Agnus castus Homeopathic Medicine

 Agnus castus

 Agnus castus

 Generalities

 – Agn. Produces its chief effect on SEXUAL ORGANS of both the sexes, also there are characteristic symptoms in the MENTAL SPHERE.

 – It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression loss of nervous energy.

 – There is a great sadness, with a fixed idea of approaching death.

 – It influences both the sexes, but its influence is more pronounced in men.

 – IMPOTENCY and PREMATURE OLD AGE, from abuse of sexual power.

 – History of repeated gonorrhoea.

 – Self contempt from sexual abuse.

 – Nervous debility in unmarried persons.

 – A prominent remedy for sprains and strains.

 – Gnawing, itching in all parts especially eyes.

 – Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men.

 – Jaded rakes.

 – Agn. was used in early days, by both men and women to suppress sexual desire.

 Worse

 – SEXUAL EXCESS.

 – Sprains of overlifting.

 Mind

 – Absent minded.

 – Despairing sadness with impression of speedy death.

 – Distraction.

 – Unable to recollect things.

 – Lack of courage.

 – Says that she will die soon and there is no use of doing anything.

 – Illusions of smells – herrings, musk.

 – BAD MEMORY.

 Head

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

 Eyes

 – Pupils dilated.

 – Gnawing, itching in eyes.

 Nose

 – Illusion of smell – of herring, musk.

 – Hard ache on dorsum of nose amel. pressure.

 Face

 – Corrosive itching on the cheeks.

 – Formication in the cheeks.

 – Rending, tearing under alveoli of right lower jaw.

 Mouth

 – Ulcers in the mouth and gums.

 – Teeth are painful when touched by warm food or drink.

 Stomach

 – Nausea with a sensation as if intestines were pressed downswards, wants to support bowels with hands.

 – Only the most simple food agrees.

 – Eructations smell like urine.

 Abdomen

 – Rumbling in abdomen during sleep.

 – Spleen swollen and sore.

 – Flatus smells like urine, remaining long on the clothes.

 – Deep fissures, in anus.

 – Sensation as of subcutaneous ulceration near the anus, only while walking.

 – Bowels as if sinking down, has to support with hands.

 Urinary

 – Passes more urine, frequently.

 Male

 – Sexual desire almost lost.

 – Testes; cold, swollen, hard, penis small. flaccid.

 – Spermatorrhoea; with impotence.

 – Loss of prostatic fluid on straining.

 – Yellow discharge from urethra.

 Female

 – A transparent leucorrhoeal discharge passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed genital.

 – Aversion to coition.

 – Leucorrhoea staining yellow.

 – Agalactia, with sadness.

 – Menses suppressed; with abdominal pains.

 – Hysterical palpitation with nose-bleed.

 – Sterility; with suppression of menses and no sexual desire.

 – Sexual thrill absent, from excessive masturbation.

 Related

 – Old, Pho-ac.

Source: Pahtak Materia medica

Alumina Homeopathic medicine

Alumina

Alumina

 Generalities

 – It affects the Cerebro SpinaL Axis causing Disturbance in co-ordination, and paretic effects.

 – Paraesthesia.

 – In mental sphere the consciousness of reality and judgement is disturbed.

 – It is suitable to old people, with lack of vital heat, or premature old age, with debility.

 – It causes Dryness of skin and mucous membranes; eyes throat, rectum etc., or irritability and relaxation.

 – Mucus discharges profuse.

 – Discharges are thin, acrid and scanty.

 – Tendency to induration.

 – Functions become sluggish, actions are delayed, e.g. , prick of needle will be felt with delay, impressions reach consciousness slowly.

 – Patient is thin, inactive, wants to lie down, but it increases the fatigue.

 – It is useful in delicate children, products of artificial baby foods.

 – Pulsations are felt in various parts; and pains go upwards.

 – Patient gets better entirely for sometime, then without apparent cause gets worse.

 – Chronicity.

 – Exhaustion; after talking; after menses.

 – Degeneration of spinal cord.

 – Unable to walk, with closed eyes.

 – Involuntary movement of single parts.

 – Girls, dried up and wrinkled, at puberty.

 – Ill effects of disappointments.

 – Sensation of constriction.

 – Trembling, convulsive movements, spasms, with tears and laughter or alternately.

 Worse

 – Warmth of Room; of bed.

 – Food; artificial, potatoes, starch, salt.

 – Speaking.

 – Dry weather.

 – Early on awaking.

 – Sitting,.

 – After menses.

 – Periodically; on alternate days.

 – Coition.

 – Tobacco smoke.

 – Lifting.

 – Exertion.

 – Full and new moon.

 Better

 – Evening.

 – Open air.

 – Moderate exertion and temperature.

 – Damp weather, cold washing.

 Mind

 – Illusions; of being larger; numb; smooth; heavy.

 – Hasty but slow of execution, hence makes mistakes in speaking and writing.

 – Depressive mental states.

 – Timorous.

 – Fears; his own impulses; sight of knife, of blood, fears loss of reason.

 – When he sees or states something, he has the feeling, as though another person had said or seen it or as though he was placed in another person and could see only then.

 – Time passes too slowly.

 – Aways groaning, moaning, worrying, fretting.

 – Memory bad, variable mood.

 – Depressed on awakening.

 – Peevish.

 – Everything is viewed in sad light.

 – Alternating moods.

 – Sensation as if he would fall forwards, which he greatly fears.

 – Things seem unreal. Laughs and talks between paroxysms of spasms.

 – Sneers at everything.

 – Grumbles.

 – Suicidal tendency on seeing knife or blood.

 Head

 – Vertigo; agg. talking on closing or opening eyes, before breakfast.

 – Vertigo; with white stars before the eyes, when eyes suddenly went out of focus; one has to wait for normal vision, amel. wiping eyes.

 – Violent stitches in the brain, with nausea.

 – Headache, as if one were dragged by the hair.

 – Falling of hair; scalp itches and is numb.

 – Headache amel. by lying quite in bed.

 – Dry hair.

 Eyes

 – White stars before the eyes, with vertigo.

 – Eyelids; weak, falling, thickened, dry, burning, smarting.

 – Double squint, agg. agglutination at night, lacrimation during day.

 – Eyes feel cold.

 Ears

 – Heat and redness of one ear.

 – Eustachian tube seems plugged.

 – Crackling noises and buzzing in ears when, chewing or swallowing.

 Nose

 – Nostrils sore and red.

 – Point of nose cracked.

 – Scales with thick yellow mucus.

 Face

 – Old look; dusky, wrinkled.

 – As of white of egg of a cobweb on face.

 – Blood-boils, and pimples.

 – Involuntary spasmodic twitchings of the lower jaw.

 – Maxillary joints feel tight, while chewing or opening mouth.

 Mouth

 – Musty bad odour from mouth.

 – Teeth; feel long; pain extends to other parts down larynx, neck, shoulders.

 – Mouth feels dry with increased saliva.

 – Tingling, itching on tongue.

 Throat

 – Dry feels full of sticks, or constricted, food can not pass.

 – Through sore from eating onions.

 – Constant inclination to clear the throat.

 – Uvula hangs down.

 – Swallowing painful, agg. solids amel. empty swallowing, warm drinks.

 – Tightness from pharynx down to stomach as if food could not pass; can swallow but small morsels at a time.

 – Clergyman’s sore throat.

 – Feels food, whole length of oesophagus.

 Stomach

 – Abnormal craving; for coarse food, chalk, charcoal, dry food, clean white rags, te or coffee grounds, fruits vegetables, dry rice and indigestible things.

 – Constriction of oesophagus.

 – Pain lasting 3 hours after meals.

 – Big bellied children.

 – Aversion to potato, to meat, which disagrees.

 Abdomen

 – Left sided abdominal complaints.

 – Pressing in both groins, towards sexual organs.

 – Pains from rectum to ankle.

 – Inactive rectum, even a soft stool is passed with difficulty, hard stools cause severe cutting.

 – Stools of small balls, hard knots or bright clots of blood.

 – Evacuation is preceded by painful urging, long before stool, then straining at stool.

 – Constipation; of sucklings, old people and women of sedentary habits.

 – Can only pass stool when standing.

 Urinary

 – Muscles of the bladder paretic must strain at stool to urinaate.

 – Renal pains agg. dancing.

 – Frequent desire to urinate in old people; slow flow.

 – Fears he will wet the bed.

 – Retention, with dribbling.

 – Smarting while urinating.

 – Feeling of weakness in bladder and genitals.

 Male

 – Sexual desire increased.

 – Voluptuous itching or tickling in genitals.

 – Involuntary emission; while straining for stools, followed by old symptoms.

 – Pains in the perineum, during coition and while the erection continues.

 – Priapism at night.

 Female

 – Menses, too early, short, scanty, pale followed by great exhaustion.

 – Leucorrhoea; acrid profuse, runs to feet agg. during daytime; before menses amel. by washing with cold water.

 – Intolerable bearing down pain.

 – Tickling and itching in genitals; with strong desire for embrace.

 – Nipples itch, burn, look anger (during pregnancy).

 – It takes a woman all her time to recuperate from one menstrual period to the next.

 Respiratory

 – Cough, constant, dry, hacking interrupts breathing, with sneezing; agg. after waking in the morning from elongated uvula; from condiments or eating irritating things, talking or singing.

 – Sudden loss of voice; on taking cold.

 – Chest feels constricted, agg. sitting bent or stooping.

 – Soreness of chest; on talking; on lifting.

 Heart

 – Palpitation and shocks at heart.

 – Wakes at 4 to 5 a.m.  with anxiety at heart, amel. after rising.

 Neck and back

 – Pain in the back, as if hot irons were thrust through lower spine.

 – Violent stitches in back.

 – Back feels bandaged by a cord.

 Extremities

 – Pain in the arms and fingers, as if hot iron penetrated.

 – Arms; feel heavy, as if paralyzed; short; go to sleep.

 – Lower limbs heavy.

 – Staggering on walking.

 – Legs feel numb, especially when sitting crossed legged.

 – Heels feel numb, when stepping.

 – Festination.

 – Locomotor ataxia.

 – Nails brittle or thick.

 – Gnawing under nails.

 – Inability to walk except when eyes are open or in daytime.

 – Totters if eyes were closed.

 – Soles; painful, on stepping on it, as if they were too soft and on walking; cramps when crossing legs.

 – Bones feel squeezed.

 Skin

 – Intolerable itching, when getting warm in bed.

 – Dry, rough,cracked skin.

 – Itching, burning, over seat of pain.

 – Must scratch, until it bleeds.

 – Eczema.

 – The slightest injuries of the skin smart and become inflamed.

 – Skin symptoms, agg. winter, full and new moon.

 Sleep

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

 Fever

 – Chilliness amel. open air.

 – Heat with itching.

 Complementary

 – Bry.

 Related

 – Bry; Plb.

Source: Phatak Materia medica

Sepia Homeopathic Medicine

Sepia officinalis

Sepia officinalis

 Generalities

 – Inky juice of cuttle fish, known as a Indian ink, is supposed to be pre-eminently a woman’s remedy, though the first symptoms were found by Dr. Hahnemann proved accidently by a male artist.

 – It affects the venous circulation esp. of the Female pelvic Organs; of portal system and of digestive tract.

 – Venous stasis and thereby ptosis of viscera is a marked feature.

 – It is suited to young persons of both sexes, of nervous and delicate constitution, who are disposed to sexual excitement or worn out by sexual excess.

 – Children who take cold easily when the weather changes.

 – Relaxed, plethoric females.

 – Weak, pot-bellied mothers with yellow complextion.

 – Affections in pregnant women.

 – Females dragged down by over work, loss of vital fluids, excess of sexual indulgence, who are subject to prolapses, uterine troubles.

 – Symptoms settle in back, in ileo-coecal region, ovaries etc.; upward in head; bearing down in pelvic region.

 – Shuddering from pain.

 – Sudden prostration.

 – Weak empty hollow feeling in epigastrium, chest, muscles, lumbar back, hips, knees etc.; or sensation of fulness.

 – As of a lump or something rolling over internally.

 – Violent ebullitions of blood with pulsation throughout the body.

 – Fits of uneasiness and hysterical spasms.

 – Spasms, clonic, tonic, cataleptic.

 – Short walk fatigues much.

 – Jerking in muscles.

 – Burning pains in different parts of the body.

 – Bleedings.

 – Milky secretions.

 – Fainting fits.

 – Fidgety.

 – Tendency to abortion; from 5 – 7th month.

 – Tubercular patients with chronic hepatic troubles and uterine reflexes.

 – Feels cold even in a warm room.

 – Ill effects of anger and vexation; blows; injury; overlifting; falls; jar; getting wet; laundry work; boiled milk; fat; pork; tobacco.

 – Faints while kneeling in the church.

 – Diseased conditions which drag on, linger.

 – Warty growths.

 – Atrophy of children, face like old man, big belly, dry flabby skin.

 – Rheumatism, chronic cases or obstinate remains of acute.

 Worse

 – Cold; AIR; north wind; snowy air; snowfall, wet.

 – Sexual excess.

 – Before menses.

 – Pregnancy.

 – Abortion.

 – Morning and evening.

 – After first sleep.

 – Falling to sleep.

 – Sitting standing.

 – Kneeling.

 – Jarring.

 – Stooping.

 – Coitus.

 – Before thunderstroms.

 – Touch.

 – Ascending.

 – Rubbing.

 – Lifting.

 – Scratching.

 – Washing clothes.

 Better

 – Violent Motion.

 – Warmth; of bed.

 – Pressure.

 – Hot application.

 – Crossing or drawing limbs up.

 – After sleep.

 – Cold drinks; cold bath; open air.

 Mind

 – Angry; sensitive; irritable; easily offended, and miserable.

 – Wants to commit suicide.

 – Nervous, so that she wants to hold on to something or she should scream.

 – She says and does strange things.

 – Nobody knows what she will do next.

 – Anxious fear; over trifles.

 – Aversion; to family, to those loved best; to sympathy; to company; yet dreads to be alone.

 – Repugnance to customary business; disgust of life.

 – Stiffled affections.

 – Poor memory.

 – Makes mistakes while writing or reading.

 – Sad.

 – Irritability, alternating with indifference or sulkiness.

 – Sad over her health and domestic affairs.

 – Constantly worries, frets and cries about her real or imaginary illness.

 – Sexually minded.

 – Weeps when telling her symptoms.

 – Miserly.

 – Stupid, wants to go away.

 – Indifference.

 – Takes pleasure in teasing others.

 – Feels unfortunate without cause.

 – Sits quietly and answers either with yes or no.

 – Women hate men and men hate women.

 – Breaks down in spells of weeping.

 Head

 – Fits of vertigo agg. walking in open air, least movement of arms; or with a sensation as if something rolling round the head.

 – Headache; shooting, stinging pain; within out or upwards; over left eye; heavy on vertex, alternating sides of occiput; agg. lying on painful side, indoors; with nausea and vomiting.

 – Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual time; with scanty flow; with desire for coition.

 – Jerking of head backwards and forwards; involuntary; with open fontanelles in children; hysterical or from pain.

 – Hair falls out; after chronic headache, at climaxis.

 – Root of hair sensitive to combing.

 – Pimples on forehead along the margins of hair.

 – Vertex cold, and heavy.

 – Hemicarnia.

 – Jaundice, with headache.

 – Screams with pain.

 – Headache agg. shopping, mental labour, amel. meals.

 Eyes

 – Drooping eyelids.

 – Sees; black spots, veil, points, sparks, flashes, zigzags and streaks of light before eyes; then collpase.

 – Tarsi; red, itching; cancer.

 – Vanishing of sight during menses amel. lying.

 – Tarsal tumours.

 – Vision dimmed; from sexual excess, masturbation and uterine diseases.

 – Can not tolerate reflexed light.

 – Arrests cataract in women.

 – Falling out feeling in eyes.

 – Epithelioma of eyelids.

 – Eyes red with styes.

 Ears

 – Herpes; behind ears; on lobe of ears; on nape of neck.

 – Oversensitive to noise; esp. music.

 – Sudden deafness; as if caused by the plug in ears.

 – Discharge: thick yellow pus; offensive.

 – Swelling of and eruptions on external ear.

 Nose

 – Great sensitiveness to odours; which are repulsive; to the smell of cooking food.

 – Pressing pain at root.

 – Brown; Yellowish; Stripe Across.

 – Thick greenish discharge; thick foul, plugs and crusts.

 – Post-nasal dropping of heavy, lumpy discharges, must be hawked from mouth.

 – Epistaxis; when the nose has been struck by anything even lightly; during menses; during pregnancy; with piles.

 – Ozaena.

 – Ascending throat colds.

 – Pain in occiput with drawing in arms and legs during cold.

 Face

 – Changing colour.

 – Dark circles under eyes.

 – chloasma.

 – Acne agg. before menses.

 – Malar bones numb.

 – Swollen cracked lower lip.

 – Cancer of the lips, epithelioma.

 – Old, wrinkled, with spots.

 – Jerking of facial muscles while talking.

 – Warts on.

 Mouth

 – And tongue feel burnt.

 – Taste; cheesy, fishy, bitter, sour, putrid, offensive.

 – Hawks foul or cheesy grains in the morning.

 – Everything taste too salty.

 – Painful teeth, during pregnancy, menses and during cold, agg. lying.

 – Tongue dirty, becomes clear during menses.

 Throat

 – Sensation of plug.

 – Pain as if it is raw.

 – Ascending throat colds.

 – Pressure in the throat, feels neck cloth tight.

 – Hawks foul mucus or balls, in the morning.

 Stomach

 – Nausea; at thought or smell of food; in A.M. ; thought of coition.

 – Vomiting; of solid food only or of milky fluids; during pregnancy; in the morning; rinsing mouth.

 – Longing; for vinegar, acids and pickles, sweets.

 – Faint Sinking Feeling at Epigastrium: not amel. eating; or a lump in.

 – Burning in pit of stomach.

 – Boiled milk disagrees.

 – Acidity.

 – Dyspepsia from over-lifting; from tobacco.

 – Voracious appetite, or no appetite; sudden craving, sudden satiety.

 – Sense of something twisting about the stomach and rising into the throat.

 – Distress or pain in stomach agg. vomiting.

 – Eructations; milky, sour, bitter, rancid; of tough, foamy mucus.

 Abdomen

 – Pain in the region of liver or gall bladder agg. stooping.

 – Liver sore and painful amel. lying on right side.

 – Falling out or heavy bearing down feeling in hypogastrium amel. by holding it or crossing legs.

 – Pot-belly of mothers.

 – Constipation obstinate, no urging for days.

 – Large hard stools; feeling of a ball in rectum.

 – Rectum constricted and powerless, almost constant oozing from anus.

 – Diarrhoea; greenish, infantile; from boiled milk, with rapid exhaustion.

 – Piles; prolapsing; agg. walking, bleed while walking, with sticking pain; of pregnancy.

 – Stools, then gelatinous mucus.

 – Pains shoot up in rectum.

 – Brown spots on abdomen.

 – Stools are passed after prolonged straining, followed by cupful of jelly-like yellow-while, very offensive mucus.

 – Prolapse of rectum after smoking.

 – Sense of weight or ball in anus not amel. by stool.

 Urination

 – Involuntary urination during first sleep; agg. coughing, sneezing; laughing; hearing sudden noise, fright or inattention esp. in women, etc.

 – Slow urination, with bearing down sensation above pubis.

 – Urine Thick, Foul; white gritty or Adherent Red Sandy Sediment.

 – Urine feeble, slow.

 – Cutting pain in bladder before urination.

 – Urine; bloody, milky.

 – Shuddering when urging for urine is not attended to.

 Male

 – Sexual desire increased.

 – Complaints after coition.

 – Offensive perspiration on scrotum.

 – Genitals cold.

 – Condylomata surrounding head of penis.

 – Impotency.

 Female

 – WEAK, DRAGGING or BEARING DOWN SENSATION, as it everything would escape from vulva; must cross limbs or hold parts to prevent protrusion.

 – Gripping, burning or sticking in uterus.

 – Coition; painful; from dryness of vagina; bleeding after.

 – Dryness of vagina and vulva; after menses; causing disagreeable sensation when walking.

 – Aversion to coition, or complaints after.

 – Menses; absent; at puberty; after weaning.

 – Menses; too late, and scanty; irregular; early and profuse.

 – Labia swelled; abscessed.

 – Leucorrhoea; yellow, greenish, milky, in large lumps, in little girls; instead of menses, foul; gonorrhoeal; with stitches up in vagina from uterus to navel; during day.

 – Nipples cracked across the crown.

 – Retained placenta; after abortion.

 – Sub-involution.

 – Exhaustion after coition.

 – Nausea and irritability on thought of coition.

 – Amenorrhoea.

 – Metritis with pain in lumbar region and frequent urination.

 – Motion of foetus is intolerable.

 – Metrorrhagia at the time of climaxis.

 – Sudden flushes of heat, wtih weakness and sweat during climaxis.

 – Tendency to abortion; from 5th to 7th month.

 – Severe itching in vulva causing abortion.

 – Sterility.

 – Mania from profuse menses.

 Respiratory

 – Dry, fatiguing cough, as if coming from stomach; agg. rapid change of temperature; with foul sputum.

 – Whooping cough that drags on.

 – Dyspnoea, agg. after sleep amel. rapid motion.

 – Sensation of emptiness in chest.

 – Hypostatic pleuritis.

 – Brown spots on chest.

 – Rotten egg taste with coughing.

 – Asthma.

 – Chest symptoms amel. by pressure of hand.

 – Neglected pneumonia.

 Heart

 – Circulation irregualr; seems to stagnate.

 – Palpitation; visible, ascends to occiput.

 – And occasional hard thump of the heart.

 – General pulsations.

 – Ebullitions at night.

 – Overfull blood vessels.

