Homeopathic practitioner with Advance Approaches. Research scholer and Student of Islamic Studies
ایک ہومیوپیتھک فزیشن کا سب سے اعلیٰ اور واحد مشن “بیمار” کی صحت کو بحال کرنا ہے، یعنی اسے شفا کی جانب لانا ہے۔جیسا کہ اس کی وضاحت آئندہ بیان کی جائے گی۔
نوٹ: شفا سے مراد وہ حالت ہوتی ہے جو بیمار ہونے سے پہلے تھی، جس حالت پر اس کو اللہ نے پیدا کیا تھا۔
پروسٹیٹ غدود بڑھ جانے کے مسائل اور ان کا حل
اس وقت دنیا میں مرد حضرات میں کینسر کی چوتھی بڑی وجہ پروسٹیٹ غدود کے کینسر میں مبتلا ہوناہے۔ یہ غدود مثانے کے بالکل نیچے پایا جاتا ہے ، خواتین میں یہ غدود نہیں ہوتا۔ پروسٹیٹ غدود کے بڑھ جانے سے ، وہ ٹیوب جو مثانے سے پیشاب لے کر پروسٹیٹ غدود کے درمیان سے گزرتی ہوئی نکلتی ہے، وہ دب جاتی ہے۔ جس کی وجہ سے پیشاب کے اخراج میں رکاوٹ پیدا ہونا شروع ہوجاتی ہے۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔
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Generalities
– Gels. centres its action upto the MISCLES and MOTOR NERVES.
– In muscles it causes overpowering ACHING; TIREDNESS; HEAVINESS; WEAKNESS AND SORENESS esp. felt in the muscles of the extremities.
– Affection of motor nerves produce all types of functional paralysis – of eyes; throat, larynx, anus, bladder etc. or TREMORS or twitchings; of single muscles, face, chin, tongue etc.
– Circulation becomes sluggish causing passive arterial or venous congestion; with sense of fulness and heaviness in different organs; heart, liver etc.
– Catarrh of MUCOUS MEMBRANES cause watery discharges.
– General state of paresis, bodily and mental.
– Complete relaxation and prostration.
– Wants to lie down quietly; half reclined; wants to be held.
– Dulness; dizziness, drowsiness; eye or visual effects; tremors; and polyuria; one or two of these symptoms usually accompany most of the diseased conditions in which Gels. is indicated.
– Inco-ordination of muscles, which do not obey the will.
– Chorea of pregnancy.
– Convulsions; hysterical.
– Nervous affections of cigar makers.
– Body feels light in onanists or hysterical subjects.
– Influenza.
– Measles.
– Pellagra.
– Post diphtheritic paralysis.
– Paralysis agitans.
– Ill effects of fright, fear, depressing emotions, anger, bad news, unpleasant surprise.
– Masturbation, traumatic shock.
– Alternate pelvic organ symptoms with head symptoms.
– Weak, tired, delicate, timid, excitable, easy to anger persons, children and adolescents.
– Never well since the flu.
– Coma, and apoplexy; sub-arachnoid.
Worse
– EMOTIONS.
– DREAD.
– Shocks.
– Ordeals.
– Motion.
– Surprise.
– Weather – HUMID; SPRING; foggy.
– Heat of sun; summer.
– Periodically.
– Tobacco.
– Thunder storms.
– Cold – damp weather.
– dentition.
– When thinking of his ailments.
Better
– Profuse urination; sweating.
– Shaking.
– Alcoholic drinks.
– Mental efforts.
– Bending forwards.
– Continued motion.
– Afternoon.
– Reclining, with head held high.
Mind
– Confusion; acts as if crazy.
– Dazed.
– Apathetic.
– Depsire to be quiet or left alone.
– Wants to throw himself from a height.
– DREAD; of falling; of ordeals, death, pain.
– Indifferent regarding his illness.
– Answers slowly.
– Cataleptic immobility, with dilated pupils, closed eyes but conscious.
– Child starts, grasps the nurse and screams as if afraid of falling.
– Discerning power slow.
– Effects of grief, can not cry; broods over her loss.
