HOMOEOPATHIC

MEDICINES
ABIES CANADENSIS-PINUS CANADENSIS
Hemlock Spruce
Canada Pitch. N. O. Coniferæ. Tincture of fresh bark and
young buds.
Clinical.─Indigestion. Liver disorder. Uterine displacement.
Characteristics.─Mucous membranes are affected by Abies can
and gastric symptoms are most marked, and a catarrhal
condition of the stomach is produced. There are peculiar
cravings and chilly sensations that are very characteristic,
especially for women with uterine displacement, probably due to
defective nutrition with debility. Respiration and heart action
labored.Lies with the legs drawn up.Great prostration, Wants to
lie down all the time; skin cold and clammy, hands
cold,shrunken; very faint, as if top of head were
congested.─Twitching of the muscles.. Right lung and liver feel
small and hard.Gleet.Weak feeling in sacral region.─Feeling as
of cold water between the shoulders.
Mind.─Quiet, careless, but easily fretted.
Head.--Feels light-headed,Irritable.tipsy feeling, a swimming of
the head.
Eyes.─Sensation as of a stye in outer canthus of l. eye.
Mouth.─Dryness of the mouth.
Stomach.--Canine hunger with torpid liver. Gnawing, hungry,
faint feeling at the epigastrium. Great appetite, craving for meat,
pickles, radishes, turnips, artichokes, coarse food.Some thirst.
Tendency to eat far beyond capacity for digestion. Burning and
distention of stomach and abdomen with palpitation.Flatulence
disturbs the heart's action. Pain in right shoulder-blade, and
constipation, with burning in rectum.
Abdomen.─Sick feeling in the bowels.─Rumbling in the bowels
after eating, with great appetite.─Sensation as if the liver were
small and hard; as if bile were deficient.
Urinary Organs.─Urinates frequently day and night; urine
straw-coloured.
Female.--Uterine displacements. Sore feeling at fundus of
uterus, relieved by pressure. Prostration; wants to lie down all
the time. Thinks womb is soft and feeble(thinks would cause
abortion).
Sleep.─Gaping, drowsy.─Great restlessness at night, with tossing
from side to side.
Fever.--Cold shivering, as if blood were ice-water (Acon).
Chills run down back. Cold water feeling between shoulders
(Ammon mur). Skin clammy and sticky. Night-sweat (China).
Dose.--First to third potency
Relations.─Compare: Abies nig., Sabina, Thuja, and other
Conifers, Nux vom.
ABEIS NIGRA
Black or Double Spruce
(Northern part of North America.) N. O. Coniferæ. Tincture
of the gum.
Clinical.─Constipation. Cough. Dyspepsia. Eructations.
Hæmorrhages. Hypochondriasis. Malarial fevers. Tea, effects of.
Tobacco, effects of.
Characteristics.─A powerful and long-acting remedy, in
various forms of disease, whenever the characteristic stomach
symptoms are present. Most of the symptoms are associated
with the gastric disturbances. In dyspeptic troubles of the aged,
with functional heart symptoms; also after tea or tobacco.
Constipation. Pain in external meatus.
Mind.─Very low-spirited and
melancholy.─Nervousness.─Unable to think or study.
Head.--Hot, with flushed cheeks.Dull during the day, wakeful at
night.
Dizziness.─Bad feeling in head.─Dull headache; severe.
Throat.─Choking sensation in throat.─Sensation of something
sticking in œsophagus toward its lower end.
Stomach.--Pain in stomach always comes on after eating.
Sensation of a lump that hurts, as if a hard-boiled egg had
lodged in cardiac end of stomach; continual distressing
constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything
were knotted up. Total loss of appetite in morning, but great
craving for food at noon and night. Offensive breath.
Eructations.
Chest.--Painful sensation, as if something were lodged in the
chest and had to be coughed up; lungs feel compressed.Easily
gets out of breath. Cannot be fully expanded. Worse coughing;
waterbrash succeeds cough.Dyspnśa; worse lying down; sharp,
cutting pain in heart; heart's action heavy and slow;
tachycardia, bradycardia.
Back.--Pain in small of back. Rheumatic pains and aching in
bones.
Female Sexual Organs.─Menstruation delayed three months.
Sleep.--Sleepy during the day, but Wakeful and restless at night,
with hunger. Bad dreams.
Fever.--Alternate heat and cold; chronic intermittent fever, with
pain in stomach.
Modalities.--Worse after eating.
Relationship.--Compare: (Lump in stomach--China, Bryon,
Pulsat); also other Conifers--Thuja, Sabina,Abies
can.,Cupressus (painful indigestion) also Nux vom, Kali
carb.Nat. m.
Dose.--First to thirtieth potency.
ABRUSP PRECATORIUS--JEQUIRITY
Crab's Eye Vine
(JEQUIRITY - ARBRUS PRECATORIUS)
Indian Liquorice. N. O. Leguminosæ. Tincture or trituration
of the seeds.
Clinical.─Epithelioma, lupus, ulcers, granular lids.Ophthalmia.
Head.─Headache.
Eyes.--Purulent or diphtheritic conjunctivitis; inflammation
spreads to face,neck and chest.. Granular ophthalmia. Keratitis.
Limbs.─Pains in extremities.
Generalities.─Malaise.
Skin.─Erysipelatous inflammation of skin.─Lupus.─Indolent
ulcers.
Fever.─High temperature and high pulse.
Relationship.--Compare: Jequiritol (in cases of trachoma and
pannus to engraft a new purulent inflammation. The proteid
poisons contained in Jequirity seeds are almost identical in their
physiological and toxic properties with the similar principles
found in snake venom).In ophthalmia, Ipec.
Dose.--Mother tincture diluted locally and 3x internally.
ABROTANUM
Southernwood
Artemisia abrotanum. Lady's Love
(Southern Europe.) N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of fresh
leaves and stems.
Clinical.─Boils. Chilblains. Epilepsy. Gout. Hæmorrhoids.
Hectic fever. Hydrocele. Indigestion. Lienteria. Marasmus.
Myelitis, chronic. Nose-bleed. Paralysis. Rheumatism.
Umbilicus, oozing from. Worms.
Characteristics.─A very useful remedy in marasmus, especially
of lower extremities only, yet with good appetite. Metastasis.
Rheumatism following checked diarrhśa. Ill effects of
suppressed conditions especially in gouty subjects. Tuberculous
peritonitis. Exudative pleurisy and other exudative processes.
After operation upon the chest for hydrothorax or empyćmia, a
pressing sensation remains. Aggravation of hćmorrhoids when
rheumatism improves. Nosebleed and hydrocele in boys.
Great weakness after influenza (Kali phos).
Mind.--Cross, irritable, anxious, depressed., very peevish.─Feels
she would like to do something cruel; no humanity.─Thinking
difficult.─Feels as if brain softening.─Excited, loquacious, like
shouting, good-humoured, happy (secondary, after ceasing the
drug).Weak, sickly feeling when excited, trembling.
Head.─Cannot hold the head up.─The l. brain seems esp. weak,
easily tired by conversation or mental effort.─Sensation as of
creeping chills along the convolutions of the brain, accompanied
by prickling sensation.─Scalp sore, esp. l. side; itching.
Eyes.─Blue rings around dull-looking eyes.
Nose.─Nose dry.─Nose-bleed with boys.
Face.--Wrinkled,cold,dry,pale,old-looking.Comedones,withe
maciation.Angioma of the face.
Mouth.─ Slimy taste; acid.
Appetite.─Gnawing hunger, craves bread boiled in
milk.─Ravenous appetite, and all the while
emaciating.─Gastralgia with loss of appetite.
Stomach.-Appetite good, but emaciation progresses. Food
passes undigested. Pain in stomach; worse at
night;burning,cutting, gnawing pain. Stomach feels as if
swimming in water; feels cold. Gnawing hunger and whining.
Indigestion, with vomiting of large quantities of offensive fluid.
Abdomen.--Hard lumps in abdomen. Distended. Alternate
diarrhśa and constipation. Hćmorrhoids; frequent urging; bloody
stools; worse as rheumatic pains abate. Ascarides. Oozing from
umbilicus. Sensation as if bowels were sinking down.
Female Sexual Organs.─Darting pain in left ovary.─Twitching
in both ovarian regions, seems to extend to back.─Blood and
moisture oozing from navel of newborn.
Respiratory.--Raw feeling. Impeded respiration(after Acon. and
Bry.). Dry cough following diarrhśa. Pain across chest; severe in
region of heart.
Heart and Pulse.─Pain across chest sharp and severe in region
of heart; rheumatism.─Metastasis of rheumatism to heart.─Pulse
weak and small.
Back.--Neck so weak cannot hold head up. Back lame, weak,
and painful. Pain in lumbar region extending along spermatic
cord. Pain in sacrum, with hćmorrhoids.There is a sudden aching
pain in back > by motion.
Extremities.--Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists, and ankles.
Pricking and coldness in fingers and feet. Legs greatly
emaciated. Joints stiff and lame. Painful contraction of limbs
(Amm mur).Inability to move.─Marasmus of lower extremities
only.─Soreness and lameness; worse mornings.─Chilblains itch;
frost-bitten limbs.─Gout in wrists and ankles.─Inflammatory
rheumatism before swelling begins.Numbness.
Skin.--Eruptions come out on face; are suppressed, and the skin
becomes purplish. Skin flabby and loose. Furuncles. Falling out
of hair. Itching chilblains.
Sleep.─Restless; frightful dreams.
Fever.─High fever (rheumatism).─Hectic fever, with chilliness,
very weakening; (marasmus).
Modalities.--Worse,night and cold air,checked secretions.Better,
motion.
Relationship.--Compare: Scrophularia; Bryonia; Stellaria;
Benzoic acid, in gout. Iodine, Natr mur in marasmus.Absinth.,
Cham., Cina, Gnaphal., and other Compositæ; Nux and Agar.
(chilblains); Bar. c.
Follows well: Acon. and Bry. (pleurisy); Hep. (boils).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
ABSINTHIUM
Common Wormwood
A perfect picture of epileptiform seizure is produced by this
drug. Nervous tremors precede attacks. Sudden and severe
giddiness, delirium with hallucinations and loss of
consciousness. Nervous excitement and sleeplessness. Cerebral
irritation, hysterical and infantile spasms come within range of
this remedy. Poisoning by mushrooms. Chorea. Tremor.
Nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children.
Mind.--Hallucinations. Frightful visions. Kleptomania. Loss of
memory. Forgets what has recently happened. Wants nothing to
do with anybody. Brutal.
Head.--Vertigo, with tendency to fall backward. General
confusion. Wants head low. Pupils dilated unequally. Face blue.
Spasmodic facial twitching. Dull occipital headache (Gelsem,
Picric ac).
Mouth.--Jaws fixed. Bites tongue; trembles; feels as if swollen
and too large; protruding.
Throat.--Scalded sensation; as of a lump.
Stomach.--Nausea; retching; eructation. Bloated around waist
and abdomen. Wind colic.
Urine.--Constant desire. Very strong odor; deep yellow color
(Kali phos).
Sexual.--Darting pain in right ovary. Spermatorrhśa, with
relaxed, enfeebled parts. Premature menopause.
Chest.--Sensation of weight on chest. Irregular, tumultuous
action of heart can be heard in back.
Extremities.--Pain in limbs. Paralytic symptoms.
Relationship.--Compare: Alcohol; Artemisia; Hydrocy acid;
Cina; Cicuta.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
ACALYPHA INDICA
Indian Nettle
A drug having a marked action on the alimentary canal and
respiratory organs. It is indicated in incipient phthisis, with hard,
racking cough, bloody expectoration, arterial hćmorrhage, but
no febrile disturbance. Very weak in the morning, gains strength
during day. Progressive emaciation. All pathological
hćmorrhages having notably a morning aggravation.
Chest.--Cough dry, hard, followed by hćmoptysis; worse in
morning and at night. Constant and severe pain in chest. Blood
bright red and not profuse in morning; dark and clotted in
afternoon. Pulse soft and compressible. Burning in pharynx,
śsophagus, and stomach.
Abdomen.--Burning in intestines. Spluttering diarrhśa with
forcible expulsion of noisy flatus, bearing down pains and
tenesmus. Rumbling distention, and griping pain in abdomen.
Rectal hćmorrhage; worse in morning.
Skin.--Jaundice. Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like
swellings.
Modalities.--Worse in morning.
Relationship.--Compare: Millefol; Phosphor; Acetic acid; Kali
nit.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
 ACETICUM ACIDUM
Glacial Acetic Acid
(ACETIC ACID)
This drug produces a condition of profound anæmia, with some
dropsical symptoms, great debility, frequent fainting, dyspnœa,
weak heart, vomiting, profuse urination and sweat. Hæmorrhage
from any part. Especially indicated in pale, lean persons, with
lax, flabby muscles. Wasting and debility. Acetic acid has the
power to liquefy albuminous and fibrinous deposits. Epithelial
cancer, internally and locally (W Owens). Sycosis with nodules
and formations in the joints. Hard chancre. The 1x solution will
soften and cause formation of pus.
Mind.--Irritable, worried about business affairs.
Head.--Nervous headache, from abuse of narcotics. Blood
rushes to head with delirium. Temporal vessels distended. Pain
across root of tongue.
Face.--Pale, waxen, emaciated. Eyes sunken, surrounded by
dark rings. Bright red. Sweaty. Epithelioma of lip. Cheeks hot
and flushed. Aching in left jaw-point.
Stomach.--Salivation. Fermentation in stomach. Intense burning
thirst. Cold drinks distress. Vomits after every kind of food.
Epigastric tenderness. Burning pain as of an ulcer. Cancer of
stomach. Sour belching and vomiting. Burning waterbrash and
profuse salivation. Hyperchlorhydria and gastralgia. Violent
burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin
and cold sweat on forehead. Stomach feels as if she had taken a
lot of vinegar.
Abdomen.--Feels as if abdomen was sinking in. Frequent
watery stools, worse in morning. Tympanitic. Ascites.
Hæmorrhage from bowels.
Urine.--Large quantities of pale urine. Diabetes, with great thirst
and debility (Phos ac).
Female.--Excessive catamenia. Hæmorrhages after labor.
Nausea of pregnancy. Breasts painfully enlarged, distended with
milk. Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, sour. Anæmia of
nursing mothers.
Respiratory.--Hoarse, hissing respiration; difficult breathing;
cough when inhaling. Membranous croup. Irritation of trachea
and bronchial tubes. False membrane in throat. Profuse
bronchorrhœa. Putrid sore throat (gargle).
Back.--Pain in back, relieved only by lying on abdomen.
Extremities.--Emaciation. Œdema of feet and legs.
Skin.--Pale, waxen, œdematous. Burning, dry, hot skin, or
bathed in profuse sweat. Diminished sensibility of the surface of
body. Useful after stings, bites, etc. Varicose swellings. Scurvy;
anasarca. Bruises; sprains.
Fever.--Hectic, with drenching night-sweats. Red spot on left
cheek. No thirst in fever. Ebullitions. Sweat profuse, cold.
Relationship.--Acetic acid is antidotal to all anæsthetic vapors.
Counteracts sausage poisoning.
Compare: Ammon acet (Profuse saccharine urine, patient is
bathed in sweat). Benzoin oderiferum--Spice-wood (night
sweats). Ars; China; Digitalis; Liatris (General anasarca in
heart and kidney disease, dropsy, and chronic diarrhœa).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. Not to be repeated too often,
except in croup.
 ACETANILIDUM
Antifebrinum
Depresses heart, respiration and blood pressure, lowers
temperature. Cyanosis and collapse. Increased susceptibility to
cold. Destroys red blood corpuscles; pallor.
Head.--Enlarged sensation. Fainting. Moral depravity.
Eyes.--Pallor of optic discs, contracted visual field and shrinking
retinal vessel; mydriasis.
Heart.--Weak, irregular, with blue mucous membranes,
albuminuria, śdema of feet and ankles.
Relationship.--Compare: Antipyrin.
Dose.--Used as a sedative and antipyretic for various forms of
headache and neuralgia in doses of one to three grains. For the
homeopathic indications use the third potency.
ACONITUM NAPELLUS
Monkshood
A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body. Physical and
mental restlessness, fright, is the most characteristic
manifestation of Aconite. Acute, sudden, and violent invasion,
with fever, call for it. Does not want to be touched. Sudden and
great sinking of strength. Complaints and tension caused by
exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air, checked
perspiration, also complaints from very hot weather, especially
gastro-intestinal disturbances, etc. First remedy in
inflammations, inflammatory fevers. Serous membranes and
muscular tissues affected markedly. Burning in internal parts;
tingling, coldness and numbness. Influenza. Tension of arteries;
emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms.
When prescribing Aconite remember Aconite causes only
functional disturbance, no evidence that it can produce tissue
change--its action is brief and shows no periodicity. Its sphere is
in the beginning of an acute disease and not to be continued after
pathological change comes. In Hyperćmia, congestion not after
exudation has set in. Influenza (Influenzin)
Mind.--Great fear, anxiety, and worry accompany every
ailment, however trivial. Delirium is characterized by
unhappiness worry, fear, raving, rarely unconsciousness.
Forebodings and fears. Fears death but believes that he will
soon die; predicts the day. Fears the future, a crowd, crossing
the street. Restlessness, tossing about. Tendency to start.
Imagination acute, clairvoyance. Pains are intolerable; they
drive him crazy. Music is unbearable; makes her sad (Ambra).
Thinks his thoughts come from the stomach--that parts of his
body are abnormally thick. Feels as if what had just been done
was a dream.
Head.--Fullness; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning
undulating sensation. Intercranial pressure (Hedera Helix).
Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water
(Indigo). Vertigo; worse on rising (Nux. Opium) and shaking
head. Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end.
Nocturnal furious delirium.
Eyes.--Red, inflamed. Feel dry and hot, as if sand in them. Lids
swollen, hard and red. Aversion to light. Profuse watering after
exposure to dry, cold winds, reflection from snow, after
extraction of cinders and other foreign bodies.
Ears.--Very sensitive to noises; music is unbearable. External
ear hot, red, painful, swollen. Earache (Cham). Sensation as of
drop of water in left ear.
Nose.--Smell acutely sensitive. Pain at root of nose. Coryza
much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils. Hćmorrhage of bright red
blood. Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but
scanty watery coryza.
Face.--Red, hot, flushed, swollen. One cheek red, the other pale
(Cham, Ipec). On rising the red face becomes deathly pale, or he
becomes dizzy. Tingling in cheeks and numbness. Neuralgia,
especially of left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness.
Pain in jaws.
Mouth.--Numb, dry, and tingling. Tongue swollen; tip tingles.
Teeth sensitive to cold. Constantly moves lower jaw as if
chewing. Gums hot and inflamed. Tongue coated white (Antim
crud).
Throat.--Red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning,
stinging. Tonsils swollen and dry.
Stomach.--Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and
increased urination. Thirst for cold water. Bitter taste of
everything except water. Intense thirst. Drinks, vomits, and
declares he will die. Vomiting, bilious mucous and bloody,
greenish. Pressure in stomach with dyspnśa. Hćmatemesis.
Burning from stomach to śsophagus.
Abdomen.--Hot, tense, tympanitic. Sensitive to touch. Colic, no
position relieves. Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup.
Burning in umbilical region.
Rectum.--Pain with nightly itching and stitching in anus.
Frequent, small stool with tenesmus; green, like chopped herbs.
White with red urine. Choleraic discharge with collapse,
anxiety, and restlessness. Bleeding hćmorrhoids (Hamam).
Watery diarrhśa in children. They cry and complain much, are
sleepless and restless.
Urine.--Scanty, red, hot, painful. Tenesmus and burning at neck
of bladder. Burning in urethra. Urine suppressed, bloody.
Anxiety always on beginning to urinate. Retention, with
screaming and restlessness, and handling of genitals. Renal
region sensitive. Profuse urination, with profuse perspiration and
diarrhśa.
Male.--Crawling and stinging in glans. Bruised pain in testicles,
swollen, hard. Frequent erections and emissions. Painful
erections.
Female.--Vagina dry, hot, sensitive. Menses too profuse, with
nosebleed, too protracted, late. Frenzy on appearance of menses.
Suppressed from fright, cold, in plethoric subjects. Ovaries
congested and painful. Sharp shooting pains in womb. After-
pains, with fear and restlessness.
Respiratory.--Constant pressure in left chest; oppressed
breathing on least motion. Hoarse, dry, croupy cough; loud,
labored breathing. Child grasps at throat every time he coughs.
Very sensitive to inspired air. Shortness of breath. Larynx
sensitive. Stitches through chest. Cough, dry, short, hacking;
worse at night and after midnight. Hot feeling in lungs. Blood
comes up with hawking. Tingling in chest after cough.
Heart.--Tachycardia. Affections of the heart with pain in left
shoulder. Stitching pain in chest. Palpitation, with anxiety,
fainting, and tingling in fingers. Pulse full, hard; tense and
bounding; sometimes intermits. Temporal and carotid arteries
felt when sitting.
Back.--Numb, stiff, painful. Crawling and tingling, as if bruised.
Stiffness in nape of neck. Bruised pain between scapulć.
Extremities.--Numbness and tingling; shooting pains; icy
coldness and insensibility of hands and feet. Arms feel lame,
bruised, heavy, numb. Pain down left arm (Cact, Crotal,
Kalmia, Tabac). Hot hands and cold feet. Rheumatic
inflammation of joints; worse at night; red shining swelling,
very sensitive. Hip-joint and thigh feel lame, especially after
lying down. Knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn (Aescul).
Weak and lax ligaments of all joints. Painless cracking of all
joints. Bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands.
Sensation as if drops of water trickled down the thigh.
Sleep.--Nightmare. Nightly ravings. Anxious dreams.
Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about (Use thirtieth
potency). Starts up in sleep. Long dreams, with anxiety in chest.
Insomnia of the aged.
Skin.--Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning. Purpura miliaris. Rash
like measles. Gooseflesh. Formication and numbness. Chilliness
and formication down back. Pruritus relieved by stimulants.
Fever.--Cold stage most marked. Cold sweat and icy coldness of
face. Coldness and heat alternate. Evening chilliness soon after
going to bed. Cold waves pass through him. Thirst and
restlessness always present. Chilly if uncovered or touched. Dry
heat, red face. Most valuable febrifuge with mental anguish,
restlessness, etc. Sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving all
symptoms.
Modalities.--Better in open air; worse in warm room, in evening
and night; worse lying on affected side, from music, from
tobacco-smoke, dry, cold winds.
Vinegar in large doses is antidotal to poisonous effects.
Relationship.--Acids, wine and coffee, lemonade, and acid
fruits modify its action.
Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and pyćmic
conditions, and in inflammations when they localize themselves.
Sulphur often follows it. Compare Cham and Coffea in intense
pain and sleeplessness.
Agrostis acts like Acon in fever and inflammations, also
Spiranthes.
Complementary: Coffea; Sulph. Sulphur may be considered a
chronic Aconite. Often completes a cure begun with Aconite.
Compare; Bellad; Cham; Coffea; Ferr, phos.
Aconitine.--(Heavy feeling as of lead; pains in supraorbital
nerve; ice-cold sensations creep up; hydrophobia symptoms.
Tinnitus aurium 3x). Tingling sensation.
Aconitum Lycotonum.--Great yellow wolfsbane.--(Swelling of
glands; Hodgkin's disease. Diarrhśa after eating pork. Itching of
nose, eyes, anus and vulva. Skin of nose cracked; taste of
blood).
Aconitum Cammarum.--(Headache with vertigo and tinnitus.
Cataleptic symptoms. Formication of tongue, lips and face).
Aconitum ferox.--Indian Aconite.--Rather more violent in its
actions than A. napellus. It is more diuretic and less antipyretic.
It has proved valuable in cardiac dyspnśa, neuralgia, and acute
gout. Dyspnśa. Must sit up. Rapid respiration. Anxiety, with
suffocation from feeling of paralysis in respiratory muscles.
Cheynes-Stokes breathing. Quebracho (cardiac dyspnśa)
(Achyranthes.--A Mexican drug--very similar to Aconite in
fevers, but of larger range, being also adapted to typhoidal states
and intermittents. Muscular rheumatism. A great diaphoretic.
Use 6x). Eranthis hymnalis--(Winter Aconite--acts on solar
plexus and works upwards causing dyspnśa. Pain in occiput and
neck).
Dose.--Sixth potency for sensory affections; first to third for
congestive conditions. Must be repeated frequently in acute
diseases. Acon is a rapid worker. In Neuralgias tincture of the
root often preferable, one drop doses (poisonous), or again, the
30th according to susceptibility of patient.
ACTAEA SPICATA
Bane berry
(ACTEA SPICATA)
Is a rheumatic remedy, especially of the small joints; tearing,
tingling pains characterize it. Wrist-rheumatism. Pulsations over
whole body, especially liver and renal region. Cardiovascular
spasm. Pains worse from touch and motion.
Head.--Fearful, starts easily; confused. Ebullition of blood to
head excited by drinking coffee. Vertigo, tearing headache,
better in open air, throbbing in brain, pain from crown to
between eyebrows; heat in forehead, pain in left frontal
eminence as if bone were crushed. Itching of scalp alternating
with heat; nose red at tip, fluent coryza.
Face.--Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through
malar bones to temples. Perspiration on face and head.
Stomach.--Tearing, darting pains in epigastric region, with
vomiting. Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium, with
difficult breathing; sense of suffocation. Sudden lassitude after
eating.
Abdomen.--Spasmodic retraction. Sticking pain and distension
of hypogastrium.
Respiratory.--Short, irregular breathing at night, while lying.
Great oppression. Shortness of breath on exposure to cold air.
Extremities.--Tearing pains in loins. Rheumatic pains in small
joints, wrist, (Ulmus) fingers, ankles, toes. Swelling of joints
from slight fatigue. Wrist swollen, red, worse any motion.
Paralytic weakness in the hands. Lame feeling in arms. Pain in
knee. Sudden lassitude after talking or eating.
Relationship.--Compare: Cimicif; Cauloph; Led.
Dose.--Third potency.
ADONIS VERNALIS
Pheasant's Eye
A heart medicine, after rheumatism or influenza, or Bright's
disease, where the muscles of the heart are in stage of fatty
degeneration, regulating the pulse and increasing the power of
contractions of heart, with increased urinary secretions. Most
valuable in cardiac dropsy. Low vitality, with weak heart and
slow, weak pulse. Hydrothorax, ascites. Anasarca.
Head.--Feels light; aches across front, from occiput around
temples to eyes. Vertigo on rising, turning head quickly or lying
down. Tinnitus. Scalp feels tight. Eyes dilated.
Mouth.--Slimy. Tongue dirty yellow, sore, feels scalded.
Heart.--Mitral and aortic regurgitation. Chronic aortitis, Fatty
heart pericarditis. Rheumatic Endocarditis (Kalmia).
Prećcordial pain, palpitation, and dyspnśa. Marked venous
engorgement. Cardiac asthma (Quebracho). Fatty heart.
Myocarditis, irregular cardiac action, constriction and vertigo.
Pulse rapid, irregular.
Stomach.--Heavy weight. Gnawing hunger. Faint feeling in
epigastrium. Better out of doors.
Urine.--Oily pellicle on urine. Scanty, albuminous.
Respiratory.--Frequent desire to take a long breath. Feeling of
weight on chest.
Sleep.--Restlessness, with horrible dreams.
Extremities.--Aching in nape. Spine stiff and aching. Śdema.
Relationship.--Adonidin is a cardiac tonic and diuretic. Quarter
grain daily, or two to five grains of first decimal trit increases
arterial pressure and prolongs the diastole, favoring emptying
engorged veins. Is an excellent substitute for Digitalis and is not
cumulative in action.
Compare: Digit; Cratoeg; Conval; Strophanthus.
Dose.--Five to ten drops of the tincture.
ADRENALINUM
An Internal Secretion of Suprarenal Glands
(ADRENALIN)
Adrenaline or Epinephrine, the active principle of the medulla of
the suprarenal gland, (cortical secretion not as yet isolated), is
employed as a chemical messenger in the regulation of the
activities of the body; in fact, its presence is essential to the
activity of the sympathetic nerve. Adrenaline action on any part
is the same as stimulation of the sympathetic nerve endings
thereto. Local application (1: 1,000 solution) to mucous
membranes promptly induces transient ischemia, seen in a
blanching, persisting several hours from conjunctival
instillation. Its action is very prompt, efficient, evanescent,
owing to rapid oxidation and therefore practically harmless,
unless too frequently repeated, when atheroma and heart lesions-
-myocardial--in animals have been reported. Arteries, heart,
supra-renal bodies and vaso-motor system are prominently
affected. The main action of Adrenaline is stimulation of the
sympathetic endings, notably the splanchnic area, causing
constriction of the peripheral arterioles, with resulting rise in
blood pressure. This is especially observed in stomach,
intestines; less in uterus, skin; nil in brain and lungs.
Furthermore, is noticed, slowing of pulse, (medullary vagus
stimulation), and strengthening of heart beat (increased
myocardial contractility), resembling Digitalis; increased
glandular activity, glycosuria; depression of respiratory center;
contraction of muscular tissue of eye, uterus, vagina; relaxation
of muscular tissue of stomach, intestines, bladder.
Uses.--Its chief therapeutic use depends on its vaso-constriction
action; therefore a most powerful and prompt astringent and
hæmostatic; and invaluable in checking capillary hæmorrhages,
from all parts, where local or direct application is feasible: nose,
ear, mouth, throat, larynx, stomach, rectum, uterus, bladder.
Hæmorrhagic condition not due to defective coagulation of the
blood. Complete bloodlessness, ischemia, may be induced with
impunity. Locally, solutions (1: 10,000-1: 1,000) sprayed or
applied on cotton have been very efficient in bloodless
operations about the eye, nose, throat, and larynx.
Congestions of the ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses, also hay
fever, have been markedly alleviated by warm spray of
Adrenaline chloride, 1: 5,000. Here compare, Hepar 1x, which
will start up secretions and so facilitate drainage. Werlhoff's
disease, hypodermically, 1: 1,000. Externally, it has been used in
neuritis, neuralgia, reflex pains, gout, rheumatism, as an
ointment, 1-2 m of (1: 1,000) solution, along the nerve trunk at
point of skin nearest its origin which could be reached (H. G.
Carlton).
Therapeutically, Adrenaline has been suggested in acute
congestion of lungs, Asthma, Grave's and Addison's diseases,
arterio-sclerosis, chronic aortitis, angina pectoris, hæmophilia
chlorosis, hay fever, serum rashes, acute urticaria, etc. Dr. P.
Jousset reports success in treating, homeopathically, cases of
angina and of aortitis, sub-acute and chronic, when Adrenaline
has been prescribed per os and in infinitesimal dose. The
symptom guiding to this is, Sensation of thoracic constriction
with anguish. This, with vertigo, nausea and vomiting have been
produced by the drug. Abdominal pain. Shock or heart failure
during anæsthesia, as it causes very prompt rise of blood
pressure by its action on nerve endings in the vessel wall.
Dose.--Hypodermically, 1-5 m (1: 1,000 solution, as chloride)
diluted in water. Internally, 5-30m of 1: 1,000 solution.
Caution.--On account of its affinity for oxygen, the drug easily
decomposes in watery and dilute acid solutions. The solution
must be protected from air and light. It must not be too
frequently repeated, owing to cardiac and arterial lesions. For
homeopathic use 2x to 6x attenuation.
AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM
Horse Chestnut
The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel,
producing engorged hæmorrhoidal veins, with characteristic
backache, with absence of actual constipation. Much pain but
little bleeding. Venous stasis general, varicose veins of purple
color; everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels, etc.
Torpor and congestion of the liver and portal system, with
constipation. The back aches and gives out and unfits the patient
for business. Flying pains all over. Fullness in various parts,
dry, swollen mucous membranes. Throat with hæmorrhoidal
conditions.
Head.--Depressed and irritable. Head dull, confused, aching as
from a cold. Pressure in forehead, with nausea, followed by
stitches in right hypochondrium. Pain from occiput to frontal
region, with bruised sensation of the scalp; worse in the
morning. Neuralgic stitches from right to left through forehead,
followed by flying pains in epigastrium. Vertigo when sitting
and walking.
Eyes.--Heavy and hot, with lachrymation, with enlarged blood
vessels. Eyeballs sore.
Nose.--Dry; inspired air feels cold, nasal passages sensitive to it.
Coryza, sneezing. Pressure at root of nose. Membrane over
turbinate bones distended and boggy, dependent upon hepatic
disorders.
Mouth.--Scalded feeling. Metallic taste. Salivation. Tongue
thickly coated, feels as if scalded.
Throat.--Hot, dry, raw, stitching pain into ears when
swallowing. Follicular pharyngitis connected with hepatic
congestion. Veins in pharynx distended and tortuous. Throat
sensitive to inspired air; feels excoriated and constricted, burns
like fire on swallowing, in afternoon. Early stages of atrophic
pharyngitis in dried-up, bilious subjects. Hawking of ropy
mucus of sweetish taste.
Stomach.--Weight of a stone, with gnawing, aching pain; most
manifest about three hours after meals. Tenderness and fullness
in region of liver.
Abdomen.--Dull aching in liver and epigastrium. Pain at
umbilicus. Jaundice; throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis.
Rectum.--Dry, aching. Feels full of small sticks. Anus raw, sore.
Much pain after stool, with prolapse. Hæmorrhoids, with sharp
shooting pains up the back; blind and bleeding; worse during
climacteric. Large, hard, dry stools. Mucous membrane seems
swollen and obstructs the passage. Irritation caused by ascarides
and aids their expulsion. Burning in anus with chills up and
down back.
Urinary.--Frequent, scant, dark, muddy, hot urine. Pain in
kidneys, especially left and ureter.
Male.--Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool.
Female.--Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis.
Leucorrhœa, with lameness of back across the sacro-iliac
articulation; dark yellow, sticky corroding; worse after menses.
Chest.--Feels constricted. Heart's action full and heavy, can feel
pulsations all over. Laryngitis; coughs depending on hepatic
disorders; hot feeling in chest; pain around heart in
hæmorrhoidal subjects.
Extremities.--Aching and soreness in limbs, in left acromion
process with shooting down arms; finger tips numb.
Back.--Lameness in neck; aching between shoulder blades;
region of spine feels weak; back and legs give out. Backache
affecting sacrum and hips; worse walking or stooping. When
walking feet turn under. Soles feel sore, tired, and swell. Hands
and feet swell, and become red after washing, feel full.
Fever.--Chill at 4 pm. Chilliness up and down back. Fever 7 to
12 pm. Evening fever, skin hot and dry. Sweat profuse and hot
with the fever.
Modalities.--Worse, in morning on awaking, and from any
motion, walking; from moving bowels; after eating, afternoon,
standing. Better, cool open air.
Relationship.--Aesculus glabra-Ohio-Buckeye Proctitis. Very
painful, dark purple, external hæmorrhoids, with constipation
and vertigo and portal congestion. Speech thick, tickling in
throat, impaired vision, paresis. Phytolacca (throat dry, more
often in acute cases). Negundium Americanum--Box-elder--
(Engorgements of rectum and piles with great pain, ten-drop
doses of tincture every two hours). Compare also: Aloe,
Collinson. Nux. Sulphur.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
AETHUSA CYNAPIUM
Fool's Parsley
The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and
nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbance.
Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent,
lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children,
during dentition, summer complaint, when, with the diarrhśa,
there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation.
Symptoms set in with violence.
Mind.--Restless, anxious, crying. Sees rats, cats, dogs, etc.
Unconscious, delirious. Inability to think, to fix the attention.
Brain fag. Idiocy may alternate with furor and irritability.
Head.--Feels bound up, or in a vise. Occipital pain extending
down spine; better lying down and by pressure. Head symptoms
relieved by expelling flatus (Sanguin) and by stool. Hair feels
pulled. Vertigo with drowsiness, with palpitation; head hot after
vertigo ceases.
Eyes.--Photophobia; swelling of Meibomian glands. Rolling of
eyes on falling asleep. Eyes drawn downward; pupils dilated.
Ears.--Feel obstructed. Sense of something hot from ears.
Hissing sound.
Nose.--Stopped up with much thick mucus. Herpetic eruption on
tip of nose. Frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze.
Face.--Puffed, red-spotted, collapsed. Expression anxious, full
of pain; linea nasalis marked.
Mouth.--Dry. Aphthć. Tongue seems too long. Burning and
pustules in throat, with difficult swallowing.
Stomach.--Intolerance of milk; vomiting as soon as swallowed
or in large curds. Hungry after vomiting. Regurgitation of food
about an hour after eating. Violent vomiting of a white frothy
matter. Nausea at sight of food. Painful contraction of stomach.
Vomiting, with sweat and great weakness, accompanied by
anguish and distress, followed by sleepiness. Stomach feels
turned upside down, with burning feeling up to the chest.
Tearing pains in the stomach extending to śsophagus.
Abdomen.--Cold, internal and external, with aching pain in
bowels. Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness.
Tense, inflated, and sensitive. Bubbling sensation around navel.
Stool.--Undigested, thin, greenish, preceded by colic, with
tenesmus, and followed by exhaustion and drowsiness. Cholera
infantum; child cold, clammy, stupid, with staring eyes and
dilated pupils. Obstinate constipation; feels as if all bowel action
is lost. Choleraic affections in old age.
Urinary.--Cutting pain in bladder, with frequent urging. Pain in
kidneys.
Female.--Lancinating pains in sexual organs. Pimples; itching
when warm. Menses watery. Swelling of mammary glands, with
lancinating pains.
Respiratory.--Difficult, oppressed, anxious respiration; crampy
constriction. Sufferings render patient speechless.
Heart.--Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and
restlessness. Pulse rapid, hard and small.
Back and Extremities.--Want of power to stand up or hold
head up. Back feels as if in a vise. Aching in small of back.
Weakness of lower extremities. Fingers and thumbs clenched.
Numbness of hands and feet. Violent spasms. Squinting of eyes
downward.
Skin.--Excoriation of thighs in walking. Easy perspiration.
Surface of body cold and covered with clammy sweat. Lymphatic
glands swollen. Itching eruption around joints. Skin of hands
dry and shrunken. Ecchymosis. Anasarca.
Fever.--Great heat; no thirst. Profuse, cold sweat. Must be
covered during sweat.
Sleep.--Disturbed by violent startings; cold perspiration. Dozing
after vomiting or stool. Child is so exhausted, it falls asleep at
once.
Modalities.--Worse, 3 to 4 am, and evenings; warmth, summer.
Better in open air and company.
Compare: Athamantha (confused head, vertigo better lying
down, bitter taste and saliva. Hands and feet icy cold); Antimon;
Calc; Ars; Cicuta. Complementary: Calc.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
 AETHIOPS MINERALIS
Sulph and Quicksilver, or Black Sulphide Mercury
(AETHIOPS MERCURIALIS-MINERALIS)
This preparation is of use in scrofulous affections, ophthalmia,
otorrhśa, painful, irritating, scabby eruptions, hereditary
syphilis.
Skin.--Eruptions. Favus-like, scrofulous, herpetic and
eczematous.
Relationship.--Aethiops Antimonalis--(Hydrargyrum stibiato
sulfuratum).--(often more effective than the above in scrofulous
eruptions, glandular swellings, otorrhśa and scrofulous eye
affections, corneal ulcers. Third trituration). Compare: Calc; Sil;
Psorin.
Dose.--The lower triturations, especially the second decimal.
AGARICUS MUSCARIUS
Toad Stool-Bug Agaric
(AGARICUS MUSCARIUS-AMANITA)
This fungus contains several toxic compounds, the best known
of which is Muscarin. The symptoms of poisoning do not
develop at once, usually twelve to fourteen hours elapse before
the initial attack. There is no antidote, treatment, entirely
symptomatic (Schneider). Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the
brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than alcohol,
followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.
Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications.
Incipient phthisis; is related to the tubercular diathesis, anćmia,
chorea, twitching ceases during sleep. Various forms of
neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles
are pictured in the symptomatology of this remedy. It
corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than
congestion. Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc. General
paralysis. Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice. Sensitive to
pressure and cold air. Violent bearing-down pains. Symptoms
appear diagonally as right arm and left leg. Pains are
accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.
Mind.--Sings, talks, but does not answer. Loquacity. Aversion
to work. Indifference. Fearlessness. Delirium characterized by
singing, shouting, and muttering; rhymes and prophesies. Begins
with paroxysm of yawning.
The provings bring out four phases of cerebral excitement.
1. Slight stimulation-shown by increased cheerfulness, courage,
loquacity, exalted fancy.
2. More decided intoxication-great mental excitement and
incoherent talking, immoderate gaity alternates with
melancholy. Perception of relative size of objects is lost, takes
long steps and jumps over small objects as if they were trunks of
trees-a small hole appears as a frightful chasm, a spoonful of
water an immense lake. Physical strength is increased, can lift
heavy loads. With it much twitching.
3. Third stage produces a condition of furious or raging
delirium, screaming, raving, wants to injure himself, etc.
4. Fourth stage-mental depression, languor, indifference,
confusion, disinclination to work, etc. We do not get the active
cerebral congestion of Belladonna, but a general nervous
excitement such as is found in delirium tremens, delirium of
fevers, etc.
Head.--Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking. Head in constant
motion. Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput. Lateral
headache, as if from a nail (Coff; Ignat). Dull headache from
prolonged desk-work. Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters.
Neuralgia with icy cold head. Desire to cover head warmly
(Silica). Headache with nose-bleedor thick mucous discharge.
Eyes.--Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim.
Vibrating specters. Double vision (Gels), dim and flickering.
Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation.
Twitching of lids and eyeballs (Codein). Margins of lids red; itch
and burn and agglutinate. Inner angles very red.
Ears.--Burn and itch, as if frozen. Twitching of muscles about
the ear and noises.
Nose.--Nervous nasal disturbances. Itching internally and
externally. Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness;
watery non-inflammatory discharge. Inner angles very red.
Fetid, dark, bloody discharge. Nosebleed in old people.
Sensation of soreness in nose and mouth.
Face.--Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns.
Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters. Neuralgia, as
if cold needles ran through nerves or sharp ice touched them.
Mouth.--Burning and smarting on lips. Herpes on lips.
Twitching. Taste sweet. Aphthć on roof of mouth. Splinter like
pains in tongue. Thirsty all the time. Tremulous tongue (Lach).
Tongue white.
Throat.--Stitches along eustachian tube to ear. Feels contracted.
Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up. Dryness of pharynx,
swallowing difficult. Scratching in throat; cannot sing a note.
Stomach.--Empty eructations, tasting of apples. Nervous
disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough. Unnatural
hunger. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Profuse
inodorous flatus. Burning in stomach about three hours after a
meal, changing into a dull pressure. Gastric disturbance with
sharp pains in liver region.
Abdomen.--Stitching pains in liver, spleen (Ceanothus) and
abdomen. Stitches under short ribs, left side. Diarrhśa with much
fetid flatus. Fetid stools.
Urinary.--Stitches in urethra. Sudden and violent urging to
urinate. Frequent urination.
Female.--Menses, increased, earlier. Itching and tearing,
pressive pains of genitals and back. Spasmodic dysmenorrhśa.
Severe bearing-down pains, especially after menopause. Sexual
excitement. Nipples itch, burn. Complaints following parturition
and coitus. Leucorrhśa, with much itching.
Respiratory Organs.--Violent attacks of coughing that can be
suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in head while
cough lasts. Spasmodic cough at night after falling asleep, with
expectoration of little balls of mucus. Labored, oppressed
breathing. Cough ends in a sneeze.
Heart.--Irregular, tumultuous palpitation, after tobacco. Pulse
intermittent and irregular. Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax
were narrowed. Palpitation with redness of face.
Back.--Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in
dorsal region. Lumbago; worse in open air. Crick in back.
Twitching of cervical muscles.
Extremities.--Stiff all over. Pain over hips. Rheumatism better
motion. Weakness in loins. Uncertain gait. Trembling. Itching of
toes and feet as if frozen. Cramp in soles of feet. Pain in shin-
bone. Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia. Paralysis of lower limbs,
with spasmodic condition of arms. Numbness of legs on
crossing them. Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation.
Tearing painful contractions in the calves.
Skin.--Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as from
frostbites. Pimples, hard, like flea-bites. Miliary eruption, with
intolerable itching and burning. Chilblains. Angioneurotic
śdema; rosacea. Swollen veins with cold skin. Circumscribed
erythematous, papular and pustular and śdematous lesions.
Sleep.--Paroxysms of yawning. Restless from violent itching and
burning. On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often.
Vivid dreams. Drowsy in daytime. Yawning, followed by
involuntary laughter.
Fever.--Very sensitive to cool air. Violent attacks of heat in
evening. Copious sweat. Burning spots.
Modalities.--Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus. In
cold weather, before a thunder-storm. Worse, pressure on dorsal
spine, which causes involuntary laughter. Better, moving about
slowly.
Relationship.--Compare: Muscarine, the alkaloid of Agaricus
(has much power over secretions, increasing lachrymal, salivary,
hepatic, etc, but diminishing renal; probably neurotic in origin,
stimulating the terminal fibers of the secretory nerves of all
these structures, hence salivation, lachrymation and excessive
perspiration. Atropin exactly opposes Muscarine. Resembles
Pilocarpin in action). Amanita vernus-spring mushroom-a
variety of Agar Phalloides-Death cup-active principle is Phallin,
active like Muscarine. Amanita phalloides (Death Cup-Deadly
Agaric). The poison is a toxalbumin, resembling the poison in
the rattle snake and the poison excreted by the cholera and
diphtheria germs. It acts on the red blood corpuscles, dissolving
them so that blood escapes into the alimentary canal and the
whole system is drained. The amount of this toxic principle is
small, even handling of specimens and breathing of spores
affects some people unpleasantly. The poison is slow in
development. Even 12 to 20 hours after taking it the patient feels
all right, but vertigo violent choleraic symptoms with rapid loss
of strength with death the second or third day, preceded by
stupor and spasms. Fatty degeneration of liver, heart and
kidneys, hćmorrhages in lungs, pleura and skin (Dr. J. Schier).
Vomiting and purging. Continuous urging to stool, but no
gastric, abdominal or rectal pain. Intense thirst for cold water,
dry skin. Lethargic but mentally clear. Sharp changes from rapid
to slow and from slow to rapid breathing, extreme collapse,
suppressed urine, but no cold extremities or cramps. Agaric emet
(severe vertigo; all symptoms better, cold water; longing for ice-
water; gastritis cold sweat, vomiting sensation as if stomach was
suspended on a string). Tamus (chilblains and freckles). Cimicif;
Cann ind; Hyos; Tarantula.
Antidote: Absinth; Coffea; Camphor.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency. In skin
affections and brain exhaustions give the lower attenuations.
AGAVE AMERICANA
Century Plant
Indicated in stomachache, and painful erections in gonorrhśa.
Strangury. Hydrophobia. Scurvy; countenance pale, gums
swollen and bleeding, legs covered with dark purple blotches,
swollen, painful and hard. Appetite poor; bowels constipated.
Relationship.--Compare: Anhalonium; Lyssin; Lach.
Dose.--Tincture
 AGNUS CASTUS
The Chaste Tree
The most effective point of attack of Agnus upon the organism
is the sexual organism. It lowers sexual vitality, with
corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy. It
shows this distinctive influence in both sexes, but is more
pronounced in men. Premature old age from abuse of sexual
power. History of repeated gonorrhśa. A prominent remedy for
sprains and strains. Gnawing itching in all parts, especially eyes.
Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men.
Mind.--Sexual melancholy. Fear of death. Sadness with
impression of speedy death. Absentminded, forgetful, lack of
courage. Illusion of smell-herrings, musk. Nervous depression
and mental forebodings.
Eyes.--Pupils dilated (Bell). Itching about eyes; photophobia.
Nose.--Odor of herring or musk. Aching in dorsum better
pressure.
Abdomen.--Spleen swollen, sore. Stools soft, recede, difficult.
Deep fissures in anus. Nausea with sensation as if intestines
were pressed downwards; wants to support bowels.
Male.--Yellow discharge from urethra. No erections. Impotence.
Parts cold, relaxed. Desire gone (Selen; Con; Sabal). Scanty
emission without ejaculation. Loss of prostatic fluid on
straining. Gleety discharge. Testicles, cold, swollen, hard, and
painful.
Female.--Scanty menses. Abhorrence of sexual intercourse.
Relaxation of genitals, with leucorrhśa. Agalactia; with sadness.
Sterility. Leucorrhśa staining yellow; transparent. Hysterical
palpitation with nose bleed.
Relationship.--Compare: Selenium; Phosph ac; Camphor;
Lycop.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
AGRAPHIS NUTANS
Blue bell
A relaxed condition of the system generally and a proneness to
take cold on exposure to cold winds.
Catarrhal conditions; obstruction of nostrils. Adenoids, throat
deafness. Enlarged tonsils. Mucous diarrhśa from cold. Chill
from cold winds. Throat and ear troubles with tendency to free
discharge from mucous membranes. Mutinism of childhood
unconnected with deafness.
Relationship.--Compare: Hydrast; Cepa; Calc phos; Sulph jod;
Calc jod.
Dose.--Third potency. Single doses of tincture (Dr. Cooper).
AILANTHUS GLANDULOSA
Chinese Sumach
This remedy shows by its peculiar skin symptoms its
pronounced power of disorganizing the blood, causing
conditions we meet with in low fevers, low types of eruptive
diseases, diphtheria, follicular tonsillitis, Streptococcus
infection, Hæmorrhagic diathesis, etc. The skin appears livid or
purplish; face dark as mahogany, hot; sordes; throat swollen,
purple, livid; semi-conscious, delirious; weak pulse, general
torpor and prostration. Symptoms remarkably alike to malignant
scarlatina. Diarrhœa, dysentery and great weakness are very
marked. Adynamia characterizes all its conditions. Lividity,
stupor and malignancy. Mucous membranes hæmorrhagic and
ulcerative (Lach. Ars).
Head.--General stupor, with sighing. Confused mind, mental
depression. Headache, frontal, with drowsiness. Passive
congestion headaches. Suffused, dilated eyes; photophobia. Face
dusky. Thin, copious, ichorous, bloody nasal discharge.
Throat.--Inflamed, œdematous, dusky red. Much swelling,
internal and external. Dry, rough, scraping, choking feeling.
Neck tender and swollen. Hoarse, croupy voice. Tongue dry and
brown. Teeth covered with sordes. Pain in swallowing extends
to the ears.
Respiratory.--Hurried breathing; irregular. Dry, hacking cough.
Lungs sore and tired.
Sleep.--Drowsy, restless. Heavy, disturbed, unrefreshing.
Skin.--Miliary, livid rash, returns annually. Large blisters filled
with dark serum. Irregular, patchy, livid eruption, disappearing
on pressure. Cold. Raynaud's disease.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Rhus; Nux.
Compare: Ammon carb; Bapt; Arn; Mur ac; Lach; Rhus.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
ALETRIS FARINOSA
Star grass
An anæmic, relaxed condition, especially of the female
organism, is portrayed by this remedy. The patient is tired all
the time, and suffers from prolapsus, leucorrhœa, rectal distress,
etc. Marked anæmia. Chlorotic girls and pregnant women.
Mind.--Power and energy weakened. Confused feelings. Cannot
concentrate mind. Fainting, with vertigo.
Mouth.--Much frothy saliva.
Stomach.--Disgust for food. Least food causes distress. Fainting
spells, with vertigo. Vomiting during pregnancy. Nervous
dyspepsia. Flatulent colic.
Rectum.--Loads up with feces-paretic condition. Stool large,
hard, difficult, great pain.
Female.--Premature and profuse menses, with labor-like pains
(Bell; Cham; Kali c; Plat). Retarded and scanty flow (Senecio).
Uterus seems heavy. Prolapse, with pain in right inguinal region.
Leucorrhœa due to weakness and anæmia. Habitual tendency to
abortion. Muscular pains during pregnancy.
Relationship.--Compare: Helonias; Hydrastis; Tanacet; China.
Dose.--Tincture to third potency.
ALFALFA
Medicago Sativa, California Clover or Lucerne
>From its action on the sympathetic, Alfalfa favorably
influences nutrition, evidenced in "toning up" the appetite and
digestion resulting in greatly improved mental and physical
vigor, with gain in weight. Disorders characterized by
malnutrition are mainly within its therapeutic range, for
example, neurasthenia, splanchnic blues, nervousness, insomnia,
nervous indigestion, etc. Acts as a fat producer, corrects tissue
waste. Deficient lactation. Increases quality and quantity of milk
in nursing mothers. Its pronounced urinary action suggests it
clinically in diabetes insipidus and phosphaturia; and it is
claimed to allay vesical irritability of prostatic hypertrophy. The
rheumatic diathesis seems especially amenable to its action.
Mind.--It induces mental exhilaration of buoyancy, i.e, a general
feeling of well being; clear and bright, so that all blues are
dissipated. Dull, drowsy, stupid (Gels); gloomy and irritable,
worse during evening.
Head.--Dull, heavy feeling in occiput, in and above the eyes,
worse toward evening. Pain in left side of head. Violent
headache.
Ears.--Stuffed feeling in eustachian tubes (Kali mur) at night;
patulous in morning.
Stomach.--Increased thirst. Appetite impaired, but chiefly
increased even to bulimia. He must eat frequently, so that he
cannot wait for regular meals; hungry in forenoon (Sul). Much
nibbling of food and craving for sweets.
Abdomen.--Flatulence with distention. Shifting, flatulent pain
along colon several hours after meals. Frequent, loose, yellow,
painful stools, with burning of flatulence. Chronic appendicitis.
Urine.--Kidneys inactive; frequent urging to urinate. Polyuria
(Phos ac). Increased elimination of urea, indican and
phosphates.
Sleep.--Slept better than usual, especially in early morning; it
induces quiet, reposeful and refreshing sleep.
Relationship.--Compare: Avena sat; Dipodium punct; Gels;
Hydr; Kali phos; Phos ac; Zinc.
Dose.--The best results are elicited with material doses (5-10)
drops of tincture, several times daily. Continue its use until tonic
effects ensue.
ALLIUM CEPA
Red Onion
A picture of coryza, with acrid nasal discharge and laryngeal
symptoms, eye secretion bland; singers' cold, worse in warm
room and toward evening; better in open air is presented by this
remedy. Specially adapted to phlegmatic patients; colds in damp
cold weather. Neuralgic pains, like a fine thread, following
amputations or injuries to nerves. Traumatic chronic neuritis.
Burning in nose, mouth, throat, bladder and skin. Sensation of
glowing heat on different parts of the body.
Head.--Catarrhal headache, mostly in forehead; worse in warm
room towards evening. Thread-like pains in face. Headache
ceases during menses; returns when flow disappears.
Eyes.--Red. Much burning and smarting lachrymation. Sensitive
to light. Eyes suffused and watery; profuse, bland lachrymation,
better in open air. Burning in eyelids.
Ears.--Earache, shooting in eustachian tube.
Nose.--Sneezing, especially when entering a warm room.
Copious, watery and extremely acrid discharge. Feeling of a
lump at root of nose. Hay-fever (Sabad; Sil; Psor). Fluent
coryza with headache, cough, and hoarseness. Polypus.
Stomach.--Canine hunger. Pain in pyloric region. Thirst.
Belching. Nausea.
Abdomen.--Rumbling, offensive flatus. Pains in left
hypogastrium. Colic sitting, moving about.
Rectum.--Diarrhśa with very offensive flatus. Stitches in
rectum; itching and rhagades in anus. Glowing heat in rectum.
Urinary.--Sensation of weakness in bladder and urethra.
Increased secretion of urine with coryza. Urine red with much
pressure and burning in urethra.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness. Hacking cough on inspiring cold
air. Tickling in larynx. Sensation as if larynx is split or torn.
Oppressed breathing from pressure in middle of chest.
Constricted feeling in region of epiglottis. Pain extending to ear.
Extremities.--Lame joints. Ulcers on heel. Painful affections of
fingers about nails neuralgia of stump. Bad effects from getting
feet wet. Limbs, especially arms, feel sore and tired.
Sleep.--Yawning with headache and drowsiness. Gaping in deep
sleep. Dreams. Wakes at 2 am.
Modalities.--Worse, in the evening, in warm room. Better, in
open air, and in cold room.
Relationship.--Compare: Gels; Euph; Kali hyd; Aconite;
Ipecac.
Complementary: Phosphor; Thuja; Puls.
Antidotes: Arn; Cham; Verat.
Dose.--Third potency.
ALLIUM SATIVUM
Garlic
Acts directly on intestinal mucous membrane increasing
peristalsis. Colitis, with pathological flora. Has vaso-dilatory
properties. Arterial hypotension begins usually in 30 to 45
minutes after twenty to forty drop doses of the tincture.
Adapted to fleshy subjects with dyspepsia and catarrhal
affections. High livers. Patients who eat a great deal more,
especially meat, than they drink. Pain in hip, pain in psoas and
iliac muscles. Pulmonary tuberculosis.
Cough and expectoration diminishes, temperature becomes
normal, weight is gained, and sleep becomes regular.
Hćmoptysis.
Head.--Heavy; pulsation in temples; catarrhal deafness.
Mouth.--Much sweetish saliva after meals and at night.
Sensation of a hair on tongue or throat.
Stomach.--Voracious appetite. Burning eructations. Least
change in diet causes trouble. Constipation, with constant dull
pains in bowels. Tongue pale, red papillć.
Respiratory.--Constant rattling of mucus in bronchi. Cough in
the morning after leaving bedroom, with mucous expectoration,
which is tenacious and difficult to raise. Sensitive to cold air.
Dilated bronchi, with fetid expectoration. Darting pain in chest.
Female.--Pain in swelling of breasts. Eruption in vagina and on
breasts and vulva during menses.
Relationship.--Allium Sat according to Dr. Teste, belongs to the
Bryonia group, including Lycopod. Nux. Colocy, Digital and
Ignatia which affect deeply all flesh eating animals and hardly at
all vegetarians. Hence their special applicability to meat eaters
rather than to exclusive vegetarians.
Compare: Capsicum; Arsenic; Senega; Kali nit.
Complementary: Arsenic.
Antidote: Lycopod.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency. In tuberculosis, dose, four to six
grammes in moderate state of dessication daily, in divided
doses.
ALNUS RUBRA
Red Alder
(ALNUS)
Has some reputation as a remedy for skin affections, glandular
enlargements, and indigestion from imperfect secretion of
gastric juice. It stimulates nutrition, and thus acts favorably upon
strumous disorders, enlarged glands, etc. Ulcerated mucous
membranes of mouth and throat. Fingers covered by crust
caused by pustules, disagreeable odor. Indigestion from
imperfect secretion of gastric juice.
Female.--Leucorrhœa, with erosions of cervix, bleeding easily.
Amenorrhœa, with burning pains from back to pubis.
Skin.--Chronic herpes. Enlarged sub-maxillary glands. Eczema,
prurigo. Purpura hæmorrhagica. Poison-oak. Use locally.
Dose.--Tincture to third potency.
ALOE SOCOTRINA
Socotrine Aloes
(ALOE)
An excellent remedy to aid in re-establishing physiological
equilibrium after much dosing, where disease and drug
symptoms are much mixed. There is no remedy richer in
symptoms of portal congestion and none that has given better
clinical results, both for the primary pathological condition and
secondary phenomena. Bad effects from sedentary life or habits.
Especially suitable to lymphatic and hypochondriacal patients.
The rectal symptoms usually determine the choice. Adapted to
weary people, the aged, and phlegmatic, old beer-drinkers.
Dissatisfied and angry about himself, alternating with lumbago.
Heat internally and externally. Has been used successfully in the
treatment of consumption by giving the pure juice.
Head.--Headache alternates with lumbago, with intestinal and
uterine affections. Disinclination to mental labor. Aches above
forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them.
Headache after stool. Dull, pressive pain; worse from heat.
Eyes.--Compelled to make small during pain in forehead.
Flickering before eyes. Redness of eyes with yellow vision. Pain
deep in orbits.
Face.--Marked redness of lips.
Ears.--Cracking when chewing. Sudden explosion and clashing
in left ear. Tinkling as of some thin, shivered, metallic globe in
head.
Nose.--Coldness of tip. Bleeding in morning on awakening. Full
of crusts.
Mouth.--Taste bitter and sour. Tasteless eructations. Lips
cracked and dry.
Throat.--Thick lumps of tough mucus. Varicose condition of
veins in pharynx. Dry, scrapy feeling.
Stomach.--Aversion to meat. Longing for juicy things. After
eating, flatulence, pulsation in rectum and sexual irritation.
Nausea, with headache. Pain in pit when making false step.
Abdomen.--Pain around navel, worse pressure. Fullness in
region of liver, pain under right ribs. Abdomen feels full, heavy,
hot, bloated. Pulsating pain around navel. Weak feeling, as if
diarrhœa would come on. Great accumulation of flatus, pressing
downwards, causing distress in lower bowels. Sensation of plug
between symphysis pubis and os coccygis, with urging to stool.
Colic before and during stool. Burning, copious flatus.
Rectum.--Constant bearing down in rectum; bleeding, sore, and
hot; relieved by cold water. Feeling of weakness and loss of
power of sphincter ani. Sense of insecurity in rectum, when
passing flatus. Uncertain whether gas or stool will come. Stool
passes without effort, almost unnoticed. Lumpy, watery stool.
Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after stool. A lot of
mucus, with pain in rectum after stool. Hæmorrhoids protrude
like grapes; very sore and tender; better cold water application.
Burning in anus and rectum. Constipation, with heavy pressure
in lower part of abdomen. Diarrhœa from beer.
Urinary.--Incontinence in aged, bearing-down sensation and
enlarged prostate. Scanty and high colored.
Female.--Bearing down in rectum, worse standing and during
menses. Uterus feels heavy, cannot walk much on that account.
Labor-like pains in loins; extend down legs. Climacteric
hæmorrhage. Menses too early and too profuse.
Respiratory.--Winter coughs, with itching. Difficult respiration,
with stitches from liver to chest.
Back.--Pain in small of back; worse moving. Stitches through
sacrum. Lumbago alternating with headache and piles.
Extremities.--Lameness in all limbs. Drawing pains in joints.
Soles pain when walking.
Modalities.--Worse early morning; summer; heat; in hot, dry
weather; after eating or drinking. Better from cold, open air.
Relationship.--Complementary: Sulphur; compare: Kali bich;
Lycop; Allium sat.
Antidotes: Opium; Sulph.
Dose.--Sixth potency and higher. In rectal conditions, a few
doses of the third, then wait.
ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS
Dita Bark
Malarial diseases, with diarrhśa, dysentery, anćmia, feeble
digestion, are the general conditions suggesting this remedy.
Characteristics are the gone sensation in stomach and sinking in
abdomen, with debility. A tonic after exhausting fevers.
Abdomen.--Violent purging and cramp in bowels. Heat and
irritation in lower bowels. Camp diarrhśa, bloody stool,
dysentery; diarrhśa from bad water and malaria. Painless watery
stools (Phosph ac). Diarrhśa immediately after eating.
Relationship.--Compare: Similar in action to Alstonia
constricta, the bitter bark or native quinine of Australia. Ditain
(active principle, is anti-periodic, like quinine, but without
unpleasant effects). Cinchona (similar in diarrhśa, chronic
dyspepsia and debility). Hydrastis; Fer cit et chin.
Dose.--Tincture to third potency. Locally, for ulcers and
rheumatic pains.
ALUMINA
Oxide et Aluminum-Argilla
A very general condition corresponding to this drug is dryness
of mucous membranes and skin, and tendency to paretic
muscular states. Old people, with lack of vital heat, or
prematurely old, with debility. Sluggish functions, heaviness,
numbness, and staggering, and the characteristic constipation
find an excellent remedy in Alumina. Disposition to colds in the
head, and eructations in spare, dry, thin subjects. Delicate
children, products of artificial baby foods.
Mind.--Low-spirited; fears loss of reason. Confused as to
personal identity. Hasty, hurried. Time passes slowly. Variable
mood. Better as day advances. Suicidal tendency when seeing
knife or blood.
Head.--Stitching, burning pain in head, with vertigo, worse in
morning, but relieved by food. Pressure in forehead as from a
tight hat. Inability to walk except with eyes open. Throbbing
headache, with constipation. Vertigo, with nausea; better after
breakfast. Falling out of hair; scalp itches and is numb.
Eyes.--Objects look yellow. Eyes feel cold. Lids dry, burn,
smart, thickened, aggravated in morning; chronic conjunctivitis.
Ptosis. Strabismus.
Ears.--Humming; roaring. Eustachian tube feels plugged.
Nose.--Pain at root of nose. Sense of smell diminished. Fluent
coryza. Point of nose cracked, nostrils sore, red; worse touch.
Scabs with thick yellow mucus. Tettery redness. Ozśna atrophica
sicca. Membranes distended and boggy.
Face.--Feels as if albuminous substance had dried on it. Blood-
boils and pimples. Twitching of lower jaw. Rush of blood to
face after eating.
Mouth.--Sore. Bad odor from it. Teeth covered with sordes.
Gums sore, bleeding. Tensive pain in articulation of jaw when
opening mouth or chewing.
Throat.--Dry, sore; food cannot pass, śsophagus contracted.
Feels as if splinter or plug were in throat. Irritable, and relaxed
throat. Looks parched and glazed. Clergyman's sore throat in
thin subjects. Thick, tenacious mucus drops from posterior
nares. Constant inclination to clear the throat.
Stomach.--Abnormal cravings-chalk, charcoal, dry food, tea-
grounds. Heartburn; feels constricted. Aversion to meat (Graph;
Arn; Puls). Potatoes disagree. No desire to eat. Can swallow but
small morsels at a time. Constriction of śsophagus.
Abdomen.--Colic, like painter's colic. Pressing in both groins
toward sexual organs. Left-sided abdominal complaints.
Stool.--Hard dry, knotty; no desire. Rectum sore, dry, inflamed,
bleeding. Itching and burning at anus. Even a soft stool is passed
with difficulty. Great straining. Constipation of infants (Collins;
Psor; Paraf) and old people from inactive rectum, and in
women of very sedentary habit. Diarrhśa on urinating.
Evacuation preceded by painful urging long before stool, and
then straining at stool.
Urine.--Muscles of bladder paretic, must strain at stool in order
to urinate. Pain in kidneys, with mental confusion. Frequent
desire to urinate in old people. Difficult starting.
Male.--Excessive desire. Involuntary emissions when straining
at stool. Prostatic discharge.
Female.--Menses too early, short, scanty, pale, followed by
great exhaustion (Carb an; Coccul). Leucorrhśa acrid, profuse
transparent, ropy, with burning; worse during daytime, and after
menses. Relieved by washing with cold water.
Respiratory.--Cough soon after waking in the morning. Hoarse,
aphonia, tickling in larynx; wheezing, rattling respiration. Cough
on talking or singing, in the morning. Chest feels constricted.
Condiments produce cough. Talking aggravates soreness of
chest.
Back.--Stitches. Gnawing pain, as if from hot iron. Pain along
cord, with paralytic weakness.
Extremities.--Pain in arm and fingers, as if hot iron penetrated.
Arms feel paralyzed. Legs feel asleep, especially when sitting
with legs crossed. Staggers on walking. Heels feel numb. Soles
tender; on stepping, feel soft and swollen. Pain in shoulder and
upper arm. Gnawing beneath finger nails. Brittle nails. Inability
to walk, except when eyes are open or in daytime. Spinal
degenerations and paralysis of lower limbs.
Sleep.--Restless; anxious and confused dreams. Sleepy in
morning.
Skin.--Chapped and dry tettery. Brittle nails. Intolerable itching
when getting warm in bed. Must scratch until it bleeds; then
becomes painful. Brittle skin on fingers.
Modalities.--Worse, periodically; in afternoon; from potatoes.
Worse, in morning on awaking; warm room. Better, in open air;
from cold washing; in evening and on alternate days. Better
damp weather.
Relationship.--Compare: Aluminum chloridum (Pains of loco-
motor ataxia. Lower trits in water). Slag Silico-Sulphocalcite of
Alumina 3x (anal itching, piles, constipation, flatulent
distention); Secale; Lathyr; Plumb. Aluminum acetate solution.
Externally a lotion for putrid wounds and skin infections.
Arrests hćmorrhage from inertia of uterus. Parenchymatous
hćmorrhage from various organs-23 % solution. Hćmorrhage
following tonsillectomy is controlled by rinsing out nasopharynx
with a 10 % sol.
Complementary: Bryonia.
Antidotes: Ipecac; Chamom.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth and higher. Action slow in developing.
ALUMINA SILICATA
Andalasite rock-Alumina 63, Silica 37 parts
Deep acting remedy for chronic complaints of brain, spine and
nerves. Constriction is a marked general symptom, also
constriction of orifices. Venous distention. Weakness, especially
spinal. Aching and burning in spine. Formication, numbness,
pain in all limbs. Epileptiform convulsion. Coldness during
pains.
Head.--Congestion of brain. Constriction of scalp. Pain in head,
better heat, perspires. Pain in eyes, flickering. Frequent coryzas.
Swelling and ulceration of nose.
Respiratory.--Catarrh of chest, pain, raw feeling. Feeling of
great weakness in chest. Stitching pains. Spasmodic cough with
purulent viscid expectoration.
Extremities.--Heaviness, jerking, numbness, aching and pains.
Skin.--Formication along course of nerves, veins feel full and
distended. Sore to touch and pressure.
Modalities.--Worse, cold air, after eating, standing. Better,
warmth, fasting, resting in bed.
Dose.--Higher potencies. -Lower triturations.
ALUMEN
Common Potash Alum
The clinical application of this remedy points to its bowel
symptoms, both in obstinate constipation and in hćmorrhage
from bowels in the course of typhoid-one phase of the paralytic
weakness of the muscles in all parts of the body. Tendency to
induration is also marked, a low form of tissue-making is
favored. Hardening of tissues of tongue, rectum, uterus, etc;
ulcers with indurated base. Adapted to old people, especially
bronchial catarrhs. Sensation of dryness and constriction.
Mental paresis; dysphagia especially to liquids. Tendency to
induration, Scirrhus of the tongue.
Head.--Burning pain as of weight on top of lead better by
pressure of hand. Vertigo, with weakness in pit of stomach.
Alopecia.
Throat.--Throat relaxed. Mucous membrane red and swollen.
Cough. Tickling in throat. Tendency to throat colds. Enlarged
and indurated tonsils. Burning pain down the śsophagus.
Complete aphonia. Every cold settles in throat. Constriction of
śsophagus.
Heart.--Palpitation, from lying down on right side.
Rectum.--Constipation of the most aggravated kind. No desire
for stool for days. Violent ineffectual urging to stool. No ability
to expel stool. Marble-like masses pass, but rectum still feels
full. Itching after stool. Itching in anus. Long lasting pain and
smarting in rectum after stool; also hćmorrhoids. Yellow, like an
infant's. Hćmorrhage from bowels.
Female.--Tendency to induration of neck of uterus and
mammary glands (Carb an; Con). Chronic yellow vaginal
discharge. Chronic gonorrhśa, yellow, with little lumps along
urethra. Aphthous patches in vagina (Caul). Menses watery.
Respiratory.--Hćmoptysis, great weakness of chest; difficult to
expel mucus. Copious, ropy morning expectoration in old
people. Asthma.
Skin.--Ulcers, with indurated base. To be thought of in
indurated glands, epithelioma, etc; veins become varicose and
bleed. Indurations resulting from long-continued inflammatory
irritations. Glands inflame and harden. Alopecia, Scrotal eczema
and on back of penis.
Extremities.--Weakness of all muscles, especially arms and
legs. Constricted feeling around limbs.
Modalities.--Worse, cold except headache, which is relieved by
cold.
Dose.--First to thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies
have proved efficacious. Powdered alum, 10 grains, placed on
tongue, said to arrest an attack of asthma.
 AMMONIUM BENZOICUM
Benzoate of Ammonia
One of the remedies for albuminuria, especially in the gouty.
Gout, with deposits in joints. Urinary incontinence in the aged.
Head.--Heavy, stupid.
Face.--Bloated, swollen eyelids. Swelling under tongue like
ranula.
Urine.--Smoky, scanty. Albuminous and thick deposits.
Back.--Pain across sacrum, with urgency to stool. Soreness in
region of right kidney.
Relationship.--Compare: Terebinth; Benz ac; Ammonia salts;
Caust.
In albuminuria compare: Kalmia; Helon; Merc cor; Berb;
Canth.
Dose.--Second trituration.
AMMONIUM BROMATUM
Bromide of Ammonia
Indicated in chronic laryngeal and pharyngeal catarrh, neuralgic
headaches, and obesity. Constrictive pain in head, chest, legs,
etc. Irritable feeling under finger nails; relieved only by biting
them.
Head.--Cerebral congestion. Feeling of a band above ears.
Sneezing; thick nasal discharge.
Eyes.--Edges of lids red and swollen, also Meibomian glands.
Eyeballs feel large and pain around eyes into head.
Throat.--Smarting in mouth. Tickling in throat, with inclination
to dry, spasmodic cough, especially at night. Burning in fauces.
White, sticky, mucus. Chronic speakers' catarrh.
Respiratory.--Sudden, short cough, strangling. Tickling in
trachea and bronchial tubes. Wakes at 3 am with cough. Feels
suffocated; continuous cough, when lying down at night; sharp
pain in lungs. Whooping Cough.--Dry, spasmodic cough on
lying down.
Relationship.--Hyos; Con; Arg nit; Kali bich.
Dose.--First potency.
AMMONIUM CARBONICUM
Carbonate of Ammonia
(AMMONIUM CARB)
The diseased conditions met by this remedy are such as we find
often in rather stout women who are always tired and weary,
take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like symptoms before
menses, lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction generally,
and are disposed to frequent use of the smelling-bottle. Too
frequent and profuse menses. Mucous membranes of the
respiratory organs are especially affected. Fat patients with weak
heart, wheezing, feel suffocated. Very sensitive to cold air.
Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it. Malignant
scarlatina, with somnolence, swollen glands, dark red sore
throat, faintly developed eruption. Urćmia. Heaviness in all
organs. Uncleanness in bodily habits. Swelling of parts, glands,
etc. Acid secretions. Prostration from trifles.
Mind.--Forgetful, ill-humored, gloomy during stormy weather.
Uncleanliness. Talking and hearing others talk affects greatly.
Sad, weepy, unreasonable.
Head.--Pulsating forehead; better, pressure and in warm room.
Shocks through head.
Eyes.--Burning of eyes with aversion to light. Eye-strain (Nat
mur). Asthenopia. Sore canthi.
Ears.--Hardness of hearing. Shocks through ears, eyes, and
nose, when gnashing teeth.
Nose.--Discharge of sharp, burning water. Stoppage at night,
with long-continued coryza. Cannot breathe through nose.
Snuffles of children. Epistaxis after washing and after eating.
Ozćna, blows bloody mucus from nose. Tip of nose congested.
Face.--Tetters around mouth. Boils and pustules, during menses.
Corners of mouth sore, cracked, and burn.
Mouth.--Great dryness of mouth and throat. Toothache.
Pressing teeth together sends shocks through head, eyes, and
ears. Vesicles on tongue. Taste sour; metallic. Cracking of jaw
on chewing.
Throat.--Enlarged tonsils and glands of neck. Burning pain all
down throat. Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils.
Diphtheria when nose is stopped up.
Stomach.--Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea,
waterbrash, and chilliness. Great appetite, but easily satisfied.
Flatulent dyspepsia.
Abdomen.--Noise and pain in abdomen. Flatulent hernia. Stools
difficult, hard, and knotty. Bleeding piles; worse during menses.
Itching at anus. Protruding piles, worse after stool, better lying
down.
Urine.--Frequent desire; involuntary at night. Tenesmus of
bladder. Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and fetid.
Male.--Itching and pain of scrotum and spermatic cords.
Erection without desire. Seminal emissions.
Female.--Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum.
Leucorrhśa burning, acrid, watery. Aversion to the other sex.
Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black;
colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with fatigue, especially
of thighs; yawning and chilliness.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness. Cough every morning about three
o'clock, with dyspnśa, palpitation, burning in chest; worse
ascending. Chest feels tired. Emphysema. Much oppression in
breathing; worse after any effort, and entering warm room, or
ascending even a few steps. Asthenic Pneumonia. Slow labored,
stertorous breathing; bubbling sound. Winter catarrh, with slimy
sputum and specks of blood. Pulmonary śdema.
Heart.--Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat, lachrymation,
inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands. Heart
weak, wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation.
Extremities.--Tearing in joints relieved by heat of bed;
inclination to stretch limbs. Hands cold and blue; distended
veins. Fingers swell when arm is hanging down. Panaritium,
deep-seated periosteal pain. Cramps in calves and soles. Big toe
painful and swollen. Felons in the beginning. Heel painful on
standing. Tearing in ankle and bones of feet, better when warm
in bed.
Sleep.--Sleepiness during the day. Starts from sleep strangling.
Skin.--Violent itching and burning blisters. Scarlet rash. Miliary
rash. Malignant scarlatina. Faintly developed eruptions from
defective vitality. Erysipelas in the aged, with brain symptoms.
Eczema in the bends of extremities, between legs, about anus
and genitals.
Modalities.--Worse, evenings, from cold, wet weather, wet
applications, washing, and during 3 to 4 am, during menses.
Better, lying on painful side and on stomach; in dry weather.
Relationship.--Inimical to Lachesis. Similar in action.
Antidotes: Arnica; Camphor.
Compare: Rhus; Muriatic acid; Tartar emet.
Of use in poisoning by charcoal fumes.
Dose.--Lower potencies deteriorate with age. Sixth potency best
for general use.
AMMONIUM CAUSTICUM
Hydrate of Ammonia-Ammonia Water
This is a powerful cardiac stimulant. As such in syncope,
thrombosis, hćmorrhage, snake-bites, chloroform narcosis, may
be given by inhalation.
The śdema and ulceration of mucous membranes produced by
this powerful drug have been utilized as guiding symptoms for
its use; hence in membranous croup with burning in śsophagus.
Aphonia. See Causticum.
Respiratory.--Difficult respiration. Accumulation of mucus
with incessant coughing. Loss of voice. Burning rawness in
throat. Spasm of the glottis with suffocation; patient gasps for
breath. Pain in śsophagus on breathing deeply. Scraping and
burning in throat and śsophagus. Uvula covered with white
mucus. Nasal diphtheria, with burning excoriating discharge.
Extremities.--Excessive exhaustion and muscular debility.
Rheumatism of shoulders. Skin hot and dry.
Dose.--First to third potency; also five to ten minims, well
diluted with water.
 AMMONIUM IODATUM
Iodide of Ammonia
(AMMONIUM JODATUM)
Indicated when iodine has but partially relieved its cases of
laryngitis and bronchitis, catarrhal pneumonia, śdema of lungs.
Head.--Dull headache, especially in young people, face stupid,
heavy; vertigo, Meniere's disease.
Dose.--Second and third trit.
Compare: Ammonium tartaricum (Dry hacking cough after
every cold).
AMMONIUM MURIATICUM
Sal Ammoniac
A state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state is produced
by this remedy. All mucous secretions are increased and
retained. It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who
have respiratory troubles. Coughs associated with catarrhs and
affections of liver. A tendency to irregular circulation, blood
seems to be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc. Many groups of
symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse glairy secretions.
Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily
region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse
mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs,
the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings. "Boiling"
sensation.
Mind.--Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief.
Desire to cry, but cannot. Consequences of grief.
Head.--Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff. Feels full,
compressed; worse mornings.
Eyes.--Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipient cataract;
capsular cataract.
Nose.--Free acrid, hot watery discharge corroding the lip.
Sneezing. Nose sore to touch; ulcerative pain in nostrils. Loss of
smell. Obstructed, stuffy feeling; constant and unavailing efforts
to blow it out. Itching.
Face.--Inflammatory face-ache. Mouth and lips sore and
excoriated.
Throat.--Throbbing in, and swelling of tonsils, can scarcely
swallow. Sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating. Internal and
external swelling of throat with viscid phlegm. So touch, it
cannot be hawked up. Tonsillitis. Stricture of œsophagus.
Stomach.--Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter
waterbrash. Nausea. Gnawing in stomach. Epigastric pain
immediately after eating. Cancer of stomach.
Abdomen.--Splenic stitches, especially in the morning, with
difficult breathing. Pain around navel. Abdominal symptoms
appear during pregnancy. Chronic congestion of liver. Excessive
fatty deposit around abdomen. Much flatus. Strained feeling in
groin.
Rectum.--Itching and hæmorrhoids, soreness with pustules.
Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus. Stinging in
perineum. Green mucus stools alternate with constipation.
During and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum.
Hæmorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhœa.
Female.--Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; flow more at
night. Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during
pregnancy. Diarrhœa, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain
during menses. Leucorrhœa, like white of an egg (Alum; Bor;
Calc p); with pain about the navel; brown, slimy after every
urination.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness and burning in larynx. Dry, hacking,
scraping cough; worse lying on back or right side. Stitches in
chest. Cough loose in afternoon, with profuse expectoration and
rattling of mucus. Oppression of chest. Burning at small spots in
chest. Scanty secretion. Cough with profuse salivation.
Back.--Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm
covering, followed by itching. Bruised pain in coccyx when
sitting. Backache, as if in a vise when sitting.
Extremities.--Pain as from ulceration in finger tips. Shooting
and tearing in tips of finger and toes. Ulcerative pain in heels.
Contraction of hamstring tendons. Sciatica, worse sitting, better
lying. Neuralgic pain in amputated limbs. Offensive sweaty feet.
Pain in feet during menses.
Skin.--Itching, generally evenings. Blisters on various parts.
Intense burning better cold applications.
Fever.--Chilliness evenings after lying down and on awakening,
without thirst. Heat in palms and soles. Sub acute, low fevers
due to unhealthy climate. Lowest potencies.
Modalities.--Better, open air. Worse, head and chest symptoms
in the morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Coffea; Nux; Caust.
Compare: Calcarea; Senega; Caustic.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
AMMONIUM PHOSPHORICUM
Phosphate of Ammonia
A remedy for chronic gouty patients uric acid diathesis,
indicated in bronchitis and nodosities of the joints of the fingers
and backs of the hands. Facial paralysis. Pain in shoulder-joint.
Tightness around chest. Heaviness of limbs, unsteady, tottering
gait. Coldness from least draft of air.
Head.--Sneezing with excessive running from nose and eyes,
only in morning.
Respiratory.--Deep rough cough with greenish expectoration.
Urine.--Rose-colored sediment.
Dose.--Third decimal trituration.
AMMONIUM PICRICUM
Pictrate of Ammonia
(AMMONIUM PICRATUM)
A remedy for malarial fever and neuralgias and so-called,
bilious headaches. Pain in occiput and mastoid region.
Whooping cough.
Head.--Periodical neuralgia in right side of occiput; boring
extends to ear, orbit, and jaw. Vertigo on rising. Periodic bilious
headaches (Sanguin).
Dose.--Third trituration.
AMMONIUM VALERIANICUM
Valerianate of Ammonia
A remedy for nervous, hysterical people, suffering with
neuralgia headaches and insomnia. Great nervous erethism is
always present.
Heart.--Pains in cardiac region. Functional disturbances,
tachycardia.
Dose.--Lower triturations.
AMBRA GRISEA
Ambergis-A Morbid Secretion of the Whale
Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin, nervous
patients. Extreme nervous hypersensitiveness. External
numbness of whole body in the morning and weakness. Nervous
bilious temperament. Thin, scrawny women. Adapted to
hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with
convulsive cough, eructation, etc. Also for patients weakened by
age or overwork, who are anćmic and sleepless. Great remedy
for the aged, with impairment of all functions, weakness,
coldness and numbness, usually of single parts, fingers, arms,
etc. One-sided complaints call for it. Music aggravates
symptoms. Ebullitions and pulsations after walking in open air.
One-sided complaints.
Mind.--Dread of people, and desire to be alone. Cannot do
anything in presence of others. Intensely shy, blushes easily.
Music causes weeping. Despair, loathing of life. Fantastic
illusions. Bashful. Loss of love of life. Restless, excited, very
loquacious. Time passes slowly. Thinking, difficult in the
morning with old people. Dwells upon unpleasant things.
Head.--Slow comprehension. Vertigo, with weakness in head
and stomach. Pressure on front part of head with mental
depression. Tearing pain in upper half of brain. Senile dizziness.
Rush of blood to head, when listening to music. Hearing
impaired. Epistaxis, especially in the morning. Profuse bleeding
from teeth. Hair falls out.
Stomach.--Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough. Acid
eructations, like heartburn. Distention of stomach and abdomen
after midnight. Sensation of coldness in abdomen.
Urinary.--Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time. Burning
in orifice of urethra and anus. Feeling in urethra as if a few
drops passed out. Burning and itching in urethra while urinating.
Urine turbid, even during emission forming a brown sediment.
Female.--Nymphomania, Itching of pudendum, with soreness
and swelling. Menses too early. Profuse, bluish leucorrhśa.
Worse at night. Discharge of blood between periods, at every
little accident.
Male.--Voluptuous itching of scrotum. Parts externally numb;
burn internally. Violent erections without voluptuous sensations.
Respiratory.--Asthmatic breathing with eructation of gas.
Nervous, spasmodic cough, with hoarseness and eructation, on
waking in morning; worse in presence of people. Tickling in
throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, gets out of breath
when coughing. Hollow, spasmodic, barking cough, coming
from deep in chest. Choking when hawking up phlegm.
Heart.--Palpitation, with pressure in chest as from a lump
lodged there, or as if chest was obstructed. Conscious of the
pulse. Palpitation in open air with pale face.
Sleep.--Cannot sleep from worry; must get up. Anxious dreams.
Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep.
Skin.--Itching and soreness, especially around genitals.
Numbness of skin. Arms "go to sleep".
Extremities.--Cramps in hands and fingers, worse grasping
anything. Cramps in legs.
Modalities.--Worse, music; presence of strangers; from any
unusual thing; morning, warm room. Better, slow motion in
open air; lying on painful part; cold drinks.
Relationship.--Do not confound with Amber-Succinum q v.
Moschus frequently follows advantageously. Compare: Oleum
succinum (hiccough). Sumbul; Castor; Asaf; Crocus; Lilium.
Dose.--Second and third potencies; may be repeated with
advantage.
AMBROSIA ARTEMISIAEFOLIA
Rag-Weed
(AMBROSIA)
A remedy for hay-fever, lachrymation and intolerable itching of
the eye-lids. Some forms of whooping-cough. Respiratory tract
in its entire length stopped up. Many forms of diarrhśa,
especially during summer months, also dysentery.
Nose.--Watery coryza; sneezing; watery discharge. Nosebleed.
Stuffed up feeling of nose and head. Irritation of trachea and
bronchial tubes, with asthmatic attacks (Aral; Eucalypt).
Wheezy cough.
Eyes.--Smart and burn. Lachrymation.
Relationship.--Compare in hay-fever: Sabadilla, Wyethia;
Succin ac; Ars jod; Arundo.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency; 10 drops in water during and
after attack of epistaxis. In hay-fever high potencies.
AMYGDALUS PERSICA
Peach Tree
A most valuable remedy in vomiting of various kinds; morning
sickness. Irritation of eyes. Ischuria and hćmaturia.
Hćmorrhage from the bladder.
Gastric irritation of children; no form of food tolerated. Loss of
smell and taste. Gastric and intestinal irritation when the tongue
is elongated and pointed, tip and edges red. Constant nausea and
vomiting.
Relationship.--Compare: Amygd amara-Bitter Almond (Pains
through tonsils, throat dark, difficult swallowing, vomiting,
cough with sore chest).
Dose.--Fresh infusion or mother tincture.
AMYLENUM NITROSUM
Amyl Nitrite
(AMYL NITROSUM)
On inhaling this drug, it rapidly dilates all arterioles an
capillaries, producing flushings of face, heat, and throbbing in
the head.--Superficial arterial hyperćmia. Palpitation of the heart
and similar conditions are readily cured by it, especially the
flushings and other discomforts at climacteric. Hiccough and
yawning. Often relieves temporarily epileptic convulsions.
Seasickness.
Head.--Anxiety, as if something might happen; must have fresh
air. Surging of blood to head and face; sensation as if blood
would start through skin, with heat and redness. Flushings,
followed by sweat at climacteric. Ears hyperćmic. Throbbing.
Throat.--Constriction; collar seems too tight.
Chest.--Dyspnśa and asthmatic feelings. Great oppression and
fullness of chest; spasmodic, suffocative cough. Prćcordial
anxiety. Tumultuous action of heart. Pain and constriction
around heart. Fluttering at slightest excitement.
Female.--After-pains; hćmorrhage associated with facial
flushing. Climacteric headache and flushes of heat, with anxiety
and palpitation.
Fever.--Much flushing of heat; sometimes followed by cold and
clammy skin and profuse sweat. Throbbing throughout whole
body. Abnormal sweat after influenza.
Extremities.--Constant stretching for hours. Veins of hands
dilated; pulsations felt in tips of fingers.
Relationship.--Compare: Glonoine; Lachesis.
Antidotes: Cactus; Strychn; Ergot.
Dose.--Third potency.
For palliations. In all conditions where the blood-vessels are
spasmodically contracted, as in angina pectoris, epileptic
seizure, megrim, accompanied by cold, pallor, etc, also in
paroxysms of asthma, chloroform asphyxia, inhalation of the
Amyl nit will give immediate relief. For this non-homeopathic
application, two to five minims (put up in pearls) dropped on a
handkerchief and inhaled may be required.
AMMONIACUM GUMMI
Gum Ammoniac
(AMMONIACUM-DOREMA)
A remedy for the aged and feeble, especially in chronic
bronchitis. Ill humor. Sensitive to cold. Sensation of burning and
scratching in neck and śsophagus.
Head.--Catarrhal headache due to closure of frontal sinuses.
Eyes.--Dim sight. Stars and fiery points float before eyes. Easily
fatigued from reading.
Throat.--Throat dry; worse inhaling fresh air. Full feeling,
burning and scraping sensation. Immediately after eating,
sensation as if something stuck in śsophagus, causing
swallowing.
Respiratory.--Difficult breathing. Chronic bronchial catarrh.
Large accumulation of purulent matter and feeble expectoration;
worse cold weather. Mucus tough and hard. Heart beats
stronger, extends to pit of stomach. Coarse rattling of chest in
old people.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Bry; Arnica.
Compare: Senega; Tart emet; Balsam Peru.
Dose.--Third trituration.
AMPELOPSIS QUINQUEFOLIA
Virginia Creeper
(AMPELOPSIS)
Renal dropsies, hydrocele, and chronic hoarseness in scrofulous
patients have been benefited by this drug. Choleric symptoms.
Generally worse about 6 pm. Dilated pupils. Left costal region
sore and sensitive. Elbow joints pain, back sore. Soreness of all
limbs. Vomiting, purging with tenesmus. Rumbling in abdomen.
Dose.--Second to third potency.
ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE
Marking Nut
(ANACARDIUM)
The Anacardium patient is found mostly among the
neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved
by food; impaired memory, depression, and irritability;
diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). Syphilitic patients
often suffer with these conditions. Intermittency of symptoms.
Fear of examination in students. Weakening of all senses, sight,
hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible
desire to swear and curse. Sensation of a plug in various parts-
eyes, rectum, bladder, etc; also of a band. Empty feeling in
stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort. This is a
sure indication, often verified. Its skin symptoms are similar to
Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison-Oak.
Mind.--Fixed ideas. Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of
two persons or wills. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued.
Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use
violent language. Brain-fag. Impaired memory. Absent
mindedness. Very easily offended. Malicious; seems bent on
wickedness. Lack of confidence in himself or others. Suspicious
(Hyos). Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead.
Senile dementia. Absence of all moral restraint.
Head.--Vertigo. Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after
mental exertion-in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; better
during a meal. Itching and little boils on scalp.
Eyes.--Pressure like a plug on upper orbit. Indistinct vision.
Objects appear too far off.
Ears.--Pressing in the ears as from a plug. Hard of hearing.
Nose.--Frequent sneezing. Sense of smell perverted. Coryza with
palpitation, especially in the aged.
Face.--Blue rings around eyes. Face pale.
Mouth.--Painful vesicles; fetid odor. Tongue feels swollen,
impending speech and motion, with saliva in mouth. Burning
around lips as from pepper.
Stomach.--Weak digestion, with fullness and distention. Empty
feeling in stomach. Eructation, nausea, vomiting. Eating relieves
the Anacardium dyspepsia. Apt to choke when eating or
drinking. Swallows food and drinks hastily.
Abdomen.--Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines.
Rumbling, pinching, and griping.
Rectum.--Bowels inactive. Ineffectual desire; rectum seems
powerless, as if plugged up; spasmodic constriction of sphincter
ani; even soft stool passes with difficulty. Itching at anus;
moisture from rectum. Hæmorrhage during stool. Painful
hæmorrhoids.
Male.--Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions
without dreams. Prostatic discharge during stool.
Female.--Leucorrhœa, with soreness and itching. Menses
scanty.
Respiratory.--Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug. Oppression
of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open
air. Cough excited by talking, in children, after fit of temper.
Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput.
Heart.--Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the
aged; stitches in heart region. Rheumatic pericarditis with
double stitches.
Back.--Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight.
Stiffness at nape of neck.
Extremities.--Neuralgia in thumb. Paralytic weakness. Knees
feel paralyzed or bandaged. Cramps in calves. Pressure as from
a plug in the glutei. Warts on palms of hands. Fingers swollen
with vesicular eruption.
Sleep.--Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights.
Anxious dreams.
Skin.--Intense itching, eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular
eruption; swelling, urticaria; eruption like that of Poison-Oak
(Xerophyl; Grindel; Croton). Lichen planus; neurotic eczema.
Warts on hands. Ulcer formation on forearm.
Modalities.--Worse, on application of hot water. Better, from
eating. When lying on side, from rubbing.
Relationship.--Antidote: Grindeleia; Coffea; Juglans; Rhus;
Eucalyptus.
Compare: Anacard occidentale (cashew nut) (erysipelas,
vesicular facial eruptions), (anæsthetic variety of leprosy; warts,
corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet). Rhus;
Cypriped; Chelidon; Xerophyl.
Platina follows well. Cereus serpentina (swearing).
Dose.--Sixth to two hundredth potency.
ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS
Scarlet Pimpernel
(ANAGALLIS)
Marked action on skin, characterized by great itching and
tingling everywhere. Favors expulsion of splinters. An old
medicine for hydrophobia and dropsy. Possesses power of
softening flesh and destroying warts.
Head.--Great hilarity; headache over supra-orbital ridges, with
rumbling in bowels and eructations; better from coffee. Sick
headache. Pain in facial muscles.
Extremities.--Rheumatic and gouty pains. Pain in shoulder and
arm. Cramp in ball of thumbs and fingers.
Urine.--More or less irritation in urethra, inclining to coition.
Burning pain on urinating, with agglutination of orifice. Urine
passes in several streams; must press before it passes.
Skin.--Itching; dry, bran-like eruption, especially on hands and
fingers. Palms especially affected. Vesicles in groups. Ulcers
and swellings on joints.
Relationship.--Anagallis contains Saponin, q. v.
Compare: Cyclamen; Primula obcon.
Dose.--First to third potency.
 ANANTHERUM MURICATUM
Cuscus-An East Indian Grass
(ANATHERUM)
A skin remedy of high order.
Painful swelling of various parts, going on to suppuration.
Glandular inflammation.
Head.--Pains pierce brain like pointed arrows; worse in
afternoon. Herpes, ulcers, and tumors on scalp. Wartlike growth
on eyebrows. Boils and tumors on tip of nose. Tongue fissured,
as if cut on edges; copious salivation.
Urine.--Turbid, thick, full of mucus. Constant urging. Bladder
cannot hold smallest quantity. Involuntary. Cystitis.
Sexual.--Chancre-like sores. Scirrhus-like swelling of cervix.
Breasts swollen, indurated, nipples excoriated.
Skin.--Diseased and deformed nails. Offensive foot-sweat.
Abscesses boils, ulcers. Erysipelas. Pruritus, herpes.
Relationship.--Compare: Staphisag; Mercur; Thuja.
Dose.--Third potency.
ANEMOPSIS CALIFORNICA
Yerba Mansa-Household Herb
A mucous membrane medicine. Chronic forms of inflammation
of the Schneiderian membrane with considerable relaxation and
profuse discharge. Chief value in catarrhal states, with full
stuffy sensation in head and throat. Useful in cuts, bruises and
sprains; and as a diuretic and in malaria. Not yet proven, but
found useful in profuse mucous or serous discharges; in nasal
and pharyngeal catarrh, diarrhśa and urethritis. Recommended in
heart disease, as a quieting agent when unduly excited.
Flatulence; promotes digestion.
Relationship.--Compare Piper meth.
Dose.--The tincture internally and locally as a spray.
ANGUSTURA VERA
Bark of Galipea Cusparia
Rheumatic and paralytic complaints-great difficulty in walking.
Crackling in all joints.
The greatest craving for coffee is a characteristic symptom.
Caries of long bones. Paralysis. Tetanus. Stiffness of muscles
and joints. Oversensitive.
Principal action on spinal motor nerves and mucous membranes.
Head.--Oversensitive. Headache, with heat of face. Acute pain
in cheeks. Drawing in facial muscles. Pain in temporal muscles,
when opening the jaws. Pain in articulation of jaw, in masseter
muscles, as if fatigued by chewing too much. Cramp-pain on the
zygomatic arch.
Stomach.--Bitter taste. Irresistible desire for coffee. Pain from
navel into sternum. Atonic dyspepsia. Belching, with cough
(Ambra).
Abdomen.--Diarrhśa and colic. Tenesmus with soft stool;
chronic diarrhśa, with debility and loss of flesh. Burning in anus.
Back.--Itching along back. Pain in cervical vertebrć. Drawing in
the neck. Pain in spine, at nape of neck and sacrum, worse on
pressure. Twitching and jerking along back. Bends backward.
Extremities.--Stiffness and tension of muscles and joints. Pain
in limbs on walking. Arms tired and heavy. Caries of long
bones. Coldness of fingers. Pain in knees. Cracking in joints.
Skin.--Caries, very painful ulcers which affect the bone.
Relationship.--Compare: Nux; Ruta; Mercur; Brucea. -Bark of
Nux vomica or angustura falsa (Tetanic spasms with undisturbed
consciousness, worse noise, liquids, paralyzed lower extremities,
worse least touch, cries for fear of being touched. Painful
jerking of legs; cramp-like pain in knees; rigid and lame limbs
of paralytics. For pain in the passing of calculus).
Dose.--Sixth potency.
ANHALONIUM LEWINII
Mescal Button
(ANHALONIUM)
Mescal is a strong intoxicating spirit distilled from Pulque
fuerte. Pulque is made from the Agave Americana of Mexico,
locally known as Maguey and is the national beverage of
Mexico. Indians call it Peyote. It weakens the heart, produces
insanity. Its most striking effects appear in the auditory nerve
for it makes each note upon the piano a center of melody which
seems to be surrounded by a halo of color pulsating to the
rhythm of the music" (Hom. World).
Causes a form of intoxication accompanied by wonderful
visions, remarkably beautiful and varied kaleidoscopic changes,
and a sensation of increased physical ability. Also visions of
monsters and various gruesome forms. A cardiac tonic and
respiratory stimulant. Hysteria and insomnia. A remedy for
brainfag, delirium, megrim, hallucinations, with colored brilliant
visions. Motor inco-ordination. Extreme muscular depression;
increased patellar reflex. Paraplegia.
Mind.--Loss of conception of time. Difficult enunciation.
Distrust and resentment. Lazy contentment.
Head.--Aches, with disturbed vision. Fantastic, brilliant, moving
colored objects. Affected by beating time. Pupils dilated,
vertigo, brain tired. Polychrome spectra. Exaggerated
reverberation of ordinary sounds.
Dose.--Tincture.
Relationship.--Compare Agave. The intoxication of
Anhalonium is similar to that of Cannabis Indica and Oenanthe.
ANILINUM
Coal Tar Product-Amidobenzene
Marked giddiness and pain in head; face has a purple hue. Pain
in penis and scrotum with swelling. Tumors of the urinary
passages. Profound anćmia with discoloration of skin, blue lips,
anorexia, gastric disturbances. Swelling of skin.
Relationship.--Compare: Arsenic; Antipyrin.
ANISUM STELLATUM
Anise
(ILLICIUM)
Should be remembered in the treatment of flatulent conditions.
So-called three-months' colic, especially if it recurs at regular
hours; much rumbling in abdomen. One symptom is worthy of
special remembrance-pain in region of third rib, about an inch
or two from the sternum, generally on right side, but
occasionally on left. Frequent cough with this pain. Purulent
tracheal and gastric catarrh of old drunkards. Old asthmatics.
Vomiting, epileptiform convulsions with biting of tongue.
Nose.--Sharp stitches beneath lip. Acute catarrh. Burning and
numbness of inner lower lip.
Respiratory.--Dyspnœa. Pain near third intercostal cartilage.
Cough, with pus-like phlegm. Palpitation, with aphthæ.
Hæmoptysis.
Dose.--Third potency.
 ANTIMONIUM ARSENICOSUM
Arsenite of Antimony
Found useful in emphysema with excessive dyspnśa and cough,
much mucous secretion. Worse on eating and lying down.
Catarrhal pneumonia associated with influenza. Myocarditis and
cardiac weakness. Pleurisy, especially of left side, with
exudation and pericarditis, with effusion. Sense of weakness.
Inflammation of eyes and śdema of face.
Dose.--Third trituration.
ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM
Black Sulphide of Antimony
For homeopathic employment, the mental symptoms and those
of the gastric sphere, determine its choice. Excessive irritability
and fretfulness, together with a thickly-coated white tongue, are
true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this
remedy. All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold
bathing. Cannot bear heat of sun. Tendency to grow fat. An
absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable. Gout
with gastric symptoms.
Mind.--Much concerned about his fate. Cross and contradictive;
whatever is done fails to give satisfaction. Sulky; does not wish
to speak. Peevish; vexed without cause. Child cannot bear to be
touched or looked at. Angry at every little attention. Sentimental
mood.
Head.--Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing,
from disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or
drinking acid wines. Suppressed eruptions. Heaviness in
forehead with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed. Headache with
great loss of hair.
Eyes.--Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated. Canthi
raw and fissured. Chronic blepharitis. Pustules on cornea and
lids.
Ears.--Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube. Ringing and
deafness. Moist eruption around ear.
Nose.--Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts. Eczema of
nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.
Face.--Pimples, pustules, and boils on face. Yellow crusted
eruption on cheeks and chin. Sallow and haggard.
Mouth.--Cracks in corners of mouth. Dry lips. Saltish saliva.
Much slimy mucus. Tongue coated thick white, as if
whitewashed. Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily. Toothache
in hollow teeth. Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much
mucus. Canker sores. Pappy taste. No thirst. Subacute eczema
about mouth.
Throat.--Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares.
Hawking in open air. Laryngitis. Rough voice from over use.
Stomach.--Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, pickles. Thirst in
evening and night. Eructation tasting of the ingesta. Heartburn,
nausea, vomiting. After nursing, the child vomits its milk in
curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross. Gastric
and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour
wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather. Constant belching.
Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels. Sweetish waterbrash.
Bloating after eating.
Stool.--Anal itching (Sulpho-calc. Alum). diarrhœa alternates
with constipation, especially in old people. Diarrhœa after acids,
sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools. Mucous
piles, continued oozing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed with watery
discharge. Catarrhal proctitis. Stools composed entirely of
mucus.
Urine.--Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul
odor.
Male.--Eruption on scrotum and about genitals. Impotence.
Atrophy of penis and testicles.
Female.--Excited; parts itch. Before menses, toothache; menses
too early and profuse. Menses suppressed from cold bathing,
with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian
region. Leucorrhœa watery; acrid, lumpy.
Respiratory.--Cough worse coming into warm room, with
burning sensation in chest, itching of chest, oppression. Loss of
voice from becoming overheated. Voice harsh and badly
pitched.
Back.--Itching and pain of neck and back.
Extremities.--Twitching of muscles. Jerks in arms. Arthritic
pain in fingers. Nails brittle; grow out of shape. Horny warts on
hands and soles. Weakness and shaking of hands in writing
followed by offensive flatulence. Feet very tender; covered with
large horny places. Inflamed corns. Pain in heels.
Skin.--Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles,
and pustules. Sensitive to cold bathing. Thick, hard, honey-
colored scabs. Urticaria; measle-like eruption. Itching when
warm in bed. Dry skin. Warts (Thuja; Sabina; Caust). Dry
gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching,
worse at night.
Sleep.--Continual drowsiness in old people.
Fever.--Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with disgust,
nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhœa. Hot
sweat.
Modalities.--Worse, in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water,
and washing. Wet poultices. Better, in open air, during rest.
Moist warmth.
Relationship.--Compare: Antimonium Chloridum. Butter of
Antimony (A remedy for cancer. Mucous membranes destroyed.
Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength.
Dose-third trituration).
Antimon iodat (Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia
and bronchitis; loss of strength, and appetite, yellowish skin,
sweaty, dull and drowsy). In sub-acute and chronic colds in
chest which have extended downwards from head and have
fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of
hard, croupy cough with a decided wheeze and inability to raise
the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients
(Bacmeister). Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and
delayed.
Compare: Kermes mineral-Stibiat sulph rub (Bronchitis). Also
Puls, Ipecac, Sulph.
Complementary: Sulph.
Antidote: Hepar.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
ANTIMONIUM SULPHURATUM AURATUM
Golden Sulphuret of Antimony
A remarkable remedy for many forms of chronic nasal and
bronchial catarrh. Acne. Amaurosis.
Nose and throat.--Nosebleed on washing. Increased secretion in
nose and throat. Rough and scrapy feeling. Loss of smell.
Metallic styptic taste.
Respiratory.--Tickling in larynx. Increased mucus with fullness
in bronchi. Respiration difficult, pressure in bronchi, with
constriction. Tough mucus in bronchi and larynx. Dry hard
cough. Congestion of upper lobe of left lung. Winter coughs
patient is sore all over. Pneumonia, when hepatization occurred
and resolution failed to take place.
Skin.--Acne (pustular variety). Itching on hands and feet.
Dose.--Second or third trituration.
ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM
Tartar Emetic. Tartrate of Antimony and Potash
Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum but
also many peculiar to itself. Clinically, its therapeutic
application has been confined largely to the treatment of
respiratory diseases, rattling of mucus with little expectoration
has been a guiding symptom. There is much drowsiness, debility
and sweat characteristic of the drug, which group should always
be more or less present, when the drug is prescribed. Gastric
affections of drunkards and gouty subjects. Cholera morbus.
Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels. Bilharziasis.
Antimonium tart is homeopathic to dysuria, strangury,
hćmaturia, albuminuria, catarrh of bladder and urethra, burning
in rectum, bloody mucous stools, etc. Antimon tart acts
indirectly on the parasites by stimulating the oxidizing action of
the protective substance. By-effects following injection for
Bilharziasis. Chills and contractures and pain in muscles.
Trembling of whole body, great prostration and faintness.
Lumbago. Chills, contractures and muscular pains. Warts on
glans penis.
Mind and Head.--Vertigo alternates with drowsiness. Great
despondency. Fear of being alone. Muttering, delirium, and
stupor. Vertigo, with dullness and confusion. Band-like feeling
over forehead. Face pale and sunken. Child will not be touched
without whining. Headache as from a band compressing (Nit
ac).
Tongue.--Coated, pasty, thick white, with red edges. Red and
dry, especially in the center. Brown.
Face.--Cold, blue, pale; covered with cold sweat. Incessant
quivering of chin and lower jaw (Gelsem).
Stomach.--Difficult deglutition of liquids. Vomiting in any
position, excepting lying on right side. Nausea, retching, and
vomiting, especially after food, with deathly faintness and
prostration. Thirst for cold water, little and often, and desire for
apples, fruits, and acids generally. Nausea produces fear; with
pressure in prćcordial region, followed by headache with
yawning and lachrymation and vomiting.
Abdomen.--Spasmodic colic, much flatus. Pressure in abdomen,
especially on stooping forward. Cholera morbus. Diarrhśa in
eruptive diseases.
Urinary.--Burning in urethra during and after urinating. Last
drops bloody with pain in bladder. Urging increased. Catarrh of
bladder and urethra. Stricture. Orchitis.
Respiratory Organs.--Hoarseness. Great rattling of mucus, but
very little is expectorated. Velvety feeling in chest. Burning
sensation in chest, which ascends to throat. Rapid, short,
difficult breathing; seems as if he would suffocate; must sit up.
Emphysema of the aged. Coughing and gaping consecutively.
Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus. Cough excited by
eating, with pain in chest and larynx. Śdema and impending
paralysis of lungs. Much palpitation, with uncomfortable hot
feeling. Pulse rapid, weak, trembling. Dizziness, with cough.
Dyspnśa relieved by eructation. Cough and dyspnśa better lying
on right side--(opposite Badiaga).
Back.--Violent pain in sacro-lumbar region. Slightest effort to
move may cause retching and cold, clammy sweat. Sensation of
heavy weight at the coccyx, dragging downward all the time.
Twitching of muscles; limbs tremulous.
Skin.--Pustular eruption, leaving a bluish-red mark. Small-pox.
Warts.
Fever.--Coldness, trembling, and chilliness. Intense heat.
Copious perspiration. Cold, clammy sweat, with great faintness.
Intermittent fever with lethargic condition.
Sleep.--Great drowsiness. On falling asleep electric-like shocks.
Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all complaints.
Modalities.--Worse, in evening; from lying down at night; from
warmth; in damp cold weather; from all sour things and milk.
Better, from sitting erect; from eructation and expectoration.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Puls; Sepia.
Compare: Kali sulph; Ipecac.
Dose.--Second and sixth trituration. The lower potencies
sometimes aggravate.
ANTHEMIS NOBILIS
Roman Chamomile
This remedy is akin to the ordinary Chamomilla. Gastric
disturbance with coldness. Sensitive to cold air and cold things.
Respiration.--Coryza with much lachrymation, sneezing, and
discharge of clear water from the nose. Symptoms worse
indoors. Constriction and rawness of throat. Cough, tickling;
worse in warm room.
Abdomen.--Aching in region of liver; griping and chilliness
inside of abdomen and into legs. Itching of anus, with white
putty-like stools.
Urinary.--Bladder feels distended. Pain along spermatic cord,
which feels full, as if varicosed. Frequent urination.
Skin.--Itching of the soles, as if from chilblains. Gooseflesh.
Dose.--Use the third potency.
ANTHRACINUM
Anthrax Poison
This nosode has proven a great remedy in epidemic spleen
diseases of domestic animals, and in septic inflammation,
carbuncles and malignant ulcers. In boils and boil-like
eruptions, acne. Terrible burning. Induration of cellular tissue,
abscess, bubo, and all inflammation of connective tissue in
which there exists a purulent focus.
Tissues.--Hćmorrhages, black, thick, tar-like, rapidly
decomposing, from any orifice. Glands swollen, cellular tissues
śdematous and indurated. Septicćmia. Ulceration, sloughing and
intolerable burning. Erysipelas. Black and blue blisters.
Dissecting wounds. Insect stings. Bad effects from inhaling foul
odors. Gangrenous parotitis. Succession of boils. Gangrene. Foul
secretions.
Relationship.--Similar to Arsenic, which it often follows.
Compare: Pyrogen; Lachesis; Crotalus; Hippozoen; Echinac;
Silica follows well. In the treatment of carbuncles, remember the
prescription of the prophet Isaiah for King Hezekiah's
carbuncle-i.e the pulp of a fig placed on a poultice and apply.
Dose.--Thirtieth potency. Tarant. Cubensis.
ANTHRACOKALI
Anthracite Coal Dissolved in Boiling Caustic Potash
(ANTHRAKOKALI)
Useful in skin affections, scabies, prurigo, chronic herpes,
cracks and ulcerations. Papular-like eruption with a vesicular
tendency, especially on scrotum, also on hands, tibia, shoulders
and dorsum of feet. Intense thirst. Chronic rheumatism. Bilious
attacks, vomiting of bile, tympanic distention of abdomen.
Dose.--Low triturations.
ANTIPYRINUM
Phenazone-ACoal-tarDerivative
(ANTIPYRINE)
Antipyrine is one of the drugs that induce leucocytosis, similar
to ergotin, salicylates, and tuberculin. Acts especially on the
vaso-motor centers, causing dilation of capillaries of skin and
consequent circumscribed patches of hyperćmia and swelling. In
large doses causes profuse perspiration, dizziness, cyanosis, and
somnolence, albumen and blood in urine. Acute erythema
multiforme.
Mind.--Fear of becoming insane; nervous anxiety;
hallucinations of sight and hearing.
Head.--Throbbing headache; sensation of constriction. Flashes
of heat. Headache under ears with earache.
Eyes.--Puffiness of lids. Conjunctiva red and śdematous, with
lachrymation. Red spots (Apis).
Ears.--Pains and buzzing. Tinnitus.
Face.--Śdema and puffiness. Red and swollen.
Mouth.--Swelling of lips. Burning of mouth and gums.
Ulceration of lips and tongue; vesicles and bullć. Small lump in
cheek. Tongue swollen. Bloody saliva. Toothache along lower
jaw.
Throat.--Pain on swallowing. Expectoration of fetid pus.
Abscess, white false membrane. Sensation of burning.
Stomach.--Nausea and vomiting; burning and pain.
Urine.--Diminished. Penis black.
Female.--Itching and burning in vagina. Menses suppressed.
Watery leucorrhśa.
Respiratory.--Fluent coryza. Nasal mucous membrane swollen.
Dull pains in frontal sinus. Aphonia. Oppression and dyspnśa.
Cheyne-Stokes respiration.
Heart.--Faintness, with sensation of stoppage of heart.
Throbbing throughout the body. Rapid, weak, irregular pulse.
Nerves.--Epileptiform seizures. Contractures. Trembling and
cramps. Crawling and numbness. General prostration.
Skin.--Erythema, eczema, pemphigus. Intense pruritus.
Urticaria, appearing and disappearing suddenly, with internal
coldness. Angioneurotic-śdema. Dark blotches on skin of penis,
sometimes with śdema.
Dose.--Second decimal potency.
APIUM GRAVEOLENS
Common Celery
Contains a soporific active principle. Obstinate retention of
urine, throbbing headaches and heartburn, have been produced
by celery. Swelling of throat, face, and hands. Rheumatic pain in
muscles of neck also in sacrum. Growing pains. Hungry for
apples. Dysmenorrhœa, with sharp, short pains, better flexing
legs.
Head.--Depressed; energetic; feeling of fidgets; cannot sleep
from thinking. Headache; better eating. Eyeballs feel sunken.
Itching in eyes. Itching and smarting in inner canthus of left eye.
Abdomen.--Sore; sharp sticking pain as if stool was coming on;
diarrhœa, sharp pain in left iliac region going over to right.
Nausea increases with pains.
Female.--Sharp sticking pains in both ovarian regions, left,
better bending over, by lying on left side, with legs flexed;
nipples tender.
Respiratory.--Tickling, dry cough. Intense constriction over
sternum, with drawing feeling through to back on lying down.
Throat swollen, dyspnœa.
Skin.--Itching blotches; burning, creeping sensation. Profuse
discharge from granulating ulcers. Urticaria with shuddering.
Sleep.--Unrefreshed; sleepless. Wakes from 1 to 3 am.Eating
does not help sleep. Not fatigued from loss of sleep.
Dose.--First to thirtieth potency.
APHIS CHENOPODII GLAUCI
Plant-lice from Chenopodium
(CHENOPODI GLAUCI APHIS)
Partakes largely of the properties of the plant upon which the
insect lives.
Head.--Sad; aching, worse from motion. Brain seems swashed
hither and thither. Coryza, with burning or biting in nostrils.
Noise in ears, as of cannon. Yellow face. Orbital right neuralgia,
with profuse lachrymation. Toothache, relieved by general
warm sweat (Cham). Toothache extends to ear, temple, and
cheek-bone (Plantago).
Stomach.--No appetite for meat and bread. Vesicles at end of
tongue. Much mucus. Colic with much rumbling and ineffectual
urging to stool.
Stools.--Hard and knotty. Diarrhśa in morning, with painful
urging and burning in anus, and pressure in rectum and bladder.
Urine.--Voluptuous feeling in glans. Burning in urethra.
Urination frequent, copious, frothy.
Back.--Severe pains in region of lower inner angle of left
shoulder-blade, running into chest.
Fever.--Shuddering all over; burning in palms; hot sweat in bed.
Relationship.--Compare: Nat sulph; Nux.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
APIS MELLIFICA
The Honey-Bee
Acts on cellular tissues causing śdema of skin and mucous
membranes.
The very characteristic effects of the sting of the bee furnish
unerring indications for its employment in disease. Swelling or
puffing up of various parts, śdema, red rosy hue, stinging pains,
soreness, intolerance of heat, and slightest touch, and afternoon
aggravation are some of the general guiding symptoms.
Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca,
acute, inflammation of kidneys, and other perenchymatous
tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to
Apis. Apis acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner
organs, serous membranes. It produces serous inflammation
with effusion, membranes of brain, heart, pleuritic effusion, etc.
Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness is marked.
Constricted sensations. Sensation of stiffness and as of
something torn off in the interior of the body. Much prostration.
Mind.--Apathy, indifference, and unconsciousness. Awkward;
drops things readily. Stupor, with sudden sharp cries and
startings. Stupor alternating with erotic mania. Sensation of
dying. Listless; cannot think clearly. Jealous, fidgety, hard to
please. Sudden shrill, piercing screams. Whining. Tearfulness.
Jealously, fright, rage, vexation, grief. Cannot concentrate mind
when attempting to read or study.
Head.--Whole brain feels very tired. Vertigo with sneezing,
worse on lying or closing eyes. Heat, throbbing, distensive
pains, better on pressure, and worse on motion. Sudden stabbing
pains. Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as from a blow,
extending to neck (better on pressure), accompanied with sexual
excitement. Bores head into pillow and screams out.
Eyes.--Lids swollen, red, śdematous, everted, inflamed; burn
and sting. Conjunctiva bright red, puffy. Lachrymation hot.
Photophobia. Sudden piercing pains. Pain around orbits. Serous
exudation, śdema, and sharp pains. Suppurative inflammation of
eyes. Keratitis with intense chemosis of ocular conjunctiva.
Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation.
Styes, also prevents their recurrence.
Ears.--External ear red, inflamed, sore; stinging pains.
Nose.--Coldness of tips of nose. Red, swollen, inflamed, with
sharp pains.
Face.--Swollen, red, with piercing pain. Waxy, pale, śdematous.
Erysipelas with stinging burning śdema. Extends from right to
left.
Mouth.--Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles.
Scalding in mouth and throat. Tongue feels scalded, red hot,
trembling. Gums swollen. Lips swollen, especially upper.
Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished. Red,
shining, and puffy, like erysipelas. Cancer of the tongue.
Throat.--Constricted, stinging pains. Uvula swollen, sac-like.
Throat swollen, inside and out; tonsils swollen, puffy, fiery red.
Ulcers on tonsils. Fiery red margin around leathery membrane.
Sensation of fishbone in throat.
Stomach.--Sore feeling. Thirstless. Vomiting of food. Craving
for milk (Rhus).
Abdomen.--Sore, bruised on pressure, when sneezing.
Extremely tender. Dropsy of abdomen. Peritonitis. Swelling in
right groin.
Stool.--Involuntary on every motion; anus seems open. Bloody,
painless. Anus feels raw. Hćmorrhoids, with stinging pain, after
confinement. Diarrhśa watery, yellow; cholera infantum type.
Cannot urinate without a stool. Dark, fetid, worse after eating.
Constipation; feels as if something would break on straining.
Urine.--Burning and soreness when urinating. Suppressed,
loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; stinging pain and
strangury; scanty, high colored. Incontinence. Last drops burn
and smart.
Female.--Śdema of labia; relieved by cold water. Soreness and
stinging pains; ovaritis; worse in right ovary. Menses
suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in
young girls. Dysmenorrhśa, with severe ovarian pains.
Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging
pain. Sense of tightness. Bearing-down, as if menses were to
appear. Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains. Great
tenderness over abdomen and uterine region.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness; dyspnśa, breathing hurried and
difficult. Śdema of larynx. Feels as if he could not draw another
breath. Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal.
Hydrothorax.
Extremities.--Śdematous. Synovitis. Felon in beginning. Knee
swollen, shiny, sensitive, sore, with stinging pain. Feet swollen
and stiff. Feel too large. Rheumatic pain in back and limbs;
Tired, bruised feeling. Numbness of hands and tips of fingers.
Hives with intolerable itching. Śdematous swellings.
Skin.--Swellings after bites; sore, sensitive. Stinging.
Erysipelas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue.
Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain (Ars; Anthrac). Sudden
puffing up of whole body.
Sleep.--Very drowsy. Dreams full of care and toil. Screams and
sudden starting during sleep.
Fever.--Afternoon chill, with thirst; worse on motion and heat.
External heat, with smothering feeling. Sweat slight, with
sleepiness. Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently.
Sleeps after the fever paroxysm. After perspiration, nettle rash,
also with shuddering.
Modalities.--Worse, heat in any form; touch; pressure; late in
afternoon; after sleeping; in closed and heated rooms. Right
side. Better, in open air, uncovering, and cold bathing.
Relationship.--Complementary.: Nat mur. The "chronic", Apis;
also Baryta carb, if lymphatics are involved. Inimical. Rhus.
Compare: Apium virus (auto-toxćmia, with pus products); Zinc;
Canth; Vespa; Lachesis.
Dose.--Tincture to thirtieth potency. In śdematous conditions the
lower potencies. Sometimes action is slow; so several days
elapse before it is seen to act, and then urine is increased. Apium
virus, sixth trituration.
APOCYNUM CANNABINUM
Indian Hemp
Increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes and acts
on cellular tissue, producing śdema and dropsy and on skin
causing diaphoresis. Acute hydrocephalus. A diminished
frequency of the pulse is a prime indication. This is one of our
most efficient remedies, in dropsies, ascites, anasarca and
hydrothorax, and urinary troubles, especially suppression and
strangury. In the digestive complaints of Bright's disease, with
the nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, difficult breathing, it will be
found of frequent service. The dropsy is characterized by great
thirst and gastric irritability. Arrhythmia. Mitral and tricuspid
regurgitation. Acute alcoholism. Relaxation of sphincters.
Mind.--Bewildered. Low spirited.
Nose.--Long-continued sneezing. Snuffles of children
(Sambucus). Chronic nasal catarrh with tendency to acute
stuffiness with dull, sluggish memory. Dull headache. Takes
cold easily, nostrils become congested and blocked up easily.
Stomach.--Nausea, with drowsiness. Thirst on walking.
Excessive vomiting. Food or water is immediately ejected. Dull,
heavy, sick feeling. Oppression in epigastrium and chest,
impeding breathing (Lobelia infl). Sensation of sinking in
stomach. Abdomen bloated. Ascites.
Stool.--Watery, flatulent, with soreness in anus; worse after
eating. Feeling as if sphincter were open and stools ran right out.
Urine.--Bladder much distended. Turbid, hot urine, with thick
mucus and burning in urethra, after urinating. Little expulsive
power. Dribbling. Strangury. Renal Dropsy.
Female.--Amenorrhśa, with bloating; metrorrhagia with nausea;
fainting, vital depression. Hćmorrhages at change of life. Blood
expelled in large clots.
Respiratory.--Short, dry cough. Respiratory short and
unsatisfactory. Sighing. Oppression about epigastrium and
chest.
Heart.--Tricuspid regurgitation; rapid and feeble, irregular
cardiac action, low arterial tension, pulsating jugulars, general
cyanosis and general dropsy.
Sleep.--Great restlessness and little sleep.
Modalities.--Worse, cold weather; cold drinks; uncovering.
Relationship.--Cymarin is the active principle of Apocyn,
lowers pulse rate and increases blood-pressure. Strophanthus
(extreme cardiac depression with intense gastric disturbance;
dropsy). Aralia hispida-Wild Elder-a valuable diuretic, useful in
dropsy of the cavities, either due to hepatic or renal disease with
constipation. Urinary disorders, especially with dropsy. Scudder
advises doses of five to thirty drops in sweetened cream of
tartar, (Solution). Apis, Arsenic, Digital; Helleb.
Dose.--Tincture (ten drops three times daily) and in acute
alcoholism 1 dram of decoction in 4 oz water.
APOCYNUM ANDROSAEMIFOLIUM
Dogbane
The rheumatic symptoms of this remedy promise most curative
results. Its pains are of a wandering nature, with much stiffness
and drawing. Everything smells and tastes like honey. Worms.
Trembling and prostration. Swollen sensations.
Extremities.--Pain in all joints. Pain in toes and soles. Swelling
of hands and feet. Profuse sweat, with much heat in soles.
Tingling pain in toes. Cramps in soles. Violent heat in soles
(Sulph).
Dose.--Tincture and first potency.
APOMORPHINUM
Alkaloid from Decomposition of Morphine by Hydrochloric
Acid
(APOMORPHIA)
The chief power of this drug lies in the speedy and effective
vomiting that it produces, which becomes a strong guiding
symptom to its homeopathic use. The vomiting is preceded by
nausea, lassitude and increased secretion of sweat, saliva, mucus
and tears. Pneumonia with vomiting. Combined alcoholism, with
constant nausea, constipation, insomnia.
Head and Stomach.--Vertigo. Dilated pupils. Nausea and
vomiting. Violent inclination to vomit. Hot feeling all over body,
especially head. Empty retching and headache; heartburn; pain
between shoulder-blades. Reflex vomiting-pregnancy.
Seasickness.
Non-homeopathic Uses.--The hypodermic injection of one-
sixteenth of a grain will cause full emesis within five to fifteen
minutes in an adult without developing any other direct action
apparently. Do not use in opium poisoning. Apomorph
hypodermically, one-thirtieth grain or less, acts as a safe and
sure hypnotic. Acts well even in delirium. Sleep comes on in
half an hour.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
AQUILEGIA VULGARIS
Columbine
(AQUILEGIA)
A remedy for hysteria. Globus and clavus hystericus. Women at
climaxis, with vomiting of green substance, especially in the
morning. Sleeplessness. Nervous trembling of body; sensitive to
light and noise. Dysmenorrhśa of young girls.
Female.--Menses scanty, with dull, painful, nightly increasing
pressure in the right lumbar region.
Dose.--First potency.
ARAGALLUS LAMBERTI
Loco Weed-Rattle Weed
Acts principally on nervous system, producing a bewildered,
confused state. Symptoms of incoordination and paralysis.
Locomotor ataxia. Tired in the morning.
Mind.--Great depression; worse in morning or evening. Cannot
study. Cross, irritable, restless. Bewildered. Mental confusion
and apathy. Desires to be alone. Difficulty in concentrating
mind, absent-minded. Lack of ambition. Defective expression in
writing. Restlessness and aimless wandering. Must concentrate
his mind on walking.
Head.--Diplopia. Burning in eyes. Cracking of lower lip.
Throat.--Aches. Feels dull. Sore with nausea. Pharynx dark,
swollen, glazed.
Respiratory.--Weight on chest in region of ensiform cartilage.
Constriction as of a wide band. Soreness of chest under sternum.
Oppression.
Extremities.--Weakness of limbs. Pain in left sciatic nerve.
Cramps of muscles on front of leg while walking.
Relationship.--Compare: Astragallus and Oxytropis, two
varieties of Loco Weed; also Baryta.
Dose.--Sixth and two hundredth potencies.
ARALIA RACEMOSA
American Spikenard
This is a remedy for asthmatic conditions, with cough
aggravated on lying down. Drenching sweat during sleep.
Extreme sensitiveness to draughts. Diarrhśa, prolapse of rectum.
Aching in rectum extending upwards; worse lying on side lain
upon.
Respiratory.--Dry cough coming on after first sleep, about
middle of night. Asthma on lying down at night with spasmodic
cough; worse after first sleep, with tickling in throat.
Constriction of chest; feels as if a foreign body were in throat.
Obstruction worse in spring. Hay-fever; frequent sneezing.
Rawness and burning behind sternum.
The least current of air causes sneezing, with copious watery,
excoriating nasal discharge, of salty acrid taste.
Female.--Menses suppressed; leucorrhśa foul-smelling, acrid,
with pressing-down air. Lochia suppressed, with tympanites.
Modalities.--Worse about 11 pm (cough).
Relationship.--Compare: Pecten-Scallop (humid asthma. Quick,
labored breathing. Constriction of chest, especially right side.
Asthma preceded by coryza and burning in throat and chest.
Attacks ends with copious expectoration of tough, frothy mucus.
Worse at night). Ars iod; Naphthaline; Cepa; Rosa; Sabad;
Sinapis.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
ARANEA DIADEMA
Papal-Cross Spider
All spider poisons powerfully affect the nervous system (See
tarentula, Mygale, etc).
All symptoms of Aranea are characterized by periodicity, and
coldness, and great susceptibility to dampness. It is the remedy
for the constitution favorable to malarial poisoning, where every
damp day or place favors chilliness. Patient feels cold to the
very bones. Coldness not relieved by anything. Feeling as if
parts were enlarged and heavier. Wake up at night with hands
feeling twice their natural size. Spleen swollen. Hydrogenoid
Constitution, i.e, Abnormal sensitiveness to damp and cold,
inability to live near fresh water, lakes, rivers, etc, or in damp,
chilly places (Nat. Sulph. Thuja).
Head.--Pain in right trifacial nerve from periphery inwards.
Confusion; better by smoking in open air. Heat and flickering in
eyes; worse in damp weather. Sudden violent pain in teeth at
night immediately after lying down.
Female.--Menses too early, too copious. Distention of abdomen.
Lumbo-abdominal neuralgia.
Chest.--Pain in intercostal nerve from nerve endings to spine.
Bright red hćmorrhage from lungs (Millefol; Ferr phos).
Stomach.--Cramps after eating a little; epigastrium painful to
pressure.
Abdomen.--Enlarged spleen. Colic returns same hours.
Heaviness in lower abdomen, as of a stone. Diarrhśa. Arms and
legs feel as if asleep.
Extremities.--Bone-pains in extremities. Pain in os calcis.
Sensation of swelling, and of parts going to sleep.
Sleep.--Restless and waking, as if hands and forearms were
swollen and heavy.
Fever.--Coldness, with pain in long bones, and feeling of stone
in abdomen at the same hour daily. Chilly day and night; always
worse during rain.
Modalities.--Worse, damp weather; late in afternoon, and at
midnight. Better, smoking tobacco.
Relationship.--Tela aranearum-Spider's web.--Cardiac
sleeplessness, increased muscular energy. Excitement and
nervous agitation in febrile states. Dry asthma, harassing
coughs; periodic headaches with extreme nervous erethism.
Obstinate intermittents. Acts immediately on arterial system,
pulse full, strong, compressible.
Lowers pulse rate frequency. Masked periodical diseases, hectic,
broken down patients. Symptoms come on suddenly with cool,
clammy skin. Numbness of hands and legs when at rest.
Continued chilliness.
Aranea Scinencia-Grey Spider--(constant twitching of under
eyelids. Sleepiness. Worse in warm room).
Heloderma; Cedron; Arsenic.
Dose.--Tincture to thirtieth potency.
 ARBUTUS ANDRACHNE
Strawberry Tree
A remedy for eczema associated with gouty and rheumatic
symptoms. Arthritis; especially larger joints. Urine rendered
more clear. Lumbago. Symptoms shift from skin to joints.
Vesical symptoms.
Relationship.--Arbutin; Ledum; Bryonia; Kalmia.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
ARECA CATECHU
Betel Nut
(ARECA)
Of use in Helminthiasis. Its alkaloid, Areolin Hydrobrom
contracts the pupil, acting more promptly and energetically but
of shorter duration than Eserine. Serviceable in glaucoma. Acts
also as a salivatory like Pilocarpin. Also increases the amplitude
of pulsations of the heart and promotes the contractility of the
intestines.
ARGENTUM METALLICUM
Silver
Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnœa,
sensation of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic.
The chief action is centered on the articulations and their
component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligament's. Here the
small blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious
affections result. They come on insidiously, lingering, but
progress. The larynx is also a special center for this drug.
Mental.--Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy.
Head.--Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually
increasing and ceasing suddenly. Scalp very tender to touch.
Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on looking at running water.
Head feels empty, hollow. Eyelids red and thick. Exhausting
coryza, with sneezing. Pain in facial bones. Pain between left
eye and frontal eminence.
Throat.--Raw, hawking, gray, jelly-like mucus, and throat sore
on coughing. Profuse and easy morning expectoration.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness Aphonia. Raw, sore feeling when
coughing. Total loss of voice of professional singers. Larynx
feels sore and raw. Easy expectoration, looking like boiled
starch. Feeling of raw spot near supra sternal fossa. Worse from
use of voice. Cough from laughing. Hectic fever at noon. On
reading aloud, must hem and hawk. Great weakness of chest;
worse left side. Alteration in timbre of voice. Pain in left lower
ribs.
Back.--Severe backache; must walk bent, with oppression of
chest.
Urine.--Diuresis. Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor. Frequent
urination. Polyuria.
Extremities.--Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow
and knee. Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs.
Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm;
writer's cramp. Swelling of ankles.
Male.--Crushed pain in testicles. Seminal emissions, without
sexual excitement. Frequent micturation with burning.
Female.--Ovaries feel too large. Bearing-down pain. Prolapse of
womb. Eroded spongy cervix. Leucorrhœa foul, excoriating.
Palliative in scirrhus of uterus. Pain in left ovary. Climateric
hæmorrhage. Sore feeling; throughout abdomen; worse by
jarring. Uterine disease with pain in joints and limbs.
Modalities.--Worse from touch, toward noon. Better in open air;
cough at night when lying down (opposite Hyoscy).
Relationship.--Antidotes: Mercur; Puls.
Compare: Selen; Alum; Platina; Stannum; Ampelopsis (Chronic
hoarseness in scrofulous patients).
Dose.--Sixth trituration and higher. Not too frequent repetition.
ARGENTUM NITRICUM
Nitrate of Silver
In this drug the neurotic effects are very marked, many brain and
spinal symptoms presenting; themselves which give certain
indications for its homeopathic employment. Symptoms of inco-
ordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere,
mentally and physically; trembling in affected parts. Is an
irritant of mucous membranes, producing violent inflammation
of the throat, and a marked gastro-enteritis. Very characteristic
is the great desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free
muco-purulent discharge in the inflamed and ulcerated mucous
membranes. Sensation as if a part were expanding and other
errors of perception are characteristic. Withered up and dried
constitutions present a favorable field for its action, especially
when associated with unusual or long continued mental exertion.
Head symptoms often determine the choice of this remedy.
Pains increase and decrease gradually. Flatulent state and
prematurely aged look. Explosive belching especially in
neurotics. Upper abdominal affections brought on by undue
mental exertion. Paraplegia Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis
of brain and cord. Intolerance of heat. Sensation of a sudden
pinch (Dudgeon). Destroys red blood corpuscles, producing
anæmia.
Mind.--Thinks his understanding will and must fail. Fearful and
nervous; impulse to jump out of window. Faintish and
tremulous. Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease. Time
passes slowly (Cann ind). Memory weak. Errors of perception.
Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry (Lilium). Peculiar
mental impulses. Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational
motives for actions.
Head.--Headache with coldness and trembling. Emotional
disturbances cause appearance of hemi-cranial attacks. Sense of
expansion. Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling.
Headache from mental exertion, from dancing. Vertigo, with
buzzing in ears and with nervous affections. Aching in frontal
eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye. Boring
pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure. Itching of scalp.
Hemi-crania; bones of head feel as if separated.
Eyes.--Inner canthi swollen and red. Spots before the vision.
Blurred vision. Photophobia in warm room. Purulent
ophthalmia. Great swelling of conjunctiva; discharge abundant
and purulent. Chronic ulceration of margin of lids; sore, thick,
swollen. Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily. Eye-strain from
sewing; worse in warm room. Aching, tired feeling in eyes,
better closing or pressing upon them. Useful in restoring power
to the weakened ciliary muscles. Paretic condition of ciliary
muscle. Acute granular conjunctivitis. Cornea opaque. Ulcer in
cornea.
Nose.--Loss of smell. Itching. Ulcers in septum. Coryza, with
chilliness, lachrymation, and headache.
Face.--Sunken, old, pale, and bluish. Old man's look; tight
drawing of skin over bones.
Mouth.--Gums tender and bleed easily. Tongue has prominent
papillæ; tip is red and painful. Pain in sound teeth. Taste
coppery, like ink. Canker sores.
Throat.--Much thick mucus in throat and mouth causes
hawking. Raw, rough and sore. Sensation of a splinter in throat
on swallowing. Dark redness of throat. Catarrh of smokers, with
tickling as of hair in throat. Strangulated feeling.
Stomach.--Belching accompanies most gastric ailments.
Nausea, retching, vomiting of glairy mucus. Flatulence; painful
swelling of pit. Painful spot over stomach that radiates to all
parts of the abdomen. Gnawing ulcerating pain; burning and
constriction. Ineffectual effort at eructation. Great craving for
sweets. Gastritis of drunkards. Ulcerative pain in left side under
ribs. Trembling and throbbing in stomach. Enormous distention.
Ulceration of stomach, with radiating pain. Desire for cheese
and salt.
Abdomen.--Colic, with much flatulent distention. Stitchy
ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs.
Stool.--Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped spinach,
with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of abdomen; very
offensive. Diarrhœa immediately after eating or drinking. Fluids
go right through him; after sweets. After any emotion with
flatulence. Itching of anus.
Urine.--Urine passes unconsciously, day and night. Urethra
inflamed, with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter.
Urine scanty and dark. Emission of a few drops after having
finished. Divided stream. Early stage of gonorrhœa; profuse
discharge and terrible cutting pains; bloody urine.
Male.--Impotence. Erection fails when coition is attempted.
Cancer-like ulcers. Desire wanting. Genitals shrivel. Coition
painful.
Female.--Gastralgia at beginning of menses. Intense spasm of
chest muscles. Organs at night. Nervous erethism at change of
life. Leucorrhœa profuse, with erosion of cervix bleeding easily.
Uterine hæmorrhage, two weeks after menses; Painful affections
of left ovary.
Respiratory.--High notes cause cough. Chronic hoarseness.
Suffocative cough, as if from a hair in throat. Dyspnœa. Chest
feels as if a bar were around it. Palpitation, pulse irregular and
intermittent; worse lying on right side; (Alumen). Painful spots
in chest. Angina pectoris, nightly aggravation. Many people in a
room seem to take away his breath.
Back.--Much pain. Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, (Oxal
acid) paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis.
Extremities.--Cannot walk with eyes closed. Trembling, with
general debility. Paralysis, with mental and abdominal
symptoms. Rigidity of calves. Debility in calves especially.
Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when unobserved.
Numbness of arms. Post-diphtheritic paralysis (after Gelsem).
Skin.--Brown, tense, and hard. Drawing in skin, as from a
spider-web, or dried albuminous substance, withered and dried
up. Irregular blotches.
Sleep.--Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination; horrible
dreams of snakes, and of sexual gratification. Drowsy stupor.
Fever.--Chills with nausea. Chilly when uncovered, yet feels
smothered if wrapped up.
Modalities.--Worse, warmth in any form; at night; from cold
food; sweets; after eating; at menstrual period; from emotions,
left side. Better, from eructation; fresh air; cold; pressure.
Relationship.--Antidote: Nat mur.
Compare: Ars; Merc; Phos; Pulsat. Argent cyanatum (angina
pectoris, asthma, spasm of œsophagus) Argent iodat (throat
disorders, hoarseness, gland affected). Protargol(gonorrhœa
after acute stage 2 per cent solution; syphilitic mucous patches,
chancres and chancroids, 10 per cent solution applied twice a
day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2 drops of 10 per cent solution).
Argent phosph (An excellent diuretic in dropsy).
Argent oxyd (Chlorosis with menorrhagia and diarrhœa).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
Best form an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drops doses. This
solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh,
these readily decompose into the oxide.
ARGEMONE MEXICANA
Prickly Poppy
Colicky cramp and spasm of bowels. Painful neuro-muscular
conditions, preventing sleep. Rheumatic disease associated with
Bright's disease (D. MacFarlan).
Head.--Throbbing headache in eyes and temples. Head hot.
Throat very dry, pain on swallowing.
Stomach.--Feels sick, like vomiting. Griping in pit of stomach.
No appetite. Belching and passing gas.
Urinary.--Passes less urine. Changing color.
Female.--Menses suppressed. Diminished sexual desire with
weakness.
Extremities.--Left knee stiff and painful. Feet swollen.
Modalities.--Worse at noon (weakness).
Dose.--Sixth potency. Fresh juice is applied to ulcers and warts.
ARISTOLOCHIA MILHOMENS
Brazilian Snake Root
Stitching pains in various parts. Pain in heels, burning in anus
and frequent irritation. Flatulence in stomach and abdomen. Pain
in back and extremities. Stiffness of legs. Pain in tendo-Achillis.
Itching and swelling around the malleoli.
Relationship.--Compare: Aristolochia Serpentaria-Virginia
Snake Root--(Symptoms of intestinal tract; colliquative diarrhśa,
meteorism. Flatulent dyspepsia. Brain congestion. Distention
and cutting pains in abdomen. Symptoms like those of Poison-
Oak).
Dose.--Lower potencies.
ARNICA MONTANA
Leopard's Bane
(ARNICA)
Produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those
resulting from injuries, falls, blows, contusions. Tinnitus aurium.
Putrid phenomena. Septic conditions; prophylactic of pus
infection. Apoplexy, red, full face.
It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote,
seems to have caused the present trouble. After traumatic
injuries, overuse of any organ, strains. Arnica is disposed to
cerebral congestion. Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated
with impoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with dyspnœa. A
muscular tonic. Traumatism of grief, remorse or sudden
realization of financial loss. Limbs and body ache as if beaten;
joints as if sprained. Bed feels too hard. Marked effect on the
blood. Affects the venous system inducing stasis. Echymosis
and hæmorrhages. Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots.
Tendency to hæmorrhage and low-fever states. Tendency to
tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not
mature. Sore, lame, bruised feeling. Neuralgias originating in
disturbances of pneumo-gastric. Rheumatism of muscular and
tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders. Aversion to
tobacco. Influenza. Thrombosis. Hematocele.
Mind.--Fears touch, or the approach of anyone. Unconscious;
when spoken to answers correctly, but relapses. Indifference;
inability to perform continuous active work; morose, delirious.
Nervous; cannot bear pain; whole body oversensitive. Says there
is nothing the matter with him. Wants to be let alone.
Agoraphobia (fear of space). After mental strain or shock.
Head.--Hot, with cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain,
with sharp, pinching pains. Scalp feels contracted. Cold spot on
forehead. Chronic vertigo; objects whirl about especially when
walking.
Eyes.--Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal
hæmorrhage. Bruised, sore feeling in eyes after close work.
Must keep eyes open. Dizzy on closing them. Feel tired and
weary after sight-seeing, moving pictures, etc.
Ears.--Noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the head.
Shooting in and around ears. Blood from ears. Dullness of
hearing after concussion. Pain in cartilages of ears as if bruised.
Nose.--Bleeding after every fit of coughing, dark fluid blood.
Nose feels sore; cold.
Mouth.--Fetid breath. Dry and thirsty. Bitter taste (Colocy).
Taste as from bad eggs. Soreness of gums after teeth extraction
(Sepia). Empyæma of maxillary sinus.
Face.--Sunken; very red. Heat in lips. Herpes in face.
Stomach.--Longing for vinegar. Distaste for milk and meat.
Canine hunger. Vomiting of blood. Pain in stomach during
eating. Repletion with loathing. Oppressive gases pass upward
and downward. Pressure as from a stone. Feeling as if stomach
were passing against spine. Fetid vomiting.
Abdomen.--Stitches under false ribs. Distended; offensive
flatus. Sharp thrusts through abdomen.
Stool.--Straining of tenesmus in diarrhœa. Offensive, brown,
bloody, putrid, involuntary. Looks like brown yeast. Must lie
down after every stool. Diarrhœa of consumption; worse lying
on left side. Dysenteric stools with muscular pains.
Urine.--Retained from over-exertion. Dark brick-red sediment.
Vesical tenesmus with very painful micturition.
Female.--Bruised parts after labor. Violent after-pains. Uterine
hæmorrhage from mechanical injury after coition. Sore nipples.
Mastitis from injury. Feeling as if fœtus were lying crosswise.
Respiratory.--Coughs depending on cardiac lesion, paroxysmal,
at night, during sleep, worse exercise. Acute tonsillitis, swelling
of soft palate and uvula. Pneumonia; approaching paralysis.
Hoarseness from overuse of voice. Raw, sore feeling in
morning. Cough produced by weeping and lamenting. Dry, from
tickling low down in trachea. Bloody expectoration. Dyspnœa
with hæmoptysis. All bones and cartilages of chest painful.
Violent spasmodic cough, with facial herpes. Whooping cough,
child cries before coughing. Pleurodynia (Ranunc; Cimicif).
Heart.--Angina pectoris; pain especially severe in elbow of left
arm. Stitches in heart. Pulse feeble and irregular. Cardiac dropsy
with distressing dyspnœa. Extremities distended, feel bruised
and sore. Fatty heart and hypertrophy.
Extremities.--Gout. Great fear of being touched or approached.
Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten. Sprained and
dislocated feeling. Soreness after overexertion. Everything on
which he lies seems too hard. Deathly coldness of forearm.
Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain in pelvic region.
Rheumatism begins low down and works up (Ledum).
Skin.--Black and blue. Itching, burning, eruption of small
pimples. Crops of small boils (Ichthyol; Silica). Ecchymosis.
Bed sores (Bovinine locally). Acne indurata, characterized by
symmetry in distribution.
Sleep.--Sleepless and restless when over tired. Comatose
drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated
bodies, anxious and terrible. Horrors in the night. Involuntary
stools during sleep.
Fever.--Febrile symptoms closely related to typhoid. Shivering
over whole body. Heat and redness of head, with coolness of
rest of body. Internal heat; feet and hands cold. Nightly sour
sweats.
Modalities.--Worse, least touch; motion; rest; wine; damp cold.
Better, lying down, or with head low.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Camph.
Vitex trifolia.--Indian Arnica (Sprains and pains, headache in
temples, pain in joints; pain in abdomen; pain in testicles).
Complementary: Acon; Ipec.
Compare: Acon; Bapt; Bellis; Hamam; Rhus; Hyperic.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. Locally, the tincture, but
should never be applied hot or at all when abrasions or cuts are
present.
ARSENICUM ALBUM
Arsenious Acid-Arsenic Trioxide
A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-
cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe
types of disease make its homeopathic employment constant and
certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful
application. Among these the all-prevailing debility, exhaustion,
and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important.
Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion. This, with the
peculiar irritability of fiber, gives the characteristic irritable
weakness. Burning pains. Unquenchable thirst. Burning relieved
by heat. Seaside complaints (Nat mur; Aqua Marina). Injurious
effects of fruits, especially more watery ones. Gives quiet and
ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency.
Fear fright and worry. Green discharges. Infantile Kala-azar
(Dr. Neatby).
Ars should be thought of in ailments from alcoholism, ptomaine
poisoning, stings, dissecting wounds, chewing tobacco; ill
effects from decayed food or animal matter; odor of discharges
is putrid; in complaints that return annually. Anćmia and
chlorosis. Degenerative changes. Gradual loss of weight from
impaired nutrition. Reduces the refractive index of blood serum
(also China and Ferr phos). Maintains the system under the
stress of malignancy regardless of location. Malarial cachexia.
Septic infections and low vitality.
Mind.--Great anguish and restlessness. Changes place
continually. Fears, of death, of being left alone. Great fear, with
cold sweat. Thinks it useless to take medicine. Suicidal.
Hallucinations of smell and sight. Despair drives him from place
to place. Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage. General
sensibility increased (Hep). Sensitive to disorder and confusion.
Head.--Headaches relieves by cold, other symptoms worse.
Periodical burning pains, with restlessness; with cold skin.
Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness.
Sensitive head in open air. Delirium tremens; cursing and
raving; vicious. Head is in constant motion. Scalp itches
intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty,
sensitive, and covered with dry scales; nightly burning and
itching; dandruff. Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair.
Eyes.--Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation. Lids red,
ulcerated, scabby, scaly, granulated. Śdema around eyes.
External inflammation, with extreme painfulness; burning, hot,
and excoriating lachrymation. Corneal ulceration. Intense
photophobia; better external warmth. Ciliary neuralgia, with fine
burning pain.
Ears.--Skin within, raw and burning. Thin, excoriating,
offensive otorrhśa. Roaring in ears, during a paroxysm of pain.
Nose.--Thin, watery, excoriating discharge. Nose feels stopped
up. Sneezing without relief. Hay-fever and coryza; worse in
open air; better indoors. Burning and bleeding. Acne of nose.
Lupus.
Face.--Swollen, pale, yellow, cachectic, sunken, cold, and
covered with sweat (Acetic acid). Expression of agony. Tearing
needle-like pains; burning. Lips black, livid. Angry,
circumscribed flush of cheeks.
Mouth.--Unhealthy, easily-bleeding gums. Ulceration of mouth
with dryness and burning heat. Epithelioma of lips. Tongue dry,
clean, and red; stitching and burning pain in tongue, ulcerated
with blue color. Bloody saliva. Neuralgia of teeth; feel long and
very sore; worse after midnight; better warmth. Metallic taste.
Gulping up of burning water.
Throat.--Swollen, śdematous, constricted, burning, unable to
swallow. Diphtheritic membrane, looks dry and wrinkled.
Stomach.--Cannot bear the sight or smell of food. Great thirst;
drinks much, but little at a time. Nausea, retching, vomiting,
after eating or drinking. Anxiety in pit of stomach. Burning
pain. Craves acids and coffee. Heartburn; gulping up of acid and
bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat. Long-
lasting eructations. Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or
brown-black mixed with blood. Stomach extremely irritable;
seems raw, as if torn. Gastralgia from slightest food or drink.
Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco.
Terrible fear and dyspnśa, with gastralgia; also faintness, icy
coldness, great exhaustion. Malignant symptoms. Everything
swallowed seems to lodge in the śsophagus, which seems as if
closed and nothing would pass. Ill effects of vegetable diet,
melons, and watery fruits generally. Craves milk.
Abdomen.--Gnawing, burning pains like coals of fire; relieved
by heat. Liver and spleen enlarged and painful. Ascites and
anasarca. Abdomen swollen and painful. Pain as from a wound
in abdomen on coughing.
Rectum.--Painful, spasmodic protrusion of rectum. Tenesmus.
Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus.
Stool.--Small, offensive, dark, with much prostration. Worse at
night, and after eating and drinking; from chilling stomach,
alcoholic abuse, spoiled meat. Dysentery dark, bloody, very
offensive. Cholera, with intense agony, prostration, and burning
thirst. Body cold as ice (Verat). Hćmorrhoids burn like fire;
relieved by heat. Skin excoriated about anus.
Urine.--Scanty, burning, involuntary. Bladder as if paralyzed.
Albuminous. Epithelial cells; cylindrical clots of fibrin and
globules of pus and blood. After urinating, feeling of weakness
in abdomen. Bright's disease. Diabetes.
Female.--Menses too profuse and too soon. Burning in ovarian
region. Leucorrhśa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin. Pain as from
red-hot wires; worse least exertion; causes great fatigue; better
in warm room. Menorrhagia. Stitching pain in pelvis extending
down the thigh.
Respiratory.--Unable to lie down; fears suffocation. Air-
passages constricted. Asthma worse midnight. Burning in chest.
Suffocative catarrh. Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on
back. Expectoration scanty, frothy. Darting pain through upper
third of right lung. Wheezing respiration. Hćmoptysis with pain
between shoulders; burning heat all over. Cough dry, as from
sulphur fumes; after drinking.
Heart.--Palpitation, pain, dyspnśa, faintness. Irritable heart in
smokers and tobacco-chewers. Pulse more rapid in morning
(Sulph). Dilatation. Cyanosis. Fatty degeneration. Angina
pectoris, with pain in neck and occiput.
Back.--Weakness in small of back. Drawing in of shoulders.
Pain and burning in back (Oxal ac).
Extremities.--Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness,
heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swelling of feet.
Sciatica. Burning pains. Peripheral neuritis. Diabetic gangrene.
Ulcers on heel (Cepa; Lamium). Paralysis of lower limbs with
atrophy.
Skin.--Itching, burning, swellings; śdema, eruption, papular,
dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching. Malignant
pustules. Ulcers with offensive discharge. Anthrax. Poisoned
wounds. Urticaria, with burning and restlessness. Psoriasis.
Scirrhus. Icy coldness of body. Epithelioma of the skin.
Gangrenous inflammations.
Sleep.--Disturbed, anxious, restless. Must have head raised by
pillows. Suffocative fits during sleep. Sleeps with hands over
head. Dreams are full of care and fear. Drowsy, sleeping
sickness.
Fever.--High temperature. Periodicity marked with adynamia.
Septic fevers. Intermittent. Paroxysms incomplete, with marked
exhaustion. Hay-fever. Cold sweats. Typhoid, not too early;
often after Rhus. Complete exhaustion. Delirium; worse after
midnight. Great restlessness. Great heat about 3 am.
Modalities.--Worse, wet weather, after midnight; from cold,
cold drinks, or food. Seashore. Right side. Better from heat;
from head elevated; warm drinks.
Complementary: Rhus; Carbo; Phos. Thuja; Secale. Antidotal
to lead poison.
Antidotes: Opium; Carbo; China; Hepar; Nux. Chemical
Antidotes: Charcoal; Hydrated Peroxide of Iron; Lime Water.
Compare: Arsenic stibatum 3x (Chest inflammations of children,
restlessness with thirst and prostration, loose mucous cough,
oppression, hurried respiration, crepitant rales). Cenchris
contortrix; Iod; Phosph; China; Verat alb; Carbo; Kali phos.
Epilobium (intractable diarrhśa of typhoid). Hoang Nan. Atoxyl.
Sodium arseniate 3x, sleeping sickness; commencing optic
atrophy. Levico Water--(containing Ars, Iron and Copper of
South Tyrol). Chronic and dyscratic skin diseases, chorea minor
and spasms in scrofulous and anćmic children. Favors
assimilation and increases nutrition. Debility and skin diseases,
especially after the use of higher potencies where progress
seems suspended. Dose. Ten drops in wine glass of warm water
3 times a day after meals (Burnett). Sarcolatic acid (influenza
with violent vomiting).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies
often yield brilliant results.
Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases;
higher in neuralgias, nervous diseases, and skin. But if only
surface conditions call for it, give the lowest potencies, 2x to 3x
trit. Repeated doses advisable.
ARSENICUM BROMATUM
Bromide of Arsenic
Has proven a great anti-psoric and anti-syphilitic remedy.
Herpetic eruptions, syphilitic excrescences, glandular tumors
and indurations, carcinoma, locomotor ataxia, and obstinate
intermittents, and diabetes are all greatly influenced by this
preparation.
Face.--Acne rosacea, with violet papules on nose; worse in the
spring. Acne in young people.
Dose.--Tincture, two to four drops daily in water. In diabetes,
three drops three times a day in a glass of water.
ARSENICUM HYDROGENISATUM
Arseniuretted Hydrogen
The general action of Arsenic more accentuated. Anćmia.
Anxiety; despair. Hśmaturia, with general blood
disorganization. Hćmorrhages from mucous membranes. Urine
suppressed, followed by vomiting. Prepuce and glans covered
with pustules and round superficial ulcers. Collapse. Coldness;
prostration. Sudden weakness and nausea. Skin becomes dark
brown.
Head.--Violent vertigo on going upstairs. Eyes sunken; broad,
blue circles around. Violent sneezing. Nose cold. Must be
wrapped up with warm cloths.
Mouth.--Tongue enlarged; deep, irregular ulcer; nodular
swelling. Mouth hot and dry; little thirst.
Dose.--Third potency.
ARSENICUM IODATUM
Iodide of Arsenic
Is to be preferred for persistently irritating, corrosive discharges.
The discharge irritates the membrane from which it flows and
over which it flows. The discharge may be fetid, watery, and the
mucous membrane is always red, angry, swollen; itches and
burns. Influenza, hay-fever, old nasal catarrhs, and catarrh of
middle ear. Swelling of tissues within the nose. Hypertrophied
condition of eustachian tube and deafness. Senile heart,
myocarditis and fatty degeneration. Pulse shotty. Chronic
aortitis. Epithelioma of the lip. Cancer of breast after ulceration
has set in.
It seems probable that in Arsenic iod, we have a remedy most
closely allied to manifestations of tuberculosis. In the early
stages of tuberculosis, even though there is an afternoon rise in
temperature, Ars jod is very effective. It will be indicated by a
profound prostration, rapid, irritable pulse, recurring fever and
sweats, emaciation; tendency to diarrhœa. Chronic pneumonia,
with abscess in lung. Hectic; debility; night sweats.
This remedy is also to be remembered in phthisis with hoarse,
racking cough and profuse expectoration of a purulent nature,
and attended with cardiac weakness, emaciation and general
debility; in chronic, watery diarrhœa in phthisical subjects; in
cases of emaciation with good appetite; in amenorrhœa, with
anæmic palpitation and dyspnœa. In chronic pneumonia, when
abscess is about to form. Great emaciation. Arteriosclerosis,
myocardial degeneration and senile heart. Threatened pyæmia
(Pyrog; Methyl blue).
Head.--Vertigo, with tremulous feeling, especially in aged.
Nose.--Thin, watery, irritating, excoriating discharge from
anterior and posterior nares; sneezing. Hay-fever. Irritation and
tingling of nose constant desire to sneeze (Pollanin).Chronic
nasal catarrh; swollen nose; profuse, thick, yellow discharge;
ulcers; membrane sore and excoriated. Aggravation by
sneezing.
Throat.--Burning in pharynx. Tonsils swollen. Thick membrane
from fauces to lips. Breath fetid, glandular involvement.
Diphtheria. Chronic follicular pharyngitis.
Eyes and Ears.--Scrofulous ophthalmia. Otitis, with fetid,
corrosive discharge. Thickening of tympanum. Burning, acrid
coryza.
Stomach.--Pain and pyrosis. Vomiting an hour after food.
Nausea distressing. Pain in epigastrium. Intense thirst; water is
immediately ejected.
Respiratory.--Slight hacking cough, with dry and stopped-up
nostrils. Pleuritis exudativa. Chronic bronchitis. Pulmonary
tuberculosis. Pneumonia that fails to clear up. Broncho-
pneumonia after grippe. Cough dry, with little difficult
expectoration. Aphonia.
Fever.--Recurrent fever and sweats. Drenching night-sweats.
Pulse rapid, feeble, weak, irregular. Chilly, cannot endure cold.
Skin.--Dry, scaly, itching. Marked exfoliation of skin in large
scales, leaving a raw exuding surface beneath. Ichthyosis.
Enlarged scrofulous glands. Venereal bubo. Debilitating night-
sweats. Eczema of the beard; watery, oozing, itching; worse,
washing. Emaciation. Psoriasis. Acne hard, shotty, indurated
base with pustule at apex.
Relationship.--Compare: Tuberculinum; Antimon iod. In hay-
fever, compare: Aralia; Naphthalin; Rosa; Sang nit.
Dose.--Second and third trituration. Ought to be prepared fresh
and protected from light. Continued for some time. Clinically, it
has been found advisable in tuberculosis to begin with about the
4x and gradually go lower to the second x trit, 5 grains 3 times a
day.
ARSENICUM METALLICUM
Metallic Arsenic
Arouses latent syphilis. Periodicity very marked; symptoms
recur every two and three weeks. Weakness. Swollen feeling of
parts.
Head.--Low spirited, memory weak. Desire to be alone.
Annoyed by visions, causing her to cry. Head feels too large.
Left-sided headache up to eyes and into ears. Headache worse
stooping and lying down. Śdematous swelling of forehead.
Face.--Red, itching, burning and bloated. Eyes swelled and
watery, burn with coryza. Eyes weak, day and gas light
unpleasant.
Mouth.--The tongue coated white, and shows imprint of the
teeth. Mouth sore and ulcerated.
Abdomen.--Sore pain in liver goes through to shoulders and
spine. Pain in spleen down to groin. Pain in breast extends to hip
and spleen. Diarrhśa, burning watery stools with relief of pain.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
ARSENICUM SULPHURATUM FLAVUM
Yellow Sulphuret of Arsenic.Orpiment
(ARSENIC TRISULPH.)
Needle pricks from within outwards in chest; also on forehead,
right side. Sticking behind ear. Difficult respiration. Skin chafed
about genitals.
Leucoderma and squamous syphilides. Sciatica and pain around
the knee.
Relationship.--Arsenic sulph rub (influenza with intense
catarrhal symptoms, great prostration and high temperature,
purulent discharges, psoriasis, acne, and sciatica. Chilly even
before a fire. Itching in various parts. Pellagra).
Dose.--Third trituration.