 – Wakes up with violent beating of heart.

 – Tremulous feeling with flushes.

 – Nervous palpitation amel. walking fast; agg. lying on left side.

 Neck and back

 – Collar feels tight.

 – Aching in inter-scapular or Lumber Region; paralytic; wants to be pressed.

 – Sudden pain in back, as if struck by a hammer agg. stooping; kneeling.

 – Pain in back amel. eructations, by pressing back against something hard.

 – Weakness in small of back when walking; from uterine disease.

 – Everything affects the back.

 – Icy coldness between the scapulae.

 – Cramps in buttocks when stretching out legs.

 Extremities

 – Hands purple.

 – Cold hands in warm room.

 – Tension in limbs as if they were too short.

 – Limbs restless, twitching and jerking day and night.

 – Knees and heels cold.

 – Sciatica amel. during pregnancy; chronic, localizing in heels.

 – Sensation of running, as from a mouse in lower limbs.

 – Hot hands with cold feet or vice versa.

 – A short walk fatigues much.

 – Crippled nails.

 – Hands sweaty.

 – Skin in palms peels off.

 Skin

 – Blotched; raw, rough, hard or cracked; agg. flexures.

 – Boils in axilla.

 – Thick crusts on elbows.

 – Ulcers, on small joints.

 – Epithelioma; on eyelids, lips.

 – Wine coloured skin.

 – Spots on skin.

 – Ringworm agg. every spring.

 – Itching vesicles.

 – Urticaria agg. open air amel. warm room.

 – Thick crusts form upon the joints.

 – Indurations from constant pressure; with purple colour.

 Sleep

 – Talks loudly during sleep.

 – Dreams, agg. if he lies on left side.

 – Wakes frequently or as he has been called.

 Fever

 – Easily chilled.

 – Chilly with air hunger.

 – Cold; in spots; on vertex; between scapulae; feet, in bed.

 – Anxious hot flushes preceded by sudden weakness.

 – Sweat; easy; offensive, with orgasms; on genitals, in axillae; or back between menses.

 – Irregular fevers.

 – Heat ascending or as if hot water were poured over him.

 Complementary

 – Nat-m; Nux-v; Pho; Psor; Pul; Sabad; Sul.

 Related

 – Calc-c; Caus; Con; Gel; Lil-t; Lyc; Mur-x; Nat-c; Nat-m; Pul.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Bryonia alba Homeopathic medicine

Bryonia alba

 Generalities

 – Bryonia develops a marked action on all Serous Membranes and the viscera they contain, causing Inflammation and exudation.

 – It disorders circulation, producing congestion; alters the blood, giving rise, to typhoid, bilious, rheumatic and remittent types of fevers.

 – Aversion to least motion, even to distant parts, is due to its action on nerves and muscles.

 – Mucous membranes become dry, hence discharges are scanty and adherent.

 – Complaints, develop slowly, but forcibly.

 – Pains are Bursting; Stitching or heavy sore; going backwards.

 – Effects are very painful; on coughing holds sides, chest, head.

 – Joints painful.

 – Streaks of red-lymphangitis.

 – Gastro-bilious-rheumatic constitution.

 – Every spot in the body is painful to pressure.

 – Dropsical swelling gradually increase as the day progresses and disappear during the night.

 – Children dislike to be carried or raised.

 – Physical weakness; on slightest exertion; all pervading apathy.

 – Ill effects; of anger, fright; chagrin.

 – Suppressed eruptions and discharges.

 – Alcohol.

 – Gluttony.

 – Wounds.

 – Complaints from taking cold drinks, in hot weather.

 – Often indicated in injury of the joint when Arnica fails.

 – Muscles become hard, after neuralgia.

 – Dryness everywhere, of mouth, throat etc.

 – It is adapted to nervous dry, slender people.

 – Right sided effects.

 – Vicarious bleeding.

 Worse

 – Motion-Least; Raising up; Stopping; Coughing; Exertion; Deep Breathing.

 – Dry cold or heat.

 – Becoming Hot; In Room.

 – Hot weather.

 – Drinking; while hot.

 – EATING.

 – Vegetables.

 – Acids.

 – Calomel.

 – Vexation.

 – Touch.

 – Suppressions.

 – Taking cold.

 – Early a.m.

 Better

 – Pressure; Lying on Painful Part.

 – Bandaging.

 – Cool Open Air.

 – Quiet.

 – Cloudy, damp days.

 – Drawing knees up.

 – Heat to inflamed part.

 – Descending.

 – Sitting up.

 – Cold food, drink.

 Mind

 – Very irritable and ugly in behaviour.

 – Determined.

 – Taciturn.

 – Delirium, wants to go home, thinking he is not there.

 – Talks of business.

 – Wants to be let alone.

 – Desire for things which are rejected when offered.

 – Dull.

 – Apprehension and dread for future.

 – Despair of being cured, with fear of death.

 Head

 – Dizzy or Faint on Rising up.

 – Vertigo felt in occiput.

 – Bursting; Splitting or Heavy crushing headache; fronto-occipital agg. moving eyes, coughing, straining at stools etc.

 – Vertigo; as though all objects are whirling, or as if sinking deep down in the bed, amel. cold.

 – Pain over left eye, pressive, going to occiput, thence spreading over whole body.

 – Scalp very sensitive, can not bear even a soft brush, every hair pains.

 – Oily hair.

 – Headache; from ironing; when constipated.

 Eyes

 – Eyeballs sore; pains behind the eyeballs.

 – Glaucoma.

 – Lachrymation, during day esp. in the sun.

 – Lids swollen and puffed.

 Ears

 – Aural vertigo.

 – Ringing, humming in ears.

 – Vicarious bleeding from ears.

 Nose

 – Nose bleeding; vicarious; when menses should appear; in pregnancy.

 – Swelling of tip of the nose, feels as if it would ulcerate when touched.

 – Boils.

 – Descending colds.

 Face

 – Dark red, hot, bloated.

 – Chewing motions, in brain affections, of children.

 – Lips; dry, as if burnt, parched, cracked, wants to moisten them.

 – Burning of lower lip in old smokers.

 – Picking of lips.

 Mouth

 – Dry.

 – Tongue; very dry, rough, coated along centre; red at base.

 – Taste Bitter, can not swallow food, amel. cold drinks.

 – Toothache amel. cold water, agg. brushing teeth.

 – Jerking toothache when smoking or chewing tobacco.

 – Collection of soapy, frothy saliva.

 Throat

 – Hawks brown lumps, with effort.

 – Throat; dry, scraping roughness in.

 – Back of throat seems swollen.

 – Aphthous patches; recurring.

 Stomach

 THIRST, FOR LARGE QUANTITY OF COLD WATER; also for warm drinks which amel.

 – Craves what he cannot relish.

 – Loathing for food.

 – Nausea agg. rising up, lying on right side.

 – Bitter vomiting; of bile and water, immediately after eating.

 – Vomits solid food only.

 – Heavy load in stomach agg. eating.

 – Stomach sensitive to touch.

 – Great desire for coffee, wine and acid drinks.

 – Aversion to milk, but when he takes it he relishes it.

 – Tasteless eructations.

 – Vomits warm drinks.

 – Drinks hastily and eagerly.

 Abdomen

 – Epigastrium; tender, throbbing.

 – Liver, heavy, sore, swollen, amel. lying on it.

 – Abdominal wall very tender.

 – Appendicitis.

 – Peritonitis.

 – Stools; LARGE DRY, VERY HARD, as if burnt; loose, painless, undigested, involuntary, during sleep.

 – Constipation.

 – Diarrhoea; gushing agg. in the morning, on rising, eating cabbage.

 – Diarrhoea; in hot weather; after cold drinks.

 – Lumps of tough mucus, after stools.

 – Burning in anus, with stools.

 – Yellow, mushy stools.

 – Jaundice.

 – Groins sore before menses.

 – Complaints from over lifting, concussion.

 Urinary

 – Urine; red, brown like beer; scanty, hot.

 – Inclination to make water, with suspended respiration on lifting loads.

 – Involuntary urination during exertion.

 – Burning in urethra, when not urinating.

 Female

 – Menses; suppressed with vicarious discharges or splitting headache.

 – Pain in breast at menstrual period.

 – Breast; hot and painful, hard.

 – Milk fever.

 – Intermenstrual pain, with great abdominal and pelvic soreness.

 – Mastitis, stony hard mammae.

 – Abscess of mammae.

 – Ovaritis.

 – Infant-sore mouth; child does not want to take hold of breast, but after mouth becomes moist it nurses well.

 – Menses; dark, foul.

 – Stitches in the ovaries on taking deep breath.

 – Frequent nose bleed at the appearance of menses.

 Respiratory

 – Cough; Dry, Hard, Very Painful, at night as of from stomach, must sit up agg. eating and drinking.

 – Wants to take deep breath, but can not or it excites cough.

 – Expectoration; rusty blood streaked or tough.

 – Bronchitis.

 – Asthma.

 – Pneumonia.

 – Sharp Stitches in chest or at right scapula, agg. deep breathing and coughing.

 – Pleurisy.

 – Coming into warm room excites cough.

 – Holds chest, or presses the sternum when coughing.

 – Dry friction sound.

 – Cough, with sneezing.

 Heart

 – Stitches in cardiac region.

 – Pulse; FULL, QUICK, harsh.

 Neck and back

 – Instrascapular numbness or pain going to epigastrium or from left scapula to heart.

 – Painful stiffness of neck.

 – Pain in the small of back agg. walking or turning.

 – Stitches and stiffness in small of back.

 – Lumbago agg. stooping.

 Extremities

 – Joints red, swollen hot.

 – Pins and needles in soles, preventing walking.

 – Constant motion of left arm and leg, with sighing.

 – Swelling of elbow.

 – Knees totter and bend under him when walking.

 – Tendency to run backwards.

 – Sciatica amel. lying quietly and lying on painful side.

 Skin

 – Slow development or sudden recending of rash, in eruptive fevers.

 – Undeveloped measles.

 – Skin; yellow, pale swollen, dropsical.

 Sleep

 – Dreams; of hard work, about household affairs, about business of the day, in delirium.

 – Drowsy.

 – Starting when falling asleep.

 – Walks in sleep.

 Fever

 – Chill with hot head and red face; agg. warm room.

 – Dry burning heat; with agg. of all the symptoms.

 – Blood seems hot.

 – Painful continued fevers.

 – Sweat; sour or oily.

 Complementary

 – Abro; Alu; Kali-c; Lyc; Nat-m; Rhus-t; Sep; Sul.

 Related

 – Phyt; Rhus-t.

Chamomilla Homeopathic Medicine

Chamomilla

 Generalities

 – It is a highly Emotional; Temperamental and Oversensitive remedy, oversensitiveness from abuse of coffee and narcotics.

 – It is particularly suited to diseases of pregnant women, nurses and little CHILDREN.

 – Bad temper; frantic irritability and snappish.

 – Pain is intolerable; becomes mad with pain, or magnifies her pains and prostrated, with pain.

 – Very cross, can not be appeased.

 – Tosses about.

 – Cries out or walks the floor.

 – Demands instant relief for his suffering; he would rather die than suffer.

 – Mental and physical symptoms appear in paroxysms; irritability, restlessness, COLIC; cough etc.

 – Numbness; after pain; on awakening.

 – Repeated spasms; of face, arms, legs etc.

 – Colic, diarrhoea, jaundice, twitching and convulsions after anger.

 – Neuralgic or gouty rheumatic diathesis.

 – Cramps; with bilious vomiting; of muscles.

 – Convulsions during dentition.

 – Hot and thirsty.

 – Hot sweat, with pains.

 – Opium of Homoeopathy.

 – Bad effects of bad temper.

 – During convulsions body becomes stiff, with opisthotonus; eyes roll about, face becomes wry; thumbs turn inwards.

 Worse

 – Anger.

 – Night.

 – Dentition.

 – Cold air, damp air.

 – Wind.

 – Taking cold.

 – Coffee.

 – Narcotics.

 – Alcohol.

 – Lying in bed.

 – Music.

 – Eructations.

 – Heat.

 – Warm food, covering.

 – Touch.

 – Looked at.

 Better

 – Being Carried.

 – Mild weather.

 – Heat.

 – Sweating.

 – Cold applications.

 Mind

 – Ugly in behaviour; Cross and Uncivil.

 – Quarrelsome.

 – Vexed at every trifles.

 – Abrupt.

 – Averse to being spoken to or touched; or being looked at.

 – Children Want to be Carried, and petted.

 – Want many things, but refuse them when given.

 – Piteous moaning because he can not have what he wants.

 – Aversion to talking.

 – Omits words while writing and speaking.

 – Women become suddenly capricious, quarrelsome, obstinate, before menses.

 – Hasty, hurried.

 – Can not bear anyone near him.

 Head

 – Throbbing headache in one half of the brain; inclination to bend head backwards.

 – As if hair stood on end, with shivering.

 – Hot clammy sweat on forehead and scalp; during sleep, wetting the hair.

 – Headache of delicate over fatigued women.

 – Headache amel. when mind is engaged.

 – Headache agg. morning and 9 p.m.

 Eyes

 – Yellow conjunctiva.

 – Spasmodic closing of lids.

 – Bloody water from the eyes of new born babies.

 Ears

 – Sensitive to cold wind about ears, or noise.

 – Earache, sticking amel. warmth.

 – Ears feel stopped.

 – Hears voices of absent persons, at night.

 – Ringing after haemorrhages.

 – Roaring in the ears as of rushing water.

 – Music is insupportable.

 – As if hot water was running out of.

 Nose

 – Extremely sensitive to all smells.

 – Hot coryza, with obstruction of nose; inability to sleep.

 – Skin wrinkled.

 – Crawling in, until eyes waters.

 Face

 – Swelling or Redness of the Cheek.

 – One cheek red and hot, other pale and cold.

 – Face pale, sunken, distorted by pain.

 – Neuralgia of the face, with hot sweat about the head; pain extending into ear.

 – Jerking of facial muscles.

 – Jaws feels tired.

 – Sweats after eating or drinking.

 Mouth

 – Toothache agg. after warm drinks; during pregnancy, coffee.

 – Jerking in tongue.

 – Thick white yellow fur on tongue.

 – Nightly salivation, of sweetish taste.

 – Bad, sour breath.

 – Bitter taste.

 – Teeth feel elongated.

 Throat

 – Inability to swallow solid food when lying.

 – Constricted feeling or as of a plug.

 Stomach

 – Eructations like bad eggs.

 – Severe bitter bilious vomiting, with griping.

 – Vomiting after morphia.

 – Gastralgia as from a stone on stomach.

 – Sweats after eating and drinking.

 – Thirst; for cold water; sour drinks.

 – Aversion to coffee.

 – Violent retching before vomiting.

 Abdomen

 – Distended.

 – Spells of Colic; from time to time.

 – Pain from side to side; or going upward; after anger.

 – Cutting wind colic agg. night; agg. urinating, amel. warm, applications.

 – STOOLS, hot, SOUR; GRASS GREEN; SLIMY; HACKED; yellow green; or LIENTERIC; smelling like bad eggs.

 – Haemorrhoids, with painful fissures.

 – Diarrhoea; during dentition, from cold, from anger.

 – Jaundice; after anger.

 – Cheek becomes red during colic, with hot sweat.

 – Anus swollen and pouting.

 – As if bowels were knotteD and abdomen empty.

 Urinary

 – Urine hot and yellowish.

 – Stitches in urethra.

 Female

 – Irregular labour like pains; going up; down inner thighs; with profuse discharge of clotted, dark blood.

 – Puerperal convulsions, after anger.

 – Distressing after pains.

 – Breasts sore, nipples inflamed and very tender.

 – Infants breasts tender.

 – Cramps, when child nurses.

 – Yellow, dark, lumpy acrid leucorrhoea.

 – Membranous dysmenorrhoea, specially at puberty.

 – Milk is spoiled, baby won’t suck.

 – Dysmenorrhoea; from anger or emotions in those women who do not suffer from it, with sexual desire.

 – Oozing of dark foul blood, with occasional gush of bright red blood.

 – Menorrhagia, with black clots, profuse, with coldness of extremities and much thirst.

 – Intolerable labour pains; send the doctors and nurse away, then calls again.

 – Lochia too profuse and bloody or suppressed.

 Respiratory

 – Spells of dry tickling cough.

 – Asthma; from anger, agg. dry sweather, amel. bending head back.

 – Rattling of mucus in child’s chest.

 – Anger provokes the cough; in children.

 – Whooping cough, suffocating, then vomits.

 – Cough agg. 9 to 12 p.m. ; during sleep; does not wake up the child.

 Back

 – Severe pains in loins and hips, opposite to that on which patient is lying.

 – Lumbago.

 Extremities

 – Numbness and stiffness of hands, when grasping objects.

 – Cramps in calves.

 – Violent rheumatic pains driving him out of bed, at night; compelled to walk about.

 – Burning of soles, at night.

 – Ankles give way in the afternoon.

 – Feel as if she is walking on the ends of bones of her legs.

 – Feet as if paralysed, can not step on them, at night.

 – Palms dry.

 Sleep

 – Drowsiness; with moaning, weeping and wailing in sleep.

 – Pain disturbs sleep.

 – Sleepless from abuse of narcotics.

 – Sleeps with thighs separated.

 – Drowsy, but can not sleep.

 Skin

 – Rash of infants and of nursing mothers.

 – Jaundice.

 – Burning, smarting in ulcers, at night.

 – Skin unhealthy, every injury suppurates.

 Fever

 – Chilly yet easily overheated; hence takes cold.

 – Coldness of one part, with heat of another agg. uncovering.

 – Alternate chill and heat.

 – Feverish from suppuressed discharges.

 – Sweat on head.

 – Thirst during fever.

 Complementary

 – Bell; Mag-c.; Sanic.

 Related

 – Nux-v; Stap.

Source: Phatak Meteria medica

Belladonna Homeopathic Medicine

Belladonna

 Generalities

 – Belladonna acts upon nerve centres producing twitching, convulsions and pain.

 – Its action upon the brain causes furious excitement and perversion of special senses.

 – Circulation in blood vessels and capillaries becomes active causing congestion, throbbing, and dilatation of arteries.

 – Mucous membranes become dry.

 – Its effects are sudden and violent.

 – Burning Heat, Bright Redness and Dryness are very marked.

 – HOT; body, part, discharges etc.

 – Redness occurs, in streaks.

 – Severe Neuralgic Pain, that comes and goes suddenly.

 – Fulness; Congestion esp. to head and SWELLING are other characteristic features.

 – PAIN ARE THROBBLING; SHARP; CUTTING; SHOOTING; or clawing; of maddening severity; coming and going in repeated attacks.

 – Discharges are hot and scanty.

 – Spasms; Shocks; Jerks and Twitchings.

 – Constrictions occur in parts of the body like throat, vagina etc. or in whole body.

 – Sensitive to LIGHT, NOISE; JARRING.

 – Epileptic attacks are followed by nausea and vomiting.

 – Convulsions commence in the arm.

 – Spasms are followed by prolonged unconsciousness.

 – Throws body forwards and backwards; chorea.

 – Acts as a prophylactic in scarlet fever.

 – Exophthalmic goitre, with extreme thyroid toxaemia.

 – Hydrophobia.

 – Useful in airsickness.

 – Its influence is felt more in intelligent and plethoric persons who are jovial and entertaining when well, but violent when sick, therefore a great children’s remedy.

 – Ill effects of hair cutting, head getting wet.

 – Sausages.

 – Sun.

 – Walking in wind or draft.

 – Haemorrhages, hot.

 – Heat in body; parts are hot, swollen, and dry.

 – Right sided symptoms.

 Worse

 – Heat of Sun; if heated.

 – Drafts – on head; haircut; washing head.

 – After taking cold.

 – Light; noise; jarring.

 – Checked Sweat.

 – Touch.

 – Company.

 – Pressure.

 – Motion.

 – Hanging down affected part.

 – Afternoon.

 – Lying down.

 – Looking at shining objects or running water.

 Better

 – Light covering.

 – Bending backward, semi-erect.

 – Rest in bed.

 – Standing.

 – Leaning head against something.

 – Bending or turning the affected part.

 Mind

 – Acuteness of senses.

 – Wildly Delirious.

 – Excited ferocious; noisy; cries out.

 – Talks fast; VERY RESTLESS.

 – Biting, striking; tearing mania.

 – Spits on faces of other persons.

 – Sees monsters, hideous faces.

 – Fear of imaginary things.

 – Desire to escape or hide himself.

 – Perversity, with tears (children).

 – Excitable, easily weeps.

 – Quarrelsome.

 – Tendency to dance, laugh, sing, whistle.

 – Starts in fright at the approach of others.

 – Constant moaning.

 – Craving for snuff.

 – An angel when well and a devil when sick.

 – Sits and breaks pins.

 – Mental symptoms amel. taking light food.

 – Patient lives in his own world.

 Head

 – THROBBING, HAMMERING HEADACHE agg. temples; agg. motion; amel. letting hair down; laying the hand on head; bending head backwards.

 – Feeling in the brain like swashing of water.

 – It rises and falls in waves.

 – Cold sensation in head at the middle of the forehead.

 – Vertigo agg. stooping and rising from stooping.

 – Hydrocephalus, with boring and head in the pillows.

 – Hairs split, are dry and come out.

 – Rolls head.

 – Pulls her hair.

 – Meningitis.

 – Sunstroke.

 – Pains go downward from head.

 – Head sensitive to drafts and cold, or washing hair.

 Eyes

 – Pupiles Dilated.

 – Eyes, sparkling, prominent, staring.

 – Red conjunctiva.

 – Fiery, red, vivid hallucinations; even on closing the eyes.

 – Attacks of blindness, then yellow vision.

 – Sees red flashes before vision.

 – PHOTOPHOBIA.