Head
– VERTIGO; spreads from occiput; as if drunk, with visual symptoms.
– Dull HEAVY or band like headache; around the occiput; to over eyes; agg. tight cap; amel. shaking; lying with head high; after profuse urination.
– Swelled feeling in head.
– Meningitis – congestive stage, pain at the back of head and dilated pupils.
– Pressure pain from the vertex to shoulders.
– Pain in temples extending into ear, wing of nose and chin.
– Soreness of the scalp.
– Apoplexy; sub-arachnoid.
– Blood rushes from the occiput to the forehead.
– Hot, with cold limbs.
– Migraine begins at 2 or 3 a.m. amel. in the afternoon.
– Can not hold erect.
– Fontanelle pulsate strongly.
Eyes
– Pupils dilated.
– HEAVY DROOTING EYELIDS.
– Diplopia; when looking sideways, during pregnancy.
– Blind spells.
– Sight dim or swimming.
– Photomania.
– Affections of vision before migraine.
– Eyes; red sore aching; suffused.
– Detached retina; from injury or myopia.
– Glaucoma.
– Orbital neuralgia with contraction and twitching of muscles.
– Amaurosis from masturbation.
– Hysterical amblyopia.
– Eye pains extend to occiput.
– Retinitis.
– Gauze before.
– Corrects discomfort in eyes even after accurately adjusted glasses.
– Vitreous hazy.
Ears
– Sudden loss of hearing for a short time.
– Pain while swallowing.
– Impaired hearing from cold.
Nose
– Stuffed.
– Coryza, with thin acrid watery discharge.
– Sensation as if hot water flowing from the nostrils.
– Summer cold.
– Sneezing; early morning.
Face
– Hot heavy, full, dusky red; besotted or expressionless.
– Chin quivers.
– Lower jaw dropped.
– Lower jaw wags sideways.
– Paralysis.
Mouth
– Tongue; heavy, numb, partially paralyzed; speech thick, as if drunk, he can hardly speak.
– Saliva coloured yellow as from blood.
– Tongue, numb, trembles while protruding.
– Thick yellow coating on tongue.
– Muscles around the mouth seem contracted.
Throat
– Swallowing difficult.
– Paralytic dysphagia esp. agg. from warm food.
– Swallowing causes pain into the ear.
– Feeling of a painful lump in throat that can not be swallowed, in hysterical women.
– Pain from throat to the ear.
– Tonsillitis.
– Post-diphtheritic paralysis.
– Sore throat during menses.
– Paralytic dyspagia after cerebral apoplexy.
Stomach
– Usually thirstless; but thirst with sweat.
– Little appetite but can take food or drink.
– Feeling of emptiness of weakness in the stomach, or bowels.
– Cramps in stomach, agg. riding or sittinng erect.
– Hiccough, agg. evening.
Abdomen
– Passive congestion of liver.
– Griping in the gall bladder.
– Periodical colic.
– Copious yellow stools.
– Diarrhoea; painless; in nervous persons; after sudden emotions as grief, fright, bad news, anticipation of an unusual ordeal.
– Stools, cream coloured; tea-green.
– Paralysis of sphincter ani.
– Prolapse or rectal pains after labour.
– Involuntary stools.
Urinary
– Profuse, clear, watery urine; with chill and trembling, amel. headache.
– Incontinence from excitement; from paralysis of sphincter.
– Alternate dysuria and enuresis.
– Flow intermittent.
– Retention.
– Constant urination; hysterical.
Male
– Involuntary emissions without erections.
– Genitals cold, relaxed.
– Dragging pain in testes.
– Profuse warm sweat on scrotum.
– Sexual power exhausted, slightest caress causes an emission.
Female
– Uterus heavy sore; feels as if squeezed (antiflexion).
– Dysmenorrhoea; with scanty flow; pains extend to back and hips.
– Labour pains go up; backward or down the thighs.
– Deep yellow leucorrhoea; with aching across lower part of the back.
– Os rigid.
– False labour pains.
– Threatened abortion from sudden depressing emotions.
– As of a wave from uterus to throat, with choking feeling, – impedes labour.