ARTEMISIA VULGARIS
Mugwort
Has some reputation as a remedy for epileptic conditions, and
convulsive diseases of childhood and girls at puberty. Locally
and internally is injurious to eyes. Petit mal. Epilepsy without
aura; after fright and other violent emotions and after
masturbation. Several convulsions close together.
Somnambulism. Gets up at night and works, remembers nothing
in the morning (Kali phos).
Head.--Drawn back by spasmodic twitchings. Mouth drawn to
left. Congestion of brain.
Eyes.--Colored light produces dizziness. Pain and blurring of
vision; better; rubbing; worse, using eyes.
Female.--Profuse menses. Violent uterine contractions. Spasms
during menses.
Fever.--Profuse sweat, smelling like garlic.
Relationship.--Compare: Absinth; Cina; Cicuta.
Dose.--First to third potency. Said to act better when given with
wine.
ARUM DRACONTIUM
Green Dragon
A remedy for Pharyngitis with sore, raw and tender throat.
Head.--Heavy; shooting pain in ears, aching pain behind right
ear.
Throat.--Dry, sore, worse swallowing. Raw and tender.
Continued disposition to clear throat. Croupy, hoarse cough with
sore throat.
Urinary.--Irresistible desire to pass urine, burns and smarts.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness; excess of mucus in larynx.
Asthmatic at night. Expectoration thick, heavy.
Relationship.--Arum Italicum (Brain-fag, with headache in
occipital region). Arum maculatum (inflammation and ulceration
of mucous membranes. Nasal irritation with polypus).
Dose.--First potency.
ARUM TRIPHYLLUM
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Arum maculatum, Italicum, Dracontium, have the same action
as the Triphyllum. They all contain an irritant poison, causing
inflammation of mucous surfaces and destruction of tissue.
Acridity is the keynote of the kind of action characteristic of
Arum.
Head.--Bores head in pillow. Headache from too warm clothing,
from hot coffee.
Eyes.--Quivering of upper eyelids, especially left.
Nose.--Soreness of nostrils. Acrid, excoriating discharge,
producing raw sores. Nose obstructed; must breathe through
mouth. Boring in the nose. Coryza; discharge blood-streaked,
watery. Nose completely stopped, with fluent, acrid discharge.
Hay-fever, with pain over root of nose. Large scabs high up on
right side of nose. Face feels chapped, as if from cold wind;
feels hot. Constant picking at nose until it bleeds.
Mouth.--Raw feeling at roof and palate. Lips and soft palate
sore and burning. Lips chapped and burning. Corners of mouth
sore and cracked. Tongue red, sore; whole mouth raw. Picking
lips until they bleed. Saliva profuse, acrid, corroding.
Throat.--Swelling of sub-maxillary glands. Constricted and
swollen; burns; raw. Constant hawking. Hoarseness.
Expectoration of much mucus. Lungs feel sore. Clergyman's
sore throat. Voice uncertain, uncontrollable. Worse, talking,
singing.
Skin.--Scarlet rash; raw, bloody surfaces anywhere. Impetigo
contagiosa.
Modalities.--Worse, northwest wind; lying down.
Relationship.--Compare: Ammon carb; Ailanthus; Cepa.
Antidotes: Buttermilk; Acet ac; Puls.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
ARUNDO MAURITANICA
Reed
(ARUNDO)
A remedy for catarrhal states. Hay-fever.
Head.--Itching; falling off of hair; roots of hair painful.
Pustules. Pain in occiput, extends to right ciliary region. Deep
seated pain in sides of head.
Ears.--Burning and itching in auditory canals. Eczema behind
ears.
Nose.--Hay-fever begins with burning and itching of palate and
conjunctiva. Annoying itching in the nostrils and roof of the
mouth (Wyethia). Coryza; loss of smell (Nat mur). Sneezing,
itching of nostrils.
Mouth.--Burning and itching; bleeding of gums. Ulcers and
exfoliations in the commissures. Fissures in tongue.
Stomach.--Coldness in stomach. Longing for acids.
Abdomen.--Movement as from something alive. Flatulence pain
at pubic region.
Stool.--Greenish. Burning at anus. Diarrhœa of nursing children
(Cham; Calc phos).
Urine.--Burning. Red sediment (Lyc).
Male.--Pain in spermatic cord after embrace.
Female.--Menses too early and profuse. Neuralgic pains from
face to shoulders and pubis. Desire with vaginal pruritus.
Respiratory.--Dyspnœa; cough; bluish expectoration. Burning
and pain in nipples.
Extremities.--Itching, burning; œdema of hands and feet.
Burning and swelling of soles. Copious and offensive sweat of
feet.
Skin.--Eczema; itching and crawling, especially of chest, upper
extremities. Fissures in fingers and heels.
Relationship.--Compare: Anthoxantum-sweet vernal grass (a
popular medicine for hay-fever and coryza). Lolium; Cepa;
Sabad; Silica.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
ASAFOETIDA
Gum of the Stinkasand
(ASAFOETIDA)
The flatulence and spasmodic contraction of stomach and
śsophagus with reverse peristalsis are the most marked
symptoms. In its selection, its relation to the hysterical and
hypochondriacal patients, must be borne in mind. Besides these
superficial symptoms, it has been found to affect favorably deep
ulcerations, caries of bones, especially in the syphilitic
organism; here the extreme sensitiveness and terrible throbbing,
nightly pains, guiding to its use.
Head.--Irritable; complains of her troubles; sensitive. Boring
above eyebrows. Pressive pain from within outward.
Eyes.--Orbital neuralgia; better, pressure and rest. Iritis and
intraocular inflammations, with boring, throbbing pains at night.
Stitches under left frontal eminences. Boring pains in and
around eyes. Syphilitic iritis. Superficial corneal ulcer with
digging pains; worse at night.
Ears.--Offensive otorrhśa, with boring pains in mastoid bone.
Mastoid disease with pain in temporal region with pushing out
sensation. Offensive, purulent discharge.
Nose.--Syphilitic ozćna, with very offensive purulent discharge.
Caries of nasal bones (Aurum).
Throat.--Globus hystericus. Ball rises in throat. Sensation as if
peristaltic motion were reversed, and śsophagus were driven
from stomach to throat.
Stomach.--Great difficulty in bringing up wind. Flatulence and
regurgitation of liquid. Hysterical flatulence. Great distention.
Sensation of emptiness and weakness, with distention and
beating in stomach and abdomen. Forcible eructation of gas.
Pulsation in pit of stomach. Violent gastralgia; cutting and
burning in stomach and region of diaphragm. Gurgling and
rolling of wind, which escapes afterwards with loud and difficult
eructation.
Female.--Mammć turgid with milk in the unimpregnated.
Deficient milk, with oversensitiveness.
Rectum.--Distended, griping, with hunger. Obstinate
constipation. Pain in perineum, as if something dull pressed out.
diarrhśa, extremely offensive, with meteorism, and regurgitation
of food.
Chest.--Spasmodic tightness, as if lungs could not be fully
expanded. Palpitation more like a tremor.
Bones.--Darting pain and caries in bones. Periosteum painful,
swollen, enlarged. Ulcers affecting bones; thin, ichorous pus.
Skin.--Itching, better scratching; ulcers painful on edges.
Suppressed skin symptoms produce nervous disorders.
Modalities.--Worse, at night; from tough; left side, during rest,
warm applications. Better, open air; from motion, pressure.
Relationship.--Antidotes: China; Mercur.
Compare: Moschus; China; Mercur; Aurum.
Dose.--Second to sixth potency.
ASARUM EUROPAEUM
European Snake-root
(ASARUM EUROPUM)
A remedy for nervous affections, loss of energy, with excessive
erethism. Scratching on silk or linen or paper unbearable. Pains
and spasmodic muscular actions. Nervous deafness and
asthenopia. Cold shivers from any emotion. Feels as if parts
were pressed together. Tension and contractive sensations.
Always feels cold.
Mind.--Thoughts vanish, with drawing pressure in forehead.
Sensibility increased, even from mere imagination.
Head.--Compressive pain. Tension of scalp; hair painful
(China). Coryza, with sneezing.
Eyes.--Feel stiff; burn; feel cold. Better, in cold air or water;
worse, sunlight and wind. Darting pains in eyes after operations.
Asthenopia.
Ears.--Sensation as if plugged up. Catarrh with deafness. Heat
of external ear. Noises.
Stomach.--Loss of appetite, flatulence, eructation, and
vomiting. Desire for alcoholic drinks. Smoking tobacco tastes
bitter. Nausea; worse after eating. Clean tongue. Great faintness.
Accumulation of cold, watery saliva.
Rectum.--Strings of odorless, yellow mucus pass from bowels.
Diarrhśa of tough mucus. Undigested stools. Prolapse.
Female.--Menses too early, long lasting, black. Violent pain in
small of back. Tenacious, yellow leucorrhśa.
Respiratory.--Nervous, hacking cough. Short respiration.
Back.--Paralytic pain in muscles of nape of neck. Weakness,
with staggering.
Fever.--Chilliness, single parts get icy cold. Easily excited
perspiration.
Modalities.--Worse, in cold dry weather; penetrating sounds.
Better, from washing; in damp and wet weather.
Relationship.--Asarum Canadensa-Wild Ginger (Colds,
followed by amenorrhśa and gastro-enteritis. Suppressed colds).
Compare: Ipecac, especially in diarrhśa; Silica; Nux; China.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
ASCLEPIAS CORNUTI
Silk-weed
(ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA)
Seems to act especially on nervous system and urinary organs. A
remedy for dropsy, hepatic, renal or cardiac and post-scarlatinal;
causes diaphoresis and augments the urinary secretion. Acute
rheumatic inflammation of large joints. Intermittent, pressing-
down uterine pains.
Head.--Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from
temple to temple. Constriction across forehead. Nervous
headache, after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased
urine, with increase of specific gravity. Headache from retention
of effete matters in system.
Relationship.--Compare: Asclepias Vincetoxicum.--Swallow-
wart.--Cynanchum--(A gastro-intestinal irritant, producing
vomiting and purgation).--(Useful in dropsy, diabetes, great
thirst, profuse urination).
Dose.--Tincture.
ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA
Pleurisy-root
Its action on the chest muscles is most marked and has been
verified. Sick headache, with flatulence in stomach and bowels.
Dyspepsia. Bronchitis and pleurisy come within its range.
Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather. Irritation of larynx
with huskiness; grip, with pleuritic pain.
Respiratory.--Respiration painful, especially at base of left
lung. Dry cough; throat constricted; causes pain in head and
abdomen. Pain in chest; shooting downward from left nipple. A
general eliminative remedy, acting specially on the sudoriparous
glands. Chest pains are relieved by bending forward. Spaces
between ribs close to sternum tender. Lancinating pain between
shoulders. Catarrh, with frontal headache, and sticky yellow
discharge.
Stomach.--Fullness, pressure, weight. Flatulence after meals.
Sensitive to tobacco.
Rectum.--Catarrhal dysentery, with rheumatic pains all over.
Stools smell like rotten eggs.
Extremities.--Rheumatic joints give sensation as if adhesions
being broken up on bending.
Relationship.--Compare: Asclepias Incarnata-Swamp Milk
Weed (Chronic gastric Catarrh and leucorrhśa. Dropsy with
dyspnśa) Periploca groeca-One of the Asclepiades--(Cardiac
tonic, acts on circulation and respiratory center, accelerating
respiration in a ratio disproportionate to pulse). Bryonia; Dulc.
Dose.--Tincture and first potency.
ASIMINA TRILOBA
American Papaw
Produces a series of symptoms much like scarlet fever; sore
throat, fever, vomiting, scarlet eruption; tonsils and submaxillary
glands enlarged, with diarrhśa. Fauces red and swollen, face
swollen. Desire for ice-cold things. Hoarseness. Languid,
drowsy irritable.
Acne. Itching in evening on undressing.
Relationship.--Compare: Capsic; Bellad.
ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS
Common Garden Asparagus
Its marked and immediate action on the urinary secretion is well
known. It causes weakness and cardiac depression with dropsy.
Rheumatic pains. Especially about left shoulder and heart.
Head.--Confused. Coryza, with profuse, thin fluid. Aching in
forehead and root of nose. Migrainious morning headache with
scotoma. Throat feels rough, with hawking copious tenacious
mucus throat.
Urine.--Frequent, with fine stitches in orifice of urethra;
burning; of peculiar odor. Cystitis, with pus, mucus and
tenesmus. Lithiasis.
Heart.--Palpitation, with oppression of chest. Pulse intermits,
weak, pain about left shoulder and heart, associated with bladder
disturbances. Great oppression in breathing. Hydrothorax.
Extremities.--Rheumatic pain in back, especially near shoulder
and limbs. Pain at acromion process of left scapula under
clavicle and down arm, with feeble pulse.
Relationship.--Antidote: Acon; Apis.
Compare: Althae-Marshmallow--(contains asparagin; irritable
bladder, throat and bronchi). Physalis Alkekengi. Digital;
Sarsap; Spigelia.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
ASTACUS FLUVIATILIS
Crawfish
(CANCER ASTACUS)
Skin symptoms most important. Urticaria.
Skin.--Nettle-rash over whole body. Itching. Crusta lactea, with
enlarged lymphatic glands. Erysipelas, and liver affections with
nettle-rash. Swelling of cervical glands. Jaundice.
Fever.--Inward chilliness; very sensitive to air, worse
uncovering; violent fever, with headache.
Relationship.--Compare: Bombyx-Caterpillar-Itching of whole
body (Urticaria). Apis; Rhus; Nat m; Homar.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
ASTERIAS RUBENS
Red Starfish
A remedy for the sycotic diathesis; flabby, lymphatic
constitution, flabby with red face. Lancinating pains. Nervous
disturbances, neuralgia, chorea, and hysteria come within the
range of this remedy. Has been used for cancer of the breast, and
has an unquestioned influence over cancer disease. Excitement
in both sexes.
Head.--Cannot bear contradiction. Shocks in brain; throbbing;
heat in head, as if surrounded by hot air.
Face.--Red. Pimples on side of nose, chin and mouth.
Disposition to pimples at adolescence.
Female.--Colic and other sufferings cease with appearance of
flow. Breasts swell and pain in breasts; worse left. Ulceration
with sharp pains, piercing to scapulć. Pains down left arm to
fingers, worse motion. Excitement of sexual instinct with
nervous agitation.
Nodes and indurations of mammary gland, dull aching,
neuralgic pain in this region (Conium).
Chest.--Breasts swollen, indurated. Neuralgia of left breast and
arm (Brom). Pain under sternum and in muscles of prćcordial
region. Left breast feels as if pulled inward, and pain extends
over inner arm to end of little finger. Numbness of hand and
fingers of left side. Cancer mammć even in ulcerative stage.
Acute, lancinating pain. Axillary glands swollen hard and
knotted.
Nervous System.--Gait unsteady; muscles refuse to obey the
will. Epilepsy; preceded by twitching over whole body.
Stool.--Constipation. Ineffectual desire. Stool like olives.
Diarrhśa, watery brown, gushing out in jet.
Skin.--Destitute of pliability and elasticity. Itching spots. Ulcers,
with fetid ichor. Acne. Psoriasis and herpes zoster worse left
arm and chest. Enlarged axillary glands, worse, at night and in
damp weather.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Plumb; Zinc.
Compare: Conium; Carbo; Ars; Condurango.
Incompatible: Nux; Coffea.
Modalities.--Worse, coffee, night; cold damp weather, left side.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
ASTRAGALUS MOLLISSIMUS
Purple or Woolly Loco-weed
Affects animals like effects of alcohol, tobacco and morphine in
man. First stage, period of hallucination or mania with defective
eye sight during which the animal performs all sorts of antics.
After acquiring a taste for the plant it refuses every other kind of
food. Second stage brings emaciation, sunken eyeballs,
lusterless hair and feeble movements-after a few months dies as
from starvation (U. S. Dept. Agriculture). Irregularities in gait-
paralytic affections. Loss of muscular coordination.
Head.--Fullness in right temple and upper jaw. Pain over left
eyebrow. Painful facial bones. Dizzy. Pressive pain in temples.
Pain and pressure in maxillć.
Stomach.--Weakness and emptiness. Burning in śsophagus and
stomach.
Extremities.--Purring sensation in right foot outer side from
heel to toe. Icy coldness of left calf.
Relationship.--Compare: Aragallus Lamberti-White Loco-
Weed-Rattleweed; Baryta; Oxytropis.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
AURUM METALLICUM
Metallic Gold
Given full play, Aurum develops in the organism, by attacking
the blood, glands, and bone, conditions bearing striking
resemblance to mercurial and syphilitic infections; and it is just
for such deteriorations of the bodily fluids and alterations in the
tissues, that Aurum assumes great importance as a remedy. Like
the victim of syphilis, mental states of great depression are
produced by it. Hopeless, despondent, and great desire to
commit suicide. Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction.
Exostosis, caries, nightly bone-pains, especially cranial, nasal,
and palatine. Glands swollen in scrofulous subjects. Palpitation
and congestions. Ascites often in conjunction with heart
affections. Frequently indicated in secondary syphilis and effects
of mercury. This use of gold as an anti-venereal and anti-
scrofulous remedy is very old, but has been well-nigh forgotten
by the old school until rediscovered and placed on its scientific
basis by homeopathy, and now it can never be lost again. When
syphilis is implanted on the scrofulous constitution, we have one
of the most intractable morbid conditions, and gold seems to be
especially suited to the vile combination. Ennui. Ozæna; sexual
hyperæsthesia. Arterio-sclerosis, high blood pressure; nightly
paroxysms of pain behind sternum. Sclerosis of liver, arterial
system, brain. Pining boys; low spirited, lifeless, weak memory.
Mind.--Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness.
Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with
thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide. Talks of
committing suicide. Great fear of death. Peevish and vehement
at least contradiction. Anthropophobia. Mental derangements.
Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply. Cannot do
things fast enough. Oversensitiveness; (Staph) to noise,
excitement, confusion.
Head.--Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure.
Roaring in head. Vertigo. Tearing through brain to forehead.
Pain in bones extending to face. Congestion to head. Boils on
scalp.
Eyes.--Extreme photophobia. Great soreness all about the eyes
and into eyeballs. Double vision; upper half of objects invisible.
Feel tense. Sees fiery objects. Violent pains in bones around eye
(Asaf). Interstitial keratitis. Vascular cornea. Pains from without
inward. Sticking pains inward. Trachoma with pannus.
Ears.--Caries of ossicula and of mastoid. Obstinate fetid
otorrhœa after scarlatina. External meatus bathed in pus.
Chronic nerve deafness; Labyrinthine disease due to syphilis.
Nose.--Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed. Inflammation of
nose; caries; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody. Boring pains in
nose; worse at night. Putrid smell from nose. Sensitive smell
(Carbol ac). Horrible odor from nose and mouth. Knobby tip of
nose.
Mouth.--Foul breath in girls at puberty. Taste putrid or bitter.
Ulceration of gums.
Face.--Tearing in zygoma. Mastoid and other facial bones
inflamed.
Throat.--Stitches when swallowing; pain in glands. Caries of
the palate.
Stomach.--Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness.
Swelling of epigastrium. Burning at stomach and hot
eructations.
Abdomen.--Right hypochondrium hot and painful. Incarcerated
flatus. Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.
Urine.--Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment. Painful
retention.
Rectum.--Constipation, stools hard and knotty. Nocturnal
diarrhœa, with burning in rectum.
Male.--Pain and swelling of testicles. Chronic induration of
testicles. Violent erections. Atrophy of testicles in boys.
Hydrocele.
Female.--Great sensitiveness of vagina. Uterus enlarged and
prolapsed. Sterility; vaginismus.
Heart.--Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for two or
three seconds, immediately followed by a tumultuous rebound,
with sinking at the epigastrium. Palpitation. Pulse rapid, feeble,
irregular. Hypertrophy. High Blood Pressure-Valvular lesions
of arterio-sclerotic nature (Aurum 30)
Respiratory.--Dyspnœa at night. Frequent, deep breathing;
stitches in sternum.
Bones.--Destruction of bones, like secondary syphilis. Pain in
bones of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis with nightly pains in
bones. Caries of nasal, palatine and mastoid bones. Soreness of
affected bones, better in open air, worse at night.
Extremities.--All the blood seems to rush from head to lower
limbs. Dropsy of lower limbs. Orgasm, as if blood were boiling
in all veins. Paralytic, tearing pains in joints. Knees weak.
Sleep.--Sleepless. Sobs aloud in sleep. Frightful dreams.
Modalities.--Worse, in cold weather when getting cold. Many
complaints come on only in winter; from sunset to sunrise.
Relationship.--Compare: Aur ars (chronic aortitis; lupus,
phthisis in syphilitic headaches; also in anæmia and chlorosis. It
causes rapid increase of appetite).
Aur brom (in headaches with neurasthenia, megrim, night
terrors, valvular diseases).
Aur mur (Burning, yellow, acrid leucorrhœa; heart symptoms,
glandular affections; warts on tongue and genitals; sclerotic and
exudative degeneration of the nervous system. Multiple
sclerosis. Morvan's disease. Second trituration. Aur mur is a
sycotic remedy, causing suppressed discharges to reappear.
Valuable in climacteric hæmorrhages from the womb. Diseases
of frontal sinus. Stitching pain in left side of forehead.
Weariness, aversion to all work. Drawing feeling in stomach.
Cancer, tongue as hard as leather; induration after glossitis).
Aur mur kali.--Double chloride of Potassium and gold (In
uterine induration and hæmorrhage).
Aur iod (Chronic pericarditis, valvular diseases, arterio-sclerosis
ozæna, lupus, osteitis, ovarian cysts, myomata uteri, are
pathological lesions, that offer favorable ground for the action of
this powerful drug. Senile paresis).
Aur sulph (Paralysis agitans; constant nodding of the head;
affections of mammæ; swelling, pain, cracked nipples with
lancinating pains).
Also, Asafaet (in caries of bones of ears and nose). Syphilin:
Kali iod; Hep; Merc; Mez; Nit ac; Phosph.
Antidotes: Bell; Cinch; Cupr; Merc.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. Latter potency especially for
increased blood pressure.
AURUM MURIATICUM NATRONATUM
Sodium Chloroaurate
This remedy has a most pronounced effect on the female organs,
and most of its clinical application has been based thereon. Has
more power over uterine tumors than any other remedy
(Burnett). Psoriasis syphilitica. Periosteal swelling on lower jaw.
Swelling of testicle. High blood pressure due to disturbed
function of nervous mechanism. Arterio-sclerosis Syphilitic
ataxia.
Tongue.--Burning; stitches, and induration. Old cases of
rheumatism and gouty pains. Hepatic cirrhosis. Interstitial
nephritis.
Female.--Indurated cervix. Palpitation of young girls. Coldness
in abdomen. Chronic metritis and prolapsus. Uterus fills up
whole pelvis. Ulceration of neck of womb and vagina.
Leucorrhœa, with spasmodic contraction of vagina. Ovaries
indurated. Ovarian dropsy. Sub-involution. Ossified uterus.
Dose.--Second and third trituration.
AVENA SATIVA
Common Oat
Has a selective action on brain and nervous system, favorably
influencing their nutritive function.
Nervous exhaustion, sexual debility, and the morphine habit call
for this remedy in rather material dosage. Best tonic for debility
after exhausting diseases. Nerve tremors of the aged; chorea,
paralysis agitans, epilepsy. Post-diphtheritic paralysis.
Rheumatism of heart. Colds. Acute coryza (20 drop doses in hot
water hourly for a few doses). Alcoholism. Sleeplessness,
especially of alcoholics. Bad effects of Morphine habit. Nervous
states of many female troubles.
Mind.--Inability to keep mind on any one subject.
Head.--Nervous headache at menstrual period, with burning at
top of head. Occipital headache, with phosphatic urine.
Female.--Amenorrhœa and dysmenorrhœa, with weak
circulation.
Male.--Spermatorrhœa; impotency; after too much indulgence.
Extremities.--Numbness of limbs, as if paralyzed. Strength of
hand diminished.
Relationship.--Compare: Alfalfa (General tonic similar to
avena-also in scanty and suppressed urine).
Dose.--Tincture ten to twenty drop doses, preferably in hot
water.
AZADIRACHTA INDICA
Margosa Bark
An afternoon fever and rheumatic pains in various parts are
caused by this remedy. Pain in sternum and ribs, in back and
shoulders and extremities; heat, pricking and aching in hands,
especially palms, fingers, also toes.
Head.--Forgetful; giddy on rising; head aches, scalp sensitive;
eyes burn, pain in right eyeball.
Fever.--Slight chill, afternoon fever, glowing heat in face,
hands, and feet, copious sweat on upper part of body.
Relationship.--Compare: Cedron; Natr mur; Arsenic.
BACILLINUM BURNETT
A Maceration of a Typical Tuberculous Lung introduced by
Dr. Burnett. (BACILLINUM)
Has been employed successfully in the treatment of tuberculosis;
its good effects seen in the change of the sputum, which
becomes decreased and more aerated and less purulent. Many
forms of chronic non-tubercular disease are influenced favorably
by Bacillinum, especially when bronchorrhœa and dyspnœa are
present. Respiratory pyorrhea. The patient expectorates less.
Bacillinum is especially indicated for lungs of old people, with
chronic catarrhal condition and enfeebled pulmonary circulation,
attacks of suffocation at night with difficult cough. Suffocative
catarrh. Tubercular meningitis. Favors falling off of tartar of
teeth. Constant disposition to take cold.
Head.--Irritable, depressed. Severe, deep-in headache, also as of
a tight hoop. Ringworm. Eczema of eyelids.
Abdomen.--Abdominal pains, enlarged lands in groins, tabes
mesenterica. Sudden diarrhœa before breakfast. Obstinate
constipation, with offensive flatus.
Respiratory.--Oppression. Catarrhal dyspnœa. Humid asthma.
Bubbling rales and muco-purulent expectoration. Note. This
muco-purulent expectoration of bronchitic patients is equally
poly-bacillary; it is a mixture of diverse species and hence
Bacillinum is truly indicated (Cartier). Often relieves congestion
of the lungs, thus paving way for other remedies in
Tuberculosis.
Skin.--Ringworm; pityriasis. Eczema of eyelids. Glands of neck
enlarged and tender.
Modalities.--Worse, night and early morning; cold air.
Relationship.--Antimon iod; Lach; Arsenic iod; Myosotis.
Levico, 5-10 drops, follows as an intercurrent where much
debility is present (Burnett).
Complementary: Calc phos; Kali carb.
Compare: Its effects seem to be identical to that of Koch's
Tuberculinum. Both are useful in the tubercular diathesis before
phthisis had developed. In the early stages of tubercular disease
of glands, joints, skin and bones. Psorinum. Seems to be its
chronic equivalent. Bacillin testium acts especially on lower half
of the body.
Dose.--The does is important. Should not be given below the
thirtieth and not repeated frequently. One dose a week often
sufficient to bring about reaction. It is rapid in action, and good
results ought to be seen, otherwise there is no need of repetition.
BADIAGA
Fresh-water Sponge
Soreness of muscles and integuments; worse motion and friction
of clothes, with sensitiveness to cold. Glands swollen. General
paresis. Basedow's disease. Lues, bubo, roseola.
Head.--Sensation of enlargement and fullness. Pain in forehead
and temple, extending to eyeballs, worse in afternoon. Blueness
under eyes. Dandruff; scalp sore, dry, tetter-like. Dull, dizzy
feeling in head. Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge, with
asthmatic breathing and suffocative cough. Influenza. Slight
sounds are greatly accentuated.
Eyes.--Twitching of left upper lid; eyeballs tender; aching in
eyeballs. Intermittent sore pain in eyeball, coming on at 3 pm.
Respiratory.--Cough; worse in afternoon, better in warm room.
The mucus flies out of mouth and nostrils. Whooping-cough,
with thick yellow expectoration; flies out. Hay-fever, with
asthmatic breathing. Pleuritic stitches in chest, neck, and back.
Stomach.--Mouth hot. Much thirst. Lancinating pain in pit of
stomach extending to vertebra and scapula.
Female.--Metrorrhagia; worse at night, with feeling of
enlargement of head (Arg). Cancer of breast (Asterias; Con;
Carbo an; Plumb iod).
Heart.--Indescribable bad feeling about the heart with soreness
and pain, flying stitches all over.
Skin.--Sore to touch. Freckles. Rhagades.
Back.--Stitches in nape, scapulć. Pain in small of back, hips and
lower limbs. Very stiff neck. Muscles and skin sore, as if beaten.
Modalities.--Worse by cold. Better, by heat.
Relationship.--Compare: Merc similar but opposite modalities.
Spongia; Kali hyd; Phytol; Conium.
Complementary: Sulph; Merc; Iod.
Dose.--First to sixth attenuation.
BALSAMUM PERUVIANUM
Peruvian Balsam from Myroxylon Pereiræ
Useful in bronchial catarrh, with copious, purulent
expectoration. Debility; hectic fever.
Nose.--Profuse, thick discharge. Eczema, with ulceration.
Chronic, fetid, nasal catarrh.
Stomach.--Vomiting of food and mucus. Catarrh of stomach.
Chest.--Bronchitis, and phthisis, with muco-purulent, thick,
creamy expectoration. Loud rales in chest (Kali sulph; Ant tar).
Very loose cough. Hectic fever and night-sweats, with irritating,
short cough and scanty expectoration.
Urine.--Scanty; much mucus sediment. Catarrh of bladder
(Chimaph).
Relationship.--Balsamum Tolutanum-the balsam of Myroxylon
toluifera--(chronic bronchitis with profuse expectoration)
(Oleum caryophyllum-oil of cloves-in profuse septic
expectoration-3 to 5 minims in milk or capsules).
Dose.--First attenuation: In hectic 6x.
Extra homeopathic uses locally. As a stimulant to raw surfaces
in indolent ulcers, scabies, cracked nipples, rhagades, itch.
Promotes granulation, removes fetor. A one per cent solution in
alcohol or ether may be used with the atomizer in respiratory
affections. Internally, as an expectorant, in chronic bronchitis.
Dose, 5 to 15 M, made into an emulsion with mucilage or yolk
of egg.
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA
Wild Indigo
(BAPTISIA)
The symptoms of this drug are of an asthenic type, simulating
low fevers, septic conditions of the blood, malarial poisoning
and extreme prostration. Indescribable sick feeling. Great
muscular soreness and putrid phenomena always are present.
All the secretions are offensive-breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc.
Epidemic influenza. Chronic intestinal toxæmias of children
with fetid stools and eructations.
Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of anti-bodies to the
bac typhosus, viz, the agglutinins (Mellon). Thus it raises the
natural bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary
intoxication, which produces the typhoid syndrome. Typhoid
carriers. After inoculation with anti-typhoid serum. Intermittent
pulse, especially in the aged.
Mind.--Wild, wandering feeling. Inability to think. Mental
confusion. Ideas confused. Illusion of divided personality.
Thinks he is broken or double, and tosses about the bed trying to
get pieces together (Cajeput). Delirium, wandering, muttering.
Perfect indifference. Falls asleep while being spoken to.
Melancholia, with stupor.
Head.--Confused, swimming feeling. Vertigo; pressure at root
of nose. Skin of forehead feels tight; seems drawn to back of
head. Feels too large, heavy, numb. Soreness of eyeballs. Brain
feels sore. Stupor; falls asleep while spoken to. Early deafness in
typhoid conditions. Eyelids heavy.
Face.--Besotted look. Dark red. Pain at root of nose. Muscles of
jaw rigid.
Mouth.--Taste flat, bitter. Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated.
Breath fetid. Tongue feels burned; yellowish-brown; edges red
and shining. Dry and brown in center, with dry and glistening
edges; surface cracked and sore. Can swallow liquids only; least
solid food gags.
Throat.--Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate. Constriction,
contraction of œsophagus (Cajeput). Great difficulty in
swallowing solid food. Painless sore throat, and offensive
discharge. Contraction at cardiac orifice.
Stomach.--Can swallow only liquids, vomiting due to spasm of
œsophagus. Gastric fever. No appetite. Constant desire for
water. Sinking feeling at stomach. Pain in epigastric region.
Feeling of hard substance (Abies nig). All symptoms worse from
beer (Kali bich). Cardiac orifice contracted convulsively and
ulcerative inflammation of stomach and bowels.
Abdomen.--Right side markedly affected. Distended and
rumbling. Soreness over region of gall-bladder, with diarrhœa.
Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody. Soreness of abdomen,
in region of liver. Dysentery of old people.
Female.--Threatened miscarriage from mental depression,
shock, watching, low fevers. Menses too early, too profuse.
Lochia acrid, fetid. Puerperal fever.
Respiratory.--Lungs feel compressed, breathing difficult; seeks
open window. Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and
sense of suffocation. Constriction of chest.
Back and Extremities.--Neck tired. Stiffness and pain, aching
and drawing in arms and legs. Pain in sacrum, around hips and
legs. Sore and bruised. Decubitus.
Sleep.--Sleepless and restless. Nightmare and frightful dreams.
Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed. Falls
asleep while answering a question.
Skin.--Livid spots all over body and limbs. Burning and heat in
skin (Arsenic). Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and
prostration.
Fever.--Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body.
Heat all over, with occasional chills. Chill about 11
am.Adynamic fevers. Typhus fever. Shipboard fever.
Modalities.--Worse; Humid heat; fog; indoors.
Relationship.--Compare: Bryonia and Arsenic may be needed to
complete the favorable reaction. Ailanthus differs, being more
painful. Baptisia more painless. Rhus; Muriat acid; Arsenic;
Bryon; Arnica; Echinac. Pyrogen.
Baptisia confusia (Pain in right jaw and oppression in left
hypochondrium, producing dyspnœa and necessity to assume
erect position).
Dose.--Tincture, to twelfth attenuation. Has rather short action.
BARYTA ACETICA
Acetate of Barium
Produces paralysis beginning at the extremities and spreading
upward. Pruritus of aged.
Mind.--Forgetful; wavering long between opposite resolutions.
Lack of self confidence.
Face.--Feeling of cobweb in face.
Extremities.--Drawing pain down whole left leg. Crawling,
with burning stitches. Paralysis. Lumbago and rheumatic pain in
muscles and joints.
Dose.--Second and third trituration in repeated dosage.
BARYTA CARBONICA
Carbonate of Baryta
(BARYTA CARB)
Specially indicated in infancy and old age. This remedy brings
aid to scrofulous children, especially if they are backward
mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop,
have scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen abdomen, take cold easily,
and then always have swollen tonsils. Persons subject to quinsy
which is prone to suppurate; gums bleed easily. Diseases of old
men when degenerative changes begin;-cardiac vascular and
cerebral;-who have hypertrophied prostate or indurated testes,
very sensitive to cold, offensive foot-sweats, very weak and
weary, must sit or lie down or lean on something. Very averse to
meeting strangers. Catarrh of posterior nares, with frequent
epistaxis. Often useful in the dyspepsias of the young who have
masturbated and who suffer from seminal emissions, together
with cardiac irritability and palpitation. Affects glandular
structures, and useful in general degenerative changes,
especially in coats of arteries, aneurism, and senility. Baryta is a
cardio-vascular poison acting on the muscular coats of heart and
vessels. Arterial fibrosis. Blood-vessels soften and degenerate,
become distended, and aneurisms, ruptures, and apoplexies
result.
Mind.--Loss of memory, mental weakness. Irresolute. Lost
confidence in himself. Senile dementia. Confusion. Bashful.
Aversion to strangers. Childish; grief over trifles.
Head.--Vertigo; stitches, when standing in the sun, extending
through head. Brain feels as if loose. Hair falls out. Confusion.
Wens.
Eyes.--Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils.
Photophobia. Gauze before eyes. Cataracts (Calc; Phos; Sil).
Ears.--Hardness of hearing. Crackling noise. Glands around
ears painful and swollen. Reverberation on blowing nose.
Nose.--Dry; sneezing; coryza, with swelling of upper lip and
nose. Sensation of smoke in nose. Discharge of thick, yellow
mucus. Frequent bleeding. Scabs around wings of nose.
Face.--Pale, puffed; sensation as of cobweb (Alumina). Upper
lip swollen.
Mouth.--Awakes with dry mouth. Gums bleed and retract.
Teeth ache before menses. Mouth filled with inflamed vesicles,
foul taste. Paralysis of tongue. Smarting, burning pain in tip of
tongue. Dribbling of saliva at dawn. Spasm of śsophagus when
food enters.
Throat.--Submaxillary glands and tonsils swollen. Takes cold
easily, with stitches and smarting pain. Quinsy. Suppurating
tonsils from every cold. Tonsils inflamed, with swollen veins.
Smarting pain when swallowing; worse empty swallowing.
Feeling of a plug in pharynx. Can only swallow liquids. Spasm
of śsophagus as soon as food enters śsophagus, causes gagging
and choking (Merc cor; Graphit). Throat troubles from over use
of voice. Stinging pain in tonsils, pharynx or larynx.
Stomach.--Waterbrash, hiccough, and eructation, which relieves
pressure as of a stone. Hungry, but refuses food. Pain and weight
immediately after a meal, with epigastric tenderness (Kali carb).
Worse after warm food. Gastric weakness in the aged with
possible malignancy present.
Abdomen.--Hard and tense, distended. Colicky. Enlarged
mesenteric glands. Pain in abdomen swallowing food. Habitual
colic, with hunger, but food is refused.
Rectum.--Constipation, with hard, knotty stools. Hćmorrhoids
protrude on urinating. Crawling in rectum. Oozing at anus.
Urinary.--Every time patient urinates, his piles come down.
Urging to urinate. Burning in urethra on urinating.
Male.--Diminished desire and premature impotence. Enlarged
prostate. Testicles indurated.
Female.--Before menses, pain in stomach and small of back.
Menses scanty.
Respiratory.--Dry, suffocative cough, especially in old people,
full of mucus but lacking strength to expectorate, worse every
change of weather (Senega). Larynx feels as if smoke were
inhaled. Chronic aphonia. Stitches in chest; worse inspiration.
Lungs feel full smoke.
Heart.--Palpitation and distress in region of heart. Aneurism
(Lycop). Accelerates the heart's action at first, blood pressure
much increased, contraction of blood vessels. Palpitation when
lying on left side, when thinking of it especially; pulse full and
hard. Cardiac symptoms after suppressed foot-sweat.
Back.--Swollen glands in nape of occiput. Fatty tumors about
neck. Bruised pain between scapulć. Stiffness in sacrum.
Weakness of spine.
Extremities.--Pain in axillary glands. Cold, clammy feet (Calc).
Fetid foot-sweats. Numbness of limbs. Numb feeling from knees
to scrotum; disappears when sitting down. Toes and soles sore;
soles painful when walking. Pain in joints; burning pains in
lower limbs.
Sleep.--Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot.
Twitching during sleep.
Modalities.--Worse, while thinking of symptoms; from
washing; lying on painful side. Better, walking in open air.
Relationship.--Compare: Digitalis; Radium; Aragallus;
Oxytrop; Astrag. Complementary: Dulc; Silica; Psorin.
Incompatible: Calc. Antidote for poisonous doses: Epsom salts.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency, the latter to remove the
predisposition to quinsy. Baryta is slow in action, bears
repetition.
BARYTA IODATA
Iodide of Baryta
Acts on the lymphatic system, increased leucocytosis. Quinsy.
Indurated glands, especially tonsils and breasts. Strumous
ophthalmia, with tumefaction of cervical glands and stunted
growth. Tumors.
Relationship.--Compare: Acon lycotonum (swelling of cervical,
axillary, and mammary glands). Lapis; Con. Merc iod; Carbo
an.
Dose.--Second and third trituration.
 BARYTA MURIATICA
Barium Chloride
The different salts of Baryta are called for in organic lesions of
the aged and dwarfish, both mentally and physically. Arterio-
sclerosis and cerebral affections due to this condition.
Headaches, but without acute crisis, occurring in old people;
heaviness rather than pain. Vertigo, due to cerebral anćmia and
noises in ears. Acts on lower alimentary canal, especially
rectum; on muscles and joints, giving stiffness and weakness as
from overwalking. The white blood corpuscles increased.
Hypertension and vascular degeneration. Increased tension of
pulse. Arterio-sclerosis (Aurum; Secale) where a high systolic
pressure with a comparatively low diastolic tension is attended
by cerebral and cardiac symptoms.
This remedy has indurated and narrowing of the cardiac orifice
with pain, immediately after eating, and epigastric tenderness,
which has been repeatedly verified, also its use in aneurism and
chronic hypertrophy of the tonsils. Nymphomania and satyriasis.
Convulsions. In every form of mania when the sexual desire is
increased. Icy coldness of body, with paralysis. Multiple
sclerosis of brain and cord. Voluntary muscular power gone but
perfectly sensible. Paresis after influenza and diphtheria.
General feeling of lassitude in the morning, especially weakness
of the legs, with muscular stiffness. Children who go around
with their mouth open and who talk through the nose. Stupid-
appearing, hard of hearing.
Ears.--Whizzing and buzzing. Noises on chewing and
swallowing, or sneezing. Earache; better sipping cold water.
Parotids swollen. Offensive otorrhśa. Inflates middle ear on
blowing nose.
Throat.--Difficult swallowing. Tonsils enlarged. Paresis of
pharynx and eustachian tubes, with sneezing and noises. Tubes
feel too wide open.
Respiratory.--Bronchial affection of old people with cardiac
dilation. Facilitates expectoration. Great accumulation and
rattling of mucus with difficult expectoration. Arterio-sclerosis
of the lung, thus in senile asthma, modifies the arterial tension.
Stomach.--Gone feeling at epigastrium a good guiding
symptom for it in chronic affections. Retching and vomiting.
Sensation of heat ascending to head.
Urine.--Great increase in uric acid, diminution of chlorides.
Abdomen.--Throbbing (Selen); induration of pancreas;
abdominal aneurism. Inguinal glands swollen. Spasmodic pain
in rectum.
Relationship.--Compare in sclerotic degenerations, especially
of spinal cord, liver, and heart. Plumbum met and Plumb iod.
Also Aurum mur (which will often accomplish more in sclerotic
and exudative degenerations than other remedies. Multiple
sclerosis, fulgurating pains, tremors, Morvan's disease,
hypertrophy of fingers).
Dose.--Third trituration. Bears repetition of dosage well.
BAROSMA CRENULATUM
Buchu
(BAROSMA CRENATA)
Marked specific effects on genito-urinary system; muco-
purulent discharges. Irritable bladder, with vesical catarrh;
prostatic disorders. Gravel. Leucorrhśa.
Relationship.--Compare: Copaiva; Thuja; Populus; Chimaph.
See Diosma.
Dose.--Tincture or tea from leaves.
BELLADONNA
Deadly Nightshade
Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system,
producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted
special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It has a marked
action on the vascular system, skin and glands. Belladonna
always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring
eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperæsthesia of
all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements,
dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic
pains that come and go suddenly (Oxytropis). Heat, redness,
throbbing and burning. Great children's remedy. Epileptic
spasms followed by nausea and vomiting. Scarlet fever and also
prophylactic. Here use the thirtieth potency. Exophthalmic
goitre. Corresponds to the symptoms of "air-sickness" in
aviators. Give as preventive. No thirst, anxiety or fear.
Belladonna stands for violence of attack and suddenness of
onset. Bell for the extreme of thyroid toxæmia. Use 1x (Beebe).
Mind.--Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by
specters and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities.
While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual
hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within.
He is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of subjective visual
impressions and fantastic illusions. Hallucinations; sees
monsters, hideous faces. Delirium; frightful images; furious;
rages, bites, strikes; desire to escape. Loss of consciousness.
Disinclined to talk. Perversity, with tears. Acuteness of all
senses. Changeableness.
Head.--Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards. Sensitive
to least contact. Much throbbing and heat. Palpitation
reverberating in head with labored breathing. Pain; fullness,
especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples. Headache
from suppressed catarrhal flow. Sudden outcries. Pain worse
light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure
and semi-erect posture. Boring of head into pillow; drawn
backward and rolls from side to side. Constant moaning. Hair
splits; is dry and comes out. Headache worse on right side and
when lying down; ill effects, colds, etc; from having hair cut.
Face.--Red, bluish-red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion
of muscles of face. Swelling of upper lip. Facial neuralgia with
twitching muscles and flushed face.
Eyes.--Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down. Pupils dilated
(Agnus). Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant;
conjunctiva red; dry, burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes.
Exophthalmus. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance. Diplopia,
squinting, spasms of lids. Sensation as if eyes were half closed.
Eyelids swollen. Fundus congested.
Ears.--Tearing pain in middle and external ear. Humming
noises. Membrana tympani bulges and injected. Parotid gland
swollen. Sensitive to loud tones. Hearing very acute. Otitis
media. Pain causes delirium. Child cries out in sleep; throbbing
and beating pain deep in ear, synchronous with heart beat.
Hematoma auris. Acute and sub-acute conditions of Eustachian
tube. Autophony-hearing one's voice in ear.
Nose.--Imaginary odors. Tingling in tip of nose. Red and
swollen. Bleeding of nose, with red face. Coryza; mucus mixed
with blood.
Mouth.--Dry. Throbbing pain in teeth. Gumboil. Tongue red on
edges. Strawberry tongue. Grinding of teeth. Tongue swollen
and painful. Stammering.
Throat.--Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion (Ginseng);
red, worse on right side. Tonsils enlarged; throat feels
constricted; difficult deglutition; worse, liquids. Sensation of a
lump. Œsophagus dry; feels contracted. Spasms in throat.
Continual inclination to swallow. Scraping sensation. Muscles
of deglutition very sensitive. Hypertrophy of mucous membrane.
Stomach.--Loss of appetite. Averse to meat and milk.
Spasmodic pain in epigastrium. Constriction; pain runs to spine.
Nausea and vomiting. Great thirst for cold water. Spasms of
stomach. Empty retching. Abhorrence of liquids. Spasmodic
hiccough. Dread of drinking. Uncontrollable vomiting.
Abdomen.--Distended, hot. Transverse colon protrudes like a
pad. Tender, swollen. Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar,
pressure. Cutting pain across; stitches in left side of abdomen,
when coughing, sneezing, or touching it. Extreme sensitiveness
to touch, bed-clothes, etc (Laches).
Stools.--Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk. Shuddering
during stool. Stinging pain in rectum; spasmodic stricture. Piles
more sensitive with backache. Prolapsus ani (Ignatia; Podoph).
Urine.--Retention. Acute urinary infections. Sensation of motion
in bladder as of a worm. Urine scanty, with tenesmus; dark and
turbid, loaded with phosphates. Vesical region sensitive.
Incontinence, continuous dropping. Frequent and profuse.
Hæmaturia where no pathological condition can be found.
Prostatic hypertrophy.
Male.--Testicles hard, drawn up, inflamed. Nocturnal sweat of
genitals. Flow of prostatic fluid. Desire diminished.
Female.--Sensitive forcing downwards, as if all the viscera
would protrude at genitals. Dryness and heat of vagina.
Dragging around loins. Pain in sacrum. Menses increased; bright
red, too early, too profuse. Hæmorrhage hot. Cutting pain from
hip to hip. Menses and lochia very offensive and hot. Labor-
pains come and go suddenly. Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness,
streaks radiate from nipple. Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red.
Tumors of breast, pain worse lying down. Badly smelling
hæmorrhages, hot gushes of blood. Diminished lochia.
Respiratory.--Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea.
Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night. Larynx feels sore.
Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. Cheyne-Stokes
respiration (Cocaine; Opium). Hoarse; loss of voice. Painless
hoarseness. Cough with pain in left hip. Barking cough,
whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with
expectoration of blood. Stitches in chest when coughing. Larynx
very painful; feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough.
High, piping voice. Moaning at every breath.
Heart.--Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, with labored
breathing. Palpitation from least exertion. Throbbing all through
body. Dichrotism. Heart seemed too large. Rapid but weakened
pulse.
Extremities.--Shooting pains along limbs. Joints swollen, red,
shining, with red streaks radiating. Tottering gait. Shifting
rheumatic pains. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Jerking limbs. Spasms.
Involuntary limping. Cold extremities.
Back.--Stiff neck. Swelling of glands of neck. Pain in nape, as if
it would break. Pressure on dorsal region most painful.
Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.
Skin.--Dry and hot; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth.
Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading. Erythema; pustules
on face. Glands swollen, tender, red. Boils. Acne rosacea.
Suppurative wounds. Alternate redness and paleness of the skin.
Indurations after inflammations. Erysipelas.
Fever.--A high feverish state with comparative absence of
toxæmia. Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Feet icy cold.
Superficial blood-vessels, distended. Perspiration dry only on
head. No thirst with fever.
Sleep.--Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth. Kept awake by
pulsation of blood-vessels. Screams out in sleep. Sleeplessness,
with drowsiness. Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep.
Sleeps with hands under head (Ars; Plat).
Modalities.--Worse, touch, jar, noise, draught, after noon, lying
down. Better, semi-erect.
Relationship.--Compare: Sanguisorba officinals 2x-6x, a
member of the Rosaceæ family, (Profuse, long-lasting menses,
especially in nervous patients with congestive symptoms to head
and limbs. Passive hæmorrhages at climacteric. Chronic metritis.
Hæmorrhage from lungs. Varices and ulcers). Mandragora--
(Mandrake). A narcotic of the ancients-Restless excitability and
bodily weakness. Desire for sleep. Has antiperiodic properties
like China and Aranea. Useful in epilepsy and hydrophobia, also
Cetonia (A. E. Lavine). Hyos (less fever, more agitation); Stram
(more sensorial excitement, frenzy); Hoitzia-A Mexican drug,
similar in action to Bellad (Useful in fever, scarlatinal eruption,
measles, urticaria, etc. High fever with eruptive fevers. Dry
mouth and throat, red face, injected eyes, delirium). Calcar is
often required after Bell; Atropia. Alkaloid of Belladonna covers
more the neurotic sphere of the Belladonna action (Great
dryness of throat, almost impossible to swallow. Chronic
stomach affections, with great pain and vomiting of all food.
Peritonitis. All kind of illusions of sight. Everything appears
large. Platina opposite). Hypochlorhydria; pyrosis. Motes over
everything. On reading, words run together; double vision, all
objects seem to be elongated. Eustachian tube and tympanic
congestion. Affinity for the pancreas. Hyperacidity of stomach.
Paroxysms of gastric pain; ovarian neuralgia.
Non-Homeopathic Uses.--Atropia and its salts are used for
ophthalmic purposes, to dilate the pupil and paralyze the
accommodation.
Given internally or hypodermically, it is antagonistic to Opium
and Morphine. Physostigma and Prussic Acid. Narcotic poisons
and mushroom poisoning. Renal colic 1-200 of a grain
hypodermically.
Atropin injected subcutaneously in doses from a milligram
upwards for intestinal obstruction threatening life.
Hypodermically 1-80 gr night sweats in phthisis.
Atropia 1-20 gr is antagonistic to 1 gr. Morphine.
Also used as a local anæsthetic, antispasmodic, and to dry up
secretions, milk, etc. Hypodermically 1-80 gr night sweats in
phthisis.
Dose.--Atropia Sulph, 1-120 to 1-60 grain.
Antidotes to Belladonna: Camph; Coff; Opium; Acon.
Complementary: Calc. Bellad (contains lime). Especially in
semi-chronic and constitutional diseases.
Incompatible: Acet ac.
Dose.--First to thirtieth potency and higher. Must be repeated
frequently in acute diseases.
BELLIS PERENNIS
Daisy
It acts upon the muscular fibers of the blood-vessels. Much
muscular soreness. Lameness, as if sprained. Venous
congestion, due to mechanical causes. First remedy in injuries to
the deeper tissues, after major surgical work. Results of injuries
to nerves with intense soreness and intolerance of cold bathing.
After gout, debility of limbs.
Traumatism of the pelvic organs, auto-traumatism, expresses the
condition calling for this remedy; ill effects from masturbation.
Excellent remedy for sprains and bruises. Complaints due to
cold food or drink when the body is heated, and in affections
due to cold wind. Externally, in nævi. Acne. Boils all over. Sore,
bruised feeling in the pelvic region. Exudations, stasis, swelling,
come within the range of this remedy. Rheumatic symptoms.
Does not vitiate the secretions. "It is a princely remedy for old
laborers, especially gardeners" (Burnett).
Head.--Vertigo in elderly people. Headache from occiput to top
of head. Forehead feels contracted. Bruised soreness. Itching
around scalp and over back, worse from hot bath and bed.
Female.--Breasts and uterus engorged. Varicose veins in
pregnancy. During pregnancy inability to walk. Abdominal
muscles lame. Uterus feels sore, as if squeezed.
Sleep.--Wakes early in morning and cannot get to sleep again.
Abdomen.--Soreness of abdominal walls and of uterus. Stitches
in spleen, sore, enlarged. Yellow, painless diarrhœa, foul odor,
worse at night. Bloated; rumbling in bowels.
Skin.--Boils. Ecchymosis, swelling, very sensitive to touch.
Venous congestion due to mechanical causes. Varicose veins
with bruised sore feeling. Exudations and swellings. Acne.
Extremities.--Joints sore, muscular soreness. Itching on back
and flexor surfaces of thighs. Pain down anterior of thighs. Wrist
feels contracted as from elastic band around joint. Sprains feels
contracted as from elastic band around joint. Sprains with great
soreness. Railway spine.
Relationship.--Compare: Arnica; Arsenic; Staphis; Hamamelis;
Bryonia; Vanadium (degenerative states).
Modalities.--Worse, left side; hot bath and warmth of bed;
before storms; cold bathing; cold wind.
Dose.--Tincture to third potency.
BENZOICUM ACIDUM
Benzoic Acid
The most marked characteristic pertains to the odor and color of
the urine. It has a marked action on metabolism. It produces and
cures symptoms of a uric acid diathesis, with urine highly
colored and very offensive, and gouty symptoms. Renal
insufficiency. Child wants to be nursed in the arms, will not be
laid down. Pains suddenly change their locality. Anti-sycotic.
Gouty and asthmatic.
Mind.--Prone to dwell on unpleasant things in the past. Omits
words in writing. Depression.
Head.--Vertigo inclination to fall sideways. Throbbing in
temporal arteries, causes puffing around ears. Noises when
swallowing. Ulceration of tongue. Swelling behind ears (Caps).
Cold sweat on forehead. Pricking, puckered constriction of
mouth, bluish and bleeding gums. Wens.
Nose.--Itching of septum. Pain in nasal bones.
Face.--Copper-colored spots. Red, with little blisters.
Circumscribed redness of cheeks.
Stomach.--Sweat while eating; pressure in stomach, sensation
of a lump.
Abdomen.--Cutting about navel. Stitching in liver region.
Rectum.--Stitches and constricted feeling. Puckering
constriction of rectum. Itching and watery elevations around
anus.
Stool.--Frothy, offensive, liquid, light-colored, like soapsuds,
bowel movements, mostly windy.
Urine.--Repulsive odor; changeable color; brown, acid.
Enuresis; dribbling, offensive urine of old men. Excess of uric
acid. Vesical catarrh from suppressed gonorrhśa. Cystitis.
Respiratory.--Hoarse in morning. Asthmatic cough; worse at
night; lying on right side. Chest very tender. Pain in region of
heart. Expectoration, green mucus.
Back.--Pressure on spinal column. Coldness in sacrum. Dull
pain in region of kidneys; worse, wine.
Extremities.--Joints crack on motion. Tearing with stitches.
Pain in tendo Achillis. Rheumatic gout; nodes very painful.
Gouty deposits. Ganglion; swelling of the wrist. Pain and
swelling in knees. Bunion of great toe. Tearing pain in great toe.
Fever.--Cold hands, feet, back, knees. Chilliness; cold sweat.
Internal heat on awakening.
Skin.--Red spots. Itching in spots.
Modalities.--Worse, in open air; by uncovering.
Relationship.--Useful after Colchic fails in gout; after Copavia
in gonorrhśa.
Compare: Nitric acid; Ammon benz; Sabina; Tropoeolum.
Garden Nasturtium--(fetid urine).
Antidote: Copaiva.
Incompatible: Wine.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
BENZOLUM
Benzol, C6, H6
(BENZENUM - COAL NAPHTHA)
The most striking fact in the proving of Benzol seems to be the
influence it had on the circulatory system. It caused a slowing of
the pulse stream which in the guinea-pigs brought about the
formation of infarcts. In the human provers it resulted in a
decrease of the red and increase of white cells (R. F. Rabe, M.
D).
It ought to be of use in Leucæmia. Eye symptoms striking.
Hallucinations-Epileptiform attacks, coma, and anæsthesia.
Head.--Sense of falling through bed and floor. Pains from below
upward. Tired and nervous.
Frontal headache to root of nose. Dizzy. Pressing feeling in
head. Right sided headache.
Eyes.--Illusion of vision with wide open eyes. Twitching of lids.
Photophobia, objects blurred. Aching in eyes and lids. Marked
dilation of pupils. Failure to react to light, particularly daylight.
Nose.--Profuse fluent coryza. Especially in afternoon. Violent
sneezing.
Male.--Swelling of right testicle. Severe pain in testicles. Itching
of scrotum. Profuse urination.
Extremities.--Heavy limbs, cold legs, exaggerated knee-jerk.
Pains from below upward.
Skin.--Eruption like measles. Perspiration on side not lain upon.
Itching all over back.
Modalities.--Worse at night. Worse right side.
Relationship.--Compare: Benzin.--Petroleum ether-not as pure a
compound as Benzene (Benzol). It is the same, but with a
mixture of hydrocarbons. It seems to exercise a special influence
on the nervous system and on the blood. Oxyhemoglobinemia.
Physical weakness, cramps, exaggeration of knee jerks, nausea,
vomit, dizziness, heaviness and coldness of limbs. Tremor of
eyelids and tongue. Benzin, dinitricum--D. N. B.--(The most
obvious results of poisoning by skin absorption are changes in
the red blood corpuscles and liver degeneration in amblyopia,
color-blindness, retinitis. Field of vision contracted. Black
urine). Benzin nitricum. Mirbane (Dark, black blood, coagulates
with difficulty; venous hyperæmia of the brain and general
venous engorgement. Burning taste in mouth. Blue lips, tongue,
skin, nails and conjunctivæ. Cold skin, pulse small, weak,
breathing slow and irregular, unconsciousness, symptoms of
apoplectic coma. Rolling of eyeballs in their vertical axis; pupils
dilated. Nystagmus. Respiration very slow, difficult, sighing).
Trinitrotoluene (T. N. T), Trotyl-is a high explosive, obtained by
nitrating toluene-a product of coal tar distillation.
When the skin or hair is exposed to T.N.T by contact a
characteristic yellow or tawny-orange stain is produce, which
lasts for some weeks. Indicated in graver forms of anæmia
(pernicious) and jaundice. Produces fatal toxic jaundice.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
BERBERIS VULGARIS
Barberry
Rapid change of symptoms-pains change in regard to place and
character-thirst alternates with thirstlessness, hunger, and loss of
appetite, etc. Acts forcibly on the venous system, producing
pelvic engorgements and hćmorrhoids.
Hepatic, and rheumatic affections, particularly with urinary,
hćmorrhoidal and menstrual complaints.
Old gouty constitutions. Pain in region of kidneys is most
marked; hence its use in renal and vesical troubles, gall-stones,
and vesical catarrh. It causes inflammation of kidneys with
hćmaturia. Pains may be felt all over body, emanating from
small of back. It has also marked action on the liver, promoting
the flow of bile. Often called for in arthritic affections with
urinary disturbances. Wandering, radiating pains. Acts well in
fleshy persons, good livers, but with little endurance. Spinal
irritation. All Berberis pains radiate, are not worse by pressure,
but worse in various attitudes, especially standing and active
exercise.
Head.--Listless, apathetic, indifferent. Puffy sensation, feeling
as if becoming larger. Vertigo with attacks of fainting. Frontal
headache. Chilliness in back and occiput. Tearing pain in
auricle, and gouty concretions. Sensation of a tight cap pressing
upon the whole scalp.
Nose.--Dry; obstinate catarrh of left nostril. Crawling in nostrils.
Face.--Pale, sickly. Sunken cheeks and eyes, with bluish circles.
Mouth.--Sticky sensation. Diminished saliva. Sticky, frothy
saliva, like cotton (Nux mosch). Tongue feels scalded, vesicles
on tongue.
Stomach.--Nausea before breakfast. Heartburn.
Abdomen.--Stitches in region of gall-bladder; worse, pressure,
extending to stomach. Catarrh of the gall-bladder with
constipation and yellow complexion. Stitching pain in front of
kidneys extending to liver, spleen, stomach, groins, Poupart's
ligament. Sticking deep in ilium.
Stool.--Constant urging to stool. Diarrhśa painless, clay-colored,
burning, and smarting in anus and perineum. Tearing around
anus. Fistula in ano.
Urinary.--Burning pains. Sensation as if some urine remained
after urinating. Urine with thick mucus and bright-red, mealy
sediment. Bubbling, sore sensation in kidneys. Pain in bladder
region. Pain in the thighs and loins on urinating. Frequent
urination; urethra burns when not urinating.
Male.--Neuralgia of spermatic cord and testicles. Smarting,
burning, stitching in testicles, in prepuce and scrotum.
Female.--Pinching constriction in mons veneris, vaginismus,
contraction and tenderness of vagina. Burning and soreness in
vagina. Desire diminished, cutting pain during coition. Menses
scanty, gray mucus, with pain in kidneys and chilliness, pain
down thighs. Leucorrhśa, grayish mucus, with painful urinary
symptoms. Neuralgia of ovaries and vagina.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness; polypus of larynx. Tearing stitches
in chest and region of heart.
Back.--Stitches in neck and back; worse, respiration. Sticking
pain in region of kidneys radiating thence around abdomen, to
hips and groins. Numb, bruised sensation. Stitches from kidneys
into bladder. Tearing, sticking with stiffness, making rising
difficult, involving hips, nates, limbs, with numbness. Lumbago
(Rhus; Tart em). Metatarsus and metacarpus feel sprained. Post-
operative pain in lumbar region; soreness with sharp pain
following course of circumflex iliac nerve to bladder with
frequent urination.
Extremities.--Rheumatic paralytic pain in shoulders, arms,
hands and fingers, legs and feet. Neuralgia under finger-nails,
with swelling of finger-joints. Sensation of cold on outside of
thighs. Heels pain, as if ulcerated. Stitching between metatarsal
bones as from a nail when standing. Pain in balls of feet on
stepping. Intense weariness and lameness of legs after walking a
short distance.
Skin.--Flat warts. Itching, burning and smarting; worse,
scratching; better, cold applications. Small pustules over whole
body. Eczema of anus and hands. Circumscribed pigmentation
following eczematous inflammation.
Fever.--Cold sensation in various parts, as if spattered with cold
water. Warmth in lower part of back, hips, and thighs.
Modalities.--Worse, motion, standing. It brings on, or increases,
urinary complaints.
Relationship.--Compare: Ipomea-Convolvulus Duratinus-
Morning Glory. --(Pain in left lumbar muscles on stooping.
Kidney disorders with pain in back. Much abdominal flatulence.
Aching in top of right shoulder renal colic; aching in small of
back and extremities), Aloe; Lycopod; Nux; Sarsap.
Xanthorrhea arborea (severe pain in kidneys, cystitis and
gravel. Pain from ureter to bladder and testicles; pain in small of
back returns from least chill or damp). Xanthoriza apifolia-
Shrub Yellow Root--contains Berberine. Dilatation of stomach
and intestines, atony, enlarged spleen.
Antidotes: Camphor; Bell.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth potency.
BERBERIS AQUIFOLIUM
Mountain Grape
(BERBERIS AQUIFOLIUM - MAHONIA)
A remedy for the skin, chronic catarrhal affections, secondary
syphilis. Hepatic torpor, lassitude and other evidences of
incomplete metamorphosis; stimulates all glands and improves
nutrition.
Head.--Sensation of a band just above ears. Bilious headache.
"Scald head". Scaly eczema.
Face.--Acne. Blotches and pimples. Clears the complexion.
Stomach.--Tongue thickly coated, yellowish-brown; feels
blistered. Burning in stomach. Nausea and hunger after eating.
Urine.--Stitching, crampy pains; thick mucus, and bright-red,
mealy sediment.
Skin.--Pimply, dry, rough, scaly. Eruption on scalp extending to
face and neck. Tumor of breast, with pain. Psoriasis. Acne. Dry
eczema. Pruritus. Glandular induration.
Relationship.--Carbol acid; Euonym; Berb vulg; Hydr.
Dose.--Tincture in rather material doses.
BETA VULGARIS
Beet-root
Influences chronic catarrhal states and tuberculosis. The salt
Betainum hydrochloricum obtained from the Beet root itself
seem to be the best adapted to phthisical patients. Children yield
very quickly to the action of the remedy. Use about the 2x Trit.
BISMUTHUM SUBNITRICUM
Precipitated Sub-Nitrate of Bismuth
(BISMUTHUM)
Irritation and catarrhal inflammation of the alimentary canal, is
the chief and action of this drug.
Mind.--Solitude is unbearable. Desire for company. Complains
about his condition. Anguish. Discontented.
Head.--Headache alternates with gastralgia. Neuralgic pain, as if
torn by pincers; involves face and teeth; worse, eating; better,
cold; alternate with gastralgia. Cutting or pressure above right
orbit extending to occiput. Pressure in occiput; worse, motion;
with heaviness.
Mouth.--Gums swollen. Toothache; better, cold water in mouth
(Coff). Tongue white. Swollen. Black, gangrenous looking
wedges on dorsum and sides of tongue. Profuse salivation, teeth
loose. Thirst for cold drinks.
Stomach.--Vomits, with convulsive gagging and pain. Water is
vomited as soon as it reaches the stomach. Eructation after
drinking. Vomits all fluids. Burning; feeling of a load. Will eat
for several days; then vomit. Slow digestion, with fetid
eructations. Gastralgia; pain from stomach through to spine.
Gastritis. Better, cold drinks, but vomiting when stomach
becomes full.
Tongue coated white; sweetish, metallic taste. Inexpressible pain
in stomach; must bend backwards. Pressure as from a load in
one spot, alternating with burning, crampy pain and pyrosis.
Stool.--Painless diarrhśa, with great thirst, and frequent
micturition and vomiting. Pinching in lower abdomen, with
rumbling.
Respiratory.--Pinching in middle of diaphragm, extending
transversely through chest. Angina pectoris; pain around heart,
left arm to fingers.
Extremities.--Cramps in hands and feet. Tearing in wrist.
Paralytic weakness, especially right arm. Tearing in tips of
fingers under nails (Berb). Itching erosion near tibia and back of
feet near joints. Cold limbs.
Sleep.--Restless on account of voluptuous dreams. Sleepy in
morning, a few hours after eating.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Nux; Capsic; Calc.
Compare: Antimon; Ars; Bellad; Kreosot.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
BLATTA AMERICANA
Cockroach
Ascites. Various forms of dropsy. Yellow complexion. Extreme
weariness. Pain in urethra on urinating. Weariness on going
upstairs.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
BLATTA ORIENTALIS
Indian Cockroach
A remedy for asthma. Especially when associated with
bronchitis. Indicated after arsenic when this is insufficient.
Cough with dyspnśa in bronchitis and phthisis. Acts best in stout
and corpulent patients. Much pus-like mucus.
Dose.--Lowest potencies during an attack. After the spasm, for
the remaining cough, use the higher. Stop with improvement to
prevent return of aggravation.
BOLETUS LARICIS
White Agaric
(POLYPORUS OFFICINALE)
Quotidian intermittent fever. Sweat is light, and without relief.
Night-sweat in phthisis.
Head.--Feels light and hollow with deep frontal headache.
Thick, yellow coating of tongue; teeth indented. Constant
nausea.
Fever.--Chilliness along spine, with frequent, hot flashes.
Yawns and stretches when chilly. Severe aching in shoulders
and joints and small of back. Profuse perspiration at night, with
hectic chills and fever.
Skin.--Hot and dry, especially in palms. Itching more between
scapulć and on forearms.
Relationship.--Compare: Agaricin, active constituent of
Polyporus officinale (phthisical and other enervating
nightsweats 1-4 to 1-2 gr doses; also in chorea, in dilatation of
heart with pulmonary Emphysema, fatty degeneration, profuse
perspiration and erythema). Boletus luridus (Violent pain in
epigastrium, urticaria tuberosa). Boletus satanus (dysentery,
vomiting, great debility, cold extremities, spasm of extremities
and face).
Dose.--First attenuation.
BORICUM ACIDUM
Boracic Acid
Used as an antiseptic disinfectant, since it arrests fermentation
and putrefaction.
Pain in region of ureters, with frequent urging to urinate.
Coldness (Heloderm). Diabetes, tongue dry, red, and cracked.
Cold saliva.
Skin.--Multiform erythema of trunk and upper extremities.
Śdema around eyes. Exfoliating dermatitis. Śdema of tissues
around eyes.
Female.--Climacteric flushings (Lach; Amyl nit). Vagina cold,
as if packed with ice. Frequent urination with burning and
tenesmus.
Dose.--Third trituration.
Non-homeopathic Uses.--When the diplococcus of
Weichselbaum is present in the sputum of pharyngitis or
bronchitis, pneumonia with tenacious sputum, hacking cough
and pain, five-grain doses six times daily. A solution of Boracic
Acid, as an injection, in chronic, cystitis, or, a teaspoonful to a
glass of hot milk, taken internally. Boro-Glyceride in solution
(1:40) is a powerful antiseptic. Styes, 15 gr to 1 oz water
externally. As a dusting powder on ulcerated surfaces. In cystitis
as an irrigating fluid.
BORAX VENETA
Borate of Sodium
(BORAX)
Gastro-intestinal irritation. Salivation, nausea, vomiting, colic,
diarrhœa, collapse, albuminuria, casts and vesical spasm.
Delirium, visual changes, hæmaturia, and skin eruptions have all
been observed from over-dosing.
Dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints. For
homeopathic purposes, the peculiar nervous symptoms are very
characteristic, and have frequently been verified, especially in
the therapeutics of children. Of much value in epilepsy.
Aphthous ulceration of mucous membranes.
Mind.--Extreme anxiety, especially from motions which have a
downward direction, rocking, being carried downstairs, laid
down. Anxious expression of face during the downward
motions, starts and throws up hands on laying patient down, as if
afraid of falling. Excessively nervous; easily frightened.
Sensitive to sudden noises. Violent fright from report of a gun,
even at a distance. Fear of thunder.
Head.--Aches, with nausea and trembling of whole body. Hair
tangled at tips, cannot be separated, as in Plica Polonica (Vinca
min).
Eyes.--Lashes turn inward. Visions of bright waves. Eyelids
inflamed, lids cut against eyeball. Entropium.
Ears.--Very sensitive to slightest noise; not so much disturbed
by louder ones.
Nose.--Red nose, of young women (Nat carb). Red and shining
swelling, with throbbing and tensive sensation. Tip swollen and
ulcerated. Dry crusts.
Face.--Pale, earthy, with suffering expression. Swollen, with
pimples on nose and lips. Feeling of cobwebs.
Mouth.--Aphthæ. White fungous like growth. Mouth hot and
tender; ulcers bleed on touch and eating. Painful gumboil.
Crying when nursing. Taste bitter (Bry; Puls; Cup). Taste of
"cellar mould".
Stomach and Abdomen.--Distention after eating; vomiting.
Gastralgia, depending upon uterine disturbance. Pain as if
diarrhœa would result.
Stool.--Loose, pappy, offensive stools in children. Diarrhœa,
offensive, preceded by colic; stools mucous, with aphthous sore
mouth.
Urine.--Hot, smarting pain in orifice. Pungent smell. Child
afraid to urinate, screams before urinating (Sarsap). Small red
particles on diaper.
Female.--Labor pains with frequent eructations. Galactorrhœa
(Cal; Con; Bell). In nursing, pain in opposite breast.
Leucorrhœa like white of eggs, with sensation as if warm water
was flowing. Menses too soon, profuse, with griping, nausea and
pain in stomach extending into small of back. Membranous
dysmenorrhœa. Sterility. Favors easy conception. Sensation of
distention in clitoris with sticking. Pruritus of vulva and eczema.
Respiratory.--Hacking and violent cough; expectoration, moldy
taste and smell. Stitches in chest, with inspiration and cough.
Cough with moldy taste-breath smells moldy. Pleurodynia;
worse upper part of right chest. Arrest of breathing when lying;
is obliged to jump and catch breath, which causes pain in right
side. Out of breath on going up stairs.
Extremities.--Feeling as of cobwebs on hands. Itching on back
of finger-joints and hands. Throbbing pain in tip of thumb.
Stitches in sole. Pain in heel. Burning pain in great toe;
inflammation of balls of toes. Eczema of toes and fingers with
loss of nails.
Skin.--Psoriasis. Erysipelas in face. Itching on back of finger-
joints. Unhealthy skin; slight injuries suppurate. Herpes (Rhus).
Erysipelatous inflammation with swelling and tension.
Chilblains relieved in open air. Trade eruptions on fingers and
hands, itching and stinging. Ends of hair become tangled.
Sleep.--Voluptuous dreams. Cannot sleep on account of heat,
especially in head. Cries out of sleep as if frightened (Bell).
Modalities.--Worse, downward motion, noise, smoking, warm
weather, after menses. Better, pressure, evening, cold weather.
Relationship.--Acetic acid, vinegar, and wine are incompatible.
Antidote: Cham; Coffea.
Compare: Calc; Bryon; Sanicula; Sulph ac.
Dose.--First to third trituration. In skin diseases continue its use
for several weeks. Locally, in pruritus pudendi. A piece of
borax, the size of a pea, dissolved in the mouth, acts magically
in restoring the voice, in cases of sudden hoarseness brought on
by cold, and frequently for an hour or so, it renders the voice
silvery and clear.
BOTHROPS LANCEOLATUS
Yellow Viper
(BOTHROPS LANCIOLATUS - LACHESIS
LANCIOLATUS)
Its venom is most coagulating, (also Lachesis). We should
expect to find under these remedies the symptomatology of
thrombosis, also thrombotic phenomena, as hemiplegia, aphasia,
inability to articulate (Linn J. Boyd).
Broken-down, hćmorrhagic constitutions; septic states. Great
lassitude and sluggishness; hćmorrhages from every orifice of
the body; black spots. Hemiplegia with aphasia. Inability to
articulate, without any affection of the tongue. Nervous
trembling. Pain in right big toe. Diagonal course of symptoms.
Pulmonary congestion.
Eyes.--Amaurosis; blindness from hćmorrhage into retina.
Hemoralopia, day blindness, can hardly see her way after
sunrise; conjunctivial hćmorrhage.
Face.--Swollen and puffy. Besotted expression.
Throat.--Red, dry, constricted; swallowing difficult, cannot pass
liquids.
Stomach.--Epigastric distress. Black vomiting. Intense
hćmatemesis. Tympanitis and bloody stools.
Skin.--Swollen, livid, cold with hćmorrhagic infiltration.
Gangrene. Lymphatics swollen. Anthrax. Malignant erysipelas.
Modalities.--Worse, right side.
Relationship.--Compare: Toxicophis.--Moccasin Snake (pain
and fever recur annually, after bite from this snake, and
sometimes change location with disappearance of first
symptoms. An unusual dryness of skin follows the bite.
Śdematous swellings and periodical neuralgia. Pain travels from
one part to another). Other snake poisons, notably Lachesis.
Trachinus,-Stingfish (intolerable pains, swelling, acute blood,
poisoning, gangrene).
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
BOTULINUM
Toxin of Bacillus Botulinum
Food poisoning from canned spinach produced a clinical picture
suggested in a bulbar paresis.
Eye symptoms, ptosis, double vision, blurred vision.
Difficulty in swallowing and breathing, choking sensation;
weakness and uncertainty in walking, "blind staggers",
dizziness, thickening of speech. Cramping pain in stomach.
Mask-like expression of face, due to weakness of facial muscles.
Severe constipation.
Dose.--Higher potencies.
BOVISTA LYCOPERDON
Puff-Ball
(BOVISTA)
Has a marked effect on the skin, producing eruption like
eczema, also upon the circulation, predisposing to hćmorrhages;
marked languor and lassitude. Adapted to stammering children,
old maids with palpitation; and "tettery" patients. Stage of
numbness and tingling in multiple neuritis. Asphyxia due to
charcoal fumes.
Mind.--Enlarged sensation (Arg n). Awkward; everything falls
from hands. Sensitive.
Head.--Sensation as if head were enlarging, especially of
occiput. Distensive headache; worse early morning, open air,
lying. Discharge from nose stringy, tough. Dull, bruised pain in
brain. Stammering (Stram; Merc). Scalp itches; worse, warmth;
sensitive; must scratch until sore.
Face.--Scurf and crusts about nostrils and corners of mouth.
Lips chapped. Bleeding of nose and gums. Cheeks and lips feel
swollen. Acne worse in summer; due to use of cosmetics.
Stomach.--Sensation as of a lump of ice. Intolerant of tight
clothing around waist.
Female.--Diarrhśa before and during menses. Menses too early
and profuse; worse at night. Voluptuous sensation. Leucorrhśa
acrid, thick, tough, greenish, follows menses. Cannot bear tight
clothing around waist (Lach). Traces of menses between
menstruation. Soreness of pubes during menses. Metrorrhagia;
Parovarian cysts.
Abdomen.--Colic, with red urine; relieved by eating. Must bend
double. Pain around umbilicus. Stitches through perineum
towards rectum and genitals.
Chronic diarrhśa of old people; worse at night and early
morning.
Extremities.--Great weakness of all joints; clumsiness with her
hands, drops things from hands. Weariness of hands and feet.
Sweat in axillć; onion smell. Tip of coccyx itches intolerably.
Moist eczema on back of hand. Itching of feet and legs. Śdema
in joints after fracture.
Skin.--Blunt instrument leave deep impression on the skin.
Urticaria on excitement, with rheumatic lameness, palpitation
and diarrhśa (Dulc). Itching on getting warm. Eczema, moist;
formation of thick crusts. Pimples cover the entire body; scurvy;
herpetic eruptions. Pruritus ani. Urticaria on waking in the
morning, worse from bathing. Pellagra.
Relationship.--Bovista antidotes tar applications. Suffocation
from gas. After Rhus in chronic urticaria.
Compare: Calc; Rhus; Sepia; Cicuta.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
BRACHYGLOTTIS REPENS
Puka-Puka
(BRACHYGLOTTIS)
Fluttering sensation (Caladium). Kidney and bladder symptoms
predominate. Produces symptoms of albuminuria. Itching in ears
and nostrils. Bright's disease. Oppression of chest. Writer's
cramp.
Abdomen.--Feeling as if something rolling about. Fluttering in
region of ovary.
Urinary.--Pressure in neck of bladder; urging to urinate. Sense
of swashing in bladder. Soreness in urethra; feeling as if urine
could not be retained. Urine contains mucous corpuscles and
epithelium, albumen and casts.
Extremities.--Cramp in fingers, thumb, and wrist when writing-
soreness extending along flexor carpi ulnaris.
Relationship.--Compare: Apis; Helonias; Merc cor; Plumbum.
Dose.--Third potency.
BROMIUM
Bromine
(BROMUM)
Most marked effects are seen in the respiratory symptoms,
especially in larynx and trachea. It seems to affect especially
scrofulous children with enlarged glands. Blond type. Enlarged
parotid and goitre. Tendency to spasmodic attacks. Left-sided
mumps. Sense of suffocation; excoriating discharges, profuse
sweats and great weakness. Complaints from being over-heated.
Tendency to infiltrate glands, become hard, but seldom
suppurate.
Mind.--Delusion that strange persons are looking over patient's
shoulder and that she would see some one on turning.
Quarrelsome.
Head.--Megrim of left side; worse stooping, especially after
drinking milk. Headache; worse heat of sun and by rapid
motion. Sharp pain through eyes. Dizzy when crossing stream of
water.
Nose.--Coryza, with corrosive soreness of nose. Stoppage of
right nostril. Pressure at root of nose. Tickling, smarting, as from
cobwebs. Fan-like motion of alć (Lyc). Bleeding from nose
relieving the chest.
Throat.--Throat feels raw, evening, with hoarseness. Tonsils
pain on swallowing, deep red, with network of dilated blood
vessels. Tickling in trachea during inspiration. Hoarseness
coming on from being overheated.
Stomach and Abdomen.--Sharp burning from tongue to
stomach. Pressure as of stone. Gastralgia; better eating.
Tympanitic distention of abdomen. Painful hćmorrhoids, with
black stool.
Respiratory.--Whooping cough (Use persistently for about ten
days). Dry cough, with hoarseness and burning pain behind
sternum. Spasmodic cough, with rattling of mucus in the larynx;
suffocative. Hoarseness. Croup after febrile symptoms have
subsided. Difficult and painful breathing. Violent cramping of
chest. Chest pains run upward. Cold sensation when inspiring.
Every inspiration provokes cough. Laryngeal diphtheria,
membrane begins in larynx and spreads upward. Spasmodic
constriction. Asthma; difficulty in getting air into lung
(Chlorum, in expelling). Better at sea, of seafaring men when
they come on land. Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics
(Rhus). Fibrinous bronchitis, great dyspnśa. Bronchial tubes feel
filled with smoke.
Male.--Swelling of testicles. Indurated, with pains worse slight
jar.
Female.--Swelling of ovaries. Menses too early; too profuse,
with membranous shreds. Low spirited before menses. Tumor in
breasts, with stitching pains; worse left. Stitch pains from breast
to axillć. Sharp shooting pain in left breast, worse, pressure.
Sleep.--Full of dreams and anguish; jerking and starting during
sleep, full of fantasy and illusions; difficult to go to sleep at
night, cannot sleep enough in morning; trembling and weak on
awaking.
Skin.--Acne, pimples and pustules. Boils on arms and face.
Glands stony, hard, especially on lower jaw and throat. Hard
goitre (Spong). Gangrene.
Modalities.--Worse, from evening, until midnight, and when
sitting in warm room; warm damp weather when at rest and
lying left side. Better, from any motion; exercise, at sea.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Ammon carb; Camph. Salt inhibits
the action of Brom.
Compare: Conium; Spongia; Iod; Aster; Arg nit. Avoid milk
when taking Brom. Hydrobromic acid (Throat dry and
puckering; constriction in pharynx and chest; waves of heat over
face and neck; pulsating tinnitus with great nervous irritability
(Houghton); vertigo, palpitation; arms heavy; seemed as if parts
did not belong to him. Seems to have a specific effect on the
inferior cervical ganglion, increasing the tonic action of the
sympathetic, thus promoting vaso-constriction. Relieves
headache, tinnitus and vertigo, especially in vaso-motor stomach
disturbance. Dose, 20 minims).
Dose.--First to third attenuation. Must be prepared fresh, as it is
liable to rapid deterioration.
BRYONIA ALBA
Wild Hops
(BRYONIA)
Acts on all serous membranes and the viscera they contain.
Aching in every muscle. The general character of the pain here
produced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest.
These characteristic stitching pains, greatly aggravated by any
motion, are found everywhere, but especially in the chest; worse
pressure. Mucous membranes are all dry. The Bryonia patient is
irritable; has vertigo from raising the head, pressive headache;
dry, parched lips, mouth; excessive thirst, bitter taste, sensitive
epigastrium, and feeling of a stone in the stomach; stools large,
dry, hard; dry cough; rheumatic pains and swellings; dropsical
effusions into synovial and serous membranes.
Bryonia affects especially the constitution of a robust, firm fiber
and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability.
It prefers the right side, the evening, and open air, warm weather
after cold days, to manifest its action most markedly.
Children dislike to be carried or raised. Physical weakness, all-
pervading apathy. Complaints apt to develop slowly.
Mind.--Exceedingly irritable; everything puts him out of
humor. Delirium; wants to go home; talks of business.
Head.--Vertigo, nausea, faintness on rising, confusion. Bursting,
splitting headache, as if everything would be pressed out; as if
hit by a hammer from within; worse from motion, stooping,
opening eyes. Headache becomes seated in occiput. Drawing in
bones towards zygoma. Headache; worse on motion, even of
eyeballs. Frontal headache, frontal sinuses involved.
Nose.--Frequent bleeding of nose when menses should appear.
Also in the morning, relieving the headache. Coryza with
shooting and aching in the forehead. Swelling of tip of nose,
feels as if it would ulcerate when touched.
Ears.--Aural vertigo (Aur; Nat sal; Sil; Chin). Roaring, buzzing.
Eyes.--Pressing, crushing, aching pain. Glaucoma. Sore to touch
and when moving them.
Mouth.--Lips parched, dry, cracked. Dryness of mouth, tongue,
and throat, with excessive thirst. Tongue coated yellowish, dark
brown; heavily white in gastric derangement. Bitter taste (Nux;
Col). Burning in lower lip in old smokers. Lip swollen, dry,
black, and cracked.
Throat.--Dryness, sticking on swallowing, scraped and
constricted (Bell). Tough mucus in larynx and trachea, loosened
only after much hawking; worse coming into warm room.
Stomach.--Nausea and faintness when rising up. Abnormal
hunger, loss of taste. Thirst for large draughts. Vomiting of bile
and water immediately after eating. Worse, warm drinks, which
are vomited. Stomach sensitive to touch. Pressure in stomach
after eating, as of a stone. Soreness in stomach when coughing.
Dyspeptic ailments during summer heat. Sensitiveness of
epigastrium to touch.
Abdomen.--Liver region swollen, sore, tensive. Burning pain,
stitches; worse, pressure, coughing, breathing. Tenderness of
abdominal walls.
Stool.--Constipation; stools hard, dry, as if burnt; seem too
large. Stools brown, thick, bloody; worse in morning, from
moving, in hot weather, after being heated, from cold drinks,
every spell of hot weather.
Urine.--Red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot.
Female.--Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion,
with tearing pains in legs; suppressed, with vicarious discharge
or splitting headache. Stitching pains in ovaries on taking a deep
inspiration; very sensitive to touch. Pain in right ovary as if torn,
extending to thigh (Lilium; Croc). Milk fever. Pain in breasts at
menstrual period. Breasts hot and painful hard. Abscess of
mammæ. Frequent bleeding of nose at appearance of menses.
Menstrual irregularities, with gastric symptoms. Ovaritis.
Intermenstrual pain, with great abdominal and pelvic soreness
(Ham).
Respiratory.--Soreness in larynx and trachea. Hoarseness;
worse in open air. Dry, hacking cough from irritation in upper
trachea. Cough, dry, at night; must sit up; worse after eating or
drinking, with vomiting, with stitches in chest, and expectoration
of rust-colored sputa. Frequent desire to take a long breath; must
expand lungs. Difficult, quick respiration; worse every
movement; caused by stitches in chest. Cough, with feeling as if
chest would fly to pieces; presses his head on sternum; must
support chest. Croupous and pleuro-pneumonia. Expectoration
brick shade, tough, and falls like lumps of jelly. Tough mucus in
trachea, loosened only with much hawking. Coming into warm
room excites cough (Nat carb). Heaviness beneath the sternum
extending towards the right shoulder. Cough worse by going
into warm room. Stitches in cardiac region. Angina pectoris (use
tincture).
Back.--Painful stiffness in nape of neck. Stitches and stiffness in
small of back. From hard water and sudden changes of weather.
Extremities.--Knees stiff and painful. Hot swelling of feet.
Joints red, swollen, hot, with stitches and tearing; worse on least
movement. Every spot is painful on pressure. Constant motion
of left arm and leg (Helleb).
Skin.--Yellow; pale, swollen, dropsical; hot and painful.
Seborrhœa. Hair very greasy.
Sleep.--Drowsy; starting when falling asleep. Delirium; busy
with business matters and what he had read.
Fever.--Pulse full, hard, tense, and quick. Chill with external
coldness, dry cough, stitches. Internal heat. Sour sweat after
slight exertion. Easy, profuse perspiration. Rheumatic and
typhoid marked by gastro-hepatic complications.
Modalities.--Worse, warmth, any motion, morning, eating, hot
weather, exertion, touch. Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick.
Better, lying on painful side, pressure, rest, cold things.
Relationship.--Complementary: Upas when Bryonia fails.
Rhus; Alumina. Illecebrum.--A Mexican drug.--(Fever with
catarrhal symptoms, gastric and typhoid fever symptoms).
Antidotes: Acon; Cham; Nux.
Compare: Asclep tub; Kali mur; Ptelia.
Dose.--First to twelfth attenuation.
BUFO RANA
Poison of the Toad
(BUFO)
Acts on the nervous system and skin. Uterine symptoms marked.
Lymphangitis of septic origin. Symptoms of paralysis agitans.
Striking rheumatic symptoms.
Arouses the lowest passions. Causes a desire for intoxicating
drink, and produces impotence.
Of use in feeble-minded children. Prematurely senile. Epileptic
symptoms. Convulsive seizures occur during sleep at night.
More or less connected with derangements of the sexual sphere,
seem to come within the range of this remedy. Injuries to
fingers; pain runs in streaks up the arms.
Mind.--Anxious about health. Sad, restless. Propensity to bite.
Howling; impatient; nervous; imbecile. Desire for solitude.
Feeble-minded.
Head.--Sensation as if hot vapor rose to top of head. Numbness
of brain. Face bathed in sweat. Epistaxis with flushed face and
pain in forehead, better, nosebleed.
Eyes.--Cannot bear sight or brilliant objects. Little blisters form
on eye.
Ears.--Music is unbearable (Ambra). Every little noise
distresses.
Heart.--Feels too large. Palpitation. Constriction about heart.
Sensation of heart swimming in water.
Female.--Menses too early and copious, clots and bloody
discharge at other times; watery leucorrhœa. Excitement, with
epileptic attacks. Epilepsy at time of menses. Induration in
mammary glands. Palliative in cancer of the mammæ. Burning
in ovaries and uterus. Ulceration of cervix. Offensive bloody
discharge. Pains run into legs. Bloody milk. Milk-leg. Veins
swollen. Tumors and polypi of womb.
Male.--Involuntary emissions; impotence, discharge too quick,
spasms during coition. Buboes. Disposition to handle organs
(Hyos; Zinc). Effects of onanism.
Extremities.--Pains in loins, numbness of limbs, cramps,
staggering gait, feeling as if a peg were driven in joints; swelling
of bones.
Skin.--Panaritium; pain runs up arm. Patches of skin lose
sensation. Pustules, suppuration from every slight injury.
Pemphigus. Bullæ which open and leave a raw surface, exuding
and ichorous fluid. Blisters on palms and soles. Itching and
burning. Carbuncle.
Relationship.--Compare: Baryt carb; Asterias; Salamand
(Epilepsy and softening of brain).
Antidotes: Laches; Seneg.
Complementary: Salamandra.
Modalities.--Worse, in warm room, on awakening. Better, from
bathing or cold air; from putting feet in hot water.
Dose.--Sixth potency and higher.
BUTYRICUM ACIDUM
A volatile acid obtained chiefly from butter
(BUTYRIC ACID)
Head.--Worries over trifles; impulsive thoughts of suicide;
constant state of fear and nervousness. Headache makes him
apprehensive about trifles; worse going upstairs or rapid motion.
Dull, hazy ache of head.
Stomach.--Poor appetite. Much gas in stomach and bowels.
Cramps in pit of stomach, worse at night. Stomach feels heavy
and overloaded. Cramp in abdomen below umbilicus. Bowels
irregular. Stool accompanied by pain and straining.
Back.--Tired feeling and dull pain in small of back, worse
walking. Pain in ankles and up back of leg. Pain low down in
back and extremities.
Sleep.--Pronounced sleeplessness; dreams of serious nature
while asleep.
Skin.--Perspiration on slight exertion. Profuse, offensive sweat
of feet. Crumbling away of finger-nails.
Modalities.--Worse, at night, fast walking, going upstairs.
Dose.--Third attenuation.
CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS
Night-blooming Cereus
(SELENICEREUS SPINULOSUS)
Acts on circular muscular fibers, hence constrictions. It is the
heart and arteries especially that at once respond to the influence
of Cactus, producing very characteristic constrictions as of an
iron band. This sensation is found in various places, śsophagus,
bladder, etc. The mental symptoms produced correspond to
those found when there are heart affections, sadness, and
melancholy. Hćmorrhage, constrictions, periodicity, and
spasmodic pains. Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being
twisted tighter. Atheromatous arteries and weak heart.
Congestions; irregular distribution of blood. Favors formation of
clots speedily. Great periodicity. Toxic goitre with cardiac
symptoms. Cactus is pulseless, panting and prostrated.
Mind.--Melancholy, taciturn, sad, ill-humored. Fear of death.
Screams with pain. Anxiety.
Head.--Headache if obliged to pass dinner hour (Ars; Lach;
Lyc). Sensation as of a weight on vertex. Right-sided pulsating
pain. Congestive headaches, periodical, threatening apoplexy.
Blood-vessels to the head distended. Feels as if head were
compressed in a vise. Pulsation in ears. Dim sight. Right sided
prosopalgia, constricting pains, returns at same hour daily
(Cedron).
Nose.--Profuse bleeding from nose. Fluent coryza.
Throat.--Constriction of śsophagus. Dryness of tongue, as if
burnt; needs much liquid to get food down. Suffocative
constriction at throat, with full, throbbing carotids in angina
pectoris.
Stomach.--Constriction, pulsation, or heaviness in stomach.
Vomiting of blood.
Stool.--Hard, black stools. Diarrhśa in morning. Hćmorrhoids
swollen and painful. Sensation of great weight in anus.
Hćmorrhage from bowels in malarial fevers and with heart
symptoms.
Urine.--Constriction of neck of bladder, causing retention of
urine. Hćmorrhage from bladder. Clots of blood in urethra.
Constant urination.
Female.--Constriction in uterine region and ovaries.
Dysmenorrhśa; pulsating pain in uterus and ovaries.
Vaginismus. Menses early, dark, pitch-like (Cocc; Mag c); cease
on lying down, with heart symptoms.
Chest.--Oppressed breathing as from a weight on chest.
Constriction in chest, as if bound, hindering respiration.
Inflammation of diaphragm. Heart-constriction, as from an iron
band. Angina pectoris. Palpitation; pain shooting down left arm.
Hćmoptysis, with convulsive, spasmodic cough. Diaphragmitis,
with great difficulty of breathing.
Heart.--Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency together with
violent and rapid action. Acts best in the incipiency of cardiac
incompetence. Heart weakness of arterio-sclerosis. Tobacco
heart. Violent palpitation; worse lying on left side, at approach
of menses. Angina pectoris, with suffocation, cold sweat, and
ever-present iron band feeling. Pain in apex, shooting down left
arm. Palpitation, with vertigo; dyspnśa, flatulence. Constriction;
very acute pains and stitches in heart; pulse feeble, irregular,
quick, without strength. Endocardial murmurs, excessive
impulse, increased prćcordial dullness, enlarged ventricle. Low
blood pressure.
Extremities.--Śdema of hands and feet. Hands soft; feet
enlarged. Numbness of left arm. Icy-cold hands. Restless legs.
Sleep.--Sleepless on account of pulsation in different parts of
body. Frightful dreams.
Fever.--Fever every day at same hour. Coldness in back and icy-
cold hands. Intermittent; paroxysms about midday (11 am)
incomplete in their stages, accompanied by hćmorrhages.
Coldness predominates; cold sweat, with great anguish.
Persistent subnormal temperature.
Modalities.--Worse, about noon, lying on left side; walking,
going upstairs, 11 am and 11 pm. Better, open air.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Acon; Camph; China.
Compare: Digital; Spigel; Convallar; Kalmia; Naja; Magnol.
Dose.--Tincture (best made from flowers), to third attenuation.
Higher in nervous palpitation.
CADMIUM SULPHURATUM
Cadmic Sulphate
Its pathogenesis gives symptoms corresponding to very low
forms of disease, as in cholera, yellow fever, where, with
exhaustion, vomiting, and extreme prostration, the disease runs
deathward. Important gastric symptoms. Carcinoma ventriculi;
persistent vomiting.
The attack is upon the stomach more especially. Patients must
keep quiet. Chilliness and coldness even when near the fire.
Mind and Head.--Unconscious. Vertigo; room and bed seem to
spin around. Hammering in head. Heat in head.
Nose.--Ozćna. Tightness at root. Nose obstructed; polypus.
Caries of nasal bones. Boils on nose. Nostrils ulcerated.
Eyes.--Opacity of cornea. Blue circle around eyes. One pupil
dilated. Night blindness.
Face.--Distortion of mouth. Trembling of jaw. Facial paralysis;
more left side.
Mouth.--Difficult swallowing. Śsophagus constricted (Bapt).
Salty belching. Intense nausea, with pain and cold. Stringy,
offensive exudation on mucous membrane. Salty taste.
Throat.--Sore throat, constant tickling; gagging and nausea,
worse deep breathing; chilliness and aching.
Stomach.--Soreness in pit of stomach on pressure. Violent
nausea; retching. Black vomit. Vomiting of mucus, green slime,
blood, with great prostration, and great tenderness over the
stomach. Burning and cutting pains in stomach. Carcinoma,
helps the persistent vomiting. Coffee ground vomiting.
Abdomen.--Sore, tender, tympanitic. Region of liver sore.
Coldness. Black, offensive clots of blood from bowels. Pain in
abdomen, with vomiting. Tenderness and tympanites.
Stool.--Bloody, black, and offensive. Gelatinous, yellowish
green; semi-fluid, with urinary suppression.
Urine.--Rawness and soreness in urethra, urine mixed with pus
and blood.
Heart.--Palpitation, with constriction of chest.
Fever.--Icy coldness (Camph; Verat; Heloderm). Yellow fever
(Crotalus; Carbo).
Skin.--Blue, yellow, sallow, scaly, cracking. Itching; better
scratching. Chloasma, yellowish stains on nose and cheeks;
worse exposure to sun and wind. Chilblains.
Sleep.--Stops breathing on going to sleep. Wakes up
suffocating. Fears to go to sleep again. Protracted sleeplessness.
Modalities.--Worse, walking or carrying burdens; after sleep;
from open air, stimulants. Better, eating and rest.
Relationship.--Compare: Cadmium oxide; Cad brom (pain and
burning in stomach, and vomiting); Cadmium jodat (Itching of
anus and rectum felt during the day only; constipation frequent
desire, tenesmus, abdomen bloated); Zinc; Ars; Carbo; Verat.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
CAINCA
Brazilian Plant-Chiococca
(CAHINCA)
This remedy has been found of use in dropsical affections. Its
urinary symptoms are well marked. Albuminuria, with dyspnśa
on lying down at night. Ascites and anasarca, with dry skin.
Urinary.--Constant desire to urinate. Polyuria while travelling.
Urine fiery. Burning pain in urethra, especially glandular
portion.
Male.--Drawing in of testicles and spermatic cord. Pain worse
during passage of pungent smelling urine.
Back.--Pain in region of kidneys; better lying bent backward.
General fatigue.
Relationship.--Compare: Apocyn; Ars; Coffea (similar
botanically and in relieving effects of fatigue)
Dose.--Third potency or lower.
CAJUPUTUM
Cajuput Oil
(OLEUM WITTNEBIANUM)
Acts like Oil of Cloves. A remedy for flatulence and affections
of the tongue. Sense of enlargement. Causes copious
diaphoresis. Retrocedent gout. Neuralgic affections not
inflammatory. Nervous dyspnœa.
Head.--Feels much enlarged. As if he could not get himself
together (Baptisia).
Mouth.--Persistent sensation of choking. Spasmodic stricture of
œsophagus. Constricted sensation on swallowing solid food.
Tongue feels swollen, fills whole mouth.
Stomach.--Hiccough, on slightest provocation.
Abdomen.--Flatulence colic; tympanites (Tereb). Nervous
distention of bowels. Urine smells like cat's urine. Spasmodic
cholera.
Modalities.--Worse, about 5 am; night.
Relationship.--Compare: Bovist; Nux mosch; Asaf; Ign; Bapt.
Dose.--First to third potency (5 drops of oil).
CALADIUM SEGUINUM
American Arum
This remedy has a marked action on the genital organs, and
pruritus of this region. Coldness of single parts and inclination
to lie down, with aggravation on lying on left side. Slightest
noise startles from sleep. Dread from motion. Modifies craving
for tobacco. Tobacco heart. Asthmatic complaints.
Head.--Headaches and mental states of smokers. Very forgetful,
does not know about the occurrences of things. Confused
headache with pain in shoulder, pressure in eyes and forehead;
extremely sensitive to noise, throbbing in ear.
Stomach.--Gnawing in orifice of stomach, which prevents deep
breathing and eructations. Eructations. Stomach feels full of dry
food; sensation of fluttering. Acrid vomiting, thirstless and
tolerates only warm drinks. Sighing respiration.
Male.--Pruritus. Glans very red. Organs seem larger, puffed,
relaxed, cold, sweating; skin of scrotum thick. Erections when
half-asleep; cease when fully awake. Impotency; relaxation of
penis during excitement. No emission and no orgasm during
embrace.
Female.--Pruritus of vulva (Ambr; Kreos) and vagina during
pregnancy (Hydrogen peroxyd 1: 12 locally). Voluptuousness.
Cramp pains in uterus at night.
Skin.--Sweet sweat-attracts flies. Insect bites burn and itch
intensely. Itching rash alternates with asthma. Burning sensation
and erysipelatous inflammation.
Respiratory.--Larynx seems constricted. Breathing impeded.
Catarrhal asthma; mucus not readily raised. Patient afraid to go
to sleep.
Modalities.--Better, after sweat, after sleeping in daytime.
Worse, motion.
Relationship.--Incompatible: Arum triph.
Complementary: Nitr ac.
Compare: Capsic; Phosph; Caust; Selen; Lyc. Ikshugandha
(sexual weakness, emissions, prostatic enlargement).
Dose.--Third to sixth attenuation.
 CALCAREA CARBONICA
Carbonate of Lime
(CALCAREA CARBONICA - OSTREARUM)
This great Hahnemannian anti-psoric is a constitutional remedy
par excellence. Its chief action is centered in the vegetative
sphere, impaired nutrition being the keynote of its action, the
glands, skin, and bones, being instrumental in the changes
wrought. Increased local and general perspiration, swelling of
glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions generally offer
numerous opportunities for the exhibition of Calcarea. Incipient
phthisis (Ars jod; Tuberculin). It covers the tickling cough,
fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity and dislike of fat. Gets out
of breath easily. A jaded state, mental or physical, due to
overwork. Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and exostoses.
Pituitary and thyroid disfunction.
Raised blood coagulability (Strontium). Is a definite stimulant to
the periosteum. Is a hćmostatic and gives this power probably to
the gelatine injections.
Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence. Persons of scrofulous
type, who take cold easily, with increased mucous secretions,
children who grow fat, are large-bellied, with large head, pale
skin, chalky look, the so-called leuco-phlegmatic temperament;
affections caused by working in water. Great sensitiveness to
cold; partial sweats. Children crave eggs and eat dirt and other
indigestible things; are prone to diarrhśa. Calcarea patient is fat,
fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour.
Mind.--Apprehensive; worse towards evening; fears loss of
reason, misfortune, contagious diseases. Forgetful, confused,
low-spirited. Anxiety with palpitation. Obstinacy; slight mental
effort produces hot head. Averse to work or exertion.
Head.--Sense of weight on top of head. Headache, with cold
hands and feet. Vertigo on ascending, and when turning head.
Headache from overlifting, from mental exertion, with nausea.
Head feels hot and heavy, with pale face. Icy coldness in, and on
the head, especially right side. Open fontanelles; head enlarged;
much perspiration, wets the pillow. Itching of the scalp.
Scratches head on waking.
Eyes.--Sensitive to light. Lachrymation in open air and early in
morning. Spots and ulcers on cornea. Lachrymal ducts closed
from exposure to cold. Easy fatigue of eyes. Far sighted. Itching
of lids, swollen, scurfy. Chronic dilatation of pupils. Cataract.
Dimness of vision, as if looking through a mist. Lachrymal
fistula; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Ears.--Throbbing; cracking in ears; stitches; pulsating pain as if
something would press out. Deafness from working in water.
Polypi which bleed easily. Scrofulous inflammation with muco-
purulent otorrhśa, and enlarged glands. Perversions of hearing;
hardness of hearing. Eruption on and behind ear (Petrol).
Cracking noises in ear. Sensitive to cold about ears and neck.
Nose.--Dry, nostrils sore, ulcerated. Stoppage of nose, also with
fetid, yellow discharge. Offensive odor in nose. Polypi; swelling
at root of nose. Epistaxis. Coryza. Takes cold at every change of
weather. Catarrhal symptoms with hunger; coryza alternates
with colic.
Face.--Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with deep-seated eyes,
surrounded by dark rings. Crusta lactea; itching, burning after
washing. Submaxillary glands swollen. Goitre. Itching of
pimples in whiskers. Pain from right mental foramen along
lower jaw to ear.
Mouth.--Persistent sour taste. Mouth fills with sour water.
Dryness of tongue at night. Bleeding of gums. Difficult and
delayed dentition. Teeth ache; excited by current of air, anything
cold or hot. Offensive smell from mouth. Burning pain at tip of
tongue; worse, anything warm taken into stomach.
Throat.--Swelling of tonsils and submaxillary glands; stitches
on swallowing. Hawking-up of mucus. Difficult swallowing.
Goitre. Parotid fistula.
Stomach.--Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for
indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and
sweets. Milk disagrees. Frequent sour eructations; sour
vomiting. Dislike of fat. Loss of appetite when overworked.
Heartburn and loud belching. Cramps in stomach; worse,
pressure, cold water. Ravenous hunger. Swelling over pit of
stomach, like a saucer turned bottom up. Repugnance to hot
food. Pain in epigastric region to touch. Thirst; longing for cold
drinks. Aggravation while eating. Hyperchlorhydria (Phos).
Abdomen.--Sensitive to slightest pressure. Liver region painful
when stooping. Cutting in abdomen; swollen abdomen.
Incarcerated flatulence. Inguinal and mesenteric glands swollen
and painful. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist.
Distention with hardness. Gall-stone colic. Increase of fat in
abdomen. Umbilical hernia. Trembling; weakness, as if
sprained. Children are late in learning to walk.
Stool.--Crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and
hard (Bry); whitish, watery, sour. Prolapse ani, and burning,
stinging hćmorrhoids. Diarrhśa of undigested, food, fetid, with
ravenous appetite. Children's diarrhśa. Constipation; stool at
first hard, then pasty, then liquid.
Urine.--Dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment,
bloody. Irritable bladder. Enuresis (Use 30th, also Tuberculin. 1
m.).
Male.--Frequent emissions. Increased desire. Semen emitted too
soon. Coition followed by weakness and irritability.
Female.--Before menses, headache, colic, chilliness and
leucorrhśa. Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation. Menses
too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and
cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return. Uterus
easily displaced. Leucorrhśa, milky (Sepia). Burning and itching
of parts before and after menstruation; in little girls. Increased
sexual desire; easy conception. Hot swelling breasts. Breasts
tender and swollen before menses. Milk too abundant;
disagreeable to child. Deficient lactation, with distended breasts
in lymphatic women. Much sweat about external genitals.
Sterility with copious menses. Uterine polypi.
Respiratory.--Tickling cough troublesome at night, dry and free
expectoration in morning; cough when playing piano, or by
eating. Persistent, irritating cough from arsenical wall paper
(Clarke). Extreme dyspnśa. Painless hoarseness; worse in the
morning. Expectoration only during the day; thick, yellow, sour
mucus. Bloody expectoration; with sour sensation in chest.
Suffocating spells; tightness, burning and soreness in chest;
worse going upstairs or slightest ascent, must sit down. Sharp
pains in chest from before backwards. Chest very sensitive to
touch, percussion, or pressure. Longing for fresh air. Scanty,
salty expectoration (Lyc).
Heart.--Palpitation at night and after eating. Palpitation with
feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of chest; after
suppressed eruption.
Back.--Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from overlifting.
Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. Rheumatism
in lumbar region; weakness in small of back. Curvature of dorsal
vertebrć. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Renal colic.
Extremities.--Rheumatoid pains, as after exposure to wet. Sharp
sticking, as if parts were wrenched or sprained. Cold, damp feet;
feel as if damp stockings were worn. Cold knees cramps in
calves. Sour foot-sweat. Weakness of extremities. Swelling of
joints, especially knee. Burning of soles of feet. Sweat of hands.
Arthritic nodosities. Soles of feet raw. Feet feel cold and dead at
night. Old sprains. Tearing in muscles.
Sleep.--Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep. Horrid visions
when opening eyes. Starts at every noise; fears that she will go
crazy. Drowsy in early part of evening. Frequent waking at
night. Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light
slumber. Night terrors (Kali phos). Dreams of the dead.
Fever.--Chill at 2 pm begins internally in stomach region. Fever
with sweat. Pulse full and frequent. Chilliness and heat. Partial
sweats. Night sweats, especially on head, neck and chest. Hectic
fever. Heat at night during menstruation, with restless sleep.
Sweat over head in children, so that pillow becomes wet.
Skin.--Unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid. Small wounds do
not heal readily. Glands swollen. Nettle rash; better in cold air.
Warts on face and hands. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. Boils.
Modalities.--Worse, from exertion, mental or physical;
ascending; cold in every form; water, washing, moist air, wet
weather; during full moon; standing. Better, dry climate and
weather; lying on painful side. Sneezing (pain in head and nape).
Relationship.--Antidotes: Camph; Ipec; Nit ac; Nux.
Complementary: Bell; Rhus; Lycop; Silica.
Calcar is useful after Sulphur where the pupils remain dilated.
When Pulsatilla failed in school girls.
Incompatible: Bry; Sulphur should not be given after Calc.
Compare: Aqua calcar.--Lime-water--(1/2 teaspoonful in milk);
(as injection for oxyuris vermicularis), and Calc caust--slaked
lime--(pain in back and heels, jaws and malar bones; also
symptoms of influenza). Calc brom (removes inflammatory
products from uterus; children of lax fiber, nervous and irritable,
with gastric and cerebral irritation. Tendency to brain disease.
Insomnia and cerebral congestion. Give 1x trituration). Sulph
(differs in being worse by heat, hot feet, etc).
Calcar calcinata-Calcined oyster-shell-a remedy for warts. Use
3d trituration. Calcarea ovorum. Ova tosta-Toasted egg-shells--
(backache and leucorrhśa. Feeling as if back were broken in
two; tired feeling. Also effective in controlling suffering from
cancer).
Calcar lactic (anćmias, hćmophilia, urticaria, where the
coagulability of the blood is diminished; nervous headache with
śdema of eyelids, lips or hands; 15 grains three times a day, but
low potencies often equally effective).
Calcar lacto-phosph (5 grains 3 times a day in cyclic vomiting
and migraine).
Calc mur.--Calcium chloratum-Rademacher's Liquor--(1 part to
2 of distilled water, of which take 15 drops in half a cup of
water, five times daily. Boils. Porrigo capitis. Vomiting of all
food and drink, with gastric pain. Impetigo, glandular swellings,
angioneurotic śdema. Pleurisy with effusion. Eczema in infants).
Calcar picrata, (peri-follicular inflammation; a remedy of prime
importance in recurring or chronic boils, particularly when
located on parts thinly covered with muscle tissue, as on
shinbones, coccyx, auditory canal, dry, scurfy accumulation and
exfoliation of epithelial scales, etc, styes, phlyctenules. Use 3x
trit).
Compare also with Calcarea: Lycop; Silica; Pulsat; Chamom.
Dose.--Sixth trit. Thirtieth and higher potencies. Should not be
repeated too frequently in elderly people.
CALCAREA ACETICA
Acetate of Lime
Has had brilliant clinical results in inflammation of mucous
membranes characterized by a membranous exudation;
otherwise its action and application is like the carbonate. Cancer
pains.
Head.--Vertigo in open air. Senses obscure while reading.
Megrim, with great coldness in head and sour taste.
Female.--Membranous dysmenorrhśa (Borax).
Respiratory.--Rattling expiration. Cough loose, with
expectoration of large pieces like casts of bronchial tubes.
Breathing difficult; better bending shoulders backward.
Constrictive anxious sensation in chest.
Relationship.--Compare: Brom; Borax; also Calc oxal, in
excruciating pains of open cancer.
Dose.--Third trituration.
 CALCAREA ARSENICOSA
Arsenite of Lime
(CALCAREA ARSENICA)
Epilepsy with rush of blood to the head before attack; aura felt
in region of heart; flying sensation. Complaints in fat women
around climacteric. Chronic malaria. Infantile enlarged liver and
spleen. Nephritis, with great sensitiveness in kidney region.
Complaints of drunkards after abstaining (Carbon sulph). Fleshy
women at climacteric, slightest emotion causing palpitation.
Dyspnœa, with feeble heart. Chilliness. Albuminuria. Dropsy.
Affections of spleen and mesenteric glands. Hemoglobin and red
corpuscles are low.
Mind.--Anger, anxiety. Desire for company. Confusion,
delusions, illusions. Great depression.
Head.--Violent rush of blood to head with vertigo. Pain in head
better by lying on painful side. Weekly headache. Benumbling
headache mostly around ears.
Stomach.--Region of stomach distended. Enlarged liver and
spleen in children. Pancreatic disease; relieves burning pain in
cancer of pancreas. Belching with saliva and beating of heart.
Urinary.--Kidney region sensitive to pressure. Albuminuria,
passes urine every hour.
Heart.--Constriction and pain in region of heart, suffocating
feeling, palpitation, oppression and throbbing and pain in back
extending to arms.
Female.--Offensive, bloody leucorrhœa. Cancer of uterus;
burning pain in uterus and vagina.
Back.--Pain and stiffness near nape of neck. Violent backache,
throbbing, drives out of bed.
Extremities.--Removes inflammatory products in veins of lower
extremities. Weariness and lameness of lower limbs.
Modalities.--Worse from slight exertion.
Dose.--Third trituration.
CALCAREA FLUORICA
Fluoride of Lime
(FLUOR SPAR)
A powerful tissue remedy for hard, stony glands, varicose and
enlarged veins, and malnutrition of bones. Hard knots in female
breast. Goitre. Congenital hereditary syphilis. Induration
threatening suppuration. Many cases of cataract have
undoubtedly been influenced favorably by it. Congenital syphilis
manifesting itself in ulcerating of mouth and throat, caries and
necrosis with boring pains and heat in parts. Arterio-sclerosis;
threatened apoplexy. Tuberculosis. Used after operations, the
tendency to adhesions is reduced.
Mind.--Great depression; groundless fears of financial ruin.
Head.--Creaking noise in head. Blood-tumors of new-born
infants. Hard excrescences on the scalp. Ulcers on the scalp with
callous, hard edges.
Eyes.--Flickering and sparks before the eyes, spots on the
cornea; conjunctivitis; cataract. Strumous phlyctemular keratitis.
Subcutaneous palpebral cysts.
Ears.--Calcareous deposits on tympanum; sclerosis of ossicula
and petrous portion of temporal bone, with deafness, ringing and
roaring. Chronic suppuration of middle ear.
Nose.--Cold in the head; stuffy cold; dry coryza; ozćna.
Copious, offensive, thick, greenish, lumpy, yellow nasal catarrh.
Atrophic rhinitis, especially if crusts are prominent.
Face.--Hard swelling on the cheek, with pain or toothache, hard
swelling on jaw-bone.
Mouth.--Gum-boil, with hard swelling on the jaw. Cracked
appearance of the tongue, with or without pain. Induration of the
tongue, hardening after inflammation. Unnatural looseness of
the teeth, with or without pain; teeth become loose in their
sockets. Toothache, with pain if any food touches the tooth.
Throat.--Follicular sore throat; plugs of mucus are continually
forming in the crypts of the tonsils. Pain and burning in throat;
better by warm drinks; worse, cold drinks. Hypertrophy of
Luschka's tonsil. Relaxed uvula, tickling referred to larynx.
Stomach.--Vomiting of infants. Vomiting of undigested food.
Hiccough (Cajup; Sulph ac). Flatulency. Weakness and
daintiness of appetite, nausea and distress after eating in young
children who are overtaxed by studies. Acute indigestion from
fatigue and brain-fag; much flatulence.
Stool and Anus.--Diarrhśa in gouty subjects. Itching of anus.
Fissure of the anus, and intensely sore crack near the lower end
of the bowel. Bleeding hćmorrhoids. Itching of anus as from
pin-worms. Internal or blind piles frequently, with pain in back,
generally far down on the sacrum, and constipation. Much wind
in lower bowels. Worse, pregnancy.
Male.--Hydrocele; indurations of the testicles.
Respiratory Organs.--Hoarseness. Croup. Cough with
expectoration of tiny lumps of yellow mucus, with tickling
sensation and irritation on lying down. Spasmodic cough. Calc.
Fluor removes fibroid deposits about the endocardium and
restores normal endocardial structure (Eli G. Jones, M. D).
Circulatory Organs.--Chief remedy for vascular tumors with
dilated blood-vessels, and for varicose or enlarged veins.
Aneurism. Valvular disease. When the tuberculous toxins attack
the heart and blood-vessels.
Neck and Back.--Chronic lumbago; aggravated on beginning to
move, and ameliorated on continued motion. Osseous tumors.
Rachitic enlargement of femur in infants. Pain lower part of
back, with burning.
Extremities.--Ganglia or encysted tumors at the back of the
wrist. Gouty enlargements of the joints of the fingers. Exostoses
on fingers. Chronic synovitis of knee-joint.
Sleep.--Vivid dreams, with sense of impending danger.
Unrefreshing sleep.
Skin.--Marked whiteness of skin. Scar tissue; adhesions after
operations. Chaps and cracks. Fissures or cracks in the palms of
the hands, or hard skin. Fissure of the anus. Suppurations with
callous, hard edges. Whitlow. Indolent, fistulous ulcers,
secreting thick, yellow pus. Hard, elevated edges of ulcer,
surrounding skin purple and swollen. Knots, kernels, hardened
glands in the female breast. Swellings or indurated enlargements
having their seat in the fascić and capsular ligaments of joints, or
in the tendons. Indurations of stony hardness.
Modalities.--Worse, during rest, changes of weather. Better,
heat, warm applications.
Relationship.--Compare: Con; Lapis; Baryt mur; Hecla; Rhus;
Cacodylate of Soda (Tumors).
Calcar sulph-stibiata (acts as an hćmostatic and absorptive in
uterine myoma).
Mangifera indica (varicose veins).
Dose.--Third to twelfth trituration. A "chronic" remedy. Needs
some time before manifesting its effects. Should not be repeated
too frequently.
CALCAREA IODATA
Iodide of Lime
It is in the treatment of scrofulous affections, especially enlarged
glands, tonsils, etc, that this remedy has gained marked
beneficial results. Thyroid enlargements about time of puberty.
Flabby children subject to colds. Secretions inclined to be
profuse and yellow. Adenoids. Uterine fibroids. Croup.
Head.--Headache while riding against cold wind. Lightheaded.
Catarrh; worse at root of nose; sneezing; very little sensation.
Polypi of nose and ear.
Throat.--Enlarged tonsils are filled with little crypts.
Respiratory.--Chronic cough; Pain in chest, difficulty breathing
after syphilis and mercurialization (Grauvogl). Hectic fever;
green purulent expectoration. Croup. Pneumonia.
Skin.--Indolent ulcers, accompanying varicose veins. Easy
perspiration. Copper-colored and papulous eruptions, tinea,
favus, crusta lactea, swelling of the glands, skin cracked, falling
out of hair.
Relationship.--Compare: Agraphis-Bluebell (adenoids with
enlarged tonsils). Here Sulph iod follows both Agraphis and
Calc iod. Acon lycotonum (swelling of glands, Hodgkin's
disease).
Compare also: Calc fluor; Sil; Merc iod.
Dose.--Second and third trituration.
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA
Phosphate of Lime
One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has
many symptoms in common with Calcarea carb, there are some
differences and characteristic features of its own. It is especially
indicated in tardy dentition and troubles incident to that period,
bone disease non-union of fractured bones, and the anćmias after
acute diseases and chronic wasting diseases. Anćmic children
who are peevish, flabby, have cold extremities and feeble
digestion. It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or
symphyses, and all its symptoms are worse from any change of
weather. Numbness and crawling are characteristic sensations,
and tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement are
symptoms it shares with the carbonate. Scrofulosis, chlorosis
and phthisis.
Mind.--Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation (Ignat; Phos
ac). Always wants to go somewhere.
Head.--Headache, worse near the region of sutures, from
change of weather, of school children about puberty. Fontanelles
remain open too long. Cranial bones soft and thin. Defective
hearing. Headache, with abdominal flatulence. Head hot, with
smarting of roots of hair.
Eyes.--Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess.
Mouth.--Swollen tonsils; cannot open mouth without pain.
Complaints during teething; teeth develop slowly; rapid decay of
teeth. Adenoid growths.
Stomach.--Infant wants to nurse all the time and vomits easily.
Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much
flatulence. Great hunger with thirst flatulence temporarily
relieved by sour eructations. Heartburn. Easy vomiting in
children.
Abdomen.--At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen.
Sunken and flabby. Colic, soreness and burning around navel.
Stool.--Bleeding after hard stool. Diarrhśa from juicy fruits or
cider; during dentition. Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested,
with fetid flatus. Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.
Urine.--Increased, with sensation of weakness. Pain in region of
kidneys when lifting or blowing the nose.
Female.--Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls. If late,
blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent
backache. During lactation with sexual excitement.
Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine
region (Plat). After prolonged nursing. Leucorrhśa, like white of
egg. Worse morning. Child refuses breast; milk tastes salty.
Prolapsus in debilitated persons.
Respiratory.--Involuntary sighing. Chest sore. Suffocative
cough; better lying down. Hoarseness. Pain through lower left
lung.
Neck and Back.--Rheumatic pain from draught of air, with
stiffness and dullness of head. Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis,
as if broken (Aesc hip).
Extremities.--Stiffness and pain, with cold, numb feeling, worse
any change of weather. Crawling and coldness. Buttocks, back
and limbs asleep. Pains in joints and bones. Weary when going
upstairs.
Relationship.--Complementary: Ruta; Hepar.
Compare: Calcar hypophosphorosa (is to be preferred when it
seems necessary to furnish the organism with liberal doses of
phosphorus in consequence of continued abscesses having
reduced the vitality. Give first and second decimal trits. Loss of
appetite, rapid debility, night sweats; Acne pustulosa.--Pallor of
skin, habitually cold extremities. Phthisis-diarrhśa and cough;
acute pains in chest. Mesenteric tuberculosis. Bleeding from
lungs; angina pectoris; asthma; affection of arteries. Veins stand
out like whipcords. Attacks of pain occurring two hours after
meals (relieved by a cup of milk or light food). Cheiranthus
(effects of cutting wisdom teeth). Calcarea renalis-Lapis
renalis--(arthritic nodosities. Rigg's disease; lessens tendency to
accumulation of tartar on teeth; gravel and renal calculi).
Conchilion.--Meter perlarum.--Mother of pearl (Osteitis.--Has a
wide range of action in bone affections, especially when the
growing ends are affected. Petechić). Silica; Psorin; Sulph.
Modalities.--Worse, exposure to damp, cold weather, melting
snow. Better, in summer; warm, dry atmosphere.
Dose.--First to third trituration. Higher potencies often more
effective.
CALCAREA SULPHURICA
Sulphate of Lime-Plaster of Paris
Eczema and torpid glandular swellings. Cystic tumors. Fibroids.
Suppurative processes come within the range of this remedy,
after pus has found a vent. Mucous discharges are yellow, thick
and lumpy. Lupus vulgaris.
Head.--Scald-head of children, if there be purulent discharge, or
yellow, purulent crusts.
Eyes.--Inflammation of the eyes, with discharge of thick, yellow
matter. Sees only one-half an object. Cornea smoky. Ophthalmia
neonatorum.
Ears.--Deafness, with discharge of matter from the middle ear,
sometimes mixed with blood. Pimples around ear.
Nose.--Cold in the head, with thick, yellowish, purulent
secretion, frequently tinged with blood. One-sided discharge
from nose. Yellowish discharge from posterior nares. Edges of
nostrils sore.
Face.--Pimples and pustules on the face. Herpes.
Mouth.--Inside of lips sore. Tongue flabby, resembling a layer
of dried clay. Sour, soapy, acrid taste. Yellow coating at base.
Throat.--Last stage of ulcerated sore throat, with discharge of
yellow matter. Suppurating stage of tonsillitis, when abscess is
discharging.
Abdomen.--Pain in region of liver, in right side of pelvis,
followed by weakness, nausea, and pain in stomach.
Stool.--Purulent diarrhśa mixed with blood. Diarrhśa after maple
sugar and from change of weather. Pus-like, slimy discharge
from the bowels. Painful abscesses about the anus in cases of
fistula.
Female.--Menses late, long-lasting, with headache, twitching
great weakness.
Respiratory.--Cough, with purulent and sanious sputa and
hectic fever. Empyćma, pus forming in the lungs or pleural
cavities. Purulent, sanious expectoration. Catarrh, with thick,
lumpy, white-yellow or pus-like secretion.
Extremities.--Burning-itching of soles of feet.
Fever.--Hectic fever, caused by formation of pus. With cough
and burning in soles.
Skin.--Cuts, wounds, bruises, etc, unhealthy, discharging pus;
they do not heal readily. Yellow, purulent crusts or discharge.
Purulent exudations in or upon the skin. Skin affections with
yellowish scabs. Many little matterless pimples under the hair,
bleeding when scratched. Dry eczema in children.
Relationship.--Compare: Hepar; Silica.
Dose.--Second and third trituration. The twelfth potency has
been found effective in Lupus.
CALCAREA SILICATA
Silicate of Lime
A deep, long acting medicine for complaints which come on
slowly and reach their final development after long periods.
Hydrogenoid constitution (Nat sulph). Very sensitive to cold.
Patient is weak, emaciated, cold and chilly, but worse from
being overheated; sensitive generally. Atrophy of children.
Mind.--Absent-minded, irritable, irresolute, lacks self-
confidence. Fearful.
Head.--Vertigo, head cold, especially at vertex; catarrh of nose
and posterior nares, discharge thick, yellow, hard crusts. Corneal
exudation.
Stomach.--Sensation of coldness, especially when empty.
Sinking sensation at pit. Great thirst. Flatulence and distention
after eating. Vomiting and eructations.
Female.--Uterus heavy, prolapsed. Leucorrhśa, painful and
irregular menses. Flow between periods.
Respiratory.--Sensitive to cold air. Difficult respiration.
Chronic irritation of air passages. Copious, yellow-green mucus.
Coughs with coldness, weakness, emaciation, sensitiveness and
peevishness, worse from cold air. Pain in chest walls.
Skin.--Itching, burning, cold and blue, very sensitive. Pimples,
comedones, wens. Psoric eruptions.
Relationship.--Compare: Arsenic; Tubercul; Baryt carb; Iod.
Dose.--All potencies from lowest to high.
CALENDULA OFFICINALIS
Marigold
A most remarkable healing agent, applied locally. Useful for
open wounds, parts that will not heal, ulcers, etc. Promotes
healthy granulations and rapid healing by first intention.
Hæmostatic after tooth extraction. Deafness. Catarrhal
conditions. Neuroma. Constitutional tendency to erysipelas. Pain
is excessive and out of all proportion to injury. Great disposition
to take cold, especially in damp weather. Paralysis after
apoplexy. Cancer, as an intercurrent remedy. Has remarkable
power to produce local exudation and helps to make acrid
discharge healthy and free. Cold hands.
Head.--Extremely nervous; easily frightened; tearing headache;
weight on brain. Submaxillary glands swollen, painful to touch.
Pain in right side of neck. Lacerated scalpwounds.
Eyes.--Injuries to eyes which tend to suppuration; after
operations; blenorrhœa of lachrymal sac.
Ears.--Deafness; worse in damp surroundings and with
eczematous conditions. Hears best on a train, and distant sounds.
Nose.--Coryza in one nostril; with much green discharge.
Stomach.--Hunger immediately after nursing. Bulimia.
Heartburn with horripilations. Nausea in chest. Vomiting.
Sinking sensation. Epigastric distention.
Respiratory.--Cough, with green expectoration, hoarseness;
with distention of inguinal ring.
Female.--Warts at the os externum. Menses suppressed, with
cough. Chronic endocervicitis. Uterine hypertrophy, sensation of
weight and fullness in pelvis; stretching and dragging in groin;
pain on sudden movements. Os lower than natural. Menorrhagia.
Skin.--Yellow; goose-flesh. Promotes favorable cicatrization,
with least amount of suppuration. Slough, proud flesh, and
raised edges. Superficial burns and scalds. Erysipelas (use
topically).
Fever.--Coldness, great sensitiveness to open air; shuddering in
back, skin feels warm to touch. Heat in evening.
Modalities.--Worse, in damp, heavy, cloudy weather.
Relationship.--Compare: Hamamel; Hyperic; Symph; Arn.
Compare in deafness: Ferr pic; Kal iod; Calc; Mag c; Graph.
Antidote: Chelidon; Rheum.
Complementary: Hepar.
Dose.--Locally. Aqueous Calendula (Marigoldin) for all
wounds, the greatest healing agent. Also as an injection in
leucorrhœa; internally, tincture, to third potency. For burns
sores, fissures, and abrasions, etc, use Calendula Cerate.
CALOTROPIS GIGANTEA
Madar Bark
(CALOTROPIS)
Has been used with marked success in the treatment of syphilis
following Mercury; also, in elephantiasis, leprosy, and acute
dysentery. Pneumonic phthisis. Tuberculosis.
Increases the circulation in the skin; has powerful effects as a
sudorific. In the secondary symptoms of syphilis, where
Mercury has been used but cannot be pushed safely any farther,
it rapidly recruits the constitution, heals the ulcers and blotches
from the skin, and perfects the cure. Primary anćmia of syphilis.
Heat in stomach is a good guiding symptom. Obesity, while
flesh decreases, muscles become harder and firmer.
Relationship.--Compare: Merc; Potass iod; Berb aqui; Sarsap;
Ipecac.
Dose.--Tincture, one to five drops; three times a day.
CALTHA PALUSTRIS
Cowslip
Pain in abdomen, vomiting, headache, singing in ears, dysuria
and diarrhśa. Anasarca.
Skin.--Pemphigus. Bullć are surrounded by a ring. Much
itching. Face much swollen, especially around the eyes. Itching
eruption on thighs. Pustules. Uterine cancer.
Dose.--Tincture.
CAMPHORA
Camphor
Hahnemann says: "The action of this substance is very puzzling
and difficult of investigation, even in the healthy organism
because its primary action, more frequently than with any other
remedy, alternates and becomes intermixed with the vital
reactions (after effects) of the organism. On this account it is
often difficult to determine what belongs to the vital reactions of
the body and what to the alternating effects due to the primary
action of the camphor."
Pictures a state of collapse. Icy coldness of the whole body;
sudden sinking of strength; pulse small and weak. After
operations, if temperature is subnormal, low blood pressure, 3
doses camph. 1x, 15-minute intervals. This condition is met with
in cholera, and here it is that Camphor has achieved classical
fame. First stages of a cold, with chilliness and sneezing.
Subsultus and extreme restlessness. Cracking of joints.
Epileptiform convulsions. Camphor has a direct relationship to
muscles and fascia. In local rheumatic affections in cold
climates necessary. Distention of veins. As a heart stimulant for
emergency use of Camphor is the most satisfactory remedy.
Drop doses on sugar as often as every five minutes.
It is characteristic of Camphor that the patient will not be
covered, notwithstanding the icy coldness of the body. One of
the main remedies in shock. Pain better while thinking of it.
Very sensitive to cold and to touch. Sequelæ of measles. Violent
convulsion, with wandering and hysterical excitement. Tetanic
spasms. Scrofulous children and irritable, weakly blondes
especially affected.
Head.--Vertigo, tendency to unconsciousness, feeling as if he
would die. Influenza; headache, with catarrhal symptoms,
sneezing, etc. Beating pain in cerebellum. Cold sweat. Nose cold
and pinched. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling. Fleeting stitches in
temporal region and orbits. Head sore. Occipital throbbing,
synchronous with the pulse.
Eyes.--Fixed, staring; pupils dilated. Sensation as if all objects
were too bright and glittering.
Nose.--Stopped; sneezing. Fluent coryza on sudden change of
weather. Cold and pinched. Persistent epistaxis, especially with
goose-flesh state of skin.
Face.--Pale, haggard, anxious, distorted; bluish, cold. Cold
sweat.
Stomach.--Pressive pain in pit of stomach. Coldness, followed
by burning.
Stool.--Blackish; involuntary. Asiatic cholera, with cramps in
calves, coldness of body, anguish, great weakness, collapse,
tongue and mouth cold.
Urine.--Burning and strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the
bladder. Retention with full bladder.
Male--Besire increased. Chordee. Priapism. Nightly emissions.
Respiratory.--Præcordial distress. Suffocative dyspnœa.
Asthma. Violent, dry, hacking cough. Palpitation. Breath cold.
Suspended respiration.
Sleep.--Insomnia, with cold limbs. Subsultus and extreme
restlessness.
Extremities.--Rheumatic pain between shoulders. Difficult
motion. Numbness, tingling and coldness. Cracking in joints.
Cramps in calves. Icy cold feet, ache as if sprained.
Fever.--Pulse small, weak, slow. Icy coldness of the whole body.
Cold perspiration. Congestive chill. Tongue cold, flabby,
trembling.
Skin.--Cold, pale, blue, livid. Cannot bear to be covered
(Secale).
Modalities.--Worse, motion, night, contact, cold air. Better,
warmth.
Relationship.--Camphor antidotes or modifies the action of
nearly every vegetable medicine--tobacco, opium, worm
medicines, etc. Laffa acutangula (whole body ice-cold, with a
restlessness and anxiety; burning thirst). Camphoric acid--(a
prophylactic against catheter fever; cystitis 15 grains three times
a day; also for prevention of night sweats).
Incompatible: Kali nit.
Complementary: Canth.
Antidotes: Opium; Nitr sp dulc; Phos.
Compare: Carbo; Cuprum; Arsenic; Veratr.
Dose.--Tincture, in drop doses, repeated frequently, or smelling
of Spirits of Camphor. Potencies are equally effective.
CAMPHORA BROMATA
Mono-bromide of Camphor
(CAMPHORA MONO-BROMATA)
Nervous excitability is the guiding condition. Suppression of
milk. Nightly emissions. Painful erections. Paralysis agitans.
Cholera infantum, and infantile convulsions. Intensifies the
action of Quinine and renders it more permanent.
Mind.--Directions appear reversed, i.e, north seems south, and
east seems west. Hysteria; weeping and laughing alternately.
Trance-like state.
Dose.--Second trituration.
CANCHALAGUA
Erythraea venusta-Centaury
Used extensively as a fever remedy and bitter tonic (Gentiana),
antimalarial and antiseptic. Of use in severe type of intermittent
fever in hot countries; also, in influenza. Sore, as if bruised all
over. Sensation of drops falling from and upon different spots.
Head.--Congested. Scalp feels tight; head feels as if bound;
burning in eyes; buzzing in ears.
Fever.--Chill all over; worse in bed at night. Sensitive to cold
trade-winds on Pacific Coast. General sore and bruised feeling;
nausea and retching.
Skin.--Wrinkled like a washer-woman's. Scalp feels tight, as if
drawn together by India-rubber.
Dose.--Tincture, in drop doses. Must be made from the fresh
plant. Its medicinal properties are lost in the dry.
CANNABIS INDICA
Hashish
Inhibits the higher faculties and stimulates the imagination to a
remarkable degree without any marked stimulation of the lower
or animal instinct. A condition of intense exaltation, in which all
perceptions and conceptions, all sensations and all emotions are
exaggerated to the utmost degree.
Subconscious or dual nature state. Apparently under the control
of the second self, but, the original self, prevents the
performance of acts which are under the domination of the
second self. Apparently the two natures cannot act
independently, one acting as a check, upon the other (Effects of
one Dram doses by Dr. Albert Schneider).
The experimenter feels ever and anon that he is distinct from the
subject of the hashish dream and can think rationally.
Produces the most remarkable hallucinations and imaginations,
exaggeration of the duration of time and extent of space, being
most characteristic. Conception of time, space and place is
gone. Extremely happy and contented, nothing troubles. Ideas
crowd upon each other. Has great soothing influence in many
nervous disorders, like epilepsy, mania, dementia, delirium
tremens, and irritable reflexes. Exophthalmic goitre. Catalepsy.
Mind.--Excessive loquacity; exuberance of spirits. Time seems
too long; seconds seem ages; a few rods an immense distance.
Constantly theorizing. Anxious depression; constant fear of
becoming insane. Mania, must constantly move. Very forgetful;
cannot finish sentence. Is lost in delicious thought.
Uncontrollable laughter. Delirium tremens. Clairvoyance.
Emotional excitement; rapid change of mood. Cannot realize her
identity, chronic vertigo as of floating off.
Head.--Feels as if top of head were opening and shutting and as
if calvarium were being lifted. Shocks through brain (Aloe;
Coca). Urćmic headache. Throbbing and weight at occiput.
Headache with flatulence. Involuntary shaking of head.
Migraine attack preceded by unusual excitement with loquacity.
Eyes.--Fixed. Letters run together when reading. Clairvoyance.
Spectral illusions without terror.
Ears.--Throbbing, buzzing, and ringing. Noise like boiling
water. Extreme sensitiveness to noise.
Face.--Expression drowsy and stupid. Lips glued together.
Grinding of teeth in sleep. Mouth and lips dry. Saliva thick,
frothy, and sticky.
Stomach.--Increased appetite. Pain at cardiac orifice; better,
pressure. Distention. Pyloric spasm. Sensation of extreme
tension in abdominal vessels-feel distended to bursting.
Rectum.--Sensation in anus as if sitting on a ball.
Urinary.--Urine loaded with slimy mucus. Must strain;
dribbling; has to wait some time before the urine flows. Stitches
and burning in urethra. Dull pain in region of right kidney.
Male.--After sexual intercourse, backache. Oozing of white,
glairy mucus from glans. Satyriasis. Prolonged thrill. Chordee.
Sensation of swelling in perineum or near anus, as if sitting on a
ball.
Female.--Menses profuse, dark, painful, without clots.
Backache during menses. Uterine colic, with great nervous
agitation and sleeplessness. Sterility (Borax). Dysmenorrhśa
with sexual desire.
Respiratory.--Humid asthma. Chest oppressed with deep,
labored breathing.
Heart.--Palpitation awakes him. Piercing pain, with great
oppression. Pulse very slow (Dig; Kalmia; Apocyn).
Extremities.--Pain across shoulders and spine; must stoop;
cannot walk erect. Thrilling through arms and hands, and from
knees down. Entire paralysis of the lower extremities. Pain in
soles and calves; sharp pains in knees and ankles; very
exhausted after a short walk.
Sleep.--Very sleepy, but unable to do so. Obstinate and
intractable forms of insomnia. Catalepsy. Dreams of dead
bodies; prophetic. Nightmare.
Modalities.--Worse, morning; from coffee, liquor and tobacco;
lying on right side. Better from fresh air, cold water, rest.
Relationship.--Bellad; Hyoscy; Stram; Laches; Agaric;
Anhalon (time sense disordered; time periods enormously
overestimated, thus, minutes seem hours, etc).
Dose.--Tincture and low attenuations.
CANNABIS SATIVA
Hemp
Seems to affect especially the urinary, sexual, and respiratory
organs. It has characteristic sensations as of dropping water.
Great fatigue, as from over-exertion; weary after meals. Choking
in swallowing; things go down the wrong way. Stuttering.
Confusion of thought and speech. Wavering speech. Wavering
speech, hasty, incoherent.
Head.--Lectophobia. Vertigo; sensation of dropping water on
head. Pressure on root of nose.
Eyes.--Opacity of cornea. Cataract from nervous disturbances,
abuse of alcohol and tobacco; patient feels deeply approaching
blindness. Misty sight. Pressure from back of eyes, forward.
Gonorrhśal ophthalmia. Eyeballs ache. Scrofulous eye troubles
(Sulph; Calc).
Urine.--Retained, with obstinate constipation. Painful urging.
Micturition in split stream. Stitches in urethra. Inflamed
sensation, with soreness to touch. Burning while urinating,
extending to bladder. Urine scalding, with spasmodic closure of
sphincter. Gonorrhśa, acute stage; urethra very sensitive. Walks
with legs apart. Dragging in testicles. Zigzag pain along urethra.
Sexual overexcitement. Urethral caruncle (Eucalypt), phimosis.
Stoppage of urethra by mucus and pus.
Female.--Amenorrhśa when physical powers have been
overtaxed, also with constipation.
Respiratory.--Oppression of breathing and palpitation; must
stand up. Weight on chest; rattling wheezing breathing. Cough,
with green viscid, also bloody, expectoration.
Heart.--Sensation as if drops were falling from the heart.
Painful strokes and tension with palpitation. Pericarditis.
Sleep.--Frightful dreams. More tired in morning. Sleepy during
day.
Extremities.--Contraction of fingers after a sprain. Dislocation
of patella on going upstairs. Feet feel heavy on going upstairs.
Paralytic tearing pains. Affections of the ball of the foot and
under part of toes.
Modalities.--Worse, lying down; going upstairs.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Camph; Lemon juice.
Compare: Hedysarum-Brazilian Burdock--(Gonorrhśa and
inflammation of penis); Canth; Apis; Copaiva; Thuj; Kal nit.
Dose.--Tincture to third attenuation. In stuttering the 30th.
CANTHARIS VESICATORIA
Spanish Fly
(CANTHARIS)
This powerful drug produces a furious disturbance in the animal
economy, attacking the urinary and sexual organs especially,
perverting their function, and setting up violent inflammations,
and causing a frenzied delirium, simulating hydrophobia
symptoms (Anagallis). Puerperal convulsions. Produces most
violent inflammation of the whole gastro-intestinal canal,
especially lower bowel. Oversensitiveness of all parts. Irritation.
Raw, burning pains. Hćmorrhages. Intolerable, constant urging
to urinate is most characteristic. Gastric, hepatic and abdominal
complaints that are aggravated by drinking coffee. Gastric
derangements of pregnancy. Dysuria, with other complaints.
Increases secretion of mucous membranes, tenacious mucus.
The inflammations cantharis produces (bladder, kidneys,
ovaries, meninges, pleuritic and pericardial membranes)are
usually associated with bladder irritation.
Mind.--Furious delirium. Anxious restlessness, ending in rage.
Crying, barking; worse touching larynx or drinking water.
Constantly attempts to do something, but accomplishes nothing.
Acute mania, generally of a sexual type; amorous frenzy; fiery
sexual desire. Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking. Sudden loss
of consciousness with red face.
Head.--Burning in brain. Sensation as if boiling water in brain.
Vertigo; worse in open air.
Eyes.--Yellow vision (Santon). Fiery, sparkling, staring look.
Burning in eyes.
Ears.--Sensation as if wind were coming from ear, or hot air.
Bones about ear painful (Capsic).
Face.--Pale, wretched, death-like appearance. Itching vesicles
on face, burning when touched. Erysipelas of face, with burning,
biting heat with urinary symptoms. Hot and red.
Throat.--Tongue covered with vesicles; deeply furred; edges
red. Burning in mouth, pharynx, and throat; vesicles in mouth.
Great difficulty in swallowing liquids. Very tenacious mucus
(Kali bich). Violent spasms reproduced by touching larynx.
Inflammation of throat; feels on fire. Constriction; aphthous
ulceration (Hydr mur; Nit ac). Scalding feeling. Burnt after
taking too hot food.
Chest.--Pleurisy, as soon as effusion has taken place. Intense
dyspnśa; palpitation; frequent, dry cough. Tendency to syncope.
Short, hacking cough, blood-streaked tenaciousmucus. Burning
pains.
Stomach.--Burning sensation of śsophagus and stomach (Carb).
Disgust for everything-drink, food, tobacco. Burning thirst, with
aversion to all fluids. Very sensitive, violent burning. Vomiting
of blood-streaked membrane and violent retching. Aggravation
from drinking coffee; drinking the smallest quantity increases
pain in bladder, and is vomited. Thirst unquenchable.
Stool.--Shivering with burning. Dysentery; mucous stools, like
scrapings of intestines. Bloody, with burning and tenesmus and
shuddering after stool.
Urine.--Intolerable urging and tenesmus. Nephritis with bloody
urine. Violent paroxysms of cutting and burning in whole renal
region, with painful urging to urinate; bloody urine, by drops.
Intolerable tenesmus; cutting before, during, and after urine.
Urine scalds him, and is passed drop by drop. Constant desire
to urinate. Membranous scales looking like bran in water. Urine
jelly-like, shreddy.
Male.--Strong desire; painful erections. Pain in glans (Prunus;
Pareira). Priapism in gonorrhśa.
Female.--Retained placenta (Sep), with painful urination. Expels
moles, dead fśtuses, membranes, etc. Nymphomania (Plat;
Hyos; Lach; Stram). Puerperal metritis, with inflammation of
bladder. Menses too early and too profuse; black swelling of
vulva with irritation. Constant discharge from uterus; worse
false step. Burning pain in ovaries; extremely sensitive. Pain in
os coccyx, lancinating and tearing.
Respiratory.--Voice low; weak feeling. Stitches in chest (Bry;
Kal c; Squilla). Pleurisy, with exudation.
Heart.--Palpitation; pulse feeble, irregular; tendency to syncope.
Pericarditis, with effusion.
Back.--Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate.
Extremities.--Tearing in limbs. Ulcerative pain in soles; cannot
step.
Skin.--Dermatitis venenata with bled formation. Secondary
eczema about scrotum and genitals, following excessive
perspiration. Tendency to gangrene. Eruption with mealy scales.
Vesicular eruptions, with burning and itching. Sunburn. Burns,
scalds, with rawness and smarting, relieved by cold applications,
followed by undue inflammation. Erysipelas, vesicular type,
with great restlessness. Burning in soles of feet at night.
Fever.--Cold hands and feet; cold sweat. Soles burn. Chill, as if
water were poured over him.
Modalities.--Worse, from touch, or approach, urinating,
drinking cold water or coffee. Better, rubbing.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Acon; Camph; Puls.
Compare: Cantharidin--(Glomerular nephritis). The immediate
pharmacological action of Cantharidin is irritability of the
capillaries, rendering the passage of nutritive fluids through
them less difficult. This is most marked in the capillaries of the
kidneys. The increase of blood sugar coincident with the
glomerular nephritis appears to be a valuable observation.
Vesicaria--(Urinary and kidney remedy. Smarting, burning
sensation along urethra and in bladder with frequent desire to
void urine often with strangury. Cystitis, irritable bladder.
Tincture 5-10 drop doses). Fuschina coloring substance used in
adulteration of wine (Cortical nephritis with albuminuria, 6th-
30th potency. Redness of ears, mouth, swollen gums; deep, red
urine; red, profuse diarrhśa, with severe abdominal pains).
Androsace lactea (urinary troubles, diuretic; dropsy). Apis; Ars;
Merc cor.
Complementary: Camph.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency. Bears repeated doses well.
Locally, in burns and eczema, 1x and 2x, in water, or as cerate.
CAPSICUM ANNUUM
Cayenne Pepper
(CAPSICUM)
Seems to suit especially persons of lax fiber, weak; diminished
vital heat. A relaxed plethoric sluggish, cold remedy. Not much
reactive force. Such persons are fat, indolent, opposed to
physical exertion, averse to go outside of their routine, get
homesick easily. General uncleanliness of body. Abstainers
from accustomed alcoholics. It affects the mucous membranes,
producing a sensation of constriction. Inflammation of petrous
bone. Burning pains and general chilliness. Older people who
have exhausted their vitality, especially by mental work, and
poor living; blear-eyed appearance; who do not react. Fear of
slightest draught. Marked tendency to suppuration in every
inflammatory process. Prostration and feeble digestion of
alcoholics. Myalgia, aching and jerking of muscles.
Mind.--Excessive peevishness. Homesickness, with
sleeplessness and disposition to suicide. Wants to be let alone.
Peppery disposition. Delirium tremens.
Head.--Bursting headache; worse, coughing. Hot face. Red
cheeks. Face red, though cold (Asafaet).
Ears.--Burning and stinging in ears. Swelling and pain behind
ears. Inflammation of mastoid. Tenderness over the petrous
bone; extremely sore and tender to touch (Onosmod). Otorrhœa
and mastoid disease before suppuration.
Throat.--Hot feeling in fauces. Subacute inflammation of
Eustachian tube with great pain. Pain and dryness in throat
extending to the ears. Sore throat of smokers and drinkers.
Smarting in; constriction. Burning constriction worse between
acts of deglutition. Inflamed uvula and palate; swollen and
relaxed.
Mouth.--Herpes labialis (Apply one drop of the mother
tincture). Stomatitis. Disagreeable smell from mouth. Fetid odor
from mouth.
Stomach.--Burning in tip of tongue. Atonic dyspepsia. Much
flatulence, especially in debilitated subjects. Intense craving for
stimulants. Vomiting, sinking at pit of stomach. Much thirst; but
drinking causes shuddering.
Stool.--Bloody mucus, with burning and tenesmus; drawing pain
in back after stool. Thirsty after stool, with shivering. Bleeding
piles, with soreness of anus. Stinging pain during stool.
Urine.--Strangury, frequent, almost ineffectual urging. Burning
in orifice. Comes first in drops, then in spurts; neck of bladder
spasmodically contracted. Ectropion of meatus.
Male.--Coldness of scrotum, with impotency, atrophied testicles,
loss of sensibility in testicles, with softening and dwindling.
Gonorrhœa, with chordee, excessive burning, pain in prostate.
Female.--Climacteric disturbances with burning of tip of tongue
(Lathyrus). Uterine hæmorrhage near the menopause, with
nausea. Sticking sensation in left ovarian region.
Respiratory.--Constriction of chest; arrests breathing
Hoarseness. Pain at apex of heart or in rib region, worse touch.
Dry, hacking cough, expelling an offensive breath from lungs.
Dyspnœa. Feels as if chest and head would fly to pieces.
Explosive cough. Threatening gangrene of lung. Pain in distant
parts on coughing-bladder, legs, ears, etc.
Extremities.--Pain from hips to feet. Sciatica, worse bending
backward; worse, coughing. Tensive pain in the knee.
Fever.--Coldness, with ill-humor. Shivering after drinking. Chill
begins in back; better, heat. Must have something hot to back.
Thirst before chill.
Modalities.--Better, while eating, from heat. Worse, open air,
uncovering, draughts.
Relationship.--Antidote: Cina; Calad.
Compare: Pulsat; Lycop; Bell; Centaurea (surging of blood;
homesickness; intermittent fever).
Dose.--Third to sixth attenuation. In delirium tremens, dram
doses of tincture in milk or tincture or orange peel.
CARBOLICUM ACIDUM
Phenol-Carbolic Acid
Carbolic Acid is a powerful irritant and anæsthetic. A languid,
foul, painless, destructive remedy. Stupor, paralysis of sensation
and motion, feeble pulse and depressed breathing, death due to
paralysis of respiratory centers. Acts primarily on the central
nervous system. Increased olfactory sensibility.
Produces mental and bodily languor, disinclination to study,
with headache like a band. Very marked acuteness of smell is a
strong guiding symptom. Stomach symptoms are also important.
Pains are terrible; come and go suddenly. Physical exertion
brings on abscess somewhere. Putrid discharges (Bapt). Scarlet
fever, with marked tendency to destruction of tissue internally,
and fetid odor. Spasmodic coughs. Arthritis (See Dose).
Head.--Disinclined to mental work. Tight feeling, as if
compressed by a rubber band (Gels; Mahonia). Orbital neuralgia
over right eye. Headache, better, by green tea; while smoking.
Nose.--Smell very acute. Putrid discharge. Ozæna, with fetor and
ulceration. Influenza and resulting debility.
Throat.--Ulcerated patches on inside of lips and cheeks.
Burning in mouth to stomach. Fauces red, and covered with
exudation. Uvula whitened and shriveled. Putrid discharge.
Almost impossible to swallow. Diphtheria, fetid breath,
regurgitation on swallowing liquids, but little pain (Bapt). Face
dusky red; white about mouth and nose. Rapid sinking of vital
forces.
Stomach.--Appetite lost. Desire for stimulants and tobacco.
Constant belching, nausea, vomiting, dark olive green. Heat rises
up œsophagus. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen.
Painful flatulence often marked in one part of the bowel
(Sulpho-Carbolate of Soda). Fermentative dyspepsia with bad
taste and breath.
Stool.--Constipation, with very offensive breath. Bloody, like
scrapings of intestines. Great tenesmus. Diarrhœa; stools thin,
black, putrid.
Urine.--Almost black. Diabetes. Irritable bladder in old men
with frequent urination at night, of probable prostatic nature.
Use 1x.
Female.--Discharges always offensive (Nitr ac; Nux; Sep).
Pustules about vulva containing bloody pus. Agonizing
backache across loins, with dragging-down thighs. Pain in left
ovary; worse walking in open air. Erosions of cervix; fetid, acrid
discharge. Leucorrhœa in children (Cann s; Merc; Puls; Sep).
Puerperal fever, with offensive discharge. Irritating leucorrhœa,
causing itching and burning (Kreos).
Extremities.--Cramps in fore part of leg, close to tibia during
walking. Gnawing pains in shin bones. Arthritis.
Skin.--Itching vesicles, with burning pain. Burns tend to
ulcerate.
Relationship.--Compare: Chrysarobin (local in ringworm of the
scalp 5-10 per cent in glycerine and alcohol. Equal parts). Ars;
Kreosot; Carbo; Guano (Violent headache as from a band
around head. Itching of nostrils, back, thighs, genitals.
Symptoms like hay-fever).
Antidote: Alcohol; Vinegar; Chalk; Iod. Glauber's Salt in watery
solution.
Incompatible: Glycerine and vegetable oils.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. Phenol in Arthritis, according
to Goodno. Must be absolutely pure. Crystals Solution (25 %) in
equal parts of water and glycerine, dose 20 minims well diluted
3 times daily (Bartlett).
CARBO ANIMALIS
Animal Charcoal
Seems to be especially adapted to scrofulous and venous
constitutions, old people, and after debilitating disease, with
feeble circulation and lowered vitality. Glands are indurated,
veins distended, skin blue. Stitch remaining after pleurisy.
Easily strained from lifting. Weakness of nursing women.
Ulceration and decomposition. All its secretions are offensive.
Causes local congestions without heat.
Mind.--Desire to be alone, sad and reflective, avoids
conversation. Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood.
Head.--Headache, as if head had been blown to pieces. Rush of
blood with confusion. Sensation as if something lay above eyes
so that she could not look up. Bluish cheeks and lips. Vertigo
followed by nose-bleed. Nose swollen, tip bluish small tumor on
it. Hearing confused; cannot tell direction of sound.
Stomach.--Eating tires patient. Weak, empty feeling in stomach.
Burning and griping. Weak digestion. Flatulence. Ptomaine
poisoning. Repugnance to fat food. Sour water from mouth.
Pyrosis.
Female.--Nausea of pregnancy; worse at night. Lochia offensive
(Kreos; Rhus; Secale). Menses too early, frequent long lasting,
followed by great exhaustion, so weak, can hardly speak (Cocc),
flow only in morning (Bor; Sep). Burning in vagina and labia.
Darting in breast; painful indurations in breast, especially right.
Cancer of uterus, burning pain down thighs.
Respiratory.--Pleurisy, typhoid character, and remaining stitch.
Ulceration of lung, with feeling of coldness of chest. Cough,
with discharge of greenish pus.
Skin.--Spongy ulcers, copper-colored eruption. Acne rosacea.
Chilblains, worse in evening, in bed and from cold. Verruca on
hands and face of old people, with bluish color of extremities.
Glands indurated, swollen, painful, in neck, axillć, groin,
mammć; pains lancinating, cutting, burning (Con; Merc iod
flav). Burning, rawness and fissures; moisture. Bubo.
Extremities.--Pain in coccyx; burns when touched. Ankles turn
easily. Straining and over-lifting produce great debility. Joints
weak. Easy discoloration. Pain in hip joints at night. Night sweat
fetid and profuse. Wrist pain.
Modalities.--Worse, after shaving, loss of animal fluids.
Relationship.--The Carbon group all have putrid discharges and
exhalations. All act on the skin, causing interrigo and
excoriations. Glandular enlargements and catarrhal states,
flatulency and asphyxiation.
Carbon Tetrachlorid is said to cause fatty liver (Phosph; Ars;
Chlorof). Paralysis of interosseus muscles of feet and hands.
Wonderful clinical results in the treatment of Hook worm
disease. See Thymol (Relationship).
Complementary: Calc phos.
Antidotes: Ars; Nux.
Compare: Badiaga; Sepia; Sulph; Plumb iod.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. The third trituration for
insufflation in aural polypi.
CARBO VEGETABILIS
Vegetable Charcoal
Disintegration and imperfect oxidation is the keynote of this
remedy. The typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and
has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints. Blood seems to
stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and
ecchymosis. Body becomes blue, icy-cold. Bacteria find a rich
soil in the nearly lifeless stream and sepsis and typhoidal state
ensues.
A lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after drugging; after
other diseases; in old people with venous congestions; states of
collapse in cholera, typhoid; these are some of the conditions
offering special inducements to the action of Carbo veg. The
patient may be almost lifeless, but the head is hot; coldness,
breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened
respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have
all the windows open. This is a typical state for Carbo veg. The
patient faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh air.
Hćmorrhage from any mucous surface. Very debilitated. Patient
seems to be too weak to hold out. Persons who have never fully
recovered from the effects of some previous illness. Sense of
weight, as in the head (occiput), eyes and eyelids, before the
ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere in the body; putrid (septic)
condition of all its affections, coupled with a burning sensation.
General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold.
Mind.--Aversion to darkness. Fear of ghosts. Sudden loss of
memory.
Head.--Aches from any over-indulgence. Hair feels sore, falls
off easily; scalp itches when getting warm in bed. Hat pressed
upon head like a heavy weight. Head feels heavy, constricted.
Vertigo with nausea and tinnitus. Pimples on forehead and face.
Face.--Puffy, cyanotic. Pale, hippocratic, cold with cold sweat;
blue (Cup; Opium). Mottled cheeks and red nose.
Eyes.--Vision of black floating spots. Asthenopia. Burning in
eyes. Muscles pain.
Ears.--Otorrhśa following exanthematous diseases. Ears dry.
Malformation of cerumen with exfoliation of dermoid layer of
meatus.
Nose.--Epistaxis in daily attacks, with pale face. Bleeding after
straining, with pale face; tip of nose red and scabby, itching
around nostrils. Varicose veins on nose. Eruption in corner of
alć nasi. Coryza with cough, especially in moist, warm weather.
Ineffectual efforts to sneeze.
Mouth.--Tongue coated white or yellow brown, covered with
aphthć. Teeth very sensitive where chewing; gums retracted and
bleed easily. Blood oozing from gums when cleaning teeth.
Pyorrhea.
Stomach.--Eructations, heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness;
tense from flatulence, with pain; worse lying down. Eructations
after eating and drinking. Temporary relief from belching.
Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations. Waterbrash, asthmatic
breathing from flatulence. Nausea in the morning. Burning in
stomach, extending to back and along spine. Contractive pain
extending to chest, with distention of abdomen. Faint gone
feeling in stomach, not relieved by eating. Crampy pains forcing
patient to bend double. Distress comes on a half-hour after
eating. Sensitiveness of epigastric region. Digestion slow; food
putrefies before it digests. Gastralgia of nursing women, with
excessive flatulence, sour, rancid belching. Aversion to milk,
meat, and fat things. The simplest food distresses. Epigastric
region very sensitive.
Abdomen.--Pain as from lifting a weight; colic from riding in a
carriage; excessive discharge of fetid flatus. Cannot bear tight
clothing around waist and abdomen. Ailments accompanying
intestinal fistulć. Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing
wind. Flatulent colic. Pain in liver.
Rectum and Stool.--Flatus hot, moist, offensive. Itching,
gnawing and burning in rectum. Acrid, corrosive moisture from
rectum. A musty, glutinous moisture exudes. Soreness, itching
moisture of perineum at night. Discharge of blood from rectum.
Burning at anus, burning varices (Mur ac). Painful diarrhśa of
old people. Frequent, involuntary cadaverous-smelling stools,
followed by burning. White hćmorrhoids; excoriation of anus.
Bluish, burning piles, pain after stool.
Male.--Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool. Itching and moisture
at thigh near scrotum.
Female.--Premature and too copious menses; pale blood. Vulva
swollen; aphthć; varices on pudenda. Leucorrhśa before menses,
thick, greenish, milky, excoriating (Kreos). During
menstruation, burning in hands and soles.
Respiratory.--Cough with itching in larynx; spasmodic with
gagging and vomiting of mucus. Whooping cough, especially in
beginning. Deep, rough voice, failing on slight exertion.
Hoarseness; worse, evenings, talking; evening oppression of
breathing, sore and raw chest. Wheezing and rattling of mucus
in chest. Occasional spells of long coughing attacks. Cough,
with burning in chest; worse in evening, in open air, after eating
and talking. Spasmodic cough, bluish face, offensive
expectoration, neglected pneumonia. Breath cold; must be
fanned. Hćmorrhage from lungs. Asthma in aged with blue skin.