 – Diplopia.

 – Triplopia.

 – Moon light blindness.

 – Sensation as if eyes were half closed.

 – Eyelids; feel sore, congested and swollen.

 – exophthalmos.

 – Lachrymation like brine.

 – Lines appear crooked when reading.

 Ears

 – Pain causes delirium; child cries out in sleep.

 – Otitis media.

 – Autophony – hearing one’s voice in the ear.

 – Haematoma.

 – Noises in ears.

 Nose

 – Red; swollen.

 – Imaginary odours; odour of tobacco intolerable.

 – Bleeding from nose, with flushed face.

 Face

 – Fiery; Red; turgid and hot; or becomes pale and red alternately.

 – Semilateral swelling of the face.

 – Spasmodic distortion of mouth (risus sardonicus).

 – Convulsive motions of muscles of face.

 – Facial neuralgia, with twitching of muscles and flushed face.

 – Lower jaw as if drawn backwards.

 Mouth

 – DRY., HOT., Tongue; red, hot, swollen.

 – Edges of tongue red.

 – Strawberry tongue.

 – Red streak in middle of tongue, wider at tip.

 – Grinding of the teeth.

 – Tongue hands out of the mouth (children).

 – Forepart of the tongue cold and dry.

 – Toothache amel. biting.

 – Chewing motions of the mouth as though chewing or sucking.

 – Stammering speech.

 – Lock-jaw.

 – Hot breath.

 Throat

 – Dry and Hot.

 – Tonsils enlarged.

 – Tonsillitis agg. right side.

 – Urging to swallow, with chocking.

 – Throat feels constricted.

 – Swallowing difficult; Drinks in sips.

 – Must take a drink to swallow solid. food.

 – When swallowing, bends the head forward and lifts up knees.

 – Clutches at, during epilepsy.

 Stomach

 – Desire for lemonade or lemons (which agree).

 – Distaste for meat, acids, coffee,milk, beer.

 – Vomits everything, with paleness and weakness.

 – Great thirst for cold water.

 – Dread of drinking.

 – Spasmodic hiccough, with sweat and convulsions.

 – Pain in stomach extending to shoulder and throat agg. pressure.

 Abdomen

 – Distended, hot agg. touch of bedclothes.

 – Cutting pain in epigastrium amel. bending backwards.

 – Transverse colon distends and protrudes, like a pad, during abdominal colic.

 – Cramp and colic, as if a hand has clutched some part.

 – Acute pain in liver region, extending to shoulder and neck agg. lying on it.

 – Clawing pain around the navel.

 – Downward forcing in abdomen as if all the viscera would protrude through genitals.

 – Acute prolapsus ani.

 – Stools; green, dyysenteric or contain chalky lumps.

 – Involuntary stools.

 – Piles, with back pain as if breaking.

 – Pain in splenic region agg. sneezing, coughing, touch.

 Urinary

 – Involuntary urination, on lying down; or when standing, or at night; when sleepy, during day.

 – Retention of urine; with paralysis of bladder; post partum.

 – Fiery red urine;frequent and profuse urination.

 – Haematuria without pathological conditions.

 – Sensation in bladder as if a worm were turning in, without desire to micturate.

 Male

 – Testicles; hard, drawn up, inflamed.

 – Sweat on genitals.

 – Soft painless tumuour on glans.

 Female

 – Menses; bright, red, with clots, too early, too profuse, hot, gushing, offensive.

 – Metritis.

 – Rigidity of the os.

 – Violent bearing down towards genitals, as if everything would fall out, amel. standing and sitting erect agg. lying down.

 – Mastitis: pain throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from the nipples.

 – Breast; heavy, hard and red.

 – Lochia; diminished, hot offensive.

 – Useful in confinement of women who have their children late in life.

 – Leucorrhoea, with colic.

 – Labour pains come and go suddenly; or ceasing.

 Respiratory

 – Tickling, short, dry cough agg. night.

 – Larynx very painful, feels as if foreign body were in it, with cough.

 – Cough agg. fine dust in air.

 – Child cries before cough.

 – Cough agg. yawninng.

 – High piping voice.

 – Barking cough or voice.

 – Whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack; with haemoptysis.

 – Cheyne-stokes respiration.

 – Moaning at every breath.

 – Difficult, short quick respiration.

 – Asthma in hot damp weather.

 Heart

 – Throbbing in carotid and temporal arteries.

 – Pulse full, hard, tense.

 – Violent palpitation, with laboured breathing.

 – Bubbling at the region of the heart.

 Neck and back

 – Stiff neck and shoulder (right).

 – Swelling of glands in the nape of the neck.

 – Back feels broken.

 – Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.

 Extremities

 – Jerks or spasms in limbs.

 – Joints, swollen, red, shining; with red streaks radiating.

 – Heaviness and paralytic feeling in limbs.

 – Cold extremities.

 – Involuntary limping.

 – Phlegmasia alba dolens.

 – Trembling of limbs.

 – Weakness and tottering gait.

 – Lies or sits with feet crossed, can not uncross them.

 Skin

 – Bright, Red, glossy.

 – Dry and hot.

 – Alternate paleness and redness of skin.

 – Intense dermatitis.

 – Scarlatina.

 – Erysipelas.

 – Boils, returning every spring.

 Sleep

 – Sleepy but can not sleep.

 – Moans and tosses about in sleep.

 – Jerks During Sleep.

 – Frightful dreams of quarrels, fire, robbers, assassins.

 – Sees frightful visions on closing eyes.

 – Sleeps with hands under the head.

 – Heavy sleep with hot skin.

 Fever

 – High fever with comparative absence of toxaemia.

 – Internal coldness, with external pungent, burning, steaming heat.

 – Hot Head, with cold limbs.

 – Skin hot; but moist and dry alternately. No thirst with fever.

 Complementary

 – Bor; Calc; Hep; Merc; Nat-m.

 Related

 – Glo; Hyo; Stram.

Source: Phatak Materia medica

 Arnica montana Homeopathic medcine

 Arnica montana

 Generalities

 – It is a traumatic remedy par excellence.

 – Trauma in all its varieties – mental or physical and their effects recent or remote are met with by this remedy.

 – It affects BLOOD, causing putrid and septic conditions.

 – BLOOD VESSELS are relaxed, causing ecchymosis, blue-black spots; with TENDENCY TO HAEMORRHAGE; epistaxis etc.

 – It acts upon nerves causing neuralgia.

 – Muscles feel VERY SORE, PAINFUL, BRUISED; all over.

 – Parts becomes sore, after the pains, or after bleeding.

 – It is a prophylactic for pus formation.

 – Burrowing pus.

 – Has absorbent action.

 – Progressive emaciation.

 – Great prostration; tired feeling.

 – Discharges are FOUL; breath, taste, flatus, stools etc.

 – Crushing pain.

 – BED FEELS HARD or full of lumps.

 – Involuntary evacuations.

 – Abscesses that do not mature.

 – Pains are Paralytic; sudden, shifting pains from joint to joint.

 – It acts best in plethoric, dark haired persons of rigid muscles, nervous sanguine nature.

 – It acts but feebly on persons who are positively debilitated, with impoverished blood and soft flesh.

 – Compound fractures.

 – Twitching, in tendons, muscles.

 – Osteomyelitis.

 – Ill effects of fright, financial loss, anger, repentance; excessive use of any organ, vaginitis in females and impotence in males from excessive sexual indulgence.

 – Exertion of any kind.

 – Mind and uterine symptoms alternate.

 – Complaints when over hurried.

 – Apoplexy.

 – Typhoid, septic fevers.

 – Recurring boils.

 – Surgical operations.

 – Insect stings.

 – Splinters.

 – Thrombosis.

 Worse

 – Injuries – falls, blows, Bruises; shock; jarring; after labour; overexertion; sprains.

 – Touch.

 – After sleep.

 – Motion.

 – Old age.

 – Alcohol.

 – Damp cold.

 – Coal gas.

 – Lying on left side.

 Better

 – Lying down and lying with head low or outstretched.

 Mind

 – FEAR; of being struck or touched; or approached; of sickness; of instant death; with cardiac distress at night; of space; on awakening; of crowds, public places.

 – Morose.

 – Repentant mood.

 – Mentally prostrate and apathetic, but physically restless; says nothing ails him.

 – When spoken to, answers slowly with effort.

 – Feels well in serious cases.

 – Forgetful, when he reads, quickly escapes his mind.

 – After rage sheds tears and makes exclamations.

 – Hopeless; indifferent.

 – Violent attacks of anguish-angina pectoris.

 – Delirium tremens.

 – A sudden fear that rouses one from sleep at night esp. after an accident.

 – Great desire to scratch; will scratch, wall, bed, head, etc.

 – Coma.

 – Muttering delirium.

 – Sensation of being good for nothing.

 – Easily frightened, unexpected trifles cause him to start.

 – Sits as if in thought.

 Head

 – Brain; feels tried, burning in.

 – Vertigo; chronics; of the aged; with nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea; objects whirl agg. walking.

 – Vertigo agg. walking, sitting erect, closing eyes.

 – Headache as from a nail.

 – Head hot with cold body.

 – Cold spot on the forehead, hot spots on vertex.

 – Meningitis from injury to head.

 – Head throws backwards while walking.

 Eyes

 – Bloodshot.

 – Retinal haemorrhage.

 – Photophobia.

 – Feel tired and heavy, after sight seeing, moving pictures.

 – High objects appear to lean forward and about to fall.

 – Right eye protrudes, looks larger than left.

 Ears

 – Hardness of hearing; noises in ears.

 – Blood from ears.

 – Bruised pain in external ears.

 – Hearing impaired from injury to the head.

 – Sensitive to shrill noise.

 Nose

 – Bleeding; after ever fit of coughing; after washing face.

 – Violent sneezing from over-lifting.

 – Nose; feels sore, cold.

 – Post nasal dropping.

 – Catarrh of antrum.

 – Burning in typhoid fever.

 Face

 – Ruddy, congested, bluish red; in apoplexy, fevers.

 – Sunken, pale.

 – Lips; burn, swollen and cracked.

 – Lower lip trembles, while eating.

 – Lower jaw hangs down, paralysis.

 – Painful acne.

 – Cheeks puffed; red.

 Mouth

 – Foetid breath.

 – Dry, with much thirst.

 – Taste; as from bad eggs, after operation – plugging etc.

 – Bright red, puffy fauces.

 – Tongue; dry, almost black.

 – Swallowing is prevented by sort of nausea as if food would not go down.

 Stomach

 – Eructations; tasting of bad eggs; after coughing.

 – Loss of appetite by day, but canine hunger before midnight.

 – Nausea.

 – Vomiting of dark, red coagulated blood.

 – Feeling as if stomach were passing against the spine.

 – Foetid vomiting.

 – As of a lump back of stomach.

 – Aversion to milk and meat.

 – Longing for vinegar.

 – Constant desire to drink, but knows not what for, as all drinks are offensive.

 Abdomen

 – Cramps from epigastrium down over the bowels, then foul stools.

 – Sharp pains from side to side.

 – Stools; bloody, foamy, purulent, acrid; involuntary; during sleep.

 – Dysentery; with dysuria, all summer and autumn.

 – Cramps in rectum, while standing.

 – Flatus smelling of rotten eggs.

 – Must lie down after every stool.

 – Prolapsus ani agg. after walking for few minutes only amel. washing the whole body.

 Urinary

 – Cutting pain in kidneys.

 – Retention of urine in bladder, from over exertion, after labour.

 – Involuntary dribbling, with constant urging.

 – Has to wait a long time for urine to pass.

 – The bladder feels full and sore; the pressure of urine hurts him.

 Male

 – Impotence from excess or abuse.

 – Phimosis, from friction.

 – Seminal emission during caress.

 – Haematocele.

 Female

 – After-pains agg. suckling.

 – Soreness of the parts after labour.

 – Feeling as if foetus were lying crosswise.

 – Can not bear foetal movements;cause nausea and vomiting.

 – Haemorrhage after coition.

 – Nipples sore.

 – Children lose their breath when angry.

 – Mastitis.

 – Threatened abortion from falls etc.

 – Labour, weak and ceasing.

 – Menses; early, hot, profuse.

 – Soreness of the whole body during pregnancy.

 – Tumours of mammae from injury.

 – Puerperal fever.

 Respiratory

 – Hoarseness; agg. exertion, colds, or getting wet.

 – Cough in sleep without waking.

 – Cough produced by yawning, weeping or lamenting.

 – Child cries before proxysms of whooping cough.

 – Cough causes bloodshot eyes or epistaxis.

 – Cardiac cough.

 – Dyspnoea, with haemoptysis.

 – Violent spasmodic cough, with facial herpes.

 – Bones and cartilages of chest are painful agg. motion, breathing or coughing.

 – Heavy lower chest.

 – Stitching pains in chest, taking the breath away; amel. pressure.

 – Hoarse voice from over use.

 Heart

 – Beats shake the whole body.

 – Sudden pain as if the heart is squeezed or had got a shock, pain felt in left elbow (angina pectoris).

 – Strain of heart from violent running.

 – Cardiac dropsy.

 – Hypertrophy of heart.

 – Fatty heart.

 – Heart pains; left to right.

 – Pulse feeble and irregular.

 – Weakened heart muscles.

 – Horror of constant death, with cardiac distress at night.

 – Palpitation after any exertion.

 Neck and back

 – Muscles of neck weak, head falls backwards, or any side.

 – Back sore.

 – Cervical vertebrae tender.

 Extremities

 – Limbs ache as if beaten.

 – Pain in arms amel. hanging down.

 – Want of strength in the hands on grasping.

 – Cramps in the fingers – writer’s cramp.

 – Veins of hands distended.

 – Can not walk erect on account of bruised pain in pelvic region.

 – Hygroma patellae.

 – Gout.

 – Knee joints suddenly bend when standing.

 – Feet numb.

 Skin

 – Dusky, mottled.

 – Every little hurt makes a black and blue spot.

 – Very sore acne or crops of small boils.

 – Symmetrical eruptions.

 – Petechiae.

 – Erysipelas.

 – Bed sores.

 – Tingling and itching which moves from place to place; after scratching, itching begins somewhere else.

 – Carbuncle; of thigh.

 Sleep

 – Comatose drowsiness; drops to sleep as he answers.

 – Dreams; of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible, awakes in terror, then sleepless.

 – Severe fatigue causes restlessness and sleeplessness.

 Fever

 – Chilly with heat and redness of one cheek.

 – Head or face alone hot, body cold.

 – Coldness of part lain on.

 – Thirst during chill.

 – Must uncover but it chills him.

 – Intermittent, typhoid, septic, traumatic fevers.

 Complementary

 – Aco; Calc; Nat-s; Psor; Rhus-t; Sul-ac.

 Related

 – Bels; Echi; Hyper; Rhus-t.

Source: Phatak Materia medica

Natrium muriaticum Homeopathic Medicine

 Generalities

 – Common salt, profoundly affects the nutrition.

 – Its excessive intake produces symptoms of salt retention, such as dropsies and oedema: but it also affects the blood causing anaemia and leucocytosis.

 – Mind, Heart, liver and spleen come under its influence.

 – The patient is thin, thirsty, poorly nourished on account of digestive disturbances, and his Mental Behaviour and physical symptoms are hopeless or awkward in nature.

 – Emaciation; descending, of neck or abdomen.

 – Mucous Membranes and skin may be Dry or may produce thick, white or clear, watery, acrid discharges.

 – Dryness of mouth, throat, rectum, vagina etc.

 – Numbness of one side; parts lain on; with paralysis; fingers, parts seem too short.

 – Easy exhaustion.

 – Contraction of muscles, tendons.

 – Neuralgic pains with tears.

 – Trembling.

 – Prostration.

 – Hysterical debility.

 – Emaciation even while living well.

 – Great weakness and weariness.

 – Tendency to take cold.

 – Coldness.

 – Children talk late; cross, irritable, cry from slightest cause.

 – Cachexia; malarial.

 – Oversensitive to all sorts of influences.

 – Goitre; hyperthyroidism.

 – Addison’s disease.

 – Diabetes.

 – Twitching in muscles.

 – Frequent starts in upper part of the body.

 – Chorea; jumping; after fright.

 – Ill effects of disappointment; fright, grief, fit of passion; loss of fluids, masturbation; injury to head; silver salts; salt.

 – Young girls become love lorn and fall in love with married men.

 – Paralysis; from emotions, sexual excess.

 – Likes to be covered but does not amel..

 – Trembling of the whole body from smoking tobacco.

 Worse

 – Exact periodicity.

 – 9 to 11 a.m. ; with the sun.

 – Alternate days.

 – After menses.

 – Heat; of sun, summer; dampness.

 – Exertion – of eyes, mental, talking, reading, writing.

 – Violent emotions.

 – Sympathy.

 – Puberty.

 – Quinine.

 – Bread, fat, acid food.

 – Coition.

 – Sea shore.

 – Chronic sprains.

 – Noise; music.

 – Touch.

 – Pressure.

 – Full moon.

 Better

 – Open air.

 – Cool bathing.

 – Sweating.

 – Rest.

 – Going without regular meals.

 – Tight clothing.

 – Deep breathing.

 – Before breakfast.

 – Rubbing.

 – Lying on right side.

 – Talking long.

 Mind

 – Hateful; to persons who had offended him.

 – Detests consolation or fuss.

 – Sad : during menses; without cause.

 – Reserved.

 – Easily angered agg. if consoled.

 – Company distresses.

 – Hypochondriac.

 – Weeps bitterly; or wants to be alone to cry.

 – Weeps involuntarily, without cause or can not weep.

 – Cheerful, laughs, signs, dances, alternating with sadness.

 – Boisterous grief.

 – Dwells on past unpleasant memories.

 – Anxiety.

 – Apprehension.

 – Fear or dreams of robbers.

 – Awkward; in talking; hasty; drops things from nervous weakness.

 – Absent-minded.

 – Scattered thoughts.

 – Revengeful.

 – Thinks he is pitied for his misfortunes and weeps.

 – Immoderate laughter with tears.

 – Abrupt.

 – An idea clings, preventing sleep, inspires revenge.

 – Alternating mental conditions.

 – Extremely foregetful.

 – Aversion of men (females).

 Head

 – Vertigo; as if falling; agg. standing near a window, on closing eyes; amel. lying, with head high.

 – HEADACHES; bursting; on coughing; maddening; hammering; heavy; over eyes; on vertex, with partial numbness or disturbed vision; agg. on awakening; from sunrise to sunset; during, before or after menses; motion; even of eyes; frowning, reading; amel. sleep; pressure on eyes, lying with head high, sitting still.

 – Nodding motions of the head.

 – Headaches of school children.

 – Migraine.

 – Falling hair.

 – Injured part tender to touch.

 Eyes

 – Painful, on looking down.

 – Letters run together while reading.

 – Stricture of lachrymal duct, escape of mucous when pressing on the sac.

 – Lachrymation; with redness; burning; acrid; from affected side, from sneezing; coughing; laughing etc.

 – Eyes feel drawn together.

 – Itch and burn, must wipe them.

 – Ptosis on lying down.

 – Vision blurred, wavering.

 – Hemiopia then headache.

 – Eye lids close with headache; spasmodically.

 – Can not read by artificial light.

 – Sparks, black spots, fiery zigzag before eyes.

 – Incipient cataract.

 – Protruding eyes; due to goitre.

 – Retinal images are retained too long.

 – Eyes give out in reading and writing.

 Ears

 – Noises, buzzing, humming, ringing.

 – Painful cracking in the ear when masticating.

 – Itching behind ears.

 Nose

 – Violent fluent coryza; lasts one to three days then stoppage of nose high up, making breating difficult.

 – Sneezing early in the morning.

 – Alternate fluent and dry coryza; cold commences, with sneezing, gushing of fluid.

 – Little ulcers in nose.

 – One side numb.

 – Loss of smell and taste.

 – Nose bleed; on stooping or when coughing, at night.

 Face

 – Pale, muddy, or shiny as if greased.

 – HERPES; about the lips or at the edge of hair; pearly.

 – Crack in the middle of the lower lip.

 – Lips tingle, feel numb.

 – Throbbing in lower jaw agg. biting; heat and cold.

 – There is down on the face in hysteria but passes away as the patient improves.

 – Upper lip swollen.

 – Prosoplagia.

 – Falling of whiskers and beard.

 Mouth

 – Tongue; Mapped; beaded or striped along edges.

 – Aphthae.

 – Loss of taste and smell.

 – Numbness and stiffness of one side of tongue.

 – Tingling of the tongue.

 – Tongue, heavy; difficult speech.

 – Children learn to talk slowly.

 – Fistula dentalis.

 – Epulis or small tumour on the gums.

 – Sensation of a hair on the tongue.

 – Tongue feels dry but is not dry.

 – Vesicles and ulcers in mouth and on tongue, smart and burn when touched by food.

 – Teeth sensitive to air or touch; pain agg. on chewing.

 – Toothache with tears or salivation.

 Throat

 – Hawks much mucus, bitter, salty.

 – Uvula hangs to one side.

 – A dry, sore spot in the throat, tickles and causes cough etc.

 – Food goes down the wrong way; post diphtheritic paralysis.

 – Only fluids can be swallowed.

 – Solids reach a certain point and then are violently ejected.

 – Throat glistens.

 – Exophthalmic goitre.

 – Sore throat; with sensation as if she has to swallow over a lump.

 – As if a plug in throat.

 – Tobacco smoker’s throat.

 Stomach

 – Desire; For Salt, bitter things; for sour things, farinaceous food, oysters, fish, milk.

 – Thirsty, drinks large quantity of water.

 – Great hunger yet emacities; with depressed mind.

 – Averse to bread, meat, coffee, tabacoo.

 – Hunger without relish.

 – Hiccough.

 – Burning eructations, after eating.