– Nervous chills-first stage of labour.
– Coition difficult from contraction of vaginal muscles.
– Epileptiform convulsions at menstrual period or from suppressed menses.
– Twitching of muscles of the whole body with drowsiness, before puerperal convulsions.
– Severe after pains.
Respiratory
– Hoarseness; during menses; in hysteria or after depressing emotions.
– Tiresome, slow breathing.
– As of a lump behind the chest.
– Spasms of glottis; long crowing inspiration, sudden and forcible expiration.
– Dry cough, with sore chest and fluent coryza.
– Burning in larynx and chest, when coughing.
Heart
– Sore.
– Feeling as if heart would stop beating, if she did not move about.
– Pulse slow, soft, weak, full and flowing.
– Weak slow pulse; of old age.
– Pain in heart on rising from seat.
Neck and back
– Neck feels bruised, unable to hold the head.
– Dull pain up and down in spine; amel. walking; with occipital pains.
– Pains under scapula.
Extremities
– Hard aching in humerus (R).
– Hands; hot dry numb esp. palms.
– Wants hands in cool water.
– Cramps in muscles of the forearm.
– Professional neurosis.
– Writer’s cramp.
– Heavy lower limbs.
– Excessive trembling and weakness of limbs.
– Knees weak agg. descending; tottering gait; can not direct his legs.
– Coldness of wrists and hands.
– Feeling of partial luxation of patella when walking.
Sleep
– DROWSINESS.
– Starts on falling to sleep.
– Heavy stupid sleep.
– Sleepiness of students.
– Sleeplessness from mental excitement; thinking or tobacco.
Skin
– Hot dry; moist; yellow.
Fever
– Chill with aching and languor; mixed with heat or alternating with heat; chill up and down back.
– Cold hands and feet.
– Heat – with drowsiness.
– THIRST ABSENT; with trembling.
– Cold sweat.
– Bilious remittent; malarial; typhoid; cerebro-spinal fevers.
– Measles.
– Nervous, shuddering, chill; preceded by visual disturbances.
COMPLEMENTARY.
– Arg-n; Sep.
Source: Phatak Materia medica
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
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
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One of the most significant risks of self-medication is the potential for adverse drug reactions (ADR). ADRs occur when a drug interacts negatively with the body, leading to a range of side effects. ADRs can range from mild, such as nausea or dizziness, to severe, such as anaphylactic shock. Some common examples of ADRs associated with self-medication include allergic reactions, gastrointestinal disturbances, and skin rashes.
Another potential side effect of self-medication is the masking of symptoms. Many OTC medications only treat the symptoms of a condition and do not address the underlying cause. If a person self-medicates and only treats the symptoms, they may miss a more serious underlying condition. For example, a person with a persistent cough may take cough medicine to relieve the symptom without realizing that the cough is a symptom of a more severe respiratory infection.
Self-medication can also lead to a delay in seeking medical attention. If a person self-medicates and does not see a healthcare professional when they should, they risk missing a diagnosis or delaying the treatment of a severe condition. For example, a person with a persistent headache may take pain medication to relieve the symptom without realizing that the headache is a symptom of a more severe condition such as a brain tumor.
Self-medication can also lead to drug interactions. If a person takes multiple medications, OTC or prescription, without consulting a healthcare professional, they risk drug interactions that can lead to severe side effects. Drug interactions can cause a range of symptoms, including dizziness, confusion, and even coma or death.
Self-medication can also lead to addiction. Some OTC medications and prescription drugs can be addictive if misused or taken without medical supervision. Addiction can lead to a range of health and social problems, including overdose, withdrawal symptoms, and financial difficulties.
Conclusion:
Self-medication can be convenient and cost-effective, but it also carries significant risks and potential side effects. Adverse drug reactions, masking of symptoms, delay in seeking medical attention, drug interactions, and addiction are some of the potential side effects of self-medication. It is essential to consult a healthcare professional before taking any medication, whether OTC or prescription, to ensure that it is safe and effective for the individual. Healthcare professionals can also provide guidance on dosage, possible side effects, and potential interactions with other medications.
