sensitive cold
sores. Chronic and recurring urticaria. Angio‐ neurotic oedema. Body exhales a foul odour.
Impetigo. Poor granulation.

Related
Merc.

Complementary
Iod; Sil.

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Hydrastis [Hydr]

Generalities
It acts on ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES, causing ***CATARRHAL process, with a tendency to
*haemorrhage and ulceration; the catarrh may be anywhere_throat, stomach, uterus,
urethra; which is characterised by *thick, *yellow, *acrid, *ropy discharge; mucus is found in
the stools, in the urine, hawks up mucus, hence it can be called a mucus remedy. It produces,
atonic cachectic, degenerative conditions, hence suitable in old, *easily tired, *weak persons
with great debility, and emaciation. Sense of raw burning. Cancer and pre‐cancerous states.
Goitre of puberty and pregnancy. Modifies the course of small‐pox when given internally and
applied externally. Frequent faint spells with profuse perspiration. Shallow ulcers. Small
wounds bleed and suppurate. Clothing feels uncomfortable about groins.

Worse
*Inhaling air. *Cold air. Dry winds. Open air. Slight bleeding. Washing. Touch. *Old age.
Motion.

Better
Pressure.

Mind
Depression; sure of death and desires it. Forgetful.

Head
Neuralgia of the scalp and neck. Eczema on forehead along the line of hair worse after
washing.

Eyes
Ophthalmia, thick mucous discharge. Yellow.

Ears
Otorrhoea; thick mucous discharge. Roaring. Deafness; from eustachian catarrh.

Nose
Sore, bleeds; bloody crusts. Ozoena. Post nasal dripping. Air feels cold in nose. Blows all the
time. Sinusitis after coryza.

Face
Thin, yellow, sunken. Cancer on lips.

Mouth
Tongue; white, *yellow, *dirty, swollen, large, *flabby, slimy, with imprints of teeth; feels as
if scalded. Stomatitis; of nursing mothers, or weakly children. Taste, bitter. Aphthae. Bleeding
painful cancerous growth on hard palate.

Throat
Follicular pharyngitis. Hawks yellow tenacious mucus.

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Stomach
Weak digestion. Gone feeling in stomach with loathing of food, or as of a sharp lump in
stomach. Ulcers and Cancer. Painful epigastric tumours, with pulsations. Apt to vomit all food,
retaining only milk, or water, mixed. Cannot eat bread or vegetables.

Abdomen
Cutting pain from liver to right scapula worse lying on back or right side. Atrophy; cancer, of
liver. Jaundice. Lumpy stools, coated or mixed with mucous. Haemorrhoids_even slight
bleeding exhausts. *Obstinate constipation; of pregnancy; after purgatives. Raw smarting in
the rectum during stools, remaining long afterwards. Pain in the groins as if sprained.

Urinary
Mucus in urine. Gleety discharge, thick, yellow. Putrid odour of urine.

Female
Erosion of cervix. Thick; acrid, yellow; ropy leucorrhoea. Pruritus vulvae, with profuse
leucorrhoea; with sexual excitement. Cancer of breast; nipples; retracted; sore, cracked, in
nursing women. Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia; with fibroids. Removes the tendency to
habitual adherent placenta. Vagina sore, during coition; bleeding after. Pain in breast (right)
on sneezing. Hot, watery, discharge from uterus.

Respiratory
Bronchitis of old exhausted people. Loose cough; bloody, or thick, yellow tenacious sputum;
*raises much mucus. Breathing difficult worse lying on left side.

Heart
Palpitation, from slowly progressing weakness.

Neck and Back

Neuralgia of neck. Dull dragging heavy pain across lumbar region; uses arms to raise himself
from a seat.

Fever
Heat alternating with chill. Tendency to profuse perspiration.

Skin
Eruptions like small‐pox. Ulcers, cancerous. Atonic ulcers, following removal of tumours.

Related
Ars; Kali‐b; Puls.

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Hydrocotyle [Hydrc]

Generalities
It is known as Indian Pennywort. (Karivna). It produces hypertrophy and induration of
connective tissue. Excessive thickening, and marked exfoliation, of skin. It is supposed to
influence Leprosy, Elephantiasis, Lupus; copper coloured eruptions in various places.
Intolerable itching esp. of soles, vagina. Cannot stand straight.

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Hydrocyanic Acid [Hydr‐ac]

Generalities
Rapidly acting most deadly poison; producing convulsions, paralysis, collapse, cramps
everywhere. *Effects are sudden; spasms, collapse, apoplexy. Lacks reaction. Lightning like
jerks from head to feet. Evacuations cease suddenly, sinks down unconscious. Prolonged
faints. Bluishness. Epileptic attacks preceded by nausea and vomiting or waterbrash.
Catalepsy. Intense coldness.

Worse
Full moon. Suppressions. Storms.

Mind
Unconscious. Fear of imaginary troubles; of death, house falling, horses, cars etc.; of crossing
the street, even when the vehicle is at a considerable distance. Loud involuntary screams;
before convulsions.

Head
*Intense cerebral congestion; brain feels on fire. As if a cloud were going over his brain.

Eyes
Distorted and half open. Eyeballs fixed.

Face
Pale, or bluish; looks old. Cramps in masseters, jaws clenched in rigid spasm. Lips pale or
bluish. Froths at mouth. Frightful contortion of muscles.

Mouth
Dry. Taste; pussy, metallic, astringent. Tongue cold.

Throat
*Noisy swallowing drink rumbles through throat and stomach. Spasms, or paralysis of
oesophagus.

Stomach
Great sinking at pit of stomach. Anorexia. Cholera. Burning from navel to oesophagus; chronic
dyspepsia.

Respiratory
*Breathing slow irregular, gasping. Asphyxia. Dry tickling night cough. Asthma; with choking
in the throat. Convulsions, with whooping cough.

Heart
Clutches at the heart as if in distress. Heart failure; compression at heart. Pulse; failing, weak,
irregular, unequal, with occasional strong beats. Blood vessels distended; writhing in them.
Angina, severe pain.

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Neck and Back
Muscles of the dorsal region are contracted. Hands icy cold.

Sleep
Yawning, with shivering. Drowsiness. Coma vigil.

Fever
Icy coldness; worse hands.

Skin
Bluish eruptions.

Related
Agar; Cupr; Laur.

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Hyoscyamine Hydrobromate [Hyosin]

Generalities
This drug relieves the tremors of disseminated sclerosis and paralysis agitans. Sleeplessness
and nervous agitation.

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Hyoscyamus [Hyos]

Generalities
Commonly known as Henbane or Hogbane disturbs the ***MIND; *brain and *nervous
system profoundly. Diabolical force seems to take possession of the brain preventing its
functions. It causes a perfect picture of mania of a quarrelsome and lascivious nature.
*Convulsions; *trembling, *jerks; twitchings, cramps are very marked features. *Active mania
or convulsions, alternate with, or ends in *deep sopor. Motions of the arms are *clutching or
angular; throws arms about, misses what is reached for; totters while walking. Paralysis after
spasms. Epilepsy; vertigo before the attack. Falls suddenly to the ground with cries.
***CARPHOLOGY, picks at bed clothes, at fingers. When lying on back, suddenly sits up and
lies down again. Child sobs and cries without waking. Eclampsia. *Subsultus; during fevers.
Septic fevers. Slides down in bed. Ill effects of suppressed lochia or milk. Fright, disappointed
love. Chorea; local, twitchings of solitary muscles; squinting, stammering. Suitable to nervous;
irritable, excitable persons. Sensation as if walking on and through air.

Worse
***EMOTIONS; *jealousy; fright; unhappy love. Before and during menses. ***TOUCH. Cold.
Sleep. Lying.

Better.
Sitting up. Motion. Warmth. Stooping.

Mind
*Many bewildering aberrations. ***MANIA. Erotic, (females) exposes genitals; sings amorous
songs. Does *foolish things, behaves like one mad. Laughs, sings, *talks, babbles, quarrels.
*Fumbles the genitals. *jealous. *Suspicious. Fears; being alone, being pursued; of water;
being poisoned, being bitten etc. Laughs at everything, foolishly. Restless, jumps out of bed,
*wants to escape. Speaks each word louder. Rage; with desire to strike, bite, fight, insult,
scold, and to kill. Plaintive cries esp. on the slightest touch even in stupor. Unconsciousness,
*can barely be aroused. *Muttering delirium. Thinks one is not at home. Speechless from
fright. Confusion. First cannot think, then can scarcely be aroused. Talks with imaginary
persons, to dead ones. Imagines things are animals. Fear of being bitten by beasts. Plays with
fingers. *Silly; does comical acts. Look at hands because they seem too large. Syphilophobia.

Head
Waves of pulsation in head. Pulsating headache. Vertigo, before spasms, from smell of
flowers, gas etc. Rolls or shakes the head to and fro; when bending forward; in stupor; after
concussion of the brain. Brain feels loose. As of water swashing in head.

Eyes
Aversion to light. Eyes open but does not pay attention. Spasmodic closing of lids. Eyes roll
about in orbits. Squint. Constantly stares at surrounding objects. Objects; seem red, large, or
with coloured borders (yellow).

Ears
Deafness, from paralysis of auditory nerve.

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Nose
Nostrils sooty, smoky. Sudden jerks at root of the nose. Loss of smell and taste.

Face
Pale, flushed, dark red. Muscles twitch. Grimaces, and makes ridiculous gestures. Lower jaw
drops. Muscles twitch, when protruding the tongue. Lock jaw.

Mouth
Sordes on teeth; closes tightly. Foam at mouth. Tongue protruded with difficulty, can hardly
draw it in. Speech; impaired, lost from fright. Stiff dark, red, cracked tongue, looks like burnt
leather. Bites the tongue while talking. Tongue dry, rattles in mouth. Grinds the teeth, during
convulsions, children. Teeth feel loose when chewing; also too long. Violent pain in teeth,
with twitching of muscles of hands, face etc.

Throat
Elongation of uvula. Constriction of throat, inability to swallow liquids; solid and warm food
better. Fluids come out through the nose, or go down into larynx.

Stomach
Hiccough; from concussion of brain; of nursing children. Vomiting with convulsions. Cramps
in stomach better after vomiting; worse after irritating food. Aversion to water.

Abdomen
Colic, as if abdomen would burst. Colic; with vomiting, eructations, hiccough and screaming.
Red spots on abdomen. Umbilicus open, urine oozing through. *Stools; *involuntary, bloody,
yellow, watery or although hard, worse mental excitement, during sleep; during fevers; while
urinating. Gastritis or peritonitis with hiccough. Diarrhoea after parturition.

Urinary
Frequent, scanty, painful, nightly urination; or *retention of urine; after childbirth; paralysis
of bladder. Involuntary urination.

Male
Lascivious; exposes his genitals, plays with genitals, during fever.

Female
Lascivious; uncovers sexual parts. Nymphomania. Hysterical or epileptic spasms, before
menses. Convulsive trembling of hands and feet, during menses. Enuresis, during menses.
Painless diarrhoea in lying‐in women. Colds that settled in the womb and bring on labour‐like
pains. Convulsions during pregnancy. No will to make water in child‐bed. Milk and lochia
suppressed.

Respiratory
Dry, hacking *spasmodic cough; from a dry spot in larynx *at night; worse lying, eating,
drinking, talking, singing; better sitting up. Hemoptysis_bright red; with spasms. Spasms of
chest with shortness of breath, forcing him to bend double. Exhausting cough, with sweat.

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Neck and Back
Stiff, contracted to one side.

Extremities
Trembling of hands and feet. Toes spasmodically contracted while walking or going upstairs.
Fists clenched with retraction of thumbs (in convulsions).

Sleep
*Nervous wakefulness. Falls asleep while answering. Starts out of sleep; frightened. Sits up
and then goes to sleep again. Profound sleep. Laughs during sleep.

Fever
Low fever with hot, pale skin. Warm sweat.

Related
Bell; Phos; Stram.

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Hypericum Perforatum [Hyper]

Generalities
An excellent remedy for the injury to parts, rich in sentient nerves, esp. fingers, toes, matrix
of nails. ***LACERATIONS; when the *intolerable, *violent, *shooting, *lancinating pain
shows nerves are severely involved. Injury to the brain and spinal cord or ill effects from such
injuries. Spasms after every injury. *Very painful sore parts, occiput, coccyx etc. Pains extend
towards the trunk or down sides with crawling and numbness. Neuritis; *of head or chest; in
epigastrium; inter‐scapular spine; finger tips etc. Shooting up from injured part. Tingling,
burning and numbness, with neuritis. Neuralgia of the stump. Shudderings. Prevents tetanus,
and relieves pain after operations. Joints feel bruised. Convulsions after knocking the body
against anything. Jerks in the limbs. Punctured or penetrating wounds, very sensitive to touch.
Ill effects of fright, bites, shocks. Wounds are more tender than appearance would indicate.
Lies on back, jerking head backwards. Pain in old cicatrices.

Worse
***INJURY. ***JAR. Concussion; of spine, coccyx. *Shock. Bruises. Exertion. Touch. Change of
weather. Fogs. Cold, damp. *Motion. After forceps delivery, as a complication of injury.

Better
Lying on face. Bending back. Rubbing.

Mind
Makes mistakes in writing; forgets what she wanted to say. Feels lifted high in air or anxiety
lest he fall from a height. Melancholy.

Head
Heaviness or formication in brain. Brain feels loose. Head feels as if touched by icy cold hand.
*Head feels larger, *drawn to a point. Throbbing in vertex. Falling of hair; after injury.

Face
Bloated, hot. Eczema of face; eruptions seem to be under the skin. Intense itching. Toothache
better lying on affected side quietly.

Throat
Feeling as of a worm moving in. Hot risings in oesophagus after a fright or with anxious feeling.
Tongue, white at the back, tip clean. Craving for wine, with feeling of heat in mouth.

Stomach
Thirst, with feeling of heat in mouth. Nausea. Belches while drinking water. Desire for pickles,
warm drinks, wine.

Abdomen
Bubbling at navel. Tympanitic distension better after stool (after laparotomy). Rectum feels
dry. Summer diarrhoea with eruptions on the skin. Haemorrhoids with pain, bleeding and
tenderness, (use externally and internally).

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Female
After pains violent in sacrum and hips with severe headache; after forceps delivery.

Respiratory
Spells of short barking cough. Asthma worse foggy weather and better by profuse
expectoration.

Heart
Feels as though it will drop down.

Neck and Back

Pain in the nape of neck. Pressure over sacrum. Consequences of spinal concussion. Coccyx
painful, pain radiating up the spine and down the limbs. Painfully sensitive spine. Pain in hips;
small of back and coccyx, after labour.

Extremities
Limbs feel detached. Pressure along ulnar side of the arm. Crawling in hand and feet. Aching
in sciatic nerve (left) after prolonged sitting. Hands and feet seem furry, or bones aching.
Violent pain and inability to walk or stoop after a fall on coccyx.

Sleep
Constant drowsiness. Laborious dreams.

Fever
Shuddering over whole body with desire to urinate.

Skin
Painful scars in tissues rich in nerves. Gaping wounds. Skin rough as if full of small knots. Pain
in old cicatrices.

Related
Arn; Led; Rhus‐t.

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Iberis [Iber]

Generalities
This remedy has a marked action on the heart; and is useful in cardiac diseases. Cardiac
hypertrophy, with thickening of heart walls. Cardiac debility after influenza. Liver region full
and painful. Palpitation; with *vertigo and choking in the throat; worse slightest exertion,
laughing, coughing. Darting pains through heart. Numbness and tingling in left hand and arm.

Worse
Lying down; on left side. Motion; exertion. Warm room.

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Ignatia Amara [Ign]

Generalities
The seeds of Ignatia contain a larger proportion of strychnine than those of Nux vomica, yet
there is a great difference between the characteristic features of the two drugs. Though it
affects the ***MIND; ***EMOTIONAL *element is profoundly influenced and *co‐ordination
of function is interfered with; causing ***ERRATIC; contradictory; paradoxical mental and
physical ***EFFECTS; which change rapidly, and are opposite to each other. ***NERVOUS
SYSTEM is affected causing ***SPASMODIC EFFECTS; *often violent with rigidity, twitching
and tremors. It is adapted to the persons of nervous temperament esp. women of sensitive,
easily excited nature, mild disposition, quick to perceive and rapid in execution. ***SENSE OF
LUMP, foreign body or sharp pressure. Jerks run through the whole body. Tendency to start.
Globus. Clavus. Hysteria. Chorea; after fright, from grief worse after eating, better lying on
back. Convulsions of children; during dentition; after punishment; after fear or fright; return
at the same hour daily. Spasms, with cries or involuntary laughter. Tonic spasms of single
parts, with frothing at the mouth. Spasms alternating with oppressed breathing. Pain in spot
worse close attention. Oversensitive to pain. Pains change their locality, come gradually,
abate suddenly, or come and go suddenly. Symptoms pass after profuse urination. Plague;
preventive and curative. *Nervous shuddering, with pain. Paralysis; after great mental
emotions and night watching, in sick chamber. Suitable to persons who had been starving
either from want or other causes. Ill effects of grief, fright, worry, disappointed love; jealousy;
old spinal injuries. Catalepsy with opisthotonos. (Nat‐m. should follow in chronic conditions).

Worse
***EMOTIONS. ***GRIEF. *Chagrin. ***WORRY. *Fright; shock, after losing persons or
objects that were very dear. Air; open, cold. Odours. *Touch. *Coffee. *Tobacco. Yawning.
Stooping, walking; standing. At the same hour and day.

Better
Change of position. *Lying on affected part. Urination. If alone. Pressure. Deep breathing.
*Swallowing. *Eating. Near a warm stove. Sour things.

Mind
***ALERT; ***OVERSENSITIVE AND NERVOUS. *Highly emotional *Moody. *Brooding
***GRIEF. *Silent and sad. ***SIGHS, weeps or laughs by turns, laughs when she ought to be
serious. *Changeable moods. *Unhappy love. Inward weeping; enjoys being *sad. Angry with
himself. Desire to be alone. Everything irks her. Intolerant of contradiction; of reprimands.
Anguish; shrieks for help. Capricious. Delicately conscientious. Fear; of thieves; of trifles, of
things coming near him. Introspective. Faints easily, girls who faint every time they go to
church; or who fall in love with married men. Sensation as if she had been fasting for a long
time. Hurried during menses; no one can do things fast enough for her. Looks about the bed
as if to find something. Delights to bring on her fits and produce a scare or a scene. Thinks she
has neglected her duty. Sighing and sobbing. Not communicative. Fear of robbers at night.

Head
Ache as if a nail were driven out through the sides; end in yawning and vomiting; alternate
with backache. Headache worse or better by stooping. Throws head backwards; from weight

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at occiput; or during spasms. Vertigo, with sparks before the eyes. Loud talking worse
headache. Headache; from abuse of snuff, tobacco smoke, coffee, from close attention.

Eyes
Asthenopia; with spasms of the lids, and neuralgic pains around the eyes. Flashes of light,
from violent coughing. Eyelids seem dry. Flickering, zigzags before the eyes.

Ears
Roaring better by music. One ear red and hot. Deafness, except for human voice.

Nose
Sensitive to inspired air. Pain over the root of the nose. Sneezing attacks. Cold, with hot knees.

Face
Twitching of the muscles of face and lips. *Redness and heat of one cheek; red and pale
alternately. Masseters stiff and hard. Emotional trismus. Changes colour often when at rest.
Facial muscles distort on attempting to speak.

Mouth
Spasmodic closing of the jaws; bites inside cheek or tongue when talking or chewing. Corners
twitch. Taste sour. Toothache worse after drinking coffee and smoking. Sudden attacks of
salivation.

Throat
Inflamed, hard swollen tonsils, with small ulcers on them. Follicular tonsillitis. Feeling as of a
lump, when not swallowing or *that cannot be swallowed; better eating solids. Tendency to
choke_globus hystericus. Stitches extend to ear; between acts of swallowing. Submaxillary
glands painful when moving the neck. Cramps in gullet. Goitre.

Stomach
Hunger, with nausea. Craves raw or indigestible things; sour things, bread esp. rye bread.
Appetite for various things, but when offered appetite fails. Aversion to warm food, meat,
alcohol, tobacco. *Empty sinking or spasmodic ache in stomach not better by eating; better
by taking a deep breath. *Hiccough; with eructations empty or bitter; after eating, drinking,
smoking. Nausea or vomiting better indigestible things.

Abdomen
Colicky griping pain in one or both sides of the abdomen. Stools_painful, difficult although
soft. Constrictive sore pain in the rectum, like from blind haemorrhoids, remains one or two
hours after stools. Obstipation of neurasthenics. *Pain shoots up in rectum. Piles better
sitting; worse coughing. *Prolapsus of rectum; from moderate straining at stools. Pressure as
of a sharp instrument from within outwards. Painless contractions of anus. Haemorrhage and
pain worse when stool is loose. Constipation; from taking cold; from riding in a carriage;
urging to stool with erection.

Urinary
Frequent, profuse, watery urine. Urging to urinate, with inability to pass urine.

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Male
Erection during stool. Sweat on scrotum. Penis; contracted, becomes small.

Female
Menses; irregular; black, too early, too profuse, or scanty; Suppressed from grief. Chronic
leucorrhoea, with sexual desire. Sexual frigidity.

Respiratory
***TAKES DEEP BREATH; for relief. *Choking, spasms of glottis. Dry, hacking, spasmodic
cough in quick successive shocks; shutting of the breath; cough, as from dust or sulphur
fumes. Coughing increases the desire to cough. Cough, everytime he stands still during a walk.
Constriction of the chest, feels as if too small. Whispering voice, cannot speak loudly. Sleepy
after coughing. Stitches in nipples on deep inspiration.

Heart
Palpitation, during menses. Anxious feeling in the region.

Neck and Back

Stiffness of the nape of the neck. Convulsive bending backwards of the back.

Extremities
Jerking in limbs. Warm sweat on the palms. Cramps in calves. Heavy feet. Dislocative pain in
joints. Knees are involuntarily drawn upwards, when walking. Trembling of hands when
writing in anyone’s presence. Burning in heels on placing them near one another, when they
come in contact they are cold to touch; worse at night. Sciatica worse in winter; better in
summer. Corns painful as if sore. Knees hot with cold nose. As if flesh was loose on bones
from a blow.

Sleep
*Violent spasmodic yawning, with running from eyes. Sleep light; every sound wakes. Jerking
of limbs on going to sleep. Somnambulism from wounded honour. Dreams; same horrid
dreams over and over again. Child awakes from sleep with piercing cries and trembles all over.
Hiccough, chewing motions of mouth in sleep (children).

Fever
Chill with red face. Shaking chill with thirst. Sweat worse on eating; often on a small spot on
the face. Heat, with aversion to uncover but no thirst. Chill, during pains. Feeling as if sweat
would break out, but does not.

Skin
Painful better pressure. Nettle rash over the whole body with violent itching (during fever).

Related
Cimic; Nux‐v; Sep.

Complementary
Aur; Nat‐m; Ph‐ac; Sep.
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Indigo [Indg]

Generalities
It has some reputation in the treatment of epilepsy, when the attacks are preceded by a
furious excitable disposition followed by melancholy, timidity and mildness, or there is a
peculiar undulating sensation in the brain with obscuration of vision; or sensation as if the
brain were frozen, before the attack. Pain in the limbs worse after every meal. Sciatica_pain
from middle of thighs to the knee.

Better
Rubbing. Pressure. Walking.

Worse
Sitting. Rest.

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Iodoformum [Iodof]

Generalities
A very useful remedy for tuberculous conditions esp. tubercular meningitis; and for failing of
sight due to retro‐bulbar neuritis, central scotoma, partial atrophy of the optic disc. Sleep
interrupted by sighing and cries. Pupils dilated; contract unequally. Chronic diarrhoea, stools;
greenish, watery, undigested, with irritable temper, due to suspected tuberculosis.
Mesenteric glands enlarged. Cannot stand or walk with eyes closed.

Worse
At night. Warmth. Touch. Motion.

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Iodum [Iod]

Generalities
Iodine has great absorbent *action, *which is rapid and intense; muscles, fat, tissues and
glands waste away and general emaciation is the result. ***GLANDS; ***THYROID, testes,
*mesenteric and mammary, first get ***SWOLLEN, ***HARD and heavy, then begin to
dwindle. New growths and hyperplasias come under its action when their growth is rapid.
Trembling of limbs or whole body. *Weak and rapidly losing flesh; even with a good appetite.
***FEELS ALWAYS Too HOT. Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration; cannot
talk, becomes out of breath going up stairs. Acute exacerbations of chronic inflammation.
Arthritic deformans with swollen joints; after acute attack of rheumatism. *Secretions are
hot, acrid or watery, persistent or salty. ***ACUTE CATARRH of ***THE MUCOUS
***MEMBRANES esp. ***LARYNX and lungs, pneumonia with rapid extension.
Vasoconstriction, causing oedema, ecchymoses, haemorrhages. Vascular degeneration.
Atrophy or induration of testes, ovaries, uterus. Wasting diseases of scrofulous patients.
Adenoids. Goitre. Pancreatic diseases. Arthritic affections. Tuberculosis. Affections of
connective tissue, with torpidity and little pus. General pulsations or local throbbings in large
arterial tracks. Burning. Infiltration. Internal tickling. Ill effects of nervous shock, disappointed
love. Plastic exudation. Facial paralysis or epilepsy, from suppression of goitre. Emaciation,
with glandular enlargement. Only feels well while eating; in any diseased condition. Sluggish
reaction, hence chronicity of many affections. Suitable to over‐grown boys, with weak chest
and aged persons.

Worse
***HEAT OF; *room; air; wraps. Exertion; ascending, talking. Fasting. Night. Rest. Touch.
Pressure.

Better
***COLD; AIR; *bathing. Walking about in open air. Eating. Sitting up.

Mind
Anxiety; about the present (no reference to the future); when quiet. Dejected, with tendency
to weep or *intolerably ***CROSS AND RESTLESS. Excited. Sudden impulse to run and do
violence, but motion worse and exhausts, better if busy. Thinks he is well. Fear; of people; of
physician; shuns everyone. Suicidal tendency. Fretful; forgets what is to be spoken or done,
does not know what. Does not understand why he has done some particular thing. Tendency
to do some strange things without any cause, to kill somebody, to kill himself. Heart palpitates
when thinking of real or imaginary wrongs.

Head
Reverberations in head. Throbbing, rush of blood and feeling of a tight band. Vertigo; chronic
congestive. Headaches of old people, worse in warm air, fatigue, walking fast, riding in car.
Brain as if stirred round with a spoon.

Eye
Protruded. Convulsive movements and quivering of the eyes; of lower eyelids. Profuse
lachrymation. Acute dacryocystitis. Staring with wide open eyes; eyelids seem to be retracted.

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Ears
Chronic deafness with adhesions in the middle ear. Eustachian catarrh.

Nose
Pain at the root of the nose and frontal sinuses. Coryza worse open air. Nose red and swollen;
much and sudden sneezing, with dripping of hot water. Acute nasal engorgement associated
with high blood pressure. Alae as if spread wide apart. Descending colds.

Face
Withered, *brownish, sallow or dusky; miserable look. Coldness of face in fleshy children.
Facial paralysis, after reduction of goitre.

Mouth
Profuse foetid, soapy saliva. Metallic taste. Foul ulcers; aphthae.Offensive odour from the
mouth. Tongue; hypertrophied, painful, nodular or fissured.

Throat
Constriction, impeding deglutition. Burning and scraping in throat. *Goitre; *hard, with
sensation of constriction. Uvula swollen. Submaxillary glands swollen.

Stomach
*Ravenous hunger; *yet emaciates; or *variable appetite; with thirst. Gets anxious or worried
if he does not eat. Drinking cold milk better constipation. Pulsation in the pit of the stomach.
Bitter taste to solid food, not drinks. Hiccough. Empty eructations.

Abdomen
Liver and spleen enlarged and sore. Stools; frothy, wheyey, fatty, cheesy, or lienteric;
pancreatic affections. Trembling in abdomen. Chronic morning diarrhoea of emaciated,
scrofulous children. Jaundice; eyes, skin, nails yellow. Swelling of mesenteric glands.

Urinary
Urination frequent and copious; urine; dark, yellow‐green, milky, with variegated cuticle on
its surface. Sediment like red pepper. Incontinence in old people with prostatic enlargement.
Milky white fluid runs from urethra after stool.

Male
Testicles swollen and indurated. Twisting in spermatic cord. Atrophy of testes; with loss of
sexual power. Sarcocele. Hydrocele.

Female
Great weakness during menses. Menses; brown; renewed after every stool. Mammae
dwindle away and become flabby. Wedge‐like pain from ovary to uterus. Nodosities in the
skin of mammae with black points. *Leucorrhoea; acrid, eroding thighs and linen; worse
during menses. Mammae heavy; as if would fall. Sterility from atrophy of ovaries and
mammae.

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Respiratory
*Painful, *choking hoarseness; child grasps the throat while coughing. Laryngitis. Diphtheria.
*Dry, *tickling, *croupy cough. *Short breath esp. on going upstairs. Oedema glottis.
Expectoration, of cast of larynx; or of blood streaked mucus. Voice rough. Tickling all over
chest. Bronchi raw. Violent pulmonary congestion. Pneumonia, hepatization spreading
rapidly with high temperature and absence of pain. Pleuritic effusion. Asthma, breathes
heavily when quiet. Itching low down in lungs behind sternum.

Heart
Feels squeezed; as if by an iron band followed by great weakness and faintness. Palpitation
worse least exertion. Feeling of vibration or purring over heart. Tachycardia. Myocarditis.
Pulsation in large arterial trunks.

Neck and Back

Swelling of the neck when speaking; grows thick.

Extremities
Chronic arthritic affections; stiff and enlarged joints. Synovitis. Cold hands and feet. Acrid
sweat on back of feet. Oedema of the feet. Back of hands; brown; as if swollen; painful when
turning hand, not when closing fingers. Painful corns.

Sleep
Restlessness in blood, prevents sleep.

Fever
*Hyperpyrexia; or external coldness with anxiety or stupor. Hectic fever. Flushes of heat all
over the body; heat waves to head. Sweats easily. Early morning sweat better .

Skin
Hot, dry, dirty; *brown spots on. Nodosities on skin. Anasarca of cardiac disease. Itching and
itching pimples, in old cicatrices. Scars break open.

Related
Ars; Fl‐ac; Phos; Spon.

Complementary
Lyc; Sil.

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Ipecacuanha [Ip]

Generalities
It acts chiefly on the *pneumo‐gastric nerve; producing *gastro intestinal disturbances;
***AND RESPIRATORY AFFECTIONS, with ***CONTINUOUS NAUSEA. *Discharges are foamy
and profuse. ***BRIGHT RED, ***GUSHING HAEMORRHAGES;with nausea. Nausea and
shortness *of breath usually accompany most of the complaints. Convulsions; infantile, body
rigid, stretched out, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other. Awkward,
stumbles against everything. Tetanic spasms from swallowing tobacco. Convulsions; in
whooping cough; from suppressed exanthema; from indigestible food. It is indicated in fat
children and adults who are feeble and catch cold in warm moist weather. Ill effects of
vexation, reserved displeasure. Injuries, suppressed eruptions. Quinine; morphia; indigestible
food; loss of blood. Over‐ sensitive to heat and cold. Opisthotonos and emprosthotonos.

Worse
***WARMTH, *damp; of room. *Overeating. Ices, pork, veal, mixed or *rich foods; candy,
fruits; raisins, salads, lemon peel. Berries. Periodically. Heat and cold. Vomiting. Motion.
Lying.

Better
Open air. Rest. Pressure. Closing eyes. Cold drinks.

Mind
Holds everything in contempt, and desires others also should do the same. Cries, screams,
howls and is hard to please (children). Full of desires, but knows not for what. Sad. Faints
suddenly; in summer or hot room.

Head
Ache as if bruised or crushed, down into the root of the tongue. Migraine, with nausea and
vomiting. Pain in occiput worse vomiting; during chill. Cold sweat on forehead.

Eyes
Inflamed, red; conjunctivitis. Profuse gushing lachrymation; with nausea. Shooting pains
through the eyeball. Nausea from looking on moving objects.

Ears
Cold (right); during fever. Cannot endure the least noise.

Nose
Bleed, blood bright red. Coryza with stoppage of nose and nausea. *Sneezing.

Face
Pale; blue about the eyes or lips; white linea nasalis. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with
lachrymation, photophobia and smarting eyelids.

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Mouth
Child thrusts its fists into the mouth and screams. *Clean or red pointed tongue. Saliva
increased. Toothache, with a jerk radiating to temples; better while eating. Tongue, clean,
yellow, or white, pale. Taste; bitter, sweetish, bloody.

Stomach
Desire for dainties; sweets. *Feels miserable or sinking or relaxed as if hanging down. *Horrid
nausea, not better *by vomiting. Vomits; blood, bile, food, mucous; worse stooping. Aversion
to food. *Thirstless. Vomiting of infants at the breast.

Abdomen
Griping, drawing or *cutting pain about the navel worse motion better by repose; extending
towards the uterus. *Stools; brown, grass or yellow green, frothy, molasses‐like or bloody;
slimy. Dysentery; with head hot and cold legs. Lumps of mucous in stools.

Urinary
Unsuccessful *urging to urinate. Haematuria, with nausea and cutting in abdomen and
urethra, with oppression in chest and short breath. Shooting from kidney, down the thighs to
the knees.

Female
Uterine haemorrhages, profuse, bright, steady flow or gushing; with nausea and gasping, with
each gush of blood. Cutting pain in uterus from left to right. Stitches from navel to uterus.
Menses; too early and too profuse. Vomiting during pregnancy. Prolapse of uterus worse
during menses. Haemorrhage of placenta praevia. Steady flow of bright red blood, which does
not coagulate. Great weakness with scanty menses.

Respiratory
Painless hoarseness at the end of a cold. Constant constriction in chest and larynx, worse least
motion. Spasms of vocal cords. *Gasps for breath. Asthma. *Cough incessant and violent, with
every breath. *Paroxysms of suffocative cough, with retching; child *stiffens out, becomes
red or blue in face and finally is nauseated; gags and vomits; better stepping into open air,
better warmth and repose. Whooping cough with bleeding from the nose and from the
mouth. ***LOOSE coarse ***RATTLE IN CHEST WITHOUT EXPECTORATION. Broncho‐
pneumonia. Haemoptysis worse slightest exertion. Asthma accompanied by skin disease.
Suffocative attacks from foreign substance in wind pipe.

Neck and Back

Tetanic spasms of back which bends the back backwards or forwards. Shooting from kidney
region into thighs. Cramps between scapulae during motion.

Extremities
Coldness of one hand, other is hot. Femur as if dislocated on sitting down. Pains as if bruised
in all the bones.

Sleep
Shocks in limbs on falling to sleep. Eyes half open during sleep, with moaning and groaning.
Loss of sleep causes nausea and fatigue.

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Fever
Short chill with long heat. Chill alternating with heat. Heat without thirst. Suppressed of mixed
intermittents; *nausea in all stages. Catarrhal or gastric fevers. Hands and feet drip cold
sweat. Infantile remittent fever.

Skin
Itching, with nausea, scratches until he vomits.

Related
Ant‐t; Lob.

Complementary
Ars; Cupr.

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Iris Versicolor [Iris]

Generalities
Iris acts powerfully on ***GASTRO‐INTESTINAL MUCOUS MEMBRANES; on salivary glands,
***LIVER and *pancreas; producing profuse *secretions; which are *sour, *acrid and burning.
*Oily nose; *greasy taste and fatty stools ;are other characteristics. Promotes the flow of bile.
Symptoms set in suddenly; accompanied by rapid elimination. Cholera morbus and sick
headaches.

Worse
Periodically. *Weekly; 2‐3 a.m.; Spring and Autumn; after midnight. *Mental exhaustion. Hot
weather.

Better
Gentle motion.

Mind
Low‐spirited. Fear of approaching illness. Dullness of mental faculties.

Head
Aches begin with blurring of vision. Sick headaches, with diarrhoea. Shooting in temples with
contractive feeling of the scalp. Tired headache, with mental exhaustion (studying, sewing)
worse coughing, cold air; better gentle motion.

Eyes
Sunken. Violent supra‐orbital pains. *Periodic visual disturbances, blindness, hemiopia etc.
with headache.

Ears
Aural vertigo with intense noises in ears.

Nose
Oily. Constant sneezing.

Face
Neuralgia worse after breakfast, involving the whole face; with copious urine, and urging for
stools.

Mouth
Feels greasy, burnt or scalded. Tongue burns or feels cold. *Greasy or sweetish taste. *Profuse
ropy saliva; drops when talking.

Throat
Heat and smarting in throat. Burning from fauces to stomach; better inhaling cool air or
drinking cold water. Goitre.

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Stomach
Sour, bitter eructations. *Burning of whole alimentary canal, not better by cold drinks.
Continuous *nausea; ***BITTER, sweetish water, ***ACRID, ***WATERY, ***SOUR
VOMITING WITH BURNING. Deficient appetite. Periodical vomiting spells, every month, six
weeks, lasts for two or three days.

Abdomen
Liver sore. Colicky pain before each spell of vomiting and purging. ***STOOLS; ***BILIOUS,
***ACRID, ***WATERY, ***BURN LIKE FIRE. *Painless cholera morbus. Urging to stools with
headache, facial neuralgia, and pain in teeth. *Stools fatty. Anus feels sore as if sharp points
sticking in it.

Urinary
Profuse, clear urine, with headache. Burning along the length of urethra after urination.
Diabetes.

Female
Protracted nausea and vomiting during pregnancy; profuse flow of saliva.

Extremities
The hips feel wrenched out. Shooting laming pains along limb; sciatica.

Skin
Herpes zoster; with gastric derangements; right side. Psoriasis, irregular patches with shining
scales. Sweat smells of vinegar.

Related
Ars; Merc; Phos.

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Jaborandi [Jab]

Generalities
Pilocarpus is a powerful glandular stimulant; produces hypersecretion from upper respiratory
tract; salivary glands and *abnormal sweats. In addition it produces very important eye
affections. *Tendency to take cold and to sweat. Hot flushes, salivation, nausea and profuse
perspiration. Limits the duration of mumps. *Colliquative states. Exophthalmic goitre.

Worse
Start of menses. Cold. Exhaustion.

Mind
Very nervous and tremulous; has a fixed idea that she will murder all her family with a hatchet.

Head
Aches, with vertigo and nausea on using the eyes.

Eyes
Visual disturbances. Eyes easily tire from slightest use. Retinal images retained long after
using eyes. White spots before the eyes. Lids twitch. Smarting pain in the eyes. Near‐sighted.
Pupils contracted. Exophthalmos. Squint convergent; after operation. Vitreous opacities.

Ears
Nervous deafness; better in noise. Tinnitus. Serous exudation into tympanic cavity. Mumps;
esp. when metastasis to the testes.

Mouth
*Salivation; saliva viscid_like white of an egg. Tension in salivary glands.

Throat
Exophthalmic goitre, with increased heart’s action; pulsation in arteries, tremors and
nervousness.

Stomach
Nausea on using eyes or looking at moving objects. Stubborn vomiting of pregnancy.
Diarrhoea, with flushed face and profuse perspiration.

Male
Orchitis; metastasis of mumps.

Female
Menses, start with coldness, throbbing in head and pelvis and backache.

Heart
Violent ebullitions to heart and chest. Nervous cardiac affections.

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Respiratory
Much inclination to cough, with difficult breathing. Oedema of lungs. Frothy or profuse, thin,
serous expectoration.

Skin
Red. *Sweats; with palpitation, general pulsations and tremors. Nervous sweats. Unilateral
sweat.

Related
Agar; Ant‐t; Ip.

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Jalapa [Jal]

Generalities
It is a powerful purgative, hence it affects intestines and stomach. *Child is good all day, *but
screams and tosses about all night; or child may be troublesome and restless day and night;
with any complaint. Colic. *Stools; *watery, muddy or sour; bloody. Infantile diarrhoea, with
general coldness, blueness of face.

Worse
Night. Eructations.

Related
Coloc.

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Jatropha [Jatr]

Worse
Covering. Morning. Summer.

Related
Crot‐t.

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Justicia Adhatoda Basaka [Just]

Generalities
Very useful remedy for acute catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract. Fits of sneezing
with lachrymation and *loss of smell and taste. Coryza; fluent, acrid, with violent sneezing,
coughing or asthmatic attacks. Cough with tightness of chest, as if it would burst; with
*bronchial rattle; *obstruction of breath and sneezing. Stiffening out, trembling and
convulsions, with cough or fever. Whooping cough. Tough expectoration. Puffy hands and
feet in a.m. Chilliness. Sensitiveness.

Worse
Close room. Dust. Noise. Eating.

Related
Ip; Dros; Puls.

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Kali Arsenicosum [Kali‐ar]

Generalities
It is a valuable remedy for inveterate skin diseases and when patient’s condition tends
towards malignancy. All the sufferings are worse at night. Sudden noise or touch throws the
whole body into a tremor. Tongue; burns, numb; neuralgia of. Palpitation; with nephritis.
*Burning in throat. Aching in stomach. Passes much gas then diarrhoea. Cauliflower like
excrescences of os uteri, with flying pains; foul smelling discharges, and pressure below the
pelvis. Intolerable itching worse undressing, walking, warmth. Chronic eczema. Psoriasis.
Numerous small nodules under the skin. Black leg ulcer running bloody, foul water, with
cutting, burning, itching and dyspnoea. Chilly and sensitive to cold. Cannot get too warm even
in summer.

Better
Rainy days.

Worse
*Touch. *Noise. Cold feet. 1‐3 a.m.

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Kali Bichromicum [Kali‐bi]

Generalities
Potassium bichromate specially affects the ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES *of the air
passages; ***NOSE; *pharynx, stomach and duodenum_ producing ***ADHESIVE;
***STICKY; ***STRINGY; *tough, *lumpy or thick discharges. Diseased conditions progress
*slowly but deeply; causing *great weakness bordering on paralysis but little fever. Plastic or
fibrous exudations spread downwards. It is adapted to fat, fair, fleshy, light complexioned
persons, subject *to catarrhs or with syphilitic or scrofulous history. *Pains occur in small
spots or migrate quickly from place to place; and finally attack the stomach. Rheumatic and
gastric symptoms alternate. Diagonal pains. Ascending symptoms, gastric pains, chills, heat
etc. Formation of crusts on mucous membranes and skin. *Ulcers; with dark dots; deep;
perforating, round, punched out; with over‐hanging edges or thick crusts. Septal or peptic
ulcers. Sensation of heaviness in different parts. As if a hair on tongue, in nostrils etc.
Yellowness; of discharges, eyes, vision, tongue etc. Sharp stitching pains. Itching internally in
vagina, ear, lungs etc. *Cracking of joints. Indolent or sluggish reaction, in many conditions,
ulcers, inflammations etc. Affections of root of the nose, tongue, penis etc. Stubborn
suppurations. Plugs of pus; stringy. Ill effects from indulgence in beer and malt liquor.
Neuralgia, daily at the same hour. Sickly, chilly and cachetic. Biting like bugs. Membranes look
furred. Pains appear and disappear suddenly. Epilepsy; ropy saliva from mouth during
convulsions. Weakness and weariness; after pains.

Worse
***COLD, *damp. Open air. Spring. *Undressing. ***MORNING, after sleep. 2‐3 a.m.
Protruding tongue. Hot weather. Alcohol; beer. Suppressed catarrh. Stooping. Sitting.

Better
Heat. Motion. Pressure.

Mind
Indifferent. Indolent_aversion to mental and bodily labour. Anthropophobia, avoids human
society.

Head
Vertigo with nausea when rising from a seat. Blindness, followed by violent headache; *over
eyebrows or outward along the brows; worse cold better pressing at the root of the nose, by
warm soup. Aching and fulness in glabella. Periodical headaches. Migraine; in small spots and
from suppressed catarrh. Bones of head feel sore; sharp stitches in bones. As of a solid block
in forehead.

Eyes
Ulcers on cornea, no pain or photophobia. Conjunctiva; yellow; puffy; covered with yellow‐
brown spots. Discharge ropy and yellow. *Blindness, before headache. Vision seems crossed
better looking with one eye. Eyelids; swollen; winking during convulsions, itching, granular.
Dense opacities of cornea. Photophobia only by daylight. Eyelids twitch on opening.

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Ears
Sharp stitches in ears (left). Thick yellow foetid discharge. Violent tickling in ears. Tympanum
perforated.

Nose
Pains at bridge or root. *Pressure or stuffed at root of the nose. Snuffles, esp. of fat chubby
children. *Discharges; thick, ropy, greenish, yellow, *acrid. Tough, elastic plugs, leave a raw
surface. Expired air feels hot. Foetid smell from retention of discharge in nose. Tickling as from
a hair in left nostril. Coryza with obstruction of nose. Violent sneezing worse in the morning.
Chronic inflammation of frontal sinuses with stopped up sensation. Septum ulcerated.
Abscess. Ozoena. *Nasal diphtheria. Two loose bones as if rubbing together on blowing the
nose. Loss of smell. Nose; feels heavy; *dry. Nasal polypi.

Face
Pale, yellowish. Blotchy, red; florid. Mumps on the right side. Sweat on upper lip.

Mouth
Toothache; radiating, with swelling of the glands. *Tongue; glistens, cracked, smooth or
heavy; dry, red, lemon yellow, furred; in dysentery. *Tongue pains when protruded; at the
root. *Sticky mouth. Sweet, metallic, taste. Tongue; thickly coated, broad, flat; indented.
Aphthous ulcers deeply corroding. As of a hair on back part of the tongue, not better by eating
or drinking. Mouth dry better by drinking cold water.

Throat
*Hawks up thick mucus, must wipe it away. Uvula; oedematous, relaxed, bladder‐like.
Fissured pharynx. Dry, burning in. Something sticks in; with pain into neck and shoulders.
Throat pains when putting the tongue out. Aphthae. Diphtheria. Tonsils swollen with
deafness, in children.

Stomach
Craving; for beer, for acid drinks. Dislikes meat, water. Vomiting more than he drinks, of bright
yellow water. Regurgitates liquids. Round ulcer of the stomach. Gastric symptoms better by
eating. Sore spot in stomach or food lies like a load. Nausea with heat in the body better
eating and open air. Nausea with burning in anus and erections.

Abdomen
Feeling of constriction from liver to shoulder (right). Stitches in spleen extending to lumbar
region. Chronic intestinal ulceration with vomiting and emaciation. Stools; gelatinous, jelly‐
like; or *gushes of brown frothy water; then burning and tenesmus worse after rising in the
morning. Periodical dysentery_every year, in summer. Diarrhoea or dysentery after
rheumatism. Sensation of a plug in anus. As if something eating in bowels.

Urinary
Heavy kidneys. As if one drop of urine had remained behind, after urination, which cannot be
expelled. Nephritis with scanty albuminous urine. Bloody urine with pain in back.
Haematochyluria.

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Male
Constrictive pain at the root of penis, at night, after waking. Chancres ulcerating deeply. Gleet,
with stringy or jelly‐like profuse discharge; clogging the urethra. Sexual desire absent in fleshy
persons. Stitches in prostate when walking, must stand still.

Female
Menses; with suppression of urine or red urine. Leucorrhoea; acrid, yellow, ropy; with pain
across sacrum and heaviness in the hypogastrium. Prolapsus uteri worse hot weather. Milk;
stringy, watery. Itching burning of vulva with sexual excitement. Vomiting of pregnancy.

Respiratory
Voice hoarse worse evening. Laryngitis. Tickling in larynx with cough worse eating, with
eructations better heat; then vertigo. *Rawness, under sternum; *pains through to back and
shoulders, on coughing. Expectoration; yellow, stringy, profuse, with deep cough. As of a bar
across the chest. Asthma worse coition. Cough better expectoration. Dry metallic hacking
cough.

Heart
Dilated, with kidney lesions; insufficiency of aortic valves. Feeling of coldness about. Heart
weak. Pulsation felt in all the arteries.

Neck and Back

Stiffness of neck worse bending head forward. Cutting through loins; cannot walk. Pain in
coccyx worse walking, sitting and touching it; extending up and down. Coccyx pains before
urination, better after. As if something cracked across sacrum worse stooping.

Extremities
Paralytic weakness of hands. Sciatica better motion and flexing the leg, worse standing, sitting
or lying in bed. Pain along border of the foot. Wandering pains along the bones. Rheumatic
pains worse eating. Tendo achilles swollen and tender. Shin bones, painful; periostitis from
blow.

Sleep
Unrefreshing; feels debilitated in extremities.

Fever
Hot flushes; then sticky sweat, then chill. Cold sweat on hands and feet. Chill with sweat.

Skin
Pustules, with black apices. Skin; hot, dry and red better cool air. Brown spots on. Blisters on
soles. Depressed, round, scars after healing of eruptions or ulcers.

Related
Kali‐c; Merc; Phyt; Puls.

Complementary
Ars; Phos; Psor.
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Kali Bromatum [Kali‐br]

Generalities
Potassium Bromide affects the ***MIND AND NERVES, producing failure of mental power;
general numbness, and *anaesthesia of mucous membranes esp. of eyes, throat and skin. Its
power over sexual sphere is very great; patient is sensual, with lascivious fancies; satyriasis
and nymphomania. Epilepsy is associated, with sexual excess or abuse, in men; and in women
fits occur during menses; fits usually occur during new moon and are followed by headaches.
Onset of diseased condition is slow; *without any pain. Paralysis. Weakens the heart and
lowers temperature. Ill effects of worry, loss of business, reputation and embarrassment.
Sexual excess, illness or death of a near friend. Chorea from fright. Paralysis agitans.

Worse
*Mental exertion. Emotions_anger, fright, worry. Grief. Periodically; night, 2 a.m. Summer;
new moon. *Sexual excess. Puberty. Unsatisfied sexual desire.

Better
When busy mentally and physically.

Mind
*Depressive delusions; thinks he is pursued; will be poisoned; will commit some great crime,
will murder her children or husband. Nervous. Brain fag, from grief and anxiety. Suspicious;
looks on all sides; fears people, yet cannot remain alone, in the dark. *Fidgety, *busy hands,
fumbles. Moves arms about wildly. *Complete loss of memory, forgets how to talk, has to be
told the word before he can speak it. Amnesic aphasia. Melancholy, much concerned about
health, complains without cause. Remorse; *wings hands; bursts into tears. Slow, hesitates,
omits or mixes up words in talking and writing. Profound indifference and disgust for life.
Imagines he cannot pass a certain point. Frequent shedding of tears. Night terrors in children,
awake screaming, unconscious, recognizes no one; followed by squinting. Senile softening of
the brain. Suicidal mania with trembling.

Head
Numb feeling in head, worse occiput. Vertigo, as if ground gave way and staggering gait,
worse stooping. Symptoms of apoplexy. Violent headache or numbness felt in occiput; from
concussion of brain.

Eyes
Sunken; eyeballs move in every direction. Squinting after night terrors, of children.

Ears
Hardness of hearing. Sounds echo in ears. Roaring synchronous with pulse; at night.

Nose
Smell impaired. Coryza descends to larynx.

Face
Flushed; yellow, cachetic. Expressionless. Acne on face.

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Mouth
Difficult speech; stammering. Breath foetid. Numb. Tongue protrudes with a jerk; Chorea.

Throat
Numb. Dysphagia of liquids (children), can swallow only solids.

Stomach
Vomiting; with intense thirst; after each meal; hysterical; after exciting emotions. Persistent
hiccough.

Abdomen
Spasms in, with retraction of walls. As if bowels were falling out. Cutting colic. Internal
coldness. Green watery stools, with rapid collapse. Cholera infantum, with twitching and
jerking of muscles and retraction of abdomen. Rectal polypus; persistent diarrhoea, much
blood expelled.

Urinary
Diabetes mellitus. Dribbling of urine at the beginning of stools. Urethra numb. Enuresis.

Male
Excessive sexual desire, with constant erections at night. Desire lessened, even impotence.
Impotence; with melancholy; epilepsy, nervous prostration.

Female
Nymphomania; during puerperal state. Sterility from excessive sexual indulgence. Ovarian
neuralgia from ungratified sexual desire. Cystic tumours of ovaries. Flooding in young women,
with sexual desire. Menorrhagia, from strong sexual desire. Fibroids. Subinvolution. Sexual
feeling lost, aversion to coition.

Respiratory
Croupy cough. Reflex cough during pregnancy. Breath hot; hurried. Asthma, with dry cough,
tosses arms about wildly.

Extremities
Hands and fingers in constant motion. Twitching of fingers. Trembling of hands during
voluntary motion. Unsteady gait. Cannot stand erect, legs weak.

Sleep
Drowsiness; often broken by start. Sleeplessness, due to worry, grief and sexual excess. Night
terrors. Somnambulism in children.

Fever
Painful flushing of the face, during climacteric.

Skin
Acne. Moist eczema of legs. Psoriasis. Skin cold; numb. Scars remaining after eruptions.

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Related
Calc; Con; Op; Stram.

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Kali Carbonicum [Kali‐c]

Generalities
Weakness caused by all potassium salts is more pronounced in this typical salt of potassium
group. ***WEAKNESS; of the *muscles; *of heart; of the back; of limbs; *weakness of
intellect. Fibrous tissues; ligaments of joints; of uterus, of lumbar back are particularly
affected_producing relaxation; joints *give way; *back feels as if broken; the patient feels
compelled to lie down or lean on something. *Sweat, *backache and weakness are the three
characteristic symptoms of Kali‐c. It is adapted to fleshy, aged, soft, *thin blooded and cold
persons; sensitive to atmospheric changes, to every draught of air, always shivering, with
*dropsical and paralytic tendency. The cold air feels hot. Those who have vague or those who
withhold their symptoms. ***SHARP STITCHING; *stabbing or catching pains are felt in
various parts of the body_joints; *chest; muscles, head, lying on affected side etc.; or with
any affections. *Throbbing pains; *numbness or coldness of single parts; abdomen, fingers.
Parts lain on are painful or go to sleep. Discharges are profuse and acrid. Convulsions; seems
to pass off with eructations. Sudden unconsciousness. Twitching of the muscles; rigidity and
atony of the muscles. Whole body as if it were hollow. Fatty degeneration. Tubercular
diathesis. Hypothyroidism. As if bed were sinking under her. Never well since pneumonia.
Burnings; like fire. Tendency to start, with a loud cry; when touched, even lightly esp. in the
soles, which leads a thrill throughout the whole body. Pains go to the part uncovered, not lain
on. Ill effects of suppressions of eruptions in childhood. Closing of ulcers or fistulous openings;
catching cold and over strain. Debilitating states after miscarriage and labour. Disposition to
phlebitis.

Worse
Cold_***AIR; draught; water; after overheating; after exertion. *Winter. 2‐3 a.m. Before
menses. *Lying on painful or left side. Loss of fluids. After parturition; abortion. Stooping. By
a sudden or unguarded motion Change of weather. After coition. Touch. Motion.

Better
Warmth. Sitting with elbows on knees. By day. Open air. Motion.

Mind
Peevish. Easily startled; starts when touched esp. on feet; on dropping to sleep. *Anxiety,
*with fear when alone. Anxiety felt in stomach. At a loss to know how to say what she wishes.
Very irritable. Weeps much. Hypersensitive to pain, noise, touch. Never quiet or contented.
Fear; of future; of ghosts; of death. Anxious about his own diseased condition. Quarrels with
one’s bread and butter, with his family. Feels as if bed sinking under him.

Head
Aches into eyes worse motion of carriage, sneezing, coughing; stooping, yawning; better
when raising the head and pressing the forehead. Constant sensation as if something loose in
head, turning, twisting towards the forehead. Wakes from headache. Hair, dry; falls out; from
eyebrows, temples and beard. Painful tumours on scalp.

Eyes
Weak; after coition; after measles; after abortion. Vision spotted_ bright sparks, blue, green
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between upper eyelids and the brows. Painful sensation of light penetrating the brain on
shutting the eyes. Eyelids cold.

Ears
Stitches in ears from within outwards. Cracking in ears. Right ear hot, left pale and cold. Noises
in ear; with headache.

Nose
Descending coryza. Swollen, hard, red. Obstruction better walking in open air. Foetid yellow‐
green or crusty discharge. Nosebleed on washing the face in the morning. Nostrils ulcerated.
Nose red, covered with pimples. Chronic cold. Breathes through mouth.

Face
Bloated. Pale, sickly, sallow, with sunken eyes. Freckles. Swelling of lower jaw and sub‐
maxillary glands. Cramps in jaws.

Mouth
Toothache; alternating with stitching pains in left breast; only while eating. Mouth slimy.
Tongue, grey‐white. Gums separate from teeth. Itching in gums; pus oozes out. Pyorrhoea.
Aphthae; much salivation. Burning, soreness or painful pimples on tip of tongue.

Throat
Hawks up tough mucus in a.m. *Swallowing ***DIFFICULT; food slowly descends; remains
half way in oesophagus, with gagging and vomiting; stricture of oesophagus. Small particles
of food go easily in windpipe. Sticking pain as from fish bone.

Stomach
Salty, sour regurgitation. Vomiting of sour mucus. Desire for sweets, for acids. Stomach
*distended and *sensitive. Fulness even after little drink or food. Milk and warm food
disagree. Feeling as if *stomach were full of water. Feeling of lump deep in epigastrium
sensitive to touch. *Throbbing at back of stomach. Gastric pains go to back, chest, limbs etc.
Wants to eat frequently but least food oppresses her. Nocturnal vomiting of food. Nausea
better lying. Sour eructations. Feels sleepy and weak while eating, cannot finish her meal.
When hungry, feels anxious, nauseated, nervous, tingling, palpitation etc.

Abdomen
*Distended, *hard, *tympanitic and cold. Throbbing at navel. Feeling as if a cold fluid passed
through intestines, during menses. Flatulence. Stitches or sore liver. Pain from left
hypochondrium through abdomen; must turn on right side before he can rise. Cutting pain as
if intestines were torn to pieces. *Stools; *difficult, *of large, *hard lumps; then burning or
torn feeling. Piles; inflamed, bleeding, descend when urinating or coughing; better riding on
horseback. Stitching like fine needle; during pregnancy; or red hot poker in rectum better cool
bathing. Easy prolapse of rectum. Chronic diarrhoea of dyspeptics; during day only.
Constipation, after or during menses. Sensation of a lump rolling and rising from the abdomen
(right) to throat and back again, on coughing. Anal fistula. Dropsy. Jaundice. Constipation
alternating with diarrhoea.

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Urinary
Burning in left kidney. Nocturnal enuresis of adults; worse coughing, sneezing. *Urine;
*foamy; with thick red sediment. Stitching pain in kidneys, going from buttocks to thighs.
Pressure on bladder long before urination; the more it is pressed less the urine flows.
Urination slow with burning in urethra. Nephritis, from exposure to cold or injury.

Male
Complaints after coition. Copious painful pollutions; with subsequent painful erections.
Prostration after coition; often with shuddering. Sleeplessness and uneasiness for 2 or 3 days
after coition. Aversion to coition. Strange uneasy feeling in genitals. Chronic gonorrhoea;
painful scanty discharge; burning during and after urination.

Female
Delayed first menses; with chest symptoms and ascites.Amenorrhoea. Menses; too late,
acrid, profuse. Violent colicky pain, before menses, which are irritating and of pungent odour.
Fine stitches in mammae. *Leucorrhoea; *with labour like pains causing itching and burning
in pudendum; better washing. Labour pains inefficient; felt in back, down the hips and thighs.
Complaints after parturition and abortion. Haemorrhages, after curetting, and all sorts of
other treatment. Eclampsia better eructations. Puerperal fever with cutting pain in
hypogastrium, with black and scanty urine. Uterine tumours, cyst. Menorrhagia better taking
bath. Soreness of genitals during coition and during menses. Menses; early, with profuse
discharge; late, with scanty and pale discharge. Severe uterine spasms without appearance of
menses, with feeling of heat and restlessness.

Respiratory
Catarrhal aphonia; with violent sneezing. Breathing difficult, *asthmatic worse least motion
or walking; alternating with diarrhoea; with vertigo. Incessant, hard retching or *choking,
futile cough; then vomiting. Whooping cough. Lungs seem to stick to the ribs. *Stabbing chest
pains. Hydrothorax. Whole chest very sensitive, during coughing. Cough with relaxed uvula.
Coldness of chest. Expectoration; difficult, or small round balls come flying from the mouth
without effort; salty, thick, bloody, yellowish, greenish, offensive and profuse; taste sour or
pungent.

Heart
Seems to hang by a thread. Palpitation; then weakness; in valvular disease; when becomes
hungry. Burning in heart region. Heart pains extend to left scapula. *Pulse; *small, *soft,
*variable; *intermittent or dicrotic. Arrhythmia. Cardiac degeneration. Violent palpitation,
shakes the whole body; throbbing extending to tips of fingers and toes.

Neck and Back

Everything affects the small of the back or pains start there. Neck feels large. *Backache;
*with given up feeling; must lie down; as if broken. Small of the back feels weak. Lumbago;
with sudden sharp pains extending up and down, back and down the thighs. Backache after
delivery or abortion. Spine painful while eating. Burning in the right side of spine.

Extremities
Weakness in arms, feel numb, cold. Numb pinching in (left) arm. Burning like fire in fingers.
*Legs give out; feel heavy. Tips of toes and fingers painful. Oedema of left foot. *Soles very

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sensitive. Pain from hip to knee. Knees painful worse going downstairs or upstairs. Jerks the
limbs esp. when the feet are touched. Sciatica, tearing pain in the thighs, with jerking of
muscles.

Sleep
Falls asleep while eating. Talks in sleep. Awakes at about 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. with nearly all
complaints. Wakes at 1 or 2 a.m., cannot sleep again. Yawns; with headache etc.

Fever
Chilly; with hot hands; and sleepiness; in open air. Internal burning. Sweat scanty, foul on feet.
Sweats with slightest exertion; on painful part, on affected part.

Skin
Sensitive, dry. Burning as from mustard plaster. General itching or hives, during menses.
Itching of warts. Tension, pressure, rending in scars.

Related
Ars; Calc‐hypo; Fl‐ac; Lyc; Phos; Sep; Sulph.

Complementary
b Ars‐i; Carb‐v; Nit‐ac; Nux‐v; Phos.

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Kali Chloricum [Kali‐chl]

Generalities
This remedy disorganizes the blood and affects the mouth, kidneys and rectum. Profound
prostration; *coldness, in different parts and organs, even in blood and easy *haemorrhages;
nosebleed, bloody stools etc.; scurvy; are most marked symptoms. Discharges are *foetid.
Grey, white, plastic exudates. Lardaceous and fatty degeneration of liver, spleen and kidneys
and other solid organs. Toxaemia of pregnancy.

Worse
Cold. Mercury. Jar. Coughing. Sneezing.

Better
Nose bleed (Mental symptoms).

Nose
Bleeding; at night; only from right nostril.

Face
Swollen; she can hardly see in the morning. Neuralgic pains worse talking; eating, or slight
touch followed by numbness.

Mouth
Foetor. Acute ulceration and follicular *stomatitis, aphthous and gangrenous. Noma. Tongue;
swollen; cold. Scurvy. Salivation.

Stomach
Coldness in. Sudden vomiting, incessant; of all food; of offensive dark green mucus. Throat
cold.

Abdomen
Griping colic, with shifting of flatulence and diarrhoea; followed by continuous rectal pain.
Dysentery_much blood passing with mucus, profuse greenish, cries with violent cutting pain
in the rectum in dysentery and diarrhoea.

Urinary
Nephritis. Urine albuminous, scanty, suppressed. Haematuria.

Respiratory
Constriction of chest; as from sulphur fumes.

Heart
Coldness in precordial region. Right pulse full; left small. Coldness in blood.

Extremities
Ankles swell in the evening. Arms, feet cold.

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Skin
Cold. Pimples between lip and chin.

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Kali Cyanatum [Kali‐cy]

Generalities
This most poisonous drug should be remembered in agonizing neuralgias esp. of orbital and
supra‐maxillary, with screaming and loss of consciousness. Cancer of the tongue, with
indurated edges. Sudden sinking sensation. Power of speech lost but intelligence intact.
Sciatica, gait unsteady.

Better
Motion in open air.

Worse
4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Kali Iodatum [Kali‐i]

Generalities
Potassium Iodide was used as anti‐syphilitic remedy. It acts prominently on fibrous and
connective tissues, producing infiltrations, oedema. *Glands are swollen; or atrophied.
Exostosis, swelling of the bones, rickets, purpura and haemorrhagic diathesis come under its
influence. Diversity of lesions, diversity of aggravations, with many tedious symptoms,
without any one feature being in prominence calls for this remedy.
Gouty_rheumatic_syphilitic diathesis. *Stubborn chronicity. Feels used up. Crushing or sharp
stitching pains. Discharges are ***COPIOUS, *watery, *acrid, *salty; thick; green or foul.
*Diffused soreness; after pains; of affected part. Pains long after injury. *Weakness,
emaciation. Arteriosclerosis. *Craves motion in open air. Cachexy. Contraction of muscles and
tendons, chronic arthritis, with spurious ankylosis. Actinomycosis. Coldness; of painful part;
in bones. Fungoid diseases. Dropsy, from pressure, from swollen glands.

Worse
*Heat. Pressure, Touch. *Night. Damp, Mercury. Changing weather. Jarring. Cold foods esp.
milk. Sunset to sunrise.

Better
*Motion. *Cool air. Open air.

Mind
Irritable, irascible esp. towards his children; his family. Harsh tempered and cruel. Trivial
details of life seem insupportable. Cannot think. Despondent. Bad temper. Abusive. Nervous,
must walk. Talkative, disposed to jest.

Head
Vertigo in the dark; worse railway travelling. Violent headaches, as if screwed, through sides
of head worse warmth and pressure. Hard painful lumps on cranium; with headache. Pain in
scalp on scratching, as if ulcerated. Big head and small jaws_rickets. Brain feels enlarged. Hair
changes colour and falls off. Bilateral headaches. Scalp fissured, and sore. Tender spots on
head.

Eyes
*Puffy, burning, watery; conjunctiva red. Syphilitic iritis. Constant oscillations of the eyeballs.
Winking is painful. Chemosis. Oedema around. Lower lids twitch.

Ears
Tinnitus. Boring pain in the ears. Deafness.

Nose
Red, swollen. Coryza; descending, profuse, *acrid, hot, watery discharge worse cool air; with
salivation and dyspnoea. *Tightness at the root of the nose. Ozena with perforated septum.
Cool, greenish, irritating, discharge from nose. Burning, throbbing in nose and sinuses. Violent
sneezing. Takes cold from every damp day.

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Face
Neuralgia. Tight pain at zygomae. Glutinous mucus on lips in a.m.

Mouth
Toothache nagging, as if a worm were digging in it. Taste bitter; on waking; salty. Salivation.
Bloody saliva, with sweetish or disgusting taste in mouth. Severe pain at the root of tongue,
at night. Ulcers in mouth, looking as if, coated with milk.

Throat
Sore of speakers. Goitre sensitive to contact. Dry. Tonsils enlarged.

Stomach
Cold food and drinks esp. cold milk worse. Much thirst. Sensation as if waterbrash is occurring.
Throbbing, painful burning. Aversion to all food; to broth.

Abdomen
Flatulence, with air hunger. Squeaking or clucking noise in. Diarrhoea; with pain in lumber
region, as if broken, or as if menses would appear. Early morning diarrhoea of phthisis. Stools
frequent. Fissured anus; of infants.

Urinary
Frequent urination of copious, clear, urine; worse before menses, at night.

Male
Atrophy of testicles. Chronic gonorrhoea; discharge thick green. Excoriation by least friction.

Female
Uterus feels as if squeezed, during menses. Leucorrhoea; corrosive, like meat washing.
Atrophy of mammae. Menses late and profuse.

Respiratory
Larynx feel raw. *Air hunger, with flatulency; in a.m.; awakes strangling. Whistling asthmatic
breathing. *Air passages raw. Dry bronchitis. Frothy, greenish, soap‐suds like expectoration.
Pleuritic effusion. Pneumonia. Chest pains go backwards. Pain from sternum to back.

Heart
Palpitation and darting pains worse when walking. Aneurism.

Neck and Back

Small of the back as if in a vice. Bruised pain in lumbar region worse sitting bent. Pain in coccyx
as from a fall.

Extremities
Pain in hips forcing limping. Sciatica worse lying; on the affected side; sitting, standing; wakes
him at night; better walking and flexing legs. Rheumatism of the knee, with effusion. Tip of
thumb ulcerates and turns yellow.

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Sleep
Weeps loudly during sleep, but unconscious of it.

Fever
Chilly in bones; in painful parts. Heat in evening. Uncovers then chilly. Alternate heat and chill.
Heat with shudders. Hot and dry, then drenching sweat. Profuse night sweats which better.

Skin
Acne. Giant urticaria. Small boils, leaving scars. Rough nodules all over.

Related
Iod; Sulph; Syph.

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Kali Muriaticum [Kali‐m]

Generalities
Potassium Chloride is one of Dr. Schuessler’s tissue remedies. It causes *catarrhal condition,
producing ***MILKY WHITE, viscid, sticky, *thick; slimy or lumpy discharges. *Tough plastic
or *fibrinous exudates. *Hard deposits. *Glandular swelling. *Sore, *cutting or sticking,
*shifting pains. Crawling. Numbness. Ill effects of vaccination. Sprains. Burns. Blows, cuts.
Embolism. Crosswise symptoms. Slow reaction. Stubborn infiltration.

Worse
*Open air. *Cold drinks. Drafts, heat, of bed. Lying. Night. Dampness. Motion. Sprains. *Fats;
*rich foods. During menses.

Better
Cold drinks. Rubbing. Letting hair down.

Mind
Discontent, discouraged. Fears evil. Sits in silence. Imagines he must starve. Habitual loss of
appetite or refuses food. *Irritable and angry; at trifles.

Head
Stunning shock in or a leaden load holds down occiput better letting hair down and warmth.
Brain feels loose. Copious white dandruff. *Sweating of head. Crusta lactea.

Eyes
Pustules on cornea. Cataract. Trachoma. Corneal opacities. Scintillations on coughing.
Exudation in retina.

Ears
*Deafness; from *catarrhal condition and occlusion of eustachian tubes. Crackling noises on
blowing nose or swallowing. Snapping, itching or as of a plug in ears. Glands about the ears
are swollen. Soreness of Eustachian tube.

Nose
Stuffy cold in head. Discharge white, thick. Hawking of mucous from posterior nares.

Face
Bluish; sunken. Cheeks swollen and painful. Paralysis, following pain in face. Muscles of face
twitch and tremble worse eating, speaking or coughing. Mumps without fever.

Mouth
Eruptions around the mouth. Aphthae. Thrush. White ulcers in the mouth. Scorbutic gums.
Tongue; mapped; gray or white, at base. Taste; salty, bitter, with coldness of tongue.
Sensation as if a tumour were growing on the tongue.

Throat
Grayish‐white, ulcerated; chronic sore throat. *Tonsils swollen inflamed; swallowing
excessively painful, can hardly breathe. *Hawks out thick white mucous; cheesy.

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Stomach
Fatty or rich food causes indigestion, he loathes it. Nausea; with shivers. Stomach heavy; at
night. Vomits food. Hunger disappears after drinking water.

Abdomen
*Fulness, *after eating. *Pale, hard or flocculent stools. *Anus sore worse walking or stools.
Itching or crawling in anus, after stools. Piles_ bleeding; blood dark and thick.

Urinary
Dribbling urination. Cystitis. Discharge white thick mucous.

Female
Menses; dark, clotted, black like tar; excessive. Leucorrhoea; milky white, thick, bland. Soft,
tender nodes in mammae. Painful mammae before or at menses.

Respiratory
*Difficult or oppressed breathing. Bronchitis. Expectoration sticky, milky, or flies from the
mouth. Rawness in chest. Flushes of heat in chest.

Heart
Coldness at heart.

Neck and Back

Heaviness under right shoulder. Buzzing under right scapula. Backache better lying. Lightning
pains from small of back to feet. Must get out of bed and sit up.

Extremities
*Cold hands and feet. Hands get stiff while writing or knitting. Cramps in limbs; in legs.
Twitching thighs. Tension in leg alternating with tension in arm. Cold foot sweat. Cutting in
bones. Exudation and swelling around the joints. Cracking of tendons; back of hand.

Sleep
Anxious dreams.

Skin
Branny. Bursitis. Eruptions connected with stomach or menstrual disorders.

Related
Bry; Ferr‐p; Puls.

Complementary
Calc‐s.

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Kali Nitricum [Kali‐n]

Generalities
Potassium Nitrate affects *respiratory organs, kidneys, heart and blood vessels. Secretions
are increased, into cavities. Sudden dropsical swelling of the whole body. It is often indicated
in suppurative nephritis, asthma and cardiac asthma. Pains are *dull stitching, throbbing.
Wooden, *numbness. Relapsing phthisis. Very weak. *Haemorrhagic tendency.

Worse
*Walking Cold. Damp. Taking cold. Eating veal. Lying with head low. Breathing.

Better
Gentle motion. Drinking water in sips.

Mind
Mental weariness from lack of occupation or interest. Discouragement and fear of death.

Head
Fainting fits, with vertigo in morning worse on standing, better sitting down. Pains in occiput
better letting hair down. Head pain better motion of carriage. Hair was being pulled during
pain.

Eyes
External angle of right eye twitches worse chewing.

Ears
Chronic deafness from paralysis of auditory nerve. Vertigo and tinnitus.

Nose
Swollen feeling worse right nostril. Point red and itching. Polypus.

Mouth
Tongue, red with burning pimples.

Stomach
Nausea, as if about to vomit worse at night. Epigastric or substernal pains go towards axilla.

Abdomen
Diarrhoea from eating veal. Thin, watery dark, bloody stools.

Urinary
*Frequent and profuse emission of clear urine. Diabetes insipidus. Dull kidney pains.

Female
Profuse menses, black, like ink.

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Respiratory
Rapid gasping breathing; sits upright. *Violent dyspnoea; with burning in chest; dull stitches
and nausea; *can only drink in sips, though thirsty. Congestion of right lung. Asthma. Free
sour expectoration gives relief.

Heart
Palpitation worse lying.

Neck and Back

Pains extend into the chest.

Extremities
Hands and fingers feel swelled.

Fever
*External coldness; chin; skin. Internal burning.

Related
Cham; Glon.

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Kali Sulphuricum [Kali‐s]

Generalities
This Dr. Schuessler’s tissue remedy affects respiratory, mucous membranes and skin where it
causes *desquamation. ***DISCHARGES ARE PROFUSE AND DEEP YELLOW, thin or sticky.
Processes are torpid in nature. *Suppurations. *Stitching, tearing, festering pains, *that shift
about. Lack of reaction. Cancer; epithelial. Ill effects of chill when over heated. Injury. Growth
of nails interrupted.

Worse
*Warmth; of room, air. Noise. Consolation. Evening.

Better
*Cool air. Walking. Fasting.

Mind
*Hurried. Irritable. Desire to lie down, but lying worse, so one must walk for relief. Frightened
at trifles. Desires and rejects the things.

Head
Yellow dandruff; moist; sticky. Scaldhead. Bald spots (after gonorrhoea).

Eyes
Ophthalmia neonatorum. Purulent yellow mucus in eye diseases.

Ears
Eustachian deafness. Watery, sticky, thin, yellow discharge; offensive; with polypus.

Nose
Engorgement of nasal and laryngeal mucous membranes, with mouth breathing, snoring etc.,
after removal of adenoids.

Face
Aches in heated room. Epithelioma.

Mouth
*Yellow, *slimy tongue. Loss of taste and smell.

Stomach
As of a heavy load on stomach. Dread of hot drinks. Craves sweets.

Abdomen
Feels cold, during colic. Hard tympanitic, in whooping cough. Empty feeling in hypogastrium
better passing flatus.

Urinary
Oxaluria. Pyelitis.

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Male
Gonorrhoea; gleet, slimy yellowish green discharge.

Female
Menses; with a feeling of weight in abdomen. Leucorrhoea; yellowish, watery.

Respiratory
*Coarse rattle in chest. Croupy hoarseness. Bronchitis. Asthma; with easily expelled yellow,
slimy expectoration.

Extremities
Shifting, wandering pains. Rheumatism worse heat. Arthritic nodes.

Fever
*Profuse easy sweat. Intermittent fever; rise of temperature at night.

Skin
Yellow_jaundice. Abundant *desquamation. Ulcers, ooze thin ***YELLOW WATER. Psoriasis.
Nettle‐rash. Dry skin. Eczema; intertrigo.

Related
Puls; Tub.

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Kalmia Latifolia [Kalm]

Generalities
Kalmia affects the ***NERVES, ***HEART, *circulation. *Pains are neuralgic, *with tingling,
*numbness; *trembling or paralytic weakness. *Pains shift rapidly; shooting *outward along
the nerves; with much nausea and slow pulse. *Aching, *bruised stiff feeling. Dull tearing,
crushing pain, *moving downwards; pain alternating, with cardiac symptoms, or between
upper and lower limbs. Rheumatism, syphilitic. Neuralgia, after the disappearance of herpetic
eruptions. Motion brings on complaints. Albuminuria. Great weakness with neuralgia.

