– 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.
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.
• 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.
• 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.
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• 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.
• 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.
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:
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.
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.
First and foremost, you need to tell us how you feel about your chief complaint and associated complaint. Here it is very important that while reporting a chief complaint, it is better you also mention the new problems or if you have suffered from the same problem in the past because they indicate that we need to change your medicine/potency. Do mention your temperament, desires, sleep, dreams, and appetite. In the mental sphere, we need to know if anything had happened to upset you at home or at your workplace, like any quarrel, or some bad news, etc. All these symptoms when told in detail help us to treat you better.
During the course of homoeopathic treatment or after it has been stopped if something happens in your day to day life at the mental or physical level to upset the balance created in your system by the homoeopathic medicine the original complaint can be felt again. But it is true that with homoeopathic treatment, the capacity of the person to handle such upset improves and relapses may not occur.
Rarely after the homoeopathic treatment is given there can be an increase in your complaints. There can be two reasons for this. First and the more common reason can be the stopping of painkillers or ointment applications which may have kept your symptoms suppressed for a long time and due to the removal of that factor, the complaints will be experienced in their actual intensity. In that case, homoeopathic medicine will gradually bring the whole thing under control. Another possibility is that after the homoeopathic treatment, there is slight and short worsening followed by rapid relief. This initial worsening is often the reaction of our body before the cure occurs and is a very good sign. Another reaction that may be noticed during the course of homoeopathic treatment is that your original problems will get better gradually and then some new symptoms may appear. These new problems may indicate that we need to change your medicine and give you something that will cover this new picture and thereby help you in achieving a holistic cure.
You have to keep the medicine on the tongue so that it comes in contact with the nerves. That is the reason why we say not to eat anything half an hour before or after. So that the tongue has nothing else that will interfere with the absorption of the medicine.
Dr Riffat Nawab Musab 