Extremities.--Heavy, stiff; feel paralyzed; limbs, go to sleep;
want of muscular energy; joints weak. Pain in shins. Cramp in
soles; feet numb and sweaty. Cold from knees down. Toes red,
swollen. Burning pain in bones and limbs.
Fever.--Coldness, with thirst. Chill begins in forearm. Burning
in various places. Perspiration on eating. Hectic fever,
exhausting sweats.
Skin.--Blue, cold ecchymosed. Marbled with venous over
distension. Itching; worse on evening, when warm in bed. Moist
skin; hot perspiration; senile gangrene beginning in toes; bed
sores; bleed easily. Falling out of hair, from a general weakened
condition. Indolent ulcers, burning pain. Ichorous, offensive
discharge; tendency to gangrene of the margins. Purpura.
Varicose ulcers, carbuncles (Ars; Anthrac).
Modalities.--Worse, evening; night and open air; cold; from fat
food, butter, coffee, milk, warm damp weather; wine. Better,
from eructation, from fanning, cold.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Spirits Nitre; Camph; Ambra;
Arsenic.
Compare: Carboneum-Lampblack (Spasms commencing in
tongue, down trachea and extremities. Tingling sensation).
Lycop; Ars; China.
Complementary: Kali carb; Dros.
Dose.--First to third trituration in stomach disorders. Thirtieth
potency and higher in chronic conditions, and in collapse.
CARBONEUM HYDROGENISATUM
Carburetted Hydrogen
Symptoms resemble an apopletic attack. Spasm as in lockjaw.
Trismus. Involuntary stools and urine.
Mind.--Stupefaction. Extraordinary sensation of contentment.
All thoughts appear in a moment as if seen in an inner mirror.
Eyes.--Lids half closed. Oscillation of eyeballs. Pupils
insensible to light.
CARBONEUM OXYGENISATUM
Carbonous Oxide
Herpes zoster, pemphigus, and trismus are produced by this
drug. Coldness, sleepiness, loss of consciousness are marked.
Vertigo.
Head.--Cerebral congestion; hallucination of vision, hearing and
touch. Inclination to turn in a circle. Jaws firmly clenched.
Trismus. Heaviness of head. Sticking pain in temples. Roaring
ears.
Eyes.--Ocular paralysis, hemianopsias, disturbed pupillary
reaction, optic neuritis and atrophy, subconjunctival and retinal
hæmorrhages.
Skin.--Anæsthesia; vesication along course of nerves; herpes
zoster; pemphigus, with large and small vesicles. Hand icy cold.
Sleep.--Deep. Prolonged; sleepiness for several days.
Dose.--First attenuation.
CARBONEUM SULPHURATUM
Alcohol Sulphuris-Bisulphide of Carbon
This drug has a deep and disorganizing action and an immense
range of action judging from the symptomatology. Very useful
in patients broken down by abuse of alcohol. Sensitive patients
worse cold, wasted muscles, and skin and mucous membranes
anæsthetic. Special affinity for eyes. Chronic rheumatism,
sensitive and cold. Lack of vital heat. Diarrhœa every four to six
weeks. Paralysis with intense congestion of nerve centers.
Tabes. Sensory difficulties in limbs.
Impotence, sciatica, come within the therapeutic sphere of this
remedy. Chronic plumbism. Diminished sensibility of arms,
hands and feet. Peripheral neuritis.
Mind.--Irritable, anxious, intolerant; stupor. Sluggishness of
mind. Hallucinations of sight and hearing. Changeable mood.
Dementia alternating with excitement.
Head.--Headache and dizziness. Aches as from a tight cap. Ears
feel obstructed. Noises in head. Ulceration of the lips,
anæsthesia of mouth and tongue.
Eyes.--Myopia, asthenopia, and dis-chromotopia, cloudiness and
atrophy of optic disc and central scotoma for light and for red
and green not for white. Optic neuritis advancing toward
atrophy. Arteries and veins congested. Retinal congestion; optic
disc pale. Everything seems in a fog. Vision greatly impaired.
Color-blindness.
Ears.--Hearing impaired. Buzzing and singing noises like an
æolian harp. Tinnitus aurium. Meniere's disease.
Abdomen.--Pain with wandering swellings as from flatus.
Distention, with soreness and rumbling.
Male.--Desire lost, parts atrophied. Frequent profuse emissions.
Extremities.--Herpes on dorsal surface of hands. Sore, bruised
limbs; anæsthesia of arms and hands. Cramps in limbs.
Lightning-like pains, with cramps. Fingers swollen, insensible,
rigid, stiff. Gait unsteady, tottering; worse in dark. Feet
insensible. Sciatica. Flying pains, returning regularly for a long
time. Pain in lower limbs, with cramps and formication.
Neuritis.
Sleep.--Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams.
Skin.--Anæsthesia; burning; itching; ulcers; small wounds
fester. Useful to restrain the growth of cancer. Furunculosis.
Chronic skin diseases with much itching.
Modalities.--Better, in open air. Worse, after breakfast; bathing.
Sensitive to warm, damp, weather.
Relationship.--Compare: Potass. Xantate--(Similar in action.
Acts on cortical substance; loss of memory, marked blood
degeneration; impotence and senility). Tuberculin; Radium;
Carbo; Sulph; Caust; Salicyl ac; Cinch. In eye symptoms
compare: Benzin dinitric. Thyroidin (progressive diminution of
sight with central Scotoma).
Dose.--First attenuation. Locally in facial neuralgia and sciatica.
 CARCINOSINUM
A nosode from Carcinoma
(CARCINOSIN)
It is claimed the Carcinosin acts favorably and modifies all cases
in which either a history of carcinoma can be elicited, or
symptoms of the disease itself exist (J. H. Clarke, M. D).
Carcinoma of the mammary glands with great pain and
induration of glands; of uterus, the offensive discharge,
hćmorrhage and pain are greatly relieved.
Indigestion, accumulation of gas in stomach and bowels;
rheumatism-Cancerous cachexia.
Relationship.--Compare: Bufo; Conium; Phytolacca, Asterias.
Dose.--Thirtieth and 200th potency, a dose at night or less
frequently.
CARDUUS MARIANUS
St. Mary's Thistle
The action of this drug is centered in the liver, and portal
system, causing soreness, pain, jaundice. Has specific relation to
the vascular system. Abuse of alcoholic beverages, especially
beer. Varicose veins and ulcers. Diseases of miners, associated
with asthma. Dropsical conditions depending on liver disease,
and when due to pelvic congestion and hepatic disease. Disturbs
sugar metabolism. Influenza when liver is affected. Debility.
Hæmorrhages, especially connected with hepatic disease.
Mind.--Despondency; forgetful, apathetic.
Head.--Contractive feeling above eyebrows. Dull heavy, stupid,
with foul tongue. Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward.
Burning and pressure in eyes. Nose-bleed.
Stomach.--Taste bitter. Aversion to salt meat. Appetite small;
tongue furred; nausea; retching; vomiting of green, acid fluid.
Stitches in left side of stomach, near spleen (Ceanoth). Gallstone
disease with enlarged liver.
Abdomen.--Pain in region of liver. Left lobe very sensitive.
Fullness and soreness, with moist skin. Constipation; stools
hard, difficult, knotty; alternates with diarrhœa. Stools bright
yellow. Swelling of gall bladder with painful tenderness.
Hyperæmia of liver, with jaundice. Cirrhosis, with dropsy.
Rectum.--Hæmorrhagic piles, prolapse or rectum, burning pain
in anus and rectum, hard and knotting, clayey stools. Profuse
diarrhœa due to rectal cancer. 10 drops doses (Wapler).
Urine.--Cloudy; golden-colored.
Chest.--Stitching pains in lower right ribs and front; worse,
moving, walking, etc. Asthmatic respiration. Pain in chest,
going to shoulders, back, loins and abdomen, with urging to
urinate.
Skin.--Itching on lying down at night. Varicose ulcers (Clematis
vitalba). Eruption on lower part of sternum.
Extremities.--Pain in hip-joint, spreading through buttocks and
down thigh; worse from stooping. Difficult rising. Weakness felt
in feet, especially after sitting.
Relationship.--Compare: Card benedictus (strong action on
eyes, and sensation of contraction in many parts; stomach
symptoms similar); Chelidon; Chionanthes; Merc; Podophyl;
Bry; Aloe.
Dose.--Tincture and lower potencies.
 CARLSBAD AQUA
The Waters of the Sprudel Springs
(CARLSBAD)
Famous for its action on the liver and in the treatment of obesity,
diabetes, and gout. In homeopathic potencies useful in weakness
of all organs, constipation, great liability to take cold.
Periodicity, effects repeated after from two to four weeks (Oxal
ac; Sulph). Flashes of heat all over. Itching on various parts.
Mind.--Discouraged and anxious about domestic duties.
Head.--Aches, with swollen temporal veins (Sang); better,
motion, in open air.
Face.--Yellow; sallow; red and hot; pain in zygomatic process;
feels as if cobwebs were on it.
Stomach.--Tongue coated white. Offensive smell from mouth.
Furry sensation. Sour or salty taste. Hiccough and yawning.
Heartburn (Carbo).
Urine.--Stream weak and slow; only passed by pressing
abdominal muscles.
Rectum.--Feces held back. Stool slow, and only passed by
much abdominal pressure. Burning in rectum and anus. Bleeding
piles.
Relationship.--Compare: Nat sulph; Nux.
Dose.--Lower potencies.
CASCARA SAGRADA
Sacred Bark
(RHAMNUS PURSHIANA)
Introduced as a palliative for constipation (non-homeopathic),
fifteen drops of fluid extract here it restores normal function by
its tonic effects, but it has a wider sphere of action, as careful
provings will show. Chronic indigestion, cirrhosis and jaundice.
Hæmorrhoids and constipation. Gastric headache. Broad, flabby
tongue; foul breath.
Urine.--Must wait for minute before flow starts then first in
drops.
Extremities.--Rheumatism of muscles and joints, with obstinate
constipation.
Relationship.--Compare: Hyd; Nux; Rhamnus Californica
(tincture for constipation; tympanites and appendicitis and
especially rheumatism).
Dose.--Tincture to sixth potency.
CASCARILLA
Sweet Bark
Acts on the digestive tract; constipation. Aversion to smell of
tobacco. Inclination to vomit very marked.
Stomach.--Hunger after meals. Desire for hot drinks. Nausea
and vomiting. Pain in stomach as from a shock. Pressing colic.
Rectum.--Constipation; stools hard, covered with mucus
(Graph). Bright blood with stool. Diarrhśa alternating with hard,
lumpy stool, with backache and lassitude, preceded by griping.
Gnawing pain high up in rectum.
Dose.--First to third potency.
CASTOREUM CANADENSE
The Beaver
(CASTOREUM)
A great remedy for hysteria. Prostration marked.
Hysterical symptoms. Day-blindness; cannot endure the light.
Nervous women who do not recover fully, but are continually
irritable, and suffer from debilitating sweats. Spasmodic
affections after debilitating diseases. Constant yawning. Restless
sleep with frightful dreams and starts.
Tongue.--Swollen. Rounded elevation size of a pea in center,
with drawing sensation from center to hyoid bone.
Female.--Dysmenorrhśa; blood discharged in drops with
tenesmus. Pain commences in middle of thighs. Amenorrhśa,
with painful tympanites.
Fever.--Predominant chilliness. Attacks of chilliness with ice-
coldness in back.
Relationship.--Compare: Ambra; Moschus; Mur acid;
Valeriana.
Antidote: Colch.
Dose.--Tincture, and lower potencies.
CASTANEA VESCA
Chestnut Leaves
A useful remedy in whooping-cough, especially in the early
stage, with dry, ringing, violent, spasmodic cough. Desire for
warm drinks. Very thirsty. Loss of appetite. Diarrhśa. Thick
urine.
Lumbago, weak back, can hardly straighten up.
Relationship.--Compare: Pertussin-Whooping-cough (when
symptoms return again after being allayed). Dros; Mephitis;
Naphthal; Ammon brom.
Dose.--Tincture.
CASTOR EQUI
Rudimentary Thumb-nail of the Horse
General action on thickening of the skin and epithelium.
Psoriasis linguć. The clinical experience of Hering and his
fellow-provers has shown this to be highly useful remedy in
cracked and ulcerated nipples. Affects principally female
organs. Acts on the nails and bones; pain in right tibia and
coccyx. Warts on forehead. Warts on breast. Chapped hands.
Chest.--Cracked, sore nipples, excessively tender. Swelling of
mammć. Violent itching in breasts; areola reddened.
Relationship.--Compare: Graphites; Hippomanes; Calc. Oxal.
Dose.--Sixth and twelfth potency.
CATARIA NEPETA
Catnip
Children's remedy for Colic, also for nervous headache and
hysteria, abdominal complaints, pain, flexing of thighs, twisting
of body, crying. Similar to chamomilla and magnes phosph.
Dose.--5 to 10 drops of the tincture.
CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES
Blue Cohosh
(CAULOPHYLLUM)
This is a woman's remedy. Want of tonicity of the womb.
During labor, when the pains are deficient and the patient is
exhausted and fretful. Besides, it has a special affinity for the
smaller joints. Thrush, locally and internally.
Stomach.--Cardialgia, spasms of stomach. Dyspepsia with
spasmodic symptoms.
Female.--Extraordinary rigidity of os (Bell; Gels; Ver v).
Spasmodic and severe pains, which fly in all directions;
shivering, without progress; false pains. Revives labor pains and
furthers progress of labor. After pains. Leucorrhœa, with moth-
spots on forehead. Habitual abortion from uterine debility
(Helon; Puls; Sab). Needle-like pains in cervix. Dysmenorrhœa,
with pains flying to other parts of body. Lochia protracted; great
atony. Menses and leucorrhœa profuse.
Skin.--Discoloration of skin in women with menstrual and
uterine disorder.
Extremities.--Severe drawing, erratic pain and stiffness in small
joints, fingers, toes, ankles, etc. Aching in wrists. Cutting pains
on closing hands. Erratic pains, changing place every few
minutes.
Relationship.--Incompatible: Coffea.
Compare: Viol. Odor (rheumatic carpal and metacarpal joints);
Cimicif; Sepia; Pulsat; Gels.
Dose.--Tincture to third attenuation.
CAUSTICUM
Hahnemann's Tinctura acris sine Kali
Manifests its action mainly in chronic rheumatic, arthritic and
paralytic affections, indicated by the tearing, drawing pains in
the muscular and fibrous tissues, with deformities about the
joints; progressive loss of muscular strength, tendinous
contractures. Broken down seniles. In catarrhal affections of the
air passages, and seems to choose preferably dark-complexioned
and rigid-fibered persons. Restlessness at night, with tearing
pains in joints and bones, and faint-like sinking of strength. This
weakness progresses until we have gradually appearing
paralysis. Local paralysis, vocal cords, muscles of deglutition, of
tongue, eyelids, face, bladder and extremities. Children are slow
to walk. The skin of a Causticum person is of a dirty white
sallow, with warts, especially on the face. Emaciation due to
disease, worry, etc, and of long standing. Burning, rawness, and
soreness are characteristic.
Mind.--Child does not want to go to bed alone. Least thing
makes it cry. Sad, hopeless. Intensely sympathetic. Ailments
from long-lasting grief, sudden emotions. Thinking of
complaints, aggravates, especially hćmorrhoids.
Head.--Sensation of empty space between forehead and brain.
Pain in right frontal eminence.
Face.--Paralysis of right side. Warts. Pain in facial bones.
Dental fistula. Pain in jaws, with difficulty in opening mouth.
Eyes.--Cataract with motor disturbances. Inflammation of
eyelids; ulceration. Sparks and dark spots before eyes Ptosis
(Gels). Vision impaired, as if film were before eyes. Paralysis of
ocular muscles after exposure to cold.
Ears.--Ringing, roaring, pulsating, with deafness; words and
steps re-echo; chronic middle-ear catarrh; accumulation of ear-
wax.
Nose.--Coryza, with hoarseness. Scaly nose. Nostrils ulcerated.
Pimples and warts.
Mouth.--Bites inside of cheek from chewing. Paralysis of
tongue, with indistinct speech. Rheumatism of articulation of
lower jaw. Gums bleed easily.
Stomach.--Greasy taste. Aversion to sweets. Feels as if lime
were burned in stomach. Worse after eating fresh meat; smoked
meat agrees. Sensation of ball rising in throat. Aciddyspepsia.
Stool.--Soft and small, size of goose-quill (Phos). Hard, tough,
covered with mucus; shines like grease; small-shaped; expelled
with much straining, or only on standing up. Pruritus. Partial
paralysis of rectum. Rectum sore and burns. Fistula and large
piles.
Urine.--Involuntary when coughing, sneezing (Puls). Expelled
very slowly, and sometimes retained. Involuntary during first
sleep at night; also from slightest excitement. Retention after
surgical operations. Loss of sensibility on passing urine.
Female.--Uterine inertia during labor. Menses cease at night;
flow only during day (Cycl; Puls). Leucorrhśa at night, with
great weakness (Nat mur). Menses delay, late (Con. Graph;
Puls).
Respiratory.--Hoarseness with pain in chest; aphonia. Larynx
sore. Cough, with raw soreness of chest. Expectoration scanty;
must be swallowed. Cough with pain in hip, especially left worse
in evening; better, drinking cold water; worse, warmth of bed.
Sore streak down trachea. Mucus under sternum, which he
cannot quite reach. Pain in chest, with palpitation. Cannot lie
down at night. Voice re-echoes. Own voice roars in ears and
distresses. Difficulty of voice of singers and public speakers
(Royal).
Back.--Stiffness between shoulders. Dull pain in nape of neck.
Extremities.--Left-sided sciatica, with numbness. Paralysis of
single parts. Dull, tearing pain in hands and arms. Heaviness and
weakness. Tearing joints. Unsteadiness of muscles of forearm
and hand. Numbness; loss of sensation in hands. Contracted
tendons. Weak ankles. Cannot walk without suffering.
Rheumatic tearing in limbs; better by warmth, especially heat of
bed. Burning in joints. Slow in learning to walk. Unsteady
walking and easily falling. Restless legs at night. Cracking and
tension in knees; stiffness in hollow of knee. Itching on dorsum
of feet.
Skin.--Soreness in folds of skin, back of ears, between thighs.
Warts large, jagged, bleeding easily, on tips of fingers and nose.
Old burns that do not get well, and ill effects from burns. Pains
of burns. Cicatrices freshen up; old injuries reopen. Skin prone
to intertrigo during dentition.
Sleep.--Very drowsy; can hardly keep awake. Nocturnal
sleeplessness, with dry heat, inquietude.
Relationship.--According to the careful investigations of Dr.
Wagner of Basel, Causticum corresponds to Ammon causticum
4x. Causticum does not agree with Phosphorus; the remedies
should not be used after each other. Diphtherotoxin follows,
causticum in chronic bronchitis.
Antidote: Paralysis from lead-poisoning.
Complementary: Carbo; Petrosel.
Compare: Rhus; Arsenic; Amm phos (facial paralysis).
Modalities.--Worse, dry, cold winds, in clear fine weather, cold
air; from motion of carriage. Better, in damp, wet weather;
warmth. Heat of bed.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth attenuation. In chronic ailments and
especially in paralytic states, the higher potencies once or twice
a week.
CEANOTHUS AMERICANUS
New Jersey Tea
(CEANOTHUS)
This remedy seems to possess a specific relation to the spleen.
Ague cake of malaria. A left-sided remedy generally. Anæmic
patients where liver and spleen are at fault. Chronic bronchitis
with profuse secretion. Marked blood pressure, reducing powers.
Active hemastatic, materially reducing the clotting of blood.
Abdomen.--Enormous enlargement of the spleen. Splenitis;
pain all up the left side. Deep-seated pain in left
hypochondrium, hypertrophy of spleen. Leucæmia. Violent
dyspnœa. Menses profuse, and yellow weakening leucorrhœa.
Unable to lie on left side. Pain in liver and back.
Rectum.--Diarrhœa; bearing down in abdomen and rectum.
Urine.--Constant urging to urinate. Green; frothy; contains bile,
sugar.
Relationship.--Compare: Tinospora cordifolia (a Hindoo
medicine for chronic cases of fever with enlarged spleen).
Polymnia uvedalia-Bearsfoot--(acute splenitis with tenderness
over left hypochondriac region; spleen enlarged, ague cake.
Vascular atony, tissues sodden, flabby and non-elastic. Enlarged
glands; influences all ductless glands). Ceanothus thrysiflorus-
California Lilac--(Pharyngitis, tonsillitis, nasal catarrh,
diphtheria. Tincture internally and as a gargle).
Compare: Berberis; Myrica; Cedron; Agaricus (spleen).
Modalities.--Worse, motion, lying on left side.
Dose.--First attenuation. Locally as hair tonic.
CEDRON
Rattlesnake Bean
(SIMARUBA FERROGINEA)
Periodicity is the most marked characteristic of this drug. Its
particularly useful in tropical or in damp, warm, marshy
countries. It has been found curative in malarial affections,
especially neuralgia. Adapted to persons of a voluptuous
disposition, excitable, nervous temperament. Has powers of
antidoting snake-bites and stings of insects. Tincture of pure
bean scraped on wound. Mania.
Head.--Pain from temple to temple across eyes. Pain over whole
right side of face, coming on about 9 am.Crazy feeling from
pain across forehead; worse, working on black. Roaring in ears
produced by Cinchona. Whole body seems numb with headache.
Eyes.--Shooting over left eye. Severe pain in eyeball, with
radiating pains around eye, shooting into nose. Scalding
lachrymation. Supra-orbital neuralgia periodic. Iritis,
choroiditis.
Extremities.--Lancinating pain in joints; worse, feet and hands.
Sudden pain in ball of right thumb, extending up arm to
shoulder. Pain in ball of right foot, extending to knee. Shingles,
with radiating pain. Dropsy of knee-joint.
Fever.--Chilliness towards evening; then frontal headache
extending into parietal region. Red eyes. Heat, with itching of
eyes, tearing in limbs, numbness of limbs.
Relationship.--Antidote: Lach.
Compare: Ars; China.
Dose.--Tincture to third attenuation.
CENCHRIS CONTORTRIX
Copperhead Snake
(ANCISTRODON)
Like the other snake poisons, it affects the system profoundly.
Like arsenic, it has dyspnśa, mental and physical restlessness,
thirst for small quantities of water, necessity for having clothing
loose, like Laches. Marked alternation of moods; vivid dreams.
Is a wonderful restorative and deep acting remedy. Increased
sexual desire in both sexes. Ineffectual attempts to recline. Right
ovarian region painful.
Head.--Forgetful, absent-minded, alternating moods. Aching
pain in left frontal eminence and left side of teeth. Swelling
around eyes, aching and itching in eyes.
Heart.--Feels distended, fills whole chest, as if it fell down in
abdomen; sharp stitches, fluttering under left scapula.
Sleep.--Dreams horrible and vivid; lascivious.
Modalities.--Worse, pressure; lying down; afternoon and night.
Relationship.--Compare: Ars; Laches. Clotho Arictans--Puff
Adder.--Should have a great sphere of usefulness in many
conditions where excessive swelling is a leading feature (John
H. Clarke, M. D).
Dose.--Sixth potency.
CERIUM OXALICUM
Oxalate of Cerium
Spasmodic reflex vomiting and spasmodic cough are within the
sphere of this remedy. Vomiting of pregnancy, and of half-
digested food. Whooping cough, with vomiting and
hæmorrhage. Dysmenorrhœa in fleshy, robust women. Better
when flow is established.
Relationship.--Compare: Ingluvin--(made from gizzard of a
fowl). Vomiting of pregnancy; gastric neurasthenia. Infantile
vomiting and diarrhœa. 3x Trit. Amygdal; Lactic ac; Ipecac.
Dose.--First trituration.
CEREUS BONPLANDII
A Night-blooming Cereus
Mind.--Great desire to work and to be doing something useful.
Head.--Occipital headache and pain through the globe of the
eyes and orbits (Cedron; Onos). Pain across the brain from left
to right. Pain along right malar bone running to temple.
Chest.--Convulsive pains at the heart; feels as if transfixed. Pain
in chest through heart, with pain running toward spleen. Pain in
left pectoral muscle and cartilages of left lower ribs. Sensation
of a great weight on heart, and pricking pain. Hypertrophy of
heart. Difficult, sighing respiration, as from some compression
of chest.
Skin.--Itching of skin (Dolich; Sulph).
Extremities.--Pain in neck, back, shoulders, down arms, hands
and fingers. Pain in knees and joints of lower extremities.
Relationship.--Compare: Cactus; Spigel; Kalmia; Cereus
serpentinus (Very irritable with tendency to swear; wild anger
and low morals. Disturbance in speech; in writing leaves off the
last syllable. Paralyzed feeling. Pains in heart, and dwindling of
sexual organs. Emissions, followed by pain in testicles).
Dose.--Third to sixth attenuation.
CHAMOMILLA
German Chamomile
The chief guiding symptoms belong to the mental and emotion
group, which lead to this remedy in many forms of disease.
Especially of frequent employment in diseases of children,
where peevishness, restlessness, and colic give the needful
indications. A disposition that is mild, calm and gentle; sluggish
and constipated bowels contra-indicate chamomilla.
Chamomilla is sensitive, irritable, thirsty, hot, and numb.
Oversensitiveness from abuse of coffee and narcotics. Pains
unendurable, associated with numbness. Night-sweats.
Mind.--Whining restlessness. Child wants many things which he
refuses again. Piteous moaning because he cannot have what he
wants. Child can only be quieted when carried about and petted
constantly. Impatient, intolerant of being spoken to or
interrupted; extremely sensitive to every pain; always
complaining. Spiteful, snappish. Complaints from anger and
vexation. Mental calmness contraindicates Chamom.
Head.--Throbbing headache in one-half of the brain. Inclined to
bend head backward. Hot, clammy sweat on forehead and scalp.
Ears.--Ringing in ears. Earache, with soreness; swelling and
heat driving patient frantic. Stitching pain. Ears feel stopped.
Eyes.--Lids smart. Yellow sclerotic. Spasmodic closing of lids.
Nose.--Sensitive to all smells. Coryza, with inability to sleep.
Face.--One cheek red and hot; the other pale and cold. Stitches
in jaw extending to inner ear and teeth. Teeth ache worse after
warm drink; worse, coffee, at night. Drives to distraction.
Jerking of tongue and facial muscles. Distress of teething
children (Calc phos; Terebinth).
Throat.--Parotid and submaxillary glands swollen. Constriction
and pain as from a plug.
Mouth.--Toothache, if anything warm is taken, from coffee,
during pregnancy. Nightly salivation.
Stomach.--Eructations, foul. Nausea after coffee. Sweats after
eating or drinking. Aversion to warm drinks. Tongue yellow;
taste bitter. Bilious vomiting. Acid rising; regurgitation of food.
Bitter, bilious vomiting. Pressive gastralgia, as from a stone
(Bry; Abies n).
Abdomen.--Distended. Griping in region of navel, and pain in
small of back. Flatulent colic, after anger, with red cheeks and
hot perspiration. Hepatic colic. Acute duodenitis (Kali bich
(chronic)).
Stool.--Hot, green, watery, fetid, slimy, with colic. Chopped
white and yellow mucus like chopped eggs and spinach.
Soreness of anus. Diarrhœa during dentition. Hæmorrhoids, with
painful fissures.
Female.--Uterine hæmorrhages. Profuse discharge of clotted,
dark blood, with labor-like pains. Labor pains spasmodic; press
upward (Gels). Patient intolerant of pain (Caul; Caust; Gels;
Hyos; Puls). Nipples inflamed; tender to touch. Infant's breasts
tender. Yellow, acrid leucorrhœa (Ars; Sep; Sulph).
Respiratory.--Hoarseness, hawking, rawness of larynx.
Irritable, dry, tickling cough; suffocative tightness of chest, with
bitter expectoration in daytime. Rattling of mucus in child's
chest.
Back.--Insupportable pain in loins and hips. Lumbago. Stiffness
of neck muscles.
Extremities.--Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at
night; compelled to walk about. Burning of soles at night
(Sulph). Ankles give way in the afternoon. Nightly paralytic loss
of power in the feet, unable to step on them.
Sleep.--Drowsiness with moaning, weeping and wailing during
sleep; anxious, frightened dreams, with half-open eyes.
Modalities.--Worse, by heat, anger, open air, wind, night.
Better, from being carried, warm wet weather.
Relationship.--Compare: Cypriped; Anthemis; Aconite; Puls;
Coffea; Bellad; Staphis; Ignat. Follows Belladonna in diseases
of children and abuse of opium. Rubus villosus-Blackberry--
(diarrhœa of infancy; stools watery and clay colored).
Antidotes: Camph; Nux; Puls.
Complementary: Bell; Mag c.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth attenuation.
CHAPARRO AMARGOSO
Goat-bush
Chronic diarrhśa. Tenderness over liver. Stools little pain, but
with much mucus. Dysentery. Acts as a tonic and antiperiodic.
Compare: Kali carb; Cup, ars; Caps.
Dose.--Third attenuation.
CHELIDONIUM MAJUS
Celandine
A prominent liver remedy, covering many of the direct reflex
symptoms of diseased conditions of that organ. The jaundiced
skin, and especially the constant pain under inferior angle of
right scapula, are certain indications. Paralytic drawing and
lameness in single parts. The great general lethargy and
indisposition to make any effort is also marked. Ailments
brought on or renewed by change of weather. Serous effusions.
Hydrocele. Bilious complication during gestation.
Head.--Icy coldness of occiput from the nape of neck; feels
heavy as lead. Heavy, lethargic; drowsiness very marked, with
general numbness; vertigo, associated with hepatic disturbance.
Inclination to fall forward. Right-sided headache down behind
ears and shoulder-blade. Neuralgia over right eye, right cheek-
bone and right ear, with excessive lachrymation, preceded by
pain in liver.
Nose.--Flapping of alæ nasi (Lyc).
Eyes.--Dirty yellow color of whites. Sore sensation on looking
up. Tears fairly gush out. Orbital neuralgia of right eye, with
profuse lachrymation; pupils contracted, relieved by pressure.
Face.--Yellow; worse nose and cheeks. Wilted skin.
Stomach.--Tongue yellow, with imprint of teeth; large and
flabby (Merc; Hyd). Taste bitter, pasty. Bad odor from mouth.
Prefers hot food and drink. Nausea, vomiting; better, very hot
water. Pain through stomach to back and right shoulder-blade.
Gastralgia. Eating relieves temporarily, especially when
accompanied with hepatic symptoms.
Abdomen.--Jaundice due to hepatic and gall-bladder
obstruction. Gall-colic. Distention. Fermentation and sluggish
bowels. Constriction across, as by a string. Liver enlarged.
Gallstones (Berberis).
Urine.--Profuse, foaming, yellow urine, like beer (Chenop)
dark, turbid.
Stool.--Constipation; stools hard, round balls, like sheep's dung,
bright yellow, pasty; clay-colored, stools float in water;
alternation of diarrhœa and constipation. Burning and itching of
anus (Ratanh; Sulph).
Female.--Menses too late and too profuse.
Respiratory.--Very quick and short inspirations; pain on deep
inspiration. Dyspnœa. Short, exhausting cough; sensation of dust
not relieved by cough. Whooping-cough; spasmodic cough;
loose, rattling; expectoration difficult. Pain in right side of chest
and shoulder, with embarrassed respiration. Small lumps of
mucus fly from mouth when coughing. Hoarse in afternoon.
Constriction of chest.
Back.--Pain in nape. Stiff neck, head drawn to left. Fixed pain
under inner and lower angle of right scapula. Pain at lower
angle of left scapula.
Extremities.--Pain in arms, shoulders, hands, tips of fingers. Icy
coldness of tips of fingers; wrists sore, tearing in metacarpal
bones. Whole flesh sore to touch. Rheumatic pain in hips and
thighs; intolerable pains in heels, as if pinched by too narrow a
shoe; worse, right. Feels paralyzed. Paresis of the lower limbs
with rigidity of muscles.
Skin.--Dry heat of skin; itches, yellow. Painful red pimples and
pustules. Old, spreading, offensive ulcers. Wilted skin. Sallow,
cold, clammy.
Modalities.--Worse, right side, motion, touch, change of
weather, very early in morning. Better, after dinner, from
pressure.
Relationship.--Chelidonin.--(Spasm of smooth muscle
everywhere, intestinal colic, uterine colic, bronchial spasm,
tachycardia, etc). Boldo-Boldoa fragrans--(Bladder atony;
cholecystitis and biliary calculus. Bitter taste, no appetite;
constipation, hypochondriasis languor, congestion of liver;
burning weight in liver and stomach. Painful hepatic diseases.
Disturbed liver following malaria). Elemuy Gauteria--(Stones in
kidneys and bladder; grain doses of powdered bark in water or 5
drops of tincture. Pellagra).
Sulph often completes its work.
Complementary: Lycop; Bryon.
Antidote: Chamom.
Compare: Nux; Sulph; Bry; Lyc; Opium; Podophyl; Sanguin;
Ars.
Dose.--Tincture and lower attenuations.
CHELONE GLABRA
Snakehead
(CHELONE)
A remedy in liver affections with pain or soreness of the left
lobe of the liver and extending downwards. Dumb ague.
Soreness of external parts, as if skin were off; debility. Malaise,
following intermittents. Dyspepsia with hepatic torpor. Jaundice.
Round and thread worms. It is an enemy to every kind of worm
infesting the human body.
Dose.--Tincture, in one to five drop doses.
CHENOPODIUM ANTHELMINTICUM
Jerusalem Oak
Characteristic pain in scapula very marked. Symptoms of
apoplexy, right hemiplegia, and aphasia. Stertorous breathing
(Opium). Sudden vertigo. Meniere's disease. Affections of
auditory nerves (Nat salicyl). Oil of Chenopodium for
hookworm and roundworm.
Ears.--Torpor of auditory nerve. Hearing better for high-pitched
sounds. Comparative deafness to sound of voice, but great
sensitiveness to sound, as of passing vehicles and also a
shrinking from low tones. Buzzing in ears. Enlargement of
tonsils. Aural vertigo.
Back.--Intense pain between angle of right shoulder-blade near
spine, and through the chest.
Urine.--Copious, yellow, foaming urine, with acrid sensation in
urethra. Yellowish sediment (Chel).
Relationship.--Compare: Opium; China; Chelid.
Dose.--Third potency. Oil of Chenopodium for hookworm, 10
minim doses every 2 hours for 3 doses; also Carbon
tetrachloride.
CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA
Pipsissewa
Acts principally on kidneys, and genito-urinary tract; affects
also lymphatic and mesenteric glands and female mammć.
Plethoric young women with dysuria. Women with large breasts.
Hepatic and renal dropsies; chronic alcoholics. Incipient and
progressive cataracts.
One of the remedies whose symptoms point to its employment
in bladder affections, notably catarrh, acute and chronic. Scanty
urine, and loaded with ropy, muco-purulent sediment. Prostatic
enlargement.
Head.--Pain in left frontal protuberance. Halo about the light.
Itching of eyelids. Stabbing pain in left eye with lachrymation.
Mouth.--Toothache, worse after eating and exertion, better cool
water. Pain as if tooth was being gently pulled.
Urinary.--Urging to urinate. Urine turbid, offensive, containing
ropy or bloody mucus, and depositing a copious sediment.
Burning and scalding during micturition, and straining
afterwards. Must strain before flow comes. Scanty urine. Acute
prostatitis, retention, and feeling of a ball in perineum (Cann
ind). Fluttering in region of kidney. Sugar in urine. Unable to
urinate without standing with feet wide apart and body inclined
forward.
Female.--Labia inflamed, swollen. Pain in vagina. Hot flashes.
Painful tumor of mammć, not ulcerated, with undue secretion of
milk. Rapid atrophy of breasts. Women with very large breasts
and tumor in the mammary gland with sharp pain through it.
Male.--Smarting in urethra from neck of bladder to meatus.
Gleet. Loss of prostatic fluid. Prostatic enlargement and
irritation.
Skin.--Scrofulous ulcers. Glandular enlargements.
Extremities.--Feeling of a band above left knee.
Modalities.--Worse, in damp weather; from sitting on cold
stones or pavements; left side.
Relationship.--Compare: Chimaph maculata (intense gnawing
hunger; burning fever; sensation of swelling in arm pits); Uva;
Ledum; Epigoea.
Dose.--Tincture, to third attenuation.
CHINA OFFICINALIS
Peruvian Bark-China
(CINCHONA OFFICINALIS)
Debility from exhausting discharges, from loss of vital fluids,
together with a nervous erethism, calls for this remedy.
Periodicity is most marked. Sensitive to draughts. Seldom
indicated in the earlier stages of acute disease. Chronic gout.
Chronic suppurative pyelitis. Post operative gas pains, not relief
from passing it.
Mind.--Apathetic, indifferent, disobedient, taciturn, despondent.
Ideas crowd in mind; prevent sleep. Disposition to hurt other
people's feelings. Sudden crying and tossing about.
Head.--As if skull would burst. Sensation as if brain were
balancing to and fro, and striking against skull, receiving great
pain (Sulph; Sulph ac). Intense throbbing of head and carotids.
Spasmodic headache in vertex, with subsequent pain, as if
bruised in sides of head. Face flushed after hæmorrhages, or
sexual excesses, or loss of vital fluids. Relieved from pressure
and warm room. Scalp sensitive; worse combing hair. Aches
worse in open air, from temple to temple. Worse by contact,
current of air, stepping. Dizzy when walking.
Eyes.--Blue color around eyes. Hollow eyes. Yellowish
sclerotica. Black specks, bright dazzling illusions; night
blindness in anæmic retina. Spots before eyes. Photophobia.
Distortion of eyeballs. Intermittent ciliary neuralgia. Pressure in
eyes. Amaurosis; scalding lachrymation.
Ears.--Ringing in ears. External ear sensitive to touch. Hearing
sensitive to noise. Lobules red and swollen.
Nose.--Checked catarrh. Easily bleeding from nose, especially
on rising. Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge. Violent dry
sneezing. Cold sweat about nose.
Face.--Sallow complexion. Face bloated; red.
Mouth.--Toothache; better pressing teeth firmly together, and
by warmth. Tongue coated thick, dirty; tip burns, succeeded by
ptyalism. Bitter taste. Food tastes too salty.
Stomach.--Tender, cold. Vomiting of undigested food. Slow
digestion. Weight after eating. Ill effects of tea. Hungry without
appetite. Flat taste. Darting pain crosswise in hypogastric region.
Milk disagrees. Hungry longing for food, which lies undigested.
Flatulence; belching of bitter fluid or regurgitation of food gives
no relief; worse eating fruit. Hiccough. Bloatedness better by
movement.
Abdomen.--Much flatulent colic; better bending double.
Tympanitic abdomen. Pain in right hypochondrium. Gall-stone
colic (Triumfetta semitriloba). Liver and spleen swollen and
enlarged. Jaundice. Internal coldness of stomach and abdomen.
Gastro-duodenal catarrh.
Stool.--Undigested, frothy, yellow; painless; worse at night,
after meals, during hot weather, from fruit, milk, beer. Very
weakening, with much flatulence. Difficult even when soft
(Alum; Plat).
Male.--Excited lascivious fancy. Frequent emissions, followed
by great weakness. Orchitis.
Female.--Menses too early. Dark clots and abdominal
distention. Profuse menses with pain. Desire too strong. Bloody
leucorrhœa. Seems to take the place of the usual menstrual
discharge. Painful heaviness in pelvis.
Respiratory.--Influenza, with debility. Cannot breathe with
head low. Labored, slow respiration; constant choking.
Suffocative catarrh; rattling in chest; violent, hacking cough
after every meal. Hæmorrhage from lungs. Dyspnœa, sharp pain
in left lung. Asthma; worse damp weather.
Heart.--Irregular with weak rapid beats followed by strong, hard
beats. Suffocative attacks, syncope; anæmia and dropsy.
Back.--Sharp pains across kidneys, worse movement and at
night. Knife-like pains around back (D. MacFarlan).
Extremities.--Pains in limbs and joints, as if sprained; worse,
slight touch; hard pressure relieves. Sensation as of a string
around limb. Joints swollen; very sensitive, with dread or open
air. Great debility, trembling, with numb sensation. Averse to
exercise; sensitive to touch. Weariness of joints; worse,
mornings and when sitting.
Skin.--Extreme sensitiveness to touch, but hard pressure
relieves. Coldness; much sweat. One hand ice cold, the other
warm. Anasarca (Ars; Apis). Dermatitis; erysipelas. Indurated
glands; scrofulous ulcers and caries.
Sleep.--Drowsiness. Unrefreshing or constant stupor. Wakens
early. Protracted sleeplessness. Anxious, frightful dreams with
confused consciousness on waking, so that the dream cannot be
rid of and fear of dream remains. Snoring, especially with
children.
Fever.--Intermittent, paroxysms anticipate; return every week.
All stages well marked. Chill generally in forenoon,
commencing in breast; thirst before chill, and little and often.
Debilitating night-sweats. Free perspiration caused by every
little exertion, especially on single parts. Hay fever, watery
coryza, pain in temples.
Modalities.--Worse, slightest touch. Draught of air; every other
day; loss of vital fluids; at night; after eating; bending over.
Better, bending double; hard pressure; open air; warmth.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Arn; Ars; Nux; Ipec.
Compare:-Quinidin--(Paroxysmal tachycardia and auricular
fibrillation. Heart is slowed, and the auriculo-ventricular
conduction time is lengthened. Dose 1/2 grain t.i.d).
Cephalanthus--(Button Bush-Intermittent fever, sore throat,
rheumatic symptoms, vivid dreams). Ars; Cedron; Nat sulph.
Cydonia vulgaris-Quince (supposed to be of use to strengthen
the sexual organs and stomach).
Complementary: Ferrum; Calc phos.
Dose.--Tincture, to thirtieth potency.
CHININUM ARSENICOSUM
Arsenite of Quinine
The symptoms of general weariness and prostration produced
by the drug have been utilized in prescribing it homeopathically
as a general tonic, often with very marked beneficial and prompt
effect. In diphtheria with great prostration, cases that are
prolonged, especially, and in malarial affections, neuralgia, etc,
it has been found curative. Asthmatic attacks which recur
periodically, with great prostration. Icy skin. Pressure in the
solar plexus, with tender spine back of it.
Head.--Tired feeling. Head feels too full. Throbbing. Great
anxiety. Great irritability. Vertigo; worse looking up. Dull,
heavy headache, frontal and occipital. Darting pains running up
into head.
Eyes.--Intense photophobia and orbicular spasm; gushing hot
tears. Flickering with pain and lachrymation.
Mouth.--Tongue thickly furred; yellow, slimy coating. Bitter
taste. No appetite.
Stomach.--Alternation of hyperacidity and decrease of acid.
Hyperchlorhydria (Robinia; Arg nit; Orexine tannate). Thirst for
water, yet it disturbs. Anorexia. Eggs produce diarrhśa.
Heart.--Palpitation. Sensation as if heart stopped. Suffocative
attacks, occurring in periodical paroxysms. Must have open air.
Short of breath on ascending; cardiac dyspnśa; circulatory
weakness after acute infections; early myocardial degeneration.
Sleep.--Sleeplessness due to nervous causes (Single dose of 5th
or 6th potency).
Extremities.--Weak limbs. Coldness of hands and feet, knees
and limbs. Tearing pains.
Fever.--Continuous, with weakness. System depleted.
Relationship.--Compare: Chininum; also Ferrum Citricum (in
nephritis with great anćmia; acid dyspepsia in chlorosis. Morbus
maculosus Werlhoffii); Chinin mur (in severe neuralgic pains
around eyes, with chills; exaggerated sensitiveness to alcohol
and tobacco; prostration and restlessness). Śnothera (effortless
diarrhśa with nervous exhaustion; incipient hydrocephaloid).
Macrozamia spiralis (extreme debility after illness; collapse).
Dose.--Second and third trituration.
CHININUM SULPHURICUM
Sulphite of Quinine
A dose of Chinin sulph in high potency sometimes arouses
suppressed malaria, and brings back the paroxysm. Aside from
its undoubted influence over malaria, it is indicated
homeopathically whenever there is marked periodicity and
spinal sensitiveness. Acute articular rheumatism. Polyarticular
gout. Pruritus and congested conditions of the rectum.
Symptoms of chronic interstitial nephritis. Retro-bulbar neuritis
with sudden loss of sight. Thready vessels. Hiccough.
Blood.--An immediate and rapid decrease in red blood cells and
reduction in hemoglobin with increase in elimination of
chlorides. Tendency to polynucleated leucocytosis.
Head.--Pain in forehead and temples, increasing gradually at
noon, of malarial origin, with vertigo and pulsation. Worse left
side. Falling in street. Inability to remain standing. Amaurosis.
Ears.--Violent ringing, buzzing, and roaring in ears, with
deafness.
Face.--Neuralgia commences under eye; extends into and
around it. Pains return with great regularity; relieved by
pressure.
Spine.--Great sensitiveness of the dorsal vertebrć; pain on
pressure. Last cervical sensitive. Pain extends to head and neck.
Urine.--Bloody. Turbid, slimy, clay-colored, greasy sediment.
Small amount of urea and phosphoric acid with excess of uric
acid and abundance of chlorides, accompanied by subnormal
temperature. Excessive flow. Albuminuria
Skin.--Itching; erythema, urticaria, icterus, vesication, pustules,
purpura. Great sensitiveness. Shriveled skin.
Fever.--Chill daily at 3 pm. Painful swelling of various veins
during a chill. Shivering even in a warm room. Anguish.
Subnormal temperature.
Relationship.--Compare: Chin salicyl (Deafness, tinnitus, and
Meniere's disease). Ars; Eupat; Methyl blue. Camphor mono-
bromide (is said to intensify the action of Quinine and render it
more permanent). Baja, an East Indian drug, (said to be almost
infallible in intermittent fever, quartan type; pulsating headache
injected eyes, flushed face. Liver and spleen enlarged. Śdema).
Also Pambotano, Mexican remedy for intermittent and tropical
fevers.
Antidotes: Parthenum; Natr mur; Lach; Arn; Puls.
Dose.--First to third triturations; also thirtieth potency and
higher.
CHIONANTHUS VIRGINICA
Fringe-tree
(CHIONANTHUS)
This remedy is often of service in many types of headaches,
neurasthenic, periodical sick, menstrual and bilious. Taken for
several weeks, drop doses, will often break up the sick headache
habit. The pain in the forehead, chiefly over eyes. Eyeballs very
painful, with pressure over root of nose. Hepatic derangements.
Jaundice. Enlarged spleen (Ceanoth). Jaundice with arrest of
menses. A prominent liver remedy. Gallstones (Berberis;
Cholest; Calc). Diabetes mellitus. Paroxysmal, abdominal pain.
Head.--Listless, apathetic. Dull frontal headache, over root of
nose, over eyes, through temples, worse stooping, motion, jar.
Yellow conjunctiva.
Tongue.--Broad with thick yellow fur.
Mouth.--Dry sensation not relieved by water, also profuse
saliva.
Abdomen and Liver.--Aching in umbilical region, griping.
Feels as if a string were tied in a "slip-knot" around intestines
which was suddenly drawn tight and then gradually loosened.
Sore; enlarged, with jaundice and constipation. Clay-colored
stool, also soft, yellow and pasty. Tongue heavily coated. No
appetite. Bilious colic. Hepatic region tender. Pancreatic disease
and other glandular disorders.
Urine.--Large amount of high specific gravity; frequent
urination; bile and sugar in urine. Urine very dark.
Skin.--Yellow; marked moisture of skin. Sallow, greenish,
itching.
Relationship.--Compare: Cinchona; Ceanoth; Chelidon;
Carduus; Podophyl; Lept.
Dose.--Tincture and first attenuation.
CHLOROFORMIUM
Chloroform
(CHLOROFORMUM)
General anæsthetic, antispasmodic. Complete muscular
relaxation. Weak and quick pulse, shallow or stertorous
breathing. Convulsions, nephritic or biliary colic, gastralgia.
Symptoms obtained by Dr. D. Macfarlan with the 6th potency.
Great weakness, especially on right side. Limbs very tired from
knees down. Much perspiration all over face and chest; drowsy
and dizzy; dry lips and throat; dry tickling cough at night.
Flatulence; food regurgitates; sore and bruised feeling in
stomach; catching pain around heart. Sharp pain in right chest
when he takes long breath; shortness of breath on exertion.
Head.--Delirium where excitement and violence predominate.
Head drawn down upon the shoulders, eyes opened and closed
rapidly, pupils contracted; rapid convulsive movements of face,
of muscles, of extremities.
Relationship.--Ether Post-operative Bronchitis (Prof. Bier).
Spiritus Aetheris Compositus.--(Hoffman's Anodyne)--
(Flatulence; angina pectoris. Dose 5m to 1 dram in water).
Dose.--Higher attenuations, or sixth. Phosphorus is the remedy
to give in narcosis of chloroform.
CHLORALUM HYDRATUM
Chloral Hydrate
(CHLORALUM)
This drug, used in physiological doses, is a powerful hypnotic
and cardiac depressant. It has a marked effect on the skin,
producing erythema, ecchymosis, etc, which symptoms have
been utilized homeopathically with much success, especially in
the treatment of hives. Emotional excitability, hallucinations.
Night terrors in children. Muscular prostration.
Head.--Morning headache; worse in forehead, also in occiput,
on motion; better in open air. Passive cerebral hyperćmia (use
30th). Feeling as if hot band were drawn from temple to temple.
Hears voices.
Eyes.--Eyes blood-shot and watery. Circles of light, black spots.
Illusions of sight where eyes are closed or at night. Dim vision.
Conjunctivitis, burning in eye and lids; eyeball feels too large;
everything looks white.
Skin.--Red blotches, like measles. Urticaria, worse, spirituous
liquors, hot drinks. Erythema aggravated by alcoholic drinks,
with palpitation; causes pain in tendons and extensors. Intense
itching. Surface of body stone-cold. Wheals come on from a
chill; better, warmth. Purpura (Phos; Crotal).
Respiratory.--Extreme dyspnśa, with sensation of weight and
constriction of chest. Asthma, with sleeplessness.
Sleep.--Insomnia, hallucinations, horrid dreams. Somnolence.
Modalities.--Worse, after hot drinks, stimulants, eating, night.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Ammon; Atrop; Dig; Mosch.
Compare: Bell; Opium; Apis; Veronal--(a dangerous drug made
by the action of alcohol upon urea and contains the same radical
that alcohol does. Makes a man just as drunk as pure alcohol.
Staggers, cannot stand up) (Dr. Varney). (Confluent reddish
spots; dermatitis, itching of glans and prepuce; circumscribed
dermatitis patch on first metacarpal phalangeal joint). Luminal--
(Sleeplessness with skin symptoms in migraine; lethargy like
epidemic encephalitis) (Dr. Royal).
Dose.--First trituration in hives, otherwise, higher potencies.
Locally, in offensive foot-sweat, bathe with one per cent
solution. For its physiological effects, five to twenty grains. Use
cautiously.
CHLORUM
Chlorine Gas in Water
The marked effect on the respiratory organs, producing spasm of
the glottis, is the chief symptom of the drug. Asthma to relieve
the spasm of glottis. Useful externally and internally in
gangrene.
Mind.--Fear of becoming crazy. Marked loss of memory,
especially for names.
Respiratory.--Sooty, smoky nostrils. Coryza with sudden
gushes of sharp, corroding fluid, making nose sore inside and
about the alć. Constriction, with suffocation. Spasm of the
glottis. Irritation of epiglottis, larynx, and bronchi. Loss of voice
from damp air. Sudden dyspnśa from spasm of the vocal cords,
with staring protruding eyes, blue face, cold sweat, pulse small.
Inspiration free, with obstructed expiration. (Mephit). Livid
face. Prolonged, loud, whistling rales. Extreme dryness of
tongue.
Dose.--Chlorine water, when required of full strength, must be
freshly prepared. Fourth to sixth potency.
CHOLESTERINUM
Cholesterine--The proximate principle--Furnished by the
epithelium lining of gall bladder and the larger ducts
For cancer of the liver. Obstinate hepatic engorgements.
Burning pain in side; on walking holds his hand on side, hurts
him so. Opacities of the vitreous. Jaundice; gallstones.
Cholesterine is the physiological opponent of Lecithin. Both
seem to play some unknown part in the growth of tumors.
Gallstones and insomnia.
Relationship.--Compare: Taurocholate of soda in
Homeopathy.--Dr. I. P. Tessier, in an interesting study of the
action of bile and its salts, in hepatic affections, analyzes a
number of experiments by leading authorities, with the object of
determining this action, and concludes that in the Taurocholate
of Soda, homeopathy has a useful remedy against certain forms
of hypoglobular anćmia. The claim that its pathogenesis and
toxicology clearly indicate its value, and that it should also serve
us as a remedy in cases of hypertrophy of the spleen and
ganglia. He calls our attention to the fact, that it produces
dyspnśa, the Cheyne-Stokes rhythm, acute pulmonary śdema,
and intense exaggeration of the cardiac pulsations, offering a
good field for clinical studies and experimentation of great
interest, which may give fruitful and important results.
Dose.--Third trituration.
CHROMICUM ACIDUM
Chromic Acid
Diphtheria, post-nasal tumors, and epithelioma of the tongue
have been benefited by this drug. Bloody, foul-smelling lochia.
Symptoms come and go suddenly, and return periodically;
offensive discharges.
Nose.--Ulcer and scabs in nose. Offensive smell. Corrosive pain.
Ozćna (Aur).
Throat.--Diphtheria; sore throat. Tough mucus, with inclination
to swallow it; worse, causing hawking. Post-nasal tumors.
Extremities.--Uneasiness in limbs. Pain in shoulder-blades and
back of neck. Pain in knees and balls of feet. Drawing pain in
soles while walking.
Stool.--Watery, frequent, copious, with nausea and vertigo.
Hćmorrhoids, internal and bleeding. Weakness in small of back.
Relationship.--Compare: Kali bich; Rhus; Chromium Sulphate
(in locomotor ataxia, goitre, prostatic hypertrophy. Herpes
preputialis. Wry neck. Also exophthalmic, inhibits the vagus,
relieving tachycardia. Acts like a nerve tonic where there is lack
of nervous tone. Fibroid tumors. Infantile paralysis. Dose for
adults, 3 to 5 grains after meals and at bedtime).
Dose.--Homeopathically, third to sixth trituration.
CHRYSAROBINUM
Goa Powder-Andira araroba
Acts as a powerful irritant of the skin and used successfully in
skin diseases especially in ringworm, psoriasis, herpes tonsurans
acne rosacea. Vesicular or squamous lesions, associated with
foul smelling discharge and crust formation, tending to become
confluent and to give the appearance of a single crust covering
the entire area (Bernstein). Violent itching, thighs, legs and ears.
Dry, scaly eruption, especially around eyes and ears, scabs with
pus underneath (Mezer).
Eyes.--Blepharitis, conjunctivitis keratitis. Intense photophobia.
Optical hyperæsthesia.
Ears.--Eczema behind ears. Filthy, scabby condition with
tendency to form thick crust. Whole ear and surrounding tissue
appears to be one scab.
Relationship.--Chrysarobinum contains chrysophan, which is
rapidly oxidized into chrysophanic acid. This is also contained
in Rhubarb and Senna.
Dose.--Locally, as a cerate, 4-8 grains to the ounce, of vaseline.
Internally, third to sixth potency. Used externally; should be
used with caution on account of its ability to produce
inflammation.
CICUTA VIROSA
Water Hemlock
The action on the nervous system, producing spasmodic
affections, viz, hiccough, trismus, tetanus, and convulsions, give
the pathological picture calling especially for this remedy,
whenever this is further characterized, by the more individual
symptoms of the drug. Among these, are the bending of the
head, neck, and spine backwards, and the general action of the
patient is violent, with frightful distortions. Violent, strange
desires. Sensation of internal chill. Moaning and howling. Does
absurd things. Marked action on the skin.
Mind.--Delirium, with singing, dancing and funny gestures.
Everything appears strange and terrible. Confounds present with
the past; feels like a child. Stupid feeling. Melancholy, with
indifference. Mistrustful. Epilepsy; moaning and whining. Vivid
dreams.
Head.--Head turned or twisted to one side. Cerebro-spinal
meningitis. Cervical muscles contracted. Vertigo, with
gastralgia, and muscular spasms. Sudden, violent shocks through
head. Stares persistently at objects. Convulsions from
concussion of brain. Thick, yellow scabs on head. Head
symptoms relieved by emission of flatus.
Eyes.--When reading, letters disappear. Pupils dilated,
insensible strabismus. Objects recede, approach, and seem
double. Eyes stare. Pupils get behind upper lids as head inclines.
Effects of exposure to snow. Spasmodic affections of eyes and
its appendages. Strabismus; periodic, spasmodic after a fall or a
blow.
Ears.--Difficult hearing. Sudden detonations especially on
swallowing. Hćmorrhage from ears.
Face.--Pustules which run together forming thick, yellow scabs
on face and head, corners of mouth and chin, with burning pain.
Red face. Trismus; disposition to grind teeth.
Throat.--Dry. Feels as if grown together. Spasms of śsophagus;
cannot swallow. Effects on śsophagus from swallowing sharp
piece of bone.
Stomach.--Thirst; burning pressure; hiccough. Throbbing in pit
of stomach, which has become raised to size of fist. Desire for
unnatural things, like coal (Alum; Calc). Indigestion, with
insensibility, frothing at mouth.
Abdomen.--Flatulence with anxiety and crossness. Rumbling in.
Distended and painful. Colic with convulsions.
Rectum.--Diarrhśa in morning, with irresistible desire to
urinate. Itching in rectum.
Respiratory.--Chest feels tight; can hardly breathe. Tonic
spasm in pectoral muscles. Heat in chest.
Back and extremities.--Spasms and cramps in muscles of nape
of neck, and spasmodic drawing backward of head. Curved
limbs cannot be straightened nor straight ones bent. Back bent
backward like an arch. Jerking, tearing in coccyx, especially
during menses.
Skin.--Eczema; no itching, exudation forms into a hard, lemon-
colored crust. Suppressed eruption causes brain disease.
Elevated eruptions, as large as peas. Chronic impetigo.
Modalities.--Worse, from touch, draughts, concussion, tobacco
smoke.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Opium; Arn.
Compare: Cicuta Maculata-Water Hemlock--(Effects very
similar; the most prominent symptoms being; Falls unconscious,
tetanic or clonic convulsions. Body covered with sweat.
Consider in epilepsy and tetanus. Tincture and lower potencies).
Hydrocy acid; Con; Oenanth; Strychnia; Bellad.
Dose.--Sixth to two hundredth attenuation.
CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA
Black Snake-root
(CIMICIFUGA - ACTAEA RACEMOSA -
MACROTYS)
Has a wide action upon the cerebrospinal and muscular system,
as well as upon the uterus and ovaries. Especially useful in
rheumatic, nervous subjects with ovarian irritation, uterine
cramps and heavy limbs. Its muscular and crampy pains,
primarily of neurotic origin, occurring in nearly every part of the
body, are characteristic. Agitation and painindicate it. Pains like
electric shocks here and there. Migraine. Symptoms referable to
the pelvic organs prominent. "It lessens the frequency and force
of the pulse soothes pain and allays irritability".
Mental.--Sensation of a cloud enveloping her. Great depression,
with dream of impending evil. Fears riding in a closed carriage,
of being obliged to jump out. Incessant talking. Visions of rats,
mice, etc. Delirium tremens; tries to injure himself. Mania
following disappearance of neuralgia.
Head.--Wild feeling in brain. Shooting and throbbing pains in
head after mental worry, over-study, or reflex of uterine disease.
Waving sensation or opening and shutting sensation in brain.
Brain feels too large. Pressing-outward pain. Tinnitus. Ears
sensitive to least noise.
Eyes.--Asthenopia associated with pelvic trouble. Deepseated
throbbing and shooting pains in eyes, with photophobia from
artificial light. Intense aching of eyeball. Pain from eyes to top
of head.
Stomach.--Nausea and vomiting caused by pressure on spine
and cervical region. Sinking in epigastrium (Sep; Sulph).
Gnawing pain. Tongue pointed and trembling.
Female.--Amenorrhśa (use Macrotin preferably). Pain in
ovarian region; shoots upward and down anterior surface of
thighs. Pain immediately before menses. Menses profuse, dark,
coagulated, offensive with backache, nervousness; always
irregular. Ovarian neuralgia. Pain across pelvis, from hip to hip.
After-pains, with great sensitiveness and intolerance to pain.
Infra-mammary pains worse, left side. Facial blemishes in young
women.
Respiratory.--Tickling in throat. Dry, short cough, worse
speaking and at night. Cough when secretion is scanty-
spasmodic, dry with muscular soreness and nervous irritation.
Heart.--Irregular, slow, trembling pulse. Tremulous action.
Angina pectoris. Numbness of left arm; feels as if bound to side.
Heart's action ceases suddenly, impending suffocation. Left-
sided infra-mammary pain.
Back.--Spine very sensitive, especially upper part. Stiffness and
contraction in neck and back. Intercostal rheumatism.
Rheumatic pains in muscles of back and neck. Pain in lumbar
and sacral region, down thighs, and through hips. Crick in back.
Extremities.--Uneasy, restless feeling in limbs. Aching in limbs
and muscular soreness. Rheumatism affecting the belly of
muscles, especially large muscles. Choreic movements,
accompanied by rheumatism. Jerking of limbs. Stiffness in
tendo-Achilles. Heaviness in lower extremities. Heavy, aching,
tensive pain.
Sleep.--Sleeplessness. Brain irritation of children during
dentition.
Skin.--Locally and internally for ivy poisoning.
Modalities.--Worse, morning, cold (except headache), during
menses; the more profuse the flow, the greater the suffering.
Better, warmth, eating.
Relationship.--Compare: Rhamnus Californica (muscular
pains, lumbago, pleurodynia, acute rheumatism). Derris pinnata
(Neuralgic headaches of rheumatic origin). Aristolochia
milhomens (pain in tendo-Achilles; diabetes). Caulophyl;
Pulsat; Lilium; Agar; Macrotin (especially for lumbago).
Dose.--First to thirtieth attenuation, third most frequently used.
CIMEX LECTULARIUS
Bedbug
(CIMEX - ACANTHIA)
Of use in intermittent fever, with weariness and inclination to
stretch. Hamstrings feel too short (Ammon mur). Flexors mostly
affected. Sensation of retraction of arm tendons. Stretching.
Head.--Violent headache, caused by drinking. Great rage;
vehement at beginning of chilly stage. Would like to tear
everything to pieces. Pain under right frontal bone.
Female.--Shooting pain from vagina up towards left ovary.
Fever.--Chilliness of whole body. Sensation as of wind blowing
on knees. Pains in all joints, as if tendons were too short,
especially knee-joints. Chill; worse lying down. Thirst during
apyrexia, but little during chilly stage; still less during hot stage,
and none during sweating. Musty, offensive sweat.
Bowels.--Constipation, feces dry and in small balls (Op; Plumb;
Thuj) and hard. Ulcer of rectum.
Dose.--Sixth to two hundredth attenuation.
CINA MARITIMA
Worm-seed
(CINA)
This is a children's remedy,-big, fat, rosy, scrofulous,
corresponding to many conditions that may be referred to
intestinal irritation, such as worms and accompanying
complaints. An irritability of temper, variable appetite, grinding
of teeth, and even convulsions, with screams and violent
jerkings of the hands and feet, are all within its range of action.
The Cina patient is hungry, cross, ugly, and wants to be rocked.
Pain in shocks. Skin sensitive to touch.
Mind.--Ill-humor. Child very cross; does not want to be
touched, or crossed, or carried. Desires many things, but rejects
everything offered. Abnormal consciousness, as if having
committed some evil deed.
Head.--Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen. Relieved
by stooping (Mezer). Pain in head when using eyes.
Eyes.--Dilated pupils; yellow vision. Weak sight from
masturbation. Strabismus from abdominal irritation. Eyestrain,
especially when presbyopia sets in. Pulsation of superciliary
muscle.
Ears.--Digging and scratching in ears.
Nose.--Itching of nose all the time. Wants to rub it and pick at it.
Bores at nose till it bleeds.
Face.--Intense, circumscribed redness of cheeks. Pale, hot, with
dark rings around eyes. Cold perspiration. White and bluish
about the mouth. Grits teeth during sleep. Choreic movements of
face and hands.
Stomach.--Gets hungry soon after a meal. Hungry, digging,
gnawing sensation. Epigastric pain; worse, first waking in
morning and before meals. Vomiting and diarrhśa immediately
after eating or drinking. Vomiting with a clean tongue. Desires
many and different things. Craving for sweets.
Abdomen.--Twisting pain about navel (Spig). Bloated and hard
abdomen.
Stool.--White mucus, like small pieces of popped corn, preceded
by pinching colic. Itching of anus (Teuc). Worms (Sabad;
Naphth; Nat phos).
Urine.--Turbid, white; turns milky on standing. Involuntary at
night.
Female.--Uterine hćmorrhage before puberty.
Respiratory.--Gagging cough in the morning. Whooping-
cough. Violent recurring paroxysms, as of down in throat.
Cough ends in a spasm. Cough so violent as to bring tears and
sternal pains; feels as if something had been torn off. Periodic;
returning spring and fall. Swallows after coughing. Gurgling
from throat to stomach after coughing. Child is afraid to speak
or move for fear of bringing on paroxysm of coughing. After
coughing, moaning, anxious, gasps for air and turns pale.
Extremities.--Twitching and jerking distortion of limbs,
trembling. Paralyzed shocks; patient will jump suddenly, as
though in pain. Child throws arms from side to side. Nocturnal
convulsions. Sudden inward jerking of fingers of right hand.
Child stretches out feet spasmodically. Left foot in constant
spasmodic motion.
Sleep.--Child gets on hands and knees in sleep; on abdomen.
Night terrors of children; cries out, screams, wakes frightened.
Troubles while yawning. Screams and talks in sleep. Grits teeth.
Fever.--Light chill. Much fever, associated with clean tongue.
Much hunger; colicky pains; chilliness, with thirst. Cold sweat
on forehead, nose, and hands. In Cina fever, face is cold and
hands warm.
Modalities.--Worse, looking fixedly at an object, from worms,
at night, in sun, in summer.
Relationship.--Compare: Santonin--(often preferable in worm
affections; same symptoms as Cina; corresponding to the "pain
in shocks" produced by Cina. Visual illusions, yellow sight;
violet light not recognized, colors not distinguishable. Urine
deep saffron color. Spasms and twitchings, chronic gastric and
intestinal troubles sometimes removed by a single dose
(physiological) of Santonin. Dahlke). Helmintochortos-Worm-
moss (acts very powerfully on intestinal worms, especially the
lumbricoid). Teucrium; Ignat; Cham; Spig.
Antidote: Camph; Caps.
Dose.--Third attenuation. For nervous irritable children, thirtieth
and two-hundredth preferable. Santonin in first (with care) and
third trituration.
CINERARIA MARITIMA
Dusty Miller
(CINERARIA)
Has some reputation in the cure of cataract and corneal
opacities. Is used externally, by instilling into the eye one drop
four or five times a day. This must be kept up for several
months. Most effective in traumatic cases. Compare in cataract
Phosph; Platanus; Cannabis; Causticum; Naphthalin; Ledum;
Nat mur; Silica.
CINNABARIS
Mercuric Sulphide
(MERCURIUS SULPHURATUS RUBER)
For certain forms of ciliary neuralgia and ulceration upon a
syphilitic base, this remedy is most effective. Sleepless during
night.
Head.--Congestion to head; face purple red.
Eyes.--Pains from lachrymal duct around eye to temple, from
inner canthus across brows to ear. Severe shooting pain in
bones of orbit, especially running from inner to outer canthus in
the bone. Redness of whole eye. Lids granulated; canthi and lids
red.
Nose.--Pressive sensation, as from heavy spectacles. Pain about
root, extending into bones on each side (Aur; Kal hyd).
Throat.--Stringy mucus passed through posterior nares into
throat. Dryness of mouth and throat; must rinse the mouth.
Fiery-looking ulcers in mouth and throat.
Male.--Prepuce swollen; warts on it which bleed easily; testicles
enlarged; buboes; angry-looking chancres. Syphilides, squamous
and vesicular.
Female.--Leucorrhśa. Feeling of pressure in vagina.
Extremities.--Pain in forearm from elbow down, including
hands. Pain in long bones when barometer lowers; coldness of
joints.
Skin.--Very fiery-red looking ulcers. Nodes on shin-bones.
Buboes. Condyloma, easily bleeding.
Modalities.--Worse, lying on right side (feels as if contents of
body were being dragged over to that side).
Relationship.--Compare: Hepar; Nitr ac; Thuja; Sep.
Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph.
Dose.--First to third trituration.
CINNAMOMUM CEYLANICUM
Cinnamon
(CINNAMOMUM)
Cancer where pain and fetor are present. Best when skin is
intact. Its use in hæmorrhages has abundant clinical verification.
Nosebleed. Hæmorrhages from bowels, hæmoptysis, etc. A
strain in loins or false step brings on a profuse flow of bright
blood. Post-partum hæmorrhage. Flatulency and diarrhœa.
Feeble patients with languid circulation.
Female.--Bearing-down sensation. Menses early, profuse,
prolonged, bright red. Sleepy. No desire for anything. Fingers
seem swollen. Uterine hæmorrhages caused by overlifting,
during puerperal state; menorrhagia.
Relationship.--Compare: Ipec; Sil; Trill.
Antidote: Acon.
Dose.--Tincture to third potency. For cancer, strong decoction,
one-half pint in a day. Oil of cinnamon in aqueous solution best
local disinfectant. 3-4 drops in two quarts of water as a douche,
wherever a germicide and disinfectant is needed. Three drops on
sugar for hiccough.
CISTUS CANADENSIS
Rock Rose
A deep-acting anti-psoric remedy, with marked action in
glandular affections, herpetic eruptions, chronic swellings, when
patient is extremely sensitive to cold. Sensation of coldness in
various parts. Scrofulous ophthalmia. Poisoned wounds, bites,
phagedenic ulcers. Malignant disease of the glands of the neck.
Cistus has affinity for naso-pharynx; aborts colds that center in
posterior nose. Sniffling.
Face.--Itching, burning, and crusts on right zygoma. Lupus,
caries; open, bleeding cancer. Tip of nose painful.
Mouth.--Scorbutic swollen gums. Mouth feels cold; putrid,
impure breath. Pyorrhea (Merc cor; Caust; Staph; Kreos). Hurts
to protrude the tongue.
Ears.--Watery discharge; also fetid pus. Tetter on and around
ears, extending to external meatus.
Throat.--Spongy feeling; very dry and cold air passing over
parts causes pain. Breath, tongue, and throat feel cold. Uvula
and tonsils swollen. A small, dry spot in throat; must sip water
frequently. Hawking of mucus. Swelling and suppuration of
glands of throat. Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck.
Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air. Heat and itching in
throat.
Stomach.--Cool feeling in stomach before and after eating. Cool
feeling in whole abdomen. Desire for cheese.
Stool.--Diarrhœa from coffee and fruit, thin, yellow, urgent;
worse in morning.
Chest.--Coldness in chest. The neck is studded with tumors.
Induration of mammæ. Hæmorrhage from lungs.
Extremities.--Sprained pain in wrist. Tips of fingers sensitive to
cold. Tetter on hands. Cold feet. Syphilitic ulcers on lower
limbs, with hard swelling around. White swelling.
Sleep.--Cannot sleep from coldness in throat.
Female.--Induration and inflammation of mammæ. Sensitive to
cold air. Bad smelling leucorrhœa.
Respiratory.--Asthmatic after lying down (trachea feels
narrow), preceded by formication.
Skin.--Itching all over. Small, painful pimples; lupus. Glands
inflamed and indurated. Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers. Skin of
hands hard, thick, dry, fissured; deep cracks. Itching of swollen
hands and arms; general itching which presents sleep.
Hemicrania.
Modalities.--Worse, slightest exposure to cold air; mental
exertion, excitement. Better after eating.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Rhus; Sepia.
Compare: Conium; Carbo; Calc; Arg n.
Dose.--First to thirtieth attenuation. Locally as a wash to arrest
fetid discharges.
CITRUS VULGARIS
Bitter Orange
Headache with nausea, vomiting and vertigo. Facial neuralgias
mostly right-sided. Thoracic oppression. Frequent and
irresistible yawning. Disturbed sleep.
Relationship.--Citrus decumana-Grape-fruit (Tinnitus, head
noises and ringing in ears. Sensation of pressure in the temporal
region). Aurantium-Orange (neuralgic and skin symptoms.
Itching, redness and swelling of hands. Diseases of the aged
with coldness and chilliness. Boiled dried orange peel excites
the intestine in a manner similar to other forms of cellulose or
agar. There is an increased flow of bile which continues for
hours. It unites both a cholagogue action with a mechanical
stimulus to peristalsis). Compare: Citrus Limonum (scorbutus,
sore throat and cancer pains; checks excessive menstruation).
(Citric Acid.--Useful in scurvy and chronic rheumatism and
hćmorrhages. All forms of Dropsy are benefited with Citric acid
and lemon juice, tablespoonful every 3-4 hours. Pain from
cancer of tongue. Used as a local application and mouth wash,
one dram to 8 ozs of water. For cancer pains generally, often
effective).
CLEMATIS ERECTA
Virgin's Bower
Scrofulous, rheumatic, gonorrhśal, and syphilitic patients. Acts
especially on skin, glands and genito-urinary organs, especially
testicles. A remedy of much importance in disturbances of sleep,
and neuralgic pains in various parts. Many of these pains are
relieved by perspiration. Muscles relaxed or twitching. Great
emaciation. Great sleepiness. Distant pulsation in whole body.
Head.--Boring pain in temples. Confused feeling; better in open
air. Eruption on occiput at base of hair, moist, pustular sensitive,
itching.
Eyes.--Heat in eyes and sensitive to air; must close them.
Chronic blepharitis, with sore and swollen meibomain glands.
Iritis, great sensitiveness to cold. Flickering before eyes.
Pustular conjunctivitis, with tinea capitis; eyes inflamed and
protruding.
Face.--White blisters on face and nose, as if burned by sun.
Swelling of submaxillary glands, with hard tubercles, throbbing,
aggravated on being touched. Pain in right side of face to eye,
ear and temple; better, holding cold water in mouth.
Teeth.--Ache; worse, at night and from tobacco. Teeth feel too
long.
Stomach.--After eating, weakness in all limbs and pulsation in
arteries.
Male.--Ilio-scrotal neuralgia. Testicles indurated with bruised
feeling. Swelling of scrotum (Orchitis). Right half only.
Troubles from suppressed gonorrhśa. Violent erections with
stitches in urethra. Testicles hang heavy or retracted, with pain
along spermatic cord; worse, right side.
Urinary.--Tingling in urethra lasting some time after urinating.
Frequent, scanty urination; burning at orifice. Interrupted flow.
Urethra feels constricted. Urine emitted drop by drop. Inability
to pass all the urine; dribbling after urinating. Pain worse at
night, pain along the spermatic cord. Commencing stricture.
Skin.--Red, burning, vesicular, scaly, scabby. Itches terribly;
worse, washing in cold water; worse face and hands and scalp
around occiput. Glands hot, painful, swollen; worse inguinal
glands. Glandular indurations and tumors of breast. Varicose
ulcers.
Modalities.--Better, in open air. Worse, at night, and warmth of
bed (washing in cold water); new moon--(monthly aggravation).
Relationship.--Compare: Clematis vitalba (varicose and other
ulcers); Sil; Staph; Petrol; Oleand; Sarsap; Canth; Phos ac;
Pulsat.
Antidotes: Bryon; Camph.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
COBALTUM METALLICUM
The Metal Cobalt
(COBALTUM)
Adapted to neurasthenic spinal states. Sexual disturbances.
Fatigue, agitation, and bone pains, worse in morning.
Mind.--All mental excitement increases suffering. Constant
interchange of mental moods.
Head.--Aches; worse, bending head forward. Itching of hairy
scalp and beard.
Teeth.--Feel too long. Pain in teeth. Cracks across tongue.
Coated white (Ant cr).
Abdomen.--Shooting in liver. Pain in spleen.
Rectum.--Constant dropping of blood from the anus, no blood
from the stools.
Male.--Pain in right testicle; better, urinating. Emissions without
erection. Impotence. Backache in lumbar region and weak legs.
Lewd dreams. Pain in end of urethra; greenish discharge; brown
spots on genitals and abdomen.
Back.--Pain in back and sacrum; worse while sitting; better,
walking or lying. Weakness in legs and backache after
emissions.
Extremities.--Aching in wrist-joints. Shooting into thighs from
liver. Weak knees. Trembling in limbs. Tingling in feet. Foot-
sweat, mostly between toes.
Sleep.--Unrefreshing; disturbed by lewd dreams.
Skin.--Dry and pimply. Pimples about nates, chin, hairy scalp.
Relationship.--Compare: Cannab. Ind; Sepia; Zinc; Agnus;
Selen.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
COCCUS CACTI
Cochineal
The clinical application of the symptoms of this remedy, place it
among the medicines for spasmodic and whooping coughs, and
catarrhal conditions of the bladder; spasmodic pains in kidneys,
with visceral tenesmus. Anuria, anasarca, ascites.
Mind.--Early morning or afternoon sadness.
Head.--Suboccipital soreness; worse after sleep and exertion.
Headache, worse from lying on back, better with the head high.
Dull pain over right eye in morning. Sensation of a foreign body
between upper lid and eyeball. Distress from cinders lodged in
eye.
Respiratory.--Constant hawking from enlarged uvula; coryza,
with inflamed fauces; accumulation of thick viscid mucus, which
is expectorated with great difficulty. Tickling in larynx.
Sensation of a crumb behind larynx, must swallow continually;
brushing teeth causes cough. Fauces very sensitive. Suffocative
cough; worse, first waking, with tough, white mucus, which
strangles. Spasmodic morning cough. Whooping cough attacks
end with vomiting of this tough mucus. Chronic bronchitis
complicated with gravel; large quantities of albuminous,
tenacious mucus, are expectorated. Walking against wind takes
breath away.
Heart.--Sensation as if everything were pressed toward the
heart.
Urinary.--Urging to urinate; brick-red sediment. Urinary
calculi, hæmaturia, urates, and uric acid; lancinating pains from
kidney to bladder. Deep-colored, thick urine. Dysuria.
Female.--Menses too early, profuse, black and thick; dark clots,
with dysuria. Intermittent menstruation; flow only in evening
and at night. Large clots escape when passing water. Labia
inflamed.
Modalities.--Worse, left side, after sleep, touch, pressure of
clothing, brushing teeth, slightest exertion. Better, walking.
Relationship.--Compare: Canth; Cact; Sars.
Dose.--Lower triturations.
COCA-ERYTHROXYLON COCA
The Divine Plant of the Incas-but the Spanish priests
denounced it as "un delusion del demonio"
The mountaineer's remedy. Useful in a variety of complaints
incidental to mountain climbing, such as palpitation, dyspnśa,
anxiety and insomnia. Exhausted nervous system from physical
and mental strain. Caries of teeth. Loss of voice.--Give 5-6
drops, every half hour, two hours before expected demand on
voice. Nocturnal enuresis. Emphysema (Quebracho).
Mind.--Melancholy; bashful, ill at ease in society, irritable,
delights in solitude and obscurity. Sense of right and wrong
abolished.
Head.--Fainting fit from climbing mountains. Shocks coming
from occiput with vertigo. Noises in ear. Headache with vertigo,
preceded by flashes of light. Like a band across forehead.
Diplopia. Tongue furred. Headaches of high altitudes. Tinnitus.
Stomach.--Peppery sensation in mouth. Longing for alcoholic
liquors and tobacco. Great satiety for a long time. Incarcerated
flatus; rises with noise and violence, as if it would split the
śsophagus. Tympanitic distention of abdomen. No appetite but
for sweets.
Heart.--Palpitation, with weak heart and dyspnśa.
Male.--Diabetes, with impotency (Phos ac).
Respiratory.--Hawking of small, transparent pieces of mucus.
Weak vocal cords. Hoarseness; worse after talking. Want of
breath, short breath, especially in aged athletes, and alcoholic
users. Hćmoptysis. Asthma, spasmodic variety.
Sleep.--Can find no rest anywhere, but sleepy. Nervousness and
nightly restlessness during teething.
Modalities.--Better, from wine; riding, quick motion in open air.
Worse, ascending, high altitudes.
Relationship.--Compare: Ars; Paulin; Cyp; Chamom.
Antidote: Gels.
Dose.--Tincture to third attenuation.
COCAINUM HYDROCHLORICUM
An Alkaloid from Erythroxylon Coca
(COCAINA)
Besides the great usefulness of Cocaine as a local anćsthetic, it
has specific homeopathic uses, though the symptoms are mainly
clinical only.
Sensation as if small foreign bodies or worms were under the
skin.
Mind.--Talkative. Constant desire to do something great, to
undertake vast feats of strength. Cerebral activity. Frightful
persecutory hallucinations; sees and feels bugs and worms.
Moral sense blunted. Personal appearance neglected. Thinks he
hears unpleasant remarks about himself. Hallucinations of
hearing. Irrational jealousy. Insomnia.
Head.--Throbbing and bursting sensation. Pupils dilated.
Hearing greatly increased. Roaring and noises in head.
Eyes.--Glaucoma, increased tension, decreased corneal
sensibility. Eyes staring, expressionless.
Throat.--Dry, burning, tickling, constricted, paralysis of
muscles of deglutition. Speech difficult.
Stomach.--Loss of appetite for solid food. Likes sweets.
Hćmorrhages from bowels, stomach.
Nervous System.--Chorea; paralysis agitans; alcoholic tremors
and senile trembling. Local sensory paralysis. Formication and
numbness in hands and forearms.
Sleep.--Restless, cannot sleep for hours after retiring.
Fever.--Coldness with intense pallor.
Relationship.--Compare: Stovain (an analgesic, a vasomotor
dilator). Antidote to disagreeable effects occasionally resulting
from injection of cocaine into skin or gums, drop doses of
nitroglycer. 1 % sol.
Dose.--Lower potencies. As a local application to mucous
membranes, 2-4 %.
COCCULUS INDICUS
Indian Cockle
(COCCULUS)
Within the sphere of action of Cocculus are many spasmodic
and paretic affections, notably those affecting one-half of the
body. Affects the cerebrum, will not cure convulsive seizures
proceeding from the spinal cord (A. E. Hinsdale) Painful
contracture of limbs and trunk; tetanus. Many of the evil effects
of night-watching are relieved by it. It shows a special, attraction
for light-haired females, especially during pregnancy, causing
much nausea and backache. Unmarried and childless women,
sensitive and romantic girls, etc. All its symptoms are worse
riding in a carriage or on shipboard; hence its use in seasickness.
Sensation of hollowness, or emptiness, as if parts had gone to
sleep. Feels too weak to talk loud.
Mind.--Capricious. Heavy and stupid. Time passes too quickly;
absorbed in reveries. Inclination to sing irresistible. Slow of
comprehension. Mind benumbed. Profound sadness. Cannot
bear contradiction. Speaks hastily. Very anxious about the health
of others.
Head.--Vertigo, nausea, especially when riding or sitting up.
Sense of emptiness in head. Headache in occiput and nape;
worse, lying on back of head. Sick headache from carriage
riding, cannot lie on back part of head. Pupils contracted.
Opening and shutting sensation, especially in occiput.
Trembling of head. Pain in eyes as if torn out of head.
Face.--Paralysis of facial nerve. Cramp-like pain in masseter
muscle; worse, opening mouth. Prosopalgia in afternoon, with
wide radiations of pain.
Stomach.--Nausea from riding in cars, boat, etc, or looking at
boat in motion; worse on becoming cold or taking cold. Nausea,
with faintness and vomiting. Aversion to food, drink, tobacco.
Metallic taste. Paralysis of muscles preventing deglutition.
Dryness of œsophagus. Seasickness (Resorcin. 1x). Cramp, in
stomach during and after meal. Hiccough and spasmodic
yawning. Loss of appetite. Desire for cold drinks, especially
beer. Sensation in stomach as if one had been a long time
without food until hunger was gone. Smell of food disgusts
(Colch).
Abdomen.--Distended, with wind, and feeling as if full of sharp
stones when moving; better, lying on one side or the other. Pain
in abdominal ring, as if something were forced through.
Abdominal muscles weak; it seems as if a hernia would take
place.
Female.--Dysmenorrhœa, with profuse dark menses. Too early
menses, clotted, with spasmodic colic. Painful pressing in
uterine region, followed by hæmorrhoids. Purulent, gushing
leucorrhœa between menses; very weakening, can scarcely
speak. So weak during menstruation, scarcely able to stand.
Respiratory.--Sensation of emptiness and cramp in chest.
Dyspnœa as from constriction of trachea, as if irritated by
smoke. Choking constriction in upper part of œsophagus,
oppressing breathing and inducing cough.
Back.--Cracking of cervical vertebræ when moving head.
Paralytic pain in small of the back. Pain in shoulder and arms
as if bruised. Pressure in scapula and nape. Stiffness on moving
shoulders.
Extremities.--Lameness; worse by bending. Trembling and pain
in limbs. Arms go to sleep. One-sided paralysis; worse after
sleep. Hands are alternately hot and cold; numbness and cold
sweat now of one, now of the other hand. Numb and unsteady.
Knees crack on motion. Lower limbs very weak. Inflammatory
swelling of knee. Intensely painful, paralytic drawing. Limbs
straightened out, painful when flexed.
Sleep.--Spasmodic yawning. Coma vigil. Constant drowsiness.
After loss of sleep, night-watching, nursing.
Fever.--Chill, with flatulent colic, nausea, vertigo, coldness of
lower extremities, and heat of head. Sweat general. Nervous
form of low fever. Chilliness, with perspiration, and heat of
skin.
Modalities.--Worse, eating, after loss of sleep, open air,
smoking, riding, swimming, touch, noise, jar; afternoon.
Menstrual period. After emotional disturbance.
Relationship.--Antidotes:; Coffee; Nux.
Compare: Picrotoxin-alkaloid of Cocculus--(epilepsy, attacks in
the morning on leaving horizontal position, hernia, locomotor
ataxia, night-sweats); Symphoricarpus (morning sickness);
Petrol; Puls; Ignat.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA
Lady Bug
This remedy ought to be remembered in neuralgias, teeth, gums,
mouth, etc. Is awakened by profuse accumulation of saliva.
Uvula feels too long. Symptoms of hydrophobia; worse, by any
bright object.
Head.--Pain in forehead over right eye, sensitive to touch; from
superior molars to forehead. Aching in temples and occiput.
Rush of blood to face. Throbbing toothache. Cold sensation in
teeth and mouth (Cistus). Periodical attacks of frontal neuralgia.
Cannot open eyes during paroxysm. Pain worse from any bright
object; better, sleep.
Stomach.-- Hiccough and burning in stomach.
Back.--Pain in region of kidneys and loins. Icy cold extremities.
Relationship.--Compare: Canth; Magn c.
Dose.--Third potency.
COCHLEARIA ARMORACIA
Horse-radish
(ARMORACIA SATIVA)
Frontal bone and sinus, antrum and salivary glands are
specifically affected by this drug. Bloated sensation. Raises vital
forces. Used as a gargle in scorbutic gums and sore throat.
Hoarseness and in relaxed conditions of the fauces. Internally in
gonorrhœa. Useful as a condiment in enfeebled states of the
stomach. An infusion of the root in cider, for dropsy, causes
copious diuresis. Locally cures dandruff.
Head.--Thinking is difficult. Anxiety, driven to despair by pain.
Pressing, boring pain as if frontal bone would fall out. Violent
headache with vomiting. Impaired hearing.
Eyes.--Sore and scrofulous; traumatic inflammation of eyes,
blearedness and cataract. Copious running from eyes.
Stomach.--Pain towards back; worse, pressure on dorsal
vertebræ. Belching and cramps. Colic with backache. Violent
cramp from stomach through both sides around to back. Griping
around navel.
Back.--Pain in back as from incarcerated flatulence from
abdomen through to back and down into sacrum.
Respiratory.--Dry, hacking, laryngeal cough, also post-
influenzal cough, dry or loose, worse lying down. Chest painful
to touch. Coryza, with hoarseness. Mucous asthma. Œdema of
lungs. Throat feels rough and hoarse.
Urinary.--Burning and cutting at glans penis before, during, and
after urination. Frequent urination.
Modalities.--Worse evening and at night.
Relationship.--Compare: Cannab; Sinapis; Caps.
Dose.--First to third attenuation.
CODEINUM
An Alkaloid from Opium
Trembling of whole body. Involuntary twitching of muscles of
arms and lower limbs. Itching, with feeling of warmth,
numbness and prickling. Diabetes.
Head.--Pain from occiput to back of neck. Skin of face and
scalp sore after neuralgia.
Eyes.--Involuntary twitching of lids (Agar).
Stomach.--Spasmodic pain at pit of stomach. Eructations. Great
thirst, with desire for bitter substances.
Respiratory.--Short and irritating cough; worse, at night.
Copious, purulent expectoration. Night cough of phthisis.
Relationship.--Compare: Opium; Agaricus; Hyoscy; Ammon
brom.
Dose.--One-quarter of a grain doses to third trituration.
 COFFEA CRUDA
Unroasted Coffee
Stimulates the functional activity of all organs, increasing the
nervous and vascular activity. The drinking of coffee by the
aged is likely to increase production of uric acid, causing
irritation of kidneys; muscle and joint pains, and with the
increased susceptibility of old people to the stimulating action of
coffee and tea, their use should be curtailed or carefully
watched. Great nervous agitation and restlessness. Extreme
sensitiveness characterizes this remedy. Neuralgia in various
parts; always with great nervous excitability and intolerance of
pain, driving to despair. Unusual activity of mind and body. Bad
effects of sudden emotions, surprises, joy, etc. Nervous
palpitation. Coffea is specially suited to tall, lean, stooping
persons with dark complexions, temperament choleric and
sanguine. Skin hypersensitive.
Mind.--Gaiety, easy comprehension, irritability, excited; senses
acute. Impressionable, especially to pleasurable impressions.
Full of ideas, quick to act. Tossing about in anguish (Acon).
Head.--Tight pain, worse from noise, smell, narcotics. Seems as
if brain were torn to pieces, as if nail were driven in head.
Worse in open air. Sensitive hearing.
Face.--Dry heat, with red cheeks. Prosopalgia extending to
molar teeth, ears, forehead, and scalp.
Mouth.--Toothache; temporarily relieved by holding ice-water
in the mouth (Mangan opposite). Hasty eating and drinking.
Delicate taste.
Stomach.--Excessive hunger. Intolerance of tight clothing. After
wine and liquor.
Female.--Menses too early and long lasting. Dysmenorrhśa,
large clots of black blood. Hypersensitive vulva and vagina.
Voluptuous itching.
Sleep.--Wakeful; on a constant move. Sleeps till 3 am, after
which only dozing. Wakes with a start, sleep disturbed by
dreams. Sleepless, on account mental activity; flow of ideas,
with nervous excitability. Disturbed by itching of anus.
Respiratory.--Short, dry cough of measles in nervous, delicate
children.
Heart.--Violent irregular palpitation especially after excessive
joy or surprise. Rapid high tension pulse and urinary
suppression.
Extremities.--Crural neuralgia; worse, motion, afternoon and
night; better, by pressure.
Modalities.--Worse, excessive emotions (joy), narcotics, strong
odors, noise, open air, cold, night. Better, warmth, from lying
down; holding ice in mouth.
Relationship.--Incompatible: Camph; Coccul. Complementary:
Acon.
Compare: Coffea tosta (Roasting develops certain vitamin-like
substances (P. T. Mattei). Pigeons which have developed
"deficiency" neuritis and paralysis on diet of polished rice lost
their disabilities on the addition of 8 cc to a 5 % infusion of
coffee to their food. Unroasted coffee was useless). Caffeine.--
(A crystalline alkaloid-is a direct heart stimulant and diuretic.
Dropsy depending on cardiac insufficiency. Myocardial
degeneration. Cardiac insufficiency in pneumonia and other
infectious diseases. Raises the blood pressure, increases pulse
rate and stimulates the heart muscle; hence, a support in extreme
feebleness or threatened failure. Stimulates the respiratory
center, nerve centers and increases diuresis. One of the best
stimulants of the vaso-motor centers. Acute pulmonary śdema.
Brachialgia and other neuralgias characterized by nocturnal
exacerbations. Jousset uses equal parts of caffeine and sachar
lac. 3 grains taken in divided doses every other day.
Hypodermically, 1/4 grain. Excruciating facial neuralgia from
decayed teeth); Acon; Cham; Nux; Cyp; Caffeine and plants
containing it, as Kola, Thea, etc.
Strong black coffee, drunk as hot as possible, is indispensable as
an antidote in a large number of poisons, especially narcotics.
Hot coffee by rectum in cases of extreme collapse.
Antidotes: Nux; Tabac.
Dose.--Third to two hundredth potency.
COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE
Meadow Saffron
(COLCHICUM)
Affects markedly the muscular tissues, periosteum, and synovial
membranes of joints. Has specific power of relieving the gouty
paroxysms. It seems to be more beneficial in chronic affections
of these parts. The parts are red, hot, swollen. Tearing pains;
worse, in the evening and at night and from touch; stubbing the
toes hurts exceedingly. There is always great prostration,
internal coldness, and tendency to collapse. Effects of night
watching and hard study. Shocks as from electricity through one
half of body. Bad effects from suppressed sweat. Dreams of
mice.
Head.--Headache chiefly frontal and temporal, but also occipital
and in nape of neck, worse afternoon and evening.
Eyes.--Pupils unequal; left pupil contracted. Variations in visual
acuity. Lachrymation worse in open air; violent tearing pain in
eyes. Dim vision after reading. Spots before eyes.
Ears.--Itching in ears; sharp, shooting pains below right tragus.
Face.--Pain in facial muscles, moving about. Tingling and
śdematous swelling; cheeks red, hot, sweaty. Very irritable with
the pains (Cham). Pain behind angle of right lower jaw.
Stomach.--Dry mouth, tongue burns, gums and teeth pain.
Thirst; pain in stomach and flatulence. The smell of food causes
nausea even to fainting, especially fish. Profuse salivary
secretion. Vomiting of mucus, bile and food; worse, any motion;
great coldness in stomach. Craving for various things, but is
averse to then when smelling them, seized them with nausea.
Gouty gastralgia. Burning or icy coldness in stomach and
abdomen. Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages. Pain in
transverse colon.
Abdomen.--Distention of abdomen, with gas, inability to stretch
out legs. Borborygmi. Pain over liver. Cćcum and ascending
colon much distended. Fullness and continuous rumbling.
Ascites.
Stool.--Painful, scanty, transparent, jelly-like mucus; pain, as if
anus were torn open, with prolapse. Autumnal dysentery; stools
contain while shreddy particles in large quantities. Ineffectual
pressing; feels feces in rectum, but cannot expel them.
Female.--Pruritus of genitals. Cold feeling in thigh after period.
Sensation of swelling in vulva and clitoris.
Urine.--Dark, scanty or suppressed; bloody, brown, black, inky;
contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar.
Heart.--Anxiety in region of heart. Impulse not felt. Pericarditis,
with severe pain, oppression and dyspnśa, pulse threadlike.
Sound of heart become weaker, pulse of low tension.
Extremities.--Sharp pain down left arm. Tearing in limbs during
warm weather, stinging during cold. Pins and needles in hands
and wrists, fingertips numb. Pain in front of thigh. Right plantar
reflex abolished. Limbs, lame, weak, tingling. Pain worse in
evening and warm weather. Joints stiff and feverish; shifting
rheumatism; pains worse at night. Inflammation of great toe,
gout in heel, cannot bear to have it touched or moved. Tingling
in the finger nails. Knees strike together, can hardly walk.
Śdematous swelling and coldness of legs and feet.
Back.--Aching in lumbar and lumbo-sacral region. Dull pain
across loins. Backache, better, rest and pressure.
Skin.--Blotchy papular rash on face. Pink spots on back, chest
and abdomen. Urticaria.
Modalities.--Worse, sundown to sunrise; motion, loss of sleep,
smell of food in evening, mental exertion. Better, stooping.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Thuja; Camph; Coccul; Nux; Puls.
Compare: Colchicine (intestinal catarrh with shreddy
membranes; convulsive jerkings of right hand; rheumatic fever,
gout, endo and pericarditis, pleurisy, arthritis, deformans in early
stages; intense pain of rheumatism 3x trit). Also, Carbo; Arnica;
Lilium; Arsen; Verat.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth attenuation.
COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS
Stone-Root
Pelvic and portal congestion, resulting hæmorrhoids and
constipation, especially in females. Depressed arterial tension,
general atony of muscular fiber. Chronic nasal, gastric, and
pharyngeal catarrh, due to portal obstruction. Dropsy from
cardiac disease. Pruritus in pregnancy, with piles. Constipation
of children from intestinal atony. Said to be of special value
when given before operations, for rectal diseases. Sense of
weight and constriction. Venous engorgement.
Head.--Dull frontal headache; from suppressed hæmorrhoids.
Chronic catarrh. Yellow-coated tongue. Bitter taste (Colocy;
Bry).
Rectum.--Sensation of sharp sticks in rectum. Sense of
constriction. Vascular engorgement of rectum. Dry feces. Most
obstinate constipation, with protruding hæmorrhoids. Aching in
anus and hypogastrium. Constipation during pregnancy; with
membranous dysmenorrhœa, following labor (Nux). Painful
bleeding piles. Dysentery, with tenesmus. Alternate constipation
and diarrhœa, and great flatulence. Itching of anus (Teucrium;
Ratanh).
Female.--Dysmenorrhœa; pruritus of vulva; prolapse of womb;
swelling and dark redness of genitals; pain on sitting down.
Membranous dysmenorrhœa, with constipation. Pruritus. Cold
feeling in thighs after menstruation. Sensation of swelling of
labia and of clitoris.
Respiratory.--Cough from excessive use of voice; "minister's
sore throat"; sharp pain in larynx. Hoarseness. Harassing, dry
cough.
Heart.--Palpitation; rapid but weak. Dropsy. After heart
symptoms relieved, piles or menses return. Chest-pains alternate
with hæmorrhoids. Oppression, faintness, and dyspnœa (Acon
ferox).
Modalities.--Worse, from the slightest mental emotion or
excitement; cold. Better, heat.
Relationship.--Antidote: Nux.
Compare: Aescul; Aloes; Hamam; Lycopus; Negundo; Sulph;
Nux.
Dose.--Tincture, to third attenuation. Higher potencies where
there is organic heart affection.
COLOCYNTHIS
Bitter Cucumber
Often indicated in the transition season when the air is cold, but
the sun is still powerful enough to heat the blood.
Develops most of its symptoms in the abdomen and head,
causing intense neuralgias. It is especially suitable for irritable
persons easily angered, and ill effects therefrom. Women with
copious menstruation, and of sedentary habits. Persons with a
tendency to corpulency. The neuralgic pains are nearly always
relieved by pressure. Cramps and twitching and shortening of
muscles. Constrictions and contractions. Cystospasm following
operations on orifices (Hyper). Urinous odor of perspiration
(Berb; Nitr ac). Agonizing pain in abdomen, causing patient to
bend double, is most characteristic. Sensations; cutting, twisting,
grinding, contracting and bruised; as if clamped with iron bands.
Mind.--Extremely irritable. Becomes angry when questioned.
Mortification caused by offense. Anger, with indignation
(Cham; Bry; Nux).
Head.--Vertigo when turning head to the left. Lateral cutting
headache, with nausea, vomiting. Pains (better pressure and
heat), with soreness of scalp. Burning pains, digging, rending,
and tearing. Frontal headache; worse, stooping, lying on back,
and moving eyelids.
Eyes.--Pains sharp, boring, better pressure. Sensation on
stooping, as if eye would fall out. Gouty affections of eyes.
Violent pain in eyeballs which precede the development of
glaucoma.
Face.--Tearing, shooting, and swelling of face; left side great
soreness. Get relief from pressure (China). Neuralgia, with
chilliness; teeth seem too long. Sounds re-echo in ears. Pain in
stomach, always with pain of teeth or head.
Stomach.--Very bitter taste. Tongue rough, as from sand, and
feels scalded. Canine hunger. Feeling in stomach as if something
would not yield; drawing pain.
Abdomen.--Agonizing cutting pain in abdomen causing patient
to end over double, and pressing on the abdomen. Sensation as if
stones were being ground together in the abdomen, and would
burst. Intestines feel as if bruised. Colic with cramps in calves.
Cutting in abdomen, especially after anger. Each paroxysm is
attended with general agitation and a chill over the cheeks,
ascending from the hypogastrium. Pain in small spot below
navel. Dysenteric stool renewed each time by the least food or
drink. Jelly-likestools. Musty odor. Distention.
Female.--Boring pain in ovary. Must draw up double, with great
restlessness. Round, small cystic tumors in ovaries or broad
ligaments. Wants abdomen supported by pressure. Bearing-
down cramps, causing her to bend double (Opium).
Urine.--Intense burning along urethra during stool. Vesical
catarrh, discharge like fresh white of egg. Viscid (Phos acid)
fetid; small quantities, with frequent urging. Itching at orifice.
Red, hard crystals, adhering firmly to vessel. Tenesmus of
bladder. Pains on urinating over whole abdomen.
Extremities.--Contraction of muscles. All the limbs are drawn
together. Pain in right deltoid (Guaco). Cramp-like pain in hip;
lies on affected side; pain from hip to knee. Spontaneous
luxation of the hip-joints. Stiffness of joints and shortening of
tendons. Sciatic pain, left side, drawing, tearing; better, pressure
and heat; worse, gentle touch. Contraction of the muscles. Pain
down right thigh; muscles and tendons feel too short; numbness
with pains (Gnaphal). Pain in left knee joint.
Modalities.--Worse, from anger and indignation. Better,
doubling up, hard pressure, warmth, lying with head bent
forward.
Relationship.--Antidote: Coffea; Staphis; Cham. Colocynth is
the best antidote to lead poisoning (Royal).
Compare: Lobelia erinus (violent cork-screw-like pains in
abdomen). Dipodium punctatum (Writhing. Twisting like a
dying snake. Intractable insomnia). Dioscor; Chamom; Coccul;
Merc; Plum; Magn phos.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
CONIUM MACULATUM
Poison Hemlock
(CONIUM)
An old remedy, rendered classical by Plato's graphic description
of its employment in the death of Socrates. The ascending
paralysis it produces, ending in death by failure of respiration,
shows the ultimate tendency of many symptoms produced in the
provings, for which Conium is an excellent remedy, such as
difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength while walking,
painful stiffness of legs. etc. Such a condition is often found in
old age, a time of weakness, languor, local congestions, and
sluggishness. This is the special environment that Conium
choose to manifest its action. It corresponds to the debility,
hypochondriasis, urinary troubles, weakened memory, sexual
debility found here. Trouble at the change of life, old and
bachelors. Growth of tumors invite it also. General feeling as if
bruised by blows. Great debility in the morning in bed.
Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation.
Cancerous diathesis. Arterio-sclerosis. Caries of sternum.
Enlarged glands. Acts on the glandular system, engorging and
indurating it, altering its structure like scrofulous and cancerous
conditions. Tonic after grippe. Insomnia of multiple neuritis.
Mind.--Excitement causes mental depression. Depressed, timid,
averse to society, and afraid of being alone. No inclination for
business or study; takes no interest in anything. Memory weak;
unable to sustain 'any mental effort.
Head.--Vertigo, when lying down, and when turning over in
bed, when turning head sidewise, or turning eyes; worse,
shaking head, slight noise or conversation of others, especially
towards the left. Headache, stupefying, with nausea and
vomiting of mucus, with a feeling as of foreign body under the
skull. Scorched feeling on top. Tightness as if both temples were
compressed; worse after a meal. (Gels.; Atropine.) Bruised,
semilateral pains. Dull occipital pain on rising in morning.
Eyes.--Photophobia and excessive lachrymation. Corneal
pustules. Dim-sighted; worse, artificial light. On closing eyes, he
sweats. Paralysis of ocular muscles. (Caust.) In superficial
inflammations, as in phlyctenular conjunctivitis and keratitis.
The slightest ulceration or abrasion will cause the intensest
photophobia.
Ears.--Defective hearing; discharge from ear blood colored.
Nose.--Bleeds easily-becomes sore. Polypus.
Stomach.--Soreness about the root of tongue. Terrible nausea,
acrid heartburn and acid eructations; worse on going to bed.
Painful spasms of the stomach. Amelioration from eating and
aggravation a few hours after meals; acidity and burning; painful
spot the level of the sternum.
Abdomen.--Severe aching in and around the liver. Chronic
jaundice, and pains in right hypochondrium. Sensitive, bruised,
swollen, knife-like pains. Painful tightness.
Stool.--Frequent urging; hard, with tenesmus. Tremulous
weakness after every stool. (Verat.; Ars.; Arg. n.) Heat and
burning in rectum during stool.
Urine.--Much difficulty in voiding. It flows and stops again.
(Ledum.) Interrupted discharge. (Clematis.) Dribbling in old
men. (Copaiva.)
Male.--Desire increased; power decreased. Sexual nervousness,
with feeble erection. Effects of suppressed sexual appetite.
Testicles hard and enlarged.
Female.--Dysmenorrhśa, with drawing-down thighs. Mammć
lax and shrunken, hard, painful to touch. Stitches in nipples.
Wants to press breast hard with hand. Menses delayed and
scanty; parts sensitive. Breasts enlarge and become painful
before and during menses. (Calc. c.; Lac can.) Rash before
menses. Itching around pudenda. Unready conception.
Induration of os and cervix. Ovaritis; ovary enlarged, indurated;
lancinating pain. Ill effects of repressed sexual desire or
suppressed menses, or from excessive indulgence. Leucorrhśa
after micturition.
Respiratory.--Dry cough, almost continuous, hacking; worse,
evening and at night; caused by dry spot in larynx with itching
in chest and throat, when lying down, talking or laughing, and
during pregnancy. Expectoration only after long coughing. Want
of breath on taking the least exercise; oppressed breathing,
constriction of chest; pains in chest.
Back.--Dorsal pain between shoulders. Ill effects of bruises and
shocks to spine. Coccyodynia. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral
region.
Extremities.--Heavy, weary, paralyzed; trembling; bands
unsteady; fingers and toes numb. Muscular weakness, especially
of lower extremities. Perspiration of hands. Putting feet on
chair relieves pain.
Skin.--Axillary glands pain, with numb feeling down arm.
Induration after contusions. Yellow skin, with papular eruption;
yellow finger-nails. Glands enlarged and indurated, also
mesenteric. Flying stitches through the glands. Tumors, piercing
pains; worse, at night. Chronic ulcers with fetid discharge. Sweat
as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing eyes. Night and
morning sweat, with offensive odor, and smarting in skin.
Modalities.--Worse, lying down, turning or rising in bed;
celibacy; before and during menses, from taking cold, bodily or
mental exertion. Better, while fasting, in the dark, from letting
limbs hang down, motion and pressure.
Relationship.--Compare: Scirrhinum-Cancer nosode-
(cancerous diathesis; enlarged glands; cancer of breast; worms);
Baryt.; Hydrast.; Iod.; Kali phos.; Hyos.; Curare.
Dose.--Best in higher potencies given infrequently, especially
for growths, paretic states, etc. Otherwise sixth to thirtieth.
COMOCLADIA DENTATA
Guao
Important eye and skin symptoms. Affections of antrum. Sacro-
iliac and abdominal pain. Throbbing pains worse by heat. Pain
in joints and ankles.
Eyes.--Ciliary neuralgia with eyes feeling large and protruded,
especially right. Worse, near warm stove; feels as if pressed
outward. Sees only glimmer of light with left eye. Glaucoma,
sense of fullness; eyeball feels too large. Motion of eyes
aggravates.
Face.--Swollen, with eyes projecting.
Skin.--Itches, red and pimples. Redness all over, like scarlatina.
Erysipelas. Deep ulcers, with hard edges. Leprosy. Red stripes
on skin (Euphorb). Eczema (papular) of the trunk and
extremities; also pustular type.
Chest.--Acute pain in left mammary gland. Pain from right side
of chest down arm to fingers. Cough with pain under left breast,
going through to left scapula.
Modalities.--Better, open air, scratching; by motion. Worse,
touch, warmth, rest; night.
Relationship.--Compare: Rhus; Anacard; Euphorb.
Dose.--First to thirtieth potency.
CONVALLARIA MAJALIS
Lily of the Valley
A heart remedy. Increases energy of hearts' action, renders it
more regular. Of use when the ventricles are overdistended and
dilatation begins, and when there is an absence of compensatory
hypertrophy, and when venous stasis is marked. Dyspnœa,
dropsy, aneuric tendency. Anasarca.
Mind and Head.--Dull intellect. Grieves easily. Dull headache;
worse, ascending, hawking. Scalp sensitive. Irritability.
Hysterical manifestations.
Face.--Hydroa in nose and lips; raw and sore. Epistaxis. Sees
imaginary gray spot about three inches square.
Mouth.--Grating of teeth in the morning. Coppery taste. Tongue
feels sore and scalded; broad and thick with heavy, dirty coating.
Throat.--Raw feeling in back of throat when inspiring.
Abdomen.--Sensitive. Clothes feel too tight. Gurgling and pain
on taking deep breath. Movement in abdomen like fist of a child.
Colicky pains.
Urinary Organs.--Aching in bladder; feels distended. Frequent
urination; offensive; scanty urine.
Female.--Great soreness in uterine region, with sympathetic
palpitation of heart. Pain in sacro-iliac joints, running down leg.
Itching at urinary meatus and vaginal orifice.
Respiratory.--Pulmonary congestion. Orthopnea. Dyspnœa
while walking. Hot feeling in throat.
Heart.--Feeling as if heart beat throughout the chest.
Endocarditis, with extreme orthopnea. Sensation as if heart
ceased beating, then starting very suddenly. Palpitation from the
least exertion. Tobacco heart, especially when due to cigarettes.
Angina pectoris. Extremely rapid and irregular pulse.
Back and Extremities.--Pain and aching in lumbar region;
aching of legs; in big toe. Trembling of hands. Aching in wrists
and ankles.
Fever.--Chilly in back and down spine, followed by fever, little
sweat. Thirst and headache during chill. Dyspnœa during fever.
Relationship.--Compare: Digit; Crataeg; Lilium; Adonis (feeble
heart action due only to functional disturbance).
Modalities.--Better, in open air. Worse, in warm room.
Dose.--Third attenuation, and for symptoms of heart failure,
tincture, one to fifteen drops.
COPAIVA OFFICINALIS
Balsam of Copaiva
(COPAIVA)
Acts powerfully on mucous membranes, especially that of the
urinary tract, the respiratory organs, and the skin, here producing
a well-marked nettle-rash. Cold and catarrhs.
Head.--Excessive sensitiveness; pain in occiput. Dull, frontal
headache, passes to occiput and back again, with throbbing,
worse right side and motion. Scalp sensitive. Sensitive to sharp
sounds.
Nose.--Rawness and soreness of nostrils with stopped-up
feeling; dryness of posterior nares. Profuse, thick, fetid
discharge from nasal passages, running down throat at night.
Burning and dryness, crusts on turbinated bones. Marked
catarrhal condition in upper respiratory tract.
Stomach.--Food seems too salty. Gastric troubles during
menstruation or following urticaria. Gas and intestinal
flatulence, urging to stool and difficult passage with pain.
Urinary.--Burning pressure; painful micturition by drops.
Retention, with pain in bladder, anus, and rectum. Catarrh of
bladder; dysuria. Swelling of orifice. Constant desire to urinate.
Urine smells of violets. Greenish, turbid color; peculiar pungent
odor.
Rectum.--Mucous Colitis. Stools covered with mucus, with
colic and chilliness. Burning and itching of anus, caused by
piles.
Male.--Testicles sensitive and swollen.
Female.--Itching of vulva and anus, with bloody purulent
discharge. Profuse, strong-smelling menstrual discharge, with
pains radiating to hip bones, with nausea.
Respiratory.--Cough, with profuse, gray, purulent
expectoration. Tickling in larynx, trachea, and bronchi.
Bronchial catarrh, with profuse greenish, offensive discharge.
Skin.--Hives, with fever and constipation. Roseola.
Erysipelatous inflammation, especially around abdomen.
Circumscribed lenticular patches, with itching; mottled
appearance. Chronic urticaria in children. Bullous eruptions.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Bell; Merc.
Compare: Santalum--(aching in kidneys); Cannab; Canth;
Barosma; Cubeb; Apis; Vespa; Erig; Senecio; Sepia.
Dose.--First to third attenuation.
CORALLIUM RUBRUM
Red Coral
(CORALLIUM)
The provings of coral develop much coryza and epistaxis, and
even ulceration within the nostrils. It is to be thought of for
whooping and spasmodic coughs, especially when the attack
comes on with a very rapid cough, and the attacks follow so
closely as to almost run into each other. Often preceded by
sensation of smothering, followed by exhaustion. Congestion of
face after dinner. Patient becomes purple in face. Violence of
paroxysm, even with expectoration of blood. Feeling as if cold
air were streaming through skull and air-passages. One is too
cold when uncovered and too hot when covered; relieved by
artificial heat.
Head.--Feels very large; violent pain as if parietal bones were
forced apart; worse stooping. Eyes hot and painful. Deep-seated
frontal headache with severe pain back of eyeballs. Pain
aggravated by breathing cold air through nose.
Nose.--Odors of smoke, onions, etc. Painful ulcer in nostrils.
Post-nasal catarrh. Profuse secretion of mucus dropping
through posterior nares; air feels cold. Dry coryza; nose stopped
up and ulcerated. Epistaxis.
Mouth.--Food tastes like sawdust. Bread tastes like straw. Beer
tastes sweet. Pain in articulation of left lower jaw. Craves salt.
Respiratory.--Hawking of profuse mucus. Throat very
sensitive, especially to air. Profuse, nasal catarrh. Inspired air
feels cold (Cistus). Profuse secretion of mucus dropping through
posterior nares. Dry, spasmodic, suffocative cough; very rapid
cough, short, barking. Cough with great sensitiveness of air-
passages; feel cold on deep inspiration. Continuous hysterical
cough. Feels suffocated and greatly exhausted after whooping-
cough.
Male.--Ulcers on glans and inner prepuce, with yellow ichor.
Emissions and weakened sexual power. Profuse perspiration of
genitals.
Skin.--Red, flat ulcers. Coral-colored, then dark red spots,
changing to copper-colored spots. Psoriasis of palms and soles.
Modalities.--Worse in open air, changing from a warm too cold
room.
Relationship.--Complementary: Sulph.
Compare: Bellad; Droser; Mephit; Caust.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth attenuation.
CORALLORHIZA ODONTORHIZA
Crawley Root
(CORALLORHIZA)
Hectic fever, coming on 9 to 10 am, and lasting till midnight.
Intensely nervous and restless, burning of palms and soles; no
thirst, chill or perspiration. Can bear only slightest covering.
CORNUS CIRCINATA
Round-leaved Dogwood
Chronic malaria, hepatitis, jaundice. Weakness in morning. Pain
in pit of stomach, with distended abdomen. Vesicular eruption
associated with chronic liver disease or aphthous stomatitis.
Mouth.--Ulceration of tongue, gums and mouth; aphthć.
Burning in mouth, throat and stomach.
Stool.--Loose, windy, dark stool, immediately after dinner.
Burning in anus. Dark, bilious, offensive diarrhśa, with sallow
complexion.
Skin.--Vesicular eczema of face in infants, with nursing sore
mouth.
Relationship.--Compare: Cornus alternifolia-Swamp Walnut--
(Weak and tired; disturbed sleep, fever, restlessness, eczema;
skin cracked; chest feels cold, as if full of ice); Cornus florida
(chronic malaria; indigestion and distressing acid heartburn;
general debility from loss of fluids and night sweats; neuralgic
pains in arms, chest, and trunk, and sensation as if broken in
two; intermittent fever, with drowsiness; feels cold, but is warm
to touch; great exhaustion in intervals; general clammy sweat.
Chill is preceded by drowsiness, heat is associated with
drowsiness. Headache after quinine).
Dose.--Tincture to sixth attenuation.
CORYDALIS FORMOSA
Turkey-pea
(CORYDALIS - DICENTRA CANADENSIS)
Syphilitic affections. Ulcers of mouth and fauces. Cancer
cachexia pronounced. Gummata and night-pains. Chronic
diseases, with atony. Tongue clean, broad, and full. Tissues
flabby, doughy, cold. Gastric catarrh (Hydrast).
Skin.--Dry, scaly scabs on face of old people. Lymphatic glands
swollen.
Relationship.--Nit ac; Kali iod; Fluor ac.
Dose.--Tincture, twenty drops three times a day.
COTYLEDON UMBILICUS
Pennywort
(COTYLEDON)
Marked action on heart; oppression of chest; fullness in throat.
Epilepsy. Numb aching in muscular and fibrous tissue. Sciatica.
Well-marked pains through the breast to scapula. Catarrh of
larynx and trachea. Hysterical joint.
Mind.--Lost, confused feeling. Could not articulate for some
time on awaking. Pressing vertex headache. Ailments from
suppressed emotion. Feeling as if a part of the body were
absent.
Breast.--Pain under left nipple, and aching in right breast. Pain
through to scapula from region of left breast. Pain at angles of
scapulć. Full, bursting feeling, as if from obstruction at heart.
Choking fullness in throat. Breathing oppressed.
Extremities.--Aching in back and thighs. Aching in all joints.
Skin sensitive, rubbing of trousers causes an acute sting. Legs
and arms feel heavy and sore.
Relationship.--Compare: Ambra; Asafoet; Hepatica; Ignatia;
Laches.
Dose.--Tincture to third potency.
CRATAEGUS OXYACANTHA
Hawthorn Berries
(CRATAEGUS)
Produces giddiness, lowered pulse, and air hunger and reduction
in blood-pressure. Acts on muscle of heart, and is a heart tonic.
No influence on the endocardium.
Myocarditis. Failing compensation. Irregularity of heart.
Insomnia of aortic sufferers; anćmia; śdema; cutaneous
chilliness. High arterial tension. Is a sedative in cross, irritable
patients with cardiac symptoms.
Chronic heart disease, with extreme weakness. Very feeble and
irregular heart action. General anasarca. Very nervous, with pain
in back of head and neck. Collapse of typhoid. Hćmorrhage
from bowels. Cold extremities, pallor; irregular pulse and
breathing. Painful sensation of pressure in left side of chest
below the clavicle. Dyspepsia and nervous prostration, with
heart failure. In the beginning of heart mischief after
rheumatism. Arteriosclerosis. Said to have a solvent power upon
crustaceous and calcareous deposits in arteries.
Head.--Apprehensive, despondent. Very nervous and irritable,
with pain in back of head and neck. Mental dullness
conjunctival irritation nasal discharges.
Urinary.--Diabetes, especially in children.
Heart.--Cardiac dropsy. Fatty degeneration. Aortic disease.
Extreme dyspnśa on least exertion, without much increase of
pulse. Pain in region of heart and under left clavicle. Heart
muscles seem flabby, worn out. Cough. Heart dilated; first
sound weak. Pulse accelerated, irregular, feeble, intermittent.
Valvular murmurs, angina pectoris. Cutaneous chilliness,
blueness of fingers and toes; all aggravated by exertion or
excitement. Sustains heart in infectious diseases.
Skin.--Excessive perspiration. Skin eruptions.
Sleep.--Insomnia of aortic patients.
Modalities.--Worse, in warm room. Better, fresh air, quiet and
rest.
Relationship.--Strophantus; Digit; Iberis; Naja; Cactus.
Dose.--Fluid extract or tincture, one to fifteen drops. Must be
used for some time in order to obtain good results.
CROCUS SATIVUS
Saffron
(CROCUS SATIA)
Is a remedy often useful in hćmorrhages that are black and
stringy. Tingling in various parts. Chorea and hysterical
affections. Frequent and extreme changes in sensations and
mental conditions. Anger with violence followed by repentance,
Laughing mania. Drowsiness and lassitude; better by literary
labor.
Mind.--Vacillating; pleasant mania; sings and laughs. Happy
and affectionate; then angry. Sudden changes from hilarity to
melancholy. Vivid recollection from music heard (Lyc).
Head.--Throbs, pulsates, during climacteric; worse during
menses.
Eyes.--Appearance as of electric sparks. Must wipe eyes as if
mucus or water were in them. Feeling in eyes as after violent
weeping. Sensation as if she had been looking through too sharp
spectacles. Eyes feel as if in smoke. Pupils enlarged and react
slowly. Lids heavy. Ciliary neuralgia, pain from eyes to top of
head. Sensation as if cold air was rushing through eye (Fluor
ac; Syph). Asthenopia with extreme photophobia. Threatened
glaucoma; embolism of arteria centralis retinal.
Nose.--Epistaxis. Dark, stringy, clotted. Strings of dark blood
hanging down the nose.
Abdomen.--Obstinate constipation due to portal stagnation.
Constipation in infants. Crawling and stitches in anus. Sensation
of something alive in abdomen, stomach, etc., especially on left
side (Calend). Abdomen swollen, feeling of something heavy.
Female.--Threatened abortion, especially when hćmorrhage is
dark and stringy. Urging of blood to genitals. Menses dark,
viscid, too frequent and copious, black and slimy. Uterine
hćmorrhage; clots with long strings; worse from least
movement. Jerking pain in interior of left breast, as if drawn
toward back by means of thread (Crot tig). A bounding feeling,
as if something alive in right breast.
Respiratory.--Wheezy cough, with frothy expectoration,
containing threads like fine twine; worse, lying down. Breath
has offensive, sickly smell. Feeling as if the uvula is elongated
in hysterical patients.
Back.--Sudden feeling of coldness in back as if cold water were
thrown over him; icy-cold extremities.
Extremities.--Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single
set of muscles. Chorea and hysteria, with great alterations of
feeling. Whole upper extremity fall asleep. Cracking in hip-joint
and knees. Weakness in knees and legs. Pain in ankles and soles.
Modalities.--Worse, lying down, hot weather, warm room, in
morning, fasting, before breakfast, looking fixedly at an object.
Better, in open air.
Relationship.--Antidote: Opium; Bell.
Compare: Ipec; Trillium; Plat; China; Sabina.
Dose.--Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation.
CROTALUS HORRIDUS
Rattlesnake
Snake poisons are supposed to be chemically Cyan hydrates of
Soda and other salts. Alcohol is the natural solvent of these salts
and is an antidote. Has a profound trophic action. Old age
nutritional troubles.
Low septic states. General disorganization of the blood,
hćmorrhages and jaundice. A crotalin injection decreases the
rate of coagulation of the blood. In epilepsy the average rate is
far greater than in normal conditions. Blood decomposition,
hćmorrhages (dark fluid that forms no clots), tendency to
carbuncles, malignant scarlatina, yellow fever, the plague,
cholera, give opportunity to use this remedy. Hćmorrhagic
diathesis. Acts as a sedative. Sleeps into his symptoms. More
right-sided in its action.
Mind.--Weeping mood; clouded perception and memory;
impatient. Loquacious, with desire to escape. Sadness.
Delusions of cerebral decay.
Head.--Vertigo, with weakness and trembling. Dull heavy
occipital pain, on right side and right eye. Headache with pain in
heart on lying on left side. Headache; must walk on tip-toe to
avoid jarring.
Eyes.--Very sensitive to light, especially lamp light. Yellow
color of eyes. Illusions; blue colors. Ciliary neuralgia; tearing,
boring pain, as if a cut had been made around eye. For
absorption of intra-ocular hćmorrhages, into the vitreous, but
particularly for non-inflammatory retinal hćmorrhages.
Diplobia.
Ears.--Auditory vertigo. Blood oozes from ears. Feeling of
stoppage in right ear.
Nose.--Epistaxis, blood black and stringy, ozćna, after
exanthemata or syphilis.
Face.--Acne. Lips swollen and numb. Leaden-colored and
yellow face. Lockjaw.
Mouth.--Tongue red and small, but feels swollen. Tongue fiery
red, dry in center, smooth and polished. Moldy smell of breath.
Fills up with saliva. Tongue when protruding, goes to right.
Spasmodic grinding of teeth at night. Cancer of tongue with
hćmorrhage.
Throat.--Dry, swollen, dark red. Spasm of śsophagus; cannot
swallow any solid substance. Tight constriction. Gangrenous,
with much swelling.
Stomach.--Intolerance of clothing around stomach. Unable to
retain anything; violent vomiting of food; bilious vomiting,
vomiting of blood. Constant nausea and vomiting every month,
after menstruation. Cannot lie on right side, without vomiting
dark-green matter. Black or coffee-grounds vomiting. Cancer of
stomach with vomiting of bloody, slimy mucus. Trembling,
fluttering feeling below the epigastrium. Intolerance of clothing
about epigastrium. Faintness and sinking at stomach. Ulceration
of the stomach. Atonic dyspepsia. Gastritis in chronic
alcoholism. Hungry, craves stimulants, sugar; averse to meat.
Abdomen.--Distended, hot, and tender. Pain in region of liver.
Stool.--Black, thin, offensive, like coffee-grounds. Intestinal
hćmorrhage; blood dark, fluid, non-coagulable. Blood oozes
from rectum when standing or walking.
Female.--Prolonged menses. Dysmenorrhśa; pain extends down
thighs, with aching in region of heart. Uterine hćmorrhage with
faintness at stomach. Puerperal fever; offensive lochia.
Phlegmasia alba dolens. Sensation as though uterus would drop
out. Painful drawing in uterine ligaments. Cannot keep legs still.
Urinary.--Dark, bloody urine. Casts. Inflamed kidney.
Albuminous, dark, scanty (Merc cor).
Heart.--Action feeble, pulse tremulous. Palpitation, especially at
menstrual period. Trembling feeling of heart.
Respiratory.--Cough, with bloody expectoration. Tickling from
a dry spot in larynx.
Extremities.--Hands tremble, swollen. Lower extremities go to
sleep easily. Right-sided paralysis.
Fever.--Malignant fevers of a hćmorrhagic or putrescent
character. Low bilious remittents. Yellow fever. Bloody sweat.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis (Cicuta; Cup acet). Cold sweats.
Skin.--Swelling and discoloration, skin tense and shows every
tint of color, with excruciating pain. Vesication. Sallow. Yellow
color of the whole body. Great sensitiveness of skin of right half
of body. Purpura hćmorrhagica. Hćmorrhage from every part of
body. Bloody sweat. Chilblains, felons. Dissecting wounds.
Pustular eruptions. Insect stings. Post-vaccination eruptions. Bad
effects of vaccination. Lymphangitis and septicćmia. Boils,
carbuncles, and eruptions are surrounded by purplish, mottled
skin and śdema. Anthrax. Sore sensation relieved by pressure.
Sleep.--Dreams of the dead. Starting in sleep. Yawning.
Smothering sensation when awaking.
Modalities.--Worse, right side; open air; evening and morning;
in spring, coming on of warm weather; yearly; on awaking;
damp and wet; jar.
Relationship.--Compare: Bothrops; Naja (more nervous
phenomena); Lachesis (more markedly worse on left side);
Elaps (preferable in otorrhśa and affections of right lung);
Crotalus cascavella (thoughts and dreams of death. Paralysis of
articulation, embarrassed stertorous breathing and semi-
consciousness. A magnetic state is produced; cutting sensation
all around eyeball). Bungarus-Krait--(poliomyelitis).
Antidote: Lach; Alcohol. Radiant heat; camphor.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
CROTON TIGLIUM
Croton-oil Seed
Is a valuable remedy in diarrhśa, summer complaint, and skin
affections. These may alternate with each other. Feels tight all
over. It is one of the antidotes to Rhus poisoning, as is evident
from its wide and intense action upon skin and mucous surface,
causing both irritation and inflammation, with formation of
vesicles and mucous discharges. Has elective affinity for skin of
face and external genitals. Burning in the śsophagus.
Head.--Pressing pain in forehead, especially orbits.
Eyes.--Granular lids; pustules of cornea. Red and raw
appearance. Feel drawn backward. Eruptions around eyes.
Tensive pain above right orbit.
Stool.--Copious watery stools, with much urging; always
forcibly shot out, with gurgling in intestines; worse, drinking the
least quantity, or even while eating. Constant urging to stool,
followed by sudden evacuation. Swashing sensation in
intestines.
Urine.--Night urine foaming; dark orange color; turbid on
standing; greasy particles floating on top. Day urine is pale, with
white sediment.
Chest.--Drawing-pain through the left chest into the back.
Asthma, with cough; cannot expand the chest. Nursing women;
every suck the child gives produces pain from nipple back.
Inflamed breasts. Cough; as soon as he touches the pillow must
get up. Sensitive to deep breathing.
Skin.--Feels hide-bound. Intense itching; but scratching is
painful. Pustular eruption, especially on face and genitals, with
fearful itching, followed by painful burning. Vesicles; confluent
oozing. Vesicular erysipelas, itching exceedingly. Herpes zoster;
stinging, smarting pains of the eruption.
Modalities.--Worse, least food or drink; during summer; touch,
night and morning, washing.
Relationship.--Compare: Momordica charantia-Hairy Mordica-
-(has marked drastic properties, producing colic, nausea,
vomiting, cholera-like symptoms, abdomen seems full of fluid
discharged explosively, thin, watery, yellow. Great thirst). Rhus;
Anagallis; Anacard; Sepia.
Antidote: Ant tart.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
CUBEBA OFFICINALIS
Cubebs
(CUBEBA)
Mucous membranes generally, but especially that of the urinary
tract, are chiefly affected by this remedy. Frequent urination of a
nervous origin. Leucorrhśa in little girls.
Urine.--Urethritis, with much mucus, especially in women.
Cutting after urination, with constriction. Hćmaturia. Prostatitis,
with thick yellow discharge. Cystitis.
Respiratory.--Catarrh of nose and throat, with fetid odor and
expectoration. Mucus trickles from posterior nares. Rawness of
throat and hoarseness.
Relationship.--Compare: Cucurbita; Copaiva; Piper meth;
Sandal.
Dose.--Second and third attenuation.
CUCURBITA CITRULLUS
Seeds of Watermelon
Infusion for painful urination with sense of constriction and
backache.
CUCURBITA PEPO
Pumpkin Seed
Intense nausea immediately after eating. Vomiting of pregnancy.
Seasickness. One of the most efficient and least harmful of
teniafuges.
Relationship.--Compare: Filix; Cuprum oxid nig.
Dose.--Tincture. The seeds are a valuable remedy for tapeworm.
Scald the seeds and peel off the outer skins when softened, the
green inner pulp being the part used. Dose: two ounces of seed,
yielding one of pulp. May be mixed with cream and taken like
porridge. Take-in morning after twelve hours' fasting, and
follow in two hours by castor oil.
CUNDURANGO
Condor Plant
(CONDURANGO)
Stimulates the digestive functions and thus improves the general
health. Allays the pain in gastralgia accompanying cancer of
stomach. Modifies secretions of digestive glands. Varicose
ulcers. Lupus.
Painful cracks in corner of mouth is a guiding symptom of this
drug. Chronic gastric catarrh, syphilis, and cancer. Tumors;
stricture of śsophagus. The active principle (Condurangin)
produces locomotor ataxia.
Stomach.--Painful affections of the stomach; ulceration.
Vomiting of food and indurations, constant burning pain.
Stricture of śsophagus, with burning pains behind sternum,
where food seems to stick. Vomiting of food, and indurations in
left hypochondrium with constant burning pain.
Skin.--Fissures form about the muco-cutaneous outlets.
Epithelioma of lips or anus. Ulcerative stage of carcinoma cutis
when fissures form.
Relationship.--Compare: Asterias; Conium; Hydrast; Arsenic.
Dose.--Tincture, or bark, 5-grain doses before meals in water.
Also the thirtieth potency, in tumors.
CUPHEA VISCOSISSIMA
Flux-weed
(CUPHEA)
Vomiting of undigested food. Cholera infantum, much acidity;
frequent green, watery, acid stools. Tenesmus and great pain.
High fever; restlessness, and sleeplessness. Obstinate
constipation.
Relationship.--Compare: Aethusa; Coto-Para-coto Bark--
(intestinal catarrh, chronic, copious, exhausting diarrhœa and
dysentery; colliquitine sweats of phthisis and chronic diarrhœa).
Typha latifolia-Cat-tail flag (diarrhœa, dysentery, summer
complaint of children. Tincture and first attenuation).
Dose.--Tincture.
CUPRUM METALLICUM
Copper
Spasmodic affections, cramps, convulsions, beginning in fingers
and toes, violent, contractive, and intermittent pain, are some of
the more marked expressions of the action of Cuprum; and its
curative range therefore includes tonic and clonic spasms,
convulsions, and epileptic attacks. Chorea brought on by fright.
Nausea greater than in any other remedy. In epilepsy, aura
begins at knees, ascends to hypogastrium; then unconsciousness,
foaming, and falling. Symptoms disposed to appear periodically
and in groups. Complaints begin in left side (Laches). Tape
worm (colloidal Cuprum 3x).
Where eruptions trike in, as in scarlet fever, complaints may
result, such as excessive vomiting, stupor, convulsions, which
come within the sphere of this remedy. The pains are increased
by movement and touch.
Head.--Fixed ideas, malicious and morose. Uses words not
intended. Fearful. Empty feeling. Purple, red swelling of head,
with convulsions. Bruised pain in brain and eyes on turning
them. Meningitis. Sensation as if water were poured over head.
Giddiness accompanies many ailments, head falls forward on
chest.
Eyes.--Aching over eyes. Fixed, stary, sunken, glistening, turned
upward. Crossed. Quick rolling of eyeballs, with closed eyes.
Face.--Distorted, pale bluish, with blue lips. Contraction of
jaws, with foam at mouth.
Nose.--Sensation of violent congestion of blood to nose
(Melilot).
Mouth.--Strong metallic, slimy taste, with flow of saliva.
Constant protrusion and retraction of the tongue, like a snake
(Lach). Paralysis of tongue. Stammering speech.
Stomach.--Hiccough preceding the spasms. Nausea. Vomiting,
relieved by drinking cold water; with colic, diarrhœa, spasms.
Strong metallic taste (Rhus). When drinking, the fluid descends
with gurgling sound (Laur). Craves cool drink.
Abdomen.--Tense, hot and tender to touch; contracted.
Neuralgia of abdominal viscera. Colic, violent and intermittent.
Intussusception.
Stool.--Black, painful, bloody, with tenesmus and weakness.
Cholera; with cramps in abdomen and calves.
Female.--Menses too late, protracted. Cramps, extending into
chest, before, during, or after suppression of menses. Also, from
suppressed foot sweats (Sil). Ebullition of blood; palpitation.
Chlorosis. After-pains.
Heart.--Angina pectoris. Slow pulse; or hard, full and quick.
Palpitation, præcordial anxiety and pain. Fatty degeneration
(Phytol).
Respiratory.--Cough as a gurgling sound, better by drinking
cold water. Suffocative attacks, worse 3 am (Am c). Spasm and
constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, alternating with
spasmodic vomiting. Whooping-cough, better, swallow water,
with vomiting and spasms and purple face. Spasm of the glottis.
Dyspnœa with epigastric uneasiness. Spasmodic dyspnœa before
menstruation. Angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps
(Clarke).
Extremities.--Jerking, twitching of muscles. Coldness of hands.
Cramps in palms. Great weariness of limbs. Cramps in calves
and soles. Epilepsy; auro begins in knees. Clenched thumbs.
Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes.
Skin.--Bluish, marbled. Ulcers, itching spots, and pimples at the
folds of joints. Chronic psoriasis and lepra (Hughes).
Sleep.--Profound, with shocks in body. During sleep constant
rumbling in abdomen.
Modalities.--Worse, before menses; from vomiting, contact.
Better, during perspiration, drinking cold water.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Bell; Hepar; Camph. Copper is found
in Dulcam, Staphisag, Conium and some other plants. Also in
King-crab (Limulus).
Complementary: Calc.
Compare: Cupr sulph (burning at vertex; incessant, spasmodic
cough; worse at night; tongue and lips bluish; locally, Cupr
sulph in 1-3 per cent sol in inoperable sarcoma). Cupr cyan
(meningitis basilaris); Cholas terrapina (cramps in calves and
feet; rheumatism, with cramp-like pains); Plumb; Nux; Veratr.
Cuprum oxydatum nigrum 1x (all kinds of worms, including
tapeworms and trichinosis according to Zopfy's 60 years'
experience).
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
CUPRUM ACETICUM
Acetate of Copper
Hay-fever, with burning excoriation, paroxysmal cough; tough,
tenacious mucus, and fear of suffocation. Protracted labor.
Chronic psoriasis and lepra.
Head.--Violent throbbing and lancinating pains in forehead.
Left-sided brow ague. Brain seems void. Inclined to gape and
cry. Loses consciousness; head reels when in high-ceiled room.
Constant protrusion and retraction of tongue (Laches). Neuralgia
with heaviness of head, burning, stinging and stitching in
temples and forehead.
Face.--Collapsed, hippocratic. Facial neuralgia in cheek-bone,
upper jaw, and behind right ear. Better by chewing, pressure,
and external warmth.
Stomach.--Violent spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen.
Vomiting. Slimy brown diarrhśa. Violent tenesmus. Cholera.
Respiratory.--Attacks of angina pectoris coming on when
excited. Violent spasmodic cough. Short, difficult respiration.
Spasmodic constriction of chest. Dyspnśa.
Skin.--Leprous-like eruption, without itching, over whole body,
in spots of various sizes.
Modalities.--Worse, mental emotions, touch. Better, chewing,
pressure, night, lying on affected side, and warmth.
Relationship.--Acts similarly to Cuprum met but is more violent
in action.
Dose.--Third to sixth trituration.
CUPRUM ARSENICOSUM
Arsenite of Copper-Scheele's Green
A remedy for symptoms depending on deficient kidney action,
various intestinal affections, cholera morbus and infantum;
entero-colitis, diarrhśa, and dysentery. Gastro-intestinal
disturbances of influenza and typhoid. Urćmic convulsions,
headache, vertigo and unconscious conditions resulting from
brain śdema. Nephritis of pregnancy. Convulsions preceded by
gastro-intestinal symptoms. Chlorosis. Bronchial asthma and
with emphysema. Purulent endocarditis (Royal). Painful
neuroses, enteroptosis. Delirium and tremor cordis.
Mouth.--Tongue thickly coated, dirty brown, white, metallic
taste; thirst. Dry mouth.
Heart.--Cardiac rhythm and force altered due to defective
elimination.
Abdomen.--Gastro-enteritis. Violent abdominal pain. Diarrhśa
in phthisis. Cholera (Ars; Verat; Camph). Rumbling and sharp
cutting pain. Dark liquid stools.
Back.--Persistent lameness. Pain in lumbar region and in lower
left shoulder-blade; chest feels tight.
Urinary.--Renal inefficiency and urćmia. Garlicky odor.
Diabetes. Urine of high specific gravity; increased, acetones and
diacetic acid.
Male.--Perspiration of scrotum; is constantly damp and moist.
Boils on scrotum. Purulent discharge of a white color from
urethra; tingling and burning in urethra; pain in prostate; pains in
penis.
Extremities.--Cramps in calves of legs, worse after midnight,
only relieved by getting out of bed and standing. Ulcers;
gangrene.
Skin.--Icy cold. Sweat, and skin even when dry. Cold, clammy
perspiration of an intermittent nature. Acne, pustules on face and
in the cruro-genital region; ulcers look like chancre. Gangrene;
carbuncles.
Dose.--Third trituration.
CURARE
Arrow-poison
(WOORARI)
Muscular paralysis without impairing sensation and
consciousness. Paralysis of respiratory muscles. Reflex action
diminished. Debility of the aged (Baryta) and from loss of
fluids. Catalepsy. Nervous debility. Trismus. Glycosuria with
motor paralysis. Curare decreases the output of adrenaline.
Vomiting of bile in cirrhosis of liver. Diabetes mellitus, 4th
dilution (Dr. Barkhard).
Mind.--Indecision; no longer wishes to think, or act for herself.
Head.--Lancinating pains all over head. Head drawn backward.
Falling out of hair. Brain feels full of fluid.
Eyes.--Sharp, stitching pains over right eye. Black spots before
vision. Ptosis of right side.
Ears.--Noises; unbearable earache. Lancinating pains start from
ears; extending down to legs. Swelling of lobes of ear.
Nose.--Ozćna. Tubercles on nose; fetid lumps of pus.
Face.--Facial and buccal paralysis. Tongue and mouth drawn.
Red face. Tongue and mouth drawn to right.
Female.--Dysmenorrhśa. Menses too early, during menses,
colic, headache, kidney pain. Leucorrhśa, thick, purulent,
offensive.
Respiratory.--Threatened paralysis of respiration on falling
asleep. Short breath. Short dry cough; provokes vomiting,
followed by fainting. Chest sore to pressure. Very distressing
dyspnśa.
Extremities.--Tired pain up and down spine. Arms weak, heavy.
Cannot lift the fingers. Weakness of hands and fingers in
pianists. Legs tremble; give way in walking. Debility; paralysis.
Catalepsy. Favors development of corns. Reflexes lessened or
abolished.
Skin.--Leprosy. Dirty-looking skin. Boils. Tubercles on nose.
Liver spots. Blood oozes through. Itching.
Modalities.--Worse, dampness, cold weather, cold wind; 2 am;
right side.
Relationship.--Compare: Cystisin (motor paralysis); Conium;
Causticum; Crotalus; Nux. Curare antidotes Strychnin.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
CYCLAMEN EUROPAEUM
sow -bread
(CYCLAMEN)
Large doses produce violent purging and vomiting; disturbed
digestion with very salty saliva. Anæmic and chlorotic
conditions. Affections of uterus. Gastro-intestinal and genito-
urinary tracts affected, inducing secondary anæmia and various
reflexes. Sleepiness, moroseness, and lassitude. Cough at night
while asleep without waking, especially in children (Cham; Nitr
ac).
Head.--Terrors of conscience. Grieves over duty neglected.
Depression, with weeping desire to be alone. Aching in
morning, with flickering before eyes; sneezing with itching in
ear. Vertigo; things turn in a circle; better in the room; worse,
open air. One-sided headache. Frequent sneezing with itching in
ears.
Eyes.--Dim vision, worse on waking, with spots before eyes.
Flickering of various colors. Convergent strabismus. Sees
countless stars. Diplopia. Disturbance of vision, associated with
gastric disturbances.
Stomach.--Salty taste; hiccough-like eructation worse, fat food.
Diarrhœa after every cup of coffee; hiccough. Satiety after a few
mouthfuls. Disgust for meat, especially pork. Desire for
lemonade. No thirst all day.
Rectum.--Pain about anus and perineum, as if a spot were
suppurating, when walking or sitting.
Female.--Menses profuse, black, membranous, clotted, too
early, with labor-like pains from back to pubes. Flow less when
moving about. Menstrual irregularities with megrim and
blindness, or fiery spots before eyes. Hiccough during
pregnancy. Post-partum hæmorrhage, with colicky bearing-
down pains, with relief after gush of blood. After menses,
swelling of breasts, with milky secretion.
Extremities.--Pains in parts where bones lie near surface.
Burning, sore pain in heels. Cramp-like contraction of right
thumb and index finger. Pains in periosteum. Chilblains.
Skin.--Acne in young women, pruritus better scratching and
appearance of menses.
Modalities.--Worse, open air, evenings, sitting, standing, and
cold water. Better, during menstrual flow, by moving about,
rubbing parts; in warm room, lemonade.
Relationship.--Compare: Ambra; Pulsat; Cinchona; Fer cit et
Chin.
Dose.--Third attenuation.
CYPRIPEDIUM PUBESCENS
Yellow Lady's Slipper
(CYPRIPEDIUM)
The skin symptoms correspond to those of poisoning by Rhus,
for which it has been found an efficient antidote. Nervousness in
children; from teething and intestinal troubles. Debility after
gout. Hydrocephaloid symptoms, result of long, exhausting
diarrhśa. Sleeplessness. Cerebral hyperasthesia in young
children often the result of overstimulation of brain.
Head.--Child cries out at night; is wakeful and begins to laugh
and play. Headaches of elderly people and during climacteric.
Relationship.--Compare: Ambra; Kali brom; Scutellar;
Valerian; Ignat. Skin relatives: Grindelia; Anacard.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth attenuation. For Poison Oak, 5 drops of
tincture per dose, also locally.
 CYTISUS LABURNUM
Laburnum
(LABURNUM)
All parts of this shrub are poisonous, producing inflammation of
stomach and intestines, with vomiting, diarrhœa, headache,
paleness of face and cold skin. Widespread anæsthesia, and
convulsions are some of the chief effects of this drug.
Cerebrospinal meningitis. Great prostration, sense of
constriction in throat, stiffness of nape, tearing from nape into
occiput, lusterless eyes.
Head.--Stupefaction; indifference (Phos ac). Unequally dilated
pupils; giddiness; twitching of facial muscles (Agaric).
Hydrocephalus. Constant vertigo, intense sleepiness.
Stomach.--Excessive thirst. Constant nausea, vomiting; burning
pain in epigastrium.
Tenesmus and erections. Grass-green urine.
Extremities.--Numbness and pain in hands. Difficulty in
moving them.
Compare: Nux; Gels. Cystine (produces motor paralysis
resembling that of curare and death through respiratory
paralysis).
Dose.--Third potency.
DAMIANA
Turnera
(TURNERA)
Said to be of use in sexual neurasthenia; impotency. Sexual
debility from nervous prostration. Incontinence of old people.
Chronic prostatic discharge. Renal and cystic catarrh; frigidity of
females. Aids the establishment of normal menstrual flow in
young girls.
Dose.--Tincture and fluid extract-ten-to forty-drops doses.
DAPHNE INDICA
Spurge Laurel
Acts on lower tissues, muscles, bones and skin. Sudden,
lightning jerks in different parts of the body. Craving for
tobacco. Burning in stomach. Parts of the body feel separated
(Bapt). Fetid breath, urine, sweat.
Head.--Feels as if skull would burst; as if head were separated
from body. Heat in head, especially in vertex. Tongue coated on
one side only (Rhus). Foul-smelling, ptyalism hot.
Urine.--Thick, turbid, yellowish, like rotten eggs.
Extremities.--Right toe swollen, painful. Pain shoots upward
into abdomen and heart. Rheumatic pains in thighs and knees.
Cold feeling on buttocks. Shooting pains, shift rapidly worse,
cold air.
Sleep.--Entire inability to sleep; sometimes caused by aching in
bones. Dreams, with nightmare. Dreams of cats, black cats.
Starting on falling to sleep with chilliness and clamminess.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Bry; Rhus.
Compare: Fluor ac; Aur; Mez; Staph.
Dose.--First to sixth attenuation.
DIGITALIS PURPUREA
Foxglove
(DIGITALIS)
Comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily
involved, where the pulse is weak, irregular, intermittent,
abnormally slow, and dropsy of external and internal parts.
Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium. Its greatest
indication is in failure of compensation and especially when
auricular fibrillation has set in. Slow pulse in recumbent
posture, but irregular and dicrotic on sitting up. Auricular flutter
and fibrillation especially when subsequent to rheumatic fever.
Heart block, very slow pulse. Other symptoms of organic heart
disease, such as great weakness and sinking of strength,
faintness, coldness of skin, and irregular respiration; cardiac
irritability and ocular troubles after tobacco; jaundice from
induration and hypertrophy of the liver, frequently call for
Digitalis. Jaundice with heart disease. Faint, as if dying. Bluish
appearance of face. Cardiac muscular failure when asystole is
present. Stimulates the heart's muscles, increases force of
systole, increases length. Prostration from slight exertion.
Collapse.
Mind.--Despondency; fearful; anxious about the future.
Dullness of sense. Every shock strikes in epigastrium.
Melancholia, dull lethargic with slow pulse.
Head.--Vertigo, when walking and on rising, in cardiac and
hepatic affections. Sharp, shooting frontal pain, extending into
nose, after drinking cold water or eating ice-cream. Heaviness of
head, with sensation as if it would fall backward. Face bluish.
Confusion, fullness and noise in head. Cracking sounds during a
nap. Blue tongue and lips.
Eyes.--Blueness of eyelids. Dark bodies, like flies, before eyes.
Change in acuteness of perception of shades of green. Objects,
appear green and yellow. Mydriasis; lid margins red, swollen,
agglutinated in morning. Detachment of retina. Dim vision,
irregular pupils, diplopia.
Stomach.--Sweet taste with constant ptyalism. Excessive
nausea, not relieved by vomiting. Faintness, great weakness in
stomach. Burning in stomach extending to œsophagus. After
cold water or ice-cream, sharp pain in forehead, extending to
nose. Faintness and vomiting from motion. Discomfort, even
after a small quantity of food, or from mere sight or smell.
Tenderness of epigastrium. Copious salivation. Neuralgic pain
in stomach, unconnected with taking food.
Abdomen.--Pain in left side apparently in descending colon and
under false ribs. Severe abdominal pains, pulsation in abdominal
aorta, and epigastric constriction. Enlarged, sore, painful liver.
Stool.--White, chalk-like, ashy, pasty stools. Diarrhœa during
jaundice.
Urine.--Continued urging, in drops, dark, hot, burning, with
sharp cutting or throbbing pain at neck of bladder, as if a straw
was being thrust back and forth; worse at night. Suppressed.
Ammoniacal, and turbid. Urethritis, phimosis, strangury. Full
feeling after urination. Constriction and burning, as if urethra
was too small. Brick-dust sediment.
Female.--Labor-like pains in abdomen and back before menses.
Uterine hæmorrhage.
Male.--Nightly emission (Digitalin), with great weakness of
genitals after coitus. Hydrocele; scrotum enlarged like a bladder.
Gonorrhœa, balanitis (Merc), with œdema of prepuce. Dropsical
swelling of genitals (Sulph). Enlarged prostate.
Respiratory.--Desire to take a deep breath. Breathing irregular,
difficult; deep sighing. Cough, with raw, sore feeling in chest.
Expectoration sweetish. Senile pneumonia. Great weakness in
chest. Dyspnœa, constant desire to breathe deeply, lungs feel
compressed. Chronic bronchitis; passive congestion of the lungs,
giving bloody sputum due to failing myocardium. Cannot bear
to talk. Hæmoptysis with weak heart.
Heart.--The least movement causes violent palpitation, and
sensation as if it would cease beating, if he moves (Opposite;
Gels). Frequent stitches in heart. Irregular heart especially of
mitral disease. Very slow pulse. Intermits; weak. Cyanosis.
Inequality of pulse; it varies. Sudden sensation as if heart stood
still. Pulse weak, and quickened by least movement. Pericarditis,
copious serous exudation. Dilated heart, tired, irregular, with
slow and feeble pulse. Hypertrophy with dilatation. Cardiac
failure following fevers. Cardiac dropsy.
Extremities.--Swelling of the feet. Fingers go to sleep easily.
Coldness of hands and feet. Rheumatic pain in joints. Shining,
white swelling of joints. Muscular debility. Nocturnal swelling
of fingers. Sensation in legs as if a red hot wire suddenly darted
through them (Dudgeon).
Sleep.--Starts from sleep in alarm that he is falling from a
height. Continuous sleepiness.
Fever.--Sudden flushes of heat, followed by great nervous
weakness.
Skin.--Erythema, deep red, worse on back, like measles. Blue
distended veins on lids, ears, lips and tongue. Dropsical. Itching
and jaundiced.
Modalities.--Worse, when sitting erect, after meals and music.
Better, when stomach is empty; in open air.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Camph; Serpentaria. Incompatible:
China. Compare: Nerium odorum (resembles in heart effects
Digitalis, but also has an action like Strychnia on spinal cord.
Spasms appear more in upper part of body. Palpitation; weak
heart will be strengthened by it. Lock-jaw). Adonia; Cratægus (a
true heat tonic); Kalmia; Spigel; Liatris; Compare also;
Digitoxinum (Digitalis dissolved in Chloroform; which has
yellow vision very marked, and distressing nausea, aggravated
by champagne and aerated waters). Nitri spir dulc increases
action of Digit. Ichthyotoxin. Eel Serum (Experiments show
great analogy between the serum and the venom of vipera.
Indicated whenever the systole of the heart is insufficient,
decompensated valvular disease, irregular pulse due to
fibrillation of the auricle. Assytole, feeble, frequent, irregular
pulse, dyspnœa and scanty urine. Liver enlarged, dyspnœa,
albuminuria. No œdema). Convallaria (heart disease with
vertigo and digestive disturbances). Quinidin-Isomeric methoxyl
compound.--(Restores normal rhythm in auricular fibrillation,
often supplements the action of Digitalis. Two doses of 3 grains
each, three hours apart-if no symptoms of cinchonism develop, 4
doses 6 grs each daily (C. Harlan Wells). Paroxysmal
tachycardia. Establishes normal heart rhythm at least
temporarily, less in valvular lesions).
Dose.--The third to thirtieth attenuation will bring about reaction
when the drug is homeopathically indicated; but for palliative
purposes the physiological dosage is required. For this purpose,
the tincture made from the fresh plant, in doses of five to twenty
drops, when the cardiac stimulation is desired, or the infusion of
1 1/2 per cent. Dose, one-half to one ounce if the diuretic action
is wanted. The tincture may be given on sugar or bread, and
nothing liquid be taken for twenty minutes before or after its
administration. Of the powdered leaves, 1/2 to 2 grains in
capsules. Digitoxin 1-250 grain. No matter what form of
digitalis is given the dose should be reduced as soon as the pulse
rate has been lowered to 80 beats a minute and the normal
rhythm has been partially or completely restored. Under such
conditions a good rule is to cut the dose in half and still more if
there be a sudden falling off of the urinary output.
DIOSCOREA VILLOSA
Wild Yam
As a remedy for many kinds of pain, especially colic, and in
severe, painful affections of abdominal and pelvic viscera; it
ranks with the polychrests of the Materia Medica. Persons of
feeble digestive powers; tea-drinkers, with much flatulence. Gall
stone colic.
Mind.--Calls things by the wrong name.
Head.--Dull pain in both temples; better pressure, but worse
afterwards. Buzzing in head.
Stomach.--Mouth dry and bitter in morning, tongue coated, no
thirst. Belching of large quantities of offensive gas. Neuralgia of
stomach. Sinking at the pit of the stomach; pyrosis. Pain along
sternum and extending into arms. Eructations of sour, bitter
wind, with hiccough. Sharp pain in epigastrium, relieved by
standing erect.
Abdomen.--Pains suddenly shift to different parts; appear in
remote localities, as fingers and toes. Rumbling, with emission
of much flatus. Griping, cutting in hypogastric region, with
intermittent cutting in stomach and small intestines. Colic; better
walking about; pains radiate from abdomen, to back, chest,
arms; worse, bending forwards and while lying. Sharp pains
from liver, shooting upward to right nipple. Pain from gall-
bladder to chest, back, and arms. Renal colic, with pain in
extremities. Hurried desire for stool.
Heart.--Angina pectoris; pain back of sternum into arms;
labored breathing; feeble action of heart. Especially with
flatulence and pain through chest and tightness across.
Rectum.--Hćmorrhoids, with darting pains to liver; look like
bunches or grapes or red cherries; protrude after stool, with pain
in anus. Diarrhśa (worse in morning), yellowish, followed by
exhaustion, as if flatus and feces were hot.
Male.--Relaxation and coldness of organs. Pains shoot into
testicles from region of kidneys. Strong-smelling sweat on
scrotum and pubes. Emissions in sleep, or from sexual atony,
with weak knees.
Female.--Uterine colic; pains radiate from uterus. Vivid dreams.
Respiratory.--Tight feeling all along sternum. Chest does not
seem to expand on breathing. Short-winded.
Extremities.--Lameness in back; worse, stooping. Aching and
stiffness in joints. Sciatica; pains shoot down thigh; worse, right
side; better, when perfectly still. Felons in beginning, when
pricking is first felt. Nails brittle. Cramps in flexors of fingers
and toes.
Modalities.--Worse, evening and night, lying down, and
doubling up. Better, standing erect, motion in open air; pressure.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Chamom; Camph.
Compare: Colocy (differs in modalities); Nux; Cham; Bry.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
DIOSMA LINCARIS
Buku-from Cape of Good Hope
Pathogenically it produces: Somnolence; nervous insomnia;
night sweats. Erratic pains, with bad humor, desire to weep or
fear of sickness. Violent vertigo. Cephalalgia, chiefly frontal,
radiating to the occiput. Eyes brilliant, with lachrymation or
itching, the conditions accompanied by a species of stupefaction,
with hardness of hearing or noises from aural pressure. Earthy
face with disseminated rosaceous eruption. Nausea, fetid breath,
with sensation of emptiness. Sensation of meteorism, with
stinging pains in the spleen. Painful sensation in the abdomen,
with pubic pressure-the pressure of the clothing becomes
insupportable, with emission of high-colored, bloody urine.
Frequent yellow diarrhśa, worse at night. Catamenia abundant,
anticipating, sometimes metrorrhagic in type; crampy pains on
ingesting food. Sensation of heat or of cold in the hands, with
convulsive movements of the fingers. Weakness of the legs,
aggravated by sitting down.
Clinically, this pathogeny should be useful in cerebral affections
with dullness or stupefaction; in convulsive or epileptiform
attacks; in hysteria; in hepatitis (cirrhosis or atrophy); in
hćmaturia with ovarian or uterine lesions.
In splenitis, where it should surpass Ceanothus. Mental disorders
in nervous or ascetic individuals, particularly where there is
constant fear of death, or erotic or maniacal attacks. Gastralgia.
Gastro-enteritis. Sudden fright, with trembling and weakness of
the legs (Dr. C. Leal La Rota).
DIPHTHERINUM
Potentized Diphtheritic Virus
Adapted to patients prone to catarrhal affections of respiratory
organs, scrofulous individuals. Diphtheria, laryngeal diphtheria,
post-diphtheritic paralysis. Malignancy from the start. Glands
swollen; tongue red, swollen; breath and discharge very
offensive. Diphtheritic; membrane thick, dark. Epistaxis;
profound prostration. Swallows without pain, but fluids are
vomited or returned by the nose.
Relationship.--Compare: Diphtherotoxin (Cahis) (Chronic
bronchitis with rales. Cartier suggests it in the vago-paralytic
forms of Bronchitis of the aged or in toxic bronchitis after grip).
Dose.--Thirtieth, two hundredth or C. M potency. Must not be
repeated too frequently.
DOLICHOS PRURIENS
Cowhage
(DOLICHOS PURIENS - MUCUNA)
A right-sided medicine, with pronounced liver and skin
symptoms. A general intense itching without eruption. Exalted
nervous sensibility. Senile pruritus. Hćmorrhoidal diathesis.
Throat.--Pain in throat, worse swallowing, below right angle of
jaw, as if splinter were imbedded vertically. Pain in gums
prevents sleep.
Abdomen.--Colic from getting feet wet. Constipation, with
intense itching; bloated abdomen. White stools. Swelling of
liver. Hćmorrhoids, with burning sensation.
Skin.--Intense itching, with no swelling or rash; worse across
shoulders, also about elbows and knees and hairy parts.
Jaundice. Yellow in spots; itching excessively at night. Herpes
zoster (Ars).
Modalities.--Worse, at night, scratching, right side.
Relationship.--Compare: Rhus; Bell; Hep; Nit ac; Fagopyr.
Dose.--Sixth potency. Tincture, drop doses, in hćmorrhoids.
 DORYPHORA DECEMLINEATA
Colorado Potato-bug
(DORYPHORA)
The center of this drug's action seems to be in the urinary
organs, and hence its employment in gonorrhśa and gleet.
Urethritis in children from local irritation and gleet. Great
trembling in extremities. Prostration. Swelling of body. Burning
sensation.
Urinary.--Difficult micturition. Urethra inflamed, with
excruciating pain when urinating. Pain in back and loins. Severe
trembling in limbs.
Relationship.--Antidote: Stram.
Compare: Agar; Apis; Canth; Lach; Coccion.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA
Sundew
(DROSERA)
Affects markedly the respiratory organs and was pointed out by
Hahnemann as the principal remedy for whooping-cough.
Drosera can break down resistance to tubercle and should
therefore be capable of raising it (Dr. Tyler). Laryngeal phthisis
is benefited by it. Phthisis pulmonum; vomiting of food from
coughing with gastric irritation and profuse expectoration. Pains
about hip-joint. Tubercular glands.
Head.--Vertigo when walking in open air, with inclination to
fall to the left side. Coldness of left half of face, with stinging
pains and dry heat of right half.
Stomach.--Nausea. Aversion to and bad effects from acids.
Respiratory Organs.--Spasmodic, dry irritative cough, like
whooping-cough, the paroxysms following each other very
rapidly; can scarcely breathe; chokes. Cough very deep and
hoarse; worse, after midnight; yellow expectoration, with
bleeding from nose and mouth; retching. Deep, hoarse voice;
hoarseness; laryngitis. Rough, scraping sensation deep in the
fauces and soft palate. Sensation as if crumbs were in the throat,
of feather in larynx. Laryngeal phthisis, with rapid emaciation.