 – Sweet risings from stomach during menses.

 – Anxiety in stomach rises into head.

 – Sweats while eating; on face.

 – White slimy mucus is vomited with relief.

 – Heart burn with palpitation.

 – Feels better on an empty stomach.

 Abdomen

 – Epigastric pulsation.

 – Epigastrium swollen and painful.

 – Sudden distension.

 – Tense abdomen agg. groins.

 – Pain in abdominal ring on coughing.

 – Rigidity of the left side.

 – Colic with nausea amel. flatus.

 – Stools; dry, hard, crumbling; tears the anus or cause burning.

 – Stools, coated with glassy mucus.

 – Constipation on alternate days, from inactivity.

 – Painless watery diarrhoea; chronic; morning, on moving about; from abuse of opium.

 – Constriction of rectum.

 – Herpes about anus.

 – Abdominal viscera loose and dragging as if when walking.

 – Red spots on epigastrium.

 – Herpes ani.

 Urinary

 – Involuntary urination; on coughing; laughing; sneezing, walking, sitting.

 – Polyuria, thirst for large quantities of water.

 – Has to wait long for urine to pass in the presence of others.

 – Urine clear with red sediment.

 – Must wait before the urine will start.

 – Pain just after urination.

 Male

 – Backache and weak legs; with depression after coition.

 – Pollution shortly after coition.

 – Sexual desire, with physical weakness.

 – Suppressed gonorrhoea.

 – Weakness, even paralysis, after sexual excess.

 – Loss of hair from pubes.

 Female

 – Aversion to coition; which is painful from dryness of vagina.

 – Burning smarting in vagina during coition.

 – Delayed first menses.

 – Dymenorrhoea with convulsions.

 – Sterility; with too early too profuse menses.

 – Debilitating leucorrhoea; white thick, instead of menses.

 – Prolapse of ulcers with aching in lumbar region or with cutting urethra; agg. in the morning, amel. lying on back.

 – Hot during menses.

 – Mammary glands emaciate.

 – White leucorrhoea turns green gradually.

 – Loss of hair in children or during lactation.

 – Stitches beneath nipples.

 Respiratory

 – Cough from tickling in the pit of stomach; with asthma or palpitation; agg. winter.

 – Respiratory catarrh after suppressed sweats.

 – Sticking in live while coughing.

 – Dyspnoea on ascending.

 – Whooping cough; with lachrymation.

 – Breath; hot, offensive.

 – Exertion of arms amel. breathing.

 Heart

 – Palpitation, shaking body or alternating with beating in head.

 – Fluttering of the heart, with a weak, faint feeling agg. lying down.

 – Palpitation; anxious, agg. exertion; emotion; lying on left side.

 – Pulse; full and slow or weak and rapid; intermittent every third beat; agg. lying down.

 – Coldness, soreness at the heart.

 Neck and back

 – Painful stiffness of neck.

 – Bruised backache, early in a.m. ; agg. coughing; after coition; amel. lying on back, on something hard; or pressure.

 – Can stoop readily, but hurts to straighten.

 – Buttocks emaciated in infants.

 Extremities

 – Trembling of the hands when writing.

 – Cracked finger tips.

 – Hangnails.

 – Palms hot and sweaty.

 – Hamstrings; seem short, painful, drawing in.

 – Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities.

 – Catch in knee.

 – House maid’s knee.

 – Cracking in joints on motion.

 – Ankles weak and turn easily.

 – Legs cold.

 – Conculsive jerking of the limbs on falling asleep.

 – Scurfs, scales in axilla.

 – Bending the joints of fingers, difficult.

 – Children do not learn to walk.

 – Soreness of toes or between toes.

 Skin

 – Oily, dry, harsh, unhealthy or yellow.

 – Chaps of herpetic eruptions agg. flexures, or about knuckles.

 – Dry eruptions on margins of hair.

 – Warts of palms and hands.

 – Hives, whitish, agg. exertion.

 – Corns.

 – Scars; painful.

 – Redness of old scars.

 Sleep

 – Sobs durinng sleep.

 – Awakes feeling weak.

 – Dreams of robbers.

 – Somnabulism; rises and sits about room.

 – Starts and talks in sleep.

 Fever

 – Coldness of many parts, hands, feet, heart.

 – Morning chill with thirst.

 – Chilly but agg. in sun.

 – Sweat, scany, at edge of hair, on nose, on face while eating.

 Complementary

 – Ign; Sep.

 Related

 – Pul.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Ignatia Amara Homeopathic Medicine

 Generalities

 – The seeds of Ignatia contain a large proportion of strychnine than those of Nux-vomica, yet there is a great difference between the characteristic features of the two drugs.

 – Though it affects the MIND, EMOTIONAL element is profoundly influenced and co-ordination of functions is interfered with; causing ERRATIC; contradictory; parodoxical mental and physical EFFECTS; which change rapidly, and are opposite to each other.

 – NERVOUS SYSTEM is affected causing SPASMODIC EFFECTS; often violent with rigidity, twitching and tremors.

 – It is adapted to the persons of nervous temperament esp. women of sensitive, easily excited nature,mild disposition, quick to perceive and rapid in execution.

 – SENSE OF LUMP, foreign body or sharp pressure.

 – Jerks run through the whole body.

 – Tendency to start.

 – Globus.

 – Clavus.

 – Hysteria.

 – Chorea; after fright, from grief agg. after eating, amel. lying on back.

 – Convulsions of children; during dentition; after punishment; after fear or fright; return at the same hour daily.

 – Spasms, with cries or involuntary laughter.

 – Tonic spasms of single parts, with frothing at the mouth.

 – Spasms alternating with oppressed breathing.

 – Pain in spot agg. close attention amel.

 – Oversensitive to pain.

 – Pains change their locality, come gradually, abate suddenly, or come and go suddenly.

 – Symptoms pass after profuse urination.

 – Plague; preventive and curative.

 – Nervous shuddering; with pain.

 – Paralysis; after great mental emotions and night watching, in sick chamber.

 – Suitable to persons who had been starving either from want or other causes.

 – Ill effects of grief, fright, worry, disappointed love; jealousy; old spinal injuries.

 – Catalepsy with opisthotonous. (Nat-mur. should follow in chronic conditions.)

 Worse

 – EMOTIONS.

 – GRIEF.

 – Chagrin.

 – WORRY.

 – Fright; shock, after losing persons or objects that were very dear.

 – Air; open, cold.

 – Odours.

 – Touch.

 – Coffee.

 – Tobacco.

 – Yawning.

 – Stooping,walking; standing.

 – At the same hour and day.

 Better

 – Change of position.

 – Lying on affected part.

 – Urination.

 – If alone.

 – Pressure.

 – Deep breathing.

 – Swallowing.

 – Eating

 – Near a warm stove.

 – Sour things.

 Mind

 – ALERT; OVERSENSITIVE AND NERVOUS.

 – Highly emotional.

 – Moody.

 – Brooding GRIEF.

 – Silent and sad.

 – SIGHS.

 – Weeps or laughs by turns, laughs when she ought to be serious.

 – Changeable moods.

 – Unhappy love.

 – Inward weeping; enjoys being sad.

 – Angry with himself.

 – Desire to be alone.

 – Everything irks her.

 – Intolerant of contradiction; of reprimands.

 – Anguish; shrieks for help.

 – Capricious.

 – Delicately conscientious.

 – Fear; of thieves; of trifles, of things coming near him Introspective.

 – Faint easily, girls who faint every time they go to church; or who fall in love with married men.

 – Sensation as if she had been fasting for a long time.

 – Hurried during menses; no one can do things fast enough for her.

 – Looks about the bed as if to find something.

 – Delights to bring on her fits and produce a scare or a scene.

 – Thinks she had neglected her duty.

 – Sighing and sobbing.

 – Not communicative.

 – Fear or robbers at night.

 Head

 – Ache as if a nail were driven out through the sides; end in yawning and vomiting; alternate with backache.

 – Headache agg. or amel. by stooping.

 – Throws head backwards; from weight at occiput; or during spasms.

 – Vertigo, with sparks before the eyes.

 – Loud talking agg. headache.

 – Headache; from abuse of snuff, tobacco smoke, coffee, from close attention.

 Eyes

 – Asthenopia; with spasms of the lids, and neuralgic pains around the eyes.

 – Flashes of light, from violent coughing.

 – Eyelids seem dry.

 – Flickering, zigzags before the eyes.

 Ears

 – Roaring amel. by music.

 – One ear red and hot.

 – Deafness, except for human voice.

 Nose

 – Sensitive to inspired air.

 – Pain over the root of the nose.

 – Sneezing attacks.

 – Cold, with hot knees.

 Face

 – Twitching of the muscles of face and lips.

 – Redness and heat of one cheek; red and pale alternately.

 – Masseters stiff and hard.

 – Emotional trismus.

 – Change colour often when at rest.

 – Facial muscles distort on attempting to speak.

 Mouth

 – Spasmodic closing of the jaws; bites inside cheek or tongue when talking or chewing.

 – Corners twitch.

 – Taste sour.

 – Toothache agg. after drinking coffee and smoking.

 – Sudden attacks of salivation.

 Throat

 – Inflammed, hard swollen tonsils, with small ulcers on them.

 – Follicular tonsillitis.

 – Feeling as of a lump, when not swallowing or that can not be swallowed;amel. eating solids.

 – Tendency to choke – Globus hystericus.

 – Stitches extend to ear; between acts of swallowing.

 – Submaxillary glands painful when moving the neck.

 – Cramps in gullet.

 – Goitre.

 Stomach

 – Hunger, with nausea.

 – Craves raw or indigestible things; sour things, bread esp. rye bread.

 – Appetite for various things, but when offered appetite fails.

 – Aversion to warm food, meat, alcohol, tobacco.

 – Empty sinking or spasmodic ache in stomach not amel. by eating; amel. by taking and deep breath.

 – Hiccough; with eructations empty or bitter; after eating, drinking, smoking.

 – Nausea or vomiting amel. indigestible things.

 Abdomen

 – Colicky griping pain in one or both sides of the abdomen.

 – Stools – painful, difficult although soft.

 – Constrictive sore pain in the rectum, like from blind haemorrhoids, remains one or two hours after stools.

 – Obstipation of neurasthenics.

 – Pain shoots up in rectum.

 – Piles amel. sitting; agg. coughing.

 – Prolapsus of rectum; from moderate straining at stools.

 – Pressure as of a sharp instrument from within outwards.

 – Painless contractions of anus.

 – Haemorrhage and pain agg. when stool is loose.

 – Constipation; from taking cold; from riding in a carriage; urging to stool with erection.

 Urinary

 – Frequent, profuse, watery urine.

 – Urging to urinate, with inability to pass urine.

 Male

 – Erection during stool.

 – Sweat on scrotum.

 – Penis; contracted, becomes small.

 Female

 – Menses; irregular; black, too early, too profuse, or scanty; suppressed from grief.

 – Chronic leucorrhoea, with sexual desire.

 – Sexual frigidity.

 Heart

 – Palpitation, during menses.

 – Anxious feeling in the region.

 Respiratory

 – TAKES DEEP BREATH; for relief.

 – Choking; spasms of glottis.

 – Dry, hacking spasmodic cough in quick successive shocks; shutting of the breath; cough; as from dust or sulphur fumes.

 – Coughing increases the desire to cough.

 – Cough, everytime he stands still during a walk.

 – Constriction of the chest, feels as if too small.

 – Whispering voice, can not speak loudly.

 – Sleepy after coughing.

 – Stitches in nipples on deep inspiration.

 Neck and back

 – Stiffness of the nape of the neck.

 – Convulsive bending backwards of the back.

 Extremities

 – Jerking in limbs.

 – Warm sweat on the palms.

 – Cramps in calves.

 – Heavy feet.

 – Dislocative pain in joints.

 – Knees are involuntarily drawn upwards, when walking.

 – Trembling of hands when writing in anyone’s presence.

 – Burning in heels on placing them near one another, when they come in contact they are cold to touch; agg. at night.

 – Sciatica agg. in winter; amel. in summer.

 – Corns painful as if sore.

 – Knees hot with cold nose.

 – As if flesh was loose on bones from a blow.

 Skin

 – Painful amel. pressure.

 – Nettle rash over the whole body with violent itching (during fever).

 Sleep

 – Violent spasmodic yawning, with running from eyes.

 – Sleep light; every sound wakes.

 – Jerking of limbs on going to sleep.

 – Somnambulism from wounded honour.

 – Dreams; same horrid dreams over the over again.

 – Child awakes from sleep with piercing cries and trembles all over.

 – Hiccough, chewing motions of mouth in sleep. (children).

 Fever

 – Chill with red face.

 – Shaking chill with thirst.

 – Sweat agg. on eating; often on a small spot on the face.

 – Heat, with aversion to uncover but no thirst.

 – Chill, during pains.

 – Feeling as if sweat would break out, but does not.

 Complementary

 – Aur; Nat-m; Pho-ac; Sep.

 Related

 – Cimi; Nux-v; Sep.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Aletris farinosa Homeopathic medicine

Aletris farinosa

 Generalities

 – It affected the female organs.

 – It is remedy for anaemic, debilitated, relaxed females who always feel tired, and suffer from proplapsus, leucorrhoea, rectal distress.

 – Many symptoms appear due to uterine disorder.

 – Parts feel heavy.

 – Suitable for anaemic girls and pregnant women.

 – Weak emaciated persons.

 – Haemorrhages.

 Worse

 – Loss of fluids.

 Better

 – Passing flatus.

 – Bending backwards.

 Mind

 – Confused feeling.

 – Can not concentrate mind.

 Head

 – Weight in occiput; as if it would draw the head backwards.

 – Vertigo with fainting, sleepiness, vomiting or purging.

 Ears

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

 Mouth

 – Much frothy saliva.

 Stomach

 – Want of appetite; disgust for food.

 – Least food causes distress.

 – Obstinate vomiting of pregnancy.

 – Nervous dyspepsia.

 – Nausea amel. by coffee, by dinner; with pressure in forehead.

 Abdomen

 – Colic settling in lower part amel. passing flatus; scanty diarrhoeic stools, pain amel. bending backwards.

 – Fearful pain during passing stools, as if forcing a passage.

 – Stools large hard, difficult.

 – Constipation, as from rectal atony.

 Urinary

 – Involuntary urination on walking fast or sneezing.

 Female

 – Early and profuse menses, with labour-like pains.

 – Menorrhagia profuse, black, with clots.

 – Uterus seems heavy.

 – Leucorrhoea white, stringy, due to weakness and anaemia.

 – Habitual tendency to abortion.

 – Muscular pains during pregnancy.

 – Menses copious followed by watery copious oozing between periods.

 Respiratory

 – Cough before menses.

 Neck and back

 – Sensation as if back would break just above waist.

 – Backache with dragging in sacral region, with stringy colourless leucorrhoea.

 Extremities

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

 Related

 – Chin; Helo; Tril.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Ailanthus glandulosa Homeopathic medicine

 Ailanthus glandulosa

 Generalities

 – It acts upon BLOOD; disorganizing it and producing conditions like low fevers; low types of eruptive diseases, and haemorrhagic diathesis.

 – It affects the THROAT causing diphtheria and follicular tonsillitis.

 – Streptococcus infection.

 – The skin appears LIVID or purplish.

 – Prostration is rapid.

 – LIVIDITY, STUPOR, foetor and MALIGNANCY are marked conditions.

 – Discharges are thin and acrid.

 – Sepsis.

 – Rash often returns annually.

 – it is suited to nervous sensitive persons.

 – Stout and robust, bilious temperment.

 Worse

 – Suppressions.

 – Raising up or sitting up.

 – Sight of food.

 – Motions, walking.

 Better

 – Hot drinks, Lying on right side.

 Mind

 – Stupor; or stoic indifference, with sighing.

 – Dullness, must read a subject several times or figures over and over again.

 – All the antecedents are forgotten.

 – Constant muttering delirium; with sleeplessness and restlessness.

 – Raging delirium with brilliant eyes.

 Head

 – Ache in frontal, with dizziness and red hot face; can not sit up.

 – Faint on rising up, or vertigo agg. lying.

 Eyes

 – Suffused and congested; starled look when roused.

 – Pupils dilated.

 – Photophobia.

 Ears

 – Pain in, while swallowing.

 – Parotid glands tender and enlarged.

 Nose

 – Thin copious bloody ichorous nasal discharge.

 – Nose dry.

 – Itching and uneasy feeling around the nose.

 Face

 – Mahogany coloured; dark and swollen.

 – Chronic speckled spotted face; a kind of acne.

 – Lips swollen and cracked.

 Mouth

 – Teeth covered with sordes.

 – Tongue; dry and brown; parched and cracked.

 Throat

 – Dry, foul fauces.

 – Throat dark and swollen.

 – Tonsils studded with many deep ulcers. (agg. left), with loose pultaceous discharge.

 – Much swelling internal and external.

 – Lacunar tonsilitis.

 – Irritation and itching of posterior pharynx.

 – Diphtheria.

 Stomach

 – Sudden violent vomitting when sitting up.

 – Peculiar feeling of emptiness in.

 Abdomen

 – Diarrhoea, dysentery with great weakness.

 – Stools, thin, watery offensive, passing involuntarily with urine.

 – Tapeworm.

 – Sense of insecurity, stool, urine etc.

 Urinary

 – Urine scanty, suppressed; passed unconscously.

 Female

 – Malignant puerperal fever.

 Respiratory

 – Breathing hurried, irregular.

 – Dry hacking cough.

 – Lungs sore and tired.

 Heart

 – Pulse rapid, small, weak.

 Back and neck

 – Neck tender and very much swollen.

 Skin

 – Eruptions in dark, sparse patches; appear slowly; disappear on pressure, but return slowly.

 – Skin mottled.

 – Large blisters filled with dark serum.

 – Scarlatina maligna.

 – Petechae.

 – Crawling all over the body.

 Sleep

 – Drowsy, restless.

 Fever

 – Adynamic fever with weak heart.

 – Cold sweat.

 Related

 – Arum-t; Bap; Lac-c.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Agraphis nutans Homeopathic medicine

Agraphis nutans

 Generalities

 – It relaxes the whole system.

 – Patient is prone to take cold on exposure to cold winds.

 – Adenoids with enlarged tonsils.

 – Throat deafness.

 – Mucus diarrhoea following a supressed cold.

 – Mutinism of childhood unconnected with deafness.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Agnus castus Homeopathic Medicine

 Agnus castus

 Generalities

 – Agn. Produces its chief effect on SEXUAL ORGANS of both the sexes, also there are characteristic symptoms in the MENTAL SPHERE.

 – It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression loss of nervous energy.

 – There is a great sadness, with a fixed idea of approaching death.

 – It influences both the sexes, but its influence is more pronounced in men.

 – IMPOTENCY and PREMATURE OLD AGE, from abuse of sexual power.

 – History of repeated gonorrhoea.

 – Self contempt from sexual abuse.

 – Nervous debility in unmarried persons.

 – A prominent remedy for sprains and strains.

 – Gnawing, itching in all parts especially eyes.

 – Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men.

 – Jaded rakes.

 – Agn. was used in early days, by both men and women to suppress sexual desire.

 Worse

 – SEXUAL EXCESS.

 – Sprains of overlifting.

 Mind

 – Absent minded.

 – Despairing sadness with impression of speedy death.

 – Distraction.

 – Unable to recollect things.

 – Lack of courage.

 – Says that she will die soon and there is no use of doing anything.

 – Illusions of smells – herrings, musk.

 – BAD MEMORY.

 Head

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

 Eyes

 – Pupils dilated.

 – Gnawing, itching in eyes.

 Nose

 – Illusion of smell – of herring, musk.

 – Hard ache on dorsum of nose amel. pressure.

 Face

 – Corrosive itching on the cheeks.

 – Formication in the cheeks.

 – Rending, tearing under alveoli of right lower jaw.

 Mouth

 – Ulcers in the mouth and gums.

 – Teeth are painful when touched by warm food or drink.

 Stomach

 – Nausea with a sensation as if intestines were pressed downswards, wants to support bowels with hands.

 – Only the most simple food agrees.

 – Eructations smell like urine.

 Abdomen

 – Rumbling in abdomen during sleep.

 – Spleen swollen and sore.

 – Flatus smells like urine, remaining long on the clothes.

 – Deep fissures, in anus.

 – Sensation as of subcutaneous ulceration near the anus, only while walking.

 – Bowels as if sinking down, has to support with hands.

 Urinary

 – Passes more urine, frequently.

 Male

 – Sexual desire almost lost.

 – Testes; cold, swollen, hard, penis small. flaccid.

 – Spermatorrhoea; with impotence.

 – Loss of prostatic fluid on straining.

 – Yellow discharge from urethra.

 Female

 – A transparent leucorrhoeal discharge passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed genital.

 – Aversion to coition.

 – Leucorrhoea staining yellow.

 – Agalactia, with sadness.

 – Menses suppressed; with abdominal pains.

 – Hysterical palpitation with nose-bleed.

 – Sterility; with suppression of menses and no sexual desire.

 – Sexual thrill absent, from excessive masturbation.

 Related

 – Old, Pho-ac.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Agaricus muscarius Homeopathic medicine

Agaricus muscarius

 Generalities

 – This poisonous mushroom, acts on Cerebro-spnal axis.

 – Its action on brain produces more vertigo and delirium.

 – Affection of spinal cord, nerves and medulla, produces irregular, UNGULR, UNCERTAIN and exaggerated MOTIONS; patient reaches too far, staggers or steps too high, drops things etc.

 – Symptoms appear slowly.

 – Patient suffers from MANY and DIVERSE symptoms.

 – TREMBLLING; TWITCHING; JERKINGS or fibrillar spasms here and there are very marked, EYELIDS and tongue are specially affected, Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg.

 – Shuddering.