Self-medication can be tempting for those who wish to avoid the hassle and expense of a visit to a healthcare professional. However, it is important to remember that self-medication can carry significant risks, including adverse drug reactions, masking of symptoms, delay in seeking medical attention, drug interactions, and addiction. In this article, we will discuss some strategies for controlling self-medication.
One of the most effective ways to control self-medication is to educate yourself about the risks and benefits of different medications. You can find reliable information about medications from reputable sources, such as the FDA or the National Institutes of Health. Make sure to read the label and instructions carefully before taking any medication, and never exceed the recommended dose.
If you are experiencing symptoms, it is important to consult a healthcare professional before taking any medication. A healthcare professional can help diagnose your condition and provide guidance on the most appropriate treatment. If you have questions about a medication or its side effects, be sure to ask your healthcare professional.
If a healthcare professional prescribes medication, it is important to follow the treatment plan precisely. Do not stop taking medication without consulting a healthcare professional, even if you feel better. Stopping medication prematurely can lead to a relapse of symptoms and potentially harmful drug interactions.
If you have leftover medication, it is important to dispose of it properly. Do not share medication with others, as it can be dangerous and lead to adverse drug reactions. Instead, dispose of medication at a pharmacy or through a drug take-back program.
It can be tempting to try to diagnose your symptoms using online resources or asking friends and family for advice. However, self-diagnosis can be dangerous and lead to incorrect treatment. Always consult a healthcare professional for an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan.
There are many unproven remedies and alternative therapies on the market that claim to cure a range of conditions. It is important to be cautious when considering these remedies, as they may not be safe or effective. Always consult a healthcare professional before trying an unproven remedy.
Conclusion:
Self-medication can carry significant risks and potential side effects. Educating yourself, consulting a healthcare professional, following the treatment plan, disposing of medication properly, avoiding self-diagnosis, and avoiding unproven remedies are all strategies for controlling self-medication. By taking these steps, you can ensure that you are receiving safe and effective treatment for your symptoms.
Homeopathy is a medical science and art developed over 200 years ago by Samuel Hahnemann, a brilliant physician and medical translator in Germany. It quickly became the medicine of choice among many Europeans. Homeopathy gained great fame due to its success during epidemics, and, by 1900, it was practiced by one in five medical doctors in the U.S.
Over the past thirty years, homeopathy has enjoyed a boom in popularity and interest in the U.S., India, Pakistan, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and many other places throughout the world. According to the World Health Organization, homeopathy is the second-largest and fastest-growing medicine in the world. In India alone, 100 million people use it exclusively to stay healthy. Up to 70% of French doctors consider homeopathy effective, and at least 25,000 prescribe it to their patients. A 2011 report by the government of Switzerland, a bastion of pharmaceutical headquarters, concluded that homeopathic medicine was both effective and cost-effective, and recommended that it be covered by their national health insurance (according to a February 2012 article in the Huffington Post by Dana Ullman, M.P.H.).
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
definition of homeopathy
Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine that was developed in the late 18th century by a German physician named Samuel Hahnemann. It is based on the principle of “like cures like,” which means that a substance that causes symptoms in a healthy person can be used in diluted form to treat similar symptoms in a sick person.
According to the principles of homeopathy, each person is unique and must be treated as an individual, taking into account their physical, mental, and emotional symptoms. Homeopathic remedies are prepared by diluting a substance in water or alcohol and then vigorously shaking it. This process is called succussion and is believed to transfer the healing properties of the substance to the diluent.
Homeopathy uses very small doses of the remedy, often diluted to the point where no molecules of the original substance remain. This is called “potentization,” and it is believed to make the remedy more effective by increasing its energetic or vibrational qualities.
Homeopathic remedies are chosen based on the principle of “totality of symptoms,” which means that the remedy must match all the physical, mental, and emotional symptoms of the person being treated. Homeopathy is used to treat a wide range of conditions, including acute illnesses like colds and flu, chronic conditions like allergies and asthma, and mental health disorders like anxiety and depression.
