Homeopathic practitioner with Advance Approaches. Research scholer and Student of Islamic Studies
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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– It affects the Cerebro SpinaL Axis causing Disturbance in co-ordination, and paretic effects.
– Paraesthesia.
– In mental sphere the consciousness of reality and judgement is disturbed.
– It is suitable to old people, with lack of vital heat, or premature old age, with debility.
– It causes Dryness of skin and mucous membranes; eyes throat, rectum etc., or irritability and relaxation.
– Mucus discharges profuse.
– Discharges are thin, acrid and scanty.
– Tendency to induration.
– Functions become sluggish, actions are delayed, e.g. , prick of needle will be felt with delay, impressions reach consciousness slowly.
– Patient is thin, inactive, wants to lie down, but it increases the fatigue.
– It is useful in delicate children, products of artificial baby foods.
– Pulsations are felt in various parts; and pains go upwards.
– Patient gets better entirely for sometime, then without apparent cause gets worse.
– Chronicity.
– Exhaustion; after talking; after menses.
– Degeneration of spinal cord.
– Unable to walk, with closed eyes.
– Involuntary movement of single parts.
– Girls, dried up and wrinkled, at puberty.
– Ill effects of disappointments.
– Sensation of constriction.
– Trembling, convulsive movements, spasms, with tears and laughter or alternately.
– Warmth of Room; of bed.
– Food; artificial, potatoes, starch, salt.
– Speaking.
– Dry weather.
– Early on awaking.
– Sitting,.
– After menses.
– Periodically; on alternate days.
– Coition.
– Tobacco smoke.
– Lifting.
– Exertion.
– Full and new moon.
– Evening.
– Open air.
– Moderate exertion and temperature.
– Damp weather, cold washing.
– Illusions; of being larger; numb; smooth; heavy.
– Hasty but slow of execution, hence makes mistakes in speaking and writing.
– Depressive mental states.
– Timorous.
– Fears; his own impulses; sight of knife, of blood, fears loss of reason.
– When he sees or states something, he has the feeling, as though another person had said or seen it or as though he was placed in another person and could see only then.
– Time passes too slowly.
– Aways groaning, moaning, worrying, fretting.
– Memory bad, variable mood.
– Depressed on awakening.
– Peevish.
– Everything is viewed in sad light.
– Alternating moods.
– Sensation as if he would fall forwards, which he greatly fears.
– Things seem unreal. Laughs and talks between paroxysms of spasms.
– Sneers at everything.
– Grumbles.
– Suicidal tendency on seeing knife or blood.
– Vertigo; agg. talking on closing or opening eyes, before breakfast.
– Vertigo; with white stars before the eyes, when eyes suddenly went out of focus; one has to wait for normal vision, amel. wiping eyes.
– Violent stitches in the brain, with nausea.
– Headache, as if one were dragged by the hair.
– Falling of hair; scalp itches and is numb.
– Headache amel. by lying quite in bed.
– Dry hair.
– White stars before the eyes, with vertigo.
– Eyelids; weak, falling, thickened, dry, burning, smarting.
– Double squint, agg. agglutination at night, lacrimation during day.
– Eyes feel cold.
– Heat and redness of one ear.
– Eustachian tube seems plugged.
– Crackling noises and buzzing in ears when, chewing or swallowing.
– Nostrils sore and red.
– Point of nose cracked.
– Scales with thick yellow mucus.
– Old look; dusky, wrinkled.
– As of white of egg of a cobweb on face.
– Blood-boils, and pimples.
– Involuntary spasmodic twitchings of the lower jaw.
– Maxillary joints feel tight, while chewing or opening mouth.
– Musty bad odour from mouth.
– Teeth; feel long; pain extends to other parts down larynx, neck, shoulders.
– Mouth feels dry with increased saliva.
– Tingling, itching on tongue.
– Dry feels full of sticks, or constricted, food can not pass.
– Through sore from eating onions.
– Constant inclination to clear the throat.
– Uvula hangs down.
– Swallowing painful, agg. solids amel. empty swallowing, warm drinks.
– Tightness from pharynx down to stomach as if food could not pass; can swallow but small morsels at a time.
– Clergyman’s sore throat.
– Feels food, whole length of oesophagus.