 – Nervousness and restlessness.

 – Chorea amel. during sleep.

 – Sensation as if pierced by cold needles, or hot needles, a cold drop or cold weight on the parts.

 – Painful twitching, then the parts become stiff and cold.

 – In epilepsy and convulsions physical strength is increased, can left heavy loads.

 – Twitching cease during sleep.

 – Convulsions after coition; from suppressed milk; after being scolded; or punished.

 – Young nervous hysterical married women who faint after coition.

 – Children walk and talk late on account of brain complaints.

 – Yawning before complaints.

 Worse

 – COLD air.

 – FREEZING air.

 – Before thunderstorms.

 – Mental exhaustion.

 – Coition.

 – Debauchery.

 – Alcohol.

 – Pressure on spine.

 – Touch.

 – Morning.

 – During menses.

 – Sun.

 – Fright.

 Better

 – Gentle motion.

 Mind

 – Sings, talks incoherently, changes rapidly from subject to subject but does not answer.

 – Loquacity.

 – Indisposed to perform any kind of work especially mental.

 – Fearlessness.

 – Makes verses.

 – Hilarious.

 – Embraces and kisses hands.

 – Selfish.

 – Indifferent.

 – Dull and dizzy as if drunk.

 – Morose, self willed, stubborn; slow in learning to walk and talk.

 – Awkward, clumsy.

 – Knows no one; throws things.

 – Pressure on spine causes involuntary laughter.

 – Can not do anything new, can not do his routine work or does the opposite.

 Head

 – Vertigo; from sunlight.

 – Dull headache; must move the head to and fro.

 – Headache amel. after stool or urine; headache with nose-bleed or thick mucus discharge.

 – Pain as from nail in right side of head.

 – Head is in constant motion.

 – Head drawn towards shoulders.

 Eyes

 – Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim.

 – Double vision, oscillating eyeballs.

 – Gum in canthi.

 – Muscae volitantes; brown.

 – Twitching of eyelids.

 – Narrowing of space between eyelids.

 – Nystagmus; squint.

 – Eyelids thick, dry, burning.

 Ears

 – Itching in the ears with redness and burning pain, as if they had been froze.

 – Twitching of the muscles about the ears.

 – Noises.

 Nose

 – Frequent sneezing, without coryza.

 – Flow of clear water, without coryza.

 – Sneezing, after coughing.

 – Itches internally and externally.

 – Foetid dark bloody discharge.

 – Epistaxis; in old people.

 – Redness of.

 – Obstruction on stooping.

 Face

 – Facial muscles, feel stiff; twitch.

 – Face, itches and burns.

 – Pain in the cheeks, as of from splinters.

 – Neuralgia, as if cold needles run through nerves.

 – Grimaces.

 – Idiotic expression.

 – Face, blue and puffed.

 Mouth

 – Angles of mouth droop; from paralysis; saliva runs out.

 – Herpes on lips.

 – Taste; sweet, bitter.

 – Aphthae on the roof of the mouth.

 – Tongue; dry, tremulous; one side numb, with vertigo.

 – Indistinct, jerky speeph.

 – Offensive breath.

 – Froth at mouth.

 – Swelling and bleeding gums, with pain.

 Throat

 – Feels contracted.

 – Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up, without coughing.

 – Dryness with difficulty in swallowing.

 – Scratching on every attempt to sing.

 Stomach

 – Always thirsty.

 – Eructation; empty, tasting of apples; or of rotten eggs.

 – Eructations, alternating with hiccough.

 – As of a lump in epigastrium.

 – Gastric disturbances, with sharp pain in liver region.

 – Vomiting; bitter, with prostration, with stitches in rectum and groins.

 Abdomen

 – Rumbling and fermenting in bowels.

 – Profuse inodorous flatus.

 – Diarrhoea, with much foetid garlicky odour flatus.

 – Diarrhoea, of children, with grass green bilious stools.

 – Flatus hot.

 – Sensation of writhing in.

 – Stitch, in the splenic region; in runners.

 Urinary

 – Urine, profuse colourless, clear, lemon coloured.

 – Viscid, glutinous, mucus from urethra.

 – Frequent urination.

 – Urine cold.

 – Urine, flows slowly or in drops; has to press for passing urine.

 Male

 – Sexual desire increased.

 – After coition, great debility, profuse sweat, burning and itching of the skin; tension and pressure under ribs.

 – Seminal discharge hot.

 – Palpitation during coition; depressed afterwards (in both the sexes).

 – Premature ejaculation.

 – Testes painfully retracted.

 – Old gleet.

 – Complaints after sexual; debauches.

 Female

 – Bearing down pain, especially after menopause.

 – Sexual excitement.

 – Menses, too profuse.

 – Nipples, itch and burn, look red; during pregnancy.

 – Complaints following parturition and coitus.

 – Metastases, from suppressed milk; to the brain, abdominal troubles etc.

 – Leucorrhoea, dark, bloody, excoriating, patient is unable to walk.

 – Itching with sexual desire.

 Respiratory

 – Isolated coughing attacks, then sneezing.

 – Cough comes as if from spine.

 – Easy expectoration of floculi or balls of mucus.

 – Laboured, oppressed breathing.

 – Chest seems too narrow.

 Heart

 – Palpitation, during coition.

 – Palpitation, irregular, tumultuous; with redness of face, amel. tobacco.

 – Pressure or burning sticking, from heart to left scapula.

 – Angina pectoris, with excessive pain only.

 – Shocks; at heart region, from sudden noise, from eructation or coughing.

 Back

 – Single vertaebra sensitive to heat.

 – Pain, as from fatigue.

 – Painful weakness and soreness.

 – Spine sensitive to pressure and touch; everywhere on the body.

 – Shooting, burning along spine.

 – Spine seems short.

 – Pain in lumbar region and sacrum, a sort of crick in back, extending to nape of neck agg. stopping.

 – Lumbago agg. in open air; agg. sitting.

 – Twitching of cervical muscles.

 – Formication, along spine.

 – Muscles of the back feel tight, as if they would break on bending.

 – As if cold air were spreading, along the back, like an aura.

 Extremities

 – Arms restless.

 – Burning, itching of both hands as if frozen.

 – Trembling of the hands.

 – Right hand unsteady while writing; arm feels paralyzed from much writing.

 – Uncertain gait.

 – Itching of toes and feet as if frozen.

 – Cramps in soles and feet.

 – Pain in shine bone.

 – Violent pain in thigh on crossing them.

 – Paralysis of lower limbs, with slight spasms of arms.

 – Numbness of legs on crossing them.

 – Buttocks cold.

 – Pain in the hips agg. lying.

 – Fingers fly spasmodically while holding things.

 – Legs feel heavy.

 – Feels as if her limbs did not belong to her.

 Skin

 – BURNING, ITCHING, redness and swalling.

 – As if FROZEN.

 – Chilblains.

 – Itching changing place on scratching.

 – Skin pains, when cold.

 – Angio-neurotic oedema.

 – Miliary eruptions with intolerable itching and burning.

 – Itching over affected part.

 – Slight blow causes ecchymosis.

 Sleep

 – Yawning: frequent; before pains or spasms; as a concomitant.

 – Yawning followed by involuntary laughter.

 – On falling asleep, starts, twitches and awakes often.

 Fever

 – Chilled easily, sweats easily, sweats on alternate sides.

 – Night sweats.

 Complementary

 – Calc.

 Related

 – Phys; Tub.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Aethusa cynapium Homeopathic medicine

Aethusa cynapium

 Generalities

 – If affects Brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbances.

 – Violence is one of the key notes of its action.

 – Violent; vomiting, convulsions, pains, delirium.

 – On the other hand there is profound prostration and stupor, and lack of reaction, even speechless.

 – Mind and body becomes weak.

 – It is specially useful in children during dentition and summer complaints when anguish, crying and expression of uneasiness, and discontent are present.

 – As the disease progresses the patient becomes more and more retired in his disposition, and more inclined to weep.

 – In epileptiform spasms, the thumbs are clenched, face becomes red, eyes turned downwards, pupils dilate and staring, foam at mouth.

 – Patient can not stand, sit up or hold the head up.

 – Weak nervous and prostrated from overwork.

 – Dotage.

 – Lancinating pains.

 – Parts feel screwed together.

 – Improperly fed babies.

 – Children who lack the power to hold their heads up, with no particular ailment, sometimes they can’t even stand or bear any weight on their limbs.

 Worse

 – 3 to 4 a.m.  and evening.

 – Warmth; hot weather.

 – Milk.

 – Detention.

 – Frequent eating.

 – Over-exertion.

 Better

 – Open air, by walking in open air.

 – Conversation.

 Mind

 – Inability to think or fix attention, from overstudy.

 – Delirium, sees cats, dogs and rats etc.

 – Idiocy, alternate with furor.

 – Wants to jump out of bed or out of window.

 – Examination funk from simple sense of incapacity.

 – Idiotic children.

 – Awkward.

 Head

 – distressing pains in the occiput down nape of neck and spine amel. lying down and pressure.

 – Head symptoms are amel. by passing flatus and by stool.

 – Hair feels pulled.

 – Vertigo; with sleepiness, with palpitation, with weakness.

 – Can not raise head.

 – Head hot after vertigo.

 – Squeezing headache, with vertigo agg. walking and looking upward.

 – Dizzy and drowsy.

 Eyes

 – Photophobia (chronic).

 – Eyes brilliant and protruding.

 – Eyes drawn downwards.

 – Cornea sunken.

 – Objects seem larger or double.

 – Swelling of meibomian glands.

 – Rolling of eyes on falling asleep.

 Ears

 – As if something hot streaming out.

 – Feels obstructed; amel. by inserting the fingers and drawing the parts apart.

 Nose

 – Herpetic eruptions on tip of nose.

 – Frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze.

 – Alae nasi drawn in.

 Face

 – Sunken; pale, puffed, spotted, red.

 – Linea nasalis marked.

 – Blue white pallor about the lits.

 – Deathly aspect.

 – Chin and corners of mouth feel cold.

 Mouth

 – Tongue seems too long.

 – Aphthae in the mouth.

 – Speech slow embarrassed.

 – Speechless.

 – Taste bitter; of onions; of cheese; sweetish in morning.

 Stomach

 – Nibbling appetite.

 – Intolerance of milk.

 – Violent sudden vomiting of milk as soon as swallowed or Inlarge curds.

 – Hungry after vomiting.

 – LIMPNESS AND DEEP SLEEP AFTER VOMITING.

 – DEATHLY NAUSEA.

 – Regurgitation of food long after eating.

 – Vomiting of frothy matter white as milk; or yellow fluid.

 – Stomach feels tuned upside down.

 – Digestion affected from brain exhaustion.

 – Retching.

 Abdomen

 – Black bluish swelling of abdomen, coldness of abdomen, subjective and objective, with coldness of legs, with aching in bowels amel. warm application.

 – Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo and weakness.

 – Bubbling sensation around navel.

 Stools

 – Yellow green slimy diarrhoea.

 – Stools undigested.

 – Obstinate constipation, with feeling as if all the action of the bowels has been lost.

 – Choleraic affection of old age.

 Urinary

 – Cutting in bladder with frequent urging.

 Male

 – Right testicle drawn up with pain in kidney.

 Female

 – Menses watery.

 – Swelling of mammary glands with lancinating pain.

 – Pimples on external parts; itching on getting warm.

 Respiratory

 – Short breath interrupted by hiccough.

 – Suffering renders the patient speechless.

 – Crampy constriction in chest.

 – Cough causes pain in head.

 – Stitches in left side of chest.

 Heart

 – Violent palpitation, with virtigo, headache and restlessness.

 – Pulse rapid, hard, small, unrhythmical.

 Neck and back

 – Want of power to stand to hold up head.

 – Small of back as if in vise.

 – Swelling of glands around neck like string of beads.

 – A feeling as if pain in back could be amel. by straightening out and bending stiffly backwards.

 Extremities

 – Fingers and thumbs bent inwards or clenched.

 – Sensation as if arms had become much shorter.

 – Numbness of hands and feet.

 – Heaviness, weakness, contraction of fingers.

 – Excoriation of thighs on walking.

 Skin

 – Lymphatic glands swelled like strings of beads.

 – Skin cold and covered with cool clammy sweat.

 – Eruptions, itching; around the joints amel. from heat.

 – Ecchymosis.

 – Anasarca.

 – Whole body may be blue, black.

 Fever

 – Great heat without thirst.

 – Must be covered during sweat.

 – Sweating, on slightest physical effort.

 Sleep

 – Disturbed by violent startings any or by cold perspiration.

 – Dozing after vomiting or stool.

 – Rooling of the eyes or slight convulsion on falling asleep.

 Complementary

 – Calc.

 Related

 – Ant-c; Cic.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Aesculus hippocastanum Homeopathic medicine

 Aesculus hippocastanum

 Generalities

 – It has marked action on the veins of the lower bowels and pelvic organs causing engorged haemorrhoids.

 – Veins of portal system are also engorged producing soreness and fulness of the liver and abdomen.

 – Many of the symptoms which Aesc. produces are due to deranged liver or reflex from pils.

 – It causes general venous stasis, making parts purple and puffy, varicose veins become purple.

 – Everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels.

 – In addition to the feeling of fulness internal parts, it produces sensation of HEAT, DRYNESS, STIFFNESS and ROUGHNESS in throat, nose, anus etc.

 – There is a characteristic backache which unfits the patient for business.

 – Pains are sticking or flying all over, hot like lightning.

 Worse

 – Morning on awakening.

 – From any motion.

 – Lying, stooping; after stools; urinating.

 – Cold air, and after washing in water.

 – Winter.

 – Standing.

 Better

 – Cool; open air, bathing.

 – Bleeding (Piles); kneeling.

 – Continued exertion.

 – Summer.

 Mind

 – Gloomy and irritable; unable to fix his attention.

 – Wake up with confusion of mind; bewildered, especially children.

 Head

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

 Eyes

 – Eyeballs feel heavy, dull, hot and sore, with lachrymation.

 – Blood vessels enlarged.

 Nose

 – Sensitive to cool inspired air, which causes burning, rawness and fluent coryza and sneezing.

 – Obstruction of nose due to hepatic disorders.

 – Congestive catarrh.

 Mouth

 – Scalded feeling in tongue and mouth.

 – Tongue thickly coated Salivation.

 – Cannot control the tongue so as to form words rightly.

 – Taste sweet, bitter, metallic.

 – Teeth as if covered with oil.

 Throat

 – Follicular pharyngitis connected with hepatic congestion.

 – Feeling of roughnes, dryness, stitching or burning like fire on swallowing.

 – Neuralgic pains in the fauces.

 – Hawking of ropy mucus of sweetish taste.

 Stomach

 – Pressure as from a stone, with gnawing, aching pain, about three hours after meals.

 – Heart burn and gulping up of food after eating.

 – Desire to vomit with constant distress and burning.

 Abdomen

 – Throbbing deep in abdomen (hypogastrium and pelvis).

 – Tenderness and fulness in the region of liver.

 – Jaundice.

 Rectum

 – Stools, dry hard; of several colours.

 – Feels full of small sticks.

 – Piles with sharp shooting pains up the back; blind and bleeding; purple painful, external; agg. standing and walking.

 – Constipation; hard, dry, knotty, white stools.

 – Pains long after stools.

 – Af if a bug crawling from anus.

 – Stools first part hard and black, then white and soft.

 – Burning in anus, with chills up and down the back.

 – Painful constrictions; as of a knife sawing up and down.

 – Piles agg. during climaxis.

 Urinary

 – Frequent scanty urination, urine muddy, dark, hot.

 Male

 – Discharge of prostatic fluid at every stool and urination.

 Female

 – Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis.

 – Leucorrhoea with lameness of back across sacro-iliac joint and aching in knees.

 – Leucorrhoea; dark, yellow, sticky, corroding agg. after menses.

 Chest

 – Feels constricted, hot feeling in.

 – Cough depending upon hepatic disorders.

 – Pain around heart in haemorhoidal subjects.

 – Audible palpitation, when pulsation extends to extremities.

 Back

 – Laming, dull lumbar pain.

 – Small of the back gives out.

 – Pain as if to break, has to make repeated efforts at rising, agg. walking and stooping.

 – Bruised pain affecting sacrum and hips.

 Extremities

 – Aching and soreness in limbs.

 – Paralytic heaviness, of arms, spine, feet.

 – Hands and feet swell, become red after washing.

 – Spine feels weak.

 Sleep

 – Disposition to stretch and yawn.

 Complementary

 – Carb-v; Lach; Mur-ac.

 Related

 – Alo; Coll; Pul.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Adonis vernalis Homeopathic Medicine

Adonis vernalis

 Generalities

 – It acts predominantly on heart when it is affected after rheumatism, influenza or nephritis, where the muscles of the heart are in the stage of fatty degeneration.

 – It regulates the pulse, increases the contracting power of the heart, with increased urinary secretion.

 – It is valuable in cardiac dropsy, hydrothorax; ascites and anasarca.

 – Pains wander from place to place.

 – Arrhythmia.

 – It is not cumulative in action.

 – Compensatory hypertrophy of heart in cardiac stenosis and mitral regurgitation.

 Worse

 – Cold, Lying.

 Better

 – Exertion.

 Mind

 – Vertigo agg. on rising, turning the head quickly or lying down; with palpitation.

 – Aching from occiput around temples to eyes.

 – Scalp feels tight.

 Mouth

 – Tongue sore, feels scalded.

 – No thirst.

 Stomach

 – Faint feeling in epigastric region with vertigo amel. out of doors.

 Abdomen

 – Heavy weight; bowels seem as if breaking agg. bending.

 Urinary

 – Urging to urinate.

 – Albuminuria; urine scanty, oily pelicle on urine.

 Respiratory

 – Frequent desire to take a deep breath.

 – Dyspnoea agg. touching back.

 – Dry tickling, cardiac cough.

 Heart

 – Weak, fatty, arrhythmic.

 – Precordial pain, palpitation and dyspnoea.

 – Pulse rapid, irregular.

 Back

 – Spine and neck stiff; aching pain with tired feeling.

 Skin

 – Vesicles on the skin.

 Sleep

 – Sleeplessness with rambling thoughts, or horrible dreams.

 Related

 – Bufo.

 Compare

 – Conval; Cratae; Dig; Strop.

 Dose

 – 5 to 10 drops of tincture

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

 Actaea spicata Homeopathic Medicine

 Actaea spicaagta

 Generalities

 -It acts upon joints, especially small joints.

 – Though it affects wrist joints prominently; other joints like ankle and fingers are also affected.

 – It causes tearing and tingling pains.

 – Joints are swollen and pains are agg. by touch and movement.

 – Slight fatigue, causes swelling of the joints.

 – It causes paralytic weakness of affected part.

 – Symptoms are liable to appear from fright and fatigue.

 – Shortness of breath on exposure to cold.

 – Old age.

 – Hypersensitive to cold, Weakness.

 Worse

 – Change of weather, slight exertion, cold; night; touch.

 Eyes

 – Objects look blue.

 Ears

 – Twitching pain on sneezing or blowing the nose.

 Complementary

 – Caul; Colo; Sabi; Stict; Vio-o.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Acetic acid Homeopathic medicine

Aceticum acidum

 Generalities

 – The leading symptoms of this drugs are, profound anaemia, with waxy pallor of the face; excessive emaciation; great debility; frequent fainting; difficult breathing; weak heart; profuse urination, vomiting; and sweat.

 – It antidotes the effects of all anaesthetic vapours.

 – In convulsions, patient jumps out of bed, like a madman and crawls on the floor.

 – It is a remedy, for general anasarca and dropsical affections.

 – Haemorrhage; from nose, stomach, rectum, lungs, ulcers, etc.

 – Child wants to be carried.

 – Naevi; warts, corns.

 Mind

 – Grieves, about his sickness and his children.

 – Worried about business affairs.

 – Borrows trouble.

 – Does not know her own children.

 – Forgets what he recently happened.

 Head

 – Aches, from abuse of narcotics, tobacco.

 – Child does not let its head touched.

 Face

 – Left cheek red, during fever.

 – Pale, waxen, emaciated.

 Nose

 – Bleed esp. from fall or blow.

 Throat

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

 Stomach

 – No thirst with fever.

 – Great thirst with dropsy.

 – Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin, and cold sweat on forehead.

 – Vomiting, after every kind of food.

 – Ulcer, cancer, of the stomach.

 – Cold drinks disagree; vegetables, except potatoes, disagree.

 – Bread and butter disagree.

 Abdomen

 – Tympanitic.

 – Ascites.

 – Haemorrhages from bowels.

 – Chronic diarrhoea, of emaciated children.

 – Scirrhus of pylorus.

 Urinary organs

 – Large quantities of pale urine.

 – Diabetes, with great thirst and debility.

 Female

 – Metrorrhagia, with great thirst; after parturition.

 – Threatening abscess of the breast.

 – Milk impoverished, bluish, sour; sucking droop, lose flesh, get marasmus.

 Respiratory

 – Cough when inhaling.

 – Hurried and laborious breathing.

 – Rattling in chest.

 Back

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

 Extremities

 – Oedematous swelling of feet and legs, with diarrhoea.

 Skin

 – Diminished sensibility of the whole body.

 – Burning, dry, skin.

 Fever

 – Hectic; with drenching night sweats; sweat profuse and cold.

 Related

 – Follows China after haemorrhages.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Absinthium Homeopathic Medicine

Absinthium

 Generalities

 – It causes convulsions, preceded by trembling.

 – The patient, bites tongue, foams at mouth and makes grimaces.

 – Tremor is a marked feature, tremor of tongue, heart.

 – Sudden and severe, giddiness; epileptiform seizures, delirium, with hallucinations and loss of consciousness.

 – Attacks occur in rapid succession.

 – It is a useful remedy, for nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness, in children.