Critics of homeopathy argue that the dilution process renders the remedies ineffective and that any perceived benefits are due to the placebo effect. Despite these criticisms, homeopathy continues to be used by millions of people around the world and is recognized as a legitimate form of healthcare in many countries.
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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
The process of potentisation brings out the latent medicinal energy in those substances. By virtue of this process, anything from sand (Silica) to moonlight (Luna) can be used as medicine in homeopathy. The medicines are derived from the following sources:
PLANT KINGDOM
Examples:
Aconite Napellus (Monkshood)
Belladonna Atropa (Deadly Nightshade)
Bryonia Alba (White Bryony)
Lycopodium (Club Moss)
MINERAL KINGDOM
Examples:
Sulphur
Calcarea Carb (Calcium Carbonate)
Nitric-Acid
Natrum-Muriaticum (Common Salt)
HEALTHY TISSUE, IMPONDERABLES & SECRETIONS (SARCODES)
Examples:
Thyroid
X-ray
Pituitary
This is a fundamental principle of Homeopathy is that it treats the patient as a whole and as an individual. There is no medicine for any particular disease, but there is a medicine for the patient suffering from the disease. ‘the individual, not the disease is the entity’ said the celebrated Sir William Osler.
The homeopath takes into consideration all the symptoms, that distinguish a person as an individual. Even a salesman of ready-made suits must try to fit the ready-made suit. Homeopathy enquires into the details of the patient’s past and family history, his appetite, thirst, bowel habits, sleep, etc., and most importantly his temperament.
It is increasingly acknowledged these days that the mind and body are interlinked. We now see the rapid rise of the holistic concept of disease with an emphasis on its psychosomatic aspect. Hahnemann recognized all this long ago and stressed that bodily and mental symptoms are to be taken together to form the portrait of the disease. The Homeopathics material medica is rich in mental symptoms and we especially use them in the selection of remedies.
The present problem of the patient is not usually an isolated occurrence. It is part of a sequence. The family history and the events through childhood are taken into account as homeopathy treats not only the present symptoms, but the entire sequence, thereby preventing the progress of the disease. Children under homeopathic treatment grow into more healthy adults, they find relief from the scourge of bad inheritance as well.
It has been said that the child is a father of the man. Thus, even in an infant, we can perceive the beginnings of future illness. The infant may perspire so much about its head during sleep as to soak a pillow. Perhaps the fontanelles are slow in closing. The child may be slow in walking and teething and develop the habit of eating mud and chalk. She looks fat, but there is no strength. She may develop enlarged tonsils. She catches colds very often and each cold further enlarges the tonsils. The menses occur too soon and are profuse. She feels cold all the time and lacks energy. Slowly a cough begins and there is the faintest trace of fever. There is a desire for cold milk and eggs. The cough further worsens and the evening fever becomes well-marked, the X-ray shows tuberculosis.
One can see that TB did not appear all at once; it has evolved from childhood. The signs of ill health were all there. They indicate the homeopathic medicine Calcarea carbonica. Had this remedy been given in infancy, the girl would not have developed the later troubles. But it is never too late. Even now Homeopathy will build up her health. In this way, many a problem child has been helped to normalcy by homeopathy.
Good homeopathy learns t perceive disease as a continually evolving process that begins in the womb and unless arrested and cured, end in the tomb. There are many measures to palliate and ease the patient, but the journey continues unless treated on homeopathic principles.
In fact, most, if not all curative therapies (including some forms of psychotherapy, meditation, etc. ) are (consciously or unconsciously) based on the “Similie” principle. The homeopath applies this principle scientifically and systematically using carefully tested medicines.
Sometimes in the course of homeopathic treatment, the history of past illness appears briefly in the reverse order, like a film being played backward. When this happens, we know that not only the present but also its cause in the past has been treated and the future is secure.
To a homeopath, the knowledge of anatomy, physiology, medicine, surgery, and gynecology is necessary since he has to examine the patient and come to a diagnosis. This will help him to know the natural course of the ailment and to manage the case well.
But his most important task is to understand the individuality of each patient fully and correctly, so that he may select the right remedy.