– Abnormal craving; for coarse food, chalk, charcoal, dry food, clean white rags, te or coffee grounds, fruits vegetables, dry rice and indigestible things.
– Constriction of oesophagus.
– Pain lasting 3 hours after meals.
– Big bellied children.
– Aversion to potato, to meat, which disagrees.
– Left sided abdominal complaints.
– Pressing in both groins, towards sexual organs.
– Pains from rectum to ankle.
– Inactive rectum, even a soft stool is passed with difficulty, hard stools cause severe cutting.
– Stools of small balls, hard knots or bright clots of blood.
– Evacuation is preceded by painful urging, long before stool, then straining at stool.
– Constipation; of sucklings, old people and women of sedentary habits.
– Can only pass stool when standing.
– Muscles of the bladder paretic must strain at stool to urinaate.
– Renal pains agg. dancing.
– Frequent desire to urinate in old people; slow flow.
– Fears he will wet the bed.
– Retention, with dribbling.
– Smarting while urinating.
– Feeling of weakness in bladder and genitals.
– Sexual desire increased.
– Voluptuous itching or tickling in genitals.
– Involuntary emission; while straining for stools, followed by old symptoms.
– Pains in the perineum, during coition and while the erection continues.
– Priapism at night.
– Menses, too early, short, scanty, pale followed by great exhaustion.
– Leucorrhoea; acrid profuse, runs to feet agg. during daytime; before menses amel. by washing with cold water.
– Intolerable bearing down pain.
– Tickling and itching in genitals; with strong desire for embrace.
– Nipples itch, burn, look anger (during pregnancy).
– It takes a woman all her time to recuperate from one menstrual period to the next.
– Cough, constant, dry, hacking interrupts breathing, with sneezing; agg. after waking in the morning from elongated uvula; from condiments or eating irritating things, talking or singing.
– Sudden loss of voice; on taking cold.
– Chest feels constricted, agg. sitting bent or stooping.
– Soreness of chest; on talking; on lifting.
– Palpitation and shocks at heart.
– Wakes at 4 to 5 a.m. with anxiety at heart, amel. after rising.
Neck and back
– Pain in the back, as if hot irons were thrust through lower spine.
– Violent stitches in back.
– Back feels bandaged by a cord.
– Pain in the arms and fingers, as if hot iron penetrated.
– Arms; feel heavy, as if paralyzed; short; go to sleep.
– Lower limbs heavy.
– Staggering on walking.
– Legs feel numb, especially when sitting crossed legged.
– Heels feel numb, when stepping.
– Festination.
– Locomotor ataxia.
– Nails brittle or thick.
– Gnawing under nails.
– Inability to walk except when eyes are open or in daytime.
– Totters if eyes were closed.
– Soles; painful, on stepping on it, as if they were too soft and on walking; cramps when crossing legs.
– Bones feel squeezed.
– Intolerable itching, when getting warm in bed.
– Dry, rough,cracked skin.
– Itching, burning, over seat of pain.
– Must scratch, until it bleeds.
– Eczema.
– The slightest injuries of the skin smart and become inflamed.
– Skin symptoms, agg. winter, full and new moon.
– Anxious, restless, with confused dreams; about thieves, ghosts, of boats foundering.
– Chilliness amel. open air.
– Heat with itching.
– Bry.
– Bry; Plb.
Source: Phatak Materia medica
Learn about what constipation is, its types, and how to naturally eliminate it through diet. Discover which foods cause constipation and which foods can help relieve it.
Introduction:
Constipation is a common gastrointestinal problem that affects millions of people worldwide. It occurs when bowel movements become less frequent, and the stool is hard, dry, and difficult to pass. If you are experiencing constipation, you may feel bloated, uncomfortable, and even experience pain or strain when trying to pass stool.
There are many causes of constipation, including a lack of physical activity, a low-fiber diet, dehydration, certain medications, and medical conditions. However, constipation can be eliminated naturally through changes in diet and lifestyle.
In this article, we will explore what constipation is, its types, and natural ways to eliminate it through diet. We will also discuss which foods cause constipation and which foods can help relieve it.
What is Constipation and What are its Types?