Worse
***MOTION. Lying on left side. Bending forward. Looking down. Heat; of sun. Becoming cold.
With the sun. Sunrise to sunset. Stooping. During leucorrhoea.

Better
*Eating Cloudy weather. Continued motion. Recumbent posture .

Mind
Memory and mental faculties are perfect in a recumbent posture.

Head
Vertigo; with headache, blindness, pains in the limbs and weariness; worse stooping; looking
down. Cracking in head_frightens him, it sends in a sound in ears like blowing of a horn.
Headache worse and better with sun. Shooing from nape to vertex and face. Maddening
supra‐orbital pain; (right).

Eyes
Stiff drawing sensation when moving the eyes. Vision becomes black on looking downwards.
Iritis. Scleritis. Eyelids stiff. Retinitis albuminuria esp. during pregnancy.

Ears
Sound like blowing of a horn.

Nose
Coryza; with increased sense of smell.

Face
Flushing with vertigo. Neuralgia worse right side; from exposure to cold; Better food. Stitches
and tearing in jaw bones. Lips; stiff, dry, swollen.

Mouth
Stitches in tongue. Tingling in salivary gland. Bitter taste, with nausea better eating. Tired
feeling in chewing muscles.

Stomach
Pain in pit of stomach worse bending forward better sitting erect. Feeling as if something
being pressed under the epigastrium. Wine better vomiting.

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Urinary
Albuminuria; with pains in lower limbs. Frequent urination of large quantity of yellow urine;
better headache.

Female
Suppressed menses, with severe neuralgic pains throughout the whole body. Leucorrhoea;
one week after menses; symptoms worse during leucorrhoea.

Heart
Fluttering of heart with anxiety. Pains; sharp, burning shooting, stabbing, radiating to left
scapula and arm; *take away the breath, *with slow pulse Palpitation worse bending forward;
up to throat, after going to bed, trembling all over, visible; worse lying on left side; better
lying on back. Hypertrophy; valvular insufficiency. Aortic obstruction. Tobacco heart. *Pulse
slow, weak, tremulous.

Neck and Back

Pain from neck down arm; brachialgia. Pain down back, as if it would break. Lumbar pain of
nervous origin; with heat and burning.

Extremities
Deltoid rheumatism_right. Pains affect large part of the limb. Weakness, numbness, pricking
and sense of coldness in limbs. Tingling and numbness of the left arm (heart pains). Pains
along ulnar nerve into little or fourth finger. Joints, red, hot, swollen.

Sleep
Sleepless; turns often; wakes very early in the morning.

Fever
Protracted and continued fevers, with tympanites.

Skin
Stiff; dry.

Related
Acon; Dig; Rhus‐t; Spig.

Complementary
Benz‐ac; Spig.

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Kreosotum [Kreos]

Generalities
This medicine is a mixture of phenols obtained from distillation of wood tar. It affects the
mucous membranes of the ***DIGESTIVE TRACT; *female genitals; disorganizes the
***BLOOD. Excoriations. *Burning like fire. *Profuse, ***ACRID, ** HOT, ***FOUL,
***DISCHARGES; *eructations, sputum etc.; *redden the part. Lumpy discharges; menses etc.
*Haemorrhages; passive, brown, dark; from small wounds. Tumefaction. Fulness. Heaviness.
Scurvy. Cancerous affections. Gangrene. Great debility, with miserable feeling. It is suitable
to lean persons, old women (post climacteric diseases); over grown poorly developed
children; marasmus. *Blackness, of teeth, leucorrhoea, lochia etc. Rapid emaciation.
Complaints accompanying yawning. Children would not sleep unless caressed and fondled.
*Pulsations all over the body. Severe old neuralgias. Congenital syphilis.

Worse
***DENTITION. Pregnancy. *Rest. *Cold. *Eating. *Lying. Summer. Bad smells. During
menses. 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Coitus. Touch. Sprains.

Better
Warmth. Hot food. Motion. Pressure. After sleep.

Mind
*Dissatisfied, with everything; wants things then throws them away and wants something
else. Screams at night. (children). Music causes weeping and palpitation. Fear at the thought
of coition in women. *Cross; *wilful and obstinate. Stupid. Longs for death. Child moans
constantly or dozes with half open eyes or is cross and sleepless during dentition.

Head
Dull pain as from a board pressing against the forehead. Buzzing in head. Scalp sensitive worse
combing hair. Falling of hair.

Eyes
Hot, acrid smarting tears. Lids red and swollen. Suffering of eyes alternating with limbs.
Constant quivering of eyelids.

Ears
Difficulty of hearing during and before menses.

Nose
Offensive smell and discharge. Chronic catarrh of old people.

Face
Yellow pallor with red blotches; during chill or heat. Sick suffering expression; old looking
children. Burning pains worse talking or exertion; better lying on affected side. Lips red,
bleeding. Moistens lips frequently without being thirsty.

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Mouth
***VERY RAPID DECAY OF TEETH; with putrid odour from mouth.Black spots on teeth. *Puffy,
*bluish, *spongy, *bleeding gums. Intolerable toothache during pregnancy. Very painful
dentition. Aphthae, or salivation during pregnancy. Taste bitter low down in throat. Foul
breath. Pegged teeth.

Throat
Burning choking sensation. Bitter taste, when swallowing food; after drinking water.

Stomach
Eructations, hot; frothy. Nausea; vomiting; of food several hours after eating; of sweetish
water in the morning; in pregnancy; of undigested food; of uterine ulcer; cancer of the
stomach. Icy coldness in. Haematemesis. Craves smoked meat. Cold food worse. Fasting
worse, dare not remain fasting. Disgust of food during convalescence. Painful hard spot at
stomach.

Abdomen
Distended. Diarrhoea; bloody, dark, brown, lienteric; offensive stools. Green stools during
dentition. Child struggles and screams during stool, as if it would go into a fit. Sore pain worse
deep breathing. Constriction of rectum, with uterine cancer.

Urinary
As of a lump pressing down on bladder. *Urination; hurried; *involuntary, *when lying, on
coughing. Can urinate only when lying. Dreams of urinating. Enuresis in the first part of the
night. Urine offensive. Frequent urination, with copious urine, during day. Diabetes. Drinks
much but passes little at a time.

Male
Burning in genitals during coition, from coming in contact, with acrid vaginal discharge, penis
swells next day. Prepuce, bluish black, with haemorrhage and gangrene.

Female
Menses; profuse, lumpy; intermittent; worse lying; better sitting, or walking. *Leucorrhoea;
*gushing, like bloody water; offensive; corrosive; causing itching, staining the linen yellow;
with accompanying complaints; white, having odour of green corn. Violent pain during
coition; burning in parts, followed by discharge of dark blood; next day. Violent itching of
vulva and vagina worse during urination. Lochia, lumpy, offensive, intermits. Cancer, erosion
of cervix. Dwindling of mammae with small hard painful lumps in them. Menses worse lifting,
over exertion. Stitches in vagina, make her start.

Respiratory
Hoarseness with pain in larynx, better sneezing. Cough; with little expectoration or copious
purulent expectoration, after every cough; after influenza. Winter cough of old people, with
heavy pressure on sternum. Deep pain in chest. Burning as of hot coal in chest. Gangrene of
lungs. Periodical haemoptysis. Neglected phthisis.

Heart
Stitches in heart region. Pulsation in all arteries when at rest.

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Neck and Back
Dragging pain in back extending to genitals and down the thighs; as if everything would come
out (in women); with urging to stool and urination, with leucorrhoea. Burning in sacrum,
scapulae as if bruised.

Extremities
Pain in the hip joint (left); with sensation as if leg was too long when standing. Pain in left
thumb as if sprained.

Sleep
Disturbed, caused by restlessness of the whole body or with sensation of fatigue and pains in
all limbs. Tosses about whole night without any apparent cause. Dreams of urinating.

Fever
Cold sweat.

Skin
Violently itching, moist or scruffy eczema on eyelids, face, joints, back of hands. Small wounds
bleed freely. Ulcers break out and heal; bleed after coition. Urticaria, after menses.

Related
Ars; Arum‐t; Carb‐ac; Graph; Nit‐ac; Psor.

Complementary
Sulph.

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Lac caninum [Lac‐c]

Generalities
Milk of bitch acts upon ***THROAT, ***NERVES and *female genital organs. It causes
oversensitiveness of NERvES producing restlessness, nervousness, prostration and abnormal
sensations; cannot bear one part of her body to touch the other; must keep even her fingers
apart. ***SYMPTOMS ALTERNATE SIDES. Symptoms go *from right to left then back again or
*reverse; throat, ovaries, skin troubles etc. *Glistening parts; inflamed, ulcers etc. It dries up
milk in women who cannot nurse the baby. Diphtheria and diphtheritic paralysis. Ozena.
Erratic pains; or disposition of symptoms. Results of fall.

Worse
***TOUCH. *Jar. *During menses. *Cold air, *wind or drafts. Morning of one day and evening
of the next. After sleep.

Better
Open air. Cold drinks.

Mind
*Full of imaginations; horrid; of snakes; vermin. Very forgetful; makes mistakes in writing and
speaking. Every symptom seems a settled disease; which is incurable. Fear of disease; of
falling downstairs. Child cross and irritable, screams all the time esp. at night. *Despondent.
Attacks of rage. Hysteria at the height of sexual orgasm. *Feels as if walking on air or of not
touching the bed when lying down. Thinks himself of little consequence. Absent minded.
Imagines that he wears someone else’s nose. Thinks that whatever she says is a lie. Fits; of
weeping. One’s body seems disgusting.

Head
Aches change side. Blurred vision. Nausea, and vomiting, at the height of attack of headache,
which is worse by noise, talking, better by quiet. As if brain were alternately contracted and
relaxed.

Eyes
Sees faces before her eyes worse in the dark. Sees vermins, creeping things. Eyelids heavy.

Ears
Noises in ears. Reverberations of voice, as if speaking in a large empty room. Sound seems
very far off. Deafness from hereditary syphilis.

Nose
Coryza_one nostril stuffed up, other free and discharging. Profuse nocturnal nasal discharge,
purulent, staining pillow greenish yellow. Fluids escape through nose, while drinking. Cracks
in alae nasi. Smell of flowers seems to send chill over her.

Face
Pale, careworn, anxious. Jaws crack while eating.

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Mouth
Tongue coated white, with bright red edges. Putrid taste worse sweets. Talking difficult, talks
through the nose (nervous throat affections). Drooling in diphtheria (saliva drops down).
Tongue stiff. Cracks in corners of the mouth. Stutters when talking fast; has to speak slowly.
Salivation.

Throat
***SORE; has *glistening patches of china whiteness; or red glistening; tonsillitis and
diphtheria; symptoms change repeatedly from side to side; better by cold drinks, or warm
drinks, but worse empty swallowing. Sore throat beginning and ending with menses.
Swallowing difficult worse solids; pain extends to ears.

Stomach
Craves; milk and drinks much of it; highly seasoned dishes. Aversion to liquids esp. water;
anything sweet. Sinking at epigastrium with nausea. Salty food only tastes natural. Nausea
better eructations. Everything except fish makes her Worse.

Urinary
Urine scanty, infrequent. Urination once only in twenty‐four hours then copiously, but with
some difficulty and slight irritation. Nocturnal enuresis (specific). Bladder seems full after
urination.

Female
Menses; gushing; hot as fire; too early; bright red; profuse; green; or of ammoniacal odour.
Breast swollen, painful worse least jar; has to hold breast firmly when going up and down;
before menses; better on appearance of menses. Constant pain in nipples. Flatus from vagina.
***DRIES UP MILK. Galactorrhoea. Milk scanty. Leucorrhoea; profuse; during day, none at
night; worse standing and walking. Sexual organs extremely excited, worse by putting hand
on breast; pressure on vulva while sitting, or slight friction caused by walking.

Respiratory
Hoarseness during menses. Cough from constant tickling in the throat. Clavicles sore to touch.

Heart
Pain when going up and down the stairs.

Neck and Back

Stiffness of neck. Spine aches from base of brain to coccyx; very sensitive to touch or pressure.
Cold creeping down back. Cramp in feet.

Extremities
Sciatica. Limbs cold to knees. Constant pain right hip. Rheumatic pains shifting from one side
to other. Heels sore.

Sleep
Dreams of snakes. Lies with one leg flexed and other stretched. Dreams of urinating. Wakes
at night with a sensation as if bed was in motion.

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Related
Lach; Lyss; Puls.

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Lac Defloratum [Lac‐d]

Generalities
Skimmed milk is useful in diseases with faulty ***NUTRITION; and anaemic condition of
*blood. Feels completely *exhausted, whether she does anything or not; great fatigue when
walking. Sensation as if cold air was blowing on her, even while covered up; as if sheets were
damp. Sufferings from loss of sleep. Dropsy; from organic heart disease; and from chronic
liver complaints. Persons or children who become sick on taking milk. Obesity.

Worse
***COLD; *least draught. Wet. Hands in cold water. *Milk. Loss of sleep. Weekly. Shut places.

Better
Rest. Pressure of bandage. Conversation.

Mind
Despondent; better conversation; does not care to live; has no fear of death but is sure he is
going to die. Horror of shut places.

Head
Vertigo; worse lying on left side; moving head from pillow; turning while lying; must sit up.
Blindness then throbbing frontal headache, with much pale urination; worse noise, light,
motion, during menses; better by bandaging, conversation. Migraine; ceases at sunset.
Distress in head after injury. Faintness on extending arms overhead. Skull feels lifted up.
Persistent headaches, for years. Head becomes sore on coughing.

Eyes
Photophobia; even candle light unbearable. As if eyes were full of little stones, during
headache.

Face
Pale sickly look. Painless swelling of the face.

Stomach
*Aversion to milk. *Nausea and vomiting, with sensation of deathly sickness. Vomiting
incessant with no relation to eating, first of undigested food; sour; then of bitter water; of
pregnancy. Children suffer from coryza from drinking milk.

Abdomen
Constipation, with ineffectual urging. Stools *large hard; *with great straining, *lacerating
anus. Persistent constipation better only by purgatives or enema with violent attacks of sick
headaches.

Urinary
Boring, sore pain in kidneys. Frequent and profuse urination, with headache or other pains.
Urination involuntary, while walking in cold air, while riding, or when hurrying to catch a train,
and lack of sensation when the bladder is full.

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Female
Menses; delayed; in girls who drink much milk; suppressed by putting hands in cold water.
*Scanty flow of milk; restores the milk.

Extremities
Tips of fingers icy cold, rest of the hands warm.

Sleep
Restlessness from loss of sleep.

Fever
*Always feels chilly.

Skin
Very sensitive to cold. Symmetrical patches, causing itching and burning after scratching. Skin
thickened at the edges of feet.

Related
Nat‐m.

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Lachesis [Lach]

Generalities
Native American name of this snake is *surukuku_(Bushmaster); and the poison of this snake
was first proved by Dr. Hering. Like other snake poisons it decomposes ***BLOOD; affects the
***HEART AND CIRCULATION. ***NERVES become very sensitive esp. ***CUTANEOUS and
***VASO‐MOTOR. Excessive sensitiveness of the surface with intolerance of touch or
constriction; intense nervous irritability, restless, tossing, moving. Symptoms appear on
***LEFT SIDE; then go to right_***THROAT, ***OVARIES, ***GREAT FEMALE REMEDY.
*Intensively rapid onset of the disease with great prostration. *Malignant or septic states;
diphtheria; gangrene, diabetic; traumatic; senile; carbuncle, erysipelas come under its
influence. ***HAEMORRHAGES; are thin, containing dark particles like charred straw;
vicarious, nosebleed, bloody urine etc. Small wounds bleed much. *Blueness; of the affected
parts; of hands. Discharges; acrid, ***OFFENSIVE. ***ASCENDING SENSATIONS; in throat;
chills. ***FLUSHES OF HEAT; *rushes of blood. Sensation of a ***LUMP, in throat, abdomen,
liver, rectum, etc., rolls about in bladder. ***EXCESSIVE PAINFULNESS; *of throat; ulcers;
spots on body. Sensation of *constriction; in throat; on head_as if a skullcap; of anus;
*drawing; *vertex to jaws; *in rectum etc. Great physical and mental weakness. Trembling;
of the whole body; of hands, tongue etc. Hard throbbing, or *hammering pains. Neuralgic
pains change locality with palpitation. Epilepsy; comes on during sleep; from jealousy;
onanism; loss of fluids. Left sided paralysis; after apoplexy; or cerebral exhaustion. Fainting;
with pain in heart, nausea, pale face, vertigo. Chorea, from piercing ears. Awkward gait; left
side weak. Dropsy; from liver and spleen diseases; after scarlatina. Cellulitis; with burning and
blue colour of the skin. Purpura. Bubonic plague. Cancer. Diphtheritic paralysis; and other
affections. Carriers of Diphtheria. Ill effects of injuries, punctured wounds. Grief, fright.
Vexation; anger. Jealousy; disappointed love, masturbation; sprains (blueness of parts). Never
well since climaxis. Symptoms develop in sleep and the patient wakes up from symptoms; at
any time day and night. Hysteria. Catalepsy. As of thread drawing the part or spreading over.

Mind
Nervous; excitable. ***LOQUACITY; *rambling, frequently jumping from one subject to
another, then sadness; or repeats the same thing. *Compelling delusions; thinks herself under
super human control; thinks she is dead and preparations are being made for her funeral;
thinks herself pursued, hated and despised. Persistent erotic ideas, without ability. *Insane
jealousy. *Suspicious. Sad in the morning; no desire to mix with the world. Malice.
Mischievous. Mania from over‐study. Delirium; tremens; from over‐watching; over‐fatigue;
loss of fluids, over‐study. Feels full of poison. Fears; going to sleep; lying down; or that heart
will stop. Restless, uneasy; does not want to attend to business; wants to be off somewhere
all the time. Derangement of time sense. Aversion of women to marry. Religious insanity.
Talks, sings, whistles; makes odd motions. Mocks. Crawls on the floor; spits often; hides,
laughs or is angry; during spasms. Weak memory. Mistakes are made in writing and speaking.
Mind worse after sleep. Predicts the future correctly. Proud and lazy. Hateful.

Worse
***SLEEP; ***AFTER SLEEP. ***MORNING. ***HEAT; of ***SUMMER; ***SPRING; *of room;
***OF SUN. ***SWALLOWING; ***EMPTY; ***LIQUIDS. ***SLIGHT TOUCH OR PRESSURE.
***PRESSURE OF CLOTHES; *around neck; *waist. ***RETARDED DISCHARGES. Start and

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close of menses. ***CLIMAXIS. ***ALCOHOL. Cloudy weather. Standing or stopping. Motion.
Closing eyes. ** HOT DRINKS.

Better
***OPEN AIR. ***FREE DISCHARGES. Eructation. *Hard pressure. ***COLD DRINKS. Bathing
affected part. Sitting bent. Eating; esp. fruits. Warm applications.

Head
Vertigo; worse turning to right; closing eyes; looking at the one and same object; from walking
in open air. Headache; heavy, bursting, down to nose, side (right) feels cut off. Migraine, pain
extending to neck and shoulders. Weight, pressure or burning of the vertex. Sun headaches,
with glimmering of vision. Falling of hair esp. during pregnancy. Perforating tumour of the
skull. Numbness, crawling (left). Does not want hair touched.

Eyes
Feel small or as if drawn together by cords which were tied in a knot at the root of the nose.
Blindness with lung or heart affections. Eyes watery, from pain. Fistula lachrymalis; with
eruptions on face, Intra‐ocular haemorrhages. Feels as if eyes were forced out on pressing
the throat. Dim sight. Unsteady look, eyes roll vacantly.

Ears
Hardness of hearing; with want of wax. Ear wax too hard, pale, dry. Ear pain with sore throat.
Pulsations in. Ear wax like chewed paper. Stricture of eustachian tube.

Nose
*Stopped coryza. Discharge, with every cough. Nosebleed, with amenorrhoea; on blowing the
nose. Blood and pus from nose. Paroxysms of sneezing in hay asthma. Red pimples on nose
(rum blossom); of drunkards. Cannot bear anything before nose.

Face
Purple, mottled; dusky, during heat. Netted veinlets on face. Neuralgia (left side); heat rises
to the face. Lower jaw drops (coma). Septic mumps. Flushes of heat. Enormous swelling of
lips.

Mouth
Gums; bluish, swollen, easily bleeding. Tongue; swollen; trembles when protruding; catches
on teeth; lolls about; red, dry; cracked at tip. Bad odour from mouth. Aphthae and denuded
patches, with burning and rawness. Much thick, pasty saliva. Thick blundering speech; cannot
open mouth wide. Peppery; sour; taste. Cannot bear anything before mouth. Teeth ache
extends to ears. Chattering of teeth. Teeth feel too long. Sudden forcible protrusion and
retraction of tongue.

Throat
As of a lump in throat; ascending and is swallowed back again. As of hot lump or soft body or
crumb of bread. *Throat pain extends to ear. *Choking. ***SWALLOWING; *painful; the
wrong way; returns through nose; worse empty swallowing, less from liquids and better by
solids. Excessive tenderness of throat to external pressure; *must loosen collar. Diphtheria,
laryngeal. Tonsillitis. Quinsy. Hawks out foul pellets from throat, in chronic sore throat; or

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thick mucus which cannot be forced up or down. Throat pit feels swelled or sore spot back of
pit. Constriction better eating. Cannot swallow sweet or acrid things.

Stomach
Craving; for alcohol, oysters, for coffee which agrees. Hungry, cannot wait for food, or loss of
hunger alternately. Thirsty but fears to drink. Gnawing pressure in stomach better eating, but
returning in few hours (cancer), *soreness or cramp in epigastrium. Vomits during menses,
with headache. Eructations; before epilepsy; at menses. Nausea; comes on, after going to
bed; after drinking ice water.

Abdomen
Sore festering, throb deep in liver; cannot bear anything around waist. Inflammation of liver
and abscess. Septic gall bladder. Cutting pain in right side of abdomen causing fainting.
Swelling in caecal region, must lie on back, with knees drawn up; appendicitis. Pain from anus
to navel. Abdomen hot, sensitive, painfully stiff from loin down thighs. Constipation of
pregnancy. Anus feels tight. Pains up the rectum every time coughs or sneezes. Haemorrhages
from bowels containing charred particles. Piles; protrude, painful, worse coughing or
sneezing. Constant urging in rectum, not for stool. Offensive stools. Beating in the anus as
from hammers; with menses. As of a ball, rolling when turning over. Diarrhoea from fruits and
acids.

Urinary
As of a ball rolling in the bladder when turning over. Bloody urine. Urine, frequent, foamy,
dark. Small tumour in urethra causing retention. No urine, no stool.

Male
Strong sexual desire, without physical power. During coition the emission is tardy or does not
occur at all. Lascivious ideas without erection of penis. Prepuce thickened. Semen with
pungent odour. Ill effects of masturbation. Cheerful after night emission.

Female
Left ovary, swollen, indurated, painful, must lift covers. *Menses; *black, *scanty; lumpy,
acrid, vicarious from nose. Uterine and ovarian pains better by flow of blood. Uterus feels as
if the os is open. Mammae; inflamed, bluish. Nipples swollen, erect, painful to touch. Milk;
thin, blue. Leucorrhoea; copious, smarting, staining and stiffening the linen greenish.
Climacteric troubles; palpitation, flushes of heat, haemorrhages etc. Nymphomania. Less the
flow more the pain. Ovarian tumours. Dysmenorrhoea on first day. Desire to go in open air
and run about before menses.

Respiratory
*Suffocation and strangulation, on lying down; *on dropping to sleep; must spring from bed
and rush for open air window. Feels he must take deep breath. Air hunger. Tickling, choking
cough worse touching neck or auditory canal; better retching out a little expectoration. Cough
during sleep without being conscious of it. As of a skin hanging in or a valve in larynx. As of a
plug moving up and down with cough. Larynx painful to touch. Last stage of pneumonia.
Abscess of the lungs. Expectoration; frothy, purulent, difficult, bloody with excessive
perspiration. Loss of voice; from paralysis of vocal cords, or oedema. Cough as if some fluid
has gone into wrong way; most during day.

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Heart
Palpitation, with fainting spells. Restless, trembling, anxiety about the heart. Heart; *weak;
turns over or too big as if, or as if hanging by a thread. Pulse; weak, intermittent; slow;
irregular. Cyanosis neonatorum. Carditis; metastatic. Senile arteriosclerosis.

Neck and Back

Neck sensitive to least pressure. Neck stiff; moves jaws with difficulty. Neuralgia of coccyx
worse rising from sitting, feels as if sitting on something sharp. Sensation of threads stretched
from back to arms, legs, eyes.

Extremities
Swelled glands in axilla. Left arm numb; finger tips numb. Trembling of hands (in drunkards).
Garlic odour of sweat in axilla. Felon, bluish swelling. Tingling; pricking in left hand. Cracks in
skin at the corners of nails. Knees cold; or as if hot air is going through. Foot sweat foul or
cold. Sciatica; must lie still; worse by least motion. Tendons contracted. Toes feel broken. Pain
in the shin bones, in affections of throat. Cramps in calves, from fear. Phlegmasia alba dolens.

Sleep
Sleeps into Worse. Sleeplessness; from cerebral irritation; of drunkards. Frightful dreams; of
snakes. Children toss about moaning in sleep. Sleepiness yet cannot sleep.

Fever
Chill worse drinking; with sweat. ***HEAT; on *vertex; ***IN FLUSHES; *on waking, *on
falling to sleep. Sweat; about neck; during sleep; in axilla; bloody, staining, blackish, yellow;
garlicky. Feet icy cold.

Skin
*Mottled or livid; dark marks; ulcers; eating, on legs; with bluish, purple areolae. Fungoid
ulcers. *Varicose ulcers. Carbuncles, boils, with bluish areolae. Bed sores with black edges.
Cellulitis. Erysipelas; of old age. Purpura with intense prostration. Cicatrices; redden; hurt,
break open and bleed. Capillaries dilated. Small wounds bleed much.

Related
Caust; Sep; Zinc.

Complementary
Lyc; Phos; Zinc‐i.

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Lachnanthes [Lachn]

Generalities
A remedy for torticollis and rheumatic symptoms about neck. Bubbling and boiling about the
heart, rising to head. Stiffness of neck, drawn over to one side, in sore throat. Pain in nape as
if dislocated, when turning the neck, or bending the head back. Bridge of nose feels pinched.
Feeling of icy coldness in mid scapular region.

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Lacticum Acidum [Lac‐ac]

Generalities
This acid is found in buttermilk and is a valuable remedy for morning sickness, diabetes,
rheumatic affections; breast troubles. It is suitable to anaemic, pale women. Nausea; on
waking better by eating; in diabetes or pregnancy. Thirst. Voracious hunger. Fulness or lump
like puff ball in throat. Pains in the breast with enlargement of axillary glands. Pain extending
to head. Rheumatic pains in joints; knees; worse by motion. Flying pains in the limbs.
Trembling of whole body, while walking. Frequent passing of large quantities of saccharine
urine. Hot acrid eructations worse smoking. Salivation_water brash. Sweaty feet.

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Lactuca Virosa [Lact]

Generalities
This remedy seems to be a true galactagogue; increases the milk in breast. Urine smells of
violets. Sensation as of a drop continuously passing along the urethra when seated.

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Lapis Albus [Lap‐a]

Generalities
It is Silico‐fluoride of Calcium; a remedy for new growths and glandular affections. Pains are
burning, stinging, shooting. Uterine; carcinoma; fibroids tumours, with intense burning pains
and profuse haemorrhages. Severe menstrual pains causing swooning. Enlargement of the
glands esp. cervical which are elastic and pliable rather than stony hard. Sarcoma. Lipoma.
Glandular swellings where no glands are usually found.

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Lappa Arcticum [Lappa]

Generalities
This remedy chiefly affects the *skin; liver, joints and uterus. *Heavy, *sore, *aching, as if
lying uncomfortably. Numbness; lumbar region, of aching calves. Constriction.

Head
Vertigo, with nausea and vomiting. Weight on vertex.

Eyes
Redness about. Styes; crops of.

Nose
Red across.

Face
Inveterate acne; worse touch.

Stomach
***SOURNESS; sour taste to meat; all food turns sour, vomits it. Diarrhoea alternating with
rheumatic symptoms.

Urinary
Profuse and frequent urination, urine, milky, phosphaturia.

Female
Bruised, sore, heavy feeling in uterus; with great relaxation of vaginal tissue. Uterine
displacement worse standing, walking, a mis‐step, sudden jar.

Chest
Trembling in.

Extremities
Front of thigh week. Old sores about joints.

Skin
Eruptions; sticky on head, face etc. Moist foul eczema; of infants. Many small painful boils.
***AXILLARY SWEAT COLD; *runs down chest; foul.

Better
Cloudy weather.

Worse
Cold; wet. Shaking. Lying on right side. Violent exertion.

Complementary
Mag‐c.
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Latrodectus Mactans [Lat‐m]

Generalities
This spider poison affects the ***HEART; producing a typical picture of *angina pectoris.
Blood becomes thin, watery. Tetanic effects lasting for several days. *Restless; with cardiac
pains, and *prostrated.

Mind
Anxiety. Screams fearfully with pain; exclaiming that she would lose her breath and die.

Stomach
Nausea then abdominal pains. Vomiting of black vomit. Transfixation of pain or sinking at
epigastrium.

Respiratory
*Gasping breath; *fear of losing breath and dying. Apnoea.

Heart
*Violent ***CARDIAC PAINS; sharp; extending to shoulders or *both arms, to fingers; *with
numbness. Precordial anxiety. *Restless; *with cardiac pain; and prostration. Quick feeble,
thready pulse.

Extremities
Pain in left arm; feels paralyzed. Hard aching pain in axilla. Paraesthesia of lower limbs.

Sleep
Dreams of flying.

Skin
Cold as marble.

Worse
Least motion; even of hands. Exertion.

Related
Tarent.

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Laurocerasus [Laur]

Generalities
The small quantity of Hydrocyanic Acid which this medicine contains, produces symptoms
accompanied by ***SUDDEN DEBILITY; and *lack of reaction esp. in chest and heart
affections. It affects the ***MIND AND BRAIN causing, *bluntness of special senses.
*Cyanosis. *Coldness not better by warmth. Weak sphincters. Long lasting faints. Sensation
of falling down; in brain, in abdomen; in heart etc. Epilepsy; clonic spasms of all limbs, with
paralytic weakness. Twitchings. Chorea; emotional; with constant jerks, cannot keep still;
speech indistinct after every excitement, gasping for breath. Gasping_before, during and after
spasms. Nervous collapse. Apoplexy. Internal burning. Haemorrhages; of thin, bright blood
mixed with gelatinous clots. Effects of fright. Blue babies, asphyxia neonatorum. Antidotes
the effects of Digitalis given in crude doses. Well chosen remedies do not act.

Mind
Loss of consciousness, with loss of speech and motion. Fear and anxiety about imaginary evils.
SUDDEN Loss OF MEMORY; from fright, pain etc. Dullness of special senses. Gets angry when
not understood.

Head
Vertigo with sleepiness. Head pain worse Il a.m. to I p.m. Nightly tearing in vertex. As if a cold
wind were blowing on head. As if brain were falling. Brain feels contracted and painful.

Eyes
Protrude, staring, open. Objects look larger.

Face
*Blue; with gasping. As if flies and spiders are crawling over the skin. Lock‐jaw. Twitching of
the muscles of face.

Mouth
Foam at the mouth; convulsions. Speechlessness from pain in stomach. Tongue; stiff; cold,
burnt or numb.

Throat
Spasmodic contraction of throat and oesophagus. ***DRINKS ROLL AUDIBLY *through
oesophagus and intestines.

Stomach
Persistent hiccough. Bitter eructations. Vomiting of food during cough. Disgust for food during
pregnancy. Violent pain in stomach with loss of speech. Stomach pains during urination.
Nausea near a hot stove.

Abdomen
Falling down sensation of a lump in abdomen from above the navel to small of back worse
talking or over‐exertion. *Gurgling flatulence. Pain in the liver as though abscess were
forming. Liver; indurated, atrophied; nutmeg. Paralysis of sphincter ani; involuntary stools.
Cancer of rectum; with bleeding of bright red blood.

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Urinary
Urine; retained, suppressed, involuntary; with palpitation and suffocation, and fainting.

Female
Pain in uterus, with cancer; with oozing of bright blood, with gelatinous clots; better sleep.
Faints with coldness during menses. Burning and stinking in and below mammae.

Respiratory
Larynx and trachea raw. *Suffocation; *gasps for breath; *on sitting up. Shallow breathing.
Dyspnoea, with sensation that he is unable to raise the chest walls; better lying down. *Cough;
*tickling, spasmodic, nightly; of phthisis; short dry of cardiac origin; worse lying down. Bloody,
or scattered with bloody dots; gelatinous expectoration. Asphyxia neonatorum. Burning in
chest on taking inspiration. Low voice.

Heart
*Holds hands over the heart; as if there were some trouble there worse by any exercise.
Palpitation. Mitral regurgitation. Pains in the region of heart. Pulse, weak, variable, slow, or
irregular.

Extremities
Clubbing of fingers. Toes and finger nails become knotty. Veins of hands distended. Cold
clammy feet up to the knees; in chorea, heart disease. Feet numb on crossing the legs.

Sleep
Fearful anxiety and restless; cannot fall to sleep. Coma vigil.

Skin
Cool; livid.

Better
*Lying with head low. Eating. Sleep. Open air.

Worse
*Sitting up. Exertion. Cold. Fright. Stooping.

Related
Amm‐c; Gels; Hydr‐ac; Prun‐sp.

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Lecithin [Lec]

Generalities
Is prepared from the yolk of egg and animal brains_a phosphorus containing complex organic
body. It improves the nutrition esp. of blood, hence very useful in anaemia, convalescence,
neurasthenia and insomnia. Excellent galactagogue, renders milk more nourishing. Tired,
weak, short of breath; loss of flesh, symptoms of general break down. Sexually weak. Ovarian
insufficiency.

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Ledum Palustre [Led]

Generalities
This remedy affects the fibrous tissue; of ***JOINTS esp. small; *ankles; *tendons; heels and
***SKIN; hence it can be called a rheumatic remedy, where rheumatism *begins in the feet
and travels upwards. Affected parts become *purple puffy; and then emaciates. The patient,
is always *chilly, *affected parts are cold; *yet averse to external warmth. There is a general
lack of vital heat. Painful, cold, oedematous joints. Shifting, tearing pains. Weakness and
numbness of the affected parts. Torpidity of integuments esp. after suppression of discharges
from the eyes, ears and the nose. *Haemorrhages; of bright frothy blood. Dropsy. Petechiae.
Tetanus with twitchings of muscles near the wound. Ill effects of alcohol, hair cutting
suppressed discharges, punctured wounds, recent or chronic injuries bites, sings, bruises.
Drunkards. Rushes of blood. Abscess and septic conditions better by cold. If Ledum is given
immediately after punctured wounds, it prevents tetanus. Hypericum when tetanus develops.
It is adapted to full‐blooded, plethoric, robust or pale delicate patients.

Mind
Angry, out of humour. Dissatisfied, hates his fellow beings avoids their company.

Head
Raging, pulsating headache worse least covers. Affected after getting wet. Mis‐step causes
concussion in the brain. Itching as of lice. Blood boils on forehead.

Eyes
*Bloodshot or bruised Tears acrid; make the lower lids and cheeks sore. Haemorrhage into
the anterior chamber after iridectomy. Ptosis of eye (right), from injury.

Ears
Hardness of hearing; as if the ears were stuffed up with cotton worse cutting the hair, wetting
the head.

Nose
Persistent nosebleed; soreness of the nose with violent burning.

Face
Mottled. Red pimples on forehead and cheeks, stinging when touched. Submental glands
swollen. Crusty eruptions around the nose and mouth.

Mouth
Bitter taste in the mouth; mouldly when coughing. Sudden flow of watery saliva, during colic.

Stomach
Nausea on spitting.

Rectum
Anal fissure. Blind smarting piles.

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Urinary
Much uric acid and sand in urine. Urine often stops during the flow. Copious, clear, colourless
urine, deficient in salts.

Male
Pollutions of sanguineous or serous semen.

Female
Bleeding fibroids. Great coldness during menses, yet desires cold air.

Respiratory
Cough; tormenting; from tickling in larynx; with epistaxis; then sobbing respiration, worse
receding eruptions. Double inspiration. Haemoptysis, alternating with rheumatism; or
coxalgia. Yellow, purulent, sputum. Chest hurts when touched.

Neck and Back

Back *stiff; *cramps in; worse *rising from sitting. Lumbago.

Extremities
Cramps over hip joint. Swelled blotchy ecchymotic legs and feet. Heels sore. Soles painful, can
hardly step on them. Trembling of hands when moving them or grasping anything. *Easily;
*spraining of ankles. Feet (dorsum) itch by night and are stiff in a.m. Balls of great toes
swollen. Feet held to earth as by a magnet, when attempting to move. Pain in shoulder on
raising arm.

Fever
*Coldness; of parts; worse limbs; with the pain; during fever; as if in cold water. Foul sweat.
Profuse night sweat.

Skin
*Wounds punctured; twitches in; from nails, stings, etc. foul pus. Eruptions on only covered
part. Oedematous swelling. Red spots and rash.

Better
*Cold; *bathing; air. Reposing.

Worse
Warmth; of covers, stove, air. Injury. Motion (joints). Night. Egg. Wine. Spitting.

Related
Arn; Bry; Rhus‐t; Sec.

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Leptandra [Lept]

Generalities
It affects the right side and *liver, causing haemorrhages due to liver affections. *Burning, in
hepatic region. Bilious states. Weakness, hardly able to stand or walk. Jaundice.

Mind
Hopeless; despondent and drowsy; with hepatic affections.

Head
Dull frontal headache; with aching in navel.

Eyes
Smarting and aching in eyes.

Mouth
Tongue, yellow, or black down centre.

Stomach
Craving for cold drinks which worse burning and aching in stomach. Bilious vomiting. Sinking
at the pit of stomach. Meat and vegetables disagree.

Abdomen
*Sore or dull, *burning ache over liver or near gall bladder; *extending down over bowels to
navel or towards left scapula or along spine, which feels chilly. Liver swollen transversely.
Acute liver conditions. *Gallstones. Constant dull aching in umbilical region. Stools; muddy,
watery; worse morning, ***TARRY OR BLACK; ***FOUL. *Stringy, waxy or spurting, in the
morning; with pain at navel. Dysentery; after diarrhoea. Prolapsing piles; with
*haemorrhages. Jaundice, with clay coloured stools. Feeling as if something was passing out
of the rectum.

Urinary
Red or orange coloured urine, with dull aching in lumbar region.

Female
Menses; suppressed or retarded, with liver affection. Leucorrhoea; warm, watery; runs down
the limbs; from ulceration of the os.

Heart
Soreness at. Pulse slow and full.

Extremities
Pain in sciatic nerve (left); worse on sitting. *Nails very thin, soft and splitting.

Fever
Chilly along the spine and down the arm.

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Better
Lying on abdomen; on side.

Worse
Cold drinks. Motion. Periodically. Wet weather.

Related
Bapt; Card‐m; Chion.

Complementary
Phos.

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Lilium Tigrinum [Lil‐t]

Generalities
It manifests its chief action upon the ***VENOUS CIRCULATION; *of the heart and
***FEMALE ORGANS; *ovaries and uterus; and is useful for many reflex conditions dependent
on some pathological condition of these organs. It also affects *rectum and bladder and left
side. Often indicated in unmarried women. ***FULL, ***HEAVY OR FORCED OUT feeling; in
uterus, ovaries, heart etc. *Utero‐ovarian sagging. Wandering, flying, shooting pains or
opening and shutting pains; radiating; from ovary to heart, to left breast; down the legs etc.
*Backward pains; about eyes; to occiput; from nipples through chest; from heart to left
scapula. Pain in small spots. *Pulsations; ebullitions; gurglings and burnings. *Nervous
tremors; in hypogastrium, in spine, knees etc. Venous congestion. Discharges acrid. Nervous;
hysterical. Faints in warm room or after standing for a long time. Women exhausted by sexual
excess. Symptoms from sexual excitement. Rheumatism. Mental and uterine and / or cardiac
symptoms alternate.

Mind
*Hurried. *Nervous. *Snappish. *Depressed. *Erotic. Fruitless activity. Despondent. Disposed
to curse, strike. *Dread; of insanity; being incurable. Desires finery. Wild, crazy feeling.
Inclination to weep; weeps much; is very timid and indifferent to anything done for her.
Dissatisfied with her own things; envious of others. Dementia from business worries and
sexual excess; tears the hair. Feels hurried, walks fast, does not know why. Wants to talk, yet
dreads saying anything, lest she should say something wrong. Has to keep very busy to repress
sexual desire. Consolation worse. Sits alone and broods over imaginary troubles. Sexual
excitement alternating with apprehension of religious ideas. Prefers society.

Head
Wild feeling in head, as though she would be crazy. Headache burning; dependent on uterine
disorders, worse before and after menses; better at sunset. Headache over left eye to vertex;
with vertigo and visual effects.

Eyes
Feel sprained; bite and burn worse reading. Wild look. Myopic astigmatism, has to turn the
head sideways to see clearly. Pain in eyes extends back into the head. Weak ciliary muscles.

Ears
Rushing sounds in ear after going to bed.

Nose
Sneezing; better pain in head and eyes.

Mouth
Tongue; coated yellowish, white in patches. Sweet taste_back of mouth; foul, better eating.

Throat
Hawking of mucus, with constant nausea.

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Stomach
Craving for meat, or for sour or sweet dainties. Aversion to coffee; to bread. Hunger; as if
from spine. Thirsty, before severe symptoms. As of a hard body rolling around, during day
only. Vomiting from displacement of uterus.

Abdomen
Skin of abdomen feels stretched and stiff. Sore, distended; cannot bear weight of covers after
menses. Weak tremulous feeling extending to anus. *Heavy dragging down of whole
abdominal contents extending even to organs of chest; must support the abdomen; with
dysuria. Pressure on rectum with constant desire for stools better urination, worse standing.
Sharp pains better gentle rubbing, with warm hand. Early morning diarrhoea, after rising,
urgent, cannot wait a moment; stools; small, frequent, with tenesmus. Dysentery worse
change of life in plethoric women. Sharp pains better doubling up. Tenesmus of the rectum
and bladder. Piles; after delivery.

Urinary
Constant pressure on bladder; with constant desire to urinate; with a sensation as of a ball in
rectum. Urine; milky, scanty, hot. If desire is not attended to; feeling of congestion in chest.

Female
*Heavy dragging or outward pressing in pelvis, with dysuria; as if all organs would escape
through vagina; must hold it. Menses; early, scanty, dark, clotted, offensive. Flow only when
moving about. *Ovarian (left) pain down thighs; or up below the left breast. Leucorrhoea;
thin, brown, acrid; stains brown, worse after menses. Neuralgic pains in uterus, cannot bear
pressure of clothes. Prolapse or anteversion of uterus. Subinvolution. Sexual desire increased;
obscene; must keep herself busy. As of a rivet or ball under (left) mamma. As of a hard body
pressing upon rectum and ovaries better walking.

Respiratory
Oppressive load on chest; air hunger; takes long deep breath. As of a lump in centre of chest
moving up and down on empty swallowing. Suffocates in a warm or crowded room, theatre
or church.

Heart
*Feels clutched; *full to bursting; *cold; weak, hanging by a thread. Angina pectoris, with pain
in right arm worse stooping; lying on right side; better rubbing and pressure. *Palpitation.
Pulse irregular, very rapid. Pulsations all over the body.

Neck and Back

Neck aches, worse tired. Broken feeling between scapulae. Sensation of pulling upward from
tip of coccyx.

Extremities
Pain from hip to hip. Cannot walk on uneven ground. Legs ache; cannot keep them still. As of
a cool wind blowing on legs. Burning in palms and soles. Trembling of knees. Pricking in
fingers. Paralytic stiffness of fingers. Staggering gait; cannot walk straight. Joints feel dry.

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Skin
Tingling, formication, burning in various parts.

Sleep
Unable to sleep on account of wild feeling in head.

Fever
Chilly in cool open air; otherwise better .

Better
*Cool, *open, *fresh air. *When busy. Lying on left side. Sunset. Pressure. Support. Crossing
legs. Rubbing.

Worse
***WARMTH; of room. Motion. *Miscarriage. Walking. Standing. Consolation. Pressure of
bed clothes. Jarring.

Related
Aloe; Plat; Puls; Spig.

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Lithium Carbonicum [Lith‐c]

Generalities
This remedy affects notably head; eyes; *heart; *small joints and urinary organs. Rheumatism
connected with heart or eye lesions. Whole body feels ***SORE *and heavy. Bruised spots
from falls and blows. Violent lancinating pains, as from red hot needles. Pressing from within
outward in head, abdominal ring; perineum, chest. Pain as of a dull point. Uric acid diathesis.
Paralytic stiffness of the whole body. Prostration. *Acidity. Increase of bulk and weight. Gout.
Effects of bruises and falls.

Mind
Disposed to weep about his lonesome condition. Difficulty in remembering names.

Head
Ache better eating; but returns and remains until food is again taken. Vertigo with ringing in
the ears. Headache from sudden suppression of menses. Head feels too large.

Eyes
Feel dry and pain worse reading. Vertical hemiopia; right half of object is invisible, worse
during menses. Sunlight blinds him.

Nose
Swollen; and *red esp. right side. Coryza; dropping from nose; in open air.

Ears
Pain behind ear (left), extending to neck.

Face
Both cheeks are covered with dry bran‐like scales.

Throat
Lumps of mucus drop into throat. Soreness extending to ear.

Stomach
Gnawing in stomach; with pain in left temple; better eating. Acidity. Cannot endure slightest
pressure of clothes; from fullness in pit of stomach.

Abdomen
Pain in abdominal ring (left) like a pressing from within outward. Diarrhoea, after fruits or
chocolates.

Urinary
Pain in the region of bladder extending to spermatic cord after urination. Urine scanty; with
much thirst; with red brown sediment. urine less in spite of taking normal drinks.

Male
Erections after copious urination.

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Female
Pain in mammary glands which extends to arms and fingers.

Respiratory
Air feels cold on inspiring, even into lungs. Constriction of chest.

Heart
*Pains, *sore, with eye symptoms; going to head; with pain in bladder; worse bending
forward; before menses; better urinating. Trembling and fluttering of the heart worse
vexation.

Extremities
Soreness of fingers better grasping. Ankle joint pains while walking. Pain in the joints is
relieved by very hot water.

Skin
Barber’s itch. Dry, harsh skin. Eczema.

Better
*Eating. Urinating. Motion.

Worse
Night. Menses; after; suppressed.

Related
Lyc; Nat‐p; Sul‐ac.

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Lobelia Inflata [Lob]

Generalities
It stimulates *vaso motor nerves, causing *increased secretions; ***RELAXATION; and
*weakness; with sweat; with deathly sickness all over; with oppressed *rattling respiration.
Sits with elbows on knees. Prickling all over. Cannot bear the odour of tobacco although
addicted to its use. Nausea and vomiting, with nearly all the respiratory troubles, or gastric
affections.

Mind
Despondent. Sobbing like a child.

Head
Dull heavy pain. Vertigo with fear of death.

Ears
Deafness due to suppressed discharges (otorrhoea) or eczema.

Face
Bathed in cold sweat. Neuralgia of face (left), with retarded menses.

Mouth
*Profuse flow of saliva; with retching, hiccough; dyspnoea; with good appetite.

Throat
*As of a lump in throat; impeding deglutition.

Stomach
As of a lump in. *Deathly nausea; with vertigo; better by a little drink or food; worse night
and early morning. *Nausea and vomiting, with profuse sweat; on face (cold); with respiratory
symptoms. *Faintness and weakness in epigastrium. Acid burning taste.

Urinary
Deep red urine; with red sediment. Urine suppressed or infrequent.

Female
*Morning sickness; suddenly disappears better by a little food and drink. Labour pains with
shortness of breath. Pain in her sacrum and a sense of weight in her genitals.

Respiratory
*Dyspnoea; nervous; with labour pains; as from a wedge in larynx; with general prickling,
better rapid walking. Asthma. Spasmodic cough, with sneezing; belching; or gastric pain.
*Rattle in chest but does not expectorate. *Constriction or oppressive fulness in chest. Senile
emphysema.

Heart
Feels as if it would stop. Pulse; weak or soft, flowing.

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Back
Pain in sacrum; cannot bear slightest touch; sits leaning forward.

Skin
Plaques of oedema; with ecchymoses. Prickling and itching, with nausea.

Better
Rapid walking. Eating a little.

Worse
Cold bathing. Suppressions. Sleep; after. Tobacco. Tea. Foreign bodies. Slightest motion.

Related
Ant‐t; Ip; Tab.

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Lolium Temulentum [Lol]

Generalities
This remedy is useful in paralytic conditions. Tremors and convulsions; paralysis agitans.
Prostration and restlessness.

Mind
Anxious and depressed.

Head
Vertigo; must close eyes. Head heavy.

Mouth
Tongue tremulous. Speech difficult; cannot pronounce the whole word.

Stomach
Nausea; vomiting. Severe purging.

Extremities
Gait unsteady. Trembling of all limbs; cannot write; cannot hold a glass of water. Spasms of
arms and legs. Violent pain in calves; as if bound by a cord.

Fever
Cold rigors all over esp. in limbs.

Worse
Wet; wet season.

Related
Lath; Sec.

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Lycopersicum [Lycpr]

(Solanum lycopersicum).

Generalities
Tomato has marked action on deltoid and pectoral muscles; pain is better lifting arm
upward and outward. Pains left after influenza.

Head
Headache beings in the occiput spreads all over the head and settles with great violence in
temples, worse tobacco smoke.

Related
Sang.

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Lycopodium [Lyc]

Generalities
It is called vegetable sulphur. It affects the ***NUTRITION; ***DUE TO WEAKNESS OF
DIGESTION. Acts upon ***URINARY ORGANS *and most of the symptoms develop on the
***RIGHT SIDE and *go to the left; ***THROAT; *chest, ovary. Ailments develop gradually;
weakening the functional power; the function of liver is seriously disturbed. Deep seated
progressive chronic diseases. *Repeating symptoms or *alternating symptoms; chill after
chill, flushing then paling; flexion then extension; automatic acts. *Relapsing conditions.
Prostration of mind and body. It is adapted to old persons; or who become old early, where
the skin shows yellowish spots; or to precocious weakly children. *Lyc. patients are
*intellectually keen but of weak muscular power; lack vital heat; circulation poor; it seems to
stand still; with cold, numb extremities, or numbness may appear in spots. Sudden symptoms,
pains come and go suddenly; or cause anger, jerking etc. The patient is *thin, withered and
***FULL OF GAS. ***ACIDITY; *sour, taste, eructations etc. Descending symptoms, colds,
emaciation etc. *Calculi; gall stones, gravel. Dropsy; ascites in liver diseases. *Coldness;
partial, head, throat etc. *Dryness; of palms, soles, vagina, skin etc. *Rawness; in folds, anus,
nipple etc. Formication of affected limbs. Paralysis. Carcinoma. Inflammation of bones, mostly
at ends; softening and caries of bones. Spasms with screaming, foaming at the mouth;
throwing the arms about. *Oversensitive, *to pain; patient is beside himself. Sense of internal
paralysis. Lithic acid diathesis. Ill effects of fear, fright, chagrin, anger, anxiety, fevers;
overlifting; masturbation; riding in a carriage. Tobacco chewing. Wine. One side of the body
hypertrophied at change of life, in women. Atrophy of infants. Haemorrhages; dark blood.
Erectile tumours. Boils recurring periodically. Emaciation and debility from loss of fluids.

Mind
*Confusion over daily affairs. *Mentally active but grows weaker. Melancholy; afraid to be
alone, of men; of his own shadow. *Sensitive, weeps when thanked; or meeting a friend.
*Fearsome; dread of men; presence of new persons, of everything, even ringing of door bell.
Loss of self confidence; from anticipation; averse to undertaking new things; yet when he
undertakes it he goes through with ease and comfort. ***AWAKES; ***ANGRY, sad and
anxious. Vehement; headstrong. *Domineering, *exacting; reserved, or despairing. Spells or
writes wrong words or syllables. Cannot bear to see anything new. Cannot read what he
writes. Hurried when eating. Incipient paralysis of brain. Weeps all day. Sad, on hearing
distant music; or cheerful and merry. Hateful. Cranky. Miserly. Brainfag; after influenza.
Anxious thoughts as if about to die. Indecision. Timidity. Resignation. Misanthrophic, flies
even from his children. *Amative. Distrustful; fault finding. Suspicious.

Head
Shakes head without any apparent cause; or involuntarily, slow first, then rapid. Vertigo when
looking at anything turning. Head cold. Pain in temples as if screwed together, worse menses.
Pain begins on one side goes to other where it is worse. Headache, worse if not eating
regularly; lying down, stooping, better uncovering. Pulsating pain in occiput; at night, worse
when hot. Hair falls, becomes grey early. Premature baldness; after abdominal affections;
parturition. *Deep furrows on forehead in abdominal, pulmonary and brain‐affections; and in
misers. Dandruff. Hydrocephalus. Meningitis; tubercular. Catarrhal headache worse when
discharge from nose is slacked up. Throbbing after every spell of cough; pains when pressing
at stools.

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Eyes
Half open. Hemiopia. Day‐blindness more. Sparks before the eyes; in the dark. Styes on lids
towards the inner canthi. Polypus on external canthi. Cataract; with suppressed menses. Feel
cold, hot, seem too large.

Ears
Humming and roaring; with hardness of hearing; every noise causes peculiar echo in ear. Thick
yellow offensive discharge, with deafness. Eczema about and behind the ears. As if hot blood
rushed into ears.

Nose
Nose stopped up; snuffles; breathes through mouth; child starts from sleep rubbing the nose.
*Fan like motion of alae nasi; in brain, lung and abdominal troubles. Feeling of dryness
posteriorly. Ozaena; acrid. Chronic coryza; blows nose often. Nasal troubles from childhood.
Acute smell.

Face
*Yellowish; pale; grey; with blue circles around the eyes. Face withered, shrivelled and
emaciated. Flushes of heat. Twitchings. *Mouth hangs open. Sore lips. Twists face and mouth.
Silly expression.

Mouth
Toothache, with swelling of cheek better warm application. Tongue; dry; black; cracked, stiff
heavy; *swollen*, moves to and fro or is darted out rapidly; trembling; painful ulcer on tip or
below tongue. Speech indistinct; stammers the last word. Saliva dries on palate and lips.
Dryness without thirst. Lower jaw drops; in fever. Teeth yellow. Mouth waters. Gums bleed
when touched or cleaning teeth. Taste; too acute; sour, bitter, mouldy. Small tumours in
mouth in various places.

Throat
Feeling as of a hard body in oesophagus. A ball rises and sticks in throat. *Sore throat; worse
cold drinks. Swelling and suppuration of tonsils. Chronic enlargement of the tonsils.
Diphtheria_deposits spread from right to left. Food and drinks come through nose; on
swallowing. Throat cold. As if a ball rose up in. Feeling of contraction provoking constant
swallowing.

Stomach
Digestion weak. Loss of appetite. *Hunger, but quick satiety. ***EATING EVER so LITTLE
CREATES FULNESS. Hiccough. *Incomplete burning eructations; rise only to pharynx and then
burns for hours. Farinaceous and flatulent food, cabbage, beans, oysters disagree. Sensation
as if fasting after meals, but without hunger. Desire for sweet things. Aversion to soup, to
bread. Canine hunger; the more he eats, the more he craves. Wakes at night feeling hungry.
Vomits; food and bile; coagulated blood; dark greenish masses, after eating and drinking.
Cancer; perforating ulcer. Churning sensation in. Gnawing in stomach, better drinking hot
water. Desire for sweets, delicacies, pastries etc. Food tastes sour. Likes to take drink and
food hot. Coldness in stomach. Bad effects of onions.

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Abdomen
*Epigastric, *anxiety; *pressure. As of a band about waist. ***FLATULENCE; ***MUCH;
***NOISY, pressing out; better *lower bowels. Sensitive congested liver. Chronic hepatitis;
atrophic; nutmeg liver. Sensation of something moving up and down or as of a hard body
rolling, when turning to the right side. Ascites; from liver diseases. Soreness worse
hypogastrium; alternating sides. Brown spots on. Colic in babies worse evening. Constipation;
of children; ineffectual urging from contraction of sphincters; feeling as if much remained
unpassed after stools. Stools; contain sand, small difficult, first part is hard, is difficult to expel,
last part is soft or thin and gushing; followed by faintness and weakness. Haemorrhoids,
aching; painful to touch better hot bathing. Alternate diarrhoea and constipation. Rawness of
anus. Constipation when away from home or travelling. Chilliness in the rectum before stools.
Constipation or diarrhoea during pregnancy. Gastro enteritis from fright. Diarrhoea from cold
drinks. Continued burning in rectum.

Urinary
Frequent urging to urinate better riding in cars. Renal colic in ureter (right) to bladder. Urine;
scanty; *cries before urinating; (esp. children who wake up from pain, with screaming, and
toss the limbs about); *red sand in; slow in coming; must strain; suppressed; retained. Urine,
milky, turbid. Polyuria, during the night. Haematuria. Involuntary urination (esp. in fever), or
from fright during coition. Urine bloody; with paraplegia or sometimes with constipation.
Urine burning hot.

Male
*Sexual exhaustion; impotence; erections feeble; falls asleep during coition. Yellow tumour
behind corona glandis. Exhausting pollutions. Enlarged prostate. Premature seminal emission.

Female
Menses; of clots and serum; discharge of blood from genitals during stools. Vagina; dry,
burning worse during and after coition. *Leucorrhoea; acrid; *periodical; milky; worse before
full moon. Physometra. Cutting from right to left ovary; ovarian; tumours; dropsy. Dropsy of
uterus. Hard burning nodosities in mammae with stitching aching pains, and soreness.
Rawness of nipples; sore, fissured, bleed easily. Foetus seems to be turning somersaults.
Dysmenorrhoea; violent, with fainting. Menses; suppressed; for months. Delayed menses
with undeveloped mammae at puberty. Milk in breast without being pregnant. Child vomits
blood after sucking bleeding nipples.

Respiratory
Craves air but is chilled by it. Short, rattling breathing worse lying on back. Cough; dry, tickling,
teasing; in puny boys with emaciation; day and night; deep hollow; as from sulphur fumes,
worse on descending; with emaciation; worse on empty swallowing, stretching the throat;
deep breathing. Salty greenish‐yellow, lumpy or foul expectoration. Unresolved pneumonia.
Brown yellow spots on chest. Abscess of the lungs, tuberculosis. Difficult respiration due to
hydrothorax or / and hydropericardium, with flapping of alae nasi. Feeling of tightness in
chest with burning.

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Heart
Aneurysm. Aortic disease. Palpitation, with flapping of alae nasi at night, worse lying on right
side; with cold face and feet. Pulse; fast, worse after eating; evening. Sensation as if the
circulation stood still. Hypertrophy .

Neck and Back

One side of the neck stiff and swollen. Burning as from hot coals between the scapulae. Pain
in the back and right side from congestion of liver. Pain in the small of the back; worse sitting
erect; better urinating. Stiff back. Emaciation about the neck. Bubbling sensation. Lumbago
worse slightest motion (after *Bry).

Extremities
Axillary abscess (right). Hands and feet numb; cramps in hands and feet. Fingers twitch during
sleep. Sticky sweat on fingers. Pain jerks legs upward. Cramps in calves, when walking; at
night. One foot hot, other cold, or cold sweaty feet. Constant troublesome heat of hands.
Sciatica right side worse pressure; cannot lie on painful side, better hot application and
walking. Cramps in toes; at night. Pain in heels on treading as from pebbles. Heels numb.
Palms dry. Varicose veins on legs. Oedema of feet, rises until ascites forms. Pain in bones at
night. Curvature and caries of bones. Emaciation of one hand or one leg. Hands and feet
become heavy, relaxed, tremble better by motion. Painful corns on soles. Toes and fingers
contracted. Toes bend when walking. Profuse foetid foot sweat.

Skin
Dry; rawness in folds. Abscesses beneath the skin. Urticaria; chronic worse warmth. Erectile
tumours worse before menses. Blood boils. Boils which do not mature but remain blue. Sites
of old boils and pustules indurate and form nodules that remain long. Vesicular swellings.
Eczema associated with urinary, gastric, hepatic disorders. Psoriasis. Ulcers fistulous. Scabs
do not separate. Viscid and offensive sweat.

Sleep
Drowsy during day; on waking, the child starts, becomes cross kicks, scolds, or holds his
mother. Awakes terrified. Anxious dreams of fatal accidents. Child sleeps all day and cries all
night. Laughs or weeps in sleep.

Fever
Coldness; icy, partial; of head, abdomen, stomach, throat etc., worse coughing. Body becomes
cold during cough. Feels as if lying on ice. Chill; followed by another chill; then vomits; after
first sleep. Foul, viscid sweat; axillary, of feet; like onions. Fever, continuous, remittent,
intermittent.

Better
***WARM DRINKS; food. Cold applications. *Motion. *Eructations. *Urinating. After
midnight.

Worse
***PRESSURE OF CLOTHES. WARMTH. *Awakening Wind. *Eating; even a little; or to satiety;
oysters. *Indigestion. 4 to 8 p.m. Wet weather, stormy weather. Pressure. Before, or from
suppressed menses. Milk. Vegetables, cabbages, beans; bread, pastry.

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Related
Carb‐v; Sil.

Complementary
Calc; Iod; Kali‐c; Lach; *Puls; Sulph*.

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Lycopus Virginicus [Lycps]

Generalities
***A HEART REMEDY; lowers the blood pressure, reduces the rate of heart and increases the
length of systole. Heart with many side symptoms, or associated with ***RAPID
TUMULTUOUS HEART BEATS. Haemorrhages due to valvular heart diseases; or passive, from
nose, piles, lungs etc. Shifting pains, from heart to eyes; head to heart; from heart to wrist
etc. Toxic goitre. Ill effects of suppressed haemorrhoidal flow.

Mind
Nervous, hurried and *tremulous. Slow comprehension.

Eyes
*Protruding (exophthalmic goitre); with tumultuous action of the heart. Supra‐orbital pain
(right) with aching in testicles (left).

Face
Brownish‐yellow; expressionless; during menses; bloated.

Stomach
Eructations taste of tea. Diarrhoea in jaundice; from weakness of heart.

Urinary
Drinks large quantity of water and passes large quantity of urine; with irritability of the heart.
Bladder feels distended when empty.

Male
Neuralgic pain in testicles with supra‐orbital pain.

Respiratory
Choking when lying down. Cough with haemoptysis and feeble weak heart. *Heart cough.
Deep, violent cough in the evening, and night without waking. Sweetish expectoration.

Heart
Action *tumultuous, *violent; *excessively rapid, stormy. Laboured heart at night. Palpitation
and cardiac distress worse when thinking of it. *Oppression at heart; *pains, *sore, aching,
constricted. Pulse; large, full, soft, slow, weak, irregular, intermittent; does not synchronize
with heart.

Back
Hot, ache beneath scapula (right).

Fever
Coldness.

Worse
*Excitement. *Exertion. *Heat. *After sleep. Lying on right side. Abuse of heart remedies.
Suppressions. Thinking of it.

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Related
Cact; Coll; Crat.

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Lyssin [Lyss]

Generalities
This nosode is prepared from the saliva of rabid dog. It affects the nervous system, throat and
sexual organs. *Senses become overacute. Convulsions, spasms brought on by dazzling light
or sight of running water. Aching in bones. Complaints from abnormal sexual desire. Ill effects
of dog bite. Bluish discolouration of wounds. Trembling or quivering sensation throughout
the whole body.

Mind
Fear of becoming mad. Anger. Rapid speech. Impatient. *Violent temper, impelled to do
reckless things; such as throwing a child through the window. Roams about. Strange notions
and apprehension; during pregnancy. Rude, abusive, bites and strikes. Feels he cannot
physically endure his fears much longer.

Head
Ache; from bite of dog, whether rabid or not. worse by noise of running water, bright light.
Throws the head back when sneezing. Dry hair become oily.

Mouth
Saliva; tough, ropy, viscid, frothy; *spitting constantly. Speech impeded from spasms of
throat.

Throat
Sore; constant desire to swallow; which is difficult; gagging when swallowing water, from
spasms of gullet.

Urinary
Desire to urinate or for stools on seeing running water; or cannot urinate unless he hears
water run.

Male
Abnormal sexual desire. Painful erection of penis and frequent seminal emissions. Semen is
discharged too late or not at all during coition.

Female
Consciousness of uterus. Vagina sensitive, rendering coition painful. Uterine displacements.
Leucorrhoea; profuse, running down the legs. Strange notions, desires or cravings, during
pregnancy.

Respiratory
Barking cough.

Heart
Stitch at, on hearing church bell. Pains as if needles were running into it.

Neck
Pain in neck better bending head backwards.

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Sleep
Yawns frequently without sleepiness esp. when listening to others .

Better
Bending backwards. Gentle rubbing. Steam or hot water bathing.

Worse
*Noise of or sight of running water. Heat of sun. Glistening objects. Wind, drafts. Thinking of
fluids. Stooping. Bad news. Mental emotions. Riding in a carriage.

Related
Lac‐c; Lach.

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Magnesia Carbonica [Mag‐c]

Generalities
This remedy produces a catarrhal condition of *stomach and bowels, with marked *acidity;
*sour; smell of the body (esp. children); vomiting; regurgitation; *stools etc. It affects the
*nerves (facial and dental), *causing sharp shooting pains *along them; *must walk about.
Numbness, and a feeling of distension in various parts. Affections of malar bones. Whole body
feels tired and painful esp. legs and feet. It is suitable to ailing, worn out, *nervous, flatulent
and *flabby persons esp. women, children, nurslings. Sensitive to slight causes. *Emaciation.
Marasmus; children will not thrive in spite of feeding and medicines. Cannot bear hands
covered, yet chilled by uncovering. Spasms. Epileptic attacks; while walking or standing he
frequently falls down suddenly, with consciousness. Ill effects of shocks, blows, mental
distress, vexation, fit of passion, pregnancy, excess of care and worry. Dentition, injudicious
feeding; milk. Dryness; of mucous membranes, skin. Children, disposed to boils. Glands
enlarged.

Worse
*Cold; wind; drafts.*Change of weather. *Night. Food, starchy; milk. *Rest. Slight causes,
*touch etc. Uncovering. Every second day; every three weeks.

Better
*Motion. *Walking about; in open air. Warm air.

Mind
Trembling; anguish and fear as if some accident would happen; all day; better when going to
bed. Least touch causes starting. Sad and taciturn. Dazed feeling; packs and unpacks her
clothes, without consciousness of having done so.

Head
Vertigo worse when kneeling. Pain in the head; as if the hair were pulled, worse mental
exertion, stooping. Itching of scalp worse in damp weather. Brain heavy. Sinking of occipital
bone, in marasmic children.

Eyes
Black motes before the eyes. Eye‐balls feel enlarged and sensitive to pressure. Opacity of
cornea. Cataract, lenticular.

Ears
*Deafness, *comes suddenly and varies. Feeling of distension, in middle ear. Ears numb.
Deafness; on taking cold; cutting wisdom tooth.

Nose
Coryza and nasal stoppage before menses. Dry coryza, breathes through mouth. Chronic
affections of nose.

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Face
Tearing, digging, boring pain on one side; must move about. Pain and swelling of the malar
bones worse cold wind. Tumours of the malar bones. Waxy pallor. Slovenly expression.
Tension, as of white of an egg, dried on it.

Mouth
Tearing, digging, burning toothache, worse during pregnancy; motion of carriage; cold and
when quiet. Ailments from cutting wisdom teeth. Teeth feel too long. Mouth dry, at night.
Taste; bitter; sour. Frequent sudden stammering speech.

Throat
Sore throat; worse before menses. Hawks up cheesy masses from throat. Sticking, pain in the
throat worse talking and swallowing.

Stomach
Craving for meat; fruits, acids; vegetables. Nibbling appetite. Sour eructations. Heartburn.
Vomits, undigested milk or bitter water. Violent thirst. Aversion to green food. Cabbage,
potato disagree. Milk is refused or if taken causes pain in stomach.

Abdomen
*Cutting, gripping; pressing colic, followed by thin green stools, which worse. ***STOOLS
*frothy; ***GREENISH, LIKE WATER, ***LIKE A SCUM OF FROG POND. *Milk passes
undigested in nursing children. Sour stools. Constipation after mental shock or nervous strain.
Stools; lienteric, with gelatinous fatty masses; grass green; or dry, hard, crumbling, white clay,
putty like. Colic followed by leucorrhoea. Cutting about navel better passing flatus.

Urinary
Involuntary urination while walking or rising from a seat.

Male
Discharge of prostatic fluid when passing flatus.

Female
Menses; like thick dark molasses; *tarry; viscid; too late; or scanty; flow only in sleep; *at
night and on rising or when lying down; ceases when walking, or by pressure on abdomen
and on stooping. Leaves a fast stain. Leucorrhoea; white acrid, preceded by colic, regularly
after the menses. Falls down in a dead faint at each menstruation period.

Respiratory
Craves open air. Cough, paroxysmal; with difficult thin salty, bloody expectoration. Chest sore,
constricted. Cough from tickling in the larynx; at night.

Extremities
Heavy, weary feet. Right shoulder painful; cannot raise it. Cannot bear hands covered, yet
chilled by uncovering. Cannot put left foot on ground when walking. Swelling in poplitea.

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Sleep
Unrefreshing; more tired in the morning than on retiring. Awakes at 2 or 3 a.m. and cannot
fall asleep again. Sleepiness during the day, sleepless at night.

Skin
Sore, dry, sensitive to cold. Nodosities under the skin. Hair and nails unhealthy.

Fever
Chilly; takes cold; before menses. Fever at night. Sour, greasy, indelible sweat.

Related
Rheum.

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Magnesia Muriatica [Mag‐m]

Generalities
The action of this remedy centres around the ***LIVER and ***NERVES; *uterus and *rectum,
so it is adapted to nervous women, suffering from *utero‐hepatic complaints or cardiac
symptoms; or for those who have suffered for a long time from indigestion and biliousness;
for men with disordered liver and sexual disorders; for puny rickety children during dentition.
Spasmodic, *hysterical complaints. Globus. It is an after dinner remedy, many complaints
such as fainting, fits, dyspnoea, nausea and trembling etc., occur after dinner; better by
eructations. Pains are boring, spasmodic, contractive, *crampy, darting. *Burnings.
Chronicity. Ill effects of sea bathing esp., weakness. Shocks through the body like electric
shocks when wide awake. Perversions of taste and smell. General soreness and sensitiveness
to noises.

Worse
***LYING ON RIGHT SIDE. *Noise. *Night. *Eating. *Salt. *Foods. *Milk. *Touch. Sea bathing.
Mental exertion.

Better
***HARD PRESSURE. Lying bent. *Hanging down; affected part. *Gentle motion. *Cool open
air.

Mind
Uneasiness; nervous excitability with tendency to weep readily. Feels as if someone was
reading after her and she must keep reading faster and faster. Disinclined to talk.

Head
Bursting headache; worse motion, open air; better hard pressure, wrapping warmly. Much
sweating of head. As of boiling water on the side lain on. As if hair were pulled.

Eyes
Lachrymation and burning of the eyes when looking at anything in broad daylight. Yellow
sclera. Tinea ciliaris.

Ears
Sensitive to noise. Pulsations in ears.

Nose
Red, swollen. Acrid, crusty ozoena. Loss of smell and taste, following or with coryza. Nocturnal
obstruction of nose, must breathe through the mouth.

Face
Pale, yellow. Pimples on the face and forehead itching worse night; warm room and before
menses. Blisters on lips.

Mouth
Toothache worse if food touches the tooth. Tongue feels burnt, mouth feels scalded.
Continued rising of white froth into the mouth. Loss of taste. *Broad yellow scalloped tongue.

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Throat
As of a ball rising into the throat better by eructation.

Stomach
Craves sweets, dainties. Hunger but knows not for what. Regurgitation while walking. Milk;
salty food, worse . Eructations like rotten eggs; like onions. Hiccough, during and after dinner,
causing vomiting.

Abdomen
*Sore, *enlarged liver, with bloating of abdomen; worse lying on right side; drags if lies on left
side. Cramp in the gall bladder better by eating. Flatulence. Stools; ***DRY; *knotty; of little
balls, like sheep dung; grey, crumbling at anus. Absence of desire for stools. Jaundice. Tape
worms. Colic; hysterical, followed by leucorrhoea. Pain from liver to spine or epigastrium.

Urinary
Urine can only be passed by bearing down with the abdominal muscles. Urethra numb. In the
dark one cannot tell whether one is passing urine or not. Stricture after dilatation. Urine
passes in drops, some always seem to remain.

Male
Pain in testes and cords worse after coition; or after unrequited sexual excitement. Burning
in back after coition.

Female
Menses; *profuse, *dark, *lumpy, like pitch; with cramps, backache and pains in the thighs;
more copious when sitting than walking. Dysmenorrhoea better by, pressure on the back, or
lying on a hard pillow. *Gushes of leucorrhoea, *follow colic in abdomen, uterine spasms;
after every stool, hysterical. Metrorrhagia of old maids, blood clotted.

Respiratory
Spasmodic dry cough worse fore part of the night. Bloody sputum or congestion and soreness
of chest; after sea bathing. Oppressed breathing, globus hystericus.

Heart
Palpitation and cardiac pain while sitting; better by moving about or lying on left side.
Functional cardiac affections, with liver enlargement.

Neck and Back

Throbbing below left scapula. Bruised or burning in hips; or in back after coition (males).
Cramps in back worse walking.

Extremities
Cramps in thighs worse sitting. Thighs and calves tense; must move limbs. Finger tips numb.
Ankles cold or nervous worse night. Cutting in heels. Feet sweaty.

Skin
Formication all over the body. Abscess; yellow thin foul pus. Jaundice. Sweat on head and
feet.

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Sleep
Anxiety and restlessness of the body as soon as she closes the eyes; from heat of the body or
from shocks. Sleep unrefreshing, tired in morning.

Fever
Chill even near a stove; better open air.

Related
Nat‐m; Puls; Sep.

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Magnesia Phosphorica [Mag‐p]

Generalities
Dr. Schuessler’s remedy for *cramps, *convulsions, *neuralgic pains and spasmodic effects;
showing its influence on ***NERVES and *muscles. Suitable to tall, slender, dark and neurotic
persons; or tired, languid exhausted subjects. *Nervous, *tense, *and subject to sudden
violent paroxysms of neuralgic pains; sharp, *shooting like lightning, *suddenly changing
places; radiating, boring, constricting; *extorting cries; causing restlessness and prostration
etc. Twitchings. Tic. Spasmodic effects; hiccough, yawning, chorea; writer’s, piano, violin
player’s cramps etc. Much pain. Ill effects of standing in cold water, cold bathing; working in
cold clay; catheterism; dentition; study. Complaints of teething children. Chorea better during
sleep worse at stool and emotions. Palsy, paralysis agitans.

Worse
***COLD; ***AIR, drafts, uncovering, water. Lying on right side. *Touch. *Periodicity.
***NIGHT. ***Milk. *Exhaustion.

Better
*Warmth. Hot bathing. *Pressure. *Doubling up. *Rubbing.

Mind
*Always talking of her pains. Indisposition to study; to mental work. Drowsiness on every
attempt to study. Talks to himself constantly, or sits in moody silence, or carrying things from
one place to another and back again.

Head
Aches after mental labour; better by warmth. Sensation as if contents were liquid; as if parts
of brain were changing places; as if a cap on head. As of an electric shock in the head
extending to all parts of the body.

Eyes
Supra‐orbital pains better warmth. Twitching of eyelids. Eyes; hot, aching; tired. Nystagmus;
strabismus, ptosis, Photophobia.

Ears
Severe neuralgic pain worse going into cold air; washing face and neck with cold water; worse
behind right ear.

Face
Neuralgia worse when body gets cold; from washing or standing in cold water, on opening
mouth to eat or drink.

Mouth
Cracks in angles of lips. Toothache better heat and hot liquids. Tongue, clean; with colic.
Painful contraction of jaw joint with backward jerking. Taste of bananas. Food does not taste
right. Spasmodic stammering.

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Throat
Stiff sore; parts seem puffy (right); with chilliness and aching all over. Nervous angina.

Stomach
Hiccough day and night. Burning pain, vomiting and hiccough better hot drinks; cancer of
stomach. Thirst for very cold drinks.