 – Chorea.

 – Opisthotonus.

 Mind

 – Vertigo, with tendency to fall backward.

 – Forgets, what has recently happened, after and before convulsion.

 – Wants nothing to do with anybody.

 – Brutal insanity.

 – Kleptomania.

 Ear

 – Discharge from; after headache.

 Face

 – Spasmodic facial twitching.

 – Foolish look.

 Urine

 – Very strong urine, of deep yellow colour.

 Heart

 – Tumultuous action, beats can be heard in back.

 Female

 – Menopause, premature.

 Related

 – Artem-v; Cic; Cina; Hydro-ac.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Abrotanum Homeopathic medicine

 Abrotanum

 Generalities

 – It affects nerves, causing numbness, weakness, trembling, and paretic conditions.

 – It is the remedy, for marasmus in children, when nutrition is affected.

 – Inspite of good appetite, children emaciated, especially in lower extremities.

 – It causes true metastatic condition.

 – Rheumatism, occurs after checked diarrhoea.

 – Gout recedes and other troubles follow.

 – It has exudative tencency.

 – Exudation may occur, as a metastatic condition or otherwise, into pleura, joints etc.

 – It also causes alternating conditions, one diseased condition disappears and another appears, e.g.  piles alternating with rheumatism.

 – It is suitable, to newborn, or children especially boys, who suffer from hydrocele, epistaxis; it removes weakness, remaining after influenza.

 – Oozing of blood, and moisture in newborn, from navel.

 – Vomiting of large quantities of offensive fluid.

 – Effects, remaining after operation on chest.

 Worse

 – Cold air; wet.

 – Checked secretions; esp. diarrhoea.

 – Night.

 – Fog.

 Better

 – Loose stools.

 – Motion.

 Mind

 – Great anxiety and depression.

 – Cross and irritable (children in marasmus).

 – Thinking difficult; loss of comprehension.

 – Inhuman; would like to do something evil, cruel.

 Head

 – Can not hold the head up, on account of weakness of neck.

 – Brain feels tired, after conversation or mental effort.

 – Veins distended on forehead.

 Eyes

 – Blue rings, around the eyes.

 – Hollow.

 Nose

 – Bleed in boys.

 Face

 – Dry, cold, wrinkled, as if old, in marasmus.

 – Acne, with emaciation.

 – Angioma of the face.

 – Pale, hollow eyed.

 Stomach

 – Emaciation progresses, with good appetite.

 – Food passes undigested.

 – Craving, for bread, boiled in milk.

 – Cutting gnawing, burning pains, in stomach, at night in gastralgia.

 – Feels, as if stomach is swimming in water; with coldness.

 Abdomen

 – Hard lumps are felt in different parts of abdomen.

 – It is bloated.

 – Tuberculous peritonitis.

 – Weak, sinking feeling in bowels.

 – Piles, protruding, with burning from touch.

 – Frequent desire to stools, but only a little blood passed.

 Male

 – Hydrocele of children.

 Female

 – Darting pain in left ovary.

 – Menses suppressed.

 Respiratory

 – Dry cough, following diarrhoea.

 – Pressing sensation remains, after Pleurisy, in the affected side, impeding free breathing.

 Back

 – Sudden aching pain in the back agg. night amel. motion.

 – Pain in sacrum, due to piles.

 – Back weak, with ovarian pain.

 Extremities

 – Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists and ankles.

 – Legs greatly emaciated.

 – Cold, prickling, numb, fingers and toes.

 – Inability to move the limbs, due to rheumatism.

 – Contraction of limbs, from cramps or following colic.

 Skin

 – Loose and flabby.

 – Skin becomes purplish, after suppression of eruptions.

 – Itching chilblains.

 Follows well

 – Aco and Bry in pleurisy.

 Related

 – Agar; Chin; Led; Nux-v.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Abies nigra Homeopathic medicine

Abies nigra

 Generalities

 – It is a useful remedy, in many diseased conditions, when they are associated with gastric symptoms.

 – It causes dyspepsia, with functional heart symptoms, especially in the aged persons.

 – It is also useful, in indigestion of those, who abuse the drinking of tea and smoking, or chewing of tobacco.

 – The chief symptom in dyspepsia is a sensation as if hard boiled egg has lodged in the cardiac end of the stomach.

 – Patient describe this sensation, as if a hard lump is felt in the pit of stomach or in the lung which he wants to cough out.

 Worse

 – After eating.

 Mind

 – Very low spirited, unable to think or study.

 Stomach

 – Total loss of appetite, in the morning, but craves food, at noon and at night.

 – Pain in the stomach, always comes on after eating.

 Chest

 – Difficult breathing agg. lying down.

 – Heart’s action heavy and slow, there may be tachycardia or bradycardia.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Abies canadensis Homeopathic medicine

 Abies canadensis

 Generalities

 – It affects the Mucous Membranes and Nerves.

 – In stomach, it causes a catarrhal condition, which increases the patient’s hunger and craving for coarse food, such as pickles, radishes, turnips etc.

 – Patient wants to lie down, all the time, on account of nervous weakness and feels faint.

 – In women, it causes uterine displacement, due to defective nutrition and debility.

 – Peculiar sensations are – right lung and liver, feel hard and small; uterus feels soft.

 – Lies with the legs drawn up.

 Mind

 – Easily fretful or quiet and careless.

 Head

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

 Stomach

 – Ravenous appetite.

 – Tendency to eat, far beyond the capacity of digestion.

 – Distention of abdomen and stomach, with palpitation.

 Females

 – Sore feeling at the uterus amel. pressure.

 – Uterus soft and feeble as if.

 Fever

 – Cold shivering, as if blood were ice-water.

 Skin

 – Clammy and sticky.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica

Lycopodium homeopathic medicine

Lycopodium clavatum

Lycopodium clavatum

Generalities

• It is called vegetable sulphur.

• It affects the NUTRITION; DUE TO WEAKNESS OF DIGESTION.

• Acts upon URINARY ORGANS and most of the symptoms develop on the RIGHT SIDE and go to the l eft; THROAT; chest, ovary.

• Ailments develop gradually; weakening the functional power; the function of liver is seriously disturbed.

• Deep seated progressive chronic diseases.

– Repeating symptoms or alternating symptoms; chill after chill, flushing the n paling; flexion then extension; automatic acts.

– Relapsing conditions.

• Prostration of mind and body.

• It is adapted to old persons; or who become old early, where the skin show yellowish spots; or to precocious weakly children.

– Lyco. patients are intellectually keen but of weak muscular power; lack vital heat; circulation poor; it seems to stand still; with cold, numb extremities, or numbness may appear in spots.

• Sudden symptoms pains come and go suddenly; or cause anger, jerking etc.

• The patient is thin, withered and FULL OF GAS.

• ACIDITY; sour, taste, eructations etc.

• Descending symptoms, colds, emaciation etc.

– Calculi; gall stones, gravel.

• Dropsy; ascites in liver diseases.

– Coldness; partial, head, throat etc.

• Dryness; of palms, soles, vagina, skin etc.

• Rawness; in folds, anus, nipple etc.

• Formication of affected limbs.

• Paralysis.

• Carcinoma.

• Inflammation of bones, mostly at ends; softening and caries of bones.

• Spasms with screaming, foaming at the mouth; throwing the arms about.

– Oversensitive, to pain; patient is besides himself.

• Sense of internal paralysis.

• Lithic acid diathesis.

• Ill effects of fear, fright, changrin, anger, anxiety, fevers; overlifting; masturbation; riding in a carriage.

• Tobacco chewing.

• Wine.

• One side of the body hypertrophied at change of life, in women.

• Atrophy of infants.

• Haemorrhages; dark blood.

• Erectile tumours.

• Boils recurring periodically.

• Emaciation and debility from loss of fluids.

Worse

• PRESSURE OF CLOTHES.

• WARMTH.

– Awakening.

• Wind.

• Eating; even a little; or to satiety; oysters.

– Indigestion.

• 4 to 8 p.m.

• Wet weather, stormy weather.

• Pressure.

• Before, or from suppressed menses.

• Milk.

• Vegetables, cabbages, beans; bread, pastry.

Better

• WARMS DRINKS; food.

• Cold applications.

• Motion.

– Eructations.

• Urinating.

• After midnight.

Mind

– Confusion over daily affairs.

• Mentally, active but grows weaker.

• Melancholy; afraid to be alone, of men; of his own shadow.

– Sensitive, weeps when thanked; or meeting a friends.

• Fearsome; dread of men; presence of new persons, of everything, even ringing of door bell.

• Loss of self confidence; from anticipation; averse to undertaking new things; yet when he undertakes it he goes through with ease and comfort.

• AWAKES; ANGRY, sad and anxious.

• Vehement; headstrong.

– Domineering; exacting; reserved, or despairing.

• Spells or writes wrong words of syllables.

• Can not bear to see anything new.

• Can not read what he writes.

• Hurried when eating.

• Incipient paralysis of brain.

• Weeps all day.

• Sad, on hearing distant music; or cheerful and merry.

• Hateful.

• Cranky.

• Miserly.

• Brainfag; after influenza.

• Anxious thoughts as if about to die.

• Indecision.

• Timidity.

• Resignation.

• Misanthrophic, flies even from his children.

– Amative.

• Distrustful; fault finding.

• Suspicious.

Head

• Shakes head without any apparent cause; or involuntarily, slow first, then rapid.

• Vertigo when looking at anything turning.

• Head cold.

• Pain in temples as if screwed together, agg. menses.

• Pain begins on one side goes to other where it is worse.

• Headache, agg. if not eating regularly; lying down, stooping, amel. uncovering.

• Pulsating pain in occiput; at night, agg. when hot.

• Hair falls, becomes gray early.

• Premature baldness; after abdominal affections; parturition.

– Deep furrows on forehead in abdominal, pulmonary and brain affections; and in misers.

• Dandruff.

• Hydrocephalus.

• Meningitis; tubercular.

• Catarrhal headache agg. when discharge from nose is slacked up.

• Throbbing after every spell of cough; pains when pressing at stools.

Eyes

• Half open.

• Haemiopia.

• Day-blindedness more.

• Sparks before the eyes; inn the dark.

• Styes on lids towards the inner canthi.

• Polypus on external canthi.

• Cataract; with suppressed menses.

• Feel cold, hot, seems too large.

Ears

• Humming and roaring; with hardness of hearing; every noise causes peculiar echo in ear.

• Thick yellow offensive discharge, with deafness.

• Eczema about and behind the ears.

• As if hot blood rushed into cars.

Nose

• Nose stopped up; snuffles; breathes through mouth; child starts from sleep rubbing the nose.

– Fan like motion of alae nasi; in brain, lung and abdominal troubles.

• Feeling of dryness posteriorly.

• Ozaena; acrid.

• Chronic coryza; blows nose often.

• Nasal troubles from childhood.

• Acute smell.

Face

• Yellowish; pale; gray; with blue circles around the eyes.

• Face withered, shrivelled and emaciated.

• Flushes of heat.

• Twitchings.

– Mouth Hangs open.

– Sore lips.

• Twists face and mouth.

• Silly expression.

Mouth

• Toothache, with swelling of cheek amel. warm application.

• Tongue; dry; black; cracked, stiff heavy; swollen, lous to and fro or is darted out rapidly; trembling; painful ulcer on tip or below tongue.

• Speech indistinct; stammers the last word.

• Saliva dries on palate and lips.

• Dryness without thirst.

• Lower jaw drops; in fever.

• Teeth yellow.

• Mouth waters.

• Gums bleed when touched or cleaning teeth.

• Taste; too acute; sour, bitter, mouldy.

• Small tumours in mouth in various places.

Throat

• Feeling as of a hard body in oesophagus.

• A ball rises and sticks in throat.

– Sore throat; agg. cold drinks.

• Swelling and suppuration of tonsils.

• Chronic enlargement of the tonsils.

• Diphtheria – deposits spread from right to left.

• Food and drinks come through nose; on swallowing.

• Throat cold.

• As of a ball rose up in.

• Feeling of contraction provoking constant swallowing.

Stomach

• Digestion weak.

• Loss of appetite.

– Hunger, but quick satiety.

• EATING EVER SO LITTLE CREATES FULNESS.

• Hiccough.

– Incomplete burning eructations; rise only to pharynx and then burns for hours.

• Farinaceous and flatulent food, cabbage, beans, oysters disagrees.

• Sensation as if fasting after meals, but without hunger.

• Desire for sweet things.

• Aversion to soup, to bread.

• Canine hunger the more he eats, the more he craves.

• Wakes at night feeling hungry.

• Vomits; food and bile; coagulated blood; dark greenish masses, after eating and drinking.

• Cancer; perforating ulcer.

• Churning sensation in.

• Gnawing in stomach, amel. drinking hot water.

• Desire for sweets, delicacies, pastries etc.

• Food tastes sour.

• Likes to take drink and food hot.

• Coldness in stomach.

• Bad effects of onions.

Abdomen

• Epigastirc; anxiety; pressure.

• As of a band about waist.

• FLATULENCE; MUCH; NOISY, pressing out; amel. lower bowels.

• Sensitive congested liver.

• Chronic hepatitis; atrophic; nutmeg liver.

• Sensation of something moving up and down; or as of a hard body rolli ng, when turning to the right side.

• Ascites; from liver diseases.

• Soreness agg. hypogastrium alternating sides.

• Brown spots on.

• Colic in babies agg. evening.

• Constipation; of children; ineffectual urging from contraction of sphincters; feeling as if much remained unpassed after stools.

• Stools; contain sand, small, difficult, first parts is hard, is difficult to expel, last part is soft or thin and gushing; followed by faintness and weakness.

• Haemorrhoids, aching; painful to touch amel. hot bathing.

• Alternate diarrhoea and constipation.

• Rawness of anus.

• Constipation when away from home or travelling.

• Chilliness in the rectum before stools.

• Constipation or diarrhoea during pregnancy.

• Gastro enteritis from fright.

• Diarrhoea from cold drinks.

• Continued burning in rectum.

Urinary

• Frequent urging to urinate amel. riding in cars.

• Renal colic in ureter (right) to bladder.

• Urine; scanty; cries before urinating; (esp. children who wake up from pain, with screaming, and toss the limbs about); red sand in; slow in coming must strain; suppressed; retained.

• Urine; milky, turbid.

• Polyuria, during the night.

• Haematuria.

• Involuntary urination (esp. in fever), or from fright during coition.

• Urinary blood; with paraplegia or sometimes with constipation.

• Urine burning hot.

Male

– Sexual exhaustion; impotence; erections feeble; falls asleep during coition.

• Yellow tumour corona glandis.

• Exhausting pollutions.

• Enlarged prostate.

• Premature seminal emission

Female

• Menses; of clots and serum; discharge of blood from genitals during at stools.

• Vagina; dry, burning agg. during and after coition.

– Leucorrhoea, acrid; periodical; milky; agg. before full moon.

• Physometra.

• Cutting from right to left ovary; ovarian; tumours; dropsy.

• Dropsy of uterus.

• Hard burning nodosities in mammae with stitching aching pains, and soreness.

• Rawness of nipples; sore, fissured, bleed easily.

• Foetus seems to be turning summersaults.

• Dysmenorrhoea; violent, with fainting.

• Menses; suppressed; for months.

• Delayed menses with undeveloped mammae at puberty.

• Milk in breast without being pregnant.

• Child vomits blood after sucking bleed nipples.

Respiratory

• Craves air but is chilled by it.

• Short, rattling breathing agg. lying on back.

• Cough; dry, tickling, teasing; in puny boys with emaciation; day and night; deep hollow; as from sulphur fumes, agg. on descending; with emaciation; agg. on empty swallowing, stretching the throat; deep breathing.

• Salty greenish-yellow, lumpy or foul expectoration.

• Unresolved pneumonia.

• Brown yellow spots on chest.

• Abscess of the lungs, tuberculosis.

• Difficult respiration due to hydrothorax or/and hydropericardium, with flapping of alae nasi.

• Feeling of tightness in chest with burning.

Heart

• Aneurism.

• Aortic disease.

• Palpitation, with flapping of a alae nasi at night, agg. lying on right side; with cold face and feet.

• Pulse; fast, agg. after eating; evening.

• Sensation as if the circulation stool still.

• Hypertrophy.

Neck and back

• One side of the neck stiff and swollen.

• Burning as from hot coals between the scapulae.

• Pain in the back and right side from congestion of liver.

• Pain in the small of the back; agg. sitting erect; amel. urination.

• Stiff back.

• Emaciation about the neck.

• Bubbling sensation.

• Lumbago agg. slightest motion (after Bry).

Extremities

• Axillary abscess (right).

• Hands and feet numb; cramps in hands and feet.

• Fingers twitch during sleep.

• Sticky sweat on fingers.

• Pain jerks legs upward.

• Cramps in calves, when walking; at night.

• One foot hot, other cold, or cold sweaty feet.

• Constant troublesome heat of hands.

• Sciatica right side agg. pressure; can not lie on painful side, amel. hot application and walking.

• Cramps in toes; at night.

• Pain in heels on treading as from pebbles.

• Heels numb.

• Palms dry.

• Varicose veins on legs.

• Oedema of feet, rises until ascites forms.

• Pain in bones at night.

• Curvature and caries of bones.

• Emaciation of one hand or one leg.

• Hands and feet become heavy, relaxed, tremble amel. by motion.

• Painful corns on soles.

• Toes and fingers contracted.

• Toes bend when walking.

• Profuse foetid foot sweat.

Skin

• Dry; rawness in folds.

• Abscesses beneath the skin.

• Urticaria; chronic agg. warmth.

• Erectile tumours agg. before menses.

• Blood boils.

• Boils which do not mature but remain blue.

• Sites of old boils and pustules indurate and form nodules that remain long.

• Vesicular swellings.

• Eczema associated with urinary, gastric, hepatic disorders.

• Psoriasis.

• Ulcers, fistulous.

• Scabs do not separate.

• Viscid and offensive sweat.

Sleep

• Drowsy during day; on waking, the child starts, becomes cross, kicks, scolds, or holds his mother.

• Awakes terrified.

• Anxious dreams of fatal accidents.

• Child sleeps all day and cries all night.

• Laughs or weeps in sleep.

Fever

• Coldness; icy, partial; of head, abdomen, stomach, throat etc., agg. coughing.

• Body becomes cold during cough.

• Feels as if lying on ice.

• Chill; followed by another chill; then vomits; after first sleep.

• Foul, viscid sweat; axillary, of feet; like onions.

• Fever, continuous, remittent, intermittent.

Complementary

• Calc; Iod; Kali-c; Lach; Puls; Sulph.

Related

• Carb-v; Sil.

Source: Phatak materia medica

Aconitum Nap Homeopathic medicine

ACONITUM NAPELLUS

Aconitum napellus plant

Aconitum napellus

Generalities

• The rapidity of action of Acon, determines its symptomatology.

• Its symptoms are acute, violent, and painful.

• They appear suddenly, remain for a short while, as of a big storm, which soon blows over.

• Mind is affected by such emotional factors, as FRIGHT; SHOCK,Vexation.

• Nerves are excited and the patient remains under emotional and nervous tension.

• Neuralgic pains are very intense.

• FEAR is INTENSE, so much so that the patient becomes frantic, screams, groans, gnaws the fist, bites the nails, wants to die.

• Fear of fright remains.

• Fear accompanying most trifle ailments.

• Heart and arterial circulation is affected strongly producing congestion to the head, (often apoplectic) and chest.

• It is a remedy for acute inflammation and congestion.

• Haemorrhages are bright red.

• Pains are sticking, tearing.

• Sensations of burning, numbness, tingling prickling or crawling are marked.

• Parts feel big or deformed.

• External soreness, with internal heaviness.

• Sudden loss of strength- collapse.

• Special senses acute.

• Parts remain sore or numb, after the pains.

• Convulsions.

• Faintness.

• Children put their hands to the affected part.

• Complaints caused by exposure to cold, dry weather, especially respiratory affections.

• Gastro-intestinal disturbances, are caused by exposure to very hot weather.

• It is adapted to persons of robust habit.

• Complaints, after surgical shocks and injury, or checked perspiration.

• Remote effects of fright.

• Cries out and grasps the genitals, Crepitation.

Worse

• Violent emotions, FRIGHT; SHOCK Vexation.

• Chilled by COLD; dry weather, while sweating.

• Pressure, touch.

• Night, in bed p.m.

• Lying on side.

• Noise.

• Light.

• Dentition.

• During menses.

• Sleeping in the Sun.

• Music.

• Tobacco smoke.

• Inspiration.

Better

• Open air.

• Repose.

• Warm sweat.

Mind

• GREAT ANXIETY; AGONIZING FEAR and RESTLESSNESS, accompany every ailment however trivial.

• Fear of death of crowds, or crossing the streets, of future, of touching others passing by.

• Impatient; besides himself; frantic; from intensity of pain.

• With FEAR, screams, moans, gnaws the fists, bites the nails; wants to die.

• Afraid to go out of the house.

• Forebodings, predicts the time of death.

• TERROR STRICKEN.

• Music makes him sad.

• Clairvoyance.

• Feels as if what had just been done were a dream.

• Delirium.

• Fitful moods; laughing, singing, then sad and fearful.

• Anxious, excited, nervous, feverish.

• Imagines some parts of the body is deformed.

• Imagines they do all their thinking from stomach.

Head

• Heavy, hot, bursting.

• Burning; undulating sensation in the head.

• As of a hot band about head, or boiling heat in brain.

• Violent squeezing or bursting in forehead or eyes.

• Headache with increased secretion of urine.

• Vertigo agg. on rising or any other motion of the head or of the body.

• As if hair were pulled or stood on end.

• Crackling in head.

• Pulsation in forehead.

• Knocks the head.

Eyes

• Feel dry and hot as if sand in them.