Constipation is defined as having fewer than three bowel movements per week, and the stool is hard, dry, and difficult to pass. However, there are different types of constipation, including:
Natural Ways to Eliminate Constipation with Diet:
Which Foods Cause Constipation and Which Foods Should Be Taken to Eliminate Constipation?
FAQs:
Q. Can stress cause constipation?
A. Yes, stress can contribute to constipation. Stress can affect the digestive system and slow down bowel movements.
Q. Can medication cause constipation?
A. Yes, certain medications can cause constipation, including pain medications, antidepressants, and iron supplements.
Q. How long is too long to go without a bowel movement?
A. Going longer than three days without a bowel movement is considered constipation
Q. Are laxatives safe to use for constipation?
A. Laxatives should be used with caution and only under the guidance of a healthcare provider. Overuse of laxatives can lead to dependence and other health problems.
Q. Can dehydration cause constipation?
A. Yes, dehydration can lead to constipation. Drinking plenty of water can help to soften stool and prevent constipation.
Conclusion:
Constipation is a common problem that can be uncomfortable and even painful. However, it can be eliminated naturally through changes in diet and lifestyle. Increasing fiber intake, drinking plenty of water, and exercising regularly can all help to prevent and treat constipation.
In addition, avoiding processed foods, eating probiotic-rich foods, and using natural remedies such as herbal teas and olive oil can help to alleviate constipation. By making these simple changes, you can improve your digestive health and prevent constipation from interfering with your daily life. Remember, if you are experiencing persistent or severe constipation, it is important to consult with a healthcare provider to rule out any underlying medical conditions.
Obesity is a condition that occurs when a person has an excessive amount of body fat. It is a serious and complex health issue that affects millions of people worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines obesity as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher.
Obesity is caused by a variety of factors including genetics, lifestyle, and environmental factors. In this article, we will discuss the causes of obesity and the potential side effects that it can have on a person’s health.
Causes of Obesity:
Side Effects of Obesity:
In conclusion, obesity is a serious health issue that can have a significant impact on a person’s health and well-being. It is caused by a combination of genetics, lifestyle factors, and environmental factors. The potential side effects of obesity are numerous and can include diabetes, heart disease, stroke, joint problems, sleep apnea, and mental health issues. If you are concerned about your weight, it is important to speak with your healthcare provider to discuss your options for weight management and to develop a plan to maintain a healthy weight.
Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine that uses highly diluted natural substances to stimulate the body’s natural healing abilities. While the effectiveness of homeopathy in treating obesity is still a topic of debate, many people turn to homeopathic remedies to aid in their weight loss journey. In this article, we will discuss the use of homeopathic treatment for obesity.
What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy is a form of medicine that was developed in the late 18th century by German physician 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 to treat those same symptoms in a sick person. Homeopathic remedies are highly diluted, making them safe for use without the risk of side effects.
Homeopathic Treatment for Obesity:
Homeopathic remedies are often used as part of a holistic approach to weight loss. They are not a magic solution for obesity, but rather a supportive tool that can aid in the process of weight loss. Homeopathic remedies are typically prescribed based on the individual’s specific symptoms and overall health.
Some common homeopathic remedies for weight loss include:
It is important to note that homeopathic remedies should be used as part of a comprehensive weight loss plan that includes a healthy diet and exercise. Homeopathy alone cannot lead to significant weight loss, but it can aid in the process and help to address underlying health issues that may be contributing to weight gain.
Obesity is a growing public health concern, affecting millions of people worldwide. It occurs when a person has an excessive amount of body fat, which can lead to a variety of health problems, including sexual health issues. In this article, we will discuss the relationship between obesity and sexual health issues.
Obesity and Sexual Function in Men:
Obesity can have a negative impact on sexual function in men. One study found that men with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher were more likely to experience erectile dysfunction (ED) than men with a lower BMI. ED is a condition in which a man has difficulty achieving or maintaining an erection. Obesity can lead to ED by causing damage to blood vessels and nerves, which are important for erectile function.
Obesity can also lead to a decrease in testosterone levels in men. Testosterone is a hormone that plays a key role in sexual function, and low levels of testosterone can lead to a decrease in libido (sexual desire) and erectile function.
Obesity and Sexual Function in Women:
Obesity can also have a negative impact on sexual function in women. One study found that women with a BMI of 30 or higher were more likely to experience sexual dysfunction than women with a lower BMI. Sexual dysfunction in women can include a decrease in libido, difficulty achieving orgasm, and pain during intercourse.