Harassing and titillating cough in children-not at all through the
day, but commences as soon as the head touches the pillow at
night. Clergyman's sore throat, with rough, scraping, dry
sensation deep in the fauces; voice hoarse, deep, toneless,
cracked, requires exertion to speak. Asthma when talking, with
contraction of the throat at every word uttered.
Extremities.--Paralytic pains in the coxo-femoral joint and
thighs. Stiffness in joints of feet. All limbs feel lame. Bed feels
too hard.
Fever.--Internal chilliness; shivering, with hot face, cold hands,
no thirst. Is always too cold, even in bed.
Modalities.--Worse, after midnight, lying down, on getting
warm in bed, drinking, singing, laughing.
Relationship.--Antidote: Camph.
Compare: Fluoroform (2 per cent watery solution, 2-4 drops,
after paroxysms, considered specific for whooping-cough).
Ouabain from leaves of Carissa schimperi-arrow poison
(Respiratory spasm-Whooping cough is cut short in first stage
and reduced in frequency of attacks and hastens convalescence).
Chelid; Corall; Cupr; Castanea; Argent; Menyanth.
Dose.--First to twelfth attenuation.
 DUBOISIA MYOPOROIDES
Corkwood Elm
(DUBOISIA)
Acts chiefly on the nervous system, eyes, upper respiratory tract.
Recommended in pharyngitis sicca, with black, stringy mucus. It
dilates the pupil, dries the mouth, checks perspiration, causes
headache and drowsiness. On the eye it acts more promptly than
Atropia, much stronger as a mydriatic. Red spots floats in the
field of vision. Sensation as if stepping on empty space. Vertigo
with pale face; not gastric in origin. Scarlet fever; locomotor
ataxia. Palliative in exophthalmic goitre.
Mind.--Absent-minded, incoherent, silly and nonsensical,
memory impaired.
Head.--Impossible to stand with eyes shut, tendency to fall
backwards.
Eyes.--Conjunctivitis, acute and chronic. Mydriasis. Paralysis of
accommodation. Hyperćmia of retina with weakness of
accommodation, fundus red, blood-vessels full and tortuous;
pupils dilated, with dim vision. Pain over eye, between it and
brow.
Respiratory.--Larynx dry, voice hoarse, phonation difficult.
Dry cough with oppressed breathing.
Extremities.--Loss of power in limbs, staggers; feels as if he
stepped on empty space. Trembling, numbness and weakness.
Relationship.--It antagonizes Muscarine. Duboisin sulphate 1-
100 gr sedative in mania. 2-4 milligrams a day. Hystero-
epilepsy. Motor restlessness of insane (Has been used as a
substitute for Atropia in doses of 1-20 of a grain
hypodermically). Antidotes: Morphia; Pilocarp. Compare:
Bellad; Stram; Hyos.
Dose.--Third to twelfth potency.
DULCAMARA
Bitter-sweet
Hot days and cold nights towards the close of summer are
especially favorable to the action of Dulcamara, and is one of
the remedies that correspond in their symptoms to the conditions
found as effects of damp weather, colds after exposure to wet,
especially diarrhœa. It has a specific relation also to the skin,
glands, and digestive organs, mucous membranes secreting more
profusely while the skin is inactive. The rheumatic troubles
induced by damp cold are aggravated by every cold change and
somewhat relieved by moving about. Results from sitting on
cold, damp ground. Icy coldness. One-sided spasms with
speechlessness. Paralysis of single parts. Congestive headache,
with neuralgia and dry nose. Patients living or working in damp,
cold basements (Nat sulph). Eruptions on hands, arms or face
around the menstrual period.
Head.--Mental confusion. Occipital pain ascending from nape
of neck. Headache relieved by conversation. Rejects things
asked for. Back part of head chilly, heavy, aching, during cold
weather. Ringworm of scalp. Scaldhead, thick brown crusts,
bleeding when scratched. Buzzing in head.
Nose.--Dry coryza. Complete stoppage of nose. Stuffs up when
there is a cold rain. Thick, yellow mucus, bloody crusts. Profuse
coryza. Wants nose kept warm, least cold air stops the nose.
Coryza of the new born.
Eyes.--Every time he takes cold it settles in eyes. Thick, yellow
discharge; granular lids. Hay-fever; profuse, watery discharge,
worse in open air.
Ears.--Earache, buzzing, stitches, and swelling of parotids.
Middle-ear catarrh (Merc dulc; Kal mur).
Face.--Tearing in cheek extending to ear, orbit, and jaw,
preceded by coldness of parts, and attended by canine hunger.
Humid eruption on cheeks and face generally.
Mouth.--Saliva tenacious, soapy. Dry, rough tongue, rough
scraping in throat, after taking cold in damp weather. Cold-sores
on lips. Facial neuralgia; worse, slightest exposure to cold.
Stomach.--Vomiting of white, tenacious mucus. Aversion to
food. Burning thirst for cold drinks. Heartburn. Nausea
accompanies the desire for stool. Chilliness during vomiting.
Abdomen.--Colic from cold. Acts prominently on umbilical
region. Cutting pain about navel. Swelling of inguinal glands
(Merc).
Stool.--Green, watery, slimy, bloody, mucus, especially in
summer, when the weather suddenly becomes cold; from damp,
cold weather and repelled eruptions.
Urine.--Must urinate when getting chilled. Strangury, painful
micturition. Catarrh of bladder from taking cold. Urine has
thick, mucous, purulent sediment. Ischuria from wading with
bare feet in cold water.
Female.--Suppression of menses from cold or dampness. Before
appearance of menses, a rash appears on skin, or sexual
excitement. Dysmenorrhœa, with blotches all over; mammæ
engorged and sore, delicate, sensitive to cold.
Respiratory.--Cough worse cold, wet weather, with free
expectoration, tickling in larynx. Cough, hoarse, spasmodic.
Whooping-cough, with excessive secretion of mucus. Winter
coughs, dry, teasing. Asthma with dyspnœa. Loose, rattling
cough; worse wet weather. Must cough a long time to expel
phlegm. Cough after physical exertion.
Back.--Stiff neck. Pain in small of back, as after long stooping.
Stiffness and lameness across neck and shoulders, after getting
cold and wet.
Extremities.--Paralysis; paralyzed limbs, feet icy cold. Warts on
hands. Perspiration on palms of hands. Pain in shin-bones.
Rheumatism alternates with diarrhœa. Rheumatic symptoms
after acute skin eruptions.
Skin.--Adenitis. Pruritus, always worse in cold, wet weather.
Herpes zoster, pemphigus. Swelling and indurated glands from
cold. Vesicular eruptions. Sensitive bleeding ulcers. Little boils.
Red spots, urticaria, brought on by exposure, or sour stomach.
Humid eruptions on face, genitals, hands, etc. Warts, large,
smooth, on face and palmar surface of hands. Anasarca. Thick,
brown-yellow crusts, bleeding when scratched.
Fever.--Dry burning heat all over. Chilliness towards evening,
mostly in back. Icy coldness, with pains. Dry heat and burning
of skin. Chilliness with thirst.
Modalities.--Worse, at night; from cold in general, damp, rainy
weather. Better, from moving about, external warmth.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Camph; Cupr.
Complementary: Baryta carb.
Incompatible: Bellad; Laches.
Compare: Pimpinello--(Bibernell).--Respiratory mucous
membrane sensitive to draughts, pain and coldness in occiput
and nape. Whole body weak; heavy head and drowsiness;
lumbago and stiff neck; pain from nape to shoulder; chilliness.
Rhus; Cimicif; Calc; Puls; Bry; Nat sulph.
Dose.--Second to thirtieth potency.
ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA
Purple Cone-flower
(ECHINACEA - RUDBECKIA)
We are indebted to the Eclectic school for this remarkable
medicine as a "corrector of blood dyscrasia". Acute auto-
infection. Symptoms of blood poisoning, septic conditions
generally. Diarrhœa in typhoid. Gonorrhœa. Boils. Erysipelas
and foul ulcers. Gangrene. Goitre with exophthalmic symptoms;
full doses, also injecting 5-10 drops into thyroid gland.
Tendency to malignancy in acute and subacute disorders. Last
stages of cancer to ease pain. Venom infection. Cerebro-spinal
meningitis. Puerperal infections. Tired feeling. Piles. Pustules.
Acts on vermiform appendix thus has been used for appendicitis,
but remember it promotes suppuration and a neglected
appendicitis with pus formation would probably rupture sooner
under its use. Lymphatic inflammation; crushing injuries. Snake
bites and bites and stings generally. Foul discharges with
emaciation and great debility.
Head.--Confused, depressed. Aches with a peculiar periodical
flushing of the face, even to the neck; dizziness and profound
prostration.
Nose.--Foul-smelling discharge, membranous formations
protruding. Post-nasal catarrh with ulceration and fetor. Nose
feels stuffed up. Right nostril raw, bleeding.
Mouth.--Canker; gums recede and bleed easily; corners of
mouth and lips crack; tongue dry and swollen; sores; dirty
brownish. Tongue, lips, and fauces tingle, with sense of fear
about heart (Acon). White coating of tongue, with red edges.
Promotes the flow of saliva.
Throat.--Tonsils purple or black, gray exudation extending to
posterior nares and air-passages. Ulcerated sore throat.
Stomach.--Sour belching and heartburn. Nausea; better lying
down.
Chest.--Pain as of a lump in chest and under sternum. Pain in
pectoral muscles (Aristolochia).
Urine.--Albuminous, scanty, frequent, and involuntary.
Female.--Puerperal septicæmia; discharges suppressed;
abdomen sensitive and tympanitic; offensive, excoriating
leucorrhœa.
Extremities.--Aching in limbs and general lassitude.
Skin.--Recurring boils. Carbuncles. Irritations from insect bites
and poisonous plants. Lymphatics enlarged. Old tibial ulcers.
Gangrene.
Fever.--Chilliness, with nausea. Cold flashes all over back.
Malarial fever.
Relationship.--Compare: Cenchris contortrix; Bothrops; Ars;
Laches; Baptis; Rhus; Cistus; Hepar; Calendula.
Dose.--Tincture, one to ten drops, every two hours, and larger
doses.
Locally, as a cleansing and antiseptic wash.
 ELAPS CORALLINUS
Coral-snake
Similar to snake-poisons generally. Has very marked black
discharges. Cold things disagree. Desire for sweetened
buttermilk. Nausea and vomiting. Prostrating diarrhśa of
consumption. Acidity of stomach, with faint feeling. Sudden
pain in stomach. Spasm of śsophagus; pharynx constricted; food
and liquids suddenly arrested, and then fall heavily into
stomach. Spasms followed by paresis. Cold feeling in stomach.
Fruits and ice-water lie very cold. Right-sided paralysis. Must
have oscillatory motion. Rheumatic constitutions. Ear, nose and
throat symptoms important.
Mind.--Depressed; imagines he hears someone talking; dreads
to be left alone. Fear of rain. Can speak, but cannot understand
speech. Fears apoplexy.
Head.--Violent headache, extending from forehead to occiput;
first one eye, then the other. Pain in ears. Vertigo with tendency
to fall forward. Weight and pain in forehead. Fullness in head.
Eyes.--Aversion to light; letters run together when reading. Veil
before eyes. Burning in lids. Bloated around the eyes in the
morning. Large red fiery spot before eyes.
Ears.--Cerumen black and hard, with difficult hearing, or serous
greenish discharge, offensive; buzzing, and illusion of hearing.
Sudden attack of nightly deafness, with roaring and crackling in
ears, cracking in ears on swallowing. Intolerable itching in ear.
Nose.--Chronic nasal catarrh, with fetid odor and greenish
crusts. Ozćna; yellowish-green discharge. Mucous membrane
wrinkled; nostrils plugged up with dry mucus. Pains from nose
to ears on swallowing. Nostrils stopped up. Nasal bleeding. Pain
at root of nose. Eruption about nose.
Throat.--Thick, very offensive, dry, greenish-yellow crusts
upon the posterior pharyngeal wall and extremely foul breath.
Spasmodic contraction of śsophagus; passage of fluids arrested.
Chest.--Coldness in chest after drinking. Hćmorrhage from
lungs black as ink and watery; stitches in apex of right lung.
Fainting caused by stooping. Oppression in going upstairs.
Peeling off of skin from palms and fingers. Cough, with terrible
pain through lungs. Worse right and expectoration of black
blood. Sensation of a sponge in śsophagus.
Stomach.--Feels cold. Sensation as if food turned like a
corkscrew on swallowing; desire for sweetened buttermilk.
Acidity after every mouthful.
Female.--Dysmenorrhśa, with black blood. Discharge of black
blood between menses. Itching of vulva and vagina.
Sleep.--Dreams about dead persons.
Skin.--Glands and skin of axillć affected; itching with tetter.
Tips of fingers peel off. Itching eruption in axillć.
Extremities.--Icy cold feet. Vesicular eruptions on feet. Arms
and hands swollen bluish. Knee-joints feel sprained. Pricking
under the nails.
Fever.--Cold perspiration all over. Typhoid when ulcers have
eaten into tissues, and black blood is discharged.
Modalities.--Worse eating fruit; cold drinks; wet weather.
Relationship.--Compare: Kino from Pterocarpus (Hćmoptysis
and hćmorrhage from intestines). Eucalyptus rostrata (offensive
dark discharge from right ear). Crotalus; Alumen; Carbo; Ars;
Lach.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
ELATERIUM OFFICINARUM
Squirting Cucumber
(ELATERIUM - ECBALIUM)
This is an invaluable remedy in violent vomiting and purging,
especially if the evacuations are copious and watery. It is a very
efficient remedy in certain forms of dropsy. Much yawning and
stretching. Beriberi; choleraic conditions; urticaria and mental
disorders coming on as a consequence of suppressed malaria.
Irresistible desire to wander from home at night. Effects of damp
weather.
Stomach.--Nausea and vomiting, with great weakness. Griping
pains in bowels.
Stool.--Watery, copious, forceful. Squirting diarrhœa; frothy,
olive green, with cutting in abdomen.
Extremities.--Sharp pains in fingers and thumbs, knees, toes,
and instep. Gouty pain in great toes. Pain extends down
extremities; pain in hip-joints with diarrhœa. Arthritic nodules.
Skin.--Smarts, stings, and burns. Dropsical. Urticaria from
suppressed intermittent. Skin, orange color.
Fever.--Chill comes on with much yawning and stretching,
lasting all through chill. Pain in extremities, darting into fingers
and toes. Chills and fever, with spurting diarrhœa.
Modalities.--Worse, from exposure on damp ground.
Relationship.--Compare: Bry; Croton; Gambogia.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. As a hydragogue cathartic to
produce free discharge in dropsies, Elaterin 1-20 of a grain.
Palliative only.
EOSINUM
 (EOSIN)
A remedy for cancer, polyarthritis. Proved in potencies by Dr. B.
C. Woodbury.
Summary of symptoms:
Burning under finger nails and toe nails, on soles.
Itching and redness of knee-caps.
Redness of palms.
Redness, burning and numbness of tongue.
Peculiar sensation of being very tall with tendency to vertigo.
Burning in various parts on skin.
Shifting location after scratching which relieves.
Dose.--Second decimal (1 % sol).
EPIGEA REPENS
Trailing Arbutus
Chronic cystitis, with dysuria; tenesmus after micturition; muco-
pus and uric-acid deposit, gravel, renal calculi. Fine sand in
urine of a brown color. Burning in neck of bladder whilst
urinating and tenesmus afterward. Pyelitis, incontinence of
urine. Croaking noise and rumbling in bowels.
Relationship.--Compare: Uva, Chimaph, Lyc; Pareira. Epigea
contains Arbutin, also Formic acid.
Dose.--Tincture in 5-drop doses every three hours.
EPIPHEGUS VIRGINIANA
Beechdrop
(EPIPHEGUS - OROBANCHE)
A remedy for sick, neurasthenic, and nervous headaches,
especially in women, brought on or made worse by exertion,
shopping, etc. Tongue coated yellow; bitter taste. Drowsy after
meals. Loose stools. Subinvolution, with painful menstruation
and congestion.
Head.--Pressing pain in temples from without inwards, worse,
left side. Viscid salivation, constant inclination to spit. Sick
headache coming on when deviating from ordinary pursuits.
Headaches from nerve tire caused by mental or physical
exhaustion, preceded by hunger.
Modalities.--Worse, from working in open air. Better, from
sleep.
Relationship.--Compare: Iris, Melilot; Sanguinar. Fagus-
Beech-nuts--(headache and salivation; swelling on mouth; dread
of water).
Dose.--First to thirtieth potency.
EQUISETUM HYEMALE
Scouring-rush
(EQUISETUM)
Principal action on the bladder. A remedy for enuresis and
dysuria.
Urinary.--Severe, dull pain and feeling of fullness in bladder,
not relieved by urinating. Frequent urging with severe pain at
the close of urination. Urine flows only drop by drop. Sharp,
burning, cutting pain in urethra while urinating.
Incontinence in children, with dreams or night-mares when
passing urine. Incontinence in old women, also with involuntary
stools. Retention and dysuria during pregnancy and after
delivery. Much mucus in urine. Albuminuria. Involuntary
urination.
Kidney.--Deep pain in region of right kidney, extending to
lower abdomen, with urgent desire to micturate. Right lumbar
region painful.
Modalities.--Worse, right side; movement, pressure, touch,
sitting down; better, in afternoon from lying down.
Relationship.--Compare: Hydrangea; Ferr phos; Apis; Canth;
Linaria; Chimaph. Equisitum contains silica in appreciable
quantity.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth potency. A decoction, teaspoonful
doses, or the tincture in hot water, is found useful to allay
irritability of urinary tract, calculus, dysuria, etc; also for
pleuritic effusion and dropsy.
ERECHTHITES HIERACIFOLIA
Fire-weed
(ERECHTHITES)
A hćmorrhagic remedy. Epistaxis of bright blood. Hćmorrhage
from any part, especially lungs; always attended by excitement
of the circulation. Flashes of heat and coldness. Scanty urine,
śdema of the extremities.
Skin.--Symptoms like Rhus poisoning.
Relationship.--Compare: Erig; Millef; Hamam; Rhus.
Dose.--Tincture. Locally for Poison Oak.
ERIGERON CANADENSE
Fleabane
(ERIGERON - LEPTILON CANADENSE)
Hæmorrhages are caused and cured by this remedy. Persistent
hæmorrhage from the bladder. Hæmorrhage from the uterus,
with painful micturition. Profuse bright-red blood. Pain in left
ovary and hip. Chronic gonorrhœa, with burning micturition;
continual dribbling. Dysentery, with soreness and burning in
bladder. Tympanites.
Female.--Metrorrhagia, with violent irritation of rectum and
bladder, and prolapsus uteri. Bright-red flow. Menorrhagia;
profuse leucorrhœa; bloody lochia returns after least motion,
comes in gushes; between periods, leucorrhœa with urinary
irritation; pregnant women with "weak uterus;" a bloody
discharge on slight exertion. Bleeding hæmorrhoids; nosebleed
instead of menses (Bry).
Modalities.--Worse, left side.
Relationship.--Terebinthina similar.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency. Oil of Erigeron 1x internally
for tympanites. An enema of one dram of the oil with the yolk of
an egg and pint of milk will reduce the most enormous
tympanites.
ERIODYCTION CALIFORNICUM
Yerba Santa
(ERIODICTYON)
A remedy for asthmatic and bronchial affections. Bronchial
phthisis, with night-sweats and emaciation. Asthma relieved by
expectoration. Cough after influenza. Furthers absorption of
effusion in plural cavity. Appetite poor and impaired digestion.
Whooping cough.
Head.--Dizzy, feels intoxicated. Pressure outwards; worse,
occiput. Pain in ears. Coryza. Burning in throat. Foul mouth in
morning. Coryza with dizziness and sneezing.
Respiratory.--Wheezing; asthma, with coryza and mucous
secretions. Dull pain in right lung. Burning in fauces. Chronic
bronchitis, bronchial tuberculosis, with profuse, easily raised
bronchial secretion, giving relief.
Male.--Sore, dragging in testicle, could not bear any pressure;
better gentle support.
Relationship.--Compare: Grind; Aral; Eucalyp; Ipec.
Dose.--Tincture in doses of 2 to 20 drops and attenuations.
ERYNGIUM AQUATICUM
Button Snake-root
A remedy for urinary disorders. Strangury, etc, with nervous
erethism. Thick, yellow mucous discharges. Influenza. Uridrosis,
sweat of urinous odor in evening.
Respiratory.--Cough, with sense of constriction. Smarting in
throat and larynx.
Urinary.--Tenesmus of bladder and urethra. Difficult and
frequent micturition. Pain behind pubes. Spasmodic stricture.
Renal colic (Pareira; Calc). Congestion of kidneys with dull
pain in back, running down the ureters and limbs. Irritable
bladder from enlarged prostate gland, or from pressure of uterus.
Male.--Discharge of prostatic fluid from slight causes. Seminal
emissions without erections, with lassitude (Dioscor; Phos ac).
Relationship.--Compare: Conium; Cannab; Dios; Ocim;
Clemat.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
ESCHSCHOLTZIA CALIFORNICA
California Poppy
Experiments upon animals showed it to act more powerfully
than morphine which is contained in the plant. It causes general
weakness, torpor, accelerated respiration, complete paralysis of
the limbs. Slowing of circulation.
A soporific remedy which is harmless. Use the tincture.
EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS
Blue Gum-tree
Eucalyptus is a powerful antiseptic and destructive to low forms
of life, a stimulating expectorant and an efficient diaphoretic.
Atonic dyspepsia, gastric and intestinal catarrh. A remedy with
marked effects on catarrhal processes, malaria, and intestinal
disturbance. Influenza. Fevers of a relapsing character. Produces
diuresis and great increase of urea. Hæmorrhages internally and
locally (Hamam). Typhoid. Symptoms of exhaustion and
toxæmia. Conditions of the mucous surfaces of the air passages,
genito-urinary organs and gastro-intestinal tract. A gastro-
intestinal irritant with pain in stomach and upper intestines
several hours after eating.
Head.--Exhilaration. Desire for exercise. Dull congestive
headache. Coryza; sore throat. Eyes smart and burn.
Nose.--Stuffed-up sensation; thin, watery coryza; nose does not
stop running; tightness across bridge. Chronic catarrhal,
purulent and fetid discharge. Ethmoid and frontal sinus
involved.
Throat.--Relaxed, aphthous condition of mouth and throat.
Excessive secretion of saliva. Burns, feels full. Constant
sensation of phlegm in throat. Enlarged, ulcerated tonsils and
inflamed throat (Use tincture locally).
Stomach.--Slow digestion. Much fetid gas. Beating and
goneness with pulsation in epigastric arteries. Spleen hard and
contracted. Pain in epigastrium and upper abdomen ameliorated
by food. Malignant disease of stomach with vomiting of blood
and sour fluid.
Abdomen.--Acute diarrhœa. Aching pains in bowels with
feeling of impending diarrhœa. Dysentery, with rectal heat;
tenesmus; hæmorrhage. Diarrhœa; stools thin, watery, preceded
by sharp pains. Typhoid diarrhœa.
Urinary.--Acute nephritis complicating influenza. Hæmaturia.
Suppurative inflammation of kidneys. Urine contains pus and is
deficient in urea. Bladder feels loss of expulsive force. Burning
and tenesmus; catarrh of bladder; diuresis; urethral caruncle.
Spasmodic stricture; gonorrhœa.
Respiratory.--Asthma, with great dyspnœa and palpitation.
Moist asthma. Expectoration white, thick mucus. Bronchitis in
the aged. Bronchorrhœa (Bals. Peru). Profuse expectoration of
offensive muco-pus. Irritative cough. Whooping-cough in
rachitic children. Fetid form of bronchitis, bronchial dilatation
and emphysema.
Female.--Leucorrhœa, acrid, fetid. Ulcer around orifice of
urethra.
Extremities.--Rheumatic pains; worse at night, walking or
carrying anything. Stiff, weary sensation. Pricking sensation,
followed by painful aching. Nodular swellings over metacarpal
and metatarsal joints.
Skin.--Glandular enlargements and nodular swelling over joints.
Foul and indolent ulcers. Herpetic eruptions.
Fever.--Elevation of temperature. Continued and typhoid fevers.
Scarlet fever (protective and curative). Discharges show a
tendency to foulness, high temperature, accelerated but not
strong pulse. Use the tincture.
Relationship.--Compare: Oil of Eucalyptus.--(Produces
remarkable bodily exhaustion, no desire for any motion, unable
to do any real mental work, study, etc. The volatile oil
possesses, in common with other terpenes, the property of
converting water, in presence of air and sunlight, into hydrogen
peroxide, or to convert oxygen into ozone, which is the
explanation usually given of its deodorizing and antiseptic
properties (Merrel). Locally, in catarrhal affections, especially
when of a suppurating or putrid nature). Eucalyptus tereticoris
(menstrual cough and prostration). Eucalyptol (depresses
temperature of healthy body more than Quinine; acts on kidneys
like Terebinth); Anacard; Hydrast; Kali sulph. Eucalyptus
neutralizes ill effects of Strychnin. Angophora-Red Gum--
(dysentery, pains, tenesmus; better lying flat on face; obstinate
constipation). Eucalyptus rostrata; Kino.
Dose.--Tincture in one to 20 drop doses, and lower potencies.
Also Oil of Eucalyptus in five-drop doses.
EUGENIA JAMBOS
Rose-apple
(JAMBOSA VULGARIS)
Eugenia produces a state of intoxication like alcohol. Everything
appears beautiful and larger; excitement soon changing to
depression. Acne, simple and indurated. The pimples are painful
for some distance around. Acne rosacea. Nausea, better
smoking. Comedones.
Head.--Headache as if a board were lying on right side.
Talkative. Hot lachrymation.
Extremities.--Nightly cramp in soles of feet (Cupr; Zing). Skin
cracks about toes. Fissures between toes. Skin recedes from the
nails, forming pus.
Relationship.--Compare: Eugenia chekun-Myrtus chekan
(chronic Bronchitis); Antim; Berb aquif.
EUONYMUS ATROPURPUREA
Wahoo, Burning Bush
Brunettes more easily affected, producing headache, mental
disturbances and much distress in hepatic and renal region;
albuminuria. Migraine. Passive Congestion and torpor of liver;
chronic catarrhal affections of stomach and intestines. Weak
heart. Chronic rheumatism and gout.
Mind.--Mental confusion, despondent, irritable; loss of memory,
unable to recall familiar names.
Head.--Heavy frontal headache. Sore, tired feeling; bruised
feeling of scalp. Pain over right eye extending back through the
head. Bilious headache; coated tongue, bad taste, constipation.
Vertigo, obscure vision and gastric derangement, associated
with albuminuria. Headache over eyebrows.
Stomach.--Mouth dry, pasty taste; thirsty, stomach full and
uncomfortable.
Abdomen.--Flatus and pain. Anus very sore and burning.
Constipation with hćmorrhoids and severe backache. Diarrhśa;
stools variable and profuse, bloody. Pain about umbilical region.
Urinary.--Urine scanty, high-colored; acidity increased, poured
out rapidly.
Back.--Dull pain between shoulders and about renal and splenic
region; pain in lumbar region better lying down.
Extremities.--Aching in all joints, especially ankles. Feet feel
swollen and tired.
Modalities.--Better cool draught, pressure. Worse evening.
Relationship.--Euonymus Europoea-Spindle-tree (Liver
disorders, biliousness, lumbago, gastric derangements with
albuminuria. Cutting pains in malar bones, tongue, penis up to
bladder); Podophyl; Ammon pic; Chel; Euonymin 1x trit
(albuminuria).
Dose.--Tincture and lower attenuations.
EUPATORIUM AROMATICUM
Pool-root
Nervous erethism; restlessness and morbid watchfulness.
Hysteria and chorea. Low fevers, with extreme restlessness.
Aphthous disease. Sore nipples. Sore mouth in infants. Vomiting
of bile, pain in stomach, headache, and fever.
Relationship.--Lapsana communis-Nipple-wort-useful in sore
nipples and piles. Hyosc; Passiflor; Hydr mur.
Dose.--Tincture, locally, in sore mouth and sore nipples.
Internally, tincture to third attenuation.
EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM
Thoroughwort
Known as "Bone-set", from the prompt manner in which it
relieves pain in limbs and muscles that accompanies some forms
of febrile disease, like malaria and influenza. Eupatorium acts
principally upon the gastro-hepatic organs and bronchial mucous
membrane. It is a boon in miasmatic districts, along rivers,
marshes, etc, and in all conditions where there is a great deal of
bone-pain. Cachexia from old chronic, bilious intermittents.
Worn-out constitutions from inebriety. Sluggishness of all
organs and functions. Bone-pains, general and severe. Soreness.
Marked periodicity (Ars; China; Cedron).
Head.--Throbbing pain. Pressure as if a cap of lead pressed over
the whole skull. Vertigo; sensation of falling to left. Vomiting of
bile. Top and back of head with pain and soreness of eyeballs.
Periodical headache, every third and seventh day. Occipital pain
after lying down, with sense of weight.
Mouth.--Cracks in corners of mouth, yellow coated tongue,
thirst.
Stomach.--Tongue yellow. Taste bitter. Hepatic region sore.
Great thirst. Vomiting and purging of bile, of green liquid
several quarts at a time. Vomiting preceded by thirst. Hiccough
(Sulph ac; Hydrocy ac). Avoids tight clothing.
Stool.--Frequent, green watery. Cramps. Constipated, with sore
liver.
Respiratory.--Coryza, with sneezing. Hoarseness and cough,
with soreness in chest; must support it. Influenza, with great
soreness of muscles and bones. Chronic loose cough, chest sore;
worse at night. Cough relieved by getting on hands and knees.
Fever.--Perspiration relieves all symptoms except headache.
Chill between 7 and 9 am, preceded by thirst with great soreness
and aching of bones. Nausea, vomiting of bile at close of chill or
hot stage; throbbing headache. Knows chill is coming on
because he cannot drink enough.
Extremities.--Aching pain in back. Aching in bones of
extremities with soreness of flesh. Aching in arms and wrists.
Swelling of left great toe. Gouty soreness and inflamed
nodosities of joints, associated with headache. Dropsical
swelling.
Modalities.--Worse, periodically. Better, by conversation, by
getting on hands and knees.
Relationship.--Compare: Bryon; Sepia; Natr mur; Chelidon.
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis (bilious fever; insatiable thirst; bitter
vomiting at close of chill; also constipation of children).
Dose.--Tincture, to third attenuation.
EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM
Queen of the Meadow
Albuminuria, diabetes, strangury, irritable bladder, enlarged
prostate are a special field for this remedy. Excellent in renal
dropsy. Chills and pains run upwards. Impotency and sterility.
Homesickness.
Head.--Left-sided headache with vertigo. Pain from left
shoulder to occiput. Sick headache beginning in morning, worse
afternoon and evening, worse in cold air.
Urinary.--Deep, dull pain in kidneys. Burning in bladder and
urethra on urinating. Insufficient flow; milky. Strangury.
Hćmaturia. Constant desire; bladder feels dull. Dysuria. Vesical
irritability in women. Diabetes insipidus.
Back.--Weight and heaviness in loins and back.
Female.--Pain around left ovary. Threatened abortion. External
genitals feel as though wet.
Fever.--No thirst during chill, but much frontal ache. Chill
commences in back. Violent shaking, with comparatively little
coldness. Bone-pains.
Relationship.--Compare: Senecio; Cannab sat; Helon; Phos ac;
Triticum; Epigea.
Dose.--First potency.
EUPHORBIUM OFFICINARUM
Spurge-The resinous Juice of Euphorbia
Resinifera
(EUPHORBIUM)
An irritant to the skin and mucous membranes. Burning pain in
bones. Pains in limbs and paralytic weakness in the joints.
Important respiratory and skin symptoms. Terrible burning
pains. Pains of cancer. Everything appears larger than it really
is.
Head.--Acute mania. Violent, pressive headache.
Face.--Erysipelas; yellow blisters. Burning in cheek; worse, left.
Eyes inflamed and agglutinated in morning; Red swelling of
cheeks. Nasal pruritus with mucous secretions from naso-
pharynx.
Stomach.--Great hunger. Sialorrhea (profuse salty saliva).
Waterbrash. Thirst for cold drinks.
Abdomen.--Sunken; spasmodic, flatulent colic. Stools
fermented, profuse, clayey. Feels hollow.
Respiratory.--Breathing oppressed, as if chest were not wide
enough. Spasmodic, dry cough, day and night, with asthma.
Violent, fluent coryza, with burning and cough. Constant cough,
with stitches from pit of stomach to sides of chest. Croup, dry,
hollow, cough. Warm feeling in chest, as if hot food had been
swallowed.
Extremities.--Paralytic pains. Pain in hip-joint and coccyx.
Skin.--Erysipelatous inflammation, especially of the cheek.
Biting and stinging, red, swollen. Vesicular erysipelas.
Carbuncle; old, torpid, indolent ulcers with biting, lancinating
pain. Old torpid ulcer, pustules; gangrene (Echinac; Secale).
Ulcerating carcinoma and epithelioma of the skin.
Relationship.--Compare: Euphorbia amygdaloides-Wood
Spurge (in pain in antrum, illusion of smell, odor of mice. Sense
of taste blunted. Diarrhœa; stools difficult, with painful anal
spasm).
Euphorbia corollata-Large Flowering Spurge--(a diaphoretic
expectorant and cathartic of the old school in gastro-enteric
disturbance, with deathly nausea. Vomiting of food, water, and
mucus and copious evacuations. Attacks recur after short
intermissions. Feeling of clawing in stomach; cold sweat) (Verat
alb).
Euphorbia marginata-Snow on the mountain--(Honey from the
flowers is poisonous, detected by the hot, acrid taste. The milky
juice produces skin symptoms like Rhus).
Euphorbia pilulifera-Pillbearing Spurge--(Humid asthma,
cardiac dyspnœa, hay-fever, and bronchitis. Urethritis, with
intense pain on urinating, and much urging. Acrid leucorrhœa;
worse least movement. Hæmorrhages from sunstroke and
traumatism).
Compare, also: Psoralea-A Columbian plant--(Pain of cancer,
ulcers. Leucorrhœa fetid. Pruritus. Uterine tumors). Croton;
Jatropha; Colchic.
Antidotes: Camph; Opium.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
EUPHORBIA LATHYRIS
Gopher-Plant, Caper Spurge
The fresh milky juice is exceedingly acrid when applied to the
skin and the fruit is highly purgative and poisonous. The juice
causes redness, itching, pimples, sometimes gangrene. The
symptoms point to its use in erysipelas. Poison Oak, etc.
Rheumatic pains during rest. Paralytic, weakness in joints.
Mind.--Delirium and hallucinations. Stupor, coma.
Eyes.--Almost closed from śdema of lids.
Nose.--End of nose very much inflamed externally. Very
sensitive and śdematous mucous membranes with ulceration.
Face.--At first ruddy glow on cheeks, afterwards death-like
pallor. Cold perspiration in beads on forehead. Red, puffed, and
in spots suppurating. Erythema, beginning on face, gradually
extending into the hair parts, and then spreading over whole
body, taking eight days to do so; eruption glossy, rough
śdematous, with burning and smarting; aggravated by touch and
cold air; ameliorated by close room and sweet-oil applications.
Fine bran-like desquamation. Sensation of cobwebs. Stinging,
smarting, and burning of face when touched.
Mouth.--Tongue coated, slimy; acrid taste. Breath cold, musty
odor.
Stomach.--Nausea and vomiting of copious clear water,
intermingled with white, gelatinous lumps.
Stool.--Drastic purgation from large doses; mild laxative
condition from smaller doses; followed several weeks
afterwards by obstinate constipation. Stools of white,
transparent, gelatinous mucus; later mingled with blood.
Urine.--Copious flow of urine.
Male.--Inflammation of scrotum resulting in deep acrid ulcers,
with intense itching and burning; worse, touching the parts from
washing.
Respiratory.--Labored breathing. Breath cold, musty odor.
Cough; first, a hacking, as from inhalation of sulphur; later on,
paroxysmal, like whooping-cough, in regular paroxysms, ending
in diarrhśa and vomiting, with sleepiness between each
paroxysm.
Heart.--Weak and fluttering heart-action. Pulse 120, full,
bounding, somewhat irregular.
Sleep.--Restlessness at night. Sleep disturbed, anxious dreams.
Fever.--Temperature increased. Body bathed in profuse
perspiration, standing out like beads on forehead; later, cold,
clammy perspiration on forehead.
Skin.--Erythema, beginning on uncovered parts, on face, and
spreading over whole body; glossy, rough, śdematous, with
burning and smarting. Fine bran-like desquamation following in
the wake of the erythema. Eruption rough, scaly, smarting, and
burning; when scratched forms deep, ragged ulcers; skin where
ulcerated remains red.
Modalities.--Worse, touch and cold air; better, close room and
sweet-oil application.
Relationship.--Antidoted by Rhus tox (skin symptoms); Veratr
alb (vomiting, purging, cough and coma).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
EUPHORBIA POLYCARPA
(GOLONDRINA)
An antidote to snake-poison. Its use also renders the body
immune to the influence of the snake venom, and thus as a
prophylactic (Indigo).
Relationship.--Compare: The Euphorbias. Euphorbia Prostata-
-(Used by Indians as an infallible remedy against bites of
poisonous insects and snakes, especially the rattle-snake).
Plumeria cellinus Tincture internally and locally every 15
minutes for snake poisoning (Dr. Correa). Cedron. Micania
guacho, a Brazilian snake cure. Selaginella--(Macerate in milk,
locally and internally for bites of snakes and spiders). Iodium,
tincture for rattle snake bites externally and one drop doses
every 10 minutes. Gymnema sylvestre(will abolish the taste of
bitter things; sense of taste altered; powdered root for snake-
bite); Sisyrinchium-Blue-eyed grass-Ten to fifteen drop doses of
tincture (rattlesnake bites).
EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS
Eyebright
(EYEBRIGHT)
Manifests itself in inflaming the conjunctival membrane
especially, producing profuse lachrymation. Patient is better in
open air. Catarrhal affections of mucous membranes especially
of eyes and nose. Profuse acrid lachrymation and bland coryza;
worse, evening. Hawking up of offensive mucus.
Head.--Bursting headache with dazzling of eyes. Catarrhal
headache, with profuse discharge from eyes and nose.
Nose.--Profuse, fluent coryza, with violent cough and abundant
expectoration.
Eyes.--Catarrhal conjunctivitis; discharge of acrid matter. The
eyes water all the time. Acrid lachrymation; bland coryza
(Opposite: Cepa). Discharge thick and excoriating (Mercur thin
and acrid). Burning and swelling of the lids. Frequent inclination
to blink. Free discharge of acrid matter. Sticky mucus on cornea;
must wink to remove it. Pressure in eyes. Little blisters on
cornea. Opacities. Rheumatic iritis. Ptosis (Gels; Caust).
Face.--Redness and heat of cheeks. Stiffness of upper lip.
Stomach.--Vomiting from hawking mucus. Nausea and
bitterness after smoking.
Rectum.--Dysentery. Prolapse ani. Pressure down in anus when
sitting. Constipation.
Female.--Menses painful; flow lasts only an hour or day; late,
scanty, short. Amenorrhśa, with ophthalmia.
Male.--Spasmodic retraction of genitals, with pressure above
pubic bone. Condyloma and sycotic excrescences. Prostatitis.
Nocturnal irritability of bladder; dribbling urine.
Respiratory.--Frequent yawning when walking in open air.
Profuse, fluent coryza in morning, with much cough and
expectoration. Influenza. Gags when clearing the throat in
morning. Whooping-cough only in day-time, with profuse
lachrymation.
Skin.--First stage of measles; eye symptoms marked.
Consequence of external injuries.
Sleep.--Yawning when walking in open air. Sleepy during day.
Fever.--Chilly and cold. Sweat mostly on chest, at night during
sleep.
Modalities.--Worse, in evening, indoors, warmth; south winds;
from light. Better, from coffee, in dark.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Camph; Puls. Compare:
Hydrophyllum-Burr -flower--(catarrhal inflammation of eyes;
hot lachrymation with itching, swollen lids, dull headache; also
for effects of Poison-Oak); Cepa; Ars; Gels; Kali hyd;
Sabadilla.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
 EUPIONUM
Wood-tar distillation
(EUPION)
Marked female symptoms, and backache. A remedy for uterine
displacements. Pain in back, followed by a bland leucorrhśa.
Menses too early and copious; flow thin. Intense sweat from
slightest exertion. Disgusting dreams. Sensation as if whole
body were made of jelly.
Head.--Vertigo; everything turns round on sitting up in bed.
Heat at vertex; stitches from vertex down limbs into abdomen
and genitals. Sore painful spots on head. Painful pulsation in
forehead.
Female.--Burning in right ovary. Gushing leucorrhśa. Chronic
tubal disease. Uterine flexions. Menses too early and copious.
During menses, irritable and disinclined to talk; burning and
stitches in chest and heart. After menses, yellow leucorrhśa,
with severe backache. When pain in back ceases, the discharge
gushes out. Sore pain between labia during urination. Pruritus
pudendi; labia swollen.
Extremities.--Cramps in the calves; worse at night.
Back.--Sacrum pains, as if broken. Severe backache; must lean
against something for support. Pains extended into pelvis.
Relationship.--Kreosot; Graph; Lach.
Dose.--Third potency.
FABIANA IMBRICATA
Pichi
A South American shrub cultivated in Southern California. It is
a terebrinthine diuretic. It has also tonic and chologogue
properties, used in the treatment of nasal catarrh, jaundice,
dyspepsia and to increase the secretion of bile (Albert
Schneider). Useful in the uric acid diathesis, cystitis, gonorrhśa,
prostatitis, dysuria, vesical catarrh with suppurative prostatic
conditions; post-gonorrhśal urinary conditions; cholethiasis and
liver affections. Vesical tenesmus and burning after urination.
Excoriating urine and calculi.
Dose.--Ten to twenty drops of the tincture.
FAGOPYRUM ESCULENTUM
Buckwheat
(FAGOPYRUM)
Its action on the skin, producing pruritus, is very marked.
Visible pulsation of arteries. Fluent coryza. Offensive
excretions. Itching erythema. Pruritus senilis. Post-nasal catarrh;
dry crusts, granular appearance of posterior nares with itching.
Head.--Inability to study or remember. Depressed and irritable.
Itching of eyes and ears. Pains deep in head, with upward
pressure. Itching in and around eyes and ears. Head hot, better
bending backward, with tired neck. Occipital headache. Bursting
pains. Cerebral hyperćmia.
Nose.--Sore, red, inflamed. Fluent coryza, with sneezing,
followed by dryness and crust formation.
Eyes.--Itching and smarting, swelling, heat and soreness.
Throat.--Soreness and feeling of excoriation, deep down
pharynx. Uvula elongated, tonsils swollen.
Stomach.--Eructations of scalding, hot, acid, watery substance;
better, coffee. Bad taste in the morning. Persistent, morning
nausea. Drooling.
Heart.--Pain around heart, better lying on back, extending to left
shoulder and arm. Throbbing in all arteries after retiring.
Palpitation with oppression. Pulse irregular, intermittent, rapid.
Light feeling in chest.
Female.--Pruritus vulvć, with yellow leucorrhśa, worse, rest.
Burning in right ovary.
Extremities.--Stiffness and bruised sensation in the muscles of
the neck, with sensation as if nape of neck could not support
head. Pain in shoulder, with pain along fingers. Vehement
itching in arms and legs; worse towards evening. Feet numb and
pricking. Streaking pains in arms and legs.
Skin.--Itching; better by bathing in cold water; worse scratching,
touch and retiring. Sore red blotches. Blind boils. Itching of
knees and elbows and hairy portions. Itching of hands, deep in.
Vesicular, pustular, phlegmonous dermatitis. Skin hot, swollen.
Modalities.--Better, cold water, coffee; worse, in afternoon;
from sunlight, scratching.
Relationship.--Compare: Dolichos; Bovista; Urtica.
Dose.--Third potency and 12x.
FEL TAURI
Ox-gall
Increases the duodenal secretion, emulsifies fats and increases
the peristaltic action of the intestines. Liquefies bile and acts as a
purgative and chologogue. Disordered digestion, diarrhśa, and
pain in nape of neck are among its chief symptoms. Obstruction
of gall ducts. Biliary calculi. Jaundice.
Stomach.--Eructations, gurgling in stomach and epigastric
region. Violent peristaltic movements. Tendency to sleep after
eating.
Relationship.--Compare: Merc dulc; Cholesterin. In Biliary
Lithiasis, China. Calculobili-Triturate Gall stones-10-12x (Gall
stones).
Dose.--Lower triturations. Purified oxgall 1 to 10 gr.
FERRUM METALLICUM
Iron
Best adapted to young weakly persons, anćmic and chlorotic,
with pseudo-plethora, who flush easily; cold extremities;
oversensitiveness; worse after any active effort. Weaknessfrom
mere speaking or walking though looking strong. Pallor of skin,
mucous membranes, face, alternating with flushes. Orgasms of
blood to face, chest, head, lungs, etc. Irregular distribution of
blood. Pseudo-plethora. Muscles flabby and relaxed.
Mind.--Irritability. Slight noises unbearable. Excited from
slightest opposition. Sanguine temperament.
Head.--Vertigo on seeing flowing water. Stinging headache.
Ringing in ears before menses. Hammering, pulsating,
congestive headache; pain extends to teeth, with cold
extremities. Pain in back of head, with roaring in neck. Scalp
painful. Must take down the hair.
Eyes.--Watery, dull red; photophobia; letters run together.
Face.--Fiery-red and flushed from least pain, emotion, or
exertion. Red parts become white, bloodless and puffy.
Nose.--Mucous membrane relaxed, boggy, anćmic, pale.
Mouth.--Pain in teeth; relieved by icy-cold water. Earthy, pasty
taste, like rotten eggs.
Stomach.--Voracious appetite, or absolute loss of appetite.
Loathing of sour things. Attempts to eat bring on diarrhśa. Spits
up food by the mouthful (Phos). Eructations of food after eating,
without nausea. Nausea and vomiting after eating. Vomiting
immediately after eating. Vomiting after midnight. Intolerance
of eggs. Distention and pressure in the stomach after eating.
Heat and burning in stomach. Soreness of abdominal walls.
Flatulent dyspepsia.
Stool.--Undigested, at night, while eating or drinking, painless.
Ineffectual urging; stool hard, followed by backache or
cramping pain in rectum; prolapsus recti; itching of anus,
especially young children.
Urine.--Involuntary; worse daytime. Tickling in urethra
extending to bladder.
Female.--Menses remit a day or two, and then return. Discharge
of long pieces from uterus. Women who are weak, delicate,
chlorotic, yet have a fiery-red face. Menses too early, too
profuse, last too long; pale, watery. Sensitive vagina. Tendency
to abortion. Prolapse of vagina.
Respiratory.--Chest oppressed; breathing difficult. Surging of
blood to chest. Hoarseness. Cough dry, spasmodic. Hćmoptysis
(Millefol). With the cough pain in occiput.
Heart.--Palpitation; worse, movement. Sense of oppression.
Anćmic murmur. Pulse full, but soft and yielding; also, small
and weak. Heart suddenly bleeds into the blood vessels, and as
suddenly draws a reflux, leaving pallor of surface.
Extremities.--Rheumatism of the shoulder. Dropsy after loss of
vital fluids. Lumbago; better, slow walking. Pain in hip-joint,
tibia, soles, and heel.
Skin.--Pale; flushes readily; pits on pressure.
Fever.--General coldness of extremities; head and face hot.
Chill at 4 am. Heat in palms and soles. Profuse, debilitating
sweat.
Modalities.--Better, walking slowly about. Better after rising.
Worse, while sweating; while sitting still. After cold washing
and overheating. Midnight aggravation.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Ars; Hep.
Complementary.: Chin; Alum; Hamamel.
Compare: Rumex (similar in respiratory and digestive sphere and
contains organic iron).
Ferrum aceticum (alkaline urine in acute diseases. Pain in right
deltoid. Epistaxis; especially adapted to thin, pale, weak children
who grow rapidly and are easily exhausted; varices of the feet;
copious expectoration of greenish pus; asthma; worse, sitting
still and lying; phthisis, constant cough, vomiting of food after
eating, hćmoptysis).
Ferrum arsenicum (enlarged liver and spleen, with fever;
undigested stool; albuminuria). Simple and pernicious anćmia
and chlorosis. Skin dry. Eczema, psoriasis, impetigo (Use 3x
trituration).
Ferrum bromatum (sticky, excoriating leucorrhśa; uterus heavy
and prolapsed, scalp feels numb).
Ferrum cyanatum (neuroses with irritable weakness and
hypersensitiveness, especially of a periodical character;
epilepsy; cardialgia, with nausea, flatulence, constipation,
alternating with diarrhśa; chorea).
Ferrum magneticum (small warts on hands)
Ferrum muriaticum (Arrested menstruation; tendency to seminal
emissions or copious urination at puberty; very dark, watery
stools; diphtheria; phlegmonous erysipelas; pyelitis; hćmoptysis
of dark, clotty blood; dyspareunia; pain in right shoulder, right
elbow, and marked tendency to cramps and round red spots on
cheeks; bright crystals in urine. Anćmia, 3x, after meals.
Tincture 1-5 drops 3 times daily for chronic interstitial
nephritis).
Ferrum sulphuricum (Watery and painless stools; menorrhagia
pressing, throbbing between periods with rush of blood to head.
Basedow's disease. Erethism. Pain in gall-bladder; toothache;
acidity; eructation of food in mouthfuls); Ferrum pernitricum
(cough, with florid complexion); Ferrum tartaricum (cardialgia;
heat at cardiac orifice of stomach).
Ferrum protoxalatum (Anćmia). Use 1x trit. Compare also;
Graph; Mangan; Cupr.
Dose.--States of debility where the blood is poor in hematin
require material doses; plethoric, hćmorrhagic conditions call for
small doses, from the second to the sixth potency.
FERRUM IODATUM
Iodide of Iron
Scrofulous affections, glandular enlargements, and tumors call
for this remedy. Crops of boils. Acute nephritis following
eruptive diseases. Uterine displacements. Body emaciated
Anćmia Exophthalmic goitre following suppression of menses.
Debility following drain upon vital forces. Impetigo of the
cheek.
Stomach.--Food seems to push up into throat, as if it had not
been swallowed.
Abdomen.--Fullness, even after a little food; stuffed feeling, as
if she could not lean forward.
Throat.--Sore, as if of a splinter, shooting in different
directions. Hoarse.
Respiratory.--Coryza; discharge of mucus from nose, trachea,
and larynx. Pressure beneath sternum. Scrofulous swelling of
nose. Chest feels oppressed. Hćmoptysis.
Urinary.--Urine dark. Sweet smelling. Crawling sensation in
urethra and rectum. Sensation as if urine were stopped at fossa
navicularis. Difficulty in retaining urine. Incontinence in anćmic
children.
Female.--On sitting, feeling as if something pressed upward in
vagina. Much bearing down. Retroversion and prolapse of
uterus. Leucorrhśa like boiled starch. Menses suppressed or
scanty. Itching and soreness of vulva and vagina.
Dose.--Third trituration. Does not keep long.
FERRUM MAGNETICUM
Loadstone
Marked symptoms in intestinal tract. Pain in nape of neck.
Paralytic weakness. Small warts on hands.
Stomach.--During a meal, flatulence; afterwards lassitude
taciturn and hot, pain in epigastrium, especially on breathing.
Abdomen.--Movements and grumbling in abdomen. Loose
evacuations with much flatulency, especially left side with
pullings in legs. Abundant and frequent emission of fetid flatus.
Dose.--Third potency.
FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM
Phosphate of Iron
In the early stages of febrile conditions, it stands midway
between sthenic activity of Aconite and Bell, and the asthenic
sluggishness and torpidity of Gels. The typical Ferr phos subject
is not full blooded and robust, but nervous, sensitive, anæmic
with the false plethora and easy flushing of Ferrum. Prostration
marked; face more active than Gels. The superficial redness
never assumes the dusky hue of Gels. Pulse soft and flowing; no
anxious restlessness of Acon. Susceptibility to chest troubles.
Bronchitis of young children. In acute exacerbation of
tuberculosis, a fine palliative of wonderful power. Corresponds
to Grauvogl's Oxygenoid Constitution, the inflammatory,
febrile, emaciating, wasting consumptive.
The remedy for first stage of all febrile disturbances and
inflammations before exudation sets in; especially for catarrhal
affections of the respiratory tract. Ferr phos. 3x increases
hemoglobin. In pale, anæmic subjects, with violent local
congestions. Hæmorrhages, bright from any orifice.
Head.--Soreness to touch, cold, noise jar. Rush of blood to head.
Ill effects of sun-heat. Throbbing sensation. Vertigo. Headache
better cold applications.
Eyes.--Red, inflamed, with burning sensation. Feeling as of sand
under lids. Hyperæmia of optic disc and retina, with blurred
vision.
Ears.--Noises. Throbbing. First stage of otitis. Membrana
tympani red and bulging. Acute otitis; when Bellad fails,
prevents suppuration.
Nose.--First stage of colds in the head. Predisposition to colds.
Epistaxis; bright red blood.
Face.--Flushed; cheeks sore and hot. Florid complexion. Facial
neuralgia; worse, shaking head and stooping.
Throat.--Mouth hot; fauces red, inflamed. Ulcerated sore throat.
Tonsils red and swollen. Eustachian tubes inflamed. Sore throat
of singers. Subacute laryngitis with fauces inflamed and red
(2x). After operations on throat and nose to control bleeding and
relieve soreness. First stage of diphtheria. Ranula in vascular,
sanguine constitutions.
Stomach.--Aversion to meat and milk. Desire for stimulants.
Vomiting of undigested food. Vomiting of bright red blood. Sour
eructations.
Abdomen.--First stage of peritonitis. Hæmorrhoids. Stools
watery, bloody, undigested. First stage of dysentery, with much
blood in discharges.
Urinary.--Urine spurts with every cough. Incontinence.
Irritation at neck of bladder. Polyuria. Diurnal enuresis.
Female.--Menses every three weeks, with bearing-down
sensation and pain on top of head. Vaginismus. Vagina dry and
hot.
Respiratory.--First stage of all inflammatory affections.
Congestions of lungs. Hæmoptysis. Short, painful tickling
cough. Croup. Hard, dry cough, with sore chest. Hoarseness.
Expectoration of pure blood in pneumonia (Millefol). Cough
better at night.
Heart.--Palpitation; pulse rapid. First stage of cardiac diseases.
Short, quick, soft pulse.
Extremities.--Stiff neck. Articular rheumatism. Crick in back.
Rheumatic pain in shoulder; pains extend to chest and wrist.
Whitlow. Palms hot. Hands swollen and painful.
Sleep.--Restless and sleepless. Anxious dreams. Night sweats of
anæmia.
Fever.--Chill daily at 1 pm. All catarrhal and inflammatory
fevers; first stage.
Modalities.--Worse, at night and 4 to 6 pm; touch, jar, motion,
right side. Better, cold applications.
Relationship.--Compare: (Oxygenoid Constitution. Acon;
China; Arsenic; Graphit; Petrol). Ferrum pyrophosph
(congestion of brain and headache following great loss of blood;
tarsal cysts); Acon; Gelsem; China.
Dose.--Third to twelfth potency.
FERRUM PICRICUM
Picrate of Iron
Is considered a great remedy to complete the action of other
medicines. The symptom that specially calls for it is failure of
the function of an organ under exertion; e g, the voice fails after
public speaking. Acts best in dark-haired patients, plethoric,
with sensitive livers. Warts and epithelial growths; corns with
yellowish discoloration. Senile hypertrophy of the prostate.
Epistaxis. Chronic deafness and tinnitus due to gout. Meatus
dry. Pseudo-leucćmia.
Ears.--Deafness before menses. Crackling in ears and low-
pitched voice. Vascular deafness. Dental neuralgia, radiating
towards ears and eyes. Humming in ears as from telegraph
wires. Tinnitus.
Stomach.--Indigestion, furred tongue, headache after meals,
especially in bilious, dark-haired persons.
Urinary.--Pain along entire urethra. Frequent micturition at
night, with full feeling and pressure in rectum. Smarting at neck
of bladder and penis (Barosma). Retention of urine.
Extremities.--Pain in right side of neck and down right arm.
Locomotor ataxia, ocular stage. Hands covered with warts.
Dose.--Second and third trituration.
 FICUS RELIGIOSA
Ashwathya
This East Indian drug causes and cures hćmorrhages of many
kinds. Hćmatemesis, menorrhagia, hćmoptysis, etc. Bloody
urine.
Head.--Melancholic-quiet; burning at vertex; vertigo and slight
headache.
Stomach.--Nausea, vomiting of bright red blood; pain and sick
feeling in stomach.
Respiratory.--Difficult breathing; cough with vomiting of
blood; pulse very weak.
Relationship.--Compare: Acalypha; Millefol; Thlaspi; Ipecac.
Dose.--First potency.
FILIX MAS
Male Fern
(ASPIDIUM)
A remedy for worm symptoms, especially with constipation.
Tapeworm. Soporific conditions. Torpid inflammations of
lymphatic glands (Maceration of fresh root). Pulmonary
tuberculosis in young patients, no fever, with limited, ulcerated
lesions, formerly classified as scrofula.
Eyes.--Blindness, monocular amblyopia.
Abdomen.--Bloated.--Gnawing-pain; worse eating sweets.
Diarrhśa and vomiting. Worm colic, with itching of nose, pale
face, blue rings around eyes. Painless hiccough.
Relationship.--Compare: Aspidium Alhamanticum.--Panna -3
doses, 2 grammes each, all in half hour, fasting in a glass of
milk. Tasteless and will remove tape worm. Cina; Granat;
Kousso.
Dose.--First to third potency. For the expulsion of tapeworm, a
full dose of 1/2 to 1 dram of the Oleoresin, fasting.
FLUORICUM ACIDUM
Hydrofluoric Acid
Especially adapted to chronic diseases with syphilitic and
mercurial history. Glabella region bloated. Acts especially upon
lower tissues, and indicated in deep, destructive processes,
bedsores, ulcerations, varicose veins, and ulcers. Patient is
compelled to move about energetically. Complaints of old age,
or the prematurely aged, with weak, distended blood vessels.
Hob-nailed liver of alcoholics. Goitre (Dr. Woakes) (Kali
fluoride produced bronchocele in dogs). Early decay of teeth.
Old cases of nightly fevers, coming on periodically.
Mind.--Indifference towards those loved best; inability to
realize responsibility; buoyancy. Mentally elated and gay.
Head.--Alopecia. Caries of skin. Pressure on sides of head from
within outward. Caries of ossicles and mastoid, with copious
discharge; worse warmth (Silica; worse cold). Exostosis.
Eyes.--Sensation as of wind blowing through eyes. Lachrymal
fistula. Violent itching of inner canthus.
Nose.--Chronic nasal catarrh with ulceration of the septum; nose
obstructed and dull heavy pain in forehead.
Mouth.--Dental fistula, with persistent bloody, salty discharge.
Syphilitic ulceration of throat, which is very sensitive to cold.
Teeth feel warm. Affects teeth and bones of upper jaw.
Stomach.--Heaviness and weight in stomach heat in stomach
before meals. Sour eructations. Averse to coffee, wants fancy
dishes. Stomach symptoms relieved by tight clothes. Desire for
highly seasoned food. Craves cold water, hungry. Warm drinks
produce diarrhœa.
Abdomen.--Soreness over liver. Flatus and eructations.
Stool.--Bilious diarrhœa, with aversion to coffee.
Male.--Burning in urethra. Sexual passion and desire increased
with erections at night, during sleep. Swollen scrotum.
Urine.--Scanty, dark. In dropsy, produces frequent and free
discharge, with great relief.
Female.--Menses copious, frequent, too long. Ulceration of
uterus and os. Copious and excoriating leucorrhœa.
Nymphomania.
Respiratory.--Oppression of chest, difficult breathing, great
dyspnœa. Hydrothorax.
Extremities.--Inflammation of joints of fingers. Feeling as of a
splinter under nail. Nails crumble. Caries and necrosis,
especially of long bones. Coccygodynia. Ulcer over tibia.
Skin.--Varicose veins. Nævi. Ulcers; red edges and vesicles.
Decubitus; worse, warmth. Syphilitic rupia. Itching of cicatrices.
Feels as if burning vapor were emitted from pores. Itching
especially of the orifices, and in spots, worse warmth. Nails
grow rapidly. Periosteal abscess. Profuse, sour, offensive
perspiration. Syphilitic tubercles. Dropsy of limbsin old, feeble
constitutions. Atony of capillary and venous system. Tissues
bloated.
Modalities.--Worse, warmth, morning, warm drinks. Better,
cold while walking.
Relationship.--Compare: Thiosinaminum (action on cicatricial
tissues; adhesions, strictures, tumors); Calc fluor; Silica.
Complementary: Silica.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
FORMICA RUFA
Crushed Live Ants
(MYRMEXINE)
An arthritic medicine. Gout and articular rheumatism; pains
worse, motion; better, pressure. Right side most affected.
Chronic gout and stiffness in joints. Acute outbursts of gouty
poisons, especially when assuming the neuralgic forms.
Tuberculosis, carcinoma, and lupus; chronic nephritis.
Complaints from overlifting. Apoplectic diseases. Has a marked
deterrent influence on the formation of polypi.
Head.--Vertigo. Headache with cracking in left ear. Brain feels
too heavy and large. Sensation as if a bubble burst in forehead.
Forgetful in the evening. Exhilarated. Coryza and stopped-up
feeling in nose. Rheumatic iritis. Nasal polypi.
Ears.--Ringing and buzzing. Cracking in left ear with headache.
Parts around ear feel swollen. Polypi.
Stomach.--Constant pressure at the cardiac end of the stomach,
and a burning pain there. Nausea, with headache, and vomiting
of yellowish bitter mucus. Pain shift from stomach to vertex.
Gas cannot be passed.
Abdomen and Stool.--In the morning, difficult passages of
small quantities of flatus; afterwards diarrhœa-like urging in the
rectum. Pain in bowels before stool, with shuddering chilliness.
Constriction in the anus. Drawing pain around navel before
stool.
Urine.--Bloody, albuminous, with much urging; quantities of
urates.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness, with dry, sore throat; cough worse at
night, with aching in forehead and constrictive pain in chest;
pleuritic pains.
Sexual.--Seminal emissions; weakness. "Slothful to venery".
Extremities.--Rheumatic pains; stiff and contracted joints.
Muscles feel strained and torn from their attachment. Weakness
of lower extremities. Paraplegia. Pain in hips. Rheumatism
comes on with suddenness and restlessness. Sweat does not
relieve. Relief after midnight and from rubbing.
Skin.--Red, itching and burning. Nettle-rash. Nodes around
joints (Ammon phos). Profuse sweat without relief.
Modalities.--Worse, cold and cold washing, dampness, before a
snowstorm. Better, warmth, pressure, rubbing. Combing hair.
Relationship.--Compare: Formic acid (Chronic myalgia.
Muscular pains and soreness. Gout and articular rheumatism,
which appear suddenly. Pains usually worse on right side,
motion and better from pressure. Failing vision. Increases
muscular strength and resistance to fatigue. Feels stronger and
more "fit" in ordinary walking. Marked diuretic effect, greater
elimination of products of disassimilation, particularly urea.
Tremor. Tuberculosis, chronic nephritis and carcinoma, lupus,
etc, have been treated successfully with injections of Formic
acid of a dilution corresponding to the 3d and 4th centesimal. In
prescribing it for varicose veins, polypi, catarrh, Dr. J. H. Clarke
orders an ounce or two of a solution of Formic acid in the
proportion of one part of the acid to eleven of distilled water. Of
this one teaspoonful is taken in a tablespoonful of water after
food once or twice daily. Pain in aponeurosis and muscles of
head, neck and shoulders before a snowstorm). Rhus; (Dulcam,
Urtica and Juniperus contain Formic acid), Wood alcohol, when
taken as a constituent of a beverage so common in these
prohibition days, is not eliminated easily and is slowly converted
into Formic acid, attacking the brain and causes death or
blindness.
Dr. Sylwestrowicz of the Hering Research Laboratory of
Hahnemann College, Philadelphia contributes his experience
with Formic Acid, as follows:
"The best field for the formic acid treatment are cases of atypical
gout. Under this classification are to be mentioned disturbances
in the muscles such as myositis, periostitic processes of the
bones in form of doughy swellings, changes of the fascias such
as Dupyutren's contraction, skin troubles such as chronic
eczema, psoriasis and loss of hair, kidney disturbances such as
subacute and chronic nephritis. In these cases formic acid in 12x
and 30x, hypodermically 1 cc is indicated at intervals of 2-4
weeks. Eight till twelve days after the first injection an
aggravation is often noticed.
In acute rheumatic fever and acute gonorrhœic arthritis formic
acid 6x, every six days 1 cc, sometimes 12x in sensitive patients
shows often splendid results abolishing the pains and preventing
reoccurrence.
Chronic arthritis needs a special discussion. Clinical
experiments of the Hering research Laboratory of the
Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia on a great number
of cases of arthritis with formic acid showed that it preferably
acts on the ligaments, capsula and bursa of the joints. Such kind
of cases respond very readily to treatment.
The prognosis depends to a large extent upon the etiology of the
case. The most satisfactory cases are chronic arthritis in
connection with gouty diathesis. Chronic arthritis following an
attack of acute rheumatic fever shows also remarkable results
although often pains of a neuralgic character persisting in certain
spots are very stubborn. Finally chronic arthritis of traumatic
nature can be cured by formic acid. In the latter case formic acid
6x showed quicker and better results than 12x or 30x which are
indicated in the previous cases. In general the disappearance of
the stiffness of the joint is the first sign of improvement. Then
the pain and swelling cease gradually in 1-6 months time.
The prognosis of the formic acid treatment is not so favorably in
chronic arthritis in which deformans processes have already
taken place on the articular surfaces. Such processes in the
beginning can be checked completely, advanced cases
frequently show an improvement. But there is always the
possibility that this improvement is only temporary. This is
particularly to be expected in the cases of the so-called arthritis
deformans in which even the inflammations on the ligaments
and capsula are of a very progressive character".
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth attenuation.
FORMALINUM
Aqueous Solution (35 per cent) of Formaldehyde Gas
(FORMALIN)
Is a powerful disinfectant and deodorant; a potent poison.
Prevents growth and kills almost any pathogenic micro-
organism. It seems to have the peculiar property of eating into
malignant tumors, leaving the surrounding healthy tissue
uncharred and unchanged. A plug of cotton wool soaked in a 20
per cent solution of Formaldehyde, and applied for a few hours,
will produce a necrotic slough, which must be scraped away
before the next application, otherwise it hardens.
Formalin in hot water as vapor most valuable therapeutic agent
in pertussis, phthisis, in catarrhal affections of upper air-
passages.
Mind.--Forgetfulness. Anxiety. Unconscious.
Head.--Coryza; eyes water; vertigo.
Mouth.--Ptyalism, thick saliva; loss of taste.
Stomach.--Food feels as if it were a ball in stomach. Burning in
mouth and stomach.
Abdomen.--Intense urging to stool, watery stools.
Urinary.--Anuria; albuminous urine.
Respiratory.--Dyspnśa. Laryngismus stridulus. Whooping-
cough.
Fever.--Chills in forenoon, followed by long fever. Bones ache
during whole paroxysm. During fever forgets where he was.
Skin.--Puckers skin like leather; wrinkles; scales off. Eczema in
neighborhood of wound. Damp sweat most marked on right
upper extremity.
Relationship.--Antidote: Ammonia water. Compare: Ammonium
formaldehyde, known commercially as Cystogen (Dose, five to
seven grains two to four times daily, dissolved in hot water, after
meals. Prevents the decomposition of urine in the bladder,
kidneys, and ureters. Turbid urine rendered clear and non-
irritating; phosphatic deposits dissolved, and growth of pyogenic
bacteria arrested). Also, Urotropin (A diuretic and solvent of
uric acid concretions; relieves cystitis associated with
putrefaction. Three to five grains well diluted. When
administered invariably appears in the cerebro-spinal fluid and
therefore advised in threatened meningeal infection).
Dose.--As vapor in hot water in respiratory affections; 1 per cent
spray, otherwise 3x potency.
FRAGARIA VESCA
Wood-strawberry
(FRAGARIA)
Acts on digestion and mesenteric glands. Prevents formation of
calculi, removes tartar from teeth and prevents attacks of gout.
The fruit has refrigerant properties. Strawberries produce
symptoms of poisoning in certain susceptible individuals, such
as urticarial rashes (strawberry anaphylaxis). Here give Fragaria
high potency.
Chilblains; worse during hot weather. Lack of mammary
secretion. Psilosis (Spruce).
Mouth.--Tongue swollen; strawberry tongue.
Skin.--Urticaria; petechial and erysipelatous eruptions.
Swelling of whole body.
Relationship.--Compare: Apis. Calcarea.
FRANCISCEA UNIFLORA
Manaca
(FRACISCEA)
Chronic stiffness of the muscles. Gonorrhœal rheumatism.
Syphilis and rheumatism, great heat over body, much aching,
better sweat. Pain in back of head and spine; band-like feeling
around head. Pericarditis with rheumatism. Rheumatic pains in
feet and lower part of legs. Urine contains uric acid.
Dose.--Tincture of Fluid Extract 10 to 60 minims.
 FRAXINUS AMERICANA
White Ash
Enlargement of the uterus. Fibrous growths, subinvolution, and
prolapse. Uterine tumors, with bearing-down sensations. Fever
sores on lips. Cramps in feet. Cold creeping and hot flashes.
Infantile eczema.
Head.--Throbbing pain in back of head. Depression, with
nervous restlessness, anxiety. Hot spot on top of head.
Female.--Uterus enlarged, and patulous. Watery, unirritating
leucorrhśa. Fibroids with bearing-down sensation, cramping in
feet, worse in afternoon and night. Dysmenorrhśa.
Abdomen.--Tenderness in left inguinal region; bearing-down
pain, extending down thigh.
Relationship.--Compare: Fraxinus excelsior-European Ash --
(Gout; rheumatism. Infusion of ash-leaves. Rademacher).
Galega--(Goat's Rue-Backache; debility; anćmia and impaired
nutrition. Increases the quantity and quality of the milk in
nursing women, also the appetite). Epiphegus; Sepia; Lilium.
Dose.--Ten to fifteen drops of tincture, three times a day.
FUCUS VESICULOSUS
Sea Kelp
A remedy for obesity and non-toxic goitre; also exophthalmic.
Digestion is furthered and flatulence diminished. Obstinate
constipation; forehead feels as if compressed by an iron ring.
Thyroid enlargement in obese subjects.
Relationship.--Compare: Phytol; Thyroidine; Badiaga; Iodum.
Dose.--Tincture, five to sixty drops three times a day before
meals.
 FUCHSINUM
A Coloring Substance Used in Adulteration of Wine
(FUCHSINA - MAGENTA)
Produces redness of ears, deep red discoloration of mouth
swollen gums, with burning and tendency to salivation; deep red
urine, albuminous, and light red, profuse diarrhśa, with
abdominal pains. Cortical substance of kidneys degenerated.
Useful in cortical nephritis with albuminuria.
Dose.--6x to 30th potency.
FULIGO LIGNI
Soot
Acts on glandular system, mucous membranes and obstinate
ulcers, epidermis, tetters, eczema. Chronic irritations of mucous
membranes of mouth; pruritus-vulvć; uterine hćmorrhage;
cancer, especially of scrotum-chimney sweeper's cancer;
epithelial cancers; cancer of womb with metrorrhagia; sadness,
thoughts of suicide.
Relationship.--Compare: Kreosot.
Dose.--Sixth trituration.
GALLICUM ACIDUM
Gallic Acid
Should be remembered as a remedy in phthisis. It checks the
morbid secretions, gives tone to the stomach, and increases the
appetite. Passive hæmorrhages when pulse is feeble and
capillaries relaxed, cold skin. Hæmaturia. Hæmophilia. Itching
of skin. Pyrosis.
Mind.--Wild delirium at night; very restless, jumps out of bed;
sweats; is afraid to be alone; is rude and abuses every one.
Head.--Pain in back of head and neck. Thick, stringy discharge
from nose; photophobia with burning of lids.
Respiratory.--Pain in lungs; pulmonary hæmorrhage; excessive
expectoration. Much mucus in throat in the morning. Dry at
night.
Urinary.--Kidneys painful, distress along ureters into bladder.
Dull heavy pain in bladder, directly over pubis. Urine loaded
with thick, cream-colored mucus.
Rectum.--Copious stool; anus feels constricted. Faint feeling
after stool. Chronic mucous discharges.
Relationship.--Compare: Ars; Iod; Phos.
Dose.--First trituration and pure acid 2 to 5 grain doses.
GALANTHUS NIVALIS
Snow-drop
Proving by Dr. A. Whiting Vancouver.
Faintness, sinking sensations. Sore dry throat with dull
headache. Half conscious and worried feeling during sleep.
Heart weak with sensation of collapse as if she must fall. Pulse
very irregular, rapid and uneven, violent palpitation. Systolic
murmur at apex. Therapeutically-decided benefit in cases of
Mitral Regurgitation with broken down compensation.
Myocarditis with some degree of mitral insufficiency.
Dose.--First potency to fifth.
GALIUM APARINE
Goose-Grass
Galium acts on the urinary organs, is a diuretic and of use in
dropsies, gravel and calculi. Dysuria and cystitis. Has power of
suspending or modifying cancerous action. Has clinical
confirmation of its use in cancerous ulcers and nodulated tumors
of the tongue. Inveterate skin affections and scurvy. Favors
healthy granulations on ulcerated surfaces.
Dose.--Fluid extract; half-dram doses, in cup of water or milk,
three times a day.
GAMBOGIA
Gummi Gutti
(GAMBOGIA - GARCINIA MORELLA)
The use of this drug in Homeopathy has been confined to its
action on the alimentary tract. It produces a diarrhœa very
similar to Croton. >From its pathogenesis, it is very evident that
it has very intense and definite action especially on the gastro-
enteric tract.
Head.--Heavy, with inertia, and drowsiness. Itching and burning
in eyes; lids stick together, with sneezing.
Gastro-enteric Symptoms.--Feeling of coldness at edge of
teeth. Great irritability of the stomach; burning, smarting, and
dryness of the tongue and throat. Pain in the stomach after food.
Tenderness in epigastrium. Pain and distention of abdomen from
flatulence, after stool. Rumbling and rolling. Dysentery, with
retained scybala, with pain in sacral region. Diarrhœa, with
sudden and forcible ejection of bilious stools. Tenesmus after,
with burning at anus. Ileo-cæcal region sensitive to pressure.
Profuse, watery diarrhœa in hot weather, particularly old people.
Pain in coccyx.
Modalities.--Worse, towards evening and at night.
Relationship.--Compare: Croton; Aloes; Pod.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. Gamboge painted on the chest
in lung tuberculosis is considered by Abrams specific and
incipient cases are symptomatically cured in several weeks.
 GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS
Wintergreen
(GAULTHERIA)
Inflammatory rheumatism, pleurodynia, sciatica, and other
neuralgias, come within, the sphere of this remedy. Cystic and
prostatic irritation, undue sexual excitement, and renal
inflammation.
Head.--Neuralgia of head and face.
Stomach.--Acute gastritis, severe pain in epigastrium;
prolonged vomiting. Uncontrollable appetite, notwithstanding
irritable stomach. Gastralgia from nervous depression (Give five
drops of 1x of Oil).
Skin.--Smarting and burning. Intense erythema, worse, cold
bathing; better, olive oil and cool air blowing on part.
Relationship.--Compare: Spirćea. Gaultheria contains Arbutin.
Salycyl acid. Methylium salicylicum (an artificial Gaultheria oil
for rheumatism, especially when the salicylates cannot be used.
Pruritus and epididymitis, locally). After Cantharis in burns.
Dose.--Tincture and lower potencies.
GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS
Yellow Jasmine
(GELSEMIUM)
Centers its action upon the nervous system, causing various
degrees of motor paralysis. General prostration. Dizziness,
drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Slow pulse, tired feeling,
mental apathy. Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the
eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc. Post-
diphtheritic paralysis. Muscular weakness. Complete relaxation
and prostration. Lack of muscular co-ordination. General
depression from heat of sun. Sensitive to a falling barometer;
cold and dampness brings on many complaints. Children fear
falling, grab nurse or crib. Sluggish circulation. Nervous
affections of cigarmakers. Influenza. Measles. Pellagra.
Mind.--Desire to be quiet, to be left alone. Dullness, languor,
listless. "Discernings are lethargied. " Apathy regarding his
illness. Absolute lack of fear. Delirious on falling to sleep.
Emotional excitement, fear, etc, lead to bodily ailments. Bad
effects from fright, fear, exciting news. Stage fright. Child starts
and grasps the nurse, and screams as if afraid of falling (Bor).
Head.--Vertigo, spreading from occiput. Heaviness of head;
band-feeling around and occipital headache. Dull, heavy ache,
with heaviness of eyelids; bruised sensation; better, compression
and lying with head high. Pain in temple, extending into ear and
wing of nose, chin. Headache, with muscular soreness of neck
and shoulders. Headache preceded by blindness; better, profuse
urination. Scalp sore to touch. Delirious on falling asleep. Wants
to have head raised on pillow.
Eyes.--Ptosis; eyelids heavy; patient can hardly open them.
Double vision. Disturbed muscular apparatus. Corrects blurring
and discomfort in eyes even after accurately adjusted glasses.
Vision blurred, smoky (Cycl; Phos). Dim-sighted; pupils dilated
and insensible to light. Orbital neuralgia, with contraction and
twitching of muscles. Bruised pain back of the orbits. One pupil
dilated, the other contracted. Deep inflammations, with haziness
of vitreous. Serous inflammations. Albuminuric retinitis.
Detached retina, glaucoma and descemetitis. Hysterical
amblyopia.
Nose.--Sneezing; fullness at root of nose. Dryness of nasal fossć.
Swelling of turbinates. Watery, excoriating discharge. Acute
coryza, with dull headache and fever.
Face.--Hot heavy, flushed, besotted-looking (Bapt; Op).
Neuralgia of face. Dusky hue of face, with vertigo and dim
vision. Facial muscles contracted, especially around the mouth.
Chin quivers. Lower jaw dropped.
Mouth.--Putrid taste and breath. Tongue numb, thick, coated,
yellowish, tremble, paralyzed.
Throat.--Difficult swallowing, especially of warm food. Itching
and tickling in soft palate and naso-pharynx. Pain in sterno-
cleido-mastoid, back of parotid. Tonsils swollen. Throat feels
rough, burning. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Tonsillitis; shooting
pain into ear. Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be
swallowed. Aphonia. Swallowing causes pain in ear (Hep; Nux).
Difficult swallowing. Pain from throat to ear.
Stomach.--As a rule, the Gelsemium patient has no thirst.
Hiccough; worse in the evening. Sensation of emptiness and
weakness at the pit of the stomach, or of an oppression, like a
heavy load.
Stool.--Diarrhśa from emotional excitement, fright, bad news
(Phos ac). Stool painless or involuntary. Cream-colored (Calc),
tea-green. Partial paralysis of rectum and sphincter.
Urine.--Profuse, clear, watery, with chilliness and
tremulousness. Dysuria. Partial paralysis of bladder; flow
intermittent (Clematis). Retention.
Female.--Rigid os (Bell). Vaginismus. False labor-pains; pains
pass up back. Dysmenorrhśa, with scanty flow; menses retarded.
Pain extends to back and hips. Aphonia and sore throat during
menses. Sensation as if uterus were squeezed (Cham; Nux v;
Ustilago).
Male.--Spermatorrhśa, without erections. Genitals cold and
relaxed (Phos ac). Scrotum continually sweating. Gonorrhśa,
first stage; discharge scanty; tendency to corrode; little pain, but
much heat; smarting at meatus.
Respiratory.--Slowness of breathing, with great prostration.
Oppression about chest. Dry cough, with sore chest and fluent
coryza. Spasm of the glottis. Aphonia; acute bronchitis,
respiration quickened, spasmodic affections of lungs and
diaphragm.
Heart.--A feeling as if it were necessary to keep in motion, or
else heart's action would cease. Slow pulse (Dig; Kalm; Apoc;
Can). Palpitation; pulse soft, weak, full and flowing. Pulse slow
when quiet, but greatly accelerated on motion. Weak, slow pulse
of old age.
Back.--Dull, heavy pain. Complete relaxation of the whole
muscular system. Languor; muscles feel bruised. Every little
exertion causes fatigue. Pain in neck, especially upper sterno-
cleido muscles. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region, passing
upward. Pain in muscles of back, hips, and lower extremities,
mostly deep-seated.
Extremities.--Loss of power of muscular control. Cramp in
muscles of forearm. Professional neuroses. Writer's cramp.
Excessive trembling and weakness of all limbs. Hysteric
convulsions. Fatigue after slight exercise.
Sleep.--Cannot get fully to sleep. Delirious on falling asleep.
Insomnia from exhaustion; from uncontrollable thinking;
tobacco. Yawning. Sleepless from nervous irritation (Coffea).
Fever.--Wants to be held, because he shakes so. Pulse slow, full,
soft, compressible. Chilliness up and down back. Heat and sweat
stages, long and exhausting. Dumb-ague, with much muscular
soreness, great prostration, and violent headache. Nervous chills.
Bilious remittent fever, with stupor, dizziness, faintness;
thirstless, prostrated. Chill, without thirst, along spine; wave-
like, extending upward from sacrum to occiput.
Skin.--Hot, dry, itching, measle-like eruption. Erysipelas.
Measles, catarrhal symptoms; aids in bringing out eruption.
Retrocedent, with livid spots. Scarlet fever with stupor and
flushed face.
Modalities.--Worse, damp weather, fog, before a thunderstorm,
emotion, or excitement, bad news, tobacco-smoking, when
thinking of his ailments; at 10 am. Better, bending forward, by
profuse urination, open air, continued motion, stimulants.
Relationship.--Compare: Ignatia (gastric affections of
cigarmakers); Baptisa; Ipecac; Acon; Bell; Cimicif; Magnes
phos (Gelsem contains some Magnes phos). Culex--(vertigo on
blowing the nose with fullness of the ears).
Antidotes: China; Coffea; Dig. Alcoholic stimulants relieve all
complaints where Gelsem is useful.
Dose.--Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation; first to third most often
used.
GENTIANA LUTEA
Yellow Gentian
Stomach symptoms marked. Acts as a tonic, increasing appetite.
Head.--Vertigo, worse, rising or motion; better open air. Frontal
headache, better eating and open air. Brain feels loose, head
tender. Aching in eyes.
Throat.--Dry. Thick saliva.
Stomach.--Acid risings, ravenous hunger, nausea, weight and
aching in stomach. Inflation and tension of stomach and
abdomen (Pothos). Colic, umbilical region sensitive to touch.
Flatulence.
Relationship.--Compare: Gentiana quinque flora (intermittent
fever; dyspepsia, cholera infantum, weakness); Gentiana
cruciata (throat symptoms in addition to similar stomach
symptoms; dysphagia; vertigo with headache; pressing inward
sensation in eyes; constricted throat and head and abdomen.
Distention, fullness and tightness in abdomen. Creeping over
body as from fleas). Hydrast; Nux.
Dose.--First to third attenuation.
GERANIUM MACULATUM
Crane's-bill
Habitual sick headaches. Profuse, hæmorrhages, pulmonary and
from different organs. Vomiting of blood. Ulceration of
stomach. Atonic and foul ulcers. Summer complaint.
Head.--Giddiness, with diplopia; better, closing eyes. Ptosis and
dilated pupils. Sick headache.
Mouth.--Dry; tip of tongue burning. Pharyngitis.
Stomach.--Catarrhal gastritis with profuse secretion, tendency
to ulceration and passive hæmorrhage. Lessens the vomiting in
gastric ulcer.
Stool.--Constant desire to go to stool, with inability to pass
anything for some time. Chronic diarrhœa, with offensive
mucus. Constipation.
Female.--Menses too profuse. Post-partum hæmorrhage. Sore
nipples (Eup arom).
Relationship.--Compare: Geranin 1x. Constant hawking and
spitting in elderly people. Erodium-Hemlock-Stork's bill--(a
popular hæmostatic in Russia, and especially used for
metrorrhagia and menorrhagia); Hydrastinin; Cinch; Sabin.
Dose.--Tincture, half-dram doses in gastric ulcer. Tincture, to
third attenuation, as a general rule. Locally, in ulcers, it will
destroy the pyogenic membrane.
GETTYSBURG WATER
Stringy mucus from throat and posterior nares. Rawness. Neck
muscles rigid. Joints weak. Cannot lift things. Ligaments rigid.
Subacute gouty state. Evaporated and residium triturated to 6x.
Of use in sub-acute and chronic rheumatism. White coated
tongue. High colored urine with red sandy sediment. Sensation
of rigidity worse moving. Especially in lumbar region and joints
of hips, shoulders and wrists. Not perceived when quiet. More in
morning. Cannot remain long in one position. Stiffness of
muscles on moving. Pain in ligaments relieved by rest.
Relationship.--Lycopodium, Phosphor. Rhus Pulsat, but
modalities differ.
Modalities.--Worse, stiffness of muscles on moving. Better, rest
(ligaments and stiffness of muscles).
Dose.--Lower triturations. Also thirtieth potency.
GINSENG QUINQUEFOLIUM
Aralia Quinquefolia-Wild Ginseng-Panax
(GINSENG)
Said to be a stimulant to the secretory glands, especially
salivary. Acts on the lower part of the spinal cord. Lumbago,
sciatica, and rheumatism. Paralytic weakness. Hiccough. Skin
symptoms, itching pimples on neck and chest.
Head.--Vertigo, with gray spots before eyes; semi-lateral
headache; occipital; difficult opening of eyelids; objects appear
double.
Throat.--Tonsillitis, just like Bellad, but in dark-complexioned
people.
Abdomen.--Tense, painful, rumbling. Pain in right side. Loud
gurgling in ileo-cæcal region. Perityphlitis.
Male.--Rheumatic pains after frequent emissions. Weakness of
genital organs. Voluptuous tickling at end of urethra. Sexual
excitement. Pressure in testicles.
Extremities.--Hands feel swollen. Skin feels tight. Contraction.
Coldness in back and spine. Bruised pain in small of back and
thighs; nightly digging in right lower limb to toes. Burning heat
in tips of fingers. Eruption on upper inner thighs. Stiff,
contracted joints, heaviness of lower limbs. Crackling in joints.
Stiffness in back.
Relationship.--Compare: Aral; Coca. Hedera-Ivy-mental
depression and skin irritation antidoted by Gunpowder.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
GLONOINUM : GL = Glycerin; O = Oxygen; N =
Nitrogen
Nitro-glycerine--Spirits Glycerinus Nitrate
Recent German provings of Glonoine confirm the original
American provings and clinical indications and bring out very
marked nerve disturbances. Great lassitude, no inclination to
work; extreme irritability, easily excited by the slightest
opposition, ending in congestive head symptoms. The sixth
potency alone produced itching all over body with later acne and
furuncle formation, also bulimy.
Great remedy for congestive headaches, hyperćmia of the brain
from excess of heat or cold. Excellent for the intercranial,
climacteric disturbances, or due to menstrual suppression.
Children get sick when sitting before an open fire. Surging of
blood to head and heart. Tendency to sudden and violent
irregularities of the circulation. Violent convulsions, associated
with cerebral congestion. Sensation of pulsation throughout
body. Pulsating pains. Cannot recognize localities. Sciatica in
other-omatous subjects, with cold shriveled limbs; seasickness.
Head.--Confusion, with dizziness. Effects of sunstroke; heat on
head, as in type-setters and workers under gas and electric light.
Head heavy, but cannot lay it on pillow. Cannot bear any heat
about head. Better from uncovering head. Throbbing headache.
Angio-spastic neuralgia of head and face. Very irritable. Vertigo
on assuming upright position. Cerebral congestion. Head feels
enormously large, as if skull were too small for brain. Sun
headaches; increases and decreases with the sun. Shocks in
head, synchronous with pulse. Headache in place of menses.
Rush of blood to head in pregnant women. Threatened apoplexy.
Meningitis.
Eyes.--See everything half light, half dark. Letters appear
smaller. Sparks before eyes.
Mouth.--Pulsating toothache.
Ears.--Throbbing; each beat of heart is heard in ears; full
feeling.
Face.--Flushed, hot, livid, pale; sweaty; pains in root of nose;
faceache. Dusky face.
Throat.--Neck feels full. Collars must be opened. Chokes and
swells up under ears.
Stomach.--Gastralgia in anćmic patients with feeble circulation.
Nausea and vomiting. Faint, gnawing, and empty feeling at pit
of stomach. Abnormal hunger.
Abdomen.--Constipation with itching, painful hćmorrhoids,
with pinching in abdomen before and after stool. Diarrhśa;
copious blackish, lumpy stools.
Female.--Menses delayed, or sudden cessation with congestion
to head. Climacteric flushing.
Heart.--Laborious action. Fluttering. Palpitation with dyspnśa.
Cannot go uphill. Any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart
and fainting spells. Throbbing in the whole body to finger-tips.
Extremities.--Itching all over, worse extremities. Pain in left
biceps. Drawing pain in all limbs. Backache.
Modalities.--Better, brandy. Worse, in sun; exposure to sun-
rays, gas, open fire; jar, stooping, having hair cut; peaches,
stimulants; lying down; from 6 am to noon; left side.
Relationship.--Antidote: Acon.
Compare: Amyl nit; Bellad; Opium; Stram; Verat vir.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
For palliative (non-homeopathic) purposes, in angina pectoris,
asthma, heart-failure, etc, physiological doses-i.e, 1-100 of drop-
must be given. Here it is the great emergency remedy. The
conditions calling for it are small, wiry pulse, pallor, arterial
spasm, anćmia of brain, collapse, feeble heart, syncope, dicrotic
pulse, vertigo,-the opposite of those indicating a homeopathic
dosage. Often thus used to lower the arterial tension in chronic
interstitial nephritis.
GLYCERINUM
Glycerine
Used homeopathically, dynamized Glycerine seems to act
deeply and long, building up tissue, hence of great use in
marasmus, debility, mental and physical, diabetes, etc. It
disturbs nutrition in its primary action, and, secondarily, seems
to improve the general state of nutrition (Dr. Wm. B. Griggs).
Head.--Feels full, throbs; mentally confused. Severe headache
two days be before menstruation. Occiput feels full.
Nose.--Stopped up, sneezing, irritating coryza. Sensation of
crawling on mucous membrane. Post-nasal dripping.
Chest.--Hacking cough with sense of weakness. Chest seems
full. Influenzal pneumonia.
Stomach.--Fermentation, burning in stomach and śsophagus.
Urinary.--Profuse and frequent urination. Increased specific
gravity and sugar. Diabetes.
Female.--Profuse, long-lasting flow with bearing down
heaviness in uterus. General sense of exhaustion.
Extremities.--Rheumatic pains of a remittent type. Feet painful
and hot, feel enlarged.
Relationship.--Compare: Lactic acid; Gelsemium; Calc.
Dose.--Thirtieth and higher potencies. Pure Glycerine in
teaspoonful doses, t.i.d, with lemon juice for pernicious anćmia.
GNAPHALIUM POLYCEPHALUM
Cud-weed-Old Balsa
(GNAPHALIUM)
A remedy of unquestioned benefit in sciatica, when pain is
associated with numbness of the part affected. Rheumatism and
morning diarrhśa. Polyuria.
Face.--Intermittent pains of superior maxillary of both sides.
Abdomen.--Borborygmus. Colic; pain in various parts of the
abdomen. Irritated prostate. First stage of cholera infantum;
vomiting and purging.
Female.--Weight and fullness in pelvis. Dysmenorrhśa, with
scanty and painful menses.
Back.--Chronic backache in lumbar region; better resting on
back. Lumbago with numbness in lower part of back and weight
in pelvis.
Extremities.--Cramps in calves of legs and feet when in bed.
Rheumatic pain in ankle joints and legs. Intense pain along the
sciatic nerve; numbness alternates with pain. Frequent pains in
calves and feet. Gouty pains in big toes. Better, drawing limbs
up, flexing thigh on abdomen. Gouty concretions (Ammon benz).
Anterior crural neuralgia (Staph). Pain in joints as if they lacked
oil. Chronic muscular rheumatism of back and neck.
Relationship.--Compare: Xanthoxyl; Chamom; Pulsat.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM
Cotton-plant
(GOSSYPIUM)
A powerful emmenagogue, used in physiological doses.
Homeopathically, it corresponds to many reflex conditions,
depending on disturbed uterine function and pregnancy.
Gossypium will relieve tardy menses, especially with sensation
that the flow is about to start and yet does not do so. Tall,
bloodless patients, with nervous chills.
Head.--Pain in cervical region with tendency for head to draw
backward with nervousness.
Stomach.--Nausea, with inclination to vomit before breakfast.
Anorexia, with uneasy feeling at scrobiculum at time of menses.
Female.--Labia swollen and itching. Intermittent pain in
ovaries. Retained placenta. Tumor of the breast with swelling of
axillary glands. Morning sickness, with sensitive uterine region.
Suppressed menstruation. Menses too watery. Backache, weight
and dragging in pelvis. Uterine sub-involution and fibroids, with
gastric pain and debility.
Relationship.--Compare: Action similar to Ergot when made
from fresh green root. Lilium; Cimicif; Sabina.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth attenuation.
GRANATUM
Pomegranate
As a vermifuge for the expulsion of tapeworm, and
homeopathically for the following symptomatic indications.
Salivation, with nausea, and vertigo. Spasm of the glottis.
Head.--Feels empty. Sunken eyes; pupils dilated; weak sight.
Vertigo very persistent.
Stomach.--Constant hunger. Poor digestion. Loses flesh.
Vomiting at night.
Abdomen.--Pain in stomach and abdomen; worse about
umbilicus (Cocc; Nux m; Plumb); ineffectual urging. Itching at
anus. Dragging in vaginal region, as if hernia would protrude.
Swelling resembling umbilical hernia.
Chest.--Oppressed, with sighing. Pain between shoulders; even
clothing is oppressive.
Skin.--Itching in palms. Sensation as if pimples would break
out. Jaundiced complexion.
Extremities.--Pain around shoulders, as if heavy load had been
carried. Pain in all finger-joints. Tearing in knee-joint.
Convulsive movements.
Relationship.--Compare: Pelletierine (one of its constituents -
an anthelminitic, especially for tapeworm); Cina; Kousso.
Dose.--First to third potency.
GRAPHITES
Black Lead-Plumbago
Like all the carbons, this remedy is an anti-psoric of great
power, but especially active in patients who are rather stout, of
fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections and
constipation, fat, chilly, and costive, with delayed menstrual
history, take cold easily. Children impudent, teasing, laugh at
reprimands. Has a particular tendency to develop the skin phase
of internal disorders. Eradicates tendency to erysipelas. Anćmia
with redness of face. Tendency to obesity. Swollen genitals.
Gushing leucorrhśa. Aids absorption of cicatricial tissue.
Induration of tissue. Cancer of pylorus. Duodenal ulcer.
Mind.--Great tendency to start. Timid. Unable to decide. Want
of disposition to work. Fidgety while sitting at work. Music
makes her weep. Apprehensive, despondency, indecision.
Head.--Rush of blood to head with flushed face also with nose
bleed and distension and flatulence. Headache in morning on
waking, mostly on one side, with inclination to vomit. Sensation
of cobweb on forehead. Feels numb and pithy. Rheumatic pains
on one side of head, extending to teeth and neck. Burning on
vertex. Humid, itching eruption on hairy scalp, emitting a fetid
odor. Cataleptic condition.
Eyes.--Ophthalmia, with intolerance of artificial light. Eyelids
red and swollen. Blepharitis. Dryness of the lids. Eczema of lids;
fissured.
Ears.--Dryness of inner ear. Cracking in ears when eating.
Moisture and eruptions behind the ears. Hears better in noise.
Hardness of hearing. Hissing in the ears. Detonation in ear like
report of a gun. Thin, white, scaly membrane covering
membrane tympani, like exfoliated epithelium. Fissures in and
behind the ear.
Nose.--Sore on blowing it; is painful internally. Smell
abnormally acute; cannot tolerate flowers. Scabs and fissures in
nostrils.
Face.--Feels as if cobwebs were on it. Eczema of nose. Itching
pimples. Moist eczema around mouth and chin. Erysipelas,
burning and stinging.
Mouth.--Rotten odor from mouth. Breath smells like urine.
Burning blisters on tongue, salivation. Sour eructations.
Stomach.--Aversion to meat. Sweets nauseate. Hot drinks
disagree. Nausea and vomiting after each meal. Morning
sickness during menstruation. Pressure in stomach. Burning in
stomach, causing hunger. Eructation difficult. Constrictive pain
in stomach. Recurrent gastralgia. Flatulence. Stomach pain is
temporarily relieved by eating, hot drinks especially milk and
lying down.
Abdomen.--Nauseous feeling in abdomen. Fullness and
hardness in abdomen, as from incarcerated flatulence; must
loosen clothing; presses painfully at abdominal ring. Croaking in
abdomen. Inguinal region sensitive, swollen. Pain of gas
opposite the side on which he lies. Chronic diarrhśa, stools
brownish, liquid, undigested, offensive. Very fetid gas preceded
by colic.
Stool.--Constipation; large, difficult, knotty stools united by
mucus threads. Burning hćmorrhoids. Prolapse, diarrhśa; stools
of brown fluid, mixed with undigested substance, very fetid, sour
odor. Smarting, sore anus, itching. Lump stool, conjoined with
threads of mucus. Varices of the rectum. Fissure of anus
(Ratanhia; Paeonia).
Urine.--Turbid, with sediment. Sour smelling.
Female.--Menses too late, with constipation; pale and scanty,
with tearing pain in epigastrium, and itching before. Hoarseness,
coryza, cough, sweats and morning sickness during
menstruation. Leucorrhśa, pale, thin, profuse, white, excoriating,
with great weakness in back. Mammć swollen and hard.
Induration of ovaries and uterus and mammć. Nipples sore,
cracked, and blistered. Decided aversion to coitus.
Male.--Sexual debility, with increased desire; aversion to
coition; too early or no ejaculation; herpetic eruption on organs.
Respiratory.--Constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma,
suffocative attacks wakes from sleep; must eat something. Pain
in middle of chest, with cough, scraping and soreness. Chronic
hoarseness with skin affections. Inability to control the vocal
chords; hoarseness on beginning to sing and for breaking voice.
Extremities.--Pain in nape of neck, shoulders and back and
limbs. Spinal pains. Pain in small of back with great weakness.
Excoriation between thighs. Left hand numb; arms feel asleep;
finger-nails thick, black, and rough, matrix inflamed (Psor;
Fluor ac). Śdema of lower limbs. Toe-nails crippled. Stiffness
and contraction of toes. Nails brittle and crumbling. Nails
deformed, painful, sore, thick, and crippled. Cracks or fissures in
ends of fingers. Offensive perspiration of feet.
Skin.--Rough, hard, persistent dryness of portions of skin
unaffected by eczema. Early stage of keloid and fibroma.
Pimples and acne. Eruptions, oozing out a sticky exudation.
Rawness in bends of limbs, groins, neck, behind ears. Unhealthy
skin; every little injury suppurates. Ulcers discharging a
glutinous fluid, thin and sticky. Swelling and induration of
glands. Gouty nodosities. Cracks in nipples, mouth, between
toes, anus. Phlegmonous erysipelas of face; burning and stinging
pain. Swelling of feet. Wens. Chronic Poison Oak.
Modalities.--Worse, warmth, at night, during and after
menstruation. Better, in the dark, from wrapping up.
Relationship.--Complementary: Argent nit (follows well in
gastric derangements); Caustic; Hep; Lycop; Ars; Tuberc.
Compare: Petrol; Sep; Sulph; Fluor ac. The associated
constipation with mucus-covered stools and gastric flatulency
should be taken into consideration and differentiate it from such
remedies as Petrol and Lycop (Raue).
Antidote: Nux; Acon; Ars.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency. Locally as a cerate, in sore
nipples.
GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS
Hedge Hyssop
(GRATIOLA)
Acts especially on gastro-intestinal tract. Chronic catarrhal
conditions, leucorrhœa and gonorrhœa. Obstinate ulcers. Useful
in mental troubles from overweening pride. Especially useful in
females. Nux symptoms in females often met by Gratiola.
Head.--Sick headache. Rush of blood with vanishing of sight.
Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller.
Tightness in forehead, with wrinkles in skin. Eyes dry, burn.
Myopia.
Stomach.--Vertigo during and after meals; hunger and feeling
of emptiness after meals. Dyspepsia, with much distention of the
stomach. Cramps and colic after supper and during night, with
swelling of abdomen and constipation. Dysphagia for liquids.
Stool.--Diarrhœa; green, frothy water, followed by anal burning,
forcibly evacuated without pain. Constipation, with gouty
acidity. Hæmorrhoids, with hypochondriasis. Rectum
constricted.
Sleep.--Insomnia.
Female.--Nymphomania. Menses too profuse, premature, and
too long. Leucorrhœa.
Modalities.--Worse, drinking too much water.
Relationship.--Compare: Dig; Euph; Tab; Cham; Ammon pic;
Nux vom.
Dose.--Second to third potency.
GRINDELIA ROBUSTA
Rosin-wood
(GRINDELIA)
Both Grindelia robusta and Grindelia squarrosa have been used
for the symptoms here recorded. There is practically no
difference in their action, although the G. Squarrosa is credited
with more splenic symptoms, dull pains and fullness in left
hypochondrium; chronic malaria; gastric pains associated with
splenic congestion. Induces paralysis, beginning in extremities
Its action is shown on the heart first quickening, then retarding
it.
Acts on the cardio-pulmonary distribution of the pneumo-gastric
in dry catarrh (Tart Emetic in muco-purulent). Produces a
paresis of the pneumo-gastric, interfering with respiration.
Smothering after falling asleep. Asthmatic conditions, chronic
bronchitis. Bronchorrhśa with tough mucus, difficult to detach.
Raises the blood pressure. Nausea and retching of gastric ulcer.
Sugar in urine. An effective antidote to Rhus-poisoning, locally
and internally; also for burns, blisters, vaginal catarrh and herpes
zoster. Hyperchlorhydria when attended with asthmatic and
other neurotic symptoms. Hyperćmia of gastric mucous
membrane with difficult respiration.
Head.--Feels full, as from quinine. Pain in eyeballs, running
back to brain; worse, moving eyes. Pupils dilated. Purulent
ophthalmia and iritis.
Respiratory.--An efficacious remedy for wheezing and
oppression in bronchitic patients. The sibilant rales are
disseminated with foamy mucus, very difficult to detach. Acts
on the pulmonary circulation. Asthma, with profuse tenacious
expectoration, which relieves. Stops breathing when falling
asleep; wakes with a star, and gasps for breath. Must sit up to
breathe. Cannot breathe when lying down. Pertussis, with
profuse mucous secretion (Coccus). Bronchorrhśa, with tough,
whitish, mucous expectoration. Sibilant rales. Weak heart and
respiration. Cannot breathe lying down. Cheyne-Stokes
respiration.
Spleen.--Cutting pain in region of spleen, extending to hips.
Spleen enlarged (Ceanoth; Carduus).
Skin.--Rash, like roseola, with severe burning and itching.
Vesicular and papular eruptions. Herpes zoster. Itching and
burning. Poison oak (locally as a wash). Ulcers, with swollen,
purplish skin.
Relationship.--Compare: Tart-emet. Eriodictyon; Lach;
Sanguinar.
Dose.--Tincture in 1 to 15 drop doses, also lower potencies.
GUACO
Mikania, Climbing Hemp Weed
Acts on nervous system and female organs. Antidote to bites of
scorpions and serpents (Golondrina). Cholera. Bulbar paralysis.
Syphilis. Cancer. Deafness-tongue heavy and difficult to move.
Spinal irritation. Spinal symptoms most marked and verified.
Beer drinkers threatened with apoplexy. Diarrhœa and
dysentery with aching in sacrum and loins.
Headache, red face. Heaviness and difficulty in moving tongue.
Throat.--Larynx and trachea constricted; difficult deglutition.
Tongue feels heavy, difficult to move.
Female.--Leucorrhœa copious, corroding, putrid, debilitating.
Itching and smarting at night, as if fire were running out of parts.
Urine.--Increased, cloudy, phosphatic. Pain over region of
bladder.
Back.--Pain between scapulæ, extending to forearm. Burning in
nape of shoulders. Pain along spine; worse, bending. Weariness
through hips and lumbar region.
Extremities.--Pain in deltoid, shoulders, elbows, arms, and
fingers. Pain about hip-joint. Legs heavy. Pain in ankle-joints
and soles. Paralysis of lower extremities.
Modalities.--Worse, from motion.
Relationship.--Compare: Oxal ac; Lathyr; Caust.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
GUAJACUM OFFICINALE
Resin of Lignum Vitæ
(GUAIACUM)
Chief action on fibrous tissue, and is especially adapted to the
arthritic diathesis, rheumatism, and tonsillitis. Secondary
syphilis. Very valuable in acute rheumatism. Free foul
secretions. Unclean odor from whole body. Promotes
suppuration of abscesses. Sensitiveness and aggravation from
local heat. Contraction of limbs, stiffness and immobility.
Feeling that he must stretch.
Mind.--Forgetful; thoughtless; staring. Slow to comprehend.
Head.--Gouty and rheumatic pain in head and face, extending to
neck. Tearing pain in skull; worse, cold, wet weather. Feels
swollen, and blood-vessels distended. Aching in left ear. Pains
often end in a stitch, especially in head.
Eyes.--Pupils dilated. Eyelids appear too short. Pimples around
eyes.
Throat.--Rheumatic sore throat with weak throat muscles.
Throat dry, burns, swollen, stitches toward ear. Acute tonsillitis.
Syphilitic sore throat.
Stomach.--Tongue furred. Desire for apples and other fruits.
Aversion to milk. Burning in stomach. Constricted epigastric
region.
Abdomen.--Intestinal fermentation. Much wind in bowels.
Diarrhœa, cholera infantum.
Urinary.--Sharp stitches after urinating. Constant desire.
Respiratory.--Feels suffocated. Dry, tight cough. Fetid breath
after coughing. Pleuritic stitches. Chest pains in articulations of
ribs, with shortness of breathing till expectoration sets in.
Female.--Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irregular
menstruation and dysmenorrhœa, and irritable bladder.
Back.--Pain from head to neck. Aching in nape. Stiff neck and
sore shoulders. Stitches between scapulæ to occiput. Contractive
pain between scapulæ.
Extremities.--Rheumatic pain in shoulders, arms and hands.
Growing pains (Phos ac). Pricking in nates. Sciatica and
lumbago. Gouty tearing, with contractions. Immovable stiffness.
Ankle pain extending up the leg, causing lameness. Joints
swollen, painful, and intolerant of pressure; can bear no heat.
Stinging pain in limbs. Arthritic lancinations followed by
contraction of limbs. A feeling of heat in the affected limbs.
Modalities.--Worse, from motion, heat, cold wet weather;
pressure, touch, from 6 pm to 4 am. Better, external pressure.
Relationship.--Guaiacol (in the treatment of gonorrhœal
epididymitis, 2 parts to 30 vaselin, locally).
Antidote: Nux. Follow Sepia.
Compare: Merc; Caust; Rhus; Mezer; Rhodod.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth attenuation.
GUARANA
Guarana
(PAULLINIA SORBILIS)
Contains a large percentage of Caffeine, which may explain its
use as a remedy for certain forms os sick headache.
Head.--Intellectual excitement. Sick headache in persons who
have used tea and coffee in excess. Throbbing headache after
use of liquor.
Bowels.--Stools profuse, bloody, bright green; flakes inter-
mixed; odorless. Cholera infantum.
Skin.--Chloasmata on temples and arms. Urticaria (Dulc; Apis;
Chloral).
Sleep.--Uncontrollable sleepiness and heaviness of head, with
flushed face after eating.
Dose.--Must be given in material doses-fifteen to sixty grains of
the powder.
GUAREA TRICHILOIDES
Ballwood
(GUAREA)
Eye symptoms have been verified. Chemosis and pterygium
have been cured with it. Lupus of an ochre-red color.
Eyes.--Conjunctiva inflamed, swollen. Tearing pain in eyeballs;
tension, forced-out feeling. Objects appear gray, upside down.
Eye symptoms alternate with diminished hearing. Epiphora.
Head.--Sensation as if brain were falling forwards; as from a
blow on head.
Respiratory.--Cough with sweat, pain and tightness of chest;
larynx irritated.
Dose.--Tincture.
GYMNOCLADUS CANADENSIS
American Coffee-tree
(GYMNOCLADUS)
Sore throat, dark livid redness of fauces, and erysipelatous
swelling of face are most marked. Hives. Desire for heat and
quiet. Headache, throbbing in forehead and temples and over
eyes, with bluish-white coating of tongue. Burning in eyes.
Face.--Sensation as of flies crawling over face. Erysipelas.
Great sensibility of teeth.
Throat.--Sore; dark livid redness of fauces and tonsils. Sticking
pain. Mucus in throat and hawking. Tickling, with dry cough.
Relationship.--Compare: Lachnant; Laches; Ailanth; Rhus.
Dose.--Lower attenuations.
HAEMATOXYLON CAMPECHIANUM
Logwood
(HAEMATOXYLON)
Sense of constriction is characteristic. Sensation as if a bar lay
across chest. Angina pectoris.
Head.--Feels constricted; heavy, hot. Eyelids heavy.
Stomach.--Painful digging from abdomen to throat, causing
pain in region of heart with oppression. Colic, tympanitis.
Borborygmi and diarrhœa. Swollen, painful.
Chest.--Constriction, extending to epigastrium. Sensation of a
bar across chest. Convulsive pain in heart region with
oppression. Great soreness in region of heart. Palpitation.
Female.--Pain in hypogastrium, attended with slimy, whitish
leucorrhœa. Weak feeling, with painful bearing down sensation
at menstrual period.
Relationship.--Compare: Cactus; Colocy; Naja.
Dose.--Third potency.
HAMAMELIS VIRGINIANA
Witch-hazel
(HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA)
Venous congestion, hæmorrhages, varicose veins, and
hæmorrhoids, with bruised soreness of affected parts, seem to
be the special sphere of this remedy. Acts upon the coats of the
veins causing relaxation with consequent engorgement. Passive
venous hæmorrhages from any part. Great value in open, painful
wounds, with weakness from loss of blood. After operations,
supersedes the use of morphia (Helmuth).
Head.--Wants "the respect due to me" shown. Feeling as of a
bolt from temple to temple. Fullness, followed by epistaxis.
Numbness over frontal bone.
Eyes.--Painful weakness; sore pain in eyes; bloodshot
appearance; inflamed vessels greatly injected. Hastens
absorption of intraocular hæmorrhage. Eyes feel forced out.
Nose.--Bleeding from nose profuse; flow passive, non-
coagulable, with tightness in bridge of nose. Bad odor from
nose.
Throat.--Mucous membrane distended and bluish; varicosis of
throat.
Stomach.--Tongue feels burnt. Thirst. Blisters on side.
Hæmatemesis of black blood. Throbbing and pain in stomach.
Stool.--Anus feels sore and raw. Hæmorrhoids, bleeding
profusely, with soreness. Dysentery. Pulsation in rectum.
Urine.--Hæmaturia, with increased desire.
Female.--Ovarian congestion and neuralgia; feel very sore.
Vicarious menstruation. Uterine hæmorrhage, bearing-down
pain in back. Menses dark, profuse, with soreness in abdomen.
Metrorrhagia, occurring midway between menstrual periods.
Intermenstrual pain (Jas. W. Ward). Vagina very tender. Profuse
leucorrhœa. Vulva itches. Milk-leg, hæmorrhoids, and sore
nipples, after confinement. Metrorrhagia; passive flow.
Vaginismus, ovaritis, soreness over whole abdomen. Phlegmasia
alba.
Male.--Pain in spermatic cord, running into testes. Varicocele.
Pain in testicles. Orchitis. Testicles enlarged, hot, and painful.
Epididymitis.
Respiratory.--Hæmoptysis; tickling cough. Chest feels sore and
constricted.
Back.--Sore pain down cervical vertebræ. Severe pain in lumbar
and hypogastric region, extending down legs.
Extremities.--Tired feeling in arms and legs. Very sore muscles
and joints. Varicose veins. Chilliness in back and hips,
extending down legs. Neuralgia of internal saphenous nerve.
Skin.--Bluish chilblains. Phlebitis. Purpura. Varicose veins and
ulcers; very sore. Burns. Ecchymosis. Traumatic inflammations
(Arnica).
Modalities.--Worse, warm, moist air.
Relationship.--Compare in hæmorrhoids: Calc fluor; Aloe; Mur
ac in varicose veins. Mangifera indica.
Compare: Arnica; Calend; Trillium; Bellis; Sulph ac; Pulsatilla.
Antidote: Arnica.
Complementary: Ferrum.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth attenuation. Distilled extract locally.
HECLA LAVA
Lava Scorić from Mt. Hecla
(HEKLA LAVA)
Marked action upon the jaws. Of great use in exostosis, gum
abscess, difficult teething. Nodosities, caries of bone, etc.
Osteitis, periostitis, osteosarcoma; rachitis. Tumors in general.
Bone necrosis. Necrosis and sinus after mastoid operation.
Face.--Ulceration of nasal bones. Facial neuralgia from carious
teeth and after extraction. Toothache, with swelling about jaws.
Abscess of gums. Enlargement of maxillary bone. Cervical
glands enlarged and indurated.
Relationship.--Compare: Silica; Mercur; Phos; Conchiolinum--
Mother of pearl (diaphysis of bone affected; parts extremely
sensitive to touch).
Amphisbćna-Snail-like lizard (great affinity for the jaw bones,
worse by air and dampness).
Slag--(Great itching of parts).
Dose.--Lower triturations.
HEDEOMA PULEGIOIDES
Pennyroyal
(HEDEOMA)
Female symptoms are most marked; usually associated with
nervous disturbances. Red sand in urine. Pain along ureter.
Flatulent colic. Antidotes effects of Poison-oak (Grindelia).
Head.--Dull, heavy feeling in morning. Sore pain, as from a cut.
Weak, faint; better, lying down.
Stomach.--Gastritis. Everything taken into stomach causes pain.
Tongue coated thin white. Nausea.
Abdomen.--Distended, sore, and sensitive.
Urine.--Frequent urging, cutting pains. Pain along left ureter.
Dragging pain from kidney to bladder. Dull burning pain over
left kidney. Burning irritation at neck of bladder causing
frequent intense desire to urinate and inability to retain urine for
more than few minutes, better urinating.
Female.--Bearing-down pains, with much backache; worse,
least movement. Leucorrhœa, with itching and burning Ovaries
congested and painful; bearing-down spasmodic contractions.
Extremities.--Pain in thumb-joint. Pain, coldness, and paretic
condition. Twitchings, jerkings, soreness. Tendo-Achilles
painful, as if sprained and swollen; walking painful.
Relationship.--Compare: Mentha; Sepia; Lilium; Ocimum (uric
acid diathesis, pain in ureters). Hedera Helix--Common Ivy--
(Delirium and chronic convulsions. Chronic hydrocephalus
Rhinorrhea, cerebro-spinalis. Cataract. Acts on blood vessels,
menorrhagia). Glechoma Hederacea--Ground Ivy--
(Hæmorrhoids with rectal irritation and bleeding. Diarrhœa.
Anus feels raw and sore. Cough with laryngeal and tracheal
irritation. Glandula sub-mentalis inflamed).
Dose.--First potency.
HELIANTHUS ANNUUS
Sunflower
(HELIANTHUS)
Old cases of intermittent fever. Coryza, catarrh, nasal
hćmorrhage and thick scabs in nose. Rheumatic pain in left
knee. Vomiting, black stools, congestion and dryness of mouth
and pharynx, redness and heat of skin. Symptoms aggravated by
heat and relieved by vomiting. Spleen remedy. Marked effects
on stomach, with nausea and vomiting. Stools black
(Leptandra). Dry mouth. Externally, as a vulnerary like Arnica
and Calendula.
HELLEBORUS NIGER
Snow-rose
(HELLEBORUS)
Produces a condition of sensorial depression. Sees, hears, tastes
imperfectly, and general muscular weakness, which may go on
to complete paralysis, accompanied by dropsical effusions.
Hence, a remedy in low states of vitality and serious disease.
Characteristic aggravation from 4 to 8 pm (Lycop). Sinking
sensation. State of effusion in hydrocephalus. Mania of a
melancholy type.
Mind.--Slow in answering. Thoughtless; staring. Involuntary
sighing. Complete unconsciousness. Picks lips and clothes.
Head.--Forehead wrinkled in folds. Cold sweat. Stupefying
headache. Rolls head day and night; moaning, sudden screams.
Bores head into pillow; beats it with hands. Dull pain in occiput,
with sensation of water swashing inside. Headache culminates in
vomiting.
Eyes.--Eyeballs turn upwards; squinting, vacant look. Pupils
dilated. Eyes wide open, sunken. Night-blindness.
Nose.--Dirty, dry nostrils. Rubs nose. Smell diminished. Nose
pointed.
Face.--Pale, sunken. Cold sweat. Wrinkled. Neuralgia on left
side; parts so tender he cannot chew.
Mouth.--Horrible smell from mouth. Lips dry and cracked.
Tongue red and dry. Falling of lower jaw. Meaningless picking
of lips. Grinding of teeth. Chewing motion. Greedily swallows
cold water, though unconscious. Child nurses greedily, with
disgust for food. Ptyalism, with sore corners of mouth.
Abdomen.--Gurgling, as if bowels were full of water. Swollen,
painful to touch.
Stool.--Jelly-like, white mucus; involuntary.
Urine.--Suppressed; scanty, dark; coffee-grounds sediment.
Frequent urging. Child cannot urinate. Bladder overdistended.
Respiratory.--Frequent sighing. Respiration irregular. Chest
constricted; gasps for breath. Hydrothorax (Merc sulph).
Extremities.--Automatic motion of one arm and leg. Limbs
heavy and painful. Stretching of limbs. Thumb drawn into palm
(Cupr). Vesicular eruption between fingers and toes.
Sleep.--Sudden screams in sleep. Soporous sleep. Cri
encephalique. Cannot be fully aroused.
Skin.--Pale, dropsical, itching. Livid spots on skin. Sudden,
watery, swelling of skin. Falling off of hair and nails. Angio-
neurotic œdema.
Modalities.--Worse, from evening until morning, from
uncovering.
Relationship.--(Hellebor fætidus, or, Polymnia-Bear's foot--
Acts especially on spleen (Ceanothus); also rectum and sciatic
nerve. Splenic pains extend to scapula, neck and head, worse left
side and evening; chronic ague cake; hypertrophied uterus;
glandular enlargements; hair and nails falling off; skin peeling).
Hellebor orientalis (salivation).
Antidote: Camphor; Cinch.
Compare: Threatening effusion; Tuberc; Apis; Zinc; Opium;
Cinch; Cicuta; Iodoform.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
HELODERMA
Gila Monster
The result of the bite is a benumbing paralysis like paralysis
agitans or locomotor ataxia. There is no tetanic phase-a
condition almost reverse in objective symptoms to Hydrocy acid
or Strychnia. The most unusual action of the drug is noted upon
the eye of the mouse. The eyeball becomes more prominent and
the cornea opacities. The exophthalmus is due to the pressure of
the blood behind the eyeball (Boyd). Homeopathically, it is
indicated in many forms of disease characterized by great
coldness-"arctic" coldness. Colic waves from occiput to feet or
ascending.
Head.--Very depressed. Sensation as if would fall to right side.
Cold band around head; cold pressure within the skull. Eyelids
heavy. Pain beginning in right ear, extending round back of head
to left ear.
Face.--Cold crawling feeling, as if facial muscles were tight.
Mouth.--Tongue cold, tender, and dry. Very thirsty. Swallowing
difficult. Breath cold.
Chest.--Cold feeling in lungs and in heart. Slow labored
thumping of heart.
Back.--Coldness across scapulć. Burning along spine.
Extremities.--Numbness and trembling. Cyanosis of hands.
Coldness. Sensation as if walking on sponge, and as if feet were
swollen. Staggering gait. Cock's gait. When walking, lifts feet
higher than usual, and puts down heel hard. Feet cold as ice or
burn. Stretching relieves pains in muscles and limbs.
Fever.--Internal coldness, as if frozen to death. Cold rings
around body. Cold waves (Abies c; Acon). Cold spots. Arctic
coldness. Temperature subnormal-96° (Camph).
Relationship.--Compare: Lacerta-Green Lizard (skin eruptions.
Vesicles under tongue. Increased mental acumen. Difficult
swallowing. Constant accumulation of saliva in the mouth.
Nausea; violent pressure in stomach). Camphor; Lachesis.
Dose.--Thirtieth potency.
HELONIAS DIOICA
Unicorn-root
(HELONIAS - CHAMAELIRIUM)
Sensation of weakness, dragging and weight in the sacrum and
pelvis, with great languor and prostration, are excellent
indications for this remedy. There is a sensitiveness expressed as
a consciousness of a womb. Tired, backachy females. The
weakness shows itself also in a tendency to prolapse and other
malposition of the womb. The menses are often suppressed and
the kidneys congested. It seems as if the monthly congestion,
instead of venting itself as it should through the uterine vessels,
had extended to the kidneys. With it all, there is a profound
melancholia. Patient must be doing something to engage the
mind. Remember it, for women with prolapsus from atony,
enervated by indolence and luxury (better when attention is
engaged-hence when the doctor comes), or for those worn out
with hard work; tired, strained muscles burn and ache; sleepless.
Diabetes mellitus, and insipidus. Constant aching and tenderness
over kidneys.
Mind.--Profound melancholy. Patient is better when kept busy,
with mind engaged, when doing something. Irritable; cannot
endure the least contradiction.
Head.--Burning sensation on top. Headache, better mental
exertion.
Back.--Pain and weight in back; tired and weak. Aching and
burning across the lumbar region; can trace outlines of kidneys
by constant burning. Boring pain in lumbar region, extending
down legs. Great languor, better exercising.
Female.--Dragging in sacral region, with prolapse, especially
after a miscarriage. Pruritus vulvć. Backache after miscarriage
(Kali c). Weight and soreness in womb; conscious of womb.
Menses too frequent, too profuse. Leucorrhśa. Breasts swollen,
nipples painful and tender. Parts hot, red, swollen; burn and itch
terribly. Albuminuria during pregnancy. Debility attending the
menopause.
Urine.--Albuminous, phosphatic; profuse and clear, saccharine.
Diabetes.
Extremities.--Sensation as if a cool wind streamed up calves of
legs. Feet feel numb when sitting.
Modalities.--Better, when doing something (mental diversion).
Worse, motion, touch.
Relationship.--Compare: Agrimonia-Cockleburr--(painful
kidneys, impaired digestion and menstrual difficulties;
Bronchorrhśa and catarrh of bladder. Cough with profuse
expectoration attended with expulsion of urine. Tincture 1-10
gtt). Aletris; Lilium; Puls; Senecio; Stannum.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth attenuation.
HEPAR SULPHUR
Hahnemann's Calcium Sulphide
(HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM)
Suits especially scrofulous and lymphatic constitutions who are
inclined to have eruptions and glandular swellings. Unhealthy
skin. Blondes with sluggish character and weak muscles. Great
sensitiveness to all impressions. Sweating patient pulling blanket
around him. Locally, it has special affinity to the respiratory
mucous membrane, producing croupous catarrhal inflammation,
profuse secretion; also easy perspiration. After abuse of
Mercury. Infected sinus with pus forming. The tendency to
suppuration is most marked, and has been a strong guiding
symptom in practice. The lesions spread by the formation of
small papules around the side of the old lesion. Chilliness,
hypersensitiveness, splinter-like pains, craving for sour and
strong things are very characteristic. Feeling as if wind were
blowing on some part. The side of the body on which he lies at
night becomes gradually insufferably painful; he must turn.
Pellagra (material doses required). Syphilis after antispecific
gross medication.
Mind.--Anguish in the evening and night, with thoughts of
suicide. The slightest cause irritates him. Dejected and sad.
Ferocious. Hasty speech.
Head.--Vertigo and headache, when shaking the head or riding.
Boring pain in the right temple and in root of nose every
morning. Scalp sensitive and sore. Humid scald-head itching and
burning. Cold sweat on head.
Eyes.--Ulcers on cornea. Iritis, with pus in anterior chamber;
purulent conjunctivitis, with marked chemosis, profuse
discharge, great sensitiveness to touch and air. Eyes and lids red
and inflamed. Pain in the eyes, as if pulled back into the head.
Boring pain in upper bones of the orbits. Eyeballs sore to touch.
Objects appear red and too large. Vision obscured by reading;
field reduced one-half. Bright circles before eyes. Hypopion.
Ears.--Scurfs on and behind the ears. Discharge of fetid pus
from the ears. Whizzing and throbbing in the ears, with hardness
of hearing. Deafness after scarlet fever. Pustules in auditory
canal and auricle. Mastoiditis.
Nose.--Sore, ulcerated. Soreness of nostrils, with catarrhal
troubles. Sneezes every time he goes into a cold, dry wind, with
running from nose, later, thick, offensive discharge. Stopped up
every time he goes out into cold air. Smell like old cheese. Hay-
fever (Hepar 1x will often start secretions and profuse drainage
in stuffy colds).
Face.--Yellowish complexion. Middle of lower lip cracked.
Vesicular erysipelas, with pricking in parts. Neuralgia of right
side, extending in streak into temple, ear, alæ, and lip. Pains in
bones of face, especially when being touched. Ulcers in corners
of mouth. Shooting in jaw on opening mouth.
Mouth.--Ptyalism. Gums and mouth painful to touch and bleed
readily.
Throat.--When swallowing, sensation as if a plug and of a
splinter in throat. Quinsy, with impending suppuration. Stitches
in throat extending to the ear when swallowing. Hawking up of
mucus.
Stomach.--Longing for acids, wine, and strong-tasting food.
Aversion to fat food. Frequent eructations, without taste or
smell. Distention of stomach, compelling one to loosen the
clothing. Burning in stomach. Heaviness and pressure in
stomach after a slight meal.
Abdomen.--Stitching in region of liver when walking,
coughing, breathing, or touching it (Bry; Merc). Hepatitis,
hepatic abscess; abdomen distended, tense; chronic abdominal
affections.
Stool.--Clay-colored and soft. Sour, white, undigested, fetid.
Loss of power to expel even a soft stool.
Urine.--Voided slowly, without force-drops vertically, bladder
weak. Seems as if some always remained. Greasy pellicle on
urine. Bladder difficulties of old men (Phos; Sulph; Copaiva).
Male.--Herpes, sensitive, bleed easily. Ulcers externally on
prepuce similar to chancre (Nitr acid). Excitement and emission
without amorous fancies. Itching of glans, frænum, and scrotum.
Suppurating inguinal glands. Figwarts of offensive odor. Humid
soreness on genitals and between scrotum and thigh. Obstinate
gonorrhœa "does not get well".
Female.--Discharge of blood from uterus. Itching of pudenda
and nipples, worse during menses. Menses late and scanty.
Abscesses of labiæ with great sensitiveness. Extremely offensive
leucorrhœa. Smells like old cheese (Sanicula). Profuse
perspiration at the climacteric (Tilia; Jaborandi).
Respiratory.--Loses voice and coughs when exposed to dry,
cold wind. Hoarseness, with loss of voice. Cough troublesome
when walking. Dry, hoarse cough. Cough excited whenever any
part of the body gets cold or uncovered, or from eating anything
cold. Croup with loose, rattling cough; worse in morning.
Choking cough. Rattling, croaking cough; suffocative attacks;
has to rise up and bend head backwards. Anxious, wheezing,
moist breathing, asthma worse in dry cold air; better in damp.
Palpitation of heart.
Extremities.--Finger-joints swollen; tendency to easy
dislocation. Nail of great toe painful on slight pressure.
Skin.--Abscesses; suppurating glands are very sensitive. Papules
prone to suppurate and extend. Acne in youth. Suppurate with
prickly pain. Easily bleed. Angio-neurotic œdema. Unhealthy
skin; every little injury suppurates. Chapped skin, with deep
cracks on hands and feet. Ulcers, with bloody suppuration,
smelling like old cheese. Ulcers very sensitive to contact,
burning, stinging, easily bleeding. Sweats day and night without
relief. "Cold-sores" very sensitive. Cannot bear to be uncovered;
wants to be wrapped up warmly. Sticking or pricking in afflicted
parts. Putrid ulcers, surrounded by little pimples. Great
sensitiveness to slightest touch. Chronic and recurring urticaria.
Small-pox. Herpes circinatus. Constant offensive exhalation
from the body.
Fever.--Chilly in open air or from slightest draught. Dry heat at
night. Profuse sweat; sour, sticky, offensive.
Modalities.--Worse, from dry cold winds; cool air; slightest
draught, from Mercury, touch; lying on painful side. Better, in
damp weather, from wrapping head up, from warmth, after
eating.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Bellad; Cham; Sil.
Compare: Acon; Spongia; Staphis; Silica; Sulph; Calc sulph;
Myristica. Hepar antidotes bad effects from Mercury, Iodine,
Potash, Cod-liver oil. Removes the weakening effects of ether.
Dose.--First to 200th. The higher potencies may abort
suppuration, the lower promote it. If it is necessary to hasten it,
give 2x.
HEPATICA TRILOBA
Liver-Wort
(HEPATICA)
Pharyngeal catarrh, with profuse, serous sputa and hoarseness.
Tickling and irritation of the throat. Scraping and rough
sensation. Induces free and easy expectoration. Viscid, thick,
tenacious phlegm causes continued hawking. Soreness at the
nostrils. Sensation about epiglottis as if particles of food
remained. Sputa sweet, profuse, creamy.
Dose.--Second potency.
HERACLEUM SPHONDYLIUM
Hogweed
(HERACLEUM - BRANCA URSINA)
Recommended as a spinal stimulant; in epilepsy with flatulency,
gouty and skin symptoms.
Head.--Aches, with drowsiness, worse moving in open air,
better tying up head with cloth. Much fatty perspiration on head
and violent itching. Seborrhśa capitis. Sick headache.
Stomach.--Pain with inclination to vomit. Bitter risings and
taste. Hungry but unable to eat. Abdominal and spleenic pain.
Dose.--Third potency.
HIPPURICUM ACIDUM
Proved by Dr. Wm. B. Griggs
(HIPPURIC ACID)
Its chief action is on the external tissues of the eyes and naso-
pharynx joint surfaces, liver and mucous membranes. Right side
especially affected, general muscular soreness.
Head.--Pain over right eye, dull, constant, worse in warm room.
Eyelids inflamed and swollen.
Throat.--Sore, raw, dry, swallowing difficult, foul odor, gummy
exudate; thickness and infiltration of all tissues around throat.
Stomach.--Acid rising. Lump in pit of stomach. Soreness and
pressure over liver.
Female.--Menstrual flow for three weeks with complete relief of
muscular and joint pains.
Extremities.--Backache extending down hips. Pain in shoulders
and extremities and sore swollen joints. Pain in middle of thigh
posteriorly shooting down right leg. Tired, grating sensation in
the joints.
Skin.--Itching, burning. Papules looking like goose flesh on
chest.
Relationship.--Benzoic acid seems to be an analogue.
Dose.--Lower potencies.
HIPPOMANES
A Meconium Deposit out of the Amniotic Fluid taken from
the Colt
The old famous Aphrodisiacum of the Greek authors.
Stomach.--Icy coldness in stomach.
Male.--Sexual desire increased. Prostatitis. Drawing pain in
testicles.
Extremities.--Violent pain in wrist. Paralysis of wrists.
Sprained sensation in wrist. Great weakness of hands and
fingers. Weakness in joints of feet, knee, and soles. Chorea.
Much weakness after growing too fast.
Relationship.--Compare: Caustic.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
HIPPOZAENINUM
Gladerine-mallein-Farcine
(HIPPOZAENIUM)
This powerful nosode introduced by Dr. J. J. Garth Wilkinson,
covers symptoms which suggest integral parts of consumption,
cancer, syphilis, etc, and promises useful service in the treatment
of ozćna, scrofulous swellings, pyćmia, erysipelas. Chronic
rhinitis; saneous secretion.
Nose.--Red, swollen. Catarrh, ozćna, ulceration. Discharge
acrid, corroding, bloody, offensive. Tubercles on alć nasi.
Papules and ulceration in frontal sinus and pharynx.
Face.--All glands swollen; painful; form abscesses.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness. Bronchial asthma. Noisy breathing;
short, irregular. Cough, with dyspepsia. Excessive secretion.
Suffocation imminent. Bronchitis in the aged, where suffocation
from excessive secretion is imminent. Tuberculosis.
Skin.--Lymphatic swellings. Articular non-fluctuating
swellings. Nodules in arm. Malignant erysipelas. Pustules and
abscesses. Ulcers. Rupia. Eczema.
Relationship.--Compare: Muco-toxin (Cahis' preparation with
the micrococcus catarrhalis. Friedlander's Bacillus of Pneumonia
and the micrococcus tetragenius-for acute and chronic mucous
catarrhs in children and old people); Aur; Kali bich; Psor;
Bacill.
Dose.--Thirtieth potency.
HOMARUS
Digestive Fluid of Live Lobster
Dyspepsia, sore throat, and headache seems to be a combination
that may be controlled by this remedy. Frontal and temporal
pain chiefly, with soreness in eyes. Throat sore, raw, burns, with
tough mucus. Pain in stomach and abdomen, better after eating.
Belching. Chilliness and pain all over. Itching of skin.
Modalities.--Worse, from milk, after sleep. Better, from motion,
after eating.
Relationship.--Compare: Sepia; Asterias; Astacus; Aethusa.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
 HURA BRASILIENSIS
Assacu
Used in leprosy, when skin feels as if it were hide bound Tense
vesicles; sensation of splinter under thumb-nails. Skin of
forehead feels drawn tight. Stiff neck, pain in back. Throbbing
in finger tips. Itching, pimples on all projecting portions of bone,
malar bones, etc.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
Relationship.--Compare Calotropis or Madura album--
(Leprosy; livid and gangrenous tubercles; thickening of the
skin).
HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS
Golden Seal
(HYDRASTIS)
Acts especially on mucous membranes, relaxing them and
producing a thick, yellowish, ropy secretion. The catarrh may be
anywhere,-throat, stomach, uterus, urethra,-it is always
characterized by this peculiar mucous discharge. Hydrastis is
especially active in old, easily-tired people, cachectic
individuals, with great debility. Cerebral effects prominent, feels
his wits sharpened, head cleared, facile expression. Weak
muscular power, poor digestion and obstinate constipation.
Lumbago. Emaciation and prostration. Its action on the liver is
marked. Cancer and cancerous state, before ulceration, when
pain is principal symptom. Goitre of puberty and pregnancy.
Small-pox internally and locally. The power of Hydrastis over
smallpox seen in modifying the disease, abolishing its
distressing symptoms, shortening its course, lessening its danger
and greatly mitigating its consequences (J. J. Garth Wilkinson).
Mind.--Depressed; sure of death, and desires it.
Head.--Dull, pressing frontal pain, especially connected with
constipation. Myalgic pain in scalp and muscles of neck
(Cimicif). Eczema on forehead along line of hair. Sinusitis, after
coryza.
Ears.--Roaring. Muco-purulent discharge. Deafness. Estachian
catarrh, with high-pitched voice.
Nose.--Thick, tenacious secretion from posterior nares to throat.
Watery, excoriating discharge. Ozæna, with ulceration of
septum. Tends to blow nose all the time.
Mouth.--Peppery taste. Tongue white, swollen, large, flabby,
slimy; shows imprint of teeth (Merc); as if scalded; stomatitis.
Ulceration of tongue, fissures toward the edges.
Throat.--Follicular pharyngitis. Raw, smarting, excoriating
sensation. Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus (Kali bich).
Child is aroused suddenly from sleep by this tenacious post-
nasal dropping. Goitre of puberty and pregnancy.
Stomach.--Sore feeling in stomach more or less constant. Weak
digestion. Bitter taste. Pain as from a hard-cornered substance.
Gone feeling. Pulsation in epigastrium. Cannot eat bread or
vegetables. Atonic dyspepsia. Ulcers and cancer. Gastritis.
Abdomen.--Gastro-duodenal catarrh. Liver torpid, tender.
Jaundice. Gallstones. Dull dragging in right groin with cutting
sensation into right testicle.
Back.--Dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiffness, particularly
across lumbar region, must use arms in raising himself from
seat.
Rectum.--Prolapsed; anus fissured. Constipation, with sinking
feeling in stomach, and dull headache. During stool, smarting
pain in rectum. After stool, long-lasting pain (Nit ac).
Hæmorrhoids; even a light flow exhausts. Contraction and
spasm.
Urine.--Gleety discharge. Urine smells decomposed.
Male.--Gonorrhœa, second stage; discharge thick and yellow.
Female.--Erosion and excoriation of cervix. Leucorrhœa, worse
after menses (Bov; Calc c); acrid and corroding, shreddy,
tenacious. Menorrhagia. Pruritus vulvæ, with profuse
leucorrhœa (Calc c; Kreos; Sep). Sexual excitement. Tumor of
breast; nipple retracted.
Respiratory.--Chest raw, sore, burning. Dry, harsh cough.
Bronchial catarrh, later stages. Bronchitis in old, exhausted
persons, with thick, yellow, tenacious expectoration. Frequent
fainty spells, with cold sweat all over. Feels suffocating when
lying on left side. Pain from chest to left shoulder.
Skin.--Eruption like variola. Lupus; ulcers, cancerous
formations. General tendency to profuse perspiration and
unhealthy skin (Hepar).
Relationship.--Antidote: Sulph.
Useful after too much Chlorate of Potash for sore throat.
Compare: Xanthorrhiza apifolia; Kali bich; Conium; Ars iod;
Phytol; Galium (cancer-nodulated tumor of the tongue);
Asterias; Stann; Puls. Also Manzanita (diarrhœa, gonorrhœa,
gleet, leucorrhœa, catarrhal conditions). Hydrastinum
muriaticum-Muriate of Hydrastia (Locally, in aphthous sore
mouth, ulcers, ulcerated sore throat, ozæna, etc. Internally, third
dec trit. Is a uterine hæmostatic and vasoconstrictor;
metrorrhagia, especially from fibroid tumors; hæmorrhages; in
dilatation of the stomach, and chronic digestive disorders).
Hydrastin sulph 1x (hæmorrhage of bowels in typhoid).
Marrubium-Hoarhound--(a stimulant to mucous membranes,
especially laryngeal and bronchial; chronic bronchitis,
dyspepsia, and hepatic disorders; colds and coughs).
Dose.--Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation. Locally colorless.
Hydrastis, mother tincture, or fluid extract.
HYDROCYANICUM ACIDUM
Prussic Acid
(HYDROCYANIC ACID)
One of the most toxic agents known. Convulsions and paralysis
express the action of this remedy. Spasmodic constriction in
larynx, feeling of suffocation, pain and tightness in chest,
palpitation; pulse weak, irregular. Singing sensation at the
epigastrium. Hysterical and epileptic convulsions. Cyanosis.
Collapse, due to some pulmonary condition not a cardiac
collapse. Catalepsy. Cholera. Stage of collapse (Ars; Verat).
Coldness. Tetanus narcolepsy.
Mind.--Unconscious. Wild delirium. Fear of imaginary troubles.
Fears everything-horses, wagons, houses falling, etc.
Head.--Violent stupefying headache. Brain feels on fire. Pupils
motionless or dilated. Supra-orbital neuralgia, with flushing on
same side of face.
Face.--Jaws clenched in rigid spasm. Froths at mouth. Pale,
bluish lips.
Stomach.--Tongue cold. Drink rumbles through throat and
stomach. Gastralgia; worse when stomach is empty. Great
sinking at pit of stomach. Pulsative pain in prćcordial region.
Respiratory.--Noisy and agitated breathing. Dry, spasmodic,
suffocative cough. Asthma, with contraction of throat.
Whooping-cough. Paralysis of lungs (Aspidos). Marked
cyanosis; venously congested lung.
Heart.--Violent palpitation. Pulse, weak irregular. Cold
extremities. Torturing pain in chest. Angina pectoris (Spigel;
Oxal ac).
Sleep.--Yawning with shivering. Irresistible drowsiness. Vivid,
incoherent dreams.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Ammon; Camph; Opium.
Compare: Cicuta; Oenanthe; Camph; Lauroc.
Dose.--Sixth and higher potencies.
HYDRANGEA ARBORESCENS
Seven-barks
(HYDRANGEA)
A remedy for gravel, profuse deposit of white amorphous salts
in urine. Calculus, renal colic, bloody urine. Acts on ureter. Pain
in lumbar region. Dizziness. Oppression of chest.
Urine.--Burning in urethra and frequent desire. Urine hard to
start. Heavy deposit of mucus. Sharp pain in loins, especially
left. Great thirst, with abdominal symptoms and enlarged
prostate (Ferr pic; Sabal). Gravelly deposits. Spasmodic
stricture. Profuse deposit of white amorphous salts.
Relationship.--Compare: Lycopod; Chimaphil; Berberis;
Pareira; Uva; Sabal; Oxydendron; Geum-Water Avens--
(Severe jerking pains from deep in the abdomen to end of
urethra; affections of bladder, with pains in penis; worse, eating;
relaxed mucous membranes, with excessive and depraved
secretions; imperfect digestion and assimilation). Polyctrichum-
Haircap moss--(according to Dr. A. M. Cushing in mother
tincture or infusion for enlarged prostate-prostatitis).
Dose.--Tincture.
HYDROCOTYLE ASIATICA
Indian Pennywort
(HYDROCOTYLE)
Curative in disorders that exhibit interstitial inflammation and
cellular proliferation in any part. Hypertrophy and induration of
connective tissue. Has considerable reputation in leprosy and
lupus, when there is no ulceration. The skin symptoms are very
important. Of great use in ulceration of womb. Difficulty in
maintaining the upright posture. Very copious perspiration.
Pains of cervical cancer.
Face.--Pain in left cheek-bones and about orbits.
Female.--Pruritus of vagina. Inflammation of neck of bladder.
Heat within vagina. Granular ulceration of womb. Profuse
leucorrhœa. Dull pain in ovarian region. Cervical redness.
Skin.--Dry eruptions. Great thickening of epidermoid layer and
exfoliation of scales. Psoriasis gyrate, on trunk and extremities,
palms and soles. Pustules on chest. Circular spots, with scaly
edges. Intolerable itching, especially of soles. Profuse sweat.
Syphilitic affections. Acne. Leprosy. Elephantiasis (Ars). Lupus
non-exedens.
Relationship.--Compare: Elæis-South American Palm--
(scleroderma, elephantiasis, leprosy, skin thickened, itching and
hardened. Anæsthesia). Hura; Trychnos Gaultheriana(bites of
serpents, ulcers and cutaneous affections generally); Hoang-
Nan. Chaulomoogra oil from seed of Taraktogenos; Hydrast;
Arsenic; Aurum; Sepia.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
 HYOSCYAMUS NIGER
Henbane
(HYOSCYAMUS)
Disturbs the nervous system profoundly. It is as if some
diabolical force took possession of the brain and prevented its
functions. It causes a perfect picture of mania of a quarrelsome
and obscene character. Inclined to be unseemly and immodest
in acts, gestures and expressions. Very talkative, and persists in
stripping herself, or uncovering genitals. Is jealous, afraid of
being poisoned, etc. Its symptoms also point to weakness and
nervous agitation; hence typhoid and other infections with coma
vigil. Tremulous weakness and twitching of tendons. Subsultus
tendinum. Muscular twitchings, spasmodic affections, generally
with delirium. Non-inflammatory cerebral activity. Toxic
gastritis.
Mind.--Very suspicious. Talkative, obscene, lascivious mania,
uncovers body; jealous, foolish. Great hilarity; inclined to laugh
at everything. Delirium, with attempt to run away. Low,
muttering speech; constant carphologia, deep stupor.
Head.--Feels light and confused. Vertigo as if intoxicated. Brain
feels loose, fluctuating. Inflammation of brain, with
unconsciousness; head is shaken to and fro.
Eyes.--Pupils dilated, sparkling, fixed. Eyes open, but does not
pay attention; downcast and dull, fixed. Strabismus. Spasmodic
closing of lids. Diplopia. Objects have colored borders.
Mouth.--Tongue dry, red, cracked, stiff and immovable,
protruded with difficulty; speech impaired. Foams at mouth.
Teeth covered with sordes. Lower jaw drops.
Throat.--Stinging dryness. Constriction. Cannot swallow
liquids. Uvula elongated.
Stomach.-- Hiccough, eructations empty, bitter. Nausea, with
vertigo. Vomiting, with convulsions; hæmatemesis; violent
cramps, relieved by vomiting; burning in stomach; epigastrium
tender. After irritating food.
Abdomen.--Colic, as if abdomen would burst. Distention. Colic,
with vomiting, belching, hiccough screaming. Tympanites. Red
spots on abdomen.
Stool.--Diarrhœa, colicky, pains; involuntary, aggravated by
mental excitement or during sleep. Diarrhœa during the lying-in
period. Involuntary defecation.
Urine.--Involuntary micturition. Bladder paralyzed. Has no will
to urinate (Caust).
Male.--Impotence. Lascivious; exposes his person; plays with
genitals during fever.
Female.--Before menses, hysterical spasms. Excited sexual
desire. During menses, convulsive movements, urinary flux and
sweat. Lochia suppressed. Spasms of pregnant women.
Puerperal mania.
Chest.--Suffocating fits. Spasm, forcing bending forward. Dry,
spasmodic cough at night (worse lying down; better sitting up),
from itching in the throat, as if uvula were too long.
Hæmoptysis.
Extremities.--Picking at bed-clothes; plays with hands; reaches
out for things. Epileptic attacks ending in deep sleep. Spasms
and convulsions. Cramps in calves and toes. Child sobs and cries
without waking.
Sleep.--Intense sleeplessness. Sopor, with convulsions. Starts up
frightened. Coma vigil.
Nerves.--Great restlessness; every muscle twitches. Will not be
covered.
Modalities.--Worse, at night, during menses, after eating, when
lying down. Better, stooping.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Bell; Camph.
Compare: Bellad; Stram; Agaric; Gels.
Hyosc hydrobrom.--Scopolamine hydrobromide (Paralysis
agitans); tremors of disseminated sclerosis. Sleeplessness and
nervous agitation. Dry cough in phthisis. Similar in its effects to
alcohol, both recent and remote. Corresponds to the effects of
strong poisons introduced into or generated within the body.
Symptoms of uræmia and acute nervous exhaustion. A remedy
for shock. Third and fourth dec trituration. In physiological
dosage (1-200 gr) mania and chorea; insomnia. Scopola
(Japanese Belladonna)-chemically identical with Hyoscine
(Joyous delirium, licking of lips and smacking of mouth;
sleepless; tries to get out of bed; sees cats, picks imaginary hairs,
warms hands before imaginary fire, etc).
Dose.--Sixth, to 200th potency.
HYPERICUM PERFORATUM
St. John's-wort
(HYPERICUM)
The great remedy for injuries to nerves, especially of fingers,
toes and nails. Crushed fingers, especially tips. Excessive
painfulness is a guiding symptom to its use. Prevents lockjaw.
Punctured wounds. Relieves pain after operations. Quite
supersedes the use of Morphia after operations (Helmuth).
Spasms after every injury. Has an important action on the
rectum; hćmorrhoids. Coccydynia. Spasmodic asthmatic attacks
with changes of weather or before storms, better by copious
expectoration. Injured nerves from bites of animals. Tetanus.
Neuritis, tingling, burning and numbness. Constant drowsiness.
Mind.--Feels as if lifted high in air, or anxiety lest he fall from
heights. Mistakes in writing. Effects of shock. Melancholy.
Head.--Heavy; feels as if touched by an icy cold hand.
Throbbing in vertex; worse in close room. Brain seems
compressed. Right side of face aches. Brain-fag and
neurasthenia. Facial neuralgia and toothache of a pulling, tearing
character, with sadness. Head feels longer-elongated to a point.
In fractured skull, bone splinters. Brain feels alive. Pains in eyes
and ears. Falling out of hair.
Stomach.--Craving for wine. Thirst; Nausea. Tongue coated
white at base, tip clean. Feeling of lump in stomach (Abies nig;
Bry).
Rectum.--Urging, dry, dull, pressing pain. Hćmorrhoids, with
pain, bleeding, and tenderness.
Back.--Pain in nape of neck. Pressure over sacrum. Spinal
concussion. Coccyx injury from fall, with pain radiating up
spine and down limbs. Jerking and twitching of muscles.
Extremities.--Darting pain in shoulders. Pressure along ulnar
side of arm. Cramp in calves. Pain in toes and fingers, especially
in tips. Crawling in hand and feet. Lancinating pain in upper and
lower limbs. Neuritis, with tingling, burning pain, numbness and
flossy skin. Joints feel bruised. Hysterical joints. Tetanus
(Physost; Kali brom). Traumatic neuralgia and neuritis.
Respiratory.--Asthma worse foggy weather and relieved by
profuse perspiration.
Skin.--Hyperidrosis, sweating of scalp, worse in morning after
sleep; falling of hair from injury; eczema of hands and face,
intense itching, eruption seems to be under the skin. Herpes
zoster. Old ulcers or sores in mouth when very sensitive.
Lacerated wounds with much prostration from loss of blood.
Modalities.--Worse, in cold; dampness; in a fog; in close room;
least exposure; touch. Better, bending head backward.
Relationship.--Compare: Ledum (punched wounds and bites of
animals); Arnica; Staphis; Calend; Ruta; Coff.
Antidotes: Ars; Cham.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
IBERIS AMARA
Bitter Candytuft
(IBERIS)
State of nervous excitement. Has marked action upon the heart.
Possesses great efficacy in cardiac diseases. Control vascular
excitement in hypertrophy with thickening of the heart's walls.
Cardiac debility after influenza. Liver region full and painful.
White stools.
Mind.--Sad and sighing; fearful and trembling. Irritable.
Head.--Vertigo and pains around heart. Constant hawking of
thick, stringy mucus until after a meal. Hot, flushed face.
Vertigo, as if occiput were turning around; eyes feel forced
outwards.
Heart.--Conscious of heart's action. On turning on left side,
stitching pain as of needles through ventricles felt at each
systole. Palpitation, with vertigo and choking in throat. Stitching
pains in cardiac region. Pulse full, irregular, intermittent.
Worse, least motion and in warm room. Sensation of weight and
pressure, with occasional sharp, stinging pains. Dropsy, with
enlarged heart. Violent palpitation induced by slightest exertion,
or by laughing, or coughing. Darting pains through heart.
Cardiac dyspnśa. Dilation of heart. Wakes with palpitation
about 2 am. Throat and trachea fills up with mucus. Cough
causes redness of face. Tachycardia.
Extremities.--Numbness and tingling in left hand and arm.
Whole body sore, lame and trembling.
Modalities.--Worse, lying down; on left side; motion, exertion;
warm room.
Relationship.--Compare: Cact; Dig; Amyl; Bell.
Dose.--Tincture and first potency.
ICHTHYOLUM
A Combination of Sulphonated Hydrocarbons, a Fossil
Product of Complex Structure found in Tyrol, supposed to
be Fish Deposits, contains 10 % Sulphur.
Its action on skin, mucous membranes, and kidneys is prompt
and useful. It is strongly antiparasitic; redness, pain and
inflammation; decreases tension. Excellent in winter coughs of
old people. Polyarthritis. Chronic rheumatism. Uric acid
diathesis. Hay-fever. Chronic hives. Tuberculosis, aids
nutrition. Alcoholism when nothing will stay on stomach.
Mind.--Irritable and depressed. Forgetful, lack of concentration.
Head.--Dull, aching; better cold, pressure. Dull frontal and
supra-orbital headache; worse moving eyes, cold air; better,
warmth.
Face.--Skin feels dry and itches. Acne on chin.
Throat.--Irritated; pain to ears; sore, dry, with hawking and
expectoration.
Eyes.--Burn, red; worse, any change of temperature.
Nose.--Bland coryza; stuffed feeling; feels sore inside.
Irresistible desire to sneeze.
Stomach.--Disagreeable taste, burning sensation, very thirsty.
Nausea. Increased appetite.
Abdomen.--Disposition to soft, shapeless stools. Griping in
umbilical and left hypogastric region. Early morning diarrhśa.
Urine.--Increased in quantity and frequency. Burning pain in
meatus. Uric acid deposits.
Female.--Fullness in lower abdomen. Nausea at time of menses.
Respiratory.--Coryza; dry, teasing cough. Bronchiectasis and
phthisis. Bronchitis, especially of the aged.
Skin.--Heat and irritation; itching. Scaly and itching eczema.
Crops of boils. Pruritus of pregnancy. Psorisis, Acne, rosacea,
erysipelas.
Extremities.--Lameness in right shoulder and right lower
extremity.
Relationship.--Compare: Hepar; Calc; Silica; Sulph; Ars;
Petrol.
Dose.--Lower potencies.
Externally, it is used as an ointment, with Lanoline 20 to 50 per
cent; for chronic eczema and psoriasis, also acne rosacea and
gouty joints. Chilblains, scabies. Rectal suppositories for senile
prostate.
ICTODES FOETIDA
Skunk-cabbage-Ictodes
(POTHOS FOETIDUS)
For asthmatic complaints; worse from inhaling any dust.
Hysteria. Erratic spasmodic pains. "Will-o'-the-wisp" like
character of its subjective symptoms and its physometric
property are special features (Samuel Jones). Inflation and
tension in the abdomen. Millar's asthma.
Head.--Absent-minded, irritable. Headache in single spots, with
violent pulsation of temporal arteries. Outward drawing from
glabella. Better in open air (Puls). Red swelling across the
bridge of the nose.
Abdomen.--Inflation and tension in abdomen.
Respiratory.--Spasmodic croup. Troublesome respiration, with
sudden feeling of anguish and sweat.
Sneezing, with pain in throat. Pain in chest, with difficult
breathing. Tongue feels numb. Asthma; relieved by stool.
Dose.--Tincture and lower potencies.
IGNATIA AMARA
St. Ignatius Bean
(IGNATIA)
Produces a marked hyperæsthesia of all the senses, and a
tendency to clonic spasms. Mentally, the emotional element is
uppermost, and co-ordination of function is interfered with.
Hence, it is one of the chief remedies for hysteria. It is especially
adapted to the nervous temperament-women of sensitive, easily
excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in
execution. Rapid change of mental and physical condition,
opposite to each other. Great contradictions. Alert, nervous,
apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in
mind or body, at the same time made worse by drinking coffee.
The superficial and erratic character of its symptoms is most
characteristic. Effects of grief and worry. Cannot bear tobacco.
Pain is small, circumscribed spots (Oxal ac). The plague.
Hiccough and hysterical vomiting.
Mind.--Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding.
Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and
sobbing. After shocks, grief, disappointment.
Head.--Feels hollow, heavy; worse, stooping. Headache as if a
nail were driven out through the side. Cramp-like pain over root
of nose. Congestive headaches following anger or grief; worse,
smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines head forward.
Eyes.--Asthenopia, with spasms of lids and neuralgic pain about
eyes (Nat m). Flickering zigzags.
Face.--Twitching of muscles of face and lips. Changes color
when at rest.
Mouth.--Sour taste. Easily bites inside of cheeks. Constantly
full of saliva. Toothache; worse after drinking coffee and
smoking.
Throat.--Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed.
Tendency to choke, globus hystericus. Sore throat; stitches when
not swallowing; better, eating something solid. Stitches between
acts of swallowing. Stitches extend to ear (Hep). Tonsils
inflamed, swollen, with small ulcers. Follicular tonsillitus.
Stomach.--Sour eructation. All-gone feeling in stomach; much
flatulence; hiccough. Cramps in stomach; worse slightest
contact. Averse to ordinary diet; longs for great variety of
indigestible articles. Craving for acid things. Sinking in stomach,
relieved by taking a deep breath.
Abdomen.--Rumbling in bowels. Weak feeling in upper
abdomen. Throbbing in abdomen (Aloe; Sang). Colicky, griping
pains in one or both sides of abdomen.
Rectum.--Itching and stitching up the rectum. Prolapse. Stools
pass with difficulty; painful constriction of anus after stool.
Stitches in hæmorrhoids during cough. Diarrhœa from fright.
Stitches from anus deep into rectum. Hæmorrhage and pain;
worse when stool is loose. Pressure as of a sharp instrument
from within outward.
Urine.--Profuse, watery (Phos ac).
Respiratory.--Dry, spasmodic cough in quick successive
shocks. Spasm of glottis (Calc). Reflex coughs. Coughing
increases the desire to cough. Much sighing. Hollow spasmodic
cough, worse in the evening, little expectoration, leaving pain in
trachea.
Female.--Menses, black, too early, too profuse, or scanty.
During menses great languor, with spasmodic pains in stomach
and abdomen. Feminine sexual frigidity. Suppression from grief.
Extremities.--Jerking of limbs. Pain in tendo-Achillis and calf.
Ulcerative pain in soles.
Sleep.--Very light. Jerking of limbs on going to sleep. Insomnia
from grief, cares, with itching of arms and violent yawning.
Dreams continuing a long time; troubling him.
Fever.--Chill, with thirst; not relieved by external heat. During
fever, itching; nettle-rash all over body.
Skin.--Itching, nettle-rash. Very sensitive to draught of air.
Excoriation, especially around vagina and mouth.
Modalities.--Worse, in the morning, open air, after meals,
coffee, smoking, liquids, external warmth. Better, while eating,
change of position.
Relationship.--Compare: Zinc; Kali phos; Sep; Cimicif.
Panacea arvensis--Poor man's Mercury--(Sensitiveness over
gastric region with hunger but an aversion to food).
Complementary: Nat mur.
Incompatible: Coffea; Nux; Tabac.
Antidotes: Puls; Cham; Cocc.
Dose.--Sixth, to 200th potency.
ILEX AQUIFOLIUM
American Holly
Intermittent fever. Marked eye symptoms, spleen pain. All
symptoms better in winter.
Eye.--Infiltration of cornea; staphyloma; nightly burning in
orbits, rheumatic inflammation of eye; psilosis.
Relationship.--Ilex Paraguayensis-Yerba Mate--(Persistent
epigastric pain; sense of dryness of mouth and pharynx,
anorexia, pyrosis, nervous depression, neurasthenia.
Somnolence; incapacity for work, diminution of urinary
secretion, headache and pruritus. Hemicrania. Renal colic. Is
said to be of use as a prophylactic against sunstroke, being a safe
stimulant to the circulation, to diaphoresis and diuresis). Ilex
vomitoria--Yaupon--(Emetic properties-Possesses also tonic and
digestive qualities, free from sleepless effects. Has an active
principle said to act as a powerful diuretic-employed in nephritis
and gout). Ilex Cassine--(Christmas berry Tea)-Excellent
diuretic and substitute for tea.
 INDIUM METALLICUM
The Metal Indium
(INDIUM)
Headaches and migraine. Seminal emissions. Backache.
Head.--Pain in head when straining at stool. Bursting in head
during stool. Dull pains in temples and forehead, with nausea,
weakness, sleepiness. Gone feeling in stomach about 11 am.
Violent attack of sneezing. Sexual psychopathy.
Face.--Painful suppurating pimples. Corners of mouth cracked
and sore (Condur).
Male.--Horribly offensive smell of urine after standing a short
time. Emissions too frequent. Diminished power. Testicles
tender; drawing pains along spermatic cord.
Throat.--Uvula enlarged, ulcerated; thick, tough mucus in back
part of pharynx. Worse evening.
Extremities.--Stiffness in neck and shoulders. Pain, especially
in left arm. Legs restless and weary. Toes itch (Agar).
Dose.--Sixth to 200th potency.
Relationship.--Compare: Selenium; Titanium (male sexual
organs).
INDIGO TINCTORIA
Indigo--Dye-stuff
(INDIGO)
Marked action on the nervous system, and of undoubted benefit
in the treatment of epilepsy with great sadness. Excited mood
and desire to be busy. Neurasthenia and hysteria. Pure powdered
Indigo placed on the wound cures snake and spider poison (Kali
permang; Golondrina; Cedron). Stricture of śsophagus; blue
color (Cupr).
Head.--Vertigo with nausea. Convulsions. Sensation of a band
around forehead. Undulating sensation through whole head.
Sensation as if brain were frozen. Gloomy; cries at night. Hair
feels pulled from vertex. Head feels frozen.
Nose.--Excessive sneezing and bleeding from nose.
Ears.--Pressure and roaring.
Stomach.--Metallic taste. Eructations. Bloating. Anorexia.
Flushes of heat rising from stomach to head.