• Lids; swollen, hard and red.

• Shooting pain in eyeballs.

• Can not bear the reflection of Sun from the snow.

• Conjunctivitis from cinders or other foreign bodies.

• Eyes glitter, stare, bleared.

• Aversion or desire for light.

Ears

• Very sensitive to noise.

• Music is unbearable.

• As of a drop of water in the ear.

Nose

• Numb with epistaxis.

• Smell acutely sensitive.

• Pain at the root of the nose.

• Nose dry, stopped up or runs hot scanty watery discharge.

Face

• ANXIOUS expression; becomes pale red alternately.

– Hot, red cheeks.

• Red face becomes deathly pale on rising or he becomes dizzy.

• One cheek red hot other pale and cold.

• Neuralgia with restlessness, tingling and numbness.

• Lips black. dry, peeling off.

• Heavy feeling of the whole face.

Mouth

• Toothache in sound teeth.

• Throbbing in teeth and head.

• Grinding of the teeth.

• Gums hot and inflamed.

• Tongue feels as if swollen.

• Everything tastes bitter except water, which has bad taste.

• Trembling and temporary stammering.

• Mouth and tongue numb; dry burning heat in mouth.

• Tingling on coughing and swallowing.

• Chewing motions of lower jaw.

Throat

• Red, dry, hot, constricted, chokes on swallowing.

• Tonsils swollen and dry.

Stomach

• Vomiting with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination.

• INTENSE BURNING THRIST.

• Craving for beer, acids, bitter drinks.

• Thirst agg. after iced drinks.

• Hungry.

• Milk disagrees.

• Projectile vomiting.

• Violent bilious or bloody vomiting.

• Pressure in stomach with dyspnoea.

• Wine generally amel.

• Nausea and sweating before and after loose stool.

Abdomen

• Sensitive to touch.

• Colic, no position relieves.

• Hot distended.

• Jaundice; of newborn; from fright.

• Incarcerated hernia.

– Stools; of pure blood; slimy, grass green or white agg. hot days and cold nights.

• Dysentery.

• Watery diarrhoea in children in hot days, they cry, are restless and sleepless.

• Itching and sticking at anus; as of a warm fluid from the anus.

Urinary

• Urine scanty, red, hot, painful.

• Retention or suppression of urine; in new born; due to cold exposure, with handling of genitals.

• Agonizing dysuria.

• Cystitis.

• Urethral chill.

Male

• Orchitis, testicles feel swollen and hard.

Female

• Suppression of menses from fright or cold, in plethoric patients.

• After pains with fear and restlessness.

• Maniacal fury, on the appearance of menses.

• Active uterine haemorrhage.

• Ovaritis from sudden checked menstrual flow

• Vagina hot, dry and sensitive.

• Milk fever with delirium.

• Increase of milk in breast.

Respiratory

• Hoarse dry, croupy, painful cough or short barking, ringing, or whistling cough agg. from every inspiration, at night, drinking, grasps the throat.

• Cough amel. lying on back.

• Shortness of breath during sleep; sits erect.

• Laryngitis.

• Croup with fever.

• Violent congestion of blood in the chest.

• Pneumonia.

• Oppression of the chest when moving fast or ascending; in heart disease.

• Blood comes up on hawking.

• Lungs feel hot.

• Stitches in chest.

• Pleurisy.

• Tingling in chest after coughing.

Heart

• Feels swelled – carditis.

• Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting and tingling in fingers, pain down left arm.

• Heart pain into left shoulder, agg. sitting erect.

• Tachycardia.

• Pulse fast, bounding, shaking, forcible and tumultuous or wiry, very irritable.

• Arterial tension.

Neck and back

• Pain in the back, prevents taking deep inspiration.

• Bruised pain between shoulders, and sacrum.

Extremities

• Arms hang down powerless.

• Numbness of the left arm, tingling in fingers.

• Red finger tips.

• Hot hands and cold feet.

• Red shining swelling of the joints.

• Hypothenar eminences bright red.

• Legs powerless; feel tired during repose.

• Sensation as of drops of water tricking down the thighs.

• Jerking of left or arm.

• Palms hot.

Skin

• Dry, Hot or as if ice water on it.

• Miliary eruptions.

• Itching amel. by stimulants.

Sleep

• Nightmares.

• Anxious dreams.

• Sleeplessness with restlessness and tossing about; caused by fear, fright or anxiety.

• Insomnia of the aged.

Fever

• CHILL passes through him in waves.

• Chill or coldness alternating with heat.

• HIGH FEVER; dry burning heat; in eyelids, nose, mouth, throat, lungs and palms, must uncover.

• Sweat drenching, wants to uncover.

• Sweat on uncovered parts or affected parts.

Complementary

• Coff; Sulph.

Related

• Bell; Cham; Coff.

Source: Phatak materia medica

Aloes Socotrina Homeopathic medicine

ALOE SOCOTRINA

Aloes Socotrina plant

Aloe socotrina

Generalities

• It affects ABDOMINAL VEINS, causing congestion relaxation of RECTUM; liver, colon, and pelvis.

• It establishes physiological equilibrium when disease and drug symptoms are much mixed.

• periodic headache which alternate symptoms are much mixed.

• periodic headache which alternate with lumbago.

• It is remedy for bad effects from sedentary life or habits.

• Adapted to weary people, aged, old beer drinkers.

• There is a sensation of fulness in the parts.

• Heavy, Dragging, as of a load.

• Drawing, downward sensation.

• Discharges; gelatinous; post nasal, stools etc.

• Sense of insecurity.

• General weakness and weariness.

• Heat external and internal.

• Children, much emotional, chat and laugh.

Worse

• Heat, hot damp weather; summer.

• Early morning.

• After dysentery.

• Yawning or mastication.

• Stepping hard.

• Evening.

• After eating and drinking.

Better

• Cool open air.

• Cold application.

• Passing flatus.

• Closing eyes.

• Taking tea or stimulants.

Mind

• Dissatisfied and angry about himself.

• Disinclination to mental labour.

• Hates people, repels everyone.

• Ill humour agg. in cloudy weather, or with constipation.

• Thinks, that she would die in a week.

• Life is a burben.

• Trembling from musical sounds and other noises.

• Imagines that persons are stepping hard or quickly.

Head

• Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them.

• Vertigo with a sense of insecurity.

• Head alternating with abdominal or lumbar symptoms amel. closing eyes.

• Heavy pressure on vertex.

• Clinking in as of some thin shivered glass, extending to ears.

Eyes

• Pain deep in orbit.

• Flickering, before the eyes.

• Closes eyes partially from pain in forehead.

Ears

• Cracking in, when chewing.

Nose

• Tip cold.

• Bleeding from the nose after awakening, in bed.

Face

• Lips makedly red, dry, cracked; bleeding.

• Pain while yawning or chewing.

Mouth

• Taste bitter and sour.

• Tongue, mouth dry.

Throat

• Hawking of thick lumps of jelly-like mucus.

• Raw and swollen feeling in.

Stomach

• Desire for juicy things, fruits, especially apples, salty food.

• Pain in pit, when making false step.

• Aversion to meat.

• Eructations, with oppressions in stomach.

• Hungry after stools.

Abdomen

• Feels; full, heavy, hot, bloated.

• Pain from navel to rectum.

• Sensation of a plug between symphysis pubis and coccyx, with urging to stool.

• Heaviness; in hypogastrium; in rectum; dragging down in the abdomen.

• Prolapsus recti.

• Rumbling, gurgling in bowels; sudden urging; SENSE OF INSECURITY then hurriedly passes a gushing watery stool.

• Uncertain whether gas or stool will come.

• Diarhoea; with pain in the rectum after stool; lienteric.

• ANUS WEAK, oozes mucus.

• Stools escapes with flatus or when urinating.

• Stools; mushy, lumpy; watery, gelatinous; bloody; solid stools passed involuntarily, urging to stools with passing flatus only.

• Piles, like a bunch of grapes, prolapsing amel. cold bathing.

• Burning and stitching in anus and rectum, from piles, preventing sleep.

• Stool and flatus hot.

• Burning in rectum.

• Pulsation in rectum after eating.

• The child goes around the house, dropping little hard round marble -like stools.

• Diarrhoea; after eating oysters; in hot season, or of beer drinkers.

• A lot of mucus is passed, with pain in rectum, after stool.

• Lumpy, watery stools.

Urinary

• Incontinence in aged.

• Prostate enlarged.

• Every time on passing urine, feeling as if thin stool would escape with it.

• Urine hot.

Male

• Sexual irritability, after eating; after awakening (in children).

• Involuntary emissions during siesta.

Female

• Heavy congested uterus, with labour-like pains, felt in groins and hips agg. standing and during menses.

• Climacteric haemorrhage.

• Menses too early and last too long.

• Leucorrhoea of bloody mucus, preceded by colic.

• Dysentery, after parturition.

Respiratory

• Winter cough, with itching.

• Difficult respiration, with stitches, from liver to chest.

• Cough, when she would sit down, standing, or stand up, after sitting, with tears.

Neck and back

• Lumbago alternating with headache and piles.

• Pain in sacrum agg. while sitting, amel. moving about.

Extremities

• Drawing pain in the joints.

• Lameness in all the limbs.

• Soles are painful when walking on the pavement.

Sleep

• Dreams of soiling himself.

Fever

• Internal heat.

Complementary

• Sulph.

Related

• Lil-t; Pod; Sep; Sulph.

Source: Phatak materia medica

Arsanicum album Homeopathic medicine

ARSENICUM ALBUM

Arsanic

Generalities

• A very deep acting remedy, affecting every organ and tissue.

• Mentally the patient is extremely nervous; restless and anxious.

• Discharges of Mucous Membranes are Acrid, Thin and Scanty; coryza, saliva, sweat etc.

• Blood is disorganized causing pernicious type of anaemia and severe septic conditions.

• Haemorrhages, black, offensive.

• Weakness and emaciation is rapid.

• The prostration seems to be out of proportion to the rest of his illness.

• Pains are maddening; Burning Like Fire; hot needles or wires amel. heat.

• Pains are even felt during sleep; awake the patient.

• Pains cause shortness of breath or chilliness.

• Pains alternating between head, stomach or body.

• It acts on the nerves producing inveterate neuralgias and multiple neuritis amel. heat.

• Frequent fainting.

• Trembling, jerking, convulsions and choreic twitchings.

• Sudden intense effects; Sudden Great Weakness from trivial causes.

• VERY RESTLESS; restless even in affected part; even stupor is interrupted by fits of restles sness, with anxious moaning.

• Low vitality.

• Gradual loss of weight.

• Putrid Cadaveric Odours.

• Emaciation.

• Paralysis.

• Destructive process – carbuncles, gangrene, cancer; malignancy.

• Dropsy; pale, puffy, baggy, SWELLING.

• Spleen is enlarged in malarial fever, kala-azar.

• Child amel. when carried about quickly.

• Ill affects of eating ices; poor diet, fruits esp watery, tobacco, quinine, sea bathing and travelling, mountain climbing.

• Care, grief, fright, ptomaine poisoning, dissecting wounds.

• It is a prophylactic for yellow fever.

• Acute and chronic burns.

• Epilepsy; suddenly becomes unconscious with convulsions, restlessness; then becomes drowsy.

Worse

• Periodically; Midnight; after midnight; After, 2 A.M. ; 14 days; yearly.

• Cold; Ices, Drinks; Cold Foods; Cold air; cold and damp.

• Vegetables.

• Watery fruits.

• Drinking Liquids, Alcoholism.

• Infections.

• Bad meat, food.

• Eruptions undeveloped or suppressed.

– Quinine.

• Lying on affected part.

• Exertion.

• Tobacco,chewing.

• Sea shore.

Better

• Hot; Applications (Dry); Food; drinks.

• Warm wraps.

• Motion.

• Walking about.

• Lying, with head elevated.

• Sitting erect.

• Company.

• Sweating.

• Open air.

Mind

• Oversensitive.

• Anxious.

• Fastidious.

• Fault finding.

• Anguish; despair of recovery.

• Exacting.

• Agonising Fear Of Death; yet tired of living, agg. night.

• Fear; of death, from starvation; of financial loss.

• Violence; self torture, pulls her hair, bites her nails, tears his own body.

• Suicidal; impulses, mania.

• Restless, changes place continually, wants to go from one bed to other; children are capricious, want to be carried; want to go from father to mother, to nurse.

• Melancholy.

• Sees vermin; throws away bugs by handfuls.

– Suspicious.

• Fear of being left alone, lest he do himself bodily harm.

• Fears he has murdered somebody.

• Miserly, malicious, selfish.

• Lacks courage.

• Irritable; increasingly.

• Sensitive to disorder.

• Delirium tremens.

• Dotage.

• Fixed ideas, hallucinations.

• Imagines house full of thieves; jumps and hides.

• Hasty.

• Sees ghosts day and night.

• Groans, moans and weeps, during menses.

• Her desire exceeds her needs.

• Does not want to meet his acquaintances, thinks he has offended them.

Head

• Ache, congestive amel. cold.

• Restless head, it is in constant motion.

• Pain over left eye.

• Hemicrania, with icy feeling.

• Vertigo; with loss of consciousness, during coughing fits, in asthmatics, before epilepsy.

• Scalp very sensitive; can not brush hair.

• Hair become gray early; falling of hair.

• Dandruff.

• Chronic eruptions filled with pus.

• Pain alternates between head or stomach or body agg. by people’s talk.

• Walks with head thrown backwards.

Eyes

• Sunken or protruding.

• Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation.

• Oedema around eyes.

• Intense photophobia.

• Lids granulated.

• Spasms of the eye lids.

• Everything appears green; sees as through a white gauze.

• Conjunctiva; injected; yellow.

• Scrophulous ophthalmia.

• Eyelids red and ulcerated.

• Falling of lashes.

• Eye lids oedematous.

Ears

• Thin, offensive, excoriating discharge.

• Roaring in ears, during pain.

• Hard hearing, to human voice.

Nose

• Thin, watery, excoriating discharge.

• Nose feels stopped up, with fluent coryza.

• Nose colds descend to chest.

• Cold sores; in nose.

• Sneezing, without relief.

– Can not bear the sight or smell of food.

• Hay fever.

• Knotty swelling of the nose.

• Nose pointed.

• Acne of nose.

• Nose bleed, after fit of passion or vomiting.

• Dyspnoea felt in nose.

• Sneezing, with biting watery coryza.

Face

• Pale; anxious, sunken, haggard or distorted, hippocratic, covered with cold sweat.

• Old look; in children.

• Oedematous swelling of face.

• Burning, stinging pains as from red hot needles.

• Lips; black, livid.

• Eruptions on lips.

• Cancer of lips.

• Black dots, acne.

Mouth

• Tongue; dry, clean and red; bluish white.

• Edge of tongue red, takes imprint of the teeth.

• Burning pain in tongue.

• Tongue; burning, trembling; stiff; coated, white, yellowish; brown, black.

• Swelling about the root of the tongue.

• Neuralgia of teeth; feel long; amel. heat; agg. night.

• Swollen bleeding gums, painful to touch.

• Grinding of the teeth in sleep.

• Bites tumbler while drinking.

• Dryness of mouth.

• Aphthae in mouth.

• Fetor oris.

• Gulping up of burning water.

• Taste; bitter to water; after eating and rinking; sour, foul, saltish, sweet in morning.

• Bloody saliva.

• Speech rapid, lisping.

Throat

• Swollen, oedematous, constricted, burning, unable to swallow.

• Everything swallowed seems to lodge in oesophagus.

Stomach

• Can not bear the sight, smell or thought of food.

• Intense, Unquenchable, Burning Thirst; Drinks Little and Often; Craves Ice Cold Water, Which DistressesThe Stomach And Is Vomited Immediately.

• Loss of appetite; with thirst; with nausea.

• Nausea, retching and vomiting after eating and rinking.

• Anxiety felt in the pit of stomach.

• Burning pain in stomach amel. by sweet milk.

• Heart burn, gulping of burning water.

• Vomiting and purging.

• Hiccough; frequent; also when fever ought to have come; with eructations.

• Aversion to sweets, butter, fats; meat.

• Gastritis.

• DRINKS LITTLE AND OFTEN, eats seldom and much.

• Qualmishness.

• Desire for sour things, brandy, coffee, milk.

• Gastralgia, from slightest food or drink.

• Black vomit.

Abdomen

• Induration and enlargement of spleen and liver.

• Violent pains in abdomen, with anguish.

• Has no rest anywhere, rolls about on floor and despairs of life.

• Epigastrium sore, tender.

• Stools; rice water, foul, small, involuntary, acrid, burning, black, mucus, lienteric agg. cold drinks, with much prostration.

• Ulcer above navel.

• Dysentery, cholera, in children.

• Anus; red and sore, burning.

• Acute prolapse of anus.

• Prolapse of piles, with burning amel. hot application.

• Itching and eczematous eruptions around anus.

• Peritonitis.

• Ascites.

Urinary

• Urine; scanty, burning, involuntary.

• Feeling of weakness in abdomen after urination.

• Atony of bladder, in old persons.

• Uremia.

• Albuminuria.

• Diabetes.

• Retention of urine, as if the bladder were paralyzed, after parturition.

• Urine black as if mixed with dung.

• Dysuria.

Male

• Scrotum oedematous.

• Emissions during diarrhoeic stools.

• Erysipelatous inflammation of scrotum.

• Syphilitic ulcers; with burning, stitching.

Female

• Profuse acrid, yellowish, thick leucorrhoea agg. standing, passing flatus.

• Cancer of uterus.

• Burning in ovarian region.

• Pressive, stitching pain in ovary, into the thigh, which feels numb and lame agg. motion or bending.

• Menorrhagia, with black blood.

• Burning in mammae amel. motion.

• Increased sexual desire at menses.

-;Menses suppressed, in weak, tired careworn women.

• Stitching in rectum during menses.

• Dysmenorrhoea amel. heat.

Respiratory

• SHORTNESS OF BREATH; unable to lie down, must sit up; agg. odours, laughing, ascending, turning in bed, or receding eruptions, amel. coffee or sweet water.

• Whistling, wheezing breathing.

• Asthma, agg. taking cold, in mid summer.

• Cough alternating dry and loose, dry at night amel. sitting up agg. drinking.

• Expectoration scanty, frothy.

• Great dyspnoea; in nose; face cyanotic, covered with cold sweat, great anxiety.

• Aphonia.

• Emphysema.

• Pulmonary oedema.

• Burning or coldness in chest.

• Cough excited by smoking.

• Sensation as of vapours of sulphur in larynx.

• Cough, with bloody sputum.

• Haemoptysis; burning all over or with pain between scapulae; in drunkards; suppressed menses.

• Gangrene of the lungs.

• Darting pain through upper third of the right lung.

• Yellowish spots on chest.

Heart

• Weak, trembles.

• Palpitation, with anguish agg. lying on back, ascending stairs, with slight causes.

• Heart pains into neck and occiput, with anxiety, difficult breathing, fainting spells.

• Angina Pectoris.

• Pulse more rapid in the morning.

• Hydro-pericardium.

• Palpitation, with tremulous weakness after stools.

• Beats audible.

• Visible pulsations.

Neck and back

• Stiffness of the back ascends from coccyx to nape.

• Cold creeps on back.

• As if warm air streaming up spine to the head.

• Bruised pain in small of back.

• Weak lumbar region.

Extremities

• Twitching, trembling, violent starting, during sleep.

• Drawing pain from elbow to axilla.

• Weariness of limbs.

• Trembling of hands, of limbs.

• Tingling in fingers.

• Fingers can not be extended.

• Nails; blue, discoloured.

• Ulcers on finger tips, with burning pain.

• Feet; weak, weary and numbb, oedematous.

• Ulcers on soles and toes.

• Wooden feeling in soles.

• Sore pain in ball of toes, while walking.

• Uneasiness in lower limbs, must move feet constantly or walk about.

• Toes bend downwards.

• Peripheral neuritis.

• Cramps in calves.

• Swelling of feet.

• Limbs heavy.

• Restless feet.

• Sciatica amel. walking and hot applications.

• Paraplegia, with atrophy.

• Paralysis, with contraction of limbs.

Skin

• Dry, rough, scaly, dirty, shrivelled.

• Looks seared.

• Eczema.

• Acuminate eruptions.

• Free desquamation.

• Hives agg. eating shell fish.

• Ulcers; chronic, with burning, with cutting pain and bloody discharge.

• Gangrene.

• Phagedena.

• Carbuncles.

• Psoriasis.

• Skin, like parchment.

• Skin symptoms alternate with internal affections.

• Spots; blue, black, white.

• Pimples, vesicles, burning violently.

Sleep

• Disturbed, anxious, restless.

• Shocks on dropping to sleep.

• Dreams; of death, full of care, sorrow, and fear.

• Sleeps with hands over head.

• Yawning, with stretching of limbs.

• Sleeping sickness.

• Talks in sleep.

• Awakened by pains.

Fever

• Externally COLD, with internal burning heat.

• COLDNESS; in spots.

• Sensitive to cold, yet amel. in open air.

• Chills irregular, shaking; craves hot drinks during chill; dyspnoea during chill.

• Heat as of hot water in veins; or they burn like lines of fire.

• High fever, hectic fever.

• Sweat, with great thirst, dyspnoea or exhaustion.

• Sweat cold.

• Waves of icy coldness in blood vessels or intense boiling heat.

• Intermittent fever, yellow fever.

Complementary

• All-s; Carb-v; Lach; Nat-s; Phos; Puls; Sulph; Thuj.

Related

• Sul-ac; Verat.

Source : Phatak materia medica

Nux vomica Homeopathic medicine

Nux vomica plant and seeds

NUX VOMICA

Generalities

• Nux-v. is an every day remedy.

• It corresponds to many diseased conditions to which a modern man is prone to.