Obesity can lead to sexual dysfunction in women by causing hormonal imbalances. Excess body fat can lead to an increase in estrogen levels, which can disrupt the balance of hormones that are important for sexual function.
Obesity and Infertility:
Obesity can also lead to fertility issues in both men and women. In men, obesity can lead to a decrease in testosterone levels, which can lead to a decrease in sperm production and quality. In women, obesity can lead to hormonal imbalances, which can disrupt the menstrual cycle and make it more difficult to conceive.
Obesity and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs):
Obesity can also increase the risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs). One study found that women with a BMI of 30 or higher were more likely to have an STI than women with a lower BMI. This may be due to the fact that obesity can weaken the immune system, making it more difficult for the body to fight off infections.
Obesity and Body Image:
Obesity can also have a negative impact on body image, which can lead to sexual health issues. People who are overweight or obese may feel self-conscious about their bodies, which can lead to a decrease in sexual desire and satisfaction.
In conclusion, obesity can have a significant impact on sexual health. Obesity can lead to sexual dysfunction, fertility issues, an increased risk of STIs, and body image issues. If you are concerned about your weight and its impact on your sexual health, it is important to speak with your healthcare provider to discuss your options for weight management and to develop a plan to maintain a healthy weight.
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 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
Kidney failure, also known as renal failure, is a serious medical condition in which the kidneys are unable to filter waste products from the blood. This can lead to a buildup of toxins and other harmful substances in the body, which can cause a wide range of health problems. There are several different types and stages of kidney failure, each with its own unique set of symptoms and treatment options. In this article, we will discuss the various types and stages of kidney failure, as well as the available treatments for each stage. We will also explore the role of homeopathic treatment in managing kidney failure.
Types of Kidney Failure:
There are two main types of kidney failure: acute kidney failure and chronic kidney failure.
Acute Kidney Failure: This type of kidney failure occurs suddenly, often as a result of a medical emergency such as a heart attack, severe infection, or drug overdose. Acute kidney failure can also occur due to a sudden injury to the kidneys, such as a blow to the back or abdomen. Symptoms of acute kidney failure may include decreased urine output, fluid retention, fatigue, and confusion.
Chronic Kidney Failure: This type of kidney failure develops slowly over a period of months or years. It is often caused by underlying health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or glomerulonephritis. Symptoms of chronic kidney failure may include fatigue, swelling in the hands and feet, frequent urination, and difficulty concentrating.
Stages of Kidney Failure:
Both acute and chronic kidney failure can be divided into several stages, each with its own unique set of symptoms and treatment options.
Stage 1: In this stage, kidney function is only slightly reduced, and there may be few or no symptoms.
Stage 2: Kidney function is moderately reduced in this stage, and symptoms may begin to appear, such as fatigue, swelling in the legs, and frequent urination.
Stage 3: In this stage, kidney function is significantly reduced, and symptoms become more severe. These may include nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath, and difficulty sleeping.
Stage 4: Kidney function is severely reduced in this stage, and patients may experience symptoms such as anemia, muscle cramps, and confusion.
Stage 5: Also known as end-stage renal disease (ESRD), this is the most advanced stage of kidney failure. In this stage, the kidneys are no longer able to function properly, and patients may require dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive.
Treatments for Kidney Failure:
The treatment options for kidney failure depend on the type and stage of the condition, as well as the underlying cause. Some of the most common treatments include:
Medications: Medications may be used to control symptoms and slow the progression of kidney failure. These may include blood pressure medications, cholesterol-lowering drugs, and medications to control blood sugar levels.
Dialysis: Dialysis is a medical procedure that uses a machine to filter waste products from the blood. There are two main types of dialysis: hemodialysis, which involves using an artificial kidney machine, and peritoneal dialysis, which involves using the lining of the abdomen to filter waste.
Kidney Transplant: A kidney transplant involves replacing a diseased kidney with a healthy one from a donor. This is often the best option for patients with end-stage renal disease.
Homeopathic Treatment of Kidney Failure:
Homeopathic treatment involves using highly diluted substances to stimulate the body’s natural healing processes. There are several homeopathic remedies that may be used to manage the symptoms of kidney failure.