Rectum.--Falling of rectum. Aroused at night with horrible
itching at anus.
Urinary.--Constant desire to urinate. Urine turbid. Catarrh of
bladder.
Extremities.--Sciatica. Pain from middle of thigh to knee.
Boring pain in knee-joint; better, walking. Pain in limbs worse
after every meal.
Nerves.--Hysterical symptoms where pain predominates
Excessive nervous irritation. Epilepsy; flashes of heat from
abdomen to head; fit begins with dizziness. Aura from a painful
spot between shoulders. Reflex spasms from worms.
Modalities.--Worse, during rest and sitting. Better, pressure,
rubbing, motion.
Relationship.--Compare: Cuprum; Śstrus cameli, an Indian
medicine for epilepsy.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
INDOLUM
A Crystalline Compound Derivable from Indigo, but also a
product of Putrefaction of Proteids
(INDOL)
Primary action is to increase the elimination of Indican. Auto-
intoxication. Compare: Skatol.
Persistent desire to sleep, dull, discontented mental state,
hideous, delusions and nervousness, constant motion of fingers
and feet. Intestinal putrefaction.
Head.--Dull occipital and frontal headache in afternoon. Dull
sensation over eyes. Eyeballs hot and hurt when moved. Pupils
dilated with headache.
Stomach.--Bloated feeling. Hungry sensation after full meal.
Great thirst. Constipation.
Extremities.--Very tired and sore in lower limbs. Feet burn.
Knee-joints sore.
Sleep.--Sleepiness. Continuous dreaming.
Dose.--Sixth attenuation.
INSULINUM
An active principle from the pancreas which affects sugar
metabolism
(INSULIN)
Besides the use of Insulin in the treatment of diabetes, restoring
the lost ability to oxidize carbohydrate and again storing
glycogen in the liver, some use of it homeopathically has been
made by Dr. Wm. F. Baker, showing its applicability in acne,
carbuncles, erythema with itching eczema. In the gouty,
transitory glycosuria when skin manifestations are persistent
give three times daily after eating. Given a persistent case of
skin irritation, boils or varicose ulceration with polyuria, it is
indicated.
Dose.--3x to 30x.
 INULA HELENIUM
Scabwort
(INULA)
A mucous membrane medicine. Bearing-down sensations in
pelvic organs and bronchial symptoms are most marked.
Substernal pain. Diabetes.
Head.--Vertigo on stooping; throbbing after eating, pressure in
temples and forehead.
Respiratory.--Dry cough; worse at night and lying down;
larynx painful. Chronic bronchitis; cough, with much thick
expectoration, with languor and weak digestion. Stitches behind
sternum. Teasing cough with much and free expectoration.
Palliative in tubercular laryngitis.
Female.--Menses too early and painful. Labor-like pains; urging
to stool; dragging in genitals, with violent backache. Itching of
legs during menses, chattering of teeth from cold during
menstruation. Moving about in abdomen, stitches in genitals.
Chronic metritis.
Rectum.--Pressing toward rectum as of something extruding.
Urinary.--Frequent urging to urinate; passes only in drops.
Violet odor (Tereb).
Extremities.--Pain in right shoulder and wrist; tearing in left
palm, unable to double fingers; pain in lower limbs, feet and
ankles.
Relationship.--Compare: Crocus; Ignatia; Arum dracontium
(loose cough worse at night on lying down).
Dose.--First to third potency.
 IODIUM
Iodine
(IODUM)
Rapid metabolism: Loss of flesh great appetite. Hungry with
much thirst. Better after eating. Great debility, the slightest
effort induces perspiration. Iod individual is exceedingly thin,
dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has
voracious appetite but gets thin. Tubercular type.
All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory system
are especially affected; they atrophy. Iodine arouses the
defensive apparatus of the system by assembling the
mononuclear leucocytes whose phagocytic action is marked, at a
given point. Lead poisoning. Tremor. Iodine craves cold air.
Acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation. Arthritis
deformans. Acts prominently on connective tissue. The plague.
Goitre. Abnormal vaso-constriction, capillary congestion
followed by śdema, ecchymosis, hćmorrhages, and nutritive
disturbances are the pathological conditions at the basis of its
symptomatology. Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in
many of its aspects. Acute catarrh of all mucous membranes,
rapid emaciation, notwithstanding good appetite, and glandular
atrophy call for this remedy, in numerous wasting diseases and
in scrofulous patients. Acute affections of the respiratory organs.
Pneumonia, rapid extension. Iodine is warm, and wants cool
surroundings. Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs.
Adenoid vegetations. Tincture internally and locally to swollen
glands and rattlesnake bites.
Mind.--Anxiety when quiet. Present anxiety and depression, no
reference to the future. Sudden impulse to run and do violence.
Forgetful. Must be busy. Fear of people, shuns every one.
Melancholy. Suicidal tendency.
Head.--Throbbing; rush of blood, and feeling of a tight band.
Vertigo; worse from stooping, worse in warm room. Chronic,
congestive headache of old people (Phos).
Eyes.--Violent lachrymation. Pain in eyes. Pupil dilated.
Constant motion of eyeballs. Acute dacryocystitis.
Nose.--Sneezing. Sudden violent influenza. Dry coryza becomes
fluent in open air, also a fluent hot coryza with general heat of
skin. Pain at root of nose and frontal sinus. Nose stopped up.
Tendency to ulceration. Loss of smell. Acute nasal engorgement
associated with high blood pressure.
Mouth.--Gums loose and bleed easily. Foul ulcers and
salivation. Profuse, fetid ptyalism. Tongue thickly coated.
Offensive odor from mouth.
Throat.--Larynx feels constricted. Eustachian deafness. Thyroid
enlarged. Goitre, with sensation of constriction. Swollen
submaxillary glands. Uvula swollen.
Stomach.--Throbbing at pit of stomach. Ravenous hunger and
much thirst. Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were
turned into gas. Anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina;
Sulph). Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well (Abrot).
Abdomen.--Liver and spleen sore and enlarged. Jaundice.
Mesenteric glands enlarged. Pancreatic disease. Cutting pain in
abdomen.
Stool.--Hćmorrhage at every stool. Diarrhśa, whitish, frothy,
fatty. Constipation, with ineffectual urging; better by drinking
cold milk. Constipation alternating with diarrhśa (Ant cr).
Urine.--Frequent and copious, dark yellow-green (Bovista),
thick, acrid with cuticle on surface.
Male.--Testicles swollen and indurated. Hydrocele. Loss of
sexual power, with atrophied testes.
Female.--Great weakness during menses (Alum; Carbo an;
Coccul; Hćmatox). Menstruation irregular. Uterine hćmorrhage.
Ovaritis (Apis; bell; Lach). Wedge-like pain from ovary to
uterus. Dwindling of mammary glands. Nodosities in skin of
mammć. Acrid leucorrhśa, thick, slimy, corroding the linen.
Wedge-like pain in the right ovarian region.
Respiratory.--Hoarse. Raw and tickling feeling provoking a dry
cough. Pain in larynx. Laryngitis, with painful roughness; worse
during cough. Child grasps throat when coughing. Right-sided
pneumonia with high temperature. Difficult expansion of chest,
blood-streaked sputum; internal dry heat, external coldness.
Violent heart action. Pneumonia. Hepatization spreads rapidly
with persistent high temperature; absence of pain in spite of
great involvement, worse warmth; craves cool air. Croup in
scrofulous children with dark hair and eyes (Brom opposite).
Inspiration difficult. Dry, morning cough, from tickling in
larynx. Croupy cough, with difficult respiration; wheezy. Cold
extends downwards from head to throat and bronchi. Great
weakness about chest. Palpitation from least exertion. Pleuritic
effusion. Tickling all over chest. Iod cough is worse indoors, in
warm, wet weather, and when lying on back.
Heart.--Heart feels squeezed. Myocarditis, painful compression
around heart. Feels as if squeezed by an iron hand (Cactus)
followed by great weakness and faintness. Palpitation from least
exertion. Tachycardia.
Extremities.--Joints inflamed and painful. Pain in bones at
night. White swelling. Gonorrhśal rheumatism. Rheumatism of
nape and upper extremities. Cold hands and feet. Acrid sweat of
feet. Pulsation in large arterial trunks. Rheumatic pains, nightly
pains in joints; constrictive sensations.
Skin.--Hot, dry, yellow and withered. Glands enlarged.
Nodosities. Anasarca of cardiac disease.
Fever.--Flushes of heat all over body. Marked fever,
restlessness, red cheeks, apathetic. Profuse sweat.
Modalities.--Worse, when quiet, in warm room, right side.
Better, walking about, in open air.
Relationship.--Yatren. Iod pathogenesis is similar to that of
Carbol acid. Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph; Gratiola.
Complementary: Lycopod; Badiaga.
Compare: Brom; Hepar; Mercur; Phosph; Abrot; Nat mur;
Sanic; Tuber.
Dose.--The crude drug in saturated solution may be required.
Third to thirtieth potency. Ioduretted solution of Potass iod (35
grains Potassa and 4 grains Iodine to 1 oz of water, 10 drops
three times a day) expels tapeworms dead.
Locally the most powerful, least harmful and easily managed
microbicide. Ideal agent to keep wounds clean and disinfected.
Bites of insects, reptiles, etc. Gunshot wounds and compound
fractures, excellent. Great skin disinfectant.
IODOFORMIUM
Iodoform
(IODOFORMUM)
Should not be forgotten in the treatment of tubercular
meningitis, both as a local application to the head and internally
(Bacil). Tuberculous conditions. Subacute and chronic diarrhœa
of children.
Head.--Sharp, neuralgic pain. Head feels heavy, as if it could
not be lifted from pillow. Itching of occiput. Meningitis. Sleep
interrupted by sighing and cries. Very drowsy.
Eyes.--Pupils, dilated; contract unequally, react poorly.
Diplopia. Failing sight due to retro-bulbar neuritis, central
scotoma-partial atrophy of optic disc.
Chest.--Sore pain in apex of right lung. Feeling of a weight on
chest, as if smothering. Cough and wheezing on going to bed.
Pain in left breast, like a hand grasping at the base of the heart.
Hæmoptysis. Asthmatic breathing.
Abdomen.--Scaphoid abdomen. Chronic diarrhœa with
suspected tuberculosis. Abdomen distended; mesenteric glands
enlarged. Cholera infantum. Chronic diarrhœa; stools greenish,
watery, undigested, with irritable temper.
Extremities.--Legs weak; cannot stand and walk with eyes
closed. Weakness of knees when going upstairs.
Dose.--Second trituration. Three grains on the back of the
tongue will relieve attack of asthmatic breathing.
IPECACUANHA
Ipecac-root
(IPECA)
The chief action is on the ramifications of the pneumogastric
nerve, producing spasmodic irritation in chest and stomach.
Morphia habit. The principal feature of Ipecacuanha is its
persistent nausea and vomiting, which form the chief guiding
symptoms. Indicated after indigestible food, raisins, cakes, etc.
Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who are feeble
and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere; warm, moist weather.
Spasmodic affections. Hæmorrhages bright-red and profuse.
Mind.--Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires,
for what they know not.
Head.--Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to
teeth and root of tongue.
Eyes.--Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse
lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of
vision constantly changing. Spasm of accommodation from
irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from looking on
moving objects.
Face.--Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with
lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.
Nose.--Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.
Stomach.--Tongue usually clean. Mouth, moist; much saliva.
Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face.
Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed, as if
hanging down. Hiccough.
Abdomen.--Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining
pain so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching;
worse, around the navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.
Stools.--Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with
griping at navel. Dysenteric, slimy.
Female.--Uterine hæmorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with
nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. Pain from navel to uterus.
Menses too early and too profuse.
Respiratory.--Dyspnœa; constant constriction in chest. Asthma.
Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued
sneezing; coryza; wheezing cough. Cough incessant and violent,
with every breath. Chest seems full of phlegm, but does not
yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. Suffocative cough; child
becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with
nosebleed, and from mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea;
feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hæmoptysis from
slightest exertion (Millef). Hoarseness, especially at end of a
cold. Complete aphonia.
Fever.--Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine.
Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnœa.
Relapses from improper diet.
Sleep.--With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to
sleep (Ign).
Extremities.--Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic
jerking of arms towards each other.
Skin.--Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Miliary rash.
Modalities.--Worse, periodically; from veal, moist warm wind,
lying down.
Relationship.--Compare: Emetine-principal alkaloid of Ipecac
(A powerful amebicide, but is not a bactericide. Specific for
amæbiasis; of remarkable value in treatment of amæbic
dysentery; also as a remedy in pyorrhea, 1/2 gr daily for three
days, then less. Emetin, 1/2 gr hypodermically, in Psoriasis.
Emetin hydroch. 2x, diarrhœa with colicky, abdominal pains and
nausea. Emetin for endamoebic dysentery. In physiological
doses must be carefully watched. May produce hepatization of
lungs, rapid heart action, tendency for the head to fall forward
and lobar pneumonia. In hæmatemesis and other hæmorrhages,
compare: Gelatin which has a marked effect on the coagulability
of the blood. Hypodermically; or if by mouth, a 10 per cent
jelly, about 4 oz, three times a day) Arsenic; Cham; Puls; Tart
em; Squill. Convolvulus (colic and diarrhœa). Typha latifolia-
Cat-tail flag (dysentery, diarrhœa) and summer complaint.
Euphorbia hypericifolia--Garden Spurge--(Very similar to
Ipecac. Irritation of the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tracts
and female organs). Lippia mexicana--(Persistent dry, hard,
bronchial cough--asthma and chronic bronchitis).
In Asthma, compare: Blatta orientalis.
Antidotes: Arsenic; China; Tabac.
Complementary: Cuprum; Arn.
Dose.--Third to 200th potency.
IRIDIUM METALLICUM
The Metal
(IRIDIUM)
Intestinal putrefaction and septicćmia. Anćmia, increases red
corpuscles. Epilepsy; lupus. Rheumatism and gout. Uterine
tumors. Spinal paresis. Exhaustion after disease. Children who
are puny, weak-limbed, and grow too fast. Nephritis of
pregnancy.
Head.--Difficult concentration of thought. Sensation as if mind
were void. Though confused. "Woodeny" feeling in right side of
head. Right side of scalp sensitive. Profuse, watery coryza,
better indoors. Ozćna.
Respiratory.--Hoarse cough, worse talking; posterior nares feel
raw, inflamed, profuse, thick, yellowish discharge. Chronic
laryngeal catarrh.
Back and extremities.--Weakness in the kidney region. Spinal
paresis, especially for the aged and after disease. Pressing in
groin and left thigh. Tension in both thighs, especially left.
Dislocated feeling in left hip-joint and dull pain toward left
gluteal region.
Relationship.--Compare: Iridium chloride (Produces salivation
and stiffness of jaws followed by head and nervous symptoms.
Congestion of nares and bronchi. Dragging pain in lower back.
Headache worse right side, heavy feeling as of liquid lead).
Compare: Platina; Palladium; Osmium.
Dose.--Sixth and higher.
IRIS VERSICOLOR
Blue Flag
Thyroid, pancreas, salivary, intestinal glands, and gastro-
intestinal mucous membrane, are especially affected. Increases
the flow of bile. Sick headaches and cholera morbus are a
special therapeutic field for its action.
Head.--Frontal headache, with nausea. Scalp feels constricted.
Right temples especially affected. Sick headache, worse rest;
begins with a blur before eyes, after relaxing from a mental
strain. Pustular eruption on scalp.
Ears.--Roaring, buzzing, ringing in ears, with deafness. Aural
vertigo, with intense noises in ears.
Face.--Neuralgia after breakfast, beginning in infra-orbital
nerve, and involving whole face.
Throat.--Mouth and tongue feel scalded. Heat and smarting in
throat. Burning. Profuse flow of saliva; ropy. Goitre.
Stomach.--Burning of whole alimentary canal. Vomiting, sour
bloody, biliary. Nausea. Profuse flow of saliva (Merc; Ipec; Kali
iod). Deficient appetite.
Abdomen.--Liver sore. Cutting pain. Flatulent colic. Diarrhœa;
stools watery, with burning at anus and through intestinal canal.
Periodical night diarrhœa, with pain and green discharges.
Constipation (give 30th)
Extremities.--Shifting pains. Sciatica, as if left hip-joint were
wrenched. Pain extends to popliteal space. Gonorrhœal
rheumatism (use Irisin).
Skin.--Herpes zoster, associated with gastric derangements.
Pustular eruptions. Psoriasis; irregular patches with shining
scales. Eczema, with nightly itching.
Modalities.--Worse, in evening and at night, from rest. Better,
from continued motion.
Relationship.--Antidote: Nux.
Compare: Iris florentina-Orris-root--(delirium, convulsions, and
paralysis); Iris factissima (headache and hernia); Iris germanica-
Blue Garden Iris--(dropsy and freckles); Iris tenax-I. minor--
(dry mouth; deathly sensation at point of stomach, pain in ileo-
cæcal region; appendicitis. Pain from adhesions after).
Pancreatinum-a combination of several enzymes--(Indicated in
intestinal indigestion; pain an hour or more after eating.
Lienteric diarrhœa. Dose.--3-5 grains, better not given during
the active period of stomachic digestion). Pepsinum--(Imperfect
digestion with pain in gastric region. Marasmus of children who
are fed on artificial foods. Diarrhœa due to indigestion. Dose.--
3-4 grains) (Diseases of pancreas, gout, diabetes); Ipec; Podoph;
Sanguin; Ars; Ant cr.
Dose.--Tincture to thirtieth potency. Favorable reports from the
very highest potencies.
JABORANDI
Jaborandi
(PILOCARPUS MICROPHYLLUS)
Pilocarpus is a powerful glandular stimulant and the most
efficient diaphoretic. Its most important effects are diaphoresis,
salivation and myosis. Hot flushes, nausea, salivation and
profuse perspiration. The face, ears and neck become in a few
minutes after a dose of Jaborandi deeply flushed, and drops of
perspiration break out all over the body whilst at the same time
the mouth waters and saliva pours out in an almost continuous
stream. Other secretions, lachrymal, nasal bronchial and
intestinal also but in less degree. The sweat and saliva produced
by a single dose is often enormous in quantity, not infrequently
half a pint.
Is homeopathic to abnormal sweats, and has achieved great
success in night-sweats of consumptives. Acts upon the thyroid
and its sudorific action may possibly be due to it. Exophthalmic
goitre, with increased heart's action and pulsation of arteries;
tremors and nervousness; heat and sweating; bronchial irritation.
A valuable remedy in limiting the duration of mumps.
Eyes.--Eye strain from whatever cause. Irritability of the ciliary
muscle. Eyes easily tire from slightest use. Heat and burning in
eyes on use. Headache; smarting and pain in globe on use.
Everything at a distance appears hazy; vision becomes indistinct
every few moments. Retinal images retained long after using
eyes. Irritation from electric or other artificial light. Pupils
contracted; do not react to light. Staring eyes. Near-sighted.
Vertigo and nausea after using eyes. White spots before eyes.
Smarting pain in eyes. Lids twitch. Atrophic choroiditis. Spasm
of the accommodation while reading.
Ears.--Serous exudation into the tympanitic cavities. Tinnitus
(Pilocarpin 2x).
Mouth.--Saliva viscid, like white of egg. Dryness. Free
salivation, with profuse sweating.
Stomach.--Nausea on looking at objects moving; vomiting;
pressure and pain in stomach.
Abdomen.--Diarrhœa, painless; during day with flushed face
and profuse sweat.
Urinary.--Scanty; pain over pubes with much urging.
Heart.--Pulse irregular, dicrotic. Oppression of chest. Cyanosis;
collapse. Nervous cardiac affections.
Respiratory.--Bronchial mucous membrane inflamed. Much
inclination to cough and difficult breathing. Œdema of lungs.
Foamy sputa. Profuse, thin, serous expectoration. Slow, sighing
respiration.
Skin.--Excessive perspiration from all parts of the body.
Persistent dryness of skin. Dry eczema. Semi-lateral sweats.
Chilliness with sweat.
Relationship.--Compare: Amyl nit; Atrop; Physos; Lycop; Ruta.
Pilocarpin mur, (Meniere's disease, rapidly progressive phthisis,
with free hæmorrhages, profuse sweating, 2x trit). Atropine is
the antagonist to Pilocarpin, in dose of one one-hundredth grain
for one-sixth of Pilocarpin.
Dose.--Third potency.
Non-Homeopathic Uses.--Chiefly as a powerful and rapid
diaphoretic. It is of most service in renal disease, especially with
uræmia, eliminating both water, and urea. Scarlatinal dropsy.
Contra-indicated in heart failure, and in post-puerperal uræmia,
and in senile cases.
Dose.--One-eighth to one-fourth grain hypodermically.
 JACARANDA CAROBA
Brazilian Caroba-tree
(JACARANDA)
Has reputation as a remedy in venereal diseases and rheumatism.
Morning sickness. The urinary and sexual symptoms are
important. Rheumatic symptoms.
Head.--Vertigo on rising, with heavy forehead. Eyes pain; are
inflamed and watery. Coryza with heavy head.
Throat.--Sore, dry, constricted. Vesicles in pharynx.
Urinary.--Urethra inflamed; discharge of yellow matter.
Male.--Heat and pain in penis; painful erections; phimosis.
Prepuce painful and swollen. Chancroid. Chordee. Itching
pimples on glans and prepuce.
Extremities.--Rheumatic pain in right knee. Weakness of
lumbar region. Morning soreness and stiffness of muscles.
Gonorrhœal rheumatism. Itching pimples on hands. Gonorrhœal
and syphilitic arthritis.
Relationship.--Compare: Thuja; Corallium; Jacaranda
Gualandai (in syphilitic symptoms, especially of eye and throat.
Chancroids; atonic ulcers. Dark, painless diarrhœa).
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
JALAPA
Jalap
(EXOGONIUM PURGA)
Causes and cures colic and diarrhśa. The child is good all day,
but screams and is restless and troublesome at night.
Gastro-intestinal.--Tongue, smooth, glazed, dry, smarting.--
Pain in right hypochondrium. Flatulence and nausea. Pinching
and griping. Watery diarrhśa; thin, muddy stools. Abdomen
distended. Face cold and blue. Anus sore.
Extremities.--Aching in arms and legs. Pain in large joint of
great toe. Smarting at root of nail. Burning of soles.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Elater; Cann sat.
Compare: Camph; Colocy.
Dose.--Third to twelfth potency.
JATROPHA CURCAS
Purging Nut
(JATROPHA)
Of value in cholera and diarrhśa. The abdominal symptoms are
most important. Suppressed measles (H. Farrington).
Stomach.-- Hiccough, followed by copious vomiting. Nausea
and vomiting, brought on by drinking, with acrid feeling from
throat. Great thirst. Very easy vomiting. Heat and burning in
stomach, with crampy, constrictive pain in epigastrium.
Abdomen.--Distended, with gurgling noises. Pain in
hypochondria. Pain in region of liver and under right scapula to
shoulder. Violent urging to urinate.
Stool.--Sudden, profuse, watery, like rice-water. Diarrhśa;
forced discharge; loud noise in abdomen like gurgling of water
coming out of a bung-hole, associated with coldness, cramps,
nausea, and vomiting.
Extremities.--Cramps in muscles, especially calves, legs, and
feet. Coldness of whole body. Pain in ankles, feet and toes.
Heels sensitive.
Modalities.--Better, by placing hands in cold water.
Relationship.--Compare: Camph; Verat; Gambog; Croton;
Jatropha urens--Sponge-nettle--(śdema and cardiac paresis).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
JOANESIA ASOCA
Bark of an Indian Tree, introduced by Dr. ND Ray,
Calcutta
(JONOSIA ASOCA)
Has extensive sphere of action on female organs. Amenorrhœa
and metrorrhagia.
Head.--Unilateral headache; reflex uterine, congestive
headache, better open air and by free flow. Pain in eyeballs;
supraorbital pains, photophobia. Nasal catarrh, profuse, watery
discharge. Loss of sense of smell.
Gastric.--Desire for sweets, also acid things. Thirsty, excessive
nausea; obstinate constipation, hæmorrhoids.
Female.--Delayed and irregular menses; menstrual colic;
amenorrhœa, pain in ovaries before flow; menorrhagia, irritable
bladder; leucorrhœa.
Sleep.--Disturbed. Dreams of travelling.
Back.--Pain along spine radiating to abdomen and thighs.
Dose.--Tincture.
JUGLANS CINEREA
Butternut
A faulty elimination that produces jaundice and various skin
eruptions, is pictured by this drug. The sharp, occipital
headache, usually associated with liver disturbances, is very
characteristic. Pain in chest, axilla and scapula, with suffocative
sensation. Feeling as if all internal organs were too large,
especially those of left side. Cholelithiasis.
Head.--Dull, full head. Eruption on scalp. Sharp, occipital
headache. Head feels enlarged. Pustules on lids and around
eyes.
Nose.--Tingling in nose; sneezing. Coryza, preceded by pain
under sternum, with threatening suffocation. Later, copious,
bland, thick mucous discharge.
Mouth.--Acrid feeling in mouth and throat. Soreness in region
of tonsils externally. Dryness of root of tongue and fauces.
Stomach.--Atonic dyspepsia with much eructation and flatulent
distention. Soreness in region of liver.
Back.--Muscles of neck rigid, lame. Pain between scapula and
under right. Pain in lumbar vertebrć.
Skin.--Red, like flush of scarlatina. Jaundice, with pain about
liver and right scapula. Itching and pricking when heated.
Pustules. Eczema, especially on lower extremities, sacrum and
hands. Erythema and erysipelatous redness.
Stool.--Yellowish-green, with tenesmus and burning at anus.
Camp diarrhśa.
Modalities.--Better, getting heated, exercise, scratching, on
rising in morning. Worse, walking.
Relationship.--Compare: Juglandin (duodenal catarrh; bilious
diarrhśa); Chelidon; Bryon; Iris.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
JUGLANS REGIA
Walnut
Skin eruptions are prominent.
Head.--Confused; feels as if head were floating in air. Occipital
sharp pain. Styes.
Female.--Menses early, black, pitch-like coagula. Abdomen
distended.
Skin.--Comedones and acne of the face. Crusta lactea, with
soreness around ears. Itching and eruptions of small red
pustules. Scalp red, and itches violently at night. Chancre-like
ulcer. Axillary glands suppurate.
Relationship.--Compare: Juglans cinerea.
Dose.--Tincture, and lower potencies.
JUNCUS EFFUSUS
Common Rush
A diuretic. Urinary affections. Dysuria, strangury, and ischuria.
Asthmatic symptoms in hćmorrhoidal subjects. Bubbling
sensations. Abdominal flatulence. Arthritis and Lithiasis.
Dose.--Tincture, and first potency.
JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS
Juniper Berries
Catarrhal inflammation of kidneys. Dropsy, with suppression of
urine. Old persons, with poor digestion and scanty secretion of
urine. Chronic pyelitis.
Urinary.--Strangury; bloody, scanty urine, violet odor (Tereb).
Weight in kidney region. Prostatic discharge. Renal hyperćmia
(Eucalyptol).
Respiratory.--Cough with scanty, loaded urine.
Relationship.--Compare: Sabina; Juniperus Virginianus-Red
Cedar--(Violent tenesmus vesical. Persistent dragging in back;
hyperćmia of the kidneys; pyelitis and cystitis; dropsy of the
aged with suppressed urine. Dysuria, burning, cutting pain in
urethra when urinating. Constant urging apoplexy, convulsions,
strangury, uterine hćmorrhage). Terebinthina.
Dose.--Best form is the infusion. One ounce to a pint of boiling
water. Dose, one-half to two ounces, or tincture, one to ten
drops.
JUSTICIA ADHATODA
An Indian Shrub, Singhee
(JUSTICIA ADHATODA BASAKA)
Highly efficacious medicine for acute catarrhal conditions of the
respiratory tract (used in the beginning)
Head.--Irritable, sensitive to external impressions; hot, full and
heavy head; lachrymation, with coryza, profuse, fluent, with
constant sneezing; loss of smell and taste; coryza with cough.
Throat.--Dry, pain during empty swallowing, tenacious mucus.
Mouth dry.
Respiratory.--Dry cough from sternal region all over chest.
Hoarseness, larynx painful. Paroxysmal cough, with suffocative
obstruction of respiration. Cough with sneezing. Severe dyspnśa
with cough. Tightness across chest. Asthmatic attacks, cannot
endure a close, warm room. Whooping-cough.
Relationship.--Seems to come between Cepa and Euphrasia,
which compare.
Dose.--Third potency and higher. Severe aggravation have been
noticed from lower potencies.
KALIUM ARSENICOSUM
Fowler's Solution
(KALI ARSENICUM)
The Kali ars patient tends towards malignancy, and inveterate
skin diseases. He is restless, nervous and anćmic.
Skin.--Intolerable itching, worse undressing. Dry, scaly, wilted.
Acne; pustules worse during menses. Chronic eczema; itching
worse from warmth, walking, undressing. Psoriasis, lichen.
Phagedćnic ulcers. Fissures in bends of arms and knees. Gouty
nodosities; worse, change of weather. Skin cancer, where
suddenly an alarming malignancy without any external signs
sets in. Numerous small nodules under skin.
Female.--Cauliflower excrescences of os uteri, with flying
pains, foul smelling discharge, and pressure below pubis.
Relationship.--Radium.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
KALIUM BICHROMICUM
Bichromate of Potash
(KALI BICHROMICUM)
The special affinities of this drug are the mucous membrane of
stomach, bowels, and air-passages; bones and fibrous tissues.
Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected. Incipient
parenchrymatous; nephritis. Nephritis with gastric disturbances.
Cirrhosis of liver. Anćmia and absence of fever are
characteristic. General weakness bordering on paralysis. It is
especially indicated for fleshy, fat, light complexioned persons
subject to catarrhs or with syphilitic or scrofulous history.
Symptoms are worse in the morning; pains migrate quickly,
rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternate. More adapted to
subacute rather than the violent acute stage. Mucous membranes
everywhere are affected. Catarrh of pharynx, larynx, bronchi
and nose, and a tough, stringy, viscid secretion is produced,
which condition is a very strong guiding symptom for this drug.
Perforation of the septum. Chronic atonic catarrh. Polypus.
Dilatation of stomach and heart.
Head.--Vertigo with nausea when rising from seat. Headache
over eyebrows, preceded by blurred vision. Aching and fullness
in glabella. Semilateral headache in small spots, and from
suppressed catarrh. Frontal pain; usually over one eye. Bones
and scalp feel sore.
Eyes.--Supra-orbital neuralgia, right side. Eyelids burn, swollen,
śdematous. Discharge ropy and yellow. Ulcers on cornea; no
pain or photophobia. Descemetitis, with only moderate irritation
of eye. Croupous conjunctivitis; granular lids, with pannus.
Iritis, with punctuate deposits on inner surface of cornea. Slight
pain, with severe ulceration or inflammation (Conium opposite).
Ears.--Swollen, with tearing pains. Thick, yellow, stringy, fetid
discharge. Sharp stitches in left ear.
Nose.--Snuffles of children, especially fat, chubby babies.
Pressure and pain at root of nose, and sticking pain in nose.
Septum ulcerated; round ulcer. Fetid smell. Discharge thick,
ropy, greenish-yellow. Tough, elastic plugs from nose; leave a
raw surface. Inflammation extends to frontal sinuses, with
distress and fullness at root of nose. Dropping from posterior
nares (Hydr). Loss of smell. Much hawking. Inability to breathe
through nose. Dryness. Coryza, with obstruction of nose. Violent
sneezing. Profuse, watery nasal discharge. Chronic inflammation
of frontal sinus with stopped-up sensation.
Face.--Florid complexion. Blotchy, red appearance. Acne
(Juglans; Kal ars). Bones sensitive, especially beneath orbits.
Mouth.--Dry; viscid saliva. Tongue mapped, red, shining,
smooth, and dry, with dysentery; broad, flat, indented, thickly
coated. Feeling of a hair on tongue.
Throat.--Fauces red and inflamed. Dry and rough. Parotid
glands swollen. Uvula relaxed, śdematous, bladder-like. Pseudo-
membranous deposit on tonsils and soft palate. Burning
extending to stomach. Aphthć. Diphtheria, with profound
prostration and soft pulse. Discharge from mouth and throat,
tough and stringy.
Stomach.--Nausea and vomiting after beer. Load immediately
after eating. Feels as if digestion had stopped. Dilatation of
stomach. Gastritis. Round ulcer of stomach. Stitches in region of
liver and spleen and through to spine. Dislikes water. Cannot
digest meat. Desire for beer and acids. Gastric symptoms are
relieved after eating, and the rheumatic symptoms reappear.
Vomiting of bright yellow water.
Abdomen.--Cutting pain in abdomen, soon after eating. Chronic
intestinal ulceration. Soreness in right hypochondrium, fatty
infiltration of liver and increase in soft fibrous tissue. Painful
retraction, soreness and burning.
Stool.--Jelly-like, gelatinous; worse, mornings. Dysentery;
tenesmus, stools brown, frothy. Sensation of a plug in anus.
Periodic constipation, with pain across the loins, and brown
urine.
Urinary.--Burning in urethra. After urinating a drop seems to
remain which cannot be expelled. Ropy mucus in urine. Urethra
becomes clogged up. Congestion of kidneys; nephritis, with
scanty, albuminous urine and casts. Pyelitis; urine mixed with
epithelial cells, mucus, pus, or blood. Hćmatochyluria.
Male.--Itching and pain of penis, with pustules. Ulcers, with
paroxysmal stitches; aggravated at night. Constriction at root of
penis, at night on awakening. Syphilitic ulcers, with cheesy,
tenacious exudation. Erections (Picric ac).
Female.--Yellow, tenacious leucorrhśa. Pruritus of vulva, with
great burning and excitement. Prolapsus uteri; worse in hot
weather.
Respiratory.--Voice hoarse; worse, evening. Metallic, hacking
cough. Profuse, yellow expectoration, very glutinous and sticky,
coming out in long, stringy, and very tenacious mass. Tickling
in larynx. Catarrhal laryngitis cough has a brassy sound. True
membranous croup, extending to larynx and nares. Cough, with
pain in sternum, extending to shoulders; worse when undressing.
Pain at bifurcation of trachea on coughing; from mid-sternum to
back.
Heart.--Dilatation, especially from coexisting kidney lesion.
Cold feeling around heart (Kali nit).
Back.--Cutting through loins; cannot walk; extends to groins.
Pain in coccyx and sacrum extending up and down.
Extremities.--Pains fly rapidly from one place to another (Kali
sulph; Puls). Wandering pains, along the bones; worse cold.
Left-sided sciatica; better, motion. Bones feel sore and bruised.
Very weak. Tearing pains in tibia; syphilitic rheumatism (Mez).
Pain, swelling and stiffness and crackling of all joints. Soreness
of heels when walking. Tendo Achilles swollen and painful.
Pains in small spots (Oxalic ac).
Skin.--Acne. Papular eruptions. Ulcer with punched-out edges,
with tendency to penetrate and tenacious exudation. Pustular
eruption, resembling smallpox, with burning pains. Itching with
vesicular eruption.
Modalities.--Better, from heat. Worse, beer, morning, hot
weather, undressing.
Relationship.--Compare: Tart emet; Brom; Hepar; Ind; Calc;
Ant cr. In the production of false membranes compare: Brom;
Ammon caust; Sulph ac; Ipecac.
Antidotes: Ars; Lach.
Dose.--Third trituration, also thirtieth attenuation and higher.
The lower preparations of this salt should not be kept too long.
KALIUM BROMATUM
Bromide of Potash
(KALI BROMATUM)
Like all Potash Salts, this weakens the heart and lowers
temperature. Brominism is caused by it. General failure of
mental power, loss of memory, melancholia, anæsthesia of the
mucous membranes, especially of eyes, throat, and skin; acne;
loss of sexual desire, paralysis. Leading remedy in psoriasis.
Nodular form of chronic gout. Symptoms of apoplectic attacks,
uræmic or otherwise; somnolence and stertor, convulsions,
aphasia, albuminuria. Epilepsy (with salt-free diet).
Mind.--Profound, melancholic delusion; feeling of moral
deficiency; religious depression; delusions of conspiracies
against him. Imagines he is singled out as an object of divine
wrath. Loss of memory. Must do something-move about; gets
fidgety (Tarant). Fear of being poisoned (Hyos). Amnesic
aphasia; can pronounce any word told, but cannot speak
otherwise. Night terrors. Horrid illusions. Active delirium.
Head.--Suicidal mania with tremulousness. Face flushed. Numb
feeling in head. Brain-fag. Coryza with tendency to extension
into throat.
Throat.--Congestion of uvula and fauces. Anæsthesia of fauces,
pharynx, and larynx. Dysphagia, especially of liquids (Hyos).
Stomach.--Vomiting, with intense thirst, after each meal.
Persistent hiccough (Sulph ac).
Abdomen.--Sensation as if bowels were falling out. Cholera
infantum, with reflex cerebral irritation, jerking and twitching of
muscles. Green, watery stools with intense thirst, vomiting, eyes
sunken. Prostration. Internal coldness of abdomen. Diarrhœa,
with much blood. Green, watery stools. Retraction of abdomen.
Urinary.--Sensibility of urethra diminished. Urine profuse, with
thirst. Diabetes (Phos ac).
Male.--Debility and impotence. Effects of sexual excesses,
especially loss of memory, impaired co-ordination, numbness
and tingling in limbs. Sexual excitement during partial slumber.
Female.--Pruritus. Ovarian neuralgia with great nervous
uneasiness. Exaggerated sexual desire. Cystic tumors of ovaries.
Respiratory.--Spasmodic croup. Reflex cough during
pregnancy. Dry, fatiguing, hacking cough at night.
Extremities.--Fidgety hands; busy twitching of fingers. Jerking
and twitching of muscles.
Skin.--Acne of face, pustules. Itching; worse on chest,
shoulders, and face. Anæsthesia of skin. Psoriasis.
Sleep.--Restless sleep. Extreme drowsiness. Sleeplessness due
to worry and grief and sexual excess. Night terrors. Grinding
teeth in sleep. Horrible dreams. Somnambulism.
Modalities.--Better, when occupied mentally or physically.
Dose.--A few grains of the crude salt to the third trituration.
Remember the unstable character of this salt. Said to be much
more active if salt is eliminated from the diet.
KALIUM CARBONICUM
Carbonate of Potassium
(KALI CARBONICUM)
The weakness characteristic of all Potassium Salts is seen
especially in this, with soft pulse, coldness, general depression,
and very characteristic stitches, which may be felt in any part of
the body, or in connection with any affection. All Kali pains are
sharp and cutting; nearly all better by motion. Never use any
Salts of Potash where there is fever (T. F. Allen). Sensitive to
every atmospheric change, and intolerance of cold weather. One
of the best remedies following labor. Miscarriage, for
consequent debilitated states. Early morning aggravation is very
characteristic. Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic
tendencies. Sweat, backache, and weakness. Throbbing pains.
Tendency to dropsy. Tubercular diathesis. Pains from within
out, and of stinging character. "Giving-out" sensation. Fatty
degenerations. Stinging pains in muscles and internal parts.
Twitching of muscles. Pain in small spot on left side
Hypothyroidism. Coxitis.
Mind.--Despondent. Alternating moods. Very irritable. Full of
fear and imaginations. Anxiety felt in stomach. Sensation as if
bed were sinking. Never wants to be left alone. Never quiet or
contented. Obstinate and hypersensitive to pain, noise, touch.
Head.--Vertigo on turning. Headache from riding in cold wind.
Headache comes on with yawning. Stitches in temples; aching in
occiput, one-sided, with nausea, on riding in carriage. Loose
feeling in head. Great dryness of hair; falls out (Fluor ac).
Eyes.--Stitches in eyes. Spots, gauze, and black points before
eyes. Lids stick together in morning. Swelling over upper lid,
like little bags. Swelling of glabella between brows. Asthenopia.
Weak sight from excessive sexual indulgence. On shutting eyes,
painful sensation of light penetrating the brain.
Ears.--Stitches in ears. Itching, cracking, ringing and roaring.
Nose.--Nose stuffs up in warm room. Thick, fluent, yellow
discharge. Post-nasal dropping (Spigel). Sore, scurfy nostrils;
bloody nasal mucus. Crusty nasal openings. Nosebleed on
washing face in morning. Ulcerated nostrils.
Mouth.--Gums separate from teeth; pus oozes out. Pyorrhea.
Aphthć. Tongue white. Much saliva constantly in mouth. Bad,
slimy taste.
Throat.--Dry, parched, rough. Sticking pain, as from a fish-
bone. Swallowing difficult; food goes down śsophagus slowly.
Mucous accumulation in the morning.
Stomach.--Flatulence. Desire for sweets. Feeling of lump in pit
of stomach. Gagging. Dyspepsia of old people; burning acidity,
bloating. Gastric disorders from ice-water. Sour eructations.
Nausea; better lying down. Constant feeling as if stomach were
full of water. Sour vomiting; throbbing and cutting in stomach.
Disgust for food. Anxiety felt in stomach. Epigastrium sensitive
externally. Easy choking when eating. Epigastric pain to back.
Abdomen.--Stitches in region of liver. Old chronic liver
troubles, with soreness. Jaundice and dropsy. Distention and
coldness of abdomen. Pain from left hypochondrium through
abdomen; must turn on right side before he can rise.
Rectum.--Large, difficult stools, with stitching pain an hour
before. Hćmorrhoids, large, swollen, painful. Itching, ulcerated
pimples around anus. Large discharge of blood with natural
stool. Pain in hćmorrhoids when coughing. Burning in rectum
and anus. Easy prolapsus (Graph; Pod). Itching (Ignat).
Urine.--Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate.
Pressure on bladder long before urine comes. Involuntary
urination when coughing, sneezing, etc.
Male.--Complaints from coition. Deficient sexual instinct.
Excessive emissions, followed by weakness.
Female.--Menses early, profuse (Calc c) or too late, pale and
scanty, with soreness about genitals; pains from back pass down
through gluteal muscles, with cutting in abdomen. Pain through
left labium, extending through abdomen to chest. Delayed
menses in young girls, with chest symptoms or ascites. Difficult,
first menses. Complaints after parturition. Uterine hćmorrhage;
constant oozing after copious flow, with violent backache,
relieved by sitting and pressure.
Respiratory.--Cutting pain in chest; worse lying on right side.
Hoarseness and loss of voice. Dry, hard cough about 3 am, with
stitching pains and dryness of pharynx. Bronchitis, whole chest
is very sensitive. Expectoration scanty and tenacious, but
increasing in morning and after eating; aggravated right lower
chest and lying on painful side. Hydrothorax. Leaning forward
relieves chest symptoms. Expectoration must be swallowed;
cheesy taste; copious, offensive, lump. Coldness of chest.
Wheezing. Cough with relaxed uvula. Tendency to tuberculosis;
constant cold taking; better in warm climate.
Heart.--Sensation as if heart were suspended. Palpitation and
burning in heart region. Weak, rapid pulse; intermits, due to
digestive disturbance. Threatened heart failure.
Back.--Great exhaustion. Stitches in region of kidneys and right
scapula. Small of back feels weak. Stiffness and paralytic feeling
in back. Burning in spine (Guaco). Severe backache during
pregnancy, and after miscarriage. Hip-disease. Pain in nates and
thighs and hip-joint. Lumbago with sudden sharp pains
extending up and down back and to thighs.
Extremities.--Backs and legs give out. Uneasiness heaviness,
and tearing in limbs and jerking. Tearing pain in limbs with
swelling. Limbs sensitive to pressure. White swelling of knee.
Tearing in arms from shoulder to wrist. Lacerating in wrist-joint.
Paralysis of old people, and dropsical affections. Limbs go to
sleep easily. Tips of toes and fingers painful. Soles very
sensitive. Itching of great toe, with pain. Pain from hip to knee.
Pain in knees.
Skin.--Burning as from a mustard plaster.
Sleep.--Drowsy after eating. Wakes about two o'clock and
cannot sleep again.
Modalities.--Worse, after coition; in cold weather; from soup
and coffee; in morning about three o'clock; lying on left and
painful side. Better, in warm weather, though moist; during day,
while moving about.
Relationship.--Complementary: Carbo; (Lowness of vitality
may suggest a preliminary course of Carbo to nurse up
recuperation to the point that Kali carb would come in
helpfully). Follows Nux often in stomach and bladder troubles.
Compare: Kali salicylicum (vomiting, especially of pregnancy;
arteriosclerosis, with chronic rheumatism); kali silicum (gouty
nodosities); Kali aceticum (diabetes, diarrhśa, dropsy, alkaline
urine, very much increased in quantity); Kali citricum (Bright's
disease-1 gr to wine-glass of water); Kali ferrocyanatum-
Prussian blue--(physical and mental prostration following
infection. Inability to sustained routine work. Neuralgic
affections depending on impoverished blood and exhausted
nerve centers, especially spinal. Fatty and functional heart
troubles. Pulse weak, small, irregular. Uterine symptoms, like
Sepia, bearing-down sensation and gastric sinking; profuse, pus-
like leucorrhśa and passive hćmorrhage; use 6x); Kali oxalicum
(lumbago, convulsions); Kali picro-nitricum and kali pricricum
(jaundice, violent eructations); kali tartaricum (paraplegia); Kali
telluricum(garlicky odor of breath, salivation, swollen tongue).
Also compare: Calc; Ammon phos; Phos; Lycop; Bry; Natrum;
Stann; Sepia.
Antidotes: Camph; Coffea.
Dose.--Thirtieth and higher. Sixth trit. Do not repeat too often.
Use cautiously in old gouty cases, advanced Bright's and
tuberculosis.
KALIUM CHLORICUM
Chlorate of Potassium-K clo. 3
(KALI CHLORICUM)
Acts very destructively upon the kidneys, producing a croupous
nephritis, hemoglobinuria, etc. Parenchymatous nephritis with
stomatitis. Produces most acute ulcerative and follicular
stomatitis. Noma. Toxæmic conditions of pregnancy (urinary
symptoms). Chronic nephritis; hepatitis. Septicæmia. Anæmia.
Mouth.--Profuse secretion of acid saliva. Whole mucous surface
red, tumid, with gray-based ulcers. Tongue swollen. Stomatitis-
aphthous and gangrenous. Fetor. Mercurial stomatitis (as a
mouth wash).
Stomach.--Feeling of weight in epigastric and umbilical region.
Flatulence. Vomiting of greenish-black matter.
Stool.--Diarrhœa; profuse, greenish mucus.
Urine.--Albuminous, scanty, suppressed. Hæmaturia; diuresis.
Nucleo-albumin and bile, high Phosphoric acid, with low total
solids.
Skin.--Jaundice. Itching miliary or papular eruptions.
Discolored; chocolate tint.
Dose.--Second to sixth potency. Use cautiously locally as it is
poisonous.
KALIUM CYANATUM
Potassium Cyanide
(KALI CYANATUM)
Sudden sinking sensation. Cancer of tongue and agonizing
neuralgia have been benefited by this drug. Sick headache;
sciatica; epilepsy.
Tongue.--Ulcer of tongue, with indurated edges. Speech
difficult. Power of speech lost but intelligence intact.
Face.--Severe neuralgia in temporal region, recurring daily at
same hour. Pain in orbital and supra-maxillary region, with
screaming and loss of consciousness.
Respiratory.--Cough prevents sleep; respiration weak; cannot
take deep breath.
Modalities.--Worse, from 4 am to 4 pm.
Relationship.--Compare: Platin; Stann; Cedron; Mezer; Mur
ac.
Dose.--Sixth potency and 200th.
KALIUM IODATUM
Iodide of Potassium
(KALI HYDRIODICUM)
The profuse, watery, acrid coryza that the drug produces serves
as a sure guiding symptom, especially when associated with pain
in frontal sinus. It acts prominently on fibrous and connective
tissues, producing infiltration, śdema, etc. Glandular swellings.
Purpura and hćmorrhagic diathesis. Syphilis may be indicated in
all stages: 1. In acute form with evening remitting fever, going
off in nightly perspiration. 2. Second stage, mucous membranes
and skin ulcerations. 3. Tertiary symptoms; nodes. Give material
doses. Diffused sensitiveness --(glands, scalp, etc). Rheumatism
in neck, back, feet, especially heels and soles; worse, cold and
wet. Iodide of Potass in material doses acts in the different forms
of Fungoid disease (thrush, ringworm, etc), offer simulating
syphilis and bacterial diseases like tuberculosis. Symptoms like
loss of weight, spitting of blood, etc. Tea-taster's cough due to
inhaling the fungus; a also brings about often favorable reaction
in many chronic ailments even when not clearly
symptomatically indicated.
Mind.--Sad, anxious; harsh temper. Irritable; congestion to
head, heat and throbbing.
Head.--Pain through sides of head. Violent headache. Cranium
swells up in hard lump. Pain intense over eyes and root of nose.
Brain feels enlarged. Hard nodes, with severe pain. Facial
neuralgia. Lancinating pain in upper jaw.
Nose.--Red, swollen. Tip of nose red; profuse, acrid, hot,
watery, thin discharge. Ozćna, with perforated septum.
Sneezing. Nasal catarrh, involving frontal sinus. Stuffiness and
dryness of nose, without discharge. Profuse, cool, greenish,
unirritating discharges.
Eyes.--Conjunctiva red, injected; profuse lachrymation.
Syphilitic iritis. Pustular keratitis and chemosis. Bony tumors of
the orbit.
Ear.--Noises in ear. Boring pain in ears.
Stomach.--Saliva increased. Faintness at epigastrium. Cold food
and drink, especially milk, aggravate. Much thirst. Throbbing,
painful burning. Flatulence.
Female.--Menses late, profuse. During menses uterus feels as if
squeezed. Corrosive leucorrhśa, with subacute inflammatory
conditions of the womb in young married women. Fibroid
tumors, metritis, sub-involution, hypertrophy, 1x or 1 gr crude, 3
times a day.
Respiratory.--Violent cough; worse in morning. Pulmonary
śdema. Larynx feels raw. Laryngeal śdema. Awakes choking.
Expectoration like soap-suds, greenish. Pneumonia, when
hepatization commences. Pneumococcic meningitis. Stitching
pains through lungs to back. Asthma. Dyspnśa on ascending,
with pain in heart. Hydrothorax (Merc sulph). Pleuritic effusion.
Cold travels downward to chest.
Extremities.--Severe bone-pains. Periosteum thickened,
especially tibia; sensitive to touch (Kali b; Asaf). Rheumatism;
pains at night and in damp weather. Contraction of joints.
Rheumatism of knees with effusion. Pain in small of back and
coccyx. Pain in hip, forcing limping. Sciatica; cannot stay in
bed; worse at night and lying on affected side. Formication of
lower extremities when sitting, better lying down.
Skin.--Purple spots; worse on legs. Acne, hydroa. Small boils.
Glands enlarged, indurated. Hives. Rough nodules all over,
worse any covering; heat of body intense. Fissured anus of
infants. Tendency to śdematous swellings, eyelids, mouth,
uvula, etc. Acne rosacea.
Modalities.--Worse, warm clothing, warm room, at night, damp
weather. Better, motion, open air.
Relationship.--Antidote: Hepar.
Compare: Iod; Mercur; Sulph; Mezer. Chopheenee, a Hindoo
remedy for syphilitic eruptions, ulcerations and bone-pains.
Used in tincture.
Dose.--Crude drug, in material official dosage, but remember
Dr. Meyhoffer's statements in his chronic diseases of organs of
respiration: "From the moment the drug produces pathogenetic
symptoms, it exaggerates the function of the tissue, exhausts the
already diminished vitality, and thence, instead of stimulating
the organic cell in the direction of life, impairs or abolishes its
power of contraction. We use, as a rule, the first dilution from 6
to 20 drops a day; if after a week no decided progress is visible,
one drop of the tincture of Iodine is added to each hundred of
the first dilution. In this way, the mucous tubercles, gummy
deposits and ulcerations resulting therefrom in the larynx
undergo a favorable termination in laryngeal syphilis. " When
strictly homeopathically indicated, as in acute respiratory
affections to third potency.
 KALIUM MURIATICUM
Cloride of Potassium-KCl
(KALI MURIATICUM)
Although not proven, this remedy has a wide clinical use,
through its introduction by Schuessler. It certainly is of great
value in catarrhal affections, in sub-acute inflammatory states,
fibrinous exudations, and glandular swellings. White or gray
coating of base of tongue, and expectoration of thick, white
phlegm, seem to be special guiding symptoms. Bursitis
præpatellaris.
Head.--Imagines he must starve. Headache, with vomiting.
Crusta lactea. Dandruff.
Eyes.--White mucus, purulent scabs. Superficial ulcer.
Trachoma. Corneal opacities.
Ears.--Chronic, catarrhal conditions of the middle ear. Glands
about the ear swollen. Snapping and noises in the ear.
Threatened mastoid. Great effusion about the auricle.
Nose.--Catarrh; phlegm white, thick. Vault of pharynx covered
with adherent crusts. Stuffy cold. Nosebleed (Arn; Bry).
Face.--Cheek swollen and painful.
Mouth.--Aphthæ; thrush; white ulcers in mouth. Swollen glands
about jaw and neck. Coating of tongue grayish-white, dryish, or
slimy.
Throat.--Follicular tonsillitis. Tonsils inflamed; enlarged so
much, can hardly breathe. Grayish patches or spots in the throat
and tonsils. Adherent crusts in vault of pharynx. "Hospital" sore
throat. Eustachian catarrh.
Stomach.--Fatty or rich food causes indigestion. Vomiting of
white, opaque mucus; water gathers in the mouth. Pain in the
stomach, with constipation. Bulimia; hunger disappears by
drinking water.
Abdomen.--Abdominal tenderness and swelling. Flatulence.
Thread-worms, causing itching at the anus.
Stool.--Constipation; light-colored stools. Diarrhœa, after fatty
food; clay-colored, white, or slimy stools. Dysentery; purging,
with slimy stools. Hæmorrhoids; bleeding; blood dark and thick;
fibrinous, clotted.
Female.--Menstruation too late or suppressed, checked or too
early; excessive discharge; dark-clotted, or tough, black blood,
like tar (Plat). Leucorrhœa; discharge of milky-white mucus,
thick, non-irritating, bland. Morning sickness, with vomiting of
white phlegm. Bunches in breast feel quite soft and are tender.
Respiratory Organs.--Loss of voice; hoarseness. Asthma, with
gastric derangements; mucus white and hard to cough up. Loud,
noisy stomach cough; cough short, acute, and spasmodic, like
whooping-cough; expectoration thick and white. Rattling sounds
of air passing through thick, tenacious mucus in the bronchi;
difficult to cough up.
Back and Extremities.--Rheumatic fever; exudation and
swelling around the joints. Rheumatic pains felt only during
motion, or increased by it. Nightly rheumatic pains; worse from
warmth of bed; lightning-like from small of back to feet; must
get out of bed and sit up. Hands get stiff while writing.
Skin.--Acne, erythema, and eczema, with vesicles containing
thick, white contents. Dry, flour-like scales on the skin
(Arsenic). Bursitis.
Modalities.--Worse, rich food, fats, motion.
Relationship.--Compare: Bellad which Kali mur follows well in
catarrhal and hypertrophic conditions. Kino (otorrhœa, with
stitches in right ear); Bry; Mercur; Puls; Sulph.
Dose.--Third to twelfth potency.
External use in skin affections with burning sensation.
KALIUM NITRICUM
Nitrate of Potassium-Saltpeter
(KALI NITRICUM - NITRUM)
Often indicated in asthma, also valuable in cardiac asthma; of
great value in sudden dropsical swellings over the whole body.
Gastro-intestinal inflammation, with much debility, and relapse
in phthisis, call for this remedy. Suppurative nephritis.
Head.--Scalp very sensitive. Headache, with vertigo, as if
falling to right side and backwards; worse, stooping. Ennui.
Eyes.--Vision becomes clouded. Turbid corpus vitreum (Arn;
Ham; Solan n; Phos). Variegated-colored rings before eyes.
Burning and lachrymation.
Nose.--Sneezing. Swollen feeling; worse, right nostril. Point red
and itching. Polypus (Sang nit).
Mouth.--Tongue red, with burning pimples; burns at tip. Throat
constricted and sore.
Stool.--Thin, watery, bloody. Membranous shreds, with
tenesmus. Diarrhœa from eating veal.
Female.--Menses too early, profuse, black; preceded and with
violent backache. Leucorrhœa. Burning pains in the ovarian
region only during menses (Zinc after).
Respiratory.--Hoarseness. Dry, morning cough, with pain in
chest and bloody expectoration. Bronchitis, with sharp, short,
dry, hacking cough. Asthma, with excessive dyspnœa, nausea,
dull stitches, and burning in chest. Dyspnœa so great that breath
cannot be held long enough to drink, though thirsty. Chest feels
constricted. Oppression worse in morning. Sour-smelling
expectoration. Expectoration of clotted blood, after hawking
mucus. Acute exacerbations in phthisis; congestion of lungs.
Spasmodic croup; paroxysm of crowing. Laryngeal diphtheria.
Heart.--Pulse weak, small, thready. Violent stitch in præcordia,
and beating of heart.
Extremities.--Stitches between shoulder-blades. Tearing and
sticking in shoulders and joints. Hands and fingers seem
swollen.
Modalities.--Worse, eating veal; towards morning and in
afternoon. Better, drinking sips of water.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Opium; Nitr sp dulc.
Antidote to Opium and Morphine poisoning, 8-10 grains to glass
of water.
Compare: Gun-powder (Nitre with sulphur and charcoal-2x trit.
"Blood poisoning. " Septic suppuration. Protractive against
wound infection. Antidote to Ivy and Primula rash (Clarke)
Herpes facialis; crops of boils. Carbuncles). Osteo-myelitis.
Cannab sat (which contains a large amount of Kali nit). Lycop;
Sanguin; Allium sat; Antimon iod.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
KALIUM PHOSPHORICUM
Phosphate of Potassium
(KALI PHOSPHORICUM)
One of the greatest nerve remedies. Prostration. Weak and tired.
Especially adapted to the young. Marked disturbance of the
sympathetic nervous system. Conditions arising from want of
nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression, are
wonderfully improved this remedy. The causes are usually
excitement, overwork and worry. Besides, it corresponds to
states of adynamia and decay, gangrenous conditions. In these
two directions it has won many clinical laurels. Remember it in
the treatment of suspected malignant tumors. After removal of
cancer when in healing process skin is drawn tight over the
wound. Delayed labor.
Mind.--Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy. Indisposition to meet
people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous, starts
easily, irritable. Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors.
Somnambulance. Loss of memory. Slightest labor seems a
heavy task. Great despondency about business. Shyness;
disinclined to converse.
Head.--Occipital headache; better, after rising. Vertigo, from
lying, on standing up, from sitting, and when looking upward
(Granat). Cerebral anćmia. Headache of students, and those
worn out by fatigue. Headaches are relieved by gentle motion.
Headache, with weary, empty, gone feeling at stomach (Ign;
Sep).
Eyes.--Weakness of sight; loss of perceptive power; after
diphtheria; from exhaustion. Drooping of eyelids (Caust).
Ears.--Humming and buzzing in the ears.
Nose.--Nasal disease, with offensive odor; fetid discharge.
Face.--Livid and sunken, with hollow eyes. Right-sided
neuralgia relieved by cold applications.
Mouth.--Breath offensive, fetid. Tongue coated brownish, like
mustard. Excessively dry, in the morning. Toothache, with
easily-bleeding gums; they have a bright-red seam on them.
Gums spongy and receding (Caps; Hamam; Lach).
Throat.--Gangrenous sore throat. Paralysis of the vocal cords.
Stomach.--A nervous "gone" sensation at the pit of the stomach
(Ign; Sep; Sulph). Feels seasick without nausea.
Abdomen.--Diarrhśa; foul, putrid odor; occasioned by fright,
with depression and exhaustion. Diarrhśa while eating.
Dysentery; stools consist of pure blood; patient becomes
delirious; abdomen swells. Cholera; stools have the appearance
of rice water (Verat; Ars; Jatrop). Prolapsus recti (Ign; Pod).
Female.--Menstruation too late or too scanty in pale, irritable,
sensitive, lachrymose females. Too profuse discharge, deep-red
or blackish-red, thin and not coagulating; sometimes with
offensive odor. Feeble and ineffectual labor pains.
Male.--Nocturnal emissions; sexual power diminished utter
prostration after coitus (Kali carb).
Urinary Organs.--Enuresis. Incontinence of urine. Bleeding
from the urethra. Very yellow urine.
Respiratory.--Asthma; least food aggravates. Short breath on
going upstairs. Cough; yellow expectoration.
Extremities.--Paralytic lameness in back and extremities.
Exertion aggravates. Pains, with depression, and subsequent
exhaustion.
Fever.--Subnormal temperature.
Modalities.--Worse, excitement, worry, mental and physical
exertion; eating, cold, early morning. Better, warmth, rest,
nourishment.
Relationship.--Compare: Kali hypophosph (Debility with
wasting of muscular tissue. Phosphaturia with general anćmia or
leucocythemia. Effects of excessive tea drinking. Chronic
bronchitis where the expectoration is thick and fetid, sometimes
scanty and tough. Dose.--5 grains of crude to 3x). Genista.--
Dyer's Weed--(contains scopolamin; frontal headache and
vertigo, worse motion, better open air and eating. Dry throat,
awakes with waterbrash. Itching eruption on elbows, knees and
ankles. Promotes diuresis in dropsical conditions). Macrozamia
Spiralis (Extreme debility after severe illness; collapse.
Weariness from no assignable cause, no pains. Boring pain at
vertex; vomiting and retching all night; impossible to open eyes,
giddiness and cold). Zinc; Gels; Cimicif; Laches; Mur ac.
Dose.--Third to twelfth trituration. The highest potencies seem
to be indicated in certain cases.
KALIUM PERMANGANATUM
Permanganate of Potassium
(KALI PERMANGANICUM)
Intense irritation of nose, throat, and larynx. Diphtheria.
Dysmenorrhśa. Bites of serpents and for other animal poisons.
Septic conditions; tissues infiltrated with tendency to sloughing.
Respiratory.--Bleeding from nose. Nasal discharge. Smarts and
irritates. Constrictive, smarting sensation in throat. Larynx feels
raw. Short, hacking cough.
Throat.--Swollen and painful. Everything hawked up streaked
with blood. Posterior nares painful. Muscles of neck feel sore.
Swollen uvula. Fetor of breath.
Dose.--Locally, 1 dram to a quart of water, to correct fetor in
cancer, ulcer, ozćna, and other foul odors. Also as an injection in
leucorrhśa and gonorrhśa. Internally, 2x dilution in water.
Saturated solution locally in eruption of smallpox.
Potassium Permanganate for Morphine Poisoning.--Potassium
permanganate is recognized as being the most effective chemical
antidote in cases of morphine or opium poisoning, acting
directly on the morphine and oxidizing it to less toxic
substances. To be effective the permanganate must come in
direct contact with the opium or morphine in the stomach;
hypodermatic or intravenous injections are absolutely useless, as
the salt would be decomposed by the blood serum at once. The
approved treatment is administration of two to five grains of
potassium permanganate in dilute aqueous solution as soon as
possible after the poison is taken, this amounts to be increased if
very large doses of the poison have been taken. Washing out the
stomach with a quantity of 1 to 500 solution of permanganate is
also recommended, using at least a pint of this solution either by
a stomach pump or by enforced vomiting. Permang of Potash
counteracts effects of alkaloids of many poisonous plants.
Owing to its oxidizing powers if given before the alkaloid has
been absorbed (Dr. Chestnut in Dept of Agriculture).
KALIUM SULPHURICUM
Potassium Sulphate
(KALI SULPHURICUM)
Ailments accompanied by profuse desquamation. Applicable to
the later stages of inflammation. Yellow, mucous and serous
discharges, profuse and intermittent. Has been found of much
use in oxaluria.
Head.--Rheumatic headache, beginning in evening. Bald spots.
Dandruff and scaldhead.
Ears.--Eustachian deafness. Discharge of yellow matter (Hydr).
Nose.--Cold, with yellow, slimy expectoration. Nose obstructed.
Smell lost (Nat mur). Engorgement of the nasal pharyngeal
mucous membrane, mouth breathing, snoring, etc, remaining
after removal of adenoids.
Face.--Aches in heated room. Epithelioma.
Stomach.--Tongue coated yellow and slimy. Insipid, pappy
taste. Gums painful. Burning thirst, nausea, and vomiting. Load
feeling. Dread of hot drinks.
Abdomen.--Colicky pains; abdomen feels cold to touch;
tympanitic, tense. Yellow, slimy diarrhœa. Constipation, with
hæmorrhoids (Sulph).
Male.--Gonorrhœa; discharge slimy, yellowish-green. Orchitis.
Gleet.
Female.--Menses too late, scanty, with feeling of weight in
abdomen. Metrorrhagia.
Respiratory.--Coarse rales. Rattling of mucus in chest (Tart
em). Post-grippal cough, especially in children. Bronchial
asthma, with yellow expectoration. Cough; worse in evening and
in hot atmosphere. Croupy hoarseness (Hep; Spong).
Extremities.--Pain in nape, back and limbs, worse in warm
room. Shifting, wandering pains.
Fever.--Rise of temperature at night. Intermittent fever, with
yellow, slimy tongue.
Skin.--Psoriasis (Ars; Thyroid). Eczema; burning, itching,
papular eruption. Nettle-rash. Polypi. Epithelioma. Seborrhœa.
Favus. Ring-worm of scalp or beard with abundant scales.
Modalities.--Worse, in evening, heated room. Better, cool, open
air.
Relationship.--Compare: Kali sulph chromico.--Alum of
chrome-3x (Produces in the nasal passages very fine threads
from the septum to external wall; affections of nasal fossæ and
hay-fever. Chronic colds. Sneezing, red, watery eyes, irritation
of mucous membrane). Pulsat; Kali bich; Nat m.
Dose.--Third to twelfth potency.
KALIUM SILICICUM
Silicate of Potash
(KALI SILICATUM)
A deep-acting remedy. Lassitude is very marked. Desire to lie
down all the time. Emaciation.
Head.--Absent-minded, anxious, indolent, timid. Feeble will
power. Head congested, blood surges from body to head.
Vertigo, coldness of head; photophobia. Nasal catarrh, discharge
bloody, excoriating, offensive nose, swollen, ulcerated.
Gastric.--Weight in stomach after eating, nausea, pain,
flatulence. Pain in liver region. Constipation. Construction of
anus during stool.
Extremities.--Stiffness over body and limbs. Creeping sensation
over limbs. Twitching of muscles. Weak and weary.
Modalities.--Worse, open air, drafts, cold, exertion, motion
uncovering, bathing.
Dose.--Higher potencies.
KALMIA LATIFOLIA
Mountain Laurel
A rheumatic remedy. Pains shift rapidly. Nausea and slow pulse
frequently accompanying. Has also a prominent action on the
heart. In small doses, it accelerates the heart's action; in larger it
moderates it greatly. Neuralgia; pains shoot downwards, with
numbness. Fulgurating pains of locomotor ataxia. Protracted
and continuous fevers, with tympanites. Paralytic sensations;
pains and aching in limbs accompany nearly every group of
symptoms. Albuminuria.
Head.--Vertigo; worse stooping. Confusion of brain. Pain in
front and temporal region from head to nape and to teeth; from
cardiac origin.
Eyes.--Vision impaired. Stiff, drawing sensation when moving
eyes. Rheumatic iritis. Scleritis, pain increased by moving the
eye.
Face.--Neuralgia; worse right side. Stitches in tongue. Stitches
and tearing in bones of jaw and face.
Stomach.--Warm, glowing sensation in epigastrium. Nausea;
vomiting. Pain in pit of stomach; worse by bending forward;
relieved by sitting erect. Bilious attacks, with nausea, vertigo,
and headache. Sensation of something being pressed under the
epigastrium.
Urinary.--Frequent, with sharp pains in lumbar region. Post-
scarlatinal nephritis.
Heart.--Weak, slow pulse (Dig; Apoc can). Fluttering of heart,
with anxiety. Palpitation; worse leaning forward. Gouty and
rheumatic metastasis of heart. Tachycardia, with pain (Thyroid).
Tobacco heart. Dyspnśa and pressure from epigastrium toward
the heart. Sharp pains take away the breath. Shooting through
chest above heart into shoulder-blades. Frequent pulse. Heart's
action tumultuous, rapid and visible. Paroxysms of anguish
around heart.
Female.--Menses too early, or suppressed, with pain in limbs
and back and inside of thighs. Leucorrhśa follows menses.
Back.--Pain from neck down arm; in upper three dorsal vertebrć
extending to shoulder-blade. Pain down back, as if it would
break; in localized regions of spine; through shoulders. Lumbar
pains, of nervous origin.
Extremities.--Deltoid rheumatism especially right. Pains from
hips to knees and feet. Pains affect a large part of a limb, or
several joints, and pass through quickly. Weakness, numbness,
pricking, and sense of coldness in limbs. Pains along ulnar
nerve, index finger. Joints red, hot, swollen. Tingling and
numbness of left arm.
Sleep.--Sleepless, wakes very early in morning.
Modalities.--Worse, leaning forward (opposite, Kali carb);
looking down; motion, open air.
Relationship.--Compare: Kalmia contains Arbutin g v. Derris
pinuta (of great service in neuralgic headaches of rheumatic
origin).
Compare: Spigelia; Pulsat.
Complementary: Benz acid.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth potency.
KAOLINUM
Bolus alba (China Clay) Alumina Silicate
(KAOLIN)
A remedy for croup and bronchitis.
Nose.--Itching and burning. Discharge yellow. Sore, scabby,
stopped up.
Respiratory.--Soreness of chest along trachea; cannot stand
percussion. Gray sputa. Capillary bronchitis. Larynx and chest
sore. Membranous croup-extends down trachea.
Dose.--Lower triturations.
 KOLA
Kola-nut
(STERCULIA)
Neurasthenia. Regulates the circulation, is tonic and anti-
diarrheic, regulates cardiac rhythm and acts diuretically. Weak
heart.
The remedy for the drinking habit. It promotes the appetite and
digestion, and lessens the craving for liquor. Asthma. Gives
power to endure prolonged physical exertion without taking
food and without feeling fatigued.
Relationship.--Coca.
Dose.--Three to ten drops, even one dram doses, three times a
day.
KOUSSO
Hagenia Abyssinica
(KOUSSO - BRAYERA)
A Vermifuge-Nausea and vomiting, vertigo, prćcordial anxiety
slowing and irregular pulse, subdelirium and collapse. Rapid and
extreme prostration. To expel tapeworm.
Dose.--1/2 oz. Mix with warm water and let stand 15 minutes;
stir well and administer. May be preceded by a little lemon juice
(Merrell).
Relationship.--Compare: Mallotus-Kamala-An efficient remedy
for tapeworm in 30-60 minims of tincture taken in cinnamon
water.
KREOSOTUM
Beechwood Kreosote
Kreosotum is a mixture of phenols obtained from this
distillation.
Pulsations all over the body, and profuse bleeding from small
wounds. Very severe, old neuralgic affections; pains rather
aggravated by rest. Excoriating, burning, and offensive
discharges. Hæmorrhages, ulcerations, cancerous affections.
Rapid decomposition of fluids and secretions, and burning pains.
Overgrown, poorly developed children. Post-climacteric
diseases. Tumefaction, puffiness, gangrene. Ailings of teething
children.
Mental.--Music causes weeping and palpitation. Vanishing of
thought; stupid, forgetful, peevish, irritable. Child wants
everything but throws it away when given.
Head.--Dull pain, as from a board pressing against forehead.
Menstrual headache. Occipital pain (Gels; Zinc pic).
Eyes.--Salty lachrymation. Lids red and swollen.
Ears.--Eruption around and pimples within. Difficult hearing
and buzzing.
Face.--Sick, suffering expression; hot, cheeks red.
Mouth.--Lips red, bleeding. Very painful dentition; child will
not sleep. Very rapid decay of teeth, with spongy, bleeding
gums; teeth dark and crumbly (Staph; Ant c). Putrid odor and
bitter taste.
Nose.--Offensive smell and discharge. Chronic catarrh of old
people. Acrid rawness. Lupus (Ars).
Throat.--Burning, choking sensation. Putrid odor.
Stomach.--Nausea; vomiting of food several hours after eating;
of sweetish water in the morning. Feeling of coldness, as of ice
water in stomach. Soreness; better eating. Painful hard spot.
Hæmatemesis. Bitter taste after a swallow of water.
Abdomen.--Distended. Burning hæmorrhoids. Diarrhœa; very
offensive; dark brown. Bloody, fetid stools. Cholera infantum in
connection with painful dentition, green stools, nausea, dry skin,
exhaustion, etc.
Urine.--Offensive. Violent itching of vulva and vagina, worse
when urinating. Can urinate only when lying; cannot get out of
bed quick enough during first sleep. Dreams of urinating.
Enuresis in the first part of night. Must hurry when desire comes
to urinate.
Female.--Corrosive itching within vulva, burning and swelling
of labia; violent itching between labia and thighs. During
menses, difficult hearing; buzzing and roaring; eruption after.
Burning and soreness in external and internal parts. Leucorrhœa,
yellow, acrid; odor of green corn; worse between periods.
Hæmorrhage after coition. Menses too early, prolonged.
Vomiting of pregnancy, with ptyalism. Menstrual flow intermits
(Puls); ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down.
Pain worse after menses. Lochia offensive; intermits.
Respiratory.--Hoarse, with pain in larynx. Cough; worse
evening, with efforts to vomit, with pain in chest. Raw burning
in chest; pains and oppression. Cough after influenza
(Eriodyction). Winter coughs of old people, with heavy pressure
on sternum. Gangrene of lungs. After every cough, copious,
purulent expectoration. Hæmoptysis; periodic attacks. Sternum
feels pressed in.
Back.--Dragging backache, extending to genitals and down
thighs. Great debility.
Extremities.--Pain in joints, hip and knee. Boring pain in hip-
joints. Scapulæ sore.
Skin.--Itching, worse towards evening. Burning in soles. Senile
gangrene. Small wounds bleed freely (Crot; Lach; Phos).
Pustules and herpes. Ecchymosis; dorsal surface of fingers and
hands eczematous.
Sleep.--Disturbed with tossing. Paralytic sensation in limbs on
waking. Anxious dreams of pursuit, fire, erections, etc.
Modalities.--Worse, in open air, cold rest, when lying; after
menstruation. Better, from warmth, motion, warm diet.
Relationship.--Antidote: Nux. Inimical: Carbo.
Complementary in malignant diseases: Ars; Phos; Sulph.
Guaiacol (is the principal constituent of Kreosote, and similar in
action. Used in pulmonary tuberculosis. Dose 1 to 5 m).
Matico-Artanthe or Piper augustifolia, (Gonorrhœa, hæmorrhage
from lungs; catarrhal conditions of genito-urinary organs and
gastro-intestinal tract. Topically a hæmostatic. Difficult, dry,
deep, winter cough. Use tincture).
Compare also: Fuligo ligni; Carbol ac; Iod; Laches.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. The 200th in sensitive
patients.
LACTICUM ACIDUM
Lactic Acid
Morning sickness, diabetes, and rheumatism offer a field for this
remedy. Troubles in the breasts. Locally, in the tuberculous
ulceration of vocal cords.
Stomach.--Tongue dry, parched. Thirst; voracious hunger.
Canker, copious salivation and water-brash. Nausea; morning
sickness, especially in pale anćmic women. Hot, acrid
eructation. Nausea; better, eating. Burning, hot gas from
stomach to throat, causing profuse secretion of tenacious mucus,
worse smoking.
Throat.--Fullness or lump like a puff ball. Keeps swallowing.
Constricted low down.
Chest.--Pain in breasts, with enlargement of axillary glands, and
pain extends into hand.
Extremities.--Rheumatic pain in joints and shoulders, wrists,
knees, with much weakness. Trembling of whole body while
walking. Limbs feel chilly.
Urine.--Large quantities passed, frequently. Saccharine.
Relationship.--Compare: Sarcolactic acid q v. Lithia; Phos ac.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. Six to ten drops in a small
glass of water in acute gastro-enteritis (Cartier).
LAC CANINUM
Dog's Milk
This remedy is of undoubted value in certain form of sore throat
and diphtheria, and rheumatism. Corresponds to a low-vitiated,
non-feverish type of sickness. The keynote symptom is, erratic
pains, alternating sides. Feels as if walking on air, or of not
touching the bed when lying down. Great lassitude. Ozæna.
Decided effect in drying up milk in women who cannot nurse
the baby. Great weakness and prostration. Sinking spells every
morning. Mastitis.
Mind.--Very forgetful; in writing, makes mistakes. Despondent;
thinks her disease incurable. Attacks of rage. Visions of snakes.
Thinks himself of little consequence.
Head.--Sensation of walking or floating in the air (Sticta). Pain
first one side, then the other. Blurred vision, nausea and
vomiting at height of attack of headache. Occipital pain, with
shooting extending to forehead. Sensation as if brain were
alternately contracted and relaxed. Noises in ears. Reverberation
of voice.
Nose.--Coryza; one nostril stuffed up, the other free; alternate.
Alæ nasi and corners of mouth cracked. Bones of nose sore to
pressure. Bloody pus discharged.
Mouth.--Tongue coated white with bright red edges; profuse
salivation. Drooling in diphtheria. Cracking of jaw while eating
(Nit ac; Rhus). Putrid taste increased by sweets.
Throat.--Sensitive to touch. Painful swallowing; pain extends to
ears. Sore throat and cough with menstruation. Tonsillitis and
diphtheria symptoms change repeatedly from side to side.
Shining glazed appearance of deposit, pearly-white or like pure
white porcelain. Stiffness of neck and tongue. Throat feels
burned raw. Tickling sensation causes constant cough. Sore
throat beginning and ending with menses.
Female.--Menses too early, profuse, flow in gushes. Breasts
swollen; painful before (Calc c; Con; Puls) and better on
appearance of menses. Mastitis; worse, least jar. Helps to dry up
milk. Sinking at epigastrium. Sexual organs easily excited.
Backache; spine very sensitive to touch or pressure.
Galactorrhœa.
Extremities.--Sciatica, right side. Legs feel numb and stiff,
cramps in feet. Rheumatic pains in extremities and back, from
one side to the other. Pain in arms to fingers. Burning in palms
and soles.
Sleep.--Dreams of snakes.
Modalities.--Worse, morning of one day and in the evening of
next. Better, cold, cold drinks.
Relationship.--Compare: Lach; Con; Lac felinum-Cat's Milk--
(ciliary neuralgia; eye symptoms, photophobia; asthenopia;
dysmenorrhœa); Lac vaccinum-Cows' Milk--(headache,
rheumatic pains, constipation); Lac vaccinum coagulatum-
Curds--(nausea of pregnancy); Lactis vaccini floc--Cream--
(diphtheria, leucorrhœa, menorrhagia, dysphagia); Lactic ac.
Dose.--Thirtieth and the highest potencies.
LAC VACCINUM DEFLORATUM
Skimmed Milk
(LAC DEFLORATUM)
A remedy for diseases with faulty nutrition; sick headaches, with
profuse flow of urine during pain. Car sickness.
Head.--Despondent. Pain begins in forehead to occiput, in
morning on rising. Intense throbbing, with nausea, vomiting,
blindness, and obstinate constipation; worse, noise, light,
motion, during menses, with great prostration, and better by
pressure and bandaging head tightly.
Stool.--Constipation. Stools hard, large, with great straining;
painful, lacerating anus.
Relationship.--Compare: Colostrum (Diarrhśa in infants. Whole
body smells sour. Colic). Nat mur.
Dose.--Sixth, to thirtieth potency and higher.
LACHESIS MUTUS
Bushmaster or Surucucu
(LACHESIS)
Like all snake poisons, Lachesis decomposes the blood,
rendering it more fluid; hence a hćmorrhagic tendency is
marked. Purpura, septic states, diphtheria, and other low forms
of disease, when the system is thoroughly poisoned and the
prostration is profound. The modalities are most important in
guiding to the remedy. Delirium tremens with much trembling
and confusion. Very important during the climacteric and for
patients of a melancholic disposition. Ill effects of suppressed
discharges. Diphtheritic paralysis (Botulinum). Diphtheria
carriers. Sensation of tension in various parts. Cannot bear
anything tight anywhere.
Mind.--Great loquacity. Amative. Sad in the morning; no desire
to mix with the world. Restless and uneasy; does not wish to
attend to business; wants to be off somewhere all the time.
Jealous (Hyos). Mental labor best performed at night.
Euthanasia. Suspicious; nightly delusion of fire. Religious
insanity (Verat; Stram). Derangement of the time sense.
Head.--Pain through head on awaking. Pain at root of nose.
Pressure and burning on vertex. Waves of pain; worse after
moving. Sun headaches. With headache, flickerings, dim vision,
very pale face. Vertigo. Relieved by onset of a discharge
(menses or nasal catarrh).
Eyes.--Defective vision after diphtheria, extrinsic muscles too
weak to maintain focus. Sensation as if eyes were drawn
together by cords which were tied in a knot at root of nose.
Ears.--Tearing pain from zygoma into ear; also with sore throat.
Ear-wax hard, dry.
Nose.--Bleeding, nostrils sensitive. Coryza, preceded by
headache. Hay asthma; paroxysms of sneezing (Silica; Sabad).
Face.--Pale. Trifacial neuralgia, left side, heat running up into
head (Phos). Tearing pain in jaw-bones (Amphisbćna; Phos).
Purple, mottled, puffed; looks swollen, bloated, jaundiced,
chlorotic.
Mouth.--Gums swollen, spongy, bleed. Tongue swollen, burns,
trembles, red, dry and cracked at tip, catches on teeth. Aphthous
and denuded spots with burning and rawness. Nauseous taste.
Teeth ache, pain extends to ears. Pain in facial bones.
Throat.--Sore, worse left side, swallowing liquids. Quinsy.
Septic parotiditis. Dry, intensely swollen, externally and
internally. Diphtheria; membrane dusky, blackish; pain
aggravated by hot drinks; chronic sore throat, with much
hawking; mucus sticks, and cannot be forced up or down. Very
painful; worse slightest pressure, touch is even more annoying.
In diphtheria, etc, the trouble began on the left side. Tonsils
purplish. Purple, livid color of throat. Feeling as if something
was swollen which must be swallowed; worse, swallowing
saliva or liquids. Pain into ear. Collar and neck-band must be
very loose.
Stomach.--Craving for alcohol, oysters. Any food causes
distress. Pit of stomach painful to touch. Hungry, cannot wait for
food. Gnawing pressure made better by eating, but returning in a
few hours. Perceptible trembling movement in the epigastric
region. Empty swallowing more painful than swallowing solids.
Abdomen.--Liver region sensitive, cannot bear anything around
waist. Especially suitable to drunkards. Abdomen tympanitic,
sensitive, painful (Bell).
Stool.--Constipated, offensive stool. Anus feels tight, as if
nothing could go through it. Pain darting up the rectum every
time be sneezes or coughs. Hćmorrhage from bowels like
charred straw, black particles. Hćmorrhoids protrude, become
constricted, purplish. Stitches in them on sneezing or coughing.
Constant urging in rectum, not for stool.
Female.--Climacteric troubles, palpitation, flashes of heat,
hćmorrhages, vertex headache, fainting spells; worse, pressure
of clothes. Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the
flow (Eupion). Left ovary very painful and swollen, indurated.
Mammć inflamed, bluish. Coccyx and sacrum pain, especially
on rising from sitting posture. Acts especially well at beginning
and close of menstruation.
Male.--Intense excitement of sexual organs.
Respiratory.--Upper part of windpipe very susceptible to touch.
Sensation of suffocation and strangulation on lying down,
particularly when anything is around throat; compels patient to
spring from bed and rush for open window. Spasm of glottis;
feels as if something ran from neck to larynx. Feels he must take
a deep breath. Cramp-like distress in prćcordial region. Cough;
dry, suffocative fits, tickling. Little secretion and much
sensitiveness; worse, pressure on larynx, after sleep, open air.
Breathing almost stops on falling asleep (Grind). Larynx painful
to touch. Sensation as of a plug (Anac) which moves up and
down, with a short cough.
Heart.--Palpitation, with fainting spells, especially during
climacteric. Constricted feeling causing palpitation, with
anxiety. Cyanosis. Irregular beats.
Back.--Neuralgia of coccyx, worse rising from sitting posture;
must sit perfectly still. Pain in neck, worse cervical region.
Sensation of threads stretched from back to arms, legs, eyes, etc.
Extremities.--Sciatica, right side, better lying down. Pain in
tibia (may follow sore throat). Shortening of tendons.
Sleep.--Patient sleeps into an aggravation. Sudden starting
when falling asleep. Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep (Bell; Op).
Wide-awake in evening.
Fever.--Chilly in back; feet icy cold; hot flushes and hot
perspiration. Paroxysm returns after acids. Intermittent fever
every spring.
Skin.--Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance. Boils,
carbuncles, ulcers, with bluish, purple surroundings. Dark
blisters. Bed-sores, with black edges. Blue-black swellings.
Pyemia; dissecting wounds. Purpura, with intense prostration.
Senile erysipelas. Wens. Cellulitis. Varicose ulcers.
Modalities.--Worse, after sleep, (Kali bich). Lachesis sleeps into
aggravation; ailments that come on during sleep (Calc); left side,
in the spring, warm bath, pressure or constriction, hot drinks.
Closing eyes. Better, appearance of discharges, warm
applications.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Ars; Merc; Heat; Alcohol; Salt.
Complementary: Crotalus cascavella often completes curative
work of Lachesis (Mure; Lycop; Hep; Salamandra).
Incompatible: Acet ac; Carb ac.
Compare: Cotyledon (climacteric troubles); Nat m; Nit ac;
Crotal; Amphisbśna -snake lizard--(right jaw swollen and
painful, lancinating pains; headaches, lancinating pains.
Eruption of vesicles and pimples); Naja; Lepidium.
Dose.--Eighth to 200th potency. Doses ought not be repeated too
frequently. If well indicated, a single dose should be allowed to
exhaust its action.
 LACHNANTHES TINCTORIA
Spirit-weed
(LACHNANTHES)
Head, chest and circulation are affected. Bridge of nose as if
pinched. A remedy for torticollis, rheumatic symptoms about
neck. Tuberculosis-light-complexioned people. Early stages, and
established chest cases, with much coldness. Produces a desire
to talk-a flow of language and the courage to make a speech.
Head.--Right-sided pain, extending down to jaw; head feels
enlarged; worse, least noise. Scalp painful. Sleepless.
Circumscribed red cheeks; scalp feels sore, as if hair was
standing on end; burning in palms and soles. Bridge of nose
feels as if pinched.
Chest.--Sensation of heat-bubbling and boiling around heart
region rising to head.
Back.--Chilliness between the shoulder-blades; pain and
stiffness in back.
Neck.--Drawn over to one side in sore throat. Rheumatism of
the neck. Stiffness of neck. Pain in nape, as if dislocated.
Skin.--Body icy cold; face yellow; tendency to sweat.
Relationship.--Compare: Dulc; Bry; Puls; also Fel tauri (nape
of neck pains, and great tension there).
Dose.--Third potency. Tincture in phthisis, unit doses, once or
twice a week, or three drops every four hours.
LACTUCA VIROSA
Acrid Lettuce
This remedy acts principally upon the brain and circulatory
system. Delirium tremens with sleeplessness, coldness, and
tremor. Hydrothorax and ascites. Impotence. Sense of lightness
and tightness affecting whole body, especially chest. Seems to
be a true galactogogue. Marked action on extremities.
Mind.--Stupefaction of sense. Great restlessness.
Head.--Dull, heavy, confused, dizzy. Heat of face and headache,
with general coldness. Headache, with affections of respiratory
organs.
Abdomen.--Sensation of weight, of fullness; borborygmi;
abundant emission of wind. Colic in early morning, abdomen
tense, relieved somewhat by evacuation and passing of wind.
Chest.--Difficult breathing. Suffocative breathing from dropsy
of the chest. Constant tickling cough. Incessant, spasmodic
cough, as if chest would fly to pieces. Squeezing sensation in
lower chest.
Female.--Promotes catamenia. Increase of milk in breasts
(Asafoet).
Sleep.--Restless; impossible to get to sleep. Deep, comatose
sleep.
Extremities.--Lame hip down left side; worse walking.
Coldness and numbness of feet and legs. Tremor of hands and
arms. Cramps in shin bones, extending to toes and side of leg
involving calves.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Acet ac; Coff.
Compare: Nabalus-Prenanthes Serpentaria-Rattlesnake root-
White lettuce, similar to Lactuca, (chronic diarrhśa, worse after
eating, nights and towards morning. Pain in abdomen and
rectum; emaciation. Constipation and somnolence; susceptible
to aura of others. Dyspepsia, with acid burning eructation.
Craving for acid food. Leucorrhśa with throbbing in uterus);
Lach; Kali carb; Spiranthes (galactagogue).
Dose.--Tincture.
LAMIUM ALBUM
White Nettle
(LAMIUM)
Has a special affinity for female and urinary organs.
Headache, with backward and forward motion of head.
Leucorrhœa and menses too early and scanty. Hæmorrhoids;
hard stool, with blood. Sensation in urethra as though a drop of
water were flowing through it. Tearing in the extremities.
Hæmoptysis. Blisters on heel from slight rubbing. Ulcers on
heel (Cepa).
Dose.--Third potency.
LAPIS ALBUS
Silico-fluoride of Calcium
Affections of glands, goitre, pre-ulcerative stage of carcinoma.
Burning, stinging pain in breast, stomach, and uterus.
Connective tissue about glands specially affected. Fat anćmic
babies with Iodine appetite. Ravenous appetite. Remarkably
successful in scrofulous affections, except in malarial cases.
Uterine carcinoma. Fibroid tumors with intense burningpains
through the part with profuse hćmorrhage. Glands have a certain
elasticity and pliability about them rather than the stony
hardness of Calc fluor and Cistus.
Ears.--Otitis media suppurativa. Where Silica is indicated
progress is hastened by Lapis (Bellows).
Chest.--Persistent pains in mammary region. Glandular
hardening.
Skin.--Scrofulous abscesses and sores. Enlargement and
induration of glands, especially cervical. Lipoma, sarcoma,
carcinoma. Pruritus.
Relationship.--Compare: Silica; Badiaga; Ars iod; Calc iod;
Con; Kal iod; Asterias.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
LAPPA ARCTIUM
Burdock
Very important in skin therapeutics. Eruptions on the head, face,
and neck; pimples; acne. Styes and ulcerations on the edge of
the eyelids. Profuse and frequent urination. Crops of boils and
styes (Anthracin).
Extremities.--Pain in hands, knees, and ankles extending
downward to fingers and toes. Pain in all joints. Eruption on
extremities.
Female.--Uterine displacements. An exceedingly sore, bruised
feeling in uterus, with great relaxation of the vaginal tissues;
apparently entire lack of tonicity of pelvic contents. These
symptoms all aggravated by standing, walking, a misstep, or
sudden jar.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
LATRODECTUS MACTANS
Spider
The bite produces tetanic effects that last several days. A picture
of Angina pectoris is presented by the action of the drug. The
præcordial region seems to be the center of attack. Constriction
of chest muscles, with radiation to shoulders and back. Lowered
coagulability.
Head.--Anxiety. Screams with pain. Pain in neck to back of
head. Occipital pain.
Respiratory.--Extreme apnœa. Gasping respiration. Fears losing
breath.
Chest.--Violent, præcordial pain extending to the axilla and
down the arm and forearm to fingers, with numbness of the
extremity. Pulse feeble and rapid. Sinking sensation at the
Cramping pain from chest to abdomen.
Extremities.--Pain in left arm, feels paralyzed. Weakness of
legs followed by cramps in the abdominal muscles. Paræsthesia
of lower limbs.
Skin.--Coldness of whole surface. Skin cold as marble.
Relationship.--Compare: Latrodectus Hasselti-New South
Wales Black Spider--(Long lasting effects seem to indicate it as
a "chronic" blood poisoning. Arrests intense pain in pyæmia.
Great œdema in neighborhood of wound; paralysis of limbs,
with great wasting of muscles. Violent, darting, burning pains
preceding paralysis; vertigo, tendency to fall forward;
septicæmic conditions; constant delusion of flying. Loss of
memory. Roaring noises). Araena; Mygale; Theridion;
Latrodectus Kalipo -New Zealand spider--(lymphangitis and
nervous twitchings, scarlet burning eruption). Triatema-Kissing
bug --(Swelling with violent itching of fingers and toes.
Smothering sensation and difficult breathing succeeded by
fainting and rapid pulse).
Dose.--Sixth potency.
LATHYRUS SATIVUS
Chick-pea
(LATHYRUS)
Affects the lateral and anterior columns of the cord. Does not
produce pain. Reflexes always increased. Paralytic affections of
lower extremities; spastic paralysis; lateral sclerosis; Beri-beri.
Athetosis. Infantile paralysis. After influenza and wasting,
exhaustive diseases where there is much weakness and
heaviness, slow recovery of nerve power. Sleepy, constant
yawning.
Mind.--Depressed; hypochondriacal. Vertigo when standing
with eyes closed.
Mouth.--Burning pain in tip of tongue; with tingling and
numbness of tongue and lips, as if scalded.
Extremities.--Tips of fingers numb. Tremulous, tottering gait.
Excessive rigidity of legs; spastic gait. Knees knock against each
other when walking. Cramps in legs worse cold, and cold feet.
Cannot extend or cross legs when sitting. Myelitis, with marked
spastic symptoms. Rheumatic paralysis. Gluteal muscles and
lower limbs emaciated. Legs blue; swollen, if hanging down.
Stiffness and lameness of ankles and knees, toe do not leave the
floor, heels do not touch floor, Muscles of calves very tense.
Patient sits bent forward, straightens with difficulty.
Urine.--Increased bladder reflex. Frequent, must hurry, else
voided involuntarily.
Relationship.--Compare: Oxytrop; Secale; Petiveria, a South
American plant (Paralysis; paraplegia with numbness. Sensation
of internal coldness). Agrostema githago-Corn-cockle --
(Burning sensations, in stomach, through śsophagus into throat,
in lower abdomen and anus; nausea, bitter vomiting, impaired
locomotion; difficulty in remaining erect; vertigo and headache,
burning from lower jaw to vertex).
Dose.--Third potency.
LAUROCERASUS
Cherry-laurel
Spasmodic tickling cough, especially in cardiac patients, is often
magically influenced by this drug. Lack of reaction, especially
in chest and heart affections. Drink rolls audibly through
śsophagus and intestines. General coldness, not ameliorated by
warmth. Violent pain in stomach with loss of speech. Spasm of
facial muscles and śsophagus. Asphyxia neonatorum.
Fever.--Coldness; chills and heat alternate. Thirst, with dry
mouth in afternoon.
Respiratory.--Cyanosis and dyspnśa; worse, sitting up. Patient
puts hands on heart. Cough, with valvular disease. Exercise
causes pain around heart. Tickling, dry cough. Dyspnśa.
Constriction of chest. Cough, with copious, jelly-like, or bloody
expectoration. Small and feeble pulse. Threatening paralysis of
lungs. Gasping for breath; clutches at heart.
Heart.--Mitral regurgitation. Clutching at heart and palpitation.
Cyanosis neonatorum.
Sleep.--Spells of deep sleep, with snoring and stertorous
breathing.
Extremities.--Toe and finger nails become knotty. Skin blue.
Sprained pains in hips, thighs and heels. Cold, clammy feet and
legs. Clubbing of fingers. Veins of hands distended.
Relationship.--Compare: Hydrocy ac; Camphor; Secale;
Ammon carb; Ambra.
Dose.--Tincture to third potency. Cherry-laurel water, two to
five drop doses.
 LECITHINUM
A Phosphorus-containing Complex Organic Body prepared
from the yolk of egg and animal brains
(LECITHIN)
Lecithin is important in the vital processes of plant and animal
organisms. Lecithin has a favorable influence upon the nutritive
condition and especially upon the blood hence its use in anćmia
and convalescence, neurasthenia and insomnia. Increasing the
number of red corpuscles and amount of hemoglobin. Excellent
galactagog, renders milk more nourishing and increases
quantity.
Causes an immediate decrease in the excretion of the
phosphates. Mental exhaustion and impotency. Tuberculosis,
causing marked improvement in nutrition and general
improvement. Tired, weak, short breath, loss of flesh; symptoms
of general break-down. Sexually weak.
Mind.--Forgetful, dull, confused.
Head.--Aching, especially in occiput-pulsating and ringing in
ears. Pain in zygoma; face pale.
Stomach.--Loss of appetite, thirsty, craves wine and coffee;
bloated, sore pain in stomach rising toward throat.
Urine.--Scanty, with phosphates, sugar or albumen.
Sexual.--Male power lost or enfeebled. Anaphrodisia and
ovarian insufficiency.
Extremities.--Soreness, aching, lack of energy. Tired and weak.
Relationship.--Compare: Phosphor.
Dose.--One-half to 2 grains of crude and potencies. Twelfth
potency.
 LEDUM PALUSTRE
Marsh-Tea
(LEDUM)
Affects especially the rheumatic diathesis, going through all the
changes, from functional pain to altered secretions and deposits
of solid, earthy matter in the tissues. The Ledum rheumatism
begins in feet, and travels upward. It affects also the skin,
producing an eruption like Poison-oak, and is antidotal thereto,
as well as to stings of insects. There is a general lack of animal
heat, and yet heat of bed is intolerable. For punctured wounds,
produced by sharp-pointed instruments or bites particularly if
the wounded parts are cold, this is the remedy. Tetanus with
twitching of muscles near wound.
Head.--Vertigo when walking, with tendency to fall to one side.
Distress when head is covered. Nosebleed (Mellilot; Bry).
Eyes.--Aching in eyes. Extravasation of blood in lids,
conjunctiva, aqueous or vitreous. Contused wounds. Cataract
with gout.
Face.--Red pimples on forehead and cheeks; stinging when
touched. Crusty eruption around nose and mouth.
Mouth.--Dry, retching with eructation. Musty taste with
catarrhal affection.
Respiratory.--Burning in nose. Cough, with bloody
expectoration. Dyspnœa; chest feels constricted. Suffocative
arrest of breathing. Pain along trachea. Bronchitis with
emphysema of aged. Oppressive constriction of chest. Tickling
in larynx; spasmodic cough. Hæmoptysis, alternating with
rheumatism. Chest hurts when touched. Whooping-cough;
spasmodic, double inspiration with sobbing.
Rectum.--Anal fissures. Hæmorrhoidal pain.
Extremities.--Gouty pains shoot all through the foot and limb,
and in joints, but especially small joints. Swollen, hot, pale.
Throbbing in right shoulder. Pressure in shoulder, worse motion.
Cracking in joints; worse, warmth of bed. Gouty nodosities. Ball
of great to swollen (Bothrops). Rheumatism begins in lower
limbs and ascends (Kalmiaopposite). Ankles swollen. Soles
painful, can hardly step on them (Ant c; Lyc). Easy spraining of
ankle.
Fever.--Coldness, want of animal heat. Sensation as of cold
water over parts; general coldness with heat of face.
Skin.--Acne on forehead, sticking pain therein. Eczema (facial).
Itching of feet and ankles; worse, scratching and warmth of bed.
Ecchymosis. Long discoloration after injuries. Carbuncles
(Anthracin. Tarant cuben). Antidote to Rhus poisoning (Grindel;
Cyprip; Anac).
Modalities.--Better, from cold, putting feet in cold water.
Worse, at night, and from heat of bed.
Relationship.--Compare: Ledum antidotes spider poisons. Ruta;
Ham; Bellis; Arnica.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
LEMNA MINOR
Duckweed
A catarrhal remedy. Acts especially upon the nostrils. Nasal
polypi; swollen turbinates. Atrophic rhinitis. Asthma from nasal
obstruction; worse in wet weather.
Nose.--Putrid smell; loss of smell. Crusts and muco-purulent
discharge very abundant. Post-nasal dropping. Pain like a string
from nostrils to ear. Reduces nasal obstruction when it is an
œdematous condition. Dryness of naso-pharynx.
Mouth.--Putrid taste on rising in the morning. Dry pharynx and
larynx.
Abdomen.--Disposition to noisy diarrhœa.
Modalities.--Worse, in damp, rainy weather, especially heavy
rains.
Relationship.--Compare: Dulc (damp surroundings and foggy
weather). Calc; Teucr; Calend; Nat sulph.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
LEPIDIUM BONARIENSE
Cress-Brazilian Cress
Affections of breast, heart, lancinating pains.
With heart symptoms, numbness and pain in left arm, sensation
of sinking in pit of stomach.
Left side of head, face, chest, hip to knee, all have lancinating
pain.
A streak of pain from the temple to the chin, as if the face were
cut with a razor. Burning in throat, roaring in ears. Sensation of
a tight girdle around chest, as of a knife piercing the heart. Pain
in neck, back, and extremities. Compare: Arnica; Lachesis.
LEPTANDRA VIRGINICA
Culver's Root
(LEPTANDRA)
A liver remedy, with jaundice and black, tarry stools. Bilious
states. Enfeebled portal circulation. Malarial conditions.
Head.--Dull frontal pain; vertigo, drowsiness, and depression.
Smarting and aching in eyes.
Stomach.--Tongue coated yellow. Great distress in stomach and
intestines, with desire for stool. Aching in region of liver
extending to spine, which feels chilly.
Stool.--Profuse black, fetid stools, with pain at umbilicus.
Bleeding piles. Typhoid stools turn black and look like tar. Clay
colored stools with jaundice. Prolapse of rectum with
hćmorrhoids. Rectal hćmorrhage.
Relationship.--Compare: Podop; Iris; Bry; Merc; Ptel; Myrica.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
LIATRIS SPICATA
Colic Root
(LIATRIS SPICATA - SERRATULA)
A vascular stimulant. Increases functional activity of the skin,
mucous membranes.
Of use in dropsy due to liver and spleen diseases, also renal
dropsy. Here the suppressed urination is most favorably
influenced. General anasarca due to heart and kidney disease.
Diarrhśa with violent urging and pain in lower part of back.
Colic. Locally, applied to ulcers and unhealthy wounds.
A prompt diuretic.
Dose.--1 to 4 drams of tincture of infusion.
LILIUM TIGRINUM
Tiger-lily
Manifests powerful influence over the pelvic organs, and is
adapted to many reflex states dependent on some pathological
condition of uterus and ovaries. More often indicated in
unmarried women. The action of the heart is very marked. Pain
in small spots (Oxal ac). Rheumatic arthritis.
Mind.--Tormented about her salvation. Consolation aggravates.
Profound depression of spirits. Constant inclination to weep.
Anxious; fears some organic and incurable disease. Disposed to
curse, strike, think obscene things. Aimless, hurried manner;
must keep busy.
Head.--Hot, dull, heavy. Faint in warm room. Wild feeling in
head.
Eyes.--Hyperæsthesia of retina. Pain, extending back into head;
lachrymation; and impaired vision. Myopic astigmia. Useful in
restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscle (Arg nit).
Stomach.--Flatulent; nausea, with sensation of lump in stomach.
Hungry; longs for meat. Thirsty, drinks often and much, and
before severe symptoms.
Abdomen.--Abdomen sore, distended; trembling sensation in
abdomen. Pressure downwards and backwards against rectum
and anus; worse, standing; better, walking in open air. Bearing
down in lower part of abdomen.
Urinary.--Frequent urging. Urine milky, scanty, hot.
Stool.--Constant desire to defecate, from pressure in rectum,
worse standing. Pressure down the anus. Early-morning urgent
stool. Dysentery; mucus and blood, with tenesmus, especially in
plethoric and nervous women at change of life.
Heart.--Sensation as if heart were grasped in a vise (Cact).
Feels full to bursting. Pulsations over whole body. Palpitation;
irregular pulse; very rapid. Pain in cardiac region, with feeling
of a load on chest. Cold feeling about heart. Suffocating feeling
in a crowded and warm room. Angina pectoris with pain in right
arm.
Female.--Menses early, scanty, dark, clotted, offensive; flow
only when moving about. Bearing down sensation with urgent
desire for stool, as though all organs would escape. Ceases
when resting (Sep; Lac c; Bell). Congestion of uterus, prolapse,
and anteversion. Constant desire to support parts externally. Pain
in ovaries and down thighs. Acrid, brown leucorrhœa; smarting
in labia. Sexual instinct awakened. Bloated feeling in uterine
region. Sub-involution. Pruritus pudendi.
Extremities.--Cannot walk on uneven ground. Pain in back and
spine, with trembling, but oftener in front of a pressing-down
character. Pricking in fingers. Pain in right arm and hip. Legs
ache; cannot keep them still. Pain in ankle joint. Burning palms
and soles.
Sleep.--Unrefreshing, with disagreeable dreams. Unable to
sleep, with wild feeling in head.
Fever.--Great heat and lassitude in afternoon, with throbbing
throughout body.
Modalities.--Worse consolation, warm room. Better, fresh air.
Relationship.--Compare: Cact; Helon; Murex; Sep; Plat;
Pallad.
Antidote: Helon.
Dose.--The middle and higher potencies seem to have done best.
Its curative action sometimes is slow in developing itself.
LIMULUS CYCLOPS
Horse-foot-King-crab
(LIMULUS - XIPHOSURA)
Limulus was introduced by C. Hering and partially proved by
him and Lippe. Hering was surprised to see the blood of the
King-crab that he dissected, blue, which on investigation, was
found to contain copper as he had surmised and which he
thought would prove to be another medicine for Cholera. Further
provings are necessary to establish this, though symptoms so far
observed make this probable. Hering's fertile mind always lead
him to pioneer paths into practical therapeutics.
Bodily and mental exhaustion; drowsiness after sea bathing.
Gastro-enteric symptoms. Painful fullness of whole right side of
body.
Head.--Mental depression. Difficult to remember names,
confused with heat of face, rush of blood to face, worse when
meditating. Pain behind left eye-ball.
Nose.--Fluent coryza. Sneezing worse drinking water. Constant
nasal dropping. Pressure above nose and behind eyes.
Abdomen.--Colic with heat. Cramp-like pain with watery
stools. Abdomen hot and constricted. Piles, constriction of anus.
Respiratory.--Husky voice. Dyspnśa after drinking water.
Oppression of chest.
Extremities.--Crural neuralgia. Soles of feet ache, feel numb.
Pain in right hip-joint. Heels sore.
Skin.--Itching spots and vesicles on face and hands. Burning in
palms.
Relationship.--Compare: Asterias; Homarus; Cuprum.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
LINARIA VULGARIS
Toad-flax-Snap Dragon
(LINARIA)
Acts prominently within the domain of the pneumogastrics.
Eructations, nausea, salivation, pressure on stomach. Jaundice,
splenic and hepatic hypertrophy. Enteric symptoms and great
drowsiness very marked. Cardiac fainting. Enuresis. Rectal
symptoms. Tongue rough, dry; throat constricted. Coldness.
Confusion in head. Irresistible sleepiness. Symptoms worse
walking in open air.
Dose.--Third potency.
LINUM USITATISSIMUM
Common Flax
The application of Linseed poultice has produced in sensitive
subjects severe respiratory disturbances, as asthma, hives, etc.
Its action in such cases is marked by intense irritation. It has
been found to contain small quantity of Hydrocyanic acid, which
may account for this intensity. The decoction is of service in
inflammation of the urinary passages, cystitis, strangury, etc.
Also in diseases of the intestinal tract. It has a place in the
treatment of asthma, hay-fever and urticaria. Trismus and
paralysis of the tongue.
Relationship.--Compare: Linum Catharticum-Purging flax --
(Similar respiratory symptoms, but also colic and diarrhśa).
Dose.--Lower potencies.
LITHIUM CARBONICUM
Carbonate of Lithium
Chronic rheumatism connected with heart lesions and
asthenopia offer a field for this remedy. Rheumatic nodes. Uric
acid diathesis Whole body is sore. Gout and tophi.
Head.--Tension, as if bound; better, sitting and going out.
Externally sensitive. Headache ceases while eating. Trembling
and throbbing. Pain in heart; extends to head. Dizzy states with
ringing in ears. Both cheeks covered with dry, bran-like scales.
Eyes.--Half vision; invisible right half. Photophobia. Pain over
eyes. Dry lids. Eyes pain after reading.
Stomach.--Acidity, nausea, gnawing, relieved by eating
(Anacard). Cannot endure slightest pressure of clothes (Laches).
Urine.--Tenesmus. Turbid urine, with mucus and red deposit.
Pain in region of right kidney. Free and colorless. While
urinating, pressure in heart. Cystitis, subacute and chronic.
Respiratory.--Constriction of chest. Violent cough when lying
down. Air feels cold when inspired. Pain in mammary glands,
which extend into the arms and fingers.
Heart.--Rheumatic soreness in cardiac region. Sudden shock in
heart. Throbbing, dull stitch in cardiac region. Pains in heart
before menses, and associated with pains in bladder, and before
urinating; better, after. Trembling and fluttering in heart,
extending to back.
Urinary.--Soreness of bladder; pain in right kidney and ureter.
Turbid urine with mucus, scanty and dark, acrid; sandy deposit.
Extremities.--Paralytic stiffness all over. Itching about joints.
Rheumatic pains throughout shoulder-joint, arm, and fingers and
small joints generally. Pain in hollow of foot, extending to knee.
Swelling and tenderness of finger and toe joints; better, hot
water. Nodular swellings in joints. Ankles pain when walking.
Skin.--Scabby, tettery eruption on hands, head, and cheeks,
preceded by red, raw skin. Dull stitch, ending in itching.
Barber's itch (use high). Rough rash all over body, much loose
epithelium, tough, dry, itchy skin.
Modalities.--Worse, in morning, right side. Better, rising and
moving about.
Relationship.--Compare: Lyc; Ammon phos; Benz ac; Calc;
Lithium chlor (symptoms of cinchonism, viz.: Dizzy head, full,
bluring of vision Ringing in ears; marked tremors; general
weakness; marked muscular and general prostration; no gastro-
intestinal effects. Nose sore, heartburn, pain in teeth). Lithium
lacticum (rheumatism of shoulder, and small joints relieved by
moving about; worse, resting). Lithium benzoicum (deep-seated
pains in loins; in small of back; uneasiness in bladder. Cystic
irritation. Gallstones. Frequent desire. Diminishing uric acid
deposit). Lithium bromatum (cerebral congestion, threatened
apoplexy, insomnia and epilepsy).
Dose.--First to third trituration.
LOBELIA INFLATA
Indian Tobacco
Is a vaso-motor stimulant; increases the activity of all vegetative
processes; spends its force mainly upon the pneumogastric
nerve, producing a depressed relaxed condition with oppression
of the chest and epigastrium, impeded respiration, nausea and
vomiting.
Languor, relaxation of muscles, nausea, vomiting and dyspepsia
are the general indications that point to the use of this remedy, in
asthma and gastric affections. Best adapted to light
complexioned fleshy people. Bad effects of drunkenness.
Suppressed discharges (Sulph). Diphtheria. Catarrhal jaundice
(Chionanth).
Head.--Vertigo, and fear of death. Gastric headache, with
nausea, vomiting, and great prostration; worse, afternoon until
midnight; tobacco. Dull, heavy pain.
Face.--Bathed in cold sweat. Sudden pallor.
Ears.--Deafness due to suppressed discharges or eczema.
Shooting pain from throat.
Mouth.--Profuse flow of saliva; acrid burning taste; mercurial
taste; tenacious mucus, tongue coated white.
Stomach.--Acidity, flatulence, shortness of breath after eating.
Heartburn with profuse flow of saliva. Extreme nausea and
vomiting. Morning sickness. Faintness and weakness at
epigastrium. Profuse salivation, with good appetite. Profuse
sweat and prostration. Cannot bear smell or taste of tobacco.
Acrid, burning taste; acidity, with contractive feeling in pit of
stomach. Flatulence, shortness of breath after eating. Heartburn.
Respiratory.--Dyspnśa from constriction of chest; worse, any
exertion. Sensation of pressure or weight in chest; better by
rapid walking. Feels as if heart would stop. Asthma; attacks,
with weakness, felt in pit of stomach and preceded by prickling
all over. Cramp, ringing cough, short breath, catching at throat.
Senile emphysema.
Back.--Pain in sacrum; cannot bear slightest touch. Sits leaning
forward.
Urinary.--Deep red color and copious red sediment.
Skin.--Prickling, itching with intense nausea.
Modalities.--Worse, tobacco, afternoon, slightest motion, cold,
especially cold washing. Better, by rapid walking; (chest pain),
toward evening, and from warmth.
Relationship.--Antidote: Ipec.
Compare: Tabac; Ars; Tart e; Verat; Rosa.
Lobelia syphilitica or cerulea (gives a perfect picture of
sneezing influenza, involving the posterior nares, palate, and
fauces. Very depressed. Pain in forehead over eyes; pain and gas
in bowels, followed by copious watery stools with tenesmus and
soreness of anus. Pain in knees. Prickling in soles. Great
oppression in lower part of chest, as if air could not reach there.
Pain in chest under short ribs of left side. Dry, hacking cough.
Breathing difficult. Dull, aching pain over root of nose.
Eustachian catarrh. Pain in posterior part of spleen). Lobelia
erinus (malignant growths, extremely rapid development;
colloid cancer of the omentum; cork-screw-like pains in
abdomen; great dryness of skin, nasal and buccal mucous
membranes; distaste for brandy; dry, eczematous patches
covering points of first fingers. Malignant disease of the face.
Epithelioma).
Dose.--Tincture, to thirtieth potency. Locally the tincture is
antidotal to Poison-oak. Often the Acetum Lobelia acts better
than any other preparation. Lobelia hypodermically acts
clinically almost precisely as the antitoxin of diphtheria does
upon the infection and renders the system stronger to resist
future infections (F. Ellingwood).
LOBELIA PURPURASCENS
Purple Lobelia
Profound prostration of all the vital forces and of the nervous
system; respiratory paralysis. Nervous prostration of influenza.
Coma. Tongue white and paralyzed.
Head.--Confused and depressed. Headache with nausea, vertigo;
especially between eyebrows. Cannot keep eyes open;
spasmodic closure of lids.
Chest.--Superficial respiration; heart and lungs feel paralyzed;
respiration slow. Heart beats sound to him like boom of a drum.
Eyes.--Impossible to keep open. Drowsy.
Relationship.--Compare: Baptisa; Lobelia cardinalis (debility,
especially of lower extremities; oppressed breathing, pleurisy,
sticking pain in chest on taking a long breath. Pain in left lung,
intermitting pricking during the day).
Dose.--Third potency.
LOLEUM TEMULENTUM
Darnel
(LOLIUM TUMULENTUM)
Has been made use of in cephalalgia, sciatica, paralysis.
Prostration and restlessness.
Head.--Anxious and depressed, confused. Vertigo; must close
eyes. Head heavy. Noises in ears.
Stomach.--Nausea, vomiting. Pain in pit of stomach and
abdomen. Severe purging.
Extremities.--Gait unsteady. Trembling of all limbs. Loss of
power in extremities. Violent pain in calves, as if bound with
cords. Cold extremities. Spasmodic motions of arms and legs.
Cannot write; cannot hold a glass of water. Trembling of hands
in paralysis.
Relationship.--Compare: Secale; Lathyr; Astrag.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
LONICERA XYLOSTEUM
Fly-woodbine
Convulsive symptoms. Urćmic convulsions. Albuminuria.
Syphilis.
Head.--Congestion of head and chest; coma. Contraction of one
pupil and dilatation of the other. Sopor, eyes half open red face.
Extremities.--Jerking of limbs. Trembling of whole body.
Violent convulsions. Limbs and head fall over as if paralyzed.
Extremities cold. Cold perspiration.
Relationship.--Compare: Lonicera pericylmenum-Honeysuckle
--(irritability of temper, with violent outburst (Crocus)).
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
LUPULUS HUMULUS
Hops
Is a good remedy in unstrung conditions of the nervous system
attended with nausea, dizziness, headache following a night's
debauch. Infantile jaundice, Urethral burning. Drawing and
twitching in almost every muscle. Nervous tremors; wakefulness
and delirium of drunkards. Giddiness and stupefaction. Slow
pulse. Perspiration profuse, clammy, greasy.
Head.--Morbid vigilance. Highly excited. Dull, heavy headache
with dizziness. Drawing and twitching in every muscle.
Sleep.--Drowsy during the day. Sopor.
Male.--Painful erections. Emissions, depending on sexual
weakness and after organism. Spermatorrhśa.
Skin.--Scarlatina-like eruption on face. Feels like insects
crawling under skin; feels chapped, skin peels.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Coffea; Vinegar.
Compare: Nux; Urtica; Cannab.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency. Lupulin 1X trit (Best in
seminal emissions. Locally in painful cancers).
LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM
Club Moss
(LYCOPODIUM)
This drug is inert until the spores are crushed. Its wonderful
medicinal properties are only disclosed by trituration and
succussion.
In nearly all cases where Lycopodium is the remedy, some
evidence of urinary or digestive disturbance will be found.
Corresponds to Grauvogle's carbo-nitrogenoid constitution, the
non-eliminative lithæmic. Lycopodium is adapted more
especially to ailments gradually developing, functional power
weakening, with failures of the digestive powers, where the
function of the liver is seriously disturbed. Atony. Malnutrition.
Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with catarrhal
tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots,
earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious,
weakly children. Symptoms characteristically run from right to
left, acts especially on right side of body, and are worse from
about 4 to 8 pm. In kidney affections, red sand in urine,
backache, in renal region; worse before urination. Intolerant of
cold drinks; craves everything warm. Best adapted to persons
intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power. Deep-seated,
progressive, chronic diseases. Carcinoma. Emaciation. Debility
in morning. Marked regulating influence upon the glandular
(sebaceous) secretions. Pre-senility. Ascites, in liver disease.
Lycop patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry. Lacks vital
heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities. Pains come and go
suddenly. Sensitive to noise and odors.
Mind.--Melancholy; afraid to be alone. Little things annoy,
Extremely sensitive. Averse to undertaking new things. Head
strong and haughty when sick. Loss of self-confidence. Hurried
when eating. Constant fear of breaking down under stress.
Apprehensive. Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells or
writes wrong words and syllables. Failing brain-power (Anac;
Phos; Baryt). Cannot bear to see anything new. Cannot read
what he writes. Sadness in morning on awaking.
Head.--Shakes head without apparent cause. Twists face and
mouth. Pressing headache on vertex; worse from 4 to 8 pm, and
from lying down or stooping, if not eating regularly (Cact).
Throbbing headache after every paroxysm of coughing.
Headaches over eyes in severe colds; better, uncovering (Sulph).
Vertigo in morning on rising. Pain in temples, as if they were
screwed toward each other. Tearing pain in occiput; better, fresh
air. Great falling out of hair. Eczema; moist oozing behind ears.
Deep furrows on forehead. Premature baldness and gray hair.
Eyes.--Styes on lids near internal canthus. Day-blindness
(Bothrops). Night-blindness more characteristic. Sees only one-
half of an object. Ulceration and redness of lids. Eyes half open
during sleep.
Ears.--Thick, yellow, offensive discharge. Eczema about and
behind ears. Otorrhœa and deafness with or without tinnitus;
after scarlatina. Humming and roaring with hardness of hearing;
every noise causes peculiar echo in ear.
Nose.--Sense of smell very acute. Feeling of dryness posteriorly.
Scanty excoriating, discharge anteriorly. Ulcerated nostrils.
Crusts and elastic plugs (Kal b; Teuc). Fluent coryza. Nose
stopped up. Snuffles; child starts from sleep rubbing nose. Fan-
like motion of aloe nasi (Kali brom; Phos).
Face.--Grayish-yellow color of face, with blue circles around
eyes. Withered, shriveled, and emaciated; copper-colored
eruption. Dropping of lower jaw, in typhoid fever (Lach;
Opium). Itching; scaly herpes in face and corner of mouth.
Mouth.--Teeth excessively painful to touch. Toothache, with
swelling of cheeks; relieved by warm application. Dryness of
mouth and tongue, without thirst. Tongue dry, black, cracked,
swollen; oscillates to and fro. Mouth waters. Blisters on tongue.
Bad odor from mouth.
Throat.--Dryness of throat, without thirst. Food and drink
regurgitates through nose. Inflammation of throat, with stitches
on swallowing; better, warm drinks. Swelling and suppuration
of tonsils. Ulceration of tonsils, beginning on right side.
Diphtheria; deposits spread from right to left; worse, cold
drinks. Ulceration of vocal bands. Tubercular laryngitis,
especially when ulceration commences.
Stomach.--Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food,
cabbage, beans, etc. Excessive hunger. Aversion to bread, etc.
Desire for sweet things. Food tastes sour. Sour eructations.
Great weakness of digestion. Bulimia, with much bloating. After
eating, pressure in stomach, with bitter taste in mouth. Eating
ever so little creates fullness. Cannot eat oysters. Rolling of
flatulence (Chin; Carb). Wakes at night feeling hungry.
Hiccough. Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx
there burn for hours. Likes to take food and drink hot. Sinking
sensation; worse night.
Abdomen.--Immediately after a light meal, abdomen is bloated,
full. Constant sense of fermentation in abdomen, like yeast
working; upper left side. Hernia, right side. Liver sensitive.
Brown spots on abdomen. Dropsy, due to hepatic disease.
Hepatitis, atrophic from of nutmeg liver. Pain shooting across
lower abdomen from right to left.
Stool.--Diarrhœa. Inactive intestinal canal. Ineffectual urging.
Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete. Hæmorrhoids; very
painful to touch, aching (Mur ac).
Urine.--Pain in back before urinating; ceases after flow; slow in
coming, must strain. Retention. Polyuria during the night. Heavy
red sediment. Child cries before urinating (Bor).
Male.--No erectile power; impotence. Premature emission
(Calad; Sel; Agn). Enlarge prostate. Condylomata.
Female.--Menses too late; last too long, too profuse. Vagina
dry. Coition painful. Right ovarian pain. Varicose veins of
pudenda. Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina. Discharge
of blood from genitals during stool.
Respiratory.--Tickling cough. Dyspnœa. Tensive, constrictive,
burning pain in chest. Cough worse going down hill. Cough
deep, hollow. Expectorations gray, thick, bloody, purulent, salty
(Ars; Phos; Puls). Night cough, tickling as from Sulphur fumes.
Catarrh of the chest in infants, seems full of mucus rattling.
Neglected pneumonia, with great dyspnœa, flaying of alæ nasæ
and presence of mucous rales.
Heart.--Aneurism (Baryta carb). Aortic disease. Palpitation at
night. Cannot lie on left side.
Back.--Burning between scapulæ as of hot coals. Pain in small
of back.
Extremities.--Numbness, also drawing and tearing in limbs,
especially while at rest or at night. Heaviness of arms. Tearing
in shoulder and elbow joints. One foot hot, the other cold.
Chronic gout, with chalky deposits in joints. Profuse sweat of
the feet. Pain in heel on treading as from a pebble. Painful
callosities on soles; toes and fingers contracted. Sciatica, worse
right side. Cannot lie on painful side. Hands and feet numb.
Right foot hot, left cold. Cramps in calves and toes at night in
bed. Limbs go to sleep. Twitching and jerking.
Fever.--Chill between 3 and 4 pm, followed by sweat. Icy
coldness. Feels as if lying on ice. One chill is followed by
another (Calc; Sil; Hep).
Sleep.--Drowsy during day. Starting in sleep. Dreams of
accidents.
Skin.--Ulcerates. Abscesses beneath skin; worse warm
applications. Hives; worse, warmth. Violent itching; fissured
eruptions. Acne. Chronic eczema associated with urinary, gastric
and hepatic disorders; bleeds easily. Skin becomes thick and
indurated. Varicose veins, nævi, erectile tumors. Brown spots,
freckles worse on left side of face and nose. Dry, shrunken,
especially palms; hair becomes prematurely gray. Dropsies.
Offensive secretions; viscid and offensive perspiration,
especially of feet and axilla. Psoriasis.
Modalities.--Worse, right side, from right to left, from above
downward, 4 to 8 pm; from heat or warm room, hot air, bed.
Warm applications, except throat and stomach which are better
from warm drinks. Better, by motion, after midnight, from warm
food and drink, on getting cold, from being uncovered.
Relationship.--Complementary: Lycop acts with special benefit
after Calcar and Sulphur. Iod; Graphites, Lach; Chelidon.
Antidotes: Camph; Puls; Caust.
Compare: Carbo-Nitrogenoid Constitution: Sulphur; Rhus;
Urtica; Mercur; Hepar. Alumina (Lycop is the only vegetable
that takes up aluminum. T. F. Allen) Ant c; Nat m; Ery; Nux;
Bothrops (day-blindness; can scarcely see after sunrise; pain in
right great toe). Plumbago littoralis-A Brazilian plant--(Costive
with red urine, pain in kidneys and joints and body generally;
milky saliva, ulcerated mouth). Hydrast follows Lycop in
indigestion.
Dose.--Both the lower and the highest potencies are credited
with excellent result. For purposes of aiding elimination the
second and third attenuation of the Tincture, a few drops, 3
times a day, have proved efficacious, otherwise the 6th to 200th
potency, and higher, in not too frequent doses.
LYCOPERSICUM ESCULENTUM
Tomato
(SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM)
Marked symptoms of rheumatism and influenza. Severe aching
pains all over body. Pains left after influenza. Head always
shows signs of acute congestion. Hay-fever, with marked
aggravation from breathing the least dust. Frequent urination
and profuse watery diarrhśa.
Head.--Bursting pain, beginning in occiput and spreading all
over. Whole head and scalp feels sore, bruised, after pain has
ceased.
Eyes.--Dull, heavy; pupils contracted; eyeballs feel contracted;
aching in and around eyes. Eyes suffused.
Nose.--Profuse, watery coryza; drops down throat. Itching in
anterior chamber; worse, breathing any dust; better, indoors.
Heart.--Decided decrease in pulse rate with anxiety and
apprehensiveness.
Respiratory.--Voice husky. Pain in chest, extending to head.
Hoarseness; constant desire to clear throat. Expulsive cough,
deep and harsh. Chest oppressed; dry, hacking cough coming on
at night and keeping one awake.
Urine.--Constant dribbling in open air. Must rise at night to
urinate.
Extremities.--Aching through back. Dull pain in lumbar region.
Sharp pain in right deltoid and pectoralis muscles. Pain deep in
middle of right arm. Rheumatic pain in right elbow and wrist,
and hands of both sides. Intense aching in lower limbs. Right
crural neuralgia. Tingling along right ulnar nerve.
Modalities.--Worse, right side, open air, continued motion, jars,
noises. Better, warm room, tobacco.
Relationship.--Compare: Bellad (follows well); Eup perf; Rhus;
Sanguin; Caps.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
LYCOPUS VIRGINICUS
Bugle-weed
Lower the blood pressure, reduces the rate of the heart and
increases the length of systole to a great degree. Passive
hæmorrhages (Adrenaline 6x).
A heart remedy, and of use in exophthalmic goitre and
hæmorrhoidal bleeding. Indicated in diseases with tumultuous
action of the heart and more or less pain. Hæmoptysis due to
valvular heart disease. Beneficial in toxic goitre used in the pre-
operative stage dose, 5 drops of tincture (Beebe).
Head.--Frontal headache; worse, frontal eminences; often
succeeded by labored heart. Nosebleed.
Eyes.--Protrusion, pressing, outward, with tumultuous action of
heart. Supraorbital pain, with aching in testicles.
Mouth.--Toothache in lower molars.
Heart.--Rapid heart action of smokers. Præcordial pain;
constriction, tenderness, pulse, weak, irregular, intermittent,
tremulous, rapid. Cyanosis. Heart's action tumultuous and
forcible. Palpitation from nervous irritation, with oppression
around heart. Rheumatoid, flying pains, associated with heart
disease. Cardiac asthma (Sumbul).
Respiratory.--Wheezing. Cough, with hæmoptysis, bleeding
small but frequent.
Urine.--Profuse flow of limpid, watery urine, especially when
the heart is most irritable; also scanty urine. Bladder feels
distended when empty. Diabetes. Pain in testicles.
Rectum.--Bleeding from rectum. Hæmorrhoids.
Sleep.--Wakefulness and morbid vigilance with inordinately
active, but weak circulation.
Relationship.--Compare: Ephedra-Teamsters Tea--(in
exophthalmic goitre; eyes feel pushed out with tumultuous
action of heart); Fucus; Spartein; Cratægus. Adrenaline 6x.
Dose.--First to thirtieth potency.
LYSSINUM
Lyssin-Saliva of Rabid Dog
(HYDROPHOBINUM)
Affects principally the nervous system; aching in bones.
Complaints from abnormal sexual desire. Convulsions brought
on by dazzling light or sight of running water.
Head.--Lyssophobia; fear of becoming mad. Emotion and bad
news aggravate; also, thinking of fluids. Hypersensitiveness of
all senses. Chronic headache. Boring pain in forehead.
Mouth.--Constant spitting; saliva tough, viscid. Sore throat;
constant desire to swallow, which is difficult; gagging when
swallowing water. Froths at mouth.
Male.--Lascivious; priapism, with frequent emissions. No
emission during coition. Atrophy of testicles. Complaints from
abnormal sexual desire.
Female.--Uterine sensitiveness; conscious of womb (Helon).
Feels prolapsed. Vagina sensitive, rendering coition painful
(Berberis). Uterine displacements.
Respiratory.--Voice altered in tone. Breathing held for a time.
Spasmodic contraction of respiratory muscles.
Stool.--Desire for stool on hearing or seeing running water.
Profuse, watery stools, with pain in bowels; worse, evening.
Constant desire to urinate on seeing running water.
Modalities.--Worse, sight or sound of running water or pouring
water, or even thinking of fluids; dazzling or reflected light; heat
of sun; stooping.
Relationship.--Compare: Xanthium spinosum-Cockle--(said to
be specific for hydrophobia and is recommended for chronic
cystitis in women). Canth; Bell; Stram; Lach; Nat mur.
Dose.--Thirtieth potency.
MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
Carbonate of Magnesia
(MAGNESIA CARBONICA)
Gastro-intestinal catarrh, with marked acidity. Often used with
advantage for complains arising in people who have been taking
this drug to sweeten the stomach. Is frequently indicated in
children; whole body smells sour, and disposed to boils. Broken-
down, "worn-out" women, with uterine and climacteric
disorders. With numbness and distension in various, parts and
nerve prostration. Sensitive to the least start, noise, touch, etc.
Affection of the antrum of Highmore. Effects of shock, blows,
mental distress. Sense of numbness; nerve prostration; tendency
to constipation after nervous strain; sensitive to least touch, it
causes starting, or cold winds or weather or from excess of care
and worry with constipation and heaviness. Intense neuralgic
pains.
Head.--Sticking pain in the side of the head on which he lies, as
if the hair was pulled; worse, mental exertion. Itching of scalp
worse in damp weather. Pain above margin of right orbit. Blank
motes before eyes.
Ears.--Diminished hearing. Deafness; comes suddenly and
varies. Numbness of outer ear. Feeling of distention of middle
ear. Subdued tinnitus.
Face.--Tearing pain in one side; worse; quiet; must move about.
Toothache, especially during pregnancy; worse at night; worse,
cold and quiet. Teeth feel too long. Ailments from cutting
wisdom teeth (Cheiranthus). Pain in malar bone, worse during
rest, night. Swelling of malar bone with pulsating pain, worse
exposure to cold wind.
Mouth.--Dry at night. Sour taste. Vesicular eruption; bloody
saliva. Sticking pain in throat; hawking up fetid, pea-colored
particles.
Stomach.--Desire for fruit, acids, and vegetables. Eructations
sour, and vomiting of bitter water. Craving for meat.
Abdomen.--Rumbling, gurgling. Dragging towards pelvis. Very
heavy; contractive, pinching, pain in right illiac region.
Stool.--Preceded by griping, colicky pain. Green, watery, frothy,
like a frog-pond's scum. Bloody mucous stools. Milk passes
undigested in nursing children. Sour, with tenesmus (Rheum).
Constipation after mental shock or severe nervous strain.
Female.--Sore throat before menses appear. Before menses,
coryza and nasal stoppage. Menses too late and scanty, thick,
dark, like pitch; mucous leucorrhœa. Menses flow only in sleep;
more profuse at night (Amm m), or when lying down; cease
when walking.
Respiratory.--Ticking cough, with salty, bloody expectoration.
Constrictive pains in chest, with dyspnœa. Soreness in chest
during motion.
Extremities.--Tearing in shoulders as if dislocated. Right
shoulder painful, cannot raise it (Sang). Whole body feels tired
and painful, especially legs and feet. Swelling in bend of knee.
Skin.--Earthy, sallow and parchment-like; emaciation. Itching
vesicles on hands and fingers. Nodosities under skin. Sore;
sensitive to cold.
Fever.--Chilly in evening. Fever at night. Sour, greasy
perspiration.
Sleep.--Unrefreshing; more tired on rising than on retiring.
Modalities.--Worse, warmth of bed; change of temperature;
cold wind or weather; every three weeks; rest. Better, warm air;
walking in open air.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Ars; Merc.
Complementary: Cham.
Compare: Rheum; Kreos; Aloes; Cheiranthus-Wall flower --
(deafness, otorrhœa, nose stopped up at night from irritation of
cutting wisdom-teeth).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
Muriate of Magnesia
(MAGNESIA MURIATICA)
A liver remedy with pronounced characteristic constipation.
Chronic liver affections with tenderness and pain, extending to
spine and epigastrium, worse after food. Especially adapted to
diseases of women, with a long history of indigestion and
uterine disease; children who cannot digest milk. Evil effects of
sea bathing.
Head.--Sensitive to noise; bursting headache; worse, motion,
open air; better, pressure, and wrapping up warmly (Sil; Stront).
Much sweating of head (Calc, Sil). Facial neuralgia pains, dull,
aching, worse damp weather, slightest draft, better pressure heat.
Nose.--Nostrils ulcerated, Coryza. Nose stopped and fluent. Loss
of smell and taste, following catarrh. Cannot lie down. Must
breathe through mouth.
Mouth.--Blisters on lips. Gums swollen, bleed easily. Tongue
feels burnt and scalded. Throat dry, with hoarseness.
Stomach.--Appetite poor, had taste in mouth. Eructations like
rotten eggs. Continued rising of while froth into mouth Cannot
digest milk. Urine can be passed only by pressing abdominal
muscles.
Abdomen.--Pressing pain in liver; worse lying on right side.
Liver enlarged with bloating of abdomen; yellow tongue.
Congenital scrotal hernia. Must use abdominal muscles to
enable him to urinate.
Urine.--Urine difficult to void. Bladder can only be emptied by
straining and pressure.
Bowels.--Constipation of infants during dentition; only passing
small quantity; stools knotty, like sheep's dung, crumbling at
verge of anus. Painful smarting hćmorrhoids.
Female.--Menses black, clotted. Pain in back and thighs.
Metrorrhagia; worse at night. Great excitement at every period.
Leucorrhśa with every stool and after exercise. Tinea ciliaris,
eruptions in face and forehead worse before menses.
Heart.--Palpitation and cardiac pain while sitting; better by
moving about (Gels). Functional cardiac affections with liver
enlargement.
Respiration.--Spasmodic dry cough; worse forepart of night,
with burning and sore chest.
Extremities.--Pain in back and hips; in arms and legs. Arms
"Go to sleep" when waking in morning.
Sleep.--Sleep during day; restless at night on account of heat
and shock: anxious dreams.
Modalities.--Worse, immediately after eating, lying on right
side: from sea bathing. Better, from pressure, motion: open air,
except headache.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Camph; Cham.
Compare: Nat m; Puls; Sep; Amm m; Nasturtium equaticum -
Water-cress--(useful in scorbutic affections and constipation,
related to strictures of urinary apparatus; supposed to be
aphrodisiacal in its action. Is also antidotal to tobacco narcosis
and sedative in neurotic affections, neurasthenia, hysteria.
Cirrhosis of liver and dropsy).
Dose.--5 drops of tincture. Third to 200th potency.
MAGNESIUM PHOSPHORICUM
Phosphate of Magnesia
(MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA)
The great anti-spasmodic remedy. Cramping of muscles with
radiating pains. Neuralgic pains relieved by warmth. Especially
suited to tired, languid, exhausted subjects. Indisposition for
mental exertion. Goitre.
Mind.--Laments all the time about the pain. Inability to think
clearly. Sleepless on account of indigestion.
Head.--Vertigo on moving, falls forward on closing eyes, better
walking in open air. Aches after mental labor, with chilliness;
always better warmth (Sil). Sensation as if contents were liquid,
as if parts of brain were changing places, as of a cap on head.
Eyes.--Supraorbital pains; worse, right side; relieved by warmth
applied externally. Increased lachrymation. Twitching of lids.
Nystagmus strabismus, ptosis. Eyes hot, tired, vision blurred,
colored lights before eyes.
Ears.--Severe neuralgic pain; worse behind right ear; worse, by
going into cold air, and washing face and neck with cold water.
Mouth.--Toothache; better by heat and hot liquids. Ulceration
of teeth, with swelling of glands of face, throat and neck and
swelling of tongue. Complaints of teething children. Spasms
without febrile symptoms.
Throat.--Soreness and stiffness, especially right side; parts
seem puffy, with chilliness, and aching all over.
Stomach.-- Hiccough, with retching day and night. Thirst for
very cold drinks.
Abdomen.--Enteralgia, relieved by pressure. Flatulent colic,
forcing patient to bend double; relieved by rubbing, warmth,
pressure; accompanied with belching of gas, which gives no
relief. Bloated, full sensation in abdomen; must loosen clothing,
walk about and constantly pass flatus. Constipation in rheumatic
subjects due to flatulence and indigestion.
Female.--Menstrual colic. Membranous dysmenorrhśa. Menses
too early, dark, stringy. Swelling of external parts. Ovarian
neuralgia. Vaginismus.
Respiratory.--Asthmatic oppression of chest. Dry, tickling
cough. Spasmodic cough, with difficulty in lying down.
Whooping-cough (Corall). Voice hoarse, larynx sore and raw.
Intercostal neuralgia.
Heart.--Angina pectoris. Nervous spasmodic palpitation.
Constricting pains around heart.
Fever.--Chilliness after dinner, in evening. Chills run up and
down the back, with shivering, followed by a suffocating
sensation.
Extremities.--Involuntary shaking of hands. Paralysis agitans.
Cramps in calves. Sciatica; feet very tender. Darting pains.
Twitchings. Chorea. Writers' and players' cramp. Tetanic
spasms. Weakness in arms and hands, finger-tips stiff and numb.
General muscular weakness.
Modalities.--Worse, right side, cold, touch, night. Better,
warmth, bending double, pressure, friction.
Relationship.--Compare: Kali phos; Colocy; Silica; Zinc;
Diosc.
Antidotes: Bell; Gels; Lach.
Dose.--First to twelfth potency. Sometimes the highest potencies
are preferable. Acts especially well, given in hot water.
MAGNESIUM SULPHURICUM
Epsom Salt
(MAGNESIA SULPHURICA)
The skin, urinary, and female symptoms are most marked. The
purgative action of Sulphate of Magnesia is not a quality of the
drug, but a quality of its physical state, which renders its
absorption impossible. The properties inherent in the substance
itself can only be discovered by attenuation (Percy Wilde).
Head.--Apprehensive; vertigo; head heavy during menses. Eyes
burn, noises in ears.
Stomach.--Frequent eructations, tasting like bad eggs. Rising of
water in mouth.
Urinary.--Stitches and burning in the orifice of the urethra after
urinating. Stream intermits and dribbles. The urine passed in the
morning copious, bright yellow, soon becomes turbid, and
deposits a copious red sediment. The urine is greenish as passed;
is of a clear color, and in a large quantity. Diabetes (Phos ac;
Lact ac; Ars brom).
Female.--Thick leucorrhśa, as profuse as the menses, with
weary pain in the small of the back and thighs, on moving about.
Some blood from the vagina between the menses. Menstruation
returned after fourteen days; the discharge was thick, black, and
profuse. Menses too early, intermit.
Neck and Back.--Bruised and ulcerative pain between the
shoulders, with a feeling as of a lump as large as the first, on
which account she could not lie upon her back or side; relieved
by rubbing. Violent pain in the small of the back, as if bruised,
and as before menstruation.
Extremities.--The left arm and foot fall asleep in bed, in the
morning after waking.
Skin.--Small pimples over the whole body, that itch violently.
Suppressed itch (Sulph). Crawling in the tips of the fingers of
the left hand; better on rubbing. Warts. Erysipelas (applied
locally as a saturated solution). Dropsy (physiological doses).
Fever.--Chill from 9 to 10 am. Shuddering in back; heat in one
part and chill in another.
Relationship.--It is claimed that the addition of a small amount
of Magnes. Sulph to the usual hypodermic of Morphine
increases the value of the hypodermic from 50 to 100 %.
Physiologic Dosage.--Magnes. Sulph is of diagnostic and
therapeutic value in Gallstone colic. From 2 to 4 teaspoonfuls in
glass hot water taken at onset of a colicky attack may abort or
stop the colic.
Epsom salt is one of the most active saline cathertics, operating
with little pain or nausea, especially if pure. It has but little if
any effect on intestinal peristalsis, its action causing a rush of
fluid into the intestine, which by producing a distention of the
bowel produces evacuation. It causes little or no irritation in the
intestine. In common with the other salines, it is the classical
evacuant to be employed in connection with mercurials and
anthelmintics and in cases of poisoning. Epsom salt usually acts
within from one to two hours, more quickly if taken in hot water
and in the morning before breakfast. The ordinary dose as a mild
laxative is a heaping teaspoonful; as a cathartic, two to four
teaspoonfuls. The taste may be improved, if necessary, by the
addition of a little lemon juice and sugar.
Besides its chief use as a saline cathartic, magnesium sulphate is
used to a considerable extent externally in saturated solution as
an antiphlogistic and antipruritic in erysipelas, ivy poisoning,
cellulitis and other local inflammations. Use on compresses
saturated with solution.
Dose.--The pure salt to the third potency. Locally 1:4 in water in
septic conditions, erysipelas, orchitis, boils, etc.
MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA
Magnolia
Rheumatism and cardiac lesions are prominent features in toe
symptomatology of this drug. Stiffness and soreness. Alternating
pains between spleen and heart. Patient tired and stiff. Soreness
when quiet. Erratic shifting of pains.
Heart.--Oppression of chest with inability to expand the lungs.
Feeling of a large bolus of food which distressed the stomach.
Suffocated feeling when walking fast or lying on left side.
Dyspnśa. Crampy pain in heart. Angina pectoris. Endocarditis
and pericarditis. Tendency to faint. Sensation as if heart had
stopped beating. Pains around heart accompanied by itching of
the feet.
Extremities.--Stiffness and sharp erratic pains; worse in joints.
Feet itch. Numbness in left arm. Rheumatic pain in clavicles.
Shooting in all limbs.
Modalities.--Worse, damp air, lying on left side; in morning on
first rising. Better, dry weather, motion; intermenstrual flow
(Ham; Bovista; Bell; Elaps).
Relationship.--Compare: Rhus; Dulcam; Aurum
Dose.--Third potency.
MALANDRINUM
Grease in Horses
A very effectual protection against smallpox. Ill effects of
vaccination (Thuja; Silica). Efficacious in clearing of the
remnants of cancerous deposits (Copper).
Skin.--Scab on upper lip, with stinging pain when torn off.
Aching in forehead. Dry, scaly; itching; rhagades of hands and
feet in cold weather and from washing. Toes feel scalded and
itch terribly. Bone-like protuberances.
Dose.--Thirtieth potency and highest.
MANCINELLA
Hippomane-Manganeel Apple
Skin symptoms most marked. Dermatitis, with excessive
vesiculation, oozing of sticky serum and formation of crusts. To
be remembered in mental depressed states at puberty and at
climacteric, with exalted sexuality (Hering). Loss of vision. Pain
in the thumb.
Mind.--Silent mood, sadness. Wandering thoughts. Sudden
vanishing of thought. Bashful. Fear of becoming insane.
Head.--Vertigo; head feels lights, empty. Scalp itches. Hair falls
out after acute sickness.
Nose.--Illusions of smell; of gunpowder, dung, etc. Pressure at
root of nose.
Mouth.--Feels peppery. Copious, offensive saliva. Taste of
blood. Burning of fauces. Dysphagia from constriction of throat
and śsophagus.
Stomach.--Continual choking sensation rising from stomach.
Vomiting of ingesta, followed by gripping and copious stools.
Burning pains and black vomit.
Extremities.--Icy coldness of hands and feet. Pain in thumb.
Skin.--Intense erythema. Vesicles. Fungoid growths. Erysipelas.
Large blisters, as from scalds. Heavy, brown crusts and scabs.
Pemphigus.
Relationship.--Compare: Croton; Jatropha; Canth; Anacard.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
MANGANUM ACETICUM
Manganese Acetate
Manganum causes anćmia with destruction of the red
corpuscles. Jaundice, nephritis with albuminuria. Fatty
degeneration of liver. Paralysis agitans. Cellulitis, subacute
stage, promotes suppuration and hastens regeneration.
Symptoms of chronic poisoning, according to Professor yon
Jaksch, were involuntary laughter and involuntary weeping and
walking backwards. Strongly exaggerated reflexes and physical
disturbances, evidenced by men making fun of each other's gait.
Paraplegia progressive; wasting, feeble and staggering gait.
Inflammation of bones or joints, with nightly digging pains
Asthmatic persons who cannot lie on a feather pillow. Syphilitic
and chlorotic patients with general anćmia and paralytic
symptoms often are benefited by this drug. Gout. Chronic
arthritis. For speakers and singers. Great accumulation of
mucus. Growing pains and weak ankles. General soreness and
aching; every part of the body feels sore when touched; early
tuberculosis.
Head.--Anxiety and fear; better lying down. Feels large and
heavy, with rush of blood; pain from above downward. Field of
vision contracted. Stolidy mask-like face.
Mouth.--Nodes on palate. Toothache; worse, anything cold
(Coff opposite). Hemming all the time. Low, monotonous voice.
Nose.--Dry, obstructed. Chronic catarrh, with bleeding, dryness;
worse in cold damp weather.
Ears.--Feel stopped; cracking on blowing nose. Pain from other
parts extends to ears. Deafness in damp weather. Whistling
tinnitus.
Alimentary Canal.--Tongue sore and irritable with ulcers or
warts. Flatulence; chronic enlargement of liver.
Respiratory.--Chronic hoarseness. Larynx dry, rough,
constricted. Tuberculosis of larynx. Cough; worse evening, and
better lying down and worse in damp weather. Mucus difficult to
loosen. Stitches in larynx extending to ear. Heat in chest.
Hćmoptysis. Every cold rouses up a bronchitis (Dulc).
Female.--Derangements of menstruation, amenorrhśa; menses
too early and scanty, in anćmic subjects. Flushes of heat at
climacteric.
Extremities.--Muscular twitching. Cramps in calves. Stiffness
in muscles of legs. Inflammation of bones and joints with
insupportable nightly digging pains. Every part of body feels
sore when touched. Cannot walk backwards without falling.
Tending to fall forward. Walks stooping forward. Legs feel
numb. Wilson's disease. Paralysis agitans. Peculiar slapping gait,
walks on metacarpo-phalangeal joint; walks backwards. Ankles
painful. Bones very sensitive. Shiny red swelling of joints.
Knees pain and itch. Rheumatism of feet. Intolerable pain in
skin of lower limbs. Burning spots about joints. Periosteal
inflammation. Suppuration of skin around joints.
Sleep.--Languor and sleepiness. Vivid dreams. Sleepy very early
in evening.
Skin.--Suppuration of skin around joints. Red, elevated spots.
Itching; better, scratching. Deep cracks in bends of elbows, etc.
Psoriasis and pityriasis. Burning around ulcers. Chronic eczema
associated with amenorrhśa, worse at menstrual period or at
menopause.
Modalities.--Worse, cold wet weather, change of weather.
Better, lying down (cough)
Relationship.--Compare: Colloidal Manganese (Boils and other
staphylococcal infections); Mangan mur (painful ankles, bone-
pains); Mangan oxydat (pain in tibia, dysmenorrhśa, colic, and
diarrhśa. Easily fatigued and heated; sleepy. Stolid, mask-like
facies; low monotonous voice "Economical Speech". Muscular
twitching, cramps in calves; stiff leg muscles; occasional
uncontrollable laughter. Peculiar slapping gait. Similar
symptoms to paralysis agitans, progressive lenticular
degenerations and pseudo sclerosis. Workers in Mangan
binoxide are frequently affected with bulbar paralysis. Use 3x
homeopathically). Mangan sulph (liver affections, excess of
bile; a powerful intestinal stimulant); Argent; Rhus; Sulph.
Antidotes: Coff; Merc.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
MANGIFERA INDICA
Mango Tree
One of the best general remedies for passive hćmorrhages,
uterine, renal, gastric, pulmonary and intestinal. Rhinitis,
sneezing, pharyngitis, and other acute throat troubles,
suffocative sensation as if throat would close. Relaxation of
mucous membrane of alimentary canal. Catarrhal and serous
discharges, chronic intestinal irritation. Varicose veins.
Drowsiness. Atomic conditions, poor circulation, relaxed
muscles.
Skin.--Itching of palms. Skin as if sunburned, swollen. White
spots, intense itching. Lobes of ears and lips swollen.
Relationship.--Compare: Erigeron; Epilobium.
Dose.--Tincture.
MEDORRHINUM
The Gonorrhśal Virus
A powerful and deep-acting medicine, often indicated for
chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhśa. For women with
chronic pelvic disorders. Chronic rheumatism. Great disturbance
and irritability of nervous system. Pains intolerable; tensive;
nerves quiver and tingle. Children dwarfed and stunted. Chronic
catarrhal conditions in children. Nose dirty, tonsils enlarged,
thick yellow mucus from nostrils; lips thickened from mouth
breathing. State of collapse and trembling all over. History of
sycosis. Often restores a gonorrhśal discharge. Intensity of all
sensations. Śdema of limbs; dropsy of serous sacs. Disseminated
sclerosis.
Mind.--Weak memory. Loses the thread of conversation.
Cannot speak without weeping. Time passes too slowly (Cannab
ind; Arg n). Is in a great hurry. Hopeless of recovery. Difficult
concentration. Fears going insane (Mancinella). Sensibility
exalted. Nervous, restless. Fear in the dark and of some one
behind her. Melancholy, with suicidal thoughts.
Head.--Burning pain in brain; worse, occiput. Head heavy and
drawn backward. Headache from jarring of cars, exhaustion, or
hard work. Weight and pressure in vertex. Hair dry, crispy.
Itching of scalp; dandruff.
Eyes.--Feels as if she stared at everything. Eyeballs ache. Feels
as if sticks in eyes. Lids irritated.
Ears.--Partial deafness, pulsation in ears. Quick, darting pains in
right ear.
Nose.--Intense itching. Coldness of tip. Posterior nares
obstructed. Chronic nasal and pharyngeal catarrhs.
Face.--Pallor, acne, blotches of reddish color. Small boils break
out during menses.
Mouth.--Tongue coated brown and thick, blistered; canker
sores. Blisters on inner surface of lips and cheeks.
Stomach.--Coppery taste and eructations of sulphuretted
hydrogen. Ravenous hunger soon after eating. Very thirsty.
Cravings for liquor, salt, sweets, etc, warm drinks. Pernicious
vomiting of pregnancy.
Abdomen.--Violent pain in liver and spleen. Rests more
comfortably lying on abdomen.
Stool.--Can pass stool only by leaning very far back. Painful
lump sensation on posterior surface of sphincter. Oozing of fetid
moisture. Intense itching of anus.
Urine.--Painful tenesmus when urinating. Nocturnal enuresis.
Renal colic (Berb; Ocim; Pareir). Urine flows very slowly.
Female.--Intense pruritus. Menses offensive, profuse, dark,
clotted; stains difficult to wash out, urinates frequently at that
time. Sensitive spot near os uteri. Leucorrhśa thin, acrid,
excoriating, fishy odor. Sycotic warts on genitals. Ovarian pain,
worse left side, or from ovary to ovary. Sterility. Metrorrhagia.
Intense menstrual colic. Breasts cold, sore, and sensitive.
Male.--Nocturnal emissions, followed by great weakness.
Impotence. Gleet; whole urethra feels sore. Urethritis. Enlarged
and painful prostate with frequent urging and painful urination.
Respiratory.--Much oppression of breathing. Hoarse while
reading. Pain and soreness through chest and mammć. Incessant,
dry, night cough. Asthma. Incipient consumption. Larynx feels
sore. Dyspnśa; cannot exhale (Samb). Cough; better lying on
stomach.
Extremities.--Pain in back, with burning heat. Legs heavy; ache
all night; cannot keep them still (Zinc). Ankles easily turn when
walking. Burning of hands feet. Finger-joints enlarged, puffy.
Gouty concretions. Heels and balls of feet tender (Thuja).
Soreness of soles. Restless; better, clutching hands.
Skin.--Yellow. Intense and incessant itching; worse night and
when thinking of it. Fiery red rash about anus in babies. Copper-
colored spots. Favus. Tumors and abnormal growth.
Fever.--Wants to be fanned all the time. Chills up and down
back; coldness of legs, hands, and forearms. Flashes of heat in
face and neck. Night-sweat and hectic.
Sleep.--Dreams she is drinking (Ars; Phos). Sleeps in knee-chest
position.
Modalities.--Worse, when thinking of ailment, from daylight to
sunset, heat, inland. Better, at the seashore, lying on stomach,
damp weather (Caust).
Relationship.--Compare: (Lactation: Galega; Lactuca). Sulph;
Syphil; Zinc.
Dose.--The very highest potencies only of service. Must not be
repeated often.
MEDUSA
Jelly-fish
Whole face puffed śdematous-eyes, nose, ears, lips.
Skin.--Numbness; burning, pricking heat. Vesicular eruption
especially on face, arms, shoulders, and breasts. Nettlerash
(Apis; Chloral; Dulc).
Female.--Marked action on lacteal glands. The secretion of
milk was established after lack of it in all previous
confinements.
Relationship.--Compare: Pyrarara, Physalia (urticaria); Urtica,
Homar, Sep.
MEL CUM SALE
Honey with Salt
Prolapsus uteri and chronic metritis, especially when associated
with subinvolution and inflammation of the cervix. The special
symptom leading to its selection is a feeling of soreness across
the hypogastrium from ileum to ileum. Uterine displacements,
and in the commencement of metritis Sensation as if bladder
were too full. Pain from sacrum towards pubes. Pain as if in
ureters.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency. Honey for itching of anus and
worms.
MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS
Yellow Melilot - Sweet Clover
(MELILOTUS)
Congestions and hæmorrhages seem to be the special
manifestations of this drug. Violent congestive and nervous
headaches. Infantile spasms. Epilepsy from blow on head. Pain
and debility point to it. Coldness but also increase of
temperature; tenderness, and pain. Muscular system depressed.
Dreams and emissions.
Mind.--Unable to fix mind. Memory treacherous. Stupor. Wants
to run away and hide. Delusions; thinks every one is looking at
her, fears to talk loud, and wants to run away, etc.
Head.--Headache with retching, vomiting, sense of pressure
over orbits, pallor, cold hands and feet, black spots before eyes.
Heavy, oppressed; frontal, throbbing, undulating sensation in
brain. Sick headache; relieved by epistaxis or menstrual flow.
Fullness all over head. Eyes heavy; blurred sight; wants to close
them tightly for relief. Neuralgiaaround and over right side of
head and neck. Scalp sore and tender to touch.
Nose.--Stopped up, dry, must breathe through mouth; dry, hard
clinkers in nose; profuse epistaxis.
Face.--Intensely red and flushed, with throbbing carotids (Bell).
Stool.--Difficult, painful, constipated. Anus feels constricted,
full, throbs. No desire until there is a large accumulation (Bry;
Alum).
Female.--Menses scanty, intermit, with nausea and bearing
down sticking pain in external parts. Dysmenorrhœa. Ovarian
neuralgia.
Respiratory.--Feels as if smothering, especially from rapid
walking. Hæmoptysis. Weight on chest. Tickling in throat with
cough.
Extremities.--Pain in knee; wants to stretch leg, but does not
relieve. Joints sore. Skin and extremities cold. Numbness and
aching in knee-joints.
Modalities.--Worse, rainy, changeable weather, approach of
storm, motion; 4 pm.
Relationship.--Compare: Melilotus alba--(White Clover)--
practically the same action (Hæmorrhages, congestive
headaches, engorged blood vessels, spasms). Amyl; Bell; Glon.
Dose.--Tincture, for inhaling; lower potencies.
MENISPERMUM CANADENSE
Moonseed
(MENISPERMUM)
A remedy for megrim, associated with restlessness and dreams.
Pain in spine. Dryness, itching all over. Dry mouth and throat.
Head.--Pressure from within outward, with stretching and
yawning and pain down back. Sick headache; pain in forehead
and temples, moving to occiput. Tongue swollen and much
saliva.
Extremities.--Pain in back, thighs, elbows, shoulders. Legs
sore, as if bruised.
Relationship.--Compare: Cocculus; Bryon.
Dose.--Third potency.
MENTHA PIPERITA
Peppermint
Stimulates the cold-perceiving nerves, so just after taking it, a
current of air at the ordinary temperature seems cold. Marked
action on respiratory organs and skin. Useful in gastrodynia,
flatulent cold.
Abdomen.--Bloated, disturbing sleep. Infantile colic. Bilious
colic with great accumulation of gas.
Respiration.--Voice husky. Tip of nose to touch. Throat dry and
sore, as if pin crosswise in it. Dry cough, worse from air into
larynx, tobacco smoke, fog, talking; with irritation in
suprasternal fossa (Rumex). Trachea painful to touch.
Skin.--Every scratch becomes a sore. Itching of arm and hand
when writing. Vaginal pruritus. Herpes zoster (Ars; Ran bulb).
Relationship.--Compare: Rumex; Laches; Mentha pulegium--
European pennyroyal--(pain in bones of forehead and
extremities). Mentha viridis-Spearmint--(scanty urine with
frequent desire).
Dose.--Tincture, 1 to 20 drops, to thirtieth potency. Locally, in
pruritus vaginć.
MENTHOLUM
(MENTHOL)
The stearopten from the essential oil of Mentha. Mucous
membrane of naso-pharynx and spinal nerve plexus, producing
neuritic pains and parethesias. Menthol has proved curative in
acute nasal catarrh; in acute eustachian catarrh; pharyngitis;
laryngitis; neuralgias, etc (Wm. B. Griggs, M. D). Itching,
especially pruritus valvć.
Head.--Frontal headache, pain over frontal sinus, descends to
eyeballs. Mental confusion. Supra orbital pain over left eye. Pain
in face above zygoma with numbness. Pain in eyeballs. Coryza
with post-nasal dripping. Cold sensation in nose. Eustachian
tubes feel blocked and some deafness.
Respiratory.--Tickling in the fauces. Stabbing pains in the
prćcordia, radiating over entire chest. Short, dry cough, worse
smoking. Asthmatic breathing, with congestive headache.
Extremities.--Muscular pain in cervical region, Soreness of
lumbar muscles.
Relationship.--Compare: Kali bich; Spigel.
Dose.--Sixth potency. Externally for itching, use 1 per cent
solution or ointment.
MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA
Buck-bean
(MENYANTHES)
A remedy for certain headaches, intermittent fever. Coldness of
abdomen. Twitchings. Sensation of tension and compression.
Fidgets and urinary difficulties in women. Diabetes.
Head.--Pressing in vertex; better, hard pressure with hand.
Pressing-together pain. Weight pressing on brain with every step
on ascending. Pain from nape over whole brain; better, stooping,
sitting; worse, going upstairs. Cracking in jaw and twitching of
facial muscles.
Stomach.--No thirst at any time. Revenous hunger; passing
away after eating a little. Desire for meat. Sensation of coldness
extending up to śsophagus.
Abdomen.--Distended and full; increased by smoking tobacco.
Coldness of abdomen.
Extremities.--Icy coldness of hands and feet. Cramp-like pain.
As soon as patient lies down, legs jerk and twitch.
Fever.--Coldness predominates; felt most acutely in abdomen
and legs and tip of nose.
Modalities.--Worse, during rest, ascending better, pressure on
affected part, stooping, motion.
Relationship.--Compare: Caps; Puls; Calc; Phos ac; Sang.
Antidote: Camph.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
 MEPHITIS PUTORIUS
Skunk
(MEPHITIS)
A great medicine for whooping-cough. In order to insure its full
success, it should be given in the lower dilutions from 1x to 3x.
Suffocative feeling, asthmatic paroxysms, spasmodic cough;
cough so violent, seems as if each spell would terminate life.
Child must be raised up, gets blue in face, cannot exhale,
Mucous rales through upper part of chest. Patient wants to bathe
in ice-cold water.
Mind.--Excited, full of fancies. Can neither sleep nor work.
Eyes.--Pain from overexertion; blur; unable to distinguish
letters; conjunctiva red; eyes hot and painful.