Abdomen
Enteralgia; flatulent colic; better bending double; rubbing; warmth; pressure; with
eructations which may or may not relieve. Bloated full sensation in abdomen; must loosen
the clothes; walk about, and constantly pass flatus. *Cutting into thighs. Abdomen
contracted. Diarrhoea ceases; spasms or other brain troubles set
in.

Urinary
Nocturnal enuresis from nervous irritation. Vesical neuralgia after use of catheter.

Female
Menstrual colic better by flow. Membranous dysmenorrhoea. Menses; too early, dark,
stringy, tarry, flowing at night leaving a fast stain. Ovarian neuralgia. Vaginismus.

Respiratory
Spasmodic, whooping cough better cool air. Spasmodic nervous asthma.

Heart
Angina pectoris. Pulse irritable. Nervous palpitation.

Neck & Back

Stiffness of neck and back. Cramps. One vertebra seems absent.

Extremities
Skin of fingers tight. Pains in lower limbs; alternating sides. Paralysis agitans. Trembling of
hands. Writer’s, player’s cramps. Cramps from prolonged exertion, from the prolonged use of
tools. Crampy contraction of fingers. Sciatica with tender feet.

Skin
Barber’s itch. Herpetic eruptions with white scales.

Sleep
Sleepy when attempting to study_ Spasmodic yawning as if it would dislocate the jaw, with
tears.

Fever
Chill runs up and down the back, with shivering followed by suffocation.

Related
Coloc; Dios.
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Magnesia Sulphurica [Mag‐s]

Generalities
Skin, urinary and female symptoms are marked. Diarrhoea with diuresis. Greenish urine with
red sediment. Profuse dark, intermittent menses. Thick leucorrhoea as profuse as menses. As
of a lump between shoulders. Back feels broken. Left arm and foot numb. Crawling in finger
tips. Small pimples all over the body which itch violently. Warts; large, soft.

Worse
Morning; on awakening.

Better
Rubbing. Walking.

Related
Nat‐s.

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Magnetis Polus Australis [M‐aust]

Generalities
South pole of magnet is useful for ingrowing toe nails, with sore pain on the inner side of the
nail of big toe worse walking or slight touch.

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Magnetis Polus Australis [M‐aust]

Generalities
South pole of magnet is useful for ingrowing toe nails, with sore pain on the inner side of the
nail of big toe worse walking or slight touch.

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Mancinella [Manc]

Generalities
This remedy produces marked *skin, throat and mental symptoms esp. depressed states at
puberty and climaxis with exalted sexuality. Acridity. Burning, smarting, in various parts.
Favours rapid healing of wounds.

Worse
*Cold; *drinks; food. Anger. Dampness. Eating. Touch. Puberty, climaxis.

Mind
Sudden vanishing of thoughts; forgets what she wishes to do next; her errand. *Fear of
insanity, of evil spirits. Depressed with sexual erethism. Bashful. Melancholy. Homesick.

Head
Feels empty, with vertigo, while walking about. Hair falls after acute sickness. Pain in vertex
worse lying.

Eyes
*Lids heavy; and sore. Eyes smart or *burn on closing them. Dull ache behind the eyes. Intense
inflammation; with loss of vision (for some days). Photophobia.

Nose
Illusions of smell; of gunpowder, dung etc.

Face
*Swollen, spotted. Herpes on lips.

Mouth
*Profuse foul yellow saliva. Burning and pricking in the mouth not better by cold water.

Throat
*Cutting pains worse cold drinks. *Choking sensation rises in the throat when speaking,
preventing drinking though thirsty. Diphtheria. Tonsils swollen.

Stomach
Craves cold water. Swelled epigastrium. Vomiting of food, followed by severe colic and
profuse diarrhoea. Aversion to meat, bread, wine. As of flame, rising from. Repeated green
vomit.

Abdomen
Bowels sore and burn. Colic worse cold drinks.

Respiratory
Cough worse cold drinks. Aching behind the sternum.

Heart
Pulse weak, very large and soft. Needle like stitches at heart.

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Extremities
*Biting vesicles on soles; desquamation and dryness of soles. Pain in thumb. Acrid, sticky foot
sweat.

Skin
Vesicles. Large blisters as from scalds. Brown crusts and scabs. Pemphigus. Dermatitis; with
extensive vesiculation, oozing of sticky serum and formation of crusts.

Related
Arum‐t; Canth; Rhus‐t.

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Manganum [Mang]

Generalities
*Mang. is closely associated with iron, and like iron Mang. causes anaemia with destruction
of red blood corpuscles. Moreover it has special affinity for ***INNER EAR; *larynx, *trachea;
*periosteum of shinbone. *Joints. *Ankles and *lower limbs. Motor paralysis, ascending.
Paralysis agitans, paraplegia, come under its influence. *Bones are very sensitive, *Painful,
deep soreness of the whole body; every part of the body feels sore when touched; *ears,
*joints, skin. Pain extends to ear from other parts. *Everything affects the ear. *Diagonal
pains. Yellow‐green lumpy or bloody discharges. Chronic arthritis; with infiltrated glistening
joints. Weak joints. *Festination; walks backwards. Growing pains and weak ankles.
Progressive muscular atrophy. Cellulitis; sub‐acute stage. Suppuration of skin around joints.
Asthmatic persons who cannot lie on a feather pillow. Fatty degeneration. Wants to lie down
in bed which better all the troubles. Typhoid fever; after, cases badly treated, with prolonged
convalescence. Valuable for boys and girls whose voices are changing. Necrosis and caries of
bones. Malignant ulcers with blue border, following slight injury.

Worse
Change of weather. *Touch. *Cold. *Damp. *Night. *Speaking. *Feather bed. Laughing.
Motion. Bending backwards.

Better
*Lying down. Open air. *Sad music. Eating. Swallowing. Change of weather.

Mind
Constant moaning or groaning. Weak and nervous. Anxiety and fear. Involuntary laughing and
weeping. Anxiety and fear when moving in the room better lying down. Anxiety as if
something bad is going to happen. Sad, weeping, silent. All the mental conditions are better
lying down. Does not enjoy joyous music, but immediately affected by the saddest.

Head
Feels heavy; seems larger. Pains from above downwards worse straining at stools, jarring,
stepping.

Eyes
Field of vision contracted. Aching in the eyes, from sewing, reading fine print.

Ears
*Everything affects the ears; pain extends to ear from other parts. Ears feel stopped. Deafness
in damp weather. Tinnitus. Swelling of the parotid glands, in fevers. Blowing the nose better
deafness. Stitching in the ears, from talking, laughing, swallowing. Cracking in, worse blowing
nose and swallowing.

Nose
Blowing is painful. Crampy pain at the root of the nose. Dry coryza, with complete obstruction.
Obstruction of nose and fluent coryza alternately.

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Face
Pale, sickly; stolidly mask‐like. Twitching, jerking pain from lower jaw to temples worse
laughing.

Mouth
Nodes on palate and on tongue. Toothache worse anything cold or sucking, going up in the
ears. Flow of saliva; while speaking; with colic, paralysis etc. Taste oily.

Throat
Hemming and hawking all the time; and annoying everybody.

Abdomen
Chronic enlargement of the liver. Jaundice. As if intestines were loose and shaking when
walking about. Pain and constriction at the navel Passes much flatus with stools. Bowels are
irregular, he has constipation or diarrhoea. Cramps in the anus while sitting, better lying
down. Cutting in umbilical region worse on taking deep breath.

Urinary
Darting in urethra on passing flatus.

Female
First menses delayed. Menses; early, scanty, pale in anaemic patients. *Climacteric flushings.
Discharge of blood between periods.

Respiratory
Chronic hoarseness; voice rough; worse a.m.; better by expectoration of greenish or yellow
lump of mucus or smoking. Cough better lying down; worse reading, laughing; with aphonia.
Every cold rouses up a bronchitis. Aphonia; from laryngeal tuberculosis. Larynx dry and sore.

Extremities
Weak, uncertain legs. Cannot walk backwards without falling. Walks stooping forwards.
Slapping gait. Walks on metatarso‐ phalangeal joint; walks backwards. Tendency to fall
forwards. Inflammation of bones and joints, with nightly digging pains; in shin bones. Inflamed
ankles. Children are unable to walk on account of affections of ankles. Paralysis, with
inclination to run forwards if he tried to walk. Knees pain and itch. Hands when closed and
stretched feel swollen.

Skin
Rough, cracked (flexures), bluish. Suppuration of skin around joints. Red elevated spots.
Chronic eczema, with amenorrhoea, worse menses or menopause. Dry hard ulcers. Pruritus
of diabetes. Chronic eruptions, inveterate like psoriasis.

Sleep
Many vivid dreams which are well remembered. Much yawning.

Fever
Sudden flushes of heat, in face, in chest and over the back.

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Related
Chin; Psor.

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Marum Verum [Teucr]

Generalities
***NASAL AND RECTAL symptoms are very marked *Excitable and *oversensitiveness; from
abuse of medicines and when remedies fail to act. Delicate and sensitive; old persons and
children. Internal tremors; worse excitement. Desire to stretch. Thread worms. Polypi; nasal
vaginal, in ear etc. Fibrous tumours.

Worse
Weather changing; damp; *cold. In bed. Touch. Stooping. Sitting. Side lain on. Rubbing gently.

Better
Open air. Sweat.

Mind
Desire to sing. Mental excitement and loquacity. Very indolent, does not want to do mental
or physical labour.

Head
Frontal pain worse stooping.

Eyes
Smarting in canthi. Eyelids red and puffy. Tarsal tumours.

Ears
Hissing sound when passing hand over ear, when talking or forcibly inspiring through the
nose. Itching of. Polypus.

Nose
*Crawling in; *must pick it, with lachrymation and sneezing, stoppage of nose worse side lain
on, on reading aloud, Chronic catarrh; atrophic; discharge of large, lumpy, irregular clinkers.
Loss of smell. Mucous polypi. Solid lumps from posterior nares.

Mouth
Itching in palate.

Throat
Mouldy taste in throat when hawking or coughing. Follicular pharyngitis.

Stomach
Constant hiccough; jerking, in emaciated children after nursing; with stitch from stomach to
back. Vomiting of large quantities of dark green masses.

Abdomen
*Itching anus; *prevents sleep. Thread worms.

Respiratory
Dry cough; worse coughing.

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Extremities
Ingrowing toe nails; with ulceration better moving. Burning in the tips of fingers. Staggering,
walking, places one foot over the other.

Sleep
Sleepless after excitement; from itching anus; or skin, which lasts all night.

Complementary
Calc.

Related
Cina; Sil.

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Medorrhinum [Med]

Generalities
This nosode is prepared from gonorrhoeal virus; a powerful deep acting medicine; indicated
for chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhoea. It affects the *mind; *nerves; *mucous
membranes; is useful for chronic pelvic disorders of women; for dwarfish and stunted, *sour
smelling children. *Profuse acrid discharges, *causing itching. Fishy odours of the secretions.
Offensive odour of the body esp. children and women. Poor reaction due to *sycotic taint.
*Many different kinds of pain; *stiffness, *aching; *soreness, *oedema of limbs; dropsy of
serous sacs. Emaciation. Trembling all over (subjective); intense nervousness and profound
exhaustion. *Numbness; formication, internal. *Arthritic; rheumatic pains. Diseases of the
spinal cord, even organic lesions ending in paralysis. Enlargement of the lymphatic glands all
over the body; with heat and soreness. Loss of power in the joints; joints feel loose. *Burning.
Small very sore aphthae; blisters. State of collapse, wants to be fanned all the time. Tumours,
cancer, scirrhus etc.; with history of sycosis. Body smells bad to her, cannot wash.

Worse
*Damp; cold. *Daytime; sunrise to sunset; 3‐4 a.m. After urinating. Touch, even slight. Close
room. Before storms.

Better
***LYING ON ABDOMEN. Bending backward; stretching out. *Fresh air. Being fanned. *Hard
rubbing. Seaside. Dampness. Sunset. Damp weather.

Mind
Weak memory. Cannot concentrate. Forgets names, word, her errand. Cannot finish
sentences. Loss of thread of conversation. Wild feeling. *Things seem strange. Cannot speak
without weeping; tells it over and over again. *Hurried; and anxious; irritable. Time passes
slowly. Fear in the dark and of some one behind her; whispering with her. *Sensitive;
*nervous, impulsive; abrupt, rude, mean, cruel. Apprehensive; anticipates events. *Feels far
off as though things done today occurred a week ago. Many ideas; but uncertain of execution.
*Sad; dismal outlook better weeping. Persistent ideas, alternating or erratic states. Cross
through day, merry at night. Dread of saying wrong thing. Everything startles her. Non‐
commital. Suicidal thoughts. Fears going insane. Feels life *unreal, everything seems unreal.
Desperate. *Sad; tearful and fearful.

Head
Vertigo; worse in vertex, and on stooping. Head pains, with a sense of tightness worse jarring
of ears; pulls her hair. Burning in occiput; occiput pains to behind eyes. *Hair tousled. Burning
deep in brain. Head heavy and drawn backwards. Itching; dandruff.

Eyes
Feels as if she stared at everything. As if sticks in the eyelids. Ptosis of lids. Eyelashes fall out,
objects look double or small. Swelling under eyes. Sees imaginary objects. Upper lid hard as
if it had cartilage in it.

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Ears
Partial or total deafness. Ringhole sore and gathered. Pulsation in ears. Quick darting pains.
Hears voices.

Nose
Coryza, with loss of smell and taste. Snuffles in children, not relieved by other remedies.
Epistaxis. Post nasal discharge, thick yellow. Exhalation hot. Hay fever. Nose dirty (children).
Tip of nose cold. Intense itching of the tip. Coryza better sea bathing. Nasal catarrh running
down throat.

Face
Grayish, greasy, greenish; *yellow at the edges of hair. *Red spiderlets on face. Acne on face
worse after menses. Small boils break out during menses. Lips thickened, from mouth
breathing.

Mouth
Small very sore aphthae. Blisters on inner surface of the lips and cheeks. Water tastes like
perfume. Teeth; serrated, soft, crumbling; yellow. Tongue coated; brown and thick.

Stomach
Craving for liquors, which she used to dislike; salt, sweets, oranges; ices; sour things, green
fruits, refreshing things. *Vomiting of pregnancy; pernicious. Morning nausea. Excessive
thirst, dreams of drinking water. Ravenous appetite, hunger after eating.

Abdomen
Heavy lower abdomen. Grinding colic better bracing feet; lying on abdomen. Can pass stools
only by leaning very far back, then shivering. Burning in epigastrium. Flatulence with
numbness. Dark fetid oozing from anus; of fish brine odour. *Fiery red, *moist, *violently
itching anus. Cholera infantum, with opisthotonus. Agonizing pain in solar plexus, applies his
right hand to stomach and left to lumbar region.

Urinary
Nocturnal enuresis. Scalding ammoniacal urine. Pain in kidney region better by profuse
urination, with craving for ice. Bubbling in kidney region. Slow flow.

Male
Heaviness of prostate; painful and enlarged, with frequent and painful urination. Impotency.
Prostration after seminal emission. Heaviness in perineum. Persistent gleety yellow discharge.

Female
Intense menstrual colic better pressing feet against support. Menses; profuse, dark, clotted,
foul; stains, difficult to wash out; with frequent urination. Mammae; cold; sore. Sore, oozing
or icy nipples, during menses. Blistering leucorrhoea; thin, of fishy odour. Os uteri sensitive;
ulcerated. Breast sore at non‐ menstrual periods. Itching_ vagina better rubbing and by
bathing with tepid water. Drawing in ovaries better pressure. Sycotic sterility. Breast cold, icy,
the rest of the body warm.

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Respiratory
Air hunger. *Cough better lying on stomach, worse from sweet things. Dyspnoea, cannot
exhale. Asthma; sycotic; infantile. Lungs feel stuffed up with cotton. As if a cavity in chest.
Coldness in chest.

Heart
Sensation of cavity where heart ought to be.

Back
Spine sore and tender. Burning heat in spine. Cutting, burning, crawling above left scapula.
Pain from left to right shoulder. Lumbago from lifting.

Extremities
Arms hairy. Bites nails. Burning of hands and feet. Legs heavy; ache all night cannot keep them
still. Cramps in legs better stretching them. *Heels, balls and soles tender and itching, cannot
walk on them, had to walk on knees. Finger tips cracked and burn. Ankles easily turn when
walking. Oedema of limbs. Nails depressed, as if they were bent. Oedema of feet followed
and better by diarrhoea.

Skin
Itching; sore. Sycotic red nodes. Deep red spots. Condylomata. Yellow. Continuous itching
worse thinking of it. Skin cold but feels as if the blood is hot. Copper coloured spots; remaining
after eruptions. Yellow copper coloured spots.

Sleep
A short sleep seems a long one which better . *Sleeps in knee chest position. Dreams of
drinking something.

Fever
Cold skin but blood feels hot. Burning heat with sweat, wants to uncover; but is chilled
thereby. Sweat easy; towards morning. Hay fever. Limbs become cold.

Related
Bar‐c; Nat‐m; Psor; Thuj.

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Melilotus [Meli]

Generalities
This medicine produces *congestions esp. to the HEAD; and profuse, bright red, haemorrhage
which gives relief. Infantile spasms. Epilepsy from blow to head. Pain with debility. Feeling of
rawness.

Worse
*Climacteric. Walking. Weather‐*changing stormy, rainy.

Better
Bleeding. Profuse urination. Vinegar (application).

Mind
Wants to run away and hide. Fear of danger, and being arrested, or talking loudly, she
whispers. Treacherous memory. Thinks everyone is looking at her. Wants to kill himself; or
threatens to kill who approach. Religious melancholy. Weeping.

Head
Rushes of blood to head. ***VIOLENT; ***THROBBING, ***CONGESTIVE; nervous, periodical
headaches; threatens his reason; better nosebleed; menstrual flow; application of vinegar.
Fullness all over the head. Headache alternating with backache.

Eyes
Hot, heavy, wants to close them tightly for relief. As if they were too large.

Nose
Dry, must breathe through the mouth. Profuse and frequent epistaxis, with general
amelioration.

Face
*Intensely red; and flushed with throbbing carotids and headache. Red before haemorrhages
from nose, lungs, uterus.

Urinary
Frequent profuse urination which relieves headache.

Female
Recurring sharp darting pain in vagina and vulva at close of menses.

Respiratory
Feels as if smothering; worse rapid walking. As if clothes were too tight across chest.

Skin
Dry.

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Bell; Calc; Glon. Back to Index

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Menyanthes [Meny]

Generalities
It produces *icy coldness; *of prominent; *or of single, *or affected parts; nose; ears, fingers,
knees, abdomen etc. Tensive and compressive pains. Spasmodic jerking and visible
twitchings; with neuralgia. Jumpy, fidgety women with urinary troubles.

Worse
Walking; even lightly. Ascending. Rest. Light. Noise. Jar.

Better
*Hard pressure. Twilight. Laying on hand. Stooping.

Head
*Bursting headache; *pain ascends from *nape, better stooping; sitting bent. *Heavy
pressure; *on vertex better hard pressure with hand. As of weight in nape. Head cold, as if
cold wind blowing on it.

Eyes
Misty Vision.

Ears
Tinnitus, when chewing.

Nose
Cold. Nauseous smell before nose, like that of rotten eggs.

Face
Visible twitching of the facial muscles, worse rest.

Stomach
Coldness extending up to oesophagus. Desire for meat. Aversion to bread and butter.

Abdomen
Coldness; worse pressing upon it with hand.

Urinary
Frequent desire to urinate; with scanty urine.

Heart
Anxiety about; as if some evil was going to happen. Slightest exertion causes irregular action.

Back
Boring at scapula (left). Bruised pain in sacrum worse stooping, walking.

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Extremities
Cramps in posterior thighs worse sitting. Cramps from ankles to calf (right). Icy coldness of
hands and feet. Legs jerk and twitch; worse lying down.
Skin
Feels tight.

Sleep
Vivid dreams, with agitated sleep.

Fever
Shivering with yawning. Quartan malaria.

Related
Verat.

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Mephitis [Meph]

Generalities
The dilutions of this medicine are prepared from the liquid contained in the anal glands of
skunk. It produces *spasmodic effects and is a very great remedy for whooping cough. Should
be given in the lower dilutions. Nervous exhaustion. Debility after severe illness. Wants to
bathe in ice cold water. Trembling and chokings, with exophthalmos. Fine vibrations causing
great uneasiness.

Worse
Lying. Night. After menses.

Better
*Cold; *bath; icy; or weather.

Mind
Excitable; full of fancies. Talkative. Disinclination to work, with inclination to stretch.

Head
Violent vertigo worse sitting, stooping, turning in bed. As of a finger pressing on occiput.
Headache from motion of carriage.

Eyes
Hot, red, and painful. Inability to read fine print.

Face
Bloated.

Mouth
Foul breath.

Throat
Food goes the wrong way. *Chokes easily, when drinking and speaking.

Stomach
Vomits food, hours after eating. Desire for salted food.

Respiratory.
Dyspnoea; cannot exhale. Asthma, worse ice water. Spasmodic or whooping cough; few
paroxysms during the daytime but many at night. Cough_violent suffocative, spasmodic,
nervous worse talking or drinking. Foul expectoration. Asthma of consumptives or drunkards.

Sleep
Short, seems to refresh. Awakes at night with rush of blood to legs.

Related
Cor‐r; Mosch.
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Mercurius Corrosivus [Merc‐c]

Generalities
*Merc. *Cor. is a powerful disinfectant and has much greater rapidity of action; causing
*violent effects. It causes tenesmus of ***RECTUM along with tenesmus of bladder.
Inflammation with swelling and feeling of constriction; *burning, *internal; in throat, stomach
*rectum, *neck of bladder, kidneys etc. *constriction; of throat, rectum, bladder etc.
*Discharges acrid, tears, nasal discharge etc. *Cracks on palms, soles, corners of mouth.
Phagedena. Syphilis. Albuminuria in early pregnancy. (Phos later and at full term).
Gonorrhoea. Lies on back with knees drawn up.

Worse
***AFTER URINATION AND STOOL. *Swallowing. *Night. *Cold. *Autumn. Hot days, cool
nights. Acids.

Better
Rest.

Mind
Anxious and restless; *rocks hard. Stares at persons who talk to him; and does not understand
them. Difficult thinking. Disturbed speech. Stupid.

Head
Pain in temples worse looking sideways. Vertigo, with deafness when stooping.

Eyes
Excessive photophobia and acrid lachrymation. Burning, soreness of the eyes. Iritis. Keratitis.
Retinitis; albuminuria; haemorrhagic. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Lids oedematous red,
excoriated. Objects appear smaller; or double vision.

Ears
Violent pulsation in ears. Foetid pus.

Nose
Fluent acrid coryza. Ozaena with perforation of septum. Gluey nasal discharge. Swollen red,
nose.

Face
*Pale about mouth. Cracks in angles of the mouth. Oedematous swelling of the face. Lips;
black, dark red, swollen. Upper lip swollen and turned up. Jaws stiff.

Mouth
Tongue; patchy, swollen and inflamed. Could not be protruded. Salivation, with salty taste.
Pyorrhoea, Gums; purple, swollen, with toothache; spongy. Aphthae; ulcers. Burning, scalding
sensation in mouth. Teeth loose, nightly toothache. *Taste; *astringent; salty, bitter. Necrosis
of lower jaw.

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Throat
Uvula; red, swollen, elongated. Sore, red, painful swelling worse heat; sharp pains into ears,
worse pressure. Burning pain and great swelling worse slightest pressure. All glands about the
throat swollen. Tonsils swollen, covered with ulcers. ***SWALLOWING DIFFICULT; spasmodic
constriction, on attempting to swallow a drop of liquid.

Stomach
Insatiable thirst, for cold drinks. Distension and soreness at the pit of stomach; cramp in
epigastrium worse least touch. Vomits mucus and blood. Gastritis. Regurgitation, astringent.
Great desire for cold food.

Abdomen
Bloated, painful to least touch. Cutting colic; below navel. Painful flatulence. Appendicitis.
*Continuous urging to stool and urine; ***A NEVER GET DONE FEELING. ***STOOLS;
***BLOODY; ***SHREDDY; ***SLIMY; ** HOT WITH TORMENTING TENESMUS. Passes pure
blood or bloody water. Dysentery. Spasms of rectum during coition. Sweats before and after
stool.

Urinary
Intense burning in urethra. Urine; ** HOT, ***BURNING, ***PASSED DROP BY DROP. *scanty,
suppressed, bloody, frequent; dribbling worse sitting. Urethra bleeds after urinating.
*Tenesmus of bladder, with tenesmus of rectum. Nephritis. Albuminuria; of pregnancy.
Cystitis. Gonorrhoea. Paraphimosis. Bleeding kidneys. Sweats after urination.

Male
Penis and testes enormously swollen. Chordae; worse sleep. Hard chancres. Gonorrhoea,
discharge thick greenish.

Female
Leucorrhoea; pale yellow, with sweetish nauseous smell. Glandular swellings about the
nipples. Nipples crack and bleed; pain worse when nursing. Menses; too early and too
profuse.

Respiratory
Breathes as through a metallic tube. Constriction of the chest, breathes through pectoral
muscles. Cutting pain in larynx. Frequent stitches shoot through thorax.

Heart
Palpitation during sleep.

Back
Pott’s disease, lies on back with knees drawn up.

Extremities
Deltoid feels relaxed. As if legs had gone to sleep. Cramps in calves; in dysentery. Paralysis of
limbs; trembling. Feet icy cold. Exostoses; on shin, sternum, ribs.

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Skin
Cold. Ulcers; perforating; spreading; serpiginous. Nails grey coloured.

Sleep
Violent hiccough during sleep.

Fever
Chilly; after stools. *Sweats; *from every motion; partial worse forehead and lower parts;
foul; at night. Heat when stooping and coldness when rising.

Related
Ars; Canth.

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Mercurius Cyanatus [Merc‐cy]

Generalities
A valuable remedy for toxaemia of acute infections; diseases esp. diphtheria when there is
*early rapid and extreme prostration; with cyanosis; coldness and *tremors. Affects most
prominently *MOUTH, *THROAT and *LARYNX. Rapid local destruction. *Putridity.
Haemorrhages of dark fluid blood. Twitching and jerking of muscles. Efficient prophylactic in
diphtheria.

Worse
Swallowing. Speaking. Eating.

Mind
Great excitement; fits of passion. Fury. Talkativeness.

Head
Atrocious headaches worse night.

Eyes
Sunken; fixed.

Nose
Profuse epistaxis several times a day.

Mouth
Covered with ulcerations; with gray membrane. Free salivation. Foetor of breath.

Throat
*Cutting pain, on swallowing. Much thick grayish‐membrane in the throat. Looks raw in spots
esp. in public speakers. Tonsils enlarged. Necrotic destruction of soft parts of palate and
fauces. Septic diphtheria.

Stomach
Early and complete anorexia. Incessant hiccough. Thought of food causes retching. Milk
betters.

Abdomen
Frequent diarrhoea preceded by severe colic. Stools; offensive, green, slimy, bloody, black.

Urinary
Urine; albuminous, amber yellow, scanty; suppressed.

Respiratory
Cutting pain in larynx. Hoarseness, talking painful. Croupy cough; causes suffocation.

Heart
*Weak.

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Extremities
Varicose veins with great tenderness of leg (left). Cold limbs.

Skin
*Moist and cold. *Sweatiness.

Related
Lach.

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Mercurius Dulcis [Merc‐d]

Generalities
Calomel produces catarrhal inflammation of the *ear and is useful in *eustachian catarrh and
deafness. Inflammation with plastic exudates; peritonitis; meningitis; pleurisy; has a
reabsorbent action. Pale mucous membranes. *Biliousness; remittent bilious fevers. Pallor;
*flabby bloatedness. Pale scrofulous children, who have swelling of cervical and other glands.
Dropsies due to combined renal and cardiac diseases esp. with jaundice. Biliary stasis.

Worse
Acids.

Better
Cold drinks.

Head
Painful scalp.

Eyes
Rapid winking. Closure of lachrymal duct. Eyes; red, dry, gummy.

Ears
Closure of eustachian tubes. Membrana tympani retracted, thickened. Deafness; from every
cold; of old age. Sudden fluttering.

Nose
Blows lumps of mucus from nose.

Face
Pallid.

Mouth
Tongue, indented; indurated; black. Constant flow of dark putrid saliva. Foetor oris.

Throat
*Tonsils inflamed (right); better cold drinks. Dysphagia. Granular pharyngitis.

Stomach
Cyclic vomiting of infants.

Abdomen
Bloated, hot, painful. Acrid, *grass‐green diarrhoea of infants. Anus sore and burning.
Hypertrophic cirrhosis of liver (use 1X).

Male
Acute inflammation of prostate; after suppressed gonorrhoea.

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Respiratory
Slimy, pussy sputum. Pleurisy.

Skin
Flabby and ill nourished. Copper coloured eruptions.

Fever
Remittent bilious fevers. Sweatiness.

Related
Kali‐m.

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Mercurius Iodatus Flavum [Merc‐i‐f]

Generalities
(Mercurius Proto‐iodatus). This remedy has a strong affinity for *glands, of the ***THROAT,
lymphatic and mammary. Right side is usually affected and like *Lyc. symptoms go from right
to left. Syphilis. Mammary tumours. Deep bone pains esp. at night.

Worse
*Odours. Raising up. Warm drinks. Lying on left side. Cold and damp weather. Touch.

Better
Open air.

Mind
Lively, merry, talkative.

Head
*Faint or dizzy on rising from a chair, or when reading. Dull frontal headache, with pain at the
root of nose; better when mind and body actively engaged. Head pain follows heart pain.

Eyes
Keratitis; cornea looks scratched or chipped out by finger nail. Photophobia. Dark circles
around the eyes. Swelling below right eye.

Ears
Sudden sharp pain in ears worse touch.

Nose
Mucus descends through posterior nares into the throat, causing hawking.

Mouth
Desire to clench the teeth; jaw is stiff and tired; from grinding pain in teeth; during sleep.
Teeth feel on edge worse heat, cold and sweets. Teeth feel too long; cannot eat. Pyorrhoea.
*Tongue coated moist filmy or ***THICK YELLOW AT BASE; tip and edges red. Toothache after
filling.

Throat
*Sore (right then left). Constant inclination to swallow. Tonsils swollen; better cold drinks.
Lacunar tonsillitis. Goitre with suffocation. Cervical glands swollen. Adenitis.

Stomach
Weak empty feeling in stomach. Nausea at the sight or odour of food. Thirst for sour drinks.

Abdomen
Pain in abdomen with pain in heart. Faint sick feeling in hypogastrium before stools. Black
discharges with or without stools.

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Urinary
Urine; copious, dark red scanty.

Male
Hard chancres; painless; with enlarged inguinal glands; not disposed to suppuration. Dreams
of urination followed by seminal emission of which he knew nothing.

Female
Yellow leucorrhoea; of very young girls. Mammary tumours; with knots in axilla; blueness of
the part; warm perspiration and gastric disturbances.

Heart
Pain preceded by head pain. Palpitation with dyspnoea worse lying on back. Feeling as if heart
had jumped out of its place.

Extremities
Knees numb. Laming pain in right arm worse writing. Pain in right forearm, with pain in left
hip.

Skin
Flat warts.

Related
Lyc; Merc.

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Mercurius Iodatus Ruber [Merc‐i‐r]

Generalities
(Mercurius Bin Iodatus) Like *Merc‐Io‐Fl. this salt also affects the *lymphatic glands;
***THROAT, but on the left side. It acts on cellular tissue also; has wandering rheumatic pains
with weariness. Early cases of cold esp. in children. Cuts short, attacks of asthma when given
in 2x or 3x or prevents it developing during the night if given at bedtime. *Much hard
glandular swelling. Chronic suppurating buboes. Swellings.

Worse
Empty swallowing, or swallowing food. After sleep. Weather changes. Washing floor. Getting
wet. Touch and pressure. After dinner.

Mind
Ill humour. Disposed to cry.

Head
Painfully heavy occiput. Frontal region as if bound by the cord.

Eyes
Granular eyelids. Trachoma.

Ears
Closure of eustachian tube; opens with a pop. Deafness better after becoming warm on
walking.

Nose
Coryza with right side of nose hot and swollen.

Face
*Aching sore malar bones. Slimy sticky lips on waking. Eczema on chin.

Mouth
Tongue; wrinkled stiff at base; pains when moving.

Throat
*Dark red fauces. Throat ***SORE (left to right). *Tonsils and glands greatly swollen.
Disposition to hawk with sensation of a lump in throat. Stiffness of muscles of throat and neck.
Hawks much mucus from posterior nares. Uvula elongated. Diphtheria; submaxillary glands
painfully enlarged.

Stomach
Desires food more salted.

Urinary
Urethra indurated.

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Male
Hard chancres. Stubborn suppurating buboes. Sarcocele of (left) testicles.

Female
Profuse acrid green leucorrhoea. Fibroids stony hard.

Respiratory
Asthma. Hoarseness on getting little wet. Catching pain under right breast, oppressing
breathing. Cough from elongated uvula, with sore throat.

Neck
Stiff. Cervical adenitis.

Extremities
Wandering rheumatic pains esp. muscular. Middle humerus as if about to break. Pain from
calf upto sacrum.

Skin
Small fissures and cracks. Moist cracks on palms.

Fever
Intense shivering followed by feverishness. Night sweat, hot.

Related
Lach.

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Mercurius Solubilis [Merc]

Generalities
The potencies are prepared from soluble black oxide of Mercury (prepared originally by Dr.
Hahnemann), or from pure metallic Mercury. There is no difference between the symptoms
of these preparations; but it seems that when *Merc. *sol. fails, when indicated, *merc vivus
acts. *Merc. affects more or less every organ and tissue of the body; *Blood decomposes
producing profound anaemia; ***LYMPHATIC GLANDS are enlarged, *glandular activity esp.
of ***SALIVARY AND MUCOUS GLANDS increases. ***SECRETIONS ARE FREE; *thin; *slimy,
*acrid, burning, foul or thick *greenish‐yellow. *Ulcerations; of the mucous membranes esp.
of mouth and throat. Manifestations of hereditary syphilis; bullae; abscesses, marasmus;
snuffles or destructive inflammations of bones, *cellular tissues; joints come under its range.
Patient suffers from great variety of symptoms; he is uncertain in his mental and physical
behaviour; *tremulous, weak and *sweaty. *Swellings oedematous; continued exudations.
Redness. Livid congestions. Pains stick to one point. *Suppurations; pus; bloody, thin,
greenish. *Offensiveness; of secretions; of breath; of body. *Yellowness; of eyes, teeth, nasal
discharges; biliousness; jaundice. Parts are much swollen, with *raw sore feeling. Sensitive to
heat and cold; human barometer. Everything seems too short. *Weak, *exhausted and ready
to sink down, worse after stools. Rheumatism. Emaciation. Salty‐lips, taste, expectoration etc.
Oily perspiration. Syphilis, sycosis, scrofula. Convulsions. Cataleptic rigidity of the body.
Paralysis agitans; paraplegia. Contraction of joints. Ill effects of fright; suppressed
gonorrhoea; foot sweat. As if body were made of sweets. Burning, stinging pains. Tremblings,
twitchings, disorderly motions; of paralyzed parts. Strictures, after inflammation. Indurations.
Exostoses, painful. Softening of the bones.

Worse
***NIGHT; air. ***SWEATING LYING ON RIGHT SIDE. ***HEATED WHEN; *by bed or fire.
***DRAFTS, to head. *Weather‐changing, cloudy; *damp cold. *Taking cold. *Heat and cold.
Wet feet. Firelight. Before stool. During and after urination. Touching anything cold.

Better
Moderate temperature. Coition. Rest.

Mind
*Hurried; in speech. Stammering, nervous, with tremors. Violent, horrid impulses; homicidal,
suicidal. Restless and sweaty. Changes place constantly. Fear with desire to escape.
Uncontrollable desire to travel far away. Indifference to everything, does not even care to
eat. Inclination to catch passing strangers by the nose. Filthy in mind and body; does foolish,
mischievous, disgusting actions. Slow in answering questions. Weary of life. Suicidal thoughts
during menses better weeping. Thinks he is losing his reason. Memory weak; forgets
everything. Loss of will power. Senses impending evil. Precocious. Groaning and moaning.
Suspicious. Time passes slowly.

Head
Vertigo worse lying on back; as if on a swing. Band feeling about the head. Headache, with
ear and toothache. Exostosis with feeling of soreness. Scalp tense, oily sweat on head.
Meningitis. Hydrocephalus. Child turns head from side to side and moans. External head
painful to touch. Cephalhematoma. Falling of hair from sides and temples.

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Eyes
Lids; red, thick, swollen; tarsi, scurfy and swollen. Scanty or profuse, burning acrid discharge.
Eyes draw together. Black spots, flames, sparks before the eyes. Photophobia worse heat and
glare, of fire; of foundrymen. Arcus senilis. Iritis; with hypopion. Keratitis. Lachrymation
profuse, burning, acrid. Conjunctivitis from taking cold. Lids spasmodically closed. Periodical
loss of sight. Optic nerve and eye affection in those who work in foundries. Foggy vision.

Ears
*Pains extend to ear; *from teeth, throat etc. Otorrhoea_thick yellow discharge, foetid and
bloody. Deafness on becoming heated; better on swallowing and blowing nose. Boils in
external canal. As if cold water running from the ear. Sensation of coldness in ears; during
pregnancy.

Nose
Much sneezing. Sneezing in sunshine. Nostrils; raw, ulcerated. *Colds travel upwards or attack
eyes. Coryza; acrid, purulent; too thick to run. Heavy nose. Red, raw, dirty nosed children.
Nosebleed, when coughing; during sleep, blood hangs in dark coagulated strings. Frequent
sneezing, without coryza. Sinusitis.

Face
Pale, yellow, dirty looking; puffy, under eyes. *Cheeks; *swollen, red, hot. Aching in jaws.
Mumps. Lips; salty, dry, cracked; in angles (right); burn when touched. Masseter muscles
contracted. Facial paralysis from cold.

Mouth
Offensive, putrid odour from mouth. Painful ragged, swollen, *bleeding gums. *Gumboil
Teeth; hollow, black; pain worse heat and cold, night; feel tender and elongated. Aphthae.
***SALIVA; ***INCREASED; *flows during sleep; yellow; bloody, bad tasting, offensive.
Tongue; broad, flabby, yellow, ***INDENTED; needle pricks at tip. Furrow across upper
portion of the tongue; with pricking. Sweetish, ***METALLIC TASTE. Speech difficult from
trembling of tongue. Loss of speech, replies by signs and grimaces Stammering. Ranula, with
salivation and sore gums. Itching palate. Ulcers behind the tongue. Tonsils enlarged. As if
something rising in the throat, with desire to swallow it down. Taste sweetish: bread tastes
sweet. Stomatitis from chewing‐gum.

Throat
***SORE; raw, smarting, burning, as of hot vapour ascending. As of an apple core, choke pear,
or something hanging in. Ulcers on tonsils, on pharynx. Quinsy, with difficult swallowing, after
pus has formed. Stitches into ears, on swallowing. Hawks large lumps from throat. Constant
inclination to swallow. Drinks return through nose.

Stomach
Intense thirst for cold drink and beer. Weak digestion, with continuous hunger. Feels replete
and constricted. Aversion to meat, coffee, butter and oily things. Sweet things and milk
disagree, though he craves them. Rancid eructations. Frequent hiccough. Heartburn.

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Abdomen
Liver; *enlarged, sore; indurated. *Jaundice. Bowels feel weak, holds them. Intestines feel
bruised when lying on right side, or as if they fall to side on which one is lying. Inguinal glands
swollen or suppurating. ***STOOLS; painful, scanty; bloody; *greenish slimy; ashen white,
acrid; then tenesmus or chill; never get done feeling. Rectal tenesmus, with tenesmus of
bladder. Appendicitis, better lying on back. Prolapsus ani after stool. Swelling of inguinal
glands on taking cold. Dysentery. External abdomen cold to touch.

Urinary
Frequent urging to urinate day and night, with copious or scanty urine. Urine causes itching.
Urinates more than drinks. Albuminuria; urine black, bloody. Burning after urination. Stream
of urine very small. Dysuria. Haematuria, painless.

Male
Glans and prepuce inflamed and swollen; phimosis. Testicles; swollen, hard, with shiny, red
scrotum. Children or adults pull and scratch at the genitals; from a kind of itching which makes
them do so. Bloody emissions. Gonorrhoea. Red meatus. Vesicles, ulcers, soft chancres.
Herpes preputialis. Swelling of lymphatic vessels along penis.

Female
Collapse and fainting at start of menses. Menses; profuse with abdominal pains. Genitals feel
raw. Leucorrhoea; thick, white, when urinating; better coition, Itching worse urinating better
washing with cold water. Prolapse of uterus with vagina better coition. Mammae painful and
full of milk at menses. Sterility, with too profuse menses. Easy coitus and certain conception.
Stinging pain in ovary. Pain below (right) mammae through to scapula. Tendency to abortion
from sheer weakness. Abscesses appear anywhere on body during menses and disappear
after menses. Leucorrhoea in small girls causing prostration. Mammae swollen, become hard,
with ulcerative pain during menses. Cancer of mammae and uterus. Itching of vulva. Milk
spoiled. Milk in breast of boys; and in girls, instead of menses.

Respiratory
Hoarse rough voice. Cough; in double bouts; dry at night; yellow green sputum by day.
Respiration difficult worse lying on left side but cough worse lying on right side. Stitches from
lower right chest to back worse sneezing or coughing. Sensation of bubbles or as of a hot
steam in chest. Epistaxis during whooping cough. Cough worse by smoking. Jaundice; in
pneumonia. Shortness of breath on going upstairs or walking quickly Asthma better tobacco
smoke and cold air.

Heart
Palpitation on slight exertion. Awakes with cardiac tremor. Pulse irregular, quick strong and
intermittent or soft and trembling.

Neck and Back

*Neck stiff; cervical glands enlarged. Burning pain in back worse emission. Tearing pain in
coccyx worse pressing on abdomen. Pain forward from right scapula.

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Extremities
Weakness and trembling of the limbs; esp. of hands. Fingers numb. Cold sweat on feet in a.m.;
in bed. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Dropsical swelling of feet and legs. Icy cold hands after
emission. Bone‐pains_deep or near the surface worse at night; must get up and walk about.
Cold heels. Sensation as if knees were larger.

Skin
General tendency to free perspiration but patient is not relieved thereby; skin always moist.
Skin; yellow; tender, excoriated, like raw meat. Moist crusty eruptions. *Ulcers; irregular,
spreading; shallow; bleeding; with cutting and proud flesh. Pimples around the main eruption.
Boils and abscesses form at the time of menses. Yellow. Jaundice with itching on abdomen.
Itching at night in bed. Moist eczema. Insensible.

Sleep
Sleepless at night; from ebullitions of blood (to chest and head) from nervous excitability;
from pain or other troubles.

Fever
Easily chilled or *overheated. Alternate chill and heat. Creeping chills. Chilly within abscesses.
Catarrhal, gastric, bilious fevers. Measles. Fevers after suppression. ***EASY PROFUSE
SWEAT; *without relief; during sleep; with pains; oily; foul; sour or with strong sweetish
penetrating odour; on head; on chest; stains indelibly yellow.

Related
Kali‐i.

Complementary
Bell; Sil.

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Millefolium [Mill]

Generalities
This remedy affects the ***CAPILLARIES of ***LUNGS; *nose, and uterus. It causes *bruised
soreness; *congestions and is very valuable remedy for *profuse, *painless, *bright red, *fluid
haemorrhages; nose bleed, haemoptysis, oozing of blood from the edges of closed wounds,
from over exertion etc. Profuse mucus discharges. Spasms or convulsions esp. after
suppression of haemorrhages‐menses, lochia, milk etc. Ill effects from operations for stones,
biliary, renal, etc.: fall from a height, sprains. Varicose veins in pregnancy. Piercing thrusts of
pain.

Worse
Injury. Violent exertion. Stooping. Coffee.

Better
Bleeding. Discharges. Wine.

Mind
Seems to have forgotten something; does not know what he is doing or wants to do. Moaning
children. Sad. Aversion to work.

Head
Piercing thrusts of pain, beats the head against the wall; Headache worse stooping.

Eyes
Inward piercing, pressing to the root of the nose. Vision nebulous, with contortions of facial
muscles.

Ears
Sense of cool air passing through the ears.

Nose
Bleeding, with congestion to head and chest.

Stomach
Haematemesis. Cramps in stomach, with sensation as of a liquid flowing in intestines to anus.

Abdomen
Wind colic. Haemorrhages from bowels after much exertion. Bloody dysentery.

Urinary
Urine bloody. Stone in bladder with retention of urine. Pus like discharge after lithotomy.

Male
The seminal discharge fails during coition. Wounds and injuries of penis.

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Female
Uterine haemorrhages, bright red, fluid. Painful varices during pregnancy. Useful for the
prolonged bleeding of a hard labour. Curative of post‐partum haemorrhage. Sterility from
profuse menses.

Respiratory
Oppression of chest, with bloody expectoration or palpitation. Cough with bloody sputum, in
suppressed menses or haemorrhoids.

Heart
Palpitation, with bloody sputum.

Fever
Continuous high fever.

Related
Arn; Led.

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Moschus [Mosch]

Generalities
Musk is a well known perfume, which produces fainting in some by mere smelling of it; hence
easy fainting in any diseased condition is its chief indication. It is suitable to persons of
sensitive nature, *hysterical women and men. *Spasmodic, *nervous effects with a feeling of
coldness. ***FAINTS easily; while eating; during menses; from heart disease etc. Twitching;
*chokings; globus hystericus, ending in unconsciousness. As of a cool wind blowing on part.
*Tension, in muscles, skin, mind. Nervous; shuddering, laughter, hiccough etc. Buzzing,
squeezing, plug like sensation. *Poor reaction; diseases do not follow the normal course.
Complains without knowing what ails him. Epilepsy, with shuddering as from a rigor or
chilliness. Catalepsy. Imaginary diseases. Girls who are selfish, obstinate, self‐ willed, and
much pampered; resort to all kinds of cunning to have their whims gratified. *Coldness;
general or of single parts. Parts lain on feel dislocated or sprained.

Worse
*Cold. *Excitement. *Suppressions, menses etc. Side lain on. During or after a meal. Pressure.
Motion.

Better
Open air. Rubbing. Smell of musk.

Mind
Hurried; tremulous and *awkward; bursting activity, with weakness; so that everything falls
from the hands. Violent anger, talks excitedly, raves, scolds, till mouth becomes dry, lips blue,
eyes staring and she falls unconscious. Fears *noise, dying; fears to lie down, lest one die.
*Imaginary sufferings. Uncontrollable laughter. Sexual hypochondriasis. One feels as if being
rapidly turned around. Talks to himself and gesticulates. Sudden loss of memory.

Head
Vertigo, with fainting; as if falling from a height, worse stooping, better rising. Headache, with
coldness, faintings, involuntary stools, and polyuria. Shivering in scalp.

Eyes
Turned upwards, fixed and glistening.

Ears
Sounds as from report of a cannon. Rushing, fleeting sound. Nervous deafness.

Nose
Bleed, with spasmodic jerking of muscles.

Face
One cheek red but cold, other pale and hot. Lips blue. Chewing motion of the lower jaw.

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Stomach
Desire for black coffee, beer and brandy. Everything tastes flat. Violent eructations.
Spasmodic nervous hiccough. Aversion to food. Faints while eating. Nausea, on seeing or
thought of food.

Abdomen
Tension in abdomen as if clothes were too tight. Incarceration of flatus. Stools of sweetish
odour. Stools are passed involuntarily in sleep.

Urinary
Copious watery urine. Diabetes. Urine normal during day, but dark red, offensive at night.

Male
Sexual desire increased; with insupportable tickling in the parts and tensive pain in penis.
Impotence from diabetes. Nausea and vomiting after coition. Emissions, without erections.
Erection, with desire to urinate.

Female
Sexual desire increased, with intolerable titillations in parts (in old women). Dysmenorrhoea,
with fainting.

Respiratory
*Sudden nervous suffocation; wants to take deep breath; worse becoming cold; better
belching. Chest oppressed; hysterical spasms of the chest. Cough ceases; mucus cannot be
expectorated. Cough, with pain under left breast. Asthma.

Heart
*Anxious palpitation; with fear of death, says I shall die. Hysterical. Trembling around the
heart.

Neck & Back

Tension in back, before menses.

Extremities
One hand hot and pale, the other cold and red. Limbs; tense, feel too short. Coldness in tibia.
Painful; restless.

Sleep
Sleepy by day; sleepless at night, awakes frequently.

Fever
*Sensitive to cold air, which makes him shudder. *Skin cold. Burning heat with restlessness.
Sweat smelling like musk.

Related
Carb‐v; Castor; Ign; Nux‐m; Val.

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Murex [Murx]

Generalities
Like Sepia the juice of purple fish affects the ***FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS prominently. It is
adapted to sensitive, nervous, lively, affectionate women, who are very tired, weak and run
down; must lie down which aggravates. Pains are diagonal, ovary to opposite breast.
Climacteric sufferings.

Worse
*Touch. In Sun. Sitting. Lying down. After sleep.

Better
Before menses. Eating. Pressure and support. Putting head back.

Mind
Great depression of spirits, a sort of deep hypochondriacal state. Anxious; apprehensive;
better leucorrhoea. Memory weak, cannot find correct words to express himself.

Head
Squeezing at the back of head better putting hand on it or by throwing head backwards.

Nose
Distressing coldness of the nose all day.

Stomach
Violent hunger even after eating. *Sinking‐all gone sensation.

Abdomen
Painful weariness of loins. Weight in hypogastrium.

Urinary
Frequent urging to urinate. Urine smells like valerian. Slight discharge of blood while
urinating.

Female
Pain stitching in genital; up through abdomen; into the breasts. *Painfully sore uterus;
consciousness of womb. Feeling as if something was pressing on a sore spot in the pelvis
better sitting. *Violent nervous sexual desire; *nymphomania; from least contact with the
parts. Bearing down pains; *must keep legs tightly crossed.** Copious menses with large
clots. Leucorrhoea; thick; yellow, bloody; alternating with mental symptoms. Pain in mammae
during menses. Walking difficult, all joints are weak during pregnancy. Prolapse, enlargement
of the uterus. Discharge of blood through the vagina or bloody leucorrhoea, during stools. As
if bones of pelvis getting loose.

Back
Lumbar pain impels walking which aggravates.

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Skin
Dry, as if about to crack. Hives.

Related
Lil‐t; Plat; Sep.

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Muriatic Acid [Mur‐ac]

Generalities
Hydrochloric acid has an elective affinity for ***BLOOD, producing septic conditions similar
to that found in low fevers, with high temperature and *great prostration. ***MUSCLES are
affected esp. of ***HEART; of bladder, anus, tongue etc., causing paresis. ***MUCOUS
MEMBRANES; *of the ***MOUTH and *digestive tract; are dry, bleeding, cracked and
*deeply ulcerated. *Soreness of the body causing ***RESTLESSNESS; frequently changes
position, *but soon grows weak and very debilitated; wants to lie down; slides down in bed;
eyes fall shut, lower jaw drops. *Bluish; tongue, piles, ulcers. *Burnings. Tearing pains. Violent
haemorrhages. Scorbutic states. Pulsations in single parts. Parts are dry, *deeply ulcerated,
bleeding or cracked. Bloody mucous membranes. *Muscular exhaustion. Dropsical swelling.

Worse
*Touch. *Wet weather. Walking. Cold drinks, bathing. Sitting. Human voice. Sun.

Better
Motion. Warmth. Lying on left side.

Mind
Introverted. *Sad and taciturn. Suffers in silence. Irritable. *Muttering. *Persistent loud
moaning.

Head
Vertigo worse moving eyes, slightly; lying on right side, or on back. Occipital pains, *leaden
heaviness; worse looking intently at any object. Brain feels bruised; with headache, sound of
voice is intolerable. Periodical pain over left eye; with numbness down right arm and aphasia.
Hair as if standing on head.

Eyes
Vertical hemiopia. Eyes close on sitting; from exhaustion.

Ears
Deafness. Distant voice (talking) causes headache. Cutting from mastoid to nape. Tingling,
creeping, cold pain running up to vertex.

Nose
Bleed; much sneezing.

Face
*Dark or glowing red face; with cold hands; but no thirst. *Lips sore, *cracked and scabby.
Lower jaw fallen. Freckles due to exposure to sun.

Mouth
*Dry. Tongue; bluish, heavy, stiff; hinders talking; shrunken or burnt looking. Aphthae. Teeth
worse acids and sweets. Sordes on teeth. Gums swollen, bleeding, ulcerating. Hard lumps in
the tongue. Lips; burn, heavy, bloated. Everything tastes sweet. Beer tastes like honey. Cancer
of tongue.

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Throat
*Dry; with burning in chest. Attempt to swallow produces spasms and choking. Involuntary
swallowing.

Stomach
*Aversion to meat. Achlorhydria. Stomach will neither tolerate nor digest food.

Abdomen
Fullness and distension in abdomen from small quantity of food. An empty sense in the
stomach, also in the abdomen after stool; and in a.m. *Involuntary stools or prolapse of
rectum; *on urinating or passing flatus. *Very sore piles; better heat; worse during pregnancy;
protruding like a bunch of grapes. Anus sore during menses. Liver enlarged, sore. Ascites;
from cirrhosis of liver.

Urinary
Atony of bladder; must wait a long time, before urine will pass; or has to press so hard that
anus protrudes. Cannot urinate without also stooling. Urine; red, violet, milky, copious, night
and day; escapes from passing wind.

Female
Leucorrhoea, with backache. Pricking in vagina. Genitals very sensitive, cannot bear least
touch.

Heart
Large full and soft pulse. Pulse drops every 3rd beat. Pulse feeble, rapid and small. Palpitation
felt in face.

Extremities
Red swelled burning fingers and toes. Weak thighs. Staggers when walking, from weakness of
thighs and knees. Eczema of dorsum of hands. Cramps in the ball of thumb (right) when
writing, goes off when moving it. Pain in tendo‐achilles. Forearms heavy.

Skin
Ulcers throb on walking. Scarlet fever, livid with petechiae.

Fever
Cold in bed, in early morning. *Intense burning heat; *with aversion to covers. Adynamic
fevers; typhoid, septic etc.

Related
Bapt; Bry.

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Mygale Lasiodora [Mygal]

Generalities
The chief clinical use of this spider poison is in chorea esp. of upper parts. Twitchings and
contraction of facial muscles and head; which is jerked to the right side. Mouth and eyes open
in rapid succession. Words are jerked out in the effort to talk. Nausea, with palpitation and
dim vision. Violent erections, chordee. Unsteady gait; limbs drag while walking. Convulsive
uncontrollable movements of arms and legs. Constant motion of whole body. Intense red
streaks along lymphatics.

Worse
Eating. Sitting. Morning.

Better
During sleep.

Related
Agar; Tarent.

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Myrica Cerifera [Myric]

Generalities
It has a marked action on the *liver; and heart. Mucous discharges are offensive, tenacious
and difficult to detach. *Combined liver and heart affections.

Worse
Warmth of bed. After sleep. Morning. Motion.

Better
Open air. Eating, breakfast.

Mind
Despondent, dejected. Irritable.

Head
ull heavy aching in forehead and temples on waking in the morning.

Eyes
Yellow sclerotica. *Very red eyelids.

Face
Yellow; jaundiced.

Mouth
Dry; water relieves only partially. Tongue; thick yellowish, dark. Tenacious, thick nauseous
mucus in mouth and throat. Taste bitter. Offensive breath.

Stomach
Imagines he cannot eat; the taste is so foul. Loss of appetite; loathing of food. Desire for
sour things. Sinking in epigastrium worse eating better fast walking.

Abdomen
Dull pain in the liver; with pain under either scapulae.*Liver affections; with heart
complaints;** with urticaria; with jaundice. Jaundice; of infants; of cancer of the liver; with
bronze‐yellow skin. Fullness and burning in gall bladder. Adhesive mucus in stools. Flatus is
passed continuously while walking. Urging to stools but passes only great amount of flatus.
Stools; foul, pasty, of grey colour.

Urinary
Beer coloured urine, with yellowish froth.

Female
Leucorrhoea; acrid, foetid, thick, yellow, long lasting.

Heart
Pulse, slow, feeble, irregular.

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Back
Pain under scapulae with liver complaints.

Skin
Itching of jaundice.

Sleep
Drowsiness. Ugly dreams.

Complementary
Dig; Kali‐bi.

Related
Chel.

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Naja [Naja]

Generalities
The action of cobra poison settles around the ***HEART; hypertrophy and valvular diseases.
Affects medulla and cerebellum; *respiration, *throat, *ovary. Left sided symptoms.
*Nervous, *excited and tremulous, *with heart affections; often reflex. Feeling of
intoxication; loss of power over limbs; over sphincters; unable to speak. Swooning fits.
Sensation of wasting away. Parts seem drawn together. *Constrictions; in chest; throat etc.
Burnings as of hot irons. Many pains. Screwed up sensation. Collapse. Sepsis. Ill effects of
grief. Insensible right side. Affections of heart with paucity of symptoms.

Worse
*Lying on left side. After sleep. After menses. *Cold air; drafts. Pressure of clothes. Alcohol.
Touch.

Better
Walking or *riding in open carriage.** Sneezing. Smoking.

Mind
Broods constantly over imaginary troubles; and makes himself wretched. Suicidal; brooding,
insanity. Depressed, with distress about sexual organs; better in the evening. Aversion to
talking. Dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain. As if everything were done wrong and could not
be rectified.

Head
Pain in the left temple and in left orbital region extending to occiput with nausea and
vomiting, better smoking. Entire head feels hollow. As of a blow on occiput. Vertex sensitive
to cold. Headaches after cessation of menses. Pain in forehead and temples, with heart
symptoms.

Eyes
Staring. Ptosis of both lids. Hot pains at back of eyeballs.

Ears
Noises in ears, with nauseous taste in mouth. Black discharge, smelling like herring brine.

Nose
Flow of water from nose; then intense sneezing which betters the breathing. Hay asthma.

Mouth
Wide open; flow of saliva. Tongue cold. Loss of speech.

Throat
As of a lump in throat. Suffocative **choking,** grasps the throat. Stricture of oesophagus,
swallowing difficult or impossible.

Stomach
Craving for stimulants which worsens. Eructations tasting like barley water; or hot, foul.

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Female
***PAIN FROM LEFT OVARY TO HEART, worse one week before menses. Obscure pain in left
groin; post‐operative.

Respiratory
Puffing breathing. Cardiac asthma; or cough. Dry or empty feeling in left lung. Ribs feel
broken. Oppressive weight on chest; as if a hot iron had been run in. Asthma preceded by
coryza worse lying; better sitting up.

Heart
*Weakness at. Violent pain, shooting to left scapula, *shoulder or neck; holds hand over it,
worse after riding in carriage. Visible palpitation; hypertrophy. Endo‐carditis, septic. Damaged
heart after infectious diseases. Pulse slow, (upto 45) irregular, weak, tremulous; changes
force. Chronic nervous palpitation, worse after preaching. Choking. Tension low.

Extremities
Cramps in shoulders, nape or thighs. Numb left arm. Violent racking in marrow of thighs. Puffy
or sweating hands and feet; with cough. Acute pain under the left thumb nail running up the
arm. Loss of power.

Skin
Itching cicatrices.

Sleep
Deep comatose; with stertorous breathing.

Fever
Sweat on lumbar back and ankles.

Related
Cimic; Lach; Laur; Spig.

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Naphthaline [Naphtin]

Generalities
A product from coal tar has a special affinity for eyes. It produces detachment of retina,
deposits an exudation in the retina. Opacity of cornea; cataract; amblyopia.

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Natrum Arsenicosum [Nat‐ar]

Generalities
*Nat‐ars. is a valuable remedy for miner’s asthma; from coal dust. Racking cough with profuse
greenish expectoration. Oppression of chest and about the heart. Lungs feel as if smoke had
been inhaled. Feels tired all over. As if the thyroid gland were compressed by a thumb and
finger.

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Natrum Carbonicum [Nat‐c]

Generalities
Sodium Carbonate affects the *digestion and *nerves. The patient is *oversensitive to open
air; to music, to noise, to dietetic errors. *Great debility; from any exertion; from summer
heat. *Puffiness. Relaxation; easy dislocation. *Pains cause tremors, *cold sweat, *anxiety
etc. Twitching in the muscles and limbs. Contraction of muscles, tendons. Emaciation.
Anaemia. Ill effects of sunstroke (chronic); overstudy; strains. Children who cannot tolerate
milk but thrive better on cereals. Children when asleep, jump, cry, grasp the mother, startled,
nervous children. Swelling and induration of glands.

Worse
***HEAT *of sun; weather (body). 5 a.m. Music. *Mental or bodily *exertion. Onanism. Milk.
Dietetic errors. *Drafts. Thunder‐ storms. Alternate days. Full moon. Vegetable diet; starchy
food. Cold drinks when overheated.

Better
Eating. Rubbing. Motion. Pressure. Wiping with hand. Boring into nose or ears with fingers.
Sweating.

Mind
Cross and *irritable. Aversion to society; even that of their own family; her husband. *Gloomy.
Lively; talkative. Anxious and fearful worse thunderstorms; not from timidity, but from
electric changes in the atmosphere. Playing on piano causes anxiety and trembling. Sensitive
to presence of certain persons. Difficult slow comprehension. Music causes tendency to
suicide; sadness; religious insanity. Occupied with sad thoughts. Indifferent.

Head
Vertigo from wine; mental exertion; from exposure to sun. Headache; in hot weather;
slightest mental exertion; working under gas light. Head pains out through eyes; head bent
backwards. Feels too large. Falling of hair.

Eyes
Dazzling flashes or stars before vision; on awakening. Dim eyes, has to wipe them constantly.
Cannot read small print.

Ears
Deafness; with recurring earache; with amenorrhoea. As if a bubble bursting in. As if
something moved in ear on swallowing.

Nose
Swollen or peeling. Red nose with white pimples on it. Catarrh, foul, thick, yellow or green
discharge. Coryza worse least draft, alternate days. Stoppage at night. Violent sneezing. *Post
nasal discharge.

Face
Pale, withered, bloated. Freckles; yellow spots; pimples. Lips swollen.

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Mouth
Dry. Bitter taste in the mouth; food tastes bitter. Vesicles and smooth ulcers in mouth with
burning; mouth open. Toothache worse sweetmeats and fruits. Taste perverted; too
sensitive. Affections of the under surface of the tongue. Tongue heavy, unwieldy, patient has
difficulty in talking.

Throat
Hawks much mucus from the throat. Must drink to swallow solids, from roughness, dryness
of oesophagus and throat. Throat painful when yawning, and swallowing.

Stomach
*Digestion weak, worse by slightest errors in diet. *Acidity. Aversion to milk; which causes
diarrhoea. Acid dyspepsia with belching and rheumatism, better by soda biscuits. Greedy;
always nibbling. Gastric pains better eating. Hungry 5 a.m. Always belching. Ill effects of
drinking cold water when overheated. Waterbrash. Heartburn after fats.

Abdomen
Flatus changes places, abdomen pouts here and there. Epigastrium painful to touch and
talking. Diarrhoea from starches, milk. Stools; like orange pulp; in women at change of life.
Sudden call to stool, without result or stools escape with haste and noise. Stools; black, hard,
smooth, crumble. Colic with retraction of navel and hardness of skin.

Urine
Urine of bright or dark yellow colour. Urine smells like horse’s urine, from vegetable or milk
diet. Burning in urethra during and after urination.

Male
Increased sexual desire with priapism and painful pollutions. Incomplete coition. Glans penis
easily becomes sore. Nightly emissions. Sweats after coition. Discharge of prostatic fluid, at
stool and when urinating; prostate affections.

Female
Induration of cervix. Sterility from non‐retention of semen. Leucorrhoeal discharge; offensive
irritating, thick, yellow, ropy, preceded by colic. Menses late scanty, like meat washings.
Motion as of foetus in uterus. Promotes conception.

Respiratory
Cough; dry, tickling worse when entering a warm room; at 9‐11 a.m. Loose hollow; with salty
purulent greenish sputum. Cough, with coldness of left side of breast.

Heart
Palpitation; from noise, rattling of paper etc.; on going upstairs; when attention is directed to
something; when lying on left side.

Neck and Back

Cracking in cervical vertebrae, when moving the neck. Boring at tip of left scapula. Cold
between scapulae. Goitre; hard, with pressing pain. Tingling in back.

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Extremities
Heaviness of legs and feet, with tension in them, when sitting or walking. *Ankles weak.
Unsteady walk. Dislocation and spraining of ankles. Little obstruction on pavement causes
him to fall or falls without apparent cause. Burning wrist and ankles. Locomotor ataxia,
fulgurating pains better eating. Soles, tender; needles at; burn while walking. Jerking of hands,
on going to sleep. Cramps from ankles to toes. Contractions of fingers. Poplitea, painful on
motion. Folds of fingers and toes sore.

Skin
Dry, rough; milky, watery. Blisters on small joints; tips of toes or fingers. Pustular eruptions.
*Sweats easily. Formication.

Sleep
Drowsy; during day; after meals. Wakes too early in the morning. Amorous dreams. Sleeps
with mouth open.

Fever
*Easy sweat.

Complementary
Sep.

Related
Lyc; Nat‐m.

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Natrum Muriaticum [Nat‐m]

Generalities
Common salt, profoundly affects the *nutrition. Its excessive intake produces symptoms of
salt retention, such as dropsies and oedema; but it also affects the *blood causing anaemia
and leucocytosis. ***MIND, ***HEART, liver and spleen come under its influence. The patient
is *thin, *thirsty, *poorly nourished on account of *digestive disturbances, and his
***MENTAL BEHAVIOUR and physical symptoms are *hopeless or awkward in nature.
Emaciation; descending, of *neck or abdomen. ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES and skin may be
***DRY or may produce *thick, *white or *clear, *watery, *acrid discharges. Dryness of
mouth, *throat, rectum, vagina etc. *Numbness of one side; parts lain on; with paralysis;
fingers, **parts seem too short. Easy exhaustion. Contraction of muscles, tendons. Neuralgic
pains with tears. *Trembling. Prostration. Hysterical debility. Emaciation even while living
well. Great weakness and weariness. Tendency to take cold. *Coldness. Children talk late;
cross, irritable, cry from slightest cause. Cachexia; malarial. Oversensitive to all sorts of
influences. Goitre; hyperthyroidism. Addison’s disease. Diabetes. Twitching in muscles.
Frequent starts in upper part of body. Chorea; jumping; after fright. Ill effects of
disappointment; fright, grief, fit of passion; loss of fluids, masturbation; injury to head; silver
salts; salt. Young girls become love lorn and fall in love with married men. Paralysis; from
emotions, sexual excess. Likes to be covered but does not better . Trembling of the whole
body from smoking tobacco.

Worse
*Exact periodicity. 9 to 11 a.m.; *with the sun. Alternate days. After menses. *HEAT; *of sun,
summer; dampness. *Exertion of eyes, mental, talking, reading, writing. Violent emotions.
*Sympathy. *Puberty. Quinine. Bread, fat, acid food. Coition. Seashore. Chronic sprains.
Noise; music. Touch. Pressure. Full moon.

Better
*Open air. Cool bathing. *Sweating. Rest. Going without regular meals. Tight clothing. Deep
breathing. Before breakfast. Rubbing. Lying on right side. Talking long.

Mind
Hateful; to persons who had offended him. Detests consolation or fuss. *Sad; during menses;
without cause. *Reserved. Easily angered worse if consoled. Company distresses.
Hypochondriac. Weeps bitterly; or wants to be alone to cry. Weeps involuntarily, without
cause or can not weep. Cheerful, laughs, sings, dances, alternating with sadness. Boisterous
grief. Dwells on past unpleasant memories. Anxiety. Apprehension. Fear or *dreams of
robbers. Awkward; in talking; hasty; drops things from nervous weakness. Absent minded.
Scattered thoughts. Revengeful. Thinks he is pitied for his misfortunes and weeps.
Immoderate laughter with tears. Abrupt. An idea clings, preventing sleep, inspires revenge.
Alternating mental conditions. Extremely forgetful. Aversion, of men (females).

Head
Vertigo; as if falling; worse standing near a window, on closing eyes; better lying, with head
high. ***HEADACHES; bursting; on coughing; maddening; *hammering, heavy; *over eyes;
on vertex, with partial numbness or disturbed vision; worse on *awakening; from sunrise to
sunset; during, before or after menses; motion; even of eyes; frowning, reading; better sleep;

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pressure on eyes, lying with head high, sitting still. Nodding motions of the head. Headaches
of school children. Migraine. Falling hair. Injured part tender to touch.

Eyes
Painful, on looking down. Letters run together while reading. Stricture of lachrymal duct,
escape of mucous when pressing on the sac. *Lachrymation; with redness; burning; acrid;
from affected side, from sneezing; coughing; laughing etc. Eyes feel drawn together. Itch and
burn, must wipe them. Ptosis on lying down. Vision blurred, wavering. Hemiopia then
headache. Eyelids close with headache; spasmodically. Cannot read by artificial light. Sparks,
black spots, fiery zigzag before eyes. Incipient cataract. Protruding eyes; due to goitre. Retinal
images are retained too long. Eyes give out in reading and writing.

Ears
Noises, buzzing, humming, ringing. Painful cracking in the ear when masticating. Itching
behind ears.

Nose
Violent fluent coryza; lasts one to three days then stoppage of nose high up, making breathing
difficult. Sneezing early in the morning. Alternate fluent and dry coryza’ cold commences, with
sneezing; gushing of fluid. Little ulcers in nose. One side numb. Loss of smell and taste.
Nosebleed; on stooping or when coughing, at night.

Face
Pale, muddy, or shiny as if greased. ***HERPES; about the lips or at the edge of hair; pearly.
Crack in the middle of the lower lip. Lips tingle, feel numb. Throbbing in lower jaw worse
biting; heat and cold. There is down on the face in hysteria but passes away as the patient
improves. Upper lip swollen. Prosopalgia. Falling of whiskers and beard.

Mouth
***TONGUE MAPPED; *beaded or striped along edges. Aphthae. Loss of taste and smell.
Numbness and stiffness of one side of tongue. Tingling of the tongue. Tongue, heavy; difficult
speech. Children learn to talk slowly. Fistula dentalis. Epulis or small tumour on the gums.
Sensation of a hair on the tongue. Tongue feels dry but is not dry. Vesicles and ulcers in mouth
and on tongue, smart and burn when touched by food. Teeth sensitive to air or touch; pain
worse on chewing. Toothache with tears or salivation.

Throat
Hawks much mucus, bitter, salty. Uvula hangs to one side. A dry, sore spot in the throat, tickles
and causes cough etc. Food goes down the wrong way; post diphtheritic paralysis. Only fluids
can be swallowed. Solids reach a certain point and then are violently ejected. Throat glistens.
Exophthalmic goitre. Sore throat; with sensation as if she has to swallow over a lump. As if a
plug in throat. Tobacco smoker’s throat.

Stomach
***DESIRE; ***FOR SALT, bitter things; for sour things, farinaceous food, oysters, fish, milk.
*Thirsty, *drinks large quantity of water. Great hunger yet emaciates; with depressed mind.
*Averse to bread, meat, coffee, tobacco. Hunger without relish. Hiccough. Burning
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into head. Waterbrash. Sweats while eating; on face. White slimy mucus is vomited with
relief. Heartburn with palpitation. Feels better on an empty stomach.

Abdomen
Epigastric pulsation. Epigastrium swollen and painful. Sudden distension. Tense abdomen
worse groins. Pain in abdominal ring on coughing. Rigidity of the left side. Colic with nausea
better flatus. Stools; dry, *hard, *crumbling, tears the anus or cause burning. Stools, coated
with glassy mucus. Constipation on alternate days, from inactivity. Painless watery diarrhoea;
chronic; morning, on moving about; from abuse of opium. Constriction of rectum. Herpes
about anus. Abdominal viscera loose and dragging as if when walking. Red spots on
epigastrium. Herpes ani.

Urinary
Involuntary urination; on coughing; laughing; sneezing, walking, sitting. Polyuria, thirst for
large quantities of water. Has to wait long for urine to pass in the presence of others. Urine
clear with red sediment. Must wait before the urine will start. Pain just after urination.

Male
Backache and weak legs; with depression after coition. Pollution shortly after coition. Sexual
desire, with physical weakness. Suppressed gonorrhoea. Weakness, even paralysis, after
sexual excess. Loss of hair from pubes.

Female
Aversion to coition; which is painful from dryness of vagina. Burning smarting in vagina during
coition. Delayed first menses. Dysmenorrhoea with convulsions. Sterility; with too early too
profuse menses. Debilitating leucorrhoea; white thick, instead of menses. Prolapse of uterus
with aching in lumbar region or with cutting in urethra; worse in the morning, better lying on
back. Hot during menses. Mammary glands emaciate. White leucorrhoea turns green
gradually. Loss of hair in children or during lactation. Stitches beneath nipples.

Respiratory
Cough from tickling in the pit of stomach; with asthma or palpitation; worse winter.
Respiratory catarrh after suppressed sweats. Sticking in liver while coughing. Dyspnoea on
ascending. Whooping cough; with lachrymation. Breath; hot, offensive. Exertion of arms
better breathing.

Heart
*Palpitation, shaking body or alternating with beating in head. Fluttering of the heart, with a
weak, faint feeling worse lying down. Palpitation; anxious, worse exertion; emotion; lying on
left side. Pulse; full and slow or weak and rapid; intermittent every third beat; worse lying
down. Coldness, soreness at the heart.

Neck and Back

Painful stiffness of neck. Bruised backache, early in a.m.; worse coughing; after coition; better
lying on back, on something hard; or pressure. Can stoop readily, but hurts to straighten.
Buttocks emaciated in infants.

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Extremities
Trembling of the hands when writing. Cracked finger tips. Hangnails. Palms hot and sweaty.
Hamstrings; seem short, painful, drawing in. Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower
extremities. Catch in knee. House maid’s knee. Cracking in joints on motion. Ankles weak and
turn easily. Legs cold. Convulsive jerking of the limbs on falling asleep. Scurfs, scales in axilla.
Bending the joints of fingers, difficult. Children do not learn to walk. Soreness of toes or
between toes.

Skin
Oily, dry, harsh, unhealthy or yellow. Chaps of *herpetic eruptions worse flexures, or about
knuckles. Dry eruptions on margins of hair. Warts of palms and hands. Hives, whitish, worse
exertion. Corns. Scars; painful. Redness of old scars.

Sleep
Sobs during sleep. *Awakes feeling weak. Dreams of robbers. Somnambulism; rises and sits
about room. Starts and talks in sleep.

Fever
Coldness of many parts, hands, feet, heart. Morning chill with thirst. Chilly but worse in sun.
Sweat, scanty, at edge of hair, on nose, on face while eating.

Complementary
Ign; Sep.

Related
Puls.

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Natrum Phosphoricum [Nat‐p]

Generalities
This remedy is useful for conditions arising from excess of lactic acid, as a result of too much
sugar. It affects duodenum; bile ducts, mesenteric glands and genitals. ***SOURNESS;
*eructations, vomiting, stomach, stools, leucorrhoea; expectoration, sweats etc. Ailments
with *excess of acidity. *Infants who have been fed to excess, *with milk and sugar. *Deep
yellow, creamy; *discharges. *Debility. Pricking sensation. Tightness of muscles and tendons.
Jaundice (1x Trit.). Oxaluria. Worms. Swelling of lymphatic glands. Ill effects of mental
exertion or sexual vices or both. Marasmus of bottle fed babies. Trembling and palpitation
from thunderstorms. Cracking in joints. Nervousness; tired feeling. Leucocytosis.

Worse
*Sugar. Milk. Mental exertion. Thunderstorm. Gas light. Coitus. Walking upstairs. Bitter foods.
Fat food.

Better
Cold.

Mind
Mental weakness. Fear worse at night; that something will happen. Imagines that pieces of
furniture are persons; he hears footsteps in the next room. Nervous, forgetful. Sad from
music. Indifferent to everything; to his family. Sits quite still for a long time. Easily frightened.

Head
Feels dull in the morning. Cutting pain in temples (right) while studying. Pressure and heat on
top of head as if it would open.

Eyes
Golden yellow creamy matter from the eyes. Whites of the eyes dirty yellow. Eyes weak worse
gas light. Squinting, with worms. One pupil dilated.

Ears
One ear red, hot, itching, scratches until it bleeds; with gastric affections and acidity. As if
water falling in, from a height.

Nose
*Itching. Offensive odour before nose. Yellow thick offensive mucus. *Child picks nose.
Pricking; with lachrymation.

Face
Itching about mouth. *Pale, or red on alternate sides. Florid.

Mouth
Blisters on tip of tongue. ***YELLOW CREAMY COATING AT THE BASE OF TONGUE; on tonsils,
or roof of mouth. Thin moist coating on the tongue. As of a hair on tongue. Grinding of teeth;
children. Pricking, numbness of whole mouth.