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Aconitum napellus
Generalities
• The rapidity of action of Acon, determines its symptomatology.
• Its symptoms are acute, violent, and painful.
• They appear suddenly, remain for a short while, as of a big storm, which soon blows over.
• Mind is affected by such emotional factors, as FRIGHT; SHOCK,Vexation.
• Nerves are excited and the patient remains under emotional and nervous tension.
• Neuralgic pains are very intense.
• FEAR is INTENSE, so much so that the patient becomes frantic, screams, groans, gnaws the fist, bites the nails, wants to die.
• Fear of fright remains.
• Fear accompanying most trifle ailments.
• Heart and arterial circulation is affected strongly producing congestion to the head, (often apoplectic) and chest.
• It is a remedy for acute inflammation and congestion.
• Haemorrhages are bright red.
• Pains are sticking, tearing.
• Sensations of burning, numbness, tingling prickling or crawling are marked.
• Parts feel big or deformed.
• External soreness, with internal heaviness.
• Sudden loss of strength- collapse.
• Special senses acute.
• Parts remain sore or numb, after the pains.
• Convulsions.
• Faintness.
• Children put their hands to the affected part.
• Complaints caused by exposure to cold, dry weather, especially respiratory affections.
• Gastro-intestinal disturbances, are caused by exposure to very hot weather.
• It is adapted to persons of robust habit.
• Complaints, after surgical shocks and injury, or checked perspiration.
• Remote effects of fright.
• Cries out and grasps the genitals, Crepitation.
Worse
• Violent emotions, FRIGHT; SHOCK Vexation.
• Chilled by COLD; dry weather, while sweating.
• Pressure, touch.
• Night, in bed p.m.
• Lying on side.
• Noise.
• Light.
• Dentition.
• During menses.
• Sleeping in the Sun.
• Music.
• Tobacco smoke.
• Inspiration.
Better
• Open air.
• Repose.
• Warm sweat.
Mind
• GREAT ANXIETY; AGONIZING FEAR and RESTLESSNESS, accompany every ailment however trivial.
• Fear of death of crowds, or crossing the streets, of future, of touching others passing by.
• Impatient; besides himself; frantic; from intensity of pain.
• With FEAR, screams, moans, gnaws the fists, bites the nails; wants to die.
• Afraid to go out of the house.
• Forebodings, predicts the time of death.
• TERROR STRICKEN.
• Music makes him sad.
• Clairvoyance.
• Feels as if what had just been done were a dream.
• Delirium.
• Fitful moods; laughing, singing, then sad and fearful.
• Anxious, excited, nervous, feverish.
• Imagines some parts of the body is deformed.
• Imagines they do all their thinking from stomach.
Head
• Heavy, hot, bursting.
• Burning; undulating sensation in the head.
• As of a hot band about head, or boiling heat in brain.
• Violent squeezing or bursting in forehead or eyes.
• Headache with increased secretion of urine.
• Vertigo agg. on rising or any other motion of the head or of the body.
• As if hair were pulled or stood on end.
• Crackling in head.
• Pulsation in forehead.
• Knocks the head.
Eyes
• Feel dry and hot as if sand in them.
• Lids; swollen, hard and red.
• Shooting pain in eyeballs.
• Can not bear the reflection of Sun from the snow.
• Conjunctivitis from cinders or other foreign bodies.
• Eyes glitter, stare, bleared.
• Aversion or desire for light.
Ears
• Very sensitive to noise.
• Music is unbearable.
• As of a drop of water in the ear.
Nose
• Numb with epistaxis.
• Smell acutely sensitive.
• Pain at the root of the nose.
• Nose dry, stopped up or runs hot scanty watery discharge.
Face
• ANXIOUS expression; becomes pale red alternately.
– Hot, red cheeks.
• Red face becomes deathly pale on rising or he becomes dizzy.
• One cheek red hot other pale and cold.
• Neuralgia with restlessness, tingling and numbness.
• Lips black. dry, peeling off.
• Heavy feeling of the whole face.
Mouth
• Toothache in sound teeth.
• Throbbing in teeth and head.
• Grinding of the teeth.
• Gums hot and inflamed.
• Tongue feels as if swollen.