• It is useful to those persons who lead a sedentary life, doing much mental work; or to those who remain under stress and strain of prolonged office work, business cares and worries.

• Such persons in order to forget their worries are apt to indulge in wine, women, rich stimulan t food and sedative drugs; and ill effects from which they are apt to suffer.

• The typical Nux. patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active, nervous and irritable.

• It affects the nerves, causing hyper-sensitiveness, and over-impressionability, mentally and physically.

• Produces Digestive Disturbances; partial congestion and hypochondriacal states.

• Dyspeptic persons who always select their food for experimenting, that is digested little.

• He is subject to spasms, convulsions, and fainting.

• The patient seems to be always out of tune; The Action is Violent, often irregularly fitful or inefficient.

• Twisting, and jerks.

• Spasms, tetanic, with consciousness; agg. by slightest touch, but amel. by grasping tightly, or when elbow was stretched.

• Tense contracted felling.

• Lightning-like pains.

• Neuralgia; prodromal.

• Sensation as of a rough body internally.

• Sensation of heaviness and lightness alternately.

• Bruised soreness; Of Abdomen, brain etc.

• Internal scrapy sensation or Rawness; in throat, larynx.

– Takes cold.

– Faintings, after stools, vomiting; after labour pains etc.

• Biliousness.

• Haemorrhages.

• Debauches; much drugged patients.

• Trembling.

• Epilepsy during stool.

• Paralysis from apoplexy, in high livers; partial, with vertigo and nausea; with sticking pains.

• Reflexes increased.

• Firm fibered brunettes.

• Reversed peristalsis.

• Ill effects; of masturbation, sexual excess.

• Varicose veins, without tortuosity, black hard cords; from much standing, or from sedentary habits.

Worse

• Early Morning.

• Gold; Open Air (dry); drafts; seats; wind.

• Uncovering.

• High Living; coffee; condiments, liquor, drugs, purgatives, over eating.

• Sedentary habits.

• Debauchery.

• Mental; exertion; fatigue vexation.

• Disturbed sleep.

• Slight causes; anger; noise; odours; touch; Pressure; of clothes at waist.

• Yawning.

• Tobacco.

• Music.

• Disappointment of ambition.

• Wounded honour.

• Mental shock.

Better

• Free Discharges.

• Naps.

• Wrapping head.

– Resting.

• Hot drinks.

• Milk.

• Fats.

• Moist air.

• Lying on sides.

Mind

• Active.

• Angry and Impatient; can not stand pain; so mad, he cries.

• Zealous; fiery temperament.

• Nervous and excitable.

• Aversion to work.

• Fears poverty.

• Sullen.

• Spiteful.

• Nagging.

• Violent.

• Ugly; suicidal, homicidal impulses.

• Fear of knives, lest she should kill herself or others.

• Fault finding.

• Reproaches others.

• Frightfully apprehensive about getting married, (girls).

• Time passes too slowly.

• Talks about one’s condition.

• Even the least ailment affects her greatly.

• Hypochondriasis.

• Melancholia.

• Delirium tremens.

• Can not bear noise, light, odour, touch, music, etc.

• Can not bear conversation or reading.

• Angry when consoled.

• Head-strong, self-willed.

Head

• Vertigo; brain and other objects turn in circle; with momentary loss of consciousness; with black spell; on empty stomach.

• Bruised sensation of the brain.

• Dizzy and faint in a crowd or where many lights are burning.

• Headache in the sunshine.

• Sensitive scalp.

• Swelled forehead.

• Head seems larger than body.

• Takes cold amel. wrapping head warmly.

• Migraine.

• Frontal head ache with desire to lean it on something.

Eyes

• Bloodshot.

• Lachrymation from affected side.

• Atrophy of the optic nerve.

• Photophobia.

• Paresis of ocular muscles.

• Lower eyeballs yellow.

• Loss of vision due to alcohol and tobacco.

• Exudation of blood from eyes.

• Spring conjunctivitis.

Ears

• Itching in ear through Eustachian tubes.

• External meatus dry and sensitive.

• Pain; stitching when swallowing.

• Loud sounds are painful.

Nose

• Oversensitive to strong odours; even fainting.

• Nose stopped, but runs water; on one side.

• Snuffles; of the new born.

• Nose bleed during sleep; from suppressed flow of piles, from coughing.

• Sneezing violent, abortive; from intense crawling in nostrils (left).

– Coryza, fluent by day, and in open air, dry at night.

• Smell before nose, like old cheese, burning sulphur.

• Smell acute.

• Nose looks sharp and pointed.

Face

• Red, turgid or yellowish agg. about nose and mouth.

• Left angle of the mouth drops.

• Infra-orbital neuralgia; with swelling of cheek, intermittent; amel. when lying in bed.

– Jaws, snap shut; stiff.

• Acne from eating cheese.

• Pimples from excessive use of liquors.

• Child passes its hand constantly over face (brain disease).

Mouth

• Teeth chatter.

• Toothache amel. warm drinks.

• Foetor oris; sour.

• Small aphthous ulcers in the mouth.

• TASTE; BITTER; sour, bad in a.m. low down in throat.

• Itching palate; eustachian tube.

• Gums; swollen white, and bleeding.

• Needles at edges of tongue agg. after eating; washing face in cold water.

Throat

• Rough, raw; as if scraped.

• Putrid taste in; on coughing.

• Small ulcers in the throat; pain agg. during empty swallowing.

• Stitches into ears.

Stomach

• Craves piquant food; beer; fat food, chalk; stimulants.

• Hiccough: From over eating; from cold or hot drinks.

• Violent retching agg. hawking.

• Eructations, sour.

• Heart burn.

• Water brash.

• Nausea; amel. if he can only vomit.

• Violent Vomiting; bilious, sour, wants to vomit but can not.

• Food lies like a heavy knot in stomach.

– Gastralgia; pain go into back and chest; amel. vomiting and hot drinks, agg. from food.

• Indigestion.

• Hunger; yet aversion to food.

• Eructations; difficult; sour; bitter.

• Severe pain in stomach from injury, agg. least food.

Abdomen

• As of a hand about waist, clothes oppress it.

– Bruised soreness of abdominal wall.

• Liver sore, enlarged; sticking pain.

• Gall stone colic.

• Jaundice; from anger. agg.

• Bowels gripe here and there.

• Sore Bowels, agg. Coughing and Stepping.

• Hernia; infantile; from constipation or crying; umbilical. amel.

• Flatulent colic.

• Uneasy fitful and Fruitless Urging for Boswels to Act; amel. Stools.

• Obstipation.

• Inactive peristalsis.

• Strains hard at stools; feeling as if part remained unexpelled; passes small quantity at each attempt.

• Rectum; spasms of; flatus retained in; constant uneasiness in.

– Piles itching, blind, bleeding, amel. cool bathing.

• Dysentery; stools amel. pains for a time.

• Diarrhoea; with jaundice; after debauch during fevers.

• Colic in nursing infants from stimulating food taken by the mother.

• Colic from suppressed haemorrhoidal flow.

• First part of stool soft, last hard.

• Prolapse of rectum from diarrhoea.

• Dragging in anus when not at stool.

• Sense of goneness in the groins.

Urinary

• Renal colic (right), extending to genitals and legs; with dribbling urine; amel. lying on back.

• Painful ineffectual urging to urinate.

• Spasmodic strangury.

• Haematuria from suppressed haemorrhoidal flow or menses.

• Spasmodic urethral stricture.

• Paralysis of bladder; urine dribble; in old men, with enlarged prostate or gonorrhoea.

• Involuntary urination when laughing, coughing, sneezing.

Male

• Desire easily excited.

• Penis becomes relaxed during an embrace.

• Bad effects of onanism; sexual excess.

• Premature ejaculation.

• Can not be in female society without having emission.

• Increase of smegma.

Female

• Desire too strong; with burning in vulva.

– Menses; profuse, early and prolonged; intermittent; of dark lumpy bloody; irregular; with fainting spells.

• Dysmenorrhoea; cramps extend to the whole body; with constant urging to stool.

• Leucorrhoea; foetid; staining yellow.

• Inefficient labour pains; faints at every labour pain.

• Profuse bleeding after abortion.

• Prolapse of uterus; from straining or lifting.

• All the old symptoms are agg. after menses.

• Lochia scanty, offensive.

• Nipples; sore; white spot in centre.

• Tensive pain when nursing.

• Painless gathering of milk in breast from not nursing the child.

Respiratory

– Cough; violent; throwing the patient down; paroxysmal; whooping; with splitting headache; has to hold his head.

• Shallow respiration.

• Oppressed breathing.

• Asthma: from disordered stomach; with fulness of stomach.

• Hoarseness, with painful roughness in larynx and chest.

• Cough; with sensation as if something torn loose in the chest.

• Intercostal neuralgia agg. lying on painful side.

• Asthma; with feeling as if clothing were too tight, amel. belching.

• Desire to eat during cough.

Heart

• Palpitation on lying down.

• Heart feels tired.

• Angina pectoris; patient lies on knee with body leant backwards.

Neck and back

• Cervico-brachial neuralgia; painfully stiff neck; pains down shoulder (right) agg. touch.

• Wry neck from cold or nervous shock.

• Lumbar ache, as if breaking; must sit up in order to turn in bed.

• Crawling along spine.

• Acute lumbago.

• Sacral region as if lame; after parturition.

Extremities

• Arms go to sleep, numb, stiff feeling.

• Tense cramp in calves and soles, must stretch feet; or stand still while walking.

• Feet feel clubby and raw.

• Shooting from toes to thighs; agg. after stool.

• Drags his feet while walking, (chorea); legs tremble; unsteady gait.

• Knee joints as if dry; cracking during motion.

• Paralysis of lower limbs from over exertion or from being soaked.

• Automatic motions of hand (R) towards mouth (Apoplexy).

• Legs stiff.

Skin

• Goose skin.

• Skin red and blotchy.

• Urticaria with gastric derangement.

• Bluish spots.

Sleep

– Yawning.

• Sleepy in the evening or sleepless from rush of ideas.

– Awakes too early, can not go to sleep again; finally sleeps but on waking feels wretched.

• Better after a short sleep, unless aroused.

• Nightmares.

• Dreams; anxious; pursued by animals, dogs and cats; amorous.

• Weeping and talking during sleep.

Fever

• Chill with thirst, and heat without thirst.

• Easily Chilled, Can Not Uncover, agg. motion; drinking even during the heat.

• Body burning hot esp. face, but unable to move or uncover without feeling chilly.

• Excessive rigor with blue finger nails.

• Sweat sour; one sided; warm, on upper most side, en lying down.

Complementary

• Kali-c; Phos; Sulph.

Related

• Ign; Lyc.

Source : Phatak materia medica

Pulsatilla Homeopathic medicine

PULSATILLA PRATENSIS

Pulsatilla plant

Pulsatilla pratensis

Generalities

• On account of its Changing; Shifting Symptoms this remedy is known as a weather cock remedy.

• It affects the Mind; Veins; Mucous membranes; respiration and one side.

• Symptoms rise to a certain pitch, then suddenly cease.

• It is a remedy for females, of mild, gentle, plethoric yielding disposition, who cry readily and weep when talking.

• Symptoms appear on one side or go to side lain on.

• Thirstlessness; Chilliness and Shortness of Breath; with digestive or menstrual disorders.

• Chilliness; with pains but burning, with stitching pains; with numbness.

• Mucous Discharges are Profuse; Bland, Thick; Yellowish-Green.

• Changing and contradictory symptoms having no head or tail to them.

• Alternations.

– Metastasis.

• Haemorrhages; passive; vicarious; blood dark, easily coagulating.

• Venocity, varicose veins.

• Heaviness.

• Scraping, jerking, tearing, ulcerative pains; wandering pains.

– Numbness; partial; hands, feet etc.; of the part lain on; of suffering parts.

• Ill effects of Suppressions, otorrhoea, menses, lochia, milk etc.

• Eating ice-cream; pork, fats; pastry; mixed diet.

• Chilly but craves for open air.

• Pale chilly blondes.

• Anaemia.

• Never well since puberty.

• Chorea; from amenorrhoea or dysmenorrhoea.

• The longer he lies in the morning the longer he wishes to lie.

• Can not lie with head low.

– Child wants to be carried slowly.

• Symptoms in distant parts of the body cause dyspnoea.

• Sensation of distension in size, as if one part or every part were growing too large; during pain.

• Bandaged sensation.

• Wearing of flannels or woolen clothes cause itching and eruptions.

• Prophylactic for measles.

• Epilepsy with absent or irregular menses.

• Emaciation of suffering parts.

• Pulsation through whole body.

Worse

• Warmth, of Air; of Room; Clothes; Bed.

• Getting feet wet.

– EVENING.

• REST.

• BEGINNING MOTION.

• LYING, on one side (left).

– EATING; long after; RICH FOODS, fats, ices, eggs.

• PUBERTY.

• PREGNANCY.

• Before menses.

– Iron.

• Quinine.

• Hanging down limbs.

• Tea.

• Thunderstorms.

• Sun.

• Twilight.

Better

• Cold; Fresh, Open Air; food, drinks.

• Uncovering.

• Gentle motion.

– Erect Posture.

• Continued motion.

• After a good cry.

– Changing sides.

• Pressure.

• Rubbing.

• Lying with head high.

Mind

• MILD, TIMID, EMOTIONAL, AND TEARFUL.

• Disgusted at everything.

• Discouraged.

• Easily offended.

• Whining.

• Craves sympathy.

• Children like fuss and caresses.

• Morbid dread of the opposite sex; marriage; thinks that sexual intercourse is a sinful act.

• Given to extremes of pleasure and pain.

• Easily moved to tears and laughter; after eating.

• Religious melancholy.

• Fear; to be alone, of dark, of ghosts in the evening; therefore wants to hide or run.

• Capricious.

• Miserly.

• Suspicious.

• Very irritable, touchy; feels slighted or fears slight.

• Answers, yes or no, by nodding her head.

• Imagines that certain articles of food are not good for the human race.

• Sad from disagreeable news.

• Mania from suppressed menses.

Head

• Aches; from overwork; suppressed sexual excitement; indigestion; starts in vertex.

• Occipital ache agg. coughing.

• Semilateral headaches, pulsating, bursting; with scalding lachrymation of the affected side.

• Vertigo; agg. sitting looking up; with nausea and gastric or menstrual disturbances; before, during after or suppressed menses.

• Profuse sweat on scalp.

• Headache of school girls at the time of puberty.

• Headache amel. walking in open air.

• Head seems heavy.

• Can not hold upright, can not raise it.

Eyes

• Dimness of vision, with a sensation as though there were something covering the eyes which the patient wishes to rub or wipe; agg. wind.

• Thick, yellow, profuse bland discharge.

• Ophthalmia; neonatorum; gonorrhoeal; from amenorrhoea.

• Fistula lachrymalis discharging pus on pressure.

• Acrid lachrymation.

• Styes; recurrent.

• Blepharitis.

• Conjunctivitis from cold.

• Blind attacks, before menses.

• Amaurosis, paralysis of the optic nerve.

• Itching, burning in eyes, causing rubbing.

• Weeping eyes.

Ears

• Ache agg. night.

• Deafness as if ears were stopped up; can hear better in car; and in a warm room.

• Otorrhoea; discharge of pus, of blood; thick yellow humour, offensive; after exanthemata.

• External ear red and swollen and feels as if something pushed out from the ear.

• Mumps, esp. metastatic to the breast or testes.

• Lobes or ear swollen.

Nose

• Loss of smell, with catarrh.

• Foul discharge or odour before the nose.

• Coryza; obstruction of nose agg. lying down or in a room; amel. going out in the open air.

• Green; orange coloured, foetid, urinous, nasal discharge; chronic bland yellow discharge.

• Nose bleed, before, during and from suppressed menses.

Face

• Pale.

• Neuralgia, with profuse lachrymation, agg. chewing, talking, or with hot or cold things in the mouth.

• Lips cracked; peeling; swollen.

• Licks lips.

• Crack in centre of lower lip.

– Acne in young girls.

Mouth

• Breath offensive.

• Dry or slimy; without thirst.

– Drawing toothache amel. cold.

• Taste; bad in a.m. ; loss of; from coryza; greasy, bloody; sweet; alternating.

• Tongue; yellow white; feels scalded.

• Much sweet saliva.

• Food; leaves an after taste.

• Taste bitter esp. for bread.

• Diminished taste to all food.

• Saliva; tenacious; frothy cotton like.

Throat

• Food lodges in.

– Dry; sore with sense of dysphagia.

• Sensation of worm wriggling up.

• As of a sulphur vapour when coughing.

Stomach

• Aversion; to water, fats, pork, bread, milk, smoking, warm food and drink.

• Craves; acids or what disagrees; refreshing things, pungent things, herring, cheese.

• Food taste too salty.

• Onions disagree.

• Sudden loathing; agg. eating.

• Eructations, taste of food, remain a long time.

• Nausea.

• heartburn.

• Thirstlessness; with nearly all complaints.

• Vomiting of food eaten long before.

• Visible pulsations in the pit of stomach.

• Stitching pain agg. walking or misstep.

• Weight as from a stone.

– Stomach DERANGED; FEELS HEAVY.

• Hiccough when smoking tobacco.

• Hunger; but does not know for what.

Abdomen

• Cutting; pulsation; in epigastrium.

• Painful, distended; loud rumbling.

• Pressure as from a stone.

• Feeling of numbness.

• Pains extend into groins.

• Stools; changeable, not two stools alike; green, bilious; agg. after midnight.

• Two or three normal stools daily.

• Hard painful lumps in both groins.

• Blind piles, agg. menses, lying down.

• Diarrhoea in jaundice, with sensation of heat.

• Discharge of blood from rectum even when not at stool.

• Diarrhoea after fright.

Urinary

• Urination; involuntary of lying down, laughing, coughing; sneezing; hearing sudden noise; after pleasurable surprise; shock; passing flatus; during sleep esp. in little girls.

• Haematuria after urination.

• Heavy pressure or cramp in bladder, after urination.

• Sensation as of a stone rolling in the bladder.

• Urine dribbles when angry.

• Urging to urinate when lying on back.

• Stricture of urethra, urine comes in drops or stops and starts.

Male

• Burning down left spermatic cord.

• Acute prostatitis; enlarged prostate.

• Orchitis; gonorrhoeal; or from sitting on cold stones.

• Epididymitis.

• Testicles hang low down.

• Bloody emissions.

• Thick yellow discharge, late stage of gonorrhoea.

Female

• Amenorrhoea; from wet feet; nervous debility or anaemia.

• Feels like menstruating.

• Menses; dark thick; Too Late Scanty; after bathing; clotted, changeable, intermittent, irregular, vicarious; Delayed at puberty.

• Dysmenorrhoea.

• Leucorrhoea; milky, thick like cream, with pain in the back and exhaustion, acrid.

• Weak labour pains.

• Bearing down agg. lying.

• After pains; too long and too violent.

• Mammae; sore aching; lumps in; in girls before puberty.

• Thin milky fluid escapes from mammae in virgins; before puberty;.

• Milk; suppressed, scanty.

– Post-partum secondary haemorrhages from retained placenta.

• Weeps every time, the child is put to breast.

• Swelling of breasts after weaning.

• Galactorrhoea.

• Secretion of milk during menses.

• Maldisposion of foetus.

Respiratory

• Short Breath agg. lying on left side; smothering sensation on lying down; agg. if heated, open air.

– Cough; loose in the morning, dry in the evening and at night; must sit up in bed to get relief.

– Expectoration thick, purulent, slimy; sweet, saltish, bitter as it loosens up.

• Cough dry, hacking from tickling in epigastrium.

• Chest oppressed; as by a load.

• Soreness, or stitch beneath clavicles.

• Hoarseness comes and goes.

• Asthma from suppressions.

• Cough after measles.

Heart

• Palpitation; agg. lying on left side, anxious; with amenorrhoea; from emotions; after dinner.

• Catching pain, with short breath amel. by pressure of a hand and walking.

Back

• As if cold water was poured down the back.

• Pain in back land small of back as from prolonged stooping.

• Curvature of the upper part of the spine.

• Shooting pain in the nape and back.

• Backache agg. lying on back, amel. lying on sides or changes of position, esp. so during pregnancy.

• Back feels bandaged.

• Pain in sacrum on sitting.

Extremities

• Rapidly shifting pains in limbs.

• Arms feel broken and dislocated.

• Elbows numb.

• Joints; swollen; red.

• Dorsum of foot swollen, oedematous.

• Pains down lower limbs, alternating sides.

• Legs heavy.

• Sticking in tibia agg. lying amel. cool air and walking.

• Cold sweat on legs.

• Foul foot sweat.

• Veins full, varicose, painful.

• Milk leg.

• Periostitis.

• White swelling of knee.

• Inclination to stretch the feet.

• Numbness in legs when remaining long standing.

Skin

• Glands swollen.

• Ulcers; with hard, red glistening areolae.

• Varicose.

• Itches on being heated.

• Urticaria; after rich food; with diarrhoea; from delayed menses; after undressing.

• Measles.

Sleep

• Great sleepiness during day, wakes confused; languid, unrefreshed.

• Lies; with hands over head or crossed on abdomen, and feet drawn up.

• Dreams; frightful, disgusting, voluptuous, confused of cats, etc.

• Chattering in sleep.

• Talks, whines or screams during sleep.

Fever

• Chilly; yet averse to heat; in Warm Room; with pain; on lying down at night.

• One sided coldness with numbness.

• Pains during sweat.

• One hand cold.

• Partial sweat.

• Feverish, hot, body temperature normal.

• Erratic temperature in fevers.

Complementary

– Ars; Kali-bi; Sep; Sil; Zinc.

Related

• Apis; Cimic; Graph; Ham; Kali-bi; Kali-s; Nat-s.

Source: Phatak materia medica