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Throat
As of a lump; preventing speech. Swallowing difficult. Yellow coating on tonsils.

Stomach
Sour eructations. Vomiting of sour cheesy masses. Desire for strong tasting things; eggs, fried
fish, beer which better . Aversion to bread and butter.

Abdomen
While at stool, sensation as if a marble dropped down descending colon. Noisy flatulence.
Fullness in abdomen worse standing or eating a little. Gastro‐duodenal catarrh. Jaundice.
Urging to stool and urination after coitus (men). Stools hacked. Greenish diarrhoea. Itching at
anus. Afraid to pass flatus lest the stool escape. Sclerosis of liver and hepatic form of diabetes
esp. when there is a succession of boils. Round or thread worms.

Urinary
Urging to urinate and burning and itching at meatus after coition. Must wait for urine to start.

Male
Semen; thin watery, smells like stale urine. Emissions followed by weak back and trembling
of knees. Itching of scrotum, prepuce.

Female
Sterility; with acid secretions from vagina. Leucorrhoea, sour, creamy, honey coloured or acid
and watery. Morning sickness, with sour vomiting. During menses, feet icy cold during day;
burn at night, in bed.

Respiratory
Respiration difficult. Cough worse sitting. Chest feels empty after eating. Pain in chest worse
deep breathing and pressure.

Heart
Trembling about heart worse going upstairs; after menses. Feeling as if a bubble started from
heart and was forced through arteries. Heart pains are better when big toe pains. Heart pains
alternating with rheumatic pains. Anxious palpitation, after a thunderstorm.

Back
Weakness after coition. Heavy dragging in the back. Swelling of glands of neck extending to
chest. Goitre with feeling of pressure.

Extremities
Aching in wrists and finger joints. Trembling of limbs after coition. Rheumatism. Feet icy cold
during day, burn at night. Synovial crepitation. Cramps in hands while writing. Legs give way
while walking.

Skin
Itching in various parts, esp. of ankles, even eczematous eruptions. Hives. Skin smooth red,
shining.

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Sleep
Sleepy in the forenoon, but sleepless before midnight. Dreams; anxious, amorous, of dead
people. Very drowsy; falls asleep while sitting.

Fever
Feet icy cold in day time, burn at night.

Related
Cina; Kali‐s; Kreos.

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Natrum Salicylicum [Nat‐sal]

Generalities
Produces marked effect upon the internal ear; with vertigo, deafness, noises in the ears with
loss of bone conduction; hence is useful in Meniere’s disease. Vertigo when objects seem to
move to the right; worse on rising from lying. Temperature subnormal with slow pulse.
Prostration after influenza.

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Natrum Sulphuricum [Nat‐s]

Generalities
Sodium Sulphate or Glauber’s salt_is a remedy for hydrogenoid constitutions; where
complaints are such as due to living in damp houses; basements, cellars; patients cannot eat
even plants growing near water, nor fish. It specially affects ***OCCIPUT and ***LIVER,
Pancreas. Sudden violent effects; in ailing patients. *Piercing pains; at short ribs (left); in hip
(left) worse rising or sitting down. *Yellow; *watery, *secretions, stools, skin, vesicles etc.
Thick yellow green pus. *Fulness. Sour, bilious and lithaemic. Sycosis. Pains worse thinking of
them. Epilepsy, or Petit mal, after head injuries. Suppressed gonorrhoea. Dropsy. Fistulous
abscesses. Mental troubles arising from a fall or other injuries to head. Trembling.

Worse
***DAMP; weather; *night air. Cellars. *Lying on left side. *Injuries; *to head. Lifting. Touch.
Pressure. Wind. Light. Music. Subdued light. *Late evening. Vegetables, fruits. Cold food and
drinks. Lying long in one position.

Better
Open air; warm dry air. Change of position. Breakfast. Lying on back.

Mind
Sensitive and suspicious. Sadness worse music or subdued light; sitting near a stained glass
window. Fear of crowd, of evil. Suicidal impulses; has to use self control to prevent shooting
himself. Melancholy. Cheerful after stools. Mental troubles arising from injury to head or ill
effects of falls. Intermittent attacks of mania. Does not want to speak, and feels that nobody
should talk to him.

Head
Crushing or gnawing in occiput. Headaches worse by noise, stooping; during menses; light,
eating; better in dark room; vomiting. Salivation with headache. Vertigo; better head sweat.
Meningitis, spinal. Scalp sensitive, hair combing painful. Vertex hot. Brain feels loose when
stooping. Head jerks to side (right).

Eyes
Granular lids. *Photophobia; on waking in morning. Heavy lids. Conjunctiva yellow. Crawling
in. Eyes hot as if.

Ears
Piercing stitches in ears; worse damp weather.

Nose
Runs water at night. Nosebleed, before and during menses, stops and returns often. Sneezing,
with fluent coryza. Thick yellow discharge.

Face
Yellow; pale; sickly. Itching of face.

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Mouth
Slimy, thick, tenacious, white mucus. Bitter taste. *Dirty brown, *or greenish yellow, *thick,
*pasty tongue esp. *at base. Tip of tongue feels burnt. Toothache better by holding cold water
in mouth. Gums burn like fire. Salivation during headache. Blisters on palate. Burning in
mouth as from pepper.

Throat
Thick yellow mucus drops from posterior nares. Swallowing impeded. Burning in pharynx
during menses.

Stomach
Desire for ice and ice cold water. Thirst at the start of fever only. Aversion to meat and bread.
Slow digestion. Concomitants to nausea. Green *bilious vomit. Acid dyspepsia with heartburn
and flatulence. Starchy food, milk and potatoes disagree.

Abdomen
Liver region sore, tender; worse deep breathing; stepping; jar; heavy, worse *lying on left
side. Hepatitis; duodenal catarrh. As of a lump below liver. Clawing in gall bladder. Colic better
rubbing or kneading abdomen, lying on sides. Cramps at umbilicus. ***FLATULENCE;
incarcerated; *painful; pushes here and there; right abdomen. *Rumbling, *gurgling in
bowels, *then sudden noisy spluttering stools; after rising in a.m.; or drives from bed. Foamy
or yellow diarrhoea; mixed with green slime. Stools involuntary, when passing flatus etc.
Loose morning stools. Great size of the fecal mass. Jaundice, after anger.

Urinary
Frequent urination. Diabetes; brick dust or white, sandy sediment. Polyuria.

Male
Gonorrhoea, chronic; discharge thick, greenish; little pain. Condylomata. Itching of glans or
penis, of scrotum.

Female
Herpetic vulvitis. Leucorrhoea; yellowish green, following gonorrhoea; with hoarseness.
Nipples retracted.

Respiratory
Dyspnoea. Asthma, sycotic; in children as a constitutional remedy, worse early morning.
Loose but violent cough; better sitting; must hold the chest or sides. Pain, piercing through
lower left chest. Every fresh cold or any unusual exertion, brings on an attack of asthma.
Breathing short while walking; constant desire to take deep, long breath. Asthma, with early
morning diarrhoea. Expectoration, greenish, copious.

Back
Piercing pains between scapulae. Sharp cutting pain in back spreading upwards like a fan.
Violent pains in back of neck and base of brain. Lumbar region pains if one attempts to retain
the urine.

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Extremities
*Inflammation around root of nails. Runarounds. Hangnail. Pain in hip joint worse rising or
sitting down. Sciatica on rising from sitting or turning in bed; no relief in any position.
Throbbing, piercing in heels. Vesicles on soles. Burning below knees. Oedema of feet.
Trembling of hands on waking and also when writing.

Skin
Itching while undressing. Watery yellow blisters, wart‐like red lumps all over the body.

Sleep
Dreams of fighting; of running water. Awakes; from pain, from flatulency.

Fever
Chilly, cannot get warm even in bed. Heat with aversion to uncover. Foul axillary sweat.

Complementary
Ars; Thuj.

Related
Coloc; Glon; Med; Puls.

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Niccolum [Nicc]

Generalities
Nickel is a remedy for periodical nervous headaches; with asthenopia, weak digestion,
constipation; of debilitated literary persons. Must sit up and hold the head with hands or has
to put the arms on thighs when coughing; worse night. Violent hiccough; with thirst. Child
must be held up during the cough otherwise it would be seized by spasms.

Worse
Periodically; every two weeks; yearly.

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Nitricum Acidum [Nit‐ac]

Generalities
This acid has a marked affinity for the ***MARGINS OF THE OUTLETS esp. of the throat, anus
and mouth; in addition it affects ***GLANDS – *liver; prostate and salivary. It causes
***HAEMORRHAGES; easy, bright, or bloody water. Patients are greatly debilitated,
trembling, shivery, sensitive, and sore. Pains ***STICKING LIKE SPLINTER or *ulcerative
gnawing.** Slight pain affects him violently. Discharges are ***ACRID, thin, dirty or brown;
cause redness or destroy hair. ***OFFENSIVENESS; ozoena, foot or night sweats. Mucous
membranes are dark, smooth. Orifices are red swollen and cracked. *As of a band about or
weight hanging to the part. *Sore, *stiff during pains. Hard, gritty exudates. Cracking joints.
Pains come and go quickly. Suitable to yellow, *brunettes; of spare habit, or persons suffering
from chronic diseases, having a tendency to catch cold, or diarrhoea. Cachexia. Bleeding after
curettage. Malignancy. Phagedena. Fistulae. Syphilis. Sycosis. Cancer. Stubborn suppuration.
*Bones painfully sore. Convulsions, epileptiform, at night and going to bed, during the day
frequent vertigo, better riding in carriage. Ill effects of loss of sleep, from nursing the sick.
Pains as if flesh is torn from the bones. Caries and exostoses of bones. Sensitive to medicines
given in high potency. As of a mouse running up and down left side.

Worse
Slight causes‐***TOUCH; ***JARRING; *noise, rattling, *motion. Milk. Fat food. After eating.
***COLD‐air. *Dampness. *Night. Evening. Changing weather. Heat of bed. Mental exertion
or shock. *Mercury.Loss of sleep.

Better
*Gliding motion. Riding in a carriage. Mild weather. Steady pressure.

Mind
Irritable, hateful, vindictive. So angry, he trembles. Profane, cursing, using vulgar language.
Quarrelsome delirium; talks to spirits in other tongue. Confusion. Thoughts vanish, after
exertion of mind. Sadness. Despondency. Taciturn. Refuses consolation on one’s misfortune.
Anxiety about his disease, fear of cholera; of death. Constantly thinks about past troubles. No
disposition to work, to perform any serious business. Hopeless despair. Weeps from
discontent of himself. Easily frightened.

Head
*Crushing head pains worse pressure of hat; from street noise. As of a band around head.
Skull sore. Puffy swelling on scalp. Falling of hair, from vertex.

Eyes
Warm water flowing over eyes; better cold water, or sense of water running from the eyes.
Conjunctiva pouts in spots. Diplopia. Eyelashes; stiff, all point towards nose (right). Paralysis
of upper lids. Fistula lachrymalis.

Ears
Deafness, better noise, in trains, riding in a carriage; from enlarged and indurated tonsils,
after measles. Cracking in ears when chewing. One’s speech echoes in ears. Caries of mastoid.
Cystic tumours on lobes of ears.

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Nose
Bleeding; dark, clotted; with chest affections, worse weeping. Dripping from nose; from
diphtheria. Sneezing; frequent, without coryza; during sleep. Coryza with shortness of breath.
Red, scurfy tip. Cutting pain in the nose; caries of bones. Foetid yellow discharge. Ozaena.
Green casts from nose every morning.

Face
*Yellow; sickly. Peeling of lips. Angles of lips raw, cracked or scabby. Cracking in jaws when
chewing.

Mouth
Loose teeth. Gums; swollen, sore, flabby, bleeding; inner side. Moist fissured or mapped
tongue. Tongue, clean, red with centre furrow. Sore palate. Ulcers in soft palate, with sharp
splinter like pain. Salivation; bloody; with green coating on tongue. Foetor oris. Ranula. Bites
the tongue and cheek. Teeth; yellow, caries of teeth. Teeth as if soft and spongy.

Throat
Sticking pain as from splinters; into ears; worse swallowing. Tonsils, red, swollen, uneven;
with small ulcers thereon. Cannot swallow even a teaspoonful; difficult swallowing. Hawks
out mucus from posterior nares.

Stomach
Longing for fats, salt, indigestible things, chalk, earth etc. Hunger, with sweetish taste. Milk
disagrees. Nausea; with occasional vomiting, better riding in a carriage. Dislikes meat, things
sweetened with sugar, bread. Nausea; with eructations; cannot take food.

Abdomen
Stools tear the anus, even though soft. Prolonged pain after stools; walks in agony. Rectum
feels torn; fissures in rectum. *Painful, *easily bleeding piles. Colic better tightening clothes.
Anus; itching, eczematous or oozes moisture. Ulcerations after dysentery which have been
badly treated. As of a dry, hot cloth on. Inguinal hernia, of children. Burning in rectum; after
urination. Haemorrhages from rectum after removal of piles.

Urinary
Urine; *strong as horse’s; or offensive; cold when it passes; alternately profuse and scanty.
Urine contains oxalic acid, uric acid and phosphates. Haematuria; with shuddering along the
spine. As of a *hot wire in urethra. Cramps from kidney to bladder. Infective nephritis. Stream
thin, as from stricture. Red scurfy spots on prepuce or on corona glandis. Painless retention
or incontinence of urine. Contracted kidney.

Male
Itching, burning foreskin. Chancres; phagedenic. Oedematous prepuce Phimosis. Strictures
from gonorrhoea or syphilis.

Female
Voluptuous itching of vagina after coition. Bloody water from vagina; or haemorrhages from
overexertion. Menses; irregular; early, profuse, like muddy water. Metrorrhagia; after
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yellow or leaves spots with black border. Hard nodes or atrophy of mammae. Pain in the back,
buttocks and thighs during menses.

Respiratory
*Cough shattering; from a dry spot in larynx; with stitching pain in lumbar region worse cold,
winter. Short breath on going upstairs. Cough in sleep without waking. Expectoration; muco‐
purulent, yellow, bitter, offensive; smeary; accompanied with sweat. Empyema.
Haemoptysis. Cavernous phthisis. Short breath from uterine displacements. Congestion in the
chest with palpitation and fear. Cutting in larynx. Panting breathing when reading or stooping.

Heart
Palpitation and anguish on going upstairs. Pulse; intermits at fourth beat; irregular. Nervous
palpitation caused by slightest mental excitement.

Back
Stitching pain in lumbar back when coughing. Stitches in and between scapulae; neck stiff.
Pain in back at night better lying on abdomen.

Extremities
Finger joints swollen. *Warts on back of hands. Herpes between fingers. Foetid foot sweat
causing soreness of toes. White spots on nails. Tibia painfully sore. Pain in patella, impeding
walking. Chilblains of toes. Sweating of palms, hands, cold. Blue nails. Weak ankles, cracking
when walking. Ingrowing of the nails with ulceration and a feeling of splinter worse touch.
Nails, distorted, discoloured, yellow, curved.

Skin
Dry; *eroded; cracked in every angle. Coppery spots; on shin bones. Skin itches on undressing.
Crusts form and fall. *Ulcers rapid, raw; ragged, with proud flesh or plugs of pus. Stubborn
suppuration. Burrowing pus. Warts, large, jagged, bleed on touch or washing. Condylomata.
Old scars become painful in cold weather.

Sleep
Shocks on going to sleep. Pains come during sleep. Anxious, unrefreshing sleep, with frightful
dreams.

Fever
Icy *coldness; of soles. Chilly‐continuous. *Sweats easily; then takes cold. Exhausting
(urinous) profuse sweats, in morning; in axillae, on feet, and hands (in spinal injuries). Night
sweats on part lain on.

Complementary
Calc; Thuj.

Related
Ars; Kali‐c; *Kreos; Merc.

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Nitro Muriatic Acid [Nit‐m‐ac]

Generalities
This remedy is prepared by mixing 82 parts of Nitric acid with 82 parts of Hydrochloric acid. It
is almost a specific for oxaluria.

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Nux Moschata [Nux‐m]

Generalities
Nutmeg‐is a popular domestic medicine, for putting off the menstrual periods, or else for
bringing it on, and also for diarrhoea. It profoundly disturbs the ***SENSORIUM; *mind and
***NERVES; causing exaltation of senses and nervous sensibility. *Digestion is disturbed.
***FEMALE ORGANS are affected. When any complaint causes ***DROWSINESS; or is
accompanied by drowsiness; and if in addition there is *chilliness or *coldness and
***THIRSTLESSNESS; *Nux Mos. should be considered and given. *Dryness; as a sensation, or
actual, is another characteristic symptom; of mouth, tongue, eyes etc. but ***NO THIRST.
*Heaviness; of eyes, tongue etc. Marked tendency to *fainting fits; with heart failure; worse
at stools, at menses, with slight pain, from sight of blood, while standing (when dressing).
*Haemorrhages dark. *Fleeting pains. It is useful to scrawny, delicate, hysterical women who
have small breast and who *laugh or cry by *turns. As of a hard lump; in stomach, liver, throat.
Hysteria. Mania. Automatism. Parts lain on feel sore. Feels as if drunk; staggers on trying to
walk. Catalepsy. Spasms of children, with diarrhoea. Epilepsy with consciousness. Little pain.
Puffiness. Clairvoyant. Paralysis, with spasms; and trembling; of tongue, eyelids, oesophagus.
Mental depression from grief. Ill effects of fright, mental exertion; suppressed eruptions.
Humming, buzzing, funny feeling in body. Marasmus of little children. Hard parts feel soft.

Worse
*Cold‐bath; *damp; *wind; drafts. Fog. Cold feet. *Pregnancy. Changes of season.
***EMOTIONS; excitement. Exertion. ***MENSTRUATION. Jar. Bruises. Slight causes. Mental
exertion or *shock. Summer, hot weather. Motion. Lying on painful side. Overheating. Milk.
Shaking head.

Better
Moist heat. Warm room. Dry weather.

Mind
*Dreamy. Clairvoyant states. Changeable, laughing and crying. Bewildered; objects seem
changed or grow larger. Thoughts suddenly vanish, while talking, reading or writing. Uses
wrong words (during headaches). Slow ideation. Talks loudly to herself. Sense of duality;
thinks she has two heads; seems to be two persons. Fickle and wavering in his undertakings.
Entire loss of memory of his past life. Sense of impending dissolution. Mania; with odd
speeches and ridiculous gestures. Mockery. Laughing. Jesting. Surrounding seems changed;
does not know well‐known streets. Listless; indifferent. Answers irrelevantly. Short time
seems very long. Sense of levitation. Does her household duties automatically, does not
recollect what she has done.

Head
Aches; bursting in temples better hard pressure. Vertigo as if drunk, staggering when walking
in open air. Head feels full and as if expanding. Cerebral congestion. Brain feels loose; striking
the sides, on motion. Painless pulsating in head, in small spot. Convulsive movements of the
head, could not talk or swallow. Raising head from pillow causes deathly sickness. Head drops
forward while sitting.

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Eyes
Objects; look larger, or too small, very distant, oblique; too close together; vanish, red.
Blindness then fainting. Eyes seem dry, which impedes the movement of the eyelids.
Pterygium over cornea.

Ears
Oversensitive hearing; for distant sounds increased.

Nose
Oversensitive to smell. Nosebleed of dark blood. Dry; stopped up; must breathe through
mouth.

Face
Pale. Retracted lips. Foolish, childish expression, diabolic grin. Jaws as if paralyzed, cannot
close them. Lips; swollen; stick together.

Mouth
Teeth seem pulled. Mouth; *dry; disappearing when entering the house; *without thirst,
worse sleep; tongue adheres to the roof of the mouth. Thick cottony saliva. Tongue numb,
paralyzed, speech difficult. Chalky taste. Toothache of pregnant women better warmth,
worse touch or sucking. Teeth seem loose. Saliva lessened, feels like cotton in mouth.

Throat
*Dry. Difficult swallowing; from paralysis of muscles.

Stomach
Craving for highly seasoned food‐which only is digested. Loathing when eating or thinking of
food. Digestion weak; all food turns to gas. Nausea and vomiting from irritation of uterine
pessary. Flatulent dyspepsia. Eating a little, too much causes headache. Hiccough.

Abdomen
Excessively bloated. *Flatulent colic. As of a board across the hypogastrium. Navel sore; even
ulcerated, festering. *Stool; *soft; *but unable to expel it; putrid; bright yellow and lienteric,
worse at night. Faintness during or after stools. Summer diarrhoea; from cold drinks; boiled
milk. Inactive rectum.

Urinary
Dysuria; from beer or wine; in hysteria; with dysmenorrhea; after eating; from uterine
complaints. Urine smells like violet.

Female
*Menses; *irregular, *in time and quantity; *thick dark. Leucorrhoea; muddy, bloody;
replaces menses. Mammae too small. Nipples retracted. Flatus from vagina. Pain of uterus
from pessary. Menses suppressed. Deficient labour pains. Continuous and obstinate flooding.

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Respiratory
*Hoarse voice when walking against the wind; *hysterical. Cough, worse when getting warm
in bed. Dyspnoea; with feeling of weight in chest; asthma hysterical, difficult inhalation. Loss
of breath when standing in water.

Heart
Trembling, fluttering; as from fright, fear or sadness. Palpitation better walking about,
drinking warm water . As if beating in vacuum Sensation as if something grasped the heart.
Pulse intermits at long interval; exciting fear of death. Pulse, weak, irregular.

Neck and Back

Neck so weak, head drops forward on chest. Pain in back, now in sacrum now in lumbar
region. Pain along spine. Backache and neuralgia of sacrum and coccyx worse riding in a
carriage. As if a piece of wood stretched across sacrum; worse before menses.

Extremities
Fatigue on slight exertion. Limbs as if floating in the air. Rheumatism; drawing, wandering
pains worse cold damp air, cold wet clothes, better warmth. Dry palms. Hysterical paralysis.
Soles always moist. Feels as if treading on hard peas when walking. Feet cold with appearance
of menses.

Skin
Dry, cold. Blue spots.

Sleep
*Sleepy attacks; sudden with vertigo. Great sleepiness with all complaints. Dreams; of falling
from high place; of being pursued.

Fever
Alternate chill and heat. Chill with stupor. Sweat; red or bloody or absent.

Complementary
Calc; Lyc.

Related
Cann‐i; Croc; Gels; Mosch; Op; Rhus‐t.

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Nux Vomica [Nux‐v]

Generalities
*Nux‐v. is an every day remedy. It corresponds to many diseased conditions to which a
modern man is prone to. It is useful to those persons who lead a *sedentary life, doing much
mental work; or to those who remain under stress and strain of prolonged office work,
business cares and worries. Such persons in order to forget their worries are apt to indulge in
wine, women, rich stimulant food and sedative drugs; and ill effects from which they are apt
to suffer. The typical *Nux. patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active, nervous and irritable. It
affects the *nerves, causing hyper‐sensitiveness, and over impression‐ ability_mentally and
physically. Produces ***DIGESTIVE DISTURBANCES; partial congestion and hypochondriacal
states. Dyspeptic persons who always select their food for experimenting, that is digested
little. He is subject to spasms, convulsions, and fainting. The patient seems to be always out
of tune; ***THE ACTION IS VIOLENT, often irregularly fitful or inefficient. *Twisting, *and
jerks. Spasms, tetanic, with consciousness; worse by slightest touch, but better by grasping
tightly, or when elbow was stretched. Tense contracted feeling. Lightning‐like pains.
Neuralgia; prodromal. Sensation as of a rough body internally. Sensation of heaviness and
lightness alternately. *Bruised soreness; ***OF ABDOMEN, brain etc. Internal scrapy
sensation or ***RAWNESS; in throat, larynx. *Takes cold. *Faintings, after stools, vomiting;
after labour pains etc. Biliousness. *Haemorrhages. Debauchees; much drugged patients.
*Trembling. Epilepsy during stool. Paralysis from apoplexy, in high livers; partial, with vertigo
and nausea; with sticking pains. Reflexes increased. Firm fibered brunettes. Reversed
peristalsis. Ill effects; of masturbation, sexual excess. Varicose veins, without tortuousity,
black hard cords; from much standing, or from sedentary habits.

Worse
***EARLY MORNING. ***COLD; ***OPEN AIR (dry); *drafts; seats; wind. ***UNCOVERING.
***HIGH LIVING; coffee; condiments, *liquor, *drugs, *purgatives, over eating. *Sedentary
habits. *Debauchery. *Mental; *exertion; fatigue; vexation. Disturbed sleep. ***SLIGHT
CAUSES; *anger; *noise; *odours; *touch; ***PRESSURE; *of clothes at waist. Yawning.
Tobacco. Music. Disappointment of ambition. Wounded honour. Mental shock.

Better
***FREE DISCHARGES. Naps. *Wrapping head. Resting. Hot drinks. *Milk. Fats. *Moist air.
*Lying on sides.

Mind
*Active. ***ANGRY AND IMPATIENT; *can not stand pain; so mad, he cries. **Zealous; fiery
temperament. *Nervous and excitable. Aversion to work. Fears poverty. Sullen. Spiteful.
Nagging. *Violent. Ugly; suicidal, homicidal impulses. Fear of knives, lest she should kill herself
or others. Fault finding. Reproaches others. Frightfully apprehensive about getting married,
(girls). Time passes too slowly. Talks about one’s condition. Even the least ailment affects her
greatly. Hypochondriasis. Melancholia. Delirium tremens. Cannot bear noise, light, odour,
touch, music, etc. Cannot bear conversation or reading. Angry when consoled. Head‐strong,
self‐willed.

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Head
Vertigo; brain and other objects turn in circle; with momentary loss of consciousness; with
black spell; on empty stomach. Bruised sensation of the brain. Dizzy and faint in a crowd or
where many lights are burning. Headache in the sunshine. Sensitive scalp. Swelled forehead.
Head seems larger than body. Takes cold better wrapping head warmly. Migraine. Frontal
headache with desire to lean it on something.

Eyes
Bloodshot. Lachrymation from affected side. Atrophy of the optic nerve. Photophobia. Paresis
of ocular muscles. Lower eyeballs yellow. Loss of vision due to alcohol and tobacco. Exudation
of blood from eyes. Spring conjunctivitis.

Ears
Itching in ear through eustachian tubes. External meatus dry and sensitive. Pain; stitching
when swallowing. Loud sounds are painful.

Nose
Oversensitive to strong odours; even fainting. Nose stopped, but runs water; on one side.
Snuffles; of the new born. Nosebleed during sleep; from suppressed flow of piles, from
coughing. *Sneezing, violent, *abortive; from intense crawling in nostrils (left). *Coryza,
fluent by day, and in open air, dry at night. Smell before nose, like old cheese, burning sulphur.
Smell acute. Nose looks sharp and pointed.

Face
*Red, *turgid or yellowish worse about nose and mouth. Left angle of the mouth drops. Infra‐
orbital neuralgia; with swelling of cheek, intermittent; better when lying in bed. *Jaws. snap
shut; stiff. Acne from eating cheese. Pimples from excessive use of liquors. Child passes its
hand constantly over face (brain disease).

Mouth
Teeth chatter. Toothache better warm drinks. Foetor oris; sour. Small aphthous ulcers in the
mouth. ***TASTE; ***BITTER; sour,*bad in a.m., low down in throat. Itching palate;
eustachian tube. Gums; swollen, white, and bleeding. Needles at edges of tongue worse after
eating; washing face in cold water.

Throat
*Rough, *raw; *as if scraped. Putrid taste in; on coughing. Small ulcers in the throat; pain
worse during empty swallowing. Stitches into ears.

Stomach
Craves piquant food; beer; fat food, chalk; stimulants. ***HICCOUGH; from over eating; from
cold or hot drinks. Violent retching worse hawking. Eructations, sour. Heartburn. *Water
brash. *Nausea; *better if he can only vomit. ***VIOLENT VOMITING; bilious, sour, wants to
vomit but cannot. *Food lies like a heavy knot in stomach. Gastralgia; pains go into back and
chest; better vomiting and hot drinks, worse from food. Indigestion. Hunger; yet aversion to
food. Eructations; difficult, sour, bitter. Severe pain in stomach from injury, worse least food.

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Abdomen
As of a hand about waist, *clothes oppress it. Bruised *soreness of abdominal wall. Liver sore,
enlarged; sticking pain. Gall stone colic. *Jaundice; from anger. Bowels gripe here and there.
***SORE BOWELS, worse ***COUGHING AND STEPPING. Hernia; infantile; from constipation
or crying; umbilical. Flatulent colic. ***UNEASY, ***FITFUL AND FRUITLESS URGING FOR
BOWELS TO ACT; better ***STOOLS. Obstipation. Inactive peristalsis. Strains hard at stools;
feeling as if part remained unexpelled; passes small quantity at each attempt. Rectum; spasms
of; flatus retained in; constant uneasiness in. *Piles, *itching, blind, bleeding, better cool
bathing. Dysentery; stools better pains for a time. Diarrhoea; with jaundice; after debauch,
during fevers. Colic in nursing infants from stimulating food taken by the mother. Colic from
suppressed haemorrhoidal flow. First part of stool soft, last hard. Prolapse of rectum from
diarrhoea. Dragging in anus when not at stool. Sense of goneness in the groins.

Urinary
Renal colic (right), extending to genitals and legs; with dribbling urine; better lying on back.
Painful ineffectual urging to urinate. Spasmodic strangury. Haematuria from suppressed
haemorrhoidal flow or menses. Spasmodic urethral stricture. Paralysis of bladder; urine
dribble; in old men, with enlarged prostate or gonorrhoea. Involuntary urination when
laughing, coughing, sneezing.

Male
Desire easily excited. Penis becomes relaxed during an embrace. Bad effects of onanism;
sexual excess. Premature ejaculation. Cannot be in female society without having emission.
Increase of smegma.

Female
Desire too strong; with burning in vulva. *Menses; *profuse, *early and prolonged;
intermittent; of dark lumpy bloody; irregular; with fainting spells. Dysmenorrhoea; cramps
extend to the whole body; with constant urging to stool. Leucorrhoea; foetid; staining yellow.
Inefficient labour pains; faints at every labour pain. Profuse bleeding after abortion. Prolapse
of uterus; from straining or lifting. All the old symptoms are worse after menses. Lochia
scanty, offensive. Nipples; sore; white spot in centre. Tensive pain when nursing. Painless
gathering of milk in breast from not nursing the child.

Respiratory
*Cough; *violent; throwing the patient down; paroxysmal; whooping; with splitting
headache; has to hold his head. Shallow respiration. Oppressed breathing. Asthma; from
disordered stomach; with fullness of stomach. Hoarseness, with painful roughness in larynx
and chest. Cough; with sensation as if something torn loose in the chest. Intercostal neuralgia
worse lying on painful side. Asthma; with feeling as if clothing were too tight, better belching.
Desire to eat during cough.

Heart
Palpitation on lying down. Heart feels tired. Angina pectoris; patient lies on knee with body
leant backwards.

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Neck and Back
Cervico‐brachial neuralgia; painfully stiff neck; pains down shoulder (right) worse touch. Wry
neck from cold or nervous shock. Lumbar ache, as if breaking; *must sit up in order to turn in
bed. Crawling along spine. Acute lumbago. Sacral region as if lame; after parturition.

Extremities
Arms go to sleep, numb, stiff feeling. Tense cramp in calves and soles, must stretch feet; or
stand still while walking. Feet feel clubby and raw. Shooting from toes to thighs; worse after
stool. Drags his feet while walking, (chorea); legs tremble; unsteady gait. Knee joints as if dry;
cracking during motion. Paralysis of lower limbs from over exertion or from being soaked.
Automatic motions of hand (right) towards mouth (Apoplexy). Legs stiff.

Skin
Goose skin. Skin red and blotchy. Urticaria with gastric derangement. Bluish spots.

Sleep
*Yawning. Sleepy in the evening or sleepless from rush of ideas. *Awakes too early, *can not
go to sleep again; finally sleeps but on waking feels wretched. Better after a short sleep, unless
aroused. Nightmares. Dreams; anxious; pursued by animals, dogs and cats; amorous.
Weeping and talking during sleep.

Fever
Chill with thirst, and heat without thirst. ***EASILY CHILLED, ***CANNOT UNCOVER, *worse
motion; drinking even during the heat. Body burning hot esp. face, but unable to move or
uncover without feeling chilly. Excessive rigor with blue finger nails. Sweat; sour; one sided;
warm, on upper most side, on lying down.

Complementary
Kali‐c; *Phos; Sulph.

Related
Ign; Lyc.

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Ocimum Canum [Oci]

Generalities
This remedy is useful in diseases of kidneys, uterus, bladder and urethra. Symptoms of renal
colic esp. of right side are pronounced. *Sore pain in ureters. Renal colic with haematuria and
violent vomiting; with wringing of hands, moaning and crying, all the time. Red sand in urine;
which may be of saffron colour and of musk like odour. Swollen inguinal and mammary
glands. Nipples painful to least contact. Vaginal prolapse. Urine scanty; which aggravates.

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Oenanthe Crocata [Oena]

Generalities
It is a valuable convulsive remedy; useful in epileptiform, puerperal and uremic convulsions.
*Epilepsy; with priapism; worse during menses or instead of menses; pregnancy. Falls
backwards and utters a loud cry before falling. Status epilepticus. As of a bug creeping under
the skin about the waist; worse touch of clothes. Insanity; hallucinations. Face swollen;
convulsive twitching of facial muscles; foaming at mouth, lock‐jaw. Tendency to cry over little
things. Rosy red blotches on face and chest, arms, abdomen. Burning heat worse head and
throat. Profuse offensive sweat. Obstinate vomiting for days not relieved by anything.

Worse
*Injury. Sexual and menstrual disturbances. Water.

Related
Bell; Cic.

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Oleander [Olnd]

Generalities
It has a marked action on *nervous system, heart, skin and *digestive tract. Paralytic
conditions, with cramp like contractions of upper extremities. Paresis after infantile paralysis.
General crampings. *Numbness. *Weakness, with trembling, in nursing women. Sense of
vibrations. Emptiness in stomach and chest after eating, better brandy. Hemiplegia. Paralytic
rigidity. Sopor. Unable to speak or speaks with difficulty. Discharges involuntary.

Worse
Rubbing. Undressing. After suckling. Looking sideways. Friction of clothes.

Better
Looking sideways. Brandy.

Mind
Sadness, with lack of confidence and power. Morose. Peevish; distraction. Slow
comprehension.

Head
Vertigo; worse looking fixedly at an object or looking down, turning to either side in bed; with
diplopia. Headache better by looking crossways, sideways or squinting. Vertigo for a long time
before paralysis. Biting, itching of scalp. Moist milk crusts, worse occiput. Corrosive itching on
forehead and edges of hair; worse heat.

Eyes
As if drawn back into head. Can see objects only when looking at them sideways. Diplopia.
Lachrymation; when reading.

Face
Pale. Sunken. Numb upper lip. Lower jaw trembles when yawning.

Mouth
Toothache only while masticating. Tongue numb. Loss of speech.

Throat
As if a cool wind blowing on throat (left).

Stomach
Empty feeling even after eating, better brandy; from nursing. Canine hunger with hurried
eating. Throbbing in pit. Desires cold water. Aversion to cheese. Extreme debility of digestive
power.

Abdomen
Passes food undigested, in the morning which he ate the day before. Stools, thin, lienteric;
involuntary; escape with flatus; in children.

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Urinary
Involuntary urination.

Female
Tremors after nursing; so weak she can scarcely walk across the room.

Heart
Palpitation, with weakness and empty feeling in chest, better brandy. Pains on stooping.

Extremities
Crampy contraction of upper limbs; in paralysis. *Numbness of limbs. Weakness of lower
limbs. Painless paralysis. Veins on hands swollen. Hands tremble, while writing. Trembling
knees when standing. Feet constantly cold. Fingers rigid and thumb turned into palm. Limbs
stiff and cold.

Skin
Sensitive, *chafes and oozes or bleeds. Eruptions with itching, biting as of lice. Skin numb.

Sleep
Sopor. Yawning with trembling of lower jaw.

Fever
*Heat from mental exertion.

Related
Anac; Chin.

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Oleum Animale [Ol‐an]

Generalities
This volatile oil was prepared by Dippel first by distillation of stags’ horn. It affects the
***NERVES esp. pneumogastric nerve; digestive organs. Symptoms appear here and there or
in single parts. Affected part feels *sore. Tremulous weakness; of hands, knees, feet etc. Pain
in spots. Stitches; burning pains, as with red hot needles. *Pulled upward and from behind
forward pains; in malar bones, testicles; mammae etc. *Icy coldness; from tips of teeth, in
throat, stomach etc. Shuffling gait. *Urinous; eructations, leucorrhoea etc. Flesh feels torn
from bones. Ill effects of suppressions esp. of foot sweat. Neurasthenia.

Worse
Cold. *Eating. Suppressions. Menses. Hot drinks. Noise. 2 to 9 p.m.

Better
Rubbing. Pressure. Stretching. Open air. Changing position. Eructation.

Mind
Indolent; inclined to sit. Nervous irritability. Sad; introverted; absorbed in self; speaks in
whispers. Vanishing thoughts. Faintness; from gastric origin.

Head
Pain in spots. Migraine with polyuria. Vertigo from gastric origin, better bending head
backwards.

Eyes
Glistening bodies before eyes. Lachrymation on eating. A skin seems to overhang the eyes.
Twitching of lids.

Face
Malar bones feel pulled up. Twitching lips. White of an egg seems dried on lips. Swelling
beneath right lower jaw.

Mouth
Toothache better pressing teeth together, with sensation of coldness coming out from tips.
Mouth feels greasy. Snow‐white cottony saliva. Tongue sore as if scalded. Bites cheek while
eating.

Throat
Sore, dry,; constricted; empty swallowing difficult though food and drink pass easily. As if cold
air penetrates the throat. Hawks out, gluey, brown lumps. Acrid vapour or raw streak in
throat; worse cough.

Stomach
*Water‐brash; better chewing tobacco. Pulsation or as of water in stomach. Sensation of
coldness (as of a lump of ice), burning, constriction, better eructation. Urinous eructations.

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Abdomen
Flatulence and rumbling.

Urinary
*Profuse, *pale urine; *of fish brine odour; worse hysteria; migraine. Frequent scanty urine,
then headache. Greenish urine. Small stream of urine.

Male
Seminal losses; on straining at stool. *Testes; swollen, *alternately; *feel pulled up** forcibly
upward and seized. Neuralgia of spermatic cord. Pressure in perineum. Prostate hypertrophy.

Female
Menses; early, scanty; black flow. Sore mammae before menses; outward stitches in nipples;
in scirrhus. Stitches in breast from behind forwards. Urinous leucorrhoea.

Respiratory
Asthma from suppressed foot sweat. Stitches at clavicle.

Heart
Anxious palpitation. Pulse slow.

Back
Aching scapula (right) better pressure. Sprained feeling in sacrum. Unsteady gait. Cracking in
cervical vertebrae on raising the head.

Skin
Excoriation in bends of joints.

Fever
Alternate chill and heat. Cold foul foot sweat; fishy on heels.

Related
Sulph; Tell.

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Oleum Jecoris Aselli [Ol‐j]

Generalities
Cod liver oil is a nutrient and affects the chest, liver, pancreas and tendons. Phthisis and
scrofulous diathesis. Soreness. Burning in spots. Faulty nutrition. *Atrophic infants; children
who cannot tolerate milk. Emaciation; hot hands and head. Lassitude. Discharges yellow.
Always taking cold.

Worse
Milk. *Cold damp, air or place. Motion.

Face
Growth of short thick hair on chin and upper lip in women.

Mouth
Tongue yellow. Foetid breath.

Abdomen
Soreness and heaviness in the region of liver; worse exercise.

Female
Establishes menses. Leucorrhoea, yellow, with weak back.

Respiratory
Hoarseness. Dry, tickling, hacking cough; better as fever comes on. Early phthisis. *Soreness
or stitches in chest.** Haemoptysis. Yellow sputum. Cough with palpitation.

Back
Chilly, or fluttering from sacrum up back, to occiput.

Extremities
Chronic rheumatism with rigid muscles and tendons. Palms hot; toward evening.

Skin
Yellow. Milk crusts. Ringworm (local application). Cold abscesses.

Fever
Hectic. Night sweats.

Related
Phos.

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Onosmodium [Onos]

Generalities
This remedy acts upon *nerves and muscles. It causes loss of power of concentration and co‐
ordination; and disturbance in the sense of proportion. *Aching, *soreness and stiffness of
muscles; after the pain. Prostration, weariness and *tiredness; acts as if born tired. Seems to
tread on cotton. Staggering. Neuralgic pains. Neurasthenia; sexual; from loss of sexual desire
in both sexes.

Worse
*Sprains. ***EYE‐STRAINS. *Sexual excess. Darkness. Tight clothing. Warm. Humid air.
Jarring.

Better
Rest. Sleep. Eating. Cold drinks. Undressing.

Mind
*Irresolute. Confused. Forgetful. Slow thinking. Aphasia. Fear of falling on going up or down
stairs.

Head
Migraine. Headache from eye strain and sexual weakness worse dark. Vertigo, with headache;
worse lying on left side; raising the hands above the head. *Occipital headache as if screwed;
worse eye‐strain and lying down. Pain up and down from occiput (left) to shoulder worse
exertion. Dull heavy up‐pressing in occiput.

Eyes
*Aching, *heavy, *tired and stiff. Eye combined with ovarian symptoms. *Misjudges
distances. Vision blurred. Colour blindness for red and green.

Throat
Dry and stiff; all symptoms are better by cold drinks and eating.

Abdomen
Distended feeling better loosening clothes. Stools yellow, mushy hurrying him out of bed in
morning. Craving for ice water and cold drinks.

Urinary
Urination; frequent, scanty. Aromatic urine.

Male
*Loss of sexual desire. Psychical impotence. Speedy emission, deficient erections. Sexual
excitement. Constant severe erections.

Female
Sexual desire completely destroyed. Pains alternate between ovaries. Uterine pains better
undressing and lying on back. *Soreness of ovaries with rectum. Feels as if menses would

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appear. *Leucorrhoea; *excoriating yellowish, offensive, profuse, running down the legs.
Mammae swollen, aching. Nipples itch.

Respiratory
Hacking cough, with sticky white sputum better drinking cold water.

Back
Tired feeling in lower part of the back.

Extremities
*Tired and numb feeling in legs and popliteae.

Related
Cimic; Hyper; Lil‐t; Rhus‐t.

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Opium [Op]

Generalities
Opium contains about eighteen alkaloids, of which Apomorphine, Morphine and Codeine are
well known. It affects the ***NERVES; ***MIND AND SENSES, producing *insensibility of
nerves; ***PAINLESSNESS, *depression; *drowsy stupor, *torpidity and general sluggishness
of function and lack of vital reaction; a kind of negative state. *Excretions, except of skin are
checked. Voluntary motions are lessened. Loss of power; of concentration; self control, and
judgement. *Paralysis; painless; of brain, tongue, *bowels etc. Tremors; twitchings; jerking
during sleep. Convulsions; worse heat; of room or bath. *Bed seems hot; hunts a cold place.
Hot; sweat; *hand. *Stupid sleep; accompanies all complaints; during spasms; violent chill
etc. Epilepsy; in sleep; from approach of strangers (children); from fright; worse glare of light;
from anger; insult. Throws limbs or stretches arms at right angle to the body; stupor between
spasms. Want of susceptibility to medicines even though indicated. Faints every fifteen
minutes. Sensation of bodily well being; great happiness. Painless ulcers. Suppuration.
Dropsical swelling of the whole body. *Internal dryness. Ill effects of fear, fright, anger,
shame, sudden joy; charcoal fumes, sun. Complaints appear with sweat. Complete idiocy from
masturbation.

Worse
***EMOTIONS; ***FEAR, *fright; shame; joy. Odours. ***ALCOHOL. *Sleep. ***SUPPRESSED
DISCHARGES. *Receding eruptions. *If heated. Sunstroke.

Better
Cold, Uncovering. Constant walking.

Mind
Complete loss of consciousness. Apoplectic states. ***PLACID. Wants nothing; says nothing
ails him. Exaltation of mind; vivid imaginations. *Gaiety. Talkative. Rash. Bold; increased
courage. *Dreamy. Sluggish. Dull. Stupid. No will power. Tendency to lie. *Fears; after fright;
which remains. Delirium; tremens; with terror. Wants to go home, thinking that he is not at
home. Carphology. Indifferent to pain and pleasure. See frightful visions; mice, scorpions etc.
Deceptive; vision, taste, touch; perversion of all senses. Imagines parts of his body are very
large. Nervous, irritable; tendency to start.

Head
Vertigo; after fright; of old people, with lightness of head; from injuries to head. Heavy
occiput. Paralysis of brain. Head hot, with hot sweat.

Eyes
Glassy, staring; immovable. Pupils contracted, dilated, insensible to light. Half closed.
Upturned. Ptosis. Visual hallucinations. Red, bulging. Embolism of central artery of retina.

Ears
Acuteness of hearing. Clocks striking at a great distance keeps her awake.

Nose
Loss of smell.

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Face
Dark, turgid, *sweaty or hot red or pale red alternately. Besotted. Corners of the mouth
twitch. Trembling, twitching of the muscles of face, *old look; after cholera infantum; of a
suckling three or four weeks old. Hanging down of lower jaw. Lock‐jaw. Lips swollen,
protruding.

Mouth
Tongue; paralyzed; protrudes to right side; black, dry, difficult speech. Bloody froth. Dry
mouth.

Throat
Dry. Inability to swallow. On swallowing food either goes the wrong way or returns through
the nose.

Stomach
Hungry; but no desire to eat. Vomiting; in peritonitis; of faecal matter, of urine. Very thirsty.
Retching from emotions.

Abdomen
Hard, tympanitic. As of a weight in abdomen. Bowels feel completely obstructed. *Paralytic
atony of bowels; after laparotomy. Lead colic. Incarcerated umbilical or inguinal hernia.
Obstinate constipation. *Stools of hard black balls. Bloody mucus oozes from open anus.
Retention of stools from ileus. Stools involuntary; after fright. Violent pain in rectum as if
pressed asunder. Difficult emission of flatus. Intestinal spasms, child cries day and night.

Urinary
*Paralytic atony of bladder, after laparotomy. Retention of urine; in children from nursing
angry nurse; from spasms of neck of bladder; from fright. Urine slow to start; feeble stream.
Involuntary from fright. Renal colic; pain radiates to bladder and testicles.

Male
Spasmodic stricture from drinking poorly fermented liquor; and in drunkards.

Female
Dysmenorrhoea, forcing her to bend double; with urging to stool. Amenorrhoea from fright.
Softness of uterus. Lively or violent foetal motion. Puerperal convulsions. Threatened
abortion, and suppression of lochia from fright. Convulsions come from stoppage of labour
pains. Prolapsus from fright. Hiccough during pregnancy.

Respiratory
Rattling, *unequal breathing. Sighing, snoring, continuous, stertor. Cough; tickling with
dyspnoea and blue face; or profuse sweat on whole body, better drinking water. Heat in chest.
Breathing stops on going to sleep and it does not start unless the patient is moved.
Haemoptysis. Aphonia from fright. Yawning after cough.

Heart
Burning about the heart. Weak. *Full slow pulse. Palpitation after alarming events, fright,
grief, sorrow, etc.

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Back
Opisthotonos. Pulsating arteries and swollen veins on neck.

Extremities
Trembling of the limbs after fright. Painless paralysis. Twitchings and spasmodic movements
of limbs. Veins of hands distended. Feels as if lower limbs were severed and belong to
someone else. Numbness; weakness. Shuffling and trembling gait. One or other arm moves
convulsively to and fro.

Skin
Crawling here and there. *General itching. Rough and dirty. Dry. Painless, indolent ulcers.
Whole body looks red. Blue spots.

Sleep
*Somnolency. Heavy stupid sleep; of the aged. Tired and sleepless; drunkards. Sleeplessness
from acuteness of hearing. Coma vigil. Sleepy but cannot go to sleep. Dreams of cats, dogs,
black forms.

Fever
General low temperature with inclination to stupor. *Hot, *sweaty and drowsy; with cold
limbs. Hot sweat over whole body except lower limbs. Sweats; without relief.

Complementary
Alum; Bar‐c; Bry; Phos; Plb.

Related
Amm; Nux‐m.

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Origanum [Orig]

Generalities
Sweet Marjoram strongly affects the female sexual organs. Increased desire for coitus.
Erotomania; with inclination to commit suicide. Great sexual excitement driving her to
masturbation. Lascivious ideas; impulses, dreams. Swelling and itching of nipples and pains in
breast. Thoughts of marriage; which dispel sadness. Desire for active exercises, impelling her
to run.

Related
Canth; Hyos; Plat.

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Osmium [Osm]

Generalities
This metal is found associated with platinum. It affects the *respiratory tract; esp. *trachea.
Though secretions are foul, urine smells like violets; eructations like radishes and axillary
sweat like garlic. Crawling on back and shoulders. Pains go up and down. Causes adhesion of
the nail fold.

Worse
Coughing. Talking.

Mind
Weeping mood, screaming with cough.

Eyes
Greenish or rainbow colours around the light. Glaucoma; with iridescent vision.

Nose
Coryza, fluent, with a feeling of stoppage. Snuffling.

Stomach
Feels full of broken stones or lumps. Eructations smelling like radishes.

Urinary
Urine; albuminous; smelling like violets.

Male
Steady aching in glans penis. Pain in testes and spermatic cord.

Respiratory
Spasmodic cough; sounds as if coughing in an empty tube; with torn loose feeling and
tenacious sputum. Talking causes pain in larynx. Sensitive air passages.

Back
Crawling on back and shoulders.

Extremities
Axillary sweat smells like garlic. Twitching of fingers with spasmodic cough. Fold of skin
remains attached to growing nail.

Skin
Eczema. Itching pimples.

Related
Ars; Iod; Phos.

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Oxalicum Acidum [Ox‐ac]

Generalities
Though Oxalates are found in certain sour vegetables which are eaten, the acid itself is a very
violent poison not only producing *gastro‐enteritis; but it affects also the *nerves and spinal
cord, causing motor paralysis. The patient becomes weak, cold, livid and numb all over worse
lower limbs. *Excruciating pains; like lightning; in streaks; *in spots; burning, etc. Symptoms
worse by motion and thinking of them, not only that, but thinking will bring on the conditions
when they are not actually present. Rheumatism of the left side. Neurasthenia. Neuralgia.
Paralysis; of left side; from spinal meningitis. Periodical affections.

Worse
*Thinking of it. *Cold. *Touch. *Shaving. Mental exertion. Motion. Strawberries, sour fruits,
grapes.

Better
After stools.

Mind
Nervous and sleepless. Very much exhilarated; quicker thought and action. All conditions
made worse by thinking about self.

Head
Vertigo; swimming sensation on lying down, while looking out of window. Band like sensation
about the head; as of a screw behind each ear, better after stool. Numb pricking in occiput.
Sore tender spot on scalp.

Eyes
Small, and especially linear objects appear larger and more distant than they are. Sight
vanishes with the epistaxis. Hyperaesthesia of retina.

Face
Pale, cold, livid. Feeling of heat.

Mouth
*Sour; *taste; eructations; with difficult swallowing.

Stomach
Emptiness with gnawing compelling one to eat. Burning pain goes upwards worse slightest
touch; sugar. Cannot eat strawberries. Sugar, coffee and wine disagree.

Abdomen
Colic about the navel; or involuntary muddy brown stools better lying. Flatus passes with
difficulty. Stitching pains in the liver better deep breathing. Fainting and vomiting during stool.
Diarrhoea from coffee. Chronic inflammation of bowels.

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Urinary
Thinking of urinating causes necessity to urinate. Pains in glans penis, when urinating.
Oxaluria.

Male
Neuralgic pains in spermatic cord; worse from slightest motion. Testes throb or feel crushed.

Respiratory
Low voice. Hoarseness with cardiac derangements. Aphonia from paralysis of vocal cords.
Dyspnoea; nightly. Short, jerking inspiration, and sudden forced expirations. Pain from lower
chest (left) to epigastrium. Chest fixed. Left lung painful. Voice altered.

Heart
Sharp darting in heart and left lung, extending to epigastrium, depriving of breath; sits erect
with arms folded across chest. Palpitation worse lying. Angina pectoris. Heart symptoms
alternating with aphonia. Beats of heart intermit when thinking of it. Fluttering heart.

Back
Numb pricking in back. *Back feels too weak to hold the body. Cold creeps up spine.

Extremities
*Weak trembling hand and feet. Drawing, lancinating pains shooting down extremities. Lower
limbs, blue, cold, insensible; immobile. Numbness extends from shoulders to fingertips.
Hands cold as if dead. Wrist (right) constantly painful, as if sprained, wants to stretch it;
cannot hold anything. Pain in fleshy part of thumb (right).

Skin
Sensitive, sore, smarting worse shaving. Perspires easily. Mottled in circular patches.

Related
Ars; Pic‐ac.

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Oxytropis [Oxyt]

Generalities
Commonly known as Loco or crazy weed, has a marked action on nervous system producing
uncertain, staggering or backward gait. Great mental depression. Urging to urinate when
thinking of it. Trembling and a sense of emptiness.

Worse
Thinking of it. Every other day.

Better
After sleep.

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Paeonia [Paeon]

Generalities
Anal and skin symptoms are marked. Skin is very *sensitive; ulcerations; from pressure; of
tight boots, bed sores etc. Shooting or splinter like pains. Varicose veins. Rolls on floor from
pain.

Worse
*Touch or pressure. Night. Motion. ***STOOL.

Mind
Much affected by bad news.

Rectum
*Excruciating pain at anus; continues long after stools; must rise and walk about; at night.
Fissures or fistula in anus. Haemorrhoids_ large, ulcerated. Painful ulcer oozing, offensive
moisture on perineum. Anus covered with crusts.

Sleep
Terrifying nightmares.

Skin
Sensitive. Ulcers from pressure, bed sores. Bunions.

Related
Rat.

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582
Palladium [Pall]

Generalities
This metal is closely associated with Platinum and gold. It affects the *ovaries esp. the right;
uterus and mind. *Pains fleeting, transient. Weakness, aversion to exercise. Bruised soreness.
Ailments from bad news.

Worse
*Emotions; *lively; chagrin. *Social functions. Standing. Exertion.

Better
Touch. Pressure. Diversion. Rubbing. After; sleep, stools.

Mind
Love of approbation; seeks the good opinion of others and attaches great importance to
them. Easy prey to slights, real or imaginary; wounded pride and fancied neglect; sometimes
finding vent in violent expressions. Depressing news worse all the symptoms. Time passes too
slowly. Keeps up brightly in company, much exhausted afterwards.

Head
Feels as if swung backwards and forwards. Headache across the top of head from ear to ear,
better fixing attention on it.

Face
Blue, sallow.

Throat
As if crumbs of bread had lodged in; as if something hanging near hyoid bone. *Glairy mucus
from throat.

Abdomen
Shooting pain from navel into breasts or pelvis; better after stools. Hollowness in groins. As if
intestines were bitten off. Coughing, sneezing worse pain in abdomen. Stools; white,
constipated.

Urinary
Cutting pain in bladder better stool. Bladder feels full but little urine is passed.

Female
Uterine prolapse or retroversion. Sub‐acute pelvic peritonitis. Bearing down pains better
rubbing. Cutting in uterus better after stool. Menstrual discharge while nursing. Glairy, yellow
leucorrhoea before and after menses. Pelvis leaden heavy, worse standing. Ovarian pain
better pressure. Abdomen feels sore, after menses and apprehension that something horrible
will happen.

Back
Tired feeling in small of back.

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Extremities
Fleeting neuralgic pains, in various parts of the body. Darting pains from toes to hips.

Skin
Itching all over the body, after undressing.

Related
Asaf; Plat.

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Pareira Brava [Pareir]

Generalities
Genito‐urinary organs and left side is affected by this remedy. Constant urging to urinate;
violent pain in the glans penis and down the thighs during efforts of urination; *must get on
knees and hands pressing head firmly to the floor to urinate. Cartilaginous induration of
mucous membranes of the urethra and bladder. Renal colic; enlarged prostate; with retention
of urine and catarrh of the bladder. Dysuria. Urine contains thick, stringy, white mucus or *red
sand. Oedema of the lower limbs.

Related
Berb; Med.

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Paris Quadrifolia [Par]

Generalities
It affects head, spine, eyes and one side. Sensation of *heaviness; numbness; *parts feel too
big or drawn together. Disorder of sense of touch; objects feel rough. Coldness of right side
of the body while left side was hot. Whole body painful esp. when touched. Mucus secretions
are green and tenacious. Sensitiveness to offensive odours. Broken feeling; of joints. Ill effects
of injury; suppressions.

Worse
Thinking. Eye strain. Touch.

Better
Pressure. Eructation.

Mind
*Garrulous loquacity. Silly conduct. Loquacious mania. Inclination to treat others with
rudeness and contempt.

Head
Vertigo on reading aloud. Headache worse by thinking. Head feels large, expanded. Occipital
headache with a feeling of weight. Headaches as from pulling a string from eyes to occiput.
Scalp sensitive, cannot comb hair. Left side numb. Chronic headaches.

Eyes
*Balls seem pulled back or feel too large, and heavy.

Ears
Pain as if ears were pressed out, or forced apart by a wedge; worse swallowing.

Nose
Imaginary foul smells. Bread, fish, milk smell putrid.

Face
Seems drawn into root of nose. Neuralgia; hot stitches in malar bones.

Mouth
And tongue dry; on awakening. Tongue feels too large.

Throat
Hawks up *tough green mucus. As of a ball in the throat. Burning in, when eating and drinking.

Stomach
Heavy as from a stone, better by eructation. Weak digestion. Red curved streak above navel.

Respiratory
*Periodical painless *hoarseness.

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Neck
Weight and weariness in nape of neck. Stitches in coccyx on sitting. Violent pain on both sides
of neck extending down to fingers worse mental exertion.

Extremities
Fingers feel numb. Everything feels rough. Joints; feel broken, swelled or dislocated at every
motion.

Skin
Painfully sensitive.

Fever
Unilateral coldness or heat. Heat descending the back from the neck.

Related
Bell; Nux‐v.

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Passiflora Incarnata [Passi]

Generalities
Has a quieting effect on the nervous system; hence an efficient antispasmodic remedy.
Convulsions of children; during teething. Breaks off morphine habit. Insomnia of infants and
the aged, and mentally worried and over‐worked persons. Tetanus. Hysteria. Puerperal
convulsions. Asthma (l0 to 30 drops). General atonic condition. (30 to 60 drops repeated
several times).

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588
Petroleum [Petr]

Generalities
Rock oil, chiefly acts on the *skin esp. *folds, scalp; face, and genitals. Produces catarrhal
condition of the mucous membranes, of stomach and bowels. It is suited to long lasting, deep
seated wasting diseases; complaints following mental states, fright, vexations etc.; lingering
gastric and intestinal troubles. Tremulous weakness. Feels sick internally. *Internal itching.
Dread of open air; with shivering when exposed to it. *Dryness; in ear, nose, etc. Discharges
are thick, purulent and yellowish green. Haemorrhages, blood light red; worse lifting or riding.
Burnings. Twitchings, catalepsy. Dropsy. One of the first remedies for car, train or sea
sickness. Ill effects of sprains; suppressed eruptions. Wooden feeling. Emaciation esp. of
chest. Coldness; in spots; in abdomen, in heart, after scratching. Bruised soreness worse in
joints. Glands enlarged. Cracks. Unhealthy granulations after severe burns. ***FEAR, *long
lasting.

Worse
***MOTION; ***OF CARS; ***CARRIAGE; ***BOAT. *Weather‐cold; *winter, changing;
thunderstorms. *Eating. *Vexation. Cabbage. Coition. Touch, even of clothes.

Better
Warm air. Dry weather. Lying with head high.

Mind
Excited, irritable, after coition; with inclination to be angry and to scold. Irresolute. Sense of
duality, thinks he is double or someone else lying alongside or one limb is double. Death
seems near and must hurry to settle the affairs. Worries but does not know why. Loses his
way in the street; loss of memory. Fearful.

Head
***VERTIGO, like that produced by swinging motion; *felt in occiput. *Occiput; *aching,
*heavy. Headache worse shaking, while coughing, must hold temples for relief. Falling of the
hair. Moist eruptions on scalp worse occiput and ears. Head feels numb as if made of wood.
Cold air blowing on head as if.

Eyes
Inflamed tarsi. Loss of eyelashes. Fistula lachrymalis (of recent origin). Canthi fissured.

Ears
Deafness; with noises in ears in old people. Noise from several people talking is unbearable.
Dryness in ears. Discharge of pus and blood from the ears. Moist spots behind the ears. Itching
deep in ears, in eustachian tubes. Painful externally.

Nose
Dry. Nostrils; ulcerated, cracked, burn. Ozaena; purulent discharge. Tip of nose itches.

Face
Dry; as if covered with albumin. Pale, or yellow, hot after eating. Easy dislocation of jaw.

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Mouth
Dry. Offensive smell, like garlic. Ulcers on the inner cheek painful when closing the teeth.
Soreness, while chewing. Tongue; white, in centre, dark streak along edges.

Throat
Foul mucus in throat. Hawks out in the morning. Dry.

Stomach
Hunger; causing nausea; awakes at night, after stool. Pungent acrid eructations. Thirst for
beer. Desire for dainties. Aversion to meat, fats, cooked or hot foods. Vomits bitter green
substance. *Nausea; *train and seasickness; during pregnancy, must stoop.

Abdomen
Inflated; coldness in. *Diarrhoea or dysentery *by day only; worse cabbage; then miserable
empty feeling. Itching of anus, after stools. Pinching colic better bending double. Navel
ulcerated in infants. Piles and fissures of anus; with great itching. Herpes on perineum.

Urinary
Involuntary urine on rising. *Stricture from chronic urethritis. Enuresis, at night. Acute sudden
urging, which if not attended to immediately, will cause severe pain. Cystitis, urethritis.
Dribbling of urine after urination.

Male
Itching and burning herpes; on the scrotum; between scrotum and thighs; on the perineum.
Genitals sweaty (both sexes).

Female
Aversion to coition. Menstrual flow causes itching. Soreness and moisture on genitals with
violent itching. Leucorrhoea; albuminous; profuse; with lascivious dreams. Itching and mealy
covering on the nipples. Dry obstinate eruptions. Prolapsus uteri from constant diarrhoea.

Respiratory
Cough, coming deep down from chest; waking the patient, up at night (in young girls and
boys). Cough at night only or worse then; shatters the head better pressing. Oppression of
chest from cold air.

Heart
Cold feeling about heart. Fainting, with ebullitions, heat and palpitation.

Neck and Back

Neck stiff; cracks when moved. Pain in spine and all over the body with sciatica. Coccyx painful
on sitting. Pain in sacrum worse standing erect. Sharp pains shooting up dorsal spine into
occiput; confinement.

Extremities
Cracking in joints. Joints stiff. Limbs go to sleep. Ragged, *chapped hands and fingers,
bleeding; in housemaids. Psoriasis of the palms. Stitches; blisters in heels.

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Skin
***DIRTY, ***HARD, ***ROUGH, ***THICKENED; like parchment; *it gets raw, *festers or
won’t heal; worse in folds. *Deep cracks; in angles, nipples, finger tips. Brown spots. Eruptions
having thick, hard, moist or yellow green crusts; on occiput; on genitals worse cold. Eczema.
Herpes. Vesicles. *Itching, orifices, with burning. Cold spots. All eruptions itch violently and
one must scratch until they bleed; part becomes cold after scratching. Chilblains that itch,
burn and become purple.

Sleep
Restless, with frightful dreams.

Fever
Chilly with dry mouth. Palms and soles hot. Sweat in spots; foul on feet or axillae. Flushes of
heat all over in frequent attacks during day.

Complementary
Sep.

Related
Graph; Sep.

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591
Petroselinum [Petros]

Generalities
This remedy has influence in the genito‐urinary sphere. Sudden, irresistible urging to urinate,
with drawing, tingling, crawling, itching from perineum throughout the whole urethra.
Gonorrhoea; milky or yellow discharge. Dysuria; with prostatic enlargement. Urinary
difficulties of babies. Very painful urination causing him to shiver, dance round the room in
agony.

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Phellandrium [Phel]

Generalities
Produces *catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract. Phthisis. Acts on *mammae and
nerves. Feeling of tiredness while walking. As if all the blood‐vessels were in vibratory motion.

Worse
Air; cold, open. Using eyes.

Better
While nursing.

Mind
Peevish arrogance.

Head
*Clang, *like striking on metal, *in brain, waking him. Weight on vertex; aching and burning
in temples and above the eyes.

Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia worse attempting to use the eyes. Intolerance of light. Only half open, and
look as if one has been crying for a week.

Face
Livid red, in the evening.

Stomach
Eructations smelling of bed bugs. Everything tastes sweet. Desires sour things; milk or beer.
Aversion to water.

Female
Pain in nipples on each application of child; into abdomen. Intolerable pain in milk ducts;
between nursing.

Respiratory
*Expectoration; *horribly offensive (like bed bugs); loose, profuse, smeary, causing dyspnoea.
Cough compels him to sit up. Sticking pain through, from left border of right mammae to
between shoulders. Pains going backwards through chest.

Sleep
So sleepy; would fall asleep while standing at work.

Related
Asaf.
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593
Phosphoricum Acidum [Ph‐ac]

Generalities
*Phos‐ac. *affects the ***MIND esp. its ***EMOTIONAL SIDE; in addition it influences
sensory nerves; sexual system and *bones. ***WEAKNESS AND DEBILITY common to all acids
is very marked in this acid; *with free secretion; profuse urination; loss of fluids; sweatings
etc. except with diarrhoea. Mental debility appears first, then physical. *Slowness of mind,
and special senses. Pains go to part lain on. Sensitive to light, sound and odours, which takes
away her breath. Sense of pressure; as of causing weight; in forehead, in sternum, in vertex;
in eyes, navel, breasts etc. Formication; at root of hair; *along the spine; limbs. Useful to those
young people who grow rapidly and who are over taxed mentally and physically; when the
system is ravaged from acute diseases; venereal excesses; grief, loss of vital fluids, it calls for
this acid. Bruised soreness; like growing pains. Haemorrhages, blood dark. Bone diseases.
Osteitis. Periosteitis. Caries. Rachitis. Diabetes. Neurosis of stump after amputation, better
from deep breathing. Relieves the pains of cancer. Coldness; of parts. Ill effects of bad news;
disappointed love, grief; chagrin, injuries; shock. Pining; with emaciation. Neurasthenia.
Formation of abscesses after fever. Gnawing pain in bones. Loose joints. External parts
become black; senile gangrene.

Worse
***LOSS OF FLUIDS. *Sexual excess. *Fatigue. *Convalescence from fevers. ***EMOTION;
*grief; chagrin. Mental shock. Home sickness. Unhappy love. *Drafts; *cold. Music. Talking.
Sitting. Standing. Over lifting. Operations. Fright (chronic).

Better
*Warmth. Short sleep. Stooling.

Mind
*Quiet; unwilling to speak, or hasty speech. *Indifferent; *to everything. ***APATHETIC; from
unequal struggling with adverse circumstances, mental and physical; obtuse, or torpid; with
tendency to diarrhoea or sweatiness. *Slow grasp. Cannot collect his ideas; hunts for words.
Poor memory. Settled despair. Aversion to talking. Answers, reluctantly or slowly, short
incorrectly. Hysteria at change of life. Home sickness with inclination to weep. Mild delirium;
easily aroused. Brain fag. Hopelessness. Dread of future; broods over one’s condition.

Head
Crushing weight on vertex; pain as if temples were crushed; worse shaking or noise. Vertigo;
as if floating in the air, while lying in bed, with ringing in the ears and glassy eyes; worse
standing, walking. Hair thins out, turns grey early. Falling of hair. School girl’s headache; from
over use of eyes. Headache; after coition.

Eyes
Lusterless; glassy; staring; *sunken; with *blue rings around. Pain as if eyeballs are pressed
together and into head. Eyeballs feel large. Yellow spots on conjunctiva. Loss of vision from
masturbation. Sees rainbows. Photophobia.

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Ears
Intolerance of noise esp. music, which causes stitches, even while singing himself. Nervous
deafness after typhoid like fevers. Every sound re‐echoes loudly in the ear. Shrill sound in ears
on blowing the nose. Illusions of hearing; hears bell pealing. Earache on blowing nose.

Nose
Bleeding. Itching; bores fingers into nose. Nose swollen, with red patches or pimples on tip of
nose.

Face
Pale, sickly. Tense as if white of an egg had dried on it. One side cold. Acne from onanism.
Hairs of beard fall out.

Mouth
Bleeding, swollen gums, retract from teeth. Teeth become yellow and feel dull. Slimy tongue.
Red streak in middle of tongue. Bites sides of tongue involuntarily; in sleep. Mouth dry. Lips
dry, cracked. Painful nodosities on the gums. Taste of rotten eggs.

Throat
Hawks up tough mucus. Dryness of palate.

Stomach
Craving for refreshing and juicy things; for cold milk. Acidity. Sour food and drinks disagree.
Pressure as from a weight. Loss of appetite.

Abdomen
Aching in umbilical region. Distension and fermentation. Loud rumbling. Cold. ***PROFUSE,
***PAINLESS; ***DIRTY WHITE WATERY OR LIENTERIC STOOLS; ***BUT LITTLE DEBILITY.
Stools involuntary; escape with flatus; when moved, in children. Stools odourless. Liver;
seems to be too heavy; painful; during menses. Flatus offensive garlicky.

Urinary
Urine; frequent, profuse, watery, ***MILKY. Diabetes. Phosphaturia. Burning in kidney
region. Enuresis in first sleep. Whey like urine shortly before menses.

Male
Weak relaxed genitals; suddenly during coitus, preventing emission. Weakness and pollutions
after coition. Nightly emissions; with lascivious dreams. Testes tender and swollen.
Prostatorrhoea when passing a soft stool. Herpes preputialis. Eczema of scrotum. Sycotic
excrescences.

Female
Uterus bloated, as if filled with wind. Menses, too early and too profuse; with pain in the liver,
Itching yellow leucorrhoea, after menses. Health deteriorated from nursing. Sharp pressure
in left mamma. Infants vomit milk constantly. Dysuria during pregnancy.

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Respiratory
Weak feeling in chest worse by talking, coughing or sitting; better walking. Takes cold; better
drafts on chest. Spasmodic tickling cough. Pressure or twisting behind the sternum; rendering
breathing difficult. Expectoration salty.

Heart
Palpitation; in children and young persons who grow too fast; after grief; after self abuse.
Pulse irregular; intermittent.

Neck and Back

Paralytic *weakness along spine. Formication along spine. Spondylitis of cervical vertebrae.
Lumbar region heavy, increases pain in legs. Burning along the spine. Fine stitches in coccyx
and sternum. Boils on buttock.

Extremities
Heavy forearms. Wens on hands between metacarpal bones. Formication in limbs. Pains at
night as if bones were scraped. Stumbles easily and makes misstep. Burning below waist.
Cramp like pressure in arms, hands and fingers. Numbness along radial nerve.

Skin
Clammy wrinkled. Pimples, acne, blood boils. Tendency to abscess after fevers. Painless ulcers
with stinking pus. Formication in various parts.

Sleep
***SLEEPY BY DAY; hot and wakeful at night. Sleep deep but when aroused fully conscious;
during fevers. Short sleep better weakness.

Fever
Cold parts; one side of face; abdomen etc. Heat with sweat. *Profuse sweat; worse at night;
as a sequel. *Sluggish painless fevers.

Related
Gel.

Complementary
Chin.

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Phosphorus [Phos]

Generalities
*Phos. causes inflammation and degeneration of the ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES; ***OF
STOMACH AND BOWELS; inflames the spinal cord and ***NERVES; causing paralysis;
disorganises the *blood; causing fatty degeneration of ***BLOOD VESSELS and every tissue
and organ of the body; thus it produces a picture of *destructive metabolism. It is suited to
those young people who, grow rapidly and inclined to stoop. Chorea of children who grow
too fast. *Tall, *slender persons of sanguine temperament; *nervous weak delicate persons
who like to be magnetized. Insidious onset, gradually *increasing debility, ending in severe or
rapid disease. ***HAEMORRHAGES; recurrent, vicarious; small wounds bleed much. Blood
streaked discharges. Purpura haemorrhagica. Recurrent effects colds, croups etc. Great
susceptibility to external impressions, light, sound, odour, touch; electrical changes, etc.
Suddenness of symptoms; sudden; prostration, faints; weak spells, sweats, shooting pains.
Uncertain involuntary acts. *Emptiness; in chest, stomach etc. ***TIGHTNESS; in chest, cough
etc. Pain or soreness in *spots. Paralysis; pseudo‐hypertrophic of muscles; of insane, internal;
throat, rectum. Internal, itching; tickling; throbbings here and there. Numbness. *Burnings.
Jerking; localized; subsultus. *Joints; stiff, with little pain; sprains; easily dislocated; weak
spells in joints, worse exertion. Symptoms due to heart and lung affections. Caries; of the
*bones; spine; upper jaw. Hard swelling here and there. Osteomyelitis. Exostoses. Bone
fragility. Polypi; easily bleeding. Jaundice, as a concomitant, haematogenous. Haemophilia.
Polycythaemia. Erectile tumours. Pyemia. Acidosis. Phthisical habit. Emaciation. Spasms on
the paralyzed side. Epilepsy with consciousness. Petit mal. Totters while walking. *Human
barometer. Flabby muscles. Ill effects of anger, fear, grief; worry; exposure to drenching rains;
washing clothes; tobacco; having hair cut. Iodine. Excessive use of salt. Healed wounds break
out again and bleed. Lipoma. Cancer.

Worse
***LYING ON; painful side; ***LEFT SIDE; ***ON BACK. ***SLIGHT CAUSES; ***EMOTIONS;
talking; touch; odours; light. ***COLD; open air. Putting ***HANDS in cold water. ***WARM
INGESTA. Puberty. Salt. *Sexual excess. Loss of fluids. *Weather, *sudden change in; windy;
cold; thunderstorms; lightning. *Morning and evening. *Mental fatigue. Twilight. Shaving.

Better
*Eating. *Sleep. Cold; food, water, washing face with cold water. Rubbing; magnetic. Sitting.
Dark.

Mind
*Amative; will uncover his body and expose his genitals. Excitable, easily angered and
vehement from which he afterwards suffers. *Anxious; fears being alone at twilight; of ghosts;
about future; of thunderstorms, as if something creeping out of every corner. Quickly
prostrated by unpleasant impressions. Timid and irresolute. Melancholy; disinclined to work,
study, converse. Weary of life. Sheds tears, or with attacks of involuntary laughter. Destroys
everything, spits at nurse, kisses who comes near her. Apathy; indifference even towards her
own children. Insanity; with exaggerated idea of one’s own importance; grandeur. *Any lively
impression is followed by heat, as if immersed in hot water. Clairvoyant. Weeps before
menses. Wants sympathy. Laughs at serious things. Anxious, restlessness, patient cannot sit
or stand still for a moment esp. in dark or twilight.

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Head
***VERTIGO; accompanies many symptoms; of aged; floating; on waking; whirling; better
stool. Head; heavy; *aches; *over one eye; with hunger; worse children, worse lying on right
side; better cold washing of face. Brain‐fag; with coldness of occiput. Burning temples. Vertex;
throbs, hot, after grief. Softening of the brain, with formication, numbness of limbs, feet drag.
Congestion to head. Dandruff; copious. Itching of scalp. Falling of hair in large bunches; in
spots. Occiput; cold; shocks in; epilepsy. Feels as if pulled by hair.

Eyes
Lachrymation; in wind. Photophobia. *Vision; *flashes; haloes; *red; green; black; better
shading by hands. Narrow field of vision. Balls feel large; stiff. Coloured vision then migraine.
Glaucoma. Degenerative changes in retinal cells. Retinitis albuminurica. Partial loss of vision
from abuse of tobacco, sexual excess, lightning. Optic atrophy. Choroiditis. Long curved
lashes. Yellow. Cataract. Eyes hollow, with blue rings around them. Vitreous opacities. Letters
appear red when reading. Sensation as if everything were covered with mist; dust or veil or
something pulled over tightly over eyes. Eyes turned outwards.

Ears
Difficult hearing, of human voice. Echoes and reverberations of sounds; esp. music. Polypi in
the ear. Otitis; media. Mastoiditis. Dullness of hearing after typhoid. As if foreign bodies were
lodged. Something seems constantly in front of ears.

Nose
*Nervous fan like motions of alae nasi. Coryza; alternately fluent and dry; on alternate sides.
Epistaxis; instead of menses; of youths, then pneumonia; with cough, during stool. Nose
swollen. Caries. Ulcers in the nose. Nasal polypus, bleeding easily. Chronic catarrh, blows
blood from the nose. *Sneezing; worse odours, smokes etc.; with dyspnoea, causes pain in
the throat. *Descending nose colds. Oversensitive to smell. Sneezing and coryza on putting
hands in water. Swollen, red, shiny. Bad smell.