Mouth.--Painful jerks in root of teeth. Bloated face. Coppery
taste, as after eating onions.
Respiratory.--Sudden contraction of glottis, when drinking or
talking. Food goes down wrong way. False croup; cannot
exhale. Spasmodic and whooping-cough. Few paroxysms in day-
time, but many at night; with vomiting after eating. Asthma, as if
inhaling sulphur; cough from talking; hollow, deep, with
rawness, hoarseness, and pains through chest. Violent spasmodic
cough; worse at night.
Sleep.--Awakes at night with rush of blood to lower legs. Vivid
dream of water, fire, etc.
Relationship.--Compare: Dros; Coral; Sticta.
Dose.--First to third potency. Has a very short action.
MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS
Quicksilver
(MERCURIUS - HYDRARGYRUM)
Every organ and tissue of the body is more or less affected by
this powerful drug; it transforms healthy cells into decrepit,
inflamed and necrotic wrecks, decomposes the blood, producing
a profound anćmia. This malignant medicinal force is converted
into useful life saving and life preserving service if employed
homeopathically, guided by its clear cut symptoms. The
lymphatic system is especially affected with all the membranes
and glands, and internal organs, bones etc. Lesions produced by
mercury very similar to those of syphilis. Very often indicated in
the secondary stage of syphilis where there is a febrile chloro-
anćmia, rheumatoid pains behind sternum, around joints, etc;
ulcerations of mouth and throat, falling of the air, the eruptions
and ulcerations of mouth and throat, etc. These are the special
conditions and stages to which Mercur is homeopathic and
where the 2x will do surprising work. Again, hereditary syphilis
manifestations, are within its range; bullć, abscesses, snuffles,
marasmus, stomatitis or destructive inflammations. Tremors
everywhere. Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from
least exertion. All Mercury symptoms are worse at night, from
warmth of bed, from damp, cold, rainy weather, worse during
perspiration. Complaints increase with the sweat and rest; all
associated with a great deal of weariness, prostration, and
trembling. A human "thermometer". Sensitive to heat and cold.
Parts are much swollen, with raw, sore feeling; the profuse, oily
perspiration does not relieve. Breath, excretions and body smell
foul. Tendency to formation of pus, which is thin, greenish,
putrid; streaked with thin blood.
Mind.--Slow in answering questions. Memory weakened, and
loss of will-power. Weary of life. Mistrustful. Thinks he is
losing his reason.
Head.--Vertigo, when lying on back. Band-feeling about head.
One-sided, tearing pains. Tension about scalp, as if bandaged.
Catarrhal headaches; much heat in head. Stinging, burning, fetid
eruptions on scalp. Loss of hair. Exostosis, with feeling of
soreness. Scalp tense; oily sweat on head.
Eyes.--Lids red, thick, swollen. Profuse, burning, acrid
discharge. Floating black spots. After exposure to glare of fire;
foundrymen. Parenchymatous keratitis of syphilitic origin with
burning pain. Iritis, with hypopyon.
Ears.--Thick, yellow discharge; fetid and bloody. Otalgia,
worse warmth of bed; at night sticking pains. Boils in external
canal (Calc pic).
Nose.--Much sneezing. Sneezing in sunshine. Nostrils raw,
ulcerated; nasal bones swollen. Yellow-green, fetid, pus-like
discharge. Coryza; acrid discharge, but too thick to run down the
lip; worse, warm room. Pain and swelling of nasal bones, and
caries, with greenish fetid ulceration. Nosebleed at night.
Copious discharge of corroding mucus. Coryza, with sneezing;
sore, raw, smarting sensation; worse, damp weather; profuse,
fluent.
Face.--Pale, earthy, dirty-looking, puffy. Aching in facial bones,
Syphilitic pustules on face.
Mouth.--Sweetish metallic taste. Salivary secretions greatly
increased; bloody and viscid. Saliva fetid, coppery. Speech
difficult on account of trembling tongue. Gums spongy, recede,
bleed easily. Sore pain on touch and from chewing. Whole
mouth moist. Crown of teeth decay. Teeth loose, feel tender and
elongated. Furrow in upper surface of tongue lengthwise.
Tongue heavy, thick; moist coating; yellow, flabby, teeth-
intended, feels as if burnt, with ulcers, Fetid odor from mouth,
can smell it all over room. Alveolar abscess, worse at night.
Great thirst, with moist mouth.
Throat.--Bluish-red swelling. Constant desire to swallow.
Putrid sore throat; worse right side. Ulcers and inflammation
appearing at every change in weather. Stitches into ear on
swallowing; fluids return through nose. Quinsy, with difficult
swallowing, after pus has formed. Sore, raw, smarting, burning
throat. Complete loss of voice. Burning in throat, as from hot
vapor ascending.
Stomach.--Putrid eructations. Intense thirst for cold drinks.
Weak digestion, with continuous hunger. Stomach sensitive to
touch. Hiccough and regurgitation. Feels replete and constricted.
Abdomen.--Stabbing pain, with chilliness. Boring pain in right
groin. Flatulent distention, with pain. Liver enlarged; sore to
touch, indurated. Jaundice. Bile secreted deficiently.
Stool.--Greenish, bloody and slimy, worse at night, with pain
and tenesmus. Never-get-done feeling. Discharge accompanied
by chilliness, sick stomach, cutting colic, and tenesmus.
Whitish-gray stools.
Urine.--Frequent urging. Greenish discharge from urethra;
burning in urethra on beginning to urinate. Urine dark, scanty,
bloody, albuminous.
Male.--Vesicles and ulcers; soft chancre. Cold genitals. Prepuce
irritated; itches. Nocturnal emissions, stained with blood.
Female.--Menses profuse, with abdominal pains. Leucorrhśa
excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts.
Stinging pain in ovaries (Apis). Itching and burning; worse, after
urinating; better, washing with cold water. Morning sickness,
with profuse salivation. Mammć painful and full of milk at
menses.
Respiratory.--Soreness from fauces to sternum. Cannot lie on
right side (Left side, Lycop). Cough, with yellow muco-purulent
expectoration. Paroxysms of two; worse, night, and from
warmth of bed. Catarrh, with chilliness; dread of air. Stitches
from lower lobe of right lung to back. Whooping-cough with
nosebleed (Arnica) Cough worse, tobacco smoke.
Back.--Bruised pain in small of back, especially when sitting.
Tearing pain in coccyx; better, pressing on abdomen.
Extremities.--Weakness of limbs. Bone-pains and in limbs;
worse, night. Patient very sensitive to cold. Oily perspiration.
Trembling extremities, especially hands, paralysis agitans.
Lacerating pain in joints. Cold, clammy sweat on legs at night.
Dropsical swelling of feet and legs.
Skin.--Almost constantly moist. Persistent dryness of the skin
contra indicates mercurius. Excessive odorous viscid
perspiration; worse, night. General tendency to free
perspiration, but patient is not relieved thereby. Vesicular and
pustular eruptions. Ulcers, irregular in shape, edges undefined.
Pimples around the main eruption. Itching, worse from warmth
of bed. Crusta lactea; yellowish-brown crusts, considerable
suppuration. Glands swell every time patient takes cold. Buboes.
Orchitis (Clemat, Hamam, Puls).
Fever.--Generally gastric or bilious, with profuse nightly
perspiration; debility, slow and lingering. Heat and shuddering
alternately. Yellow perspiration. Profuse perspiration without
relief. Creeping chilliness, worse in the evening and into night.
Alternate flashes of heat in single parts.
Modalities.--Worse, at night, wet, damp weather, lying on right
side, perspiring; warm room and warm bed.
Relationship.--Compare: Capparis coriaccea (polyuria,
glandular affections, mucous diarrhśa; influenza); Epilobium--
Willow herb--(chronic diarrhśa with tenesmus and mucous
discharges; ptyalism, dysphagia; wasting of body and much
debility; cholera infantum); Kali hyd (in hard chancre); Mercur
acet (Congestion with stiffness, dryness and heat of parts
affected. Eyes inflamed, burn and itch. Lack of moisture. Throat
dry, talking difficult. Pressure in lower sternum; chancre in
urethra; tenia capitis favosa margin of ulcers painful): Mercurius
auratus (psoriasis and syphilitic catarrh; brain tumors; lues of
nose and bones; ozćna; swelling of testicles); Mercurius
bromatus (secondary syphilitic skin affection); Mercurius
nitrosus-Nitrate of Mercury--(especially in postular
conjunctivitis and keratitis; gonorrhśa and mucous patches, with
sticking pains; syphilides); Mercurius phosphoricus (nervous
diseases from syphilis; exostoses); Mercurius precipitatus ruber
(suffocative attacks at night on lying down while on the point of
falling asleep, obliged to jump up suddenly which relieves;
gonorrhśa; urethra felt as a hard string; chancroid; phagedenic
ulcer and bubo; pemphigus, mucous patches, eczema with
rhagades and fissures, barber's itch; blepharitis, internally and
externally; leaden heaviness in occiput, with otorrhśa);
Mercurius tannicus (syphilides in patients with gastro-intestinal
diseases, or, if very sensitive, to ordinary mercurial
preparations); Erythrinus-South American Red Mullet Fish--(in
pityriasis rubra and syphilis; red rash on chest; pityriasis);
Lolium temulentum (in trembling of hands and legs); Mercur
cum kali (inveterate colds, acute facial paralysis). Henchera-
Alum root--(Gastro-enteritis nausea, vomiting of bile and frothy
mucus; stools watery, profuse, slimy, tenesmus, never-get-done
feeling. Dose, 2 to 10 drops of tincture).
Compare: Mez; Phos; Syph; Kali mur; Aethiops.
Antidote: Hep; Aur; Mez.
Complementary: Badiaga.
Dose.--Second to thirtieth potency.
MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS
Corrosive Sublimate
This salt leads all other remedies in tenesmus of the rectum,
which is incessant, and is not relieved by the stool. The
tenesmus often involves the bladder as well. Bright's disease.
Gonorrhśa; second stage, with continuous tenesmus. Destroys
the secreting portions of the kidneys. This process is slow, but
sure. Albuminuria in early pregnancy (Phosph later and at full
term).
Head.--Delirium, stupor. Frontal pain, congestion of head with
burning in cheeks. Drawing pain in periosteum of skull.
Eyes.--Pain behind eyeballs, as if forced out. Phlyctenulć; deep
ulcers on cornea. Excessive photophobia and acrid
lachrymation. Iritis, ordinary or syphilitic (Give in association
with atropin locally for prevention of adhesions). Pain severe at
night; burning, shooting, tearing. Little tendency to pus
formation. Iris muddy in color, thick, and neither contracts nor
dilates. Retinitis albuminuric, ophthalmia neonatorum. Lids
śdematous, red, excoriated. Severe burning. Soreness of the
eyes.
Nose.--Excessive coryza. Ozćna, with perforation of septum nasi
(Kali bich). Rawness and smarting in nostrils. Post-nasal
swelling, mucous membrane dry, red, and covered with bloody
mucus.
Ears.--Violent pulsations. Fetid pus.
Face.--Swollen. Red, puffy. Lips black, swollen. Sordes. Facial
neuralgia within the bones.
Mouth.--Teeth loose. Gums purple, swollen, and spongy.
Tongue swollen and inflamed. Salivation. Pyorrhea. Ptyalism.
Taste salty and bitter.
Throat.--Red, swollen, painful, intensely inflamed. Uvula
swollen. Swallowing painful. Most pain in post-nasal with sharp
pains to ears. Burning pain, with great swelling; worse, slight
external pressure. All glands about thorax swollen.
Stomach.--Incessant, green, bilious vomiting. Epigastrium very
sensitive.
Abdomen.--Bruised sensation; cecal region and transverse
colon painful. Bloated; very painful to least touch.
Stool.--Dysentery; tenesmus, not relieved by stool; incessant.
Stool hot, bloody, slimy, offensive, with cutting pains and
shreds of mucous membrane.
Respiratory.--Pain in larynx as cut with knife. Aphonia. Cough,
with bloody expectoration. Pulse rapid and intermittent. Stitches
through side of chest.
Urine.--Intense burning in urethra. Urine hot, burning, scanty or
suppressed; bloody, greenish discharge. Albuminous. Tenesmus
of bladder. Stabbing pain extending up urethra into bladder.
Perspiration after urinating.
Male.--Penis and testes enormously swollen. Chancres assume
phagedćnic appearance. Gonorrhśa; urethra orifice red, swollen;
glans sore and hot. Discharge greenish, thick.
Fever.--Chilly from slightest exposure. Profuse perspiration;
surface cold.
Modalities.--Worse, evening, night, acids, Better, while at rest.
Relationship.--Compare: Ars; Lach; Leonurus-Mother-wort
(Influences pelvic organs, allays spasm and nervous irritability,
promotes secretion and reduces febrile excitement. Valuable in
suppressed menses and lochia; dysentery; vomiting, frightful
pains in abdomen, violent thirst. Tongue dry and cracked).
Monsonia--An African plant belonging to the Geraniaceć--(Used
for dysentery in material doses).
Antidote: Calcium sulphide is antidotal to Bichloride poisoning.
Use intravenous injection of 7 1/2 grains in 7 1/2 ozs boiled
water.
Dose.--Sixth potency. In solution 1:1000, hypodermically
injected under conjunctiva in choroditis with progressive
myopia. Stops immediately the severe aching pain behind eye-
balls (Dr. G. D. Hallet).
MERCURIUS CYANATUS
Cyanide of Mercury
Acute infections, pneumonia, nephritis. Its action is similar to
that of the toxines of infections diseases. Great and rapid
prostration, tendency toward hćmorrhages, from the different
orifices, of dark fluid blood, cyanosis, rapid respiration and heart
action, albuminuria and twitching and jerking of muscles.
Typhoid pneumonia.
Livid states from great struggling, where suffocation is
imminent and paralysis of lung threatening; great sweat.
Affects most prominently the buccal cavity. This, together with
marked prostration, gives it a place in the treatment of
diphtheria, where it has achieved unquestioned great results.
Malignant types, with prostration. Coldness and nausea.
Syphilitic ulcers when perforation threatens.
Head.--Great excitement, fits of passion; fury; talkativeness.
Atrocious headache. Eyes sunken; face pale.
Mouth.--Covered with ulcerations. Tongue pale. Free salivation.
Fetor of breath. Pain and swelling of salivary glands. Astringent
taste. Ulcerations of mouth have a gray membrane.
Throat.--Feels raw and sore. Mucous membranes broken down,
ulcerated. Looks raw in spots, especially in public speakers.
Hoarseness, and talking is painful. Necrotic destruction of soft
parts of palate and fauces. Intense redness of fauces.
Swallowing very difficult. Dark blood from nose. Diphtheria of
the larynx and nose (Kali bich).
Stomach.--Nausea, vomiting, bilious, bloody; hiccough;
abdomen painful, tender to pressure.
Rectum.--Intolerable pain. Redness around anus. Frequent
hćmorrhage; stools with tenesmus. Discharge of fetid liquid with
gangrenous odor. Black stools.
Urinary.--Amber color, painful, albuminous, scanty. Nephritis
with great debility and chilliness. Suppression of urine.
Skin.--Moisture, with icy coldness.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency. Aggravation is apt to occur
from potencies below the sixth.
MERCURIUS DULCIS
Calomel
Has marked effect on catarrhal inflammation of ear, and useful
in Eustachian catarrh, deafness. Diarrhśa, with soreness of anus.
Prostatitis. Remittent bilious attacks. Pallor, flabby bloatedness,
and turgid flaccidity. Inflammation with plastic exudate.
Especially indicated in systems disposed to remittent bilious
fevers; in peritonitis and meningitis with plastic exudate.
Dropsies due to combined renal and cardiac diseases, especially
with jaundice (Hale). Cirrhosis of the liver, especially in the
hypertrophic form. Use 1x (Jousset).
Ears.--Otitis media; closure of Eustachian tube; ear troubles of
scrofulous children; membrana tympani retracted, thickened and
immovable.
Mouth.--Offensive breath; salivation; sore gums. Ulcers.
Tongue black. Constant flow of dark, putrid saliva; very
offensive. Ulceration of throat, with dysphagia. Granular
pharyngitis.
Stomach.--Nausea and vomiting. Cyclic vomiting of infants
(Cup ars; Iris).
Stool.--Scanty, bloody mucus, with bile, and constant desire,
without tenesmus. Dark-green, watery, with griping. Anus sore
and burning. Dysentery; small stools of mucus and blood,
covered with bile.
Skin.--Flabby and ill nourished. Swollen glands. Phagedenic
ulcers. Copper-colored eruptions.
Relationship.--Compare: Kali mur.
Dose.--Third to sixth trituration. For palliative (non-
homeopathic) purposes, to secure evacuation of bowels, two or
three-grain doses of first decimal trituration, repeated several
times every hour.
MERCURIUS IODATUS FLAVUS
Proto-iodide of Mercury
Throat affections, with greatly swollen glands and characteristic
coating of tongue. Worse, right side. Chancre; induration
remains long time. Swollen inguinal glands, large and hard.
Mammary tumors, with tendency to much warm perspiration
and gastric disturbances.
Tongue.--Coated thickly; yellow at the base. Tip and edges may
be red and take imprint of teeth.
Throat.--Lacunar tonsillitis. When only the superficial part of
the tonsil is involved. Cheesy exudates with offensive breath.
Swelling begins on right side. Small ulcers on posterior pharynx.
Easily detached patches on inflamed pharynx and fauces; worse
on right tonsil; much tenacious mucus. Sensation of a lump.
Constant inclination to swallow.
Relationship.--Compare: Plum iod (in mammary tumors).
Dose.--Second trituration.
MERCURIUS IODATUS RUBER
Bin-iodide of Mercury
Diphtheria and ulcerated sore throats, especially on left side,
with much glandular swelling. Chronic suppurating buboes.
Hard chancres. Old cases of syphilis in scrofulous patients.
Early stages of cold, especially in children.
Throat.--Fauces dark red; swallowing painful. Phlegm in nose
and throat. Disposition to hawk, with sensation of a lump in
throat. Stiffness of muscles of throat and neck.
Nose.--Coryza and dull hearing; right side of nose hot. Hawks
mucus from posterior nares. Turbinated bones swollen. Boggy
mucus membrane of nose and throat; closure of Eustachian tube,
opening with a pop.
Mouth.--Gums swollen; toothache; glands swollen. Scalded
feeling on tongue. Aphthć. Profuse saliva. Tongue feels stiff at
base, and pains on moving.
Throat.--Diphtheria; submaxillary glands painfully engorged,
fauces dark red; worse on left tonsil. Parenchymatous tonsillitis.
Will often abort peritonsillitis if given frequently. Cough form
elongated uvula, with sore throat, Laryngeal troubles with
aphonia.
Skin.--Small fissures and cracks; hard papules; Hunterian
chancre; syphilitic ulcers. Bubo. Sarcocele.
Dose.--Third trituration. Mercuric iodide is far more active as a
bactericide than the other mercurials, including the chloride.
MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS, DRARG, OXYD, SUB-
SULPH
Turpethum Minerale--Yellow Sulphate of Mercury
(MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS - HYDRARG.OXYD.SUB-
SULPH.)
Watery stools, burning in anus. Sore tip of tongue. Śdema of
legs. Sneezing from direct rays of sun. Diarrhśa early in the
morning; stool bursts out in a hot stream of yellow matter.
Intense evacuations, like rice-water. Scanty, clear, scalding
urine. Intense dyspnśa; must sit up. Respiration rapid, short;
burning in chest. Hydrothorax (Ars). Cardiac pain and
weakness.
Relationship.--Compare: Mercur acet (cutting in urethra when
last drop is flowing out).
MERCURIALIS PERENNIS
Dog's Mercury
Great exhaustion and drowsiness. Tumor at ensiform appendix,
very sensitive. Affections of the muscular fibers of stomach,
intestines, bladder.
Head.--Vertigo on going down stairs. Head confused. Pain as
from a band tightly across forehead. Nostrils sore, conscious of
nose, feels as if she had two noses.
Mouth.--Great dryness of mouth and throat, tongue feels heavy
and dry, numb. Burning blisters of tongue, lips and cheeks.
Ulcers on palate, tonsils and back of pharynx. Dryness of throat.
Female.--Amenorrhśa, scanty menses, accompanied with
orgasms. Pains and swelling of breasts. Dysmenorrhśa.
Relationship.--Compare: Borax; Croton; Euphorb.
Dose.--Third potency.
METHYLENUM COERULEUM
One of the Aniline Dyes
(METHYLENE BLUE)
A remedy for neuralgia, neurasthenia, malaria; typhoid, here it
diminishes the tympanites, delirium, and fever; pus infection.
Tendency to tremor, chorea and epilepsy. Nephritis (acute
parenchymatous), scarlatinal nephritis. Urine acquires a green
color. Bladder irritation from its use antidoted by a little nutmeg.
Surgical kidney with large amount of pus in urine. Gonorrhśal
rheumatism and cystitis. Backache, sciatica. Later states of
apoplexy (Gisevius).
Dose.--3x attenuation. A 2 per cent solution locally, in chronic
otitis with foul smelling discharge.
A 1 per cent aqueous solution for ulcers and abscesses of cornea.
MEZEREUM
Spurge Olive
Skin symptoms, affections of bones, and neuralgias most
important, especially about teeth and face. Bruised, weary
feeling in joints, with drawing and stiffness. Pains of various
kinds, with chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air. Bone pains.
Eruptions after vaccination. Burning, darting sensation in the
muscles; subsultus tendinum. Pains shoot upward and seem to
draw patient up out of bed. Semi-lateral complaints. Patient is
very sensitive to cold air.
Head.--Hard work to talk. Headache; worse from talking.
Stupefying headache in right side. Affections of external head;
scaly eruption, white scabs. Head covered with thick, leathery
crusts, under which pus collects, Violent neuralgia about face
and teeth, running towards ear, at night; worse, eating; better
near hot stove. Roots of teeth decay. Teeth feel elongated.
Nose.--Sneezing, coryza, interior of nose, excoriated. Post-nasal
adenoids.
Ears.--Feel too much open, as if tympanum was exposed to the
cold air and it blew into the ear. Desire to bore fingers in.
Eyes.--Ciliary neuralgia after operations. Especially after
removal of eyeball. Pains radiate and shoot downward, with cold
feeling and stiffness of bone.
Face.--Red. Eruption around mouth, with coryza.
Stomach.--Desire for ham-fat. Burning in tongue, extending to
stomach. Mouth waters. Nausea felt in throat; better, eating.
Chronic gastritis; burning, corroding pain; nausea, vomiting,
chocolate color. Gastric ulcer with much burning.
Abdomen.--Swelling of glands with large abdomen in children.
Pressure in inguinal ring. Flatulent colic, with shivering and
difficult respiration.
Rectum.--Constipation after confinement. Prolapse of rectum.
Diarrhœa, with small, white particles. Green discharges.
Constipation, with hepatic and uterine inertia. Constriction of
anus; stitches and prolapse of rectum.
Urine.--Red flakes float on top of urine. Hot, bloody Biting,
burning in forepart of urethra at the close of micturition.
Hæmaturia preceded by cramp pain in the bladder, After
urinating, a few drops of blood are passed.
Female.--Menses too frequent, soon, profuse. Leucorrhœa like
albumen; very corroding.
Male.--Enlargement of testicles. Violent sexual desire.
Gonorrhœa, with hæmaturia.
Respiratory.--Soreness and burning in bones of thorax.
Constriction across chest. Cough; worse; eating, irritation lower
than can be reached, on taking a warm drink.
Extremities.--Pain in neck and back; worse, motion and at
night; intolerant of all touch. Pain and burning in tibia and long
bones. Legs and feet go to sleep. Pain in hip and knee.
Skin.--Eczema; intolerable itching; chilliness with pruritus;
worse in bed. Ulcers itch and burn, surrounded by vesicles and
shining, fiery-red areola. Zona, with burning pain. Bones,
especially long bones, inflamed and swollen; caries, exostosis;
pain worse night, touch, damp weather (Merc; Syph). Eruptions
ulcerate and form thick scabs under purulent matter exudes
(Chrysophanic acid).
Modalities.--Worse, cold air; night, evening until midnight,
warm food, touch, motion. Better, open air.
Relationship.--Compare: Dirca palustris-Leather wood--(a
gastro-intestinal irritant inducing salivation, emesis and
purgation; cerebral hyperæmia; neuralgic pains, with depression,
palpitation, and dyspnœa); Merc; Phyt; Rhus; Guaiac; Syph.
Antidotes: Kali hyd; Merc.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
MICROMERIA DOUGLASII
Yerba Buena
(MICROMERIA)
A California mint-like plant acting on stomach and bowels.
Used as a tea to cure colic and relieve flatulence. Is a pleasant
beverage and febrifuge, blood purifyer and tonic.
Stomach.--Nausea; pain in stomach and bowels; flatulence.
Dose.--Tincture.
MILLEFOLIUM
Yarrow
An invaluable remedy for various types of hæmorrhages; blood
bright red. Incarcerated hernia; smallpox, with great pain in pit
of stomach. After operations for stone. Bad effects from fall
from a height; overlifting. Continued high temperature.
Hæmoptysis.
Head.--Vertigo when moving slowly. Sensation as if he had
forgotten something. The head seems full of blood. Convulsions
and epilepsy from suppressed menses. Piercing thrusts of pain.
Nose.--Nosebleed (Erecht). Piercing pain from eyes to root of
nose.
Stool.--Hæmorrhage from bowels. Bleeding hæmorrhoids.
Urine bloody (Senec aur).
Female.--Menses early, profuse, protracted. Hæmorrhage from
uterus; bright red, fluid. Painful varices during pregnancy.
Respiratory.--Hæmoptysis in incipient phthisis. Cough, with
bloody expectoration, in suppressed menses or hæmorrhoids.
Violent palpitation.
Relationship.--Compare: Ficus venosa (Pakur). Hæmorrhage
from bowels and lungs. Acalypha and Helix tosta-Snail--(in
hæmoptysis, diseases of chest, consumption); also, Secale; Ipec;
Erecht; Geran; Hamam.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
MITCHELLA REPENS
Partridge-berry
(MITCHELLA)
Bladder symptoms accompany complaints, especially uterine
congestion.
Urinary.--Irritation at neck of bladder, with urging to urinate
(Eup purp; Apis). Dysuria. Catarrh of bladder.
Female.--Cervix dark red, swollen. Dysmenorrhśa and uterine
hćmorrhage; blood bright red.
Relationship.--Compare: Chimaph; Senecio; Uva; Geran;
Gossyp.
Dose.--Tincture.
MOMORDICA BALSAMICA
Balsam Apple
Griping, colic, pain in back and hypogastrium with painful and
excessive menses. Accumulation of flatus in splenic flexure of
colon. Dropsy.
Head.--Dizzy, contents of head feel lighter; mist before eyes.
Abdomen.--Rumbling, griping, colicky pains, starting from
back, spreading over abdomen.
Female.--Painful and profuse menses; labor-like pains, followed
by gushes of blood; pain at small of back coming towards front
of pelvis.
Relationship.--Momordica charantia-Indian variety--(more
sever symptoms-intestines full of yellow watery fluid,
discharged explosively-cramps, thirst, prostration. Choleraic
symptoms. Similar to Croton, Elaterium. Use 3x).
Dose.--Tincture. Used also externally as a liniment and poultice
for burns, chapped hands, etc.
MORPHINUM
An Alkaloid of Opium
Morphine bears the same relation to Opium as Atropine to
Belladonna-i.e, represents its nervous side. It is less stimulating,
less convulsant, and more decidedly hypnotic. Constipates less
and affects contractility of the bladder more. It is less
diaphoretic and more pruritic.
Mind.--Profound depression. Irritable, fault-finding, hysterical.
Shock induced by terror. Dream-like state.
Head.--Vertigo from the least movement of the head. Headache
with sensation of being "wound-up". Bursting pain; head drawn
back.
Eyes.--Bluish, drooping lids. Itching of eyes. Delusion of vision
on closing eyes. Starting, injected; diverging strabismus. Pupils
unequally contracted. Look unsteady. Ptosis. Paresis of recti
interni.
Ears.--Left ear throbs painfully; better, heat. Seems to hear
circulation all over body.
Face.--Dusky red or pallid lividity of face, lips, tongue, mouth or
throat.
Nose.--Sneezing in paroxysms. Itching and tingling on end of
nose.
Mouth.--Very dry. Tongue dry, brown violet in middle. Thirst.
Loss of appetite, with aversion to meat.
Throat.--Dry and constricted. Pharynx paralyzed, swallowing
almost impossible; better hot drinks, worse solids.
Stomach.--Nausea incessant and deathly, faintness, constant
retching. Vomiting of green fluid. Nausea and vomiting on
rising up.
Abdomen.--Distended. Acute pain in abdomen and along spinal
column. Tympanitis.
Rectum.--Diarrhśa watery, brown, or black with horrible
tenesmus. Constipation; stools large, dry knotty, with tendency
to bruise and fissure.
Urinary.--Paresis of bladder. Strangury. Slow and difficult
urination. Retention of prostatic hypertrophy. Urćmia, acute and
chronic.
Male.--Impotency. Pain in right spermatic cord, (Oxal ac).
Heart.--Alternation of tachycardia and bradycardia. Cardiac
muscular tissue is intact, even if severely exhausted. Pulse small,
weak, dicrotic.
Respiratory.--Faint and struggling for breath diaphragmatic
paralysis; hiccough; dyspnśa, paroxysmal, on first falling asleep
(Lach; Grindel). Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Chest tight. Pain in
middle of sternum. Dry, hard, teasing, exhausting cough, worse
at night. Strangling cough, with viscid mucus sputum; thin,
scanty, but sounds loose and abundant.
Back.--Pain along spine. Weakness of loins. Aching across
lumbo-sacral region; cannot walk erect (Cimicif).
Extremities.--Staggering gait. Numbness.
Skin.--Livid; purple spots; zoster-like herpes. Itching. Skin lost
its elasticity. Urticaria appearing at climaxis.
Nervous.--Restlessness and hyperethesia; trembling, twitching,
jerking, convulsions. Extremely susceptible to pain. Pain causes
twitching and jerking of limbs. Violent and sudden neuralgic
pains and sudden fainting. Delirium, melancholic in character.
Neuralgias intensely painful, left supraorbital; right intercostal,
better from heat; multiple neuritis. Sore feeling all over. Bed
feels too hard. Aggravation after sleep (Lach). Neuralgia after
zoster (Mezer).
Sleep.--Yawning, drowsy; prolonged, deep sleep, Sleepless;
restless sleep, with frequent startings. Sleepy, but cannot sleep.
Fever.--Chills. Icy coldness. Burning heat; profuse sweat.
Dose.--Third to sixth trituration.
MOSCHUS
Musk
A remedy for hysteria and nervous paroxysms, fainting fits and
convulsions, catalepsy, etc. The characteristic condition being
aggravation by cold; there is great sensitiveness to air. Much
nervous trembling and frequent fainting. Great flatulence.
Diseases do not follow a normal course. Coldness. Tension in
muscles, skin and mind.
Mind.--Uncontrollable laughter. Scolding. Anxiety with
palpitation; starting as if frightened. Sexual hypochondriasis.
Head.--Compressive pain over root of nose. Pressure on top of
head. Vertigo on least motion; sensation as if falling from a
great height. Scalp sensitive. Sounds in ears as from the report
of a cannon.
Stomach.--Desire for black coffee, stimulants. Aversion to food.
Everything tastes flat. With stomach symptoms, anxiety in chest.
Distended. Faints when eating. Abdomen greatly distended.
Spasmodic, nervous hiccough (Hydrocy ac; Sulph ac; Ignat;
Cajap).
Male.--Violent desire; involuntary emissions. Impotence,
associated with diabetes (Coca). Premature senility. Nausea and
vomiting after coition.
Female.--Menses too early, too profuse, with disposition to faint
(Nux m; Veratr). Sexual desire, with intolerable titillation in
parts. Drawing and pushing in the direction of the genitals;
sensation as if menses appear.
Urine.--Profuse urination. Diabetes.
Respiratory.--Tightness of chest, is obliged to take a deeper
breath. Sudden constriction of larynx and trachea. Difficult
respiration; chest oppressed; hysterical spasm of chest; asthma.
Spasm of glottis. Impending paralysis of lungs. Asthma, with
intense anxiety, fear, and smothering sensation. Cough ceases,
mucus cannot be expectorated. Globus hystericus.
Heart.--Hysterical palpitation. Trembling around heart. Weak
pulse and fainting.
Modalities.--Better, in open air, rubbing. Worse, cold. The open
air is felt very, very cold.
Relationship.--Compare: Nux mosch; Asaf; Valer; Sumbul; Ign;
Castor.
Compatible: Ambra.
Antidotes: Camph; Coff.
Dose.--First to third potency.
MURIATICUM ACIDUM
Muriatic Acid
This acid has an elective affinity for the blood, producing a
septic condition similar to that found in low fevers with high
temperature and great prostration. Patient becomes so weak she
slides down the bed. Decomposition of fluids. Involuntary stools
while passing urine. Hćmorrhages. Mouth and anus chiefly
effected.
Mind.--Irritable and peevish; fretful Loud moaning. Great
restlessness. Sad, taciturn; suffers in silence.
Head.--Vertigo; worse lying on right side; occiput heavy as if
filled with lead. Sound of voice is intolerable. Pain as if brain
were crushed.
Nose.--Hćmorrhage; much sneezing.
Face.--Lower jaw fallen; pimples and freckles; lips raw, dry,
cracked.
Mouth.--Tongue, pale, swollen, dry, leathery, paralyzed. Deep
ulcers on tongue. Hard lumps in tongue. Epithelioma; edges
bluish-red (Carbol ac). Aphthous mouth. Gums and glands
swollen. Fetid Breath. Sordes on teeth.
Throat.--Uvula swollen. Ulcers and false membrane.
Śdematous, dark, raw. Attempted swallowing produces spasm
and choking.
Stomach.--Cannot bear sight or thought of meat. At times,
ravenous appetite and constant desire to drink. Achlorhydria and
fermentation of food.
Rectum.--Tendency to involuntary evacuations while urinating.
Hćmorrhoids most sensitive to all touch; even sheet of toilet
paper is painful. Anal itching and prolapsus ani while urinating.
Hćmorrhoids during pregnancy; bluish, hot with violent stitches.
Heart.--Pulse rapid, feeble, and small. Intermits every third
beat.
Urine.--Cannot urinate without having bowels move at same
time.
Female.--Menses appear too soon. Leucorrhśa. During menses,
soreness of anus. Ulcer in genitals.
Extremities.--Heavy, painful, and weak. Tottering gait. Pain in
tendo-Achilles.
Skin.--Papular and vesicular eruptions, with great itching
(Rhus). Carbuncles; foul-smelling ulcers on lower extremities.
Scarlet fever, livid, with petechić; scanty eruption. Eczema on
back of hands.
Fever.--Cold extremities. Heat without thirst. Typhoid types,
stupid. Hćmorrhages. Restlessness. Involuntary discharges. Bed-
sores. Pulse rapid and feeble. Excessive prostration.
Modalities.--Worse, in damp weather, before midnight. Better,
lying on left side.
Relationship.--Compare: Phos ac; Ars; Bapt. Follows well after
Bry and Rhus.
Antidote; Bryonia.
Dose.--First to third potency.
 MUREX PURPUREA
Purple Fish
(MUREX)
The symptoms of the female sexual organs are most-prominent,
and have been clinically verified. Especially adapted to nervous,
lively, affectionate women. Patient weak and run down.
Mind.--Great sadness, anxiety, and dread.
Stomach.--Sinking, all-gone sensation in stomach (Sep).
Hungry, must eat.
Female.--Conscious of a womb. Pulsation in neck of womb.
Desire easily excited. Feeling as if something was pressing on a
sore spot in the pelvis: worse sitting. Pain from right side of
womb to right or left breast. Nymphomania. Least contact of
parts causes violent sexual excitement. Sore pain in uterus.
Menses irregular, profuse, frequent, large clots. Feeling of
protrusion. Prolapse; enlargement of uterus, with pelvic
tenesmus and sharp pains, extending toward breasts; aggravated
lying down. Dysmenorrhśa and chronic endometritis, with
displacement. Must keep legs tightly crossed. Leucorrhśa green
or bloody, alternate with mental symptoms and aching in
sacrum. Benign tumors in breasts. Pain in them during menstrual
period.
Urinary.--Urine frequent at night; smells like Valerian constant
urging (Kreos).
Modalities.--Worse, least touch.
Relationship.--Compare: Plat; Lil; Sep (the latter lacks sexual
erethism of Murex).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
 MYGALE LASIODORA
Black Cuban Spider
Weakness, palpitation, nervousness, fear, like other spider
preparations. Chorea is the principal therapeutic field of this.
Sexual symptoms are important.
Mind.--Delirious, restless, sad; fears death; despondent.
Face.--Twitching of facial muscles. Mouth and eyes open in
rapid succession. Hot and flushed. Tongue dry and parched; put
out with difficulty. Head jerked to one side. Grating of teeth at
night.
Stomach.--Nausea, with dim sight. Aversion to food. Excessive
thirst.
Male.--Violent erections. Chordee (Kali brom; Camph).
Extremities.--Unsteady gait. Constant motion of whole body.
Tremulous. Intense redness in streaks, following course of
lymphatics. Twitching of limbs. Restless hands. Convulsive,
uncontrollable movements of arms and legs. Limbs drag while
walking.
Relationship.--Compare: Agar; Tarant; Cupr, Zizia.
Modalities.--Better, during sleep. Worse, in morning.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
MYOSOTIS SYMPHYTIFOLIA
Forget-me-not
(MYOSOTIS)
Chronic bronchitis and phthisis. Night-sweats.
Respiratory.--Cough with profuse muco-purulent
expectoration, gagging and vomiting during cough; worse while
or after eating. Bronchorrhśa. Pain in left lung (lower); painful
while coughing and sensitive to percussion.
Dose.--Tincture to second potency.
MYRICA CERIFERA
Bayberry
(MYRICA)
Marked action on the liver, with jaundice and mucous
membranes. Persistent sleeplessness. Jaundice.
Mind.--Despondent, irritable, indifferent. Gloomy.
Head.--Scalp feels tight. Headache, with drowsiness; yellow
sclerotica; aching in eyeballs. Pressure in vertex and forehead.
Dull, heavy aching in temples and forehead on waking in the
morning. Pain and stiffness in nape of neck.
Face.--Yellow, Itching and stinging. Creeping sensation.
Mouth.--Tongue furred, with bad taste in mouth, and nausea.
Tenacious, thick, nauseous secretion. Tender, spongy and
bleeding gums (Merc).
Throat.--Constricted and rough feeling, with a constant desire
to swallow. Stringy mucus; detached with difficulty.
Stomach.--Taste bitter and nauseous, with offensive breath.
Complete loss appetite, but with a feeling of fullness in the
stomach after a hearty meal. Strong desire for acids. Weak,
sinking feeling in the epigastrium, approaching nausea;
increased after eating; relieved by rapid walking.
Abdomen.--Dull pain in the region of the liver. Complete
jaundice, with bronze-yellow skin; loss of appetite. Fullness in
the stomach and abdomen. Scanty, yellow, frothy urine.
Stool.--Constant discharge of flatus when walking. Urging to
stool, with no other results than the expulsion of a great amount
of flatus. Loose, light-colored stool; ash-colored and destitute of
bile.
Urinary.--Dark, frothy, scanty, high-colored, biliary.
Sleep.--Disturbed, bad dreams and frequent waking; insomnia.
Extremities.--Staggering gait. Pain under shoulder-blades and
back of neck, in all muscles, in hollow of right foot.
Skin.--Yellow and itching. Jaundice. Creeping sensation, as of
insects.
Relationship.--Compare: Ptel; Cornus cir; Chelid; Lept;
Fagop.
Antidote: Digit (jaundice).
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
MYRISTICA SEBIFERA
Brazilian Ucuba
A remedy of great antiseptic powers. Inflammation of skin,
cellular tissue and periosteum. Traumatic infections. Parotitis.
Fistulas. Carbuncles. Specific action in panaritium. Pain in the
finger nails with swelling of the phalanges. Hands are stiff, as if
from squeezing something a long time. Coppery taste and
burning in throat. Tongue white and cracked. Phlegmonous
inflammations. Hastens suppuration and shortens its duration.
Often does away with use of the knife. Inflammation of middle
ear, suppurative stage. Fistula in ano. Acts more powerfully
often than Heper or Silica.
MYRTUS COMMUNIS
Myrtle
The leaves contain Myrtol, an active antiseptic. Chest pains, as
found often in consumptives, call for this remedy. Incipient
phthisis. Nerve sedative and stimulant to mucous membranes,
bronchitis, cystitis and pyelitis.
Chest.--Stitching pain in left breast, running through to
shoulder-blade (Illic; Therid; Pix). Dry, hollow cough, with
tickling in chest. Worse in the morning. Sensation of burning in
left chest.
Relationship.--Compare: Myrtus Chekan (Chronic bronchitis
with dense, yellowish sputum, difficult to detach. Copious
expectoration keeps patient distressed and coughing).
Dose.--Third potency.
NAJA TRIPUDIANS
Virus of the Cobra
Naja produces a typical bulbar paralysis (L. J. Boyd). Causes no
hæmorrhage but only œdema, hence the victims of this reptile
frequently bear very little sign of external injury a small scratch
or puncture being the only indication where the fangs have
worked their havoc. The tissue lying beneath the wound is
colored dark purple, and a large quantity of viscid blood-like
fluid collects in the vicinity of the wound. An intense burning
pain at the spot bitten is the first symptom. In man there follows
an interval before fresh symptoms occur. The average is about
an hour. Once developed, the symptoms follow a rapid course.
A feeling of intoxication is produced, followed by a loss of
power over the limbs. The patient is bereft of speech,
swallowing, and the control over the movement of the lips. The
saliva is ejected in large quantities, the respiration gradually
becomes slower and slower, and at length ceases. Conscious all
time. Is not a hæmorrhagic or septic, medicine like Lachesis and
Crotalus. Its action settles around the heart; valvular troubles.
Marked surging of blood upwards, marked dyspnœa, inability to
lie on left side. Hypertrophy, and valvular lesions. Organs seem
to be drawn together. Very susceptible to cold. With heart
symptoms, pain in forehead and temples. Diseases, primarily
depending upon degeneration of motor cells. Control of
sphincters lost.
Mind.--Broods constantly over imaginary troubles. Suicidal
insanity (Aur). Depressed. Aversion to talking. Blurred speech.
Melancholy. Dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain.
Head.--Pain in left temple and in left orbital region, extending
to occiput, with nausea and vomiting. Hay-fever, with dry
larynx. Suffocative spells after sleeping (Lach). Eyes staring.
Ptosis of both lids.
Ears.--Illusions of hearing; otalgia; chronic otorrhœa, black
discharges; smells like herring brine.
Respiratory.--Grasping at throat, with sense of choking.
Irritating, dry cough, dependent on cardiac lesions (Spong;
Lauroc) Sticky mucus and saliva. Asthmatic constriction in
evening. Asthma beginning with coryza.
Heart.--Dragging and anxiety in præcordia. Feeling of weight
on heart. Angina pains extending to nape of neck, left shoulder
and arm with anxiety and fear of death. With the heart
symptoms pain in forehead and temples. Pulse irregular in
force. Threatened paralysis of heart, body cold, pulse slow,
weak, irregular, tremulous. Acute and chronic endocarditis.
Palpitation. Stitching pain in region of heart. Damaged heart
after infections diseases. Marked symptoms of low tension
(Elaps, Vipera).
Female.--Neuralgia of left ovary; often serviceable in obscure
pain in left groin, especially in post-operative cases; seems to be
drawn to heart.
Sleep.--Profound, like a log, with stertorous breathing, a typical
reptilian state.
Modalities.--Worse, from use of stimulants; better, from
walking or riding in open air.
Relationship.--Compare: Serpent poisons generally. Bungarus
Fasciatus (Banded Krait). This venom produces a condition like
an acute polioencephalitis and myelitis, both symptomatically
and histologically. Lach; Crotal; Spig; Spong.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
NAPHTHALINUM
A chemical compound from Coal-tar; Tar
Camphor
(NAPHTHALINE)
Coryza, hay-fever, phthisis pulmonalis, also gonorrhśa have
been influenced favorably by this drug. Pyelonephritis. Irritation
of the periphery of the urinary apparatus. Whooping-cough.
Head.--Lying as if stupefied by a narcotic. Restless. Face pale
yellowish hue.
Eyes.--Marked affinity for the eye. It produces detachment of
the retina; papillo-retinal infiltration; deposits in patches upon
the retina; amblyopia and consecutive amaurosis; sparkling
synchisis; soft cataract. Exudation in the retina, choroid and
ciliary body. Cataract. Opacity of the cornea.
Urine.--Irresistible desire. Meatus red swollen, and śdema of
prepuce. Black urine. Cutting pain down penis. Pain in bladder.
Terribly offensive odor of decomposing ammoniacal urine.
Respiratory.--Sneezing; eyes inflamed; painful; head hot. Hay-
fever. Spasmodic asthma; better in open air. Soreness in chest
and stomach; must loosen clothing. Dyspnśa and sighing
inspiration. Emphysema in the aged with asthma. Whooping-
cough, long and continued paroxysms of coughing, unable to get
a respiration. Acute laryngo-tracheitis. Bronchitis when the
spasmodic element is associated with tenacious expectoration
and oppression (Cartier).
Skin.--Dermatitis; itching infiltration. Eruptions at corners of
mouth and pigmentation around nails.
Non-homeopathic Uses-For worms, and especially pin--worms,
one-gramme dose. Externally in skin diseases, five per cent
ointment.
Relationship.--Compare: Dros; Corall; Coccus. Terpin hydrat
(Whooping-cough, hay asthma and bronchial affections. 1-2
grain doses).
Dose.--Third trituration.
NARCISSUS PSEUDONARCISSUS
Daffodil
(NARCISSUS)
Symptoms of nausea followed by violent vomiting and
diarrhœa.
Daffodil bulbs contain an alkaloid the action of which,
according to authorities, varies as to whether the alkaloid is
extracted from the flowering bulb or from the bulb after
flowering. Thus in the former case the alkaloid produces dryness
of the mouth, checks cutaneous secretions, dilates the pupil of
the eye, quickens the pulse, and slows and weakens the heart
contractions. On the other hand, the alkaloid from the bulbs
after flowering produces copious salivation, increases
cutaneous secretion, contracts the pupil of the eye, produces
slight relaxation of the pulse, and slight faintness and nausea.--
The Lancet.
A remedy for cough and bronchitis. Continuous cough, Coryza;
frontal headache. Convulsive stage of whooping-cough.
Skin.--Erythema of a papular, vesicular and pustular type,
aggravation in wet weather.
Dose.--First attenuation.
NATRIUM ARSENICOSUM
Arseniate of Sodium
(NATRUM ARSENICUM)
A remedy for nasal catarrh, with headache, pain at root of nose,
dry and painful eyes. Psoriasis (Ars; Chrysoph ac; Thyroid).
Bronchitis of children over seven years. Facilitates the
termination of the cold and conserves strength and appetite
(Cartier).
Head.--Floating sensation on turning head quickly; aching in
frontal region and root of nose, over orbits. Headache; worse
pressure and tobacco smoke.
Nose.--Watery discharge; drops into throat. Feels stopped; pain
at root. Dry crusts, on removal, leave mucous membrane raw.
Post-nasal dropping of thick, bland, yellowish mucus. Crusts in
nose.
Ears.--Catarrhal conjunctivitis and blepharitis marginalis. Eyes
feel weak, stiffness of balls and tendency of lids to close. Feel
heavy and droop. Lachrymation in wind. Agglutination in
morning. Dry, painful, burning; soon tire. Śdema of orbital
region. Supraorbital pain.
Throat.--Dark, purplish, swollen, śdematous; red and glassy.
Respiratory.--Racking cough, with profuse greenish
expectoration. Oppression of chest and about heart, and also
larynx. Miner's asthma. Lungs feel as though smoke had been
inhaled.
Extremities.--Aching in arms; worse in shoulder. Pain in
anterior crural nerves. Joints stiff. Feels tired all over. Knee-
joints crack.
Relationship.--Compare: Ars; Kali carb; Apis.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
NATRIUM CARBONICUM
Carbonate of Sodium
(NATRUM CARBONICUM)
All the Natrums stimulate cellular activity and increase
oxidation and metabolish. Great debility caused by summer
heat; chronic effects of sunstroke; exhaustion; anćmic; milky,
watery skin; very weak ankles, are all peculiar Natrum
carbonicum conditions.
Mind.--Unable to think; difficult, slow comprehension. Mental
weakness and depression; worries; very sensitive to noise; colds,
change of weather. Anxious and restless during thunderstorm;
worse from music (Ambra). Marked gayety. Sensitive to
presence of certain individuals.
Head.--Aches from slightest mental exertion, worse from sun or
working under gas-light (Glon) Feels too large. Oversensitive of
hearing. Head aches with return of hot weather. Vertigo from
exposure to sun.
Nose.--All troubles of external nose which may attain a morbid
size-pimples and puffiness. Constant coryza; obstruction of
nose. Catarrh; bad smell of nasal secretion. Many troubles of
external nose (Caust). Posterior nasal catarrh. Hawking much
mucus from throat; worse, slightest draught.
Face.--Freckles, yellow spots, pimples. Swelling of upper lip.
Pale, with blue rings around eyes and swollen lids.
Stomach.--Feels swollen and sensitive. Ill effects of drinking
cold water when overheated. Water-brash. Hungry at 5 am. Very
weak digestion, caused by slightest error of diet. Averse to milk.
Depressed after eating. Bitter taste. Old dyspeptics, always
belching, have sour stomach and rheumatism. Dyspepsia
relieved by soda biscuits.
Bowels.--Sudden call to stool. Escapes with haste and noise.
Yellow substance like pulp of orange in discharge. Diarrhśa
from milk.
Female.--Induration of cervix. Pudenda sore. Bearing-down
sensation (Sep; Murex). Heaviness; worse, sitting; better by
moving. Menses late, scanty like meat-washings (Nitric ac).
Leucorrhśal discharge, offensive, irritating preceded by colic.
Respiratory.--Dry cough, when coming into warm room from
out of doors. Cough with coldness of left side of breast.
Sleep.--Wakes too early in morning. Amorous dreams. Drowsy
during day.
Extremities.--Old sprains. Great weakness of limbs, especially
in morning. Easy dislocation and spraining of ankles. Foot
bends under (Caust). Soreness between toes and fingers. Heel
and tendo-Achilles affected. Capped hands. The hollow of the
knee is painful on motion. Icy cold up to knees.
Skin.--Inclination to perspire easily, or dry, rough, cracked skin.
Eruption on finger-tips, knuckles and toes. Vesicular eruption in
patches and circles. Veins full. Soles of feet raw and sore.
Modalities.--Worse, sitting, from music, summer heat, mental
exertion, thunderstorm. Least draught, changes of weather, sun.
Better, by moving, by boring in ears and nose.
Relationship.--Compare: Sodii bicarbonas (in vomiting of
pregnancy with acetonuria, 30 grains in water spread over
twenty-four hours); Nat sulph; Caust; Natr cacodyl (Foul breath
and mouth with bad odor. Dry dermatitis of the skin of
abdomen. Malignant growths. In phthisis, 5 centigrammes
hypodermically, daily. Increase number of red blood corpuscles
to double. Also in malignant disease). Arsynal--(Disodium
methylarsenate). Introduced by M. A. Gautier, for phthisis in the
second stage 4 to 6 centigrammes per day for one week followed
by a week's intermission. But much smaller doses, i.e, 1x to 3x
are followed by improvement, lessened fever, night sweat and
hćmoptysis ceasing.
Antidote: Ars. Camph.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
NATRIUM HYPOCHLOROSUM
Labarraque's Solution
(NATRUM CHLORATUM)
In congested and atonic states of the uterus and its ligaments,
with hepatic disorders. Chronic catarrhal diseases of the middle
ear. Flabby, debilitated constitution. Both hands swollen in
morning. Phlegmatic. Depressed, faint.
Head.--Vertigo, with aching across forehead. Swimming
feeling, as if top of head would float off. Bleeding of nose in
clots.
Mouth.--Sore irritable spots along sides of tongue and throat,
gums sore, tongue swollen; aphthous ulceration. Putrid taste.
Furred tongue, large, flabby, intended. Cough with aphonia.
Stomach.--Drowsy after meals.
Urine.--Dark, with albumen and casts. Diffuse nephritis. Much
pain across small of back.
Female.--Feeling as if uterus were pushed up on sitting down
(Ferr iod). Feels as if it opened and shut. Violent metrorrhagia.
Leucorrhśa and backache. Passive, bearing-down from heavy
condition of uterus. Womb is heavy, sodden, with tendency to
prolapse. Subinvolution.
Extremities.--Hands swollen every morning. Extreme weakness
in ankles and knees.
Relationship.--Compare: Aur mur nat; Calc; Sepia;
Heliotropium (uterine displacement, with active bearing-down
sensation and loss of voice; membranous dysmenorrhśa).
Antidote: Pulsat; Guaiacum.
Dose.--Fifteen to twenty drops of Labarraque's solution in water.
Third attenuation made with dilute alcohol, lower with water.
NATRIUM MURIATICUM
Chloride of Sodium
(NATRUM MURIATICUM)
The prolonged taking of excessive salt causes profound nutritive
changes to take place in the system, and there arise not only the
symptoms of salt retention as evidenced by dropsies and śdemas,
but also an alteration in the blood causing a condition of anćmia
and leucocytosis. There seems also to be a retention in the
tissues of effecte materials giving rise to symptoms loosely
described as gouty or rheumatic gout. The provings are full of
such symptoms (Dr. Stonham) A great remedy for certain forms
of intermittent fever, anćmia, chlorosis, many disturbances of
the alimentary tract and skin. Great debility; most weakness felt
in the morning in bed. Coldness. Emaciation most notable in
neck. Great liability to take cold. Dry mucous membranes.
Constrictive sensation throughout the body. Great weakness and
weariness. Oversensitive to all sorts of influences.
Hyperthyroidism. Goitre. Addison's disease. Diabetes.
Mind.--Psychic causes of disease; ill effects of grief, fright,
anger, etc. Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases.
Consolation aggravates. Irritable; gets into a passion about
trifles. Awkward, hasty. Wants to be alone to cry. Tears with
laughter.
Head.--Throbs. Blinding headache. Aches as if a thousand little
hammers were knocking on the brain, in the morning on
awakening, after menstruation, from sunrise to sunset. Feels too
large; cold. Anćmic headache of school-girls; nervous,
discouraged, broken down. Chronic headache, semi-lateral,
congestive, from sunrise to sunset, with pale face, nausea,
vomiting; periodical; from eyestrain; menstrual. Before attack,
numbness and tingling in lips, tongue and nose, relieved by
sleep. Frontal sinus inflammation.
Eyes.--Feels bruised, with headache in school children. Eyelids
heavy. Muscles weak and stiff. Letters run together. Sees sparks.
Fiery, zigzag appearance around all objects. Burning in eyes.
Give out on reading or writing. Stricture of lachrymal duct with
suppuration. Escape of muco-pus when pressing upon sac.
Lachrymation, burning and acrid. Lids swollen. Eyes appear wet
with tears. Tears stream down face on coughing (Euph).
Asthenopia due to insufficiency of internal recti muscles (Gels
and Cup acet, when due to external muscles). Pain in eyes when
looking down. Cataract incipient (Secale).
Ears.--Noises; roaring and ringing.
Nose.--Violent, fluent coryza, lasting from one to three days,
then changing into stoppage of nose, making breathing difficult.
Discharge thin and watery, like raw white of egg. Violent
sneezing coryza. Infallible for stopping a cold commencing with
sneezing. Use thirtieth potency. Loss of smell and taste. Internal
soreness of nose. Dryness.
Face.--Oily, shiny, as if greased. Earthy complexion. Fevers-
blisters.
Mouth.--Frothy coating on tongue, with bubbles on side. Sense
of dryness. Scorbutic gums. Numbness, tingling of tongue, lips,
and nose. Vesicles and burning on tongue, as if there was a hair
on it. Eruptions around mouth and vesicles like pearls on lips.
Lips and corners of mouth dry, ulcerated, and cracked. Deep
crack in middle of lower lip. Tongue mapped (Ars; Rhus;
Tarax). Loss of taste. Large vesicle on lower lip, which is
swollen and burns. Immoderate thirst.
Stomach.--Hungry, yet loose flesh (Iod). Heartburn, with
palpitation. Unquenchable thirst. Sweats while eating. Craving
for salt. Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats.
Throbbing in pit. Sticking sensation in cardiac orifice.
Abdomen.--Cutting pain in abdomen. Distended. Pain in
abdominal ring on coughing.
Rectum.--Burning pains and stitching after stool. Anus
contracted, torn, bleeding. Constipation; stool dry, crumbling
(Am m; Mag m). Painless and copious diarrhśa, preceded by
pinching pain in abdomen.
Urine.--Pain just after urinating (Sars). Increased, involuntary
when walking, coughing, etc. Has to wait a long time for it to
pass if others are present (Hep; Mur ac).
Male.--Emission, even after coitus. Impotence with retarded
emission.
Female.--Menses irregular; usually profuse. Vagina dry.
Leucorrhśa acrid, watery. Bearing-down pains; worse in
morning (Sep). Prolapsus uteri, with cutting in urethra.
Ineffectual labor-pains. Suppressed menses (Follow with Kali
carb). Hot during menses.
Respiratory.--Cough from a tickling in the pit of stomach,
accompanied by stitches in liver and spurting of urine (Caust;
Squilla). Stitches all over chest. Cough, with bursting pain in
head. Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs (Calc).
Whooping-cough with flow of tears with cough.
Heart.--Tachycardia. Sensation of coldness of heart. Heart and
chest feel constricted. Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse.
Heart's pulsations shake body. Intermits on lying down.
Extremities.--Pain in back, with desire for some firm support
(Rhus; Sep). Every movement accelerates the circulation. Palms
hot and perspiring. Arms and legs, but especially knees, feel
weak. Hangnails. Dryness and cracking about finger-nails.
Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities. Ankles
weak and turn easily. Painful contraction of hamstrings (Caust).
Cracking in joints on motion. Coldness of legs with congestion
to head, chest, and stomach.
Sleep.--Sleepy in forenoon. Nervous jerking during sleep.
Dreams of robbers. Sleepless from grief.
Skin.--Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts. Dry eruptions,
especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints. Fever
blisters. Urticaria; itch and burn. Crusty eruptions in bends of
limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears (Caust). Warts on palms of
hands. Eczema; raw, red, and inflamed; worse, eating salt, at
seashore. Affects hair follicles. Alopecia. Hives, itching after
exertion. Greasy skin.
Fever.--Chill between 9 and 11 am. Heat; violent thirst,
increases with fever. Fever-blisters. Coldness of the body, and
continued chilliness very marked. Hydrćmia in chronic malarial
states with weakness, constipation, loss of appetite, etc. Sweats
on every exertion.
Modalities.--Worse, noise, music, warm room, lying down
about 10 a m;, at seashore, mental exertion, consolation, heat,
talking. Better, open air, cold bathing, going without regular
meals, lying on right side; pressure against back, tight clothing.
Relationship.--Complementary to Apis; Sepia; Ign.
Compare: Aqua marina-Isotonic plasma. Marine plasma is a sea
water taken some miles from shore and some depth below
surface, filtered and diluted with twice as much pure fresh water.
It acts primarily on the blood, as in intoxications, scrofulous
conditions, enteritis. It disintoxicates in cancer (administered
subcutaneously in the treatment of diseases of skin, kidneys and
intestines, gastro-enteritis, and tuberculosis). Scrofulous
affection of children. Lymphadenitis. Lupus, eczema, varicose
ulcers. A great "blood purifier and vitalizer. " Potentized sea-
water in weakness, lack of reaction; symptoms worse seaside
(Goitre). Sal marinum sea salt, (indicated in chronic
enlargements of glands, especially cervical. Suppurating glands.
It appears likely to become a most useful remedy as an auxiliary,
if not as a principal, in the treatment of diseases in patients of a
strumous diathesis. Also useful in constipation). Natrum
selenicum (laryngeal phthisis with expectoration of small lumps
of bloody mucus and slight hoarseness). Natrum silicum
(hćmophilia; scrofulous bone affections; given intravenously
every 3 days for senile pruritus); (Dolichos. Fagopyr). Ignat;
Sep; Thuja; Graph; Alum.
Antidote: Ars; Phos; Spir nit dulc.
Dose.--Twelfth to thirtieth and higher. The very highest
potencies often yield most brilliant results. And in infrequent
dosage.
NATRIUM NITRICUM
Nitrate of Sodium
(NATRUM NITRICUM)
A Rademacherian remedy for inflammations. Hæmoptysis.
Hæmaturia. Purpura hæmorrhagica. Hæmorrhagic Variola.
Drowsiness. Pains of tabes. Influenza. Hemoglobinuria. Uric
acid diathesis. Asthma with urine supersaturated with solids.
Anæmia and hydræmia. Exhaustion, must rest frequently when
walking.
Head.--Dull. Indisposed to mental and bodily exertion. Pressing
inward pain. Otalgia. Inward pressing in malar bones.
Nosebleed.
Stomach.--Sour risings. Aversions to coffee. Flatulence, with
pressure in pit of stomach and pain in chest; worse motion,
better eructation.
Abdomen.--Abdominal muscles painfully contracted towards
the spine. Distended. Difficult stool; feels as if more remained to
pass.
Heart.--Pain in region of heart. Pulse slower and softer.
Dose.--Second trituration, also watery solution; 1 dram of salt to
8 oz water. Dram doses.
NATRIUM PHOSPHORICUM
Phosphate of Sodium
Natrum phosphoricum is the remedy for conditions arising from
excess of lactic acid, often resulting from too much sugar.
Ailments, with excess of acidity. Sour eructations and taste. Sour
vomiting. Yellow, creamy coating at the back of the roof of
mouth and tongue. Inflammation of any part of the throat, with
sensation of a lump in throat. Flatulence, with sour risings.
Colic, with symptoms of worms. Cracking of joints. Jaundice
(1x trit). Oxaluria.
Mind.--Imagines, on waking at night, that pieces of furniture are
persons; that the hears footsteps in next room. Fear.
Head.--Feels dull in the morning, full feeling and throbbing.
Eyes.--Discharge of golden-yellow, creamy matter from the
eyes. Dilation of one pupil. Whites of eyes dirty yellow.
Ears.--One ear red, hot, frequently itchy, accompanied by
gastric derangements and acidity.
Nose.--Offensive odor. Itching of nose. Naso-pharyngeal
catarrh, with thick, yellow, offensive mucus.
Face.--Paleness of bluish, florid appearance of face.
Mouth.--Canker sores of lip and cheeks. Blisters on tip of
tongue, with stinging in evening. Thin, moist coating on the
tongue. Yellow, creamy coating at the back part of the roof of
the mouth. Dysphagia. Thick, creamy membrane over tonsils
and soft palate.
Stomach.--Sour eructations, sour vomiting, greenish diarrhśa.
Spits mouthful of food.
Male.--Emissions without dreams, with weakness in back and
trembling in limbs. Desire without erection. Gonorrhśa.
Female.--Menses too early; pale, thin, watery. Sterility, with
acid secretions from vagina. Leucorrhśa; discharge creamy or
honey-colored, or acid and watery. Sour-smelling discharges
from uterus. Morning sickness, with sour vomiting.
Extremities.--Rheumatism of the knee-joint.
Back.--Weariness; aching in wrists and finger-joints.
Hamstrings sore. Synovial crepitation. Rheumatic arthritis.
Skin.--Yellow. Itching in various parts, especially of ankles.
Hives. Smooth, red, shining. Erysipelas. Feet icy cold in
daytime, burn at night. Swelling of lymphatic glands.
Relationship.--Compare: Natrum lactic (rheumatism and gout;
gouty concretions, rheumatism with diabetes); Natrum nitrosum
(angina pectoris. Cyanosis, fainting, copious liquid stools at
night; throbbing and fullness; faintness, nervous pain in head,
nausea, eructations, blue lips). Natrum silicofluoricum-Salufer--
(a cancer remedy; tumors, bone affection, caries, lupus,
ethmoiditis. Must be used carefully); Nat selen (chronic
laryngitis and laryngeal phthisis; hoarseness of singers,
expectorate small lumps of mucus with frequent clearing of
throat); Nat sulphurosum (diarrhśa, with yeasty stools); Nat
sulphocarbol (pyćmia; purulent pleurisy, 3 to 5 grains every
three hours); Nat telluricum (breath has odor of garlic;
nightsweats of phthisis) calc; Robin; Phos. In oxaluria 1x four
times daily prevents formation of calculi; keeps the oxal of lime
in solution (Schwartz).
Dose.--Third to twelfth trituration. In Jaundice 1x. Non-
homeopathically, Phosphate Soda used hypodermically for
Morphine habit, by Dr. M. J. Luys. Phosphate Soda, 75 gr daily,
for constitutional iodism, thyroidism and Grave's disease.
NATRIUM SULPHURICUM
Sulphate of Sodium-Glauber's Salt
(NATRUM SULPHURICUM)
A liver remedy, especially indicated for the so-called
hydrogenoid constitution, where the complaints are such as are
due to living in damp houses, basements, cellars. They are worse
in rainy weather, water in any form. Feels every change from
dry to wet; cannot even eat plants growing near water, nor fish.
Always feels best in warm, dry air. Clinically, it has been found
a valuable remedy for spinal meningitis, head symptoms from
injuries to head, mental troubles therefrom. Every spring, return
of skin affections. Tendency to warts. Fingers and toes affected.
Chronic gout (Lycop).
Mind.--Lively music saddens. Melancholy, with periodical
attacks of mania. Suicidal tendency; must exercise restraint.
Inability to think. Dislikes to speak, or to be spoken to.
Head.--Occipital pain. Piercing stitches in ears. Vertigo;
relieved by sweat on head. Bursting feeling on coughing. Hot
feeling on top of head. Bursting feeling on coughing. Hot feeling
on top of head. Boring in right temple, preceded by burning in
stomach. Ill-effects of falls and injuries to the head, and mental
troubles arising therefrom. Dreams of running water.
Ears.--Sticking pain, earache, lightning-like stitches in damp
weather.
Nose.--Nasal catarrh, with thick, yellow discharge and salty
mucus. Coryza. Epistaxis. Ethmoiditis.
Eyes.--Conjunctiva yellow. Granular lids. Photophobia
(Graphites).
Mouth.--Slimy, thick, tenacious, white mucus. Bitter taste,
blisters on palate.
Throat.--Thick, yellow mucus, drops from posterior nares.
Stomach.--Vomits sour. Brown, bitter coating on tongue.
Yellow complexion. Thirst for something cold. Bilious
vomiting, acid dyspepsia, with heartburn and flatulence.
Abdomen.--Duodenal catarrh; hepatitis; icterus and vomiting of
bile; liver sore to touch, with sharp, stitching pains; cannot bear
tight clothing around waist, worse, lying on left side. Flatulency;
wind colic in ascending colon; worse, before breakfast. Burning
in abdomen and anus. Bruised pain and urging to stool. Diarrhśa
yellow, watery stools. Loose morning stools, worse, after spell
of wet weather. Stools involuntary, when passing flatus. Great
size of the fecal mass.
Urine.--Loaded with bile. Brisk-dust sediment. Excessive
secretion. Diabetes.
Female.--Nosebleed during menses, which are acrid and
profuse. Burning in pharynx during menstruation. Herpetic
vulvitis. Leucorrhśa yellowish-green, following gonorrhśa in
female. Leucorrhśa with hoarseness.
Male.--Condylomata; soft, fleshy excrescences; greenish
discharges. Gonorrhśa; discharge thick, greenish; little pain.
Respiratory.--Dyspnśa, during damp weather. Must hold chest
when coughing. Humid asthma; rattling in chest, at 4 and 5 am.
Cough, with thick ropy, greenish expectoration; chest feels all
gone. Constant desire to take deep, long breath. Asthma in
children, as a constitutional remedy. Delayed resolution in
pneumonia. Springs up in bed the cough hurts so; holds painful
side (Bry). Pain through lower left chest. Every fresh cold brings
on attack of asthma.
Back.--Itching when undressing. Violent pains in back of neck,
and at base of brain. Piercing pain between scapulć. Spinal
meningitis; opisthotonos.
Extremities.--Swelling of axillary glands. Inflammation around
root of nails. Burning in soles; śdema of feet; itching between
toes. Gout. Pain in limbs, compels frequent change in position.
Run-arounds. Pain in hip-joints, worse left, worse, stooping.
Stiffness of knees, cracking of joints. Rheumatism, worse in
damp cold weather.
Skin.--Itching while undressing. Jaundiced, watery blisters.
Sycotic excrescences; wart-like red lumps all over body.
Modalities.--Worse, music (makes her sad); lying on left side;
dampness of basement, damp weather. Better, dry weather,
pressure, changing position.
Relationship.--Compare: Natrum succinate (5 gr every 3 hours.
Catarrhal jaundice). Malaria officinalis-decomposed vegetable
matter--(Has evident power to cause the disappearance of the
plasmodium of malaria. Malarial cachexia. General sense of
weariness. Spleen affections. Malaria and rheumatism.
Functional hepatic diseases. Sixth potency and higher).Natrum
choleinicum-Fel Tauri Depuratum--(constipation; chronic gastric
and intestinal catarrh; cirrhotic liver; diabetes; nape of neck
pains; tendency to sleep after eating; much flatus; ascites);
Momordica-Balsam Apple--(Colic, dysmenorrhśa with gushes
of blood). Pulmo vulpis-Wolf's lung (persistent shortness of
breath causing a paroxysm of asthma on the slightest motion.
Strong, sonorous bubbling rales. 1x trit). Peumus Boldus-Boldo-
-(atonic states of stomach and intestinal canal; liver states
following malaria. Burning weight in region of liver and
stomach, bitter taste, languor; abscess of liver; asthma,
bronchitis, catarrh, śdema of lungs); Natrum iodat (Incipient
rheumatic endocarditis; chronic bronchitis, rheumatism and
tertiary syphilis. Chronic catarrhal affections, arteriosclerosis.
Here various symptoms, as angina pectoris, vertigo, dyspnśa
become less marked after continued use of 5-10 grs, 3 times a
day). Natrum hyposulph (liver-spots, locally and internally);
Sulp; Thuja; Merc.: stilling.
Complementary; Ars; Thuja.
Dose.--First to twelfth trituration.
NATRIUM SALICYLICUM
Salicylate of Sodium
(NATRUM SALICYLICUM)
Has an extensive range of action affecting the head, ear, throat,
kidneys and liver and on metabolism. Hæmorrhages, especially
epistaxis. Produces marked effects upon the internal ear, with
vertigo, deafness, noises in ears and loss of bone conduction,
hence, its use in Meniere's disease. One of the best remedies for
the prostrating after-effects of influenza. Lassitude, drowsiness,
listlessness, tremor. Incipient dementia. Increases the quantity of
bile. Follicular tonsillitis.
Head.--Perfectly rational periods, alternate with manifestations
of insanity of a somber character. Vertigo; worse, raising head.
All objects seem to move to the right. Dull headache and
confusion. Fibrositis of the scalp.
Eyes.--Retinal hæmorrhage, albuminuric retinitis with
hæmorrhage. Iridocychitis due to traumatism with infection, and
in sympathetic disease secondary to it (Dr. Gradel).
Ears.--Tinnitus of a low tone. Deafness. Auditory vertigo.
Chest.--Dyspnœa; breathing noisy, shallow, panting; pulse
irregular. Complete loss of voice.
Skin.--Œdema, urticaria, red in circumscribed patches. Tingling
and itching. Pemphigoid eruption.
Relationship.--Compare: Lobelia purpurascens (drowsiness;
dizzy headache between eyebrows; cannot keep eyes open;
tongue-white-feels paralyzed as also do the heart and lungs
intense prostration of all vital forces; deadly chill, without
shivering; useful for the low, nervous prostration of grippe);
Gaulth; China. Pyrus malus-Crab apple tree--(Labyrinthine
vertigo. Dr. Cooper).
Dose.--Third potency.
Non-Homeopathic Uses.--In acute articular rheumatism,
lumbago, sciatica, etc. Usual doses, ten to twenty grains every
three hour. Must be used carefully, as it is often destructive of
kidney tissue. Ordinary allopathic doses allay the pain of
dysmenorrhœa and promote menstrual flow.
NICCOLUM METALLICUM
Metallic Nickel
(NICCOLUM)
Periodical nervous sick headaches, with asthenopia, weak
digestion, constipation. Catarrh. Suits debilitated, nervous,
literary patients, with frequent headaches, dyspepsia and
constipation.
Head.--Cracking in cervical vertebræ when moving the head.
Pain on top as from a nail. Pressure on vertex, in morning; worse
till noon and in warm room. Stitches. Objects appear too large.
Migraine; first on left side. Twitching of upper lip.
Nose.--Violent sneezing; stopped up. Nasal catarrh, with redness
and swelling at tip of nose. Acute pain at root of nose, extending
to vertex and through temples.
Throat.--Sore, right side with great tenderness; soreness to
touch externally. Strangulated feeling.
Gastric.--Gone, empty feeling in epigastrium, without desire for
food. Acute gastralgia with pains extending to shoulder. Thirst
and intense hiccough. Sour, fetid secretions ooze from molar
teeth. Diarrhœa and tenesmus after milk.
Female.--Menses late, scanty, with great debility and burning in
eyes. Profuse leucorrhœa; worse, after urinating (Mag mur,
Plat); also worse after menses.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness. Dry, hacking cough, with stitches in
chest. Obliged to set up and hold head. Must put arms on thighs,
when coughing.
Skin.--Itching all over, worse on neck, not relieved by
scratching.
Modalities.--Worse, periodically, every two weeks; yearly,
forenoon. Better, in evening.
Dose.--Third trituration.
 NICCOLUM SULPHURICUM
Sulphate of Nickel
Useful in climacteric disturbances. Periodic neuralgias of
malarial origin. Urine and saliva increased. Coppery taste.
Weak, asthenopic literally persons with weak digestion and
constipation, are worse in morning and suffer from periodic
headaches and hoarseness.
Head.--Nervous, uneasy, desire to recline, tired, cannot settle
down to any occupation. Periodic headaches, occipital pain,
extending down to spine, worse lying on back; sore pain in eyes.
Back.--Stiff, numb sensation, worse in neck. Spine sore.
Awakened in morning with burning soles, Spinal pains, legs and
arms heavy and weak, cannot lie on back.
Female.--Dull aching in ovaries, with sensation as if menses
appear. Hot flashes, followed by perspiration on parts touching
each other, when separated become dry.
Dose.--Second trituration.
NITRICUM ACIDUM
Nitric Acid
Selects for its special seat of action the outlets of the body where
the mucous membrane and skin meet; these pain as from
splinters. Sticking pains. Marked improvement of all symptoms
while riding in a carriage. Acts best on the dark complexioned
and past middle life. Syphilis, after abuse of Mercury. Pains
appear and disappear quickly (Bell). Hydrogenoid constitution.
Sycotic remedy.
Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily.
Fissures, with pain during stool, as if rectum were torn. All
discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and
perspiration. Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold
easily and disposed to diarrhœa. Excessive physical irritability.
Cachexia, due to syphilis, scrofula, intermittent fever with liver
involvement and anæmia, etc. Gravel; arthritis. Capillary
bleeding after curettage.
Mind.--Irritable, hateful, vindictive, headstrong. Hopeless
despair. Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar. Fear of death.
Head.--Sensation of a band around head. Headache from
pressure of hat; full feeling; worse from street noises. Hair falls
out. Scalp sensitive.
Ears.--Difficult hearing; better by riding in carriage or train.
Very sensitive to noise, as the rattle of wagons over pavements
(Coff; Nux). Cracking in ears when chewing.
Eyes.--Double vision; sharp, sticking pains. Ulceration of
cornea. Gonorrhœal ophthalmia, photophobia, constant
lachrymation. Syphilitic iritis.
Nose.--Ozæna. Green casts from nose every morning. Coryza,
with sore and bleeding nostrils. Tip red. Stitches, as of a splinter
in nose. Caries of mastoid. Nosebleed, with chest affections.
Chronic nasal catarrh, with yellow, offensive, corrosive
discharge. Nasal diphtheria, with watery and exceedingly
excoriating discharge.
Mouth.--Putrid breath. Salivation. Bleeding of gums. Painful
pimples on the sides of the tongue. Tongue clean, red and wet
with center furrow. Teeth become loose; gums soft and spongy.
Ulcers in soft palate, with sharp, splinter-like pains. Salivation
and fetor oris. Bloody saliva.
Throat.--Dry. Pain into ears. Hawks mucus constantly. White
patches and sharp points, as from splinters, on swallowing.
Stomach.--Great hunger, with sweetish taste. Longing for
indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc. Pain in cardiac orifice.
Dyspepsia with excess of oxalic acid, uric acid and phosphates
in urine and great mental depression. Loves fat and salt (Sulph).
Abdomen.--Great straining, but little passes, Rectum feels torn.
Bowels constipated, with fissures in rectum. Tearing pains
during stools. Violent cutting pains after stools, lasting for hours
(Ratanh). Hæmorrhages from bowels, profuse, bright. Prolapsus
ani. Hæmorrhoids bleed easily. Diarrhœa, slimy and offensive.
After stools, irritable and exhausted. Colic relieved from
tightening clothes. Jaundice, aching in liver.
Urine.--Scanty, dark, offensive. Smells like horse's urine. Cold
on passing. Burning and stinging. Urine bloody and albuminous.
Alternation of cloudy, phosphatic urine with profuse urinary
secretion in old prostatic cases.
Male.--Soreness and burning in glans and beneath prepuce.
Ulcers; burn and sting; exude, offensive matter.
Female.--External parts sore, with ulcers (Hep.: Merc; Thuja).
Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive.
Hair on genitals falls out (Natr m, Zinc). Uterine hæmorrhages.
Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with pain in back, hips
and thighs. Stitches through vagina. Metrorrhagia after
parturition.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness. Aphonia, with dry hacking cough,
from tickling in larynx and pit of stomach. Soreness at lower end
of sternum. Short breath on going upstairs (Ars; Calc). Cough
during sleep (Cham).
Extremities.--Fetid foot-sweat, causing soreness of toes, with
sticking pain; chilblains on toes. Sweating of palms, hands; cold,
blue nails. Offensive sweat in axillæ at night.
Skin.--Warts, large jagged; bleed on washing. Ulcers bleed
easily, sensitive; splinter-like pains; zigzag, irregular edges; base
looks like raw flesh. Exuberant granulations. Black pores on
face, papules worse on forehead.
Modalities.--Worse, evening and night, cold climate, and also
hot weather. Better, while riding in carriage (Reverse:
Cocculus).
Relationship.--Complementary: Ars; Calad; Lac can; Sepia.
Inimical: Lach.
Compare: Merc; Kali; Thuja; Hepar; Calc.
Dose.--Sixth potency. As the nitric acid patient begins to
improve skin symptoms may appear for a time, a favorable
indication.
NITROMURIATICUM ACIDUM
Aqua Regia
(NITRO-MURIATIC ACID)
Almost a specific in Oxaluria. Removes the distressing skin
symptoms resembling psoriasis. Three to five drops three times
a day. So-called bilious conditions; torpid liver, hepatitis and
early cirrhosis of liver. More adapted to hepatic torpor and
gastric catarrh common in hot and damp climates and
aggravated by meat eating and alcohol (Hale). Constricted anus.
Gravel.
Mouth.--Gums bleed easily. Ptyalism. Constant drooling at
night (Merc). Cankers; small, superficial ulceration over inside
of mouth and tongue. Metallic taste (Cupr met).
Stomach.--Sour eructations, with empty hungry feeling in
stomach; not relieved by eating. Salivation, worse at night.
Stool.--Constipated, with ineffectual urging. Sphincter
constricted. Anus moist and sore.
Urine.--Cloudy. Burning in urethra. Oxaluria.
Dose.--Five to ten drops, well diluted.
NITRI SPIRITUS DULCIS
Sweet Spirits of Nitre
Sensorial apathy in low fevers when there is stupor, difficulty of
arousing patient, is met by this remedy. Dry skin, nausea,
flatulence. Salty taste. Ill-effects of salt (halophagia) (Ars;
Phos). Catching cold in stormy weather. Acute nephritis
following Scarlet fever. Dropsy. Is an excellent diuretic.
Face.--Prosopalgia, with photophobia. Burning in cheeks, and
vomiting, followed by lassitude. Boring in facial bones; in angles
of lower jaw. Very sensitive to cold.
Respiratory.--Very rapid breathing by going only a short walk.
Painful constriction beneath sternum.
Modalities.--Worse, from mental disturbance, during winter and
spring.
Relationship.--Increases the action of Digitalis.
Compare: Phos ac; Lycop.
Dose.--A few drops of the pure spirits in water every two or
three hours.
NUPHAR LUTEUM
Yellow Pond-lily
Produces nervous weakness, with marked symptoms in the
sexual sphere.
Male.--Complete absence of sexual desire; parts relaxed; penis
retracted. Impotency, with involuntary emissions during stool,
when urinating. Spermatorrhœa. Pain in testicles and penis.
Stool.--Entero-colitis. Yellow diarrhœa; worse in the morning.
Diarrhœa during typhoid.
Relationship.--Compare: in sexual weakness; Agnus; Kali
brom; Lycop; Selen; Yohimbin. In diarrhœa: Chelid; Gambog;
Sulph, Nymphea odorata-Sweet Water Lily--(early morning
diarrhœa, backache); acrid leucorrhœa, offensive ulcers;
bronchorrhœa; ulcerative sore throat.
Dose.--Tincture to sixth potency.
NUX MOSCHATA
Nutmeg
Marked tendency to fainting fits, with heart failure. Cold
extremities, extreme dryness of mucous membranes and skin.
Strange feeling, with irresistible drowsiness. Indicanuria.
General inclination to become unconscious during acute attacks.
Lypothymia (Ignatia). Staggers on trying to walk.
Mind.--Changeable; laughing and crying. Confused, impaired
memory. Bewildered sense, as in a dream. Thinks she has two
heads.
Head.--Vertigo when walking in open air; aches from eating a
little too much. Feeling of expansion, with sleepiness. Pulsating
in head. Cracking sensation in head. Sensitive to slightest touch
in a draught of air. Bursting headache; better hard pressure.
Eyes.--Objects look larger, very distant, or vanish. Motes before
eyes. Mydriasis.
Nose.--Oversensitive to smell; nosebleed, dark blood; dry,
stopped up.
Mouth.--Very dry. Tongue adheres to roof of mouth; but no
desire for water. Saliva like cotton (Berb). Toothache in
pregnancy. Tongue numb, paralyzed. Dryness of throat.
Stomach.--Excessively bloated. Flatulent dyspepsia. Hiccough,
and craving for highly-seasoned food. Retrocession of gout to
stomach.
Abdomen.--Paralytic weakness of intestines. Enormously
distended. Stool is soft, and yet is unable to expel it, even with
long straining (Alum). Faintness during or after stool.
Protruding piles.
Female.--Uterine hćmorrhage. Menses too long, dark, thick.
Leucorrhśa muddy and bloody. Suppression, with persistent
fainting attacks and sleepiness (Kali c). Variableness of
menstruation irregularity of time and quantity.
Respiratory.--Loss of voice from walking against the wind
(Hep). Cough when getting warm in bed.
Heart.--Trembling, fluttering. Sensation as if something grasped
heart. Palpitation; pulse intermits.
Extremities.--Pain in right hip to knee; worse, motion,
especially going upstairs. Rheumatism from getting feet wet,
from exposure to draughts. Rheumatism relieved by dry, warm
clothes. Fatigue on slight exertion.
Sleep.--Great drowsiness (Indol). Complaints cause sleepiness.
Coma.
Fever.--Chill begins in left hand (Carbo). Chilliness and heat
without thirst; want of perspiration. Dry skin and of inner parts,
also of eyes, nose, lips, mouth, tongue, throat, etc.
Modalities.--Worse, cold moist wind, cold food, cold washing,
lying on painful side, motion, jar. Better, warmth, dry weather.
Relationship.--Oleum myristicae-Oil of Nutmeg--(as a remedy
for boils, felons, poisonous ulcers, it has been used in the 2x
potency); Ornithogalum (flatulence, swollen feeling across
lower chest; whenever she turns in bed, feels as if a bag of water
turned also; gastric ulcer and cancer). Myristica Sebifera
(phlegmonous inflammations, hastens suppuration; powerful
antiseptic. Ulcerative tendency in all tissues. Said to act more
powerfully than Hepar and Silica).
Compare: Nux v; Puls; Rhus; Ign; Asaf.
Antidotes: Camph; Gels; Valer.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
NUX VOMICA
Poison-nut
Is the greatest of polychrests, because the bulk of its symptoms
correspond in similarity with those of the commonest and most
frequent of diseases. It is frequently the first remedy, indicated
after much dosing, establishing a sort of equilibrium of forces
and counteracting chronic effects.
Nux is pre-eminently the remedy for many of the conditions
incident to modern life. The typical Nux patient is rather thin,
spare, quick, active, nervous, and irritable. He does a good deal
of mental work; has mental strains and leads a sedentary life,
found in prolonged office work, overstudy, and close application
to business, with its cares and anxieties. This indoor life and
mental strain seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in excess;
or, again, he hopes to quiet his excitement, by indulging in the
sedative effects of tobacco, if not really a victim, to the
seductive drugs, like opium, etc. These things are associated
with other indulgences; at table, he takes preferably rich and
stimulating food; wine and women play their part to make him
forget the close application of the day. Late hours are a
consequence; a thick head, dyspepsia, and irritable temper are
the next day's inheritance. Now he takes some cathartic, liver
pills, or mineral water, and soon gets into the habit of taking
these things, which still further complicate matters. Since these
frailties are more yielded to by men than women. Nux is pre-
eminently a male remedy. These conditions, produce an
irritable, nervous system, hypersensitive and over-
impressionable, which Nux will do much to soothe and calm.
Especially adapted to digestive disturbances, portal congestion,
and hypochondrical states depending thereon. Convulsions, with
consciousness; worse, touch, moving. Zealous fiery
temperament. Nux patients are easily chilled, avoid open air, etc.
Nux always seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic
action.
Mind.--Very irritable: sensitive to all impressions. Ugly,
malicious. Cannot bear noises, odors, light, etc. Does not want
to be touched. Time passes too slowly. Even the least ailment
affects her greatly. Disposed to reproach others. Sullen, fault-
finding.
Head.--Headache in occiput or over eyes, with vertigo; brain
feels turning in a circle. Oversensitiveness. Vertigo, with
momentary loss of consciousness. Intoxicated feeling; worse,
morning, mental exertion, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, open air.
Pressing pain on vertex, as if a nail driven in. Vertigo in
morning and after dinner. Scalp sensitive. Frontal headache,
with desire to press the head against something. Congestive
headache, associated with hæmorrhoids. Headache in the
sunshine (Glon; Nat carb). Feels distended and sore within, after
a debauch.
Eyes.--Photophobia; much worse in morning. Smarting dry
sensation in inner canthi. Infra-orbital neuralgia, with watering
of eyes. Optic nerve atrophy, from habitual use of intoxicants.
Paresis of ocular muscles; worse, tobacco and stimulants.
Orbital twitching radiating towards the occiput, Optic neuritis.
Ears.--Itching in ear through Eustachian tube. Auditory canal
dry and sensitive. Otalgia; worse in bed. Hyperæsthesia of
auditory nerves; loud sounds are painful, and anger him.
Nose.--Stuffed up, at night especially. Stuffy colds, snuffles, after
exposure to dry, cold atmosphere; worse, in warm room. Odors
tend to produce fainting. Coryza: fluent in daytime; stuffed up at
night and outdoors; or alternates between nostrils. Bleeding in
morning (Bry). Acrid discharge, but with stuffed up feeling.
Mouth.--Jaws, contracted. Small aphthous ulcers, with bloody
saliva. First half of tongue clean; posterior covered with deep
fur; white, yellow, cracked edges. Teeth ache; worse, cold
things. Gums swollen, white, and bleeding.
Throat.--Rough, scraped feeling. Tickling after waking in
morning. Sensation of roughness, tightness, and tension.
Pharynx constricted. Uvula swollen. Stitches into ear.
Stomach.--Sour taste, and nausea in the morning, after eating.
Weight and pain in stomach; worse, eating, some time after.
Flatulence and pyrosis. Sour, bitter eructations. Nausea and
vomiting, with much retching. Ravenous hunger, especially
about a day before an attack of dyspepsia. Region of stomach
very sensitive to pressure (Bry; Ars). Epigastrium bloated, with
pressure s of a stone, several hours after eating. Desire for
stimulants. Loves fats and tolerates them well (Puls opposite).
Dyspepsia from drinking strong coffee. Difficult belching of
gas. Wants to vomit, but cannot.
Abdomen.--Bruised soreness of abdominal walls (Apis; Sulph).
Flatulent distension, with spasmodic colic. Colic from
uncovering. Liver engorged, with stitches and soreness. Colic,
with upward pressure, causing short breath, and desire for stool.
Weakness of abdominal ring region. Strangulated hernia (Op).
Forcing in lower abdomen towards genitals. Umbilical hernia of
infants.
Stool.--Constipation, with frequent ineffectual urging,
incomplete and unsatisfactory; feeling as if part remained
unexpelled. Constriction of rectum. Irregular, peristaltic action;
hence frequent ineffectual desire, or passing but small quantities
at each attempt. Absence of all desire for defecation is a contra-
indication. Alternate constipation and diarrhœa-after abuse of
purgatives. Urging to stool felt throughout abdomen. Itching,
blind hæmorrhoids, with ineffectual urging to stool; very
painful; after drastic drugs. Diarrhœa after a debauch; worse,
morning. Frequent small evacuations. Scanty stool, with much
urging. Dysentery; stools relieve pains for a time. Constant
uneasiness in rectum. Diarrhœa, with jaundice (Dig).
Urine.--Irritable bladder; from spasmodic sphincter. Frequent
calls; little and often. Hæmaturia (Ipec; Tereb). Ineffectual
urging, spasmodic and strangury. Renal colic extending to
genitals, with dribbling urine. While urinating, itching in urethra
and pain in neck of bladder.
Male.--Easily excited desire. Emissions from high living. Bad
effects of sexual excesses. Constrictive pain in testicles. Orchitis
(Hama; Puls). Spermatorrhœa, with dreams, backache, burning
in spine, weakness and irritability.
Female.--Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular,
blood black (Cycl; Lach; Puls) with faint spells. Prolapsus uteri.
Dysmenorrhœa, with pain in sacrum, and constant urging to
stool. Inefficient labor-pains; extend to rectum, with desire for
stool and frequent urination (Lil). Desire too strong.
Metrorrhagia, with sensation as if bowels wanted to move.
Respiratory.--Catarrhal hoarseness, with scraping in throat.
Spasmodic constriction. Asthma, with fullness in stomach,
morning or after eating. Cough, with sensation as if something
were torn loose in chest. Shallow respiration. Oppressed
breathing. Tight, dry hacking cough; at times with bloody
expectoration. Cough brings on bursting headache and bruised
pain in epigastric region.
Back.--Backache in lumbar region. Burning in spine; worse, 3 to
4 am. Cervico-brachial neuralgia; worse, touch. Must situp in
order to turn in bed. Bruised pain below scapulæ. Sitting is
painful.
Extremities.--Arms and hands go to sleep. Paresis of arms, with
shocks. Legs numb; feel paralyzed; cramps in calves and soles.
Partial paralysis, from overexertion or getting soaked (Rhus).
Cracking in knee-joints during motion. Drags his feet when
walking. Sensation of sudden loss of power of arms and legs in
the morning.
Sleep.--Cannot sleep after 3 am until towards morning; awakes
feeling wretchedly. Drowsy after meals, and in early evening.
Dreams full of bustle and hurry. Better after a short sleep,
unless aroused.
Skin.--Body burning hot, especially face; yet cannot move or
uncover without feeling chilly. Urticaria, with gastric
derangement. Acne; skin red and blotchy.
Fever.--Cold stage predominates. Paroxysms anticipate in
morning. Excessive rigor, with blueness of finger-nails. Aching
in limbs and back, and gastric symptoms. Chilly; must be
covered in every stage of fever. Perspiration sour; only one side
of body. Chilliness on being uncovered, yet he does not allow
being covered. Dry heat of the body.
Modalities.--Worse, morning, mental exertion, after eating,
touch, spices, stimulants, narcotics, dry weather, cold. Better,
from a nap, if allowed to finish it; in evening, while at rest, in
damp, wet weather (Caust), strong pressure.
Relationship.--Nux seeds contain copper, notice the cramp-
causing proclivites of both. Complementary; Sulphur; Sepia.
Inimical: Zinc.
Compare: Strychnia.
Compare: Kali carb; Hydr; Bry; Lyc; Graph.
Antidotes: Coff; Ignat; Cocc.
Dose.--First to thirtieth potency and higher. Nut is said to act
best given in the evening.
NYCTANTHES ARBOR TRISTIS
Paghala-malli-Sad Tree
Bilious and obstinate remittent fever; sciatica; rheumatism.
Constipation of children.
Head.--Anxious and restless; dull headache. Tongue coated.
Stomach.--Burning sensation, better cold application. Thirst,
better vomiting.
Abdomen.--Tenderness of liver. Profuse, bilious stool, with
nausea. Constipation.
Fever.--Thirst, before and during chill and heat; better vomiting
as close of chill; sweat no marked.
Dose.--Tincture, drop doses.
OCIMUM CANUM
Brazilian Alfavaca
Is to be remembered in diseases of the kidneys, bladder and
urethra. Uric acid diathesis. Red sand in the urine is its chief
characteristic, and frequently verified. Swelling of glands,
inguinal and mammary. Renal colic, especially right side.
Symptoms of renal calculus are pronounced.
Urine.--High acidity, formation of spike crystals of uric acid.
Turbid, thick, purulent, bloody; brick-dust red or yellow
sediment. Odor of musk. Pain in ureters. Cramps in kidneys.
Male.--Heat and swelling of left testicle.
Female.--Valva swollen; darting pain in labia. Nipples painful
to least contact. Breasts feel full and tense; itching. Prolapsus
vaginć.
Relationship.--Compare: Berb; Hedeoma; Lycop; Pareir;
Urtica.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
OENANTHE CROCATA
Water Dropwart
Epileptiform convulsions; worse, during menstruation and
pregnancy. Puerperal eclampsia; urćmic convulsions. Burning in
throat and stomach, nausea and vomiting. Red spots in face.
Convulsive facial twitching. Skin affections, especially lepra
and ichthyosis.
Head.--Pains all over head, dizzy. Sudden and complete
unconsciousness. Furious delirium, giddiness. Countenance
livid, eyes fixed, pupils dilated, convulsive twitching of facial
muscles, trismus, foaming at mouth, locked jaws. Much
yawning. Tendency to cry over little things.
Respiratory.--Tickling cough, with rattling in the lower part of
the chest, and thick, frothy expectoration. Heavy, spasmodic,
stertorous breathing.
Extremities.--Convulsions; opisthotonos. Pain along crural and
sciatic nerves, commencing in back. Cold hands and feet.
Numbness of hand and foot.
Relationship.--Compare: Cicuta; Kali brom.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
OLEUM ANIMALE AETHEREUM
Dippel's Animal Oil
(OLEUM ANIMALE)
Acts on the nervous system, especially on pneumo-gastric
region. Useful in migraine and neuralgia of spermatic cord.
Burning pains and stitches. "Pulled upward" and "from behind
forward" pains.
Head.--Tearing pain, with sadness and irritability; worse after
dinner; relieved by rubbing. Itching, burning vesicles; better,
friction. Malar bones feel pulled forcibly upward. Migraine with
polyuria.
Eyes.--Smarting in eyes; misty vision. Glistening bodies before
eyes. Lachrymation when eating. Short-sighted. Twitching of
lids (Agar).
Nose.--Watery, excoriating discharge; worse in open air.
Face.--Feels drawn. Cramp-like pains. Twitching of lips. Malar
bone feels pulled upward. Toothache, better pressing teeth
together.
Mouth.--Bites cheek while eating (Caust). Tongue feels sore.
Greasy feeling in mouth.
Throat.--Sore, dry, constricted. Air feels cold.
Stomach.--Sensation as if water were in stomach; of coldness,
of constriction, and of burning; better, eructations.
Abdomen.--Flatulence and rumbling. Ineffectual urging stool,
with burning in anus. After stool, bruised pain in abdomen.
Urine.--Polyuria. Greenish urine, frequent and urgent want to
urinate, with tenesmus and scanty emission. Itching in urethra.
Male.--Desire increased; ejaculation too soon. Pain along
spermatic cord to testicles. Testicles feel seized and pulled
forcibly upward; worse, right. Pressure in the perineum.
Prostatic hypertrophy.
Female.--Early and scanty menstruation; flow black.
Respiratory.--Chest feels constricted. Asthma from suppressed
foot-sweat. Oppression. Stitches in breast from behind forward.
Extremities.--Sprained feeling in small of back. Cracking of
vertebrć on raising head (Aloe, Nat c, Thuj). Restlessness.
Rheumatic pain in shoulders. Fish-brine odor of sweat of heels.
Modalities.--Worse, after eating, from 2 to 9 pm. Better, by
rubbing, eructation, open air.
Relationship.--Compare: Puls; Ars; Silic; Sepia.
Antidotes: Camph; Op.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency and higher.
OLEUM JECORIS ASELLI
Cod-liver Oil
Internally, a nutrient and a hepatic and pancreatic remedy
(Burnett). Emaciation, lassitude, scrofulous diseases, rheumatic
affections. Atrophy of infants; emaciation with hot hands and
head; restless and feverish at night. Pains in liver region.
Tuberculosis in the beginning.
Chest.--Hoarseness. Sharp stitching pains. Burning spots. Dry,
hacking, tickling cough, especially at night. Whooping-cough in
miserable, scrofulous children. Here give drop doses, increasing
daily one drop up to twelve, then descend in the same way
(Dahlke). Soreness through chest. Hćmoptysis (Acalypha;
Millef). Palpitation, accompanies other symptoms. Yellowness.
Children who cannot take milk.
Extremities.--Aching in elbows and knees, in sacrum. Chronic
rheumatism, with rigid muscles and tendons. Burning in palms.
Fever.--Constantly chilly towards evening. Hectic fever. Night-
sweats.
Relationship.--Compare: Cholesterine; Tubercul; Phosph; Iod.
One liter of Ol. Jecoris contains 0. 4 gram Iod. Gadus morrhua--
Cod--(frequent breathing, with flapping of alć nasi; rush of
blood to chest; pain in lungs and cough; dry heat in palms).
Dose.--First to third trituration. Locally in ringworm, and
nightly rubbing, for dwarfish, emaciated babies.
OLEUM SANTALI
Oil of Sandalwood
The action in the urinary and sexual spheres is most utilizable,
especially in gonorrhśa. It is also a stimulating, disinfectant
expectorant. Two or three drops on sugar will frequently relieve
the hacking cough, when but little sputum is expectorated.
Male.--Painful erections; swelling of the prepuce. Thick,
yellowish, muco-purulent discharge. Deep pain in perineum.
Urine.--Frequent, burning, smarting swelling, and redness of
meatus. Stream small and slow. Acute aching in kidney region.
Sensation of a ball pressing against the urethra; worse, standing.
Gleet, with profuse, thick discharge; chronic cystitis.
Dose.--Two to ten m in capsules.
OLEANDER
Rose-laurel
(NERIUM ODORUM)
Has a marked action on the skin, heart and nervous system,
producing and curing paralytic conditions with cramp-like
contractions of upper extremities. Hemiplegia. Difficult
articulation.
Mind.--Memory weak; slow perception. Melancholy, with
obstinate constipation.
Head.--Vertigo and diplopia, when looking down. Vertigo,
when looking fixedly at an object, and on rising in bed. Pain in
brain, as if head would burst. Numb feeling. Dull, unable to
think. Indolence. Eruption on scalp. Humid, fetid spots behind
ears (Graph; Petrol) and occiput, with red, rough, herpetic spots
in front. Corrosive itching on forehead and edge of hair; worse,
heat.
Eyes.--Can see objects only when looking at them sideways.
Eyes water on reading. Double vision. Sensation as if eyes were
drawn back into the head.
Face.--Pale, sunken, with blue rings around eyes (Phos ac).
Stomach.--Canine hunger, with hurried eating, without
appetite. Thirst. Empty belching. Vomiting of food; greenish
water. Throbbing in pit.
Abdomen.--Borborygmus, with profuse, fetid flatus. Gnawing
around navel. Ineffectual urging. Undigested feces. Stool passes
when emitting flatus. Burning pain in anus.
Chest.--Oppression as from a weight; asthmatic when lying
down. Palpitation, with weakness and empty feeling in chest.
Dyspnśa. Obtuse stitches in chest.
Extremities.--Weakness of lower limbs. Paralysis of legs and
feet. Want of animal heat in limbs. Cold feet. Painless paralysis.
Constant cold feet. Swelling, burning stiffness of fingers. Veins
and hands swollen. Śdema. Stiffness of joints.
Skin.--Itching, scurfy pimples; herpes; sensitive and numb.
Nocturnal burning. Very sensitive skin; slightest friction causes
soreness and chapping. Violent itching eruption, bleeding,
oozing; want of perspiration. Pruritus, especially of scalp, which
is sensitive.
Modalities.--Worse, undressing, rest, friction of clothes.
Relationship.--Compare: Con; Nat m; Rhus; Caust; Lathyr.
Oleander contains Oleandrin and also Nerein which latter is said
to be closely related if not identical with Digitalin. The pulse
becomes slower, more regular, more powerful. Diuresis;
palpitation, śdema and dyspnśa of valvular disease disappear.
Antidotes: Camph; Sulph.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
ONISCUS ASELLUS
Wood-louse
(MILLEPEDES)
Has distinct diuretic properties; hence its use in dropsies.
Asthmatic conditions, with bronchial catarrh.
Head.--Boring pain behind right ear in mastoid process (Caps).
Violent pulsation of arteries (Pothos; Glonoine). Painful
pressure above the root of nose.
Stomach.--Persistent pressure in cardiac orifice. Vomiting.
Abdomen.--Distended; meteorism; very severe colic.
Urine.--Cutting, burning in urethra. Tenesmus of bladder and
rectum, with absence of stool and urine.
Relationship.--Compare: Pothos foet; Canth.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
ONOSMODIUM VIRGINIANUM
False Gromwell
(ONOSMODIUM)
Want of power of concentration and co-ordination. Vertigo,
numbness and muscular prostration. Marked association of head
and eye symptoms, with muscular tiredness and weariness.
A remedy for migraine. Headaches from eyestrain and sexual
weakness. It produces diminution of sexual desire in both sexes;
hence its homeopathicity, in sexual neurasthenia. Depressed or
lost sexual life in women. Neuralgic pains. General prostration.
Acts as if born tired.
Head.--Loss of memory. Nose feels dry. Confused. Dull, heavy,
dizzy, pressing upward in occiput. Occipito-frontal pain in
morning on waking, chiefly left side. Pain in temples and
mastoid (Capsic).
Eyes.--Vision blurred; optic disc hyperćmic, and retinal vessels
enlarged. Strained feeling in eyes; worse, using eyes. Eyes
heavy and dull, muscular asthenopia; ocular muscles tense.
Internal eye muscles paretic. Pain in eyeballs between orbit and
ball, extending to left temple.
Throat.--Severe dryness. Discharge from posterior nares. Raw,
scraping. Stuffed feeling in posterior nares. Symptoms worse by
cold drinks.
Abdomen.--Craving for ice-water and cold drinks; wants to
drink often. Abdomen feels bloated
Back.--Pain in dorsal and lumbar regions. Numbness and
tingling in feet and legs.
Chest.--Sore, aching in breasts; feels swollen and sore. Pain in
heart; pulse, rapid, irregular, weak.
Male.--Constant sexual excitement. Psychical impotence. Loss
of desire. Speedy emissions. Deficient erections.
Female.--Severe uterine pains; bearing-down pains; old pains
return. Sexual desire completely destroyed. Feels as if menses
would appear. Aching in breasts. Nipples itch. Menses too early
and too prolonged. Soreness in uterine region. Leucorrhśa,
yellow, acrid, profuse.
Extremities.--Pain in back. Tired and numb feeling in legs,
popliteal spaces, and below knees. Staggering gait. Sidewalk
seems too high. Pain in left scapular region. Great muscular
weakness and weariness.
Modalities.--Worse, from motion, jar, and tight clothing. Better,
when undressed, when lying down on back, from cold drinks,
and eating.
Relationship.--Compare: Nat mur; Lilium; Gels; Ruta.
Dose.--Thirtieth attenuation.
 OPIUM
Dried Latex of the Poppy
(PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM)
Hahnemann says that it is much more difficult to estimate the
action of Opium than of almost any other drug. The effects of
Opium as shown in the insensibility of the nervous system, the
depression, drowsy stupor, painlessness, and torpor, the general
sluggishness and lack of vital reaction, constitute the main
indications for the drug when used homeopathically. All
complaints are characterized by sopor. They are painless, and
are accompanied by heavy, stupid sleep, stertorous breathing.
Sweaty skin. Dark, mahogany-brown face. Serous apoplexy-
venous, passive congestion. Want of sensitiveness to the action
of medicines. Reappearance and aggravation from becoming
heated. Opium lessens voluntary movements, contracts pupils,
depresses higher intellectual powers, lessens self-control and
power of concentration, judgment; stimulates the imagination,
checks all secretions except that of the skin. Want of
susceptibility to remedies even though indicated. Diseases that
originate from fright.
Mind.--Patient wants nothing. Complete loss of consciousness;
apoplectic state. Frightful fancies, daring, gay, bright. Unable to
understand or appreciate his sufferings. Thinks he is not at
home. Delirious talking, with wide open eyes.
Head.--Vertigo; lightness of head in old people. Dull, heavy,
stupid. Delirium. Vertigo after fright. Pain in back of head; great
weight there (Gels). Bursting feeling. Complete insensibility; no
mental grasp for anything. Paralysis of brain.
Eyes.--Half-closed, dilated; pupils insensible, contracted. Ptosis
(Gels; Caust). Staring glassy.
Face.--Red, bloated, swollen, dark suffused, hot. Looks
intoxicated, besotted (Bapt; Lach). Spasmodic facial twitching,
especially corners of mouth. Veins of face distended. Hanging
down of lower jaw. Distorted.
Mouth.--Dry. Tongue black, paralyzed bloody froth. Intense
thirst. Blubbering op lips. Difficult articulation and swallowing.
Stomach.--Vomiting, with colic and convulsions. Fecal
vomiting. Incarcerated hernia. Hungry; no desire to eat.
Abdomen.--Hard, bloated, tympanitic. Lead colic during colic,
urging to stool and discharge of hard feces.
Stool.--Obstinate constipation; no desire to go to stool. Round,
hard, black balls. Feces protrude and recede (Thuj; Sil).
Spasmodic retention of feces in small intestines. Stools
involuntary, black, offensive, frothy. Violent pain in rectum, as
if pressed asunder.
Urine.--Slow to start; feeble stream. Retained or involuntary,
after fright. Loss of power or sensibility of bladder.
Female.--Suppressed menses from fright. Cessation of labor-
pains with coma between paroxysms. Threatened abortion and
suppression of lochia, from fright, with sopor. Horrible labor-
like pains in uterus, with urging to stool.
Respiratory.--Breathing stops on going to sleep; must be
shaken to start it again (Grindelia). Hoarse. Deep snoring;
rattling, stertorous breathing. Difficult, intermittent, deep,
unequal respiration. Heat in chest; burning about heart. Cough,
with dyspnœa and blue face; with bloody expectoration.
Sleep.--Great drowsiness (Gels.; Nux mosch). Falls into a heavy
stupid sleep. Profound coma. Loss of breath on falling asleep
(Grind). Coma vigil. Picking at bedclothes. Very sleepy, but
cannot go to sleep. Distant noise, cocks crowing, etc, keep him
awake. Child dreams of cats, dogs, black forms. Bed feels so hot
cannot lie on it. Pleasant, fantastic, amorous dreams. Shaking
chill; then heat, with sleep and sweat. Thirst only during heat.
Fever.--Pulse full and slow. Heat extending over body. Hot
perspiration. Fever characterized by stupor, snoring respiration,
twitching of limbs, intense thirst and sleepiness. General low
temperature with inclination to stupor.
Back and Extremities.--Opisthotonos. Swollen veins of neck.
Painless paralysis (Oleand). Twitching of limbs. Numbness.
Jerks as if flexors were overacting. Convulsions; worse from
glare of light; coldness of limbs.
Skin.--Hot, damp, sweating, Constant desire to uncover. Hot
perspiration over whole body except lower limbs.
Modalities.--Worse, heat, during and after sleep (Apis; Lach.).
Better, cold things, constant walking.
Relationship.--Compare: Apis; Bell; Gels; Nux mosch;
Morphinum (extreme susceptibility to pain; twitching;
tympanities; much itching); Codein (dry, teasing, incessant
cough; twitching of muscles, especially those of eyelids);
Eschscholtzia-Cal California Poppy--(a harmless soporific).
Antidote: Acute Opium poisoning. Atropin and Black Coffee.
Chronic Opium poisoning. Ipecac; Nux; Passiflora. Berberis is
useful to counteract opium habit.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth and 200th potency.
Non-Homeopathic Preparations and Uses.--Palliative only in
great pain, sleeplessness, peritonitis, and to check excess
secretion in diarrhœa, diabetes, etc.
Opium (crude).--Official dose, 1 grain.
Laudanum (tincture)-Dose, 5 to 20 drops. Extract of Opium 1/4
to 1 grain.
Paregoric-Tinctura Camphora Composita. Contains in each
dram 1/4 grain of Opium equal to 1/30 grain of Morphine. Dose
1/2 to 1 fluid dram for adults. For an infant 3 to 5 drops.
Dover's Powder consists of Opium, Ipecac and Sulphate of
Potash. It contains 10% each of Opium and Ipecac. Dose 5 to 15
grains.
Morphine-1/8 to 1/4 grain.
Magendie's solution-16 grains to 1 oz or 5 drops equal to 1/6
grain.
Codein-1/2 to 1 grain.
Apomorphia-1/20 to 1/10 grain hypodermically.
OPERCULINA TURPENTHUM
Nishope
(OPERCULINA TURPETHUM)
A remedy for plague, fevers, diarrhœa.
Mind.--Delirium associated with restlessness, loquacity.
Tendency to escape from bed; ravings, pains cause fainting.
Abdomen.--Watery diarrhœa, profuse with sinking sensation,
Cholera morbus. Hæmorrhoids.
Skin.--Lymphatic glands enlarged and indurated. Boils and
slowly suppurating abscesses.
 OPUNTIA FICUS
Prickly Pear
(OPUNTIA-FICUS INDICA)
Diarrhœa, with nausea. Feels as if bowels were settled down in
lower abdomen. Sick feeling in lower third of abdomen.
Enteroptosis with loose and frequent evacuations.
Relationship.--Compare; Chaparra amargosa (which Mexican
physicians laud as a specific in chronic diarrhœa). Ricinus
communis (diarrhœa, dysentery, obstinate chronic diarrhœa).
Dose.--Second attenuation.
OREODAPHNE CALIFORNICA
California Laurel
(OREODAPHNE)
Neuralgic headache, cervico-occipital pain, cerebro-spinal
meningitis, atonic diarrhśa, and intestinal colic.
Head.--Dizziness; worse on stopping or moving. Head heavy,
eyelids heavy, twitching. Intense aching, with pressure at inner
angle of either orbit, generally left, extending through brain and
across scalp to the base of the occiput; worse light, noise; better,
closing eyes and perfect quiet. Constant, dull ache in cervical
and occipital region, extending to scapula down spine, into the
head; pain into the ears. Great heaviness of head, with constant
desire to move the head, which does not relieve. Drooping
eyelids. Twitching. Atonic diarrhśa.
Stomach.--Eructations, with nausea and shuddering.
Dose.--First to Third potency. Olfaction of the tincture.
ORIGANUM MAJORANA
Sweet Marjoram
(ORIGANUM)
Acts on nervous system generally, and is effective in
masturbation and excessively aroused sexual impulses.
Affections of the breasts (Bufo). Desire for active exercise
impelling her to run.
Female.--Frotomania; powerful lascivious impulses;
leucorrhœa; hysteria. Lascivious ideas and dreams.
Relationship.--Compare: Ferula glauca (in violent sexual
excitement in women; icy coldness in occiput); Plat; Valer;
Canth; Hyos.
Dose.--Third potency.
ORNITHOGALUM UMBELLATUM
Star of Bethlehem
To be considered in chronic gastric and other abdominal
indurations, possibly cancer of intestinal tract, especially of
stomach and Cćcum. Center of action is the pylorus, causing
painful contraction with duodenal distention.
Depression of spirits. Complete prostration. Feeling of sickness
keeps patient awake at night.
Stomach.--Tongue coated. Agonizing feeling in chest and
stomach, staring from pylorus with flatus that rolls in balls from
one side to the other, loss of appetite, phlegmy retchings and
loss of flesh. Gastric ulceration even with hćmorrhage. Pains
increased when food passes pyloric outlet. Vomiting of coffee-
ground-looking matter. Distention of stomach. Frequent
belching of offensive flatus. Painful sinking across epigastrium.
Dose.--Single doses of mother tincture and await action.
OSMIUM
The Element
Irritation and catarrh of respiratory organs. Eczema.
Albuminuria. Pain in trachea. Increases and gives odor to local
perspiration. Causes adhesion of the nail fold.
Head.--Feels as if a band around head. Falling off of hair (Kali
carb; Fluor ac).
Nose.--Coryza, with full feeling in nose. Nose and larynx
sensitive to air. Small lumps of phlegm from posterior nares.
Eyes.--Glaucoma; with iridescent vision. Violent supra and
infra-orbital neuralgia; violent pains and lachrymation. Green
colors surround candle-light. Conjunctivitis. Increase in intra-
ocular tension, dim sight, photophobia.
Respiratory.--Acute laryngitis; cough and expectoration of
tough, stringy mucus. Convulsive cough; feels as though
membrane were torn from larynx. Noisy, dry, hard, cough, in
violent short bursts, coming from low down, shaking the whole
body. Talking causes pain in larynx. Hoarse; pain in larynx; sore
sternum. Twitching of fingers, with spasmodic cough.
Skin.--Eczema, with pruritus. Irritated skin. Itching pimples.
Bromidrosis, sweat in axilla smelling of garlic, worse evening
and night. Fold remains attached to growing nail.
Relationship.--Compare: Argent; Iridium; Selen; Mangan.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
OSTRYA VIRGINICA
Ironwood
Of great value in anćmia from malaria. Bilious conditions and
intermittent fever.
Gastric.--Tongue yellow; coated at the root. Loss of appetite.
Frequent nausea, with dull, frontal headache. Sickening pains.
Dose.--First to third potency.
 OVININUM
Ovarian Extract
(OOPHORINUM)
Suffering following excision of the ovaries. Climacteric
disturbances generally. Ovarian cysts. Cutaneous disorders and
acne rosacea. Prurigo.
Relationship.--Compare: Orchitinum-Testicular Extract--(after
ovariotomy, sexual weakness, senile decay).
Dose.--Low triturations.
OVI GALLINAE PELLICULA
Membrane of Egg-shell
Sudden pains. Bearing-down sensation. Intolerance of bands on
wrist, arms, waist, etc. Backache and pain in left hip. Debility.
Pain in heart and left ovary.
Relationship.--Compare: Calc; Naja; Ova tosta-Tosta
prćparata-Roasted egg-shells-Calcarea ovorum--(leucorrhśa and
backache. A feeling as if the spine were broken and wired, or
tied together with a string. Pain of cancer. Warts). Also Egg
Vaccine for Asthma. Much interest is shown in Dr. Fritz Talbot's
method to cure one form of asthma in children by the use of egg
vaccine. Asthma due to susceptibility of the proteid substance in
eggs can be cured by immunizing against egg poisons by
repeated doses of egg white. After the skin has been cleansed
with soap and alcohol the egg-white is rubbed into a slight
scratch.
OXALICUM ACIDUM
Sorrel Acid
Although certain oxalates are constant constituents of vegetable
food and of the human body, the acid itself is a violent poison
when taken internally, producing gastro-enteritis, motor
paralysis, collapse, stupor and death. Influences the spinal cord,
and produces motor paralysis. Pains very violent, in spots (Kali
bich) worse, motion, and thinking of them. Periodical
remissions. Spasmodic symptoms of throat and chest.
Rheumatism of left side. Neurasthenia. Tuberculosis.
Head.--Sense of heat. Confusion and vertigo. Headache, before
and during stool.
Eyes.--Severe pain in eyes; feel expanded. Hyperæsthesia of
retina.
Stomach.--Violent pain in epigastrium, discharge of flatus
relieves. Gastralgia, pyrosis, sensation of coldness below
epigastrium. Burning pain, extending upwards; slightest touch
causes excruciating pain. Bitter and sour eructation, worse at
night. Cannot eat strawberries.
Abdomen.--Pain in upper part and region of navel two hours
after eating, with much flatulence. Stitches in liver. Colic.
Burning in small spots in abdomen. Diarrhœa from coffee.
Male.--Terrible neuralgic pains in spermatic cord. Testicles feel
contused and heavy. Seminal vesiculitis.
Urinary.--Frequent and copious. Burning in urethra and pain in
glans when urinating. Must urinate when thinking of it. Urine
contains oxalates.
Respiratory.--Nervous aphonia with cardiac derangement
(Coca; Hydrocy ac). Burning sensation from throat down.
Breathing spasmodic, with constriction of larynx and chest.
Hoarseness. Left lung painful. Aphonia. Paralysis of the tensors
of vocal cord. Dyspnœa; short, jerking inspirations. Sharp pain
through lower region of left lung, extending down to
epigastrium.
Heart.--Palpitation and dyspnœa in organic heart disease;
worse, when thinking of it. Pulse feeble. Heart symptoms
alternate with aphonia, angina pectoris; sharp, lancinating pain
in left lung coming on suddenly, depriving of breath. Præcordial
pains which dart to the left shoulder. Aortic insufficiency.
Extremities.--Numb, weak, tingling. Pains start from spine and
extend through extremities. Drawing and lancinating pains
shooting down extremities. Backache; numb, weak, Myelitis.
Muscular prostration. Wrist painful, as if sprained (Ulmus).
Lower extremities blue, cold, insensible. Sensation of numbness.
Multiple cerebral and posterior spinal sclerosis. Lancinating
pains in various parts; jerking pains.
Skin.--Sensitive, smarting and soreness, worse shaving; mottled,
marbled in circular patches. Perspires easily.
Modalities.--Worse, left side; slightest touch; light; shaving.
Aroused about 3 am with gastric and abdominal pain. All
conditions made worse by thinking about self.
Relationship.--Compare: Ars; Colch; Arg; Pic ac; Cicer
arietinum-Chick-pea--(Lithiasis, jaundice, liver affections;
diuretic). Scolopendra-Centipede--(terrible pains in back and
loins, extending down limbs; return periodically, commencing in
head, to toes. Angina pectoris. Inflammation, pain and gangrene.
Pustules and abscesses). Cæsium--(Pain in lumber region and
testicle. Headache, darting through temples. Diarrhœa and colic.
Languor).
Lime Water-Antidote to poisoning of Oxal acid.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
 OXYDENDRON ARBOREUM
Sorrel-tree
(OXYDENDRON - ANDROMEDA ARBOREA)
A remedy for dropsy-ascites and anasarca. Urine suppressed.
Deranged portal circulation. Prostatic enlargement. Vesical
calculi. Irritation of neck of bladder. Great difficulty of
breathing. Tincture. Compare: Cerefolius (dropsy, Bright's
disease, cystitis).
OXYTROPIS LAMBERTI
Loco-weed
(OXYTROPIS)
Marked action on nervous system. Trembling, sensation of
emptiness. Walks backwards. Congestion of spine and paralysis.
Pains come and go quickly. Sphincters relaxed. Staggering gait.
Reflexes lost.
Mind.--Desires to be alone. Disinclined to work or talk. Worse,
thinking of symptoms (Oxalic ac). Mental depression. Vertigo
(Granatum).
Head.--Vertigo. Full, warm feeling about head. Feeling of
intoxication, with loss of vision. Pain in maxillary bones and
masseter muscles. Mouth and nose dry.
Eyes.--Sight obscured; pupils contracted; do not respond to
light. Paralysis of nerves and muscles of eyes.
Stomach.--Eructations with colicky pains. Epigastrium tender.
Rectum.--Sphincter seems relaxed. Stools slip from anus, like
lumps of jelly, mushy.
Urine.--Urging to urinate when thinking of it. Profuse flow. Pain
in kidneys (Berberis).
Male.--No desire or ability. Pain in testicles and along spermatic
cord and down thighs.
Extremities.--Pain along ulnar nerve. Numb feeling about spine.
Staggering gait. Loss of co-ordination. Patellar tendon reflex
lost. Pains come and go quickly, but muscles remain sore and
stiff.
Sleep.--Restless, dreams of quarrel.
Modalities.--Worse, thinking of symptoms (mono-maniac
tendency). Worse, every other day. Better, after sleep.
Relationship.--Compare: Astrag; Lathyr; Oxal ac; Baryta
(Loco plant is rich in Baryta). Lolium.
Dose.--Third potency and higher.
PAEONIA OFFICINALIS
Peony
(PAEONIA)
The rectal and anal symptoms are most important. Chronic
ulcers on lower parts of body, leg, foot, toe, also breast, rectum.
Head.--Rush of blood to head and face. Nervous. Vertigo when
moving. Burning in eyes and ringing in ears.
Rectum.--Biting, itching in anus; orifice swollen. Burning in
anus after stool; then internal chilliness. Fistula ani, diarrhśa,
with anal burning and internal chilliness. Painful ulcer, oozing
offensive moisture on perineum. Hćmorrhoids, fissures,
ulceration of anus and perineum, purple, covered with crusts.
Atrocious pains with and after each stool. Sudden, pasty
diarrhśa, with faintness in abdomen.
Chest.--Sticking pain in left chest. Heat in chest. Dull shooting
from front to back through heart.
Extremities.--Pain in wrist and fingers; knees and toes.
Weakness of legs, inhibiting walking.
Sleep.--Terrifying dreams, nightmare.
Skin.--Sensitive, painful. Ulcers below coccyx, around sacrum;
varicose veins. Ulcers in general, from pressure, bedsores, etc.
Itching, burning, as from nettles.
Relationship.--Compare: Glechoma-Ground Ivy--(rectal
symptom). Hamam; Sil; Aesc; Ratanh (great constriction of
anus; stools forced with great effort).
Antidotes: Ratanh; Aloe.
Dose.--Third potency.
PALLADIUM METALLICUM
The Metal
(PALLADIUM)
An ovarian remedy; produces the symptom-complex of chronic
Oophoritis. Useful where the parenchyma of the gland is not
totally destroyed. Acts also on mind and skin. Motor weakness,
averse to exercise.
Mind.--Weeping mood. Love of approbation. Pride; easily
offended. Inclined to use violent language. Keeps up brightly
when in company, much exhausted afterwards, and pains
aggravated.
Head.--Feels as if swung backward and forward. Temporo-
parietal neuralgia with pain in shoulder. Pain across top of head
from ear to ear; worse after an evening's entertainment, with
irritability and sour eructations. Sallow complexion.
Abdomen.--Shooting pain from navel to pelvis. Sensation as if
intestines were bitten off. Intestines feel strangulated. Soreness
of abdomen, swelling in right groin. Flatulency.
Female.--Uterine prolapse and retroversion. Subacute pelvic
peritonitis, with right-sided pain and backache; menorrhagia.
Cutting pain in uterus; relieved after stool. Pain and swelling in
region of right ovary. Shooting or burning pain in pelvis and
bearing-down; relieved by rubbing. Soreness and shooting pain
from navel of breast. Glairy leucorrhœa. Menstrual discharge
while nursing. Stitches in right breast near nipple. It is indicated
in that gynæcological condition where the disease had its
inception in the right ovary, the uterine prolapse and
retroversion, the subacute pelvic peritonitis and concomitant
symptoms being secondary (F. Aguilar, M. D).
Extremities.--Pruritus. Tired feeling in small of back. Fleeting,
neuralgic pains in extremities, Heavy and tired in limbs. Darting
pain from toes to hips. Rheumatic pain in right shoulder; in right
hip. Sciatica.
Relationship.--Complementary; Plat.
Compare: Arg; Helon; Lil; Apis.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
PARIS QUADRIFOLIA
One-berry
Head symptoms marked and verified. Sensation of expansion
and consequent tension. Coldness of right side of body, left hot.
Catarrhal complaints, stuffed feeling at root of nose. Disorder of
sense of touch.
Mind.--Imaginary foul smells. Feels too large. Garrulous,
prattling, vivacious.
Head.--Sensation as if scalp were contracted and bones scraped.
Soreness of top of head; cannot brush hair. Aches, as from
pulling a string from eyes to occiput. Occipital headache, with a
feeling of weight. Head feels very large, expanded. Scalp
sensitive. Numb feeling on left side of head.
Eyes.--Affections of the eyebrows. Eyes feel heavy, as if they
were projected; sensation of a string through eyeballs.
Expanded, as though lids did not cover.
Face.--Neuralgia; hot stitches in left malar bone, which is very
sore. Has relieved in inflammation of the antrum, where eye
symptoms co-existed.
Mouth.--Tongue dry when awaking-Coated white, without
thirst, with bitter or diminished taste.
Respiratory.--Stuffed condition and fullness at root of nose.
Periodical, painless hoarseness. Cough as from vapor of sulphur
in trachea. Constant hawking, on account of viscid, green mucus
in larynx and trachea.
Extremities.--Sense of weight and weariness in nape of neck
and across shoulders. Neuralgia, beginning in left intercostal
region, and extending into left arm. Arm becomes stiff, fingers
clenched. Neuralgia of coccyx; pulsating, sticking, when sitting.
Fingers often feel numb. Numbness of upper limbs. Everything
feels rough.
Relationship.--Compare: Pastinaca-Parsnip--(Loquacity;
delirium tremens; illusions of vision; intolerance on milk; Roots
used dietetically, cooked in water or as broth or as salad for
consumptives and "kidney stones"). Sil; Calc; Nux; Rhus.
Incompatible; Ferr phos.
Antidote: Coff.
Dose.--Third potency.
 PARAFFINUM
Purified Paraffin
(PARAFFINE)
Valuable in uterine affections. Particularly serviceable in
constipation. Knife-like pains. Pains extend from one part to
another, and alternate. Pain in stomach alternates with pain in
throat and spine.
Head.--Left side of head and face suffer most; pains stinging
and twisting. Pain as if a nail were driven in left side of vertex.
Twisting in left ear.
Eyes.--Vision dim; black specks before. Lids red. Sensation as if
there were fat on the eyes.
Mouth.--Tearing, twisting pain in teeth down to lower jaw. Full
of saliva; feels sticky; bitter taste.
Stomach.--Hungry all the time. Pain across stomach. Pain in
stomach alternates with pain in throat and spine, extends to chest
with belching. Fixed pain in left hypochondrium, as if parts were
being twisted. Palpitation with stomach pains.
Abdomen.--Pain in lower abdomen, extending to genitals,
rectum and coccyx; better, sitting.
Rectum.--Frequent desire for stool. Obstinate constipation in
children (Alumina; Nyctanthes). Chronic constipation, with
hćmorrhoids and continual urging to stool, without result.
Female.--Menses too late, black, abundant. Milky leucorrhśa.
Nipples pain when touched, as if sore inside. Stabbing pain in
mons veneris. Very hot urine with burning pains in vulva.
Extremities.--Pain in spine extending to inguinal region and in
both loins, when ascending the stairs. Feeling of electric shocks
in all joints. Wrenching pain in calves, extending into toes, in
joints. Feet swollen with tearing in ankles and soles.
Skin.--Burns, even of third degree, with sloughing and sepsis.
Wash with sterile water and dry and spray with paraffin, and
cover with thin layer of cotton. Useful also in frost bites.
Relationship.--Compare: Naphthalin; Petrol; Kreos; Eupion.
Dose.--Lower triturations and thirtieth potency.
PAREIRA BRAVA
Virgin-vine
(CHONDRODENDRON TOMENTOSUM)
The urinary symptoms are most important. Useful in renal colic,
prostatic affections, and catarrh of bladder. Sensation as if
bladder were distended, with pain. Pain going down thigh.
Urinary.--Black, bloody, thick mucous urine. Constant urging;
great straining; pain down thighs during efforts to urinate. Can
emit urine only when he goes on his knees, pressing head firmly
against the floor. Feeling of the bladder being distended and
neuralgic pain in the anterior crural region. (Staph.) Dribbling
after micturition. (Selen.) Violent pain in glans penis. Itching
along urethra; urethritis, with prostatic trouble. Inflammation of
urethra; becomes almost cartilaginous.
Relationship.--Compare: Parietaria (renal calculi; nightmare,
patient dreaming of being buried alive); Chimaphila (chronic
catarrhal congestion following cystitis; acute prostatitis; feeling
of a ball in perineum when sitting); Fabiana, see Pichi (dysuria;
post-gonorrhœal complications; gravel; vesical catarrh); Uva;
Hydrang; Berber; Ocim; Hedeom.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
 PARTHENIUM HYSTEROPHORUS
Bitter-broom
(PARTHENIUM - ESCOBA AMARGO)
A Cuban remedy for fevers, especially malarial. Increased flow
of milk. Amenorrhśa and general debility. Cheyne-Stokes
breathing. After Quinine.
Head.--Aches, extending to nose; feels swelled; pain in frontal
eminence. Eyes heavy; eyeballs ache. Ringing in ears. Pain at
root of nose; feels swollen. Aching in teeth. Teeth feel on edge;
too long. Disordered vision. Tinnitus and pain in ears.
Abdomen.--Pain in left hypochondrium. Spleen affections.
Modalities.--Worse, after sleep, sudden motion. Better, after
rising, and walking about.
Relationship.--Compare: China; Ceanoth; Helianth.
PASSIFLORA INCARNATA
Passion-flower
An efficient anti-spasmodic. Whooping-cough. Morphine habit.
Delirium tremens. Convulsions in children; neuralgia. Has a
quieting effect on the nervous system. Insomnia, produces
normal sleep, no disturbance of cerebral functions, neuroses of
children, worm-fever, teething, spasms. Tetanus. Hysteria;
puerperal convulsions. Painful diarrhśa. Acute mania. Atonic
condition generally present. Asthma, 10-30 gtt every ten minutes
for a few doses. Locally, in erysipelas.
Head.--Violent ache as if top of head would come off-eyes felt
as if pushed out.
Stomach.--Leaden, dead feeling after or between meals;
flatulence and sour eructations.
Sleep.--Restless and wakeful, resulting from exhaustion.
Especially in the feeble, infants and the aged. Insomnia of
infants and the aged, and the mentally worried, and overworked,
with tendency to convulsions. Nocturnal cough.
Dose.--Large doses of mother tincture are required-thirty to
sixty drops, repeated several times.
PENTHORUM SEDOIDES
Virginia Stonecrop
(PENTHORUM)
A remedy for coryza, with rawness and wet feeling in nose.
Throat feels raw. Chronic disorders of mucous membranes, with
irritability. Chronic post-nasal catarrh; chronic pharyngitis,
mucous membrane purple and relaxed. Posterior nares feel moist
and raw; nose and ears feel full. Aphonia, hoarseness, relaxed
vocal cords. Hypersecretion of mucous membranes. Itching of
anus and burning in rectum. Trouble in pharyngeal vault and
Eustachian tube.
Nose.--Constant wet feeling in nose, which no amount of
blowing will relieve. Discharge thick, pus-like, streaked with
blood. Post-nasal catarrh of puberty.
Dose.--Not very active, and better adapted to chronic affections;
its use should be persisted in for some time. Lower potencies.
Relationship.--Compare: Penthororun often follows Pulsat.
Sang; Hydr.
PERTUSSINUM
Coqueluchin
(PERTUSSIN)
Taken from the glairy and stringy mucus containing the virus of
whooping-cough. Introduced by John H. Clarke for the
treatment of whooping-cough and other spasmodic coughs.
Relationship.--Compare: Drosera; Corallium; Cuprum;
Naphthal; Mephitis; Passiflor; Coccus Cacti; Magnes phos.
Dose.--The thirtieth potency.
PETROLEUM
Crude Rock-oil
Strumous diathesis, especially the dark type, who suffer from
catarrhal conditions of the mucous membranes, gastric acidity
and cutaneous eruptions.
Very marked skin symptoms, acting on sweat and oil glands;
Ailments are worse during the winter season. Ailments from
riding in cars, carriages, or ships; lingering gastric and lung
troubles; chronic diarrhśa. Long-lasting complaints follow
mental states-fright, vexation, etc. Chlorosis in young girls with
or without ulceration of the stomach.
Mind.--Marked aggravation from mental emotions. Loses his
way in streets. Thinks he is double, or some one else lying
alongside. Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle
affairs. Irritable, easily offended, vexed at everything. Low-
spirited, with dimness of sight.
Head.--Sensitive, as of a cold breeze blowing on it. Feels numb,
as if made of wood; occiput heavy, as of lead (Opium). Vertigo
on rising, felt in occiput, as if intoxicated, or like sea-sickness.
Moist eruption on scalp; worse, back and ears. Scalp sore to
touch, followed by numbness. Headache, must hold temples to
relieve; provoked by shaking while coughing. Use thirtieth.
Eyes.--Loss of eyelashes. Dim sight; far-sighted; cannot read
fine print without glasses; blenorrhśa of lachrymal sac; marginal
blepharitis. Canthi fissured. Skin around eyes dry and scurfy.
Ears.--Noise unbearable, especially from several people talking
together. Eczema, intertrigo, etc, in and behind ears, with intense
itching. Parts sore to touch. Fissures in meatus. Dry catarrh, with
deafness and noises. Ringing and cracking in ears. Chronic
Eustachian catarrh. Diminished hearing.
Nose.--Nostrils ulcerated, cracked, burn; tip of nose itches.
Epistaxis. Ozćna, with scabs and muco-purulent discharge.
Face.--Dry; feels constricted, as if covered with albumin.
Stomach.--Heartburn; hot, sharp, sour eructation. Distention.
Feeling of great emptiness. Strong aversion to fat food, meat;
worse, eating cabbage. Hunger, immediately after stool. Nausea,
with accumulation of water in mouth. Gastralgia when stomach
is empty; relieved by constant eating (Anac; Sep). Ravenous
hunger. Must rise at night and eat (Psorin). Odor of garlic.
Abdomen.--Diarrhśa only in the daytime; watery, gushing and
Itching of anus. After cabbage; with empty feeling of stomach.
Male.--Herpetic eruption on perineum. Prostate inflamed and
swollen. Itching in urethra.
Female.--Before menses, throbbing in head (Kreos).
Leucorrhśa, profuse, albuminous (Alum; Bor; Bov; Calc p).
Genitals sore and moist. Sensation of moisture (Eup purp).
Itching and mealy coating of nipple.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness (Carbo; Caust; Phos) dry cough and
oppression of chest; worse, cold air. Dry cough at night, coming
deep from chest. Croup and laryngeal diphtheria.
Heart.--Sensation of coldness (Carb an; Nat mur). Fainting,
with ebullitions, heat and palpitation.
Back.--Pain in nape of neck, stiff and painful. Weakness in
small of back. Coccyx painful.
Extremities.--Chronic sprains. Fetid sweat in axillć. Knees stiff.
Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured every winter. Scalding
sensation in knee. Cracking in joints.
Skin.--Itching at night. Chilblains, moist, itch and burn. Bed-
sores. Skin dry, constricted, very sensitive, rough and cracked,
leathery. Herpes. Slightest scratch makes skin suppurate
(Hepar). Intertrigo; psoriasis of hands. Thick, greenish crusts,
burning and itching; redness, raw; cracks bleed easily. Eczema.
Rhagades worse in winter.
Fever.--Chilliness, followed by sweat. Flushes of heat,
particularly of the face and head; worse at night. Perspiration on
feet and axillć.
Modalities.--Worse, dampness, before and during a thunder-
storm, from riding in cars, passive motion; in winter, eating,
from mental states. Better, warm air; lying with head high; dry
weather.
Relationship.--Compare: Carbo; Graph; Sulph; Phos.
Complementary: Sepia.
Antidotes: Nux; Coccul.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth and higher potencies. Material doses
often better.
PETROSELINUM SATIVUM
Parsley
(PETROSELINUM)
The urinary symptoms give the keynotes for this remedy. Piles
with much itching.
Urinary.--Burning, tingling, from perineum throughout whole
urethra; sudden urging, to urinate; frequent, voluptuous tickling
in fossa navicularis. Gonorrhśa; sudden, irresistible desire to
urinate; intense biting, itching, deep in urethra; milky
discharge.
Stomach.--Thirsty and hungry, but desire fails on beginning to
eat or drink.
Relationship.--Compare: Apiol-the active principle of Parsley--
(in dysmenorrhśa); Canth; Sars.: Cannab; Merc.
Dose.--First to third potency.
PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM
Phosphoric Acid
The common acid "debility" is very marked in this remedy,
producing a nervous exhaustion. Mental debility first; later
physical. A congenial soil for the action of Phos acid is found in
young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed,
mentally or physically. Whenever the system has been exposed
to the ravages of acute disease, excesses, grief, loss of vital
fluids, we obtain conditions calling for it. Pyrosis, flatulence,
diarrhśa, diabetes, rhachitis and periosteal inflammation.
Neurosis in stump, after amputation. Hćmorrhages in typhoid.
Useful in relieving pain of cancer.
Mind.--Listless. Impaired memory (Anac). Apathetic,
indifferent. Cannot collect his thoughts or find the right word.
Difficult comprehension. Effects of grief and mental shock.
Delirium, with great stupefaction. Settled despair.
Head.--Heavy; confused. Pain as if temples were crushed
together. Worse, shaking or noise. Crushing headache. Pressure
on top. Hair gray early in life; falls out. Dull headache after
coition; from eye-strain (Nat m). Vertigo toward evening, when
standing or walking. Hair thins out, turns gray early.
Eyes.--Blue rings around. Lids inflamed and cold. Pupils
dilated. Glassy appearance. Averse to sunlight; sees colors as if
a rainbow. Feel too large. Amblyopia in masturbators. Optic
nerves seem torpid. Pain as if eyeballs were forcibly pressed
together and into head.
Ears.--Roaring, with difficult hearing. Intolerant of noise.
Nose.--Bleeding. Bores fingers into nose. Itching.
Mouth.--Lips dry, cracked. Bleeding gums; retract from teeth.
Tongue swollen, dry, with viscid, frothy mucus. Teeth feel cold.
At night, bites tongue in voluntarily.
Face.--Pale, earthy; feeling of tension as from dried albumen.
Sensation of coldness of one side of face.
Stomach.--Craves juicy things. Sour risings. Nausea. Symptoms
following sour food and drink. Pressure as from a weight, with
sleepiness after eating (Fel tauri). Thirst for cold milk.
Abdomen.--Distention and fermentation in bowels. Enlarged
spleen (Ceanoth). Aching in umbilical region. Loud rumbling.
Stool.--Diarrhśa, white, watery, involuntary, painless, with
much flatus; not specially exhausting. Diarrhśa in weakly,
delicate rachitic children.
Urine.--Frequent, profuse, watery, milky. Diabetes. Micturition,
preceded by anxiety and followed by burning. Frequent
urination at night. Phosphaturia.
Male.--Emissions at night and at stool. Seminal vesiculitis (Oxal
acid). Sexual power deficient; testicles tender and swollen. Parts
relax during embrace (Nux). Prostatorrhśa, even when passing a
soft stool. Eczema of scrotum. Śdema of prepuce, and swollen
glans-penis. Herpes preputialis. Sycotic excrescences (Thuja).
Female.--Menses too early and profuse, with pain in liver.
Itching; yellow leucorrhśa after menses. Milk scanty; health
deteriorated from nursing.
Respiratory.--Chest troubles develop after brain-fag.
Hoarseness. Dry cough from tickling in chest. Salty
expectoration. Difficult respiration. Weak feeling in chest from
talking(Stann). Pressure behind the sternum, rendering
breathing difficult.
Heart.--Palpitation in children who grow too fast; after grief,
self-abuse. Pulse irregular, intermittent.
Back.--Boring pain between scapulć. Pain in back and limbs, as
if beaten.
Extremities.--Weak. Tearing pains in joints, bones, and
periosteum. Cramps in upper arms and wrists. Great debility.
Pains at night, as if bones were scraped. Stumbles easily and
makes missteps. Itching, between fingers or in folds of joints.
Skin.--Pimples, acne, blood-boils. Ulcers, with very offensive
pus. Burning red rash. Formication in various parts. Falling out
of the hair (Nat mur; Selen). Tendency to abscess after fevers.
Sleep.--Somnolency. Lascivious dreams with emissions.
Fever.--Chilliness. Profuse sweat during night and morning.
Low types of fever, with dull comprehension ans stupor.
Modalities.--Better, from keeping warm. Worse, exertion, from
being talked to; loss of vital fluids; sexual excesses. Everything
impeding circulation causes aggravation of symptoms.
Relationship.--Compare: Śnothera biennis-Evening primrose--
(Effortless diarrhśa with nervous exhaustion. Incipient
hydrocephaloid. Whooping-cough and spasmodic asthma).
Nectranda amare (Watery diarrhśa, dry tongue, colic, bluish
ring around sunken eyes, restless sleep). China; Nux. Pic ac;
Lactic ac; Phos.
Antidotes: Coffea.
Dose.--First potency.
PHASEOLUS NANUS
Dwarf-bean
(PHASEOLUS)
Heart symptoms quite pronounce. Diabetes.
Head.--Aches chiefly in forehead or orbits from fullness of
brain; worse any movement or mental exertion.
Eyes.--Pupils dilated, insensible to light. Eyeballs painful to
touch.
Chest.--Breathing slow and sighing. Pulse rapid. Palpitation.
Sick feeling about heart, with weak pulse. Right ribs sore.
Dropsical effusion into pleura or pericardium.
Urinary.--Diabetic urine.
Heart.--Fearful palpitation and feeling that death is
approaching.
Relationship.--Compare: Cratæg; Lach.
Dose.--Sixth and higher. A decoction of the shells as a drink for
diabetes, but look out for severe headache.
 PHELLANDRIUM AQUATICUM
Water Dropwort
(PHELLANDRIUM)
The respiratory symptoms are most important, and have been
frequently verified clinically. A very good remedy for the
offensive expectoration and cough in phthisis, bronchitis, and
emphysema. Tuberculosis, affecting generally the middle lobes.
Everything tastes sweet. Hæmoptysis, hectic and colliquative
diarrhœa.
Head.--Weight on vertex; aching and burning in temples and
above eyes. Crushing feeling in vertex. Vertigo, dizzy when
lying down.
Eyes.--Ciliary neuralgia; worse any attempt to use eyes: burning
in eyes. Lachrymation. Cannot bear light. Headache; involving
nerves going to eye.
Female.--Pain in milk ducts; intolerable between nursing. Pain
in nipples.
Chest.--Sticking pain through right breast near sternum,
extending to back near shoulders. Dyspnœa, and continuous
cough, early in morning. Cough, with profuse and fetid
expectoration; compels him to sit up. Hoarseness.
Fever.--Hectic; profuse and debilitating perspiration;
intermittent, with pain in arms. Desire for acids.
Extremities.--Tired feeling when walking.
Relationship.--Compare: Con; Phyt; Sil; Ant iod; Myosotis
arvensis.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth potency. In phthisis not below the
sixth.
 PHOSPHORUS
Phosphorus
Phosphorus irritates, inflames and degenerates mucous
membranes, irritates and inflames serous membranes, inflames
spinal cord and nerves, causing paralysis, destroys bone,
especially the lower jaw and tibia; disorganizes the blood,
causing fatty degeneration of blood vessels and every tissue and
organ of the body and thus gives rise to hæmorrhages, and
hæmatogenous jaundice.
Produces a picture of destructive metabolism. Causes yellow
atrophy of the liver and sub-acute hepatitis. Tall, slender
persons, narrow chested, with thin, transparent skin, weakened
by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous debility, emaciation,
amative tendencies, seem to be under the special influence of
Phosphorus. Great susceptibility to external impressions, to
light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms.
Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats,
shooting pains, etc. Polycythemia. Blood extravasations; fatty
degenerations, cirrhosis, caries, are pathological states often
calling for Phosphorus. Muscular pseudo-hypertrophy, neuritis.
Inflammation of the respiratory tract. Paralytic symptoms. Ill
effects of iodine and excessive use of salt; worse, lying on left
side. Tertiary syphilis, skin lesions, and nervous debility.
Scurvy. Pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis. Ataxia and adynamia.
Osteo myelitis. Bone fragility.
Mind.--Great lowness of spirits. Easily vexed. Fearfulness, as if
something were creeping out of every corner. Clairvoyant state.
Great tendency to start. Over-sensitive to external impressions.
Loss of memory. Memory. Paralysis of the insane. Ecstasy.
Dread of death when alone. Brain feels tired. Insanity, with an
exaggerated idea of one's own importance. Excitable, produces
heat all over. Restless, fidgety. Hypo-sensitive, indifferent.
Head.--Vertigo of the aged, after rising (Bry). Heat comes from
spine. Neuralgia; parts must be kept warm. Burning pains.
Chronic congestion of head. Brain-fag, with coldness of occiput.
Vertigo, with faintness. Skin of forehead feels too tight. Itching
of scalp, dandruff, falling out of hair in large bunches.
Eyes.--Cataract. Sensation as if everything were covered with a
mist or veil, or dust, or something pulled tightly over eyes.
Black points seem to float before the eyes. Patient sees better by
shading eyes with hand. Fatigue of eyes and head even without
much use of eyes. Green halo about the candlelight (Osmium).
Letters appear red. Atrophy of optic nerve. Œdema of lids and
about e eyes. Pearly white conjunctiva and long curved lashes.
Partial loss of vision from abuse of tobacco (Nux) Pain in orbital
bones. Paresis of extrinsic muscles. Diplopia, due to deviation of
the visual axis. Amaurosis from sexual excess. Glaucoma.
Thrombosis of retinal vessels and degenerative changes in
retinal cells. Degenerative changes where soreness and curved
lines are seen in old people. Retinal trouble with lights and
hallucination of vision.
Ears.--Hearing difficult, especially to human voice. Re-echoing
of sounds (Caust). Dullness of hearing after typhoid.
Nose.--Fan-like motion of nostrils (Lyc). Bleeding; epistaxis
instead of menses. Over-sensitive smell, (Carbol ac; Nux).
Periostitis of nasal bones. Foul imaginary odors (Aur). Chronic
catarrh, with small hæmorrhages; handkerchief is always
bloody. Polypi; bleeding easily (Calc; Sang).
Face.--Pale, sickly complexion; blue rings under eyes.
Hippocratic countenance. Tearing pain in facial bones;
circumscribed redness in one or both cheeks. Swelling and
necrosis of lower jaw (Amphisbæna; Hecla lava).
Mouth.--Swelled and easily bleeding gums, ulcerated.
Toothache after washing clothes. Tongue dry, smooth, red or
white, not thickly coated. Persistent bleeding after tooth
extraction. Nursing sore mouth. Burning in œsophagus. Dryness
in pharynx and fauces. Thirst for very cold water. Stricture of
œsophagus.
Stomach.--Hunger soon after eating. Sour taste and sour
eructations after every meal. Belching large quantities of wind,
after eating. Throws up ingesta by the mouthfuls. Vomiting;
water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach. Post-
operative vomiting. Cardiac opening seems contracted, too
narrow; the food scarcely swallowed, comes up again (Bry;
Alum). Pain in stomach; relieved by cold food, ices. Region of
stomach painful to touch, or on walking. Inflammation of
stomach, with burning extending to throat and bowels. Bad
effects of eating too much salt.
Abdomen.--Feels cold (Caps). Sharp, cutting pains. A very
weak, empty, gone sensation felt in whole abdominal cavity.
Liver congested. Acute hepatitis. Fatty degeneration (Carbon
tetrachloride; Ars. Chlorof). Jaundice. Pancreatic disease.
Large, yellow spots on abdomen.
Stool.--Very fetid stools and flatus. Long, narrow, hard, like a
dog's. Difficult to expel. Desire for stool on lying on, left side.
Painless, copious debilitating diarrhœa. Green mucus with
grains like sago. Involuntary; seems as if anus remained open.
Great weakness after stool. Discharge of blood from rectum,
during stool. White, hard stools. Bleeding hæmorrhoids.
Urine.--Hæmaturia, especially in acute Bright's disease (Canth).
Turbid, brown, with red sediment.
Male.--Lack of power. Irresistible desire; involuntary
emissions, with lascivious dreams.
Female.--Metritis. Chlorosis. Phlebitis. Fistulous tracks after
mammary abscess. Slight hæmorrhage from uterus between
periods. Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too
long. Weeps before menses. Stitching pain in mammæ.
Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses.
Amenorrhœa, with vicarious menstruation (Bry). Suppuration of
mammæ, burning, watery, offensive discharge. Nymphomania.
Uterine polyps.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness; worse evenings. Larynx very painful.
Clergyman's sore throat; violent tickling in larynx while
speaking. Aphonia, worse evenings, with rawness. Cannot talk
on account of pain in larynx. Cough from tickling in throat;
worse, cold air, reading, laughing, talking, from going from
warm room into cold air. Sweetish taste while coughing. Hard,
dry, tight, racking cough. Congestion of lungs. Burning pains,
heat and oppression of chest. Tightness across chest; great
weight on chest. Sharp stitches in chest; respiration quickened,
oppressed. Much heat in chest. Pneumonia, with oppression;
worse, lying on left side. Whole body trembles, with cough.
Sputa rusty, blood-colored, or purulent. Tuberculosis in tall,
rapidly-growing young people. Do not give it too low or too
frequently here, it may but hasten the destructive degeneration
of tubercular masses. Repeated hæmoptysis (Acal). Pain in
throat on coughing. Nervous coughs provoked by strong odors,
entrance of a stranger; worse in the presence of strangers; worse
lying upon left side; in cold room.
Heart.--Violent palpitation with anxiety, while lying on left
side. Pulse rapid, small, and soft. Heart dilated, especially right.
Feeling of warmth in heart.
Back.--Burning in back; pain as if broken. Heat between the
shoulder-blades. Weak spine.
Extremities.--Ascending sensory and motor paralysis from ends
of fingers and toes. Stitches in elbow and shoulder joints.
Burning of feet. Weakness and trembling, from every exertion.
Can scarcely hold anything with his hands. Tibia inflamed and
becomes necrosed. Arms and hands become numb. Can lie only
on right side. Post-diphtheritic paralysis, with formication of
hands and feet. Joints suddenly give way.
Sleep.--Great drowsiness, especially after meals. Coma vigil.
Sleeplessness in old people. Vivid dreams of fire; of
hæmorrhage. Lascivious dreams. Goes to sleep late and awakens
weak. Short naps and frequent wakings.
Fever.--Chilly every evening. Cold knees at night. Adynamic
with lack of thirst, but unnatural hunger. Hectic, with small,
quick pulse; viscid night-sweats. Stupid delirium. Profuse
perspiration.
Skin.--Wounds bleed very much, even if small; they heal and
break out again. Jaundice. Little ulcer outside of large ones.
Petechiæ. Ecchymosis. Purpura hæmorrhagia. Scurvy. Fungous
hematodes and excrescences.
Modalities.--Worse, touch; physical or mental exertion;
twilight; warm food or drink; change of weather, from getting
wet in hot weather; evening; lying on left or painful side; during
a thunder-storm; ascending stairs. Better, in dark, lying on right
side, cold food; cold; open air; washing with col water; sleep.
Relationship.--Complementary: Ars; Cepa; Lyc; Silica.
Sanguisuya 30-Leech--(Persistent hæmorrhages; effects of use
of leeches). Phosph pentachloride (great soreness of mucous
membrane of eyes and nose, throat and chest sore).
Incompatible: Caust.
Compare: Tuberculinum follows Phosphor well and
complements its action. Phosphorus hydrogenatus (crumbling
teeth; hyperæsthesia; locomotor ataxia); Amphisbæna (right jaw
swollen and painful). Thymol (Typical sexual neurasthenia;
irritable stomach; aching throughout lumbar region; worse,
mental and physical exertion); Calc; Chin; Antim; Sep; Lyc;
Sulph. In Pneumonia, Pneumococin 200 and Pneumotoxin
(Cahis) taken from the Diplococcus lanceolatus of Fraenkel.
Pneumonia and paralytic phenomena; pleuritic pain and pain in
ilio-cecal region (Cartier).
Antidote: Antidote to Phosph. Poisoning: Turpentine with which
it forms an insoluble mass. Also Potass permang. Nux. Phos
antidotes the nausea and vomiting of chloroformand ether.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. Should not be given too low or
in too continuous doses. Especially in tuberculous cases. It may
act as Euthanasia here.
PHYSOSTIGMA VENENOSUM
Calabar Bean
This remedy and its active principle, Eserine, form a valuable
addition to Materia Medica. Stimulates heart, raises blood
pressure, and increases peristalsis. Causes contraction of the
pupil and of the ciliary muscles. Induces a condition of short-
sightedness. Spinal irritation, loss of motility, prostration, with
very sensitive vertebræ Fibrillary tremors. Rigidity of muscles;
paralysis. Depresses the motor and reflex activity of the cord
and causes loss of sensibility to pain, muscular weakness,
followed by complete paralysis, although muscular contractility
is not impaired. Paralysis and tremors, chorea. Meningeal
irritation, with rigidity of muscles. Tetanus and trismus.
Polymyelitis anterior. Eserine is used locally to produce
contraction of pupil.
Head.--Constant pain on top; vertigo, with constrictive feeling
of head. Pain over orbits; cannot bear to raise eyelids. Cerebro-
spinal meningitis; general tetanic rigidity. Spastic conditions of
the face-muscles.
Eyes.--Night-blindness (Opposite: Bothrops); photophobia;
contraction of pupils; twitching of ocular muscles.
Lagophthalmus. Muscæ volitantes; flashes of light; partial
blindness. Glaucoma; paresis of accommodation; astigmatism.
Profuse lachrymation. Spasm of ciliary muscles, with irritability
after using eyes. Increasing myopia. Post-diphtheritic paralysis
of eye and accommodation muscles.
Nose.--Fluent coryza; burning and tingling of nostrils; nose
stuffed and hot. Fever-blisters around nostrils.
Mouth.--Tongue feels sore on tip. Feeling as if a ball came up
throat.
Throat.--Strong heart-pulsation felt in throat.
Stomach.--Great pain immediately after eating. Sensitive to
pressure in epigastric region. Pain extends into chest and down
arms. Gastralgia; chronic constipation.
Female.--Irregular menstruation, with palpitation. Congestion of
eyes. Rigid muscles.
Heart.--Feeble pulse; palpitation; spasmodic action, with feeling
pulsation through the whole body. Beats of heart distinctly
perceptible in chest and head. Fluttering of heart felt in throat.
Fatty degeneration (Cup ac).
Extremities.--Pain in right popliteal space. Burning and
tingling in spine. Hands and feet numb. Sudden jerking of limbs
on going to sleep. Tetanic convulsions. Locomotor ataxia.
Numbness in paralyzed parts, crampy pains in limbs.
Relationship.--Compare: Eserine-the alkaloid of Physostigma--
(slows action of heart and increases arterial tension; in ciliary
spasm and spasmodic astigmatism due to irregular action of
ciliary muscles; blepharo-spasms; pupils contracted. Twitching
of lids, soreness of eyeballs, blurring of vision after using eyes,
pains around eyes and head). Used locally to contract the pupil.
Eserine contracts the pupils dilated by Atropin, but not those
dilated by Gelsemium. Internally 6x.
Eserin Salicylate (post-operative intestinal paralysis; meteorism.
Hypodermically 1/60-1/40 gr).
Compare also: Muscarin; Conium; Curare; Gels; Thebainum
(tetanus); Piperazinum--(Uric acid conditions. Pruritus. Gout
and urinary calculi. Constant backache. Skin dry, urine scanty.
Rheumatic urthritis. Give one grain daily in carbonated water.
First and second decimal trituration three times a day).
Antidote: Atropia. In full medicinal doses will relieve most of
the effects of physostigmine.
Dose.--Third potency. The neutral sulphate of Eserine is instilled
into the eye, from one-half to four grains to one ounce distilled
water, to induce contraction of pupil, in mydriasis, injuries to
the eye, iritis, corneal ulcers, etc.
PHYSALIS ALKEKENGI
Alkekengi-Winter Cherry
(PHYSALIS - SOLANUM VESICARIUM)
Marked urinary symptoms confirming its ancient uses in gravel,
etc. Lithiasis; marked diuretic action. Languor and muscular
weakness.
Head.--Vertigo, hazy feeling; memory weakness; desire to talk
constantly. Throbbing pain, heavy over eyes in forehead. Facial
paralysis. Dryness of mouth.
Extremities.--Stiff limbs; tonic cramps. Paralysis. When
walking, every jar seems repeated in the head.
Fever.--Chilly in open air. Feverish in evening. Sweat during
stool, with creeping sensation, with abundant urine. Pain in liver
during, fever.
Respiratory.--Cough. Hoarse voice; throat irritated; chest
oppressed, causing insomnia. Stabbing in chest.
Urinary.--Acrid, foul, retained, abundant. Polyuria. Sudden
inability to hold it in women. Nocturnal incontinence. Enuresis.
Skin.--Excoriation between fingers and toes; pustules on thighs;
nodes on forehead.
Modalities.--Worse, cold camp evening. After going heated.
Dose.--Tincture to third attenuation. The juice of the berries is
used in dropsical conditions and irritable bladder.
PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA
Poke-root
(PHYTOLACCA)
Aching, soreness, restlessness, prostration, are general
symptoms guiding to Phytolacca. Pre-eminently a glandular
remedy. Glandular swellings with heat and inflammation. Has a
powerful effect on fibrous and osseous tissues; fasciæ and
muscle sheaths; acts on scar tissue. Syphilitic bone pains;
chronic rheumatism. Sore throat, quinsy, and diphtheria. Tetanus
and opisthotonos. Decrease of weight. Retarded dentition.
Mind.--Loss of personal delicacy, disregard of surrounding
objects. Indifferent to life.
Head.--Vertigo on rising. Brain feels sore. Pain from frontal
region backward. Pressure in temples and over eyes.
Rheumatism of scalp; pains come on every time it rains. Scaly
eruption on scalp.
Eyes.--Smarting. Feeling of sand under lids. Tarsal edges feel
hot. Fistula lachrymalis (Fluor ac). Abundant lachrymation, hot.
Nose.--Coryza; flow of mucus from one nostril and from
posterior nares.
Mouth.--Teething children with irresistible desire to bite the
teeth together. Teeth clenched; lower lip drawn down; lips
everted; jaws firmly set; chin drawn down on sternum. Tongue
red tip, feels rough and scalded; bleeding from mouth; blisters
on side. Mapped, indented, fissured, with yellow patch down
center. Much stringy saliva.
Throat.--Dark red or bluish red. Much pain at root of tongue;
soft palate and tonsils swollen. Sensation of a lump in throat
(Bell; Lach). Throat feels rough, narrow, hot. Tonsils swollen,
especially right; dark-red appearance. Shooting pain into ears on
swallowing. Pseudo-membranous exudation, grayish white;
thick, tenacious yellowish mucus, difficult to dislodge. Cannot
swallow anything hot (Lach). Tension and pressure in parotid
gland. Ulcerated sore throat and diphtheria; throat feels very hot;
pain at root of tongue extending to ear. Uvula large, dropsical.
Quinsy; tonsils and fauces swollen, with burning pain; cannot
swallow even water. Mumps. Follicular pharyngitis.
Abdomen.--Sore spot in right hypochondrium. Rheumatism of
abdominal muscles. Colic at navel. Burning griping pains.
Bruised feeling through epigastrium and abdomen. Constipation
of the aged and those with weak heart. Bleeding from rectum.
Urine.--Scanty, suppressed, with pain in kidney region.
Nephritis.
Female.--Mastitis; mammæ hard and very sensitive. Tumors of
the breasts with enlarged axillary glands. Cancer of breast.
Breast is hard, painful and of purple hue. Mammary abscess.
When child nurses, pain goes from nipple all over body. Cracks
and small ulcers about nipples. Irritable breasts, before and
during menses. Galactorrhœa (Calc). Menses too copious and
frequent. Ovarian neuralgia of right side.
Male.--Painful induration of testicles. Shooting along perineum
to penis.
Heart.--Feeling as if heart leaped into throat (Pod). Shock of
pain in cardiac region alternating with pain in right arm.