• Everything tastes bitter except water, which has bad taste.
• Trembling and temporary stammering.
• Mouth and tongue numb; dry burning heat in mouth.
• Tingling on coughing and swallowing.
• Chewing motions of lower jaw.
Throat
• Red, dry, hot, constricted, chokes on swallowing.
• Tonsils swollen and dry.
Stomach
• Vomiting with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination.
• INTENSE BURNING THRIST.
• Craving for beer, acids, bitter drinks.
• Thirst agg. after iced drinks.
• Hungry.
• Milk disagrees.
• Projectile vomiting.
• Violent bilious or bloody vomiting.
• Pressure in stomach with dyspnoea.
• Wine generally amel.
• Nausea and sweating before and after loose stool.
Abdomen
• Sensitive to touch.
• Colic, no position relieves.
• Hot distended.
• Jaundice; of newborn; from fright.
• Incarcerated hernia.
– Stools; of pure blood; slimy, grass green or white agg. hot days and cold nights.
• Dysentery.
• Watery diarrhoea in children in hot days, they cry, are restless and sleepless.
• Itching and sticking at anus; as of a warm fluid from the anus.
Urinary
• Urine scanty, red, hot, painful.
• Retention or suppression of urine; in new born; due to cold exposure, with handling of genitals.
• Agonizing dysuria.
• Cystitis.
• Urethral chill.
Male
• Orchitis, testicles feel swollen and hard.
Female
• Suppression of menses from fright or cold, in plethoric patients.
• After pains with fear and restlessness.
• Maniacal fury, on the appearance of menses.
• Active uterine haemorrhage.
• Ovaritis from sudden checked menstrual flow
• Vagina hot, dry and sensitive.
• Milk fever with delirium.
• Increase of milk in breast.
Respiratory
• Hoarse dry, croupy, painful cough or short barking, ringing, or whistling cough agg. from every inspiration, at night, drinking, grasps the throat.
• Cough amel. lying on back.
• Shortness of breath during sleep; sits erect.
• Laryngitis.
• Croup with fever.
• Violent congestion of blood in the chest.
• Pneumonia.
• Oppression of the chest when moving fast or ascending; in heart disease.
• Blood comes up on hawking.
• Lungs feel hot.
• Stitches in chest.
• Pleurisy.
• Tingling in chest after coughing.
Heart
• Feels swelled – carditis.
• Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting and tingling in fingers, pain down left arm.
• Heart pain into left shoulder, agg. sitting erect.
• Tachycardia.
• Pulse fast, bounding, shaking, forcible and tumultuous or wiry, very irritable.
• Arterial tension.
Neck and back
• Pain in the back, prevents taking deep inspiration.
• Bruised pain between shoulders, and sacrum.
Extremities
• Arms hang down powerless.
• Numbness of the left arm, tingling in fingers.
• Red finger tips.
• Hot hands and cold feet.
• Red shining swelling of the joints.
• Hypothenar eminences bright red.
• Legs powerless; feel tired during repose.
• Sensation as of drops of water tricking down the thighs.
• Jerking of left or arm.
• Palms hot.
Skin
• Dry, Hot or as if ice water on it.
• Miliary eruptions.
• Itching amel. by stimulants.
Sleep
• Nightmares.
• Anxious dreams.
• Sleeplessness with restlessness and tossing about; caused by fear, fright or anxiety.
• Insomnia of the aged.
Fever
• CHILL passes through him in waves.
• Chill or coldness alternating with heat.
• HIGH FEVER; dry burning heat; in eyelids, nose, mouth, throat, lungs and palms, must uncover.
• Sweat drenching, wants to uncover.
• Sweat on uncovered parts or affected parts.
Complementary
• Coff; Sulph.
Related
• Bell; Cham; Coff.
Source: Phatak materia medica
Aloe socotrina
Generalities
• It affects ABDOMINAL VEINS, causing congestion relaxation of RECTUM; liver, colon, and pelvis.
• It establishes physiological equilibrium when disease and drug symptoms are much mixed.
• periodic headache which alternate symptoms are much mixed.
• periodic headache which alternate with lumbago.
• It is remedy for bad effects from sedentary life or habits.
• Adapted to weary people, aged, old beer drinkers.
• There is a sensation of fulness in the parts.