Face
*Pale about nose and mouth; sickly, changing, colour. Necrosis of the lower jaw. Burning heat
and redness of cheek. Lips; blue, dry, cracked, sooty, scabby. Skin as if too tight.

Mouth
Teeth numb. Toothache from washing clothes; from having hands in cold or warm water.
*Gums; bleeding; *sore behind central incisors. Tongue dry, smooth red. Persistent bleeding
from tooth extraction. Itching of palate. Abscess of hard palate. Taste sour; after milk; bitter;
sweetish, when coughing. Mouth drawn to the left. Speech difficult, stutters. Salivation;
saltish or sweetish. Nursing sore mouth with sore breast.

Throat
Dry; glistening. As of a cotton or something hanging in. Burning in oesophagus. Stricture of
oesophagus. Tonsils and uvula swollen; uvula elongated.

Stomach
***CRAVES COLD DRINKS; ***WHICH better but are ***VOMITED IN A LITTLE WHILE, when
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ingesta, by mouthfuls. Pain in stomach better cold drinks. *Hunger; *ravenous; nightly; before
the attack of sickness. Waterbrash. Food scarcely swallowed comes up again; spasms of
oesophagus at the cardiac end. Vomiting; of bile, blood, coffee grounds. Ulcer of stomach.
Burning in stomach worse eating. *Craves; *salt, acid and spicy things; what is refused when
offered. ***EMPTY *hollow feeling in stomach;** as if hanging down worse emotions.
Tremors; fluttering or something rolling over in stomach. Waterbrash. Unable to drink water;
during pregnancy, the sight of water makes her vomit, has to close her eyes when taking bath.
Nausea on putting hands in warm water. Stomach cold as if frozen.

Abdomen
Pressure above epigastrium. Sore spot in pit of stomach. Feels cold. Rubs abdomen for relief.
*Stools; like cooked sago; granular *slender, tough. Very foetid stools and flatus. Painless;
copious; grey; bluish,*watery; *pouring out; nervous; involuntary, after fright; *exhausting
diarrhoea. Alternate diarrhoea and constipation in old people. Dysentery. Anus open;
prolapsed. Stricture of rectum; stools flattened. Burning in rectum. Jaundice; with pneumonia
or brain disease; during pregnancy; from nervous excitement; malignant; haematogenous.
Acute yellow atrophy of liver. Acute hepatitis. Large yellow spots on abdomen. Tearing in anus
better warm cloth. Discharge of blood from rectum, during stool. Flatulent colic worse hot
drinks. Urging for stool, on lying on left side.

Urinary
Profuse pale, watery urination; then weakness. Pellicle on urine. Haematuria; in acute
nephritis; with jaundice. Albuminuria; periodical. Bladder is full without urging.

Male
*Irresistible desire; but impotent. Lascivious; strips himself; sexual mania. Erections feeble or
none at all. Constant discharge of thin, slimy, colourless fluid from urethra.

Female
Menses; too early, scanty, not profuse but prolonged. Leucorrhoea; profuse, smarting,
corrosive, instead of menses. Nymphomania. Sterility; from excessive voluptuousness; or with
profuse, or too late menses. Frequent and profuse; or short uterine bleeding in between the
periods; in nursing women. Cancer of the uterus. Amenorrhoea; with blood spitting; bleeding
from the anus or haematuria or with milk in breast. Suppuration in mammae; with fistulous
ulcers. Cancer of the breast. Uterine polypi. Left infra‐mammary pains. Vagina numb during
coition in spite of sexual excitement. Violent sexual desire during pregnancy and lactation.
Nipple hot and sore.

Respiratory
Oppressive breathing; worse least motion. Tight suffocative breathing; worse cough. Larynx;
raw, sore, furry; painful on speaking. *Voice; low; *hoarse worse morning and evening;
croupy, then bronchitis. *Cough; hard, wheezing; dry, violent, painful, *tickling, hacking,
exhausting; with retching; causes pain in abdomen; burning in air passages and trembling,
worse reading aloud; change of weather; before strangers, laughing, exertion, singing.
Sputum; easy, frothy, rusty bluish, salty, sour, sweetish, or cold. Pneumonia; *of left lower
lung, secondary, with sopor. *Chest; full; heavy; *pains into throat or right arm; or alternating
sides; stitches, in left upper chest; rattling worse cold drinks. Dry hot feeling in chest; with

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cough; at first dry then loose. Asthma after cough. Repeated haemoptysis. Tuberculosis, in
tall; slender, rapidly growing persons. Congestion in lungs. As if skin in larynx.

Heart
Violent palpitation with anxiety; from least thing; during goitre. Pains into right arm.
Dilatation of heart from fatty degeneration or endocarditis. Heart weak. Pulse rapid, small,
soft. Feeling of warmth in heart. Yellow spots on chest.

Neck and Back

Back pains as if broken, impeding all motion. Cramp; *burning; *between scapulae. Spinal
irritation worse heat. Pain forward from *left scapula. Burning spot in lumbar region better
rubbing. Pain in sacrum after confinement. Stitching pain from coccyx up the spine to occiput
worse during stool.

Extremities
Ascending sensory and motor paralysis from ends of fingers and toes. Can scarcely hold
anything with his hands. Tearing left shoulder at night. *Numb; *arms; *hands; *fingers and
toes. Palms burn. Hands and arms cold during diarrhoea. Paralyzing stitches in hips; then up
back. Pains in tibias; periostitis. Ankles; as if to break; easy dislocation. *Tottery; stumbles
easily. Suppressed foot sweat. Icy cold feet. Toes cramp. Joints suddenly give way. Periodical
contraction of fingers like cramp. Weakness and trembling of limbs on every exertion. Post‐
diphtheritic paralysis, with formication of hands and feet. Knees cold; in bed. Legs heavy, feet
as if glued to the floor. Walks with legs apart (waddling); stands with legs widely separated.

Skin
Small wounds bleed much; they heal and break out again and bleed. Brownish or blood red
spots here and there. Ecchymosis. Purpura haemorrhagica. Fungus haematodes. Skin burns
on shaving. Fatty cysts. Thin foul, bloody pus. Ulcers bleed during menses.

Sleep
Drowsiness; Coma vigil. Sleepy by day; sleepless before midnight. Sleepless; cannot close the
eyes; from internal heat. Short naps and frequent wakings. Somnambulism. Dreams of fire;
lewd; of haemorrhage. Feels in the morning as if he had not slept enough.

Fever
Chilly in warm room, down back. Craves ices during the chill. *Burning heat; *local, *up back.
Hectic. Sweat; early morning; sticky; without relief. Painless fevers.

Related
Bry; Caust; Con; Puls; Rhus‐t; Sil.

Complementary
Lyc; Sang; Sep.

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Physostigma [Phys]

Generalities
Motor nerves through spinal cord are affected by this remedy; causing fluttering tremors in
the muscles; they do not respond to the will and / or draw into knots; even the intestines are
seen twisted in knots. Spinal irritation; sensitive vertebrae, weakness of the lower limbs;
coming from a spot between hips. Loss of sensibility to pain. *Weakness; followed by
complete paralysis, though the muscular contractility is not impaired. Rigidity of muscles.
*Horror of cold water, drinks or bathing; cold water feels too cold. Averse to bathing.
Shuddering worse every draft. Floating sensation. Darting pain here and there. Flushes of heat
worse palms. Ataxic gait, shooting pains down the limbs. Tetanus. Trismus. *Tremors. Ill
effects of emotions; grief. Injuries, blows. Progressive muscular paralysis. General paralysis of
the insane.

Worse
Change of temperature. *Eyestrain. Bathing. Heat and cold. Descending. Motion. Stepping.
Jar, misstep.

Better
Lying on abdomen or with head low. Exerting the will. Closing eyes. Sleep.

Mind
Active even during sleep. Nothing was right; too many things in the room; continually
counting them. Paralytic state of mind and body, from grief.

Head
Brain; falls to side lain on; wavering in. Vertigo, stumbles on ascending or descending steps.
Pain from forehead down nose. As of a band about the head, as of a tight cap on head.
Heartbeats felt in head on lying down. Tremors in head.

Eyes
Twitching of eye muscles. Pain over orbits; cannot bear to raise eyelids. Accommodation
affected; astigmatism. Glaucoma; esp. after injury. Pupils contracted. Post‐diphtheritic
paralysis of eye. Eyelids tense; cannot close or open them. Bloodshot eyes; with burning.
Night blindness. Muscae volitantes; flashes of light. Increasing myopia. Vision trembling.

Ears
Sudden pain from throat to middle ear worse eructation. Pain in the ear (right) when writing.

Nose
Twitching of muscles of nose.

Face
Lips numb; licks them. Lockjaw.

Mouth
Teeth feel rough. Tongue; feels oily, scalded, swollen; in chorea. Loose skin feeling roof of
mouth. Thick leathery saliva.

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Throat
As if a ball coming up throat. Strong heartbeats felt in throat. Seems to have swallowed a
large piece of food; felt at epigastrium.

Stomach
Hiccough; with short breath, better sleep.

Abdomen
Navel, sore, bloated, red. Hypogastrium sore, bloated worse standing. Gripe in right
hypochondrium. Groins pain alternately. Colicky pains worse diarrhoea; better extending legs.

Female
Numbness of womb; with pain in back. Leucorrhoea worse during the day‐time when
exercising. Sighing worse when leucorrhoea is worse. Menses, irregular; with palpitation.

Heart
Seems to flutter in throat or over whole body, or in head.

Neck and Back

Creeping numbness from occiput down spine. *Sensitive spine.

Extremities
Jerking limbs. Offensive odour from hands. Pain in deltoid (right) better violent motion. Pain
in right popliteal space. Flushes of heat in palms.

Sleep
*Attacks of overpowering sleepiness; with feeling as if to lose consciousness.

Fever
Every movement and draft causes shuddering. Easy sweat; with excitement.

Related
Agar; Gels; Nux‐v.

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Phytolacca Decandra [Phyt]

Generalities
This long and deep acting remedy, prominently affects the *glands esp. ***MAMMARY;
tonsils; in addition it has a powerful action upon the muscles; of ***NECK *and back; *fibrous
tissue; tendons and joints, osseous tissues, periosteum, ***THROAT; *digestive tract and
right side. ***SORENESS; ***HARD ACHING; restlessness and prostration are the guiding
symptoms. *Aching, all over the body; sudden; in eyeballs, *kidneys, neck; shoulders; *back;
forearms; *below knees. *Bluish‐red parts; throat; glands etc. Spreading pains. Pains come
and go suddenly, change places; *rheumatism; *after tonsilitis. Discharges are *shreddy;
stringy; stools; menses etc. Hard and painful nodes. Syphilitic bone pains. Tetanus; general
muscular rigidity; alternate spasms and relaxation of muscles. Hastens suppuration.
Pus_watery, foetid, ichorous. Obesity. Retarded dentition. Everything affects the mammae.

Worse
Exposure to damp cold weather or changes of weather. *Raising up. *Motion. *Swallowing
hot drinks; heat. Cold night. At menses. Rain. Stepping down from high step.

Better
Lying on abdomen; or left side. Rest. Dry weather.

Mind
Loss of personal delicacy; complete shamelessness and indifference to exposure of her
person. Indifferent to life. Feels faint on rising. Refuses food, in spite of continuous insistence.
Great fear; she is sure she will die. Disgust for business.

Head
Vertigo on rising. Pain from frontal region backwards. Brain feels sore; head as if beaten. Pains
come every time it rains. Nausea and headache better eating, but returns soon with vomiting
which worse headache but better nausea.

Eyes
Profuse hot lachrymation. Smarting. Green vision. Fistula lachrymalis. Eyeballs ache on
reading and writing. Motion of one eye only, independent of the other. Orbital cellulitis. Lids
as if on fire.

Ears
*Pain in both the ears, worse *swallowing.

Nose
Feels heavy. Flow from one nostril while the other is stopped; alternately. Acrid coryza.
Obstruction when riding.

Face
Yellowish, sickly. Aching malar bones. Glands swelled at the angle of jaw. Jaws ache, as in
mumps. Lips everted and firm. Chin drawn closely to sternum. Mumps.

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Mouth
*Disposition to bite the teeth together. Difficult dentition better on biting something hard.
*Tongue; fiery red at tip; feels burnt or *pains at root; protruded. Much stringy saliva. Very
painful small ulcers on side of cheek; cannot chew on that side. Sensation of dryness, with
cough.

Throat
Dark red or bluish red. White grey spots on fauces. Sore, *very painful on swallowing, *dark,
puffy; burning, as of a stick. Hot ball or lump in. Tonsils swollen; like dark wash leather on
tonsils. Hard throbbing in right tonsil. Quinsy. Diphtheria. Cannot swallow anything hot.
Follicular pharyngitis. Hoarseness and sore throat after diphtheria.

Stomach
Violent vomiting; with retching; desires death, to relieve vomiting; every few minutes. Hunger
soon after eating. Easy vomiting, without nausea. Pain worse deep breathing.

Abdomen
Heavy aching pain in hypochondrium worse lying on affected side, better leucorrhoea.
Chronic hepatitis. Continuous urging to stools; even in sleep. Dysentery; passage only of
mucus and blood or like scraping from the intestines. Bloody discharges, with heat in rectum.
Cancer of rectum. Constipation of the aged; and those with weak heart. Diarrhoea after
lemonade.

Urinary
Hard ache in kidney; with scanty, suppressed urine. Dark red urine; chalky sediment.
Albuminuria; after diphtheria, scarlatina. Urine stains the clothes yellow.

Male
Spermatic cord sore. Shooting along perineum to penis. Painful induration of testicles.

Female
Menses; with flow of saliva and tears. ***HEAVY, ***STONY, ***HARD SWOLLEN OR TENDER
MAMMAE; *paining during suckling; spreading all over the body. *Hard nodes in breast; with
enlarged axillary glands. Nipples; cracked, very sensitive; inverted. Irritable breast before and
during menses. Dysmenorrhoea; in barren women; with erosion of cervix membranous.
Galactorrhoea. Bloody, watery discharge from mammae. Affection of old cicatrices in
mammae.

Respiratory
Panting breathing. Hoarseness. Cough with burning in trachea.

Heart
Shocks of pain in cardiac region. Pain leaves heart and goes into right arm. As if heart leaped
into the throat. Fatty heart.

Neck and Back

*Neck stiff. Aching pain in lumbar and sacral region. Pain streaking up and down the spine.

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Extremities
*Right arm numb and fuzzy. Pain and stiffness in (right) shoulder; with inability to raise the
arm. Pains fly like electric shocks. Hips and thighs pain on change of weather. Aching and
weakness in humerus (right) worse motion and extension. Aching tibiae. Aching heels better
elevating feet. Neuralgia of toes. Sharp cutting, drawing pains in the hip; legs drawn up,
cannot touch floor. Painful, hard, shiny swelling of finger joints.

Skin
Dry, harsh, shrivelled. Disposition to boils. Venereal buboes. Warts. Lipoma. Corns. Barber’s
itch. Ringworm.

Complementary
Sil.

Related
Bry; Kali‐bi; *Kali‐io; Merc, Rhus‐t.

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Picric Acid [Pic‐ac]

Generalities
This acid acts upon *brain; *spinal cord; *lumbar region; occiput; *kidneys and sexual organs.
*Weakness; *heavy, *tired feeling, in body and mind. Degeneration of the spinal cord; with
paralysis. Spasms; from myelitis. Easy prostration. Progressive pernicious anaemia. Prickling
as of needles. *Burning in many parts; *along spine; in legs. Cachexia. Worn out persons,
mentally and physically. Numbness. Formication. Neurasthenia. Acute ascending paralysis.
Uremia; with complete anuria. Typist’s palsy.

Worse
*Exertion, *mental; physical. Seminal losses. Heat; of summer. Fatigue. Study. Mental shock.

Better
Rest. Cold. *Bandaging. In sun.

Mind
Lack of will power, to undertake anything. Dread of failure, in examination; after prolonged
mental strain and anxiety. As if stairs or ground coming up to meet him. Lascivious thoughts
in presence of any woman. Although enjoying the society of men, idea of marriage
unendurable. Sits still and listless, does not take interest in surroundings.

Head
*Heavy occiput; down spine and *lower limbs. Headache worse mental exertion better
nosebleed; bandaging; with sexual excitement and violent erections. Brain‐fag. Headache
during daytime better in sleep. Headache; of businessmen, teachers and students; from grief
and other depressing emotions.

Eyes
Yellow. Chronic conjunctivitis, with thick yellow discharge.

Ears
Painful boils in meatus.

Stomach
Bitter taste; with thirst. Aversion to food. Vomits suddenly, without warning; vomits bright
yellow, bitter.

Abdomen
Oily burning stools. Diarrhoea from mental exertion. Burning in rectum while passing stools.
Stools thin, yellow. Jaundice with itching.

Urinary
Ammoniacal; dribbling urine. Uraemia; with complete anuria. Diabetes, albuminuria.
Enlargement of prostate gland.

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Male
Lascivious thoughts in presence of any woman. Priapism, penis distended. Hard erections,
with pain in testicles up spermatic cord. Extreme prostration from frequent seminal
emissions. Impotency, with tendency to boils and carbuncles.

Female
Extreme exhaustion at her menstrual periods.

Neck and Back

Painful boils on nape of neck. Backache with languor; patient is unable to sit straight; and
burning along spine; worse study. Keeps legs wide apart when standing. Aching, tired legs.
Writer’s cramps or palsy. Back seems as if bandaged, also limbs. Anaesthesia of legs as if one
has on elastic stockings. Legs weak, heavy like lead, lifts with difficulty.

Skin
Jaundice. Small painful sore boils esp. on neck.

Sleep
Sleepiness. Sleep sound but unrefreshing. Sleepy during day and sleepless during night.

Related
Gels; Ox‐ac; Phos; Phos‐ac.

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Piper Methysticum [Pip‐m]

Generalities
Kava–Kava is an intoxicant which produces liveliness and inclination to do more work without
fatigue. *All the symptoms esp. *pains are better for a time by diverting attention, changing
position or topic.

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Plantago Major [Plan]

Generalities
Affects the *nerves, causing neuralgia of *ears, teeth, *face; of shingles. *Pains are sharp,
*shifting; *play between ear and teeth. *Soreness. Produces disgust for tobacco; in chewers
and smokers. Pyorrhoea. Ill effects of bruises, burns, cuts, punctured wounds, snake bites.
Can be applied locally for neuralgia. As of a foreign body between ears; in the groins, etc.

Worse
Night. Warm room.

Better
Sleep. Eating.

Head
As if brain turned over. Headache with toothache. Sense of something lying in the head,
through one ear to the other.

Eyes
Sharp pains in the eyes, reflex from decayed teeth. As of a hair before eye (left).

Ears
Neuralgic earache, pain goes from one ear to the other, through the head. Earache with
toothache. Hearing more acute; loud noises goes through one. As of a body between ears.

Nose
Sudden discharge of yellow coloured water from the nose.

Face
Periodical prosopalgia worse 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., with lachrymation, photophobia, pain radiating
to temples and lower jaw.

Mouth
*Saliva flows with pains. Teeth feel too long. Toothache better eating. *Dirty taste.

Abdomen
Bowels seem cold. Colic better eating. Diarrhoea; with brown frothy, watery stools. Painful
piles, can hardly stand.

Urinary
*Frequent passage of large quantity of pale urine worse night, with thirst (Diabetes). Enuresis.

Female
Neuralgia of nipples.

Back
Throbbing between scapulae. Cold sweat on sacrum.

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Extremities
Numb tremulous legs.

Skin
Itching and burning. Sensitive.

Sleep
Gloomy dreams exciting tears.

Related
Amm; Ferr‐p; Puls.

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Platinum [Plat]

Generalities
This proud metal is a ***WOMAN’S remedy esp. *prim old maids. Many and various
symptoms reflex from ovaries and uterus or sexual organs. It affects the nerves, Vagus,
Sensory and Trifacial, causing *violent, *cramping, squeezing, thrusting or *numbing pains;
then spasms. Spasms alternate with dyspnoea. Oversensitive *mind and nerves. Localized;
coldness; of single parts, eyes, ears etc.; or *numbness; of scalp, face, coccyx, calves etc.
Haemorrhages; with black clots with fluid. Tremors; painful. *Irregular, spasms; congestion of
blood.*Alternate mental and physical or *sexual symptoms. Pains increase and decrease
gradually. *Bandaged feeling. *Sticky discharges; tears, stools, menses, etc. Hysterical
spasms. Catalepsy during menses. Tonic and clonic spasms, with laughter. Ill effects of fright;
vexation; bereavement; fit of passion; sexual excess; prolonged haemorrhages; masturbation,
(before puberty). Sensation of pricking. Violent shocks, as from pain. Contortions of limbs.
Epilepsy; catalepsy. Perverted sexual desire.

Worse
***EMOTIONS; *sexual, *coition, chagrin. ***TOUCH. *Nerve exhaustion. Fasting. During
menses. Sitting. Standing. Bending; backwards.

Better
*Walking in open air. Sunshine. Stretching.

Mind
Laughs at wrong time. Unkind; abrupt and quarrelsome. *Disordered sense of proportion;
objects seem smaller; strange, frightful. Sensation of dread and horrors; fears death; which
seems to be very near. Screams for help. Changing moods; weeps and laughs alternately.
***CONTEMPT. *Hauteur; looks with disdain upon everyone and everything. Feels tall and
stately. *Proud and erotic. Impulse to kill her own child; her husband (on seeing a knife) whom
she secretly dislikes, or passionately loves. Whistles, sings, dances. Wounded pride or sexual
excitement brings on mental symptoms. Weeps with pains. She does not belong to her own
family; everything seems changed. Alone, deserted feeling. Bad humour; yet weeps. Thinks
her husband will never return; something will happen to him. Fault finding. Unchaste talk.
Mental troubles better at twilight and suppressed menses. Serious, over matters that are not
serious; irritable about trifling things. Sits in a corner, broods and says nothing.

Head
Tense, pressing pain. Numbness with headache. Clavus. Tense scalp. Headache with
leucorrhoea. As of water in forehead.

Eyes
Feel cold. Twitching of the eyelids. Objects look smaller than they are.

Ears
Sensation of coldness in; feel numb; extending to cheek and lips.

Nose
Crampy pain at the root of nose; with redness of face. Nose numb.

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Face
Coldness, creeping and numbness in whole side of face (right). Grimaces. Boring in the jaws.
Cramps in jaws. Lockjaw. Malar bones numb.

Mouth
Pulsating pains in teeth. As if tongue were scalded. Mouth feels cold. Sweet taste on tip of
the tongue.

Stomach
Repugnance to food from sadness. Ravenous hunger. Hasty eating, eats everything around
her or detests it. Loss of appetite after first mouthful.

Abdomen
Painter’s colic. Pain in umbilical region extending through into the back, turns and twists in all
possible positions. *Stools hard, *black; *passed in small portions; with great straining;
adhere to rectum like *soft clay. Constipation; of tourists; of pregnancy. Crawling, itching anus
in evening. Voluptuous crawling
in.

Male
Voluptuous crawling; tickling, itching; with excessive sexual desire. Ill effects of masturbation
before puberty. Perverted sexual desire.

Female
*Painfully sensitive genitals; with itching, tickling or crawling. Excessive sexual desire esp. in
virgins; that leads to masturbation. Nymphomania worse in puerperal state. Menses; dark,
thick, profuse, clotted, too early; too short; with dragging; after abortion. Ovaritis; with
burning pains; with sterility. Dysmenorrhoea, with shrieks and jerks. Vaginismus; from
excessive sensitiveness of sexual organs, coition is impossible. Pruritus vulvae; with
voluptuous tingling. Prolapsus uteri. Induration; cancer of uterus. Fibroid. leucorrhoea like
white of an egg, only by day worse after urination; rising from a seat. Sterility from excessive
sexual excitement. Erotomania. Frequent sensation as if menses would appear. Amenorrhoea
in emigrants.

Back
Bruised backache worse pressure, on bending backwards. Numbness in sacrum and coccyx;
as from a blow.

Extremities
Cramp in calves. Thighs tight, as if bandaged. Distorted fingers. Numbness of little finger, or
fingers. Limbs feel weary, numb. Paralytic weakness.

Skin
Tingling, prickling, itching.

Sleep
Spasmodic yawning. Sleeps on back with knees drawn up and spread apart; wants to uncover
entirely.

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Related
Cupr; Ign; Plb; Stann.

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Podophyllum [Podo]

Generalities
Considered as a vegetable mercury, it is a remedy for *bilious constitution. It chiefly affects
the *duodenum;liver; intestines; ***RECTUM; right side; ovary, scapula, throat. Alternating
condition; diarrhoea alternating with constipation; headache alternating with diarrhoea.
Many troubles, during pregnancy. Sudden shocks, from jerking pains. Much drowsiness and
desire to stretch. Sphincters relaxed.

Worse
***EARLY MORNING. *Eating. Hot weather. Dentition. Drinking. Acid fruits. Milk. Before,
during and after stools. Motion. Mercury.

Better
*Rubbing or stroking liver. Lying on abdomen.

Mind
Whining. Loquacity during chill and fever; afterwards forgets what has passed. Imagines he is
going to die or be very ill. Fidgety and restless; cannot sit still.

Head
Rolling of head from side to side, with moaning; during dentition; from business worry.
Headache alternating with or better by diarrhoea. Darting, pain in forehead; must close the
eyes.

Eyes
Lids half closed. Jaundiced.

Face
Hot, cheeks flushed; during diarrhoea. Jaundiced.

Mouth
Offensive odour. Burning, rough or flabby, indented tongue. Intense desire to press the gums
together; grinding of the teeth; at night. Bitter taste. Tongue; broad, large, moist; coated as
of mustard spread on it. Loss of taste, could not tell sweet from sour. Everything tastes sour
or putrid.

Throat
As of a lump in oesophagus.

Stomach
Craves acids which disagree. Vomits; hot froth, milk (infants). Hot sour eructations; smelling
like rotten eggs. *Constant gagging. Thirst for large quantities of cold water. Gagging in
infantile diarrhoea.

Abdomen
*Liver and whole abdominal viscera are sore worse during vomiting; diarrhoea; before and
during menses. *Sore and painful liver better rubbing. *Weak, *empty, *sinking or sick

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feeling; after stools. Rubs for relief. ***GURGLING THROUGH BOWELS, ***THEN PROFUSE
PUTRID STOOLS GUSH OUT PAINLESSLY. *Stools; *white, *like water; *foaming; *with meal
like sediment;** run right through the diaper; then weakness. Summer diarrhoea. Stools;
involuntary, during sleep, when passing flatus. Diarrhoea alternating, with other symptoms;
constipation. Pale, hard, chalky stools. Jaundice, with gall‐stones. *Rectum; raw, sore, weak;
*prolapsed; before stools; after parturition; during pregnancy, on vomiting, on sneezing; from
mental excitement. Moist foul piles. Morning diarrhoea. Diarrhoea better lying on abdomen;
worse while being bathed or washed (children), eating canned fruits, acid fruits, milk.

Urinary
Frequent urination; at night, during pregnancy. Enuresis. Diabetes mellitus and insipidus.

Male
Diseases of prostate gland associated with rectal troubles.

Female
Pain in the region of the ovaries (right), down the crural nerve worse stretching the legs.
Ovarian tumour, with pain extending to shoulder. Prolapse of uterus on straining or over‐
lifting; after parturition. As if the genitals would come out during stool. Can lie comfortably
only on the abdomen during early months of pregnancy. Menorrhagia from straining. Swelling
of labia during pregnancy.

Heart
Palpitation; with a clucking sensation, rising up to the throat, from emotions.

Extremities
Pain in right inguinal region, shoots down inner thigh to knee. Paralytic weakness of left side.
Cramps in calves, with stools. Pain along ulnar nerve of both arms.

Sleep
Moaning and whining during sleep. Sleepy after paroxysms of malaria.

Fever
Chill at 7 a.m. Loquacity during fever. Sweat; profuse, with sleep; offensive.

Skin
Moist, warm; jaundiced.

Related
Aloe; Chin; Merc.

Complementary
Nat‐m.

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Polygonum [Polyg]

Generalities
Acts upon the genito‐urinary organs and the *intestines; causing ***CUTTING PAINS; along
the ureters; along ovarian ducts; up spine; with bearing down. *Pulsating, flashing; wandering
pains; in prostate. Coldness alternating or coincides with heat in the same or other part;
burning in chest with cold feeling in pit of stomach, etc. Smarting discharges.

Worse
Cold; damp. Pressure of clothes.

Head
Acute pulsative pains in temples.

Eyes
Puffiness under eyes (right). Lids twitch when closed and when lying down.

Ears
Acute pain in, on bending head down better bending backwards.

Face
Coldness in right face, when pain is most severe in left.

Mouth
Itching, burning palate; wants to scratch it. Tongue feels swollen.

Abdomen
Cold feeling in stomach, with burning in chest. Nausea felt in. Cutting pains with great
rumbling; as if whole intestinal contents were in a fluid state. Interior of anus studded with
itching eminences. Haemorrhoids, with itching.

Urinary
Nephritic colic; with *grinding, *griping, *cutting. ***BELLYACHE. Cutting pain along ureters.
Urine scanty; dribbling; dark or calcareous, adherent sediment. Nephritis; suppurative.
Cystitis.

Male
Scrotum excoriated. Pulsating, burning pain in prostate on urinating. Pain in testes, spermatic
cord when urinating.

Female
Cutting pain along the Fallopian tubes, with bearing down. As if hips were drawn together.
Metrorrhagia; amenorrhoea, in young girls. Shooting pains through the breasts.

Extremities
Aching lower limbs. Sore pains in heels. Feet alternately hot and cold.

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Skin
Urticaria. Superficial ulcers and sores on lower limbs; at climacteric.

Related
Calc.

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Pothos Foetidus [Ictod]

Generalities
A remedy for asthmatic complaints worse by inhalation of dust and relieved by stools.
Absence of mind. Headache in small spots, with throbbing in temporal arteries. Red swelling
across the nose. Pain in throat while sneezing. Tongue numb. Abdomen distended. Erratic
spasmodic pains.

Better
Open air.

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Prunus Spinosa [Prun]

Generalities
This remedy specially acts on the *nerves; *respiratory; orbital; and on urinary organs. *Pains
are shooting; pressing outwards; lightning like; wandering; ***CAUSING SHORT BREATH.
Neuralgia. Cramps. Oedema. Pains, after shingles. Nerve paralysis. Compensatory effects. Ill
effects of sun; sprains; over‐lifting. Dropsy caused by defective heart.

Worse
Touch; pressure. Motion. Jarring. Stooping. Ascending.

Better
Bending double.

Mind
Restlessness; walks about constantly; cannot remain in one place.

Head
Shooting from frontal bone (right), through brain to occiput. Headache from heat of sun.

Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia; pain in **eyeballs as if bursting,** or pressed apart; better lachrymation.

Mouth
Teeth feel pulled out. Toothache better by biting teeth together.

Urinary
Cramp in bladder; from pressure of flatus; must double up to urinate. Urgent desire to
urinate; urine reaches glans penis and then returns; with violent pain and spasms and
tenesmus in rectum. Neuralgic dysuria. Glans pains on urinating. Must press a long time
before urine appears. Pulsating pudendum. Stream of urine thin like a thread or forked.

Male
Pulsation in glans, from jar of walking.

Female
Leucorrhoea; acrid, watery purulent, staining yellow. Menses; thin, watery, too early, too
copious, with sacral pain.

Respiratory
*Short breath; with pains. Feeling as if air inhaled did not reach the pit of stomach; has to
yawn and try to take a deep inspiration to force the air up to that point. Air hunger.

Heart
Hypertrophied. Knocking at heart, with laboured breathing worse least motion. Cardiac
*dropsy. Throbbing of carotid arteries. Angina pectoris.

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Back
As of a lump below the left scapula.

Extremities
Oedema of feet. Itching at the tips of fingers as if frozen. Thumb as if sprained, hindering
writing.

Skin
Herpes zoster. Dropsy.

Fever
Night sweat.

Related
Laur.

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Psorinum [Psor]

Generalities
Dr. Hahnemann prepared this nosode from sero‐purulent matter of scabies vesicles. The
therapeutic field of action is found in the so called Psoric manifestations, when there is a *lack
of reaction in chronic diseases; when well related remedies fail to relieve or to permanently
improve; also when sulphur seems indicated but fails to relieve. Clears up confused cases. It
chiefly affects the ***SKIN; ***FOLDS OF; *sebaceous glands; ***EARS; ***BOWELS;
*respiration and right side. It is adapted to dirty persons, with filthy smelling body even after
a bath; pale, sickly, delicate, unhealthy looking children; who have a disagreeable smell
around them; nervous; restless persons who are easily startled. Prostration. Feels sick all over.
***RECURRENCES. ***FOUL; *discharges; *odour of the body, stools, eruptions, sweat,
stubborn foot sweat. Secretions thick. *Weak, *tender and thin. *Easily‐takes cold; *chilled.
Clothing seems large or he feels pushed down when walking in the sun. ***HUNGRY *or
***UNUSUALLY WELL BEFORE AN ATTACK. *Wants to wash parts. *Weakness; remaining
after acute diseases or independent of any organic diseases; after loss of fluids. Feels good
and bad by turns. Ill effects of infectious diseases lasting for years; emotions; over‐lifting;
injuries, blows, sprains, dislocations. Looseness; of joints, of teeth etc. Eruptions disappear in
summer, appear in winter. Wears warm clothes even in summer. Washes his hands and feet
constantly. Sick babies will not sleep day and night but worry, fret and cry; or good and play
all day, troublesome screaming all night. Difficulty in breathing when standing in open air,
wants to go home and lie down.

Worse
***COLD. *Open air; *washing. *Weather, *changing; *stormy. *Heat; of bed; of *woollens,
of exertion. ***SUPPRESSIONS. Contact of his own limbs. Periodically; yearly. Full moon.

Better
*Lying with head low or quietly. Eating. Washing. Nosebleed. Hard pressure. Profuse
sweating.

Mind
***ANXIETY. Foreboding. *Despair of recovery; *great despondency; *hopeless. Joyous.
Melancholy, religious; *gloomy. Horrid thoughts; suicidal tendency. Feels himself poor; his
business is going to be a failure; though it is prosperous. Fear of fire; of being alone, of
becoming insane etc. Aversion to work. Children very fretful, day and night. Peevish, irritable,
noisy; easily startled. Severe ailments from even slight emotions. Dull, beclouded mind.
Difficult thinking. Feels restless for days before a thunderstorm.

Head
*Aches, as from a heavy blow, with suppressed menses; *follows visual disturbances;
alternates, with other complaints, better nosebleed. Head feels separated from the body.
*Sensitive to drafts about head; *wants it covered, in hot weather. Twitching in temples. Dull,
dry, tangled hair. Humid eruptions on scalp. Migraine. Spots of white skin, with white lock of
hair.

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Eyes
Gummy. Everted eyelids. Sensation as if something were moving or one were playing with his
fingers before eyes. Recurring chronic ophthalmia. Objects tremble, then get dark. Darkness
before eyes.

Ears
Raw, red, oozing; scabs around the ears. Humid sores; behind the ears. *Putrid otorrhoea.
Red wax. Intolerable itching. Otorrhoea, with headache; with offensive watery diarrhoea.
Illusory noises; as if he heard with ears not his own.

Nose
Hay fever. Red small pimples on. Recurring colds.

Face
Pale, sickly, dirty, fuzzy or puffy. Red small pimples on. Acne rosacea. Swelling of the upper
lip. Down on.

Mouth
Teeth feel loose, then pain worse touch. Tip of tongue feels scalded. *Filthy taste. Gums;
bleed, spongy, settled away from the teeth. Pyorrhoea. Obstinate, cracks in the corners of
lips. Taste bitter better eating or drinking.

Throat
Hawks out foul cheesy masses. Recurring quinsy. As of a plug in throat impeding hawking.

Stomach
Loss of appetite; after illness; with great thirst. Very hungry, always; during headaches, must
have something to eat; in the middle of the night. Eructations; sour, rancid, tasting and
smelling like rotten eggs. Ravenous appetite yet grows thin. Desires; beer, acids. Aversion to
pork. Vomiting of pregnancy when not relieved by other drugs. Waterbrash when lying down.

Abdomen
Flatulent, with disorders of liver. Colic better eating and passing foetid flatus. Flatus like bad
eggs. Pain in liver worse sneezing. ***STOOLS; ***DARK, ***BROWN; ***HORRIBLY PUTRID;
***GUSHING; *of penetrating odour; going through the whole house. Cholera infantum.
Constipation of infants. Stools soft, but difficult. Involuntary stools, during sleep.
Haemorrhages from rectum in old women. He has to go several times to pass normal stools.
Chronic diarrhoea; early morning, urgent. Burning in rectum.

Urinary
Bed wetting, worse full moon; obstinate. Has to pass urine several times; from weakness of
bladder.

Male
Offensive genitals. Griping in testes. Chronic gonorrhoea; painless discharge from urethra
staining yellow. Aversion to coition. Want; of enjoyment; of emission during coition.

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Female
Leucorrhoea; gushing, lumpy, foetid; with violent pain in sacrum and debility.
Dysmenorrhoea; near climaxis. Menses; early and profuse. Obstinate vomiting during
pregnancy. Foetus moves too violently. When, after an abortion, the woman gets on her feet,
the flow starts anew. Breasts swollen; nipples red. Burning and itching pimples around
nipples. Eruptions on mammae causing excoriation.

Respiratory
Dyspnoea worse sitting up better lying down and keeping arms spread apart. Feeling of
ulceration under sternum. Cough returns every winter. Hay fever regularly returning every
year. Bloody expectoration; with hot sensation in chest. Cough worse lying down, drinking.
Chest pain extends to shoulder worse cold drinks.

Heart
Gurgling at the heart worse lying down. Cardiac murmurs, mitral regurgitation. Pericarditis.
Pulse, weak, irregular.

Back
Lumbar ache worse standing or walking.

Extremities
Joints feel loose, as if they would not hold together. Eruptions around finger nails. Hot itching
soles. Foetid foot sweat. Eruptions around joints makes walking difficult.

Skin
*Dirty; rough; scabby, greasy; *breaks out in folds. Intolerable itching worse heat of bed; he
scratches raw or until it bleeds. Urticaria worse exertion. Excrescences disappear in summer,
only to occur again in winter. Constantly recurring body lice. Condylomata on edges of skin.
Enlarged glands. Oily skin.

Sleep
Dreams vivid, continue after waking.

Fever
Heat, with steaming sweat. **Sweat; easy,** profuse worse night; cold, on palms.

Related
Graph; Mang; *Phos; Sulph.

Complementary
Sep; *Sulph; Tub.

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Ptelea [Ptel]

Generalities
Suitable in liver and stomach affections. Stomach and liver symptoms associated with pain; in
limbs. Taste bitter, and eructations either bitter or like rotten eggs. Aching and heaviness in
the region of liver worse lying on left side. Better eating sour things. Breath, hot, burns the
nostrils. Oedema of feet and legs with liver affections.

Worse
Cheese, meat, puddings.

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Pulex [Pulx]

Generalities
Common flea has marked urinary and female symptoms. Cannot retain urine, must attend
the call immediately. Stains of menses and leucorrhoea are very hard to wash out. As if cotton
ball inside the vagina.

Worse
Left side. Moving about.

Better
Sitting or lying down.

Mind
Very impatient, irritable.

Eyes
Eyes feel as if enlarged.

Face
Wrinkled as of an old man.

Throat
As if a thread hanging in.

Stomach
Thirst esp. during headache.

Urinary
Flow of urine stops suddenly followed by pain. Urine scanty with frequent urging with
pressure in bladder and tenesmus in urethra.

Female
Salivation during menses. Menses delayed. Intense burning in vagina.

Fever
Feels a glow all over, like being over steam. Chilly while sitting beside the fire.

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Pulsatilla [Puls]

Generalities
On account of its ***CHANGING; ***SHIFTING SYMPTOMS this remedy is known as a weather
cock remedy. It affects the ***MIND; ***VEINS; ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES; *respiration and
one side. *Symptoms rise to a certain pitch, *then suddenly cease. It is a remedy for females,
of mild, gentle, plethoric, yielding disposition, who cry readily and weep when talking.
Symptoms appear on one side *or go to side lain on. ***THIRSTLESSNESS; ***CHILLINESS
AND SHORTNESS OF BREATH; with digestive or menstrual disorders. Chilliness; with pains but
burning, with stitching pains; with numbness. ***MUCOUS DISCHARGES ARE PROFUSE;
***BLAND, THICK; ***YELLOWISH‐GREEN. Changing and contradictory symptoms; having no
head or tail to them. Alternations. *Metastasis. Haemorrhages; passive; vicarious; blood dark,
easily coagulating. Venosity, varicose veins. *Heaviness. Scraping, jerking, tearing, ulcerative
pains; wandering pains. *Numbness; partial; hands, feet etc.; of the part lain on; of suffering
parts. Ill effects of ***SUPPRESSIONS, otorrhoea, menses, lochia, milk etc. Eating ice‐cream;
pork, fats; pastry; mixed diet. Chilly but craves for open air. Pale chilly blondes. Anaemia.
Never well since puberty. Chorea; from amenorrhoea or dysmenorrhoea. The longer he lies
in the morning the longer he wishes to lie. *Cannot lie with head low. Child wants to be carried
slowly. Symptoms in distant parts of the body cause dyspnoea. Sensation of distension in size,
as if one part or every part were growing too large; during pain. Bandaged sensation. Wearing
of flannels or woolen clothes cause itching and eruptions. Prophylactic for measles. Epilepsy
with absent or irregular menses. Emaciation of suffering parts. Pulsation through whole body.

Worse
***WARMTH, ***OF AIR; ***OF ROOM; *Clothes; ***BED. *Getting feet wet. ***EVENING.
***REST. ***BEGINNING MOTION. ***LYING, *on one side (left). ***EATING; *long after,
***RICH FOODS, fats, ices, eggs. ***PUBERTY. ***PREGNANCY. *Before menses. Iron.
Quinine. Hanging down limbs. Tea. Thunderstorms. Sun. Twilight.

Better
***COLD; ***FRESH, ***OPEN AIR; food, drinks. Uncovering. *Gentle motion. ***ERECT
POSTURE. Continued motion. *After a good cry. Changing sides. Pressure. Rubbing. Lying with
head high.

Mind
***MILD, ***TIMID, ***EMOTIONAL, ***AND TEARFUL. Disgusted at everything.
Discouraged. Easily offended. Whining. Craves sympathy. Children like fuss and caresses.
Morbid dread of the opposite sex; marriage; thinks that sexual intercourse is a sinful act.
Given to extremes of pleasure and pain. Easily moved to tears and laughter; after eating.
Religious melancholy. Fear; to be alone, of dark, of ghosts in the evening; therefore wants to
hide or run. Capricious. Miserly. Suspicious. Very irritable, touchy; feels slighted or fears slight.
Answers, yes or no, by nodding her head. Imagines that certain articles of food are not good
for the human race. Sad from disagreeable news. Mania from suppressed menses.

Head
Aches; from overwork; suppressed sexual excitement; indigestion; starts in vertex. Occipital
ache worse coughing. Semilateral headaches, pulsating, bursting; with scalding lachrymation
of the affected side. Vertigo; worse sitting; looking up; with nausea and gastric or menstrual

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disturbances; before, during, after or suppressed menses. Profuse sweat on scalp. Headache
of school girls at the time of puberty. Headache better walking in open air. Head seems heavy,
cannot hold upright, cannot raise it.

Eyes
Dimness of vision, with a sensation as though there were something covering the eyes which
the patient wishes to rub or wipe; worse wind. Thick, yellow, profuse bland discharge.
Ophthalmia; neonatorum; gonorrhoeal; from amenorrhoea. Fistula lachrymalis discharging
pus on pressure. Acrid lachrymation. Styes; recurrent. Blepharitis. Conjunctivitis from colds.
Blind attacks, before menses. Amaurosis, paralysis of the optic nerve. Itching, burning in eyes,
causing rubbing. Weeping eyes.

Ears
Ache worse night. Deafness as if ears were stopped up; can hear better in car; and in a warm
room. Otorrhoea; discharge of pus, of blood; thick yellow humour, offensive; after
exanthemata. External ear red and swollen and feels as if something pushed out from the ear.
Mumps, esp. metastatic to the breast or testes. Lobes of ear swollen.

Nose
Loss of smell, with catarrh. Foul discharge or odour before the nose. Coryza; obstruction of
nose worse lying down or in a room; better going out in the open air. Green; orange coloured,
foetid, urinous, nasal discharge; chronic bland yellow discharge. Nosebleed, before, during
and from suppressed menses.

Face
Pale. Neuralgia, with profuse lachrymation, worse chewing, talking, or with hot or cold things
in the mouth. Lips cracked; peeling; swollen. *Licks lips. *Crack in centre of lower lip. Acne in
young girls.

Mouth
Breath offensive. *Dry or slimy; *without thirst. Drawing toothache better cold. *Taste; *bad
in a.m.; loss of; from coryza; greasy, bloody; sweet; alternating. Tongue; yellow white; feels
scalded. Much sweet saliva. Food; leaves an after taste. Taste bitter esp. for bread. Diminished
taste to all food. Saliva; tenacious; frothy cotton like.

Throat
*Food lodges in. Dry; sore with sense of dysphagia. Sensation of a worm wriggling up. As of a
sulphur vapour when coughing.

Stomach
*Aversion; *to water, *fats, pork, bread, milk, smoking, warm food and drink. Craves; acids
or what disagrees; refreshing things, pungent things, herring, cheese. Food tastes too salty.
Onions disagree. Sudden loathing; worse eating. Eructations, taste of food, remain a long
time. Nausea. Heartburn. *Thirstlessness; with nearly all complaints. Vomiting of food eaten
long before. Visible pulsations in the pit of stomach. Stitching pain worse walking or misstep.
*Weight as from a stone. *Stomach ***DERANGED; ***FEELS HEAVY. Hiccough when
smoking tobacco. Hunger; but does not known for what.

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Abdomen
Cutting; pulsation; in epigastrium. Painful, distended; loud rumbling. Pressure as from a stone.
Feeling of numbness. Pains extend into groins. *Stools; changeable, no two stools alike;
green, bilious; worse after midnight. Two or three normal stools daily. Hard painful lumps in
both groins. Blind piles, worse menses, lying down. Diarrhoea in jaundice, with sensation of
heat. Discharge of blood from rectum even when not at stool. Diarrhoea after fright.

Urinary
*Urination; involuntary on lying down, laughing, coughing; sneezing; hearing sudden noise;
after pleasurable surprise; shock; passing flatus; during sleep esp. in little girls. Haematuria
after urination. Heavy pressure or cramp in bladder, after urination. Sensation as of a stone
rolling in the bladder. Urine dribbles when angry. Urging to urinate when lying on back.
Stricture of urethra, urine comes in drops or stops and starts.

Male
Burning down left spermatic cord. Acute prostatitis; enlarged prostate. Orchitis; gonorrhoeal;
or from sitting on cold stones. Epididymitis. Testicles hang low down. Bloody emissions. Thick
yellow discharge, late stage of gonorrhoea.

Female
*Amenorrhoea; from wet feet; nervous debility or anaemia. *Feels like menstruating.
Menses; *dark thick; ***TOO LATE; ***SCANTY; after bathing; clotted, changeable,
intermittent, *irregular, vicarious; ***DELAYED at puberty. Dysmenorrhoea. Leucorrhoea;
milky, thick like cream, with pain in the back and exhaustion, acrid. Weak labour pains.
Bearing down worse lying. After pains; too long and too violent. Mammae, sore; aching; lumps
in; in girls before puberty. Thin milky fluid escapes from mammae in virgins; before puberty.
*Milk; *suppressed, *scanty. Post‐partum secondary haemorrhages from retained placenta.
Weeps everytime, the child is put to breast. Swelling of breasts after weaning. Galactorrhoea.
Secretion of milk during menses. Maldisposition of foetus.

Respiratory
***SHORT BREATH worse lying on left side; smothering sensation on lying down; worse *if
heated, *open air. Cough; loose in the morning, dry in the evening and at night; *must sit up
in bed to get relief. *Expectoration thick, purulent, slimy; sweet, saltish, bitter as it loosens
up. Cough dry, hacking from tickling in epigastrium. *Chest oppressed; as by a load. Soreness,
or stitch beneath clavicles. Hoarseness comes and goes. Asthma from suppressions. Cough
after measles.

Heart
Palpitation; worse lying on left side anxious; with amenorrhoea; from emotions; after dinner.
Catching pain, with short breath better by pressure of a hand and walking.

Back
As if cold water was poured down the back. Pain in back and small of back as from prolonged
stooping. Curvature of the upper part of the spine. Shooting pain in the nape and back.
Backache worse lying on back, better lying on sides or changes of position, esp. so during
pregnancy. Back feels bandaged. Pain in sacrum on sitting.

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Extremities
Rapidly shifting pains in limbs. Arms feel broken and dislocated. Elbows numb. *Joints;
*swollen; red. Dorsum of foot swollen, oedematous. Pains down lower limbs, alternating
sides. Legs heavy. Sticking in tibia worse lying better cool air and walking. Cold sweat on legs.
Foul foot sweat. *Veins full, *varicose, painful. Milk leg. Periostitis. White swelling of knee.
Inclination to stretch the feet. Numbness in legs when remaining long standing.

Skin
Glands swollen. Ulcers; with hard, red, glistening areolae. Varicose. Itches on being heated.
Urticaria; after rich food; with diarrhoea; from delayed menses; after undressing. Measles.

Sleep
Great sleepiness during day, *wakes confused; languid, unrefreshed. Lies; with hands over
head or crossed on abdomen, and feet drawn up. Dreams; frightful, disgusting, voluptuous,
confused; of cats, etc. Chattering in sleep. Talks, whines or screams during sleep.

Fever
*Chilly; *yet averse to heat; ***IN WARM ROOM; *with pain; on lying down at night. One
sided coldness with numbness. Pains during sweat. One hand cold. Partial sweat. Feverish,
hot, body temperature normal. Erratic temperature in fevers.

Related
Apis; Cimic; Graph; Ham; Kali‐b; Kali‐s; Nat‐s.

Complementary
Ars; Kali‐b; Sep; Sil; Zinc.

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Pyrogen [Pyrog]

Generalities
This nosode is prepared from decomposed lean beef allowed to stand in the sun for two
weeks, or from septic pus. It is therefore a remedy for all types of *septic states when
***BLOOD is disorganised, *heart becomes weak and *muscles prostrated. *Aching,
***BRUISED, ***SORE, *and prostration, yet restless. *Discharges are horribly foul, taste,
odour of body, menses, sweat, vomiting, etc. *Rosy red streaks; lymphangitis. *Bones pain.
*Abscesses; recurrent; with pain and violent burning. Chronic complaints that date back to
septic conditions; dissecting wounds, sewer‐gas poisoning, ptomaine poisoning; puerperal
fever; after effects of miscarriage; remote effects of typhoid fever; diphtheria, chronic
malaria, where the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve esp. in latent
pyogenic processes.

Worse
Cold, damp. Motion. Sitting. Moving eyes.

Better
Heat. Hot; *bath, drinks. Pressure. Stretching. Changing position. Hard rocking. Walking.

Mind
Active brain; making speeches and writing articles at night. *Loquacious; thinks and talks
faster than ever before. Sensation as if she covered the whole bed. Feels, when lying on one
side one person, and another person when turning, on the other side. *Sensitive, anxious;
confused. Sense of duality; feels as if crowded with arms and legs. Hallucination, that he is
very wealthy. Full of anxiety and insane notions. Bed feels hard. Talks or whispers to herself;
in sleep.

Head
Painless throbbing. Violent throbbing headache better bandaging. Rolls head from side to
side. Sensation as of a cap on the head. Cold sweat on forehead.

Eyes
Balls sore (left) worse looking up and moving eyes. Photophobia.

Ears
Red; cold. Ringing like a bell.

Nose
Cold. Fan‐like motion of the alae nasi. Disgust at his own body odour. Sneezing everytime
when hand is out from under the covers.

Face
Hectic flush 3 to 4 p.m., lasting till midnight; then covered with large drops of cold
perspiration.

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Mouth
Fiery red; brown streak down the centre; smooth; large, flabby tongue. Taste sweetish;
terribly foetid. Horribly offensive breath.

Throat
Dry. Diphtheria with extreme foetor.

Stomach
Vomiting; persistent; brownish, coffee grounds; offensive, faecal, with impacted or
obstructed bowels. Vomits water when it becomes warm in stomach. Nausea better very hot
drinks; and vomiting. Great thirst for small quantities of cold drinks, but the least liquid is
instantly rejected.

Abdomen
Horribly offensive, brown‐black painless involuntary stools. Constipation with complete
inertia. Stools large, black, small black balls; very offensive.

Urinary
Adhesive, red, slimy, sediment. Urination twice a day; scanty. Urging to urinate before fever.
Urine clear like water. Tenesmus of bladder and rectum.

Male
Testes hang down, relaxed; scrotum looks and feels thin.

Female
Septic puerperal infection. Fever at each menstrual period. Menses, horribly offensive. Pelvic
cellulitis. Prolapsus uteri better holding the head and straining. Lochia suppressed, followed
by fever, chills and profuse foetid sweat. Pains in the region of left nipple.

Respiratory
Pain in lung (right) worse coughing, talking. Neglected pneumonia. Cough better sitting, worse
lying down.

Heart
Purring at. Feels; as if tired, big, or *full. Consciousness of heart. Throbbing felt in head and in
ears, preventing sleep. ***PULSE QUICK OUT OF ALL PROPORTION TO TEMPERATURE. ***OR
THE REVERSE. *Heart failure threatens in septic and zymotic states.

Neck and Back

Throbbing in vessels of neck. Weak feeling in the back.

Extremities
Aching in all limbs and bones. Nails threaten to fly off or feel loose. Automatic movement of
arm and leg (right). Pain in shoulder (right) worse coughing, talking.

Skin
Pale. Cold. Obstinate varicosis. Offensive ulcers of old persons. Rapid decubitus of septic
origin. Small cut or injury becomes much swollen and inflamed.

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Sleep
Whispers in sleep. Sleepless from brain activity.

Fever
Chilly, wants to breathe heat of fire. Chills start between scapulae; *felt in bones, with sweat;
at night. Slowly advancing hectic. Sweats, without relief. Cold; hot. *Quickly oscillating
temperature.

Related
Anthr; Ars; Bapt; Echi.

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Radium Bromatum [Rad‐br]

Generalities
Radium Bromide is found effective in skin affections; rheumatism and gout; nerves are
affected causing *suddenly shifting or electric pains; must lie down. *Dull, *hard aching pains
all over, *deep in joints; very restless; had to keep moving about. *Dry burning heat, as if on
fire, through the entire body; craves cool air. Electric shock through the body, during sleep.
Weakness, lassitude, tiredness. Lateness in appearance of symptoms. *Constriction; chest,
heart etc., with air hunger. Numbness worse stretching the part. Necrotic changes. Effects of
X‐Ray burns. Removes small naevi, moles, ulcers. Cancer. *Lymphoid tissue.

Worse
*Motion. *Shaving. Washing. Smoking. Getting up.

Better
Open air. Hot bath. Cold drinks. Continued motion. After sleep. Pressure. Eating.

Mind
Fear of being alone; of the dark; wants to have someone near. Cross. Easily vexed.

Head
Pain over right eye spreading back to occiput and in vertex, better heat. Vertigo, with pain in
occiput. Pain in vertex and occiput, with severe aching in lumbar region.

Eyes
Red, smarting worse reading. Sensation as if pieces of cotton in eyes better rubbing.

Ears
Sound of rushing water better lying on face.

Nose
Itching and dryness of nasal cavities. Burning in.

Face
Flushed. Aching pain in angle of right lower jaw. Violent trifacial neuralgia. Acne rosacea.

Mouth
Dry. Breath seems hot. Metallic taste. Pricking at the tip of tongue.

Throat
Sore, raw with earache. Feeling in throat as from eating pepper.

Stomach
Craves pork. Aversion to sweets; to ice‐creams, of which she is usually very fond of. Usual
food not relished; sour things taste good.

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Abdomen
Alternating, with chest or ear symptoms. Nausea better eating. Colic better bending double
and passing stools. Rectum sore, prolapsed. Stools, at noon; soft, dark, or offensive, slate
coloured.

Urinary
Dysuria, then erection. Nephritis, with rheumatism.

Male
Eczema of penis and inner surface of thighs. Itching.

Female
Aching over pubes during menses. Right breast sore, better hard rubbing. *Itching genitals.
Menses last one day; then bloody leucorrhoea. Uterine haemorrhage, when *Ipecac fails.
Lochia putrid, scanty or suppressed. Leucorrhoea; white and scanty; curdy and cheesy.

Respiratory
Persistent cough from tickling in throat pit worse lying; smoking; better eating and open air;
sitting up; exercise. Tightness of chest; feels as if she could not get enough air. Chest pain
alternating with indigestion and stuffed up feeling.

Heart
Constriction at. Awakes with palpitation. Pulse, rapid, irregular, fluttering. Blood pressure low.

Neck and Back

Pain and lameness in cervical vertebrae worse dropping head forwards better standing and
sitting erect. Weak between scapulae. Ascending lumbar pain better exercise, walking.
Lumbo‐ sacral bone pains, better hot bath, worse going upstairs.

Extremities
Deep pain in joints; knees and ankles. Limbs feel hard and brittle as if they would break.
Rheumatism of the hands. Cold. Numb.

Skin
*Irritable, *thick, *burning; *itching; moist if scratched; worse face and genitals; Branny
scabs. Scabby; on ears. Eczema. Psoriasis. Sclero‐derma. Callosities. Cancer. Dermatitis.

Sleep
Awakes panting; with palpitation. Dreams vivid; of fire; seem true.

Fever
Cold sensation internally with chattering of teeth.

Related
*Pho; Puls; *Rhus‐r.

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Ranunculus Bulbosus [Ran‐b]

Generalities
It is a *painful remedy, affecting ***NERVES; *muscles; eyes; *serous membranes; ***CHEST;
*skin; fingers, toes and left side. The ***PAINS are *stitching; stabbing; shooting; extort tears;
with shuddering; cannot rest in any position. Burning; biting; *bruised soreness or as of *deep
ulceration. *Sore spots. Neuralgia. Sudden weakness and fainting. Trembling; from anger.
Distended feeling. Sensitive to air and touch. Burning in small spots; from sedentary living.
Shocks through the whole body. Chronic sciatica. Bad effects of alcohol; injury; fright,
vexation. Weak and tottering patients, the result of prolonged use of whisky, brandy or other
alcoholic stimulants. Epilepsy; of drunkards. As of a cold wet cloth esp. on chest worse on
going into cold air.

Worse
***AIR‐ *damp; *cold; open, drafts. *Change; of temperature; of position. Alcohol. *Motion;
*of arms. Breathing. Touch. Eating. Fright, vexation, anger. Rainy and stormy weather.
Standing.

Better
Standing. Sitting bent forward.

Mind
Great fear of ghosts in the evening, dares not to be alone. Quarrelsome. Depression of spirit,
and desire to die. Delirium tremens, with hiccough.

Head
As if too large and distended. Aching in forehead and vertex as if pressed asunder; with
nausea and sleepiness. Creeping sensation in scalp. Tic (right) to ear.

Eyes
Smarting as from smoke. Balls sore on moving them. Day and night blindness. Herpes on
cornea with intense pain, photophobia and lachrymation. Hemiopia; during pregnancy. Lids
burn.

Nose
Crawling and tingling in nostrils, in posterior nares; tries to relieve it by hawking and blowing
the nose.

Mouth
Crawling on palate; wants to scratch it. Cramp, spasms of lips. Increased saliva. Butter tastes
too sweet.

Throat
Scrapping, burning down the throat.

Stomach
Spasmodic hiccough; of drunkards.

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Abdomen
Hypochondria bruised. Tenderness to pressure. Pinching colic; alternating with chest pains.
Jaundice; itching of body esp. palms.

Respiratory
Anxious, oppressed breathing; with desire to draw deep breath. Dyspnoea, from anger. Small
sore spot as from subcutaneous ulceration in chest. SHARP, CUTTING, STITCHING in chest;
bilateral. Chilliness in chest when walking in open air; on breathing cold air. Pleurodynia.
Pleurisy; adhesions after intercostal neuralgia.

Back
Muscular pain along inner edge of left scapula from sitting bent; from needlework, type
writing, piano playing; extending through lower half of left chest. Scapula adherent. Muscles
of neck rigidly contracted, can speak only by moving shoulders up and down.

Extremities
Crawling and tingling in fingers. Itching palms. Sudden jerking, stitching pain in forearm (right)
while writing. Pain in heels as if pinched by boots.

Skin
***BLUISH VESICLES. Burning and intense itching worse touch. Shingles. Pemphigus. Horny
scabs. Corrosive ichor. Flat burning, stinging ulcers. Corns, smart or burn worse touch.

Fever
*Chilliness, worse open air.

Related
Canth; Rhus‐t.

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Ranunculus Scleratus [Ran‐s]

Generalities
More acrid and irritating than *Ran‐b; causing rawness; *burning‐smarting, *eating,
*gnawing or boring pains. ***CHEST, *skin; vertex and right side is specially affected. Pains
cause fainting or shortness of breath. Feels sore all over. Periodical affections. Convulsive
twitches. Sensation as of a plug.

Worse
Motion. *Evening. Deep breathing. Touch. Letting limb hang down. After midnight.

Better
After midnight, *pains.

Mind
Indolence and aversion to mental occupation.

Head
Gnawing pain in small spot on vertex; or either temples. Biting, itching on the scalp.

Nose
Fluent coryza with sneezing; with burning urination.

Face
As if covered with cobwebs.

Mouth
Blunt teeth; with toothache. Mapped tongue. Burning and rawness of tongue; denuded
patches. Tongue cracks and peels off.

Throat
Burning scraping in throat.

Stomach
Nausea worse after midnight. Pain, with fainting.

Abdomen
As of a plug behind umbilicus. Pain over region of liver as if diarrhoea would set in.

Respiratory
*Stitches in chest muscles; chest and sternum are sensitive to touch. As of a *plug forced
between ribs, worse deep breathing. Sore burning behind sternum.

Heart
As of a plug in heart.

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Extremities
Gout of fingers and toes. Gnawing in knee; left palm. Corns with burning soreness worse
hanging down feet. Sudden stitches in big toes, passing into burning.

Skin
*Yellow vesicles. *Bullae; with acrid contents. Pemphigus.

Sleep
Dreadful dreams; of dead bodies, snakes and of fights.

Related
Ars; Arum‐t.

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Raphanus [Raph]

Generalities
Wild radish produces hysterical, mental and uterine symptoms. Numbness, changing places.
Globus; as of hot ball from uterus goes up to the throat. Drinks more than one urinates.
Retained flatulence; cannot be passed up and down; post‐operative gas pains. Nymphomania;
with aversion to her own sex and children esp. girls. Sexual insomnia. Vomiting of fecal
matter. Coldness of one foot. Epilepsy, reflex, from removal of an adherent prepuce, the
healing being delayed by furious priapism. Urine thick like milk.

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Ratanhia [Rat]

Generalities
*Anal and rectal symptoms are very, marked; affects *teeth and nipples. Pains here and there.
*Sense of constriction. *Haemorrhages; passive. Pin worms. Dark thin scrawny persons.
Cracks; *fissures. Acts as a tonic for delicate and nervous women to prevent miscarriage, in
those who have never been able to go to their full term.

Worse
Night. Anxiety, uneasiness of mind. Exertion. Touch. Straining at stools.

Better
Cool bathing. Hot bath. Walking in open air. Exercise.

Mind
Irritable, peevish and quarrelsome.

Head
Pains in middle of forehead as if brain would fall out. Bursting headache, when straining at
stool, or after stools.

Eyes
Lids feel stiff. Very rapid twitching of eyelids. Pterygium.

Mouth
As if cool air came from teeth. Toothache worse at night; must walk about. As of a cobweb
about the right side of the mouth.

Stomach
*Cutting or griping pain better eructations. Violent painful hiccough.

Abdomen
*Constriction, or *as of sharp splinters** of broken glass in *rectum; stool is forced with great
straining and followed by prolonged *aching‐burning, better hot water. Fissures of anus, with
great constriction and burning like fire. Dry, itching anus. Pin worms. Ascarides. Discharge of
blood from rectum with or without stools.

Female
Metrorrhagia. Cracks in nipples, in nursing women. Compelled to get up at night and walk
about during pregnancy, with toothache.

Chest
Pain in the ribs on stepping.

Related
Nit‐ac; Paeon.

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Rheum [Rheum]

Generalities
Rhubarb is a remedy for sucklings and children esp. during dentition and suited to pregnant
and nursing women. It affects liver, duodenum; *bile ducts and intestines. *Sourness is very
marked; the whole child smells sour; washing does not remove it. *Colicky children who are
always *screaming and crying. Sour; taste, vomits, stools, sweat etc. Difficult dentition.
Requires very little sleep and not much food. Sensation of crepitation.

Worse
*Dentition. Eating; plums. Summer. Nursing women. Motion. Before, after and during stools.

Better
Warmth. Wrapping up. Lying bent. Odd position.

Mind
*Impatient; child asks for different things vehemently, with crying, dislikes even its favourite
things. Impetuous desire for particular objects. Restless; with weeping.

Head
Sweat on hairy scalp; hair; *wet, *sopping.

Eyes
Weak when looking steadily at any object. Convulsive twitching of eyelids.

Face
Cool sweat on; esp. about mouth and nose; on upper lip. Forehead wrinkled. Twitching.

Mouth
Offensive mucous in the mouth; after sleep. Breath sour. Salivation; with colic or diarrhoea.
Food tastes bitter even sweet things. Teeth feel cold.

Stomach
Desire for various things, but cannot eat them. Loathing after first bite. Plums and prunes
disagree. Requires little food.

Abdomen
Colic, with screaming, better doubling up, worse uncovering any part; then pappy, *sour,
*brown, *green, *fermented, *slimy or acrid stools; worse eating unripe fruit; worse in the
evening. Shivering with stools. Diarrhoea only when walking. Jaundice from eating unripe
fruits, with white diarrhoea.

Urinary
Burning in bladder and kidney, before and during urination. Unsuccessful urging to urinate,
before stool.

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Female
Urinary complaints after abortion. Milk in nursing women yellow and bitter; infant refuses
breast. Diarrhoea after parturition.

Back
Stiffness in sacrum and hips, cannot walk straight. Cutting pain in lumbar region worse after
stools.

Extremities
Limb on which he lies falls asleep. Twitching in arms, hands and fingers. Bubbling sensation in
elbow joint, from bend of knee to heels. Lameness of wrist and knee, after sprains and
dislocations.

Sleep
Restless; with whining and crying. Twitching of face and fingers. Requires very little sleep and
not much food.

Fever
Sweat on scalp, about mouth, nose; upper lip.

Related
Cham.

Complementary
Mag‐c.

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Rhododendron [Rhod]

Generalities
Commonly known as yellow snow rose is a *gouty rheumatic remedy; affecting the
***FIBROUS TISSUES; fore arm; lower legs, small joints; *bones; *genitals; *nerves; single
parts. ***SENSITIVE TO WINDY OR STORMY WET WEATHER; even if he is in the house;
nervous persons who are afraid of thunder. *Tearing, zigzag, boring, rapidly changing,
descending; *paralytic pains. Great weakness after slight exertion. Formication; with sweat.
Chorea before storm. Symptoms alternate. Undulating sensation.

Worse
***BEFORE STORMS. *Weather; *rough, *windy; cold, damp; changing, cloudy. Night.
Midsummer. Wine. Rest. Eating fruit. Getting wet. Catching cold.

Better
After storm breaks. Heat; in sun, when sun shines. Motion, at once. Wrapping head.

Mind
Confused and stupid. Forgets what he is talking about; leaves out whole words while writing.
Fear of thunder in nervous persons. Aversion to his business. Easily affected by wine.

Head
Ache worse early in the morning better eating. Throbbing in right head. Drawing, tearing
under scalp. Vertigo, when lying in bed, better when moving about. Hair stands up as if
electrified.

Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia, involving orbit, eyeball and head worse before storm. Heat in eyes when
using them. Red hot needles darting from within out.

Ears
Sensation as of a worm. Deafness; long after rising (hearing better in the morning). Noises
come on after the patient has been up, a few hours. Tinnitus with vertigo.

Nose
Nostrils obstructed alternately; with fluent coryza; better in open air.

Face
Prosopalgia; violent tearing jerking pains better eating and warmth.

Mouth
Toothache better eating and warmth. Toothache ceases suddenly; worse again in two, or
three hours.

Stomach
Heavy pressure from cold drinks. Feels full after a little food. Green, bitter vomiting, after
drinking cold water.

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Abdomen
Colic at navel. Pain from rectum to genitals. Flatus felt in back. Diarrhoea worse fruits; does
not weaken. Sickening pain in spleen on walking fast. Undulating sensation arising from.

Urinary
Frequent urging to urinate with drawing in the region of the bladder. Pain in urethra as from
subcutaneous ulceration. Urine; profuse; foul, greenish.

Male
*Drawing from spermatic cord into abdomen and thighs. Testes; swollen, painful, drawn up,
feel crushed. Glans feels crushed. Testes indurated; pain alternately. Orchitis. Itching,
wrinkled, sweaty, scrotum. Hydrocele; of boys; from birth.

Female
Suppressed menses. Fever; with headache, with each menstrual period. Serous cysts in
vagina. Burning in uterine region, after parturition, alternating with pain in limbs, fingers
spasmodically flexed.

Respiratory
Bruised, sprained feeling in chest. Breathless and speechless, from violent pleuritic pains,
running down anterior chest.

Heart
Warm undulation at heart. Heartbeat strong.

Back and Neck

Neck and nape stiff. Sacrum pains worse sitting.

Extremities
Bruised, sprained feeling in wrist. Hands feel warm in cold weather. Lower legs; cold, skin
wrinkled, feel as if asleep. As of a weight hanging to feet. Rheumatic tearing in all limbs.
Drawing, tearing in periosteum of long bones. Rheumatism of hot weather. Feet cold even in
warm room, even in bed. Pain in tendo achilles on stepping.

Sleep
Cannot sleep unless legs are crossed. Awakes, as if called.

Fever
Formication and itching of skin with sweat.

Related
Rhus‐t.

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Rhus Toxicodendron [Rhus‐t]

Generalities
This remedy is an irritating agent to the ***SKIN esp. of face, scalp, *genitals; affects the
*fibrous tissue, *ligaments and joints causing ***RHEUMATIC SYMPTOMS; it is an infective
agent producing ***TYPHOID LIKE FEVERS. Affections of ***NERVES and ***SPINAL CORD
give rise to ***PARETIC EFFECTS. ***GLANDS are swollen, hot and painful; indurated;
suppurating. Symptoms appear on the left side or go from left to right. ***PAINS ARE
TEARING, ***SHOOTING; STITCHING; worse ***AT NIGHT; ***CANNOT REST; in any position.
Parts feel *sore, *bruised and ***STIFF. *Pains as if the flesh was torn loose from the
bones.** Dislocative sensation. Muscles twitch. *Crawling. Numbness; of parts paralyzed.
Trembling. *Burning, *swelling, *and lividity. Mucous discharges are *acrid; *rusty red, *like
meat water; *musty; causing eruptions. Infections; septicaemia, carbuncles in early stage.
Cellulitis. Inflammation and swelling of the long bones; scraping, gnawing, tearing loose in
periosteum. Rheumatism in cold season. Post‐operative complications. Hemiplegia, right
sided; sensation as if gone to sleep. Infantile paralysis; from exposure to cold damp. Influenza.
Small‐pox. Strictures, after inflammation. Soreness of prominent projection of bones.
Paralysis; after unwanted exertion; after parturition. Boils, abscesses.

Worse
***EXPOSURE TO‐WET; ***COLD; *air; *draft; *chilled; when hot or sweaty. *Uncovering;
parts, head etc. ***BEGINNING OF MOTION. ***REST. ***BEFORE STORMS. ***SPRAINS.
*Overexertion. *After Midnight. Blows; jar. Riding. Ice cold drinks. Side lain on.

Better
*Continued motion. ***HEAT. *Hot bath; if heated. Warm wrapping. *Rubbing. Nosebleed.
Holding affected part, abdomen, head etc. Stretching limbs. Change of position. Warm dry,
weather.

Mind
*Anxious, *sadness; helplessness and *profound despondency. Low mild delirium; incoherent
talk, answers correctly but slowly, or hastily or reluctantly. Inclination to weep worse in
evening; without knowing why; with desire for solitude. Fear of being poisoned. Satiety of
life; thoughts of suicide, wants to drown himself. Forgetful cannot remember the most recent
events. Fear worse at night, cannot lie in bed. *Confusion. Anxiety, respecting one’s children.

Head
Vertigo; in the aged; whirling; then headache. Shattering or loose feeling in the brain worse
jar. Feeling as of a board strapped across the forehead. Stupefying headache; must lie down,
worse least chagrin. Painfully stiff scalp better lying on it. Head heavy.

Eyes
*Pain *behind *eyes worse motion. *Eyelids; *stiff; agglutinated; dry; firmly closed. Profuse
gush of hot tears on opening lids. Pustular inflammation. Saccular conjunctiva. Photophobia.
Iritis. Ptosis. Paralysis of any of the muscles of the eyeball. Vertical diplopia. Orbital cellulitis.
Affection of inner surface of the eyelids.

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Ears
Parotitis (left); with fever. Lobules swollen. Pain in ear with a feeling as if something were
inside. Discharge of bloody pus.

Nose
Red sensitive tip; it drips water. Sneezing, fluent coryza. Nosebleed; worse at night, stooping,
at stool, in fevers which gives relief. Violent aching in bones of the nose. Breath hot, it burns
nostrils.

Face
Jaws crack on chewing. Joints painful. Facial neuralgia with chilliness. Easy dislocation of jaws.
Cheekbones painful. Red spots on left cheek. *Stiff swollen face. Lips, dry, brownish, cracked,
at corners; crusty. Herpes on lips. Crusta lactea. Acne rosacea.

Mouth
*Sordes on teeth. Teeth feel loose and long. Bloody saliva runs during sleep. ***TONGUE;
dry, red centre; cracked, stiff, sore, has a *triangular red tip; *coated diagonally or one side
only. Feeling as if tongue covered with skin. Coppery, or herby or bitter taste. Bread tastes
bitter.

Throat
Red, puffy itching fauces. Tonsils covered with yellow membrane. Sore throat, with *swollen
glands. Difficult swallowing; of solids as from contraction; of saliva. Oesophagitis from
swallowing corrosive matter.

Stomach
Craves cold drinks, though they worse cough, chill etc. Desire; for cold milk; sweets; oysters.
Vomits; from coughing; lying on back; *faecal. Nausea; worse ice creams; after eating. Great
thirst worse at night. Drowsy after eating. Great thirst, but no appetite for any kind of food.
Pain in stomach after ice water.

Abdomen
Sore. Feeling as of water swashing in; or as of a lump in. Colic, compelling to walk bent, better
lying on abdomen. *Ileo‐ caecal symptoms; appendicitis. Stools; watery; frothy; or bloody;
foul; *meat water like; slimy, gelatinous; involuntary; in sleep at night; or with tenesmus;
worse drinking. Dysenteric diarrhoea. Piles worse lifting. Painful tenesmus without stools.
Hourglass contraction. Mucous colitis.

Urinary
Incontinence or urine worse lying, at night or sitting; in boys. Nephritis. Urine; dark, turbid,
high coloured, scanty. Frequent, profuse urination day and night.

Male
Scrotum thick, swollen, *oedematous. Prepuce oedematous. *Intense itching of genitals.
Hydrocele; from over lifting. Metastasis of mumps to testes.

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Female
Swelling; *with intense itching of vulva. Menses; too early, profuse and protracted.
Amenorrhoea; from getting wet; with milk in breast. Metritis; septic. Lochia; thin, protracted,
offensive, diminished, with shooting upwards in vagina. Prolapsus uteri from lifting or
overstraining. Frequent after pains. Violent pain in vulva during menses. Vagina sore.

Respiratory
Chest pains worse using arms. Tickling behind upper sternum; causing dry, hoarse, tearing,
tormenting cough, with bloody taste; worse during chill; or when putting hands out of bed,
after midnight to morning. Hoarseness from overstraining of voice. Sudden hypostasis or
oedema of lungs. Pleurodynia; chest pains shoot into shoulders. Haemoptysis; from
overexertion; from blowing wind instruments; blood bright. Rust coloured sputum. Larynx
cold when breathing. Hot air from trachea.