Respiratory.--Aphonia. Difficult breathing; dry hacking,
tickling cough; worse at night (Mentha; Bellad). Aching pains in
chest, through mid-sternum; with cough. Rheumatism of lower
intercostals.
Back.--Aching pains in lumbar region; pains streaking up and
down spine into sacrum. Weakness and dull pain in region of
kidneys. Back stiff, especially in morning on rising and during
damp weather.
Extremities.--Shooting pain in right shoulder, with stiffness and
inability to raise arm (see Heart). Rheumatism pains; worse in
morning. Pains fly like electric shocks, shooting, lancinating,
shifting rapidly (Puls; Kali bich). Pain in under side of thighs.
Syphilitic sciatica. Aching of heels; relieved by elevating feet.
Pains like shocks. Pain in legs, patient dreads to get up. Feet
puffed; pain in ankles and feet. Neuralgia in toes.
Fever.--High fever, alternating with chilliness and great
prostration.
Skin.--Itches, becomes dry, shrunken, pale. Papular and pustular
lesions. Most useful in early stages of cutaneous diseases.
Disposition to boils, and when sloughing occurs. Squamous
eruptions. Syphilitic eruptions. Swelling and induration of
glands. Venereal buboes. Scarlatina-like rash. Warts and moles.
Modalities.--Worse, sensitive to electric changes. Effects of a
wetting, when it rains, exposure to damp, cold weather, night
exposure, motion, right side. Better, warmth, dry weather, rest.
Relationship.--Compare: Tincture of Phytolacca Berry (sore
throats and in the treatment of obesity); Bry; Rhus; Kali hyd;
Merc; Sang; Arum triph.
Inimical: Mercur.
Antidotes: Milk and salt; Bellad; Mezer.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency. Externally for mastitis.
PICRICUM ACIDUM
Picric Acid-Trinitrophenol
Causes degeneration of the spinal cord, with paralysis. Brainfag
and sexual excitement. Acts upon the generative organs
probably through the lumbar centers of the spinal cord;
prostration, weakness and pain of back, pins and needle
sensation in extremities. Neurasthenia (Oxal ac). Muscular
debility. Heavy tired feeling. Myelitis with spasms and
prostration. Writer's palsy. Progressive, pernicious anćmia.
Urćmia with complete anuria. A one per cent solution applied
on lint, is the best application for burns until granulations begin
to form. Sallow complexion.
Mind.--Lack of will-power; disinclined to work. Cerebral
softening. Dementia with prostration, sits still and listless.
Head.--Head pains; relieved by bandaging tightly. Occipital
pain; worse, slightest mental exertion. Vertigo and noises in ear.
Boils within ears and back of neck. After prolonged mental
strain, with anxiety and dread of failure at examination. Brain
fag.
Eyes.--Chronic catarrhal conjunctivitis with copious, thick
yellow discharge.
Stomach.--Bitter taste. Aversion to food.
Urinary.--Scanty; complete anuria. Dribbling micturition. Urine
contains much indican, granular cylinders and fatty degenerated
epithelium. Inflammation of kidneys with profound weakness,
dark, bloody, scanty urine. Nightly urging.
Male.--Emissions profuse, followed by great exhaustion,
without sensual dreams. Priapism; satyriasis. Hard erections,
with pain in testicles and up cord. Prostatic hypertrophy,
especially in cases not too far advanced.
Female.--Pain in left ovary and leucorrhśa before menstruation.
Pruritus vulvć.
Extremities.--Burning along spine. Great weakness. Tired,
heavy feeling all over body, especially limbs; worse, exertion.
Feet cold. Cannot get warm. Acute descending paralysis.
Modalities.--Worse, least exertion, especially mental, after
sleep, wet weather. A summer or hot weather remedy; patient is
worse then. Better, from cold air, cold water, tight pressure.
Relationship.--Compare: Oxal ac; Gels; Phos; Sil; Arg nit.
Compare: Zinc pic (facial palsy and paralysis agitans); Ferr pic
(buzzing in ears, deafness; chronic gout; epistaxis; prostatic
troubles); Calc pic (boils in and around ears).
Dose.--Sixth potency.
PINUS SILVESTRIS
Scotch Pine
Has been found of real use in the treatment of weak ankles and
tardiness in walking, in scrofulous and rachitic children.
Emaciation of lower extremities. Pinus sylvestris combines
rheumatic, bronchial and urticarious symptoms; the chest seems
thin and to give way.
Extremities.--Stiffness; gouty pain in all joints, especially
finger-joints. Cramps in calves.
Skin.--Nettle-rash. Itching all over, especially about joints and
on abdomen. Nose itches.
Relationship.--Compare: Pinus Lambertina-Sugar Pine--
(constipation, amenorrhśa, abortion). Pinus Lambertina sap is a
decided carthartic. Delayed and painful menstruation.
Also, Abies can; Abies nig.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
PIPER METHYSTICUM
Kava-kava
The intoxication produced by Kava is of a silent and drowsy
character with incoherent dreams, loss of muscular power.
Urinary and skin symptoms have been verified. Marked
modality. Arthritis deformans. Colic with flatulence.
Mind.--Very sensitive. Exaltation of mind. Amelioration of
pains for a time by diverting attention. Restless desire to change
position.
Urine.--Increased. Burning during micturition, gonorrhśa, and
gleet. Cystitis. Chordee.
Skin.--Scaly. Fall of scales leaves white spots, which often
ulcerate. Leprosy. Ichthyosis.
Extremities.--Pain in right arm. Hands feel paralyzed. Pain in
thumb-joint.
Relationship.--Compare: Chaulmoogra-Taraktogenos--(The oil
and its derivatives are to a certain extent effective in the
treatment of leprosy, especially in early cases).
Bixa orellana, a South American plant related to Chaulmoogra,
recommended for leprosy, eczema and elephantiasis.
Modalities.--Better, by turning mind to another topic; changing
position.
Dose.--Tincture, and lower potencies.
PIPER NIGRUM
Black Pepper
Sensation of burning and pressure everywhere.
Mind.--Sad, apprehensive. Unable to concentrate; starts at any
noise.
Head.--Heavy headache, as if temples were pressed in; pressure
in nasal and facial bones. Eyes inflamed and burning. Red
burning face. Bursting aching in eyeballs. Nose itches; sneezing;
nosebleed. Lips dry and cracked.
Throat.--Sore, feels raw, burns. Burning pain in tonsils.
Stomach.--Gastric discomfort. Full feeling. Great thirst.
Flatulence. Tympanites. Colic and cramps.
Chest.--Dyspnśa, cough with pain in chest in spots, feels as if
spitting blood. Palpitation, cardiac pain slow intermittent pulse.
Great flow of milk.
Urinary.--Burning in bladder and urethra. Difficult micturition.
Bladder feels full, swollen; frequent inclination without success.
Priapism.
Dose.--Low attenuations.
PITUITARIA GLANDULA
(PITUITARY GLAND)
Pituitary exercises a superior control over the growth and
development of the sexual organs, stimulates muscular activity
and overcomes uterine inertia. Its influence over unstriped
muscular fiber is marked. Cerebral hćmorrhage. Will check
hćmorrhage and add absorption of clot. Uterine inertia in second
stage of labor where os is fully dilated. High blood pressure,
chronic nephritis, prostatitis. Ten drops after meals (Dr. Geo.
Fuller). Vertigo, difficult mental concentration, confusion and
fullness deep in frontal region. Use 30th potency.
Relationship.--Pituitrin--(Is a vaso-constrictor and parturient.
Used chiefly for its action on the uterus either to aid in childbirth
or to check bleeding after delivery. In doses of 1 c.c.m.
intravenously to stimulate labor pains, expulsive period only.
Contra indicated in myocarditis, nephritis and arteriosclerosis. A
watery solution made from the posterior portion of the gland is
put up in ampules containing about 15 minims each and is
considered the hypodermic dose. No effect per os).
PIX LIQUIDA
Pine-tar
Tar and its constituents act on various mucous membranes.
Its skin symptoms most important. A great cough medicine.
Bronchial irritation after influenza (Kreosot; Kali bich). Scaly
eruptions. Much itching. Constant vomiting of blackish fluid,
with pain in stomach. Alopecia (Fluor ac).
Chest.--Pain at a spot about the third left costal cartilage where
it joins the rib. Rales through the lungs, and muco-purulent
sputum; offensive odor and taste. Chronic bronchitis.
Skin.--Cracked; itches intolerably; bleeds on scratching.
Eruptions on back of hands.
Relationship.--Compare its constituents: Kreosol; Petrol;
Pinus; Eupion; Terebinth; Carbolic acid.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
PLANTAGO MAJOR
Plantain
Has considerable clinical reputation in the treatment of earache,
toothache, and enuresis. Sharp pain in eyes, reflex from decayed
teeth or inflammation of middle ear. Eyeball very tender to
touch. Pain plays between teeth and ears. Pyorrhea alveolaris.
Depression and insomnia of chronic Nicotinism. Causes an
aversion to tobacco.
Head.--Periodical prosopalgia, worse 7 am to 2 pm,
accompanied with flow of tears, photophobia; pains radiate to
temples and lower face.
Ears.--Hearing acute; noise painful. Sticking pain in ears.
Neuralgic earache; pain goes from one ear to the other through
the head. Otalgia, with toothache. Loud noises go through one.
Nose.--Sudden, yellowish, watery discharge.
Mouth.--Teeth ache and are sensitive and sore to touch.
Swelling of cheeks. Salivation; teeth feel too long; worse, cold
air and contact. Toothache, better while eating. Profuse of
saliva. Toothache, with reflex neuralgia of eyelids.
Stool.--Wants to defecate; goes often, but cannot bad, can hardly
stand. Diarrhśa, with brown watery
Urine.--Profuse flow; nocturnal enuresis (Rhus arom; Caust;
Bellad).
Skin.--Itching and burning; papulć. Urticaria, chilblains (Agar;
Tamus).
Relationship.--Compare: Kalm; Cham; Puls.
Dose.--Tincture, and lower potencies. Local use in toothache in
hollow teeth, otorrhśa, pruritus, and Poison-oak. Incised
wounds.
PLATINUM METALLICUM
The Metal
(PLATINA)
Is pre-eminently a woman's remedy. Strong tendency to
paralysis, anæsthesia, localized numbness and coldness are
shown. Hysterical spasms; pains increase and decrease gradually
(Stannum). Tremulousness.
Mind.--Irresistible impulse to kill. Self-exaltation; contempt for
others. Arrogant, proud. Weary of everything. Everything seems
changed. Mental trouble pressed menses. Physical symptoms
disappear as mental symptoms develop.
Head.--Tense, pressing pain, confined to a small spot.
Cramplike, squeezing pain. Constriction about forehead and
right temples. Numbness, with headache.
Eyes.--Objects look smaller than they are. Twitching of lids
(Agar). Eyes feel cold. Cramp-like pain in orbits.
Ears.--Feels numb. Cramp-like twinges. Roaring and rumbling.
Face.--Prosopalgia, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the
parts were between screws. Pain at root of nose, as if squeezed
in a vise. Coldness, creeping, and numbness, in whole right side
of face. Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stann).
Stomach.--Fermentation, much flatulence; constriction;
ravenous hunger; persistent nausea, with anxiety and weakness.
Abdomen.--Painter's colic. Pain in umbilical region; extending
through to back. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen;
extending into pelvis.
Stool.--Retarded; feces scanty; evacuated with difficulty.
Adheres to rectum, like soft clay. Sticky stool. Constipation of
travelers, who are constantly changing food and water. Stool as
if burnt.
Female.--Parts hypersensitive. Tingling internally and
externally (Kali brom; Orig). Ovaries sensitive and burn.
Menses too early, too profuse, dark-clotted, with spasms and
painful bearing-down, chilliness, and sensitiveness of parts.
Vaginismus. Nymphomania. Excessive sexual development;
vaginismus. Pruritus vulvæ. Ovaritis with sterility. Abnormal
sexual appetite and melancholia.
Extremities.--Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped.
Numb and weary sensation. Feel paralyzed.
Sleep.--Sleeps with legs far apart (Chamom).
Modalities.--Worse, sitting and standing; evening. Better,
walking.
Relationship.--Compare: Rhodium; Stann; Valer; Sep.
Compare, also: Platinum muriaticum (this remedy has achieved
beneficial results after Iodide of Potash failed to cure in
syphilitic affection; violent occipital headaches, dysphagia, and
syphilitic throat and bone affections; caries of bones of feet);
Plat mur nat (polyuria and salivation); Sedum acre(sexual
irritability, relieves irritation of nerve centers and gives rest).
Antidote: Puls. Platina antidotes the bad effects of lead.
Dose.--Sixth trituration to thirtieth potency.
PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS
Sycamore-Buttonwood
Tarsal tumors. Apply the tincture. Both acute and old neglected
cases, where destruction of tissue occurred and cicatricial
contraction caused marked deformity of lid, restored to
practically normal conditions. Acts best in children. Must be
used for some time. Ichtyosis.
PLUMBUM METALLICUM
Lead
The great drug for general sclerotic conditions. Lead paralysis is
chiefly of extensors, forearm or upper limb, from center to
periphery with partial anćsthesia or excessive hyperasthesia,
preceded by pain. Localized neuralgic pains, neuritis. The blood,
alimentary and nervous systems are the special seats of action of
Plumbum. Hematosis is interfered with, rapid reduction in
number of red corpuscles; hence pallor, icterus, anćmia.
Constrictive sensation in internal organs.
Delirium, coma and convulsions. Hypertension and
arteriosclerosis. Progressive muscular atrophy. Infantile
paralysis. Locomotor ataxia. Excessive and rapid emaciation.
Bulbar paralysis. Important in peripheral affections. The points
of attack for Plumbum are the neuraxons and the anterior horns.
Symptoms of multiple sclerosis, posterior spinal sclerosis.
Contractions and boring pain. All the symptoms of acute.
Nephritis with amaurosis and cerebral symptoms. Gout
(Chronic).
Mind.--Mental depression. Fear of being assassinated. Quiet
melancholy. Slow perception; loss of memory; amnesic aphasia.
Hallucinations and delusions. Intellectual apathy. Memory
impaired (Anac; Baryta). Paretic dementia.
Head.--Delirium alternating with colic. Pain as if a ball rose
from throat to brain. Hair very dry. Tinnitus (Chin; Nat salic;
Carbon sulph).
Eyes.--Pupils contracted. Yellow. Optic nerve inflamed.
Intraocular, suppurative inflammation. Glaucoma, especially if
secondary to spinal lesion. Optic neuritis, central scotoma.
Sudden loss of sight after fainting.
Face.--Pale and cachetic. Yellow, corpse-like; cheeks sunken.
Skin of face greasy, shiny. Tremor of naso-labial muscles.
Mouth.--Gums swollen, pale; distinct blue lines along margins
of gums. Tongue tremulous, red on margin. Cannot put it out,
seems paralyzed.
Stomach.--Contraction in śsophagus and stomach; pressure and
tightness. Gastralgia. Constant vomiting. Solids cannot be
swallowed.
Abdomen.--Excessive colic, radiating to all parts of body.
Abdominal wall feels drawn by a string to spine. Pain causes
desire to stretch. Intussusception; strangulated hernia. Abdomen
retracted. Obstructed flatus, with intense colic. Colic alternates
with delirium and pain in atrophied limbs.
Rectum.--Constipation; stools hard, lumpy, black with urging
and spasm of anus. Obstructed evacuation from impaction of
feces (Plat). Neuralgia of rectum. Anus drawn up with
constriction.
Urinary.--Frequent, ineffectual tenesmus. Albuminous; low
specific gravity. Chronic interstitial nephritis, with great pain in
abdomen. Urine scanty. Tenesmus of bladder. Emission drop by
drop.
Male.--Loss of sexual power. Testicles drawn up, feel
constricted.
Female.--Vaginismus, with emaciation and constipation.
Induration of mammary glands. Vulva and vagina
hypersensitive. Stitches and burning pains in breasts (Apis; Con;
Carb an; Sil). Tendency to abortion. Menorrhagia with sensation
of string pulling from abdomen to back. Disposition to yawn and
stretch.
Heart.--Cardiac weakness. Pulse soft and small, dichrotic. Wiry
pulse, camp-like constriction of peripheral arteries.
Back.--Spinal cord sclerosed. Lightning-like pains; temporarily
better by pressure. Paralysis of lower extremities.
Skin.--Yellow, dark-brown liver spots. Jaundice. Dry. Dilated
veins of forearms and legs.
Extremities.--Paralysis of single muscles. Cannot raise or lift
anything with the hand. Extension is difficult. Paralysis from
overexertion of the extensor muscles in piano players (Curare).
Pains in muscles of thighs; come in paroxysms. Wrist-drop.
Cramps in calves. Stinging and tearing in limbs, also twitching
and tingling, numbness, pain or tremor. Paralysis. Feet swollen.
Pain in atrophied limbs alternates with colic. Loss of patellar
reflex. Hands and feet cold. Pain in right big toe at night, very
sensitive to touch.
Modalities.--Worse, at night, motion. Better, rubbing, hard
pressure, physical exertion (Alumen).
Relationship.--Compare: Plumb acet (painful cramps in
paralyzed limbs; severe pain and muscular cramps in gastric
ulcer; locally, as an application (non-homeopathic) in moist
eczema, and to dry up secretions from mucous surfaces. Care
must be used, as sufficient lead can be absorbed to produce lead
poison, one to two drams of the liquor plumbi subacetatis to the
ounce of water; also in pruritus pudendi, equal parts of the
liquor plumbi and glycerin). Plumb iodat (Has been used
empirically in various forms of paralysis, sclerotic
degenerations, especially of spinal cord, atrophies, arterio-
sclerosis, pellagra. Indurations of mammary glands, especially
when a tendency to become inflamed appears; sore and painful.
Indurations of great hardness and associated with a very dry
skin. Lancinating pains of Tabes). Compare: Alumina; Plat;
Opium; Podoph; Merc; Thall. Plectranthus (paralysis, spastic,
spinal form); Plumb chromicum (convulsions, with terrible
pains; pupils greatly dilated; retracted abdomen;); Plumb phosph
(loss of sexual power; locomotor ataxia).
Antidotes: Plat; Alum; Petrol.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
 PODOPHYLLINUM
May-apple
(PODOPHYLLUM)
Is especially adapted to persons of bilious temperament. It
affects chiefly the duodenum, small intestines, liver, and rectum
The Podophyllum disease is a gastro-enteritis with colicky pain
and bilious vomiting. Stool is watery with jelly-like mucus,
painless, profuse. Gushing and offensive. Many troubles during
pregnancy; pendulous abdomen after confinement; prolapsus
uteri; painless cholera morbus. Torpidity of the liver; portal
engorgement with a tendency to hćmorrhoids, hypogastric pain,
fullness of superficial veins, jaundice.
Mind.--Loquacity and delirium from eating acid fruits.
Depression of spirits.
Head.--Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward. Headache, dull
pressure, worse morning, with heated face and bitter taste;
alternating with diarrhśa. Rolling of head from side to side,
moaning and vomiting and eyelids half closed. Child perspires
on head during sleep.
Mouth.--Grinding the teeth at night; intense desire to press the
gums together (Phytol). Difficult dentition. Tongue broad, large,
moist. Foul, putrid taste. Burning sensation of tongue.
Stomach.--Hot, sour belching; nausea and vomiting. Thirst for
large quantities of cold water (Bry). Vomiting of hot, frothy
mucus. Heartburn; gagging or empty retching. Vomiting of
milk.
Abdomen.--Distended; heat and emptiness. Sensation of
weakness or sinking. Can lie comfortably only on stomach.
Liver region painful, better rubbing part. Rumbling and shifting
of flatus in ascending colon.
Rectum.--Cholera infantum and morbus. Diarrhśa of long
standing; early in morning; during teething, with hot, glowing
cheeks while being bathed or washed; in hot weather after acid
fruits. Morning, painless diarrhśa when not due to venous stasis
or intestinal ulceration. Green, watery, fetid, profuse, gushing.
Prolapse of rectum before or with stool. Constipation; clay-
colored, hard, dry, difficult. Constipation alternating with
diarrhśa (Ant crud). Internal and external piles.
Female.--Pain in uterus and right ovary, with shifting noises
along ascending colon. Suppressed menses, with pelvic
tenesmus. Prolapsed uteri, especially after parturition.
Hćmorrhoids, with prolapsus ani during pregnancy.
Extremities.--Pain between shoulders, under right scapula, in
loins and lumbar region. Pain in right inguinal region; shoots
down inner thigh to knees. Paralytic weakness on left side.
Fever.--Chill at 7 am, with pain in hypochondria, and knees,
ankles, wrists, Great loquacity during fever. Profuse sweat.
Modalities.--Worse, in early morning, in hot weather, during
dentition.
Relationship.--Compare: Mandragora-also called mandrake--
(must not be confounded with Podoph. Great desire for sleep;
exaggeration of sounds and enlarged vision. Bowels inactive;
stools large, white and hard). Aloe; Chelid; Merc; Nux; Sulph.
Prunella-Self-head--(Colitis).
Dose.--Tincture to sixth potency. The 200th and 1000th seem to
do good work in cholera infantum, when indicated.
 POLYGONUM HYDROPIPEROIDES
Hydropiper - Smartweed
(POLYGONUM PUNCTATUM)
Metrorrhagia, also Amenorrhœa in young girls. Varicosis;
hæmorrhoids and rectal pockets. Burning in stomach followed
by feeling of coldness in the pit of the stomach.
Abdomen.--Griping pain, with great rumbling, nausea, and
liquid feces. Flatulent colic.
Rectum.--Interior of anus studded with itching eminence.
Hæmorrhoids. Liquid feces.
Urinary.--Painful constriction at neck of bladder.
Female.--Aching pains in hips and loins. Sensation as if hips
were being drawn together. Sensation of weight and tension
within pelvis. Shooting pains through breasts. Amenorrhœa.
Skin.--Superficial ulcers and sores on lower extremities,
especially in females at climacteric.
Relationship.--Compare: Carduus mar (ulcers); Hamam;
Senecio; Polygonum persicaria (renal colic and calculi;
gangrene); Polygonum sagitatum-arrow-leaved. Tear-thumb--
(2x for pains of nephritic colic; suppurative nephritis;
lancinating pains along spine; itching of hard palate; burning
inner side of right foot and ankle. C. M. Boger); Polygonum
aviculare-knot-grass--(in material doses of tincture, found useful
in phthisis pulmonalis and intermittent fever, and especially in
arterio-sclerosis. Erythema).
Dose.--Tincture.
POLYPORUS PINICOLA
Pine Agaric
Useful in intermittent, remittent and bilious fevers, with
headache, yellow tongue, constant nausea, faintness at
epigastrium, and constipation. Similar to its botanical relative,
Polyp officinalis, or Boletus laricis, q.v. Deep dull, severe pain
in shin bones, preventing sleep.
Fever.--Great lassitude, congestion of head, with vertigo, face
hot and flushed, prickling sensation all over; restless at night
from pain in wrists and knee; rheumatic pains; profuse
perspiration. Headache about 10 am, with pain in back, ankles
and legs increasing until 3 pm, then gradually better.
POPULUS TREMULOIDES
American Aspen
The gastric and urinary symptoms point to its usefulness in
dyspepsia and catarrh of the bladder, especially in old people.
Good remedy in vesical troubles after operations and in
pregnancy. Cystitis. Fullness of head, and sensation of heat of
the surfaces of the body. Night-sweats. Ague.
Stomach.--Indigestion, with flatulence and acidity. Nausea and
vomiting.
Urine.--Severe tenesmus; painful scalding. Urine contains
mucus and pus. Prostate enlarged. Pain behind pubis, at end of
urination.
Relationship.--Compare: Nux; China; Cornus flor; Cannabis;
Cantharis.
Dose.--Tincture or Populin trit, 1x.
POPULUS CANDICANS
Balm of Gilead
Seems to have a remarkable power over acute colds, especially
when accompanied by a deep, hoarse voice, or even aphonia.
General insensibility of surface (worse, back and abdomen);
rubbing and pounding borne without pain, and is grateful on
account of warmth produced. Finger-ends thickened, horny;
insensible to pinching and pricking. Instantaneous voice-
producer (Coca).
Head.--Discusses her symptoms with every one. Hot head with
cold extremities. Cold-sores on lips (Nat mur). Tongue feels
thick and numb. Burning irritation of eyes, nose, mouth, throat,
and air passages.
Respiratory.--Acute hoarseness. Throat and nostrils burn. Sits
bent forward with dry cough. Pharynx and larynx feel dry, and
the voice weak and toneless. Rawness and soreness of chest and
throat. Cough of children caused by naso-pharyngeal catarrh;
mucus drops from posterior nares.
Doses.--Tincture.
PRIMULA OBCONICA
Primrose
The poison of the Primrose occurs in its glandular hairs, which
break easily and discharge an irritating fluid which is absorbed
into the skin.
But skin symptoms of poisoning appear in sensitive patients
even without coming in direst contact with the plant, mere
nearness being sufficient, just like Poison ivy. Intermittency of
symptoms; worse right side. Pain in liver and spleen. Deep
infiltration and tension of tissues; blisters. Paralyzed sensation.
Weakness. Pharyngeal soreness alternates with diminished facial
irritation.
Face.--Moist eczema. Papular eruption on chin. Burns at night.
Urticaria-like eruption. Eyelids swollen.
Extremities.--Eczema on arms, wrists, forearms, hands, papular
and excoriated. Rheumatic pain around shoulder. Palms dry and
hot. Cracking over joints and fingers. Eruption between fingers.
Purple blotches on back of hands, palmar surface stiff. Blisters
on fingers.
Skin.--Great itching, worse at night, red and swollen like
erysipelas. Tumefied. Small papules on a raised base. Skin
symptoms accompanied by febrile symptoms.
Relationship.--Compare: Rhus; Fagopyrum (Antidotal). Humea
Elegans, similar skin symptoms.
PRIMULA VERIS
Cowslip
Cerebral congestion, with neuralgia; migraine; rheumatic and
gouty pains.
Head.--Sensation of a band around head; cannot keen hat on
(Carbol ac). Skin of forehead tense. Fear of falling when
standing up. Violent vertigo, as if everything turned around.
Buzzing in ears; better in open air.
Respiratory.--Cough, with burning and pricking in respiratory
tracts. Weak voice.
Urinary.--Urine smells strongly of violets (Terebinth).
Extremities.--Right axillary muscles painful. Weight and
lassitude in limbs, especially the shoulders. Burning in hollow
of right hand. Drawing pain in thumb and big toe.
Relationship.--Compare: Cyclamen; Ranunc; Śnothera--
Evening Primrose--(exhausting, watery diarrhśa; cholera
infantum; hydrocephaloid); Primula farinosa-the wild Primrose-
-(dermatitis, especially on index fingers and thumbs).
Dose.--Third potency.
 PROPYLAMINUM
Distilled Herring-brine
(PROPYLAMIN - TRIMETHYLAMINUM)
In acute rheumatism, dissipates fever and pain in a day or two.
Rheumatic prosopalgia, and rheumatic metastases, especially
heart lesions.
Extremities.--Pain in wrists and ankles; worse, slightest motion
(Bry). Great restlessness and thirst. Rheumatism, needle held in
fingers gets too heavy. Tingling and numbness of fingers. Pain in
wrist and ankle, unable to stand.
Relationship.--(Chenopodium vulvaria. The plant has an odor
of decaying fish and contains a large amount of Propylamine.
Weakness is lumbar and lower dorsal region).
Dose.--Ten to fifteen drops, in about six ounces of water;
teaspoonful doses every two hours.
PRUNUS SPINOSA
Black-thorn
Special action on the urinary organs and head. Very valuable in
certain neuralgias, anasarca, and especially śdema pedum. Ankle
and foot feel sprained. Ciliary neuralgia(Spig).
Head.--Pressing-asunder pain beneath skull. Shooting from right
frontal bone through brain to occiput. Pain in right eyeball, as if
it would burst. Piercing toothache, as if teeth were pulled out;
worse, taking anything warm.
Eyes.--Ciliary neuralgia. Bursting pain in right eyeball shooting
like lightning through the brain to occiput. Sudden pain in left
eye as if it would burst, better by lachrymation. Irido-choroiditis.
Opacity of vitreous humor. Eyes feel as if bursting.
Abdomen.--Ascites. Cramp-like pain in bladder region; worse,
walking.
Rectum.--Hard, nodular stool, with rectal pain, as if angular
body were pressed inward. Burning in anus after slimy diarrhśa.
Urine.--Tenesmus of bladder. Ineffectual effort to urinate.
Hurriedly impelled to urinate; the urine seems to pass as far as
glans, and then returns and causes pain in urethra. Neuralgic
dysuria. Must press a long time before urine appears.
Respiratory.--Wheezing when walking. Oppression of chest;
anxious, short respiration. Angina pectoris. Furious beating of
heart; worse, slightest motion.
Skin.--Herpes zoster. Dropsy. Itching on tips of fingers, as if
frozen.
Relationship.--Compare: Lauroc; Prumus padus-Bird--cherry--
(sore throat, pressure behind sternum and sticking pain in
rectum); Prunus Virginiana-Wild Cherry--(heart tonic; relieves
the flagging and distended ventricle; irritable heart; dilatation of
right heart; cough, worse at night on lying down; weak
digestion, especially in elderly people; chronic bronchitis;
increases muscular tone); Pyrus-Mountain Ash--(irritation of
eyes; constriction around waist; spasmodic pains in uterus,
bladder, heart, cold-water sensation in stomach, coldness
extends up śsophagus; neuralgic and gouty pains).
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
PSORINUM
Scabies Vesicle
The therapeutic field of this remedy is found in so-called psoric
manifestations. Psorinum is a cold medicine; wants the head
kept warm, wants warm clothing even in summer. Extreme
sensitiveness to cold. Debility, independent of any organic
disease, especially the weakness remaining after acute disease.
Lack of reaction, i.e, phagocytes defective; when well-chosen
remedies fail to act. Scrofulous patients. Secretions have a filthy
smell. Profuse sweating. Cardiac weakness. Skin symptoms very
prominent. Often gives immunity from cold-catching. Easy
perspiration when walking. Syphilis, inherited and tertiary.
Offensive discharges.
Mind.--Hopeless; despairs of recovery. Melancholy, deep and
persistent; religious. Suicidal tendency.
Head.--Awakens at night with pain as from blow on head.
Chronic headaches; hungry during attacks; with vertigo.
Hammering pain; brain feels too large; worse, change of
weather. Dull, pressive pain in occiput. Humid eruption on
scalp; hair matted. Hair dry.
Eyes.--Agglutinated. Blepharitis. Chronic ophthalmia, that
constantly recurs. Edges of lids red. Secretion acrid.
Mouth.--Obstinate rhagades at corners. Tongue, gums
ulcerated; tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate.
Nose.--Dry, coryza, with stoppage of nose. Chronic catarrh;
dropping from posterior nares. Acne rosacea.
Ears.--Raw, red, oozing scabs around ears. Sore pain behind
ears. Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks. Offensive
discharge from eczema around ears. Intolerable itching.
Chronic otorrhśa. Most fetid pus from ears, brownish, offensive.
Face.--Swelling of upper lip. Pale, delicate. Humid eruption on
face. Sickly.
Throat.--Tonsils greatly swollen; painful swallowing, with pain
in ears. Profuse, offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat.
Recurring quinsy. Eradicates tendency to quinsy. Hawking up of
cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and taste (Agar).
Stomach.--Eructations like bad eggs. Very hungry always; must
have something to eat in the middle of the night. Nausea;
vomiting of pregnancy. Pain in abdomen after eating.
Stool.--Mucous, bloody, excessively fetid, dark fluid. Hard,
difficult stool, with blood from rectum and burning piles.
Constipation of infants, in pale, sickly scrofulous children.
Female.--Leucorrhśa fetid, lumpy, with much backache and
debility. Mammć swollen and painful. Pimples oozing an acrid
fluid that burns and excoriates the glands.
Respiratory.--Asthma, with dyspnśa; worse, sitting up; better,
lying down and keeping arms spread wide apart. Dry, hard
cough, with great weakness in chest. Feeling of ulceration under
sternum. Pain in chest; better, lying down. Cough returns every
winter, from suppressed eruption. Hay-fever returning
irregularly every year.
Extremities.--Weakness of joints, as if they would not hold
together. Eruption around finger-nails. Fetid foot-sweats.
Skin.--Dirty, dingy look. Dry, lusterless, rough hair. Intolerable
itching. Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of
joints with itching; worse, from warmth of bed. Enlarged glands.
Sebaceous glands secrete excessively; oily skin. Indolent ulcers,
slow to heal. Eczema behind ears. Crusty eruptions all over.
Urticaria after every exertion. Pustules near finger-nails.
Fever.--Profuse, offensive perspiration; night-sweats.
Sleep.--Sleepless from intolerable itching. Easily startled.
Modalities.--Worse, coffee; Psorinum patient does not improve
while using coffee. Worse, changes of weather, in hot sunshine,
from cold. Dread of least cold air or draft. Better, heat, warm
clothing, even in summer.
Relationship.--Complementary: Sulphur.
Compare: Pediculus-Head-louse--(psoric manifestations in
children. Eruption on dorsum of hands, feet neck. Prurigo;
pellagra. Unusual aptitude for study and work).
Pediculus(Cooties) transmit typhus and trench fever). In lack of
reaction compare Calcarea and Natrum ars. Gaertner
(Pessimistic, lack of confidence, subjective troublesome eye
symptoms, fear of heights. Urticaria. Use 30th and 200th
(Wheeler).
Dose.--Two hundredth and higher potencies. Should not be
repeated too often. Psorinum requires something like 9 days
before it manifests its action, and even a single dose may elicit
other symptoms lasting for weeks (Aegedi).
PTELEA TRIFOLIATA
Wafer-ash
(PTELEA)
Is a remarkable remedy in stomach and liver affections. The
aching and heaviness in the region of the liver is greatly
aggravated by lying on the left side. Atonic states of stomach.
Asthma.
Head.--Feels dull and stupid. Pain from forehead to root of
nose; pressing-outward pain. Frontal headache; worse, noise,
motion, night, rubbing eyes, with acidity. Temples as if pressed
together.
Mouth.--Excess of saliva, with dry bitter taste. Tongue coated
white or yellow; feels rough, swollen. Papillć red and prominent
(Arg n). Coating may be brownish-yellow.
Stomach.--Weight and fullness. Griping in epigastric region,
with dryness of mouth. Eructations, nausea, vomiting. Constant
sensation of corrosion, heat and burning in stomach. Stomach
feels empty after eating. Stomach and liver symptoms associated
with pain in limbs.
Abdomen.--Much weight and pain in right side; heavy, aching
feeling, relieved by lying on right side. Liver sore, swollen,
sensitive to pressure. Retraction of abdomen.
Respiratory.--Feeling of pressure on lungs and of suffocation,
when lying on back. Asthma; dyspnśa; cramp-like pain in
cardiac region.
Sleep.--Restless, with frightful dreams; nightmare, awakes
languid and unrefreshed.
Modalities.--Worse, lying on left side; early morning. Better,
eating sour things.
Relationship.--Compare: Mercur; Magn mur; Nux; Chelid.
Dose.--First to thirtieth potency.
PULSATILLA PRATENSIS
Wind Flower
(PULSATILLA)
The weather-cock among remedies.
The disposition and mental state are the chief guiding symptoms
to the selection of Pulsatilla. It is pre-eminently a female
remedy, especially for mild, gentle, yielding disposition. Sad,
crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory.
The patient seeks the open air; always feels better there, even
though he is chilly. Mucous membranes are all affected.
Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish-green. Often indicated
after abuse of Iron tonics, and after badly-managed measles.
Symptoms ever changing. Thirstless, peevish, and chilly. When
first serious impairment of health is referred to age of puberty.
Great sensitiveness. Wants the head high. Feels uncomfortable
with only one pillow. Lies with hands above head.
Mind.--Weeps easily. Timid, irresolute. Fears in evening to be
alone, dark, ghost. Likes sympathy. Children like fuss and
caresses. Easily discouraged. Morbid dread of the opposite sex.
Religious melancholy. Given to extremes of pleasure and pain.
Highly emotional. Mentally, an April day.
Head.--Wandering stitches about head; pains extend to face and
teeth; vertigo; better in open air. Frontal and supra-orbital pains.
Neuralgic pains, commencing in right temporal region, with
scalding lachrymation of affected side. Headache from
overwork. Pressure on vertex.
Ears.--Sensation as if something were being forced outward.
Hearing difficult, as if the ear were stuffed. Otorrhśa. Thick,
bland discharge; offensive odor. External ear swollen and red.
Catarrhal otitis. Otalgia, worse at night. Diminishes acuteness of
hearing.
Eyes.--Thick, profuse, yellow, bland discharges. Itching and
burning in eyes. Profuse lachrymation and secretion of mucus.
Lids inflamed, agglutinated. Styes. Veins of fundus oculi greatly
enlarged. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Subacute conjunctivitis, with
dyspepsia; worse, in warm room.
Nose.--Coryza; stoppage of right nostril, pressing pain at root of
nose. Loss of smell. Large green fetid scales in nose. Stoppage
in evening. Yellow mucus; abundant in morning. Bad smells, as
of old catarrh. Nasal bones sore.
Face.--Right-sided neuralgia, with profuse lachrymation.
Swelling of lower lip, which is cracked in middle. Prosopalgia
towards evening till midnight; chilly, with pain.
Mouth.--Greasy taste. Dry mouth, without thirst; wants it
washed frequently. Frequently licks the dry lips. Crack in
middle of lower lip. Yellow or white tongue, covered with a
tenacious mucus. Toothache; relieved by holding cold water in
mouth (Coff). Offensive odor from mouth (Merc; Aur). Food,
especially bread, tastes bitter. Much sweet saliva. Alternations of
taste, bitter, bilious, greasy, salty, foul. Loss of taste. Desire for
tonics.
Stomach.--Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink.
Eructations; taste of food remains a long time; after ices, fruits,
pasty. Bitter taste, diminished taste of all food. Pain as from
subcutaneous ulceration. Flatulence. Dislikes butter (Sang).
Heartburn. Dyspepsia, with great tightness after a meal; must
loosen clothing. Thirstlessness, with nearly all complaints.
Vomiting of food eaten long before. Pain in stomach an hour
after eating (Nux). Weight as from a stone, especially in morning
on awakening. Gnawing, hungry feeling (Abies c). Perceptible
pulsation in pit of stomach (Asaf). All-gone sensation, especially
in tea drinkers. Waterbrash, with foul taste in the morning.
Abdomen.--Painful, distended; loud rumbling. Pressure as from
a stone. Colic, with chilliness in evening.
Stool.--Rumbling, watery; worse, night No two stools alike.
After fruit (Ars; Chin). Blind hćmorrhoids, with itching and
sticking pains. Dysentery; mucus and blood, with chilliness
(Merc; Rheum). Two or three normal stools daily.
Urine.--Increased desire; worse when lying down. Burning in
orifice of urethra during and after micturition. Involuntary
micturition at night, while coughing or passing flatus. After
urinating, spasmodic pain in bladder.
Female.--Amenorrhśa (Cimicif; Senec; Polygon). Suppressed
menses from wet feet, nervous debility, or chlorosis. Tardy
menses. Too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted, changeable,
intermittent. Chilliness, nausea, downward pressure, painful,
flow intermits. Leucorrhśa acrid, burning, creamy. Pain in back;
tired feeling. Diarrhśa during or after menses.
Male.--Orchitis; pain from abdomen to testicles. Thick, yellow
discharge from urethra; late stage of gonorrhśa. Stricture; urine
passed only in drops, and stream interrupted (Clemat). Acute
prostatitis. Pain and tenesmus in urinating, worse lying on back.
Respiratory.--Capricious hoarseness; comes and goes. Dry
cough in evening and at night; must sit up in bed to get relief;
and loose cough in the morning, with copious mucous
expectoration. Pressure upon the chest and soreness. Great
soreness of epigastrium. Urine emitted with cough (Caust). Pain
as from ulcer in middle of chest. Expectoration bland, thick,
bitter, greenish. Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when
lying on left side (Phos). Smothering sensation on lying down.
Sleep.--Wide awake in the evening; first sleep restless. Wakes
languid, unrefreshed. Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon. Sleeps
with hands over head.
Back.--Shooting pain in the nape and back, between shoulders;
in sacrum after sitting.
Extremities.--Drawing, tensive pain in thighs and legs, with
restlessness, sleeplessness and chilliness. Pain in limbs, shifting
rapidly; tensive pain, letting up with a snap. Numbness around
elbow. Hip-joint painful. Knees swollen, with tearing, drawing
pains. Boring pain in heels toward evening; suffering worse from
letting the affected limb hang down (Vipera). Veins in forearms
and hands swollen. Feet red, inflamed, swollen. Legs feel heavy
and weary.
Skin.--Urticaria, after rich food, with diarrhśa, from delayed
menses, worse undressing. Measles. Acne at puberty. Varicose
veins.
Fever.--Chilliness, even in warm room, without thirst. Chilly
with pains, in spots, worse evening. Chill about 4 pm.
Intolerable burning heat at night, with distended veins; heat in
parts of body, coldness in other. One-sided sweat; pains during
sweat. External heat is intolerable, veins are distended. During
apyrexia, headache, diarrhśa, loss of appetite, nausea.
Modalities.--Worse, from heat, rich fat food, after eating,
towards evening, warm room, lying on left or on painless side
when allowing feet to hang down. Better, open air, motion, cold
applications, cold food and drinks, though not thirsty.
Relationship.--Penthorum, often indicated after Pulsatilla in
later colds. Ionesia Asoca-Saraca indica--(Amenorrhśa.
Menorrhagia-acts powerfully on female organs. Abdominal
pain). Atriplex (Uterine symptoms, amenorrhśa; hysteria,
coldness between shoulders, dislike of warm food, craves
strange foods, palpitation, sleeplessness). Pulsatilla Nuttaliana,
identical effects.
Compare: Cyclamen; Kali bich; Kali sulph; Sulphur. Pimenta-
Allspice--(one-sided neuralgias, parts of body hot and cold).
Anagyris (headache, amenorrhśa).
Complementary: Coffea; Chamom; Nux.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth attenuation.
PULEX IRRITANS
Common Flea
Marked urinary and female symptoms.
Head.--Very impatient, cross, and irritable. Frontal headache,
with enlarged feeling of eyes. Face wrinkled and old-looking.
Mouth.--Metallic taste. Sensation of a thread in throat. Thirsty,
especially during headache.
Stomach.--Breath and taste foul. Intense nausea, with vomiting,
purging, and faintness. Stool very offensive. Abdomen bloated.
Urine.--Scanty with frequent urging, with pressure on bladder
and burning in urethra. Flow stops suddenly followed by pain.
Urine foul. Cannot retain urine; must attend to the call without
delay. Irritable bladder before menses.
Female.--Menses delayed. Increased flow of saliva during.
Intense burning in vagina. Leucorrhśa, profuse, foul, staining a
greenish yellow; stains of menses and leucorrhśa very hard to
wash out. Backache (Oxal ac).
Back.--Aches, weak; drawing of muscles below scapulć.
Fever.--Feels a glow all over, like being over steam; chilly,
while sitting beside the fire.
Skin.--Prickly itching. Sore spots all over. Skin emits foul odor.
Modalities.--Better, sitting or lying down. Worse, left side,
moving about.
Dose.--The higher potencies.
PYROGENIUM
Artificial Sepsin
This remedy was introduced by English Homeopathists,
prepared from decomposed lean beef allowed to stand in the sun
for two weeks and then potentized. The provings and most of the
clinical experience have been obtained from this preparation.
But, subsequently, Dr. Swan potentized some septic pus, which
preparation has also been proved and clinically applied. There
does not seem to be any marked difference in their effects.
Pyrogen is the great remedy for septic states, with intense
restlessness. "In septic fevers, especially puerperal, Pyrogen has
demonstrated its great value as a homeopathic dynamic
antiseptic. " (H. C. Allen). Hectic, typhoid, typhus, ptomaine
poisoning, diphtheria, dissecting wounds, sewer-gas poisoning,
chronic malaria, after-effects of miscarriage, all these conditions
at times may present symptoms calling for this unique medicine.
All discharges are horribly offensive-menstrual, lochial,
diarrhśa, vomit, sweat, breath, etc. Great pain and violent
burning in abscesses. Chronic complaints that date back to septic
conditions. Threatening heart failure in zymotic and septic
fevers. Influenza, typhoid symptoms.
Mind.--Full of anxiety and insane notions. Loquacious. Thinks
he is very wealthy. Restless. Feels if crowded with arms and
legs. Cannot tell whether dreaming while awake or asleep.
Head.--Painless throbbing. Fan-like motion of alć nasi (Lyc;
Phos). Bursting headache with restlessness.
Mouth.--Tongue red and dry, clean, cracked, smooth, as though
varnished. Throat dry, articulation difficult. Nausea and
vomiting. Taste terribly fetid. Breath horrible.
Stomach.--Coffee-grounds vomiting. Vomits water, when it
becomes warm in stomach.
Abdomen.--Intolerable tenesmus o both bladder and rectum.
Bloated, sore, cutting pain.
Stool.--Diarrhśa; horribly offensive, brown-black, painless,
involuntary. Constipation, with complete inertia (Opium);
obstinate from impaction. Stools large, black, carrion-like, or
small black balls.
Heart.--Tired feeling about heart. Palpitation. Sensation as if
heart were too full. Always can hear her heart beat. Pulse
abnormally rapid, out of proportion to the temperaturepain in
region of left nipple. Conscious of heart.
Female.--Puerperal peritonitis, with extreme fetor. Septicćmia
following abortion. Menses horribly offensive. Uterine
hćmorrhages. Fever at each menstrual period, consequent upon
latent pelvic inflammation. Septic puerperal infection. Pelvic
calculitis. Inflammatory exudate. Post-operative cases, with
overwhelming sepsis.
Fever.--Coldness and chilliness. Septic fevers. Latent pyogenic
condition. Chill begins in back. Temperature rises rapidly. Great
heat with profuse hot sweat, but sweating does not cause a fall
in temperature.
Extremities.--Throbbing in vessels of neck. Numbness of
hands, arms, feet. Aching in all limbs and bones. Bed feels too
hard (Arn). Great debility in the morning. Soreness; better by
motion (Rhus). Rapid decubitus of septic origin.
Skin.--Small cut or injury becomes much swollen and inflamed-
discolored. Dry.
Sleep.--Seems to be in semi-sleep. Dreams all night.
Modalities.--Relief from motion.
Relationship.--Compare: Streptoccin (anti-febrile action; septic
symptoms in infectious diseases). Rapid in its action, especially
in its effect on temperature; Staphyloccin in diseases where the
staphylococcus is the chief bacterial factor, as acne, abscess,
furuncle; empyćma, endocarditis, etc. ; Sepin-A toxin of Proteus
vulgaris, prepared by Dr. Shedd, same symptoms as Pyrogen, of
which it is the main constituent; Echinacea; Carbo; Ars; Lach;
Rhus; Bapt.
Complementary: Bryon.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth and higher potencies. Should not be
repeated too frequently.
QUASSIA AMARA
Quassia-wood
(QUASSIA - PICRAENA EXCELSA)
Acts on gastric organs as a tonic (Gentian; Hydr). Seems to
possess marked action on eyes, producing amblyopia and
cataract. Pain in right intercostal muscles above the liver.
Pressure and stitches in liver, and sympathetically in spleen.
Stomach.--Atonic dyspepsia, with gas and acidity. Heart-burn
and gastralgia. Regurgitation of food. Abdomen feels empty and
retracted. Dyspepsia after infectious diseases; especially grip,
dysentery. Tongue dry or with brown sticky coating. Cirrhosis
of liver with ascites.
Urinary.--Excessive desire-impossible to retain urine; copious
micturition day and night. As soon as the child wakes up the bed
is drenched.
Extremities.--Inclination to yawn and stretch (Rhus). Sensation
of coldness over back. Prostration, with hunger. Cold
extremities, with sensation of internal coldness (Helo-derma).
Dose.--First to third potency, or spoonful doses of Aqua
Quassiae.
QUEBRACHO
Quebracho
(ASPIDOSPERMA)
The digitalis of the lungs (Hale). Removes temporary
obstruction to the oxidation of the blood by stimulating
respiratory centers, increasing oxidation and excretion of
carbonic acid. Pulmonary stenosis. Thrombosis of pulmonary
artery. Urćmic dyspnśa. An effective remedy in many cases of
asthma. It stimulates the respiratory centers and increases the
oxygen in the blood. "Want of breath" during exertion is the
guiding symptom. Cardiac asthma.
Relationship.--Compare: Coca; Arsenic; Coffea-Catalpa
(difficult respiration).
Dose.--First trituration of tincture, or Aspidospermin
hydrochlorid 1 grain of 1x trit. Every hour for a few doses.
QUERCUS E GLANDIBUS
Spirit distilled from Tincture of Acorn Kernels
(QUERCUS GLANDIUM SPIRITUS)
Used first by Rademacher for chronic spleen affections; spleen-
dropsy. Antidotes effects of Alcohol. Vertigo; deafness, with
noises in head. Takes away craving for alcoholics; give dose as
below for several months. Dropsy and liver affections. Useful in
gout, old malarial cases with flatulence.
Relationship.--Compare: Angelica (in tincture, five drops, three
times daily, produces disgust for liquor; also for atony of
different organs, dyspepsia, nervous headache, etc; chronic
bronchitis to increase expectoration). Ceanoth; Lach; Nat mur;
Helianthus (spleen enlarged and painful).
Dose.--Ten drops to a teaspoonful of the distilled spirit three to
four times a day. A passing diarrhśa often appears for a times a
day. A passing diarrhśa often appears for a time when using it.
Curative effect. Quercus acts well in trituration of the acorn 3x
in splenic cases, flatulence, old malaria and alcoholic history
(Clark).
QUILLAYA SAPONARIA
Chile Soap-bark
Produces and cures symptoms of acute catarrh, sneezing and
sore throat. Most effective in the beginning of coryza, checking
its further development. Colds with sore throat; heat and dryness
of throat. Cough with difficult expectoration. Squamous skin
Relationship.--Compare: Kali hyd; Gels; Cepa; Squilla.
Saponaria (sore throat, involuntary urination). Senega.
Dose.--Tincture and first potency.
RADIUM BROMATUM
Radium Bromide
(RADIUM)
An important addition to the Materia Medica, especially since
the provings by Diffenbach have precisionized its use. Radium
brom of 1,800,000 radio-activity was employed. Found effective
in the treatment of rheumatism and gout, in skin affections
generally, acne rosacea, nævi, moles, ulcers and cancers.
Lowered blood pressure. Severe aching pains all over, with
restlessness, better moving about. Chronic rheumatic arthritis.
Lateness in appearance of symptoms. Ulcers due to Radium
burns, take a long time to heal. Marked increase in the
polymorphonuclear neutrophiles. Great weakness.
Mind.--Apprehensive, depressed; fear of being alone in the
dark; great desire to be with people. Tired and irritable.
Head.--Vertigo, with pain in back of head, left when in bed.
Occipital and vertex pain, accompanying severe lumbar aching.
Severe pain over right eye, spreading back to occiput and to
vertex, better in open air. Head feels heavy. Frontal headache.
Both eyes ache. Itching and dryness of nasal cavities, better in
open air. Aching pain in angle of right lower jaw. Violent
trifacial neuralgia.
Mouth.--Dryness of mouth. Metallic taste. Prickling sensation
on end of tongue.
Stomach.--Empty feeling in stomach. Warm sensation in
stomach. Aversion to sweets, ice-cream. Nausea and sinking
sensation, belching of gas.
Abdomen.--Pain, violent cramps, rumbling, full of gas; pain
over McBurney's point, and at location of sigmoid flexure.
Much flatulence. Alternating constipation and loose movements.
Pruritus ani and piles.
Urinary.--Increased elimination of solids, particularly of
chlorides. Renal irritation, albuminuria, granular and hyaline
casts. Nephritis with rheumatic symptoms. Enuresis.
Female.--Pruritus vulvæ. Delayed and irregular menstruation
and backache. Aching pains in abdomen over pubes when flow
comes on. Right breast sore, relieved by hard rubbing.
Respiratory.--Persistent cough with tickling in suprasternal
fossa. Dry, spasmodic cough. Throat dry, sore, chest constricted.
Back.--Aching in back of neck. Pain and lameness in cervical
vertebræ, worse dropping head forward, better standing, or
sitting erect. Lumbar and sacral backache, pain appears to be in
bone, continued motion relieves. Backache between shoulders
and lumbar-sacral region, better after walking.
Extremities.--Severe pain in all the limbs, joints, especially in
knee and ankles, sharp pains in shoulders, arms, hands and
fingers. Legs, arms and neck feel hard and brittle, as though they
would break on moving. Arms feel heavy. Cracking in shoulder.
Pain in toes, calves, hip-joint, popliteal spaces. Muscles of legs
and hips sore. Arthritis, aching pains, worse at night. Dermatitis
of the fingers. Trophic changes in the finger nails.
Skin.--Small pimples. Erythema and dermatitis, with itching,
burning, swelling and redness. Necrosis and ulceration. Itching
all over body, burning of skin, as if afire. Epithelioma.
Sleep.--Restless. Sleepiness with lethargy. Dreams vivid, busy.
Dreams of fire.
Fever.--Cold sensation internally, with chattering of teeth until
noon. Internal chilliness followed by heat of the skin, associated
with bowel movements and flatulence.
Modalities.--Better, open air, continued motion, hot bath, lying
down, pressure. Worse, getting up.
Relationship.--Compare: Anacardium (the ulceration produced
by it is like Radium. It may appear elsewhere than on place of
contact and appear late). Compare: X-Ray; Rhus; Sepia;
Uranium; Ars; Pulsat; Caustic.
Antidotes: Rhus ven; Tellur.
Dose.--Thirtieth and twelfth trituration.
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
Buttercup
Acts especially upon the muscular tissue and skin, and its most
characteristic effects are upon the chest walls, like pleurodynia.
Bad effects of Alcohol; delirium tremens. Spasmodic hiccough.
Hydrothorax. Shocks throughout the whole body. Sensitive to
air and touch. Chronic sciatica.
Head.--Irritable, pains in forehead and eyeballs. Creeping
sensation in scalp. Pressing pain in forehead from within
outward.
Eyes.--Day-blindness; mist before eyes; pressure and smarting
in eyes, as from smoke. Pain over right eye; better, standing and
walking. Herpes on cornea. Vesicles on cornea, with intense
pain, photophobia, and lachrymation.
Chest.--Various kinds of pains and soreness, as if bruised in
sternum, ribs, intercostal spaces, and both hypochondria. Inter-
costal rheumatism. Chilliness in chest when walking in open air.
Stitches in chest, between shoulder-blades; worse, inspiring,
moving. Rheumatic pain in chest, as from subcutaneous
ulceration. Tenderness of abdomen to pressure. Muscular pain
along lower margin of the shoulder-blade; burning in small
spots from sedentary employment.
Skin.--Burning and intense itching; worse, contact. Hard
excrescences. Herptic eruptions, with great itching. Shingles,
bluish vesicles. Itching in palms. Blister-like eruption in palms.
Corns sensitive. Horny skin. Finger-tips and palms chapped.
Vesicular and pustular eruptions.
Modalities.--Worse, open air, motion, contact, atmospheric
changes, wet, stormy weather, evening. Cold air brings on all
sorts of ailments.
Relationship.--Incompatible: Sulph; Staph.
Compare: Ranunc acris (pain in lumbar muscles and joints by
bending and turning body); Ranunc glacialis-Reindeer flower
Carlina--(Pulmonary affections; broncho-pneumonical
Influenza-enormous weight in head with vertigo and sensation
as of impending apoplexy; night-sweats-more on thighs);
Ranunc repens (crawling sensation in forehead and scalp in
evening in bed); Ranunc flammula (ulceration; gangrene of
arm). Compare, also: Bry; Croton; Mez; Euphorb.
Antidotes: Bry; Camph; Rhus.
Dose.--Mother tincture, in ten to thirty drop doses in delirium
tremens; third to thirtieth potency generally. Chronic sciatica,
apply tincture to heel of affected leg (M. Jousset).
RANUNCULUS SCELERATUS
Marsh Buttercup
Is more irritating than others of this botanical family, as seen in
the skin symptoms. Boring, gnawing pain very marked.
Pemphigus. Periodical complaints. Fainting with pain in
stomach.
Head.--Gnawing in one spot left of vertex. Frightful dreams
about corpses, serpents, battles, etc. Fluent coryza, with
sneezing and burning micturition.
Mouth.--Teeth and gums sensitive. Tongue mapped denuded
patches. Mouth sore and raw. Burning and rawness of tongue.
Abdomen.--Sensation of a plug behind umbilicus. Pain over
region of liver, with sensation as if diarrhśa would set it.
Pressure as of a plug behind right false ribs; worse, deep
inspiration.
Chest.--Integument sensitive. Bruised pain and weakness in the
chest every evening. Sore burning behind xiphoid cartilage.
Skin.--Vesicular eruption, with tendency to form large blisters.
Acrid exudation, which makes surrounding parts sore.
Extremities.--Boring pain. Sudden burning sticking in right toe.
Corns, with burning and soreness, especially when feet hang
down. Gout in fingers and toes.
Dose.--First to third potency.
RAPHANUS SATIVUS
Black Garden Radish
(RAPHANUS)
Produces pain and stitches in liver and spleen. Increases of bile
and salivary secretion. Symptoms will not appear if salt is used
with the Radish. Great accumulation and incarceration of
flatulence. "Globus" symptoms. Seborrhśa, with greasy skin.
Pemphigus. Hysteria; chilliness in back and arms. Sexual
insomnia (Kali brom). Nymphomania. Post-operative gas pains.
Head.--Sadness, aversion to children, especially girls.
Headache, brain feels tender and sore. Śdema of lower eyelids.
Mucus in posterior nares.
Throat.--Hot-ball feeling from uterus to throat, stopping there.
Heat and burning in throat.
Stomach.--Putrid eructations. Burning in epigastrium, followed
by hot eructation.
Abdomen.--Retching and vomiting, loss of appetite. Distended,
tympanitic, hard. No flatus emitted upward or downward.
Griping about navel. Stool liquid, frothy, profuse, brown, with
colic, and pad-like swelling of intestines. Vomiting of fecal
matter.
Female.--Nervous irritation of genitals. Menses very profuse
and long-lasting. Nymphomania, with aversion to her own sex
and to children, and sexual insomnia.
Urine.--Turbid, with yeast-like sediment. Urine more copious,
thick like milk.
Chest.--Pain in chest extends to back and to throat. Heavy lump
and coldness in center of chest.
Relationship.--Compare: Momordica (worse, near splenic
flexure); Carbo; Anarc; Arg nit; Brassica.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
RATANHIA PERUVIANA
Krameria-Mapato
(RATANHIA)
The rectal symptoms are most important, and have received
much clinical confirmation. It has cured pterygium. Violent
hiccough. Cracked nipples (Graph; Eup ar). Pin worms.
Head.--Bursting in head after stool, and when sitting with head
bent forward. Sensation as if scalp from nose to vertex were
stretched.
Stomach.--Pain like knives cutting the stomach.
Rectum.--Aches, as if full of broken glass. Anus aches and
burns for hours after stool. Feels constricted. Dry heat at anus,
with sudden knife-like stitches. Stools must be forced with great
effort; protrusion of hæmorrhoids. Fissures of anus, with great
constriction, burning like fire, as do the hæmorrhoids;
temporarily relieved by cold water. Fetid, thin diarrhœa; stools
burn; burning pains before and after stools. Oozing at anus. Pin-
worms (Sant; Teuc; Spig). Itching of anus.
Relationship.--Compare: Paeon; Croton (rectal neuralgia);
Sanguin nit (diseases of rectum); Macuna prurens-Dolichos-
piles, with burning; hæmorrhoidal diathesis; Silico-sulphocalcite
of Alumina; Stag-blast iron furnace cinder--(anal itching, piles,
and constipation; housemaid's knee); abdominal flatulent
distension and lumbago. Analogue to Lycopod.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency. Locally, the Cerate has proved
invaluable in many rectal complaints.
RHAMNUS CALIFORNICA
California Coffee-tree
One of the most positive remedies for rheumatism and muscular
pains. Pleurodynia, lumbago, gastralgia. Vesical tenesmus;
dysmenorrhœa of myalgic origin; pain in head, neck, and face.
Inflammatory rheumatism, joints swollen, painful; tendency to
metastasis; profuse sweat. Rheumatic heart (Webster).
Provings of students. 2x potency.
Mind.--Nervous, restless, irritable. Lassitude; mentally dull and
dazed; unable to concentrate mind on studies.
Head.--Dizzy full feeling. Heavy bruised sensation; better from
pressure. Bursting feeling with every step. Soreness, especially
in occiput and vertex, worse, bending over. Dull pain in left
temple. Dull aching in frontal region (left), extending backwards
and over forehead. Deep, right-sided frontal headache.
Twitching eyelids.
Ears.--Dullness of hearing. Soreness, deep under right tragus on
swallowing.
Face.--Flushed, hot and glowing. Outward pressure from malar
processes.
Mouth.--Canker sore between gums and lips. Tongue coated,
with clean, pink central patch.
Throat.--Dry, rough. Soreness on right side and tonsil.
Bowels.--Constipation with some flatus. Tenesmus and dry
stool. Flatulent diarrhœa.
Genito-urinary.--Increased urination. Tickling in anterior
urethra, small morning drop (no previous gonorrhœa). Sexual
desire increased.
Respiratory.--Substernal oppression. Tenderness on pressure of
right intercostal muscles.
Heart.--Variation of pulse. Slow pulse.
Extremities.--Unable to control muscular action. Legs sore.
Walked like a drunken man.
Modality.--Symptoms worse in evening.
Relationship.--Rhamnus cathartica or Rhamnus Frangula-
European Buckthorn-a rheumatic remedy--(abdominal
symptoms, colic, diarrhœa; hæmorrhoids, especially chronic).
Rhamnus Purshiana-Cascara Sagrada--(palliative in
constipation, as an intestinal tonic, and dyspepsia dependent
thereon. 10-15 drops of tincture).
Dose.--Tincture in 15-drop doses every four hours.
RHEUM PALMATUM
Rhubarb
(RHEUM)
Of frequent use in children with sour diarrhœa; difficult
dentition. Whole child smells sour.
Mind.--Impatient and vehement; desires many things and cries
(Cina).
Head.--Sweat on hairy scalp; constant and profuse. Cool sweat
on the face, especially about mouth and nose.
Mouth.--Much saliva. Sensation of coolness in teeth. Difficult
teething; restless and irritable. Breath smells sour (Cham).
Stomach.--Desire for various kinds of food, but soon tires of all.
Throbbing in pit. Feels full.
Abdomen.--Colicky pain about navel. Colic when uncovering.
Wind seems to rise up to chest.
Rectum.--Before stool, unsuccessful urging to urinate. Stools
smell sour, pasty, with shivering and tenesmus, and burning in
anus. Sour diarrhœa during dentition. Colicky, even ineffectual
urging to evacuate altered fecal stools.
Modalities.--Worse, uncovering, after eating, moving about.
Relationship.--Compare: Mag phos; Hep; Pod; Cham; Ipec.
Antidotes: Camph; Cham.
Complementary: Mag carb.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
Snow-rose
(RHODODENDRON)
Rheumatic and gouty symptoms well marked. Rheumatism in
the hot season. The modality (worse before a storm) is a true
guiding symptom.
Mind.--Dread of a storm; particularly afraid of thunder.
Forgetful.
Head.--Aching in temples. Tearing pain in bones. Headache;
worse, wine, wind, cold and wet weather. Pain in eyes before a
storm. Ciliary neuralgia, involving eyeball, orbit, and head.
Heat in eyes when using them.
Eyes.--Muscular asthenopia; darting pains through eyes from
head, worse before a storm.
Ears.--Difficult hearing, with whizzing and ringing in ears.
Hearing better in the morning; noises come on after patient has
been up a few hours.
Face.--Prosopalgia; violent jerking pain involving dental nerves,
from temple to lower jaw and chin; better, warmth and eating.
toothache in damp weather and before a storm. Swollen gums.
Stumps of teeth are loosened.
Chest.--Violent pleuritic pains running downward in left
anterior chest. Breathless and speechless from violent pleuritic
pains running down the anterior chest. Stitches in spleen from
fast walking. Crampy pain under short ribs.
Male.--Testicles, worse left, swollen, painful, drawn up.
Orchitis; glands feel crushed. Induration and swelling of testes
after gonorrhśa. Hydrocele (Sil).
Extremities.--Joints swollen. Gouty inflammation of great toe-
joint. Rheumatic tearing in all limbs, especially right side;
worse, at rest and in stormy weather. Stiffness of neck. Pain in
shoulders, arms, wrists; worse when at rest. Pains in bones in
spots, and reappear by change of weather. Cannot sleep unless
legs are crossed.
Modalities.--Worse, before a storm. All symptoms reappear in
rough weather, night, towards morning. Better, after the storm
breaks, warmth, and eating
Relationship.--Compare: Ampelopsis (hydrocele and renal
dropsy); Dulc; Rhus; Nat sulph.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
RHODIUM METALLICUM
Metal Chemical Element
(RHODIUM)
(Proved by MacFarlan with the 200th potency).
Nervous and tearful. Frontal headache; shocks through head.
Fleeting neuralgic pains in head, over eyes, in ear, both sides of
nose, teeth. Loose cold in head. Lips dry. Nausea especially
from sweets. Dull headache. Stiff neck and rheumatic pain down
left shoulder and arm. Itching in arms, palms and face. Loose
stools with gripings in abdomen. Hyper-active peristalsis,
tenesmus after stool. More urine passed. Cough scratchy,
wheezy. Thick, yellow mucus from chest. Feels weak, dizzy and
a tired feeling.
RHUS AROMATICA
Fragrant Sumach
Renal and urinary affections, especially diabetes. Enuresis due
to vesical atony; senile incontinence. Hćmaturia and cystitis
come within the range of this remedy.
Urine.--Pale, albuminous. Incontinence. Severe pain at
beginning or before urination, causing great agony in children.
Constant dribbling. Diabetes, large quantities of urine of low
specific gravity (Phos ac; Acet ac).
Dose.--Tincture, in rather material doses.
RHUS GLABRA
Smooth Sumach
Epistaxis and occipital headache. Fetid flatus. Ulceration of
mouth. Dreams of flying through the air (Sticta). Profuse
perspiration arising from debility (China). It is claimed that this
remedy will so disinfect the bowels that the flatus and stools will
be free from odor. It acts well in putrescent conditions with
tendency to ulceration.
Mouth.--Scurvy; nursing sore mouth (Veronica). Aphthous
stomatitis.
Relationship.--Said to be antidotal to the action of Mercury, and
has been employed in the treatment of secondary syphilis after
mercurialization.
Dose.--Tincture. Usually locally to soft, spongy gums, aphthć,
pharyngitis, etc. Internally, first potency.
RHUS TOXICODENDRON
Poison-ivy
The effects on the skin, rheumatic pains, mucous membrane
affections, and a typhoid type of fever, make this remedy
frequently indicated. Rhus affects fibrous tissue markedly-joints,
tendons, sheaths-aponeurosis, etc, producing pains and stiffness.
Post-operative complications. Tearing asunder pains. Motion
always "limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better
for a time from a change of position. Ailments from strains,
overlifting, getting wet while perspiring. Septic conditions.
Cellulitis and infections, carbuncles in early stages (Echinac).
Rheumatism in the cold season. Septicćmia.
Mind.--Listless, sad. Thoughts of suicide. Extreme restlessness,
with continued change of position. Delirium, with fear of being
poisoned (Hyos). Sensorium becomes cloudy. Great
apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed.
Head.--Feels as if a board were strapped on the forehead.
Vertigo when rising. Heavy head. Brain feels loose and as if
struck against skull on walking or rising. Scalp sensitive; worse
on side lain on. Headache in occiput (Rhus rad); painful to
touch. Pain in forehead and proceeds thence backward. Humid
eruptions on scalp; itching greatly.
Eyes.--Swollen, red, śdematous; orbital cellulitis. Pustular
inflammations. Photophobia; profuse flow of yellow pus. Śdema
of lids, suppurative iritis. Lids inflamed, agglutinated swollen.
Old injured eyes. Circumscribed corneal injection. Intensive
ulceration of the cornea. Iritis, after exposure to cold and
dampness, and of rheumatic origin. Eye painful on turning it or
pressing, can hardly move it, as in acute retrobulbar neuritis.
Profuse gush of hot, scalding tears upon opening lids.
Ears.--Pain in ears, with sensation as if something were in them.
Lobules swollen. Discharge of bloody pus.
Nose.--Sneezing; coryza from getting wet. Tip of nose red, sore,
ulcerated. Swelling of nose. Nosebleed on stooping.
Face.--Jaws crack when chewing. Easy dislocation of jaw (Ign;
Petrol). Swollen face, erysipelas. Cheek bones sensitive to
touch. Parotitis. Facial neuralgia, with chilliness; worse,
evening. Crusta lactea (Calc; Viol tric).
Mouth.--Teeth feel loose and long; gums sore. Tongue red and
cracked; coated, except red triangular space at the tip; dry and
red at edges. Corners of mouth ulcerated; fever-blisters around
mouth and chin (Nat mur). Pain in maxillary joint.
Throat.--Sore, with swollen glands. Sticking pain on
swallowing. Parotitis; left side.
Stomach.--Want of appetite for any kind of food, with
unquenchable thirst. Bitter taste (Cupr). Nausea, vertigo, and
bloated abdomen after eating. Desire for milk. Great thirst, with
dry mouth and throat. Pressure as from a stone. (Bry; Ars)
Drowsy after eating.
Abdomen.--Violent pains, relieved by lying on abdomen.
Swelling of inguinal glands. Pain in region of ascending colon.
Colic, compelling to walk bent. Excessive distention after
eating. Rumbling of flatus on first rising, but disappears with
continued motion.
Rectum.--Diarrhśa of blood, slime, and reddish mucus.
Dysentery, with tearing pains down thighs. Stools of cadaverous
odor. Frothy, painless stools. Will often abort a beginning
suppurative process near the rectum. Dysentery.
Urinary.--Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white
sediment. Dysuria, with loss of blood.
Male.--Swelling of glands and prepuce-dark-red erysipelatous;
scrotum thick, swollen, śdematous. Itching intense.
Female.--Swelling, with intense itching of vulva. Pelvic
articulations stiff when beginning to move. Menses early,
profuse, and prolonged, acrid. Lochia thin, protracted, offensive
diminished (Puls; Secale), with shooting upwards in vagina
(Sep).
Respiratory.--Tickling behind upper sternum. Dry, teasing
cough from midnight until morning, during a chill, or when
putting hands out of bed. Hćmoptysis from overexertion; blood
bright red. Influenza, with aching in all bones (Eup perf).
Hoarseness from overtraining voice (Arn). Oppression of the
chest, cannot get breath with sticking pains. Bronchial coughs in
old people, worse on awaking and with expectoration of small
plugs of mucus.
Heart.--Hypertrophy from overexertion. Pulse quick, weak,
irregular, intermittent, with numbness of left arm. Trembling
and palpitation when sitting still.
Back.--Pain between shoulders on swallowing. Pain and
stiffness in small of back; better, motion, or lying on something
hard; worse, while sitting. Stiffness of the nape of the neck.
Extremities.--Hot, painful swelling of joints. Pains tearing in
tendons, ligaments, and fascić. Rheumatic pains spread over a
large surface at nape of neck, loins, and extremities; better
motion (Agaric). Soreness of condyles of bones. Limbs stiff
paralyzed. The cold fresh air is not tolerated; it makes the skin
painful. Pain along ulnar nerve. Tearing down thighs. Sciatica;
worse, cold, damp weather, at night. Numbness and formication,
after overwork and exposure. Paralysis; trembling after exertion.
Tenderness about knee-joint. Loss of power in forearm and
fingers; crawling sensation in the tips of fingers. Tingling in
feet.
Fever.--Adynamic; restless, trembling. Typhoid; tongue dry and
brown; sordes; bowels loose; great restlessness. Intermittent;
chill, with dry cough and restlessness. During heat, urticaria.
Hydroa. Chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed
by heat and inclination to stretch the limbs.
Skin.--Red, swollen; itching intense. Vesicles, herpes; urticaria;
pemphigus; erysipelas; vesicular suppurative forms. Glands
swollen. Cellulitis. Burning eczematous eruptions with tendency
to scale formation.
Sleep.--Dreams of great exertion. Heavy sleep, as from stupor.
Sleepless before midnight.
Modalities.--Worse, during sleep, cold, wet rainy weather and
after rain; at night, during rest, drenching, when lying on back
or right side. Better, warm, dry weather, motion; walking,
change of position, rubbing, warm applications, from stretching
out limbs.
Relationship.--Complementary: Bry; Calc fluor. Phytol
(Rheumatism). In urticaria follow with Bovista.
Inimical: Apis.
Antidotes: Bathing with milk and Grindelia lotion very
effective. Ampelopsis Trifolia-Three-leaf Woodbine--(Toxic
dermatitis due to vegetable poisons-30 and 200. Very similar to
Rhus poisoning). Desensitizing against Ivy poisoning by the use
of descending doses of the tincture by mouth or by hypodermic
injections is recommended by old school authorities, but is not
as effective as the homeopathic remedies especially Rhus 30 and
200 and Anacard, etc. Anacard; Croton; Grindelia; Mezer;
Cyprip; Plumbago (eczema of vulva); Graph.
Compare: Rhus radicans (almost identical action);
characteristics are, burning in tongue, tip feels sore, pains are
often semilateral and in various parts, often remote and
successive. Many symptoms are better after a storm has
thoroughly set in, especially after an electric storm. Has
pronounced yearly aggravation (Laches). Rhus radicans has
headache in occiput even pain in nape of neck and from there
pains draw over the head forwards. Rhus diversiloba-California
Poison-oak (antidote to Rhus; violent skin symptoms, with
frightful itching; much swelling of face, hands and genitals; skin
very sensitive; eczema and erysipelas, great nervous weakness,
tired from least effort; goes to sleep from sheer exhaustion);
Xerophyllum (dysmenorrhśa and skin symptoms). Compare,
also; Arn; Bapt; Lach; Ars; Hyos; Op (stupefaction more
profound). Mimosa-Sensitive Plant--(rheumatism, knee stiff,
lancinating pains in back and limbs. Swelling of ankles Legs
tremble).
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency. The 200th and higher are
antidotal to poisoning with the plant and tincture.
RHUS VENENATA
Poison-elder
The skin symptoms of this species of Rhus are most severe.
Mind.--Great melancholy; no desire to live, gloomy.
Head.--Heavy, frontal headache; worse, walking or stooping.
Eyes nearly closed with great swelling. Vesicular inflammation
of ears. Nose red and shiny. Face swollen.
Tongue.--Red at tip. Fissured in middle. Vesicles on under side.
Abdomen.--Profuse, watery, white stools in morning, 4 am,
with colicky pains; expelled with force. Pain in hypogastrium
before every stool.
Extremities.--Paralytic drawing in right arm, especially wrist,
and extending to fingers.
Skin.--Itching; relieved by hot water. Vesicles. Erysipelas; skin
dark red. Erythema nodosum, with nightly itching and pains in
long bones.
Relationship.--Antidote: Clematis. The California Poison-oak
(Rhus diversiloba) is identical with it. It antidotes Radium and
follows it well. Compare: Anacard.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
 RICINUS COMMUNIS
Castor-oil
(RICINUS COMMUNIS - BOFAREIRA)
Has marked action on gastro-intestinal tract. Increase the
quantity of milk in nursing women. Vomiting and purging.
Languor and weakness.
Head.--Vertigo, occipital pain, congestive symptoms, buzzing in
ears. Face pale, twitching of mouth.
Stomach.--Anorexia with great thirst, burning in stomach,
pyrosis, nausea profuse vomiting, pit of stomach sensitive.
Mouth dry.
Abdomen.--Rumbling with contraction of recti muscles, colic,
incessant diarrhśa with purging. Rice water stools with cramps
and chilliness.
Stool.--Loose, incessant, painless, with painful cramps in
muscles of extremities. Anus inflamed. Stools green, slimy, and
bloody. Fever, emaciation, somnolence.
Relationship.--Compare: Resorcin (summer complaint with
vomiting); destroys organic germs of putrefaction; Cholos
terrapina (cramps of muscles). Ars; Verat.
Dose.--Third potency. Five drops every four hours for increasing
flow of milk; also locally a poultice of the leaves.
ROBINIA PSEUDACACIA
Yellow Locust
(ROBINIA)
The remedy for hperchlorhydria. In cases where albuminoid
digestion is too rapid and starch digestion is perverted. The
gastric symptoms with the most pronounced acidity are well
authenticated, and are the guiding symptoms. The acidity of
Robinia is accompanied by frontal headache. Intensely acrid
eructations. Acrid and greenish vomiting, colic and flatulence,
nightly burning pains in stomach and constipation with urgent
desire.--Acidity of children. Stools and perspiration sour.
Incarcerated flatus.
Head.--Dull, throbbing, frontal pain; worse, motion and reading.
Gastric headache with acid vomiting.
Stomach.--Dull, heavy aching. Nausea; sour, eructations;
profuse vomiting of an intensely sour fluid (Sulph ac). Great
distention of stomach and bowels. Flatulent colic (Cham;
Diosc). Sour stools; child smells sour.
Female.--Nymphomania. Acrid, fetid leucorrhśa. Discharge of
blood between menstrual periods. Herpes on vagina and vulva.
Relationship.--Magnes phos; Arg nit; Orexine tannate.
(Hyperchlorhydria; deficient acid and slow digestion; 14 hourly
doses)
Dose.--Third potency. Must be continued a long time.
ROSA DAMASCENA
Damask Rose
Useful in the beginning of hay-fever, with involvement of
Eustachian tube.
Ear.--Hardness of hearing; tinnitus. Eustachian catarrh (Hydr;
Merc dulc).
Relationship.--Compare: in hay-fever: Phleum pratense--
Timothy grass--(Hay-fever with asthma; watery coryza, itching
of nose and eyes; frequent sneezing, dyspnśa. Use 6-30 potency.
Rabe). Succin acid; Sabad; Euph; Psor; Kali hyd; Naphth.
Dose.--Lower potencies.
 RUMEX CRISPUS
Yellow Dock
Is characterized by pains, numerous and varied, neither fixed nor
constant anywhere. Cough caused by an incessant tickling in the
throat-pit, which tickling runs down to the bifurcation of the
bronchial tubes. Touching the throat-pit brings on the cough.
Worse from the least cold air; so that all cough ceases by
covering up all the body and head with the bedclothes. Rumex
diminishes the secretions of mucous membranes, and at the
same time exalts sensibility of the mucous membranes of the
larynx and trachea. Its action upon the skin is marked, producing
an intense itching. Lymphatics enlarged and secretions
perverted.
Stomach.--Tongue sore at edges; coated; sensation of hard
substance in pit of stomach; hiccough, pyrosis, nausea; cannot
eat meat; it causes eructations, pruritus. Jaundice after
excessive use of alcoholics. Chronic gastritis; aching pain in pit
of stomach and shooting in the chest; extends towards the throat-
pit, worse any motion or talking. Pain in left breast after meals;
flatulence.
Respiratory.--Nose dry. Tickling in throat-pit causes cough.
Copious mucous discharge from nose and trachea. Dry, teasing
cough, preventing sleep. Aggravated by pressure, talking, and
especially by inspiring cool air and at night. Thin, watery,
frothy expectoration by the mouthful: later, stringy and tough.
Rawness of larynx and trachea. Soreness behind sternum,
especially left side, in region of left shoulder. Raw pain under
clavicle. Lump in throat.
Stool.--Brown, watery, diarrhśa early in morning, with cough,
driving him out of bed. Valuable in advanced phthisis (Seneg;
Puls; Lycop; Ars). Itching of anus, with sensation as of a stick in
rectum. Piles.
Skin.--Intense itching of skin, especially of lower extremities;
worse, exposure to cold air when undressing. Urticaria;
contagious prurigo.
Modalities.--Worse, in evening, from inhaling cold air; left
chest; uncovering.
Relationship.--Compare: Caust; Sulph; Bell; Rumex contains
chrysophanic acid to which the skin symptoms correspond.
Rumex acetosa-Sheep sorrel--(Gathered in June and dried, used
locally for Epithelioma of face (Cowperthwaite). Dry,
unremitting short cough, and violent pains in the bowels; uvula
elongated; inflammation of śsophagus; also cancer); Rumex
obtusifolius-Lapathum-Broad-leaf dock--(nosebleed and
headache following; pain in kidneys; leucorrhśa).
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
Rue-bitterwort
Acts upon the periosteum and cartilages, eyes and uterus.
Complaints from straining flexor tendons especially. Tendency
to the formation of deposits in the periosteum, tendons, and
about joints, especially wrist. Overstrain of ocular muscles. All
parts of the body are painful, as if bruised. Sprains (after
Arnica). Lameness after sprains. Jaundice. Feeling of intense
lassitude, weakness and despair. Injured "bruised" bones.
Head.--Pain as from a nail; after excessive intoxicating drinks.
Periosteum sore. Epistaxis.
Eyes.--Eyes-strain followed by headache. Eyes red, hot, and
painful from sewing or reading fine print (Nat mur; Arg nit).
Disturbances of accommodation. Weary pain while reading.
Pressure deep in orbits. Tarsal cartilage feels bruised. Pressure
over eyebrow. Asthenopia.
Stomach.--Gastralgia of aching, gnawing character.
Urinary.--Pressure in neck of bladder after urinating; painful
closure (Apis). Constant urging to urinate, feels bladder full.
Rectum.--Difficult feces, evacuated only with straining.
Constipation, alternating with mucous, frothy stools; discharge
of blood with stool. When sitting, tearing stitches in rectum.
Carcinoma affecting lower bowel. Prolapsus ani every time the
bowels move, after confinement. Frequent, unsuccessful urging
to stool. Protrusion of rectum when stooping.
Respiratory.--Cough with copious, thick, yellow expectoration;
chest feels weak. Painful spot on sternum; short breath with
tightness of chest.
Back.--Pain in nape, back and loins. Backache better pressure
and lying on back. Lumbago worse morning before rising.
Extremities.--Spine and limbs feel bruised. Small of back and
loins pain. Legs give out on rising from a chair, hips and thighs
so weak (Phos; Con). Contraction of fingers. Pain and stiffness
in wrists and hands. Ganglia (Benzoic ac). Sciatica; worse, lying
down at night; pain from back down hips and thighs. Hamstrings
feel shortened (Graph). Tendons sore. Aching pain in tendo-
Achilles. Thighs pain when stretching the limbs. Pain in bones
of feet and ankles. Great restlessness.
Modalities.--Worse, lying down, from cold, wet weather.
Relationship.--Compare: Ratanhia; Carduus. Rectal (irritation);
Jaborandi; Phyt; Rhus; Sil; Arn.
Antidote: Camph.
Complementary: Calc phos.
Dose.--First to sixth potency. Locally, the tincture for ganglia
and as a lotion for the eyes.
SABADILLA
Cevadilla Seed. Asagræa Officialis
Action on mucous membrane of the nose and the lachrymal
glands, producing coryza and symptoms like hay-fever, which
have been utilized homeopathically. Chilliness; sensitive to cold.
Ascarides, with reflex symptoms (nymphomania; convulsive
symptoms). Children's diarrhœa with constant cutting pains.
Mind.--Nervous, timid, easily startled. Has erroneous notions
about himself. Imagines that he is very sick; that parts are
shrunken; that she is pregnant; that she has cancer; delirium
during intermittents.
Head.--Vertigo with sensation as though all things were turning
around each other, accompanied by blackness before eyes and
sensation of fainting. Dullness and oppression. Over-
sensitiveness to odors. Thinking produces headache and
sleeplessness. Eyelids red, burning. Lachrymation. Difficult
hearing.
Nose.--Spasmodic sneezing, with running nose. Coryza, with
severe frontal pains and redness of eyes and lachrymation.
Copious, watery, nasal discharge.
Throat.--Sore; begins on left side (Lach). Much tough phlegm.
Sensation of a skin hanging loosely; must swallow it. Warm
food and drink relieve. Empty swallowing most painful. Dry
fauces and throat. Sensation of a lump in throat with constant
necessity to swallow. Chronic sore throat; worse, from cold air.
Tongue as if burnt.
Stomach.--Spasmodic pain in stomach with dry cough and
difficult breathing. No thirst. Loathing for strong food. Canine
appetite for sweets and farinaceous food. Pyrosis; copious
salivation. Cold, empty feeling in stomach. Desire for hot
things. Sweetish taste.
Female.--Menses too late; come by fits and starts. Intermit
(Kreos; Puls). (due to transient and localized congestion of
womb alternating with chronic anæmic state).
Fever.--Chill predominates; from below upwards. Heat in head
and face; hands and feet icy cold, with chill. Lachrymation
during paroxysm. Thirstless.
Extremities.--Cracking of skin under and beneath toe;
inflammation under toe-nails.
Skin.--Dry, like parchment. Horny, deformed, thickened nails.
Hot, burning, creeping, crawling sensation. Itching in anus.
Modalities.--Worse, cold and cold drinks, full moon. Better,
warm food and drink, wrapped up.
Relationship.--Complementary: Sepia. Compare: Veratrina (is
alkaloid of Sabadilla, not of Veratrum, locally in neuralgias, and
for removal of dropsy. Five grains to two drams Lanolin, rubbed
on inside of thighs, causes diuresis). Colch; Nux; Arundo and
Pollatin. Phleum pratense-Timothy-Hay-fever-Potentized-12-
specific to many cases and evidently acts in a desensitizing
manner (Rabe). Cumarinum (hay-fever).
Antidotes: Puls; Lycop; Conium; Lach.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
SABAL SERRULATA
Saw Palmetto
Sabal is homeopathic to irritability of the genito-urinary organs.
General and sexual debility. Promotes nutrition and tissue
building. Head, stomach, and ovarian symptoms marked. Of
unquestioned value in prostatic enlargement, epididymitis, and
urinary difficulties. Acts on membrano-prostatic portion of
urethra. Iritis, with prostatic trouble. Valuable for undeveloped
mammary glands. Fear of going to sleep. Languor, apathy and
indifference.
Head.--Confused, full; dislikes sympathy; makes her angry.
Vertigo, with headache. Neuralgia in feeble patients. Pain runs
up from nose and centers in forehead.
Stomach.--Belching and acidity. Desire for milk (Rhus; Apis)
Urinary.--Constant desire to pass water at night. Enuresis;
paresis of sphincter vesicć. Chronic gonorrhśa. Difficult
urination. Cystitis with prostatic hypertrophy.
Male.--Prostatic troubles; enlargement; discharge of prostatic
fluid. Wasting of testes and loss of sexual power. Coitus painful
at the time of emission. Sexual neurotics. Organs feel cold.
Female.--Ovaries tender and enlarged; breasts shrivel (Iod; Kali
iod). Young female neurotics; suppressed or perverted sexual
inclination.
Respiratory.--Copious expectoration, with catarrh of nose.
Chronic bronchitis (Stann; Hep).
Relationship.--Compare: Phosph ac; Stigmata maydis; Santal;
Apis. In prostatic symptoms: fer pic; Thuja; Picric acid (more
sexual erethism). Populus tremul; (prostatic enlargement with
cystitis).
Dose.--Mother tincture, ten to thirty drops. Third potency often
better. The tincture must be prepared from the fresh berries to be
effective.
SABINA
Savine
Has a special action on the uterus; also upon serous and fibrous
membranes; hence its use in gout. Pain from sacrum to the
pubis. Hæmorrhages, where blood is fluid and clots together.
Tendency to miscarriage, especially at third month. Violent
pulsations; wants windows open.
Mind.--Music is intolerable, produces nervousness.
Head.--Vertigo with suppressed menses. Bursting headache,
suddenly coming and going slowly. Rush of blood to head and
face. Drawing pains in masseter muscles. Teeth ache when
chewing.
Stomach.--Heartburn. Desire for lemonade. Bitter taste (Rhus).
Lancinating pain from pit of stomach across back.
Abdomen.--Bearing-down, constrictive pain. Colic, mostly in
hypogastric region. Tympanitic distention.
Rectum.--Sense of fullness. Constipation. Pain from back to
pubis. Hæmorrhoids, with bright red blood; bleed copiously.
Urine.--Burning and throbbing in region of kidneys. Bloody
urine; much urging. Bladder inflamed with throbbing all over.
Inflammation of urethra.
Male.--Inflammatory gonorrhœa, with pus-like discharge.
Sycotic excrescences. Burning, sore pain in glans. Prepuce
painful with difficulty in retracting it. Increased desire.
Female.--Menses profuse, bright. Uterine pains extend into
thighs. Threatened miscarriage. Sexual desire increased.
Leucorrhœa after menses, corrosive, offensive. Discharge of
blood between periods, with sexual excitement (Ambr). Retained
placenta; intense after-pains. Menorrhagia in women who
aborted readily. Inflammation of ovaries and uterus after
abortion. Promotes expulsion of moles from uterus (Canth).
Pain from sacrum to pubis, and from below upwards shooting
up the vagina. Hæmorrhage; partly clotted; worse from least
motion. Atony of uterus.
Back.--Pain between sacrum and pubis from one bone to
another. Paralytic pain in small back.
Extremities.--Bruised pains in anterior portion of thighs.
Shooting in heels and metatarsal bones. Arthritic pain in joints.
Gout; worse, in heated room. Red, shining swelling. Gouty
nodosities (Ammon phos).
Skin.--Fig-warts, with intolerable itching and burning.
Exuberant granulations (Thuj; Nit ac). Warts. Black pores in
skin.
Modalities.--Worse, from least motion, heat, warm air. Better,
in cool fresh air.
Relationship.--Complementary: Thuja.
Compare: Sanguisorba (Venous congestion and passive
hæmorrhages; varices of lower extremities; dysentery. Long
lasting profuse menses with congestion to head and limbs in
sensitive, irritable patients. Climacteric hæmorrhages. Use 2x
attenuation). Sanguisuga.--The leech--(Hæmorrhages, especially
bleeding from anus. Use 6x). Rosmarinus(menses too early;
violent pains followed by uterine hæmorrhage. Head heavy,
drowsy. Chilly with icy coldness of lower extremities without
thirst, followed by heat. Memory deficient). Croc; Calc; Trill;
Ipec; Millef; Erig.
Antidote: Puls.
Dose.--Locally, for warts, tincture. Internally, third to thirtieth
potency.
SACCHARUM OFFICINALE
Cane-sugar
(SUCROSE)
According to the great Dr. Hering, a large proportion of chronic
diseases of women and children are developed by using too
much sugar. Sugar is an antiseptic. Combats infection and
putrefaction; has a solvent action on fibrin and stimulates
secretion by the intense osmotic changes induced, thus rinsing
out the wound with serum from within outward, favoring
healing. Leg ulcers.
Sugar must be considered a sustainer and developer of the
musculature of the heart and hence useful in failure of
compensation and a variety of cardio-vascular troubles. Acts as
a nutrient and tonic, in wasting disorders, anćmia, neurasthenia,
etc, increasing weight and power.
Opacity of cornea. Dim sight. Acidity and anal itching. Cold
expectoration. Myocardial degeneration.
Fat, bloated, large-limbed children, who are cross, peevish,
whining; capricious; want dainty things, tidbits, and refuse
substantial food. Śdema of feet. Headache every seven days
Relationship.--Compare: Saccharum lactis-Sugar of milk-
lactose--(diuresis; amblyopia; cold pains, as if produced by fine,
icy cold needle with tingling, as if frost bitten; great physical
exhaustion. Sugar of milk in large doses to develop the Bacillus
acidophilus to correct putrefactive intestinal conditions and also
constipation).
Dose.--Thirtieth potency and higher. Locally in gangrene. One
ounce of lump sugar morning and evening valuable adjunct in
the treatment of obstinate cases of heart failure due to deficient
heart muscle without valvular lesion. Epilepsy; blood with
reduced sugar content irritates the nervous system with tending
to convulsions.
Sugar as an oxytocic has its most suitable application towards
the end of labor when there is no mechanical obstruction and
delay is due to uterine inertia. 25 grammes dissolved in water,
several times every half hour.
Compare: Saccharin (hinders both the salivary and peptic
ferment actions with consequent dyspepsia. Prof. Lewin believes
its action to be on the secretory cells themselves and it has
caused pain (right hypogastrium), loss of appetite, diarrhśa and
wasting).
SALICYLICUM ACIDUM
Salicylic Acid
The symptoms point to its use in rheumatism, dyspepsia, and
Meniere's disease. Prostration after influenza; also tinnitus
aurium and deafness. Hćmaturia.
Head.--Vertigo; tendency to fall to left side. Headache;
confusion in head on rising suddenly. Incipient coryza. Piercing
pain in temples.
Eyes.--Retinal hćmorrhage. Retinitis after influenza, also
albuminuric.
Ears.--Roaring and ringing in ears. Deafness, with vertigo.
Throat.--Sore, red and swollen. Pharyngitis; swallowing
difficult.
Stomach.--Canker sores, with burning soreness and fetid breath.
Flatulence; hot, sour belching. Putrid fermentation.
Fermentative dyspepsia. Tongue purplish, leaden-colored; foul
breath.
Stools.--Putrid diarrhśa; gastro-intestinal derangements,
especially in children; stools like green frog's spawn (Magn
carb). Pruritus ani.
Extremities.--Knees swollen and painful. Acute articular
rheumatism; worse, touch and motion, profuse sweat. Pain
shifts. Sciatica, burning pain; worse at night. Copious foot-sweat
and ill affects where suppressed.
Skin.--Itching vesicles and pustules; better by scratching. Sweat
without sleep. Urticaria. Hot and burning skin. Purpura. Herpes
zoster. Necrosis and softening of bones.
Relationship.--Compare: Salol (rheumatic pain in joints, with
soreness and stiffness, headache over eyes; urine violet-
smelling); Colch; China; Lact ac. Spirća and Gaultheria contain
salicyl acid.
Dose.--Third decimal trituration. In acute articular rheumatism,
5 grains every 3 hours (Old school dose).
SALIX NIGRA
Black-willow
Has a positive action on the generative organs of both sexes
Hysteria and nervousness. Libidinous thoughts and lascivious
dreams. Controls genital irritability. Moderates sexual passion.
Satyriasis and erotomania. In acute gonorrhśa, with much erotic
trouble; chordee. After masturbation; spermatorrhśa.
Face.--Red, swollen, especially the end of nose-eyes blood-shot
and sore to touch and on motion. Roots of hair hurt. Epistaxis.
Female.--Before and during menses much nervous disturbance,
pain in ovaries; difficult menstruation. Ovarian congestion and
neuralgia. Menorrhagia. Bleeding with uterine fibroid.
Nymphomania.
Male.--Painful movement of the testicles.
Back.--Pain across sacral and lumbar region. Unable to step out
quickly.
Relationship.--Compare: Yohimbin; Canth.
Dose.--Material doses of the tincture, thirty drops.
SALVIA OFFICINALIS
Sage
Controls excessive sweating when circulation is enfeebled; of
less use in phthisis with night-sweats and suffocating tickling
cough. Galactorrhœa. Exerts a tonic influence on the skin.
Respiratory.--Tickling cough, especially in consumption.
Skin.--Soft, relaxed, with enfeebled circulation and cold
extremities. Colliquative perspiration.
Relationship.--Compare: Chrysanhemum Leucanthemum--Ox-
eye Daisy. Has specific action on sudoriparous glands. Quiets
nervous system like Cypripedium. Right sided tearing pain in
bones of jaw and temple. Pain in teeth and gums, worse touch,
better warmth. Irritable and tearful. Here use 12x. Insomnia and
night-sweats. For colliquative sweating and hyperæsthesia of
nervous system. Material doses of tincture. Phelland; Tuberc;
Salvia sclerata (tonic influence on nervous system; dose,
teaspoonful to one pint hot water, as inhalent for sponging).
Rubia tinctorum-Madder-A remedy for the spleen (Ceanothus).
Chlorosis and amenorrhœa; tuberculosis. Anæmia;
undernourished conditions; splenic anæmia. Dose, 10 drops of
tincture.
Dose.--Tincture, in twenty-drop doses, in a little water. The
effects manifest themselves quickly two hours after taking a
dose, and they persist for from two to six days.
SAMBUCUS NIGRA
Elder
Acts especially on the respiratory organs. Dry coryza of infants,
snuffles, śdematous swellings. Profuse sweat accompanies many
affections.
Mind.--Sees images when shutting eyes. Constant fretfulness.
Very easily frightened. Fright followed by suffocative attacks.
Face.--Turns blue with cough. Red, burning spots on cheeks.
Heat and perspiration of face.
Abdomen.--Colic, with nausea and flatulence; frequent watery,
slimy stools.
Urine.--Profuse urine with dry heat of skin. Frequent
micturition, with scanty urine. Acute nephritis; dropsical
symptoms, with vomiting.
Respiratory.--Chest oppressed with pressure in stomach, and
nausea Hoarseness with tenacious mucus in larynx. Paroxysmal,
suffocative cough, coming on about midnight, with crying and
dyspnśa. Spasmodic croup. Dry coryza. Sniffles of infants; nose
dry and obstructed. Loose choking cough. When nursing child
must let go of nipple, nose blocked up, cannot breathe. Child
awakes suddenly, nearly suffocating, sits up, turns blue. Cannot
expire (Meph). Millar's asthma.
Extremities.--Hands turn blue. Śdematous swelling in legs,
insteps, and feet. Feet icy cold. Debilitating night-sweats
(Salvia; Acet ac).
Fever.--Dry heat while sleeping. Dreads uncovering. Profuse
sweat over entire body during waking hours. Dry, deep cough
precedes the fever paroxysm.
Skin.--Dry heat of skin during sleep. Bloated and swollen;
general dropsy; profuse sweat on waking.
Modalities.--Worse, sleep, during rest, after eating fruit. Better,
sitting up in bed, motion.
Relationship.--Compare: Ipec; Meph; Opium; Sambucus
Canadensis (great value in dropsies; large doses required-fluid
extract, 1/4 to 1 teaspoonful three times daily).
Antidotes: Ars; Camph.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth potency.
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
Blood Root
(SANGUINARIA)
Is a right-sided remedy pre-eminently, and affects chiefly the
mucous membranes, especially of the respiratory tract. It has
marked vaso-motor disturbances, as seen in the circumscribed
redness of the cheeks, flashes of heat, determination of blood to
head and chest, distention of temporal veins, burning in palms
and soles, and has been found very applicable to climacteric
disorders. Burning sensations, like from hot water. Influenzal
coughs. Phthisis. Sudden stopping of catarrh of respiratory tract
followed by diarrhœa. Burning in various parts is characteristic.
Head.--Worse right side, sun headache. Periodical sick
headache; pain begins in occiput, spreads upwards, and settles
over eyes, especially right. Veins and temples are distended.
Pain better lying down and sleep. Headaches return at
climacteric; every seventh day (Sulph; Sabad). Pain in small
spot over upper left parietal bone. Burning in eyes. Pain in the
back of head "like a flash of lightning".
Face.--Flushed. Neuralgia; pain extends in all directions from
upper jaw. Redness and burning of cheeks. Hectic flush. Fullness
and tenderness behind angle of jaws.
Nose.--Hay-fever. Ozæna, with profuse, offensive yellowish
discharges. Nasal polypi. Coryza, followed by diarrhœa.
Chronic rhinitis; membrane dry and congested.
Ears.--Burning in ears. Earache with headache. Humming and
roaring. Aural polypus.
Throat.--Swollen; worse, right side. Dry and constricted.
Ulceration of mouth and fauces, with dry, burning sensation
Tongue white; feels scalded. Tonsillitis.
Stomach.--Aversion to butter. Craving for piquant things.
Unquenchable thirst. Burning, vomiting. Nausea, with
salivation. Sinking, faint all-gone feeling (Phos; Sep). Spitting
up of bile; gastro-duodenal catarrh.
Abdomen.--Diarrhœa as coryza improves. Pain over region of
liver. Diarrhœa; bilious, liquid, gushing stool (Nat sulph;
Lycop). Cancer of rectum.
Female.--Leucorrhœa fetid, corrosive. Menses offensive,
profuse. Soreness of breasts. Uterine polypi. Before, menses,
itching of axillæ. Climacteric disorders.
Respiratory.--Œdema of larynx. Trachea sore. Heat and tension
behind the sternum. Aphonia. Cough of gastric origin; relieved
by eructation. Cough, with burning pain in chest; worse, right
side. Sputum tough, rust-colored, offensive, almost impossible
to raise. Spasmodic cough after influenza and after whooping-
cough. Cough returns with every fresh cold. Tickling behind
sternum, causes a constant hacking cough; worse at night on
lying down. Must sit up in bed. Burning soreness in right chest,
through to right shoulder. Severe soreness under right nipple.
Hæmoptysis from suppressed menses. Severe dyspnœa and
constriction of chest. Offensive breath and purulent
expectoration. Burning in chest as of hot steam from chest to
abdomen. Fibroid phthisis. Pneumonia; better, lying on back.
Asthma with stomach disorders (Nux). Valvular disease with
lung development, phosphates in urine and loss of flesh. Sudden
stoppage of catarrh of air passages brings on diarrhœa.
Extremities.--Rheumatism of right shoulder, left hip-joint and
nape of neck. Burning in soles and palms. Rheumatic pains in
places least covered by flesh; not in joints soles of feet burn.
Right-side neuritis; better touching the part.
Skin.--Antidotes: Rhus poisoning. Red, blotchy eruptions; worse
in spring. Burning and itching; worse by heat. Acne, with scanty
menses. Circumscribed red spots over malar bones.
Modalities.--Worse, sweets, right side, motion, touch. Better,
acids, sleep, darkness.
Relationship.--Complementary: Tart em.
Compare: Justicia (bronchial catarrh, coryza, hoarseness;
oversensitive). Digitalis (Migraine). Bell; Iris; Melil; Lach;
Ferr; Op.
Dose.--Tincture in headaches; sixth potency in rheumatism.
 SANGUINARINUM NITRICUM
Nitrate of Sanguinarine
(SANGUINARINA NITRICA)
Is of use in polypus of the nose. Acute and chronic catarrh.
Acute pharyngitis (Wyethia) Smarting and burning in throat and
chest especially under sternum. Influenza. Lachrymation, pains
in eyes and head, sore scalp; sensee of obstruction. chronic
follicular pharyngitis.
Nose.--Feels obstructed. Profuse, watery mucus, with burning
pain. Enlarged turbinates at beginning of hypertrophic process.
Secretion scant, tendency to dryness. Small crusts which bleed
when removed. Post-nasal secretions adherent to nasopharynx,
dislodged with difficulty. Dry and burning nostrils; watery
mucus, with pressure over root of nose. Nostrils plugged with
thick, yellow, bloody mucus. Sneezing. Rawness and soreness in
posterior nares.
Throat.--Rough, dry, constricted, burning. Right tonsil sore,
swallowing difficult.
Mouth.--Ulceration on the side of the tongue.
Respiratory.--Short, hacking cough, with expectoration of
thick, yellow, sweetish mucus. Pressure behind center of
sternum. Dryness and burning in throat and bronchi. Tickling
cough. Chronic nasal, laryngeal, and bronchial catarrh. Voice
altered, deep, hoarse.
Relationship.--Compare: Sanguin tartaricum (exophthalmos;
mydriasis; dim vision); Arum triph; Psorin; Kal bich.
Dose.--Third trituration.
 SANICULA AQUA
The Water of Sanicula Springs, Ottawa, I11
(SANICULA)
Has been found a useful remedy in enuresis, seasickness,
constipation, etc. Rickets.
Head.--Dread of downward motion (Borax). Profuse sweat on
occiput and in nape of neck, during sleep (Calc; Sil).
Photophobia. Lachrymation in cold air or from cold application.
Profuse scaly dandruff. Soreness behind ears.
Throat.--Thick, ropy, tenacious mucus.
Mouth.--Tongue large, flabby, burning; must protrude it to keep
cool. Ringworm on tongue.
Stomach.--Nausea and vomiting from car-riding. Thirst; drink
little and often (Ars; Chin). Is vomited as soon as it reaches the
stomach.
Rectum.--Stools large, heavy and painful. Pain in whole
perineum. No desire until a large accumulation. After great
straining only partially expelled; recedes, crumbles at verge of
anus (Mag mur). Very offensive odor. Excoriation of skin about
anus, perineum, and genitals. Diarrhśa; changeable in character
and color; after eating.
Female.--Bearing-down, as if contents of pelvis would escape;
better, rest. Desire to support parts. Soreness of uterus.
Leucorrhśa with odor of fish-brine or cold cheese(Hepar).
Vagina feels large.
Back.--Dislocated feeling in sacrum and better lying on right
side.
Extremities.--Burning of soles of feet (Sulph; Lach). Offensive
foot-sweat (Sil; Psor). Cold, clammy sweat of extremities.
Skin.--Dirty, greasy, brownish, wrinkled. Eczema, fissured
hands and fingers (Petrol; Graph).
Modalities.--Worse, moving arms backward.
Relationship.--Compare: Abrot; Alum; Calc; Sil; Sulph.
Sanicula Aqua must not be confounded with the Sanicle (pool-
root or wood marsh), also called Sanicula. This is used in
various nervous affections, resembling Valeriana. It is used as a
vulnerary, resolvent for sanguineous extravasations, and as an
astringent (Has not been proved).
Dose.--Thirtieth potency.
SANTONINUM
Santonin
Is the active principle of Santonica, the unexpanded flower
heads of Artemisia Maritima-Cina, which see.
The eye symptoms and those of the urinary tract are most
prominent. It is of unquestioned value in the treatment of worm
diseases, as gastro-intestinal irritation, itching of nose, restless
sleep, twitching of muscles. Ascaris lumbricoides, and thread
worms, but not tapeworms. Night cough of children. Chronic
cystitis. Laryngeal crises and lightning pains of tabes.
Head.--Occipital headache, with chromatic hallucinations.
Itching of nose. Bores into nostrils.
Eyes.--Sudden dimness of sight. Color blindness; Xanthopsia.
Strabismus due to worms. Dark rings about eyes.
Mouth.--Fetid breath, depraved appetite; thirsty. Tongue deep-
red. Grinding of teeth. Nausea; better after eating. Choking
feeling.
Urinary.--Urine greenish if acid and reddish purple if alkaline.
Incontinence and dysuria. Enuresis. Feeling of fullness of
bladder. Nephritis.
Relationship.--Compare: Cina; Teucr; Napth; Nat phos; Spigel.
Dose.--Second to third trituration. Lower preparations are often
toxic. Do not give to a child with fever or constipation.
SAPONARIA OFFICINALIS
Soap Root
(SAPONARIA)
Of great use in the treatment of acute colds, coryza, sore throat,
etc. Will often "break up" a cold.
Mind.--Utter indifference to pain or possible death. Apathetic,
depressed, with sleepiness.
Head.--Stitching pain, supraorbital; worse, left side, evening,
motion. Throbbing over orbits. Congestions to head; tired
feeling in nape. Coryza. Sensation of drunkenness with constant
endeavor to go left-wards. Left-sided trigeminal neuralgia,
especially supraorbital. Stopped up feeling in nose, also itching
and sneezing.
Eyes.--Violent eye pains. Hot stitches deep in eyeball. Ciliary
neuralgia; worse, left side. Photophobia. Exophthalmos, worse
reading and writing. Increased intraocular pressure. Glaucoma.
Stomach.--Difficult swallowing. Nausea, heartburn; full feeling
not relieved by eructation.
Heart.--Impulse weak; pulse less frequent. Palpitation with
anxiety.
Modalities.--Worse, at night, mental exertion, left side.
Relationship.--Compare: Saponin-a glucosidal principle found
in Quillaya, Yucca, Senega, Dioscorea and other plants (Tired,
indifferent. Pain in left temple, eye, photophobia, hot stitches
deep in eye. Fifth nerve affections. Migraine. Much pain before
the menstrual flow; severe sore throat, worse right side; tonsils
swollen, worse in warm room. Sharp burning taste and violent
sneezing).
Compare, also: Verbasc; Coccul (both containing Saponin).
Quillaya; (Anagallis, Agrostema, Helonias, Sarsaparilla, Paris,
Cyclamen and others contain Saponin).
SARCOLACTICUM ACIDUM
(SARCOLACTIC ACID)
Is apparently formed in muscle tissue during the stage of muscle
exhaustion. Differs from ordinary Lactic acid in its relation to
polarized light. It represents a much broader and more
profoundly acting drug and its pathogenesis is quite dissimilar
from the normal acid. Proved by Wm. B. Griggs, M. D, who
found it of great value in the most violent form of Epidemic
influenza, especially with violent and retching and greatest
prostration, when Arsenic had failed. Spinal neurasthenia,
muscular weakness, dyspnśa with myocardial weakness.
General Symptoms.--Tired feeling with muscular prostration,
worse any exertion. Sore feeling all over, worse in afternoon.
Restless at night. Difficulty in getting to sleep. Tired feeling in
morning on getting up.
Throat.--Constriction in pharynx. Sore throat with tightness in
naso-pharynx. Tickling in throat.
Stomach.--Nausea. Uncontrollable vomiting even of water
followed by extreme weakness.
Back and Extremities.--Tired feeling in back and neck and
shoulders. Paralytic weakness. Wrist tires easily from writing.
Extreme weakness from climbing stairs. Stiffness of thigh and
calves. Arms feel as if no strength in them. Cramp in the calves.
Dose.--Sixth to 30th potency. The 15x most marked action
(Griggs).
SAROTHAMNUS SCOPARIUS
Broom
(SPARTIUM SCOPARIUM - CYSTISUS
SCOPARIUS)
Spartein sulphate increase the strength of the heart, slows it and
reduces the blood pressure. It continues the good effects of
Veratrum and Digitalis without any of the undesirable effects of
either (Hinsdale).
The effect of spartein sulphate (the alkaloid of Broom) is to
cause a lowering of the systolic and diastolic pressures of the
provers. Sphygmograms also show a condition of lowered
blood-pressure. It depresses the heart by poisonous action
exerted on the myocardium and this, with the stimulating action
of the drug upon the vagus, accounts for the lowered blood
pressure and reduced pulse rate. It weakens the cardiac
contraction. The total amount of urine is increased. The drug
has, therefore, diuretic properties and is useful in dropsy.
Albuminuria. Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Irregular heart
following grip and various infections. Hypotension used
palliatively in physiological dosage to combat arterial
hypertension, arterio-sclerosis. Very useful hypodermically 1/10
to 1/4 grain in sustaining heart after stopping habit of Morphia.
Spartium is indicated when primarily the muscles of the heart
and especially the nervous apparatus is affected. Acts rapidly
and lasts three to four days. Does not disturb digestion.
Nephritis.
Heart.--Tobacco heart. Angina pectoris. Irregular action,
disturbed rhythm due to gas, etc, feeble in nervous hysterical
patients. Myocardial degeneration, failing compensation.
Hypotension. Spartein in 2 gr doses for water-logged cases,
cannot lie down. Here it produces much comfort. Has specific
action upon the kidneys, enabling them to eliminate and relieve
the distress upon the heart.
Stomach.--Great accumulation of gas in gastro-intestinal canal,
with mental depression.
Urinary.--Burning along urinary tract or in pudendum. Profuse
flow of urine.
Dose.--For non-homeopathic use (palliative as above), one to
two grains t.i.d by mouth, exerts a definite action upon the
kidneys that will enable them to relieve the distress upon the
heart. It is a safe drug and prompt in its action. Hypodermically,
not less than 1/4 of a grain. Doses as high as 2 grains by mouth
three times a day are safe (Hinsdale).
Homeopathically. First to third trituration.
SARRACENIA PURPUREA
Pitcher-plant
A remedy for variola. Visual disorders. Congestion to head, with
irregular heart action. Chlorosis. Contains a very active
proteolytic enzyme. Sick headache; throbbing in various parts,
especially in neck, shoulders and head, which feels full to
bursting.
Eyes.--Photophobia. Eyes feel swollen and sore. Pain in orbits.
Black objects move with the eye.
Stomach.--Hungry all the time, even after a meal. Sleepy during
meals. Copious, painful vomiting.
Back.--Pains shooting in zig-zag course from lumbar region to
middle of scapula.
Extremities.--Limbs weak; bruised pain in knees and hip-joints.
Bones in arm pain. Weak between shoulders.
Skin.--Variola, aborts the disease, arrests pustulation.
Relationship.--Compare: Tartar em; Variol; Maland.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALIS
Smilax
(SARSAPARILLA)
Renal colic; marasmus and periosteal pains due to venereal
disease. Eruptions following hot weather and vaccinations;
boils, and eczema. Urinary symptoms well marked.
Mind.--Despondent, sensitive, easily offended, ill humored and
taciturn.
Head.--Pains cause depression. Shooting pain from above right
temporal region. Pains from occiput to eyes. Words reverberate
in ear to the root of nose. Periosteal pains due to venereal
disease. Influenza. Scalp sensitive. Eruptions on face and upper
lip. Moist eruption on scalp. Crusta lactea beginning in face.
Mouth.--Tongue white; aphthć; salivation; metallic taste; no
thirst. Fetid breath.
Abdomen.--Rumbling and fermentation. Colic and backache at
same time. Much flatus; cholera infantum.
Urinary.--Urine scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, bloody. Gravel.
Renal colic. Severe pain at conclusion of urination. Urine
dribbles while sitting. Bladder distended and tender. Child
screams before and while passing urine. Sand on diaper. Renal
colic and dysuria in infants. Pain from right kidney downward.
Tenesmus of bladder; urine passes in thin, feeble stream. Pain at
meatus.
Male.--Bloody, seminal emissions. Intolerable stench on
genitals. Herpetic eruption on genitals. Itching on scrotum and
perineum. Syphilis; squamous eruption and bone pains.
Female.--Nipples small, withered, retracted. Before
menstruation, itching and humid eruption of forehead. Menses
late and scanty. Moist eruption in right groin before menses.
Skin.--Emaciated, shriveled, lies in folds (Abrot; Sanic), dry,
flabby. Herpetic eruptions; ulcers. Rash from exposure to open
air; dry, itching; comes on in spring; becomes crusty. Rhagades;
skin cracked on hands and feet. Skin hard, indurated. Summer
cutaneous affections.
Extremities.--Paralytic, tearing pains. Trembling of hands and
feet. Burning on sides of fingers and toes. Onychia, ulceration
around ends of fingers, cutting sensation under nails.
Rheumatism, bone pains; worse at night. Deep rhagades on
fingers and toes; burn under nails. Tetter on hands; ulceration
around ends of fingers (Psorin). Cutting sensation under nails
(Petrol). Rheumatic pains after gonorrhśa.
Modalities.--Worse, dampness at night, after urinating, when
yawning, in spring, before menses.
Relationship.--Complementary: Merc; Sep.
Compare: Berb; Lycop; Nat m; Petrol; Sassafras; Saururus-
Lizard's tail--(Irritation of kidneys, bladder, prostate and urinary
passages. Painful and difficult micturition; cystitis with
strangury). Cucurbita citrellus-Water-melon. Infusion of the
seed acts promptly in painful urination with constriction and
backache, relieves pain and stimulates flow
Antidote: Bell.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
SCROPHULARIA NODOSA
Knotted Figwort
A powerful medicine whenever enlarged glands are present.
Hodgkin's disease.
A valuable skin remedy. Has a specific affinity for the breast;
very useful in the dissipation of breast tumors. Eczema of the
ear. Pruritus vaginć. Lupoid ulceration. Scrofulous swellings
(Cistus). Painful hćmorrhoids. Tubercular testis. Epithelioma.
Nodosities in the breasts (Scirrhinum). Pain in all flexor
muscles.
Head.--Vertigo felt in vertex, greater when standing;
drowsiness; pain from forehead to back of head. Eczema behind
ear. Crusta lactea.
Eyes.--Distressing photophobia (Conium). Spots before eyes.
Stitches in eyebrow. Sore eyeballs.
Ears.--Inflammation about auricle. Deep ulcerated auricle.
Eczema around ear.
Abdomen.--Pain in liver on pressure. Colic below navel. Pain in
sigmoid flexure and rectum. Painful, bleeding, protruding piles.
Respiratory.--Violent dyspnśa, oppression of chest with
trembling. Pain about bifurcation of trachea. Asthma in
scrofulous patients.
Skin.--Prickling itching, worse back of hand.
Sleep.--Great drowsiness; in morning and before and after
meals with weariness.
Modalities.--Worse lying on right side.
Compare: Lobel erinus; Ruta; Carcinosin; Conium; Asterias.
Dose.--Tincture and first potency. Apply locally to cancerous
glands also Semper viv.
SCUTELLARIA LATERIFOLIA
Skullcap
This is a nervous sedative, where nervous fear predominates.
Cardiac irritability. Chorea. Nervous irritation and spasms of
children, during dentition. Twitching of muscles. Nervous
weakness after influenza.
Mental.--Fear of some calamity. Inability to fix attention
(Aethus). Confusion.
Head.--Dull, frontal headache. Eyes feel pressed outwards.
Flushed face. Restless sleep and frightful dreams. Must move
about. Night terrors. Migraine; worse, over right eye; aching in
eyeballs. Explosive headaches of school teachers with frequent
urination; headaches in front and base of brain. Nervous sick
headaches, worse noise, odor light, better night; rest, 5 drops of
tincture.
Stomach.--Nausea; sour eructations; hiccough; pain and
distress.
Abdomen.--Gas, fullness and distention, colicky pain and
uneasiness. Light colored diarrhśa.
Male.--Seminal emissions and impotency, with fear of never
being better.
Sleep.--Night-terrors; sleeplessness; sudden wakefulness;
frightful dreams.
Extremities.--Twitchings of muscles; must be moving. Chorea.
Tremors. Sharp stinging pains in upper extremities. Nightly
restlessness. Weakness and aching.
Relationship.--Compare: Cyprip; Lycopus.
Dose.--Tincture and lower potencies.
SECALE CORNUTUM
Ergot
(CLAVICEPS PURPUREA)
Produces contraction of the unstriped muscular fibers; hence a
constringent feeling throughout the whole body. This produces
an anæmic condition, coldness, numbness, petechiæ,
mortification, gangrene. A useful remedy for old people with
shriveled skin-thin, scrawny old women. All the Secale
conditions are better from cold; the whole body is pervaded by a
sense of great heat. Hæmorrhages; continued oozing; thin, fetid,
watery black blood. Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though
appetite and thirst may be excessive. Facial and abdominal
muscles twitch. Secale decreases the flow of pancreatic juice by
raising the blood pressure (Hinsdale).
Head.--Passive, congestive pain (rises from back of head), with
pale face. Head drawn back. Falling of hair; dry and gray.
Nosebleed, dark, oozing.
Eyes.--Pupils dilated. Incipient cataract, senile especially in
women. Eyes sunken and surrounded by a blue margin.
Face.--Pale, pinched, sunken. Cramps commence in face and
spread over whole body. Livid spots on face. Spasmodic
distortion.
Mouth.--Tongue dry, cracked; blood like ink exudes, coated
thick; viscid, yellowish, cold livid. Tingling of tip of tongue,
which is stiff. Tongue swollen, paralyzed.
Stomach.--Unnatural ravenous appetite; craves acids. Thirst
unquenchable. Singultus, nausea; vomiting of blood and coffee-
grounds fluid. Burning in stomach and abdomen; tympanites.
Eructations of bad odor.
Stool.--Cholera-like stools, with coldness and cramps.
Olivegreen, thin, putrid, bloody, with icy coldness and
intolerance of being covered, with great exhaustion. Involuntary
stools; no sensation of passing feces, anus wide open.
Urine.--Paralysis of bladder. Retention, with unsuccessful
urging. Discharge of black blood from bladder. Enuresis in old
people.
Female.--Menstrual colic, with coldness and intolerance of heat.
Passive hæmorrhages in feeble, cachectic women. Burning pains
in uterus. Brownish, offensive leucorrhœa. Menses irregular,
copious, dark; continuous oozing of watery blood until next
period. Threatened abortion about the third month (Sab). During
labor no expulsive action, though everything is relaxed. After-
pains. Suppression of milk; breasts do not fill properly. Dark,
offensive lochia. Puerperal fever, putrid discharges, tympanitis,
coldness, suppressed urine.
Chest.--Angina pectoris. Dyspnœa and oppression, with cramp
in diaphragm. Boring pain in chest. Præcordial tenderness.
Palpitation, with contracted and intermittent pulse.
Sleep.--Profound and long. Insomnia with restlessness, fever,
anxious dreams. Insomnia of drug and liquor habitudes.
Back.--Spinal irritation, tingling of lower extremities; can bear
only slightest covering. Locomotor ataxia. Formication and
numbness. Myelitis.
Extremities.--Cold, dry hands and feet of excessive smokers
with feeling of fuzziness in fingers. Trembling, staggering gait.
Formication, pain and spasmodic movements. Numbness.
Fingers and feet bluish, shriveled, spread apart or bent
backwards, numb. Violent cramps. Icy coldness of extremities.
Violent pain in finger-tips, tingling in toes.
Skin.--Shriveled, numb; mottled dusky-blue tinge. Scleræma
and œdema neonatorum. Raynaud's disease. Blue color. Dry
gangrene, developing slowly. Varicose ulcers. Burning
sensation; better by cold; wants parts uncovered, though cold to
touch. Formication; petechiæ. Slight wounds continue to bleed.
Livid spots. Boils, small, painful, with green contents; mature
slowly. Skin feels cold to touch, yet covering is not tolerated.
Great aversion to heat. Formication under skin.
Fever.--Coldness; cold, dry skin; cold, clammy sweat; excessive
thirst. Sense of internal heat.
Modalities.--Worse, heat, warm covering. Better, cold,
uncovering, rubbing, stretching out limbs.
Relationship.--Compare: Ergotin (Beginning arteriosclerosis
progressing rather rapidly. Increased blood pressure: 2x trit.
Œdema, gangrene and purpura hæmorrhagia: when Secale,
though indicated, fails); Pedicularis Canadensis (Symptoms of
locomotor ataxia; spinal irritation); Brassica napus-Rape-seed--
(dropsical swellings, scorbutic mouth, voracious appetite,
tympanitis, dropping of nails, gangrene); Cinnamon; Colch;
Ars; Aurum mur. 2x (locomotor ataxia); Agrostema-Corn-
cockle-active constituent is Saponin, which causes violent
sneezing and sharp burning taste; burning in stomach, extends to
œsophagus, neck and breast; (vertigo, headache, difficult
locomotion, burning sensation); Ustilago; Carbo; Pituitrin
(dilated os, little pain, no progress. Dose, 1/2 c, repeat in half
hour, if necessary. Hypodermically contra-indicated in first
stage of labor, valvular lesions or deformed pelvis).
Antidotes: Camph; Opium.
Dose.--First to thirtieth potency. Non-homeopathic use. In
hæmorrhages of the puerperium, after the uterus in entirely
emptied, when it fails to contract satisfactorily and in secondary
puerperal hæmorrhage the result of incomplete involution of the
uterus, give one-half to one dram of the fluid extract. Remember
Pagot's law. "As long as the uterus contains, anything, be it
child, placenta, membranes, clots, never administer Ergot".
SEDUM ACRE
Small Houseleek
Hćmorrhoidal pains, like those of anal fissures; constricting
pains, worse few hours after stool. Fissures.
Relationship.--Compare: Mucuna urens (hćmorrhoidal diathesis
and diseases depending thereon); Sedum telephium (uterine
hćmorrhages, also of bowels and rectum; menorrhagia,
especially at climacteric); Sedum repens--S alpestre--(cancer;
specific action on abdominal organs; pain, loss of strength).
Dose.--Tincture to sixth potency.
SELENIUM METALLICUM
The Element Selenium
(SELENIUM)
Selenium is a constant constituent of bones and teeth.
Marked effects on the genito-urinary organs, and often indicated
in elderly men, especially for prostatitis and sexual atony. Great
debility; worse, heat. Easy exhaustion, mental and physical, in
old age. Debility after exhausting diseases.
Mind.--Lascivious thoughts, with impotency. Mental labor
fatigues. Extreme sadness. Abject despair, uncompromising
melancholy.
Head.--Hair falls out. Pain over left eye; worse walking in sun,
strong odors and tea. Scalp feels tense. Headache from tea
drinking.
Throat.--Incipient tubercular laryngitis. Hawking and raising
transparent lumps of mucus every morning. Hoarseness. Cough
in morning, with expectoration of bloody mucus. Hoarseness of
singers. Much clear, starchy mucus (Stann).
Stomach.--Desire for brandy and other strong drink. Sweetish
taste. Hiccough and eructations after smoking. After eating,
pulsation all over, especially abdomen.
Abdomen.--Chronic liver affections; liver painful, enlarged,
with fine rash over liver region. Stool constipated, hard and
accumulated in rectum.
Urinary.--Sensation in the tip of urethra as if a biting drop were
forcing its way out. Involuntary dribbling.
Male.--Dribbling of semen during sleep. Dribbling of prostatic
fluid. Irritability after coitus. Loss of sexual power, with
lascivious fancies. Increases desire, decreases ability. Semen
thin, odorless. Sexual neurasthenia. On attempting coition, penis
relaxes. Hydrocele.
Skin.--Dry, scaly eruption in palms, with itching, Itching about
the ankles and folds of skin, between fingers. Hair falls out from
brows, beard, and genitals. Itching about finger-joints and
between fingers; in palms. Vesicular eruption between fingers
(Rhus; Anac). Seborrhśa oleosa; comedones with an oily surface
of the skin; alopecia. Acne.
Extremities.--Paralytic pains in small of back in the morning.
Tearing pain in hands, at night.
Sleep.--Sleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels, worse
abdomen. Sleepless until midnight, awakens early and always
same hour.
Modalities.--Worse, after sleep, in hot weather, from Cinchona,
draught of air, coition.
Relationship.--Incompatible: China; Wine.
Compare: Agnus; Calad; Sulphur; Tellur; Phosph acid.
Antidotes: Ign; Puls.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency. Colloidal Selenium injection
for inoperable cancer. Pain, sleeplessness, ulceration and
discharge are markedly diminished.
SEMPERVIVUM TECTORUM
Houseleek
Is recommended for herpes, zoster and cancerous tumors.
Scirrhous induration of tongue. Mammary carcinoma. Ring-
worm. Hæmorrhoids.
Mouth.--Malignant ulcers of mouth. Cancer of tongue (Galium).
Tongue has ulcers; bleed easily, especially at night; much
soreness of tongue with stabbing pains. Whole mouth very
tender.
Skin.--Erysipelatous affections. Warts and corns. Aphthæ.
Flushed surface and stinging pains.
Relationship.--Compare: Sedum acre-small Houseleek--
(scorbutic conditions; ulcers, intermittent fever) (Galium; Kali
cyanat). Oxalis acetosella-Wood sorrel--(The inspissated juice
used as a cautery to remove cancerous growths of the lips).
Cotyledon. Ficus Carica--(Fig)-The milky juice of the freshly
broken stalk applied to warts; causes their disappearance.
Dose.--Tincture and 2 decimal, also fresh juice of plant. Locally
for bites of insect, stings of bees, and poisoned wounds, warts.
SENECIO AUREUS
Golden Ragwort
Its action on the female organism has been clinically verified.
Urinary organs also affected in a marked degree. Backaches of
congested kidneys. Early cirrhosis of liver.
Mind.--Inability to fix mind upon any one subject. Despondent.
Nervous and irritable.
Head.--Dull, stupefying headache. Wavelike dizziness from
occiput to sinciput. Sharp pains over left eye, and through left
temple. Fullness of nasal passages; burning; sneezing; profuse
flow.
Face.--Teeth very sensitive. Sharp, cutting pain left side.
Dryness of fauces, throat, and mouth.
Stomach.--Sour eructations; nausea.
Throat.--Dry mouth, throat, and fauces. Burning in pharynx,
raw feeling in naso-pharynx, must swallow, though painful.
Abdomen.--Pain around umbilicus; spreads all over abdomen;
better, stool. Thin, watery stool, intermingled with hard lumps of
feces (Ant crud). Straining at stool; thin, dark, bloody, with
tenesmus.
Urinary.--Scanty, high-colored, bloody, with much mucus and
tenesmus. Great heat and constant urging. Nephritis. Irritable
bladder of children, with headache. Renal colic (Pareira; Ocim;
Berb).
Male.--Lascivious dreams, with involuntary emissions. Prostate
enlarged. Dull, heavy pain in spermatic cord, extending to
testicles.
Female.--Menses retarded, suppressed. Functional amenorrhœa
of young girls with backache. Before menses, inflammatory
conditions of throat, chest, and bladder. After menstruation
commences, these improve. Anæmic dysmenorrhœa with
urinary disturbances. Premature and too profuse menses (Calc;
Erig).
Respiratory.--Acute inflammatory conditions of upper
respiratory tract. Hoarseness. Cough loose, with labored
inspiration. Chest sore and raw. Dyspnœa on ascending (Calc).
Dry teasing cough, stitching chest pains.
Sleep.--Great drowsiness, with unpleasant dreams. Nervousness
and sleeplessness.
Relationship.--Compare: Senecio Jacobæa (cerebro-spinal
irritation, rigid muscles, chiefly of neck and shoulders; also, in
cancer); Aletris; Caulop; Sep.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency. Senecin, first trituration.
SENEGA
Snakewort
Catarrhal symptoms, especially of the respiratory tract, and
distinct eye symptoms of a paralytic type, are most
characteristic. Circumscribed spots in chest left after
inflammations.
Mind.--Suddenly remembers unimportant regions which he saw
long ago. Inclined to quarrel.
Head.--Dullness, with pressure and weakness of eyes. Pain in
temples. Bursting pain in forehead.
Eyes.--Hyperphoria, better by bending head backwards. Acts on
the rectus superior. Blepharitis; lids dry and crusty (Graph).
Dryness, with sensation as if too large for orbits. Starting.
Lachrymation. Flickering; must wipe eyes frequently. Objects
look shaded. Muscular asthenopia (Caust). Double vision; better
only by bending head backward. Opacities of the vitreous
humor. Promotes absorption of fragments of lens, after
operation.
Nose.--Dry. Coryza; much watery mucus and sneezing. Nostrils
feel peppery.
Face.--Paralysis of left side of face. Heat in face. Burning
vesicles in corners of mouth and lips.
Throat.--Catarrhal inflammation of throat and fauces, with
scraping hoarseness. Burning and rawness. Sensation as if
membrane had been abraded.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness. Hurts to talk. Bursting pain in back
on coughing. Catarrh of larynx. Loss of voice. Hacking cough.
Thorax feels too narrow. Cough often ends in a sneeze. Rattling
in chest (Tart emet). Chest oppressed on ascending. Bronchial
catarrh, with sore chest walls; much mucus; sensation of
oppression and weight of chest. Difficult raising of tough,
profuse mucus, in the aged. Asthenic bronchitis of old people
with chronic interstitial nephritis or chronic emphysema. Old
asthmatics with congestive attacks. Exudations in Pleura.
Hydrothorax (Merc sulph). Pressure on chest as though lungs
were forced back to spine. Voice unsteady, vocal cords partially
paralyzed.
Urinary.--Greatly diminished; loaded with shreds and mucus;
scalding before and after urinating. Back, bursting distending
pain in kidney region.
Modalities.--Worse, walking in open air, during rest. Better,
from sweat; bending head backwards.
Relationship.--Compare: Caust; Phos; Saponin; Ammon; Calc;
Nepeta cataria-Catnip (to break up a cold; infantile colic:
hysteria).
Dose.--Tincture, to thirtieth potency.
SENNA
Cassia Acutifolia
Is of much use in infantile colics when the child seems to be full
of wind. Oxaluria, with excess of urea; increased specific
gravity. Where the system is broken down, bowels constipated,
muscular weakness, and waste of nitrogenous materials, Senna
will act as a tonic. Ebullitions of blood at night. Acetonæmia,
prostration, fainting, constipation with colic a flatulence. Liver
enlarged and tender.
Stool.--Fluid yellowish, with pinching pains before. Greenish
mucus; never-get-done sensation (Merc). Burning in rectum,
with strangury of bladder. Constipation, with colic and
flatulence. Liver enlarged and tender, stools hard and dark, with
loss appetite, coated tongue, bad taste, and weakness.
Urine.--Specific gravity and density increased; hyperazoturia,
oxaluria, phosphaturia, and acetonuria.
Relationship.--Compare: Kali carb; Jalapa.
Antidotes: Nux; Cham.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
SEPIA OFFICINALIS
Inky Juice of Cuttlefish
(SEPIA)
Acts specially on the portal system, with venous congestion.
Stasis and thereby ptosis of viscera and weariness and misery.
Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation,
especially in women, upon whose organism it has most
pronounced effect. Pains extend down to back, chills easily.
Tendency to abortion. Hot flashes at menopause with weakness
and perspiration. Upward tendency of its symptoms. Easy
fainting. "Ball" sensation in inner parts. Sepia acts best on
brunettes. All pains are from below up. One of the most
important uterine remedies. Tubercular patients with chronic
hepatic troubles and uterine reflexes. Feels cold even in warm
room. Pulsating headache in cerebellum.
Mind.--Indifferent to those loved best. Averse to occupation, to
family. Irritable; easily offended. Dreads to be alone. Very sad.
Weeps when telling symptoms. Miserly. Anxious toward
evening; indolent.
Head.--Vertigo, with sensation of something rolling round in
head. Prodromal symptoms of apoplexy. Stinging pain from
within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead, with
nausea, vomiting; worse indoors and when lying on painful side.
Jerking of head backwards and forwards. Coldness of vertex.
Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual nisus, with scanty
flow. Hair falls out. Open fontanelles. Roots of hair sensitive.
Pimples on forehead near hair.
Nose.--Thick, greenish discharge; thick plugs and crusts.
Yellowish saddle across nose. Atrophic catarrh with greenish
crusts from anterior nose and pain at root of nose. Chronic nasal
catarrh, especially post-nasal, dropping of heavy, lumpy
discharges; must be hawked through the mouth.
Eyes.--Muscular asthenopia; black spots in the field of vision;
asthenic inflammations, and in connection with uterine trouble.
Aggravation of eye troubles morning and evening. Tarsal
tumors. Ptosis, ciliary irritation. Venous congestion of the
fundus.
Ears.--Herpes behind ears on nape of neck. Pain as if from sub-
cutaneous ulceration. Swelling and eruption of external ear.
Face.--Yellow blotches; pale or sallow; yellow about mouth.
Rosacea; saddle-like brownish distribution on nose and cheeks.
Mouth.--Tongue white. Taste salty, putrid. Tongue foul, but
clears during menses. Swelling and cracking of lower lip. Pain
in teeth from 6 pm till midnight; worse on lying.
Stomach.--Feeling of goneness; not relieved by eating (Carb
an). Nausea at smell or sight of food. Nausea worse lying on
side. Tobacco dyspepsia. Everything tastes too salty (Carbo beg;
Chin). Band of pain about four inches wide encircling
hypochondria. Nausea in morning before eating. Disposition to
vomit after eating. Burning in pit of stomach. Longing for
vinegar, acids, and pickles. Worse, after milk, especially when
boiled. Acid dyspepsia with bloated abdomen, sour eructations.
Loathes fat.
Abdomen.--Flatulent, with headache. Liver sore and painful;
relieved by lying on right side. Many brown spots on abdomen.
Feeling of relaxation and bearing-down in abdomen.
Rectum.--Bleeding at stool and fullness of rectum.
Constipation; large, hard stools; feeling of a ball in rectum,
cannot strain; with great tenesmus and pains shooting upward.
Dark-brown, round balls glued together with mucus. Soft stool,
difficult. Prolapsus ani (Pod). Almost constant oozing from anus.
Infantile diarrhœa, worse from boiled milk, and rapid
exhaustion. Pains shoot up in rectum and vagina.
Urinary.--Red, adhesive, sand in urine. Involuntary urination,
during first sleep. Chronic cystitis, slow micturition, with
bearing-down sensation above pubis.
Male.--Organs cold. Offensive perspiration. Gleet; discharge
from urethra only during night; no pain. Condylomata surround
head of penis. Complaints from coition.
Female.--Pelvic organs relaxed. Bearing-down sensation as if
everything would escape through vulva (Bell; Kreoso; Lac c; Lil
t; Nat c; Pod); must cross limbs to prevent protrusion, or press
against vulva. Leucorrhœa yellow, greenish; with much itching.
Menses Too late and scanty, irregular; early and profuse; sharp
clutching pains. Violent stitches upward in the vagina, from
uterus to umbilicus. Prolapse of uterus and vagina. Morning
sickness. Vagina painful, especially on coition.
Respiratory.--Dry, fatiguing cough, apparently coming from
stomach. Rotten-egg taste with coughing. Oppression of chest
morning and evening. Dyspnœa; worse, after sleep; better, rapid
motion. Cough in morning, with profuse expectoration, tasting
salty (Phos; Ambr). Hypostatic pleuritis. Whooping-cough that
drags on. Cough excited by tickling in larynx or chest.
Heart.--Violent, intermittent palpitation. Beating in all arteries.
Tremulous feeling with flushes.
Back.--Weakness in small of back. Pains extend into back.
Coldness between shoulders.
Extremities.--Lower extremities lame and stiff, tension as if too
short. Heaviness and bruised feeling. Restleness in all limbs,
twitching and jerkings night and day. Pain in heel. Coldness of
legs and feet.
Fever.--Frequent flushes of heat; sweat from least motion.
General lack of warmth of body. Feet cold and wet. Shivering,
with thirst; worse, towards evening.
Skin.--Herpes circinatus in isolated spots. Itching; not relieved
by scratching; worse in bends of elbows and knees. Chloasma;
herpetic eruption on lips, about mouth and nose. Ringworm-like
eruption every spring. Urticaria on going in open air; better in
warm room. Hyperidrosis and bromidrosis. Sweat on feet, worse
on toes; intolerable odor. Lentigo in young women. Ichthyosis
with offensive odor of skin.
Modalities.--Worse, forenoons and evenings; washing, laundry-
work, dampness, left side, after sweat; cold air, before thunder-
storm. Better, by exercise, pressure, warmth of bed, hot
applications, drawing limbs up, cold bathing, after sleep.
Relationship.--Complementary: Nat mur; Phosph. Nux
intensifies action. Guaiacum often beneficial after Sepia.
Inimical: Lach; Puls.
Compare: Lit; Murex; Silica; Sulph; Asperula-Nacent oxygen.
Distilled water charged with the gas--(leucorrhœa of young girls
and uterine catarrh); Ozonum (sacral pain; tired feeling through
pelvic viscera and perineum); Dictamnus--Burning Bush--
(Soothes labor pains); (metrorrhagia, leucorrhœa, and
constipation; also somnambulism). Lapathum(Leucorrhœa with
constriction and expulsive effort through womb and pain in
kidneys).
Dose.--Twelfth, 30th and 200th potency. Should not be used too
low or be repeated too frequently. On the other hand Dr.
Jousset's unique experience is that is should be continued for
some time in strong doses. 1x twice a day.
SERUM ANGUILLAE
Eel Serum
(SERUM ANGUILLAR ICHTHYOTOXIN)
The serum of the eel has a toxic action on the blood, rapidly
destroying its globules. The presence of albumin and renal
elements in the urine, the hemoglobinuria, the prolonged anuria
(24 and 26 hours), together with the results of the autopsy,
plainly demonstrate its elective action on the kidneys.
Secondarily, the liver and the heart are affected, and the
alterations observed are those usually present in infectious
diseases.
From all these facts it is easy to infer, a priori, the therapeutical
indications of the serum of the eel. Whenever the kidney
becomes acutely affected, either from cold or infection or
intoxication, and the attack is characterized by oliguria, anuria
and albuminuria, we will find the eel's serum eminently
efficacious to re-establish diuresis, and in rapidly arresting
albuminuria. When during the course of heart-disease, the
kidney, previously working well, should suddenly become
affected and its function inhibited; and when besides we observe
cardiac irregularities and a marked state of asystolia, we may yet
expect good results from this serum. But to determine here the
choice of this remedy is not an easy matter. While digitalis
presents in its indications, the well-known symptomatic trilogy:
arterial hypertension oliguria and śdema; the serum of the eel
seems better adapted to cases of hypertension and oliguria,
without śdema. We should bear in mind that the elective action
of the eel's serum is on the kidney, and I believe we can well
assert that if digitalis is a cardiac, the eel's serum is a renal
remedy. So far, at least, the clinical observations published seem
to confirm this distinction. The serum of the eel has given very
small results in attacks of asystolia; but it has been very
efficacious in cardiac urćmia. There, where digitalis is
powerless, the serum of the eel has put an end to the renal
obstruction and produced an abundant diuresis. But its really
specific indication seems to be for acute nephritis a frigori
(Jousset)
Subacute nephritis. Heart diseases, in cases of failure of
compensation and impending asytole. The experiments of Dr.
Jousset have amply demonstrated the rapid hćmaturia,
albuminuria and oliguria caused by it. In the presence of acute
nephritis with threatening urćmia we should always think of this
serum. Very efficacious in functional heart diseases. Mitral
insufficiency, asystolia with or without śdema, dyspnśa and
difficult urinary secretion.
Relationship.--Great analogy exists between eel serum and the
venom of the Vipera.
Compare also: Pelias; Lachesis.
Dose.--Attenuations are made with glycerine or distilled water,
the lower 1x to 3 in heart disease, the higher in sudden renal
attacks.
SILICEA TERRA
Silica. Pure Flint
(SILICEA)
Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition. It
goes further and produces neurasthenic states in consequence,
and increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and exaggerated
reflexes. Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis. Silica can
stimulate the organism to re-absorb fibrotic conditions and scar-
tissue. In phthisis must be used with care, for here it may cause
the absorption of scar-tissue, liberate the disease, walled in, to
new activities (J. Weir). Organic changes; it is deep and slow in
action. Periodical states; abscesses, quinsy, headaches, spasms,
epilepsy, feeling of coldness before an attack. Keloid growth.
Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head open fontanelles
and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking. Ill effects of
vaccination. Suppurative processes. It is related to all fistulous
burrowings. Ripens abscesses since it promotes suppuration.
Silica patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm
clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter. Lack
of vital heat. Prostration of mind and body. Great sensitiveness
to taking cold. Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants. Ailments
attended with pus formation. Epilepsy. Want of grit, moral or
physical.
Mind.--Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious. Nervous and excitable.
Sensitive to all impressions. Brain-fag. Obstinate, headstrong
children. Abstracted. Fixed ideas; thinks only of pins, fears
them, searches and counts them.
Head.--Aches from fasting. Vertigo from looking up; better,
wrapping up warmly; when lying on left side (Magnes mur;
Strontia). Profuse sweat of head, offensive, and extends to neck.
Pain begins at occiput, and spreads over head and settles over
eyes. Swelling in the glabella.
Eyes.--Angles of eyes affected. Swelling of lachrymal duct.
Aversion to light, especially daylight; it produces dazzling,
sharp pain through eyes; eyes tender to touch; worse when
closed. Vision confused; letters run together on reading. Styes.
Iritis and irido-choroiditis, with pus in anterior chamber.
Perforating or sloughing ulcer of cornea. Abscess in cornea after
traumatic injury. Cataract in office workers. After-effects of
keratitis and ulcus cornæ, clearing the opacity. Use 30th potency
for months.
Ears.--Fetid discharge. Caries of mastoid. Loud pistol-like
report. Sensitive to noise. Roaring in ears.
Nose.--Itching at point of nose. Dry, hard crusts form, bleeding
when loosened. Nasal bones sensitive. Sneezing in morning.
Obstructed and loss of smell. Perforation of septum.
Face.--Skin cracked on margin of lips. Eruption on chin. Facial
neuralgia, throbbing, tearing, face red; worse, cold damp.
Mouth.--Sensation of a hair on tongue. Gums sensitive to cold
air. Boils on gums. Abscess at root of teeth. Pyorrhea (Merc
cor). Sensitive to cold water.
Throat.--Periodical quinsy. Pricking as of a pin in tonsil. Colds
settle in throat. Parotid glands swollen (Bell; Rhus; Calc).
Stinging pain on swallowing. Hard, cold swelling of cervical
glands.
Stomach.--Disgust for meat and warm food. On swallowing
food, it easily gets into posterior nares. Want of appetite; thirst
excessive. Sour eructations after eating (Sepia; Calc). Pit of
stomach painful to pressure. Vomiting after drinking (Ars;
Verat).
Abdomen.--Pain or painful cold feeling in abdomen, better
external heat. Hard, bloated. Colic; cutting pain, with
constipation; yellow hands and blue nails. Much rumbling in
bowels. Inguinal glands swollen and painful. Hepatic abscess.
Rectum.--Feels paralyzed. Fistula in ano (Berb; Lach). Fissures
and hæmorrhoids, painful, with spasm of sphincter. Stool comes
down with difficulty; when partly expelled, recedes again. Great
straining; rectum stings; closes upon stool. Feces remain a long
time in rectum. Constipation always before and during menses;
with irritable sphincter ani. Diarrhœa of cadaverous odor.
Urinary.--Bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow sediment.
Prostatic fluid discharged when straining at stool. Nocturnal
enuresis in children with worms.
Male.--Burning and soreness of genitals, with eruption on inner
surface of thighs. Chronic gonorrhœa, with thick, fetid
discharge. Elephantiasis of scrotum. Sexual erethism; nocturnal
emissions. Hydrocele.
Female.--A milky (Calc; Puls; Sep), acrid leucorrhœa, during
urination. Itching of vulva and vagina; very sensitive. Discharge
of blood between menstrual periods. Increased menses, with
paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body. Nipples very sore;
ulcerated easily; drawn in. Fistulous ulcers of breast (Phos).
Abscess of labia. Discharge of blood from vagina every time
child is nursed. Vaginal cysts (Lyc; Puls; Rhod) hard lumps in
breast (conium).
Respiratory.--Colds fail to yield; sputum persistently muco-
purulent and profuse. Slow recovery after pneumonia. Cough
and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules like shot,
which, when broken, smell very offensive. Cough with
expectoration in day, bloody or purulent. Stitches in chest
through to back. Violent cough when lying down, with thick,
yellow lumpy expectoration; suppurative stage of expectoration
(Bals. Peru).
Back.--Weak spine; very susceptible to draughts on back. Pain
in coccyx. Spinal irritation after injuries to spine; diseases of
bones of spine. Potts' disease.
Sleep.--Night-walking; gets up while asleep. Sleeplessness, with
great orgasm of blood and heat in head. Frequent starts in sleep.
Anxious dreams. Excessive gaping.
Extremities.--Sciatica, pains through hips, legs and feet. Cramp
in calves and soles. Loss of power in legs. Tremulous hands
when using them. Paralytic weakness of forearm. Affections of
finger nails, especially if white spots on nails. Ingrowing toe-
nails. Icy cold and sweaty feet. The parts lain on go to sleep.
Offensive sweat on feet, hands, and axillæ. Sensation in tips of
fingers, as if suppurating. Panaritium. Pain in knee, as if tightly
bound. Calves tense and contracted. Pain beneath toes. Soles
sore (Ruta). Soreness in feet from instep through to the sole.
Suppurates.
Skin.--Felons, abscesses, boils, old fistulous ulcers. Delicate,
pale, waxy. Cracks at end of fingers. Painless swelling of glands.
Rose-colored blotches. Scars suddenly become painful. Pus
offensive. Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from tissues.
Every little injury suppurates. Long lasting suppuration and
fistulous tracts. Dry finger tips. Eruptions itch only in daytime
and evening. Crippled nails. Indurated tumors. Abscesses of
joints. After impure vaccination. Bursa. Lepra, nodes, and
coppery spots. Keloid growths.
Fever.--Chilliness; very sensitive to cold air. Creeping,
shivering over the whole body. Cold extremities, even in a warm
room. Sweat at night; worse towards morning. Suffering parts
feel cold.
Modalities.--Worse, new moon, in morning, from washing,
during menses, uncovering, lying down, damp, lying on, left
side, cold. Better, warmth, wrapping up head, summer; in wet or
humid weather.
Relationship.--Complementary: Thuja; Sanic; Puls; Fluor ac.
Mercurius and Silica do not follow each other well.
Compare: Black Gunpowder 3x (Abscesses, boils, carbuncles,
limb purple. Wounds that refuse to heal; accident from bad food
or water.--Clarke). Hep; Kali phos; Pic ac; Calc; Phos;
Tabasheer; Natrum silicum (tumors, hæmophilia, arthritis; dose,
three drops three times daily, in milk); Ferrum cyanatum
(epilepsy; neuroses, with irritable weakness and hyper-
sensitiveness, especially of a periodical character). Silica
marina-Sea sand--(Silica and Natrum mur symptoms. Inflamed
glands and commencing suppuration. Constipation. Use for
some time 3x trit). Vitrum-Crown glass--(Pott's disease, after
Silica, necrosis, discharge thin, watery, fetid. Much pain, fine
grinding and grating like grit). Arundo donax (acts on excretory
and generative organs; suppuration, especially chronic, and
where the ulceration is fistulous, especially in long bones.
Itching eruption on chest, upper extremities and behind ears).
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency. The 200th and higher of
unquestioned activity. In malignant affections, the lowest
potencies needed at times.
SILPHIUM LACINATUM
Rosin-weed
(SILPHIUM)
Is used in various forms of asthma and chronic bronchitis
Catarrh of bladder. Catarrhal influenza. Dysentery; attack
preceded by constipated stools covered with white mucus.
Respiratory.--Cough with expectoration profuse, stringy,
frothy, light-colored. Excited by sense of mucus rattling in chest
and worse by drafts of air. Constriction of lungs. Catarrh, with
copious, stringy, mucous discharges. Desire to hawk and scrape
throat. Irritation of posterior nares, involving mucous
membranes of nasal passages with constriction of supra-orbital
region.
Relationship.--Compare: Aral; Copaiv; Tereb; Cubeb; Samb;
Silphion cyrenaicum (phthisis pulmonum, with incessant cough,
profuse night-sweats, emaciation, etc); Polygonum aviculare
(has been found useful in phthisis, when given in material doses
of the mother tincture); Salvia (tickling cough). Arum
dracontium (loose cough at night on lying down). Justicia
adhatoda (bronchial catarrh, hoarseness, oversensitive).
Dose.--Third potency. Lower triturations preferred by some.
 SINAPIS NIGRA
Black Mustard
(BRASSICA NIGRA)
Is of use in hay-fever, coryza, and pharyngitis. Dry nares and
pharynx, with thick, lumpy secretion. Small-pox.
Head.--Scalp hot and itches. Sweat on upper lip and forehead.
Tongue feels blistered.
Nose.--Mucus from posterior nares feels cold. Scanty, acrid
discharge. Stoppage of left nostril all day, or in afternoon and
evening. Dry, hot, with lachrymation, sneezing; hacking cough;
better lying down. Nostrils alternately stopped. Dryness of
anterior nares.
Respiratory.--Cough is relieved by lying down.
Throat.--Feels scalded, hot inflamed. Asthmatic breathing.
Loud coughing-spells with barking expiration.
Stomach.--Offensive breath, smelling like onions (Asaf;
Armorac). Burning in stomach, extending up śsophagus, throat,
and mouth, which is full of canker sores. Hot sour eructations.
Colic; pains come on while bent forward; better, sitting up
straight. Sweat better when nausea comes on.
Urinary.--Pain in bladder, frequent copious flow day and night.
Back.--Rheumatic pain in intercostal and lumbar muscles;
sleeplessness from pain in back and hips.
Relationship.--Compare: Sulph; Capsic; Colocy; Sinapis alba-
White Mustard--(throat symptoms marked, especially pressure
and burning, with obstruction in śsophagus; sensation of a lump
in śsophagus behind the Manubrium Sterni and with much
eructation; similar symptoms in rectum). Mustard oil by
inhalation (acts on the sensory nerve endings of the trigeminal.
Relieves pain in middle ear disease and in painful conditions of
nose, nasal cavities, and tonsils).
Dose.--Third potency.
SKATOLUM
(SKATOL)
Represents the ultimate end of proteid decomposition and is a
constituent of human feces.
Acne with auto-intoxication dependent upon intestinal
decomposition.
Stomach and abdominal symptoms and frontal headache.
Sluggishness with no ambition. Desire to curse and swear.
Mind.--Lack of concentration; impossible to study; despondent;
desire to be with people. Irritable. Felt mean towards everyone.
Head.--Frontal headache, worse over left eye, in the evening,
better by short sleep.
Gastric.--Tongue coated, foul taste. Salty taste to all cereals.
Belching. Appetite increased. Light, yellow, narrow, very
offensive stool. Intestinal dyspepsia.
Urinary.--Frequent, scanty, burning, difficult.
Sleep.--Increased desire to sleep; wakes unrefreshed, half doped
feeling.
Relationship.--Compare: Indol; Baptis; Sulph.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
SKOOKUM CHUCK AQUA
Chuck-Water and Skookum-Strong (Salts from Water
from Medical Lake near Spokane, Wash)
(SKOOKUM - CHUCK)
Has strong affinity for skin and mucous membranes-An anti-
psoric medicine.
Otitis media. Profuse, ichorous, cadaverously smelling
discharge. Lithemia. Catarrh. Urticaria. Skin affections. Eczema.
Dry skin. Hay-fever. Profuse coryza and constant sneezing.
Relationship.--Saxonite--(appears to have remarkable cleansing,
deodorizing and soothing properties for the skin
(Cowperthwaite). Eczema, scalds, burns, sores and
hæmorrhoids).
Dose.--Third trituration.
SOLANUM NIGRUM
Black Nightshade
Used with success in ergotism, with tetanic spasms and stiffness
of whole body, with mania. Marked action on head and eyes.
Meningitis. Chronic intestinal toxæmia. Brain irritation during
dentition. Restlessness of a violent and convulsive nature.
Formication with contraction of extremities.
Head.--Furious delirium. Vertigo; terrible headache and
complete cessation of the mental faculties. Night terrors.
Congestive headache.
Nose.--Acute coryza; profuse, watery discharge from right
nostril; left stopped up, with chilly sensation, alternating with
heat.
Eyes.--Pain over both eyes. Alternate dilatation and contraction
of pupils; weak sight; floating spots.
Respiratory.--Constructive feeling in chest, with difficult
breathing; cough with tickling in throat. Expectoration thick,
yellow. Pain in left chest, sore to touch.
Fever.--Alternation of coldness and heat. Scarlet fever; eruption
in spots, large and vivid.
Relationship.--Compare: Bellad; Solanum Carolinense-Horse-
nettle--(conclusions and epilepsy, twenty to forty-drop doses; is
of great value in grand mal of idiopathic type, where the disease
has begun beyond age of childhood; hystero-epilepsy, also in
whooping-cough); Solan mammosum-Apple of Sodom--(pain in
left hip-joint); Solan oleraceum(swelling of mammary gland,
with profuse secretion of milk); Solan tuberosum (cramps in
calves and contraction of fingers; spitting through closed teeth);
Solan vesicarium(recommended in facial paralysis); Solaninum
aceticum (threatening paralysis of the lungs in the course of
bronchitis in the aged and children must cough a long time
before able to raise expectoration); Solan pseudocaps (acute
pains, in lower abdomen); Solan tuberos ægrotans-Diseased
potato--(prolapse of the rectum, patulous anus; offensive breath
and odor of body; tumors of rectum look like decayed potato;
dreams of pools of blood); Solanum tuberosum-Potato berries--
(cramps in the calves of the legs and fingers).
Dose.--Second to thirtieth potency.
SOLIDAGO VIRGAUREA
Golden-rod
(SOLIDAGO VIRGA)
Inhalation of the pollen has caused hćmorrhage from the lungs
in phthisis. Repeated colds of tuberculosis (2x) feeling of
weakness, chilliness alternating with heat; naso-pharyngeal
catarrh, burning in throat, pains in limbs and thoracic
oppression. Pain in region of kidneys, with dysuria. Kidneys
sensitive to pressure. Bright's disease. Hay-fever when Solidago
is the exciting cause. Here give 30th potency or higher.
Eyes.--Injected, watery, burning, stinging.
Nose.--Nares irritated with abundant mucus secretion;
paroxysms of sneezing.
Stomach.--Bitter taste, especially at night; coated tongue with
very scanty brown and sour urine.
Respiratory.--Bronchitis, cough with much purulent
expectoration, blood-streaked; oppressed breathing. Continuous
dyspnśa. Asthma, with nightly dysuria.
Female.--Uterine enlargement, organ pressed down upon the
bladder. Fibroid tumors.
Urine.--Scanty, reddish brown, thick sediment, dysuria, gravel.
Difficult and scanty. Albumen, blood, and slime in urine. Pain in
kidneys extend forward to abdomen and bladder (Berb). Clear
and offensive urine. Sometimes makes the use of the catheter
unnecessary.
Back.--Backache of congested kidneys (Senec aur).
Skin.--Blotches, especially on lower extremities; itch.
Exanthema of lower extremities, with urinary disturbances,
dropsy and threatened gangrene.
Relationship.--Iodoform 2x antidotes poison of Golden-rod.
Arsenic. Agrimonia (Pain in region of kidneys).
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency. Oil of Solidago, 1 oz to 8 oz.
Alcohol. 15 drops doses to promote expectoration in bronchitis
and bronchial asthma in old people (Eli G. Jones).
SPIGELIA ANTHELMIA
Pinkroot
(SPIGELIA)
Spigelia is an important remedy in pericarditis and other
diseases of the heart, because the provings were conducted with
the greatest regard for objective symptoms and the subjective
symptoms are by innumerable confirmations proved to be
correct (C. Hering).
Has marked elective affinity for the eye, heart, and nervous
system. Neuralgia of the fifth nerve is very prominent in its
effects. Is especially adapted to anæmic, debilitated, rheumatic,
and scrofulous subjects. Stabbing pains. Heart affections and
neuralgia. Very sensitive to touch. Parts feel chilly; send
shudder through frame. A remedy for symptoms due to the
presence of worms. Child refers to the navel as the most painful
part (Granat; Nux mosch).
Mind.--Afraid of sharp, pointed things, pins, needles, etc.
Head.--Pain beneath frontal eminence and temples, extending to
eyes (Onos). Semi-lateral, involving left eye; pain violent,
throbbing; worse, making a false step. Pain as if a band around
head (Carbol ac; Cact; Gels). Vertigo, hearing exalted.
Eyes.--Feel too large; pressive pain on turning them. Pupils
dilated; photophobia; rheumatic ophthalmia. Severe pain in and
around eyes, extending deep into socket. Ciliary neuralgia, a true
neuritis.
Nose.--Forepart of nose always dry; discharge through posterior
nares chronic catarrh, with post-nasal dropping of bland mucus.
Mouth.--Tongue fissured, painful. Tearing toothache; worse,
after eating and cold. Foul odor from mouth. Offensive taste.
Face.--Prosopalgia, involving eye, zygoma, cheek, teeth, temple,
worse, stooping, touch, from morning until sunset.
Heart.--Violent palpitation. Præcordial pain and great
aggravation from movement. Frequent attacks of palpitation,
especially with foul odor from mouth. Pulse weak and irregular.
Pericarditis, with sticking pains, palpitation, dyspnœa. Neuralgia
extending to arm or both arms. Angina pectoris. Craving for hot
water which relieves. Rheumatic carditis, trembling pulse;
whole left side sore. Dyspnœa; must lie on right side with head
high.
Rectum.--Itching and crawling. Frequent ineffectual urging to
stool. Ascarides.
Fever.--Chilliness on the slightest motion.
Modalities.--Worse, from touch, motion, noise, turning,
washing, concussion. Better, lying on right side with head high;
inspiring.
Relationship.--Compare: Spigelia Marylandica (maniacal
excitement, paroxysmal laughing and crying, loud, disconnected
talking, vertigo, dilated pupils, congestions); Acon; Cact;
Cimicif; Arnica (Spigela is a chronic Arnica); Cinnab (supra-
orbital pain); Naja; Spong (heart); Sabad; Teucr; Cina (worm
symptoms).
Antidote: Pulsat.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency for neuralgic symptoms; second
to third potency for inflammatory symptoms.
SPIRANTHES AUTUMNALIS
Lady's Tresses
(SPIRANTHES)
Has been used for milk-flow in nursing women, lumbago and
rheumatism, colic, with drowsiness and spasmodic yawning. Is
an anti-phlogistic remedy akin to Acon its symptoms showing
congestion and inflammation. Acidity and burning in śsophagus
with eructation.
Female.--Pruritus; vulva red; dryness and burning in vagina.
Burning pain in vagina during coition. Leucorrhśa, bloody.
Extremities.--Sciatic pain, especially right side. Pain in
shoulders. Swelling of veins of hands. Pain in all articulations of
hands. Coldness of feet and toes.
Fever.--Flushes of heat. Sweat on palms. Hands alternately hot
and cold.
Dose.--Third potency.