• Heavy, Dragging, as of a load.
• Drawing, downward sensation.
• Discharges; gelatinous; post nasal, stools etc.
• Sense of insecurity.
• General weakness and weariness.
• Heat external and internal.
• Children, much emotional, chat and laugh.
Worse
• Heat, hot damp weather; summer.
• Early morning.
• After dysentery.
• Yawning or mastication.
• Stepping hard.
• Evening.
• After eating and drinking.
Better
• Cool open air.
• Cold application.
• Passing flatus.
• Closing eyes.
• Taking tea or stimulants.
Mind
• Dissatisfied and angry about himself.
• Disinclination to mental labour.
• Hates people, repels everyone.
• Ill humour agg. in cloudy weather, or with constipation.
• Thinks, that she would die in a week.
• Life is a burben.
• Trembling from musical sounds and other noises.
• Imagines that persons are stepping hard or quickly.
Head
• Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them.
• Vertigo with a sense of insecurity.
• Head alternating with abdominal or lumbar symptoms amel. closing eyes.
• Heavy pressure on vertex.
• Clinking in as of some thin shivered glass, extending to ears.
Eyes
• Pain deep in orbit.
• Flickering, before the eyes.
• Closes eyes partially from pain in forehead.
Ears
• Cracking in, when chewing.
Nose
• Tip cold.
• Bleeding from the nose after awakening, in bed.
Face
• Lips makedly red, dry, cracked; bleeding.
• Pain while yawning or chewing.
Mouth
• Taste bitter and sour.
• Tongue, mouth dry.
Throat
• Hawking of thick lumps of jelly-like mucus.
• Raw and swollen feeling in.
Stomach
• Desire for juicy things, fruits, especially apples, salty food.
• Pain in pit, when making false step.
• Aversion to meat.
• Eructations, with oppressions in stomach.
• Hungry after stools.
Abdomen
• Feels; full, heavy, hot, bloated.
• Pain from navel to rectum.
• Sensation of a plug between symphysis pubis and coccyx, with urging to stool.
• Heaviness; in hypogastrium; in rectum; dragging down in the abdomen.
• Prolapsus recti.
• Rumbling, gurgling in bowels; sudden urging; SENSE OF INSECURITY then hurriedly passes a gushing watery stool.
• Uncertain whether gas or stool will come.
• Diarhoea; with pain in the rectum after stool; lienteric.
• ANUS WEAK, oozes mucus.
• Stools escapes with flatus or when urinating.
• Stools; mushy, lumpy; watery, gelatinous; bloody; solid stools passed involuntarily, urging to stools with passing flatus only.
• Piles, like a bunch of grapes, prolapsing amel. cold bathing.
• Burning and stitching in anus and rectum, from piles, preventing sleep.
• Stool and flatus hot.
• Burning in rectum.
• Pulsation in rectum after eating.
• The child goes around the house, dropping little hard round marble -like stools.
• Diarrhoea; after eating oysters; in hot season, or of beer drinkers.
• A lot of mucus is passed, with pain in rectum, after stool.
• Lumpy, watery stools.
Urinary
• Incontinence in aged.
• Prostate enlarged.
• Every time on passing urine, feeling as if thin stool would escape with it.
• Urine hot.
Male
• Sexual irritability, after eating; after awakening (in children).
• Involuntary emissions during siesta.
Female
• Heavy congested uterus, with labour-like pains, felt in groins and hips agg. standing and during menses.
• Climacteric haemorrhage.
• Menses too early and last too long.
• Leucorrhoea of bloody mucus, preceded by colic.
• Dysentery, after parturition.
Respiratory
• Winter cough, with itching.
• Difficult respiration, with stitches, from liver to chest.
• Cough, when she would sit down, standing, or stand up, after sitting, with tears.
Neck and back
• Lumbago alternating with headache and piles.
• Pain in sacrum agg. while sitting, amel. moving about.
Extremities
• Drawing pain in the joints.
• Lameness in all the limbs.
• Soles are painful when walking on the pavement.
Sleep
• Dreams of soiling himself.
Fever
• Internal heat.
Complementary
• Sulph.
Related
• Lil-t; Pod; Sep; Sulph.
Source: Phatak materia medica
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.
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.
Dr Riffat Nawab Musab 