Heart
Uncomplicated hypertrophy from violent exertion. Heart feels tired; pains go down left arm.
Palpitation worse when sitting still, better walking. Trembling in heart, better walking. Pulse;
quick, weak, irregular intermittent, with numbness of left arm. Left arm aches with heart
disease.

Neck and Back

Stiff neck, with painful tension; when moving. *Inter scapular pain worse swallowing.
Contractive or breaking backache better hard pressure; lying on something hard; walking
about or bending backwards. Lumbago; Coccyx aches into thighs.

Extremities
*Numbness, and prickling in limbs. Arms nervous and shaky (left). Paralytic pains in elbows.
Rhagades on back of hands. Palms; dry, hot, cracked and sore; washing causes burning. *Pains
down back of thighs worse stools; sciatica. Legs feel dead, wooden. Cramps in calves.
Involuntary limping. Soreness of condyles of bones. Limbs stiff, paralyzed. Hot painful swelling
of joints. Pricking like pins in tips of fingers and palms when grasping. Pain along ulnar nerve.
Ulcers; on legs; gangrenous; runs bloody water; on dropsical legs. Itching of legs and feet.
Ankles swollen after too long sitting; feet swell in the evening. Paraplegia; after parturition,
sexual excess; fevers. As if walking on needles. Axillary abscess, after delivery.

Skin
*Stiff thick, dry, hot, burning; itching, worse hairy parts. Skin *sensitive to cold air.
***ERUPTIONS; *fine, ***VESICULAR; *crusty, *eczematous; *moist or ***ERYSIPELATOUS
worse genitals; alternating with dysentery. Pus erodes the hair. Vesicles over abscess. Milk
crusts. Baker’s itch. Urticaria; from getting wet; with rheumatism or during chills and fever.
Shingles.

Sleep
Awakes tired or nervous. *Dreams; *of great exertion; of blood; or fire. Yawning; frequent,
violent, spasmodic; without inclination to sleep; with stretching. Restless, tossing about.

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Fever
*Easily chilled worse least uncovering, *with pain in limbs. Chill as if dashed with cold water
or cold water in the veins; preceded by cough; alternating with heat. Chill in single parts. Heat,
with busy delirium. Typhoid. Sweat; worse during pain; with sleepiness. Urticaria during fever.
Wants to yawn and stretch during chill.

Related
Arn; Bry; Dulc.

Complementary
Bry; Calc; Mag‐c; Med; Phyt.

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Robinia [Rob]

Generalities
*Acridity and acidity are marked features of this remedy. It is therefore useful for
hyperchlorhydria, when the eructations and taste is sour and *vomiting is so sour that it sets
the teeth on edge or dulls them. Sour infants; with sour smell of the body; sour stools and
vomiting, of sour milk. Acid dyspepsia. Constant dull frontal headache worse motion and
reading. Sick headache with acid vomiting. Waterbrash. Burning in stomach and between
scapulae. Flatulence. Squeezing in stomach. Heartburn and acidity worse lying down esp. at
night.

Worse
*Eating. *Night. Fats. Cabbages. Turnips. Raw fruit. Ice creams.

Related
Iris; Mag‐c.

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Rumex Crispus [Rumx]

Generalities
It affects the *nerves, causing numerous and varied pains; neither fixed nor constant
anywhere; *sharp pains; neuralgias. *Mucous membranes of larynx, trachea, bowels and
***THROAT PIT are affected, producing *dryness and sensitiveness. Acts on joints, esp.
*ankles; skin, left side; chest. Mucous secretions decrease causing *stickiness, *with burning.
Obesity. Lymphatics enlarged and secretions perverted. Every cold affects the joints.

Worse
***COOL AIR; ***INHALING; open air; change; warm to cold; cold to warm. Uncovering.
Night. Pressure; on trachea. Talking. Deep breathing or irregular breathing. Motion. Eating;
after meals.

Better
*Covering mouth. Wrapping up.

Mind
Low spirited; with serious expression of the face. Indifferent about his surroundings.

Head
Darting sharp pain in the left side.

Eyes
Burn; indoors; puffed up in a.m.

Nose
Feeling of dryness in posterior nares. Sneezing attacks; fluent coryza. Itching that extends
from the end of the nose to pharynx.

Face
Sodden. Pale, while standing.

Mouth
Toothache entirely better after dinner; rinsing mouth with cold water.

Throat
Hawks much tenacious mucus. Throat feels hollow. Lump not better by hawking, descends
and rises again after swallowing.

Stomach
Ravenous appetite. As of a hard substance in the pit of stomach. Pain in the left breast after
meals. Talking worse stomach symptoms. Gastralgia; aching through the back, obliged to
breath deeply. Tight suffocative heavy ache in epigastrium, to back; clothes feel tight. Eating
meat causes eructation and pruritus. Nausea better by eructations.

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Abdomen
Creeping near navel better by discharge of offensive flatus. *Stools; *sudden; profuse; *foul;
painless; brown black, or thin watery, driving him out of bed; in *the morning (5 to 9 a.m.); in
phthisis, after catarrh. Itching in anus with sensation as of a stick in rectum. Annoying
rumbling flatulence; in women.

Urinary
Sudden urging; involuntary with cough.

Female
Pain right ovary to back.

Respiratory
***EVERY BREATH OF COLD AIR, ***CAUSES TICKLING, *as from a feather or dust in
***THROAT PIT AND CONTINUOUS COUGH better *closing or covering the mouth or head,
worse touching throat pit; lying on left side. Dry teasing cough preventing sleep. Profuse
frothy, thin expectoration. Sputum comes by mouthfuls. Dyspnoea on retiring. Suffocative
choking. Respiration worse in wind. Cough provoked by changing rooms, by change from cold
to warm and warm to cold. Pain, rawness or burning under clavicle as if the air penetrated
there worse hawking. *Pain; *under sternum; under right nipple. Burning sticking pain in left
chest near the heart, worse deep breathing. Barking cough. Cough comes regularly at l p.m.,
2 and 5 a.m.; children. Cough daytime only. Cough worse during early pregnancy may cause
miscarriage. Clavicular pain worse hawking.

Heart
Feels as if suddenly stopped followed by heavy throbbing through the chest.

Back
Pain under scapulae; *right.

Extremities
Pain in left shoulder on coughing, on raising arms. Hands cold when coughing. Spasmodic
cramps in ankles and feet.

Skin
Intense itching worse lower limbs; worse exposure to cold air or undressing. Acne vulgaris on
back.

Sleep
Sudden sleepiness.

Fever
Sweat on waking from a sound sleep.

Related
Caust; Seneg.

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Ruta Graveolens [Ruta]

Generalities
This remedy has a special affinity for *fibrous tissue; *flexor tendons; *joints; *ankles; *wrists;
*cartilages; *periosteum; *uterus and skin. It is the chief remedy for injured or bruised bones;
therefore the pains are ***BRUISED; ***SORE, ***ACHING WITH RESTLESSNESS. *Feeling of
intense painful weariness. *Heaviness; as of a weight in forehead or hanging to feet; or lower
limbs. *As of a rough blunt plug in part, head, nose etc. *Paralytic rigidity. Distortions.
*Gnawing‐burning pains, neuralgia. Rheumatism. Formation of deposits or nodes in the
periosteum, tendons and about the joints esp. wrists. Ill effects of bruises, fractures; carrying
heavy weights. Lameness after sprains. Bones brittle. Lain on parts become sore; even in bed.
Feeling of intense lassitude, weakness and despair.

Worse
*Overexertion, injury; *sprains. ***EYE STRAIN. ***COLD‐air; *damp, wind; wet. ***LYING.
***SITTING. *Pressure on an edge. Stooping. During menses. Uncooked or indigestible food.
Exertion; ascending, descending steps.

Better
*Lying on back. *Warmth. Motion. Rubbing. Scratching.

Mind
*Dissatisfied with himself and others, and disposed to weep. Suspicious, imagines that he is
always being deceived. Fretful, quarrels and contradicts.

Head
Aches as if a nail is driven into it. Stitches worse reading.

Eyes
Red, hot and painful, from reading fine print, sewing. *Vision dim. Lachrymation. Itching inner
canthi. Asthenopia. Spasm in lower eyelids, when it ceases, lachrymation starts.

Ears
Pain as from a blunt piece of wood.

Nose
Sweat on. Pressive aching at the root of nose; with epistaxis.

Mouth
Cramp in tongue, causing embarrassment of speech. Woody taste.

Stomach
Sudden nausea while eating; with vomiting of food. Burning_gnawing pain. Dyspepsia from
carrying heavy weight. Violent thirst for ice cold water. Nausea felt in rectum Tension in
stomach better drinking milk.

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Abdomen
Urging to stool, but only *rectum prolapses. Prolapse of rectum on stooping; after delivery,
during stools hard or soft. Faeces often escape when stooping. Painful swelling of the spleen.
Cancer of lower bowel. Stricture of rectum.

Urinary
Constant pressure on bladder as if it is full or moving up and down. Constant urging, can hardly
retain urine, if forcibly retained she could not pass afterwards, with severe pain.

Female
Corrosive leucorrhoea after irregular or suppressed menses.

Respiratory
Short breath, with tightness of chest. Weak feeling in chest after thick, yellow, sputum. Painful
spot on sternum. Ill effects of mechanical injury to chest.

Neck and Back

Weak, bruised feeling in small of back, hips and lower limbs in a.m. Coldness of spine,
downwards. Back ache better lying on back and pressure.

Extremities
*Thighs feel broken worse when stretching the legs. Sore tendons. Totters; stumbles easily.
Pains as if deep in long bones; must walk about. Nodes in palms. Ganglion of the wrist.
*Bursae. Pain in bones of the feet, cannot step heavily on them. Contractions; of fingers; of
feet, of toes. Hamstrings feel shortened. Cracking in joints worse walking in open air. Sciatica;
worse lying down, at night better during daytime. Legs give out as one attempts to rise from
a chair, has to make several attempts before one can succeed. Paralytic weakness of legs,
after spraining of the back. Legs feel weak, knees give way, while ascending and descending
stairs. Ankles swollen.

Skin
*Easily chafed; from walking, riding; also in children. Erosive itching. Flat smooth painful
warts; on palms. Itching after eating meat.

Sleep
Wakes frequently; vivid, confused dreams. Yawns, stretches and extends hands.

Fever
Frequent attacks of quick flushes of heat. Glowing heat on face, skin etc.

Related
Arn; Phyt; Ran‐sc; Symph.

Complementary
*Calc‐p.

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SABADILLA [Sabad]

Generalities
***MUCOUS MEMBRANES OF NOSE; *lachrymal glands; ***ANUS and digestive tract are
affected by this remedy. ***NERVES are affected producing weakness, nervousness; startled
easily. Nervous symptoms reflex from worms; twitching, convulsive trembling or catalepsy.
*Formication. Alternate nervous and bodily symptoms. Hysteria, after fright. Ill effects of
fright; mental exertion; thinking. Worms; causing convulsions, nymphomania etc. Imaginary
diseases. Cutting pains in bones.

Worse
***COLD‐air; drinks. *Periodically; every week, two weeks. Four weeks; *same hour;
forenoon; new and full moon. Odours; undeveloped exanthemata. Mental exertion.

Better
*Open air. *Heat. Eating. Swallowing. Quick motion of affected part.

Mind
Miserable. Timid. Easily startled. Erroneous (fixed) ideas about himself; imagines he is very
sick; that parts are sunken; limbs are crooked, chin is elongated; one side larger than the
other; that she has a cancer or is pregnant. No response to questions, loss of consciousness,
then he jumps up and runs recklessly through the room. Rage. Mania better washing head in
cold water.

Head
Vertigo, with sensation as though all things were turning around each other; sudden on
waking at night, or rising from stooping; with black vision and faintness, better resting head
on table. Unilateral head pains; or alternating sides; worse thinking. better eating. Burning,
itching, crawling on hair scalp better scratching. Headache in school girls.

Eyes
Lids red, burning. *Lachrymation; worse during pain; sneezing, coughing, yawning; when
walking in open air; during chill.

Ears
Difficulty of hearing, as if there were bands over ear.

Nose
*Persistent ***VIOLENT, or ***ABORTIVE SNEEZING. ***ITCHING; tickling in; rubs or picks at
it. Nose dry. Tickling in nose spreads over the whole body then dyspnoea. Hay fever. Influenza.
*Sensitive smell. One or the other nostril stuffed up. Fluent coryza; the discharge is worse
from the odour of flowers, even thinking of flowers increases the discharge. Cannot tolerate
the smell of garlic. Stubborn, lingering coryza. Hawks bright red blood from nasopharynx.

Face
Feels hot, fiery red. Lips hot burns as if scalded. Cracking of jaw joint on opening the mouth
wide.

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Mouth
And tongue as if they were burnt. Itching of the soft palate. Sweetish taste. Cannot bear
anything hot or cold in mouth.

Throat
Cannot protrude tongue with sore throat. As of a *lump*, morsel, thread or skin hanging in
throat, with constant inclination to swallow. Sore throat; left to right worse empty swallowing
better hot drinks. Tonsillitis after coryza.

Stomach
Craves; hot things, sweets, milk. No relish for food until she takes first mouthful then she
makes a good meal; during pregnancy. Canine hunger, for sweets and farinaceous food.
Thirstless. Coldness or empty feeling in. Aversion to all food, meat, sour things, coffee, garlic.

Abdomen
Bowels feel knotted. As of a lump or thread moving rapidly in. Burning, frothy, loose brown,
floating stools. *Crawling, *itching, *at anus; alternating with itching in nose or ears. Pin
worms.

Female
Nymphomania from worms. Menses; too late, come by fits and starts; intermit; sometimes
stronger, sometimes weaker.

Respiratory
Violent coughing attacks; muffled, worse anger; with lachrymation. Asthmatic breathing with
itching skin, nose and anus. Red spots on chest. Pleurisy with great paralytic debility.

Heart
Palpitation, with pulsations through whole body.

Extremities
Upward jerking of arms. Cracks between and under toes. Cutting pains in bones. Thick
deformed horny nails. Red spots on arms and hands. Yellow spots on fingers. Swelling of feet,
with painful soles.

Sleep
Comes on when thinking, meditating, reading.

Fever
Shivering as a concomitant. Thirst after chill only. Chill from below upwards. Lachrymation
with chill.

Skin
Itching with asthmatic breathing. Dry, like parchment.

Related
Ars; Puls; Urt‐u.

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Complementary
Sep.

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Sabal Serrulata [Sabal]

Generalities
Genito‐urinary, organs, esp., *prostate, *ovaries; *mammae, *bladder and urethra are
*especially influenced by this medicine. It is soothing to the mucous membranes and is tonic,
nutritive and stimulating to the over worked brain (use 1x). Sharp, stinging wandering pains.
Homoeopathic catheter for retention of urine due to enlarged prostate. Nervous women and
*old men. *Debility. Nervous irritability, with loss of sexual appetite in both sexes. Sexual
neurotics.

Worse
Weather‐cold, damp, cloudy. Sympathy. Before menses.

Better
After sleep.

Mind
Irritability and depression; sympathy made her angry. Broods on her own sufferings or
symptoms. Apathy. Indifference. Fears to fall asleep lest something should happen. Starts up
with fear as he is dozing.

Head
Sharp, darting pains here and there going and coming suddenly. Pain runs up nose and centres
in forehead. Headache of weak persons.

Eyes
Iritis when prostate gland is involved.

Ears
Hearing diminished; voices seem far off.

Stomach
Constant desire for milk; which is usually disliked. Acidity. Eructations.

Abdomen
Pains into thighs; radiating to different directions, settling in ovaries.

Urinary
Constant desire to pass water; at night. Enuresis, from any exertion, lifting, laughing etc.
Difficult urination; smarting, burning in urethra. Limy urinary sediment. Heavy aching pain
and sense of coldness in bladder extending to external genitals. Cystitis from prostate
hypertrophy.

Male
Testes drawn up; painfully. *Genitals cold. *Enlarged or *congested prostate; *senile.
Wasting of testes and loss of sexual power. Painful, erection or emission of semen, during
coition. Sexual neurotics. Epididymitis. Impotency. Semen thick, causes hot feeling along the
cord.

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Female
Ovaries tender and enlarged; ovarian pains running down the thighs. Vulva feels open. Female
sexual neurotics, suppressed or perverted sexual inclination. Mammae, sore tender and full
worse cold bath; or small and *undeveloped. *Genitals cold One mammae smaller than other.
Sexual passion furious.

Respiratory
Profuse expectoration with discharge from the nose. Chronic Bronchitis. Wheezing cough
worse lying down, till 6 a.m.

Back
Ache; after coition. Pain in sacral region before commencement of menses.

Sleep
Fears to fall asleep, lest something should happen; starts up with this fear when he is dozing.

Related
Sep; Sil.

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Sabina [Sabin]

Generalities
***FEMALE PELVIC ORGANS; *uterus are mostly affected by this remedy. In addition it affects
the *fibrous tissue; *of small joints;* serous membranes and heels. It is suitable to hot
blooded women with gouty rheumatic diathesis; and *haemorrhagic tendency; epistaxis,
haematuria etc. Tendency to abortion esp. at the third month. Violent pulsations; wants
windows open. Heaviness and indolence of body, wants to lie down. Red shiny swelling of
affected parts. Acutely inflamed arthritic nodes. Sense of fullness. Wart like growths. Pain
increases suddenly and decreases slowly.

Worse
*Night. ***HEAT; of bed; room; exertion. Pregnancy. Climacteric. Foggy weather. Stooping.
Letting limbs hang down. Taking a deep breath. Music.

Better
Cold. Cool. Open air. Exhalation.

Mind
Music is intolerable; produces nervousness. Melancholy. Sad.

Head
*Bursting headache; appears suddenly, diminishes slowly and returns frequently. Vertigo
with suppressed menses.

Mouth
Toothache worse only when chewing. Drawing pain in the muscles of jaws. Bitter taste; to
food esp. milk or coffee.

Stomach
Desire for lemonade. Heartburn. Pain from epigastrium to back.

Abdomen
Plethoric. Quivering as if something were alive, resembling foetal movements. Haemorrhoids
with discharge of bright red blood causing pain from sacrum to pubes. Piles alternate with
pain in limbs.

Urinary
Vesical irritability; with gouty diathesis. Bloody urine, with much urging. Throbbing, burning
at the region of kidneys.

Male
Sexual desire increased, with violent continuous erections. Sycotic excrescences; with burning
soreness. Hard swelling on dorsum of penis.

Female
*Itching genitals; almost insatiable desire for coition. Menses; too profuse, too early; *gushing
of hot, *bright, *watery blood;* mixed with dark clots, worse least motion but often better

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by walking; with pain in joints; ***WITH PAIN FROM SACRUM TO PUBES or *Reverse; or
*shooting up vagina. Bleeding between periods; with sexual excitement. Leucorrhoea; foul,
acrid, thick, yellow, from suppressed menses, or copious menses; with itching of pudenda;
during pregnancy. Pruritus of pregnancy. Retained placenta. Severe after pains. Promotes
expulsion of moles. Crawling in nipples. Haemorrhages after abortion. Ovaritis and Metritis
after abortion; premature labour. Dysmenorrhoea better lying flat on the back, with limbs
extended. Voluptuous itching in nipples.

Heart
Violent pulsation in blood vessels in whole body.

Back
Pain from lumbar region to pubis or reverse.

Extremities
Swelling, redness and stitches in right big toe. Shooting in heels. Diminishes knots, and
enlargements and varices in veins. Intermittent aching in the solar part of the heels.

Fever
Intolerable burning heat of whole body, with great restlessness.

Skin
Foul, itching, burning, moist figwarts. Black pores in skin, esp. face.

Related
Ars; Caul; Puls.

Complementary
Thuj.

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Salicylicum Acidum [Sal‐ac]

Generalities
In ordinary practice it is used as an acute rheumatic remedy. In homoeopathy it is useful in
Meniere’s disease. Roaring and ringing in the ears. Deafness with vertigo. Effects of
suppressed foot sweats.

Worse
Motion. Night. Cold air.

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Salix Nigra [Salx‐n]

Generalities
It reduces the irritability of sexual organs of both the sexes. Satyriasis and erotomania.
Seminal emissions in presence of woman or when talking with her. Libidinous thoughts and
dreams. Use material doses of tincture. 30 drops.

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Sambucus Nigra [Samb]

Generalities
It acts upon *respiratory organs, kidneys and the skin. *Profuse sweat or shortness of breath;
accompany many symptoms. Oedematous swelling; in various parts of the body esp. legs,
instep and feet. Snuffles in infants preventing breathing and nursing. General trembling with
anxiety. Ill effects of fright; grief; anxiety; excessive sexual indulgence. Suited to persons
previously robust and fleshy suddenly become emaciated.

Worse
Dry cold air. Cold drinks, while heated. Head low. Eating fruits. Lying down. Rest.

Better
Pressure over a sharp edge. Motion. Wrapping up. Sitting up in bed.

Mind
Constant fretfulness. Easily frightened. Fright followed by suffocative attacks. Sees images
when shutting eyes.

Eyes
Half open in sleep. Photophobia.

Nose
Dry coryza, with snuffles; in infants.

Face
Pale, bluish, puffy worse coughing. Hot; with icy cold feet.

Mouth
Half open, in sleep.

Urinary
Acute nephritis. Dropsical symptoms with vomiting of bile, and distress in stomach after
eating. Profuse urination with a sensation of heat in the body. Urine frequent and scanty.

Male
Hydrocele, from injury.

Female
Debilitating sweats, after child birth.

Respiratory
***SUDDEN SUFFOCATION; or *strangling cough on falling to sleep; or *waking him at
midnight with violent sweat;* worse fright. Whistling breathing spasms of glottis. Screeching
voice. Croup. Spells of coughing; before fever.

Extremities
Icy cold feet. Hands become blue. Dropsy of legs and feet.

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Fever
*Dry burning heat during sleep, but *copious sweating on awakening. *Sweat with cough.
Debilitating sweat; worse night.

Related
Bell; Brom.

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Sanguinaria Canadensis [Sang]

Generalities
Commonly known as blood root, is a ***RIGHT SIDED remedy, affecting the *head, ***LIVER;
chest and deltoid. It produces ***VASO‐MOTOR DISTURBANCES, as is seen in circumscribed
*redness of the cheeks, abdomen, tongue etc.; *congestion of blood to head, chest, abdomen
etc.; flushes of heat and *general pulsations. ***BURNING HEAT AND EBULLITIONS. Mucous
membranes become dry. *Burning; in throat, under sternum; spots or stitches in chest;
*palms and soles. Burnt feeling; in tongue. *Symptoms ascend or end in bilious vomiting.
Internal rawness. Acrid, blood streaked or foul discharge. Lies on back with head elevated.
Climacteric disorders. Bilious. Pains increase and decrease with the sun. Sudden stopping of
catarrh of respiratory tract followed by diarrhoea. Polypi, nasal, uterine. Fungus excrescences.
Sick and faint from odour of flowers. Pains in places where bones are least covered.

Worse
*Periodically‐with sun; weekly; night. *Climaxis. *Odours. *Jar. *Light. Sweets. Motion.
Looking up. Touch. Raising arms.

Better
*Sleep. Lying on back. Vomiting. Cool air. Passing flatus. Sour things. Lying on left side.

Mind
Irritable, morose. Grumbling. Borrows trouble. Lassitude, indisposed to move or make any
mental effort.

Head
Pain over right eye; or ***ASCENDING FROM OCCIPUT TO OVER RIGHT EYE. Hemicrania,
increases and decreases with the sun. Distension of veins in the temples. Pain in the occiput
like a flash of lightning. Vertigo worse looking up and moving head rapidly. Headache if he
goes without food. Headache better sleep, vomiting and passing of copious flow of urine.

Eyes
Burning in. Eyeballs painful on moving them. Hard swelling over eyebrows. Lachrymation with
coryza, tears hot.

Ears
Burning in. Earache, with headache. Humming and roaring in the ear; painfully sensitive to
sounds, at climaxis.

Nose
*Pain at the root of nose. Coryza; stopped, then diarrhoea. Nasal polypi. Rose‐cold, with
subsequent asthma. Sensitive to odours. Loss or perverted sense of smell, smell in nose like
roasted onion.

Face
*Redness and burning of cheeks. Hectic flush, red cheeks. Neuralgia in upper jaw; radiating,
better by kneeling down and pressing the head firmly on the floor. Fullness and tenderness
behind angle of jaw.

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Mouth
Burnt feeling in tongue. Anterior tongue looks red like raw beef. Sweet things taste bitter.
Palate feels scalded. Toothache from picking teeth.

Throat
Sore, swollen, (right); pains to ear and chest. Burning worse eating sweet things. Dryness of
singers.

Stomach
Craves; spices; knows not for what. Aversion to butter. Nausea; with salivation; worse
sneezing or blowing nose, better eating; followed by urticaria. Spitting of bile; gastroduodenal
catarrh. Stomach pains to right shoulder.

Abdomen
Tension in epigastrium. Feeling as of hot water pouring from breast to abdomen followed by
diarrhoea. Bilious, liquid, gushing stools. Flatulent distension; with escape of flatus from
vagina. Jaundice. Cancer of rectum.

Urinary
Urine dark yellow, with jaundice. Copious and frequent, clear worse at night.

Female
Climacteric disorders; esp. flushes of heat and foetid, acrid leucorrhoea. Soreness under
nipple (right). Menses; offensive, profuse. Uterine polypi. Mammae sore; and enlarged; at
climaxis.

Respiratory
Larynx, full and dry; in singers. Cough; raises foul air; dry; from tickling behind the sternum;
must sit up in bed; passes flatus with; better from passing flatus up and down. Expectoration;
tough, rusty coloured, purulent; which worse. Burning in chest; as of a hot steam extending
to abdomen, with cough. Cough, after influenza or whooping cough; returns after every fresh
cold. Pain in right chest (from breast) to shoulder. Pneumonia. Phthisis. Asthma; from
disturbed digestion, with acrid eructations.

Heart
Weak feeling; irregular action.

Extremities
Itching in axilla worse before menses. Cutting pain or stiffness in right deltoid worse raising
or turning arm. Rheumatism of right shoulder and left hip joint. Pain in shoulder worse night.
Pain in bone near surface. Neuritis better by touching the part. Burning of palms and soles,
worse covers; at climaxis. Palms wrinkled. Aching and swelling of ball of thumb (right). Pain in
arm better swinging arm to and fro.

Fever
*Flushes of heat, *rising into face and head; with headache. Sweat; burning, scanty.

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Skin
Dry; of jaundice. Acne; with scanty menses. Prickling heat spreading over body.

Related
Bell; Phos.

Complementary
Ant‐t; Phos.

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Sanicula (Aqua) [Sanic]

Generalities
This mineral spring water affects the *nutrition; *female organs, *rectum, *neck and skin.
Patients are thin and look old, esp. children. *Marasmus. Body smells like old cheese. Child
kicks off covers at night; wants to lie on something hard though thin. Clothes feel cold, damp.
Enlarged feeling; in throat, vagina etc. Thick acrid yellow pus. Can not bear to have one part
touch another; or cannot lie near another person. Bursting; in perineum, bowels, bladder;
vertex, chest. Car or sea sickness. Shifting pains.

Worse
Strain. *Motion; raising arm; putting hands behind. Descending. Cold wind on occiput or neck.
Jarring.

Better
Open air. Warmth. Vomiting.

Mind
Headstrong, obstinate, touchy; children. Constant desire to look behind. Irritable‐least word
or action would upset her. Misconstrues everything. Crossness quickly alternating with
playfulness; in children. Dread of downward motion. Fear of the dark. Does not want to be
touched. Restless desire to go from place to place. Instability of purpose.

Head
Cannot bear cold air on occiput and neck. Profuse sweat on occiput and neck worse during
sleep. Electric crackling in hair, when combed. Profuse scab dandruff; falling of hair. Bursting
in vertex. Cold cloth around brain as if. Small boils on head that do not mature.

Eyes
Lids stick to the balls. Lachrymation in cold open air or cold application. Dandruff of the
eyebrows.

Nose
Fluent coryza worse eating. Water smells like old musty rain water.

Mouth
Tongue; large, flabby; burning, must protrude to keep it cool; ringworm on tongue. Mouth
and palate covered with ulcers; white aphthae. Sides of tongue turn up. Tongue adheres to
the roof.

Throat
Cold, icy sensation in; peppermint like; feels too large. Can swallow solids better than fluids.

Stomach
Child wants to nurse all the time yet loses flesh. Craves; salt, bacon or ice cold milk. Thirst
little and often; water is vomited as soon as it reaches the stomach. Vomiting of curdy milk.
Falls asleep after vomiting. Eating causes urging for stool, must leave the table.

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Abdomen
Loud gurgling; pot bellied children. *Stool; *of one large heavy mass; foul like rotten cheese,
dry, small balls, must be removed, or crumbles at the verge of anus. Pain, bursting in perineum
during stools. Stools; misshapen, changeable, involuntary.

Urinary
Child cries before urinating; strains to urinate while at stools. Briny urine. Bursting in bladder
with urgent call to pass urine. Frequent, profuse, sudden urination; urging ceases if desire is
resisted. Urine stains diaper red.

Male
Briny odour of the genitals; few hours after coition.

Female
Leucorrhoea; with strong odour of fish‐brine worse stools. Bearing down as if contents of
pelvis would escape; worse jar, walking. Supports the relaxed parts by placing the hand
against vulva, better rest. Vagina feels large, cannot stop menstruation. Os cervix open and
dilated as if.

Neck and Back

Neck weak and emaciated; child cannot hold its head, *stiff backache worse least turning,
raising arms or *putting hands behind him; must turn whole body to look around, sits, head
forward to ease the pain. Cold lumbar spine. Lumbago; better lying on right side. Lumbar
vertebras as if dislocated, or were gliding past each other. As if back is broken in two pieces.
As if damp cloth on sacrum.

Extremities
Pain in shoulders worse raising arms or putting them behind back. Cold clammy hands and
feet. Burning of palms and soles. Cramps in feet. Foul foot sweat; chafes toes, destroys shoes
or stiffens the hose. Feet as if in cold water. Hands become sweaty when putting them
together.

Sleep
On awakening child rubs eyes and nose with its fist. Dreams of robbers.

Fever
Sweat sticky.

Skin
Dry, brownish, flabby worse neck. Fissured hands and fingers. Skin about neck wrinkled and
hangs in folds. Tendency to small boils which do not mature.

Related
Lyc; Psor; Sulph.

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Santoninum [Sant]

Generalities
The favourite anthelmintic produces colour blindness and yellow vision.

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Sarsaparilla [Sars]

Generalities
This remedy was used as a restorative and blood purifier after exhausting course of mercury.
It meets syphilitic, sycotic and psoric constitutions. Its chief centre of action is on the *genito‐
urinary organs; skin; bones, right lower extremity. It is suited to *thin; *frail; *shrivelled, old
looking persons, esp. children with enlarged abdomen. Marasmus; emaciation. Parts feel
screwed together. Nightly bone pains. Pains shoot in different directions and are
accompanied by depression and anxiety. As if salt were put upon the wound. Lithic diathesis,
*itching eruptions; following hot weather and vaccinations. *Very sore gouty nodes.
Rheumatism. Clears the complexion.

Worse
*At the dose of urination. Spring. Cold, wet. Mercury. Night. Suppressed gonorrhoea.
Yawning. Motion. Going up and down stairs.

Better
Uncovering neck and chest. Standing.

Mind
Depression and anxiety from pain. Thinking about the food he has been eating causes nausea.
Easily offended. Taciturn. Despondent, gloomy without any cause.

Head
Pains from occiput to eyes, or to root of nose. As if ball was striking in head when talking. As
of a painful tight band around the head, removes the hat involuntarily without better .

Eyes
Foggy vision worse seminal emission. Itch like eruptions on eyelids.

Ears
Words reverberate in.

Nose
Stoppage for years. Swelling at the root of nose.

Face
Eruptions on face and upper lips; worse during menses. Yellow, wrinkled, old looking.

Mouth
Aphthae; salivation. Offensive breath. Pain in jaw worse bending head back.

Stomach
After a meal, sensation of emptiness, as while fasting or else nausea or disgust when thinking
of what has been eaten. Drinking water causes vomiting.

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Abdomen
Colic and backache at the same time, with diarrhoea. Rumbling with sensation of emptiness.
Sand in stools. Moist eruptions and soreness in groins before menses. Cholera infantum.
Obstinate constipation with frequent want to urinate.

Urinary
*Painful urination, *extorts screams worse at the close of urination. Can pass urine only when
standing; during the day but at night urine flows freely in bed; it dribbles while sitting. Urging
to urinate before menses. Passes drops of blood or white acrid material at the close of
urination. Sand on diaper. Air passes from bladder during urination. *Crusty urinary sediment.
Pain in urethra going back to abdomen. Jerking along the urethra. Renal colic (right). Pus in
urine.

Male
Genitals moist and offensive. Semen bloody. Spermatic cord, painful after emission; swollen
after unrequited sexual excitement. Herpes preputialis. Jerking along urethra. Itching on
scrotum and perineum.

Female
Nipples retracted or cracked, small and shrivelled. Menses late and scanty. Dysmenorrhoea,
characterised by retracted nipples, or sore breast.

Neck and Back

Emaciation of neck. Pain from small of back down the spermatic cord; after emission.
Backache with colic.

Extremities
Cutting under nails. *Deep cracks on fingers and toes worse sides. Ulcerated finger tips.
Affections of any kind in general, in right lower extremity.

Sleep
Yawning; complaints concomitant to yawning.

Fever
Chill starts from region of bladder, to back.

Skin
Emaciated, shrivelled, lies in folds; *blotchy, hard. Itching scaly spots. Irritating pus. Copper
coloured eruptions. Ecchymoses, in old age. Oedema. New skin cracks and burns.

Related
Calc; Petr.

Complementary
Merc; Sep.

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Scoparius [Scopar]

Generalities
It is a *heart tonic; affects the *kidneys; cord; muscles and left side. It increases the strength
of the heart, reduces blood pressure. Irregular heart action from influenza or other infectious
diseases. Relieves the congestion of kidneys enabling them to eliminate and relieve the
distress upon the heart. Heavy aching.

Worse
Turning on left side.

Better
Cool air. Rapid motion. Passing flatus.

Abdomen
Stomach and bowels seem to be filled with stones or as a firm mass. *Flatulency; with much
mental depression. Colic, then bright acrid foaming stools followed by burning in anus.

Urinary
*Very profuse, bright foaming urine, then burning in pudendum.

Heart
Anxious oppression, radiating to left shoulder and neck. Palpitation, with congestion to head.
Angina Pectoris. Tobacco heart.

Extremities
Deadness of right arm and fingers.

Skin
Barber’s itch.

Related
Phos.

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Secale Cornutum [Sec]

Generalities
A vegetable nosode called ergot, contracts the *muscles of ***BLOOD, ***VESSELS and
UTERUS; decomposes the ***BLOOD; producing *haemorrhage which is thin, foetid, watery,
black, oozing continuously. Twitchings; spasms, with fingers spread apart. Gnawing and
*cramps; with stiffness; in single parts or after the pains. *Numbness. Insufferable *tingling,
*crawling, starting in face; or back; in the limbs; in finger tips, better rubbing. *Sensation of
burning in the whole body or as of sparks falling on them, or here and there; like fire.
*Discharges are dark, *thin, foul and exhausting.* Tetanic spasms with full consciousness.
Rapid emaciation; of paralyzed part; or with much appetite and excessive thirst. Loss of power
of voluntary motion. Feels as if walking on velvet. Coldness; but does not want to be covered
up. Convulsive jerks and starts in the paralyzed limbs. Neuralgia caused by pressure of
distended veins. Varicoses. Thrombosis. Lymphoid tumours. Sensation of deadness; in any
part. Gangrene; traumatic; from application of leeches or mustard, better cold. It is suited to
irritable plethoric subjects; or to thin, scrawny, feeble women of cachetic appearance; to very
old decrepit persons. Petechiae. Small wounds bleed much. Everything feels loose and open.
Contracted arterioles. Chronic, sharp, stinging neuralgic pains, which burn like fire better
application of heat. Paralysis; with distorted limbs; of lower extremities; of one side; of one
arm or one leg; with tingling, numbness and prickling. Paralysis after spasms. Restlessness,
extreme debility; and prostration. Collapse.

Worse
***WARMTH. Just before or during menses. Pregnancy. Loss of fluids. COVERS. Touch. Eating.
Sexual excess. After abortion. Smokers.

Better
*Cold‐bathing; uncovering, fanning. Rocking. *Forcible stretching. Lying doubled up in bed.
After vomiting.

Mind
Weakness of; after spasms; after exhausting coition. Madness, inclination to bite or drown
himself. *Maniacal fear; or depressed by fear. Puerperal mania exposes the body, tears at the
genitals, inserts her finger into the vagina and scratches until it bleeds; all idea of modesty
lost. Laughs, claps her hand over head, seems besides herself.

Head
Feels light or heavy with tingling in legs. Twisting of head to and fro. Falling of hair.

Eyes
Sparks before the eyes. Senile, incipient cataract esp. in women. Sunken; surrounded by blue
rings. Paralysis of upper lid; from coal gas. Tears suppressed. Double or triple vision. Blindness.
Diabetic retinitis.

Ears
Hardness of hearing, after cholera.

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Nose
Bleeds persistently; blood; dark; with great prostration, in old people, drunkards or young
women.

Face
Distorted or sunken, pale, pinched. Wild look. Tingling or twitching in face; which spreads all
over the body. Lock‐jaw.

Mouth
Tongue; dry, cracked, exudes blood inky black; stiff, with tingling at tip; feels paralyzed;
stuttering indistinct speech.

Throat
Painful tingling; burning. Post diphtheritic paralysis.

Stomach
*Thirst; unquenchable. Unnatural ravenous appetite; craves sour things and lemonade.
Vomiting; of dark brown, coffee‐ground fluid. Empty retchings. Burning. Nausea, easy
vomiting. Haematemesis.

Abdomen
Excessively inflated and tight; *wants uncovered.* Empty feeling in hypogastrium; or bearing
down; must lie doubled up in bed. Gushing, offensive; painless, watery, olive‐green or bloody
stools; with collapse; icy coldness and intolerance of being covered. Anus feels loose, and
wide open; faeces pass involuntarily. Twitching of abdominal muscles. Formation of large
lumps and swelling in abdomen.

Urinary
Enuresis in old people. Bloody urine, white cheesy deposit. Urine; suppressed, pale, watery.
Retention, with unsuccessful urging.

Female
Menses; irregular, copious, dark, continuous oozing of watery, foetid, blood; until next period,
Inert uterus, or *bearing down* with coldness. Contracted uterus; hour‐glass contraction.
Brownish, offensive, continuous, leucorrhoea. Threatened abortion; at the third month. Dark,
offensive, green lochia. Septic placenta. Metritis. Gangrene of female organs. Severe after‐
pains. Suppression of milk,with stinging in mammae. Never well since abortion. Vagina hot or
cool. Puerperal fever. Prolapsus uterus after forceps delivery.

Respiratory
Pains through chest, on pressing spine. Burning in lungs.

Heart
Palpitation of heart after sexual excess; in males. Pulse intermittent.

Neck and Back

Tingling in back extending to fingers and toes. Pressure on affected portion causes pain there
as well as through the chest. Myelitis.

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Extremities
Limbs cold. Bluish fingers and toes. *Cramps in hands; *legs and feet. *Fingers spread apart,
bent backwards or clenched, look water soaked. Fingers feel fuzzy; of smokers. Cramps in
calves. Trembling, staggering or shuffling gait, as if feet were dragged along. Toes drawn up.
Locomotor ataxia. Paraplegia. Hands and feet cold and dry, of smokers.

Sleep
Insomnia of drug and liquor habitues. Deep, lethargic.

Fever
***INTERNAL BURNING; ***WITH ICY COLDNESS EXTERNALLY, ***YET AVERSE To BEING
COVERED worse *abdomen. Heat as of sparks. Erysipelas. Cold or foul sweat destroys shoes.

Skin
Boils with green pus; matures slowly. Bloody blisters. Skin *cold, *dry, wrinkled or bluish; Agg.
over affected part. Raynaud’s disease. Oedema neonatorum. Ulcers, foul, indolent; varicose.
Twitchings or quivering in skin. Formication under the skin.

Related
Chin; Merc; Nux‐m; Puls; Ust.

Complementary
Ars; Thuj.

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Selenium [Sel]

Generalities
This element is found associated with Sulphur and Tellurium, and is a constant constituent of
bones and teeth. It has marked effects on the *nerves ***OF GENITO‐URINARY ORGANS and
supra orbital (left); ***LARYNX and liver are also affected. Patient becomes *easily debilitated
by heat or hot weather; a little mental or physical exertion makes him sleepy. Debility after
exhausting diseases; after fevers. Senility; early. *Emaciation; of single parts, face, hands,
thighs etc. Pulsation in the whole body esp. in abdomen; worse eating. Cramps; then stiffness.
Biting; here and there. Ill effects of debauchery, tea, sugar, salt, lemonade, loss of vital fluids,
masturbation, sexual excess, over‐study. Troubles in general accompanying escape of semen
esp. when straining at stool.

Worse
Hot days. Loss of sleep; night watching. Touch. *After sleep. *Singing. *Draft of air, even if
warm. After stools. Coition. Wine.

Better
After sunset. Inhaling cool air. Drinking cold water.

Mind
Total unfitness for any kind of work. Forgetful in business remembers all that he has forgotten
during sleep. Talkativeness, when excited; stammers, pronounces some words incorrectly.
Sadness. Difficult comprehension. Forgetful when awakes, and dreams of it as he falls half
asleep. Lascivious thoughts, with impotency. Imagines drafts or air. Fails to understand what
he hears or reads. Aversion, to draft, of air, warm cold or damp. Dread of society.

Head
Pain over left eye Agg. walking in the sun; strong odours like musk, rose and tea, with
increased secretion of urine. Nervous headaches. Scalp feels gathered together. Falling of
hair; from eyebrows, whiskers and genitals. Does not want hair touched. Pain in the scalp as
if hair were pulled out.

Ears
Deafness from hardened wax.

Nose
Coryza ending in diarrhoea. Inclination to bore fingers in the nose. Obstruction of nose;
chronic. Full of thick glairy mucous.

Face
Emaciated. Comedones. Greasy, shining.

Mouth
Toothache, from drinking tea; with a feeling of coldness better taking cold water or air in
mouth.

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Stomach
Thirstless. Craves stimulants, brandy, tea etc. Aversion to saltish food. Pulsation all over the
body esp. in abdomen after eating which hinders sleep. Sweetish taste. Irresistible desire to
get drunk.

Abdomen
Chronic liver affections. Liver enlarged, with stitching pain Agg. inspiration, and a fine rash
over liver region. Stools; very large, impacted, so hard that requires mechanical aid. Filament
like hair in faeces.

Urinary
Urine; involuntary, dribbling. When walking; after urination and after stool. Coarse sand in
urine. As if biting drop forcing its way.

Male
*Lascivious but impotent. Increases desire, decreases ability. Semen dribbles during sleep.
*Easy loss of semen; during coition, with feeble erection, but long continued voluptuous thrill;
during stools. Semen watery, odourless. Chronic gleet. Oozing of prostatic fluid, during sleep,
while sitting, walking and at stool. Hydrocele.

Female
Copious menses of dark colour. Throbbing in abdomen during pregnancy, Agg. eating.

Respiratory
*Voice hoarse,*‐as soon as he begins to sing, talk or read; affected by even cold. Voice rattles.
Nodes on vocal cords. Hawks up clear mucus; in the morning. Frequent necessity to clear the
throat; in singers. Takes deep breath. Tubercular laryngitis. Dry hacking cough Agg. in the
morning. Expectoration of lumps of bloody mucus. Weak feeling in the chest.

Neck and Back

The back becomes almost paralytic after a temporary illness. Glands of neck large and hard.
Paralytic pain in small of back better lying on abdomen.

Extremities
Emaciation of hands; of legs. Sudden sciatic pain (left) leaves soreness behind.

Sleep
Is prevented by pulsations all over the body esp. in abdomen. Awakes early and at the same
hour.

Fever
*Sweat, profuse; yellow, *leaves a salty deposit; stiffens the linen or makes the hair stiff and
wiry; Agg. genitals.

Skin
Itching about ankles and about fold of skin. Oily. Remains moist after scratching. Burning
spots. Crusty eruptions on palms. Psoriasis of palms. Acne.

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Related
Calc‐c; Merc; Nat‐m; Nux‐v; Sep; Sulph.

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Senecio [Senec]

Generalities
In eclectic practice it is considered as a regulator of menstrual function, therefore it has a
marked action on ***FEMALE and ***URINARY ORGANS esp. bladder. Affection of *mucous
glands causes catarrhal condition of mucous membranes esp. of vagina, bladder and
respiratory tract. Lack of reaction in genito‐urinary tract. *Debilitating or vicarious
*discharges. Tightness in nose, throat etc. Muscles draw into a knot. Globus. Ill effects of
suppressed or delayed menses; wounds. *Nervous, *pale, *weak and sleepless hysterical
women. *Haemorrhagic tendency; from other organs esp. with suppressed or delayed
menses. Dropsy, after haemorrhage.

Worse
Puberty. Sexual excitement. Dampness. Cold open air. Sitting, must move about (mind).

Better
Menstruation.

Mind
Very irritable, whining. Inability to fix mind upon any one subject. Self centered. Elated and
sad alternately.

Head
Wave‐like sensation of dizziness from occiput to sinciput. Sharp pain over left eye and through
left temple. Headache precedes leucorrhoea and irritation in bladder.

Eyes
Tears causing itching.

Ears
Itching in Eustachian tube.

Nose
Burning in nostrils. Sneezing, with burning in nose. Tightness in nasal passage. Epistaxis or
nasal catarrh take the place of menses when suppressed from any cause. Coryza with
nosebleed.

Face
Twitching about mouth.

Throat
Feels dry and tight, wants to swallow; though painful.

Stomach
Aversion to all food esp. sweets and coffee which she was very fond of. Nausea and vomiting
of renal origin. Sensation of a ball rising from stomach to throat.

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Abdomen
Pain about umbilical region, spreading in all directions better stools; bending double. Ascites
from suppressed menses. Stools; thin, watery, mingled with hard lumps of faeces; or thin,
dark, bloody with tenesmus.

Urinary
Heat in neck of bladder; and constant urging with renal pain. Urine; bloody; very hot or with
much mucus sediment. Renal colic (right). Nephritis. *Dysuria, in women with
dysmenorrhoea, or uterine displacement and in children, with headache.

Male
Lascivious dreams; with involuntary emissions. Prostate gland enlarged, feels hard and
swollen to touch.

Female
*Functional amenorrhoea of young girls with backache. Menses; retarded; suppressed, with
concomitant symptoms; dropsy, cough, backache etc. Profuse flow of mucous from vagina,
from sexual excitation. Sexual irritation causing, itching, burning and swelling of labia. Pains
from ovaries to breasts. Leucorrhoea; thick, yellow, profuse, *flows down thighs. Feels as if
menses would come. Burning in left nipple. Menorrhagia, a copious flow which continues until
they become anaemic. Dysmenorrhoea; after abortion.

Respiratory
Cough tickling with blood‐streaked sputum; with suppressed menses. Haemoptysis, with
suppressed menses. Loose cough with copious mucous expectoration and laboured
breathing.

Back
*Lumbar backache, *as if to break; *with amenorrhoea. Renal disease.

Extremities
Wandering rheumatic pains; periodical. Feet cold in bed. Brittle nails.

Sleep
Many dreams; erotic. Sleepless women with uterine troubles and amenorrhoea. Drowsy
during day.

Fever
Hectic fever, with anorexia.

Skin
Dry.

Related
Puls; Sep.

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Senega [Seneg]

Generalities
Known as Snake‐root, affects the *MUCOUS MEMBRANES causing catarrhal symptoms esp.
of the respiratory tract; and bladder. *Eyes; serous membranes of ***CHEST; muscles and
left side are also affected. It is suited to plethoric persons; or persons tending to obesity; tall,
slender, sprightly women; old persons and *fat chubby children. Paretic states esp., of ocular
muscles and distinct eye symptoms. Circumscribed spots left in chest after inflammation.
Weakness seems to originate in the chest. Faintness when walking in open air. Burning in *air
passages. Laxity of tissues. Profuse albuminous secretions. Ill effects of poisonous bites.
Sprains. Sensation of trembling, without visible trembling.

Worse
*Air‐inhaling, open; cold; wind. *Touch. Pressure. *Rest. Looking fixedly. Walking in open air;
(dyspnoea, cough). Rubbing.

Better
Bending head backwards, (vision). Sweat. Walking in open air; (pains).

Mind
Anxiety; with hasty respiration. Readily takes offence.

Head
Bursting pain in forehead, into eyes; better cool open air.

Eyes
Balls feel distended or like balls of ice. Tremble and water, when looking fixedly or reading.
Objects look shaded. Lachrymation, ptosis and diplopia, better bending head backwards.
Blepharitis, lids dry and crusty. Oculomotor paralysis. Absorbs fragments of lens after
operations. Flickering, must wipe eyes frequently. Opacities of vitreous humour. Iritis. Specks
upon cornea. Stitches in eye (right) worse coughing.

Ears
Aching in the ear when chewing.

Nose
Sneezes, so often and so violently that the head grows dizzy and heavy. Nostrils feel peppery.

Face
Paralysis of the left side. Pimples in the corners of lips with burning.

Mouth
*Dry scraping in mouth. worse talking. Taste; metallic; like urine.

Throat
Dry scraping in worse talking. Hawks viscid mucous in detached small clots.

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Stomach
Loathing and nausea; with inclination to vomit.

Urinary
Urine; foamy, acrid; increased or decreased in amount; with mucous shreds. Scalding before
and after urination.

Respiratory
*Dry scraping in chest* worse talking. Hoarse unsteady Voice worse talking and sexual losses,
suddenly when reading aloud. Cough incessant, strangling, violent, shaking, choking ends in
sneezing, worse lying on right side or evening. *Loose rattle in chest; but the clear, *profuse
sputum is tough and slips back again. Albuminous or blood‐streaked sputum. *Chest; *sore
from coughing, pressure, sneezing or moving arms, in spots, as if bruised; shifting pains on
stooping. As of a crushing weight or weakness starts in chest; chest feels as if too narrow.
Exudation in pleura. Hydrothorax. Burning in chest before or after coughing. Asthmatic
bronchitis of old people, with chronic nephritis or emphysema. Vocal cords partially
paralyzed. Pleuro‐ pneumonia.

Related
Calc‐c; Caust; Hep.; Lyc; Phos; Sulph.

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Sepia [Sep]

Generalities
Inky juice of cuttle fish, known as Indian ink, is supposed to be pre‐eminently a woman’s
remedy, though the first symptoms were found by Dr. Hahnemann proved accidentally by a
male artist. It affects the *venous circulation* esp. of the ***FEMALE PELVIC ORGANS; of
*portal system and of digestive tract. Venous stasis and thereby ptosis of viscera is a marked
feature. It is suited to young persons of both sexes, of nervous and delicate constitution, who
are disposed to sexual excitement or worn out by sexual excess. Children who take cold easily
when the weather changes. Relaxed, plethoric females. Weak, pot‐bellied mothers with
yellow complexion. Affections in pregnant women. Females dragged down by over work, loss
of vital fluids, excess of sexual indulgence, who are subject to *prolapses, *uterine troubles.
*Symptoms settle in back, in ileo‐coecal region, ovaries etc.; upward in head; bearing down
in pelvic region. Shuddering from pain. *Sudden prostration. *Weak empty hollow feeling in
epigastrium, chest, muscles, lumbar back, hips, knees etc.; or sensation of fullness. *As of a
lump or something rolling over internally. Violent ebullitions of blood with pulsation
throughout the body. Fits of uneasiness and hysterical spasms. Spasms, clonic, tonic,
cataleptic. Short walk fatigues much. Jerking in muscles. Burning pains in different parts of
the body. Bleedings. Milky secretions. Fainting fits. Fidgety. Tendency to abortion, from 5‐7th
month. Tubercular patients with chronic hepatic troubles and uterine reflexes. Feels cold even
in a warm room. Ill effects of anger and vexation; blows; injury; overlifting; falls; jar; getting
wet; laundry work; boiled milk; fat; pork; tobacco. Faints while kneeling in the church.
Diseased conditions which drag on, linger. Warty growths. Atrophy of children, face like old
man, big belly, dry flabby skin. Rheumatism, chronic cases or obstinate remains of acute.
Worse
***COLD; ***AIR; north wind; snowy air; snowfall, wet. *Sexual excess.* Before menses.
*Pregnancy. Abortion. Morning and evening. After first sleep. Falling to sleep. Sitting,
standing, Kneeling. Jarring. Stooping. Coitus. Before thunderstorms. Touch. Ascending.
Rubbing. Lifting. Scratching. Washing clothes.

Better
***VIOLENT MOTION. *Warmth; of bed. Pressure. Hot application. Crossing or drawing limbs
up. After sleep. Cold drinks; cold bath; open air.

Mind
Angry; sensitive; irritable; easily offended, and miserable. Wants to commit suicide. Nervous,
so that she wants to hold on to something or she should scream. She says and does strange
things. Nobody knows what she will do next. Anxious fear; *over trifles. Aversion; to family,
to those loved best, to sympathy, to *company; yet dreads to be alone. Repugnance to
customary business; disgust of life. Stifled affections. *Poor Memory. Makes mistakes while
writing or reading. *Sad. *Irritability, *alternating with indifference* or sulkiness. Sad over
her health and domestic affairs. Constantly worries, frets and cries about her real or imaginary
illness. Sexually minded. Weeps when telling her symptoms. Miserly. *Stupid, wants to go
away. *Indifference. Takes pleasure in teasing others. Feels unfortunate without cause. Sits
quietly and answers either with yes or no. Women hate men and men hate women. Breaks
down in spells of weeping.

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Head
Fits of vertigo worse walking in open air, least movement of arms or with a sensation as if
something rolling round the head. *Headache shooting, stinging pain; within out or upwards;
over left eye; heavy on vertex, alternating sides of occiput; worse lying on painful side,
indoors; with nausea and vomiting. Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual time, with scanty
flow; with desire for coition. Jerking of head backwards and forwards; involuntary; with open
fontanelles in children, hysterical or from pain. Hair falls out; after chronic headache, at
climaxis. Root of hair sensitive to combing. Pimples on forehead along the margins of hair.
Vertex cold, and heavy. Hemicrania. Jaundice, with headache. Screams with pain. Headache
worse shopping, mental labour, better; meals.

Eyes
*Drooping eyelids. Sees; black spots, veil, points, sparks, flashes zigzags and streaks of light
before eyes; then collapse. Tarsi; red, itching cancer. Vanishing of sight during menses better;
lying. Tarsal tumours. Vision dimmed; from sexual excess, masturbation and uterine diseases.
Cannot tolerate reflected light. Arrests cataract in women. Falling out feeling in eyes.
Epithelioma of eyelids. Eyes red with styes.

Ears
Herpes; behind ears; on lobe of ears; on nape of neck. Oversensitive to noise; esp. music.
Sudden deafness; as if caused by the plug in ears. Discharge; thick yellow pus; offensive.
Swelling of and eruptions on external ear.

Nose
Great sensitiveness to *odours; *which are repulsive; to the smell of cooking food. Pressing
pain at root. ***BROWN; ***YELLOWISH; ***STRIPE ACROSS. Thick greenish discharge; thick
foul, plugs and crusts. Post‐nasal dropping of heavy, lumpy discharges, must be hawked from
mouth. Epistaxis; when the nose has been struck by anything even lightly; during menses;
during pregnancy; with piles. Ozaena. Ascending throat colds. Pain in occiput with drawing in
arms and legs during cold.

Face
Changing colour. Dark circles under eyes. Chloasmae. Acne worse before menses. Malar
bones numb. Swollen cracked lower lip. Cancer of the lips, epithelioma. Old, wrinkled with
spots. Jerking of facial muscles while talking. Warts on.

Mouth
And tongue feel burnt. Taste; cheesy, fishy, bitter, sour, putrid, offensive. Hawks foul or
cheesy grains in the morning. Everything tastes too salty. Painful teeth, during pregnancy,
menses and during cold, worse lying. Tongue dirty, becomes clear during menses.

Throat
Sensation of a plug. Pain as if it is raw. Ascending throat colds. Pressure in the throat, feels
neck cloth tight. Hawks foul mucus or balls, in the morning.

Stomach
*Nausea; at thought or *smell of food; in ***A.M.; thought of coition. *Vomiting; of solid
Food only of milky fluids; during pregnancy; in the morning; rinsing mouth. Longing; for

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vinegar, acids and pickles, sweets. ***FAINT SINKING FEELING AT EPIGASTRIUM; *not better
by eating; or a lump in. Burning in pit of stomach. Boiled milk disagrees. Acidity. Dyspepsia
from over‐ lifting; from tobacco. Voracious appetite, or no appetite; sudden craving, sudden
satiety. Sense of something twisting about in stomach and rising into the throat. Distress or
pain in stomach worse vomiting. Eructations; milky, sour, bitter, rancid; of tough, foamy
mucus.

Abdomen
Pain in the region of liver or gall bladder worse stooping. Liver sore and painful better lying
on right side. Falling out or heavy *bearing down feeling in hypogastrium better by holding it
or crossing legs. Pot‐belly of mothers. Constipation obstinate, no urging for days. Large hard
stools; *feeling of a ball in rectum. Rectum constricted and powerless, almost constant oozing
from anus. *Diarrhoea; greenish, infantile; from boiled milk, with rapid exhaustion. Piles;
prolapsing; worse walking, bleed while walking, with sticking pain; of pregnancy. Stools, then
gelatinous mucus. Pains shoot up in rectum. Brown spots on abdomen. Stools are passed after
prolonged straining, followed by cupful of jelly like yellow‐white, very offensive mucus.
Prolapse of rectum after smoking. Sense of weight or ball in anus not better by stool.

Urination
Involuntary urination during first sleep; worse coughing, sneezing; laughing; hearing sudden
noise, fright or inattention esp. in women, etc. Slow urination, with bearing down sensation
above pubis. URINE; ***THICK, ***FOUL; white gritty or ***ADHERENT RED SANDY
SEDIMENT. Urine feeble, slow. Cutting pain in bladder before urination. Urine; bloody, milky.
Shuddering when urging for urine is not attended to.

Male
Sexual desire increased. Complaints after coition. Offensive perspiration on scrotum. Genitals
cold. Condylomata surrounding head of penis. Impotency.

Female
***WEAK, ***DRAGGING or ***BEARING DOWN SENSATION, as if everything would escape
from vulva; must cross limbs or hold parts to prevent protrusion. Griping, burning or sticking
in uterus. Coition painful; from dryness of vagina; bleeding after. Dryness of vagina and vulva;
after menses; causing disagreeable sensation when walking. Aversion to coition, or
complaints after. Menses; absent; at puberty; after weaning. Menses; too late, and scanty;
irregular; early and profuse. Labia swelled; abscessed. Leucorrhoea; yellow, greenish, milky,
in large lumps in little girls; instead of menses, foul; gonorrhoeal; with stitches up in vagina
from uterus to navel; during day. Nipples cracked across the crown. Retained placenta; after
abortion. Sub‐involution. Exhaustion after coition. Nausea and irritability on thought of
coition. Amenorrhoea. Metritis with pain in lumbar region and frequent urination. Motion of
foetus is intolerable. Metrorrhagia at the time of climaxis. Sudden flushes of heat, with
weakness and sweat during climaxis. Tendency to abortion; from 5TH to 7TH month. Severe
itching in vulva causing abortion. Sterility. Mania from profuse menses.

Respiratory
Dry, fatiguing cough, as if coming from stomach; worse rapid change of temperature; with
foul sputum. Whooping cough that drags on. Dyspnoea, worse after sleep better rapid
motion. Sensation of emptiness in chest. Hypostatic pleuritis. Brown spots on chest. Rotten

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egg taste with coughing. Asthma. Chest symptoms better by pressure of hand. Neglected
pneumonia.

Heart
*Circulation irregular; seems to stagnate. Palpitation; visible, ascends to occiput. An
occasional hard thump of the heart. General pulsations. Ebullitions at night. Overfull blood
vessels. Wakes up with violent beating of heart. Tremulous feeling with flushes. Nervous
palpitation better walking fast; worse lying on left side.

Neck and Back

Collar feels tight. *Aching in inter‐scapular or ***LUMBAR REGION; paralytic; wants to be
pressed. Sudden pain in back, as if struck by a hammer worse stooping; kneeling. Pain in back
better eructations, by pressing back against something hard. Weakness in small of back when
walking; from uterine disease. Everything affects the back. Icy coldness between the scapulae.
Cramps in buttocks when stretching out legs.

Extremities
Hands purple. Cold hands in warm room. Tension in limbs as if they were too short. Limbs
restless, twitching and jerking day and night. Knees and heels cold. Sciatica better during
pregnancy; chronic, localizing in heels. Sensation of running, as from a mouse in lower limbs.
Hot hands with cold feet or vice versa. A short walk fatigues much. Crippled nails. Hands
sweaty. Skin of palms peels off.

Sleep
Talks loudly during sleep. Dreams, worse if he lies on left side. Wakes frequently or as if he
has been called.

Fever
Easily chilled. Chilly with air hunger. *Cold; *in spots; *on vertex; *between scapulae; *feet,
in bed.* Anxious hot flushes preceded by sudden weakness. *Sweat; easy; offensive, with
orgasms; on genitals, in *axillae; or back; between menses. Irregular fevers. Heat ascending
or as if hot water were poured over him.

Skin
*Blotched; raw, rough, hard or cracked; worse flexures. Boils in axilla. Thick crusts on elbows.
Ulcers, on small joints. Epithelioma; on eyelids, lips. Wine coloured skin. Spots on skin.
Ringworm worse every spring. Itching vesicles. Urticaria worse open air better warm room.
Thick crusts form upon the joints. Indurations from constant pressure; with purple colour.

Related
Calc‐c; Caust; Con; Gels; Lil‐t; Lyc; Murx; Nat‐c; Nat‐m; Puls.

Complementary
Nat‐m; Nux‐v; Phos; Psor; Puls; Sabad; Sulph.

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Silica [Sil]

Generalities
Triturations are prepared from pure flint. It produces defective ***NUTRITION esp. *in
children; due to imperfect assimilation. Affects the ***NERVES; *increasing their
susceptibility* causing neurasthenic states and exaggerated reflexes. Diseases of *bones and
cartilages; caries and necrosis; softening, of bones. Exostosis. ***GLANDS are enlarged.
Scrofulous rachitic children; with large head, open fontanelles; *distended hot and hard
abdomen, slow in walking, *and wasted in body esp. *legs. Children crawl nervously; or are
dragged in on their mother’s arms; on running they become pale. *Suppurative processes;
*stubborn; fistulous openings; abscesses. *Slow incomplete inflammation, of glands, cellular
tissue and *skin; *then induration. *Keenly sensitive to noise, *pain, *to cold, hugs the fire,
wants plenty of warm clothing; hates drafts. Cachetic and senile patients, persons of fair, clear
complexion. *Pains are violent and sticking, localized in ears, throat, ulcers etc. Tendency to
easy exhaustion, and abnormal sweats. Want of vital warmth even when taking exercise.
Spasms, epilepsy; feeling of coldness before the attack. Hysteria, paralysis and obstinate
neuralgias caused by dissipation, hard work, with close confinement. Mal‐nutrition. Arrested
development. Emaciation. *Want of grit; moral and physical. Proud flesh. Cicatrices;
indurated, hard, nodular, shiny, glassy, tender, with shooting pain. Keloids. Dropsy in ***A.M.
Cancer. Contracted sphincters. *Ascending effects. Prostration of mind and body. Cerebral
softening. Restless, fidgety, starts at least noise. Parts lain on go to sleep. Removes foreign
bodies. Progressive locomotor ataxia. Sensation as if she were divided into halves and left
side does not belong to her. Sensation of a hair on tongue; in trachea. Ill effects of vaccination;
stone cutting; loss of vital fluids; injuries; sprains, splinters. Intolerance of alcoholic
stimulants. Nervous affections after spinal injury, esp. when pressure on spine causes pain in
remote parts. Convulsions; begins in the Solar plexus; after vaccination. Epilepsy; aura in the
Solar plexus creeping into the chest and stomach. Skin is unhealthy; *every injury festers.*
Discharges offensive, pus, sweat, stools etc.

Worse
***COLD; ***AIR; ***DRAUGHT; *damp; uncovering, bathing. Checked sweat esp. *of feet.
Nervous excitement. Light. Noise. Jarring; of spine. Moon changes. Night. Mental exertion.
Alcohol. Touch *Pressure. Change of weather. Combing hair.

Better
***WARM‐WRAPS; to head. Summer. Wet humid weather. Profuse urination. Magnetism
and electricity.

Mind
Yielding; faint hearted. Sensitive weeping mood. Obstinate stubborn, head‐strong; children.
Cries when kindly spoken to. Fixed ideas thinks only of pins, fears them, searches them and
counts them. Mental acuteness, with physical weakness and torpidity. Sullen. Compunctions
of conscience about trifles. Loss of self confidence; dreads failure, but unfounded. Starts from
slight noise. Screaming violently, groaning; epilepsy. Indifference to religion. Hopeless. Sad.
Disgust for life; wishes to drown herself. Brain fag. Cannot express himself correctly Fidgety.
Complaints from anticipation.

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Head
Vertigo; ascends from dorsal region worse looking upwards, closing eyes, lying on left side.
Ascending *occipital pains better pressure. Periodical headaches. Headache, then blindness.
Vertex throbs. Fontanelles open with distended abdomen. Lumps on scalp. Profuse sweat on
head Swelling of glabella. Cephalhaematoma. Profuse urination better headache Right side
as if paralysed worse coition. Headache worse by exertion, study noise, motion, jar, light, cold
air, talking and straining at stools, and better by wrapping warmly, and pressure. Moist crusty
eruptions on the scalp. Swelling filled with grumous fluid between scalp and bone. Headache
while fasting or when not eating at proper time. Migraine. Chronic headaches since some
severe disease. Falling of hair, premature, baldness.

Eyes
Affections of canthi; in the region of tear‐ducts, swelling of lachrymal fistula; stricture of
lachrymal duct. Spotted vision. Objects appear pale. Aversion to daylight; it dazzles. Keratitis;
pustular; perforating. Inflammation of eyes. Hypopion. Opacities of the cornea; after small
pox (use 30 for months). Cataract in office workers, after suppressed foot sweat. Styes; to
prevent their recurrence. Encysted tumours of lids. Letters run together while reading.

Ears
Roaring in ears. Hissing in. Perforated drum. Itching. Caries of mastoid process. Deafness,
hears again with a loud report or on blowing the nose, and coughing; worse full moon. Foetid
discharge. Sensitive to noise. Feeling of stoppage in the ear better when yawning or
swallowing. Crusty formations in ears. Child bores into its ears when asleep.

Nose
Frothy nasal discharge. Coryza, with epistaxis. Perforation of septum. Dry hard crusts;
bleeding when loosened. Sneezing in morning. Itching of the tip. Bone sore. Nose; dry
obstructed, with loss of smell. Epistaxis in infants. Cracks in nostrils. Obstinate colds; with ear
affections. Nose cold.

Face
Pale, cachetic; waxy. Enlarged parotids. Cracks; in lips; on skin of face. Eruptions on chin.
Swelling of maxillary glands. Indurated fissures at the corners of lips. Cancer of lower lip.

Mouth
on gums. Pyorrhoea. Water tastes badly; vomits after drinking. Teeth; break down, lose their
enamel, become rough, carious. Tongue; brown. Teeth feel too large and too long for the
mouth. One sided swelling of tongue .

Throat
Bitter taste in. Tonsils swollen, suppurating. Food is ejected through nose, when swallowing.
Pricking pain as of a pin in tonsil. Hawks foul lumps. Swallowing painful, difficult; hysterical.

Stomach
Aversion to cooked or warm food and meat; to mother’s milk, vomits it. Likes ice cream, ice
water, feels comfortable when it is in the stomach. Water tastes bad; vomits after drinking.
Induration of pylorus. Water‐brash with chilliness. Voracious appetite, but disappears on

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attempting to eat, or loathing of food. Sour eructations after eating. Sour vomiting. Gnawing,
twisting pain in epigastrium worse by pressure. As if a cold stone were in stomach.

Abdomen
Throbbing ulcerative pain in the region of liver; abscess of liver. Colic, cutting pain; with yellow
hands and blue nails. *Distended hard and hot, *with thin legs esp. in children. Cutting,
cramping pain in *rectum extending to testes worse coition. Constipation worse before and
during menses. Straining, with soft stools, with exhaustion. Moist anus, foul flatus. *Stools;
*comes out with difficulty, *when partly expelled, *recedes again; retained for fear of pain.
Cracks on abdominal wall. Fissures, fistula in ano, with chest symptoms. Painful spasms of
sphincter. Intensely painful haemorrhoids protrude during stool. Foul diarrhoea. FRUITLESS
urging to stool. Chronic diarrhoea. Stools offensive, painless, lienteric. Tapeworm. Diarrhoea
after milk. Hernial tumour tender. Ascites; with great effusion; with frequent attacks of
diarrhoea.

Urinary
Profuse urination better headache. Frequent urination with tenesmus. Nocturnal enuresis; in
children; from worms. Chronic urethritis; foul discharge from urethra, thick, curdy, purulent,
bloody. Pus in urine. nightly incontinence after a blow upon the head. Renal and vesical
calculi.

Male
Foul gonorrhoeal urethral discharge. After coition sensation on right side of head as if
paralysed. Itching moist spots on scrotum. Hydrocele. Nocturnal emissions. Sexual appetite
increases or decreases. Prostatorrhoea worse straining at stools. Chronic urethritis with
twisting pain. Elephantiasis of scrotum. Extreme exhaustion after coition; takes 8 to 10 days
to come to normal condition. Painful eruptions on mons veneris.

Female
Increased menses with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body. Cutting upward in vagina
worse urinating. Leucorrhoea milky, acrid, gushing, worse during urination. Itching of vulva
and vagina, which is very sensitive. Bloody discharge worse nursing; between periods. Nipple;
retracted like a funnel, sore. Hard lumps, fistula, in mammae. Serous cyst in vagina fistulous
opening and abscess about vulva. Threatened abscess of mammae. Scirrhus, with itching.
Sharp pains in mammae and uterus. Menses; early, scanty. Amenorrhoea for months. Too
violent motion of foetus. Fistulous abscess or fistulous openings in or around vagina with
thick, curdy discharge. Salpingitis, with accumulation of pus or serum which escapes from
uterus from time to time. Cutting pain around the navel with leucorrhoea. Watery discharge
instead of menses. Abortion from weakness or they do not conceive because of weakness.
Nausea during coition. Bloody discharge between periods. Sterility. Nymphomania. Itching of
pudenda.

Respiratory
Cough gagging, shaking, retching worse cold drinks; talking, lying and after waking. Dyspnoea;
from draft on neck; chronic colds which settle in chest and bring on asthmatic attacks; after
being over heated or exertion. Sycotic asthma. Profuse foul, yellow, lumpy sputum; granular;
offensive when broken. Cold fails to yield. Slow recovery from pneumonia. Rattling in chest.
Stitches in chest, through the back. Shortness of breath, from manual labour; walking fast.

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Stone‐cutter’s affections. Emphysema after pleurisy. Neglected pneumonia. Painless
throbbing in sternum.

Heart
Throbbing all over the body, when sitting or while in motion. Palpitation; while sitting, with
trembling of hand. Heart trouble from nervous exhaustion.

Neck and Back

Spine; weak, very sensitive to drafts on back. Spina bifida. Caries of vertebrae. Psoas abscess.
Painful coccyx. Backache as from riding in carriages for a long time. Burning in back, when
body is being heated after walking in open air. Stiff neck; with headache. Painful kyphosis.
Lameness in region of sacrum.

Extremities
Axillary glands swollen, enlarged. Finger tips, painful, dry as if made of paper; at night. Icy cold
and sweaty feet. ***FOOT SWEAT FOUL; *itching, *acrid, destroying shoes; *suppressed.
Sore ache in arch of foot. Distorted, ingrown, yellow nails. Weak ankles and feet. Calves tense
and contracted. Felons, deep seated pain. Atrophy and numbness of fingers. Parts lain on go
to sleep. Bunions. Inflammation of bones. Trembling of hands when attempting to do
something. Forearm lame. Legs feel paralysed, trembling while walking. Voluptuous tingling
in soles. Bruised feeling in whole body after coition or emission. Cramps in knees. Soft corns
in between toes. Nails; rough, yellow, crippled, brittle, white spots, blue in fever. Ulcers
around the joints with thin, foul, bloody, purulent discharge or curdy particles. Slovenly gait.
Rheumatism esp. of the soles, cannot walk. Cramps in calves and soles. Enlarged bursa over
patella. Distorted during convulsion. Arms (left) shake before epilepsy.

Sleep
Somnambulism. Frightful dreams wake him on falling to sleep. Restless sleep. Dreams;
lascivious, of past events. Awakes frightened, from sleep with trembling of the whole body.
Talks in sleep loudly, whines or laughs. Violent yawning. Sleepy but cannot sleep. Sleep
unrefreshed.

Fever
***CHILLY; worse lying in bed; exertion. *Coldness; *of painful part. ***Icy chills. ***SWEAT;
*profuse, on *upper part of the body; head or affected parts; *at night; foul; easy; acrid; as
soon as he falls asleep. Hectic fever.

Skin
Soggy, wilted. Acuminate eruptions. Scars suddenly become painful. Keloid. Even little injury
suppurates. Leprous nodes. Coppery spots. Carbuncles. Ulcers; painfully sensitive, foul;
spongy; on feet, toes, nails better heat. Abscess of joints. Eruptions itch during daytime or
evening only. Boils and pustules everywhere. Sensation of coldness in ulcers. Warty growths.
Rose coloured blotches. Elephantiasis.

Related
Calc; Hep; Kali‐p.

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Complementary
*Fl‐ac; Phos; Thuj.

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Solidago Virgaurea [Solid]

Generalities
Diseases arising from or complicated with ***DEFECTIVE FUNCTIONS OF KIDNEYS are very
likely to be benefited by this remedy. It affects the digestive tract, lower limbs and blood.
Feeling of weakness; chilliness, alternating with heat. Haemorrhages. Takes cold easily.
Chronic nephritis. Uraemic asthma.

Worse
Pressure.

Better
Profuse urination.

Eyes
Red with enlarged prostate gland.

Nose
Paroxysms of sneezing, with abundant mucus discharge.

Mouth
Continuous bitter taste. Tongue heavily coated, clears when urine becomes normal.

Abdomen
Profuse, involuntary mucus stools.

Urinary
*Urine; *dark and scanty or clear, *stinking voided with difficulty albuminous; mucous,
phosphatic. Affections of any other part or organ complicated with these symptoms will
probably find their remedy in *Solidago. *Kidneys; *sore and *tender over; *ache; feel
distended. Pain in kidneys extend forward to abdomen, bladder, down the thighs. Chronic
nephritis. Cystitis. Enlarged prostate gland; obstructing flow of urine or inflammation of.

Female
Uterine enlargement, organ pressed down upon the bladder. Fibroid tumours.

Respiratory
Bronchitis, cough with much purulent expectoration blood‐ streaked; oppressed breathing.
Continuous dyspnoea. Asthma with nightly dysuria.

Back
Lumbar ache; makes her sick all over.

Skin
*Petechiae; *on lower limbs; with oedema; and itching; Gangrene; diabetic. Eczema worse
suppressed urine.

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Spigelia [Spig]

Generalities
Known as pink root, markedly affects the ***NERVES; ***TRIFACIAL; ***HEART; ***EYES,
*teeth, fibrous tissue and ***LEFT ***SIDE. It produces *combined heart and eye symptoms*
or the latter as an accompaniment. ***PAINS are *violent, burning, like hot needles or wires,
jerking, tearing, stitching; *radiating to other parts. Neuralgia. Sun pains. It is adapted to
anaemic, debilitated, rheumatic and scrofulous subjects. Very sensitive to touch; parts
touched or bruised, feel chilly or causes tingling or *shuddering through the body. Children
afflicted with worms; refer to navel as the most painful part. Body feels light while walking;
heavy and sore when rising from a seat.

Worse
***TOUCH. ***MOTION. *Jar. Periodically; with the sun. Tobacco. Coition. Raising arms. After
eating. Thinking of it. Stooping. Blowing nose. Expiration.

Better
Lying on right side with head high. Inspiring. Steady pressure. While eating.

Mind
Afraid of pointed things; pins, needles. Restless and anxious. Sits as if lost in thought; stares
at a single object. Gloomy suicidal mood. Easily offended.

Head
Pain from left occiput to over left eye, worse stooping; making a false step, opening mouth.
*Vertigo; *the feet as if higher than head;* worse looking down, must look straight ahead,
worse standing, walking. Supra‐orbital neuralgia. Feels too large.