SPIRAEA ULMARIA
Hardhack
Burning and pressure in śsophagus, feels contracted but not
made worse by swallowing. Morbidly conscientious. Relieves
irritation of the urinary passages; influences the prostate gland;
checks gleet and prostatorrhśa; has been used for eclampsia,
epilepsy, and hydrophobia. Bites of mad animals. Heat in
various parts (Salicylic acid is found in Spiraea).
SPONGIA TOSTA
Roasted Sponge
A remedy especially marked in the symptoms of the respiratory
organs, cough, croup, etc. Heart affections and often indicated
for the tubercular diathesis. Children with fair complexion, lax
fiber; swollen glands. Exhaustion and heaviness of the body
after slight exertion, with orgasm of blood to chest, face. Anxiety
and difficult breathing.
Mind.--Anxiety and fear. Every excitement increases the cough.
Head.--Rush of blood; bursting headache; worse, forehead.
Eyes.--Watering; gummy or mucus discharge.
Nose.--Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage. Dryness;
chronic, dry, nasal catarrh.
Mouth.--Tongue dry and brown; full of vesicles.
Throat.--Thyroid gland swollen. Stitches and dryness. Burning
and stinging. Sore throat; worse after eating sweet things.
Tickling causes cough. Clears throat constantly.
Stomach.--Excessive thirst, great hunger. Cannot bear tight
clothing around trunk. Hiccough.
Male.--Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with pain and
tenderness. Orchitis. Epididymitis. Heat in parts.
Female.--Before menses, pain in sacrum, hunger, palpitation.
During menses, wakes with suffocative spells (Cupr; Iod; Lach).
Amenorrhśa, with asthma (Puls).
Respiratory.--Great dryness of all air-passages. Hoarseness;
larynx dry, burns, constricted. Cough, dry, barking, croupy;
larynx sensitive to touch. Croup; worse, during inspiration and
before midnight. Respiration short, panting, difficult; feeling of a
plug in larynx. Cough abates after eating or drinking, especially
warm drinks. The dry, chronic sympathetic cough or organic
heart disease is relieved by Spongia (Naja). Irrepressible cough
from a spot deep in chest, as if raw and sore. Chest weak; can
scarcely talk. Laryngeal phthisis. Goitre, with suffocative spells.
Bronchial catarrh, with wheezing, asthmatic cough, worse cold
air, with profuse expectoration and suffocation; worse, lying
with head low and in hot room. Oppression and heat of chest,
with sudden weakness.
Heart.--Rapid and violent palpitation, with dyspnśa; cannot lie
down; also feels best resting in horizontal position. Awakened
suddenly after midnight with pain and suffocation; is flushed,
hot, and frightened to death (Acon). Valvular insufficiency.
Angina pectoris; faintness, and anxious sweat. Ebullition of
blood, veins distended. Surging of heart into chest, as if it would
force out upward. Hypertrophy of heart, especially right, with
asthmatic symptoms.
Skin.--Swelling and induration of glands; also exophthalmic;
cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head,
painful on pressure; Goitre. Itching; measles
Sleep.--Awakes in a fright, and feels as if suffocating. Generally
worse after sleep, or sleeps into and aggravation (Lach).
Fever.--Attacks of heat with anxiety; heat and redness of face
and perspiration.
Modalities.--Worse, ascending, wind, before midnight. Better,
descending, lying with head low.
Relationship.--Compare: Acon; Hep; Brom; Lach; Merc prot;
Iod (Goitre).
Dose.--Second trituration, or tincture to third potency.
SQUILLA MARITIMA
Sea-onion
A slow acting remedy. Corresponds to ailments requiring
several days to reach their maximum. Persistent, dull, rheumatic
pains permeate the body. A spleen medicine; stitches under left
free ribs. Important heart and kidneys medicine. Broncho-
pneumonia.
Acts especially on mucous membranes of the respiratory and
digestive tracts, and also upon the kidneys. Valuable in chronic
bronchitis of old people with mucous rales, dyspnśa, and scanty
urine.
Eyes.--Feel irritable; child bores into them with fists. Sensation
as if swimming in cold water.
Stomach.--Pressure like a stone.
Respiratory.--Fluent coryza; margins of nostrils feel sore.
Sneezing; throat irritated; short, dry cough; must take a deep
breath. Dyspnśa and stitches in chest, and painful contraction of
abdominal muscles. Violent, furious, exhausting cough, with
much mucus; profuse, salty, slimy expectoration, and with
involuntary spurting of urine and sneezing. Child rubs face with
fist during cough (Caust; Puls). Cough provoked by taking a
deep breath or cold drinks, from exertion, change from warm to
cold air. Cough of measles. Frequent calls to urinate at night,
passing large quantities (Phos ac). Sneezing with coughing.
Heart.--A cardiac stimulant affecting the peripheral vessels and
coronary arteries.
Urinary.--Great urging; much watery urine. Involuntary
spurting of urine when coughing (Caustic; Puls).
Skin.--Small, red spots over body, with prickling pain.
Extremities.--Icy cold hands and feet, with warmth of the rest
of the body (Menyanthes). Feet get sore from standing. Tender
feet with shop girls.
Modalities.--Better, rest; worse, motion.
Relationship.--Compare: Digit; Strophant; Apocyn can; Bry;
Kali carb. Squilla follows Digitalis, if this fails to relieve water-
logged cases.
Dose.--First to third potency.
STACHYS BETONICA
Betony Wood
(BETONICA)
Produces pains in various parts.
Head.--Stitches in right temple. Inability to concentrate mind.
Abdomen.--Pains in abdomen, hepatic region and of transverse
colon, also in gall-bladder and right inguinal region and
spermatic cords.
Extremities.--Shooting pain in back of both wrist joints. Wrist
drops. Pain in right popliteal space down leg, which feels
paralyzed.
STANNUM METALLICUM
Tin
(STANNUM)
Chief action is centered upon the nervous system and respiratory
organs. Debility is very marked when Stannum is the remedy,
especially the debility of chronic bronchial and pulmonary
conditions, characterized by profuse muco-purulent discharges
upon tuberculosis basis. Talking causes a very weak feeling in
the throat and chest. Pains that come and go gradually, call
unmistakably for Stannum. Paralytic weakness; spasms;
paralysis.
Mind.--Sad, anxious. Discouraged. Dread of seeing people.
Head.--Aching in temples and forehead. Obstinate acute coryza
and influenza with cough. Pain worse motion; gradually
increasing and decreasing as if constricted by a band; forehead
feels pressed inwards. Jarring of walking resounds painfully in
head. Drawing pains in malar bones and orbits. Ulceration of
ringhole in lobe of ear.
Throat.--Much adhesive mucus, difficult to detach; efforts to
detach cause nausea. Throat dry and stings.
Stomach.--Hunger. Smell of cooking causes vomiting. Bitter
taste. Pain better pressure, but sore to touch. Sensation of
emptiness in stomach.
Abdomen.--Cramp-like colic around navel, with a feeling of
emptiness. Colic relieved by hard pressure.
Female.--Bearing-down sensation. Prolapsus, with weak,
sinking feeling in stomach (Sep). Menses early and profuse. Pain
in vagina, upward and back to spine. Leucorrhśa, with great
debility.
Respiratory.--Hoarse; mucus expelled by forcible cough.
Violent, dry cough in evening until midnight. Cough excited by
laughing, singing, talking; worse lying on right side. During
day, with copious green, sweetish, expectoration. Chest feels
sore. Chest feels weak; can hardly talk. Influenzal cough from
noon to midnight with scanty expectoration. Respiration short,
oppressive; stitches in left side when breathing and lying on
same side. Phthisis mucosa. Hectic fever.
Sleep.--Sleeps with one leg drawn up, the other stretched out.
Extremities.--Paralytic weakness; drops things. Ankles swollen.
Limbs suddenly give out when attempting to sit down. Dizziness
and weakness when descending. Spasmodic twitching of
muscles of forearm and hand. Fingers jerk when holding pen.
Neuritis. Typewriters' paralysis.
Fever.--Heat in evening; exhausting night-sweats, especially
towards morning. Hectic. Perspiration, principally on forehead
and nape of neck; debilitating; smelling musty, or offensive.
Modalities.--Worse, using voice (i.e, laughing, talking, singing),
lying on right side, warm drinks. Better, coughing or
expectorating, hard pressure.
Relationship.--Complementary: Puls.
Compare: Stann iod. 3x (Valuable in chronic chest diseases
characterized by plastic tissue changes). Persistent inclination to
cough, excited by tickling dry spot in the throat, apparently at
root of tongue. Dryness of throat. Trachial and bronchial
irritation of smokers. Pulmonary symptoms; cough, loud,
hollow, ending with expectoration (Phellandrium). State of
purulent infiltration. Advanced phthisis sometimes when Stann
jod has not taken effect, an additional dose of Iodine in milk
caused the drug to have its usual beneficial effect (Stonham).
Compare: Caust; Calc; Sil; Tuberc; Bacil; Helon. Myrtus
chekan (chronic bronchitis, cough of phthisis, emphysema, with
gastric catarrhal complications and thick, yellow difficult
sputum. Old persons with weakened power of expectoration).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
STAPHYSAGRIA
Stavesacre
Nervous affections with marked irritability, diseases of the
genito-urinary tract and skin, most frequently give symptoms
calling for this drug. Acts on teeth and alveolar periosteum. Ill
effects of anger and insults. Sexual sins and excesses. Very
sensitive. Lacerated tissues. Pain and nervousness after
extraction of teeth. Sphincters lacerated or stretched.
Mind.--Impetuous, violent outbursts of passion,
hypochondriacal, sad. Very sensitive as to what others say about
her. Dwells on sexual matters; prefers solitude. Peevish. Child
cries for many things, and refuses them when offered.
Head.--Stupefying headache; passes off with yawning. Brain
feels squeezed. Sensation of a ball of lead in forehead. Itching
eruption above and behind ears (Oleand).
Eyes.--Heat in eyeballs, dims spectacles. Recurrent styes.
Chalazæ (Platanus). Eyes sunken, with blue rings. Margin of
lids itch. Affections of angles of eye, particularly the inner.
Lacerated or incised wounds of cornea. Bursting pain in eyeballs
of syphilitic iritis.
Throat.--Stitches flying to the ear on swallowing, especially left.
Mouth.--Toothache during menses. Teeth black and crumbling.
Salivation, spongy gums, bleed easily (Merc; Kreos).
Submaxillary glands swollen. After eating feels sleepy pyorrhea
(Plantago)
Stomach.--Flabby and weak. Desire for stimulants. Stomach
feels relaxed. Craving for tobacco. Canine hunger, even when
stomach is full. Nausea after abdominal operations.
Abdomen.--Colic after anger. Hot flatus. Swollen abdomen in
children, with much flatus. Colic, with pelvic tenesmus. Severe
pain following an abdominal operation. Incarcerated flatus.
Diarrhœa after drinking cold water, with tenesmus. Constipation
(2 drops tincture night and morning), hæmorrhoids, with
enlarged prostate.
Male.--Especially after self-abuse; persistent dwelling on sexual
subjects. Spermatorrhœa, with sunken features; guilty look;
emissions, with backache and weakness and sexual
neurasthenia. Dyspnœa after coition.
Female.--Parts very sensitive, worse sitting down (Berb;
Kreos). Irritable bladder in young married women. Leucorrhœa.
Prolapsus, with sinking in the abdomen; aching around the hips.
Urinary.--Cystocele (locally and internally). Cystitis in lying-in
patients. Ineffectual urging to urinate in newly married women.
Pressure upon bladder; feels as if it did not empty. Sensation as
if a drop of urine were rolling continuously along the channel.
Burning in urethra during micturition. Prostatic troubles;
frequent urination, burning in urethra when not urinating
(Thuja; Sabal; Ferr pic). Urging and pain after urinating. Pain
after lithotomy.
Skin.--Eczema of head, ears, face, and body; thick scabs, dry,
and itch violently; scratching changes location of itching. Fig-
warts pedunculated (Thuja). Arthritic nodes. Inflammation of
phalanges. Night-sweats.
Extremities.--Muscles, especially of calves, feel bruised.
Backache; worse in morning before rising. Extremities feel
beaten and painful. Joints stiff. Crural neuralgia. Dull aching of
nates extending to hip-joint and small of back.
Modalities.--Worse, anger, indignation, grief, mortification, loss
of fluids, onanism, sexual excesses, tobacco; least touch on
affected parts. Better, after breakfast, warmth, rest at night.
Relationship.--Inimical: Ranunc bulb.
Complementary: Caust; Colocy.
Compare: Ferrum pyrophos (tarsal cysts); Colocy; Caust; Ign;
Phos ac; Calad.
Antidote: Camph.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
STELLARIA MEDIA
Chickweed
Induces a condition of stasis, congestion, and sluggishness of all
functions. Morning aggravation.
Sharp, shifting, rheumatic pains in all parts very pronounced.
Rheumatism; darting pains in almost every part; stiffness of
joints; parts sore to touch; worse, motion. Chronic rheumatism.
Shifting pains (Puls; Kali sulph). Psoriasis. Enlarged and
inflamed gouty finger joints.
Head.--General irritability. Lassitude, indisposition to work.
Smarting and burning in eyes, feel protruded. Dull, frontal
headache; worse in morning and left side with sleepiness. Neck
muscles stiff and sore. Eyes feel protruded.
Abdomen.--Liver engorged, swollen, with stitching pain and
sensitive to pressure. Clay-colored stools. Hepatic torpor.
Constipation or alternating constipation and diarrhśa.
Extremities.--Rheumatoid pains in different parts of the body.
Sharp pain in small of back, over kidneys, in gluteal region,
extending down thigh. Pain in shoulders and arms. Synovitis.
Bruised feeling. Rheumatic pains in calves of legs.
Modalities.--Worse, mornings, warmth, tobacco. Better,
evenings, cold air, motion.
Relationship.--Compare: Pulsat (similar in rheumatism, pains
shifting, worse rest, warmth; better cold air).
Dose.--Tincture, externally. Internally, 2x potency.
STICTA PULMONARIA
Lungwort
(STICTA)
Offers a set of symptoms like coryza, bronchial catarrh and
influenza, together with nervous and rheumatic disturbances.
There is a general feeling of dullness and malaise, as when a
cold is coming on; dull, heavy pressure in forehead, catarrhal
conjunctivitis, etc. Rheumatic stiffness of neck.
Mind.--Feels as if floating in air (Datura arborea; Lac. Can).
Confusion of ideas; patient must talk.
Head.--Dull headache, with dull heavy pressure in forehead and
root of nose. Catarrhal headache before discharge appears.
Burning in eyes and soreness of balls. Sensation as if scalp were
too small. Burning in eyelids.
Nose.--Feeling of fullness at the root of the nose (Nux). Atrophic
rhinitis (Calc fluor). Dryness of nasal membrane. Constant need
to blow the nose, but no discharge. Dry scabs, especially in
evening and night. Hay-fever; incessant sneezing (Sabad).
Female.--Scanty flow of milk.
Abdomen.--Diarrhśa; stools profuse, frothy; worse, morning.
Urine increased, with soreness and aching in bladder.
Respiratory.--Throat raw; dropping of mucus posteriorly. Dry,
hacking cough during night; worse, inspiration. Tracheitis,
facilitates expectoration. Loose cough in morning. Pain through
chest from sternum to spiral column. Cough after measles
(Sang); worse towards evening and when tired. Pulsation from
right side of sternum down to abdomen.
Extremities.--Rheumatic pain in right shoulder joint, deltoid,
and biceps. Swelling, heat, redness of joints. Spot of
inflammation and redness over affected joint. Pain severe and
drawing. Chorea-like spasms; legs feel floating in air.
Housemaid's knee (Rhus; Kali hyd; Slag). Shooting pains in
knees. Joints and neighboring muscles red, swollen, painful.
Rheumatic pains precede catarrhal symptoms.
Modalities.--Worse, sudden changes of temperature.
Relationship.--Compare: Datura arborea-Bougmancia candida
(cannot concentrate thoughts; brain floats in thousands of
problems and grand ideas. Floating sensation as if ideas were
floating outside of brain. Headache, heartburn. Burning
sensation around cardiac and of stomach, extending to
śsophagus with sense of constriction. Heat and fullness over
liver region). Cetraria-Iceland Moss (chronic diarrhśa, phthisis,
bloody expectoration. Is used as a decoction and boiled with
milk as an expectorant and nutrient in bronchorrhśa, catarrh,
etc). Also compare: Eryng; Dros; Stilling; Rumex; Sambuc.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth potency.
STIGMATA MAYDIS
Corn-silk
(ZEA)
Has marked urinary symptoms, and has been used with success
in organic heart disease, with much śdema of lower extremities
and scanty urination. Enlarged prostate and retention of urine.
Uric and phosphatic Gonorrhśa. Cystitis.
Urinary.--Suppression and retention. Dysuria. Renal lithiasis;
nephritic colic; blood and red sand in urine. Tenesmus after
urinating. Vesical catarrh. Gonorrhśa. Cystitis.
Shucks (as a decoction used for chronic malaria, teaspoonful
doses freely. Dr. E. C. Lowe, England).
Dose.--Tincture in tent-to fifty-drop doses.
STILLINGIA SILVATICA
Queen's Root
(STILLINGIA)
Chronic periosteal rheumatism, syphilitic and scrofulous
affections. Respiratory symptoms well marked. Torpor of
lymphatics; torpid liver, with jaundice and constipation.
Mind.--Gloomy forebodings; depressed.
Respiratory.--Dry, spasmodic cough. Larynx constricted, with
stinging in fauces. Trachea feels sore when pressed. Hoarseness
and chronic laryngeal affections of public speakers.
Urinary.--Urine colorless. Deposits white sediment; urine milky
and thick.
Extremities.--Aching pains in bones of extremities and back.
Skin.--Ulcers; chronic eruptions on hands and fingers. Enlarged
cervical glands. Burning, itching of legs; worse, exposure to air.
Exostosis. Scrofuloderma; syphilis, secondary eruption and later
symptoms. Valuable for intercurrent use.
Modalities.--Worse, in afternoons, damp air, motion. Better, in
morning, dry air.
Relationship.--Compare: Staphis; Mercur; Syphil; Aur;
Corydalis (syphilitic nodes).
Dose.--Tincture and first potency.
STRAMONIUM
Thorn-apple
The entire force of this drug seems to be expended on the brain,
through the skin and throat show some disturbance. Suppressed
secretions and excretions. Sensation as if limbs were separated
from body. Delirium tremens. Absence of pain and muscular
mobility especially of muscles of expression and of locomotion.
Gyratory and graceful motions. Parkinsonism.
Mind.--Devout, earnest, beseeching and ceaseless talking.
Loquacious, garrulous, laughing, singing, swearing, praying,
rhyming. Sees ghosts, hears voices, talks with spirits. Rapid
changes from joy to sadness. Violent and lewd. Delusions about
his identity; thinks himself tall, double, a part missing. Religious
mania. Cannot bear solitude or darkness; must have light and
company. Sight of water or anything glittering brings on spasms.
Delirium, with desire to escape (Bell; Bry; Rhus).
Head.--Raises head frequently from the pillow. Pain in forehead
and over eyebrows, beginning at 9 am; worse until noon. Boring
pain, preceded by obscure vision. Rush of blood to head;
staggers, with tendency to fall forward and to the left. Auditory
hallucinations.
Eyes.--Seem prominent, staring wide open; pupils dilated. Loss
of vision; complains that it is dark, and calls for light. Small
objects look large. Parts of the body seem enormously swollen.
Strabismus. All objects look black.
Face.--Hot, red; circumscribed redness of cheeks. Blood rushes
to face; distorted. Expression of terror. Pale face.
Mouth.--Dry; dribbling of viscid saliva. Aversion to water.
Stammering. Risus sardonicus. Cannot swallow on account of
spasm. Chewing motion.
Stomach.--Food tastes like straw. Violent thirst. Vomiting of
mucus and green bile.
Urine.--Suppression, bladder empty.
Male.--Sexual erethism, with indecent speech and action. Hands
constantly kept on genitals.
Female.--Metrorrhagia, with loquacity, singing, praying.
Puerperal mania, with characteristic mental symptoms and
profuse sweatings. Convulsions after labor.
Sleep.--Awaken terrified; screams with fright. Deep snoring
sleep. Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell).
Extremities.--Graceful, rhythmic motions. Convulsions of upper
extremities and of isolated groups of muscles. Chorea; spasms
partial, constantly changing. Violent pain in left hip. Trembling,
twitching of tendons, staggering gait.
Skin.--Shining red flash. Effects of suppressed eruption in
scarlatina, with delirium, etc.
Fever.--Profuse sweat, which does not relieve. Violent fever.
Modalities.--Worse, in dark room, when alone, looking at bright
or shining objects, after sleep, on swallowing. Better, from
bright light, company, warmth.
Relationship.--Compare especially: Hyoscy and Bellad. It has
less fever than Bellad, but more than Hyos. It causes more
functional excitement of the brain, but never approaches the true
inflammatory condition of Bellad.
Antidotes: Bellad; Tabac; Nux.
Dose.--Thirtieth potency and lower.
STRONTIUM CARBONICUM
Carbonate of Strontia
(STRONTIA)
Rheumatic pains, chronic sprains, stenosis of œsophagus. Pains
make patient faint or sick all over. Chronic sequelæ of
hæmorrhages, after operations with much oozing of blood and
coldness and prostration. Arterio-sclerosis. High blood pressure
with flushed face pulsating arteries, threatened apoplexy.
Violent involuntary starts. Affections of bones, especially femur.
Restlessness at night, smothering feeling. For shock after
surgical operations. Neuritis, great sensitiveness to cold.
Head.--Vertigo with headache and nausea. Distensive pressure.
Aches from nape of neck, spreading upwards; better wrapping
head up warmly (Sil). Flushes in face; violent pulsating.
Supraorbital neuralgia; pains increase and decrease slowly
(Stann). Bloody crusts in nose. Face red; burns, itches. Itching,
redness and burning of nose.
Eyes.--Burning and redness of eyes. Pain and lachrymation on
using eyes, with dancing and chromatic alterations of objects
looked at.
Stomach.--Loss of appetite, aversion to meat, craves bread and
beer. Food tasteless. Eructations after eating. Hiccough causes
chest pains; cardialgia.
Abdomen.--Sticking in abdominal ring. Diarrhœa; worse at
night; continuous urging; better towards morning. Burning in
anus lasts a long time after stool (Ratanh). Uncomfortable
fullness and swelling of abdomen.
Extremities.--Sciatica with œdema of ankle. Rheumatic pain in
right shoulder. Rheumatism with diarrhœa. Gnawing as if in
marrow of bones. Cramps in calves and soles. Chronic spasms,
particularly of ankle-joint. Œdematous swelling. Icy-cold feet.
Rheumatic pains, especially in joints. Veins of hands engorged.
Fever.--Heat, with aversion to uncover or undress.
Skin.--Moist, itching, burning eruption; better in open air,
especially warm sunshine. Sprains of ankle-joint, with œdema.
Violent perspiration at night.
Modalities.--Better immersing in hot water; worse, change of
weather; from being quiet; when beginning to move; great
sensitiveness to cold.
Relationship.--Compare: Arnica; Ruta; Sil; Baryta c; Carbo;
Stront jodat (arterio-sclerosis). Strontium brom (often gives
excellent results where a bromide is indicated. Vomiting of
pregnancy. Nervous dyspepsia. It is anti-fermentative and
neutralizes excessive acidity). Stront nit (Morbid cravings;
headache and eczema behind ears).
Dose.--Sixth trituration and thirtieth potency.
STROPHANTHUS HISPIDUS
Kombe-seed
Strophanthus is a muscle poison; it increases the contractile
power of all striped muscles. Acts on the heart; increasing the
systole and diminishes the rapidity. May be used with advantage
to tone the heart, and run off dropsical accumulations. In small
doses for weak heart; it feels enlarged. In mitral regurgitation,
where œdema and dropsy have supervened (Digit). Strophanthus
occasions no gastric distress, has no cumulative effects, is a
greater diuretic, and is safer for the aged, as it does not affect the
vaso-motors. In pneumonia and in severe prostration from
hæmorrhage after operations and acute diseases. After the long
use of stimulants; irritable heart of tobacco-smokers. Arterio-
sclerosis; rigid arteries of aged. Restores tone to a brittle tissue,
especially of the heart muscle and valves. Especially useful in
failing compensation dependent upon fatty heart. Hives.
Anæmia with palpitation and breathlessness. Exophthalmia
goitre. Corpulent persons.
Head.--Temporal pains with double vision, impaired sight;
brilliant eyes, flushed face. Senile vertigo.
Stomach.--Nausea with special disgust for alcohol and so aids
in treatment of dipsomania. Seven drops of tincture.
Urinary.--Increased secretion; scanty and albuminous.
Female.--Menorrhagia; uterine hæmorrhage; uterus heavily
congested. Aching pain through hips and thighs during
climacteric.
Respiratory.--Dyspnœa, especially on ascending. Lungs
congested. Œdema of lungs. Bronchial and cardiac asthma.
Heart.--Pulse quickened. Heart's action weak, rapid irregular,
due to muscular debility; and insufficiency. Cardiac pain.
Skin.--Urticaria, especially more chronic forms.
Extremities.--Swollen, dropsical. Anasarca.
Relationship.--Compare: Digit (but is slower than strophant in
its action); Phos ac (weak heart, irregular pulse, fluttering
sensation in cardiac region, palpitation during sleep, fainting).
Dose.--Tincture and 6x potency. In more acute cases, five to ten
drops of the tincture three times a day.
STRYCHNINUM PURUM
Alkaloid of Nux Vomica
(STRYCHNINUM)
Its primary function is to stimulate the motor centers and the
reflex action of the spinal cord. Homeopathic to spasms of
muscles, cramps from an undue reflex excitability of the cord,
spasms of the bladder, etc. Strychnin stimulates the central
nervous system, mental activities, special senses rendered more
acute. Respiration increased. All reflexes are made more active.
Stiffness in muscles and face and neck. Opisthotonos. Tetanic
convulsions with opisthotonos. The muscles relax between
paroxysms; worse slightest touch, sound, odor. Influences more
directly the spinal cord and is less appropriate in visceral
derangements than Nux. Tetanus. Explosive nervousness. The
pains and sensations come suddenly and return at intervals.
Head.--Restless. Over-irritability. Full and bursting headache,
with heat in eyes. Vertigo, with roaring in ears. Jerking of head
forwards. Scalp sore. Itching of scalp and nape.
Eyes.--Hot, painful, protruding, staring. Pupils dilated. Sparks
before eyes. Spasmodic contraction of ocular muscles; twitching
and trembling of lids.
Ears.--Hearing very acute; burning, itching, and roaring in ears.
Face.--Pale, anxious, livid. Jaws stiffened; lower jaw
spasmodically closed.
Throat.--Dry, contracted; feeling of a lump. Deglutition
impossible. Burning along and spasms of śsophagus. Violent
itching in roof of mouth.
Stomach.--Constant retching. Violent vomiting. Nausea of
pregnancy.
Abdomen.--Sharp pain in abdominal muscles, griping pain in
bowels.
Rectum.--Feces discharged involuntarily during spasms. Very
obstinate constipation.
Female.--Desire for coitus (Canth; Camph; Fl ac; Lach; Phos;
Plat). Any touch on body excites a voluptuous sensation.
Respiratory.--Spasm of muscles about larynx. Excessive
dyspnśa. Sharp, contractive pains in muscles of chest. Persistent
cough, recurring after influenza.
Back.--Rigitidy of cervical muscles. Sharp pain in nape and
down spine. Back stiff; violent jerks in spinal column. Icy
sensation down spine.
Extremities.--Limbs stiff. Rheumatism with stiff joints. Violent
jerking, twitching, and trembling. Tetanic convulsions and
opisthotonos; spasms provoked by slightest touch and attempt to
move. Shocks in the muscles. Cramp-like pains.
Fever.--Cold chills down spine. Perspiration in a stream down
head and chest. Lower extremities cold.
Skin.--Itching of whole body, especially nose. Icy sensation
down the spine.
Modalities.--Worse, morning; touch; noise; motion; after meals.
Better, lying on back.
Relationship.--Compare: Eucalyptus (neutralizes ill effects of
Strychnin). Strych ars (Paresis in the aged, relaxed musculature.
Prostration. Psoriasis; chronic diarrhśa with paralytic symptoms;
compensatory hypertrophy of heart with beginning fatty
degeneration; marked dyspnśa when lying down; śdema of
lower extremities, urine scanty, high specific gravity, heavily
loaded with glucose. Diabetes. 6x trit). Strych et Ferr cit
(chlorotic and paralytic conditions; dyspepsia, with vomiting of
ingesta; 2x and 3x trit); Strychnin nit (2x and 3x. Said to remove
craving for alcohol. Use for two weeks); Strychnin sulph
(Gastric atony); Strych valerin (exhaustion of brain-power;
women of high nervous erethism; 2x trit). Compare: Cicuta;
Arnica (tetanus).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. For non-homeopathic use, to
produce its direct physiological effects in paralysis the dose will
range from one-fiftieth to one-twentieth of a grain, repeated
three times a day. Under twelve years of age, one-fiftieth to one
two-hundredth of a grain. Strych, hypodermically, is capable of
arresting progressive muscular atrophy, and is a certain
stimulant to the respiratory centers, and is useful in embarrassed
breathing, in the course of pneumonia especially. Is an antidote
to Chloral, used in asphyxia from gas and chloroform and early
stages of Opium poisoning. Dose, one one-hundredth to one-
sixtieth grain every three hours.
STRYCHNINUM PHOSPHORICUM
Phosphate of Strychnin
(STRYCHNIA PHOSPHORICA)
This drug acts through the cerebro-spinal system upon muscles,
causing twitching, stiffness, weakness and loss of power; upon
circulation, producing irregularity of pulse, and upon the mind,
producing lack of control, uncontrollable desire to laugh and
disinclination to use the brain. Very irregular pulse.
Tachycardia. Rapid and weak pulse. Useful in chorea, hysteria,
acute asthenia after acute fevers. Symptoms worse motion,
better rest and in open air. An excellent remedy in anćmia of
spinal cord; paralysis; burning, aching, and weakness of spine;
pain extends to front of chest; tenderness on pressure in mid-
dorsal region; cold, clammy feet; hands and axillć covered with
clammy perspiration. Atelectasis and break in the compensation
of a hypertrophied heart; the beginning of fatty degeneration of
the heart muscle (Royal).
Dose.--Third trituration.
STRYCHNOS GAULTHERIANA
Tropical Bind-weed
(HOANG NAN)
Exhaustion with vertigo; numbness and tingling in hands and
feet; involuntary action of lower jaw. Pustules and boils; tertiary
syphilis and Paralysis, Eczema, prurigo, old ulcers, leprosy,
cancer of glandular structures and bites of serpents. Removes
fetor and hćmorrhage in cancer, revives the healing process.
Follows Arsenic.
Dose.--Five drops of the tincture. May be increased to twenty.
SUCCINUM
Electron. Amber-A Fossil Resin
Nervous and hysterical symptoms. Asthma. Affections of
spleen.
Head.--Fear of trains and close places. Headache, lachrymation,
sneezing.
Respiratory.--Asthma, incipient phthisis, chronic bronchitis,
pains in chest. Whooping-cough.
Relationship.--Compare: Do not confound with Ambergris
(Ambra). Succinic acid (Hay-fever. Paroxysmal sneezing,
dropping of watery mucus from nostrils; asthma. Inflammation
through respiratory tract; causing asthma, chest pains, etc;
itching of eyelids and canthi and nose worse drafts. Use 6 to
30th potency). Compare: Arundo, Wyethia, Sabadilla, Sinapis.
Dose.--Third trituration. Five drop doses of the oil.
SULPHURICUM ACIDUM
Sulphuric Acid
The "debility" common to acids shows itself here, especially in
the digestive tract, giving a very relaxed feeling in the stomach,
with craving for stimulants. Tremor and weakness; everything
must be done in a hurry. Hot flushes, followed by perspiration,
with trembling. Tendency to gangrene following mechanical
injuries. Writer's cramp. Lead poisoning. Gastralgia and
hypochlorrhydria. Purpura hćmorrhagia.
Mind.--Fretful, impatient. Unwilling to answer questions;
hurried.
Head.--Right-sided neuralgia; painful shocks; skin feels
pinched. Sensation as if brain was loose in forehead and falling
from side to side (Bell; Rhus). Concussion of brain where skin is
cold, body bathed in cold sweat. Compressive pain in side of
occiput; relieved by holding the hands near the head. Pain of
outer parts, as if there were subcutaneous ulceration; painful to
touch. Thrust in right temple as if plug were pressed in.
Eyes.--Intra-ocular hćmorrhage following traumatism. Great
chemosis of conjunctiva, with aching and sharp pain.
Mouth.--Aphthć; gums bleed readily. Offensive breath.
Pyorrhea.
Stomach.--Heartburn; sour eructations; sets teeth on edge
(Robin). Craving for alcohol. Water causes coldness of stomach;
must be mixed with liquors. Relaxed feeling in stomach. Averse
to smell of coffee. Sour vomiting. Desire for fresh food.
Hiccough. Coldness of stomach relieved by applied heat Nausea
with chilliness.
Abdomen.--Weak feeling, with dragging into the hips and small
of back. Feeling as if hernia would protrude, especially left side.
Rectum.--Piles; oozing dampness. Rectum feels as if it had a
big ball. Diarrhśa, fetid, black, with sour odor of body, and
empty faint feeling in abdomen.
Female.--Menstruation early and profuse. Erosion of cervix in
the aged; easily bleeding. Acrid, burning leucorrhśa, often of
bloody mucus.
Respiratory.--Respiration rapid with shooting in cervical
muscles and movement of wings of nose; larynx moves up and
down violently. Bronchitis in children with short, teasing cough.
Extremities.--Cramp-like paralytic contraction in arms, hands;
jerking of fingers while writing.
Skin.--Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises and
livid skin. Ecchymosis. Petechić. Purpura hćmorrhagica. Livid,
red, itching blotches. Hćmorrhage of black blood from all
outlets. Cicatrices turn red and blue and become painful.
Chilblains with gangrenous tendency. Carbuncles, boils and
other staphylococcic and streptococcic infections.
Modalities.--Worse, from excess of heat or cold in forenoon and
evening. Better, from warmth, and lying on affected side.
Relationship.--Complementary: Puls.
Compare: Arn; Calend; Led; Sep; Calc.
Dose.--Sulphuric acid mixed with three parts of alcohol, ten to
fifteen drops three times daily for several weeks, has been
successfully used to subdue the craving for liquor. For
homeopathic purposes second to thirtieth potency.
SULPHUR IODATUM
Iodide of Sulphur
Obstinate skin affections, notably in barber's itch and acne.
Weeping eczema.
Throat.--Uvula and tonsils enlarged and reddened. Swollen.
Tongue thick. Parotid hypertrophied.
Skin.--Itching on ears, nose, and in urethra. Papular eruption on
face. Cold-sores on lips. Boils on neck. Barber's itch. Acne.
Lichen planus. Arms covered with itching rash. Hair feels as if
erect.
Dose.--Third trituration.
SULFONALUM
A Coal-tar Product
(SULFONAL)
Vertigo of cerebral origin, cerebellar disease, ataxic symptoms
and chorea, present a field for the homeopathic employment of
this drug. Profound weakness, gone, faint feeling, and
despondency. Loss of control of sphincter. Muscular inco-
ordination.
Mind.--Mental confusion, incoherency, illusions; apathetic.
Alternation of happy, hopeful states with depression and
weakness. Extreme irritability.
Head.--Dropsy, stupid; pain on attempting to raise head. Double
vision; heavy look about eyes; tinnitus, aphasia; tongue as if
paralyzed. Eyes bloodshot and restless. Vertigo, unable to rise.
Double vision; ptosis; tinnitus; dysphagia, difficult speech.
Urinary.--Albuminuria, with casts. Scanty. Pink color. Constant
desire to urinate; scanty, brownish red. Hæmato-porphyrinuria.
Respiratory.--Congestion of lungs; stertorous breathing.
Sighing dyspnœa.
Extremities.--Ataxic movements, staggering gait; cold, weak,
trembling; legs seem too heavy. Extreme restlessness; muscular
twitchings. Knee-jerks disappear. Stiffness and paralysis of both
legs. Anæsthesia of legs.
Sleep.--Fidgety, wakeful, drowsy. Insomnia.
Skin.--Itching, bluish purpura. Erythema.
Relationship.--Trional; insomnia associated with physical
excitement; (vertigo, loss of equilibrium, ataxia, nausea,
vomiting, diarrhœa, stertorous breathing, cyanosis, tinnitus,
hallucinations).
Dose.--Third trituration.
Non-Homeopathic Uses.--As a hypnotic. Dose, ten to thirty
grains in hot water. Takes about two hours to act.
SULPHUROSUM ACIDUM
Sulphurous Acid; H2 S O3
Sulphurous acid, (tonsillitis (as a spray), acne rosacea,
ulcerative stomatitis, pityriasis versicolor).
Head.--Anxious, furious, disposed to fight. Headache better by
vomiting. Ringing in ears.
Mouth.--Ulcerative inflammation of mouth. Tongue red or
bluish-red. Coated.
Stomach.--Loss of appetite. Obstinate constipation.
Respiratory.--Persistent choking cough with copious
expectoration. Hoarseness, constriction of chest. Difficult
breathing.
Female.--Fluor albus. Debility.
Dose.--As a spray in tonsillitis. According to Ringer, ten to
fifteen minims taken ten minutes before each meal will remedy
pyrosis and prevent fermentation and flatulence. It also removes
thrush. Homeopathically, third attenuation.
SULPHUR
Sublimated Sulphur
This is great Hahnemannian anti-psoric. Its action is centrifugal-
from within outward-having an elective affinity for the skin,
where it produces heat and burning, with itching; made worse
by heat of bed. Inertia and relaxation of fiber; hence feebleness
of tone characterizes its symptoms. Ebullitions of heat, dislike of
water, dry and hard hair and skin, red orifices, sinking feeling at
stomach about 11 am, and cat-nap sleep; always indicate
Sulphur homeopathically. Standing is the worst position for
sulphur patients, it is always uncomfortable. Dirty, filthy people,
prone to skin affections. Aversion to being washed. When
carefully-selected remedies fail to act, especially in acute
diseases, it frequently arouses the reactionary powers of the
organism. Complaints that relapse. General offensive character
of discharge and exhalations. Very red lips and face, flushing
easily. Often great use in beginning the treatment of chronic
cases and in finishing acute ones.
Mind.--Very forgetful. Difficult thinking. Delusions; thinks rags
beautiful things-that he is immensely wealthy. Busy all the time.
Childish peevishness in grown people. Irritable. Affections
vitiated; very selfish, no regard for others. Religious melancholy.
Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse himself. Imagining
giving wrong things to people, causing their death. Sulphur
subjects are nearly always irritable, depressed, thin and weak,
even with good appetite.
Head.--Constant heat on top of head (Cup sulph; Graph).
Heaviness and fullness, pressure in temples. Beating headache;
worse, stooping, and with vertigo. Sick headache recurring
periodically. Tinea capitis, dry form. Scalp dry, falling of hair;
worse, washing. Itching; scratching causes burning.
Eyes.--Burning ulceration of margin of lids. Halo around lamp-
light. Heat and burning in eyes (Ars; Bell). Black motes before
eyes. First stage of ulceration of cornea. Chronic ophthalmia,
with much burning and itching. Parenchymatous keratitis.
Cornea like ground glass.
Ears.--Whizzing in ears. Bad effects from the suppression of an
otorrhśa. Oversensitive to odors. Deafness, preceded by
exceedingly sensitive hearing; catarrhal deafness.
Nose.--Herpes across the nose. Nose stuffed indoors. Imaginary
foul smells. Alć red and scabby. Chronic dry catarrh; dry scabs
and readily bleeding. Polypus and adenoids.
Mouth.--Lips dry, bright red, burning. Bitter taste in morning.
Jerks through teeth. Swelling of gums; throbbing pain. Tongue
white, with red tip and borders.
Throat.--Pressure as from a lump, as from splinter, as of a hair.
Burning, redness and dryness. Ball seems to rise and close
pharynx.
Stomach.--Complete loss of, or excessive appetite. Putrid
eructation. Food tastes too salty. Drinks much, eats little. Milk
disagrees. Great desire for sweets (Arg nit). Great acidity, sour
eructation. Burning, painful, weight-like pressure. Very weak
and faint about 11 am; must have something to eat. Nausea
during gestation. Water fills the patient up.
Abdomen.--Very sensitive to pressure; internal feeling of
rawness and soreness. Movements as of something alive (Croc;
Thuj). Pain and soreness over liver. Colic after drinking.
Rectum.--Itching and burning of anus; piles dependent upon
abdominal plethora. Frequent, unsuccessful desire; hard, knotty,
insufficient. Child afraid on account of pain. Redness around the
anus, with itching. Morning diarrhśa, painless, drives out of
bed, with prolapsus recti. Hćmorrhoids, oozing and belching.
Urine.--Frequent micturition, especially at night. Enuresis,
especially in scrofulous, untidy children. Burning in urethra
during micturition, lasts long after. Mucus and pus in urine;
parts sore over which it passes. Must hurry, sudden call to
urinate. Great quantities of colorless urine.
Male.--Stitches in penis. Involuntary emissions. Itching of
genitals when going to bed. Organs cold, relaxed and powerless.
Female.--Pudenda itches. Vagina burns. Much offensive
perspiration. Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick,
black, acrid, making parts sore. Menses preceded by headache
or suddenly stopped. Leucorrhśa, burning, excoriating. Nipples
cracked; smart and burn.
Respiratory.--Oppression and burning sensation in chest.
Difficult respiration; wants windows open. Aphonia. Heat,
throughout chest. Red, brown spots all over chest. Loose cough;
worse talking, morning, greenish, purulent, sweetish
expectoration. Much rattling of mucus. Chest feels heavy;
stitches, with heart feeling too large and palpitating pleuritic
exudations. Use Tinctura sulphuris. Stitching pains shooting
through to the back, worse lying on back or breathing deeply.
Flushes of heat in chest rising to head. Oppression, as of a load
on chest. Dyspnśa in middle of night, relieved by sitting up.
Pulse more rapid in morning than in evening.
Back.--Drawing pain between shoulders. Stiffness of nape.
Sensation as if vertebrć glided over each other.
Extremities.--Trembling of hands. Hot, sweaty hands.
Rheumatic pain in left shoulder. Heaviness; paretic feeling.
Rheumatic gout, with itching. Burning in soles and hands at
night. Sweat in armpits, smelling like garlic. Drawing and
tearing in arms and hands. Stiffness of knees and ankles. Cannot
walk erect; stoop-shouldered. Ganglion.
Sleep.--Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep. Vivid dreams.
Wakes up singing. Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake
suddenly. Catnaps; slightest noise awakens. Cannot sleep
between 2 an 5 am.
Fever.--Frequent flashes of heat. Violent ebullitions of heat
throughout entire body. Dry skin and great thirst. Night sweat,
on nape and occiput. Perspiration of single parts. Disgusting
sweats. Remittent type.
Skin.--Dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little injury suppurates.
Freckles. Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing.
Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hang-nails. Excoriation,
especially in folds (Lyc). Feeling of a band around bones. Skin
affections after local medication. Pruritus, especially from
warmth, is evening, often recurs in spring-time, in damp
weather.
Modalities.--Worse, at rest, when standing, warmth in bed,
washing, bathing, in morning, 11 am, night, from alcoholic
stimulants, periodically. Better, dry, warm weather, lying on
right side, from drawing up affected limbs.
Relationship.--Complementary: Aloe; Psorin; Acon; Pyrarara
(a fish caught in the Amazon, clinically used for various skin
affections). Lepra, tuberculides, syphilides, varicosities, etc.
Compare: Acon (Sulph often follows in acute diseases); Mercur
and calcarea are frequently useful after Sulphur, not before.
Lyc; Sep; Sars; Puls; Sulphur hydrogenisatum(delirium, mania,
asphyxia); Sulphur terebinthinatum (chronic rheumatic arthritis;
chorea); Tannic acid (Nasal hćmorrhage; elongated uvula;
gargle; constipation). Magnes artificialis (great hunger in
evening, profuse sweat on face, bruised pain in joints, rectal
constriction after stool).
Magnetis polus Articus (anxious, coldness of eyes as if a piece of
ice lay in orbit, increased flow of saliva, constipation, sopor,
trembling, abdominal flatulence).
Magnetis polus Australis (dryness of lids, easy dislocation of
ankle, ingrowing toe-nails, aching in patella, shooting in soles).
Compare in adenoids: Agraphis.
Dose.--Acts in all potencies from the lowest to the highest.
Some of the best results are obtained from the higher, and not
too frequent doses. The twelfth potency is a good one to begin
treatment with, going higher or lower according to the
susceptibility of the patient. In chronic diseases, 200th and
upward. In torpid eruptions the lowest potencies.
SUMBULUS MOSCHATUS
Musk-root
(SUMBUL - FERULA SUMBUL)
Has many hysterical and nervous symptoms, and is of use in
neuralgic affections and anomalous, functional, cardiac
disorders. Numbness on becoming cold. Numbness on left side.
Insomnia of delirium tremens (fifteen drops of tincture).
Sensation as if water dropped down spine. Asthma. A tissue
remedy for sclerosed arteries.
Head.--Emotional and fidgety. Dull in morning, clear in
evening. Mistakes in writing and adding. Comedones.
Tenacious, yellow, mucus in nose.
Throat.--Chocking constriction; constant swallowing. Belching
of gas from stomach. Spasm of pharyngeal muscles. Tenacious
mucus in throat.
Heart.--Nervous palpitation. Neuralgia around left breast and
left hypochondriac region. Cardiac asthma. Aching in left arm,
heavy, numb an weary. Loses breath on any exertion. Pulse
irregular.
Female.--Ovarian neuralgia. Abdomen full, distended, and
painful. Climacteric flushes.
Urinary.--Oily pellicle on surface of urine.
Modalities.--Worse, active exercise; left side.
Relationship.--Compare: Asaf; Mosch.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency. Dr. W. McGeorge advises the
2x every 3 hours for arterio-sclerosis.
 SYMPHORICARPUS RACEMOSUS
Snowberry
(SYMPHORICARPUS RACEMOSA)
This drug is highly recommended for the persistent vomiting of
pregnancy. Gastric disturbances, fickle appetite, nausea,
waterbrash, bitter taste. Constipation. Nausea during
menstruation. Nausea, worse any motion. Averse to all food.
Better, lying on back.
Dose.--Second and third potency.
200th has proved curative.
SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE
Comfrey-Knitbone
(SYMPHYTUM)
The root contains a crystalline solid, that stimulates the growth
of epithelium on ulcerated surfaces. It may be administered
internally in the treatment of gastric and duodenal juries to
sinews, tendons and the periosteum. Acts on joints generally.
Neuralgia of knee.
Of great use in wounds penetrating to perineum and bones, and
in non-union of fractures; irritable stump after amputation,
irritable bone at point of fracture. Psoas abscess. Pricking pain
and soreness of periosteum.
Head.--Pain in occiput, top and forehead; changing places. Pain
comes down bone of nose. Inflammation of inferior maxillary
bone, hard, red, swelling.
Eye.--Pain in eye after a blow of an obtuse body. For traumatic
injuries of the eyes no remedy equals this.
Relationship.--Compare: Arn; Calc phos.
Dose.--Tincture.
Externally as a dressing for sores and ulcers and pruritus ani.
SYPHILINUM
The Syphilitic Virus - A Nosode
Utter prostration and debility in the morning.
Shifting rheumatic pains. Chronic eruptions and rheumatism.
Ichthyosis. Syphilitic affections. Pains from darkness to
daylight; decrease and increase gradually. Hereditary tendency
to alcoholism. Ulceration of mouth, nose, genitals, skin.
Succession of abscesses.
Mind.--Loss of memory; remembers everything previous to his
illness. Apathetic; feels as if going insane or being paralyzed.
Fears the night, and the suffering from exhaustion on
awakening. Hopeless; despairs of recovery.
Head.--Linear pains from temple across, or from eyes
backward; cause sleeplessness and delirium at night. Falling of
the hair. Pain in bones of head. Top of head feels as if coming
off. Stupefying cephalalgia.
Eyes.--Chronic, recurrent, phlyctenular inflammation of cornea;
successive crops of phlyctenular and abrasions of epithelial layer
of cornea; photophobia intense, lachrymation profuse. Lids
swollen; pain intense at night; ptosis. Tubercular iritis. Diplopia;
one image seen below the other. Feeling of cold air blowing on
eye (Fluor ac).
Ears.--Caries of ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin.
Nose.--Caries of nasal bones, hard palate and septum, with
perforation; ozćna.
Mouth.--Teeth decay at gum; edges serrated, dwarfed. Tongue
coated, teeth-indented; deep longitudinal cracks. Ulcers smart
and burn. Excessive flow of saliva; it runs out of mouth when
sleeping.
Stomach.--Craves alcohol.
Rectum.--Feels tied up with strictures. Enemas very painful.
Fissures, prolapse.
Extremities.--Sciatica; worse at night; better about day-break.
Rheumatism of shoulder-joint, at insertion of deltoid. Run-
around. Severe pain in long bones. Redness and rawness
between toes (Sil). Rheumatism, muscles are caked in hard knot
or lumps. Always washing the hands. Indolent ulcers. Muscles
contracted in hard knots.
Female.--Ulcers on labia. Leucorrhśa profuse, thin, watery,
acrid, with sharp, knife-pain in ovaries.
Respiratory.--Aphonia; chronic asthma in summer, wheezing
and rattling (Tart emet). Cough dry, hard; worse at night;
windpipe sensitive to touch (Lach). Lancinating pains from base
of heart to apex at night.
Skin.--Reddish-brown eruption, with a disagreeable odor.
Extreme emaciation.
Relationship.--Compare: Merc; Kal hyd; Nit ac; Aur; Alum.
Modalities.--Worse, at night, sundown to sunrise, seashore, in
summer. Better, inland and mountains, during day, moving
about slowly.
Dose.--The highest potencies only, and in infrequent doses.
SYZYGIUM JAMBOLANUM
Jambol Seeds - Enlexing, active principle
Has an immediate effect of increasing the blood sugar,
glycosuria results.
A most useful remedy in diabetes mellitus. No other remedy
causes in so marked degree the diminution and disappearance
of sugar in the urine. Prickly heat in upper part of the body;
small red pimples itch violently. Great thirsts, weakness,
emaciation. Very large amount of urine, specific gravity high.
Old ulcers of skin. Diabetic ulceration. The seeds powdered, ten
grains three times a day; also the tincture.
Relationship.--Compare: Insulin-An aqueous solution of an
active principle from pancreas which affects sugar metabolism.
If administered at suitable intervals in diabetes mellitus, the
blood sugar is maintained at a normal level and the urine
remains free of sugar. Overdosage is followed by weakness and
fatigue and tremulousness and profuse sweating.
TABACUM
Tobacco
The symptomatology of Tabacum is exceedingly well marked.
The nausea, giddiness, death-like pallor, vomiting, icy coldness,
and sweat, with the intermittent pulse, are all most characteristic.
Has marked antiseptic qualities, antidotal to cholera germs.
Complete prostration of the entire muscular system. Collapse.
Gastralgia, enteralgia,seasickness, cholera infantum; cold, but
wants abdomen uncovered. Vigorous peristaltic activity
diarrhœa. Produces high tension and arteriosclerosis of the
coronary arteries. Should prove the most homeopathic drug for
angina pectoris, with coronaritis and high tension (Cartier).
Constriction of throat, chest, bladder, rectum. Pallor,
breathlessness, hard-cordlike pulse.
Mind.--Sensation of excessive wretchedness. Very despondent.
Forgetful. Discontented.
Head.--Vertigo on opening eyes; sick headache, with deathly
nausea; periodical. Tight feeling as from a band. Sudden pain, as
if struck by a hammer. Nervous deafness. Secretion from eyes,
nose and mouth increased.
Eyes.--Dim sight; sees as through a veil; strabismus. Amaurosis;
muscæ volitantes. Central scotoma. Rapid blindness without
lesion, followed by venous hyperæmia and atrophy of optic
nerve.
Face.--Pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, covered with cold
sweat (Ars; Verat). Freckles.
Throat.--Nasopharyngitis and tracheitis, hemming, morning
cough, sometimes with vomiting. Hoarseness of public speakers.
Stomach.--Incessant nausea; worse, smell of tobacco smoke
(Phos); vomiting on least motion, sometimes of fecal matter,
during pregnancy with much spitting. Seasickness; terrible faint,
sinking feeling at pit of stomach. Sense of relaxation of stomach,
with nausea (Ipec). Gastralgia; pain from cardiac end extending
to left arm.
Abdomen.--Cold. Wants abdomen uncovered. It lessens the
nausea and vomiting. Painful distension. Incarcerated hernia.
Rectum.--Constipation; rectum paralyzed, prolapsed. Diarrhœa,
sudden, watery, with nausea and vomiting, prostration, and cold
sweat; discharges look like sour milk, thick, curdled, watery.
Rectal tenesmus.
Urinary.--Renal colic; violent pain along ureter, left side.
Heart.--Palpitation when lying on left side. Pulse intermits,
feeble, imperceptible. Angina pectoris, pain in præcordial
region. Pain radiates from center of sternum. Tachycardia.
Bradycardia. Acute dilatation caused by shock or violent
physical exertion (Royal).
Respiratory.--Difficult, violent constriction of chest. Præcordial
oppression, with palpitation and pain between shoulders. Cough
followed by hiccough. Cough dry, teasing, must take a swallow
of cold water (Caust; Phos). Dyspnœa, with tingling down left
arm when lying on left side.
Extremities.--Legs and hands icy cold; limbs tremble. Paralysis
following apoplexy (Plumb). Gait shuffling, unsteady.
Feebleness of arms.
Sleep.--Insomnia with dilated heart, with cold, clammy skin and
anxiety.
Fever.--Chills, with cold sweat.
Modalities.--Worse, opening eyes; evening; extremes of heat
and cold. Better, uncovering, open fresh air.
Relationship.--Compare: Hydrobromic acid; Camph; Verat;
Ars. Compare: Nicotinum (Alternate tonic and clonic spasms,
followed by general relaxation and trembling; nausea, cold
sweat, and speedy collapse; head drawn back, contraction of
eyelids and masseter muscles; muscles of neck and back rigid;
hissing respiration from spasm of laryngeal and bronchial
muscles).
Antidotes.--Vinegar; sour apples. Camphor in the physiological
antagonist. Ars (chewing tobacco); Ign; (smoking); Sep
(neuralgia and dyspepsia); Lycop (impotency); Nux (bad taste
due to tobacco); Calad and Plantag (cause aversion to tobacco);
Phosph (tobacco heart, sexual weakness).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth and higher potencies.
TANACETUM VULGARE
Tansy
Abnormal lassitude. Nervous and tired feeling. "Half dead, half
alive feeling" all over. Of use in chorea and reflex spasms
(worms). Said to be a specific against effects of poison ivy.
Head.--Heavy, dull, confused. Headache with least exertion.
Mental.--Irritable, sensitive to noise. Mental fatigue, nausea and
vertigo, worse in a closed room.
Ears.--Roaring and ringing; voice sounds strange; ears seem to
close up suddenly.
Abdomen.--Pain in bowels; relieved by stool. Desire for stool
immediately after eating. Dysentery.
Female.--Dysmenorrhśa, with bearing-down pains, tenderness,
drawing in groins. Menses suppressed; later, profuse.
Respiratory.--Hurried, labored, stertorous respiration. Frothy
mucus obstructs the air-passages.
Relationship.--Compare: Cimicif; Cina; Absinth. Nux follows
well.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
TANNICUM ACIDUM
Tannin - Digallic Acid
(TANNIC ACID)
Mostly used locally against excessive secretion of mucous
membranes, to contract tissue and check hćmorrhage. In
Osmidrosis, corrects fetor of the perspiration. Obstinate nervous
coughs. Hćmaturia. Obstinate constipation. Pain in abdomen,
sensitive to pressure. Intestines can be felt like cylindrical
enlargements. One-half per cent solution.
Relationship.--Gallic acid q. v.
TARAXACUM OFFICINALE
Dandelion
For gastric headaches, bilious attacks, with characteristically
mapped tongue and jaundiced skin. Cancer of bladder.
Flatulence. Hysterical tympanites.
Head.--Sensation of great heat on top of head. Sterno-mastoid
muscle very painful to touch.
Mouth.--Mapped tongue. Tongue covered with a white film;
feels raw; comes off in patches, leaving red, sensitive spots.
Loss of appetite. Bitter taste and eructations. Salivation.
Abdomen.--Liver enlarged and indurated. Sharp stitches in left
side. Sensation of bubbles bursting in bowels. Tympanites.
Evacuation difficult.
Extremities.--Very restless limbs. Neuralgia of knee; better,
pressure. Limbs painful to touch.
Fever.--Chilliness after eating, worse drinking; finger tips cold.
Bitter taste. Heat without thirst, in face, in toes. Sweat on falling
asleep.
Skin.--Profuse night-sweats.
Modalities.--Worse, resting, lying down, sitting. Better, touch.
Relationship.--Compare: Choline, a constituent of Taraxacum
root, has given encouraging results in the treatment of cancer.
Choline is closely related to Neurin, it is the "Cancronie" of
Prof. Adamkiewicz (E. Schlegel). Bry; Hydrast; Nux. Tela
aranea (nervous asthma and sleeplessness).
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency. In cancer 1-2 drams fluid
extract.
 TARENTULA HISPANICA
Spanish Spider
Remarkable nervous phenomena; hysteria with chlorosis;
chorea, dysmenorrhœa, spinal irritability. Bladder tenesmus.
Constriction sensations. Formication; Extreme restlessness;
must keep in constant motion even though walking aggravates.
Hysterical epilepsy. Intense sexual excitement.
Mind.--Sudden alteration of mood. Foxy. Destructive impulses;
moral relaxation. Must constantly busy herself or walk.
Sensitive to music. Averse to company, but wants some one
present. Ungrateful, discontented. Guided by whims.
Head.--Intense pain, as if thousands of needles were pricking
into brain. Vertigo. Wants hair brushed or head rubbed.
Male.--Sexual excitement; lasciviousness reaching almost to
insanity; seminal emissions.
Heart.--Palpitation; præcordial anguish, sensation as if heart
twisted and turned around.
Female.--Vulva dry and hot, with much itching. Profuse
menstruation, with frequent erotic spasms. Pruritus vulvæ;
nymphomania. Dysmenorrhœa, with very sensitive ovaries.
Extremities.--Weakness of legs; choreic movements. Numbness
of legs. Multiple sclerosis, with trembling. Twitching and
jerking. Yawning with uneasiness of legs, must move them
constantly. Extraordinary contractions and movements.
Modalities.--Worse, motion, contract, noise. Better, in open air,
music, bright colors, rubbing affected parts. Worse, seeming
others in trouble.
Relationship.--Compare: Agar; Ars; Cupr; Mag phos.
Antidotes: Lach.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
TARENTULA CUBENSIS
Cuban Spider
A toxæmic medicine, septic conditions. Diphtheria. Adapted to
the most severe types of inflammation and pain, early and
persistent prostration. Various forms of malignant suppuration.
Purplish hue and burning, stinging pains. Bubo. It is the remedy
for pain of death; soothes the last struggles. Pruritus, especially
about genitals. Restless feet. Intermittent septic chills. Bubonic
plague. As a curative and preventive remedy especially during
the period of invasion.
Head.--Dizziness after heat and hot perspiration. Dull ache on
top of head. Shooting pain through left eye across frontal region.
Gastric.--Stomach feels hard, sore. Loss of appetite, except for
breakfast.
Back.--Itches across kidney region.
Extremities.--Hands tremble, turgid with blood.
Urinary.--Retention. Cannot hold urine on coughing.
Skin.--Red spots and pimples. Feels puffed all over. Carbuncles,
burning, stinging pains. Purplish hue. Gangrene. Abscesses,
where pain and inflammation predominate. Scirrhus of breasts.
"Senile" ulcers.
Sleep.--Drowsiness. Sleep restless. Sleep prevented by harsh
cough.
Relationship.--Compare: Ars; Pyrog; Crotal; Echin; Anthrac;
Bellad; Apis.
Modalities.--Better, smoking. Worse, night.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
TARTARICUM ACIDUM
Tartaric Acid
Found in grapes, pineapple, sorrel and other fruits. It is an
antiscorbutic antiseptic, stimulating the mucous and salivary
secretions.
Dullness and lassitude. Great weakness, with diarrhśa, with dry
and brown tongue. Pain in heels (Phytol).
Stomach.--Excessive thirst, continued vomiting burning in
throat and stomach. Dyspepsia with copious secretions of
mucus.
Abdomen.--Pain around umbilicus and region of loins. Stool
color of coffee-grounds (worse at night), with brown and dry
tongue, and dark-green vomiting.
Dose.--Third trituration. The pure acid 10-30 grains dissolved in
water.
TAXUS BACCATA
Yew
In pustular diseases of skin and night-sweats. Also in gout and
chronic rheumatism.
Head.--Supra-orbital and temporal pain on right side, with
lachrymation. Pupils dilated. Face puffy and pale.
Stomach.--Saliva hot, acrid. Nausea. Pain in pit of stomach and
region of navel. After eating, cough. Feeling of pins and needles
at pit of stomach; of emptiness, must eat frequently (compare the
coniferć).
Skin.--Large, flat, itching pustules. Badly smelling night-sweats.
Podagra. Erysipelas.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
TELLURIUM METALLICUM
The Metal Tellurium
(TELLURIUM)
Marked skin (herpes circinatus), spinal, eye and ear symptoms.
Very sensitive back. Pains all over body. Offensive discharges.
Slow development of symptoms (Radium) Sacral and sciatic
pains.
Head.--Neglectful and forgetful. Pain in left side of head and in
forehead above left eye. Distortion and twitching of left facial
muscles; when speaking left angle of mouth drawn upwards and
to left. Fear of being touched in sensitive places. Congestion to
head and nape of neck, followed by weakness and faintness in
stomach. Itching of scalp; red spots.
Eyes.--Lids thickened, inflamed, itching. Pterygium; pustular
conjunctivitis. Cataract, following ocular lesions; aids the
absorption of infiltrations in iris and choroid.
Ears.--Eczema behind ear. Catarrh of middle ear, discharge
acrid, smells like fish-pickle. Itching, swelling, throbbing in
meatus. Deafness.
Nose.--Coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness; better in open air
(Cepa). Obstructed; hawks salty phlegm from posterior nares.
Stomach.--Craving for apples. Empty and weak feeling.
Heartburn.
Rectum.--Pruritus ani et perinei after every stool.
Back.--Pain in sacrum.--Pain from last cervical to fifth dorsal
vertebra, very sensitive; worse touch (Chin s; Phosph) Sciatica;
worse right side, coughing, straining, and at night, with sensitive
vertebral column. Contraction of tendons in bends of knees.
Skin.--Itching of hands and feet. Herpetic spots; ringworm
(Tuberc). Ring-shape lesions, offensive odors from affected
parts. Barber's itch. Stinging in skin. Fetid exhalations(Sulph).
Offensive foot-sweat. Eczema, back of ears and occiput.
Circular patches of eczema.
Modalities.--Worse, while at rest at night, cold weather, from
friction, coughing, laughing, lying on painful side, touch.
Relationship.--Compare: Radium; Selenium; Tetradymite-
crystals from Georgia and North Carolina containing Bismuth,
Tellurium and Sulphur--(coccygodynia, ulceration of nails; pains
in hands, in small spots, ankles, heels, and tendo-Achilles); Sep;
Ars; Rhus.
Dose.--Sixth potency and higher. Takes long time to develop its
action, which is very prolonged.
TEREBINTHINIAE OLEUM
Turpentine
(TEREBINTHINA)
Has a selective affinity for bleeding mucous surfaces.
Tympanites and urinary symptoms very marked. Inflammation
of kidneys, with hćmorrhages-dark, passive, fetid. Bright's
disease preceded by dropsy (Goullon). Drowsiness and
strangury. Coma. Unbroken chilblains.
Head.--Dull pain like from a band around the head (Carb ac).
Vertigo, with vanishing of vision. Disturbed sense of
equilibrium. Tired and difficult concentration of thoughts. Cold
in head with sore nostrils with disposition to bleed.
Eyes.--Ciliary neuralgia over right eye. Intense pain in eye and
side of head. Amblyopia from alcohol.
Ears.--Own voice sounds unnatural; humming as of a seashell,
talking loudly is painful. Otalgia.
Mouth.--Tongue dry, red sore, shining; burning in tip, with
prominent papillć (Arg n; Bell; Kali b; Nux m). Breath cold,
foul. Choking sensation in throat. Stomatitis. Dentition.
Stomach.--Nausea and vomiting; heat in epigastric region.
Abdomen.--Enormous distention. Diarrhśa; stools watery,
greenish, fetid, bloody. Pain before flatus with and relief after
stool. Hćmorrhage from bowels. Worms; lumbrici. Abdominal
dropsy; pelvic peritonitis. Fainting after every stool Entero-
colitis, with hćmorrhage and ulceration of bowels.
Urinary.--Strangury, with bloody urine. Scanty, suppressed,
odor of violets. Urethritis, with painful erections (Canthar).
Inflamed kidneys following any acute disease. Constant
tenesmus.
Female.--Intense burning in uterine region. Metritis; puerperal
peritonitis. Metrorrhagia with burning in uterus.
Respiratory.--Difficult breathing; lungs feel distended;
hćmoptysis. Bloody expectoration.
Heart.--Pulse rapid, small, thready, intermittent.
Back.--Burning pain in region of kidneys. Drawing in right
kidney extending to hip.
Skin.--Acne. Erythema; itching pustular, vesicular eruption;
urticaria. Purpura, ecchymosis, dropsies. Scarlatina. Chilblains;
with excessive itching and pulsative pains. Aching soreness of
the muscles.
Fever.--Heat, with violent thirst, dry tongue, profuse cold,
clammy sweat. Typhoid with tympanites, hćmorrhages, stupor,
delirium. Prostration.
Relationship.--Compare: Alumen; Secale; Canth; Nit ac.
Terebene 1x; (chronic bronchitis and winter coughs; subacute
stages of inflammation of respiratory tract. Loosens secretion,
relieves tightened feeling, makes expectoration easy). Neurotic
coughs. Huskiness of public speakers, and singers. Cystitis when
urine is alkaline and offensive.
Ononis spinosa-Rest Harrow--(Diuretic, Lithontriptic. Chronic
nephritis; diuretic effects like Juniper; calculus nosebleed, worse
washing face).
Antidote: Phos.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
TEUCRIUM MARUM VERUM
Cat-thyme
(TEUCRIUM MARUM)
Nasal and rectal symptoms marked. Polypi. Affections of
children. Suitable after too much medicine has been taken.
Oversensitiveness. Desire to stretch. A remedy of first
importance in chronic nasal catarrh with atrophy; large,
offensive crusts and clinkers. Ozćna. Loss of sense of smell.
Head.--Excited, tremulous feeling. Frontal pain; worse,
stooping. Strengthens brain after delirium tremens.
Eyes.--Smarting in canthi; lids red and puffy; tarsal tumor
(Staph).
Ears.--Hissing and ringing otalgia.
Nose.--Catarrhal condition of both anterior and posterior
nostrils. Mucous polypus. Chronic catarrh; discharge of large,
irregular clinkers. Foul breath. Crawling in nostrils, with
lachrymation and sneezing. Coryza, with stoppage of nostrils.
Stomach.--Vomiting of large quantities of dark-green masses.
Constant hiccough, attended with pain in back. Unnatural
appetite. Hiccough on eating, after nursing.
Respiratory.--Dry cough, tickling in trachea; moldy taste in
throat when hawking up mucus, expectoration profuse.
Extremities.--Affection of finger-tips and joints of toes. Tearing
pains in arms and legs. Pain in toe-nails, as if they had grown
into flesh.
Rectum.--Itching of anus, and constant irritation in the evening
in bed. Ascarides, with nightly restlessness. Crawling in rectum
after stool.
Sleep.--Restless, with twitching, choking, and starting up
frightened.
Skin.--Itching causes tossing about all night. Very dry skin.
Suppurating grooves in the nails.
Relationship.--Compare: Teucrium scorodonia-Wood-sage (in
tuberculosis with muco-purulent expectoration; dropsy; orchitis
and tuberculous epidymitis; especially in young, thin individuals
with tuberculosis of lungs, glands; bones and urogenitals, 3x).
Cina; Ignat; Sang; Sil.
Dose.--First to sixth potency. Locally for polypi, dry powder.
THALLIUM METALLICUM
The Metal Thallium
(THALLIUM)
Thallium seems to influence the endocrines, especially the
thyroid and adrenaline. Most horrible neuralgic, spasmodic,
shooting pains. Muscular atrophy. Tremors. Relieves the violent
pains in locomotor ataxia. Paralysis of lower limbs. Pain in
stomach and bowels, like electric shocks. Paraplegia. Alopecia
following acute, exhausting diseases. Night sweats. Polyneuritis.
Dermal trophic lesions.
Extremities.--Trembling. Paralytic feeling. Lancinating pains,
like electric shocks. Very tired. Chronic myelitis. Numbness in
fingers and toes, with extension up lower extremities, involving
lower abdomen and perineum. Paralysis of lower limbs.
Cyanosis of extremities. Formication, beginning in fingers and
extending through pelvis, perineum and inner thighs to feet.
Relationship.--Compare: Lathyr; Caust; Arg nit; Plumbum.
Dose.--Lower trituration to thirtieth potency.
THEA CHINENSIS
Tea
(THE)
Nervous sleeplessness, heart troubles, palpitation, and dyspepsia
of old tea-drinkers. Produces most of the sick headaches
Tabacum antidotal (Allen).
Head.--Temporary mental exaltation. Ill-humored. Sick
headache radiating from one point. Sleepless and restless.
Hallucinations of hearing. Cold damp feeling at back of head.
Stomach.--Sinking sensation at epigastrium. Faint, gone feeling
(Sep; Hyd; Oleand). Craves acids. Sudden production of wind in
large quantities.
Abdomen.--Borborygmi liability to hernia.
Female.--Soreness and tenderness in ovaries.
Heart.--Anxious oppression. Prćcordial distress. Palpitation;
unable to lie on left side. Fluttering. Pulse rapid, irregular,
intermittent.
Sleep.--Sleepy in daytime; sleepiness at night, with vascular
excitement and restlessness, and dry skin. Horrible dreams cause
no horror.
Modalities.--Worse, night, on walking in open air, after meals.
Better warmth; warm bath.
Relationship.--Antidote: Kali hypophos; Thuja; Ferr; Kali hyd
(Material doses for tea-taster's cough).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
Theine 1/4-1/2 grain hypodermically for sciatica and supra-
orbital neuralgia.
THERIDION CURASSAVICUM
Orange-spider
(THERIDION)
Nervous hyperæsthesia. Has affinity for the tubercular diathesis.
Vertigo, sick headache, peculiar pain around heart region,
phthisis florida, scrofula have all been treated successfully with
this remedy. Sensitive to noise; it penetrates the body, especially
teeth. Noises seem to strike on painful spots over the body.
Rachitis, caries, necrosis. Phthisis, stitch high up in left apex
(Anthrax). Where the indicated remedy does not hold long.
Mind.--Restless; finds pleasure in nothing. Time passes too
quickly.
Head.--Pain worse anyone walking over floor. Vertigo, with
nausea and vomiting on least motion, particularly when closing
eyes.
Eyes.--Luminous vibrations before eyes; sensitive to light.
Pressure behind eyeballs. Throbbing over left eye.
Nose.--Discharge yellowish, thick, offensive; ozæna (Puls;
Thuja).
Stomach.--Seasickness. Nausea and vomiting when closing eyes
and on motion (Tabac). Stinging pain on left side over anterior
aspect of spleen. Burning in liver region.
Respiratory.--Pain in upper left chest (Myrt; Pix; Anis). Pain in
left floating ribs. Cardiac anxiety and pain. Pinching in left
pectoral muscle.
Back.--Sensitiveness between vertebræ; avoids pressure on
spine. Stinging pains.
Skin.--Stinging thrusts everywhere. Sensitive skin in thighs.
Itching sensations.
Modalities.--Worse, touch; pressure; on shipboard; riding in
carriage; closing eyes; jar; noise, coitus; left side.
Dose.--Thirtieth potency.
 THIOSINAMINUM
A Chemical Derived from Oil of Mustard-seed
(RHODALLIN)
Are solvent, externally and internally, for dissolving scar tissue,
tumors, enlarged glands; lupus, strictures, adhesions. Ectropion,
opacities of cornea, cataract, ankylosis, fibroids, scleroderma.
Noises in ear. Suggested by Dr. A. S. Hard for retarding old age.
A remedy for Tabes dorsalis, improving the lightning pains.
Gastric, vesicle and rectal crises. Stricture of rectum, 2 grains
twice daily.
Ear.--Arterio-sclerotic vertigo. Tinnitus. Catarrhal deafness with
cicatricial thickening. Subacute suppurative otitis media,
formation of fibrous bands impeding free movement of the
ossicles. Thickened drum. Deafness due to some fibrous change
in the nerve.
Dose.--Inject under skin, or, into the lesion a 10 per cent
solution in glycerine and water, 15-30 drops twice a week.
Internally in capsules 1/2 grain daily. Obstinate arterio-sclerotic
ailments in doses of 1/2 grain, never more, 3 times a day.
Vertigo and arthritis (Bartlett). 2x attenuation.
THLASPI BURSA PASTORIS
Shepherd's Purse
(CAPSELLA)
Is an anti-hæmorrhagic and anti-uric-acid remedy. Albuminuria
during gestation. Chronic neuralgia. Renal and vesical irritation.
Hæmorrhage from uterine fibroid with aching in back or general
bruised soreness. Aching between scapulæ. Uterine
hæmorrhage, with cramps and expulsion of clots. Craves
buttermilk. Effects of suppressed uterine disease (Burnett).
Head.--Eyes and face puffy. Frequent epistaxis. Vertigo; worse,
rising. Frontal pain; worse toward evening. Scaly eruption
behind ears. Tongue white, coated. Mouth and lips cracked.
Sharp pain over right eye drawing eye upwards.
Nose.--Bleeding in nasal operations. Especially passive
hæmorrhage.
Male.--Spermatic cord sensitive to concussion of walking or
riding.
Female.--Metrorrhagia; too frequent and copious menses.
Hæmorrhage, with violent uterine colic. Every alternate period
very profuse. Leucorrhœa before and after menses; bloody, dark,
offensive; stains indelibly. Sore pain in womb on rising.
Scarcely recovers from one period before another begins.
Urinary.--Frequent desire; urine heavy, phosphatic. Chronic
cystitis. Dysuria and spasmodic retention. Hæmaturia.
Accumulation of gravel. Renal colic. Brick-dust sediment.
Urethritis; urine runs away in little jets. Often replaces the use of
the catheter.
Relationship.--Compare: Urtica; Croc; Trill; Millefol.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth potency.
THUJA OCCIDENTALIS
Arbor vitæ
Acts on skin, blood, gastro-intestinal tract, kidneys, and brain.
Its relation to the production of pathological vegetations
condylomate, warty excrescences, spongy tumors is very
important. Moist mucous tubercles. Bleeding fungus growths.
Nævus. Excess of venosity.
The main action of Thuja is on the skin and genito-urinary
organs, producing conditions that correspond with Hahnemann's
sycotic dyscrasia, whose chief manifestation is the formation of
wart-like excrescences upon mucous and cutaneous surfaces-fig-
warts and condylomata. Has a specific antibacterial action, as in
gonorrhœa and vaccination. Suppressed gonorrhœa, salpingitis.
Ill-effects of vaccination. Sycotic pains, i.e, tearing in muscles
and joints, worse at rest, better in dry weather, worse damp
humid atmosphere; lameness. Hydrogenoid constitutions, whose
blood is morbidly hydroscopic, so that damp air and water are
inimical. Complaints from moonlight. Rapid exhaustion and
emaciation. Left-sided and chilly medicine. Variola, aborts the
pustule and prevents the suppurating fever. Vaccinosis, viz,
inveterable skin troubles, neuralgia, etc.
Mind.--Fixed ideas, as if a strange person were at his side; as if
soul and body were separated; as if something alive in abdomen
(Croc). Emotional sensitiveness; music causes weeping and
trembling.
Head.--Pain as if pierced by a nail (Coff; Ign). Neuralgia from
tea (Selen). Left-sided headache. White, scaly dandruff; hair dry
and falling out. Greasy skin of face.
Eyes.--Ciliary neuralgia; iritis. Eyelids agglutinated at night;
dry, scaly. Styes and tarsal tumors (Staph). Acute and subacute
inflammation of sclera. Sclera raised in patches, and looks
bluish-red. Large, flat phlyctenules; indolent. Recurring
episcleritis. Chronic scleritis.
Ears.--Chronic otitis; discharge purulent. Creaking when
swallowing. Polypi.
Nose.--Chronic catarrh; thick, green mucus; blood and pus. On
blowing nose, pain in teeth. Ulceration within the nostrils.
Dryness of nasal cavities. Painful pressure at root.
Mouth.--Tip of tongue very painful. White blisters on side close
to root, painfully sore. Teeth decay next to gums; very sensitive;
gums retract. Drinks fall audibly into stomach. Ranula; varicose
veins on tongue and mouth. Pyorrhea alveolaris.
Stomach.--Complete loss of appetite. Dislike for fresh meat and
potatoes. Rancid eructations after fat food. Cutting pain in
epigastrium. Cannot eat onions. Flatulence; pain after food;
sinking sensation in epigastrium before food; thirst. Tea-
drinking dyspepsia.
Abdomen.--Distended; indurations in abdomen. Chronic
diarrhœa, worse after breakfast. Discharges forcibly expelled;
gurgling sound. Brown spots. Flatulence and distension;
protruding here and there. Rumbling and colic. Constipation,
with violent rectal pain, causing stool to recede (Sil; Sanic).
Piles swollen; pain worse sitting, with stitching, burning pains at
the anus. Anus fissured; painful to touch with warts. Movements
as of something living (Crocus), without pain.
Urinary.--Urethra swollen inflamed. Urinary stream split and
small. Sensation of trickling after urinating. Severe cutting after
(Sars). Frequent micturition accompanying pains. Desire sudden
and urgent, but cannot be controlled. Paralysis sphincter vesicæ.
Male.--Inflammation of prepuce and glans; pain in penis.
Balanitis. Gonorrhœal rheumatism. Gonorrhœa. Chronic
induration of testicles. Pain and burning felt near neck of
bladder, with frequent and urgent desire to urinate. Prostatic
enlargement (Ferr pic; Thiosinaminum; Iod; Sabal).
Female.--Vagina very sensitive (Berb; Kreos; Lyssin). Warty
excrescences on vulva and perineum. Profuse leucorrhœa; thick,
greenish. Severe pain in left ovary and left inguinal region.
Menses scanty, retarded. Polypi; fleshy excrescences. Ovaritis;
worse left side, at every menstrual period (Lach). Profuse
perspiration before menses.
Respiratory.--Dry, hacking cough in afternoon, with pain in pit
of stomach. Stitches in chest; worse, cold drinks. Asthma in
children (Nat sulph). Papilloma of larynx. Chronic laryngitis.
Extremities.--When walking, limbs feel as if made of wood or
glass, and would break easily. Tips of fingers swollen, red, feel
read. Muscular twitchings, weakness and trembling. Cracking in
joints. Pain in heels and tendo-Achilles. Nails brittle. Ingrowing
toe nail.
Skin.--Polypi, tubercles, warts epithelioma, nævi, carbuncles;
ulcers, especially in ano-genital region. Freckles and blotches.
Perspiration sweetish, and strong. Dry skin, with brown spots.
Zona; herpetic eruptions. Tearing pains in glands. Glandular
enlargement. Nails crippled; brittle and soft. Eruptions only on
covered parts; worse after scratching. Very sensitive to touch.
Coldness of one side. Sarcoma; polypi. Brown spots on hands
and arms.
Sleep.--Persistent insomnia.
Fever.--Chill, beginning in thighs. Sweat only on uncovered
parts, or all over except head, when sleeping; profuse, sour,
smelling like honey. Orgasm of blood in the evening, with
throbbing in the blood-vessels.
Modalities.--Worse, at night, from heat of bed; at 3 am and 3
pm; from cold, damp air; after breakfast; fat, coffee; vaccination.
Better, left side; while drawing up a limb.
Relationship.--Compare: (Hydrogenoid constitution: Calcar;
Silica; Nat sulph; Aranea; Apis; Pulsat). Cupressus australis
(sharp, prickling pain; general feeling of warmth; rheumatism
and gonorrhœa). Cupressus Lawsoniana (acts like Thuja;
terrible pains in the stomach). Sphingurus (falling out of hair
from beard; pain in jaw-joint and zygoma); Sil; Maland
(vaccination); Medorrh (suppressed gonorrhœa); Merc; Cinnab;
Terebinth; Juniperus; Sabin; Sil; Canth; Cannab; Nit ac; Puls;
Ant tart; Arborin is a non-alcoholic preparation of Thuja.
Antidotes: Merc; Camph; Sabin (warts).
Complementary: Sabina; Ars; Nat sulph; Silica.
Dose.--Locally, for warts and excrescences, tincture, or cerate.
Internally, tincture to thirtieth potency.
 THYMOLUM
Thyme Camphor
(THYMOL)
A remedy having a wide field in genito-urinary diseases. It is
indicated in pathological emissions, priapism and prostatorrhśa.
The provings show an action limited to the sexual organs,
producing a typical sexual neurasthenia. Specific for hookworm
disease (Chenopodium).
Mental.--Irritable, arbitrary, must have his own way. Craves
company. Energy gone.
Back.--Tired, aching throughout lumbar region. Worse, mental
and physical labor.
Male.--Profuse, nightly, seminal emissions with lascivious
dreams of a perverted character. Priapism. Urinary burning and
subsequent dribbling of urine. Polyuria. Urates increased.
Phosphates decreased.
Sleep.--Awakes tired and unrefreshed. Lascivious and fantastic
dreams.
Relationship.--Compare: Carbon Tetrachloride as a remedy for
Hookworms, according to Dr. Lambert, Suva, Fiji who
employed it in 50,000 cases.
"1. Carbon tetrachloride is a vermifuge and vermicide of great
potency, and has shown itself to be the best vermifuge for the
treatment of hookworm in a country where the disease
predominates.
"2. It gives little discomfort to the patient, is palatable, required
no preparation of the patient, and when pure is apparently not
toxic-all of which features are of advantage in a popular
campaign.
"W. G. Smillie, and S. B. Pessoa, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, also have
found carbon tetrachloride to be extremely efficient in removing
hookworms. A single dose of 3 Cc given to adults has been
proved to remove 95 per cent of all the hookworms harbored".
Modalities.--Thymol. Worse, mental and physical labor.
Dose.--Sixth attenuation.
THYMUS SERPYLLUM
Wild Thyme
Respiratory infections of children; dry nervous asthma,
whooping-cough, severe spasms but little sputum.
Ringing in ears with feeling of pressure in head. Burning in
pharynx, sore, throat worse empty swallowing; blood vessels
distended, dark.
Dose.--Tincture.
THYROIDINUM
Dried Thyroid Gland of the Sheep
Thyroid produces anćmia, emaciation, muscular weakness,
sweating, headache, nervous tremor of face and limbs, tingling
sensations, paralysis. Heart rate increased, exophthalmus and
dilation of pupils. In myxśdema and cretinism its effects are
striking. Rheumatoid arthritis. Infantile wasting. Rickets.
Delayed union of fractures. In half grain doses twice a day over
a considerable period said to be effective in undescended testicle
in boys. Thyroid exercises a general regulating influence over
the mechanism of the organs of nutrition, growth and
development. Thyroid weakness causes decided craving for
large amount of sweets.
Of use in psoriasis; and tachycardia. Arrested development in
children. Improves the memory. Goitre. Excessive obesity. Acts
better with pale patients, rather than those of high color.
Amblyopia. Mammary tumor. Uterine fibroid. Great weakness
and hunger, yet loses flesh. Nocturnal enuresis. Agalactea.
Begin treatment early in pregnancy. Dose 1 1/2 gr. 2 to 3 times
daily. Vomiting of pregnancy (give early in morning before
patient gets up). Fibroid tumors of the breast, 2x trit. Dilates
arterioles (Adrenaline contacts them). Sensation of faintness and
nausea. Marked sensitiveness to cold Hypothyroidism after
acute diseases, i.e, weakness. Easy fatigue, weak pulse, tendency
to fainting, palpitation, cold hands and feet, low blood pressure,
chilliness and sensitive to cold (Thyroid 1x3 times daily). Has a
powerful diuretic action in myxodema and various types of
śdema.
Mind.--Stupor, alternating with restless melancholy. Irritable,
worse least opposition; goes into a rage over trifles.
Head.--Feeling of lightness in brain. Persistent frontal
headache. Eyeballs prominent. Face flushed; lips burn. Tongue
thickly coated. Fullness and heat. Face flushed. Bad taste in
mouth.
Heart.--Weak, frequent pulse, with inability to lie down.
Tachycardia (Naja). Anxiety about chest, as if constricted.
Palpitation from least exertion. Severe heart pain; Ready
excitability of heart. Heart's action weak, with numbness of
fingers.
Eyes.--Progressive diminution of sight with central scotoma
(Carbon sulf).
Throat.--Dry, congested, raw, burning; worse left side.
Stomach.--Desire for sweets and thirst for cold water. Nausea
worse riding in car. Flatulence, much flatus in abdomen.
Urinary.--Increased flow; polyuria; some albumen and sugar.
Enuresis in weakly children who are nervous and irritable (1/2
gr night and morning). Urine smells of violets, burning along
urethra, increase of uric acid.
Extremities.--Rheumative arthritis with tendency to obesity,
coldness and cramps of extremities. Peeling of skin of lower
limbs. Cold extremities. Aching pains. Śdema of legs.
Trembling of limbs and entire body.
Respiratory.--Dry, painful cough with scanty, difficult
expectoration and burning in pharynx.
Skin.--Psoriasis associated with adiposity (not in developing
stage). Skin dry, impoverished. Cold hands and feet. Eczema.
Uterine fibroids. Browny swelling. Swelling of glands of stony
hardness. Sluggish cases. Jaundice with pruritus. Ichtyosis,
lupus. Itching without eruption, worse night.
Relationship.--Compare: Spongia; Calc; Fucus; Lycopus;
Iodothyrine, (the active principle isolated from thyroid gland, a
substance rich in Iodine and nitrogen, affects metabolism,
reducing weight, may produce glycosuria. Use cautiously in
obesity, for a fatty heart may not be able to maintain the
accelerated rhythm. Milk contains the internal secretion of the
thyroid). Thymus gland extract (arthritis deformans; metabolic
osteoarthritis, 5-grain tablets 3 times daily). High potencies very
efficient in exophthalmic goitre.
Dose.--Crude Thyroid at times; better sixth to thirtieth potency.
If the crude Thyroid is taken (two to three grains or more daily);
the pulse should be watched. Must not be given in physiological
doses where with feeble heart there is high blood pressure and
not in tubercular patients.
TILIA EUROPAEA
Linden
(TILIA EUROPA)
Of value in muscular weakness of the eye; hæmorrhage o thin,
pale blood. Puerperal metritis. Diseases of the antrum (Kali hyd;
Chelid).
Head.--Neuralgia (first right, then left side), with veil before
eyes. Confusion, with dimness of vision. Much sneezing, with
fluent coryza. Bleeding from nose.
Eyes.--Sensation as of gauze before eyes (Calc; Caust; Nat m).
Binocular vision imperfect.
Female.--Intense sore feeling about uterus; bearing-down, with
hot sweat, but without relief. Much slimy leucorrhœa when
walking (Bov; Carb an; Graph). Soreness and redness of
external genitals (Thuj; Sulph). Pelvic inflammation, tympanites,
abdominal tenderness and hot sweat which does not relieve.
Skin.--Urticaria. Violent itching, and burning like fire after
scratching. Eruption of small, red itching pimples. Sweat warm
and profuse soon after falling asleep. Sweat increases as
rheumatic pains increase.
Modalities.--Worse, in afternoon and evening; in warm room,
heat of bed. Better, cool room, motion.
Relationship.--Compare: Lilium; Bellad.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth potency.
TITANIUM METALLICUM
The Metal
(TITANIUM)
Is found in the bones and muscles. Has been used in lupus and
tuberculosis processes externally, also in skin disease, nasal
catarrh, etc. Apples contain 0. 11 per cent of Titan. Imperfect
vision, the peculiarity being that half an object only could be
seen at once. Giddiness with vertical hemiopia. Also, sexual
weakness, with too early ejaculation of semen in coitus. Bright's
disease. Eczema, lupus, rhinitis.
Dose.--Lower and middle potencies.
 TONGO-DIPTERIX ODORATA
Seeds of Coumarouna-a tree in Guiana
(TONGO - DIPTRIX ODORATA)
Useful in neuralgia; pertussis.
Head.--Tearing pain in supra-orbital nerve, with heat and
throbbing pain in head and epiphora. Confused, especially the
occiput, with somnolence and a sort of intoxication. Trembling
in right upper lid. Coryza; nose stopped, must breathe through
mouth.
Extremities.--Tearing pains in hip-joints, femur, and knee,
especially left side.
Relationship.--Melilotus. Anthoxanthum, Asperula, and Tonga
contain Coumarin, the active principle. Compare them in hay-
fever; also, Trifol; Napth; Sabad.
Dose.--Tincture and lower potencies.
TORULA CEREVISIAE
Saccharomyces - Yeast Plant
Introduced by Drs. Lehman and Yingling. Not proved, hence
clinical symptoms only but many have been verified. Sycotic
remedy Anaphylactic states produced by proteins and enzymes
(Yingling).
Head.--Aching back of head and neck. Headache and sharp
pains all over. Worse from constipation. Sneezing and
wheezing. Catarrhal discharge from posterior nares. Irritable and
nervous.
Stomach.--Bad taste. Nausea. Poor digestion. Belching of gas in
stomach and abdomen. Soreness all over abdomen. Sense of
fullness. Rumbling, pains shift, flatulence. Constipation. Sour,
yeasty, moldy odor from discharges.
Extremities.--Backache, tired and weak from elbows and knees
down. Hands cold like ice and go to sleep easily.
Sleep.--Disturbed with much restlessness.
Skin.--Boils, recurrent. Itching eczema around ankles. Tinea
versicolor.
Dose.--Pure yeast cake or potencies from 3rd to high. Yeast
poultices are much used in skin diseases, boils and swelling.
TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS
Ikshugandha
An East Indian drug useful in urinary affections, especially
dysuria, and in debilitated states of the sexual organs, as
expressed in seminal weakness, ready emissions and
impoverished semen. Prostatitis, calculous affections and sexual
neurasthenia. It meets the auto-traumatism of masturbation
correcting the emissions and spermatorrhśa. Partial impotence
caused by overindulgence of advancing age, or when
accompanied by urinary symptoms, incontinence, painful
micturition, etc.
Dose.--Ten to twenty drops of the tincture three times daily.
TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE
Red Clover
Produces most marked ptyalism. Feeling of fullness with
congestion of salivary glands, followed by increased copious
flow of saliva. Feeling as if mumps were coming on. Crusta
lactea; dry, scaly crusts. Stiff neck. Cancerous diathesis.
Head.--Confusion and headache on awaking. Dullness in
anterior brain. Mental failure, loss of memory.
Mouth.--Increased flow of saliva (Merc; Syphil). Sore throat,
with hoarseness.
Respiratory.--Coryza like that which precedes hay-fever; thin
mucus, with much irritation. Hoarse and choking; chills with
cough at night. Cough on coming into the open air. Hay-fever.
Spasmodic cough; whooping cough, paroxysms; worse at night.
Back.--Neck stiff; cramp in sterno-cleido muscles; relieved by
heat and irritation.
Extremities.--Tingling in palms. Hands and feet cold. Tibial
ulcers.
Relationship.--Compare: Trifolium repens.--White clover-
(Prophylactic against mumps, feeling of congestion in salivary
glands, pain and hardening, especially submaxillary; worse,
lying down. Mouth filled with watery saliva, worse lying down.
Taste of blood in mouth and throat. Sensation as if heart would
stop, with great fear, better sitting up or moving about; worse,
when alone, with cold sweat on face).
Dose.--Tincture
TRILLIUM PENDULUM
White Beth-root
A general hæmorrhagic medicine, with great faintness and
dizziness. Chronic diarrhœa of bloody mucus. Uterine
hæmorrhage. Threatened abortion. Relaxation of pelvic region.
Cramp-like pains. Phthisis with purulent and copious
expectoration and spitting of blood.
Head.--Pain in forehead; worse, noise. Confused; eyeballs feel
too large. Vision blurred; everything looks bluish. Nose-bleed
(Millef; Melilot).
Mouth.--Hæmorrhage from gums. Bleeding after tooth
extraction.
Stomach.--Heat and burning stomach rising up in œsophagus.
Hæmatemesis.
Rectum.--Chronic diarrhœa; discharge bloody. Dysentery,;
passage almost pure blood.
Female.--Uterine hæmorrhages, with sensation as though hips
and back were falling to pieces; better tight bandages. Gushing
of bright blood on least movement. Hæmorrhage from fibroids
(Calc; Nitr ac; Phos; Sulph ac). Prolapse, with great bearing-
down. Leucorrhœa copious, yellow, stringy (Hydras; Kali b;
Sabin). Metrorrhagia at climacteric. Lochia suddenly becomes
sanguinous. Dribbling of urine after labor.
Respiratory.--Cough, with spitting of blood. Copious, purulent
expectoration. Hæmoptysis. Aching at end of sternum.
Suffocative attack of irregular breathing with sneezing. Shooting
pains through chest.
Relationship.--Compare: Trillium cernum (eye symptoms;
everything looks bluish; greasy feeling in mouth); Ficus
(hæmorrhages; menorrhagia, hæmaturia, epistaxis,
Hæmatemesis, bleeding piles); Sanguisuga-Leech--
(hæmorrhages; bleeding from anus). Ipec; Sab; Lach; Hamam.
Dose.--Tincture and lower potencies.
TRINITROTOLUENUM
T. N. T.
(TRINITROTOLUENE)
Symptoms found in munition workers handling T. N. T who
inhale and ingest it and also absorb some through the skin. They
were compiled by Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft and published in the
December, 1926 number of the Journal of the American Institute
of Homeopathy.
The destructive action of T. N. T on the red blood corpuscles is
responsible for the anæmia and the jaundice with their
secondary symptoms. The hemoglobin is changed so it cannot
act satisfactorily as an oxygen carrier and as a result we have
breathlessness, dizziness, headache, faintness, palpitation, undue
fatigue, muscle cramps and cyanosis; also drowsiness,
depression and insomnia. Later stages of the poisoning produce
toxic jaundice and aplastic anæmia. The jaundice is the result of
cellular destruction in contrast to obstructive jaundice.
Head.--Depression and headache (frontal). Aversion to
company, apathetic and weeps easily. Faintness, dizziness,
mental sluggishness; delirium, convulsions, coma. Face very
dark.
Respiratory.--Nose dry with stuffed sensation. Sneezing,
coryza, burning of trachea, choking weight on chest; dry,
convulsive cough, raising mucous plugs.
Gastro-Intestinal.--Bitter taste, much thirst, sour regurgitation;
dull burning behind the ensiform; nausea, vomiting, constipation
followed by diarrhœa with cramps.
Cardio-Vascular.--Palpitation, tachycardia, bradycardia,
intermittent pulse.
Urinary.--High colored urine, burning on urination, sudden
desire, incontinence and retention.
Skin.--Hands stained yellow. Dermatitis, nodular erythema,
vesicles, itching and burning; puffiness. Tendency to
hæmorrhage under the skin and from the nose. Tired pain in
back of knees.
Modalities.--Worse, alcohol (falls after one or two drinks of
whisky). Tea (marked aversion).
Relationship.--Compare: Zinc; Phosph; Cina; Ars; Plumbum.
Dose.--Thirtieth potency has been used with success.
TRIOSTEUM PERFOLIATUM
Fever-root
Triosteum is a very valuable remedy in diarrhœa attended with
colicky pains and nausea, numbness of lower limbs after stool,
and increased flow of urine; also in influenza. Quiets nervous
symptoms (Coffea, Hyos). Biliousness. Bilious colic.
Head.--Occipital pain, with nausea on rising, followed by
vomiting. Influenza, with aching pains all over, and heat in the
limbs. Ozæna; frontal pain.
Stomach.--Loathing of food; nausea on rising, followed by
vomiting and cramps. Stools watery, frothy.
Extremities.--Stiffness of all joints; calves numb; aching in
bones. Rheumatic pain in back. Pains in limbs.
Skin.--Itching welts. Urticaria from gastric derangement.
Dose.--Sixth potency.
TRITICUM REPENS-AGROPYRON REPENS
Couch-Grass
(TRITICUM)
An excellent remedy in excessive irritability of the bladder,
dysuria, cystitis, gonorrhœa.
Nose.--Always blowing nose.
Urinary.--Frequent, difficult, and painful urination (Pop).
Gravelly deposits. Catarrhal and purulent discharges (Pareira).
Strangury, pyelitis; enlarged prostate. Chronic cystic irritability.
Incontinence; constant desire. Urine is dense and causes
irritation of the mucous surfaces.
Relationship.--Compare: Tradescantia; (Hæmorrhage from ear
and upper air passages; painful urination, urethral discharge;
scrotum inflamed). Chimaph; Senecio; Populus trem; Buchu;
Uva.
Polytrichum Juniperinum-Ground Moss--(Painful urination of
old people; dropsy, urinary obstruction and suppression).
Dose.--Tincture or infusion by boiling two ounces in a quart of
water until it is reduced to a pint. To be taken in four doses in 24
hours.
TROMBIDIUM MUSCAE DOMESTICAE
Red acarus of the fly
(TROMBIDIUM)
Has a specific place in the treatment of dysentery. Symptoms
are worse by food and drink.
Abdomen.--Much pain before and after stool; stool only after
eating. Griping in hypochondrium in morning. Congestion of the
liver, with urgent, loose, stools on rising. Brown, thin, bloody
stools, with tenesmus. During stool, sharp pain in left side,
shooting downward. Burning in anus.
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
TUBERCULINUM
A Nucleo-protein, a Nosode from Tubercular Abscess
Tuberculinum is indicated in renal affections, but caution is
necessary, for where skin and intestines do not perform normally
even high potencies are dangerous. In chronic cystitis, brilliant
and permanent results (Dr. Nebel Montreux).
Of undoubted value in the treatment of incipient tuberculosis.
Especially adapted to the light-complexioned, narrow-chested
subjects. Lax fiber, low recuperative powers, and very
susceptible to changes in the weather. Patient always tired;
motion causes intense fatigue; aversion to work; wants constant
changes. When symptoms are constantly changing and well-
selected remedies fail to improve, and cold is taken from the
slightest exposure. Rapid emaciation. Of great value in epilepsy,
neurasthenia and in nervous children. Diarrhœa in children
running for weeks, extreme wasting, bluish pallor, exhaustion.
Mentally deficient children. Enlarged tonsils. Skin affections,
acute articular rheumatism. Very sensitive, mentally and
physically. General exhaustion. Nervous weakness. Trembling.
Epilepsy. Arthritis.
Mind.--Contradictory characteristics of Tuberculinum are mania
and melancholia, insomnia and sopor. Irritable, especially when
awakening. Depressed, melancholy. Fear of dogs. Animals
especially. Desire to use foul language, curse and swear.
Head.--Subject to deep brain headaches and intense neuralgias.
Everything seems strange. Intense pain, as of an iron band
around head. Meningitis. When critical discharges appear,
sweat, polyuria, diarrhœa, exanthema, repeating the dose only
when crises come on. Nocturnal hallucinations, awakes
frightened. Plica polonica (Vinca). Crops of small boils,
intensely painful, successively appear in the nose; green, fetid
pus.
Ears.--Persistent, offensive otorrhœa. Perforation in membrana
tympani, with ragged edges.
Stomach.--Averse to meat. All-gone, hungry sensation (Sulph).
Desire for cold milk.
Abdomen.--Early-morning, sudden diarrhœa (Sulph). Stools
dark-brown, offensive, discharged with much force. Tabes
mesenterica.
Female.--Benign mammary tumors. Menses too early, too
profuse, long-lasting. Dysmenorrhœa. Pains increase with the
establishment of the flow.
Respiratory.--Enlarged tonsils. Hard, dry cough during sleep.
Expectoration thick, easy; profuse bronchorrhœa. Shortness of
breath. Sensation of suffocation, even with plenty of fresh air.
Longs for cold air. Broncho-pneumonia in children. Hard,
hacking cough, profuse sweating and loss of weight, rales all
over chest. Deposits begin in apex of lung (Repeated doses).
Back.--Tension in nape of neck and down spine. Chilliness
between shoulders or up the back.
Skin.--Chronic eczema; itching intense; worse at night. Acne in
tuberculous children. Measles; psoriasis (Thyroid).
Sleep.--Poor; wakes early. Overpowering sleepiness in daytime.
Dreams vivid and distressing.
Fever.--Post-critical temperature of a remittent type. Here repeat
dose every two hours (MacFarlan). Profuse sweat. General
chilliness.
Modalities.--Worse, motion, music; before a storm; standing;
dampness; from draught; early morning, and after sleep. Better,
open air.
Relationship.--Compare: Koch's lymph (acute and chronic
parenchymatous nephritis; produces pneumonia, broncho-
pneumonia, and congestion of the lungs in tuberculous patients,
and is a remarkably efficacious remedy in lobular pneumonia-
broncho-pneumonia); Aviare-Tuberculin from birds--(acts on
the apices of the lungs; has proved an excellent remedy in
influenzal bronchitis; symptoms similar to tuberculosis; relieves
the debility, diminishes the cough, improves the appetite, and
braces up the whole organism; acute broncho-pulmonary
diseases of children; itching of palms and ears; cough, acute,
inflammatory, irritating, incessant, and tickling; loss of strength
and appetite); Hydrast (to fatten patients after Tuberc); Formic
acid (tuberculosis, chronic nephritis, malignant tumors;
pulmonary tuberculosis, not in third stage, however; lupus;
carcinoma of breast and stomach; Dr. Krull uses injections of
solutions corresponding to the third centesimal potency; these
must not be repeated before six months). Compare: Bacil;
Psorin; Lach. Kalagua (tuberculosis; garlicky odor of all
secretions and breath). Teucrium scoradonia. Compare: Thuja
(Vaccinosis may block the way of action of Tuberculin-until
Thuja has been given and then acts brilliantly (Burnett).
Complementary: Calcarea; China; Bryon.
Dose.--Tuberculin needs more frequent repetition in children's
complaints than nearly every other chronic remedy (H. Fergie
Woods). Thirtieth and much higher, in infrequent doses. When
Tuberculinum fails Syphilinum often follows advantageously,
producing a reaction.
"The use of Tuberculinum in phthisis pulmonalis demands
attention to the following points: In apyretic purely tubercular
phthisis results are marked, provided the eliminative organs are
in good order, but nothing below the 1000th should be used,
unless absolutely necessary. With patients where
streptostaphylo-pneumococci are in the bronchi; where also after
washing the sputum, a pure "t b. " bacilli-mass remains, the
same treatment is indicated. With mixed infection-found in the
majority of cases-where the sputum swarms with virulent micro-
organisms in addition to the "t b. ", other procedure is necessary.
If the heart is in good shape, a single dose of Tuberculinum
1000-2000 is given, provided there are no marked indications
for other remedies. With due attention to temperature and
possible excretions, the dose is allowed to work until effects are
no longer observed, eight days to eight weeks. Usually a
syndrome then presents, permitting the accurate choice of an
antipsoric Silica, Lycopodium, Phosphorus, etc. After a while
the picture again darkens and now a high potency of the
isopathic remedy corresponding to the most virulent and
prominent micro-organism found in the sputum is given:
Staphylo-Strepto-, or Pneumococcin. The accurate
bacteriological analysis of the sputum is absolutely essential; the
choice of the ison again clears the picture, and so, proceeding on
the one side etiologically (where these isopathica have not yet
been proved); on the other side symptomatically with antipsoric
remedies, the disease is dominated.
My own experience warns, in the case of mixed infection,
against the use of Strepto-, Staphylo-, or Pneumococcin below
the 500th. I use them only from 2000 to 1000, having seen
terrible aggravations from the 30, 100, 200, with a lowering
temperature from 104 to 96. Hence the admonition, which need
not concern scoffers, but those alone who wish to avail
themselves of a potent weapon. The toxins used as remedies are,
like Tuberculinum, prepared from pure and virulent cultures.
And cases, seemingly condemned to speedy death, are brought
in a year or two back to normal temperature, though, of course,
sacrificing a large portion of lung tissue. This result is sure when
the patient can and will take care of himself, where the heart has
withstood the toxin and the stomach and liver are in good
function. Further, climatic variations must be avoided. With the
great mineral metabolism of the phthisic, diet regulation is
imperative, and should be preponderately vegetable, together
with the addition of physiological salts in low potency, Calcarea
carb, 3x, 5x, Calcarea phos, 2x, 6x, and intercurrently according
to indications organ-remedies as Cactus Tr. 30, Chelidonium Tr.
30, Taraxacum Tr, Nasturtium Tr, Urtica urens Tr, Tussilago
farfara Tr, Lysimachia numularia Tr, for short periods.
The first dose of Tuberculinum in any difficult case is, however,
the most weighty prescription. The remedy should not be given
without a most careful cardiac examination. As the surgeon
before the anæsthetic, so must the physician know the heart
before administering this drug, especially to children, and
seniles-and to young seniles. He who observes this rule will
have fewer clinical reproaches on his conscience. When
Tuberculinum is contraindicated, recourse must be had to the
nearest antipsoric.
The above caution applies also to asthma, pleuritis, peritonitis in
scrofulous (tuberculous) subjects. " (Dr. Nebel Montreux)
 TUSSILAGO PETASITES
Butter-burr
Has some action on the urinary organs, and found useful in
gonorrhœa. Affections of pylorus.
Urinary.--Crawling in urethra.
Male.--Gonorrhœa; yellowish, thick discharge. Erections, with
urethral crawling. Pain in spermatic cord.
Relationship.--Compare: Tussilago fragrans (pylorus pain,
plethora and corpulency); Tussilago farfara (coughs); as an
intercurrent medicine in phthisis pulmonalis (See
Tuberculinum).
Dose.--Tincture.
UPAS TIEUT
Upas-tree-Strychnos Tiente
(UPAS TIENTE)
Produces tonic spasms, tetanus, and asphyxia.
Head.--Disinclined for mental work. Irritable. Dull headache
deep in brain.
Eyes.--Pain in eyes and orbits, with conjunctivitis. Dull sunken
eyes. Styes.
Mouth.--Herpes on lips. Burning on the tongue. Pain in mouth,
as from a splinter (Nit ac).
Male.--Desire increased, with loss of power. Dull backache, as
after excessive coitus.
Chest.--Lancinating pain throughout right lung toward the liver,
stopping breathing. Violent palpitation; sensation of heaviness in
stomach.
Skin.--Numb hands and feet. Hangnails inflamed; itching and
redness of roots of nails.
Relationship.--Compare: Upas antiaris-resinous exudation of
Antiarus toxicaria, (a deadly poison to the muscular system. It
suspends both voluntary muscular action and that of the heart
without causing convulsions. Used in Java as an arrow poison
(Merrell). Differs in producing clonic spasms, violent vomiting,
diarrhśa, great prostration). Oxal ac. Upas when Bryonia fails
(typhoid).
Antidote: Curare.
Dose.--Third to sixth potency.
URANIUM NITRICUM
Nitrate of Uranium
Causes glycosuria and increased urine. Is known to produce
nephritis, diabetes, degeneration of the liver, high blood pressure
and dropsy. Its therapeutic keynote is great emaciation, debility
and tendency to ascites and general dropsy. Backache and
delayed menses. Dry mucous membranes and skin.
Head.--Ill-tempered; dull, heavy pain. Nostrils sore, with
purulent, acrid discharge. Mental depression.
Eyes.--Lids inflamed and agglutinated; styes.
Stomach.--Excessive thirst; nausea; vomiting. Ravenous
appetite; eating followed by flatulence. Boring pain in pyloric
region. Gastric and duodenal ulcers. Burning pain. Abdomen
bloated. Gas, second only to Lycop.
Urinary.--Copious urination. Diuresis. Incontinence of urine.
Diabetes. Emaciation and tympanites. Burning in urethra, with
very acid urine. Unable to retain urine without pain. Enuresis
(Mullein oil).
Male.--Complete impotency, with nocturnal emissions. Organs
cold, relaxed sweaty.
Relationship.--Compare: Syzygium; Phos ac; Lact ac; Arg nit;
Kali bich; Ars; Phloridzin (a glucosidal principle obtained from
the bark of the root of the apple and other fruit trees. Produces
diabetes and fatty degeneration of the liver; intermittent fever.
Daily doses, 15 grains. Phlorizin causes glycosuria. No
hyperglycemia results. It compels the secretory epithelium of the
kidney to break down serum albumin into sugar. There is no
increase in blood sugar).
Dose.--Second trituration.
UREA PURA
Carbamide
(UREA)
Tuberculosis. Lumps. Enlarged glands. Renal dropsy, with
symptoms of general intoxication. Gouty eczema. Albuminuria,
diabetes; urćmia. Urine thin and of low specific gravity. A
hydrogogue diuretic in the treatment of dropsies. 10 grains every
6 hours.
Relationship.--Compare: Uric acid (gout, gouty, eczema,
rheumatism, lipoma); Urinum (acne, boils, scurvy, dropsy);
Urtica; Tubercul; Thyroid.
URTICA URENS
Stinging-nettle
A remedy for agalactia and lithiasis. Profuse discharge from
mucous surfaces. Enuresis and urticaria. Spleen affections.
Antidotes ill-effects of eating shellfish. Symptoms return at the
same time every year. Gout and uric acid diathesis. Favors
elimination.
Rheumatism associated with urticaria-like eruptions. Neuritis.
Head.--Vertigo, headache with spleen pains.
Abdomen.--Diarrhśa chronic disease of large intestine
characterized by large secretion of mucus.
Male.--Itching of scrotum, keeps him awake; scrotum swollen.
Female.--Diminished secretion of milk. Uterine hćmorrhage.
Acid and excoriating leucorrhśa. Pruritus vulvć, with stinging,
itching, and śdema. Arrests flow of milk after weaning.
Excessive swelling of breasts.
Extremities.--Pain in acute gout deltoid; pain in ankles, wrists.
Skin.--Itching blotches. Urticaria, burning heat, with
formication; violent itching. Consequences of suppressed
nettlerash. Rheumatism alternates with nettle-rash. Burn
confined to skin. Urticaria nodosa (Bov). Erythema, with
burning and stinging. Burns and scalds. Chicken-pox (Dulc).
Angioneurotic śdema. Herpes labialis with sensation of heat and
itching. Itching and stinging of scrotum.
Fever.--General heat in bed with soreness over abdomen. Fever
of gout. Tropical fever.
Modalities.--Worse, from snow-air; water, cool moist air, touch.
Relationship.--Compare: Medusa; Nat mur; Lac can; Ricin
(diminished mammary secretion); Bombyx; Rhus; Apis; Chloral;
Astac; Puls (urticaria); Boletus luridus and Anacard (urticaria
tuberosa); Lycop and Hedeoma (uric acid conditions); Formica.
Dose.--Tincture and lower potencies.
USNEA BARBATA
Tree-moss
Is a remedy in some forms of congestive headache; sunstroke.
Head.--Bursting feeling, as if temples would burst, or the eyes
burst out of the sockets. Throbbing carotids.
Relationship.--Compare: Glonoine; Bellad.
Dose.--Tincture, drop doses.
USTILAGO MAYDIS
Corn-smut
Flabby condition of uterus. Hćmorrhage. Congestion to various
parts, especially at climacteric. Crusta lactea (Vioia tric).
Head.--Very depressed. Full feeling. Nervous headache from
menstrual irregularities. Aching in eyeballs, with much
lachrymation.
Male.--Uncontrollable masturbation. Spermatorrhśa, with erotic
fancies and amorous dreams. Emissions, with irresistible
tendency to masturbation. Dull pain in lumbar region, with great
despondency and mental irritability.
Female.--Vicarious menstruation. Ovaries burn, pain, swell.
Profuse menses after miscarriage; discharge of blood from
slightest provocation; bright red; partly clotted. Menorrhagia at
climaxis (Calc c; Lach). Oozing of dark blood, clotted, forming
long black strings. Uterus hypertrophied. Cervix bleed easily.
Postpartum hćmorrhage. Profuse lochia.
Fever.--Abundant sweat. Pulse at first accelerated then
enfeebled. Palpitations.
Extremities.--Muscular debility, sensation of boiling water
along the back. Clonic and tetanic movements. Muscular
contractions, especially of lower limbs.
Skin.--Alopecia. Tendency to small boils. Skin dry; eczema;
copper-colored spots. Pruritus; sunburn. Psoriasis (Internally and
externally).
Relationship.--Compare: Secale; Sabin; Zea Italica (Possess
curative properties in skin diseases, particularly in psoriasis and
eczema rubrum. Mania for bathing. Impulse to suicide,
particularly by drowning. Easily angered. Appetite increased,
voracious, alternating with disgust for food. Pyrosis, nausea,
vomiting, better drinking wine).
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
UVA URSI
Bearberry
Urinary symptoms most important. Cystitis, with bloody urine.
Uterine hæmorrhage. Chronic vesical irritation, with pain,
tenesmus, and catarrhal discharges. Burning after the discharge
of slimy urine. Pyelitis. Calculous inflammation. Dyspnœa,
nausea, vomiting, pulse small and irregular. Cyanosis. Urticaria
without itching.
Urinary.--Frequent urging, with severe spasms of bladder;
burning and tearing pain. Urine contains blood, pus, and much
tenacious mucus, with clots in large masses. Involuntary; green
urine. Painful dysuria.
Relationship.--Compare: Arbutin (a crystallized glucoside of
Uva; found also in Kalmia, Gaultheria and other genera of the
family of Eriaceæ; given in doses of 3 to 8 grains with sugar
three times a day. Used as an urinary antiseptic and diuretic).
Arctosphylos manzanita (acts on renal and reproductive organs.
Gonorrhœa, vesical catarrh, diabetes menorrhagia. Tincture of
leaves). Vaccinum myrtillus-Huckleberries--(dysentery; typhoid,
keeps intestines aseptic and prevents absorption and reinfection).
Dose.--Tincture, five to thirty drops. In pyelitis a trituration of
the leaves.
 VACCININUM
Nosode-From vaccine matter.
Vaccine poison is capable of setting up a morbid state of
extreme chronicity, named by Burnett Vaccinosis, symptoms
like those of Hahnemann's Sycosis. Neuralgias, inveterate skin
eruptions, chilliness, indigestion with great flatulent distension
(Clark). Whooping-cough.
Mind.--Irritable, impatient ill-humored, nervous.
Head.--Frontal headache. Forehead and eyes feel as if split.
Inflamed and red lids.
Skin.--Hot and dry. Pimples and blotches. Eruption like variola.
Relationship.--Compare: anti-vaccinal remedies; Variolin;
Malandrinum; Thuja, powerful adjuvants in treatment of
malignant disease.
Dose.--Sixth to 200th potency.
VALERIANA OFFICINALIS
Valerian
(VALERIANA)
Hysteria, over-sensitiveness, nervous affections, when
apparently well-chosen remedies fail. Hysterical spasms and
affections generally. Hysterical flatulency.
Mind.--Changeable disposition. Feels light, as if floating in air.
Over-sensitiveness (Staph). Hallucinations at night. Irritable.
Tremulous.
Head.--Sensation of great coldness. Pressure in forehead.
Feeling of intoxication.
Ears.--Earache from exposure to draughts and cold. Nervous
noises. Hyperæsthesia.
Throat.--Sensation as if a thread were hanging down throat.
Nausea felt in throat. Pharynx feels constricted.
Stomach.--Hunger, with nausea. Eructations foul. Heartburn
with gulping of rancid fluid. Nausea, with faintness. Child
vomits curdled milk in large lumps after nursing.
Abdomen.--Bloated. Hysterical cramps. Thin, watery diarrhœa,
with lumps of coagulated milk, with violent screaming in
children. Greenish, papescent, bloody stool. Spasms in bowels
after food and at night in bed.
Respiratory.--Choking on falling asleep. Spasmodic asthma;
convulsive movements of the diaphragm.
Female.--Menses late and scanty (Puls).
Extremities.--Rheumatic pains in limbs. Constant jerking.
Heaviness. Sciatica; pain worse standing and resting on floor
(Bell); better walking. Pain in heels when sitting.
Sleep.--Sleepless, with nightly itching and muscular spasms.
Worse on waking.
Fever.--Long lasting heat, often with sweat on face. Heat
predominates. Sensation of icy coldness (Heloderma; Camp;
Abies c).
Relationship.--Compare: Asaf; Ign; Croc; Castor; Amm valer
(in neuralgia, gastric disturbance, and great nervous agitation).
Insomnia especially during pregnancy and menopause. Feeble,
hysterical nervous patients.
Dose.--Tincture.
VANADIUM METALLICUM
The Metal
(VANADIUM)
Its action is that of an oxygen carrier and a catalyzer, hence its
use in wasting diseases. Increases amount of hemoglobin, also
combines its oxygen with toxines and destroys their virulence.
Also increases and stimulates phagocytes. A remedy in
degenerative conditions of the liver and arteries. Anorexia and
symptoms of gastro intestinal irritation; albumen, casts and
blood in urine. Tremors; vertigo; hysteria and melancholia;
neuro-retinitis and blindness. Anćmia, emaciation. Cough dry,
irritating and paroxysmal, sometimes with hćmorrhages.
Irritation of nose, eyes and throat. Tuberculosis, chronic
rheumatism, diabetes. Acts as a tonic to digestive function and in
early tuberculosis. Arterio-sclerosis, sensation as if heart was
compressed, as if blood had no room in the aorta. Anxious
pressure on whole chest. Fatty heart. Degenerative states, has
brain softening. Atheroma of arteries of brain and liver.
Compare: Ars; Phos. Ammon vanad (fatty degeneration of liver).
Dose.--6-12 potency. The best form is Vanadiate of Soda, 2 mg
daily, by mouth.
 VANILLA AROMATICA
Vanilla
(VANILLA - PLANIFOLIA)
Marked skin irritation resembling milk Poison-oak; is
sometimes produced by handling the beans, also by local use of
vanilla essence in a hair wash. Vanilla is supposed to stimulate
the brain and sexual propensities. Do not use the synthetic
Vanilla extract. Various disorders of the nervous system and
circulation are produced in workers with Vanilla. Is an
emmagogue and aphrodisiac. Menses prolonged.
Dose.--Vanilla, 6th to 30th, has been found effective in curing
the skin affection.
VARIOLINUM
Lymph from Small-pox Pustule
Used for "internal vaccination." Seems to be efficacious in
protecting against, modifying and aiding in the cure of smallpox.
Head.--Morbid fear of small-pox. Deafness. Pain in occiput.
Inflamed eyelids.
Respiratory.--Oppressed breathing. Throat feels closed. Cough
with thick viscid, bloody mucus. Feeling of a lump in right side
of throat.
Relationship.--Excruciating backache. Aching in legs. Tired all
over with restlessness. Wrists pain. Pains shift from back to
abdomen.
Fever.--Hot fever, with intense radiating heat. Profuse, bad-
smelling sweat.
Skin.--Hot, dry. Eruption of pustules. Shingles.
Relationship.--Compare: Vaccin (same action); Malandrinum--
the morbid product of the grease of the horse (a prophylactic of
small-pox and a remedy for the ill-effects of vaccination;
chronic eczema following vaccination).
Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency.
VERATRUM ALBUM
White Hellebore
A perfect picture of collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness,
and weakness, is offered by this drug. Post-operative shock with
cold sweat on forehead, pale face, rapid, feeble pulse. Cold
perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints.
Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities. The profuse,
violent retching and vomiting is most characteristic. Surgical
shock. Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces.
"Coprophagia" violent mania alternates with silence and refusal
to talk.
Mind.--Melancholy, with stupor and mania. Sits in a stupid
manner; notices nothing; Sullen indifference. Frenzy of
excitement; shrieks, curses. Puerperal mania. Aimless
wandering from home. Delusions of impending misfortunes.
Mania, with desire to cut and tear things (Tarant). Attacks of
pain, with delirium driving to madness. Cursing, howling all
night.
Head.--Contracted features. Cold sweat on forehead. Sensation
of a lump of ice on vertex. Headache, with nausea, vomiting,
diarrhœa, pale face. Neck too weak to hold head up.
Eyes.--Surrounded by dark rings. Staring; turned upwards,
without luster. Lachrymation with redness. Lids dry heavy.
Face.--Features sunken. Icy coldness of tip of nose and face.
Nose grows more pointed. Tearing in cheeks, temples, and eyes.
Face very pale, blue, collapsed, cold.
Mouth.--Tongue pale, cold; cool sensation, as from peppermint.
Dry in center not relieved by water. Salty saliva. Toothache,
teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead.
Stomach.--Voracious appetite. Thirst for cold water, but is
vomited as soon as swallowed. Averse to warm food. Hiccough.
Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least
motion. Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt. Anguish in
pit of stomach. Great weakness after vomiting. Gastric
irritability with chronic vomiting of food.
Abdomen.--Sinking and empty feeling. Cold feeling in stomach
and abdomen. Pain in abdomen preceding stool. Cramps,
knotting abdomen and legs. Sensation as if hernia would
protrude (Nux). Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with
terrible colic.
Rectum.--Constipation from inactivity of rectum, with heat and
headache. Constipation of babies, and when produced by very
cold weather. Stools large, with much straining until exhausted,
with cold sweat. Diarrhœa, very painful, watery, copious, and
forcibly evacuated, followed by great prostration. Evacuations
of cholera morbus and true cholera when vomiting accompanies
the purging.
Respiratory.--Hoarse, weak voice. Rattling in chest. Much
mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be coughed up. Coarse
rales. Chronic bronchitis in the aged (Hippozanin). Loud
barking, stomach cough, followed by eructation of gas; worse,
warm room. Hollow cough, tickling low down, with blue face.
Cough comes on from drinking, especially cold water; urine
escapes when coughing. Cough on entering warm room from
cold air (Bryonia).
Heart.--Palpitation with anxiety and rapid audible respiration.
Pulse irregular, feeble. Tobacco heart from chewing.
Intermittent action of heart in feeble persons with some hepatic
obstruction. One of the best heart stimulants in homeopathic
doses (J. S. Mitchell).
Female.--Menses too early; profuse and exhausting.
Dysmenorrhœa, with coldness, purging, cold sweat. Faints from
least exertion. Sexual mania precedes menses.
Extremities.--Soreness and tenderness of joints. Sciatica; pains
like electric flashes. Cramps in calves. Neuralgia in brachial
plexus; arms feel swollen, cold, paralytic.
Skin.--Blue, cold, clammy, inelastic, cold as death. Cold sweat.
Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet.
Fever.--Chill, with extreme coldness and thirst.
Modalities.--Worse, at night; wet, cold weather. Better, walking
and warmth.
Relationship.--Compare: Veratrinum-alkaloid from seeds of
Sabadilla.--(electric pains, electric shocks in muscles, fibrillary
twitchings); Cholos terrepina (cramps in calves); Camph; Cupr;
Ars; Cuprum ars (intermittent, cold, clammy sweat); Narcissus
poeticus (gastro-enteritis with much griping and cutting pain in
bowels. Fainting, trembling, cold limbs, small and irregular
pulse); Trychosanthes--(diarrhœa, pain in liver, dizziness after
every stool); Agaric emetic (vertigo; longing for ice-cold water;
burning pains in stomach); Agaric phalloides (cholera, cramps
in stomach, cold extremities, urine suppressed). Veratrine
(Increased vascular tension. It relaxes it and stimulates the
elimination of toxins by skin, kidneys, and liver).
Dose.--First to thirtieth potency. In diarrhœa, not below the
sixth.
VERATRUM VIRIDE
White American Hellebore
Paroxysms of auricular fibrillation. Induces fall of both systolic
and diastolic blood pressure. Congestions, especially to lungs,
base of brain, with nausea and vomiting. Twitchings and
convulsions. Especially adapted to full-blooded, plethoric
persons. Great prostration. Rheumatism of heart. Bloated, livid
face. Furious delirium. Effects of sunstroke. Śsophagitis.
(Farrington). Verat vir, will raise the opsonic index against the
diploccus pneumonia, 70 to 109 per cent. Congestive stage and
early manifestations of hepatization in pneumonia. Zigzag
temperature. Clinically, it is known that such diseases as Tiegel's
contracture, Thompson's Disease, athetosis and pseudo-
hypertrophic muscular paralysis present a symptomatology quite
like that produced by Veratrum vir upon muscular tissue (A. E.
Hinsdale, M. D).
Mind.--Quarrelsome and delirious.
Head.--Congestion intense, almost apoplectic. Hot head,
bloodshot eyes. Bloated, livid face. Hippocratic face. Head
retracted, pupils dilated, double vision. Meningitis. Pain from
nape of neck; cannot hold head up. Sunstroke; head full,
throbbing arteries (Bell; Glon; Usnea). Face flushed.
Convulsive twitching of facial muscles (Agaricus). Vertigo with
nausea.
Tongue.--White or yellow, with red streak down the middle.
Feels scalded. Increased saliva.
Stomach.--Thirsty. Nausea and vomiting. Smallest quantity of
food or drink immediately rejected. Constrictive pain; increased
by warm drinks. Hiccough; excessive and painful, with spasms
of śsophagus. Burning in stomach and śsophagus.
Abdomen.--Pain above pelvis, with soreness.
Respiratory.--Congestion of lungs. Difficult breathing.
Sensation of a heavy load on chest. Pneumonia, with faint
feeling in stomach and violent congestion. Croup. Menstrual
colic before the appearance of the discharge with strangury.
Urine.--Scanty with cloudy sediment.
Female.--Rigid os (Bell; Gels). Puerperal fever. Suppressed
menstruation, with congestion to head (Bell). Menstrual colic
before the appearance of the discharge with strangury.
Heart.--Pulse slow, soft, weak, irregular, intermittent. Rapid
pulse, low tension (Tabac; Dig). Constant, dull, burning pain in
region of heart. Valvular diseases. Beating of pulses throughout
body, especially in right thigh.
Extremities.--Aching pain in back of neck and shoulders.
Severe pain in joints and muscles. Violent electric-like shocks in
limbs. Convulsive twitchings. Acute rheumatism. Fever.
Skin.--Erysipelas, with cerebral symptoms. Erythema. Itching in
various parts. Hot sweating.
Fever.--Hyperthermy in the evening and hypothermy in the
morning. Suppurative fevers with great variation of temperature.
Relationship.--Compare: Gels; Bapt; Bell; Acon; Ferr phos.
Antidotes Strychnin-fluid extract, 20-40 drops.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
VERBASCUM THAPSUS
Mullein
(VERBASCUM)
Has a pronounced action on the inferior maxillary branch of the
fifth pair of the cranial nerves; on the ear; and respiratory tract
and bladder. Catarrhs, and colds, with periodical prosopalgia.
Quiets nervous, and bronchial, and urinary irritation, and cough.
Face.--Neuralgia affecting zygoma, temporo maxillary joint,
and ear (Menyanth), particularly of left side, with lachrymation,
coryza, and sensation as if parts were crushed with tongs.
Talking, sneezing, and change of temperature aggravate the
pains; also, pressing teeth together. Pains seem to come in
flashes, excited by least movement, occurring periodically at
same hour in morning and afternoon each day.
Ears.--Otalgia, with a sense of obstruction. Deafness. Dry, scaly
condition of meatus (use locally).
Abdomen.--Pain extends deep down, causing contraction of
sphincter ani.
Rectum.--Many movements a day, with twisting about navel.
Hćmorrhoids, with obstructed, hardened stool. Inflamed and
painful piles.
Respiratory.--Hoarse; voice deep, harsh; sounds like a trumpet;
"basso profundo". Cough; worse at night. Asthma. Soreness in
pharynx, cough during sleep.
Urinary.--Constant dribbling. Enuresis. Burning urination.
Increase with pressure in bladder.
Extremities.--Cramp-like pain in soles, right foot, and knee.
Lower extremities feel heavy. Thumb feels numb. Neuralgic
pain in left ankle. Stiffness and soreness of joints of lower
extremities.
Modalities.--Worse, change of temperature, talking, sneezing,
biting hard (inferior dental nerve); from 9 am to 4 pm.
Relationship.--Compare: Rhus arom; Caust; Platin; Sphingurus
(pain in zygoma).
Dose.--Mullein oil, (locally, for earache and dry, scaly condition
of meatus. Also for teasing cough at night or lying down.
Internally, tincture and lower potencies). Enuresis, five-drop
doses night and morning.
VERBENA URTICAEFOLIA
Blue Vervain
(VERBENA)
Affects the skin and nervous system. Nervous depression,
weakness and irritation and spasms. Promotes the absorption of
blood and allays pain in bruises. Vesicular erysipelas. Passive
congestion and intermittent fever. One of the remedies for
Poison-oak. Epilepsy, insomnia, mental exhaustion. In epilepsy,
it brightens up the patient's mental powers and helps the
constipation.
Dose.--Single dose of the tincture. In epilepsy must be continued
for a long time. Verbena in the form of a tea as a diuretic drink
is used by Vannier (Paris) to aid elimination in tubercular
therapy.
VESPA CRABRO
Live Wasp
Skin and female symptoms marked. Indurated feeling.
Vasomotor symptoms of skin and mucous membranes.
Dizzy, better lying on back. Fainting. Numbness and blindness.
Nausea and vomiting, followed by creeping chills from feet
upward. Cramping pain in bowels. Axillary glands swollen with
soreness of upper arms. Perspiration on parts laid on with
itching.
Face.--Painful and swollen. Erysipelatous inflammation of lids.
Chemosis of conjunctiva. Swelling of mouth and throat, with
violent burning pains.
Urinary.--Burning with micturition; also itching.
Female.--Menstruation, preceded by depression, pain, pressure,
and constipation. Left ovary markedly affected, with frequent
burning, micturition; sacral pains extending up back. Erosion
around external os.
Skin.--Erythema; intense itching; burning. Boils; stinging and
soreness, relieved by bathing with vinegar. Wheals, macules and
swellings with burning, stinging and soreness. Erythema
multiforme, relieved by bathing with vinegar.
Relationship.--Compare: Scorpio (salivation; strabismus;
tetanus); Apis.
Antidote: Sempervivum tector, locally.
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
VIBURNUM OPULUS
High Cranberry
A general remedy for cramps. Colicky pains in pelvic organs.
Superconscious of internal sexual organs. Female symptoms
most important. Often prevents miscarriage. False labor-pains.
Spasmodic and congestive affections, dependent upon ovarian or
uterine origin.
Head.--Irritable. Vertigo; feels as if falling forward. Severe pain
in temporal region. Sore feeling in eyeballs.
Stomach.--Constant nausea; relieved by eating. No appetite.
Abdomen.--Sudden cramps and colic pains. Tender to pressure
about umbilicus.
Female.--Menses too late, scanty, lasting a few hours, offensive
in odor, with crampy pains, cramps extend down thighs (Bell).
Bearing-down pains before. Ovarian region feels heavy and
congested. Aching in sacrum and pubes, with pain in anterior
muscles of thighs (Xanthox); spasmodic and membranous
dysmenorrhśa (Borax). Leucorrhśa, excoriating. Smarting and
itching of genitals. Faint on attempting to sit up. Frequent and
very early miscarriage, causing seeming sterility. Pains from
back to loins and womb worse early morning.
Urinary.--Frequent urging. Copious, pale, light-colored urine.
Cannot hold water on coughing or walking.
Rectum.--Stools large and hard, with cutting in rectum and
soreness of anus.
Extremities.--Stiff, sore feeling in nape of neck. Feels as if back
would break. Sacral backache. Lower extremities weak and
heavy.
Modalities.--Worse, lying on affected side, in warm room,
evening and night. Better, in open air and resting.
Relationship.--Compare: Virburnum prunifolium-Black Haw--
(habitual miscarriage; after-pains; cancer of the tongue;
obstinate hiccough; supposed to be a uterine tonic. Morning
sickness; menstrual irregularities of sterile females with uterine
displacements). Cimicif; Cauloph; Sep; Xanthox.
Dose.--Tincture, and lower potencies.
VINCA MINOR
Lesser Periwinkle
A remedy for skin affections, eczema, and especially plica
polonica; also for hæmorrhages and diphtheria.
Head.--Tearing pain in vertex, ringing and whistling in ears.
Whirling vertigo, with flickering before eyes. Spots on scalp,
oozing moisture, matting hair together. Corrosive itching of
scalp. Bald spots. Plica polonica. Irresistible desire to scratch.
Nose.--Tip gets red easily. Moist eruption on septum. Stoppage
of one nostril. Sores in nose. Seborrhœa upper lip and base of
nose.
Throat.--Difficult swallowing. Ulcers. Frequent hawking.
Diphtheria.
Female.--Excessive menstruation with great weakness. Passive
uterine hæmorrhages (Ust; Trill; Secale). Menorrhagia;
continuous flow, particularly at climacteric (Lach).
Hæmorrhages from fibroids.
Skin.--Corrosive itching. Great sensitiveness of skin, with
redness and soreness from slight rubbing. Eczema of head and
face; pustules, itching, burning, and offensive odor. Hair matted
together.
Relationship.--Compare: Oleand; Staph.
Dose.--First to third potency.
VIOLA ODORATA
Violet
Has a specific action on the ear. Affects especially dark-haired
patients; supra-orbital and orbital regions; rheumatism in upper
parts of the body when on the right side. Worm affections in
children (Teuc). Locally, for pain due to uterine fibroids. Also
against snake-bites, bee-stings. Tension extends to upper half of
face and ears.
Head.--Burning of the forehead. Vertigo; everything in head
seems to whirl around. Heaviness of head, with sensation of
weakness in muscles of nape of neck. Scalp tense; must knit the
brows. Tendency to pain immediately above eyebrows.
Throbbing under eye and temple. Headache across the forehead.
Acts upon frontal sinuses. Hysterical attacks in tuberculous
patients.
Eyes.--Heaviness of lids. Eyeball feels compressed. Flames
before eyes. Myopia. Choroiditis. Illusions of vision; fiery,
serpentine circles.
Ears.--Shooting in ears. Aversion to music. Roaring and
tickling. Deep stitches beneath ears. Deafness; otorrhœa. Ear
affections with pain in eyeballs.
Respiratory.--Torpor in the end of nose, as from a blow. Dry,
short, spasmodic cough and dyspnœa; worse in daytime.
Oppression of chest. Pertussis, with hoarseness. Dyspnœa during
pregnancy. Difficult breathing, anxiety and palpitation, with
hysteria.
Extremities.--Rheumatism of the deltoid muscle. Trembling of
limbs. Pressing pain in right carpal and metacarpal joints.
(Ulmus).
Urinary.--Milky urine; smells strong. Enuresis in nervous
children.
Modalities.--Worse, cool air.
Relationship.--Compare: Ulmus (formication in feet, numb,
creeping pain in legs and feet; rheumatic pains above wrists;
numbness, tingling, and full soreness where gastrocnemius gives
off its tendon); Chenopodium (ears; serous or bloody effusion in
the labyrinth; chronic otitis media; progressive deafness to the
voice, but sensitive to sounds of passing vehicles and other
sounds; buzzing; absent or deficient bone conduction; a
consciousness of the ear; hearing better for shrill, high-pitched
sounds than for low ones); Aur; Puls; Sep; Ign; Cina; Cauloph
(in rheumatism of small joints).
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
VIOLA TRICOLOR
Pansy
The principal uses of this remedy are for eczema in childhood
and nocturnal emission accompanied by very vivid dreams.
Head.--Heavy, pressing-outward pain. Eczema of scalp, with
swollen glands. Face hot and sweating after eating.
Throat.--Much phlegm, causing hawking; worse in the air.
Swallowing difficult.
Urinary.--Copious; disagreeable, cat-like odor.
Male.--Swelling of prepuce, burning in glans. Itching.
Involuntary, seminal emissions at stool.
Skin.--Impetigo. Intolerable itching. Eruptions, particularly over
face and head, with burning, itching; worse at night. Thick
scabs, which crack and exude a tenacious yellow pus. Eczema
impetigonoides of the face. Sycosis.
Modalities.--Worse, winter; 11 am. Compare: Lycop.
Relationship.--Compare: Rhus; Calc; Sepia.
Dose.--Lower potencies.
VIPERA BERUS
The German Viper
(VIPERA)
Viper poisoning causes a temporary increase in reflexes, paresis
supervenes, a paraplegia of the lower extremities extending
upwards. Resembles acute ascending paralysis of Landry
(Wells). Has special action on kidneys and induces hćmaturia.
Cardiac dropsy.
Indicated in inflammation of veins with great swelling; bursting
sensation. Enlargement of liver. Ailments of menopause. Śdema
of glottis. Poly-neuritis, polio-myelitis.
Face.--Excessively swollen. Lips and tongue swollen, livid,
protruding. Tongue dry, brown, black. Speech difficult.
Liver.--Violent pain in enlarged liver, with jaundice and fever;
extends to shoulder and hip.
Extremities.--Patient is obliged to keep the extremities elevated.
When they are allowed to hang down, it seems as if they would
burst, and the pain is unbearable (Diad).Varicose veins and
acute phlebitis. Veins swollen, sensitive; bursting pain. Severe
cramps in lower extremities.
Skin.--Livid. Skin peels in large plates. Lymphangioma, boils,
carbuncles, with bursting sensation, relieved by elevating parts.
Relationship.--Pelius berus-Adder (Prostration and fainting,
faltering pulse, skin yellow, pain about navel. Swelling of arm,
tongue, right eye; giddiness, nervousness, faintness, sickness,
compression of chest, could not breathe properly or take a deep
breath; aching and stiffness of limbs, joints stiff, collapsed
feeling, great thirst). Eel serum(heart and kidney diseases.
Failure of compensation and impending asystole).
Dose.--Twelfth potency.
VISCUM ALBUM
Mistletoe
Lowered blood pressure. Dilated blood vessels but does not act
on the centers in the medulla. Pulse is slow due to central
irritation of the vagus.
The symptoms point especially to rheumatic and gouty
complaints; neuralgia, especially sciatica. Epilepsy, chorea, and
metrorrhagia. Rheumatic deafness. Asthma. Spinal pains, due to
uterine causes. Rheumatism with tearing pains. Hypertensive
albuminuria. Valvular disease, with disturbances in sexual
sphere. Symptoms like epileptic aura and petit mal.
Head.--Feeling as if whole vault of skull were lifted up. Blue
ring around eyes. Double vision. Buzzing and stopped-up
feeling in ear. Deafness from cold. Facial muscles in constant
agitation. Persistent vertigo.
Respiratory.--Dyspnœa; feeling of suffocation when lying on
left side. Spasmodic cough. Asthma, if connected with gout or
rheumatism. Stertorous breathing.
Female.--Hæmorrhage, with pain; blood partly clots and bright
red. Climacteric complaints (Lach; Sulph). Pain from sacrum
into pelvis, with tearing, shooting pains from above downwards.
Retained placenta (Secale). Chronic endometritis. Metrorrhagia.
Ovaralgia, especially left.
Heart.--Hypertrophy with valvular insufficiency; pulse small
and weak; unable to rest in a reclining position. Palpitation
during coitus. Low tension. Failing compensation, dyspnœa
worse lying on left side. Weight and oppression of heart; as if a
hand were squeezing it; tickling sensation about heart.
Extremities.--Pains alternate in the knee and ankle with
shoulder and elbow. Sciatica. Tearing, shooting pains in both
thighs and upper extremities. A glow rises from the feet to the
head; seems to be on fire. Periodic pains from sacrum into
pelvis, worse in bed, with pains into thighs and upper
extremities. General tremor, as if all muscles were in state of
fibrillary contraction. Dropsy of extremities. Sensation of a
spider crawling over back of hand and foot. Itching all over.
Compressing pain in feet.
Modalities.--Worse, winter, cold, stormy weather; in bed.
Movement; lying on left side.
Relationship.--Compare: Secale: Convallar; Bry; Puls;
Rhodod. Guipsine -active principle--(exalts the hypotensive
properties of Viscum). Hedera Helix-Ivy--(Intercranial
pressure).
Dose.--Tincture and lower potencies.
WYETHIA HELENOIDES
Poison-weed
(WYETHIA)
Has marked effects on the throat, and has proven an excellent
remedy in pharyngitis, especially the follicular form. Irritable
throats of singers and public speakers. Useful also in
hćmorrhoids. Hay-fever symptoms; itching in posterior nares.
Head.--Nervous, uneasy, depressed. Dizzy. Rush of blood to
head. Sharp pain in forehead.
Mouth.--Feels as if scalded; sensation of heat down śsophagus.
Itching of the palate.
Throat.--Constant clearing and hemming. Dry, posterior nares;
no relief from clearing. Throat feels swollen; epiglottis dry and
burning. Difficult swallowing. Constant desire to swallow
saliva. Uvula feels elongated.
Stomach.--Sense of weight. Belching of wind alternating with
hiccough. Nausea and vomiting.
Abdomen.--Pain below ribs of right side.
Stool.--Loose, dark, at night. Itching of anus. Constipation, with
hćmorrhoids; not bleeding.
Respiratory.--Dry, hacking cough, caused by tickling of the
epiglottis. Burning sensation in the bronchial tubes. Tendency to
get hoarse talking or singing; throat hot, dry. Dry asthma.
Female.--Pain in left ovary, shooting down to knee. Pain in
uterus; could outline its contour.
Extremities.--Pain in back; extends to end of spine. Pain right
arm, stiffness of wrist and hand. Aching pains all over.
Fever.--Chill at 11 am. Thirst for ice-water during chill. No
thirst with heat. Profuse sweat all night. Terrific headache
during sweat.
Relationship.--Compare: Arum; Sang; Lach.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
X-RAY
Vial containing alcohol exposed to X-Ray
Repeated exposure to Roentgen (X-ray) has produced skin
lesions often followed by cancer. Distressing pain. Sexual
glands are particularly affected. Atrophy of ovaries and testicles.
Sterility. Changes take place in the blood lymphatics and bone
marrow. Anæmia and leukæmia. Corresponds to stubbornness as
in burns, they refuse to heal. Psoriasis.
Has the property of stimulating cellular metabolism. Arouses the
reactive vitality, mentally and physically. Brings to the surface
suppressed symptoms, especially sycotic and those due to mixed
infections. Its homeopathic action is thus centrifugal, towards
the periphery.
Head.--Sticking pains in different parts of head and face. Dull
pain in right upper jaw. Stiff neck. Sudden cricks in neck, pains
more severe behind ears. Pain in muscles of neck when lifting
head from pillow. Fullness in ears, ringing in head.
Mouth.--Tongue dry, rough, sore. Throat painful on
swallowing. Nausea.
Male.--Lewd dreams. Sexual desire lost. Re-establishes
suppressed gonorrhœa.
Extremities.--Rheumatic pains. General tired and sick feeling.
Palms rough and scaly.
Skin.--Dry, itching eczema. Erythema around roots of nails.
Skin dry, wrinkled. Painful cracks. Warty growths. Nails
thicken. Psoriasis.
Modalities.--Worse, in bed, afternoon, evening and night; open
air.
Dose.--Twelfth potency and higher.
Compare: Electricitas.--Sugar of milk saturated with the current
(Anxiety, nervous tremors, restlessness, palpitation, headaches.
Dreads approach of thunder-storms; heaviness of limbs).
Magnetis Poli Ambo.--The Magnet.--Sugar of milk or distilled
water exposed to influence of entire mass (Burning lancinations
throughout the body; pains as if broken in joints, when cartilages
of two bones touch; shooting and jerkings; headache as if a nail
were driven in; tendency of old wounds to bleed afresh).
Magnetis Polus Arcticus.--North pole of the magnet.--(Disturbed
sleep, somnambulism, cracking in cervical vertebræ, sensation
of coldness; toothache).
Magnetis Polus Australis.--South pole of the magnet.--(Severe
pain in inner side of nail of the big toe, ingrowing toenail; easy
dislocation of joints of foot; feet are painful when letting them
hang down).
XANTOXYLUM FRAXINEUM
Prickly Ash
(XANTHOXYLUM)
Its specific action is on the nervous system and mucous
membranes. Paralysis, especially hemiplegia. Painful
hæmorrhages, after-pains, neuralgic dysmenorrhœa, and
rheumatic affections, offer a therapeutic field for this remedy,
especially in patients of spare habit and nervous, delicate
organization. Indigestion from over-eating or from too much
fluid. Sluggish capillary circulation. Neurasthenia, poor
assimilation, insomnia, occipital headache. Increases mucous
secretion of mouth and stimulates the secretion from all glands
with ducts opening in the mouth.
Mind.--Nervous, frightened. Mental depression.
Head.--Feels full. Weight and pain on vertex. Pain over eyes,
throbbing pressure over nose, pressure in forehead; head seems
divided; ringing in ears. Occipital headache. Sick headache with
dizziness and flatulence.
Face.--Neuralgia of lower jaw. Dryness of mouth and fauces.
Pharyngitis (Wyethia).
Abdomen.--Griping and diarrhœa. Dysentery, with tympanites,
tenesmus; inodorous discharges.
Female.--Menses too early and painful. Ovarian neuralgia, with
pain in loins and lower abdomen; worse, left side, extending
down the thigh, along genito-crural nerves. Neuralgic
dysmenorrhœa, with neuralgic headaches; pain in back and
down legs. Menses thick, almost black. After-pains (Arnica;
Cup; Cham). Leucorrhœa at time of menses. Neurasthenic
patients who are thin, emaciated; poor assimilation with
insomnia and occipital headache.
Respiratory.--Aphonia. Constant desire to take a long breath;
oppression of chest. Dry cough, day and night.
Extremities.--Paralysis of left side following spinal disorders.
Numbness of left side; impairment of nerves of motion.
Hemiplegia. Pain in nape, extending down back. Sciatica; worse,
hot weather. Anterior, crural neuralgia (Staph). Left arm numb.
Neuralgic shooting pain, as from electricity, all over limb.
Sleep.--Hard and unrefreshing; dreams of flying. Sleeplessness
in neurasthenics.
Relationship.--Compare: Gnaph; Cimicif; Staph; Mezer;
Piscidia-White dogwood--(a nerve sedative. Insomnia due to
worry, nervous excitement, spasmodic coughs; pains of irregular
menstruation; regulates the flow. Neuralgic and spasmodic
affections. Use tincture in rather material doses).
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
XEROPHYLLUM
Tamalpais Lily, Basket Grass Flower
Should prove curative in eczematous conditions, poison-oak,
early typhoid states, etc.
Mind.--Dull, cannot concentrate mind for study; forgets names;
writes last letters of words first; misspells common words.
Head.--Feels full, stuffed up, pain across forehead and above
eyes. Great pressure at root of nose. Bewildered. Loss of
consciousness. Pulsating headache.
Eyes.--Painful, as of sand, smarting; difficult to focus for close
work. Eyes feel sore, burn.
Nose.--Stuffed; tightness at bridge of nose; acute nasal catarrh.
Face.--Bloated in morning. Puffy under eyes.
Throat.--Stitching pain upon swallowing.
Stomach.--Feels full and heavy. Eructations sour; offensive, an
hour after luncheon and dinner. Vomiting at 2 pm.
Abdomen.--Intestinal flatulence. In morning rumbling in
bowels, with desire for stool.
Rectum.--Constipation, stools hard, small lumps. Difficult, soft
stools, with much straining. Much flatus. Bearing-down pain in
rectum.
Urine.--Difficulty of retaining; dribbling when walking.
Frequent urination at night.
Female.--Bearing-down sensation. Vulva inflamed, with furious
itching. Increased sexual desire, with ovarian and uterine pains
and leucorrhśa.
Respiratory.--Posterior nares raw; discharge thick, yellow
mucus. Sneezing. Trachea sore; lumps feel constricted.
Back.--Feels hot from sacrum to scapulć. Backache, extending
down legs. Pain over kidneys. Heat deep in spine.
Extremities.--Muscular lameness, trembling. Pain in knees.
Limbs feel stiff (Rhus).
Skin.--Erythema, with vesication and intense itching, stinging,
and burning. Blisters, little lumps. Skin rough and cracked; feels
like leather. Dermatitis, especially around knees. Inflammation
resembling poison-oak. Inguinal glands and behind knee
swollen.
Modalities.--Worse, application of cold water, in afternoon and
evening. Better, application of hot water, in morning, moving
affected part.
Relationship.--Compare: Rhus; Anacard; Grindelia.
Dose.--Sixth potency or higher.
 YOHIMBINUM
Coryanthe Yohimbe
Excites sexual organs and acts on central nervous system and
respiratory center. An aphrodisiac, used in physiological doses,
but contraindicated in all acute and chronic inflammations of
abdominal organs. Homeopathically, should be of service in
congestive conditions of the sexual organs. Causes hyperćmia of
the milk glands and stimulates the function of lactation.
Menorrhagia.
Head.--Agitation, with flying sensations of heat in face.
Disagreeable, metallic taste. Copious salivation. Nausea and
eructation.
Sexual.--Strong and lasting erections. Neurasthenic impotence.
Bleeding piles. Intestinal hćmorrhage. Urethritis.
Fever.--Rigor; intense heat, waves of heat and chilliness,
tendency to sweat.
Sleep.--Sleepless. Thoughts of events of whole past life keep
him awake.
Dose.--As a sexual stimulant, ten drops of a one per cent
solution, or hypodermic tablets of 0. 005 gm. Homeopathic
dose, third potency.
YUCCA FILAMENTOSA
Bear-grass
So-called bilious symptoms, with headache. Despondent and
irritable.
Head.--Aches as if top of head would fly off. Arteries of
forehead throb. Nose red.
Face.--Yellow; tongue yellow, coated, taking imprint of teeth
(Merc; Pod; Rhus).
Mouth.--Taste as of rotten eggs (Arnica).
Throat.--Sensation as if something hung down from posterior
nares; cannot get it up or down.
Abdomen.--Deep pain in right side over liver, going through
back. Stool yellowish brown, with bile.
Male.--Burning and swelling of the prepuce, with redness of
meatus. Gonorrhśa (Cann; Tussil).
Skin.--Erythematous redness.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.
ZINCUM METALLICUM
Zinc
(ZINC)
The provings picture cerebral depression. The word "fag" covers
a large part of zinc action. Tissues are worn out faster than they
are repaired. Poisoning from suppressed eruptions or discharges.
The nervous symptoms of most importance. Defective vitality.
Impending brain paralysis. Period of depression in disease.
Spinal affections. Twitchings. Pain, as if between skin and flesh.
Great relief from discharges. Chorea, from fright or suppressed
eruption. Convulsions, with pale face and no heat. Marked
anćmia with profound prostration. It causes a decrease in the
number, and destruction of red blood corpuscles. Repercussed
eruptive diseases. In chronic diseases with brain and spinal
symptoms, trembling, convulsive twitching and fidgety feet are
guiding symptoms.
Mind.--Weak memory. Very sensitive to noise. Averse to work,
to talk. Child repeats everything said to it. Fears arrest on
account of a supposed crime. Melancholia. Lethargic, stupid.
Paresis.
Head.--Feels as if he would fall to left side. Headache from the
smallest quantity of wine. Hydrocephalus. Rolls head from side
to side. Bores head into pillow. Occipital pain, with weight on
vertex. Automatic motion of head and hands. Brain-fag;
headaches of overtaxed school children. Forehead cool; base of
brain hot. Roaring in head. Starting in fright.
Eyes.--Pterygium; smarting, lachrymation, itching. Pressure as if
pressed into head. Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles.
Ptosis. Rolling of eyes. Blurring of one-half of vision; worse,
stimulants. Squinting. Amaurosis, with severe headache. Red
and inflamed conjunctiva; worse, inner canthus.
Ears.--Tearing, stitches, and external swelling. Discharge of
fetid pus.
Nose.--Sore feeling high up; pressure upon root.
Face.--Pale lips, and corners of mouth cracked. Redness and
itching eruption on chin. Tearing in facial bones.
Mouth.--Teeth loose. Gums bleed. Gnashing of teeth. Bloody
taste. Blisters on tongue. Difficult dentition; child weak; cold
and restless feet.
Throat.--Dry; constant inclination to hawk up tenacious mucus.
Rawness and dryness in throat and larynx. Pain in muscles of
throat when swallowing.
Stomach.-- Hiccough, nausea, vomiting of bitter mucus.
Burning in stomach, heartburn from sweet things. Cannot stand
smallest quantity of wine. Ravenous hunger about 11 am
(Sulph). Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough.
Atonic dyspepsia, feeling as if stomach were collapsed.
Abdomen.--Pain after a light meal, with tympanitis. Pain in spot
beneath navel. Gurgling and griping; distended. Flatulent colic,
with retraction of abdomen (Plumb). Enlarged, indurated sore
liver. Reflex symptoms from floating kidney. Griping after
eating.
Urine.--Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards.
Hysterical retention. Involuntary urination when walking,
coughing or sneezing.
Rectum.--Hard, small, constipated stool. Cholera infantum,
with tenesmus; green mucous discharges. Sudden cessation of
diarrhśa, followed by cerebral symptoms.
Male.--Testicles swelled, drawn up. Erections violent.
Emissions with hypochondriasis. Falling off of hair (pubic).
Drawing in testicles up to spermatic cord.
Female.--Ovarian pain, especially left; can't keep still (Viburn).
Nymphomania of lying-in women. Menses too late, suppressed;
lochia suppressed (Puls). Breasts painful. Nipples sore. Menses
flow more at night (Bov). Complaints all better during menstrual
flow. (Eupion; Lach). All the female symptoms are associated
with restlessness, depression, coldness spinal tenderness and
restless feet. Dry cough before and during menses.
Respiratory.--Burning pressure beneath sternum. Constriction
and cutting in chest. Hoarseness. Debilitating, spasmodic cough;
worse, eating sweet things. Child grasps genitals during cough.
Asthmatic bronchitis, with constriction, of chest. Dyspnśa better
as soon as expectoration appears.
Back.--Pain in small of back. Cannot bear back touched (Sul;
Therid; Cinch). Tension and stinging between shoulders. Spinal
irritation. Dull aching about the last dorsal or first lumbar
vertebrć; worse sitting. Burning along spine. Nape of neck
weary from writing or any exertion. Tearing in shoulder-blades.
Extremities.--Lameness, weakness, trembling and twitching of
various muscles. Chilblains (Agar). Feet in continued motion;
cannot keep still. Large varicose veins on legs. Sweaty.
Convulsions, with pale face. Transverse pains, especially in
upper extremity. Soles of feet sensitive. Steps with entire sole of
foot on floor.
Sleep.--Cries out during sleep; body jerks; wakes frightened,
stared. Nervous motion of feet when asleep. Loud screaming out
at night in sleep without being aware of it. Somnambulism (Kali
phos).
Skin.--Varicose veins, especially of lower extremities (Puls).
Formication of feet and legs as from bugs crawling over the
skin, preventing sleep. Eczema, especially in the anćmic and
neurotic. Itching of thighs and hollow of knees. Retrocession of
eruptions.
Fever.--Frequent, febrile shiverings down back. Cold
extremities. Night-sweat. Profuse sweat on feet.
Modalities.--Worse, at menstrual period, from touch, between 5
to 7 pm; after dinner, from wine. Better, while eating,
discharges, and appearance of eruptions.
Relationship.--Compare: Agaric; Ign; Plumb; Argent; Puls;
Helleb; Tuberc. Inimical: Nux; Cham. Compare in amelioration
by secretions: Lach; Stan; Mosch.
Compare: Zincum aceticum (effects of night-watching and
erysipelas; brain feels sore; Rademacher's solution, five-drop
doses three times a day in water, for those who are compelled to
work, on an insufficient amount of sleep); Zinc, bromatum
(dentition, chorea, hydrocephalus); Zinc oxydatum (Nausea and
sour taste). Sudden vomiting in children. Vomiting of bile and
diarrhśa. Flatulent abdomen. Watery stools with tenesmus.
Debility after grip. Fiery red face, great drowsiness with
dreamlike unrefreshing sleep. Similar to effect of night
watching. Mental and physical exertion (Rademacher). Zinc.
Sulph, not repeated frequently (high potency) will clear up
opacities of the cornea (McFarland). Corneitis; granular lids;
tongue paralyzed; cramps in arms and legs; trembling and
convulsions. Hypochondriasis due to masturbation; nervous
headaches; Zinc cyanatum (as a remedy for meningitis and
cerebro-spinal meningitis, paralysis agitans, chorea, and
hysteria, it has received some attention); Zinc ars (chorea,
anćmia, profound exhaustion on slight exertion. Depression and
marked involvement of lower extremities); Zinc carb (post-
gonorrhśal throat affections, tonsils swollen, bluish superficial
spots); Zinc phos(herpes zoster 1x); Zinc muriat (disposition to
pick the bedclothes; sense of smell and taste perverted; bluish-
green tint of skin; cold and sweaty); Zinc phos (neuralgia of
head and face; lightning-like pains in locomotor ataxia, brain-
fag, nervousness, and vertigo; sexual excitement and
sleeplessness); Ammon valerian (violent neuralgia, with great
nervous agitation); Zinc picricum (facial paralysis; brain-fag,
headache in Bright's disease; seminal emissions; loss of memory
and energy). Oxide of zinc is used locally as an astringent and
stimulant application to unhealthy ulcers, fissures, intertrigo,
burns, etc.
Dose.--Second to sixth potency.
ZINCUM VALERIANICUM
Valerinate of Zinc
(ZINCUM VALERIANUM)
A remedy for neuralgia, hysteria, angina pectoris, and other
painful affections, notably in ovarian affections. Epilepsy
without aura. Hysterical heart-pain. Facial neuralgia, violent in
left temple and inferior maxillary. Sleeplessness in children.
Obstinate hiccough.
Head.--Violent, neuralgic, intermittent headaches. Becomes
almost insane with pain, which is piercing and stabbing.
Uncontrollable sleeplessness from pain in head with
melancholy.
Female.--Ovaralgia; pain shoots down limbs, even too foot.
Extremities.--Severe pain in neck and spine. Cannot sit still;
must keep legs in constant motion. Sciatic neuralgia.
Dose.--First and second trituration. Must be continued for some
time in treatment of neuralgia.
ZINGIBER OFFICINALE
Ginger
(ZINGIBER)
States of debility in the digestive tract, and sexual system and
respiratory troubles, call for this remedy. Complete cessation of
function of kidneys.
Head.--Hemicrania; sudden glimmering before eyes; feels
confused and empty. Pain over eyebrows.
Nose.--Feels obstructed and dry. Intolerable itching; red
pimples.
Stomach.--Taste of food remains long, especially of bread and
toast. Feels heavy, like from a stone. Complaints from eating
melons and drinking impure water. Acidity (Calc; Robinia).
Heaviness in stomach on awakening with wind and rumbling,
great thirst and emptiness. Pain from pit to under sternum, worse
eating.
Abdomen.--Colic, diarrhśa, extremely loose bowels. Diarrhśa
from drinking bad water, with much flatulence, cutting pain,
relaxation of sphincter. Hot, sore, painful anus during
pregnancy. Chronic intestinal catarrh. Anus red and inflamed.
Hćmorrhoids hot, painful, sore. (Aloe).
Urinary.--Frequent desire tu urinate. Stinging, burning in
orifice. Yellow discharge from urethra. Urine thick, turbid, of
strong odor, suppressed. Complete suppression after typhoid.
After urinating, continues to ooze in drops.
Male.--Itching of prepuce. Sexual desire excited; painful
erections. Emissions.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness. Smarting below larynx; breathing
difficult. Asthma, without anxiety, worse toward morning.
Scratching sensation in throat; stitches in chest. Cough dry,
hacking; copious morning sputa.
Extremities.--Very weak in all joints. Back lame. Cramps in
soles and palms.
Relationship.--Compare: Calad.
Antidote: Nux.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
ZIZIA AUREA
Meadow Parsnip
(THASPIUM AUREUM - ZIZIA)
Hysteria, epilepsy, chorea, hypochondriasis, come within the
sphere of this remedy.
Mind.--Suicidal; depressed; laughing and weeping moods
alternate.
Head.--Pressure on top, in right temple, associated with
backache.
Male.--Great lassitude following coitus. Sexual power
increased.
Female.--Intermittent neuralgia of left ovary. Acrid, profuse
leucorrhśa, with retarded menses.
Respiratory.--Dry cough, with stitches in chest. Dyspnśa.
Extremities.--Unusual tired feeling. Chorea, especially during
sleep. Fidgety legs (Tarant). Lameness in arms and spasmodic
twitching.
Modalities.--Worse, during sleep.
Relationship.--Compare: Agar; Stram; Tarant; Cicuta;
Aethusa.
Dose.--Tincture, to third potency.