The practice of homeopathy convinces the physician to regard the body as more than a sum of its parts. Unlike a machine, it develops, carries on its function, and repairs itself independently. In this sense, everyone carries within him his own doctor. Ancient physicians were familiar with this natural power of the organism to control disease and they invented for it a beautiful expression ‘Vis Medicatrix Nature’ (Healing Power of Nature). This healing power is a function of the life force itself. Hahnemann called it Vital Force. Disease is recognized as a disturbance of this vital force. For example, out of ten people who get wet in the rain, only one developed pneumonia. Most bacteria can affect us only when our own healing power is of low resistance. Homeopathic medicine aims to correct this disturbed vital force and thus enhances the power of the body to heal itself. It does not aim at removing the symptoms of the parts affected but treats the cause and restores to health. According to Homeopathy, symptoms are a reflection of disturbed vital force.
Sickness is like a sitar whose correct tuning has been disturbed. Naturally, all the notes from such a sitar will be far more melodious. There is no use in trying to correct the individual notes. It is the disturbance in the tuning itself that has to be corrected.
The founder of homeopathy, Hahnemann’s scientific experiments led him to the process of potentization. A step-by-step dilution and jerking of the drug makes it extremely powerful and at the same time renders it harmless. This is in direct contrast to the toxic drugs of modern medicine, and their ‘side effects’. Potencies administered by Homeopathy range from a mother tincture to the 1,00,000th potencies. The sixth potency will have a rough dilution of one drop of the original drug substance diluted in a lake full of water. Each potency is 100 times more dilute than the previous one. Imagine the 1,00,000th dilution!
No one has been able to satisfactorily explain how the remedies act when diluted to such fantastic limits. Yet, potencies are found to act very powerfully. It seems that in the process of potentization, the stored energy of the drug is liberated.
1. Short-Term Response
How quickly you will notice improvement, after beginning homeopathic care, depends on the specific health concern, and on whether you take a single-dose or repeated medicine. With acute problems, such as flu or a bladder infection, you should notice a significant improvement within several hours. With chronic problems, you should notice some change within a week or two after beginning treatment. You may experience a brief worsening of already existing symptoms, which is a good sign. This will be followed by an overall improvement, not only of your chief complaint, but of most or all of your symptoms. Or you may just start feeling better. We wait five to six weeks before your second appointment in order to give the healing response enough time to evaluate carefully.
2. Long-Term Response
With many conditions, we estimate at least a 70 percent improvement in symptoms in order for us to feel satisfied that your medicine is correct. Again, this depends on a variety of factors. After six months to a year, you should feel significant, even remarkably, better regarding your specific problem, energy, mental clarity, and more. We recommend that you continue with treatment for at least a year to maximize your healing. Many of our patients have continued with us for ten years or longer. In our experience, they are generally much healthier than the general population. At the beginning of treatment, your appointments will be every four weeks. As you feel better and better, they will be less often.
We do not advocate the use of Ayurvedic, Unani and homoeopathy together because both are holistic medicine. Therefore, if you take two together, we don’t know how to evaluate your progress. We will not come to know which system you are better. Same with the case with allopathy. Also, these conventional medicines change the symptoms to such an extent that their original presentation of the symptom is lost, making it difficult to gather enough accurate information to prescribe the correct homoeopathic remedy. The symptoms are the compass that a homoeopath uses to find his way to the right remedy. If you were to take conventional medication to treat symptoms after beginning homoeopathic treatment, you could stop the action of the remedy, rendering it ineffective. Most acute conditions are handled well with homoeopathy but in some exceptional conditions, we do advise the patient to take allopathic treatment.
For chronic complaints one should report to the doctor only after a month but in any acute conditions/emergency, one should get in touch with the doctor immediately.
In homeopathy, we do not have separate medicine for the head, nose, ears, throat, etc. We give one single medicine which affects the patient as a whole and removes all his troubles. There is no medicine for any particular disease but there is medicine for the patient who is suffering from the disease. A single remedy is chosen on the basis of a holistic approach which treats different complaints of the same person etc.
Dr Riffat Nawab Musab 