Eyes
*Feel too large. Severe pain in and around the eyes, extending deep into socket, worse
thinking of them. Squint with worms. Eyes; red; *sore, drawing ache; yellow rings about. As if
needles were thrust in. Lachrymation; profuse, from affected side; tears acrid. Difficulty in
raising the eyelids with painful sensation of stiffness. Inclination to wink. Difficult to fit glasses,
no settled focus, no fixed vision; latent errors of vision. Eso and exophoria. Pricking in lids.
Everted eyelids.

Ears
Periodical deafness; ears feel as if stuffed.

Nose
Chronic catarrh with post nasal droppings. Tickling and itching of nose. Dry anteriorly. Flow of
water during prosopalgia.

Face
Prosopalgia involving eye, zygoma, cheek, teeth; temples. worse touch, stooping; from
morning until sunset; drinking tea; suddenly going and coming.

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Mouth
*Breath offensive. Toothache worse after eating and cold, when thinking of it better tobacco
smoke. Tongue; coated yellow or white; burning or stitches in; cracked.

Stomach
Aversion to tobacco smoke, and snuff. Ravenous hunger. Nausea with sensation of a worm
rising in throat.

Abdomen
Colic, with pinching pains in the umbilical region. Stools of only large lumps of mucous. Itching,
tickling in anus and rectum. Worms. Very offensive flatus. Faints at stool.

Urinary
Urine copious, with frequent urging, mostly at night.

Respiratory
Dyspnoea worse moving in bed; raising arms; must lie on right side, width head high.
Hydrothorax. Heart disease. Stitches in chest worse least motion or when breathing.
Trembling in chest.

Heart
***PALPITATION; *violent, *audible; attending other symptoms. *Violent sticking or
compressive pains, radiating to throat; arms, scapula, worse least motion, or bending double.
Palpitation, with foul odour from mouth. Soreness, purring; cracking in the region of heart.
Pericarditis. Angina pectoris with craving for hot water which better . Rheumatic carditis.
Pulse; intermittent, with nervous palpitation; weak tremulous irregular. Throbbing of carotids
and subclavian arteries.

Neck and Back

Neck stiff; pains into right temple or pain from left shoulder to neck. Cutting about the left
scapula.

Extremities
Left arm numb. Pulsation in patellae.

Fever
Heat; flushes at night; in back. Sweat offensive; on upper part of the body; on hands, cold.

Related
Cact.

Complementary
Calc.

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Spongia Tosta [Spong]

Generalities
Toasted sponge contains small percentage of iodine. It affects the ***HEART esp. valves;
larynx; trachea and glands esp. ductless. It is suited to fair haired women and children, of
***LAX FIBRE, flabby and scrofulous constitutions. *Exhaustion and heaviness of the body,
with slight exertion; he must lie down; with orgasms of blood to chest, face etc. Feels stuffed
up. Hard swelling; of glands, (ductless). Numbness lower half of the body. Dryness; of mucous
membranes; of tongue; larynx; trachea, throat. Clothes feel uncomfortable. Anxiety, with pain
in the region of heart or dyspnoea. Stiff, without ability to move. Faint, when losing her
breath, on raising hands above head.

Worse
***DRY, ***COLD; *wind. *Roused from sleep. After sleep. *Exertion. Raising the arms.
Before 12 p.m. Full moon. Sweets.

Better
Lying with head low. Eating or drinking; a little. Warm things. Descending.

Mind
Irresistible desire to sing; with excessive mirth; followed by sadness. Fear of future; tired of
life. Anxiety, fear of death; with suffocation. Timidity, fear and terror. Weeps; with the
dreams; with whooping cough, with heat, with sweat. Despondent about loss of sexual power.
Obstinate and improper behaviour.

Head
As if hair were standing on end, on vertex.

Eyes
Protrude; staring. Diplopia better lying down. Red, with lachrymation and burning.

Nose
Dry coryza; nose feels stuffed up. Nose pinched; cold. Nostrils wide open; fan like motion.

Face
*Terrified; *anxious expression. Blue lips. Pale, from exercise instead of ruddy glow. Cold
sweat on chin. Chin numb.

Mouth
Tongue; dry, brown. Taste sweetish.

Throat
Taste bitter. Thyroid gland swollen; even with the chin. Soreness of the throat worse eating
sweet things. Clears throat constantly. Throat symptoms better lying on back. Goitre; with
suffocative spells; worse touching neck, or pressure; or pains with heart. Swallows water in
small quantity and with difficulty. Numb externally.

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Stomach
Thirst with hunger. Cannot bear tight clothing around. Stomach feels flaccid as if standing
open. Desire for dainties. Craving at stomach; before menses.

Abdomen
Violent action of abdominal muscles during inspiration. Viscera drawn up against diaphragm.
Pain in abdomen instead of menses.

Male
Painful swelling of spermatic cord and testicles. Screwing, squeezing or stitches up into cord
and testes. Testes hard and swollen. Genitals hot. Fistulous opening in scrotum with little thick
white discharge.

Female
Awakes with suffocative spells during menses. Asthma with absent menses. Hunger and
palpitation of heart before menses. Pain in sacrum before menses or instead of menses.

Respiratory
***HOARSENESS; with many complaints; cough, coryza etc. Larynx; painful, dry, constricted
worse touch, singing, talking or swallowing, he grasps it. ***SUFFOCATION, as from a plug,
valve or leaf in larynx; *wakes him; *with violent painful palpitation and blue lips; with heavy
sweat. Noisy, whistling inspiration on falling to sleep. Anxious, *gasping breathing.
***COUGH; ***HOLLOW; ***BARKING; ***CROWING; ***SAWING OR TIGHT; ***CROUPY;
wakes him; then burning in chest and throat worse cold drinks or excitement sweets, drinking
cold milk, better drinking or eating esp. warm things. Voice gives way when singing or talking.
Feels as if he had to breathe through a dry sponge. Chest weak; can scarcely talk; choking on
falling to sleep. Asthma. Diphtheria. Croup. Profuse mucus expectoration; difficult to raise,
swallows it again; smelling like milk. Tuberculosis beginning in apex. *Fullness in chest.
Oppression of breathing better eating a little. Asthma must throw head back; worse full
moon. As if air were passing into glands of neck on breathing. Goitre.

Heart
*Violent palpitation with dyspnoea; awakes suddenly at night with pain and suffocation, with
fear and terror. *Blood surging up to neck, *head and face; with closure of eyelids and tears.
Valvular insufficiency. Aneurism of aorta. Rheumatic endocarditis. Hypertrophy of heart with
asthmatic symptoms. Pulse frequent, hard, full or feeble. Angina pectoris.

Neck and Back

Neck as if a cord about. Pain in sacrum, instead of menses.

Extremities
Fingertips numb. Numbness of lower half of the body. Thighs numb and cold. Pain in the
knees, when rising from kneeling. Thickening of joints after rheumatic fever.

Sleep
Awakes in fright and feels as if suffocating; with terror and fear.

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Fever
*Heat; in flushes; with anxiety; cardiac pain, would rather die; with cold moist thighs; worse
thinking of it. Heat and sudden weakness after walking in open air, he must lie down.

Skin
Swelling and induration of glands. Biting itching of the whole body.

Related
Iod; Led.

Complementary
Hep.

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Squilla Maritima [Squil]

Generalities
Red sea onion affects the *serous and *mucous membranes of respiratory and digestive tract
and acts also on *kidneys, *heart, and spleen. It is a slow acting medicine and is useful for
those conditions which require several days to reach their maximum. Exudations and profuse
secretions. Dropsy; with *profuse urine. Gurglings. Cardio‐urinary effects. Action is just like
Digitalis; follows Digitalis when it fails to relieve dropsical conditions.

Worse
*Early morning. Motion. Uncovering. Inspiration. Old people. Coughing.

Better
Rest. Sitting up. Expectoration even a small quantity.

Mind
Angry about trifles. Aversion to mental and bodily labour.

Eyes
Left eye looks much smaller than right. Child rubs eyes and face much, as if to relieve itching;
in brain affectations; measles. As if swimming in cold water. Tears with cough. Staring look,
eyes wide open.

Nose
Violent sneezing, with fluent acrid coryza. Sneezing during cough. Copious running worse in
morning.

Face
Child rubs the face, with fist during cough. Lips; twitch, covered with yellow crusts; black
cracked.

Mouth
Black spots on teeth. *Taste; sweet; of food, esp. soup and meat; bitter to bread. Thirst
for cold drinks. Drinks in sips during dyspnoea.

Stomach
Pressure as from a stone. Pains better lying on left side.

Abdomen
Rumbling and gurgling in paroxysms above pubic region, better eating. Aching in
hypochondria. Painful diseases of the spleen. Stools dark, brown, frothy, very offensive.
Ascites, with scanty urine.

Urinary
Frequent or sudden urging to urinate; passes much urine. Involuntary urination when
coughing. Bloody urine. Faeces escape when urinating.

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Male
Erotic pollutions.

Respiratory
***COUGH; stubborn, dry, *rattling, disturbs sleep; *with sneezing, *coryza; *lachrymation;
*spurting of urine; or stools; or heat; ends in gagging; worse cold drinks; inspiration. Child
rubs face and eyes, during cough. Cough worse morning and evening. Cough dry, always
followed by the need to clear the nose. Expectoration; easy, heavy; difficult; in small round
balls; of sweetish taste; white or reddish; offensive. Dyspnoea; with sticking pain in chest and
cramps in abdominal muscles. In asthma drinks in sips; and *stitches in chest* (left). Cough;
with enlarged spleen or with pain in the region. Loose morning cough is more severe than dry
evening cough. Pleurisy. Broncho‐ pneumonia.

Heart
Cardiac stimulant. Pulse small and slow; slightly hard.

Neck and Back

Bubbling beneath scapula.

Extremities
Nails become brittle and split. Feet get sore from standing. Tender feet of shop girls. Hands
and feet cold, body hot.

Fever
Heat with aversion to uncover. Sweat absent.

Skin
Small red spots all over the body with pricking pain.

Related
Ars; Bar‐c; Nux‐v; Rhus‐t; Sil.

Complementary
Ant‐c.

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Stannum [Stann]

Generalities
The chief action of Tin is centered upon the ***NERVOUS SYSTEM, causing ***EXTREME
WEAKNESS which is esp. felt in ***CHEST; *throat; stomach; upper arms and thighs; the
patient is unable even to talk; drops into a chair instead of sitting down; trembles on moving.
Weakness is felt much more on going downstairs than going up. *Paralytic heaviness or
weakness. Spasms; hysterical; with pain in abdomen and diaphragm; epileptic; with tossing
of limbs, clenching of thumbs, opisthotonos, unconsciousness and sexual complications.
Affections of ***MUCOUS MEMBRANES produces yellow, *muco‐purulent secretions.
***PAINS INCREASE GRADUALLY AND GRADUALLY SUBSIDE. *Pressive drawing pains.
Neuralgia, diaphragmatic; suppressed. Cramps, Hysteria. Emaciation. Repeated short attacks.
Ill effects of emotions, fright; masturbation; dentition; using voice. Girdle sensation with
yawning. Child wants to be carried across shoulders. Trembling more from slow motion or
exercise. Paralysis; from worms, after spasms, emotions, onanism. Hemiplegia; part
constantly moist.

Worse
*Using voice. Cold. 10 A.M. *Lying on right side. *After gentle motion. ***MOTION. Warm
drinks. During stool. Going downstairs. Ascending. Touch.

Better
Hard pressure over an edge. Coughing, expectoration. Rapid motion. Lying across something
hard. Bending double.

Mind
Very sensitive as to what others say about her. ***ANXIOUS, *nervous, sad worse before
menses. *Miserable and discouraged. Can not get rid of an idea once fixed in her mind.
Taciturn and dislike to society. Sudden fits of passion. Forgetful and absent minded. Uneasy,
knows not what to do with himself. Hopeless, despondent; feels like crying all the time but
crying worse .

Head
Severe, painful constriction in forehead and temples. Pressive stupefying headache. Jarring
of walking resounds painfully in head. Migraine, of cerebral origin, better by vomiting. Violent,
glowing, beating pains, as if the head would burst, with inward blows. Vertigo; all objects
seem too far off.

Eyes
Sunken, dull. Ptosis; returns every week.

Ears
Cracking, shrieking noise in ear when blowing the nose. Ulceration of ear‐ring hole.

Nose
Oversensitive to smell.

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Face
Pale. Prosopalgia. Malar neuralgia; at menses.

Mouth
Tickling at the root of the tongue. Taste sour, sweet, bitter, to all food except water.

Throat
Efforts to detach adhesive mucus causes nausea. Cutting pain when swallowing. Nausea in.
Dry. Smarting.

Stomach
Smell of cooking causes nausea and vomiting. Vomiting; violent; of blood; of bile; early in the
morning; with odour of ingesta. Sensation of emptiness in stomach. Uneasy feeling.

Abdomen
Burning in liver. Diaphragmatic neuralgia; hysterical. Cutting, pinching colic; with hunger and
diarrhoea, which exhausts, better hard pressure. Passes worms. Spasmodic pain in abdomen;
hysterical. Colic in children better by carrying them on shoulder. Constipation; stools, dry,
hard, knotty, insufficient, and green. Monday constipation, i.e. occurring after working days.

Urinary
Insensibility of the bladder; only the sense of fulness indicates the necessity to urinate. Atony
of bladder.

Male
Sexual excitement. Voluptuous feeling in genitals ending in emission; which exhausts.

Female
Increased sexual desire; easy orgasm. Scratching of distant parts (of arms) produce an
intolerable sensation of pleasure in genital organs producing orgasm. Bearing down in uterine
region. Prolapsus uteri and vagina worse stools. Strong odour of body during menses. Menses,
early and profuse. Mania erotica, before menses. Leucorrhoea, gushing with much debility;
of yellow‐white or transparent mucus. Child refuses mother’s milk. Uterine symptoms with a
weak, drawn sensation in the chest. Pain in vagina upward and back to spine.

Respiratory
Voice; deep hollow, hoarse, better hawking mucus. Much mucus in trachea. *Cough; worse
laughing, singing, talking; lying on right side. *Expectoration; *easy; *quantities of sweet,
saltish, sour, putrid or bright yellow pus or ball of mucus. *Short breath from every *effort;
must loosen clothes. Takes deep breath. *Chest feels raw or *hollow. Haemoptysis; with
copious expectoration. Stitches; in left side of chest, when breathing or lying on that side;
knife like below left axilla. Catarrhal phthisis. Bronchiectasis. Retching with coughing. Cannot
walk, cannot do anything without coughing.

Extremities
Swelling of the hands and ankles. Paralytic weakness; drops things. Limbs suddenly give out
when attempting to sit down. Tremulous knees. Fingers jerk when holding pen. Neuritis.
Typewriters paralysis. Contraction of fingers; retraction of thumbs. Cramps in hands, cannot

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let go the broom. Using voice or singing causes weakness in upper arm; which extends all over
the body. Aching in deltoid from reading.

Sleep
Moaning, weeping and plaintive lamentations during sleep. Sleeps with one leg drawn up, the
other stretched out.

Fever
Chill 10 A.M.; with numb fingertips. *Burning palms and soles. Hectic. Debilitating, musty
sweat at 4 A.M.

Related
Calc; Kali‐c; Lach; Nat‐m; Phos; Sulph.

Complementary
Puls.

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703
Stannum Iodatum [Stann‐i]

Generalities
It is valuable in chronic chest diseases, characterised by plastic tissue changes, and persistent
inclination to cough; excited by tickling, dry spot in the throat, (apparently at the root of the
tongue), beginning with a weak sounding cough with short breath, soon gathers strength and
sound and causes raising of free, copious, pale yellowish expectoration which at first relieves
but is soon followed by a feeling of dryness, weakness in chest and throat, and increased
oppression. It is indicated in cases that “hang fire” and need an alternative. Use low potency‐
2x or 3x.

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704
Staphysagria [Staph]

Generalities
Nervous affections *with trembling is a marked feature of this remedy. It produces
both_physical and moral, *sexual disturbances, provokes excess and irregular sexual appetite
and a tendency to masturbation and the physical state corresponding to the effect of that
habit. Acts on ***TEETH; ***URINARY ORGANS; *fibrous tissue; of lids, tarsi; skin; glands and
right deltoid. *Morbidly sensitive; the least word that seems wrong, hurts her very much;
special senses become irritable, cannot tolerate; touch, odour, noise, taste everything is
painfully sensated. Squeezing, or *stinging smarting pains; as if cut. Pains that move into
teeth. *Sphincters; lacerated and stretched. ***LACERATED TISSUE; perineum etc. Stitch
pains, remaining after operations. Ill effects of anger and insults; reserved; anger, injury, falls;
clean cut wounds; operations; sexual; abuse, excess; dentition, tobacco, mercury. Painful
swelling of glands. Arthritic nodosities on joints. Swelling and suppuration of bones; of
periosteum. Exostosis. Warts. Condylomata. Hemiplegia after anger. Stiffness and sensation
of fatigue in all joints. Whole body painful with feeling of weakness.

Worse
*Emotions‐chagrin; *vexation; *indignation; *quarrels. *Sexual excess. *Onanism. *Touch.
Cold *drinks. *Lacerations. Stretching parts. Coition. After urinating; when not urinating.
Night. New moon; before full moon.

Better
Warmth. Rest. *Break‐fast. Coition.

Mind
Violent outbursts of passion. *Always angry. Gloomy and petulant; throws things. Child cries
for many things and refuses them when offered. Poor memory. Dwells on sexual matters.
Unsatisfied sexual urge; in widows. *Snappish; sensitive mentally and physically.
Hypochondriasis. Imagines insults. Irritable, nervous, excitable and violent. Great indignation
about the things done by others or by himself; grieves about the consequences. Believes he
will lose his fortune, his wife will leave him. Ailments from reserved displeasure. Very sensitive
to what others say about her. Sadness without any cause; with irritability. Ill effects after
scolding or punishment in children. Want of self control. Fear; afraid of his shadow.

Head
Compressive, stupefying headache better much yawning; leaning head against something.
Brain feels squeezed or torn. As of a heavy load or of a round ball in forehead. Moist foul,
eroding milk crusts worse occiput. Dandruff. Head lice. Falling of hair. Vertigo better by
walking about in a circle, or turning rapidly on heels. Cerebrum feels numb and occiput feels
hollow. Hair falls off from occiput and around ears.

Eyes
Feel dry, with lachrymation. Nodes on lids. Styes; recurrent. Blepharitis. Bursting, burning pain
in eyeballs, of syphilitic iritis. *Sunken; with blue rings around. Hot tears run off the eyes (left)
on looking at the sun.

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Ears
Hardness of hearing from enlarged tonsils; in children from adenoids.

Nose
Coryza now thick now thin; with ulcerations. Frequent sneezing without coryza.

Face
*Sickly, *peaked, nose, Neuralgia from caries; pains go into the eyes. Sub‐maxillary glands
painful with or without swelling; abscess. Prosopalgia, pain starts from lips over face worse
mastication.

Mouth
*Teeth, *loose; *black; *crumbling; show dark streaks; worse eating and during menses
better hard pressure and heat. Pale bleeding gums. Pyorrhoea. Musty taste. Exceedingly
tender decayed teeth; on being filled. Teeth decay as soon as they erupt. Fistula dentalis.
Stomatitis. Thrush.

Throat
Swallows continuously while talking. Tonsils swollen; stitch runs up to ear on swallowing.
Induration and hypertrophy of tonsils, with nasal voice.

Stomach
*Hungry; even when stomach is full. Desire for bread, stimulants, tobacco, milk. As if stomach
were hanging down relaxed. Nausea, specially after operations.

Abdomen
Feeling of weakness in abdomen, as if it would drop, wants to hold it up. Severe pain after
abdominal operations. Swollen (in children) with much flatus. Colic; biliary; after anger. Flatus
hot, smells like rotten eggs. Dysenteric stools, worse after the least food or drink. Diarrhoea
from drinking cold water. Piles very sensitive worse by touch. Dysentery in weak ailing, pot
bellied children.

Urinary
Frequent urging to urinate; with scanty or profuse discharge of watery urine; urinates in thin
stream or drop by drop. Sensation as if a drop of urine rolling continuously along the urethra;
worse after walking or riding; better urinating. Burning in urethra when not urinating.
Ineffectual urging to urinate in *newly married women; in pregnancy. After urination, urging
as if the bladder was not empty. Cystocele.

Male
Persistently dwells on sexual subjects. Sexual neurasthenia. Priapism. Seminal emissions
followed by great prostration. Dyspnoea, worse during or after coition. Voluptuous itching of
scrotum. Prostatitis, pain extends from anus to urethra. Soft humid excrescences behind
corona glandis. Enlarged prostate with piles. Orchitis; from mumps. Atrophy of testicles.

Female
Sexual desire increased, mind dwells too much on sexual subjects. Painful sensitiveness of
genital organs worse sitting down. Ovarian pains, going into thighs worse pressure; coition.

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Salpingitis. Amenorrhoea from indignation. Granular vegetations of vagina. Itching or
sensitive vulva. Menses; regular, with aching around hips and loss of power in limbs. First
coition is very painful, causing acute mental and bodily suffering.

Respiratory
Dyspnoea with constriction, at close of coition or after seminal emission. Cough worse
cleaning teeth; tobacco smoke, eating meat or alternating with sciatica.

Heart
Tremulous palpitation when listening to music.

Neck and Back

Pain in small of the back, as after overlifting, worse coition in morning and rising from a seat.

Extremities
Fine tearing or numb finger tips. Bones of fingers imperfectly developed; osteitis of fingers.
Arthritic nodes on finger joints. Crural neuralgia. Feel beaten and painful. Knees weak.
Shuffling gait. Buttocks ache while sitting.

Sleep
Violent yawning and stretching brings tears to the eyes. Child wakes, pushes everything away
and wants everybody to go out; calls for mother often. Amorous dreams with emissions.
Sleepy all day, awake all night. Body aches all over.

Fever
Wants to uncover. Sweat; profuse, cold, smelling like rotten Eggs, with a desire to uncover.
Inability to sweat.

Skin
Pain that precedes shingles. Skin symptoms alternating with joint pains. Biting, itching as of
vermin; changing place on scratching. Eczema with thick scabs, itching violently. Dry
pedunculated figwarts. Ulcers new growth extremely sensitive; touch may bring on
convulsions.

Related
Cham; Merc.

Complementary
Caust; Coloc.

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Sticta [Stict]

Generalities
Commonly known as Lung‐wort is a remedy for coryza, bronchial catarrh, *nervous and
rheumatic disturbances. General feeling of dullness and lassitude as when a cold is coming.
*Rheumatic, *stiffness. Nervous, sense of levitation of different parts. Painful dry mucous
membranes. Diagonal pains. Hysteria; chorea; after loss of blood. Ill effects of falls,
haemorrhages.

Worse
*Night. Lying down. Motion. Change of temperature.

Better
Free discharges. Open air.

Mind
Feels as if she must talk, about everything and anything; whether listened to or not. Lively,
kicks her heels up. Feels as if floating in air.

Head
Aches before catarrhal discharge appears. Heaviness; forehead.

Eyes
Burning of eyelids with soreness of eyeballs on closing lids or turning eyes.

Nose
*Pressure or stuffy fullness at the root of nose.* Constant need to blow the nose but no
discharge. Painful dryness of mucous membranes. Coryza which dries up soon, forming scabs
difficult to dislodge. Hay fever, incessant sneezing.

Throat
Dry; dropping of mucus posteriorly.

Stomach & Abdomen

Diarrhoea frothy, in morning.

Urinary
Profuse urination, with sore painful bladder.

Female
Absence of milk after delivery.

Respiratory
Tickling high up in pharynx. *Incessant dry hacking cough prevents sleep, worse coughing,
inspiration; towards evening and when tired; after measles, colds; influenza; whooping cough.
Air passages numb. Pulsation from right side of sternum down to abdomen. Bronchitis. Pain
from sternum to spine worse motion.

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Neck and Back
Sore stiff neck; pains to shoulder. Restless hands and feet. Legs as if floating in the air.
*Rheumatism.* Red spots on affected joints. Bursitis esp. about the knee. Cold moist limbs.
Profuse sweat on hands. Chorea like spasms.

Sleep
Sleepless from nervousness; from cough; after surgical operations.

Related
Elaps; *Guai; Sang; Thuj.

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Stramonium [Stram]

Generalities
Thorn‐apple or Datura expends its force of action on the ***BRAIN, producing marked and
persistent disorder of the mental faculty; hallucinations; fixed notions, terrifying delirium etc.
Therefore it is a remedy of ***TERRORS; but it *does not in its ordinary effect cause actual
pain. *Secretions are suppressed, passes neither urine nor stool. Throat, skin and spinal
nerves are affected as well. Increases the mobility of the muscles of expression and of
locomotion; the motions may be *graceful, rhythmic or *disorderly, of head and arms.
Trembling of limbs. Parkinsonism. Tremors; nervous. Convulsions, spasms worse at night;
after masturbation. Paralysis of one side, convulsions of the other side, or unilateral paralysis;
with twitching. Chorea, epilepsy; from fright. Hysteria, weeping, laughing, with sexual
excitement. Catalepsy, limbs can be moved by others. Tonic and clonic spasms alternately.
Traumatic neuritis. General paralysis of the insane. Ill effects of shock, fright; sun; childbirth;
suppressions. Hydrophobia. Delusions as to size and distance. Sensation as if limbs were
separated from body.

Worse
*Glistening objects; (mirror, surface of water). Fright. *After sleep. Dark. Cloudy days.
Swallowing. *Suppressions. Intemperance. Touch.

Better
***LIGHT. *Company, *Warmth.

Mind
Awakes terrified, knows no one, screams with fright, clings to those near him (child).
***DREAD OF DARKNESS, and has a horror of glistening objects. Praying, singing, devoutly;
beseeching; entreating; ceaseless *talking. *Fearful hallucinations which terrify the patient;
sees ghosts, vividly brilliant or hideous phantoms, animals; jumping sideways out of ground
or running to him. *Wildly excited; as in night terrors. Does all sorts of crazy things. *Active
variable delirium; delirium tremens. Raving ***MANIA; *with cold sweat. Religious insanity.
The talk of others is intolerable. Self accusation. *Loss of reason or of speech. Strange absurd
ideas thinks himself tall, double, lying crosswise, one half of the body cut off etc. Desires
company; shy, hides himself or tries to escape. Talks in foreign tongue. Laughs at night, weeps
during day. Proud, haughty, merry exaltation. Lascivious talk. Limbs separated from the body
as if. Fear and anxiety on hearing water run. Aversion to all fluids. Maniac, curses, tears ones
clothes with teeth. Violent speech. Exposes the person. Stupid; imbecile. Sits silent, eyes on
ground, picking at her clothes. Wants to kill people or himself. Anxiety when going through a
tunnel. Exalted states alternating with settled melancholy. Everything, everybody seems new.
Wife thinks husband neglecting her, man thinks his wife faithless.

Head
Vertigo worse walking in dark or with eyes closed. Jerks head up from pillow and drops it
again; during unconsciousness; delirium; puerperal fever etc. Headache with tendency to
speak incoherently. Head bent backwards; in vertigo, supports head with hands while bending
or rising; after sunstroke. Meningitis; from suppressed ear discharge. Headache from sun.

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Eyes
Fixed, sparkling, *staring,* wide open. Squint. Half open in sleep. Diplopia. Lachrymation; with
headache, fever, otalgia. Night blindness. Green vision. Hallucinations in which everything
looks jumbled. *All objects look black; crooked, small, large, Squint; in brain affections, during
convulsions, worse terror, fear. Sight darkened. Pupils dilated.

Ears
Sensation as if air rushing out of ear. Deafness. Hallucinations of hearing.

Nose
Alae nasi white.

Face
*Red, *bloated, hot. Expression rapidly changing; now flushed, now pale; a sardonic grin; then
expression of terror. Forehead wrinkled; frowning; in brain diseases. Thinks face elongated.
Lips; dry, glued together. Chewing motion. Lockjaw.

Mouth
*Fine red dots on tongue. *Tongue; dry, parched, swollen; hangs out of the mouth. Taste
bitter; to food. Stammering. Aphasia. Constantly spits saliva. Dribbling of viscid saliva.
Grinding of the teeth.

Throat
Dry with great thirst; *yet dreads water, it chokes him. Up and down movement of larynx as
in swallowing. As if boiling water rising in. Swallowing; difficult; hasty.

Stomach
Food tastes like straw. Vomiting of greenish substance. Great desire for acids; lemon juice
better . Hiccough obstinate.

Abdomen
*Putrid, *dark, *painless, involuntary *diarrhoea, with a squint and pale face. Cholera
infantum. Stools suppressed.

Urinary
Suppression of urine; esp. during typhoid, bladder empty. Loss of power of bladder in the
aged; stream flows slowly, cannot make haste. Rigor during urination.

Male
Sexual passion exalted; with indecent speech and action. Hands constantly kept on genitals.

Female
Nymphomania; lewd talking; sings obscene songs. Excessive menses, preceded by sexual
excitement. Loquacity and singing, during menses. Menses have strong smell as of semen.
Puerperal; convulsions, mania; with mental symptoms and profuse sweating. Hands
constantly kept on genitals. Sobs and moans, after menses. Excessive menstrual flow.

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Respiratory
Inspiration slow, expiration quick. Spasmodic cough; of drunkards; whooping. Voice hoarse
and croaking; suddenly fails in higher tones. Spasms, twitching of larynx. Nervous asthma.
Cough worse looking at light, fire, or bright objects. Cough with jerking of lower limbs, when
sitting.

Heart
Feeble; pulse irregular. Cardiac affections, with constrictions of chest and mental symptoms.

Neck and Back

Neck stiff, cannot bend it backwards. Drawing pain in the back. Spine sensitive; slightest
pressure causes outcries and ravings. Opisthotonos.

Extremities
Graceful and rhythmic motions. Clasps hands over head. Hands open and shut. Wringing of
hands. Staggering gait. Misses step of stairs while descending. Violent pain in hip. Trembling
of limbs. Inside of right thigh red and swollen. Abscess of left hip joint, with violent pain.
Hemiplegia, with convulsions in unparalysed parts. Heels numb, sometimes painful.

Sleep
Comatose. Weeping in dreams. *Awakes in fear or screaming Lies on back with thighs and
knees flexed. Sleepless in darkness. Frightful dreams. Laughs, screams starts during sleep.

Fever
Profuse sweat which does not relieve. Violent fever. Cold sweat; during spasms.

Skin
Crawling as of many bugs. Non‐appearance of exanthemata. Shining red flush. Chronic
abscesses, fistulae. Fiery red patches on skin. Abscesses and tumours with severe pain. Burns
and scalds.

Related
Bell; Hyos; Op.

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712
Strontium Carbonicum [Stront‐c]

Generalities
Affects the *circulation causing congestive feeling of tension. Heart, kidneys, marrow, *ankles
and right side are also affected. *Pains are fleeting, can hardly tell where they are, seemingly
felt in marrow of bones; increase and decrease gradually or make the patient faint and sick
all over. Burning, *gnawing. Violent involuntary starts of the body *Immobility; of one side.
Sense of *paralytic weakness. Emaciation. Prostration or shock, after surgical operation.
Numbness. Soreness. Formication, in limbs. Oedema; esp. about the ankles as a concomitant.
High blood pressure; arteriosclerosis. Affections of bones esp. of femur. Chronic sequelae of
haemorrhages. Rheumatic pains. Chronic sprains. Stenosis of oesophagus. Neuritis, worse
cold. Coldness in spots, on calves. Pain and itching alternate.

Worse
***COLD; *Uncovering. *Walking. Sprains. *Bleeding. Evening. Change of weather. Stooping.
Touch. Rubbing.

Better
*Heat and light.* Sun. Wraps. Hot bath.

Mind
Excessive forgetfulness. Apprehension as from bad conscience. Depression of spirits. Irritable;
suddenly becomes angry, beats anything that comes in his way.

Head
*Aches* into upper jaw, with vertigo and nausea. Violent pain in nape extending upwards
better wraps. Distensive pressure on entire head. Aching eyebrows.

Eyes
Burning and red. Photophobia, remaining after operation esp. when objects appear covered
with blood. Green spots before the eyes in the dark. Pain and lachrymation on using eyes,
with dancing and alternation of colours of objects looked at.

Nose
Itching, redness and burning of nose. Bloody crusts.

Face
Red with burning heat or very pale; every time the patient walks.

Mouth
*Feels numb* and dry in A.M.; on waking. Teeth as screwed together.

Stomach
Pressure in stomach during digestion. Hiccough causes chest pains. Food taste insipid. Craving
for bread and beer. Aversion to meat.

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Abdomen
Colic in umbilical region. Hard, knotty stools, evacuated slowly with much effort; then burning
in anus lasting for a long time. Diarrhoea worse at night; with constant urging; exhausting, of
yellow water; with gripping, better towards morning. Periodical diarrhoea.

Urinary
Pale urine with strong smell of ammonia.

Respiratory
Pressure, as of a load on chest. Pain in the left breast with oppression worse after meals.

Heart
*Heart feels smothered.* Heart block.

Extremities
Hands numb. Cramps in calves and soles. *Ankles sprained or puffed;* as a concomitant.
Chronic spasms esp. of ankle joints. Sciatica with oedema of ankle. Immobility of the limbs, of
one side only, like paralysis. Gnawing as if in marrow of the bones. Diarrhoea, during
rheumatism.

Fever
*Flushes of heat; in face; yet aversion *to uncovering. Profuse perspiration at night;
climacteric.

Skin
Moist itching burning eruptions better in open air esp. in warm sunshine.

Related
Calc; Rhus‐t.

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714
Strophanthus Hispidus [Stroph]

Generalities
Used as an arrow poison, it increases the contractile power of all striped muscles esp.
***HEART; increasing the systole and diminishing the rapidity. It can be used with advantage
to tone the heart and run off dropsical effusions. Has no cumulative action; safe for corpulent,
aged persons, with rigid arteries. Functional disturbances of heart from alcohol, tobacco; tea.
Mitral regurgitation. Arterio‐sclerosis. Twitchings of the muscles. *Stitching pains.
*Undulating sensation in whole body. Throbbings. *Rapid alternations of symptoms, with
slow pulse. Faintness. Anaemia with palpitation and breathlessness Goitre, exophthalmic.
Increased secretions. Abolishes the taste for alcohol.

Worse
Exertion. Tobacco. Tea. Alcohol.

Mind
*Fear of ordeals.* Feels lifted up, during sleep. Precociously loquacious; children.

Head
Vertigo; with swimming vision; senile. Undulations in head.

Eyes
Glimmering vision. Pupils rapidly dilate and contract, even few minutes. Brilliant.

Face
Flushed; red spots on. Lips scarlet.

Throat
Seems constricted. Burnings, compelling empty swallowing.

Stomach
Craving for coffee. Loss of appetite. Nausea with disgust for alcohol. Loathing of food,
followed by choking and vomiting after eating.

Abdomen
Rumbling and pinching at naval. Diarrhoea with burning and tenesmus in anus.

Urinary
Urine, increased secretion; or scanty albuminous.

Heart
Weak, *aching or anguish at. *Sense of lively action. Chronic; nervous palpitation, and arrest
of breathing. Stitches and twitches at apex beat. Pulse; rapid, alternating with slow; weak,
small irregular. Cardiac dyspnoea.

Extremities
Heaviness and pain in forearms and fingers. Itching and stitching in both feet.

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Skin
*Hives, chronic, receding.

Related
Apoc; *Glon; *Ign; Spig.

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716
Strychninum [Stry]

Generalities
Spasmodic rigidity is the key note of this alkaloid obtained from the seeds of Nux vomica.
Tetanic convulsions with opisthotonos; tetanus, violent jerking, twitching and trembling are
the characteristic symptoms which it produces. Inability to take deep breath; fixation of chest
walls. Athetosis. Spine is cold. Gushing sweat from head and chest.

Better
Lying on back.

Worse
Touch. Noise. Motion.

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717
Succinum [Succ]

Generalities
A fossil resin known as Amber; produces nervous and hysterical symptoms. Fear of train and
closed places.

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718
Sulphonal [Sulfon]

Generalities
A coal tar product produces ataxic symptoms; staggering gait; anaesthesia of legs with
absence of knee jerks.

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719
Sulphur [Sulph]

Generalities
Sulph. is a product of volcanic eruptions, found free in nature and was used from remote
times to remove skin affections; therefore it is the great anti‐psoric remedy. *It causes
*irregular distribution Of ***CIRCULATION; causing ***LOCAL BURNING; ***THROBBING; or
***CONGESTION; flushes of heat; rush of blood to head, chest, heart. ***REDNESS OF
ORIFICES or of single parts is another prominent feature due to irregular circulation; ***LIPS,
ears, nose, eyelids, anus, vulva. ***NUTRITION is affected on account of defective
assimilation, in spite of voracious appetite, the patient *emaciates (esp. children). Child looks
dried, a little old man; big head, big belly, with emaciated limbs. It is often of great use in
beginning the treatment of ***CHRONIC DISEASES, and in finishing acute ones; or when the
***REACTION IS DEFICIENT, when the carefully selected remedy fails to act. Mucous
discharges and exhalations are *acrid, *blood *streaked, *offensive and cause itching. Serous
effusions or deposits are absorbed slowly. It has an elective affinity for ***SKIN where it
produces heat and burning with ***ITCHING. Patient is unable to walk erect, ***STOOP
SHOULDERED, ***UNWASHED, ***TALL AND LEAN; ***UNTIDY; and ***BODY OFFENSIVE in
spite of washing. Aversion to being washed; always worse after the bath. Dirty, filthy people
prone to skin affections. *Complaints that relapse. Glandular swelling, indurated, and
suppurating. *Weak faint spells, frequently, during the day, after nursing; or night watching;
with great sleepiness. *Empty, sinking feeling. Sensation of overfullness, roughness; or
numbness. Epilepsy with a feeling that mouse is running up arms to back, before the fit. Child
jumps, starts and screams fearfully. ***ASCENDING EFFECTS, rushes of blood, flushes of heat,
vertigo etc. Ragged philosopher; dirty looking persons who are always speculating on religious
or philosophical subjects. Everything affects the epigastrium. Burning in VERTEX AND SOLES.
Rheumatism. Scrofula. Psora. Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards. Ill
effects of falls, blows, sprains, sun. Always desires to keep his bowels clean. Slight pressure
causes pain, swelling and suppuration. Induration of tissues from constant pressure, corns,
bedsores etc. Bunions. Never well since chest troubles. As if bed were too small to hold him.
As if swinging or standing on wavering ground. Coal miner’s affections. Chorea; chronic; after
suppressed eruptions.

Worse
***SUPPRESSIONS. ***BATHING. Milk. ***HEATED; ***BY OVER‐ EXERTION; ***IN BED; by
woollens etc. *Atmospheric changes. *Talking. *Periodically; 11 A.M. *Climacteric. Full moon.
*Standing. stooping. Reaching high. Sweets. Looking down. Crossing running water.
Vaccination. Suppressed piles.

Better
Open air. Motion. Drawing up affected limbs. Sweating. Dry warm weather. Lying on right
side. Walking. Dry heat.

Mind
*Dull, *difficult, *thinking; misplaces or cannot find proper words; when talking or writing.
*Lazy hungry, and *always tired. Childish peevishness in grown up people. *Hopeful
dreamers. Mean. Prying. Easily excited. Foolish happiness and pride; thinks himself in
possession of beautiful things, everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to; even
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rouse himself and too unhappy to live. Strong tendency to religious and philosophical
reveries, with fixed ideas. Disgust, upto nausea about any effluvia arising in his own body.
Obstinate. Dislikes to have anyone near him. Tired of life. Strong impulsive tendency to suicide
by drowning or leaping from a window (in epileptic fits worse during menses). Aversion to do
mental or physical work; Loafs. Thinks that he is giving wrong things to people causing their
death. Fault finding. Aversion to business. Melancholy. Sad. Absentminded. Sense of disgrace;
after a delivery. Wishing to touch something; with inability to do so. Philosophical mania,
wants to know who made this or that and how; tries to reason without any hope of discovery
or possible answer. Imagines himself a great man, though ignorant, despises literary men and
education. Weeps without cause, or slightest provocation worse consolation.

Head
Vertigo; in forehead; worse when crossing a river; stooping; with headache. *Vertex; hot,
*throbs, heavy, sore. Pain, chills, pressure, etc., ascends *from nape to *vertex. Sick
headaches recurring periodically; on even Sunday; preceded by photopsia. As of a band about
or pain deep in brain. Hot head with cold feet. Hair; dry, cold, hard; falling off, worse washing.
Sweaty scalp. Fontanelles remain open too long. Hydrocephalus; with convulsions, red face
and pupils dilated. Head bent forward when walking.

Eyes
Burning. Cutting as from sand. Bursting pain in eyeballs. Trembling of eyes; quivering of
eyelids. Objects seem more distant than they are. *Halo about light. Obscuration of vision like
black gauze before eyes. Retinitis caused by over use of eyes. Painful inflammation of eye
from presence of foreign body. Photophobia. Keratitis; cornea like ground glass. Agglutination
of lids. Oily tears. Styes and tarsal tumours. Eczema of lids. Trachoma. Opacities of vitreous.

Ears
Deafness preceded by oversensitiveness to hearing, worse after eating and blowing nose.
Swashing as of water. Purulent offensive otorrhoea; catarrhal discharge even eighth day. Ears
very red; in children. As if sounds do not come through the ear but through forehead.

Nose
Obstructed on alternate sides. Fluent burning coryza worse out of doors; stopped indoors. Tip
of nose or alae nasi red; swollen worse cold. Smell before nose as from an old catarrh.
Epistaxis worse at night, on lying on right side. Sensitive to smell. Imaginary odours. Freckles
and black pores on nose. Frequent sneezing.

Face
Pale, sickly, ***OLD LOOKING. Circumscribed redness of cheeks. Freckled, spotted. *Lips;
*bright red; swollen (upper), dry, rough, cracked, burning; twitching or trembling. Swollen
veins on forehead. Acne. Mumps.

Mouth
Teeth; sensitive, tender. Jerking, shooting, throbbing pains in teeth. Grinding of the teeth.
Gums; swollen, bleeding. Tongue; dry, tremulous; with red tip and borders. Taste; sour,
sweetish, foul, bitter, in morning. Saliva; profuse, with nauseous taste. Nursing sore mouth.
Food tastes like straw or too salty. Aphthae; thrush.

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Throat
Sensation; as of a lump, hair or splinter, or as of a *vapour rising in. Ball seems to rise and
close the pharynx. External redness. Swollen as if. Dry, exciting cough.

Stomach
*Drinks much eats little. Eructations tasting like bad eggs worse eating or at night. Complete
loss of appetite or ravenous appetite. Feels hungry, but when comes to the table, he loathes
the food, turns away from it. Eats anything and everything. Aversion to meat. Desire for
sweets, for raw food. Food tastes too salty. Milk causes sour taste and sour eructations.
***SUDDENLY HUNGRY AND WEAK at 11 a.m.; empty *weak feeling at epigastrium.
Eructations on pressing on stomach. Headache or feels tired if he does not eat often. Vomiting
of indigested food or sour vomiting. Nausea during pregnancy. Sweets disagree. Heaviness in
stomach.

Abdomen
***SORE very sensitive to pressure. Stitches in region of spleen worse coughing or deep
inspiration. Stitches in region of liver. Biliary colic; and chronic or relapsing jaundice. Intestines
feel as if strung in knots worse bending forward. Abdomen heavy, as of a lump. As if
something moving alive; as of the fist of child. Colic after eating or drinking, obliging one to
bend double worse sweet things. Bearing down against rectum. Pain, urging in and itching in
rectum. *Haemorrhoidal habitus; during pregnancy. Piles external and internal great bunches
that are sore, tender, raw, burn, bleed and smart. Holds stools back from pain.
***DIARRHOEA; ***HURRIED; ***EARLY MORNING; changing; mushy; *foul; *painless;
watery; grayish, frothy worse milk. Diarrhoea alternating with constipation. Habitual
constipation. Odour of stool follows him as if he had soiled himself. *Redness around the
anus, with itching. Diarrhoea; of infants with pale face, profuse sweating, drowsiness, half
open eyes, suppression of urine, spasms of limbs and the child wakes up screaming. Colicky
babies. Involuntary stools on sneezing or laughing, with emission of flatus. Big belly,
emaciated limbs (children). Eczema about navel. Stools flat and thin.

Urinary
Itching, burning in urethra, during micturition, lasting long after. Sudden call to urinate, must
hurry. Frequent urination esp. at night. Bed wetting esp. in scrofulous, untidy children. Mucus
and pus in urine. Great quantities of colourless urine; greasy particles upon it. Urination
involuntary while passing flatus, or on coughing. Painful ineffectual efforts to urinate;
retention; every cold settles in the bladder. Stream thin, intermits.

Male
Testes hang low. Seminal emission, with burning in urethra. Penis cold. Sexual power weak;
impotence. Induration of testes. Foetid sweat on genitals. Exhaustion in the morning after
seminal emission. Backache and weakness of the limbs after coition with sadness and
irritability. Discharge of prostatic fluid after urination and stool. Seminal emission on touching
a woman. Semen; odourless, watery. Hydrocele. Prepuce stiff, hard like leather, with copious
smegma; causes itches.

Female
Vulva and vagina burn, itch, and sore worse sitting; is scarcely able to keep still. Sore feeling
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irregular too late, short, scanty, thick, foul, black, acrid, making parts sore. Leucorrhoea; of
yellow mucous, burning, excoriating. Troublesome itching of vulva with pimples all around.
Sharp burning in mammae. Cutting pain in uterus during menses. Weak feeling in genitals.
Nipples; cracked, around the base, smart, burn, bleed; after nursing, pain extends to back.
Puerperal sepsis, with high fever, profuse sweat of whole body, tenderness of abdomen and
drowsiness. Offensive genitals, with offensive sweat on thighs. Suppression of menses from
slight physical or mental excitement. Amenorrhoea. Prolapse of uterus from reaching high.
Cancer of breast, or uterus. Breast and uterus develops imperfectly.

Respiratory
***DIFFICULT RESPIRATION; ***WANTS WINDOWS OPEN; nightly suffocative air hunger.
Irregular breathing. Deep hoarse voice. *Cough; violent, in two or three incomplete bouts;
tickling as from `down’ in larynx. Much rattling of mucus and heat in chest, worse 11 A.M.
*Pain backward from left nipple. As of a band or load on chest. Red, brown spots on chest.
Pleuritic exudation. Pneumonia. Greenish sweetish purulent expectoration. Sensation of
burning or *coldness in chest; extending to face. Asthma preceded by cold everytime. Feeling
of weakness in chest, while talking. Violent cough with headache worse lying on back. As of
rivet through upper third of left lung. Shooting pains in chest extending to back worse
coughing, lying on back and deep breathing. Neglected pneumonia.

Heart
Seems too big. Palpitation, worse lying; at night; in bed, going up an ascent. Pulse more rapid
in morning, than in the evening. Pericarditis with effusion. Sharp pains go through chest to
between shoulders.

Neck and Back

Muscles of neck weak; child cannot hold head. Boils on neck. Neck stiff. Sensation as if
vertebrae glide over each other or crack on bending backwards. Aching between scapulae.
*Lumbar pains, to stomach; *walks bent; from pain in the back, he can only straighten up
after moving. Supports weight on hands when sitting. Coccyx pains, during stools. Aching in
small of back worse when urinating. Curvature of Spine.

Extremities
Heavy shoulders. Sweat in armpit smelling like garlic. Left arm numb worse lying. Numb
fingers. Palms; dry, burn, crack, peel, eczema on; warts on. Tense hamstring (left). Cramp in
calf (left). ***SOLES; ***BURN; ***WANTS THEM UNCOVERED; at night; cold, in bed; dry. Hot
sweaty hands. Heaviness paretic feeling in limbs. *Jerks one limb on dropping to sleep.*
Popliteae tight on stooping. Swelling of the joints with hydrarthrosis. Joints stiff. Tremulous
sensation in hands, when writing. Tuberculosis of the knee and hip joints. Ulcers around the
nails. Whitlow; with rapid swelling of the finger, redness, stiffness and excessive burning
stitching. Involuntary contraction of hands as if about to grasp something. Unsteady gait.

Sleep
Heavy, unrefreshing. Drowsy; then migraine. Sleeps in cat naps. Drowsy by day, wakeful at
night. Talks, jerks and twitches during sleep. Awakes, with starts or screams. Sings during
sleep or wakes up singing. Vivid dreams, remain impressed on the memory.

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Fever
Chill spreading up back. *Flushes of heat. *Feels too hot. Heat with general throbbing;
between scapulae. Sweat on single parts; in axillae; hands and feet. Profuse sweat at night,
with sulphur odour. Sweat without relief. Remittent fever. Septic; puerperal fever.

Skin
Eruptions almost of even kind. Skin; *dry, *rough; *wrinkled, *scaly. ***ITCHING; voluptuous;
violent, worse at night; in bed; scratching and washing. *Unhealthy; ***BREAKS OUT; *festers
and would not heal.* Burning when scratched; painfully sensitive to air, wind, *washing etc.
*Eruptions alternate with other complaints, asthma etc. Crops of boils. Itch. Rhagades.
Eczema. Ulcers. Creeping erysipelas. Excoriations, on folds. Suppuration, with air bubbles.
Varicose veins; ulcerate, rupture and bleed.

Related
Graph; Psor; Sel; Syph.

Complementary
Acon; Aloe; Ars; Bell; Calc; Merc; Nux‐v; Puls; Pyrog; Rhus‐t; Sep; Sul‐i.

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Sulphur Iodatum [Sul‐i]

Generalities
Obstinate skin affections; painless enlargement of glands, and infiltration of tissues with
thickening and induration after inflammation are marked features of Sul‐io. *Weakness; *as
from influenza. Prostration and sensitive to everything. Faint and sick. *Raw burning heat
internally with external coldness. Acrid discharges. Single parts, fingers etc. turn white and
insensible. *Suppuration. *Favours reabsorption.

Worse
*Exertion; even slight. *Heat. Lying on right side. Before storms. Night. Stooping.

Better
Cool air. Standing. Expectoration. Winter.

Mind
Dread of exertion. Doubtful. Hurried, impatient, sad.

Head
Ache better sundown. Hair seems erect. Vertigo worse stooping; binding of the hair, fasting,
before and during menses.

Eyes
Zigzag before vision.

Face
Suppurating acne. Parotid hypertrophy; after mumps.

Mouth
Teeth feel soft. Tongue; *glazed; thickened after inflammation. Raw, dry, wants to moisten it.
Cold sores on lips.

Throat
Raw, dry; painful in swallowing. Uvula and tonsils enlarged and red.

Stomach
Anorexia. Tremors in epigastrium on exertion. Appetite increased in marasmus of children.

Abdomen
Mesenteric disease. Stubborn constipation. Bright yellow stools. Foul anal discharge.

Urinary
Urine; scanty, purulent; brown sand in. Urine smells like raspberries. Stricture after
gonorrhoea, painful urination, stream twisted. Burning at the end of penis, dull pain in
prostate.

Male
Testes soft. Deficient erections. Prepuce cracked. Hydrocele of small boys.

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Female
Irregular menses; and a copious thick, burning, leucorrhoea worse before and after menses.
Respiratory
Breathing asthmatic, irregular, rattling and suffocative. Cough worse a.m.; spasmodic.
Expectoration greenish, purulent, copious, viscid and yellow. Chest constricted, dropsy of
pleura, and eruptions on chest..

Extremities
Aching soreness below knees. Soles of feet ache, burn and sore, when standing.

Skin
*Itching. Ulcers. Moist eczema. Acne, suppurating. Barbers’ itch.

Follows well
Sulph.

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Sulphuricum Acidum [Sul‐ac]

Generalities
Weakness or debility common to all acids is felt more by the action of this acid esp. in
***DIGESTIVE TRACT, giving a very relaxed feeling in the stomach, with a craving for
stimulants. Weakness; is out of proportion to the disease; from some deep seated dyscrasia.
It affects the *blood and blood‐vessels, causing *haemorrhages; violent, of thin, black blood
from all the orifices. Veins (of feet) distended. Purpura haemorrhagica. Removes long lasting
black and blue spots, with soreness and stiffness of the part, after trauma; follows Arnica.
***TREMBLING, INTERNAL; wants to be held. *Sourness; of the body; of stomach. Suited to
*topers; old persons esp. women; in climacteric years; weak children with no other complaint.
*Profuse acrid or stringy discharges. Parts feel stiff and tight. *Pains increase gradually and
end abruptly. *As of a blunt plug being driven in. *Great painfulness. Pains felt during sleep.
Disappear on waking. Gnawing pains. Lead poisoning. Gangrene following mechanical
injuries. Burning, darting pains. Shocks as from pain. Ulcers become red and blue and become
painful. Writer’s cramp.

Worse
*Open air. *Cold. *Alcohol *Injuries; surgical operations. Concussion of brain. ***ODOUR OF
COFFEE. *Climacteric. Towards evening. Excessive heat or cold. Touch. Pressure. Sprains.
Lifting arms. Drinking cold water.

Better
Hot drinks. *Hands near head. Moderate temperature. Warmth.

Mind
*Must do everything in great hurry. Sullen, impatient, angry because things move so slowly.
Fretful and *irritable; over the slightest cause, nervous fatigue and tendency to take fright.
Vaccillating and morose. Unwilling to answer questions; says yes or no with difficulty.
Constant crying or weeping. No one does anything to please him. Seriousness alternating with
buffoonery.

Head
Brain feels loose; in forehead falling from side to side worse walking in open air, better sitting
quiet in room. Compressive pain in occiput better by holding the hand near head. Thrusts in
temples (right) as if a plug were driven in. Electric like shocks; in forehead, temples. Hair; falls
out, turns grey.

Eyes
Intra‐ocular haemorrhage, following trauma. Eyelids difficult to open. Feeling as of a lump in
outer canthi; moves to inner canthi on closing eye and returns to outer on opening. Eyes;
smart, burn, and lachrymation, while reading.

Ears
Feeling as of a leaf lying before the ear.

Nose
Oozing of dark, thin blood worse odour of coffee; of old people.

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Face
*Deathly pale or wrinkled. Feels as if the white of an egg had dried on it.

Mouth
Aphthae; during protracted disease, esp. in children with marasmus. Gums bleed easily.
Offensive breath. Pyorrhoea. Destruction of teeth in diabetes mellitus. Bloody saliva from
mouth. Ulcers spread rapidly.

Throat
Sore. Stringy lemon‐yellow mucous hangs from posterior nares; in diphtheria. Looks white‐
washed. Liquids regurgitate, on swallowing.

Stomach
Heartburn. Sour eructations; sets teeth on edge. Craves brandy and fruits. Hiccough; of
drunkards; *nausea;* with shivering. Vomiting, sour; of drunkards; worse lying on left side.
Weak, relaxed feeling at stomach worse after stools. Drinks chill the stomach, and rejected
unless mixed with liquor. Vomits mucous instead of food. Coughs; before vomiting, during
pregnancy. Sweats after eating; esp. warm food. Averse to smell of coffee.

Abdomen
Colic, with sensation as if hernia would protrude. Spleen enlarged, hard, painful; on coughing.
*Diarrhoea;* very foul, green, black or of *hacked stools; orange yellow; from unripe fruit and
oysters; from least indigestion. Piles oozing moisture. Rectum feels as if it has a big ball;
haemorrhoidal tumours prevent stools. Sinking sense in abdomen after stools.

Urinary
Pain in the bladder if urging for urinating is not attended to. Haematuria.

Female
Distressing nightmares before menses, or after menses. Erosion of cervix; in the aged; easily
bleeding. Flushes of heat, followed by sweat and a feeling of tremors all over the body; during
climacteric. Menses; too early and too profuse. Acrid, burning leucorrhoea. Gangrene of
vagina, after prolapse. Prolapse of vagina and uterus from weakness.

Respiratory
Cough, then eructations or vomiting. Bloody expectoration; during climaxis. Larynx moves up
and down violently and rapid motion of alae nasi, during dyspnoea better hanging down legs.

Back
Weakness of spine, cannot sit or stand. Large abscess on right side neck.

Extremities
Fingers jerk while writing. Writers’ cramp. Knees painfully weak. Ankles weak, cannot walk.
Jerking of fingers during sleep. Jerking of the tendons.

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Fever
***HOT *flushes; then trembling; or cold sweat worse after warm ingesta; worse upper parts;
better motion. Drenching sweats. Disproportionate weakness during fevers, like typhoid.

Skin
Cicatrices turn red and blue and become painful. Ecchymoses. Carbuncles, boils, gangrene.
Itching all over the body. Nodular urticaria. Bed sores; abscesses.

Related
Ars; Lach; Sep.

Complementary
Puls.

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Sumbul [Sumb]

Generalities
Musk root, as its name implies closely resembles in its odour to musk, therefore like Moschus
it is the remedy for hysterical and *nervous affections. It affects *heart* causing nervous
palpitation. The patient is nervous, irritable and sleepless. Tendency to faint from slightest
cause. Chorea; constant jerking of the head and limbs with protrusion of the tongue. As of a
hot water flowing through part. Yellow tenacious discharges. Numbness; on becoming cold,
on left side. Neuralgia. Early senility. Sclerosed arteries. Flushings, climacteric.

Worse
Motion. Climacteric. Music. Cold. Thinking of symptoms. Inspiration.

Better
Gentle motion. Warmth.

Mind
Emotional and fidgety. Weeps and laughs by turns. Faintness from hearing music. Fear of
becoming insane.

Nose
Tenacious yellow mucous from nose.

Face
As of a hair or cobweb on face. Neuralgia. Idiotic expression.

Mouth
Tongue feels rough as if scraped.

Throat
*Choking constriction;* constant swallowing; hysterical.

Stomach
Burning waterbrash.

Abdomen
Full, distended and painful.

Urinary
Oily pellicle on urine.

Female
Sexual excitability. Ovarian neuralgia. Pulling like a string in breast (right). Climacteric flushes.
Screwing pain in region of uterus (left side).

Respiratory
Short breath on any exertion. Asthma; cardiac; hysterical. Oppressed tightness in left chest,
as if clogged.

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Heart
Nervous palpitation; in hysterical subjects or at climaxis; worse least exertion and thinking of
it. As if heart beating in water. Neuralgia around left breast simulating angina pectoris. Cardiac
asthma. High blood pressure due to arteriosclerosis.

Back
Trickling along spine.

Extremities
Left arm, ache, heavy, numb, weary.

Sleep
Dreams of falling; of coitus; followed by profuse sudden emission.

Skin
Pale; cold. Internal itching.

Related
Asaf; Mosch.

Complementary
Lact‐v.

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Symphoricarpus Racemosa [Sym‐r]

Generalities
Highly recommended remedy for persistent vomiting of pregnancy. Aversion to all food.
Nausea worse during menses; any motion. Better by lying on back. Smell and thought of food
repugnant.

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Symphytum [Symph]

Generalities
Common name, Knit‐bone or Bone‐set gives the indication for this remedy. *Injuries to
***CARTILAGES; ***PERIOSTEUM; with excessive pain. Painful old injuries. Comminuted
***FRACTURES. Pricking, stitching pains; remaining after wound is healed, worse touch.
Irritable stump after operations. Non‐union of fractures. Penetrating wounds to perineum.
*Deficient callus. Affects the joints. Arthralgia; of knee. External application disposes the
swelling, due to injury or other growths. Psoas abscess. Sarcomatous tumours.

Worse
***INJURIES. Blows from blunt instruments. Touch. Sexual excess.

Head
Ache changing places.

Eyes
*Injuries to the eyes; from blunt instruments; blows, knock etc.; eyelids spasmodically closed.

Face
*Injuries to face. Malignant growth of right antrum.

Stomach
Ulcers of the stomach. Pain about navel worse sitting.

Back
Backaches from excessive sexual indulgence or from wrestling; from violent motion. Caries of
vertebrae.

Skin
Cold.

Related
Arn; Calc‐p.

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Syphilinum [Syph]

Generalities
A nosode prepared from syphilitic virus. Affects the *mucous membranes, *nerves and bones.
*In chronic cases* when the *reaction is poor* and indicated remedy gives partial relief esp.
when there is hereditary tendency to alcoholism or history of *SYPHILITIC TAINT. Great
weakness with very few symptoms; or utter *prostration and debility; in the morning; on
waking. *Multiphase symptoms. *Ulcerations; stubborn. Dwarfed, shrivelled up, old looking
babies and children, bald head, pouting lips and big belly. Foul odour of the body. Violent, or
linear pains. *Succession of abscesses. *Foul or green pus.* Knots in muscles. Pains or other
conditions worse and better gradually. Epilepsy worse after menses. Foetid discharges.
Persistent pains in any part of the body. Cold pain. Crying infants; who begin crying
immediately after birth. Slowly advancing hemiplegia. As of hot water in blood vessels. Bones;
sore, caries, curvature of. Exostoses. Glands enlarged. Hodgkin’s disease. *Sawing pains in
bones.

Worse
***NIGHT. *Sundown to sunrise.* Damp. Extreme heat or cold. Every alternate full moon.
During thunderstorms. In any position. Motion. Raising arms laterally. Squatting. Winter.
Summer. Seashore. Protruding tongue.

Better
Continued or slow motion. Changing positions. High altitudes. Applied heat. During day.

Mind
*Hopeless despair of recovery. *Antisocial. *Horrid depression. Cross, irritable, peevish. Feels
as if going insane or being paralysed. A far away feeling‐says he is not himself and he cannot
feel like himself, with apathy and indifference to future. *Impulse to wash hands. Terrible
dread of night. Loss of memory, does not remember, faces, names, events, places etc., but
remembers everything previous to his disease. Very nervous, laughs or weeps without cause.
Does not want to be soothed. Nightly delirium. Syphilitic insanity. *Aversion to company. Sad
and lamenting.

Head
*Deep crushing head pains* across the base of temples. Linear head pains. Beats head against
the wall. Feels pulled back. Cerebral softening. Hair fall profusely. Vertex as if bursting.
Tubercles all over the scalp.

Eyes
Chronic recurrent phlyctenular keratitis better cool bathing; with intense photophobia and
lachrymation. Ophthalmia; neonatorum. Glimmering vision. Vertical *diplopia. *Ptosis.
Feeling of cold air blowing on the eye. Squint. Amaurosis; atrophy of optic nerve. Spots on
cornea.

Ears
Deafness, without any obvious cause; nervous with cachexia. Calcareous deposit on
tympanum. Abscess of the middle ear.

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Nose
Ozaena; offensive, thick yellow‐green discharge. Painful to inhaled air. Sinuses, painful. Green
lumps from posterior nares. *Snuffles. Caries of bones. Septum perforated. Saddle across the
bridge of the nose to which Sepia saddle is but a shadow. Attacks of fluent coryza. Itching
nostrils.

Face
Pale, wrinkled; old look. Twitching of muscles. Pain over eyes (right) worse protruding tongue.
Paralysis of one side, with difficult speech, mastication and twitching of eyes and lids.

Mouth
*Teeth feel sticky; as of a worm in. Teeth cupped, in children. Feeling as if teeth, had all got
out of place. Teeth decay at the edge of gums. Tongue; coated, indented, deep longitudinal
cracks along centre, ulcers, smart and burn. Putrid taste; before epileptic fit. *Excessive flow
of saliva; *runs out of mouth during sleep.* Aphasia. Paralysis of tongue. Toothache better
pressing them together, worse hot or cold things.

Throat
Sore, right to left worse cold drinks. Chronic hypertrophy of tonsils, with syphilitic taint.

Stomach
Capricious appetite. *Craves alcoholic liquors. Aversion to meat. Total loss of appetite for
months. No food agrees, or satisfies him. Vomiting for weeks or months.

Abdomen
Obstinate constipation. Rectum seems tied up with strictures. Fissures in anus and rectum.
Water from enema escapes with pain. Diarrhoea; bilious; painless worse seashore, drives her
out of bed about 5 a.m.

Urinary
Urine frothy; scanty, yellow. Nocturnal enuresis. Passes urine better while standing. Urinates
only once during 24 hours but profuse.

Male
Nodular formation in testes, spermatic cord and scrotum. Chancres. Aching of genitals,
cannot sit still.

Female
Menses having putrid meat‐like odour. Yellow, offensive, *acrid leucorrhoea so profuse,* it
soaks through napkins and runs to the heels; with ovarian pain; in sickly nervous women; with
itching of the genitals. Habitual abortion. Mammae; sensitive to touch; feel sore, during
menses and other times. Ulcers on the vulva with ovarian pain; sensitive to touch. Cutting
pain in ovary during coition, at the moment of orgasm.

Respiratory
Cough dry worse lying on right side; at night. Aphonia. before menses. Chronic asthma; worse
in summer, during thunderstorms, at night, humid weather. Continuous pain in the larynx
worse touch.

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Heart
Pain from base to apex of heart. Large soft pulse. As if hot water flowing in the veins.

Neck and Back

Neck feels short. Pain in the back in the region of kidney worse after urinating. Pain at coccyx
with sensation as if it is swollen worse sitting.

Extremities
Pain at the insertion of deltoid worse from raising arm laterally, or in front. Affections of
*middle fingers. Osteo‐ sarcoma; in centre of tibia. Itching eruptions about elbows. *Cold pain
in legs. Festination. *Bones pain as if sawed. Bilateral exostoses sore and painful. Shin bones
painful better pouring cold water on them. Sciatica worse at night. Muscles knotted; in
rheumatism. Soles painful with feeling of contraction worse standing on them. Cannot sit on
low chair or squat.

Sleep
*Sleeplessness.

Fever
Chilly. Sweats at night, with exhaustion.

Skin
Swollen and blotched. Biting as from bugs. Wandering erysipelas. Conical crusts. Bullae. White
or pock mark cicatrices. Distorted nails. Coppery spots.

Related
Aur; Kali i; Merc; Nit‐ac.

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736
Tabacum [Tab]

Generalities
Tobacco, though widely used as snuff, for smoking and for chewing, is used as medicine only
in homoeopathy. Vagus; sympathetic; cerebro‐spinal nerves and ***HEART are prominently
affected. It produces complete *prostration and relaxation of the entire muscular system;
with *free secretions, vomiting; profuse sweat; lachrymation, salivation etc. *Constriction of
the muscles of hollow organs, throat, bladder, rectum, chest etc. Cramps, then paralysis, of
bowels, heart etc. Convulsions, head firmly drawn back. Jerking throughout the body.
Trembling. Faintness. Stormy, dangerous cases with rapid changes. Pains worse from heat.
Excessive emaciation esp. of the muscles of back and cheeks. Gait slow and shuffling,
unsteady, difficulty in ascending stairs. Angina pectoris with coronary sclerosis and high
tension. Feeling of seasickness. Tetanus. Paralysis of sphincters. Slides in bed. Effects of
sunstroke. Palliative for bee‐sings and mosquito bites.

Worse
***MOTION; *of boat, *riding. Lying; on left side. Opening eyes. Evening. Extremes of heat
or cold.

Better
*Cold; application. Fresh air. Twilight. Uncovering abdomen. Weeping. Vomiting.

Mind
Very despondent. *Indifferent. Morose; sensation of extreme wretchedness. Forgetful; slow
perception. Confusion. Mental fag. Idiotic; epileptic idiocy. Silly talk. Feels as if someone was
coming to arrest him or murder him.

Head
*Excessive vertigo; with copious sweat (cold) worse on opening eyes. Sudden pain as if struck
by a hammer worse while passing urine. Tight feeling as from a band. Periodical sick
headaches.

Eyes
Loss of sight on looking steadily at any white object. Sudden loss of vision without lesion,
followed by atrophy of optic nerve. Central colour scotoma. Dim sight, sees through a veil.
Retina retains the image too long.

Ears
Hearing music causes pain in the ears. Meniere’s disease with feeling of seasickness.

Nose
Secretion increased.

Face
*Deathly pale; blue; *pinched; sunken. Covered with cold sweat. One cheek hot and glowing,
other pale. Spasms of the lower jaw. Pain in maxillary joint worse laughing. Lips retracted.
Emaciation of face.

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Mouth
Salivation. *Spits much; with other complaints. Speech difficult.

Throat
Violent constriction of throat; in angina pectoris.

Stomach
*Deathly nausea and violent vomiting, worse *least motion; better uncovering abdomen;
with much spitting; during pregnancy. Seasickness. Terrible faint, *sinking feeling at pit of
stomach. Vomiting of faecal matter. Retching. Acidity.

Abdomen
Pressure in hepatic region as from a heavy body. *Wants it uncovered; it lessens, nausea,
vomiting and other distress. Horrible colic; must shriek with weakness. Involuntary watery or
thick curdled stools; like sour milk. Cholera infantum. Intestinal obstruction. Strangulated
hernia. *Sinking feeling in epigastrium,* with dreadful faint sense. Retraction of navel;
abdominal muscles contracted. Habitual constipation.

Urinary
Renal colic, with cold sweat, deathly nausea. Paralysis of sphincters; urine dribbles. Enuresis.

Male
Nocturnal emissions. Impotency. Hyperaesthesia and neuralgia of penis.

Female
Morning sickness. In climacteric period and during menses, excessive sense of wretchedness.
Leucorrhoea, of serous fluid worse after menses. Severe itching of the whole body during
pregnancy.

Respiratory
Violent constriction of chest. Cough; dry, teasing, must take a swallow of cold water; followed
by hiccough, or with hiccough.

Heart
Violent palpitation worse lying on left side. Twisting about the heart. Angina pectoris, with
nausea, cold sweat and collapse. Unsteady heart beat. Acute dilation caused by shock or
physical exertion. Pulse thready, intermittent; hard cord like; imperceptible.

Neck and Back

Head drawn back in convulsions. Neck stiff. Emaciation of the muscles of back. Pain in the
small of back worse lying; better while walking. Heat down spine.

Extremities
Finger tips fuzzy. Cramps in single fingers worse washing. Legs and hands icy cold.
Formication.

Sleep
Insomnia with dilated heart. Nightmare. Stupefying sleep at night.

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Fever
*Icy cold skin. Heat down spine; of one cheek; internal. Sudden *cold sweats; with chill;
angina pectoris; renal colic etc.

Skin
Itching as from flea bites.

Related
Ars; Gels; Verat.

Complementary
Op.

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739
Taraxacum [Tarax]

Generalities
Affecting *liver, it is a bilious remedy. Feeling of *sickness and exhaustion; inclined to sit or
lie down. Stitching pains. Jaundice, gall stones, enlarged indurated liver.

Worse
*Rest. Sitting. Standing. Lying down.

Better
Walking. Touch.

Mind
Depression. Constant muttering to himself. Shuns labour, but after beginning works well.
Inclined to talk, laugh, and be merry.

Head
Ache due to gastric disturbances. Vertex feels very hot.

Mouth
Tongue; coated, *with raw patches; mapped.* Taste; bitter; sour. Salivation, with sensation
as if larynx was pressed shut.

Throat
Hawks sour mucous.

Stomach
Gastric bilious attacks. Loss of appetite. Bitter eructations.

Abdomen
Sensation of bubbles bursting in bowels. Tympanitis; hysterical. Liver enlarged and indurated.
Bilious diarrhoea. Stools white. Jaundice. Pain in the region of liver and spleen.

Urinary
Urination painless urging; frequent copious discharge.

Female
Menses suppressed.

Neck and Back

Tearing pain from ear down to neck. Sternomastoid muscle very painful to touch.

Extremities
Limbs restless. Finger tips cold (a guiding symptom). Jerking pain in calf (right) better on touch.
Tearing pains in limbs. Neuralgia of knee better pressure. Toes burning.

Fever
Chilly after eating; esp. after drinks. Profuse night sweats.

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Related
Nux‐v.

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741
Tarentula Cubensis [Tarent‐c]

Generalities
The poison of this spider affects the cellular tissues. It is a toxaemic medicine, useful in septic
conditions; when incubation is slow, but further progress is *rapid; *with alarming
prostration, *atrocious burning or sharp stinging pains; *board like* ***HARDNESS of
***AFFECTED ***PART and *copious sweat. Diphtheria; with intense fever, and numb aching.
Malignancy. Carbuncle. *Bluish abscesses; painful abscesses. *Felon. Remedy for *pain of
death; soothes the last agony. Paralysis then convulsions. Bubonic plague. Gangrene.

Worse
Cold drinks. Exertion. Night.

Better
Tobacco smoking.

Mind
Nervous restlessness.

Head
Fulness in head. Meningitis.

Stomach
Tendency to vomit.

Urinary
Cannot hold urine on coughing. Retention of urine. Urine hot, thick.

Female
Pruritus vulvae.

Respiratory
Spasmodic difficulty of breathing. Shattering cough; pertussis.

Extremities
Trembling hands. *Fidgety feet. Unsteady gait.

Sleep
Drowsiness. Prevented by harsh cough.

Fever
*Pungent heat of surface.

Skin
Feels puffed all over. *Purple discolouration.* Pungent burning. Senile ulcers.

Related
Anthr; Latro. Back to Index

742
Tarentula Hispania [Tarent]

Generalities
`Tarantism’ is the term applied to the dancing mania set up in persons bitten by the Tarn; the
cure is music and dancing. These symptoms give a key note indication to this remedy. It affects
the ***NERVES which are highly strung; producing remarkable nervous symptoms; hysteria;
chorea; many times reflex from generative sphere. ***HEART; *spine; ***RESPIRATION and
right side are also prominently affected. Symptoms appear suddenly; with ***VIOLENCE. The
patient is *restless, *fidgety; *hurried; in constant motion, though walking worse . *Rolls on
ground from side to side* or strikes vehemently with his feet; or rolls the head and rubs it; to
relieve her distress. Quivering; *jerking; *trembling; twitchings. *Synalgias or associated
pains; headache with pain in uterus, throat with eye pains; face pain with stomach pain; pain
in the ear with hiccough etc.; or pains from sexual excitement. Violent pains, neuralgias, as if
thousands of needles were pricking. Deep septic conditions; abscess, evacuates pus rapidly.
Noma. Emaciation worse face. Ill effects of unrequited love; bad news; scolding; punishment;
falls; sepsis. Can run better than walk. Irregular movements. Numbness with prickling.
Emaciation, as if the flesh fairly fell off the bones. Cancer; fibrous tumours. Its action is similar
to Ars. in many symptoms, therefore when *Ars. seems indicated but fails, it is better to give
Tarent.

Worse
Periodically; yearly; at the same hour. ***TOUCH. *Cold. *Noise. *Damp. Evening. After
menses. Coitus. Washing head. Seeing others in trouble. Hands in cold water. Music.

Better
Relaxation. *Rubbing. *Sweating. Smoking. Music. *Open air. Riding in a carriage. In the sun.
Bright colours.

Mind
Aversion to colours, black, red, yellow, *green. Dances up and down. Fits of nervous laughter
then screaming. *Suddenly changing moods, fancies or strength. *Lacks control. *Erratic.
Impulsive. Moral depravity. Crafty, *cunning. Selfish. Destructive, destroys whatever she can
lay hand on, tears her clothes etc. Hateful. Adroit. Throws things away. Malingering; when
there are no observers, there is no hysteria; when attention is directed to her, she begins to
twitch, feigns fainting, insensibility, but looks sideways to observe the effect on those around
her. Desire to strike herself or others. Laughs, mocks, runs, dances, gesticulates, jokes, cries,
sings till hoarse or exhausted. Kleptomania. Angry despair. Death agony. Ungrateful.
Melancholy. Discontented. Mental symptoms better p.m., after eating.

Head
Vertigo; worse carrying burden on head; then spasms. As of needles pricking into the brain.
Heavy pain in temples extending to face and neck, with nausea and impatience. Violent
crushing *headaches as accompaniment. Wants hair, brushed; pulled, or head rubbed.
Meningitis. As if cold water were poured on head and body. Vertigo; night; when descending
stairs.

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Eyes
Itching of the eyes with thick tears. Stitching in eyes as sand or thorn. Photophobia. One pupil
dilated other contracted. Eyes wide open spasmodically; staring. Sees ghosts, faces, flashes.

Ears
Snapping, cracking in ears (right) with pain and hiccough. Noises; ringing as of bells worse on
waking, in the morning.

Nose
Epistaxis better throbbing carotids and fullness in head.

Face
Fiery red, bloated. Expression of terror. Wrinkled.

Mouth
And teeth dry. Tongue drawn backward preventing speech.

Stomach
Craving for sand or raw food. Aversion to meat, bread. Gastric disturbances are accompanied
by sympathetic pains in head, face, teeth etc. Thirst for cold water. Bitter eructations;
hysterical. Vomits all food eaten.

Abdomen
Burning in hypogastrium with great weight, interferes walking. Stools; oily, black, offensive,
excited by washing head. Severe constipation, not relieved by purgatives or enema.
Constipation; with involuntary passing of urine on coughing or any effort.

Urinary
Urine foul, with sandy sediment. Incontinence on laughing, coughing etc. Diabetes Mellitus.
Polyuria.

Male
Extreme sexual excitement. Lasciviousness almost to insanity; worse coition. Prostatic
ailments after masturbation. Seminal emission hot, bloody. *Sensitive genitals. Indolent
tumours of testicles. *itching vulva and worse scratching. Pruritus vulvae, after.

Female
Violent nymphomania worse coitus. Dry, hot ***RAW, *itching vulva and vagina worse
scratching. Pruritus vulvae, after menses. Profuse menses, with erotic spasms. Menses early.
Sensation of motion in uterus like a foetus or burning. Anguish, malaise in sexual organs.
Expulsion of gas from uterus. Cancer of cervix. Leucorrhoea of clear acrid, sticky lumps.
Ovaries, sensitive to pressure.

Respiratory
Attacks of ***SUFFOCATION with crying, screaming and restlessness; must have fresh air;
worse coughing. Cough, gagging, when expectorating, fatiguing, worse after coition, noise;
better smoking.

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Heart
Twists around; takes sudden jumps. Trembling and thumping of heart as from bad news or
fright. Diseases of heart worse by wetting hands in cold water. Chorea cordis, with arm
symptoms. Pulse, hard, infrequent, irregular.

Neck and Back

*Painfully sensitive spine, touch excites pains in chest, heart etc. Coccygodynia better
standing worse slightest movement, touch. Tumours around vertebral column.

Extremities
Restless arms; *keeps hands busy; picks fingers. Legs restless; impulse to walk. Festination.
Can run better than walk. Cold moist feet and hands. Soles itching. Sawing bone pains.
Extraordinary contractions and movements; erratic. Weak legs; cannot plant them firmly; do
not obey will. Kneeling difficult.

Sleep
*Sleepless before midnight, from excitement. Dreams sad; with weeping.

Fever
*Alternate chill and heat.* General heat with cold feet. Septic fever. Sweat profuse;
excoriating.

Skin
*Purplish. Ecchymosed spots. Cold spots or as of a cold matter flowing or dropping on part.
Carbuncle. Deep abscesses. Helps evacuation of pus. Dry eczema (after the failure of Ars. and
Sulph.) *itching; as of insects creeping and crawling.

Related
Agar; Mygl.

Complementary
Ars.

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Tellurium [Tell]

Generalities
This metal irritates the skin, affects *the spinal column, ears and eyes; produces neuralgic
pains, notably sciatica. *Discharges are acrid, excites itching, vesicates any part of the skin, it
touches. The odour of the body and of the sweat is offensive and garlic like; ear discharge is
that of fish brine. *Salty; taste; mucous from throat, pus etc. Sharp quick pains then soreness.
*Numbness. Sense of retention. Periosteitis. Linear pains. Ill effects of injuries; spinal. Falls.

Worse
*Touch. *Lying on affected part. *Cold. Empty swallowing. Spinal injuries. Weekly. Cold
weather. Friction. Stooping. Laughing. Coughing. Straining at stools.

Mind
Fear of being touched in sensitive places. Neglectful and forgetful.

Head
Vertigo; worse when falling to sleep; better lying perfectly quiet. Linear head pains.

Eyes
Lids thickened, inflamed, itching. Pterygium. Watery eyes. Cataract, following ocular lesions.
As if lashes of lower lids turned in.

Ears
*Inflamed; *bluish; *puffy. Hearing impaired from injury to membrana tympani. Otorrhoea;
of fish brine odour. Eczema behind the ears, with thick crusts. Itching, swelling, throbbing in
meatus. Constant pain deep in ear.

Nose
Fluent coryza with lachrymation and hoarseness worse when walking in open air, but better
after being in open air after sometime. Hawks salty mucous from posterior nares.

Face
Twitching and distortion of facial muscles worse when talking. Pain jerks angle of mouth up.
Sudden flushes of redness. Barber’s itch.

Mouth
Breath has odour of garlic.

Throat
Sore on empty swallowing better after eating or drinking.

Stomach
Craving for apples. Rancid belchings. Retching ends in yawning. Vomits after eating rice.
Sensation of weakness or emptiness.

Abdomen
Pinching in. Flatus stinking offensive. Itching of anus and perineum after every stool.

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Respiratory
Pain in the muscles of chest, as if sprained, worse raising arms. Cough causes pain in the small
of back. Pain in region of clavicle. Bubbling in lungs (right).

Heart
Dull pain over heart better lying on back.

Neck and Back

Numbness of nape and occiput. *Painful sensitiveness of spine* (from last cervical to fifth
dorsal). Pain in sacrum passing into right thigh; worse coughing, laughing; pressing at stool.

Extremities
Deep sciatic pain worse coughing, sneezing; straining at stools; lying; with sensitive spine.
Contraction of tendons in the bend of knee. Foetid foot sweat. Sweat in axilla smelling like
garlic.

Sleep
Yawning after retching or with belching. Drowsy after meals.

Fever
Chilly, with pain. Chills down spine lying on back. Sweat on spots; with itching.

Skin
Circular; eruptions; lesions. Ringworm; cover the whole body; lower limbs; on single parts,
scrotum, perineum etc. Itching, pricking; as from bugs. Burning in old scars. Barber’s itch.
Itching worse in cool air.

Related
All‐c ; Sel.

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747
Terebinthina [Ter]

Generalities
Oil of turpentine has a selective affinity for *mucous membranes of ***KIDNEYS; bladder;
*respiration; bronchi; heart and blood. ***HAEMORRHAGES; passive; black, offensive, oozing
from mucous membranes. Affections of kidneys, with rheumatism. *Aching, soreness and
stiffness* of muscles. *Purpura *haemorrhagica. Pain; *excites urination;* along large nerves,
with sensation of coldness in the nerves; or occasionally like hot water running through a
tube. *Burning, in various parts, tip of tongue; epigastrium, small of back; kidney, *uterus etc.
Exhausted; *sensitive and tired. Disturbed sense of equilibrium. Ill effects of alcohol, falls,
strains, tooth extraction. Even trifle bruises him.

Worse
*Dampness. Cold. Night. Lying. Pressure.

Better
Motion. Stooping.

Mind
Difficult concentration. Intense irritability; children fly into temper; during dentition. Coma.

Head
As of a band around the head. Dull headache with colic.

Eyes
Blindness from alcohol. Opens eyes when swallowing; in coma. Eyes dark red; face red on
affected side.

Ears
Own voice sounds unnatural. Sensation in ears as of striking of a clock. Loud talking is Very
painful.

Nose
Passive epistaxis, in children. Discharge of serum without coryza.

Face
Pale; earthly; sunken. Hot flushes followed by sweat.

Mouth
Tongue; smooth; glossy; sore, red; burning in tip. Aphthae from mouth to anus. Breath, cold,
foul.

Stomach
Nausea and vomiting; with intense burning. Burning in epigastric region. Nausea better loose
stool. Aversion to meat.

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Abdomen
*Bruised soreness. *Flatulence. *Tympanitis. Ascites. Profuse mucous stools; watery, green,
foetid. Bloody stools. Worms. Bleeding from ulcers in the intestine. Bowels were drawn
towards spine. Diarrhoea, with tetanic spasms.

Urinary
Burning, drawing pain in region of kidney. *Burning or pain along ureters. Strangury, with
*bloody urine. Urine; *smoky; with coffee grounds; or thick, yellow, slimy, muddy sediment;
odour of violets. Nephritis; after exanthemata; with violent *bronchitis. Cystitis. Bleeding
bladder. Pains alternate between navel and bladder, better walking. Urine scanty;
suppressed; during dentition.

Female
Intense burning in uterine region; with metrorrhagia. Metritis. Uterine diseases after wearing
pessaries.

Respiratory
Burning and tightness across chest. Bronchial asthma or catarrh; with profuse expectoration.
Haemoptysis. Bloody expectoration. Bronchitis of children with drowsiness and retention of
urine. Dyspnoea.

Heart
Pulse; rapid, small, thready; intermittent.

Back
Backache and soreness in kidney affections.

Extremities
Hands feel swollen. Cramps in knees. Intense pain along the larger nerves; worse damp
weather. Stands with feet apart; has no power of balancing the body. Muscles, stiff. Walks
bent like an old man. Brachial or sub‐scapular neuralgia. As if pitch forward while walking.

Sleep
*Drowsiness; with retaining of urine etc.

Fever
Heat under the skin. Cold sweat on legs.

Skin
Purpura haemorrhagica; advancing. General sensibility increased. Unbroken chilblains; with
excessive itching and pulsations.

Related
Canth; Erig; Phos.

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Thallium [Thal]

Generalities
This rare metal is useful for most horrible, neuralgic, spasmodic shooting pains. Pains like
electric shocks. Numbness or formication starting in the fingers and toes, extending up to
lower limbs and down to feet and involving lower abdomen and perineum. Paralysis of lower
limbs. Locomotor ataxia. Tremors. Falling of hair with great rapidity; after acute or exhausting
diseases. Muscular atrophy.

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Theridion [Ther]

Generalities
Poison of this orange spider produces *hypersensitiveness of ***NERVES; esp. to ***NOISE;
*which ***PENETRATES THE BODY; *affects the teeth; causes nausea, chills and pains all
over; strikes the painful parts etc. It causes *spinal irritation,* and affects the *bones causing
caries, necrosis. Tubercular diathesis. When the best remedy fails to act; esp. in caries and
necrosis. Rachitis. Bones feel broken. Phthisis. Water feels too cold. Bounding internally; as
of a child. Burning pains. Seasickness. Sense of duality. Effects of sunstroke. Hysteria; during
puberty and at climaxis. Infantile atrophy; glands enlarged; with marasmus. Nodes on various
parts esp. buttocks.

Worse
***NOISE. *Touch. ***CLOSING EYES. Least motion. Exertion. *Jar. *Riding. Cold. Washing
clothes. Coitus. Sunstroke.

Better
Rest; in horizontal position. Warmth.

Mind
Time passes too quickly. Startled by the least thing. Fruitless activity; finds pleasure in nothing.
Hysteria. Talkativeness and hilarity. Want of self confidence.

Head
*Vertigo with nausea worse stooping; least movement; ***CLOSING *eyes; *kneeling.
Headache felt during sleep worse jarring; with nausea and vomiting, at climaxis. Head feels
thick, thinks it belongs to another; that she can lift it off; or she would like to remove it.
Migraine. Headache worse after stool. Joyous during headache. Cannot lie down with
headache. Faints after washing clothes.

Eyes
Glittering vision; on stooping. Luminous vibrations before eyes, blurred vision; then affections
of head and weakness.

Ears
Least noise, every sound penetrates her whole body esp. teeth. Rushing in both ears like a
water‐fall.

Nose
Pain over root of nose. Chronic catarrh; yellow‐green, thick, offensive, discharge. Ozaena.
Post‐nasal catarrh.

Face
Pale. Jaws immovable; in the morning.

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Mouth
Remains open involuntarily; cannot close. Froth before the mouth with shaking chill. Teeth
feel as if cold water is too cold. Mouth feels furred, benumbed. Lockjaw a.m. on waking. Bites
tip of tongue; during sleep.

Stomach
Constant desire to eat and drink but knows not for what. Craves oranges and bananas,
tobacco smoke, wine; acid fruits and drinks. Nausea worse least motion; looking steadily at
one object; from noise. Nausea and retching better drinking warm water.

Abdomen
Violent burning in liver region. Abscess of liver. Pain in the groins; after coitus; motion, and
drawing up the limbs.

Urinary
Increased urination; at night, does not pass much during day.

Male
Seminal emission, during afternoon sleep. Gonorrhoea. Prostate enlarged, sense of a lump
and heaviness in perineum, worse at every step.

Female
Hysteria during puberty; at climaxis. Menses suppressed.

Respiratory
*Pain at end of left floating rib. *Cough, jerks body together, head forward and knees upward.
Too much air seems to enter the chest. Stitches high up in chest; back through apex of left
lung. Phthisis. Breathing difficult going up and down stairs; hysteria.

Heart
Anxiety about the heart; sharp pain radiate to arm and left shoulder. Pulse slow, with vertigo.

Neck and Back

Spine is sensitive to pressure and jar; sits sideways in a chair, to avoid pressure.

Extremities
Burning in upper arm. Restless feeling in hands; wrings them. Stinging from elbow to shoulder.
Lies or sits with feet crossed, cannot uncross them.

Fever
Foam at mouth with shaking chill. Internal coldness. Cold sweat easily excited.

Skin
*Stinging thrusts in skin.* Itching.

Related
Asar; Sil.
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752
Thiosinaminum [Thiosin]

Generalities
A chemical derived from oil of mustard, acts as a resolvent externally and internally for
cicatrices, adhesions, strictures; tumours enlarged glands. Should be given in t grain doses
daily 2 or 3 times a day. 2x attenuation.

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Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris [Thlaspi]

Generalities
It is a remedy for haemorrhagic and uric acid diathesis. It removes the ill effects of suppression
of haemorrhages or vaginal discharges from uterus.

Worse
Even other month.

Better
Bathing. Dampness. Rapid motion.

Mind
Impulse to walk far.

Head
*Pain from above eyes up over head to nape.

Nose
Bleeding in nasal operations.

Face
Eyes and face puffy.

Mouth
Taste like bad eggs.

Stomach
Craves butter milk. Flatulence. Blood or mucopurulent discharges after stool.

Urinary
Haematuria. Copious discharge of urinary sand. Dysuria; of old persons, with dribbling; after
forceps delivery. Renal colic. Urine runs away in little jets. Brick dust sediment. Albuminuria
during pregnancy.

Female
Metrorrhagia, with violent uterine colic; even alternate period very profuse. Uterine fibroids,
with cramps and expulsion of clots. Sore pain in womb worse on rising. *Menses or
leucorrhoea leaves a fast stain. Leucorrhoea, excites itching. Milky water runs from right
nipple. Scarcely recovers from one period when another begins.

Back
Weakness between scapulae.

Related
Sep.

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754
Thuja Occidentalis [Thuj]

Generalities
Dr. Hahnemann found Thuja as an antidote to sycotic miasm. It acts chiefly on the mucous
membranes of ***GENITO‐URINARY *tract; intestines; ***SKIN; *mind; *nerves; *glands,
occiput and left side. It is the remedy for *soft; *exuberant; *fungoid *tissue;* polypi,
condylomata, warts; pediculated; black, suppressed. Hydrogenoid or lymphatic constitution.
Great prostration and rapid emaciation. The patient is *exhausted and *soft, body feels thin
and delicate, frail. Deadness of the affected part. Discharges are foul, acrid, *musty, rancid or
of *sweetish odour. *Trickling, in urethra. Burning, sticking, numbing, drawing or *wandering
pains* worse warmth. Oily; stools, skin, sweat. Flesh feels as if beaten off the bones. Oedema
about the joints. Jerking; of the upper part of the body; of spinal origin; chorea. Sensation of
lightness of body when walking. Vaccinosis; never well since vaccination; neuralgia, skin
troubles etc. Crying babies; with a sycotic taint from the father; from congenital inguinal
hernia. Pains keep extending from their original site. Neurasthenia; prostatic. Rheumatism.
Paralysis. Suppressed gonorrhoea. Ill effects of tobacco. Suppressed sycosis, figwarts.
Aneurism by anastomosis; swelling of the blood‐vessels. Stitching, tearing pains in the glands
as if they were being torn to pieces.

Worse
***COLD; ***DAMP; heat; of bed. Periodically‐3 a.m. and 3 p.m. Yearly. Increasing moon.
Moonlight. During menses. Urinating. Tea. Coffee. Sweets. Fat food. Onions. Sun. Chewing.
Bright light. Mercury. Syphilis. Stretching. Coitus. Closing eyes.

Better
Warm; wrapping; air, wind. *Free secretions. *Sneezing. Motion. Crossing legs. Touch.
Drawing up limbs. Rubbing. Scratching.

Mind
*Fixed ideas; as if a strange person at his side; as if soul and body were separated; as if body
were fragile, made of glass; *as of a live thing internally; as of being in the hands of a stronger
power. *Hurried with ill humour; talks hastily; swallows words. Sad. Aversion to life. Over‐
excited, angry or anxious about trifles. Music causes weeping, and trembling of feet. Nervous;
begins to twitch on approach of strangers. Cannot concentrate. Insane women will not be
touched or approached. Fear; on seeing green stripes. Speech slow, hunts for words. Irritable,
jealous, quarrelsome, towards husband or mother, controls herself among strangers and
doctors. Cretinism. Mental depression, after childbirth. Walks in circle in room.

Head
Vertigo as from motion of a swing; everything seems to jump; on closing eyes, looking
upwards or sideways. *Pain as if pierced by a nail.* Headache worse sexual excess; from tea;
better bending head backwards. Tearing, jerking pain. White scaly dandruff. Hair dry, split;
and falls out. Sweat smelling like honey.

Eyes
Blood red; full of tears; stand open. Lids heavy as lead. Jagged iris. Iritis. Sclerotitis. Styes and
tarsal tumours. Feels as if cold air were streaming out of the head through eye better when

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warmly covered. Photopsies, beyond visual field. Floating (green) stripes. Exophthalmos; from
tumours behind eyeball.

Ears
Otorrhoea; watery, purulent; putrid. Cracking when empty swallowing. Noise in ear as from
boiling water.

Nose
*Bloody scabs; or briny odour in nose. Blows thick, green mucous. Epistaxis, worse after being
over‐heated.

Face
Pale, waxy, *shiny; dark under eyes. Netted with spider‐like veins. Boring in malar bones (left)
better by touch. Skin greasy. Neuralgia; from suppressed gonorrhoea or eczema of ear.
Tumour on cheek.

Mouth
Teeth; decay at the edge of gums, crumble; turn yellow. Gnawing pain in teeth worse cold,
tea and blowing nose. Pyorrhoea. Ranula. Varicose veins on tongue and mouth. Aphthae;
ulcers in the mouth. White blisters on sides close to the root of tongue, painfully sore.
Frequently bites the tongue, from swelling of it. Sweetish taste; with gonorrhoea. Becomes
dry while chewing food.

Throat
Much mucous in throat hawked up with difficulty.

Stomach
*Noisy swallowing; loud belchings. Rancid or greasy eructations. Aversion to potatoes and
fresh meat, onions disagree. Tea drinker’s dyspepsia. Unable to eat breakfast. Desires cold
drinks and salt.

Abdomen
Big, puffed; protrudes here and there as from arm of foetus; motions as if something alive (in
old maids). Indurations in abdomen. Rumbling, flatulence; upper part drawn in. Soreness of
navel. Cutting, squeezing in hypogastrium. Ileus. Gurgling in bowels; then painless watery
grass green stools. Stools gurgle or *pop out worse breakfast. Stools; hard; oily; black, lumps,
mixed with gushing water; hurried, explosive, gassy, spraying. Cutting, squeezing in groins.
Piles swollen, painful. Anus fissured, warty; oozing from. Perineum moist. Tenesmus with
rigidity of penis. Perineal fistula.

Urinary
Cutting squeezing in *bladder and urethra. Bladder feels paralyzed, must wait for urination.
Frequent, hasty; with pain in other parts; urging, with profuse flow. Urine; burns, dribbles,
foul. Feels as if a drop was running down urethra; after urination. Forward cutting in urethra
on urinating. Urinary stream split and small. Pains from left kidney to epigastrium worse
motion. Lithaemia. Diabetes mellitus. Involuntary urination at night, when coughing. Foamy
urine.

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Male
Gonorrhoea, scalding when urinating. Rheumatism from checked gonorrhoea. Prostatic
enlargement. Offensive genitals; sweetish smelling sweat on scrotum. Testes feel bruised; left
drawn up. Swelling of prepuce. Excrescences of prepuce and glans. Chordee worse at night.
Semen offensive.

Female
*Vagina; *very sensitive, prevents coition; itching. Left ovary inflamed, with tearing pain
worse menses. Leucorrhoea; profuse, thick, greenish, from one period to another. Erosion of
cervix. Foetus moves violently, awakes her. Abortion at the 3rd month. Cauliflower
excrescences bleeding easily. Recto‐vaginal fistula. Sweaty organs before menses. Retracted
nipples. Menses too early, too short.

Respiratory
Short difficult breathing worse from deep breathing and talking. Cough only during the day or
worse as soon as he eats or drinks anything cold. Expectoration; easy when lying down; green,
taste like old cheese. Asthma worse night; of sycotic children. Chest pains take various
directions. Skin of clavicles blue. Brown spots on chest. Polypus of vocal cords. In asthma if
*Ars. fails to cure, even though seems indicated, *Thuj. and *Nat‐sul will take up the work
and complete the cure.

Heart
Anxious palpitation; on waking; in the morning.

Neck and Back

Pulsation in the back. Pressing pain over kidney region. Atrophy of long muscles. Spine curved.
Stands bent forward. Blood boils.

Extremities
Cracking in joints, when stretching them. Fingers cold, numb, as if dead, on waking at night.
Crawling or inflamed finger or toe tips. Hip joints give way when walking. Limbs feel as if made
of wood or glass and would break easily. Limbs feels paralyzed. Knees restless. *Painful brittle;
crumbling; discoloured, distorted. Coxalgia with *tender soles. Foul, acrid foot sweat. Nails;
ribbed, soft, lengthening of limb. Ingrowing toe nails.

Sleep
Sleepless when lying on left side. Persistent insomnia. Dreams of death; of falling from a
height.

Fever
Shaking chill; with yawning; worse urinating not better by heat. Heat rises into chest; with
*icy cold hands; nose bleed or cough. Sweat only on uncovered parts; with dry heat on
covered ones; with cold hands better washing. Sweat *profuse on *genitals; gushing, worse
company; foul, oily, pungent, sweetish, sometimes garlicky, staining yellow.

Skin
Brown; *spotted; *dirty; hairy. Eruptions itch or burn violently worse cold bathing. Moist foul
polypi. Naevi. Eruptions only on covered parts. Ulcers flat, with bluish bottom. Stinging,

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jumping out feeling. *Foul pustules with sunken apices. Luxurient growth of hair on parts
otherwise not covered by hair. Herpes zoster.

Related
Asaf; Calc‐c; Ign; Kali‐c; Lyc; Merc.

Complementary
Med; Nat‐m; Nat.s; Nit‐ac; Puls; Sabin; Sil.

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Thymol [Thymol]

Generalities
Considered to be a specific for Hook‐worm disease. Sexual neurasthenia.

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Thyroidinum [Thyr]

Generalities
A sarcode prepared from dried Thyroid gland of the sheep or calf. Thyroid has close
connection with the HEART; moreover it exercises a general regulating influence on the
mechanism of the organs of *nutrition: growth and development. It affects the central
Nervous System, skin and left side. A state of puffiness and obesity. Feels tired and sick, easy
fatigue, wants to lie down. Fainting fits, tremors, nervous; of face and limbs. Stabbing,
splitting, clutching sensation. Choking. Rapid emaciation. Goitre. Tingling. Myxoedema, with
loss of hair; and cretinism. Arrested development of children. Infantile wasting. Undescended
testicle in boys. Thyroid weakness causes decided craving for large quantities of sugar.
Acromegaly; delayed union of fractures. ***TETANY, worse cold. Instantly. Hystero‐epilepsy.
As of a cold wind blowing on the body. Rheumatoid arthritis. Oedema. Mammary tumours.
Low blood pressure.

Worse
Least exertion or cold. Stooping.

Better
Lying on abdomen or reclining position.

Mind
Stupor alternating with restless melancholy. Weeps, undresses. Homicidal tendency.
Suspicious. Idea of persecution. Ill tempered worse opposition; goes into a rage over trifles.
Grumbling; continuously. Laughing in a way peculiar to herself.

Head
Feeling of lightness in brain. Persistent frontal headache; heaviness over eyes. Falling of hair.

Eyes
Exophthalmic goitre. Progressive loss of sight with central scotoma.

Ears
Sclerosis of ossicles.

Nose
Dry, indoors; runs outdoors.

Face
Flushed. Lips; dry, red, burn; with free desquamation.

Mouth
Tongue thickly coated; metallic taste at tip.

Throat
Dry, burning. As of a splinter struck across the throat.

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Stomach
Desire for sweets and thirst for cold water. Vomiting of pregnancy.

Abdomen
Cutting in liver worse deep breathing. Rolling flatulence with gurgling, then loose gassy stool.
Bearing and aching down through pelvis into anterior thigh.

Urinary
Increased flow of urine. Diabetes mellitus. Urine smells of violets. Enuresis of weakly children.

Female
Amenorrhoea. Gnawing in uterus. Agalactea. Vomiting of pregnancy. Uterine fibroids.
Mammary tumours. Puerperal; convulsions; insanity.

Respiratory
Larynx dry. Dry painful cough on entering a warm room, from cool air. Breathlessness better
lying in recumbent position.

Heart
*Palpitation worse least exertion; hammering; beats felt in ear. Tachycardia. Heart pains
radiate into axilla; clutching, constricting, worse lying down; causing short breath.
Hypertrophy after hard labour. As if blood were rushing downwards, through the body.
Jumping sensation at heart. Large veins on arms and hands. Valvular diseases of heart.

Extremities
Quivering of limbs; tremors. Numb left fingers then right leg. Left hand icy cold. Cold clammy
hands. Abnormal growth of limbs due to excessive exertion.

Fever
Hot flushes; then chills, or drenching sweats. Oily musty sweat.

Skin
Very dry. Itching without eruptions. Psoriasis with adiposity. Ichthyosis. Itching with jaundice.
Peeling of lower limbs. Brawny swelling. Symmetrical serpigenous eruptions.

Related
Calc; Glon.

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Tilia Europa [Til]

Generalities
It causes weakness of the *muscles* and affects the female genitals and urinary organs.
Intense *soreness;* of the abdomen, *uterus* etc. Bearing or dragging down pains in genito‐
urinary and rectal region. Bed feels too hard. Oedema. Neuralgia. Rheumatism.
Haemorrhages, of thin pale blood. ***THE MORE THE SWEATS THE GREATER THE PAIN.

Worse
***SWEATING. Draughts. Talking. After sleep. Walking. Sneezing.

Better
In cool room. Walking about in open air.

Mind
Love‐sick. Dread of society.

Head
Neuralgia (right then left); with veil before eyes.

Eyes
As of a gauze before eyes. As if a piece of cold iron pressed through right eye causing burning.

Nose
Much sneezing with fluent coryza. Epistaxis.

Abdomen
Soreness with warm sweat which gives no relief. Peritonitis.

Urinary
Heavy dragging pain in urethra. Scanty urine.

Female
Intense very sore feeling about uterus; bearing down, with hot sweat; without relief. Soreness
and redness of external genitals. Puerperal metritis.

Respiratory
Cough from tickling in throat.

Sleep
*Sleepy; worse during pain.

Fever
Profuse warm sweat; soon after falling asleep; without relief.

Skin
Urticaria. Intense itching and burning like fire after scratching.

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Related
Apis; Calc; Lil‐t.

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Trifolium Pratense [Trif‐p]

Generalities
Sensation in lungs as if breathing hot air; air as if full of impurities. Preventive for mumps.
Retards progress of cancerous tumours before ulceration has taken place. Use Mother
Tincture.

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Trillium Pendulum [Tril]

Generalities
Common name Birth‐root, gives the indication for its use. It is a haemorrhagic remedy,
*haemorrhages of all kinds; antepartum; postpartum; in climacteric; fibroid tumours;
gushing, bright red; *with great faintness and dizziness. *Relaxation of pelvic region.

Worse
*Motion. Climaxis. Sitting erect.

Better
Exertion in open air. *Tight bandage. Bending forward.

Head
Dull pain worse : noise, walking, coughing; better : bending forward.

Eyes
Feel too large and as if would fall out from their sockets. Everything looks blue.

Nose
Profuse nosebleed.

Mouth
Bleeding after extraction of teeth.

Abdomen
*Faintness and sinking* at stomach. Chronic diarrhoea with bloody discharge. Dysentery with
passing of almost pure blood.

Female
Uterine haemorrhages, with sensation as though *the bones of hips, *back and thighs are
forced* apart or falling to pieces, better tight bandaging; with faintness and sinking at
stomach. Menses every two weeks. Varices of pregnancy. Dribbling of urine after labour.
Profuse long‐lasting bloody lochial discharge. Leucorrhoea; profuse yellow, sticky.

Related
Sabin.

Complementary
Calc‐p.

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Trombidium [Trom]

Generalities
Has a specific place in the treatment of dysentery worse by food and drink. Brown, thin,
bloody stools, much pain before and after stools. Stools only after eating. Mucous discharge
from nose while eating dinner.

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Tuberculinum [Tub]

Generalities
This nosode is prepared either from tubercular abscess or from a glycerine extract of pure
cultivation of tubercular bacilli. It affects the *mind; ***LUNGS; head, occiput; glands and
larynx. Very valuable in the treatment of incipient tuberculosis. The symptoms are
*constantly changing*_begin suddenly, ceasing *suddenly; *or of obscure nature* and well
selected remedy fails to improve. Weakness, emaciation with good appetite. *Patient takes
cold easily on slightest exposure; which ends in diarrhoea. Very susceptible to changes of
weather. Relapsing states. Always tired; motion causes intense fatigue. Increasing exhaustion
*and lowered vitality. Rapid breakdown. Adapted to light complexioned, narrow chested
subjects. Scrofula; enlargement of the glands. Adenoids. ***TUBERCULAR TAINT. Quiverings.
Mentally deficient children. Epilepsy. Neurasthenia. Very sensitive mentally and physically.
Nervous weakness. Trembling. *Clothes feel damp. When *Tub, fails *Syph, often follows
favourably, producing a reaction. This remedy should not be given when the heart is weak.
Bruised pain throughout the whole body. Bones painful. Formication. Faintings.

Worse
***CLOSE ROOM. Motion. *Exertion. Weather; *changing; ***DAMP; cold. Draught.
*Awakening. Noise. Thinking of it. Mental excitement. Music. *Pressure of waist band.
Standing. Periodically.

Better
Cool wind. Open air. Motion.

Mind
***SENSITIVE; to music; *every trifle irritates; worse : awakening. Fits of violent temper;
wants to fight; throws anything at anyone even without a cause. *Dissatisfied; always wants
a change, wants to travel; does not want to remain in one place long, wants to do something
different or even to find a new doctor, weary of life. Aversion to mental work. Reckless. Fear
of animals; of dogs. Whines and complaints with very little ailment. Desire to use foul
language, curse and swear. Changing moods. Confusion everything in the room seems
strange. Nocturnal hallucinations, awakes frightened. Children awake screaming, with
restlessness. Anxious. Hopeless. Loquacious; during fever. Contradictory; mania and
melancholia; insomnia and stupor.

Head
*Deep violent head pains; tears hair or beats head with fist or dashes against the wall or floor,
worse : motion. Shooting from over eyes (right) through the head to back of ear (left) or from
right frontal protuberance to right occipital region. Brain feels loose. Meningitis. Sensitive
scalp. Plica polonica (i.e. matted hair). Periodical headaches.

Eyes
Eczema of margins of eyelids. Sore bruised eyeballs worse on turning them. Meningitis with
squint.

Ears
Persistent offensive otorrhoea. Perforation of tympanum with ragged edges.

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Nose
Crops of small boils, very painful successively appear in nose; green foetid pus. Sweat, on.
Colds, ending in diarrhoea.

Face
Old, oedematous, pale. Aching in malar bones.

Mouth
Feeling as if the teeth were all jammed together and too many for his head. Teeth sensitive
to air. *Delayed dentition. Dryness, stickiness. Black blisters on lips.

Throat
Hawks mucous after eating. Adenoids. Dryness of the posterior nares. Enlarged tonsils.

Stomach
*Craves told milk* or sweets. Aversion to meat, to all food. All gone hungry sensation, which
drives one to eat.

Abdomen
Early morning sudden diarrhoea. Stools; brown; *foul; watery; discharged with much force.
Tabes mesenterica. Diarrhoea of children running for weeks; with wasting; exhaustion and
bluish pallor. Tearing in rectum on coughing. Inguinal glands indurated and visible. Drum belly.
Chronic diarrhoea, with excessive sweat. Constipation; stools large and hard, then diarrhoea.
Spleen region bulging out; stitching pain in sides after running.

Urinary
Must strain at stool to pass water. Bed wetting. Sticky urinary sediment.

Female
Menses; soon after child birth; too early, too profuse, long lasting. Dysmenorrhoea; pain
increases with the flow. Mammary tumours; benign. Retraction of nipples. Amenorrhoea.
Severe pain in breast at the beginning of menses.

Respiratory
***SENSATION OF SUFFOCATION; even with plenty of fresh air; longs for cold air. Hoarseness
better : talking. Cough; dry; hard, more during sleep; worse dyspnoea; with chill and red face
worse evenings; worse : raising arms. Mucous rattle in chest; without expectoration. Sore
spot in chest. Asthma. Pneumonia; after influenza. Profuse expectoration. Thick yellow or
yellow green sputum.

Heart
Heaviness and pressure over the heart. Palpitation; on taking deep breath; after evening
meal.

Neck and Back

Tension in nape. Pain in back, with palpitation. Chill between shoulders or up back.

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Extremities
Hands and arms feel lame; unable to write or raise a cup or a glass. Finger tips brown.
Sensation of fatigue in limbs. Cold feet; in bed. Limbs feel weak or as if paralyzed worse :
dinner. Acute articular rheumatism. Pains in ulnar nerve.

Sleep
Dreams; vivid; of shame; frightful. Awakes in horror. Shuddering sensation on falling to sleep.
Restless at night and screams in sleep.

Fever
Chilly, when beginning to sleep yet wants fresh air. Heat on cheek; of affected side; in spots.
Flushes of heat worse : eating. Burning in genitals. *Sweat; easy; cold; clammy; on upper
parts; on hands; worse : coughing; stains yellow. Wants covers in all stages.

Skin
Dry, *harsh; sensitive, easily tanned; itching in cool air. Branny scales. Psoriasis. Chronic
eczema. Itching changes places on rubbing.

Related
Bar‐c; Calc‐p; Phos; Puls; Sil.

Complementary
Bell; Calc; Kali‐s; Psor; Sep; Sulph.

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769
Uranium Nitricum [Uran‐n]

Generalities
A remedy for glycosuria and increased urine. Excessive thirst, nausea, vomiting, excessive
appetite; diabetes mellitus and insipidus. Great emaciation. Debility; tendency to ascites and
general dropsy. Nephritis. High blood pressure. Burning in stomach; gastric ulcer.
Incontinence of urine. Burning in urethra while passing urine. Impotency with nightly
emissions. Menses suppressed during diabetes.

Better
Deep breathing.

Worse
At night.

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Urtica Urens [Urt‐u]

Generalities
As its common name stinging nettle implies, it produces stinging or *stinging‐burning pains.
Affects the ***MAMMARY GLANDS; *genito‐urinary organs; liver and spleen. Urinous odour
of the body. Uric acid diathesis. *Urticaria; associated or alternating, with rheumatism.
Haemorrhages. Ill effects of *burns; bee‐stings, eating shell fish; suppressed milk; urticaria.
Angio‐neurotic oedema.

Worse
Snow air; cool moist air. Cool bathing. Yearly. Touch. Lying on arm.

Head
Headache, with stitches in spleen.

Abdomen
Stools; small, painful, mucous mixed with white matter like boiled white of an egg. Intense
itching of anus; from pinworms. Vomiting, from suppression of urticaria.

Urinary
Acrid urine causing itching. Gravel. *Uric acid toxaemia. Urine suppressed.

Male
Itching, burning of genitals; of scrotum; keeps him awake.

Female
*Pruritus vulvae; itching, stinging; and oedema of the parts. *Diminished secretion of milk;
after parturition. Swelling of the breast; with stinging, burning pains. Arrests the flow of milk
after weaning.

Respiratory
Haemoptysis; after violent exertion.

Extremities
Continuous pain in deltoid (right) worse : rotating arm inwards; could not put on the coat.
Acute gout.

Fever
Sweatiness; at night; with vertigo, with throbbing all over the body.

Skin
Itching, raised, red blotches. Nettle rash; worse every year same season. Prickly heat. *Hives;*
elevated; with rheumatism; after shell fish; with pinworms. Vesicles. Burns and scalds of the
first degree; with intense burning, itching; apply locally.

Related
Form; Nat‐m; Oci‐c.
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Ustilago Maydis [Ust]

Generalities
Corn‐smut affects the *female sexual organs; skin, hair and nails. Congestive, passive or *slow
bleeding or in clots; blood, dark, but watery. *Dark haemorrhages. As of a *knot; in uterus,
bowels, throat etc. *Loss of hair and nails. Prostration from sexual abuse. Adapted to tall, thin
women; at climaxis.

Worse
Climacteric. Touch. Motion.

Mind
Great depression of spirits. Weeps frequently.

Head
Sticky secretion matting the hair. Milk crusts. Vertigo; with white spots before the eyes; at
climaxis; with profuse menses. Nervous headaches from menstrual irregularities.

Abdomen
Pain as if intestines were tied in a knot, colicky pain better by hard stools, or constipation.

Male
Irresistible desire to masturbation. Erotic fancies. Emissions; every night and even when
talking to a woman.

Female
Vicarious menstruation, from lungs and bowels. Menses; half liquid half clotted; bright red;
worse : slightest provocation. Menorrhagia; of climaxis; after abortion. Oozing of dark blood;
clotted, forming large black strings. Cervix spongy, easily bleeding. Acute ovarian pain (left).
Burning distress in ovaries (right). Soreness of uterus and ovary (left). Pains shoot down
thighs. Foul, yellow or brown leucorrhoea. Pain under left breast; at margin or ribs, between
periods; constant. Hypertrophy of uterus; sub‐involution. Uterus feels drawn into a knot.
Bearing down pains when child nurses. Fibroids. Tumours have been noted to have
disappeared after its use. Menses suppressed, without cause with accompanying symptoms.

Back
Sensation of boiling water flowing along the back.

Extremities
Muscular contractions; of lower limbs.

Skin
Dry, hot.

Related
Asaf; Bov; Sec.
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Vaccininum [Vac]

Generalities
A nosode prepared from vaccine matter. Useful remedy for the morbid, chronic states known
as Vaccinosis. Neuralgia; inveterate skin eruptions; new growth; sycotic conditions.

Related
Maland; Thuj.

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Valeriana [Valer]

Generalities
Produces over‐sensitiveness of ***NERVES; *spinal; genito‐ urinary. Affects the *mind;
muscles, calf, heels; tendo‐achilles. *Mental and physical dispositions change suddenly; and
go to extreme. Pains are darting, tearing; *move outwards; are felt here and there or come
and go; jump from one place to another. *Illusions; of vision; hearing; smell; or taste. Sense
of floating, of duality, of a ball or plug. *Want of reaction.* Alternating symptoms. Agitation
of all nerves; jerks, twitches; trembling. Restlessness; *impulse to move; cannot keep still.
*Weak; *single parts;* eyes; arms, wrists; popliteal etc. Globus. Sensation of a thread hanging
down from oesophagus. ***NERVOUS, *irritable and weak hysterical women in whom the
intellectual facilities predominate and who suffer from neuralgia. Red parts turn white. Slight
injury causes spasms. Early bed‐sores. Epileptic fits. Paralysis and contraction of limbs;
hysterical. Constant heat and uneasiness.

Worse
***REST. ***STANDING. *Excitement. Evening. Open air; draught of air. Fasting. Darkness.
Stooping.

Better
*Changing position. Walking about. Rubbing. After sleep. Meals. Breakfast.

Mind
Mental disturbances passing from one extreme of emotions to another; from the highest joy
to deepest grief; from mildness to grumbling. Impatience; passes quickly from one subject to
another. Erroneous ideas; thinks she is someone else; as if all around were strange and
disagreeable. Wriggles or squirms about. *Anger. Inclined to faint. Hysteria; dreads being
alone and esp. in the dark. Mad; raving, swearing. Sees imagines, animals, men.

Head
Aches in jerks; better : moving about worse sunshine. Coldness in upper head. Vertigo; on
stooping; feels light, as if floating.

Eyes
Brightness and light before eyes in the dark room; vision sharp. Objects seem too near eyes.
Wild look.

Ears
Illusions of hearing, imagined he heard the bell tinkle. Otalgia; worse : draft and cold.

Face
Pain appears suddenly and jerks. Muscles twitch. Cheeks red and hot in open air.

Mouth
Rancid greasy taste. Nausea felt in throat. Tongue thickly coated.

Throat
As of a thread in throat; with salivation and vomiting.

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Stomach
Eructations like bad eggs. Hunger with nausea; as if from navel. Child vomits curdled milk in
large lumps after nursing; after mother’s anger. Sense of something warm rising from the
stomach and causing suffocation. Cramps in stomach.

Abdomen
Bloated. Cramps. *Flatulency; hysterical. Thin, watery, diarrhoea; with lumps of curdled milk,
with violent screaming in children. Cramps, after eating, in bed at night. Draws abdomen in,
involuntarily.

Urinary
*Urine increased and more frequent; in nervous women.

Respiratory
Choking in throat on falling asleep. Wakes as if suffocating. Spasmodic asthma.

Heart
Stitching in heart, with quick, small and weak pulse.

Extremities
Crampy pain, electric like shocks in humerus (left), wakes from sleep. Heels pain when sitting
or constantly. Sciatica pain worse : when standing, sitting and resting better : walking, and
rubbing. Constant jerking. Tensive pain in the calves worse : crossing legs. Cramps in biceps
(right) while writing. Cramps of hands and feet prevent sleep. Pain from calf to heel. Sciatica;
worse : stretching limbs, while standing. Legs feel light after walking.

Sleep
Sleepless, with nightly itching and muscular spasms; from nervous excitement.

Fever
Chill start and go down back from occiput. Fever composed of disagreeable heat only. Sudden
gushes of sweat; mostly on forehead. Body ice cold; with nausea and vomiting.

Related
Asaf, Ign, Puls.

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Vanadium [Vanad]

Generalities
A remedy for degenerative conditions of liver and arteries. Fatty degeneration of heart and
liver. Arterio‐sclerosis. Deeply pigmented patches on forehead in liver affections. Profound
weakness.

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Variolinum [Vario]

Generalities
Nosode prepared from *lymph* from small‐pox pustule has proved as an efficient preventive
against small‐pox contagion and vaccinal infection. Modifies and aids in the cure of small‐pox.
*General aching in the muscles worse in back; *occiput and legs.* Calcareous deposits in the
blood‐vessels, spinal cord. etc.

Worse
Motion. *Vaccination.

Mind
Morbid fear of small‐pox.

Head
Crazy feeling in the brain. Headache with icy coldness of feet and hands.

Eyes
Green vision, on rising.

Mouth
Tongue protrudes during sleep. Foul, metallic taste. Offensive mouth.

Stomach
Every odour nauseates. Wants to regurgitate food. Vomiting of milk immediately after
drinking it.

Abdomen
Tympanitis; pouting upwards; she looks pregnant.

Back
*Breaking backache. Pains from back, shift to abdomen.

Fever
As of cold water trickling down the back. Violent chill. Intense burning fever. Foul sweat.

Skin
As of bugs crawling under the skin. Eczema of palms. *Pustular eruptions; foul. Shingles, and
pain that follow. Ulcers look scooped out.

Related
Ant‐t; Cimic; Maland.

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Veratrum Album [Verat]

Generalities
White Hellebore profoundly affects the *mind; ***NERVES; *abdominal; *heart; blood,
blood‐vessels; respiration; *vertex, and digestive system. ***COPIOUS EVACUATIONS;
vomiting, purging, salivation, sweat, urine, with ***PROFOUND PROSTRATION;
***COLDNESS; *blueness; and ***COLLAPSE are characteristic features. ***EFFECTS ARE
VIOLENT AND SUDDEN. It is a great ***FAINTING remedy; faints from emotions; least
exertion; slight injury, with haemorrhage; after stools, vomiting. *Cold perspiration on the
forehead* with all complaints. *Cold; as ice; breath; tongue. Tonic *spasms* or *cramps;* in
chest; bowels; hands; fingers; toes; soles of feet; with diarrhoea. Progressive weakness and
emaciation in acute diseases; whooping cough, ague, etc. Sudden sinking of strength.
Paralysis after debilitating losses. Convulsions caused by religious excitement; also of
children. Post‐operative shock. Excessive dryness of all mucous membranes. Burnings.
Children feel better when carried about quickly. Blood seems to run cold; blood sepsis,
pyemia. Carphology. Ill effects of fright; disappointed love, injured pride or honour;
suppressed exanthema, opium, tobacco, alcohol.

Worse
***EXERTION. ***DRINKING; *cold drinks. Fright. *During pain. Wet, cold weather; change
of weather. Before and during menses. Before, during, after stools. Touch; pressure. Injured
pride or honour. Opium eating. Tobacco chewing.

Better
Warmth; covering. Walking about. Hot drinks. Lying. Eating meat. Milk.

Mind
Sullen indifference. Amativeness. Haughtiness. *Delirium; *early; with violence, loquacity or
lewdness; during pain. Melancholy, head hangs down, sits brooding in silence; wants to be
alone. Prays, curses, shrieks in turn. Desire to cut and tear things. Mania, alternating with
taciturnity. Insanity. Remorse. Delusions of impending misfortune. Busy restlessness. Aimless
wandering from home. Deceitful, never speaks the truth. Kisses everybody; before menses.
Despair about position in society; feels very unlucky. Sings, whistles, laughs. Runs from place
to place. Malingering, thinks herself pregnant. Puerperal mania. Nymphomania; embraces
everybody even objects. Religious mania. Talks about the faults of others or scolds. Anguish,
fear of death. Despairs of her salvation. Imagines the world on fire. Swallows his own
excrement. Extravagant, haughty ideas and actions. Imaginary diseases.

Head
Cold sweat on forehead; in all complaints. Violent pain driving him to despair, better cold.
Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex. Headaches; with nausea, vomiting, pale face, diarrhoea,
diuresis. Rubs forehead. Hair bristle, painful. As if cold wind blowing through head. Vertex
itches during headache.

Eyes
Surrounded by dark rings. Turned upwards. Lachrymation with redness. Lids dry, heavy.

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Nose
Smell before nose. Tip icy cold. Nose pointed. Epistaxis from right nostril, only at night in
sleep.

Face
Deathly pale; on rising; *bluish;* pinched or distorted; frowning; cold; terrified look. Cheek
red (left), as if burnt. Jaws cramp on chewing. Lock‐jaw. Lips blue; hang down.

Mouth
Toothache; teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead. Grinding of the teeth. Tongue; cold; pale,
cool sensation as from peppermint like. Taste peppermint like. Speech lisping, stammering or
as if tongue was too heavy. Mouth; dry, salty saliva. Water taste bitter.

Throat
Dry; scraping or roughness. When drinking water it seems to run outside, not going down the
oesophagus.

Stomach
Burning thirst. *Craves ice water, which is vomited as soon as swallowed; wants everything
cold; or sour drinks, juicy fruits and salt. Vomits or eructates froth. ***EXCESSIVE VOMITING
WITH PURGING; *violent retching. Hiccough, after hot drinks. Nausea while eating, cannot
get food down without retching. Vomiting worse drinking and least motion. Cold waterbrash.
All fruits disagree causing painful distension. Gnawing hunger in spite of nausea and vomiting.
Voracious appetite. Potatoes and green vegetables disagree. Eating meat and drinking milk
better.

Abdomen
Painful retraction of abdomen during vomiting. Painful, burning at pit of stomach. Sinking and
empty feeling. Burning or cold feeling. Watery, green, odourless or colourless (rice water)
stools or in large masses; with straining, until exhausted, with cold sweat. Diarrhoea from
drinking cold water in hot days. Peritonitis. Intussusception. Reversed peristaltic action.
*Cutting colic; as if bowels were twisted in knots, with *cramps in limbs and rapid prostration.
Cholera, morbus, infantum. Epigastrium painful. Hot coals in. Constipation of nursing infants
or from cold weather. Stools; thin like ribbon, flat.

Urinary
Urine; scanty, red brown. Thick, greenish, suppressed; involuntary, during cough.

Female
Nymphomania; before menses, from disappointed love; unsatisfied passion; in lying‐in
women. Dysmenorrhoea with prolapse; with coldness of the body; diarrhoea; cold sweat, and
fainting with slightest movement. Eclampsia. Puerperal mania. Menses; too early, too
profuse, suppressed. Menorrhagia; with nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea.

Respiratory
Air seems too hot. Asthma worse in damp cold weather better bending head back. Tickling
down throat into lungs. Continuous violent cough; with retching; worse cold drinks. Rattling
in chest. Neglected whooping cough; with complication. Barking cough with eructations,

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worse warm room. Involuntary urination with cough. *Loss of voice. Cough on entering a
warm room from cold air.

Heart
Weak; cutting at. Visible palpitation; with chorea. Pulse intermittent, feeble, slow; thready.
Blood runs like cold water through veins.

Neck and Back

Neck so weak, child can scarcely keep it erect worse whooping cough. Pain crampy between
scapulae better motion. Bruised feeling in sacral region.

Extremities
Brachial neuralgia, paralytic and bruising pain in arms. Fine burning in arms, right to left. Arms
feel full and swollen. Tingling in hands and fingers. *Cramps in calves, during stools. Electric
jerks in legs; must sit up and let legs hang down out of bed. Difficulty in walking like paralysis;
from debility. Pains in feet or knees as if heavy stones were tied to parts, must move about.
Feet icy cold.

Sleep
Awakes at night trembling. Starts as if frightened.

Fever
***GENERAL COLDNESS; icy; *on vertex; nose, tongue, mouth, limbs, sweat. Internal heat
with cold surface, when drinking. Fevers showing external coldness only. Congestive chill;
with thirst.

Skin
Wrinkled. Feels scorched. Blue, cold.

Related
Ars; Camph; Cupr; Cyanides; *Tub.

Complementary
Carb‐v.

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780
Veratrum Viride [Verat‐v]

Generalities
Green American Hellebore produces ***VIOLENT CONGESTIVE *conditions; *base of brain;
***MEDULLA; *lungs; with nausea and vomiting, and weakness. *Stomach; heart and
capillaries are also affected. Markedly uneasy sensation in the whole body. Twitchings and
convulsions; here and there; during sleep; jerking and trembling, threatened with
convulsions. *Muscular prostration; pseudo‐hypertrophic muscular paralysis. General
pulsations. Erratic motion; staggering. Spasms; with violent shrieks opisthotonus; before and
after menses. *Burning in different places; tongue, pharynx; gullet; of skin which is cold; with
prickling. Uraemia. Eclampsia. ***SUDDEN effects. *Faintings, prostration, nausea.
Numbness. As if damp clothing on arms and legs, or clothes would not fit him, seemed as if
they were scratching him somewhere. Suited to full‐blooded plethoric persons. Effects of
sunstroke. Reduces blood‐pressure. Children tremble as if frightened and on verge of spasm.
Chorea, twitching, contortions, unaffected by sleep; froth about the lips. Continuous jerking
of the head; sexual excitement. Lies with head low.

Worse
***RAISING UP. Motion. Cold. Lying on back. After confinement. Sunstroke.

Better
Rubbing. Lying with head low. Eating.

Mind
Loquacity, with exaltation of ideas. Quarrelsome. Delirium; furious, screams, howls, strikes,
incessant muttering. Mania, puerperal. Carphology. Fear; of seeing her physician; of being
poisoned. Suspicious.

Head
Vertigo with nausea and sudden prostration, better closing eyes and resting head. Head
retracted. Constant jerking or nodding of the head, (chorea); throbs on raising up. Aching on
vertex and between eyes. Pain up occiput with dim vision and dilated pupils. Meningitis,
basilar. Apoplexy.

Eyes
Vision; of red spots; purple; on closing eyes; unsteady. Pupils dilated. Wild, staring, during
delirium. Blood shot.

Ears
Deafness, from moving quickly with faintness. Cold and pale.

Nose
Pinched and blue. Rapid and continued sneezing, with warm biting feeling in mouth.

Face
Flushed, ***LIVID TURGID; ***BUT BECOMES FAINT on sitting up. Tension across malar
bones. Convulsive twitching of facial muscles. Chewing motions of the jaw.

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Mouth
Drawn at one corner. Tongue; white as if bleached; dry; *with red streak down centre. Taste
like odour of semen. Odour from mouth like chloroform or ether. *Foul. Mouth feels as if
scalded.

Throat
Burning in gullet; oesophagitis. As if a ball rising in.

Stomach
Very thirsty; drinks little which better for a short time. Hiccough; painful, violent; constant,
with spasms of oesophagus. Nausea, with vomiting and purging, smallest quantity of food or
drink immediately rejected. *Vomiting, violent, without nausea. Stomach seems to press
against the spine. Gastritis.

Abdomen
Pain and soreness across just above pelvis. Cutting at navel to groin. Pain in bowels runs into
scrotum. Tenesmus and burning in rectum better during and after stools. Enteritis with high
fever.

Urinary
Urine scanty with cloudy sediment. Cystitis, with fever.

Female
Dysmenorrhoea with strangury. Suppressed menses with congestion of head. Rigid os.
Puerperal; fever; convulsions; with mania, or mania continues after convulsions have ceased.

Respiratory
Congestion of lungs. *Slow heavy breathing; as of a load on chest. Dyspnoea. Violent cough
from very start. Pneumonia. Burning in chest.

Heart
Dull aching; burning, at. *Pulse; *full, *large, *soft or *slow; with strong or violent heart beats.
Pulsation throughout the body, more in right thigh.

Neck and Back

Aching neck and shoulders. Cannot hold head up. Opisthotonus.

Extremities
Cramps in legs; feet, soles, fingers, toes. Vesicles on hands. Violent electric like shocks in limbs.
Convulsive twitching. Pain about the condyles. Pulsation felt in thighs. Restless hands, during
delirium.

Sleep
Coma. Sleeplessness. Dreams of drowning; of being on water.

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Fever
*Hyperpyrexia or rapidly oscillating temperature with sweat. Cold *clammy or hot *sweat.
*Cerebrospinal; suppurative; acute rheumatic; fever. Fever high in the evening, below normal
in the morning.

Skin
Tingling and prickling in skin. Itching in different parts better rubbing. Cold, clammy, bluish.
Erysipelas, with brain symptoms.

Related
Acon; Gels.

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783
Verbascum [Verb]

Generalities
An oil is prepared from flowers known as Mullein oil which has been found useful locally in
cases of deafness or earache. This remedy has a marked effect on the *nerves esp. the inferior
maxillary branch of the fifth nerve; ears; respiratory tract and bladder and left side. Soothes
nervous, bronchial and urinary irritation. Produces catarrhs and cold; spasmodic effects and
neuralgias. Tearing, stitching, *cramping; *squeezing, *crushing, *paralyzing pains.

Worse
Drafts. Change of temperature. With every cold. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Twice a day, at same hour.
Talking. Sneezing. Touch.

Better
Deep inspiration.

Eyes
Pain in eyes as from contraction of the orbits.

Ears
Deafness. Earache. Deafness from getting water in, as in swimming or as if stopped by a valve.
Numb (left).

Nose
Coryza, with hot lachrymation.

Face
Prosopalgia worse pressing teeth together, least movement; in malar bones.

Mouth
Copious salt water in the mouth.

Abdomen
As of a lump or twisting around navel. Piles; obstructing stools; itching, inflamed.

Urinary
Enuresis; at night; worse coughing.

Respiratory
*Hoarseness; voice sounds like a trumpet. Frequent attacks of deep, hollow cough with sound
like a trumpet; better deep breathing. Cough; nervous; without waking.

Related
Acon; Plat; Sep.

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784
Vespa Crabro [Vesp]

Generalities
Live wasp produces stinging, burning pains *as if pierced with red hot needles. Convulsions,
loss of consciousness, does not answer when spoken to, looks into space, has no recollection
of the attack.

Better
Cold washing of hands.

Worse
Hot stove, or in a closed room.

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785
Viburnum Opulus [Vib]

Generalities
Common name Cramp Bark shows, how this remedy acts. It is a remedy for general *cramps.
Violent spasmodic, nervous effects esp. in the *females dependent upon the ovarian or
uterine origin. Pains make her so nervous, she cannot keep still. Haemorrhages. Suited to tall,
slender, fair‐haired or dark hysterical subjects. Left sided symptoms. Feels sick all over, in
pelvic complaints. Paralytic conditions; after convulsions.

Worse
Fright. *Before menses. Cold‐snow, air. Lying on left side. Sudden jar. In close room.

Better
*Rest. *Pressure. Open air.

Mind
Very nervous and irritable.

Head
Vertigo worse descending stairs. Feels faint on sitting up. Terrible crushing pain worse left
parietal region with a sensation as if head opening and shutting.

Eyes
Sore feeling in eyeballs.

Face
Flushed and hot.

Stomach
Constant nausea better by eating. No appetite.

Abdomen
*Excruciating crampy colicky pain or heavy aching in hypogastrium; better menses.

Urinary
*Frequent profuse urination; during headache; menses; haemorrhages etc. Cannot hold
water on coughing or walking. Dysuria, spasmodic.

Female
Menses; too late, scanty, lasting a few hours, offensive. Dysmenorrhoea; with flatulence; loud
eructations and nervousness; spasmodic; membranous. Heavy aching feeling or *excruciating
cramps; in pelvis; better menses. Frequent and very early *miscarriage; causing seeming
sterility. False labour pains. Violent persistent after‐pains. *Uterine haemorrhage.
Leucorrhoea; thick, white, blood streaked worse during stools. Consciousness of internal
sexual organs. Prevents abortion when it is given before the membranes are broken. Uterine
pains extend around the pelvis often extending down the thighs. Pelvic organs turning upside
down.

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Respiratory
*Suffocative spells at night worse cold, damp. Infantile asthma.

Neck and Back

Tired backache better pressure. Lumbago better walking with a cane pressed, arms across the
back. Pains in the back end in a *cramp in uterus or go down the thighs.*.

Extremities
Cramps in calves, before menses.

Skin
Tettery spots on cheeks, arms etc.

Related
Caul; Puls; Sep.

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787
Vinca Minor [Vinc]

Generalities
It affects skin and hair and is effective for uterine haemorrhages. Weakness and prostration,
accompany many sufferings; weakness and faintness as if he would die. Mental exertion
causes tremulous feeling and tendency to start.

Worse
After swallowing. Anger. Stooping. Walking.

Head
Spots on scalp oozing foul moisture, matting hair together. Corrosive itching of scalp. Plica
polonica (matted hair). Bald spots covered with short woolly hair. Hair falls out and is replaced
by gray hair.

Nose
Becomes red on becoming least angry. Sores in nose. Frequent nose bleeding.

Throat
Cutting in lower oesophagus; which provokes swallowing.

Female
Menses; profuse, flowing like a stream; without interruption; with great weakness; at
climaxis. Passive uterine haemorrhage, long after climacteric. Bleeding fibroids.

Skin
Very sensitive, becomes red and sore from slight rubbing. Weeping eczema intermingled with
foul, thick crusts. Corrosive itching.

Related
Ust.

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788
Viola Odorata [Viol‐o]

Generalities
Sweet Violet produces great *nervous debility. Affects ears, eyes, wrists (right) and skin.
Combined *eye, *ear and kidney symptoms. Worm affections in children. Tension. Suited to
tall, thin, nervous girls. Nervous activity, then sudden exhaustion.

Worse
Cloudy weather. Cold air. Music. Puberty. Suppressed discharges.

Mind
Inclined to weep, without knowing why. Aversion to music, esp., violin. Childish behaviour;
despondent; refuses eating; talks in low soft voice.

Head
Tension in scalp extending to upper part of the face. Headache across the forehead, above
the eyebrows; must knit the brows. Burning in forehead.

Eyes
Pain from eyes (left) to vertex worse cough; choroiditis. Illusions of vision; fiery, serpentine
circles. Cramp in eyes. Lids tend to close without physical sleepiness.

Ears
Affection, with pain in eyeballs. Otorrhoea; recurrent; from birth. Deafness.

Nose
Tip numb; as from a blow.

Stomach
Craves meat.

Abdomen
Itching at anus. Worms.

Urinary
Urine milky with strong smell. Enuresis; in nervous children.

Female
Dyspnoea, during pregnancy.

Respiratory
Oppression of chest; as of weight on. Difficult breathing, anxiety and palpitation. Long lasting
spells of cough during day time only; with dyspnoea.

Extremities
Shoulders cold. Rheumatism of deltoid muscles and wrist (right) esp. in females. Trembling of
limbs. Pressing pain in bones of fingers.

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Sleep
Yawning and stretching without sleepiness.

Skin
*Dry, *with moist palms.

Related
Puls; Spig.

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790
Viola Tricolor [Viol‐t]

Generalities
*Skin; *of the scalp and urinary organs are the chief centres of action of this remedy.
Combined urinary symptoms with skin affection. Nervous paroxysms after suppressed crusta
lactea; eczema.

Worse
*Pressure on side opposite to painful side. Winter. Cold air.

Head
Cracked, gummy crusts on scalp, exuding profuse tenacious yellow fluid, matting the hair
together; with swelling of cervical glands. Milk crusts.

Urinary
Urine offensive; smelling like cat’s urine. Enuresis.

Male
Seminal emissions; with vivid dreams; at stool. Swelling of prepuce with itching.

Extremities
Rheumatism, articular, itching like eruptions round the joints.

Skin
Eczema; of childhood. Impetigo. Large boils all over the body; in scrofulous children.

Related
Rhus‐t.

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791
Vipera [Vip]

Generalities
The poison of common German Viper affects the *blood and blood‐ vessels esp. ***VEINS;
causing inflammation of veins and ***HAEMORRHAGIC TENDENCY. Paralysis; ascending;
paraplegia; of foot. Multiple neuritis. Poliomyelitis. *Bursting feeling. Climacteric affections.
Goitre.

Worse
***LETTING LIMBS HANG DOWN. Yearly. Cold. Touch. Change of weather.

Nose
*Epistaxis; with vertigo; while nursing the child.

Mouth
Tongue swollen, brownish‐black, protruding. Lips; blue; swollen. Speech difficult. Face
swollen.

Throat
Swelling like goitre. Oedema of glottis.

Abdomen
*Excruciating pain in epigastrium* worse pressure. Violent pain in *enlarged liver extends to
shoulder and hip; jaundice, with fever.

Urinary
Haematuria.

Female
Climacteric haemorrhage; flow red with dark clots, not profuse but continuous; with
prostration and faintness; from nursing the child.

Extremities
*Fullness and unbearable pain as if limb would burst;* must keep parts elevated; sits with
feet high. Cramps in; or blue lower limbs. Shuffling gait caused by paralysis; of foot. Varicose
veins and acute phlebitis.

Skin
Ulcers. Gangrene. Boils. Carbuncles, with bursting sensation. Peeling off in large plates.
Lymphangioma.

Related
Elaps.

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792
Viscum Album [Visc]

Generalities
Mistletoe affects the nerves and female sexual organs. General tremor as if all muscles are in
fibrillary contraction. Neuralgia. Chorea from fright. Spinal pains due to uterine causes.
Epilepsy, he felt a glow that rose up from feet to head. Gouty and rheumatic complaints. Blood
would not clot and wounds would not heal. Sciatica, with otorrhoea.

Worse
Winter; cold stormy weather. Motion. Lying on left side. Becoming chilled while hot.
Suppression of menses.

Mind
Fear of telephone.

Head
Vertigo; persistent; after epileptic attack. Sudden throbbing in vertex.

Abdomen
Feels as if someone were dragging her down from the waist. Sore about waist.

Urinary
Urine milky; after standing.

Female
Metrorrhagia; blood partly bright and partly clotted and dark.

Respiratory
Feeling of suffocation when lying on left side. Bronchial asthma, connected with gout or
rheumatism.

Heart
Palpitation, during coitus, in males. Hypertrophy. Low tension.

Extremities
Tearing, shooting, pains, in both thighs and upper extremity. Sciatica; with otorrhoea.
Sensation of a spider crawling over back of hand and foot. Red hot coal applied to the heel as
if. Glow sensation from foot to head. Lumbago from a chill, wants someone to press against
the back.

Related
Bufo.

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793
Xanthoxylum [Xan]

Generalities
Commonly known as Prickly Ash, exerts its influence on nerves; female sexual organs;
respiration and left side. Paralysis of single members; hemiplegia. Grinding, shooting,
radiating, sudden pains; neuralgia. Neurasthenic patients who are thin; emaciated, poor
assimilation, with insomnia. Pricking sensation; shocks as from electricity. Numbness of left
side. Mucous membranes smart as from pepper. As if floor were soft like wool, on walking.
Injury to nerves.

Worse
Sleeping. Dampness. Getting feet wet. Suppressed menses.

Better
Vomiting. Lying down. Drinking of ice water.

Mind
Nervous frightened feeling. Did not care if she lived or died.

Head
Throbbing headache; pain as if top of head would fly off. As if head is divided into two parts.
As of a tight band around.

Throat
Peppery taste in mouth and throat. Feels hollow.

Stomach
Dyspepsia from excessive eating and drinking.

Female
Ovarian neuralgia with pain in hips and lower abdomen. Violent, *agonizing, grinding,
*dysmenorrhoeal pain, not better in any position; pains go to thighs or radiate over whole
body, even to heart. After‐pains with lochia; with characteristic pains. Menses; too early and
profuse; thick almost black blood. Leucorrhoea, replaces menses. Amenorrhoea.

Respiratory
Constant desire to take a deep breath. Oppression of chest. Constant dry cough day and night.

Extremities
Soreness of thighs before menses. Neuralgic shooting pains in limbs. Hemiplegia (left).
Sciatica worse in summer. Coccyx; Very sensitive, seem elongated.

Sleep
Dreams of flying.

Related
Ars; Lach.
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794
Zinc Arsenite [Zinc‐ar]

Generalities
It involves the *lumbar region and lower limbs. Chorea. Profound exhaustion on slight
exertion. Occipital pain. Blue vision. Burning in bladder. Numb right arm then left, better
writing. Lumbar pain worse *exertion; sitting; jarring or standing. Soles ache when tired
better pressure.

Worse
10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Slight exertion.

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795
Zinc Chromate [Zinc‐chr]

Generalities
Acts upon *ears; *nose; throat; and left side. Aching, gnawing, grinding, pain or wandering;
in shocks. Catching stitches that impede motion.

Worse
***MOTION. Lying on back. Washing head.

Mind
Aversion to work; cannot bring herself to it.

Head
Inward pressure; in spot on bregma. Throbbing temples.

Eyes
Vision wavering.

Ears
Throbbing behind the ears.

Nose
Bad odour within nose. Blowing of pus and blood and scabs.

Mouth
Taste metallic.

Stomach
Indefinite craving; knows not for what. Aversion to even thinking of food.

Abdomen
Can not tolerate her hands on abdomen.

Female
Dryness of vagina with sense of coming sickness; l0 to 12 a.m.

Respiratory
Cough from tickling in throat‐pit. Expectoration, sweet, loose; but had to be swallowed, or
tough; with constant spitting spells. Shooting from larynx (left) up through tonsils into ear.

Heart
Cutting at apex; at night.

Back and Neck

Gnawing and grinding below and above left scapula.

Extremities
Feet sore. Cramps of gnawing, grinding pain; in toes; at night.

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Related
Puls.

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797
Zinc Iodide [Zinc‐i]

Generalities
*Heart; valves and nerves are affected. Jerking; starting; splinter like pains. Floating sensation.
Undulating pain.

Worse
*Lying on left side. Heat.

Mind
Hard to remember what he reads.

Head
Vertigo worse lying on left side.

Nose
Obstructed; at night. Blowing of thick; yellow lumps. Hot and dry.

Throat
Goitre pressing inwardly. Splinter‐like pains.

Stomach
Coldness in stomach and bowels with tendency to perspire.

Respiratory
Tickling in throat; the more he coughs the more tickling becomes. Undulating pain at border
of right floating ribs.

Heart
Palpitation when lying on left side. Myocardial exhaustion.

Extremities
Lower limbs feel as if floating; worse lying on left side. Cramps in calves, ankles better pressing
feet to floor.

Related
Stict.

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Zinc Phosphate [Zinc‐p]

Generalities
A remedy for mental depression; fatigue; brain fag of businessmen. Sexual excitement and
sleeplessness. Nervousness. Paralysis. Epilepsy. Abuse of bromides. Forgetful, indolent,
apprehensive worse afternoon and night. Formication all over the body. Nervous vertigo
better lying.

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799
Zinc Sulphate [Zinc‐s]

Generalities
Clears up the opacity of cornea. Trembling and convulsions.

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Zinc Valerianate [Zinc‐val]

Generalities
Affects the *nerves; ovaries and spine. Painful nervous effects. Neuralgia. Oversensitive;
nervous and sleepless. Hysteria. Obstinate hiccough. Epilepsy without aura.

Better
*Rubbing.

Mind
Excitable. Mentally distressed. Groundless fear.

Head
Violent neuralgic intermittent headache.

Ears
Tickling over left ear.

Face
Prosopalgia.

Mouth
Sour taste in a.m. Smothers on attempting to eat.

Abdomen
Crampy pains from flatulence; in hypogastrium. Mucous colitis.

Female
Overalgia; pain shoots from abdomen to thighs, to feet; during and after menses.
Dysmenorrhoea; pains down the thighs.

Back
Aching up.

Fever
Chills after mental excitement or exertion. Cold parts burn as they warm up.

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801
Zincum Metallicum [Zinc]

Generalities
This remedy corresponds to the poisoning of ***NERVES and ***BRAIN. ***BRAIN AND
NERVES ARE FAGGED; tissues are worn out faster than they can be repaired; causing
*depression and *enervation. Cannot throw things off, cannot develop exanthemata or
discharges. *Period of depression in disease. Marked anaemia; increasing *weakness; worse
eating; *with restlessness. Poisoning by suppressed discharges and eruptions. *Isolated
effects; *formication. One part numb another sensitive, one part hot, other part cold. Pain in
spots; between skin and flesh. *Trembling; internal. Convulsive twitching or *jerking worse at
night, during sleep, *spasms; from spinal injuries. *Fidgety feet* and other automatic motions
of mouth, arms and hands. Feels numb, all over, on lying down. Neuralgia after shingles better
touch. Transverse pain; shooting pains. Descending paralysis. Disabling bone pains. Chilblains;
blueness of the surface. Bloody discharges. Ill effects of grief; anger; fright; night watching;
operations excessive study. Chorea from fright or from suppressed eruptions, worse during
sleep, the feet esp. affected. Ill effects of concussion of brain.

Worse
***EXHAUSTION; mental or physical. *Noise. *Touch. Wine. After being heated. Suppressed
eruptions; menses; discharges. Sweet things. Milk. After eating.

Better
*Motion. Hard pressure. Warm open air. ***FREE DISCHARGES; menses etc. Rubbing,
scratching. Eating.

Mind
Repeats all questions before answering them. Fears arrest on account of supposed crime.
Fretful, peevish; *cries if vexed or moved; during sleep (children). Easily, startled; excited or
intoxicated. *Forgetful. *Screams with pain. Averse to conversation; to work. *Sensitive to
others talking and noise. Stares as if frightened on waking, and rolls head from side to side.
Muddled. Brainfag. Weeps when angry. Lethargic. Thinks of death calmly.

Head
Violent vertigo with stupor. *Headache of varying intensity. *Pressive pain on vertex; at *the
root of the nose; extending to eyes; with weak vision worse warmth; better hard pressure;
open air. Heavy aching pain in temples worse biting. Dragging down back from occiput; as of
a blow on occiput then weak legs. Crashing in head, on falling to sleep. Rolls head; bores in
pillows and grinds teeth. Occiput hot, forehead cold. Hair falls from vertex. Hair brittle, bristle,
sensitive. Brain paralysis. Vertex bald with soreness of scalp. Headaches, of overtaxed school
children; from drinking small quantity of wine. Headache with dim vision worse heat.
Meningitis. Hydrocephalus after infantile cholera or diarrhoea.

Eyes
Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles. Conjunctivitis worse inner canthi. Feel drawn
together. Lachrymation on eating. Pterygium. Rolling of eyes. Squint. Sees luminous bodies
or intense burning after operation.

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Ears
Frequent acute stitches; in children (boys). Otorrhoea of foetid pus. Itching better boring into
it.

Nose
Swollen. Pressure upon the root. Dry, sore.

Face
Pale; alternating with redness. Bluish; miserable. Lips; sticky, dry, cracked.

Mouth
Grinds the teeth. Bleeding gums. Echo speech. Herpes in mouth from sea bathing. Bitter or
bloody taste.

Throat
Pain in muscles of throat externally while swallowing. Pain in fauces when yawning. Bitter
taste in.

Stomach
Ravenous hunger about 11 a.m. Heartburn worse from sugar. Great hastiness when eating,
or drinking. Cannot eat fast enough. Loss of appetite with clean tongue. As if a worm crawling
up to the throat from the pit of stomach; causing coughing. Sweetish rising into throat with
sweet taste. Globus hystericus rising from pit of stomach. Aversion to meat esp. veal; sweets;
cooked or warm food. Wine worse. Liquids are vomited immediately after drinking.

Abdomen
As of a lump in liver region or at Navel. Hypogastric flatulence. Liver enlarged, hard and sore.
Reflex symptoms from floating kidneys. Piles drawn down better heat; worse walking. Stools;
large, dry, difficult, followed by involuntary urination. Itching at anus during stools. Ulceration
of piles. Cholera‐like diarrhoea in infants. Nervous diarrhoea. Affections of brain from sudden
stoppage of diarrhoea; constipation in new born. Hot, putrid flatus. Neuralgia; of spleen;
intercostal. Jerking from groins to penis.

Urinary
Violent urging, but urinates only in odd positions; bending backwards, crossing limbs etc.
Hysterical retention. Bleeding after urination. Pressive cutting about kidneys. Unable to retain
the urine unless the feet are in constant motion. Floating kidney. Involuntary urination when
walking, coughing or sneezing. Vicarious bleeding from suppressed menses.

Male
Easy sexual excitement; emission too rapid or difficult during embrace. Discharge of prostatic
fluid without any cause. Grasps the genitals; with cough etc. Falling of pubic hair. Sadness
after emission. Swelling of testicles with retraction. Neuralgia of testes worse walking.

Female
Sexual desire increased. Desire for masturbation; during menses. Nymphomania of lying‐in
women; from suppressed lochia. Profuse lumpy menses. Menses flow more at night. Itching
of vulva during menses; causing masturbation. Varicose veins during pregnancy. Breasts

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painful, nipples sore. All complaints better during menstrual flow. Pain in ovary (left).
Restlessness, sadness, coldness of the body, sensitiveness of the spine and fidgety feet, all
these symptoms are found in women’s complaints. Mammae and genitals painful, with
suppressed menses.

Respiratory
Dyspnoea worse flatulence better expectoration. Debilitating spasmodic cough, worse eating
sweet things. Constricted chest. Dry cough, before and during menses. Fumbles the genitals
while coughing esp. children.

Heart
As if a cap over the heart. Hard heart beat. Irregular spasmodic action of the heart; occasional
one violent thump. Violent pulsations during heat.

Neck and Back

Nape of neck feels weary and tired from writing or any mental exertion. Neck feels lame, then
stupor. *Burning along whole spine worse sitting. *Aching in spine; small of the back worse
turning in bed; sitting or in the act of sitting down, and stooping. Spine sensitive, cannot bear
it touched. Cutting pain in inter‐scapular region better eructations. Dull aching pain about last
dorsal or first lumbar vertebrae. Weakness in lumbar region worse standing.

Extremities
Pains in limbs on becoming heated. Weakness and trembling of the hands; when writing;
during menses. Eczema on hands. Transverse pain esp. in upper limbs. ***CANNOT KEEP FEET
AND LEGS STILL; cramps, when cold. Toes; feel swollen; sore; tips ache. Soles sensitive. Bones
of the feet feel broken. Stumbling, spastic gait; totters while walking esp. in the dark and with
closed eyes. Painful varicoses; chronic. Lightning‐like pain of locomotor ataxia; sweaty feet
with sore toes. Formication of feet and legs as of insects crawling over the skin, prevents
sleep, better rubbing and pressure. Hysterical contractions, drawing the fingers out of shape.
Burning in tibia. Paralysis of feet. Ulcerative pain in heel worse walking. Pain in deltoid worse
raising arm.

Sleep
Broken, unrefreshing. Loud screaming in sleep without being aware of it. Jerks and starts on
falling to sleep. Somnambulism after suppressed emotions.

Fever
Chilliness in the back; as if fever would appear. Hands and legs become cold. Profuse sweat
at night. Sweaty feet.

Skin
Itching of thighs and hollow of knees. Eczema; in the anaemic and neurotic; of hands. Varicose
veins of legs and genital organs. Formication of feet and legs as from a bug crawling over the
skin, preventing sleep.

Related
Hep; Ign; Kali‐p; Lach; Pic‐ac.

804
Complementary
Puls; Sep; Sulph.

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805
Zingiber [Zing]

Generalities
Affects the digestive tract. Complaints from eating melon and drinking impure water. Asthma
of gastric origin; without anxiety worse towards the morning. Suppression of urine after
typhoid. Dry cough with profuse expectoration in the morning. All the joints feel weak. Heels
ache after standing long.

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